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They bring so much joy to me eyes <3\nphilippa stanton September 25, 2014 at 8:28 PM\nMagda BarwyOgrodu September 26, 2014 at 11:51 AM\nI love your stories, I'm happy that I have you also on Instagram...", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00040.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 68, + "original_length": 3784, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.97, + "perplexity": 295.9, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "http://1812now.blogspot.com/2012/04/on-april-16-1812-william-henry-harrison.html", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T04:23:39Z", + "digest": "sha1:7LU2W6236ODAXD2CKDCC3CGWU53SJXHJ", + "length": 4560, + "nlines": 4, + "source_domain": "1812now.blogspot.com", + "title": "1812now: April 16 1812: Harrison's General Orders", + "raw_content": "On April 16 1812, William Henry Harrison, Territorial Governor of Indiana, issues \"General Orders for the Indiana Militia\". He writes that war with the native tribes is now inevitable, and therefore all military units should take immediate measures to prepare. Harrison recommends that citizens in and around Knox County should build blocked houses or picketed forts. The General Orders are reproduced below:\nAs the late murders upon the frontiers of this and the neighboring Territories leave us little to hope of our being able to avoid a war with the neighboring tribes of Indians, the commander-in-chief directs that the colonels and other commandants of corps should take immediate measures to put their commands in the best possible state for active service.The field officers who command battalions will visit and critically inspect the several companies which compose them and make a report in detail of their situation, particularly noting the deficiencies in arms, ammunition and accoutrements, and such measures as the laws authorize must be immediately taken to remedy those deficiencies. The commander-in-chief informs the officers that the most prompt obedience and the most unremitting attention to their duty will be required of them \u2014 the situation of the country calls for exertion on the part of the militia, and the officers must set the example to their men. If there are amongst them any who have accepted appointments for the mere motive of gratifying their vanity by the possession of a commission to which a title is annexed, without having the ability or the inclination to encounter arduous service, in justice to their country and to their own fame they should now retire and not stand in the way of those who are more able or more willing to encounter the fatigue and danger incident to actual service in the Indian war. From the specimen which the commander-in-chief has had of their conduct in the field he has every reason to be proud of them, nor does he believe that there are better militia officers to be found anywhere than those of Indiana, but in a crisis like the present they should be all good.\nThe field officers are to see that proper places are appointed for the rendezvous of the companies upon an alarm or the appearance of danger, and will give orders relatively to the mode of their proceeding in such exigencies as the situation of the companies respectively call for. When mischief is done by the Indians in any of the settlements, they must be pursued, and the officer nearest to the spot, if the number of men under his command is not inferior to the supposed number of the enemy, is to commence it as soon as he can collect his men. If his force should be too small he is to send for aid to the next officer to him, and in the meantime take a position capable of being defended, or watch the motions of the enemy,as circumstances require. The pursuit must be conducted with vigor, and the officer commanding will be held responsible for making every exertion in his power to overtake the enemy. Upon his return, whether successful or not, a particular account of his proceedings must be transmitted to the commander-in-chief and a copy of it to the colonel of the regiment.\nThe commander-in-chief recommends it to the citizen on the frontiers of Knox county, from the Wabash eastwardly across the two branches of the White river, those on the northwest of the Wabash and those in the Driftwood settlement in Harrison, to erect blocked houses or picketed forts. It will depend upon the disposition of the Delawares whether measures of this kind will be necessary or not upon the frontiers of Clark, Jefferson, Dearborn, Franklin or Wayne. Means will be taken to ascertain this as soon as possible and the result communicated. The Indians who profess to be friendly have been warned to keep clear of the settlements, and the commander-in-chief is far from wishing that the citizens should run any risk by admitting any Indians to come amongst them whose designs are in the least equivocal. He recommends, however to those settlements which the Delawares have frequented as much forbearance as possible towards that tribe, because they have ever performed with punctuality and good faith their engagements with the United States, and as yet there is not the least reason to doubt their fidelity. It is also certain that if they should be forced to join the other tribes in war, from their intimate knowledge of the settlements upon the frontiers they would be enabled to do more mischief than any other tribe.", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00040.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 122, + "original_length": 8868, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.97, + "perplexity": 269.7, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "http://1812now.blogspot.com/2012/07/july-31-1812-napoleons-indecision.html", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T03:15:15Z", + "digest": "sha1:3UCQNJTOGU4TCY76AI4WWYAFOCEKFFC4", + "length": 8733, + "nlines": 23, + "source_domain": "1812now.blogspot.com", + "title": "1812now: July 31 1812: Napoleon's Indecision", + "raw_content": "On June 31, 1812, Napoleon is at Vitebsk. Napoleon uncharacteristically is uncertain as what to do next. On July 28, Philippe-Paul de Segur [1] has him saying: \"Here I stop! I want to collect myself, rally my forces, rest my army, and organize Poland. The campaign of 1812 is finished. The Campaign of 1813 will do the rest.\" Later, Napoleon is heard to say: \"For we shall not repeat the folly of Charles XII.\" This King of Sweden had been crushed by venturing too far into Russia in 1709. De Segur captures Napoleon's indecision, with what amount of truth or art we cannot now know, when he writes\nIn this state of perplexity he spoke in a few disconnected words to whomever he chanced to meet.\"Well, what we are going to do?... Shall we stay here? Shall we advance?... How can we stop now on the road to glory?\" Without waiting for an answer, he would move on, seeming to be looking for someone or something that could help make up his mind.\nNapoleon's dilemma is that he has been able to move his army great distances, claiming places on the map, but the Russian armies remain in tact moving deeper into the ancient provinces of Russia and still undefeated. Meanwhile, the resources needed to keep the Grande Arm\u00e9e on the field continue to become ever more difficult to find. Napoleon has to decide whether to bring matters to a conclusion by trying to defeat the Russian armies on the battlefield or basically declare victory and consolidate his gains. He will remain in Vitebsk for weeks agonizing over the decision he alone can make. In the words of the historian Adam Zamoyski:\"This proverbially decisive man seemed panicked by the very fact that he could not reach a decision.\"\nNone of this is reflected in the Tenth Bulletin De La Grande Arm\u00e9e dated July 31, 1812 which continues the propaganda war for Napoleon and is reproduced below.\nTENTH BULLETIN OF THE GRAND ARMY. Vitebsk, July 31, 1812.\nThe Emperor of Russia and the Grand Duke Constantine have quitted the army, and repaired to the capital. On the 17th, the Russian army left the entrenched camp of Drissa, and marched towards Polotzk and Vitepsk. The Russian army which was at Drissa consisted of five corps-d'armee, each of two divisions\u2014and of four divisions of cavalry. One corps d'armee, that of Prince Witgenstein, remained for the purpose of covering St. Petersburg; the four pther corps, having arrived on the 24th at Vitepsk, crossed to the left bank of the Dwina. The corps of Osterman, with a party of the cavalry . of the Guards, put itself in motion at day-break of the 25th, and marched upon Ostrovno.\nBATTLE OF OSTROVNO.\nOn the 25th of July, General Nansouty, with the divisions Bruyeres and St. Germain, and the 8th regiment of light infantry, encountered the enemy two leagues in advance of Ostrovno. The action commenced. Several charges of cavalry took place; all of them were in favour of the French. The light cavalry covered itself with gloiy. The King of Naples mentions the brigade of Pire, composed of the 8th Hussars, and 16th Chasseurs, as having distinguished itself. The Russian cavalry, of which a part belonged to the Guards, was overthrown. The batteries which were opened upon our cavalry, were carried. The Russian infantry, who advanced to support their artillery, were broken and sabred by our light cavalry.\nOn the 26th, the Viceroy marching with the division Delzon at the head of the columns, an obstinate action of the advanced-guard, of from 15 to 20,000 men took place a league beyond Ostrovno. The Russians were driven from their positions one after another. The woods were carried by the bayonet.\nThe King of Naples, and the Viceroy, mention with praise Generals Baron Delzon, Huard, and Roussel. The 8th light infantry, the 84th and 92d regiments of the line, and the 1st regiment of Croats, distinguished themselves.\nGeneral Roussell, a brave soldier, after being the whole day at the head of the battalions, was visiting the advanced posts at ten at night, when a sentinel took him for an enemy, fired upon him, and the ball shattered his skull. He ought to have died three hours sooner, on the field of battle, by the hands of the enemy.\nOn the 27th at day-break, the Viceroy made the division Broussier file off in advance. The 18th regiment of light infantry, and the brigade of light cavalry of the Baron de Pire, wheeled to the right. The division Broussier marched by the great road, and repaired a small bridge which the enemy had destroyed. At day-break, the enemy's rear-guard, consisting of 10,000 cavalry, was perceived drawn up en echellon on the plain; their right resting on the Dwina, and their left on a wood lined with infantry and artillery. General Count Broussier took post on an eminence with the 53d regiment, waiting till the whole of his division had passed the defile. Two companies of voltigeurs had marched in advance, alone; they skirted the bank of the river, advancing towards that enormous mass of cavalry, which made a forward movement, and surrounded these two hundred men, who were thought to be lost, and who ought to have been so. It happened otherwise. They concentrated themselves with the greatest coolness, and remained during a whole hour hemmed in on all sides; having brought down more than 300 horsemen of the enemy, these two companies gave the French cavalry time to debouche.\nThe division Delzon defiled on the right. The King of Naples directed the wood and the enemy's batteries to be attacked. In less than an hour all the positions of the enemy were carried; and he was driven across the plain beyond a small river which enters the Dwina below Vitepsk. The army took a position on the banks of this river, at the distance of a league from the town.\nThe enemy displayed in the plain 15,000 cavalry, and 60,000 infantry. A battle was expected next day. The Russians boasted that they wished to give battle. The Emperor spent the remainder of the night in reconnoitring the field, and in making his dispositions for next day: but at day-break the Russian army was retreating in all directions towards Smolenzk.\nThe Emperor was on an height very near the 200 voltigeurs, who alone on the plain had attacked the right of the enemy's cavalry. Struck by their fine conduct, he sent to inquire what corps they belonged to. They answered, \" To the 9th; and three-fourths of us are lads of Paris\" \"Tell them,\" said the Emperor, \" that they are brave fellows: they all deserve the cross!\"\nThe fruits of the three actions of Ostrovno are 10 pieces of cannon of Russian manufacture taken, the cannoneers sabred; 20 caissons of ammunition; 1500 prisoners; 5 or 6000 Russians killed or wounded. Our loss amounts to 200 killed, 900 wounded, and about 50 prisoners.\nThe King of Naples bestows particular praise on Generals Bruyeres, Pire, and Ornano, and on Colonel Radzivill, commandant of the 9th Polish lancers, an officer of singular intrepidity.\nThe red hussars of the Russian guard have been cut up. They lost 400 men, many of whom are prisoners. The Russians had three generals killed or wounded. A considerable number of colonels and superior officers of their army remained on the field of battle.\nOn the 28th at day-break, we entered Vitepsk, a town of 30,000 inhabitants. It has 20 convents. We have found in it some magazines, particularly one of salt, valued at 15,000,000.\nWhile the army was marching on Vitepsk, the Prince of Eckmuhl was attacked at Mohiloff.\nBragation passed the Berezina at Bobruisk, and marched upon Novoi-bickoff. At daybreak on the 23d, 3000 Cossacks attacked the 3d regiment of chasseurs, and took 100 of them, among whom were the colonel and four officers, all wounded. The generate was beat; an action commenced. The Russian General Sieverse, with two select divisions, began the attack. From eight in the morning till five in the afternoon, the firing was kept up on a strip of wood, and at a bridge which the Russians wished to force. At five, the Prince of Eckmuhl caused three chosen battalions to advance, put himself at their head, overthrew the Russians, carried their positions, and pursued them for a league. The loss of the Russians is estimated at 3000 killed and wounded, and 1100 prisoners. We lost 700 killed and wounded. Bragation repulsed, retired upon Bickow, where he passed the Boristhenes, to advance towards Smolenzk.\nThe battles of Mohiloff and Ostrovno have been brilliant, and honourable to our army. We never have had engaged more than the half of the force which the enemy presented, the ground not being suitable for greater developments.\n1. Defeat: Napoleon's Russian Campaign (New York Review Books Classics) by Philippe-Paul de Segur (Author), J. 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This in fact means the creation a borderless payment system throughout the 33 countries (SEPA countries) \u2013 these are the 28 EU members, plus Iceland, Liechtestein, Monaco, Switzerland and Norway.\nThe goal of SEPA is to make payments throughout Europe as fast, safe and efficient as they are under any current EU national payment system. SEPA enables customers to make payments (direct debits, credit transfers) to anyone located within the SEPA Zone. That means that there is no longer any distinction between national and cross-border Euro payments (within the SEPA zone). Also, both personal and business bank accounts will no longer be identified by the country-specific Base Bank Account Number (BBAN), but by an International Bank Account Number (IBAN)\nCredit cards have bank accounts numbers linked to them\nUnder the new system, transfers and payments will benefit in terms of safety and greater operational simplicity. 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However, it is expected that customers would need a while to acclimatise themselves to the new framework \u2013 watch this space for updates on how the full roll-out of SEPA and IBAN is progressing.\nBest animations of Juan Carlos vs. Hugo Chavez", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00040.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 48, + "original_length": 3752, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.96, + "perplexity": 227.4, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "http://adopta.agency/2015/09/01/taking-a-look-at-commercial-fisheries-data-from-national-oceanic-and-atmospheric-agency/", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T03:39:52Z", + "digest": "sha1:57UBJKFGSOAVD66CZ2XW7FAD6MDYOLGO", + "length": 2192, + "nlines": 7, + "source_domain": "adopta.agency", + "title": "Adopta Agency Taking A Look At Commercial Fisheries Data From National Oceanic And Atmospheric Agency", + "raw_content": "Taking A Look At Commercial Fisheries Data From National Oceanic And Atmospheric Agency\nSomeone found me on Twitter regarding our Adopta.Agency work, and introduced me to the commercial fisheries data from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Agency (NOAA). The dataset(s) fit the profile of what I am looking to evolve with Adopta, because it is potentially extremely valuable to an industry, it is currently locked up in non-machine readable formats, but more importantly I has a domain expert who was passionate about what could be done with the data.\nWhen you land on the home page for the commercial fisheries statistics, you experience classic government \"open data\", which in reality is anything but, open. Putting it on the web for humans to read, does very little for allowing anyone to analyze, and potentially build anything on top of.\nHalf of the links take you to PDFs, which is one of the most unusable ways to get data, while the other half takes you to pretty complex forms, which allow you to query the data.\nI will always choose an HTML form, over a PDF, because I can almost always write some sort of script for parsing the data in a form. It will take some work, but eventually I should be able to programmatically pull the raw data via these forms. Most of the time, I will walk away from PDFs--they just aren't usually worth the work.\nMany IT folks will argue that publishing HTML forms, makes government data available. I have even see government agencies successful defend against FOIA requests, by stating it is available as a form. This is just irresponsible, and encourages scraping, and misuse of government resources (aka bandwidth and compute). If there was a simple download link to a zipped up file, it would be way more efficient and responsible.\nThe person who contacted me about the NOAA commercial fisheries data isn't 100% up to speed on how to do Adopta projects, and how work with Github--something we will change in a couple weeks, then we'll encourage her to take over the project. 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Dr. X (as he\u2019s known in the community) will take questions regarding how to reduce the risk of injury, specific exercises for strengthening the knee, warning signs, what to do following an ACL injury, and the rehabilitation process. Sign up for this live chat below.\nDr. Xerogeanes is Chief of Sports Medicine at the Emory Orthopaedic & Spine Center. Known as Dr. \u201cX\u201d by his staff and patients, he is an Associate Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery at Emory University as well as an Adjunct Professor at Georgia State and Mercer University. Dr. X is Head Orthopaedist and Team Physician for Georgia Tech, Emory University, Agnes Scott College and the Atlanta Dream of the WNBA. He specializes in ACL and ACL revision surgery performing over 200 of these operations each year. He is board certified in orthopaedic surgery and has his sub-specialty certification in orthopaedic sports medicine.\nHow Much is Too Much in a Youth Sport?\nJuly 7th, 2016 By Emory Sports Medicine\nIs your child athlete playing only one youth sport, and if so, is he or she doing it year-round, with little or no monitoring about over using certain muscles?\nResearch shows this kind of sports specialization is harming your younger children, and greatly outweighs any benefit he or she might derive from laser-like focus on one sport.\nThe Emory Sports Medicine Center, a leader in advanced treatments for patients with orthopaedic and sports-related injuries, has been on the cutting edge of that research.\nDr. Neeru Jayanthi, M.D., of the Emory Sports Medicine Center, is a leading expert on youth sports health and is an ardent believer in kids playing organized sports. However, he believes even stronger in a simpler plan: Kids need to play. Period. Not play soccer, per se. Or baseball. Or even tennis, which is his specialty. But just play and play multiple sports.\nWhile Jayanthi, is not at all urging parents to steer their children away from organized teams sports, his nationally acclaimed study on youth sport injuries show playing is more important to the child than playing a sport, and that once sports become the primary way a child plays, parents should monitor the number of hours the child spends on any one sport.\n\u201cWith travel leagues and kid playing one sport 10 to 12 months a year, we\u2019re seeing more over-use injuries than we would have a generation ago,\u201d Dr. Jayanthi said. \u201cEveryone wants the best for their child, but the best is never to let them spend hours a day, every day, doing the same activity.\u201d\nIn America, particularly in warmer weather states, baseball is probably where there is more specialization, year-round focus and over-use injuries. It has gotten so bad, particularly with pitchers, that USA Baseball and Major League Baseball have teamed up to promote an educational program that urges restraint.\n\u201cWhen baseball is telling young baseball players to take it easy, it helps validate what we are saying,\u201d Dr. Jayanthi said.\nDr. Jayanthi and colleagues researched 1,200 young athletes and found that kids should not spend more hours per week than his or her age playing sports. Younger children are developmentally immature and are less able to tolerate physical stress. Also, the study suggests that kids should not spend more than twice as much time playing organized sports as they do in unorganized free play.\n\u201cI love organized sports and love to see athlete\u2019s at their best,\u201d he said. \u201cAnd that takes a lot of hard work and dedication. I get that. I believe in it. But the two concepts are not mutually exclusive to each other. In fact, I believe they go hand in hand. Want what\u2019s best for your child, both developmentally and athletically? Follow these guidelines.\u201d\nDr. Jayanthi leads Emory\u2019s Tennis Medicine program and is considered one of the country\u2019s leading experts on youth sports health, injuries, and sports training patterns, as well as an international leader in tennis medicine. He is currently the President of the International Society for Tennis Medicine and Science (STMS) and a certified USPTA teaching professional.\nAt the Emory Sports Medicine Center, our experts specialize in advanced procedures to treat and repair a wide range of sports related injuries. Recently recognized as one of the nation\u2019s TOP 50 orthopaedics programs, Emory Orthopaedics, Sports and Spine has 6 convenient locations across metro Atlanta, as well as 6 physical therapy locations. To make an appointment to see one of our Emory sports medicine specialists, please call 404-778-3350 or complete our online appointment request form.\nAbout Dr. Jayanthi\nDr. Jayanthi leads Emory\u2019s Tennis Medicine program and is considered one of the country\u2019s leading experts on youth sports health, injuries, and sports training patterns, as well as an international leader in tennis medicine. He is currently the President of the International Society for Tennis Medicine and Science (STMS) and a certified USPTA teaching professional. He has also been a volunteer ATP (Association of Tennis Professionals) physician for 15 years, serves as a medical advisor for the WTA (Woman\u2019s Tennis Association) Player Development Panel, and is on the commission for the International Tennis Performance Association (ITPA). 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And we agree!", + "raw_content": "A recent article in The Yorkshire Post reminded us why we do what we do: provide care for carers.\nIn the UK alone there are 1.3 million unpaid carers. And for many of those, caring is a full time job. It absorbs energy, time and money, and causes bucket loads of psychological and physical stress. The article mentioned findings from the Office of National Statistics which showed that many carers are paying a physical, practical, economic and emotional price for doing their role. We hear about these things every day \u2013 the physical health conditions and mental stress that is often brought on by caring for a loved one.\nThe article also highlighted the lack of financial or official support available for carers:\n\u201cThough many carers are helped by supportive families and sympathetic employers, it can be a lonely existence and a deeply frustrating one as they deal with never-ending bureaucracy as well as the strain of caring for loved ones. For too long, politicians have put off answering this question: who cares for the carers? It will deeply remiss of them if they continue to do so.\u201d\nThe cost of a care home can be huge, varying from \u00a3800 upwards per week, but a home carer can negate the need for this entirely (albeit at a great personal cost to those who are doing the caring!). The long and short of it? Carers are doing a HUGELY valuable job and it\u2019s time this effort was recognised more widely.\nAt After Umbrage, we like to think that we\u2019re doing our bit to help carers. We certainly recognise what an incredible job carers do! After all, the experience of caring for parents was what lead founder Tara to set up After Umbrage, having discovered first hand the lack of support available. That\u2019s why we work every day to spread the word and reach more carers who need a little time out! 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Leslie was drafted by the Clippers in 2011 however was released within the fall of 2012. Leslie played within the D-League before signing with Utah.\nThe all-tournament groups on the two most up-to-date FIBA World Championships , held in 2002 in Indianapolis and 2006 in Japan, display the globalization of the game equally dramatically. Only one member of both team was American, namely Carmelo Anthony in 2006. The 2002 team featured Nowitzki, Ginobili, Yao, Peja Stojakovic of Yugoslavia (now of Serbia ), and Pero Cameron of New Zealand. Ginobili also made the 2006 staff; the other members have been Anthony, Gasol, his Spanish teammate Jorge Garbajosa and Theodoros Papaloukas of Greece The solely players on either staff to never have joined the NBA are Cameron and Papaloukas. The power of worldwide Basketball is clear in the fact that the final three FIBA world championships had been gained (in order) by Serbia (Yugoslavia in 1998) and Spain.\nIn 1891, the University of California and Miss Head\u2019s School played the primary girls\u2019s interinstitutional sport. Berenson\u2019s freshmen played the sophomore class within the first ladies\u2019s intercollegiate basketball game at Smith College , March 21, 1893. 12 The same year, Mount Holyoke and Sophie Newcomb College (coached by Clara Gregory Baer ) women started taking part in basketball. By 1895, the sport had spread to high schools across the country, including Wellesley , Vassar , and Bryn Mawr The first intercollegiate ladies\u2019s game was on April 4, 1896. 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We are continuously looking for outstanding students who are eager to do their Master thesis on a challenging project at the intersection of Machine Learning and Control.\nThe ability to learn will be a key requirement for future robotic and other intelligent systems, which are envisioned to act autonomously in complex and changing environments. A core research area in the Intelligent Control Systems Group (ICS) is learning for control. We combine techniques from machine learning, control theory, and optimization to develop intelligent control algorithms for the next generation of autonomous systems. In particular, we focus on the special requirements that real-time control systems pose for learning algorithms, such as guarantees for stability, robustness, and efficient computation.\nWhile rigorous theory and mathematical analysis form the basis of our research, we validate our methods in experiments on physical robots. We have a number of state-of-the-art robotic platforms to study various aspects of autonomous systems.\nWe are continuously looking for outstanding students who are eager to do their Master thesis on a challenging research project in a highly dynamic research environment. We have a variety of possible projects available, ranging from very theoretical to practical, and covering different aspects of learning control and robotics. Examples of possible topics include adaptive and learning control for complex robots, non-parametric learning of dynamic models, model-based reinforcement learning, learning-based model predictive control, and Bayesian optimization.\nSee the project description and the Intelligent Control Systems Group page for more information.\nStuttgart or Tuebingen, Germany", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00040.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 86, + "original_length": 3812, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.92, + "perplexity": 288.1, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "http://andiarnovitz.com/work/onemillionhamsas/", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T03:44:44Z", + "digest": "sha1:YI3JBFDMKFCLFGJM4IT4ENY42EDHK7NL", + "length": 1296, + "nlines": 4, + "source_domain": "andiarnovitz.com", + "title": "onemillionhamsas", + "raw_content": "\u201cOnemillionhamsas\u201d is an interactive site created for the show \u201cKhamsa,Khamsa,Khamsa\u201d at the Museum for Islamic Art in Jerusalem, Israel. The project\u2019s goal is to create cohesiveness, a sense of belonging and positive momentum in a fractured, angry and dislocated world.\nThe hamsa, as an iconographic symbol, belongs to both Muslim and Jewish cultures. The belief that the hamsa can protect, has magical powers, and is a source of blessing has persisted for hundreds of years.\nGraphically, our hands are all the same, but individually, each of us has a unique hand, full of singular differences, unlike anyone else\u2019s. The mere act of adding the individual to the collective, of documenting the journey from the particular to the universal, is both healing and redemptive in a world that seems hyper-focused on separating and categorizing.\nOnemillionhamsas seeks to create and maintain an archive of mankind\u2019s very human hamsas. The project\u2019s goal is to establish a free visual library which is enriched and added to hourly by people all over the world. 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This act is life affirming and rejects notions of separation reinforced by geography, politics, race, gender and socioeconomics.", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00040.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 30, + "original_length": 1704, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.92, + "perplexity": 198.2, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "http://appletreesandpumpkinseeds.com/?cat=3&paged=2", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T03:17:25Z", + "digest": "sha1:WYAMR43N2GFESKOFAPW5PYMPQUQRC2F3", + "length": 19078, + "nlines": 50, + "source_domain": "appletreesandpumpkinseeds.com", + "title": "Faith | Apple Trees and Pumpkin Seeds | Page 2", + "raw_content": "Inspiring People: Nate Saint\n\u201cInspiring People\u201d is a new series I\u201dm starting that tells the stories of real people who have inspired me, and I hope their stories inspire you too! I\u2019ve decided to start with Nate Saint.\nNate Saint was born in 1923. He grew up in a Christian home and from an early age knew that he wanted to serve the Lord in his work. Nate took his first flight in an airplane at the age of seven and became fascinated with flying. During World War II, Nate signed up for the US Army, hoping to become a commercial pilot but was not allowed to fly due to a leg infection that was bothering him. While he was in the army, Nate noticed the need for missionary pilots. He decided to join MAF (Mission Aviation Fellowship) with his wife Marjorie. They helped open a MAF base in Shell Mera, Ecuador. Nate\u2019s mission was to show the love of God to the Aucas (a tribe in Ecuador who attacked and killed most outsiders they came in contact with). He and his MAF team first tried flying over the Auca village dropping gifts to be friendly, but after awhile they knew it was time to talk with the Aucas. Nate and his teammates Jim, Ed, Peter, and Roger flew a plane to a place near the Auca village and set up camp. A few tentative Aucas showed up and seemed to be friendly, but they soon left. Nate and his team were excited to be finally making contact with the Aucas, but, only a few days later, the missionaries were attacked. All five missionaries were killed. After Nate died, his family continued to be evangelists and encourage the Aucas. Many in the village became Christians, including some of those who had attacked the missionaries.\nI find this story inspiring because Nate, Jim, Ed, Peter, and Roger did not give up. They gave their lives serving the Lord. They may have been discouraged or frustrated, but they kept going and spread the Word of God where others were afraid to. They did not live to see the outcome of their work, but Nate\u2019s sister Rachel did. She continued to be a missionary to the Aucas and saw many come to Christ. Nate\u2019s love for the Lord and devotion to Him motivates me to glorify God in everything I do, even the little things. Nate had the courage to fly to Ecuador because God was with him. He trusted that God would use him to make an impact on others. Nate not only made an impact on the Auca tribe, but his story still encourages us today.\nHow is this story inspiring to you? What can you come away with? Comment below on what other people have inspired you.\nNote: If you want to learn more about Nate Saint, I recommend this book: Nate Saint: On a Wing and a Prayer by Janet and Geoff Benge.\nThis entry was posted in Faith, Inspiring People on April 19, 2015 by Emma.\nEaster Miracles\nHappy Easter everyone! I love Easter because it is such a beautiful time of year and such a beautiful reason to celebrate! Christ our Lord has conquered death! Here is the Easter Bible passage, ESV style:\nLuke 24:1-12, 36-40 \u201cBut on the first day of the week, at early dawn, they went to the tomb, taking the spices they had prepared. And they found the stone rolled away from the tomb, but when they went in they did not find the body of the Lord Jesus. While they were perplexed about this, behold, two men stood by them in dazzling apparel. And as they were frightened and bowed their faces to the ground, the men said to them, \u2018Why do you seek the living among the dead? He is not here, but has risen. Remember how he told you, while he was still in Galilee, that the Son of Man must be delivered into the hands of sinful men and be crucified and on the third day rise? And when they remembered his words, and returning from the tomb they told these things to the eleven and all the rest. Now it was Mary Magdalene and Joanna and Mary the mother of James and the other women with them who told these things to the apostles, but these words seemed to them an idle tale, and they did not believe them. But Peter rose and ran to the tomb; stooping and looking in, he saw the linen clothes by themselves; and he went home marveling at what had happened.\u201d\n\u201cAs they were talking about these things, Jesus himself stood among them, and said to them, \u2018Peace be with you!\u2019 But they were startled and frightened and thought they saw a spirit. And he said to them, \u2018Why are you troubled, and why do doubts arise in your hearts? See my hands and feet, that it is I myself. Touch me, and see. For a spirit does not have flesh and bones as you see that I have.\u2019 And when he had said this, he showed them his hands and feet.\u201d\nWhen I was typing this out I noticed some things in the passage that I hadn\u2019t noticed before. One of them was that the disciples didn\u2019t believe what the women told them about Jesus having risen. You would think that someone wouldn\u2019t joke about something as important as Jesus rising, wouldn\u2019t you? Well, they weren\u2019t! The disciples were Jesus\u2019 followers, the ones who helped spread the word about Him and believed Him. They should probably have known by then that Jesus is capable of rising from the dead, and more! I think this accurately describes what most Christians are like today. We say we believe in Jesus, but we can\u2019t even begin to imagine what He can do! Think about the Easter passage for a minute. Jesus was dead, and we know that He was fully dead, like all the way dead, because He didn\u2019t rise until three days after. If it had happened on the same day He had died, then people might question whether He was really dead and had just come out of unconsciousness or something. But no, Jesus was fully dead, and He came back to life after dying. That\u2019s impossible. At least it is for an ordinary human. But Jesus wasn\u2019t an ordinary human. He was 100% human and 100% God. Just being that alone is beyond anything I could have imagined. Christ rose from the dead. He is alive. We are going to see Him one day. That is a miracle.\nThis entry was posted in Faith on April 4, 2015 by Emma.\nDealing With: Disappointment\nDisappointment. The dictionary definition is, \u201cthe feeling of sadness or displeasure caused by the nonfulfillment of one\u2019s hopes or expectations.\u201d Disappointment can come in many shapes and sizes, whether it\u2019s not making the track team you really wanted to be on, or simply not getting what you want. When we\u2019re little, like toddler age, we tend to deal with disappointment by throwing a temper tantrum. A kid doesn\u2019t get the piece of candy from the birthday pi\u00f1ata that he wanted, so he flips out. We\u2019ve all seen it, right? Now that you\u2019re past that stage, how do you deal with disappointment? It could be that you get super upset and sulk and hole up in you room all day. It could also be that you blame others for what you didn\u2019t get, whether it be the teacher who didn\u2019t give you the part you wanted in the school play, or it could be a grudge against the person who did get the part. Jeremiah 29:11 says, \u201cFor I know the plans I have for you,\u201d declares the Lord, \u201cplans to prosper you and not harm you, plans to give you hope and a future.\u201d (NIV) God has mapped out a plan for your life, which may not be the plans you yourself have. Knowing this, we will still have disappointment in our lives. Here are a few ways to deal with disappointment:\n1. Get a different perspective. You\u2019re not fast enough for the track team, but at least you CAN run. You don\u2019t get into your first choice college, but at least you have enough money to GO to college. Think of it in the bigger picture. If you have a goal, work hard to reach it. If you don\u2019t make it, keep going and make a new goal for yourself.\n2. Pray about it. Ask God for perseverance and His guidance in your life. If something disappoints you, don\u2019t shut Him off; pray more!\n3. Read what the Bible has to say. Here are a few verses to look up in your Bible: Romans 8:28, Philippians 4:6-7, Psalms 27:14\nDisappointment can be a hard thing to overcome, but we can know that the Lord is watching over us! Lift your eyes to the Lord and let all your worries, disappointment and sin rest on Him. God has a future for you, even though it might not be the one you\u2019re expecting.\nDid you like this post? Comment below about other \u201cDealing With\u201d posts you want me to write about!\nThis entry was posted in Faith, Tips and Tricks on March 29, 2015 by Emma.\nDifferences Part 2: Those in Other Countries\nLast week we talked about how we should love those around us even if they are different (especially if they\u2019re different, for that matter!). This week we are talking about differences between us and those in other countries. People in many countries experience living conditions that are drastically different than what we are used to. In fact, over 3 billion people in the world live in poverty today. This means a lot of people don\u2019t have a nice, warm, furnished house to live in or get to go to school and learn. It is dangerous to live in some places of the world, and some places don\u2019t have clean water.\nSometimes we get caught up in things we want that \u201ceveryone else has\u201d, or we complain that we are hungry when we always have enough food to eat. This week when you find yourself in one of these situations, take a step back and look at the big picture. There are people in this world who live in mud huts and would be overjoyed to have nice clothes, let alone an iPhone. There are children who consider it lucky to get one meal a day, let alone three. It is so important to be grateful for what we have.\nLike we talked about last week, all people are made in the image of God and He loves them, no matter where they live or what their social status is. God wants us to love and serve our neighbors, whether it is our literal next door neighbors, or our neighbors in other countries. There are lots of ways we can love and support people in poverty or without an education around the world, though sometimes we don\u2019t know how. Here are a few ways to get you started:\nPray. Pray for others. Pray a lot. Pray for anything. Think of a certain country or city in the world and pray for the people in it. Right now.\nSupport a charity or ministry. Give to those in need! You don\u2019t have to give a bazillion dollars, just whatever works for you. Believe me, anything or any amount you give will be greatly appreciated. You can give meals, clothes, money, school supplies, etc. depending on the organization.\nTake a missions trip. Go somewhere with your church (it doesn\u2019t have to be far away) and show God\u2019s love to others. It is so rewarding to help others and see God working in their lives.\nEveryone is different, and that is exactly how God created humans to be. Differences make us who we are. As we wrap up on this topic, think about what you want to come away with and what you are going to apply to your own life. It might seem hard at first, but we all have the opportunity to make the world better for somebody else. How are you going to do this?\nThis entry was posted in Faith on March 15, 2015 by Emma.\nDifferences Part 1: Those Around Us\n\u201cIt is only when you accept how different you all are, that you will be able to see how much the same you all are. Don\u2019t expect anybody to be the same as you, then you will see that you are in many ways the same as everybody.\u201d\n\u2013 C. JoyBell C., Goodreads Author\nDid you read the quote above? So true, right? This quote sets the tone for this whole post: We are different, but we have lots of similarities, too. Let\u2019s start by talking about differences. Everyone has different interests, ways of thinking, beliefs, basically everything. It\u2019s the way God made us human beings. The world would be so boring if everyone was exactly the same. I\u2019m glad we were all made differently. We can learn so many different things and do so much!\nAs you probably have noticed, the world as we know it is not all sunshine and roses. Many things today have gone wrong due to differences. In American history: wars, segregation, slavery, different religious beliefs, etc. In present day: bullying, wars (again), political issues, false understanding of what the Bible says, different religious beliefs (again), etc. I think a lot of the time when someone has different interests or different religious beliefs than us, we tend to label them as \u201cweird\u201d or \u201cbad\u201d. We tend to easily accept others who have similar interests or beliefs as us. This is not how God wants us to function. He made every single person on this planet in His image the way He wanted. Psalm 139:14 says, \u201cI praise you for I am fearfully and wonderfully made.\u201d Praise God for making you! Praise Him for making others fearfully and wonderfully too! Sure, we are all different, but we all have something in common: God made all of us and loves all of us.\nThis brings us to the topic of similarities. Someone might have different religious beliefs, but they\u2019re still treasured by God, just like you. No human is better than anyone else or more like God than anyone else. Show others in your school that they are equally loved by God! Don\u2019t treat others around you poorly because they aren\u2019t the same as you.\nLove them for it, because they are a treasured possession of God.\nThis entry was posted in Faith on March 1, 2015 by Emma.\nValentine\u2019s Day is coming! I love this holiday (Mostly because there\u2019s lots of chocolate), but where and when did it start? There is some debate about how it started, and which stories are true. One thing all Valentine\u2019s Day myths agree on is a guy named St. Valentine. Some say that St. Valentine lived during ancient Roman times. The emperor at the time thought that unmarried men made better soldiers than married ones, so he outlawed marriage. Kind of weird, right? Well, St. Valentine didn\u2019t like this law, so he performed marriages in secret. The authorities were NOT happy when they found out. Another story suggests that St. Valentine was put in prison for helping Christians escape prisons in Rome. When he was there, he fell in love with the jailor\u2019s daughter and sent her the first \u201cvalentine\u201d card. We can tell from both of these stories that St. Valentine was a loving man.\nIt sort of reminds me of God\u2019s great love for us. This Valentine\u2019s Day, thank God for loving you so much. All day on February 14, be loving to everyone you come in contact with, reflecting God\u2019s amazing love for them. We can use Valentine\u2019s Day not just as a day to send flowers and chocolate (although that is super nice), but as a day to be truly loving, helping others and encouraging them. So how can you do that effectively this Valentine\u2019s Day?\nThis entry was posted in Faith on February 4, 2015 by Emma.\nWhat we can learn from the movie FROZEN\nI love the movie Frozen. It has great songs, great characters, and a great message. We can learn a few things from some of the characters in Frozen that maybe you hadn\u2019t thought about before. Here are a few ways we can be more like Elsa, Anna, and Kristoff:\nELSA: Elsa is probably my favorite character in Frozen. She has this amazing dress and cool cape, and somehow her hair is perfect. She even has really awesome ice powers, but if you\u2019ve seen the movie you know that she doesn\u2019t think they\u2019re so awesome. Elsa keeps her powers hidden for as long as she can, afraid to show anyone. This is how we sometimes can be as Christians. We\u2019re afraid to let others know that we\u2019re Christians because we want them to like us or we don\u2019t want them to make fun of us. That\u2019s not what God wants for us. He wants us to Let it Go and share our faith with others, just like Elsa let go of her fear and accepted her powers. Though unlike Elsa, who is afraid her powers will hurt others, if you let others see your faith, it won\u2019t hurt them. It\u2019ll help them.\nANNA: Anna is a carefree girl who enjoys life. One of Anna\u2019s best qualities is how loyal she is to Elsa. When Elsa was hiding from her, Anna still asked her to play. When Elsa ran away Anna faithfully went after her. The best part is when Hans is about to kill Elsa. Anna, with her last remaining strength, puts herself in the way of Hans\u2019 sword just before she freezes up. I love the line, \u201cAn act of true love can thaw a frozen heart.\u201d All throughout the movie the characters think this means a true love\u2019s kiss, but in the end it really means sacrifice. Anna sacrificed herself for Elsa (even though she ends up living anyway), just like Jesus sacrificed himself so we could be free from sin. This is the kind of love that we need to have for others too. Now I\u2019m not saying you need to take a bullet for someone or something crazy like that, but instead strive to put others before yourself.\nKRISTOFF: One of my favorite things about Kristoff is that he\u2019s just himself. He doesn\u2019t care what other people think about him sharing a carrot with a reindeer. He also helps Anna even when she\u2019s so focused on getting Elsa and may not be really nice to him all the time. He\u2019s persistent even though Anna can be annoying sometimes. This is what we should be like. We don\u2019t need to care about what others think of us, but when others need our help we don\u2019t need to get a reward for helping them (even though Kristoff sort of does). We do it out of kindness even if we don\u2019t particularly like the person. We can show others God\u2019s love and be kind to them.\nI hope you enjoyed this post. Next time you watch Frozen look for more lessons we can learn! Comment below about you favorite part of Frozen.\nThis entry was posted in Faith on January 4, 2015 by Emma.\nJust recently I watched a video by Louie Giglio, a pastor in Atlanta, GA. The video was called \u201cHow Great Is Our God\u201d and it was AMAZING. Seriously, just the things he talks about in the video are mind blowing. (I really encourage you to watch this video. It\u2019s about 40 minutes long. Click here to view it.) After I watched it, it got me thinking. God made each one of us so intricate and so special. He understands and knows every single thing about you. Now, you might be thinking, \u201cWow, That\u2019s really stalkish\u201d, but for me it\u2019s also really comforting to know that He loves you anyway, even though He knows every sin you\u2019ve ever done. In 1 John 4:19 it says, \u201cWe love because He first loved us.\u201d God loves everyone even before they\u2019re born. If you ask His forgiveness for your sins, He will forget them and you will be wiped clean. He doesn\u2019t hold grudges. Really, I want that superpower. I would be able to forget all the sins that sometimes weigh me down. But God didn\u2019t give us that power because we weren\u2019t meant to have it. We learn from hard or embarrassing situations, and if someone else is having a bad day, we can share our own experiences. It\u2019s all part of God\u2019s plan and design for us. He loves us so much that He made us in His own image and put us on this planet to glorify Him. Now this is what I want you to do if you haven\u2019t already done it: Click on the link above and watch the video. When you\u2019ve watched the whole thing, come back and comment on this post and tell me what you thought of the video or this post. Also, think about this question: How can I show God\u2019s awesome love that He has for all people to others?\nThis entry was posted in Faith on November 19, 2014 by Emma.", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00040.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 106, + "original_length": 22973, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.98, + "perplexity": 233.4, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "http://arlingtoncemetery.net/remains-of-another-day.htm", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T04:23:29Z", + "digest": "sha1:6VMRA6B5QJM7EEYIICSZE5PZRNHHQ777", + "length": 18163, + "nlines": 91, + "source_domain": "arlingtoncemetery.net", + "title": "Remains Of Another Day: WWII Casualties Returned Home", + "raw_content": "Remains of another day\nDog tags, a wedding ring, a rosary -- the effects of\nWorld War II's soldiers continue to come home, along with their stories.\nCourtesy of The BaltimoreSun\nTomorrow in a veterans cemetery in Cheltenham, a World War II pilot shot down over Luxembourg in the winter of 1944 will finally get his funeral. His coffin will be lowered into a plot between two wild cherry trees. His widow and daughter will mourn him. The grounds crew will shovel in the earth. Sixty years after his last breath in the cockpit of a burning P-47D Thunderbolt, the truth of Second Lieutenant John R. Dyer's death has come home.\nReturning slain soldiers to U.S. soil and retrieving the story of their deaths from the cloud of confusion that surrounds war is the work of the U.S. Army's Casualty and Memorial Affairs Operations Center in Alexandria, Virginia. This office handles the bureaucracy of death. Its business is bereavement. It knows the fresh grief over a soldier killed in Iraq. It knows the shadowy sorrow from a death more than half a century ago. And it knows how the mystery of a loss can linger, promoting misinformation and stories that sometimes never get set straight.\nBut today, in that office, Dyer's name is penned in green ink on a board listing closed cases. Six decades after the Army declared his body \"non-recoverable,\" the facts have returned with Dyer's remains.\nTwo years ago, the Luxembourg military alerted the U.S. Army to aircraft wreckage found near the town of Niederwampach. The United States sent a team to excavate the crash site, finding teeth, bits of cranium and Dyer's dog tags in a crater that for decades had been used for the disposal of dead livestock. As a result, the Army concluded it was wrong all those years ago when it reported that after Dyer's plane was hit by anti-aircraft artillery fire, the airman parachuted to the ground, was captured and later killed by his German guards.\nThe facts were simpler: There was a hit, a crash, a death.\nWhile the nation focuses its attention on the latest casualties returning to the United States from Iraq, soldiers slain in every U.S. conflict since World War II continue to make a quiet march home. The Army's mortuary affairs office, two floors below the room where Iraq deaths are processed, receives more than 200 inquiries into the deaths of World War II soldiers each month. With the official opening of the World War II Memorial in Washington this weekend, the staff expects even more questions about the 78,000 soldiers from that conflict whose bodies were never found.\nFamilies want answers, even if they come almost a lifetime later.\n\"It was always a story, what happened to my father,\" says Carolyn Sowell, Dyer's daughter. \"Now it's a reality.\"\nThe 59-year-old grandmother from Clinton was just 2 weeks old when her father was killed. Because her mother remarried, the Army considers Sowell the next of kin and has given her power over her father's remains and personal effects. She grew up close to her late stepfather, who adopted her, and always viewed her father's story as unknowable.\nNow, the chance to bury John Dyer reaches a part of her past that has long felt inaccessible.\n\"There's actually going to be something I can do for my father - to finally bring his life to closure,\" says Sowell, who now thinks about how much the yellow brown in her eyes looks like the color in her granddaughter's - and in her father's - and feels a link to the man she never knew.\nShe is, at last, closer to him than at any point in her life. She wonders what it will feel like to sit with her father's remains at the funeral home tomorrow. She recalls asking an Army official about those shattered bones.\n\"Can I open that package up and touch them?\" she asked. \"So I can touch my father?\"\nIf it will help, he told her. If it will help.\nLieutenant Colonel Ron Long can see the way grief changes over time, the way it stays the same.\nAs chief of Mortuary Affairs and Casualty Support, Long oversees the retrieval of ancient remains of World War II soldiers and airmen as well as the record-keeping for the dead and wounded in Iraq. He knows that families of soldiers slain in the Iraq war are often bereft, confused, angry; they want more information faster, complain there isn't nearly enough.\nAnd he knows there can be more to learn. He tells his staff to take careful records. The Army has retrieved the remains of more than 290 World War II soldiers over the last three decades, thanks in part to reviewing old reports.\nSixty years from now, Long thinks, their Iraq files could be reopened, too.\nThe retrieval of information surrounding World War II deaths is important for families, of course, and for history. But in the brightly lit warren of offices at the mortuary affairs division, it also provides solace for the people doing the work - it reminds them they are fulfilling the Army's promise to its soldiers, even if it takes decades to do so.\n\"I think, 'What if it were me? What if it were my family?'\" says Long, 41, whose military staccato carries evidence of his North Carolina youth. \"If I were in a situation any of these heroes were put in, at least I'd know that somebody would be looking for me. They wouldn't stop looking for me. They wouldn't stop taking care of my family.\"\nLong is sitting in the public affairs office of the Army's personnel services division, known as the U.S. Army Human Resources Command. At a computer behind him, a staffer types a casualty report for a soldier killed in Iraq. The report will be released at 6 p.m., exactly 24 hours after a uniformed Army officer has visited that family's home.\nWhen the remains of World War II soldiers are found today, the same protocol is followed. A uniformed Army representative knocks on the door of the next of kin - though so many decades later, that often means a distant relative. Along with personal effects, the serviceman hand-delivers the report detailing the soldier's death.\nFamilies often react the same way: They want a military funeral all these years later. Most burials happen at Arlington National Cemetery. The Army casket holds a uniform bearing the soldier's honors and, under that, a pinned blanket holding the remains. At Arlington, there are uniformed pallbearers, a flag-draped coffin, a bugler, a firing party.\n\"It was a very emotional ceremony,\" recalls Marvin Clement, 73. \"It was a miracle that it happened.\"\nMarvin Clement was only 9 when his big brother, Alfred, prepared to go to war. He remembers Alfred looking out for him and his six other siblings in Marquette, Michigan, driving them in the family car, giving them 10 cents for a movie, a nickel for popcorn. Then, on Nov. 5, 1941, Alfred left their home on West Bluff Street in his Army greens.\nWhen Private First Class Alfred J. Clement was killed in France in 1944, the family received the telegrams. First he was listed as missing in action, then a month later the Army reported he was killed in combat near the Moselle River in eastern France. The boy's mother suffered a heart attack. The family learned no body could be found.\nAs he got older, Marvin Clement wondered about those lost remains. In 1950, he joined the Navy and put in for overseas duty on the Rhine River, hoping he might get closer to the spot where his brother was killed.\nBut Clement never did.\nIn September 2000, a French group called \"Thanks, GIs\" excavated a riverbed in eastern France where U.S. soldiers were thought to have been killed. The team discovered Clement's full skeleton, buttons, pocket knife and rosary deep in the mud. An Army research lab verified his identity, and the body was sent home for burial at Arlington last year.\nBy then, Marvin Clement's other two brothers had died. He himself had survived open-heart surgery and several other operations. But Private Alfred J. Clements' baby brother felt like he had a mission that day.\n\"Maybe I was kept alive for that reason,\" says the retiree from Lake City, Florida \"Maybe the good Lord kept me alive after all I've been through because this was going to happen in my lifetime. I was going to see his burial.\"\nLong consoles himself with cases like the one that allowed Marvin Clement to say good-bye.\n\"That guy was still waiting on us,\" Long says. \"He lived a full life. He raised a family. But when all was said and done, he still knew he had a purpose - he just didn't know what it was. Now he does. Now he knows his brother's story.\"\nThe wedding ring was lost to Ruth Weeks.\nIn that summer of 1944, the widow learned there was nothing she could hold onto after her husband, Carl Hoenshell, was shot down in his P-38 Lightning. His plane had disappeared during a mission over the oil refineries of Ploesti, Romania, and he was reported missing. She thought maybe he was taken prisoner by the Germans. But time passed, and each letter the Army sent to the widow in Owosso, Michigan, had less information than the one before.\nFinally, he was declared dead. His plane was never found.\nRuth Weeks grieved. But her mourning felt complicated.\n\"You don't have any answers,\" says the 83-year-old great-grandmother, who still tends her flower garden at home in Owosso as she did 60 years ago. \"Every day of your life, you get up wondering what really did happen.\"\nThe widow remarried a few years after Carl's death and had a daughter. She lost touch with the Hoenshells; she and the family would talk only when they bumped into each other in town. Her remarriage upset them, Weeks says, arguing that they were hurt that she didn't wait for more details about her husband's death before remarrying.\nIt wouldn't have made a difference: With every decade, there was still no word.\nBut on Memorial Day weekend in 1997, Weeks' niece, Elizabeth Wilson, embarked on a search about her own father, who also died in World War II. Along the way, she became fascinated with the story of her Uncle Carl.\nWilson was never close to her Aunt Ruth, given the family rift over the widow's remarriage, but she got hooked on the whereabouts of Carl Hoenshell. She developed an online search seeking details about his death - dubbed \"The Carl Squadron\" - and employed the expertise of military researchers. Eventually, she found her way to a newspaper reporter in Belgrade and a young financial analyst from Michigan working near Sofia, Bulgaria. She asked for their help.\nTheir research led to a barn in the remote Bulgarian countryside.\nWilson, a 50-year-old businesswoman who grew up in Owosso but later moved to Jacksonville, Fla., traveled to that barn. Her older brother came, too. He brought his metal detector. They paid the farmer to remove the barn floor.\nFirst Lieutenant Carl C. Hoenshell, they knew through their own research, had completed his bombing run over the Romanian oil fields but had circled back to help another U.S. pilot with a failing engine. On that return trip, German bombers opened fire on him, and Hoenshell, out of ammunition, circled madly to escape. According to a witness Wilson helped find - a farmer's son who was 17 years old at the time and saw the dog fight over his parents' land - Hoenshell's plane attempted to land in a pasture, its engine on fire. Within seconds, it rolled into trees and blew apart.\nDecades later, underneath the barn, the descendants started to dig.\nSoon, they found what they would learn was the nose strut assembly of a P-38.\nThe Army then conducted an official excavation. Wilson was in Bulgaria when Army researchers found Carl Hoenshell's ID bracelet. It was battered, but bore the letters, \"oenshell,\" his identification number and \"Ruth\" on the back. Wilson called her aunt as soon as she heard. Back in Owosso, it was 2 a.m.\n\"I said, 'Aunt Ruth, I hate to get you up so early, but I've got some tremendous news for you,'\" Wilson recalls. \"Did you know Carl wore a bracelet? Better yet, it has your name on it.\"\nWeeks was alone in her bedroom. Her second marriage had fallen apart years before. She listened to her niece, with whom she had grown closer through this search, and the two cried and prayed together long-distance.\nThe war in Kosovo interrupted the search for more artifacts, but in 2002, the Army tried again. This time, they found a significant portion of remains and, deep in the soil, a perfectly preserved wedding ring.\nIt was a simple gold band with beading on the edges, part of a matching set.\nThe other was tucked inside a cedar chest in Ruth Weeks' bedroom.\nWhen the Army returned the ring to Weeks on Valentine's Day 2003, it comforted the widow. She immersed herself in the letters her late husband had written her. She wore her own ring again, placing his band on top of hers.\nBut there was something unsettling in this new knowledge, too. Even after his funeral - Hoenshell was interred in a plot next to his mother in Owosso - the episode felt fresh in a way it hadn't for decades. His widow kept thinking of his last minutes in that plane, and whether he was too focused to think of anything but survival. She wondered if he thought of her. She felt the weight of this unearthed fact: that Carl Hoenshell made it out alive, but then turned back.\n\"I think knowing what really happened helps you - but I don't think it makes you any happier,\" she says now. \"In fact, I think it made me sadder for a long time. I kept thinking if he hadn't gone back, he could have made it.\"\nThe discovery of the facts surrounding her husband's last day brought home her own painful story.\n\"He was the love of my life,\" she says. \"You never stop loving a person just because they're gone.\"\nShe doesn't wear his wedding ring now. She's afraid it will be damaged or lost.\nBut she has made this arrangement:\nWhen she dies, she wants it buried with her.\nOne afternoon in the Army's mortuary affairs office, Lieutenant Colonel Deborah Skillman opened a large manila folder and history spilled out. Inside was a yellowed Social Security card, a ripped savings bond for $150, a military ID with a fingerprint, a California driver's license, a calling card, a picture of a woman with full lips and a sad gaze.\nAlso included was a snapshot of a man wearing a dead-on stare and a stiff Army uniform:\nSamuel R. Gilmor, Lieutenant in the Army Air Corps, killed in action on October 10, 1943.\nOn a recent morning, the TV news on mute, Skillman looks through the file she came across on a routine inquiry - a file that hadn't been opened much, if ever, since the soldier was buried in Golden Gate National Cemetery after the war. Somehow with the Army's death-related paperwork, the contents of his wallet were tucked inside as well.\nNow Skillman is searching for Gilmor's next of kin to hand over these last personal effects.\nNot only do families of World War II veterans call the Army's mortuary affairs office looking for information, but sometimes the opposite happens - the Army hunts down relatives to deliver retrieved bits of personal history.\nThe Army uses genealogists to take DNA samples from the female bloodlines of World War II veterans so that it can confirm identification on ancient remains. It seeks out distant family members when old crash sites are found.\n\"They're grateful to have any information,\" says Skillman. \"If they don't know their loved one is listed on tablets of the missing somewhere, they're so appreciative.\"\nThere is some basic bureaucracy that surrounds World War II ancient remains cases, as they are called. Some searches are more likely than others. Downed World War II planes with crews of eight or 10 people are more attractive because they promise the biggest return. And science affects the outcome, too. World War II skeletons, for example, are easier to recover than those from Korea or Vietnam because bodies deteriorate much faster in acidic jungle soil.\nSometimes the Army re-examines old sites with modern tools like ground-penetrating radar to find more remains, prompting second funerals back home. It has sent climbers into the Himalayas and divers into the Bay of Tunis.\nSkillman expects her phone will ring even more after the World War II Memorial dedication, the way it did after the opening of the Korean and Vietnam memorials. With those ceremonies, families realized how little they knew about their relatives whose bodies were never found. Skillman understands why families crave the stories of these lost men.\n\"These are heroes,\" she says. \"Family heroes.\"\nThe remains retrieved from John Dyer's crash site in Luxembourg are so few, they could fit in one hand.\nBut they carry with them the facts of a soldier's death.\nIn 1944, Dyer's flight leader had seen his plane burning and radioed him to bail out, but another airman from that mission testified that he never saw Dyer leave his plane. Still, that account did not prevail in the official record.\nInstead, military investigators concluded the other airman's view was obscured and he couldn't see Dyer escape. That inquiry quoted witnesses saying Dyer floated to earth in his open parachute and was captured. The Army had concluded since Dyer's body was never found that he was murdered and buried by the Germans.\nBut with the recent reopening of the case, the Army noted that the physical description of the pilot and the account of his capture matched that of another pilot taken prisoner the month after Dyer's plane went down. Witnesses probably confused the airmen, the Army now believes, since the tails of both planes bore similar ID numbers.\nThat other pilot survived his captivity and returned to the United States after the war.\nDyer died that day.\nAt his funeral in Prince George's County tomorrow, John Dyer's story will conclude with the truth.\nThe airman's 83-year-old widow, Elinor Davis, will no longer have to imagine his end as the Army first told it.\nThe daughter he never met, Carolyn Sowell, can know her father's death was almost certainly faster than she once thought - that his plane was caught in anti-aircraft fire, rolled, hit the ground and exploded.\nThat telegram informing next of kin of the crash was once all Sowell had.\nNow she has her father's dog tags, too.\nAnd there is something else she can touch:\nA grave, a tombstone on U.S. soil, a marker 10 miles from home.", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00040.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 94, + "original_length": 18290, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.98, + "perplexity": 255.7, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "http://artmontecarlo.com/?template=top&content=painting&id=650", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T03:28:48Z", + "digest": "sha1:Q7QSMDE6OI5XPMYGJ35WKXWLN5GU3MPT", + "length": 122, + "nlines": 2, + "source_domain": "artmontecarlo.com", + "title": "Paintings images of Glaciers at Val d'Aosta - The Magic of Italy - Painting Details", + "raw_content": "\"To work for his art the true artist will let his wife starve\" - George Bernard Shaw (1856 \u2013 1950)\nGlaciers at Val d'Aosta", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00040.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 15, + "original_length": 796, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.97, + "perplexity": 253.0, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "http://ashtongatestadium.co.uk/concerts/take-that-hospitality-packages/", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T04:23:24Z", + "digest": "sha1:UMSD3HPM45PXKIHRNS7UMFOVM2Y6UZOG", + "length": 573, + "nlines": 5, + "source_domain": "ashtongatestadium.co.uk", + "title": "Take That Hospitality Packages | Ashton Gate", + "raw_content": "2019 marks Take That\u2019s 30th Anniversary. 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It\u2019s often a huge decision to separate and divorce, which will change your whole life. When you have children with your ex-partner, you\u2019ll ask yourself often if you\u2019re doing it the right way and if you can handle it all. Besides a lot of emotions and trying to get agreements about dividing the possessions and the custody of your children, you\u2019re also still a role model for your children. They learn from you how to handle stress and how to stand up for yourself. And that can be pretty hard in such a life changing situation, especially when you\u2019re not in a smoothly going communication situation anymore with your ex-partner.\nLet\u2019s go through the issues I hear most from clients in a time of separation/divorce:\nWorrying and being so busy in your mind with everything you have to make decisions about and what you have to arrange, which causes that you can\u2019t sleep.\nThere seems to be not enough time in one day and you\u2019re skipping meals, skipping drinking enough water, and skipping exercising, and it feels like you\u2019re losing or lost control.\nEverything comes to YOU, you\u2019re so busy as a single parent to do everything alone, you\u2019re overflowing and it feels like you have to be superwoman.\nYou\u2019re overwhelmed of all emotions, think about: anger, sadness, hurt, disappointment, failure, guilt, fears, powerlessness, vulnerability, not supported and not understood. In a situation of difficulties to get a settlement with your ex-partner, you can experience huge fears and stress because you have to go to court and are at the mercy of \u2018the legal system\u2019.\nYou have a huge \u2018to do list\u2019, but you\u2019re not able to focus, concentrate and prioritise.\nYou want time for yourself, but there isn\u2019t really an opportunity.\nHaving many uncertainties about your future, think about: finding a new house, arranging the finances to pay all bills to get the settlement with your ex-partner on paper but also the finances as a single parent to pay for everything you and your children need to have a healthy and happy life, wondering if you\u2019ll ever have a new loving partner and if you\u2019ll ever be able to trust a partner again.\nYou want to love your children and provide a safe, healthy and joyful life for them, but you can\u2019t give it right now because of how you feel and you wish you could read their minds about the whole situation. Often your children play up because they sense how you feel and they can even become ill or very angry and upset (think about tantrums) which gives even more stress.\nHere\u2019s a list how you can best take care of yourself in a time of separation/divorce:\nPut yourself in the first place; if you don\u2019t take good care of yourself, you can\u2019t take good care of your children\nBelieve in yourself. You can handle everything in your life.\nProtect your energy, anchor yourself and cleanse your energy when you wake up and when you go to sleep. You can use my free guided meditation for this, see: http://astridboot.com.au/free-gifts/. Say out loud daily (or as often as you want): All energy I\u2019ve given away or left behind, returns to me now, transformed in love and light.\nEat healthy, drink a lot of water, exercise daily (a short walk in nature does miracles and can clear your mind and give you new insights also, or do yoga with free online lessons) and rest/sleep enough. Also treat yourself well by getting a massage or healing, go floating (http://www.cocoonfloatation.com.au/), or visit a sauna.\nAsk for help and delegate tasks. You can ask family, friends, neighbours, colleagues, but also the universe with so many angels available for you.\nTell your children it\u2019s a decision of you and your ex-partner to divorce, it\u2019s an adult decision and it has nothing to do with them, and that you both still love your children now and forever.\nExplain your children in a for their age understandable way how you feel, how you\u2019re going to resolve that and tell them when you\u2019re feeling is changed into a better feeling. I\u2019d like to give an example from my personal life while I was in a divorce situation in 2009: When my ex-husband and I had words in the evening and this had triggered anger in me, I explained my daughter of 3 years old the next day: \u2018mummy is feeling angry because of something dad and I spoke about last night, but tonight I\u2019ll have a talk with him again and then it will be resolved\u2019. I had the talk that night and told her the next morning: \u2018mummy had a talk with dad last night and I\u2019m not angry anymore. Everything is fine again\u2019. Children are very sensitive and without telling them how you feel, they\u2019ll know anyway. They don\u2019t understand the feelings they experience and start to create their own interpretation, which is often wrongly interpreted and turning into beliefs as: it\u2019s my fault, I\u2019m causing all these problems, I\u2019m bad, my parents don\u2019t love me anymore, etc.\nAlways speak positive about your ex-partner to your children. Otherwise your children get confused about love and feel they have to choose between two parents, which is an impossible choice to make.\nTeach your children to protect their energy, how to anchor themselves and how to cleanse their energy. It can be fun to do the guided meditation on my website together, see: http://astridboot.com.au/free-gifts/. Make it a new daily routine in your house.\nKeep an eye on how your children are coping with the whole process of divorce. Trust your intuition as a loving parent and when you have the feeling they need help to release their emotions, arrange that help (think about healing or therapy).\nWrite a list of how your life is in an ideal situation with all your wishes fulfilled and you and your children being happy, joyful, at peace and abundant. See it before you, feel it in your body because that\u2019s how you are manifesting what you want. Ask the universe to help you to have this ideal life. Be open for signs and guidance and trust your intuition in this to take action steps.\nOf course you can ask help from the universe with everything in your life. Tell the universe your worries, fears and with what you need help. Also ask to have faith. Be open for signs and guidance and trust your intuition in this to take action steps. Have faith, believe you\u2019re protected, safe and loved. And only focus on positivity and the Light.\nAsk Archangel Michael to come to you with his golden sword of light, to cut all cords to your ex-partner (except pure, unconditional love if you prefer) on physical, emotional, mental and spiritual level, in all directions of time and on cell memory level. Then ask him to encircle all cut cords and attachments in his purple net of Light and to take this for you to the universe where it will all be transformed in love and light for you.\nIf you need help for yourself or your child(ren), I can offer you healing sessions. This can be done in my practice room, or on Skype or over the phone, but also on distance by using a photo and email. It often starts with cleansing your energy, adding energy and \u2018emptying\u2019 your mind, and then releasing emotions and beliefs that are blocking you. I can help you with the grieving process and approaching your future with faith and optimism again. If your children need help, I can offer a kid\u2019s healing session. Children are very fast in releasing their blocking emotions. You\u2019ll provide them a tool for life. I always advice children to teach this releasing technique to others too who can use it in their lives.", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00040.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 136, + "original_length": 9877, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.96, + "perplexity": 314.3, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "http://atlantajewishtimes.timesofisrael.com/friendliness-and-fretting-on-toco-front-porch-session/", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T03:17:45Z", + "digest": "sha1:5N4SOWNTSL2THBBQOALQATCZ3RBZPKUV", + "length": 3991, + "nlines": 23, + "source_domain": "atlantajewishtimes.timesofisrael.com", + "title": "Friendliness and Fretting on Toco Front Porch Session | Atlanta Jewish Times", + "raw_content": "Friendliness and Fretting on Toco Front Porch Session\nThe Jewish Federation of Greater Atlanta held one of their first 'front porch' sessions in a series of 13 on Oct. 18.\nWhen the Jewish Federation of Greater Atlanta came to Toco Hills to listen and learn about its residents\u2019 concerns about the future, the participants, who ranged in age from 30s to 80s, brought up topics ranging from the expense of day school tuition to the search for suitable housing for seniors who walk to synagogue.\nThe session Wednesday, Oct. 18, was one of the first of a series of 13 open listening forums scheduled over four weeks in the discovery phase of Federation\u2019s Front Porch: Unlocking the (Incredible) Potential of Jewish Atlanta initiative.\nOver a year, more than 100 community representatives are working to learn the needs and develop strategies for Jewish Atlanta to achieve its potential in the years and decades ahead. Federation also is trying to discover the roles the community needs it to fill.\nCongregation Bet Haverim officer and Front Porch participant McKenzie Wren (see her Front Porch column on Page 13) was the Federation volunteer running the meeting at Young Israel of Toco Hills.\nShe began by asking the attendees, who were sitting in a circle, what they would like to do on a front porch.\nOne man said he would write songs and play his mandolin. Someone else said he would drink bourbon, while a woman said she would drink iced tea. Someone else would people-watch.\nBy the time everyone had answered, the group was warmed up for the nontraditional approach to gathering information.\nWren emphasized the importance of \u201cbeing mindful and sharing deeply\u201d when she asked all 25 people there to say what they need to live more meaningful Jewish lives.\nOne man expressed a need for the Jewish community to have programming that appeals to young professionals. A middle-aged woman wants forums to talk about the political situation.\nThe cost of Jewish day school tuition was on the minds of parents of elementary-school-age children.\nProgramming for empty-nesters was another subject.\nWhen people are young and raising children, it\u2019s easy to meet other parents and create a social network, one woman said, but it\u2019s difficult to meet people later in life. (A Front Porch forum at Jewish Family & Career Services at 6:30 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 1, is targeting empty-nester participants.)\nA subsequent discussion about the needs of empty-nesters produced objections about the term itself in reference to people 50 and older because \u201cempty\u201d has negative connotations.\nThe phenomenon, at least a decade old, of older parents moving to Atlanta to be near their adult children and their grandchildren is attracting Jewish seniors who have particular social needs.\nBut not everyone focused on social needs.\nOne man wanted to know what could be done to encourage younger people to be more charitable and support Atlanta\u2019s Jewish institutions.\nSomeone else seeks encouragement for the Orthodox community to be more active in the greater Atlanta Jewish community.\nReducing the likelihood of intermarriage is a concern for several who attended the meeting.\nTable discussions were held on the topics that had the most interest, including the importance of a Jewish communal infrastructure. If people found one conversation uninteresting, they could walk over to another topic table and join in. Wren called it \u201copen-space technology.\u201d\nThe people who showed up could talk about whatever was on their minds because the Front Porch forums lack fixed agendas. The discussions are driven by the interests of the participants, so each gathering should be different. Amy Glass, a Federation staff member, encouraged people to attend more than one.\nThe meetings continue through Nov. 14. You can find the schedule at jewishatlanta.org/the-front-porch. If you can\u2019t make any of the sessions, the Front Porch team (reachable through the same site) will try to make other arrangements to hear what you have to say.", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00040.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 331, + "original_length": 12827, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.96, + "perplexity": 299.2, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "http://attorneyjacksonms.com/civil-law/estate-matters/power-of-attorney/", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T05:04:57Z", + "digest": "sha1:PGSIAE5E7ZAPONL2AVXJ7RBBYAWVKUQ2", + "length": 3206, + "nlines": 9, + "source_domain": "attorneyjacksonms.com", + "title": "Power of Attorney - Attorney Jackson, MS", + "raw_content": "Mississippi Lawyer and Attorney for Power of Attorney\nA power of attorney is a written instrument granting someone the authority to act as agent for the grantor. A person so appointed is known as an attorney-in-fact for the grantor. A power of attorney can be granted in several forms:\nGeneral power of attorney \u2013 this is a power of attorney that authorizes an agent to transact business for the grantor/principal and generally act in all respects for and on behalf of the grantor. Such a power of attorney terminates if the grantor lapses into a state of incompetency.\nLimited power of attorney (special power of attorney) \u2013 this is a power of attorney that authorizes an agent to perform only designated acts. For example, one might bestow attorney-in-fact status to an agent only for the purpose for signing checks, or signing a contract. The attorney-in-fact has no authority to act for the grantor beyond the specific approved acts. Such a power of attorney terminates if the grantor lapses into a state of incompetency.\nDurable power of attorney \u2013 this is a power of attorney that is granted during the grantor\u2019s competency and which remains in effect during the grantor\u2019s incompetency. For a power of attorney to be a durable power of attorney, specific language must be placed in the document.\nPower of attorney for healthcare decisions \u2013 This is a power of attorney which authorizes the agent to make healthcare decisions for the grantor when the grantor is unable to do so. This can include end of life healthcare decisions if the grantor specifically provides for that in the document. This is a specific document that is carefully drawn. A power of attorney for healthcare decisions can be placed in the same document as a durable power of attorney but does not have to be so placed.\nIrrevocable power of attorney \u2013 This is a power of attorney that the grantor cannot revoke. For a power of attorney to be irrevocable, specific language must be placed in the document clearly stating the grantor\u2019s intent.\nA power of attorney is filed with the chancery clerk of the county of residence of the grantor. Unless the power of attorney is irrevocable, it can be revoked by filing irrevocation with the chancery clerk of the county where the power of attorney is on file. Unlike a guardianship or conservatorship, there are no legal requirements for filing annual accounting with the court or filing any kind of accountability documents. However, care must be exorcised in the management of affairs of another person. Any self-dealing or undue influence could be met with a lawsuit against the attorney-in-fact. At the Law Office of Attorney John R. Reeves, P.C., we have prepared powers of attorney of all kinds for years for many clients. Let our experience work for you and let us guide you through the kind of power of attorney needed, the language that should be included in it, and the correct management of the affairs over which you are given control. It is much safer to have sound and experienced legal advice from the outset than to have to address a lawsuit.\nPlease contact us to arrange for a confidential consultation with informed Mississippi Lawyer and Attorney for Power of Attorney.", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00040.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 177, + "original_length": 6903, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.96, + "perplexity": 199.2, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "http://attorneyjournalsd.com/blog/2018/06/01/7-ways-to-improve-your-attorney-biography-page-seo/", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T03:37:23Z", + "digest": "sha1:J6G5MFE6GUZTCOHZLTKFDLXRRXSL3KZC", + "length": 4584, + "nlines": 18, + "source_domain": "attorneyjournalsd.com", + "title": "7 Ways to Improve Your Attorney Biography Page SEO | Attorney Journal", + "raw_content": "Having a well-written and search-engine-optimized biography online is an essential part of success. When people are looking for you, it is not only crucial that you\u2019re easy to find, but that the information they find shows you in a positive light.\nFollowing are some suggestions to help you put together an online attorney biography page that will give your audience the information they are looking for as well as help you to stand out in the search engines as your own personal brand.\nBe Ready to Write Multiple Biographies\nYou will, of course, have complete control of your biography if it is to be posted on your own website. That won\u2019t always be the case, though. You will undoubtedly find other places where you\u2019ll want to post your professional biography.\nFirst, other websites will surely have their own restrictions on exactly what you can include in your biography. Some might allow links while others won\u2019t. You\u2019ll run into varying restrictions based on character or word counts. Others, still, might have very specific formatting guidelines. The bottom line is that you\u2019ll need to be prepared to create different versions of your biography depending on where you want to post it.\nAlso, from a strictly SEO perspective, the search engines feed on original content. Even if you can post your entire biography on two or three sites, it\u2019s a good idea to mix things up and rewrite it in order to avoid the appearance of duplicate content. Posting the exact same thing on multiple sites will drag all of those pages down in search results. (This goes for posting your biography on two or more sites that you own yourself, too.)\nWrite from the Third Person Perspective\nWriting about themselves in the third person is something many people struggle with. It\u2019s not very often that we talk about ourselves like we\u2019re not even in the room. Writing your biography from the third person perspective is not just about sounding professional, though, it also provides some very good SEO benefits.\nWhen you write in the third person, it gives you the opportunity to use your name instead of saying \u201cI.\u201d This obviously helps greatly with getting your bio to rank well for your own name. It also attaches your name to your work and accomplishments. This can help your name to pop up in search results when people are searching for terms related to your work.\nWriting in the third person also makes the information in your biography more shareable. If someone needs to talk about you for a publication, a news story, or something else, it\u2019s much easier for them to pull information they can use if it\u2019s already written from the third person perspective.\nIntroduce Yourself First\nThe opening paragraph should establish who you are right now. In many cases, your name should be the first words on the page. State who you are and a bit about your professional self.\nThis is where you want to give people the opportunity to see who you are before getting into your work and accomplishments. You might state where you got your degree(s) from and what brought you to your current position. It should have a professional tone but show that you are human.\nPutting this information up front, again, helps associate your name with your current position. This gives the search engines more information about you and also sets up some good SEO clues to tell the engines what this page is going to be about.\nWrite a Story, Not a Resume\nIt\u2019s important to keep in mind that your biography is meant to tell the story of you, not just present a list of what you\u2019ve done. It may be difficult at first but try to structure your bio like a story that will help you engage with your readers. Again, this will help you with SEO by giving you plenty of natural places to talk about the work you\u2019ve done and the things you\u2019ve accomplished. Start with your WHY.\nKevin Vermeulen is Partner and Chief Operating Officer for Good2bSocial. He has 30 years of marketing and advertising experience, with the last 22 years working in various senior management roles for ALM Media, a leading legal publisher, helping lawyers, law firms, consultants and vendors grow their business. For more information, please visit: www.good2bsocial.com.\nAbout the Author: Kevin Vermeulen is Partner and Chief Operating Officer for Good2bSocial. He has 30 years of marketing and advertising experience, with the last 22 years working in various senior management roles for ALM Media, a leading legal publisher, helping lawyers, law firms, consultants and vendors grow their business. 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Some Democrats (and John McCain, of course) don\u2019t like the \u201ctorture\u201d scenes [...]\nBeck Weighs In on Musburger Controversy\nWhile the BCS National Championship between Notre Dame and Alabama was still competitive (which, if you were watching, wasn\u2019t long unfortunately), ESPN commentator Brent Musburger said this about Katherine Webb, Ms. Alabama and Alabama quarterback AJ McCarron\u2019s girlfriend: At the time I didn\u2019t think it was weird \u2014 Musburger\u2019s an old guy (73) and let\u2019s [...]\nJust Cocky College Kids or \u201cDeluded Narcissists\u201d\nAn exhaustive study indicates that Millennials, those who were born from c. 1982-1999, have a wildly inflated sense of self-infatuation and a notable overconfidence. When asked about their abilities, their \u201cabove average\u201d attitude didn\u2019t match their level of achievement. But is this study just a reflection of college students being college students or is there [...]\nBiden: Some Gun Control By Executive Fiat\nVice President Joe Biden made it clear today that the President has many options in the upcoming gun control debate saying, \u201cThere are executive orders, executive action that can be taken.\u201d He went on to imply that action is key to getting things done: \u201cit\u2019s critically important that we act.\u201d The word \u201caction\u201d struck me, [...]\nTrillion Dollar Coins. Seriously?\nNew York Democrat Representative Jerry Nadler and others are supporting the idea of the Treasury minting a trillion dollar platinum coin a few times and merely depositing them at the Federal Reserve so as to avoid a debate over the fiscal cliff. What could go wrong! How did a rule mostly used for the creation [...]\nUnemployment Steady at 7.8%\nUnemployment remained at 7.8% in December along with the U6 figure, which also stayed put at 14.4%. I find it interesting that November\u2019s number was initially 7.7%, but got revised up to 7.8%. Funny how that happened with relative quiet. Although we added 155,000 jobs last month, we need 250,000 to keep pace with population [...]\nThe Tale of the Former Lesbian Couple, the Craigslist Sperm Donor, and the U.S. Regulatory State\nThis one has to be filed under \u201canything else.\u201d I don\u2019t know if this story is a reflection of world as it is at the beginning of 2013 or just how the world reacts to crazy here at the beginning of 2013. Either way, I\u2019m sure you could call it the manifestation of several symptoms [...]\nAfter that disastrous election, the uncertain fiscal cliff scenarios, and the impending Mayan apocalypse, we are still here! May your 2013 be a great year!", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00040.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 252, + "original_length": 15579, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.96, + "perplexity": 241.1, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "http://banana1015.com/bob-seger-apologizes-to-flint-for-the-terrible-song-detroit-made/", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T03:32:17Z", + "digest": "sha1:D3QMI7Y6FNOZGU6BPJZ54EUSG5P6TX6S", + "length": 1194, + "nlines": 5, + "source_domain": "banana1015.com", + "title": "Bob Seger Apologizes to Flint for the Terrible Song \u2018Detroit Made\u2019", + "raw_content": "Bob Seger Apologizes to Flint for the Terrible Song \u2018Detroit Made\u2019\nWednesday night (11/19/14), the legendary Bob Seger kicked off his \"Ride Out Tour\" at the Dow in Saginaw, Michigan. It was here that the 69-year-old rock icon took the opportunity to apologize to the people of Flint for a discrepancy in the song 'Detroit Made,' which is the title track from his new record. The song was written by John Hiatt as an ode to his car, The Electra, which was actually built in Flint from 1959-1984...not in Detroit.\nHowever, after listening to the song, the only apology Seger owes his fans is choosing to record a pile of crap like this in the first place. Hey, we get it\u2026 the lyric 'Detroit Made' sounds a hell of a lot better than 'Flint Made,' and we are sure that\u2019s why the producer decided to go with Detroit. Regardless, the song is terrible...Detroit Made should have never been made. Our advice is to fire John Hiatt immediately and get back to writing your own songs. After all, who is the musical legend that wrote the classic 'Night Moves'? Not freaking John Hiatt that\u2019s for damn sure!\nFiled Under: Bob Seger, detroit made, night moves\nCategories: Flint News, Michigan News, Newsletter", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00040.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 99, + "original_length": 2602, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.97, + "perplexity": 281.0, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "http://bangordailynews.com/2017/07/25/news/nation/new-attitudes-toward-adoption-from-foster-care-offer-hope/", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T03:30:30Z", + "digest": "sha1:KSX72WOJRBI2EMFFESCM7EMRAXDNTCBQ", + "length": 6341, + "nlines": 19, + "source_domain": "bangordailynews.com", + "title": "New attitudes toward adoption from foster care offer hope \u2014 Nation \u2014 Bangor Daily News \u2014 BDN Maine", + "raw_content": "New attitudes toward adoption from foster care offer hope\nJoseph Cyr | Houlton Pioneer Times\nSharon Bulley of Houlton keeps an eye on her three adopted children Charlie, Jacob and Isaiah as they jump on a trampoline Friday afternoon. The three boys were once under foster care with Sharon and her husband John before the Bulleys adopted the boys.\nBy Sharon Van Epps, The Washington Post \u2022 July 25, 2017 12:55 pm\nMore than 110,000 children in the U.S. foster care system are legally free for adoption, yet more than 20,000 of these kids will never find an adoptive family.\nAfter a childhood of hardship, youth exiting the system without family support face a high risk of unemployment, homelessness, incarceration and other negative life outcomes. But the 2017 U.S. Adoption Attitudes Survey offers a glimmer of new hope.\nAccording to the survey, nearly 80 percent of individuals looking to adopt for the first time would consider adopting a child in foster care, a 7 percent increase since 2012. Rita Soronen, the chief executive of the Dave Thomas Foundation for Adoption, the organization that commissioned the study, considers this a substantial shift in public attitudes.\n\u201cFoster care adoption hasn\u2019t always been an easy or pleasant conversation,\u201d she says. \u201cAll of us in the child welfare stratosphere have worked hard to educate the public to change misperceptions about foster care adoption and heighten awareness.\u201d\nChoosing to adopt through the foster care system means accepting that the process and sometimes the outcome can be uncertain. Bureaucratic procedures vary from state to state and even county to county, but the practice of concurrent planning, which places children with potential adoptive families before the termination of parental rights, is standard. This approach, designed to reduce the amount of time children spend in the system, investigates options for permanent reunification with the birth family while foster parents care for the child and stand ready to adopt that child if parental rights are severed. But even for prospective parents who come with eyes wide open, the experience can be emotionally fraught.\n\u201cI did a lot of research, so I don\u2019t think there was anything that I wasn\u2019t expecting,\u201d says Kristen Howerton of Orange County, California, who blogs about her life as a mother at Rage Against the Minivan. Her son Jafta, now 12, is the oldest of her four children and arrived as a foster placement at the age of 6 months. \u201cFor three years, we lived with a very big unknown. We were falling in love with this little boy but never sure if he was our permanent son or just a temporary placement. It was hard to be so invested and yet not be able to control any outcomes.\u201d\nDenise Henderson, a retired psychologist in Rochester, New York, tells a similar story about trying to adopt a younger sibling for her biological son as a single mom. \u201cMy daughter came to live with us as a newborn. It took three long years before the courts freed her for adoption. The weight that lifted off me in that moment was incredible. I didn\u2019t realize what a burden I\u2019d been carrying until I no longer had to bear it. Now my daughter is a lovely 13-year-old \u2026 of whom I couldn\u2019t be prouder.\u201d\nFor author Jillian Lauren and her husband, Scott Shriner, bassist for the band Weezer, the adoption of a 3-year-old boy named Jovi from Los Angeles County proved a bit smoother. Jovi had already spent a year and a half in foster care by the time the couple met him, with bureaucratic decision-making regarding his future well underway. The couple also has a son, Tariku, adopted from Ethiopia, an experience that Lauren chronicled in her memoir, \u201cEverything You Ever Wanted,\u201d but the tremendous need for foster-adoptive families shaped their choice for their second adoption.\n\u201cWe made a very conscious decision to adopt from foster care,\u201d Lauren says. \u201cWe were terrified. We also felt a sense of purpose around it as well that served as an anchor when we were facing uncertainty.\u201d\nSoronen explains that when society takes the dramatic step of legally terminating parental rights, there\u2019s an implicit promise of a new family made to that child, a promise that too often is broken. Plenty of prospective parents are open to infants and toddlers, but the average child in foster care is 8 or 9 years old. Sibling groups and kids with special needs may also languish. As North America\u2019s largest charity devoted to finding homes for children in foster care, the Dave Thomas Foundation has chosen to focus its efforts on these children who might have previously been considered unadoptable.\nThe Wendy\u2019s Wonderful Kids program, named after the restaurant chain founded by Thomas, who was himself an adoptee, seeks families for foster children who are legally free for adoption. The program, which was founded in 2004, has served 16,000 foster children so far. Its caseworkers, known as adoption recruiters, spend time getting to know each child. If a child is reluctant to change schools or doesn\u2019t want to change their name after adoption, those concerns are noted and respected. Recruiters also identify important people in the child\u2019s life, such as former teachers or extended family members, who may be able to help in the search for a new home. There have been 6,494 adoptions finalized with 4,300 kids currently looking for permanent homes. Naturally, the foundation wants to see that number increase.\nChild welfare experts and adoptive parents agree that any child adopted from foster care will have challenges to overcome, no matter the child\u2019s age at placement. Krista Woods, a therapist who has counseled adoptive and birth families for 25 years in the Chicago area, and who was adopted as an infant from foster care, points to a realistic parental attitude as the key. Although parents may feel relief the day the adoption decree is signed, it\u2019s only one milestone in the family\u2019s longer journey.\n\u201cMeeting children where they are, while supporting and encouraging them to reach for more, is a lifelong process,\u201d Woods says.\nFor parents like Jillian Lauren, the joy of foster adoption is far greater than the struggle. \u201cThe minute we looked into our son\u2019s eyes, we knew,\u201d she says. \u201cIt\u2019s just been such a special experience, the whole messy thing.\u201d\nSharon Van Epps is a writer and mother of three. She tweets @sharonvanepps.", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00040.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 164, + "original_length": 9236, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.96, + "perplexity": 273.5, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "http://barbie.missbarbell.co.uk/cgi-bin/pages.cgi?act=diary-meta&page=2&data=life", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T04:03:57Z", + "digest": "sha1:H7ETUHRRRVO4UBSAHCYBOI5DZEC2YZZT", + "length": 10883, + "nlines": 35, + "source_domain": "barbie.missbarbell.co.uk", + "title": "Memoirs of a Roadie", + "raw_content": "There is something fascinating about graveyards. Rather than being creepy or eerie, I find them quite peaceful. It can be interesting reading the headstones to see how long ago people were buried and some of the dedications.\nRecently Dan and I visited the Warstone Lane Cemetery in the Jewellery Quarter, and previously we've visited John Bonham's grave near Droitwich and Ian Curtis' remembrance stone in Macclesfield Cemetery. I've always wanted to visit Highgate Cemetery in London and P\u00e8re Lachaise Cemetery in Paris too. I'll confess that its partly to see where famous names are buried, but I'm also intrigued to see some of the not so famous gravestones, tombs and memorials too.\nWhile attending a funeral several years ago in Cheltenham, I happened to be looking at the headstones as we walked along the path to the crematorium. One stopped me in my tracks as I wasn't quite sure whether I was seeing the resting place of the person I thought it was. The headstone was for Brian Jones and the dates on the headstone did seem to match.\nFor those who are music fans of the 60s, you will probably remember that Brian Jones was once the guitarist in The Rolling Stones, who died in 1969. My later investigations revealed that the grave was indeed the final resting place for the Stones guitarist.\nIt's surprising what little parts of history you can discover wandering through a graveyard.\nFile Under: life / people / sightseeing\nOver the last year or so, my blogging has been a bit haphazard. There are a number of reasons for this, but mostly it has been down to me not having the time to sit and write about what I've been up to. So to rectify that, I'm going to try and post at least once a week about a project I'm working on, or find time to work through an album of photos that I have been amassing and not sorting through for the past 4 or 5 years, and upload them on a more frequent basis.\nI have several coding projects currently on the go, several of which are now interconnected by one major project, Labyrinth, of which I'm slowly working through, getting them packaged and released. Releasing Labyrinth has been a long term goal and much of 2010 was spent pulling all the sites that use it together to filter all the fixes into a single codebase. Its been 8 years in the making and was quite a relief to finally make the first Open Source release of the code on 1st January 2011.\nAnother project that has been put to one side for the moment is my book. As I've mentioned previously I've been writing a book about how to organise a YAPC Conference. That will make it onto GitHub soon, so others can contribute, but I want to work through the feedback I've had so far to update it enough to prepare another draft.\nMy music life sprang back into action last year with the reformation of Ark or arK as they are now known. I overhauled the Ark Appreciation Pages I created back in 1998, and now have a backlog of photos, videos and reviews from the last few months to get through. It has been incredible to work with the guys again, and having got back in touch with IQ and Paul Menel, thanks to John Jowitt, it also been great to catch up with many old friends.\nMy family life has also been quite eventful, for all sorts of reasons, though I'll save a couple of the events for future blog posts, so I don't use up all my post in one :)\n2011 is currently looking busy, but hopefully I shall keep to my promise and at least blog about it as I go. We shall see!\nSo the Pope is coming to Birmingham this Sunday, much to the annoyance and irritation of many local residents as well many nationally. He'll be giving a mass in Cofton Park, which is a short walk from where I live. Being so close, the local council has classed us in a restricted area. As a consequence this weekend we'll be prisoners in our own home unless we can prove where we live. We are not allowed visitors, unless we visit them first and give them proof that they are coming to see us.\nThe restricted area covers quite a large area of Rubery, Rednal, Cofton and Longbridge, and many local businesses are going to suffer. The 2 big pubs, The Old Hare And Hounds and The Oak, the Lai Ling Thai restaurant and the Old Rose And Crown hotel will all being affected, as people travel from outside the area to frequent them on a weekend. I suspect they will either be closed all weekend, or they'll be defiant and local residents will all go out to make a point.\nFrom 6pm on Saturday until 8pm on Sunday we have been told expect severe disruption as roads are closed around the park and restricted access is put in place. Coaches carrying 70,000 people will then descend on Cofton Park from early Sunday morning at around 3am until the mass at 10am. Where these several thousand coaches are going to park is anyone's guess. The mass itself will be heard around the local area thanks to a very large PA system that is being erected. I wonder how many lawsuits local residents will be filing against the Catholic Church if even a whisper is heard through it before 8am on Sunday morning. Technically the pope could even be served with an ASBO.\nCofton Park itself was closed off for public use from last weekend, and won't opened again until a week after the visit. It's supposed to be a public park, and it's being closed for 3 weeks. So much for William Walter Hinde's will bequeathing the park \"to be kept for ever as an open space for the benefit of the people of Birmingham.\"\nAs we're living in a restricted area, if we leave it, even just to go to the high street shops in Rubery or across the Bristol Road to Great Park for an evening out, unless we carry proof of address, we will not be allowed back in. Even if we're on foot! Apparently the area will be (excessively) policed to ensure no one is there that shouldn't be, so I'm assuming that stop and search will be in full effect, with civil liberties through out the window.\nOn top of all this we have to pay for it. The church are allegedly covering \u00a39m-\u00a310m for the cost of the visit to the UK, while the tax payer is expected to pay over \u00a312m. A large portion of the population are not catholic, and have no interest in his visit, but local residents are told to pay for the privilege. As you might guess many local residents are not impressed. To make matters worse he's a pope that has a huge dark cloud looming over him because of various child abuse scandals he has been involved in covering up. I'm told he's probably the most unliked pope there has ever been.\nSo why do the non-catholics have to pay anything? As far as I'm concerned, if he wants to come here, the Catholic Church should foot the complete bill. And in addition should pay compensation to the local councils, which should be put towards community projects, that will benefit everyone in the area, not just a select few.\nSeveral months ago a local councillor or MP, appeared on local news saying something along the lines that the visit would benefit local people with jobs and the like. Others make even bolder statements. Not sure how this can benefit local people, as all the ground crew, police and other support staff are being drafted in, and local businesses are going to severely disrupted. Even the trinket and tshirt sellers aren't from the local area.\nAnd speaking of trinket sellers, how is it that the Catholic Church can rake in profits from sales of their cheap tat, and not expect to cover the remaining costs of the visit? Looking at the pictures it really is cheap tat, except being charged out at over inflated prices. Has the Catholic Church plummeted so low as to be nothing more than Del Boy and Rodney Trotter in the guise of official merchandise?\nI remember visiting Lourdes in the South of France over 20 years ago. The initial impression that struck me then was how tacky the place was with all the cheap street sellers, and even the official sellers. The grotto site itself was actually quite peaceful, and although I wasn't caught up with the religious overtones, was relieved to find the grotto devoid of merchandise sellers. The town of Lourdes itself was quite nice, and I did enjoy visiting the Ch\u00e2teau fort de Lourdes by cable car on the outskirts of the town. In many ways it's a shame that the religious nature of the town over shadows other aspects of the town that are just as worthy of a visit.\nIt's crossed my mind whether after the visit we'll see parts of the turf from Cofton Park ripped up and sold on eBay, with the heading \"The Pope stood here!\". The Catholic Church has already plummeted the depths, so I wouldn't be surprised.\nJust how much inconvenience and disruption can one man cause, particular when only a small minority from the area actually want him there!\nI, like others I suspect, will be awkward just for the sake of being awkward this weekend and see how much hassle it causes to prevent me from entering my own home. I'm guessing the police and officials will just get fed up with residents and let them through anyway. We shall see.\nFile Under: birmingham / brum / coftonpark / life / longbridge\nMaisha, now with OAuth support.\nA project I started back last year is Maisha, a command line client to interface to social micro-blogging networks, such as Twitter. On 31st August this year, Twitter depreciated the Basic Authention method of allowing applications to login users with a simple username and password combination. In its place they now use OAuth. (See also the blog post by Marc Mims - author of Net-Twitter).\nOn the face of it, OAuth seemed a bit confusing, and even the documentation is devoid of decent diagrams to explain it properly. Once I did get it, it was surprising to discover just how easy the concept and implementation is. For the most part Marc Mims has implemented all the necessary work within Net-Twitter, so Maisha only needed to add the code to provide the right URL for authorisation, and allow the user to enter the PIN# that then allows the application to use the Twitter API.\nThe big advantage to OAuth is that you don't need to save your password in plain text for an application. Once you enter the authorisation PIN#, the token is then saved, and reused each time you start up Maisha to access your Twitter feed.\nAs Identi.ca also implements an Open Source version of Twitter, they have also implemented OAuth in their interface. However, there is a slight modification to Net::Twitter needed, so I will wait for Marc to implement that before releasing the next version of Maisha.\nSo if you have been using Maisha and have been frustrated that you can no longer access Twitter, you now only need to upgrade to App-Maisha-0.14 and all should work again (once you've entered the PIN# of course).\nIf you are using Maisha, and have any feedback or wishlist suggestions please let me know.\nFile Under: life / opensource / perl / technology\nFile Under: internet / life / people / web", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00040.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 193, + "original_length": 20419, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.97, + "perplexity": 301.8, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "http://bbmri-lpc-biobanks.eu/", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T03:43:32Z", + "digest": "sha1:GDLA5KOJJNCUTUI7OMEZBXDTHPQR5RBI", + "length": 2049, + "nlines": 13, + "source_domain": "bbmri-lpc-biobanks.eu", + "title": "BBMRI-LPC Biobanks", + "raw_content": "BBMRI-LPC Biobanks\nWelcome to the website of BBMRI-LPC biobanks!\nBBMRI-LPC is a European-wide project involving 30 partners from 17 countries.\nThe project represents the next phase of the successful EU biobanking programme BBMRI (Biobanking and Biomolecular Resources Research Infrastructure, www.bbmri.eu). 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We provide employers with the right solutions when faced with making difficult decisions arising from the ever-increasing cost of health insurance. We develop a strategic approach which addresses the short-term needs with your long-term objectives in mind.\nWhat truly sets us apart from our competitors is that where others make promises about service, we deliver\u2026", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00040.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 4, + "original_length": 692, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.93, + "perplexity": 269.3, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "http://benofbart.org.uk/index.php/from-ministry-team/from-the-rector/319-from-rector-oct18", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T04:51:20Z", + "digest": "sha1:BG3IDRLBT4L7Q6U3V5OOSLSZZHERVEXX", + "length": 2280, + "nlines": 7, + "source_domain": "benofbart.org.uk", + "title": "From the Rector - October 2018", + "raw_content": "October; a turning of the year. Very definitely the end of summer, the start of Autumn. Even the university students have started back again, and schools\u2019 half-term is coming soon. The weather might be anything \u2014 wet and windy, hot and sunny, cool and grey \u2014 but regardless, the leaves have started to turn colour, and the days are shortening fast.\nWe are in the time of year when we celebrate Harvest. Some have recently celebrated, and some are yet to do so.\nHarvest seems to be something that occurs each year. It just sort of happens, does it not? It does not need any work or effort and all rolls along quite smoothly. Indeed, in some kinds of farming there is not even anything to harvest at a particular time of the year. Do cows milk themselves; do beef, sheep and pigs just eat; is that is all there is to it?\nIf such a statement is absurd in farming terms, why do we assume that Church finances occur in a similar way? Perhaps it is one of those things \u2014 it does not directly affect us unless something goes wrong and when it does go wrong we will take some interest. Such an approach can work but it is does not lead to long term growth or a sense of confidence. God will provide; indeed He has provided. The provision is with us and it is us that need harvesting.\nLike an agricultural harvest, we will have been affected by outside factors. Jobs may have changed (and in some cases may not be there any longer); retirement may have occurred or full time study concluded and the world of work entered. All of these are key things that may prompt a personal giving review.\nBut, what about the many of us where there has not been a major change? As with a long established apple orchard, we still produce fruit even if no major changes in the shape of the tree have occurred. We still have a harvest and we need to look at what it is. We then look at how we offer part of this back to God.\nWe sing in the harvest hymn that all good gifts around us are sent from heaven above. We are then exhorted to \u201dthank the Lord, O thank the Lord, for all his love\u201d. The tune enables us to concentrate on the word \u2019\u2019all\u2019\u2019. When we review our giving, this year, let's concentrate on the word \u2018all\u2019 when looking at what God has given us. 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Idolatry is the channel for expressing creature arrogance and independence from God. 1 Samuel 15:22-23\nA. Rom. 1:18-25 - denies creator honor to God\nB. Jonah 2:8 - man forsakes the only provision for his sinfulness and frustrations in life.\n1. hebhel: 13 times for idols\n2. Their chesed: the personal provision for them from God. Cf. David at Psalm 144:2\n2. There are 3 types of idolatry:\nA. Deity oriented: ascribing deity worship to something.\nExodus 32:1-6 (Not authorized by God - Isaiah 42;8)\nB. Detail oriented: centering everything around wealth and the physical things of this life. Covetousness - Eph. 5:5; Col. 3;5\nDoctrine of rich mindedness: 1 Tim. 6:9-10, 17\nC. Christian oriented: placing religious value on an object or practice which God has not authorized. symbols, statues, rituals, leaders.\n3. All of it begins in the soul as influenced by the sin nature.\nA. Mark 7:22; Gal. 5:19\nB. Ezek. 14:7; Acts 7:39\n4. Deity oriented idolatry is an extension of demon influence.\nA. 1 Cor. 10:20\nB. Psalm 106:34-39\nC. Deut. 32:17\nD. Principle of 2 Cor. 11:13-15\n5. Accordingly, idolatry is a contact point for all kinds of occult activity.\nDeut. 18:9-12; Zech. 10:2 (teraphim - Ezek. 21:21)\n6. But the idol itself is nothing and powerless.\nA. 1 Cor. 8:4; 10:19\nB. 1 Chron. 16:26; Ps. 96:5 (but cf. LXX - daimonion)\nC. They are worthlessness: hebhel = vanity, emptiness.\n1. Used 13 times for idols\n2. Jer. 10:3, 15 and 8b\nD. Isaiah 41:29 - breath and emptiness: ruach and tohu\nE. Isaiah 45:20 - a god who cannot deliver\nF. Psalm 115:4-8\n1. v. 4 - work of man's hands - Ps. 135:15; Is. 2:8\n2. v. 5 - Can't speak or see - Rev. 9:20\n3. v. 6 - Can't hear or smell\n4. v. 7 - Can't feel or walk\n5. v. 7 - Can't even make a noise\nG. Jer. 14:22 - Can't produce rain\nH. Jer. 10:14 - Deceitful and no breath in them (ruach).\nI. Jer. 10:5 - Can do no harm or good\nJ. Thus, eliyl: from alal = to be weak, ineffectual, insufficient\n16 times translated as \"worthless thing.\"\n7. The stupidity of idol worship:\nA. Isaiah 44:9-20\nB. Isaiah 40:18-22\nC. Jer. 10:1-5\nD. Jer. 10:8 - idolaters are stupid\n1. stupid: baar - qal imperfect = brutish, stubborn, self-centered.\n2. foolish: kasal - qal imperfect (verb only)\na. result of being brutish is to operate on creature viewpoint.\nb. The root KSL, describes the independence and rebellion of the sin nature, and the inferior viewpoint that comes from a soul which is controlled by the sin nature.\n3. Jer. 2:26b-27 - total disorientation to reality\nE. No benefit: Hab. 2:18\n8. And yet, idol influence is powerful and deceptive.\nA. 1 Cor. 12:2; Gal. 4:8\nB. Produces a fear psychosis: Jer. 50:38; 51:7 with 10:2, 5\nC. Example: Deut. 12:31; Ps. 106:36, 38\n9. Deity idolatry expresses itself in 2 basic ways.\nA. Lasciviousness: the phallic cult - Lev. 18:3-25; Deut. 12:31;\nB. Asceticism: 1 Tim. 4:1-3; Col. 2:20-23\n10. Since Yahweh worship (True Christianity) is the only basis for relationship and fellowship with God, any substitute is called spiritual harlotry and adultery.\nA. Jer. 3:8-10\nB. Ezek. 16:1-43\nC. Hosea 4:11-13\nD. Rev. 17:1-5\n11. Consequently, idolatry causes national disintegration and judgment.\nA. Jer. 7:16-20; 17:1-4; 44:23\nB. 2 Chron. 24;15-22\nC. 2 Kings 17:7-23\nD. Ezek. 6:1-14; 16:35-43\nE. Ezek. 14:12-21\n12. Old Testament commands against idolatry.\nA. Ex. 20:1-3; 23:24\nB. Deut. 4:28; 5:7; 6:14; 7:16; 8:19; 4:15-20\nC. Deut. 29:17-18; 27:15\nD. Deut. 13:6-16\nE. Lev. 19:4; 26:1\n13. New Testament commands against idolatry.\nB. 1 Cor. 10:1-22\nC. Apply the doctrine of separation: 1 Cor. 5:6-11\nD. 1 Thes. 1:9\n14. Protection from idolatry comes through orientation to God's character and plan.\nB. Isaiah 40:12-31 (application of divine essence to combat idolatry)\n15. All idols will be removed from the earth at the beginning of the Messiah's 1000 year earthly kingdom. Zech. 13:2\n16. Unbelievers alive at the day of the Lord will recognize the uselessness of their idols and will initially discard them in fear at the presence of Christ.\nIs. 2:18-21\n17. However, during the day of the Lord judgments, idolatry as exemplified in \"beast worship\" will be the primary factor for keeping people from trusting in the divine plan of salvation. Rev. 9:20-21\n1. Illusion is an attitude, act or way of life that one thinks is truth but in reality, is inconsistent with truth as revealed in the bible.\n2.We must view illusion from 3 perspectives.\nA. Inherent illusion: The sin nature. Jer. 17:9, self-deception and promotion.\n(Creature illusion: Is. 29:15-16; 45:9)\nB. Environmental illusion: What you are raised with such as tradition and religion.\nC. Acquired illusion: Deception from emotion, tradition, experience or inaccurate bible teaching.\n1. Salvation illusion: John 1:12-13; 1 Cor. 6:9-11\n2. Fellowship: 1 John 1:6; 2:9-11; Gal. 3:1-3\n3. Growth: 2 Tim. 4:2-4\n4. Service: Gal. 6:7-9; Jn. 16:2; Acts 26:9-11; 1 Tim. 6:5\n5. Teacher: 1 Tim. 1:7; Rm. 2:17-21; Mat. 23;24; 2 Tim. 3:7, 13\n6. Sin illusion: Psalm 73;1-14\n7. Temptation: James 1:13-16\n8. Separation: 1 Cor. 15:33\n9. Denial: Jer. 44:15-18\n3. All illusion is error in some area of Bible doctrine.\nBut it is perpetuated by the individual's own pride and arrogance which insists on the viewpoint without having any sound biblical basis for believing it.\nJust emotion, tradition and inaccurate Biblical information.\n4. The three greatest examples of illusion:\nA. Rejection of the Messiah: Is. 53;3-4, 8; Mat. 27:20-25; John 19:6-7, 12-16; Luke 23:34; Acts 2:22-24, 36\nB. Paul's persecution of Christians: Acts 7:58 + 8:1-3; 9:1-2; 26:9-11; 22:3-5; Philip. 3:6; 1 Cor. 15:9; Eph. 3:8; 1 Tim. 1:15\nC. Success of the Beast: 2 Thes. 2:8-11; Mt. 24;23-26; Rev. 13:1-9, 11-17.\n5. The only reliable protection from illusion is a faithful analysis of the Bible using the Golden Rule of Interpretation with application of the original languages. Eph. 4:11-14; 2 Tim. 2:25-26\n6. THE GOLDEN RULE OF INTERPRETATION:\nWhen the plain sense of scripture makes common sense, seek no other sense; therefore, take every word at its primary, ordinary, usual, literal meaning\nunless the facts of the immediate context,\nstudied in the light of related passages and axiomatic and fundamental truths, indicate clearly otherwise.\n1. God designed and created man in His own image.\nA. Gen. 1:26 - AsAh = the design (create out of something, make)\nB. Gen. 1:27 - bArA = the act of creation (create out of nothing)\n2. The words, \"image and likeness\" are used to indicate two different factors concerning the \"image\" of God.\nA. Image is the word, tselem and always indicates a \"physical\" or structural image of some kind.\nB. Likeness is the word, demuth. The root, DMH, usually refers to some kind of \"functional\" image, likeness or expression.\n1. A few times it is used to indicate a \"physical\" form.\n2. This has led some to claim that there is no distinction between the two words, tselem and demuth, and that one should not be made.\n3. However, when all the uses are observed, there is a discernible difference which certainly needs to be preserved especially when the two words are used together as they are at Gen. 1:26.\n4. Actually, this is not unusual for other words that are close in meaning.\nC. SEE detailed word study on these two words and their derivatives.\n3. What is the image of God?\nA. Genesis 1:26-27 summarizes the creation of man, male and female on day six of God's restoration program for the earth (See Topic: The Gap), and tells us that he is created in the image and form of God.\nB. Genesis 1:2-2:3 is a summary of the six days of restoration and new creation, including day seven.\nC. Adam, all by himself, without other members of the human race, is created in this \"image of God.\" But since all come out from Adam, they share His image (Gen. 5:3), which is Adam's created image with the addition of a sin nature.\nSee Topic: The Sin Nature\nD. Adam is a unified being, but is composed of three expressions within that unity (1 Thes. 5:23). Genesis 2:7 details the mechanics of creating the man on day six.\n1. Nostrils: refers to the physical body.\n2. breath of life: neshAmAh which corresponds with spirit (ruach) at Gen. 7:22 (neshAmAh of the spirit); the human spirit.\n3. Living soul: refers to the soul (nephesh).\nE. Man's creation in the \"image\" of God is inferior to angelic creation, so the \"image\" does not bestow on man any \"structural\" characteristics of angels. (Heb. 2:7; Ps. 8:5).\nF. The \"our image\" of Genesis 1:26 would be the image of the Godhead.\n1. Obviously, the \"image\" does not include deity characteristics.\n2. The image (tselem) refers to the Godhead from the standpoint of His \"physical\" structure. However, God is a Spirit being (John 4:24) and is not \"physical\" in the same sense that we are.\nHowever, there is a distinct structure to the Godhead in regard to how He manifests Himself to His creation. This is His \"structural\" image.\n3. Deuteronomy 6:4 explains this \"image\" as a unity of divine personalities. \"Yahweh our Gods (elohim), Yahweh, a Unity.\"\n4. The plural structure of the Godhead is:\na. The Father: He is designated as God Most High in the Old Testament and functions as the planner and ultimate authority within the Godhead. The \"authority\" expression of the Godhead.\nb. The Son: He is not \"officially\" designated as the Son in the Old Testament, but is recognized as the revealed member of the Godhead; the visible manifestation of the Godhead to the human race. The \"visible\" expression of the Godhead.\nc. The Spirit: He is the \"power\" expression of the Godhead.\nHe is the one who reveals, moves, empowers and inspires.\n5. See Topic: Beginnings: Orientation to the Godhead\nG. Man's created status, in the image of God, is as a triune being. 1 Thes. 5:23\n1. Soul: This is the controller of the unity and corresponds with the Father.\n2. Body: This is the visible manifestation of the unity and corresponds to the Son.\n3. Spirit: This is the reflector of the soul; the element that reveals the character of the soul as personality. It corresponds to the Holy Spirit.\n4. The image of God is shared by both male and female. Gen. 1:27 with 5:1-2\nA. Adam directly: Gen. 2:7\nB. Ishah indirectly through Adam: Gen. 2:21-22\n5. Adam and Ishah, both created in the image of God, were designed to bring honor and glory to God's character and plan.\nA. Initially through expressing the natural soul attitudes created by God. This was evidenced through adherence to the \"one-tree prohibition\" in the garden.\nB. After the fall, through acceptance of God's salvation provision and adherence to the light system throughout their lives.\n1. Moral truth designed by God for the whole human race.\n2. Spiritual truth designed for those in relationship with Him.\n6. The image of God was not lost at the fall.\nA. At Gen. 9:6, the prohibition against murder has impact because people who are killed HAVE BEEN CREATED in the image of God with the result that at the time they are killed, they are in that image.\nB. At James 3:9, the indictment on cursing men has impact because those people who are cursed HAVE BEEN MADE in the image of God, with the result that at the time they are cursed they are still in that image.\nC. At 1 Cor. 11:7, the teaching that the man is not to have his head covered, is symbolic of his original created status which he STILL possesses - in the image and glory of God. Here, the word, image, refers to the structural image of the Godhead, and the word, glory, refers to the functional image of God (designed to glorify Him).\nD. The above passages establish the fact that mankind is still in the same image with which he was created. It was neither lost nor diminished when Adam and Ishah sinned. What happened is that their ENTIRE being, body, soul and spirit, all came under the condition of spiritual death and lost relationship with God.\n7. The bible does not teach that the human spirit was somehow lost or rendered inoperative after Adam's sin. Quite the opposite, it is clearly established that all men have a human spirit, fully functional in its original design.\nA. The error occurs through the assumption that the human spirit is that entity through which man relates to God, but this is not supported by Scripture.\nB. There is no part of man that is specifically designated as that which relates to God. Man relates to God through his entire being (body, soul and spirit).\nC. The \"spiritual\" death of man is that which permeates his entire being, not just his human spirit. The reason the word \"spiritual death\" is used is not because it has the \"spirit\" in view, but because it has in view man's relationship with God on a \"spiritual\" plane. God is Spirit, and man has lost his capacity to fellowship with God, The Spirit, thus, spiritually dead.\nD. SEE Topic: The Human Spirit for a detailed study.\nE. See Topic: Spiritual Death\n8. The \"form\" of God, using the word demuth, deals more with a \"functional\" image rather than the structure of the Godhead. It should be translated as likeness rather than form.\nA. Since that \"function\" can not be deity function, it must be a reflection of some aspect of deity. The most reasonable is to see that likeness as a reflection of God's revealed standards for the function of the human creature.\nB. That function can be reasonably suggested as a character format placed into the soul of Adam and passed on to all his children.\nC. Orientation to the natural design in the soul. Ec. 7:29 (yAshAr).\nMan's soul was designed with an \"upright\" character structure.\nb. Morality life: fellowship with man. Centered around the issues of personal freedom and marriage. The other two areas of morality (family and society) are simply an extension of these two. Gen. 2:18-20; Ec. 7:29a; Rom. 2:14\n3. There are 7 basic attitudes in the soul, all of which directly reflect God's attitude. In this way, man's person functions as the likeness of God just as he IS in created status.\nWhen he functions as the image of God it is called being \"the glory of God\" as at 1 Cor. 11:7, and is described by the Hebrew word, demuth (functional form or likeness), at Gen. 1:26-27.\na. RESPECT: God has total respect for and confidence in His own perfection. Isaiah 43:10-13\nThe design in man's soul reflects this by having the grace perspective; the perspective that recognizes the greatness and magnitude of God and \"self\" as a creature.\nb. LOVE: God loves His own character: Psalm 33:5a He recognizes the absolute value in Himself and is dedicated to promoting that value in the universe.\nMan's soul was designed to reflect that by placing the highest value on God's character and plan, and by promoting it as the most important thing in life.\nc. PRIDE: Pride is God's recognition of His own perfection. It is Divine self-esteem. Ex. 15:7; Isaiah 46:9\nMan was designed to reflect that through placing total confidence in Him; boasting in Him, which is praise and thanksgiving that shows appreciation for who He is and what He has accomplished.\nd. AMBITION: This is God's perfect desire to promote His character and plan in the eyes of His creatures and to carry out His plan for the universe. Is. 46:10.\nMan's soul reflects this by seeking to promote that divine plan in everything he does. The purpose for all of man's earthly activity is to promote that plan. This then serves as man's motivation for service and fulfills Gen. 1:28, and in the garden it fulfilled Gen. 2:15, \"cultivate and guard.\"\ne. HATE: Hate is the natural attitude that comes from perfect righteousness. God's mentality rejects anything that is contrary to that righteousness. Ps. 5:4-6\nf. JEALOUSY: This is God's protectiveness of His divine essence and plan, Ex. 20:5. Not that God needs protection, but it is the value of divine essence held by His creatures that is protected since Satan's antagonism is constantly seeking to discredit God's essence and plan.\ng. ANGER: Anger as a natural expression from hate, is the verbal and active manifestation of righteousness and justice. Ex. 15:7\n9. After their fall through disobedience to God in the garden, Adam and Ishah acquired a genetic mutation in their mentality which can be designated as a \"sin nature.\" See Topic: The Sin Nature\nA. This mutation now gives a distorted influence to the original \"upright\" design in the soul, but the design is still present in every member of the human race.\nB. The result is that in many cultures, people have an inner conviction of morality that parallels the standards of the written law that God gave to Israel in the form of the ten commandments (Romans 2:14).\nC. However, that design is seriously hampered from natural expression because the self- centeredness of the sin nature is now dominant in mankind (Ec. 7:29, \"sought out many devices\").\nD. Moral training helps deter the overt \"immoral\" expression of the sin nature and provides a reinforcement to the natural design, so that a general moral freedom and stability is available to the human race (Prov. 22:15).\nE. But such training does not guarantee a deterrent nor does it make one more receptive to spiritual values.\n10. The spiritual side of the natural design (directed toward God) is dormant until God triggers it through the revealing of his person and work.\nA. This is done in two stages:\n1. God consciousness: God so uses the phenomena of the physical world to impress upon the soul of man the existence and magnitude of the creator. (Rom. 1:19-21; Ps. 19:1-6; Acts 14:17; 17:26-27; Rom. 10:18).\nThere are a variety of other factors that awaken an awareness of God within the soul of man, all of which, convict man to seek for God (Acts 17:27) and pave the way for hearing the gospel.\nSee Topic: God Consciousness\n2. Gospel hearing: God provides specific gospel information to those who express a \"seeking\" for God after becoming aware of Him through the God-consciousness phenomena.\na. This is called the convicting ministry of the Holy Spirit (John 16:9-11).\nb. And the drawing of God (John 12:32; 6:44).\nB. When a person hears the gospel he must choose either to reject or accept the promise of salvation proffered therein (John 3:36).\nC. When a person trusts in Christ (believes the gospel), he is immediately given spiritual life by the Holy Spirit and the natural design in the soul is now able to be cultivated and strengthened through spiritual growth (1 Pet. 2:2; 3:18; Eph. 4:20-24).\n11. After salvation, the functional expression of God's \"likeness\" (character reflection) that brings glory to Him, is cultivated through spiritual growth.\nA. Accordingly, the believer is exhorted to cease from sin since he has been delivered from the kingdom of darkness (Col. 1:13) and has become a new creation (2 Cor. 5:17) and has positionally (in Christ) put on a new man (Col. 3:8-10).\nB. The positional \"new man\" is experientially being built up (renewed) through growth according to the image (character standards) of God.\nC. At Col. 3:10, the phrase, \"have put on\" (aorist tense), refers to the positional status of the new creation. The phrase, \"is being renewed\" (present tense), refers to the experiential progress of growth unto full knowledge (maturity).\nD. At Ephesians 4:20-24, the believer is likewise exhorted to \"put on\" the new man. Here Paul refers to the experiential reflection of the positional new man that the believer became at the moment he trusted in Christ. Paul gives us two ideas: (1) The believer HAS put on the new man because he is in union with Christ. (2) The believer needs to put on experientially, a reflection of that new man through fellowship and growth.\nThe new man that he is exhorted to put on, \"is\" (not, has been) created in righteousness and holiness by the truth.\nThe aorist tense in the participle form does not require a \"past tense\" or \"completed\" idea, but rather, it takes on a time significance based on context.\nIn principle, the new man IS created within the soul of the believer, here on earth, as he learns and utilizes the knowledge standards of God's viewpoint.\nE. This is what is in view at 2 Cor. 3:18, \"being transformed into the same image (glory). .\"\n1. Reference to the growth process which produces in the believer a reflection of God's glory (His \"integrity\" attributes).\n2. This then is not a reference to the original \"structural\" image of God, but a reflection of and fulfillment of the \"functional\" image of God (His righteousness and love).\n3. It refers to character reflection through knowledge and application of Bible truth.\nSee Topic: Spiritual growth\n12. There is a third aspect to sharing God's image, or more specifically, the image of the Son, and that is when through resurrection, the believer will possess a physical body exactly like Christ's resurrection body. This is called, \"conformed to the image of His Son,\" at Romans 8:29. The term, first born among many brethren\" refers to physical resurrection.\nSee Topic: CHRIST: The Beginning of the Creation of God\n1. Imitation refers to the production of the character of Christ in the life of the believer through the control of the Holy Spirit and the word of God in the soul.\n2. But there is another character the believer can imitate in his Christian walk.\nThe character of the unbeliever. 1 Cor. 3:3, \"walking as men.\"\n3. Every believer remains here on earth for the one purpose of bringing honor and glory to God. 1 Cor. 10:31; Col. 3:17; 1 Pet. 2:9; 4:11\n4. He is commanded to glorify God in his Christian life. 1 Cor. 10:31; 6:19-20\n5. This one of the purposes for the indwelling Holy Spirit. 1 Cor. 6:19-20; John 16:12-15\n6. The Holy Spirit produces the character of Christ in the life of the believer by using the word of God which is in that believer's soul. 2 Cor. 3:18; Gal. 5:22-23;\n7. We must understand the contrast between position and experience as indicated at Ephesians 5:8.\nA. For you were \"formerly\" (as an unbeliever) darkness.\nIndicates the position and function of rebellion against God.\nB. But \"now\" (as a believer) you are light IN the Lord.\nIndicates our new position IN CHRIST where we are set apart (sanctified) as perfectly righteous in the eyes of God.\nThis is the command to live here on earth in your Christian walk, AS you are in your positional relationship IN CHRIST.\n1. You are a saint: act like a saint\n2. You are a child of God: act like a child of God\n3. You possess the righteousness of God: live like it.\n8. The Imitation of the unbeliever's character is accomplished by the control of the sin nature. 1 Cor. 3:1-3; Gal. 5:19-21; Mark 7:21-23; Rom. 6:20; 7:14-23\n9. So the issue in the Christian life here on earth IS - Who will control the life?\nA. The Holy Spirit: Gal. 5:16, 25; Eph. 5:18\nB. The sin nature: Rom. 8:8; 6:12-13\n10. The consistency of the Imitation of Christ.\nA. The Holy Spirit is the means of producing Christ's character so He must be in control.\nB. But the basis for it is the word of God in the soul.\nC. They are both necessary. Each dependent on the other.\nD. Sin is the opposite of the character of Christ.\nE. The frequency or infrequency of sin depends on the standards that are in your soul. The more of God's word you know and use, the less you will sin. Psalm 119:9-11\nF. The consistency of the character of Christ depends on the same thing. 2 Cor. 3:18; Eph. 5:14-18; 2 Pet. 1:3-4\nG. The often repeated desire of God's communicators for the believer is expressed in this greeting, \"grace and peace to you.\"\nH. Basically, this expresses God's desire for the believer to utilize God's grace provisions (The word + the H.S.) and experience the inner peace and joy of the abundant life which results from using those grace provisions.\n11. Commands for Imitation:\nA. Eph. 5:1-2, 18\nB. Philip. 2:5\nC. 1 Pet. 2:21-23\nD. Imitation of Christ through Imitation of Paul.\n1. Principle: 1 Cor. 11:1\n2. Mental attitude: 1 Cor. 4:16\n3. Moral standards; 2 Thes. 3:6-10\n4. His doctrinal teachings and application. Philip. 4:9\nE. Imitation of your leaders: Hebrews 13:7\n1. Man qualifies for a spiritual inheritance through entrance into the family of God.\nA. Entrance by faith: John 1:12; Gal. 3:26\nB. Sons of God and heirs: Galatians 4:7\nC. Joint heirs with Christ: Romans 8:17\n1. Christ is the heir of the universe. Hebrews 1:2\n2. We are IN CHRIST: Gal. 3:26-28\nD. The new birth provides the inheritance: 1 Pet. 1:3-4\nE. Through transfer from darkness to light. Col. 1:12-13\n2. Our inheritance is based on the pre determined plan of God.\nEphesians 1:11; Titus 3:4-7; James 1:18\n3. It is made available through the work of Christ on the cross.\nTitus 3:4-7; Hebrews 9:15\n4. 1 Peter 1:3-4 describes the character and security of our family inheritance.\nA. It is imperishable: aphthartos = incapable of rotting\nB. It is undefiled: amiantos = unpolluted\nC. It is unfading: amarantos = unable to lose its brilliance\nD. It is reserved in heaven: t\u0101re\u014d - perfect passive participle\n(Based on salvation security - guarded by the power of God)\nE. The Holy Spirit is the seal of guarantee of our inheritance. Eph. 1:13-14; 4:30\n5. As heirs of God, every believer is given a personal guardian angel. Heb. 1:14\n6. God has determined in His plan to use the church (the body of Christ) both here on earth and throughout eternity, to bring ultimate recognition of His glory to the entire universe. Eph. 1:11; 2:7; 3:10\n7. On this basis, our inheritance is viewed as a participation or sharing in His glory. Rom. 5:2; Col. 3:4; 1 Thes. 2:12; 2 Tim. 2:10; Heb. 2:10; 1 Pet. 5:10\n8. The eternal phase of our inheritance begins at the rapture, when all believers \"to date\" will receive a resurrection body. 1 Pet. 1:3-5; 1 Thes. 4:13-18; 2 Cor. 5:1-5; 1 Cor. 15:49-53; Rom. 8:16-25, 29-30\n9. Unbelievers have no part in this inheritance. John 3:36; 1 Cor. 6:9-11; Gal. 5:16-21; Eph. 5:1-8; Rev. 20:15\n10. Knowledge of our inheritance should be a motivation for dedication and service while here on earth. Fulfillment of ambassadorship. 1 Pet. 1:13-25\n11. The experiential or \"temporal\" aspect of our inheritance involves earthly blessings to be enjoyed from the moment of salvation.\nA. Blessings through consistent obedience. 1 Pet. 3:9-12\nB. The abundant life of peace and joy: John 10:10; 15:11; 17:13\nC. Blessings from being on the positive side of the law of sowing and reaping. Col. 3:23-25\n1. Proverbs 11:3 - The integrity of the upright will guide them.\nA. The integrity: tumAh = completion, character consistency.\n1. From tAmam: to be complete, finished, mature\n2. Adjective = tam: Job 1:1 = complete, mature\n3. Adjective = tAmiym: complete, mature, having integrity.\n4. Noun = t\u014dm = integrity.\nB. Of the upright: yAshAr is used to indicate moral character which is the seed pod for spiritual maturity and the channel for its expression.\n1. The one who recognizes and accepts God's standards of morality is in the right frame of mind to respond to spiritual value.\n2. And as spiritual value becomes of greatest importance in his life (spiritual integrity), there is greater capacity to follow God's moral standards.\n3. Thus, spiritual integrity is the basis for making right decisions in every area of life.\n4. To clarify: spiritual integrity is the character that expresses a consistent desire and follow through for honoring the viewpoint and policy of God as it is revealed in the Bible.\nC. Will guide them: nAchAh - direction and insight for facing every issue and circumstance in life. Prov. 11:5 with 3:5-6\nD. Thus, the best preparation for facing life is moral and spiritual character growth. The idea is to be \"inwardly\" mature by the time you reach physical maturity.\n1. Prov. 1:1-5, 33\n2. Prov. 2:1-11 (v. 7 = t\u014dm)\n3. Protection: Prov. 2:12-16\n4. Social stability: Prov. 2:20-22 (v. 21 = tAmiym)\n5. Prov. 4:10-13\n2. Point of observation: The man of integrity has a future. Psalm 37:37, 18\nA. Destiny in time: abundant life blessings - John 10:10; 14:27; 15:11; 16:1; Rom. 14:17\nB. Social blessings: 1 Pet. 3:8-13\nC. Taking hold onto the quality of life which is eternal: 1 Tim. 6:11-12; Gal. 6:7-8\nD. Exaltation (promotion) in this life: 1 Pet. 5:5-10\n3. God's desire for the believer's walk.\nA. His attitude: Prov. 11:20\nB. Abraham: Gen. 17:1\nC. Related to the occult: Deut. 18:9-14\nD. Joshua generation: Josh. 24:14\nE. Solomon: 1 Kings 9:4\nF. Basis for fellowship: Psalm 15:2\n1. walks with tAmiym\n2. works righteousness\n3. Speaks truth in his heart\nG. Reflection of God's character: Mat. 5:48\n4. God deals with us based on our capacity to relate to Him on His terms. Psalm 18:25-26\nA. Humility: chAsiyd\nB. Character consistency: tAmiym\nC. Soul content: pure\nD. Perverted: (iq\u0101sh) rejection of creator viewpoint and policy.\n5. Therefore, divine approval of the believer's walk is based on righteousness and integrity. Psalm 7:8; 26:1; Job 8:20\n6. Spiritual maturity is determined by the character standards that God builds in the soul through the growth process. Psalm 18:32\nB. Proverbs 13:6\nC. James 3:2\n7. Integrity is demonstrated by consistent application of divine truth. Psalm 119:1\nThis is the subject of the entire psalm.\n8. Understanding mature love\nA. Keeping His word: 1 John 2:5\nB. Expression to others: 1 John 4:12\nC. Fellowship and rapport with God: 1 John 4:17\nD. Love casts out fear: 1 John 4:18 (2 Tim. 1:7)\n9. Principle of value: Prov. 19:1; 28:6\nA. Benefit: Psalm 84:11\nB. Happiness: Psalm 119:1\nC. No shame: Psalm 119:80\nD. Social stability: Psalm 37:18; Prov. 2:21\nE. Soul stability: Psalm 25:21\n1. God is a shield: Prov. 2:7\n2. God's way is a stronghold: Prov. 10:29\n3. Waling in security: Prov. 10:9 based on v. 8a\n4. Confidence: Job 4:6\n10. Principle of blessing through association with a mature believer. Prov. 20:7\n11. Orientation to the persecution potential: 2 Tim. 3:12\nB. Proverbs 29:10\nC. Amos 5:10\n12. Examples of maturity.\nA. Abraham: Gen. 17:1 with 26:5 which results in James 2:21-23\nB. Job:\n1. Statement: Job 1:1\n2. God's recognition: Job 1:8; 2:3\n3. Attack: Job 1:9-11; 2:4-5; 2:9; 4:6-8\n4. Expression: Job 31:1-37 (v. 6)\nC. David:\n1. Statement: Psalm 78:70-72\n2. Attitude: Psalm 101:2-8\n3. Summary: Psalm 18:20-24\n4. Man after God's own heart: 1 Sam. 13:14; Acts 13:22\nD. Paul: Philip. 3:7-14; 4:11-13\nE. Example of Jesus:\n1. Isaiah 50:4-9\n2. Luke 2:40, 52\n3. Hebrews 5:7-9\n13. Service capacity:\nPsalm 26:1-12; 78:70-72; Rom. 15:13-14; Philip. 2:14-16a; Col. 1:22; 3:16\n14. The issue of spiritual growth.\nA. 1 Cor. 14:20, in understanding, be mature.\nB. Goal of growth: Eph. 4:13 (The job of the communicators)\nC. Col. 1:28, The goal of the communicators: to present every man \"mature\" in Christ.\nD. James 1:4 - patience under pressure\nE. Pray for the maturity of others: Col. 4:12\nF. The knowledge capacity of the mature: Heb. 5:14\nG. 1 Pet. 5:10 - the 4 grace provisions for establishing integrity in the life.\nFor details see Israel's national discipline\n1. The divided kingdom refers to the fact that Israel was divided physically and geographically into 2 separate nations.\n2. This occurred in 982 BC at the death of Solomon, when the political faction belonging to Jeroboam, rebelled against the established rule of the house of David.\n3. This was permitted by God as personal discipline on King Solomon. 1 Kings 11:9-10\n4. The prediction of the division: 1 Kings 11:11-13\n5. The preparation for the division: 1 Kings 11:26-37\n6. The occurrence of the division: 1 Kings 12:1-24\nA. The Northern Kingdom is called: Israel, Affirm and Samaria.\nB. The Southern Kingdom is called: Judah and Jerusalem.\n7. The divine intention for the division was to have 2 separate political entities which both still observed divine standards for worship and service as it was centered in Jerusalem.\nThe promise to the Northern Kingdom is recorded at 1 Kings 11:38.\n8. The failure of the Northern kingdom: 1 Kings 12:25-33\nA. The promise of blessing was never fulfilled. 1 Kings 13:33-34\nB. Not even one leader of the N. Kingdom did good in the sight of God during its entire history.\n9. The failure of the Southern kingdom: Isaiah 5;13-17\n10. When this spiritual rebellion took place, those of all the tribes who wanted to continue serving God, and valued such service above political differences, reunited with Judah.\nThis kept the 12 tribes still united under God.\n2 Chron. 11:16-17; 15:9; 2 Chron. 30:1-12\n11. The time period of the division:\nA. From 982 until 605 BC = 377 years\nB. N. K. from 982 until 719 BC = 263 years\nC. S. K. from 982 until 605 BC = 377 years\nD. Both kingdoms were united in captivity within the Chaldean Empire.\nE. They returned together as one nation in 536 BC and remained as such until 70 AD when they were taken captive by Rome and dispersed throughout the world.\n12. The Northern Kingdom never recovered and so remained always politically, geographically and spiritually separated from Judah. 1 Kings 13:33-34\n13. But because of spiritual dedication, the nation of Judah contained members of all the tribes of Israel. 2 Chron. 34:5-6, 33.\n(there are no Ten Lost Tribes. 2 Chron. 35:18)\n14. Prophets sent to the divided kingdom:\nA. To the N. K: Hosea, Amos (Isaiah)\nB. To the S. K: Isaiah, Jeremiah, Joel, Habakkuk, Zephaniah\nC. To both: Micah\nD. Both during the Chaldean captivity: Daniel and Ezekiel\nE. Both after the captivity: Haggai, Zechariah, Malachi\n15.The nation restored: 2 Chron. 36;22-23\nA. The term \"all Israel\" at Ezra 2:70.\nB. Used consistently all throughout both Ezra and Nehemiah.\n16. The N. Kingdom was destroyed by God in 721-719 BCE by Assyria and placed permanently under the 5th cycle of discipline.\nA. There was never any promise of restoration given to the N. Kingdom as there was to the Southern Kingdom.\nB. Restoration was promised to both of them but only on the basis of the\nphysical reunion of the two groups.\n1. partially fulfilled in 536 BC (spiritually and politically)\n2. Totally fulfilled when the Messiah gathers Israel and uses them as the center of proclaiming divine truth during Messiah's kingdom.\n1. Simply a political entity that rebelled against the kingly line of David for political reasons and took on a separate identity as an independent nation.\n2. Two fold purpose: Divine design - 2 Chron. 11:1-4\nA. Discipline on Solomon: 1 Kings 11:1-13\nB. Fulfills to Ephraim the promise of Gen. 48:16; 49:22; Deut. 33:13-17\n1. 1 Kings 11:26\n2. Ephraim as a title for the N. Kingdom used by Hosea and Jeremiah.\n3. Potential blessing on Jeroboam as the first ruler.\nA. based on perpetuation of spiritual heritage, which is centered in Jerusalem. 1 Kings 11:36-38\nB. It is a separate political dynasty from Judah (the Southern Kingdom), but not separate from spiritual life\nrequirements. \"As my servant David.\"\nC. If he is faithful: then -\n1. I will be with you: Personal blessing\n2. Build you an enduring house: Family blessing\n3. I will give Israel to you: National blessing\nD. But he was never faithful. 1 Kings 12:25-33; 13:33-34\nE. So, the promises were never carried out except to the extent that the Northern Kingdom flourished for 264\nyears. (982-719 BCE; 3143-3406 AH)\nF. And that 264 year period plus the size of the nation's land mass, was the fulfillment of the promises\nto Ephraim found in Genesis.\n4. When the N. Kingdom expressed rebellion against divine design for spiritual life, the remnant of believers living in the Northern Kingdom who remained faithful to God, moved to Judah. 2 Chron. 11:14-17; 15:9.\n5. So the N. K. was now not only politically and geographically separate from Judah, but also spiritually separate.\n6. The spiritual heritage of the people of Israel was preserved in the Southern Kingdom of Judah solely and completely.\n7. The discipline on the N. K. is viewed as a complete destruction without any chance of recovery.\n1 Kings 13:34; Hos. 1:4-6\n8. Future restoration is viewed only through a total reunion of the N.K. with Judah as a political unit. There was never really a spiritual division of the 12 tribes of Israel.\nA. Before 719 BC: 2 Chron. 11:14-17; 30:11\nB. Before 586 BC: 2 Chron. 34:5-7, 33; 35:16-18\nC. After 536 BC: Ezra 3:1; 2:70\nD. The issue in re-joining Israel and Judah as one nation is simply a mending of the political division and a\nrestoration of spiritual life to both. Hos. 1:10-11; Jer. 31:1-6, 27\n9. During the captivity from 736 to 536 BC (200 years total), the people of Israel are represented as being of Judah\nand not of Ephraim.\nA. The people of the N.K. as a political body are never dealt with again.\nB. The people in Babylon maintain a political body throughout the captivity. Ezek. 8:1; 14:1\nC. The people in Babylon are a composite of all 12 tribes as indicated in Point 8, A and B above.\n\"Elders of Israel and Judah\"\nD. So basically, the division of the kingdom is a human viewpoint issue. God always viewed the spiritual seed or remnant as being represented totally in the Southern Kingdom.\nE. The restoration of the two kingdoms is a restoration politically and geographically as fulfillment of the\nunconditional covenants.\n10. The discipline on the N.K. was because of apostasy in that political entity from 982 to 719 BCE (264 years).\n11. The discipline on the S. K. was for failure to fulfill priestly representation from the beginning of the monarchy in 1101 BCE until 605 BCE (496 years). 3023 to 3520 AH.\n12. The national discipline on the N. K. is summarized at Amos 4:6-13\n1. The true national remnant is preserved in Judah. Therefore, discipline on Judah reflects the failure of the entire nation from the beginning of the monarchy at Year 1 of Saul.\n(1101 TO 605 BCE and 3023 to 3520 AH) 496 years.\n2. 2 Chron. 36:20-23; Jer. 25;1-13; 29;10; Lev. 26:33; Is. 44:28; 45:13\n3. From 3024 to 3521 AH there are 70 sabbatical periods of 7 years each that have been violated. 490 years with 6 years extra.\nThe 6 extra years are not included because they refer to the 6 year period when Athaliah usurped the throne from 892 to 886 BCE (3234 to 3240 AH).\n4. So the 70 years captivity to Babylon is to make up ofr the nation's failure to observe the sabbatical years during that 490 year period. 1 Year for each of the 70 sabbatical periods.\n5. After the 70 years captivity, the nation is restored to fellowship with God and given a new 490 year period to fulfill its national purpose. This is the subject of the 70 weeks of Daniel recorded at Daniel 9:24-27.", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00040.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 589, + "original_length": 45317, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.92, + "perplexity": 243.4, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "http://biblio.szoptatas.info/facilitating_skin-to-skin_contact_in_the_operating_room_after_cesarean_birth", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T03:49:16Z", + "digest": "sha1:BPAXRMBP25DFYM5QAZUUVCUQLVE6SLTI", + "length": 753, + "nlines": 5, + "source_domain": "biblio.szoptatas.info", + "title": "Facilitating skin-to-skin contact in the operating room after cesarean birth. | Hum\u00e1n Lakt\u00e1ci\u00f3s Szakk\u00f6nyvt\u00e1r", + "raw_content": "Facilitating skin-to-skin contact in the operating room after cesarean birth.\nStone, Susan; Prater, Lyn; Spencer, Rebecca\nNurs Womens Health, \u00c9vfolyam 18, Sz\u00e1m 6, p.486-99 (2014)\ncesarean, change management, evidence-based practice, skin to skin contact\nWe implemented an evidence-based practice change to provide early skin-to-skin contact (SSC) in non-emergent, full-term cesarean surgical births among low-risk healthy women. There were three aims of this project: (1) To develop a protocol for health care professionals' roles in providing SSC in the operating room; (2) To implement the protocol; and (3) To evaluate the process of implementation of the evidence-based intervention. The \"champion team\" concept was crucial to the project's success.", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00040.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 27, + "original_length": 1233, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.89, + "perplexity": 246.9, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "http://bibliotheque.utt.fr/EXPLOITATION/doc/ALOES/0619803", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T04:17:48Z", + "digest": "sha1:QOOM3BOFXZ2OHNQGZS2ZQWL3BYYYMOYC", + "length": 1350, + "nlines": 4, + "source_domain": "bibliotheque.utt.fr", + "title": "Ermes 2.0", + "raw_content": "golden house (The)\nVintage. London\n420.014 RUS\nWhen powerful real-estate tycoon Nero Golden immigrates to the States under mysterious circumstances, he and his three adult children assume new identities, taking 'Roman' names, and move into a grand mansion in downtown Manhattan. Arriving shortly after the inauguration of Barack Obama, he and his sons, each extraordinary in his own right, quickly establish themselves at the apex of New York society. The story of the Golden family is told from the point of view of their Manhattanite neighbour and confidant, Ren\u00e9, an aspiring filmmaker who finds in the Goldens the perfect subject. Ren\u00e9 chronicles the undoing of the house of Golden: the high life of money, of art and fashion, a sibling quarrel, an unexpected metamorphosis, the arrival of a beautiful woman, betrayal and murder, and far away, in their abandoned homeland, some decent intelligence work. Invoking literature, pop culture, and the cinema, Rushdie spins the story of the American zeitgeist over the last eight years, hitting every beat: the rise of the birther movement, the Tea Party, Gamergate and identity politics; the backlash against political correctness; the ascendency of the superhero movie, and, of course, the insurgence of a ruthlessly ambitious, narcissistic, media-savvy villain wearing make-up and with coloured hair", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00040.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 294, + "original_length": 7662, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.92, + "perplexity": 252.4, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "http://blesok.mk/en/literature/the-subject-with-macedonian-women-prose-writers-58/", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T04:07:41Z", + "digest": "sha1:DGAHJNMKZQIGNTI23UYPKDL55RGAYIW7", + "length": 6966, + "nlines": 12, + "source_domain": "blesok.mk", + "title": "The Subject with Macedonian Women Prose Writers - Blesok", + "raw_content": "The Subject with Macedonian Women Prose Writers\nHome/Literature, Essays, Blesok no. 58/The Subject with Macedonian Women Prose Writers\n(seen in two short stories by Olivera Nikolova and Jadranka Vladova)\nIn the course of the last decades, the central issue of the academic literary feminism, according to Nina Baum, has become the theory itself. Thus, it seems that the literary theory exists in itself only, completely separate from literature as a (historically) powder charge of its existence. The new literary theory streams follow up on the previous ones, denying or further developing the (almost) philosophical postulates that are the basis for the bigger and bigger distance of theory from literature, the matter and flesh, and its deeper and deeper diving into the abstract, i.e. in itself.\nNevertheless, the literary theory, regardless of the degree of abstraction that it has reached, always concerns one of the points of the eternal trinity: author-text-reader (or, more precisely, in the feminist studies, woman author-text-reader). Within this triangle, one of the most frequent issues is the importance that the theorists place with one or another of these three ends, as well as their mutual relations. Traditionally, until the 20th century, the literary criticism and theory were largely focused on the author. He (and more rarely she) was the stable, firm element behind the work of art (very often identified with the narrator), who used the text to express his ideas and produce certain meanings. The focus of structuralists in the 50es and 60es of the 20th century, on the other hand, moved towards the text, the literary work. Using the linguistic theories of Saussure, they think that literature is not an expression of the creative mind of the author, but a linguistic structure whose meaning is controlled by the rules of the language. Literature is therefore seen as a system (i.e. signifier), of rules and codes (i.e. signs) that enable it to fill itself with meaning (i.e. to signify).\nDefocusing from the author in the poststructuralist era somehow culminates with Barthes, who wrote about the death of the author. The American reader-response school, on its behalf, went even further, shifting the focus to the reader (or the female reader), relativising the universality and inalterability of the meaning of the text. Thus, a text can have an endless number of meanings, since every reader, with the very act of reading interacts with the text, giving it his own, unique meaning. A bit later, Derrida, who (as the structuralists) finds the complete meaning of the text in itself only (\u201cthere is nothing beyond the text\u201d) introduces temporality in the way that the meaning of a text is manifested. According to him, every text postpones its meaning, i.e. as the time passes, the new meanings, that were initially hidden, less visible, and yet present at the margins of the text (or existed only in the area of unconscious with the author when the text was created), appear, reveal themselves, and in this way open new readings of the text.\nThe feminist literary theory somehow brought back the author, i.e. the woman author in the focus of the theoretical discussions. Nancy Miller, defining the term arachnology and following up on Barthes, says that indeed a text functions as a net of many meanings, but the author (i.e. woman author) is in the centre of this net, as a spider, the weaver of the net. The term author here is not meant in a limited way, as an individual who writes the work. As Foucault says, the author is very much like a narrator, and this term does not exceptionally and solely concern a real individual, but it can even be an alter-ego of the real flesh and blood writer. Therefore, the contemporary theory speaks less and less about an author of a narrator, and more and more about a subject. Today\u2019s subject, who has replaced the author, i.e. narrator, has a special philosophical meaning, which suggests awareness and self-awareness, power to act and impose his will.\nThe manifestation of the subject (and the diversity of this manifestation) is the topic that I will further review on two examples of short stories, written by two women authors, different in generation and style: \u201cSaturday Evening\u201d by Olivera Nikolova and \u201cMischievous Amor\u201d by Jadranka Vladova. Both short stories are placed by the authors in the chronotope of the marriage, and the narrators in each of them speak in first person singular, but this is where the similarities between the two texts start and end.\nOn a Saturday evening, reserved to leave home, spend time with friends and have fun, Olivera Nikolova shows the crisis in a marriage via a realistic prose. Her subject, who presents herself as a sad and disappointed woman, speaks about her alienation from her husband via losing her illusions of love and closeness: \u201cI sit opposite him and I see him as a completely strange man. Those lines, that face, his eyes and his smile, a bit playful and inflammably contagious, felt quite close, almost mine, only couple of hours ago. Even more \u2013 I loved them.\u201d\nThe subject in this short story, in the spirit of realism, has the goal to persuade us in her existence, her views, shape as a real person of flesh and blood. Her credibility is depicted by the author via a process of identification \u2013 in the first person narration, it is easy to notice the similarities \u2013 both the subject and the author are women, the time of the story is now, and even the marital status is the same. In this way, with us, the readers, the identification of the author with the narrator is easily built in a single subject \u2013 quite in the realism spirit, it seems (or better to say, we believe) that the author speaks of herself.\nSkilfully and systematically, the subject in this short story, via a heavy and serious prose, builds an atmosphere of emptiness, disappointment and sadness. These feelings are transferred by oppositions such as once and now: \u201cOnce there words seemed usual. Why do I consider them so important now?\u201d or the way in which the subject is positioned opposite the object (narrator/author opposite her husband): \u201che had a new suit, I had an old dress\u2026, my rejected hand upon our entry; his self-confident composure\u2026\u201d Stable, persistent in her view of things from the beginning to the end, concentrated on the disillusionment moment, in the spirit of the modernism, the subject is imposing herself as a single, real transmitter of the absolute truth. With a visible pessimism, Olivera Nikolova\u2019s subject in this generally realistic prose, also functions as an \u201calienated individual\u201d of the modernist literature, an almost Joyce-like or Elliot-like character, who faces the breaking down of a belief (that she loves her husband) which used to be central in the building of her identity (in this case, that of a beloved wife).\nadmin\t2018-08-21T17:23:04+00:00\tFebruary 25th, 2008|Categories: Literature, Essays, Blesok no. 58|0 Comments", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00040.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 88, + "original_length": 9783, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.96, + "perplexity": 217.9, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "http://blog.bigbeaks.com/2008/08/17/our-hurricane-wilma-experience-october-2005/", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T04:34:34Z", + "digest": "sha1:XIAXTKYOOK2X7GQUM4IMR6GQGHFURXXY", + "length": 11735, + "nlines": 20, + "source_domain": "blog.bigbeaks.com", + "title": "Our Hurricane Wilma Experience (October, 2005) | Bigbeaks Blog", + "raw_content": "The flight from Los Angeles to Orlando on Saturday ended up being pretty non-eventful, fortunately. We were a bit worried about whether the bad weather would start to hit Florida early enough to have any impact on our flight, but fortunately it pretty much held off until Sunday evening. This was our first trip using our Disney Vacation Club (DVC) points and we checked into our 1-bedroom villa at the Wilderness Lodge around 7pm or so Florida time. We had a nice dinner with my Orlando-area family at one of the hotel restaurants (Whispering Canyon) that evening, but otherwise turned in fairly early after being exhausted from the travel day and the loss of sleep due to being so nervous about the trip the night before.\nFor our trips to Walt Disney World, we tend to do quite a bit of pre-planning as to where we are going to be on any given day. This is mainly to accommodate the need for reservations at table-service restaurants, but we also find it helpful for general time budgeting. On Sunday, our plans called for us to spend the day at Disney/MGM Studios (now known as Disney\u2019s Hollywood Studios) with lunch reservations at one of the park\u2019s sit-down restaurants (Sci-Fi Dine-In, I think). Since the weather was clear in the morning and the storm wasn\u2019t really expected to hit until late in the day, we went forward with that plan, meeting up with my family at the park not too long before our lunch reservations.\nThe weather that day really did feel like pretty much the definition of the cliched \u201ccalm before the storm\u201d. For most of the day, it was extremely hot and humid, with air that felt almost eerily still. While the park wasn\u2019t deserted that day, it wasn\u2019t overly crowded either and everyone there did seem pretty wary of the situation and pretty focused on the weather. Around 6pm, the weather started taking a definite turn for the worse. In a fairly short time, it shifted from a pretty major stillness to a noticeable (but still not very strong) wind. The dark cloud patterns in the sky did have a look about them that definitely seemed to suggest that something was coming. The humidity was continuing to increase such that it definitely felt like rain would be arriving fairly soon. This started around the time that we were headed over to ride \u201cThe Great Movie Ride\u201d and we ended up stopping at a gift shop first to purchase several rain ponchos, one of which we used to cover up our stroller before parking (we also parked under as much cover as we could manage). It wasn\u2019t raining when we got off the ride, but we still wanted to be safe instead of sorry.\nOne of the main reasons why we had chosen Disney/MGM Studios for that first day was that the park was scheduled to stay open later for hotel guests as part of the \u201cExtra Magic Hours\u201d program. We initially held on to the idea of sticking around later and started looking around for somewhere to get dinner. We found that there wasn\u2019t really all that much opened, though, despite the fact that it was the typical dinner hour. I was never really sure if that was fairly normal for that park or if they were starting to close things down early for the weather, although I had a hunch it was fairly normal. For one thing, they were still distributing the Extra Magic Hours wristbands (required to stay in the park) and also were still indicating that the night-time \u201cFantasmic!\u201d shows were still expected to run. Even under the best conditions, we aren\u2019t that fond of the counter-service options at that park and finally decided that maybe it would be wise to get back to our hotel before the weather got worse anyway. Therefore, we decided to leave the park around 7:30pm to head back to the Wilderness Lodge for dinner at Roaring Fork, the hotel\u2019s fast food place. It actually started pouring rain while we were on the bus back to the hotel.\nAfter a fairly quick dinner with my parents at Roaring Fork, they headed out so that they could get home before the storm really hit. Our original plans for Monday were to spend the early part of the day at Disney\u2019s Animal Kingdom and then head over to the Magic Kingdom for dinner at Tony\u2019s Town Square Cafe and to see the nighttime parade and fireworks. We were pretty uncertain about how long it would take for the storm to move through and when/if the parks would re-open, though, so we left open any plans for meeting up the next day, instead planning to connect via phone/email in the morning. We then stopped at the hotel shop to stock up on some pre-packaged food (at seriously inflated prices\u2026) from the hotel shop, just to be safe. The DVC villa had a full kitchen, so that eating a meal or two in our room on Monday was an easy option if needed. We actually didn\u2019t end up using the food we purchased and, instead, gave it to my parents before we left town, but at least we had it if we needed it.\nWe then headed back to our room to ride out the storm. By this time, it was fairly late in the evening (around 9pm) so our first order of business was getting our son off to bed after the fairly long day. The separate bedroom in the DVC villa was particularly nice in this case as it allowed us to put our son to bed in the living room, but still watch storm coverage on the bedroom TV without disturbing him. He is a really sound sleeper and never seemed bothered at all by the storm, even as the wind really picked up and the thunder and lightening became more intense. My wife and I did end up staying up pretty late, monitoring the situation. In addition to watching the news coverage on the TV, we also had our laptop computer with us, which allowed us to get information via the Internet. I also periodically posted \u201con the scene\u201d reports to a couple of Disney-related discussion boards. My posts from that night to the MousePad discussion boards on Mouseplanet.com can be found in this thread (my handle there is \u201cJeffG\u201d).\nThe DVC villa was really a rather nice place to wait out this kind of storm. Despite the intense weather outside, the room remained warm and comfortable. We never had any power outage (at least that we knew of), which certainly helped in this respect as well. The villa (like all the 1-bedroom DVC villas) had a big whirlpool bathtub that also provided some very welcome relaxation during the rather tension-generating situation. If I remember right, exhaustion did finally overwhelm the tension around 1am or so and we finally went to sleep. It was still very windy and rainy when we woke up around 10am or so on Monday morning, but it ended up being a generally fast moving storm and finally cleared the area by around noon or so. That morning, we mostly hung around the room using the laptop or watching Disney movies that they were showing on the in-room TV system.\nOrlando was largely on the northern edge of the storm\u2019s path, and it had also weakened some before it got that far in-land, so damage was very minimal. We saw some downed foliage and a few knocked over signs here and there, but nothing serious. The parks and all the other entertainment areas remained closed until around 1pm, when they finally opened The Magic Kingdom and Epcot. Animal Kingdom and Disney/MGM Studios remained closed the entire day and I believe many of the other secondary areas (such as water parks and golf courses) also remained closed, although I don\u2019t remember for certain. Officially, I believe the parks were supposed to be only opened to hotel guests, but I don\u2019t think they really enforced that. I think that was more of an announced policy intended to discourage people from driving over to the area unnecessarily.\nOnce the storm had passed, we ventured over to Roaring Fork for lunch before heading to the Magic Kingdom around 3pm or so. The park was the most uncrowded that I\u2019ve ever seen for any WDW park. My parents did drive in to meet us at the park and were particularly marveling at the empty parking lot and Ticket and Transportation Center. He couldn\u2019t resist taking the below picture of the usually very busy road and pedestrian walkway completely deserted.\nEvery attraction was pretty much a walk-on that day. We could have probably used the opportunity to hit all the major headliner rides over and over with little to no wait, but we were instead largely pacing our day around our son\u2019s interests. That meant that we mostly focused on the Fantasyland rides and on other kid-friendly attractions like the Tomorrowland Speedway and the Tomorrowland Transit Authority (Peoplemover). He seemed to really have a lot of fun visiting the Magic Kingdom rides with little to no wait.\nWe did make it to our reservation at Tony\u2019s for dinner that evening, although it was slow enough that we probably could have gotten in to any of the table-service restaurants as walk-ups without much of a wait. Even better, that evening we were able to walk right up and find uncrowded spots in the hub for both \u201cSpectromagic\u201d (the parade) and \u201cWishes\u201d (the fireworks show) pretty much right before their scheduled start-times. For the fireworks, it felt especially strange standing in pretty much the most in-demand viewing location with only a few other people around us. That was definitely a rare experience.\nThe rest of the week, the parks continued to be fairly uncrowded, although more crowded than on Monday. A visit to the Universal Orlando parks later that week found those parks to be especially empty, although I understand that is actually fairly common there that time of year. The weather also remained very nice for the rest of the week and, in fact, the hurricane largely seemed to have an effect of blowing away a lot of the heat and humidity. As is typical after any big event like that, there was a bit of a \u201cshared experience\u201d atmosphere and we found ourselves pretty regularly drawn into chats with other guests about the hurricane experiences. One thing we noted was that quite a few people at the parks later in the week were actually from South Florida, having headed up for impromptu Orlando visits while hurricane damage was being repaired back home.\nOverall, I wouldn\u2019t really say that our experience vacationing during a hurricane was anywhere near the negative one that we thought it might be. I can even say that the hurricane ended up having certain advantages for us when it came to crowd sizes and weather once the storm had passed. I do think we were fortunate that the storm was fast moving and didn\u2019t hit Orlando as directly as some of the others have. There was definitely the potential that the storm could have resulted in a much more significant disruption to our vacation. We did learn that Walt Disney World seemed to be extremely well-equipped to handle this kind of storm, though, so I also would probably not be too quick to cancel a trip on the threat of a hurricane.\n\u2190 Disneyland Resort Trips Report \u2013 June/July 2008 Part 2: Attractions and Shows Star Wars: My Declining Interest \u2192\n3 thoughts on \u201cOur Hurricane Wilma Experience (October, 2005)\u201d\nPingback: Sunday Night - Disney Link Roundup | The Disney Blog\nOrlando Villas August 18, 2008 at 12:44 am\nLets keep our fingers crossed that Fay turns away. It is a rare occurrence, thankfully, that these storms turn into a devastating hurricane causing widespread damage.\nDianeG August 20, 2008 at 4:38 pm\nFay was really nothing more than a big wet inconvenience for us here in Orlando. The east coast of Florida was much harder hit, and had quite a bit of damage \u2013 although mostly from flooding due to heavy rain fall and from tornados that spawned from the storm system. Fortunately we didn\u2019t have any damage in the parks that I\u2019m aware of, but we lost a ton of revenue from cancelled vacations and guests who left early or didn\u2019t come into the parks at all because of the wind and rain.", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00040.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 128, + "original_length": 17691, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.98, + "perplexity": 287.5, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "http://blog.bliubliu.com/polyglot-habits-and-traits/", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T03:59:51Z", + "digest": "sha1:3LWVTAJGT7WCMEB6KGQDVTAI44QQHA3X", + "length": 3839, + "nlines": 14, + "source_domain": "blog.bliubliu.com", + "title": "Habits and traits that all polyglots have in common - Bliu Bliu", + "raw_content": "There are many ways to learn languages and different people prefer different learning methods. However, all polyglots have some habits and traits in common. While having them doesn\u2019t guarantee easy language acquisition, they definitely help in the process. So, if you want to become a multilingual (everyone can do it), try to apply these polyglot habits to your own life and practice.\nLove for languages\nAll polyglots love languages. Even if there\u2019s a pragmatic reason why polyglots learn certain languages, that\u2019s not their main drive. Multilingual people are curious about languages in general. They\u2019re fascinated by how different languages work, by their unique sounds and vivid expressions, not present in other tongues. It\u2019s this love for languages that drives polyglots to learn as many of them as possible.\nSince genuine interest is the best motivator, it\u2019s only natural that they learn ten or even more languages so easily. Having to learn a new language for a better job is never going to provide more motivation than love does. Luckily for you, this doesn\u2019t mean that you must have this passion for languages to be a polyglot \u2013 such a mindset isn\u2019t essential. Although it helps a lot and works like a shortcut, reducing the language acquisition time. Consider reading more about various languages \u2013 maybe you\u2019ll be fascinated, too!\nImmersion and learning every day\nPolyglot habits can turn anyone into a quick learner because they\u2019re efficient. And it\u2019s immersion that helps achieve such efficiency. Polyglots usually don\u2019t spend a lot of time learning from a textbook. On the contrary, they learn by simply surrounding themselves with their target language. They just do the usual things, but they do it in another language. They watch TV, go shopping, read books, listen to music and so on \u2013 all in their target language as often as it\u2019s possible.\nSo, it goes without saying that they\u2019re learning every day. Although this kind of learning doesn\u2019t include sitting in a classroom. Some polyglots can reach an intermediate level of a new language in no more than a month. Such a quick pace is mostly achieved by the immersion that we just mentioned. If you use your target language instead of your native one all the time, it\u2019s not a surprise that you progress very quickly.\nHabit to learn easily\nImmersion results in easy language learning as well as in a quick one. Since polyglots combine the learning process with other activities, language acquisition becomes a natural thing. A thing that you don\u2019t have to worry about too much. Polyglots simply go on with their lives and the languages take care of themselves. Not without effort altogether, but with much less of it.\nNo fear, no shame\nEasy learning is only possible for people who have no fear of making mistakes or looking ridiculous. All polyglots have somewhat outgoing nature. This doesn\u2019t mean that they\u2019re all crazy extroverts. Nonetheless, they enjoy speaking with new people from time to time and they value the opportunities to make new friends. And when it comes to language learning, new relationships can provide the best language learning method \u2013 communication. No polyglot habits are going to help without speaking practice.\nHowever, to get the best of it, you\u2019ve got to get used to making lots of mistakes. You should be open and don\u2019t be afraid to look hilarious or even ridiculous. The mistakes are going to sort themselves out in the long run. And you won\u2019t become a good speaker if you don\u2019t speak. Multilingual people know that very well and use this knowledge to their advantage. So, if you want to learn a ridiculous amount of languages, be ridiculous yourself. It works like a charm.\nBy the way, if you want that extra content to immerse yourself in, Bliu Bliu works like a charm, too.\n\u2190 5 ways to improve your listening skills in just a few weeks", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00040.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 50, + "original_length": 5583, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.95, + "perplexity": 268.8, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "http://blog.buro-gds.com/2008/05/family-guy-stewie.html", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T04:14:17Z", + "digest": "sha1:73ROCD4FLK62KWD4IRLPL6B6TBHD4UNJ", + "length": 18, + "nlines": 1, + "source_domain": "blog.buro-gds.com", + "title": "BURO-GDS Inspirations/ Ellen Tongzhou Zhao: Family Guy: Stewie", + "raw_content": "Family Guy: Stewie", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00040.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 37, + "original_length": 1588, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.58, + "perplexity": 62.8, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "http://blog.discopop.co.uk/2010/08/", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T03:59:49Z", + "digest": "sha1:5IKNQMPUN2S3QS3RU4DIQKGEQ55ZR4K7", + "length": 26560, + "nlines": 210, + "source_domain": "blog.discopop.co.uk", + "title": "Discopop Directory: August 2010", + "raw_content": "The great Hyperballad opinion poll of 2010\nOn Sunday night, Iceland's warbling wonder Bjork was presented with the Polar Music Prize by the King Of Sweden. You don't get that at the Brits, do you?\nAfter she received a cheque for \u00a380,000 (again - not what you'd take home from the BPI), Ms Godmundsdottir was made to sit through a Swesish singer \"interpreting\" a number from her back catalogue. Luckily, the singer in question was Robyn, and the song was the elegantly barmy Hyperballad. A \"win\" for all concerned.\nBut Robyn's not the first person to cover Hyperballad and the results have been, um... varied. Which is your favourite? Have a listen and vote below.\nRobyn - Hyperballad\nWhitley - Hyperballad\nDirty Projectors - Hyperballad\nSome bloke on a guitar - Hyperballad\nBjork - Hyperballad\nHint: It is not the Dirty Projectors\nLabels: bjork, dirty projectors, Music, poll, Robyn, video\nOne of the best things about Mark Ronson's new album, Record Collection, is that it sounds completely spontaneous and relaxed, even though it must have taken months of painstaking work (and phoning up his mates) to piece it all together.\nIt's a neat trick, because collaborative projects like this often turn out to be studied and ponderous (I'm looking at you, Damon Albarn). Ronson's skill as a producer is that, despite numerous revisions, guest vocals and mixes, he always manages to preserve the giddy headrush of the original creative spark.\nThe second single off Record Collection is called Bike Song and it is a case in point. Unlike Bang Bang Bang, which was based on the words to a nursery rhyme, this actually sounds like a nursery rhyme (but a very cool nursery rhyme with a rap in it, obviously). It sounds like it was just finished five minutes ago, but listen closely and you'll hear tons of little details - the vintage bicycle bells, the way the guitar line teases and toys with the melody - which can only be the product of pure hard graft.\nThe video has been deliberately aged to look like one of those 1970s public information films (although, sadly, no-one gets electrocuted after throwing a frisbee into an electrical pylon). Embedding is disabled by Royal Request, but there are two important things to observe:\n1) Kyle Falconer of \"The View\" continues to have ridiculously improbable hair.\n2) Just because the cool kids don't wear helmets, it doesn't mean you should follow their example. Reflective clothing, functioning lights and bicycle clips for your pantaloons are also advisable.\nThe highly-enjoyable video is available on Youtube (Youtube). And there we have it.\nLabels: mark ronson, Music, video\nTumbleweed corner\nShhh... It's all gone quiet. There won't be any new music round here today. Not unless you want Katy Perry album tracks, questionable taste cover versions or South African rap artists so bad you think they may be taking the piss out of you, themselves, Nelson Mandela and music itself.\nIn the meantime, then, here is one of my favourite award show performances of all time. No prizes for guessing its a Janet Jackson clip. Two things to note here:\n1) The dance breakdown at 4'00\" is one of the best pieces of pop choreography ever committed to film.\n2) I used to have a massive crush on Nikki Pattenburg, the curly-haired dancer on the far left. These days, she is married to R&B schmaltz-meister Babyface.\nJanet Jackson - That's The Way Love Goes / If (1993 MTV VMAs)\nEnjoy the bank holiday weekend. Apparently we're due a new Kylie video when we get back to work on Tuesday, so that's nice.\nRobbie and Gary's duet is a good thing\nBurying the hatchet can't be easy, especially when you're in the public eye. So it's heartwarming to see Gary Williams and Robbie Barlow kiss and make up (almost literally, judging by the video) after all these years.\nBut amidst all the gooey-eyed nostalgia for The That, we have to remember that conflict fuels art. No Regrets, Robbie's two finger salute to his former band, is by far his best song. So the potential for the GazWaz duet, Shame, to be a mawkish chumfest is very, very high indeed.\nThe early signs are not good. We open with an acoustic guitar riff that is legally (but not audibly) distinct from The Beatles' Blackbird. It's followed by the world's most tired clich\u00e9: \"There's three versions of this story - mine and yours, and then the truth\". It puts the ewww in re-eww-nion.\nBut, like the singers' relationship, the song starts to mature. The Nashville harmonies and gently strummed guitars conjure up a real sense of nostalgia and regret.\nSome of the lyrics - particularly Robbie's \"I wrote a letter in my mind / but the words were so unkind / about a man I can't remember\" - have the ring of bitter truth.\nOther moments - like when Barlow sings about Williams' \"poster 30ft high at the back of Toys R Us\" - have the rind of a bitter 30-year-old cheese.\nNonetheless, it's a clever and brave single. By pouring all of that emotion into a song, they've not only cleared the air, but neatly sidestepped a thousand interviews about the missing years. The video even suggests that the Take That + Robbie Williams \"comeback\", which could have been a cynical business arrangement, is based on genuine affection.\nOn first listen, it sent shivers up my middle-aged spine. But then, I'm a big softy. What think you?\nLabels: gary barlow, Music, robbie williams, take that, video\nScott Pilgrim bonus material\nComic book film Scott Pilgrim vs The World came out in the UK yesterday. Starring Michael \"Arrested Development\" Cera, it's a high-calorie energy blast of eye popping action movie mayhem - but with a soft, tender underbelly.\nIf you grew up in the 80s and owned a Sega Mega Drive, this film is for you. If you didn't, it's still worth checking out.\nOver at the BBC, I've put together an intricate, 11-panel comic strip showing how the graphic novel was lovingly and faithfully translated to the big screen. Please click on this link to justify my existence.\nAnd, for those of you who are interested, I've posted the full transcript of my interviews with director Edgar Wright and stars Michael Cera and Jason Schwartzman \"after the jump\".\nLabels: film, scott pilgrim. interview\nCee-Lo's new single (nsfwbtfa)\nThat's \"not safe for work but totally freakin' amazing\", acronym fans.\nCee-Lo Green - F**K YOU\nIf you hear that song, with it's mix of doo-wop harmonies, Atlantic Stax soul production and foul-mouthed expletives, and think to youself \"I preferred it in the 1960s when soul music expressed itself in a more poetic way\", then you have never heard this version of Jackie Wilson and Lavern Baker's Think Twice.\nJackie Wilson & Lavern Baker - Think Twice [version x]\nNow go and wash your ears out.\nLabels: cee-lo, Music, video\nKanye West - an art student writes\nRemember that Kanye West video I posted two weeks ago?\nNo? Well, here it is again:\nAt the time, I asked if anyone could provide commentary on the video's imagery. Well, through the miracle of Facebook, a friend of a friend has submitted the following analysis:\n\"Profound video using one point linear perspective. Kanye remains at the vanishing point (circuitus spiritualis). In this subtle way Kanye presents himself as God over his creation.\nThe renaissance artists, when perspective was discovered, used to put the important stuff at the vanishing point, since it = infinite power!\nTheir paintings were all about the geometry (eg the golden triangle... related to harmonies in music) and so reaching the highest possible \"spiritual\" meaning etc...\nI haven't put that very well but sure you understand.\"\nAmazing, huh? Still, if you are impressed by that, wait til you hear the intricate dissection of art history Kanye provides in the (superb, Jay-Z featuring) remix.\nI don't stop until I see the end\nMy vision clear, bitch\nI'm on my Van Gogh\nI don't hear shit\nQvi docent discit (Quid quid latine dictum sit, altum videtur)\nLabels: kanye west, Music, remix\n\"You're overground, in control\"\nSomehow I missed this during the week, but there is now a video for Rosanna's excellent UK debut single, Waterfall. The director has gone for lots of arty shots of clouds, rather than the titular Waterfalls.\nOf course, water falls from clouds, but the fluffy stratocumulus clouds featured in the video are highly unlikely to produce rain. They really should have gone for the more common cumulus nimbus or nimbostratus clouds if they'd wanted to suggest imminent precipitation. Tsk.\nRosanna - Waterfalls\nIf you liked that, the single is out tomorrow.\nLabels: Music, rosanna, video\nAlexandra Burke fast-forwards to end of her career\nIt is astonishing how quickly Alexandra Burke has managed to squander every ounce of good will pop fans had for her this time last year.\nThe latest step in her campaign to alienate her entire audience is this festering corpse of a music video.\nBy the 0:33 mark, I'd raised my eyebrows so high they were hovering four inches above my head.\nWhy is she singing in the middle of the gay olympics? Will the \"muscle-bound\" \"hunks of meat\" finish the video by spraying their armpits with Alexandra Burke-branded roll-on deodorant? More importantly, what happened to the expensive-looking street scenes Alexandra filmed in the US and posted on her official YouTube page two months ago?\nNone of these questions have been answered satisfactorily. But one thing is for sure: The fans aren't happy. Here are some eloquent experessions of distaste from the comments section.\n\"Video is cringe\" - tinajonas1000\n\"NO NO NO!!!!! What has you done!\" - The Alixsz\n\"This is embarrassing\" - thebirdisblue\n\"i actually voted for u on xfactor, back when you had talent.\" ancho101\n\"She stresses me out. I'm such a major fan, but what is this?\" - jordan9893\nStill, at least one person appreciated the video. \"Its weird but I kinda like this,\" wrote Raisa. \"Watch\ufeff it a few times and it grows on you.\"\nIs it just me, or has Raisa just experienced some... er, unusual feelings for the first time?\nLabels: alexandra burke, Music, video\nWelcome to you, Katherine Bee\nThanks to the ever-prescient Karinski, I have been alerted to the talents of 20-year-old South Londoner Katy B.\nShe's on the A-list a Radio One; she cites Jill Scott, Erykah Badu and Mary J Blige as influences; and she can be found a-crooning on top of wibbly wobbly dubstep basslines on her debut single On A Mission.\nAccording to The Guardian, she has a secret past as a Hi-NRG dance act, who recorded awful poppers-o-clock covers of Katrina And The Waves' Love Shine A Light and Deniece Williams' Let's Hear It For The Boy. But that's all a bit odd - because the latter was released in 2001, when Katy would have been 11. Something doesn't quite add up about that...\nThe single and it's predecessor, Louder, give the dubstep scene a much-needed melodic twist. Katy's stream-of-conciousness club poetry is sweeter and stronger than Taio and Tinchy's sexy chick schtick. I love the line in On A Mission about \"sinking into a tune\". One to watch.\nKaty B - On A Mission\nOn A Mission is out next week. Find out more on Katy's official website.\nLabels: katy b, links, Music, video\nI hope he doesn't get shingles...\nYou can tell Tinie Tempah has arrived in the major league because his new video was filmed standing on a rooftop in America. No, really. Standing on a rooftop is a music industry rite of passage that officially means you are A Big Deal. The Drifters even wrote a song about it.\nTo put it another way: No-one is going to waste all that imposing imagery on The Saturdays or Olly Murs. Even Take That didn't get to stand on a rooftop until the Rule The World video. Standing on rooftops says \"I am important. I am somebody. I am allowed up here and you are not. I have access to untold riches and unspoiled urban vistas. And also the janitor's keys.\"\nWhile drinking in the grandiose majesty of Tinie Tempah's newly exalted altitudinal position, there are a few other things to spot in this video. .\n1) Singer Eric Turner has had to pawn all of his worldly possessions to pay for his Grand Piano. He sleeeps inside it at night, and is unable to shave. Furthermore, he is trapped in a featureless apartment and is definitely not allowed on the roof at this moment in time.\n2) This fella is pretending to be the young Tinie Tempah, even though he is sitting on a basketball court in America and the real Tinie Tempah grew up in the smoky London suburb of Plumstead (FACT: All of Plumstead was once a monastery). He is suffering financial hardship, which you can tell because his school jotter has no staples in it to hold the pages together. Poor young fake Tinie Tempah.\n3) These are some Mean Girls who are laughing at Tinie Tempah's misfortune (or they have just done some sick in their mouths, it is hard to tell). They will never amount to anything. In years to come, they will still be standing on ground level, peering through the wire fence of this basketball court at other losers who have made nothing of their lives, a bit like that scene in The Wire once.\n4) Here is Tinie Tempah at the end of the video, standing on his private rooftop.\nWith no-one around to see him, he is grinding out a solo on his imaginary \"axe\".\nThe moral here, folks, is that you can rise all the way from the basketball courts to the top of a skyscraper, but you will always be that same doofus who pulls a \"meaningful\" face every time you hear a guitar solo. Which is pretty heartwarming, is it not?\nTinie Tempah feat Eric Turner - Written In The Stars\n[Sadly, the full clip is only available on YouTube. Click here to have a squizz.]\nLabels: Music, tinie tempah, video\nAcoustic goodies from the Veronicas\nCorking Aussie pop twins The Veronicas were in Atlantic City last night, showing off three new songs they've written for their upcoming third album.\nOne of them was called Heart Like A Boat (hollow, with barnacles on it). It starts off as a pretty routine acoustirock ballad - but then, at 45 seconds, it suddenly drops into a minor key and makes my stomach do little somersaults.\nHere is some amateur footage.\nThe Veronicas - Heart Like A Boat\nWell done, The Veronicas.\nLabels: Music, veronicas\nOh Lordy, it's a Goldfrapp tour video\nPoor old Goldfrapp. Poor album sales = no money to make video = promotional clip cobbled together from tour footage = video won't be playlisted on The Box = single won't chart = album sales will tank = no more videos.\nOn the plus side, this video features a man in a floral print dress, and Goldfrapp's greatest hits album now looks to be a certainty.\nGoldfrapp - Believer\nThe new Scissor Sisters video is smashing\nSometimes, it's hard to contain the mirth around here.\nThe video is for Any Which Way - one of the standout tracks on an album of standout tracks. It has Kylie on backing vocals but not, I'm afraid, in the video.\nScissor Sisters - Any Which Way\nIf you liked that, try Can't Stop by the Red Hot Chili Peppers.\nBetter late than never: An MIA video\nShe's always shunning convention, that MIA. Writing her album's name as a series of keystrokes (/\\/\\/\\Y/\\) so that you can't Google it. Making short films about murdering gingers. Marrying multi-millionaire record company executives.\nIt must get tiring, though, bucking the trends and defying people's expectations all day long.\nWould you like salt or pepper with your penne arabiata? NO WAY, ASSHOLE. That's just SOCIETY forcing its PREJUDICAL CONVENTIONS on my tongue.\nDo you need a receipt with that? HA HA HA You can't fool me with your FASCIST SURVEILLANCE techniques. I will set your FACE on FIRE.\nFancy coming to see Toy Story 3 later? ARE YOU KIDDING ME, TWATBAGS? There are CHILDREN DYING in SRI LANKA.\nMIA's latest escapade is to make a video for her truly excellent single XXXO, just two short months after it was released. I warn you now, she directed it herself.\nMIA - XXXO\nIf your head hurts after sitting through that, then spare a thought for MIA's poor husband, Ben Brewer. Imagine living in a house where MIA has control of the decorating budget...\nDebatable rap statements of our time (II)\n\"I got more hits than a disciplined child\" - Tinie Tempah\nActually, Tinie, it's just the two hits so far.\nTinie Tempah featuring Eric Turner - Written In The Stars\nWe're definitely in third single territory here, aren't we?\nLabels: Music, tinie tempah\nDebatable rap statements of our time\n\"Nothing is more attractive than a heavily pregnant woman\" - Andre 3000.\nLet's weigh this up for a moment. On the plus side, pregnant women have a beautiful serenity and the sensuous glow of impending motherhood. They also (and I suspect this is the real selling point for Andre 3000) get bigger boobs.\nOn the other hand, a heavily pregnant woman has difficulty walking, the appetite of a ravenous grizzly bear, and the constant desire to do a wee. In the words of Nora Ephron: \"If pregnancy were a book they would cut the last two chapters\".\nOn the other hand (I have three hands), I'm sure there's nothing more attractive than seeing your partner in the final flush of pregnancy, before your social life is put on permanent hold for the next 24 years.\nWhatever your stance on this hot button topic, I'm sure we can all agree that the song it comes from - I Do - is a masterpiece. Just two minutes long, this doo-wop-hip-hop track has a swagger and a confidence which suggests Andre 3000's long-awaited solo album will be a strong rebuttal to Outkast bandmate Big Boi's recent, and fabulous, Luscious Left-Foot CD.\nAndre 3000 - I Do (leak)\nLabels: andre 3000, Music, outkast\nMohombi: \"Not exactly Captain Ugly\"\nSo, last week I was summoned to a posh central London hotel and pushed in front of Lady Gaga's producer, RedOne, who had some Important Messages to impart about his new record label venture. Obviously, I spent the whole time asking about Bad Romance and Poker Face instead - and the results are on the BBC website. I was particularly impressed when he said they'd written Bad Romance on a bus. I can't even write a text message on the bus.\nAnyway, the first signing to Mr One's new label is a Swedish-Congolese singer called Mohombi. RedOne - a blinding solar flare of energy at the best of times - literally exploded out of his seat when describing this new discovery.\n\"He's going to be a global phenomenon,\" he said, in a curious accent that blends his native Morocco, his adopted homeland of Sweden and the occasional slip into Hollywood-speak (\"My friend Bono\" - urgh).\nBizarrely, RedOne went on to compare his new signing to 1990s novelty dance act Reel II Reel (I Like To Move It, Move It). \"They had big songs, but nobody knew the artist,\" he said. \"Now, for the first time, we have the superstar who's been performing all his life, but with global hits like that.\"\nTo me, his debut single sounds more like 1990s one-hit-wonder Diana King - whose Shy Guy is built around the same chord structure and soca rhythms as Mohombi's debut, Bumpy Ride. But RedOne insists the performer, who has already won a South African Grammy, isn't destined to be a flash-in-the pan.\n\"He's not competing with Gaga but, just like her, he has his own world and his own sound,\" the producer said. \"And he's got the looks. Girls and guys are going to go crazy for him. They're going to want to get next to him.\"\nAnd who said pop was shallow? Judge Mohombi's music (and his pretty, pretty face) below.\nLabels: mohombi, Music, video\nSingle Ladies - now with added jazz hands\nSara Bareilles, of \"not going to write you a love song\" fame, has a new record out. In celebration of this fact, she's covered Beyonc\u00e9's Single Ladies (Put A Ring On It) in exchange for a bit of promotion on Billboard's website. And, subsequently, this one.\nSara Bareilles - Single Ladies (Put A Ring On It)\nBillboard call her interpretation \"a slow, jazzy track, complete with creeping bassline and vocal harmonies\".\nThe phrase they're trying to avoid here, readers, is \"lounge singer\".\nLabels: beyonce, Music, sara bareilles, video\nAnyone here got a degree in art history?\nKanye West released a teaser clip for his heavily-previewed new single, Power, on Friday. It's a pretty lavish affair - a Greco-Roman orgy, with West standing statuesque at the centre, wearing a giant necklace bearing an image of Horus - the Egyptian god of the sky, law, war and protection of the living Pharoah.\nDirector and artist Marco Brambilla says it's \"a video portrait of Kanye as a symbol of power\". I reckon it's inspired by the frescos of Michelangelo, but that's basically a guess, attached to a vague memory of The Creation Of Adam that I had to look up online, because I've co-opted all of my cultural knowledge to Google.\nAnyway, if anyone can provide a more insightful analysis of the following 1min 28secs, I'd be interested to hear from you.\nPS: The YouTube comments are worth reading, just for the huge argument over whether or not Kanye is an instrument of the Illuminati. The main evidence seems to be the existence of a triangle in the video's imagery. I feel sorry for the people (let's call them 'nutjobs', for ease of reference) who have to keep an eye (no pun intended) on the Illuminati's activities. Imagine having to check out the progeny of every triangle ever drawn in the annals of popular culture. How do you differentiate between an evil triangle, heralding the dawn of the New World Order and a regular triangle, symbolising a slice of pizza or a vegetable samosa? Does trigonometry help?\nR&B singer Janelle Monae is as hot as burning coal right now. Her album, The ArchAndroid, has been called \"spellbinding\" and \"near-perfect\" and \"utterly, brilliantly bonkers\".\nBut are the \"tastemakers\" right?\nYes, the 24-year-old has created an amazing, mind-bending record. It blends fluttering pop, hip-hop beats, psychedelia, hard rock riffs, orchestral strings, neo-soul, fleet-footed dance, slick funk and startling 1950s haircuts in a way that other artists aim for, but never quite achieve.\nSo, it's custom-made for critics - but my trusty pop barometer (aka mrsdiscopop) just finds it confusing. \"I don't know who I'm listening to,\" she declared half-way through the album's high concept opening suite. \"It might as well be a compilation album. And not in a good way.\"\nNonetheless, if Monae manages to establish a coherent musical identity, she's guaranteed to make a mainstream breakthrough. And if you're in any doubts that she's the real deal, her new video could be the thing to change your mind.\nIt's for Cold War - a distant cousin of Gnarls Barkley's Run, and probably the most straightforward pop song on Monae's album. Filmed in a single take (but probably not the first one, despite the captions) it's a mesmerising clip of the singer lip-syncing to the naked, bruising lyrics. Essentially, it's Sinead O'Connor's breakout video for Nothing Compares 2U but without the pointless scenes in the park and the turtleneck jumper. Fantasmajesticles.\nLabels: janelle monae, Music, video\nFrom Beyonce to this - Shakira's latest duet is with perky cartoon irritant Dora The Explorer.\nCalled Todos Juntos, it is lifted from Dora's greatest hits album (!) and has not, despite what I initially thought, got anything to do with the Todos Juntos children's charity - which helps children in the slums of Argentina.\nVery cute though. Very cute indeed.\nShakira and Dora The Explorer - Todos Juntos\nYes, I am struggling to find something to write about. Can you tell? CAN YOU?\n...Called Emilie Simon, whose music will cleanse your palette after that terrible Ke$ha track. For fans of Marina, Kate Bush, Tori Amos and anyone else who sings pop with a mildly theatrical lady voice (IE me).\nEmilie Simon - Dreamland\nThat one's out now Wrasse Records. Here's the Amazon link.\nLabels: emilie simon, Music, video\nIt almost seems unfair to sit here and criticise Ke$ha. With that dollar sign in her name, and the crass nasal drawl of her singing voice, it's already safe to assume she's not aspiring to credibility.\nNonetheless, it's astonishing to witness the lack of effort that's been put into her latest single. When pop is often misrepresented as \"kids' nursery rhymes\", it takes a certain audacity to simply recycle a playground chant for your chorus.\nWarning: The following song plumbs so far into the depths that it has discovered seven new species of sub-aquatic life, all of which pose an imminent and terrifying threat to humanity.\nEveryone sing along with me...\n\"There's a place in France,\nwhere the naked ladies dance\nand there's a hole in the wall\nwhere the men can see it all\nTheir minds go blank\n'cause they're dying for a wank\nAnd the mice play snooker with their balls!\"\n(I never understood that last line.)\nWell, I couldn't call it an exclusive, since Sky has spent the last week speaking to most of the major music sites (and some more obscure ones as well). But good for her. It's nice to see a burgeoning pop star making an effort - and her single, One, a brooding electropop melodrama is totally worth it.\nSpurred on by her tireless promotional duties, I've worked my fingers to the bone (spent 10 minutes in Photoshop) producing an artist profile, like you used to get on the back page of Look-In. Cut it out, pin it to your wall, then read the interview below. Amazing.\nHey, Sky! How are you?\nI\u2019m good, how are you?\nI\u2019m great, thanks. So, how did you choose One as the next single?\nActually, I\u2019m surprised the label chose this as a single \u2013 I thought they weren\u2019t going to. It\u2019s kind of a sad song. It\u2019s about the feeling of being numb, and wanting to feel something.\nFeeling alone even though you\u2019re with somebody.\nYeah, exactly. And it's also about being \u2013 not in an abusive relationship, but being neglected by someone.\nThe songs on your MySpace page showcase a lot of different styles \u2013 from glam to punk and hip-hop. Were you just casting around to find the one that suited you best?\nI wanted to do each track on the album in a different genre, but it didn't turn out that way. I love doing top 40 and I love hip-hop beats, and I love 80s and 70s and French music. There\u2019s so many different things that I love and I\u2019m trying to combine all of it.\nBut I think I have a sound \u2013 it might not be a specific sound, but melodically and lyrically there\u2019s a pattern to what I do. And my voice is pretty distinctive.\nIt\u2019s quite deep for a young singer.\nThat's because I started off singing gospel, then I was classically trained to sing opera. I was a soprano.\nWhat\u2019s your range?\nIt used to be four octaves. I don\u2019t know what it is now \u2013 I haven\u2019t done the opera training for about a year.\nDo you have perfect pitch as well?\nI try to!\nLabels: interview, Music, sky ferreira", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00040.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 568, + "original_length": 33073, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.95, + "perplexity": 334.3, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "http://blog.independencelive.net/the-catalan-declaration-of-independence/", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T03:27:37Z", + "digest": "sha1:ZE76OLICTFSKVTUAEL3RVTCGQMVSX6KV", + "length": 7840, + "nlines": 38, + "source_domain": "blog.independencelive.net", + "title": "The Catalan Declaration of Independence \u2013 The Independence Live Blog", + "raw_content": "The Catalan Declaration of Independence\nThe following is Dr Mark McNaught\u2019s unofficial translation of the Catalan Declaration of independence signed on 10th October in the Catalan Parliament. It has not yet been officially published, seeking to give time for mediation with the Spanish government.\nDECLARATION OF THE REPRESENTATIVES OF CATALONIA\nTo the people of Catalonia and all the peoples of the world.\nThe bases of the constitution of the Catalan Republic are justice and intrinsic individual and collective human rights, being irrenunciable foundations which give meaning to the historical legitimacy and the legal and institutional traditions of Catalonia.\nThe Catalan nation, its language and its culture have a thousand years of history. For centuries, Catalonia has been endowed with and enjoyed its own institutions that have fully exercised self-government, with the Generalitat as the greatest expression of the historic rights of Catalonia. During periods of freedom, Parliamentarism has been the pedestal upon which these institutions have been based, channeled through the Catalan Parliaments and crystalized in the Constitutions of Catalonia.\nHaving been lost and longed for, today Catalonia restores its full sovereignty after decades of honestly and loyally seeking institutional coexistence with the people of the Iberian Peninsula.\nSince the adoption of the Spanish Constitution of 1978, Catalan politics has played a key role with an exemplary, loyal and democratic attitude towards Spain, with a deep sentiment of being part of the State.\nThe Spanish State has responded to this loyalty with the denial of the recognition of Catalonia as a nation; and has granted limited autonomy, more administrative than political, and in the process of re-centralization; excercising a profoundly unjust economic treatment in addition to linguistic and cultural discrimination.\nThe Statute of Autonomy, approved by the Catalan Parliament, the Spanish Parliament, and the Catalan citizenry in a referendum, was to be the new stable and lasting framework for bilateral relations between Catalonia and Spain. But it was a political agreement broken by the ruling of the Constitutional Court, engendering new grievances among citizens.\nChanneling the demands of a large majority of citizens of Catalonia; the Parliament, the Government and civil society have repeatedly called for the holding of a referendum on self-determination.\nUpon finding that the institutions of the State have rejected any negotiation, they have violated the principles of democracy and autonomy, and have ignored the legal mechanisms available in the Constitution. The Generalitat of Catalunya has therefore called for a referendum to exercise the right to self-determination recognized under international law.\nThe organization and holding of the referendum led to the suspension of self-government in Catalonia and the de facto application of a state of emergency.\nThe brutal police operation of a military nature and style orchestrated by the Spanish state against Catalan citizens has repeatedly and severely violated their civil and political liberties and principles of Human Rights, and has contravened international agreements signed and ratified by the Spanish state.\nThousands of people have been investigated, detained, tried, questioned and threatened with harsh prison sentences, including hundreds of elected and institutional officials and professionals linked to the the sectors of communications, administration, and civil society.\nSpanish institutions, which should remain neutral, protect fundamental rights and arbitrate political conflict, have become part and instrument of these attacks and have left the citizens of Catalonia unprotected.\nIn spite of the violence and the repression to try to prevent a democratic and peaceful process, the citizens of Catalonia have voted mostly in favor of the constitution of the Catalan Republic.\nThe constitution of the Catalan Republic is based on the need to protect the freedom, security, and coexistence of all citizens of Catalonia, and to move towards a state based on the rule of law and a democracy of greater quality, and respond to the Spanish State impeding the enforcement of the right to self-determination of peoples.\nThe people of Catalonia are lovers of law, and respect for the law is and will be a cornerstone of the Republic. The Catalan state will meet and legally comply with all the provisions that make up this declaration and ensure that the legal security and maintenance of the subscribed agreements will be part of the founding spirit of the Catalan Republic.\nThe constitution of the Republic is a hand extended to dialogue. In honor of the Catalan tradition of the pact, we maintain our commitment to agreements as a way of resolving political conflicts. At the same time, we reaffirm our fraternity and solidarity with the rest of the people of the world and, especially, those with whom we share the language and culture and the Euro-Mediterranean region in defense of individual and collective freedoms.\nThe Catalan Republic is an opportunity to correct the current democratic and social deficits and build a society which is more prosperous, fairer, more secure, more sustainable and with more solidarity.\nBy virtue of all that has just been presented, WE, the democratic representatives of the people of Catalonia, in the free exercise of the right of self-determination, and in accordance with the mandate received from the citizens of Catalonia:\nCONSTITUTE the Catalan Republic, as an independent and sovereign State based on law, democracy, and social welfare.\nENTER into force the Llei de transitorietat jur\u00eddica i fundacional de la Rep\u00fablica.\nINITIATE the constituent process which shall be democratic, citizen-based, transversal, participatory and binding.\nAFFIRM the desire to open negotiations with Spain without any preconditions, aimed at establishing a collaborative system for the benefit of both parties. The negotiations shall necessarily be on an equal basis.\nINFORM the international community and the authorities of the European Union of the constitution of the Catalan Republic and the proposal for negotiations with Spain.\nURGE the international community and the European Union authorities to intervene to stop the continued violation of civil and political rights, and to monitor and oversee the negotiation process with the Spanish State.\nEXPRESS the desire to build a European project that reinforces the social and democratic rights of citizens, as well as commiting to continue to apply without the solution of continuity and in a unilateral manner the norms of the legal orders of the European Union, the Spanish State, and the Catalan autonomy that transpose this norm.\nAFFIRM that Catalonia has the unequivocal desire to integrate into the international community as quickly as possible. The new State agrees to respect the international obligations that are currently applied in its territory and continue to adhere to the international treaties to which the Kingdom of Spain is signator.\nAPPEAL to all States and international organizations to recognize the Catalan Republic as an independent and sovereign State.\nURGE the Government of the Generalitat to adopt the measures necessary to fully enact this Declaration of independence and the provisions of the Llei de transitorietat jur\u00eddica i fundacional de la Rep\u00fablica.\nCALL on all and each of the citizens of the Catalan Republic to make us worthy of the freedom that we have granted ourselves and to build a State that translates collective aspirations into action and conduct.\nThe legitimate representatives of the people of Catalonia:\nBarcelona, \u200b\u200bOctober 10, 2017\nCatalonia Catalunya UDI\nPresident of Catalunya\u2019s StatementPrevious post:\nA Brief History of Catalunya Next Post:", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00040.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 135, + "original_length": 10378, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.94, + "perplexity": 221.2, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "http://blog.lindsayoconnor.com/2017/03/safe-spaces.html", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T04:35:59Z", + "digest": "sha1:3475HYE7WSNVJFBZRUN2Y3PF3COGLWEW", + "length": 6984, + "nlines": 18, + "source_domain": "blog.lindsayoconnor.com", + "title": "safe spaces ~ ROOTED IN LOVE", + "raw_content": "Have you ever experienced the feeling of being so bogged down by something difficult going on in your life, perhaps one unexpected hardship after another or maybe one seemingly endless battle, that you struggle to move forward, yet when you look to the right and the left, other people appear to have things so much easier?\nWhile I do think that \"Facebook envy\" is part of the problem (when everyone else seems to have their lives so much more together than you do because you are only privy to their highlights), I also think some people are dealt a more difficult hand than others. I don't pretend to understand why, but I read some verses in Joshua today that seem to apply to this phenomenon.\nJoshua 1:12-15 says,\nAnd to the Reubenites, the Gadites, and half the tribe of Manasseh Joshua spoke, saying, \"Remember the word which Moses the servant of the LORD commanded you, saying, 'The LORD your God is giving you rest and is giving you this land.' Your wives, your little ones, and your livestock shall remain in the land which Moses gave you on this side of the Jordan. But you shall pass before your brethren armed, all your mighty men of valor, and help them, until the LORD has given your brethren rest, as He gave you, and they also have taken possession of the land which the LORD your God is giving them. Then you shall return to the land of your possession and enjoy it, which Moses the LORD's servant gave you on this side of the Jordan toward the sunrise.\"\nAs 12 tribes of Israelites prepared to take possession of the land God had promised to them, some of them frankly seemed to have it easier than others. Two and a half tribes settled and had rest from battle while the remaining tribes still had some fighting to do before they could take possession of their land. God calls those who are enjoying a time of rest to help those who are still in the midst of warfare.\nI have found myself struggling on both sides of this. When I am in the midst of (figurative) battle, I sometimes feel envious of others and even ashamed that I am struggling so much while others seem to be enjoying times of rest and blessing. I find myself thinking, \"My life is so good! Why is this so hard for me? Everyone else seems to be able to handle it so much better than I do!\" However, when I'm enjoying a time of rest or even when I am feeling crushed under the weight of my relatively small battles, I sometimes feel guilty that others seem to have to endure so much more difficulty than I do, through no fault of their own. God does not seem interested in making us feel guilty or ashamed for struggling or for enjoying a time of rest that He Himself has given us (verse 13). We need not feel guilty for enjoying the good gifts that the Lord gives us, but we also can be compassionate toward others, knowing that for whatever reason, some may have had to fight harder to enjoy the same blessings from the Lord.\nGod does not ask us to feel guilty for enjoying His blessings, but He does call us to use our blessing to bless others. In some seasons, we are rested (physically/ spiritually/emotionally) and have the energy and reserves to dive in and help others who are drowning. Other times, we can barely stay afloat, and the thought of trying to pull someone else up is simply overwhelming. Rather than comparing our situation to someone else's, we can enjoy rest when we get it and use our extra energy to help others, and we can feel unashamed for needing help when we are in the midst of suffering and adversity.\nWe must first be able to notice others before we can even be aware that they might need help. I believe that many, many people are struggling with pain that would be more bearable if they felt safe being vulnerable and sharing their pain with compassionate listeners. We must create safe spaces where people can openly share their struggles without fear of judgment and condemnation, knowing that the listeners will be compassionate and supportive. I have been in groups before where people were not comfortable sharing, and so it was hard to know what battles they were fighting, which makes it impossible to help. I've also been in groups where I shared something really difficult I was experiencing and either received no response or someone else's judgment when I really needed support. There are certainly times when we need people to call us out and help us see the need for repentance, but when people are vulnerable enough to share a struggle which they themselves have already identified, sometimes the greater help is to ask how we can support them rather than adding to the voices of criticism.\nWhen we get through a difficult battle, may the Lord enlarge our capacity for compassion so that \"we can comfort those in any trouble with the comfort we ourselves receive from God\" (2 Corinthians 1:3-4). When we are enjoying times of rest, may the Lord open up our eyes that we might really see the people He has placed in our lives and build meaningful relationships that allow them to feel safe sharing their struggles with us. When we are in the midst of difficult circumstances and see others who appear to be well-rested, we can thank God that we are not all fighting at the same time! Instead, He has graciously provided brothers and sisters who are refreshed enough to help us fight, and some of them have been through such similar difficulties that they know exactly what kind of support would be most helpful. May we watch carefully to observe how we can help one another take possession of the inheritance God has given us, for \"Then you shall return to the land of your possession and enjoy it\" (Joshua 1:15).\non Wednesday, March 22, 2017 by Lindsay | 8 comments Edit\nThis is so hard and yet so important! The business and social media aspects of our culture make it so hard to see when others need help, let alone see beyond our own situations. What a good reminder that we must work to see beyond where we are at!\nSarah Richmond said...\nI resonate with so much of what you share here. Thank you for being vulnerable and putting words to the struggle. I agree, empathy is key and would serve us all well in loving one another.\nSo true! It's hard! Thanks for reading!\nYes it's easier to see than it is to put into practice! Thanks for reading!\n\"We need not feel guilty for enjoying the good gifts that the Lord gives us, but we also can be compassionate toward others, knowing that for whatever reason, some may have had to fight harder to enjoy the same blessings from the Lord.\" I loved this quote!! May we learn to pour out, as well as, be poured into.\nThis is a great message and really can help us know what to do when we notice this. Mostly I just feel guilty when everything is going well for me but not well for someone else I know. You're exactly right--I need to use the blessings given to me for the good of others.\nThanks for your comment! It's something I learned while reading this passage but still working on putting it into practice!", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00040.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 73, + "original_length": 9810, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.98, + "perplexity": 323.0, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "http://blog.oxfordseminars.ca/category/saving-money/page/2/", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T04:25:58Z", + "digest": "sha1:DOFW7GEFK56KFNPFN433UHP4K2J34R2E", + "length": 1326, + "nlines": 6, + "source_domain": "blog.oxfordseminars.ca", + "title": "\ufeff Saving Money Archives - Page 2 of 2 - Oxford Seminars Blog - Page 2", + "raw_content": "Bachelor's Degree, Getting TEFL Certified, Saving Money, Teaching ESL\nFAQ: Will I Find an ESL Job Working Full Time Hours?\n\u201cNot black & white.\u201d Grey. Yes, very grey. This is a good way to describe the terms & conditions of an ESL contract abroad, where written items that should be clear, rarely are. Even worse, legal jargon that \u2013 even when written in perfect English \u2014can appear as foreign as the culture you might be emigrating to. Overseas ESL ...\nAsia, Bachelor's Degree, Eastern Europe, High School Diploma/College, Latin America, Master's Degree/PhD, Middle East, Saving Money, Teaching ESL, Travel, Western Europe\nIf you are considering teaching English overseas, do your research. Where should you go? Is it right for you? There are trends in ESL markets worldwide, which can help in determining if this is, in fact, the type of career path that you want to take. We've compiled a list of the top 10 countries that have a strong ...\nAre you on the lookout for an international job but aren't sure about what's out there? From the military to journalists, and of course, our personal favorite of Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL), there are multiple opportunities available. However, they each have their advantages and disadvantages. So, how can you know what's best for you? While that's a ...", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00040.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 149, + "original_length": 6099, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.95, + "perplexity": 227.8, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "http://blog.serialbox.com/chat-historical-fiction-author-alyssa-palombo/", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T04:47:02Z", + "digest": "sha1:OH4WUZPSV6725BC7P6E65DHGUX3VJ36B", + "length": 9729, + "nlines": 26, + "source_domain": "blog.serialbox.com", + "title": "A chat with Historical Fiction author Alyssa Palombo - Serial Box Serial Box", + "raw_content": "With historical fiction ever on our minds while we await Queen Catherine\u2019s royal return (WHITEHALL comes back from hiatus next week!), we sat down for a chat with the amazing historical fiction author Alyssa Palombo! Alyssa is the author of The Violinist of Venice: A Story of Vivaldi (currently available from St. Martins Press) as well as multiple short historical fiction pieces in Black Lantern, Novelletum, and The Great Lakes Review. She is a recent a graduate of Canisius College with degrees in English and creative writing, respectively, as well as a trained classical musician. You can sit in on our chat below and find Alyssa on Twitter at @AlyssInWnderlnd!\nHello! Thanks for joining us today! Could you tell us a little bit about yourself?\nThanks for having me! I was born and raised in Buffalo, NY, where I attended Canisius College and double majored in English and creative writing. I also had a minor in music and am a classically trained mezzo-soprano and have performed in different musical performances around the area. I\u2019m a huge music fan as well and love going to concerts and shows; my favorite genre is heavy metal. I\u2019m also an avid reader (which I\u2019m sure comes as no surprise) and also enjoy traveling as much as I possibly can.\nWhat inspired you to write The Violinist of Vivaldi?\nWeirdly enough, it started with a dream I had. The dream was essentially the first chapter of the novel, and when I woke up I couldn\u2019t stop thinking about it, or thinking about these people and what their story might be. I knew almost nothing about Venice or Vivaldi at that time, but I knew that I had to write this story. By the end of that day I had the first chapter written, and I kept on writing because I simply couldn\u2019t stop. I did the research as I went, which meant that many things had to change over the course of the revising process, but it all worked out in the end. As I mentioned above, I do have a musical background, so that was very helpful throughout the process but especially in the early stages of writing; it was something I DID know a lot about going in, and so it gave me my way into the story and into the lives of the characters.\nYour debut novel, The Violinist of Venice: A Story of Vivaldi, is set in the 18th century, amid the passion and mystery of Venetian life., which you do an excellent job capturing Where you familiar with the location before beginning the book?\nLike I said, I knew very little about Venice when I started writing, but I had always wanted to go there, and had always been fascinated by this idea of a city built in the middle of a lagoon with water for streets. I read a great deal about Venice and its history \u2013 from its founding to the present, though obviously I focused on the 18th century \u2013 during the course of my research, and I did eventually plan a trip there, before I started the third and final draft of the novel. I had been writing and reading about it for so long that I had gotten to a point where I felt I could not go any further without seeing it for myself. Venice is truly like no place else in the world, and that made it both exciting and intimidating to write about.\nWhen writing historical fiction for a modern audience, what are some of the greatest challenges?\nOne of them is certainly finding that fine line around exposition and information about the time period. As the author I need to give the reader enough information to ensure that they understand the social, cultural, and economic norms and realities of this time and place they are likely not familiar with and how these things impact my characters, but I have to do it in such a way that I\u2019m not simply dumping information on them and taking them out of the story. I like to think that I achieved this in Violinist, and I think that what was the most helpful for me in learning how to do it was simply reading lots and lots of historical fiction throughout my life and seeing how the masters (like Philippa Gregory, Sarah Dunant, etc.) do it.\nAnother challenge, and something that comes up often in discussions of historical fiction, is creating a heroine that modern readers can identify with and root for, without making her too ahead of her time in her attitudes. While feminism is a relatively new concept in world history, it came into being after years and years of women being discontented with their lots and their lack of rights. So while a woman in 18th century Venice may not have had what she would have called a feminist attitude \u2013 or even what modern readers would call a feminist attitude, perhaps \u2013 she may certainly still have looked around and recognized the injustices that limited her life and her choices and wished things were different. Adriana wishes that she could perform in public and also compose and have her work performed, and in examining the society in which she lived I did not find these to be unrealistic desires for her: women could perform as opera singers, and the female choir and orchestra of institutions like the Pieta performed for the public, albeit in a religious setting. So things were changing for women in music at that time, but unfortunately not fast enough for Adriana, who is aware of this and frustrated by it.\nAny fun or surprising research tidbits you\u2019ve found?\nWith all of the above said, I did find that women in 18th century Venice had a surprising amount of sexual freedom (thought not as much as the men, of course). One of the characters in the novel, Adriana\u2019s friend Giulietta, has what is called a cisibeo, or a lover whose name was included in the marriage contract between husband and wife and with whom the wife was allowed to have a relationship. This was an actual practice among Venetian nobility at the time, which completely surprised and fascinated me.\nWhat drew you to historical fiction? Any favorite books or authors in the genre?\nMy interest in history in general started at a young age. My dad is a big history buff, and he always impressed upon me the necessity of learning about the past and of learning from it. Growing up I read a lot of historical fiction like the Dear America and Royal Diaries series, and also historical novels by Ann Rinaldi. As a teenager I discovered Philippa Gregory, who is still one of my all-time favorite authors. Her novel THE OTHER BOLEYN GIRL made me realize that I wanted to write historical fiction. Some of my other favorite historical fiction authors include Sarah Dunant, Kate Quinn, C.W. Gortner, Kate Forsyth, Jennifer Laam, and Stephanie Cowell.\nMy overall love of history makes it exciting for me to travel to another time and place within the pages of a novel \u2013 whether I\u2019m reading it or writing it \u2013 but I also think what makes historical fiction interesting and powerful is the ways in which it allows us to reflect on how people and their hopes and desires really have not changed all that much over the years \u2013 people today still want love, happiness, money, power, etc., just as people have wanted those things throughout history. And I think that historical fiction also allows us to consider the ways in which we have progressed as a society over the years, and also how far we still have to go.\nIf we gave you a time machine, and told you that you could spend a week in three different time periods, which would you choose?\nNarrowing it down to three is a tough one! But here are my choices:\nI would definitely like to go back to 18th century Venice and experience the craziness of Carnival (and perhaps meet Vivaldi!)\nFlorence in the late 1460s or early 1470s to see the Renaissance really getting into full swing\nVienna, Austria, the week of May 7, 1824, to see the world premiere of Beethoven\u2019s Ninth Symphony\nI still have copy edits and pass pages to come in the next few months for my second novel, The Most Beautiful Woman in Florence: A Story of Botticelli, which will be out April 25, 2017 from St. Martin\u2019s Griffin. In the meantime, I\u2019m working on drafting my third novel, which I don\u2019t want to say too much about yet. But I am making a jump from Italy, as this novel takes place in New York State in the early 1790s. I am just loving working on it so far \u2013 it\u2019s been maybe the easiest project to draft that I\u2019ve ever worked on.\nA big thanks to Alyssa for stopping by to chat and don\u2019t forget to check out The Violinist of Venice: A Story of Vivaldi!\nA sweeping historical novel of composer and priest Antonio Vivaldi, a secret wealthy mistress, and their passion for music and each other.\nLike most 18th century Venetians, Adriana d\u2019Amato adores music-except her strict merchant father has forbidden her to cultivate her gift for the violin. But she refuses to let that stop her from living her dreams and begins sneaking out of her family\u2019s palazzo under the cover of night to take violin lessons from virtuoso violinist and composer Antonio Vivaldi. However, what begins as secret lessons swiftly evolves into a passionate, consuming love affair.\nAdriana\u2019s father is intent on seeing her married to a wealthy, prominent member of Venice\u2019s patrician class-and a handsome, charming suitor, whom she knows she could love, only complicates matters-but Vivaldi is a priest, making their relationship forbidden in the eyes of the Church and of society. They both know their affair will end upon Adriana\u2019s marriage, but she cannot anticipate the events that will force Vivaldi to choose between her and his music. The repercussions of his choice-and of Adriana\u2019s own choices-will haunt both of their lives in ways they never imagined.\nSpanning more than 30 years of Adriana\u2019s life, Alyssa Palombo\u2019s The Violinist of Venice is a story of passion, music, ambition, and finding the strength to both fall in love and to carry on when it ends.", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00040.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 148, + "original_length": 13118, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.98, + "perplexity": 237.5, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "http://blogs.bu.edu/lawdean/2018/02/", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T04:13:18Z", + "digest": "sha1:DG4KWYXIA3JNCHORAFHL4ENI6OHULMJU", + "length": 545, + "nlines": 2, + "source_domain": "blogs.bu.edu", + "title": "February | 2018 | Law Dean", + "raw_content": "As part of our continuing efforts to expand experiential learning opportunities for students, we introduced two new externship programs during the 2017-2018 academic year. 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Here at Loyola\u2019s Undergraduate Office of Admissions, we\u2019ve been preparing for this event for months! Loyola is one of our biggest admissions event throughout the year to bring to you, the future Rambler, a great experience and good impression of Loyola University Chicago. _______________________________________________________ Loyola\u2019s campuses will be on showcase for you [\u2026]\nTags: Loyola Weekend\nPosted in Academics At Loyola, Everyday Life, Life At Loyola, Living At Loyola | Comments Off on Loyola Weekend\n(Some of) the Best Places to Get Pizza Around Chicago!\nWe all know that if there\u2019s one thing Chicago is known for, it\u2019s definitely pizza (sorrynotsorry New York). As Ramblers, there\u2019s plenty of places around the Chicago that are go-to\u2019s to have some of the best pizza, outside the bigger names (Like Giordano\u2019s or Lou Malnati\u2019s) that I personally love. Pequod\u2019s Pizza. Located on the [\u2026]\nPosted in Uncategorized | Comments Off on (Some of) the Best Places to Get Pizza Around Chicago!\nRambler Experience: Making Commitments\nUniversity is a time to develop yourself, to figure out what you want to do, and how you want to use your skills and talents in the real world. University is also a time to commit to your interests (clubs/organizations, Greek Life); commit to a program (major(s), minor(s), pre-professional program); and commit to being a Rambler! Along the [\u2026]\nPosted in Academics At Loyola, On Campus Events, Student Activities, Working At Loyola | Comments Off on Rambler Experience: Making Commitments\nScholars Night \u2013 April 8, 2017\nCalling all future accepted Ramblers of the class of 2021! There is a chance you were invited to attend Loyola\u2019s Scholars Night hosted at the Field Museum, but maybe you don\u2019t know what that is, if you\u2019re required to go, or how it has to do with your acceptance. Fret not, because I will give you [\u2026]\nTags: Loyola Weekend, Scholars Night\nPosted in Academics At Loyola, Chicago Livin', Life At Loyola | Comments Off on Scholars Night \u2013 April 8, 2017\nWays to Enjoy the Warm(ish) Weather Around Chicago!\nWith winter already come and gone here in Chicago, and things are slowly starting to heat up, it\u2019s always good to think of ways you can enjoy Chicago before you drown in homework and projects for Finals Week! Below, I have some things that you (and your friends) can enjoy to help make the most [\u2026]\nPosted in Chicago Livin' | Comments Off on Ways to Enjoy the Warm(ish) Weather Around Chicago!\nBest of Chicago: The Arts on a Student Budget\nSpring is finally here. You whip out your windbreaker, your comfortable walking shoes, and maybe even tempted to wear shorts. With such wonderful weather, you want to go out and explore Chicago. Chicago is a city full of arts whether it be: the Chicago Symphony Orchestra or the Art Institute of Chicago. The Chicago Symphony [\u2026]\nPosted in Chicago Livin', Everyday Life, Living At Loyola | Comments Off on Best of Chicago: The Arts on a Student Budget\nWhere is that? This area is my neighborhood, located in the north side of Chicago! Just like how Rogers Park is home to Loyola University Chicago, Albany Park is home to, well\u2026MY HOME! Let\u2019s dive into what\u2019s awesome about this neighborhood (as well as other neighborhoods around LUC). As you know, Chicago is a dynamic [\u2026]\nPosted in Chicago Livin' | Comments Off on Albany Park\nWhat Loyola\u2019s Motto Means to Me\nFor those of you who\u2019ve either decided on attending Loyola for the coming Fall semester, or if you have been accepted, but haven\u2019t made a decision yet, I want to talk about a motto you\u2019ll see in most of Loyola\u2019s buildings on campus. 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And, very importantly, do they have the skills to maximize the growth potential that could generate jobs?\nWe know that enhanced management practices lead to higher firm productivity and, potentially, more jobs. Current estimates suggest that about half of the variation in GDP per capita is explained by differences in inputs\u2014labor and capital\u2014and the other half by differences in total factor productivity (TFP).\nWhile TFP has traditionally been a black box capturing everything that economists cannot measure, lately the profession has made progress in pulling back its black veil. Among other things, we are seeing investing in better management practices for firms (which require proficient management skills) leads to increases in TFP.\nFor example, a randomized controlled-trial study in the manufacturing sector revealed that the adoption of advanced management practices led to large increases in productivity: following a consulting intervention that cost around USD 250,000 per firm, profits in typical firms increased in the first year by USD 325,000.\nCan this be applied to other country contexts?\nLet\u2019s look at Bosnia and Herzegovina, where a recent World Bank report showed that TFP growth in Bosnia and Herzegovina between 2009 and 2014 was close to null. While there is no measurement of management performance among firms in the country, indirect evidence suggests that the Bosnia and Herzegovina is lagging behind on this factor affecting competitiveness (among others). In the last World Economic Forum Global Competitiveness Report, the sub-indicators that pushed down the country\u2019s ranking in competitiveness (rank 91) point to issues related to management practices - such as weaker attitudes towards entrepreneurial risk (rank 103), growth of innovative companies (rank 128), and adoption of disruptive ideas (rank 112).\nOne of the reasons firms do not adopt advanced management practices, according to some academics and practitioners, is that managers do not know what they do not know. This is often referred as \u2018the perception problem.\u2019 Simply said, managers do not know or do not acknowledge (even to themselves) that they could be better managers and adopt better management practices. After all, why would anyone try to fix something that seems to be working?\nDifferent things can be done to help managers understand they can do better. At the grassroots level, evidence that adopting advanced management practices will lead to firm growth, and even job creation depending on the bottle necks and sectors, can be instrumental in changing mindsets.\nIn an effort to overcome these challenges, the World Bank, in cooperation with Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency, is sponsoring a project to encourage business development, entitled Business Management Advisory Support. This labor demand intervention complements a similar one introduced in a previous blog. The pilot intervention aims to provide tailor-made business advisory support to a select number of small and medium-sized enterprises free of charge. Implementation support is being provided by the consulting firm Deloitte. Through these services, managers are expected to see the initial gains of taking risks and adopting new managerial practices. More than 40 firms have already shown interest in these services.\n[Firms interested in being part of this pilot intervention have until January 31st 2019 to apply here]\nBut governments will also have a role to play. Sharing information about advanced management practices that work, new markets that could be profitable for firms, and overall investment in managerial skills are all things that governments can do in collaboration with the private sector to overcome the perception problem and improve productivity. Policies like these should complement those that we often hear and refer to improving the business environment, such as removing credit constraints, simplifying procedures, eliminating corruption and so on.\nIn sum, if we want to have firms that maximize opportunities, we need to support the management skills of those who make decisions at the firm level. 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(referred to herein as \" BoutiqueRez ,\" \" we ,\" and \" us \") is concerned about privacy issues and wants you to be familiar with how we collect, use and disclose Personally Identifiable Information (as defined below). This Privacy Policy (the \" Policy \") describes our practices in connection with Personally Identifiable Information that we collect through our websites (collectively, the \" Site \") and by other means.\nThis Policy does not address the collection, use or disclosure of information by third parties, which shall include entities granted a sub-license, directly by BoutiqueRez or by an authorized licensee of BoutiqueRez and third-party affiliated organizations which are entities permitted to sublicense Affiliate Hotels outside the United States in various countries/territories throughout the world (\" Affiliate Hotels \"). Please be aware that Affiliate Hotels are independent entities neither owned nor controlled by BoutiqueRez. In fact, Affiliate Hotels may have their own privacy policies, which may be different from ours. To learn about the privacy practices of any of the Affiliate Hotels, you should review their privacy policies, not this Policy.\nBy providing Personally Identifiable Information to BoutiqueRez, you agree to the terms and conditions of this Policy. If you do not agree to the terms and conditions of this Policy, please do not provide any Personally Identifiable Information to BoutiqueRez through our Site or otherwise. We reserve the right to change this Policy without prior notice. You can determine when this Policy was last revised by referring to the \" LAST UPDATED \" legend at the top of this page. Any changes to our Policy will become effective upon our posting of the revised Policy on the Site. Use of the Site following such changes constitutes your acceptance of the revised Policy then in effect.\nFor individuals in the European Economic Area (EEA), you should be aware that BoutiqueRez abides by the Safe Harbor framework agreed to by the U.S. Department of Commerce and the European Union (EU) with respect to Personally Identifiable Information collected by entities located in the EEA and transferred to BoutiqueRez in the United States. For additional information regarding the Safe Harbor program, see the U.S. Deptartment of Commerce web site at http://www.export.gov/safeharbor .\nWhat Types of Information Does BoutiqueRez Collect From Me?\nBoutiqueRez gathers three basic types of information from you: \" Personally Identifiable Information \" (or \" PII \"), \" Non-Personally Identifiable Information \" (or \" Non-PII \") and \" IP Addresses \". Personally Identifiable Information is information that identifies you as an individual. Non-Personally Identifiable Information is aggregated information, demographic information and any other information that does not reveal your specific identity. An IP Address is the Internet Protocol address of the computer that you are using to access our Site.\nWe may collect PII, such as your name, postal address, telephone number, e-mail address, credit card number or other payment account number through the Site or when you otherwise voluntarily provide it to us. We may also combine that PII with publicly available PII and PII we receive from others or cross-reference with others. We use that combined PII for the purposes described in this Policy. If you voluntarily share with us \" Sensitive Information \", for example, information related to your health or your affiliation with a particular group, that information may be stored in your reservation record for the sole purpose of serving you better and meeting your particular needs. For example, if you voluntarily convey a health-related need to us, we may store and use that information to provide a room with appropriate amenities. We do not collect or store Sensitive Information unless it is voluntarily provided by you.\nHow Does BoutiqueRez Use Personally Identifiable Information Collected From Me?\nBoutiqueRez collects PII about our guests and visitors to the Site so that we can provide an experience that is responsive to our guests' and visitors' needs. BoutiqueRez may use collected PII:\nFulfillment of Reservation or Information Requests: To fulfill your requests such as to complete your transactions and/or to book reservations at any Member Hotel worldwide through our central reservations system, or to respond to your requests that we send marketing, informational or other newsletters to you (and to personalize such newsletters and the Site to your preferences). For example, when you make a reservation through BoutiqueRez, we may collect your credit card number or other payment account number, billing address and other information related to such purchase (collectively, \"Payment Information\") from you, and may use and disclose such Payment Information in order to fulfill your reservation. BoutiqueRez maintains reservations systems and database computers in the United States as well as in other locations around the world which are intended to help BoutiqueRez conduct business and to facilitate the operation and maintenance of our reservations system.\nAdministrative and Other Communications. From time to time, to send you important information regarding the Site, changes to our terms, conditions and policies and/or other administrative information (e.g., information about your travel reservations, such as reservation confirmations, shipping and/or billing information) or otherwise to inform you of products, programs, services and promotions of BoutiqueRez and of third parties (including Affiliate Hotels) that we believe may be of interest to you.\nAffiliate Hotels & Third Parties. We may also share your PII with Affiliate Hotels and other third parties located around the world for purposes described in this Policy (for example, to send your reservation information to the applicable Affiliate Hotel.\nThird Party Service Providers. BoutiqueRez relies on numerous third party service providers to provide certain products and services on our behalf, including, but not limited to, credit card billing, reservation services, credit card/payment processing, IT services, customer service, e-mail delivery services, communication and delivery of promotional and marketing materials via e-mail and direct mail, administration, data analysis and other similar services. We may share your PII for the purpose of enabling these third parties to provide services you have requested or as otherwise necessary for the ongoing operation of BoutiqueRez's business. In such event, these service providers either are contractually required to provide at least the same level of privacy protection as is required by the relevant principles of this Policy, subscribe to the Safe Harbor Principles and/or are subject to the EU Privacy Directive (or similar adequacy finding of the applicable jurisdiction).\nAssignment. In the event of any reorganization, merger, sale, joint venture, assignment, transfer or other disposition of all or any portion of BoutiqueRez's and/or the BoutiqueRez Subsidiaries' business, assets or stock (including without limitation in connection with any bankruptcy or similar proceedings), we may transfer any and all information that we collect pursuant to this Policy.\nSocial Networking Forums. BoutiqueRez may make available through the Site services (for example, message boards, forums and blogs, among other services) to which you are able to post information and materials. Please note that any information you disclose through such services becomes public information, and may be available to visitors to the Site and to the general public. We urge you to exercise discretion and caution when deciding to disclose your PII, or any other information, on the Site. WE ARE NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR THE USE OF ANY PII THAT YOU VOLUNTARILY DISCLOSE THROUGH SUCH SERVICES.\nLaw Enforcement; Emergencies; Compliance. We may use and/or disclose your PII (i) when we have reason to believe that it is necessary to identify, contact or bring legal action against persons or entities that may be causing injury to you, BoutiqueRez, BoutiqueRez Subsidiaries, Licensed Hotels, Affiliate Organizations or others; (ii) when we believe law or regulation (including laws and regulations outside your country of residence) requires it; (iii) as mandated by subpoena, court order, or legal process; (iv) to establish or exercise our legal rights, defend against legal claims or protect our operations or those of any BoutiqueRez Subsidiaries, Licensed Hotels and/or Affiliate Organizations; (v) to protect the rights, privacy, safety or property of BoutiqueRez, BoutiqueRez Subsidiaries, Licensed Hotels, Affiliate Organizations, you or others; and (vi) to investigate, prevent, or take action regarding illegal activities, suspected fraud, situations involving potential threats to the physical safety of any person, violations of BoutiqueRez's and/or BoutiqueRez Subsidiaries' terms of use, or as otherwise required or permitted by law.\nBecause Non-PII does not personally identify you, we may use, and share with Affiliate Hotels and other third parties, Non-PII for any purpose, including to facilitate your ongoing access to and use of our Site, to best tailor our services to suit personal interests and/or to analyze visiting patterns. We and our service providers may collect Non-PII from sources such as environmental variables, including computer type (Windows or Macintosh), screen resolution, OS version, Internet browser and Internet browser version.\nWe may also collect Non-PII from sources such as \"cookies\" and so-called \"pixel tags,\" \"web beacons,\" \"clear GIFs\" and other similar technologies, and may engage third party tracking and advertising providers to act on BoutiqueRez's behalf to track and analyze your usage of our Sites through the use of such technologies. These third parties collect and share with us, as we may request, Site usage information about visits to our Sites, measure and research the effectiveness of our advertisements, track page usage and paths followed during visits through our Sites, help us target and track use of our Internet banner advertisements on our Sites and on other sites, and track use of other links from our marketing partners' sites to our Sites.\nIf you do not want information collected through the use of cookies, there is a simple procedure in most browsers that allows you to automatically decline cookies, or to be given the choice of declining or accepting the transfer of a particular cookie, or cookies from a particular website, to your computer. Please be aware, however, that some functionality on the Site may not work if cookies are disabled. To learn more about cookies, please visit http://www.allaboutcookies.org/ . We also collect Non-PII (e.g., interests, geographic location, etc.) when you voluntarily provide this information to us. Additionally, we may aggregate PII in a manner such that the end-product does not personally identify you or any other user of the Site, for example, by using PII to calculate the percentage of our users who are from a particular geographic location.\nThe Site may contain links to third party web sites. These linked sites (including, without limitation, the web sites of Affiliate Hotels) are not under BoutiqueRez's control and we are not responsible for the privacy practices or the contents of any such linked site, or any link contained in any linked site. We provide such links only as a convenience, and the inclusion of a link on the Site does not imply endorsement of the linked site by BoutiqueRez. If you provide any PII through any such third party web site, your transaction will occur on such third party's web site (not the Site) and the PII you provide will be collected by, and controlled by, the privacy policy of that third party. PLEASE NOTE THAT THIS POLICY DOES NOT ADDRESS THE PRIVACY OR INFORMATION PRACTICES OF ANY THIRD PARTIES, INCLUDING, WITHOUT LIMITATION, LICENSED AFFILIATE HOTELS.\nBoutiqueRez believes that we have implemented security measures that provide reasonable precautions against the unauthorized access, disclosure, alteration or destruction of PII. Unfortunately, no data transmission over the Internet or data storage system can be guaranteed to be 100% secure. Please do not send us credit card information or Sensitive Information through e-mail or any undesignated area (such as, for example, submission of your credit card number in a \"comment\" field). If you have reason to believe that your interaction with us is no longer secure (for example, if you feel that the security of any account you might have with us has been compromised), you must immediately notify us of the problem by contacting our Customer Service Department as set forth below in this Policy (note that if you choose to notify us via physical mail, this will delay the time it takes for us to respond to the problem).\nIf you change your mind, and no longer wish to receive marketing-related e-mails from us and on a go-forward basis, or if you would prefer that we do not share your PII on a go-forward basis with Licensed Hotels, Affiliate Organizations and/or with other third parties (other than BoutiqueRez service providers), you may opt-out of receiving such marketing-related e-mails or from such sharing by contacting our Customer Service Department as set forth below in this Policy.\nPlease keep in mind that if BoutiqueRez cannot disclose your PII to Licensed Hotels and/or Affiliate Organizations, we may be unable to provide you with all or certain reservation services, other services or membership-program-related benefits. Similarly, if BoutiqueRez cannot disclose your PII to other third parties, such as BW R company partners (e.g., airlines), then we may not be able to provide all of the available membership program services to you (e.g., earning of frequent customer points with such companies) or such services may not be delivered as quickly or not at all.\nWe take reasonable steps to ensure that the PII we use is accurate, complete and current to the extent necessary for the purposes for which we use the PII. We make a good faith effort to allow you the right to access and request that erroneous or inaccurate PII that is held by us be rectified. BoutiqueRez may allow you to review certain PII through the Site or through other online means. Information about the availability of online means for reviewing your PII is generally available at the Site or on the printed materials where such type of PII was first submitted. You may also review your PII by contacting us through the Customer Service Department, as noted below. BoutiqueRez will make all corrections and/or deletions of erroneous PII brought to its attention within a reasonable time period and as required by applicable data privacy regulations. We may need to retain certain information for recordkeeping purposes, and there may also be residual information that will remain within our databases and other records, which will not be removed therefrom. Finally, we are not responsible for removing or suppressing information from the databases of Licensed Hotels, Affiliate Organizations and other third parties with whom we have already shared your PII, or for limiting their use of your PII.\nBoutiqueRez only collects the personal information that it believes is necessary to perform the services that you seek from BoutiqueRez and to comply with its obligations as otherwise outline in this Policy. We will keep your PII only as long as we need it for the purposes for which we collected it, or as permitted by law.\nBoutiqueRez does not represent or warrant that the Site or any part thereof is appropriate or available for use in any particular jurisdiction. Those who choose to access the Site do so on their own initiative and at their own risk, and are responsible for complying with all local laws, rules and regulations. We may limit the Site's availability, in whole or in part, to any person, geographic area or jurisdiction we choose, at any time and in our sole discretion. By submitting any PII to us, you consent to the transfer of PII to other countries, which may provide a different level of data security than in your country of residence. In addition, if we need to transfer any PII to Licensed Hotels, Affiliate Organizations and/or other third parties pursuant to this Policy please be advised that such entities may or may not be located in countries that are considered \"adequate\" pursuant to the EU Data Protection Directive or other laws. For individuals who are located in the EEA, you should be aware that because we comply with the Safe Harbor Principles, our transfers of PII from the EEA to the United States meet the adequacy requirements of the EU Data Protection Directive.\nIf you feel that BoutiqueRez has mishandled your PII in violation of Safe Harbor requirements, you should contact BoutiqueRez through its Customer Relations Department with a written description of your complaint. After receiving such written description, a representative from BoutiqueRez's Customer Relations Department will contact you to set up a time and manner to discuss your complaint. BoutiqueRez is interested in addressing all legitimate complaints about its adherence to this Policy and the principles of Safe Harbor and will make a good faith effort to engage in communications to address any complaints. 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Merkel comes to Chemnitz to ease ethnic tensions, but faces mass protest | Brief News", + "raw_content": "Too little, too late? Merkel comes to Chemnitz to ease ethnic tensions, but faces mass protest\nGerman Chancellor Angela Merkel finally visited the eastern German city of Chemnitz, more than two months after massive right-wing protests there. However, twenty times as many people came to protest against her than to see her.\nIn late August, the city of Chemnitz witnessed a surge of anti-immigrant sentiment after the fatal stabbing of a German man, allegedly by a group of migrants. The incident provoked a wave of right-wing rallies and far-right marches, as well as counter-protests, some of which escalated into skirmishes between riot police and protesters, resulting in multiple arrests and injuries.\nNow, more than two months after the scandal, Merkel finally turned her attention to the beleaguered city in what even the local mayor, Barbara Ludwig, called a belated gesture. The chancellor met with a youth basketball team, talked to Ludwig and the head of the region of Saxony, where Chemnitz is located. In an apparent attempt to heal the rift between the government and the people, she also engaged in what she called a \u201ccivil dialogue\u201d with some 120 readers of a local newspaper.\nThe chancellor\u2019s visit predictably brought no surprises as she kept defending her immigration policies, admitting, however, that they provoked some \u201cdissatisfaction\u201d among Germans. She described the Chemnitz murder as a \u201chorrifying crime\u201d but said that no crimes justify other crimes, referring to the far-right violence and xenophobic attacks.\n\u201cWhat concerns me is the fact that, as a result of these developments [in Chemnitz], many people have lost the feeling of security,\u201d she told the audience, adding that restoring this feeling is a responsibility which \u201ca state governed by the rule of law\u201d should bear. However, she then immediately said that the feeling of insecurity is mostly \u201csubjective\u201d and is not supported by statistics and police data.\nClaiming that her government made just one mistake in its immigration policy, she explained it \u201cwas made not when the refugees were coming\u201d in Germany, but rather when it failed to care enough about the people fleeing wars in Syria and Iraq for refugee camps in Jordan and Turkey, before the refugee crisis actually reached Europe.\nThe chancellor seemed to be pretty happy with the results of her visit and the \u201cin-depth\u201d conversations she described as well worth including in her tight schedule. She also promised \u201cmore support\u201d for Chemnitz in the form of \u201ccertain congresses and meetings [that] will take place [there] in the future.\u201d\nHowever, whether she indeed managed to strike a chord with the locals remains unclear, as twenty times more people than the number that went to greet her opted instead to attend a protest against her visit.\nSome 2,500 people took to the streets of Chemnitz on Friday to express their discontent with the chancellor\u2019s policies. The protest was organized by the anti-immigration Pegida movement as well as a local far-right Pro-Chemnitz group, according to German media. A group of protesters also designated themselves a \u2018Merkeljugend\u2019 in an apparent reference to a Third Reich Nazi youth movement called \u2018Hitlerjugend\u2019.\nThe protesters chanted \u201cMerkel must go\u201d and \u201cNation\u2019s traitor\u201d while holding banners and placards that read \u201cwe are the people.\u201d The group that branded themselves \u2018Merkeljugend\u2019 also held flags and banners with the EU symbols styled on Nazi symbols and had T-shirts with \u2018Geil Merkel\u2019 slogan \u2013 another reference to the Nazi slogan \u2018Heil Hitler.\u2019\nDie Rechten wollen Merkel l\u00e4cherlich machen, in dem sie sie mit Hitler gleichsetzen.\nM\u00fcssten die Rechten nicht gerade dann gl\u00fccklich sein?\nAlso ich komme da nicht mehr mit, mit deren ihren verschrobenen Weltbild #Chemnitz#c1611pic.twitter.com/Gx7fHYjJKI\n\u2014 Christian (@Ghostdogcs) November 16, 2018\nThe protesters argued that Germany has turned into a sort of dictatorship under Merkel, while comparing her government\u2019s polices with those of Communist East Germany\u2019s secret police \u2013 the Stasi. Merkel herself also appeared to be not ready for dialogue with those, whom she branded as far-right populists.\n\u201cWe should not let our agenda be defined by those who spread fear and hate,\u201d she told her audience in Chemnitz, adding that she \u201cwill not go to those, who do not want to talk.\u201d\nCategories:\tWorld\t/ No Responses / by martin November 17, 2018", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00040.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 90, + "original_length": 7212, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.96, + "perplexity": 320.1, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "http://britishsurnames.co.uk/surname/aagard/map", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T03:52:58Z", + "digest": "sha1:NCKGMCXJ4ML65DH47WWLEYGVI37WUDXB", + "length": 529, + "nlines": 8, + "source_domain": "britishsurnames.co.uk", + "title": "Surname distribution maps for Aagard surname meaning, origin, etymology and distribution in Great Britain | British Surnames", + "raw_content": "Surname distribution maps for Aagard\nAagard in the 1881 Census\nSorry, we don't have any stats for the distribution of Aagard in the 1881 Census.\nAagard in the 21st Century\nSorry, we don't have any stats for the distribution of Aagard in the 21st Century.\nThe maps, if available, show both where there are more people named Aagard and where they are most concentrated.\nThe darker the colour, the more people in that county are named Aagard.\nThe larger the dot, the greater the proportion of people in that county are named Aagard.", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00040.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 46, + "original_length": 1765, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.94, + "perplexity": 208.9, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "http://bruegel.org/events/ft-french-election/", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T03:26:57Z", + "digest": "sha1:P7WCEVEOBWIO5M3DL2YJGNBWPFI76PH5", + "length": 5950, + "nlines": 16, + "source_domain": "bruegel.org", + "title": "Financial Times \u2013 Bruegel Forum: the future of Europe after the French election | Bruegel", + "raw_content": "Financial Times \u2013 Bruegel Forum: the future of Europe after the French election\nThe second event in the Financial Times - Bruegel Forum series will look at how the results of the French elections will affect Europe.\nOn 11 May Bruegel and the Financial Times held an event to discuss the direction Europe is likely to take after the French elections. Guntram Wolff, Director of Bruegel, and Tony Barber, Europe Editor of the FT, had the opportunity to discuss the challenges and opportunities facing France and the EU with Jean Pisani-Ferry, Director for Programme and Ideas of Emmanuel Macron\u2019s presidential campaign.\nTony Barber kicked-off the debate with some remarks on the reactions to Emmanuel Macron\u2019s election. Despite his victory at the second turn, larger than expected and welcome with great relief in France, he warned about the wide domestic hostility, expressed in the substantial ballots for extreme candidates in the first round, to some of the economic reforms proposed in his program. At the European level, he highlighted the differences between the overwhelmingly positive reactions in Western Europe and EU institutions and those extremely aloof in Eastern European governments. In this regard, while the election of Macron will certainly represent a new impetus for a healthier Franco-German relationship to strengthen the Euro area, the pockets of reserve and scepticism coming from the rest of EU should be kept in mind.\nDespite these concrete challenges, Jean Pisani-Ferry emphasized the significance of this election. Emmanuel Macron broke with the longstanding tradition of avoiding European issues in a Presidential campaign, due to the internal divisions within both parties. In these elections, instead, particularly in the second round, there were two opposing candidates, with platform defined against or pro-Europe. A novelty for France, but also for European politics itself.\nAt the same time, the vote crystallized profound divisions within the country (by education level, by location and in particular by personal perception about the future), similar to those emerged in the Brexit vote and the US election. Mr Pisani-Ferry explained that it will be a priority for Macron to address these divides. And given his commitment, he will not speak only to the \u201chappy France\u201d, but will be demanding at domestic and European level to respond to the fears and anger expressed during the campaign.\nRegarding reforms, Mr. Pisani-Ferry noted that, even if reluctance was clearly expressed in the first round, the current status quo is politically unsustainable (in terms unemployment level, divide between large and smaller cities, problems of competitiveness). Political capital, both domestically and at European level, has to be invested wisely in reforms that are going to deliver. More generally, given that the risk of facing a more competitive \u201cchampion\u201d against openness and integration can not be underestimated (in the future or in another country), redefining the idea of economic openness and open society in a way that is politically more sustainable is a key challenge for the future of European politics.\nIn response to some remarks by Guntram Wolff on Macron\u2019s public finance strategy and regional policies to tackle the opportunity gap between urban vs. countryside, Jean Pisani-Ferry provided more details on the planned structural reduction of public spending. To allow it, given the available low-interest rate window, the program envisages additional (but temporary) investments for 50 billion euros over the presidential 5-years term to foster the digitalization of public administration and improving efficiency of healthcare system. Regarding the geographical divides (well described here by the Financial Times), addressing the inclusiveness issues created by economic agglomeration will require changes in housing tax, the educational system and the degree of physical and digital connectivity.\nFinally, a great part of the debate concerned the European dimension of the program. He made it clear that the agenda will starts at home with solving homegrown problems with domestic policies. \u201cThere is no attitude of telling neighbours or telling partners that they should be solving our problems,\u201d he said. At the same time, the current outcomes of the Euro Area institutional set-up are rather unsatisfactory. In light of this, what is essential according to Pisani-Ferry is a serious discussion about the remaining shortcomings, not only on the few issues on which consensus can be found in the short-term and in particular not on instruments. \u201cThere has been a lot of crisis management and last-minute decisions to prevent very bad things happening, but we have lacked a serious discussion\u201d, he noted, \u201cin which we don\u2019t need to agree on everything\u201d. In this regard, the French red lines will be complacency, inaction, dogmatism.\nThe discussion continued on the consequences of Brexit on the EU budget, the necessary redefinition of its strategic priorities and on proposal about a policy framework to address security consequences of foreign acquisitions (on which Bruegel advanced some proposals).\nSeveral questions from the audience fostered further the debate on European values, the sequencing of flexicurity reforms, the future French position on Brexit, issues related to labour mobility within the Single market.\nEvent notes by Filippo Biondi, Research Assistant.\nTony Barber, Europe editor, Financial Times\nEurope editor, Financial Times\nwww.ft.com The Financial Times is one of the world\u2019s leading business news organisations, recognised internationally for its authority, integrity and accuracy. 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Plus, there's more to come: Two more network interviews this week.\nCould this be the sign of a new White House openness? Stay tuned.\nTough Ones From the Audience\nBryan Bender writes in the Boston Globe: \"Speaking in the run-up to Iraqi elections, President Bush departed from the largely scripted public events he's used to justify the Iraq war and unexpectedly fielded some tough questions from his audience yesterday, defending his administration's use of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks to justify toppling Saddam Hussein and estimating that 30,000 Iraqis have died since the 2003 invasion.\n\"After his talk to the World Affairs Council in Philadelphia, in which he likened Iraq's political struggles with the setbacks of the early days of American independence, Bush opened the floor to questions -- and found himself facing some skeptics.\"\nHere's the transcript of Bush's speech. As I first reported in my December 6 column , Bush's advance team conspicuously refused to allow questions when he spoke to the Council on Foreign Relations last week.\nPress secretary Scott McClellan said yesterday that Bush decided to take questions only hours before the Philadelphia speech began.\nThe first one made headlines around the world:\n\"Q Since the inception of the Iraqi war, I'd like to know the approximate total of Iraqis who have been killed. And by Iraqis I include civilians, military, police, insurgents, translators.\n\"THE PRESIDENT: How many Iraqi citizens have died in this war? I would say 30,000, more or less, have died as a result of the initial incursion and the ongoing violence against Iraqis. We've lost about 2,140 of our own troops in Iraq.\"\nPeter Baker writes in The Washington Post: \"The first person he called on was Didi Goldmark, 63, a former libel lawyer from New Hope, Pa., who asked him how many Iraqis have died in the war. Unlike aides who have been asked that question, Bush gave a direct answer. . . .\n\"The estimate marked the first time Bush has personally provided an assessment of the Iraqi death toll, a highly sensitive subject that his administration largely avoids discussing at any level, much less from the presidential lectern. Although the Pentagon keeps careful track of Americans killed in Iraq -- now exceeding 2,100 troops -- military officers have said they do not count Iraqi dead. . . .\n\"Bush moved on to the next question without identifying how he arrived at the figure or how many were killed by U.S. forces and not Iraqi insurgents and foreign militants. Aides later said it was not a government estimate but a reflection of figures in news media reports. Still, Bush offered it without qualification, in effect accepting it as a reasonable approximation. . . .\n\"Some of the five questions Bush later took from the audience also challenged his assertions. Faeze Woodville, 44, a naturalized U.S. citizen born in Iran and now living in nearby Strafford, Pa., asked why he keeps linking the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, to the Iraq war despite no evidence of a direct connection. The president said '9/11 changed my look on foreign policy' and he learned 'that if we see a threat we've got to deal with it.'\n\"Woodville said in an interview afterward that she felt Bush ducked her question. 'He must think we're morons,' she said. 'There is no link, and he knows it as well as I. And I and others in the audience are insulted that he thinks we don't read, don't think, don't have any opinions.' \"\nHere's the full text of that exchange:\n\"Q Mr. President, I would like to know why it is that you and others in your administration keep linking 9/11 to the invasion of Iraq when no respected journalist or Middle Eastern expert confirmed that such a link existed.\n\"THE PRESIDENT: I appreciate that. 9/11 changed my look on foreign policy. I mean, it said that oceans no longer protect us, that we can't take threats for granted; that if we see a threat, we've got to deal with it. It doesn't have to be militarily, necessarily, but we got to deal with it. We can't -- can't just hope for the best anymore.\n\"And so the first decision I made, as you know, was to -- was to deal with the Taliban in Afghanistan because they were harboring terrorists. This is where the terrorists planned and plotted. And the second decision -- which was a very difficult decision for me, by the way, and it's one that I -- I didn't take lightly -- was that Saddam Hussein was a threat. He is a declared enemy of the United States; he had used weapons of mass destruction; the entire world thought he had weapons of mass destruction. The United Nations had declared in more than 10 -- I can't remember the exact number of resolutions -- that disclose, or disarm, or face serious consequences. I mean, there was a serious international effort to say to Saddam Hussein, you're a threat. And the 9/11 attacks extenuated that threat, as far as I -- concerned.\n\"And so we gave Saddam Hussein the chance to disclose or disarm, and he refused. And I made a tough decision. And knowing what I know today, I'd make the decision again. Removing Saddam Hussein makes this world a better place and America a safer country.\"\nAs blogger Brendan Nyhan points out, Bush probably didn't mean to say that the \"9/11 attacks extenuated that threat.\" Extenuate means \"weaken.\" He probably meant exacerbate.\nRegardless, it was the first time I can recall Bush explaining so directly why he connects the two.\nBig News Here?\nKen Herman of the Cox News Service -- alone among the reporters covering the speech -- led his story with the one line that I thought just might be the biggest and most inadvertent news of the day.\nHerman writes: \"President Bush, looking beyond this week's parliamentary elections in Iraq, said regime change will be needed elsewhere in the world before Americans' safety at home can be ensured.\n\" 'The long run in this war is going to require a change of governments in parts of the world,' Bush told the World Affairs Council of Philadelphia, a nonpartisan educational group, on Monday. He didn't name names but noted that Iran and Syria have become obstacles to freedom in 'a tough neighborhood.' \"\nCritics Pleasantly Surprised\nHere's something you don't see every day: Kind words from Bush's traditionally toughest critics.\nTim Grieve writes in Salon that \"more often than not, Bush unscripted was a whole lot better than the teleprompted president has been lately. He may not be able to change the way Americans think about Iraq, but more appearances like this one could change the way Americans think about their president. As the New York Times said the other day, Bush should get out more.\"\nThe Carpetbagger blogs: \"To be sure, this is a pleasantly surprising development. Maybe it's because of the Newsweek cover , or maybe it's because Brian Williams is following Bush around today and they wanted to score some p.r. points, or maybe the Bush gang decided to just take a chance. Whatever the motivation, they're to be congratulated -- allowing the president to hear five questions from regular Americans may seem pretty routine for a president, but for these guys, it's a quite a breakthrough.\"\nOf course, some critics kept at it: Jason Kellet of merlotdemocrats, for instance, was not impressed with Bush's body language while answering the question. He annotates Bush's words this way: \"I would say (sigh) (shrug) 30,000, more or less, have died as a result of the initial incursion and the ongoing violence against Iraqis.\"\nFact Checking Watch\nAfter the last two speeches Bush gave on Iraq, there was plenty of aggressive fact-checking. Yesterday, not so much. I'm sure that mostly had to do with the fact that Bush didn't break a whole lot of new ground, other than adopting the figure of 30,000 dead.\nOn that count, Oren Dorell writes in USA TODAY: \"The White House offered no details about how the 30,000 died, or who killed them.\n\"Unofficial estimates vary. Bush's number roughly matches an estimate by Iraq Body Count , a research group that uses media accounts to measure civilian deaths. On Monday, that count numbered between 27,383 and 30,892. That is far lower than the count in a 2004 study, published in the medical journal The Lancet, which used a survey of Iraqi households to estimate that about 100,000 Iraqis had died.\"\nBut if what Bush said wasn't really new, it's still worth pointing out what he didn't say. For instance, in his talk about the growth of democracy in Iraq, Bush still refuses to acknowledge the significance of a key fact: That most Iraqis oppose the American occupation and that many of the people fighting against it would no longer be fighting us if we left.\nBush's answer to a question about improving the U.S. image abroad didn't acknowledge the role played by the Iraq war and allegations of torture under his watch. The president instead chose to blame image problems on the Arab media and the terrorist propaganda machine.\n\"Look, I recognize we got an image issue, particularly when you got television stations, Arabic television stations that are constantly just pounding America, creating -- saying America is fighting Islam, Americans can't stand Muslims, this is a war against a religion. And we've got to, obviously, do a better job of reminding people that ours is not a nation that rejects religion; ours is a nation that accepts people of all faith, and that the great strength of America is the capacity for people to worship freely.\"\nThe Williams Questions\nNBC Anchor Brian Williams held three short interviews with Bush over the course of the day yesterday. Here are the transcripts of part one , part two , and part three .\nWilliams focused mostly on torture, Hurricane Katrina, Iraq and the bubble.\nHere's NBC News 's story about Bush's torture answers: \"President Bush expressed a no-tolerance stance on the use of torture by the United States in the war on terrorism in an exclusive wide-ranging interview with NBC News anchor Brian Williams, broadcast Monday.\"\nHere's that excerpt:\n\"Williams: Can you meet John McCain at his definition?\n\"President Bush: Yes, I'm confident we can. On the other hand, we want to make sure that we're in a position to be able to interrogate without torture. These are people that still want to hurt us, Brian. And the American people expect us to do that which we can do within international law and our own declaration of supporting the premises of international law is what I really meant to say -- to protect us. I mean, if they know something, we need to know it. And we think we can find it without torturing people.\"\nDavid E. Sanger and Eric Schmitt write in the New York Times: \"Mr. McCain, the nation's most famous former prisoner of war, has been pressing for the restrictions, which the Senate has approved, to be adopted in intense three-way negotiations with the House and the Bush administration as Congress prepares to wrap up its work for the year.\n\"Mr. Bush's remarks hinted at what appear to be the White House objectives in the talks that started with Vice President Dick Cheney's demand that intelligence agents be exempted from Mr. McCain's measure. For Mr. Cheney, this is also part of a broader struggle with Congress to reassert presidential authority. . . .\n\"After a stinging defeat in the Senate in October on Mr. McCain's measure, the White House turned to Mr. Bush's national security adviser, Stephen J. Hadley, who has been negotiating narrower language that would give some legal protection to covert operatives if they were caught going beyond the murky boundaries of acceptable interrogation techniques.\"\nBut it really is all just \"hints\" until Bush clearly defines what he means by torture.\nReuters , incidentally, reports: \"A former top adviser to President George W. Bush on Iraq policy said on Monday there are instances when torture may be appropriate.\n\"Commenting on an issue that has roiled Washington and affected the U.S. image abroad, Robert Blackwill, who was deputy national security adviser during Bush's first term, said:\n\" 'Of course torture should not be widespread and of course there should be extraordinarily stringent top-down requirements in this respect. But never? . . . I wouldn't say never.' \"\nOn Katrina\nRichard W. Stevenson writes in the New York Times: \"President Bush said Monday that the failures of the government in responding to Hurricane Katrina had nothing to do with race or class and repeated his promise to rebuild the Gulf Coast and New Orleans in particular.\n\"Asked in an interview with NBC News whether the response would have been the same had the destruction occurred on Nantucket or in Chicago or Houston, Mr. Bush said he was aware of criticism that the government acted slowly because he was a racist, and he said such criticism was absolutely wrong.\"\nThe full quote from the interview transcript:\n\"Somebody I heard -- you know, a couple of people said -- you know, said, 'Bush didn't respond because of race, because he's a racist.' That is absolutely wrong. And I reject that. Frankly, that's the kind of thing that -- you can call me anything you want -- but do not call me a racist. Secondly, this storm hit all up and down. It hit New Orleans. It hit down in Mississippi too. And people should not forget the damage done in Mississippi.\"\nI wrote about Williams' initial questions about Bush's life in the bubble in yesterday's column . Later in the day, he asked even more.\nWilliams: \"Once and for all -- and I know you've had some fun with members of the press on this subject -- how much television news do you watch? How much do you read the morning papers, news magazines? How much do you see in an average week?\"\nBush: \"I don't see a lot of the news. Every morning I look at the newspaper. I can't say I've read every single article in the newspaper. But I definitely know what's in the news. Occasionally, I watch television. I don't want to hurt your feelings, but it's occasionally. I'm working at that point, as are you. But I'm very aware of what's in the news. I'm aware because I see clips. I see summaries. I have people on my staff that walk in every morning and say, 'This is what's -- this is how I see it. This is what's brewing today,' on both the domestic and international side. Frankly, it is probably part of my own fault for needling people, but it's a myth to think I don't know what's going on. And it's a myth to think that I'm not aware that there is opinions that don't agree with mine. Because I'm fully aware of that. . . .\n\"I read the newspaper. I mean, I can tell you what the headlines are. I must confess, if I think the story is, like, not a fair appraisal, I'll move on. But I know what the story's about.\"\nWashington Times reporter Joe Curl wrote in his pool report that Bush encountered protesters when he left the speechin Philadelphia. \"By the time Bush left in his motorcade at 12:50, the crowd of protesters had grown substantially. A huge 'Boooo!' echoed in the road beneath Independence Hall as he drove by. By the time the pool vans reached the site, many were offering a one-fingered salute to the Commander in Chief (but they were clearly not saying 'You're No. 1!').\"\nWilliams asked about that, too:\n\"Williams: OK, as we drove up to the hotel in Philadelphia today, there were protesters outside. And they were yelling shame. Do you see them and hear them from your limousine?\n\"President Bush: Sure.\n\"Williams: Does it matter to you? Does it register?\n\"President Bush: I think after awhile you kind of get used to it. It's part of the job. It is -- you know, it's -- part of living in a democracy. They're frankly smaller than they used to be, but that doesn't mean there's not intensity out there. I've made some very difficult positions. I fully understand people not liking war. I fully understand people wanting, you know, feeling that, you know, that I'm making progress. I mean, I can see that. And, on the other hand, I know we're making progress. We're winning. And it's my job to continue to try to reassure them that we are winning and the stakes are worth it. But yes, I'm fully aware of the discontent and the protests.\"\nGrumblings Among the Press Corps\nBlogger Wonkette writes: \"The White House correspondents will get feted at the White House later this week, but all the sliced ham and swing bands in the world can't make them any less surly. It's a sucky job, someone has to do it, and it sucks even more someone [when] sweeps in for a stunt-casting moment of glory, like Brian Williams did today. . . .\n\"[A]ccording to our cranky eyewitness, Williams skipped 'the rigorous Secret Service sweep ('hands out, turn around, cough') that other trip-takers enjoyed in the luggage lounge by Gate 2' and 'did not sit with the other White House press corps cretins in the pod by the kitchen.' \"\nABC News's The Note offered some advice yesterday to Williams -- or Brit Hume of Fox News, who they say has the next Bush interview.\nCiting \"the First Rule of Interviewing Presidents: don't ask anything for which the staff has prepared him\" the Note suggested these questions, among others:\n* \"I know you don't read polls, Mr. President, but did anyone mention to you the new ABC News/Time survey of Iraqis ?\"\n* \"Has 2005 been the best year of your presidency? (If not, where would you rank it among the 5?)\"\n* \"Are the stories about your snapping at aides true?\"\n* \"Democrats say every family worth eight million in assets should be exempt from inheritance or death taxes but that families with more than 8 million in assets should have to pay taxes. What's wrong with that position?\"\n* \"What is your definition of torture?\"\n* \"How much does a liter of Diet Coke cost?\"\nTaegan Goddard's Political Wire reports: \"A new Cook Political Report/RT Strategies national poll 'confirms that President Bush's job approval plunge that began earlier this year has bottomed out and he has regained at least some lost ground.' The survey shows that 42% approved the overall job Bush is doing, up a point from three weeks ago, with 55% disapproving.\n\"Key takeaway: 'Until the President starts gaining ground among independents, it's hard to see him getting back into the high forties again.' \"\nSusan Page has more on the poll I mentioned yesterday. She writes in USA Today: \"President Bush's job approval rating, on a long slide since his re-election last year, rebounded from historic lows in a USA TODAY/CNN/Gallup Poll taken this weekend. . . .\n\"Bush's standing remains lower than that of any president in his second term since World War II except Richard Nixon.\n\"Even so, Bush's political situation seems to have stabilized after a perilous autumn. Three other national polls released in the past three weeks put his rating on the rise to 41% or 42%. A Gallup Poll taken Dec. 5-8 measured it at 43%.\n\"In the USA TODAY survey, Bush's rating by independents jumped by 10 points, compared with a month earlier, to 38% from 28%.\"\nHere are the complete poll results .\nThe Guardian writes: \"Five years ago today Al Gore phoned George Bush to formally concede the presidency. Since then the United States has suffered its worst ever terrorist attack, become embroiled in a disastrous foreign war and bungled the response to a natural catastrophe. So what is the Bush legacy after half a decade? Is he a ruthless Machiavellian or a bumbling puppet? A devout idealist or a cynical opportunist? A disaster or a mild disappointment? Here, six top American commentators - from the left and the right - deliver their verdicts.\"\nHere's part of what Howell Raines, the former editor of the New York Times, had to say: \"At this point, the policy legacy of George Bush seems defined by three disparate disasters: Iraq in foreign affairs, Katrina in social welfare, and corporate influence over tax, budget and regulatory decisions. As a short-term political consequence, we may avoid another dim-witted Bush in the White House. But what the Bush dynasty has done to presidential campaign science - the protocols by which Americans elect presidents in the modern era - amounts to a political legacy that could haunt the republic for years to come.\"\nHere's the view from R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr., the founder and editor-in-chief of the American Spectator: \"One thing is certain. He will leave the White House with many Americans furious with him, much as Truman did. Most of those who seethed at Truman were Republicans from the Old Order, with a few conservative Democrats along for the wrathful ride. Those who seethe at Bush are from America's present Old Order - to wit, Democrats, who have been steadily losing power nationwide and who now hold power mainly in the media and the universities.\"", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00040.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 100, + "original_length": 21217, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.97, + "perplexity": 277.1, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "http://businessmanagementowl.com/industrialproduction.php", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T03:12:22Z", + "digest": "sha1:DKOD5FUVBFXK2OFIAEVVTJXGMZEC2QV5", + "length": 9060, + "nlines": 18, + "source_domain": "businessmanagementowl.com", + "title": "California Managerial Positions Directory: Industrial Production Managers", + "raw_content": "Industrial production managers coordinate the resources and activities required to produce millions of goods every year in the United States. Although their duties vary from plant to plant, industrial production managers share many of the same major responsibilities. These responsibilities include production scheduling, staffing, procurement and maintenance of equipment, quality control, inventory control, and the coordination of production activities with those of other departments.\nThe primary mission of industrial production managers is planning the production schedule within budgetary limitations and time constraints. They do this by analyzing the plant\u2019s personnel and capital resources to select the best way of meeting the production quota. Industrial production managers determine, often using mathematical formulas, which machines will be used, whether new machines need to be purchased, whether overtime or extra shifts are necessary, and what the sequence of production will be. They monitor the production run to make sure that it stays on schedule and correct any problems that may arise.\nAs production techniques have evolved beyond traditional mass assembly lines, industrial production managers have adapted to \u201clean\u201d production techniques. Many manufacturers have adopted lean production techniques, while some others use a combination of lean and mass production techniques. In a traditional assembly line, each worker is responsible for only a small portion of the assembly, repeating that task on every product. Lean production employs teams to build and assemble products in stations or cells.\nWhen companies use stations, one worker may work alone with hand tools and various parts to complete a large portion of the assembly process. Rather than specializing in a specific task, workers are capable of performing all jobs within a team. Without the constraints of the traditional assembly line, companies can be more flexible in their production process, more easily changing production levels on different product lines.\nThe increased flexibility of lean manufacturing enables industrial production managers to experiment with ways of improving the assembly and manufacturing process. As companies strive to minimize inventory, they want to maintain only a limited stock of finished products. Employing manufacturing cells and stations, companies can more quickly react to changes in customer demand so that limited inventories will not get too low.\nIndustrial production managers also must monitor product standards. Inspecting samples of finished goods and recording defects enables managers to statistically analyze quality control problems. While traditional quality control programs reacted only to problems that reached a certain significant level, newer management techniques and programs, such as ISO 9000, Total Quality Management (TQM), or Six Sigma, emphasize continuous quality improvement. If the problem relates to the quality of work performed in the plant, the manager may implement better training programs or reorganize the manufacturing process, often based upon the suggestions of employee teams. If the cause is substandard materials or parts from outside suppliers, companies may work with their suppliers to improve their quality.\nBecause the work of many departments is related, managers work closely with heads of other departments such as sales, procurement, and logistics to plan and implement company goals, policies, and procedures. For example, the production manager works with the procurement department to ensure that plant inventories are maintained at their optimal level. This is vital to a firm\u2019s operation because maintaining the inventory of materials necessary for production ties up the firm\u2019s financial resources, yet insufficient quantities cause delays in production.\nA breakdown in communications between the production manager and the purchasing department can cause slowdowns and a failure to meet production schedules. Just-in-time production techniques have reduced inventory levels, making constant communication among the manager, suppliers, and purchasing departments even more important. Computers play an integral part in this coordination. They also are used to provide up-to-date information on inventory, the status of work in progress, and quality standards.\nProduction managers usually report to the plant manager or the vice president for manufacturing, and may act as liaison between executives and first-line supervisors. In many plants, one production manager is responsible for all aspects of production. In large plants with several operations\u2014aircraft assembly, for example\u2014there are managers in charge of each operation, such as machining, assembly, or finishing.\nMost industrial production managers divide their time between production areas and their offices. While in the production area, they must follow established health and safety practices and wear the required protective clothing and equipment. The time in the office, which often is located near production areas, usually is spent meeting with subordinates or other department managers, analyzing production data, and writing and reviewing reports.\nMost industrial production managers work more than 40 hours a week, especially when production deadlines must be met. In facilities that operate around-the-clock, managers often work late shifts and may be called at any hour to deal with emergencies. This could mean going to the plant to resolve the problem, regardless of the hour, and staying until the situation is under control.\nDealing with production workers as well as superiors when working under the pressure of production deadlines or emergency situations can be stressful. Corporate restructuring has eliminated levels of management and support staff, thus shifting more responsibilities to production managers and compounding this stress.\nBecause of the diversity of manufacturing operations and job requirements, there is no standard preparation for this occupation. However, a college degree is required, even for those who have worked their way up through the ranks. Many industrial production managers have a college degree in business administration, management, industrial technology, or industrial engineering. Others have a master\u2019s degree in industrial management or business administration (MBA). Some are former production-line supervisors who have been promoted. Although many employers prefer candidates with a business or engineering background, some companies hire well-rounded liberal arts graduates.\nAs production operations become more sophisticated, increasing numbers of employers are looking for candidates with graduate degrees in industrial management or business administration. Combined with an undergraduate degree in engineering, either of these graduate degrees is considered particularly good preparation. Managers who do not have graduate degrees often take courses in decision sciences, which provide them with techniques and mathematical formulas that can be used to maximize efficiency and improve quality. Companies also are placing greater importance on a candidate\u2019s interpersonal skills. Because the job requires the ability to compromise, persuade, and negotiate, successful production managers must be well-rounded and have excellent communication skills.\nThose who enter the field directly from college or graduate school often are unfamiliar with the firm\u2019s production process. As a result, they may spend their first few months in the company\u2019s training program. These programs familiarize trainees with the production process, company policies, and the requirements of the job. In larger companies, they also may include assignments to other departments, such as purchasing and accounting. A number of companies hire college graduates as first-line supervisors and later promote them.\nSome industrial production managers have worked their way up through the ranks, perhaps after having worked as first-line supervisors. These workers already have an intimate knowledge of the production process and the firm\u2019s organization. To be selected for promotion, however, they must obtain a college degree, must demonstrate leadership qualities, and usually must take company-sponsored courses in management skills and communication techniques.\nIn addition to formal training, industrial production managers must keep informed of new production technologies and management practices. Many belong to professional organizations and attend trade shows at which new equipment is displayed; they also attend industry conferences and conventions at which changes in production methods and technological advances are discussed. Some take courses to become certified in various quality and management systems.\nIndustrial production managers with a proven record of superior performance may advance to plant manager or vice president for manufacturing. Others transfer to jobs with more responsibilities at larger firms. Opportunities also exist for consultants.", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00040.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 85, + "original_length": 13253, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.96, + "perplexity": 244.6, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "http://by-cpa.com/Html/news/20154/1929.html", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T04:48:25Z", + "digest": "sha1:SLP36IKDDIP4CWJLDU3XF4OADA7ISOF7", + "length": 6048, + "nlines": 55, + "source_domain": "by-cpa.com", + "title": "SZ Qianhai WFOE Registration Package SZLLC201507 -- China Business -- kaizen", + "raw_content": "SZ Qianhai WFOE Registration Package SZLLC201507\nShenzhen Qianhai WFOE Registration Package SZLLC201507\n(Encouraged Industries)\nThis package is applicable to the case where a Hong Kong investor applies to register a limited liability company (WFOE) in Qianhai Shenzhen-Hong Kong Modern Service Industry Cooperation Zone (hereinafter referred to as Qianhai), Shenzhen, China. The registration costs will be increased accordingly if your business activities need special approval.\nAn enterprise incorporated in Qianhai and engaged in the Encouraged Industries is entitled to a preferential enterprise income tax rate of 15% during the period from 1 January 2014 to 31 December 2020 in accordance with the PRC law. Such enterprise need to meet the following two requirements:\n1. 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The Value Added Tax and Surcharges of 7.5% would be applicable if Chinese tax receipt (Fapiao) is required.\nThe price stated above also does not cover the translation costs for translating the documents prepared by you from English to Chinese or translation of registration documents from Chinese to English. The cost for the above translation will be quoted separately upon request.\nThe price stated above also does not cover the legalisation of the identity documents of the shareholder/investor. 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The table below shows the estimated time frame for each of the steps for the registration process.\nAgreement with Qianhai Administration\nProject filing\n(1) Record Certification\n(5) Bank Account Opening Permit\n(6) Other related documents", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00040.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 182, + "original_length": 9270, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.89, + "perplexity": 332.9, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "http://call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/node/38065", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T03:17:34Z", + "digest": "sha1:CGTVNDUJBXMVAFCA7TVUDRRW37HUJIU4", + "length": 3977, + "nlines": 23, + "source_domain": "call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu", + "title": "cfp | call for papers", + "raw_content": "The UK political landscape in the 21st century: players, strategies, stakes\nLISA e-journal (http://lisa.revues.org/index3921.html)\ndavid_haigron@yahoo.fr\nAcademic studies devoted to contemporary British politics usually focus on either a single or a series of electoral campaigns (psephology, with a thematic approach); a leader, a party (chronological monograph) or a set of parties (usually limited to the three main parties); a political philosophy or school of thought (anarchism, trade unionism, liberalism, conservatism, nationalism, euroscepticism, fascism\u2026). Much rarer are works offering to embrace a more comprehensive thematic spectrum in a synchronic perspective.\nThe project is to map, in as much detail as possible, the British political landscape in the early 21st century, i.e. to present the players (major, minority, national parties, party factions, trade unions, federations, pressure groups, think tanks, etc.) who, on the electoral and media centre-stage, on its fringe or in the Westminster lobbies, try to impose their agendas and influence the public debate in a way that serves their own purposes. The field of research therefore stretches from the extreme-right to the far-left and includes both registered parties and organisations whose action is mainly political (influencing the elected representatives, mobilizing the citizens, taking an active part in public life outside officially constituted groups, etc.).\nSubmissions are invited which examine the contemporary British political landscape and enable the readers to have a better understanding of its fabric. To this purpose, authors may decide to explore the following points:\n1)\tIdeology and identity\n-\tWhat is the ideological background (thinkers, theorists, events, etc.) on which the identity of the party/organisation is founded?\n-\tWhat does the party/organisation now stand for? What are the core values that provide coherence to the group? 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You may use the social media site, internet marketing, traditional marketing campaign or you might want to opt for something that is handy and usable; that is promotional items. Promotional items have different variations, you can use ballpen, caps, fan or personalized plastic cups. Here are some of the benefits of the cups when you use it as a promotional item during your company\u2019s event or during a certain occasion.\nBenefits of using Personalized Plastic Cups as a Promotional Item\nRather than giving your guest or customers a bottled water to drink, why not use a personalized plastic cups complete with your company\u2019s name and logo. A cup is something usable and something they want to take to their home. They will use it again and again which increase their familiarity with your company.\nMemorable Item\nIf you prefer to use a personalized plastic cups during an important family occasion such as birthday or wedding, that cup will continuously remind them of that day. You can also use it as a form of thank you to those who attended the occasion. It is the most cost-effective giveaways during weddings or birthdays.\nCompared to the other promotional item such as caps or ballpens, the personalized plastic cups are still the most affordable and durable form of a promotional gift. Due to its affordability, you will not hesitate to give your customers additional cups which in a way forge a certain state of loyalty between the customers and the company.\nPersonalized plastic cups can be customised depending on your preference. The shape, size, as well as the design, is completely based on your preference. You can require a shape that reflects the nature of your company such as a shape of a dumbbell in case you are running a fitness centre or a shape of a fruit in the event that you are managing a fruit juice company. The size is available in different oz. from 0.27 for the kids up to 9 oz.\nThe personalized plastic cups do not just stay inside the event. The recipient of the promotional item will take it home and use it several times. He might even use it as a cup for his house guests. And those who will see it will recognise the logo of your company; an affordable and effective way to promote your company.\nWhen you are looking for ways on how to promote your company during an event, you need to consider the idea of using personalized plastic cups. It is inexpensive and convenient way to handout during a company event.", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00040.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 46, + "original_length": 3707, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.96, + "perplexity": 288.3, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "http://census1891.ca/people/", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T03:49:26Z", + "digest": "sha1:JNH4AD7SXYAVAZLNZJ3VV7D474NHGJFQ", + "length": 1390, + "nlines": 7, + "source_domain": "census1891.ca", + "title": "People | 1891 Census of Canada", + "raw_content": "Project Director: Kris Inwood, Economics, University of Guelph since 2005. The first project director 2003-2005 was Kevin James.\nSenior Academic Advisor: Doug McCalla\nPost-Doctoral Fellows and visitors to the project are listed at the appropriate page of the Historical Data Research Unit.\nOffice Co-ordinator: Jean Dalgleish came to the project in 2003 with a BA in Economic History, an MA in History and experience as an academic manager at London\u2019s Westminster Institute. In her role as office co-ordinator and personnel manager Jean is responsible for day-to-day management and supervision of staff.\nDatabase Manager: Chelsea Jack came to the project in 2005 while completing an honours BA in English and History. In 2008 she completed an MA thesis using the 1891 data to examine asylums for the insane during the 19th century. Chelsea also manages the the 1871 database project .\nPersonnel: The students and staff who plan, manage and carry out the work of database construction are the heart of the 1891 project. The development of skills, expertise and understanding is an explicit goal of the 1891 project. For a listing of student contributions please click here.\nUniversity Staff: The project would not be possible without the assistance of University staff from the Departments of Economics, College of Arts, Office of Research, Library, and Computing and Communication Services.", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00040.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 39, + "original_length": 2054, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.92, + "perplexity": 196.5, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "http://cetulare.ucanr.edu/Contact_Us/?facultyid=20597", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T04:49:20Z", + "digest": "sha1:HRCJ4ZDPMHRRJWJEYZNJVYBFARIMVHPW", + "length": 5567, + "nlines": 48, + "source_domain": "cetulare.ucanr.edu", + "title": "Julie Finzel - CE Tulare", + "raw_content": "jafinzel@ucanr.edu\nM.S. Rangeland Ecology and Management, University of Idaho, Moscow. 2011\nB.S. Animal Science, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo. 2003\nAnimal Science and Rangeland Ecology and Management\nAnimal Commodities and Products - General\nBeef Cattle / Beef / Other Cattle Prod\nManagement of Range Resources\nAndreini, E.; Finzel, J.A., et al.; Rao, D.; Larson-Praplan, S.; Oljten, J.W. (2018). Estimation of the water requirements and ecosystem benefits of cow-calf production on California rangelands. Rangelands. 40:1, 24-32.\nMacon, D.K.; Barry, S., et al.; Becchetti, T.; Davy, J.S.; Doran, M.P.; Finzel, J.A.; George, H.; Harper, J.M.; Huntsinger, L.; Ingram, R.S.; Lancaster, D.E.; Larsen, R.E.; Lewis, D.J.; Lile, D.F.; McDougald, N.K.; Mashiri, F.E.; Nader, G.; Oneto, S.R.; Stackhouse, J.W.; Roche, and L.M. (2016). Coping with Drought on California Rangelands. Rangelands. 38:4, 222-228. October.\nFinzel, J.A.; Seyfried, M.S., et al.; Weltz, M.A.; Launchbaugh, K.L. (2015). Simulation of long-term soil water dynamics at Reynolds Creek, Idaho: implications for rangeland productivity. Ecohydrology. 9:4, 673-687.\nFinzel, J.A.; Baldwin, R. (2015). Wild Pig Pest Note. UCANR. July.\nFinzel, J.A.; Wright, S.D., et al.; Banuelos, G. (2014). Brush Control Trial on Mountain Rangelands in Southeastern Sierra Nevada, California. Western Society of Weed Science 2014 Progress Report. 8.\nNader, G.A.; Oliver, M.N., et al.; Finzel, J.A.; Blanchard, M.T.; Stott, J.L. (2014). Solving the puzzle of foothill abortion in beef cattle. California Agriculture. 68:4, 114-115.\nMcGwire, K.C.; Weltz, M.A., et al.; Finzel, J.A.; Morris, C.E.; Fenstermaker, L.F.; McGraw, D.S. (2013). Multiscale assessment of green leaf cover in a semi-arid rangeland with a small unmanned aerial vehicle. Journal of Remote Sensing. 34:5, 1615-1632.\nFinzel, J.A.; Seyfried, M.S., et al.; Weltz, M.A.; Kiniry, J.R.; Johnson, M.V.; Launchbaugh, K.L. (2012). \"Indirect Measurement of Leaf Area Index in Sagebrush-Steppe Rangelands.\" Rangeland Ecology and Management 65(2): 208-212.\nJohnson, M.V.; Finzel, J.A., et al.; Spanel, D.; Weltz, M.; Sanchez, H.; Kiniry, J.R. (2011). The Rancher's ALMANAC. Rangelands. 33:2, 10-16. April.\nFinzel, J.A. and T.A. Becchetti (2018). California-Pacific Section Range Camp: 35 years of fun. Sparks, NV. February 1.\nFinzel, J.A.; Becchetti, T.A., et al.; Oneto, S. (2018). Stockpond Diversions. http://cekern.ucanr.edu/files/280212.pdf\nFinzel, J.A. (2018). The Case of the Druggie Chickens: Jimsonweed Toxicity in Chicken Pullets. Poultry Ponderings. Edition 14, Spring\nFinzel, J.A. (2018). The Roundup. Number 18. Summer Edition\nFinzel, J.A. (2018). The Roundup. Number 19, Fall Edition.\nFinzel, J.A. (2018). The Roundup. Number 17, Spring Edition\nFinzel, J.A.; Stewart, D., et al.; Sumner, D.A. (2017). San Joaquin Valley - South Sample Costs for Beef Cattle Cow-Calf Production.\nFinzel, J.A. (2017). The Roundup. Number 15, Winter Edition\nFinzel, J.A. (2017). The Roundup. Number 16, December\nAndreini, E.; Rao, D, et al.; Larson-Praplan, S.; Finzel, J.A.; Oltjen, J. (2017). Water use for cow-calf production on California rangeland. Rustici Rangeland Symposium. Davis, CA. March 23.\nAndreini, E.; Rao, D, et al.; Larson-Praplan, S.; Finzel, J.A.; Oltjen, J. (2017). Water use for cow-calf production on California rangeland. California Animal Nutrition Conference. Fresno, CA. May 10.\nAndreini, E.; Rao, D, et al.; Larson-Praplan, S.; Finzel, J.A.; Oltjen, J. (2017). Water use for cow-calf production on California rangeland. California Cattlemen's Convention. Sparks, NV. November 30.\nFinzel, J.A. (2016). The Roundup. Number 14, Summer Edition\nAndreini, E.; Rao, D, et al.; Larson-Praplan, S.; Finzel, J.A.; Oltjen, J. (2016). Water use for cow-calf production on California rangeland. California Cattlemen's Convention. Sparks, NV. December 2.\nAndreini, E.; Rao, D, et al.; Larson-Praplan, S.; Finzel, J.A.; Oltjen, J. (2016). Water Use for Cow-Calf Production on California Rangeland. UC Davis Animal Biology Colloquium. Davis, CA. October 17.\nFinzel, J.A. (2015). Horse Manure Ideal for Composting. Bakersfield Californian. 7/21/2015.\nFinzel, J.A. (2015). The Roundup. Number 13, Fall Edition\nFinzel, J.A. (2015). Weed Eating Biomachines. UC WeedRIC BLOG. November 12.\nBaldwin, R.A.; Finzel, J.A., Meinerz, R. (2015). Wild Pigs. Vertebrate Pest Control Handbook. R. Baldwin. California Department of Food and Agriculture. 291-296.\nFinzel, J.A; Baldwin, R. (2015). Wild Pigs in California: Managing Impact. Rustici Rangeland Symposium. Davis, CA. March 3.\nFinzel, J.A.; Higgins, M., et al.; Dale-Cesmat, C. (2014). Annual Grassland Residual Dry Matter (RDM) Evaluation Guide. NRCS Technical Publication - Prescribed Grazing #528. USDA-NRCS. November.\nFinzel, J.A. (2014). Kern State's Top Sheep, Wool Producing County. The Kern Business Journal. February.\nFinzel, J.A. (2014). The Roundup. Number 8, Winter Edition\nFinzel, J.A. (2014). The Roundup. Number 9, Summer Edition\nFinzel, J.A.; Horney, M.R., et al.; Dahlstrom, C.C.; Becchetti, T.A. (2013). Cal-Pac Section Range and Natural Resources Youth Camp Curriculum: Modifications and Challenges.\nFinzel, J.A. (2013). The Roundup. Number 5, Spring Edition\nFinzel, J.A. (2013). The Roundup. Number 7, Fall Edition\nFinzel, J.A. (2012). Some Plants as Deadly as they are Beautiful. Bakersfield Californian. 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Perhaps I should have googled the plot of Marat/Sade before arriving, or perhaps I should have known from the fact that the production team was Barricade Arts, whose most recent projects included A Clockwork Orange and Fear, that cheerfulness was definitively off the agenda. Certainly, the trigger warnings for murder, suicide, severe mental health issues and depression alerted me to the fallacy of my jovial expectations.\nMarat/Sade depicts a group of inmates at the historical Charenton Asylum acting out a play about the assassination of Jean-Paul Marat, directed by the Marquis de Sade. Although set in 1808, the majority of the narrative comprises the play within a play, harking back to the height of the French Revolution in July, 1793. Although the premise seems grounded in history, really the focus of the production is the inmates who are acting out the drama, and their strained relationship with the figures of authority who govern their incarceration\u2014Coulmier, the bourgeois director of the hospital, and the Marquis de Sade, both of whom occasionally interrupt the play within a play to bring us abruptly back to the world of 1808 and the sad, distorted reality inhabited by the inmates of the asylum.\nThe script certainly offers a lot to work with, and director Marcus Knight-Adams skilfully crafts together the Brechtian aspects of the play with an experimental staging that enhances the alienation effect\u2014the inmates of the asylum interact with audience members as they try to find their seats before the play begins, and over the course of the final scene an entire lettuce is torn apart and thrown at the spectators; I can attest to having been a personal victim of this creative decision.\nTo say that Marat/Sade is intriguing is to do it an injustice \u2013 every aspect of the production is exceptional. Many of the technical aspects especially stand out, particularly the eerie set design (the focal point of which is a raised bath tub in the middle of the stage), the use of an extremely skilled live orchestra (who provide a dulcet accompaniment to the sombre action), and the thoughtful costume design (with characters like Coulmier donning an authentic 18th century style while the inmates are dressed solely in white pyjamas). The cast are also phenomenal; as well as the immensity of the physical theatre they perform, they are also all very talented singers, and the momentum of the performance proffers an intensity that makes the 80-minute production seem far longer.\nOverall, Marat/Sade is a stimulating, thoughtful and provocative piece of theatre that is well worth the trek to the Keble O\u2019Reilly. The cast and crew are both excellent, and the immersive nature of the piece means audience members are engaged throughout in an intense yet fulfilling performance that stays with you long after you leave the auditorium. My only sympathies lie with the stage manager, Chris Goring\u2014good luck picking up all that lettuce.\nPrevious articleSpotlight: Emily the Snake\nNext articleOxford ranked world no. 1 in four subjects\nDoes Oxford create a class of its own?\n\"Seafood Extravaganza\" angers college\nOxford researchers expose \u2018data thirst\u2019 of big tech companies\nStudent shouts \"slay the Jews\" at Israeli Deputy Foreign Minister\nTable Tennis touched down at the Olympics\nReview: Gods are Fallen and All Safety Gone \u2013 \u2018a relationship...", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00040.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 115, + "original_length": 6403, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.94, + "perplexity": 327.9, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "http://chestnutridgepark.com/events.html?eventid=63", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T03:54:16Z", + "digest": "sha1:QKMG4KG22XGNESFKBPSDLOAOEV5TAK24", + "length": 875, + "nlines": 1, + "source_domain": "chestnutridgepark.com", + "title": "Chestnut Ridge Park & Campground - Events", + "raw_content": "The Boatmen are from the heart of West Virginia. With diverse instrumentation and the right blend of soaring harmony over top of Americana anthems, they have created a niche all their own. Into their third year and second album the group has continually expanded its horizons through a non-stop tour schedule and constant support from their close knit fanbase. Come out to see this group which is easily viewed as bluegrass, rock-grass or a new-grass outfit; The Boatmen fall better into Americana Soulgrass. We will also have the local food vendor Street Meatz out selling dinner options! Come out and enjoy summer! Tickets will be $5, children 6 and under get in free. Well behaved pets are welcomed, but must be leashed and cleaned up after. Thank you. 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The purpose of the event was bringing together Japanese students, American students who are interested in Japan, college faculties, and the members of Japanese and American business communities in the Midwest. This year, 12 schools attended, and a dozen companies and organizations opened booths to welcome the students.\nThe M.C. Goran Lukic, who has worked organizing the event for four years, said that the people to people relationship in the business world was about trusting each other.\nJ.D. Bindenagel, President of JASC, welcomed the attendees and said that the stable world has been changing as conflicts arose in Ukraine and East Asia; therefore, the Japan-US relationship was more important than ever, and the people in the two countries would reconfirm the friendship and understanding. JASC has offered a number of opportunities to help deepen mutual relationships for people of both sides. Bindenagel said, \u201cSuch relationships will last a lifetim\nKeynote speaker Steve Kozik, who was promoted as General Manager of the Omron Management Center of America on April 1st, spoke about how important the human relationship was through his experience and beliefs.\nKozik was born and raised in St. Charles and has worked for Omron for 22 years. After graduating college, he happened to see a newspaper, which showed the smiling face of Omron\u2019s 18 employees, who were standing in the company\u2019s parking lot. He submitted his resume to Omron and was employed a year later.\nWhen he began to work in Omron as accounting supervisor, Japanese employees gave him guidance for the Japanese way of business. Especially, Mr. Torii taught him Japanese language three times a week and informed him what was happening in the entire company.\nTorii was the kind of person who worked with other people and eliminated mind barriers among the people in the company. Kozik said that Torii acted in that way not to gain credit for himself, but for the betterment of the entire company.\nTorii\u2019s way of work hasn\u2019t changed even though 20 years have passed. Kozik has worked in the same way; taking up issues in the work place, deciding priorities, and solving each issue. He said that solving problems made employees\u2019 lives better, and it made a difference for growth of the entire company.\nOmron\u2019s corporate motto is \u201cAt work for a better life, a better world for all,\u201d and its focus is to make investments in people and society.\nOmron\u2019s annual sales are $7.5 billion, and 70 % of the sales come from outside of Japan. Kozik said that only 20 % of the sales were earned outside of Japan when he entered the company 22 years ago. Its motto and focus have made a good result.\nKozik defined the globalization as, \u201cthe process of creating inter-dependence across borders for mutual benefit.\u201d\nGlobalization has occurred in his own family. His mother\u2019s family came to the U.S. from Ireland/England in the 1650s; on the other hand, his father\u2019s family came from Bratislava, Slovakia in 1929. Besides, his wife Chie came from Japan. He said that globalization has taken place for centuries, but it has been accelerated in recent years.\nKozik spoke about how one person could make a difference in the global community.\nAn elephant, for example, consumes 330 pounds of food and 11 gallons of water in a day. How can an elephant do it? It does it one bite at a time. He said that it was the same thing; that making a difference was one relationship at a time.\nHe lined up the basics of relationship:\n1. Respect others with eyes and ear. Listen to four times more than you talk.\n2. Integrity: keep your word and be honest\n3. Sincerity: be yourself. Never pretend to understand when you don\u2019t (Better to say, \u201cI don\u2019t understand.\u201d)\n4. Patience: when offended or disappointed, use extreme patience to calm the situation. Most of the time, it is not intended. Focus on your GOAL.\nHe advised that number 3 and 4 were especially important.\nGlobalization brings endless benefits; on the other hand, it has risks such as personal embarrassment, awkward situations, accidentally offending, misunderstanding, and communication breakdown. The risks, however, can be avoided by paying respect to others.\nIn conclusion, Kozik said:\n* Globalization starts with one relationship at a time, one successful endeavor at a time.\n* Have the courage to be yourself.\n* Respect is the highest currency of humanity.\n* Find a company with your values for leverage.\n* Be Bold! Take a chance! Reach out!\nMardi Robinson, a student of DePaul University, answered Shimpo\u2019s interview questions in Japanese. She said, \u201cI\u2019m studying Japanese to know the wider world and want to be an interpreter in the future. In fact, I started it last summer, so I have a long road to study. When I was in high school, I had a friend from Akita, Japan, so I became interested in Japan.\u201d\nLin Ding, also a student of DePaul, spoke in Japanese. She liked anime and games when she was little and began to speak Japanese. She took Japanese classes at the college. \u201cI have been majoring in business and want to go in the field of anime related business in the future,\u201d Ding said.\nThree students from University of Wisconsin at Milwaukee were enjoying meeting people in the forum.\nTess Kramer-Gaie encountered Okinawa-taiko drumming group at Cherry Blossom Festival in Washington D.C. when she was 10 years old. Since then she has been studying Japanese for ten years. The fact that a sister state and prefecture relationship between Wisconsin and Chiba in Japan also exists helped to keep her interests in Japan. She said, \u201cI would like to work with green technology and create most sustainable consumer technology in the future.\u201d\nRoxxanne Mickelson has been studying Japanese for six years and started it when she was in high school by herself because the school didn\u2019t have Japanese classes.\nShe said, \u201cI wanted to learn Japanese because my sister-in-law is Japanese. So from there, I wanted to learn it because it is really interesting and the culture, too. I wanted her to feel little more welcomed and enjoy family since none of us speaks Japanese.\u201d\nMickelson is a member of Anime Milwaukee and has helped run a campaign to promote a social site, \u201ccaf\u00e9 dot\u201d. She said, \u201cWe actually turned it into a business and it became very popular.\u201d\nShe has double majored in Japanese and Fiber Art and said, \u201cI would like to definitely live in Japan and either work or become something like fashion staff. I would like to be involved with Japanese fashion, Japanese art, and culture.\u201d\nKristen Schugart has studied Japanese for four years in college, but began writing Japanese by herself when she was in the sixth grade because she had a Japanese aunt and knew little about Japanese culture. Her grandfather also taught her how to count numbers in Japanese. As she grew up she encountered manga and games and wanted to learn more Japanese language and culture.\nSix years ago, she stayed in Wakayama for two weeks, but she didn\u2019t know much Japanese at that time, so she tried to speak what she knew. 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Intimidation of political opponents has been a staple of American government and politics from its inception.\nThe anti-Catholic bigot and notorious blasphemer named John Adams attempted to silence opposition voices by having Congress enact the Alien and Sedition Acts, which were passed on July 14, 1798, and made it a crime to publish \"false, scandalous, and malicious\" writing against the government of the United States of America and its officials.\nThe sixteenth President of the United States of America, Abraham Lincoln, did not exactly \"cotton\" to political opposition during the War Between the States from 1861 to 1865, as he intimidated judges, shut down newspapers, suspended the writ of habeas corpus without an Act of Congress, held opponents in prison without trial and put civilians on trial in military courts at a time when civilian courts were open. And this is just a partial listing of what led John Wilkes Booth to cry out, \"Sic temper tyrannis!\" as he jumped onto the stage of the Ford Theater in Washington, District of Columbia, on Good Friday, April 14, 1865, from the balcony where he had just shot Lincoln in the head, a wound that would take Lincoln's life early the next morning, Holy Saturday, April 15, 1865.\nSuppression of opposition to American involvement in World War I under the administration of President Thomas Woodrow Wilson was so extensive that Senator Hiram Johnson of California, who had run as former President Theodore Roosevelt's Vice Presidential running-mate on the Progressive (Bull Moose) Party ticket in 1912 when Wilson was running for his first term as President against Roosevelt and then President William Howard Taft, who had defeated Roosevelt, to say on the floor of the United States Senate: \"It is now a crime for anyone to say anything or print anything against the government of the United States. The punishment for doing so is to go to jail\" (quoted in Dr Paul Johnson's Modern Times). (See also my Fascists for Freedom.)\nJust as an aside, President Thomas Woodrow Wilson wanted to use the unconstitutional Federal Reserve System, created in an act passed by the Congress of the United States of America and signed into law by Wilson on December 23, 1913, as the means to centralize the banking and monetary systems under the authority of the government of the United States of America in order to restrict the legitimate freedom of Americans to control their own private property and to make private industry dependent upon the \"direction\" provided it by governmental regulators and overseers. It was for this reason as well that Wilson saw to it that Congress enacted legislation, following the ratification of the Sixteenth Amendment in 1913, to create our current system of confiscatory taxation on our incomes. And it was Wilson, of course, who believed that the Masonic revolutionaries in Mexico, aping the \"example\" established by the French Revolutionaries, could \"build\" or \"engineer\" the \"better\" society in Our Lady's country by the killing of thousands upon thousands of Catholics:\nIn other words, Thomas Woodrow Wilson really believed that it was \"necessary\" for the Freemsaonic/Communist Mexican government that enjoyed his favor to kill Catholics, whose \"backward\" beliefs were impediments to the institutionalization of \"liberal values\" that required him to suppress all opposition to his policies right here in the United States of America.\nIt was a scant twelve years after the stroke-disabled Wilson left office on March 4, 1921, that the thirty-third Freemason named Franklin Delano Roosevelt used the Internal Revenue Service to audit his \"enemies.\" He contravened the law in numerous ways as he used the legislative powers illicitly given to regulatory agencies by Congress during the Great Depression and during World War II to set the stage for Barack Hussein Obama's rule by decree and presidential fiat. Roosevelt, the fifth cousin of the Republican statist and fellow thirty-third degree Freemason, Theodore Roosevelt, the uncle of Eleanor Roosevelt, even ordered his Attorney General, Robert Jackson, to engage in domestic espionage. Roosevelt\u2019s directive took the form of a memorandum dated May 21, 1940.\nRobert Jackson, who was appointed to the Supreme Court of the United States of America on July 11, 1941, did not like the directive as he believed that Franklin Roosevelt had authorized domestic surveillance on anyone suspected of being subversive. Jackson\u2019s successor, however, Francis Biddle, who took office as the Attorney General of the United States of America on August 25, 1941, had no qualms about the directive, delegating the task of carrying it out to the Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, John Edgar Hoover, who was more than happy to run with this new expansion of his authority to investigate anyone at any time for any reason. The history of the Federal government\u2019s surveillance since that time is one of completely unchecked growth.\nDo not think for a single moment that abuses of deep state bureaucrats being exposed at this time is anything new. Illegal surveillance by the Federal government has been on the rise since World War II and the establishment of permanent intelligence agencies. Modern technology has advanced to such a point that these agencies, acting both legally and illegally, monitor every means of human communication today save for those done with an old-fashioned typewriter that has not connection of any kind to the internet or to a telephone line.\nThe Federal Bureau of Investigation itself, as noted just above, has long seen itself as a \u201ccheck\u201d upon elected officials, and John Edgar Hoover, who served as Director of the Bureau of Investigation from May 10, 1924, to March 22, 1935, and then as the founding Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation from March 23, 1935, until the time of his death on May 2, 1972, believed in the suppression of political dissent dating back to his days as the head of President Thomas Woodrow Wilson\u2019s \u201cWar Emergency Division\u2019s\u201d \u201cAlien Enemy Bureau\u201d one hundred years ago. Please, what is going on now, although certainly shocking to those not conversant with the darker sides of American history, is really nothing new at all.\nAlthough Presidents Harry S. Truman and John Fitzgerald Kennedy each considered firing Hoover, the latter had amassed too much information on too many people. This information, most of it gathered quite illegally and/or by the improper use of Federal Bureau of Investigation field agents, was Hoover\u2019s own kind of \u201cinsurance policy.\u201d\nPresident Lyndon Baines Johnson, on the other hand, knowing what kind of \u201cinsurance policy\u201d that Hoover had on him, whetted Hoover\u2019s appetite for domestic surveillance under the thinnest of legal pretexts, including wiretapping his own vice president, the garrulous spendthrift with taxpayer dollars named Hubert Horatio Humphrey:\nResigned to Humphrey's candidacy [in 1968], Johnson pressed his Vice President throughout the campaign not to stray too far from the Administration's position on Vietnam.\nHumphrey largely complied. But at the end of September, when he showed greater flexibility than the White House on how to end the war, Johnson reacted angrily. He told Clark Clifford that he doubted Humphrey's ability to be President. He lacked the guts for the job. After Humphrey had become Vice President and expressed doubts about the war, the White House, according to a Humphrey aide, Ted Van Dyk, had arranged for wiretaps on Humphrey's office phones. Van Dyk learned this from two Secret Service agents on the vice-presidential detail. Neither Van Dyk nor Humphrey was surprised. Though Johnson in principle disliked taping and wiretaps, he secretly taped more than 7,500 of his own telephone conversations as President. Moreover, during the 1964 campaign, after a visit to the White House, Richard Russell wrote, \"Hoover has apparently been turned loose and is tapping everything.... [Johnson] stated it took him hours each night to read them all (but he loves this).\" The speed with which Johnson had information about Humphrey's presidential campaign suggested to Van Dyk that the White House was still tapping Humphrey's phones in 1968. Johnson apparently wanted the taps to gain advance notice and a chance to dissuade him should Humphrey decide to break away on the war. (Three New Revelations about Lyndon Baines Johnson.)\nIt should be noted, however, that the liberal Robert Dallek, who authored the synopsis of his own book about Lyndon Baines Johnson, did not include the following fact about Johnson\u2019s wiretapping in 1968 that is covered in another book:\nIn 1968, President Lyndon Johnson ordered Hoover to tap the phone of Republican vice- presidential nominee Spiro Agnew on the suspicion that Agnew was telling the South Vietnamese that they would get a better peace agreement from Nixon if he were elected president. The taps did not reveal that Agnew ever made such a deal. (Henry M. Holden, FBI 100 Years: An Unofficial History, Zenith Press, an imprint of MBI Publishing, Minneapolis, Minnesota, 2008, p. 218.)\nNow, readers of this site know that I carry no brief for President Donald John Trump as he is a tool of one faction of the synagogue (see Jerusalem Belongs to Christ the King and His True Church, part three for a reminder of this simple fact).\nHowever, Trump is only slight more of an egregious personality, especially by dint of his unrestrained use of profanity in public (for Catholic teaching on the use profanity, see Exposing the Farce Once and For All), which has resulted in a frenzy of profane words being spoken publicly and printed on many \u201crespectable\u201d websites and even in newspapers, than others who have served as President of the United States of America. As one who taught courses on the presidency throughout my thirty years as a college teacher of political science, I can tell you that the description of Lyndon Baines Johnson\u2019s coarseness and vulgarity provided in the full text of the link provided above is mild in comparison to what the man was like in all unvarnished reality.\nAlas, not even Donald John Trump, who is the victim of a false Federal Intelligence Surveillance Application, understands the Fourth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States of America as he supported the renewal of this unconstitutional violation of the citizens\u2019 freedom from unreasonable searches (see Trump Signs Bil Renewing Mass Cyber Surveillance Program).\nThe Fourth Amendment?\nOur minders in the Federal government of the United States of America have, in effect told us, \u201cWe don\u2019t need no stinkin\u2019 Fourth Amendment.\nMoreover, it has been case for most of this country\u2019s history that our minders in the Federal government of the United States of America have violated the laws of God and of men to suit their sorry purposes whenever they deemed it \u201cnecessary\u201d to do so.\nCongress after Congress abdicated its legislative authority to the Executive Branch of the Federal Government of the United States of America from the time of Franklin Delano Roosevelt\u2019s \u201cNew Deal\u201d forward, although, as noted earlier, a lot of the spade work had been done during the administrations of Theodore Roosevelt and Thomas Woodrow Wilson. Nearly seventy independent or quasi-independent regulatory agencies within the Federal government exist to this very day, each composed of commissioners who are beyond the control of a president to remove and who chafe at the thought of true legislative oversight of their unconstitutional \u201crule-making\u201d authority (deemed to be \u201cconstitutional\u201d by the Supreme Court of the United States of America in the case of National Labor Relations Board v. Jones & Laughlin Steel Company, April 12, 1937).\nReaders will note I claimed that independent regulatory commissions (and the quasi-independent commissions) are unconstitutional. I have taught this in my government classes over the decades. I will make this claim whenever I write about this subject (or have taught about it in my bygone days as a college professor of political science and constitutional law) no matter the fact that the Supreme Court of the United States of America has ruled that such agencies, which are staffed by commissioners who are appointed by a president for a term, usually seven years, that is longer than one presidential administration but shorter than two, and confirmed by the United States Senate are constitutional (see, for example, Humphrey's Executor v. United States of America, May 27, 1935).\nMy reasoning is simple: these agencies exercise each of the powers that are particular to the three branches of government as the commissioners who serve on them make rules that have the binding force of law (which rules are supposed to be founded in Congressional legislation) and also enforce the very rules that they create while serving finally as the court of first instance for litigants to appeal decisions made about the enforcement of these rules. Although readers of this site, few in number though you may be, know that I am a critic of the founders of this nation, they are the individuals who crafted the Constitution in order to prevent what they believed could be a tyranny of the majority. Writing in The Federalist, Number 47, James Madison explained:\nNo political truth is certainly of greater intrinsic value, or is stamped with the authority of more enlightened patrons of liberty, than that on which the objection is founded. The accumulation of all powers, legislative, executive, and judiciary, in the same hands, whether of one, a few, or many, and whether hereditary, selfappointed, or elective, may justly be pronounced the very definition of tyranny. Were the federal Constitution, therefore, really chargeable with the accumulation of power, or with a mixture of powers, having a dangerous tendency to such an accumulation, no further arguments would be necessary to inspire a universal reprobation of the system. I persuade myself, however, that it will be made apparent to every one, that the charge cannot be supported, and that the maxim on which it relies has been totally misconceived and misapplied. In order to form correct ideas on this important subject, it will be proper to investigate the sense in which the preservation of liberty requires that the three great departments of power should be separate and distinct. (Federalist No. 47.)\nBehold a system, however, that has indeed degenerated to a point where non-elected officials have the accumulated powers of the three branches of government--legislative, executive, and judicial. This has occurred because James Madison, a virulent anti-Catholic who is considered to be the \"father\" of the Constitution, believed that there were sufficient safeguards contained within the Constitution to provide a check upon the consistent misuse of power by those serving in the three branches of government.\nThis is not even to mention William Jefferson Blythe Clinton's aggressive promotion of the chemical and surgical execution of the innocent preborn and the role played by Attorney General Janet Reno, a Catholic, mind you, in organizing the Violence Against Abortion Providers Conspiracy (VAAPCON) Task Force under the authority of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) to intimidate pro-life Americans, including a woman in Toledo, Ohio, who was visited by FBI agents after she had written to a baby-killer to tell her that she was praying for her conversion, an act that was deemed by the agents to have constituted a \"violent threat\" against the baby-killer (see FBI's VAAPCON Spies on Pro-Lifers for more information about the Clinton-Reno war against pro-lifers).\nIt was also during the administration of William Jefferson Blythe Clinton that the Chairman of the Federal Election Commission, a woman by the name of Lois Lerner, sought to intimidate former Illinois State Representative Al Salvi by seeking to bring charges against him that were found by a Federal judge to be without merit whatsoever.\nHere is a report that was published in 2013:\nCHICAGO - The IRS scandal may have its roots in Illinois politics. Specifically, the 1996 U.S. Senate race between Democrat Congressman Dick Durbin and conservative Republican State Rep. Al Salvi.\nMore than a decade before his 2010 letter to IRS officials urging the agency to target conservative organizations, U.S. Senator Dick Durbin's political career crossed paths with Ms. Lerner when she was head of the Enforcement Division of the Federal Election Commission (FEC), and directly involved in the 1996 Illinois U.S. Senate race.\nSoon after the IRS story broke, Al Salvi told Illinois Review that it was IRS official Lois Lerner who represented the FEC in the 1996 Democrat complaint against him. According to Salvi, Lerner was, without question, politically motivated, and went so far as to make him an offer: \"Promise me you will never run for office again, and we'll drop this case.\"\nSalvi declined her offer. In fact he ran for Illinois Secretary of State in 1998.\nBut when he saw Lerner plead the Fifth Amendment before Congress last week, he recognized her. \"That's the woman,\" Salvi said. \"And I didn't plead the Fifth like she did.\"\nIn 2000, a federal judge dismissed the FEC case against him, clearing Salvi's name and reputation.\nNow with the revelations about Lerner, the IRS, and the intriguing connection to Durbin, Salvi shared with Illinois Review his experience with Lois Lerner.\nThe 1996 FEC Complaint against Salvi\nDuring the last several weeks of the 1996 Illinois U.S. Senate campaign, two FEC complaints were filed against Salvi - one by Illinois Democrats about the way he reported a loan he made to himself, and another by the Democratic Senatorial Committee about a reported business donation.\nSalvi made a personal loan to his campaign for $1.1 million to fund the last campaign ads in the expensive Chicago television ad market. News of that loan and the filed FEC complaint dominated Chicago media headlines towards the end of the campaign, suffocating the life out of Salvi's threatening momentum.\n\"We couldn't get our message out because day after day, the media carried story after story about the FEC complaint,\" Salvi told Illinois Review in an exclusive interview.\nAfter Salvi lost to Durbin, he was left to face the FEC complaints. The Commission alleged that the Salvi committee:\n\u00b7 Reported bank loans to Mr. Salvi as personal loans from the candidate, never identifying the source of the funds;\n\u00b7 Failed to report debts to the candidate;\n\u00b7 Failed to file 48-hour notices for personal advances from the candidate; and\n\u00b7 Failed to disclose campaign-related payments by the candidate to vendors and a bank.\nA federal district court dismissed the case against Salvi in 1999, and the FEC appealed it to the 7th U.S. District Court of Appeals.\nThe FBI was called in at one point to gather evidence on the case. According to Salvi, two FBI agents unexpectedly visited the Salvis' home, and interrogated his elderly mother about her $2,000 check to her son's campaign and where she got \"that kind of money.\"\nSalvi says he saw the visits as nothing but intimidation, making it clear the FEC intended to use his case as a example to others.\nAt the same time, Salvi said, other conservative groups such as the Christian Coalition were besieged by the FEC demands. One time, representatives from several investigated conservative groups even convened on a conference call to compare notes on how the Clinton Administration was scouring their organizations' financial and activity records.\nIn fact, Salvi's case (and name) was highlighted as an example several times in the FEC's monthly publication until the case was finally dismissed in 2000.\nIt was while dealing with the FEC complaint that Salvi says he first met Lois Lerner, then the head of the FEC Enforcement Division.\nDuring one conversation with Lerner, she offered a deal Salvi says he'll never forget, and neither will his brother and attorney, Mike Salvi.\n\"She said, 'If you promise to never run for office again, we'll drop this case,'\" Salvi recalled.\nAt the time, Salvi said, he figured it was probably just Dick Durbin's way of getting him out of politics.\nSalvi said he refused Lerner's offer because he knew he had done nothing wrong and wanted to leave the door open for future campaigns. In 1998, Salvi ran for Illinois Secretary of State while the 1996 FEC case against him continued.\nNearly four years and a hundred thousand dollars in legal fees later, federal judge George Lindbergh dismissed the FEC case against him, leaving the FEC attorney Lois Lerner -- who was present and actively arguing before the judge -- shocked.\n\"The judge said to Lerner, 'Let me get this straight - Mr. Salvi loaning himself money is legal, and you have no complaint against that, is that right?'\" Salvi said. \"Ms. Lerner agreed. Then the judge said, 'You just don't like the way his attorneys filled out the report?' Lerner agreed.\"\nCase dismissed, the judge said shaking his head and pounding his gavel, as Lerner objected.\n\"We never lose!\" Lerner said to Salvi afterwards.\nDespite all the Democrats' efforts, Salvi never paid the FEC a dollar in fines or penalties.\nCongressional Hearings On IRS Scandal\nSalvi, now 53, said when he saw Lerner on television last week, those FEC hearings all came back to his memory -- 13 years later. \"I didn't plead the Fifth,\" Salvi said.\nAnd the taxpayers had no choice but to pay for Lerner's legal trail that lasted for over four years.\nDurbin Asks IRS For Help in 2010\nAfter the U.S. Supreme Court decided the Citizens United case, many incumbent politicians became concerned about the activities of organizations like Crossroads GPS, which had announced it would be running issue ads against Illinois' Democrat candidate for U.S. Senate Alexi Giannoulias, who was campaigning to succeed Barack Obama in the U.S. Senate.\nIn October 2010, Durbin wrote IRS Commissioner Shulman about the tax exemption status of Crossroads - a job that would find its way to IRS official Lois Lerner.\nI write to urge the Internal Revenue Service to examine the purpose and primary activities of several 501(c)(4) organizations that appear to be in violation of the law.\nOne organization whose activities appear to be inconsistent with its tax status is Crossroads GPS, organized as a (c)(4) entity in June. The group has spent nearly $20 million on television advertising specific to Senate campaigns this year. If this political activity is indeed the primary activity of the organization, it raises serious questions about the organization's compliance with the Internal Revenue Code.\nOther 2010 letters to the IRS with similar requests from elected officials may be included in four Congressional investigations now scheduled to take place in the next few weeks.\nSalvi says it will be interesting to see how Lois Lerner, Dick Durbin, the FEC, IRS, and Illinois politics intersect as these investigations continue. (Lerner intrigue goes back to '96 Durbin/ Salvi.)\nUnfortunately for Mr. Salvi, however, he did knuckle under to the then Chairman of the Republican National Senatorial Campaign Committee after he had told him to quit talking about abortion or lose the committee's financial support. Oh, yes, you want the name of that individual? I will happily give it to you as it is none other than the now-former United States Senator Alfonse M. D'Amato (R-New York), against whom I ran, unsuccessfully, of course, for the senatorial nomination of the Right to Life Party of the State of New York in 1998. (See Blood Money Talks Loud And Clear, part two, for details.)\nMind you, this is not to ignore President Richard Milhous Nixon's efforts to investigate and intimidate, if not sabotage, political opponents. In his case, however, even some Republicans at the time recognized wrongdoing for what it was and refused to suborn it. Wrongdoing by Democratic presidential administrations has always been enabled by the mainslime media, not checked.\nAdditionally, it should be noted that former President George Walker Bush authorized more invasions of the privacy of ordinary American citizens than any of his predecessors combined. The use of the coercive power of the state has increased dramatically since the events of September 11, 2001, without any real increase in the security of this country (indeed, our border with Mexico is a sieve through which is passing countless numbers of Mohammedans intent on doing us no good at all).\nThere will come a time in the near future when some presidential administration is going to use the sophisticated means of data collection on ordinary citizens established under George W. Bush to question them closely about their beliefs. The Roman Emperors, who had their own system of informants, many of them Jews of the Diaspora, to persecute Catholics, to be sure, could not have dreamed of a system as comprehensive and draconian as has been developed in a supposedly \"free\" country by a supposedly \"conservative\" chief executive. Make no mistake about it, George Walker Bush paved the way for the election and the policies of his successor, Barack Hussein Obama/Barry Soetoro.\nBarack Hussein Obama/Barry Soetoro and his chief \"intellectual\" advisor, the well-connected Chicagoland ideologue named Valerie Jarrett, seethed with complete and utter contempt for those who criticized him, something that was apparent as early as 2008 when he made the following remarks a private fundraising event in Sodom on the Bay, California:\nBut the truth is, is that, our challenge is to get people persuaded that we can make progress when there's not evidence of that in their daily lives. You go into some of these small towns in Pennsylvania, and like a lot of small towns in the Midwest, the jobs have been gone now for 25 years and nothing's replaced them. And they fell through the Clinton administration, and the Bush administration, and each successive administration has said that somehow these communities are gonna regenerate and they have not. And it's not surprising then they get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren't like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations. (Barack Hussein Obama, Obama: No Surprise That Hard-Pressed Pennsylvanians Cling to Guns and Religion; see also Obama's Communist Mentor.)\nObama/Soetoro governed in a manner completely befitting the beliefs he expressed privately in San Francisco, California, ten years ago, and public opinion surveys during his eight treacherous years in office indicated that he enjoyed public opinion a robust fifty-nine percent approval in the Gallup survey at the time he left office on January 20, 2017, although he continues his \u201cshadow government\u201d designed to bring down his successor.\nWorthy of Stalin Himself\nObama/Soetoro\u2019s plan to oust his successor included keeping President-elect and then President Donald John Trump from knowing the fact that he, Trump, was under active investigation for alleged \u201ccollusion\u201d with Russia. Part of this plan was to have the deep state operative who served as the Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (F.B.I.) from September 4, 2013, to May 9, 2017, James Brien Comey, to provide the president-elect with the false assurance that he was not under investigation when the opposite was true:\nJanuary 5 [2016] was the day President Obama was presented with the ballyhooed report he had ordered to be rushed to completion by multiple intelligence agencies before his administration ended, \u201cAssessing Russian Activities and Intentions in Recent US Elections.\u201d The briefing that day was conducted by four intelligence-community leaders: James Comey, Michael Rogers, John Brennan, and James Clapper, directors respectively of the FBI, NSA, CIA and the Office of the National Intelligence Director.\nJust as significant: January 5 was the day before these same intelligence-community leaders would brief President-elect Trump on the same report.\nAlso on hand at the January 5 White House briefing were Vice President Joe Biden and acting Attorney General Sally Yates. According to Rice, immediately after the briefing, President Obama had his two top law-enforcement officials, Yates and Comey, linger for \u201ca brief follow-on conversation\u201d with the administration\u2019s political leadership: Obama, Biden, and Rice.\nLet\u2019s think about what was going on at that moment. It had been just a few days since Obama imposed sanctions on Russia. In that connection, the Kremlin\u2019s ambassador to the United States, Sergey Kislyak, had contacted Trump\u2019s designated national-security adviser, Michael Flynn. Obama-administration leadership despised Flynn, who (a) had been fired by Obama from his post as Defense Intelligence Agency chief; (b) had become a key Trump supporter and an intense critic of Obama foreign and national-security policy; and (c) was regarded by Yates and Comey as a possible criminal suspect \u2014 on the wayward theories that Flynn\u2019s contacts with Kislyak could smack of a corrupt quid pro quo deal to drop the sanctions and might violate the never invoked, constitutionally dubious Logan Act.\nWhat else was happening? The Justice Department and FBI had gone to the FISA court on October 21, 2016, for a warrant to spy on former Trump campaign adviser Carter Page. That warrant relied largely on the Steele dossier, which alleged a criminal conspiracy between the Trump campaign and the Kremlin involving (a) a cyberespionage operation against the 2016 election, (b) corrupt negotiations regarding the sanctions, and (c) the Kremlin\u2019s possession of \u201ckompromat\u201d that would enable the Putin regime to blackmail President-elect Trump.\nSignificantly, by the time of this January 6meeting with Trump, the 90-day surveillance period under the FISA warrant would have had just a bit over two weeks left to run \u2014 it was set to expire just as Trump was to take office. (Reporting suggests that there may also have been a FISA warrant on Paul Manafort around this time.) The Obama administration was therefore confronting a deadline if the FISA warrant was to be renewed while Obama was still in power. The officials in the meeting would need to figure out how the investigation could continue despite the fact that its central focus, Trump, was about to be sworn in as president.\nObama had incredibly claimed that he never intervened in cases under investigation by he Justice Department and FBI. He was emphatic in an April 2016 interview with Fox\u2019s Chris Wallace: \u201cI do not talk to the attorney general about pending investigations. I do not talk to FBI directors about pending investigations. We have a strict line and always have maintained it.\u201d Ever the cheeky Obama, he made this claim while in the same breath arguing against indicting Hillary Clinton.\nObviously, if Obama was having a \u201cfollow-on conversation\u201d with Yates and Comey, what it was following on was the briefing he\u2019d just received about an investigation implicating the Trump campaign in Russian espionage. (As Comey\u2019s March 20 House testimony would later elucidate, Russia\u2019s interference in the election was always seen by law-enforcement officials as inseparable from suspected Trump campaign collusion in that interference.) There would be no reason to have such a follow-on conversation unless Obama wanted an update on what his law-enforcement officials were doing.\nConsequently, Rice\u2019s \u201cby the book\u201d bunkum is transparent: Obama officials claimed to adhere to a book that forbade consultations between political leaders and investigators. But here they were consulting. So Rice tried to cover the tracks in her email: She revises history such that the consultation morphs into a mere friendly reminder that Obama wanted everything done by the book. He was certainly \u201cnot asking about, initiating or instructing anything from a law enforcement perspective,\u201d no siree. . . .\nThat is what Rice\u2019s email is really about: not sharing with the incoming Trump administration classified information about the Trump-Russia investigation, such as the basis for seeking a FISA warrant on Carter Page.\nThe dilemma was that the Obama administration had placed \u201cthe incoming team\u201d \u2014 in particular, President-elect Trump \u2014 under investigation. Remember, Obama\u2019s law-enforcement agencies believed the Steele dossier. No, the FBI had not been able to corroborate it; but, as former FBI director Comey told Congress, the bureau deemed its author, Christopher Steele, to be a reliable source. Steele, moreover, had collaborated on the project with Nellie Ohr, the wife of Bruce Ohr, Yates\u2019s top aide at the Justice Department. Even if the Justice Department and the FBI could not prove Steele\u2019s allegations, at least not yet, they still believed that Trump was compromised and that the Russians could be blackmailing him. If they had not believed those allegations were credible, they would not have put them in a warrant application to the FISA Court.\nSo we arrive at the knotty question for Obama political and law-enforcement officials: How do we \u201cengage with the incoming team\u201d of Trump officials while also determining that \u201cwe cannot share information fully as it relates to Russia\u201d? How do we assure that an investigation of Trump can continue when Trump is about to take over the government? (The Purpose of Susan Rice's \"By the Book\" Email to Herself. Also see Sharyl Attkisson's Did Obama Withhold Intel From Trump .)\nBehold the new Commissars who take it upon themselves to concoct and then execute schemes worthy of a police state.\nThen again, what does contempt for one's opponents, misuse of the Internal Revenue Service, the busting of the Federal budget that has doubled the national debt to over twenty trillion dollars, the violation of numerous provisions of the Constitution of the United States of America and of Federal laws mean to most Americans?\nObama/Soetoro got re-elected on November 6, 2012, even though he had demonstrated himself as contemptuous of the laws of God and men as he is of those who dare to oppose his \"received wisdom.\" The man has told lie after lie (\"If you like your health care plan, you can keep your health care plan. If you like your doctor, you can keep your doctor,\" etc.) without putting too much of a dent in his undeserved popularity even now as it has become eminently clear that he used the intelligence and law enforcement agencies of the government of the United States of America to thwart the election of Donald John Trump and then, to borrow a phrase, executed an \u201cinsurance policy\u201d that would cast a pall over the \u201clegality\u201d of Trump\u2019s election and his ability to govern after inauguration. In plain English, therefore, Barack Hussein Obama/Barry Sotoero and his cast of supporting fiends, are at the heart of a conspiracy that originated with Hillary Diane Rodham Clinton and her own cast of fiends to overthrow the duly-elected government of the United States of America.\nIndeed, The United States Department of Justice, which has supervision, at least in theory, of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, under Attorney Generals Eric Holder and Loretta Lynch became somewhat analogous to the \"Ministry of Justice\" in the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics from its earliest days of operation.\nNikolai Krylenko, who would rise eventually to the post of \"Commissar of Justice\" under Joseph Stalin in 1929 and served in this position until 1931, was the chief prosecutor of Moscow in 1923 during the show trial of Archbishop Jan Cieplak, of the countless numbers of Catholic martyrs of the Soviet Union that was so admired by Barack Hussein Obama/Barry Soetoro's Marxist mentor, Frank Marshall Davis. It was during this unjust prosecution of Archbishop Cieplak that Krylenko made a bold pronouncement, which is contained in the following paragraph about the persecution of Christians by the Soviets:\nKrylenko, who began to speak at 6:10 PM, was moderate enough at first, but quickly launched into an attack on religion in general and the Catholic Church in particular. \"The Catholic Church\", he declared, \"has always exploited the working classes.\" When he demanded the Archbishop's death, he said, \"All the Jesuitical duplicity with which you have defended yourself will not save you from the death penalty. No Pope in the Vatican can save you now.\" As the long oration proceeded, the Red Procurator worked himself into a fury of anti-religious hatred. \"Your religion\", he yelled, \"I spit on it, as I do on all religions, -- on Orthodox, Jewish, Mohammedan, and the rest.\" \"There is no law here but Soviet Law,\" he yelled at another stage, \"and by that law you must die.\" (Francis McCullagh, The Bolshevik Persecution of Christianity, E. P. Dutton Company, New York, New York, 1924, p. 221.)\nIt is also by Soviet \"law\" that Nikolai Krylenko died as he was executed after a twenty-minute show trial on July 29, 1938. And it is by such \"law\" that the \u201cleft\u201d always governs while the \u201cright\u201d makes concessions to this \u201claw\u201d when it suits their own purposes for \u201cnational security.\u201d Adherents of the false opposite of the naturalist \u201cleft\u201d believe that they can define \u201claw,\u201d \u201clegality\u201d and \u201cmorality\u201d however they desire to suit their purposes at any given moment. This is but a variation of the concept of \u201claw\u201d and the \u201clegal process\u201d in the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics.\nBarack Hussein Obama/Barry Soetoro used his concept of \u201claw\u201d to engage in \u201ctransformative\u201d policy-making, and he did so with an iron will as he issued unconstitutional and/or illegal executive orders and presidential directives, chose not to enforce the nation\u2019s just immigration laws, presiding over the doubling of the national debt (see National Debt Grows By Nine Billion Dollars Under Obama), conspired with Congressional Democrats to pass the so-called Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act by means of the \u201creconciliation\u201d process, thereby circumventing both the filibuster rules of the United States Senate and, more importantly, the constitutional requirement (found in Section 8 of Article I) that all bills raising revenue originate in the United States House of Representatives, used the Internal Revenue Service as a means to bludgeon political opponents with tax audits and to harass \u201cconservative\u201d groups applying for tax-exempt status, presided over an administration that misused the Federal government\u2019s regulatory powers, and covered-up such major scandals as the Fast and Furious gun-running scheme, Benghazi, and the Hillary Diane Rodham Clinton\u2019s e-mail server. Mind you, this is only a partial listing of the Caesar Obamus\u2019s successes. A very comprehensive listing of what any reasonable human being would call scandalous violations of the Constitution\u2014but are viewed as \u201csuccesses\u201d by Obama/Soetoro and his apologists\u2014can be found at A Complete Guide to Obama's Scandals, Gaffes, and Power Grabs.\nIn other words, Barack Hussein Obama/Barry Soetoro was very successful as the most lawless man ever to have served as the nation\u2019s Chief Executive and Commander-in-Chief.\nBarack Hussein Obama/Barry Soetoro was as successful as he was because he was enabled at every turn by his co-conspirators, those who work in the mainslime media, and by his hapless opponents in the organized crime family of the false opposite of the naturalist \u201cright,\u201d who refused to take any real measures to defend the country against this lawless, power-grabbing president for fear of being called \u201cracist.\u201d While noting that Obama/Soetoro and his first Attorney General, Eric Himpton Holder, ceaselessly used the \u201crace card\u201d to take refuge for their crimes against God and man, the political and moral cowardice of Congressional Republicans made it more possible for the former president to legislate as he pleased from the Oval Office in the West Wing of the White House without regard to any true Congressional oversight.\nAs is very well-known\u2014and as I wrote about endlessly in The Wanderer week after week in the 1990s, Madame Defarge (aka Hillary Diane Rodham Clinton) and the entire Clinton family crime syndicate are notorious for the contempt they themselves have for the laws of God and of men. These career criminals and pathological liars do not believe themselves bound to any kind of law, whether supernatural or natural, but they have always believed that they can use the law as they please to teach lessons of one kind or another to lesser mortals who dare to criticize them and/or challenge their false assertions and beliefs.\nThe Clintons always try to neutralize their critics and accusers by making numerous threats against them before turning these threats into reality by publicly humiliating them, something that William Jefferson Blythe Clinton, Jr., did with particular aplomb in the wake of the efforts of Republicans In the United States House of Representatives to impeach him in 1998 and 1999. The late United States Representative Henry Hyde (R-Illinois), then-House Speaker Newton Leroy Gingrich (R-Georgia), then-Representative Robert Barr (R-Georgia), then-Representative and Speaker-elect Robert Livingston (R-Louisiana), and United States Senator Dan Burton (R-Indiana) had their dirty laundry aired rather thoroughly by Clinton, thanks to the efforts of the private investigator, Jack Palladino, that he hired to discredit his political adversaries. They unleashed private Jack Palladino twenty years ago this year to find and then disseminate dirt on the Congressional Republicans who were investigating Clinton.\nIt is more than clear now that former Federal Bureau of Investigation Director James Richard Comey, his former deputy director, Andrew McCabe, special agents Peter Strozk and his paramour, Lisa Page, as well as former United States Department of Justice Deputy Associate Attorney General Bruce Ohr, among others, engaged in a massive conspiracy (1) to protect former First Lady/former United States Senator/former Secretary of State Hillary Diane Rodham Clinton from a true investigation of her criminal actions related to her using unsecured personal communications devices to transmit classified information to her home-brewed internet server as a means to evade transparency by means of Freedom of Information requests; and (2) to thwart the election of Donald John Trump and, failing that, to derail his presidency by making it appear as though his election was the result collusion between the Trump campaign and agents acting in behalf of the Russian government (see, for example, Peeling Back the Layers of Hillary Clinton's Deceit for a summary of some of ways in which scheme was executed).\nWhat is being called the \u201cNunes memo,\u201d which was issued by the Intelligence Committee of the United States House of Representatives on Friday, February 2, 2018, the Feast of the Presentation of the Blessed Virgin Mary, was made necessary because officials in the United States Department of Justice, which is ostensibly under the control of a weakling named Jefferson Beauregard Sessions, who is the Attorney General of the United States of America, stonewalled the committee\u2019s repeated requests for various documents related to application made to super-secret and, I contend, unconstitutional Federal Intelligence Security Court (a view that is held by many others, including Andrew Napolitano, Why We Should Care About FISA Court's Partisan Political Games), to spy on the Trump campaign. \u201cMagnanimously,\u201d therefore, officials of the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Department of Justice, permitted two members of the House Intelligence Committee to review the documents in a special room accompanied by two members of the committee\u2019s staff to take notes.\nObviously, the facts outlined in the Nunes Memo mean that the whole pretext of the appointment of special counsel Robert Mueller was false, something note in a recent opinion column in The Washington Post:\nHow does anything in the memo impact the validity of the special counsel\u2019s investigation? Well, it matters that the pre-Mueller Justice Department investigation was prompted by anti-Trump, pro-Hillary partisans who used U.S. law enforcement in an effort to derail the Trump campaign. So, determining what Mueller knew and when he knew it is an essential and relevant question. When did Mueller realize he was at the helm of an investigation tainted by illegitimate roots? If he doesn\u2019t think it matters, he needs to explain why.\nPart of what makes the memo from House Intelligence Committee Chairman Devin Nunes (R-Calif.) significant is that it confirms the presence of an anti-Trump, pro-Clinton celloperating at the highest ranks of the FBI. Based on the past year of reporting, we know that the partisan cabal included the likes of Obama-era Attorney General Lorretta Lynch, former FBI deputy director Andrew McCabe, former FBI counterespionage section chief Peter Strzok, former associate deputy attorney general Bruce Ohr and perhaps others. Democrats and their allies in the media won\u2019t admit it, but the memo reveals that the U.S. presidential election appears to have almost been hijacked \u2014 not by the Russians or the Trump campaign colluding with the Russians, but by Clinton campaign agents colluding with anti-Trump allies within the FBI. Their efforts were partially fueled by Clinton campaign opposition research. They used a slew of lies and distortions they deployed in an attempt to pursue the Trump campaign.\nWith that said, it is worth remembering that the Democrats\u2019 dossier wasn\u2019t determinative in launching the entire Russia probe. But the revelation of its use does expose anti-Trump individuals in the FBI and confirm their anti-Trump biases. They took a phony document and used it to advance their own political objectives. It is fair to ask: What else did they do?\nI always thought it was kind of weird to begin with that then-FBI Director James B. Comey briefed President-elect Trump about the dossier. And now, I wonder whether he might have done it as part of an effort to cover the anti-Trump faction\u2019s tracks or to at least gently reveal that the dossier was being used by the government. I guess no one told President Trump the dossier had already been used against his interests in an official government proceeding.\nAnyway, it is going to take some time to process the impact of the Nunes memo. But it can\u2019t just be dismissed with a shrug. Was Mueller ever going to report that the FBI colluded with anti-Trump forces to undermine the Trump campaign by relying on information supplied via anti-Trump foreign nationals paid by the Clinton campaign? The Nunes memo challenges the entire premise of the special counsel\u2019s investigation \u2014 especially if there is now a serious inquiry about whether the president obstructed justice of an investigation that was inappropriately initiated by the government in the first place.\nI was very respectful of the FBI\u2019s objections to the memo being released. But now that I have read it, I wonder why they made a big deal about revealing sources and methods. I don\u2019t see any of that. The memo is a consequential expose of the malice and wrongdoing of certain partisans within the FBI. Granted, the information in the memo is being disputed by some as incomplete and inaccurate. We will see.\nAnd oh by the way, there\u2019s more to come. From what I hear, the FBI inspector general\u2019s report is due anytime, and it will be an additional powerful indictment of many inside the FBI.\nThe bottom line is that this memo further confirms that somebody colluded with the Russians, that somebody withheld material information from government officials and that somebody even used laundered money to pay for campaign dirt that was partially supplied by Russian agents. Well, that somebody wasn\u2019t the Trump campaign. That should matter a great deal to Mueller. So where does this investigation go from here? (https://www.wSo What Does the Nunes Memo Have to do with Mueller? . See also Patrick Joseph Buchanan\u2019s column on the subject, Nunes Battles Deep State and End the Corrupt Mueller Investigation Now.)\nThe \u201cdeep state\u201d is real, but this should not come as any kind of surprise whatsoever. The senior career civil servants who make up the permanent government are, at least for the most part, products of leftist \u201ceducational\u201d institutions who are committed statists. These senior career officials believe that they, not the \u201cpeople\u201d\u2014and certainly not Christ the King\u2014are \u201csovereign.\u201d\nIn this case, however, James Brien Comey and his stooges, including Andrew McCabe, Peter Strzok, Lisa Page, and Bruce Ohr, were working for the admirer of the Fidel Castro School of Opposition Management, Barack Hussein Obama/Barry Soetoro, who was doing the bidding of the Vladimir Lenin School of Opposition Liquidation, headed by William Jefferson Blythe Clinton and Hillary Diane Rodham Clinton:\nNewly revealed text messages between FBI paramours Peter Strzok and Lisa Page include an exchange about preparing talking points for then-FBI Director James Comey to give to President Obama, who wanted \u201cto know everything we\u2019re doing.\"\nThe message, from Page to Strzok, was among thousands of texts between the lovers reviewed by Fox News. The pair both worked at one point for Special Counsel Robert Mueller's probe of alleged collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia.\nPage wrote to Strzok on Sept. 2, 2016, about prepping Comey because \"potus wants to know everything we're doing.\" According to a newly released Senate report, this text raises questions about Obama's personal involvement in the Clinton email investigation.\nIn texts previously revealed, Strzok and Page have shown their disdain for Republicans in general, as well as Trump, calling him a \"f---ing idiot,\" among other insults.\nAmong the newly disclosed texts, Strzok also calls Virginians who voted against then-FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe's wife for a state Senate seat \"ignorant hillbillys.\" (sic)\nThat text came from Strzok to Page on Nov. 4, 2015, the day after Jill McCabe lost a hotly contested Virginia state Senate election. Strzok said of the result, \"Disappointing, but look at the district map. Loudon is being gentrified, but it's still largely ignorant hillbillys. Good for her for running, but curious if she's energized or never again.\"\nSen. Ron Johnson, R-Wis., along with majority staff from the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, is releasing the texts, along with a report titled, \u201cThe Clinton Email Scandal and the FBI's Investigation of it.\u201d\nThe newly uncovered texts reveal a bit more about the timing of the discovery of \"hundreds of thousands\" of emails on former Congressman Anthony Weiner's laptop, ultimately leading to Comey's infamous letter to Congress just days before the 2016 presidential election.\nSept. 28, 2016, Strzok wrote to Page, \"Got called up to Andy's [McCabe] earlier.. hundreds of thousands of emails turned over by Weiner's atty to sdny [Southern District of New York], includes a ton of material from spouse [Huma Abedin]. Sending team up tomorrow to review... this will never end.\" According to the Senate report, this text message raises questions about when FBI officials learned of emails relevant to the Hillary Clinton email investigation on the laptop belonging to Weiner, the husband to Clinton aide Huma Abedin.\nIt was a full month later, on Oct. 28, 2016, when Comey informed Congress that, \"Due to recent developments,\" the FBI was re-opening its Clinton email investigation.\n\"In connection with an unrelated case, the FBI has learned of the existence of emails that appear to be pertinent to the investigation. I am writing to inform you that the investigative team briefed me on this yesterday...\" Comey said at the time.\nOther texts show more examples of the officials' opposition to Trump.\nOn Election Day 2016, Strzok wrote, \"OMG THIS IS F***ING TERRIFYING.\" Page replied, \"Omg, I am so depressed.\" Later that month, on Nov. 13, 2016, Page wrote, \"I bought all the president's men. Figure I need to brush up on watergate.\"\nThe next day, Nov. 14, 2016, Page wrote, \u201cGod, being here makes me angry. Lots of high fallutin\u2019 national security talk. Meanwhile we have OUR task ahead of us.\u201d\nPage\u2019s meaning here is unclear, but according to the Senate report, coupled with Strzok\u2019s Aug. 15 text about an \u201cinsurance policy,\u201d further investigation is warranted to find out what actions the two may have taken.\nThe last text is from Page to Strzok, and comes on June 23, 2017, when she wrote, \"Please don't ever text me again.\"\nIt's unclear whether she was mad at her friend, or if she suddenly became aware that they, and their thousands of texts, had been discovered. (More Texts Between Strzok and Page Uncovered, Leading to More Questions.)\nBarack Hussein Obama/Barry Soetoro believes that any American who does not believe in his own brand of statism has no right to hold public office and that ordinary citizens who agree with \u201copponents\u201d and might even vote for them are to be monitored for \u201chate crimes.\u201d Thus it is that the very people who reject immutable truths revealed by God in the very Flesh and entrusted by Him to His true Church for their safekeeping and infallible explication believe in their own infallibility, which is why they work overtime to suppress all dissent as illegitimate.\nBefore commenting on President Donald John Trump and how has helped to enable the ongoing coup against him by not being ready to throw out senior-level political appointee holdovers from the administration of his corrupt, lawless predecessor, Barack Hussein Obama/Barry Soetoro, it would be useful to illustrate some of the antecedent root causes of how the United States of America was destined from its inception to become the preserve of deep state bureaucrats. This did not all happen overnight, and it is not at all any kind of surprise.\nDeep State and Deep Anti-Catholicism\nUnbeknownst to most Americans, however, is that the \u201cdeep state\u201d that is trying to\u2014and may indeed\u2014take down a man who gets a thrill at the skill of anything military (see The Lawrence Welk Show) and is letting his generals (Kelly, McMaster, Mattis) call the shots on the deployment of American troops to fight needless battles started by the neoconservative war hawk, George Walker Bush, and expanded to Libya and Syria by the globalist war hawk, Barack Hussein Obama/Barry Soetoro, has deep ties to the Anti-Catholicism of the so-called \u201cProgressive Movement\u201d of the latter Nineteenth and early Twentieth Centuries.\nThe \u201cProgressive Movement,\u201d which is more or less synonymous with the \u201cGood Government Movement,\u201d began in the 1880s as many WASP (White Anglo-Saxon Protestants) elitists and secular Darwinists/social \u201cprogressives\u201d became alarmed at the growing political influence of Catholic immigrants in urban politics. There was the fear that these immigrants and their descendants could become so influential as to have a major say in national politics and thus be able to elect a Catholic as President of the United States of America. Such an event, the \u201cprogressives\u201d believed, would make the United States of America a vassal of Pope Leo XIII.\nThose who are familiar with my own writing over the decades know that the fear of these early \u201cprogressives\u201d was unfounded as none of the Catholic immigrants who used the ward or election district political clubs of the Democratic Party in urban areas had any intention whatsoever of converting the United States of America to become a Catholic country. They simply wanted to use the local political clubs as a means of upward social and economic mobility that was being denied to them in a systematic manner by the pronounced and sometimes overtly violent anti-Catholicism that is deeply embedded in the American soil that is manifested very clearly today by the open contempt which the current generation of \u201cprogressives\u201d has for believing Catholics.\nIt was to blunt the rise of the growing influence of Catholic immigrants from Ireland (both those who arrived in the 1820s and those who arrived in the 1840s and thereafter), Italy (especially after the overthrow of the Papal States), Hungary and other places in Central Europe during the revolutions of 1848, Germany (during the Freemason Otto von Bismarck\u2019s Kulturkampf against Holy Mother Church), and Eastern Europe (after the War between the States as the need for skilled and unskilled labor increased during the Second Industrial Revolution) that the WASPS and their Judeo-Masonic compatriots devised various \u201creforms\u201d to take as much political power as possible away from the political party bosses who controlled, if not rigged, elections and who controlled the entire process of hiring government employees and awarding contracts for the provision of various services. The hiring, retention and promotion of government employees was solely in the hands of the ward bosses and their over-bosses at the county and city levels.\nSuch a situation, the \u201cprogressives\u201d said at the time, resulted in institutionalized political graft and fraudulent election results. It was time, the \u201cgood government reformers believed, to \u201cprofessionalize\u201d public administration to insure a supposedly unbiased and competent set of well-trained administrators who would serve the public interest and not that of professional politicians. It was time, the \u201cgood government\u201d do-gooders bellowed, to implement a professional civil service at all levels of government in the United States of America.\nAlthough there were multiple other reforms designed to limit the power of political bosses and thus to produce \u201cefficient,\u201d \u201chonest\u201d and \u201ccompetent administration of public policy (primary elections, which were designed to take the power of nominating candidates for public office away from professional political party bosses, nonpartisan elections at the civic level, the county or city manager system, whose goal was to place the actual administration of a city or a county under the supervision of a professionally trained \u201cnonpartisan,\u201d thus leaving a mayor or county executive as a ceremonial figurehead who cut ribbons when the next Great Atlantic and Pacific Tea Company or F. W. Woolworth store opened in the community, and what are called the direct democracy reforms\u2014the referendum, whether binding or nonbinding, the initiative, which was proposed to take power out of the hands of boss-controlled city councils and state legislatures, and the recall, which is a petition-initiated \u201ccitizen\u201d effort to remove an elected official from office before his term has expired), the institutionalization of the civil service by the government of the United States of America by means of the Pendleton Civil Service Act of 1883, prompted by the assassination of President James Abram Garfield by a deranged office-seeker, Charles Guiteau, two years before, provided the model that would be adopted over time by state and local governments.\nThe Pendleton Civil Service Act, which underwent some reforms of itself with the passage of the United States Civil Service Act of 1978, established a system requiring most positions in the Federal government to be filled by a \u201cmerit system\u201d that selected the top candidates who had the best scores on publicly announced, competitive examination (usually the \u201crule of seven\u201d or the \u201crule of eleven\u201d or the \u201crule of three) for advertised positions. Those hired serve a probationary period of usually nine months, after which they cannot be dismissed except for a long, cumbersome process known as \u201cadministrative cause.\u201d In other words, civil servants have life tenure as long as the positions they hold are not eliminated by budgetary restrictions, noting a few restrictions and qualifications in the cases of civil servants who have been grossly incompetent or negligent in the performance of their duties.\nAlthough the civil service took root at the Federal level in the latter part of the Nineteenth Century, the patronage system remained strong at the state and local levels until the Great Depression, which made it very difficult for the political party bosses and their under-bosses to dole out \u201cwelfare\u201d (government jobs and contracts, food, legal favors, etc.) in exchange for loyalty expressed by working as volunteers to elect the party\u2019s candidates given the large number of people in need of help, it was the aforementioned Great Depression that dealt the death blow to the boss system in many places, admitting a few exceptions here and there. The Welfare State, which had some of its roots in the administrations of Presidents Theodore Roosevelt and Thomas Woodrow Wilson, arose to take the place of the boss system and, more importantly, to take the place of the extended family, which was under attack by means of liberalized divorce laws in some states and the ready access to and acceptance of contraception. The Welfare State was administered by career civil servants, who then had a vested interest in keeping their clients dependent upon \u201ctheir\u201d largesse and expanding the scope of those who would become dependent upon government support for their very existence.\nEven long before the Great Depression and over forty years before the Bolshevik Revolution, Otto von Bismarck, the prototypical socialist and social engineer, sought to make large segments of the German population dependent upon the largesse of the civil state so that the citizenry would be more inclined to look the other way as it, the civil state, increased control of their daily lives over the course of time. The Eurosocialist states are all descended from Otto von Bismarck and Karl Marx, whose \"radicalism,\" as the Freemason Bismarck saw it, he sought to preempt by the creation of his own social welfare state. It was this social welfare state that American liberals saw as the basis of creating the more \u201cperfect\u201d social order on purely secular grounds.\nAs has been noted many times on this site, one of the proximate root causes of what can be called \"liberalism\" is the writing of John Locke, whose views were the direct result of the Protestant Revolution that began in England under King Henry VIII in 1534 and resulted in the proliferation of Protestant sects in a kingdom that had been Catholic for nearly a millennium. Readers of this site know that I care very much about root causes.\nThe Protestant Revolt engendered murder and mayhem in the German states after it was launched by the hideous, lecherous, drunken Augustinian monk named Father Martin Luther, O.S.A., on October 31, 1517, when he posted his \"ninety-five theses\" on the door of Castle Church in Wittenberg, Germany. Luther himself was aghast to see the almost instantaneous moral degeneration of his \"evangelicals\" into violent mobs who pilfered and sacked formerly Catholic churches and lived riotously, oblivious to the fact that he was responsible for this degeneration by depriving those who followed his revolution against Christ the King of the Sacraments and of the true teaching that Our King has entrusted to His Catholic Church for Its eternal safekeeping and infallible explication.\nIn like manner, of course, the Protestant Revolt in England engendered murder and violence, much of which was state-sponsored as Henry Tudor was responsible between the years of 1534 and 1547 for ordering the executions of over 72,000 Catholics who remained faithful to the Catholic Church following the decree that Parliament has passed that declared him to be the \"supreme head of the Church in England as far as the law of God allowed.\" As was the case in the German states as princes gave Luther protection so that they, the princes, could govern in a Machiavellian manner free of any interference from Rome or their local bishops, so was it the case in England that the Protestant Revolution provided the receipt for the unchecked tyranny of English monarchs.\nIndeed, the kind of state-sponsored social engineering that has created the culture of entitlement in England and elsewhere in Europe has its antecedent roots in Henry's revolt against the Social Reign of Christ the King and His Catholic Church in the Sixteenth Century.\nHenry had Parliament enact various laws to force the poor who had lived for a nominal annual fee on the monastery and convent lands (as they produced the food to sustain themselves, giving some to the monastery or convent) off of those lands, where their families had lived for generations, in order to redistribute the Church properties he had stolen to those who supported his break from Rome. Henry quite cleverly created a class of people who were dependent upon him for the property upon which they lived and the wealth they were able to derive therefrom, making them utterly supportive of his decision to declare himself Supreme Head of the Church in England. Those of the poorer classes who had been thrown off the monastery and convent lands were either thrown into prison (for being poor, mind you) or forced to migrate to the cities, where many of them lost the true Faith and sold themselves into various vices just to survive. The effects of this exercise of state-sponsored engineering are reverberating in the world today, both politically and economically. Indeed, many of the conditions bred by the disparity in wealth created by Henry's land grab in the Sixteenth Century would fester and help to create the world of unbridled capitalism and slave wage that so impressed a German emigre in London by the name of Karl Marx. Unable to recognize the historical antecedents of the real injustices he saw during the Victorian Era, Marx set about devising his own manifestly unjust system, premised on atheism and anti-Theism, to rectify social injustice once and for all. In a very real way, Henry of Tudor led the way to Lenin of Russia.\nThe abuses of power by English monarchs led to all manner of social unrest in England, especially as those Anglicans who were followers of John Calvin sought to eradicate all remaining vestiges of Catholicism from Anglican \"worship\" and \"doctrine\" (removing Latin from certain aspects of the heretical Anglican liturgy, smashing statues, eliminating high altars in favor of tables, things that have been undertaken in the past forty years in many formerly Catholic churches that are now in the custody of the counterfeit church of conciliarism). This unrest produced the English Civil Wars of the 1640s and the establishment in 1649 of what was, for all intents and purposes, a Calvinist state under the control Oliver Cromwell that became a Cromwellian dictatorship between the years of 1653 to 1660 until the monarchy under the House of Stuart was restored in 1660. Oh yes, King Charles I lost his head, quite literally, in 1649 as the \"Roundheads\" of Oliver Cromwell came to power in 1649 following seven years of warfare between \"parliamentarians\" and \"royalists.\" Revolutions always wind up eating their own. The English monarchy itself was eaten up by the overthrow of the Social Reign of the King of Kings by Henry VIII of the House of Tudor in 1534.\nKing James II, who had converted to Catholicism in France in 1668 while he was the Prince of York under his brother, King Charles II of the restored monarchy, acceded to the English throne in on June 6, 1885, following his brother's death, which occurred after Charles II himself had converted to the the Faith on his deathbed. Suspicious that the property that had been acquired and the wealth that had been amassed as a result of Henry VIII's social-engineering land grab of 150 years before would be placed in jeopardy, Protestant opponents of King James II eventually forced him to abdicate the throne in 1688, his rule having been declared as ended on December 11 of that year. The abdication of King James, whose second wife, Mary of Modena, had been assigned Blessed Father Claude de la Colombiere as her spiritual director when she was the Princess of York, is referred to by Protestant and secular historians as the \"glorious revolution,\" so-called because it ushered in the penultimate result of the Protestant Revolution, the tyranny of the majority.\nIt was to justify the rise of majoritarianism that John Locke, a Presbyterian (Calvinist) minister, wrote his Second Treatise on Civil Government. Locke believed, essentially, that social problems could be ameliorated if a majority of reasonable men gathered together to discuss their situation. The discussion among these \"reasonable men\" would lead to an agreement, sanctioned by the approval of the majority amongst themselves, on the creation of structures which designed to improve the existing situation. If those structures did not ameliorate the problems or resulted in a worsening of social conditions then some subsequent majority of \"reasonable men\" would be able to tear up the \"contract\" that had bound them before, devising yet further structures designed to do what the previous structures could not accomplish. Locke did not specify how this majority of reasonable men would form, only that it would form, providing the foundation of the modern parliamentary system that premises the survival of various governments upon the whims of a majority at a given moment.\nIn other words, England's \"problem\" in 1688 was King James II. The solution? Parliament, in effect, declared that he had abdicated his throne rather than attempt to fight yet another English civil war to maintain himself in power as the man chosen by the parliamentarians to replace him, his own son-in-law William of Orange, who was married to his daughter Mary, landed with armed forces ready to undertake such a battle. The parliamentary \"majority\" had won the day over absolutism and a return to Catholicism.\nUnfortunately for Locke, you see, social problems cannot be ameliorated merely by the creation of structures devised by \"reasonable men\" and sanctioned by the majority.\nAll problems in the world, both individual and social, have their remote causes in Original Sin and their proximate causes in the Actual Sins of men. There is no once-and-for-all method or structure by which, for example, \"peace\" will be provided in the world by the creation of international organizations or building up or the drafting of treaties.\nThere is no once-and-for-all method or structure by which, for example, \"crime\" will be lessened in a nation by the creation of various programs designed to address the \"environmental\" conditions that are said to breed it.\nThe only way in which social conditions can be ameliorated is by the daily reformation of individual lives in cooperation with the graces won for men by the shedding of the Most Precious Blood of Our Blessed Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ upon the wood of the Holy Cross and that flow into our hearts and souls through the loving hands of Our Lady, she who is the Mediatrix of All Graces. And to the extent that social structures can be effective in addressing and ameliorating specific problems at specific times in specific places those who create and administer them must recognize their absolute dependence upon God's graces and that there is no secular, non-denominational or inter-denominational way to provide for social order. Social order and peace among nations depend entirely upon the subordination of the life of every person and the activities of every nation to the Social Reign of Christ the King as it is exercised by the Catholic Church.\nThere is, therefore, amongst American Catholics who adhere to some kind of \"leftist\" worldview a belief that it is indeed the role of government to \"solve\" social ills, most of are the result, over and above the after-effects of Original Sin, the systematic, planned breakdown of the stability of the family that was one of the chief goals of Freemasons in state legislatures, starting in North Dakota, in the late-Nineteenth Century to liberalize divorce laws.\nThis systematic, planned breakdown of the family was expedited by the spread of contraception in the 1920s, leading ultimately to an epidemic of divorce and remarriage as spouses felt \"free\" to be violate the Sixth Commandment injunction against adultery. Husbands abandoned wives. Wives abandoned husbands. Children became lost and confused. Entire classes of people became dependent upon the largesse of the civil state as a result. And this is to say nothing of the direct effort on the part of Margaret Sanger to break down the stability of the families of black Americans so that they could enjoy the benefits of her sort of social engineering, a fact that has been documented on this site in several articles.\nIf one believes in the leftist paradigm, however, one will be absolutely convinced that social \"problems\" are the result of not enough government spending and not enough government programs and not enough government regulations and not enough efforts to direct the daily lives of those who are dependent upon them and, ultimately, of us all as the \"experts\" and the bureaucrats know better as to how we should live than we do. Former President William Jefferson Blythe Clinton said as much in the late-1990s (I believe that it was when making a speech in Buffalo, New York). Let me see if I can find the quote. All right, here it is:\nClinton: \"I can spend your money better than you can.\"\nIn a post-State of the Union speech in Buffalo, NY on January 20, 1999, Bill Clinton was asked why not a tax cut if we have a surplus. Clinton's response:\n\"We could give it all back to you and hope you spend it right... But ... if you don't spend it right, here's what's going to happen. In 2013 -- that's just 14 years away -- taxes people pay on their payroll for Social Security will no longer cover the monthly checks... I want every parent here to look at the young people here, and ask yourself, 'Do you really want to run the risk of squandering this surplus?' \"Source: Washington Times, January 21, 1999. (Quote and commentary found at: Bill Clinton - Stupid Quotes and Statements.)\nAs the leaders of the \u201cGood Government\u201d (or \u201cProgressive\u201d or \u201cReform\u201d) were shaped by the Lockean/Pelagian belief that it was possible to reform human behavior by the creation of structural reforms without any reliance upon Sanctifying and Actual Graces, however, these do-gooding nincompoops did not believe that their great ideas would create what was destined to become a fourth branch of government unaccountable even to the elected officials and their political appointees (Cabinet and sub-Cabinet appointees, for instance) who had nominal authority over them. Civil servants know that elected officials come and go while they stay, which is why they are usually pretty immune to any kind of pressure to change their ways, including the alliances that many of them form with leftist, Soros-funded \u201ccommunity organizations\u201d who drink to the point of inebriation from the trough of taxpayer funding.\nAlthough the senior career civil servants who do much of the actual implantation of public policy do not run for office, they are political creatures who develop alliances with key members of Congressional committees that have oversight responsibility over their work and with lobbyists who work with constituencies affected by the policies they administer. This \u201ciron triangle\u201d or \u201cunholy alliance\u201d as it has been called in political science literature is quite adept at thwarting any and all efforts on the part of a presidential administration whose leadership is intent on changing policies and/or the way in which they are administered.\nWhat we are seeing at this present time, therefore, is just an open manifestation of a phenomenon that is now one hundred thirty-five years old at the Federal level, admitting that the situation is a little different in some urban and suburban areas where there are still vestiges of the old-time political machine, something that is particularly true in my own native County of Nassau, New York.\nCareer bureaucrats in the Federal civil service who do not like President Donald John Trump have made gargantuan efforts to coopt the president\u2019s political appointees to follow their lead, not his, in the administration of public policy. This cooptation seems have been most successful in rendering United States Attorney General Jefferson Beauregard Sessions into little other than a bureaucratic functionary who is afraid to offend the sensibilities of senior career Justice Department officials, most of whom are, shall we say, decidedly to the \u201cleft\u201d of center and are working actively to effect his ouster, whereupon the campaign to get rid of a \u201cPresident\u201d Michael Pence would commence.\nReckless Federal Spending, Much of Which Funds Evil Programs\nOne of the ironies of the consternation facing many of those who have been serving as cheerleaders for President Trump is that he is still a big government, free-spending liberal, and he is being pushed in this regard by his Kabbalist daughter and her Kabbalist husband, Ivanka Trump Kusher and her \u201cMr. Wonderful,\u201d Jared Kushner (we may yet find out that the president\u2019s untimely dismissal of deep state\u2019s James Brien Comey was done at the behest of \u201cMr. Wonderful,\u201d who may have been worried about his own business contacts with Russians, most of whom are Talmudic gangsters, of course, with the support of Vice President Michael Pence\u2014see How Trump Decided to Fires James Comey).\nUnited States Senator Rand Paul was entirely correct to oppose the two-year budget deal that President Donald Trump signed into law on Friday, February 9, 2017, the Feast of Saint Cyril of Alexandria and the Commemoration of Saint Apollonia, that is nothing other than an irresponsible continuation of the free-spending ways of the George Walker Bush and Barack Hussein Obama/Barry Soetoro that were enabled by the Congress of the United States of America during the times both Houses were controlled by the organized crime family of the naturalist \u201cright (January 20, 2001-June 6, 2001, January 3, 2003-January 3, 2007, and January 3, 2015-present, noting as well that Republicans have controlled the United States House of Representatives from January 3, 2011, to the present tie) or by the organized crime family of the naturalist \u201cleft\u201d (January 3, 2007-January 3, 2011, noting the fact that Democrats controlled the United States Senate, which was split equally between Democrats and Republicans from January 3, 2001, to June 6, 2001, before United States Senator James Jeffords\u2014R-Vermont\u2014decided to bolt the Republican Party and become an \u201cindependent\u201d who agreed to caucus with the Democrats, thus making the pro-abort, pro-perversity United States Senator Thomas Daschle\u2014D-South Dakota, making the bum the Senate Majority Leader until January 3, 2003). The national debt grows no matter who occupies the White House or and/or which of the two organized crime families of the false opposites of natural control the Congress of the United States of America.\nSenator Paul\u2019s courageous condemnation of this irresponsible spending, which further burdens a country saddled with a massive moral debt to God for the sins it has spread around the world with such abandon and for the sins that its laws sanction, if not actually encourage, here at home with a massive financial debt that will crush future generations of Americans unless Our Lord Himself intervenes to put an end to the madness caused by the Protestant Revolution and Judeo-Masonry.\nA brief summary of Senator Paul\u2019s located on his Senate website below is followed by an interview he gave to Major Garrett, the moderator of the Columbia Broadcasting System television network news department\u2019s Face the Nation program on Sunday, February 11, 2018, Quinquagesima Sunday and the Commemoration of the Apparition of Our Lady of Lourdes:\nThe number one threat to our country's future is our debt. The number one threat to our national security is our debt.\nThis deal gives the President the power to borrow unlimited amounts of money.\nThis deal represents the worst of the Washington culture. The Left and the Right have come together in an unholy alliance to explode the debt. The Left gets more welfare, the Right gets more military contracts, and the Taxpayer is stuck with the bill!\nThis a bipartisan busting of the budget caps that will further indenture the next generation.\nI promised the voters of Kentucky to oppose deficits, to oppose budgets that don't balance, and to spend only what we have. I will not give this President or any President to power to borrow unspecified amounts of money.\nOur debt now equals our entire economy.\nNot raising the debt ceiling means we would be forced to only spend what comes in --- also known as a balanced budget. I could accept that. But I also could accept a balanced budget amendment that brings us into balance over five years.\nThe debt threatens us like never before and now is the time to take a stand.\nI have travelled far and wide across America and I have not met one Republican outside of DC who supports adding an unlimited increase in the debt ceiling.\nI hope my colleagues will listen to their constituents before voting for this terrible, no good, rotten deal. (Remarks Preoared bt Senator Rand Paul on the Floor of the United States Senate.)\nMAJOR GARRETT: We go now to Kentucky Republican Senator Rand Paul whose objection to this week's funding agreement touched off an ever so brief government shutdown. Senator Paul joins us from Palm Beach Florida. Senator, what did you accomplish?\nSENATOR RAND PAUL: Well you know I think we should draw attention to the fact that we're spending so much money. I ran for office in 2010 with what was called sort of the Tea Party tidal wave. At that point we were very, very critical of President Obama's deficits you know approaching a trillion dollars in a year. We talked endlessly about them we had 100,000 people rally on the Mall in Washington. And I'm still against deficit spending just because Republicans are doing it doesn't make it any better.\nMAJOR GARRETT: And now we have deficits projected to be a trillion dollars again and yet they're growing non-recessionary economy or are you troubled by that?\nSENATOR RAND PAUL: Yeah, I'm very worried and I think one of the questions the Republicans I think are not willing to ask themselves is can you be fiscally conservative and be for unlimited military spending. There's sort of this question, \"Is the military budget too small or maybe is our mission too large around the world?\" And because Republicans are unwilling to confront that they want more, more, more for military spending. And so to get that they have to give the Democrats what they want which is more and more and more for domestic spending and the compromise while some are happy with bipartisanship. Well if the bipartisanship is exploding the deficit I'm not so sure that's the kind of bipartisanship we need.\nMAJOR GARRETT: From your point of view, Senator, on the defense side of the equation is the spending and the mission, are they reckless?\nSENATOR RAND PAUL: I think the mission is- is beyond what we need to be we're actively in war in about seven countries. And yet the Congress hasn't voted on declaring or authorizing the use of military force in over 15 years now. So I've been one that's been bugging the Senate and Congress to say how can we be at war without ever voting on it don't the American people through their representatives get a chance to say when we go to war. I think the Afghan war is long past its mission. I think we killed and captured and disrupted the people who attacked us on 9/11 long ago. And I think now it's a nation building exercise. We're spending 50 billion dollars a year. And if the president really is serious about infrastructure, a lot of that money could be spent at home. Instead of building bridges and schools and roads in Afghanistan or in Pakistan. I think we could do that at home and the interesting thing is I think the president's instincts lean that way but --\nMAJOR GARRETT: His policies, his policies, have not though.\nSENATOR RAND PAUL: And that's sort of the problem and this is something that we've seen even going back to Reagan conservatives said, \"Oh, we love Reagan.\" Then the people appointed around him were often big government types. That's a little bit of the problem I see here is that I think Donald Trump is probably the least interventionist minded president we've had in a long time. I mean he criticized George Bush for the intervention in the Iraq war. I think he's not that excited about continuing the Afghan war forever. But the generals who surrounded him with don't want to admit that there isn't a military solution. And so the war goes on and on and on. And really I think after 15 years and a trillion dollars that the Afghan it's time for them to take over their country.\nMAJOR GARRETT: Senator Paul you and I have talked about this many times you know the instincts in Washington are to spend. You know that's what's going to happen and yet you voted for the tax cut which is contributing to these deficit and debt problems. How do you reconcile those two facts?\nSENATOR RAND PAUL: I think if you're for tax cuts and for increasing spending that's hypocritical. But if you're for tax cuts and you're also for cutting spending a corresponding amount. See I would offset the tax cuts with spending cuts and there are a few of us that would actually do that. When we had the budget deal that lowered the taxes I also had an amendment to look at and try to control entitlement spending at the same time to pay for the tax cuts. But interestingly I could only interest three other Republicans. We had four votes total to try to control entitlement spending and that is where the money is.\nMAJOR GARRETT: And that's sort of the way, Senator, because you know where the votes are. You know the votes are there for tax cuts. You know they're not there for spending cuts. So, isn't there any part of your voting pattern that is irresponsible?\nSENATOR RAND PAUL: I don't think so because you know I can only control how I vote. So I voted for the tax cuts and I voted for spending cuts. The people who voted for tax cuts and spending increases. I think there is some hypocrisy there and it shows they're not serious about the debt. But all throughout my career I've always voted for spending cuts and I'm happy to offset cuts in taxes with cuts in spending. So no I think that I've had a consistent position in being very concerned about the debt and I want to shrink the size of government. So, the reason I'm for tax cuts is I to return more of the money to the people who own that who- who actually deserve to have their money returned to them. But it also shrinks the size of government by cutting taxes or should if you cut spending at the same time. (CBS News Transcript of Rand Paul on Face the Nation, February 11, 2018. Senator Paul also penned a very good opinion piece to oppose the president\u2019s planned \u201cMay Day\u201d parade. See Rand Paul: Bring Troops Home, Then Throw a Parade.)\nSimilar comments about the irresponsibility of the budget deal that had been agreed to by United States Senator Majority Leader Addison Mitchel McConnell (R-Kentucky) and United States Minority Leader (D-New York) that received the support of President Donald John Trump were authored by United States Representative Andy Biggs (R-Arizona) a day before Congress voted to go on another unrestrained binge of reckless Federal spending:\nThe budget caps deal produced by Senate Majority Leader McConnell and Minority Leader Schumer is a fiscal disaster parading as a military support bill. They argue that we need to fully fund the military. I agree. That\u2019s why we sent a bill to the Senate earlier this week that fully funded the military \u2013 without adding more than $500 billion to our deficit over the next 18 months, as their plan does.\nFurther, the House fully funded the military in the budget bills sent to the Senate almost six months ago. The Senate has taken no action on those bills, but keeps forcing short-term spending bills, which even Senator Lindsey Graham agrees, is extremely harmful to our military.\nThis bad deal is an unconditional surrender on Republican principles and our platform.\nIf Congress approves the spending package, federal spending will grow by more than 10 percent. As a part of the deal, our nation\u2019s debt limit will be suspended. This means that Congress will spend as much as it can borrow \u2013 without limits. Plan on even more national debt ahead.\nIf we are going to spend more than the credit limits, not to mention more than we bring in on the revenue side each month, we should be enacting serious spending cuts. Spending reductions should not be treated as an afterthought on a massive spending package.\nAfter caving in on spending, the bill actually funds our troops for only another six weeks, until we are forced to consider our sixth spending bill of the fiscal year just a few weeks from now. This is absurd \u2013 and irresponsible.\nCongress\u2019s pattern of relying on short-term spending bills \u2013 on average, more than five times a year for the last 20 years \u2013 has brought on a plethora of problems. Our military is subjected to uncertainty in planning and execution of its missions. Our agencies incur the waste of preparing for government shutdowns multiple times each year. The dissipation incurred by failure of the Senate to pass the appropriations bills has also heaped an enormous national debt on this and future generations.\nThis is nothing short of self-immolation through legislative malfeasance. We are putting our grandchildren in an awful bind. If we cannot pass a budget and reduce the size of government now, we must wonder what kind of America they will see when they grow up. Will it be a thriving, free nation where they can fulfill their greatest aspirations, or will it be a broken and bankrupt country?\nAlmost six months ago, the House passed twelve appropriations bills and sent them over to the Senate. The Senate has had an opportunity for months to consider these bills and give them an up-or-down vote through regular order. This could have solved our problems. Yet, the other chamber has refused to perform its constitutional responsibility, threatening the financial stability of our military personnel.\nOur troops are suffering now due to our lack of courage to pass a financially responsible, long-term budget, and our grandchildren will suffer later due to our propensity to kick the can down the road.\nWhen will we act like the Republicans our constituents expect us to be? When will we cut spending, balance the budget, and eliminate our national debt? The time should be now, but sadly, we are too set in our free-spending, big government ways to change.\nI strongly oppose this deal. We must drain the swamp and decrease the size of government. I implore my colleagues to vote against this legislation. (Representative Andy Biggs, When Will We Act Like Republicans and Vote as our constituents expect us?)\nReasoned arguments such as Senator Rand Paul\u2019s and Representative Andy Bigg\u2019s were lost on the Democrats and the Republicans, many of whom want to reward their corporate donors and to continue to receive perquisites from lobbyists while catering to various constituency groups at home who benefit from the supposedly \u201cfree goodies\u201d doled out to them by craven careerists.\nTo believe that the collective forces of statism and the overt evils associated with it can be retarded by purely naturalistic means is illusory. Then again, I do recall a chap who has spoken often in the past forty years of something he has termed \u201cthe illusion of secular salvation.\u201d Can\u2019t recall the name at this moment, though.\nAs noted earlier, most of the social problems facing the United States of America are the result of the systematically planned and implemented Judeo-Masonic revolution against the stability of the family to create a dependency caste that looks to government programs for \u201csolutions,\u201d which is why President Donald John Trump\u2019s acquiescence to funding Planned Barrenhood for another two years, meaning until the last year of his term, 2020, is to call down himself and the country the wrath of God.\nThe following speaks for itself:\n(CNSNews.com) - Despite promising to defund Planned Parenthood, President Donald Trump signed a budget Friday, which was passed by the Republican-led Congress, that fully funds the nation\u2019s largest abortion provider.\nIn a letter to pro-lifers during the election, Trump and Vice President Mike Pence said \u201cI am committed to \u2026 Defunding Planned Parenthood as long as they continue to perform abortions, and reallocating their funding to community health centers that provide comprehensive health care for women.\nWhile the budget provides more funding for community health centers, it also fully funds Planned Parenthood.\nIn fact, Trump has signed multiple continuing resolutions (CRs) that fully funded Planned Parenthood despite his campaign promise to defund it.\nDuring the March for Life last month, House Speaker Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) told the crowd, \u201cIn the House, we passed legislation to defund Planned Parenthood.\u201d In May 2017, the House voted to defund Planned Parenthood through an Obamacare repeal, but the bill failed to clear Congress.\nAs CNSNews.com reported prior to the vote, pro-life groups called on Congress not to fund Planned Parenthood in the budget.\nDr. Alveda King, director of Civil Rights for the Unborn for Priests for Life, told CNSNews.com, \u201cI do not support continuing to fund Planned Parenthood through the continuing resolution. I don\u2019t want to see a government shutdown but I also don\u2019t want to see $1.5 million a day flowing to the nation\u2019s largest abortion provider.\n\u201cMy prayer is that Congress will fund community health centers but withdraw funding from any organization that makes its money from the blood of the innocents,\u201d King said.\nOperation Rescue President Troy Newman said, \u201cI think it\u2019s repulsive that Republicans would continue to fund Planned Parenthood through any sort of continuing resolution for baby body parts. Their director was forced to resign. Other abortionists have been convicted of various criminal activities, botched abortions, we\u2019ve recorded again and again.\n\u201cAnd no taxpayer funding should ever go to fund such a horrific criminal enterprise like Planned Parenthood. The Republicans talk about shutting down the government over building a wall. I say the most worthy thing you can shut down the government for is to defund Planned Parenthood,\u201d Newman said.\nTom McClusky, vice president of government affairs with the March for Life, told CNSNews.com, \u201cContinuing Resolutions, omnibuses and mega two year budgets are what happens when Congress has been bipartisanly dysfunctional.\n\u201cFor the first time in years the House of Representatives passed Appropriation bills through regular order \u2013 however the Senate could not be bothered. The result is a continuation of Obamacare and continued taxpayer funding of a billion dollar abortion industry. Once again making Congress, and taxpayers, culpable, for hundreds of thousands of abortions,\u201d McClusky said in a statement. (Budget Deal Fully Funds Planned Barrenhood.)\nA brief note is in order here to counter Dr. Alveda King\u2019s support for \u201ccommunity health centers,\u201d a proposition that was supported by a number of Republicans in 2015 when the undercover videos taking by the Centers for Medical Research proved that Planned Barrehood was selling fetal body parts in violation of Federal law. Such a proposal is an illogical shell game, and it was dissected over thirty-one months ago in Shifting Funding From One Evil Organization To Many Others.\nTo wit, there are many Catholics who are sincerely concerned about the future of a country suffering from the manifestation of the perfection of the inherent degeneracy of its founding principles\u2014as well as from the logical effects that flow from the proliferation of the sins that cry out to Heaven for vengeance under cover of the civil law\u2014have been willing for the past two years to ignore Donald J. Trump\u2019s asinine assertion that Planned Barrenhood does \u201cmuch good,\u201d something he stated on \u201cSuper Tuesday, March 1, 2016, Tuesday of the Second Week of Lent:\n(CNSNews.com) - At a press conference on Tuesday night in Florida, businessman Donald Trump, who is running for the Republican presidential nomination, said that Planned Parenthood has \u201cdone some very good work\u201d but that he would not give federal funds to the organization \u201cas long as you have abortion going on at Planned Parenthood.\"\n\"I'm just doing what's right,\" said Trump. \"Look, Planned Parenthood has done very good work for some--for many, many--for millions of women. And I'll say it and I know a lot of the so-called conservatives, they say that's really--because I'm a conservative, but I'm a common sense conservative--but millions of women have been helped by Planned Parenthood. But we're not going to allow and we're not going to fund as long as you have the abortion going on at Planned Parenthood and we understand that and I've said it loud and clear.\"\nIn its latest annual report, Planned Parenthood said that its affiliates performed 323,999 abortions in the fiscal year that ended on Sept. 30, 2014. The same report said that in the year that ended on June 30, 2015, Planned Parenthood received $553.7 million in government health service grants and reimbursements.\nAt the press conference a reporter asked Trump: \u201cDoes it feel to you yet like you are the presumptive Republican nominee--and along those lines, you had some complimentary things to say about Planned Parenthood. You said you could be flexible on immigration. Are you trying to adjust your tone to a more general election message?\u201d\nTrump responded:\n\u201cI'm just doing what's right. Look, Planned Parenthood has done very good work for some--for many, many--for millions of women. And I'll say it and I know a lot of the so-called conservatives, they say that's really--because I'm a conservative, but I'm a common sense conservative--but millions of women have been helped by Planned Parenthood.\n\u201cBut we're not going to allow and we're not going to fund as long as you have the abortion going on at Planned Parenthood and we understand that and I've said it loud and clear.\n\"But--and we'll see what happens--but Planned Parenthood, millions of people, and I've had thousands of letters from women that have been helped. And this wasn't a set-up, this was people writing letters.\n\u201cI'm going to be really good for women. I'm going to be good for women's health issues. It's very important to me, very important to me. And maybe that is not a perfect conservative view but I can tell you one thing, I'm more conservative than anybody on the military, on taking care of our vets, on the border, on the wall, on getting rid of Obamacare and coming up with something much, much better and certainly getting rid of Common Core and bringing education to a local level, so that you're going to have good education for our children who are being absolutely starved for proper education.\n\"So, Sara, I mean, you know, you can call it what you want. But I am a truth teller and I will tell the truth. Okay.\u201d (Trump Says Millions of Women Have Been Helped by Planned Barrenhood.)\nIn other words, it is all right to fund the denial of the Sovereignty of God over the sanctity and fecundity of marriage. It is all right to fund the chemical assassination of innocent preborn children by means of chemical abortifacients. No, is not. It is evil do so, and efforts to \u201cmake America great again\u201d and/or to provide for the national security and end the sellout of American national sovereignty to the multifaceted system of world governance that is more or less in place will fail repeatedly. Evil\u2014and any compromise in principle with it\u2014can never be the foundation of a just social order domestically or security internationally.\nNo matter the fact that President Donald J. Trump does see, however inchoately, the truth on various \u201ctrees\u201d, he is not a truth teller when it comes to Planned Barrenhood as he does not know the truth about its evil inceptions, not that the truth would matter to him as he supports ready access to contraceptives as an established fact of life, if not as an actual good. The president does not know the truth because he does not know anything about First and Last Things, which why the administration of President Donald John Trump may be in mortal peril from deep state\u2019s Robert Mueller as the \u201cleft\u201d is more committed to their own evils than the \u201cright\u201d is committee to retarding them.\nTrump\u2019s Enabling of the Deep State Coup Against Him\nAs has been noted several times in the past, Donald John Trump was thoroughly unprepared to govern following his election on November 8, 2016. Neither he nor those who advised him took the time to research the necessity of having a \u201cbook\u201d of names to fill the sub-Cabinet positions that are supposedly superior to the senior career civil service officers in each Cabinet department and Federal agency under a president\u2019s direct authority. This is why many political positions in the Executive Branch of the government of the United States of America remain unfilled nearly thirteen months into the Trump administration.\nPresident-elect Donald John Trump had no idea of the complexity of the Federal government and he did not even know how many subordinates work in the Executive Office of the President at the White House and across Seventeenth Street in the Old Executive Office Building. He admitted this to then President Barack Hussein Obama/Barry Soetoro when the two met in the White House after the November 8, 2016, election. Trump\u2019s ignorance of the complexity of the Federal government left him in the most unfavorable position of leaving Obama/Soetoro\u2019s political appointees in their jobs to serve as a veritable fifth column against him.\nAdmitting that Senate Democrats were holding up the nomination of their then colleague, United States Jefferson Beauregard Sessions (R-Alabama), to be confirmed as the Attorney General of the United States of America\u2014an appointment that was certainly one of Trump\u2019s most glaring blunders, Obama/Soetoro holdover Sally Yates was in a position to wreak havoc with the new administration as Acting Attorney General because the new president had given no thought as to cleaning out the Obama/Soetoro Ministry of Injustice, something that should have been one of his top priorities. Unwittingly, of course, he helped to perpetuate the ongoing conspiracy against him by this unpreparedness.\nPerhaps even more to the point is that President-elect Trump should have removed James Brien Comey from his position as the Director of the American Praetorian Guard during the transition period, and it was an even further blunder for President Trump to believe that he could schmooze Comey into dropping all investigations into Lieutenant General Michael Flynn\u2019s dealings with Russian officials and companies, no less the fact that Flynn was not forthcoming in a strangely-timed interview with, of all people, F.B.I. Special Agent Peter Strzok on January 24, 2017, about his, Flynn\u2019s meeting with and Sergey Kisylak, the Russian Ambassador to the United States of America (for the mystifying details of Comey\u2019s own initial views of Flynn\u2019s interview, please see Byron York\u2019s Comey Told Congress FBI Agents Did Not Think that Flynn Lied).\nAs noted earlier in this commentary, while Comey deserved to be fired, the timing of when he did so could not have been worse, especially since the president himself undercut the statement issued by Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosentein outlining the reasons for the petulant Comey\u2019s dismissal by telling both the Russian Foreign Minister, Sergei Lavrov, and Russian Ambassador Kisylak last year that he had fired Comey because of the investigation into the Trump campaign\u2019s nonexistent \u201ccollusion\u201d with Russians to \u201crig\u201d the election:\nComey also informed a Senate intelligence committee that Trump had asked for the FBI to drop its investigation into Flynn; the White House said Trump was not attempting to influence his FBI director.\nComey, too, told the committee that he offered Trump repeated reassurances that he was not under an FBI investigation.\nTrump told those officials that firing Comey \u2013 who he allegedly called a \u201cnut job\u201d \u2013 took \u201cgreat pressure\u201d off of him, The New York Times later reported. (What To Know About Trump and Russian Investigation.)\nPresident Donald John Trump has shown that he is overconfident in his ability to win people over, and this narcissism did him no favors with James Brien Comey. While it is true that a president has the full authority to fire the Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, which is part of the Executive Branch of the government of the United States of America, at any time for any reason even if that president is under investigation, it is also true that firing Comey when he did and his own stated concerns about the \u201cRussian investigation\u201d that contradicted the Rosenstein letter to Comey outlining the reason for the latter\u2019s dismal demonstrate Trump\u2019s belief that things would just \u201cblow over\u201d the way that past troubles have.\nUnfortunately for Trump, however, his Talmudic \u201cfixer,\u201d Roy Cohn, a sodomite, has been dead for nearly thirty-two years, and, unaided by clarity of mind that he would have if he had belief in, access to and cooperation with Sanctifying Grace, one steeped in naturalism and the egotism that flows from it all too easily will never be able to realize that he must let Christ the King fix his soul by converting to the true Faith before accepting injustices committed against him by others as just chastisements for his own many sins. It is only then that he would be able to pursue justice in an ordered manner.\nIt is this same overconfidence that the president has in his abilities to shape a \u201cnarrative\u201d that prompted him to authorize a false statement seven months ago to explain why one of his sons, Donald Trump, Jr., met with a Russian woman, Natalia V. Veselnitskaya, who was, it appears, working with the Clinton-connected GPS Fusion firm that authorized the notorious Christopher Steele dossier. Veselnitskaya baited Trump, Jr., with \u201cdirt\u201d about Hillary Clinton, and the poor young man was dumb enough to meet the woman and his father was dumber to authorize a cover story that might be used against him by Deep State\u2019s Robert Mueller (see Trump Story Was Not True).\nAfter all, not fearful in the slightest of his own Particular Judgment\u2014a phrase he has probably never heard in his entire seventy-one and one-half years of life, the vainglorious, thin-skinned egomaniac in the White House has lived a life of moral reprobation that has included his serial acts of adultery during his \u201cthree\u201d marriages and, to quote a phrase used by the late attorney Edward Bennett Williams about one his clients\u2019 penchant for lying pathologically, a tendency to make statements \u201cat variance with objective truth.\u201d (The name of Mr. Williams\u2019s client? Well, he was a fellow owner of a professional sports team, a chap named George S. Steinbrenner III. Ever hear of him? He\u2019s dead for nearly eight years now.) Trump\u2019s lifelong recourse to lying and/or exaggerating the truth of a situation may yet wind up enabling the deep state coup against him to be successful. He, like the fictional bus driver for the Gotham Bus Company, Ralph Kramden, has a BIIIIIIIG MOUTH!!!!!!!!\nTo be clear, there is an ongoing deep state coup against the current president of the United States of America. This coup has been orchestrated with the mentality of the Stasi (the secret police that spied upon and repressed opponents of the East German Communist government from 1945 to 1989) by past and current officials of the government of the United States of America. This having been noted, however, one of the reasons that the coup may be successful is that the man against whom it is being waged is himself an amoral naturalist who believes that the ends justifies the means.\nAfter all, a man whose Talmudic personal attorney, Michael Cohen, admitted to having \u201cfacilitated\u201d a payment of $130,000 to an alleged \u201cactress\u201d to keep her quiet during the course of the presidential campaign in October of 2016 is one day going to find that there is a moral reckoning in this life, as well as to say nothing of the next, even if that reckoning comes in the form of injustices against him in the objective order of things by a deep state operative. Robert Mueller, who is intent on getting a presidential scalp. I mean, Mueller has the full cooperation of former National Security Adviser Michael Flynn and Trump\u2019s deputy campaign manager, Rick Gates, and such cooperation would not have been sought unless they had something \u201coffer\u201d Deep State Mueller in exchange for a \u201cgood deal.\u201d As Judge Andrew Napolitano noted two months ago now, reduction of charges pelas don't come free. What are they telling Mueller and his staff of partisan Democratic prosecutors?\nTo be sure, the United States Department of Justice contended on Friday, February 16, 2018, the Friday after Ash Wednesday, that thirteen Russian nationals did conspire to disseminate disinformation against Hillary Diane Rodham Clinton and United States Senator Rafael Edward Cruz (R-Texas) to favor United States Senator Bernard Sanders (Stalinst-Vermont) and Donald John Trump. The accusations were contained in an indictment obtained by \u201cspecial counsel\u201d Robert Mueller but do not include any allegation against American nationals and state that Russian operatives organized \u201cpro\u201d and \u201canti\u201d Trump rallies in the Borough of Manhattan, City of New York, New York, on November 12, 2016. Agitation of this kind has only one source, the adversary, who uses whoever he can to foment it in the world.\nThe thirteen indicted Russian nationals reside in St. Petersburg, Russia, and there is little chance that they will be extradited to the United States of America, which means nothing to deep state Mueller, who wins the \u201cnews cycle\u201d for the Sunday \u201ctalk\u201d programs that have become \u201cservices\u201d at which naturalists their homage to the secular high priests of alleged journalism. (See httIndictment Reveals Russians Also Organized Anti-Trump Rallies after the 2016 Election for details of the indictments announced two days ago.)\nIt is, of course, not \u201cnews\u201d that the Russians tried to interfere in an American election as they have been wreaking havoc in American society ever since the Russian Revolution and the subsequent infiltration of colleges, universities, law schools, labor unions, Hollywood and Broadway, \u201cmusic\u201d and so-called \u201csocial justice\u201d and \u201cpeace\u201d movements. Much, although certainly not all, of the social unrest that started in the 1960s was generated by Soviet agents, including those who had infiltrated Holy Mother Church in the decades before the \u201cSecond\u201d Vatican Council and then at that robber baron council itself. The Soviets/Russians have been in the business of playing the two false opposites of naturalism against themselves in the United States of America and other \u201cfree countries\u201d for a century. It is not for nothing that Our Lady told Jacinta and Francisco Marto and Lucia dos Santos to pray for the Rosary for poor sinners for the conversion of Russia even before the Bolshevik Revolution that would take place on November 7, 2017, just twenty-six days after the Miracle of the Sun in the Cova da Iria near Fatima, Portugal.\nA secular commentator put the he matter of the Mueller indictments this way:\nThe criminal indictment of 13 Russians for allegedly trying to influence \u201cU.S. political and electoral processes\u201d provides no evidence of any collusion between these Russians \u2013 or any other Russian officials \u2013 and the Trump campaign in the 2016 presidential race.\nWhile the description of alleged Russian activities is very troubling, it is important to note that the indictment makes no mention of any hacking or other activity that changed ballots, vote counts, or actually interfered with the election.\nn essence, the indictment is for trying to run the typical type of public misinformation campaign that the Soviet KGB was infamous for throughout the Cold War.\nAccording to the indictment, the Russians themselves called what they were doing \u201cinformation warfare against the United States\u201d through social media platforms and other internet-based media. That included YouTube, Facebook, Instagram and Twitter.\nThe indictment says the Russians \u201cknowingly and intentionally conspired to defraud\u201d the U.S. and describes how these Russians allegedly conspired to hide their activities to prevent any disclosure of who they were and what they were doing.\nInstead, \u201cposing as U.S. persons and creating false U.S. personas, (the Russians) operated social media pages and groups designed to attract U.S. audiences,\u201d the indictment alleges.\nAccording to the indictment, the social media posts of the Russians addressed \u201cdivisive U.S. political and social issues, falsely claimed to be controlled by U.S. activists when, in fact, they were controlled\u201d by the Russians. They even used \u201cthe stolen identities of real U.S. persons to post on social media\u201d accounts, the indictment charged.\nThe 13 Russians all allegedly worked for the Internet Research Agency, a Russian-controlled company headquartered in St. Petersburg, Russia. It allegedly secretly received funding from two other Russian front companies.\nAccording to the indictment, the Russians traveled to the U.S. \u201cunder false pretenses for the purpose of collecting intelligence\u201d and also \u201cprocured and used computer infrastructure, based partly in the United States, to hide the Russian origin of their activities and to avoid detection by U.S. regulators and law enforcement.\u201d\nUsing these fraudulent social media fronts, the Russians \u201cposted derogatory information about a number of candidates,\u201d the indictment said. Their operations allegedly included denigrating candidates such as Hillary Clinton, Ted Cruz and Marco Rubio, while supporting Bernie Sanders, Jill Stein, and Donald Trump.\nAccording to the indictment, all of this was done by the accused without revealing their Russian identities. Most importantly, and no doubt to the disappointment of liberals, some of the defendants posing as Americans only communicated \u201cwith unwitting members, volunteers, and supporters of the Trump campaign involved in local community outreach, as well as grassroots groups that supported then-candidate Trump\u201d (emphasis added), according to the indictment.\nIn other words, according to the indictment, to the extent these Russians had any contact with members of the Trump campaign, those individuals had no idea that these defendants were anything other than Americans who wanted to help the campaign. The Russians took elaborate steps to disguise their identity and their true motives.\nThese Russians didn\u2019t just target the United States. They also went after \u201cdomestic audiences within the Russian Federation\u201d as well other \u201cforeign audiences in various countries,\u201d the indictment says.\nWhat were these secret Russians posting about? The indictment says they were instructed to \u201cwrite about topics germane to the United States\u201d such as foreign policy and economic issues. They were directed to create \u201cpolitical intensity through supporting racial groups, users dissatisfied with (the) social and economic situation and oppositional social movements.\u201d\nThe Russians allegedly created \u201cthematic group pages on social media sites\u201d on everything from immigration to the Black Lives Matters movement. And they allegedly bought internet ads to support these pages.\nThe Russians apparently really wanted to create dissension. After the election, using their false U.S. identities, they allegedly organized and coordinated \u201cpolitical rallies in support of then president-elect Trump, while simultaneously using other false U.S. personas to organize and coordinate U.S. political rallies protesting the results of the 2016 U.S. presidential election,\u201d according to the indictment.\nTwo of those rallies in New York on Nov. 12, 2016, were secretly organized by the Russians, one on the theme of \u201cshow your support for President-Elect Donald Trump,\u201d while the second rally was on the theme of \u201cTrump is NOT my President,\u201d the indictment alleges.\nThese alleged Russian activities, if they occurred, violated numerous federal laws. Foreigners are banned from participating in political campaigns, including independently paying for political ads that support or oppose a candidate. According to the indictment, the Russians did that, too, when they bought political ads starting in April 2016 on \u201csocial media and other online sites expressly advocating for the election of then-candidate Trump or expressly opposing Clinton.\u201d\nThese ads were allegedly paid for through PayPal, Russian bank accounts and credit cards \u201coften registered in the names of fictitious U.S. personas.\u201d\nThese are, obviously, serious allegations. If true, these Russians broke numerous federal laws. But there is no evidence or allegation at this point that the Trump campaign \u2013 or any other presidential campaign \u2013 was aware of, or participated in, any nefarious activities designed to create social and political conflict in the U.S. (/Mueller Indictment Does not Show Truump Collusion with Russia.)\nCommitted to the spread of error and disinformation, the Soviets/Russians have long sought to interfere with elections in the supposedly \u201cfree\u201d countries of the West whose deep state apparatchiks have so much \u201crespect\u201d for constitutional due process. It was during the Cold War that certain members of the organized crime family of the naturalist \u201cleft,\u201d including then President James Earl Carter, Jr., the late United States Senator Edward Moore Kennedy (D-Massachusetts) and the late Speaker of the United States House of Representatives, Thomas P. O\u2019Neil (D-Massachusetts), implored Soviet officials to them prevent former California Governor Ronald Wilson Reagan from being elected president on Tuesday, November 4, 1980, and then to thwart his re-election on Tuesday, November 6, 1984.\nMichael Reagan, the adopted son of the late President Ronald Wilson Reagan and his true wife, Jane Wyman, who converted to Catholicism later in life at the behest of fellow actress Loretta Young, explained the efforts of Democrats to convince Soviet officials to collude with them to keep his father out of the White House in 1980\u2014and then to get him out four years later after the Chappaquidick Kid tried to enlist the Soviets to help make him, Kennedy, the 1980 Democratic Party presidential nominee:\nDid the Russians hack the 2016 election? The CIA, President Obama, and the media think so.\nWhat did we learn from the hacked emails? Well, we learned that Hillary Clinton maintained \"both a public and a private position\" \u2014 one for the voters, one for Goldman Sachs. We learned that the DNC conspired against Bernie Sanders in the Democratic primary. We learned about the corrupt inner workings of the Clinton Foundation. And on and on.\nIn short, we learned the truth.\nSure, it\u2019s offensive that a foreign power would try to manipulate an American election. But it\u2019s not all that different from what President Obama did in 2015, sending $350,000 (U.S. taxpayer dollars!) to a group called OneVoice, supposedly to further peace efforts in Israel. The money was actually spent on a failed attempt to unseat Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.\nPresident Obama and OneVoice tried to smear Netanyahu with lies. By contrast, the hacked emails, though stolen, told the truth. Clearly, Democrats are not opposed to manipulating elections. They are only opposed to losing elections.\nWhen my father, Ronald Reagan, was president, Democrat politicians secretly connived with the Soviets in failed attempts to manipulate elections and defeat Ronald Reagan. Former intelligence officer Herbert Romerstein dug through the Soviet archives after the fall of the USSR and uncovered secret documents written by KGB agent Victor Chebrikov. The documents revealed that Senator Edward \"Ted\" Kennedy had sent a friend, former Senator John Tunney of California, to contact the KGB. Tunney\u2019s mission: undermine then-President Jimmy Carter.\nFast-forward to 2016. The Democrats are desperate to blame their election loss on Russian interference. President Obama has ordered a complete investigation, and says he wants a report on his desk before he leaves office. Well, Mr. President, I wanted you to have all the information, including how the Democrats tried to manipulate U.S. elections in 1980 and 1984 \u2014 with the help of the Russians.\nKarma really sucks, doesn\u2019t it?\nEspecially if you\u2019re a Democrat. (How Democrats Try to Use Russia to Defeat My Father.)\nFunny, neither United States Senator Mark Warner (D-Virginia) nor United States Representative Adam Schiff (D-California) have mentioned anything about this collusion. Well, to quote the late Arthur Gordon Linkletter, people are funny. Warner and Schiff are regular comedians. Their \u201ccomedy\u201d is such, however, that they will never mention the very serious efforts of Democrats to get the Soviet Union to work with them against President Reagan nor make any reference to an article that appeared in Forbes magazine in 2009 shortly after the pro-abortion, pro-perversity Edward Moore Kennedy\u2019s death on Tuesday, August 25, 2009, the Feast of Saint Louis IX, King of France:\nPicking his way through the Soviet archives that Boris Yeltsin had just thrown open, in 1991 Tim Sebastian, a reporter for the London Times, came across an arresting memorandum. Composed in 1983 by Victor Chebrikov, the top man at the KGB, the memorandum was addressed to Yuri Andropov, the top man in the entire USSR. The subject: Sen. Edward Kennedy.\n\"On 9-10 May of this year,\" the May 14 memorandum explained, \"Sen. Edward Kennedy's close friend and trusted confidant [John] Tunney was in Moscow.\" (Tunney was Kennedy's law school roommate and a former Democratic senator from California.) \"The senator charged Tunney to convey the following message, through confidential contacts, to the General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, Y. Andropov.\"\nKennedy's message was simple. He proposed an unabashed quid pro quo. Kennedy would lend Andropov a hand in dealing with President Reagan. In return, the Soviet leader would lend the Democratic Party a hand in challenging Reagan in the 1984 presidential election. \"The only real potential threats to Reagan are problems of war and peace and Soviet-American relations,\" the memorandum stated. \"These issues, according to the senator, will without a doubt become the most important of the election campaign.\"\nFirst he offered to visit Moscow. \"The main purpose of the meeting, according to the senator, would be to arm Soviet officials with explanations regarding problems of nuclear disarmament so they may be better prepared and more convincing during appearances in the USA.\" Kennedy would help the Soviets deal with Reagan by telling them how to brush up their propaganda.\nThen he offered to make it possible for Andropov to sit down for a few interviews on American television. \"A direct appeal ... to the American people will, without a doubt, attract a great deal of attention and interest in the country. ... If the proposal is recognized as worthy, then Kennedy and his friends will bring about suitable steps to have representatives of the largest television companies in the USA contact Y.V. Andropov for an invitation to Moscow for the interviews. ... The senator underlined the importance that this initiative should be seen as coming from the American side.\"\nKennedy would make certain the networks gave Andropov air time--and that they rigged the arrangement to look like honest journalism.\nKennedy's motives? \"Like other rational people,\" the memorandum explained, \"[Kennedy] is very troubled by the current state of Soviet-American relations.\" But that high-minded concern represented only one of Kennedy's motives.\n\"Tunney remarked that the senator wants to run for president in 1988,\" the memorandum continued. \"Kennedy does not discount that during the 1984 campaign, the Democratic Party may officially turn to him to lead the fight against the Republicans and elect their candidate president.\"\nKennedy proved eager to deal with Andropov--the leader of the Soviet Union, a former director of the KGB and a principal mover in both the crushing of the 1956 Hungarian Revolution and the suppression of the 1968 Prague Spring--at least in part to advance his own political prospects.\nIn 1992, Tim Sebastian published a story about the memorandum in the London Times. Here in the U.S., Sebastian's story received no attention. In his 2006 book, The Crusader: Ronald Reagan and the Fall of Communism, historian Paul Kengor reprinted the memorandum in full. \"The media,\" Kengor says, \"ignored the revelation.\"\n\"The document,\" Kengor continues, \"has stood the test of time. I scrutinized it more carefully than anything I've ever dealt with as a scholar. I showed the document to numerous authorities who deal with Soviet archival material. No one has debunked the memorandum or shown it to be a forgery. Kennedy's office did not deny it.\"\nWhy bring all this up now? No evidence exists that Andropov ever acted on the memorandum--within eight months, the Soviet leader would be dead--and now that Kennedy himself has died even many of the former senator's opponents find themselves grieving. Yet precisely because Kennedy represented such a commanding figure--perhaps the most compelling liberal of our day--we need to consider his record in full.\nDoing so, it turns out, requires pondering a document in the archives of the politburo.\nWhen President Reagan chose to confront the Soviet Union, calling it the evil empire that it was, Sen. Edward Kennedy chose to offer aid and comfort to General Secretary Andropov. On the Cold War, the greatest issue of his lifetime, Kennedy got it wrong. (Ted Kennedy Sought to Convince Soviets to Work Against Ronald Reagan.)\nI suppose there is \u201ccollusion\u201d and then there is collusion. Hypocrisy rules the day in our artificial world of Judeo-Masonic naturalism.\nThe sanctimonious Democrats and the outraged Republicans do not want to understand is that the Middle Ages of Christendom was rife with intrigue as aspirants to thrones in various kingdoms sought to enlist the assistance of foreign kings and/or potentates. Many of the nefariously-minded among these plotters secured funding for their schemes from Talmudists to conjure up false evidence against rightful monarchs who governed in a just manner according to the mind of Christ the King as He has discharged It exclusively in His Catholic Church, and it is just the case today that America\u2019s own false opposites are funded to the hilt by different factions of the synagogue.\nOnce Again, Catholicism, Nothing Else\nAll of this having been noted, however, most Americans just go about their business without being bothered too much about the myriad details of the ongoing coup. Sure, some polls indicate that a majority of Americans do believe that Barack Hussein Obama/Barry Soetoro, Madame Defarge and the Federal Bureau of Investigation conducted illegal espionage on candidate Donald John Trump and have worked against him since his inauguration. In the long term, however, it is important to remember that most Americans do not give a moment\u2019s thought to the daily slaughter of the innocent preborn by chemical or surgical means, to say nothing of the dispatching of innocent human beings in hospices and in hospitals by means of \u201cpalliative care.\u201d\nAs insidious as the plot against a presidential candidate to make it appear that he was a veritable Manchurian Candidate and the subsequent coup to oust a sitting president based on a collection of falsehoods is, the United States of America will forever be needlessly divided by the errors of its false, naturalistic, religiously indifferentist and Pelagian founding principles. It is impossible to produce a well-ordered society when men blaspheme God openly and use liberty as a cloak for malice. This country is so deep in the abyss of religious indifferentism and moral relativism that it is customary for grandparents to think nothing of their grandchildren committing unrepentant sins of fornication and even of sodomy itself.\nDonald John Trump cannot make a country \u201cgreat again\u201d that was never truly great in the first place as its people have never recognized Our Blessed Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ as the King of all nations or have honored His Most Blessed Mother as Our Immaculate Queen. National greatness can never be achieved when men sin wantonly and unrepentantly as order within a nation depends upon order within souls, and order within souls is the fruit of men abiding habitually in a state of Sanctifying Grace.\nNaturalism advances evil either radically or incrementally. In the end, however, every kind of naturalism produces evil in its wake, and evil brings down upon men and their nations a variety of just chastisements sent by God Himself to call them to correct lest their immortal souls perish for all eternity.\nThe principal purpose of those who govern is to pursue the common temporal good in accord with the binding precepts of the Divine Positive Law and the Natural Law to advance man\u2019s Last End, the possession of the Beatific Vision of God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Ghost for all eternity in Heaven, something that Pope Saint Pius X summarized so very clearly in Vehementer Nos, February 11, 1906:\nThat the State must be separated from the Church is a thesis absolutely false, a most pernicious error. Based, as it is, on the principle that the State must not recognize any religious cult, it is in the first place guilty of a great injustice to God; for the Creator of man is also the Founder of human societies, and preserves their existence as He preserves our own. We owe Him, therefore, not only a private cult, but a public and social worship to honor Him. Besides, this thesis is an obvious negation of the supernatural order. It limits the action of the State to the pursuit of public prosperity during this life only, which is but the proximate object of political societies; and it occupies itself in no fashion (on the plea that this is foreign to it) with their ultimate object which is man's eternal happiness after this short life shall have run its course. But as the present order of things is temporary and subordinated to the conquest of man's supreme and absolute welfare, it follows that the civil power must not only place no obstacle in the way of this conquest, but must aid us in effecting it. The same thesis also upsets the order providentially established by God in the world, which demands a harmonious agreement between the two societies. Both of them, the civil and the religious society, although each exercises in its own sphere its authority over them. It follows necessarily that there are many things belonging to them in common in which both societies must have relations with one another. Remove the agreement between Church and State, and the result will be that from these common matters will spring the seeds of disputes which will become acute on both sides; it will become more difficult to see where the truth lies, and great confusion is certain to arise. Finally, this thesis inflicts great injury on society itself, for it cannot either prosper or last long when due place is not left for religion, which is the supreme rule and the sovereign mistress in all questions touching the rights and the duties of men. Hence the Roman Pontiffs have never ceased, as circumstances required, to refute and condemn the doctrine of the separation of Church and State. (Pope Saint Pius X, Vehementer Nos, February 11, 1906.)\nThe fact that the conditions favorable to a Catholic state do not exist at this time does nothing to detract from the immutability of the Catholic teaching explicated so clearly by Pope Saint Pius X.\nIndeed, the fact that the conditions favorable to a Catholic state do not exist at this time is the result of the proliferation of a deliberate, planned attack by the adversary himself upon it by using the combined, interrelated errors of Protestantism and Judeo-Masonry to uproot the Holy Cross as the foundation of personal and social order in Europe and to make sure it was not the foundation of such order here in the United States of America.\nFather Denis Fahey made this exact point in The Mystical Body of Christ in the Modern World:\nThe civil state has an obligation to recognize the true Faith and to pursue the common temporal good in light of man's Last End: the possession of the glory of the Beatific Vision of Father, Son and Holy Ghost in Heaven for all eternity. This obligation is immutable even though the anti-Incarnational civil state of Modernity is founded in a revolution against it. That which is true does not cease being true simply because men reject it and then base their social structures upon its rejection.\nWhile it is true that Holy Mother Church accommodates herself to the actual situations in which her children live, exhorting them to make use of existing laws to their benefit and thus to the good of souls, she never ceases to proclaim the truth even when men reject it.\nAlthough the counterfeit church of conciliarism has embraced the falsehood of a \"healthy secularity,\" the Catholic Church has taught from time immemorial that those who exercise authority in a civil government have an obligation to subordinate all things that pertain to the good of souls to the Deposit of Faith that Our Blessed Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ has entrusted exclusively to the Catholic Church for Its eternal safekeeping and infallible explication. Yes, I well understand that even most Catholics, no less thorough-going naturalists or agnostics or atheists, find this to be utter madness to the point of frothing at the mouth as though they are suffering from hydrophobia.\nIt is nevertheless the case that the Catholic Church has indeed condemned the separation of Church and State has she has insisted that she has the authority from her Invisible Head and Divine Bridegroom, Our Blessed Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, to interpose herself with civil officials in grave matters pertaining to the eternal good of souls after--and only after--the exhausting of her Indirect Power of teaching and preaching and exhortation Pope Leo XIII, writing in Immortale Dei, November 1, 1885, made it abundantly clear that the civil state has an obligation to subordinate itself in all that pertains to the good of souls to the true religion:\nThis is why the details of the current deep state coup against a naturalist and hedonist who has been faithless to each of his \u201cthree wives\u201d and who has hosted \u201cpageants\u201d that have offended the Holy Virtues of Purity and Modesty, leading many to commit sins of thought and deed as a result, while interesting in and of themselves, are really very much beside the point. A country that is founded on error and promotes it and every kind of sinful activity in the name of \u201cliberty\u201d here and abroad is on very borrowed time, and no man who acts and speaks as does Donald John Trump has any knowledge of Who God is or what He has revealed to us exclusively through His true Church.\nDonald John Trump\u2019s view of \u201cGod\u201d is Judeo-Masonic, and, as Pope Leo XIII noted in Humanum Genus, April 20, 1884, it matters not that he is not any kind of member of the Masonic federation:\nYes, it is the sum of the \"pronounced opinions\" of Judeo-Masonry that matters, not any specific program or line of action, although there have been programs and lines of action (the establish of public schools and the mandating of curricula of study, legislation liberalizing divorce, attempts at imposing laws forbidding the wearing of clerical garb in public and of the operation of parochial schools, the promotion of contraception and abortion and licentious perversity in civil law and public culture) that members of the lodges have undertaken over the course of this nation's history that were meant to be detrimental to the Faith. The Judeo-Masonic spirit convinces even believing Catholics that the social encyclical letters of our true popes don't apply to the United States of America, and that simple statements of Catholic truth, including the one below from Pope Saint Pius X's Notre Charge Apostolique, August 15, 1910, have been made \"obsolete\" over the course of time:\nThe following passage from Pope Leo XIII\u2019s Humanum Genus, April 20, 1884, summarized the essence of this Judeo-Masonic ethos very succinctly:\nThis is a perfect description of the Judeo-Masonic world in which we live. No amount of the insane babbling of naturalists is ever going to \u201cfix\u201d that which is premised upon one falsehood after another. There is no getting the Humpty Dumpty Protestant and Judeo-Masonic of naturalism back together again as it is of, for and by the devil himself. The battle of the \u201cfalse opposites\u201d of the \u201cleft\u201d and the \u201cright\u201d only result in one thing: more naturalism, which means more statism and more pressure to accept evil or face the might of caesar\u2019s wrath and/or more pressure to make excuses when a member of the organized crime family of the false opposite of the naturalist \u201cright\u201d who is under attack by ruthless opponents supports programs that are evil further bankrupts a country monetarily that has always been bankrupt theologically and morally.\nThe Protestant and Judeo-Masonic ethos that is at the heart of the American founding and has precipitated many errors and the conflicts between false opposites of naturalism ever since was described as follows by William Thomas Walsh in Characters of the Inquisition:\n(1) The isolation of the human soul from God. The indifference and godlessness of our day are directly traceable to the triumph of Manicheanism under the guise of Sixteenth Century Protestantism. Many thoughtful Protestants are now beginning to see that the Revolt inflicted a ghastly wound upon Christianity without adding anything to it. Such positive Christian elements as the Reformers taught were already in Catholicism. As for the aberrations \u2013 Luther's doctrine of grace, Calvin's predestination \u2013 how many who call themselves Protestants today believe in the divinity of Christ; a Methodist will say he believes in the existence of some vague Life Force, not a personal God. With each generation the descendants of the men and women who were led from the Catholic fold by plausible reformers promising them primitive Christianity, become less and less concerned with any religion, and more the prey of Communism, Fascism or some other panacea with new false hopes of creating something permanently good on the frail structure of human nature alone. These will not even listen to the ancient wisdom of the Catholic Church; as Mr. Chesterton wrote somewhere, \u201cThey are tired of hearing what they have never heard.\u201d\n(2) Moral confusion and nihilism. There is and can be no objective and eternal standard of conduct, except that of Christ, as interpreted by His Church. All the old sins and follies that the Church began to drive into exterior darkness two thousand years ago, have come back to destroy the peace of individuals and the harmony of society. Divorce is destroying the family, murder the individual. The free love of the Beghards and the Alumbrados is corrupting the young. What is the prevalent craze for self-destruction but a manifestation of the old Manichean despair of life? And what is the fatal race-suicide known euphemistically as \u201cbirth control\u201d but the old nastiness of the Manichees, born of cowardice, sensuality, distrust of life itself and the Author of life? Usury, which the medieval schoolmen called theft, and capitalism, which in its reprehensible form they identified as one of the seven deadly sins (greed), are defended by dull college professors in the name of economic law; while the enslaved masses everywhere pay tribute to the modern Mammon.\n(3) Intellectual confusion. The Catholic Church speaks with authority in our world in defense of the human reason against a thousand sophistries having their origin in obscure feelings or prejudices. It has become the fashion in certain academic circles to speak disdainfully of logic itself, and of the law of cause and effect, as if these were relics of medieval barbarism. It was not merely a coincidence that a Manichean thought, or rather feeling has appeared extensively in our literature, and in some of the best of it, wherever the Protestant Revolt has prepared for the return of darkness and slavery. Consider the Manichean attitudes in some of Thomas Hardy's work \u2013 especially in Jude the Obscure, in The Return of the Native, and in that frightful sneer at the end of Tess; in Ibsen's Master Builder and Hedda Gabler; in Shelley's Defense of Poetry; in the Autobiography of Mark Twain; in such plays as the Piper of Josephine Preston Peabody, The Scarecrow of Percy Mackaye, and a great deal of O'Neill's work; even in that calm Victorian, Tennyson, who puts into the mouth of a Catholic King a sentiment that would have set Bernard Gui on the trail of any Albigensian:\n\u201cFor why is all around us here,\nAs if some lesser god has made the world,\nbut had not force to make it as he would,\nUntil the High God enter from beyond . . .?\u201d\nNot to press the point too far \u2013 for some liberty must be allowed the facies of poets! \u2013 this and much more that could be mentioned is clearly symptomatic of the sickness which afflicts a world which will not turn to Christ.\n(4) Totalitarianism. Is not the present evolution of government a retrogression toward heresies that the medieval Inquisitors combatted with all their might? Communism, first propagated by the Freemasons on the ruins of Protestantism, finally set up in Russia the absolute state which the Fraticelli had invoked (in so far as the state of science and communications would permit them to envisage it): it was a perversion also of their concept of primitive Christianity, without private property. The Nazi State, set up partly in imitation of Mussolini's Fascism, as a natural reaction to Communism, had also another parentage. The ideal of the omnipotent absolute state, for whose sake the individual exists, was expressed in very similar terms on behalf of Kaiserism by Bernhardi, in 1911; and Bernhadi's teacher was Treitchke, who in turn acknowledged his indebtedness to Martin Luther. (I have developed this idea further in an article published in The Sign, with quotations from Luther and others, in February, 1940.) Thus in two different directions we trace the origins of the Totalitarian State, toward which, by imitation or reaction, the governments of the whole world are tending, to breaches made by medieval heretics in the walls of the City of God, in despite of the watchdogs of the Inquisition.\nThe list could be extended. All the evils that the Inquisition sought to repress, and did in great measure repress, have returned to the modern world, grown great and ravening, to feed upon our children. What then of the evils incidental to the Inquisition itself \u2013 torture, loss of liberty and even life, occasional deceit and hypocracy? Are we better in those regards? Can anyone think of the torture cells maintained by the Reds in Spain in 1936-7 to drive their victims mad, (the cells constructed by the \u201cLoyalist\u201d Reds \u201cwere described as hollow cement blocks four feet height and containing a cement chair and bed, built in a slanting position so that it was impossible for a prisoner to sit or lie down for more than a minute at a time. Raised cement blocks were arranged in a crazy-quilt fashion on the floor to prevent prisoners from standing up. The prosecutor (in the Cik trial) charged that the Loyalists placed rings in the eyelids of prisoners to keep them open in the glare of powerful lights. Some of the witnesses testified that the prisoners were denied food and water and were flogged, sometimes while suspended head down from the ceiling or while cold water was showered upon them. Witnesses said the cells were pained with hundreds of yellow spots, broad black lines and scores of black and white cubes.\u201d \u2013 Associated Press, dispatch from Barcelona, June 13, 1939, published in the New York Sun and other newspapers, Torquemada would have shrunk from the very idea of such diabolical ingenuity.) of the unspeakable butcheries of civilians and priests by both Germans and Russians in Poland in 1939, of the unrestrained villainy of modern warfare, of all our nightmare of hypocrisy, abortion, child-suicide, unpunished murder, and what is worse even that all these monstrosities, disdain for the Deity Himself, without wondering whether we have really progressed to a point where we can look patronizingly upon the memory of a Torquemada?\nAll the worst miseries which men everywhere endure today, while they begin \u201cwithering away for fear and expectations of what shall come? \u2013 famine and pestilence and civil wars whose shadows may already be discerned on the dim walls of the futre \u2013 all these have been foretold by the Popes of modern tomes, on after another pointing out the causes that must lead to such effects, and pleading with mankind to turn away from them to the only possible remedy, held forth by Christ in the Catholic Church. Against all the progressive steps in the disintegration of the European Order, from the Manichees to the Communists and other state worshippers, The Vicars of Christ have uttered solemn and deliberate warnings, based upon ample information. Very soon after the reorganization of the Freemasonry by the Grand Lodge of England, in Spain, the situation was clearly seen at Rome; and in 1738, Pope Clement XII uttered the first formal denunciation of this particular heresy, this oriental dissolvent in modern guise. \u201cIf they were not doing evil, they would not fear the light,\u201d he said of all societies, without any exception, of the Masonic type or affiliation. He forbade Catholics to join them, favor, support, shelter, or defend them in any way, or even to receive the members into their homes. Any Catholic so doing was excommunicated by the very fact, and the ban could be removed only by the Pope himself, save in the danger of death. This, as we have seen, did not deter vain, ambitious or stupid Catholics, even among the clergy here and there, from being drawn into an organization which pretended to be social and philanthropic, and masked its real aims and nature from all its neophytes, from all except a few initiates. The Popes of the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries continued to raise their voices against the stealthy advances of this mystery of iniquity. Pius XII accused the Freemasons of being the chief causes of the revolutionary upheavals (antichristian in their direction) of Europe. Gregory XVI said they were guilty of sacrilege, infamy and blasphemy, and promoted heresy and revolution. Pius IX applied to them the words that Christ addressed to the scribes and pharisees who sought His destruction, \u201cYou are of your father the devil, and the works of your father you will do.\u201d He called them the wolves in sheep's clothing against whom Our Lord and the Apostles had warned the first Christians. In another letter he referred to them as \u201cthe Synagogue of Satan . . . whose object is to blot out the Church of Christ, were it possible from the face of the Universe.\u201d Renewing the condemnations of his predecessors, he explicitly included Freemasons in America \u201cand in whatever part of the world they may be.\u201d\nPope Leo XIII warned the world that Freemasonry was the real source and center of Communist and Atheist propaganda. \u201cIn this insane and wicked endeavor,\u201d he wrote, \u201cwe may almost see the implacable hatred and spirit of revenge with which Satan himself is inflamed against Jesus Christ.\u201d In that same magnificent encyclical he cried out to all Catholics, laymen as well as priests, to \u201ctear the mask off the face? Of the hidden menace. If not, he said, \u201cthe ruin and overthrow of all things must necessarily follow.: (Encyclical, Humanum genus, 1884.)\nThis tremendous prophecy, deliberately uttered by the Vicar of Christ, and now being fulfilled with terrible literalness as the flimsy structure built of the sands of the great apostacy of the Sixteenth Century comes crashing down about us, has of course been generally disregarded by the world, as the prophecies of Christ were disregarded. Other profound observations from Leo and his successors have met the same characteristically Christian fate; nevertheless they remain as truth.\nIt was Pius XI who pointed out the close spiritual affinity of Liberalism and Socialism, even when they waged a sham battle across the arena of the world. \u201cLet us bear in mind,\u201d he wrote in Quadragesimo Anno, \u201cthat the parent of this cultural Socialism was Liberalism, and that its offspring will be Bolshevism.\u201d He had no more regard for one of these antichristian aberrations than for the other. Liberalism, he said, had shown as early as 1891 \u201cits utter impotence to find a right solution of the social question,\u201d while Socialism \u201cwould have exposed human society to still graver dangers by offering a remedy much more disastrous than the evil it designed to cure.\u201d (Quadragesimo Anno, 1931)\nThis great Pope remarked that since the time of Leo XIII the \u201ccapitalistic economic regime\u201d had \u201cpenetrated everywhere\u201d; and that:\n\u201cit is patent that in our days not alone is wealth accumulated, but immense power and despotic economic domination are concentrated in the hands of a few, and that those few are frequently not the owners, but only the trustees and directors of invested funds, who administer them at their good pleasure. This power becomes particularly irresistible when exercises by those who, because they hold and control money, are able also to govern credit and determine its allotment, for that reason supplying, so to speak, the lifeblood to the entire economic body, and grasping, as it were, in their hands the very soul of production, so that no one dare breathe against their will. This accumulation of power, the characteristic note of the modern economic order, is a natural result of limitless free competition which permits the survival of those only who are the strongest, which often means those who fight most relentlessly, who pay least heed to the dictates of conscience. This concentration of power has led to a threefold struggle for domination. First, there is the struggle for dictatorship in the economic sphere itself; then, the fierce battle to acquire control of the state, so that its resources and authority may be abused in the economic struggles. Finally, the clash between states themselves. . . The state, which should be the supreme arbiter, ruling in kingly fashion far above all party contention, intent only upon justice and the common good, has become instead a slave, bound over to the service of human passion and greed.\u201d (Quadragesimo Anno, 1931)\nElsewhere, of course, Pius condemned the totalitarian theory which, reacting against the evil here described, rushed to the opposite extreme, and erroneously hald that the individual existed for the benefit of the state. None of these panaceas could reach the center of the disorder; they were all, inf fact, so many forms of Socialism, one fighting the other, but all tending toward a common end. With characteristic acuteness, Pius noticed that since the time of Leo XIII Socialism had broken up into various forms, of which he condemned even the most moderate.\n\u201cThe question arises, or is unwarrantably proposed in certain quarters, whether the principles of Christian truth also could not be somewhat moderated and attenuated, so as to meet Socialism, as it were, halfway upon a common ground. Some are engaged by the empty hope of gaining Socialists in this way to our cause. But such hope are vain. Those who wish to be apostles among the Socialists should preach the Christian truth whole and entire, openly and sincerely, without any connivance with error. If they wish in truth to be heralds of the Gospel, let them convince Socialists that their demands, in so far as they are just, are defended much more cogently by the principles of Christian faith, and are promoted much more efficaciously by the power of Christian charity . . . Whether Socialism be considered as a doctrine or as an historical fact, or as a movement, if it really remain socialism, it cannot be brought into harmony with the dogmas of the Catholic Church, even after it has yielded to truth and justice in the points. We have mentioned; the reason being that it conceives human society in a way utterly alien to Christian truth.\n\u201cAccording to Christian doctrine, Man, endowed with a social nature, is place here on earth in order that he may spend his life in society, and under authority ordained by God, that he may develop and evolve to the full all his faculties to the praise and glory of his Creator; and that, by fulfilling faithfully the duties of his station, he may attain to temporal and eternal happiness. Socialism, on the contrary, entirely ignorant of or unconcerned about his sublime end both of individuals and of society, affirms that living in community was instituted merely for the sake of advantages which it brings to mankind. Goods are produced more efficiently by a suitable distribution of labor than by the scattered efforts of individuals. Hence the Socialist argue that economic production, of which they see only the material side, must necessarily be carried on collectively, and that because of this necessity men must surrender and submit themselves wholly to society with a view to the production of wealth. Indeed, the possession of the greatest possible amount of temporal goods is esteemed so highly, that man's higher goods, not excepting liberty must, they claim, be subordinated and even sacrificed to the exigencies of efficient production. They affirm that the loss of human dignity, which result from these socialized methods of production, will be easily compensated for by the abundance of good produced in common and accring to the individual who can turn them at his will to the comforts and culture of life. Society, therefore, as the Socialist conceives it, is, on the one hand, impossible and unthinkable without the use of compulsion of the most excessive kind: on the other it fosters a false liberty, since in such a scheme no place if found for true social authority, which is not based on temporal and material advantages, but descends from God alone, the Creator and Last End of all things. If, like all errors, Socialism, contains a certain element of truth (and this founded upon a doctrine of human society peculiarly its own, which is opposed to true Christianity . . . No one can be at the same time a sincere Catholic and a true Socialist.\" (Quadragesimo Anno, 1931)\nSince Pius XI wrote those words in 1931, the nations of the world generally have taken long steps toward various forms of Socialism which, however different they appeared on first view, are more and more revealing themselves as essentially the same. Communism, the most radical and patently godless form was not too remote ideologically from its pretended rival Nazi-Socialism, to lie down beside it in the same foul nest, when it suited both to beget a second great war. Other nations, loving freedom, have been conquered and drawn into the two Socialist orbits. Still others have imitated Socialist regimes by reaction, or by military necessity. Few have been able to maintain fully the sacredness of human personality. The tiny nations of Portugal and Ireland, both thoroughly Catholic, are glorious exceptions. Of Spain, I have high hopes; may the Catholic spirit of General Franco prevail, and not certain others, very different and very crafty, which still exist in the country and even in high places, hungry for power. England, while fighting Hitler, has kept a friendly hand mysteriously outstretched toward his partner, Stalin; and whatever the outcome of the present war, is likely to emerge from it shackled to some form of Socialism.\nHere in the United States Socialism has made more cautious but not the less evident gains. It is rather amusing, and at the same time depressing, to see that likable Socialist Mr. Norman Thomas denouncing both Mr. Roosevelt and Mr. Wilkie as champions of peace-time conscription, which he says (and I think rightly) must lead toward dictatorship, and to realize at the same time that both these gentlemen are fundamentally (that is to say spiritually) as Socialistic as he is. If we judge not by what a man says he is or even believes he is, but by the antithesis set up by Pope Pius XI as a test of spirits, this conclusion becomes inescapable. Mr. Roosevelt has tried to save the country by curtailing production. Mr. Wilkie proposes to do it by speeding up curtailing production, Yet both these Liberals, as they proudly call themselves, are interested primarily in production; in the material, in the things of this world. It is difficult, of course, to see how a politician could wholly free himself from such concerns, and I am not criticising either, or discussing any issues, political or economic, between them \u2013 whoever is elected will be entitled to our obedience, under the Constitution, and no doubt, will do his best according to his lights. I would only suggest that niether has the lights necessary to solve the social problem. (It is true that both have spoken reverently in public of Divine Providence; but so, for that matter has Hitler; so have the politicians of every country, except godless Russian..) Not too much must be expected from these well-meaning statesmen. They are children of a Liberalism evolving rapidly into Socialism. Both are high in the ranks of a secret society proscribed and abhorred by the Catholic Church, and denounced by Pope Leo XIII as the true source of Socialism and Communism, and the general corruption of European and world society. They are servants of the same invisible masters, to whose obedience they are bound by oaths \u2013 masters who may not even be in America, but in Europe or Asia; masters of whose exact identity they may themselves be ignorant. When they speak of \u201cDemocracy,\u201d one must remember this background, and the fact that the elastic word has been used by many Liberals to include even the tyranny of Soviet Russia. Can Democracy be anything but a farce among men, when some of them, including the most influential, belong to a secret society whose real aims and principles have been repeatedly disclosed as political and anti-Christian? The French Catholics, in the sad clarifying light of catastrophe, have recently found the answer to this question. As Our Holy Father Pope Pius XII said in welcoming the French Ambassador after the tragedy of last summer, \u201cLike lightening which flashes through heavy clouds, the devastating lights of war . . . have torn from the eyes of all careful and sincere observers that veil of prejudices which for half a century the voice of the Church, and especially the reiterated warnings of the last Popes, Our venerated predecessors, did not succeed in penetrating . . . May the lessons of this bitter period in acts which permit us to hope in the future for a revival of Christian spirit, particularly in the education of youth . . .\u201d and \u201cthe creation of a new Christian order . . . When will this desired hour arrive? God preserves the secret of it; but We beseech Him to hasten its advent.\u201d\nAll this is part of a universal conflict between the church of Christ and the Prince of This World. All other conflicts are either subsidiary to this or camouflages for it. Just now there seems to be a deadly strife between international capitalism, intrenched in the United States and gradually leading this country toward a State Socialism or (what amounts to the same thing) toward a State Capitalism, and on the other side, the seemingly more godless and godless forms of Socialism beyond the seas. Yet if Nazi-Socialism and Bolshevism, after so violent a sham battle, could so speedily come to terms, for a purpose convenient to both, what is to prevent this American Socialism, now in the making and already accepted and propagated by the dominant educational forces of this county, from arriving at mutually agreeable arrangements with both the Soviet and the Nazi forms of Socialism, whenever it may suit the real leaders on both sides to do so? Within a generation we have seen our Liberal politicians denounce the Soviet, cultivate friendly relations with it, and denounce it again \u2013 this time more coyly. As the world grows smaller in time, may not all the forms of Socialism be gathered together by skilful hands into a World Sate, such as many Masonic writers have advocated, and the League of Nations sought to achieve? It is not only conceivable, but probable; for all forms of Socialism (even if some still call themselves Democracies) will be animated by a single obscure but powerful principle: the worship of the material, which is and always must be the negation of Christianity. Here, then, by a masterly anithesis, Pius XI has cast a strong light upon the shapes of things to come. It is all the more revealing when it shows us only the recurrence upon a larger stage of a deathless drama that happened long ago. Christ still lives in His Mystical Body, the Church, as truly as in the human body he took from Our Lady; and when the time comes for Him to be crucified again in His Church, depend upon it, Pilate and Herod that day will find a way to patch up their differences, some Caiaphas will cry, \u201cCrucify Him! We have no king but Caesar!\u201d and there will always be found some Judas to give the kiss of death.\nThat last paragraph summarized the theme that I have tried to hammer home in hundreds upon hundreds of lengthy commentaries on this site\u2014and in countless hours of lectures around the country and online. William Thomas Walsh\u2019s prophetic vision of what would happen to Catholicism in the United States of America has been accomplished by conciliar revolutionaries, many of whose American predecessors before the \u201cSecond\u201d Vatican Council sought to pave the way for the triumph of Americanist \u201cideals.\u201d\nYes, the United States of America has become a slave state controlled by the same set of forces that the Inquisition sought to eliminate from within Holy Mother Church. This is because the United States of America was founded on false principles, including those of \u201creligious liberty\u201d and \u201creligious indifferentism\u201d that contributed to the rise of counterfeit church of conciliarism, whose very false spirit was being pioneered by Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States of America Frank Murphy and the others, including that nameless priest who taught at the Catholic University of America, described by Mr. Walsh above.\nDon\u2019t kid yourselves. Donald John Trump and his gaggle of Talmudic relatives, friends and advisers is not going to retard the prevailing evils of the day. No man who believes that Jerusalem is the \u201ceternal capital of Israel\u201d or who agrees to reckless spending policies that will fund a wasteful military intent on its pursuit of endless war, which is one of the goals of Trotskyism, after all.\nAlthough he does not know that this is so, President Donald John Trump is a Pelagian, who believes that Americans can accomplish anything they desire to achieve, something that he said in approximate words in his first State of the Union address to a special joint meeting of the two houses of the Congress of the United States of America on Tuesday, January 30, 2018:\nAs long as we have confidence in our values, faith in our citizens, and trust in our God, we will not fail. (https://www.President Donald John Trump, State of the Union Address, January 18, 2018.)\n\u201cOur God.\u201d\nThe Most Blessed Trinity?\nNo, any \u201cgod\u201d one wants to believe in, that \u201cgod.\u201d\n\"Music\"?\nWhat kind of \"music\"?\nTo believe that Americans can achieve whatever they desire as long as they are \u201cproud of who we are, and what were our fighting for\u201d is the essence of the Pelagian belief in human self-redemption, that is, that men can stir up graces within themselves to be holy and to do whatever it is they need to do.\nFather Frederick Faber explained the Pelagian influence of the modern world in the following passage from The Precious Blood:\nAll devotions have their characteristics; all of them have their own theological meanings. We must say something, therefore, upon the characteristics of the devotion to the Precious Blood. In reality the whole Treatise has more or less illustrated this matter. But something still remains to be said, and something will bear to be repeated. We will take the last first. Devotion to the Precious Blood is the devotional expression of the prominent and characteristic teaching of St. Paul. St. Paul is the apostle of redeeming grace. A devout study of his epistles would be our deliverance from most of the errors of the day. He is truly the apostle of all ages. To each age doubtless he seems to have a special mission. Certainly his mission to our is very special. The very air we breathe is Pelagian. Our heresies are only novel shapes of an old Pelagianism. The spirit of the world is eminently Pelagian. Hence it comes to pass that wrong theories among us are always constructed round a nuclear of Pelagianism; and Pelagianism is just the heresy which is least able to breathe in the atmosphere of St. Paul. It is the age of the natural as opposed to the supernatural, of the acquired as opposed to the infused, of the active as opposed to the passive. This is what I said in an earlier chapter, and here repeat. Now, this exclusive fondness for the natural is on the whole very captivating. It takes with the young, because it saves thought. It does not explain difficulties; but it lessens the number of difficulties to be explained. It takes with the idle; it dispenses from slowness and research. It takes with the unimaginative, because it withdraws just the very element in religion which teases them. It takes with the worldly, because it subtracts the enthusiasm from piety and the sacrifice from spirituality. It takes with the controversial, because it is a short road and a shallow ford. It forms a school of thought which, while it admits that we have an abundance of grace, intimates that we are not much better for it. It merges privileges in responsibilities, and makes the sovereignty of God odious by representing it as insidious. All this whole spirit, with all its ramifications, perishes in the sweet fires of devotion to the Precious Blood.\nThe time is also one of libertinage; and a time of libertinage is always, with a kind of practical logic, one of infidelity. Whatever brings out God's side in creation, and magnifies his incessant supernatural operation in it, is the controversy which infidelity can least withstand. Now, the devotion to the Precious Blood does this in a very remarkable way. It shows that the true significance in every thing is to be found in the scheme of redemption, apart from which it is useless to discuss the problems of creation. (Father Frederick Faber, The Precious Blood, written in 1860, republished by TAN Books and Publishers, pp. 258-259.)\nThis is why it is so important to keep focused on the root causes of our problems rather than getting lost in the \u201ctrees\u201d of particular developments, each of which is simply a tool used by the adversary to keep people agitated and thus distracted from seeing the fact that both Modernity and Modernism have been veritable \u201cHumpty Dumpties\u201d tottering on their respective walls before falling over into a gazillion pieces.\nCatholicism, although not an infallible guarantor of social order given fallen human nature, is nevertheless the necessary precondition of such order, something that our true popes have taught from time immemorial, especially as the Social Kingship of Our Lord Jesus Christ has been under attack in the past five hundred years:\nPerhaps a reminder in this regard is in order:\nWhenever men are forgetful of Original Sin and its after-effects on their own souls and thus upon the souls of all other men\u2014and seek to excuse their own Actual Sins if they have any concept of sin whatsoever, you see, they will be forever lost in the \u201ctrees\u201d of this passing, mortal vale of tears without once recognizing that they must quit their sins and reform their lives in cooperation with the graces won for them by the shedding of every single drop of Our Blessed Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ\u2019s Most Precious Blood during His Passion and Death on the wood of the Holy Cross on Good Friday and that flow into their souls through the loving hands of Our Lady, she who is the Mediatrix of All Graces, to realize a true and lasting reformation of society.\nPope Pius XI, writing to condemn German national socialism and its deification of the German state and its \u201cpureblood\u201d Aryans, explained that no kind of naturalistic scheme can achieve a just social order in this passing world where we have not a permanent dwelling:\nEvery true and lasting reform has ultimately sprung from the sanctity of men who were driven by the love of God and of men. Generous, ready to stand to attention to any call from God, yet confident in themselves because confident in their vocation, they grew to the size of beacons and reformers. On the other hand, any reformatory zeal, which instead of springing from personal purity, flashes out of passion, has produced unrest instead of light, destruction instead of construction, and more than once set up evils worse than those it was out to remedy. No doubt \"the Spirit breatheth where he will\" (John iii. 8): \"of stones He is able to raise men to prepare the way to his designs\" (Matt. iii. 9). He chooses the instruments of His will according to His own plans, not those of men. But the Founder of the Church, who breathed her into existence at Pentecost, cannot disown the foundations as He laid them. Whoever is moved by the spirit of God, spontaneously adopts both outwardly and inwardly, the true attitude toward the Church, this sacred fruit from the tree of the cross, this gift from the Spirit of God, bestowed on Pentecost day to an erratic world. (Pope Pius XI, Mit Brennender Sorge, March 17, 1937.)\nDonald John Trump does not believe this, of course, and even though there is much irrational hatred directed at him by adherents of the false opposite of the naturalist \u201cleft\u201d and that his presidency has helped to give those who care a glimpse into the workings of the \u201cdeep state,\u201d the fact remains that he is doing evil in his own naturalist right as William Thomas Walsh\u2019s description of Judaism at the same of Saint Peter the Apostle applies to him and all other naturalists of the \u201cright\u201d as well:\nFrom the later words and acts of Simon bar Jonas, it is plain that his conception of the Messiah, as he advanced toward manhood, was that of the vast majority of the Jewish people. Few could imagine the Holy One coming to suffer in atonement for the sins of the world, much less for the sins of Israel. Everyone knew that Moses had been punished for disobedience, that the Babylonian captivity had been the penalty for connivance with idolatry. Yet the old sense of sinfulness had yielded to a certain proud complacency, born in part, no doubt, of an awareness of very real virtues. The Jewish leaders forgot that they were a Chosen People not through any special excellence of their own, but through God's favor to Abraham. This sort of smugness easily takes possession of classes long established in wealth and power.\nThe doctrine of original sin in particular had been almost wholly forgotten in Israel. True, it still stood boldly forth on the first pages of the Book of Genesis. This makes it all the more astonishing that no one preached it, and hardly any believed it. Perhaps their recent sorrows had made the Jews forget the primal tragedy which was the beginning of human history. Perhaps the vision of towering wheat fields had little by little come to blot out of their minds the memory of the tree of knowledge, the locked garden, the flaming sword. A future woven out of hopeful dreams had become more real than a past as aching and tangible as the rocks of Judea.\nIt is a curious fact that this sort of idealizing is sometimes the very stuff of which materialists are made. It is because they love this world, its satisfactions and its power, that they turn away from its imperfections to an imaginary world in which they want those gratifications to be fully realize \u2013 but in the flesh, in the here and now. Only a mystery of grace could turn such mundane aspirations into a spiritual hope. 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Will we choose\u2014as Great Britain has\u2014nationalism, or will we embrace globalism?\nTett shares her political perspective on everything from how the U.K. (including the FT) got Brexit so wrong; to growing economic, social and political polarization, and the \u201celites\u201d disconnection; to living in a time of anger when voters no longer fear taking big risks; to effective communication and the power of simple, clear, positive messages; to the importance of boring, geeky details of voter registration.\nTett shares her global perspective on the meaning of Brexit for the rest of the European Union from fundamental tension at the heart of the Eurozone project; to the lack of European cohesion and social glue and political unity; to how you create a functioning economic union without a political union; including her keen analysis of the range of trade options and the state of the international finance system.\nPerhaps most interesting of all is when she branches out to implications for the U.S. and to the population generally, from income inequality, to technological/digital displacement, to income redistribution, to educational reform, to infrastructure projects.\nShe provides cautionary messages including one she described in her latest book as \u201cthe silo effect,\u201d being essentially fragmented into self-reinforcing silos:\n\u201cIf you look at who people are getting information from for decisions in their lives, whether it\u2019s where to go out for a meal or where to go to college, or where to vote, it\u2019s increasingly through the social media networks rather than authority figures. That\u2019s fueling this sense of tribalism and of polarization because one of the things about technology is it\u2019s fantastically deductive. It gives us the illusion that we\u2019re all hyper-connected and yet you know that in a world where you can customize, where you can choose where to get your information from, people are increasingly fragmenting into their own classical tribes.\u201d\nThis is an incredibly important thought-provoking piece. You\u2019ll want to make time to read her remarks in their entirety and appreciate the breadth of her perspective and the genuineness with which she reflects on the world order and human condition.\nGillian Tett, U.S. Managing Editor of the Financial Times (remarks edited for clarity only and emphasis of major points added):\nWhen I first started working for the Financial Times two decades ago, people used to refer to the FT as being the Financial Times of London. What some of you may not know is\u2014quite apart from the fact that these days we\u2019re not really a paper, two-thirds of our subscribers are digital and, in fact, 90 percent in America are digital\u2014America today is our biggest market, not London, not Europe. So in many ways we\u2019re not so much the Financial Times of London, we\u2019re the Financial Times of New York, San Francisco, Washington, Chicago, and Charlotte.\nI\u2019m going to be talking today a bit about some thoughts in mind to do with the wider trends in the political economy. I\u2019m happy to take questions on any topic at all. I\u2019d like to first start by talking a bit about what\u2019s going on in Europe these days because in the last few months the U.K., which is where I hail from, has undergone two shocks\u2014one of which you all know about, which is Brexit, I\u2019ll talk about it in a minute. The other one you may not quite have registered but it\u2019s top of most British people\u2019s minds\u2014and it\u2019s actually the most commented article of all at the moment on the FT.com website\u2014is the Olympics.\nAbout two decades ago when I was growing up, British people used to assume that they would never win anything at the Olympics. We used to come to sort of number 47th on the medal table, but this month we are celebrating the most extraordinary result, which is that the U.K. has come second in the table, Team GB beating Russia and China. On one level that\u2019s absolutely wonderful. It\u2019s done wonders to restore a sense of natural confidence at a time when a lot is quite tumultuous. On another level though, it reveals some of the big splits that are going on.\nBecause no sooner did that tally of medals come out\u2014the U.K.\u2019s Team GB has won 67 medals\u2014I noticed a series of very snide comments from elsewhere in Europe complaining that the British people had only won because they rigged up the usual convention in Europe of giving money equally to all sports, in the wonderfully Socialist way, and so they targeted the sports that they thought that Team GB people would actually win, that they were too focused and a bit too results-orientated.\nIn fact, the European Union parliament seemed to be very cross when they tweeted yesterday, \u201cCongratulations to Europe for its medals,\u201d and totally ignored the British result. In fact, it was left out that Britain, for the first time ever, got 21 medals over Germany. That, of course, then started a whole great angry set of comments in the British blogosphere saying, \u201cWell, if you want to understand why Britain is leaving the European Union, just look at what the European Union parliament has said about the Olympics.\u201d\nThat might seem incredibly trivial but it illustrates a very important point, which is that if nothing else, the Brexit vote shows that we\u2019re living through a period of extraordinary political fragmentation, political polarization, political volatility and great political uncertainty. That has implications not just for the U.K. but also for the U.S., as you\u2019re placing your own very momentous vote in a few months\u2019 time. To make the right obvious point, up until the very last minute with the Brexit vote, most of the establishment, including the Financial Times, were assuming, often quite complacently, that it would be almost inconceivable for the British public to vote to leave the European Union.\nYes, I know that in theory, the polls were showing up until the very last minute there would be a proclamation of a fairly even split and yes that\u2019s equal, with myself included, as saying intellectually that yes of course there is a chance that the British voters will vote to leave the European Union. But when it came to that night and when it came to people like me actually standing there in the news room of the Financial Times as the votes were being counted, I and my colleagues and most of my friends and most of my generation who are absolutely, for better or worse, part of that intellectual elite globalized generation, like many of you I\u2019m sure, we didn\u2019t quite believe that the British electorate would do it.\nIt\u2019s not just us. If you talk to the people who actually headed up Brexit, the people who were leading a whole movement for revolution, and ask them were they expecting to win, it\u2019s pretty clear in retrospect that up until the very last moment, most of them could not quite believe that a political earthquake of this sort would actually happen. I\u2019m sure the question most of you want to know is, \u201cWhat\u2019s going to happen next?\u201d I\u2019ll come to that later on, but I think it\u2019s worth pausing for a moment and asking how and why did the U.K. get into this position that people were voting for Brexit, and why did so many people get it wrong about what was going to happen?\nWhen I look back at what\u2019s happened in the U.K. in the last few months, I think there are really four or five key lessons, all of which have a lot of implications for the U.S. right now. The first and most obvious one is that we are living in a time where there\u2019s growing economic, social and political polarization, and then frankly the elites, if you like, are pretty disconnected from what many ordinary voters think.\nIf you look at the results of the Brexit vote and the breakdown, it\u2019s very clear that party affiliations, the traditional dividing points that people have used to try and imagine British politics\u2014right, left, Conservative, Labor\u2014actually was not a good predictor of which way people would vote. Instead, what emerged was, first of all, a very stark geographical split between north, south, rural and urban. For the most part it was the urban south, the wealthy London areas, which wanted to stay. It was the rural areas, particularly the north, who wanted to leave. There was a generational split, the older generation much more strongly in favor of leaving than the younger. There was also a strong educational split, and there was also a wealth effect.\nWhat people like myself who hail from a London background, work in a very nice job in the Financial Times and tend to mostly talk to, like ourselves, business leaders, international people, what we\u2019ve been forced to recognize is actually we are getting sucked into a bubble in a very dangerous way. It\u2019s not just because we live nice, cushy lives. It\u2019s not just because we tend to talk to people with also our professional jobs. It\u2019s also because the entire structure of the media today, if we\u2019re not careful, reinforces this sense of polarization separation, this problem of what I call in my latest book \u201cthe silo effect,\u201d being essentially fragmented into self-reinforcing silos.\nLesson one is the elites right now need to stop very quickly and think about how much they actually know about what\u2019s going on in the rest of the country. In the U.K., that\u2019s a big issue.\nLesson number two, I think, is that we live in a time when a number of people in the voting groups feel so angry with what\u2019s going on that fear of jumping into the unknown, taking big risks, has diminished dramatically. Or to put in another way, when somebody like Donald Trump stands up and says, \u201cWhat do you have to lose?\u201d a lot of people say, \u201cYou know what? Not much. Why should we keep bucking the status quo?\u201d\nThat partly reflects, I think, the level of economic anger at people who feel they have been excluded from economic growth in recent years. I think it also reflects something much more subtle, which is that in the last 10 years we have lived in a world where many of the old certainties have been ripped up. To cite Alice in Wonderland, people have had to grow up and start believing six impossible things before breakfast almost every other day.\nBy that I mean before 2008, very few people thought that banks would collapse. Very few people ever thought it would be possible to see the government in a country like the U.S. step in to rescue big banks. Very few people ever thought it would be possible to have negative interest rates, and yet as certainty of the certainties starts to crumble, the idea of challenging some of the political status quo, some of the conventions, starts to seem less remarkable.\nWhich leads me onto my third point, which is if you look at the Brexit vote, it\u2019s also clear is that one of the reasons why the Brexit camp won and the Remain side lost was because the elites were very detached. They had no idea how to communicate effectively with angry voters who were increasingly fed up with the status quo.\nIt\u2019s very striking that if you look at the messages that came out of the Remain camp in the run-up to the vote, they were either driven by scare stories along the lines of \u201cDon\u2019t be so stupid. How could you possibly vote to leave? It would be disastrous\u201d\u2014very patronizing\u2014or this very rational set of economic arguments where practically every large institution in the world that\u2019s got a multinational economist came out and said, \u201cIt would be a really bad idea for the U.K. to vote for Brexit.\u201d\nThese were laid out over and over again, and yet they didn\u2019t have much resonance with ordinary voters, who simply were uninterested in the economics and were very irritated by all the scare stories and what they thought was essentially a very patronizing campaign. Instead, the thing that really swayed the voters, and I think it\u2019s got a lot of implications for America, was the fact that the Brexit camp had a very simple, clear, positive slogan. The slogan was \u201cTake back control.\u201d Nice, short, memorable slogan with a verb. Verbs matter. Positive momentum.\nIf you talk to people after the vote about why they voted for Brexit, it wasn\u2019t just a negative, \u201cWe\u2019re fed up with the status quo.\u201d It was also a sense that they were voting for something positive. They were voting for a sense of sovereignty, for identity, for control. Again, this tapped in very much to this idea that people are fed up with statistics, fed up with being lectured. They want something positive.\nThe reason I brought this out is because I\u2019m probably the only person in the room who went to both the RNC and DNC campaign. What struck me, I must say, and I\u2019m not \u2026 We can talk about Trump versus Clinton later on, but going into the Trump convention and the Clinton convention, whatever else you might think about Donald Trump, the one thing that you could not leave that convention without knowing was what the campaign slogan was\u2014\u201cMake America Great Again\u201d\u2014emblazoned above the central stage. It was there over and over again.\nIf you went to the DNC campaign, you came back with a sense of being a wildly slick professional production\u2014very, very mesmerizing\u2014but actually most people didn\u2019t have much of an idea of what the slogan was supposed to be. Yes, \u201cStronger Together\u201d is all of it, except there\u2019s no verb there. \u201cI\u2019m With Her\u201d was the other one, but it\u2019s actually a lot of mishmash of statistics, some scary stories about Donald Trump, and a fairly, I would argue, confused message. When I look back at Brexit, the fact that the Brexit side had a very clear-cut slogan with positive momentum and the all-important verb, I think it\u2019s a very key reason why they managed to gain so much momentum.\nJust one other quick point about why Brexit won. It also came down to the fine, boring, nitty-gritty details of voter registration. Sound familiar? After the vote came out, the results came out, a lot of people said, \u201cThe problem was with the vote. The reason why Brexit won was because those wretched kids,\u201d i.e., people aged 18 to 25, and these days they do look like kids to me, \u201cthose wretched kids didn\u2019t vote.\u201d\nThat was incredibly important. If you did a poll on the population as a whole, in fact there was actually a slight advantage for Remain and not Brexit, but the older generation were very strongly more in favor of Brexit than the younger generation. We can talk about why that was if you want later on, but the older generation were very, very inspired and motivated to get out to the polls.\nUnfortunately, on the day of the polls, there was a giant thunderstorm, a lot of rain, what\u2019s new with Britain in June? That meant that you had to really want to get out to the polls to vote, and the older generation did. The younger generation didn\u2019t, and people said later at work because they\u2019re all so lazy. \u201cThose kids are all playing with their iPhones. They think that they tweet that means they\u2019re taking part politically. Don\u2019t they realize they have to get out to vote?\u201d\nThis graphic from Geopolitical Futures contains two maps of the United Kingdom. On the left side are the results of a YouGov poll that identified different parts of the U.K. as more or less Euroskeptic. On the right side are the official results of Britain\u2019s vote to leave the European Union.\nThe reality is actually the ones that were registered, for the most part, did get out to vote. The problem was that a couple of years ago there was a little-noted reform to British voting law, which meant that you couldn\u2019t be automatically registered by your parents anymore. You had to go and do it yourself. That little tiny detail that no one had noticed meant that actually come polling day, lots of kids woke up and realized that they weren\u2019t registered, and it was too late. Again, sounds familiar? One lesson for Brexit which matters for the U.S. vote is the fine, boring, geeky details about registration could really matter.\nPopulism, volatility, unpredictability, all big, big themes. It has implications going forward. The big implication was obviously for the U.K., because the fact is the vote has now happened. While there was a huge amount of emotional thinking in the immediate weeks after the Brexit vote\u2014which literally ran from the Remain camp that the whole thing could be reversed, thus far at least\u2014the establishment has scurried to stress that they\u2019re not going to reverse it. \u201cBrexit means Brexit\u201d is the new slogan of Theresa May, the British Prime Minister, and everybody is proceeding on the assumption that Brexit is going to happen.\nWhat will it mean for the U.K.? The honest answer right now is we just don\u2019t know, because one of the extraordinary things about the current situation the U.K. finds itself in is that, although this dramatic political earthquake happened two months ago, Theresa May, the new Prime Minister, has indicated that she doesn\u2019t actually plan to invoke what\u2019s called Article 50, which is really the kind of button you press to signal that you\u2019re actually going to leave. She doesn\u2019t plan to invoke that until next year.\nAlthough she initially said it would be the start of next year, she has now indicated that they won\u2019t leave until after the general elections, which will be more like the autumn. She doesn\u2019t even plan to press the button to start the process for another year, and even when she presses the button it\u2019s likely to take at least two years for the U.K. to actually complete the Brexit process, so right now you\u2019re looking at probably three years before the U.K. actually have Brexit in reality.\nAnyone who\u2019s in business, and particularly in finance, knows that if you are in the business of business, you can\u2019t sit around for three years and wonder what\u2019s going to happen next. What you\u2019re seeing right now is a series of indications for big business CEOs but they\u2019re not actually pulling out of anything in the U.K. yet, but they\u2019re not actually investing anymore because there\u2019s so much uncertainty. It\u2019s very little indication yet as to what kind of relationship the U.K. will actually forge with the European Union going forward.\nThose of you who follow the debate today will know that there\u2019s a range of options right now. They range from something like Norway, which is what they call an EEA situation where essentially if the U.K. went down the Norwegian route would have access to the European Union market for goods and services, but as a quid pro quo it would have to allow free movement of people, which at the moment seems pretty unpalatable given the immigration hostility in the U.K. We\u2019ve got that at one end of the spectrum. You\u2019ve got the Albania option of the other end of the spectrum, which means pretty much just relying on WTO and nothing else.\nYou\u2019ve also got what they call the Swiss option, which is doing lots of bespoke trade deals to try and let your financial services industry have access to the single market in certain segments, but in a bespoke way. Best yet from the British politicians that I spoke to recently, and I was with one of the key negotiators just this weekend at Aspen, is that something like the Swiss plus option is what the U.K. will end up with, which means a lot of bespoke negotiations which may allow the financial services sector access to the single market, it may not be, we just don\u2019t know.\nIf you\u2019re going to be optimistic, and this is the argument of the pro-Brexit camp, the cost of that uncertainty will be more than outweighed by the sense of liberation that small businesses and companies feel over the red tape in Brussels. People who are pro-Brexit would argue that actually now the U.K. will go forth and forge trade deals with China, with India, with Latin America, with many other countries, all the far-thrown countries in the world.\nThe honest answer is we just don\u2019t know, but we at the FT are desperately trying to work out this cost-benefit analysis, so much so that we actually now have a special page at virtual on our website called Brexit Briefing, which does nothing else than track what\u2019s actually happening as regards Brexit. What\u2019s striking about that page, which I was looking at this morning, is that right now the balance is both pros and cons, both positive and negative, but the one thing is clear that there\u2019s nothing, absolutely nothing tangible which indicates what\u2019s actually going to happen next in terms of rules and regulations. We just don\u2019t know.\nThe second big point is what obviously happens for the rest of the European Union, on the back of the Brexit vote. Since the Brexit vote has occurred, essentially there has been a circling of the wagons by the leadership in the European Union. You might have seen that over the weekend with the leaders of France, Germany and Italy meeting to very much signal they are together. Certainly the polls suggest that the sheer shock of seeing Brexit go through has made voters elsewhere in the European Union at the moment say they actually are less excited about the idea of leaving than they were before.\nWhat Brexit has exposed is that there are some really fundamental problems at the heart of the Eurozone project, in terms of trying to work out how you take this union which started life as a coal and steel union and economic union, how you take that union and turn it into some kind of effective union for the 21st century where half the union wants to have essentially a United States of Europe and a federal structure in every sense, and parts of the Union don\u2019t. There\u2019s a fundamental tension and contradiction there which has not been resolved.\nOne of the things that has emerged from the whole Brexit debate is the sense of not just democratic deficit, the idea that actually voters are cross because they\u2019ve got no idea what this faceless, big bureaucracy in Brussels are doing, and as someone who used to work in Brussels believe me, the Brussels bureaucracy, the European Union bureaucracy, is absolutely hideous. It makes Washington look totally rational. It\u2019s huge. It\u2019s sprawling. It\u2019s just dysfunctional.\nIt\u2019s not just about democratic deficit. It\u2019s also about an issue of sovereignty and identity. Probably what really brought home to me recently this question of sovereignty and identity and to my mind it encapsulates the challenge of Europe today, is the issue of bank notes. I don\u2019t know how many of you travel frequently but those of you who do, the next time you travel you should take some notes out of your wallet and have a look at them. It\u2019s very revealing. I pulled out five notes just now, and if you look at most bank notes around the world, be that the dollar, I\u2019ve got dollars with sterling and real, Brazilian real because I was down at the Olympics last month.\nIf you look at most bank notes in the world, what you\u2019ll see on one side of the notes at least is at best, some kind of national hero, some kind of national figure whose stands for what the country stands for and essentially a running point, a kind of flag if you like, something which creates a sense of national pride. That\u2019s no surprise because as an anthropologist, one of the things you learn is that the things that create social glue, political glue, are these creation myths in any society. In America you\u2019ve got various figures. You can see you\u2019ve got the Queen here. You\u2019ve got some random Brazilian I don\u2019t know, a Swiss inventor I don\u2019t know, and of course no prizes for guessing who that is.\nAnyway, the Eurozone note, I don\u2019t know if any of you have got Eurozone note in your pocket but if you do you should look at it, because on the back of the Eurozone note you have some made-up, imaginary bridges. It\u2019s true. When it came to design the Eurozone note, and I was talking to one of the people who was involved in this, one of the Central Bank governors over the weekend in Aspen, basically when the designers sat around the table, first off they realized that the different European countries couldn\u2019t agree on a single national hero who epitomized Europe.\nThe last one they had who really probably was pan-European was Charlemagne, and all the recent characters, the people who created the European Union were people like Jean Monnet, no one knows who he was or what he looked like\u2026the face of a bureaucrat. Most of the other European figures are just too darn controversial to provide a unified sense of glue. I once suggested to one of the central bankers, if you wanted to find faces that would get everybody in Europe to feel together, united and happy, they probably would put ABBA on the bank notes.\nThere are no other single figures, and the problem is there actually is no strong, single, positive, unifying glue that links Europe together. A generation ago it was about trying to avoid the war, but trying to avoid war kind of is not even on the scene today and that positive Founding Father mythology, which is so crucial to creating American national identity and community at its best, is simply not there in Europe. The question of how Europe is going to actually create that sense of cohesion and social glue and political unity, never mind a functioning democracy, is very, very much unanswered and very problematic going forward.\nLast but not least, the U.S. The lessons for the Brexit for the U.S. are pretty clear-cut and frankly I think most of you put in there much better than I do. America, today, is a country which is very polarized in every sense; politically polarized, economically polarized, socially polarized. Increasingly in some ways fragmented, increasingly marked by the same problems that they had in the U.K. vote, which is a sense of political tribalism reinforced by the media.\nVery interesting work done recently by a group called British Edelman, a public relations firm, which shows that in the last decade if you look at the question of public trust in institutions, you\u2019ve not just seen a collapse of trust over most of the major institutions, government, business, banks, and the media I must say, traditional media. You\u2019ve seen a shift in the nature of trust in that all this technology has proliferated, as we\u2019ve all come to learn about smartphones. We\u2019ve increasingly come to rely not on authority figures you trust but actually a person known as a person like me, i.e. my Facebook friends.\nIncreasing polarization, increasing fragmentation. I would argue probably increasing volatility as well. People today are very susceptible to, if you like, cyber flash mobs and the power of rational reason and argument to sway voters, I would argue, is probably ebbing. The same slogans that won the Brexit vote about \u201cTake Back Control,\u201d positive, easy-to-remember slogans with verbs with momentum, I suspect, are the kind of slogans that would have an awful lot of impact come November. Then when you add into that the fact that we\u2019re living at a time of, at best, economic \u2026 I\u2019ll call it stagnation of stability, if you like. A world of zero rates are turning up many of the ordinary assumptions upside down, and you have the makings for really quite an unpredictable, potentially volatile landscape.\nThe one thing that\u2019s clear is that there\u2019s a lot to write about as a journalist. In my career I used to joke to my colleagues that for a paper like the FT, we could either have a great political story or a great economic story or a great popular story, but probably not all three at once. I think this year in America we probably have got all three at once. It\u2019s been a great bonanza for us as a media organization but it\u2019s also been a year of great surprises.\nIf you want to be optimistic, speaking of the Brit, nobody would have ever guessed that Britain could win so many medals. Now I\u2019d like to think that\u2019s going to be a metaphor for what happens going forward for Brexit, but it will surprise the naysayers when they say, that\u2019s myself included, and turn Brexit into a positive. On the downside, it also shows that if anyone is leaving here today fully confident about how November is going to play out, think again.\nQuestion: One question is on two things, pragmatism versus vindication. Germany is being voted as one of the most powerful countries in the EU, and then you\u2019ve got France. Then another publication, Bloomberg, from the Finance Minister of Germany, if you\u2019re in, you\u2019re in. If you\u2019re out, you\u2019re out. How do you think those two themes play out, pragmatism Merkel versus vindication?\nI think what it\u2019s going to play out as in the short-term is a mess, because the European Union is divided about how it wants to respond to the U.K. On the one hand you have people like Juncker who came out initially and indicated he was in quite a vindictive mood, and then you have people like Angela Merkel who have been much more conciliatory. There are a body of people in the European Union who recognize that.\nIn a sense, it\u2019s not this case that the U.K. has traditionally needed Europe. The European Union has traditionally needed the U.K., partly because of the financial market, and probably London\u2019s role as a financial center, but also because the U.K. has been one of the main promoters of free market ideals within the European Union, and the countries that like to think they\u2019re on the free market side are dismayed by the fact that that won\u2019t be there anymore.\nMy best guess is that some form of muddle-through strategy prevails, and that I don\u2019t think the U.K. will sign up to the Norway option. I\u2019m not convinced that the rest of the European Union might now offer the Norway option, because a sticking point is the free movement of people. My best guess is probably some form of Swiss plus option is what actually prevails, which essentially allows the U.K. access to part of the single market without having to fully sign up to the free movement of people. The great marriage of the Swiss plus option is that it will be so darn complicated that almost nobody who actually votes in any party has a clue of what\u2019s actually in it, so the politicians can pretend that it is whatever they want. None of that is good for business and the business culture, but that\u2019s my best guess.\nThere is profound concern right now inside the European Union about what on earth is going to happen in terms of European Union solidarity, because some of the things that one shouldn\u2019t forget amongst all this is that there\u2019s also this separate thing called the Greek crisis happening, the everlasting Greek crisis.\nGermany these days is essentially cropping up much of the southern belt through backdoor means. That crisis has not gone away. It\u2019s entirely possible that the refugee crisis, the separate refugee crisis, will end up being the fig leaf that allows the German government to keep subsidizing Greece, as long as Greece keeps taking refugees and keeps them in Greece rather than Germany.\nThere\u2019s a fundamental problem. It really comes down to this core, core question of does the European Union want to be the United States of Europe, or not? One slight example to show this is that a couple of years ago when the Germans were having this never-ending debate about how on earth they could deal with Greece, should they cut Greece in the throat, should they let it go, should they subsidize it? What could they do? I quite agree. Germany is one of the senior European policy makers but the single best option for Europe, back then and in fact today, was to go out and create the equivalent of a whole series of German Club Med holiday resorts in Greece and to use all the money that German taxpayers were funneling into the banks, and instead use that to give vouchers to all the German pensioners which would only be spent in those German Club Med resorts in Greece.\nThere would be so much shiploads of German pensioners going on holidays, forced holidays in Greece, it made happy German pensioners because they would be getting free-ish holidays instead of putting their money into the banks, and you get happy Greek waiters and happy Greek builders. More importantly, you\u2019d get the kind of transfer, economic transfer you need to make a European Union work. It\u2019s no different from having retreats and going down to Florida en masse. Essentially you get each part of the European Union playing to it natural advantages, and so you\u2019d actually probably get a much happier outcome for all the voters concerned.\nOf course the problem is that that kind of solution can\u2019t work at the moment because of all the impediments to the single market actually operating with free movement of people and stuff, also because of political animosity. If you look at what\u2019s actually happened in terms of German tourism numbers going down to Greece in the last two or three years, they\u2019re declined, partly because there\u2019s so much anti-German feeling today in Greece. The question about how you create a functioning economic union without a political union in Europe is completely unresolved.\nQuestion: Since the very beginning you were talking about the polarization not only here in the United States but all over the place. If you were the advisor to the next president of the United States, what policies could be put into place to lessen some of that polarization?\nGosh. Can I tell you guys, by the way? I\u2019m this media journalist in here. I can tell you how to be a journalist. You don\u2019t have to vote. It would be lovely if you would. How many of you expect the next president of the United States to be Hillary Clinton? Okay. How many of you expect it to be Trump? Okay. If I would dare ask you, how many of you will be voting for Clinton in the election]? How many of you for Trump? Okay. How many of you are undecided? Okay.\nInterestingly enough, that\u2019s about the same proportion as Brexit polls in February, just to let you know. No actually, truthfully people think Brexit was wrapped up. Actually if you go back to the February-March time in the U.K., back then about 35 percent of the population said they would remain no matter what, about 20 percent said they would leave no matter what, and the rest were undecided. Pointing back to the issue of political volatility, that\u2019s roughly the same proportion who just voted for Clinton, Trump and undecided in this room. That\u2019s one point.\nOkay, let\u2019s assume the next president of the United States on this basis is Clinton. What can you do to lessen income inequality? The most obvious is to try and start to spark the growth big time. It\u2019s a fundamental question right now, which is that if we are going to a phase when robots and digitization are knocking out a large swath of jobs, and where essentially an economy can grow fast but with fewer and fewer people actually employed, what do you do about that?\nDo you embrace that word that most Americans hate to embrace, which is redistribution? Do you just cross your fingers and hope somehow it all works out in the end and there\u2019s a trickle-down effect? Do you look at education and things like that for the next generation? What do you do?\nWhen you look at what\u2019s happening with the U.S. economy today, it\u2019s very clear that to blame the job losses on China or Mexico is simply not particularly accurate these days. Yes, some businesses have moved to China and Mexico in the last few decades but these days it\u2019s really about digitization. Many of you would have seen the study that\u2019s come out from Oxford University and McKinsey that suggests that over the next two to three decades, almost half of U.S. jobs will be replaced by machines, by robots or by computers. A controversial study.\nIf you\u2019re being optimistic, you\u2019ll say actually those jobs will be replaced by something else. Just look at the agricultural revolution and the fact that nobody works near farms anymore and we\u2019re still employed, many of us. If you\u2019re being pessimistic you say actually the speed of transfer that\u2019s happening right now is faster than ever before, and the idea that somehow a new job is springing up quickly to replace the old job is simply unrealistic. Either way, you have this big issue right now of income inequality as is middle jobs all around.\nI\u2019ve been in the camp saying if you\u2019re going to take one policy measure that is serious, or two policy measures, and seriously try to address this right now, one is infrastructure spending. It\u2019s very striking that both sides of the aisle right now are officially embracing it. A big question about who pays for what kind of infrastructure, but I would say infrastructure spending is more a way to try and create more of those military jobs and bring more people into the world economy.\nSecondly, education. One of the great things that created so much social mobility and reduced income extremes in post-World War II in America was the GI Bill, and the fact that an entire generation of people were suddenly educated and given a chance to rise up. I think looking at the education structure today it\u2019s critical, not just looking at things like student learners, which clearly need to be addressed, but also if I have one policy I\u2019m passionate about in America is about creating mid-career courses that are much more flexible and getting the over-weaning educational bureaucracy, which tries to control these forces in such rigid ways, out of the way and allow companies to work much more flexibly with community colleges and just creating much more flexible nimble ways for educating people mid-career.\nQuestion: I want to change the topic to one of your recent articles in the Financial Times, that the plumbing system of the international finance system is broken. I think we can thank all of our central banks around the world for that. I want to go over a particular European part of that, and that is buying up corporate bonds via the EU and now the U.K. is buying corporate bonds. We have even gotten to the point that corporate bonds are being issued specifically to be bought by central banks. This is happening in markets that are not particularly wide and particularly deep.\nWould you comment about that? Would you comment what the future is with that, and what that all means for finance worldwide?\nI spent many years of my life writing the financial markets section of the FT. I\u2019m basically an uber-geek so I could happily stand here and talk to you about tri-party repo for hours, but I won\u2019t.\nThe key point is this, that the financial pipes in the global financial system appear, if you glance at them casually from a distance, which is what most politicians do, to be working just fine. Everything seems very calm and quite functional. It all seems a bit unchanged from how it was 10, 15 years ago. In fact, some very radical changes are taking place inside the pipes of the system.\nThe analogy I use which works very well in America was that they are throwing up. If you measure the pipes and the amount of plumbing system, they\u2019re getting blockages in all kinds of ways, partly because of regulation and the fact that banks don\u2019t want to act as market leaders anymore, understandably, but also because of QE and the flooding of money liquidity into the system by central banks.\nI\u2019m with the kind of people who think right now that QE is completely bad. I think that simply cutting interest rates further is pretty much negative territory, having central banks buy up everything that moves. In Japan it\u2019s even worse. In Japan the central bank is not just buying the bonds it can get ahold of. In fact it\u2019s soon going to run out of bonds to buy. It\u2019s buying up equities as well. Now it owns about 5 percent of the Nikkei 225 which is completely mad. I really have people that said actually these policies have reached the point of exhaustion and they\u2019re probably doing more harm than good.\nHaving said that though, I think the chances of them changing anytime soon are pretty low. At the Aspen event I was at and I\u2019ve just come back from, there were a number of Central Bank governors there, all of them were preparing for Jackson Hole. None of them are about to say, \u201cYes, we want to boost rates quickly,\u201d partly because of the potential political repercussions and partly because they know that the financial system now has become so addicted to Central Bank easing that if it were to end it\u2019s going to be very nasty, but also because they don\u2019t have a lot of faith that the central bank. The rest of the governments, the treasuries, the finance ministers are willing to take the obvious step, which is start using fiscal policy and de-regulation instead.\nI think right now the world\u2019s caught in a very nasty trap, and I\u2019m worried. I don\u2019t see that changing anytime soon. It reminds me a lot of the situation in 2006, when I was working for the FT and writing about the credit level, which on the surface looks extremely normal. If anyone is looking at the economy from a narrow macroeconomic lens that just looked at real economy indicators, it all looked fine, but when you looked through the weeds you realize just how distorted and vast it was. The problem was that the weeds were so complex and so hidden and so geeky, they are completely invisible to anybody else who is outside the system. The people who were inside the system dealing with stuff had no incentive to blow the whistle or talk more loudly about it.\nQuestion: My question is what does Brexit mean for the future of the U.K.? By that I mean Scotland and Northern Ireland. Are we going to see another independent referendum in Scotland? Also, what does it mean for the young Britons who wanted to remain and may have the opportunity to leave. Roger Cohen had an interesting piece in The New York Times the other day about his daughter, who is eligible for Polish nationality\u2014the granddaughter of a Holocaust survivor from Poland\u2014and is considering that.\nLet me take the big point about the young people in Europe today. You make a great point, which is that everyone I know in London, who I have to stress are the international cosmopolitan, well-educated elite, those are my friends. I have my social bubble. I have got a family who come from a rural area elsewhere and have very different views but my friendship group, the people younger than me, anybody who has an Irish grandparent, a French grandparent, a Polish grandparent, are looking at getting a British passport.\nThat simple, because if you are young, my generation, and I\u2019m 49, grew up assuming the European Union will always be there. It was completely inconceivable that it wouldn\u2019t be there. We also grew up assuming that we get to have the right to go and work anywhere. It\u2019s been actually baked into my whole life experience. I have friends who have worked all over the European Union, and London is full of people from all over the European Union. That was inconceivable to us that we would have left, as it would be for Charlotte to break away from the rest of the United States, and for your case they suddenly wake up tomorrow and realize they can\u2019t just go to Washington as they wanted to. It\u2019s a very drastic shock.\nWhat I must say, and again I will infuriate the Brexit camp by saying this, but on the night of the Brexit vote\u2014we now run rather a rolling news operation, and I run the Americas for the FT, so basically I\u2019m editing the paper\u2014we take it to the papers from about 3:00 until about 1:00 in the morning. We were in charge the last few hours of the Brexit vote in our New York newsroom. I had assumed that we were going to vote Remain, so much so that I had half a mind about what time I would even have to leave to go to the office. Of course when I saw the vote, they all rushed in.\nThe moment which was actually crystallizing the whole thing for us, as a British people this is seared into our memory as 9/11 is, to be honest. A shock element. As we watched the screens unfold and the results come in, we all sat there going, \u201cOh well, okay so Brexit is winning but don\u2019t worry. When it gets south it will then swing again.\u201d We all assumed it was going to swing. The moment that Birmingham came out for Brexit, you could have heard a pin drop in the FT newsroom. Everybody was so completely shocked. We couldn\u2019t believe it.\nMy first reaction and those of my other English national colleagues was, \u201cOh my God, we\u2019re applying for a Green Card immediately,\u201d because most of us feel we don\u2019t want to go back to a little England vote. That was a nerve reaction. As I said, Brexit could have well surprised all of us who have been so wrong-footed. There was reason to think that actually it could end up being a great thing for the U.K. economy over the long-term to overrun the short-term costs, but the notion, the idea of somehow being adrift from Europe is such a profound and psychological blow that Roger Cohen\u2019s daughter is entirely difficult.\nOn the issue of what it means for the U.K. well yes, Scotland voted in one referendum and narrowly said no to independence. Most Scottish, as you probably know, were strongly in favor of Remain, even that Donald Trump didn\u2019t agree to notice that when he went to Turnberry immediately after the vote and it was going to be, \u201cBut we didn\u2019t want this.\u201d However, it passed.\nScotland would like to stay a part of the European Union. The key problem though, and this comes back to the issue of the bank notes, is that although initially people like Juncko were quite keen to actually embrace Scotland if it voted to leave the U.K. and come into the European Union, since then people like the Spanish have said, \u201cOver our dead bodies do we let in a breakaway region into the European Union because guess what? We have this thing called Catalan and Basque country which are also trying to break away, and we don\u2019t want to give them any ideas.\u201d\nIt\u2019s unclear what\u2019s going to happen now. My guess is that Nicola Sturgeon is going to play for time and try to avoid having a vote for quite a long time, unless or until she gets clear assurance that she could join the European Union and I\u2019m not sure that\u2019s going to come. If Scotland does break away it can\u2019t join the European Union, and it ends up looking like Iceland.\nQuestion: I\u2019m very intrigued after the Brexit with the idea of changes in currency. The British pound has dropped significantly against the U.S. dollar and possibly Europe as well. I wonder if you could make some comments about this. Specifically, could you ever foresee a time the Germans might find themselves driving British cars?\nDriving British cars yeah, because of cost. I think the big question right now is are we going to have cars, period. Given the rise of driverless cars no one\u2019s going to be driving a car at all. The reality is that the hopes of Brexit working out are partly pinned on the idea that the U.K. will become a very flexible, low-cost, low-tax regime in manufacturing and other kinds of services. Currency is obviously devalued already. That will provide a great entrepreneurial free-market energy where you go to flourish compared to the Socialist background decaying the European Union countries.\nWill the U.K. become a big manufacturing hub? One of the problems is from what I\u2019ve gathered talking to all the companies that have come into the U.K. and done all this FDI and built car parks in places like Sunderland is that much of that has been predicated on the assumption of free-market access to the rest of the European Union. The real question right now is if you\u2019re going to have a country that\u2019s outside the European Union, do you really want to have it in the U.K. or do you want to go to East Europe where the costs are even cheaper, where you\u2019ve got lots of bright workers there, probably much brighter workers and much better trained these days?\nTo my mind, it\u2019s very unclear how the U.K. really regains energy focused on Europe as an export destination. Some people I have spoken to have said the only solution is for the U.K. to basically say \u201cForget Europe,\u201d and turn\u2014go full-on for trading ties with China or India. Certainly the financial market has a strategy that people are looking at, but I think it\u2019s going to take a lot of political courage to implement the scale of reforms that would be needed to make the U.K. a truly vibrant, entrepreneurial, innovative, low-regulation place. That may happen. Theresa May is nothing but pragmatic, but it\u2019s going to be quite narrow.\nOur Geopolitical Future Relative to the Global Hotspots\nThere a very few speakers who can provide a comprehensive overview of what is happening in the world at any given time. George Friedman of Geopolitical Futures, an expert on explaining and predicting the future of international affairs, is one of them. In his remarks at The Chicago Council on Global Affairs, he looked at several of the growing global crises. His presentation helps to provide some insight into the collective global experiences and how we are affected by them.\nAt the very beginning of his discussion, he rejects the opinion that \u201cfree trade is a necessary boon\u201d and the \u201cbest economies are exporting economies.\u201d He then provides his outlook from Europe, to the Baltics, to the Middle East, Russia, China and North and South America. He presents his case in six arenas: The Global Export Crisis, The Refugee Crisis, The European Crisis, The German Export Crisis, The China Crisis, and The Russian Crisis.\nHe examines the extent of U.S. exporting and, contrary to the currently abounding rhetoric about America\u2019s decreasing power/influence in global affairs and deleterious engagement in foreign trade, he highlights how the relatively diminutive engagement of the U.S. in foreign trade actually immunizes it from the current fundamental systemic world crises and will allow it to pursue its \u201cimperial\u201d power as the most stable world economy. Good news! The world is rotating\u2026there is a fundamental destabilization of the Eurasian hemisphere while ours remains relatively immune. The full transcript of his remarks are included below.\nUPDATE: George Friedman spoke to the World Affairs Council of Charlotte in 2015. He has been invited back for 2017.\nGeorge Friedman is founder and chairman of Geopolitical Futures, focused on explaining and predicting the future of international affairs for the public. Previously, he founded geopolitical intelligence firm Stratfor (Strategic Forecasting). Friedman is a regular contributor to discussions on international intelligence issues for major news and radio networks including CNN, Fox News, and NPR. He is the author of numerous books on warfare and intelligence, including The Next Decade; The Next 100 Years; America\u2019s Secret War; and The Intelligence Edge.\nThe following is a transcript of George Friedman\u2019s remarks at The Chicago Council on Global Affairs concerning Global Crises:\nThe Global Crises\nThe European crisis has intensified, and has been joined by a series of crises across the Eurasian land mass. When I say Eurasia, I mean Europe and Asia, from the Atlantic to the Pacific, from the Arctic Ocean to the Indian Ocean. It\u2019s noteworthy that every significant part of that land mass, with the exception of India, is in fundamental systemic crisis. We have not seen a model like this really since World War II. This does not mean that I\u2019m saying that we\u2019re going to have a war, or anything else. I\u2019m simply saying that the pattern is ominous.\nIt is not yet deep\u2014in the sense of intractable\u2014but it is broad. We need to understand why it\u2019s that way, because the world has now taken an interesting shape. Eurasia\u2014in chaos, or close to it, in Europe, in Russia, in China, in Central Asia, in the Middle East certainly. While north America, and the western hemisphere in general, is stable. Relatively stable, not perfectly stable. The great contrast that is developing in the world is the massive distinction between the two hemispheres, in the way, including Latin America, is behaving, and the massive distinction that particularly exists, between North America\u2014NAFTA\u2014and the various trade zones and alliance blocks in the eastern hemisphere.\nThis is a pattern that will not emerge and then go away in three years. It is a fundamental shift, and an understandable and predictable one I\u2019ll try to make, that really ushers in a new phase of human history. In my book I published back in 2009, The Next Hundred Years, I spoke about the movement of history from Europe to North America. That North America was becoming the center of gravity of the international system, the stable pivot. This is part of that process, and as such, is extremely important.\nWhen we look at this crisis, we need to understand the engines. Many of the engines are simply local. I\u2019ll go through them later, but the EU is poorly founded, the Russians are vulnerable to the price of oil, the Chinese are going through a cyclical downturn as Japan did before it, and the Middle East is the Middle East. Each of them have reasons.\nThere is an underlying reason that this is intensifying, which I call the crisis of the exporters. For over a century, it has been assumed that free trade is a necessary boon and efficient exporters are in some way economically, and perhaps even morally superior, to poor exporters. What has happened, really since 2008, is a reversal in which heavy exporters have found themselves extremely vulnerable to shifts in the market, while those who are inefficient exporters are relatively immune.\nSince NAFTA is a fairly inward-facing institution, it has an immunity which the outward facing entities, like the EU or China, don\u2019t have.\nThe problem came about in 2008, with a massive downturn economically in the United States and Europe. For the United States it was a relatively temporary affair. For Europe it became a systemic crisis. The crisis\u2019 prior problem was that Europe was China\u2019s largest customer. Not Wal Mart, although close, it was Europe. China was at a particular delicate moment historically when this struck. It had dedicated itself to full employment. It maintained full employment by promiscuously lending money, so the companies wouldn\u2019t go out of business. This lead to inflation, until goods manufactured in Mexico were cheaper than the goods manufactured in China. This was the beginning of this moment.\nIts exports situation was already under deep pressure. When the appetite of the Europeans and the Americans for Chinese good contracted, what was a serious problem became a destabilizing problem. The Chinese economy depended on exports for cash flow to pay debts in a debt-based economy. People borrowed money not with equity, and don\u2019t have to pay it back. Deeper than that, with that destabilization that was happening, you found a fundamental political one, that I\u2019ll talk about.\nOne of the more interesting things is that the China myth, what I call the China bubble, really began exploding in 2010, 2011. But the lag between the time the global markets understood that this was the new normal of China\u2014that China was not going back to that unique 20-30 years of extraordinary growth\u2014when that was understood, everything would change.\nI remember that Business Week, in 1993 published an issue on the Japanese economic miracle. 1993. Which is to say, not just the media, but the markets, and I don\u2019t understand this, but I want to understand it someday, continue to believe, against all evidence, that China would maintain its consumption of raw materials, in spite of the downturn of exports.\nThere was a belief, when you questioned people, that this was a passing phase, and that China would return to what it was\u2014an inability to understand this was not a passing phase, it was a secular shift in the way China worked.\nA year ago it became obvious that this was not a passing phase. A number of statistics were published by the Chinese. On one occasion it was actually true. It emerged that they were in serious trouble. Suddenly the global commodity markets, all of them, absorbed the fact that China was not going to be pulling the engine, was not going to be pulling the train, and prices fell down. This had a staggering effect on, for example, Russia.\nRussia, for various reasons I\u2019ll talk about, is heavily dependent on energy exports to maintain its political system. Its entire domestic budget is built on oil prices. When oil prices fell down, they were smashed. We just published yesterday, a study on Saudi Arabia, and the decision to sell part of Aramco, to give the sense of how badly this smashed the Saudi economy. But it was not just them, it was also Australia and all of those that were heavy exporters. You had, in the past, mineral exports under pressure, but the industrial goods in good shape. Industrial good in good shape, mineral prices rising with them. You\u2019ve never had a situation, that I recall, in which both mineral prices and industrial prices are under pressure, especially in exporting countries.\nYou have mineral exporters getting hammered, industrial exporters getting hammered. Everybody who exports is getting hammered. When we look around the world, and we see the export levels, we see that Russia exports 30 percent of its GDP, mostly in energy, China about 22 percent, Germany 46 percent, and that remains a story, and the United States 13 percent, of which 40 percent go to Mexico and Canada. Now we see the basic divergence. The United States is, relative to GDP, an inefficient exporter, and therefore, not subject to the appetites of its customers. Those who are heavy exporters are subject to those appetites.\nYou must always understand that when you are selling something, you have to have customers. If your customers can\u2019t buy, and you\u2019ve built your economy on the assumption of rising consumption, you\u2019ll stagger. If you\u2019ve built your economy around the idea that it will constantly sell minerals to exporting industrial countries, and they don\u2019t have customers, it all cascades backwards. Let\u2019s now take it each individually, and not look at this broader picture of destabilization, but let\u2019s take a look at each country, at each region that\u2019s in trouble.\nThe fundamental problem of Europe is an attempt to take a country like Greece, and a country like Germany, and give them the same currency. Moreover, to leave in the hands of each individual country fiscal policy, while a central bank controls monetary policy, so there\u2019s no coherence between the two, and have one country so overwhelmingly powerful\u2014Germany\u2014that it has the ability to set the regulations in Brussels, and the behavior of the European Central Bank, not because it\u2019s a conspiracy, because if you don\u2019t support the German economy, then it all comes tumbling down. You don\u2019t have Europe. There\u2019s no such thing, except as a geopolitical geographical expression.\nThe unemployment rate south of the Alps is over 20 percent, somewhere 25 percent. That is the same rate of unemployment the United States had during the great depression. The unemployment rate in Germany is four and a half percent. The harmonization of these economies is not possible. Therefore, on virtually every other issue, they are unable to act.\nOne of the funniest things I saw was, a decision on the part of the EU. I can\u2019t figure out which commission, because there are so many. They would send help to the Greeks, to patrol their shores to keep people out\u2014in June. Think on this. This is a paralysis. This is a paralysis built in by the system.\nBear in mind two things. There is a major crisis coming in the Italian banks, it\u2019s actually here. Italian banks\u2014and you have to desegregate region and everything like that\u2014have non-performing rates of seventeen to 18 percent. I believe it is higher. You do not have 20 percent unemployment without a consumer debt crisis. This can\u2019t be. The Europeans have not had a consumer debt crisis, which means they\u2019re rolling over the debts in various ways so that they don\u2019t have to register it. How can you possibly have that sort of unemployment without massive mortgage defaults?\nBehind all this is the great bubble, Germany. Germany exports 47 percent of its GDP. I\u2019m not good at arithmetic, so give me 50 percent, which means that every time it loses five percent in exports, it loses two and a half in GDP. Now losing two and a half of your GDP matters, but if you lose 15 percent of your exports, you\u2019ve lost seven and a half percent. The point I\u2019m making is Germany is on the edge of the volcano. It is a massive exporting power that has built its economy on the assumption of expanding demand for its goods, basically in the European free trade zone, and that can\u2019t happen now. Its entire structure is based on that because domestic consumption can only be raised so much, when you have that much out there.\nOther countries in this position, South Korea for example. Only Germany is the fourth largest economy in the world. So the size of the imbalance, relative to the global system, is massive. In a world, in which you have an exporters\u2019 crisis, and one of the greatest exporters in the world, Germany, with a larger dependence on exports than China or any other country that you might name\u2014the global exporter if you will, from a percentage point of view\u2014has not yet had a decline, a significant decline of exports. When the absolute numbers of significant decline don\u2019t fall, you have Japan in 1989. The margins have to be falling. They have to be, in some cases, negative. There\u2019s only so long that Deutsche Bank can keep underwriting this, and it\u2019s pretty much, I suspect, out of time.\nIn the meantime, what you have rising in Europe is the right. By the right, I do not mean brown shirts, but nationalists, people who are saying, \u201cThis doesn\u2019t work,\u201d while the Financial Times swears its working, because the northern European banks are in good shape. If you read the Financial Times, you read the voice of the European elite. The European elite still believes they\u2019re having a banking crisis, rather than a systemic social failure, and that that systemic social failure is going to result in massive changes in regimes, and in the way regimes change. The tension that we see now between France and Germany is with a proEuropean government, which will not stay in power unless it does this. A Cameron is forced, if he\u2019s going to stay in power, to call a referendum.\nEven the moderate regimes that you see, have to tack away from the European Union. I don\u2019t believe the European Union will fail. I believe somewhere, in some building, the League of Nations still has an office somewhere in Geneva. European institutions don\u2019t fail, they just become gentile in their poverty. You already see precisely how Europe will fail. People will simply ignore what it says.\nThere is no immigration crisis. Europe is five hundred million people. We\u2019re talking about one million, I can\u2019t do the arithmetic, but it\u2019s less than one percent. There is no reason the Europeans can\u2019t handle it; they just can\u2019t decide on what to do. What this distinction has done has paralyzed the European institutional systems. It has also lead to recriminations between government. Everybody knows that this whole thing is Hungary\u2019s fault. Blame it on Hungarians this week. This is a crisis of such fundamental proportions at the heart of the world, Europe.\nThe Russian Crisis\nThe Russian crisis is much simpler. Putin was unable to transform the wealth of a hundred-dollar barrel of oil into a viable economy. He wasn\u2019t able to because the forces that bought him the power, the FSB and the oligarchs, had to be satisfied in various ways. That money had to be diverted to support enterprises that\u2014Rosneft for example\u2014that had to be maintained. He never had the room to maneuver to divert that money to build something more substantial.\nIt now faces a catastrophic situation where the expectation of the Russians was $70 a barrel of oil at the bottom, and I don\u2019t know what it closed at today, but it\u2019s below that. The Russian federation works with money being transferred to the central government, the central government distributing it to the Oblast, the various regions. If the central government doesn\u2019t have the money to distribute to the Oblast, well there\u2019s no terror going on that\u2019s frightening a governor to obey, he\u2019ll go his own way.\nIn Europe, fragmentation consists of nobody paying attention. In Russia, fragmentation consists of nobody receiving benefits from the central government, and therefore pursuing their own interests in whatever direction it goes.\nThe China Crisis\nIn China, what we have seen is a cyclical crisis. You cannot sustain that level of growth permanently. No matter what Goldman Sachs said, it can\u2019t beat the United States. You cannot start where they are, and in a sprint over 40-50 years, surpass a century-deep government. What you do is what Japan did. You reach a point where you cannot sustain it, and you reach a new normal. You\u2019ve had a new normal in Japan. People talk about the lost generation. This was not lost from the Japanese point of view. They maintained full employment. They were feeding their people. There was not unrest. Only American investors felt it was lost. There were no opportunities. The Japanese apologize, but they hadn\u2019t built their economy for Westerners to profit, but they were stable.\nChina cannot reach a new normal, because in China, by Chinese statistics, six hundred million Chinese, have incomes below $2 dollars a day, household incomes. Four hundred and forty million Chinese, have incomes of $2-$4 a day. China is an extraordinarily poor country, a fact you can miss if you fly into Pudong and have one of those dinners where you mortgage your house, and go to your hotel. If you go to China, rather than this American extension into China, Shanghai, you discover a country of enormous poverty.\nThis is where Mao Zedong took the long march. The long march when he went to Yanan and raised an army, and came back after two decades and shut down the country to create equality. This is where this holiday, people who have gone to Shanghai, or Guangdong, with dreams, went home, never to come back, let go from their jobs.\nThe issue here is not what is the Chinese stock market doing. It is an irrelevancy really to the entire thing. It is, what are these people going to do with shattered lives, in a country that has a tradition of Maoism, which is why you see Xi, desperately trying to expropriate that tradition of Maoism. He wants to own it, and then hone it in two ways. First, he is the heir. Second, he will strike at any organization that threatens him.\nChina has become a dictatorship, because the alternative in China is regional fragmentation. The real issue here is whether China returns to a form of Maoism, or whether it goes back behind Maoism to Regionalism. The Regionalism will be the Chinese communist party fragmenting.\nWhy? Because if you are in Shanghai, and you are making a great deal of money from your relationship to Apple, you have a greater interest in that relationship, than you have to Beijing\u2019s latest demand for the transfer of money. Or, you\u2019re so afraid of Beijing, that you\u2019ll transfer the money. This is the great, not very sophisticated, but very great question of China.\nWill the party committee in the coastal regions be more afraid of the secret police, or less afraid of secret police and more desirous for their relationship with the West? This, by the way, up until 1947, was the nature of China. These are the two Chinas. The China of Mao, and the China of Chiang Kai-shek and Sun Yat-sen. It is not self-evident that it won\u2019t be one of these choices, but it is the least likely that it will return to the way it was for the past generation. There is no path back to that right now.\nThis is why Xi is conducting intense purges. He has discovered, to his shock, that there is corruption going on in China. That\u2019s not the point. What he is doing is eliminating opponents, fragmenting elites that could rise up against him, and generally creating a sense of insecurity within the Chinese communist party, so that any fragmentation of the party won\u2019t happen.\nHe is also, of course, playing a game in south China sea. That\u2019s not a trivial game, but it\u2019s not a serious one, however, it is designed to do exactly what the Russians did in Syria. Aside from whatever strategic benefits they had, Putin has 80 percent popularity. That\u2019s no kidding. In the same way that George W. Bush was enormously popular in the first six months after 9/11, nations rally, and the Chinese nation will rally to a confrontation. Not two years\u2019 worth, six months\u2019 worth. What everybody is doing on that continent, that massive two continents, is playing with fire to maintain political stability.\nIn the Middle East, you have had the collapse of the states that Europe invented. Syria was an invention, Lebanon was an invention, Jordan was an invention, Israel was an invention, Iraq was an invention. They all had origins of sorts, but many of them\u2014particularly Syria and Iraq\u2014no longer exist. They don\u2019t exist because at a certain point the United States decided it was not going to take responsibility, as the British might have, for the future of the region.\nNot necessarily a stupid decision, but one with consequences. The consequence was, that the most natural force in the region, Islam, the most embittered force in the region, Islam, began to form new entities. This will sort itself out, as Lebanon did, because Lebanon is the example.\nIn 1970s, Lebanon fragmented, the national government collapsed, and Lebanon consisted of various fragments fighting each other. You now have the Lebanese model transferred to Syria and Iraq, and now the Saudis are desperately worried, because they themselves are a faction\u2014the House of Saud\u2014that came to power under British mentorship, if you will.\nThey look at the price of oil. They look at the stability of the royal family that expects to be paid. Of those not within the tribe, who also expect to be paid. They took to their crisis, and their frightened. Now you have flowing out of that, the Arabian Peninsula, itself on the cusp, to the point where the great triumph of the Saudis was the nationalization of Aramco. The crown prince raises the question; we might sell five percent. This is the equivalent of selling rugs out of your house to pay the rent, and it strikes at the heart of legitimacy of Saudi nationalism such as this.\nWe also see these crises merging. The European, Middle Eastern crisis on multiple levels, immigrants, terrorism, French/British fighters deploying to the region, nothing intense yet, but merging. The Russian-European relationship is merging, not just over the question of Ukraine, but certainly over the question of Ukraine, because that\u2019s vital. The Russian-Middle East relationship is merging with the Russians intervening.\nIn the middle of this, note, one nation that intersects everything\u2014intersects the European crisis, intersects the Russian crisis, intersects the Middle Eastern crisis\u2014Turkey. Desperately trying not to get in, having no way to stay out. You will watch Turkey. One of the things I predicted in that book I had mentioned, was the rise of Turkey, not because there is a vast conspiracy, but because everything is going to fall apart around it.\nThe Europeans are now going to the Turks trying to make a deal on refugees. The Russians are shooting at them, and visa versa. The Americans are demanding that the Turks do something about Syria. Turkey.\nBut that is not the most important thing. The most important fact of the world is the United States exports 13 of its GDP, and effectively really about seven percent of its GDP outside. That makes the United States, who has always been criticized as being non-competitive, in an enormously comfortable position. It is also the United States that is withdrawing from this region, is not involved in Europe, is not involved in the Middle East the way it\u2019s supposed to be, is playing Kabuki game with the Chinese. The Russians are a more interesting question of how we will play them. The United States now has the option of elective affinities.\nIt does not have to marry. It does not have to engage. It may withhold. This is not, incidentally, isolationism. It\u2019s called prudence. This changes the American position in the world dramatically.\nWe all believe, because we\u2019re Americans, that times have never been as terrible as this. This is a religious faith. There\u2019s problems. But the relative position of the United States, compared to all other great powers, is incomparable. What has happened since 2008 was, that a stupid American idea, subprime loans, was bought by even stupider people in Europe. I always say that the guy who bought it is dumber than the guy who sold it. And that has pyramided. But if it wasn\u2019t that, it would be some other thing. The entire eastern hemisphere, each of these countries was standing on a volcano. Whatever was going to set off the volcano, they were all going to fry.\nThe last time I saw a pattern like this was World War II. It was the last time that all of Eurasia was somehow involved in a destabilization. It is very difficult to imagine this turning into a war. For one thing, none of these countries have the energy for a war. By energy, I mean the sheer moral power to do it. You cannot ignore the fact that whatever subjectively I might think, the pattern is enormously ominous.\nThe most ominous part of this, and I\u2019ll stop there, is this fact. I think the Russians are going to be very aggressive. I think the Russian Federation will go the way of the Soviet Union, for the same reasons: high defense costs, low energy prices. That took down the Soviet Union. That will, I think, take down Russia. When the Soviet Union collapsed, all nuclear weapons under American tutelage was transferred to the Soviet Union, so the Kazakhstan wouldn\u2019t have a nuclear capability, which we all think is a good idea.\nIf the Russian Federation collapses, what happens to those nuclear weapons? The frightening thing about Russia is that it is a nuclear power, and if it fragments, something has to be done about it. There really isn\u2019t anything that can be done. What do you do? That\u2019s one fear.\nThe other thing to look at is the entire center. I haven\u2019t talked about central Asia, but give me that. The center of the Eurasian land mass is being hollowed out. We see one country already emerging\u2014Turkey. The real power, that has always been the dominant power in east Asia, Japan, is now beginning to sense itself. Poland, in most dealing with the Russians, or anyone else, is far more influential than Germany, who is paralyzed by fear of what happens to exports.\nSo, we are in a position where the world is rotating. The world always rotates. Everybody thinks that it will go back to the way it was; it never does. Those who understand that will fret more than others.\nWe are now at a turning point. Where the last time I came here and spoke to you about the inherent weakness of Europe, I now have to go to a broader picture: a fundamental destabilization of the hemisphere, while the other hemisphere\u2014ours\u2014remains oddly, but explicably immune. This becomes the real issue.\nWe are now the imperial power, if you will, in the sense of being the most stable, powerful country in the world. How do we handle this? What is there to be done? The answer is, I don\u2019t know, but I will ask.\n[Question and answer period follows.]\nSoutheast Synergism\nCollaboration is the New Competition\nThe Global South Metro Exchange held its first event in Greenville in July, branded \u201cCollaboration is the New Competition,\u201d sponsored by JPMorgan Chase, with support from the Brookings Institution. Multi-regional business leaders coalesced to focus on global competitiveness and to find synergies and opportunities for collaboration between Upstate South Carolina, Charleston, Atlanta and Charlotte, as a means of improving the global competitiveness of our collective region.\n\u201cThe roads that connect Atlanta, Charlotte, the Upstate and Charleston\u2014Interstates 85 and 26\u2014are a physical manifestation of the many points of affinity between our markets, and the Global South Metro Exchange program aims to explore additional opportunities among transportation and logistics, trade and exports, middle market opportunities, workforce challenges, technology and innovation to ensure we\u2019re working together to align the Southeast as an economic powerhouse where collaboration is the new competition,\u2019\u201d touted John Lummus, president and CEO of the Upstate SC Alliance and primary organizer of the event.\nTogether, business leaders and organization representatives from Upstate SC Alliance, the Charleston Regional Development Alliance, the Metro Atlanta Chamber and the Charlotte Regional Collaborative for a Global Economy examined their assets and explored their synergies for working together to boost the already booming growth of this southeastern U.S. region.\nThe event\u2019s theme, \u201cCollaboration is the New Competition,\u201d is a driver to build relationships, explore best practices, and forge connections that support economic development activities across state lines. Discussion topics included globalization, transportation, free trade agreements, workforce challenges and opportunities, the Post-Panamax Ripple Effect, open technology and aligning export support with industry needs.\nThe keynote speaker, Marek Gootman, a fellow and director of strategic partnerships and global engagements at the Brookings Institution Metropolitan Policy Program, examined the opportunities for the Southeast region to look inside its borders to see if the competitiveness of the region as a whole exceeds the competitiveness of the individual states, cities and localities.\nAccording to Gootman, within the larger Southeast region are a multitude of unique assets and networks including, but not limited to large businesses, small and medium businesses, chambers of commerce, economic development agencies, schools and colleges, an expanding workforce as well as the infrastructure. Numerous other areas within the United States are already focused on their collective opportunities.\nThese regions seek identities that include:\nLeadership with a World View\nLegacy of Global Orientation\nSpecializations with a Global Reach\nAdaptability to Global Dynamics\nCulture of Knowledge and Innovation\nOpportunity and Appeal to the World\nInvestment for Strategic Priorities\nGovernment as a Global Enabler\nCompelling Global Identity\nGootman asked, \u201cCould the major metropolitan areas of the Southeastern U.S. leverage complementary economic assets, industry clusters and global identity to better compete and attract commercial attention internationally?\u201d He encouraged developing a list of Global Trade Assets, Global Innovation Assets, Global Talent Assets and Global Infrastructure Assets.\nGootman examined the Southeast region itself, noted the proximity and connectivity of Atlanta, Greenville, Charlotte and Charleston, and suggested that the assets offer substantial new avenues for growth. Topics addressed included comprehensive regional/state economic strategies, exports and foreign investment, infrastructure, innovation, workforce, finance, and governance.\nSoutheast Triangle\nAtlanta , Charlotte, Greenvile and Charleston\nAt the Brookings Institute, Gootman focuses on bridging think tank perspective with real world action to increase the vitality of cities and metropolitan areas. His activities involve policy development, demonstration projects, peer learning networks, and external relations. He engages public and private partners in more than 30 metro areas and 20 states, as well as national interests, to advance adoption of the program\u2019s ideas. He also leads the Global Cities Initiative, a five-year, $15 million project to help U.S. and international metro areas strengthen their global economic connections and competitiveness.\n\u201cThe Charlotte Regional Collaborative for a Global Economy is delighted to participate in the Global South Metro Exchange,\u201d commented Michael Almond, Executive Director. \u201cOur collaborative is a consortium of the 15 community colleges serving more than 3.5 million people in 29 counties in North and South Carolina. We are \u2018community colleges providing leadership for global commerce\u2019 in the greater Charlotte region, an integrated and interdependent region that is the economic heartbeat of the Carolinas.\n\u201cWe are committed to regionalism as the driving force behind economic growth and development. We firmly believe that by working together collectively as a team, we can together accomplish more for the benefit of all of us than any one of us acting alone. And we are proud to support the contribution that the Global South Metro Exchange will make towards sustaining and enhancing our global competitiveness now and in the future.\u201d\n\u201cThe Metro Atlanta Chamber believes that competitiveness is not solely the prerogative of one metro area,\u201d remarked Jorge Fernandez, Vice President of Global Commerce of the Metro Atlanta Chamber, \u201cbut instead is something that is enhanced by a regional approach. The metro Atlanta region can present a stronger global position when we leverage the assets and connectivity of our surrounding regional metros. As such, we are delighted to be a part of the Global South Metro Exchange.\u201d\n\u201cThe Charleston Regional Development Alliance and World Trade Center Charleston proudly represent the Charleston metro region in supporting the Global South Metro Exchange,\u201d added David Ginn, President. \u201cIn the global marketplace, there are clear benefits for metropolitan areas with similar assets, goals, and economic drivers working together as super-regions to collaborate on shared opportunities and challenges. The Charleston metro\u2019s economy ranks among the Top 20 in the nation for advanced industries and Top 10 for FDI. We look forward to building relationships with other top southeastern metros to ensure this strong economic progress continues for years to come.\u201d\nMXD First Draft Study Coming Out This Month\nCharlotte City Council approved a $900,000 expenditure of airport funds for a consultant study as Charlotte Douglas International Airport creates a new master plan to guide future development on the land surrounding the airport.\nThe purpose of the study is to maximize the opportunity surrounding the fifth busiest airport in the U.S. with a major intermodal center and Charlotte\u2019s unique location midway along the East Coast between New York and Miami. Charlotte is served by two Class I railroads with access to four major ports within four hours and a network of highways. The purpose of this study is to lay out options for growth and development on the 25-mile radius around the airport.\nMXD Development, out of British Columbia, will be looking at comparable airports around the world to determine the highest and best use opportunities for Charlotte. MXD has conducted similar studies for Denver, Memphis and San Francisco, as well as international airports in Canada, China, Australia and Russia. They will be considering projects including residential, commercial, industrial, logistics, warehousing, hotels and restaurants.\nThe effort is being led by the airport\u2019s development director, Stuart Hair. Aviation Director Brent Cagle says, \u201cThis project is the refreshing of a 15-year-old development plan,\u201d adding that most of the efforts in that plan are now completed. The airport is reaching out to a broad list of stakeholders and economic developers as well as the surrounding community for input and recommendations.\nMXD is about at the midpoint of their study. Preliminary findings have been captured and a first draft of the report is due by the end of August. Completion of the study is expected by the end of 2016.\nThe River District, a mixed use project being proposed for development by Lincoln Harris and Crescent Communities just off West Boulevard west of I-485, is scheduled for a hearing before the zoning board on August 22, 2016, with final determination expected early this fall.\nObama and Clinton in Charlotte\nTargeting North Carolina as a Key State\nIt was a remarkable day July 5, 2016, when I attended the political rally that had an admittance line over six blocks long. Both President Obama and Hillary Clinton traveled to campaign in Charlotte. They attended a Democratic rally of over 3,000 faithful at the Charlotte Convention Center and then made a quick stop at the Midwood Smokehouse in Plaza Midwood for barbecue and brisket along with the fixins to take home. This was the first campaign trip for President Obama with former Secretary of State Clinton since she clinched the Democratic nomination.\nThis Charlotte event was planned so that this joint appearance would become the first public event to follow the morning media conference called by FBI Director James Comey to report on the FBI investigation of the Clinton emails. His account included a summary of the emails that had been collected along with the numbers of classified email chains that were not marked appropriately.\nComey went on to say that the Secretary and her staff were extremely careless and that they had mishandled classified documents. Nevertheless, he stated that it was FBI judgment that no reasonable prosecutor would bring such a case with the evidence and research they had gathered. He said the FBI felt that \u201cno charges are appropriate in this case.\u201d\nSo, why were Obama and Clinton in Charlotte? First, this event was meant to provide some public relations cover to offset the FBI report. Secondarily, but perhaps more important in the long run, they were here because North Carolina has been a swing state in recent years.\nIn 2008, the state went for Barack Obama to become President; and in 2012, the majority of N.C. voters went for Mitt Romney. Having held his second nominating convention in Charlotte in 2012, President Obama would like to boost Hillary Clinton\u2019s chances of winning North Carolina in this election. While President Obama is at the end of his second term, he would like to see his legacy carried forward by Hillary Clinton to top off his accomplishments.\nThe third reason for this trip was clearly to capture video of the two campaigning side-by-side for future political ads to be run across the country to increase turnout for Democrats.\nHillary Clinton spoke first and talked about her admiration for President Obama as a colleague in the U.S. Senate, as a competitor for the Democratic nomination in 2008, as a debater in the midst of that race, as a team member in President Obama\u2019s cabinet as Secretary of State, and finally as a friend. She remarked how impressed she was with his performance through some very tough times. With the presidential seal on the rostrum in front of her, she committed to carry on and to go forward from his leadership to the country.\nThen, she turned to podium over to President Obama. The president addressed a litany of issues from economic policy and job creation, deficit reduction and budget management, foreign relations and America\u2019s stature in the world, health care reform, climate change and reform, and also energy production.\nAs I was looking on, it was clear that each issue that he addressed could be a clip in a political spot in support of Hillary Clinton. I am confident that we will see campaign commercials that will exhibit one or more of his comments. It was important for the campaign to capture these comments before the Philadelphia convention, so that the commercials can be prepared for the three months preceding the election.\nThe mechanics of this event were very well managed. You could see that the advance team had everything set up to make the most of this opportunity. Held on the lower level of the Charlotte Convention Center, it accommodated three to four thousand people. The speaker\u2019s platform was situated in the middle of a 360-degree setup so that the President and Clinton would be surrounded by fans from all angles.\nThe signs, flags and slogans were appropriately placed so that the cameras could not help but capture both the speakers and the American flag with the brand new slogan \u201cStronger Together,\u201d maximizing the impact of the audience and the layout of the set.\nIt was standing room only. the crowd was hyped by music and drums and speeches from Roy Cooper, Democrat for Governor, and Deborah Ross, Democrat for U.S. Senate, and others. While the room was cool before the speeches started, it soon warmed up. Before the end, I saw several people helped or carried out from heat exhaustion. It was jam-packed to make it a rousing rally.\nWith North Carolina in play for both Republicans and Democrats, we can expect more visits from both of the candidates.\nPhoto taken by Jim Froneberger.\nIf you have comments, questions or concerns, we would like to hear from you. You are invited to email me at jgalles@clt.biz. Thank you.\nTrump Heeds Advice from Former Nucor Exec\nGOP Economic Strategy Takes Shape\nDid you notice? On June 28, Donald Trump took a serious step forward by turning his comments to the economy and jobs by way of criticizing our free trade agreements. On Monday, August 8, Trump addressed the Detroit Economic Club and presented an updated economic recovery message that adopted the budget and tax proposals from the GOP majority in the House of Representatives.\nDan DiMicco Former Nucor Exec\nTrump has obviously been taking instruction from his \u201cadvisers.\u201d One important adviser on his economic team is Dan DiMicco, former head of Nucor Steel and now chairman emeritus, from right here in Charlotte. Dan has been outspoken with his disdain China\u2019s \u201cdumping\u201d of steel into the U.S. He has also spoken against the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA). Both items were elements of Trump\u2019s speech yesterday.\nEven though Hillary Clinton has also articulated these concerns, it was more dramatic to hear Trump combine three sentences on economic trade that strike an important cord in economic policy.\nIt is important to remember that every trade agreement has winners and losers. Trump\u2019s promise to renegotiate agreements must be measured by whose interests he intends to protect and push forward and whose interests get left behind.\nNow we will need to watch and see whose interests he and Hillary choose to represent in their policies going forward. We have more to learn. This is why our democracy has worked so well. It is not just the votes that count. 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A simple Ultrasonography (USG) revealed the tumor and he soon found himself seated in front of Dr Amlan Chakraborty, Consultant Urologist at The Calcutta Medical Research Institute (CMRI). Dr Amlan Chakraborty shared, that renal tumours are the 8th most common cancers and usually more common in men above the age of 50. They have no established connection to diet or lifestyle and may have some hereditary causes.\nThe Ultrasonography (USG), which was administered to the patient, is the most common method of screening for renal tumours and sometimes shows symptoms like blood in urine or a lump in the abdomen. Abhishek Guha had no such symptom and therefore his tumour at the time of the start of treatment had grown to 10 X 8 X 7 cm3 and was critically positioned, thus making it extremely complicated to operate and remove.\nUnfortunately, renal tumours cannot be treated through medication and surgery is the only way of managing them.\nThe treatment of renal tumours can be approached in two different ways, depending on the size and position of the tumour. If the tumour is small, detected early and favourably placed in the kidney, it can be extracted from the body through a minimally invasive procedure (laparoscopy) called the nephron sparing surgery or laparoscopic partial nephrectomy. Complications arise when the tumour is big and critically placed in the kidney \u2013 as was the case with Abhishek Guha.\nAccording to Dr Amlan Chakraborty, \u201cWhen a patient comes to us with a malignant renal tumour, our primary focus is the complete removal of cancer cells from the body.\nPrior to the great advancements in minimally invasive surgical procedures, a case like Abhishek Guha\u2019s would be treated through an invasive open surgery. Open surgeries pose more complications, have higher risk and lesser accuracy. Moreover, handling of cancerous tumours may cause spillage of cancer cells to other parts of the body. Therefore, the\nmost efficient way, which has emerged as a result of advanced medical treatment, is to choose a minimally invasive procedure like the Laparoscopic Radical Nephrectomy.\u201d\nLaparoscopic radical nephrectomy provides patients with a safe and minimally invasive technique for complete removal of the affected kidney and tumour.\nThe HD camera Laparoscope allows a 4X magnification of the operative field. This, along with other state-of-the-art equipment used at CMRI allows the surgeons to accomplish the operative procedure with improved vision and without placing their hands inside the abdominal cavity.\nAbhishek Guha\u2019s surgery was completed in 3 hours and he was home in 4 days. He was in a condition to resume work in 10 days from leaving the hospital.\nDr. Amlan Chakraborty, Consultant Urologist at The Calcutta Medical Research Institute, says, \u201cMinimally Invasive procedures like the Laparoscopic Radical Nephrectomy allows for improved cosmesis, reduced pain, blood loss and hospital stay as compared to open surgeries. CMRI\u2019s use of latest energy sources, imaging systems, HD cameras and harmonics has taken the field of Uro-oncology to the next level in Eastern India.\u201d\nBy Dr. Amlan Chakraborty\n\u00ab Rare Pituitary Tumour treated at CMRI\nWomen More Prone to Knee and Joint Issues \u00bb", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00040.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 110, + "original_length": 5783, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.95, + "perplexity": 278.9, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "http://cod.edu/spotlights/students/taschetta.aspx", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T04:02:13Z", + "digest": "sha1:ZE3NYUCBUKKOIMDCNZK4MH3PXY7QWMQP", + "length": 4224, + "nlines": 20, + "source_domain": "cod.edu", + "title": "College of DuPage - Student Spotlight: Sarah Taschetta", + "raw_content": "Student Spotlight: Sarah Taschetta\nSarah Taschetta\nMajor: Motion Picture/Television\nSarah Taschetta continues to move closer toward her dream of working in television after enjoying the American Pavilion\u2019s prestigious L.A. Intensive program for 2018.\nFor nearly three decades, the American Pavilion has been the communications and hospitality hub at the Cannes Film Festival for American filmmakers. The organization offers an internship for students to work at the festival as well as a summer program in Los Angeles that provides information and resources to students interested in careers in the entertainment industry.\nTaschetta, a Television Production student at College of DuPage, would like to work behind-the-scenes as a director or producer for a TV talk show, and being hired for the Ellen DeGeneres show would be a dream come true. In fact, in 2017 her video submission was a finalist in Ellen\u2019s 12 Days Skybox Challenge and shown on \u201cEllen\u201d (pictured above is Ellen DeGeneres introducing Taschetta's video on the big screen).\n\u201cI\u2019ve been watching Ellen since fourth or fifth grade,\u201d said Taschetta. \u201cShe\u2019s hilarious, but it\u2019s also about how generous she is to those in need, which is why I\u2019m a huge fan. Jeannie Klisiewicz, one of Ellen\u2019s producers, was a fan who entered every contest, never won and eventually was hired for the show. I\u2019m going to be persistent because it could happen to me.\u201d\nTaschetta began making videos as a freshman at Wheaton North High School. After seeing other students\u2019 videos, she initially saw herself as the school\u2019s Ellen DeGeneres before developing her own voice. This included \u201cminute to win it\u201d videos, which became big hits, and segments promoting the school\u2019s special needs population.\n\u201cI have always been aware of inclusion, and for the school\u2019s TV show, I asked why we couldn\u2019t have anchors who have special needs,\u201d she said. \u201cAs a result, several were featured in this role. I also made a promotional video for the Special Olympics.\u201d\nWhen it came time for college, Taschetta initially decided to pursue occupational therapy at a four-year school.\n\u201cI went for 12 days and realized the regular college experience wasn\u2019t for me,\u201d she said. \u201cI switched to College of DuPage and initially studied speech before I discovered the Motion Picture/Television program and Courier TV, the student-produced weekly news program. I took Professor Jennifer Piehl\u2019s class and fell in love with directing.\u201d\nBefore transferring to Columbia College, Taschetta took part in the L.A. Intensive program, and it more than lived up to her expectations.\n\u201cThe night we went to a taping of Jimmy Kimmel was the biggest night for me,\u201d she said. \u201cI thought we would just be watching, but they put us in the Green Room and gave us the VIP treatment. Then I met Jill Leiderman, executive producer of the show and a Northwestern graduate. I am a big fan of hers because she is one of the best talk show producers. She took me into the control booth with her as we watched the show.\n\u201cThe entire time I was at the taping, I knew this is what I wanted to do and where I wanted to be.\u201d\nTaschetta is pursuing a degree in television production and directing. Her hope is to secure a spot in Columbia\u2019s \u201cSemester in L.A.,\u201d where she can finish her studies and land an internship in television.\n\u201cA career in television just speaks to me,\u201d she said. \u201cI prefer live TV and especially talk shows, for obvious reasons. I will apply for internships on \u2018Ellen\u2019 or \u2018Jimmy Kimmel\u2019 because both have the same beliefs and use their platforms to promote positive change. I want to make a difference and work with people who are doing so.\u201d\nCollege of DuPage was the right choice for Taschetta. In addition to the affordable tuition, she was impressed by the quality of the resources and overall academic experience.\n\u201cIt doesn\u2019t matter that I didn\u2019t start here,\u201d she said. \u201cI received an amazing education and the opportunities were just incredible.\u201d\nMore about the Motion Picture/Television program\nSarah Taschetta, a Television Production student at College of DuPage, would like to work behind-the-scenes as a director or producer for a TV talk show, and being hired for the Ellen DeGeneres show would be a dream come true.", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00040.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 130, + "original_length": 7181, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.98, + "perplexity": 173.4, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "http://codefingers.blogspot.com/2015/07/web-development.html", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T03:58:12Z", + "digest": "sha1:YOITLJNPJIT4N2TL25X6L7EE2HTQ5YJM", + "length": 1032, + "nlines": 3, + "source_domain": "codefingers.blogspot.com", + "title": "codefingers technology: Web Development.", + "raw_content": "Web development refers to building, creating, and an maintaining websites. It includes aspects such as web design, web publishing, web programming, and database management.\nWhile the terms \"web developer\" and \"web designer\" are often used synonymously, they do not mean the same thing. Technically, a web designer only designs website interfaces using HTML and CSS. A web developer may be involved in designing a website, but may also write web scripts in languages such as PHP and ASP. Additionally, a web developer may help maintain and update a database used by a dynamic website.\nWeb development includes many types of web content creation. Some examples include hand coding web pages in a text editor, building a website in a program like Dreamweaver, and updating a blog via a blogging website. In recent years, content management systems like WordPress, Drupal, and Joomla have also become popular means of web development. These tools make it easy for anyone to create and edit their own website using a web-based interface.", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00040.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 32, + "original_length": 1799, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.92, + "perplexity": 156.3, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "http://collections.uakron.edu/cdm/ref/collection/p15960coll21/id/80863/", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T04:37:24Z", + "digest": "sha1:CURCXTXH25YD2J6OTFTOAXFHAA4DTY32", + "length": 1702, + "nlines": 4, + "source_domain": "collections.uakron.edu", + "title": "Collective trauma: Terrain that challenges conventional wisdom on mental health. :: PsycCRITIQUES", + "raw_content": "Home PsycCRITIQUES Collective trauma: Terrain that challenges conventional wisdom on mental health.\nCollective trauma: Terrain that challenges conventional wisdom on mental health.\nReview Title Collective trauma: Terrain that challenges conventional wisdom on mental health.\nAbstract Reviews the book, Collective Trauma, Collective Healing: Promoting Community Resilience in the Aftermath of Disaster by Jack Saul (see record 2013-28275-000). Saul explores the territory of traumatization on a societal level, a terrain that implicitly challenges the assumption that psychological difficulties are a matter of individual susceptibility to maladjustment. In the parlance of a traditional mental illness perspective, each chapter of this volume is a case study, not of an individual\ufffds psychopathology, but of a different instance of collective trauma and its impact on an entire community. In the reviewer's estimation, this volume makes two distinct contributions to the psychological literature. One of these is that it offers a valuable introduction to collective trauma as well as models for promoting recovery from both its short-term and prolonged deleterious effects. The second is to orient the reader to a vantage point from which to conceptualize psychological impairment and healing that is distinctly different from the prevailing paradigm of psychopathology and individual treatment. 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For me, quite simply, photojournalist/reportage photography is all about wedding photographs that capture and tell a story. Increasingly, brides and grooms are attracted to this type of photography, moving away from the traditional posed photographs.\nA true reportage wedding photographer will capture the wedding as it unfolds in a candid and unobtrusive fashion. It\u2019s not only pointing the camera and taking a photograph, it\u2019s about keeping a watch on what\u2019s happening all around and anticipating the next moment, so that you\u2019re in the place at the right time to take that perfect shot.\nWe at Colours Photo and Film are a huge fans of photojournalist/reportage photography and here is the sort of images I am talking about. In this photo, the bridesmaids and the vicar were waiting for the bride. As the bridal car approached, I was captivated by the expressions on their faces which tell a story all of their own. I quickly captured the moment, before moving on to the next shot.\nThe photograph below was at an Indian wedding at the Apple Tree Centre in Crawley and as with all Gujarati weddings, at the end of the wedding ceremony the bride and groom played Koda Kodi (games). The priest is supposed to put the ring in red coloured water for the bride and groom to search for. Here, the bride and the groom were under the impression that the ring was in the water and were searching for it, when all the time it was hidden in the priest\u2019s hands. There was a lot of laughter when the truth came out!\nThe image below was not posed. The bride was catching a moment to relax with a magazine when her dad decided to take out his phone and take a candid shot. I also had my camera ready to snap both of them in this image before the moment passed.\n\u00ab Wedding Venue \u2013 Oshwal Centre Potters Bar, HertfordshireWedding reception themes photography \u00bb", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00040.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 41, + "original_length": 3427, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.97, + "perplexity": 336.7, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "http://columbiaclimatelaw.com/silencing-science-tracker/epa-removed-links-to-climate-change-resources-for-local-governments-from-website/", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T04:30:41Z", + "digest": "sha1:S3CJ7PPLOIGAVXPJPURE4XYKCWF3RDWL", + "length": 1116, + "nlines": 3, + "source_domain": "columbiaclimatelaw.com", + "title": "EPA Website Relaunched Without Climate Change Materials - Sabin Center for Climate Change Law", + "raw_content": "EPA Website Relaunched Without Climate Change Materials\nA study by the Environmental Data and Governance Initiative found that, approximately three months after removing the \u201cClimate and Energy Resources for State, Local and Tribal Governments\u201d page from its website, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) relaunched it as the \u201cEnergy Resources for State, Local and Tribal Governments.\u201d The new site omitted multiple links to materials aimed at helping local officials prepare for climate change. Approximately fifteen references to \u201cclimate change\u201d were removed from the main page alone. EPA also removed over 200 sub-pages discussing the risks of climate change and the different approaches states are taking to curb greenhouse gas emissions emissions. Examples of statewide plans to adapt to climate change were also removed.\nFollowing publication of the changes, seven Democratic senators wrote to EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt requesting that the previous website be \u201cimmediately reinstate[d]\u201d and that an explanation be provided for its initial removal. Administrator Pruitt did not respond to the letter.", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00040.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 101, + "original_length": 3858, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.95, + "perplexity": 248.8, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "http://compassgallery.co.uk/2015/elizabeth-cope/", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T03:44:10Z", + "digest": "sha1:ULO4VTM4NRUV3ZYFGTYP53ASUG3QX77L", + "length": 3156, + "nlines": 6, + "source_domain": "compassgallery.co.uk", + "title": "compass galleryElizabeth Cope - compass gallery", + "raw_content": "Elizabeth Cope was born Co. Kildare Ireland, studied at the National College of Art & Design Dublin, Sir John Cass School of Art and Chelsea School of Art London in the 1970\u2019s before living in Madrid and Paris. Inspired by the principles and tenets of the late 19th Century and early 20th Century artists, she is influenced particularly by the Fauvist and Post Impressionists Edgar Degas, Vincent Van Gogh, Andre Derain, Dufy and Matisse. Notable British artists Roger Hilton, Vanessa Bell, Roger Fry and Alfred Wallis are much admired by her and have impacted on her most recent work. By her own admission she is of the \u2018happy school of painting\u2019. She looks for the positive and hope in the places and situations she experiences. Always determined to travel, her subject matter is varied and drawn from her worldly journeys and experiences; from her visits to Somalia as a war artist to the beaches of Brazil, Guatemala, the Mediterranean, Cuba and Mexico. However her return to her cultural homeland in rural Ireland and studio life grounds her and motivates her to paint.\nHighly regarded internationally, documenting the war in Somalia, she was Ireland\u2019s first war artist and exhibited together with Scottish war artist Peter Howson, although her work and approach is completely different. Her paintings currently hang alongside notable artists, Francis Bacon and William Crozier as a specially selected artist in \u2018The Naked Truth, the Nude in Irish Art\u2019, Cork. She has exhibited often in London and numerous other European cities, South America, the US and Canada. This is her first major exhibition with Compass Gallery, Glasgow. Selecting work for this show has been challenging and an inspiring experience. Cope is both a draughtsman and a painter; colour, spontaneity, energy and creativity characterise her work. Confident in her craftsmanship but also self critical she vigorously edits; if the paintings don\u2019t work for her she snips out the best and strongest bits and collages them onto a fresh base, thus creating intriguing jigsaws of images. The sheer scale of some of her most ambitious and challenging paintings, nailed onto the walls of an open barn, amongst the hay bales, makes us long for a larger space to fully represent the breadth and scale of her work. However, restricted to our walls in Compass we have selected but a sprinkling of her lively seascapes, still lifes, portraits, nudes and a series of beautifully drawn etchings based on zoo animals. Colour and energy abounds and we think you will find this exhibition energising and uplifting.\nInternational solo shows include: University of Toronto, Canada, Bologna, Ontario, Dublin, London, New York, Sao Paulo and Switzerland. Acquisitions by public and corporate collections include the Contemporary Irish Art Society, Dublin City University, National Self-Portrait Collection, University of Limerick, Allied Investment Bank and Bank of Ireland. Recent selected group shows include the Royal Academy of Arts, Yorkshire (2017), RHA Annual Exhibition in Dublin (2016) and the RA Summer Show, London (2016).\nElephants, London Zoo\nStill Life with Deer Head\nLife Bouy At Ardamine", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00040.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 43, + "original_length": 3935, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.96, + "perplexity": 256.6, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "http://complete-review.com/reviews/divphil/singerp1.htm", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T04:32:23Z", + "digest": "sha1:JH3TBOHVTUML7NT7SXYL6B7UHQOZ5G3K", + "length": 21421, + "nlines": 64, + "source_domain": "complete-review.com", + "title": "One World - Peter Singer", + "raw_content": "Availability: One World - US\nOne World - UK\nOne World - Canada\n\"The core of this book is the Dwight H. Terry Lectures\", given by Singer at Yale University in November 2000\nB : decent overview of some of the major issues relating to globalization\nThe Age . 1/2/2003 Morag Fraser\nForeign Affairs . 3-4/2003 G. John Ikenberry\nThe NY Rev. of Books . 25/3/2004 V.Joshi/R.Skidelsky\nThe NY Times Book Rev. . 1/12/2002 Andr\u00e9s Martinez\nSydney Morning Herald . 28/12/2002 Paul Sheehan\nThe Washington Monthly . 11/2002 Gregg Easterbrook\n\"Read it in tandem with Geoffrey Robertson's recently revised opus on human rights, Crimes Against Humanity, and you have a comprehensive picture of the strains on the nation-state world we still inhabit and the direction that world might take -- if we were to be brave, and just.\" - Morag Fraser, The Age\n\"In his view, the search for widely acceptable principles of global fairness is not simply an intellectual exercise but an imperative that even rich and powerful countries ignore at their peril; we cannot address the vulnerabilities that globalization creates without a shared belief around the world that the system is legitimate and just. (...) His willingness to delve into the prosaic details of agreements such as the Kyoto Protocol on global warming and the World Trade Organization is one of the book's biggest strengths.\" - G. John Ikenberry, Foreign Affairs\n\"Singer's book is a heroic attempt to picture a world organized and managed according to the principle of utility. It is what a Benthamite world-state would look like. It will annoy those who dislike utilitarianism and be dismissed as irrelevant by practical people.\" - Vijay Joshi and Robert Skidelsky, The New York Review of Books\n\"As globalization polemics go, the book is rather restrained. More than a rant, it is a stimulating tour of the moral and practical challenges posed by the world's accelerating contraction.\" - Andr\u00e9s Martinez, The New York Times Book Review\n\"It is possible to agree with all this but still be disappointed. It has to be said, in cool but plain language, that Singer sounds like a bureaucrat who cannot understand why politicians will not devolve more power to him. In his concern with advancing the cause of global equity and equality, he simply discounts tribalism as the primordial social organising unit of humanity.\" - Paul Sheehan, Sydney Morning Herald\n\"One World is a pretty good book; if it did not come with Peter Singer baggage, I might say a darn good book. Singer, generally a hero to the loony left, struggles with the issues of globalization in a rigorously hard-headed manner rarely seen on this topic.\" - Gregg Easterbrook, The Washington Monthly\nIn One World Peter Singer examines four major issues affecting the world today from a \"global ethical viewpoint\": the impact of human activity on our atmosphere, international trade regulation (specifically the role of the World Trade Organization), the idea of national sovereignty, and the distribution of aid. Each, he argues, is of great significance in this age of globalization: they require our attention -- and often a change in attitude and approach -- if we are to improve the lot of mankind.\nSinger looks at the big picture: one world, as the title has it. He begins with the atmosphere, arguing:\nThere can be no clearer illustration of the need for human beings to act globally than the issues raised by the impact of human activity on our atmosphere.\nGlobal warming and related atmospheric-change issues have been much discussed in recent years, and Singer provides an overview of the apparent manifestations of atmospheric change caused by man-made pollution, as well as international efforts (at the conferences in Rio and Kyoto, for example) to counter these (in particular by reducing emissions of so-called greenhouse gases). It is an interesting philosophical problem: certain countries and people contribute far more pollution than others -- but everyone suffers from the consequences (though the consequences are also not evenly distributed -- nor can they often be predicted). Complications are compounded by the fact that polluting more often results in greater economic benefits to the polluter (though in the case of at least one major source of pollution -- private motor vehicles -- there is little real benefit to be derived from driving a gas-guzzler over an energy-efficient vehicle -- and yet people still do it, because of the low incremental cost (the extra cost of gas per mile travelled is apparently considered trivial) and the perceived benefits in, for example, status ('Look at me in my cool car'), and because governments are willing to indulge consumers (who are often also voters) by not prodding car-makers to improve gas mileage -- and, in many countries, by subsidizing gas -- indirectly (in not charging the consumer for all the consequences of gas-use but rather just the ostensible costs of producing the gas and providing it at the pump) or directly (a policy popular in oil-rich countries, even in the developing world)).\nSinger fairly sensibly discusses these issues and the positions currently being taken and considered -- who should (or might) pay for what, and how the costs of implementation can be distributed. Most of this is fairly familiar, even Singer's ethical take, which focusses on equitable distribution (fairness) in bearing the costs. His favoured solution, of global emissions trading, is hardly a radical one, and he makes a reasonable case for it.\nSinger notes that the idea of fairness is pretty much the only one that can bring about change -- industrialized nations \"presumed rights as sovereign nations\", plus:\nthe raw military power these nations yield, makes it impossible for anyone else to impose a more ethically defensible solution on them.\nHe does close with a question -- an unanswered hope, that perhaps some day the UN might impose sanctions on countries that do really bad things like not play their part in protecting the environment. But it seems little more than wishful thinking. Elsewhere he is a bit more realistic -- as when he acknowledges that: \"to cynical observers of the Washington scene, all this must seem absurdly lacking in political realism.\"\nSinger does do some finger-pointing, especially at America, noting that \"all the major industrial nations but one have committed themselves\" to doing something about reducing greenhouse gas emissions (fudging the fact that the something remains a very vague thing too). America's outrageous indifference -- both in terms of public policy as well as private behaviour -- is deeply disturbing, but political realism and America's (and Americans') attitude of not just 'me first' but rather 'just me' make Singer's babbling about fairness and ethics sound almost na\u00efve. (As recent interventions abroad again demonstrate, in America 'American might makes right' is the only ethics that count.)\nIn his second section Singer focusses on the World Trade Organization, and four central charges against it:\nThe WTO places economic considerations ahead of concerns for the environment, animal welfare, and even human rights\nThe WTO erodes national sovereignty.\nThe WTO is undemocratic.\nThe WTO increases inequality; or (a stronger charge) it makes the rich richer and leaves the world's poorest people even worse off than they would otherwise have been.\nThis is a lot to consider, but Singer does offer a good overview of the main issues, concerns, and responses.\nHis discussion of Article XX and the product/process distinction in trade disputes (the WTO having ruled that countries can't discriminate against products from other countries because of the process by which they were made -- even, most of the time, if the process itself is in some way harmful (to the environment, etc.)) is certainly of interest, and points out how the WTO can get carried away in obsessing on the trade aspect of free trade.\nThe charge of eroding national sovereignty seems a less compelling one -- perhaps because national sovereignty (certainly in issues of trade), while popular, doesn't seem something of great value (as Singer also discusses elsewhere). Even accepting it (and Singer gives no good reason for doing so) he can't muster much of an argument why erosion would be bad (the treatment of AIDS- and other drugs is the best he can do).\nThat the WTO is undemocratic is also, on some level, true, but it might more accurately be called imperfectly democratic -- like the UN (which he also wants to reform), the American Senate (or the manner in which American (and many other) presidents are elected), etc. etc. Singer argues simply for \"giving weight to population numbers\" -- a too simple non-fix. (Do children count ? (A significant issue given the differing demographics in industrial and non-industrial countries.) What of weighting economic producers -- the people more directly affected by WTO decisions -- versus those who are less affected ? (Singer might say: everyone is affected, but the industrial nations won't go for that.) And wouldn't population-based voting power erode national sovereignty ...?)\nThe question of whether the WTO increases inequality is also a complex one, which Singer goes into in some depth. Certainly a valid point is the ability of rulers to screw over their countries by incurring costs (often funds siphoned off to private bank accounts in Switzerland) which must then be borne by the citizens -- a serious problem in many developing nations which are burdened by debts that did little to benefit the population as a whole.\nThe third section takes on the need and desirability for international intervention and questions of national sovereignty (a chapter written before the Anglo-American invasion of Iraq of 2003). In a global community Singer sees some international humanitarian intervention as desirable -- though firmly believing: \"Only the United Nations should attempt to take on this responsibility to protect.\" Singer makes a good case for why intervention is, under certain circumstances, acceptable and even desirable -- indeed, even a duty, in some circumstances. He also suggests some reforms in the make-up of the United Nations (to make it more \"democratic\").\nSinger's book does take initial American reactions to the terrorist attacks of September 2001 into account; unfortunately, recent events (Project Iraq 2003, and current American foreign policy in general) have considerably altered conditions. Post facto the US has tried to sell their military intervention in Iraq as a humanitarian gesture, but the excuse for intervention was solely pre-emptively defensive -- laughably Saddam Hussein was perceived to pose a threat to the US, said to have so-called \"Weapons of Mass Destruction\", and have connections to the World Trade Center-bombing terrorists . In trying to sell intervention to the UN regime change was never at issue, only the disarming of Iraq; the ensuing invasion was solely about regime change (since the Hussein regime apparently had no weapons, much less any capable of \"mass destruction\"). It now appears clear that America's militarist government (with a \"defense\" budget projected in 2004 to be larger than the defense budgets of all other nations in the world combined) will dictate when and how intervention will be permissible, with the UN at best allowed to station a few peacekeepers in areas where there are minor skirmishes.\nIronically, this is a chapter in which Singer seems to believe the US actually might participate in the ethical globally-oriented manner he approves of (unlike say with global warming); sadly, his hopes have certainly been dashed, as the US has again taken a \"leading\" role (in which ethics, especially of the globally-oriented sort, don't count for anything) while the best-suited organization for the job (the UN) has been pushed out of the picture.\nThe final section of the book focusses more on individual action, suggesting that everyone who can has a duty to help those who are less fortunate. Singer begins with the marvelous example of the flood of aid given to the families of victims of the World Trade Center attacks in 2001 -- despite the fact that many of these families were already well provided for by insurance, pension rights, and other safety nets. Meanwhile, American aid to the developing world remains negligible -- the lowest, in per capita terms, among industrial nations. Hilariously (and deeply disturbingly) Singer also cites numerous surveys in which Americans are asked how much they believe America is spending on foreign aid -- a typical survey found a median answer of 15 percent of GNP (when in fact it is less than 1 percent). (One wonders if the billions of dollars of armaments recently rained down on Iraq, pulverizing much of the country (and many of its citizens), will be counted as having been 'foreign aid', raising this year's percentage by a bit.)\nSinger argues that we all have a duty to help the greater global community, and not just those in our immediate vicinity (an argument he has made, at greater length, elsewhere too). There's something to this -- a few hundred dollars could alleviate great suffering if directed to the proper places, with Singer suggesting (as others have determined) that 200 dollars can save a child's life.\nThere are, of course, also numerous difficulties with this -- many of which he discusses. Among them: distant suffering (or alleviating it) isn't of much interest to most people. Singer correctly argues that that's hardly an ethical point of view, but it also is human nature. In addition, there's the difficulty of actually determining that the 200 dollars contributes to saving a child (and isn't wasted on marketing campaigns or fine hotels for aid workers, etc. etc.) -- and that satisfactory direct proof of having saved a life will almost never be obtainable.\nSinger wastes a lot of time with a thought-experiment by Peter Ungar, which basically amounts to: a man has parked his Bugatti on some train tracks and there's a child on a nearby train track when a train comes. If the man does nothing the kid will be killed -- but the man has the option of throwing a switch, which will divert the train to the tracks the Bugatti is on, saving the child but destroying the car. Singer argues that we have similar opportunities to save children's lives: donating 200 dollars is like throwing the switch, since we lose something of value (200 dollars) but save a life.\nThe example is, of course, a terrible one. The train-example is one of immediacy; were there adequate time there would be other solutions (warn the kid, move the Bugatti, etc.) -- and such life and death cases lead to different outcomes than when there is time to deliberate. (People often literally -- and sometimes very foolishly -- risk their lives in order to try to save other people (in fires, iced-over lakes, etc.) -- but won't give a dollar to someone on the street, even if they're in obvious need.) In addition, no immediate expenditure is required in the train example, and as any economist will tell you, the loss of an asset (the Bugatti) is very different from actually spending money in order to do something. (Indeed, a better example would be if there were no Bugatti but instead the switch were coin-operated, requiring the payment of 200 dollars in order to throw it).\nSinger has an obvious point -- that we should help those in need, and that in our global world that includes those very, very far away. Given public misperceptions (at least in America) about foreign aid -- which is also often tied and thus not put to best use (and, from the US, overwhelmingly goes to countries (such as Egypt) for political reasons, and not on a needs-basis) -- there certainly seem to be an opportunity to convince citizens to increase governmental aid (i.e. the use of their tax-dollars) to help those that really need it.\n(Telling numbers: President Bush Jr. was willing to demand some 70 billion dollars for his Iraqi-wargames, while Singer notes that American foreign aid only amounts to 10 billion dollars annually. Interesting priorities, no ? (Admittedly, America's destruction of Iraq had other benefits which might make the huge expenditure worthwhile -- a return on investment that foreign aid does not provide as obviously -- including the opportunity for such elaborate wargames which allowed the armed forces to test all their new toys (most of which seem to have performed very well), as well as returns to American companies in rebuilding everything the Americans wrecked and controlling (it remains to be seen for how long) Iraq's oil production.))\nSinger concludes that \"we should be developing the ethical foundations of the coming era of a single world community\" -- an admirable if not necessarily realistic ideal (given how poorly we manage this in even our most limited and local communities). Still: it's something to aim for -- but, as he notes:\nThere is one great obstacle to further progress in this direction. It has to be said, in cool but plain language, that in recent years the international effort to build a global community has been hampered by the repeated failure of the United States to play its part.\nSince Singer wrote those words the situation has gotten drastically worse, as the US has further distanced itself from many of the institutions and mechanisms designed to improve the global community, including the International Criminal Court of Justice (which Singer mentions, still holding out some hope that the prosecution of terror suspects might move the US to see the benefits of such a court) -- and even subverted institutions it claims to wholeheartedly support, such as the WTO (with President Bush Jr.'s pandering to small special interest groups overriding concerns about upholding free trade ideals, when he instituted patently illegal steel and agricultural tariffs). Admittedly, many other nations -- and many leaders, especially dictators of developing nations -- also show little interest in fostering a global community and doing their part, but America's overwhelming power and financial and industrial might puts it in a category all its own -- and Singer is correct in pointing out that of the many paths open to it it has chosen a singularly self-serving (and self-righteous) one that does come at a large cost to the world as a whole.\nSinger's arguments are largely ethical, and therein lies one of the problems: ethics aren't always obvious and self-evident, and no matter how much is made mention of starving and diseased peoples who could be fairly easily helped, if they are far, far away people will always find more immediate concerns. Similarly, the consequences of actions leading to global warming aren't particularly obvious to consumers -- who thus remain convinced that their little pollution-contribution doesn't amount to much as far as the bigger picture goes.\nOver the long term the more convincing argument may well be the self-serving financial one (which should certainly be an easier sell in the US): unilateral disregard for the global community comes at a high cost. Pollution is a tough one, because the costs are generally deferred (they fall on the next generation, or at least years in the future) which means people prefer to embrace the short-term benefits and ignore the long-term costs (much like smoking -- enjoyable in the short-term, dreadfully expensive (in this case to the individual) in the long-term -- leading people to act completely irrationally and actually engage in this damaging activity). Elsewhere, the benefits are more obvious, from cost-sharing in foreign interventions, to the fact that internationally agreed upon humanitarian intervention (if that's what it truly is) leads to widespread better conditions for populations, making for everything from larger markets for foreign products to their being less likely to become breeding-grounds for terrorists. Similarly, in international trade regulation, a focus on equity that looks beyond the most obvious economic aspects should, over the longer term, also produce markets in which essentially all participants will be better off -- i.e. get more out of it, financially and otherwise. Similarly, the proper distribution of adequate foreign aid can also broaden markets and ultimately increase welfare not just among those who receive the aid but even those that give it.\nOne World is an interesting look at very significant issues. Not all of it convinces -- though Singer's necessarily condensed consideration of the issues is in part responsible for this. Certainly, it is a worthwhile reminder that local actions and policies do have global consequences, and that we shouldn't turn a blind eye to these. His discussion is, for the most part, measured and there is little that is truly radical or particularly contentious. There's a lot more to all of this -- but at least the issues are raised, and it's worth reading for that alone.\nOne World:\nCr\u00edtica (Portuguese)\nJohn J. Reilly\nPeter Singer:\nPeter Singer Links\nFaculty page and CV\nInterview at Identity Theory\nOther books by Peter Singer under review:\nA Darwinian Left\nMartin Wolf explains Why Globalization Works\nJagdish Bhagwati In Defense of Globalization\nAustralian philosopher Peter Singer is the author of the influential Animal Liberation, and currently teaches at Princeton University.", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00040.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 120, + "original_length": 23118, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.96, + "perplexity": 316.6, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "http://contiki.mytripjournal.com/travel-United_States-California-Garberville", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T04:43:08Z", + "digest": "sha1:GGLT25YNQBYBU3GM22GI4RJQRUOWORO4", + "length": 7059, + "nlines": 28, + "source_domain": "contiki.mytripjournal.com", + "title": "Garberville, California, United States - Journals | Blogs | WebSites - MyTripJournal", + "raw_content": "World United States California Garberville\nRead and rate Travel Journal Entries for Garberville, California, United States\nMar 27, 2016 - Garberville CA\nWe took a drive over to Shelter Cove, a small town on the coast. It is a 21 mile drive from camp and it took me over 90 minutes one way. It was uphill, downhill, sideways and switchbacks with a top speed of 25 MPH because of the road. This was a road to hell for me. There is only one road in and out so you have no other chose but drive it. Most of the drive was 2 lane and one side it was straight down several hundred feet or straight up the mountain. The town sure wasn\u2019t much after we got there and so we returned to the motorhome. Another...\n2016 Westward HO\nAs we arise from a night\u2019s rest, gazing out the window to see the sun is starting to peek over the mountain tops. We watch as the morning fog is burning off from the rays of the sun and the day become alive. We will spend this day traveling the \u201cAvenue of The Giants\u201d. The Avenue of the Giants is a scenic highway in Northern California, U.S.A., running through Humboldt Redwoods State Park. This world-famous scenic drive is a 31-mile portion of old Highway 101, which parallels Freeway 101 with its 51,222 acres of redwood groves. It is by far...\nWe finally pulled out of Vallejo around 10:00 am to stop at fruit market on the way that the lady in the park said they had everything you could want. Well we got there and it was not what she said, Candy went in and they didn\u2019t have anything she was interested in. Back on the road we went, US 101. Our trip north was interesting because it was good road until we got near the Humboldt State Park. The road become a very narrow 2 lane road and as we drove thru the trees I needed to watch the trees on the right side of the road. They were on...\nNov 14, 2013 - Garberville CA\n11/14 We make the relativly short move from Kalamath to Garberville CA. It gets us closer to the lower CA redwood state parks and closer to Yosemite. The northern CA coast is spectacular. We check into Richardson Grove RV park and campground. We arrive around 1430 but the office has closed for the day, things are pretty slow around here. No phone coverage ATT or Verizone. No TV and no wifi password at least for today. We get set up and then explore locally a bit. We are still in the redwoods and on the edge of Richardson Grove State...\nApr 18, 2013 - Avenue of the Giants\nDay 45 of The Big Trip Our driving distance was a little more than 100 miles, which really taxed our endurance. The scenery changed drastically as we entered the coastal range. The roadside poppies were beautiful. We arrived at a beautiful RV park, just south of Garberville shortly after noon. Jim and Sandi had driven the Avenue of the Giants, but we never had; so off we went to see these magnificent trees. The drive is 32-miles long, with stops along the way to see groves of old-growth redwoods. Stepping into one of those groves gave me...\nTravels with Clark and Reba\nSep 27, 2012 - benbow rv - garberville, ca\nbig red wood trees everywhere.. pic of tree of life, look carefully, see the branches, that look like there is a whole other tree growing up? couple pic's of big tree shows perspective of how big they really are. Just down the road, - elk hanging out, the big guy had himself a nice group, when they crossed the road, one of his ladies strayed from the group. He looked around and then started to scream, almost like high pitched screach/whistle?\n\"On the road again\" with L.P.\nApr 23, 2012 - I Warned You\nFortuna, CA. Posted Monday, 4-23-2012 Mid afternoon. 64 Deg. partly coudy, NW wind @ 6 mph. Forecast tonight = Overcast with rain showers. Fog overnight. Low of 52F. Winds from the South at 5 to 15 mph. Chance of rain 20%. Well, I warned you that I may not have an Internet connection while out here along the California Coast, and sure enough, that's just what happened. I've kind of kept track of what happened and when it happened by writing it down on a word procesor, and so now, I'll try to copy and past it here. Oh, and when I opened...\nThe Wanderings Of Emrys\nFeb 14, 2012 - Pacific Coast, Oregon and California\nWe have been slowly working our way down US 101 along the Pacific Coast of Oregon and California on our way to the warm, dry desert country of the Southwest. Our first stop was the little town of Neskowin, Oregon, located a few miles north of Lincoln City. The campground where we stayed, Neskowin Creek Resort, has been a favorite of ours for some time, and it is an easy walk to the beach. It\u2019s been a bit stormy lately, so the ocean was very active with an off-shore wind resulting in a lot of spray blowing off the tops of some of the larger...\nAug 21, 2011 - Martinez, CA to Burlington Campground, CA\nWe stopped in Healdsburg, California for some wine tasting. The fancy options were a little too fancy, so we tasted wine made by a former skater under the Hobo label, and some wine made by brothers. Then we headed north, picking up a hitchhiker along the way who smelled up the car for the remainder of the trip. She introduced us to the phrase \"nifty groovy\" and also talked about the \"hippie aristocracy\" in Mendocino County and Garberville. Per her, she had been working at Winna Rainbow camp, run by Wavy Gravy of Woodstock fame. We camped...\nWith breakfast out of the way and lunch packed we begin a journey up Hwy. 101 and the Avenue of the Giants. We are located in Humboldt County home of the Redwoods. Soon after beginning we discover an interesting side trip, The Lost Cove. In the '20's when the famous route 1 coastal highway was built, this area was deemed too rugged for a road. It became an isolated fishing village. Once you arrive, it becomes a relatively flat seaside resort set amidst a long stretch of sheer ocean cliffs. The area is managed by the Dept of Interior(BLM)....\nMar 26, 2009 - Garberville, CA\nWe spent a comfortable 3 nights at the RV campground at the Benbow \"Resort.\" The campground was little more than a parking lot beside the hwy, but was neat and well tended. One day, with the weather sunny (unusual for this area) and cool, we drove to the coastal town of Shelter Cove. This is a small community of houses with a small airport, golf course and general store, at a beautiful spot at the south end of the Lost Coast. A huge new house on the bluff above the ocean was selling for under $1 million (a bargain at CA ocean front prices)...\nDuane & Jo's Travels in 2009\nJan 6, 2009 - Avenue of the Giants\nThis morning we left Eureka again heading south along California highway # 101. Our plan was to only travel about 60 miles for the day so that we could stop and tour \u201cThe Avenue of the Giants\u201d. The night before we had identified a RV Park that we thought sounded good in a local newspaper ad. The park was about 55 miles south of Eureka at a place called Myers Flats. We were both surprised and disappointed with the RV Park when we arrived. It was pretty dumpy, rundown and in no way compared to the ad we had seen. 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It appears to be a murder-suicide, a police official said.\nThe owner of AK Home Health Care is believed to be the gunman, and the victims were his employees.\nAfter a review of evidence, including a surveillance video, officers determined there had been an argument in the office of the business, Capt. Michael Sack told reporters.\n\"Shortly thereafter, gunshots are shown penetrating a wall inside of the business,\" police said in a statement.\nIt was unclear whether the \"brief\" dispute carried over from another day, Sack said.\nA semiautomatic handgun was recovered. No other people were injured.\nThe shooting occurred at the Cherokee Place Business Incubator, apparently named after Cherokee Street where the business was located. All those dead were Somalis.\nAfter receiving a call at about 1:30 p.m., police rushed to the building, which houses several businesses.\nPolice have identified the shooter as Ahmed Dirir, a 59-year-old businessman. He killed three employees before turning the gun on himself. St. Louis police said in a news release that 44-year-old Khadra Muse of Olivette; 29-year-old Seaeed Abdulla of St. Louis; and 54-year-old Bernice Solomon-Redd of East St. Louis were killed by Dirir in the shooting at AK Home Health Care LLC, just south of the downtown area.\nSt. Louis Police Capt. Michael Sack has said the gunman was the owner or co-owner of the nursing services provider, and that the victims were his employees.\nLabels: Ahmed Dirir, Cherokee, Four Dead, Shooting, Workplace Violence\n|\u00e5\u01b1\u0229\u0220\u0221\u0205\u024d \u0236\u1fe2\u2c60\u2c61\u2c63\u017e said...\nThis is awful! 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They also control the nation\u2019s major news-media so that their foreign policies \u2014 such as the invasion of Iraq in 2003 and the invasion of Libya in 2011 \u2014 will be supported by enough Americans in order to re-elect the politicians, such as Hillary Clinton, who had voted for or otherwise enabled those invasions. These billionaires also own controlling blocs of stock in their international corporations, which, of course, benefit from such invasions.\nOne of the reader-comments to Murray\u2019s article recommended and linked to this video:\nThe next day, RT, Russian Television, bannered, \u201cGuardian\u2019s \u2018deliberate lies\u2019 over Assange Russia plot slammed by Craig Murray\u201d, and the reader-comments there were similarly strong against the Deep State that controls Western \u2018democracies\u2019.\nThe present news-story about \u2019news\u2019-lies has not yet been reported in any of the major \u2018news\u2019 media in the West. In case none of these major \u2019news\u2019-media has yet learned of this important matter, this news-report about it is being sent today to all major \u2018news\u2019 media throughout the West, in order to provide each one of them its opportunity to report upon the corruption behind today\u2019s Guardian, and behind all of them. So, now none of them can say they didn\u2019t know of this. Each will either report it, or else continue to hide it. 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Both countries first hesitated to send athletes to the competition but eventually did, which helped give rise to the tradition of the games and political mediation. North Korea rejects accusations it has been involved in hacking. The president ended his remarks on North Korea by revealing the regime's greatest fear; namely, the truth.\nWhether people trust North Korea or not, Kim Jong Un would wasn't so responsible back in April of 2017 when a North Korean missile hit their own city.\n\"This is more so that the foundation for inter-Korean exchanges has been laid by the PyeongChang Games, and the resolve of the current administration and the global community to reduce tensions on the Korean Peninsula has become clear\", he said.\nThe overall activation time of South Korea's 30 loudspeakers was not extended, meaning anti-Pyongyang broadcasts were shortened as a effect. South Korean President Moon Jae-in championed the effort to allow 12 North Korean players to join the team.\nKim also sent more than 400 others to the Olympics including his younger sister, a 140-member orchestra, an all-female 229-member cheering squad and a demonstration taekwondo team. Moon campaigned on improving relations with North Korea, but he has been notably reluctant to endorse the summit idea, pointedly refusing to answer questions about it at a press availability on Monday.\nMr Trump has repeatedly said that America will not negotiate until Kim Jong Un agrees to complete denuclearisation. He said he believes American media has portrayed the taut circumstances of the event more accurately than South Korean media. The current news coverage of North Korea's history-making presence at the Olympics ignores that moral gap between the two administrations.\nThe reappraisal came after researchers found that the spy group showed itself capable of rapidly exploiting multiple \"zero-day\" bugs - previously unknown software glitches that leave security firms no time to defend against attacks, John Hultquist, FireEye's director of intelligence analysis said.\nThey've paraded under the same flag before.\nAthletes got some wild card spots.\nThe White House also made sure to mention that Ivanka Trump would be flying commercially to Seoul.\nAs a result, four ice skaters, six skiers, and 12 women's hockey players were allowed to compete alongside South Korea. -South Korea drills practice for an invasion and overthrow of the North's regime.\nEveryone can bond over their love of the sports.\nQUIZ: Name the players who have played for both Chelsea and Barcelona\nStoneman Douglas HS girls' basketball team forfeits playoff game after shooting\nThe Americans will be trying to win their first gold since 1998, when women's hockey made its debut in the Olympics . David Wise defends his gold medal, along with his teammates Alex Ferreira, Torin Yater-Wallace and Aaron Blunck.\nRagnhild Mowinckel of Norway had the second-fastest time in the downhill and is 0.74 seconds behind Vonn. The athlete still has the combined race left on her schedule, but she's not favored to win gold .\nVonn also plans to analyze the way Goggia has been negotiating the downhill course. Goggia, the downhill victor , paid Vonn the ultimate compliment after the race.\nAddressing the media at the Chennai airport on Tuesday, Kamal Haasan said, \"I'll take this press meet as a token of welcome\". He also unveiled his party's flag that has six hands firmly holding each other in a circle, with a star at the centre.\nBut it's always an honor to race with Lindsey Vonn ... \"I just wish he was here, and I wish he could've watched me\", she said. Regardless of whether Shiffrin had competed in downhill, Vonn is considered a heavy favorite for gold.\nBhuvneshwar Kumar is now the first Indian to have a five-for in each format, but he knows better than to look at just the wickets. The momentum however, stayed with the Indians as Raina and Manish Pandey added 45 runs between them off the next five overs.\nThey watched Graham's video, \"My Hope America\". \"His legacy is not fame or statistics, but faithfulness to his calling\". 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Under a 2010 state law, third-graders are required to demonstrate reading competency beginning in the 2013-2014 school year.\n\u201cNot only is it a required mandate under state law,\u201d Stanton said, \u201cit\u2019s the only way to build the economy of our future.\u201d\nHe said the program would, among other things, screen students early in order to provide help and tutoring to those who need it, as well as develop a pilot program to give books to kindergarteners.\nStanton also called immigration reform important to the city\u2019s economy, including comprehensive immigration reform at the federal level and helping participants in the Obama administration\u2019s deferred-action program succeed in Arizona.\n\u201cWe need to grant the dreams of the young DREAMers in Arizona,\u201d he said. \u201cLet\u2019s give these talented young leaders licenses to drive.\u201d\nGov. Jan Brewer issued an executive order last year prohibiting deferred-action participants from receiving state or local public benefits such as driver\u2019s licenses.\nStanton said the economy also can benefit from socially inclusive policies.\nTwo days before, the City Council expanded Phoenix\u2019s anti-discrimination ordinance to include sexual orientation and gender identity. Stanton said the change would help the city attract more of the best and brightest.\n\u201cOur need to compete for top talent requires us to adopt policies that advance our city\u2019s reputation and commitment to equality,\u201d he said. \u201cWe had to take action \u2013 decisive, forward-thinking action. And that\u2019s exactly what we did.\u201d\nOther initiatives introduced by Stanton included a school safety program designed to double the number of police officers in schools across the city, a $100,000 gun buyback program in partnership with Arizonans for Gun Safety.\nWhile Phoenix Mayor Greg Stanton said there are challenges, he painted a generally positive picture of the economy in his State of the City address. 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It\u2019s something that everyone can agree on. It makes you sad. It makes you wonder why, and it can defeat you if you let it. At this year\u2019s \u201cKick-Off\u201d for the Theater and Dance Department, guest speaker Diane Rodriguez let the audience know just how hard her \u201cno\u201ds have been, but through it all she was able to overcome the negativity and create her own path.\nDiane Rodriguez was born in San Jose, California to Hispanic parents with a farmworker past in a time period that was difficult for immigrants of any origin to experience. Before Rodriguez became the first person in her family to go away to college, she experienced her first of many \u201cno\u201ds, but it was a good \u201cno\u201d that ultimately helped shape the path she would take.\nShe proceeded to tell the audience of the advice a school counselor once gave her parents: that she should be sent to trade school. They were told that college was too expensive and too unobtainable for her, but Rodriguez\u2019s parents said, \u201cNo.\u201d They wanted more for their daughter and so she came to UCSB and experienced life as a Gaucho. After four years, she received her BA in Theater Arts and graduated in the 1970s, ready to take on the world and make a difference. Because hopefully that\u2019s what happens after we graduate. We end up exactly where we want, doing what we want.\nRodriguez is an accomplished actor, writer and theater director, and is now the associate producer of play production at the Center Theater Group in Los Angeles. In 2007, she won an Obie award, an off-Broadway award, for her performance in \u201cTale of 2 Cities: An American Joyride on Multiple Tracks\u201d and is well-known in the competitive world of theater.\nBut it wasn\u2019t always this way, and none of this success just fell into her lap. She worked hard and heard even more \u201cno\u201ds; enough \u201cno\u201ds to make anyone question their place in this competitive field. She then told the audience that she applied to CalArts and planned to attend for graduate school, but received a rejection letter that she vividly remembers reading in her apartment above I.V. Deli.\nInstead of letting this deter her, she went to L.A. to pursue her acting dream. She was told countless times that she just wasn\u2019t what directors were looking for. Eventually, she found steady work as an actress, but was only allotted stereotypical Latina roles. She wasn\u2019t happy with this, so she continued to make moves for herself and joined El Teatro Campesino. This traveling theater group put on sketches that brought issues of the time to center stage, such as Cesar Chavez. Because she didn\u2019t give up and knew what she wanted, she was able to travel around the world with this group and hone her craft and get where she is now.\nAs she continued her speech, she made it very clear that we as students can\u2019t let closed doors bring us down. She told us, \u201cIf one door is closed, find another one. If there isn\u2019t a door, build one. Go through it, and then leave it open so you can help those that come after you.\u201d\nAs a senior who is figuring life out (or at least trying to), this resonated deeply with me, and I believe it impacted the others as well. Many were nodding, agreeing with her powerful words. Diane Rodriguez accepted every \u201cno\u201d and turned it into a \u201cyes.\u201d She took every \u201cno\u201d and made it work to her advantage. She made it clear to all of us that we will be told \u201cno\u201d over and over. It\u2019s what we do after that and how hard we are willing to work for what we love that will define us. 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The full interview is available at this link. Below are highlights:\nAlex Obert: Now that you are no longer in TNA, how has life been for you with a more relaxed schedule and wrestling one-off events such as House of Hardcore?\nBully Ray: It\u2019s life after the first twenty years of my career. This is the first time I really ever had any time off in the wrestling industry. And the time off is by my choice. I\u2019ve decided to sit back right now and just take some time to step away from the business because I have never been away from it. Sometimes a little time away does do some good. So I\u2019m thoroughly enjoying life right now. And when I say thoroughly enjoying life, I mean that. I\u2019m doing everything that I wanted to do that I never got the opportunity to do when I was wrestling a full-time schedule. That opportunity is spending time with family and just taking time for myself.\nAlex Obert: Something big recently happened on the WWE Network that has everybody talking. Sting, a wrestler that you have worked closely with over the past couple of years, finally appeared in a WWE ring for the first time. What are your thoughts on that?\nBully Ray: If he\u2019s happy, then I\u2019m happy for him. It\u2019s the one and only thing that he never did in his career. Lots of people wanted to see it. I also think there\u2019s some people out there that didn\u2019t want to see it because Sting was the last guy in wrestling who was really a household name who never needed the WWE or the WWE machine to be at the top of his game. But I think him going there and finishing out his career there with a couple more matches, maybe a shot at Wrestlemania, maybe that match against the Undertaker, I think people are gonna enjoy it. I know he\u2019s gonna enjoy it. It was a pleasure being in the ring with him and I wish him all the best.\nAlex Obert: Do you see an opportunity for the younger wrestlers of TNA to one day step foot in WWE or do you feel that it isn\u2019t necessary now with the Performance Center and NXT?\nBully Ray: As far as younger TNA guys ever going to WWE, I\u2019m not gonna say absolutely not, but the window of opportunity is very, very small. WWE has created their developmental program, which has always been something that Hunter wanted to do. I remember him talking back in the day about wanting to reestablish territories. Even though that didn\u2019t happen, the developmental and having NXT is like having a territory. So they\u2019re going to create all of their own stars in-house the way they want to. And then they\u2019re gonna bring them up for the roster. I don\u2019t think WWE needs to pluck younger talent from any place else in the world, unless they want to. They plucked Steen and Kenta, so they have the luxury of sitting back and saying who they\u2019ll take a chance on. But most of the younger talent you see is gonna come from developmental.\nAlex Obert: Before we wrap up, I wanted to discuss something you\u2019ve done that has gotten people talking. You have been been posting tweets that have led to speculation regarding the future. I have to ask, what\u2019s next for you?\nBully Ray: What\u2019s next or who\u2019s next? (laughs) I don\u2019t know what\u2019s next, I\u2019m just gonna let it happen. I am so happy with my career and what I have accomplished that if my career ended tomorrow, I could walk off into the sunset with a huge smile on my face. However, because of the success of the Bully Ray character, I\u2019m hearing a lot of people clamoring for me to go back to the WWE to try to see if Bully Ray could do something over there. Personally, I think I could. I think it\u2019d be a lot of fun. If I were to go back to WWE either as Bully Ray by myself or to finish out my career with D-Von as Team 3D, I think both things could work. I think the fans, first and foremost, want to see it. They have been very active on Twitter and social media saying \u201cWe want Bully Ray in WWE\u201d or \u201cWe want Team 3D back in WWE\u201d. Like I said, if it\u2019s right, maybe it\u2019ll happen. But if it didn\u2019t, I still go out with a huge smile on my face. I tweeted last week that \u201cI\u2019m the 1 who can defeat the 1 who put the 1 in 21-1.\u201d I\u2019m confident in my ability in the ring and I\u2019m confident in my ability on the mic. So from a physical standpoint, Bully versus Brock would be very interesting. 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John Elway was known for his fourth-quarter heroics. When Tiger Woods isn't storming back from five down on the final nine holes, he's shattering records in a way that seems impossible to continue.\nWinston Cup racing's version of this phenomenon is, of course, Dale Earnhardt, who returns this week to the site of one of the most memorable and controversial victories of the 75 in his career.\nLast year's Goody's 500 at Bristol Motor Speedway was an instant classic, thanks to a frantic finish featuring Earnhardt, Terry Labonte, a half-dozen other race cars and nearly 150,000 charged-up race fans.\n\"I stir up controversy, don't I?{quot} Earnhardt said when asked about his penchant for being right in the middle of some of the sport's most talked-about moments. {quot}I don't know if I search it out or what.\"\nEarnhardt was searching for his first victory at a non-restrictor plate track since 1996 on Aug. 28 when he sliced his way through the field from the 26th starting spot - and a backstretch pit stall - to battle Labonte for the victory over the final half of Bristol's night-time race.\nTony Stewart had dominated the first half of the race, leading 225 of the first 251 laps, but after Jeff Gordon led from 252 to 299 Labonte and Earnhardt took over. Nobody else led after Labonte took the top spot on Lap 300.\nLabonte passed Earnhardt to take the lead on Lap 439 and appeared to be on his way to winning for the second time in the 1999 season. But as the cars slowed for a yellow flag on Lap 490, Labonte spun in Turn 4 after getting hit from behind by Darrell Waltrip.\nLabonte went into the pits while Earnhardt took the lead, and when the race went green again only five laps remained. Labonte came back out in fifth place but had new tires and quickly moved into second. At the white flag, he had surged past Earnhardt to regain the lead.\nBut the drama was just beginning. Earnhardt drove hard into turns 1 and 2 trying to catch up, and as he came out of Turn 2 his Chevrolet hit Labonte's in the rear. Labonte spun and crashed into the inside wall, collecting several other cars in the process.\nEarnhardt, however, slipped through and raced back around to take the checkered flag and set off the 1999 season's biggest controversy. As the black No. 3 went to Victory Lane, the crowd was on its feel. Some were cheering wildly, but more were booing lustily.\n\"I didn't mean to wreck him,\" Earnhardt said, beginning one of the season's most memorable quotes. \"I was just trying to rattle his cage.\"\nEarnhardt and Labonte are both a little weary of rehashing what happened at Bristol last fall.\n\"It was a good race,\" Earnhardt said. \"To come to what it did and him not finish second was the only thing I hated about the whole deal and I thought back about. I wish he hadn't wrecked. I wish it would have been a deal where we bumped and I got by him and raced on.\"\nOn that night last August, Labonte waved off Earnhardt's explanation that he didn't mean to cause a wreck. These days, in typical Terry Labonte fashion, he's ready to move on.\n\"There's really nothing you can do about it,\" Labonte said. \"I wish it wouldn't have happened. I know Dale wishes it wouldn't have happened, but it did.\n\"You've just got to go on about your business. I'm not a person that lets something like that bother me long. I'd be pretty miserable if I was, so you just go on about your business and hope you have a good run there.\"\nLabonte wound up eighth in the Goody's 500 last year, but his team never seemed to recover from the disappointment. The No. 5 Chevrolet finished no better than 14th in any of the 11 races that followed last season.\nLabonte does have three top-15 finishes in this year's first five races, and the next two races are at Bristol, where many think he should have won, and Texas, where he did win last year.\n\"We've got a good team, and Bristol is a good race track for us,\" Labonte said. \"We're going to go up there and we're going to do our best to have a good run and hope we can do that and do as good as we did last time there. We're going to take the same car back. It's got a 2000 body on it. 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If you pinned them against the wall, in a dark, secret moment, many Christians would probably admit that pain was God's one mistake. He really should have worked a little harder and invented a better way of coping with the world's dangers\" (Philip Yancey, The Gift Nobody Wants).\n\"What can effectively separate us from the love of Christ? We know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose\" (Paul the Apostle, Letter to the Romans).\n\"It appears to be a suicide mission\" (Sheriff John Stone, Littleton, Colorado).\nNew Life Christian Center, where my kids are members, was having a guest speaker, so I went to support the special program. Before the worship time began my daughter, Jennifer, asked, \"Did you hear about the shooting in the Denver school?\"\nThere had been no news break-ins on the station we were listening to at work, and I was listening to a book-on-tape in the car, so Jen's report was the first I had heard. Maybe it comes from being married to a school teacher, but when I heard about the murders, I wept. My first words were, \"Come back, Jesus! Come back now!\"\nThe people who set off bombs and fired weapons are dead. So who do we blame? There are many possibilities, and many areas of our culture deserve scrutiny, but the use of scapegoats avoids personal responsibility. Philip Yancey, one of today's most insightful and challenging writers, says most Christians think pain is God's one big mistake. So are we going to hold the Lord God Almighty responsible for the deaths in Littleton? Is it your opinion that he should have intervened? It is easy to make a case against God, if we take the actions of Satan and the actions of man and treat them both as if they were the actions of God.\nWho, with sound intelligence and coherent logic, would suggest that the God who said, \"I came so my sheep might have real and eternal life, more and better life than they ever dreamed of\" could remotely sanction the events of Littleton? This is Satan's world. God's word says so. That does not make God less God. It does mean that until Jesus returns in power and in majesty and in victory, hell rules this planet.\nPaul's statements that all things work together for the good of those who love the Lord, and that nothing can separate us from the love of Christ, too easily become mantras that are chanted mindlessly and without any comprehension. Tell a grieving parent that the death of a precious son or daughter will work for good and the chances are very good that unless that man, or that woman, knows Jesus Christ with a deep, inside personal conviction, you will get a blank stare or a punch in the nose. You would deserve both.\nYou might even get the punch in the nose from a believer. Such confidence must work from the inside out, and at the moment of grief, it may not be understood. It may not even be believed.\nIf God is for us, who can be against us? Eyewitnesses in Littleton said one of the gunmen pointed his weapon and said, \"You're black,\" and pulled the trigger, \"You're a jock,\" and pulled the trigger, \"I don't like you,\" and pulled the trigger. Obviously those young people had someone against them. We all have people who are against us. Thankfully, most of them do not have guns. But each of us can have a personal relationship with the God who says, \"With my love inside of you, nothing, no one, can ever effectively, ultimately, be against you, defeat you, overcome you, ever. Even a murderous gunman.\"\nThe senseless death of innocent children is just that \u2014 senseless. Without the confidence that God is irrevocably for us, such tragedy can destroy our hearts with bitterness. The good news is that any man, any woman, any young person, can walk boldly into God's love, begin an eternal life, and live in the certainty of God's loyalty.\nWhy did so many people die in Columbine High School? Beyond the fact that Satan rules temporarily, I do not know. How can these deaths ever be understood? I see no way to ever fathom the sorrow of the families who lost precious children. Can the deaths in Littleton, Colorado, or your own personal hurt or individual suffering separate you from the love of Christ so that you are completely on your own? Now here, I do have the answer. Unless God is a liar, they cannot.", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00040.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 20, + "original_length": 4625, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.97, + "perplexity": 284.8, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "http://decoratingfiles.com/2012/06/fun-friday-a-ping-pong-dining-table/", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T04:50:33Z", + "digest": "sha1:WVFSIDDJA2U5NHRPSNB3I3H3FXHWQM4T", + "length": 2127, + "nlines": 10, + "source_domain": "decoratingfiles.com", + "title": "Fun Friday: A Ping Pong Dining Table - The Decorating Files", + "raw_content": "You are here: Home / Decorating / Fun Friday: A Ping Pong Dining Table\nFun Friday: A Ping Pong Dining Table\nHappy Friday everyone! Usually I schedule my blog posts to publish in the wee hours of the morn, but because I forgot to hit the Schedule button for some strange reason that didn\u2019t happen. Must be because I was in a hurry to go out to dinner with my handsome husband of technical problems. But here it is!\nWe\u2019re a family that likes to play ping pong. We\u2019re also a family that likes to dine al fresco or as we like to call it, out on the porch. And we like to do both on the downstairs porch, because that\u2019s were the pool is and it\u2019s closer to the kitchen. However, there\u2019s not enough room for a ping pong table and a dining table. Or so I thought! As I was flipping through the latest issue of Elle Decor, I found just the thing! An outdoor ping pong table that also doubles as a dining table. It has contemporary styling and it\u2019s beautiful!\nPretty cool, isn\u2019t it? It\u2019s by James De Wulf and according to their website, it\u2019s made of concrete and steel. However, Elle Decor says it\u2019s made of \u201cconcrete and reinforced lightweight carbon fiber\u201d. Either way, I don\u2019t imagine it\u2019s going to blow away in a storm. The table is regulation size and comes with a clip on net. It\u2019s also available in various colors. The one shown is light gray.\nWhat I like most about it, is that it doesn\u2019t look like a ping pong table at all \u2013 that is until you put the net on. I love the contemporary lines. But I don\u2019t feel it limits itself just to contemporary design. My house is Mediterranean style and it would look great here.\nThe only drawback for me is the price. At $7,000 it\u2019s not going to be making it\u2019s way onto my porch anytime soon. However, one could use it for inspiration if one was so inclined. Wink. Wink.\nBefore you go, I hope you\u2019ll leave me a comment. It always makes my day when I hear from you. Enjoy your weekend!\nPeggy. I love this table and I love it when they come up with things that look good and are functional! I\u2019m going to start saving my pennies!\nI love it, too. Maybe they\u2019ll have a \u201ccoupon day\u201d or something. \ud83d\ude42", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00040.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 63, + "original_length": 3999, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.95, + "perplexity": 284.2, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "http://deepmuckbigrake.com/category/parenting/", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T03:50:46Z", + "digest": "sha1:D43TNLTKXKKXYUA2T4YQYGHORGKZO4A7", + "length": 4526, + "nlines": 15, + "source_domain": "deepmuckbigrake.com", + "title": "Deep Muck Big Rake \u00bb Parenting", + "raw_content": "Books: Hold on to Your Kids\nDecember 22, 2008 | Books,Family,Parenting\nI recently read Hold on to Your Kids: Why Parents Need to Matter More than Peers by Gordon Neufeld, Ph.D., and Gabor Mat\u00e9, M.D.\nI picked it up because Izzy mentioned it. She said Christina recommended it to her.\nPaternity Leave Heaven\nDecember 22, 2007 | Benefits,Family,Guest blogger,Guest post,Parenting\nHi there, I\u2019m AdventureDad and you might know me from my site or The Blogfathers. Becky has graciously asked me to do a guest post and during her Norwegian adventure. Poor Becky, she\u2019s over in Norway freezing her butt off and seeing absolutely no sunshine for a few weeks while people like me ruin her blog. I\u2019m actually not far away from Becky since I live in Sweden, Norway\u2019s neighbor, since a few years back.\nThe Scandinavian countries are known for many things but since I\u2019ve travelled around the world quite a bit, and lived in U.S. for 15 years, I think priority on families and children really stand out. Something I\u2019m very grateful for since I have two young children. The greatest example in Sweden is the very generous maternity/paternity leave that all parents have a right to. I\u2019m just going back to work after six months of paid paternity leave which some people find completely normal while others can hardly believe it.\nReactions to a father staying home for six months with his children vary but can generally be divided into three groups. The Swedes think it\u2019s great and simply ask how long I\u2019m staying home. The Americans are shocked and impressed, especially that fathers have the same possibilities, at our long paid leave and ask lots of good questions. And finally the South Americans, especially fathers, who are too shocked or uninterested to ask anything at all. The Latin fathers simply can\u2019t believe why any father would voluntarily stay at home with his children, a job clearly meant for women only.\nIf you\u2019re a father and wonder if it\u2019s a nice vacation to stay home with two kids I can quickly tell you it\u2019s not. I have the most stressful Wall Street job imaginable but being at home with my children is twice as tough. It\u2019s a real challenge.\nHow come so few countries pay parents so they can give their infants, and of course also the family, a good start in life? I don\u2019t know but having seen the difference I\u2019m convinced parental leave is one of the best investments ever for a society. I\u2019m sure problems later in life, like disease, crime, finances, and family stuff, become far less of an issue since parents get a relaxed start and have time to build a very close relationship with their kids (and spouse). Not having to worry about finances, health care, or work does make an incredibly difference. While many say Sweden offers so many family benefits because of our social democratic system I\u2019m sure it\u2019s actually a clever plan which in the long run drastically decreases the expenses for the government. It\u2019s a win-win situation for everyone.\nFor every child the Swedes are allowed to stay home 480 working days. Mother and father can split the time any way they want. The compensation is roughly 90% of your salary up to a cap which is equal to an average salary. Some companies, like my employer, even make up the difference for higher salaries so the compensation will be 90% regardless if one is making $25k or $300k a year.\nWhile it would be easy to rip other countries, like the U.S., for virtually nonexistent benefits I think a better idea would be for those countries to learn from other systems which work well. For many who have experienced the different approaches to parenthood it\u2019s obvious that the extra expense paid early on yields an amazing payback down the line. The question is, how do we change the system to make it easier to combine children, family, and work?\nFor me personally, paternity leave has been fantastic and I really wish more fathers had this possibility. It\u2019s great for the children and stepping into the \u201ctraditional motherhood role\u201d is more educational than you can imagine. I stayed home 5 months with our now 4-year old son and 6 months with our now 16-month old daughter. I can clearly notice my relationship being very different from fathers who have not spend 24/7 with their kids for an extended amount of time. Although that is very nice now when my kids are young I expect to see the greatest benefits in 10-15 years. Those teenage years are apparently not always easy but a great bond with my kids will hopefully help.\nPosted by AdventureDad @ 12:07 pm | 1 Comment", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00040.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 468, + "original_length": 45371, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.97, + "perplexity": 324.8, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "http://defendyournuts2.com/2017/07", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T03:53:04Z", + "digest": "sha1:4KTFZD7R4KQPOY3CW5TUCXH2XNK3CWHD", + "length": 13985, + "nlines": 38, + "source_domain": "defendyournuts2.com", + "title": "July, 2017 | DYN", + "raw_content": "The Key Elements of Great Teams\nby Editor on July 31, 2017 in Business Products & Services\nSome Stuff You Might Want To Know About Paintball\nPaintball is basically a game that everyone can enjoy in a ton of special events and team buildings, since it does not require players to have an experience of playing it beforehand.\nWhen being played, this game basically needs your ability to move fast and lift heavier stuff, whilst not really having a strategic plan with any teammate of some sort.\nIt is best to suggest to your team leaders a game like paintball, if ever your company is planning on having an event with some team building activities to help employees, since it does not only involve a ton of fun for the employees to enjoy and laugh about, but it will also strengthen their morale in terms of how they deal with work and other people.\nYou may know that there are actually two types of paintball games with also different types of equipment used for them to be played, The first type of paintball is called a scenario paintball or mostly known as a woodsball- it is basically played outdoors like in the woods with some type of equipment that will match the kind of environment the game is played at. Woodsball, or the scenario paintball, basically lets its players follow an authentic war simulation combat that is in accordance to that of a military style and the players also get to wear some camouflage paintball costumes that they will surely love to wear and have fun with. To make the game even more realistic with the military feels, the players use some authentic-looking replica guns that are quite the same as actual rifles, tactical pistols, and machine guns.\nThe second kind of paintball is \u2026 Read More ...\nWhy Darknet Markets Are Popular And Some Of The Things People Buy And The Risks They Get Exposed To\nDarknet markets have existed for the longest, and there are so many products people have been purchasing all the goods that they might not be able to get through the right channel. If you want to access these sites remember that with regular browsers you might not find them. The browsers help one to find their identity and place, therefore, making the purchase easy.\nWhen you have the required amount of money you will be able to purchase followers on your social media pages. Some of the famous social media strategists in the world right now have used this platform in one way or another to become more famous and maintain their relevance in the market. How many followers you can gain depends on how much one is willing to pay, and before you realize it people will be talking about your popularity.\nIt is a market that is popular among most drug users since they can easily purchase hard drugs from any part of the world. It is easy for someone who messed their lives and had their life fixed once to have it all once again through buying a new identity. It is a place with all the manuals to what you need to know and some kids use it to get a college degree.\nA lot of people have been wondering where terrorists get their weapons especially if they are not being funded but the answer is in these places. People purchasing these items might also need dangerous chemicals that have sent sellers in prison but on this site, everything is up for sale. Those experienced hackers can get credit \u2026 Read More ...\nby Editor on July 31, 2017 in Employment\nA Girls\u2019 Night Out.\nAmong the exciting points it\u2019s possible to have can be a girls\u2019 night out particularly if you\u2019re working hard in a business or studying. Merely to remove stress and have fun for a change.\nAs said before, age is of no importance, except maybe when you choose your kind of fun. You may want to go clubbing and meet interesting fellows, have drinks which names you won\u2019t remember the next day and dance all night long. Or, you may want to invite your \u201cgirls\u201d to an art exhibition and then have a dinner in that fancy restaurant you\u2019ve been planning to go to for weeks now and never found the time. There?s that specific period when you are able give your pals those hot information on your life you never need to claim on the telephone.\nWhat makes these two evening outs so different and so similar at the same time is the friendship between you and your friends, the need to break loose from everyday life, have fun and enjoy the presence of your good friends.\nWhichever fun they choose, girls always tend to go wild on their night out. Dressing up is part of the magic; you have to put on items that attract men\u2019s admiration and women\u2019s jealousy.\nA girls-night of partying is about showing off and being important and stylish and feeling hot. Girls always keep in their wardrobe several outfits especially for these kinds of outs. Perhaps even a sexy Santa wardrobe in case you have to go to a concept occasion, sporting something red and bright and being attractive in it. Of course if you get an impromptu invitation from your friends, and you also simply cannot find anything to don, you\u2019ll be able to generally count on your accessories \u2026 Read More ...\nby Editor on July 28, 2017 in Foods & Culinary\nWays to Improve Your E-commerce Enterprise Today, there are numerous businesses being run on the internet. The internet business is becoming very competitive. Therefore, if you wish to have success in this industry you will have to work harder. That means researching your niche and knowing everything about e-commerce. Online business does work. Nonetheless, too many people give up quickly. Below are some of the tips you can employ to succeed in online business. Online Marketing In order to sell things online you should have certain marketing skills. You cannot succeed trying to make sales while using outdated marketing techniques. You are going to need to refine your marketing skills. Digital marketing requires you to be conversant with different marketing techniques. You need to be aware of the versatility of this method of marketing. It is important to know what will work for your business and stick to that. Necessary Tools and Software It is important that you have a few things sorted when dealing with e-commerce. Aside from needing to have a fully functional CRM software, you will need to look for ways of integrating your software and cloud based applications.One of the best connectors for ensuring that your Netsuite EPR and other software are well integrated is Celigo.\nIntegrating Live Chat The good thing about live chat is how convenient it is. When it comes to setting it up, it is so easy to do it and no technical expertise is required. Making use of live chat in e-commerce allows customers to seek help before they make any major decision. This kind of platform gives your customers an opportunity to voice any concerns about your business.Your clients can freely voice their concerns regarding any buying decision they need to make as \u2026 Read More ...\nA Simple Plan For Investigating Switchplates\nby Editor on July 28, 2017 in Internet Services\nHow to Install the Best Switch Plates Switch plates have come to change how things decoration work is done in the house.When you visit most homes, you will notice that people are used to ivory plastic or white ones. With the different designs and materials to choose from, your house will never be the same. In case you find this hard to understand, it is advisable to live the work the professionals.Before you make your mind the subject, it is good to know where you need to place them. Different rooms will need different covers. There are several advantages of having the covers in your home. One of the advantages is the need to have a beautiful home. You can use them to lighten up your house. One thing you will appreciate about the covers is that they can be found in different styles. You will be happy to know that styles such as brushed nickel, copper, metallic, ceramic and woods are available in many places.When picking the materials, it is wise to ensure it matches with the designs in your house. It is easy to have them since they are affordable.They are considered a good way of decorating with assurance of getting your investment return back. The primary reason for the covers is because you need protection in the home. It is hard to touch any wire at your house when you have the switch plates. They are useful in every part of your house thus making it easy to use. You should be comfortable to cover your phone jacks, television cables, power openings, hook ups and extra openings.In additional to this, one can use the wall switch covers to protect anyone from very high voltage wiring. They will come in handy when you have young ones within the \u2026 Read More ...\nby Editor on July 28, 2017 in Health Care & Medical\nThe Basics of Local Locksmith Services\nA locksmith is a person that comes with the right knowledge and skills as regards anything that is related to locks and keys. In times of security and lock needs, a locksmith will make sure to be there for you to do the job that you have called them for. There is no doubt that a lot of people will be having problems with their locks if they do not seek the expertise and skills of a professional locksmith. Therefore, whatever lock problems you are currently facing, you need not worry how to fix them because a good locksmith will make sure to give you the best solution for it. A professional locksmith will surely be there for you for instance if you have locked yourself out of your home or if you have left your keys inside your car. When you have lock concerns that need quick fixing and you have a professional locksmith living nearby you, then you should consider yourself very lucky.\nProfessional locksmiths are not just capable of taking care of your dead bolts or changing your locks. Not a lot people are well aware of the fact that they are also good at repairing cars as well as installing safes in your home or office to store your valuable belongings such as jewelry and cash. You know you have found a highly-skilled locksmith if they can remedy your lock or key problems in just a matter of time. You will never have to worry a day in your life regarding your home or office security if you hire a professional locksmith. In terms of professional locksmiths, bear in mind that they have different areas of specialization. For instance, there are safe locksmiths while there are car locksmiths. Make sure \u2026 Read More ...\nBest 24 Hour Best South Locksmith Services In Austin\nHave you just lost your keys? Is there any situation that is more frustrating than this? Not only does losing your car, garage or house keys delay some of your important duties, but it also gets you stressed up. It\u2019s a situation whereby you do not know what to do, who to call or what to say. The idea that someone could have compromised them makes your situation worse! But what step should you take? Which is the place that you should go? Well, if you are a native of Austin, then brace yourself for I have the perfect solution for you!\nBest quality South Austin locksmith Services\nPrecisely, when you can\u2019t find your keys, the best thing is to find help. In most cases, friends will always have more than a hundred different ways of opening the door. They may also be hospitable when, especially if it is too late in the night. If it\u2019s your car keys you can\u2019t find, then it could be necessary for you to consider using other means to commute. But is any of those methods named herein going to solve the key problem? Definitely, not! The next day, you\u2019d wake up to the reality and find that you don\u2019t actually have the keys!The following day, you will still wake up to the reality of not having the keys!\nIf you are in Austin, you should not even think twice. If you call the lock and key experts; they will definitely come to rescue the situation. Basically, they do have locksmith dripping springs, which are important in helping you solve the challenges. Below are a few services offered by these technocrats.\nCar key replacement in Bastrop\nWell, it does not matter where in Austin you \u2026 Read More ...\nFacts and Tips About Point of Sale Systems When it comes to EPOS equipment or Electronic Point of Sale Equipment, it pertains to the order-entry computer-based technology used by many bars and restaurants for capturing orders, recording data, and displaying or printing tickets. Point of sale systems are used by cashiers, bartenders, and restaurant servers in order to enter food and beverage orders easily. In fact, a POS equipment has a dual function, a computer, and a cash register. A POS equipment can be set up in multiple stations including credit card terminals, display screens, receipt printers, server stations, and hostess stations. In busy situations, especially during peak hours of business operation, a POS system greatly helps saving time, adding accuracy and providing convenience for your employees, including the following functionalities and features: automatic calculation of cash due for every order entered, keeping track of cash flow, recording the method of payment, automated calculation of payroll, recording daily checks averages, automated hourly and daily sales data reporting, tracking of menu items sold, and recording information of repeating customers. Remember though that some POS systems work differently than others depending on the developer and manufacturer, and user processes differs depending on the service style and the type of restaurant. When it comes to the general procedure of taking orders through a POS system, the employee enters user code or username into the initial touch screen, allowing the employee to access the system, begins a new order by entering food items, then the POS will send all the order information to the bar or kitchen in a form of digital display or printed ticket, so that the bar or kitchen employees can read the orders and prepare them for serving. 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The institution of marriage is very sacred and is the socially acceptable form of relationship between man & woman. Marriage binds two people in a relationship which is based on loyalty & faithfulness with each other but this connection is often disturbed by a relationship which is known as extra-marital affair.\nThese relations are formed out of the marital relation and may happen in any marriage. Extra marital relations have existed from time immemorial in the society. People tend to form a secretive alliance out of their marriages as they considered it to be a thing of boosting self- esteem in front of others.\nThere are many reasons attributed to cause extra marital relationships, but this post discloses those important things which need to be checked timely to avoid your husband from having an extra marital relationship with some other woman.\nSo, if you have a doubt about your husband\u2019s loyalty or you figure out that he is on the verge of having an illicit relation outside your marriage, then it is high time you start keeping track of certain things to prevent an extra-marital affair from happening.\nPrioritize your married life-\nThe life of a woman changes drastically after marriage as she has to consider the relations of two families at the same time. When the family members increase they further add to the number of responsibilities on her shoulders. Amidst all this, there are many occasions when a woman gives priority to family & children over her husband. This is the alarming situation which needs to be changed immediately. Make a priority to meet the needs of your husband over and above other responsibilities. This will prevent him to deviate from the feelings he has for you.\nNever keep secrets from your husband-\nMarriage is all about trust and mutual understanding. It should be made sure that you don\u2019t hide anything from your husband because once the truth is revealed he is prone to get hurt because of your secretive behavior and think that you don\u2019t trust him. In that case he is likely to involve with someone else on an impulse.\nLove & support your husband-\nIt is very essential for a wife to understand that her love & companionship is very necessary for her husband after few years of their marriage as he may feel left out alone while you are busy in managing your family and children and think that your husband will be happy with all that. Shower some surprises exclusively for your husband to make him feel that still he is the first human being, whom she loves and cares for, more than her children & family.\nGet acquainted with his co-workers-\nIt is very astonishing to know that many of the extra marital affairs arise from the workplace so it is better to know the co-workers at your husband\u2019s office and develop a friendly behavior with them. Don\u2019t let suspicion come in the way, so that your husband can easily share office chit-chats with you. This will make the communication between the two of you quite friendly and often give you some chance of casual joking or flirting with your husband. This will make him more relaxed towards your relationship and he is likely to abide by the rules of marriage.\nPreviousMen will be Men-How You Can Catch Of Him\nNextHow You Can Transform Your Arranged Marriage Into A Love Marriage", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00040.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 69, + "original_length": 5072, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.98, + "perplexity": 282.9, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "http://digitalcollections.ppld.org/cdm/singleitem/collection/p15981coll4/id/93", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T04:06:42Z", + "digest": "sha1:LORIXJSBJRMXHPX3MQPZZHE2VLKMKZNR", + "length": 4512, + "nlines": 8, + "source_domain": "digitalcollections.ppld.org", + "title": "Interview with James Phillips :: Pikes Peak Region Oral Histories", + "raw_content": "SCANLON: We will resume our discussion. This is the Colorado Springs Oral History Project. I\u2019m Tim SCANLON Today is November 11, 2006 and I am here with James D. Phillips at 2530 Paseo Rojo in Colorado Springs. And we had discussed three weeks ago your career, your life, early life in your career up to the point of being the director, deputy director of operations with the Colorado Springs utilities. And we broke off at the point where you were about to be named the utilities director. So perhaps we could begin at that point.\nPHILLIPS: 1972. This will give me the click back to the politicians involved in those days.\nSCANLON: So at that time, the mayor was selected by the council members.\nPHILLIPS: Yes. They were, they were voted upon by the council members. And Andy Marshall was the mayor in 1972.\nSCANLON: And had he any particular interest in utilities, or,\nPHILLIPS: No, not particularly. In those days, the utilities were under the city manager\u2019s direction, supposedly. Now Ray did everything. The city charter is written as a city management form of government. The city manager had everything under him. So they\u2026\nDescription Part two of three of an oral history interview with James Phillips, director for Colorado Springs Utilities. In this interview, Phillips briefly discusses city politics in 1972.\nTranscription Oral History Interview with James D. Phillips Interview by Tim Scanlon 11 November 2006 CSHP 0034 Part 2 Colorado Springs History Project CSHP Pikes Peak Library District, Special Collections Copyright 2015 Colorado Springs History Project The Colorado Springs History Project was conducted between the years 2005-2010 in a joint effort to document and update the history of Colorado Springs from mid-20th century to 2010. This volunteer team included members from the region\u2019s major academic libraries and faculties, as well as the Pikes Peak Library District and the Pioneers Museum. Administered and supervised by the Colorado Springs History Project Committee, the project interviewers consisted of a number of local volunteers. The oral history portion of The Colorado Springs History Project identified and interviewed individuals who had helped to shape the city of Colorado Springs in various and diverse ways. Subjects were also sought as representative of inhabitants of the Pikes Peak region and could provide insight into the city\u2019s story in the second half of the twentieth century. The interviews reflect the rapid growth of Colorado Springs and touch on business and government relations, religious organizations, the Air Force Academy, Colorado College, and the growth of many important charitable services within the community. The collection is comprised of 50 tapes, 19 CDs, and 2 DVDs with 32 individual interviews. These interviews are housed in the archives of Pikes Peak Library District\u2019s Special Collections. A complete listing of the interviews is available at the Special Collections reference desk. Transcripts for many of the interviews are available for use. Digitization Audio from the Colorado Springs History Project was digitized between 2009 - 2011 and is available for study and use in the Special Collections department. The Colorado Springs Oral History Project\tJames D. Phillips Oral History Interview CSHP 0034, part 2 Tim Scanlon 11 November 2006 Colorado Springs, Colorado SCANLON: We will resume our discussion. This is the Colorado Springs Oral History Project. I\u2019m Tim SCANLON Today is November 11, 2006 and I am here with James D. Phillips at 2530 Paseo Rojo in Colorado Springs. And we had discussed three weeks ago your career, your life, early life in your career up to the point of being the director, deputy director of operations with the Colorado Springs utilities. And we broke off at the point where you were about to be named the utilities director. So perhaps we could begin at that point. PHILLIPS: 1972. This will give me the click back to the politicians involved in those days. SCANLON: So at that time, the mayor was selected by the council members. PHILLIPS: Yes. They were, they were voted upon by the council members. And Andy Marshall was the mayor in 1972. SCANLON: And had he any particular interest in utilities, or, PHILLIPS: No, not particularly. In those days, the utilities were under the city manager\u2019s direction, supposedly. Now Ray did everything. The city charter is written as a city management form of government. The city manager had everything under him. 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High rankings in Chambers, Legal 500, and other global directories speak to the quality and impact of our services.\nWhether your products are traditional drugs or biotechnology products, we work with you to successfully develop and commercialize products, addressing issues of regulatory approvals and compliance; coverage, reimbursement, and pricing; and careful use of intellectual property and regulatory exclusivities to manage product life cycles. 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Silver, Managing Director, Practice Leader, (678) 672-6160.\nCelebrating more than 125 years of service, King & Spalding is an international law firm that represents a broad array of clients, including half of the Fortune Global 100, with 800 lawyers in 17 offices in the United States, Europe, the Middle East and Asia. The firm has handled matters in over 160 countries on six continents and is consistently recognized for the results it obtains, for uncompromising commitment to quality and for dedication to understanding the business and culture of its clients. 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Navigant is the firm of choice when companies and their counsel need a resource who can successfully and efficiently integrate the skills of complex data management and analysis with the synthesis of highly complex healthcare transactions, rules, regulations, data, documents and business practices to bring meaningful value to the co-development of a dispute, regulatory, compliance or investigation strategy and execution.\nFor more information visit www.Navigant.com or contact Saul B. Helman, M.D., Managing Director, (317) 294-1228.\nPolaris is a management consulting firm focused exclusively on the compliance needs of the life sciences industry. Polaris offers a suite of services that specifically target the compliance risks confronting the life sciences industries, including: compliance risk assessments, auditing and monitoring, policy and SOP development, strategic and operational solutions, aggregate spend services. 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What I don\u2019t write a lot about is music, which is kind of surprising because after books and reading, music is to thank for many of my formative experiences.\nI grew up participating in chorus (which was short-lived thanks to my utter lack of ability to carry a tune) and band, and listening to music of all genres has always provided quite a nice soundtrack to my life. I\u2019ve been through more music phases than I can count, and most have been repeated at least twice: cheesy 80s synth, hair metal, piano rock (think Jack\u2019s Mannequin), classical, country, classic rock, 90s pop (but not until way after the 90s)\u2026the list goes on and on. And I\u2019m always pleasantly surprised when a song comes on shuffle that takes me back to a time or a place that I maybe haven\u2019t thought about in years.\nBut there occasionally comes a time when there\u2019s a reason I haven\u2019t thought about that time or place in forever. And there are songs that, despite the fact that I like them or maybe even love them, I don\u2019t\u2014or can\u2019t\u2014listen to anymore for a variety of reasons.\nBreakup songs. Okay, we all went through our whiny emo phase, and Simple Plan was my emo band of choice when my very first boyfriend dumped me in tenth grade. And, you know, whenever else I was pining after someone who didn\u2019t return those feelings for the rest of high school. Which was a lot, because high school.\nBut now, I\u2019m nearly a decade out of high school and I\u2019m happily married, and despite the fact that I liked a lot of those songs separate from their sad-breakup-song value, I feel almost like an imposter for listening to them. I can\u2019t summon up the necessary angst anymore. I feel a shadow of it, but it\u2019s mostly overwhelmed by a weird guilty feeling\u2014my brain goes, \u201cWhy are you listening to this? You\u2019re happy! You\u2019re married! You shouldn\u2019t be thinking about/feeling sad about other guys!\u201d\nAnd I remind myself that it\u2019s a good thing that I don\u2019t have these feelings anymore. But there are so many emotions connected to those songs that to listen to them when I can\u2019t really feel those things anymore feels wrong.\nSad songs. Not just any sad song, although I\u2019m really not a fan of sad songs in general. These songs are more personally sad\u2014I would even say that most probably aren\u2019t sad to the average person.\nTake, for example, the song \u201cStolen\u201d by Dashboard Confessional. (I know, I know.) I dated a boy in high school and this was sort of \u201cour song.\u201d We were only together for a few months (the end of senior year and the summer before college), but we had been good friends before and parted amicably when I went to college. The thing was, though, that I sensed he still liked me, and not wanting to string him along, I more or less stopped contacting him. We\u2019d talk every once in a while, but never more than once every few months. By junior year of college, we barely talked at all.\nAnd then, one morning in April during my senior year of college, I got a facebook message from his sister, asking me to call her. My sweet friend had passed away the day before.\nEven though we hadn\u2019t talked in almost two years by that point, losing him hit me hard. I cried for days and couldn\u2019t even bring myself to go to his funeral, something I\u2019ve never really forgiven myself for. It\u2019s been almost four years, and I still think about him almost every day. And listening to \u201cStolen\u201d is not even an option, unless I want to reduce myself to a sobbing puddle of sad. Just thinking about that song is sometimes enough to tip me over the edge.\nHopeful \u201cI may not know who you are but I love you already\u201d songs. The song that immediately comes to mind for this is Michael Buble\u2019s \u201cHaven\u2019t Met You Yet.\u201d Disclaimer: I. Love. This. Song. But I still feel a little disingenuous when I sing along because\u2014well\u2014I\u2019ve already met Andrew. I don\u2019t need to be joyfully dancing and singing around a grocery store about my future love, because I already have my love. You know?\nIn some ways, I can extend this to a lot of love songs\u2014a lot of them are all \u201cThis is new! And I love you anyway! And no one understands us but that\u2019s okay because we love each other!\u201d Yeah, no, we\u2019ve been together more than six years and we\u2019ve been confident in our relationship from the beginning.\nObviously, there\u2019s still plenty of music that I can and do listen to. And I do still listen to some of the above genres of music, just not quite as often as I used to and with less emotion than I used to have. But that\u2019s part of life, no? Things change. Some of those changes are good, some are bad, and some are just\u2026there. In the end, change is something that we all have to deal with, and we all deal with it differently. If feeling a little weird listening to former favorite songs is my worst side effect of growing up, I think I\u2019ll take it.\nApril 10, 2015 in Music. Tags: change, emotion, growing up, music\n\u2190 The Damned \u2013 Andrew Pyper\nPotter Pretties \u2192\n2 thoughts on \u201cSoundtracks to Life\u201d\nI recently wrote on this topic, too. Music speaks to my heart, and my whole life has a soundtrack. Currently, \u201cHappy\u201d is my jam. I first heard it on my very first day in my new job. It was written for me.\nGreat song and great association! \ud83d\ude42", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00040.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 103, + "original_length": 7502, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.97, + "perplexity": 254.1, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "http://dreamlandmagic.soniacjensen.com/songs/songs.html", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T04:52:41Z", + "digest": "sha1:HG7DHIJEUI5COOWV3GPAGKCPBMEVHIP6", + "length": 647, + "nlines": 7, + "source_domain": "dreamlandmagic.soniacjensen.com", + "title": "Children's Songs, Lyrics & Midis at Dreamland Magic.", + "raw_content": "Children's Songs, Lyrics and Midi's\nRemember those songs that you used to sing as a child? 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In some cases, hazing is just another word for sexual assault. \u201cMischaracterized as hazing and bullying, the violence is so normalized on some teams that it persists for years, as players attacked one season become aggressors the next.\u201d\nAs further reported by the Associated Press:\n\u201cTeammate-on-teammate sexual assaults occurred in all types of sports in public schools, and experts said the more than 70 cases in five years that AP identified were the tip of the iceberg. Though largely a high school phenomenon, some cases were reported as early as middle school.\nBoys made up the majority of aggressors and victims in teammate attacks, records show, and some suffered serious injury and trauma.\nAn Idaho football player was hospitalized in 2015 with rectal injuries after he was sodomized with a coat hanger. That same year, a North Carolina teen suffered rectal bruising when he was jabbed through his clothes with a broomstick. 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The sequel seemed even more exciting and exhilarating than the initial offering; it appeared to pack greater thrills and spills into its two hours and it came across as a more than adequate successor to a classic.\nHowever, I watched it again a few months later and the film's flaws became much more apparent to me. Eventually, it seemed clear to me that not only did it not approach the consistently high level of the first film, but also overall it was a fairly mediocre offering.\nDuring that first screening, the flaws of Die Hard 2 were hidden behind a veil of well-executed stunts and action sequences. The key to the relative failure of the sequel stems from its lack of strong villain who could approach the memory of the first film\u2019s Hans Gruber (Alan Rickman). William Sadler plays Colonel Stuart, a vaguely Ollie North-esque character who seems willing to sacrifice any number of civilians in his quest to fulfill what he sees as his duty to protect the United States.\nI like Sadler; he's a much more charismatic and versatile actor than one would guess from his work here, but he seems bound by the nature of the character. Stuart is no charming neo-renaissance man like Hans; he's a dispassionate pseudo-zealot, really, and the role offers little opportunity for Sadler to infuse his character with any real personality.\nMy guess is that the producers of Die Hard 2 knew that they lacked any honest possibility of topping Hans, so they chose the opposite approach. I think they figured that Stuart would stand out simply because he was so incredibly different from Hans.\nThey were wrong. Stuart creates a credible and believable villain, but he lacks any sort of spark that might make him memorable. As a result, he becomes little more than a plot device and the audience fails to feel any real investment in what happens to him at the end of the film; yeah, we want to see him get his just desserts, but we lack any real interest in that result.\nSomewhat more compelling is the movie's subplot that involves John McClane's (Bruce Willis) need to rescue his wife Holly (Bonnie Bedelia). Yes, in essence, the dual plots for Die Hard 2 duplicate those of the first film: 1) Stop terrorists; 2) Save wife. Of course, in both movies, subplot two is what really prompts subplot one for McClane; if Holly's not involved in either story, he\u2019d just watch the whole thing evolve on TV. But she is, and he's the only one savvy and gutsy enough to save the day.\nWhile the Holly subplot grabs the viewer a little more strongly than do any scenes with the terrorists, it all seems somewhat contrived. The whole \"d\u00e9j\u00e0 vu all over again\" factor makes it that much harder for the audience to suspend disbelief; really, what are the chances that McClane would be in the middle of such a similar situation again? The filmmakers are savvy enough to poke fun at these extremely coincidental circumstances, but that doesn't really disspell the inherent improbability.\nAs far as those characters go, the already-established McClane and Holly don\u2019t expand their roles from the first film. These are the exact same people we saw during the previous go-round, except the movie attempts absolutely no character development at all since we already know these folks. Obviously a sequel doesn't require the same care in regard to establishing characters, but I would have liked to see some form of growth in our protagonists. Their relationship was on the rocks in Die Hard; did it just magically cure itself during the interim?\nThe only other returning characters include McClane's LAPD buddy Al Powell (Reginald VelJohnson). However, while Powell played a major role in the first film, his part barely rates as a cameo in Die Hard 2, and his brief appearance feels forced and gratuitous.\nWilliam Atherton's TV weasel Dick Thornburgh receives more substantial screentime. Unfortunately, his inclusion in the movie amounts to an extreme stretch of probability; he's put on the same plane as Holly, and thus can once again endanger her through his obsessive desire for TV fame. This is one area in which the sequel duplicated the original but it really should have gone a different way; it\u2019s unnecessary for the plot and it becomes silly.\nKey among the new supporting cast is Dennis Franz, who plays a tubbier New York version of Paul Gleason's deputy police chief from the first film. Franz is a fun actor and he gets the most out of a weak part, but the role basically serves as a plot device to offer some resistance to McClane; he exists just to allow McClane to become the lone wolf.\nFred Dalton Thompson performs competently but somewhat sappily in a similar role as the head of the airport; he was a nicely gruff presence before he got into politics, but he seems oddly emasculated here. Finally, Good Times veteran John Amos hams up the joint as a duplicitous Army commander; yeah, he shows more life than does Sadler, but not in a good way. I like Amos, but he lacks realism as Major Grant.\nOverall, the entire cast simply seems to try too hard. Director Renny Harlin knows how to execute some remarkable stunts, but he appears to have no talent to adequately work with his actors.\nAs I\u2019ll note when I discuss his audio commentary, Harlin\u2019s a very cool and technical director, and I really don\u2019t think he knows how to evoke positive work from his actors. He seems to have realized that he could not provide any sort of genuine emotional impact in the film, so we get lots of artificial sentiment and overly emoted drama. The whole project seems imbued with a strangely pathetic aura of synthetic emotion; we see the characters experience joy, sorrow, etc., but we don't really buy it.\nThat's not to say that it's a bad film. While it doesn't hold up to repeated viewings nearly as well as does the first one, Die Hard 2 still provides an above-average level of thrills and excitement. Yes, I recognize that this attitude may seem inconsistent since I just griped about the movie so much, but I like enough about DH2 to make it something that I still enjoy after 23 years.\nFor all its flaws, it remains the best film made by Renny Harlin. Flicks like Deep Blue Sea and Cliffhanger display the same flaws found in DH2 but they fail to include many of that movie\u2019s positives. On its own without comparison to the original film, DH2 can be a lot of fun, and it has enough good moments to stay fairly fun after all these years.\nThe Blu-ray Grades: Picture B/ Audio B/ Bonus B\nDie Hard 2: Die Harder appears in an aspect ratio of approximately 2.35:1 on this Blu-ray Disc. Though not flawless, the transfer usually seemed strong.\nAlthough much of DH2 featured a rather subdued palette, the disc replicated its tones quite well. Reds looked especially bright and vivid, and the many instances of colored lighting came across nicely clear and vibrant. Virtually all of the shots in the air control tower were bathed in colored lights, and these could have caused havoc with the picture. However, they remained tight and concise, and I saw no problems related to bleeding or noise.\nBlack levels appeared to be deep and rich, and shadow detail consistently came across as clean and appropriately opaque. A number of shots featured somewhat heavy use of smoke effects, but the disc showed a rather clean and distinct presentation throughout the film. Nothing here dazzled, but it added up to a generally satisfying image.\nDie Hard 2 included a DTS-HD MA 5.1 track. I thought that the audio seemed fairly good for its era, but it lacked some of the high points I expected.\nWhen I compared this Blu-ray release to the identical 2001 and 2007 releases, I thought they showed some definite similarities. Audio remained about the same. The lossless DTS-HD mix might\u2019ve been a little punchier, but it couldn\u2019t do much with the 23-year-old source material.\nVisuals demonstrated mild improvements, but to some degree, this was \u201csilk purse/sow\u2019s ear\u201d territory. Yes, DH2 looked good \u2013 for DH2. It was always somewhat muddy, and the 2001 DVD offered the best visuals to date. The Blu-ray added a bit more crispness and vivacity to those visuals, but it didn\u2019t work wonders. It looked fine, but it didn\u2019t magically turn the film into a visual showcase.\nThe Blu-ray repeats all the extras from the 2001 SE. (The 2007 DVD simply took Disc One from the 2001 set and packaged it on its own.) First up we find an audio commentary from director Renny Harlin. He speaks alone on this running, screen-specific track. This is the third commentary I\u2019ve heard from Harlin, and it fits in well with pieces found on Deep Blue Sea and Cliffhanger. Overall, Harlin offers a generally interesting piece, but it\u2019s not something tremendously fascinating.\nAs with the earlier commentaries, Harlin sticks mainly with technical aspects of the filmmaking process. His directorial style seems to tend toward the mechanical side of the coin and his remarks follow that vein. We hear a lot about the challenges encountered during the shoot, many of which related to the need for snow and its absence in the natural environment.\nOtherwise, he connects to a number of fairly interesting topics. While his statements could easily become dry and tedious, Harlin maintains a nicely earnest and genuine tone throughout the piece, and this makes the track more interesting. He touches upon some more controversial aspects of the filmmaking process - mainly as they relate to some apparently-excessive violence - and he even has some fun with the flick\u2019s adherence to action movie conventions as he notes the movie\u2019s unrealistic aspects. Ultimately, I thought this was an acceptably entertaining and informative commentary.\nHBO First Look runs for 23 minutes and seven seconds, and it provides a fluffy but generally interesting look at the creation of the movie. Created to tout the film prior to its 1990 theatrical run, the program uses the standard format as it combines scads of film clips plus short interview snippets from cast and crew and some shots from the set.\nBecause the emphasis firmly stays on the promotional side, the documentary never becomes terribly rich of deep, but it was reasonably entertaining and watchable. The best aspects of the show relate to some of the \u201cbehind the scenes\u201d material, as the piece presents some interesting material from the shoot. Ultimately \u201cFirst Look\u201d merits a viewing, but it isn\u2019t anything terribly special.\nBy the way, stick around for an ending sound bite from Bruce Willis. He mentions that if there were to be a third DH film, McClane\u2019d have to \u201csave the planet\u201d to make it worthwhile. Although Die Hard With A Vengeance didn\u2019t go global in that manner, in 1998, Willis would indeed get the chance to rescue the world with Armageddon.\nThe disc\u2019s Featurette offers little more than a greatly abbreviated version of the \u201cMaking Of\u201d show. This piece lasts four minutes, six seconds and consists almost totally of materials we already saw during the longer show. A couple of minor bits were different, but not enough to merit a viewing; if you\u2019ve watched the \u201cMaking Of\u201d, there\u2019s very little reason to screen the \u201cFeaturette\u201d.\nIn the Trailers and TV Spots area, we find\u2026 four trailers and two TV ads. There\u2019s nothing terribly unusual about these except one of the promos includes what appears to be an alternate \u201cclean\u201d take of one McClane soundbite. In the film itself, he states that \u201cwe\u2019re just up to our ass in terrorists\u201d, whereas the ad changes \u201cass\u201d to \u201cneck\u201d. Usually these alterations result from simple - and frequently awkward - dubs, but in this case, it really looked like the change came from a different shot. Willis\u2019 \u201cneck\u201d fit the scene more cleanly than I\u2019d expect from a dub. Fox on Blu-ray includes promos for the other three Die Hard flicks as well as Alien Vs. Predator.\nInterview with Renny Harlin talks about Harlin and sticks with some soundbites from the director, but we also hear from actors Sadler and Willis plus production designer John Vallone and special effects coordinator Al Di Sarro. It\u2019s a mildly interesting but fairly drab six-minute and 43-second piece.\nThe six-minute, 38-second The Bad Guys focuses on Sadler, and it offers a more entertaining piece just because it concentrates on that actor. He seems to be a good interview subject, and his presence makes this show better than most.\nBreaking the Ice concentrates on the snowmobile sequence. It runs for four minutes and nine seconds as it shows some small interview clips with Harlin, Willis, Di Sarro and stunt coordinator Charlie Picerni and shots from the set. The show is decent, but it sticks with the same style as the other featurettes and doesn\u2019t become more interesting than those.\nMuch more fun is Chaos on the Conveyor Belt. Unlike the prior featurettes, this seven-minute and 52-second program features nothing other than footage from the set. No interviews appear during this fun and vivid look behind the scenes. We get to watch fine shots of fight choreography, and I thought this was an excellent little piece. My only complaint: why couldn\u2019t they give the stuntman for Vondi Curtis Hall the same haircut? Okay, I never noticed the difference when I used to watch the movie, but now that I\u2019ve seen close shots of the stuntman, his presence seems awfully obvious and will continue to irk me eternally.\nVisual Effects Breakdowns gives us three clips. \u201cEjector Seat\u201d runs for three minutes and five seconds as it shows storyboards, blue screen shots, and the compositing process for this part of the film. We simply find raw material; there\u2019s no commentary or explanation of the shots. Because of that, this was a decent piece but it didn\u2019t do a lot for me.\nDie Hard 2 remains my least favorite of the four Die Hard flicks to date, as it shows a variety of problems that make it little more than an average action piece. Still, I like it enough to continue to find it interesting after more than 20 years, so for all my complaints, I continue to get a general kick out of the program. The Blu-ray presents fairly good picture and audio and a reasonably useful set of extras. 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Traditionally, an engineer\u2019s responsibility to assure quality on a project and control costs for the owner implied a narrow focus on the deliverables specified in the contract and the billable invoices submitted to the owner. Organic engineering also considers the project\u2019s broader and longer-term cost to society and how it impacts the surrounding environment.\nFunctional A sound engineering approach incorporates functional requirements in the planning stages, but it is the form, as defined by the project plans, that is usually regarded as the final product. But assuring the long-term adherence of a project to a fixed geometry is difficult and expensive in the dynamic coastal environment. It is often counterproductive and leads to unintended consequences. Examples of failures and impacts of hard coastal structures from extreme events and long-term cumulative effects abound. A holistic approach focuses on maintaining the function of the project over time while accepting and accommodating the inevitable reshaping by the environment.\nResilient A major challenge in designing coastal or marine structures is dealing with the dynamic range of wave forcing. If a structure is designed only for the conditions it will experience the vast majority of the time, it will fail in the rare but inevitable extreme event (under design). Assuring that it will survive any event it may encounter requires a very inefficient structure for most, perhaps all of the structure\u2019s life (over design). This conundrum requires the owner to make a gamble between acceptable risk and exponentially increasing cost (probabilistic design). A resilient design functions efficiently up to a reasonable threshold condition and survives, even if it may temporarily cease to function, when conditions exceed the threshold. When conditions abate function should return with minimal intervention and rehabilitation. This can be achieved through compliance (flexible, elastic), accommodation (absorptive, dissipative), and/or tolerance to displacement (dynamic, mobile).\nAdaptive Adaptive planning means understanding what the existing site conditions tells us about the environmental processes and forces. Adaptive design means integrating the project to work in alignment with those processes in order to achieve a broad range of project objectives. Adaptive operation of the project means allowing those processes to dictate the type, quantity, and timing of the response. This is approach has gradually been accepted and embraced for beach nourishment projects, and is particularly suited to coastal habitat reconstruction projects.\nAlive Living shorelines incorporate live plants directly as elements of the design but in a broader sense, it means understanding that the project itself reflects the positive qualities of life. It should be adaptable to change and self-healing. It should integrate its own processes into a living community in a synergistic way. All elements of the project should create or enhance and sustain habitat, not destroy it. This may also mean periodic care and feeding \u2013 renourishment \u2013 but it is ultimately more beneficial, efficient, and less costly than an inanimate design.", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00040.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 6, + "original_length": 3438, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.93, + "perplexity": 271.6, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "http://employmentpolicy.org/page-1797724/3208607", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T04:07:37Z", + "digest": "sha1:QRHN2VAHCYZ45ETFV77TMP37CWWCBQRL", + "length": 7272, + "nlines": 15, + "source_domain": "employmentpolicy.org", + "title": "Labor and Employment Relations Association - A Wage Floor Forces Employers To Pay Better", + "raw_content": "A Wage Floor Forces Employers To Pay Better\nIt has become a staple of the neoclassical economics model that when productivity increases, then so too will wages. Why is this? Because in a competitive market each worker receives the value of his or her marginal product, which is the amount of an increase in say a unit of labor.\nTherefore, workers earn higher wages when their marginal revenue product increases. The marginal revenue product is often the criterion for determining how many more workers to hire because they are able to calculate how much more output can be expected based on how many units are added. But if the marginal revenue product can be increased from the greater efforts of workers without having to increase their number, it then becomes feasible to raise their wages without eating into the profits of the firm.\nIf wages are supposed to rise with productivity, then why haven't they? By all accounts the economy is improving. In December 2014, total nonfarm payroll employment rose by 252,000, and the unemployment rate dropped to 5.6 percent, which is the lowest it has been since the end of the Great Recession in 2009. At the same time, since the end of the Great Recession, productivity has been increasing, but those productivity gains have not been shared with the workers.\nIs there an attempt to maintain a class based society under the guise of the myth of upward Socio-economic mobility? Is the language of free markets at the end of the day nothing more than a rationalization for a system that distributes income unevenly? After all, if workers are led to believe that by working hard they will be rewarded with higher wages because if nothing else they are justly being compensated for enhancing the productivity of the firm, they are also being led to believe that the system of free markets is one of mutual benefits.\nThere are perhaps two messages here. One is that mythology certainly serves its purposes of rationalizing the status quo and keeping the masses in their place. In this vein, the neoclassical model, upon which the free market orthodoxy rests is no different that Marx calling religion the opiate of the masses, because it too served to keep the masses in their place unquestioning the justness of a system that produced unfair distribution. The second message, of course, is that the model, like so many other theoretical constructs cannot be applied in the real world because there are so many extraneous variables that cannot be controlled for.\nThe second message usually has a corollary which is that adjustments need to be made, and one of those adjustments is the creation of some type of countervailing force in the market place because employers and employees don\u2019t share equal power. Institutional economists in the late 19th and early 20th centuries recognized that free markets were not neutral and that they did favor those who enjoyed greater market power. Their solution was to support collective bargaining because that would enable workers to negotiate wages and working conditions on a more even par with their employers.\nDuring the New Deal, the authors of the National Labor Relations Act or what has often been referred to as the Wagner Act, also recognized that the power imbalance between employers and workers not only leads to strife and disruptions in productive enterprise, but instability. They saw this measure as essential to ensuring an equitable distribution of the rewards of the economy.\nSimilarly, the authors of the Fair Labor Standards Act, which created the federal minimum wage, saw it as essential for ensuring an equitable distribution of the rewards of the economy, particularly for those who would not be covered by collective bargaining agreements. A wage floor, it was maintained, would also serve the economy in macroeconomic terms in that it would enable workers to maintain their purchasing power, thereby maintaining demand for goods and services in the aggregate.\nAt the same time, there would appear to be an assumption that underpins both of these major pieces of legislation, which also returns us to the question of why productivity gains have not been shared among the workers. That is, employers left to their own devices cannot be relied upon to do the right thing. Now if we subscribe to the idea that mythology rationalizes the status quo, then it would be easy to dismiss employers as simply selfish, in which case mythology conveniently masks their selfishness.\nBut if we subscribe to the second message that implementation of a theoretical construct in the real world requires adjustments, then it becomes clear that something is missing. Market models in general, and especially going back to Adam Smith assume that individuals are basically selfish. Smith assumed the invisible hand of the market would check selfishness and channel it towards accomplishing the public interest. If there was market failure, as Smith assumed to be the case with monopoly, then regulation would be required.\nA wage floor, then, becomes necessary not only to ensure that workers receive a fair and liveable wage in an environment where they don\u2019t have the market power to negotiate with their employers as equals, but to also ensure a level playing field among employers. Remember the same neoclassical model assumes that firms seek to maximize profits while minimizing costs. If their competition is paying low wages in order to maintain low prices, they similarly are going to lower their labor costs. Therefore, no profit maximizing firm would offer to pay higher wages even if it would bring in higher quality workers for fear that the competition will not do the same and then they will be underbid by their competition. In other words, the absence of a standard \u2014 a wage floor here \u2014 makes it a foregone conclusion that employers will act on their selfishness.\nInstitutions like unions and the minimum wage in the end force employers to do the right thing and what is ultimately in their own best interests. Of course the critic will cry that the employer is being coerced rather than being allowed to come to this conclusion voluntarily. But we have already seen that with the increases in productivity employers won\u2019t do the right thing voluntarily because so far they haven\u2019t been sharing the gains with their workers. Therefore, it seems logical to conclude that perhaps they need a nudge in the form of, at a minimum, a rising wage floor, which will, through interval effects, force up wages through the distribution.\nOtherwise, we might have to conclude that if employers don\u2019t want to share productivity gains with their workers, and they will oppose increases in the minimum wage because it will force them to do so, that they simply want to horde profits at the expense of workers. And yet, they conveniently forget that without workers there would be no profits. If this is true, then market ideology is nothing more than a rationalization that conveniently serves their naked self-interests. That public officials buy into this mythology only means that they too really don\u2019t care for the larger communities they serve. But then again, if by now we haven\u2019t figured that out, then perhaps there is no hope.\nCopyright \u00a9 2015 Laborpress. All Rights Reserved.", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00040.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 64, + "original_length": 8628, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.97, + "perplexity": 214.0, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "http://en.asiatoday.co.kr/view.php?key=20160523001025484", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T03:29:15Z", + "digest": "sha1:LFBNUCQWE63TPR7LHCSYTHX25KDRKYJY", + "length": 1999, + "nlines": 8, + "source_domain": "en.asiatoday.co.kr", + "title": "Non-communist parties play active role in China\u2018s political life", + "raw_content": "Non-communist parties play active role in China\u2018s political life\nBy Hong Soon-do, Beijing correspondent, AsiaToday - You may think it's necessary to be a communist in order to become China's national leader. But that's not necessarily true. It's possible for a non-communist to play active role in China's political life. One of the good examples include China's former vice president Rong Yiren. Although he was a former capitalist, one of the \"stinking ninth category\" defined by the Communist Party in the past, he worked as vice president of the People's Republic without ever joining the Communist Party.\nThe Revolutionary Committee of theChinese Kuomintang (RCCK), one of China's eight non-communist parties, held itsnational congress recently in Nanjing. The party is famous for producing manynational leaders./ Source: search engine Baidu\nSince it's not an exaggeration to say that China has become capitalist compared with the past, significant number of non-communist talents are now working for the country. Most of all, we should mention Wan Exiang, vice chairperson of the Standing Committee of the 12th National People's Congress (NPC). He is chairperson of the Revolutionary Committee of the Chinese Kuomintang (RCCK), one of China's eight non-communist parties.\nWan Exiang, vice chairperson of the Standing Committee of the 12thNational People's Congress (NPC) and chairperson of the Revolutionary Committeeof the Chinese Kuomintang (RCCK)./ Source: search engine Baidu 1\nQi Xuchun, vice chairman of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC), is also a non-communist. His position is equivalent to deputy prime minister level. He also belongs to the RCCK.\nAnother good example is Zhang Baowen, vice chairman of the Standing Committee of the 12th NPC. Chen Xiaoguang, Ma Peihua, Luo Fuhe are non-communist vice-chairpersons of the 12th CPPCC National Committee.\n#Non-communist #Communist Party #China #Rong Yiren #Revolutionary Committee of the Chinese Kuomintang", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00040.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 76, + "original_length": 3383, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.93, + "perplexity": 166.7, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "http://en.inbox7.mk/?p=2369", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T03:49:02Z", + "digest": "sha1:5WBQJLOBLFNITV6OMSJ5VD5AZPU5B5AM", + "length": 16482, + "nlines": 32, + "source_domain": "en.inbox7.mk", + "title": "Flirting with NGO-s: Same organisations receive public money every year", + "raw_content": "May 11, 2015 16:05\tby\t\u0421\u041a\u0423\u041f \u041c\u0430\u043a\u0435\u0434\u043e\u043d\u0438\u0458\u0430\t-\nFrom winning the elections in 2006 to the latest data from 2014 the current ruling party awarded NGOs and civil society organizations nearly 1 million 800 thousand Euros directly from the budget. This sum relates to only one item called \u2013\nAuthor: Aleksandar Dimitrievski\nThe Government of RM, in accordance with legislation in the late 90\u2019s, regularly supports associations and foundations. The allocation of a certain amount of money by government decision is made by the current as it was by the previous governments. Various support funds have been opened throughout the years. So today money is given to foundations and associations through separate ministries, municipalities and at least two programs directly through the government. In this research, we focus only on the largest such program called \u201cTransfer to NGOs for financing program activities of citizens\u2019 associations and foundations\u201d. It has the longest history, most money is shared through it, but it itself is sufficiently complex for a journalistic text.\nThe allocation of these funds is done according to predetermined rules. In a certain part of the year NGOs propose projects after the Government calls them upon previously adopted program. Expert commission chooses who gets support and the funds must not be used for purposes other than the activity for which they are given. An organization can be selected only once and obtain support for one project. Each organization is obliged to submit a report to the Government \u2013 how it spent the money when the project is completed.\nSuspicion that this money may not be spent for the purpose was the second reason for such research. Namely, while setting the last group of monuments in Skopje, it came to light that they were paid by donors, and not the municipalities or the Government as it used to be, which was seemingly unrelated with our theme. One of the generous organizations was called \u201cAssociation for the Spiritual Unification of Setinci, Popadinci and Krushoradi of Florina in Macedonia\u201c. The media revealed that they, as a civic association, for their actions received financial support from the national treasury. Thus, using the archive of official papers, we learned who, how much and what for received support from the Government. All this is important for at least two reasons. Because citizens\u2019 money is spent and because the example of the Association of Setinci raised the question \u2013 what are these funds actually spent for.\nOnly few have received the money intended for everyone\nThe rank list \u2013 who received money from the Government, includes 244 non-governmental organizations and civil society associations. But the analysis how much each has received showed that there are huge differences. The organization that has received the most money over the years, more than 32,000 Euros, while the smallest amount received over the years is just over 560 Euros. So we made a list ranking the most supported organizations by the Government and we found that more than 16% of the allocated money, or about 300,000 over the years, ended with the 10 most supported organizations. At the top is the association that was one of the reasons for the research. From 2007 until last year Setinci and Popadinci received the most or more than 32,000 Euros. Next on the list are three associations that in the same period received an almost identical amount of money. \u201cEzerka\u201d from Struga received 30,894 Euros, \u201cSynergy\u201d from Stip 30,829 Euros and the \u201cAssociation for the Protection and Education of Children of the City of Skopje\u201d 30,813. Followed by \u201cNarodna Tehnika\u201d from Kicevo, \u201cSemper\u201d Bitola, \u201cSEGA\u201d from Prilep, \u201cIzvor\u201d from Kicevo, \u201cAssociation of citizens politically persecuted, imprisoned and sentenced for the ideas of the separate identity of the Macedonian nation and statehood\u201d from Skopje and \u201cRadika\u201d from Skopje. The amounts they received range from 30,000 to just under 25,000 Euros, details that can be seen from the table attached. Winners by money\nBesides the allocated money, we made a comparison in another parameter \u2013 how many times was each organization supported in the past eight years. The picture here is similar.\n\u201cAssociation of Setinci and Popadinci\u201d, \u201cEzerka\u201d, \u201cSynergy\u201d and \u201cNarodna Tehnika\u201d were selected even 7 times out of 8 competitions. The program activities of the \u201cAssociation for the Protection and Education of Children of the City of Skopje\u201d, \u201cIzvor\u201d, \u201cRadika\u201d, \u201cSEGA\u201d and \u201cSemper\u201d were supported six times. The remaining can be viewed in the detailed list.\nWinners by number of selections\nLittle reporting, lots of suspicion \u2013 what has been done with the money?\nFrom the list of organizations that have received most money through that program, we put together a short profile of the 5 most supported organizations. Whose are they, what they do, how they spent the money. We sent questions to all of them on their official emails \u2013 how many projects for and how much state money they received, what they realized and where we can see those projects. None of them answered.\nAssociation for the Spiritual Unification of Setinci, Popadinci and Krushoradi of Florina in Macedonia \u2013 Skopje\nThis association, which only once of the past eight years was not supported by the program we investigated, is based in a residential building in Skopje, on Blvd Partizanski Odredi. Tashko Jovanov is president. Their work was exhaustively researched by journalist Biljana Stavrova, where one could read many details about the organization (link to the research). From then until now at least two pieces of information have been published related to this Association. The opposition SDSM presented documents by which the government has given the Association premises of 49 m2 in the center of Skopje and then a gratis used car Audi A4, worth 5,000 Euros. Although this organization is the most supported association in Macedonia, almost nothing is publicly known about their activities or who its founder is. President Tashko Jovanov appeared in public several times, but on behalf of other associations that also got support from the government. Government\u2019s decisions best describe the status this association enjoys. For example, in 2010, the Association of Setinci, Popadinci and Krushoradi was supported as the only organization in the area of program activities for organization of \u200b\u200bintegration into the EU and NATO. The project, supported by the Government for this purpose, was named \u201cCultural identity of Macedonians originating from Aegean Macedonia as a factor for strengthening the trust and coexistence between the Macedonian and Greek people and their countries of Macedonia and Greece\u201d. The association has neither a website nor on the Internet information can be found about their projects and activities, besides donating monuments.\n\u201cEzerka\u201d \u2013 Struga\nMore information in the public domain can be found about this association. According to it, \u201cEzerka\u201d is focused on the fight against human trafficking, but also advocates for the promotion of women\u2019s rights. There is a website, but it does not work. News about their projects can be found in the local Ohrid and Struga media. But in the national media the image of \u201cEzerka\u201d gets another dimension. For example, in 2012 the association was part of the NGO organizations that in Struga protested against the violence of Aleksandar Verusevski that the citizens of Struga did not respond to, informed the newspaper \u201cVecer\u201d in a text entitled \u201cStruga violence with amen from Crvenkovski\u201d. The Association had stiff stance during the debate on Family Law that \u201cwe are against making same-sex marriages and adoption of children by homosexual couples, because we do not want children to be victims and abusers\u201d. But that there are sympathies between the Government and this Association best speaks their communication with the executive power on the occasion of the Call to the civil society to contribute to the preparation of the Government program for 2015. The letter begins with \u2013 \u201cEzerka\u201d continuously monitors and supports the Government\u201d.\n\u201cSynergy\u201d \u2013 Stip\nThis organization is first on the list to have its own website. According to the information there, it is a charity organization. Among their projects there is civil activism support, education of women, informing the farmers. But one of their activities stands out. Besides human activities the association also monitors elections. This organization was the head of the Coalition of NGOs Organizations Get Out and Vote which although had not been publicly known, in 2014 accredited most observers for the elections. 5000, not more or less. For comparison, citizens\u2019 association \u201cMost\u201d that has been monitoring elections for years, that same year had a total of 580 observers or almost ten times less. The weekly \u201cFocus\u201d also revealed that this often supported organization with public money is close to the government. Among other things that the President of the Association, Vilma Jordanova, is a member of the ruling VMRO-DPMNE and former adviser to the party in the municipal council in Stip.\nAssociation for the Protection and Education of Children \u2013 Skopje\nAlthough fourth on the list, this organization is practically the first whose project most people in the country have heard about. Every year the government supports their activity \u2013 organization of Children\u2019s Festival \u201cGolden Nightingale\u201d. This organization has its own web site, where still information on all donations cannot be found. Yet their result can be seen every year in the days when the historic festival of children\u2019s song is organized.\n\u201cNarodna Tehnika\u201d \u2013 Kicevo\nAlthough fifth on the list, this association may be the first of most supported organizations if as criteria, instead of its name, we take the name and surname of the authorized person. According to the Central Registry, president of \u201cNarodna Tehnika\u201d from Kicevo is Sasa Dukoski. He is a former journalist in the public service and in 2010 he was elected Assistant Professor at the Law Faculty in Kicevo as part of the Bitola State University. But Dukoski appears as the only authorized person in the organization \u201cIzvor\u201d from Kicevo. Both organizations with the same authorized person over the years received a total of over 58,000 Euros. They often received the money as separate entities in the same competitions. At least on the internet no news and links can be found to some of the projects for which these organizations received money. Although some of them are with typical titles such as \u201cRural resources in Kicevo presented by wiesel reflection\u201d or \u201cComparative advantages for the development of rural micro-region Brzdani river in Kicevo\u201d, no written documents can be found on the Internet. NATO and the EU on the margins, fight against corruption forgotten But apart from the money, we investigated what projects of the NGO and civil society sector, according to the context, have been supported by the current government. Summarized by topics, most of the projects are related to strategies, activities and events of local importance \u2013 from festivals to tourist guides. Then there is a number of projects related to the fight against human trafficking, domestic violence and entrepreneurship development. But among other things there are dozens of projects that is not quite clear what they are or do not seem to be a program activity of citizens or foundations. For example: \u201cWater as a leader to the beautiful habits\u201d, \u201cConstruction of a local road Gorno Kolicani village \u2013 Batinci village\u201d, \u201cSources in Prilep in a new dimension\u201d, \u201cKindergarten opening\u201d etc. Another striking point is that comparatively, the number of projects related to EU and NATO integration is very small. Although, according to the relevant program each year such projects should be supported, among those who received money under this item are activities of the Association for the Spiritual Unification of Setinci, Popadinci and Krushoradi of Florina in Macedonia, and \u201cComparative analysis of the process of lustration\u201d of the Association of citizens politically persecuted, imprisoned, sentenced for the ideas of the separate identity of the Macedonian nation and statehood\u201d.\nOf all the set program goals of the Government the most obvious is that the support of projects whose purpose is the fight against corruption is missing. The last such support activity dates back to 2010 for the project \u201cTo prevent corruption\u201d, of the women\u2019s organization Radika from Skopje. In other words, in the past five years, from a total of 1.1 million Euros, only 5,000 Euros were support for associations and foundations for the fight against corruption.\nThey work for Macedonian, but live from foreign taxpayers\nWe asked some of the organizations that are \u201clower\u201d on the list of supported organizations for their opinion on these programs. Among them are several names that are well known to the public: Young Lawyers Association, Transparency Zero Corruption, NGO Infocenter, Helsinki Committee \u2026 These organizations received some funds until 2008-009, and then they disappeared from the list. We asked Uranija Pirovska of the Helsinki Committee, which only once in 2009 received about 4000 Euros, if they applied and if hoping for funds from government programs. She says they have ceased to seek funds from Macedonian taxpayers and are currently funded by application of calls from foreign donors.\n\u2013 \u201cSince then we have neither applied nor we have received, as the tendency to fund NGOs that are close to the government is apparent and by the way, in many occasions we checked and we found that they only exist on paper and appear in public only in cases when it is necessary to deny the findings and conclusions with critical content towards the policies of the government by the NGOs which are constantly present in public\u201d \u2013 says Uranija Pirovska, director of the \u201cHelsinki Committee\u201d from Skopje.\nThe law is good, realization lags behind\nLegal provisions concerning NGOs in Macedonia have been subject to scholarly work of three professors at the Law Faculty in Skopje. Dr Borce Davitkovski, Dr Ana Pavlovska Daneva and Dr Dragan Gocevski in 2011 published a paper in an international collection entitled \u201cProspects of the NGO sector in the provision of public services in the Republic of Macedonia\u201d. The text concludes that the legal framework in the Republic of Macedonia encourages the work of NGOs and offers the potential to even carry out public services on behalf of the state. We asked one of the authors of the paper whether the legal platform and the money allocated by the central government are rationally and correctly used in practice.\n\u2013 \u201cFrom the available acts and reports that the Government announces, assets are allocated to finance NGO sector. However, a number of NGOs are consistently permeating in the top 10. It can indicate two scenarios. Either that a certain small number of NGOs are very equipped and successful in achieving their projects so they are always more successful in applying for funds from the government or, and this is perhaps speculative, there is some preferential treatment to these organizations. As a personal opinion, I think the associations of citizens who express interest to conduct activities for the local community should be given more support. The manner of allocating the funds for financing to be decentralized. However, local self-government can have greater insight into the needs of local people and indeed active members of associations are themselves residents of smaller places. A number of organizations from smaller places have limited access to applying for funds when the method of distribution is centralized. Larger and already established organizations will always have priority \u2013 even in most objective circumstances\u201d \u2013 said Dr. Dragan Gocevski, Assistant Professor of Administrative Law and Public Administration at the Law Faculty within the University Ss Cyril and Methodius in Skopje.\nFor all dilemmas that this research opened about the figures published in the Official Gazette, we asked the Government of course. Where can all implemented projects be seen, that 1.8 million Euros taxpayers\u2019 money has been spent for? Why do some receive each year and others not? What are the criteria for giving vehicles and flats to foundations and associations? And here we came up maybe to the most devastating fact in this research. There was no reply.\nNGO's\u0442\u043e\u043f", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00040.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 73, + "original_length": 18124, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.96, + "perplexity": 260.8, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "http://en.inbox7.mk/?p=2765", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T03:51:33Z", + "digest": "sha1:UZJ3LONWHALVYNAGPRKRFTSHRKYOHJ64", + "length": 7643, + "nlines": 29, + "source_domain": "en.inbox7.mk", + "title": "State without anti-corruption commission \u2013 paradise for politicians", + "raw_content": "Dragan Malinovski, a former member of the SCPC in the period from 2002 to 2007, says that we cannot expect positive comments in the next report of the European Commission.\nThe former Anti-Corruption Commission did not work, but now we do not have any at all\u201d says the former anticorruption commissioner Arif Musa.\n\u201cIt was necessary to act immediately and to appoint members in accordance with the old Law, emphasizes Slagjana Taseva.\nIn addition to the Anti-Corruption Commission, CPRFAPI is \u201ccrippled\u201d too \u2013 since May there is no one to decide on the cases because at the moment, besides the President, the Commission has only one member.\nFor nine months now, one of the most important anti-corruption institutions in Macedonia \u2013 the State Commission for the Prevention of Corruption \u2013 does not function. Five members in March submitted resignations after the information about their travel expenses that was revealed by the portal \u201cSakam da kazham\u201d (\u201cI want to say\u201d). Now there are only two anti-corruption commissioners in the Commission, Suzana Taskova Adzikotareva and Najdo Spasevski. In their opinion, this information did not affect them to leave the Anti-Corruption Commission.\nIT\u2019S PARLIAMENT\u2019S TURN\nPrime Minister Zoran Zaev, in a recent interview on Alsat-M, said that the Government adopted the new Law on Anti-Corruption Commission, it was handed over to the Parliament and the procedure for its adoption is under way.\n\u201cThe government demonstrates a wish to finish it and it will complete it as soon as possible. Once the Parliament has passed the Law, members will be immediately elected and a commission will be formed with a new legislation that is fully coordinated with the Venice Commission, with the European delegation, and all the weaknesses that we have seen from before are incorporated\u201d, emphasized the Prime Minister.\nWhen asked about the procedure for adopting the new law on anti-corruption commission, the Parliament said: \u201cIt is in the first reading of the Parliament, the first reading has passed in the committee for political system, and the legislative committee is on Monday\u201d.\n\u201cTHE GOVERNMENT IS BETTER OFF WITHOUT AN ANTICORRUPTION COMMISSION\u201d\nExperts say the country should not allow an absence of a functional body that will fight corruption, for a long period. Although there seems to be a way to resolve the situation, it appears that for some months now the necessity of this body in the state has been neglected.\nSlagjana Taseva from \u201cTransparency International\u201d says there was an option to appoint members in order not to shut down the institution. According to her, the Commission cannot formally function if there are not enough members, and at the same time, all decisions are made by the majority of the members. Taseva emphasized that in no case should the SCPC have been allowed to remain empty, i.e. without members.\n\u201cIt was necessary to act immediately and to appoint members in accordance with the old Law, and then to work on a new one and wait for the election of new members of the Commission under the new Law\u201d, said Taseva.\nArif Musa, a former member of the State Commission for the Prevention of Corruption, said that the non-existence and the non-functioning of this institution is a great pity for the state and a huge failure of this government. Having the same attitude as Taseva, Musa believes that the government sees no need for the existence of this body.\n\u201cThe former Anti-Corruption did not work, but now we do not have any at all. In fact, the government is better off without this institution. The same pattern from the time of the old government continues with the new government, the less control \u2013 the better. The difference between them is that there has been some progress in terms of the Agreement with Greece\u201d, Musa explains.\nHe adds that the government cannot constantly rely on the Agreement with Greece, as an excuse for the slow implementation of other reforms in the country.\n\u201cThis government may think that it will draw public attention to the constitutional changes related to the Agreement with Greece, but that is just one segment. Other organs in the state should function aside from this, because they do not depend on the Agreement itself, for example the state administration. That is, we need to have control bodies, especially the Anti-Corruption Commission, the State Audit Office, the Prosecutor\u2019s Offices, which will function as they should\u201d, added the former anti-corruption commissioner.\nTHE SCPC WEBSITE HAS ALSO BEEN IN \u201cHIBERNATION\u201d FOR A LONGER TIME\nThe latest announcement on the website of the State Commission for Prevention of Corruption is the announcement on the occasion of the adopted Decision for announcing a referendum. They report that \u201cthe Commission has no legal basis to act and decide on submitted requests and reports from various entities related to the process of holding the referendum.\u201d\nPreviously, a few posts followed related to the mission of the system for conflict prevention, event reporting, training, panel discussion. The public announcement of March 29 this year is ten days after the Assembly passed the decision to dismiss the members of the SCPC. They say that the Commission will not have the opportunity to decide on and resolve the submitted requests and applications from the parties, but the Secretariat as an expert service will act and perform the administrative and technical matters of the SCPC.\nAWAITING BRUSSELS CRITICIS\nIn March next year, the European Commission (EC) report is expected to show the progress made by the Republic of Macedonia in terms of the reforms that it needs to implement if it wants to start accession negotiations with the European Union (EU).\n\u201cIn any case we will not receive praise, nor can we expect any. However, we are talking about the Republic of Macedonia, which is undoubtedly badly ranked with regard to the issue of corruption, and by not having a functional commission, it\u2019s really not commendable\u201d, said Malinovski.\nSlagjana Taseva says that although it is still too early to talk about the EC report, she believes that many points will be disappointing.\n\u201cI hope for a realistic and objective report from the European Commission. By the way, there are many questions hanging and waiting, starting with the judiciary and the prosecution, as well as failure to act in the fight against corruption in general. The government has a lot to do until March if we want to get at least a little positive report that will ensure the start of negotiations\u201d, she adds.\nIf the Assembly does not pass the new Anti-Corruption Law in a short time, it will mean a winter sleep for the Commission with its two members and the Secretariat. This situation will put the state at risk of deepening corruption. Meanwhile, the fight remains in the hands of journalists and independent bodies.\nCPRFAPI IS \u201cCRIPPLED\u201d TOO\nThe cases to be resolved by the Commission for Protection of the Right to Free Access to Public Information are trapped between the four walls of the Commission. They are also facing the same problem as the Anti-Corruption Commission. Namely, since May there is no one to decide on the cases because at the moment, besides the President, the Commission has only one member. For proper functioning, a president, a vice president and three members are needed. Inbox7 sources say there is no will either by the authorities or by the opposition, and the procedure for appointing new members is stuck in the labyrinths of the Parliament.\nWe asked President Blerim Iseni, but we were told that the president is not at work because of the \u201cAlbanian Alphabet Day\u201d holiday.", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00040.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 72, + "original_length": 9060, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.96, + "perplexity": 187.9, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "http://en.scorser.com/S/Sheet+music/John+Elton+Love+Song/-1/1.html", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T04:38:01Z", + "digest": "sha1:UQWD46ATMVLNVJTPEQ5AF4CH3SJJZJP2", + "length": 3310, + "nlines": 37, + "source_domain": "en.scorser.com", + "title": "Sheet music, scores: John Elton Love Song", + "raw_content": "John Elton Love Song\nOriginal: The Love Songs of Elton John. Elton John. 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Thus, reservation for women will be a good step in direction of achieving social-justice. Get complete information on different Styles in Literature Which are those causes discovered of mental deficiency and low intelligence level.\nInterestingly, a significant proportion 44 percent of the students said they engaged in some activity that promoted social justice. Additionally, we asked students to describe what they were actually doing to promote social justice.\nIn most academic papers, social activism is defined as political activism: Interestingly, there was a tremendous range of responses to our question. In addition to political activism, we identified many different categories of social justice activities, including conducting social-justice-related research, being a member of or volunteering for an organization that focused on social activism, seeking out educational opportunities to learn more about social justice, engaging in advocacy on behalf of people from disadvantaged or marginalized groups, and talking to family and friends about social justice.\nWhat was most impressive to me was the creativity displayed by students as they sought to promote social justice, as well as the diversity of issues addressed by their actions. Many students reported participating in marches, protests and other direct social actions for economic or racial change. One participant was working to promote social justice by acting in a short film that aimed to foster acceptance of LGBTQ youth during the coming out process.\nSome students were using a social justice approach when providing clinical services to children with developmental disabilities. A few reported that they were engaged in youth mentoring or were working on behalf of youth within the juvenile justice system. Still others described being LGBTQ allies or serving as advocates for women who have endured domestic and sexual violence. We also had students who volunteered at community or religious organizations to help individuals around issues of poverty and food security.\nA significant number of students indicated that they spoke with family or friends about these issues. I think that these kinds of actions are more quiet forms of activism. Discussing issues of social justice with significant others might have the impact of changing attitudes or gaining support from them. In turn, this might ultimately increase awareness of social issues and might influence others to take action in some way in their own lives.\nThese included engaging in social-justice related research, attending lectures, being part of student groups and organizations that promoted social justice such as RU PROUD a lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, questioning and ally organization and Students for a Sensible Drug Policy , engaging in social justice as part of their professional clinical training and volunteering as part of service learning. Although less than half of the students we surveyed reported engaging in activism, those who were active appeared to take advantage of the resources and opportunities available at Roosevelt, and many sought to integrate these experiences with their academic studies.\nThe second study that my research team and I conducted focused on the role of the University mission in promoting positive attitudes toward social justice. I wanted to understand whether students who felt more involved at the University and agreed with its mission were in fact more likely to engage in social activism.\nStudents who respected the social justice mission were much more likely to state that they intended to work for social justice in the future and felt that they possessed the skills to effect positive change.\nThese students were also more likely to report having engaged in social activism, talk about social justice issues with family and friends and personally identify as social activists. Feeling a part of the Roosevelt community mattered because it allowed them to share in this core community value.\nWe are currently conducting additional studies where we hope to follow undergraduate students over time to see how their ideas and views of social justice might change as they move from freshman to senior year. We are also interviewing student activists to learn from their unique experiences, motivations and perceptions of their own work.\nIndeed, it has been a pleasure to be able to assess and document the amazingly diverse and creative activism that is going on at Roosevelt. We have so much to learn from our students! An important part of social justice education is to trust that students are able to evaluate the information we provide and use it in a way that is valid, realistic and relevant to their own lives. Because students are able to come up with so many unique and creative ways to address injustices in their interpersonal and professional lives, professors should not provide answers, but rather should pose questions to help students recognize the real challenges in our society.\nWe can encourage them to critically evaluate their own views and the views of others and provide them with a range of interventions and interpersonal skills that they can then use to confront a range of social problems and issues in their own ways. We also need to recognize that this is hard, risky work. As educators, it is important that we not only talk about social justice but provide students with the skills they need to take action and be effective.\nContact Susan Torres-Harding at storresharding roosevelt.\nBriefly this paper will address social injustices in the United States and under the social injustices, the paper will focus more on Economy, health and society injustices. This will be approached with three .\nKeywords Ableism; Associative Justice; Classism; Distributive Justice; Heterosexism; Oppression; Postmodernism; Racism; Recognitional Justice; Sexism Overview Social justice has a long history; almost as soon as human societies were formed, philosophers began thinking about how individual and collective needs could be met simultaneously (Griffiths, ).\nAdditionally, we asked students to describe what they were actually doing to promote social justice. In most academic papers, social activism is defined as political activism: marching in protests, attending rallies, writing legislators or voting in order to promote policy or legal changes. Sep 11, \u00b7 The late Father William J. Ferree, a second great thinker of the social justice movement, wrote \u201cThe Act of Social Justice\u201d in , characterizing social justice as a moral duty that obliged each person in society to care for the common good of all (Ferree ).\nSocial Justice Research Paper Topics. Social justice is valued because it is important to make everyone comfortable in the society they live in. The feeling of acceptance along with the feeling of belonging to a community is something that is very special. Julie Mullens\u2019 quote proves that this not only takes a physical and emotional toll on the victims, but within the social and economical structures of society. 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These signal jammers are wireless and can be used in any location to disable cellular phones. You can also use it to interfere with wireless local area networks or WLAN. Because of this ability to interfere with wireless local area network signals, manufacturers have also developed other types of jammers like Bluetooth jammers and Wi-Fi and wireless video jammers. Now, even satellites can be jammed; you only need to have high-tech and sophisticated types of signal jammers to do so.\nThe only time signal jammers will have a difficult time of interfering device signals is if your electronic devices is in good working condition. The government is also using these signal jammers and they regulate its use, and the only use for their signal jammers is for interfering with cellular phone communication lines. They only damage the receiving end of a cell phone call because it directly interferes with the cell phone and the base station itself. The electromagnetic wave of a signal jammer is relatively small that it does not really have an effect on the human body or on the cell phone itself. The only time that signal jammers can cause health risks is if you use the bigger ones like outdoor signal stations.\nThe cellular phone jammer is the most common signal jammer available. When the signal jammer blocks the radio waves, the cell phone is prevented from receiving them from the base station. The distance covered by this signal jammer is from 10 meters to a kilometer.\nAnother commonly used signal jammer is the GPS signal jammer. The military uses GPS jammers in order to confuse GPS tracking locations. There are no homemade tracking systems like this. For people who do not want the GPS receiver to know their location and that of their vehicle, they use the GPS signal jammer. A GPS signal jammer for civilians usually reach only up to ten meters.\nA Bluetooth jammer is usually integrated with a multi-functional jammers which jams wi-fi and video. It disrupts and disables wireless LAN, Bluetooth devices, and video transmitting, for privacy.\nThese signal jammers are relatively low priced and this is the reason why it has gained popularity and is used repeatedly.\nYou can find websites online that sells signal jammers are affordable costs. Cellular phone jammers are the least expensive ones with the more affordable costing only less than fifty dollars and the higher priced is less than a hundred fifty.\nSome Wedding Venue Options to Consider Weddings are special events, and every bride and bridegroom wants it to be a memorable occasion. The couple must select an indoor location in case the wedding is being held in the winter season. Some families might prefer holding the event outside when it is during summer. 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You only have to understand what you want and go for a place that will suit your needs. For the outdoor wedding venues, you can think of a garden, a park, a golf course or a hayfield. There are numerous beautiful parks that have customized their parks for weddings. You would have to get in touch with the management of the park, golf course or garden to know how much they charge for hosting weddings. Another option to choose is to get hold of an events management company that will help you with securing the wedding site and arranging it. Hiring such a firm will spare you the hassle of getting tables, chairs, arranging a marquee and so on. Making these arrangements demands lots of your time yet you might have a million things to do. Getting everything together can be a significant challenge particularly if the reception and the wedding ceremony are at different venues.\nIf you hire a club or golf course, they can provide the catering if they have such an option. Only make the arrangements and learn their charges on per head basis. Some gardens, meadows, and gardens that hire their grounds or facilities for weddings can also provide all that you need for an outdoor wedding.\nA Quick Overlook of Celebrations \u2013 Your Cheatsheet\nWhether you prefer an outdoor or indoor wedding venue, you can get an idea of how much the venue will cost depending on how many guests you have.\u2026\nHow to Choose the Best Portable Hard Drive for You\nWith all the information that we have access to on a day to day basis, there no way to save them unless you have a portable hard drive with you at all times. A regular PC or laptop typically has 200 GB to 750 GB of internal memory, but as many of us have experienced this is not enough over time; many of our work or home related files like pictures, emails, videos and such can eat a lot of space. For that reason, a lot of portable hard drive manufacturers try to stand out from the competition with varying characteristics and features.\nPeople who aim to get the an amazing portable hard drive should take a handful of factors into account, another great decision maker would be a number of best portable hard drive 2017 reviews found online.\n1. Usage: Before anything else, you need to decide how the portable hard drive will be used; for work or leisure. Is there a need to actually extend the memory of the internal portable hard drive since you\u2019re low on space? Would you rather place all your sensitive personal information, like bank accounts, on a portable hard drive and store it offline for added security? It may be a tradition of yours to send homemade videos to friends and family, but you want to opt for a way where you won\u2019t have to hand your laptop. When you need to store huge media files like videos and such, you need a higher capacity.\n2. Capability of the Software: numerous portable hard drives have actually installed new software that can put passwords on files and folders as well as backup and restore data. The drivers, or some of them, can be quickly configured in order to tell the software run in the background; the software handles the updates. Since files are restored alongside the latest updates, all data can be restores in case something went wrong; this is crucial for business or for people who stored critical data.\n3. Power Source: the best portable hard drives available in the market offer plug and play features. What\u2019s great about these portable hard drives is that they can connect with any computer in an instant and receive files, no installation required. In terms of power source, the bigger portable hard drives need to be plugged into an outlet but for the smaller ones, the USB ports will suffice. For those of you who travel a lot and want to bring their portable hard drive, make sure to choose the ones that won\u2019t need an entirely different power source, especially if power sources are not readily available.\u2026\nIf you need to buy our factory rack shelves or storage place loading go to our web site to create justarack.net and make use of the coupon code to stroll into using greater racking system to your products. \u2026\nWant to Avoid Drinking Tickets? This Mobile Application Is Totally Made for You!\nThey have really started fresh out of the box new techniques (or scaled existing ones) with mobile applications and in addition mobile sites. While services with big purses could pay for to use both mobile websites and also applications, various other business could have to select one of them. The choice in the middle of mobile applications in Toronto and furthermore websites relies on upon their value, function, required properties and also the objective market they offer.\nThat being claimed, researchers reveal that customers like mobile applications greater than mobile internet sites. This makes a solid need to have mobile applications for interfacing with possible (and moreover existing) purchasers. Moreover, there are various different variables, too, that improve mobile applications tremendously contrasted with mobile sites most particularly for beer enthusiasts in parks of Toronto.\nYes, you have read it right and clear! There is a mobile application in Toronto which will help you to decide whether there is a police around the recreation center. So this suggests you can value drinking your beer in any park in Toronto since this mobile application will make your life more straightforward and pleasing! Having said that, what are the great things that you can expect to get when you download this kind of mobile application in Toronto? To know the right things that you can get from this application, here are the following points of interest of downloading this mobile application in Toronto.\n1. The mobile application for beer drinkers in parks of Toronto will unquestionably empower you to value your beer without getting any sort of drinking tickets from the experts since this mobile application in Toronto will positively offer you a tip if there is a police around the recreation center.\n2. The mobile application for beer drinkers in parks of Toronto will certainly increase your links considering that individuals that are making use of the very same application will certainly offer you a hint if both of you remain in the very same location. This indicates that you could obtain the possibility to speak to brand-new individuals that likewise likes to consume alcohol beer in parks of Toronto.\nThere are additional reasons that people need this kind of mobile application in Toronto. And if you want to give a shot, immediately look for this application and enjoy its relaxing and fun-filled benefits that you and your friend will truly enjoy. 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Potential customers will also be in a position to send in questions about the auto. Although dealers will occasionally misrepresent a car as mentioned above, the answer is an independent examination of the car and any trader that will not permit that should be avoided at any price. A superb sign, as many dealers are ready to sell vehicles that require some work, especially in the sort of an RV. Car dealers and individuals are able to make the most of automobile sales receipts and doing so is among the best ways to ensure you\u2019re making one using the suitable format and summarize. Selling your auto privately is very likely to secure you the ideal price, assuming you\u2019re prepared to dedicate some time and effort in building your purchase.\nProducts Another method to make money online is to sell some services or products online through their site. The very first thing to work out is if the client has a car to trade. Every service will come across complaints.\nFor Your Used Car Sale Receipt PDF Free Download, you have to mention the thorough name and address of the buyer together with the vendor together with the specifics of the motor vehicle. Your vehicle\u2019s major information also has to be granted as well take pleasure in the identification, year, and color, amongst others. The amount an individual can denote the launching of a travel, something that can be exciting and thrilling. Iall provide you my cell phone number and inform you that in the event that you discover something you think you like you are able to call me. If you must make a telephone call and you are being concerted, the police officer may enable you to utilize your mobile phone.\nShould you pack your own lunch instead of heading out or buying from vending machines, you\u2019re likely to save a lot of money through the year. Selling food or playing music alongside your exhibited product is a fantastic way to pull or collect prospective buyers. Return merchandise you simply bought. You can hang on a bill collector, and when they\u2019re compliant, then they won\u2019t call you back before the subsequent week. Should you wish to contact eBay for something that will finally make them cash, they\u2019re pleased to assist. You may try searching on eBay or some number of the live auction sites to see if you\u2019re able to locate work by exactly the same artist.\nYou\u2019re going to be hunted as part of this booking process. It would be worth it to determine ahead of time changing your state residency will affect your taxation obligation. You won\u2019t waste time and money going to many unique stores for the lowest prices. The specific same is true inside the shop. There are several people who don\u2019t appreciate the things they get at no charge. You will then get a notion of the painting\u2019s potential price. Before you think about selling your belongings, don\u2019t forget to clean all things for sale, and this will make it possible that you make the most of the selling costs and marketability of these goods.\nClick is cash in regards to advertising placements. You might believe that by booking with an intermediary you are saving money, but you\u2019re dead wrong. Some individuals make lots of cash by purchasing tickets online. Just because you\u2019re in a position to receive free items does not indicate that you don\u2019t have to devote any money. Purchase and sell is another way to bring in money through the site. Ensure you count the cash. Possessing an effective Adword campaign can aid the website owner earn cash.\nPeople could have been wondering why there are website proprietors that have plenty of websites. For solutions, the website operator may use their or her talent. After learning the basics, he should be on the watch for sites idea to generate money. The specific same company offers both tickets, so be certain that you ask them if that\u2019s also your strategy! A collection company cannot collect any sum of money that is not permitted by legislation or by arrangement. Additional it would be required to demonstrate the terms of that arrangement in court.\nFor your own collection organization to state it had an agreement on you, it must demonstrate the manner that it was going to do good for you. Doing this produces a contract that could be binding.\nIf you sell over five, or any time you purchase even a single vehicle with the goal of reselling it, then you\u2019ve got to get a dealer license. If you purchase your car or truck from a dealer, the dealer is required to submit the name application for your own benefit, and that means you aren\u2019t going to have to see the tax office. It\u2019s likely to sell an automobile that isn\u2019t branded to you just if you\u2019re a certified dealer. If you want to sell or buy an automobile, whether it\u2019s a classic automobile or a new one, it\u2019s important to get a Sale Receipt. Promoting your vehicle can be simple, but to steer clear of issues involving you and the buyer, you must know about exactly what the law requires. Damaged vehicles might have been registered out of country.\nIn case the vehicle is missing any attributes, like a stolen radio or a busted side mirror, then you could also record this here. When automobiles are being sold liberally, you may use an escrow service to lessen the transaction. Before setting the cost which you have to ask to your car or truck, assess its valuation together with our totally free appraisal tool. It isn\u2019t only cheaper but also convenient since you are able to note the status of the vehicle and test drive before you buy. Promoting your auto privately is very likely to secure you the very best cost, provided that you\u2019re ready to dedicate some time and effort in building your purchase. Roadworthiness All cars more than five years old have to undergo a yearly safety inspection, known as a pink slip test, to demonstrate that the vehicle is roadworthy.\nGuarantee that the dealer supplies you with a receipt showing the vehicle was recorded in your name. A trader might ask you to guarantee the condition of your trade-in beneath Buyer\u2019s Representation\u201d on the purchase contract. Dealers are incredibly useful with the necessary paper work.\nWithout the right paperwork, the purchaser is very likely to have a difficult time re-registering the automobile in his title. When you discover the appropriate purchaser, our Vehicle Revenue Receipt is going to be very helpful to you. Prospective customers are also in a place to send in questions regarding the automobile. The purchaser ought to be advised if your vehicle has specific registration plates that have additional yearly fees, as they go with the automobile and become the duty of the new owner. Should you locate a buyer for your automobile you are attempting to sell, our Revenue Receipt in PDF is going to be beneficial for you when creating one.\nAs a seller, there are certain things which you ought to learn about before you enter into the selling of an automobile. Please be aware that the document cannot be used for industrial earnings (that\u2019s where one party is a conducting the sale at the class of business) or in case the automobile has not been inspected. Complete seller notification if it was be a personal sale from one individual to another person.\nA higher need means that your car will probably sell faster. The market will determine whether there\u2019s a high or really low demand of vehicles. Before purchasing your vehicle, it is important to inquire into the market concerning the costs of similar cars that will assist you determine the price.\nProperty taxation needs to be paid at the ideal time of registration unless placing in an application for a short-term plate. In the event the sales tax was paid to some other nation and there\u2019s a gap, you\u2019re going to be liable for paying the difference. You\u2019ve got to pay sales tax when you buy a used vehicle independently. The bill of sale needs to be kept along with the name of the vehicle. Employing a bill of sale type is an outstanding way to shield the legal rights of buyers and sellers. You may be pleasantly surprised to discover you will find free bill of sale forms easily available online, but you ought to be certain to verify the caliber of any lawful form in the event that you genuinely wish to use it.\nWhen you have not got your title within 30 business days, please get in contact with us. If you lost the original title you may have to make an application to get a replacement title. You are able to also utilize Title Check to figure out whether the name of the car you are considering buying has some difficulties impacting its value.\nThe letter must state the point of your trip, where you are traveling, describe why you are not able to supply an itinerary and supply the first date by which you should have your passport. Some kinds of company letter are more troublesome to write than others, however as you get experience in writing letters you will discover that knowing what things to say and also how to phrase it is largely an issue of common sense. A typical small business letter contains three sections, an introduction, a body, and a conclusion.\nAfter you are finished writing, ask a person to read your letter and offer you feedback, since they may spot errors you may have missed. When you\u2019ve decided what sort of letter you\u2019re very likely to write, it\u2019s important to stop and think. If a letter does not fill a whole page, be certain that the content of this letter is in the middle of the page and the document is balanced. A business letter comprises very little discussion. Composing a fantastic company letter can take some time and energy. If you are going to be sending out quite important small business letters, then it\u2019s worthwhile to invest in professional proofreading services.\nAs you begin your letter, you need to take care of the recipient appropriately. The letter should clearly state the company\u2019s position from the case. No matter the tone you are using in your letter, your writing needs to continue being succinct, clear, and simple to read. Similar to an email, a carefully drafted business letter will function as a thorough and efficient communication tool. Most business letters have been written in a simple format that is readily adapted to any supplier\u2019s requirements, and business email follows a similarly straightforward format.\nFind more information about the organization or call to discover which person it is much better to add as the recipient of your letter. Business letters should not go beyond a single page unless absolutely vital. They are more formal in writing. A business letter is an expert item of correspondence. It\u2019s easily recognizable by its structure and style. It needs to be clear and concise. In reality, a formal company letter on an attractive letterhead can make a enormous impression.\nThere are a few ways to ensure your letter is as clean as possible. Business letters may also be utilized to break current relationships, between both people and businesses. They need to be targeted to a particular individual or group, possess a very clear and concise purpose, be convincing and end with a specific objective, like a meeting date. Considering all business letters are not formal, an official company letter is written for a formal function only. A business letter is a professional object of correspondence, but nevertheless, it will not be perceived that way if you opt for a wacky font or have plenty of typos. After all, you want your writing to be perfect as soon as you are sending a business letter to your entire business, to a possible employer or to your most valuable clients. Therefore, it\u2019s extremely vital that you write a business letter using a great deal of attention and thought. The letter must also state in detail your company\u2019s experience and standing and its competitive advantage in the company. Composing a professional, polished small company letter or business email is easy when you know the fundamentals. Next, you need to be sure to deal with the recipient of the correspondence. As soon as you\u2019ve stated the total reason for writing your business letter, utilize the body to provide additional information. Letters of company are definitely the most popular and the most commonly written kinds of letters. No matter the reason, a personal business letter is on a blank bit of paper, not on letterhead.\nThank you letters might be used by companies to thank clients for a recent purchase. Anyone who must write business letters. Business letters are utilized while the author want to be professional and formal. More often than not, the business letter is going to be the very first impression that you make on someone. If you are sending the business letter on behalf of your organization, add pp under your name. You write most business letters with the intent of locating the reader to reply. Personal little business letters have been listed communication between you and a business enterprise.\nTo keep a professional attachment inside the office, get accustomed to these kinds of business letters and if you ought to utilize them. Utilize the right types of speech when you compose a business letter. If you\u2019re writing a business letter as a portion of an exam, attempt to steer clear of spelling mistakes. A Business Portfolio is kind of letter which functions as a way of communication written for various industrial functions. 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Lincoln proud sponsor of upcoming Sunshine Law Training in Sarasota on October 28th\nHOT TOPICS IN THE SUNSHINE \u2013 THE BASICS AND BEYOND\nA public information session sponsored by the State and Local Government Section of the Sarasota County Bar Association, Chaired by Robert K. Lincoln\nDo you currently work for a state or local government, serve on a government board or advisory board, or represent those who do? Do you want to hear the latest news, trends and hot topics about open meetings and public records? Most important, do you want practical tips on how to spot issues and avoid violating Florida\u2019s Government in the Sunshine and Public Records Laws? Join us to learn the latest and greatest on what\u2019s new in this complex area and how to stay off the hot seat.\nOn Wednesday, October 28, Attorney Pat Gleason, special counsel for open government for Attorney General Pam Bondi, will briefly take you back to the basics and then present you with the latest information on trends and hot topics in public records and open meetings laws. You will learn how to apply public records exemptions, how to address the risks of officials attending meetings, gain current guidance on issues related to campaigns and elections, and how to spot when you need to call your attorney for advice. You will hear how the laws apply in this current fast paced world of technology, including communications by private e-mail, text message and other forms of social media. Bring your questions and get the answers you need.\nThe workshop will be held at The Francis, 1289 North Palm Avenue, Sarasota, FL beginning at 8:30 am with a continental breakfast, followed by the program from 9 \u2013 11 am. The cost is $35 per person. Advanced registration is required, and reservations can be made by visiting www.sarasotabar.com.\nThis session is made possible by the support of the following law firms: Law Office of Robert K. Lincoln, P.A. and Persson & Cohen, P.A.\nFor more information, contact Jan Jung, Executive Director at scba@sarasotabar.com.\nAugust 17, 2015: Mr. Lincoln named to the Best Lawyers in America for Litigation - Land Use and Zoning, and Land Use and Zoning Law\nRobert K. Lincoln has been selected by his peers for inclusion in the 22nd Edition of The Best Lawyers in America in the practice areas of Litigation - Land Use and Zoning, and Land Use and Zoning Law.\nBest Lawyers' lists of outstanding attorneys are compiled by conducting exhaustive peer-review surveys in which tens of thousands of leading lawyers confidentially evaluate their professional peers. If the votes for an attorney are positive enough for inclusion in Best Lawyers, that attorney must maintain those votes in subsequent polls to remain on the list for each edition. Lawyers are not permitted to pay any fee to participate in or be included on Best Lawyers lists.\nBest Lawyers is one of the oldest and most respected peer-review publications in the legal profession. A listing in Best Lawyers is widely regarded by both clients and legal professionals as a significant honor, conferred on a lawyer by his or her peers. For more than three decades, Best Lawyers lists have earned the respect of the profession, the media, and the public, as a reliable, unbiased source of legal referrals anywhere.\nAugust 10, 2015: Board's 6-0 vote allows Nokomo's Sunset Hut to reopen.\nJuly 2015: Robert K. Lincoln honored as Florida Legal Elite Attorney in Land Use Law.\nRobert K. Lincoln has been selected by Florida Trend magazine as a 2015 Florida Legal Elite attorney in the practice areas of Environmental and Land Use Law. Now in its 12th year, Florida Legal Elite presents a prestigious roster of attorneys chosen for recognition by their peers. For 2015, Mr. Lincoln is the only attorney selected for this honor from the Sarasota and Bradenton regions in the Environmental and Land Use practice areas.\nLegal Elite attorneys exemplify a standard of excellence in their profession and have garnered the respect and esteem of their colleagues. Lawyers across the state were asked to name attorneys they hold in the highest regard or would recommend to others. Ballots were independently processed and a panel further examined the top vote-getters. The final attorneys selected represent fewer than 2% of the active Florida Bar members who practice in Florida. 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Such quiet types are often not as visible within companies, but by some calculations, introverts make up half of the population. That\u2019s an awful lot of talent to exclude from executive ranks.\nIt\u2019s the numerical equivalent of excluding women \u2014 and similarly shortsighted, says Susan Cain, author of the new book Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can\u2019t Stop Talking. \u201cThere\u2019s a bias in our culture against introversion,\u201d she says. To use Betty Friedan\u2019s language from The Feminine Mystique, \u201cit\u2019s a problem in our culture that has no name\u201d \u2014 pervasive, yet seldom discussed, at least until recently.\nCertainly, introverts trying to make it in business face obstacles. As part of their hiring processes, some companies give personality tests that seem designed to weed out introverts.\nIf you survive that, you soon discover that \u201cMost of our workplaces are set up for maximum stimulation,\u201d says Cain. Some 70%, she says, are \u201copen plan\u201d offices, where people must deal with \u201cthe noise and gazes of their co-workers all day long.\u201d\nCompanies have an \u201cinordinate belief in the power of meetings and brainstorming,\u201d and they tend to promote people who make themselves visible, often by speaking up first (whether they have anything meaningful to contribute or not). As a result, \u201cmost of us, at a young age, learn how to act much more extroverted than we are.\u201d\nSee also: Why you should embrace your company\u2019s heretics\nBut this ignores that introverts have several strengths that are helpful in business.\nFor starters, being inside one\u2019s own head a lot isn\u2019t a bad thing. \u201cWe get our energy from what people refer to as our inner world,\u201d says Lisa Petrilli, a self-proclaimed introvert and CEO of C-Level Strategies, a company that works with leaders in mid-sized firms ($100 million to $1 billion). \u201cThat\u2019s very powerful. Ideas really do run businesses.\u201d Being energized by one\u2019s inner world translates into \u201cbeing able to see and create a vision for others to follow.\u201d\nSecond, while introverts don\u2019t spend a lot of time talking, they do spend a lot of time listening \u2014 not a bad skill for managing client interactions.\nThey may even be better networkers. \u201cThere\u2019s a myth that networking is all about cold-calling people and walking up to strangers at cocktail parties,\u201d says Lindsey Pollak, global spokesperson for LinkedIn (LNKD) and author of the newly re-issued book Getting from College to Career. \u201cOften the best connections are made through mutual acquaintances. Shy people tend to feel most comfortable networking with the people they know, and then ask those people for referrals to others. That\u2019s a good strategy for anyone.\u201d\nFortunately for introverts and the organizations that would like to tap their talent, technology is making it easier to be visible without shouting. \u201cWhat technology does, really, is it allows us to connect with other people in less stimulating ways,\u201d says Cain.\nEmail introductions are infinitely easier for introverts than picking up the phone, and \u201cwith the Internet, you can connect with hundreds, thousands, or millions of people without ever leaving the house.\u201d A white paper is easily shared and debated without having to fly somewhere to make a presentation.\nSee also: Dating and business: Not all that different\nOrganizations can also actively take steps to help their introverts feel comfortable. Cain suggests that companies \u201cshould think really hard about their office design\u201d and create places where \u201cpeople can have personalization and privacy\u201d without a huge conference room reservation process. \u201cYou shouldn\u2019t have to sign up to be by yourself.\u201d\nAnd even rethinking meetings can help. \u201cMake sure to give people ways to contribute that aren\u2019t just to jump into the fray.\u201d Something as simple as handing out an agenda of a meeting in advance will give introverts \u201ctime to think it through.\u201d And since introverts are often energized by such thinking, they\u2019ll probably have great ideas to contribute \u2014 if you bother to listen.", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00040.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 141, + "original_length": 7118, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.96, + "perplexity": 284.7, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "http://fortune.com/2017/04/13/stock-indexes-beat-mutual-funds/", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T03:18:07Z", + "digest": "sha1:CYKGGGPLFH45AQBAUTSJQRHFAMXH6NWI", + "length": 2947, + "nlines": 10, + "source_domain": "fortune.com", + "title": "Stocks: Over 15 Years, Fund Managers Seldom Beat the Market | Fortune", + "raw_content": "Stock-Picking Fund Managers Are Even Worse Than We Thought At Beating the Market\nBy Jeff Bukhari\nRather than hiring a stock picker to run your investment portfolio, you\u2019re probably better off just investing in market indexes.\nThat advice has been gaining a lot of traction in recent years, especially as those indexes (at least in the U.S.) have reaped big gains in a bull market that\u2019s now entering its ninth year. But data released this week underscores the idea even more forcefully.\nMore than six in 10 actively managed stock funds were outperformed by their market benchmarks in 2016, according to the S&P Indices Versus Active funds scorecard. Large-cap funds failed to keep up with the S&P 500 66% of the time, while mid- and small-cap funds were outperformed by their benchmarks 89.3% and 85.5% of the time, respectively.\nAs bad as those numbers are, they only get worse over longer timelines. The overwhelming majority of all domestic funds were outperformed by their benchmarks over 1-, 3-, 5-, 10-, and 15-year intervals that ended December 2016.\nOver the longest span, the numbers were particularly brutal. The S&P 500 outperformed more than 92% of large-cap funds over the last 15 years. Mid- and small-cap funds fared no better over the time period, with their benchmarks besting them 95.4% and 93.2% of the time, respectively. Overall, 82.2% of all active funds were outperformed over the 15-year period. (Over the both short and long term, actively managed bond funds were more likely to beat their benchmarks.)\nThe companies and money managers who run actively managed mutual funds\u2014and charge fees and management expenses many times higher than those for index funds\u2014have often argued that one-year returns aren\u2019t a fair snapshot of their long-term performance.\nGiven that long-term analysis is often seen as the best barometer in judging the effectiveness of a stock strategy, since it reduces the impact of volatility, the data appears to back up a growing sentiment among investors that active stock funds may not be worth the cost. Active stock funds, which buy and sell specific stocks based on the fund manager\u2019s determination of how the companies will fare, typically come with high fees, justified by the idea that the clients are paying for acute expertise. But this week\u2019s numbers reinforce the idea that active-management clients may actually just be paying someone to shuffle their investments around, and leaving cash on the table in the process.\nAs investors have started to become more aware of this notion, passive funds have begun to come in vogue. Passive funds, which follow indexes and don\u2019t try to pick specific stocks to buy and sell, attracted $504.8 billion in investments last year, which is double the level in 2007, according to Morningstar. By comparison, $340.1 billion was pulled out of active funds in 2016, which is 63% more than was withdrawn from active funds in 2008 during the financial crisis.", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00040.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 133, + "original_length": 5693, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.97, + "perplexity": 230.8, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "http://fortune.com/2017/11/13/amazon-lord-of-the-rings-series/", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T03:32:59Z", + "digest": "sha1:E3KG4GWOI73CYFMFBOGN3BRBPLYDK7YJ", + "length": 3373, + "nlines": 7, + "source_domain": "fortune.com", + "title": "Amazon Tries to Top HBO With 'Lord of the Rings' TV Series | Fortune", + "raw_content": "Amazon Aims for Its Own 'Game of Thrones' With New 'The Lord of the Rings' Series\nAmazon CEO Jeff Bezos is looking for one show to rule them all. Amazon Studios is bringing the classic The Lord of the Rings fantasy novel series to the small screen with a streaming series based on the books by J.R.R. Tolkien.\nThe e-commerce giant said on Monday that it has acquired the global television rights to The Lord of the Rings, and its entertainment studio is already committed to produce a \u201cmulti-season\u201d TV series based on the books for Amazon Prime subscribers, with the potential for an additional spin-off series. Amazon will produce the new original series in partnership with Tolkien\u2019s estate and HarperCollins, which holds the publishing rights to the books, as well as Warner Bros.\u2019s New Line Cinema, the studio that distributed the three Lord of the Rings movie adaptations that were released between 2001 and 2003.\n\u201cThe Lord of the Rings is a cultural phenomenon that has captured the imagination of generations of fans through literature and the big screen,\u201d Sharon Tal Yguado, Amazon Studios\u2019 head of scripted series, said in a statement. The company also said the series will be based in Middle Earth (the books\u2019 fictional setting), but it \u201cwill explore new storylines preceding J.R.R. Tolkien\u2019s The Fellowship of the Ring,\u201d the first novel from the trilogy of books, first published in 1954.\nAmazon has already won Oscars and Emmys for its original movies and TV shows, but the company\u2019s growing streaming film and TV studio has yet to produce a massive drama series that can match the global popularity of a show like HBO\u2019s Game of Thrones or Netflix\u2019s Stranger Things. In September, Variety reported that Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos had tasked his film and TV studio with finding and developing an original series that could match those rivals in terms of scope and broad appeal after the company scored multiple critically-acclaimed series that had otherwise failed to pull in massive audiences. (Amazon Studios is also looking for some positive news to help move on from a period of tumult that saw studio chief Roy Price forced out amid sexual harassment allegations.)\nA TV series based on The Lord of the Rings would certainly seem to fit the mold of what Bezos is after, which could be why the tech billionaire reportedly got personally involved in negotiations with Warner Bros. and Tolkien\u2019s estate before paying what\u2019s said to be a massive amount (Deadline reported the deal to be worth $250 million) to bring the series to Amazon. The book series has boasted a cult following for decades while the Oscar-winning movie trilogy grossed nearly $3 billion in worldwide movie ticket sales while paving the way for another trilogy of movies based on Tolkien\u2019s earlier work, The Hobbit.\nAssuming fans haven\u2019t grown tired of seeing Tolkien\u2019s work adapted after six movies, The Lord of the Rings TV series should benefit from a built-in following that should turn it into one of the most hotly-anticipated shows in development for television. However, with the already massive price tag for the show (the $250 million would only cover the rights, while production costs on a show like Game of Thrones run HBO as much as $15 million per episode) means that Amazon is putting a lot of pressure on the latest adaptation of Tolkien\u2019s books to resonate with fans yet again.", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00040.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 132, + "original_length": 6225, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.97, + "perplexity": 170.0, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "http://forum.1cpublishing.eu/showthread.php?s=d305b6c488db0daaf00ddeb6ef8d3ab3&p=200313", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T03:17:40Z", + "digest": "sha1:NS6LKWU6QIW6ME7AERW6EX6OVSPOCDZ3", + "length": 129, + "nlines": 2, + "source_domain": "forum.1cpublishing.eu", + "title": "New Screenshots from Igromir 2010 - Official 1C Company forum", + "raw_content": "Check 9 new screenshots directly from Russian game exhibition Igromir 2010.\nhttp://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fb...d=198208578591", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00040.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 50, + "original_length": 3809, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.65, + "perplexity": 259.9, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "http://forum.unicron.com/viewtopic.php?f=29&t=6158", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T04:30:47Z", + "digest": "sha1:4PWQ5IOE3QLS7N6KJCRLWU6VGK3NOBIS", + "length": 722, + "nlines": 4, + "source_domain": "forum.unicron.com", + "title": "Unicron.com: Transformers Collector Resource \u2022 View topic - Robots in Disguise (2015) ep 41 - \"Strongarm's Big Score\" [F29]", + "raw_content": "Robots in Disguise (2015) ep 41 - \"Strongarm's Big Score\"\nby Sabrblade \u00bb Sat Oct 29, 2016 4:45 pm\nToday, the 41st episode of the 2015 Transformers: Robots in Disguise cartoon has aired on Cartoon Network in the U.S. Titled \"Strongarm's Big Score\", this episode is the second of a six-episode \"season 2.5\" mini-series story arc. In this episode, Strongarm aims to prove her competence to Fixit on a special mission to a very important site in Autobot history. But whilst on this mission, Strongarm has a run in with yet another dangerous Decepticon/Mini-Con duo. What are these two after and can Strongarm stop them by herself? To find out, let's rev up and roll out!\nEpisode 41 --> http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x4tpcva", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00040.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 32, + "original_length": 3108, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.91, + "perplexity": 304.1, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "http://fossforce.com/2017/05/jono-bacon-google-home-founded-linux/", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T04:20:40Z", + "digest": "sha1:YT3L6HR6A2CR4V6R3NNO5QK4HRGWFQYG", + "length": 5713, + "nlines": 30, + "source_domain": "fossforce.com", + "title": "Jono Bacon Asked Google Home \u2018Who Founded Linux?\u2019 You Won\u2019t Believe What Happened Next! | FOSS Force", + "raw_content": "\u00ab The Spirit of Open Source\nImagine an Android Phone Without Linux Inside \u00bb\nExcuse the hyperbole, but we\u2019ve always wanted to use a click-baity sort of headline \u2014 just to see if they work. That being said, we\u2019re not going to spoil the fun. To find the answer, you\u2019re going to have to watch the video. Don\u2019t worry, however \u2014 bad things rarely happen when Linux is involved.\nWe found this short eight minute video quite by accident while searching through the FOSS Force News Wire looking for something else. In it, we find the well known open source community manager, Jono Bacon, at home, apparently alone and in his kitchen, recording himself as he plays with his newly acquired Google Home device. This surprised us, as we didn\u2019t know he actually had a home. It seemed to us he spends all of his time in his office, and we figured he lived there. We were also surprised to find him alone. A community manager, we figured, is absolutely always surrounded by his community.\nThere were a few other things we learned from watching this. For example, who would\u2019ve thought Bacon to be an Iron Maiden fan? Living in the Bay Area, and with his community minded career, we figured his taste would lean more towards the Airplane \u2014 you know, \u201cWe can be together\u201d and all that. One of us figured him to be a British Invasion type \u2014 but we\u2019re pretty sure that was the result of stereotyping. Evidently all assumptions were wrong.\nAs the device was a gift Google handed out at an OSCON dinner, sort of like swag, we know that the cynics among you are going to jump to the conclusion that this is actually something akin to an advertisement, or perhaps a product endorsement. Nah. He\u2019s just having a little fun \u2014 and maybe thanking Google for the cool gift. Remember what your mama taught you about manners.\nAnyway, the Bacon roast is over. Enjoy the video.\nTags: Google, Jono Bacon | Category: Community, Reviews, Video\n14 comments to Jono Bacon Asked Google Home \u2018Who Founded Linux?\u2019 You Won\u2019t Believe What Happened Next!\nJasonLG1979\nMy wife got one free with her new phone. To us it didn\u2019t seem that smart or useful. I set it up with a dummy email account and put it in my 8yr old son\u2019s room. He and my 4 yr old daughter get a kick out of asking it stupid questions\u2026\n@Christine, what happened to the comments made yesterday?\n@tracyanne Our server hiccuped or something, causing our theme to reset itself to its default settings. As it would take a full day or more to reconfigure the theme, we restored our DB from our most recent backup, which was made before your comment. Sorry.\nListen carefully \u2013 he was asking for the concert of Testament. Maiden is for the schoolboys compared to them\u2026\n@Christine, in the immortal words of Ned Kelly \u201cSuch is life\u201d\nYeah,\u2026.no. No thanks. I mean its cool and everything, but because I don\u2019t know who (or what) is listening on the other end of that thing when I\u2019m not talking to it?\u2026.then I don\u2019t want it in my house. I dunno, maybe I\u2019m just old fashioned, but it seems there\u2019s this incessant \u201cpush\u201d to connect every part of our lives, and I for one don\u2019t think that\u2019s a good idea\u2026.if you\u2019ve never read \u201c1984\u201d by George Orwell, you should stop what you\u2019re doing, go out and buy the book, or download it to your Kindle and read it. Things are headed in that direction, and it doesn\u2019t take a rocket scientist to see it: Moving away from ATM cards that you swipe to the \u201cchip\u201d / so called \u201cbiometric identification devices\u201d that will allow you to go to the doctor, or make reservations, or flight plans, then when you arrive at your destination?, they scan a \u201cchip\u201d that\u2019s just below the surface of your skin and it will tell them everything they need to know about you (does this sound like the \u201cSerial Numbers\u201d that the Jews had imprinted on their bodies in the Nazi era?) / Software on your phone that can track you / software in cars that can track you / everything in your home being \u201cconnected\u201d (to WHAT!!??) / \u201csmart\u201d light bulbs / smart TV\u2019s / smart dishwashers / smart refrigerators, to me?\u2026it seems like there\u2019s some unknown group of people who are adamant about being attached to every part of your life\u2026and I for one do not subscribe nor support that kind of thinking, so while Google Home might be a nice novelty act for when people are there, and it might add some convenience to your life by giving you up-to-the-minute news reports, it still doesn\u2019t appeal to me in the least, sorry, no \u201cOk Google\u201d in MY house!\n@Eddie G.\nAs I already posted, before the Database hiccup, It\u2019s definitely not the sort of thing we want in our home. I just hope I never have to insist that any of our friends turn the damned thing off, before we visit with them. It may ruin a good friendship.\n> I just hope I never have to insist that any of our friends turn the damned thing off, before we visit with them. It may ruin a good friendship.\nThere are ways to handle that (be sure to read the mouseover text too):\n>> Excuse the hyperbole, but we\u2019ve always wanted to use a click-baity sort of headline \u2014 just to see if they work.\n1) It worked.\n2) It won\u2019t work again because I\u2019m unsubscribing.\n@Conrad So a site you know, and evidently like and trust, decides to have a little good natured fun \u2014 and is very upfront about it \u2014 and you decide that means we\u2019ve sold out to the dark side or something? Have a sense of humor, man.\n@Mike, I\u2019ll be sure to keep that advice in mind\n@Christine, loved the click baity headline, though, as I click on every headline, I\u2019m not sure if it worked, you may need to try again\n1. Just a stupid ad.\n2. Jono is NFI about privacy and neither does this site.\nFirst and last visit.\n@NOYFB: How do you know this site has no idea about privacy if this is your first visit?", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00040.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 129, + "original_length": 10262, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.97, + "perplexity": 339.8, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "http://franciscanarchive.org.uk/1998may-heap.html", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T04:26:36Z", + "digest": "sha1:EFONANR5JMSYWHY5KSTMSRKVQ3JRWCFR", + "length": 9061, + "nlines": 13, + "source_domain": "franciscanarchive.org.uk", + "title": "Taking The Walls off the Church", + "raw_content": "Taking the Walls off the Church\nby Pat Heap\n\u2018The acceptable face of Christianity!\u2019 A compliment or an insult? The statement had been made by a young man who claimed he was an atheist, and my colleague, to whom it was made, asked the question, \u2018should we take it as a compliment or an insult?\u2019 I was in no doubt, it was a compliment, a big one. \u2018The acceptable face of Christianity\u2019 to that young man was the Christian programme on our BBC Local Radio Station, of which I am the producer. His comment came in the programme's very early days, days when we weren't always sure if we were talking to anyone very much, and certainly had little clear idea of who they were. It convinced me beyond any doubt that we were reaching beyond the church community, that we were not just \u2018preaching to the converted\u2019, and that this was a means of reaching \u2018the parts that others couldn't reach\u2019, to borrow the Heineken advert.\nSome years ago MARC Europe surveyed people's listening and viewing habits. They found that every week in Britain about eleven million people hear a religious programme on BBC Radio, almost as many watch one on BBC TV and nearly as many watch one on ITV. Even being very cautious with those figures and allowing for considerable overlap, it would suggest a weekly audience for religious programmes of at least twenty million people. Another MARC Europe census endeavoured to determine the number of people in church on an average Sunday in Britain and came up with a total of 3.7 million. Admittedly these figures are now several years old, but there is no evidence to suggest that they have changed significantly. On the assumption that the 3.7 million churchgoers are part of the twenty million viewers and listeners, that still leaves well over sixteen million people who every week listen to or watch a religious programme on radio or television, but don't go to church. Some may go occasionally or for special festivals, but the majority have left the church or have never been; to them church is irrelevant or inaccessible. But the spiritual awareness, hunger, curiosity, call it what we will, is there, and so are the ultimate questions about life and death and the meaning of things, and people are seeking the fulfilment of those needs, and answers to those questions, through the broadcast media; they are \u2018the great church of the unchurched\u2019.\nBroadcasting has been called the \u2018biggest shared experience in society today\u2019; we turn to it for information, education and entertainment; we pepper our conversations with \u2018did you see . . .?\u2019, \u2018they said . . .\u2019, \u2018it was on . . .\u2019 We listen to about twenty hours of radio a week and watch about twenty-three hours of television; we are comfortable with broadcasting, it is undemanding and non-threatening \u2013 we can always turn it off. It is that easy familiarity that enables religious programmes to attract such enormous audiences. A BBC audience survey in 1994 revealed 93 per cent of people questioned said they wanted religious programming; a result which led to renewed commitment by them to religious programming. Guidelines for local radio now make clear that all BBC stations should carry religious output as a normal part of their scheduling, and the BBC recognises in its latest review BBC Local Radio - 2000 that \u2018religious broadcasting on Sunday mornings is a big audience winner, capturing the biggest share of breakfast listening to BBC Local Radio across the week.\u2019\nInterestingly, although commercial local radio is no longer required to present religious programmes, their religious output has risen by 50 per cent in the last two years and eight out of ten commercial stations now broadcast religion. Jeff Bonsor, of the Churches Advisory Council for Local Broadcasting, believes this is because Christians are producing good programming ideas which compete on merit; when commercial stations were obliged to present religious material, it was often amateurish and of poor quality, and so readily ousted when the Broadcasting Bill removed their obligations. Now, Jeff Bonsor says, there is \u2018a willingness by many stations to tackle religion, provided it is presented in a relevant and entertaining way\u2019. \u2018Relevant\u2019 and yes, even \u2018entertaining\u2019.\nI once had the daunting task of addressing a sixth form RE class in a local boys' school on religious broadcasting and my role as a producer. Inevitably there was \u2018the back row\u2019, a few boys determined to be unimpressed. It was almost time for the bell to sound my release and we were well into a question time, when a hand on the back row shot up. The boy admitted to sometimes hearing part of my programme whilst waiting for what followed, which at that time was a John Peel music show, and with a tone which implied \u2018this will squash her!\u2019, he pronounced judgement on the programme with, \u2018It's far too entertaining to be religious!\u2019 I replied that that was brilliant and just what we wanted to achieve.\nBut what did he mean by \u2018entertaining\u2019? We are certainly not flippant, or even light-weight on our programme: much of our material is very serious, although we do occasionally indulge in frivolities; but that is not what I think this young man was referring to. What I think he meant by entertaining was the fact that, as a team on the programme, we actually enjoy what we are doing. We enjoy working together, we enjoy the process of making and broadcasting a programme, we are committed Christians enjoying sharing and communicating God, and that sense of enjoyment is caught, I think, by our listeners.\nThe team at present comprises two Roman Catholics, one Anglican and one Baptist, and with others involved on a more casual basis. We are none of us trained broadcasters or journalists; we have learnt on the job and by making mistakes; we have been fortunate to be in a radio station where successive managers have been supportive and encouraging. The interaction of our differing traditions has always been enriching and has never once led to disagreement about the nature or content of the programme. We are all totally committed to the importance and opportunity of religious broadcasting, despite the long hours, late nights and lack of remuneration.\nFor myself \u2013 and I think it is true for the others too \u2013 the greatest joy and privilege is that of hearing other people's stories, stories of faith, of what God has done and is doing in their lives, and in effect saying to our audience \u2018listen to this!\u2019 We cannot say it in so many words, but I am sure the message is loud and clear, \u2018if God can do it for them, he can do it for you\u2019.\nIt is listening to other people's stories which is the fascination of broadcasting and, perhaps, especially radio. It is being a fly on the wall of someone else's life, the curiosity of what makes other people tick, why they do what they do and what they believe. Of course, it isn't always like that; much of what we broadcast is about things that are going on locally, good causes, organisations, books, news stories and reflective pieces; and those things in themselves are part of the attraction of local radio; they are about places and people and events that are known or close to home. But it is the story of a person's journey of faith and of finding God which is the most powerful and, one even dare say, entertaining.\nMy dictionary defines \u2018entertain\u2019 as to engage the attention and occupy it agreeably. When we do that we can communicate God. Radio is a unique way of communicating, it is very personal and almost private; we tend to watch television together but listen to the radio alone. We can be occupied with other matters and still be absorbed by what we are hearing. We can take it almost anywhere and let our imaginations take wing: the pictures on radio are so much better than on television! Radio broadcasting is an invitation into people's homes: their kitchens, living rooms, bedrooms; it is a privilege and an awesome responsibility. It is not an invitation to preach, except of course in the context of a service, but it is an opportunity to get alongside someone and suggest \u2018we think out this together.\u2019 It is not for us broadcasters to tell people what to think or believe, but we can take the walls off the church; we can enable people to tell their stories; we can \u2013 as Gerald Priestland claimed that he was about \u2013 \u2018keep the rumour of God alive\u2019. I prefer the way Robert McLeish, BBC Local Radio Training Officer, put it: \u2018The gospel is a big piece of gold; our responsibility as broadcasters is to break it down into little coins and use them in everyday currency.\u2019 Where those coins go and how they are spent we cannot know, and I believe God in his wisdom does not intend us to know, though he promises that his word \u2018will not return to me empty but will accomplish what I desire and achieve the purpose for which I sent it\u2019 (Isaiah 55:11). And we as broadcasters do have the privilege of \u2018going out with joy\u2019. \u00a7\nPat Heap is Religious Programmes Producer for BBC Radio Cambridgeshire and Associate Minister at Mill Road Baptist Church in Cambridge.", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00040.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 20, + "original_length": 9654, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.98, + "perplexity": 312.9, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "http://frank.notfrank.com/photos.html", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T03:48:55Z", + "digest": "sha1:6T7DVQL73ZWJY4YPLIV3AUYKBBAVB3GQ", + "length": 23389, + "nlines": 117, + "source_domain": "frank.notfrank.com", + "title": "\"Halt or I'll Shoot!!!\"", + "raw_content": "Frank Photography\n(I'd call it \"The Photos of Frank\" but that sounds too much like it's some extended photo shoot of me. I mean pictures that I (generally) have taken.)\nI like to take pictures. I like B&W photography and have played around with developing, but never seem to have the time. Up until 2006, I shot pictures exclusively using film with my Olympus OM-1, shown above. I had, in the past, used an Olympus OM-G, but gave it away to a friend. The OM-1 was a solid, reliable camera. Eventually, I could no longer get batteries for it. It used mercury cells for the light meter, and silver cell batteries had a different voltage which would screw up the metering. I had used it long enough that I could probably guess, but with film you don't really want to have to guess at the exposures all the time.\nAfter 2006 or so, I started taking pictures with various borrowed digital cameras, from very small and portable point-and-shoots, to proper digital SLRs. I never saw anything I really liked, and it was always a compromise of cost, size, resolution, quality, and so on. Film was being sold at fewer and fewer places, and there were not many places to get it developed. All of the local camera and print stores in town went out of business, so even getting a print required mailing something or using the Internet. It was obvious that film cameras were becoming a relic of the past.\nMy niece asked me to take pictures of her wedding, which was in the summer of 2012. That served as a motivation for me to get off the fence and get a digital camera. I decided to get a Nikon D-7000, digital SLR camera. And then the Nikon factor in Thailand was destroyed by a tsunami. Six months after the flood, in March of 2013, my new camera arrived and I went on a digital photo bender.\nIt's a nice camera and the pictures it takes often come out pretty well. Probably more the camera and the situation than the photographer. But on occasion, there are cool pictures. Below are a few samples.\nThe rest of this web page is divided into three sections: People, Places, and Things.\nNote: Flying pictures (planes, airports, en route, etc.) are generally in the Flying section.\nClick on the blue circles on the map of the US below for pictures from that location. Or just scroll down for a brief description of the photo sets. Note that there are two pages of descriptions, since I've got more than one page's worth of photos online.\nNon-continuental US locations currently are Alaska, Hawaii, England, Ireland, and Peru (Nova Scotia is folded in with the Maine trip).\nI went to Watkins Glen with a friend and hiked around a bit and took pictures of the gorge and waterfalls. It was summer and parts of the gorge were shaded while others were brightly illuminated. The leaves on the trees above were bright green, and the sandstone and shale were light and dark browns. Very different from my pictures there from Fall 2004.\nI went to England for a 10-day vacation, saw lots stuff in places like Alnwick, Newcastle-Upon-Tyne, York, Cambridge, and more. There are a lot of pictures (around 600) spread across 15 sections, starting with The Arrival.\nA few pictures from a warm, sunny day in January including Ithaca Falls and broken ice on the ground.\nEven though it was mostly just a costumed game of pickup ultimate, it still counted as our annual Halloween Hat Tournament.\nPictures from the annual August Perseids meteor shower, taken from Mt. Pleasant, near the observatory.\nWe got a lot of rain in a 30-60 minute period which caused some flooding at my apartment complex. I was lucky and am on high ground. Others, less so.\nA few pictures of highlights of the July 3rd, 2017 fireworks.\nI flew to Martha's Vineyard, off Cape Cod, to visit my sister and spend a few days on The Island. Included are some photo highlights from some hikes, some exploring of Vineyard Haven, and some wandering by the beach and water.\nAn aborted hike by Sapsucker Woods on a snowy, cold day in March (lousy Smarch weather).\nSome pictures from the Roy Park Nature Preserve on a February day during a stretch of freakishly warm weather.\nAnother entry keeping with the theme of putting photos from our local ultimate frisbee group's costume Halloween Hat Tournament.\nIt started with me flying out to San Francisco and then (foolishly) driving to Sacramento for work (no photos). Then going to the DFRWS conference in Seattle. After that, my friend Mowgli and I began our Great Pacific Northwest road trip, for a little over a week across the Pacific Northwest. It started in Seattle, then went up to Vancouver, BC, in Canada, including spending the day at the Butchart Gardens near Victoria, on Vancouver Island, BC. After that, we headed south back to the US, stopping overnight in Olympia, the capital of Washington state, and then into Portland, OR for a few days, including spending a day by the Pacific Coast near Tillamook, OR.\nI took a LOT of pictures. Around 560 are included across the six pages.\nStart with the Seattle ones and continue from there.\nI had a quit work trip to Santa Cruz. I flew into San Francisco, then drove down Highway 1, spent a day down there, then back, and home on a red-eye flight. I still had time to take a few pictures. A quick trip, but still some pretty places.\nI went to the Johnson Museum of Art at Cornell to see the installation by Matthew Schrieber called Crossbow that consists of a room filled with lasers! It was neat.\nA neighboring building in my apartment complex caught fire last night. Three fire departments responded, got it under control and put it out. I took some pictures of the building on fire and a few the next day.\nOnce again, our local ultimate frisbee group had our in-costume Halloween Hat Tournament. And I brought my camera. At some point I really should reorganize the topics on this page. But that point is not here or now.\nI went to Stavanger and Oslo, Norway for a conference and a few days of fun and being a tourist, May 17-24, 2015. I took lots of pictures. Highlights in 5 sections, including Stavanger, Downtown Oslo, a boat tour of Oslo, the Frogner Park/Vigeland Statue park, and the return home. Just under 350 pictures total. It begin here in Stavanger, Norway.\nIt was cold in February so we got a lot of ice on Cayuga Lake. I walked out on the frozen lake and took a few pictures.\nA few pictures of winter in February with some snow and ice and icicles, including frozen and snow-covered Cascadilla Falls. Ithaca in Winter is pretty though a bit cold (about 10\u00b0F).\nCascadilla Falls, Ithaca, NY\nIt was fall, past the peak leaf season, but the leaves still had some nice colors. So I went by Cascadilla Falls and the gorge trail and took some pictures.\nIthaca Falls, Ithaca, NY\nSome pictures taken by my friend Ellen of an art installation at Ithaca Falls on a Friday night, including me playing with a sort of papier-mache bird on a pole.\nJennings Pond, Danby, NY\nI wandered around Jennings Pond, just south of Ithaca with friends Rob and Stephanie. Here are a few photo highlights from it.\nI took a jaunt down to Asheville, NC with a friend. We explored the downtown area, happened to see a Mardi Gras parade, saw a concert with Marillion guitarist Steve Rothery, and drove home on the scenic and beautiful Blue Ridge Parkway.\nCayuga Lake had ice on it. So I hike out on it and took some pictures.\nI hiked around Sapsucker Woods on a snowy day in January.\nAlso, I took pictures of some ice fog on Cayuga Lake from Stewart Park when it was around 3\u00b0F out.\nI took a trip to Martha's Vineyard to visit my parents and sister.\nNext up, after Martha's Vineyard, I visited Tom and Sara in Boston and we went to Walden Pond.\nAfter Walden, I spent a couple days in Rochester, NY and saw High Falls and the Fringe Festival.\nI visited Philadelphia, PA, with my friend Stephanie, seeing some of the historic sites in the city.\nI flew out to Oshkosh, WI, to the EAA Airventure aviation festival. Photo highlihts include the flight out, airshows, airplanes, the return flight, and more.\nAntonia, Rob, and I spent the day at the Storm King Arts Center to see the wall Andy Goldsworthy had built as well as other \"arts\".\nIt snowed here (a little) on a Friday and there was some snow left on Saturday to play snow ultimate on before it melted on Sunday. A few \"action shots.\"\nI took a trip to visit my parents in Florida in January. We went to Humphris Park, which is by Casey Pass and has a nice jetty, and also went to the Venice Area Audubon Rookery and saw various birds. Here are some pictures from the trip.\nOnce again, I did my end-of-the-year midwest trip, visiting a variety of friends, along with my friend Stephanie. Some highlights include: Miscellaneous (Pam and Bill, Glow-in-the-Dark putt-putt, hanging out at the Columubs airport), the Bookloft (a cool bookstore in Columbus), Prairie Oaks Metropark (hiking around with Steve, Sue, and Buffy the Wonderdog), and New Year's Eve (and the usual Dison party with fun and games).\nTechnically, this is a \"thing\" and not a \"place\", but I'm lazy, so it goes here. This past weekend was our annual ultimate frisbee Halloween Hat Tournament. People play in costume. This year, I went as Arthur, sidekick to the Tick. I have some photo highlights of costumes and some on-field plays of the Halloween Hat Tournament.\nI went to the Apple Festival in Ithaca. Wandered around, saw all things relating to apples and the frying of things (including apples), also arts and crafts. It was quite crowded. Photo highlights of the Apple Fest 2012.\nI visited my friend Stephanie in Albany. We had fun, including wandering around town, and takinga tour of the Capitol building. Photo highlights of our wanderings.\nI visited my friend Jim in Cleveland. We had fun, including bowling and putt-putting with his 2 kids. Photo highlights of our adventures.\nI went to the Digital Forensic Research Workshop conference (I help organize it) which was in Washington, DC this year. One night, I walked to the National Mall and took some pictures of the Washington Monument, Lincoln Memorial, and such.\nI went to Holden Beach, North Carolina for a week with my friend Catherine and joined up by various members of her family. I took pictures of the beach house where we stayed, Holden Beach itself, highlights from a game of charades that all of use played one night, Carina practicing her juggling bear act (not bear juggling), and a few pictures from Lake Keuka taken on the drive home.\nFingerlakes Fireworks\nTwo nights of fireworks in a row. I went with some friends to see fireworks at Myers Point in Lansing, just a bit up the road from Ithaca on July 1, 2012. That was the first time I've taken pictures of fireworks. Got some decent shots. And the next day, July 2, 2012, the city of Ithaca had a fireworks display at Stewart Park. Again, more pictures.\nI went with some friends to a few places on the Finger Lakes Cheese Trail to sample cheeses and tour the dairies. And I took some pictures.\nUltimate Frisbee Hat Tournament\nWe had a \"hat tournament\" for our ultimate frisbee group, though the low turnout only provided enough for 2 teams. I brought my camera and took some pictures, and Sue took some while I was playing. Here are a few highlights.\nLudlowville Falls\nAbout 7 miles north of where I live are the Ludlowville Falls, yet ANOTHER waterfall in the area. In all the time I've lived in this area, I had never been there, although I had seen them from the area a bunch of times. I went there Sunday May 13, 2012, saw the falls, a rainbow, some fish, and more. And I took pictures. So another test of the image gallery. This is about as fast as I've ever been able to put up pictures, captions, and the like.\nI went camping in Shenandoah National Park in Virginia from Friday May 4 - Sunday May 6, 2012 with my friend Deepak. Once again, we faced weather challenges, like rain and fog, but we also got some good hiking in and took pictures of meadows and waterfalls. And, I also wrote a new \"image gallery\" program to make it easier for me to get images online.\nI went to Ireland at the end of October 2011. I was in Dublin for a conference, but then took a few days off to explore the city as well as go to Galway on the east side of the island. I took a bunch of pictures of lots of stuff. Start here at Part I to begin with the arrival and goes from there (and there is a table of contents that provides links to the other 7 parts). (there's a table of contents at the top, to skip around after that). Around 500 photos total, spread across 8 parts (parts range from 30 - 100 pictures).\nI went to Alaska my friend Stephanie in June 2011. We had adventures in Fairbanks, Anchorage, and variety of other places. I took quite a few pictures. There are 15 sub-pages here. Might as well start at Part I (there's a table of contents at the top, to skip around after that). Around 580 photos total, spread across 15 parts (parts range from 20 - 70 pictures).\nI went to a conference in Portland, OR in August 2010, and then spent some vacation time in Portland, Seattle, and vicinity. 6 sections, including Seattle and Vicinity (35 pictures), Downtown Porland (15 pictures), Japanese and Rose Gardens (40 pictures), the Oregon Coast (20 pictures), Mt. Hood (85 pictures), The Evergreen Aviation Musuem (Spruce Goose) (30 pictures), and Ann Arbor, MI (30 pictures).\nI went hiking with my friend Deepak in September 2009, at Worlds End State Park in Pennsylvania. We hiked a few trails, saw some waterfalls and scenic vistas. Almost 20 pictures.\nIn July 2009, I visited my parents on Martha's Vineyard. I took a few pictures of The Lagoon Pond that's just beyond our back yard. About 20 pictures.\nI went to a conference in Berkeley in May 2009. I took some time off and drove across the Golden Gate Bridge (65 pictures), and explored Marin and Sonoma counties (80 pictures), Point Reyes National Seashore (50 pictures), and, of course, San Francisco (100 pictures).\nIn March 2009, I went to Sarasota and Key West, Florida, and took various pictures while down there of parks, bridges, birds, flowers, water, food, and other things.\nPart 2 of the photo archive covers locations from 1998-2008 and includes Columbus, Oh, Washington, DC, Ithaca, NY, Ricketts Glen, PA, Boston, MA, Madison, WI, Flagstaff and Phoenix, AZ, San Francisco and San Diego, CA, , Seattle, WA, Maine, Hawaii, Nova Scotia, Canada, England and Peru. Check it out.\nMoof and Frank, 1983\nMoof just sent me this picture that was taken when we were at band camp in 1983. He got it through that strange \"book of faces\" thing I keep hearing about, from someone that went to high school with us, a year behind us (Hi, Rhoda!). I'm wearing our yellow class t-shirt (listed all the names of our graduates) and have a lot more hair. Moof is in shorts and is thin. Though as he had said, I do look rather \"schlumpy.\" Yes, my fashion sense is about the same as it was almost 30 years ago.\nAn old picture, but a fun one. A friend and co-worker from OSU, Tom Fine, circa 1993, did his best impression of himself in the future (yes, I'm a cruel bastard, but only because he's a friend...). Speaking of that, I have to dig up a picture of his Halloween costume... This was taken in my office in Bolz Hall at Ohio State (before we moved to the new building).\n[Update] In August of 2004, I visited Tom, his wife Sara, and their 3 year old son Zachary. Here are a few pictures. One of me, Zachary, and Tom on the subway in Boston (they have a subway in Boston?). Another of me and Zachary in a park along the (Charles?) River by Harvard (the caption was too good for me to delete). One of me and Sara at the Hanscom Airport in front of the plane I flew in on. Note that Sara is wearing a \"Flying Karamazov Brothers\" t-shirt. We all saw the show (and I have a similar shirt, just like the one I had 25 years earlier(!!)). The Flying Karamazov Brothers are a group of jugglers. Very talented and funny (though they are neither Russian nor brothers). Tom and I used to juggle \"back in the day\" at OSU. Two shots of us seeing if we could remember the old ways. Note the koosh-balls in mid-air in these \"action shots.\"\nAnd after many, many, many years, Tom and Sara actually successfully visited me in Ithaca in August of 2014. Here are some pictures I took from their visit, and some pictures Sara took.\nI went to a showing of Casa Blanca put on by the history department, Fall 2001. Period attire was encouraged. My friend, Leigh Anne, who was the classes TA, her advisor, the professor of the course, his wife, and I were the only ones to dress up. Still, it was fun. I'd just like to point out that in the picture, my cigarette is merely rolled up paper. I didn't want them to get money for such a prop. And it's hard to put a costume together with almost no preparation (this was due to laziness, not short notice).\nI was in Detroit in March, 2002, and had dinner with my former college roommate Matt the Dufus. His wife took a picture of us professing our love of the world (in a punk rock sort of way).\nUMich Friends\nHere's a shot of a group of us in Ann Arbor for Karen Mirisola's wedding in June, 2002. Actually, it was Northville, MI, the reception was in Ann Arbor. The majority of people in the picture attended the University of Michigan together, \"back in the day.\" Actually, there were four pictures taken, all of which had some problem with them. But through the magic of photoshop, I could extract one good one.\nFrom left to right, back to front, the players are: Michelle and Jim Kaplan, Frank (me); Kevin and Gwen Berg-Hartnett (Kevin's holding Matthew), Kendy and Keith Markman, Stacey Farb, Mary Arnold, Holly ???, and Susan Potoroka. Photo taken by Paul Arnold.\nSadly (perhaps?) I was obscurred in all shots, so not even Photoshop could salvage that. Just a moment...just a moment...perhaps I spoke too soon. (Actually, to me the addition isn't as frightening as the fact that it's so easy to eliminate someone from a photo. My apologies to Matthew.)\nNeel Jain came to Cornell to recruit for the Evil Empire. His departure from Ithaca heralded my arrival. His wife took two shots from his hotel room in The Statler (photo1 and photo2). The pictures are somewhat big (600K).\nDison New Year's\nI've attended a number of New Year's Eve parties at Catherine and Cabot's place. Anna, a former student of Cath's, often has some festivities at her place. Here's a picture of the group at Anna's place in January 2004 plus a who's who. And a shot from December of 2005 of me and Carina \"on the steps, talking about life,\" at Cath and Cabot's house.\nMy sister came to Ithaca to visit me in April 2006! Over 10 years in the making! About 45 pictures of her, her friend Tom, and me at Sunset Park, the Cornell Plantations and the Johnson Art Museum.\nFrank and George\nI didn't take this one, but it's a cute shot. I was visiting Jim and Michelle Kaplan in Cleveland in June 2004, and was holding their son George who was a little over a year old. He was pretty big (>30 lbs). Oddly, there's nothing particularly twisted about this picture. Karen (Mirisola) Wiarda can be seen doing the dishes in the background.\nDFRWS'04 Rodeo\nAt the 2004 Digital Forensic Research Workshop (DFRWS04) in Baltimore, MD, in August I participated in the \"forensic rodeo.\" Here's a picture of our team (going from right to left, Golden Richard, me, Pete Ware, and his son Bill (you know, like father, like son)). Golden, Pete, and I attended grad school together at Ohio State.\nI suppose I should mention that we came in second (out of two) to the other team, that had Eoghan Casey, Brian Carrier, and Kulesh Shanmugasundaram on it. While they're all cool guys, last year (2003) we lost to them because of a hocky question. A hockey question! This year, the evidence disks were improperly imaged when they were given to the teams, so most of the questions could not be answered and they were declared the winner because well...because. We pretty much discovered the same information, but they presented a bit more. And I think we clearly had the advantage of having a cute kid on our team. I suppose there's always next year.\nOh, and by the way, I'm not bitter!\nUmich Friends in Ann Arbor\nIn June 2005, a bunch of us that attended the University of Michigan for undergrad got together at Keith and Kendy's place in Columbus, OH. This is similar to the group that attended Karen's Wedding but this time no photoshop tricks. Here's a picture of the group, and here's a map in case you want to know who's who.\nPictures from my dad's birthday in Florida. We had a small gathering of people to celebrate.\nTania vs. Gasdoor\nAround December of 2000, I loaned Tania my car. She had never heard of a gas door release latch before. She has the strength of 20. Hilarity and structural damage ensued.\nN.O. Food Fest\nI was in New Oreleans in June of 2005, and had a food fest with my friend Golden and some others. It didn't suck.\nHere's a quick shot of some porcini mushroom soup I made (February 2008). It was pretty good.\nThe History of Human Imagination exhibit on tour from the Walker Library was in the Kroch Library at Cornell. It had a Sputnik, and Enigma, Canterbury Tales, an Eye of Sauron and more.\nThe annual Rubber Ducky Race was held where a few thousand rubber ducks are dropped over the Cascadilla Falls and float, er, I mean race, downstream to the finish line. It's a fundraiser (for 4-H maybe?) and was a nice Sunday afternoon for it.\nStreets Alive Fest\nPictures from the multi-block party in Ithaca called Streets Alive which involves blocking off Cayuga Street for several blocks and having people wander about. It was a beautiful day for it, and people were walking and biking in the street, playing volleyball, juggling, and playing instruments at a park. Also, a friend of mine, Sue, had a cook out later that day. Photo highlights from both.\nI took some pictures from the backyard of the house of some friends and next to Cornell's Mt. Pleasant Observatory during the Perseid Meteor Shower. For the most part, it's pictures of stars, rather than actual meteors (practically none), though I did see them when not taking pictures.\nTaildragger Fly-in\nJack Henion hosted his annual taildragger fly-in at his place on the west side of the lake. There were a lot of people there and more than 15 planes flew in.\n(No) Aurora Borealis\nThe Northern Lights (Aurora Borealis) were supposed to be visible even down in Ithaca. So I went with a few co-workers to Cornell's Mt. Pleasant Observatory around midnight. The observatory was closed but there were 20-30 people outside, star-gazing. We didn't see any auroras, but it was a clear night and we did see some cool stars.\nFrankenFest is another name for festivities relating to my birthday. This year was my 50th birthday and I was joined by some friends for a picnic at Stewart Park at the base of Cayuga Lake. 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They bring so much joy to me eyes <3\nphilippa stanton September 25, 2014 at 8:28 PM\nMagda BarwyOgrodu September 26, 2014 at 11:51 AM\nI love your stories, I'm happy that I have you also on Instagram...", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00040.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 68, + "original_length": 3784, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.97, + "perplexity": 295.9, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "http://1812now.blogspot.com/2012/04/on-april-16-1812-william-henry-harrison.html", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T04:23:39Z", + "digest": "sha1:7LU2W6236ODAXD2CKDCC3CGWU53SJXHJ", + "length": 4560, + "nlines": 4, + "source_domain": "1812now.blogspot.com", + "title": "1812now: April 16 1812: Harrison's General Orders", + "raw_content": "On April 16 1812, William Henry Harrison, Territorial Governor of Indiana, issues \"General Orders for the Indiana Militia\". He writes that war with the native tribes is now inevitable, and therefore all military units should take immediate measures to prepare. Harrison recommends that citizens in and around Knox County should build blocked houses or picketed forts. The General Orders are reproduced below:\nAs the late murders upon the frontiers of this and the neighboring Territories leave us little to hope of our being able to avoid a war with the neighboring tribes of Indians, the commander-in-chief directs that the colonels and other commandants of corps should take immediate measures to put their commands in the best possible state for active service.The field officers who command battalions will visit and critically inspect the several companies which compose them and make a report in detail of their situation, particularly noting the deficiencies in arms, ammunition and accoutrements, and such measures as the laws authorize must be immediately taken to remedy those deficiencies. The commander-in-chief informs the officers that the most prompt obedience and the most unremitting attention to their duty will be required of them \u2014 the situation of the country calls for exertion on the part of the militia, and the officers must set the example to their men. If there are amongst them any who have accepted appointments for the mere motive of gratifying their vanity by the possession of a commission to which a title is annexed, without having the ability or the inclination to encounter arduous service, in justice to their country and to their own fame they should now retire and not stand in the way of those who are more able or more willing to encounter the fatigue and danger incident to actual service in the Indian war. From the specimen which the commander-in-chief has had of their conduct in the field he has every reason to be proud of them, nor does he believe that there are better militia officers to be found anywhere than those of Indiana, but in a crisis like the present they should be all good.\nThe field officers are to see that proper places are appointed for the rendezvous of the companies upon an alarm or the appearance of danger, and will give orders relatively to the mode of their proceeding in such exigencies as the situation of the companies respectively call for. When mischief is done by the Indians in any of the settlements, they must be pursued, and the officer nearest to the spot, if the number of men under his command is not inferior to the supposed number of the enemy, is to commence it as soon as he can collect his men. If his force should be too small he is to send for aid to the next officer to him, and in the meantime take a position capable of being defended, or watch the motions of the enemy,as circumstances require. The pursuit must be conducted with vigor, and the officer commanding will be held responsible for making every exertion in his power to overtake the enemy. Upon his return, whether successful or not, a particular account of his proceedings must be transmitted to the commander-in-chief and a copy of it to the colonel of the regiment.\nThe commander-in-chief recommends it to the citizen on the frontiers of Knox county, from the Wabash eastwardly across the two branches of the White river, those on the northwest of the Wabash and those in the Driftwood settlement in Harrison, to erect blocked houses or picketed forts. It will depend upon the disposition of the Delawares whether measures of this kind will be necessary or not upon the frontiers of Clark, Jefferson, Dearborn, Franklin or Wayne. Means will be taken to ascertain this as soon as possible and the result communicated. The Indians who profess to be friendly have been warned to keep clear of the settlements, and the commander-in-chief is far from wishing that the citizens should run any risk by admitting any Indians to come amongst them whose designs are in the least equivocal. He recommends, however to those settlements which the Delawares have frequented as much forbearance as possible towards that tribe, because they have ever performed with punctuality and good faith their engagements with the United States, and as yet there is not the least reason to doubt their fidelity. It is also certain that if they should be forced to join the other tribes in war, from their intimate knowledge of the settlements upon the frontiers they would be enabled to do more mischief than any other tribe.", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00040.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 122, + "original_length": 8868, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.97, + "perplexity": 269.7, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "http://1812now.blogspot.com/2012/07/july-31-1812-napoleons-indecision.html", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T03:15:15Z", + "digest": "sha1:3UCQNJTOGU4TCY76AI4WWYAFOCEKFFC4", + "length": 8733, + "nlines": 23, + "source_domain": "1812now.blogspot.com", + "title": "1812now: July 31 1812: Napoleon's Indecision", + "raw_content": "On June 31, 1812, Napoleon is at Vitebsk. Napoleon uncharacteristically is uncertain as what to do next. On July 28, Philippe-Paul de Segur [1] has him saying: \"Here I stop! I want to collect myself, rally my forces, rest my army, and organize Poland. The campaign of 1812 is finished. The Campaign of 1813 will do the rest.\" Later, Napoleon is heard to say: \"For we shall not repeat the folly of Charles XII.\" This King of Sweden had been crushed by venturing too far into Russia in 1709. De Segur captures Napoleon's indecision, with what amount of truth or art we cannot now know, when he writes\nIn this state of perplexity he spoke in a few disconnected words to whomever he chanced to meet.\"Well, what we are going to do?... Shall we stay here? Shall we advance?... How can we stop now on the road to glory?\" Without waiting for an answer, he would move on, seeming to be looking for someone or something that could help make up his mind.\nNapoleon's dilemma is that he has been able to move his army great distances, claiming places on the map, but the Russian armies remain in tact moving deeper into the ancient provinces of Russia and still undefeated. Meanwhile, the resources needed to keep the Grande Arm\u00e9e on the field continue to become ever more difficult to find. Napoleon has to decide whether to bring matters to a conclusion by trying to defeat the Russian armies on the battlefield or basically declare victory and consolidate his gains. He will remain in Vitebsk for weeks agonizing over the decision he alone can make. In the words of the historian Adam Zamoyski:\"This proverbially decisive man seemed panicked by the very fact that he could not reach a decision.\"\nNone of this is reflected in the Tenth Bulletin De La Grande Arm\u00e9e dated July 31, 1812 which continues the propaganda war for Napoleon and is reproduced below.\nTENTH BULLETIN OF THE GRAND ARMY. Vitebsk, July 31, 1812.\nThe Emperor of Russia and the Grand Duke Constantine have quitted the army, and repaired to the capital. On the 17th, the Russian army left the entrenched camp of Drissa, and marched towards Polotzk and Vitepsk. The Russian army which was at Drissa consisted of five corps-d'armee, each of two divisions\u2014and of four divisions of cavalry. One corps d'armee, that of Prince Witgenstein, remained for the purpose of covering St. Petersburg; the four pther corps, having arrived on the 24th at Vitepsk, crossed to the left bank of the Dwina. The corps of Osterman, with a party of the cavalry . of the Guards, put itself in motion at day-break of the 25th, and marched upon Ostrovno.\nBATTLE OF OSTROVNO.\nOn the 25th of July, General Nansouty, with the divisions Bruyeres and St. Germain, and the 8th regiment of light infantry, encountered the enemy two leagues in advance of Ostrovno. The action commenced. Several charges of cavalry took place; all of them were in favour of the French. The light cavalry covered itself with gloiy. The King of Naples mentions the brigade of Pire, composed of the 8th Hussars, and 16th Chasseurs, as having distinguished itself. The Russian cavalry, of which a part belonged to the Guards, was overthrown. The batteries which were opened upon our cavalry, were carried. The Russian infantry, who advanced to support their artillery, were broken and sabred by our light cavalry.\nOn the 26th, the Viceroy marching with the division Delzon at the head of the columns, an obstinate action of the advanced-guard, of from 15 to 20,000 men took place a league beyond Ostrovno. The Russians were driven from their positions one after another. The woods were carried by the bayonet.\nThe King of Naples, and the Viceroy, mention with praise Generals Baron Delzon, Huard, and Roussel. The 8th light infantry, the 84th and 92d regiments of the line, and the 1st regiment of Croats, distinguished themselves.\nGeneral Roussell, a brave soldier, after being the whole day at the head of the battalions, was visiting the advanced posts at ten at night, when a sentinel took him for an enemy, fired upon him, and the ball shattered his skull. He ought to have died three hours sooner, on the field of battle, by the hands of the enemy.\nOn the 27th at day-break, the Viceroy made the division Broussier file off in advance. The 18th regiment of light infantry, and the brigade of light cavalry of the Baron de Pire, wheeled to the right. The division Broussier marched by the great road, and repaired a small bridge which the enemy had destroyed. At day-break, the enemy's rear-guard, consisting of 10,000 cavalry, was perceived drawn up en echellon on the plain; their right resting on the Dwina, and their left on a wood lined with infantry and artillery. General Count Broussier took post on an eminence with the 53d regiment, waiting till the whole of his division had passed the defile. Two companies of voltigeurs had marched in advance, alone; they skirted the bank of the river, advancing towards that enormous mass of cavalry, which made a forward movement, and surrounded these two hundred men, who were thought to be lost, and who ought to have been so. It happened otherwise. They concentrated themselves with the greatest coolness, and remained during a whole hour hemmed in on all sides; having brought down more than 300 horsemen of the enemy, these two companies gave the French cavalry time to debouche.\nThe division Delzon defiled on the right. The King of Naples directed the wood and the enemy's batteries to be attacked. In less than an hour all the positions of the enemy were carried; and he was driven across the plain beyond a small river which enters the Dwina below Vitepsk. The army took a position on the banks of this river, at the distance of a league from the town.\nThe enemy displayed in the plain 15,000 cavalry, and 60,000 infantry. A battle was expected next day. The Russians boasted that they wished to give battle. The Emperor spent the remainder of the night in reconnoitring the field, and in making his dispositions for next day: but at day-break the Russian army was retreating in all directions towards Smolenzk.\nThe Emperor was on an height very near the 200 voltigeurs, who alone on the plain had attacked the right of the enemy's cavalry. Struck by their fine conduct, he sent to inquire what corps they belonged to. They answered, \" To the 9th; and three-fourths of us are lads of Paris\" \"Tell them,\" said the Emperor, \" that they are brave fellows: they all deserve the cross!\"\nThe fruits of the three actions of Ostrovno are 10 pieces of cannon of Russian manufacture taken, the cannoneers sabred; 20 caissons of ammunition; 1500 prisoners; 5 or 6000 Russians killed or wounded. Our loss amounts to 200 killed, 900 wounded, and about 50 prisoners.\nThe King of Naples bestows particular praise on Generals Bruyeres, Pire, and Ornano, and on Colonel Radzivill, commandant of the 9th Polish lancers, an officer of singular intrepidity.\nThe red hussars of the Russian guard have been cut up. They lost 400 men, many of whom are prisoners. The Russians had three generals killed or wounded. A considerable number of colonels and superior officers of their army remained on the field of battle.\nOn the 28th at day-break, we entered Vitepsk, a town of 30,000 inhabitants. It has 20 convents. We have found in it some magazines, particularly one of salt, valued at 15,000,000.\nWhile the army was marching on Vitepsk, the Prince of Eckmuhl was attacked at Mohiloff.\nBragation passed the Berezina at Bobruisk, and marched upon Novoi-bickoff. At daybreak on the 23d, 3000 Cossacks attacked the 3d regiment of chasseurs, and took 100 of them, among whom were the colonel and four officers, all wounded. The generate was beat; an action commenced. The Russian General Sieverse, with two select divisions, began the attack. From eight in the morning till five in the afternoon, the firing was kept up on a strip of wood, and at a bridge which the Russians wished to force. At five, the Prince of Eckmuhl caused three chosen battalions to advance, put himself at their head, overthrew the Russians, carried their positions, and pursued them for a league. The loss of the Russians is estimated at 3000 killed and wounded, and 1100 prisoners. We lost 700 killed and wounded. Bragation repulsed, retired upon Bickow, where he passed the Boristhenes, to advance towards Smolenzk.\nThe battles of Mohiloff and Ostrovno have been brilliant, and honourable to our army. We never have had engaged more than the half of the force which the enemy presented, the ground not being suitable for greater developments.\n1. Defeat: Napoleon's Russian Campaign (New York Review Books Classics) by Philippe-Paul de Segur (Author), J. 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Charlie also talks about his new album, how long it takes to write a song, his love language and more with Justin!\nFiled Under: Charlie Puth, kkitm, Part-Time Justin", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00040.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 141, + "original_length": 2938, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.98, + "perplexity": 297.5, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "http://absmho.com/8572023844", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T03:34:51Z", + "digest": "sha1:IRHQ5OK6AE42IXFESCZK3TUPUNHEI62U", + "length": 3297, + "nlines": 14, + "source_domain": "absmho.com", + "title": "8572023844", + "raw_content": "Tell me the details. Every person who is alone is alone because they are afraid of others. I don't feel like going out these days. He likes strange animals, like snakes. He's lucky to be alive. \"Steffi, will you marry me?\" \"How much money do you have?\" I was on my best behavior. We should make good use of dictionaries when studying a foreign language. May I have the menu and the wine list? I don't want her to see me like this.\nWith your help, we'll catch Elisabeth. What's the plan for tomorrow? It's still a little cold in Boston.\nSome people are never content with what they have. Studying the surface features of Mars is still referred to as \"geography.\" Manjeri is good, isn't he?\nIn America 'rebate' is widely recognized, generally as an incentive where makers give back directly to consumers. Hence 50 percent of the muscle can give way to fat. I was raised right. You startled us. We started from scratch. Harmon opened a desk drawer and pulled out a flask. I know quite clearly what he thinks. Because of the victory, he became a hero.\nI'm afraid that you're in danger. You will ruin your health if you drink without measure. We seem to be trapped. Every boy and every girl was delighted.\nWe have barely enough bread for breakfast. You're a nice girl.\nErnest's room wasn't clean. I wasn't going to touch anything. I think that's already happened. Tomorrow I am going to the countryside by my car. I could never do it like you do. Maybe I just need some sleep. You shouldn't lend Angus any money. It will be sunrise soon.\nI want to be more like you. Next year is the year of the rabbit. Esperanto gives little festive hats to some of its cees, gees, aitches, jays, esses, and ues. You can see a lot of stars in the sky. The teacher pokes his nose into everything. The priest pronounced them man and wife.\nDan burst in and interrupted the conversation. You still haven't told me all your secrets.\nI think we shouldn't have gotten married. We are back in school again after the holidays are over. I grew up in a mining town. As is often the case with young people, John is mad about pop music. Then I can still have five more minutes of sleep. How can they stop us? Shane grabbed the phone out of Jerome's hand. Could I change these pounds for dollars, please?\nHe said his name was Conrad. We all abide by law to live in any society. Maybe it's about time I started learning to program.\nYou know, you are nothing to me now, Ro! That building can easily be seen from the other side of the room.\nSorry for your loss. In hotels, it's customary to install wall-to-wall carpeting. They founded a state of which they were the elites, but were eventually assimilated into the local population. I can carry you in my arms. President Jefferson did not want the trade ban to last long. You should obey the traffic rules. He is writing a letter to his brother. I'm going to stay home tonight. Just after putting away the dishes, Joan heard the doorbell ring.\nI'm afraid I have a crack in my right arm. I'm afraid I don't know what you mean. Omar was asleep half the time. Celeste came up with a plan. Ann said that he used to live in Boston. One third of the friends I grew up with are dead. Gunter built a treehouse. Samir certainly sounds content. You haven't given me any yet. Can I count on you?", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00040.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 28, + "original_length": 3463, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.98, + "perplexity": 254.9, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "http://acuteaccent.com/coming-to-an-eu-bank-near-you-sepa/", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T03:41:49Z", + "digest": "sha1:SOYZIDRQJ7D5OV3RVR5V7TQWBOZCNWPB", + "length": 2225, + "nlines": 7, + "source_domain": "acuteaccent.com", + "title": "Coming to an EU bank near you: SEPA \u2013 acuteaccent", + "raw_content": "On 1st February 2014, SEPA (Single Euro Payments Area) came into effect. SEPA is a payment-integration initiative of the European Union for the simplification of Euro payments across Europe. This in fact means the creation a borderless payment system throughout the 33 countries (SEPA countries) \u2013 these are the 28 EU members, plus Iceland, Liechtestein, Monaco, Switzerland and Norway.\nThe goal of SEPA is to make payments throughout Europe as fast, safe and efficient as they are under any current EU national payment system. SEPA enables customers to make payments (direct debits, credit transfers) to anyone located within the SEPA Zone. That means that there is no longer any distinction between national and cross-border Euro payments (within the SEPA zone). Also, both personal and business bank accounts will no longer be identified by the country-specific Base Bank Account Number (BBAN), but by an International Bank Account Number (IBAN)\nCredit cards have bank accounts numbers linked to them\nUnder the new system, transfers and payments will benefit in terms of safety and greater operational simplicity. For example, within SEPA, international transactions will require the user to provide the IBAN and the BIC/Swiftcode of the destination bank, thus removing the hassle traditionally associated with international payments.\nFinally, it\u00b4s also worth noting that SEPA is mandatory, which means that existing payment formats must be migrated eventually to SEPA formats. However, in order to prevent disruptions to payments for consumers and businesses, as well as to ensure proper migration from legacy systems to the new standard, the European Comission has allowed an additional 6-month transition period, in which payments that differ from the SEPA format could still be accepted.\nMost banks and financial institutions across the EU have communication campaigns in place to make the transition to the new system as smooth as possible for both individuals and businesses. However, it is expected that customers would need a while to acclimatise themselves to the new framework \u2013 watch this space for updates on how the full roll-out of SEPA and IBAN is progressing.\nBest animations of Juan Carlos vs. Hugo Chavez", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00040.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 48, + "original_length": 3752, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.96, + "perplexity": 227.4, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "http://adopta.agency/2015/09/01/taking-a-look-at-commercial-fisheries-data-from-national-oceanic-and-atmospheric-agency/", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T03:39:52Z", + "digest": "sha1:57UBJKFGSOAVD66CZ2XW7FAD6MDYOLGO", + "length": 2192, + "nlines": 7, + "source_domain": "adopta.agency", + "title": "Adopta Agency Taking A Look At Commercial Fisheries Data From National Oceanic And Atmospheric Agency", + "raw_content": "Taking A Look At Commercial Fisheries Data From National Oceanic And Atmospheric Agency\nSomeone found me on Twitter regarding our Adopta.Agency work, and introduced me to the commercial fisheries data from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Agency (NOAA). The dataset(s) fit the profile of what I am looking to evolve with Adopta, because it is potentially extremely valuable to an industry, it is currently locked up in non-machine readable formats, but more importantly I has a domain expert who was passionate about what could be done with the data.\nWhen you land on the home page for the commercial fisheries statistics, you experience classic government \"open data\", which in reality is anything but, open. Putting it on the web for humans to read, does very little for allowing anyone to analyze, and potentially build anything on top of.\nHalf of the links take you to PDFs, which is one of the most unusable ways to get data, while the other half takes you to pretty complex forms, which allow you to query the data.\nI will always choose an HTML form, over a PDF, because I can almost always write some sort of script for parsing the data in a form. It will take some work, but eventually I should be able to programmatically pull the raw data via these forms. Most of the time, I will walk away from PDFs--they just aren't usually worth the work.\nMany IT folks will argue that publishing HTML forms, makes government data available. I have even see government agencies successful defend against FOIA requests, by stating it is available as a form. This is just irresponsible, and encourages scraping, and misuse of government resources (aka bandwidth and compute). If there was a simple download link to a zipped up file, it would be way more efficient and responsible.\nThe person who contacted me about the NOAA commercial fisheries data isn't 100% up to speed on how to do Adopta projects, and how work with Github--something we will change in a couple weeks, then we'll encourage her to take over the project. I am going to do some of the heavy lifting in writing the scrape scripts for extracting the data via the forms, and publish to a Github project I just setup--stay tuned!", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00040.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 27, + "original_length": 2647, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.95, + "perplexity": 314.8, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "http://advancingyourhealth.org/orthopedics/tag/young-athletes/", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T04:18:23Z", + "digest": "sha1:KWIWDPUWBVVQUM75BZ6XNNGP3XCEGDTK", + "length": 6208, + "nlines": 21, + "source_domain": "advancingyourhealth.org", + "title": "young athletes Archives - Orthopedics, Spine & Sports Medicine Orthopedics, Spine & Sports Medicine", + "raw_content": "Posts Tagged \u2018young athletes\u2019\nSeptember 13th, 2016 By Emory Orthopaedics & Spine Center\nJoin us on Wednesday, Sept. 28 from noon \u2013 1p.m. EST for an online live chat with Dr. John Xerogeanes, Chief of Sports Medicine at Emory Orthopaedics & Spine Center and head team physician for Georgia Tech. Dr. X (as he\u2019s known in the community) will take questions regarding how to reduce the risk of injury, specific exercises for strengthening the knee, warning signs, what to do following an ACL injury, and the rehabilitation process. Sign up for this live chat below.\nDr. Xerogeanes is Chief of Sports Medicine at the Emory Orthopaedic & Spine Center. Known as Dr. \u201cX\u201d by his staff and patients, he is an Associate Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery at Emory University as well as an Adjunct Professor at Georgia State and Mercer University. Dr. X is Head Orthopaedist and Team Physician for Georgia Tech, Emory University, Agnes Scott College and the Atlanta Dream of the WNBA. He specializes in ACL and ACL revision surgery performing over 200 of these operations each year. He is board certified in orthopaedic surgery and has his sub-specialty certification in orthopaedic sports medicine.\nHow Much is Too Much in a Youth Sport?\nJuly 7th, 2016 By Emory Sports Medicine\nIs your child athlete playing only one youth sport, and if so, is he or she doing it year-round, with little or no monitoring about over using certain muscles?\nResearch shows this kind of sports specialization is harming your younger children, and greatly outweighs any benefit he or she might derive from laser-like focus on one sport.\nThe Emory Sports Medicine Center, a leader in advanced treatments for patients with orthopaedic and sports-related injuries, has been on the cutting edge of that research.\nDr. Neeru Jayanthi, M.D., of the Emory Sports Medicine Center, is a leading expert on youth sports health and is an ardent believer in kids playing organized sports. However, he believes even stronger in a simpler plan: Kids need to play. Period. Not play soccer, per se. Or baseball. Or even tennis, which is his specialty. But just play and play multiple sports.\nWhile Jayanthi, is not at all urging parents to steer their children away from organized teams sports, his nationally acclaimed study on youth sport injuries show playing is more important to the child than playing a sport, and that once sports become the primary way a child plays, parents should monitor the number of hours the child spends on any one sport.\n\u201cWith travel leagues and kid playing one sport 10 to 12 months a year, we\u2019re seeing more over-use injuries than we would have a generation ago,\u201d Dr. Jayanthi said. \u201cEveryone wants the best for their child, but the best is never to let them spend hours a day, every day, doing the same activity.\u201d\nIn America, particularly in warmer weather states, baseball is probably where there is more specialization, year-round focus and over-use injuries. It has gotten so bad, particularly with pitchers, that USA Baseball and Major League Baseball have teamed up to promote an educational program that urges restraint.\n\u201cWhen baseball is telling young baseball players to take it easy, it helps validate what we are saying,\u201d Dr. Jayanthi said.\nDr. Jayanthi and colleagues researched 1,200 young athletes and found that kids should not spend more hours per week than his or her age playing sports. Younger children are developmentally immature and are less able to tolerate physical stress. Also, the study suggests that kids should not spend more than twice as much time playing organized sports as they do in unorganized free play.\n\u201cI love organized sports and love to see athlete\u2019s at their best,\u201d he said. \u201cAnd that takes a lot of hard work and dedication. I get that. I believe in it. But the two concepts are not mutually exclusive to each other. In fact, I believe they go hand in hand. Want what\u2019s best for your child, both developmentally and athletically? Follow these guidelines.\u201d\nDr. Jayanthi leads Emory\u2019s Tennis Medicine program and is considered one of the country\u2019s leading experts on youth sports health, injuries, and sports training patterns, as well as an international leader in tennis medicine. He is currently the President of the International Society for Tennis Medicine and Science (STMS) and a certified USPTA teaching professional.\nAt the Emory Sports Medicine Center, our experts specialize in advanced procedures to treat and repair a wide range of sports related injuries. Recently recognized as one of the nation\u2019s TOP 50 orthopaedics programs, Emory Orthopaedics, Sports and Spine has 6 convenient locations across metro Atlanta, as well as 6 physical therapy locations. To make an appointment to see one of our Emory sports medicine specialists, please call 404-778-3350 or complete our online appointment request form.\nAbout Dr. Jayanthi\nDr. Jayanthi leads Emory\u2019s Tennis Medicine program and is considered one of the country\u2019s leading experts on youth sports health, injuries, and sports training patterns, as well as an international leader in tennis medicine. He is currently the President of the International Society for Tennis Medicine and Science (STMS) and a certified USPTA teaching professional. He has also been a volunteer ATP (Association of Tennis Professionals) physician for 15 years, serves as a medical advisor for the WTA (Woman\u2019s Tennis Association) Player Development Panel, and is on the commission for the International Tennis Performance Association (ITPA). 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He previously was the medical director of primary care sports medicine at Loyola University Chicago for 12 years where he was voted a \u201cTop Doctor\u201d in the Chicagoland Suburbs prior to being recruited to Emory.\nMay 21st, 2012 By Emory Sports Medicine", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00040.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 139, + "original_length": 25656, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.96, + "perplexity": 260.9, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "http://afterumbrage.org.uk/we-need-to-stop-taking-carers-for-granted/", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T03:47:52Z", + "digest": "sha1:DBLFYLNR2RLLZDWZYGNL4CTISB6B2V5R", + "length": 2288, + "nlines": 7, + "source_domain": "afterumbrage.org.uk", + "title": "\u00bb \u201cWe need to stop taking carers for granted\u201d says The Yorkshire Post. And we agree!", + "raw_content": "A recent article in The Yorkshire Post reminded us why we do what we do: provide care for carers.\nIn the UK alone there are 1.3 million unpaid carers. And for many of those, caring is a full time job. It absorbs energy, time and money, and causes bucket loads of psychological and physical stress. The article mentioned findings from the Office of National Statistics which showed that many carers are paying a physical, practical, economic and emotional price for doing their role. We hear about these things every day \u2013 the physical health conditions and mental stress that is often brought on by caring for a loved one.\nThe article also highlighted the lack of financial or official support available for carers:\n\u201cThough many carers are helped by supportive families and sympathetic employers, it can be a lonely existence and a deeply frustrating one as they deal with never-ending bureaucracy as well as the strain of caring for loved ones. For too long, politicians have put off answering this question: who cares for the carers? It will deeply remiss of them if they continue to do so.\u201d\nThe cost of a care home can be huge, varying from \u00a3800 upwards per week, but a home carer can negate the need for this entirely (albeit at a great personal cost to those who are doing the caring!). The long and short of it? Carers are doing a HUGELY valuable job and it\u2019s time this effort was recognised more widely.\nAt After Umbrage, we like to think that we\u2019re doing our bit to help carers. We certainly recognise what an incredible job carers do! After all, the experience of caring for parents was what lead founder Tara to set up After Umbrage, having discovered first hand the lack of support available. That\u2019s why we work every day to spread the word and reach more carers who need a little time out! By offering carers a short break at Kingham Cottage, it allows them time to focus on themselves, and go back to caring refreshed and revitalised.\nIf you know a carer in need of a break, please refer them to us. Or if you know a hospice through which we could reach more carers, please let us know! Or perhaps you could just share our charity with your contacts. 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The Reservists are assigned to C-130 and airlift control element units at Dobbins ARB, Ga., Niagara Falls ARS, N.Y., Minneapolis ARS, Minn., and Peterson AFB, Colo., according to a Dobbins release. \u201cThis is an invaluable training opportunity for the Air Force Reserve,\u201d said CMSgt. Scott Yoder, 700th Airlift Squadron superintendent. \u201cNot only does it allow us to train in a combined and joint setting, but it also provides us with a realistic venue to implement lessons learned from recent operations overseas.\u201d The two-week exercise kicked off on May 24 and will run through June 7. Participants will train in a \u201cwide variety of missions sets, [including] transport, electronic warfare, air defense, and airborne early warning control assets,\u201d states the release. 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Leslie was drafted by the Clippers in 2011 however was released within the fall of 2012. Leslie played within the D-League before signing with Utah.\nThe all-tournament groups on the two most up-to-date FIBA World Championships , held in 2002 in Indianapolis and 2006 in Japan, display the globalization of the game equally dramatically. Only one member of both team was American, namely Carmelo Anthony in 2006. The 2002 team featured Nowitzki, Ginobili, Yao, Peja Stojakovic of Yugoslavia (now of Serbia ), and Pero Cameron of New Zealand. Ginobili also made the 2006 staff; the other members have been Anthony, Gasol, his Spanish teammate Jorge Garbajosa and Theodoros Papaloukas of Greece The solely players on either staff to never have joined the NBA are Cameron and Papaloukas. 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We are continuously looking for outstanding students who are eager to do their Master thesis on a challenging project at the intersection of Machine Learning and Control.\nThe ability to learn will be a key requirement for future robotic and other intelligent systems, which are envisioned to act autonomously in complex and changing environments. A core research area in the Intelligent Control Systems Group (ICS) is learning for control. We combine techniques from machine learning, control theory, and optimization to develop intelligent control algorithms for the next generation of autonomous systems. In particular, we focus on the special requirements that real-time control systems pose for learning algorithms, such as guarantees for stability, robustness, and efficient computation.\nWhile rigorous theory and mathematical analysis form the basis of our research, we validate our methods in experiments on physical robots. We have a number of state-of-the-art robotic platforms to study various aspects of autonomous systems.\nWe are continuously looking for outstanding students who are eager to do their Master thesis on a challenging research project in a highly dynamic research environment. We have a variety of possible projects available, ranging from very theoretical to practical, and covering different aspects of learning control and robotics. 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The project\u2019s goal is to create cohesiveness, a sense of belonging and positive momentum in a fractured, angry and dislocated world.\nThe hamsa, as an iconographic symbol, belongs to both Muslim and Jewish cultures. The belief that the hamsa can protect, has magical powers, and is a source of blessing has persisted for hundreds of years.\nGraphically, our hands are all the same, but individually, each of us has a unique hand, full of singular differences, unlike anyone else\u2019s. The mere act of adding the individual to the collective, of documenting the journey from the particular to the universal, is both healing and redemptive in a world that seems hyper-focused on separating and categorizing.\nOnemillionhamsas seeks to create and maintain an archive of mankind\u2019s very human hamsas. The project\u2019s goal is to establish a free visual library which is enriched and added to hourly by people all over the world. By photographing and submitting one\u2019s own hand, each person is confirming their place in the grand, human picture. This act is life affirming and rejects notions of separation reinforced by geography, politics, race, gender and socioeconomics.", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00040.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 30, + "original_length": 1704, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.92, + "perplexity": 198.2, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "http://appletreesandpumpkinseeds.com/?cat=3&paged=2", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T03:17:25Z", + "digest": "sha1:WYAMR43N2GFESKOFAPW5PYMPQUQRC2F3", + "length": 19078, + "nlines": 50, + "source_domain": "appletreesandpumpkinseeds.com", + "title": "Faith | Apple Trees and Pumpkin Seeds | Page 2", + "raw_content": "Inspiring People: Nate Saint\n\u201cInspiring People\u201d is a new series I\u201dm starting that tells the stories of real people who have inspired me, and I hope their stories inspire you too! I\u2019ve decided to start with Nate Saint.\nNate Saint was born in 1923. He grew up in a Christian home and from an early age knew that he wanted to serve the Lord in his work. Nate took his first flight in an airplane at the age of seven and became fascinated with flying. During World War II, Nate signed up for the US Army, hoping to become a commercial pilot but was not allowed to fly due to a leg infection that was bothering him. While he was in the army, Nate noticed the need for missionary pilots. He decided to join MAF (Mission Aviation Fellowship) with his wife Marjorie. They helped open a MAF base in Shell Mera, Ecuador. Nate\u2019s mission was to show the love of God to the Aucas (a tribe in Ecuador who attacked and killed most outsiders they came in contact with). He and his MAF team first tried flying over the Auca village dropping gifts to be friendly, but after awhile they knew it was time to talk with the Aucas. Nate and his teammates Jim, Ed, Peter, and Roger flew a plane to a place near the Auca village and set up camp. A few tentative Aucas showed up and seemed to be friendly, but they soon left. Nate and his team were excited to be finally making contact with the Aucas, but, only a few days later, the missionaries were attacked. All five missionaries were killed. After Nate died, his family continued to be evangelists and encourage the Aucas. Many in the village became Christians, including some of those who had attacked the missionaries.\nI find this story inspiring because Nate, Jim, Ed, Peter, and Roger did not give up. They gave their lives serving the Lord. They may have been discouraged or frustrated, but they kept going and spread the Word of God where others were afraid to. They did not live to see the outcome of their work, but Nate\u2019s sister Rachel did. She continued to be a missionary to the Aucas and saw many come to Christ. Nate\u2019s love for the Lord and devotion to Him motivates me to glorify God in everything I do, even the little things. Nate had the courage to fly to Ecuador because God was with him. He trusted that God would use him to make an impact on others. Nate not only made an impact on the Auca tribe, but his story still encourages us today.\nHow is this story inspiring to you? What can you come away with? Comment below on what other people have inspired you.\nNote: If you want to learn more about Nate Saint, I recommend this book: Nate Saint: On a Wing and a Prayer by Janet and Geoff Benge.\nThis entry was posted in Faith, Inspiring People on April 19, 2015 by Emma.\nEaster Miracles\nHappy Easter everyone! I love Easter because it is such a beautiful time of year and such a beautiful reason to celebrate! Christ our Lord has conquered death! Here is the Easter Bible passage, ESV style:\nLuke 24:1-12, 36-40 \u201cBut on the first day of the week, at early dawn, they went to the tomb, taking the spices they had prepared. And they found the stone rolled away from the tomb, but when they went in they did not find the body of the Lord Jesus. While they were perplexed about this, behold, two men stood by them in dazzling apparel. And as they were frightened and bowed their faces to the ground, the men said to them, \u2018Why do you seek the living among the dead? He is not here, but has risen. Remember how he told you, while he was still in Galilee, that the Son of Man must be delivered into the hands of sinful men and be crucified and on the third day rise? And when they remembered his words, and returning from the tomb they told these things to the eleven and all the rest. Now it was Mary Magdalene and Joanna and Mary the mother of James and the other women with them who told these things to the apostles, but these words seemed to them an idle tale, and they did not believe them. But Peter rose and ran to the tomb; stooping and looking in, he saw the linen clothes by themselves; and he went home marveling at what had happened.\u201d\n\u201cAs they were talking about these things, Jesus himself stood among them, and said to them, \u2018Peace be with you!\u2019 But they were startled and frightened and thought they saw a spirit. And he said to them, \u2018Why are you troubled, and why do doubts arise in your hearts? See my hands and feet, that it is I myself. Touch me, and see. For a spirit does not have flesh and bones as you see that I have.\u2019 And when he had said this, he showed them his hands and feet.\u201d\nWhen I was typing this out I noticed some things in the passage that I hadn\u2019t noticed before. One of them was that the disciples didn\u2019t believe what the women told them about Jesus having risen. You would think that someone wouldn\u2019t joke about something as important as Jesus rising, wouldn\u2019t you? Well, they weren\u2019t! The disciples were Jesus\u2019 followers, the ones who helped spread the word about Him and believed Him. They should probably have known by then that Jesus is capable of rising from the dead, and more! I think this accurately describes what most Christians are like today. We say we believe in Jesus, but we can\u2019t even begin to imagine what He can do! Think about the Easter passage for a minute. Jesus was dead, and we know that He was fully dead, like all the way dead, because He didn\u2019t rise until three days after. If it had happened on the same day He had died, then people might question whether He was really dead and had just come out of unconsciousness or something. But no, Jesus was fully dead, and He came back to life after dying. That\u2019s impossible. At least it is for an ordinary human. But Jesus wasn\u2019t an ordinary human. He was 100% human and 100% God. Just being that alone is beyond anything I could have imagined. Christ rose from the dead. He is alive. We are going to see Him one day. That is a miracle.\nThis entry was posted in Faith on April 4, 2015 by Emma.\nDealing With: Disappointment\nDisappointment. The dictionary definition is, \u201cthe feeling of sadness or displeasure caused by the nonfulfillment of one\u2019s hopes or expectations.\u201d Disappointment can come in many shapes and sizes, whether it\u2019s not making the track team you really wanted to be on, or simply not getting what you want. When we\u2019re little, like toddler age, we tend to deal with disappointment by throwing a temper tantrum. A kid doesn\u2019t get the piece of candy from the birthday pi\u00f1ata that he wanted, so he flips out. We\u2019ve all seen it, right? Now that you\u2019re past that stage, how do you deal with disappointment? It could be that you get super upset and sulk and hole up in you room all day. It could also be that you blame others for what you didn\u2019t get, whether it be the teacher who didn\u2019t give you the part you wanted in the school play, or it could be a grudge against the person who did get the part. Jeremiah 29:11 says, \u201cFor I know the plans I have for you,\u201d declares the Lord, \u201cplans to prosper you and not harm you, plans to give you hope and a future.\u201d (NIV) God has mapped out a plan for your life, which may not be the plans you yourself have. Knowing this, we will still have disappointment in our lives. Here are a few ways to deal with disappointment:\n1. Get a different perspective. You\u2019re not fast enough for the track team, but at least you CAN run. You don\u2019t get into your first choice college, but at least you have enough money to GO to college. Think of it in the bigger picture. If you have a goal, work hard to reach it. If you don\u2019t make it, keep going and make a new goal for yourself.\n2. Pray about it. Ask God for perseverance and His guidance in your life. If something disappoints you, don\u2019t shut Him off; pray more!\n3. Read what the Bible has to say. Here are a few verses to look up in your Bible: Romans 8:28, Philippians 4:6-7, Psalms 27:14\nDisappointment can be a hard thing to overcome, but we can know that the Lord is watching over us! Lift your eyes to the Lord and let all your worries, disappointment and sin rest on Him. God has a future for you, even though it might not be the one you\u2019re expecting.\nDid you like this post? Comment below about other \u201cDealing With\u201d posts you want me to write about!\nThis entry was posted in Faith, Tips and Tricks on March 29, 2015 by Emma.\nDifferences Part 2: Those in Other Countries\nLast week we talked about how we should love those around us even if they are different (especially if they\u2019re different, for that matter!). This week we are talking about differences between us and those in other countries. People in many countries experience living conditions that are drastically different than what we are used to. In fact, over 3 billion people in the world live in poverty today. This means a lot of people don\u2019t have a nice, warm, furnished house to live in or get to go to school and learn. It is dangerous to live in some places of the world, and some places don\u2019t have clean water.\nSometimes we get caught up in things we want that \u201ceveryone else has\u201d, or we complain that we are hungry when we always have enough food to eat. This week when you find yourself in one of these situations, take a step back and look at the big picture. There are people in this world who live in mud huts and would be overjoyed to have nice clothes, let alone an iPhone. There are children who consider it lucky to get one meal a day, let alone three. It is so important to be grateful for what we have.\nLike we talked about last week, all people are made in the image of God and He loves them, no matter where they live or what their social status is. God wants us to love and serve our neighbors, whether it is our literal next door neighbors, or our neighbors in other countries. There are lots of ways we can love and support people in poverty or without an education around the world, though sometimes we don\u2019t know how. Here are a few ways to get you started:\nPray. Pray for others. Pray a lot. Pray for anything. Think of a certain country or city in the world and pray for the people in it. Right now.\nSupport a charity or ministry. Give to those in need! You don\u2019t have to give a bazillion dollars, just whatever works for you. Believe me, anything or any amount you give will be greatly appreciated. You can give meals, clothes, money, school supplies, etc. depending on the organization.\nTake a missions trip. Go somewhere with your church (it doesn\u2019t have to be far away) and show God\u2019s love to others. It is so rewarding to help others and see God working in their lives.\nEveryone is different, and that is exactly how God created humans to be. Differences make us who we are. As we wrap up on this topic, think about what you want to come away with and what you are going to apply to your own life. It might seem hard at first, but we all have the opportunity to make the world better for somebody else. How are you going to do this?\nThis entry was posted in Faith on March 15, 2015 by Emma.\nDifferences Part 1: Those Around Us\n\u201cIt is only when you accept how different you all are, that you will be able to see how much the same you all are. Don\u2019t expect anybody to be the same as you, then you will see that you are in many ways the same as everybody.\u201d\n\u2013 C. JoyBell C., Goodreads Author\nDid you read the quote above? So true, right? This quote sets the tone for this whole post: We are different, but we have lots of similarities, too. Let\u2019s start by talking about differences. Everyone has different interests, ways of thinking, beliefs, basically everything. It\u2019s the way God made us human beings. The world would be so boring if everyone was exactly the same. I\u2019m glad we were all made differently. We can learn so many different things and do so much!\nAs you probably have noticed, the world as we know it is not all sunshine and roses. Many things today have gone wrong due to differences. In American history: wars, segregation, slavery, different religious beliefs, etc. In present day: bullying, wars (again), political issues, false understanding of what the Bible says, different religious beliefs (again), etc. I think a lot of the time when someone has different interests or different religious beliefs than us, we tend to label them as \u201cweird\u201d or \u201cbad\u201d. We tend to easily accept others who have similar interests or beliefs as us. This is not how God wants us to function. He made every single person on this planet in His image the way He wanted. Psalm 139:14 says, \u201cI praise you for I am fearfully and wonderfully made.\u201d Praise God for making you! Praise Him for making others fearfully and wonderfully too! Sure, we are all different, but we all have something in common: God made all of us and loves all of us.\nThis brings us to the topic of similarities. Someone might have different religious beliefs, but they\u2019re still treasured by God, just like you. No human is better than anyone else or more like God than anyone else. Show others in your school that they are equally loved by God! Don\u2019t treat others around you poorly because they aren\u2019t the same as you.\nLove them for it, because they are a treasured possession of God.\nThis entry was posted in Faith on March 1, 2015 by Emma.\nValentine\u2019s Day is coming! I love this holiday (Mostly because there\u2019s lots of chocolate), but where and when did it start? There is some debate about how it started, and which stories are true. One thing all Valentine\u2019s Day myths agree on is a guy named St. Valentine. Some say that St. Valentine lived during ancient Roman times. The emperor at the time thought that unmarried men made better soldiers than married ones, so he outlawed marriage. Kind of weird, right? Well, St. Valentine didn\u2019t like this law, so he performed marriages in secret. The authorities were NOT happy when they found out. Another story suggests that St. Valentine was put in prison for helping Christians escape prisons in Rome. When he was there, he fell in love with the jailor\u2019s daughter and sent her the first \u201cvalentine\u201d card. We can tell from both of these stories that St. Valentine was a loving man.\nIt sort of reminds me of God\u2019s great love for us. This Valentine\u2019s Day, thank God for loving you so much. All day on February 14, be loving to everyone you come in contact with, reflecting God\u2019s amazing love for them. We can use Valentine\u2019s Day not just as a day to send flowers and chocolate (although that is super nice), but as a day to be truly loving, helping others and encouraging them. So how can you do that effectively this Valentine\u2019s Day?\nThis entry was posted in Faith on February 4, 2015 by Emma.\nWhat we can learn from the movie FROZEN\nI love the movie Frozen. It has great songs, great characters, and a great message. We can learn a few things from some of the characters in Frozen that maybe you hadn\u2019t thought about before. Here are a few ways we can be more like Elsa, Anna, and Kristoff:\nELSA: Elsa is probably my favorite character in Frozen. She has this amazing dress and cool cape, and somehow her hair is perfect. She even has really awesome ice powers, but if you\u2019ve seen the movie you know that she doesn\u2019t think they\u2019re so awesome. Elsa keeps her powers hidden for as long as she can, afraid to show anyone. This is how we sometimes can be as Christians. We\u2019re afraid to let others know that we\u2019re Christians because we want them to like us or we don\u2019t want them to make fun of us. That\u2019s not what God wants for us. He wants us to Let it Go and share our faith with others, just like Elsa let go of her fear and accepted her powers. Though unlike Elsa, who is afraid her powers will hurt others, if you let others see your faith, it won\u2019t hurt them. It\u2019ll help them.\nANNA: Anna is a carefree girl who enjoys life. One of Anna\u2019s best qualities is how loyal she is to Elsa. When Elsa was hiding from her, Anna still asked her to play. When Elsa ran away Anna faithfully went after her. The best part is when Hans is about to kill Elsa. Anna, with her last remaining strength, puts herself in the way of Hans\u2019 sword just before she freezes up. I love the line, \u201cAn act of true love can thaw a frozen heart.\u201d All throughout the movie the characters think this means a true love\u2019s kiss, but in the end it really means sacrifice. Anna sacrificed herself for Elsa (even though she ends up living anyway), just like Jesus sacrificed himself so we could be free from sin. This is the kind of love that we need to have for others too. Now I\u2019m not saying you need to take a bullet for someone or something crazy like that, but instead strive to put others before yourself.\nKRISTOFF: One of my favorite things about Kristoff is that he\u2019s just himself. He doesn\u2019t care what other people think about him sharing a carrot with a reindeer. He also helps Anna even when she\u2019s so focused on getting Elsa and may not be really nice to him all the time. He\u2019s persistent even though Anna can be annoying sometimes. This is what we should be like. We don\u2019t need to care about what others think of us, but when others need our help we don\u2019t need to get a reward for helping them (even though Kristoff sort of does). We do it out of kindness even if we don\u2019t particularly like the person. We can show others God\u2019s love and be kind to them.\nI hope you enjoyed this post. Next time you watch Frozen look for more lessons we can learn! Comment below about you favorite part of Frozen.\nThis entry was posted in Faith on January 4, 2015 by Emma.\nJust recently I watched a video by Louie Giglio, a pastor in Atlanta, GA. The video was called \u201cHow Great Is Our God\u201d and it was AMAZING. Seriously, just the things he talks about in the video are mind blowing. (I really encourage you to watch this video. It\u2019s about 40 minutes long. Click here to view it.) After I watched it, it got me thinking. God made each one of us so intricate and so special. He understands and knows every single thing about you. Now, you might be thinking, \u201cWow, That\u2019s really stalkish\u201d, but for me it\u2019s also really comforting to know that He loves you anyway, even though He knows every sin you\u2019ve ever done. In 1 John 4:19 it says, \u201cWe love because He first loved us.\u201d God loves everyone even before they\u2019re born. If you ask His forgiveness for your sins, He will forget them and you will be wiped clean. He doesn\u2019t hold grudges. Really, I want that superpower. I would be able to forget all the sins that sometimes weigh me down. But God didn\u2019t give us that power because we weren\u2019t meant to have it. We learn from hard or embarrassing situations, and if someone else is having a bad day, we can share our own experiences. It\u2019s all part of God\u2019s plan and design for us. He loves us so much that He made us in His own image and put us on this planet to glorify Him. Now this is what I want you to do if you haven\u2019t already done it: Click on the link above and watch the video. When you\u2019ve watched the whole thing, come back and comment on this post and tell me what you thought of the video or this post. Also, think about this question: How can I show God\u2019s awesome love that He has for all people to others?\nThis entry was posted in Faith on November 19, 2014 by Emma.", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00040.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 106, + "original_length": 22973, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.98, + "perplexity": 233.4, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "http://arlingtoncemetery.net/remains-of-another-day.htm", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T04:23:29Z", + "digest": "sha1:6VMRA6B5QJM7EEYIICSZE5PZRNHHQ777", + "length": 18163, + "nlines": 91, + "source_domain": "arlingtoncemetery.net", + "title": "Remains Of Another Day: WWII Casualties Returned Home", + "raw_content": "Remains of another day\nDog tags, a wedding ring, a rosary -- the effects of\nWorld War II's soldiers continue to come home, along with their stories.\nCourtesy of The BaltimoreSun\nTomorrow in a veterans cemetery in Cheltenham, a World War II pilot shot down over Luxembourg in the winter of 1944 will finally get his funeral. His coffin will be lowered into a plot between two wild cherry trees. His widow and daughter will mourn him. The grounds crew will shovel in the earth. Sixty years after his last breath in the cockpit of a burning P-47D Thunderbolt, the truth of Second Lieutenant John R. Dyer's death has come home.\nReturning slain soldiers to U.S. soil and retrieving the story of their deaths from the cloud of confusion that surrounds war is the work of the U.S. Army's Casualty and Memorial Affairs Operations Center in Alexandria, Virginia. This office handles the bureaucracy of death. Its business is bereavement. It knows the fresh grief over a soldier killed in Iraq. It knows the shadowy sorrow from a death more than half a century ago. And it knows how the mystery of a loss can linger, promoting misinformation and stories that sometimes never get set straight.\nBut today, in that office, Dyer's name is penned in green ink on a board listing closed cases. Six decades after the Army declared his body \"non-recoverable,\" the facts have returned with Dyer's remains.\nTwo years ago, the Luxembourg military alerted the U.S. Army to aircraft wreckage found near the town of Niederwampach. The United States sent a team to excavate the crash site, finding teeth, bits of cranium and Dyer's dog tags in a crater that for decades had been used for the disposal of dead livestock. As a result, the Army concluded it was wrong all those years ago when it reported that after Dyer's plane was hit by anti-aircraft artillery fire, the airman parachuted to the ground, was captured and later killed by his German guards.\nThe facts were simpler: There was a hit, a crash, a death.\nWhile the nation focuses its attention on the latest casualties returning to the United States from Iraq, soldiers slain in every U.S. conflict since World War II continue to make a quiet march home. The Army's mortuary affairs office, two floors below the room where Iraq deaths are processed, receives more than 200 inquiries into the deaths of World War II soldiers each month. With the official opening of the World War II Memorial in Washington this weekend, the staff expects even more questions about the 78,000 soldiers from that conflict whose bodies were never found.\nFamilies want answers, even if they come almost a lifetime later.\n\"It was always a story, what happened to my father,\" says Carolyn Sowell, Dyer's daughter. \"Now it's a reality.\"\nThe 59-year-old grandmother from Clinton was just 2 weeks old when her father was killed. Because her mother remarried, the Army considers Sowell the next of kin and has given her power over her father's remains and personal effects. She grew up close to her late stepfather, who adopted her, and always viewed her father's story as unknowable.\nNow, the chance to bury John Dyer reaches a part of her past that has long felt inaccessible.\n\"There's actually going to be something I can do for my father - to finally bring his life to closure,\" says Sowell, who now thinks about how much the yellow brown in her eyes looks like the color in her granddaughter's - and in her father's - and feels a link to the man she never knew.\nShe is, at last, closer to him than at any point in her life. She wonders what it will feel like to sit with her father's remains at the funeral home tomorrow. She recalls asking an Army official about those shattered bones.\n\"Can I open that package up and touch them?\" she asked. \"So I can touch my father?\"\nIf it will help, he told her. If it will help.\nLieutenant Colonel Ron Long can see the way grief changes over time, the way it stays the same.\nAs chief of Mortuary Affairs and Casualty Support, Long oversees the retrieval of ancient remains of World War II soldiers and airmen as well as the record-keeping for the dead and wounded in Iraq. He knows that families of soldiers slain in the Iraq war are often bereft, confused, angry; they want more information faster, complain there isn't nearly enough.\nAnd he knows there can be more to learn. He tells his staff to take careful records. The Army has retrieved the remains of more than 290 World War II soldiers over the last three decades, thanks in part to reviewing old reports.\nSixty years from now, Long thinks, their Iraq files could be reopened, too.\nThe retrieval of information surrounding World War II deaths is important for families, of course, and for history. But in the brightly lit warren of offices at the mortuary affairs division, it also provides solace for the people doing the work - it reminds them they are fulfilling the Army's promise to its soldiers, even if it takes decades to do so.\n\"I think, 'What if it were me? What if it were my family?'\" says Long, 41, whose military staccato carries evidence of his North Carolina youth. \"If I were in a situation any of these heroes were put in, at least I'd know that somebody would be looking for me. They wouldn't stop looking for me. They wouldn't stop taking care of my family.\"\nLong is sitting in the public affairs office of the Army's personnel services division, known as the U.S. Army Human Resources Command. At a computer behind him, a staffer types a casualty report for a soldier killed in Iraq. The report will be released at 6 p.m., exactly 24 hours after a uniformed Army officer has visited that family's home.\nWhen the remains of World War II soldiers are found today, the same protocol is followed. A uniformed Army representative knocks on the door of the next of kin - though so many decades later, that often means a distant relative. Along with personal effects, the serviceman hand-delivers the report detailing the soldier's death.\nFamilies often react the same way: They want a military funeral all these years later. Most burials happen at Arlington National Cemetery. The Army casket holds a uniform bearing the soldier's honors and, under that, a pinned blanket holding the remains. At Arlington, there are uniformed pallbearers, a flag-draped coffin, a bugler, a firing party.\n\"It was a very emotional ceremony,\" recalls Marvin Clement, 73. \"It was a miracle that it happened.\"\nMarvin Clement was only 9 when his big brother, Alfred, prepared to go to war. He remembers Alfred looking out for him and his six other siblings in Marquette, Michigan, driving them in the family car, giving them 10 cents for a movie, a nickel for popcorn. Then, on Nov. 5, 1941, Alfred left their home on West Bluff Street in his Army greens.\nWhen Private First Class Alfred J. Clement was killed in France in 1944, the family received the telegrams. First he was listed as missing in action, then a month later the Army reported he was killed in combat near the Moselle River in eastern France. The boy's mother suffered a heart attack. The family learned no body could be found.\nAs he got older, Marvin Clement wondered about those lost remains. In 1950, he joined the Navy and put in for overseas duty on the Rhine River, hoping he might get closer to the spot where his brother was killed.\nBut Clement never did.\nIn September 2000, a French group called \"Thanks, GIs\" excavated a riverbed in eastern France where U.S. soldiers were thought to have been killed. The team discovered Clement's full skeleton, buttons, pocket knife and rosary deep in the mud. An Army research lab verified his identity, and the body was sent home for burial at Arlington last year.\nBy then, Marvin Clement's other two brothers had died. He himself had survived open-heart surgery and several other operations. But Private Alfred J. Clements' baby brother felt like he had a mission that day.\n\"Maybe I was kept alive for that reason,\" says the retiree from Lake City, Florida \"Maybe the good Lord kept me alive after all I've been through because this was going to happen in my lifetime. I was going to see his burial.\"\nLong consoles himself with cases like the one that allowed Marvin Clement to say good-bye.\n\"That guy was still waiting on us,\" Long says. \"He lived a full life. He raised a family. But when all was said and done, he still knew he had a purpose - he just didn't know what it was. Now he does. Now he knows his brother's story.\"\nThe wedding ring was lost to Ruth Weeks.\nIn that summer of 1944, the widow learned there was nothing she could hold onto after her husband, Carl Hoenshell, was shot down in his P-38 Lightning. His plane had disappeared during a mission over the oil refineries of Ploesti, Romania, and he was reported missing. She thought maybe he was taken prisoner by the Germans. But time passed, and each letter the Army sent to the widow in Owosso, Michigan, had less information than the one before.\nFinally, he was declared dead. His plane was never found.\nRuth Weeks grieved. But her mourning felt complicated.\n\"You don't have any answers,\" says the 83-year-old great-grandmother, who still tends her flower garden at home in Owosso as she did 60 years ago. \"Every day of your life, you get up wondering what really did happen.\"\nThe widow remarried a few years after Carl's death and had a daughter. She lost touch with the Hoenshells; she and the family would talk only when they bumped into each other in town. Her remarriage upset them, Weeks says, arguing that they were hurt that she didn't wait for more details about her husband's death before remarrying.\nIt wouldn't have made a difference: With every decade, there was still no word.\nBut on Memorial Day weekend in 1997, Weeks' niece, Elizabeth Wilson, embarked on a search about her own father, who also died in World War II. Along the way, she became fascinated with the story of her Uncle Carl.\nWilson was never close to her Aunt Ruth, given the family rift over the widow's remarriage, but she got hooked on the whereabouts of Carl Hoenshell. She developed an online search seeking details about his death - dubbed \"The Carl Squadron\" - and employed the expertise of military researchers. Eventually, she found her way to a newspaper reporter in Belgrade and a young financial analyst from Michigan working near Sofia, Bulgaria. She asked for their help.\nTheir research led to a barn in the remote Bulgarian countryside.\nWilson, a 50-year-old businesswoman who grew up in Owosso but later moved to Jacksonville, Fla., traveled to that barn. Her older brother came, too. He brought his metal detector. They paid the farmer to remove the barn floor.\nFirst Lieutenant Carl C. Hoenshell, they knew through their own research, had completed his bombing run over the Romanian oil fields but had circled back to help another U.S. pilot with a failing engine. On that return trip, German bombers opened fire on him, and Hoenshell, out of ammunition, circled madly to escape. According to a witness Wilson helped find - a farmer's son who was 17 years old at the time and saw the dog fight over his parents' land - Hoenshell's plane attempted to land in a pasture, its engine on fire. Within seconds, it rolled into trees and blew apart.\nDecades later, underneath the barn, the descendants started to dig.\nSoon, they found what they would learn was the nose strut assembly of a P-38.\nThe Army then conducted an official excavation. Wilson was in Bulgaria when Army researchers found Carl Hoenshell's ID bracelet. It was battered, but bore the letters, \"oenshell,\" his identification number and \"Ruth\" on the back. Wilson called her aunt as soon as she heard. Back in Owosso, it was 2 a.m.\n\"I said, 'Aunt Ruth, I hate to get you up so early, but I've got some tremendous news for you,'\" Wilson recalls. \"Did you know Carl wore a bracelet? Better yet, it has your name on it.\"\nWeeks was alone in her bedroom. Her second marriage had fallen apart years before. She listened to her niece, with whom she had grown closer through this search, and the two cried and prayed together long-distance.\nThe war in Kosovo interrupted the search for more artifacts, but in 2002, the Army tried again. This time, they found a significant portion of remains and, deep in the soil, a perfectly preserved wedding ring.\nIt was a simple gold band with beading on the edges, part of a matching set.\nThe other was tucked inside a cedar chest in Ruth Weeks' bedroom.\nWhen the Army returned the ring to Weeks on Valentine's Day 2003, it comforted the widow. She immersed herself in the letters her late husband had written her. She wore her own ring again, placing his band on top of hers.\nBut there was something unsettling in this new knowledge, too. Even after his funeral - Hoenshell was interred in a plot next to his mother in Owosso - the episode felt fresh in a way it hadn't for decades. His widow kept thinking of his last minutes in that plane, and whether he was too focused to think of anything but survival. She wondered if he thought of her. She felt the weight of this unearthed fact: that Carl Hoenshell made it out alive, but then turned back.\n\"I think knowing what really happened helps you - but I don't think it makes you any happier,\" she says now. \"In fact, I think it made me sadder for a long time. I kept thinking if he hadn't gone back, he could have made it.\"\nThe discovery of the facts surrounding her husband's last day brought home her own painful story.\n\"He was the love of my life,\" she says. \"You never stop loving a person just because they're gone.\"\nShe doesn't wear his wedding ring now. She's afraid it will be damaged or lost.\nBut she has made this arrangement:\nWhen she dies, she wants it buried with her.\nOne afternoon in the Army's mortuary affairs office, Lieutenant Colonel Deborah Skillman opened a large manila folder and history spilled out. Inside was a yellowed Social Security card, a ripped savings bond for $150, a military ID with a fingerprint, a California driver's license, a calling card, a picture of a woman with full lips and a sad gaze.\nAlso included was a snapshot of a man wearing a dead-on stare and a stiff Army uniform:\nSamuel R. Gilmor, Lieutenant in the Army Air Corps, killed in action on October 10, 1943.\nOn a recent morning, the TV news on mute, Skillman looks through the file she came across on a routine inquiry - a file that hadn't been opened much, if ever, since the soldier was buried in Golden Gate National Cemetery after the war. Somehow with the Army's death-related paperwork, the contents of his wallet were tucked inside as well.\nNow Skillman is searching for Gilmor's next of kin to hand over these last personal effects.\nNot only do families of World War II veterans call the Army's mortuary affairs office looking for information, but sometimes the opposite happens - the Army hunts down relatives to deliver retrieved bits of personal history.\nThe Army uses genealogists to take DNA samples from the female bloodlines of World War II veterans so that it can confirm identification on ancient remains. It seeks out distant family members when old crash sites are found.\n\"They're grateful to have any information,\" says Skillman. \"If they don't know their loved one is listed on tablets of the missing somewhere, they're so appreciative.\"\nThere is some basic bureaucracy that surrounds World War II ancient remains cases, as they are called. Some searches are more likely than others. Downed World War II planes with crews of eight or 10 people are more attractive because they promise the biggest return. And science affects the outcome, too. World War II skeletons, for example, are easier to recover than those from Korea or Vietnam because bodies deteriorate much faster in acidic jungle soil.\nSometimes the Army re-examines old sites with modern tools like ground-penetrating radar to find more remains, prompting second funerals back home. It has sent climbers into the Himalayas and divers into the Bay of Tunis.\nSkillman expects her phone will ring even more after the World War II Memorial dedication, the way it did after the opening of the Korean and Vietnam memorials. With those ceremonies, families realized how little they knew about their relatives whose bodies were never found. Skillman understands why families crave the stories of these lost men.\n\"These are heroes,\" she says. \"Family heroes.\"\nThe remains retrieved from John Dyer's crash site in Luxembourg are so few, they could fit in one hand.\nBut they carry with them the facts of a soldier's death.\nIn 1944, Dyer's flight leader had seen his plane burning and radioed him to bail out, but another airman from that mission testified that he never saw Dyer leave his plane. Still, that account did not prevail in the official record.\nInstead, military investigators concluded the other airman's view was obscured and he couldn't see Dyer escape. That inquiry quoted witnesses saying Dyer floated to earth in his open parachute and was captured. The Army had concluded since Dyer's body was never found that he was murdered and buried by the Germans.\nBut with the recent reopening of the case, the Army noted that the physical description of the pilot and the account of his capture matched that of another pilot taken prisoner the month after Dyer's plane went down. 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It\u2019s often a huge decision to separate and divorce, which will change your whole life. When you have children with your ex-partner, you\u2019ll ask yourself often if you\u2019re doing it the right way and if you can handle it all. Besides a lot of emotions and trying to get agreements about dividing the possessions and the custody of your children, you\u2019re also still a role model for your children. They learn from you how to handle stress and how to stand up for yourself. And that can be pretty hard in such a life changing situation, especially when you\u2019re not in a smoothly going communication situation anymore with your ex-partner.\nLet\u2019s go through the issues I hear most from clients in a time of separation/divorce:\nWorrying and being so busy in your mind with everything you have to make decisions about and what you have to arrange, which causes that you can\u2019t sleep.\nThere seems to be not enough time in one day and you\u2019re skipping meals, skipping drinking enough water, and skipping exercising, and it feels like you\u2019re losing or lost control.\nEverything comes to YOU, you\u2019re so busy as a single parent to do everything alone, you\u2019re overflowing and it feels like you have to be superwoman.\nYou\u2019re overwhelmed of all emotions, think about: anger, sadness, hurt, disappointment, failure, guilt, fears, powerlessness, vulnerability, not supported and not understood. In a situation of difficulties to get a settlement with your ex-partner, you can experience huge fears and stress because you have to go to court and are at the mercy of \u2018the legal system\u2019.\nYou have a huge \u2018to do list\u2019, but you\u2019re not able to focus, concentrate and prioritise.\nYou want time for yourself, but there isn\u2019t really an opportunity.\nHaving many uncertainties about your future, think about: finding a new house, arranging the finances to pay all bills to get the settlement with your ex-partner on paper but also the finances as a single parent to pay for everything you and your children need to have a healthy and happy life, wondering if you\u2019ll ever have a new loving partner and if you\u2019ll ever be able to trust a partner again.\nYou want to love your children and provide a safe, healthy and joyful life for them, but you can\u2019t give it right now because of how you feel and you wish you could read their minds about the whole situation. Often your children play up because they sense how you feel and they can even become ill or very angry and upset (think about tantrums) which gives even more stress.\nHere\u2019s a list how you can best take care of yourself in a time of separation/divorce:\nPut yourself in the first place; if you don\u2019t take good care of yourself, you can\u2019t take good care of your children\nBelieve in yourself. You can handle everything in your life.\nProtect your energy, anchor yourself and cleanse your energy when you wake up and when you go to sleep. You can use my free guided meditation for this, see: http://astridboot.com.au/free-gifts/. Say out loud daily (or as often as you want): All energy I\u2019ve given away or left behind, returns to me now, transformed in love and light.\nEat healthy, drink a lot of water, exercise daily (a short walk in nature does miracles and can clear your mind and give you new insights also, or do yoga with free online lessons) and rest/sleep enough. Also treat yourself well by getting a massage or healing, go floating (http://www.cocoonfloatation.com.au/), or visit a sauna.\nAsk for help and delegate tasks. You can ask family, friends, neighbours, colleagues, but also the universe with so many angels available for you.\nTell your children it\u2019s a decision of you and your ex-partner to divorce, it\u2019s an adult decision and it has nothing to do with them, and that you both still love your children now and forever.\nExplain your children in a for their age understandable way how you feel, how you\u2019re going to resolve that and tell them when you\u2019re feeling is changed into a better feeling. I\u2019d like to give an example from my personal life while I was in a divorce situation in 2009: When my ex-husband and I had words in the evening and this had triggered anger in me, I explained my daughter of 3 years old the next day: \u2018mummy is feeling angry because of something dad and I spoke about last night, but tonight I\u2019ll have a talk with him again and then it will be resolved\u2019. I had the talk that night and told her the next morning: \u2018mummy had a talk with dad last night and I\u2019m not angry anymore. Everything is fine again\u2019. Children are very sensitive and without telling them how you feel, they\u2019ll know anyway. They don\u2019t understand the feelings they experience and start to create their own interpretation, which is often wrongly interpreted and turning into beliefs as: it\u2019s my fault, I\u2019m causing all these problems, I\u2019m bad, my parents don\u2019t love me anymore, etc.\nAlways speak positive about your ex-partner to your children. Otherwise your children get confused about love and feel they have to choose between two parents, which is an impossible choice to make.\nTeach your children to protect their energy, how to anchor themselves and how to cleanse their energy. It can be fun to do the guided meditation on my website together, see: http://astridboot.com.au/free-gifts/. Make it a new daily routine in your house.\nKeep an eye on how your children are coping with the whole process of divorce. Trust your intuition as a loving parent and when you have the feeling they need help to release their emotions, arrange that help (think about healing or therapy).\nWrite a list of how your life is in an ideal situation with all your wishes fulfilled and you and your children being happy, joyful, at peace and abundant. See it before you, feel it in your body because that\u2019s how you are manifesting what you want. Ask the universe to help you to have this ideal life. Be open for signs and guidance and trust your intuition in this to take action steps.\nOf course you can ask help from the universe with everything in your life. Tell the universe your worries, fears and with what you need help. Also ask to have faith. Be open for signs and guidance and trust your intuition in this to take action steps. Have faith, believe you\u2019re protected, safe and loved. And only focus on positivity and the Light.\nAsk Archangel Michael to come to you with his golden sword of light, to cut all cords to your ex-partner (except pure, unconditional love if you prefer) on physical, emotional, mental and spiritual level, in all directions of time and on cell memory level. Then ask him to encircle all cut cords and attachments in his purple net of Light and to take this for you to the universe where it will all be transformed in love and light for you.\nIf you need help for yourself or your child(ren), I can offer you healing sessions. This can be done in my practice room, or on Skype or over the phone, but also on distance by using a photo and email. It often starts with cleansing your energy, adding energy and \u2018emptying\u2019 your mind, and then releasing emotions and beliefs that are blocking you. I can help you with the grieving process and approaching your future with faith and optimism again. If your children need help, I can offer a kid\u2019s healing session. Children are very fast in releasing their blocking emotions. You\u2019ll provide them a tool for life. 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Federation also is trying to discover the roles the community needs it to fill.\nCongregation Bet Haverim officer and Front Porch participant McKenzie Wren (see her Front Porch column on Page 13) was the Federation volunteer running the meeting at Young Israel of Toco Hills.\nShe began by asking the attendees, who were sitting in a circle, what they would like to do on a front porch.\nOne man said he would write songs and play his mandolin. Someone else said he would drink bourbon, while a woman said she would drink iced tea. Someone else would people-watch.\nBy the time everyone had answered, the group was warmed up for the nontraditional approach to gathering information.\nWren emphasized the importance of \u201cbeing mindful and sharing deeply\u201d when she asked all 25 people there to say what they need to live more meaningful Jewish lives.\nOne man expressed a need for the Jewish community to have programming that appeals to young professionals. A middle-aged woman wants forums to talk about the political situation.\nThe cost of Jewish day school tuition was on the minds of parents of elementary-school-age children.\nProgramming for empty-nesters was another subject.\nWhen people are young and raising children, it\u2019s easy to meet other parents and create a social network, one woman said, but it\u2019s difficult to meet people later in life. (A Front Porch forum at Jewish Family & Career Services at 6:30 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 1, is targeting empty-nester participants.)\nA subsequent discussion about the needs of empty-nesters produced objections about the term itself in reference to people 50 and older because \u201cempty\u201d has negative connotations.\nThe phenomenon, at least a decade old, of older parents moving to Atlanta to be near their adult children and their grandchildren is attracting Jewish seniors who have particular social needs.\nBut not everyone focused on social needs.\nOne man wanted to know what could be done to encourage younger people to be more charitable and support Atlanta\u2019s Jewish institutions.\nSomeone else seeks encouragement for the Orthodox community to be more active in the greater Atlanta Jewish community.\nReducing the likelihood of intermarriage is a concern for several who attended the meeting.\nTable discussions were held on the topics that had the most interest, including the importance of a Jewish communal infrastructure. If people found one conversation uninteresting, they could walk over to another topic table and join in. Wren called it \u201copen-space technology.\u201d\nThe people who showed up could talk about whatever was on their minds because the Front Porch forums lack fixed agendas. The discussions are driven by the interests of the participants, so each gathering should be different. Amy Glass, a Federation staff member, encouraged people to attend more than one.\nThe meetings continue through Nov. 14. You can find the schedule at jewishatlanta.org/the-front-porch. If you can\u2019t make any of the sessions, the Front Porch team (reachable through the same site) will try to make other arrangements to hear what you have to say.", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00040.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 331, + "original_length": 12827, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.96, + "perplexity": 299.2, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "http://attorneyjacksonms.com/civil-law/estate-matters/power-of-attorney/", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T05:04:57Z", + "digest": "sha1:PGSIAE5E7ZAPONL2AVXJ7RBBYAWVKUQ2", + "length": 3206, + "nlines": 9, + "source_domain": "attorneyjacksonms.com", + "title": "Power of Attorney - Attorney Jackson, MS", + "raw_content": "Mississippi Lawyer and Attorney for Power of Attorney\nA power of attorney is a written instrument granting someone the authority to act as agent for the grantor. A person so appointed is known as an attorney-in-fact for the grantor. A power of attorney can be granted in several forms:\nGeneral power of attorney \u2013 this is a power of attorney that authorizes an agent to transact business for the grantor/principal and generally act in all respects for and on behalf of the grantor. Such a power of attorney terminates if the grantor lapses into a state of incompetency.\nLimited power of attorney (special power of attorney) \u2013 this is a power of attorney that authorizes an agent to perform only designated acts. For example, one might bestow attorney-in-fact status to an agent only for the purpose for signing checks, or signing a contract. The attorney-in-fact has no authority to act for the grantor beyond the specific approved acts. Such a power of attorney terminates if the grantor lapses into a state of incompetency.\nDurable power of attorney \u2013 this is a power of attorney that is granted during the grantor\u2019s competency and which remains in effect during the grantor\u2019s incompetency. For a power of attorney to be a durable power of attorney, specific language must be placed in the document.\nPower of attorney for healthcare decisions \u2013 This is a power of attorney which authorizes the agent to make healthcare decisions for the grantor when the grantor is unable to do so. This can include end of life healthcare decisions if the grantor specifically provides for that in the document. This is a specific document that is carefully drawn. A power of attorney for healthcare decisions can be placed in the same document as a durable power of attorney but does not have to be so placed.\nIrrevocable power of attorney \u2013 This is a power of attorney that the grantor cannot revoke. For a power of attorney to be irrevocable, specific language must be placed in the document clearly stating the grantor\u2019s intent.\nA power of attorney is filed with the chancery clerk of the county of residence of the grantor. Unless the power of attorney is irrevocable, it can be revoked by filing irrevocation with the chancery clerk of the county where the power of attorney is on file. Unlike a guardianship or conservatorship, there are no legal requirements for filing annual accounting with the court or filing any kind of accountability documents. However, care must be exorcised in the management of affairs of another person. Any self-dealing or undue influence could be met with a lawsuit against the attorney-in-fact. At the Law Office of Attorney John R. Reeves, P.C., we have prepared powers of attorney of all kinds for years for many clients. Let our experience work for you and let us guide you through the kind of power of attorney needed, the language that should be included in it, and the correct management of the affairs over which you are given control. It is much safer to have sound and experienced legal advice from the outset than to have to address a lawsuit.\nPlease contact us to arrange for a confidential consultation with informed Mississippi Lawyer and Attorney for Power of Attorney.", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00040.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 177, + "original_length": 6903, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.96, + "perplexity": 199.2, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "http://attorneyjournalsd.com/blog/2018/06/01/7-ways-to-improve-your-attorney-biography-page-seo/", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T03:37:23Z", + "digest": "sha1:J6G5MFE6GUZTCOHZLTKFDLXRRXSL3KZC", + "length": 4584, + "nlines": 18, + "source_domain": "attorneyjournalsd.com", + "title": "7 Ways to Improve Your Attorney Biography Page SEO | Attorney Journal", + "raw_content": "Having a well-written and search-engine-optimized biography online is an essential part of success. When people are looking for you, it is not only crucial that you\u2019re easy to find, but that the information they find shows you in a positive light.\nFollowing are some suggestions to help you put together an online attorney biography page that will give your audience the information they are looking for as well as help you to stand out in the search engines as your own personal brand.\nBe Ready to Write Multiple Biographies\nYou will, of course, have complete control of your biography if it is to be posted on your own website. That won\u2019t always be the case, though. You will undoubtedly find other places where you\u2019ll want to post your professional biography.\nFirst, other websites will surely have their own restrictions on exactly what you can include in your biography. Some might allow links while others won\u2019t. You\u2019ll run into varying restrictions based on character or word counts. Others, still, might have very specific formatting guidelines. The bottom line is that you\u2019ll need to be prepared to create different versions of your biography depending on where you want to post it.\nAlso, from a strictly SEO perspective, the search engines feed on original content. Even if you can post your entire biography on two or three sites, it\u2019s a good idea to mix things up and rewrite it in order to avoid the appearance of duplicate content. Posting the exact same thing on multiple sites will drag all of those pages down in search results. (This goes for posting your biography on two or more sites that you own yourself, too.)\nWrite from the Third Person Perspective\nWriting about themselves in the third person is something many people struggle with. It\u2019s not very often that we talk about ourselves like we\u2019re not even in the room. Writing your biography from the third person perspective is not just about sounding professional, though, it also provides some very good SEO benefits.\nWhen you write in the third person, it gives you the opportunity to use your name instead of saying \u201cI.\u201d This obviously helps greatly with getting your bio to rank well for your own name. It also attaches your name to your work and accomplishments. This can help your name to pop up in search results when people are searching for terms related to your work.\nWriting in the third person also makes the information in your biography more shareable. If someone needs to talk about you for a publication, a news story, or something else, it\u2019s much easier for them to pull information they can use if it\u2019s already written from the third person perspective.\nIntroduce Yourself First\nThe opening paragraph should establish who you are right now. In many cases, your name should be the first words on the page. State who you are and a bit about your professional self.\nThis is where you want to give people the opportunity to see who you are before getting into your work and accomplishments. You might state where you got your degree(s) from and what brought you to your current position. It should have a professional tone but show that you are human.\nPutting this information up front, again, helps associate your name with your current position. This gives the search engines more information about you and also sets up some good SEO clues to tell the engines what this page is going to be about.\nWrite a Story, Not a Resume\nIt\u2019s important to keep in mind that your biography is meant to tell the story of you, not just present a list of what you\u2019ve done. It may be difficult at first but try to structure your bio like a story that will help you engage with your readers. Again, this will help you with SEO by giving you plenty of natural places to talk about the work you\u2019ve done and the things you\u2019ve accomplished. Start with your WHY.\nKevin Vermeulen is Partner and Chief Operating Officer for Good2bSocial. He has 30 years of marketing and advertising experience, with the last 22 years working in various senior management roles for ALM Media, a leading legal publisher, helping lawyers, law firms, consultants and vendors grow their business. For more information, please visit: www.good2bsocial.com.\nAbout the Author: Kevin Vermeulen is Partner and Chief Operating Officer for Good2bSocial. He has 30 years of marketing and advertising experience, with the last 22 years working in various senior management roles for ALM Media, a leading legal publisher, helping lawyers, law firms, consultants and vendors grow their business. 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These are superb benefits that are offered on other people's cars but these endorsements will.\nInsurance estimate for ky car insurance KY", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00040.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 9, + "original_length": 3113, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.97, + "perplexity": 299.1, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "http://axiomasia.com/jimmy-toh/", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T03:55:20Z", + "digest": "sha1:IGDWFCZE4LVGVWI7OJUBMALB4TCBFETH", + "length": 1080, + "nlines": 5, + "source_domain": "axiomasia.com", + "title": "Jimmy Toh | Axiom Asia Private Capital", + "raw_content": "CAIA, FRM\nNanyang Technological University of Singapore, Bachelor of Computer Engineering (Honours)\nSingapore Management University, M.S. in Applied Finance\nJimmy joined Axiom in 2017 as an Assistant Manager in the Finance team. Prior to joining Axiom Asia, Jimmy was an analyst in UOB Asia Investment Partners where he was responsible for quantitative analysis and supported manager research to both the private equity and hedge funds business. He was also in charge of portfolio monitoring and performance analytics for UOB\u2019s private equity investments. Prior to joining UOB AIP, he was a Senior Engineer involved in defense software development and project management with the Defence Science and Technology Agency of Singapore.\nJimmy holds a Bachelor of Computer Engineering (Honours) from the Nanyang Technological University of Singapore, and a Master of Science in Applied Finance from the Singapore Management University. He is a CAIA (Chartered Alternative Investment Analyst) and FRM (Financial Risk Manager) charter holder. 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Not to be outmaneuvered, President Obama offered his enthusiasm, but also a caveat tor two which should make the fledgeling sprouts of consensus wither [...]\nJJ is Dyn-O-Mite!\nJJ Abrams, that is (not that JJ!). If you haven\u2019t heard, Disney bought out the Star Wars franchise last November and has decided to go forward with a new Star Wars trilogy set after Return of the Jedi. Rumors were flying around about who may or may not be involved in the upcoming project. As [...]\nWomen on the Front Lines\nWord came out today that outgoing Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta is paving the way for women to be on the front line of combat by 2016. While I agree in principle with the policy change, I have a feeling that this opportunity for women is done in-hand with civilian political calculations \u2014 another \u201cfirst\u201d [...]\nJanuary 22, 1973, the Supreme Court handed down the Roe v. Wade decision, 7-2, with only Justices White and Rehnquist dissenting. Since then an estimated 50-54 million babies\u2019 lives have been ended as a result. Today, issues of religious freedom, sex-selective abortions (aka gendercide), paying for other people\u2019s abortions, and a seriously pro-abortion President in [...]\nPresident Obama gave his second inaugural address today \u2014 I only saw the last ten minutes of it. Due to all the missed school days from Superstorm Sandy, I had work today. Ten minutes was enough. Soaring, airy rhetoric, to be sure. Delivered well, but the same ol\u2019 horse manure. In the mere ten minutes [...]\nRepublican Buzz \u2014 Adjusting the Electoral College\nWhile I am a defender of the Electoral College, there is no denying that most Americans don\u2019t like the system. However, alternative national popular vote schemes are unconstitutional on many levels. 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Some Democrats (and John McCain, of course) don\u2019t like the \u201ctorture\u201d scenes [...]\nBeck Weighs In on Musburger Controversy\nWhile the BCS National Championship between Notre Dame and Alabama was still competitive (which, if you were watching, wasn\u2019t long unfortunately), ESPN commentator Brent Musburger said this about Katherine Webb, Ms. Alabama and Alabama quarterback AJ McCarron\u2019s girlfriend: At the time I didn\u2019t think it was weird \u2014 Musburger\u2019s an old guy (73) and let\u2019s [...]\nJust Cocky College Kids or \u201cDeluded Narcissists\u201d\nAn exhaustive study indicates that Millennials, those who were born from c. 1982-1999, have a wildly inflated sense of self-infatuation and a notable overconfidence. When asked about their abilities, their \u201cabove average\u201d attitude didn\u2019t match their level of achievement. But is this study just a reflection of college students being college students or is there [...]\nBiden: Some Gun Control By Executive Fiat\nVice President Joe Biden made it clear today that the President has many options in the upcoming gun control debate saying, \u201cThere are executive orders, executive action that can be taken.\u201d He went on to imply that action is key to getting things done: \u201cit\u2019s critically important that we act.\u201d The word \u201caction\u201d struck me, [...]\nTrillion Dollar Coins. Seriously?\nNew York Democrat Representative Jerry Nadler and others are supporting the idea of the Treasury minting a trillion dollar platinum coin a few times and merely depositing them at the Federal Reserve so as to avoid a debate over the fiscal cliff. What could go wrong! How did a rule mostly used for the creation [...]\nUnemployment Steady at 7.8%\nUnemployment remained at 7.8% in December along with the U6 figure, which also stayed put at 14.4%. 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May your 2013 be a great year!", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00040.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 252, + "original_length": 15579, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.96, + "perplexity": 241.1, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "http://banana1015.com/bob-seger-apologizes-to-flint-for-the-terrible-song-detroit-made/", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T03:32:17Z", + "digest": "sha1:D3QMI7Y6FNOZGU6BPJZ54EUSG5P6TX6S", + "length": 1194, + "nlines": 5, + "source_domain": "banana1015.com", + "title": "Bob Seger Apologizes to Flint for the Terrible Song \u2018Detroit Made\u2019", + "raw_content": "Bob Seger Apologizes to Flint for the Terrible Song \u2018Detroit Made\u2019\nWednesday night (11/19/14), the legendary Bob Seger kicked off his \"Ride Out Tour\" at the Dow in Saginaw, Michigan. It was here that the 69-year-old rock icon took the opportunity to apologize to the people of Flint for a discrepancy in the song 'Detroit Made,' which is the title track from his new record. The song was written by John Hiatt as an ode to his car, The Electra, which was actually built in Flint from 1959-1984...not in Detroit.\nHowever, after listening to the song, the only apology Seger owes his fans is choosing to record a pile of crap like this in the first place. Hey, we get it\u2026 the lyric 'Detroit Made' sounds a hell of a lot better than 'Flint Made,' and we are sure that\u2019s why the producer decided to go with Detroit. Regardless, the song is terrible...Detroit Made should have never been made. Our advice is to fire John Hiatt immediately and get back to writing your own songs. After all, who is the musical legend that wrote the classic 'Night Moves'? Not freaking John Hiatt that\u2019s for damn sure!\nFiled Under: Bob Seger, detroit made, night moves\nCategories: Flint News, Michigan News, Newsletter", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00040.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 99, + "original_length": 2602, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.97, + "perplexity": 281.0, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "http://bangordailynews.com/2017/07/25/news/nation/new-attitudes-toward-adoption-from-foster-care-offer-hope/", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T03:30:30Z", + "digest": "sha1:KSX72WOJRBI2EMFFESCM7EMRAXDNTCBQ", + "length": 6341, + "nlines": 19, + "source_domain": "bangordailynews.com", + "title": "New attitudes toward adoption from foster care offer hope \u2014 Nation \u2014 Bangor Daily News \u2014 BDN Maine", + "raw_content": "New attitudes toward adoption from foster care offer hope\nJoseph Cyr | Houlton Pioneer Times\nSharon Bulley of Houlton keeps an eye on her three adopted children Charlie, Jacob and Isaiah as they jump on a trampoline Friday afternoon. The three boys were once under foster care with Sharon and her husband John before the Bulleys adopted the boys.\nBy Sharon Van Epps, The Washington Post \u2022 July 25, 2017 12:55 pm\nMore than 110,000 children in the U.S. foster care system are legally free for adoption, yet more than 20,000 of these kids will never find an adoptive family.\nAfter a childhood of hardship, youth exiting the system without family support face a high risk of unemployment, homelessness, incarceration and other negative life outcomes. But the 2017 U.S. Adoption Attitudes Survey offers a glimmer of new hope.\nAccording to the survey, nearly 80 percent of individuals looking to adopt for the first time would consider adopting a child in foster care, a 7 percent increase since 2012. Rita Soronen, the chief executive of the Dave Thomas Foundation for Adoption, the organization that commissioned the study, considers this a substantial shift in public attitudes.\n\u201cFoster care adoption hasn\u2019t always been an easy or pleasant conversation,\u201d she says. \u201cAll of us in the child welfare stratosphere have worked hard to educate the public to change misperceptions about foster care adoption and heighten awareness.\u201d\nChoosing to adopt through the foster care system means accepting that the process and sometimes the outcome can be uncertain. Bureaucratic procedures vary from state to state and even county to county, but the practice of concurrent planning, which places children with potential adoptive families before the termination of parental rights, is standard. This approach, designed to reduce the amount of time children spend in the system, investigates options for permanent reunification with the birth family while foster parents care for the child and stand ready to adopt that child if parental rights are severed. But even for prospective parents who come with eyes wide open, the experience can be emotionally fraught.\n\u201cI did a lot of research, so I don\u2019t think there was anything that I wasn\u2019t expecting,\u201d says Kristen Howerton of Orange County, California, who blogs about her life as a mother at Rage Against the Minivan. Her son Jafta, now 12, is the oldest of her four children and arrived as a foster placement at the age of 6 months. \u201cFor three years, we lived with a very big unknown. We were falling in love with this little boy but never sure if he was our permanent son or just a temporary placement. It was hard to be so invested and yet not be able to control any outcomes.\u201d\nDenise Henderson, a retired psychologist in Rochester, New York, tells a similar story about trying to adopt a younger sibling for her biological son as a single mom. \u201cMy daughter came to live with us as a newborn. It took three long years before the courts freed her for adoption. The weight that lifted off me in that moment was incredible. I didn\u2019t realize what a burden I\u2019d been carrying until I no longer had to bear it. Now my daughter is a lovely 13-year-old \u2026 of whom I couldn\u2019t be prouder.\u201d\nFor author Jillian Lauren and her husband, Scott Shriner, bassist for the band Weezer, the adoption of a 3-year-old boy named Jovi from Los Angeles County proved a bit smoother. Jovi had already spent a year and a half in foster care by the time the couple met him, with bureaucratic decision-making regarding his future well underway. The couple also has a son, Tariku, adopted from Ethiopia, an experience that Lauren chronicled in her memoir, \u201cEverything You Ever Wanted,\u201d but the tremendous need for foster-adoptive families shaped their choice for their second adoption.\n\u201cWe made a very conscious decision to adopt from foster care,\u201d Lauren says. \u201cWe were terrified. We also felt a sense of purpose around it as well that served as an anchor when we were facing uncertainty.\u201d\nSoronen explains that when society takes the dramatic step of legally terminating parental rights, there\u2019s an implicit promise of a new family made to that child, a promise that too often is broken. Plenty of prospective parents are open to infants and toddlers, but the average child in foster care is 8 or 9 years old. Sibling groups and kids with special needs may also languish. As North America\u2019s largest charity devoted to finding homes for children in foster care, the Dave Thomas Foundation has chosen to focus its efforts on these children who might have previously been considered unadoptable.\nThe Wendy\u2019s Wonderful Kids program, named after the restaurant chain founded by Thomas, who was himself an adoptee, seeks families for foster children who are legally free for adoption. The program, which was founded in 2004, has served 16,000 foster children so far. Its caseworkers, known as adoption recruiters, spend time getting to know each child. If a child is reluctant to change schools or doesn\u2019t want to change their name after adoption, those concerns are noted and respected. Recruiters also identify important people in the child\u2019s life, such as former teachers or extended family members, who may be able to help in the search for a new home. There have been 6,494 adoptions finalized with 4,300 kids currently looking for permanent homes. Naturally, the foundation wants to see that number increase.\nChild welfare experts and adoptive parents agree that any child adopted from foster care will have challenges to overcome, no matter the child\u2019s age at placement. Krista Woods, a therapist who has counseled adoptive and birth families for 25 years in the Chicago area, and who was adopted as an infant from foster care, points to a realistic parental attitude as the key. Although parents may feel relief the day the adoption decree is signed, it\u2019s only one milestone in the family\u2019s longer journey.\n\u201cMeeting children where they are, while supporting and encouraging them to reach for more, is a lifelong process,\u201d Woods says.\nFor parents like Jillian Lauren, the joy of foster adoption is far greater than the struggle. \u201cThe minute we looked into our son\u2019s eyes, we knew,\u201d she says. \u201cIt\u2019s just been such a special experience, the whole messy thing.\u201d\nSharon Van Epps is a writer and mother of three. She tweets @sharonvanepps.", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00040.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 164, + "original_length": 9236, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.96, + "perplexity": 273.5, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "http://barbie.missbarbell.co.uk/cgi-bin/pages.cgi?act=diary-meta&page=2&data=life", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T04:03:57Z", + "digest": "sha1:H7ETUHRRRVO4UBSAHCYBOI5DZEC2YZZT", + "length": 10883, + "nlines": 35, + "source_domain": "barbie.missbarbell.co.uk", + "title": "Memoirs of a Roadie", + "raw_content": "There is something fascinating about graveyards. Rather than being creepy or eerie, I find them quite peaceful. It can be interesting reading the headstones to see how long ago people were buried and some of the dedications.\nRecently Dan and I visited the Warstone Lane Cemetery in the Jewellery Quarter, and previously we've visited John Bonham's grave near Droitwich and Ian Curtis' remembrance stone in Macclesfield Cemetery. I've always wanted to visit Highgate Cemetery in London and P\u00e8re Lachaise Cemetery in Paris too. I'll confess that its partly to see where famous names are buried, but I'm also intrigued to see some of the not so famous gravestones, tombs and memorials too.\nWhile attending a funeral several years ago in Cheltenham, I happened to be looking at the headstones as we walked along the path to the crematorium. One stopped me in my tracks as I wasn't quite sure whether I was seeing the resting place of the person I thought it was. The headstone was for Brian Jones and the dates on the headstone did seem to match.\nFor those who are music fans of the 60s, you will probably remember that Brian Jones was once the guitarist in The Rolling Stones, who died in 1969. My later investigations revealed that the grave was indeed the final resting place for the Stones guitarist.\nIt's surprising what little parts of history you can discover wandering through a graveyard.\nFile Under: life / people / sightseeing\nOver the last year or so, my blogging has been a bit haphazard. There are a number of reasons for this, but mostly it has been down to me not having the time to sit and write about what I've been up to. So to rectify that, I'm going to try and post at least once a week about a project I'm working on, or find time to work through an album of photos that I have been amassing and not sorting through for the past 4 or 5 years, and upload them on a more frequent basis.\nI have several coding projects currently on the go, several of which are now interconnected by one major project, Labyrinth, of which I'm slowly working through, getting them packaged and released. Releasing Labyrinth has been a long term goal and much of 2010 was spent pulling all the sites that use it together to filter all the fixes into a single codebase. Its been 8 years in the making and was quite a relief to finally make the first Open Source release of the code on 1st January 2011.\nAnother project that has been put to one side for the moment is my book. As I've mentioned previously I've been writing a book about how to organise a YAPC Conference. That will make it onto GitHub soon, so others can contribute, but I want to work through the feedback I've had so far to update it enough to prepare another draft.\nMy music life sprang back into action last year with the reformation of Ark or arK as they are now known. I overhauled the Ark Appreciation Pages I created back in 1998, and now have a backlog of photos, videos and reviews from the last few months to get through. It has been incredible to work with the guys again, and having got back in touch with IQ and Paul Menel, thanks to John Jowitt, it also been great to catch up with many old friends.\nMy family life has also been quite eventful, for all sorts of reasons, though I'll save a couple of the events for future blog posts, so I don't use up all my post in one :)\n2011 is currently looking busy, but hopefully I shall keep to my promise and at least blog about it as I go. We shall see!\nSo the Pope is coming to Birmingham this Sunday, much to the annoyance and irritation of many local residents as well many nationally. He'll be giving a mass in Cofton Park, which is a short walk from where I live. Being so close, the local council has classed us in a restricted area. As a consequence this weekend we'll be prisoners in our own home unless we can prove where we live. We are not allowed visitors, unless we visit them first and give them proof that they are coming to see us.\nThe restricted area covers quite a large area of Rubery, Rednal, Cofton and Longbridge, and many local businesses are going to suffer. The 2 big pubs, The Old Hare And Hounds and The Oak, the Lai Ling Thai restaurant and the Old Rose And Crown hotel will all being affected, as people travel from outside the area to frequent them on a weekend. I suspect they will either be closed all weekend, or they'll be defiant and local residents will all go out to make a point.\nFrom 6pm on Saturday until 8pm on Sunday we have been told expect severe disruption as roads are closed around the park and restricted access is put in place. Coaches carrying 70,000 people will then descend on Cofton Park from early Sunday morning at around 3am until the mass at 10am. Where these several thousand coaches are going to park is anyone's guess. The mass itself will be heard around the local area thanks to a very large PA system that is being erected. I wonder how many lawsuits local residents will be filing against the Catholic Church if even a whisper is heard through it before 8am on Sunday morning. Technically the pope could even be served with an ASBO.\nCofton Park itself was closed off for public use from last weekend, and won't opened again until a week after the visit. It's supposed to be a public park, and it's being closed for 3 weeks. So much for William Walter Hinde's will bequeathing the park \"to be kept for ever as an open space for the benefit of the people of Birmingham.\"\nAs we're living in a restricted area, if we leave it, even just to go to the high street shops in Rubery or across the Bristol Road to Great Park for an evening out, unless we carry proof of address, we will not be allowed back in. Even if we're on foot! Apparently the area will be (excessively) policed to ensure no one is there that shouldn't be, so I'm assuming that stop and search will be in full effect, with civil liberties through out the window.\nOn top of all this we have to pay for it. The church are allegedly covering \u00a39m-\u00a310m for the cost of the visit to the UK, while the tax payer is expected to pay over \u00a312m. A large portion of the population are not catholic, and have no interest in his visit, but local residents are told to pay for the privilege. As you might guess many local residents are not impressed. To make matters worse he's a pope that has a huge dark cloud looming over him because of various child abuse scandals he has been involved in covering up. I'm told he's probably the most unliked pope there has ever been.\nSo why do the non-catholics have to pay anything? As far as I'm concerned, if he wants to come here, the Catholic Church should foot the complete bill. And in addition should pay compensation to the local councils, which should be put towards community projects, that will benefit everyone in the area, not just a select few.\nSeveral months ago a local councillor or MP, appeared on local news saying something along the lines that the visit would benefit local people with jobs and the like. Others make even bolder statements. Not sure how this can benefit local people, as all the ground crew, police and other support staff are being drafted in, and local businesses are going to severely disrupted. Even the trinket and tshirt sellers aren't from the local area.\nAnd speaking of trinket sellers, how is it that the Catholic Church can rake in profits from sales of their cheap tat, and not expect to cover the remaining costs of the visit? Looking at the pictures it really is cheap tat, except being charged out at over inflated prices. Has the Catholic Church plummeted so low as to be nothing more than Del Boy and Rodney Trotter in the guise of official merchandise?\nI remember visiting Lourdes in the South of France over 20 years ago. The initial impression that struck me then was how tacky the place was with all the cheap street sellers, and even the official sellers. The grotto site itself was actually quite peaceful, and although I wasn't caught up with the religious overtones, was relieved to find the grotto devoid of merchandise sellers. The town of Lourdes itself was quite nice, and I did enjoy visiting the Ch\u00e2teau fort de Lourdes by cable car on the outskirts of the town. In many ways it's a shame that the religious nature of the town over shadows other aspects of the town that are just as worthy of a visit.\nIt's crossed my mind whether after the visit we'll see parts of the turf from Cofton Park ripped up and sold on eBay, with the heading \"The Pope stood here!\". The Catholic Church has already plummeted the depths, so I wouldn't be surprised.\nJust how much inconvenience and disruption can one man cause, particular when only a small minority from the area actually want him there!\nI, like others I suspect, will be awkward just for the sake of being awkward this weekend and see how much hassle it causes to prevent me from entering my own home. I'm guessing the police and officials will just get fed up with residents and let them through anyway. We shall see.\nFile Under: birmingham / brum / coftonpark / life / longbridge\nMaisha, now with OAuth support.\nA project I started back last year is Maisha, a command line client to interface to social micro-blogging networks, such as Twitter. On 31st August this year, Twitter depreciated the Basic Authention method of allowing applications to login users with a simple username and password combination. In its place they now use OAuth. (See also the blog post by Marc Mims - author of Net-Twitter).\nOn the face of it, OAuth seemed a bit confusing, and even the documentation is devoid of decent diagrams to explain it properly. Once I did get it, it was surprising to discover just how easy the concept and implementation is. For the most part Marc Mims has implemented all the necessary work within Net-Twitter, so Maisha only needed to add the code to provide the right URL for authorisation, and allow the user to enter the PIN# that then allows the application to use the Twitter API.\nThe big advantage to OAuth is that you don't need to save your password in plain text for an application. Once you enter the authorisation PIN#, the token is then saved, and reused each time you start up Maisha to access your Twitter feed.\nAs Identi.ca also implements an Open Source version of Twitter, they have also implemented OAuth in their interface. However, there is a slight modification to Net::Twitter needed, so I will wait for Marc to implement that before releasing the next version of Maisha.\nSo if you have been using Maisha and have been frustrated that you can no longer access Twitter, you now only need to upgrade to App-Maisha-0.14 and all should work again (once you've entered the PIN# of course).\nIf you are using Maisha, and have any feedback or wishlist suggestions please let me know.\nFile Under: life / opensource / perl / technology\nFile Under: internet / life / people / web", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00040.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 193, + "original_length": 20419, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.97, + "perplexity": 301.8, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "http://bbmri-lpc-biobanks.eu/", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T03:43:32Z", + "digest": "sha1:GDLA5KOJJNCUTUI7OMEZBXDTHPQR5RBI", + "length": 2049, + "nlines": 13, + "source_domain": "bbmri-lpc-biobanks.eu", + "title": "BBMRI-LPC Biobanks", + "raw_content": "BBMRI-LPC Biobanks\nWelcome to the website of BBMRI-LPC biobanks!\nBBMRI-LPC is a European-wide project involving 30 partners from 17 countries.\nThe project represents the next phase of the successful EU biobanking programme BBMRI (Biobanking and Biomolecular Resources Research Infrastructure, www.bbmri.eu). 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We provide employers with the right solutions when faced with making difficult decisions arising from the ever-increasing cost of health insurance. We develop a strategic approach which addresses the short-term needs with your long-term objectives in mind.\nWhat truly sets us apart from our competitors is that where others make promises about service, we deliver\u2026", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00040.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 4, + "original_length": 692, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.93, + "perplexity": 269.3, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "http://benofbart.org.uk/index.php/from-ministry-team/from-the-rector/319-from-rector-oct18", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T04:51:20Z", + "digest": "sha1:BG3IDRLBT4L7Q6U3V5OOSLSZZHERVEXX", + "length": 2280, + "nlines": 7, + "source_domain": "benofbart.org.uk", + "title": "From the Rector - October 2018", + "raw_content": "October; a turning of the year. Very definitely the end of summer, the start of Autumn. Even the university students have started back again, and schools\u2019 half-term is coming soon. The weather might be anything \u2014 wet and windy, hot and sunny, cool and grey \u2014 but regardless, the leaves have started to turn colour, and the days are shortening fast.\nWe are in the time of year when we celebrate Harvest. Some have recently celebrated, and some are yet to do so.\nHarvest seems to be something that occurs each year. It just sort of happens, does it not? It does not need any work or effort and all rolls along quite smoothly. Indeed, in some kinds of farming there is not even anything to harvest at a particular time of the year. Do cows milk themselves; do beef, sheep and pigs just eat; is that is all there is to it?\nIf such a statement is absurd in farming terms, why do we assume that Church finances occur in a similar way? Perhaps it is one of those things \u2014 it does not directly affect us unless something goes wrong and when it does go wrong we will take some interest. Such an approach can work but it is does not lead to long term growth or a sense of confidence. God will provide; indeed He has provided. The provision is with us and it is us that need harvesting.\nLike an agricultural harvest, we will have been affected by outside factors. Jobs may have changed (and in some cases may not be there any longer); retirement may have occurred or full time study concluded and the world of work entered. All of these are key things that may prompt a personal giving review.\nBut, what about the many of us where there has not been a major change? As with a long established apple orchard, we still produce fruit even if no major changes in the shape of the tree have occurred. We still have a harvest and we need to look at what it is. We then look at how we offer part of this back to God.\nWe sing in the harvest hymn that all good gifts around us are sent from heaven above. We are then exhorted to \u201dthank the Lord, O thank the Lord, for all his love\u201d. The tune enables us to concentrate on the word \u2019\u2019all\u2019\u2019. When we review our giving, this year, let's concentrate on the word \u2018all\u2019 when looking at what God has given us. 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Idolatry is the channel for expressing creature arrogance and independence from God. 1 Samuel 15:22-23\nA. Rom. 1:18-25 - denies creator honor to God\nB. Jonah 2:8 - man forsakes the only provision for his sinfulness and frustrations in life.\n1. hebhel: 13 times for idols\n2. Their chesed: the personal provision for them from God. Cf. David at Psalm 144:2\n2. There are 3 types of idolatry:\nA. Deity oriented: ascribing deity worship to something.\nExodus 32:1-6 (Not authorized by God - Isaiah 42;8)\nB. Detail oriented: centering everything around wealth and the physical things of this life. Covetousness - Eph. 5:5; Col. 3;5\nDoctrine of rich mindedness: 1 Tim. 6:9-10, 17\nC. Christian oriented: placing religious value on an object or practice which God has not authorized. symbols, statues, rituals, leaders.\n3. All of it begins in the soul as influenced by the sin nature.\nA. Mark 7:22; Gal. 5:19\nB. Ezek. 14:7; Acts 7:39\n4. Deity oriented idolatry is an extension of demon influence.\nA. 1 Cor. 10:20\nB. Psalm 106:34-39\nC. Deut. 32:17\nD. Principle of 2 Cor. 11:13-15\n5. Accordingly, idolatry is a contact point for all kinds of occult activity.\nDeut. 18:9-12; Zech. 10:2 (teraphim - Ezek. 21:21)\n6. But the idol itself is nothing and powerless.\nA. 1 Cor. 8:4; 10:19\nB. 1 Chron. 16:26; Ps. 96:5 (but cf. LXX - daimonion)\nC. They are worthlessness: hebhel = vanity, emptiness.\n1. Used 13 times for idols\n2. Jer. 10:3, 15 and 8b\nD. Isaiah 41:29 - breath and emptiness: ruach and tohu\nE. Isaiah 45:20 - a god who cannot deliver\nF. Psalm 115:4-8\n1. v. 4 - work of man's hands - Ps. 135:15; Is. 2:8\n2. v. 5 - Can't speak or see - Rev. 9:20\n3. v. 6 - Can't hear or smell\n4. v. 7 - Can't feel or walk\n5. v. 7 - Can't even make a noise\nG. Jer. 14:22 - Can't produce rain\nH. Jer. 10:14 - Deceitful and no breath in them (ruach).\nI. Jer. 10:5 - Can do no harm or good\nJ. Thus, eliyl: from alal = to be weak, ineffectual, insufficient\n16 times translated as \"worthless thing.\"\n7. The stupidity of idol worship:\nA. Isaiah 44:9-20\nB. Isaiah 40:18-22\nC. Jer. 10:1-5\nD. Jer. 10:8 - idolaters are stupid\n1. stupid: baar - qal imperfect = brutish, stubborn, self-centered.\n2. foolish: kasal - qal imperfect (verb only)\na. result of being brutish is to operate on creature viewpoint.\nb. The root KSL, describes the independence and rebellion of the sin nature, and the inferior viewpoint that comes from a soul which is controlled by the sin nature.\n3. Jer. 2:26b-27 - total disorientation to reality\nE. No benefit: Hab. 2:18\n8. And yet, idol influence is powerful and deceptive.\nA. 1 Cor. 12:2; Gal. 4:8\nB. Produces a fear psychosis: Jer. 50:38; 51:7 with 10:2, 5\nC. Example: Deut. 12:31; Ps. 106:36, 38\n9. Deity idolatry expresses itself in 2 basic ways.\nA. Lasciviousness: the phallic cult - Lev. 18:3-25; Deut. 12:31;\nB. Asceticism: 1 Tim. 4:1-3; Col. 2:20-23\n10. Since Yahweh worship (True Christianity) is the only basis for relationship and fellowship with God, any substitute is called spiritual harlotry and adultery.\nA. Jer. 3:8-10\nB. Ezek. 16:1-43\nC. Hosea 4:11-13\nD. Rev. 17:1-5\n11. Consequently, idolatry causes national disintegration and judgment.\nA. Jer. 7:16-20; 17:1-4; 44:23\nB. 2 Chron. 24;15-22\nC. 2 Kings 17:7-23\nD. Ezek. 6:1-14; 16:35-43\nE. Ezek. 14:12-21\n12. Old Testament commands against idolatry.\nA. Ex. 20:1-3; 23:24\nB. Deut. 4:28; 5:7; 6:14; 7:16; 8:19; 4:15-20\nC. Deut. 29:17-18; 27:15\nD. Deut. 13:6-16\nE. Lev. 19:4; 26:1\n13. New Testament commands against idolatry.\nB. 1 Cor. 10:1-22\nC. Apply the doctrine of separation: 1 Cor. 5:6-11\nD. 1 Thes. 1:9\n14. Protection from idolatry comes through orientation to God's character and plan.\nB. Isaiah 40:12-31 (application of divine essence to combat idolatry)\n15. All idols will be removed from the earth at the beginning of the Messiah's 1000 year earthly kingdom. Zech. 13:2\n16. Unbelievers alive at the day of the Lord will recognize the uselessness of their idols and will initially discard them in fear at the presence of Christ.\nIs. 2:18-21\n17. However, during the day of the Lord judgments, idolatry as exemplified in \"beast worship\" will be the primary factor for keeping people from trusting in the divine plan of salvation. Rev. 9:20-21\n1. Illusion is an attitude, act or way of life that one thinks is truth but in reality, is inconsistent with truth as revealed in the bible.\n2.We must view illusion from 3 perspectives.\nA. Inherent illusion: The sin nature. Jer. 17:9, self-deception and promotion.\n(Creature illusion: Is. 29:15-16; 45:9)\nB. Environmental illusion: What you are raised with such as tradition and religion.\nC. Acquired illusion: Deception from emotion, tradition, experience or inaccurate bible teaching.\n1. Salvation illusion: John 1:12-13; 1 Cor. 6:9-11\n2. Fellowship: 1 John 1:6; 2:9-11; Gal. 3:1-3\n3. Growth: 2 Tim. 4:2-4\n4. Service: Gal. 6:7-9; Jn. 16:2; Acts 26:9-11; 1 Tim. 6:5\n5. Teacher: 1 Tim. 1:7; Rm. 2:17-21; Mat. 23;24; 2 Tim. 3:7, 13\n6. Sin illusion: Psalm 73;1-14\n7. Temptation: James 1:13-16\n8. Separation: 1 Cor. 15:33\n9. Denial: Jer. 44:15-18\n3. All illusion is error in some area of Bible doctrine.\nBut it is perpetuated by the individual's own pride and arrogance which insists on the viewpoint without having any sound biblical basis for believing it.\nJust emotion, tradition and inaccurate Biblical information.\n4. The three greatest examples of illusion:\nA. Rejection of the Messiah: Is. 53;3-4, 8; Mat. 27:20-25; John 19:6-7, 12-16; Luke 23:34; Acts 2:22-24, 36\nB. Paul's persecution of Christians: Acts 7:58 + 8:1-3; 9:1-2; 26:9-11; 22:3-5; Philip. 3:6; 1 Cor. 15:9; Eph. 3:8; 1 Tim. 1:15\nC. Success of the Beast: 2 Thes. 2:8-11; Mt. 24;23-26; Rev. 13:1-9, 11-17.\n5. The only reliable protection from illusion is a faithful analysis of the Bible using the Golden Rule of Interpretation with application of the original languages. Eph. 4:11-14; 2 Tim. 2:25-26\n6. THE GOLDEN RULE OF INTERPRETATION:\nWhen the plain sense of scripture makes common sense, seek no other sense; therefore, take every word at its primary, ordinary, usual, literal meaning\nunless the facts of the immediate context,\nstudied in the light of related passages and axiomatic and fundamental truths, indicate clearly otherwise.\n1. God designed and created man in His own image.\nA. Gen. 1:26 - AsAh = the design (create out of something, make)\nB. Gen. 1:27 - bArA = the act of creation (create out of nothing)\n2. The words, \"image and likeness\" are used to indicate two different factors concerning the \"image\" of God.\nA. Image is the word, tselem and always indicates a \"physical\" or structural image of some kind.\nB. Likeness is the word, demuth. The root, DMH, usually refers to some kind of \"functional\" image, likeness or expression.\n1. A few times it is used to indicate a \"physical\" form.\n2. This has led some to claim that there is no distinction between the two words, tselem and demuth, and that one should not be made.\n3. However, when all the uses are observed, there is a discernible difference which certainly needs to be preserved especially when the two words are used together as they are at Gen. 1:26.\n4. Actually, this is not unusual for other words that are close in meaning.\nC. SEE detailed word study on these two words and their derivatives.\n3. What is the image of God?\nA. Genesis 1:26-27 summarizes the creation of man, male and female on day six of God's restoration program for the earth (See Topic: The Gap), and tells us that he is created in the image and form of God.\nB. Genesis 1:2-2:3 is a summary of the six days of restoration and new creation, including day seven.\nC. Adam, all by himself, without other members of the human race, is created in this \"image of God.\" But since all come out from Adam, they share His image (Gen. 5:3), which is Adam's created image with the addition of a sin nature.\nSee Topic: The Sin Nature\nD. Adam is a unified being, but is composed of three expressions within that unity (1 Thes. 5:23). Genesis 2:7 details the mechanics of creating the man on day six.\n1. Nostrils: refers to the physical body.\n2. breath of life: neshAmAh which corresponds with spirit (ruach) at Gen. 7:22 (neshAmAh of the spirit); the human spirit.\n3. Living soul: refers to the soul (nephesh).\nE. Man's creation in the \"image\" of God is inferior to angelic creation, so the \"image\" does not bestow on man any \"structural\" characteristics of angels. (Heb. 2:7; Ps. 8:5).\nF. The \"our image\" of Genesis 1:26 would be the image of the Godhead.\n1. Obviously, the \"image\" does not include deity characteristics.\n2. The image (tselem) refers to the Godhead from the standpoint of His \"physical\" structure. However, God is a Spirit being (John 4:24) and is not \"physical\" in the same sense that we are.\nHowever, there is a distinct structure to the Godhead in regard to how He manifests Himself to His creation. This is His \"structural\" image.\n3. Deuteronomy 6:4 explains this \"image\" as a unity of divine personalities. \"Yahweh our Gods (elohim), Yahweh, a Unity.\"\n4. The plural structure of the Godhead is:\na. The Father: He is designated as God Most High in the Old Testament and functions as the planner and ultimate authority within the Godhead. The \"authority\" expression of the Godhead.\nb. The Son: He is not \"officially\" designated as the Son in the Old Testament, but is recognized as the revealed member of the Godhead; the visible manifestation of the Godhead to the human race. The \"visible\" expression of the Godhead.\nc. The Spirit: He is the \"power\" expression of the Godhead.\nHe is the one who reveals, moves, empowers and inspires.\n5. See Topic: Beginnings: Orientation to the Godhead\nG. Man's created status, in the image of God, is as a triune being. 1 Thes. 5:23\n1. Soul: This is the controller of the unity and corresponds with the Father.\n2. Body: This is the visible manifestation of the unity and corresponds to the Son.\n3. Spirit: This is the reflector of the soul; the element that reveals the character of the soul as personality. It corresponds to the Holy Spirit.\n4. The image of God is shared by both male and female. Gen. 1:27 with 5:1-2\nA. Adam directly: Gen. 2:7\nB. Ishah indirectly through Adam: Gen. 2:21-22\n5. Adam and Ishah, both created in the image of God, were designed to bring honor and glory to God's character and plan.\nA. Initially through expressing the natural soul attitudes created by God. This was evidenced through adherence to the \"one-tree prohibition\" in the garden.\nB. After the fall, through acceptance of God's salvation provision and adherence to the light system throughout their lives.\n1. Moral truth designed by God for the whole human race.\n2. Spiritual truth designed for those in relationship with Him.\n6. The image of God was not lost at the fall.\nA. At Gen. 9:6, the prohibition against murder has impact because people who are killed HAVE BEEN CREATED in the image of God with the result that at the time they are killed, they are in that image.\nB. At James 3:9, the indictment on cursing men has impact because those people who are cursed HAVE BEEN MADE in the image of God, with the result that at the time they are cursed they are still in that image.\nC. At 1 Cor. 11:7, the teaching that the man is not to have his head covered, is symbolic of his original created status which he STILL possesses - in the image and glory of God. Here, the word, image, refers to the structural image of the Godhead, and the word, glory, refers to the functional image of God (designed to glorify Him).\nD. The above passages establish the fact that mankind is still in the same image with which he was created. It was neither lost nor diminished when Adam and Ishah sinned. What happened is that their ENTIRE being, body, soul and spirit, all came under the condition of spiritual death and lost relationship with God.\n7. The bible does not teach that the human spirit was somehow lost or rendered inoperative after Adam's sin. Quite the opposite, it is clearly established that all men have a human spirit, fully functional in its original design.\nA. The error occurs through the assumption that the human spirit is that entity through which man relates to God, but this is not supported by Scripture.\nB. There is no part of man that is specifically designated as that which relates to God. Man relates to God through his entire being (body, soul and spirit).\nC. The \"spiritual\" death of man is that which permeates his entire being, not just his human spirit. The reason the word \"spiritual death\" is used is not because it has the \"spirit\" in view, but because it has in view man's relationship with God on a \"spiritual\" plane. God is Spirit, and man has lost his capacity to fellowship with God, The Spirit, thus, spiritually dead.\nD. SEE Topic: The Human Spirit for a detailed study.\nE. See Topic: Spiritual Death\n8. The \"form\" of God, using the word demuth, deals more with a \"functional\" image rather than the structure of the Godhead. It should be translated as likeness rather than form.\nA. Since that \"function\" can not be deity function, it must be a reflection of some aspect of deity. The most reasonable is to see that likeness as a reflection of God's revealed standards for the function of the human creature.\nB. That function can be reasonably suggested as a character format placed into the soul of Adam and passed on to all his children.\nC. Orientation to the natural design in the soul. Ec. 7:29 (yAshAr).\nMan's soul was designed with an \"upright\" character structure.\nb. Morality life: fellowship with man. Centered around the issues of personal freedom and marriage. The other two areas of morality (family and society) are simply an extension of these two. Gen. 2:18-20; Ec. 7:29a; Rom. 2:14\n3. There are 7 basic attitudes in the soul, all of which directly reflect God's attitude. In this way, man's person functions as the likeness of God just as he IS in created status.\nWhen he functions as the image of God it is called being \"the glory of God\" as at 1 Cor. 11:7, and is described by the Hebrew word, demuth (functional form or likeness), at Gen. 1:26-27.\na. RESPECT: God has total respect for and confidence in His own perfection. Isaiah 43:10-13\nThe design in man's soul reflects this by having the grace perspective; the perspective that recognizes the greatness and magnitude of God and \"self\" as a creature.\nb. LOVE: God loves His own character: Psalm 33:5a He recognizes the absolute value in Himself and is dedicated to promoting that value in the universe.\nMan's soul was designed to reflect that by placing the highest value on God's character and plan, and by promoting it as the most important thing in life.\nc. PRIDE: Pride is God's recognition of His own perfection. It is Divine self-esteem. Ex. 15:7; Isaiah 46:9\nMan was designed to reflect that through placing total confidence in Him; boasting in Him, which is praise and thanksgiving that shows appreciation for who He is and what He has accomplished.\nd. AMBITION: This is God's perfect desire to promote His character and plan in the eyes of His creatures and to carry out His plan for the universe. Is. 46:10.\nMan's soul reflects this by seeking to promote that divine plan in everything he does. The purpose for all of man's earthly activity is to promote that plan. This then serves as man's motivation for service and fulfills Gen. 1:28, and in the garden it fulfilled Gen. 2:15, \"cultivate and guard.\"\ne. HATE: Hate is the natural attitude that comes from perfect righteousness. God's mentality rejects anything that is contrary to that righteousness. Ps. 5:4-6\nf. JEALOUSY: This is God's protectiveness of His divine essence and plan, Ex. 20:5. Not that God needs protection, but it is the value of divine essence held by His creatures that is protected since Satan's antagonism is constantly seeking to discredit God's essence and plan.\ng. ANGER: Anger as a natural expression from hate, is the verbal and active manifestation of righteousness and justice. Ex. 15:7\n9. After their fall through disobedience to God in the garden, Adam and Ishah acquired a genetic mutation in their mentality which can be designated as a \"sin nature.\" See Topic: The Sin Nature\nA. This mutation now gives a distorted influence to the original \"upright\" design in the soul, but the design is still present in every member of the human race.\nB. The result is that in many cultures, people have an inner conviction of morality that parallels the standards of the written law that God gave to Israel in the form of the ten commandments (Romans 2:14).\nC. However, that design is seriously hampered from natural expression because the self- centeredness of the sin nature is now dominant in mankind (Ec. 7:29, \"sought out many devices\").\nD. Moral training helps deter the overt \"immoral\" expression of the sin nature and provides a reinforcement to the natural design, so that a general moral freedom and stability is available to the human race (Prov. 22:15).\nE. But such training does not guarantee a deterrent nor does it make one more receptive to spiritual values.\n10. The spiritual side of the natural design (directed toward God) is dormant until God triggers it through the revealing of his person and work.\nA. This is done in two stages:\n1. God consciousness: God so uses the phenomena of the physical world to impress upon the soul of man the existence and magnitude of the creator. (Rom. 1:19-21; Ps. 19:1-6; Acts 14:17; 17:26-27; Rom. 10:18).\nThere are a variety of other factors that awaken an awareness of God within the soul of man, all of which, convict man to seek for God (Acts 17:27) and pave the way for hearing the gospel.\nSee Topic: God Consciousness\n2. Gospel hearing: God provides specific gospel information to those who express a \"seeking\" for God after becoming aware of Him through the God-consciousness phenomena.\na. This is called the convicting ministry of the Holy Spirit (John 16:9-11).\nb. And the drawing of God (John 12:32; 6:44).\nB. When a person hears the gospel he must choose either to reject or accept the promise of salvation proffered therein (John 3:36).\nC. When a person trusts in Christ (believes the gospel), he is immediately given spiritual life by the Holy Spirit and the natural design in the soul is now able to be cultivated and strengthened through spiritual growth (1 Pet. 2:2; 3:18; Eph. 4:20-24).\n11. After salvation, the functional expression of God's \"likeness\" (character reflection) that brings glory to Him, is cultivated through spiritual growth.\nA. Accordingly, the believer is exhorted to cease from sin since he has been delivered from the kingdom of darkness (Col. 1:13) and has become a new creation (2 Cor. 5:17) and has positionally (in Christ) put on a new man (Col. 3:8-10).\nB. The positional \"new man\" is experientially being built up (renewed) through growth according to the image (character standards) of God.\nC. At Col. 3:10, the phrase, \"have put on\" (aorist tense), refers to the positional status of the new creation. The phrase, \"is being renewed\" (present tense), refers to the experiential progress of growth unto full knowledge (maturity).\nD. At Ephesians 4:20-24, the believer is likewise exhorted to \"put on\" the new man. Here Paul refers to the experiential reflection of the positional new man that the believer became at the moment he trusted in Christ. Paul gives us two ideas: (1) The believer HAS put on the new man because he is in union with Christ. (2) The believer needs to put on experientially, a reflection of that new man through fellowship and growth.\nThe new man that he is exhorted to put on, \"is\" (not, has been) created in righteousness and holiness by the truth.\nThe aorist tense in the participle form does not require a \"past tense\" or \"completed\" idea, but rather, it takes on a time significance based on context.\nIn principle, the new man IS created within the soul of the believer, here on earth, as he learns and utilizes the knowledge standards of God's viewpoint.\nE. This is what is in view at 2 Cor. 3:18, \"being transformed into the same image (glory). .\"\n1. Reference to the growth process which produces in the believer a reflection of God's glory (His \"integrity\" attributes).\n2. This then is not a reference to the original \"structural\" image of God, but a reflection of and fulfillment of the \"functional\" image of God (His righteousness and love).\n3. It refers to character reflection through knowledge and application of Bible truth.\nSee Topic: Spiritual growth\n12. There is a third aspect to sharing God's image, or more specifically, the image of the Son, and that is when through resurrection, the believer will possess a physical body exactly like Christ's resurrection body. This is called, \"conformed to the image of His Son,\" at Romans 8:29. The term, first born among many brethren\" refers to physical resurrection.\nSee Topic: CHRIST: The Beginning of the Creation of God\n1. Imitation refers to the production of the character of Christ in the life of the believer through the control of the Holy Spirit and the word of God in the soul.\n2. But there is another character the believer can imitate in his Christian walk.\nThe character of the unbeliever. 1 Cor. 3:3, \"walking as men.\"\n3. Every believer remains here on earth for the one purpose of bringing honor and glory to God. 1 Cor. 10:31; Col. 3:17; 1 Pet. 2:9; 4:11\n4. He is commanded to glorify God in his Christian life. 1 Cor. 10:31; 6:19-20\n5. This one of the purposes for the indwelling Holy Spirit. 1 Cor. 6:19-20; John 16:12-15\n6. The Holy Spirit produces the character of Christ in the life of the believer by using the word of God which is in that believer's soul. 2 Cor. 3:18; Gal. 5:22-23;\n7. We must understand the contrast between position and experience as indicated at Ephesians 5:8.\nA. For you were \"formerly\" (as an unbeliever) darkness.\nIndicates the position and function of rebellion against God.\nB. But \"now\" (as a believer) you are light IN the Lord.\nIndicates our new position IN CHRIST where we are set apart (sanctified) as perfectly righteous in the eyes of God.\nThis is the command to live here on earth in your Christian walk, AS you are in your positional relationship IN CHRIST.\n1. You are a saint: act like a saint\n2. You are a child of God: act like a child of God\n3. You possess the righteousness of God: live like it.\n8. The Imitation of the unbeliever's character is accomplished by the control of the sin nature. 1 Cor. 3:1-3; Gal. 5:19-21; Mark 7:21-23; Rom. 6:20; 7:14-23\n9. So the issue in the Christian life here on earth IS - Who will control the life?\nA. The Holy Spirit: Gal. 5:16, 25; Eph. 5:18\nB. The sin nature: Rom. 8:8; 6:12-13\n10. The consistency of the Imitation of Christ.\nA. The Holy Spirit is the means of producing Christ's character so He must be in control.\nB. But the basis for it is the word of God in the soul.\nC. They are both necessary. Each dependent on the other.\nD. Sin is the opposite of the character of Christ.\nE. The frequency or infrequency of sin depends on the standards that are in your soul. The more of God's word you know and use, the less you will sin. Psalm 119:9-11\nF. The consistency of the character of Christ depends on the same thing. 2 Cor. 3:18; Eph. 5:14-18; 2 Pet. 1:3-4\nG. The often repeated desire of God's communicators for the believer is expressed in this greeting, \"grace and peace to you.\"\nH. Basically, this expresses God's desire for the believer to utilize God's grace provisions (The word + the H.S.) and experience the inner peace and joy of the abundant life which results from using those grace provisions.\n11. Commands for Imitation:\nA. Eph. 5:1-2, 18\nB. Philip. 2:5\nC. 1 Pet. 2:21-23\nD. Imitation of Christ through Imitation of Paul.\n1. Principle: 1 Cor. 11:1\n2. Mental attitude: 1 Cor. 4:16\n3. Moral standards; 2 Thes. 3:6-10\n4. His doctrinal teachings and application. Philip. 4:9\nE. Imitation of your leaders: Hebrews 13:7\n1. Man qualifies for a spiritual inheritance through entrance into the family of God.\nA. Entrance by faith: John 1:12; Gal. 3:26\nB. Sons of God and heirs: Galatians 4:7\nC. Joint heirs with Christ: Romans 8:17\n1. Christ is the heir of the universe. Hebrews 1:2\n2. We are IN CHRIST: Gal. 3:26-28\nD. The new birth provides the inheritance: 1 Pet. 1:3-4\nE. Through transfer from darkness to light. Col. 1:12-13\n2. Our inheritance is based on the pre determined plan of God.\nEphesians 1:11; Titus 3:4-7; James 1:18\n3. It is made available through the work of Christ on the cross.\nTitus 3:4-7; Hebrews 9:15\n4. 1 Peter 1:3-4 describes the character and security of our family inheritance.\nA. It is imperishable: aphthartos = incapable of rotting\nB. It is undefiled: amiantos = unpolluted\nC. It is unfading: amarantos = unable to lose its brilliance\nD. It is reserved in heaven: t\u0101re\u014d - perfect passive participle\n(Based on salvation security - guarded by the power of God)\nE. The Holy Spirit is the seal of guarantee of our inheritance. Eph. 1:13-14; 4:30\n5. As heirs of God, every believer is given a personal guardian angel. Heb. 1:14\n6. God has determined in His plan to use the church (the body of Christ) both here on earth and throughout eternity, to bring ultimate recognition of His glory to the entire universe. Eph. 1:11; 2:7; 3:10\n7. On this basis, our inheritance is viewed as a participation or sharing in His glory. Rom. 5:2; Col. 3:4; 1 Thes. 2:12; 2 Tim. 2:10; Heb. 2:10; 1 Pet. 5:10\n8. The eternal phase of our inheritance begins at the rapture, when all believers \"to date\" will receive a resurrection body. 1 Pet. 1:3-5; 1 Thes. 4:13-18; 2 Cor. 5:1-5; 1 Cor. 15:49-53; Rom. 8:16-25, 29-30\n9. Unbelievers have no part in this inheritance. John 3:36; 1 Cor. 6:9-11; Gal. 5:16-21; Eph. 5:1-8; Rev. 20:15\n10. Knowledge of our inheritance should be a motivation for dedication and service while here on earth. Fulfillment of ambassadorship. 1 Pet. 1:13-25\n11. The experiential or \"temporal\" aspect of our inheritance involves earthly blessings to be enjoyed from the moment of salvation.\nA. Blessings through consistent obedience. 1 Pet. 3:9-12\nB. The abundant life of peace and joy: John 10:10; 15:11; 17:13\nC. Blessings from being on the positive side of the law of sowing and reaping. Col. 3:23-25\n1. Proverbs 11:3 - The integrity of the upright will guide them.\nA. The integrity: tumAh = completion, character consistency.\n1. From tAmam: to be complete, finished, mature\n2. Adjective = tam: Job 1:1 = complete, mature\n3. Adjective = tAmiym: complete, mature, having integrity.\n4. Noun = t\u014dm = integrity.\nB. Of the upright: yAshAr is used to indicate moral character which is the seed pod for spiritual maturity and the channel for its expression.\n1. The one who recognizes and accepts God's standards of morality is in the right frame of mind to respond to spiritual value.\n2. And as spiritual value becomes of greatest importance in his life (spiritual integrity), there is greater capacity to follow God's moral standards.\n3. Thus, spiritual integrity is the basis for making right decisions in every area of life.\n4. To clarify: spiritual integrity is the character that expresses a consistent desire and follow through for honoring the viewpoint and policy of God as it is revealed in the Bible.\nC. Will guide them: nAchAh - direction and insight for facing every issue and circumstance in life. Prov. 11:5 with 3:5-6\nD. Thus, the best preparation for facing life is moral and spiritual character growth. The idea is to be \"inwardly\" mature by the time you reach physical maturity.\n1. Prov. 1:1-5, 33\n2. Prov. 2:1-11 (v. 7 = t\u014dm)\n3. Protection: Prov. 2:12-16\n4. Social stability: Prov. 2:20-22 (v. 21 = tAmiym)\n5. Prov. 4:10-13\n2. Point of observation: The man of integrity has a future. Psalm 37:37, 18\nA. Destiny in time: abundant life blessings - John 10:10; 14:27; 15:11; 16:1; Rom. 14:17\nB. Social blessings: 1 Pet. 3:8-13\nC. Taking hold onto the quality of life which is eternal: 1 Tim. 6:11-12; Gal. 6:7-8\nD. Exaltation (promotion) in this life: 1 Pet. 5:5-10\n3. God's desire for the believer's walk.\nA. His attitude: Prov. 11:20\nB. Abraham: Gen. 17:1\nC. Related to the occult: Deut. 18:9-14\nD. Joshua generation: Josh. 24:14\nE. Solomon: 1 Kings 9:4\nF. Basis for fellowship: Psalm 15:2\n1. walks with tAmiym\n2. works righteousness\n3. Speaks truth in his heart\nG. Reflection of God's character: Mat. 5:48\n4. God deals with us based on our capacity to relate to Him on His terms. Psalm 18:25-26\nA. Humility: chAsiyd\nB. Character consistency: tAmiym\nC. Soul content: pure\nD. Perverted: (iq\u0101sh) rejection of creator viewpoint and policy.\n5. Therefore, divine approval of the believer's walk is based on righteousness and integrity. Psalm 7:8; 26:1; Job 8:20\n6. Spiritual maturity is determined by the character standards that God builds in the soul through the growth process. Psalm 18:32\nB. Proverbs 13:6\nC. James 3:2\n7. Integrity is demonstrated by consistent application of divine truth. Psalm 119:1\nThis is the subject of the entire psalm.\n8. Understanding mature love\nA. Keeping His word: 1 John 2:5\nB. Expression to others: 1 John 4:12\nC. Fellowship and rapport with God: 1 John 4:17\nD. Love casts out fear: 1 John 4:18 (2 Tim. 1:7)\n9. Principle of value: Prov. 19:1; 28:6\nA. Benefit: Psalm 84:11\nB. Happiness: Psalm 119:1\nC. No shame: Psalm 119:80\nD. Social stability: Psalm 37:18; Prov. 2:21\nE. Soul stability: Psalm 25:21\n1. God is a shield: Prov. 2:7\n2. God's way is a stronghold: Prov. 10:29\n3. Waling in security: Prov. 10:9 based on v. 8a\n4. Confidence: Job 4:6\n10. Principle of blessing through association with a mature believer. Prov. 20:7\n11. Orientation to the persecution potential: 2 Tim. 3:12\nB. Proverbs 29:10\nC. Amos 5:10\n12. Examples of maturity.\nA. Abraham: Gen. 17:1 with 26:5 which results in James 2:21-23\nB. Job:\n1. Statement: Job 1:1\n2. God's recognition: Job 1:8; 2:3\n3. Attack: Job 1:9-11; 2:4-5; 2:9; 4:6-8\n4. Expression: Job 31:1-37 (v. 6)\nC. David:\n1. Statement: Psalm 78:70-72\n2. Attitude: Psalm 101:2-8\n3. Summary: Psalm 18:20-24\n4. Man after God's own heart: 1 Sam. 13:14; Acts 13:22\nD. Paul: Philip. 3:7-14; 4:11-13\nE. Example of Jesus:\n1. Isaiah 50:4-9\n2. Luke 2:40, 52\n3. Hebrews 5:7-9\n13. Service capacity:\nPsalm 26:1-12; 78:70-72; Rom. 15:13-14; Philip. 2:14-16a; Col. 1:22; 3:16\n14. The issue of spiritual growth.\nA. 1 Cor. 14:20, in understanding, be mature.\nB. Goal of growth: Eph. 4:13 (The job of the communicators)\nC. Col. 1:28, The goal of the communicators: to present every man \"mature\" in Christ.\nD. James 1:4 - patience under pressure\nE. Pray for the maturity of others: Col. 4:12\nF. The knowledge capacity of the mature: Heb. 5:14\nG. 1 Pet. 5:10 - the 4 grace provisions for establishing integrity in the life.\nFor details see Israel's national discipline\n1. The divided kingdom refers to the fact that Israel was divided physically and geographically into 2 separate nations.\n2. This occurred in 982 BC at the death of Solomon, when the political faction belonging to Jeroboam, rebelled against the established rule of the house of David.\n3. This was permitted by God as personal discipline on King Solomon. 1 Kings 11:9-10\n4. The prediction of the division: 1 Kings 11:11-13\n5. The preparation for the division: 1 Kings 11:26-37\n6. The occurrence of the division: 1 Kings 12:1-24\nA. The Northern Kingdom is called: Israel, Affirm and Samaria.\nB. The Southern Kingdom is called: Judah and Jerusalem.\n7. The divine intention for the division was to have 2 separate political entities which both still observed divine standards for worship and service as it was centered in Jerusalem.\nThe promise to the Northern Kingdom is recorded at 1 Kings 11:38.\n8. The failure of the Northern kingdom: 1 Kings 12:25-33\nA. The promise of blessing was never fulfilled. 1 Kings 13:33-34\nB. Not even one leader of the N. Kingdom did good in the sight of God during its entire history.\n9. The failure of the Southern kingdom: Isaiah 5;13-17\n10. When this spiritual rebellion took place, those of all the tribes who wanted to continue serving God, and valued such service above political differences, reunited with Judah.\nThis kept the 12 tribes still united under God.\n2 Chron. 11:16-17; 15:9; 2 Chron. 30:1-12\n11. The time period of the division:\nA. From 982 until 605 BC = 377 years\nB. N. K. from 982 until 719 BC = 263 years\nC. S. K. from 982 until 605 BC = 377 years\nD. Both kingdoms were united in captivity within the Chaldean Empire.\nE. They returned together as one nation in 536 BC and remained as such until 70 AD when they were taken captive by Rome and dispersed throughout the world.\n12. The Northern Kingdom never recovered and so remained always politically, geographically and spiritually separated from Judah. 1 Kings 13:33-34\n13. But because of spiritual dedication, the nation of Judah contained members of all the tribes of Israel. 2 Chron. 34:5-6, 33.\n(there are no Ten Lost Tribes. 2 Chron. 35:18)\n14. Prophets sent to the divided kingdom:\nA. To the N. K: Hosea, Amos (Isaiah)\nB. To the S. K: Isaiah, Jeremiah, Joel, Habakkuk, Zephaniah\nC. To both: Micah\nD. Both during the Chaldean captivity: Daniel and Ezekiel\nE. Both after the captivity: Haggai, Zechariah, Malachi\n15.The nation restored: 2 Chron. 36;22-23\nA. The term \"all Israel\" at Ezra 2:70.\nB. Used consistently all throughout both Ezra and Nehemiah.\n16. The N. Kingdom was destroyed by God in 721-719 BCE by Assyria and placed permanently under the 5th cycle of discipline.\nA. There was never any promise of restoration given to the N. Kingdom as there was to the Southern Kingdom.\nB. Restoration was promised to both of them but only on the basis of the\nphysical reunion of the two groups.\n1. partially fulfilled in 536 BC (spiritually and politically)\n2. Totally fulfilled when the Messiah gathers Israel and uses them as the center of proclaiming divine truth during Messiah's kingdom.\n1. Simply a political entity that rebelled against the kingly line of David for political reasons and took on a separate identity as an independent nation.\n2. Two fold purpose: Divine design - 2 Chron. 11:1-4\nA. Discipline on Solomon: 1 Kings 11:1-13\nB. Fulfills to Ephraim the promise of Gen. 48:16; 49:22; Deut. 33:13-17\n1. 1 Kings 11:26\n2. Ephraim as a title for the N. Kingdom used by Hosea and Jeremiah.\n3. Potential blessing on Jeroboam as the first ruler.\nA. based on perpetuation of spiritual heritage, which is centered in Jerusalem. 1 Kings 11:36-38\nB. It is a separate political dynasty from Judah (the Southern Kingdom), but not separate from spiritual life\nrequirements. \"As my servant David.\"\nC. If he is faithful: then -\n1. I will be with you: Personal blessing\n2. Build you an enduring house: Family blessing\n3. I will give Israel to you: National blessing\nD. But he was never faithful. 1 Kings 12:25-33; 13:33-34\nE. So, the promises were never carried out except to the extent that the Northern Kingdom flourished for 264\nyears. (982-719 BCE; 3143-3406 AH)\nF. And that 264 year period plus the size of the nation's land mass, was the fulfillment of the promises\nto Ephraim found in Genesis.\n4. When the N. Kingdom expressed rebellion against divine design for spiritual life, the remnant of believers living in the Northern Kingdom who remained faithful to God, moved to Judah. 2 Chron. 11:14-17; 15:9.\n5. So the N. K. was now not only politically and geographically separate from Judah, but also spiritually separate.\n6. The spiritual heritage of the people of Israel was preserved in the Southern Kingdom of Judah solely and completely.\n7. The discipline on the N. K. is viewed as a complete destruction without any chance of recovery.\n1 Kings 13:34; Hos. 1:4-6\n8. Future restoration is viewed only through a total reunion of the N.K. with Judah as a political unit. There was never really a spiritual division of the 12 tribes of Israel.\nA. Before 719 BC: 2 Chron. 11:14-17; 30:11\nB. Before 586 BC: 2 Chron. 34:5-7, 33; 35:16-18\nC. After 536 BC: Ezra 3:1; 2:70\nD. The issue in re-joining Israel and Judah as one nation is simply a mending of the political division and a\nrestoration of spiritual life to both. Hos. 1:10-11; Jer. 31:1-6, 27\n9. During the captivity from 736 to 536 BC (200 years total), the people of Israel are represented as being of Judah\nand not of Ephraim.\nA. The people of the N.K. as a political body are never dealt with again.\nB. The people in Babylon maintain a political body throughout the captivity. Ezek. 8:1; 14:1\nC. The people in Babylon are a composite of all 12 tribes as indicated in Point 8, A and B above.\n\"Elders of Israel and Judah\"\nD. So basically, the division of the kingdom is a human viewpoint issue. God always viewed the spiritual seed or remnant as being represented totally in the Southern Kingdom.\nE. The restoration of the two kingdoms is a restoration politically and geographically as fulfillment of the\nunconditional covenants.\n10. The discipline on the N.K. was because of apostasy in that political entity from 982 to 719 BCE (264 years).\n11. The discipline on the S. K. was for failure to fulfill priestly representation from the beginning of the monarchy in 1101 BCE until 605 BCE (496 years). 3023 to 3520 AH.\n12. The national discipline on the N. K. is summarized at Amos 4:6-13\n1. The true national remnant is preserved in Judah. Therefore, discipline on Judah reflects the failure of the entire nation from the beginning of the monarchy at Year 1 of Saul.\n(1101 TO 605 BCE and 3023 to 3520 AH) 496 years.\n2. 2 Chron. 36:20-23; Jer. 25;1-13; 29;10; Lev. 26:33; Is. 44:28; 45:13\n3. From 3024 to 3521 AH there are 70 sabbatical periods of 7 years each that have been violated. 490 years with 6 years extra.\nThe 6 extra years are not included because they refer to the 6 year period when Athaliah usurped the throne from 892 to 886 BCE (3234 to 3240 AH).\n4. So the 70 years captivity to Babylon is to make up ofr the nation's failure to observe the sabbatical years during that 490 year period. 1 Year for each of the 70 sabbatical periods.\n5. After the 70 years captivity, the nation is restored to fellowship with God and given a new 490 year period to fulfill its national purpose. 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There were three aims of this project: (1) To develop a protocol for health care professionals' roles in providing SSC in the operating room; (2) To implement the protocol; and (3) To evaluate the process of implementation of the evidence-based intervention. The \"champion team\" concept was crucial to the project's success.", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00040.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 27, + "original_length": 1233, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.89, + "perplexity": 246.9, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "http://bibliotheque.utt.fr/EXPLOITATION/doc/ALOES/0619803", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T04:17:48Z", + "digest": "sha1:QOOM3BOFXZ2OHNQGZS2ZQWL3BYYYMOYC", + "length": 1350, + "nlines": 4, + "source_domain": "bibliotheque.utt.fr", + "title": "Ermes 2.0", + "raw_content": "golden house (The)\nVintage. London\n420.014 RUS\nWhen powerful real-estate tycoon Nero Golden immigrates to the States under mysterious circumstances, he and his three adult children assume new identities, taking 'Roman' names, and move into a grand mansion in downtown Manhattan. Arriving shortly after the inauguration of Barack Obama, he and his sons, each extraordinary in his own right, quickly establish themselves at the apex of New York society. The story of the Golden family is told from the point of view of their Manhattanite neighbour and confidant, Ren\u00e9, an aspiring filmmaker who finds in the Goldens the perfect subject. Ren\u00e9 chronicles the undoing of the house of Golden: the high life of money, of art and fashion, a sibling quarrel, an unexpected metamorphosis, the arrival of a beautiful woman, betrayal and murder, and far away, in their abandoned homeland, some decent intelligence work. Invoking literature, pop culture, and the cinema, Rushdie spins the story of the American zeitgeist over the last eight years, hitting every beat: the rise of the birther movement, the Tea Party, Gamergate and identity politics; the backlash against political correctness; the ascendency of the superhero movie, and, of course, the insurgence of a ruthlessly ambitious, narcissistic, media-savvy villain wearing make-up and with coloured hair", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00040.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 294, + "original_length": 7662, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.92, + "perplexity": 252.4, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "http://blesok.mk/en/literature/the-subject-with-macedonian-women-prose-writers-58/", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T04:07:41Z", + "digest": "sha1:DGAHJNMKZQIGNTI23UYPKDL55RGAYIW7", + "length": 6966, + "nlines": 12, + "source_domain": "blesok.mk", + "title": "The Subject with Macedonian Women Prose Writers - Blesok", + "raw_content": "The Subject with Macedonian Women Prose Writers\nHome/Literature, Essays, Blesok no. 58/The Subject with Macedonian Women Prose Writers\n(seen in two short stories by Olivera Nikolova and Jadranka Vladova)\nIn the course of the last decades, the central issue of the academic literary feminism, according to Nina Baum, has become the theory itself. Thus, it seems that the literary theory exists in itself only, completely separate from literature as a (historically) powder charge of its existence. The new literary theory streams follow up on the previous ones, denying or further developing the (almost) philosophical postulates that are the basis for the bigger and bigger distance of theory from literature, the matter and flesh, and its deeper and deeper diving into the abstract, i.e. in itself.\nNevertheless, the literary theory, regardless of the degree of abstraction that it has reached, always concerns one of the points of the eternal trinity: author-text-reader (or, more precisely, in the feminist studies, woman author-text-reader). Within this triangle, one of the most frequent issues is the importance that the theorists place with one or another of these three ends, as well as their mutual relations. Traditionally, until the 20th century, the literary criticism and theory were largely focused on the author. He (and more rarely she) was the stable, firm element behind the work of art (very often identified with the narrator), who used the text to express his ideas and produce certain meanings. The focus of structuralists in the 50es and 60es of the 20th century, on the other hand, moved towards the text, the literary work. Using the linguistic theories of Saussure, they think that literature is not an expression of the creative mind of the author, but a linguistic structure whose meaning is controlled by the rules of the language. Literature is therefore seen as a system (i.e. signifier), of rules and codes (i.e. signs) that enable it to fill itself with meaning (i.e. to signify).\nDefocusing from the author in the poststructuralist era somehow culminates with Barthes, who wrote about the death of the author. The American reader-response school, on its behalf, went even further, shifting the focus to the reader (or the female reader), relativising the universality and inalterability of the meaning of the text. Thus, a text can have an endless number of meanings, since every reader, with the very act of reading interacts with the text, giving it his own, unique meaning. A bit later, Derrida, who (as the structuralists) finds the complete meaning of the text in itself only (\u201cthere is nothing beyond the text\u201d) introduces temporality in the way that the meaning of a text is manifested. According to him, every text postpones its meaning, i.e. as the time passes, the new meanings, that were initially hidden, less visible, and yet present at the margins of the text (or existed only in the area of unconscious with the author when the text was created), appear, reveal themselves, and in this way open new readings of the text.\nThe feminist literary theory somehow brought back the author, i.e. the woman author in the focus of the theoretical discussions. Nancy Miller, defining the term arachnology and following up on Barthes, says that indeed a text functions as a net of many meanings, but the author (i.e. woman author) is in the centre of this net, as a spider, the weaver of the net. The term author here is not meant in a limited way, as an individual who writes the work. As Foucault says, the author is very much like a narrator, and this term does not exceptionally and solely concern a real individual, but it can even be an alter-ego of the real flesh and blood writer. Therefore, the contemporary theory speaks less and less about an author of a narrator, and more and more about a subject. Today\u2019s subject, who has replaced the author, i.e. narrator, has a special philosophical meaning, which suggests awareness and self-awareness, power to act and impose his will.\nThe manifestation of the subject (and the diversity of this manifestation) is the topic that I will further review on two examples of short stories, written by two women authors, different in generation and style: \u201cSaturday Evening\u201d by Olivera Nikolova and \u201cMischievous Amor\u201d by Jadranka Vladova. Both short stories are placed by the authors in the chronotope of the marriage, and the narrators in each of them speak in first person singular, but this is where the similarities between the two texts start and end.\nOn a Saturday evening, reserved to leave home, spend time with friends and have fun, Olivera Nikolova shows the crisis in a marriage via a realistic prose. Her subject, who presents herself as a sad and disappointed woman, speaks about her alienation from her husband via losing her illusions of love and closeness: \u201cI sit opposite him and I see him as a completely strange man. Those lines, that face, his eyes and his smile, a bit playful and inflammably contagious, felt quite close, almost mine, only couple of hours ago. Even more \u2013 I loved them.\u201d\nThe subject in this short story, in the spirit of realism, has the goal to persuade us in her existence, her views, shape as a real person of flesh and blood. Her credibility is depicted by the author via a process of identification \u2013 in the first person narration, it is easy to notice the similarities \u2013 both the subject and the author are women, the time of the story is now, and even the marital status is the same. In this way, with us, the readers, the identification of the author with the narrator is easily built in a single subject \u2013 quite in the realism spirit, it seems (or better to say, we believe) that the author speaks of herself.\nSkilfully and systematically, the subject in this short story, via a heavy and serious prose, builds an atmosphere of emptiness, disappointment and sadness. These feelings are transferred by oppositions such as once and now: \u201cOnce there words seemed usual. Why do I consider them so important now?\u201d or the way in which the subject is positioned opposite the object (narrator/author opposite her husband): \u201che had a new suit, I had an old dress\u2026, my rejected hand upon our entry; his self-confident composure\u2026\u201d Stable, persistent in her view of things from the beginning to the end, concentrated on the disillusionment moment, in the spirit of the modernism, the subject is imposing herself as a single, real transmitter of the absolute truth. With a visible pessimism, Olivera Nikolova\u2019s subject in this generally realistic prose, also functions as an \u201calienated individual\u201d of the modernist literature, an almost Joyce-like or Elliot-like character, who faces the breaking down of a belief (that she loves her husband) which used to be central in the building of her identity (in this case, that of a beloved wife).\nadmin\t2018-08-21T17:23:04+00:00\tFebruary 25th, 2008|Categories: Literature, Essays, Blesok no. 58|0 Comments", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00040.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 88, + "original_length": 9783, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.96, + "perplexity": 217.9, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "http://blog.bigbeaks.com/2008/08/17/our-hurricane-wilma-experience-october-2005/", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T04:34:34Z", + "digest": "sha1:XIAXTKYOOK2X7GQUM4IMR6GQGHFURXXY", + "length": 11735, + "nlines": 20, + "source_domain": "blog.bigbeaks.com", + "title": "Our Hurricane Wilma Experience (October, 2005) | Bigbeaks Blog", + "raw_content": "The flight from Los Angeles to Orlando on Saturday ended up being pretty non-eventful, fortunately. We were a bit worried about whether the bad weather would start to hit Florida early enough to have any impact on our flight, but fortunately it pretty much held off until Sunday evening. This was our first trip using our Disney Vacation Club (DVC) points and we checked into our 1-bedroom villa at the Wilderness Lodge around 7pm or so Florida time. We had a nice dinner with my Orlando-area family at one of the hotel restaurants (Whispering Canyon) that evening, but otherwise turned in fairly early after being exhausted from the travel day and the loss of sleep due to being so nervous about the trip the night before.\nFor our trips to Walt Disney World, we tend to do quite a bit of pre-planning as to where we are going to be on any given day. This is mainly to accommodate the need for reservations at table-service restaurants, but we also find it helpful for general time budgeting. On Sunday, our plans called for us to spend the day at Disney/MGM Studios (now known as Disney\u2019s Hollywood Studios) with lunch reservations at one of the park\u2019s sit-down restaurants (Sci-Fi Dine-In, I think). Since the weather was clear in the morning and the storm wasn\u2019t really expected to hit until late in the day, we went forward with that plan, meeting up with my family at the park not too long before our lunch reservations.\nThe weather that day really did feel like pretty much the definition of the cliched \u201ccalm before the storm\u201d. For most of the day, it was extremely hot and humid, with air that felt almost eerily still. While the park wasn\u2019t deserted that day, it wasn\u2019t overly crowded either and everyone there did seem pretty wary of the situation and pretty focused on the weather. Around 6pm, the weather started taking a definite turn for the worse. In a fairly short time, it shifted from a pretty major stillness to a noticeable (but still not very strong) wind. The dark cloud patterns in the sky did have a look about them that definitely seemed to suggest that something was coming. The humidity was continuing to increase such that it definitely felt like rain would be arriving fairly soon. This started around the time that we were headed over to ride \u201cThe Great Movie Ride\u201d and we ended up stopping at a gift shop first to purchase several rain ponchos, one of which we used to cover up our stroller before parking (we also parked under as much cover as we could manage). It wasn\u2019t raining when we got off the ride, but we still wanted to be safe instead of sorry.\nOne of the main reasons why we had chosen Disney/MGM Studios for that first day was that the park was scheduled to stay open later for hotel guests as part of the \u201cExtra Magic Hours\u201d program. We initially held on to the idea of sticking around later and started looking around for somewhere to get dinner. We found that there wasn\u2019t really all that much opened, though, despite the fact that it was the typical dinner hour. I was never really sure if that was fairly normal for that park or if they were starting to close things down early for the weather, although I had a hunch it was fairly normal. For one thing, they were still distributing the Extra Magic Hours wristbands (required to stay in the park) and also were still indicating that the night-time \u201cFantasmic!\u201d shows were still expected to run. Even under the best conditions, we aren\u2019t that fond of the counter-service options at that park and finally decided that maybe it would be wise to get back to our hotel before the weather got worse anyway. Therefore, we decided to leave the park around 7:30pm to head back to the Wilderness Lodge for dinner at Roaring Fork, the hotel\u2019s fast food place. It actually started pouring rain while we were on the bus back to the hotel.\nAfter a fairly quick dinner with my parents at Roaring Fork, they headed out so that they could get home before the storm really hit. Our original plans for Monday were to spend the early part of the day at Disney\u2019s Animal Kingdom and then head over to the Magic Kingdom for dinner at Tony\u2019s Town Square Cafe and to see the nighttime parade and fireworks. We were pretty uncertain about how long it would take for the storm to move through and when/if the parks would re-open, though, so we left open any plans for meeting up the next day, instead planning to connect via phone/email in the morning. We then stopped at the hotel shop to stock up on some pre-packaged food (at seriously inflated prices\u2026) from the hotel shop, just to be safe. The DVC villa had a full kitchen, so that eating a meal or two in our room on Monday was an easy option if needed. We actually didn\u2019t end up using the food we purchased and, instead, gave it to my parents before we left town, but at least we had it if we needed it.\nWe then headed back to our room to ride out the storm. By this time, it was fairly late in the evening (around 9pm) so our first order of business was getting our son off to bed after the fairly long day. The separate bedroom in the DVC villa was particularly nice in this case as it allowed us to put our son to bed in the living room, but still watch storm coverage on the bedroom TV without disturbing him. He is a really sound sleeper and never seemed bothered at all by the storm, even as the wind really picked up and the thunder and lightening became more intense. My wife and I did end up staying up pretty late, monitoring the situation. In addition to watching the news coverage on the TV, we also had our laptop computer with us, which allowed us to get information via the Internet. I also periodically posted \u201con the scene\u201d reports to a couple of Disney-related discussion boards. My posts from that night to the MousePad discussion boards on Mouseplanet.com can be found in this thread (my handle there is \u201cJeffG\u201d).\nThe DVC villa was really a rather nice place to wait out this kind of storm. Despite the intense weather outside, the room remained warm and comfortable. We never had any power outage (at least that we knew of), which certainly helped in this respect as well. The villa (like all the 1-bedroom DVC villas) had a big whirlpool bathtub that also provided some very welcome relaxation during the rather tension-generating situation. If I remember right, exhaustion did finally overwhelm the tension around 1am or so and we finally went to sleep. It was still very windy and rainy when we woke up around 10am or so on Monday morning, but it ended up being a generally fast moving storm and finally cleared the area by around noon or so. That morning, we mostly hung around the room using the laptop or watching Disney movies that they were showing on the in-room TV system.\nOrlando was largely on the northern edge of the storm\u2019s path, and it had also weakened some before it got that far in-land, so damage was very minimal. We saw some downed foliage and a few knocked over signs here and there, but nothing serious. The parks and all the other entertainment areas remained closed until around 1pm, when they finally opened The Magic Kingdom and Epcot. Animal Kingdom and Disney/MGM Studios remained closed the entire day and I believe many of the other secondary areas (such as water parks and golf courses) also remained closed, although I don\u2019t remember for certain. Officially, I believe the parks were supposed to be only opened to hotel guests, but I don\u2019t think they really enforced that. I think that was more of an announced policy intended to discourage people from driving over to the area unnecessarily.\nOnce the storm had passed, we ventured over to Roaring Fork for lunch before heading to the Magic Kingdom around 3pm or so. The park was the most uncrowded that I\u2019ve ever seen for any WDW park. My parents did drive in to meet us at the park and were particularly marveling at the empty parking lot and Ticket and Transportation Center. He couldn\u2019t resist taking the below picture of the usually very busy road and pedestrian walkway completely deserted.\nEvery attraction was pretty much a walk-on that day. We could have probably used the opportunity to hit all the major headliner rides over and over with little to no wait, but we were instead largely pacing our day around our son\u2019s interests. That meant that we mostly focused on the Fantasyland rides and on other kid-friendly attractions like the Tomorrowland Speedway and the Tomorrowland Transit Authority (Peoplemover). He seemed to really have a lot of fun visiting the Magic Kingdom rides with little to no wait.\nWe did make it to our reservation at Tony\u2019s for dinner that evening, although it was slow enough that we probably could have gotten in to any of the table-service restaurants as walk-ups without much of a wait. Even better, that evening we were able to walk right up and find uncrowded spots in the hub for both \u201cSpectromagic\u201d (the parade) and \u201cWishes\u201d (the fireworks show) pretty much right before their scheduled start-times. For the fireworks, it felt especially strange standing in pretty much the most in-demand viewing location with only a few other people around us. That was definitely a rare experience.\nThe rest of the week, the parks continued to be fairly uncrowded, although more crowded than on Monday. A visit to the Universal Orlando parks later that week found those parks to be especially empty, although I understand that is actually fairly common there that time of year. The weather also remained very nice for the rest of the week and, in fact, the hurricane largely seemed to have an effect of blowing away a lot of the heat and humidity. As is typical after any big event like that, there was a bit of a \u201cshared experience\u201d atmosphere and we found ourselves pretty regularly drawn into chats with other guests about the hurricane experiences. One thing we noted was that quite a few people at the parks later in the week were actually from South Florida, having headed up for impromptu Orlando visits while hurricane damage was being repaired back home.\nOverall, I wouldn\u2019t really say that our experience vacationing during a hurricane was anywhere near the negative one that we thought it might be. I can even say that the hurricane ended up having certain advantages for us when it came to crowd sizes and weather once the storm had passed. I do think we were fortunate that the storm was fast moving and didn\u2019t hit Orlando as directly as some of the others have. There was definitely the potential that the storm could have resulted in a much more significant disruption to our vacation. We did learn that Walt Disney World seemed to be extremely well-equipped to handle this kind of storm, though, so I also would probably not be too quick to cancel a trip on the threat of a hurricane.\n\u2190 Disneyland Resort Trips Report \u2013 June/July 2008 Part 2: Attractions and Shows Star Wars: My Declining Interest \u2192\n3 thoughts on \u201cOur Hurricane Wilma Experience (October, 2005)\u201d\nPingback: Sunday Night - Disney Link Roundup | The Disney Blog\nOrlando Villas August 18, 2008 at 12:44 am\nLets keep our fingers crossed that Fay turns away. It is a rare occurrence, thankfully, that these storms turn into a devastating hurricane causing widespread damage.\nDianeG August 20, 2008 at 4:38 pm\nFay was really nothing more than a big wet inconvenience for us here in Orlando. The east coast of Florida was much harder hit, and had quite a bit of damage \u2013 although mostly from flooding due to heavy rain fall and from tornados that spawned from the storm system. Fortunately we didn\u2019t have any damage in the parks that I\u2019m aware of, but we lost a ton of revenue from cancelled vacations and guests who left early or didn\u2019t come into the parks at all because of the wind and rain.", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00040.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 128, + "original_length": 17691, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.98, + "perplexity": 287.5, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "http://blog.bliubliu.com/polyglot-habits-and-traits/", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T03:59:51Z", + "digest": "sha1:3LWVTAJGT7WCMEB6KGQDVTAI44QQHA3X", + "length": 3839, + "nlines": 14, + "source_domain": "blog.bliubliu.com", + "title": "Habits and traits that all polyglots have in common - Bliu Bliu", + "raw_content": "There are many ways to learn languages and different people prefer different learning methods. However, all polyglots have some habits and traits in common. While having them doesn\u2019t guarantee easy language acquisition, they definitely help in the process. So, if you want to become a multilingual (everyone can do it), try to apply these polyglot habits to your own life and practice.\nLove for languages\nAll polyglots love languages. Even if there\u2019s a pragmatic reason why polyglots learn certain languages, that\u2019s not their main drive. Multilingual people are curious about languages in general. They\u2019re fascinated by how different languages work, by their unique sounds and vivid expressions, not present in other tongues. It\u2019s this love for languages that drives polyglots to learn as many of them as possible.\nSince genuine interest is the best motivator, it\u2019s only natural that they learn ten or even more languages so easily. Having to learn a new language for a better job is never going to provide more motivation than love does. Luckily for you, this doesn\u2019t mean that you must have this passion for languages to be a polyglot \u2013 such a mindset isn\u2019t essential. Although it helps a lot and works like a shortcut, reducing the language acquisition time. Consider reading more about various languages \u2013 maybe you\u2019ll be fascinated, too!\nImmersion and learning every day\nPolyglot habits can turn anyone into a quick learner because they\u2019re efficient. And it\u2019s immersion that helps achieve such efficiency. Polyglots usually don\u2019t spend a lot of time learning from a textbook. On the contrary, they learn by simply surrounding themselves with their target language. They just do the usual things, but they do it in another language. They watch TV, go shopping, read books, listen to music and so on \u2013 all in their target language as often as it\u2019s possible.\nSo, it goes without saying that they\u2019re learning every day. Although this kind of learning doesn\u2019t include sitting in a classroom. Some polyglots can reach an intermediate level of a new language in no more than a month. Such a quick pace is mostly achieved by the immersion that we just mentioned. If you use your target language instead of your native one all the time, it\u2019s not a surprise that you progress very quickly.\nHabit to learn easily\nImmersion results in easy language learning as well as in a quick one. Since polyglots combine the learning process with other activities, language acquisition becomes a natural thing. A thing that you don\u2019t have to worry about too much. Polyglots simply go on with their lives and the languages take care of themselves. Not without effort altogether, but with much less of it.\nNo fear, no shame\nEasy learning is only possible for people who have no fear of making mistakes or looking ridiculous. All polyglots have somewhat outgoing nature. This doesn\u2019t mean that they\u2019re all crazy extroverts. Nonetheless, they enjoy speaking with new people from time to time and they value the opportunities to make new friends. And when it comes to language learning, new relationships can provide the best language learning method \u2013 communication. No polyglot habits are going to help without speaking practice.\nHowever, to get the best of it, you\u2019ve got to get used to making lots of mistakes. You should be open and don\u2019t be afraid to look hilarious or even ridiculous. The mistakes are going to sort themselves out in the long run. And you won\u2019t become a good speaker if you don\u2019t speak. Multilingual people know that very well and use this knowledge to their advantage. So, if you want to learn a ridiculous amount of languages, be ridiculous yourself. It works like a charm.\nBy the way, if you want that extra content to immerse yourself in, Bliu Bliu works like a charm, too.\n\u2190 5 ways to improve your listening skills in just a few weeks", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00040.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 50, + "original_length": 5583, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.95, + "perplexity": 268.8, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "http://blog.buro-gds.com/2008/05/family-guy-stewie.html", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T04:14:17Z", + "digest": "sha1:73ROCD4FLK62KWD4IRLPL6B6TBHD4UNJ", + "length": 18, + "nlines": 1, + "source_domain": "blog.buro-gds.com", + "title": "BURO-GDS Inspirations/ Ellen Tongzhou Zhao: Family Guy: Stewie", + "raw_content": "Family Guy: Stewie", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00040.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 37, + "original_length": 1588, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.58, + "perplexity": 62.8, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "http://blog.discopop.co.uk/2010/08/", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T03:59:49Z", + "digest": "sha1:5IKNQMPUN2S3QS3RU4DIQKGEQ55ZR4K7", + "length": 26560, + "nlines": 210, + "source_domain": "blog.discopop.co.uk", + "title": "Discopop Directory: August 2010", + "raw_content": "The great Hyperballad opinion poll of 2010\nOn Sunday night, Iceland's warbling wonder Bjork was presented with the Polar Music Prize by the King Of Sweden. You don't get that at the Brits, do you?\nAfter she received a cheque for \u00a380,000 (again - not what you'd take home from the BPI), Ms Godmundsdottir was made to sit through a Swesish singer \"interpreting\" a number from her back catalogue. Luckily, the singer in question was Robyn, and the song was the elegantly barmy Hyperballad. A \"win\" for all concerned.\nBut Robyn's not the first person to cover Hyperballad and the results have been, um... varied. Which is your favourite? Have a listen and vote below.\nRobyn - Hyperballad\nWhitley - Hyperballad\nDirty Projectors - Hyperballad\nSome bloke on a guitar - Hyperballad\nBjork - Hyperballad\nHint: It is not the Dirty Projectors\nLabels: bjork, dirty projectors, Music, poll, Robyn, video\nOne of the best things about Mark Ronson's new album, Record Collection, is that it sounds completely spontaneous and relaxed, even though it must have taken months of painstaking work (and phoning up his mates) to piece it all together.\nIt's a neat trick, because collaborative projects like this often turn out to be studied and ponderous (I'm looking at you, Damon Albarn). Ronson's skill as a producer is that, despite numerous revisions, guest vocals and mixes, he always manages to preserve the giddy headrush of the original creative spark.\nThe second single off Record Collection is called Bike Song and it is a case in point. Unlike Bang Bang Bang, which was based on the words to a nursery rhyme, this actually sounds like a nursery rhyme (but a very cool nursery rhyme with a rap in it, obviously). It sounds like it was just finished five minutes ago, but listen closely and you'll hear tons of little details - the vintage bicycle bells, the way the guitar line teases and toys with the melody - which can only be the product of pure hard graft.\nThe video has been deliberately aged to look like one of those 1970s public information films (although, sadly, no-one gets electrocuted after throwing a frisbee into an electrical pylon). Embedding is disabled by Royal Request, but there are two important things to observe:\n1) Kyle Falconer of \"The View\" continues to have ridiculously improbable hair.\n2) Just because the cool kids don't wear helmets, it doesn't mean you should follow their example. Reflective clothing, functioning lights and bicycle clips for your pantaloons are also advisable.\nThe highly-enjoyable video is available on Youtube (Youtube). And there we have it.\nLabels: mark ronson, Music, video\nTumbleweed corner\nShhh... It's all gone quiet. There won't be any new music round here today. Not unless you want Katy Perry album tracks, questionable taste cover versions or South African rap artists so bad you think they may be taking the piss out of you, themselves, Nelson Mandela and music itself.\nIn the meantime, then, here is one of my favourite award show performances of all time. No prizes for guessing its a Janet Jackson clip. Two things to note here:\n1) The dance breakdown at 4'00\" is one of the best pieces of pop choreography ever committed to film.\n2) I used to have a massive crush on Nikki Pattenburg, the curly-haired dancer on the far left. These days, she is married to R&B schmaltz-meister Babyface.\nJanet Jackson - That's The Way Love Goes / If (1993 MTV VMAs)\nEnjoy the bank holiday weekend. Apparently we're due a new Kylie video when we get back to work on Tuesday, so that's nice.\nRobbie and Gary's duet is a good thing\nBurying the hatchet can't be easy, especially when you're in the public eye. So it's heartwarming to see Gary Williams and Robbie Barlow kiss and make up (almost literally, judging by the video) after all these years.\nBut amidst all the gooey-eyed nostalgia for The That, we have to remember that conflict fuels art. No Regrets, Robbie's two finger salute to his former band, is by far his best song. So the potential for the GazWaz duet, Shame, to be a mawkish chumfest is very, very high indeed.\nThe early signs are not good. We open with an acoustic guitar riff that is legally (but not audibly) distinct from The Beatles' Blackbird. It's followed by the world's most tired clich\u00e9: \"There's three versions of this story - mine and yours, and then the truth\". It puts the ewww in re-eww-nion.\nBut, like the singers' relationship, the song starts to mature. The Nashville harmonies and gently strummed guitars conjure up a real sense of nostalgia and regret.\nSome of the lyrics - particularly Robbie's \"I wrote a letter in my mind / but the words were so unkind / about a man I can't remember\" - have the ring of bitter truth.\nOther moments - like when Barlow sings about Williams' \"poster 30ft high at the back of Toys R Us\" - have the rind of a bitter 30-year-old cheese.\nNonetheless, it's a clever and brave single. By pouring all of that emotion into a song, they've not only cleared the air, but neatly sidestepped a thousand interviews about the missing years. The video even suggests that the Take That + Robbie Williams \"comeback\", which could have been a cynical business arrangement, is based on genuine affection.\nOn first listen, it sent shivers up my middle-aged spine. But then, I'm a big softy. What think you?\nLabels: gary barlow, Music, robbie williams, take that, video\nScott Pilgrim bonus material\nComic book film Scott Pilgrim vs The World came out in the UK yesterday. Starring Michael \"Arrested Development\" Cera, it's a high-calorie energy blast of eye popping action movie mayhem - but with a soft, tender underbelly.\nIf you grew up in the 80s and owned a Sega Mega Drive, this film is for you. If you didn't, it's still worth checking out.\nOver at the BBC, I've put together an intricate, 11-panel comic strip showing how the graphic novel was lovingly and faithfully translated to the big screen. Please click on this link to justify my existence.\nAnd, for those of you who are interested, I've posted the full transcript of my interviews with director Edgar Wright and stars Michael Cera and Jason Schwartzman \"after the jump\".\nLabels: film, scott pilgrim. interview\nCee-Lo's new single (nsfwbtfa)\nThat's \"not safe for work but totally freakin' amazing\", acronym fans.\nCee-Lo Green - F**K YOU\nIf you hear that song, with it's mix of doo-wop harmonies, Atlantic Stax soul production and foul-mouthed expletives, and think to youself \"I preferred it in the 1960s when soul music expressed itself in a more poetic way\", then you have never heard this version of Jackie Wilson and Lavern Baker's Think Twice.\nJackie Wilson & Lavern Baker - Think Twice [version x]\nNow go and wash your ears out.\nLabels: cee-lo, Music, video\nKanye West - an art student writes\nRemember that Kanye West video I posted two weeks ago?\nNo? Well, here it is again:\nAt the time, I asked if anyone could provide commentary on the video's imagery. Well, through the miracle of Facebook, a friend of a friend has submitted the following analysis:\n\"Profound video using one point linear perspective. Kanye remains at the vanishing point (circuitus spiritualis). In this subtle way Kanye presents himself as God over his creation.\nThe renaissance artists, when perspective was discovered, used to put the important stuff at the vanishing point, since it = infinite power!\nTheir paintings were all about the geometry (eg the golden triangle... related to harmonies in music) and so reaching the highest possible \"spiritual\" meaning etc...\nI haven't put that very well but sure you understand.\"\nAmazing, huh? Still, if you are impressed by that, wait til you hear the intricate dissection of art history Kanye provides in the (superb, Jay-Z featuring) remix.\nI don't stop until I see the end\nMy vision clear, bitch\nI'm on my Van Gogh\nI don't hear shit\nQvi docent discit (Quid quid latine dictum sit, altum videtur)\nLabels: kanye west, Music, remix\n\"You're overground, in control\"\nSomehow I missed this during the week, but there is now a video for Rosanna's excellent UK debut single, Waterfall. The director has gone for lots of arty shots of clouds, rather than the titular Waterfalls.\nOf course, water falls from clouds, but the fluffy stratocumulus clouds featured in the video are highly unlikely to produce rain. They really should have gone for the more common cumulus nimbus or nimbostratus clouds if they'd wanted to suggest imminent precipitation. Tsk.\nRosanna - Waterfalls\nIf you liked that, the single is out tomorrow.\nLabels: Music, rosanna, video\nAlexandra Burke fast-forwards to end of her career\nIt is astonishing how quickly Alexandra Burke has managed to squander every ounce of good will pop fans had for her this time last year.\nThe latest step in her campaign to alienate her entire audience is this festering corpse of a music video.\nBy the 0:33 mark, I'd raised my eyebrows so high they were hovering four inches above my head.\nWhy is she singing in the middle of the gay olympics? Will the \"muscle-bound\" \"hunks of meat\" finish the video by spraying their armpits with Alexandra Burke-branded roll-on deodorant? More importantly, what happened to the expensive-looking street scenes Alexandra filmed in the US and posted on her official YouTube page two months ago?\nNone of these questions have been answered satisfactorily. But one thing is for sure: The fans aren't happy. Here are some eloquent experessions of distaste from the comments section.\n\"Video is cringe\" - tinajonas1000\n\"NO NO NO!!!!! What has you done!\" - The Alixsz\n\"This is embarrassing\" - thebirdisblue\n\"i actually voted for u on xfactor, back when you had talent.\" ancho101\n\"She stresses me out. I'm such a major fan, but what is this?\" - jordan9893\nStill, at least one person appreciated the video. \"Its weird but I kinda like this,\" wrote Raisa. \"Watch\ufeff it a few times and it grows on you.\"\nIs it just me, or has Raisa just experienced some... er, unusual feelings for the first time?\nLabels: alexandra burke, Music, video\nWelcome to you, Katherine Bee\nThanks to the ever-prescient Karinski, I have been alerted to the talents of 20-year-old South Londoner Katy B.\nShe's on the A-list a Radio One; she cites Jill Scott, Erykah Badu and Mary J Blige as influences; and she can be found a-crooning on top of wibbly wobbly dubstep basslines on her debut single On A Mission.\nAccording to The Guardian, she has a secret past as a Hi-NRG dance act, who recorded awful poppers-o-clock covers of Katrina And The Waves' Love Shine A Light and Deniece Williams' Let's Hear It For The Boy. But that's all a bit odd - because the latter was released in 2001, when Katy would have been 11. Something doesn't quite add up about that...\nThe single and it's predecessor, Louder, give the dubstep scene a much-needed melodic twist. Katy's stream-of-conciousness club poetry is sweeter and stronger than Taio and Tinchy's sexy chick schtick. I love the line in On A Mission about \"sinking into a tune\". One to watch.\nKaty B - On A Mission\nOn A Mission is out next week. Find out more on Katy's official website.\nLabels: katy b, links, Music, video\nI hope he doesn't get shingles...\nYou can tell Tinie Tempah has arrived in the major league because his new video was filmed standing on a rooftop in America. No, really. Standing on a rooftop is a music industry rite of passage that officially means you are A Big Deal. The Drifters even wrote a song about it.\nTo put it another way: No-one is going to waste all that imposing imagery on The Saturdays or Olly Murs. Even Take That didn't get to stand on a rooftop until the Rule The World video. Standing on rooftops says \"I am important. I am somebody. I am allowed up here and you are not. I have access to untold riches and unspoiled urban vistas. And also the janitor's keys.\"\nWhile drinking in the grandiose majesty of Tinie Tempah's newly exalted altitudinal position, there are a few other things to spot in this video. .\n1) Singer Eric Turner has had to pawn all of his worldly possessions to pay for his Grand Piano. He sleeeps inside it at night, and is unable to shave. Furthermore, he is trapped in a featureless apartment and is definitely not allowed on the roof at this moment in time.\n2) This fella is pretending to be the young Tinie Tempah, even though he is sitting on a basketball court in America and the real Tinie Tempah grew up in the smoky London suburb of Plumstead (FACT: All of Plumstead was once a monastery). He is suffering financial hardship, which you can tell because his school jotter has no staples in it to hold the pages together. Poor young fake Tinie Tempah.\n3) These are some Mean Girls who are laughing at Tinie Tempah's misfortune (or they have just done some sick in their mouths, it is hard to tell). They will never amount to anything. In years to come, they will still be standing on ground level, peering through the wire fence of this basketball court at other losers who have made nothing of their lives, a bit like that scene in The Wire once.\n4) Here is Tinie Tempah at the end of the video, standing on his private rooftop.\nWith no-one around to see him, he is grinding out a solo on his imaginary \"axe\".\nThe moral here, folks, is that you can rise all the way from the basketball courts to the top of a skyscraper, but you will always be that same doofus who pulls a \"meaningful\" face every time you hear a guitar solo. Which is pretty heartwarming, is it not?\nTinie Tempah feat Eric Turner - Written In The Stars\n[Sadly, the full clip is only available on YouTube. Click here to have a squizz.]\nLabels: Music, tinie tempah, video\nAcoustic goodies from the Veronicas\nCorking Aussie pop twins The Veronicas were in Atlantic City last night, showing off three new songs they've written for their upcoming third album.\nOne of them was called Heart Like A Boat (hollow, with barnacles on it). It starts off as a pretty routine acoustirock ballad - but then, at 45 seconds, it suddenly drops into a minor key and makes my stomach do little somersaults.\nHere is some amateur footage.\nThe Veronicas - Heart Like A Boat\nWell done, The Veronicas.\nLabels: Music, veronicas\nOh Lordy, it's a Goldfrapp tour video\nPoor old Goldfrapp. Poor album sales = no money to make video = promotional clip cobbled together from tour footage = video won't be playlisted on The Box = single won't chart = album sales will tank = no more videos.\nOn the plus side, this video features a man in a floral print dress, and Goldfrapp's greatest hits album now looks to be a certainty.\nGoldfrapp - Believer\nThe new Scissor Sisters video is smashing\nSometimes, it's hard to contain the mirth around here.\nThe video is for Any Which Way - one of the standout tracks on an album of standout tracks. It has Kylie on backing vocals but not, I'm afraid, in the video.\nScissor Sisters - Any Which Way\nIf you liked that, try Can't Stop by the Red Hot Chili Peppers.\nBetter late than never: An MIA video\nShe's always shunning convention, that MIA. Writing her album's name as a series of keystrokes (/\\/\\/\\Y/\\) so that you can't Google it. Making short films about murdering gingers. Marrying multi-millionaire record company executives.\nIt must get tiring, though, bucking the trends and defying people's expectations all day long.\nWould you like salt or pepper with your penne arabiata? NO WAY, ASSHOLE. That's just SOCIETY forcing its PREJUDICAL CONVENTIONS on my tongue.\nDo you need a receipt with that? HA HA HA You can't fool me with your FASCIST SURVEILLANCE techniques. I will set your FACE on FIRE.\nFancy coming to see Toy Story 3 later? ARE YOU KIDDING ME, TWATBAGS? There are CHILDREN DYING in SRI LANKA.\nMIA's latest escapade is to make a video for her truly excellent single XXXO, just two short months after it was released. I warn you now, she directed it herself.\nMIA - XXXO\nIf your head hurts after sitting through that, then spare a thought for MIA's poor husband, Ben Brewer. Imagine living in a house where MIA has control of the decorating budget...\nDebatable rap statements of our time (II)\n\"I got more hits than a disciplined child\" - Tinie Tempah\nActually, Tinie, it's just the two hits so far.\nTinie Tempah featuring Eric Turner - Written In The Stars\nWe're definitely in third single territory here, aren't we?\nLabels: Music, tinie tempah\nDebatable rap statements of our time\n\"Nothing is more attractive than a heavily pregnant woman\" - Andre 3000.\nLet's weigh this up for a moment. On the plus side, pregnant women have a beautiful serenity and the sensuous glow of impending motherhood. They also (and I suspect this is the real selling point for Andre 3000) get bigger boobs.\nOn the other hand, a heavily pregnant woman has difficulty walking, the appetite of a ravenous grizzly bear, and the constant desire to do a wee. In the words of Nora Ephron: \"If pregnancy were a book they would cut the last two chapters\".\nOn the other hand (I have three hands), I'm sure there's nothing more attractive than seeing your partner in the final flush of pregnancy, before your social life is put on permanent hold for the next 24 years.\nWhatever your stance on this hot button topic, I'm sure we can all agree that the song it comes from - I Do - is a masterpiece. Just two minutes long, this doo-wop-hip-hop track has a swagger and a confidence which suggests Andre 3000's long-awaited solo album will be a strong rebuttal to Outkast bandmate Big Boi's recent, and fabulous, Luscious Left-Foot CD.\nAndre 3000 - I Do (leak)\nLabels: andre 3000, Music, outkast\nMohombi: \"Not exactly Captain Ugly\"\nSo, last week I was summoned to a posh central London hotel and pushed in front of Lady Gaga's producer, RedOne, who had some Important Messages to impart about his new record label venture. Obviously, I spent the whole time asking about Bad Romance and Poker Face instead - and the results are on the BBC website. I was particularly impressed when he said they'd written Bad Romance on a bus. I can't even write a text message on the bus.\nAnyway, the first signing to Mr One's new label is a Swedish-Congolese singer called Mohombi. RedOne - a blinding solar flare of energy at the best of times - literally exploded out of his seat when describing this new discovery.\n\"He's going to be a global phenomenon,\" he said, in a curious accent that blends his native Morocco, his adopted homeland of Sweden and the occasional slip into Hollywood-speak (\"My friend Bono\" - urgh).\nBizarrely, RedOne went on to compare his new signing to 1990s novelty dance act Reel II Reel (I Like To Move It, Move It). \"They had big songs, but nobody knew the artist,\" he said. \"Now, for the first time, we have the superstar who's been performing all his life, but with global hits like that.\"\nTo me, his debut single sounds more like 1990s one-hit-wonder Diana King - whose Shy Guy is built around the same chord structure and soca rhythms as Mohombi's debut, Bumpy Ride. But RedOne insists the performer, who has already won a South African Grammy, isn't destined to be a flash-in-the pan.\n\"He's not competing with Gaga but, just like her, he has his own world and his own sound,\" the producer said. \"And he's got the looks. Girls and guys are going to go crazy for him. They're going to want to get next to him.\"\nAnd who said pop was shallow? Judge Mohombi's music (and his pretty, pretty face) below.\nLabels: mohombi, Music, video\nSingle Ladies - now with added jazz hands\nSara Bareilles, of \"not going to write you a love song\" fame, has a new record out. In celebration of this fact, she's covered Beyonc\u00e9's Single Ladies (Put A Ring On It) in exchange for a bit of promotion on Billboard's website. And, subsequently, this one.\nSara Bareilles - Single Ladies (Put A Ring On It)\nBillboard call her interpretation \"a slow, jazzy track, complete with creeping bassline and vocal harmonies\".\nThe phrase they're trying to avoid here, readers, is \"lounge singer\".\nLabels: beyonce, Music, sara bareilles, video\nAnyone here got a degree in art history?\nKanye West released a teaser clip for his heavily-previewed new single, Power, on Friday. It's a pretty lavish affair - a Greco-Roman orgy, with West standing statuesque at the centre, wearing a giant necklace bearing an image of Horus - the Egyptian god of the sky, law, war and protection of the living Pharoah.\nDirector and artist Marco Brambilla says it's \"a video portrait of Kanye as a symbol of power\". I reckon it's inspired by the frescos of Michelangelo, but that's basically a guess, attached to a vague memory of The Creation Of Adam that I had to look up online, because I've co-opted all of my cultural knowledge to Google.\nAnyway, if anyone can provide a more insightful analysis of the following 1min 28secs, I'd be interested to hear from you.\nPS: The YouTube comments are worth reading, just for the huge argument over whether or not Kanye is an instrument of the Illuminati. The main evidence seems to be the existence of a triangle in the video's imagery. I feel sorry for the people (let's call them 'nutjobs', for ease of reference) who have to keep an eye (no pun intended) on the Illuminati's activities. Imagine having to check out the progeny of every triangle ever drawn in the annals of popular culture. How do you differentiate between an evil triangle, heralding the dawn of the New World Order and a regular triangle, symbolising a slice of pizza or a vegetable samosa? Does trigonometry help?\nR&B singer Janelle Monae is as hot as burning coal right now. Her album, The ArchAndroid, has been called \"spellbinding\" and \"near-perfect\" and \"utterly, brilliantly bonkers\".\nBut are the \"tastemakers\" right?\nYes, the 24-year-old has created an amazing, mind-bending record. It blends fluttering pop, hip-hop beats, psychedelia, hard rock riffs, orchestral strings, neo-soul, fleet-footed dance, slick funk and startling 1950s haircuts in a way that other artists aim for, but never quite achieve.\nSo, it's custom-made for critics - but my trusty pop barometer (aka mrsdiscopop) just finds it confusing. \"I don't know who I'm listening to,\" she declared half-way through the album's high concept opening suite. \"It might as well be a compilation album. And not in a good way.\"\nNonetheless, if Monae manages to establish a coherent musical identity, she's guaranteed to make a mainstream breakthrough. And if you're in any doubts that she's the real deal, her new video could be the thing to change your mind.\nIt's for Cold War - a distant cousin of Gnarls Barkley's Run, and probably the most straightforward pop song on Monae's album. Filmed in a single take (but probably not the first one, despite the captions) it's a mesmerising clip of the singer lip-syncing to the naked, bruising lyrics. Essentially, it's Sinead O'Connor's breakout video for Nothing Compares 2U but without the pointless scenes in the park and the turtleneck jumper. Fantasmajesticles.\nLabels: janelle monae, Music, video\nFrom Beyonce to this - Shakira's latest duet is with perky cartoon irritant Dora The Explorer.\nCalled Todos Juntos, it is lifted from Dora's greatest hits album (!) and has not, despite what I initially thought, got anything to do with the Todos Juntos children's charity - which helps children in the slums of Argentina.\nVery cute though. Very cute indeed.\nShakira and Dora The Explorer - Todos Juntos\nYes, I am struggling to find something to write about. Can you tell? CAN YOU?\n...Called Emilie Simon, whose music will cleanse your palette after that terrible Ke$ha track. For fans of Marina, Kate Bush, Tori Amos and anyone else who sings pop with a mildly theatrical lady voice (IE me).\nEmilie Simon - Dreamland\nThat one's out now Wrasse Records. Here's the Amazon link.\nLabels: emilie simon, Music, video\nIt almost seems unfair to sit here and criticise Ke$ha. With that dollar sign in her name, and the crass nasal drawl of her singing voice, it's already safe to assume she's not aspiring to credibility.\nNonetheless, it's astonishing to witness the lack of effort that's been put into her latest single. When pop is often misrepresented as \"kids' nursery rhymes\", it takes a certain audacity to simply recycle a playground chant for your chorus.\nWarning: The following song plumbs so far into the depths that it has discovered seven new species of sub-aquatic life, all of which pose an imminent and terrifying threat to humanity.\nEveryone sing along with me...\n\"There's a place in France,\nwhere the naked ladies dance\nand there's a hole in the wall\nwhere the men can see it all\nTheir minds go blank\n'cause they're dying for a wank\nAnd the mice play snooker with their balls!\"\n(I never understood that last line.)\nWell, I couldn't call it an exclusive, since Sky has spent the last week speaking to most of the major music sites (and some more obscure ones as well). But good for her. It's nice to see a burgeoning pop star making an effort - and her single, One, a brooding electropop melodrama is totally worth it.\nSpurred on by her tireless promotional duties, I've worked my fingers to the bone (spent 10 minutes in Photoshop) producing an artist profile, like you used to get on the back page of Look-In. Cut it out, pin it to your wall, then read the interview below. Amazing.\nHey, Sky! How are you?\nI\u2019m good, how are you?\nI\u2019m great, thanks. So, how did you choose One as the next single?\nActually, I\u2019m surprised the label chose this as a single \u2013 I thought they weren\u2019t going to. It\u2019s kind of a sad song. It\u2019s about the feeling of being numb, and wanting to feel something.\nFeeling alone even though you\u2019re with somebody.\nYeah, exactly. And it's also about being \u2013 not in an abusive relationship, but being neglected by someone.\nThe songs on your MySpace page showcase a lot of different styles \u2013 from glam to punk and hip-hop. Were you just casting around to find the one that suited you best?\nI wanted to do each track on the album in a different genre, but it didn't turn out that way. I love doing top 40 and I love hip-hop beats, and I love 80s and 70s and French music. There\u2019s so many different things that I love and I\u2019m trying to combine all of it.\nBut I think I have a sound \u2013 it might not be a specific sound, but melodically and lyrically there\u2019s a pattern to what I do. And my voice is pretty distinctive.\nIt\u2019s quite deep for a young singer.\nThat's because I started off singing gospel, then I was classically trained to sing opera. I was a soprano.\nWhat\u2019s your range?\nIt used to be four octaves. I don\u2019t know what it is now \u2013 I haven\u2019t done the opera training for about a year.\nDo you have perfect pitch as well?\nI try to!\nLabels: interview, Music, sky ferreira", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00040.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 568, + "original_length": 33073, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.95, + "perplexity": 334.3, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "http://blog.independencelive.net/the-catalan-declaration-of-independence/", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T03:27:37Z", + "digest": "sha1:ZE76OLICTFSKVTUAEL3RVTCGQMVSX6KV", + "length": 7840, + "nlines": 38, + "source_domain": "blog.independencelive.net", + "title": "The Catalan Declaration of Independence \u2013 The Independence Live Blog", + "raw_content": "The Catalan Declaration of Independence\nThe following is Dr Mark McNaught\u2019s unofficial translation of the Catalan Declaration of independence signed on 10th October in the Catalan Parliament. It has not yet been officially published, seeking to give time for mediation with the Spanish government.\nDECLARATION OF THE REPRESENTATIVES OF CATALONIA\nTo the people of Catalonia and all the peoples of the world.\nThe bases of the constitution of the Catalan Republic are justice and intrinsic individual and collective human rights, being irrenunciable foundations which give meaning to the historical legitimacy and the legal and institutional traditions of Catalonia.\nThe Catalan nation, its language and its culture have a thousand years of history. For centuries, Catalonia has been endowed with and enjoyed its own institutions that have fully exercised self-government, with the Generalitat as the greatest expression of the historic rights of Catalonia. During periods of freedom, Parliamentarism has been the pedestal upon which these institutions have been based, channeled through the Catalan Parliaments and crystalized in the Constitutions of Catalonia.\nHaving been lost and longed for, today Catalonia restores its full sovereignty after decades of honestly and loyally seeking institutional coexistence with the people of the Iberian Peninsula.\nSince the adoption of the Spanish Constitution of 1978, Catalan politics has played a key role with an exemplary, loyal and democratic attitude towards Spain, with a deep sentiment of being part of the State.\nThe Spanish State has responded to this loyalty with the denial of the recognition of Catalonia as a nation; and has granted limited autonomy, more administrative than political, and in the process of re-centralization; excercising a profoundly unjust economic treatment in addition to linguistic and cultural discrimination.\nThe Statute of Autonomy, approved by the Catalan Parliament, the Spanish Parliament, and the Catalan citizenry in a referendum, was to be the new stable and lasting framework for bilateral relations between Catalonia and Spain. But it was a political agreement broken by the ruling of the Constitutional Court, engendering new grievances among citizens.\nChanneling the demands of a large majority of citizens of Catalonia; the Parliament, the Government and civil society have repeatedly called for the holding of a referendum on self-determination.\nUpon finding that the institutions of the State have rejected any negotiation, they have violated the principles of democracy and autonomy, and have ignored the legal mechanisms available in the Constitution. The Generalitat of Catalunya has therefore called for a referendum to exercise the right to self-determination recognized under international law.\nThe organization and holding of the referendum led to the suspension of self-government in Catalonia and the de facto application of a state of emergency.\nThe brutal police operation of a military nature and style orchestrated by the Spanish state against Catalan citizens has repeatedly and severely violated their civil and political liberties and principles of Human Rights, and has contravened international agreements signed and ratified by the Spanish state.\nThousands of people have been investigated, detained, tried, questioned and threatened with harsh prison sentences, including hundreds of elected and institutional officials and professionals linked to the the sectors of communications, administration, and civil society.\nSpanish institutions, which should remain neutral, protect fundamental rights and arbitrate political conflict, have become part and instrument of these attacks and have left the citizens of Catalonia unprotected.\nIn spite of the violence and the repression to try to prevent a democratic and peaceful process, the citizens of Catalonia have voted mostly in favor of the constitution of the Catalan Republic.\nThe constitution of the Catalan Republic is based on the need to protect the freedom, security, and coexistence of all citizens of Catalonia, and to move towards a state based on the rule of law and a democracy of greater quality, and respond to the Spanish State impeding the enforcement of the right to self-determination of peoples.\nThe people of Catalonia are lovers of law, and respect for the law is and will be a cornerstone of the Republic. The Catalan state will meet and legally comply with all the provisions that make up this declaration and ensure that the legal security and maintenance of the subscribed agreements will be part of the founding spirit of the Catalan Republic.\nThe constitution of the Republic is a hand extended to dialogue. In honor of the Catalan tradition of the pact, we maintain our commitment to agreements as a way of resolving political conflicts. At the same time, we reaffirm our fraternity and solidarity with the rest of the people of the world and, especially, those with whom we share the language and culture and the Euro-Mediterranean region in defense of individual and collective freedoms.\nThe Catalan Republic is an opportunity to correct the current democratic and social deficits and build a society which is more prosperous, fairer, more secure, more sustainable and with more solidarity.\nBy virtue of all that has just been presented, WE, the democratic representatives of the people of Catalonia, in the free exercise of the right of self-determination, and in accordance with the mandate received from the citizens of Catalonia:\nCONSTITUTE the Catalan Republic, as an independent and sovereign State based on law, democracy, and social welfare.\nENTER into force the Llei de transitorietat jur\u00eddica i fundacional de la Rep\u00fablica.\nINITIATE the constituent process which shall be democratic, citizen-based, transversal, participatory and binding.\nAFFIRM the desire to open negotiations with Spain without any preconditions, aimed at establishing a collaborative system for the benefit of both parties. The negotiations shall necessarily be on an equal basis.\nINFORM the international community and the authorities of the European Union of the constitution of the Catalan Republic and the proposal for negotiations with Spain.\nURGE the international community and the European Union authorities to intervene to stop the continued violation of civil and political rights, and to monitor and oversee the negotiation process with the Spanish State.\nEXPRESS the desire to build a European project that reinforces the social and democratic rights of citizens, as well as commiting to continue to apply without the solution of continuity and in a unilateral manner the norms of the legal orders of the European Union, the Spanish State, and the Catalan autonomy that transpose this norm.\nAFFIRM that Catalonia has the unequivocal desire to integrate into the international community as quickly as possible. The new State agrees to respect the international obligations that are currently applied in its territory and continue to adhere to the international treaties to which the Kingdom of Spain is signator.\nAPPEAL to all States and international organizations to recognize the Catalan Republic as an independent and sovereign State.\nURGE the Government of the Generalitat to adopt the measures necessary to fully enact this Declaration of independence and the provisions of the Llei de transitorietat jur\u00eddica i fundacional de la Rep\u00fablica.\nCALL on all and each of the citizens of the Catalan Republic to make us worthy of the freedom that we have granted ourselves and to build a State that translates collective aspirations into action and conduct.\nThe legitimate representatives of the people of Catalonia:\nBarcelona, \u200b\u200bOctober 10, 2017\nCatalonia Catalunya UDI\nPresident of Catalunya\u2019s StatementPrevious post:\nA Brief History of Catalunya Next Post:", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00040.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 135, + "original_length": 10378, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.94, + "perplexity": 221.2, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "http://blog.lindsayoconnor.com/2017/03/safe-spaces.html", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T04:35:59Z", + "digest": "sha1:3475HYE7WSNVJFBZRUN2Y3PF3COGLWEW", + "length": 6984, + "nlines": 18, + "source_domain": "blog.lindsayoconnor.com", + "title": "safe spaces ~ ROOTED IN LOVE", + "raw_content": "Have you ever experienced the feeling of being so bogged down by something difficult going on in your life, perhaps one unexpected hardship after another or maybe one seemingly endless battle, that you struggle to move forward, yet when you look to the right and the left, other people appear to have things so much easier?\nWhile I do think that \"Facebook envy\" is part of the problem (when everyone else seems to have their lives so much more together than you do because you are only privy to their highlights), I also think some people are dealt a more difficult hand than others. I don't pretend to understand why, but I read some verses in Joshua today that seem to apply to this phenomenon.\nJoshua 1:12-15 says,\nAnd to the Reubenites, the Gadites, and half the tribe of Manasseh Joshua spoke, saying, \"Remember the word which Moses the servant of the LORD commanded you, saying, 'The LORD your God is giving you rest and is giving you this land.' Your wives, your little ones, and your livestock shall remain in the land which Moses gave you on this side of the Jordan. But you shall pass before your brethren armed, all your mighty men of valor, and help them, until the LORD has given your brethren rest, as He gave you, and they also have taken possession of the land which the LORD your God is giving them. Then you shall return to the land of your possession and enjoy it, which Moses the LORD's servant gave you on this side of the Jordan toward the sunrise.\"\nAs 12 tribes of Israelites prepared to take possession of the land God had promised to them, some of them frankly seemed to have it easier than others. Two and a half tribes settled and had rest from battle while the remaining tribes still had some fighting to do before they could take possession of their land. God calls those who are enjoying a time of rest to help those who are still in the midst of warfare.\nI have found myself struggling on both sides of this. When I am in the midst of (figurative) battle, I sometimes feel envious of others and even ashamed that I am struggling so much while others seem to be enjoying times of rest and blessing. I find myself thinking, \"My life is so good! Why is this so hard for me? Everyone else seems to be able to handle it so much better than I do!\" However, when I'm enjoying a time of rest or even when I am feeling crushed under the weight of my relatively small battles, I sometimes feel guilty that others seem to have to endure so much more difficulty than I do, through no fault of their own. God does not seem interested in making us feel guilty or ashamed for struggling or for enjoying a time of rest that He Himself has given us (verse 13). We need not feel guilty for enjoying the good gifts that the Lord gives us, but we also can be compassionate toward others, knowing that for whatever reason, some may have had to fight harder to enjoy the same blessings from the Lord.\nGod does not ask us to feel guilty for enjoying His blessings, but He does call us to use our blessing to bless others. In some seasons, we are rested (physically/ spiritually/emotionally) and have the energy and reserves to dive in and help others who are drowning. Other times, we can barely stay afloat, and the thought of trying to pull someone else up is simply overwhelming. Rather than comparing our situation to someone else's, we can enjoy rest when we get it and use our extra energy to help others, and we can feel unashamed for needing help when we are in the midst of suffering and adversity.\nWe must first be able to notice others before we can even be aware that they might need help. I believe that many, many people are struggling with pain that would be more bearable if they felt safe being vulnerable and sharing their pain with compassionate listeners. We must create safe spaces where people can openly share their struggles without fear of judgment and condemnation, knowing that the listeners will be compassionate and supportive. I have been in groups before where people were not comfortable sharing, and so it was hard to know what battles they were fighting, which makes it impossible to help. I've also been in groups where I shared something really difficult I was experiencing and either received no response or someone else's judgment when I really needed support. There are certainly times when we need people to call us out and help us see the need for repentance, but when people are vulnerable enough to share a struggle which they themselves have already identified, sometimes the greater help is to ask how we can support them rather than adding to the voices of criticism.\nWhen we get through a difficult battle, may the Lord enlarge our capacity for compassion so that \"we can comfort those in any trouble with the comfort we ourselves receive from God\" (2 Corinthians 1:3-4). When we are enjoying times of rest, may the Lord open up our eyes that we might really see the people He has placed in our lives and build meaningful relationships that allow them to feel safe sharing their struggles with us. When we are in the midst of difficult circumstances and see others who appear to be well-rested, we can thank God that we are not all fighting at the same time! Instead, He has graciously provided brothers and sisters who are refreshed enough to help us fight, and some of them have been through such similar difficulties that they know exactly what kind of support would be most helpful. May we watch carefully to observe how we can help one another take possession of the inheritance God has given us, for \"Then you shall return to the land of your possession and enjoy it\" (Joshua 1:15).\non Wednesday, March 22, 2017 by Lindsay | 8 comments Edit\nThis is so hard and yet so important! The business and social media aspects of our culture make it so hard to see when others need help, let alone see beyond our own situations. What a good reminder that we must work to see beyond where we are at!\nSarah Richmond said...\nI resonate with so much of what you share here. Thank you for being vulnerable and putting words to the struggle. I agree, empathy is key and would serve us all well in loving one another.\nSo true! It's hard! Thanks for reading!\nYes it's easier to see than it is to put into practice! Thanks for reading!\n\"We need not feel guilty for enjoying the good gifts that the Lord gives us, but we also can be compassionate toward others, knowing that for whatever reason, some may have had to fight harder to enjoy the same blessings from the Lord.\" I loved this quote!! May we learn to pour out, as well as, be poured into.\nThis is a great message and really can help us know what to do when we notice this. Mostly I just feel guilty when everything is going well for me but not well for someone else I know. You're exactly right--I need to use the blessings given to me for the good of others.\nThanks for your comment! It's something I learned while reading this passage but still working on putting it into practice!", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00040.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 73, + "original_length": 9810, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.98, + "perplexity": 323.0, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "http://blog.oxfordseminars.ca/category/saving-money/page/2/", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T04:25:58Z", + "digest": "sha1:DOFW7GEFK56KFNPFN433UHP4K2J34R2E", + "length": 1326, + "nlines": 6, + "source_domain": "blog.oxfordseminars.ca", + "title": "\ufeff Saving Money Archives - Page 2 of 2 - Oxford Seminars Blog - Page 2", + "raw_content": "Bachelor's Degree, Getting TEFL Certified, Saving Money, Teaching ESL\nFAQ: Will I Find an ESL Job Working Full Time Hours?\n\u201cNot black & white.\u201d Grey. Yes, very grey. This is a good way to describe the terms & conditions of an ESL contract abroad, where written items that should be clear, rarely are. Even worse, legal jargon that \u2013 even when written in perfect English \u2014can appear as foreign as the culture you might be emigrating to. Overseas ESL ...\nAsia, Bachelor's Degree, Eastern Europe, High School Diploma/College, Latin America, Master's Degree/PhD, Middle East, Saving Money, Teaching ESL, Travel, Western Europe\nIf you are considering teaching English overseas, do your research. Where should you go? Is it right for you? There are trends in ESL markets worldwide, which can help in determining if this is, in fact, the type of career path that you want to take. We've compiled a list of the top 10 countries that have a strong ...\nAre you on the lookout for an international job but aren't sure about what's out there? From the military to journalists, and of course, our personal favorite of Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL), there are multiple opportunities available. However, they each have their advantages and disadvantages. So, how can you know what's best for you? While that's a ...", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00040.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 149, + "original_length": 6099, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.95, + "perplexity": 227.8, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "http://blog.serialbox.com/chat-historical-fiction-author-alyssa-palombo/", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T04:47:02Z", + "digest": "sha1:OH4WUZPSV6725BC7P6E65DHGUX3VJ36B", + "length": 9729, + "nlines": 26, + "source_domain": "blog.serialbox.com", + "title": "A chat with Historical Fiction author Alyssa Palombo - Serial Box Serial Box", + "raw_content": "With historical fiction ever on our minds while we await Queen Catherine\u2019s royal return (WHITEHALL comes back from hiatus next week!), we sat down for a chat with the amazing historical fiction author Alyssa Palombo! Alyssa is the author of The Violinist of Venice: A Story of Vivaldi (currently available from St. Martins Press) as well as multiple short historical fiction pieces in Black Lantern, Novelletum, and The Great Lakes Review. She is a recent a graduate of Canisius College with degrees in English and creative writing, respectively, as well as a trained classical musician. You can sit in on our chat below and find Alyssa on Twitter at @AlyssInWnderlnd!\nHello! Thanks for joining us today! Could you tell us a little bit about yourself?\nThanks for having me! I was born and raised in Buffalo, NY, where I attended Canisius College and double majored in English and creative writing. I also had a minor in music and am a classically trained mezzo-soprano and have performed in different musical performances around the area. I\u2019m a huge music fan as well and love going to concerts and shows; my favorite genre is heavy metal. I\u2019m also an avid reader (which I\u2019m sure comes as no surprise) and also enjoy traveling as much as I possibly can.\nWhat inspired you to write The Violinist of Vivaldi?\nWeirdly enough, it started with a dream I had. The dream was essentially the first chapter of the novel, and when I woke up I couldn\u2019t stop thinking about it, or thinking about these people and what their story might be. I knew almost nothing about Venice or Vivaldi at that time, but I knew that I had to write this story. By the end of that day I had the first chapter written, and I kept on writing because I simply couldn\u2019t stop. I did the research as I went, which meant that many things had to change over the course of the revising process, but it all worked out in the end. As I mentioned above, I do have a musical background, so that was very helpful throughout the process but especially in the early stages of writing; it was something I DID know a lot about going in, and so it gave me my way into the story and into the lives of the characters.\nYour debut novel, The Violinist of Venice: A Story of Vivaldi, is set in the 18th century, amid the passion and mystery of Venetian life., which you do an excellent job capturing Where you familiar with the location before beginning the book?\nLike I said, I knew very little about Venice when I started writing, but I had always wanted to go there, and had always been fascinated by this idea of a city built in the middle of a lagoon with water for streets. I read a great deal about Venice and its history \u2013 from its founding to the present, though obviously I focused on the 18th century \u2013 during the course of my research, and I did eventually plan a trip there, before I started the third and final draft of the novel. I had been writing and reading about it for so long that I had gotten to a point where I felt I could not go any further without seeing it for myself. Venice is truly like no place else in the world, and that made it both exciting and intimidating to write about.\nWhen writing historical fiction for a modern audience, what are some of the greatest challenges?\nOne of them is certainly finding that fine line around exposition and information about the time period. As the author I need to give the reader enough information to ensure that they understand the social, cultural, and economic norms and realities of this time and place they are likely not familiar with and how these things impact my characters, but I have to do it in such a way that I\u2019m not simply dumping information on them and taking them out of the story. I like to think that I achieved this in Violinist, and I think that what was the most helpful for me in learning how to do it was simply reading lots and lots of historical fiction throughout my life and seeing how the masters (like Philippa Gregory, Sarah Dunant, etc.) do it.\nAnother challenge, and something that comes up often in discussions of historical fiction, is creating a heroine that modern readers can identify with and root for, without making her too ahead of her time in her attitudes. While feminism is a relatively new concept in world history, it came into being after years and years of women being discontented with their lots and their lack of rights. So while a woman in 18th century Venice may not have had what she would have called a feminist attitude \u2013 or even what modern readers would call a feminist attitude, perhaps \u2013 she may certainly still have looked around and recognized the injustices that limited her life and her choices and wished things were different. Adriana wishes that she could perform in public and also compose and have her work performed, and in examining the society in which she lived I did not find these to be unrealistic desires for her: women could perform as opera singers, and the female choir and orchestra of institutions like the Pieta performed for the public, albeit in a religious setting. So things were changing for women in music at that time, but unfortunately not fast enough for Adriana, who is aware of this and frustrated by it.\nAny fun or surprising research tidbits you\u2019ve found?\nWith all of the above said, I did find that women in 18th century Venice had a surprising amount of sexual freedom (thought not as much as the men, of course). One of the characters in the novel, Adriana\u2019s friend Giulietta, has what is called a cisibeo, or a lover whose name was included in the marriage contract between husband and wife and with whom the wife was allowed to have a relationship. This was an actual practice among Venetian nobility at the time, which completely surprised and fascinated me.\nWhat drew you to historical fiction? Any favorite books or authors in the genre?\nMy interest in history in general started at a young age. My dad is a big history buff, and he always impressed upon me the necessity of learning about the past and of learning from it. Growing up I read a lot of historical fiction like the Dear America and Royal Diaries series, and also historical novels by Ann Rinaldi. As a teenager I discovered Philippa Gregory, who is still one of my all-time favorite authors. Her novel THE OTHER BOLEYN GIRL made me realize that I wanted to write historical fiction. Some of my other favorite historical fiction authors include Sarah Dunant, Kate Quinn, C.W. Gortner, Kate Forsyth, Jennifer Laam, and Stephanie Cowell.\nMy overall love of history makes it exciting for me to travel to another time and place within the pages of a novel \u2013 whether I\u2019m reading it or writing it \u2013 but I also think what makes historical fiction interesting and powerful is the ways in which it allows us to reflect on how people and their hopes and desires really have not changed all that much over the years \u2013 people today still want love, happiness, money, power, etc., just as people have wanted those things throughout history. And I think that historical fiction also allows us to consider the ways in which we have progressed as a society over the years, and also how far we still have to go.\nIf we gave you a time machine, and told you that you could spend a week in three different time periods, which would you choose?\nNarrowing it down to three is a tough one! But here are my choices:\nI would definitely like to go back to 18th century Venice and experience the craziness of Carnival (and perhaps meet Vivaldi!)\nFlorence in the late 1460s or early 1470s to see the Renaissance really getting into full swing\nVienna, Austria, the week of May 7, 1824, to see the world premiere of Beethoven\u2019s Ninth Symphony\nI still have copy edits and pass pages to come in the next few months for my second novel, The Most Beautiful Woman in Florence: A Story of Botticelli, which will be out April 25, 2017 from St. Martin\u2019s Griffin. In the meantime, I\u2019m working on drafting my third novel, which I don\u2019t want to say too much about yet. But I am making a jump from Italy, as this novel takes place in New York State in the early 1790s. I am just loving working on it so far \u2013 it\u2019s been maybe the easiest project to draft that I\u2019ve ever worked on.\nA big thanks to Alyssa for stopping by to chat and don\u2019t forget to check out The Violinist of Venice: A Story of Vivaldi!\nA sweeping historical novel of composer and priest Antonio Vivaldi, a secret wealthy mistress, and their passion for music and each other.\nLike most 18th century Venetians, Adriana d\u2019Amato adores music-except her strict merchant father has forbidden her to cultivate her gift for the violin. But she refuses to let that stop her from living her dreams and begins sneaking out of her family\u2019s palazzo under the cover of night to take violin lessons from virtuoso violinist and composer Antonio Vivaldi. However, what begins as secret lessons swiftly evolves into a passionate, consuming love affair.\nAdriana\u2019s father is intent on seeing her married to a wealthy, prominent member of Venice\u2019s patrician class-and a handsome, charming suitor, whom she knows she could love, only complicates matters-but Vivaldi is a priest, making their relationship forbidden in the eyes of the Church and of society. They both know their affair will end upon Adriana\u2019s marriage, but she cannot anticipate the events that will force Vivaldi to choose between her and his music. The repercussions of his choice-and of Adriana\u2019s own choices-will haunt both of their lives in ways they never imagined.\nSpanning more than 30 years of Adriana\u2019s life, Alyssa Palombo\u2019s The Violinist of Venice is a story of passion, music, ambition, and finding the strength to both fall in love and to carry on when it ends.", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00040.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 148, + "original_length": 13118, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.98, + "perplexity": 237.5, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "http://blogs.bu.edu/lawdean/2018/02/", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T04:13:18Z", + "digest": "sha1:DG4KWYXIA3JNCHORAFHL4ENI6OHULMJU", + "length": 545, + "nlines": 2, + "source_domain": "blogs.bu.edu", + "title": "February | 2018 | Law Dean", + "raw_content": "As part of our continuing efforts to expand experiential learning opportunities for students, we introduced two new externship programs during the 2017-2018 academic year. 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Here at Loyola\u2019s Undergraduate Office of Admissions, we\u2019ve been preparing for this event for months! Loyola is one of our biggest admissions event throughout the year to bring to you, the future Rambler, a great experience and good impression of Loyola University Chicago. _______________________________________________________ Loyola\u2019s campuses will be on showcase for you [\u2026]\nTags: Loyola Weekend\nPosted in Academics At Loyola, Everyday Life, Life At Loyola, Living At Loyola | Comments Off on Loyola Weekend\n(Some of) the Best Places to Get Pizza Around Chicago!\nWe all know that if there\u2019s one thing Chicago is known for, it\u2019s definitely pizza (sorrynotsorry New York). As Ramblers, there\u2019s plenty of places around the Chicago that are go-to\u2019s to have some of the best pizza, outside the bigger names (Like Giordano\u2019s or Lou Malnati\u2019s) that I personally love. Pequod\u2019s Pizza. Located on the [\u2026]\nPosted in Uncategorized | Comments Off on (Some of) the Best Places to Get Pizza Around Chicago!\nRambler Experience: Making Commitments\nUniversity is a time to develop yourself, to figure out what you want to do, and how you want to use your skills and talents in the real world. University is also a time to commit to your interests (clubs/organizations, Greek Life); commit to a program (major(s), minor(s), pre-professional program); and commit to being a Rambler! Along the [\u2026]\nPosted in Academics At Loyola, On Campus Events, Student Activities, Working At Loyola | Comments Off on Rambler Experience: Making Commitments\nScholars Night \u2013 April 8, 2017\nCalling all future accepted Ramblers of the class of 2021! There is a chance you were invited to attend Loyola\u2019s Scholars Night hosted at the Field Museum, but maybe you don\u2019t know what that is, if you\u2019re required to go, or how it has to do with your acceptance. Fret not, because I will give you [\u2026]\nTags: Loyola Weekend, Scholars Night\nPosted in Academics At Loyola, Chicago Livin', Life At Loyola | Comments Off on Scholars Night \u2013 April 8, 2017\nWays to Enjoy the Warm(ish) Weather Around Chicago!\nWith winter already come and gone here in Chicago, and things are slowly starting to heat up, it\u2019s always good to think of ways you can enjoy Chicago before you drown in homework and projects for Finals Week! Below, I have some things that you (and your friends) can enjoy to help make the most [\u2026]\nPosted in Chicago Livin' | Comments Off on Ways to Enjoy the Warm(ish) Weather Around Chicago!\nBest of Chicago: The Arts on a Student Budget\nSpring is finally here. You whip out your windbreaker, your comfortable walking shoes, and maybe even tempted to wear shorts. With such wonderful weather, you want to go out and explore Chicago. Chicago is a city full of arts whether it be: the Chicago Symphony Orchestra or the Art Institute of Chicago. The Chicago Symphony [\u2026]\nPosted in Chicago Livin', Everyday Life, Living At Loyola | Comments Off on Best of Chicago: The Arts on a Student Budget\nWhere is that? This area is my neighborhood, located in the north side of Chicago! Just like how Rogers Park is home to Loyola University Chicago, Albany Park is home to, well\u2026MY HOME! Let\u2019s dive into what\u2019s awesome about this neighborhood (as well as other neighborhoods around LUC). As you know, Chicago is a dynamic [\u2026]\nPosted in Chicago Livin' | Comments Off on Albany Park\nWhat Loyola\u2019s Motto Means to Me\nFor those of you who\u2019ve either decided on attending Loyola for the coming Fall semester, or if you have been accepted, but haven\u2019t made a decision yet, I want to talk about a motto you\u2019ll see in most of Loyola\u2019s buildings on campus. If you\u2019ve taken a tour on campus, you\u2019ve likely either seen \u201cAd [\u2026]\nPosted in Uncategorized | Comments Off on What Loyola\u2019s Motto Means to Me", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00040.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 157, + "original_length": 7289, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.92, + "perplexity": 281.4, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "http://blogs.worldbank.org/europeandcentralasia/when-managers-do-not-know-they-do-not-know", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T03:38:37Z", + "digest": "sha1:QHFKPEZJDD4AAXQN3V5NHGIRHZAGZ6TS", + "length": 5014, + "nlines": 20, + "source_domain": "blogs.worldbank.org", + "title": "When managers do not know that they do not know | Eurasian Perspectives", + "raw_content": "When managers do not know that they do not know\nSubmitted by Josefina Posadas\tOn Mon, 01/28/2019\nco-authors: Mirey Ovadiya, Meliha Kozaric Fanning\nAlso available in: Bosanski\nBeing a labor economist by training, thinking about the skills of jobseekers, workers in the changing world of labor and students is an integral part of my everyday work-life and part of my ongoing dialog with policy makers and academics.\nBut what about the skills of employers?\nDo managers and CEOs have the skills needed to make firms grow and succeed in integrated global markets and complex business environments? And, very importantly, do they have the skills to maximize the growth potential that could generate jobs?\nWe know that enhanced management practices lead to higher firm productivity and, potentially, more jobs. Current estimates suggest that about half of the variation in GDP per capita is explained by differences in inputs\u2014labor and capital\u2014and the other half by differences in total factor productivity (TFP).\nWhile TFP has traditionally been a black box capturing everything that economists cannot measure, lately the profession has made progress in pulling back its black veil. Among other things, we are seeing investing in better management practices for firms (which require proficient management skills) leads to increases in TFP.\nFor example, a randomized controlled-trial study in the manufacturing sector revealed that the adoption of advanced management practices led to large increases in productivity: following a consulting intervention that cost around USD 250,000 per firm, profits in typical firms increased in the first year by USD 325,000.\nCan this be applied to other country contexts?\nLet\u2019s look at Bosnia and Herzegovina, where a recent World Bank report showed that TFP growth in Bosnia and Herzegovina between 2009 and 2014 was close to null. While there is no measurement of management performance among firms in the country, indirect evidence suggests that the Bosnia and Herzegovina is lagging behind on this factor affecting competitiveness (among others). In the last World Economic Forum Global Competitiveness Report, the sub-indicators that pushed down the country\u2019s ranking in competitiveness (rank 91) point to issues related to management practices - such as weaker attitudes towards entrepreneurial risk (rank 103), growth of innovative companies (rank 128), and adoption of disruptive ideas (rank 112).\nOne of the reasons firms do not adopt advanced management practices, according to some academics and practitioners, is that managers do not know what they do not know. This is often referred as \u2018the perception problem.\u2019 Simply said, managers do not know or do not acknowledge (even to themselves) that they could be better managers and adopt better management practices. After all, why would anyone try to fix something that seems to be working?\nDifferent things can be done to help managers understand they can do better. At the grassroots level, evidence that adopting advanced management practices will lead to firm growth, and even job creation depending on the bottle necks and sectors, can be instrumental in changing mindsets.\nIn an effort to overcome these challenges, the World Bank, in cooperation with Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency, is sponsoring a project to encourage business development, entitled Business Management Advisory Support. This labor demand intervention complements a similar one introduced in a previous blog. The pilot intervention aims to provide tailor-made business advisory support to a select number of small and medium-sized enterprises free of charge. Implementation support is being provided by the consulting firm Deloitte. Through these services, managers are expected to see the initial gains of taking risks and adopting new managerial practices. More than 40 firms have already shown interest in these services.\n[Firms interested in being part of this pilot intervention have until January 31st 2019 to apply here]\nBut governments will also have a role to play. Sharing information about advanced management practices that work, new markets that could be profitable for firms, and overall investment in managerial skills are all things that governments can do in collaboration with the private sector to overcome the perception problem and improve productivity. Policies like these should complement those that we often hear and refer to improving the business environment, such as removing credit constraints, simplifying procedures, eliminating corruption and so on.\nIn sum, if we want to have firms that maximize opportunities, we need to support the management skills of those who make decisions at the firm level. 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Merkel comes to Chemnitz to ease ethnic tensions, but faces mass protest | Brief News", + "raw_content": "Too little, too late? Merkel comes to Chemnitz to ease ethnic tensions, but faces mass protest\nGerman Chancellor Angela Merkel finally visited the eastern German city of Chemnitz, more than two months after massive right-wing protests there. However, twenty times as many people came to protest against her than to see her.\nIn late August, the city of Chemnitz witnessed a surge of anti-immigrant sentiment after the fatal stabbing of a German man, allegedly by a group of migrants. The incident provoked a wave of right-wing rallies and far-right marches, as well as counter-protests, some of which escalated into skirmishes between riot police and protesters, resulting in multiple arrests and injuries.\nNow, more than two months after the scandal, Merkel finally turned her attention to the beleaguered city in what even the local mayor, Barbara Ludwig, called a belated gesture. The chancellor met with a youth basketball team, talked to Ludwig and the head of the region of Saxony, where Chemnitz is located. In an apparent attempt to heal the rift between the government and the people, she also engaged in what she called a \u201ccivil dialogue\u201d with some 120 readers of a local newspaper.\nThe chancellor\u2019s visit predictably brought no surprises as she kept defending her immigration policies, admitting, however, that they provoked some \u201cdissatisfaction\u201d among Germans. She described the Chemnitz murder as a \u201chorrifying crime\u201d but said that no crimes justify other crimes, referring to the far-right violence and xenophobic attacks.\n\u201cWhat concerns me is the fact that, as a result of these developments [in Chemnitz], many people have lost the feeling of security,\u201d she told the audience, adding that restoring this feeling is a responsibility which \u201ca state governed by the rule of law\u201d should bear. However, she then immediately said that the feeling of insecurity is mostly \u201csubjective\u201d and is not supported by statistics and police data.\nClaiming that her government made just one mistake in its immigration policy, she explained it \u201cwas made not when the refugees were coming\u201d in Germany, but rather when it failed to care enough about the people fleeing wars in Syria and Iraq for refugee camps in Jordan and Turkey, before the refugee crisis actually reached Europe.\nThe chancellor seemed to be pretty happy with the results of her visit and the \u201cin-depth\u201d conversations she described as well worth including in her tight schedule. She also promised \u201cmore support\u201d for Chemnitz in the form of \u201ccertain congresses and meetings [that] will take place [there] in the future.\u201d\nHowever, whether she indeed managed to strike a chord with the locals remains unclear, as twenty times more people than the number that went to greet her opted instead to attend a protest against her visit.\nSome 2,500 people took to the streets of Chemnitz on Friday to express their discontent with the chancellor\u2019s policies. The protest was organized by the anti-immigration Pegida movement as well as a local far-right Pro-Chemnitz group, according to German media. A group of protesters also designated themselves a \u2018Merkeljugend\u2019 in an apparent reference to a Third Reich Nazi youth movement called \u2018Hitlerjugend\u2019.\nThe protesters chanted \u201cMerkel must go\u201d and \u201cNation\u2019s traitor\u201d while holding banners and placards that read \u201cwe are the people.\u201d The group that branded themselves \u2018Merkeljugend\u2019 also held flags and banners with the EU symbols styled on Nazi symbols and had T-shirts with \u2018Geil Merkel\u2019 slogan \u2013 another reference to the Nazi slogan \u2018Heil Hitler.\u2019\nDie Rechten wollen Merkel l\u00e4cherlich machen, in dem sie sie mit Hitler gleichsetzen.\nM\u00fcssten die Rechten nicht gerade dann gl\u00fccklich sein?\nAlso ich komme da nicht mehr mit, mit deren ihren verschrobenen Weltbild #Chemnitz#c1611pic.twitter.com/Gx7fHYjJKI\n\u2014 Christian (@Ghostdogcs) November 16, 2018\nThe protesters argued that Germany has turned into a sort of dictatorship under Merkel, while comparing her government\u2019s polices with those of Communist East Germany\u2019s secret police \u2013 the Stasi. Merkel herself also appeared to be not ready for dialogue with those, whom she branded as far-right populists.\n\u201cWe should not let our agenda be defined by those who spread fear and hate,\u201d she told her audience in Chemnitz, adding that she \u201cwill not go to those, who do not want to talk.\u201d\nCategories:\tWorld\t/ No Responses / by martin November 17, 2018", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00040.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 90, + "original_length": 7212, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.96, + "perplexity": 320.1, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "http://britishsurnames.co.uk/surname/aagard/map", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T03:52:58Z", + "digest": "sha1:NCKGMCXJ4ML65DH47WWLEYGVI37WUDXB", + "length": 529, + "nlines": 8, + "source_domain": "britishsurnames.co.uk", + "title": "Surname distribution maps for Aagard surname meaning, origin, etymology and distribution in Great Britain | British Surnames", + "raw_content": "Surname distribution maps for Aagard\nAagard in the 1881 Census\nSorry, we don't have any stats for the distribution of Aagard in the 1881 Census.\nAagard in the 21st Century\nSorry, we don't have any stats for the distribution of Aagard in the 21st Century.\nThe maps, if available, show both where there are more people named Aagard and where they are most concentrated.\nThe darker the colour, the more people in that county are named Aagard.\nThe larger the dot, the greater the proportion of people in that county are named Aagard.", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00040.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 46, + "original_length": 1765, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.94, + "perplexity": 208.9, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "http://bruegel.org/events/ft-french-election/", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T03:26:57Z", + "digest": "sha1:P7WCEVEOBWIO5M3DL2YJGNBWPFI76PH5", + "length": 5950, + "nlines": 16, + "source_domain": "bruegel.org", + "title": "Financial Times \u2013 Bruegel Forum: the future of Europe after the French election | Bruegel", + "raw_content": "Financial Times \u2013 Bruegel Forum: the future of Europe after the French election\nThe second event in the Financial Times - Bruegel Forum series will look at how the results of the French elections will affect Europe.\nOn 11 May Bruegel and the Financial Times held an event to discuss the direction Europe is likely to take after the French elections. Guntram Wolff, Director of Bruegel, and Tony Barber, Europe Editor of the FT, had the opportunity to discuss the challenges and opportunities facing France and the EU with Jean Pisani-Ferry, Director for Programme and Ideas of Emmanuel Macron\u2019s presidential campaign.\nTony Barber kicked-off the debate with some remarks on the reactions to Emmanuel Macron\u2019s election. Despite his victory at the second turn, larger than expected and welcome with great relief in France, he warned about the wide domestic hostility, expressed in the substantial ballots for extreme candidates in the first round, to some of the economic reforms proposed in his program. At the European level, he highlighted the differences between the overwhelmingly positive reactions in Western Europe and EU institutions and those extremely aloof in Eastern European governments. In this regard, while the election of Macron will certainly represent a new impetus for a healthier Franco-German relationship to strengthen the Euro area, the pockets of reserve and scepticism coming from the rest of EU should be kept in mind.\nDespite these concrete challenges, Jean Pisani-Ferry emphasized the significance of this election. Emmanuel Macron broke with the longstanding tradition of avoiding European issues in a Presidential campaign, due to the internal divisions within both parties. In these elections, instead, particularly in the second round, there were two opposing candidates, with platform defined against or pro-Europe. A novelty for France, but also for European politics itself.\nAt the same time, the vote crystallized profound divisions within the country (by education level, by location and in particular by personal perception about the future), similar to those emerged in the Brexit vote and the US election. Mr Pisani-Ferry explained that it will be a priority for Macron to address these divides. And given his commitment, he will not speak only to the \u201chappy France\u201d, but will be demanding at domestic and European level to respond to the fears and anger expressed during the campaign.\nRegarding reforms, Mr. Pisani-Ferry noted that, even if reluctance was clearly expressed in the first round, the current status quo is politically unsustainable (in terms unemployment level, divide between large and smaller cities, problems of competitiveness). Political capital, both domestically and at European level, has to be invested wisely in reforms that are going to deliver. More generally, given that the risk of facing a more competitive \u201cchampion\u201d against openness and integration can not be underestimated (in the future or in another country), redefining the idea of economic openness and open society in a way that is politically more sustainable is a key challenge for the future of European politics.\nIn response to some remarks by Guntram Wolff on Macron\u2019s public finance strategy and regional policies to tackle the opportunity gap between urban vs. countryside, Jean Pisani-Ferry provided more details on the planned structural reduction of public spending. To allow it, given the available low-interest rate window, the program envisages additional (but temporary) investments for 50 billion euros over the presidential 5-years term to foster the digitalization of public administration and improving efficiency of healthcare system. Regarding the geographical divides (well described here by the Financial Times), addressing the inclusiveness issues created by economic agglomeration will require changes in housing tax, the educational system and the degree of physical and digital connectivity.\nFinally, a great part of the debate concerned the European dimension of the program. He made it clear that the agenda will starts at home with solving homegrown problems with domestic policies. \u201cThere is no attitude of telling neighbours or telling partners that they should be solving our problems,\u201d he said. At the same time, the current outcomes of the Euro Area institutional set-up are rather unsatisfactory. In light of this, what is essential according to Pisani-Ferry is a serious discussion about the remaining shortcomings, not only on the few issues on which consensus can be found in the short-term and in particular not on instruments. \u201cThere has been a lot of crisis management and last-minute decisions to prevent very bad things happening, but we have lacked a serious discussion\u201d, he noted, \u201cin which we don\u2019t need to agree on everything\u201d. In this regard, the French red lines will be complacency, inaction, dogmatism.\nThe discussion continued on the consequences of Brexit on the EU budget, the necessary redefinition of its strategic priorities and on proposal about a policy framework to address security consequences of foreign acquisitions (on which Bruegel advanced some proposals).\nSeveral questions from the audience fostered further the debate on European values, the sequencing of flexicurity reforms, the future French position on Brexit, issues related to labour mobility within the Single market.\nEvent notes by Filippo Biondi, Research Assistant.\nTony Barber, Europe editor, Financial Times\nEurope editor, Financial Times\nwww.ft.com The Financial Times is one of the world\u2019s leading business news organisations, recognised internationally for its authority, integrity and accuracy. 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Plus, there's more to come: Two more network interviews this week.\nCould this be the sign of a new White House openness? Stay tuned.\nTough Ones From the Audience\nBryan Bender writes in the Boston Globe: \"Speaking in the run-up to Iraqi elections, President Bush departed from the largely scripted public events he's used to justify the Iraq war and unexpectedly fielded some tough questions from his audience yesterday, defending his administration's use of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks to justify toppling Saddam Hussein and estimating that 30,000 Iraqis have died since the 2003 invasion.\n\"After his talk to the World Affairs Council in Philadelphia, in which he likened Iraq's political struggles with the setbacks of the early days of American independence, Bush opened the floor to questions -- and found himself facing some skeptics.\"\nHere's the transcript of Bush's speech. As I first reported in my December 6 column , Bush's advance team conspicuously refused to allow questions when he spoke to the Council on Foreign Relations last week.\nPress secretary Scott McClellan said yesterday that Bush decided to take questions only hours before the Philadelphia speech began.\nThe first one made headlines around the world:\n\"Q Since the inception of the Iraqi war, I'd like to know the approximate total of Iraqis who have been killed. And by Iraqis I include civilians, military, police, insurgents, translators.\n\"THE PRESIDENT: How many Iraqi citizens have died in this war? I would say 30,000, more or less, have died as a result of the initial incursion and the ongoing violence against Iraqis. We've lost about 2,140 of our own troops in Iraq.\"\nPeter Baker writes in The Washington Post: \"The first person he called on was Didi Goldmark, 63, a former libel lawyer from New Hope, Pa., who asked him how many Iraqis have died in the war. Unlike aides who have been asked that question, Bush gave a direct answer. . . .\n\"The estimate marked the first time Bush has personally provided an assessment of the Iraqi death toll, a highly sensitive subject that his administration largely avoids discussing at any level, much less from the presidential lectern. Although the Pentagon keeps careful track of Americans killed in Iraq -- now exceeding 2,100 troops -- military officers have said they do not count Iraqi dead. . . .\n\"Bush moved on to the next question without identifying how he arrived at the figure or how many were killed by U.S. forces and not Iraqi insurgents and foreign militants. Aides later said it was not a government estimate but a reflection of figures in news media reports. Still, Bush offered it without qualification, in effect accepting it as a reasonable approximation. . . .\n\"Some of the five questions Bush later took from the audience also challenged his assertions. Faeze Woodville, 44, a naturalized U.S. citizen born in Iran and now living in nearby Strafford, Pa., asked why he keeps linking the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, to the Iraq war despite no evidence of a direct connection. The president said '9/11 changed my look on foreign policy' and he learned 'that if we see a threat we've got to deal with it.'\n\"Woodville said in an interview afterward that she felt Bush ducked her question. 'He must think we're morons,' she said. 'There is no link, and he knows it as well as I. And I and others in the audience are insulted that he thinks we don't read, don't think, don't have any opinions.' \"\nHere's the full text of that exchange:\n\"Q Mr. President, I would like to know why it is that you and others in your administration keep linking 9/11 to the invasion of Iraq when no respected journalist or Middle Eastern expert confirmed that such a link existed.\n\"THE PRESIDENT: I appreciate that. 9/11 changed my look on foreign policy. I mean, it said that oceans no longer protect us, that we can't take threats for granted; that if we see a threat, we've got to deal with it. It doesn't have to be militarily, necessarily, but we got to deal with it. We can't -- can't just hope for the best anymore.\n\"And so the first decision I made, as you know, was to -- was to deal with the Taliban in Afghanistan because they were harboring terrorists. This is where the terrorists planned and plotted. And the second decision -- which was a very difficult decision for me, by the way, and it's one that I -- I didn't take lightly -- was that Saddam Hussein was a threat. He is a declared enemy of the United States; he had used weapons of mass destruction; the entire world thought he had weapons of mass destruction. The United Nations had declared in more than 10 -- I can't remember the exact number of resolutions -- that disclose, or disarm, or face serious consequences. I mean, there was a serious international effort to say to Saddam Hussein, you're a threat. And the 9/11 attacks extenuated that threat, as far as I -- concerned.\n\"And so we gave Saddam Hussein the chance to disclose or disarm, and he refused. And I made a tough decision. And knowing what I know today, I'd make the decision again. Removing Saddam Hussein makes this world a better place and America a safer country.\"\nAs blogger Brendan Nyhan points out, Bush probably didn't mean to say that the \"9/11 attacks extenuated that threat.\" Extenuate means \"weaken.\" He probably meant exacerbate.\nRegardless, it was the first time I can recall Bush explaining so directly why he connects the two.\nBig News Here?\nKen Herman of the Cox News Service -- alone among the reporters covering the speech -- led his story with the one line that I thought just might be the biggest and most inadvertent news of the day.\nHerman writes: \"President Bush, looking beyond this week's parliamentary elections in Iraq, said regime change will be needed elsewhere in the world before Americans' safety at home can be ensured.\n\" 'The long run in this war is going to require a change of governments in parts of the world,' Bush told the World Affairs Council of Philadelphia, a nonpartisan educational group, on Monday. He didn't name names but noted that Iran and Syria have become obstacles to freedom in 'a tough neighborhood.' \"\nCritics Pleasantly Surprised\nHere's something you don't see every day: Kind words from Bush's traditionally toughest critics.\nTim Grieve writes in Salon that \"more often than not, Bush unscripted was a whole lot better than the teleprompted president has been lately. He may not be able to change the way Americans think about Iraq, but more appearances like this one could change the way Americans think about their president. As the New York Times said the other day, Bush should get out more.\"\nThe Carpetbagger blogs: \"To be sure, this is a pleasantly surprising development. Maybe it's because of the Newsweek cover , or maybe it's because Brian Williams is following Bush around today and they wanted to score some p.r. points, or maybe the Bush gang decided to just take a chance. Whatever the motivation, they're to be congratulated -- allowing the president to hear five questions from regular Americans may seem pretty routine for a president, but for these guys, it's a quite a breakthrough.\"\nOf course, some critics kept at it: Jason Kellet of merlotdemocrats, for instance, was not impressed with Bush's body language while answering the question. He annotates Bush's words this way: \"I would say (sigh) (shrug) 30,000, more or less, have died as a result of the initial incursion and the ongoing violence against Iraqis.\"\nFact Checking Watch\nAfter the last two speeches Bush gave on Iraq, there was plenty of aggressive fact-checking. Yesterday, not so much. I'm sure that mostly had to do with the fact that Bush didn't break a whole lot of new ground, other than adopting the figure of 30,000 dead.\nOn that count, Oren Dorell writes in USA TODAY: \"The White House offered no details about how the 30,000 died, or who killed them.\n\"Unofficial estimates vary. Bush's number roughly matches an estimate by Iraq Body Count , a research group that uses media accounts to measure civilian deaths. On Monday, that count numbered between 27,383 and 30,892. That is far lower than the count in a 2004 study, published in the medical journal The Lancet, which used a survey of Iraqi households to estimate that about 100,000 Iraqis had died.\"\nBut if what Bush said wasn't really new, it's still worth pointing out what he didn't say. For instance, in his talk about the growth of democracy in Iraq, Bush still refuses to acknowledge the significance of a key fact: That most Iraqis oppose the American occupation and that many of the people fighting against it would no longer be fighting us if we left.\nBush's answer to a question about improving the U.S. image abroad didn't acknowledge the role played by the Iraq war and allegations of torture under his watch. The president instead chose to blame image problems on the Arab media and the terrorist propaganda machine.\n\"Look, I recognize we got an image issue, particularly when you got television stations, Arabic television stations that are constantly just pounding America, creating -- saying America is fighting Islam, Americans can't stand Muslims, this is a war against a religion. And we've got to, obviously, do a better job of reminding people that ours is not a nation that rejects religion; ours is a nation that accepts people of all faith, and that the great strength of America is the capacity for people to worship freely.\"\nThe Williams Questions\nNBC Anchor Brian Williams held three short interviews with Bush over the course of the day yesterday. Here are the transcripts of part one , part two , and part three .\nWilliams focused mostly on torture, Hurricane Katrina, Iraq and the bubble.\nHere's NBC News 's story about Bush's torture answers: \"President Bush expressed a no-tolerance stance on the use of torture by the United States in the war on terrorism in an exclusive wide-ranging interview with NBC News anchor Brian Williams, broadcast Monday.\"\nHere's that excerpt:\n\"Williams: Can you meet John McCain at his definition?\n\"President Bush: Yes, I'm confident we can. On the other hand, we want to make sure that we're in a position to be able to interrogate without torture. These are people that still want to hurt us, Brian. And the American people expect us to do that which we can do within international law and our own declaration of supporting the premises of international law is what I really meant to say -- to protect us. I mean, if they know something, we need to know it. And we think we can find it without torturing people.\"\nDavid E. Sanger and Eric Schmitt write in the New York Times: \"Mr. McCain, the nation's most famous former prisoner of war, has been pressing for the restrictions, which the Senate has approved, to be adopted in intense three-way negotiations with the House and the Bush administration as Congress prepares to wrap up its work for the year.\n\"Mr. Bush's remarks hinted at what appear to be the White House objectives in the talks that started with Vice President Dick Cheney's demand that intelligence agents be exempted from Mr. McCain's measure. For Mr. Cheney, this is also part of a broader struggle with Congress to reassert presidential authority. . . .\n\"After a stinging defeat in the Senate in October on Mr. McCain's measure, the White House turned to Mr. Bush's national security adviser, Stephen J. Hadley, who has been negotiating narrower language that would give some legal protection to covert operatives if they were caught going beyond the murky boundaries of acceptable interrogation techniques.\"\nBut it really is all just \"hints\" until Bush clearly defines what he means by torture.\nReuters , incidentally, reports: \"A former top adviser to President George W. Bush on Iraq policy said on Monday there are instances when torture may be appropriate.\n\"Commenting on an issue that has roiled Washington and affected the U.S. image abroad, Robert Blackwill, who was deputy national security adviser during Bush's first term, said:\n\" 'Of course torture should not be widespread and of course there should be extraordinarily stringent top-down requirements in this respect. But never? . . . I wouldn't say never.' \"\nOn Katrina\nRichard W. Stevenson writes in the New York Times: \"President Bush said Monday that the failures of the government in responding to Hurricane Katrina had nothing to do with race or class and repeated his promise to rebuild the Gulf Coast and New Orleans in particular.\n\"Asked in an interview with NBC News whether the response would have been the same had the destruction occurred on Nantucket or in Chicago or Houston, Mr. Bush said he was aware of criticism that the government acted slowly because he was a racist, and he said such criticism was absolutely wrong.\"\nThe full quote from the interview transcript:\n\"Somebody I heard -- you know, a couple of people said -- you know, said, 'Bush didn't respond because of race, because he's a racist.' That is absolutely wrong. And I reject that. Frankly, that's the kind of thing that -- you can call me anything you want -- but do not call me a racist. Secondly, this storm hit all up and down. It hit New Orleans. It hit down in Mississippi too. And people should not forget the damage done in Mississippi.\"\nI wrote about Williams' initial questions about Bush's life in the bubble in yesterday's column . Later in the day, he asked even more.\nWilliams: \"Once and for all -- and I know you've had some fun with members of the press on this subject -- how much television news do you watch? How much do you read the morning papers, news magazines? How much do you see in an average week?\"\nBush: \"I don't see a lot of the news. Every morning I look at the newspaper. I can't say I've read every single article in the newspaper. But I definitely know what's in the news. Occasionally, I watch television. I don't want to hurt your feelings, but it's occasionally. I'm working at that point, as are you. But I'm very aware of what's in the news. I'm aware because I see clips. I see summaries. I have people on my staff that walk in every morning and say, 'This is what's -- this is how I see it. This is what's brewing today,' on both the domestic and international side. Frankly, it is probably part of my own fault for needling people, but it's a myth to think I don't know what's going on. And it's a myth to think that I'm not aware that there is opinions that don't agree with mine. Because I'm fully aware of that. . . .\n\"I read the newspaper. I mean, I can tell you what the headlines are. I must confess, if I think the story is, like, not a fair appraisal, I'll move on. But I know what the story's about.\"\nWashington Times reporter Joe Curl wrote in his pool report that Bush encountered protesters when he left the speechin Philadelphia. \"By the time Bush left in his motorcade at 12:50, the crowd of protesters had grown substantially. A huge 'Boooo!' echoed in the road beneath Independence Hall as he drove by. By the time the pool vans reached the site, many were offering a one-fingered salute to the Commander in Chief (but they were clearly not saying 'You're No. 1!').\"\nWilliams asked about that, too:\n\"Williams: OK, as we drove up to the hotel in Philadelphia today, there were protesters outside. And they were yelling shame. Do you see them and hear them from your limousine?\n\"President Bush: Sure.\n\"Williams: Does it matter to you? Does it register?\n\"President Bush: I think after awhile you kind of get used to it. It's part of the job. It is -- you know, it's -- part of living in a democracy. They're frankly smaller than they used to be, but that doesn't mean there's not intensity out there. I've made some very difficult positions. I fully understand people not liking war. I fully understand people wanting, you know, feeling that, you know, that I'm making progress. I mean, I can see that. And, on the other hand, I know we're making progress. We're winning. And it's my job to continue to try to reassure them that we are winning and the stakes are worth it. But yes, I'm fully aware of the discontent and the protests.\"\nGrumblings Among the Press Corps\nBlogger Wonkette writes: \"The White House correspondents will get feted at the White House later this week, but all the sliced ham and swing bands in the world can't make them any less surly. It's a sucky job, someone has to do it, and it sucks even more someone [when] sweeps in for a stunt-casting moment of glory, like Brian Williams did today. . . .\n\"[A]ccording to our cranky eyewitness, Williams skipped 'the rigorous Secret Service sweep ('hands out, turn around, cough') that other trip-takers enjoyed in the luggage lounge by Gate 2' and 'did not sit with the other White House press corps cretins in the pod by the kitchen.' \"\nABC News's The Note offered some advice yesterday to Williams -- or Brit Hume of Fox News, who they say has the next Bush interview.\nCiting \"the First Rule of Interviewing Presidents: don't ask anything for which the staff has prepared him\" the Note suggested these questions, among others:\n* \"I know you don't read polls, Mr. President, but did anyone mention to you the new ABC News/Time survey of Iraqis ?\"\n* \"Has 2005 been the best year of your presidency? (If not, where would you rank it among the 5?)\"\n* \"Are the stories about your snapping at aides true?\"\n* \"Democrats say every family worth eight million in assets should be exempt from inheritance or death taxes but that families with more than 8 million in assets should have to pay taxes. What's wrong with that position?\"\n* \"What is your definition of torture?\"\n* \"How much does a liter of Diet Coke cost?\"\nTaegan Goddard's Political Wire reports: \"A new Cook Political Report/RT Strategies national poll 'confirms that President Bush's job approval plunge that began earlier this year has bottomed out and he has regained at least some lost ground.' The survey shows that 42% approved the overall job Bush is doing, up a point from three weeks ago, with 55% disapproving.\n\"Key takeaway: 'Until the President starts gaining ground among independents, it's hard to see him getting back into the high forties again.' \"\nSusan Page has more on the poll I mentioned yesterday. She writes in USA Today: \"President Bush's job approval rating, on a long slide since his re-election last year, rebounded from historic lows in a USA TODAY/CNN/Gallup Poll taken this weekend. . . .\n\"Bush's standing remains lower than that of any president in his second term since World War II except Richard Nixon.\n\"Even so, Bush's political situation seems to have stabilized after a perilous autumn. Three other national polls released in the past three weeks put his rating on the rise to 41% or 42%. A Gallup Poll taken Dec. 5-8 measured it at 43%.\n\"In the USA TODAY survey, Bush's rating by independents jumped by 10 points, compared with a month earlier, to 38% from 28%.\"\nHere are the complete poll results .\nThe Guardian writes: \"Five years ago today Al Gore phoned George Bush to formally concede the presidency. Since then the United States has suffered its worst ever terrorist attack, become embroiled in a disastrous foreign war and bungled the response to a natural catastrophe. So what is the Bush legacy after half a decade? Is he a ruthless Machiavellian or a bumbling puppet? A devout idealist or a cynical opportunist? A disaster or a mild disappointment? Here, six top American commentators - from the left and the right - deliver their verdicts.\"\nHere's part of what Howell Raines, the former editor of the New York Times, had to say: \"At this point, the policy legacy of George Bush seems defined by three disparate disasters: Iraq in foreign affairs, Katrina in social welfare, and corporate influence over tax, budget and regulatory decisions. As a short-term political consequence, we may avoid another dim-witted Bush in the White House. But what the Bush dynasty has done to presidential campaign science - the protocols by which Americans elect presidents in the modern era - amounts to a political legacy that could haunt the republic for years to come.\"\nHere's the view from R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr., the founder and editor-in-chief of the American Spectator: \"One thing is certain. He will leave the White House with many Americans furious with him, much as Truman did. Most of those who seethed at Truman were Republicans from the Old Order, with a few conservative Democrats along for the wrathful ride. Those who seethe at Bush are from America's present Old Order - to wit, Democrats, who have been steadily losing power nationwide and who now hold power mainly in the media and the universities.\"", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00040.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 100, + "original_length": 21217, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.97, + "perplexity": 277.1, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "http://businessmanagementowl.com/industrialproduction.php", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T03:12:22Z", + "digest": "sha1:DKOD5FUVBFXK2OFIAEVVTJXGMZEC2QV5", + "length": 9060, + "nlines": 18, + "source_domain": "businessmanagementowl.com", + "title": "California Managerial Positions Directory: Industrial Production Managers", + "raw_content": "Industrial production managers coordinate the resources and activities required to produce millions of goods every year in the United States. Although their duties vary from plant to plant, industrial production managers share many of the same major responsibilities. These responsibilities include production scheduling, staffing, procurement and maintenance of equipment, quality control, inventory control, and the coordination of production activities with those of other departments.\nThe primary mission of industrial production managers is planning the production schedule within budgetary limitations and time constraints. They do this by analyzing the plant\u2019s personnel and capital resources to select the best way of meeting the production quota. Industrial production managers determine, often using mathematical formulas, which machines will be used, whether new machines need to be purchased, whether overtime or extra shifts are necessary, and what the sequence of production will be. They monitor the production run to make sure that it stays on schedule and correct any problems that may arise.\nAs production techniques have evolved beyond traditional mass assembly lines, industrial production managers have adapted to \u201clean\u201d production techniques. Many manufacturers have adopted lean production techniques, while some others use a combination of lean and mass production techniques. In a traditional assembly line, each worker is responsible for only a small portion of the assembly, repeating that task on every product. Lean production employs teams to build and assemble products in stations or cells.\nWhen companies use stations, one worker may work alone with hand tools and various parts to complete a large portion of the assembly process. Rather than specializing in a specific task, workers are capable of performing all jobs within a team. Without the constraints of the traditional assembly line, companies can be more flexible in their production process, more easily changing production levels on different product lines.\nThe increased flexibility of lean manufacturing enables industrial production managers to experiment with ways of improving the assembly and manufacturing process. As companies strive to minimize inventory, they want to maintain only a limited stock of finished products. Employing manufacturing cells and stations, companies can more quickly react to changes in customer demand so that limited inventories will not get too low.\nIndustrial production managers also must monitor product standards. Inspecting samples of finished goods and recording defects enables managers to statistically analyze quality control problems. While traditional quality control programs reacted only to problems that reached a certain significant level, newer management techniques and programs, such as ISO 9000, Total Quality Management (TQM), or Six Sigma, emphasize continuous quality improvement. If the problem relates to the quality of work performed in the plant, the manager may implement better training programs or reorganize the manufacturing process, often based upon the suggestions of employee teams. If the cause is substandard materials or parts from outside suppliers, companies may work with their suppliers to improve their quality.\nBecause the work of many departments is related, managers work closely with heads of other departments such as sales, procurement, and logistics to plan and implement company goals, policies, and procedures. For example, the production manager works with the procurement department to ensure that plant inventories are maintained at their optimal level. This is vital to a firm\u2019s operation because maintaining the inventory of materials necessary for production ties up the firm\u2019s financial resources, yet insufficient quantities cause delays in production.\nA breakdown in communications between the production manager and the purchasing department can cause slowdowns and a failure to meet production schedules. Just-in-time production techniques have reduced inventory levels, making constant communication among the manager, suppliers, and purchasing departments even more important. Computers play an integral part in this coordination. They also are used to provide up-to-date information on inventory, the status of work in progress, and quality standards.\nProduction managers usually report to the plant manager or the vice president for manufacturing, and may act as liaison between executives and first-line supervisors. In many plants, one production manager is responsible for all aspects of production. In large plants with several operations\u2014aircraft assembly, for example\u2014there are managers in charge of each operation, such as machining, assembly, or finishing.\nMost industrial production managers divide their time between production areas and their offices. While in the production area, they must follow established health and safety practices and wear the required protective clothing and equipment. The time in the office, which often is located near production areas, usually is spent meeting with subordinates or other department managers, analyzing production data, and writing and reviewing reports.\nMost industrial production managers work more than 40 hours a week, especially when production deadlines must be met. In facilities that operate around-the-clock, managers often work late shifts and may be called at any hour to deal with emergencies. This could mean going to the plant to resolve the problem, regardless of the hour, and staying until the situation is under control.\nDealing with production workers as well as superiors when working under the pressure of production deadlines or emergency situations can be stressful. Corporate restructuring has eliminated levels of management and support staff, thus shifting more responsibilities to production managers and compounding this stress.\nBecause of the diversity of manufacturing operations and job requirements, there is no standard preparation for this occupation. However, a college degree is required, even for those who have worked their way up through the ranks. Many industrial production managers have a college degree in business administration, management, industrial technology, or industrial engineering. Others have a master\u2019s degree in industrial management or business administration (MBA). Some are former production-line supervisors who have been promoted. Although many employers prefer candidates with a business or engineering background, some companies hire well-rounded liberal arts graduates.\nAs production operations become more sophisticated, increasing numbers of employers are looking for candidates with graduate degrees in industrial management or business administration. Combined with an undergraduate degree in engineering, either of these graduate degrees is considered particularly good preparation. Managers who do not have graduate degrees often take courses in decision sciences, which provide them with techniques and mathematical formulas that can be used to maximize efficiency and improve quality. Companies also are placing greater importance on a candidate\u2019s interpersonal skills. Because the job requires the ability to compromise, persuade, and negotiate, successful production managers must be well-rounded and have excellent communication skills.\nThose who enter the field directly from college or graduate school often are unfamiliar with the firm\u2019s production process. As a result, they may spend their first few months in the company\u2019s training program. These programs familiarize trainees with the production process, company policies, and the requirements of the job. In larger companies, they also may include assignments to other departments, such as purchasing and accounting. A number of companies hire college graduates as first-line supervisors and later promote them.\nSome industrial production managers have worked their way up through the ranks, perhaps after having worked as first-line supervisors. These workers already have an intimate knowledge of the production process and the firm\u2019s organization. To be selected for promotion, however, they must obtain a college degree, must demonstrate leadership qualities, and usually must take company-sponsored courses in management skills and communication techniques.\nIn addition to formal training, industrial production managers must keep informed of new production technologies and management practices. Many belong to professional organizations and attend trade shows at which new equipment is displayed; they also attend industry conferences and conventions at which changes in production methods and technological advances are discussed. Some take courses to become certified in various quality and management systems.\nIndustrial production managers with a proven record of superior performance may advance to plant manager or vice president for manufacturing. Others transfer to jobs with more responsibilities at larger firms. Opportunities also exist for consultants.", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00040.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 85, + "original_length": 13253, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.96, + "perplexity": 244.6, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "http://by-cpa.com/Html/news/20154/1929.html", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T04:48:25Z", + "digest": "sha1:SLP36IKDDIP4CWJLDU3XF4OADA7ISOF7", + "length": 6048, + "nlines": 55, + "source_domain": "by-cpa.com", + "title": "SZ Qianhai WFOE Registration Package SZLLC201507 -- China Business -- kaizen", + "raw_content": "SZ Qianhai WFOE Registration Package SZLLC201507\nShenzhen Qianhai WFOE Registration Package SZLLC201507\n(Encouraged Industries)\nThis package is applicable to the case where a Hong Kong investor applies to register a limited liability company (WFOE) in Qianhai Shenzhen-Hong Kong Modern Service Industry Cooperation Zone (hereinafter referred to as Qianhai), Shenzhen, China. The registration costs will be increased accordingly if your business activities need special approval.\nAn enterprise incorporated in Qianhai and engaged in the Encouraged Industries is entitled to a preferential enterprise income tax rate of 15% during the period from 1 January 2014 to 31 December 2020 in accordance with the PRC law. Such enterprise need to meet the following two requirements:\n1. The enterprise\u2019s main business is included in the Encouraged Industries; and\n2.The enterprise\u2019s main business income covers more than 70% of its total income.\nThe catalogue of the enterprise income tax preferential program in Qianhai Shenzhen Hong Kong Modern Service Industry Cooperation Zone is as follows:\nModern Logistic Industry\n1) The design of the supply chain solution, the management and processing of the orders, virtual production, information management, capital management, consulting services and some other supply chain management services\n2) On-board and off-shore outsourcing logistic services\n3) The development and operation of the system of modern logistic technology and logistic public services\n4) The settlement and management of the third party logistics\nInformation Service Industry\nThe development of the communication value-added business applied system\nThe R&D of the e-verification, e-commerce, and e-government technology\nThe R&D service of information safety technology\nThe data mining, data analysis, data service and the development of the digital resources\nThe new-generation mobile communication network, the new generation internet technology development based on Pv6\nThe R&D of the satellite communication technology\nThe R&D and service of the general software, industry applied software, and embedded software\nThe R&D and service of the technology of cloud computing, internet, high-reliable computing, intelligent net and big data\nScience and Technology Service Industry\nThe professional science and technology service of various industries, such as new energy, new material, the bio-medicine, the low carbon green and some others\nThe R&D and service of the new technologies, including gene sequencing, stem cells, functional protein, life science and so on\nThe R&D and service of the new-energy battery, the three-dimensional display and print technology\nThe technology \u2013advanced service, such as the information technology outsourcing, the business process outsourcing, the knowledge process outsourcing and so on.\nThe creative design service, including the graphic design, package design, ad design, interior design, landscape design, industry design, costume design, and so on.\nThe development of the cultural information resources\nThe R&D and service of the audio-visual program technology\nThe R&D and creation of the cartoons and internet games\nThe R&D and service of the new media technology\nOur preferential package price for setting up a WFOE with Hong Kong investment in Qianhai, Shenzhen are USD2,000, which include the government charges incurred during the registration process.\nThe registered address service for the first year.\nName availability search.\nProject filing.\nApplication for WFOE business licence.\nApplication for approval and carving of company seals.\nForeign exchange registration.\nOpening of one capital account and one RMB basic account.\nFinance registration.\nThe above price is exclusive of tax. The Value Added Tax and Surcharges of 7.5% would be applicable if Chinese tax receipt (Fapiao) is required.\nThe price stated above also does not cover the translation costs for translating the documents prepared by you from English to Chinese or translation of registration documents from Chinese to English. The cost for the above translation will be quoted separately upon request.\nThe price stated above also does not cover the legalisation of the identity documents of the shareholder/investor. If the investor applying to set up the WFOE is a Hong Kong company, then we could also assist to arrange the legalisation of the incorporation documents at a cost of USD1,000 (tax exclusive).\n(1) One set of original legalized identity or incorporation evidence for the investor (i.e. passport for individual foreign investor and Certificate of Incorporation and/or Registration Certificate for corporate foreign investor, and board resolution on the appointment of the legal representative who will sign relating documents on behalf of the investor). The investor\u2019s identity or incorporation document shall be legalised by the Chinese Embassy or Consulate in the country where the investor is resided or registered.\nThe amount of the registered capital; and\nThe method and time limit of capital contribution.\nNote :The minimum registered capital requirement of RMB5 million has been abolished for a WFOE with Hong Kong investment. The investor may decide on the capital amount, method and deadline for capital contributions at its own discretion\n(7) The form of organisation, management structure (including the director, general manager and supervisor) and the legal representative of the WFOE. The photocopies of the identity certification (i.e. passport for foreigners) of the director, general manager, supervisor and legal representative. The resident address, email address and Tel. No. of the proposed legal representative.\nIt is estimated that the whole registration process for a WFOE with Hong Kong investment in Qianhai, Shenzhen would take around 1-2 months. The table below shows the estimated time frame for each of the steps for the registration process.\nAgreement with Qianhai Administration\nProject filing\n(1) Record Certification\n(5) Bank Account Opening Permit\n(6) Other related documents", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00040.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 182, + "original_length": 9270, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.89, + "perplexity": 332.9, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "http://call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/node/38065", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T03:17:34Z", + "digest": "sha1:CGTVNDUJBXMVAFCA7TVUDRRW37HUJIU4", + "length": 3977, + "nlines": 23, + "source_domain": "call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu", + "title": "cfp | call for papers", + "raw_content": "The UK political landscape in the 21st century: players, strategies, stakes\nLISA e-journal (http://lisa.revues.org/index3921.html)\ndavid_haigron@yahoo.fr\nAcademic studies devoted to contemporary British politics usually focus on either a single or a series of electoral campaigns (psephology, with a thematic approach); a leader, a party (chronological monograph) or a set of parties (usually limited to the three main parties); a political philosophy or school of thought (anarchism, trade unionism, liberalism, conservatism, nationalism, euroscepticism, fascism\u2026). Much rarer are works offering to embrace a more comprehensive thematic spectrum in a synchronic perspective.\nThe project is to map, in as much detail as possible, the British political landscape in the early 21st century, i.e. to present the players (major, minority, national parties, party factions, trade unions, federations, pressure groups, think tanks, etc.) who, on the electoral and media centre-stage, on its fringe or in the Westminster lobbies, try to impose their agendas and influence the public debate in a way that serves their own purposes. The field of research therefore stretches from the extreme-right to the far-left and includes both registered parties and organisations whose action is mainly political (influencing the elected representatives, mobilizing the citizens, taking an active part in public life outside officially constituted groups, etc.).\nSubmissions are invited which examine the contemporary British political landscape and enable the readers to have a better understanding of its fabric. To this purpose, authors may decide to explore the following points:\n1)\tIdeology and identity\n-\tWhat is the ideological background (thinkers, theorists, events, etc.) on which the identity of the party/organisation is founded?\n-\tWhat does the party/organisation now stand for? What are the core values that provide coherence to the group? Is the latter still faithful to its original values (resilience, mutation, rebirth, etc.)?\n-\tIs it possible to establish a sociological profile of its members?\n2)\tAgendas and strategies\n-\tWhat are the official objectives of the party/organisation in today's socioeconomic and political context?\n-\tWhat methods does it favour to promote its ideology or carry out its action (election, lobbying, information, etc.)?\n-\tWhat means of communication does it use (media, network, etc.)?\n-\tWho is its target audience (voters, militants, elected representatives, opinion leaders, etc.)?\n-\tWhat image does it try to project and how is it generally perceived?\n3)\tAchievements and stakes\n-\tWhat are the party's/organisation's achievements and how influential is it in the early 21st century?\n-\tWhat role does it intend to play on the British political scene?\n-\tTo what extent can its action produce dramatic economic, social or political changes?\nOther approaches may be considered (comparative study between various parties, analysis of the interactions between political parties and lobbies or think tanks, etc.). Interdisciplinary researches are welcome (psephology, cultural studies, communication studies, government and political studies, political science, political psychology, etc.) and, in this case, collective contributions may be accepted.\nThe articles should be written in English and include a selective bibliography listing the reference works published on the chosen topic as well as the latest researches carried out in this field. They should be sent together with a short biography of the author(s) (max. 200 words), an abstract (max. 300 words) and a selection of keywords (major references, actors and events). The articles should not exceed 75 000 signs (excluding footnotes, appendices and bibliography). Please follow the norms for presentation indicated on the LISA e-journal website.\nPlease send your proposals (maximum one A4 page) together with a short biography to David Haigron (david_haigron@yahoo.fr) by 1st November 2010.", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00040.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 82, + "original_length": 5372, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.92, + "perplexity": 268.1, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "http://carpenters243.com/?zone=/unionactive/view_page.cfm&page=How20to20join", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T04:31:46Z", + "digest": "sha1:GAOMCRN56R6PXEG7B4GQQ2KEMBFRR4C4", + "length": 607, + "nlines": 6, + "source_domain": "carpenters243.com", + "title": "CARPENTERS LOCAL 243 | How to Join", + "raw_content": "How to Join Carpenters Local Union # 243\nHow does one become a member of Carpenter's Local 243?\nYou can become a member by:\nJoining the apprenticeship training program. (Apprenticeship Info)\nTaking the skill and knowledge evaluation to determine level of placement.(ex. 90% apprentice or Journeyman) (Journeyman Assessment)\nApplications are accepted from 9:00am to 3:00pm. at the Joint Apprenticeship and Training Committee office located at 904 Brenkman Dr., Pekin, IL, (309)353-4232, or you can come to the Local #243 office at 402 S. 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Perhaps I should have googled the plot of Marat/Sade before arriving, or perhaps I should have known from the fact that the production team was Barricade Arts, whose most recent projects included A Clockwork Orange and Fear, that cheerfulness was definitively off the agenda. Certainly, the trigger warnings for murder, suicide, severe mental health issues and depression alerted me to the fallacy of my jovial expectations.\nMarat/Sade depicts a group of inmates at the historical Charenton Asylum acting out a play about the assassination of Jean-Paul Marat, directed by the Marquis de Sade. Although set in 1808, the majority of the narrative comprises the play within a play, harking back to the height of the French Revolution in July, 1793. Although the premise seems grounded in history, really the focus of the production is the inmates who are acting out the drama, and their strained relationship with the figures of authority who govern their incarceration\u2014Coulmier, the bourgeois director of the hospital, and the Marquis de Sade, both of whom occasionally interrupt the play within a play to bring us abruptly back to the world of 1808 and the sad, distorted reality inhabited by the inmates of the asylum.\nThe script certainly offers a lot to work with, and director Marcus Knight-Adams skilfully crafts together the Brechtian aspects of the play with an experimental staging that enhances the alienation effect\u2014the inmates of the asylum interact with audience members as they try to find their seats before the play begins, and over the course of the final scene an entire lettuce is torn apart and thrown at the spectators; I can attest to having been a personal victim of this creative decision.\nTo say that Marat/Sade is intriguing is to do it an injustice \u2013 every aspect of the production is exceptional. Many of the technical aspects especially stand out, particularly the eerie set design (the focal point of which is a raised bath tub in the middle of the stage), the use of an extremely skilled live orchestra (who provide a dulcet accompaniment to the sombre action), and the thoughtful costume design (with characters like Coulmier donning an authentic 18th century style while the inmates are dressed solely in white pyjamas). The cast are also phenomenal; as well as the immensity of the physical theatre they perform, they are also all very talented singers, and the momentum of the performance proffers an intensity that makes the 80-minute production seem far longer.\nOverall, Marat/Sade is a stimulating, thoughtful and provocative piece of theatre that is well worth the trek to the Keble O\u2019Reilly. 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With diverse instrumentation and the right blend of soaring harmony over top of Americana anthems, they have created a niche all their own. Into their third year and second album the group has continually expanded its horizons through a non-stop tour schedule and constant support from their close knit fanbase. Come out to see this group which is easily viewed as bluegrass, rock-grass or a new-grass outfit; The Boatmen fall better into Americana Soulgrass. We will also have the local food vendor Street Meatz out selling dinner options! Come out and enjoy summer! Tickets will be $5, children 6 and under get in free. Well behaved pets are welcomed, but must be leashed and cleaned up after. Thank you. 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The purpose of the event was bringing together Japanese students, American students who are interested in Japan, college faculties, and the members of Japanese and American business communities in the Midwest. This year, 12 schools attended, and a dozen companies and organizations opened booths to welcome the students.\nThe M.C. Goran Lukic, who has worked organizing the event for four years, said that the people to people relationship in the business world was about trusting each other.\nJ.D. Bindenagel, President of JASC, welcomed the attendees and said that the stable world has been changing as conflicts arose in Ukraine and East Asia; therefore, the Japan-US relationship was more important than ever, and the people in the two countries would reconfirm the friendship and understanding. JASC has offered a number of opportunities to help deepen mutual relationships for people of both sides. Bindenagel said, \u201cSuch relationships will last a lifetim\nKeynote speaker Steve Kozik, who was promoted as General Manager of the Omron Management Center of America on April 1st, spoke about how important the human relationship was through his experience and beliefs.\nKozik was born and raised in St. Charles and has worked for Omron for 22 years. After graduating college, he happened to see a newspaper, which showed the smiling face of Omron\u2019s 18 employees, who were standing in the company\u2019s parking lot. He submitted his resume to Omron and was employed a year later.\nWhen he began to work in Omron as accounting supervisor, Japanese employees gave him guidance for the Japanese way of business. Especially, Mr. Torii taught him Japanese language three times a week and informed him what was happening in the entire company.\nTorii was the kind of person who worked with other people and eliminated mind barriers among the people in the company. Kozik said that Torii acted in that way not to gain credit for himself, but for the betterment of the entire company.\nTorii\u2019s way of work hasn\u2019t changed even though 20 years have passed. Kozik has worked in the same way; taking up issues in the work place, deciding priorities, and solving each issue. He said that solving problems made employees\u2019 lives better, and it made a difference for growth of the entire company.\nOmron\u2019s corporate motto is \u201cAt work for a better life, a better world for all,\u201d and its focus is to make investments in people and society.\nOmron\u2019s annual sales are $7.5 billion, and 70 % of the sales come from outside of Japan. Kozik said that only 20 % of the sales were earned outside of Japan when he entered the company 22 years ago. Its motto and focus have made a good result.\nKozik defined the globalization as, \u201cthe process of creating inter-dependence across borders for mutual benefit.\u201d\nGlobalization has occurred in his own family. His mother\u2019s family came to the U.S. from Ireland/England in the 1650s; on the other hand, his father\u2019s family came from Bratislava, Slovakia in 1929. Besides, his wife Chie came from Japan. He said that globalization has taken place for centuries, but it has been accelerated in recent years.\nKozik spoke about how one person could make a difference in the global community.\nAn elephant, for example, consumes 330 pounds of food and 11 gallons of water in a day. How can an elephant do it? It does it one bite at a time. He said that it was the same thing; that making a difference was one relationship at a time.\nHe lined up the basics of relationship:\n1. Respect others with eyes and ear. Listen to four times more than you talk.\n2. Integrity: keep your word and be honest\n3. Sincerity: be yourself. Never pretend to understand when you don\u2019t (Better to say, \u201cI don\u2019t understand.\u201d)\n4. Patience: when offended or disappointed, use extreme patience to calm the situation. Most of the time, it is not intended. Focus on your GOAL.\nHe advised that number 3 and 4 were especially important.\nGlobalization brings endless benefits; on the other hand, it has risks such as personal embarrassment, awkward situations, accidentally offending, misunderstanding, and communication breakdown. The risks, however, can be avoided by paying respect to others.\nIn conclusion, Kozik said:\n* Globalization starts with one relationship at a time, one successful endeavor at a time.\n* Have the courage to be yourself.\n* Respect is the highest currency of humanity.\n* Find a company with your values for leverage.\n* Be Bold! Take a chance! Reach out!\nMardi Robinson, a student of DePaul University, answered Shimpo\u2019s interview questions in Japanese. She said, \u201cI\u2019m studying Japanese to know the wider world and want to be an interpreter in the future. In fact, I started it last summer, so I have a long road to study. When I was in high school, I had a friend from Akita, Japan, so I became interested in Japan.\u201d\nLin Ding, also a student of DePaul, spoke in Japanese. She liked anime and games when she was little and began to speak Japanese. She took Japanese classes at the college. \u201cI have been majoring in business and want to go in the field of anime related business in the future,\u201d Ding said.\nThree students from University of Wisconsin at Milwaukee were enjoying meeting people in the forum.\nTess Kramer-Gaie encountered Okinawa-taiko drumming group at Cherry Blossom Festival in Washington D.C. when she was 10 years old. Since then she has been studying Japanese for ten years. The fact that a sister state and prefecture relationship between Wisconsin and Chiba in Japan also exists helped to keep her interests in Japan. She said, \u201cI would like to work with green technology and create most sustainable consumer technology in the future.\u201d\nRoxxanne Mickelson has been studying Japanese for six years and started it when she was in high school by herself because the school didn\u2019t have Japanese classes.\nShe said, \u201cI wanted to learn Japanese because my sister-in-law is Japanese. So from there, I wanted to learn it because it is really interesting and the culture, too. I wanted her to feel little more welcomed and enjoy family since none of us speaks Japanese.\u201d\nMickelson is a member of Anime Milwaukee and has helped run a campaign to promote a social site, \u201ccaf\u00e9 dot\u201d. She said, \u201cWe actually turned it into a business and it became very popular.\u201d\nShe has double majored in Japanese and Fiber Art and said, \u201cI would like to definitely live in Japan and either work or become something like fashion staff. I would like to be involved with Japanese fashion, Japanese art, and culture.\u201d\nKristen Schugart has studied Japanese for four years in college, but began writing Japanese by herself when she was in the sixth grade because she had a Japanese aunt and knew little about Japanese culture. Her grandfather also taught her how to count numbers in Japanese. As she grew up she encountered manga and games and wanted to learn more Japanese language and culture.\nSix years ago, she stayed in Wakayama for two weeks, but she didn\u2019t know much Japanese at that time, so she tried to speak what she knew. Her host family also tried to help her lean more Japanese. \u201cIt was very hot and humid because it was the end of July to the beginning of August,\u201d she remembered.\nSchugart is taking an internship at a video game company in Chicago and said ,\u201dI think that it will be a great idea in the future to work for a video game company.\u201d\nMardi Robinson (L) and Lin Ding\nFrom left Kristen Schugart, Roxxanne Mickelson, and Tess Kramer-Gaie", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00040.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 43, + "original_length": 7789, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.98, + "perplexity": 240.0, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "http://christorchaos.com/?q=content/sober-part-whatever-eleven-actually", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T03:27:55Z", + "digest": "sha1:HCT7H45YX63QLTF6AXC7O2UJY22RSSAV", + "length": 175005, + "nlines": 379, + "source_domain": "christorchaos.com", + "title": "Sober Up, part whatever (eleven, actually) | Christ or Chaos", + "raw_content": "Sober Up, part whatever (eleven, actually)\nThose who adhere to the false opposite of the naturalist \u201cleft\u201d are firmly committed to the advance of various moral evils, and they really do believe that anyone who disagrees with them is mentally deranged and/or violence-prone \u201cextremists\u201d who have no right to speak or to publish their thoughts without being deemed as purveyors of \u201chate\u201d and \u201cdivision.\u201d In other words, leftists believe in their own infallibility while seeking to disparage the motives, if not the humanity, of those who dare to call into question their immoral, godless beliefs and the immoral and ruthlessly amoral means they use to enforce their \u201corthodoxy\u201d to advance what they believe is a \u201cbetter world.\u201d\nA Long History of Unconstitutional Repression of Dissent and Opposition\nLest the very few readers who remain on this site think that this kind of contempt by one set of \u201cnaturalists\u201d for those who disagree with them is anything \u201cnew\u201d or that the deep state effort to overturn the results of the November 8, 2016, presidential election, permit me to reprise of a few historical facts that will demonstrate there is really nothing \u201cnew\u201d under the naturalist sun. Intimidation of political opponents has been a staple of American government and politics from its inception.\nThe anti-Catholic bigot and notorious blasphemer named John Adams attempted to silence opposition voices by having Congress enact the Alien and Sedition Acts, which were passed on July 14, 1798, and made it a crime to publish \"false, scandalous, and malicious\" writing against the government of the United States of America and its officials.\nThe sixteenth President of the United States of America, Abraham Lincoln, did not exactly \"cotton\" to political opposition during the War Between the States from 1861 to 1865, as he intimidated judges, shut down newspapers, suspended the writ of habeas corpus without an Act of Congress, held opponents in prison without trial and put civilians on trial in military courts at a time when civilian courts were open. And this is just a partial listing of what led John Wilkes Booth to cry out, \"Sic temper tyrannis!\" as he jumped onto the stage of the Ford Theater in Washington, District of Columbia, on Good Friday, April 14, 1865, from the balcony where he had just shot Lincoln in the head, a wound that would take Lincoln's life early the next morning, Holy Saturday, April 15, 1865.\nSuppression of opposition to American involvement in World War I under the administration of President Thomas Woodrow Wilson was so extensive that Senator Hiram Johnson of California, who had run as former President Theodore Roosevelt's Vice Presidential running-mate on the Progressive (Bull Moose) Party ticket in 1912 when Wilson was running for his first term as President against Roosevelt and then President William Howard Taft, who had defeated Roosevelt, to say on the floor of the United States Senate: \"It is now a crime for anyone to say anything or print anything against the government of the United States. The punishment for doing so is to go to jail\" (quoted in Dr Paul Johnson's Modern Times). (See also my Fascists for Freedom.)\nJust as an aside, President Thomas Woodrow Wilson wanted to use the unconstitutional Federal Reserve System, created in an act passed by the Congress of the United States of America and signed into law by Wilson on December 23, 1913, as the means to centralize the banking and monetary systems under the authority of the government of the United States of America in order to restrict the legitimate freedom of Americans to control their own private property and to make private industry dependent upon the \"direction\" provided it by governmental regulators and overseers. It was for this reason as well that Wilson saw to it that Congress enacted legislation, following the ratification of the Sixteenth Amendment in 1913, to create our current system of confiscatory taxation on our incomes. And it was Wilson, of course, who believed that the Masonic revolutionaries in Mexico, aping the \"example\" established by the French Revolutionaries, could \"build\" or \"engineer\" the \"better\" society in Our Lady's country by the killing of thousands upon thousands of Catholics:\nIn other words, Thomas Woodrow Wilson really believed that it was \"necessary\" for the Freemsaonic/Communist Mexican government that enjoyed his favor to kill Catholics, whose \"backward\" beliefs were impediments to the institutionalization of \"liberal values\" that required him to suppress all opposition to his policies right here in the United States of America.\nIt was a scant twelve years after the stroke-disabled Wilson left office on March 4, 1921, that the thirty-third Freemason named Franklin Delano Roosevelt used the Internal Revenue Service to audit his \"enemies.\" He contravened the law in numerous ways as he used the legislative powers illicitly given to regulatory agencies by Congress during the Great Depression and during World War II to set the stage for Barack Hussein Obama's rule by decree and presidential fiat. Roosevelt, the fifth cousin of the Republican statist and fellow thirty-third degree Freemason, Theodore Roosevelt, the uncle of Eleanor Roosevelt, even ordered his Attorney General, Robert Jackson, to engage in domestic espionage. Roosevelt\u2019s directive took the form of a memorandum dated May 21, 1940.\nRobert Jackson, who was appointed to the Supreme Court of the United States of America on July 11, 1941, did not like the directive as he believed that Franklin Roosevelt had authorized domestic surveillance on anyone suspected of being subversive. Jackson\u2019s successor, however, Francis Biddle, who took office as the Attorney General of the United States of America on August 25, 1941, had no qualms about the directive, delegating the task of carrying it out to the Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, John Edgar Hoover, who was more than happy to run with this new expansion of his authority to investigate anyone at any time for any reason. The history of the Federal government\u2019s surveillance since that time is one of completely unchecked growth.\nDo not think for a single moment that abuses of deep state bureaucrats being exposed at this time is anything new. Illegal surveillance by the Federal government has been on the rise since World War II and the establishment of permanent intelligence agencies. Modern technology has advanced to such a point that these agencies, acting both legally and illegally, monitor every means of human communication today save for those done with an old-fashioned typewriter that has not connection of any kind to the internet or to a telephone line.\nThe Federal Bureau of Investigation itself, as noted just above, has long seen itself as a \u201ccheck\u201d upon elected officials, and John Edgar Hoover, who served as Director of the Bureau of Investigation from May 10, 1924, to March 22, 1935, and then as the founding Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation from March 23, 1935, until the time of his death on May 2, 1972, believed in the suppression of political dissent dating back to his days as the head of President Thomas Woodrow Wilson\u2019s \u201cWar Emergency Division\u2019s\u201d \u201cAlien Enemy Bureau\u201d one hundred years ago. Please, what is going on now, although certainly shocking to those not conversant with the darker sides of American history, is really nothing new at all.\nAlthough Presidents Harry S. Truman and John Fitzgerald Kennedy each considered firing Hoover, the latter had amassed too much information on too many people. This information, most of it gathered quite illegally and/or by the improper use of Federal Bureau of Investigation field agents, was Hoover\u2019s own kind of \u201cinsurance policy.\u201d\nPresident Lyndon Baines Johnson, on the other hand, knowing what kind of \u201cinsurance policy\u201d that Hoover had on him, whetted Hoover\u2019s appetite for domestic surveillance under the thinnest of legal pretexts, including wiretapping his own vice president, the garrulous spendthrift with taxpayer dollars named Hubert Horatio Humphrey:\nResigned to Humphrey's candidacy [in 1968], Johnson pressed his Vice President throughout the campaign not to stray too far from the Administration's position on Vietnam.\nHumphrey largely complied. But at the end of September, when he showed greater flexibility than the White House on how to end the war, Johnson reacted angrily. He told Clark Clifford that he doubted Humphrey's ability to be President. He lacked the guts for the job. After Humphrey had become Vice President and expressed doubts about the war, the White House, according to a Humphrey aide, Ted Van Dyk, had arranged for wiretaps on Humphrey's office phones. Van Dyk learned this from two Secret Service agents on the vice-presidential detail. Neither Van Dyk nor Humphrey was surprised. Though Johnson in principle disliked taping and wiretaps, he secretly taped more than 7,500 of his own telephone conversations as President. Moreover, during the 1964 campaign, after a visit to the White House, Richard Russell wrote, \"Hoover has apparently been turned loose and is tapping everything.... [Johnson] stated it took him hours each night to read them all (but he loves this).\" The speed with which Johnson had information about Humphrey's presidential campaign suggested to Van Dyk that the White House was still tapping Humphrey's phones in 1968. Johnson apparently wanted the taps to gain advance notice and a chance to dissuade him should Humphrey decide to break away on the war. (Three New Revelations about Lyndon Baines Johnson.)\nIt should be noted, however, that the liberal Robert Dallek, who authored the synopsis of his own book about Lyndon Baines Johnson, did not include the following fact about Johnson\u2019s wiretapping in 1968 that is covered in another book:\nIn 1968, President Lyndon Johnson ordered Hoover to tap the phone of Republican vice- presidential nominee Spiro Agnew on the suspicion that Agnew was telling the South Vietnamese that they would get a better peace agreement from Nixon if he were elected president. The taps did not reveal that Agnew ever made such a deal. (Henry M. Holden, FBI 100 Years: An Unofficial History, Zenith Press, an imprint of MBI Publishing, Minneapolis, Minnesota, 2008, p. 218.)\nNow, readers of this site know that I carry no brief for President Donald John Trump as he is a tool of one faction of the synagogue (see Jerusalem Belongs to Christ the King and His True Church, part three for a reminder of this simple fact).\nHowever, Trump is only slight more of an egregious personality, especially by dint of his unrestrained use of profanity in public (for Catholic teaching on the use profanity, see Exposing the Farce Once and For All), which has resulted in a frenzy of profane words being spoken publicly and printed on many \u201crespectable\u201d websites and even in newspapers, than others who have served as President of the United States of America. As one who taught courses on the presidency throughout my thirty years as a college teacher of political science, I can tell you that the description of Lyndon Baines Johnson\u2019s coarseness and vulgarity provided in the full text of the link provided above is mild in comparison to what the man was like in all unvarnished reality.\nAlas, not even Donald John Trump, who is the victim of a false Federal Intelligence Surveillance Application, understands the Fourth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States of America as he supported the renewal of this unconstitutional violation of the citizens\u2019 freedom from unreasonable searches (see Trump Signs Bil Renewing Mass Cyber Surveillance Program).\nThe Fourth Amendment?\nOur minders in the Federal government of the United States of America have, in effect told us, \u201cWe don\u2019t need no stinkin\u2019 Fourth Amendment.\nMoreover, it has been case for most of this country\u2019s history that our minders in the Federal government of the United States of America have violated the laws of God and of men to suit their sorry purposes whenever they deemed it \u201cnecessary\u201d to do so.\nCongress after Congress abdicated its legislative authority to the Executive Branch of the Federal Government of the United States of America from the time of Franklin Delano Roosevelt\u2019s \u201cNew Deal\u201d forward, although, as noted earlier, a lot of the spade work had been done during the administrations of Theodore Roosevelt and Thomas Woodrow Wilson. Nearly seventy independent or quasi-independent regulatory agencies within the Federal government exist to this very day, each composed of commissioners who are beyond the control of a president to remove and who chafe at the thought of true legislative oversight of their unconstitutional \u201crule-making\u201d authority (deemed to be \u201cconstitutional\u201d by the Supreme Court of the United States of America in the case of National Labor Relations Board v. Jones & Laughlin Steel Company, April 12, 1937).\nReaders will note I claimed that independent regulatory commissions (and the quasi-independent commissions) are unconstitutional. I have taught this in my government classes over the decades. I will make this claim whenever I write about this subject (or have taught about it in my bygone days as a college professor of political science and constitutional law) no matter the fact that the Supreme Court of the United States of America has ruled that such agencies, which are staffed by commissioners who are appointed by a president for a term, usually seven years, that is longer than one presidential administration but shorter than two, and confirmed by the United States Senate are constitutional (see, for example, Humphrey's Executor v. United States of America, May 27, 1935).\nMy reasoning is simple: these agencies exercise each of the powers that are particular to the three branches of government as the commissioners who serve on them make rules that have the binding force of law (which rules are supposed to be founded in Congressional legislation) and also enforce the very rules that they create while serving finally as the court of first instance for litigants to appeal decisions made about the enforcement of these rules. Although readers of this site, few in number though you may be, know that I am a critic of the founders of this nation, they are the individuals who crafted the Constitution in order to prevent what they believed could be a tyranny of the majority. Writing in The Federalist, Number 47, James Madison explained:\nNo political truth is certainly of greater intrinsic value, or is stamped with the authority of more enlightened patrons of liberty, than that on which the objection is founded. The accumulation of all powers, legislative, executive, and judiciary, in the same hands, whether of one, a few, or many, and whether hereditary, selfappointed, or elective, may justly be pronounced the very definition of tyranny. Were the federal Constitution, therefore, really chargeable with the accumulation of power, or with a mixture of powers, having a dangerous tendency to such an accumulation, no further arguments would be necessary to inspire a universal reprobation of the system. I persuade myself, however, that it will be made apparent to every one, that the charge cannot be supported, and that the maxim on which it relies has been totally misconceived and misapplied. In order to form correct ideas on this important subject, it will be proper to investigate the sense in which the preservation of liberty requires that the three great departments of power should be separate and distinct. (Federalist No. 47.)\nBehold a system, however, that has indeed degenerated to a point where non-elected officials have the accumulated powers of the three branches of government--legislative, executive, and judicial. This has occurred because James Madison, a virulent anti-Catholic who is considered to be the \"father\" of the Constitution, believed that there were sufficient safeguards contained within the Constitution to provide a check upon the consistent misuse of power by those serving in the three branches of government.\nThis is not even to mention William Jefferson Blythe Clinton's aggressive promotion of the chemical and surgical execution of the innocent preborn and the role played by Attorney General Janet Reno, a Catholic, mind you, in organizing the Violence Against Abortion Providers Conspiracy (VAAPCON) Task Force under the authority of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) to intimidate pro-life Americans, including a woman in Toledo, Ohio, who was visited by FBI agents after she had written to a baby-killer to tell her that she was praying for her conversion, an act that was deemed by the agents to have constituted a \"violent threat\" against the baby-killer (see FBI's VAAPCON Spies on Pro-Lifers for more information about the Clinton-Reno war against pro-lifers).\nIt was also during the administration of William Jefferson Blythe Clinton that the Chairman of the Federal Election Commission, a woman by the name of Lois Lerner, sought to intimidate former Illinois State Representative Al Salvi by seeking to bring charges against him that were found by a Federal judge to be without merit whatsoever.\nHere is a report that was published in 2013:\nCHICAGO - The IRS scandal may have its roots in Illinois politics. Specifically, the 1996 U.S. Senate race between Democrat Congressman Dick Durbin and conservative Republican State Rep. Al Salvi.\nMore than a decade before his 2010 letter to IRS officials urging the agency to target conservative organizations, U.S. Senator Dick Durbin's political career crossed paths with Ms. Lerner when she was head of the Enforcement Division of the Federal Election Commission (FEC), and directly involved in the 1996 Illinois U.S. Senate race.\nSoon after the IRS story broke, Al Salvi told Illinois Review that it was IRS official Lois Lerner who represented the FEC in the 1996 Democrat complaint against him. According to Salvi, Lerner was, without question, politically motivated, and went so far as to make him an offer: \"Promise me you will never run for office again, and we'll drop this case.\"\nSalvi declined her offer. In fact he ran for Illinois Secretary of State in 1998.\nBut when he saw Lerner plead the Fifth Amendment before Congress last week, he recognized her. \"That's the woman,\" Salvi said. \"And I didn't plead the Fifth like she did.\"\nIn 2000, a federal judge dismissed the FEC case against him, clearing Salvi's name and reputation.\nNow with the revelations about Lerner, the IRS, and the intriguing connection to Durbin, Salvi shared with Illinois Review his experience with Lois Lerner.\nThe 1996 FEC Complaint against Salvi\nDuring the last several weeks of the 1996 Illinois U.S. Senate campaign, two FEC complaints were filed against Salvi - one by Illinois Democrats about the way he reported a loan he made to himself, and another by the Democratic Senatorial Committee about a reported business donation.\nSalvi made a personal loan to his campaign for $1.1 million to fund the last campaign ads in the expensive Chicago television ad market. News of that loan and the filed FEC complaint dominated Chicago media headlines towards the end of the campaign, suffocating the life out of Salvi's threatening momentum.\n\"We couldn't get our message out because day after day, the media carried story after story about the FEC complaint,\" Salvi told Illinois Review in an exclusive interview.\nAfter Salvi lost to Durbin, he was left to face the FEC complaints. The Commission alleged that the Salvi committee:\n\u00b7 Reported bank loans to Mr. Salvi as personal loans from the candidate, never identifying the source of the funds;\n\u00b7 Failed to report debts to the candidate;\n\u00b7 Failed to file 48-hour notices for personal advances from the candidate; and\n\u00b7 Failed to disclose campaign-related payments by the candidate to vendors and a bank.\nA federal district court dismissed the case against Salvi in 1999, and the FEC appealed it to the 7th U.S. District Court of Appeals.\nThe FBI was called in at one point to gather evidence on the case. According to Salvi, two FBI agents unexpectedly visited the Salvis' home, and interrogated his elderly mother about her $2,000 check to her son's campaign and where she got \"that kind of money.\"\nSalvi says he saw the visits as nothing but intimidation, making it clear the FEC intended to use his case as a example to others.\nAt the same time, Salvi said, other conservative groups such as the Christian Coalition were besieged by the FEC demands. One time, representatives from several investigated conservative groups even convened on a conference call to compare notes on how the Clinton Administration was scouring their organizations' financial and activity records.\nIn fact, Salvi's case (and name) was highlighted as an example several times in the FEC's monthly publication until the case was finally dismissed in 2000.\nIt was while dealing with the FEC complaint that Salvi says he first met Lois Lerner, then the head of the FEC Enforcement Division.\nDuring one conversation with Lerner, she offered a deal Salvi says he'll never forget, and neither will his brother and attorney, Mike Salvi.\n\"She said, 'If you promise to never run for office again, we'll drop this case,'\" Salvi recalled.\nAt the time, Salvi said, he figured it was probably just Dick Durbin's way of getting him out of politics.\nSalvi said he refused Lerner's offer because he knew he had done nothing wrong and wanted to leave the door open for future campaigns. In 1998, Salvi ran for Illinois Secretary of State while the 1996 FEC case against him continued.\nNearly four years and a hundred thousand dollars in legal fees later, federal judge George Lindbergh dismissed the FEC case against him, leaving the FEC attorney Lois Lerner -- who was present and actively arguing before the judge -- shocked.\n\"The judge said to Lerner, 'Let me get this straight - Mr. Salvi loaning himself money is legal, and you have no complaint against that, is that right?'\" Salvi said. \"Ms. Lerner agreed. Then the judge said, 'You just don't like the way his attorneys filled out the report?' Lerner agreed.\"\nCase dismissed, the judge said shaking his head and pounding his gavel, as Lerner objected.\n\"We never lose!\" Lerner said to Salvi afterwards.\nDespite all the Democrats' efforts, Salvi never paid the FEC a dollar in fines or penalties.\nCongressional Hearings On IRS Scandal\nSalvi, now 53, said when he saw Lerner on television last week, those FEC hearings all came back to his memory -- 13 years later. \"I didn't plead the Fifth,\" Salvi said.\nAnd the taxpayers had no choice but to pay for Lerner's legal trail that lasted for over four years.\nDurbin Asks IRS For Help in 2010\nAfter the U.S. Supreme Court decided the Citizens United case, many incumbent politicians became concerned about the activities of organizations like Crossroads GPS, which had announced it would be running issue ads against Illinois' Democrat candidate for U.S. Senate Alexi Giannoulias, who was campaigning to succeed Barack Obama in the U.S. Senate.\nIn October 2010, Durbin wrote IRS Commissioner Shulman about the tax exemption status of Crossroads - a job that would find its way to IRS official Lois Lerner.\nI write to urge the Internal Revenue Service to examine the purpose and primary activities of several 501(c)(4) organizations that appear to be in violation of the law.\nOne organization whose activities appear to be inconsistent with its tax status is Crossroads GPS, organized as a (c)(4) entity in June. The group has spent nearly $20 million on television advertising specific to Senate campaigns this year. If this political activity is indeed the primary activity of the organization, it raises serious questions about the organization's compliance with the Internal Revenue Code.\nOther 2010 letters to the IRS with similar requests from elected officials may be included in four Congressional investigations now scheduled to take place in the next few weeks.\nSalvi says it will be interesting to see how Lois Lerner, Dick Durbin, the FEC, IRS, and Illinois politics intersect as these investigations continue. (Lerner intrigue goes back to '96 Durbin/ Salvi.)\nUnfortunately for Mr. Salvi, however, he did knuckle under to the then Chairman of the Republican National Senatorial Campaign Committee after he had told him to quit talking about abortion or lose the committee's financial support. Oh, yes, you want the name of that individual? I will happily give it to you as it is none other than the now-former United States Senator Alfonse M. D'Amato (R-New York), against whom I ran, unsuccessfully, of course, for the senatorial nomination of the Right to Life Party of the State of New York in 1998. (See Blood Money Talks Loud And Clear, part two, for details.)\nMind you, this is not to ignore President Richard Milhous Nixon's efforts to investigate and intimidate, if not sabotage, political opponents. In his case, however, even some Republicans at the time recognized wrongdoing for what it was and refused to suborn it. Wrongdoing by Democratic presidential administrations has always been enabled by the mainslime media, not checked.\nAdditionally, it should be noted that former President George Walker Bush authorized more invasions of the privacy of ordinary American citizens than any of his predecessors combined. The use of the coercive power of the state has increased dramatically since the events of September 11, 2001, without any real increase in the security of this country (indeed, our border with Mexico is a sieve through which is passing countless numbers of Mohammedans intent on doing us no good at all).\nThere will come a time in the near future when some presidential administration is going to use the sophisticated means of data collection on ordinary citizens established under George W. Bush to question them closely about their beliefs. The Roman Emperors, who had their own system of informants, many of them Jews of the Diaspora, to persecute Catholics, to be sure, could not have dreamed of a system as comprehensive and draconian as has been developed in a supposedly \"free\" country by a supposedly \"conservative\" chief executive. Make no mistake about it, George Walker Bush paved the way for the election and the policies of his successor, Barack Hussein Obama/Barry Soetoro.\nBarack Hussein Obama/Barry Soetoro and his chief \"intellectual\" advisor, the well-connected Chicagoland ideologue named Valerie Jarrett, seethed with complete and utter contempt for those who criticized him, something that was apparent as early as 2008 when he made the following remarks a private fundraising event in Sodom on the Bay, California:\nBut the truth is, is that, our challenge is to get people persuaded that we can make progress when there's not evidence of that in their daily lives. You go into some of these small towns in Pennsylvania, and like a lot of small towns in the Midwest, the jobs have been gone now for 25 years and nothing's replaced them. And they fell through the Clinton administration, and the Bush administration, and each successive administration has said that somehow these communities are gonna regenerate and they have not. And it's not surprising then they get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren't like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations. (Barack Hussein Obama, Obama: No Surprise That Hard-Pressed Pennsylvanians Cling to Guns and Religion; see also Obama's Communist Mentor.)\nObama/Soetoro governed in a manner completely befitting the beliefs he expressed privately in San Francisco, California, ten years ago, and public opinion surveys during his eight treacherous years in office indicated that he enjoyed public opinion a robust fifty-nine percent approval in the Gallup survey at the time he left office on January 20, 2017, although he continues his \u201cshadow government\u201d designed to bring down his successor.\nWorthy of Stalin Himself\nObama/Soetoro\u2019s plan to oust his successor included keeping President-elect and then President Donald John Trump from knowing the fact that he, Trump, was under active investigation for alleged \u201ccollusion\u201d with Russia. Part of this plan was to have the deep state operative who served as the Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (F.B.I.) from September 4, 2013, to May 9, 2017, James Brien Comey, to provide the president-elect with the false assurance that he was not under investigation when the opposite was true:\nJanuary 5 [2016] was the day President Obama was presented with the ballyhooed report he had ordered to be rushed to completion by multiple intelligence agencies before his administration ended, \u201cAssessing Russian Activities and Intentions in Recent US Elections.\u201d The briefing that day was conducted by four intelligence-community leaders: James Comey, Michael Rogers, John Brennan, and James Clapper, directors respectively of the FBI, NSA, CIA and the Office of the National Intelligence Director.\nJust as significant: January 5 was the day before these same intelligence-community leaders would brief President-elect Trump on the same report.\nAlso on hand at the January 5 White House briefing were Vice President Joe Biden and acting Attorney General Sally Yates. According to Rice, immediately after the briefing, President Obama had his two top law-enforcement officials, Yates and Comey, linger for \u201ca brief follow-on conversation\u201d with the administration\u2019s political leadership: Obama, Biden, and Rice.\nLet\u2019s think about what was going on at that moment. It had been just a few days since Obama imposed sanctions on Russia. In that connection, the Kremlin\u2019s ambassador to the United States, Sergey Kislyak, had contacted Trump\u2019s designated national-security adviser, Michael Flynn. Obama-administration leadership despised Flynn, who (a) had been fired by Obama from his post as Defense Intelligence Agency chief; (b) had become a key Trump supporter and an intense critic of Obama foreign and national-security policy; and (c) was regarded by Yates and Comey as a possible criminal suspect \u2014 on the wayward theories that Flynn\u2019s contacts with Kislyak could smack of a corrupt quid pro quo deal to drop the sanctions and might violate the never invoked, constitutionally dubious Logan Act.\nWhat else was happening? The Justice Department and FBI had gone to the FISA court on October 21, 2016, for a warrant to spy on former Trump campaign adviser Carter Page. That warrant relied largely on the Steele dossier, which alleged a criminal conspiracy between the Trump campaign and the Kremlin involving (a) a cyberespionage operation against the 2016 election, (b) corrupt negotiations regarding the sanctions, and (c) the Kremlin\u2019s possession of \u201ckompromat\u201d that would enable the Putin regime to blackmail President-elect Trump.\nSignificantly, by the time of this January 6meeting with Trump, the 90-day surveillance period under the FISA warrant would have had just a bit over two weeks left to run \u2014 it was set to expire just as Trump was to take office. (Reporting suggests that there may also have been a FISA warrant on Paul Manafort around this time.) The Obama administration was therefore confronting a deadline if the FISA warrant was to be renewed while Obama was still in power. The officials in the meeting would need to figure out how the investigation could continue despite the fact that its central focus, Trump, was about to be sworn in as president.\nObama had incredibly claimed that he never intervened in cases under investigation by he Justice Department and FBI. He was emphatic in an April 2016 interview with Fox\u2019s Chris Wallace: \u201cI do not talk to the attorney general about pending investigations. I do not talk to FBI directors about pending investigations. We have a strict line and always have maintained it.\u201d Ever the cheeky Obama, he made this claim while in the same breath arguing against indicting Hillary Clinton.\nObviously, if Obama was having a \u201cfollow-on conversation\u201d with Yates and Comey, what it was following on was the briefing he\u2019d just received about an investigation implicating the Trump campaign in Russian espionage. (As Comey\u2019s March 20 House testimony would later elucidate, Russia\u2019s interference in the election was always seen by law-enforcement officials as inseparable from suspected Trump campaign collusion in that interference.) There would be no reason to have such a follow-on conversation unless Obama wanted an update on what his law-enforcement officials were doing.\nConsequently, Rice\u2019s \u201cby the book\u201d bunkum is transparent: Obama officials claimed to adhere to a book that forbade consultations between political leaders and investigators. But here they were consulting. So Rice tried to cover the tracks in her email: She revises history such that the consultation morphs into a mere friendly reminder that Obama wanted everything done by the book. He was certainly \u201cnot asking about, initiating or instructing anything from a law enforcement perspective,\u201d no siree. . . .\nThat is what Rice\u2019s email is really about: not sharing with the incoming Trump administration classified information about the Trump-Russia investigation, such as the basis for seeking a FISA warrant on Carter Page.\nThe dilemma was that the Obama administration had placed \u201cthe incoming team\u201d \u2014 in particular, President-elect Trump \u2014 under investigation. Remember, Obama\u2019s law-enforcement agencies believed the Steele dossier. No, the FBI had not been able to corroborate it; but, as former FBI director Comey told Congress, the bureau deemed its author, Christopher Steele, to be a reliable source. Steele, moreover, had collaborated on the project with Nellie Ohr, the wife of Bruce Ohr, Yates\u2019s top aide at the Justice Department. Even if the Justice Department and the FBI could not prove Steele\u2019s allegations, at least not yet, they still believed that Trump was compromised and that the Russians could be blackmailing him. If they had not believed those allegations were credible, they would not have put them in a warrant application to the FISA Court.\nSo we arrive at the knotty question for Obama political and law-enforcement officials: How do we \u201cengage with the incoming team\u201d of Trump officials while also determining that \u201cwe cannot share information fully as it relates to Russia\u201d? How do we assure that an investigation of Trump can continue when Trump is about to take over the government? (The Purpose of Susan Rice's \"By the Book\" Email to Herself. Also see Sharyl Attkisson's Did Obama Withhold Intel From Trump .)\nBehold the new Commissars who take it upon themselves to concoct and then execute schemes worthy of a police state.\nThen again, what does contempt for one's opponents, misuse of the Internal Revenue Service, the busting of the Federal budget that has doubled the national debt to over twenty trillion dollars, the violation of numerous provisions of the Constitution of the United States of America and of Federal laws mean to most Americans?\nObama/Soetoro got re-elected on November 6, 2012, even though he had demonstrated himself as contemptuous of the laws of God and men as he is of those who dare to oppose his \"received wisdom.\" The man has told lie after lie (\"If you like your health care plan, you can keep your health care plan. If you like your doctor, you can keep your doctor,\" etc.) without putting too much of a dent in his undeserved popularity even now as it has become eminently clear that he used the intelligence and law enforcement agencies of the government of the United States of America to thwart the election of Donald John Trump and then, to borrow a phrase, executed an \u201cinsurance policy\u201d that would cast a pall over the \u201clegality\u201d of Trump\u2019s election and his ability to govern after inauguration. In plain English, therefore, Barack Hussein Obama/Barry Sotoero and his cast of supporting fiends, are at the heart of a conspiracy that originated with Hillary Diane Rodham Clinton and her own cast of fiends to overthrow the duly-elected government of the United States of America.\nIndeed, The United States Department of Justice, which has supervision, at least in theory, of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, under Attorney Generals Eric Holder and Loretta Lynch became somewhat analogous to the \"Ministry of Justice\" in the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics from its earliest days of operation.\nNikolai Krylenko, who would rise eventually to the post of \"Commissar of Justice\" under Joseph Stalin in 1929 and served in this position until 1931, was the chief prosecutor of Moscow in 1923 during the show trial of Archbishop Jan Cieplak, of the countless numbers of Catholic martyrs of the Soviet Union that was so admired by Barack Hussein Obama/Barry Soetoro's Marxist mentor, Frank Marshall Davis. It was during this unjust prosecution of Archbishop Cieplak that Krylenko made a bold pronouncement, which is contained in the following paragraph about the persecution of Christians by the Soviets:\nKrylenko, who began to speak at 6:10 PM, was moderate enough at first, but quickly launched into an attack on religion in general and the Catholic Church in particular. \"The Catholic Church\", he declared, \"has always exploited the working classes.\" When he demanded the Archbishop's death, he said, \"All the Jesuitical duplicity with which you have defended yourself will not save you from the death penalty. No Pope in the Vatican can save you now.\" As the long oration proceeded, the Red Procurator worked himself into a fury of anti-religious hatred. \"Your religion\", he yelled, \"I spit on it, as I do on all religions, -- on Orthodox, Jewish, Mohammedan, and the rest.\" \"There is no law here but Soviet Law,\" he yelled at another stage, \"and by that law you must die.\" (Francis McCullagh, The Bolshevik Persecution of Christianity, E. P. Dutton Company, New York, New York, 1924, p. 221.)\nIt is also by Soviet \"law\" that Nikolai Krylenko died as he was executed after a twenty-minute show trial on July 29, 1938. And it is by such \"law\" that the \u201cleft\u201d always governs while the \u201cright\u201d makes concessions to this \u201claw\u201d when it suits their own purposes for \u201cnational security.\u201d Adherents of the false opposite of the naturalist \u201cleft\u201d believe that they can define \u201claw,\u201d \u201clegality\u201d and \u201cmorality\u201d however they desire to suit their purposes at any given moment. This is but a variation of the concept of \u201claw\u201d and the \u201clegal process\u201d in the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics.\nBarack Hussein Obama/Barry Soetoro used his concept of \u201claw\u201d to engage in \u201ctransformative\u201d policy-making, and he did so with an iron will as he issued unconstitutional and/or illegal executive orders and presidential directives, chose not to enforce the nation\u2019s just immigration laws, presiding over the doubling of the national debt (see National Debt Grows By Nine Billion Dollars Under Obama), conspired with Congressional Democrats to pass the so-called Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act by means of the \u201creconciliation\u201d process, thereby circumventing both the filibuster rules of the United States Senate and, more importantly, the constitutional requirement (found in Section 8 of Article I) that all bills raising revenue originate in the United States House of Representatives, used the Internal Revenue Service as a means to bludgeon political opponents with tax audits and to harass \u201cconservative\u201d groups applying for tax-exempt status, presided over an administration that misused the Federal government\u2019s regulatory powers, and covered-up such major scandals as the Fast and Furious gun-running scheme, Benghazi, and the Hillary Diane Rodham Clinton\u2019s e-mail server. Mind you, this is only a partial listing of the Caesar Obamus\u2019s successes. A very comprehensive listing of what any reasonable human being would call scandalous violations of the Constitution\u2014but are viewed as \u201csuccesses\u201d by Obama/Soetoro and his apologists\u2014can be found at A Complete Guide to Obama's Scandals, Gaffes, and Power Grabs.\nIn other words, Barack Hussein Obama/Barry Soetoro was very successful as the most lawless man ever to have served as the nation\u2019s Chief Executive and Commander-in-Chief.\nBarack Hussein Obama/Barry Soetoro was as successful as he was because he was enabled at every turn by his co-conspirators, those who work in the mainslime media, and by his hapless opponents in the organized crime family of the false opposite of the naturalist \u201cright,\u201d who refused to take any real measures to defend the country against this lawless, power-grabbing president for fear of being called \u201cracist.\u201d While noting that Obama/Soetoro and his first Attorney General, Eric Himpton Holder, ceaselessly used the \u201crace card\u201d to take refuge for their crimes against God and man, the political and moral cowardice of Congressional Republicans made it more possible for the former president to legislate as he pleased from the Oval Office in the West Wing of the White House without regard to any true Congressional oversight.\nAs is very well-known\u2014and as I wrote about endlessly in The Wanderer week after week in the 1990s, Madame Defarge (aka Hillary Diane Rodham Clinton) and the entire Clinton family crime syndicate are notorious for the contempt they themselves have for the laws of God and of men. These career criminals and pathological liars do not believe themselves bound to any kind of law, whether supernatural or natural, but they have always believed that they can use the law as they please to teach lessons of one kind or another to lesser mortals who dare to criticize them and/or challenge their false assertions and beliefs.\nThe Clintons always try to neutralize their critics and accusers by making numerous threats against them before turning these threats into reality by publicly humiliating them, something that William Jefferson Blythe Clinton, Jr., did with particular aplomb in the wake of the efforts of Republicans In the United States House of Representatives to impeach him in 1998 and 1999. The late United States Representative Henry Hyde (R-Illinois), then-House Speaker Newton Leroy Gingrich (R-Georgia), then-Representative Robert Barr (R-Georgia), then-Representative and Speaker-elect Robert Livingston (R-Louisiana), and United States Senator Dan Burton (R-Indiana) had their dirty laundry aired rather thoroughly by Clinton, thanks to the efforts of the private investigator, Jack Palladino, that he hired to discredit his political adversaries. They unleashed private Jack Palladino twenty years ago this year to find and then disseminate dirt on the Congressional Republicans who were investigating Clinton.\nIt is more than clear now that former Federal Bureau of Investigation Director James Richard Comey, his former deputy director, Andrew McCabe, special agents Peter Strozk and his paramour, Lisa Page, as well as former United States Department of Justice Deputy Associate Attorney General Bruce Ohr, among others, engaged in a massive conspiracy (1) to protect former First Lady/former United States Senator/former Secretary of State Hillary Diane Rodham Clinton from a true investigation of her criminal actions related to her using unsecured personal communications devices to transmit classified information to her home-brewed internet server as a means to evade transparency by means of Freedom of Information requests; and (2) to thwart the election of Donald John Trump and, failing that, to derail his presidency by making it appear as though his election was the result collusion between the Trump campaign and agents acting in behalf of the Russian government (see, for example, Peeling Back the Layers of Hillary Clinton's Deceit for a summary of some of ways in which scheme was executed).\nWhat is being called the \u201cNunes memo,\u201d which was issued by the Intelligence Committee of the United States House of Representatives on Friday, February 2, 2018, the Feast of the Presentation of the Blessed Virgin Mary, was made necessary because officials in the United States Department of Justice, which is ostensibly under the control of a weakling named Jefferson Beauregard Sessions, who is the Attorney General of the United States of America, stonewalled the committee\u2019s repeated requests for various documents related to application made to super-secret and, I contend, unconstitutional Federal Intelligence Security Court (a view that is held by many others, including Andrew Napolitano, Why We Should Care About FISA Court's Partisan Political Games), to spy on the Trump campaign. \u201cMagnanimously,\u201d therefore, officials of the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Department of Justice, permitted two members of the House Intelligence Committee to review the documents in a special room accompanied by two members of the committee\u2019s staff to take notes.\nObviously, the facts outlined in the Nunes Memo mean that the whole pretext of the appointment of special counsel Robert Mueller was false, something note in a recent opinion column in The Washington Post:\nHow does anything in the memo impact the validity of the special counsel\u2019s investigation? Well, it matters that the pre-Mueller Justice Department investigation was prompted by anti-Trump, pro-Hillary partisans who used U.S. law enforcement in an effort to derail the Trump campaign. So, determining what Mueller knew and when he knew it is an essential and relevant question. When did Mueller realize he was at the helm of an investigation tainted by illegitimate roots? If he doesn\u2019t think it matters, he needs to explain why.\nPart of what makes the memo from House Intelligence Committee Chairman Devin Nunes (R-Calif.) significant is that it confirms the presence of an anti-Trump, pro-Clinton celloperating at the highest ranks of the FBI. Based on the past year of reporting, we know that the partisan cabal included the likes of Obama-era Attorney General Lorretta Lynch, former FBI deputy director Andrew McCabe, former FBI counterespionage section chief Peter Strzok, former associate deputy attorney general Bruce Ohr and perhaps others. Democrats and their allies in the media won\u2019t admit it, but the memo reveals that the U.S. presidential election appears to have almost been hijacked \u2014 not by the Russians or the Trump campaign colluding with the Russians, but by Clinton campaign agents colluding with anti-Trump allies within the FBI. Their efforts were partially fueled by Clinton campaign opposition research. They used a slew of lies and distortions they deployed in an attempt to pursue the Trump campaign.\nWith that said, it is worth remembering that the Democrats\u2019 dossier wasn\u2019t determinative in launching the entire Russia probe. But the revelation of its use does expose anti-Trump individuals in the FBI and confirm their anti-Trump biases. They took a phony document and used it to advance their own political objectives. It is fair to ask: What else did they do?\nI always thought it was kind of weird to begin with that then-FBI Director James B. Comey briefed President-elect Trump about the dossier. And now, I wonder whether he might have done it as part of an effort to cover the anti-Trump faction\u2019s tracks or to at least gently reveal that the dossier was being used by the government. I guess no one told President Trump the dossier had already been used against his interests in an official government proceeding.\nAnyway, it is going to take some time to process the impact of the Nunes memo. But it can\u2019t just be dismissed with a shrug. Was Mueller ever going to report that the FBI colluded with anti-Trump forces to undermine the Trump campaign by relying on information supplied via anti-Trump foreign nationals paid by the Clinton campaign? The Nunes memo challenges the entire premise of the special counsel\u2019s investigation \u2014 especially if there is now a serious inquiry about whether the president obstructed justice of an investigation that was inappropriately initiated by the government in the first place.\nI was very respectful of the FBI\u2019s objections to the memo being released. But now that I have read it, I wonder why they made a big deal about revealing sources and methods. I don\u2019t see any of that. The memo is a consequential expose of the malice and wrongdoing of certain partisans within the FBI. Granted, the information in the memo is being disputed by some as incomplete and inaccurate. We will see.\nAnd oh by the way, there\u2019s more to come. From what I hear, the FBI inspector general\u2019s report is due anytime, and it will be an additional powerful indictment of many inside the FBI.\nThe bottom line is that this memo further confirms that somebody colluded with the Russians, that somebody withheld material information from government officials and that somebody even used laundered money to pay for campaign dirt that was partially supplied by Russian agents. Well, that somebody wasn\u2019t the Trump campaign. That should matter a great deal to Mueller. So where does this investigation go from here? (https://www.wSo What Does the Nunes Memo Have to do with Mueller? . See also Patrick Joseph Buchanan\u2019s column on the subject, Nunes Battles Deep State and End the Corrupt Mueller Investigation Now.)\nThe \u201cdeep state\u201d is real, but this should not come as any kind of surprise whatsoever. The senior career civil servants who make up the permanent government are, at least for the most part, products of leftist \u201ceducational\u201d institutions who are committed statists. These senior career officials believe that they, not the \u201cpeople\u201d\u2014and certainly not Christ the King\u2014are \u201csovereign.\u201d\nIn this case, however, James Brien Comey and his stooges, including Andrew McCabe, Peter Strzok, Lisa Page, and Bruce Ohr, were working for the admirer of the Fidel Castro School of Opposition Management, Barack Hussein Obama/Barry Soetoro, who was doing the bidding of the Vladimir Lenin School of Opposition Liquidation, headed by William Jefferson Blythe Clinton and Hillary Diane Rodham Clinton:\nNewly revealed text messages between FBI paramours Peter Strzok and Lisa Page include an exchange about preparing talking points for then-FBI Director James Comey to give to President Obama, who wanted \u201cto know everything we\u2019re doing.\"\nThe message, from Page to Strzok, was among thousands of texts between the lovers reviewed by Fox News. The pair both worked at one point for Special Counsel Robert Mueller's probe of alleged collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia.\nPage wrote to Strzok on Sept. 2, 2016, about prepping Comey because \"potus wants to know everything we're doing.\" According to a newly released Senate report, this text raises questions about Obama's personal involvement in the Clinton email investigation.\nIn texts previously revealed, Strzok and Page have shown their disdain for Republicans in general, as well as Trump, calling him a \"f---ing idiot,\" among other insults.\nAmong the newly disclosed texts, Strzok also calls Virginians who voted against then-FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe's wife for a state Senate seat \"ignorant hillbillys.\" (sic)\nThat text came from Strzok to Page on Nov. 4, 2015, the day after Jill McCabe lost a hotly contested Virginia state Senate election. Strzok said of the result, \"Disappointing, but look at the district map. Loudon is being gentrified, but it's still largely ignorant hillbillys. Good for her for running, but curious if she's energized or never again.\"\nSen. Ron Johnson, R-Wis., along with majority staff from the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, is releasing the texts, along with a report titled, \u201cThe Clinton Email Scandal and the FBI's Investigation of it.\u201d\nThe newly uncovered texts reveal a bit more about the timing of the discovery of \"hundreds of thousands\" of emails on former Congressman Anthony Weiner's laptop, ultimately leading to Comey's infamous letter to Congress just days before the 2016 presidential election.\nSept. 28, 2016, Strzok wrote to Page, \"Got called up to Andy's [McCabe] earlier.. hundreds of thousands of emails turned over by Weiner's atty to sdny [Southern District of New York], includes a ton of material from spouse [Huma Abedin]. Sending team up tomorrow to review... this will never end.\" According to the Senate report, this text message raises questions about when FBI officials learned of emails relevant to the Hillary Clinton email investigation on the laptop belonging to Weiner, the husband to Clinton aide Huma Abedin.\nIt was a full month later, on Oct. 28, 2016, when Comey informed Congress that, \"Due to recent developments,\" the FBI was re-opening its Clinton email investigation.\n\"In connection with an unrelated case, the FBI has learned of the existence of emails that appear to be pertinent to the investigation. I am writing to inform you that the investigative team briefed me on this yesterday...\" Comey said at the time.\nOther texts show more examples of the officials' opposition to Trump.\nOn Election Day 2016, Strzok wrote, \"OMG THIS IS F***ING TERRIFYING.\" Page replied, \"Omg, I am so depressed.\" Later that month, on Nov. 13, 2016, Page wrote, \"I bought all the president's men. Figure I need to brush up on watergate.\"\nThe next day, Nov. 14, 2016, Page wrote, \u201cGod, being here makes me angry. Lots of high fallutin\u2019 national security talk. Meanwhile we have OUR task ahead of us.\u201d\nPage\u2019s meaning here is unclear, but according to the Senate report, coupled with Strzok\u2019s Aug. 15 text about an \u201cinsurance policy,\u201d further investigation is warranted to find out what actions the two may have taken.\nThe last text is from Page to Strzok, and comes on June 23, 2017, when she wrote, \"Please don't ever text me again.\"\nIt's unclear whether she was mad at her friend, or if she suddenly became aware that they, and their thousands of texts, had been discovered. (More Texts Between Strzok and Page Uncovered, Leading to More Questions.)\nBarack Hussein Obama/Barry Soetoro believes that any American who does not believe in his own brand of statism has no right to hold public office and that ordinary citizens who agree with \u201copponents\u201d and might even vote for them are to be monitored for \u201chate crimes.\u201d Thus it is that the very people who reject immutable truths revealed by God in the very Flesh and entrusted by Him to His true Church for their safekeeping and infallible explication believe in their own infallibility, which is why they work overtime to suppress all dissent as illegitimate.\nBefore commenting on President Donald John Trump and how has helped to enable the ongoing coup against him by not being ready to throw out senior-level political appointee holdovers from the administration of his corrupt, lawless predecessor, Barack Hussein Obama/Barry Soetoro, it would be useful to illustrate some of the antecedent root causes of how the United States of America was destined from its inception to become the preserve of deep state bureaucrats. This did not all happen overnight, and it is not at all any kind of surprise.\nDeep State and Deep Anti-Catholicism\nUnbeknownst to most Americans, however, is that the \u201cdeep state\u201d that is trying to\u2014and may indeed\u2014take down a man who gets a thrill at the skill of anything military (see The Lawrence Welk Show) and is letting his generals (Kelly, McMaster, Mattis) call the shots on the deployment of American troops to fight needless battles started by the neoconservative war hawk, George Walker Bush, and expanded to Libya and Syria by the globalist war hawk, Barack Hussein Obama/Barry Soetoro, has deep ties to the Anti-Catholicism of the so-called \u201cProgressive Movement\u201d of the latter Nineteenth and early Twentieth Centuries.\nThe \u201cProgressive Movement,\u201d which is more or less synonymous with the \u201cGood Government Movement,\u201d began in the 1880s as many WASP (White Anglo-Saxon Protestants) elitists and secular Darwinists/social \u201cprogressives\u201d became alarmed at the growing political influence of Catholic immigrants in urban politics. There was the fear that these immigrants and their descendants could become so influential as to have a major say in national politics and thus be able to elect a Catholic as President of the United States of America. Such an event, the \u201cprogressives\u201d believed, would make the United States of America a vassal of Pope Leo XIII.\nThose who are familiar with my own writing over the decades know that the fear of these early \u201cprogressives\u201d was unfounded as none of the Catholic immigrants who used the ward or election district political clubs of the Democratic Party in urban areas had any intention whatsoever of converting the United States of America to become a Catholic country. They simply wanted to use the local political clubs as a means of upward social and economic mobility that was being denied to them in a systematic manner by the pronounced and sometimes overtly violent anti-Catholicism that is deeply embedded in the American soil that is manifested very clearly today by the open contempt which the current generation of \u201cprogressives\u201d has for believing Catholics.\nIt was to blunt the rise of the growing influence of Catholic immigrants from Ireland (both those who arrived in the 1820s and those who arrived in the 1840s and thereafter), Italy (especially after the overthrow of the Papal States), Hungary and other places in Central Europe during the revolutions of 1848, Germany (during the Freemason Otto von Bismarck\u2019s Kulturkampf against Holy Mother Church), and Eastern Europe (after the War between the States as the need for skilled and unskilled labor increased during the Second Industrial Revolution) that the WASPS and their Judeo-Masonic compatriots devised various \u201creforms\u201d to take as much political power as possible away from the political party bosses who controlled, if not rigged, elections and who controlled the entire process of hiring government employees and awarding contracts for the provision of various services. The hiring, retention and promotion of government employees was solely in the hands of the ward bosses and their over-bosses at the county and city levels.\nSuch a situation, the \u201cprogressives\u201d said at the time, resulted in institutionalized political graft and fraudulent election results. It was time, the \u201cgood government reformers believed, to \u201cprofessionalize\u201d public administration to insure a supposedly unbiased and competent set of well-trained administrators who would serve the public interest and not that of professional politicians. It was time, the \u201cgood government\u201d do-gooders bellowed, to implement a professional civil service at all levels of government in the United States of America.\nAlthough there were multiple other reforms designed to limit the power of political bosses and thus to produce \u201cefficient,\u201d \u201chonest\u201d and \u201ccompetent administration of public policy (primary elections, which were designed to take the power of nominating candidates for public office away from professional political party bosses, nonpartisan elections at the civic level, the county or city manager system, whose goal was to place the actual administration of a city or a county under the supervision of a professionally trained \u201cnonpartisan,\u201d thus leaving a mayor or county executive as a ceremonial figurehead who cut ribbons when the next Great Atlantic and Pacific Tea Company or F. W. Woolworth store opened in the community, and what are called the direct democracy reforms\u2014the referendum, whether binding or nonbinding, the initiative, which was proposed to take power out of the hands of boss-controlled city councils and state legislatures, and the recall, which is a petition-initiated \u201ccitizen\u201d effort to remove an elected official from office before his term has expired), the institutionalization of the civil service by the government of the United States of America by means of the Pendleton Civil Service Act of 1883, prompted by the assassination of President James Abram Garfield by a deranged office-seeker, Charles Guiteau, two years before, provided the model that would be adopted over time by state and local governments.\nThe Pendleton Civil Service Act, which underwent some reforms of itself with the passage of the United States Civil Service Act of 1978, established a system requiring most positions in the Federal government to be filled by a \u201cmerit system\u201d that selected the top candidates who had the best scores on publicly announced, competitive examination (usually the \u201crule of seven\u201d or the \u201crule of eleven\u201d or the \u201crule of three) for advertised positions. Those hired serve a probationary period of usually nine months, after which they cannot be dismissed except for a long, cumbersome process known as \u201cadministrative cause.\u201d In other words, civil servants have life tenure as long as the positions they hold are not eliminated by budgetary restrictions, noting a few restrictions and qualifications in the cases of civil servants who have been grossly incompetent or negligent in the performance of their duties.\nAlthough the civil service took root at the Federal level in the latter part of the Nineteenth Century, the patronage system remained strong at the state and local levels until the Great Depression, which made it very difficult for the political party bosses and their under-bosses to dole out \u201cwelfare\u201d (government jobs and contracts, food, legal favors, etc.) in exchange for loyalty expressed by working as volunteers to elect the party\u2019s candidates given the large number of people in need of help, it was the aforementioned Great Depression that dealt the death blow to the boss system in many places, admitting a few exceptions here and there. The Welfare State, which had some of its roots in the administrations of Presidents Theodore Roosevelt and Thomas Woodrow Wilson, arose to take the place of the boss system and, more importantly, to take the place of the extended family, which was under attack by means of liberalized divorce laws in some states and the ready access to and acceptance of contraception. The Welfare State was administered by career civil servants, who then had a vested interest in keeping their clients dependent upon \u201ctheir\u201d largesse and expanding the scope of those who would become dependent upon government support for their very existence.\nEven long before the Great Depression and over forty years before the Bolshevik Revolution, Otto von Bismarck, the prototypical socialist and social engineer, sought to make large segments of the German population dependent upon the largesse of the civil state so that the citizenry would be more inclined to look the other way as it, the civil state, increased control of their daily lives over the course of time. The Eurosocialist states are all descended from Otto von Bismarck and Karl Marx, whose \"radicalism,\" as the Freemason Bismarck saw it, he sought to preempt by the creation of his own social welfare state. It was this social welfare state that American liberals saw as the basis of creating the more \u201cperfect\u201d social order on purely secular grounds.\nAs has been noted many times on this site, one of the proximate root causes of what can be called \"liberalism\" is the writing of John Locke, whose views were the direct result of the Protestant Revolution that began in England under King Henry VIII in 1534 and resulted in the proliferation of Protestant sects in a kingdom that had been Catholic for nearly a millennium. Readers of this site know that I care very much about root causes.\nThe Protestant Revolt engendered murder and mayhem in the German states after it was launched by the hideous, lecherous, drunken Augustinian monk named Father Martin Luther, O.S.A., on October 31, 1517, when he posted his \"ninety-five theses\" on the door of Castle Church in Wittenberg, Germany. Luther himself was aghast to see the almost instantaneous moral degeneration of his \"evangelicals\" into violent mobs who pilfered and sacked formerly Catholic churches and lived riotously, oblivious to the fact that he was responsible for this degeneration by depriving those who followed his revolution against Christ the King of the Sacraments and of the true teaching that Our King has entrusted to His Catholic Church for Its eternal safekeeping and infallible explication.\nIn like manner, of course, the Protestant Revolt in England engendered murder and violence, much of which was state-sponsored as Henry Tudor was responsible between the years of 1534 and 1547 for ordering the executions of over 72,000 Catholics who remained faithful to the Catholic Church following the decree that Parliament has passed that declared him to be the \"supreme head of the Church in England as far as the law of God allowed.\" As was the case in the German states as princes gave Luther protection so that they, the princes, could govern in a Machiavellian manner free of any interference from Rome or their local bishops, so was it the case in England that the Protestant Revolution provided the receipt for the unchecked tyranny of English monarchs.\nIndeed, the kind of state-sponsored social engineering that has created the culture of entitlement in England and elsewhere in Europe has its antecedent roots in Henry's revolt against the Social Reign of Christ the King and His Catholic Church in the Sixteenth Century.\nHenry had Parliament enact various laws to force the poor who had lived for a nominal annual fee on the monastery and convent lands (as they produced the food to sustain themselves, giving some to the monastery or convent) off of those lands, where their families had lived for generations, in order to redistribute the Church properties he had stolen to those who supported his break from Rome. Henry quite cleverly created a class of people who were dependent upon him for the property upon which they lived and the wealth they were able to derive therefrom, making them utterly supportive of his decision to declare himself Supreme Head of the Church in England. Those of the poorer classes who had been thrown off the monastery and convent lands were either thrown into prison (for being poor, mind you) or forced to migrate to the cities, where many of them lost the true Faith and sold themselves into various vices just to survive. The effects of this exercise of state-sponsored engineering are reverberating in the world today, both politically and economically. Indeed, many of the conditions bred by the disparity in wealth created by Henry's land grab in the Sixteenth Century would fester and help to create the world of unbridled capitalism and slave wage that so impressed a German emigre in London by the name of Karl Marx. Unable to recognize the historical antecedents of the real injustices he saw during the Victorian Era, Marx set about devising his own manifestly unjust system, premised on atheism and anti-Theism, to rectify social injustice once and for all. In a very real way, Henry of Tudor led the way to Lenin of Russia.\nThe abuses of power by English monarchs led to all manner of social unrest in England, especially as those Anglicans who were followers of John Calvin sought to eradicate all remaining vestiges of Catholicism from Anglican \"worship\" and \"doctrine\" (removing Latin from certain aspects of the heretical Anglican liturgy, smashing statues, eliminating high altars in favor of tables, things that have been undertaken in the past forty years in many formerly Catholic churches that are now in the custody of the counterfeit church of conciliarism). This unrest produced the English Civil Wars of the 1640s and the establishment in 1649 of what was, for all intents and purposes, a Calvinist state under the control Oliver Cromwell that became a Cromwellian dictatorship between the years of 1653 to 1660 until the monarchy under the House of Stuart was restored in 1660. Oh yes, King Charles I lost his head, quite literally, in 1649 as the \"Roundheads\" of Oliver Cromwell came to power in 1649 following seven years of warfare between \"parliamentarians\" and \"royalists.\" Revolutions always wind up eating their own. The English monarchy itself was eaten up by the overthrow of the Social Reign of the King of Kings by Henry VIII of the House of Tudor in 1534.\nKing James II, who had converted to Catholicism in France in 1668 while he was the Prince of York under his brother, King Charles II of the restored monarchy, acceded to the English throne in on June 6, 1885, following his brother's death, which occurred after Charles II himself had converted to the the Faith on his deathbed. Suspicious that the property that had been acquired and the wealth that had been amassed as a result of Henry VIII's social-engineering land grab of 150 years before would be placed in jeopardy, Protestant opponents of King James II eventually forced him to abdicate the throne in 1688, his rule having been declared as ended on December 11 of that year. The abdication of King James, whose second wife, Mary of Modena, had been assigned Blessed Father Claude de la Colombiere as her spiritual director when she was the Princess of York, is referred to by Protestant and secular historians as the \"glorious revolution,\" so-called because it ushered in the penultimate result of the Protestant Revolution, the tyranny of the majority.\nIt was to justify the rise of majoritarianism that John Locke, a Presbyterian (Calvinist) minister, wrote his Second Treatise on Civil Government. Locke believed, essentially, that social problems could be ameliorated if a majority of reasonable men gathered together to discuss their situation. The discussion among these \"reasonable men\" would lead to an agreement, sanctioned by the approval of the majority amongst themselves, on the creation of structures which designed to improve the existing situation. If those structures did not ameliorate the problems or resulted in a worsening of social conditions then some subsequent majority of \"reasonable men\" would be able to tear up the \"contract\" that had bound them before, devising yet further structures designed to do what the previous structures could not accomplish. Locke did not specify how this majority of reasonable men would form, only that it would form, providing the foundation of the modern parliamentary system that premises the survival of various governments upon the whims of a majority at a given moment.\nIn other words, England's \"problem\" in 1688 was King James II. The solution? Parliament, in effect, declared that he had abdicated his throne rather than attempt to fight yet another English civil war to maintain himself in power as the man chosen by the parliamentarians to replace him, his own son-in-law William of Orange, who was married to his daughter Mary, landed with armed forces ready to undertake such a battle. The parliamentary \"majority\" had won the day over absolutism and a return to Catholicism.\nUnfortunately for Locke, you see, social problems cannot be ameliorated merely by the creation of structures devised by \"reasonable men\" and sanctioned by the majority.\nAll problems in the world, both individual and social, have their remote causes in Original Sin and their proximate causes in the Actual Sins of men. There is no once-and-for-all method or structure by which, for example, \"peace\" will be provided in the world by the creation of international organizations or building up or the drafting of treaties.\nThere is no once-and-for-all method or structure by which, for example, \"crime\" will be lessened in a nation by the creation of various programs designed to address the \"environmental\" conditions that are said to breed it.\nThe only way in which social conditions can be ameliorated is by the daily reformation of individual lives in cooperation with the graces won for men by the shedding of the Most Precious Blood of Our Blessed Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ upon the wood of the Holy Cross and that flow into our hearts and souls through the loving hands of Our Lady, she who is the Mediatrix of All Graces. And to the extent that social structures can be effective in addressing and ameliorating specific problems at specific times in specific places those who create and administer them must recognize their absolute dependence upon God's graces and that there is no secular, non-denominational or inter-denominational way to provide for social order. Social order and peace among nations depend entirely upon the subordination of the life of every person and the activities of every nation to the Social Reign of Christ the King as it is exercised by the Catholic Church.\nThere is, therefore, amongst American Catholics who adhere to some kind of \"leftist\" worldview a belief that it is indeed the role of government to \"solve\" social ills, most of are the result, over and above the after-effects of Original Sin, the systematic, planned breakdown of the stability of the family that was one of the chief goals of Freemasons in state legislatures, starting in North Dakota, in the late-Nineteenth Century to liberalize divorce laws.\nThis systematic, planned breakdown of the family was expedited by the spread of contraception in the 1920s, leading ultimately to an epidemic of divorce and remarriage as spouses felt \"free\" to be violate the Sixth Commandment injunction against adultery. Husbands abandoned wives. Wives abandoned husbands. Children became lost and confused. Entire classes of people became dependent upon the largesse of the civil state as a result. And this is to say nothing of the direct effort on the part of Margaret Sanger to break down the stability of the families of black Americans so that they could enjoy the benefits of her sort of social engineering, a fact that has been documented on this site in several articles.\nIf one believes in the leftist paradigm, however, one will be absolutely convinced that social \"problems\" are the result of not enough government spending and not enough government programs and not enough government regulations and not enough efforts to direct the daily lives of those who are dependent upon them and, ultimately, of us all as the \"experts\" and the bureaucrats know better as to how we should live than we do. Former President William Jefferson Blythe Clinton said as much in the late-1990s (I believe that it was when making a speech in Buffalo, New York). Let me see if I can find the quote. All right, here it is:\nClinton: \"I can spend your money better than you can.\"\nIn a post-State of the Union speech in Buffalo, NY on January 20, 1999, Bill Clinton was asked why not a tax cut if we have a surplus. Clinton's response:\n\"We could give it all back to you and hope you spend it right... But ... if you don't spend it right, here's what's going to happen. In 2013 -- that's just 14 years away -- taxes people pay on their payroll for Social Security will no longer cover the monthly checks... I want every parent here to look at the young people here, and ask yourself, 'Do you really want to run the risk of squandering this surplus?' \"Source: Washington Times, January 21, 1999. (Quote and commentary found at: Bill Clinton - Stupid Quotes and Statements.)\nAs the leaders of the \u201cGood Government\u201d (or \u201cProgressive\u201d or \u201cReform\u201d) were shaped by the Lockean/Pelagian belief that it was possible to reform human behavior by the creation of structural reforms without any reliance upon Sanctifying and Actual Graces, however, these do-gooding nincompoops did not believe that their great ideas would create what was destined to become a fourth branch of government unaccountable even to the elected officials and their political appointees (Cabinet and sub-Cabinet appointees, for instance) who had nominal authority over them. Civil servants know that elected officials come and go while they stay, which is why they are usually pretty immune to any kind of pressure to change their ways, including the alliances that many of them form with leftist, Soros-funded \u201ccommunity organizations\u201d who drink to the point of inebriation from the trough of taxpayer funding.\nAlthough the senior career civil servants who do much of the actual implantation of public policy do not run for office, they are political creatures who develop alliances with key members of Congressional committees that have oversight responsibility over their work and with lobbyists who work with constituencies affected by the policies they administer. This \u201ciron triangle\u201d or \u201cunholy alliance\u201d as it has been called in political science literature is quite adept at thwarting any and all efforts on the part of a presidential administration whose leadership is intent on changing policies and/or the way in which they are administered.\nWhat we are seeing at this present time, therefore, is just an open manifestation of a phenomenon that is now one hundred thirty-five years old at the Federal level, admitting that the situation is a little different in some urban and suburban areas where there are still vestiges of the old-time political machine, something that is particularly true in my own native County of Nassau, New York.\nCareer bureaucrats in the Federal civil service who do not like President Donald John Trump have made gargantuan efforts to coopt the president\u2019s political appointees to follow their lead, not his, in the administration of public policy. This cooptation seems have been most successful in rendering United States Attorney General Jefferson Beauregard Sessions into little other than a bureaucratic functionary who is afraid to offend the sensibilities of senior career Justice Department officials, most of whom are, shall we say, decidedly to the \u201cleft\u201d of center and are working actively to effect his ouster, whereupon the campaign to get rid of a \u201cPresident\u201d Michael Pence would commence.\nReckless Federal Spending, Much of Which Funds Evil Programs\nOne of the ironies of the consternation facing many of those who have been serving as cheerleaders for President Trump is that he is still a big government, free-spending liberal, and he is being pushed in this regard by his Kabbalist daughter and her Kabbalist husband, Ivanka Trump Kusher and her \u201cMr. Wonderful,\u201d Jared Kushner (we may yet find out that the president\u2019s untimely dismissal of deep state\u2019s James Brien Comey was done at the behest of \u201cMr. Wonderful,\u201d who may have been worried about his own business contacts with Russians, most of whom are Talmudic gangsters, of course, with the support of Vice President Michael Pence\u2014see How Trump Decided to Fires James Comey).\nUnited States Senator Rand Paul was entirely correct to oppose the two-year budget deal that President Donald Trump signed into law on Friday, February 9, 2017, the Feast of Saint Cyril of Alexandria and the Commemoration of Saint Apollonia, that is nothing other than an irresponsible continuation of the free-spending ways of the George Walker Bush and Barack Hussein Obama/Barry Soetoro that were enabled by the Congress of the United States of America during the times both Houses were controlled by the organized crime family of the naturalist \u201cright (January 20, 2001-June 6, 2001, January 3, 2003-January 3, 2007, and January 3, 2015-present, noting as well that Republicans have controlled the United States House of Representatives from January 3, 2011, to the present tie) or by the organized crime family of the naturalist \u201cleft\u201d (January 3, 2007-January 3, 2011, noting the fact that Democrats controlled the United States Senate, which was split equally between Democrats and Republicans from January 3, 2001, to June 6, 2001, before United States Senator James Jeffords\u2014R-Vermont\u2014decided to bolt the Republican Party and become an \u201cindependent\u201d who agreed to caucus with the Democrats, thus making the pro-abort, pro-perversity United States Senator Thomas Daschle\u2014D-South Dakota, making the bum the Senate Majority Leader until January 3, 2003). The national debt grows no matter who occupies the White House or and/or which of the two organized crime families of the false opposites of natural control the Congress of the United States of America.\nSenator Paul\u2019s courageous condemnation of this irresponsible spending, which further burdens a country saddled with a massive moral debt to God for the sins it has spread around the world with such abandon and for the sins that its laws sanction, if not actually encourage, here at home with a massive financial debt that will crush future generations of Americans unless Our Lord Himself intervenes to put an end to the madness caused by the Protestant Revolution and Judeo-Masonry.\nA brief summary of Senator Paul\u2019s located on his Senate website below is followed by an interview he gave to Major Garrett, the moderator of the Columbia Broadcasting System television network news department\u2019s Face the Nation program on Sunday, February 11, 2018, Quinquagesima Sunday and the Commemoration of the Apparition of Our Lady of Lourdes:\nThe number one threat to our country's future is our debt. The number one threat to our national security is our debt.\nThis deal gives the President the power to borrow unlimited amounts of money.\nThis deal represents the worst of the Washington culture. The Left and the Right have come together in an unholy alliance to explode the debt. The Left gets more welfare, the Right gets more military contracts, and the Taxpayer is stuck with the bill!\nThis a bipartisan busting of the budget caps that will further indenture the next generation.\nI promised the voters of Kentucky to oppose deficits, to oppose budgets that don't balance, and to spend only what we have. I will not give this President or any President to power to borrow unspecified amounts of money.\nOur debt now equals our entire economy.\nNot raising the debt ceiling means we would be forced to only spend what comes in --- also known as a balanced budget. I could accept that. But I also could accept a balanced budget amendment that brings us into balance over five years.\nThe debt threatens us like never before and now is the time to take a stand.\nI have travelled far and wide across America and I have not met one Republican outside of DC who supports adding an unlimited increase in the debt ceiling.\nI hope my colleagues will listen to their constituents before voting for this terrible, no good, rotten deal. (Remarks Preoared bt Senator Rand Paul on the Floor of the United States Senate.)\nMAJOR GARRETT: We go now to Kentucky Republican Senator Rand Paul whose objection to this week's funding agreement touched off an ever so brief government shutdown. Senator Paul joins us from Palm Beach Florida. Senator, what did you accomplish?\nSENATOR RAND PAUL: Well you know I think we should draw attention to the fact that we're spending so much money. I ran for office in 2010 with what was called sort of the Tea Party tidal wave. At that point we were very, very critical of President Obama's deficits you know approaching a trillion dollars in a year. We talked endlessly about them we had 100,000 people rally on the Mall in Washington. And I'm still against deficit spending just because Republicans are doing it doesn't make it any better.\nMAJOR GARRETT: And now we have deficits projected to be a trillion dollars again and yet they're growing non-recessionary economy or are you troubled by that?\nSENATOR RAND PAUL: Yeah, I'm very worried and I think one of the questions the Republicans I think are not willing to ask themselves is can you be fiscally conservative and be for unlimited military spending. There's sort of this question, \"Is the military budget too small or maybe is our mission too large around the world?\" And because Republicans are unwilling to confront that they want more, more, more for military spending. And so to get that they have to give the Democrats what they want which is more and more and more for domestic spending and the compromise while some are happy with bipartisanship. Well if the bipartisanship is exploding the deficit I'm not so sure that's the kind of bipartisanship we need.\nMAJOR GARRETT: From your point of view, Senator, on the defense side of the equation is the spending and the mission, are they reckless?\nSENATOR RAND PAUL: I think the mission is- is beyond what we need to be we're actively in war in about seven countries. And yet the Congress hasn't voted on declaring or authorizing the use of military force in over 15 years now. So I've been one that's been bugging the Senate and Congress to say how can we be at war without ever voting on it don't the American people through their representatives get a chance to say when we go to war. I think the Afghan war is long past its mission. I think we killed and captured and disrupted the people who attacked us on 9/11 long ago. And I think now it's a nation building exercise. We're spending 50 billion dollars a year. And if the president really is serious about infrastructure, a lot of that money could be spent at home. Instead of building bridges and schools and roads in Afghanistan or in Pakistan. I think we could do that at home and the interesting thing is I think the president's instincts lean that way but --\nMAJOR GARRETT: His policies, his policies, have not though.\nSENATOR RAND PAUL: And that's sort of the problem and this is something that we've seen even going back to Reagan conservatives said, \"Oh, we love Reagan.\" Then the people appointed around him were often big government types. That's a little bit of the problem I see here is that I think Donald Trump is probably the least interventionist minded president we've had in a long time. I mean he criticized George Bush for the intervention in the Iraq war. I think he's not that excited about continuing the Afghan war forever. But the generals who surrounded him with don't want to admit that there isn't a military solution. And so the war goes on and on and on. And really I think after 15 years and a trillion dollars that the Afghan it's time for them to take over their country.\nMAJOR GARRETT: Senator Paul you and I have talked about this many times you know the instincts in Washington are to spend. You know that's what's going to happen and yet you voted for the tax cut which is contributing to these deficit and debt problems. How do you reconcile those two facts?\nSENATOR RAND PAUL: I think if you're for tax cuts and for increasing spending that's hypocritical. But if you're for tax cuts and you're also for cutting spending a corresponding amount. See I would offset the tax cuts with spending cuts and there are a few of us that would actually do that. When we had the budget deal that lowered the taxes I also had an amendment to look at and try to control entitlement spending at the same time to pay for the tax cuts. But interestingly I could only interest three other Republicans. We had four votes total to try to control entitlement spending and that is where the money is.\nMAJOR GARRETT: And that's sort of the way, Senator, because you know where the votes are. You know the votes are there for tax cuts. You know they're not there for spending cuts. So, isn't there any part of your voting pattern that is irresponsible?\nSENATOR RAND PAUL: I don't think so because you know I can only control how I vote. So I voted for the tax cuts and I voted for spending cuts. The people who voted for tax cuts and spending increases. I think there is some hypocrisy there and it shows they're not serious about the debt. But all throughout my career I've always voted for spending cuts and I'm happy to offset cuts in taxes with cuts in spending. So no I think that I've had a consistent position in being very concerned about the debt and I want to shrink the size of government. So, the reason I'm for tax cuts is I to return more of the money to the people who own that who- who actually deserve to have their money returned to them. But it also shrinks the size of government by cutting taxes or should if you cut spending at the same time. (CBS News Transcript of Rand Paul on Face the Nation, February 11, 2018. Senator Paul also penned a very good opinion piece to oppose the president\u2019s planned \u201cMay Day\u201d parade. See Rand Paul: Bring Troops Home, Then Throw a Parade.)\nSimilar comments about the irresponsibility of the budget deal that had been agreed to by United States Senator Majority Leader Addison Mitchel McConnell (R-Kentucky) and United States Minority Leader (D-New York) that received the support of President Donald John Trump were authored by United States Representative Andy Biggs (R-Arizona) a day before Congress voted to go on another unrestrained binge of reckless Federal spending:\nThe budget caps deal produced by Senate Majority Leader McConnell and Minority Leader Schumer is a fiscal disaster parading as a military support bill. They argue that we need to fully fund the military. I agree. That\u2019s why we sent a bill to the Senate earlier this week that fully funded the military \u2013 without adding more than $500 billion to our deficit over the next 18 months, as their plan does.\nFurther, the House fully funded the military in the budget bills sent to the Senate almost six months ago. The Senate has taken no action on those bills, but keeps forcing short-term spending bills, which even Senator Lindsey Graham agrees, is extremely harmful to our military.\nThis bad deal is an unconditional surrender on Republican principles and our platform.\nIf Congress approves the spending package, federal spending will grow by more than 10 percent. As a part of the deal, our nation\u2019s debt limit will be suspended. This means that Congress will spend as much as it can borrow \u2013 without limits. Plan on even more national debt ahead.\nIf we are going to spend more than the credit limits, not to mention more than we bring in on the revenue side each month, we should be enacting serious spending cuts. Spending reductions should not be treated as an afterthought on a massive spending package.\nAfter caving in on spending, the bill actually funds our troops for only another six weeks, until we are forced to consider our sixth spending bill of the fiscal year just a few weeks from now. This is absurd \u2013 and irresponsible.\nCongress\u2019s pattern of relying on short-term spending bills \u2013 on average, more than five times a year for the last 20 years \u2013 has brought on a plethora of problems. Our military is subjected to uncertainty in planning and execution of its missions. Our agencies incur the waste of preparing for government shutdowns multiple times each year. The dissipation incurred by failure of the Senate to pass the appropriations bills has also heaped an enormous national debt on this and future generations.\nThis is nothing short of self-immolation through legislative malfeasance. We are putting our grandchildren in an awful bind. If we cannot pass a budget and reduce the size of government now, we must wonder what kind of America they will see when they grow up. Will it be a thriving, free nation where they can fulfill their greatest aspirations, or will it be a broken and bankrupt country?\nAlmost six months ago, the House passed twelve appropriations bills and sent them over to the Senate. The Senate has had an opportunity for months to consider these bills and give them an up-or-down vote through regular order. This could have solved our problems. Yet, the other chamber has refused to perform its constitutional responsibility, threatening the financial stability of our military personnel.\nOur troops are suffering now due to our lack of courage to pass a financially responsible, long-term budget, and our grandchildren will suffer later due to our propensity to kick the can down the road.\nWhen will we act like the Republicans our constituents expect us to be? When will we cut spending, balance the budget, and eliminate our national debt? The time should be now, but sadly, we are too set in our free-spending, big government ways to change.\nI strongly oppose this deal. We must drain the swamp and decrease the size of government. I implore my colleagues to vote against this legislation. (Representative Andy Biggs, When Will We Act Like Republicans and Vote as our constituents expect us?)\nReasoned arguments such as Senator Rand Paul\u2019s and Representative Andy Bigg\u2019s were lost on the Democrats and the Republicans, many of whom want to reward their corporate donors and to continue to receive perquisites from lobbyists while catering to various constituency groups at home who benefit from the supposedly \u201cfree goodies\u201d doled out to them by craven careerists.\nTo believe that the collective forces of statism and the overt evils associated with it can be retarded by purely naturalistic means is illusory. Then again, I do recall a chap who has spoken often in the past forty years of something he has termed \u201cthe illusion of secular salvation.\u201d Can\u2019t recall the name at this moment, though.\nAs noted earlier, most of the social problems facing the United States of America are the result of the systematically planned and implemented Judeo-Masonic revolution against the stability of the family to create a dependency caste that looks to government programs for \u201csolutions,\u201d which is why President Donald John Trump\u2019s acquiescence to funding Planned Barrenhood for another two years, meaning until the last year of his term, 2020, is to call down himself and the country the wrath of God.\nThe following speaks for itself:\n(CNSNews.com) - Despite promising to defund Planned Parenthood, President Donald Trump signed a budget Friday, which was passed by the Republican-led Congress, that fully funds the nation\u2019s largest abortion provider.\nIn a letter to pro-lifers during the election, Trump and Vice President Mike Pence said \u201cI am committed to \u2026 Defunding Planned Parenthood as long as they continue to perform abortions, and reallocating their funding to community health centers that provide comprehensive health care for women.\nWhile the budget provides more funding for community health centers, it also fully funds Planned Parenthood.\nIn fact, Trump has signed multiple continuing resolutions (CRs) that fully funded Planned Parenthood despite his campaign promise to defund it.\nDuring the March for Life last month, House Speaker Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) told the crowd, \u201cIn the House, we passed legislation to defund Planned Parenthood.\u201d In May 2017, the House voted to defund Planned Parenthood through an Obamacare repeal, but the bill failed to clear Congress.\nAs CNSNews.com reported prior to the vote, pro-life groups called on Congress not to fund Planned Parenthood in the budget.\nDr. Alveda King, director of Civil Rights for the Unborn for Priests for Life, told CNSNews.com, \u201cI do not support continuing to fund Planned Parenthood through the continuing resolution. I don\u2019t want to see a government shutdown but I also don\u2019t want to see $1.5 million a day flowing to the nation\u2019s largest abortion provider.\n\u201cMy prayer is that Congress will fund community health centers but withdraw funding from any organization that makes its money from the blood of the innocents,\u201d King said.\nOperation Rescue President Troy Newman said, \u201cI think it\u2019s repulsive that Republicans would continue to fund Planned Parenthood through any sort of continuing resolution for baby body parts. Their director was forced to resign. Other abortionists have been convicted of various criminal activities, botched abortions, we\u2019ve recorded again and again.\n\u201cAnd no taxpayer funding should ever go to fund such a horrific criminal enterprise like Planned Parenthood. The Republicans talk about shutting down the government over building a wall. I say the most worthy thing you can shut down the government for is to defund Planned Parenthood,\u201d Newman said.\nTom McClusky, vice president of government affairs with the March for Life, told CNSNews.com, \u201cContinuing Resolutions, omnibuses and mega two year budgets are what happens when Congress has been bipartisanly dysfunctional.\n\u201cFor the first time in years the House of Representatives passed Appropriation bills through regular order \u2013 however the Senate could not be bothered. The result is a continuation of Obamacare and continued taxpayer funding of a billion dollar abortion industry. Once again making Congress, and taxpayers, culpable, for hundreds of thousands of abortions,\u201d McClusky said in a statement. (Budget Deal Fully Funds Planned Barrenhood.)\nA brief note is in order here to counter Dr. Alveda King\u2019s support for \u201ccommunity health centers,\u201d a proposition that was supported by a number of Republicans in 2015 when the undercover videos taking by the Centers for Medical Research proved that Planned Barrehood was selling fetal body parts in violation of Federal law. Such a proposal is an illogical shell game, and it was dissected over thirty-one months ago in Shifting Funding From One Evil Organization To Many Others.\nTo wit, there are many Catholics who are sincerely concerned about the future of a country suffering from the manifestation of the perfection of the inherent degeneracy of its founding principles\u2014as well as from the logical effects that flow from the proliferation of the sins that cry out to Heaven for vengeance under cover of the civil law\u2014have been willing for the past two years to ignore Donald J. Trump\u2019s asinine assertion that Planned Barrenhood does \u201cmuch good,\u201d something he stated on \u201cSuper Tuesday, March 1, 2016, Tuesday of the Second Week of Lent:\n(CNSNews.com) - At a press conference on Tuesday night in Florida, businessman Donald Trump, who is running for the Republican presidential nomination, said that Planned Parenthood has \u201cdone some very good work\u201d but that he would not give federal funds to the organization \u201cas long as you have abortion going on at Planned Parenthood.\"\n\"I'm just doing what's right,\" said Trump. \"Look, Planned Parenthood has done very good work for some--for many, many--for millions of women. And I'll say it and I know a lot of the so-called conservatives, they say that's really--because I'm a conservative, but I'm a common sense conservative--but millions of women have been helped by Planned Parenthood. But we're not going to allow and we're not going to fund as long as you have the abortion going on at Planned Parenthood and we understand that and I've said it loud and clear.\"\nIn its latest annual report, Planned Parenthood said that its affiliates performed 323,999 abortions in the fiscal year that ended on Sept. 30, 2014. The same report said that in the year that ended on June 30, 2015, Planned Parenthood received $553.7 million in government health service grants and reimbursements.\nAt the press conference a reporter asked Trump: \u201cDoes it feel to you yet like you are the presumptive Republican nominee--and along those lines, you had some complimentary things to say about Planned Parenthood. You said you could be flexible on immigration. Are you trying to adjust your tone to a more general election message?\u201d\nTrump responded:\n\u201cI'm just doing what's right. Look, Planned Parenthood has done very good work for some--for many, many--for millions of women. And I'll say it and I know a lot of the so-called conservatives, they say that's really--because I'm a conservative, but I'm a common sense conservative--but millions of women have been helped by Planned Parenthood.\n\u201cBut we're not going to allow and we're not going to fund as long as you have the abortion going on at Planned Parenthood and we understand that and I've said it loud and clear.\n\"But--and we'll see what happens--but Planned Parenthood, millions of people, and I've had thousands of letters from women that have been helped. And this wasn't a set-up, this was people writing letters.\n\u201cI'm going to be really good for women. I'm going to be good for women's health issues. It's very important to me, very important to me. And maybe that is not a perfect conservative view but I can tell you one thing, I'm more conservative than anybody on the military, on taking care of our vets, on the border, on the wall, on getting rid of Obamacare and coming up with something much, much better and certainly getting rid of Common Core and bringing education to a local level, so that you're going to have good education for our children who are being absolutely starved for proper education.\n\"So, Sara, I mean, you know, you can call it what you want. But I am a truth teller and I will tell the truth. Okay.\u201d (Trump Says Millions of Women Have Been Helped by Planned Barrenhood.)\nIn other words, it is all right to fund the denial of the Sovereignty of God over the sanctity and fecundity of marriage. It is all right to fund the chemical assassination of innocent preborn children by means of chemical abortifacients. No, is not. It is evil do so, and efforts to \u201cmake America great again\u201d and/or to provide for the national security and end the sellout of American national sovereignty to the multifaceted system of world governance that is more or less in place will fail repeatedly. Evil\u2014and any compromise in principle with it\u2014can never be the foundation of a just social order domestically or security internationally.\nNo matter the fact that President Donald J. Trump does see, however inchoately, the truth on various \u201ctrees\u201d, he is not a truth teller when it comes to Planned Barrenhood as he does not know the truth about its evil inceptions, not that the truth would matter to him as he supports ready access to contraceptives as an established fact of life, if not as an actual good. The president does not know the truth because he does not know anything about First and Last Things, which why the administration of President Donald John Trump may be in mortal peril from deep state\u2019s Robert Mueller as the \u201cleft\u201d is more committed to their own evils than the \u201cright\u201d is committee to retarding them.\nTrump\u2019s Enabling of the Deep State Coup Against Him\nAs has been noted several times in the past, Donald John Trump was thoroughly unprepared to govern following his election on November 8, 2016. Neither he nor those who advised him took the time to research the necessity of having a \u201cbook\u201d of names to fill the sub-Cabinet positions that are supposedly superior to the senior career civil service officers in each Cabinet department and Federal agency under a president\u2019s direct authority. This is why many political positions in the Executive Branch of the government of the United States of America remain unfilled nearly thirteen months into the Trump administration.\nPresident-elect Donald John Trump had no idea of the complexity of the Federal government and he did not even know how many subordinates work in the Executive Office of the President at the White House and across Seventeenth Street in the Old Executive Office Building. He admitted this to then President Barack Hussein Obama/Barry Soetoro when the two met in the White House after the November 8, 2016, election. Trump\u2019s ignorance of the complexity of the Federal government left him in the most unfavorable position of leaving Obama/Soetoro\u2019s political appointees in their jobs to serve as a veritable fifth column against him.\nAdmitting that Senate Democrats were holding up the nomination of their then colleague, United States Jefferson Beauregard Sessions (R-Alabama), to be confirmed as the Attorney General of the United States of America\u2014an appointment that was certainly one of Trump\u2019s most glaring blunders, Obama/Soetoro holdover Sally Yates was in a position to wreak havoc with the new administration as Acting Attorney General because the new president had given no thought as to cleaning out the Obama/Soetoro Ministry of Injustice, something that should have been one of his top priorities. Unwittingly, of course, he helped to perpetuate the ongoing conspiracy against him by this unpreparedness.\nPerhaps even more to the point is that President-elect Trump should have removed James Brien Comey from his position as the Director of the American Praetorian Guard during the transition period, and it was an even further blunder for President Trump to believe that he could schmooze Comey into dropping all investigations into Lieutenant General Michael Flynn\u2019s dealings with Russian officials and companies, no less the fact that Flynn was not forthcoming in a strangely-timed interview with, of all people, F.B.I. Special Agent Peter Strzok on January 24, 2017, about his, Flynn\u2019s meeting with and Sergey Kisylak, the Russian Ambassador to the United States of America (for the mystifying details of Comey\u2019s own initial views of Flynn\u2019s interview, please see Byron York\u2019s Comey Told Congress FBI Agents Did Not Think that Flynn Lied).\nAs noted earlier in this commentary, while Comey deserved to be fired, the timing of when he did so could not have been worse, especially since the president himself undercut the statement issued by Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosentein outlining the reasons for the petulant Comey\u2019s dismissal by telling both the Russian Foreign Minister, Sergei Lavrov, and Russian Ambassador Kisylak last year that he had fired Comey because of the investigation into the Trump campaign\u2019s nonexistent \u201ccollusion\u201d with Russians to \u201crig\u201d the election:\nComey also informed a Senate intelligence committee that Trump had asked for the FBI to drop its investigation into Flynn; the White House said Trump was not attempting to influence his FBI director.\nComey, too, told the committee that he offered Trump repeated reassurances that he was not under an FBI investigation.\nTrump told those officials that firing Comey \u2013 who he allegedly called a \u201cnut job\u201d \u2013 took \u201cgreat pressure\u201d off of him, The New York Times later reported. (What To Know About Trump and Russian Investigation.)\nPresident Donald John Trump has shown that he is overconfident in his ability to win people over, and this narcissism did him no favors with James Brien Comey. While it is true that a president has the full authority to fire the Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, which is part of the Executive Branch of the government of the United States of America, at any time for any reason even if that president is under investigation, it is also true that firing Comey when he did and his own stated concerns about the \u201cRussian investigation\u201d that contradicted the Rosenstein letter to Comey outlining the reason for the latter\u2019s dismal demonstrate Trump\u2019s belief that things would just \u201cblow over\u201d the way that past troubles have.\nUnfortunately for Trump, however, his Talmudic \u201cfixer,\u201d Roy Cohn, a sodomite, has been dead for nearly thirty-two years, and, unaided by clarity of mind that he would have if he had belief in, access to and cooperation with Sanctifying Grace, one steeped in naturalism and the egotism that flows from it all too easily will never be able to realize that he must let Christ the King fix his soul by converting to the true Faith before accepting injustices committed against him by others as just chastisements for his own many sins. It is only then that he would be able to pursue justice in an ordered manner.\nIt is this same overconfidence that the president has in his abilities to shape a \u201cnarrative\u201d that prompted him to authorize a false statement seven months ago to explain why one of his sons, Donald Trump, Jr., met with a Russian woman, Natalia V. Veselnitskaya, who was, it appears, working with the Clinton-connected GPS Fusion firm that authorized the notorious Christopher Steele dossier. Veselnitskaya baited Trump, Jr., with \u201cdirt\u201d about Hillary Clinton, and the poor young man was dumb enough to meet the woman and his father was dumber to authorize a cover story that might be used against him by Deep State\u2019s Robert Mueller (see Trump Story Was Not True).\nAfter all, not fearful in the slightest of his own Particular Judgment\u2014a phrase he has probably never heard in his entire seventy-one and one-half years of life, the vainglorious, thin-skinned egomaniac in the White House has lived a life of moral reprobation that has included his serial acts of adultery during his \u201cthree\u201d marriages and, to quote a phrase used by the late attorney Edward Bennett Williams about one his clients\u2019 penchant for lying pathologically, a tendency to make statements \u201cat variance with objective truth.\u201d (The name of Mr. Williams\u2019s client? Well, he was a fellow owner of a professional sports team, a chap named George S. Steinbrenner III. Ever hear of him? He\u2019s dead for nearly eight years now.) Trump\u2019s lifelong recourse to lying and/or exaggerating the truth of a situation may yet wind up enabling the deep state coup against him to be successful. He, like the fictional bus driver for the Gotham Bus Company, Ralph Kramden, has a BIIIIIIIG MOUTH!!!!!!!!\nTo be clear, there is an ongoing deep state coup against the current president of the United States of America. This coup has been orchestrated with the mentality of the Stasi (the secret police that spied upon and repressed opponents of the East German Communist government from 1945 to 1989) by past and current officials of the government of the United States of America. This having been noted, however, one of the reasons that the coup may be successful is that the man against whom it is being waged is himself an amoral naturalist who believes that the ends justifies the means.\nAfter all, a man whose Talmudic personal attorney, Michael Cohen, admitted to having \u201cfacilitated\u201d a payment of $130,000 to an alleged \u201cactress\u201d to keep her quiet during the course of the presidential campaign in October of 2016 is one day going to find that there is a moral reckoning in this life, as well as to say nothing of the next, even if that reckoning comes in the form of injustices against him in the objective order of things by a deep state operative. Robert Mueller, who is intent on getting a presidential scalp. I mean, Mueller has the full cooperation of former National Security Adviser Michael Flynn and Trump\u2019s deputy campaign manager, Rick Gates, and such cooperation would not have been sought unless they had something \u201coffer\u201d Deep State Mueller in exchange for a \u201cgood deal.\u201d As Judge Andrew Napolitano noted two months ago now, reduction of charges pelas don't come free. What are they telling Mueller and his staff of partisan Democratic prosecutors?\nTo be sure, the United States Department of Justice contended on Friday, February 16, 2018, the Friday after Ash Wednesday, that thirteen Russian nationals did conspire to disseminate disinformation against Hillary Diane Rodham Clinton and United States Senator Rafael Edward Cruz (R-Texas) to favor United States Senator Bernard Sanders (Stalinst-Vermont) and Donald John Trump. The accusations were contained in an indictment obtained by \u201cspecial counsel\u201d Robert Mueller but do not include any allegation against American nationals and state that Russian operatives organized \u201cpro\u201d and \u201canti\u201d Trump rallies in the Borough of Manhattan, City of New York, New York, on November 12, 2016. Agitation of this kind has only one source, the adversary, who uses whoever he can to foment it in the world.\nThe thirteen indicted Russian nationals reside in St. Petersburg, Russia, and there is little chance that they will be extradited to the United States of America, which means nothing to deep state Mueller, who wins the \u201cnews cycle\u201d for the Sunday \u201ctalk\u201d programs that have become \u201cservices\u201d at which naturalists their homage to the secular high priests of alleged journalism. (See httIndictment Reveals Russians Also Organized Anti-Trump Rallies after the 2016 Election for details of the indictments announced two days ago.)\nIt is, of course, not \u201cnews\u201d that the Russians tried to interfere in an American election as they have been wreaking havoc in American society ever since the Russian Revolution and the subsequent infiltration of colleges, universities, law schools, labor unions, Hollywood and Broadway, \u201cmusic\u201d and so-called \u201csocial justice\u201d and \u201cpeace\u201d movements. Much, although certainly not all, of the social unrest that started in the 1960s was generated by Soviet agents, including those who had infiltrated Holy Mother Church in the decades before the \u201cSecond\u201d Vatican Council and then at that robber baron council itself. The Soviets/Russians have been in the business of playing the two false opposites of naturalism against themselves in the United States of America and other \u201cfree countries\u201d for a century. It is not for nothing that Our Lady told Jacinta and Francisco Marto and Lucia dos Santos to pray for the Rosary for poor sinners for the conversion of Russia even before the Bolshevik Revolution that would take place on November 7, 2017, just twenty-six days after the Miracle of the Sun in the Cova da Iria near Fatima, Portugal.\nA secular commentator put the he matter of the Mueller indictments this way:\nThe criminal indictment of 13 Russians for allegedly trying to influence \u201cU.S. political and electoral processes\u201d provides no evidence of any collusion between these Russians \u2013 or any other Russian officials \u2013 and the Trump campaign in the 2016 presidential race.\nWhile the description of alleged Russian activities is very troubling, it is important to note that the indictment makes no mention of any hacking or other activity that changed ballots, vote counts, or actually interfered with the election.\nn essence, the indictment is for trying to run the typical type of public misinformation campaign that the Soviet KGB was infamous for throughout the Cold War.\nAccording to the indictment, the Russians themselves called what they were doing \u201cinformation warfare against the United States\u201d through social media platforms and other internet-based media. That included YouTube, Facebook, Instagram and Twitter.\nThe indictment says the Russians \u201cknowingly and intentionally conspired to defraud\u201d the U.S. and describes how these Russians allegedly conspired to hide their activities to prevent any disclosure of who they were and what they were doing.\nInstead, \u201cposing as U.S. persons and creating false U.S. personas, (the Russians) operated social media pages and groups designed to attract U.S. audiences,\u201d the indictment alleges.\nAccording to the indictment, the social media posts of the Russians addressed \u201cdivisive U.S. political and social issues, falsely claimed to be controlled by U.S. activists when, in fact, they were controlled\u201d by the Russians. They even used \u201cthe stolen identities of real U.S. persons to post on social media\u201d accounts, the indictment charged.\nThe 13 Russians all allegedly worked for the Internet Research Agency, a Russian-controlled company headquartered in St. Petersburg, Russia. It allegedly secretly received funding from two other Russian front companies.\nAccording to the indictment, the Russians traveled to the U.S. \u201cunder false pretenses for the purpose of collecting intelligence\u201d and also \u201cprocured and used computer infrastructure, based partly in the United States, to hide the Russian origin of their activities and to avoid detection by U.S. regulators and law enforcement.\u201d\nUsing these fraudulent social media fronts, the Russians \u201cposted derogatory information about a number of candidates,\u201d the indictment said. Their operations allegedly included denigrating candidates such as Hillary Clinton, Ted Cruz and Marco Rubio, while supporting Bernie Sanders, Jill Stein, and Donald Trump.\nAccording to the indictment, all of this was done by the accused without revealing their Russian identities. Most importantly, and no doubt to the disappointment of liberals, some of the defendants posing as Americans only communicated \u201cwith unwitting members, volunteers, and supporters of the Trump campaign involved in local community outreach, as well as grassroots groups that supported then-candidate Trump\u201d (emphasis added), according to the indictment.\nIn other words, according to the indictment, to the extent these Russians had any contact with members of the Trump campaign, those individuals had no idea that these defendants were anything other than Americans who wanted to help the campaign. The Russians took elaborate steps to disguise their identity and their true motives.\nThese Russians didn\u2019t just target the United States. They also went after \u201cdomestic audiences within the Russian Federation\u201d as well other \u201cforeign audiences in various countries,\u201d the indictment says.\nWhat were these secret Russians posting about? The indictment says they were instructed to \u201cwrite about topics germane to the United States\u201d such as foreign policy and economic issues. They were directed to create \u201cpolitical intensity through supporting racial groups, users dissatisfied with (the) social and economic situation and oppositional social movements.\u201d\nThe Russians allegedly created \u201cthematic group pages on social media sites\u201d on everything from immigration to the Black Lives Matters movement. And they allegedly bought internet ads to support these pages.\nThe Russians apparently really wanted to create dissension. After the election, using their false U.S. identities, they allegedly organized and coordinated \u201cpolitical rallies in support of then president-elect Trump, while simultaneously using other false U.S. personas to organize and coordinate U.S. political rallies protesting the results of the 2016 U.S. presidential election,\u201d according to the indictment.\nTwo of those rallies in New York on Nov. 12, 2016, were secretly organized by the Russians, one on the theme of \u201cshow your support for President-Elect Donald Trump,\u201d while the second rally was on the theme of \u201cTrump is NOT my President,\u201d the indictment alleges.\nThese alleged Russian activities, if they occurred, violated numerous federal laws. Foreigners are banned from participating in political campaigns, including independently paying for political ads that support or oppose a candidate. According to the indictment, the Russians did that, too, when they bought political ads starting in April 2016 on \u201csocial media and other online sites expressly advocating for the election of then-candidate Trump or expressly opposing Clinton.\u201d\nThese ads were allegedly paid for through PayPal, Russian bank accounts and credit cards \u201coften registered in the names of fictitious U.S. personas.\u201d\nThese are, obviously, serious allegations. If true, these Russians broke numerous federal laws. But there is no evidence or allegation at this point that the Trump campaign \u2013 or any other presidential campaign \u2013 was aware of, or participated in, any nefarious activities designed to create social and political conflict in the U.S. (/Mueller Indictment Does not Show Truump Collusion with Russia.)\nCommitted to the spread of error and disinformation, the Soviets/Russians have long sought to interfere with elections in the supposedly \u201cfree\u201d countries of the West whose deep state apparatchiks have so much \u201crespect\u201d for constitutional due process. It was during the Cold War that certain members of the organized crime family of the naturalist \u201cleft,\u201d including then President James Earl Carter, Jr., the late United States Senator Edward Moore Kennedy (D-Massachusetts) and the late Speaker of the United States House of Representatives, Thomas P. O\u2019Neil (D-Massachusetts), implored Soviet officials to them prevent former California Governor Ronald Wilson Reagan from being elected president on Tuesday, November 4, 1980, and then to thwart his re-election on Tuesday, November 6, 1984.\nMichael Reagan, the adopted son of the late President Ronald Wilson Reagan and his true wife, Jane Wyman, who converted to Catholicism later in life at the behest of fellow actress Loretta Young, explained the efforts of Democrats to convince Soviet officials to collude with them to keep his father out of the White House in 1980\u2014and then to get him out four years later after the Chappaquidick Kid tried to enlist the Soviets to help make him, Kennedy, the 1980 Democratic Party presidential nominee:\nDid the Russians hack the 2016 election? The CIA, President Obama, and the media think so.\nWhat did we learn from the hacked emails? Well, we learned that Hillary Clinton maintained \"both a public and a private position\" \u2014 one for the voters, one for Goldman Sachs. We learned that the DNC conspired against Bernie Sanders in the Democratic primary. We learned about the corrupt inner workings of the Clinton Foundation. And on and on.\nIn short, we learned the truth.\nSure, it\u2019s offensive that a foreign power would try to manipulate an American election. But it\u2019s not all that different from what President Obama did in 2015, sending $350,000 (U.S. taxpayer dollars!) to a group called OneVoice, supposedly to further peace efforts in Israel. The money was actually spent on a failed attempt to unseat Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.\nPresident Obama and OneVoice tried to smear Netanyahu with lies. By contrast, the hacked emails, though stolen, told the truth. Clearly, Democrats are not opposed to manipulating elections. They are only opposed to losing elections.\nWhen my father, Ronald Reagan, was president, Democrat politicians secretly connived with the Soviets in failed attempts to manipulate elections and defeat Ronald Reagan. Former intelligence officer Herbert Romerstein dug through the Soviet archives after the fall of the USSR and uncovered secret documents written by KGB agent Victor Chebrikov. The documents revealed that Senator Edward \"Ted\" Kennedy had sent a friend, former Senator John Tunney of California, to contact the KGB. Tunney\u2019s mission: undermine then-President Jimmy Carter.\nFast-forward to 2016. The Democrats are desperate to blame their election loss on Russian interference. President Obama has ordered a complete investigation, and says he wants a report on his desk before he leaves office. Well, Mr. President, I wanted you to have all the information, including how the Democrats tried to manipulate U.S. elections in 1980 and 1984 \u2014 with the help of the Russians.\nKarma really sucks, doesn\u2019t it?\nEspecially if you\u2019re a Democrat. (How Democrats Try to Use Russia to Defeat My Father.)\nFunny, neither United States Senator Mark Warner (D-Virginia) nor United States Representative Adam Schiff (D-California) have mentioned anything about this collusion. Well, to quote the late Arthur Gordon Linkletter, people are funny. Warner and Schiff are regular comedians. Their \u201ccomedy\u201d is such, however, that they will never mention the very serious efforts of Democrats to get the Soviet Union to work with them against President Reagan nor make any reference to an article that appeared in Forbes magazine in 2009 shortly after the pro-abortion, pro-perversity Edward Moore Kennedy\u2019s death on Tuesday, August 25, 2009, the Feast of Saint Louis IX, King of France:\nPicking his way through the Soviet archives that Boris Yeltsin had just thrown open, in 1991 Tim Sebastian, a reporter for the London Times, came across an arresting memorandum. Composed in 1983 by Victor Chebrikov, the top man at the KGB, the memorandum was addressed to Yuri Andropov, the top man in the entire USSR. The subject: Sen. Edward Kennedy.\n\"On 9-10 May of this year,\" the May 14 memorandum explained, \"Sen. Edward Kennedy's close friend and trusted confidant [John] Tunney was in Moscow.\" (Tunney was Kennedy's law school roommate and a former Democratic senator from California.) \"The senator charged Tunney to convey the following message, through confidential contacts, to the General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, Y. Andropov.\"\nKennedy's message was simple. He proposed an unabashed quid pro quo. Kennedy would lend Andropov a hand in dealing with President Reagan. In return, the Soviet leader would lend the Democratic Party a hand in challenging Reagan in the 1984 presidential election. \"The only real potential threats to Reagan are problems of war and peace and Soviet-American relations,\" the memorandum stated. \"These issues, according to the senator, will without a doubt become the most important of the election campaign.\"\nFirst he offered to visit Moscow. \"The main purpose of the meeting, according to the senator, would be to arm Soviet officials with explanations regarding problems of nuclear disarmament so they may be better prepared and more convincing during appearances in the USA.\" Kennedy would help the Soviets deal with Reagan by telling them how to brush up their propaganda.\nThen he offered to make it possible for Andropov to sit down for a few interviews on American television. \"A direct appeal ... to the American people will, without a doubt, attract a great deal of attention and interest in the country. ... If the proposal is recognized as worthy, then Kennedy and his friends will bring about suitable steps to have representatives of the largest television companies in the USA contact Y.V. Andropov for an invitation to Moscow for the interviews. ... The senator underlined the importance that this initiative should be seen as coming from the American side.\"\nKennedy would make certain the networks gave Andropov air time--and that they rigged the arrangement to look like honest journalism.\nKennedy's motives? \"Like other rational people,\" the memorandum explained, \"[Kennedy] is very troubled by the current state of Soviet-American relations.\" But that high-minded concern represented only one of Kennedy's motives.\n\"Tunney remarked that the senator wants to run for president in 1988,\" the memorandum continued. \"Kennedy does not discount that during the 1984 campaign, the Democratic Party may officially turn to him to lead the fight against the Republicans and elect their candidate president.\"\nKennedy proved eager to deal with Andropov--the leader of the Soviet Union, a former director of the KGB and a principal mover in both the crushing of the 1956 Hungarian Revolution and the suppression of the 1968 Prague Spring--at least in part to advance his own political prospects.\nIn 1992, Tim Sebastian published a story about the memorandum in the London Times. Here in the U.S., Sebastian's story received no attention. In his 2006 book, The Crusader: Ronald Reagan and the Fall of Communism, historian Paul Kengor reprinted the memorandum in full. \"The media,\" Kengor says, \"ignored the revelation.\"\n\"The document,\" Kengor continues, \"has stood the test of time. I scrutinized it more carefully than anything I've ever dealt with as a scholar. I showed the document to numerous authorities who deal with Soviet archival material. No one has debunked the memorandum or shown it to be a forgery. Kennedy's office did not deny it.\"\nWhy bring all this up now? No evidence exists that Andropov ever acted on the memorandum--within eight months, the Soviet leader would be dead--and now that Kennedy himself has died even many of the former senator's opponents find themselves grieving. Yet precisely because Kennedy represented such a commanding figure--perhaps the most compelling liberal of our day--we need to consider his record in full.\nDoing so, it turns out, requires pondering a document in the archives of the politburo.\nWhen President Reagan chose to confront the Soviet Union, calling it the evil empire that it was, Sen. Edward Kennedy chose to offer aid and comfort to General Secretary Andropov. On the Cold War, the greatest issue of his lifetime, Kennedy got it wrong. (Ted Kennedy Sought to Convince Soviets to Work Against Ronald Reagan.)\nI suppose there is \u201ccollusion\u201d and then there is collusion. Hypocrisy rules the day in our artificial world of Judeo-Masonic naturalism.\nThe sanctimonious Democrats and the outraged Republicans do not want to understand is that the Middle Ages of Christendom was rife with intrigue as aspirants to thrones in various kingdoms sought to enlist the assistance of foreign kings and/or potentates. Many of the nefariously-minded among these plotters secured funding for their schemes from Talmudists to conjure up false evidence against rightful monarchs who governed in a just manner according to the mind of Christ the King as He has discharged It exclusively in His Catholic Church, and it is just the case today that America\u2019s own false opposites are funded to the hilt by different factions of the synagogue.\nOnce Again, Catholicism, Nothing Else\nAll of this having been noted, however, most Americans just go about their business without being bothered too much about the myriad details of the ongoing coup. Sure, some polls indicate that a majority of Americans do believe that Barack Hussein Obama/Barry Soetoro, Madame Defarge and the Federal Bureau of Investigation conducted illegal espionage on candidate Donald John Trump and have worked against him since his inauguration. In the long term, however, it is important to remember that most Americans do not give a moment\u2019s thought to the daily slaughter of the innocent preborn by chemical or surgical means, to say nothing of the dispatching of innocent human beings in hospices and in hospitals by means of \u201cpalliative care.\u201d\nAs insidious as the plot against a presidential candidate to make it appear that he was a veritable Manchurian Candidate and the subsequent coup to oust a sitting president based on a collection of falsehoods is, the United States of America will forever be needlessly divided by the errors of its false, naturalistic, religiously indifferentist and Pelagian founding principles. It is impossible to produce a well-ordered society when men blaspheme God openly and use liberty as a cloak for malice. This country is so deep in the abyss of religious indifferentism and moral relativism that it is customary for grandparents to think nothing of their grandchildren committing unrepentant sins of fornication and even of sodomy itself.\nDonald John Trump cannot make a country \u201cgreat again\u201d that was never truly great in the first place as its people have never recognized Our Blessed Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ as the King of all nations or have honored His Most Blessed Mother as Our Immaculate Queen. National greatness can never be achieved when men sin wantonly and unrepentantly as order within a nation depends upon order within souls, and order within souls is the fruit of men abiding habitually in a state of Sanctifying Grace.\nNaturalism advances evil either radically or incrementally. In the end, however, every kind of naturalism produces evil in its wake, and evil brings down upon men and their nations a variety of just chastisements sent by God Himself to call them to correct lest their immortal souls perish for all eternity.\nThe principal purpose of those who govern is to pursue the common temporal good in accord with the binding precepts of the Divine Positive Law and the Natural Law to advance man\u2019s Last End, the possession of the Beatific Vision of God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Ghost for all eternity in Heaven, something that Pope Saint Pius X summarized so very clearly in Vehementer Nos, February 11, 1906:\nThat the State must be separated from the Church is a thesis absolutely false, a most pernicious error. Based, as it is, on the principle that the State must not recognize any religious cult, it is in the first place guilty of a great injustice to God; for the Creator of man is also the Founder of human societies, and preserves their existence as He preserves our own. We owe Him, therefore, not only a private cult, but a public and social worship to honor Him. Besides, this thesis is an obvious negation of the supernatural order. It limits the action of the State to the pursuit of public prosperity during this life only, which is but the proximate object of political societies; and it occupies itself in no fashion (on the plea that this is foreign to it) with their ultimate object which is man's eternal happiness after this short life shall have run its course. But as the present order of things is temporary and subordinated to the conquest of man's supreme and absolute welfare, it follows that the civil power must not only place no obstacle in the way of this conquest, but must aid us in effecting it. The same thesis also upsets the order providentially established by God in the world, which demands a harmonious agreement between the two societies. Both of them, the civil and the religious society, although each exercises in its own sphere its authority over them. It follows necessarily that there are many things belonging to them in common in which both societies must have relations with one another. Remove the agreement between Church and State, and the result will be that from these common matters will spring the seeds of disputes which will become acute on both sides; it will become more difficult to see where the truth lies, and great confusion is certain to arise. Finally, this thesis inflicts great injury on society itself, for it cannot either prosper or last long when due place is not left for religion, which is the supreme rule and the sovereign mistress in all questions touching the rights and the duties of men. Hence the Roman Pontiffs have never ceased, as circumstances required, to refute and condemn the doctrine of the separation of Church and State. (Pope Saint Pius X, Vehementer Nos, February 11, 1906.)\nThe fact that the conditions favorable to a Catholic state do not exist at this time does nothing to detract from the immutability of the Catholic teaching explicated so clearly by Pope Saint Pius X.\nIndeed, the fact that the conditions favorable to a Catholic state do not exist at this time is the result of the proliferation of a deliberate, planned attack by the adversary himself upon it by using the combined, interrelated errors of Protestantism and Judeo-Masonry to uproot the Holy Cross as the foundation of personal and social order in Europe and to make sure it was not the foundation of such order here in the United States of America.\nFather Denis Fahey made this exact point in The Mystical Body of Christ in the Modern World:\nThe civil state has an obligation to recognize the true Faith and to pursue the common temporal good in light of man's Last End: the possession of the glory of the Beatific Vision of Father, Son and Holy Ghost in Heaven for all eternity. This obligation is immutable even though the anti-Incarnational civil state of Modernity is founded in a revolution against it. That which is true does not cease being true simply because men reject it and then base their social structures upon its rejection.\nWhile it is true that Holy Mother Church accommodates herself to the actual situations in which her children live, exhorting them to make use of existing laws to their benefit and thus to the good of souls, she never ceases to proclaim the truth even when men reject it.\nAlthough the counterfeit church of conciliarism has embraced the falsehood of a \"healthy secularity,\" the Catholic Church has taught from time immemorial that those who exercise authority in a civil government have an obligation to subordinate all things that pertain to the good of souls to the Deposit of Faith that Our Blessed Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ has entrusted exclusively to the Catholic Church for Its eternal safekeeping and infallible explication. Yes, I well understand that even most Catholics, no less thorough-going naturalists or agnostics or atheists, find this to be utter madness to the point of frothing at the mouth as though they are suffering from hydrophobia.\nIt is nevertheless the case that the Catholic Church has indeed condemned the separation of Church and State has she has insisted that she has the authority from her Invisible Head and Divine Bridegroom, Our Blessed Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, to interpose herself with civil officials in grave matters pertaining to the eternal good of souls after--and only after--the exhausting of her Indirect Power of teaching and preaching and exhortation Pope Leo XIII, writing in Immortale Dei, November 1, 1885, made it abundantly clear that the civil state has an obligation to subordinate itself in all that pertains to the good of souls to the true religion:\nThis is why the details of the current deep state coup against a naturalist and hedonist who has been faithless to each of his \u201cthree wives\u201d and who has hosted \u201cpageants\u201d that have offended the Holy Virtues of Purity and Modesty, leading many to commit sins of thought and deed as a result, while interesting in and of themselves, are really very much beside the point. A country that is founded on error and promotes it and every kind of sinful activity in the name of \u201cliberty\u201d here and abroad is on very borrowed time, and no man who acts and speaks as does Donald John Trump has any knowledge of Who God is or what He has revealed to us exclusively through His true Church.\nDonald John Trump\u2019s view of \u201cGod\u201d is Judeo-Masonic, and, as Pope Leo XIII noted in Humanum Genus, April 20, 1884, it matters not that he is not any kind of member of the Masonic federation:\nYes, it is the sum of the \"pronounced opinions\" of Judeo-Masonry that matters, not any specific program or line of action, although there have been programs and lines of action (the establish of public schools and the mandating of curricula of study, legislation liberalizing divorce, attempts at imposing laws forbidding the wearing of clerical garb in public and of the operation of parochial schools, the promotion of contraception and abortion and licentious perversity in civil law and public culture) that members of the lodges have undertaken over the course of this nation's history that were meant to be detrimental to the Faith. The Judeo-Masonic spirit convinces even believing Catholics that the social encyclical letters of our true popes don't apply to the United States of America, and that simple statements of Catholic truth, including the one below from Pope Saint Pius X's Notre Charge Apostolique, August 15, 1910, have been made \"obsolete\" over the course of time:\nThe following passage from Pope Leo XIII\u2019s Humanum Genus, April 20, 1884, summarized the essence of this Judeo-Masonic ethos very succinctly:\nThis is a perfect description of the Judeo-Masonic world in which we live. No amount of the insane babbling of naturalists is ever going to \u201cfix\u201d that which is premised upon one falsehood after another. There is no getting the Humpty Dumpty Protestant and Judeo-Masonic of naturalism back together again as it is of, for and by the devil himself. The battle of the \u201cfalse opposites\u201d of the \u201cleft\u201d and the \u201cright\u201d only result in one thing: more naturalism, which means more statism and more pressure to accept evil or face the might of caesar\u2019s wrath and/or more pressure to make excuses when a member of the organized crime family of the false opposite of the naturalist \u201cright\u201d who is under attack by ruthless opponents supports programs that are evil further bankrupts a country monetarily that has always been bankrupt theologically and morally.\nThe Protestant and Judeo-Masonic ethos that is at the heart of the American founding and has precipitated many errors and the conflicts between false opposites of naturalism ever since was described as follows by William Thomas Walsh in Characters of the Inquisition:\n(1) The isolation of the human soul from God. The indifference and godlessness of our day are directly traceable to the triumph of Manicheanism under the guise of Sixteenth Century Protestantism. Many thoughtful Protestants are now beginning to see that the Revolt inflicted a ghastly wound upon Christianity without adding anything to it. Such positive Christian elements as the Reformers taught were already in Catholicism. As for the aberrations \u2013 Luther's doctrine of grace, Calvin's predestination \u2013 how many who call themselves Protestants today believe in the divinity of Christ; a Methodist will say he believes in the existence of some vague Life Force, not a personal God. With each generation the descendants of the men and women who were led from the Catholic fold by plausible reformers promising them primitive Christianity, become less and less concerned with any religion, and more the prey of Communism, Fascism or some other panacea with new false hopes of creating something permanently good on the frail structure of human nature alone. These will not even listen to the ancient wisdom of the Catholic Church; as Mr. Chesterton wrote somewhere, \u201cThey are tired of hearing what they have never heard.\u201d\n(2) Moral confusion and nihilism. There is and can be no objective and eternal standard of conduct, except that of Christ, as interpreted by His Church. All the old sins and follies that the Church began to drive into exterior darkness two thousand years ago, have come back to destroy the peace of individuals and the harmony of society. Divorce is destroying the family, murder the individual. The free love of the Beghards and the Alumbrados is corrupting the young. What is the prevalent craze for self-destruction but a manifestation of the old Manichean despair of life? And what is the fatal race-suicide known euphemistically as \u201cbirth control\u201d but the old nastiness of the Manichees, born of cowardice, sensuality, distrust of life itself and the Author of life? Usury, which the medieval schoolmen called theft, and capitalism, which in its reprehensible form they identified as one of the seven deadly sins (greed), are defended by dull college professors in the name of economic law; while the enslaved masses everywhere pay tribute to the modern Mammon.\n(3) Intellectual confusion. The Catholic Church speaks with authority in our world in defense of the human reason against a thousand sophistries having their origin in obscure feelings or prejudices. It has become the fashion in certain academic circles to speak disdainfully of logic itself, and of the law of cause and effect, as if these were relics of medieval barbarism. It was not merely a coincidence that a Manichean thought, or rather feeling has appeared extensively in our literature, and in some of the best of it, wherever the Protestant Revolt has prepared for the return of darkness and slavery. Consider the Manichean attitudes in some of Thomas Hardy's work \u2013 especially in Jude the Obscure, in The Return of the Native, and in that frightful sneer at the end of Tess; in Ibsen's Master Builder and Hedda Gabler; in Shelley's Defense of Poetry; in the Autobiography of Mark Twain; in such plays as the Piper of Josephine Preston Peabody, The Scarecrow of Percy Mackaye, and a great deal of O'Neill's work; even in that calm Victorian, Tennyson, who puts into the mouth of a Catholic King a sentiment that would have set Bernard Gui on the trail of any Albigensian:\n\u201cFor why is all around us here,\nAs if some lesser god has made the world,\nbut had not force to make it as he would,\nUntil the High God enter from beyond . . .?\u201d\nNot to press the point too far \u2013 for some liberty must be allowed the facies of poets! \u2013 this and much more that could be mentioned is clearly symptomatic of the sickness which afflicts a world which will not turn to Christ.\n(4) Totalitarianism. Is not the present evolution of government a retrogression toward heresies that the medieval Inquisitors combatted with all their might? Communism, first propagated by the Freemasons on the ruins of Protestantism, finally set up in Russia the absolute state which the Fraticelli had invoked (in so far as the state of science and communications would permit them to envisage it): it was a perversion also of their concept of primitive Christianity, without private property. The Nazi State, set up partly in imitation of Mussolini's Fascism, as a natural reaction to Communism, had also another parentage. The ideal of the omnipotent absolute state, for whose sake the individual exists, was expressed in very similar terms on behalf of Kaiserism by Bernhardi, in 1911; and Bernhadi's teacher was Treitchke, who in turn acknowledged his indebtedness to Martin Luther. (I have developed this idea further in an article published in The Sign, with quotations from Luther and others, in February, 1940.) Thus in two different directions we trace the origins of the Totalitarian State, toward which, by imitation or reaction, the governments of the whole world are tending, to breaches made by medieval heretics in the walls of the City of God, in despite of the watchdogs of the Inquisition.\nThe list could be extended. All the evils that the Inquisition sought to repress, and did in great measure repress, have returned to the modern world, grown great and ravening, to feed upon our children. What then of the evils incidental to the Inquisition itself \u2013 torture, loss of liberty and even life, occasional deceit and hypocracy? Are we better in those regards? Can anyone think of the torture cells maintained by the Reds in Spain in 1936-7 to drive their victims mad, (the cells constructed by the \u201cLoyalist\u201d Reds \u201cwere described as hollow cement blocks four feet height and containing a cement chair and bed, built in a slanting position so that it was impossible for a prisoner to sit or lie down for more than a minute at a time. Raised cement blocks were arranged in a crazy-quilt fashion on the floor to prevent prisoners from standing up. The prosecutor (in the Cik trial) charged that the Loyalists placed rings in the eyelids of prisoners to keep them open in the glare of powerful lights. Some of the witnesses testified that the prisoners were denied food and water and were flogged, sometimes while suspended head down from the ceiling or while cold water was showered upon them. Witnesses said the cells were pained with hundreds of yellow spots, broad black lines and scores of black and white cubes.\u201d \u2013 Associated Press, dispatch from Barcelona, June 13, 1939, published in the New York Sun and other newspapers, Torquemada would have shrunk from the very idea of such diabolical ingenuity.) of the unspeakable butcheries of civilians and priests by both Germans and Russians in Poland in 1939, of the unrestrained villainy of modern warfare, of all our nightmare of hypocrisy, abortion, child-suicide, unpunished murder, and what is worse even that all these monstrosities, disdain for the Deity Himself, without wondering whether we have really progressed to a point where we can look patronizingly upon the memory of a Torquemada?\nAll the worst miseries which men everywhere endure today, while they begin \u201cwithering away for fear and expectations of what shall come? \u2013 famine and pestilence and civil wars whose shadows may already be discerned on the dim walls of the futre \u2013 all these have been foretold by the Popes of modern tomes, on after another pointing out the causes that must lead to such effects, and pleading with mankind to turn away from them to the only possible remedy, held forth by Christ in the Catholic Church. Against all the progressive steps in the disintegration of the European Order, from the Manichees to the Communists and other state worshippers, The Vicars of Christ have uttered solemn and deliberate warnings, based upon ample information. Very soon after the reorganization of the Freemasonry by the Grand Lodge of England, in Spain, the situation was clearly seen at Rome; and in 1738, Pope Clement XII uttered the first formal denunciation of this particular heresy, this oriental dissolvent in modern guise. \u201cIf they were not doing evil, they would not fear the light,\u201d he said of all societies, without any exception, of the Masonic type or affiliation. He forbade Catholics to join them, favor, support, shelter, or defend them in any way, or even to receive the members into their homes. Any Catholic so doing was excommunicated by the very fact, and the ban could be removed only by the Pope himself, save in the danger of death. This, as we have seen, did not deter vain, ambitious or stupid Catholics, even among the clergy here and there, from being drawn into an organization which pretended to be social and philanthropic, and masked its real aims and nature from all its neophytes, from all except a few initiates. The Popes of the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries continued to raise their voices against the stealthy advances of this mystery of iniquity. Pius XII accused the Freemasons of being the chief causes of the revolutionary upheavals (antichristian in their direction) of Europe. Gregory XVI said they were guilty of sacrilege, infamy and blasphemy, and promoted heresy and revolution. Pius IX applied to them the words that Christ addressed to the scribes and pharisees who sought His destruction, \u201cYou are of your father the devil, and the works of your father you will do.\u201d He called them the wolves in sheep's clothing against whom Our Lord and the Apostles had warned the first Christians. In another letter he referred to them as \u201cthe Synagogue of Satan . . . whose object is to blot out the Church of Christ, were it possible from the face of the Universe.\u201d Renewing the condemnations of his predecessors, he explicitly included Freemasons in America \u201cand in whatever part of the world they may be.\u201d\nPope Leo XIII warned the world that Freemasonry was the real source and center of Communist and Atheist propaganda. \u201cIn this insane and wicked endeavor,\u201d he wrote, \u201cwe may almost see the implacable hatred and spirit of revenge with which Satan himself is inflamed against Jesus Christ.\u201d In that same magnificent encyclical he cried out to all Catholics, laymen as well as priests, to \u201ctear the mask off the face? Of the hidden menace. If not, he said, \u201cthe ruin and overthrow of all things must necessarily follow.: (Encyclical, Humanum genus, 1884.)\nThis tremendous prophecy, deliberately uttered by the Vicar of Christ, and now being fulfilled with terrible literalness as the flimsy structure built of the sands of the great apostacy of the Sixteenth Century comes crashing down about us, has of course been generally disregarded by the world, as the prophecies of Christ were disregarded. Other profound observations from Leo and his successors have met the same characteristically Christian fate; nevertheless they remain as truth.\nIt was Pius XI who pointed out the close spiritual affinity of Liberalism and Socialism, even when they waged a sham battle across the arena of the world. \u201cLet us bear in mind,\u201d he wrote in Quadragesimo Anno, \u201cthat the parent of this cultural Socialism was Liberalism, and that its offspring will be Bolshevism.\u201d He had no more regard for one of these antichristian aberrations than for the other. Liberalism, he said, had shown as early as 1891 \u201cits utter impotence to find a right solution of the social question,\u201d while Socialism \u201cwould have exposed human society to still graver dangers by offering a remedy much more disastrous than the evil it designed to cure.\u201d (Quadragesimo Anno, 1931)\nThis great Pope remarked that since the time of Leo XIII the \u201ccapitalistic economic regime\u201d had \u201cpenetrated everywhere\u201d; and that:\n\u201cit is patent that in our days not alone is wealth accumulated, but immense power and despotic economic domination are concentrated in the hands of a few, and that those few are frequently not the owners, but only the trustees and directors of invested funds, who administer them at their good pleasure. This power becomes particularly irresistible when exercises by those who, because they hold and control money, are able also to govern credit and determine its allotment, for that reason supplying, so to speak, the lifeblood to the entire economic body, and grasping, as it were, in their hands the very soul of production, so that no one dare breathe against their will. This accumulation of power, the characteristic note of the modern economic order, is a natural result of limitless free competition which permits the survival of those only who are the strongest, which often means those who fight most relentlessly, who pay least heed to the dictates of conscience. This concentration of power has led to a threefold struggle for domination. First, there is the struggle for dictatorship in the economic sphere itself; then, the fierce battle to acquire control of the state, so that its resources and authority may be abused in the economic struggles. Finally, the clash between states themselves. . . The state, which should be the supreme arbiter, ruling in kingly fashion far above all party contention, intent only upon justice and the common good, has become instead a slave, bound over to the service of human passion and greed.\u201d (Quadragesimo Anno, 1931)\nElsewhere, of course, Pius condemned the totalitarian theory which, reacting against the evil here described, rushed to the opposite extreme, and erroneously hald that the individual existed for the benefit of the state. None of these panaceas could reach the center of the disorder; they were all, inf fact, so many forms of Socialism, one fighting the other, but all tending toward a common end. With characteristic acuteness, Pius noticed that since the time of Leo XIII Socialism had broken up into various forms, of which he condemned even the most moderate.\n\u201cThe question arises, or is unwarrantably proposed in certain quarters, whether the principles of Christian truth also could not be somewhat moderated and attenuated, so as to meet Socialism, as it were, halfway upon a common ground. Some are engaged by the empty hope of gaining Socialists in this way to our cause. But such hope are vain. Those who wish to be apostles among the Socialists should preach the Christian truth whole and entire, openly and sincerely, without any connivance with error. If they wish in truth to be heralds of the Gospel, let them convince Socialists that their demands, in so far as they are just, are defended much more cogently by the principles of Christian faith, and are promoted much more efficaciously by the power of Christian charity . . . Whether Socialism be considered as a doctrine or as an historical fact, or as a movement, if it really remain socialism, it cannot be brought into harmony with the dogmas of the Catholic Church, even after it has yielded to truth and justice in the points. We have mentioned; the reason being that it conceives human society in a way utterly alien to Christian truth.\n\u201cAccording to Christian doctrine, Man, endowed with a social nature, is place here on earth in order that he may spend his life in society, and under authority ordained by God, that he may develop and evolve to the full all his faculties to the praise and glory of his Creator; and that, by fulfilling faithfully the duties of his station, he may attain to temporal and eternal happiness. Socialism, on the contrary, entirely ignorant of or unconcerned about his sublime end both of individuals and of society, affirms that living in community was instituted merely for the sake of advantages which it brings to mankind. Goods are produced more efficiently by a suitable distribution of labor than by the scattered efforts of individuals. Hence the Socialist argue that economic production, of which they see only the material side, must necessarily be carried on collectively, and that because of this necessity men must surrender and submit themselves wholly to society with a view to the production of wealth. Indeed, the possession of the greatest possible amount of temporal goods is esteemed so highly, that man's higher goods, not excepting liberty must, they claim, be subordinated and even sacrificed to the exigencies of efficient production. They affirm that the loss of human dignity, which result from these socialized methods of production, will be easily compensated for by the abundance of good produced in common and accring to the individual who can turn them at his will to the comforts and culture of life. Society, therefore, as the Socialist conceives it, is, on the one hand, impossible and unthinkable without the use of compulsion of the most excessive kind: on the other it fosters a false liberty, since in such a scheme no place if found for true social authority, which is not based on temporal and material advantages, but descends from God alone, the Creator and Last End of all things. If, like all errors, Socialism, contains a certain element of truth (and this founded upon a doctrine of human society peculiarly its own, which is opposed to true Christianity . . . No one can be at the same time a sincere Catholic and a true Socialist.\" (Quadragesimo Anno, 1931)\nSince Pius XI wrote those words in 1931, the nations of the world generally have taken long steps toward various forms of Socialism which, however different they appeared on first view, are more and more revealing themselves as essentially the same. Communism, the most radical and patently godless form was not too remote ideologically from its pretended rival Nazi-Socialism, to lie down beside it in the same foul nest, when it suited both to beget a second great war. Other nations, loving freedom, have been conquered and drawn into the two Socialist orbits. Still others have imitated Socialist regimes by reaction, or by military necessity. Few have been able to maintain fully the sacredness of human personality. The tiny nations of Portugal and Ireland, both thoroughly Catholic, are glorious exceptions. Of Spain, I have high hopes; may the Catholic spirit of General Franco prevail, and not certain others, very different and very crafty, which still exist in the country and even in high places, hungry for power. England, while fighting Hitler, has kept a friendly hand mysteriously outstretched toward his partner, Stalin; and whatever the outcome of the present war, is likely to emerge from it shackled to some form of Socialism.\nHere in the United States Socialism has made more cautious but not the less evident gains. It is rather amusing, and at the same time depressing, to see that likable Socialist Mr. Norman Thomas denouncing both Mr. Roosevelt and Mr. Wilkie as champions of peace-time conscription, which he says (and I think rightly) must lead toward dictatorship, and to realize at the same time that both these gentlemen are fundamentally (that is to say spiritually) as Socialistic as he is. If we judge not by what a man says he is or even believes he is, but by the antithesis set up by Pope Pius XI as a test of spirits, this conclusion becomes inescapable. Mr. Roosevelt has tried to save the country by curtailing production. Mr. Wilkie proposes to do it by speeding up curtailing production, Yet both these Liberals, as they proudly call themselves, are interested primarily in production; in the material, in the things of this world. It is difficult, of course, to see how a politician could wholly free himself from such concerns, and I am not criticising either, or discussing any issues, political or economic, between them \u2013 whoever is elected will be entitled to our obedience, under the Constitution, and no doubt, will do his best according to his lights. I would only suggest that niether has the lights necessary to solve the social problem. (It is true that both have spoken reverently in public of Divine Providence; but so, for that matter has Hitler; so have the politicians of every country, except godless Russian..) Not too much must be expected from these well-meaning statesmen. They are children of a Liberalism evolving rapidly into Socialism. Both are high in the ranks of a secret society proscribed and abhorred by the Catholic Church, and denounced by Pope Leo XIII as the true source of Socialism and Communism, and the general corruption of European and world society. They are servants of the same invisible masters, to whose obedience they are bound by oaths \u2013 masters who may not even be in America, but in Europe or Asia; masters of whose exact identity they may themselves be ignorant. When they speak of \u201cDemocracy,\u201d one must remember this background, and the fact that the elastic word has been used by many Liberals to include even the tyranny of Soviet Russia. Can Democracy be anything but a farce among men, when some of them, including the most influential, belong to a secret society whose real aims and principles have been repeatedly disclosed as political and anti-Christian? The French Catholics, in the sad clarifying light of catastrophe, have recently found the answer to this question. As Our Holy Father Pope Pius XII said in welcoming the French Ambassador after the tragedy of last summer, \u201cLike lightening which flashes through heavy clouds, the devastating lights of war . . . have torn from the eyes of all careful and sincere observers that veil of prejudices which for half a century the voice of the Church, and especially the reiterated warnings of the last Popes, Our venerated predecessors, did not succeed in penetrating . . . May the lessons of this bitter period in acts which permit us to hope in the future for a revival of Christian spirit, particularly in the education of youth . . .\u201d and \u201cthe creation of a new Christian order . . . When will this desired hour arrive? God preserves the secret of it; but We beseech Him to hasten its advent.\u201d\nAll this is part of a universal conflict between the church of Christ and the Prince of This World. All other conflicts are either subsidiary to this or camouflages for it. Just now there seems to be a deadly strife between international capitalism, intrenched in the United States and gradually leading this country toward a State Socialism or (what amounts to the same thing) toward a State Capitalism, and on the other side, the seemingly more godless and godless forms of Socialism beyond the seas. Yet if Nazi-Socialism and Bolshevism, after so violent a sham battle, could so speedily come to terms, for a purpose convenient to both, what is to prevent this American Socialism, now in the making and already accepted and propagated by the dominant educational forces of this county, from arriving at mutually agreeable arrangements with both the Soviet and the Nazi forms of Socialism, whenever it may suit the real leaders on both sides to do so? Within a generation we have seen our Liberal politicians denounce the Soviet, cultivate friendly relations with it, and denounce it again \u2013 this time more coyly. As the world grows smaller in time, may not all the forms of Socialism be gathered together by skilful hands into a World Sate, such as many Masonic writers have advocated, and the League of Nations sought to achieve? It is not only conceivable, but probable; for all forms of Socialism (even if some still call themselves Democracies) will be animated by a single obscure but powerful principle: the worship of the material, which is and always must be the negation of Christianity. Here, then, by a masterly anithesis, Pius XI has cast a strong light upon the shapes of things to come. It is all the more revealing when it shows us only the recurrence upon a larger stage of a deathless drama that happened long ago. Christ still lives in His Mystical Body, the Church, as truly as in the human body he took from Our Lady; and when the time comes for Him to be crucified again in His Church, depend upon it, Pilate and Herod that day will find a way to patch up their differences, some Caiaphas will cry, \u201cCrucify Him! We have no king but Caesar!\u201d and there will always be found some Judas to give the kiss of death.\nThat last paragraph summarized the theme that I have tried to hammer home in hundreds upon hundreds of lengthy commentaries on this site\u2014and in countless hours of lectures around the country and online. William Thomas Walsh\u2019s prophetic vision of what would happen to Catholicism in the United States of America has been accomplished by conciliar revolutionaries, many of whose American predecessors before the \u201cSecond\u201d Vatican Council sought to pave the way for the triumph of Americanist \u201cideals.\u201d\nYes, the United States of America has become a slave state controlled by the same set of forces that the Inquisition sought to eliminate from within Holy Mother Church. This is because the United States of America was founded on false principles, including those of \u201creligious liberty\u201d and \u201creligious indifferentism\u201d that contributed to the rise of counterfeit church of conciliarism, whose very false spirit was being pioneered by Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States of America Frank Murphy and the others, including that nameless priest who taught at the Catholic University of America, described by Mr. Walsh above.\nDon\u2019t kid yourselves. Donald John Trump and his gaggle of Talmudic relatives, friends and advisers is not going to retard the prevailing evils of the day. No man who believes that Jerusalem is the \u201ceternal capital of Israel\u201d or who agrees to reckless spending policies that will fund a wasteful military intent on its pursuit of endless war, which is one of the goals of Trotskyism, after all.\nAlthough he does not know that this is so, President Donald John Trump is a Pelagian, who believes that Americans can accomplish anything they desire to achieve, something that he said in approximate words in his first State of the Union address to a special joint meeting of the two houses of the Congress of the United States of America on Tuesday, January 30, 2018:\nAs long as we have confidence in our values, faith in our citizens, and trust in our God, we will not fail. (https://www.President Donald John Trump, State of the Union Address, January 18, 2018.)\n\u201cOur God.\u201d\nThe Most Blessed Trinity?\nNo, any \u201cgod\u201d one wants to believe in, that \u201cgod.\u201d\n\"Music\"?\nWhat kind of \"music\"?\nTo believe that Americans can achieve whatever they desire as long as they are \u201cproud of who we are, and what were our fighting for\u201d is the essence of the Pelagian belief in human self-redemption, that is, that men can stir up graces within themselves to be holy and to do whatever it is they need to do.\nFather Frederick Faber explained the Pelagian influence of the modern world in the following passage from The Precious Blood:\nAll devotions have their characteristics; all of them have their own theological meanings. We must say something, therefore, upon the characteristics of the devotion to the Precious Blood. In reality the whole Treatise has more or less illustrated this matter. But something still remains to be said, and something will bear to be repeated. We will take the last first. Devotion to the Precious Blood is the devotional expression of the prominent and characteristic teaching of St. Paul. St. Paul is the apostle of redeeming grace. A devout study of his epistles would be our deliverance from most of the errors of the day. He is truly the apostle of all ages. To each age doubtless he seems to have a special mission. Certainly his mission to our is very special. The very air we breathe is Pelagian. Our heresies are only novel shapes of an old Pelagianism. The spirit of the world is eminently Pelagian. Hence it comes to pass that wrong theories among us are always constructed round a nuclear of Pelagianism; and Pelagianism is just the heresy which is least able to breathe in the atmosphere of St. Paul. It is the age of the natural as opposed to the supernatural, of the acquired as opposed to the infused, of the active as opposed to the passive. This is what I said in an earlier chapter, and here repeat. Now, this exclusive fondness for the natural is on the whole very captivating. It takes with the young, because it saves thought. It does not explain difficulties; but it lessens the number of difficulties to be explained. It takes with the idle; it dispenses from slowness and research. It takes with the unimaginative, because it withdraws just the very element in religion which teases them. It takes with the worldly, because it subtracts the enthusiasm from piety and the sacrifice from spirituality. It takes with the controversial, because it is a short road and a shallow ford. It forms a school of thought which, while it admits that we have an abundance of grace, intimates that we are not much better for it. It merges privileges in responsibilities, and makes the sovereignty of God odious by representing it as insidious. All this whole spirit, with all its ramifications, perishes in the sweet fires of devotion to the Precious Blood.\nThe time is also one of libertinage; and a time of libertinage is always, with a kind of practical logic, one of infidelity. Whatever brings out God's side in creation, and magnifies his incessant supernatural operation in it, is the controversy which infidelity can least withstand. Now, the devotion to the Precious Blood does this in a very remarkable way. It shows that the true significance in every thing is to be found in the scheme of redemption, apart from which it is useless to discuss the problems of creation. (Father Frederick Faber, The Precious Blood, written in 1860, republished by TAN Books and Publishers, pp. 258-259.)\nThis is why it is so important to keep focused on the root causes of our problems rather than getting lost in the \u201ctrees\u201d of particular developments, each of which is simply a tool used by the adversary to keep people agitated and thus distracted from seeing the fact that both Modernity and Modernism have been veritable \u201cHumpty Dumpties\u201d tottering on their respective walls before falling over into a gazillion pieces.\nCatholicism, although not an infallible guarantor of social order given fallen human nature, is nevertheless the necessary precondition of such order, something that our true popes have taught from time immemorial, especially as the Social Kingship of Our Lord Jesus Christ has been under attack in the past five hundred years:\nPerhaps a reminder in this regard is in order:\nWhenever men are forgetful of Original Sin and its after-effects on their own souls and thus upon the souls of all other men\u2014and seek to excuse their own Actual Sins if they have any concept of sin whatsoever, you see, they will be forever lost in the \u201ctrees\u201d of this passing, mortal vale of tears without once recognizing that they must quit their sins and reform their lives in cooperation with the graces won for them by the shedding of every single drop of Our Blessed Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ\u2019s Most Precious Blood during His Passion and Death on the wood of the Holy Cross on Good Friday and that flow into their souls through the loving hands of Our Lady, she who is the Mediatrix of All Graces, to realize a true and lasting reformation of society.\nPope Pius XI, writing to condemn German national socialism and its deification of the German state and its \u201cpureblood\u201d Aryans, explained that no kind of naturalistic scheme can achieve a just social order in this passing world where we have not a permanent dwelling:\nEvery true and lasting reform has ultimately sprung from the sanctity of men who were driven by the love of God and of men. Generous, ready to stand to attention to any call from God, yet confident in themselves because confident in their vocation, they grew to the size of beacons and reformers. On the other hand, any reformatory zeal, which instead of springing from personal purity, flashes out of passion, has produced unrest instead of light, destruction instead of construction, and more than once set up evils worse than those it was out to remedy. No doubt \"the Spirit breatheth where he will\" (John iii. 8): \"of stones He is able to raise men to prepare the way to his designs\" (Matt. iii. 9). He chooses the instruments of His will according to His own plans, not those of men. But the Founder of the Church, who breathed her into existence at Pentecost, cannot disown the foundations as He laid them. Whoever is moved by the spirit of God, spontaneously adopts both outwardly and inwardly, the true attitude toward the Church, this sacred fruit from the tree of the cross, this gift from the Spirit of God, bestowed on Pentecost day to an erratic world. (Pope Pius XI, Mit Brennender Sorge, March 17, 1937.)\nDonald John Trump does not believe this, of course, and even though there is much irrational hatred directed at him by adherents of the false opposite of the naturalist \u201cleft\u201d and that his presidency has helped to give those who care a glimpse into the workings of the \u201cdeep state,\u201d the fact remains that he is doing evil in his own naturalist right as William Thomas Walsh\u2019s description of Judaism at the same of Saint Peter the Apostle applies to him and all other naturalists of the \u201cright\u201d as well:\nFrom the later words and acts of Simon bar Jonas, it is plain that his conception of the Messiah, as he advanced toward manhood, was that of the vast majority of the Jewish people. Few could imagine the Holy One coming to suffer in atonement for the sins of the world, much less for the sins of Israel. Everyone knew that Moses had been punished for disobedience, that the Babylonian captivity had been the penalty for connivance with idolatry. Yet the old sense of sinfulness had yielded to a certain proud complacency, born in part, no doubt, of an awareness of very real virtues. The Jewish leaders forgot that they were a Chosen People not through any special excellence of their own, but through God's favor to Abraham. This sort of smugness easily takes possession of classes long established in wealth and power.\nThe doctrine of original sin in particular had been almost wholly forgotten in Israel. True, it still stood boldly forth on the first pages of the Book of Genesis. This makes it all the more astonishing that no one preached it, and hardly any believed it. Perhaps their recent sorrows had made the Jews forget the primal tragedy which was the beginning of human history. Perhaps the vision of towering wheat fields had little by little come to blot out of their minds the memory of the tree of knowledge, the locked garden, the flaming sword. A future woven out of hopeful dreams had become more real than a past as aching and tangible as the rocks of Judea.\nIt is a curious fact that this sort of idealizing is sometimes the very stuff of which materialists are made. It is because they love this world, its satisfactions and its power, that they turn away from its imperfections to an imaginary world in which they want those gratifications to be fully realize \u2013 but in the flesh, in the here and now. Only a mystery of grace could turn such mundane aspirations into a spiritual hope. 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Will we choose\u2014as Great Britain has\u2014nationalism, or will we embrace globalism?\nTett shares her political perspective on everything from how the U.K. (including the FT) got Brexit so wrong; to growing economic, social and political polarization, and the \u201celites\u201d disconnection; to living in a time of anger when voters no longer fear taking big risks; to effective communication and the power of simple, clear, positive messages; to the importance of boring, geeky details of voter registration.\nTett shares her global perspective on the meaning of Brexit for the rest of the European Union from fundamental tension at the heart of the Eurozone project; to the lack of European cohesion and social glue and political unity; to how you create a functioning economic union without a political union; including her keen analysis of the range of trade options and the state of the international finance system.\nPerhaps most interesting of all is when she branches out to implications for the U.S. and to the population generally, from income inequality, to technological/digital displacement, to income redistribution, to educational reform, to infrastructure projects.\nShe provides cautionary messages including one she described in her latest book as \u201cthe silo effect,\u201d being essentially fragmented into self-reinforcing silos:\n\u201cIf you look at who people are getting information from for decisions in their lives, whether it\u2019s where to go out for a meal or where to go to college, or where to vote, it\u2019s increasingly through the social media networks rather than authority figures. That\u2019s fueling this sense of tribalism and of polarization because one of the things about technology is it\u2019s fantastically deductive. It gives us the illusion that we\u2019re all hyper-connected and yet you know that in a world where you can customize, where you can choose where to get your information from, people are increasingly fragmenting into their own classical tribes.\u201d\nThis is an incredibly important thought-provoking piece. You\u2019ll want to make time to read her remarks in their entirety and appreciate the breadth of her perspective and the genuineness with which she reflects on the world order and human condition.\nGillian Tett, U.S. Managing Editor of the Financial Times (remarks edited for clarity only and emphasis of major points added):\nWhen I first started working for the Financial Times two decades ago, people used to refer to the FT as being the Financial Times of London. What some of you may not know is\u2014quite apart from the fact that these days we\u2019re not really a paper, two-thirds of our subscribers are digital and, in fact, 90 percent in America are digital\u2014America today is our biggest market, not London, not Europe. So in many ways we\u2019re not so much the Financial Times of London, we\u2019re the Financial Times of New York, San Francisco, Washington, Chicago, and Charlotte.\nI\u2019m going to be talking today a bit about some thoughts in mind to do with the wider trends in the political economy. I\u2019m happy to take questions on any topic at all. I\u2019d like to first start by talking a bit about what\u2019s going on in Europe these days because in the last few months the U.K., which is where I hail from, has undergone two shocks\u2014one of which you all know about, which is Brexit, I\u2019ll talk about it in a minute. The other one you may not quite have registered but it\u2019s top of most British people\u2019s minds\u2014and it\u2019s actually the most commented article of all at the moment on the FT.com website\u2014is the Olympics.\nAbout two decades ago when I was growing up, British people used to assume that they would never win anything at the Olympics. We used to come to sort of number 47th on the medal table, but this month we are celebrating the most extraordinary result, which is that the U.K. has come second in the table, Team GB beating Russia and China. On one level that\u2019s absolutely wonderful. It\u2019s done wonders to restore a sense of natural confidence at a time when a lot is quite tumultuous. On another level though, it reveals some of the big splits that are going on.\nBecause no sooner did that tally of medals come out\u2014the U.K.\u2019s Team GB has won 67 medals\u2014I noticed a series of very snide comments from elsewhere in Europe complaining that the British people had only won because they rigged up the usual convention in Europe of giving money equally to all sports, in the wonderfully Socialist way, and so they targeted the sports that they thought that Team GB people would actually win, that they were too focused and a bit too results-orientated.\nIn fact, the European Union parliament seemed to be very cross when they tweeted yesterday, \u201cCongratulations to Europe for its medals,\u201d and totally ignored the British result. In fact, it was left out that Britain, for the first time ever, got 21 medals over Germany. That, of course, then started a whole great angry set of comments in the British blogosphere saying, \u201cWell, if you want to understand why Britain is leaving the European Union, just look at what the European Union parliament has said about the Olympics.\u201d\nThat might seem incredibly trivial but it illustrates a very important point, which is that if nothing else, the Brexit vote shows that we\u2019re living through a period of extraordinary political fragmentation, political polarization, political volatility and great political uncertainty. That has implications not just for the U.K. but also for the U.S., as you\u2019re placing your own very momentous vote in a few months\u2019 time. To make the right obvious point, up until the very last minute with the Brexit vote, most of the establishment, including the Financial Times, were assuming, often quite complacently, that it would be almost inconceivable for the British public to vote to leave the European Union.\nYes, I know that in theory, the polls were showing up until the very last minute there would be a proclamation of a fairly even split and yes that\u2019s equal, with myself included, as saying intellectually that yes of course there is a chance that the British voters will vote to leave the European Union. But when it came to that night and when it came to people like me actually standing there in the news room of the Financial Times as the votes were being counted, I and my colleagues and most of my friends and most of my generation who are absolutely, for better or worse, part of that intellectual elite globalized generation, like many of you I\u2019m sure, we didn\u2019t quite believe that the British electorate would do it.\nIt\u2019s not just us. If you talk to the people who actually headed up Brexit, the people who were leading a whole movement for revolution, and ask them were they expecting to win, it\u2019s pretty clear in retrospect that up until the very last moment, most of them could not quite believe that a political earthquake of this sort would actually happen. I\u2019m sure the question most of you want to know is, \u201cWhat\u2019s going to happen next?\u201d I\u2019ll come to that later on, but I think it\u2019s worth pausing for a moment and asking how and why did the U.K. get into this position that people were voting for Brexit, and why did so many people get it wrong about what was going to happen?\nWhen I look back at what\u2019s happened in the U.K. in the last few months, I think there are really four or five key lessons, all of which have a lot of implications for the U.S. right now. The first and most obvious one is that we are living in a time where there\u2019s growing economic, social and political polarization, and then frankly the elites, if you like, are pretty disconnected from what many ordinary voters think.\nIf you look at the results of the Brexit vote and the breakdown, it\u2019s very clear that party affiliations, the traditional dividing points that people have used to try and imagine British politics\u2014right, left, Conservative, Labor\u2014actually was not a good predictor of which way people would vote. Instead, what emerged was, first of all, a very stark geographical split between north, south, rural and urban. For the most part it was the urban south, the wealthy London areas, which wanted to stay. It was the rural areas, particularly the north, who wanted to leave. There was a generational split, the older generation much more strongly in favor of leaving than the younger. There was also a strong educational split, and there was also a wealth effect.\nWhat people like myself who hail from a London background, work in a very nice job in the Financial Times and tend to mostly talk to, like ourselves, business leaders, international people, what we\u2019ve been forced to recognize is actually we are getting sucked into a bubble in a very dangerous way. It\u2019s not just because we live nice, cushy lives. It\u2019s not just because we tend to talk to people with also our professional jobs. It\u2019s also because the entire structure of the media today, if we\u2019re not careful, reinforces this sense of polarization separation, this problem of what I call in my latest book \u201cthe silo effect,\u201d being essentially fragmented into self-reinforcing silos.\nLesson one is the elites right now need to stop very quickly and think about how much they actually know about what\u2019s going on in the rest of the country. In the U.K., that\u2019s a big issue.\nLesson number two, I think, is that we live in a time when a number of people in the voting groups feel so angry with what\u2019s going on that fear of jumping into the unknown, taking big risks, has diminished dramatically. Or to put in another way, when somebody like Donald Trump stands up and says, \u201cWhat do you have to lose?\u201d a lot of people say, \u201cYou know what? Not much. Why should we keep bucking the status quo?\u201d\nThat partly reflects, I think, the level of economic anger at people who feel they have been excluded from economic growth in recent years. I think it also reflects something much more subtle, which is that in the last 10 years we have lived in a world where many of the old certainties have been ripped up. To cite Alice in Wonderland, people have had to grow up and start believing six impossible things before breakfast almost every other day.\nBy that I mean before 2008, very few people thought that banks would collapse. Very few people ever thought it would be possible to see the government in a country like the U.S. step in to rescue big banks. Very few people ever thought it would be possible to have negative interest rates, and yet as certainty of the certainties starts to crumble, the idea of challenging some of the political status quo, some of the conventions, starts to seem less remarkable.\nWhich leads me onto my third point, which is if you look at the Brexit vote, it\u2019s also clear is that one of the reasons why the Brexit camp won and the Remain side lost was because the elites were very detached. They had no idea how to communicate effectively with angry voters who were increasingly fed up with the status quo.\nIt\u2019s very striking that if you look at the messages that came out of the Remain camp in the run-up to the vote, they were either driven by scare stories along the lines of \u201cDon\u2019t be so stupid. How could you possibly vote to leave? It would be disastrous\u201d\u2014very patronizing\u2014or this very rational set of economic arguments where practically every large institution in the world that\u2019s got a multinational economist came out and said, \u201cIt would be a really bad idea for the U.K. to vote for Brexit.\u201d\nThese were laid out over and over again, and yet they didn\u2019t have much resonance with ordinary voters, who simply were uninterested in the economics and were very irritated by all the scare stories and what they thought was essentially a very patronizing campaign. Instead, the thing that really swayed the voters, and I think it\u2019s got a lot of implications for America, was the fact that the Brexit camp had a very simple, clear, positive slogan. The slogan was \u201cTake back control.\u201d Nice, short, memorable slogan with a verb. Verbs matter. Positive momentum.\nIf you talk to people after the vote about why they voted for Brexit, it wasn\u2019t just a negative, \u201cWe\u2019re fed up with the status quo.\u201d It was also a sense that they were voting for something positive. They were voting for a sense of sovereignty, for identity, for control. Again, this tapped in very much to this idea that people are fed up with statistics, fed up with being lectured. They want something positive.\nThe reason I brought this out is because I\u2019m probably the only person in the room who went to both the RNC and DNC campaign. What struck me, I must say, and I\u2019m not \u2026 We can talk about Trump versus Clinton later on, but going into the Trump convention and the Clinton convention, whatever else you might think about Donald Trump, the one thing that you could not leave that convention without knowing was what the campaign slogan was\u2014\u201cMake America Great Again\u201d\u2014emblazoned above the central stage. It was there over and over again.\nIf you went to the DNC campaign, you came back with a sense of being a wildly slick professional production\u2014very, very mesmerizing\u2014but actually most people didn\u2019t have much of an idea of what the slogan was supposed to be. Yes, \u201cStronger Together\u201d is all of it, except there\u2019s no verb there. \u201cI\u2019m With Her\u201d was the other one, but it\u2019s actually a lot of mishmash of statistics, some scary stories about Donald Trump, and a fairly, I would argue, confused message. When I look back at Brexit, the fact that the Brexit side had a very clear-cut slogan with positive momentum and the all-important verb, I think it\u2019s a very key reason why they managed to gain so much momentum.\nJust one other quick point about why Brexit won. It also came down to the fine, boring, nitty-gritty details of voter registration. Sound familiar? After the vote came out, the results came out, a lot of people said, \u201cThe problem was with the vote. The reason why Brexit won was because those wretched kids,\u201d i.e., people aged 18 to 25, and these days they do look like kids to me, \u201cthose wretched kids didn\u2019t vote.\u201d\nThat was incredibly important. If you did a poll on the population as a whole, in fact there was actually a slight advantage for Remain and not Brexit, but the older generation were very strongly more in favor of Brexit than the younger generation. We can talk about why that was if you want later on, but the older generation were very, very inspired and motivated to get out to the polls.\nUnfortunately, on the day of the polls, there was a giant thunderstorm, a lot of rain, what\u2019s new with Britain in June? That meant that you had to really want to get out to the polls to vote, and the older generation did. The younger generation didn\u2019t, and people said later at work because they\u2019re all so lazy. \u201cThose kids are all playing with their iPhones. They think that they tweet that means they\u2019re taking part politically. Don\u2019t they realize they have to get out to vote?\u201d\nThis graphic from Geopolitical Futures contains two maps of the United Kingdom. On the left side are the results of a YouGov poll that identified different parts of the U.K. as more or less Euroskeptic. On the right side are the official results of Britain\u2019s vote to leave the European Union.\nThe reality is actually the ones that were registered, for the most part, did get out to vote. The problem was that a couple of years ago there was a little-noted reform to British voting law, which meant that you couldn\u2019t be automatically registered by your parents anymore. You had to go and do it yourself. That little tiny detail that no one had noticed meant that actually come polling day, lots of kids woke up and realized that they weren\u2019t registered, and it was too late. Again, sounds familiar? One lesson for Brexit which matters for the U.S. vote is the fine, boring, geeky details about registration could really matter.\nPopulism, volatility, unpredictability, all big, big themes. It has implications going forward. The big implication was obviously for the U.K., because the fact is the vote has now happened. While there was a huge amount of emotional thinking in the immediate weeks after the Brexit vote\u2014which literally ran from the Remain camp that the whole thing could be reversed, thus far at least\u2014the establishment has scurried to stress that they\u2019re not going to reverse it. \u201cBrexit means Brexit\u201d is the new slogan of Theresa May, the British Prime Minister, and everybody is proceeding on the assumption that Brexit is going to happen.\nWhat will it mean for the U.K.? The honest answer right now is we just don\u2019t know, because one of the extraordinary things about the current situation the U.K. finds itself in is that, although this dramatic political earthquake happened two months ago, Theresa May, the new Prime Minister, has indicated that she doesn\u2019t actually plan to invoke what\u2019s called Article 50, which is really the kind of button you press to signal that you\u2019re actually going to leave. She doesn\u2019t plan to invoke that until next year.\nAlthough she initially said it would be the start of next year, she has now indicated that they won\u2019t leave until after the general elections, which will be more like the autumn. She doesn\u2019t even plan to press the button to start the process for another year, and even when she presses the button it\u2019s likely to take at least two years for the U.K. to actually complete the Brexit process, so right now you\u2019re looking at probably three years before the U.K. actually have Brexit in reality.\nAnyone who\u2019s in business, and particularly in finance, knows that if you are in the business of business, you can\u2019t sit around for three years and wonder what\u2019s going to happen next. What you\u2019re seeing right now is a series of indications for big business CEOs but they\u2019re not actually pulling out of anything in the U.K. yet, but they\u2019re not actually investing anymore because there\u2019s so much uncertainty. It\u2019s very little indication yet as to what kind of relationship the U.K. will actually forge with the European Union going forward.\nThose of you who follow the debate today will know that there\u2019s a range of options right now. They range from something like Norway, which is what they call an EEA situation where essentially if the U.K. went down the Norwegian route would have access to the European Union market for goods and services, but as a quid pro quo it would have to allow free movement of people, which at the moment seems pretty unpalatable given the immigration hostility in the U.K. We\u2019ve got that at one end of the spectrum. You\u2019ve got the Albania option of the other end of the spectrum, which means pretty much just relying on WTO and nothing else.\nYou\u2019ve also got what they call the Swiss option, which is doing lots of bespoke trade deals to try and let your financial services industry have access to the single market in certain segments, but in a bespoke way. Best yet from the British politicians that I spoke to recently, and I was with one of the key negotiators just this weekend at Aspen, is that something like the Swiss plus option is what the U.K. will end up with, which means a lot of bespoke negotiations which may allow the financial services sector access to the single market, it may not be, we just don\u2019t know.\nIf you\u2019re going to be optimistic, and this is the argument of the pro-Brexit camp, the cost of that uncertainty will be more than outweighed by the sense of liberation that small businesses and companies feel over the red tape in Brussels. People who are pro-Brexit would argue that actually now the U.K. will go forth and forge trade deals with China, with India, with Latin America, with many other countries, all the far-thrown countries in the world.\nThe honest answer is we just don\u2019t know, but we at the FT are desperately trying to work out this cost-benefit analysis, so much so that we actually now have a special page at virtual on our website called Brexit Briefing, which does nothing else than track what\u2019s actually happening as regards Brexit. What\u2019s striking about that page, which I was looking at this morning, is that right now the balance is both pros and cons, both positive and negative, but the one thing is clear that there\u2019s nothing, absolutely nothing tangible which indicates what\u2019s actually going to happen next in terms of rules and regulations. We just don\u2019t know.\nThe second big point is what obviously happens for the rest of the European Union, on the back of the Brexit vote. Since the Brexit vote has occurred, essentially there has been a circling of the wagons by the leadership in the European Union. You might have seen that over the weekend with the leaders of France, Germany and Italy meeting to very much signal they are together. Certainly the polls suggest that the sheer shock of seeing Brexit go through has made voters elsewhere in the European Union at the moment say they actually are less excited about the idea of leaving than they were before.\nWhat Brexit has exposed is that there are some really fundamental problems at the heart of the Eurozone project, in terms of trying to work out how you take this union which started life as a coal and steel union and economic union, how you take that union and turn it into some kind of effective union for the 21st century where half the union wants to have essentially a United States of Europe and a federal structure in every sense, and parts of the Union don\u2019t. There\u2019s a fundamental tension and contradiction there which has not been resolved.\nOne of the things that has emerged from the whole Brexit debate is the sense of not just democratic deficit, the idea that actually voters are cross because they\u2019ve got no idea what this faceless, big bureaucracy in Brussels are doing, and as someone who used to work in Brussels believe me, the Brussels bureaucracy, the European Union bureaucracy, is absolutely hideous. It makes Washington look totally rational. It\u2019s huge. It\u2019s sprawling. It\u2019s just dysfunctional.\nIt\u2019s not just about democratic deficit. It\u2019s also about an issue of sovereignty and identity. Probably what really brought home to me recently this question of sovereignty and identity and to my mind it encapsulates the challenge of Europe today, is the issue of bank notes. I don\u2019t know how many of you travel frequently but those of you who do, the next time you travel you should take some notes out of your wallet and have a look at them. It\u2019s very revealing. I pulled out five notes just now, and if you look at most bank notes around the world, be that the dollar, I\u2019ve got dollars with sterling and real, Brazilian real because I was down at the Olympics last month.\nIf you look at most bank notes in the world, what you\u2019ll see on one side of the notes at least is at best, some kind of national hero, some kind of national figure whose stands for what the country stands for and essentially a running point, a kind of flag if you like, something which creates a sense of national pride. That\u2019s no surprise because as an anthropologist, one of the things you learn is that the things that create social glue, political glue, are these creation myths in any society. In America you\u2019ve got various figures. You can see you\u2019ve got the Queen here. You\u2019ve got some random Brazilian I don\u2019t know, a Swiss inventor I don\u2019t know, and of course no prizes for guessing who that is.\nAnyway, the Eurozone note, I don\u2019t know if any of you have got Eurozone note in your pocket but if you do you should look at it, because on the back of the Eurozone note you have some made-up, imaginary bridges. It\u2019s true. When it came to design the Eurozone note, and I was talking to one of the people who was involved in this, one of the Central Bank governors over the weekend in Aspen, basically when the designers sat around the table, first off they realized that the different European countries couldn\u2019t agree on a single national hero who epitomized Europe.\nThe last one they had who really probably was pan-European was Charlemagne, and all the recent characters, the people who created the European Union were people like Jean Monnet, no one knows who he was or what he looked like\u2026the face of a bureaucrat. Most of the other European figures are just too darn controversial to provide a unified sense of glue. I once suggested to one of the central bankers, if you wanted to find faces that would get everybody in Europe to feel together, united and happy, they probably would put ABBA on the bank notes.\nThere are no other single figures, and the problem is there actually is no strong, single, positive, unifying glue that links Europe together. A generation ago it was about trying to avoid the war, but trying to avoid war kind of is not even on the scene today and that positive Founding Father mythology, which is so crucial to creating American national identity and community at its best, is simply not there in Europe. The question of how Europe is going to actually create that sense of cohesion and social glue and political unity, never mind a functioning democracy, is very, very much unanswered and very problematic going forward.\nLast but not least, the U.S. The lessons for the Brexit for the U.S. are pretty clear-cut and frankly I think most of you put in there much better than I do. America, today, is a country which is very polarized in every sense; politically polarized, economically polarized, socially polarized. Increasingly in some ways fragmented, increasingly marked by the same problems that they had in the U.K. vote, which is a sense of political tribalism reinforced by the media.\nVery interesting work done recently by a group called British Edelman, a public relations firm, which shows that in the last decade if you look at the question of public trust in institutions, you\u2019ve not just seen a collapse of trust over most of the major institutions, government, business, banks, and the media I must say, traditional media. You\u2019ve seen a shift in the nature of trust in that all this technology has proliferated, as we\u2019ve all come to learn about smartphones. We\u2019ve increasingly come to rely not on authority figures you trust but actually a person known as a person like me, i.e. my Facebook friends.\nIncreasing polarization, increasing fragmentation. I would argue probably increasing volatility as well. People today are very susceptible to, if you like, cyber flash mobs and the power of rational reason and argument to sway voters, I would argue, is probably ebbing. The same slogans that won the Brexit vote about \u201cTake Back Control,\u201d positive, easy-to-remember slogans with verbs with momentum, I suspect, are the kind of slogans that would have an awful lot of impact come November. Then when you add into that the fact that we\u2019re living at a time of, at best, economic \u2026 I\u2019ll call it stagnation of stability, if you like. A world of zero rates are turning up many of the ordinary assumptions upside down, and you have the makings for really quite an unpredictable, potentially volatile landscape.\nThe one thing that\u2019s clear is that there\u2019s a lot to write about as a journalist. In my career I used to joke to my colleagues that for a paper like the FT, we could either have a great political story or a great economic story or a great popular story, but probably not all three at once. I think this year in America we probably have got all three at once. It\u2019s been a great bonanza for us as a media organization but it\u2019s also been a year of great surprises.\nIf you want to be optimistic, speaking of the Brit, nobody would have ever guessed that Britain could win so many medals. Now I\u2019d like to think that\u2019s going to be a metaphor for what happens going forward for Brexit, but it will surprise the naysayers when they say, that\u2019s myself included, and turn Brexit into a positive. On the downside, it also shows that if anyone is leaving here today fully confident about how November is going to play out, think again.\nQuestion: One question is on two things, pragmatism versus vindication. Germany is being voted as one of the most powerful countries in the EU, and then you\u2019ve got France. Then another publication, Bloomberg, from the Finance Minister of Germany, if you\u2019re in, you\u2019re in. If you\u2019re out, you\u2019re out. How do you think those two themes play out, pragmatism Merkel versus vindication?\nI think what it\u2019s going to play out as in the short-term is a mess, because the European Union is divided about how it wants to respond to the U.K. On the one hand you have people like Juncker who came out initially and indicated he was in quite a vindictive mood, and then you have people like Angela Merkel who have been much more conciliatory. There are a body of people in the European Union who recognize that.\nIn a sense, it\u2019s not this case that the U.K. has traditionally needed Europe. The European Union has traditionally needed the U.K., partly because of the financial market, and probably London\u2019s role as a financial center, but also because the U.K. has been one of the main promoters of free market ideals within the European Union, and the countries that like to think they\u2019re on the free market side are dismayed by the fact that that won\u2019t be there anymore.\nMy best guess is that some form of muddle-through strategy prevails, and that I don\u2019t think the U.K. will sign up to the Norway option. I\u2019m not convinced that the rest of the European Union might now offer the Norway option, because a sticking point is the free movement of people. My best guess is probably some form of Swiss plus option is what actually prevails, which essentially allows the U.K. access to part of the single market without having to fully sign up to the free movement of people. The great marriage of the Swiss plus option is that it will be so darn complicated that almost nobody who actually votes in any party has a clue of what\u2019s actually in it, so the politicians can pretend that it is whatever they want. None of that is good for business and the business culture, but that\u2019s my best guess.\nThere is profound concern right now inside the European Union about what on earth is going to happen in terms of European Union solidarity, because some of the things that one shouldn\u2019t forget amongst all this is that there\u2019s also this separate thing called the Greek crisis happening, the everlasting Greek crisis.\nGermany these days is essentially cropping up much of the southern belt through backdoor means. That crisis has not gone away. It\u2019s entirely possible that the refugee crisis, the separate refugee crisis, will end up being the fig leaf that allows the German government to keep subsidizing Greece, as long as Greece keeps taking refugees and keeps them in Greece rather than Germany.\nThere\u2019s a fundamental problem. It really comes down to this core, core question of does the European Union want to be the United States of Europe, or not? One slight example to show this is that a couple of years ago when the Germans were having this never-ending debate about how on earth they could deal with Greece, should they cut Greece in the throat, should they let it go, should they subsidize it? What could they do? I quite agree. Germany is one of the senior European policy makers but the single best option for Europe, back then and in fact today, was to go out and create the equivalent of a whole series of German Club Med holiday resorts in Greece and to use all the money that German taxpayers were funneling into the banks, and instead use that to give vouchers to all the German pensioners which would only be spent in those German Club Med resorts in Greece.\nThere would be so much shiploads of German pensioners going on holidays, forced holidays in Greece, it made happy German pensioners because they would be getting free-ish holidays instead of putting their money into the banks, and you get happy Greek waiters and happy Greek builders. More importantly, you\u2019d get the kind of transfer, economic transfer you need to make a European Union work. It\u2019s no different from having retreats and going down to Florida en masse. Essentially you get each part of the European Union playing to it natural advantages, and so you\u2019d actually probably get a much happier outcome for all the voters concerned.\nOf course the problem is that that kind of solution can\u2019t work at the moment because of all the impediments to the single market actually operating with free movement of people and stuff, also because of political animosity. If you look at what\u2019s actually happened in terms of German tourism numbers going down to Greece in the last two or three years, they\u2019re declined, partly because there\u2019s so much anti-German feeling today in Greece. The question about how you create a functioning economic union without a political union in Europe is completely unresolved.\nQuestion: Since the very beginning you were talking about the polarization not only here in the United States but all over the place. If you were the advisor to the next president of the United States, what policies could be put into place to lessen some of that polarization?\nGosh. Can I tell you guys, by the way? I\u2019m this media journalist in here. I can tell you how to be a journalist. You don\u2019t have to vote. It would be lovely if you would. How many of you expect the next president of the United States to be Hillary Clinton? Okay. How many of you expect it to be Trump? Okay. If I would dare ask you, how many of you will be voting for Clinton in the election]? How many of you for Trump? Okay. How many of you are undecided? Okay.\nInterestingly enough, that\u2019s about the same proportion as Brexit polls in February, just to let you know. No actually, truthfully people think Brexit was wrapped up. Actually if you go back to the February-March time in the U.K., back then about 35 percent of the population said they would remain no matter what, about 20 percent said they would leave no matter what, and the rest were undecided. Pointing back to the issue of political volatility, that\u2019s roughly the same proportion who just voted for Clinton, Trump and undecided in this room. That\u2019s one point.\nOkay, let\u2019s assume the next president of the United States on this basis is Clinton. What can you do to lessen income inequality? The most obvious is to try and start to spark the growth big time. It\u2019s a fundamental question right now, which is that if we are going to a phase when robots and digitization are knocking out a large swath of jobs, and where essentially an economy can grow fast but with fewer and fewer people actually employed, what do you do about that?\nDo you embrace that word that most Americans hate to embrace, which is redistribution? Do you just cross your fingers and hope somehow it all works out in the end and there\u2019s a trickle-down effect? Do you look at education and things like that for the next generation? What do you do?\nWhen you look at what\u2019s happening with the U.S. economy today, it\u2019s very clear that to blame the job losses on China or Mexico is simply not particularly accurate these days. Yes, some businesses have moved to China and Mexico in the last few decades but these days it\u2019s really about digitization. Many of you would have seen the study that\u2019s come out from Oxford University and McKinsey that suggests that over the next two to three decades, almost half of U.S. jobs will be replaced by machines, by robots or by computers. A controversial study.\nIf you\u2019re being optimistic, you\u2019ll say actually those jobs will be replaced by something else. Just look at the agricultural revolution and the fact that nobody works near farms anymore and we\u2019re still employed, many of us. If you\u2019re being pessimistic you say actually the speed of transfer that\u2019s happening right now is faster than ever before, and the idea that somehow a new job is springing up quickly to replace the old job is simply unrealistic. Either way, you have this big issue right now of income inequality as is middle jobs all around.\nI\u2019ve been in the camp saying if you\u2019re going to take one policy measure that is serious, or two policy measures, and seriously try to address this right now, one is infrastructure spending. It\u2019s very striking that both sides of the aisle right now are officially embracing it. A big question about who pays for what kind of infrastructure, but I would say infrastructure spending is more a way to try and create more of those military jobs and bring more people into the world economy.\nSecondly, education. One of the great things that created so much social mobility and reduced income extremes in post-World War II in America was the GI Bill, and the fact that an entire generation of people were suddenly educated and given a chance to rise up. I think looking at the education structure today it\u2019s critical, not just looking at things like student learners, which clearly need to be addressed, but also if I have one policy I\u2019m passionate about in America is about creating mid-career courses that are much more flexible and getting the over-weaning educational bureaucracy, which tries to control these forces in such rigid ways, out of the way and allow companies to work much more flexibly with community colleges and just creating much more flexible nimble ways for educating people mid-career.\nQuestion: I want to change the topic to one of your recent articles in the Financial Times, that the plumbing system of the international finance system is broken. I think we can thank all of our central banks around the world for that. I want to go over a particular European part of that, and that is buying up corporate bonds via the EU and now the U.K. is buying corporate bonds. We have even gotten to the point that corporate bonds are being issued specifically to be bought by central banks. This is happening in markets that are not particularly wide and particularly deep.\nWould you comment about that? Would you comment what the future is with that, and what that all means for finance worldwide?\nI spent many years of my life writing the financial markets section of the FT. I\u2019m basically an uber-geek so I could happily stand here and talk to you about tri-party repo for hours, but I won\u2019t.\nThe key point is this, that the financial pipes in the global financial system appear, if you glance at them casually from a distance, which is what most politicians do, to be working just fine. Everything seems very calm and quite functional. It all seems a bit unchanged from how it was 10, 15 years ago. In fact, some very radical changes are taking place inside the pipes of the system.\nThe analogy I use which works very well in America was that they are throwing up. If you measure the pipes and the amount of plumbing system, they\u2019re getting blockages in all kinds of ways, partly because of regulation and the fact that banks don\u2019t want to act as market leaders anymore, understandably, but also because of QE and the flooding of money liquidity into the system by central banks.\nI\u2019m with the kind of people who think right now that QE is completely bad. I think that simply cutting interest rates further is pretty much negative territory, having central banks buy up everything that moves. In Japan it\u2019s even worse. In Japan the central bank is not just buying the bonds it can get ahold of. In fact it\u2019s soon going to run out of bonds to buy. It\u2019s buying up equities as well. Now it owns about 5 percent of the Nikkei 225 which is completely mad. I really have people that said actually these policies have reached the point of exhaustion and they\u2019re probably doing more harm than good.\nHaving said that though, I think the chances of them changing anytime soon are pretty low. At the Aspen event I was at and I\u2019ve just come back from, there were a number of Central Bank governors there, all of them were preparing for Jackson Hole. None of them are about to say, \u201cYes, we want to boost rates quickly,\u201d partly because of the potential political repercussions and partly because they know that the financial system now has become so addicted to Central Bank easing that if it were to end it\u2019s going to be very nasty, but also because they don\u2019t have a lot of faith that the central bank. The rest of the governments, the treasuries, the finance ministers are willing to take the obvious step, which is start using fiscal policy and de-regulation instead.\nI think right now the world\u2019s caught in a very nasty trap, and I\u2019m worried. I don\u2019t see that changing anytime soon. It reminds me a lot of the situation in 2006, when I was working for the FT and writing about the credit level, which on the surface looks extremely normal. If anyone is looking at the economy from a narrow macroeconomic lens that just looked at real economy indicators, it all looked fine, but when you looked through the weeds you realize just how distorted and vast it was. The problem was that the weeds were so complex and so hidden and so geeky, they are completely invisible to anybody else who is outside the system. The people who were inside the system dealing with stuff had no incentive to blow the whistle or talk more loudly about it.\nQuestion: My question is what does Brexit mean for the future of the U.K.? By that I mean Scotland and Northern Ireland. Are we going to see another independent referendum in Scotland? Also, what does it mean for the young Britons who wanted to remain and may have the opportunity to leave. Roger Cohen had an interesting piece in The New York Times the other day about his daughter, who is eligible for Polish nationality\u2014the granddaughter of a Holocaust survivor from Poland\u2014and is considering that.\nLet me take the big point about the young people in Europe today. You make a great point, which is that everyone I know in London, who I have to stress are the international cosmopolitan, well-educated elite, those are my friends. I have my social bubble. I have got a family who come from a rural area elsewhere and have very different views but my friendship group, the people younger than me, anybody who has an Irish grandparent, a French grandparent, a Polish grandparent, are looking at getting a British passport.\nThat simple, because if you are young, my generation, and I\u2019m 49, grew up assuming the European Union will always be there. It was completely inconceivable that it wouldn\u2019t be there. We also grew up assuming that we get to have the right to go and work anywhere. It\u2019s been actually baked into my whole life experience. I have friends who have worked all over the European Union, and London is full of people from all over the European Union. That was inconceivable to us that we would have left, as it would be for Charlotte to break away from the rest of the United States, and for your case they suddenly wake up tomorrow and realize they can\u2019t just go to Washington as they wanted to. It\u2019s a very drastic shock.\nWhat I must say, and again I will infuriate the Brexit camp by saying this, but on the night of the Brexit vote\u2014we now run rather a rolling news operation, and I run the Americas for the FT, so basically I\u2019m editing the paper\u2014we take it to the papers from about 3:00 until about 1:00 in the morning. We were in charge the last few hours of the Brexit vote in our New York newsroom. I had assumed that we were going to vote Remain, so much so that I had half a mind about what time I would even have to leave to go to the office. Of course when I saw the vote, they all rushed in.\nThe moment which was actually crystallizing the whole thing for us, as a British people this is seared into our memory as 9/11 is, to be honest. A shock element. As we watched the screens unfold and the results come in, we all sat there going, \u201cOh well, okay so Brexit is winning but don\u2019t worry. When it gets south it will then swing again.\u201d We all assumed it was going to swing. The moment that Birmingham came out for Brexit, you could have heard a pin drop in the FT newsroom. Everybody was so completely shocked. We couldn\u2019t believe it.\nMy first reaction and those of my other English national colleagues was, \u201cOh my God, we\u2019re applying for a Green Card immediately,\u201d because most of us feel we don\u2019t want to go back to a little England vote. That was a nerve reaction. As I said, Brexit could have well surprised all of us who have been so wrong-footed. There was reason to think that actually it could end up being a great thing for the U.K. economy over the long-term to overrun the short-term costs, but the notion, the idea of somehow being adrift from Europe is such a profound and psychological blow that Roger Cohen\u2019s daughter is entirely difficult.\nOn the issue of what it means for the U.K. well yes, Scotland voted in one referendum and narrowly said no to independence. Most Scottish, as you probably know, were strongly in favor of Remain, even that Donald Trump didn\u2019t agree to notice that when he went to Turnberry immediately after the vote and it was going to be, \u201cBut we didn\u2019t want this.\u201d However, it passed.\nScotland would like to stay a part of the European Union. The key problem though, and this comes back to the issue of the bank notes, is that although initially people like Juncko were quite keen to actually embrace Scotland if it voted to leave the U.K. and come into the European Union, since then people like the Spanish have said, \u201cOver our dead bodies do we let in a breakaway region into the European Union because guess what? We have this thing called Catalan and Basque country which are also trying to break away, and we don\u2019t want to give them any ideas.\u201d\nIt\u2019s unclear what\u2019s going to happen now. My guess is that Nicola Sturgeon is going to play for time and try to avoid having a vote for quite a long time, unless or until she gets clear assurance that she could join the European Union and I\u2019m not sure that\u2019s going to come. If Scotland does break away it can\u2019t join the European Union, and it ends up looking like Iceland.\nQuestion: I\u2019m very intrigued after the Brexit with the idea of changes in currency. The British pound has dropped significantly against the U.S. dollar and possibly Europe as well. I wonder if you could make some comments about this. Specifically, could you ever foresee a time the Germans might find themselves driving British cars?\nDriving British cars yeah, because of cost. I think the big question right now is are we going to have cars, period. Given the rise of driverless cars no one\u2019s going to be driving a car at all. The reality is that the hopes of Brexit working out are partly pinned on the idea that the U.K. will become a very flexible, low-cost, low-tax regime in manufacturing and other kinds of services. Currency is obviously devalued already. That will provide a great entrepreneurial free-market energy where you go to flourish compared to the Socialist background decaying the European Union countries.\nWill the U.K. become a big manufacturing hub? One of the problems is from what I\u2019ve gathered talking to all the companies that have come into the U.K. and done all this FDI and built car parks in places like Sunderland is that much of that has been predicated on the assumption of free-market access to the rest of the European Union. The real question right now is if you\u2019re going to have a country that\u2019s outside the European Union, do you really want to have it in the U.K. or do you want to go to East Europe where the costs are even cheaper, where you\u2019ve got lots of bright workers there, probably much brighter workers and much better trained these days?\nTo my mind, it\u2019s very unclear how the U.K. really regains energy focused on Europe as an export destination. Some people I have spoken to have said the only solution is for the U.K. to basically say \u201cForget Europe,\u201d and turn\u2014go full-on for trading ties with China or India. Certainly the financial market has a strategy that people are looking at, but I think it\u2019s going to take a lot of political courage to implement the scale of reforms that would be needed to make the U.K. a truly vibrant, entrepreneurial, innovative, low-regulation place. That may happen. Theresa May is nothing but pragmatic, but it\u2019s going to be quite narrow.\nOur Geopolitical Future Relative to the Global Hotspots\nThere a very few speakers who can provide a comprehensive overview of what is happening in the world at any given time. George Friedman of Geopolitical Futures, an expert on explaining and predicting the future of international affairs, is one of them. In his remarks at The Chicago Council on Global Affairs, he looked at several of the growing global crises. His presentation helps to provide some insight into the collective global experiences and how we are affected by them.\nAt the very beginning of his discussion, he rejects the opinion that \u201cfree trade is a necessary boon\u201d and the \u201cbest economies are exporting economies.\u201d He then provides his outlook from Europe, to the Baltics, to the Middle East, Russia, China and North and South America. He presents his case in six arenas: The Global Export Crisis, The Refugee Crisis, The European Crisis, The German Export Crisis, The China Crisis, and The Russian Crisis.\nHe examines the extent of U.S. exporting and, contrary to the currently abounding rhetoric about America\u2019s decreasing power/influence in global affairs and deleterious engagement in foreign trade, he highlights how the relatively diminutive engagement of the U.S. in foreign trade actually immunizes it from the current fundamental systemic world crises and will allow it to pursue its \u201cimperial\u201d power as the most stable world economy. Good news! The world is rotating\u2026there is a fundamental destabilization of the Eurasian hemisphere while ours remains relatively immune. The full transcript of his remarks are included below.\nUPDATE: George Friedman spoke to the World Affairs Council of Charlotte in 2015. He has been invited back for 2017.\nGeorge Friedman is founder and chairman of Geopolitical Futures, focused on explaining and predicting the future of international affairs for the public. Previously, he founded geopolitical intelligence firm Stratfor (Strategic Forecasting). Friedman is a regular contributor to discussions on international intelligence issues for major news and radio networks including CNN, Fox News, and NPR. He is the author of numerous books on warfare and intelligence, including The Next Decade; The Next 100 Years; America\u2019s Secret War; and The Intelligence Edge.\nThe following is a transcript of George Friedman\u2019s remarks at The Chicago Council on Global Affairs concerning Global Crises:\nThe Global Crises\nThe European crisis has intensified, and has been joined by a series of crises across the Eurasian land mass. When I say Eurasia, I mean Europe and Asia, from the Atlantic to the Pacific, from the Arctic Ocean to the Indian Ocean. It\u2019s noteworthy that every significant part of that land mass, with the exception of India, is in fundamental systemic crisis. We have not seen a model like this really since World War II. This does not mean that I\u2019m saying that we\u2019re going to have a war, or anything else. I\u2019m simply saying that the pattern is ominous.\nIt is not yet deep\u2014in the sense of intractable\u2014but it is broad. We need to understand why it\u2019s that way, because the world has now taken an interesting shape. Eurasia\u2014in chaos, or close to it, in Europe, in Russia, in China, in Central Asia, in the Middle East certainly. While north America, and the western hemisphere in general, is stable. Relatively stable, not perfectly stable. The great contrast that is developing in the world is the massive distinction between the two hemispheres, in the way, including Latin America, is behaving, and the massive distinction that particularly exists, between North America\u2014NAFTA\u2014and the various trade zones and alliance blocks in the eastern hemisphere.\nThis is a pattern that will not emerge and then go away in three years. It is a fundamental shift, and an understandable and predictable one I\u2019ll try to make, that really ushers in a new phase of human history. In my book I published back in 2009, The Next Hundred Years, I spoke about the movement of history from Europe to North America. That North America was becoming the center of gravity of the international system, the stable pivot. This is part of that process, and as such, is extremely important.\nWhen we look at this crisis, we need to understand the engines. Many of the engines are simply local. I\u2019ll go through them later, but the EU is poorly founded, the Russians are vulnerable to the price of oil, the Chinese are going through a cyclical downturn as Japan did before it, and the Middle East is the Middle East. Each of them have reasons.\nThere is an underlying reason that this is intensifying, which I call the crisis of the exporters. For over a century, it has been assumed that free trade is a necessary boon and efficient exporters are in some way economically, and perhaps even morally superior, to poor exporters. What has happened, really since 2008, is a reversal in which heavy exporters have found themselves extremely vulnerable to shifts in the market, while those who are inefficient exporters are relatively immune.\nSince NAFTA is a fairly inward-facing institution, it has an immunity which the outward facing entities, like the EU or China, don\u2019t have.\nThe problem came about in 2008, with a massive downturn economically in the United States and Europe. For the United States it was a relatively temporary affair. For Europe it became a systemic crisis. The crisis\u2019 prior problem was that Europe was China\u2019s largest customer. Not Wal Mart, although close, it was Europe. China was at a particular delicate moment historically when this struck. It had dedicated itself to full employment. It maintained full employment by promiscuously lending money, so the companies wouldn\u2019t go out of business. This lead to inflation, until goods manufactured in Mexico were cheaper than the goods manufactured in China. This was the beginning of this moment.\nIts exports situation was already under deep pressure. When the appetite of the Europeans and the Americans for Chinese good contracted, what was a serious problem became a destabilizing problem. The Chinese economy depended on exports for cash flow to pay debts in a debt-based economy. People borrowed money not with equity, and don\u2019t have to pay it back. Deeper than that, with that destabilization that was happening, you found a fundamental political one, that I\u2019ll talk about.\nOne of the more interesting things is that the China myth, what I call the China bubble, really began exploding in 2010, 2011. But the lag between the time the global markets understood that this was the new normal of China\u2014that China was not going back to that unique 20-30 years of extraordinary growth\u2014when that was understood, everything would change.\nI remember that Business Week, in 1993 published an issue on the Japanese economic miracle. 1993. Which is to say, not just the media, but the markets, and I don\u2019t understand this, but I want to understand it someday, continue to believe, against all evidence, that China would maintain its consumption of raw materials, in spite of the downturn of exports.\nThere was a belief, when you questioned people, that this was a passing phase, and that China would return to what it was\u2014an inability to understand this was not a passing phase, it was a secular shift in the way China worked.\nA year ago it became obvious that this was not a passing phase. A number of statistics were published by the Chinese. On one occasion it was actually true. It emerged that they were in serious trouble. Suddenly the global commodity markets, all of them, absorbed the fact that China was not going to be pulling the engine, was not going to be pulling the train, and prices fell down. This had a staggering effect on, for example, Russia.\nRussia, for various reasons I\u2019ll talk about, is heavily dependent on energy exports to maintain its political system. Its entire domestic budget is built on oil prices. When oil prices fell down, they were smashed. We just published yesterday, a study on Saudi Arabia, and the decision to sell part of Aramco, to give the sense of how badly this smashed the Saudi economy. But it was not just them, it was also Australia and all of those that were heavy exporters. You had, in the past, mineral exports under pressure, but the industrial goods in good shape. Industrial good in good shape, mineral prices rising with them. You\u2019ve never had a situation, that I recall, in which both mineral prices and industrial prices are under pressure, especially in exporting countries.\nYou have mineral exporters getting hammered, industrial exporters getting hammered. Everybody who exports is getting hammered. When we look around the world, and we see the export levels, we see that Russia exports 30 percent of its GDP, mostly in energy, China about 22 percent, Germany 46 percent, and that remains a story, and the United States 13 percent, of which 40 percent go to Mexico and Canada. Now we see the basic divergence. The United States is, relative to GDP, an inefficient exporter, and therefore, not subject to the appetites of its customers. Those who are heavy exporters are subject to those appetites.\nYou must always understand that when you are selling something, you have to have customers. If your customers can\u2019t buy, and you\u2019ve built your economy on the assumption of rising consumption, you\u2019ll stagger. If you\u2019ve built your economy around the idea that it will constantly sell minerals to exporting industrial countries, and they don\u2019t have customers, it all cascades backwards. Let\u2019s now take it each individually, and not look at this broader picture of destabilization, but let\u2019s take a look at each country, at each region that\u2019s in trouble.\nThe fundamental problem of Europe is an attempt to take a country like Greece, and a country like Germany, and give them the same currency. Moreover, to leave in the hands of each individual country fiscal policy, while a central bank controls monetary policy, so there\u2019s no coherence between the two, and have one country so overwhelmingly powerful\u2014Germany\u2014that it has the ability to set the regulations in Brussels, and the behavior of the European Central Bank, not because it\u2019s a conspiracy, because if you don\u2019t support the German economy, then it all comes tumbling down. You don\u2019t have Europe. There\u2019s no such thing, except as a geopolitical geographical expression.\nThe unemployment rate south of the Alps is over 20 percent, somewhere 25 percent. That is the same rate of unemployment the United States had during the great depression. The unemployment rate in Germany is four and a half percent. The harmonization of these economies is not possible. Therefore, on virtually every other issue, they are unable to act.\nOne of the funniest things I saw was, a decision on the part of the EU. I can\u2019t figure out which commission, because there are so many. They would send help to the Greeks, to patrol their shores to keep people out\u2014in June. Think on this. This is a paralysis. This is a paralysis built in by the system.\nBear in mind two things. There is a major crisis coming in the Italian banks, it\u2019s actually here. Italian banks\u2014and you have to desegregate region and everything like that\u2014have non-performing rates of seventeen to 18 percent. I believe it is higher. You do not have 20 percent unemployment without a consumer debt crisis. This can\u2019t be. The Europeans have not had a consumer debt crisis, which means they\u2019re rolling over the debts in various ways so that they don\u2019t have to register it. How can you possibly have that sort of unemployment without massive mortgage defaults?\nBehind all this is the great bubble, Germany. Germany exports 47 percent of its GDP. I\u2019m not good at arithmetic, so give me 50 percent, which means that every time it loses five percent in exports, it loses two and a half in GDP. Now losing two and a half of your GDP matters, but if you lose 15 percent of your exports, you\u2019ve lost seven and a half percent. The point I\u2019m making is Germany is on the edge of the volcano. It is a massive exporting power that has built its economy on the assumption of expanding demand for its goods, basically in the European free trade zone, and that can\u2019t happen now. Its entire structure is based on that because domestic consumption can only be raised so much, when you have that much out there.\nOther countries in this position, South Korea for example. Only Germany is the fourth largest economy in the world. So the size of the imbalance, relative to the global system, is massive. In a world, in which you have an exporters\u2019 crisis, and one of the greatest exporters in the world, Germany, with a larger dependence on exports than China or any other country that you might name\u2014the global exporter if you will, from a percentage point of view\u2014has not yet had a decline, a significant decline of exports. When the absolute numbers of significant decline don\u2019t fall, you have Japan in 1989. The margins have to be falling. They have to be, in some cases, negative. There\u2019s only so long that Deutsche Bank can keep underwriting this, and it\u2019s pretty much, I suspect, out of time.\nIn the meantime, what you have rising in Europe is the right. By the right, I do not mean brown shirts, but nationalists, people who are saying, \u201cThis doesn\u2019t work,\u201d while the Financial Times swears its working, because the northern European banks are in good shape. If you read the Financial Times, you read the voice of the European elite. The European elite still believes they\u2019re having a banking crisis, rather than a systemic social failure, and that that systemic social failure is going to result in massive changes in regimes, and in the way regimes change. The tension that we see now between France and Germany is with a proEuropean government, which will not stay in power unless it does this. A Cameron is forced, if he\u2019s going to stay in power, to call a referendum.\nEven the moderate regimes that you see, have to tack away from the European Union. I don\u2019t believe the European Union will fail. I believe somewhere, in some building, the League of Nations still has an office somewhere in Geneva. European institutions don\u2019t fail, they just become gentile in their poverty. You already see precisely how Europe will fail. People will simply ignore what it says.\nThere is no immigration crisis. Europe is five hundred million people. We\u2019re talking about one million, I can\u2019t do the arithmetic, but it\u2019s less than one percent. There is no reason the Europeans can\u2019t handle it; they just can\u2019t decide on what to do. What this distinction has done has paralyzed the European institutional systems. It has also lead to recriminations between government. Everybody knows that this whole thing is Hungary\u2019s fault. Blame it on Hungarians this week. This is a crisis of such fundamental proportions at the heart of the world, Europe.\nThe Russian Crisis\nThe Russian crisis is much simpler. Putin was unable to transform the wealth of a hundred-dollar barrel of oil into a viable economy. He wasn\u2019t able to because the forces that bought him the power, the FSB and the oligarchs, had to be satisfied in various ways. That money had to be diverted to support enterprises that\u2014Rosneft for example\u2014that had to be maintained. He never had the room to maneuver to divert that money to build something more substantial.\nIt now faces a catastrophic situation where the expectation of the Russians was $70 a barrel of oil at the bottom, and I don\u2019t know what it closed at today, but it\u2019s below that. The Russian federation works with money being transferred to the central government, the central government distributing it to the Oblast, the various regions. If the central government doesn\u2019t have the money to distribute to the Oblast, well there\u2019s no terror going on that\u2019s frightening a governor to obey, he\u2019ll go his own way.\nIn Europe, fragmentation consists of nobody paying attention. In Russia, fragmentation consists of nobody receiving benefits from the central government, and therefore pursuing their own interests in whatever direction it goes.\nThe China Crisis\nIn China, what we have seen is a cyclical crisis. You cannot sustain that level of growth permanently. No matter what Goldman Sachs said, it can\u2019t beat the United States. You cannot start where they are, and in a sprint over 40-50 years, surpass a century-deep government. What you do is what Japan did. You reach a point where you cannot sustain it, and you reach a new normal. You\u2019ve had a new normal in Japan. People talk about the lost generation. This was not lost from the Japanese point of view. They maintained full employment. They were feeding their people. There was not unrest. Only American investors felt it was lost. There were no opportunities. The Japanese apologize, but they hadn\u2019t built their economy for Westerners to profit, but they were stable.\nChina cannot reach a new normal, because in China, by Chinese statistics, six hundred million Chinese, have incomes below $2 dollars a day, household incomes. Four hundred and forty million Chinese, have incomes of $2-$4 a day. China is an extraordinarily poor country, a fact you can miss if you fly into Pudong and have one of those dinners where you mortgage your house, and go to your hotel. If you go to China, rather than this American extension into China, Shanghai, you discover a country of enormous poverty.\nThis is where Mao Zedong took the long march. The long march when he went to Yanan and raised an army, and came back after two decades and shut down the country to create equality. This is where this holiday, people who have gone to Shanghai, or Guangdong, with dreams, went home, never to come back, let go from their jobs.\nThe issue here is not what is the Chinese stock market doing. It is an irrelevancy really to the entire thing. It is, what are these people going to do with shattered lives, in a country that has a tradition of Maoism, which is why you see Xi, desperately trying to expropriate that tradition of Maoism. He wants to own it, and then hone it in two ways. First, he is the heir. Second, he will strike at any organization that threatens him.\nChina has become a dictatorship, because the alternative in China is regional fragmentation. The real issue here is whether China returns to a form of Maoism, or whether it goes back behind Maoism to Regionalism. The Regionalism will be the Chinese communist party fragmenting.\nWhy? Because if you are in Shanghai, and you are making a great deal of money from your relationship to Apple, you have a greater interest in that relationship, than you have to Beijing\u2019s latest demand for the transfer of money. Or, you\u2019re so afraid of Beijing, that you\u2019ll transfer the money. This is the great, not very sophisticated, but very great question of China.\nWill the party committee in the coastal regions be more afraid of the secret police, or less afraid of secret police and more desirous for their relationship with the West? This, by the way, up until 1947, was the nature of China. These are the two Chinas. The China of Mao, and the China of Chiang Kai-shek and Sun Yat-sen. It is not self-evident that it won\u2019t be one of these choices, but it is the least likely that it will return to the way it was for the past generation. There is no path back to that right now.\nThis is why Xi is conducting intense purges. He has discovered, to his shock, that there is corruption going on in China. That\u2019s not the point. What he is doing is eliminating opponents, fragmenting elites that could rise up against him, and generally creating a sense of insecurity within the Chinese communist party, so that any fragmentation of the party won\u2019t happen.\nHe is also, of course, playing a game in south China sea. That\u2019s not a trivial game, but it\u2019s not a serious one, however, it is designed to do exactly what the Russians did in Syria. Aside from whatever strategic benefits they had, Putin has 80 percent popularity. That\u2019s no kidding. In the same way that George W. Bush was enormously popular in the first six months after 9/11, nations rally, and the Chinese nation will rally to a confrontation. Not two years\u2019 worth, six months\u2019 worth. What everybody is doing on that continent, that massive two continents, is playing with fire to maintain political stability.\nIn the Middle East, you have had the collapse of the states that Europe invented. Syria was an invention, Lebanon was an invention, Jordan was an invention, Israel was an invention, Iraq was an invention. They all had origins of sorts, but many of them\u2014particularly Syria and Iraq\u2014no longer exist. They don\u2019t exist because at a certain point the United States decided it was not going to take responsibility, as the British might have, for the future of the region.\nNot necessarily a stupid decision, but one with consequences. The consequence was, that the most natural force in the region, Islam, the most embittered force in the region, Islam, began to form new entities. This will sort itself out, as Lebanon did, because Lebanon is the example.\nIn 1970s, Lebanon fragmented, the national government collapsed, and Lebanon consisted of various fragments fighting each other. You now have the Lebanese model transferred to Syria and Iraq, and now the Saudis are desperately worried, because they themselves are a faction\u2014the House of Saud\u2014that came to power under British mentorship, if you will.\nThey look at the price of oil. They look at the stability of the royal family that expects to be paid. Of those not within the tribe, who also expect to be paid. They took to their crisis, and their frightened. Now you have flowing out of that, the Arabian Peninsula, itself on the cusp, to the point where the great triumph of the Saudis was the nationalization of Aramco. The crown prince raises the question; we might sell five percent. This is the equivalent of selling rugs out of your house to pay the rent, and it strikes at the heart of legitimacy of Saudi nationalism such as this.\nWe also see these crises merging. The European, Middle Eastern crisis on multiple levels, immigrants, terrorism, French/British fighters deploying to the region, nothing intense yet, but merging. The Russian-European relationship is merging, not just over the question of Ukraine, but certainly over the question of Ukraine, because that\u2019s vital. The Russian-Middle East relationship is merging with the Russians intervening.\nIn the middle of this, note, one nation that intersects everything\u2014intersects the European crisis, intersects the Russian crisis, intersects the Middle Eastern crisis\u2014Turkey. Desperately trying not to get in, having no way to stay out. You will watch Turkey. One of the things I predicted in that book I had mentioned, was the rise of Turkey, not because there is a vast conspiracy, but because everything is going to fall apart around it.\nThe Europeans are now going to the Turks trying to make a deal on refugees. The Russians are shooting at them, and visa versa. The Americans are demanding that the Turks do something about Syria. Turkey.\nBut that is not the most important thing. The most important fact of the world is the United States exports 13 of its GDP, and effectively really about seven percent of its GDP outside. That makes the United States, who has always been criticized as being non-competitive, in an enormously comfortable position. It is also the United States that is withdrawing from this region, is not involved in Europe, is not involved in the Middle East the way it\u2019s supposed to be, is playing Kabuki game with the Chinese. The Russians are a more interesting question of how we will play them. The United States now has the option of elective affinities.\nIt does not have to marry. It does not have to engage. It may withhold. This is not, incidentally, isolationism. It\u2019s called prudence. This changes the American position in the world dramatically.\nWe all believe, because we\u2019re Americans, that times have never been as terrible as this. This is a religious faith. There\u2019s problems. But the relative position of the United States, compared to all other great powers, is incomparable. What has happened since 2008 was, that a stupid American idea, subprime loans, was bought by even stupider people in Europe. I always say that the guy who bought it is dumber than the guy who sold it. And that has pyramided. But if it wasn\u2019t that, it would be some other thing. The entire eastern hemisphere, each of these countries was standing on a volcano. Whatever was going to set off the volcano, they were all going to fry.\nThe last time I saw a pattern like this was World War II. It was the last time that all of Eurasia was somehow involved in a destabilization. It is very difficult to imagine this turning into a war. For one thing, none of these countries have the energy for a war. By energy, I mean the sheer moral power to do it. You cannot ignore the fact that whatever subjectively I might think, the pattern is enormously ominous.\nThe most ominous part of this, and I\u2019ll stop there, is this fact. I think the Russians are going to be very aggressive. I think the Russian Federation will go the way of the Soviet Union, for the same reasons: high defense costs, low energy prices. That took down the Soviet Union. That will, I think, take down Russia. When the Soviet Union collapsed, all nuclear weapons under American tutelage was transferred to the Soviet Union, so the Kazakhstan wouldn\u2019t have a nuclear capability, which we all think is a good idea.\nIf the Russian Federation collapses, what happens to those nuclear weapons? The frightening thing about Russia is that it is a nuclear power, and if it fragments, something has to be done about it. There really isn\u2019t anything that can be done. What do you do? That\u2019s one fear.\nThe other thing to look at is the entire center. I haven\u2019t talked about central Asia, but give me that. The center of the Eurasian land mass is being hollowed out. We see one country already emerging\u2014Turkey. The real power, that has always been the dominant power in east Asia, Japan, is now beginning to sense itself. Poland, in most dealing with the Russians, or anyone else, is far more influential than Germany, who is paralyzed by fear of what happens to exports.\nSo, we are in a position where the world is rotating. The world always rotates. Everybody thinks that it will go back to the way it was; it never does. Those who understand that will fret more than others.\nWe are now at a turning point. Where the last time I came here and spoke to you about the inherent weakness of Europe, I now have to go to a broader picture: a fundamental destabilization of the hemisphere, while the other hemisphere\u2014ours\u2014remains oddly, but explicably immune. This becomes the real issue.\nWe are now the imperial power, if you will, in the sense of being the most stable, powerful country in the world. How do we handle this? What is there to be done? The answer is, I don\u2019t know, but I will ask.\n[Question and answer period follows.]\nSoutheast Synergism\nCollaboration is the New Competition\nThe Global South Metro Exchange held its first event in Greenville in July, branded \u201cCollaboration is the New Competition,\u201d sponsored by JPMorgan Chase, with support from the Brookings Institution. Multi-regional business leaders coalesced to focus on global competitiveness and to find synergies and opportunities for collaboration between Upstate South Carolina, Charleston, Atlanta and Charlotte, as a means of improving the global competitiveness of our collective region.\n\u201cThe roads that connect Atlanta, Charlotte, the Upstate and Charleston\u2014Interstates 85 and 26\u2014are a physical manifestation of the many points of affinity between our markets, and the Global South Metro Exchange program aims to explore additional opportunities among transportation and logistics, trade and exports, middle market opportunities, workforce challenges, technology and innovation to ensure we\u2019re working together to align the Southeast as an economic powerhouse where collaboration is the new competition,\u2019\u201d touted John Lummus, president and CEO of the Upstate SC Alliance and primary organizer of the event.\nTogether, business leaders and organization representatives from Upstate SC Alliance, the Charleston Regional Development Alliance, the Metro Atlanta Chamber and the Charlotte Regional Collaborative for a Global Economy examined their assets and explored their synergies for working together to boost the already booming growth of this southeastern U.S. region.\nThe event\u2019s theme, \u201cCollaboration is the New Competition,\u201d is a driver to build relationships, explore best practices, and forge connections that support economic development activities across state lines. Discussion topics included globalization, transportation, free trade agreements, workforce challenges and opportunities, the Post-Panamax Ripple Effect, open technology and aligning export support with industry needs.\nThe keynote speaker, Marek Gootman, a fellow and director of strategic partnerships and global engagements at the Brookings Institution Metropolitan Policy Program, examined the opportunities for the Southeast region to look inside its borders to see if the competitiveness of the region as a whole exceeds the competitiveness of the individual states, cities and localities.\nAccording to Gootman, within the larger Southeast region are a multitude of unique assets and networks including, but not limited to large businesses, small and medium businesses, chambers of commerce, economic development agencies, schools and colleges, an expanding workforce as well as the infrastructure. Numerous other areas within the United States are already focused on their collective opportunities.\nThese regions seek identities that include:\nLeadership with a World View\nLegacy of Global Orientation\nSpecializations with a Global Reach\nAdaptability to Global Dynamics\nCulture of Knowledge and Innovation\nOpportunity and Appeal to the World\nInvestment for Strategic Priorities\nGovernment as a Global Enabler\nCompelling Global Identity\nGootman asked, \u201cCould the major metropolitan areas of the Southeastern U.S. leverage complementary economic assets, industry clusters and global identity to better compete and attract commercial attention internationally?\u201d He encouraged developing a list of Global Trade Assets, Global Innovation Assets, Global Talent Assets and Global Infrastructure Assets.\nGootman examined the Southeast region itself, noted the proximity and connectivity of Atlanta, Greenville, Charlotte and Charleston, and suggested that the assets offer substantial new avenues for growth. Topics addressed included comprehensive regional/state economic strategies, exports and foreign investment, infrastructure, innovation, workforce, finance, and governance.\nSoutheast Triangle\nAtlanta , Charlotte, Greenvile and Charleston\nAt the Brookings Institute, Gootman focuses on bridging think tank perspective with real world action to increase the vitality of cities and metropolitan areas. His activities involve policy development, demonstration projects, peer learning networks, and external relations. He engages public and private partners in more than 30 metro areas and 20 states, as well as national interests, to advance adoption of the program\u2019s ideas. He also leads the Global Cities Initiative, a five-year, $15 million project to help U.S. and international metro areas strengthen their global economic connections and competitiveness.\n\u201cThe Charlotte Regional Collaborative for a Global Economy is delighted to participate in the Global South Metro Exchange,\u201d commented Michael Almond, Executive Director. \u201cOur collaborative is a consortium of the 15 community colleges serving more than 3.5 million people in 29 counties in North and South Carolina. We are \u2018community colleges providing leadership for global commerce\u2019 in the greater Charlotte region, an integrated and interdependent region that is the economic heartbeat of the Carolinas.\n\u201cWe are committed to regionalism as the driving force behind economic growth and development. We firmly believe that by working together collectively as a team, we can together accomplish more for the benefit of all of us than any one of us acting alone. And we are proud to support the contribution that the Global South Metro Exchange will make towards sustaining and enhancing our global competitiveness now and in the future.\u201d\n\u201cThe Metro Atlanta Chamber believes that competitiveness is not solely the prerogative of one metro area,\u201d remarked Jorge Fernandez, Vice President of Global Commerce of the Metro Atlanta Chamber, \u201cbut instead is something that is enhanced by a regional approach. The metro Atlanta region can present a stronger global position when we leverage the assets and connectivity of our surrounding regional metros. As such, we are delighted to be a part of the Global South Metro Exchange.\u201d\n\u201cThe Charleston Regional Development Alliance and World Trade Center Charleston proudly represent the Charleston metro region in supporting the Global South Metro Exchange,\u201d added David Ginn, President. \u201cIn the global marketplace, there are clear benefits for metropolitan areas with similar assets, goals, and economic drivers working together as super-regions to collaborate on shared opportunities and challenges. The Charleston metro\u2019s economy ranks among the Top 20 in the nation for advanced industries and Top 10 for FDI. We look forward to building relationships with other top southeastern metros to ensure this strong economic progress continues for years to come.\u201d\nMXD First Draft Study Coming Out This Month\nCharlotte City Council approved a $900,000 expenditure of airport funds for a consultant study as Charlotte Douglas International Airport creates a new master plan to guide future development on the land surrounding the airport.\nThe purpose of the study is to maximize the opportunity surrounding the fifth busiest airport in the U.S. with a major intermodal center and Charlotte\u2019s unique location midway along the East Coast between New York and Miami. Charlotte is served by two Class I railroads with access to four major ports within four hours and a network of highways. The purpose of this study is to lay out options for growth and development on the 25-mile radius around the airport.\nMXD Development, out of British Columbia, will be looking at comparable airports around the world to determine the highest and best use opportunities for Charlotte. MXD has conducted similar studies for Denver, Memphis and San Francisco, as well as international airports in Canada, China, Australia and Russia. They will be considering projects including residential, commercial, industrial, logistics, warehousing, hotels and restaurants.\nThe effort is being led by the airport\u2019s development director, Stuart Hair. Aviation Director Brent Cagle says, \u201cThis project is the refreshing of a 15-year-old development plan,\u201d adding that most of the efforts in that plan are now completed. The airport is reaching out to a broad list of stakeholders and economic developers as well as the surrounding community for input and recommendations.\nMXD is about at the midpoint of their study. Preliminary findings have been captured and a first draft of the report is due by the end of August. Completion of the study is expected by the end of 2016.\nThe River District, a mixed use project being proposed for development by Lincoln Harris and Crescent Communities just off West Boulevard west of I-485, is scheduled for a hearing before the zoning board on August 22, 2016, with final determination expected early this fall.\nObama and Clinton in Charlotte\nTargeting North Carolina as a Key State\nIt was a remarkable day July 5, 2016, when I attended the political rally that had an admittance line over six blocks long. Both President Obama and Hillary Clinton traveled to campaign in Charlotte. They attended a Democratic rally of over 3,000 faithful at the Charlotte Convention Center and then made a quick stop at the Midwood Smokehouse in Plaza Midwood for barbecue and brisket along with the fixins to take home. This was the first campaign trip for President Obama with former Secretary of State Clinton since she clinched the Democratic nomination.\nThis Charlotte event was planned so that this joint appearance would become the first public event to follow the morning media conference called by FBI Director James Comey to report on the FBI investigation of the Clinton emails. His account included a summary of the emails that had been collected along with the numbers of classified email chains that were not marked appropriately.\nComey went on to say that the Secretary and her staff were extremely careless and that they had mishandled classified documents. Nevertheless, he stated that it was FBI judgment that no reasonable prosecutor would bring such a case with the evidence and research they had gathered. He said the FBI felt that \u201cno charges are appropriate in this case.\u201d\nSo, why were Obama and Clinton in Charlotte? First, this event was meant to provide some public relations cover to offset the FBI report. Secondarily, but perhaps more important in the long run, they were here because North Carolina has been a swing state in recent years.\nIn 2008, the state went for Barack Obama to become President; and in 2012, the majority of N.C. voters went for Mitt Romney. Having held his second nominating convention in Charlotte in 2012, President Obama would like to boost Hillary Clinton\u2019s chances of winning North Carolina in this election. While President Obama is at the end of his second term, he would like to see his legacy carried forward by Hillary Clinton to top off his accomplishments.\nThe third reason for this trip was clearly to capture video of the two campaigning side-by-side for future political ads to be run across the country to increase turnout for Democrats.\nHillary Clinton spoke first and talked about her admiration for President Obama as a colleague in the U.S. Senate, as a competitor for the Democratic nomination in 2008, as a debater in the midst of that race, as a team member in President Obama\u2019s cabinet as Secretary of State, and finally as a friend. She remarked how impressed she was with his performance through some very tough times. With the presidential seal on the rostrum in front of her, she committed to carry on and to go forward from his leadership to the country.\nThen, she turned to podium over to President Obama. The president addressed a litany of issues from economic policy and job creation, deficit reduction and budget management, foreign relations and America\u2019s stature in the world, health care reform, climate change and reform, and also energy production.\nAs I was looking on, it was clear that each issue that he addressed could be a clip in a political spot in support of Hillary Clinton. I am confident that we will see campaign commercials that will exhibit one or more of his comments. It was important for the campaign to capture these comments before the Philadelphia convention, so that the commercials can be prepared for the three months preceding the election.\nThe mechanics of this event were very well managed. You could see that the advance team had everything set up to make the most of this opportunity. Held on the lower level of the Charlotte Convention Center, it accommodated three to four thousand people. The speaker\u2019s platform was situated in the middle of a 360-degree setup so that the President and Clinton would be surrounded by fans from all angles.\nThe signs, flags and slogans were appropriately placed so that the cameras could not help but capture both the speakers and the American flag with the brand new slogan \u201cStronger Together,\u201d maximizing the impact of the audience and the layout of the set.\nIt was standing room only. the crowd was hyped by music and drums and speeches from Roy Cooper, Democrat for Governor, and Deborah Ross, Democrat for U.S. Senate, and others. While the room was cool before the speeches started, it soon warmed up. Before the end, I saw several people helped or carried out from heat exhaustion. It was jam-packed to make it a rousing rally.\nWith North Carolina in play for both Republicans and Democrats, we can expect more visits from both of the candidates.\nPhoto taken by Jim Froneberger.\nIf you have comments, questions or concerns, we would like to hear from you. You are invited to email me at jgalles@clt.biz. Thank you.\nTrump Heeds Advice from Former Nucor Exec\nGOP Economic Strategy Takes Shape\nDid you notice? On June 28, Donald Trump took a serious step forward by turning his comments to the economy and jobs by way of criticizing our free trade agreements. On Monday, August 8, Trump addressed the Detroit Economic Club and presented an updated economic recovery message that adopted the budget and tax proposals from the GOP majority in the House of Representatives.\nDan DiMicco Former Nucor Exec\nTrump has obviously been taking instruction from his \u201cadvisers.\u201d One important adviser on his economic team is Dan DiMicco, former head of Nucor Steel and now chairman emeritus, from right here in Charlotte. Dan has been outspoken with his disdain China\u2019s \u201cdumping\u201d of steel into the U.S. He has also spoken against the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA). Both items were elements of Trump\u2019s speech yesterday.\nEven though Hillary Clinton has also articulated these concerns, it was more dramatic to hear Trump combine three sentences on economic trade that strike an important cord in economic policy.\nIt is important to remember that every trade agreement has winners and losers. Trump\u2019s promise to renegotiate agreements must be measured by whose interests he intends to protect and push forward and whose interests get left behind.\nNow we will need to watch and see whose interests he and Hillary choose to represent in their policies going forward. We have more to learn. This is why our democracy has worked so well. It is not just the votes that count. 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A simple Ultrasonography (USG) revealed the tumor and he soon found himself seated in front of Dr Amlan Chakraborty, Consultant Urologist at The Calcutta Medical Research Institute (CMRI). Dr Amlan Chakraborty shared, that renal tumours are the 8th most common cancers and usually more common in men above the age of 50. They have no established connection to diet or lifestyle and may have some hereditary causes.\nThe Ultrasonography (USG), which was administered to the patient, is the most common method of screening for renal tumours and sometimes shows symptoms like blood in urine or a lump in the abdomen. Abhishek Guha had no such symptom and therefore his tumour at the time of the start of treatment had grown to 10 X 8 X 7 cm3 and was critically positioned, thus making it extremely complicated to operate and remove.\nUnfortunately, renal tumours cannot be treated through medication and surgery is the only way of managing them.\nThe treatment of renal tumours can be approached in two different ways, depending on the size and position of the tumour. If the tumour is small, detected early and favourably placed in the kidney, it can be extracted from the body through a minimally invasive procedure (laparoscopy) called the nephron sparing surgery or laparoscopic partial nephrectomy. Complications arise when the tumour is big and critically placed in the kidney \u2013 as was the case with Abhishek Guha.\nAccording to Dr Amlan Chakraborty, \u201cWhen a patient comes to us with a malignant renal tumour, our primary focus is the complete removal of cancer cells from the body.\nPrior to the great advancements in minimally invasive surgical procedures, a case like Abhishek Guha\u2019s would be treated through an invasive open surgery. Open surgeries pose more complications, have higher risk and lesser accuracy. Moreover, handling of cancerous tumours may cause spillage of cancer cells to other parts of the body. Therefore, the\nmost efficient way, which has emerged as a result of advanced medical treatment, is to choose a minimally invasive procedure like the Laparoscopic Radical Nephrectomy.\u201d\nLaparoscopic radical nephrectomy provides patients with a safe and minimally invasive technique for complete removal of the affected kidney and tumour.\nThe HD camera Laparoscope allows a 4X magnification of the operative field. This, along with other state-of-the-art equipment used at CMRI allows the surgeons to accomplish the operative procedure with improved vision and without placing their hands inside the abdominal cavity.\nAbhishek Guha\u2019s surgery was completed in 3 hours and he was home in 4 days. 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Intensive program for 2018.\nFor nearly three decades, the American Pavilion has been the communications and hospitality hub at the Cannes Film Festival for American filmmakers. The organization offers an internship for students to work at the festival as well as a summer program in Los Angeles that provides information and resources to students interested in careers in the entertainment industry.\nTaschetta, a Television Production student at College of DuPage, would like to work behind-the-scenes as a director or producer for a TV talk show, and being hired for the Ellen DeGeneres show would be a dream come true. In fact, in 2017 her video submission was a finalist in Ellen\u2019s 12 Days Skybox Challenge and shown on \u201cEllen\u201d (pictured above is Ellen DeGeneres introducing Taschetta's video on the big screen).\n\u201cI\u2019ve been watching Ellen since fourth or fifth grade,\u201d said Taschetta. \u201cShe\u2019s hilarious, but it\u2019s also about how generous she is to those in need, which is why I\u2019m a huge fan. Jeannie Klisiewicz, one of Ellen\u2019s producers, was a fan who entered every contest, never won and eventually was hired for the show. I\u2019m going to be persistent because it could happen to me.\u201d\nTaschetta began making videos as a freshman at Wheaton North High School. After seeing other students\u2019 videos, she initially saw herself as the school\u2019s Ellen DeGeneres before developing her own voice. This included \u201cminute to win it\u201d videos, which became big hits, and segments promoting the school\u2019s special needs population.\n\u201cI have always been aware of inclusion, and for the school\u2019s TV show, I asked why we couldn\u2019t have anchors who have special needs,\u201d she said. \u201cAs a result, several were featured in this role. I also made a promotional video for the Special Olympics.\u201d\nWhen it came time for college, Taschetta initially decided to pursue occupational therapy at a four-year school.\n\u201cI went for 12 days and realized the regular college experience wasn\u2019t for me,\u201d she said. \u201cI switched to College of DuPage and initially studied speech before I discovered the Motion Picture/Television program and Courier TV, the student-produced weekly news program. I took Professor Jennifer Piehl\u2019s class and fell in love with directing.\u201d\nBefore transferring to Columbia College, Taschetta took part in the L.A. Intensive program, and it more than lived up to her expectations.\n\u201cThe night we went to a taping of Jimmy Kimmel was the biggest night for me,\u201d she said. \u201cI thought we would just be watching, but they put us in the Green Room and gave us the VIP treatment. Then I met Jill Leiderman, executive producer of the show and a Northwestern graduate. I am a big fan of hers because she is one of the best talk show producers. She took me into the control booth with her as we watched the show.\n\u201cThe entire time I was at the taping, I knew this is what I wanted to do and where I wanted to be.\u201d\nTaschetta is pursuing a degree in television production and directing. Her hope is to secure a spot in Columbia\u2019s \u201cSemester in L.A.,\u201d where she can finish her studies and land an internship in television.\n\u201cA career in television just speaks to me,\u201d she said. \u201cI prefer live TV and especially talk shows, for obvious reasons. I will apply for internships on \u2018Ellen\u2019 or \u2018Jimmy Kimmel\u2019 because both have the same beliefs and use their platforms to promote positive change. I want to make a difference and work with people who are doing so.\u201d\nCollege of DuPage was the right choice for Taschetta. 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For me, quite simply, photojournalist/reportage photography is all about wedding photographs that capture and tell a story. Increasingly, brides and grooms are attracted to this type of photography, moving away from the traditional posed photographs.\nA true reportage wedding photographer will capture the wedding as it unfolds in a candid and unobtrusive fashion. It\u2019s not only pointing the camera and taking a photograph, it\u2019s about keeping a watch on what\u2019s happening all around and anticipating the next moment, so that you\u2019re in the place at the right time to take that perfect shot.\nWe at Colours Photo and Film are a huge fans of photojournalist/reportage photography and here is the sort of images I am talking about. In this photo, the bridesmaids and the vicar were waiting for the bride. As the bridal car approached, I was captivated by the expressions on their faces which tell a story all of their own. I quickly captured the moment, before moving on to the next shot.\nThe photograph below was at an Indian wedding at the Apple Tree Centre in Crawley and as with all Gujarati weddings, at the end of the wedding ceremony the bride and groom played Koda Kodi (games). The priest is supposed to put the ring in red coloured water for the bride and groom to search for. Here, the bride and the groom were under the impression that the ring was in the water and were searching for it, when all the time it was hidden in the priest\u2019s hands. There was a lot of laughter when the truth came out!\nThe image below was not posed. The bride was catching a moment to relax with a magazine when her dad decided to take out his phone and take a candid shot. 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Approximately fifteen references to \u201cclimate change\u201d were removed from the main page alone. EPA also removed over 200 sub-pages discussing the risks of climate change and the different approaches states are taking to curb greenhouse gas emissions emissions. Examples of statewide plans to adapt to climate change were also removed.\nFollowing publication of the changes, seven Democratic senators wrote to EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt requesting that the previous website be \u201cimmediately reinstate[d]\u201d and that an explanation be provided for its initial removal. 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Inspired by the principles and tenets of the late 19th Century and early 20th Century artists, she is influenced particularly by the Fauvist and Post Impressionists Edgar Degas, Vincent Van Gogh, Andre Derain, Dufy and Matisse. Notable British artists Roger Hilton, Vanessa Bell, Roger Fry and Alfred Wallis are much admired by her and have impacted on her most recent work. By her own admission she is of the \u2018happy school of painting\u2019. She looks for the positive and hope in the places and situations she experiences. Always determined to travel, her subject matter is varied and drawn from her worldly journeys and experiences; from her visits to Somalia as a war artist to the beaches of Brazil, Guatemala, the Mediterranean, Cuba and Mexico. However her return to her cultural homeland in rural Ireland and studio life grounds her and motivates her to paint.\nHighly regarded internationally, documenting the war in Somalia, she was Ireland\u2019s first war artist and exhibited together with Scottish war artist Peter Howson, although her work and approach is completely different. Her paintings currently hang alongside notable artists, Francis Bacon and William Crozier as a specially selected artist in \u2018The Naked Truth, the Nude in Irish Art\u2019, Cork. She has exhibited often in London and numerous other European cities, South America, the US and Canada. This is her first major exhibition with Compass Gallery, Glasgow. Selecting work for this show has been challenging and an inspiring experience. Cope is both a draughtsman and a painter; colour, spontaneity, energy and creativity characterise her work. Confident in her craftsmanship but also self critical she vigorously edits; if the paintings don\u2019t work for her she snips out the best and strongest bits and collages them onto a fresh base, thus creating intriguing jigsaws of images. The sheer scale of some of her most ambitious and challenging paintings, nailed onto the walls of an open barn, amongst the hay bales, makes us long for a larger space to fully represent the breadth and scale of her work. However, restricted to our walls in Compass we have selected but a sprinkling of her lively seascapes, still lifes, portraits, nudes and a series of beautifully drawn etchings based on zoo animals. Colour and energy abounds and we think you will find this exhibition energising and uplifting.\nInternational solo shows include: University of Toronto, Canada, Bologna, Ontario, Dublin, London, New York, Sao Paulo and Switzerland. Acquisitions by public and corporate collections include the Contemporary Irish Art Society, Dublin City University, National Self-Portrait Collection, University of Limerick, Allied Investment Bank and Bank of Ireland. 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Terry Lectures\", given by Singer at Yale University in November 2000\nB : decent overview of some of the major issues relating to globalization\nThe Age . 1/2/2003 Morag Fraser\nForeign Affairs . 3-4/2003 G. John Ikenberry\nThe NY Rev. of Books . 25/3/2004 V.Joshi/R.Skidelsky\nThe NY Times Book Rev. . 1/12/2002 Andr\u00e9s Martinez\nSydney Morning Herald . 28/12/2002 Paul Sheehan\nThe Washington Monthly . 11/2002 Gregg Easterbrook\n\"Read it in tandem with Geoffrey Robertson's recently revised opus on human rights, Crimes Against Humanity, and you have a comprehensive picture of the strains on the nation-state world we still inhabit and the direction that world might take -- if we were to be brave, and just.\" - Morag Fraser, The Age\n\"In his view, the search for widely acceptable principles of global fairness is not simply an intellectual exercise but an imperative that even rich and powerful countries ignore at their peril; we cannot address the vulnerabilities that globalization creates without a shared belief around the world that the system is legitimate and just. (...) His willingness to delve into the prosaic details of agreements such as the Kyoto Protocol on global warming and the World Trade Organization is one of the book's biggest strengths.\" - G. John Ikenberry, Foreign Affairs\n\"Singer's book is a heroic attempt to picture a world organized and managed according to the principle of utility. It is what a Benthamite world-state would look like. It will annoy those who dislike utilitarianism and be dismissed as irrelevant by practical people.\" - Vijay Joshi and Robert Skidelsky, The New York Review of Books\n\"As globalization polemics go, the book is rather restrained. More than a rant, it is a stimulating tour of the moral and practical challenges posed by the world's accelerating contraction.\" - Andr\u00e9s Martinez, The New York Times Book Review\n\"It is possible to agree with all this but still be disappointed. It has to be said, in cool but plain language, that Singer sounds like a bureaucrat who cannot understand why politicians will not devolve more power to him. In his concern with advancing the cause of global equity and equality, he simply discounts tribalism as the primordial social organising unit of humanity.\" - Paul Sheehan, Sydney Morning Herald\n\"One World is a pretty good book; if it did not come with Peter Singer baggage, I might say a darn good book. Singer, generally a hero to the loony left, struggles with the issues of globalization in a rigorously hard-headed manner rarely seen on this topic.\" - Gregg Easterbrook, The Washington Monthly\nIn One World Peter Singer examines four major issues affecting the world today from a \"global ethical viewpoint\": the impact of human activity on our atmosphere, international trade regulation (specifically the role of the World Trade Organization), the idea of national sovereignty, and the distribution of aid. Each, he argues, is of great significance in this age of globalization: they require our attention -- and often a change in attitude and approach -- if we are to improve the lot of mankind.\nSinger looks at the big picture: one world, as the title has it. He begins with the atmosphere, arguing:\nThere can be no clearer illustration of the need for human beings to act globally than the issues raised by the impact of human activity on our atmosphere.\nGlobal warming and related atmospheric-change issues have been much discussed in recent years, and Singer provides an overview of the apparent manifestations of atmospheric change caused by man-made pollution, as well as international efforts (at the conferences in Rio and Kyoto, for example) to counter these (in particular by reducing emissions of so-called greenhouse gases). It is an interesting philosophical problem: certain countries and people contribute far more pollution than others -- but everyone suffers from the consequences (though the consequences are also not evenly distributed -- nor can they often be predicted). Complications are compounded by the fact that polluting more often results in greater economic benefits to the polluter (though in the case of at least one major source of pollution -- private motor vehicles -- there is little real benefit to be derived from driving a gas-guzzler over an energy-efficient vehicle -- and yet people still do it, because of the low incremental cost (the extra cost of gas per mile travelled is apparently considered trivial) and the perceived benefits in, for example, status ('Look at me in my cool car'), and because governments are willing to indulge consumers (who are often also voters) by not prodding car-makers to improve gas mileage -- and, in many countries, by subsidizing gas -- indirectly (in not charging the consumer for all the consequences of gas-use but rather just the ostensible costs of producing the gas and providing it at the pump) or directly (a policy popular in oil-rich countries, even in the developing world)).\nSinger fairly sensibly discusses these issues and the positions currently being taken and considered -- who should (or might) pay for what, and how the costs of implementation can be distributed. Most of this is fairly familiar, even Singer's ethical take, which focusses on equitable distribution (fairness) in bearing the costs. His favoured solution, of global emissions trading, is hardly a radical one, and he makes a reasonable case for it.\nSinger notes that the idea of fairness is pretty much the only one that can bring about change -- industrialized nations \"presumed rights as sovereign nations\", plus:\nthe raw military power these nations yield, makes it impossible for anyone else to impose a more ethically defensible solution on them.\nHe does close with a question -- an unanswered hope, that perhaps some day the UN might impose sanctions on countries that do really bad things like not play their part in protecting the environment. But it seems little more than wishful thinking. Elsewhere he is a bit more realistic -- as when he acknowledges that: \"to cynical observers of the Washington scene, all this must seem absurdly lacking in political realism.\"\nSinger does do some finger-pointing, especially at America, noting that \"all the major industrial nations but one have committed themselves\" to doing something about reducing greenhouse gas emissions (fudging the fact that the something remains a very vague thing too). America's outrageous indifference -- both in terms of public policy as well as private behaviour -- is deeply disturbing, but political realism and America's (and Americans') attitude of not just 'me first' but rather 'just me' make Singer's babbling about fairness and ethics sound almost na\u00efve. (As recent interventions abroad again demonstrate, in America 'American might makes right' is the only ethics that count.)\nIn his second section Singer focusses on the World Trade Organization, and four central charges against it:\nThe WTO places economic considerations ahead of concerns for the environment, animal welfare, and even human rights\nThe WTO erodes national sovereignty.\nThe WTO is undemocratic.\nThe WTO increases inequality; or (a stronger charge) it makes the rich richer and leaves the world's poorest people even worse off than they would otherwise have been.\nThis is a lot to consider, but Singer does offer a good overview of the main issues, concerns, and responses.\nHis discussion of Article XX and the product/process distinction in trade disputes (the WTO having ruled that countries can't discriminate against products from other countries because of the process by which they were made -- even, most of the time, if the process itself is in some way harmful (to the environment, etc.)) is certainly of interest, and points out how the WTO can get carried away in obsessing on the trade aspect of free trade.\nThe charge of eroding national sovereignty seems a less compelling one -- perhaps because national sovereignty (certainly in issues of trade), while popular, doesn't seem something of great value (as Singer also discusses elsewhere). Even accepting it (and Singer gives no good reason for doing so) he can't muster much of an argument why erosion would be bad (the treatment of AIDS- and other drugs is the best he can do).\nThat the WTO is undemocratic is also, on some level, true, but it might more accurately be called imperfectly democratic -- like the UN (which he also wants to reform), the American Senate (or the manner in which American (and many other) presidents are elected), etc. etc. Singer argues simply for \"giving weight to population numbers\" -- a too simple non-fix. (Do children count ? (A significant issue given the differing demographics in industrial and non-industrial countries.) What of weighting economic producers -- the people more directly affected by WTO decisions -- versus those who are less affected ? (Singer might say: everyone is affected, but the industrial nations won't go for that.) And wouldn't population-based voting power erode national sovereignty ...?)\nThe question of whether the WTO increases inequality is also a complex one, which Singer goes into in some depth. Certainly a valid point is the ability of rulers to screw over their countries by incurring costs (often funds siphoned off to private bank accounts in Switzerland) which must then be borne by the citizens -- a serious problem in many developing nations which are burdened by debts that did little to benefit the population as a whole.\nThe third section takes on the need and desirability for international intervention and questions of national sovereignty (a chapter written before the Anglo-American invasion of Iraq of 2003). In a global community Singer sees some international humanitarian intervention as desirable -- though firmly believing: \"Only the United Nations should attempt to take on this responsibility to protect.\" Singer makes a good case for why intervention is, under certain circumstances, acceptable and even desirable -- indeed, even a duty, in some circumstances. He also suggests some reforms in the make-up of the United Nations (to make it more \"democratic\").\nSinger's book does take initial American reactions to the terrorist attacks of September 2001 into account; unfortunately, recent events (Project Iraq 2003, and current American foreign policy in general) have considerably altered conditions. Post facto the US has tried to sell their military intervention in Iraq as a humanitarian gesture, but the excuse for intervention was solely pre-emptively defensive -- laughably Saddam Hussein was perceived to pose a threat to the US, said to have so-called \"Weapons of Mass Destruction\", and have connections to the World Trade Center-bombing terrorists . In trying to sell intervention to the UN regime change was never at issue, only the disarming of Iraq; the ensuing invasion was solely about regime change (since the Hussein regime apparently had no weapons, much less any capable of \"mass destruction\"). It now appears clear that America's militarist government (with a \"defense\" budget projected in 2004 to be larger than the defense budgets of all other nations in the world combined) will dictate when and how intervention will be permissible, with the UN at best allowed to station a few peacekeepers in areas where there are minor skirmishes.\nIronically, this is a chapter in which Singer seems to believe the US actually might participate in the ethical globally-oriented manner he approves of (unlike say with global warming); sadly, his hopes have certainly been dashed, as the US has again taken a \"leading\" role (in which ethics, especially of the globally-oriented sort, don't count for anything) while the best-suited organization for the job (the UN) has been pushed out of the picture.\nThe final section of the book focusses more on individual action, suggesting that everyone who can has a duty to help those who are less fortunate. Singer begins with the marvelous example of the flood of aid given to the families of victims of the World Trade Center attacks in 2001 -- despite the fact that many of these families were already well provided for by insurance, pension rights, and other safety nets. Meanwhile, American aid to the developing world remains negligible -- the lowest, in per capita terms, among industrial nations. Hilariously (and deeply disturbingly) Singer also cites numerous surveys in which Americans are asked how much they believe America is spending on foreign aid -- a typical survey found a median answer of 15 percent of GNP (when in fact it is less than 1 percent). (One wonders if the billions of dollars of armaments recently rained down on Iraq, pulverizing much of the country (and many of its citizens), will be counted as having been 'foreign aid', raising this year's percentage by a bit.)\nSinger argues that we all have a duty to help the greater global community, and not just those in our immediate vicinity (an argument he has made, at greater length, elsewhere too). There's something to this -- a few hundred dollars could alleviate great suffering if directed to the proper places, with Singer suggesting (as others have determined) that 200 dollars can save a child's life.\nThere are, of course, also numerous difficulties with this -- many of which he discusses. Among them: distant suffering (or alleviating it) isn't of much interest to most people. Singer correctly argues that that's hardly an ethical point of view, but it also is human nature. In addition, there's the difficulty of actually determining that the 200 dollars contributes to saving a child (and isn't wasted on marketing campaigns or fine hotels for aid workers, etc. etc.) -- and that satisfactory direct proof of having saved a life will almost never be obtainable.\nSinger wastes a lot of time with a thought-experiment by Peter Ungar, which basically amounts to: a man has parked his Bugatti on some train tracks and there's a child on a nearby train track when a train comes. If the man does nothing the kid will be killed -- but the man has the option of throwing a switch, which will divert the train to the tracks the Bugatti is on, saving the child but destroying the car. Singer argues that we have similar opportunities to save children's lives: donating 200 dollars is like throwing the switch, since we lose something of value (200 dollars) but save a life.\nThe example is, of course, a terrible one. The train-example is one of immediacy; were there adequate time there would be other solutions (warn the kid, move the Bugatti, etc.) -- and such life and death cases lead to different outcomes than when there is time to deliberate. (People often literally -- and sometimes very foolishly -- risk their lives in order to try to save other people (in fires, iced-over lakes, etc.) -- but won't give a dollar to someone on the street, even if they're in obvious need.) In addition, no immediate expenditure is required in the train example, and as any economist will tell you, the loss of an asset (the Bugatti) is very different from actually spending money in order to do something. (Indeed, a better example would be if there were no Bugatti but instead the switch were coin-operated, requiring the payment of 200 dollars in order to throw it).\nSinger has an obvious point -- that we should help those in need, and that in our global world that includes those very, very far away. Given public misperceptions (at least in America) about foreign aid -- which is also often tied and thus not put to best use (and, from the US, overwhelmingly goes to countries (such as Egypt) for political reasons, and not on a needs-basis) -- there certainly seem to be an opportunity to convince citizens to increase governmental aid (i.e. the use of their tax-dollars) to help those that really need it.\n(Telling numbers: President Bush Jr. was willing to demand some 70 billion dollars for his Iraqi-wargames, while Singer notes that American foreign aid only amounts to 10 billion dollars annually. Interesting priorities, no ? (Admittedly, America's destruction of Iraq had other benefits which might make the huge expenditure worthwhile -- a return on investment that foreign aid does not provide as obviously -- including the opportunity for such elaborate wargames which allowed the armed forces to test all their new toys (most of which seem to have performed very well), as well as returns to American companies in rebuilding everything the Americans wrecked and controlling (it remains to be seen for how long) Iraq's oil production.))\nSinger concludes that \"we should be developing the ethical foundations of the coming era of a single world community\" -- an admirable if not necessarily realistic ideal (given how poorly we manage this in even our most limited and local communities). Still: it's something to aim for -- but, as he notes:\nThere is one great obstacle to further progress in this direction. It has to be said, in cool but plain language, that in recent years the international effort to build a global community has been hampered by the repeated failure of the United States to play its part.\nSince Singer wrote those words the situation has gotten drastically worse, as the US has further distanced itself from many of the institutions and mechanisms designed to improve the global community, including the International Criminal Court of Justice (which Singer mentions, still holding out some hope that the prosecution of terror suspects might move the US to see the benefits of such a court) -- and even subverted institutions it claims to wholeheartedly support, such as the WTO (with President Bush Jr.'s pandering to small special interest groups overriding concerns about upholding free trade ideals, when he instituted patently illegal steel and agricultural tariffs). Admittedly, many other nations -- and many leaders, especially dictators of developing nations -- also show little interest in fostering a global community and doing their part, but America's overwhelming power and financial and industrial might puts it in a category all its own -- and Singer is correct in pointing out that of the many paths open to it it has chosen a singularly self-serving (and self-righteous) one that does come at a large cost to the world as a whole.\nSinger's arguments are largely ethical, and therein lies one of the problems: ethics aren't always obvious and self-evident, and no matter how much is made mention of starving and diseased peoples who could be fairly easily helped, if they are far, far away people will always find more immediate concerns. Similarly, the consequences of actions leading to global warming aren't particularly obvious to consumers -- who thus remain convinced that their little pollution-contribution doesn't amount to much as far as the bigger picture goes.\nOver the long term the more convincing argument may well be the self-serving financial one (which should certainly be an easier sell in the US): unilateral disregard for the global community comes at a high cost. Pollution is a tough one, because the costs are generally deferred (they fall on the next generation, or at least years in the future) which means people prefer to embrace the short-term benefits and ignore the long-term costs (much like smoking -- enjoyable in the short-term, dreadfully expensive (in this case to the individual) in the long-term -- leading people to act completely irrationally and actually engage in this damaging activity). Elsewhere, the benefits are more obvious, from cost-sharing in foreign interventions, to the fact that internationally agreed upon humanitarian intervention (if that's what it truly is) leads to widespread better conditions for populations, making for everything from larger markets for foreign products to their being less likely to become breeding-grounds for terrorists. Similarly, in international trade regulation, a focus on equity that looks beyond the most obvious economic aspects should, over the longer term, also produce markets in which essentially all participants will be better off -- i.e. get more out of it, financially and otherwise. Similarly, the proper distribution of adequate foreign aid can also broaden markets and ultimately increase welfare not just among those who receive the aid but even those that give it.\nOne World is an interesting look at very significant issues. Not all of it convinces -- though Singer's necessarily condensed consideration of the issues is in part responsible for this. Certainly, it is a worthwhile reminder that local actions and policies do have global consequences, and that we shouldn't turn a blind eye to these. His discussion is, for the most part, measured and there is little that is truly radical or particularly contentious. There's a lot more to all of this -- but at least the issues are raised, and it's worth reading for that alone.\nOne World:\nCr\u00edtica (Portuguese)\nJohn J. Reilly\nPeter Singer:\nPeter Singer Links\nFaculty page and CV\nInterview at Identity Theory\nOther books by Peter Singer under review:\nA Darwinian Left\nMartin Wolf explains Why Globalization Works\nJagdish Bhagwati In Defense of Globalization\nAustralian philosopher Peter Singer is the author of the influential Animal Liberation, and currently teaches at Princeton University.", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00040.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 120, + "original_length": 23118, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.96, + "perplexity": 316.6, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "http://contiki.mytripjournal.com/travel-United_States-California-Garberville", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T04:43:08Z", + "digest": "sha1:GGLT25YNQBYBU3GM22GI4RJQRUOWORO4", + "length": 7059, + "nlines": 28, + "source_domain": "contiki.mytripjournal.com", + "title": "Garberville, California, United States - Journals | Blogs | WebSites - MyTripJournal", + "raw_content": "World United States California Garberville\nRead and rate Travel Journal Entries for Garberville, California, United States\nMar 27, 2016 - Garberville CA\nWe took a drive over to Shelter Cove, a small town on the coast. It is a 21 mile drive from camp and it took me over 90 minutes one way. It was uphill, downhill, sideways and switchbacks with a top speed of 25 MPH because of the road. This was a road to hell for me. There is only one road in and out so you have no other chose but drive it. Most of the drive was 2 lane and one side it was straight down several hundred feet or straight up the mountain. The town sure wasn\u2019t much after we got there and so we returned to the motorhome. Another...\n2016 Westward HO\nAs we arise from a night\u2019s rest, gazing out the window to see the sun is starting to peek over the mountain tops. We watch as the morning fog is burning off from the rays of the sun and the day become alive. We will spend this day traveling the \u201cAvenue of The Giants\u201d. The Avenue of the Giants is a scenic highway in Northern California, U.S.A., running through Humboldt Redwoods State Park. This world-famous scenic drive is a 31-mile portion of old Highway 101, which parallels Freeway 101 with its 51,222 acres of redwood groves. It is by far...\nWe finally pulled out of Vallejo around 10:00 am to stop at fruit market on the way that the lady in the park said they had everything you could want. Well we got there and it was not what she said, Candy went in and they didn\u2019t have anything she was interested in. Back on the road we went, US 101. Our trip north was interesting because it was good road until we got near the Humboldt State Park. The road become a very narrow 2 lane road and as we drove thru the trees I needed to watch the trees on the right side of the road. They were on...\nNov 14, 2013 - Garberville CA\n11/14 We make the relativly short move from Kalamath to Garberville CA. It gets us closer to the lower CA redwood state parks and closer to Yosemite. The northern CA coast is spectacular. We check into Richardson Grove RV park and campground. We arrive around 1430 but the office has closed for the day, things are pretty slow around here. No phone coverage ATT or Verizone. No TV and no wifi password at least for today. We get set up and then explore locally a bit. We are still in the redwoods and on the edge of Richardson Grove State...\nApr 18, 2013 - Avenue of the Giants\nDay 45 of The Big Trip Our driving distance was a little more than 100 miles, which really taxed our endurance. The scenery changed drastically as we entered the coastal range. The roadside poppies were beautiful. We arrived at a beautiful RV park, just south of Garberville shortly after noon. Jim and Sandi had driven the Avenue of the Giants, but we never had; so off we went to see these magnificent trees. The drive is 32-miles long, with stops along the way to see groves of old-growth redwoods. Stepping into one of those groves gave me...\nTravels with Clark and Reba\nSep 27, 2012 - benbow rv - garberville, ca\nbig red wood trees everywhere.. pic of tree of life, look carefully, see the branches, that look like there is a whole other tree growing up? couple pic's of big tree shows perspective of how big they really are. Just down the road, - elk hanging out, the big guy had himself a nice group, when they crossed the road, one of his ladies strayed from the group. He looked around and then started to scream, almost like high pitched screach/whistle?\n\"On the road again\" with L.P.\nApr 23, 2012 - I Warned You\nFortuna, CA. Posted Monday, 4-23-2012 Mid afternoon. 64 Deg. partly coudy, NW wind @ 6 mph. Forecast tonight = Overcast with rain showers. Fog overnight. Low of 52F. Winds from the South at 5 to 15 mph. Chance of rain 20%. Well, I warned you that I may not have an Internet connection while out here along the California Coast, and sure enough, that's just what happened. I've kind of kept track of what happened and when it happened by writing it down on a word procesor, and so now, I'll try to copy and past it here. Oh, and when I opened...\nThe Wanderings Of Emrys\nFeb 14, 2012 - Pacific Coast, Oregon and California\nWe have been slowly working our way down US 101 along the Pacific Coast of Oregon and California on our way to the warm, dry desert country of the Southwest. Our first stop was the little town of Neskowin, Oregon, located a few miles north of Lincoln City. The campground where we stayed, Neskowin Creek Resort, has been a favorite of ours for some time, and it is an easy walk to the beach. It\u2019s been a bit stormy lately, so the ocean was very active with an off-shore wind resulting in a lot of spray blowing off the tops of some of the larger...\nAug 21, 2011 - Martinez, CA to Burlington Campground, CA\nWe stopped in Healdsburg, California for some wine tasting. The fancy options were a little too fancy, so we tasted wine made by a former skater under the Hobo label, and some wine made by brothers. Then we headed north, picking up a hitchhiker along the way who smelled up the car for the remainder of the trip. She introduced us to the phrase \"nifty groovy\" and also talked about the \"hippie aristocracy\" in Mendocino County and Garberville. Per her, she had been working at Winna Rainbow camp, run by Wavy Gravy of Woodstock fame. We camped...\nWith breakfast out of the way and lunch packed we begin a journey up Hwy. 101 and the Avenue of the Giants. We are located in Humboldt County home of the Redwoods. Soon after beginning we discover an interesting side trip, The Lost Cove. In the '20's when the famous route 1 coastal highway was built, this area was deemed too rugged for a road. It became an isolated fishing village. Once you arrive, it becomes a relatively flat seaside resort set amidst a long stretch of sheer ocean cliffs. The area is managed by the Dept of Interior(BLM)....\nMar 26, 2009 - Garberville, CA\nWe spent a comfortable 3 nights at the RV campground at the Benbow \"Resort.\" The campground was little more than a parking lot beside the hwy, but was neat and well tended. One day, with the weather sunny (unusual for this area) and cool, we drove to the coastal town of Shelter Cove. This is a small community of houses with a small airport, golf course and general store, at a beautiful spot at the south end of the Lost Coast. A huge new house on the bluff above the ocean was selling for under $1 million (a bargain at CA ocean front prices)...\nDuane & Jo's Travels in 2009\nJan 6, 2009 - Avenue of the Giants\nThis morning we left Eureka again heading south along California highway # 101. Our plan was to only travel about 60 miles for the day so that we could stop and tour \u201cThe Avenue of the Giants\u201d. The night before we had identified a RV Park that we thought sounded good in a local newspaper ad. The park was about 55 miles south of Eureka at a place called Myers Flats. We were both surprised and disappointed with the RV Park when we arrived. It was pretty dumpy, rundown and in no way compared to the ad we had seen. We decided not to stay there...", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00040.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 494, + "original_length": 13651, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.97, + "perplexity": 312.8, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "http://copycateffect.blogspot.com/2013/06/Dirir.html", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T04:25:31Z", + "digest": "sha1:BKESYR4SHDVIDK2KUEHJKSQ6WUBLT3TY", + "length": 1681, + "nlines": 13, + "source_domain": "copycateffect.blogspot.com", + "title": "Twilight Language: Shooting At Cherokee", + "raw_content": "A workplace shooting at a St. Louis, Missouri, business on Thursday, June 13, 2013, left four people dead. It appears to be a murder-suicide, a police official said.\nThe owner of AK Home Health Care is believed to be the gunman, and the victims were his employees.\nAfter a review of evidence, including a surveillance video, officers determined there had been an argument in the office of the business, Capt. Michael Sack told reporters.\n\"Shortly thereafter, gunshots are shown penetrating a wall inside of the business,\" police said in a statement.\nIt was unclear whether the \"brief\" dispute carried over from another day, Sack said.\nA semiautomatic handgun was recovered. No other people were injured.\nThe shooting occurred at the Cherokee Place Business Incubator, apparently named after Cherokee Street where the business was located. All those dead were Somalis.\nAfter receiving a call at about 1:30 p.m., police rushed to the building, which houses several businesses.\nPolice have identified the shooter as Ahmed Dirir, a 59-year-old businessman. He killed three employees before turning the gun on himself. St. Louis police said in a news release that 44-year-old Khadra Muse of Olivette; 29-year-old Seaeed Abdulla of St. Louis; and 54-year-old Bernice Solomon-Redd of East St. Louis were killed by Dirir in the shooting at AK Home Health Care LLC, just south of the downtown area.\nSt. Louis Police Capt. Michael Sack has said the gunman was the owner or co-owner of the nursing services provider, and that the victims were his employees.\nLabels: Ahmed Dirir, Cherokee, Four Dead, Shooting, Workplace Violence\n|\u00e5\u01b1\u0229\u0220\u0221\u0205\u024d \u0236\u1fe2\u2c60\u2c61\u2c63\u017e said...\nThis is awful! Thoughts and prayers xxx", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00040.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 218, + "original_length": 6652, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.98, + "perplexity": 266.9, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "http://cosmiconvergence.com/2018/09/24/rt-former-uk-ambassador-exposing-cia-mi6-control-over-western-news-media/", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T04:40:35Z", + "digest": "sha1:WSVHVBG4SSI3OKESICGEAN6AJB6VY65C", + "length": 2023, + "nlines": 8, + "source_domain": "cosmiconvergence.com", + "title": "RT & Former UK Ambassador Exposing CIA-MI6 Control Over Western \u2018News\u2019 Media | COSMIC CONVERGENCE", + "raw_content": "Home Uncategorized RT & Former UK Ambassador Exposing CIA-MI6 Control Over Western \u2018News\u2019 Media\nThe fact that America\u2019s CIA has the cooperation of all major news-media in the United States is well known and long-established, such as in the following two obscure places:\nThe CIA is one of the major extensions of America\u2019s part of the international Deep State, the few thousand U.S. billionaires, who are the only people who actually control U.S. foreign policies. They also control the nation\u2019s major news-media so that their foreign policies \u2014 such as the invasion of Iraq in 2003 and the invasion of Libya in 2011 \u2014 will be supported by enough Americans in order to re-elect the politicians, such as Hillary Clinton, who had voted for or otherwise enabled those invasions. These billionaires also own controlling blocs of stock in their international corporations, which, of course, benefit from such invasions.\nOne of the reader-comments to Murray\u2019s article recommended and linked to this video:\nThe next day, RT, Russian Television, bannered, \u201cGuardian\u2019s \u2018deliberate lies\u2019 over Assange Russia plot slammed by Craig Murray\u201d, and the reader-comments there were similarly strong against the Deep State that controls Western \u2018democracies\u2019.\nThe present news-story about \u2019news\u2019-lies has not yet been reported in any of the major \u2018news\u2019 media in the West. In case none of these major \u2019news\u2019-media has yet learned of this important matter, this news-report about it is being sent today to all major \u2018news\u2019 media throughout the West, in order to provide each one of them its opportunity to report upon the corruption behind today\u2019s Guardian, and behind all of them. So, now none of them can say they didn\u2019t know of this. Each will either report it, or else continue to hide it. 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Both countries first hesitated to send athletes to the competition but eventually did, which helped give rise to the tradition of the games and political mediation. North Korea rejects accusations it has been involved in hacking. The president ended his remarks on North Korea by revealing the regime's greatest fear; namely, the truth.\nWhether people trust North Korea or not, Kim Jong Un would wasn't so responsible back in April of 2017 when a North Korean missile hit their own city.\n\"This is more so that the foundation for inter-Korean exchanges has been laid by the PyeongChang Games, and the resolve of the current administration and the global community to reduce tensions on the Korean Peninsula has become clear\", he said.\nThe overall activation time of South Korea's 30 loudspeakers was not extended, meaning anti-Pyongyang broadcasts were shortened as a effect. South Korean President Moon Jae-in championed the effort to allow 12 North Korean players to join the team.\nKim also sent more than 400 others to the Olympics including his younger sister, a 140-member orchestra, an all-female 229-member cheering squad and a demonstration taekwondo team. Moon campaigned on improving relations with North Korea, but he has been notably reluctant to endorse the summit idea, pointedly refusing to answer questions about it at a press availability on Monday.\nMr Trump has repeatedly said that America will not negotiate until Kim Jong Un agrees to complete denuclearisation. He said he believes American media has portrayed the taut circumstances of the event more accurately than South Korean media. The current news coverage of North Korea's history-making presence at the Olympics ignores that moral gap between the two administrations.\nThe reappraisal came after researchers found that the spy group showed itself capable of rapidly exploiting multiple \"zero-day\" bugs - previously unknown software glitches that leave security firms no time to defend against attacks, John Hultquist, FireEye's director of intelligence analysis said.\nThey've paraded under the same flag before.\nAthletes got some wild card spots.\nThe White House also made sure to mention that Ivanka Trump would be flying commercially to Seoul.\nAs a result, four ice skaters, six skiers, and 12 women's hockey players were allowed to compete alongside South Korea. -South Korea drills practice for an invasion and overthrow of the North's regime.\nEveryone can bond over their love of the sports.\nQUIZ: Name the players who have played for both Chelsea and Barcelona\nStoneman Douglas HS girls' basketball team forfeits playoff game after shooting\nThe Americans will be trying to win their first gold since 1998, when women's hockey made its debut in the Olympics . David Wise defends his gold medal, along with his teammates Alex Ferreira, Torin Yater-Wallace and Aaron Blunck.\nRagnhild Mowinckel of Norway had the second-fastest time in the downhill and is 0.74 seconds behind Vonn. The athlete still has the combined race left on her schedule, but she's not favored to win gold .\nVonn also plans to analyze the way Goggia has been negotiating the downhill course. Goggia, the downhill victor , paid Vonn the ultimate compliment after the race.\nAddressing the media at the Chennai airport on Tuesday, Kamal Haasan said, \"I'll take this press meet as a token of welcome\". He also unveiled his party's flag that has six hands firmly holding each other in a circle, with a star at the centre.\nBut it's always an honor to race with Lindsey Vonn ... \"I just wish he was here, and I wish he could've watched me\", she said. 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Under a 2010 state law, third-graders are required to demonstrate reading competency beginning in the 2013-2014 school year.\n\u201cNot only is it a required mandate under state law,\u201d Stanton said, \u201cit\u2019s the only way to build the economy of our future.\u201d\nHe said the program would, among other things, screen students early in order to provide help and tutoring to those who need it, as well as develop a pilot program to give books to kindergarteners.\nStanton also called immigration reform important to the city\u2019s economy, including comprehensive immigration reform at the federal level and helping participants in the Obama administration\u2019s deferred-action program succeed in Arizona.\n\u201cWe need to grant the dreams of the young DREAMers in Arizona,\u201d he said. \u201cLet\u2019s give these talented young leaders licenses to drive.\u201d\nGov. Jan Brewer issued an executive order last year prohibiting deferred-action participants from receiving state or local public benefits such as driver\u2019s licenses.\nStanton said the economy also can benefit from socially inclusive policies.\nTwo days before, the City Council expanded Phoenix\u2019s anti-discrimination ordinance to include sexual orientation and gender identity. Stanton said the change would help the city attract more of the best and brightest.\n\u201cOur need to compete for top talent requires us to adopt policies that advance our city\u2019s reputation and commitment to equality,\u201d he said. \u201cWe had to take action \u2013 decisive, forward-thinking action. 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It\u2019s something that everyone can agree on. It makes you sad. It makes you wonder why, and it can defeat you if you let it. At this year\u2019s \u201cKick-Off\u201d for the Theater and Dance Department, guest speaker Diane Rodriguez let the audience know just how hard her \u201cno\u201ds have been, but through it all she was able to overcome the negativity and create her own path.\nDiane Rodriguez was born in San Jose, California to Hispanic parents with a farmworker past in a time period that was difficult for immigrants of any origin to experience. Before Rodriguez became the first person in her family to go away to college, she experienced her first of many \u201cno\u201ds, but it was a good \u201cno\u201d that ultimately helped shape the path she would take.\nShe proceeded to tell the audience of the advice a school counselor once gave her parents: that she should be sent to trade school. They were told that college was too expensive and too unobtainable for her, but Rodriguez\u2019s parents said, \u201cNo.\u201d They wanted more for their daughter and so she came to UCSB and experienced life as a Gaucho. After four years, she received her BA in Theater Arts and graduated in the 1970s, ready to take on the world and make a difference. Because hopefully that\u2019s what happens after we graduate. We end up exactly where we want, doing what we want.\nRodriguez is an accomplished actor, writer and theater director, and is now the associate producer of play production at the Center Theater Group in Los Angeles. In 2007, she won an Obie award, an off-Broadway award, for her performance in \u201cTale of 2 Cities: An American Joyride on Multiple Tracks\u201d and is well-known in the competitive world of theater.\nBut it wasn\u2019t always this way, and none of this success just fell into her lap. She worked hard and heard even more \u201cno\u201ds; enough \u201cno\u201ds to make anyone question their place in this competitive field. She then told the audience that she applied to CalArts and planned to attend for graduate school, but received a rejection letter that she vividly remembers reading in her apartment above I.V. Deli.\nInstead of letting this deter her, she went to L.A. to pursue her acting dream. She was told countless times that she just wasn\u2019t what directors were looking for. Eventually, she found steady work as an actress, but was only allotted stereotypical Latina roles. She wasn\u2019t happy with this, so she continued to make moves for herself and joined El Teatro Campesino. This traveling theater group put on sketches that brought issues of the time to center stage, such as Cesar Chavez. Because she didn\u2019t give up and knew what she wanted, she was able to travel around the world with this group and hone her craft and get where she is now.\nAs she continued her speech, she made it very clear that we as students can\u2019t let closed doors bring us down. She told us, \u201cIf one door is closed, find another one. If there isn\u2019t a door, build one. Go through it, and then leave it open so you can help those that come after you.\u201d\nAs a senior who is figuring life out (or at least trying to), this resonated deeply with me, and I believe it impacted the others as well. Many were nodding, agreeing with her powerful words. Diane Rodriguez accepted every \u201cno\u201d and turned it into a \u201cyes.\u201d She took every \u201cno\u201d and made it work to her advantage. She made it clear to all of us that we will be told \u201cno\u201d over and over. It\u2019s what we do after that and how hard we are willing to work for what we love that will define us. 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The full interview is available at this link. Below are highlights:\nAlex Obert: Now that you are no longer in TNA, how has life been for you with a more relaxed schedule and wrestling one-off events such as House of Hardcore?\nBully Ray: It\u2019s life after the first twenty years of my career. This is the first time I really ever had any time off in the wrestling industry. And the time off is by my choice. I\u2019ve decided to sit back right now and just take some time to step away from the business because I have never been away from it. Sometimes a little time away does do some good. So I\u2019m thoroughly enjoying life right now. And when I say thoroughly enjoying life, I mean that. I\u2019m doing everything that I wanted to do that I never got the opportunity to do when I was wrestling a full-time schedule. That opportunity is spending time with family and just taking time for myself.\nAlex Obert: Something big recently happened on the WWE Network that has everybody talking. Sting, a wrestler that you have worked closely with over the past couple of years, finally appeared in a WWE ring for the first time. What are your thoughts on that?\nBully Ray: If he\u2019s happy, then I\u2019m happy for him. It\u2019s the one and only thing that he never did in his career. Lots of people wanted to see it. I also think there\u2019s some people out there that didn\u2019t want to see it because Sting was the last guy in wrestling who was really a household name who never needed the WWE or the WWE machine to be at the top of his game. But I think him going there and finishing out his career there with a couple more matches, maybe a shot at Wrestlemania, maybe that match against the Undertaker, I think people are gonna enjoy it. I know he\u2019s gonna enjoy it. It was a pleasure being in the ring with him and I wish him all the best.\nAlex Obert: Do you see an opportunity for the younger wrestlers of TNA to one day step foot in WWE or do you feel that it isn\u2019t necessary now with the Performance Center and NXT?\nBully Ray: As far as younger TNA guys ever going to WWE, I\u2019m not gonna say absolutely not, but the window of opportunity is very, very small. WWE has created their developmental program, which has always been something that Hunter wanted to do. I remember him talking back in the day about wanting to reestablish territories. Even though that didn\u2019t happen, the developmental and having NXT is like having a territory. So they\u2019re going to create all of their own stars in-house the way they want to. And then they\u2019re gonna bring them up for the roster. I don\u2019t think WWE needs to pluck younger talent from any place else in the world, unless they want to. They plucked Steen and Kenta, so they have the luxury of sitting back and saying who they\u2019ll take a chance on. But most of the younger talent you see is gonna come from developmental.\nAlex Obert: Before we wrap up, I wanted to discuss something you\u2019ve done that has gotten people talking. You have been been posting tweets that have led to speculation regarding the future. I have to ask, what\u2019s next for you?\nBully Ray: What\u2019s next or who\u2019s next? (laughs) I don\u2019t know what\u2019s next, I\u2019m just gonna let it happen. I am so happy with my career and what I have accomplished that if my career ended tomorrow, I could walk off into the sunset with a huge smile on my face. However, because of the success of the Bully Ray character, I\u2019m hearing a lot of people clamoring for me to go back to the WWE to try to see if Bully Ray could do something over there. Personally, I think I could. I think it\u2019d be a lot of fun. If I were to go back to WWE either as Bully Ray by myself or to finish out my career with D-Von as Team 3D, I think both things could work. I think the fans, first and foremost, want to see it. They have been very active on Twitter and social media saying \u201cWe want Bully Ray in WWE\u201d or \u201cWe want Team 3D back in WWE\u201d. Like I said, if it\u2019s right, maybe it\u2019ll happen. But if it didn\u2019t, I still go out with a huge smile on my face. I tweeted last week that \u201cI\u2019m the 1 who can defeat the 1 who put the 1 in 21-1.\u201d I\u2019m confident in my ability in the ring and I\u2019m confident in my ability on the mic. So from a physical standpoint, Bully versus Brock would be very interesting. 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John Elway was known for his fourth-quarter heroics. When Tiger Woods isn't storming back from five down on the final nine holes, he's shattering records in a way that seems impossible to continue.\nWinston Cup racing's version of this phenomenon is, of course, Dale Earnhardt, who returns this week to the site of one of the most memorable and controversial victories of the 75 in his career.\nLast year's Goody's 500 at Bristol Motor Speedway was an instant classic, thanks to a frantic finish featuring Earnhardt, Terry Labonte, a half-dozen other race cars and nearly 150,000 charged-up race fans.\n\"I stir up controversy, don't I?{quot} Earnhardt said when asked about his penchant for being right in the middle of some of the sport's most talked-about moments. {quot}I don't know if I search it out or what.\"\nEarnhardt was searching for his first victory at a non-restrictor plate track since 1996 on Aug. 28 when he sliced his way through the field from the 26th starting spot - and a backstretch pit stall - to battle Labonte for the victory over the final half of Bristol's night-time race.\nTony Stewart had dominated the first half of the race, leading 225 of the first 251 laps, but after Jeff Gordon led from 252 to 299 Labonte and Earnhardt took over. Nobody else led after Labonte took the top spot on Lap 300.\nLabonte passed Earnhardt to take the lead on Lap 439 and appeared to be on his way to winning for the second time in the 1999 season. But as the cars slowed for a yellow flag on Lap 490, Labonte spun in Turn 4 after getting hit from behind by Darrell Waltrip.\nLabonte went into the pits while Earnhardt took the lead, and when the race went green again only five laps remained. Labonte came back out in fifth place but had new tires and quickly moved into second. At the white flag, he had surged past Earnhardt to regain the lead.\nBut the drama was just beginning. Earnhardt drove hard into turns 1 and 2 trying to catch up, and as he came out of Turn 2 his Chevrolet hit Labonte's in the rear. Labonte spun and crashed into the inside wall, collecting several other cars in the process.\nEarnhardt, however, slipped through and raced back around to take the checkered flag and set off the 1999 season's biggest controversy. As the black No. 3 went to Victory Lane, the crowd was on its feel. Some were cheering wildly, but more were booing lustily.\n\"I didn't mean to wreck him,\" Earnhardt said, beginning one of the season's most memorable quotes. \"I was just trying to rattle his cage.\"\nEarnhardt and Labonte are both a little weary of rehashing what happened at Bristol last fall.\n\"It was a good race,\" Earnhardt said. \"To come to what it did and him not finish second was the only thing I hated about the whole deal and I thought back about. I wish he hadn't wrecked. I wish it would have been a deal where we bumped and I got by him and raced on.\"\nOn that night last August, Labonte waved off Earnhardt's explanation that he didn't mean to cause a wreck. These days, in typical Terry Labonte fashion, he's ready to move on.\n\"There's really nothing you can do about it,\" Labonte said. \"I wish it wouldn't have happened. I know Dale wishes it wouldn't have happened, but it did.\n\"You've just got to go on about your business. I'm not a person that lets something like that bother me long. I'd be pretty miserable if I was, so you just go on about your business and hope you have a good run there.\"\nLabonte wound up eighth in the Goody's 500 last year, but his team never seemed to recover from the disappointment. The No. 5 Chevrolet finished no better than 14th in any of the 11 races that followed last season.\nLabonte does have three top-15 finishes in this year's first five races, and the next two races are at Bristol, where many think he should have won, and Texas, where he did win last year.\n\"We've got a good team, and Bristol is a good race track for us,\" Labonte said. \"We're going to go up there and we're going to do our best to have a good run and hope we can do that and do as good as we did last time there. We're going to take the same car back. It's got a 2000 body on it. We hope we can have that right combination again and have a shot there.\"\nLast August's outcome seemed to have the opposite effect on Earnhardt. He had six top-10 finishes in the 11 races after Bristol, including his third win of the 1999 season in October at Talladega.\nThis year, Earnhardt has finished second, eighth, first and third in his past four races and is third in the early season points race. His victory at Atlanta Motor Speedway came, in typical Earnhardt style, by about 2 feet in a thrilling last-lap duel with another Labonte, Terry's brother Bobby.\n\"It has been a good start,\" said Earnhardt, who said he needs to keep running in the top five and challenging for victories if he wants to add a record eighth Winston Cup title to his career resume.\n\"They keep moving the mark,\" he said when asked what kind of consistency it takes to run for a title. \"Now it's top fives and wins. A top 10 may keep you competitive, but it's not going to win you the championship I don't think. You've got to be there.\"\nAnd given his history, the more Earnhardt is there, the more excitement race fans can anticipate as the 2000 season progresses.", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00040.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 32, + "original_length": 5569, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.99, + "perplexity": 234.0, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "http://davidsisler.com/4-24-99.htm", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T03:23:17Z", + "digest": "sha1:STDQ6Q25SXJY7UHCYOJSZ5AWW5COPAWR", + "length": 4391, + "nlines": 13, + "source_domain": "davidsisler.com", + "title": "ALL THINGS? EVEN THIS?", + "raw_content": "ALL THINGS? EVEN THIS?\n\"Christians don't really know how to interpret pain. If you pinned them against the wall, in a dark, secret moment, many Christians would probably admit that pain was God's one mistake. He really should have worked a little harder and invented a better way of coping with the world's dangers\" (Philip Yancey, The Gift Nobody Wants).\n\"What can effectively separate us from the love of Christ? We know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose\" (Paul the Apostle, Letter to the Romans).\n\"It appears to be a suicide mission\" (Sheriff John Stone, Littleton, Colorado).\nNew Life Christian Center, where my kids are members, was having a guest speaker, so I went to support the special program. Before the worship time began my daughter, Jennifer, asked, \"Did you hear about the shooting in the Denver school?\"\nThere had been no news break-ins on the station we were listening to at work, and I was listening to a book-on-tape in the car, so Jen's report was the first I had heard. Maybe it comes from being married to a school teacher, but when I heard about the murders, I wept. My first words were, \"Come back, Jesus! Come back now!\"\nThe people who set off bombs and fired weapons are dead. So who do we blame? There are many possibilities, and many areas of our culture deserve scrutiny, but the use of scapegoats avoids personal responsibility. Philip Yancey, one of today's most insightful and challenging writers, says most Christians think pain is God's one big mistake. So are we going to hold the Lord God Almighty responsible for the deaths in Littleton? Is it your opinion that he should have intervened? It is easy to make a case against God, if we take the actions of Satan and the actions of man and treat them both as if they were the actions of God.\nWho, with sound intelligence and coherent logic, would suggest that the God who said, \"I came so my sheep might have real and eternal life, more and better life than they ever dreamed of\" could remotely sanction the events of Littleton? This is Satan's world. God's word says so. That does not make God less God. It does mean that until Jesus returns in power and in majesty and in victory, hell rules this planet.\nPaul's statements that all things work together for the good of those who love the Lord, and that nothing can separate us from the love of Christ, too easily become mantras that are chanted mindlessly and without any comprehension. Tell a grieving parent that the death of a precious son or daughter will work for good and the chances are very good that unless that man, or that woman, knows Jesus Christ with a deep, inside personal conviction, you will get a blank stare or a punch in the nose. You would deserve both.\nYou might even get the punch in the nose from a believer. Such confidence must work from the inside out, and at the moment of grief, it may not be understood. It may not even be believed.\nIf God is for us, who can be against us? Eyewitnesses in Littleton said one of the gunmen pointed his weapon and said, \"You're black,\" and pulled the trigger, \"You're a jock,\" and pulled the trigger, \"I don't like you,\" and pulled the trigger. Obviously those young people had someone against them. We all have people who are against us. Thankfully, most of them do not have guns. But each of us can have a personal relationship with the God who says, \"With my love inside of you, nothing, no one, can ever effectively, ultimately, be against you, defeat you, overcome you, ever. Even a murderous gunman.\"\nThe senseless death of innocent children is just that \u2014 senseless. Without the confidence that God is irrevocably for us, such tragedy can destroy our hearts with bitterness. The good news is that any man, any woman, any young person, can walk boldly into God's love, begin an eternal life, and live in the certainty of God's loyalty.\nWhy did so many people die in Columbine High School? Beyond the fact that Satan rules temporarily, I do not know. How can these deaths ever be understood? I see no way to ever fathom the sorrow of the families who lost precious children. Can the deaths in Littleton, Colorado, or your own personal hurt or individual suffering separate you from the love of Christ so that you are completely on your own? Now here, I do have the answer. Unless God is a liar, they cannot.", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00040.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 20, + "original_length": 4625, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.97, + "perplexity": 284.8, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "http://decoratingfiles.com/2012/06/fun-friday-a-ping-pong-dining-table/", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T04:50:33Z", + "digest": "sha1:WVFSIDDJA2U5NHRPSNB3I3H3FXHWQM4T", + "length": 2127, + "nlines": 10, + "source_domain": "decoratingfiles.com", + "title": "Fun Friday: A Ping Pong Dining Table - The Decorating Files", + "raw_content": "You are here: Home / Decorating / Fun Friday: A Ping Pong Dining Table\nFun Friday: A Ping Pong Dining Table\nHappy Friday everyone! Usually I schedule my blog posts to publish in the wee hours of the morn, but because I forgot to hit the Schedule button for some strange reason that didn\u2019t happen. Must be because I was in a hurry to go out to dinner with my handsome husband of technical problems. But here it is!\nWe\u2019re a family that likes to play ping pong. We\u2019re also a family that likes to dine al fresco or as we like to call it, out on the porch. And we like to do both on the downstairs porch, because that\u2019s were the pool is and it\u2019s closer to the kitchen. However, there\u2019s not enough room for a ping pong table and a dining table. Or so I thought! As I was flipping through the latest issue of Elle Decor, I found just the thing! An outdoor ping pong table that also doubles as a dining table. It has contemporary styling and it\u2019s beautiful!\nPretty cool, isn\u2019t it? It\u2019s by James De Wulf and according to their website, it\u2019s made of concrete and steel. However, Elle Decor says it\u2019s made of \u201cconcrete and reinforced lightweight carbon fiber\u201d. Either way, I don\u2019t imagine it\u2019s going to blow away in a storm. The table is regulation size and comes with a clip on net. It\u2019s also available in various colors. The one shown is light gray.\nWhat I like most about it, is that it doesn\u2019t look like a ping pong table at all \u2013 that is until you put the net on. I love the contemporary lines. But I don\u2019t feel it limits itself just to contemporary design. My house is Mediterranean style and it would look great here.\nThe only drawback for me is the price. At $7,000 it\u2019s not going to be making it\u2019s way onto my porch anytime soon. However, one could use it for inspiration if one was so inclined. Wink. Wink.\nBefore you go, I hope you\u2019ll leave me a comment. It always makes my day when I hear from you. Enjoy your weekend!\nPeggy. I love this table and I love it when they come up with things that look good and are functional! I\u2019m going to start saving my pennies!\nI love it, too. Maybe they\u2019ll have a \u201ccoupon day\u201d or something. \ud83d\ude42", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00040.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 63, + "original_length": 3999, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.95, + "perplexity": 284.2, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "http://deepmuckbigrake.com/category/parenting/", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T03:50:46Z", + "digest": "sha1:D43TNLTKXKKXYUA2T4YQYGHORGKZO4A7", + "length": 4526, + "nlines": 15, + "source_domain": "deepmuckbigrake.com", + "title": "Deep Muck Big Rake \u00bb Parenting", + "raw_content": "Books: Hold on to Your Kids\nDecember 22, 2008 | Books,Family,Parenting\nI recently read Hold on to Your Kids: Why Parents Need to Matter More than Peers by Gordon Neufeld, Ph.D., and Gabor Mat\u00e9, M.D.\nI picked it up because Izzy mentioned it. She said Christina recommended it to her.\nPaternity Leave Heaven\nDecember 22, 2007 | Benefits,Family,Guest blogger,Guest post,Parenting\nHi there, I\u2019m AdventureDad and you might know me from my site or The Blogfathers. Becky has graciously asked me to do a guest post and during her Norwegian adventure. Poor Becky, she\u2019s over in Norway freezing her butt off and seeing absolutely no sunshine for a few weeks while people like me ruin her blog. I\u2019m actually not far away from Becky since I live in Sweden, Norway\u2019s neighbor, since a few years back.\nThe Scandinavian countries are known for many things but since I\u2019ve travelled around the world quite a bit, and lived in U.S. for 15 years, I think priority on families and children really stand out. Something I\u2019m very grateful for since I have two young children. The greatest example in Sweden is the very generous maternity/paternity leave that all parents have a right to. I\u2019m just going back to work after six months of paid paternity leave which some people find completely normal while others can hardly believe it.\nReactions to a father staying home for six months with his children vary but can generally be divided into three groups. The Swedes think it\u2019s great and simply ask how long I\u2019m staying home. The Americans are shocked and impressed, especially that fathers have the same possibilities, at our long paid leave and ask lots of good questions. And finally the South Americans, especially fathers, who are too shocked or uninterested to ask anything at all. The Latin fathers simply can\u2019t believe why any father would voluntarily stay at home with his children, a job clearly meant for women only.\nIf you\u2019re a father and wonder if it\u2019s a nice vacation to stay home with two kids I can quickly tell you it\u2019s not. I have the most stressful Wall Street job imaginable but being at home with my children is twice as tough. It\u2019s a real challenge.\nHow come so few countries pay parents so they can give their infants, and of course also the family, a good start in life? I don\u2019t know but having seen the difference I\u2019m convinced parental leave is one of the best investments ever for a society. I\u2019m sure problems later in life, like disease, crime, finances, and family stuff, become far less of an issue since parents get a relaxed start and have time to build a very close relationship with their kids (and spouse). Not having to worry about finances, health care, or work does make an incredibly difference. While many say Sweden offers so many family benefits because of our social democratic system I\u2019m sure it\u2019s actually a clever plan which in the long run drastically decreases the expenses for the government. It\u2019s a win-win situation for everyone.\nFor every child the Swedes are allowed to stay home 480 working days. Mother and father can split the time any way they want. The compensation is roughly 90% of your salary up to a cap which is equal to an average salary. Some companies, like my employer, even make up the difference for higher salaries so the compensation will be 90% regardless if one is making $25k or $300k a year.\nWhile it would be easy to rip other countries, like the U.S., for virtually nonexistent benefits I think a better idea would be for those countries to learn from other systems which work well. For many who have experienced the different approaches to parenthood it\u2019s obvious that the extra expense paid early on yields an amazing payback down the line. The question is, how do we change the system to make it easier to combine children, family, and work?\nFor me personally, paternity leave has been fantastic and I really wish more fathers had this possibility. It\u2019s great for the children and stepping into the \u201ctraditional motherhood role\u201d is more educational than you can imagine. I stayed home 5 months with our now 4-year old son and 6 months with our now 16-month old daughter. I can clearly notice my relationship being very different from fathers who have not spend 24/7 with their kids for an extended amount of time. Although that is very nice now when my kids are young I expect to see the greatest benefits in 10-15 years. Those teenage years are apparently not always easy but a great bond with my kids will hopefully help.\nPosted by AdventureDad @ 12:07 pm | 1 Comment", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00040.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 468, + "original_length": 45371, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.97, + "perplexity": 324.8, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "http://defendyournuts2.com/2017/07", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T03:53:04Z", + "digest": "sha1:4KTFZD7R4KQPOY3CW5TUCXH2XNK3CWHD", + "length": 13985, + "nlines": 38, + "source_domain": "defendyournuts2.com", + "title": "July, 2017 | DYN", + "raw_content": "The Key Elements of Great Teams\nby Editor on July 31, 2017 in Business Products & Services\nSome Stuff You Might Want To Know About Paintball\nPaintball is basically a game that everyone can enjoy in a ton of special events and team buildings, since it does not require players to have an experience of playing it beforehand.\nWhen being played, this game basically needs your ability to move fast and lift heavier stuff, whilst not really having a strategic plan with any teammate of some sort.\nIt is best to suggest to your team leaders a game like paintball, if ever your company is planning on having an event with some team building activities to help employees, since it does not only involve a ton of fun for the employees to enjoy and laugh about, but it will also strengthen their morale in terms of how they deal with work and other people.\nYou may know that there are actually two types of paintball games with also different types of equipment used for them to be played, The first type of paintball is called a scenario paintball or mostly known as a woodsball- it is basically played outdoors like in the woods with some type of equipment that will match the kind of environment the game is played at. Woodsball, or the scenario paintball, basically lets its players follow an authentic war simulation combat that is in accordance to that of a military style and the players also get to wear some camouflage paintball costumes that they will surely love to wear and have fun with. To make the game even more realistic with the military feels, the players use some authentic-looking replica guns that are quite the same as actual rifles, tactical pistols, and machine guns.\nThe second kind of paintball is \u2026 Read More ...\nWhy Darknet Markets Are Popular And Some Of The Things People Buy And The Risks They Get Exposed To\nDarknet markets have existed for the longest, and there are so many products people have been purchasing all the goods that they might not be able to get through the right channel. If you want to access these sites remember that with regular browsers you might not find them. The browsers help one to find their identity and place, therefore, making the purchase easy.\nWhen you have the required amount of money you will be able to purchase followers on your social media pages. Some of the famous social media strategists in the world right now have used this platform in one way or another to become more famous and maintain their relevance in the market. How many followers you can gain depends on how much one is willing to pay, and before you realize it people will be talking about your popularity.\nIt is a market that is popular among most drug users since they can easily purchase hard drugs from any part of the world. It is easy for someone who messed their lives and had their life fixed once to have it all once again through buying a new identity. It is a place with all the manuals to what you need to know and some kids use it to get a college degree.\nA lot of people have been wondering where terrorists get their weapons especially if they are not being funded but the answer is in these places. People purchasing these items might also need dangerous chemicals that have sent sellers in prison but on this site, everything is up for sale. Those experienced hackers can get credit \u2026 Read More ...\nby Editor on July 31, 2017 in Employment\nA Girls\u2019 Night Out.\nAmong the exciting points it\u2019s possible to have can be a girls\u2019 night out particularly if you\u2019re working hard in a business or studying. Merely to remove stress and have fun for a change.\nAs said before, age is of no importance, except maybe when you choose your kind of fun. You may want to go clubbing and meet interesting fellows, have drinks which names you won\u2019t remember the next day and dance all night long. Or, you may want to invite your \u201cgirls\u201d to an art exhibition and then have a dinner in that fancy restaurant you\u2019ve been planning to go to for weeks now and never found the time. There?s that specific period when you are able give your pals those hot information on your life you never need to claim on the telephone.\nWhat makes these two evening outs so different and so similar at the same time is the friendship between you and your friends, the need to break loose from everyday life, have fun and enjoy the presence of your good friends.\nWhichever fun they choose, girls always tend to go wild on their night out. Dressing up is part of the magic; you have to put on items that attract men\u2019s admiration and women\u2019s jealousy.\nA girls-night of partying is about showing off and being important and stylish and feeling hot. Girls always keep in their wardrobe several outfits especially for these kinds of outs. Perhaps even a sexy Santa wardrobe in case you have to go to a concept occasion, sporting something red and bright and being attractive in it. Of course if you get an impromptu invitation from your friends, and you also simply cannot find anything to don, you\u2019ll be able to generally count on your accessories \u2026 Read More ...\nby Editor on July 28, 2017 in Foods & Culinary\nWays to Improve Your E-commerce Enterprise Today, there are numerous businesses being run on the internet. The internet business is becoming very competitive. Therefore, if you wish to have success in this industry you will have to work harder. That means researching your niche and knowing everything about e-commerce. Online business does work. Nonetheless, too many people give up quickly. Below are some of the tips you can employ to succeed in online business. Online Marketing In order to sell things online you should have certain marketing skills. You cannot succeed trying to make sales while using outdated marketing techniques. You are going to need to refine your marketing skills. Digital marketing requires you to be conversant with different marketing techniques. You need to be aware of the versatility of this method of marketing. It is important to know what will work for your business and stick to that. Necessary Tools and Software It is important that you have a few things sorted when dealing with e-commerce. Aside from needing to have a fully functional CRM software, you will need to look for ways of integrating your software and cloud based applications.One of the best connectors for ensuring that your Netsuite EPR and other software are well integrated is Celigo.\nIntegrating Live Chat The good thing about live chat is how convenient it is. When it comes to setting it up, it is so easy to do it and no technical expertise is required. Making use of live chat in e-commerce allows customers to seek help before they make any major decision. This kind of platform gives your customers an opportunity to voice any concerns about your business.Your clients can freely voice their concerns regarding any buying decision they need to make as \u2026 Read More ...\nA Simple Plan For Investigating Switchplates\nby Editor on July 28, 2017 in Internet Services\nHow to Install the Best Switch Plates Switch plates have come to change how things decoration work is done in the house.When you visit most homes, you will notice that people are used to ivory plastic or white ones. With the different designs and materials to choose from, your house will never be the same. In case you find this hard to understand, it is advisable to live the work the professionals.Before you make your mind the subject, it is good to know where you need to place them. Different rooms will need different covers. There are several advantages of having the covers in your home. One of the advantages is the need to have a beautiful home. You can use them to lighten up your house. One thing you will appreciate about the covers is that they can be found in different styles. You will be happy to know that styles such as brushed nickel, copper, metallic, ceramic and woods are available in many places.When picking the materials, it is wise to ensure it matches with the designs in your house. It is easy to have them since they are affordable.They are considered a good way of decorating with assurance of getting your investment return back. The primary reason for the covers is because you need protection in the home. It is hard to touch any wire at your house when you have the switch plates. They are useful in every part of your house thus making it easy to use. You should be comfortable to cover your phone jacks, television cables, power openings, hook ups and extra openings.In additional to this, one can use the wall switch covers to protect anyone from very high voltage wiring. They will come in handy when you have young ones within the \u2026 Read More ...\nby Editor on July 28, 2017 in Health Care & Medical\nThe Basics of Local Locksmith Services\nA locksmith is a person that comes with the right knowledge and skills as regards anything that is related to locks and keys. In times of security and lock needs, a locksmith will make sure to be there for you to do the job that you have called them for. There is no doubt that a lot of people will be having problems with their locks if they do not seek the expertise and skills of a professional locksmith. Therefore, whatever lock problems you are currently facing, you need not worry how to fix them because a good locksmith will make sure to give you the best solution for it. A professional locksmith will surely be there for you for instance if you have locked yourself out of your home or if you have left your keys inside your car. When you have lock concerns that need quick fixing and you have a professional locksmith living nearby you, then you should consider yourself very lucky.\nProfessional locksmiths are not just capable of taking care of your dead bolts or changing your locks. Not a lot people are well aware of the fact that they are also good at repairing cars as well as installing safes in your home or office to store your valuable belongings such as jewelry and cash. You know you have found a highly-skilled locksmith if they can remedy your lock or key problems in just a matter of time. You will never have to worry a day in your life regarding your home or office security if you hire a professional locksmith. In terms of professional locksmiths, bear in mind that they have different areas of specialization. For instance, there are safe locksmiths while there are car locksmiths. Make sure \u2026 Read More ...\nBest 24 Hour Best South Locksmith Services In Austin\nHave you just lost your keys? Is there any situation that is more frustrating than this? Not only does losing your car, garage or house keys delay some of your important duties, but it also gets you stressed up. It\u2019s a situation whereby you do not know what to do, who to call or what to say. The idea that someone could have compromised them makes your situation worse! But what step should you take? Which is the place that you should go? Well, if you are a native of Austin, then brace yourself for I have the perfect solution for you!\nBest quality South Austin locksmith Services\nPrecisely, when you can\u2019t find your keys, the best thing is to find help. In most cases, friends will always have more than a hundred different ways of opening the door. They may also be hospitable when, especially if it is too late in the night. If it\u2019s your car keys you can\u2019t find, then it could be necessary for you to consider using other means to commute. But is any of those methods named herein going to solve the key problem? Definitely, not! The next day, you\u2019d wake up to the reality and find that you don\u2019t actually have the keys!The following day, you will still wake up to the reality of not having the keys!\nIf you are in Austin, you should not even think twice. If you call the lock and key experts; they will definitely come to rescue the situation. Basically, they do have locksmith dripping springs, which are important in helping you solve the challenges. Below are a few services offered by these technocrats.\nCar key replacement in Bastrop\nWell, it does not matter where in Austin you \u2026 Read More ...\nFacts and Tips About Point of Sale Systems When it comes to EPOS equipment or Electronic Point of Sale Equipment, it pertains to the order-entry computer-based technology used by many bars and restaurants for capturing orders, recording data, and displaying or printing tickets. Point of sale systems are used by cashiers, bartenders, and restaurant servers in order to enter food and beverage orders easily. In fact, a POS equipment has a dual function, a computer, and a cash register. A POS equipment can be set up in multiple stations including credit card terminals, display screens, receipt printers, server stations, and hostess stations. In busy situations, especially during peak hours of business operation, a POS system greatly helps saving time, adding accuracy and providing convenience for your employees, including the following functionalities and features: automatic calculation of cash due for every order entered, keeping track of cash flow, recording the method of payment, automated calculation of payroll, recording daily checks averages, automated hourly and daily sales data reporting, tracking of menu items sold, and recording information of repeating customers. Remember though that some POS systems work differently than others depending on the developer and manufacturer, and user processes differs depending on the service style and the type of restaurant. When it comes to the general procedure of taking orders through a POS system, the employee enters user code or username into the initial touch screen, allowing the employee to access the system, begins a new order by entering food items, then the POS will send all the order information to the bar or kitchen in a form of digital display or printed ticket, so that the bar or kitchen employees can read the orders and prepare them for serving. In a fast-service restaurant, the employee read the total charge on the \u2026 Read More ...", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00040.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 206, + "original_length": 21296, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.96, + "perplexity": 339.9, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "http://desirablealways.com/does-he-has-an-extra-marital-affair/", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T03:51:48Z", + "digest": "sha1:JCQMLA7BCBT7XMX6KCCTLDIGLXXLIRPW", + "length": 3456, + "nlines": 15, + "source_domain": "desirablealways.com", + "title": "Does He Has An Extra Marital Affair? - Desirable Always", + "raw_content": "Does he has an extra marital affair? How to keep a watch or hold control of things so that it does not happen with you-\nMarriage is a bond of love & trust between two people. The institution of marriage is very sacred and is the socially acceptable form of relationship between man & woman. Marriage binds two people in a relationship which is based on loyalty & faithfulness with each other but this connection is often disturbed by a relationship which is known as extra-marital affair.\nThese relations are formed out of the marital relation and may happen in any marriage. Extra marital relations have existed from time immemorial in the society. People tend to form a secretive alliance out of their marriages as they considered it to be a thing of boosting self- esteem in front of others.\nThere are many reasons attributed to cause extra marital relationships, but this post discloses those important things which need to be checked timely to avoid your husband from having an extra marital relationship with some other woman.\nSo, if you have a doubt about your husband\u2019s loyalty or you figure out that he is on the verge of having an illicit relation outside your marriage, then it is high time you start keeping track of certain things to prevent an extra-marital affair from happening.\nPrioritize your married life-\nThe life of a woman changes drastically after marriage as she has to consider the relations of two families at the same time. When the family members increase they further add to the number of responsibilities on her shoulders. Amidst all this, there are many occasions when a woman gives priority to family & children over her husband. This is the alarming situation which needs to be changed immediately. Make a priority to meet the needs of your husband over and above other responsibilities. This will prevent him to deviate from the feelings he has for you.\nNever keep secrets from your husband-\nMarriage is all about trust and mutual understanding. It should be made sure that you don\u2019t hide anything from your husband because once the truth is revealed he is prone to get hurt because of your secretive behavior and think that you don\u2019t trust him. In that case he is likely to involve with someone else on an impulse.\nLove & support your husband-\nIt is very essential for a wife to understand that her love & companionship is very necessary for her husband after few years of their marriage as he may feel left out alone while you are busy in managing your family and children and think that your husband will be happy with all that. Shower some surprises exclusively for your husband to make him feel that still he is the first human being, whom she loves and cares for, more than her children & family.\nGet acquainted with his co-workers-\nIt is very astonishing to know that many of the extra marital affairs arise from the workplace so it is better to know the co-workers at your husband\u2019s office and develop a friendly behavior with them. Don\u2019t let suspicion come in the way, so that your husband can easily share office chit-chats with you. This will make the communication between the two of you quite friendly and often give you some chance of casual joking or flirting with your husband. This will make him more relaxed towards your relationship and he is likely to abide by the rules of marriage.\nPreviousMen will be Men-How You Can Catch Of Him\nNextHow You Can Transform Your Arranged Marriage Into A Love Marriage", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00040.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 69, + "original_length": 5072, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.98, + "perplexity": 282.9, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "http://digitalcollections.ppld.org/cdm/singleitem/collection/p15981coll4/id/93", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T04:06:42Z", + "digest": "sha1:LORIXJSBJRMXHPX3MQPZZHE2VLKMKZNR", + "length": 4512, + "nlines": 8, + "source_domain": "digitalcollections.ppld.org", + "title": "Interview with James Phillips :: Pikes Peak Region Oral Histories", + "raw_content": "SCANLON: We will resume our discussion. This is the Colorado Springs Oral History Project. I\u2019m Tim SCANLON Today is November 11, 2006 and I am here with James D. Phillips at 2530 Paseo Rojo in Colorado Springs. And we had discussed three weeks ago your career, your life, early life in your career up to the point of being the director, deputy director of operations with the Colorado Springs utilities. And we broke off at the point where you were about to be named the utilities director. So perhaps we could begin at that point.\nPHILLIPS: 1972. This will give me the click back to the politicians involved in those days.\nSCANLON: So at that time, the mayor was selected by the council members.\nPHILLIPS: Yes. They were, they were voted upon by the council members. And Andy Marshall was the mayor in 1972.\nSCANLON: And had he any particular interest in utilities, or,\nPHILLIPS: No, not particularly. In those days, the utilities were under the city manager\u2019s direction, supposedly. Now Ray did everything. The city charter is written as a city management form of government. The city manager had everything under him. So they\u2026\nDescription Part two of three of an oral history interview with James Phillips, director for Colorado Springs Utilities. In this interview, Phillips briefly discusses city politics in 1972.\nTranscription Oral History Interview with James D. Phillips Interview by Tim Scanlon 11 November 2006 CSHP 0034 Part 2 Colorado Springs History Project CSHP Pikes Peak Library District, Special Collections Copyright 2015 Colorado Springs History Project The Colorado Springs History Project was conducted between the years 2005-2010 in a joint effort to document and update the history of Colorado Springs from mid-20th century to 2010. This volunteer team included members from the region\u2019s major academic libraries and faculties, as well as the Pikes Peak Library District and the Pioneers Museum. Administered and supervised by the Colorado Springs History Project Committee, the project interviewers consisted of a number of local volunteers. The oral history portion of The Colorado Springs History Project identified and interviewed individuals who had helped to shape the city of Colorado Springs in various and diverse ways. Subjects were also sought as representative of inhabitants of the Pikes Peak region and could provide insight into the city\u2019s story in the second half of the twentieth century. The interviews reflect the rapid growth of Colorado Springs and touch on business and government relations, religious organizations, the Air Force Academy, Colorado College, and the growth of many important charitable services within the community. The collection is comprised of 50 tapes, 19 CDs, and 2 DVDs with 32 individual interviews. These interviews are housed in the archives of Pikes Peak Library District\u2019s Special Collections. A complete listing of the interviews is available at the Special Collections reference desk. Transcripts for many of the interviews are available for use. Digitization Audio from the Colorado Springs History Project was digitized between 2009 - 2011 and is available for study and use in the Special Collections department. The Colorado Springs Oral History Project\tJames D. Phillips Oral History Interview CSHP 0034, part 2 Tim Scanlon 11 November 2006 Colorado Springs, Colorado SCANLON: We will resume our discussion. This is the Colorado Springs Oral History Project. I\u2019m Tim SCANLON Today is November 11, 2006 and I am here with James D. Phillips at 2530 Paseo Rojo in Colorado Springs. And we had discussed three weeks ago your career, your life, early life in your career up to the point of being the director, deputy director of operations with the Colorado Springs utilities. And we broke off at the point where you were about to be named the utilities director. So perhaps we could begin at that point. PHILLIPS: 1972. This will give me the click back to the politicians involved in those days. SCANLON: So at that time, the mayor was selected by the council members. PHILLIPS: Yes. They were, they were voted upon by the council members. And Andy Marshall was the mayor in 1972. SCANLON: And had he any particular interest in utilities, or, PHILLIPS: No, not particularly. In those days, the utilities were under the city manager\u2019s direction, supposedly. Now Ray did everything. The city charter is written as a city management form of government. The city manager had everything under him. So they\u2026 (Digital Recording interrupted.)", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00040.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 293, + "original_length": 11371, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.96, + "perplexity": 230.1, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "http://disabledinfo.co.uk/dis/2330-cp-sport.asp", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T04:49:10Z", + "digest": "sha1:AGQZMWKMXKWZCIGQT7LZPNKUM5EAUCTM", + "length": 3245, + "nlines": 21, + "source_domain": "disabledinfo.co.uk", + "title": "CP Sport", + "raw_content": "Out of the home > Leisure > CP Sport\nCerebral Palsy Sport promotes and seeks to increase sport and physical recreational opportunities for people with a disability and especially those who have cerebral palsy.\nCerebral Palsy Sport is the sports organisation for people with cerebral palsy, providing sporting opportunities to individuals of all ages and at all levels from the recreational right through to paralympic competition.\nIt is also an advisory agency for disability sport issues and is recognised and respected within the international arena.\nIt was a founder member of the British Paralympic Association and is also a member of CP ISRA, the international sports organisation for people with cerebral palsy, which in turn was a founder member of the International Paralympic Committee.\nCerebral Palsy Sport's primary aim is to attract more people to become involved in sporting activities for the pursuit of excellence or for fun and enjoyment. Among the activities covered by CP Sport are athletics, boccia, bowls, football, swimming and table cricket.\nSporting activities offer fantastic health benefits to people with disabilities but it is the social advantages that are perhaps the most important to our members. Through their activities with CP Sport, our members grow in confidence and build life-long friendships as they compete and socialise with others who share the same difficulties as themselves in an environment where they are no longer made to feel different from their peers.\nWorking with a network of dedicated volunteers across a variety of sports, the organisation is able to co-ordinate programmes of activity from regional levels through to world class sporting opportunities.\nCerebral Palsy Sport is a registered charity. We receive no government or Big Lottery funding and rely entirely on donations and in kind support from individuals, charitable trusts and business organisations.\nCerebral palsy affects around one in every 400 births and can be caused from lack of oxygen at birth, damage to the developing foetus, a viral infection, certain drugs or poor nutrition. It is the most common form of severe disability amongst children worldwide. The number of babies born with cerebral palsy is not declining. It affects each individual differently and difficulties include:\n\u2022 Limited movements\n\u2022 Uncontrolled movements\n\u2022 A learning difficulty\n\u2022 Visual impairments\n\u2022 Hearing impairments\n\u2022 Muscle spasm / muscle floppiness\n\u2022 Muscle stiffness or weakness\n\u2022 Difficulties eating\nPeople with the condition may find themselves marginalised in society and may have psychological problems due to frustrations caused by their disability.\nCerebral Palsy Sport aims to change all this by improving the physical and mental well being of people with cerebral palsy. By engaging children and adults with the condition in sport, we help to build self-confidence, friendships and support networks. Individuals come to events and relish the opportunity to participate in sport in an inclusive environment where they are no longer made to feel 'different'.\nHowever, we can't do all this without the help of our supporters. 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We provide industry focused assurance, tax and advisory services to build public trust and enhance value for our clients and their stakeholders. More than 180,000 people in 158 countries across our network of firms share their thinking, experience and solutions to develop fresh perspectives and practical advice. For more information visit: www.pwc.com/pharma and www.pwc.com/medtech.\nCegedim Relationship Management is the Life Sciences industry's leading global provider of Customer Relationship Management (CRM) and Regulatory Compliance solutions. Cegedim Relationship Management's industry leading aggregate spend solution, AggregateSpend360, helps pharmaceutical and medical device companies efficiently comply with local, regional and global transparency requirements -- such as the Sunshine Act in the US, the R\u00e9forme du M\u00e9dicament in France, disclosure guided by the European Federation of Pharmaceutical Industries and Associations (EFPIA), and anti-bribery regulations such as the UK Bribery Act and Foreign Corrupt Practices Act. AggregateSpend360 is a pro-active, web-based application that automates and streamlines the tracking and reporting of all expenditures between Life Sciences companies and healthcare professionals. With a flexible business rules engine that transforms, aggregates, and reports data and features that include prebuilt reporting templates and automated report due-date reminders, AggregateSpend360 allows you to align compliance standards across the enterprise and across geographies without overburdening internal resources. The process can be leveraged by accurate customer data management and the integration of a wide range of enterprise applications -- CRM, ERP, Finance, Travel & Expense and HR -- for in-depth analysis and improved business insights. For more information visit www.cegedim.com/aggregatespend or call (888) 336-3748.\nAHM is a leading global provider of technology and service solutions to manage compliant interactions with healthcare professionals for the highly regulated life sciences industry. For more information visit www.ahmdirect.com.\nArnold & Porter LLP, an 800 lawyer firm with offices in the US and Europe, is ideally positioned to serve the needs of the Biopharmaceutical and Medical Device community. Our team of more than 50 regulatory and compliance attorneys advise life sciences companies in developing, implementing and refining global compliance programs that address regulatory and enforcement risks confronted at each stage of product research and development, manufacturing, marketing and distribution. We regularly advise companies in matters raising complex compliance issues, developing practical solutions to the challenges associated with conducting clinical trials in jurisdictions with varying healthcare systems, the complexities and risks of pharmaceutical supply chains, interactions with physician and patient populations, managing co-development and co-promotion arrangements, and outsourcing of functions in areas such as research, pharmacovigilance and manufacturing. We also vigorously defend our clients in a broad range of investigations and enforcement matters.\nFor more information please visit www.arnoldporter.com or contact Daniel A. Kracov, Partner, (202) 942-5120.\nFor over 40 years, attorneys in Cooley's Life Sciences practice have played an instrumental role in the growth of many of the industry's leading life sciences companies. Our client base includes hundreds of public and private companies, based in the United States and abroad, and spans the full spectrum of industry sectors including pharmaceuticals, R&D, therapeutics, drug delivery, drug formulation, and medical devices and technologies.\nWe deliver an unparalleled combination of innovative legal expertise, deep industry knowledge and practical understanding of our clients' business needs. Cooley is widely recognized as a leading law firm in life sciences and was ranked Law Firm of the Year in Biotechnology by US News & World Report - Best Lawyers \"Best Law Firms\" in the first year the category was awarded. Cooley has a leading group of health care and life sciences regulatory attorneys who understand the challenges and opportunities facing the industry. In an environment filled with an increasing number of evolving laws and regulations, our team has the depth of experience necessary to navigate the ever changing rules of the marketplace for providers, manufacturers, suppliers, payors, technology companies and investors in this space.\nCooley's 750 attorneys have an entrepreneurial spirit, deep substantive experience, and a commitment to solving clients' most challenging legal matters. For more information, please visit: www.cooley.com.\nThose of us in the Davis Wright Tremaine health care practice group devote nearly all of our time to industry-specific matters. This allows us to develop niche practices within the field that serve needs unique to the health care market. We also understand the business issues and regulatory developments that affect health care delivery and compliance, and as a unified team we can match the attorney with the niche expertise that best addresses client needs. For more information visit our website at www.DWT.com.\nHogan Lovells provides high quality advice to corporations, financial institutions, and governmental entities across the full spectrum of their critical business and legal issues globally and locally. Bringing together the combined strengths of our predecessor firms, we have more than 2,300 lawyers operating out of more than 40 offices in the United States, Latin America, Europe, the Middle East, and Asia. With more than 100 lawyers serving the pharmaceutical and biotechnology sectors, including many with experience at the FDA, CMS and other key agencies and in industry, and others holding advanced degrees in relevant disciplines, we offer timely, effective counsel on matters that include product development, approval and post-approval compliance, and the development of next-generation products. High rankings in Chambers, Legal 500, and other global directories speak to the quality and impact of our services.\nWhether your products are traditional drugs or biotechnology products, we work with you to successfully develop and commercialize products, addressing issues of regulatory approvals and compliance; coverage, reimbursement, and pricing; and careful use of intellectual property and regulatory exclusivities to manage product life cycles. Our multidisciplinary team leverages the skills and experience of colleagues in other disciplines - including healthcare compliance (such as coverage, reimbursement, pricing, and fraud and abuse prevention), public policy, intellectual property, corporate and securities law, and litigation - to provide integrated, strategic, and practical advice for successful product development and marketing and effective responses to regulators and competitors.\nFor more information, visit www.hoganlovells.com or contact Marketing Manager Tara Busby at (202) 637-6912.\nHuron Life Sciences\nHuron Life Sciences serves pharmaceutical, medical device and biotechnology companies, academic medical centers and the law firms and investment firms that support these organizations to mitigate risk and provide sustainable business value. For more information, visit www.huronconsultinggroup.com/lifesciences, follow us on Twitter: @Huron, or contact Paul J. Silver, Managing Director, Practice Leader, (678) 672-6160.\nCelebrating more than 125 years of service, King & Spalding is an international law firm that represents a broad array of clients, including half of the Fortune Global 100, with 800 lawyers in 17 offices in the United States, Europe, the Middle East and Asia. The firm has handled matters in over 160 countries on six continents and is consistently recognized for the results it obtains, for uncompromising commitment to quality and for dedication to understanding the business and culture of its clients. In 2013, King & Spalding was chosen by U.S. News & World Report and Best Lawyers as the \"Law Firm of the Year\" for FDA law and ten King & Spalding lawyers were identified as 'life sciences stars' in the 2013 edition of LMG Life Sciences.\nFor more information about our FDA & Life Sciences practice, please contact Mark Brown at (202) 626-5443.\nNavigant Consulting In the complex regulatory environment of today's Pharmaceutical, Biotech, Medical Device and Diagnostics industries, companies and their counsel face an increasing number of dispute, regulatory, compliance and investigation issues that have the potential for significant financial, economic and reputational impact. Navigant is the firm of choice when companies and their counsel need a resource who can successfully and efficiently integrate the skills of complex data management and analysis with the synthesis of highly complex healthcare transactions, rules, regulations, data, documents and business practices to bring meaningful value to the co-development of a dispute, regulatory, compliance or investigation strategy and execution.\nFor more information visit www.Navigant.com or contact Saul B. Helman, M.D., Managing Director, (317) 294-1228.\nPolaris is a management consulting firm focused exclusively on the compliance needs of the life sciences industry. Polaris offers a suite of services that specifically target the compliance risks confronting the life sciences industries, including: compliance risk assessments, auditing and monitoring, policy and SOP development, strategic and operational solutions, aggregate spend services. In addition, Polaris Solutions has developed automated business process workflows which address medical education grants, investigator initiated trials, interactions with HCPs, exhibits, sponsorships and aggregate spend. For more information visit www.PolarisManagement.com or contact Mark Scallon, Partner, (415) 432-4367.\nPorzio Life Sciences, LLC (PorzioLS) provides the life science industry with Internet-based products enabling companies to comply with marketing and sales federal and state laws and regulations, as well as, distribution licensing, sampling and a growing body of state life science compliance requirements. PorzioLS provides compliance tools and customized services, related to the PDMA, anti-kickback statutes, aggregate spend reporting, OIG and CMS guidances, OPDP promotional violations, False Claims Act and FDA regulations, such as the Porzio Compliance Digest and Porzio AggregateSpendID, a best in class aggregate spend system capable of handling state and federal transparency reporting and dispute resolutions, in addition to sample transparency reporting.\nPorzio AggregateSpendID streamlines state and federal marketing disclosures by automating the collection and accurate reporting of expenses directed to healthcare practitioners and organizations. The searchable databases of the Porzio Compliance Digest cover drug and device distribution licensing, transparency legislation, sample and trade product distribution, and trends in government investigations.\nThrough our Distribution Licensing Services, we identify and attain all required licenses based on a company's unique distribution model. Finally, our formula-based approach to sample accountability, Significant Loss Threshold Assurance, ensures that customers neither over or under report sample losses. These compliance tools and customized services facilitate companies' compliance with federal and state marketing and sales regulations, which has propelled PorzioLS into an industry leader in life science marketing and sales compliance.\nIn the next few months, PorzioLS will be introducing the International Life Sciences Transparency Database, which will contain in-depth information on current laws and codes, and pending legislation, related to sales and marketing practices and interactions with healthcare providers outside the United States.\nStrengthen your compliance program today by visiting www.porziolifesciences.com or contacting us 877-477-7411.\nPotomac River Partners\nPotomac River Partners is a specialized management consulting firm focused on healthcare compliance. We offer comprehensive consulting services including policies and procedures; training and communication; auditing and monitoring; and aggregate spend. Our clients include global pharmaceutical companies, small and mid-sized firms in the biotech and medical device sectors, as well as service providers for the life science industry such as contract sales organizations and logistics suppliers. For more information, please visit www.potomacriverpartners.com or call (703) 430-5944.\nRockpoint Corporation\nR-Squared R-Squared -- short for \"Risk Reduction\"-- is an independent consulting and technology services firm that formed in 2007 that focuses on \"evidence-based\" compliance solutions for life sciences organizations, specifically in the areas of aggregate spend/transparency disclosure, arrangements management (HCP speaker and consulting relationships, meetings, events, etc.), master data management, and grants funding. We are specialists at translating requirements into workable tools and practices that simplify the task of abiding by laws, regulations and expectations -- while generating solid evidence of compliance at the same time.\nR-Squared is comprised of compliance experts and technologists who partner with our customers, enabling them to achieve compliance objectives while recognizing efficiencies via smart data integration and streamlined processes. Our solutions, which are being deployed world-wide, are built on the patent-protected and proven RADS (Rapid Application Development System) framework that is fully configurable, easily integrates with existing applications and data sets, and enforces policies and procedures. We combine deep substantive knowledge and expertise with purposefully developed, cloud-based technology to achieve effective compliance for our customers.\nR-Squared is a trusted compliance partner to dozens of organizations, including many in the Fortune 500 (and 2 in the Global Top 20), and is headquartered in Princeton, NJ with a satellite office in Europe.\nhttp://www.r2ss.com\nSidley Austin LLP is a premier law firms with an internationally recognized life sciences practice, representing major pharmaceutical, biotechnology, medical device, dietary supplements and food clients. Many lawyers in our team are acknowledged leaders in healthcare privacy data security and information law. Sidley consistently ranks among the top firms in Asia, Europe and the U.S., and recently was named \"Life Cycle: Firm of the Year\" by LMG Life Sciences Awards 2013. We also received first-tier national rankings in Biotechnology Law, FDA Law and Healthcare Law in the U.S. News -- Best Lawyers \"Best Law Firms\" rankings for the fourth consecutive year, and each year since the survey's inception. Sidley is also recognized for service and responsiveness, having been once named the \"Most Recommended Law Firm in the Pharmaceutical Industry\" in the BTI Industry Power Rankings. For more information visit www.Sidley.com or contact Scott Bass, (202)736-8684 and James Stansel, (202) 736-8092.\nBull's Eye Innovations\nBull's Eye Innovations has helped pharmaceutical and medical device companies develop best in class disclosure programs since 2006. BEI's CoPilot service enables BEI's team of experienced aggregate spend professionals to work as an extended arm of an existing transparency department, thereby streamlining processes, expediting timelines and providing a dependable resource of knowledgeable support. CoPilot Data Quality Management services provide companies with pre-structured data review policies, procedures and tools to help manufacturers facilitate confidence in data certification and attestation. BEI is also the primary sponsor of the Aggregate Spend Alliance, a professional organization uniting aggregate spend specialists since 2008. www.BullsEyeInnovations.com\nHealthCare Appraisers provides a full spectrum of valuation services and Fair Market Value solutions exclusively for the healthcare and life sciences communities nationwide:\nPharmaceutical and medical device companies - Compensation arrangements with physicians, researchers, allied health professionals, and others providing advisory, consulting, training, speaking and research services, as well as valuations related to intellectual property and royalty arrangements\nPhysician compensation and service arrangements including employment arrangements, on-call arrangements, medical directorships, co-management arrangements, collections guarantees for hospital-based physicians, joint venture relationships and affiliations\nBusiness valuation for ASCs, specialty hospitals, long-term acute care hospitals, physician practices, imaging centers and dialysis centers, CON and other intangible assets\nFor more information: www.HealthCareAppraisers.com | (561) 330-3488\nHealthcare Data Solutions\nHealthcare Data Solutions is a leading healthcare information services company focused on building the most accurate, compliance-grade data on Physicians, Dentists, Nurse Practitioners and other Healthcare Providers, as well as Pharmacies and Hospitals. Healthcare Data Solutions provides healthcare data, physician validation programs, data processing, compliance services, web services and new customer acquisition programs for leading healthcare firms. Compliance clients can access to over 5 million healthcare provider profiles to crosswalk between government databases for accurate reporting. Healthcare Data Solutions is the fastest growing healthcare data services company in the United States on both the Inc. 5000 and Deloitte Fast 500 list in 2012 and 2013. For more information, visit HealthcareDataSolutions.com.\nHealthSTAR Communications\nHealthSTAR Communications is dedicated to helping pharmaceutical clients engage more effectively, efficiently and compliantly with healthcare professionals. As a full-service communications company that has been partnering with the pharmaceutical and medical device industry for 20 years, HealthSTAR Communications maintains an innovative network designed to provide a comprehensive portfolio of compliant healthcare marketing services. Recognized as one of the largest independent healthcare marketing companies in the world, HealthSTAR Communications is structured for collaborative excellence and to mobilize the channel of communication deemed best for brand messaging and customer engagement. Led by talented, industry-recognized leaders who provide expertise and hands-on guidance in compliant, creative and strategic execution, HealthSTAR Communications is a results-driven company with experience in working with over 240 brands in 100 global, pharmaceutical and medical device companies.\nHealthSTAR has developed and deployed proprietary platforms and applications that allow pharmaceutical and medical device marketers and their field sales teams the ability to deliver live and on-demand content while capturing critical data for compliance reporting (i.e., Sunshine Act, state laws) and for business closed-loop marketing. HealthSTAR manages event data for over 65,000 promotional events and 10,000 virtual events and engagements each year. Through proprietary apps such as SignMeIn\u0099 (HCP e-signature capture and event roster management); HCP AS&C\u0099 (Aggregate spend data capture); and, MyEventResource\u0099 (transaction engine and portal environment for all stakeholders involved with promotional programs), HealthSTAR provides practical tools to foster our client's compliance and business reporting.\n1000 Wyckoff Avenue\nwww.Healthstarcom.com\nMedPro Systems\nMedPro Systems\u00ae and Porzio Pharmaceutical Services have partnered to offer Porzio AggregateSpendID\u2120, an end-to-end aggregate spend tracking and reporting solution. Porzio AggregateSpendID\u2120 provides the life sciences industry with a complete aggregate spend reporting solution with integrated data and legal components to comply with current and evolving spend regulations.\nFor over ten years, the MedProID\u00ae suite of products has assisted pharmaceutical & device manufacturers, distributors and other healthcare organizations with practitioner & organization state license validation solutions to meet PDMA, Pedigree & Aggregate Spend compliance. The foundation of MedProID\u00ae is a comprehensive 13M record database of practitioner and organization licensing information obtained directly from the state licensing authorities which is cross-referenced with additional industry identifiers. MedPro's solutions are used by over 250 customers, including 19 of the Top 20 pharmaceutical manufacturers.\nMore information is available at www.MedProSystems.com and www.AggregateSpend.com.\nMMIS is a global technology company providing compliance and business intelligence solutions for the life science industry. MMIS is a leading provider of cloud-based SaaS solutions dedicated to helping our pharmaceutical, medical device and bio-pharmaceutical companies comply with state, federal and global transparency laws. MMIS offers a comprehensive, cloud-based modular platform with tools to aggregate, manage and analyze data across the enterprise.\nDeveloped by attorneys and IT specialists with over 25 years of experience in healthcare compliance, the MediSpend\u00ae Global Compliance Platform represents the first end-to-end compliance and data analytics SaaS solution designed specifically to help life science executives make better-informed business decisions while ensuring compliance with global transparency laws.\nOur customers benefit from our proprietary data aggregation and analysis tools: MediSpend\u00ae (aggregate spend tracking and reporting tool), MediSpend\u00ae Notification and Dispute Resolution tool (manage and exchange data with physicians and healthcare organizations to resolve disputes), MediSpend\u00ae Data Analytics (Business Intelligence tool) and the Physicians Professional Network\u00ae (PPN) (a cloud-based platform to enable physician-to-physician and physician-to-industry connections. The PPN allows physicians to review and dispute--if necessary--spend data to be reported by pharmaceutical and medical device companies and create and maintain a personal disclosure database). www.mmis-inc.com/\nPolicy and Medicine (www.policymed.com) brings daily news and commentary to pharmaceutical and device compliance and aggregate spend professionals on issues such as Physician Payment Sunshine Act, legal settlements, FDA regulations and international transparency laws and initiatives.\nThis spring Policy and Medicine is launching Policymed Pro, a new publication dedicated to bringing you in-depth interviews, conference coverage and analysis of issues important to compliance and aggregate spend professionals.\nFor subscriptions or advertising rates contact: T. 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What I don\u2019t write a lot about is music, which is kind of surprising because after books and reading, music is to thank for many of my formative experiences.\nI grew up participating in chorus (which was short-lived thanks to my utter lack of ability to carry a tune) and band, and listening to music of all genres has always provided quite a nice soundtrack to my life. I\u2019ve been through more music phases than I can count, and most have been repeated at least twice: cheesy 80s synth, hair metal, piano rock (think Jack\u2019s Mannequin), classical, country, classic rock, 90s pop (but not until way after the 90s)\u2026the list goes on and on. And I\u2019m always pleasantly surprised when a song comes on shuffle that takes me back to a time or a place that I maybe haven\u2019t thought about in years.\nBut there occasionally comes a time when there\u2019s a reason I haven\u2019t thought about that time or place in forever. And there are songs that, despite the fact that I like them or maybe even love them, I don\u2019t\u2014or can\u2019t\u2014listen to anymore for a variety of reasons.\nBreakup songs. Okay, we all went through our whiny emo phase, and Simple Plan was my emo band of choice when my very first boyfriend dumped me in tenth grade. And, you know, whenever else I was pining after someone who didn\u2019t return those feelings for the rest of high school. Which was a lot, because high school.\nBut now, I\u2019m nearly a decade out of high school and I\u2019m happily married, and despite the fact that I liked a lot of those songs separate from their sad-breakup-song value, I feel almost like an imposter for listening to them. I can\u2019t summon up the necessary angst anymore. I feel a shadow of it, but it\u2019s mostly overwhelmed by a weird guilty feeling\u2014my brain goes, \u201cWhy are you listening to this? You\u2019re happy! You\u2019re married! You shouldn\u2019t be thinking about/feeling sad about other guys!\u201d\nAnd I remind myself that it\u2019s a good thing that I don\u2019t have these feelings anymore. But there are so many emotions connected to those songs that to listen to them when I can\u2019t really feel those things anymore feels wrong.\nSad songs. Not just any sad song, although I\u2019m really not a fan of sad songs in general. These songs are more personally sad\u2014I would even say that most probably aren\u2019t sad to the average person.\nTake, for example, the song \u201cStolen\u201d by Dashboard Confessional. (I know, I know.) I dated a boy in high school and this was sort of \u201cour song.\u201d We were only together for a few months (the end of senior year and the summer before college), but we had been good friends before and parted amicably when I went to college. The thing was, though, that I sensed he still liked me, and not wanting to string him along, I more or less stopped contacting him. We\u2019d talk every once in a while, but never more than once every few months. By junior year of college, we barely talked at all.\nAnd then, one morning in April during my senior year of college, I got a facebook message from his sister, asking me to call her. My sweet friend had passed away the day before.\nEven though we hadn\u2019t talked in almost two years by that point, losing him hit me hard. I cried for days and couldn\u2019t even bring myself to go to his funeral, something I\u2019ve never really forgiven myself for. It\u2019s been almost four years, and I still think about him almost every day. And listening to \u201cStolen\u201d is not even an option, unless I want to reduce myself to a sobbing puddle of sad. Just thinking about that song is sometimes enough to tip me over the edge.\nHopeful \u201cI may not know who you are but I love you already\u201d songs. The song that immediately comes to mind for this is Michael Buble\u2019s \u201cHaven\u2019t Met You Yet.\u201d Disclaimer: I. Love. This. Song. But I still feel a little disingenuous when I sing along because\u2014well\u2014I\u2019ve already met Andrew. I don\u2019t need to be joyfully dancing and singing around a grocery store about my future love, because I already have my love. You know?\nIn some ways, I can extend this to a lot of love songs\u2014a lot of them are all \u201cThis is new! And I love you anyway! And no one understands us but that\u2019s okay because we love each other!\u201d Yeah, no, we\u2019ve been together more than six years and we\u2019ve been confident in our relationship from the beginning.\nObviously, there\u2019s still plenty of music that I can and do listen to. And I do still listen to some of the above genres of music, just not quite as often as I used to and with less emotion than I used to have. But that\u2019s part of life, no? Things change. Some of those changes are good, some are bad, and some are just\u2026there. In the end, change is something that we all have to deal with, and we all deal with it differently. If feeling a little weird listening to former favorite songs is my worst side effect of growing up, I think I\u2019ll take it.\nApril 10, 2015 in Music. Tags: change, emotion, growing up, music\n\u2190 The Damned \u2013 Andrew Pyper\nPotter Pretties \u2192\n2 thoughts on \u201cSoundtracks to Life\u201d\nI recently wrote on this topic, too. Music speaks to my heart, and my whole life has a soundtrack. Currently, \u201cHappy\u201d is my jam. I first heard it on my very first day in my new job. 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In some cases, hazing is just another word for sexual assault. \u201cMischaracterized as hazing and bullying, the violence is so normalized on some teams that it persists for years, as players attacked one season become aggressors the next.\u201d\nAs further reported by the Associated Press:\n\u201cTeammate-on-teammate sexual assaults occurred in all types of sports in public schools, and experts said the more than 70 cases in five years that AP identified were the tip of the iceberg. Though largely a high school phenomenon, some cases were reported as early as middle school.\nBoys made up the majority of aggressors and victims in teammate attacks, records show, and some suffered serious injury and trauma.\nAn Idaho football player was hospitalized in 2015 with rectal injuries after he was sodomized with a coat hanger. That same year, a North Carolina teen suffered rectal bruising when he was jabbed through his clothes with a broomstick. 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The sequel seemed even more exciting and exhilarating than the initial offering; it appeared to pack greater thrills and spills into its two hours and it came across as a more than adequate successor to a classic.\nHowever, I watched it again a few months later and the film's flaws became much more apparent to me. Eventually, it seemed clear to me that not only did it not approach the consistently high level of the first film, but also overall it was a fairly mediocre offering.\nDuring that first screening, the flaws of Die Hard 2 were hidden behind a veil of well-executed stunts and action sequences. The key to the relative failure of the sequel stems from its lack of strong villain who could approach the memory of the first film\u2019s Hans Gruber (Alan Rickman). William Sadler plays Colonel Stuart, a vaguely Ollie North-esque character who seems willing to sacrifice any number of civilians in his quest to fulfill what he sees as his duty to protect the United States.\nI like Sadler; he's a much more charismatic and versatile actor than one would guess from his work here, but he seems bound by the nature of the character. Stuart is no charming neo-renaissance man like Hans; he's a dispassionate pseudo-zealot, really, and the role offers little opportunity for Sadler to infuse his character with any real personality.\nMy guess is that the producers of Die Hard 2 knew that they lacked any honest possibility of topping Hans, so they chose the opposite approach. I think they figured that Stuart would stand out simply because he was so incredibly different from Hans.\nThey were wrong. Stuart creates a credible and believable villain, but he lacks any sort of spark that might make him memorable. As a result, he becomes little more than a plot device and the audience fails to feel any real investment in what happens to him at the end of the film; yeah, we want to see him get his just desserts, but we lack any real interest in that result.\nSomewhat more compelling is the movie's subplot that involves John McClane's (Bruce Willis) need to rescue his wife Holly (Bonnie Bedelia). Yes, in essence, the dual plots for Die Hard 2 duplicate those of the first film: 1) Stop terrorists; 2) Save wife. Of course, in both movies, subplot two is what really prompts subplot one for McClane; if Holly's not involved in either story, he\u2019d just watch the whole thing evolve on TV. But she is, and he's the only one savvy and gutsy enough to save the day.\nWhile the Holly subplot grabs the viewer a little more strongly than do any scenes with the terrorists, it all seems somewhat contrived. The whole \"d\u00e9j\u00e0 vu all over again\" factor makes it that much harder for the audience to suspend disbelief; really, what are the chances that McClane would be in the middle of such a similar situation again? The filmmakers are savvy enough to poke fun at these extremely coincidental circumstances, but that doesn't really disspell the inherent improbability.\nAs far as those characters go, the already-established McClane and Holly don\u2019t expand their roles from the first film. These are the exact same people we saw during the previous go-round, except the movie attempts absolutely no character development at all since we already know these folks. Obviously a sequel doesn't require the same care in regard to establishing characters, but I would have liked to see some form of growth in our protagonists. Their relationship was on the rocks in Die Hard; did it just magically cure itself during the interim?\nThe only other returning characters include McClane's LAPD buddy Al Powell (Reginald VelJohnson). However, while Powell played a major role in the first film, his part barely rates as a cameo in Die Hard 2, and his brief appearance feels forced and gratuitous.\nWilliam Atherton's TV weasel Dick Thornburgh receives more substantial screentime. Unfortunately, his inclusion in the movie amounts to an extreme stretch of probability; he's put on the same plane as Holly, and thus can once again endanger her through his obsessive desire for TV fame. This is one area in which the sequel duplicated the original but it really should have gone a different way; it\u2019s unnecessary for the plot and it becomes silly.\nKey among the new supporting cast is Dennis Franz, who plays a tubbier New York version of Paul Gleason's deputy police chief from the first film. Franz is a fun actor and he gets the most out of a weak part, but the role basically serves as a plot device to offer some resistance to McClane; he exists just to allow McClane to become the lone wolf.\nFred Dalton Thompson performs competently but somewhat sappily in a similar role as the head of the airport; he was a nicely gruff presence before he got into politics, but he seems oddly emasculated here. Finally, Good Times veteran John Amos hams up the joint as a duplicitous Army commander; yeah, he shows more life than does Sadler, but not in a good way. I like Amos, but he lacks realism as Major Grant.\nOverall, the entire cast simply seems to try too hard. Director Renny Harlin knows how to execute some remarkable stunts, but he appears to have no talent to adequately work with his actors.\nAs I\u2019ll note when I discuss his audio commentary, Harlin\u2019s a very cool and technical director, and I really don\u2019t think he knows how to evoke positive work from his actors. He seems to have realized that he could not provide any sort of genuine emotional impact in the film, so we get lots of artificial sentiment and overly emoted drama. The whole project seems imbued with a strangely pathetic aura of synthetic emotion; we see the characters experience joy, sorrow, etc., but we don't really buy it.\nThat's not to say that it's a bad film. While it doesn't hold up to repeated viewings nearly as well as does the first one, Die Hard 2 still provides an above-average level of thrills and excitement. Yes, I recognize that this attitude may seem inconsistent since I just griped about the movie so much, but I like enough about DH2 to make it something that I still enjoy after 23 years.\nFor all its flaws, it remains the best film made by Renny Harlin. Flicks like Deep Blue Sea and Cliffhanger display the same flaws found in DH2 but they fail to include many of that movie\u2019s positives. On its own without comparison to the original film, DH2 can be a lot of fun, and it has enough good moments to stay fairly fun after all these years.\nThe Blu-ray Grades: Picture B/ Audio B/ Bonus B\nDie Hard 2: Die Harder appears in an aspect ratio of approximately 2.35:1 on this Blu-ray Disc. Though not flawless, the transfer usually seemed strong.\nAlthough much of DH2 featured a rather subdued palette, the disc replicated its tones quite well. Reds looked especially bright and vivid, and the many instances of colored lighting came across nicely clear and vibrant. Virtually all of the shots in the air control tower were bathed in colored lights, and these could have caused havoc with the picture. However, they remained tight and concise, and I saw no problems related to bleeding or noise.\nBlack levels appeared to be deep and rich, and shadow detail consistently came across as clean and appropriately opaque. A number of shots featured somewhat heavy use of smoke effects, but the disc showed a rather clean and distinct presentation throughout the film. Nothing here dazzled, but it added up to a generally satisfying image.\nDie Hard 2 included a DTS-HD MA 5.1 track. I thought that the audio seemed fairly good for its era, but it lacked some of the high points I expected.\nWhen I compared this Blu-ray release to the identical 2001 and 2007 releases, I thought they showed some definite similarities. Audio remained about the same. The lossless DTS-HD mix might\u2019ve been a little punchier, but it couldn\u2019t do much with the 23-year-old source material.\nVisuals demonstrated mild improvements, but to some degree, this was \u201csilk purse/sow\u2019s ear\u201d territory. Yes, DH2 looked good \u2013 for DH2. It was always somewhat muddy, and the 2001 DVD offered the best visuals to date. The Blu-ray added a bit more crispness and vivacity to those visuals, but it didn\u2019t work wonders. It looked fine, but it didn\u2019t magically turn the film into a visual showcase.\nThe Blu-ray repeats all the extras from the 2001 SE. (The 2007 DVD simply took Disc One from the 2001 set and packaged it on its own.) First up we find an audio commentary from director Renny Harlin. He speaks alone on this running, screen-specific track. This is the third commentary I\u2019ve heard from Harlin, and it fits in well with pieces found on Deep Blue Sea and Cliffhanger. Overall, Harlin offers a generally interesting piece, but it\u2019s not something tremendously fascinating.\nAs with the earlier commentaries, Harlin sticks mainly with technical aspects of the filmmaking process. His directorial style seems to tend toward the mechanical side of the coin and his remarks follow that vein. We hear a lot about the challenges encountered during the shoot, many of which related to the need for snow and its absence in the natural environment.\nOtherwise, he connects to a number of fairly interesting topics. While his statements could easily become dry and tedious, Harlin maintains a nicely earnest and genuine tone throughout the piece, and this makes the track more interesting. He touches upon some more controversial aspects of the filmmaking process - mainly as they relate to some apparently-excessive violence - and he even has some fun with the flick\u2019s adherence to action movie conventions as he notes the movie\u2019s unrealistic aspects. Ultimately, I thought this was an acceptably entertaining and informative commentary.\nHBO First Look runs for 23 minutes and seven seconds, and it provides a fluffy but generally interesting look at the creation of the movie. Created to tout the film prior to its 1990 theatrical run, the program uses the standard format as it combines scads of film clips plus short interview snippets from cast and crew and some shots from the set.\nBecause the emphasis firmly stays on the promotional side, the documentary never becomes terribly rich of deep, but it was reasonably entertaining and watchable. The best aspects of the show relate to some of the \u201cbehind the scenes\u201d material, as the piece presents some interesting material from the shoot. Ultimately \u201cFirst Look\u201d merits a viewing, but it isn\u2019t anything terribly special.\nBy the way, stick around for an ending sound bite from Bruce Willis. He mentions that if there were to be a third DH film, McClane\u2019d have to \u201csave the planet\u201d to make it worthwhile. Although Die Hard With A Vengeance didn\u2019t go global in that manner, in 1998, Willis would indeed get the chance to rescue the world with Armageddon.\nThe disc\u2019s Featurette offers little more than a greatly abbreviated version of the \u201cMaking Of\u201d show. This piece lasts four minutes, six seconds and consists almost totally of materials we already saw during the longer show. A couple of minor bits were different, but not enough to merit a viewing; if you\u2019ve watched the \u201cMaking Of\u201d, there\u2019s very little reason to screen the \u201cFeaturette\u201d.\nIn the Trailers and TV Spots area, we find\u2026 four trailers and two TV ads. There\u2019s nothing terribly unusual about these except one of the promos includes what appears to be an alternate \u201cclean\u201d take of one McClane soundbite. In the film itself, he states that \u201cwe\u2019re just up to our ass in terrorists\u201d, whereas the ad changes \u201cass\u201d to \u201cneck\u201d. Usually these alterations result from simple - and frequently awkward - dubs, but in this case, it really looked like the change came from a different shot. Willis\u2019 \u201cneck\u201d fit the scene more cleanly than I\u2019d expect from a dub. Fox on Blu-ray includes promos for the other three Die Hard flicks as well as Alien Vs. Predator.\nInterview with Renny Harlin talks about Harlin and sticks with some soundbites from the director, but we also hear from actors Sadler and Willis plus production designer John Vallone and special effects coordinator Al Di Sarro. It\u2019s a mildly interesting but fairly drab six-minute and 43-second piece.\nThe six-minute, 38-second The Bad Guys focuses on Sadler, and it offers a more entertaining piece just because it concentrates on that actor. He seems to be a good interview subject, and his presence makes this show better than most.\nBreaking the Ice concentrates on the snowmobile sequence. It runs for four minutes and nine seconds as it shows some small interview clips with Harlin, Willis, Di Sarro and stunt coordinator Charlie Picerni and shots from the set. The show is decent, but it sticks with the same style as the other featurettes and doesn\u2019t become more interesting than those.\nMuch more fun is Chaos on the Conveyor Belt. Unlike the prior featurettes, this seven-minute and 52-second program features nothing other than footage from the set. No interviews appear during this fun and vivid look behind the scenes. We get to watch fine shots of fight choreography, and I thought this was an excellent little piece. My only complaint: why couldn\u2019t they give the stuntman for Vondi Curtis Hall the same haircut? Okay, I never noticed the difference when I used to watch the movie, but now that I\u2019ve seen close shots of the stuntman, his presence seems awfully obvious and will continue to irk me eternally.\nVisual Effects Breakdowns gives us three clips. \u201cEjector Seat\u201d runs for three minutes and five seconds as it shows storyboards, blue screen shots, and the compositing process for this part of the film. We simply find raw material; there\u2019s no commentary or explanation of the shots. Because of that, this was a decent piece but it didn\u2019t do a lot for me.\nDie Hard 2 remains my least favorite of the four Die Hard flicks to date, as it shows a variety of problems that make it little more than an average action piece. Still, I like it enough to continue to find it interesting after more than 20 years, so for all my complaints, I continue to get a general kick out of the program. The Blu-ray presents fairly good picture and audio and a reasonably useful set of extras. This becomes a nice release for a sporadically entertaining movie.\nTo rate this film visit the Special Edition review of DIE HARD II: DIE HARDER", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00040.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 118, + "original_length": 25861, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.96, + "perplexity": 320.6, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "http://emeraldoe.com/What's%20New_4.htm", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T03:44:57Z", + "digest": "sha1:VMNTVBN7DOHHGHJC25BPNMENEM6DVYOR", + "length": 3350, + "nlines": 5, + "source_domain": "emeraldoe.com", + "title": "Emerald Ocean Engineering: What's New", + "raw_content": "Organic engineering is the integration of engineering with natural processes to efficiently and sustainably provide economic, environmental and social benefits. Traditionally, an engineer\u2019s responsibility to assure quality on a project and control costs for the owner implied a narrow focus on the deliverables specified in the contract and the billable invoices submitted to the owner. Organic engineering also considers the project\u2019s broader and longer-term cost to society and how it impacts the surrounding environment.\nFunctional A sound engineering approach incorporates functional requirements in the planning stages, but it is the form, as defined by the project plans, that is usually regarded as the final product. But assuring the long-term adherence of a project to a fixed geometry is difficult and expensive in the dynamic coastal environment. It is often counterproductive and leads to unintended consequences. Examples of failures and impacts of hard coastal structures from extreme events and long-term cumulative effects abound. A holistic approach focuses on maintaining the function of the project over time while accepting and accommodating the inevitable reshaping by the environment.\nResilient A major challenge in designing coastal or marine structures is dealing with the dynamic range of wave forcing. If a structure is designed only for the conditions it will experience the vast majority of the time, it will fail in the rare but inevitable extreme event (under design). Assuring that it will survive any event it may encounter requires a very inefficient structure for most, perhaps all of the structure\u2019s life (over design). This conundrum requires the owner to make a gamble between acceptable risk and exponentially increasing cost (probabilistic design). A resilient design functions efficiently up to a reasonable threshold condition and survives, even if it may temporarily cease to function, when conditions exceed the threshold. When conditions abate function should return with minimal intervention and rehabilitation. This can be achieved through compliance (flexible, elastic), accommodation (absorptive, dissipative), and/or tolerance to displacement (dynamic, mobile).\nAdaptive Adaptive planning means understanding what the existing site conditions tells us about the environmental processes and forces. Adaptive design means integrating the project to work in alignment with those processes in order to achieve a broad range of project objectives. Adaptive operation of the project means allowing those processes to dictate the type, quantity, and timing of the response. This is approach has gradually been accepted and embraced for beach nourishment projects, and is particularly suited to coastal habitat reconstruction projects.\nAlive Living shorelines incorporate live plants directly as elements of the design but in a broader sense, it means understanding that the project itself reflects the positive qualities of life. It should be adaptable to change and self-healing. It should integrate its own processes into a living community in a synergistic way. All elements of the project should create or enhance and sustain habitat, not destroy it. This may also mean periodic care and feeding \u2013 renourishment \u2013 but it is ultimately more beneficial, efficient, and less costly than an inanimate design.", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00040.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 6, + "original_length": 3438, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.93, + "perplexity": 271.6, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "http://employmentpolicy.org/page-1797724/3208607", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T04:07:37Z", + "digest": "sha1:QRHN2VAHCYZ45ETFV77TMP37CWWCBQRL", + "length": 7272, + "nlines": 15, + "source_domain": "employmentpolicy.org", + "title": "Labor and Employment Relations Association - A Wage Floor Forces Employers To Pay Better", + "raw_content": "A Wage Floor Forces Employers To Pay Better\nIt has become a staple of the neoclassical economics model that when productivity increases, then so too will wages. Why is this? Because in a competitive market each worker receives the value of his or her marginal product, which is the amount of an increase in say a unit of labor.\nTherefore, workers earn higher wages when their marginal revenue product increases. The marginal revenue product is often the criterion for determining how many more workers to hire because they are able to calculate how much more output can be expected based on how many units are added. But if the marginal revenue product can be increased from the greater efforts of workers without having to increase their number, it then becomes feasible to raise their wages without eating into the profits of the firm.\nIf wages are supposed to rise with productivity, then why haven't they? By all accounts the economy is improving. In December 2014, total nonfarm payroll employment rose by 252,000, and the unemployment rate dropped to 5.6 percent, which is the lowest it has been since the end of the Great Recession in 2009. At the same time, since the end of the Great Recession, productivity has been increasing, but those productivity gains have not been shared with the workers.\nIs there an attempt to maintain a class based society under the guise of the myth of upward Socio-economic mobility? Is the language of free markets at the end of the day nothing more than a rationalization for a system that distributes income unevenly? After all, if workers are led to believe that by working hard they will be rewarded with higher wages because if nothing else they are justly being compensated for enhancing the productivity of the firm, they are also being led to believe that the system of free markets is one of mutual benefits.\nThere are perhaps two messages here. One is that mythology certainly serves its purposes of rationalizing the status quo and keeping the masses in their place. In this vein, the neoclassical model, upon which the free market orthodoxy rests is no different that Marx calling religion the opiate of the masses, because it too served to keep the masses in their place unquestioning the justness of a system that produced unfair distribution. The second message, of course, is that the model, like so many other theoretical constructs cannot be applied in the real world because there are so many extraneous variables that cannot be controlled for.\nThe second message usually has a corollary which is that adjustments need to be made, and one of those adjustments is the creation of some type of countervailing force in the market place because employers and employees don\u2019t share equal power. Institutional economists in the late 19th and early 20th centuries recognized that free markets were not neutral and that they did favor those who enjoyed greater market power. Their solution was to support collective bargaining because that would enable workers to negotiate wages and working conditions on a more even par with their employers.\nDuring the New Deal, the authors of the National Labor Relations Act or what has often been referred to as the Wagner Act, also recognized that the power imbalance between employers and workers not only leads to strife and disruptions in productive enterprise, but instability. They saw this measure as essential to ensuring an equitable distribution of the rewards of the economy.\nSimilarly, the authors of the Fair Labor Standards Act, which created the federal minimum wage, saw it as essential for ensuring an equitable distribution of the rewards of the economy, particularly for those who would not be covered by collective bargaining agreements. A wage floor, it was maintained, would also serve the economy in macroeconomic terms in that it would enable workers to maintain their purchasing power, thereby maintaining demand for goods and services in the aggregate.\nAt the same time, there would appear to be an assumption that underpins both of these major pieces of legislation, which also returns us to the question of why productivity gains have not been shared among the workers. That is, employers left to their own devices cannot be relied upon to do the right thing. Now if we subscribe to the idea that mythology rationalizes the status quo, then it would be easy to dismiss employers as simply selfish, in which case mythology conveniently masks their selfishness.\nBut if we subscribe to the second message that implementation of a theoretical construct in the real world requires adjustments, then it becomes clear that something is missing. Market models in general, and especially going back to Adam Smith assume that individuals are basically selfish. Smith assumed the invisible hand of the market would check selfishness and channel it towards accomplishing the public interest. If there was market failure, as Smith assumed to be the case with monopoly, then regulation would be required.\nA wage floor, then, becomes necessary not only to ensure that workers receive a fair and liveable wage in an environment where they don\u2019t have the market power to negotiate with their employers as equals, but to also ensure a level playing field among employers. Remember the same neoclassical model assumes that firms seek to maximize profits while minimizing costs. If their competition is paying low wages in order to maintain low prices, they similarly are going to lower their labor costs. Therefore, no profit maximizing firm would offer to pay higher wages even if it would bring in higher quality workers for fear that the competition will not do the same and then they will be underbid by their competition. In other words, the absence of a standard \u2014 a wage floor here \u2014 makes it a foregone conclusion that employers will act on their selfishness.\nInstitutions like unions and the minimum wage in the end force employers to do the right thing and what is ultimately in their own best interests. Of course the critic will cry that the employer is being coerced rather than being allowed to come to this conclusion voluntarily. But we have already seen that with the increases in productivity employers won\u2019t do the right thing voluntarily because so far they haven\u2019t been sharing the gains with their workers. Therefore, it seems logical to conclude that perhaps they need a nudge in the form of, at a minimum, a rising wage floor, which will, through interval effects, force up wages through the distribution.\nOtherwise, we might have to conclude that if employers don\u2019t want to share productivity gains with their workers, and they will oppose increases in the minimum wage because it will force them to do so, that they simply want to horde profits at the expense of workers. And yet, they conveniently forget that without workers there would be no profits. If this is true, then market ideology is nothing more than a rationalization that conveniently serves their naked self-interests. That public officials buy into this mythology only means that they too really don\u2019t care for the larger communities they serve. But then again, if by now we haven\u2019t figured that out, then perhaps there is no hope.\nCopyright \u00a9 2015 Laborpress. All Rights Reserved.", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00040.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 64, + "original_length": 8628, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.97, + "perplexity": 214.0, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "http://en.asiatoday.co.kr/view.php?key=20160523001025484", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T03:29:15Z", + "digest": "sha1:LFBNUCQWE63TPR7LHCSYTHX25KDRKYJY", + "length": 1999, + "nlines": 8, + "source_domain": "en.asiatoday.co.kr", + "title": "Non-communist parties play active role in China\u2018s political life", + "raw_content": "Non-communist parties play active role in China\u2018s political life\nBy Hong Soon-do, Beijing correspondent, AsiaToday - You may think it's necessary to be a communist in order to become China's national leader. But that's not necessarily true. It's possible for a non-communist to play active role in China's political life. One of the good examples include China's former vice president Rong Yiren. Although he was a former capitalist, one of the \"stinking ninth category\" defined by the Communist Party in the past, he worked as vice president of the People's Republic without ever joining the Communist Party.\nThe Revolutionary Committee of theChinese Kuomintang (RCCK), one of China's eight non-communist parties, held itsnational congress recently in Nanjing. The party is famous for producing manynational leaders./ Source: search engine Baidu\nSince it's not an exaggeration to say that China has become capitalist compared with the past, significant number of non-communist talents are now working for the country. Most of all, we should mention Wan Exiang, vice chairperson of the Standing Committee of the 12th National People's Congress (NPC). He is chairperson of the Revolutionary Committee of the Chinese Kuomintang (RCCK), one of China's eight non-communist parties.\nWan Exiang, vice chairperson of the Standing Committee of the 12thNational People's Congress (NPC) and chairperson of the Revolutionary Committeeof the Chinese Kuomintang (RCCK)./ Source: search engine Baidu 1\nQi Xuchun, vice chairman of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC), is also a non-communist. His position is equivalent to deputy prime minister level. He also belongs to the RCCK.\nAnother good example is Zhang Baowen, vice chairman of the Standing Committee of the 12th NPC. Chen Xiaoguang, Ma Peihua, Luo Fuhe are non-communist vice-chairpersons of the 12th CPPCC National Committee.\n#Non-communist #Communist Party #China #Rong Yiren #Revolutionary Committee of the Chinese Kuomintang", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00040.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 76, + "original_length": 3383, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.93, + "perplexity": 166.7, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "http://en.inbox7.mk/?p=2369", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T03:49:02Z", + "digest": "sha1:5WBQJLOBLFNITV6OMSJ5VD5AZPU5B5AM", + "length": 16482, + "nlines": 32, + "source_domain": "en.inbox7.mk", + "title": "Flirting with NGO-s: Same organisations receive public money every year", + "raw_content": "May 11, 2015 16:05\tby\t\u0421\u041a\u0423\u041f \u041c\u0430\u043a\u0435\u0434\u043e\u043d\u0438\u0458\u0430\t-\nFrom winning the elections in 2006 to the latest data from 2014 the current ruling party awarded NGOs and civil society organizations nearly 1 million 800 thousand Euros directly from the budget. This sum relates to only one item called \u2013\nAuthor: Aleksandar Dimitrievski\nThe Government of RM, in accordance with legislation in the late 90\u2019s, regularly supports associations and foundations. The allocation of a certain amount of money by government decision is made by the current as it was by the previous governments. Various support funds have been opened throughout the years. So today money is given to foundations and associations through separate ministries, municipalities and at least two programs directly through the government. In this research, we focus only on the largest such program called \u201cTransfer to NGOs for financing program activities of citizens\u2019 associations and foundations\u201d. It has the longest history, most money is shared through it, but it itself is sufficiently complex for a journalistic text.\nThe allocation of these funds is done according to predetermined rules. In a certain part of the year NGOs propose projects after the Government calls them upon previously adopted program. Expert commission chooses who gets support and the funds must not be used for purposes other than the activity for which they are given. An organization can be selected only once and obtain support for one project. Each organization is obliged to submit a report to the Government \u2013 how it spent the money when the project is completed.\nSuspicion that this money may not be spent for the purpose was the second reason for such research. Namely, while setting the last group of monuments in Skopje, it came to light that they were paid by donors, and not the municipalities or the Government as it used to be, which was seemingly unrelated with our theme. One of the generous organizations was called \u201cAssociation for the Spiritual Unification of Setinci, Popadinci and Krushoradi of Florina in Macedonia\u201c. The media revealed that they, as a civic association, for their actions received financial support from the national treasury. Thus, using the archive of official papers, we learned who, how much and what for received support from the Government. All this is important for at least two reasons. Because citizens\u2019 money is spent and because the example of the Association of Setinci raised the question \u2013 what are these funds actually spent for.\nOnly few have received the money intended for everyone\nThe rank list \u2013 who received money from the Government, includes 244 non-governmental organizations and civil society associations. But the analysis how much each has received showed that there are huge differences. The organization that has received the most money over the years, more than 32,000 Euros, while the smallest amount received over the years is just over 560 Euros. So we made a list ranking the most supported organizations by the Government and we found that more than 16% of the allocated money, or about 300,000 over the years, ended with the 10 most supported organizations. At the top is the association that was one of the reasons for the research. From 2007 until last year Setinci and Popadinci received the most or more than 32,000 Euros. Next on the list are three associations that in the same period received an almost identical amount of money. \u201cEzerka\u201d from Struga received 30,894 Euros, \u201cSynergy\u201d from Stip 30,829 Euros and the \u201cAssociation for the Protection and Education of Children of the City of Skopje\u201d 30,813. Followed by \u201cNarodna Tehnika\u201d from Kicevo, \u201cSemper\u201d Bitola, \u201cSEGA\u201d from Prilep, \u201cIzvor\u201d from Kicevo, \u201cAssociation of citizens politically persecuted, imprisoned and sentenced for the ideas of the separate identity of the Macedonian nation and statehood\u201d from Skopje and \u201cRadika\u201d from Skopje. The amounts they received range from 30,000 to just under 25,000 Euros, details that can be seen from the table attached. Winners by money\nBesides the allocated money, we made a comparison in another parameter \u2013 how many times was each organization supported in the past eight years. The picture here is similar.\n\u201cAssociation of Setinci and Popadinci\u201d, \u201cEzerka\u201d, \u201cSynergy\u201d and \u201cNarodna Tehnika\u201d were selected even 7 times out of 8 competitions. The program activities of the \u201cAssociation for the Protection and Education of Children of the City of Skopje\u201d, \u201cIzvor\u201d, \u201cRadika\u201d, \u201cSEGA\u201d and \u201cSemper\u201d were supported six times. The remaining can be viewed in the detailed list.\nWinners by number of selections\nLittle reporting, lots of suspicion \u2013 what has been done with the money?\nFrom the list of organizations that have received most money through that program, we put together a short profile of the 5 most supported organizations. Whose are they, what they do, how they spent the money. We sent questions to all of them on their official emails \u2013 how many projects for and how much state money they received, what they realized and where we can see those projects. None of them answered.\nAssociation for the Spiritual Unification of Setinci, Popadinci and Krushoradi of Florina in Macedonia \u2013 Skopje\nThis association, which only once of the past eight years was not supported by the program we investigated, is based in a residential building in Skopje, on Blvd Partizanski Odredi. Tashko Jovanov is president. Their work was exhaustively researched by journalist Biljana Stavrova, where one could read many details about the organization (link to the research). From then until now at least two pieces of information have been published related to this Association. The opposition SDSM presented documents by which the government has given the Association premises of 49 m2 in the center of Skopje and then a gratis used car Audi A4, worth 5,000 Euros. Although this organization is the most supported association in Macedonia, almost nothing is publicly known about their activities or who its founder is. President Tashko Jovanov appeared in public several times, but on behalf of other associations that also got support from the government. Government\u2019s decisions best describe the status this association enjoys. For example, in 2010, the Association of Setinci, Popadinci and Krushoradi was supported as the only organization in the area of program activities for organization of \u200b\u200bintegration into the EU and NATO. The project, supported by the Government for this purpose, was named \u201cCultural identity of Macedonians originating from Aegean Macedonia as a factor for strengthening the trust and coexistence between the Macedonian and Greek people and their countries of Macedonia and Greece\u201d. The association has neither a website nor on the Internet information can be found about their projects and activities, besides donating monuments.\n\u201cEzerka\u201d \u2013 Struga\nMore information in the public domain can be found about this association. According to it, \u201cEzerka\u201d is focused on the fight against human trafficking, but also advocates for the promotion of women\u2019s rights. There is a website, but it does not work. News about their projects can be found in the local Ohrid and Struga media. But in the national media the image of \u201cEzerka\u201d gets another dimension. For example, in 2012 the association was part of the NGO organizations that in Struga protested against the violence of Aleksandar Verusevski that the citizens of Struga did not respond to, informed the newspaper \u201cVecer\u201d in a text entitled \u201cStruga violence with amen from Crvenkovski\u201d. The Association had stiff stance during the debate on Family Law that \u201cwe are against making same-sex marriages and adoption of children by homosexual couples, because we do not want children to be victims and abusers\u201d. But that there are sympathies between the Government and this Association best speaks their communication with the executive power on the occasion of the Call to the civil society to contribute to the preparation of the Government program for 2015. The letter begins with \u2013 \u201cEzerka\u201d continuously monitors and supports the Government\u201d.\n\u201cSynergy\u201d \u2013 Stip\nThis organization is first on the list to have its own website. According to the information there, it is a charity organization. Among their projects there is civil activism support, education of women, informing the farmers. But one of their activities stands out. Besides human activities the association also monitors elections. This organization was the head of the Coalition of NGOs Organizations Get Out and Vote which although had not been publicly known, in 2014 accredited most observers for the elections. 5000, not more or less. For comparison, citizens\u2019 association \u201cMost\u201d that has been monitoring elections for years, that same year had a total of 580 observers or almost ten times less. The weekly \u201cFocus\u201d also revealed that this often supported organization with public money is close to the government. Among other things that the President of the Association, Vilma Jordanova, is a member of the ruling VMRO-DPMNE and former adviser to the party in the municipal council in Stip.\nAssociation for the Protection and Education of Children \u2013 Skopje\nAlthough fourth on the list, this organization is practically the first whose project most people in the country have heard about. Every year the government supports their activity \u2013 organization of Children\u2019s Festival \u201cGolden Nightingale\u201d. This organization has its own web site, where still information on all donations cannot be found. Yet their result can be seen every year in the days when the historic festival of children\u2019s song is organized.\n\u201cNarodna Tehnika\u201d \u2013 Kicevo\nAlthough fifth on the list, this association may be the first of most supported organizations if as criteria, instead of its name, we take the name and surname of the authorized person. According to the Central Registry, president of \u201cNarodna Tehnika\u201d from Kicevo is Sasa Dukoski. He is a former journalist in the public service and in 2010 he was elected Assistant Professor at the Law Faculty in Kicevo as part of the Bitola State University. But Dukoski appears as the only authorized person in the organization \u201cIzvor\u201d from Kicevo. Both organizations with the same authorized person over the years received a total of over 58,000 Euros. They often received the money as separate entities in the same competitions. At least on the internet no news and links can be found to some of the projects for which these organizations received money. Although some of them are with typical titles such as \u201cRural resources in Kicevo presented by wiesel reflection\u201d or \u201cComparative advantages for the development of rural micro-region Brzdani river in Kicevo\u201d, no written documents can be found on the Internet. NATO and the EU on the margins, fight against corruption forgotten But apart from the money, we investigated what projects of the NGO and civil society sector, according to the context, have been supported by the current government. Summarized by topics, most of the projects are related to strategies, activities and events of local importance \u2013 from festivals to tourist guides. Then there is a number of projects related to the fight against human trafficking, domestic violence and entrepreneurship development. But among other things there are dozens of projects that is not quite clear what they are or do not seem to be a program activity of citizens or foundations. For example: \u201cWater as a leader to the beautiful habits\u201d, \u201cConstruction of a local road Gorno Kolicani village \u2013 Batinci village\u201d, \u201cSources in Prilep in a new dimension\u201d, \u201cKindergarten opening\u201d etc. Another striking point is that comparatively, the number of projects related to EU and NATO integration is very small. Although, according to the relevant program each year such projects should be supported, among those who received money under this item are activities of the Association for the Spiritual Unification of Setinci, Popadinci and Krushoradi of Florina in Macedonia, and \u201cComparative analysis of the process of lustration\u201d of the Association of citizens politically persecuted, imprisoned, sentenced for the ideas of the separate identity of the Macedonian nation and statehood\u201d.\nOf all the set program goals of the Government the most obvious is that the support of projects whose purpose is the fight against corruption is missing. The last such support activity dates back to 2010 for the project \u201cTo prevent corruption\u201d, of the women\u2019s organization Radika from Skopje. In other words, in the past five years, from a total of 1.1 million Euros, only 5,000 Euros were support for associations and foundations for the fight against corruption.\nThey work for Macedonian, but live from foreign taxpayers\nWe asked some of the organizations that are \u201clower\u201d on the list of supported organizations for their opinion on these programs. Among them are several names that are well known to the public: Young Lawyers Association, Transparency Zero Corruption, NGO Infocenter, Helsinki Committee \u2026 These organizations received some funds until 2008-009, and then they disappeared from the list. We asked Uranija Pirovska of the Helsinki Committee, which only once in 2009 received about 4000 Euros, if they applied and if hoping for funds from government programs. She says they have ceased to seek funds from Macedonian taxpayers and are currently funded by application of calls from foreign donors.\n\u2013 \u201cSince then we have neither applied nor we have received, as the tendency to fund NGOs that are close to the government is apparent and by the way, in many occasions we checked and we found that they only exist on paper and appear in public only in cases when it is necessary to deny the findings and conclusions with critical content towards the policies of the government by the NGOs which are constantly present in public\u201d \u2013 says Uranija Pirovska, director of the \u201cHelsinki Committee\u201d from Skopje.\nThe law is good, realization lags behind\nLegal provisions concerning NGOs in Macedonia have been subject to scholarly work of three professors at the Law Faculty in Skopje. Dr Borce Davitkovski, Dr Ana Pavlovska Daneva and Dr Dragan Gocevski in 2011 published a paper in an international collection entitled \u201cProspects of the NGO sector in the provision of public services in the Republic of Macedonia\u201d. The text concludes that the legal framework in the Republic of Macedonia encourages the work of NGOs and offers the potential to even carry out public services on behalf of the state. We asked one of the authors of the paper whether the legal platform and the money allocated by the central government are rationally and correctly used in practice.\n\u2013 \u201cFrom the available acts and reports that the Government announces, assets are allocated to finance NGO sector. However, a number of NGOs are consistently permeating in the top 10. It can indicate two scenarios. Either that a certain small number of NGOs are very equipped and successful in achieving their projects so they are always more successful in applying for funds from the government or, and this is perhaps speculative, there is some preferential treatment to these organizations. As a personal opinion, I think the associations of citizens who express interest to conduct activities for the local community should be given more support. The manner of allocating the funds for financing to be decentralized. However, local self-government can have greater insight into the needs of local people and indeed active members of associations are themselves residents of smaller places. A number of organizations from smaller places have limited access to applying for funds when the method of distribution is centralized. Larger and already established organizations will always have priority \u2013 even in most objective circumstances\u201d \u2013 said Dr. Dragan Gocevski, Assistant Professor of Administrative Law and Public Administration at the Law Faculty within the University Ss Cyril and Methodius in Skopje.\nFor all dilemmas that this research opened about the figures published in the Official Gazette, we asked the Government of course. Where can all implemented projects be seen, that 1.8 million Euros taxpayers\u2019 money has been spent for? Why do some receive each year and others not? What are the criteria for giving vehicles and flats to foundations and associations? And here we came up maybe to the most devastating fact in this research. There was no reply.\nNGO's\u0442\u043e\u043f", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00040.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 73, + "original_length": 18124, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.96, + "perplexity": 260.8, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "http://en.inbox7.mk/?p=2765", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T03:51:33Z", + "digest": "sha1:UZJ3LONWHALVYNAGPRKRFTSHRKYOHJ64", + "length": 7643, + "nlines": 29, + "source_domain": "en.inbox7.mk", + "title": "State without anti-corruption commission \u2013 paradise for politicians", + "raw_content": "Dragan Malinovski, a former member of the SCPC in the period from 2002 to 2007, says that we cannot expect positive comments in the next report of the European Commission.\nThe former Anti-Corruption Commission did not work, but now we do not have any at all\u201d says the former anticorruption commissioner Arif Musa.\n\u201cIt was necessary to act immediately and to appoint members in accordance with the old Law, emphasizes Slagjana Taseva.\nIn addition to the Anti-Corruption Commission, CPRFAPI is \u201ccrippled\u201d too \u2013 since May there is no one to decide on the cases because at the moment, besides the President, the Commission has only one member.\nFor nine months now, one of the most important anti-corruption institutions in Macedonia \u2013 the State Commission for the Prevention of Corruption \u2013 does not function. Five members in March submitted resignations after the information about their travel expenses that was revealed by the portal \u201cSakam da kazham\u201d (\u201cI want to say\u201d). Now there are only two anti-corruption commissioners in the Commission, Suzana Taskova Adzikotareva and Najdo Spasevski. In their opinion, this information did not affect them to leave the Anti-Corruption Commission.\nIT\u2019S PARLIAMENT\u2019S TURN\nPrime Minister Zoran Zaev, in a recent interview on Alsat-M, said that the Government adopted the new Law on Anti-Corruption Commission, it was handed over to the Parliament and the procedure for its adoption is under way.\n\u201cThe government demonstrates a wish to finish it and it will complete it as soon as possible. Once the Parliament has passed the Law, members will be immediately elected and a commission will be formed with a new legislation that is fully coordinated with the Venice Commission, with the European delegation, and all the weaknesses that we have seen from before are incorporated\u201d, emphasized the Prime Minister.\nWhen asked about the procedure for adopting the new law on anti-corruption commission, the Parliament said: \u201cIt is in the first reading of the Parliament, the first reading has passed in the committee for political system, and the legislative committee is on Monday\u201d.\n\u201cTHE GOVERNMENT IS BETTER OFF WITHOUT AN ANTICORRUPTION COMMISSION\u201d\nExperts say the country should not allow an absence of a functional body that will fight corruption, for a long period. Although there seems to be a way to resolve the situation, it appears that for some months now the necessity of this body in the state has been neglected.\nSlagjana Taseva from \u201cTransparency International\u201d says there was an option to appoint members in order not to shut down the institution. According to her, the Commission cannot formally function if there are not enough members, and at the same time, all decisions are made by the majority of the members. Taseva emphasized that in no case should the SCPC have been allowed to remain empty, i.e. without members.\n\u201cIt was necessary to act immediately and to appoint members in accordance with the old Law, and then to work on a new one and wait for the election of new members of the Commission under the new Law\u201d, said Taseva.\nArif Musa, a former member of the State Commission for the Prevention of Corruption, said that the non-existence and the non-functioning of this institution is a great pity for the state and a huge failure of this government. Having the same attitude as Taseva, Musa believes that the government sees no need for the existence of this body.\n\u201cThe former Anti-Corruption did not work, but now we do not have any at all. In fact, the government is better off without this institution. The same pattern from the time of the old government continues with the new government, the less control \u2013 the better. The difference between them is that there has been some progress in terms of the Agreement with Greece\u201d, Musa explains.\nHe adds that the government cannot constantly rely on the Agreement with Greece, as an excuse for the slow implementation of other reforms in the country.\n\u201cThis government may think that it will draw public attention to the constitutional changes related to the Agreement with Greece, but that is just one segment. Other organs in the state should function aside from this, because they do not depend on the Agreement itself, for example the state administration. That is, we need to have control bodies, especially the Anti-Corruption Commission, the State Audit Office, the Prosecutor\u2019s Offices, which will function as they should\u201d, added the former anti-corruption commissioner.\nTHE SCPC WEBSITE HAS ALSO BEEN IN \u201cHIBERNATION\u201d FOR A LONGER TIME\nThe latest announcement on the website of the State Commission for Prevention of Corruption is the announcement on the occasion of the adopted Decision for announcing a referendum. They report that \u201cthe Commission has no legal basis to act and decide on submitted requests and reports from various entities related to the process of holding the referendum.\u201d\nPreviously, a few posts followed related to the mission of the system for conflict prevention, event reporting, training, panel discussion. The public announcement of March 29 this year is ten days after the Assembly passed the decision to dismiss the members of the SCPC. They say that the Commission will not have the opportunity to decide on and resolve the submitted requests and applications from the parties, but the Secretariat as an expert service will act and perform the administrative and technical matters of the SCPC.\nAWAITING BRUSSELS CRITICIS\nIn March next year, the European Commission (EC) report is expected to show the progress made by the Republic of Macedonia in terms of the reforms that it needs to implement if it wants to start accession negotiations with the European Union (EU).\n\u201cIn any case we will not receive praise, nor can we expect any. However, we are talking about the Republic of Macedonia, which is undoubtedly badly ranked with regard to the issue of corruption, and by not having a functional commission, it\u2019s really not commendable\u201d, said Malinovski.\nSlagjana Taseva says that although it is still too early to talk about the EC report, she believes that many points will be disappointing.\n\u201cI hope for a realistic and objective report from the European Commission. By the way, there are many questions hanging and waiting, starting with the judiciary and the prosecution, as well as failure to act in the fight against corruption in general. The government has a lot to do until March if we want to get at least a little positive report that will ensure the start of negotiations\u201d, she adds.\nIf the Assembly does not pass the new Anti-Corruption Law in a short time, it will mean a winter sleep for the Commission with its two members and the Secretariat. This situation will put the state at risk of deepening corruption. Meanwhile, the fight remains in the hands of journalists and independent bodies.\nCPRFAPI IS \u201cCRIPPLED\u201d TOO\nThe cases to be resolved by the Commission for Protection of the Right to Free Access to Public Information are trapped between the four walls of the Commission. They are also facing the same problem as the Anti-Corruption Commission. Namely, since May there is no one to decide on the cases because at the moment, besides the President, the Commission has only one member. For proper functioning, a president, a vice president and three members are needed. Inbox7 sources say there is no will either by the authorities or by the opposition, and the procedure for appointing new members is stuck in the labyrinths of the Parliament.\nWe asked President Blerim Iseni, but we were told that the president is not at work because of the \u201cAlbanian Alphabet Day\u201d holiday.", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00040.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 72, + "original_length": 9060, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.96, + "perplexity": 187.9, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "http://en.scorser.com/S/Sheet+music/John+Elton+Love+Song/-1/1.html", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T04:38:01Z", + "digest": "sha1:UQWD46ATMVLNVJTPEQ5AF4CH3SJJZJP2", + "length": 3310, + "nlines": 37, + "source_domain": "en.scorser.com", + "title": "Sheet music, scores: John Elton Love Song", + "raw_content": "John Elton Love Song\nOriginal: The Love Songs of Elton John. Elton John. By Elton John. Your Song.\nTranslation: 21 timeless ballads from Sir Elton, including. Can You Feel the Love Tonight. Can you feel the love tonight.\nOriginal: The Love Songs of Elton John. Elton John. No one pens a ballad like Sir Elton.\nTranslation: The Love Songs of Elton John by Elton John. Can You Feel the Love Tonight.\nOriginal: E-Z Play Today Volume 248. The Love Songs Of Elton John. Elton John. Your Song. MLC. --.\nTranslation: 21 timeless ballads from Sir Elton in E-Z Play notation, including. Can You Feel the Love Tonight. Sheet Music.\nOriginal: The Love Songs of Elton John. Elton John. No one pens a ballad like Elton John. PVG.\nTranslation: Can You Feel the Love Tonight. Your Song. Sheet Music. Piano, Vocal. --. Here are 25 of his megahits, including.\nOriginal: Aida. Songs from the Musical. Elton John. Songs from the Musical. Every Story Is A Love Story. Aida.\nTranslation: composed by Elton John and Tim Rice. Every Story Is a Love Story, Fortune Favors the Brave. 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But contingency planning is all about the unexpected. Fortuitous changes ought not to result in a breakdown of ordered processes. 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Thus, reservation for women will be a good step in direction of achieving social-justice. Get complete information on different Styles in Literature Which are those causes discovered of mental deficiency and low intelligence level.\nInterestingly, a significant proportion 44 percent of the students said they engaged in some activity that promoted social justice. Additionally, we asked students to describe what they were actually doing to promote social justice.\nIn most academic papers, social activism is defined as political activism: Interestingly, there was a tremendous range of responses to our question. In addition to political activism, we identified many different categories of social justice activities, including conducting social-justice-related research, being a member of or volunteering for an organization that focused on social activism, seeking out educational opportunities to learn more about social justice, engaging in advocacy on behalf of people from disadvantaged or marginalized groups, and talking to family and friends about social justice.\nWhat was most impressive to me was the creativity displayed by students as they sought to promote social justice, as well as the diversity of issues addressed by their actions. Many students reported participating in marches, protests and other direct social actions for economic or racial change. One participant was working to promote social justice by acting in a short film that aimed to foster acceptance of LGBTQ youth during the coming out process.\nSome students were using a social justice approach when providing clinical services to children with developmental disabilities. A few reported that they were engaged in youth mentoring or were working on behalf of youth within the juvenile justice system. Still others described being LGBTQ allies or serving as advocates for women who have endured domestic and sexual violence. We also had students who volunteered at community or religious organizations to help individuals around issues of poverty and food security.\nA significant number of students indicated that they spoke with family or friends about these issues. I think that these kinds of actions are more quiet forms of activism. Discussing issues of social justice with significant others might have the impact of changing attitudes or gaining support from them. In turn, this might ultimately increase awareness of social issues and might influence others to take action in some way in their own lives.\nThese included engaging in social-justice related research, attending lectures, being part of student groups and organizations that promoted social justice such as RU PROUD a lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, questioning and ally organization and Students for a Sensible Drug Policy , engaging in social justice as part of their professional clinical training and volunteering as part of service learning. Although less than half of the students we surveyed reported engaging in activism, those who were active appeared to take advantage of the resources and opportunities available at Roosevelt, and many sought to integrate these experiences with their academic studies.\nThe second study that my research team and I conducted focused on the role of the University mission in promoting positive attitudes toward social justice. I wanted to understand whether students who felt more involved at the University and agreed with its mission were in fact more likely to engage in social activism.\nStudents who respected the social justice mission were much more likely to state that they intended to work for social justice in the future and felt that they possessed the skills to effect positive change.\nThese students were also more likely to report having engaged in social activism, talk about social justice issues with family and friends and personally identify as social activists. Feeling a part of the Roosevelt community mattered because it allowed them to share in this core community value.\nWe are currently conducting additional studies where we hope to follow undergraduate students over time to see how their ideas and views of social justice might change as they move from freshman to senior year. We are also interviewing student activists to learn from their unique experiences, motivations and perceptions of their own work.\nIndeed, it has been a pleasure to be able to assess and document the amazingly diverse and creative activism that is going on at Roosevelt. We have so much to learn from our students! An important part of social justice education is to trust that students are able to evaluate the information we provide and use it in a way that is valid, realistic and relevant to their own lives. Because students are able to come up with so many unique and creative ways to address injustices in their interpersonal and professional lives, professors should not provide answers, but rather should pose questions to help students recognize the real challenges in our society.\nWe can encourage them to critically evaluate their own views and the views of others and provide them with a range of interventions and interpersonal skills that they can then use to confront a range of social problems and issues in their own ways. We also need to recognize that this is hard, risky work. As educators, it is important that we not only talk about social justice but provide students with the skills they need to take action and be effective.\nContact Susan Torres-Harding at storresharding roosevelt.\nBriefly this paper will address social injustices in the United States and under the social injustices, the paper will focus more on Economy, health and society injustices. This will be approached with three .\nKeywords Ableism; Associative Justice; Classism; Distributive Justice; Heterosexism; Oppression; Postmodernism; Racism; Recognitional Justice; Sexism Overview Social justice has a long history; almost as soon as human societies were formed, philosophers began thinking about how individual and collective needs could be met simultaneously (Griffiths, ).\nAdditionally, we asked students to describe what they were actually doing to promote social justice. In most academic papers, social activism is defined as political activism: marching in protests, attending rallies, writing legislators or voting in order to promote policy or legal changes. Sep 11, \u00b7 The late Father William J. 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These signal jammers are wireless and can be used in any location to disable cellular phones. You can also use it to interfere with wireless local area networks or WLAN. Because of this ability to interfere with wireless local area network signals, manufacturers have also developed other types of jammers like Bluetooth jammers and Wi-Fi and wireless video jammers. Now, even satellites can be jammed; you only need to have high-tech and sophisticated types of signal jammers to do so.\nThe only time signal jammers will have a difficult time of interfering device signals is if your electronic devices is in good working condition. The government is also using these signal jammers and they regulate its use, and the only use for their signal jammers is for interfering with cellular phone communication lines. They only damage the receiving end of a cell phone call because it directly interferes with the cell phone and the base station itself. The electromagnetic wave of a signal jammer is relatively small that it does not really have an effect on the human body or on the cell phone itself. The only time that signal jammers can cause health risks is if you use the bigger ones like outdoor signal stations.\nThe cellular phone jammer is the most common signal jammer available. When the signal jammer blocks the radio waves, the cell phone is prevented from receiving them from the base station. The distance covered by this signal jammer is from 10 meters to a kilometer.\nAnother commonly used signal jammer is the GPS signal jammer. The military uses GPS jammers in order to confuse GPS tracking locations. There are no homemade tracking systems like this. For people who do not want the GPS receiver to know their location and that of their vehicle, they use the GPS signal jammer. A GPS signal jammer for civilians usually reach only up to ten meters.\nA Bluetooth jammer is usually integrated with a multi-functional jammers which jams wi-fi and video. It disrupts and disables wireless LAN, Bluetooth devices, and video transmitting, for privacy.\nThese signal jammers are relatively low priced and this is the reason why it has gained popularity and is used repeatedly.\nYou can find websites online that sells signal jammers are affordable costs. Cellular phone jammers are the least expensive ones with the more affordable costing only less than fifty dollars and the higher priced is less than a hundred fifty.\nSome Wedding Venue Options to Consider Weddings are special events, and every bride and bridegroom wants it to be a memorable occasion. The couple must select an indoor location in case the wedding is being held in the winter season. Some families might prefer holding the event outside when it is during summer. The most popular place to hold weddings is hotels. The reason for this popularity is because most hotels have larger halls and they supply catering at the same time. Wedding receptions are catered for by virtually every big hotel in the country. Therefore, if you\u2019re looking at holding your wedding reception at a resort, you must not have an issue locating an appropriate resort that\u2019s near your house. But, hotels aren\u2019t the only option to consider to get a wedding venue. If you are not expecting many guests, and you have a large house, you could hold the reception at your house. This may save you the cost of hiring a wedding venue also it might be suitable both for you as well as your visitors. If you do not have a large house or you are expecting a lot of guests, you could hire a club, hall, country house, a boat, farmhouse or even a medieval castle. The are plenty of options for wedding venues. You only have to understand what you want and go for a place that will suit your needs. For the outdoor wedding venues, you can think of a garden, a park, a golf course or a hayfield. There are numerous beautiful parks that have customized their parks for weddings. You would have to get in touch with the management of the park, golf course or garden to know how much they charge for hosting weddings. Another option to choose is to get hold of an events management company that will help you with securing the wedding site and arranging it. Hiring such a firm will spare you the hassle of getting tables, chairs, arranging a marquee and so on. Making these arrangements demands lots of your time yet you might have a million things to do. Getting everything together can be a significant challenge particularly if the reception and the wedding ceremony are at different venues.\nIf you hire a club or golf course, they can provide the catering if they have such an option. Only make the arrangements and learn their charges on per head basis. Some gardens, meadows, and gardens that hire their grounds or facilities for weddings can also provide all that you need for an outdoor wedding.\nA Quick Overlook of Celebrations \u2013 Your Cheatsheet\nWhether you prefer an outdoor or indoor wedding venue, you can get an idea of how much the venue will cost depending on how many guests you have.\u2026\nHow to Choose the Best Portable Hard Drive for You\nWith all the information that we have access to on a day to day basis, there no way to save them unless you have a portable hard drive with you at all times. A regular PC or laptop typically has 200 GB to 750 GB of internal memory, but as many of us have experienced this is not enough over time; many of our work or home related files like pictures, emails, videos and such can eat a lot of space. 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Capability of the Software: numerous portable hard drives have actually installed new software that can put passwords on files and folders as well as backup and restore data. The drivers, or some of them, can be quickly configured in order to tell the software run in the background; the software handles the updates. Since files are restored alongside the latest updates, all data can be restores in case something went wrong; this is crucial for business or for people who stored critical data.\n3. Power Source: the best portable hard drives available in the market offer plug and play features. What\u2019s great about these portable hard drives is that they can connect with any computer in an instant and receive files, no installation required. In terms of power source, the bigger portable hard drives need to be plugged into an outlet but for the smaller ones, the USB ports will suffice. For those of you who travel a lot and want to bring their portable hard drive, make sure to choose the ones that won\u2019t need an entirely different power source, especially if power sources are not readily available.\u2026\nIf you need to buy our factory rack shelves or storage place loading go to our web site to create justarack.net and make use of the coupon code to stroll into using greater racking system to your products. \u2026\nWant to Avoid Drinking Tickets? This Mobile Application Is Totally Made for You!\nThey have really started fresh out of the box new techniques (or scaled existing ones) with mobile applications and in addition mobile sites. While services with big purses could pay for to use both mobile websites and also applications, various other business could have to select one of them. The choice in the middle of mobile applications in Toronto and furthermore websites relies on upon their value, function, required properties and also the objective market they offer.\nThat being claimed, researchers reveal that customers like mobile applications greater than mobile internet sites. This makes a solid need to have mobile applications for interfacing with possible (and moreover existing) purchasers. Moreover, there are various different variables, too, that improve mobile applications tremendously contrasted with mobile sites most particularly for beer enthusiasts in parks of Toronto.\nYes, you have read it right and clear! There is a mobile application in Toronto which will help you to decide whether there is a police around the recreation center. So this suggests you can value drinking your beer in any park in Toronto since this mobile application will make your life more straightforward and pleasing! Having said that, what are the great things that you can expect to get when you download this kind of mobile application in Toronto? To know the right things that you can get from this application, here are the following points of interest of downloading this mobile application in Toronto.\n1. The mobile application for beer drinkers in parks of Toronto will unquestionably empower you to value your beer without getting any sort of drinking tickets from the experts since this mobile application in Toronto will positively offer you a tip if there is a police around the recreation center.\n2. The mobile application for beer drinkers in parks of Toronto will certainly increase your links considering that individuals that are making use of the very same application will certainly offer you a hint if both of you remain in the very same location. 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Every service will come across complaints.\nFor Your Used Car Sale Receipt PDF Free Download, you have to mention the thorough name and address of the buyer together with the vendor together with the specifics of the motor vehicle. Your vehicle\u2019s major information also has to be granted as well take pleasure in the identification, year, and color, amongst others. The amount an individual can denote the launching of a travel, something that can be exciting and thrilling. Iall provide you my cell phone number and inform you that in the event that you discover something you think you like you are able to call me. If you must make a telephone call and you are being concerted, the police officer may enable you to utilize your mobile phone.\nShould you pack your own lunch instead of heading out or buying from vending machines, you\u2019re likely to save a lot of money through the year. Selling food or playing music alongside your exhibited product is a fantastic way to pull or collect prospective buyers. Return merchandise you simply bought. You can hang on a bill collector, and when they\u2019re compliant, then they won\u2019t call you back before the subsequent week. Should you wish to contact eBay for something that will finally make them cash, they\u2019re pleased to assist. You may try searching on eBay or some number of the live auction sites to see if you\u2019re able to locate work by exactly the same artist.\nYou\u2019re going to be hunted as part of this booking process. It would be worth it to determine ahead of time changing your state residency will affect your taxation obligation. You won\u2019t waste time and money going to many unique stores for the lowest prices. The specific same is true inside the shop. There are several people who don\u2019t appreciate the things they get at no charge. You will then get a notion of the painting\u2019s potential price. Before you think about selling your belongings, don\u2019t forget to clean all things for sale, and this will make it possible that you make the most of the selling costs and marketability of these goods.\nClick is cash in regards to advertising placements. You might believe that by booking with an intermediary you are saving money, but you\u2019re dead wrong. Some individuals make lots of cash by purchasing tickets online. Just because you\u2019re in a position to receive free items does not indicate that you don\u2019t have to devote any money. Purchase and sell is another way to bring in money through the site. Ensure you count the cash. Possessing an effective Adword campaign can aid the website owner earn cash.\nPeople could have been wondering why there are website proprietors that have plenty of websites. For solutions, the website operator may use their or her talent. After learning the basics, he should be on the watch for sites idea to generate money. The specific same company offers both tickets, so be certain that you ask them if that\u2019s also your strategy! A collection company cannot collect any sum of money that is not permitted by legislation or by arrangement. Additional it would be required to demonstrate the terms of that arrangement in court.\nFor your own collection organization to state it had an agreement on you, it must demonstrate the manner that it was going to do good for you. Doing this produces a contract that could be binding.\nIf you sell over five, or any time you purchase even a single vehicle with the goal of reselling it, then you\u2019ve got to get a dealer license. If you purchase your car or truck from a dealer, the dealer is required to submit the name application for your own benefit, and that means you aren\u2019t going to have to see the tax office. It\u2019s likely to sell an automobile that isn\u2019t branded to you just if you\u2019re a certified dealer. If you want to sell or buy an automobile, whether it\u2019s a classic automobile or a new one, it\u2019s important to get a Sale Receipt. Promoting your vehicle can be simple, but to steer clear of issues involving you and the buyer, you must know about exactly what the law requires. Damaged vehicles might have been registered out of country.\nIn case the vehicle is missing any attributes, like a stolen radio or a busted side mirror, then you could also record this here. When automobiles are being sold liberally, you may use an escrow service to lessen the transaction. Before setting the cost which you have to ask to your car or truck, assess its valuation together with our totally free appraisal tool. It isn\u2019t only cheaper but also convenient since you are able to note the status of the vehicle and test drive before you buy. Promoting your auto privately is very likely to secure you the very best cost, provided that you\u2019re ready to dedicate some time and effort in building your purchase. Roadworthiness All cars more than five years old have to undergo a yearly safety inspection, known as a pink slip test, to demonstrate that the vehicle is roadworthy.\nGuarantee that the dealer supplies you with a receipt showing the vehicle was recorded in your name. A trader might ask you to guarantee the condition of your trade-in beneath Buyer\u2019s Representation\u201d on the purchase contract. Dealers are incredibly useful with the necessary paper work.\nWithout the right paperwork, the purchaser is very likely to have a difficult time re-registering the automobile in his title. When you discover the appropriate purchaser, our Vehicle Revenue Receipt is going to be very helpful to you. Prospective customers are also in a place to send in questions regarding the automobile. The purchaser ought to be advised if your vehicle has specific registration plates that have additional yearly fees, as they go with the automobile and become the duty of the new owner. Should you locate a buyer for your automobile you are attempting to sell, our Revenue Receipt in PDF is going to be beneficial for you when creating one.\nAs a seller, there are certain things which you ought to learn about before you enter into the selling of an automobile. Please be aware that the document cannot be used for industrial earnings (that\u2019s where one party is a conducting the sale at the class of business) or in case the automobile has not been inspected. Complete seller notification if it was be a personal sale from one individual to another person.\nA higher need means that your car will probably sell faster. The market will determine whether there\u2019s a high or really low demand of vehicles. 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If you lost the original title you may have to make an application to get a replacement title. You are able to also utilize Title Check to figure out whether the name of the car you are considering buying has some difficulties impacting its value.\nThe letter must state the point of your trip, where you are traveling, describe why you are not able to supply an itinerary and supply the first date by which you should have your passport. Some kinds of company letter are more troublesome to write than others, however as you get experience in writing letters you will discover that knowing what things to say and also how to phrase it is largely an issue of common sense. A typical small business letter contains three sections, an introduction, a body, and a conclusion.\nAfter you are finished writing, ask a person to read your letter and offer you feedback, since they may spot errors you may have missed. When you\u2019ve decided what sort of letter you\u2019re very likely to write, it\u2019s important to stop and think. If a letter does not fill a whole page, be certain that the content of this letter is in the middle of the page and the document is balanced. A business letter comprises very little discussion. Composing a fantastic company letter can take some time and energy. If you are going to be sending out quite important small business letters, then it\u2019s worthwhile to invest in professional proofreading services.\nAs you begin your letter, you need to take care of the recipient appropriately. The letter should clearly state the company\u2019s position from the case. No matter the tone you are using in your letter, your writing needs to continue being succinct, clear, and simple to read. Similar to an email, a carefully drafted business letter will function as a thorough and efficient communication tool. Most business letters have been written in a simple format that is readily adapted to any supplier\u2019s requirements, and business email follows a similarly straightforward format.\nFind more information about the organization or call to discover which person it is much better to add as the recipient of your letter. Business letters should not go beyond a single page unless absolutely vital. They are more formal in writing. A business letter is an expert item of correspondence. It\u2019s easily recognizable by its structure and style. It needs to be clear and concise. In reality, a formal company letter on an attractive letterhead can make a enormous impression.\nThere are a few ways to ensure your letter is as clean as possible. Business letters may also be utilized to break current relationships, between both people and businesses. They need to be targeted to a particular individual or group, possess a very clear and concise purpose, be convincing and end with a specific objective, like a meeting date. Considering all business letters are not formal, an official company letter is written for a formal function only. A business letter is a professional object of correspondence, but nevertheless, it will not be perceived that way if you opt for a wacky font or have plenty of typos. After all, you want your writing to be perfect as soon as you are sending a business letter to your entire business, to a possible employer or to your most valuable clients. Therefore, it\u2019s extremely vital that you write a business letter using a great deal of attention and thought. The letter must also state in detail your company\u2019s experience and standing and its competitive advantage in the company. Composing a professional, polished small company letter or business email is easy when you know the fundamentals. Next, you need to be sure to deal with the recipient of the correspondence. As soon as you\u2019ve stated the total reason for writing your business letter, utilize the body to provide additional information. Letters of company are definitely the most popular and the most commonly written kinds of letters. No matter the reason, a personal business letter is on a blank bit of paper, not on letterhead.\nThank you letters might be used by companies to thank clients for a recent purchase. Anyone who must write business letters. Business letters are utilized while the author want to be professional and formal. More often than not, the business letter is going to be the very first impression that you make on someone. If you are sending the business letter on behalf of your organization, add pp under your name. You write most business letters with the intent of locating the reader to reply. Personal little business letters have been listed communication between you and a business enterprise.\nTo keep a professional attachment inside the office, get accustomed to these kinds of business letters and if you ought to utilize them. Utilize the right types of speech when you compose a business letter. If you\u2019re writing a business letter as a portion of an exam, attempt to steer clear of spelling mistakes. A Business Portfolio is kind of letter which functions as a way of communication written for various industrial functions. 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Lincoln proud sponsor of upcoming Sunshine Law Training in Sarasota on October 28th\nHOT TOPICS IN THE SUNSHINE \u2013 THE BASICS AND BEYOND\nA public information session sponsored by the State and Local Government Section of the Sarasota County Bar Association, Chaired by Robert K. Lincoln\nDo you currently work for a state or local government, serve on a government board or advisory board, or represent those who do? Do you want to hear the latest news, trends and hot topics about open meetings and public records? Most important, do you want practical tips on how to spot issues and avoid violating Florida\u2019s Government in the Sunshine and Public Records Laws? Join us to learn the latest and greatest on what\u2019s new in this complex area and how to stay off the hot seat.\nOn Wednesday, October 28, Attorney Pat Gleason, special counsel for open government for Attorney General Pam Bondi, will briefly take you back to the basics and then present you with the latest information on trends and hot topics in public records and open meetings laws. You will learn how to apply public records exemptions, how to address the risks of officials attending meetings, gain current guidance on issues related to campaigns and elections, and how to spot when you need to call your attorney for advice. You will hear how the laws apply in this current fast paced world of technology, including communications by private e-mail, text message and other forms of social media. Bring your questions and get the answers you need.\nThe workshop will be held at The Francis, 1289 North Palm Avenue, Sarasota, FL beginning at 8:30 am with a continental breakfast, followed by the program from 9 \u2013 11 am. The cost is $35 per person. Advanced registration is required, and reservations can be made by visiting www.sarasotabar.com.\nThis session is made possible by the support of the following law firms: Law Office of Robert K. Lincoln, P.A. and Persson & Cohen, P.A.\nFor more information, contact Jan Jung, Executive Director at scba@sarasotabar.com.\nAugust 17, 2015: Mr. Lincoln named to the Best Lawyers in America for Litigation - Land Use and Zoning, and Land Use and Zoning Law\nRobert K. Lincoln has been selected by his peers for inclusion in the 22nd Edition of The Best Lawyers in America in the practice areas of Litigation - Land Use and Zoning, and Land Use and Zoning Law.\nBest Lawyers' lists of outstanding attorneys are compiled by conducting exhaustive peer-review surveys in which tens of thousands of leading lawyers confidentially evaluate their professional peers. If the votes for an attorney are positive enough for inclusion in Best Lawyers, that attorney must maintain those votes in subsequent polls to remain on the list for each edition. Lawyers are not permitted to pay any fee to participate in or be included on Best Lawyers lists.\nBest Lawyers is one of the oldest and most respected peer-review publications in the legal profession. A listing in Best Lawyers is widely regarded by both clients and legal professionals as a significant honor, conferred on a lawyer by his or her peers. For more than three decades, Best Lawyers lists have earned the respect of the profession, the media, and the public, as a reliable, unbiased source of legal referrals anywhere.\nAugust 10, 2015: Board's 6-0 vote allows Nokomo's Sunset Hut to reopen.\nJuly 2015: Robert K. Lincoln honored as Florida Legal Elite Attorney in Land Use Law.\nRobert K. Lincoln has been selected by Florida Trend magazine as a 2015 Florida Legal Elite attorney in the practice areas of Environmental and Land Use Law. Now in its 12th year, Florida Legal Elite presents a prestigious roster of attorneys chosen for recognition by their peers. For 2015, Mr. Lincoln is the only attorney selected for this honor from the Sarasota and Bradenton regions in the Environmental and Land Use practice areas.\nLegal Elite attorneys exemplify a standard of excellence in their profession and have garnered the respect and esteem of their colleagues. Lawyers across the state were asked to name attorneys they hold in the highest regard or would recommend to others. Ballots were independently processed and a panel further examined the top vote-getters. The final attorneys selected represent fewer than 2% of the active Florida Bar members who practice in Florida. 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I'm not a fantastic...\nIncredible, Rich Almond Cake\nIf you are looking for a quick and amazing almond cake recipe for the weekend, look no further. 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Such quiet types are often not as visible within companies, but by some calculations, introverts make up half of the population. That\u2019s an awful lot of talent to exclude from executive ranks.\nIt\u2019s the numerical equivalent of excluding women \u2014 and similarly shortsighted, says Susan Cain, author of the new book Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can\u2019t Stop Talking. \u201cThere\u2019s a bias in our culture against introversion,\u201d she says. To use Betty Friedan\u2019s language from The Feminine Mystique, \u201cit\u2019s a problem in our culture that has no name\u201d \u2014 pervasive, yet seldom discussed, at least until recently.\nCertainly, introverts trying to make it in business face obstacles. As part of their hiring processes, some companies give personality tests that seem designed to weed out introverts.\nIf you survive that, you soon discover that \u201cMost of our workplaces are set up for maximum stimulation,\u201d says Cain. Some 70%, she says, are \u201copen plan\u201d offices, where people must deal with \u201cthe noise and gazes of their co-workers all day long.\u201d\nCompanies have an \u201cinordinate belief in the power of meetings and brainstorming,\u201d and they tend to promote people who make themselves visible, often by speaking up first (whether they have anything meaningful to contribute or not). As a result, \u201cmost of us, at a young age, learn how to act much more extroverted than we are.\u201d\nSee also: Why you should embrace your company\u2019s heretics\nBut this ignores that introverts have several strengths that are helpful in business.\nFor starters, being inside one\u2019s own head a lot isn\u2019t a bad thing. \u201cWe get our energy from what people refer to as our inner world,\u201d says Lisa Petrilli, a self-proclaimed introvert and CEO of C-Level Strategies, a company that works with leaders in mid-sized firms ($100 million to $1 billion). \u201cThat\u2019s very powerful. Ideas really do run businesses.\u201d Being energized by one\u2019s inner world translates into \u201cbeing able to see and create a vision for others to follow.\u201d\nSecond, while introverts don\u2019t spend a lot of time talking, they do spend a lot of time listening \u2014 not a bad skill for managing client interactions.\nThey may even be better networkers. \u201cThere\u2019s a myth that networking is all about cold-calling people and walking up to strangers at cocktail parties,\u201d says Lindsey Pollak, global spokesperson for LinkedIn (LNKD) and author of the newly re-issued book Getting from College to Career. \u201cOften the best connections are made through mutual acquaintances. Shy people tend to feel most comfortable networking with the people they know, and then ask those people for referrals to others. That\u2019s a good strategy for anyone.\u201d\nFortunately for introverts and the organizations that would like to tap their talent, technology is making it easier to be visible without shouting. \u201cWhat technology does, really, is it allows us to connect with other people in less stimulating ways,\u201d says Cain.\nEmail introductions are infinitely easier for introverts than picking up the phone, and \u201cwith the Internet, you can connect with hundreds, thousands, or millions of people without ever leaving the house.\u201d A white paper is easily shared and debated without having to fly somewhere to make a presentation.\nSee also: Dating and business: Not all that different\nOrganizations can also actively take steps to help their introverts feel comfortable. Cain suggests that companies \u201cshould think really hard about their office design\u201d and create places where \u201cpeople can have personalization and privacy\u201d without a huge conference room reservation process. \u201cYou shouldn\u2019t have to sign up to be by yourself.\u201d\nAnd even rethinking meetings can help. \u201cMake sure to give people ways to contribute that aren\u2019t just to jump into the fray.\u201d Something as simple as handing out an agenda of a meeting in advance will give introverts \u201ctime to think it through.\u201d And since introverts are often energized by such thinking, they\u2019ll probably have great ideas to contribute \u2014 if you bother to listen.", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00040.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 141, + "original_length": 7118, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.96, + "perplexity": 284.7, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "http://fortune.com/2017/04/13/stock-indexes-beat-mutual-funds/", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T03:18:07Z", + "digest": "sha1:CYKGGGPLFH45AQBAUTSJQRHFAMXH6NWI", + "length": 2947, + "nlines": 10, + "source_domain": "fortune.com", + "title": "Stocks: Over 15 Years, Fund Managers Seldom Beat the Market | Fortune", + "raw_content": "Stock-Picking Fund Managers Are Even Worse Than We Thought At Beating the Market\nBy Jeff Bukhari\nRather than hiring a stock picker to run your investment portfolio, you\u2019re probably better off just investing in market indexes.\nThat advice has been gaining a lot of traction in recent years, especially as those indexes (at least in the U.S.) have reaped big gains in a bull market that\u2019s now entering its ninth year. But data released this week underscores the idea even more forcefully.\nMore than six in 10 actively managed stock funds were outperformed by their market benchmarks in 2016, according to the S&P Indices Versus Active funds scorecard. Large-cap funds failed to keep up with the S&P 500 66% of the time, while mid- and small-cap funds were outperformed by their benchmarks 89.3% and 85.5% of the time, respectively.\nAs bad as those numbers are, they only get worse over longer timelines. The overwhelming majority of all domestic funds were outperformed by their benchmarks over 1-, 3-, 5-, 10-, and 15-year intervals that ended December 2016.\nOver the longest span, the numbers were particularly brutal. The S&P 500 outperformed more than 92% of large-cap funds over the last 15 years. Mid- and small-cap funds fared no better over the time period, with their benchmarks besting them 95.4% and 93.2% of the time, respectively. Overall, 82.2% of all active funds were outperformed over the 15-year period. (Over the both short and long term, actively managed bond funds were more likely to beat their benchmarks.)\nThe companies and money managers who run actively managed mutual funds\u2014and charge fees and management expenses many times higher than those for index funds\u2014have often argued that one-year returns aren\u2019t a fair snapshot of their long-term performance.\nGiven that long-term analysis is often seen as the best barometer in judging the effectiveness of a stock strategy, since it reduces the impact of volatility, the data appears to back up a growing sentiment among investors that active stock funds may not be worth the cost. Active stock funds, which buy and sell specific stocks based on the fund manager\u2019s determination of how the companies will fare, typically come with high fees, justified by the idea that the clients are paying for acute expertise. But this week\u2019s numbers reinforce the idea that active-management clients may actually just be paying someone to shuffle their investments around, and leaving cash on the table in the process.\nAs investors have started to become more aware of this notion, passive funds have begun to come in vogue. Passive funds, which follow indexes and don\u2019t try to pick specific stocks to buy and sell, attracted $504.8 billion in investments last year, which is double the level in 2007, according to Morningstar. 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Amazon Studios is bringing the classic The Lord of the Rings fantasy novel series to the small screen with a streaming series based on the books by J.R.R. Tolkien.\nThe e-commerce giant said on Monday that it has acquired the global television rights to The Lord of the Rings, and its entertainment studio is already committed to produce a \u201cmulti-season\u201d TV series based on the books for Amazon Prime subscribers, with the potential for an additional spin-off series. Amazon will produce the new original series in partnership with Tolkien\u2019s estate and HarperCollins, which holds the publishing rights to the books, as well as Warner Bros.\u2019s New Line Cinema, the studio that distributed the three Lord of the Rings movie adaptations that were released between 2001 and 2003.\n\u201cThe Lord of the Rings is a cultural phenomenon that has captured the imagination of generations of fans through literature and the big screen,\u201d Sharon Tal Yguado, Amazon Studios\u2019 head of scripted series, said in a statement. The company also said the series will be based in Middle Earth (the books\u2019 fictional setting), but it \u201cwill explore new storylines preceding J.R.R. Tolkien\u2019s The Fellowship of the Ring,\u201d the first novel from the trilogy of books, first published in 1954.\nAmazon has already won Oscars and Emmys for its original movies and TV shows, but the company\u2019s growing streaming film and TV studio has yet to produce a massive drama series that can match the global popularity of a show like HBO\u2019s Game of Thrones or Netflix\u2019s Stranger Things. In September, Variety reported that Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos had tasked his film and TV studio with finding and developing an original series that could match those rivals in terms of scope and broad appeal after the company scored multiple critically-acclaimed series that had otherwise failed to pull in massive audiences. (Amazon Studios is also looking for some positive news to help move on from a period of tumult that saw studio chief Roy Price forced out amid sexual harassment allegations.)\nA TV series based on The Lord of the Rings would certainly seem to fit the mold of what Bezos is after, which could be why the tech billionaire reportedly got personally involved in negotiations with Warner Bros. and Tolkien\u2019s estate before paying what\u2019s said to be a massive amount (Deadline reported the deal to be worth $250 million) to bring the series to Amazon. The book series has boasted a cult following for decades while the Oscar-winning movie trilogy grossed nearly $3 billion in worldwide movie ticket sales while paving the way for another trilogy of movies based on Tolkien\u2019s earlier work, The Hobbit.\nAssuming fans haven\u2019t grown tired of seeing Tolkien\u2019s work adapted after six movies, The Lord of the Rings TV series should benefit from a built-in following that should turn it into one of the most hotly-anticipated shows in development for television. 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That being said, we\u2019re not going to spoil the fun. To find the answer, you\u2019re going to have to watch the video. Don\u2019t worry, however \u2014 bad things rarely happen when Linux is involved.\nWe found this short eight minute video quite by accident while searching through the FOSS Force News Wire looking for something else. In it, we find the well known open source community manager, Jono Bacon, at home, apparently alone and in his kitchen, recording himself as he plays with his newly acquired Google Home device. This surprised us, as we didn\u2019t know he actually had a home. It seemed to us he spends all of his time in his office, and we figured he lived there. We were also surprised to find him alone. A community manager, we figured, is absolutely always surrounded by his community.\nThere were a few other things we learned from watching this. For example, who would\u2019ve thought Bacon to be an Iron Maiden fan? Living in the Bay Area, and with his community minded career, we figured his taste would lean more towards the Airplane \u2014 you know, \u201cWe can be together\u201d and all that. One of us figured him to be a British Invasion type \u2014 but we\u2019re pretty sure that was the result of stereotyping. Evidently all assumptions were wrong.\nAs the device was a gift Google handed out at an OSCON dinner, sort of like swag, we know that the cynics among you are going to jump to the conclusion that this is actually something akin to an advertisement, or perhaps a product endorsement. Nah. He\u2019s just having a little fun \u2014 and maybe thanking Google for the cool gift. Remember what your mama taught you about manners.\nAnyway, the Bacon roast is over. Enjoy the video.\nTags: Google, Jono Bacon | Category: Community, Reviews, Video\n14 comments to Jono Bacon Asked Google Home \u2018Who Founded Linux?\u2019 You Won\u2019t Believe What Happened Next!\nJasonLG1979\nMy wife got one free with her new phone. To us it didn\u2019t seem that smart or useful. I set it up with a dummy email account and put it in my 8yr old son\u2019s room. He and my 4 yr old daughter get a kick out of asking it stupid questions\u2026\n@Christine, what happened to the comments made yesterday?\n@tracyanne Our server hiccuped or something, causing our theme to reset itself to its default settings. As it would take a full day or more to reconfigure the theme, we restored our DB from our most recent backup, which was made before your comment. Sorry.\nListen carefully \u2013 he was asking for the concert of Testament. Maiden is for the schoolboys compared to them\u2026\n@Christine, in the immortal words of Ned Kelly \u201cSuch is life\u201d\nYeah,\u2026.no. No thanks. I mean its cool and everything, but because I don\u2019t know who (or what) is listening on the other end of that thing when I\u2019m not talking to it?\u2026.then I don\u2019t want it in my house. I dunno, maybe I\u2019m just old fashioned, but it seems there\u2019s this incessant \u201cpush\u201d to connect every part of our lives, and I for one don\u2019t think that\u2019s a good idea\u2026.if you\u2019ve never read \u201c1984\u201d by George Orwell, you should stop what you\u2019re doing, go out and buy the book, or download it to your Kindle and read it. Things are headed in that direction, and it doesn\u2019t take a rocket scientist to see it: Moving away from ATM cards that you swipe to the \u201cchip\u201d / so called \u201cbiometric identification devices\u201d that will allow you to go to the doctor, or make reservations, or flight plans, then when you arrive at your destination?, they scan a \u201cchip\u201d that\u2019s just below the surface of your skin and it will tell them everything they need to know about you (does this sound like the \u201cSerial Numbers\u201d that the Jews had imprinted on their bodies in the Nazi era?) / Software on your phone that can track you / software in cars that can track you / everything in your home being \u201cconnected\u201d (to WHAT!!??) / \u201csmart\u201d light bulbs / smart TV\u2019s / smart dishwashers / smart refrigerators, to me?\u2026it seems like there\u2019s some unknown group of people who are adamant about being attached to every part of your life\u2026and I for one do not subscribe nor support that kind of thinking, so while Google Home might be a nice novelty act for when people are there, and it might add some convenience to your life by giving you up-to-the-minute news reports, it still doesn\u2019t appeal to me in the least, sorry, no \u201cOk Google\u201d in MY house!\n@Eddie G.\nAs I already posted, before the Database hiccup, It\u2019s definitely not the sort of thing we want in our home. I just hope I never have to insist that any of our friends turn the damned thing off, before we visit with them. It may ruin a good friendship.\n> I just hope I never have to insist that any of our friends turn the damned thing off, before we visit with them. It may ruin a good friendship.\nThere are ways to handle that (be sure to read the mouseover text too):\n>> Excuse the hyperbole, but we\u2019ve always wanted to use a click-baity sort of headline \u2014 just to see if they work.\n1) It worked.\n2) It won\u2019t work again because I\u2019m unsubscribing.\n@Conrad So a site you know, and evidently like and trust, decides to have a little good natured fun \u2014 and is very upfront about it \u2014 and you decide that means we\u2019ve sold out to the dark side or something? 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Jono is NFI about privacy and neither does this site.\nFirst and last visit.\n@NOYFB: How do you know this site has no idea about privacy if this is your first visit?", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00040.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 129, + "original_length": 10262, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.97, + "perplexity": 339.8, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "http://franciscanarchive.org.uk/1998may-heap.html", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T04:26:36Z", + "digest": "sha1:EFONANR5JMSYWHY5KSTMSRKVQ3JRWCFR", + "length": 9061, + "nlines": 13, + "source_domain": "franciscanarchive.org.uk", + "title": "Taking The Walls off the Church", + "raw_content": "Taking the Walls off the Church\nby Pat Heap\n\u2018The acceptable face of Christianity!\u2019 A compliment or an insult? The statement had been made by a young man who claimed he was an atheist, and my colleague, to whom it was made, asked the question, \u2018should we take it as a compliment or an insult?\u2019 I was in no doubt, it was a compliment, a big one. \u2018The acceptable face of Christianity\u2019 to that young man was the Christian programme on our BBC Local Radio Station, of which I am the producer. His comment came in the programme's very early days, days when we weren't always sure if we were talking to anyone very much, and certainly had little clear idea of who they were. It convinced me beyond any doubt that we were reaching beyond the church community, that we were not just \u2018preaching to the converted\u2019, and that this was a means of reaching \u2018the parts that others couldn't reach\u2019, to borrow the Heineken advert.\nSome years ago MARC Europe surveyed people's listening and viewing habits. They found that every week in Britain about eleven million people hear a religious programme on BBC Radio, almost as many watch one on BBC TV and nearly as many watch one on ITV. Even being very cautious with those figures and allowing for considerable overlap, it would suggest a weekly audience for religious programmes of at least twenty million people. Another MARC Europe census endeavoured to determine the number of people in church on an average Sunday in Britain and came up with a total of 3.7 million. Admittedly these figures are now several years old, but there is no evidence to suggest that they have changed significantly. On the assumption that the 3.7 million churchgoers are part of the twenty million viewers and listeners, that still leaves well over sixteen million people who every week listen to or watch a religious programme on radio or television, but don't go to church. Some may go occasionally or for special festivals, but the majority have left the church or have never been; to them church is irrelevant or inaccessible. But the spiritual awareness, hunger, curiosity, call it what we will, is there, and so are the ultimate questions about life and death and the meaning of things, and people are seeking the fulfilment of those needs, and answers to those questions, through the broadcast media; they are \u2018the great church of the unchurched\u2019.\nBroadcasting has been called the \u2018biggest shared experience in society today\u2019; we turn to it for information, education and entertainment; we pepper our conversations with \u2018did you see . . .?\u2019, \u2018they said . . .\u2019, \u2018it was on . . .\u2019 We listen to about twenty hours of radio a week and watch about twenty-three hours of television; we are comfortable with broadcasting, it is undemanding and non-threatening \u2013 we can always turn it off. It is that easy familiarity that enables religious programmes to attract such enormous audiences. A BBC audience survey in 1994 revealed 93 per cent of people questioned said they wanted religious programming; a result which led to renewed commitment by them to religious programming. Guidelines for local radio now make clear that all BBC stations should carry religious output as a normal part of their scheduling, and the BBC recognises in its latest review BBC Local Radio - 2000 that \u2018religious broadcasting on Sunday mornings is a big audience winner, capturing the biggest share of breakfast listening to BBC Local Radio across the week.\u2019\nInterestingly, although commercial local radio is no longer required to present religious programmes, their religious output has risen by 50 per cent in the last two years and eight out of ten commercial stations now broadcast religion. Jeff Bonsor, of the Churches Advisory Council for Local Broadcasting, believes this is because Christians are producing good programming ideas which compete on merit; when commercial stations were obliged to present religious material, it was often amateurish and of poor quality, and so readily ousted when the Broadcasting Bill removed their obligations. Now, Jeff Bonsor says, there is \u2018a willingness by many stations to tackle religion, provided it is presented in a relevant and entertaining way\u2019. \u2018Relevant\u2019 and yes, even \u2018entertaining\u2019.\nI once had the daunting task of addressing a sixth form RE class in a local boys' school on religious broadcasting and my role as a producer. Inevitably there was \u2018the back row\u2019, a few boys determined to be unimpressed. It was almost time for the bell to sound my release and we were well into a question time, when a hand on the back row shot up. The boy admitted to sometimes hearing part of my programme whilst waiting for what followed, which at that time was a John Peel music show, and with a tone which implied \u2018this will squash her!\u2019, he pronounced judgement on the programme with, \u2018It's far too entertaining to be religious!\u2019 I replied that that was brilliant and just what we wanted to achieve.\nBut what did he mean by \u2018entertaining\u2019? We are certainly not flippant, or even light-weight on our programme: much of our material is very serious, although we do occasionally indulge in frivolities; but that is not what I think this young man was referring to. What I think he meant by entertaining was the fact that, as a team on the programme, we actually enjoy what we are doing. We enjoy working together, we enjoy the process of making and broadcasting a programme, we are committed Christians enjoying sharing and communicating God, and that sense of enjoyment is caught, I think, by our listeners.\nThe team at present comprises two Roman Catholics, one Anglican and one Baptist, and with others involved on a more casual basis. We are none of us trained broadcasters or journalists; we have learnt on the job and by making mistakes; we have been fortunate to be in a radio station where successive managers have been supportive and encouraging. The interaction of our differing traditions has always been enriching and has never once led to disagreement about the nature or content of the programme. We are all totally committed to the importance and opportunity of religious broadcasting, despite the long hours, late nights and lack of remuneration.\nFor myself \u2013 and I think it is true for the others too \u2013 the greatest joy and privilege is that of hearing other people's stories, stories of faith, of what God has done and is doing in their lives, and in effect saying to our audience \u2018listen to this!\u2019 We cannot say it in so many words, but I am sure the message is loud and clear, \u2018if God can do it for them, he can do it for you\u2019.\nIt is listening to other people's stories which is the fascination of broadcasting and, perhaps, especially radio. It is being a fly on the wall of someone else's life, the curiosity of what makes other people tick, why they do what they do and what they believe. Of course, it isn't always like that; much of what we broadcast is about things that are going on locally, good causes, organisations, books, news stories and reflective pieces; and those things in themselves are part of the attraction of local radio; they are about places and people and events that are known or close to home. But it is the story of a person's journey of faith and of finding God which is the most powerful and, one even dare say, entertaining.\nMy dictionary defines \u2018entertain\u2019 as to engage the attention and occupy it agreeably. When we do that we can communicate God. Radio is a unique way of communicating, it is very personal and almost private; we tend to watch television together but listen to the radio alone. We can be occupied with other matters and still be absorbed by what we are hearing. We can take it almost anywhere and let our imaginations take wing: the pictures on radio are so much better than on television! Radio broadcasting is an invitation into people's homes: their kitchens, living rooms, bedrooms; it is a privilege and an awesome responsibility. It is not an invitation to preach, except of course in the context of a service, but it is an opportunity to get alongside someone and suggest \u2018we think out this together.\u2019 It is not for us broadcasters to tell people what to think or believe, but we can take the walls off the church; we can enable people to tell their stories; we can \u2013 as Gerald Priestland claimed that he was about \u2013 \u2018keep the rumour of God alive\u2019. I prefer the way Robert McLeish, BBC Local Radio Training Officer, put it: \u2018The gospel is a big piece of gold; our responsibility as broadcasters is to break it down into little coins and use them in everyday currency.\u2019 Where those coins go and how they are spent we cannot know, and I believe God in his wisdom does not intend us to know, though he promises that his word \u2018will not return to me empty but will accomplish what I desire and achieve the purpose for which I sent it\u2019 (Isaiah 55:11). And we as broadcasters do have the privilege of \u2018going out with joy\u2019. \u00a7\nPat Heap is Religious Programmes Producer for BBC Radio Cambridgeshire and Associate Minister at Mill Road Baptist Church in Cambridge.", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00040.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 20, + "original_length": 9654, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.98, + "perplexity": 312.9, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "http://frank.notfrank.com/photos.html", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T03:48:55Z", + "digest": "sha1:6T7DVQL73ZWJY4YPLIV3AUYKBBAVB3GQ", + "length": 23389, + "nlines": 117, + "source_domain": "frank.notfrank.com", + "title": "\"Halt or I'll Shoot!!!\"", + "raw_content": "Frank Photography\n(I'd call it \"The Photos of Frank\" but that sounds too much like it's some extended photo shoot of me. I mean pictures that I (generally) have taken.)\nI like to take pictures. I like B&W photography and have played around with developing, but never seem to have the time. Up until 2006, I shot pictures exclusively using film with my Olympus OM-1, shown above. I had, in the past, used an Olympus OM-G, but gave it away to a friend. The OM-1 was a solid, reliable camera. Eventually, I could no longer get batteries for it. It used mercury cells for the light meter, and silver cell batteries had a different voltage which would screw up the metering. I had used it long enough that I could probably guess, but with film you don't really want to have to guess at the exposures all the time.\nAfter 2006 or so, I started taking pictures with various borrowed digital cameras, from very small and portable point-and-shoots, to proper digital SLRs. I never saw anything I really liked, and it was always a compromise of cost, size, resolution, quality, and so on. Film was being sold at fewer and fewer places, and there were not many places to get it developed. All of the local camera and print stores in town went out of business, so even getting a print required mailing something or using the Internet. It was obvious that film cameras were becoming a relic of the past.\nMy niece asked me to take pictures of her wedding, which was in the summer of 2012. That served as a motivation for me to get off the fence and get a digital camera. I decided to get a Nikon D-7000, digital SLR camera. And then the Nikon factor in Thailand was destroyed by a tsunami. Six months after the flood, in March of 2013, my new camera arrived and I went on a digital photo bender.\nIt's a nice camera and the pictures it takes often come out pretty well. Probably more the camera and the situation than the photographer. But on occasion, there are cool pictures. Below are a few samples.\nThe rest of this web page is divided into three sections: People, Places, and Things.\nNote: Flying pictures (planes, airports, en route, etc.) are generally in the Flying section.\nClick on the blue circles on the map of the US below for pictures from that location. Or just scroll down for a brief description of the photo sets. Note that there are two pages of descriptions, since I've got more than one page's worth of photos online.\nNon-continuental US locations currently are Alaska, Hawaii, England, Ireland, and Peru (Nova Scotia is folded in with the Maine trip).\nI went to Watkins Glen with a friend and hiked around a bit and took pictures of the gorge and waterfalls. It was summer and parts of the gorge were shaded while others were brightly illuminated. The leaves on the trees above were bright green, and the sandstone and shale were light and dark browns. Very different from my pictures there from Fall 2004.\nI went to England for a 10-day vacation, saw lots stuff in places like Alnwick, Newcastle-Upon-Tyne, York, Cambridge, and more. There are a lot of pictures (around 600) spread across 15 sections, starting with The Arrival.\nA few pictures from a warm, sunny day in January including Ithaca Falls and broken ice on the ground.\nEven though it was mostly just a costumed game of pickup ultimate, it still counted as our annual Halloween Hat Tournament.\nPictures from the annual August Perseids meteor shower, taken from Mt. Pleasant, near the observatory.\nWe got a lot of rain in a 30-60 minute period which caused some flooding at my apartment complex. I was lucky and am on high ground. Others, less so.\nA few pictures of highlights of the July 3rd, 2017 fireworks.\nI flew to Martha's Vineyard, off Cape Cod, to visit my sister and spend a few days on The Island. Included are some photo highlights from some hikes, some exploring of Vineyard Haven, and some wandering by the beach and water.\nAn aborted hike by Sapsucker Woods on a snowy, cold day in March (lousy Smarch weather).\nSome pictures from the Roy Park Nature Preserve on a February day during a stretch of freakishly warm weather.\nAnother entry keeping with the theme of putting photos from our local ultimate frisbee group's costume Halloween Hat Tournament.\nIt started with me flying out to San Francisco and then (foolishly) driving to Sacramento for work (no photos). Then going to the DFRWS conference in Seattle. After that, my friend Mowgli and I began our Great Pacific Northwest road trip, for a little over a week across the Pacific Northwest. It started in Seattle, then went up to Vancouver, BC, in Canada, including spending the day at the Butchart Gardens near Victoria, on Vancouver Island, BC. After that, we headed south back to the US, stopping overnight in Olympia, the capital of Washington state, and then into Portland, OR for a few days, including spending a day by the Pacific Coast near Tillamook, OR.\nI took a LOT of pictures. Around 560 are included across the six pages.\nStart with the Seattle ones and continue from there.\nI had a quit work trip to Santa Cruz. I flew into San Francisco, then drove down Highway 1, spent a day down there, then back, and home on a red-eye flight. I still had time to take a few pictures. A quick trip, but still some pretty places.\nI went to the Johnson Museum of Art at Cornell to see the installation by Matthew Schrieber called Crossbow that consists of a room filled with lasers! It was neat.\nA neighboring building in my apartment complex caught fire last night. Three fire departments responded, got it under control and put it out. I took some pictures of the building on fire and a few the next day.\nOnce again, our local ultimate frisbee group had our in-costume Halloween Hat Tournament. And I brought my camera. At some point I really should reorganize the topics on this page. But that point is not here or now.\nI went to Stavanger and Oslo, Norway for a conference and a few days of fun and being a tourist, May 17-24, 2015. I took lots of pictures. Highlights in 5 sections, including Stavanger, Downtown Oslo, a boat tour of Oslo, the Frogner Park/Vigeland Statue park, and the return home. Just under 350 pictures total. It begin here in Stavanger, Norway.\nIt was cold in February so we got a lot of ice on Cayuga Lake. I walked out on the frozen lake and took a few pictures.\nA few pictures of winter in February with some snow and ice and icicles, including frozen and snow-covered Cascadilla Falls. Ithaca in Winter is pretty though a bit cold (about 10\u00b0F).\nCascadilla Falls, Ithaca, NY\nIt was fall, past the peak leaf season, but the leaves still had some nice colors. So I went by Cascadilla Falls and the gorge trail and took some pictures.\nIthaca Falls, Ithaca, NY\nSome pictures taken by my friend Ellen of an art installation at Ithaca Falls on a Friday night, including me playing with a sort of papier-mache bird on a pole.\nJennings Pond, Danby, NY\nI wandered around Jennings Pond, just south of Ithaca with friends Rob and Stephanie. Here are a few photo highlights from it.\nI took a jaunt down to Asheville, NC with a friend. We explored the downtown area, happened to see a Mardi Gras parade, saw a concert with Marillion guitarist Steve Rothery, and drove home on the scenic and beautiful Blue Ridge Parkway.\nCayuga Lake had ice on it. So I hike out on it and took some pictures.\nI hiked around Sapsucker Woods on a snowy day in January.\nAlso, I took pictures of some ice fog on Cayuga Lake from Stewart Park when it was around 3\u00b0F out.\nI took a trip to Martha's Vineyard to visit my parents and sister.\nNext up, after Martha's Vineyard, I visited Tom and Sara in Boston and we went to Walden Pond.\nAfter Walden, I spent a couple days in Rochester, NY and saw High Falls and the Fringe Festival.\nI visited Philadelphia, PA, with my friend Stephanie, seeing some of the historic sites in the city.\nI flew out to Oshkosh, WI, to the EAA Airventure aviation festival. Photo highlihts include the flight out, airshows, airplanes, the return flight, and more.\nAntonia, Rob, and I spent the day at the Storm King Arts Center to see the wall Andy Goldsworthy had built as well as other \"arts\".\nIt snowed here (a little) on a Friday and there was some snow left on Saturday to play snow ultimate on before it melted on Sunday. A few \"action shots.\"\nI took a trip to visit my parents in Florida in January. We went to Humphris Park, which is by Casey Pass and has a nice jetty, and also went to the Venice Area Audubon Rookery and saw various birds. Here are some pictures from the trip.\nOnce again, I did my end-of-the-year midwest trip, visiting a variety of friends, along with my friend Stephanie. Some highlights include: Miscellaneous (Pam and Bill, Glow-in-the-Dark putt-putt, hanging out at the Columubs airport), the Bookloft (a cool bookstore in Columbus), Prairie Oaks Metropark (hiking around with Steve, Sue, and Buffy the Wonderdog), and New Year's Eve (and the usual Dison party with fun and games).\nTechnically, this is a \"thing\" and not a \"place\", but I'm lazy, so it goes here. This past weekend was our annual ultimate frisbee Halloween Hat Tournament. People play in costume. This year, I went as Arthur, sidekick to the Tick. I have some photo highlights of costumes and some on-field plays of the Halloween Hat Tournament.\nI went to the Apple Festival in Ithaca. Wandered around, saw all things relating to apples and the frying of things (including apples), also arts and crafts. It was quite crowded. Photo highlights of the Apple Fest 2012.\nI visited my friend Stephanie in Albany. We had fun, including wandering around town, and takinga tour of the Capitol building. Photo highlights of our wanderings.\nI visited my friend Jim in Cleveland. We had fun, including bowling and putt-putting with his 2 kids. Photo highlights of our adventures.\nI went to the Digital Forensic Research Workshop conference (I help organize it) which was in Washington, DC this year. One night, I walked to the National Mall and took some pictures of the Washington Monument, Lincoln Memorial, and such.\nI went to Holden Beach, North Carolina for a week with my friend Catherine and joined up by various members of her family. I took pictures of the beach house where we stayed, Holden Beach itself, highlights from a game of charades that all of use played one night, Carina practicing her juggling bear act (not bear juggling), and a few pictures from Lake Keuka taken on the drive home.\nFingerlakes Fireworks\nTwo nights of fireworks in a row. I went with some friends to see fireworks at Myers Point in Lansing, just a bit up the road from Ithaca on July 1, 2012. That was the first time I've taken pictures of fireworks. Got some decent shots. And the next day, July 2, 2012, the city of Ithaca had a fireworks display at Stewart Park. Again, more pictures.\nI went with some friends to a few places on the Finger Lakes Cheese Trail to sample cheeses and tour the dairies. And I took some pictures.\nUltimate Frisbee Hat Tournament\nWe had a \"hat tournament\" for our ultimate frisbee group, though the low turnout only provided enough for 2 teams. I brought my camera and took some pictures, and Sue took some while I was playing. Here are a few highlights.\nLudlowville Falls\nAbout 7 miles north of where I live are the Ludlowville Falls, yet ANOTHER waterfall in the area. In all the time I've lived in this area, I had never been there, although I had seen them from the area a bunch of times. I went there Sunday May 13, 2012, saw the falls, a rainbow, some fish, and more. And I took pictures. So another test of the image gallery. This is about as fast as I've ever been able to put up pictures, captions, and the like.\nI went camping in Shenandoah National Park in Virginia from Friday May 4 - Sunday May 6, 2012 with my friend Deepak. Once again, we faced weather challenges, like rain and fog, but we also got some good hiking in and took pictures of meadows and waterfalls. And, I also wrote a new \"image gallery\" program to make it easier for me to get images online.\nI went to Ireland at the end of October 2011. I was in Dublin for a conference, but then took a few days off to explore the city as well as go to Galway on the east side of the island. I took a bunch of pictures of lots of stuff. Start here at Part I to begin with the arrival and goes from there (and there is a table of contents that provides links to the other 7 parts). (there's a table of contents at the top, to skip around after that). Around 500 photos total, spread across 8 parts (parts range from 30 - 100 pictures).\nI went to Alaska my friend Stephanie in June 2011. We had adventures in Fairbanks, Anchorage, and variety of other places. I took quite a few pictures. There are 15 sub-pages here. Might as well start at Part I (there's a table of contents at the top, to skip around after that). Around 580 photos total, spread across 15 parts (parts range from 20 - 70 pictures).\nI went to a conference in Portland, OR in August 2010, and then spent some vacation time in Portland, Seattle, and vicinity. 6 sections, including Seattle and Vicinity (35 pictures), Downtown Porland (15 pictures), Japanese and Rose Gardens (40 pictures), the Oregon Coast (20 pictures), Mt. Hood (85 pictures), The Evergreen Aviation Musuem (Spruce Goose) (30 pictures), and Ann Arbor, MI (30 pictures).\nI went hiking with my friend Deepak in September 2009, at Worlds End State Park in Pennsylvania. We hiked a few trails, saw some waterfalls and scenic vistas. Almost 20 pictures.\nIn July 2009, I visited my parents on Martha's Vineyard. I took a few pictures of The Lagoon Pond that's just beyond our back yard. About 20 pictures.\nI went to a conference in Berkeley in May 2009. I took some time off and drove across the Golden Gate Bridge (65 pictures), and explored Marin and Sonoma counties (80 pictures), Point Reyes National Seashore (50 pictures), and, of course, San Francisco (100 pictures).\nIn March 2009, I went to Sarasota and Key West, Florida, and took various pictures while down there of parks, bridges, birds, flowers, water, food, and other things.\nPart 2 of the photo archive covers locations from 1998-2008 and includes Columbus, Oh, Washington, DC, Ithaca, NY, Ricketts Glen, PA, Boston, MA, Madison, WI, Flagstaff and Phoenix, AZ, San Francisco and San Diego, CA, , Seattle, WA, Maine, Hawaii, Nova Scotia, Canada, England and Peru. Check it out.\nMoof and Frank, 1983\nMoof just sent me this picture that was taken when we were at band camp in 1983. He got it through that strange \"book of faces\" thing I keep hearing about, from someone that went to high school with us, a year behind us (Hi, Rhoda!). I'm wearing our yellow class t-shirt (listed all the names of our graduates) and have a lot more hair. Moof is in shorts and is thin. Though as he had said, I do look rather \"schlumpy.\" Yes, my fashion sense is about the same as it was almost 30 years ago.\nAn old picture, but a fun one. A friend and co-worker from OSU, Tom Fine, circa 1993, did his best impression of himself in the future (yes, I'm a cruel bastard, but only because he's a friend...). Speaking of that, I have to dig up a picture of his Halloween costume... This was taken in my office in Bolz Hall at Ohio State (before we moved to the new building).\n[Update] In August of 2004, I visited Tom, his wife Sara, and their 3 year old son Zachary. Here are a few pictures. One of me, Zachary, and Tom on the subway in Boston (they have a subway in Boston?). Another of me and Zachary in a park along the (Charles?) River by Harvard (the caption was too good for me to delete). One of me and Sara at the Hanscom Airport in front of the plane I flew in on. Note that Sara is wearing a \"Flying Karamazov Brothers\" t-shirt. We all saw the show (and I have a similar shirt, just like the one I had 25 years earlier(!!)). The Flying Karamazov Brothers are a group of jugglers. Very talented and funny (though they are neither Russian nor brothers). Tom and I used to juggle \"back in the day\" at OSU. Two shots of us seeing if we could remember the old ways. Note the koosh-balls in mid-air in these \"action shots.\"\nAnd after many, many, many years, Tom and Sara actually successfully visited me in Ithaca in August of 2014. Here are some pictures I took from their visit, and some pictures Sara took.\nI went to a showing of Casa Blanca put on by the history department, Fall 2001. Period attire was encouraged. My friend, Leigh Anne, who was the classes TA, her advisor, the professor of the course, his wife, and I were the only ones to dress up. Still, it was fun. I'd just like to point out that in the picture, my cigarette is merely rolled up paper. I didn't want them to get money for such a prop. And it's hard to put a costume together with almost no preparation (this was due to laziness, not short notice).\nI was in Detroit in March, 2002, and had dinner with my former college roommate Matt the Dufus. His wife took a picture of us professing our love of the world (in a punk rock sort of way).\nUMich Friends\nHere's a shot of a group of us in Ann Arbor for Karen Mirisola's wedding in June, 2002. Actually, it was Northville, MI, the reception was in Ann Arbor. The majority of people in the picture attended the University of Michigan together, \"back in the day.\" Actually, there were four pictures taken, all of which had some problem with them. But through the magic of photoshop, I could extract one good one.\nFrom left to right, back to front, the players are: Michelle and Jim Kaplan, Frank (me); Kevin and Gwen Berg-Hartnett (Kevin's holding Matthew), Kendy and Keith Markman, Stacey Farb, Mary Arnold, Holly ???, and Susan Potoroka. Photo taken by Paul Arnold.\nSadly (perhaps?) I was obscurred in all shots, so not even Photoshop could salvage that. Just a moment...just a moment...perhaps I spoke too soon. (Actually, to me the addition isn't as frightening as the fact that it's so easy to eliminate someone from a photo. My apologies to Matthew.)\nNeel Jain came to Cornell to recruit for the Evil Empire. His departure from Ithaca heralded my arrival. His wife took two shots from his hotel room in The Statler (photo1 and photo2). The pictures are somewhat big (600K).\nDison New Year's\nI've attended a number of New Year's Eve parties at Catherine and Cabot's place. Anna, a former student of Cath's, often has some festivities at her place. Here's a picture of the group at Anna's place in January 2004 plus a who's who. And a shot from December of 2005 of me and Carina \"on the steps, talking about life,\" at Cath and Cabot's house.\nMy sister came to Ithaca to visit me in April 2006! Over 10 years in the making! About 45 pictures of her, her friend Tom, and me at Sunset Park, the Cornell Plantations and the Johnson Art Museum.\nFrank and George\nI didn't take this one, but it's a cute shot. I was visiting Jim and Michelle Kaplan in Cleveland in June 2004, and was holding their son George who was a little over a year old. He was pretty big (>30 lbs). Oddly, there's nothing particularly twisted about this picture. Karen (Mirisola) Wiarda can be seen doing the dishes in the background.\nDFRWS'04 Rodeo\nAt the 2004 Digital Forensic Research Workshop (DFRWS04) in Baltimore, MD, in August I participated in the \"forensic rodeo.\" Here's a picture of our team (going from right to left, Golden Richard, me, Pete Ware, and his son Bill (you know, like father, like son)). Golden, Pete, and I attended grad school together at Ohio State.\nI suppose I should mention that we came in second (out of two) to the other team, that had Eoghan Casey, Brian Carrier, and Kulesh Shanmugasundaram on it. While they're all cool guys, last year (2003) we lost to them because of a hocky question. A hockey question! This year, the evidence disks were improperly imaged when they were given to the teams, so most of the questions could not be answered and they were declared the winner because well...because. We pretty much discovered the same information, but they presented a bit more. And I think we clearly had the advantage of having a cute kid on our team. I suppose there's always next year.\nOh, and by the way, I'm not bitter!\nUmich Friends in Ann Arbor\nIn June 2005, a bunch of us that attended the University of Michigan for undergrad got together at Keith and Kendy's place in Columbus, OH. This is similar to the group that attended Karen's Wedding but this time no photoshop tricks. Here's a picture of the group, and here's a map in case you want to know who's who.\nPictures from my dad's birthday in Florida. We had a small gathering of people to celebrate.\nTania vs. Gasdoor\nAround December of 2000, I loaned Tania my car. She had never heard of a gas door release latch before. She has the strength of 20. Hilarity and structural damage ensued.\nN.O. Food Fest\nI was in New Oreleans in June of 2005, and had a food fest with my friend Golden and some others. It didn't suck.\nHere's a quick shot of some porcini mushroom soup I made (February 2008). It was pretty good.\nThe History of Human Imagination exhibit on tour from the Walker Library was in the Kroch Library at Cornell. It had a Sputnik, and Enigma, Canterbury Tales, an Eye of Sauron and more.\nThe annual Rubber Ducky Race was held where a few thousand rubber ducks are dropped over the Cascadilla Falls and float, er, I mean race, downstream to the finish line. It's a fundraiser (for 4-H maybe?) and was a nice Sunday afternoon for it.\nStreets Alive Fest\nPictures from the multi-block party in Ithaca called Streets Alive which involves blocking off Cayuga Street for several blocks and having people wander about. It was a beautiful day for it, and people were walking and biking in the street, playing volleyball, juggling, and playing instruments at a park. Also, a friend of mine, Sue, had a cook out later that day. Photo highlights from both.\nI took some pictures from the backyard of the house of some friends and next to Cornell's Mt. Pleasant Observatory during the Perseid Meteor Shower. For the most part, it's pictures of stars, rather than actual meteors (practically none), though I did see them when not taking pictures.\nTaildragger Fly-in\nJack Henion hosted his annual taildragger fly-in at his place on the west side of the lake. There were a lot of people there and more than 15 planes flew in.\n(No) Aurora Borealis\nThe Northern Lights (Aurora Borealis) were supposed to be visible even down in Ithaca. So I went with a few co-workers to Cornell's Mt. Pleasant Observatory around midnight. The observatory was closed but there were 20-30 people outside, star-gazing. We didn't see any auroras, but it was a clear night and we did see some cool stars.\nFrankenFest is another name for festivities relating to my birthday. This year was my 50th birthday and I was joined by some friends for a picnic at Stewart Park at the base of Cayuga Lake. A few highlights from this year's event.\nNote: this is a rare entry in which none of the pictures were taken by me, and instead provided by a couple friends (Bez and Rana).\nNight Ultimate\nI bought a new tripod for my camera a month ago. I wanted to take some pictures. We have a fall ultimate frisbee league that plays outdoors on Friday nights under lights. Here are some pictures from our game. I don't appear in any of the pictures.\nStill waiting to see what develops...\nDevelops?\nBwaaaaahaaahaaahaaahaaaa! Oh merCY!...", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00040.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 255, + "original_length": 25107, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.98, + "perplexity": 300.4, + "bucket": "head" + } +] \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/0258.json b/0258.json new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..5b5705443d156bbf4cc853d85fb3c0032cf31719 --- /dev/null +++ b/0258.json @@ -0,0 +1,6122 @@ +[ + { + "url": "http://1023thebullfm.com/lindsay-ell-crs-new-faces-2019-controversy/", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T04:32:10Z", + "digest": "sha1:6LVKPG6OT254CCGVXRPEP6KHSRTGSZC7", + "length": 2253, + "nlines": 8, + "source_domain": "1023thebullfm.com", + "title": "Lindsay Ell Responds to Criticism Surrounding CRS New Faces", + "raw_content": "Lindsay Ell Responds to Criticism Surrounding CRS New Faces Nominees\nWhen the nominees for the 2019 CRS New Faces show were announced, Lindsay Ell says her Twitter blew up. She's one of 13 named. She's also the only woman.\nThe criticism isn't personal, and no one believes the \"Criminal\" singer and 2018 Taste of Country RISER isn't worthy of being one of the choices for five CRS New Faces slots, an industry honor that was given to Lauren Alaina, Luke Combs, Midland, Carly Pearce and Michael Ray in 2018. But the 2019 nominees underscore an overall and ongoing lack of female voices on the radio, on popular streaming service playlists and elsewhere. They are also the result of a very clear, stated set of criteria.\n\"At the end of the day, I'm very proud that I get to represent the women in this lineup,\" Ell tells Taste of Country. \"The criteria is the criteria, so it's nothing against CRS. It sort of highlights the state of where our format is. Do we need more women in our format? Yes we do, and are there incredible women in our format? Yes, there are. So I feel like next year, it\u2019s hopefully going to be taking another step in the right direction.\"\nIt remains to be seen if Ell's optimism will become reality, or if the criteria will change. Speaking to Billboard, CRS Executive Director Bill Mayne defends the criteria which states: \"acts must have had at least one but no more than five Top 25 singles on the Mediabase Country Chart as published in Country Aircheck or at least one but no more than five Top 25 singles on the BDS-based Country Chart during the qualification period.\"\nYou also can't have been a New Faces artist previously, which wipes out a lot of young female artists still considered by most to be \"new.\" Critics place blame on the process, with others accusing country radio programmers of not taking more of a leadership role in breaking new female artists. It's a continuation of a circular conversation that has led to women getting multi-year low amounts of airplay and exposure.\nMusic Row has the full list of 13 CRS New Faces nominees. Voting lasts through Nov. 23. 2019 CRS (Country Radio Seminar) takes place Feb. 13-15 in Nashville.\nSource: Lindsay Ell Responds to Criticism Surrounding CRS New Faces Nominees", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00080.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 120, + "original_length": 4243, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.95, + "perplexity": 322.8, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "http://107jamz.com/eric-b-rakims-paid-in-full-30-the-duos-iconic-debut-still-sets-a-musical-standard/", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T03:26:37Z", + "digest": "sha1:VHAZ3EL2GJTWI22K4BN7AD7M3QX6V4BM", + "length": 12194, + "nlines": 28, + "source_domain": "107jamz.com", + "title": "Eric B. & Rakim's 'Paid In Full' at 30: The Duo's Iconic Debut Still Sets A Musical Standard", + "raw_content": "Eric B. & Rakim\u2019s \u2018Paid In Full\u2019 at 30: The Duo\u2019s Iconic Debut Still Sets A Musical Standard\n4th & Bway\nAs has been stated ad infinitum for decades now, Eric B. & Rakim's debut album is one of the most influential and fully-developed debuts in music history. When a pioneering album becomes so highly-regarded, its tempting to reduce its legacy to simply one of historical importance--as opposed to one of enduring musical merit. But as a body of work, Paid In Full stands alongside Are You Experienced?, Appetite For Destruction and Illmatic as an earth-shattering opening salvo and a consistently brilliant listen in terms of sheer song-for-song quality. Its rare that a new act has such a strong command of its voice. Especially a new act comprised of two individuals who barely knew each other before they made a record.\nA former DJ for WBLS in New York City, Eric Barrier had been looking for a rapper to partner with when he was introduced to 18-year old Rakim Allah in 1986. Meeting via Queens rap promoter Alvin Toney, the new acquaintances agreed to work together after Rakim played Eric a homemade demo for a song he'd done himself called \"My Melody.\" The track featured Rakim rapping for more than 30 minutes over a sparse beat, and Eric B. decided to whittle the song down to a more standard length. For help with crafting what would become Eric B. & Rakim's first record, Eric tapped his roommate at the time: bubbling hip-hop producer Marley Marl. Marley was becoming a name with his fledgling Juice Crew, which included MC Shan, Roxanne Shante, and not-yet-famous names like Big Daddy Kane and Kool G Rap. Marl would reluctantly engineer the track, but because of the song's somewhat complex origins, there's some disagreement over who exactly produced \"My Melody.\"\n\u201cRakim comes in, rhyming slow, he made \u2018My Melody\u2019 first,\" Marley Marl recalled in a 2011 interview with Brooklyn Bodega's Wes Jackson. \"So collectively, we both had the ideas for the song but I physically put it together. For \u2018Eric B. Is President\u2019 and \u2018My Melody.\u2019 We made \u2018Make the Music With Your Mouth,\u2019 \u2018Eric B Is President,\u2019 \u2018The Bridge\u2019\u2026 I used to call it 'the sound of the week,' so I used to have the kick and snare in the sample. Whatever songs I was making that week had that kick and snare in it.\u201d\nThat single would be released in late 1986 (backed with \"Eric B. Is President\") and it set the stage for the emergence of Eric B. & Rakim as a formidable duo in hip-hop. Def Jam founder Russell Simmons lobbied to get the pair signed to Island Records subsidiary 4th & B'way, and Eric B. & Rakim began recording their debut album at Power Play Studios in Manhattan in early 1987.\nRakim's rhymes weren't the sort of straight-ahead declarations that had dominated post-Run-DMC hip-hop. And he wasn't just concerned with microphone dominance--there was a consciousness to his approach. \"I started studying in \u201985 and got knowledge of self and started spitting,\" Rakim told Halftime Online in 2006. \"What was going on was taking the understanding of what I was reading and applying it with my life and applying it with my rhymes. Subconsciously, Islam took over me so it was like eighty or ninety percent of the fabric of the person I was.\"\nAlong with the refurbished, Marley Marl-engineered \"My Melody,\" Eric B. & Rakim would polish off a startling 10 track album that pointed the direction for hip-hop's future. Rakim's flow is ice cold and unflinching on \"My Melody,\" a trait that led to early dismissals from Marley but would prove influential on the approach \"serious\" rappers would take soon thereafter.\nBut the album begins with one of the greatest opening tracks of all time. \"I Ain't No Joke\" is an announcement of the boldest kind: \"I used to let the mic smoke--now I slam it when I'm done and make sure it's broke.\" Rakim's flow is purposeful and his rhymes are precise, and from the first 10 seconds of the first song on his first album, it's obvious that he's looking to establish his rhyme supremacy. Over the distinctive horns from the J.B.'s \"Pass the Peas,\" Rakim drops haymaker after haymaker, his nimble rhymes and effortless flow immediately confirming that times were about to change.\nThe DJ showcases \"Eric B. Is On the Cut\" and \"Chinese Arithmetic\" may not quite have the musicality of Jam-Master Jay's best features or the innovation of soon-to-be-household name DJ Jazzy Jeff, but they reveal a competent and clever turntablist--particularly on the former. \"...On the Cut\" captures the energy of a live DJ performance in a way that escapes \"...Arithmetic\" which makes up for it's lack of energy with some flashier scratching gimmicks.\n\"I Know You Got Soul\" is one of the album's most infectious tracks--and one of the most significant. It's arguably the most danceable track the duo ever made, and the deft sample of the James Brown-produced 1971 Bobby Byrd hit of the same name would be another one of the Paid In Full songs to kickstart the flood of James Brown samples that would dominate East Coast hip-hop production for the next five years.\n\"Move the Crowd\" is also built from a Brown-affiliated sample: the J.B.'s \"Hot Pants Road\" from 1970. The hit single features Rakim's flow at it's most methodical and calculated. On the surface, Ra's rhymes are about keeping the party going, but references to Allah, knowledge of self and doctrine associated with the Five Percent Nation suggest a more spiritual connection to the art of rhyming and how it moves the crowd.\nThe title cut is one of the greatest hip-hop tracks ever recorded, endlessly quotable and carried by a beat so indelible it's as close to a standard as any hip-hop song has ever gotten. \"Thinking of a master plan,\" is one of hip-hop's most ubiquitous opening lines, as Rakim outlines the frustrations of a street kid who wants to see real money--but who also might have a way that doesn't involve \"all the devious things\" he used to do. \"I used to roll up/This is a hold up--ain't nuthin' funny/Stop smilin/Cuz still don't nothin' move but the money.\" It's such a gripping piece of music you have to remind yourself that this was a 19-year old rapping on his first album.\nWith it's Barry White-quoting production, \"As the Rhyme Goes On\" may be a lesser-known cut when set against the uber-classics that make up Paid In Full but it's remained one of Rakim's most quoted tracks. In particular, Ra's declaration that \"I'm the R, the A, to the K-I-M. If I wasn't, then why would I say I am?\" has been interpolated and referenced countless times over the past 30 years.\nThe only opening salvo on the album that rivals \"Thinking of a master plan\" for sheer omnipresence is the classic \"I came in the door, I said it before\" that announces \"Eric B. Is President.\" One of the album's most indelible songs, Rakim's tribute to his turntable maestro would be revisited and reinterpreted for countless rappers over the years, but the distinctive groove was born of an idea that Ra himself couldn't understand initially. It was Eric B. who decided to flip the bassline from Fonda Rae's obscure disco hit \"Over Like A Fat Rat.\" And Rakim thought sampling the glossy dancefloor track was a terrible idea.\n\"I was like 'There\u2019s no way Fonda Rae is gonna go with James Brown \u2018Funky President,'\" Rakim recalled in an interview with HipHopDX back in 2016. \"And I just laughed at [Eric] for about 30-to-40 minutes. Every time I looked at him I was making fun of the shit, looking at him, just laughing at him and shit. But we got to the studio, we made the beat, and at that time I was so used to sampling, and I just couldn\u2019t see how he was gonna make that happen. But we flipped it up, and we sampled the drum and we just kinda sampled [a piece] of the drum. We played the joint over it instead of using the sampled record, and it worked out kinda crazy, man. I was surprised that it did work out like it did. So big up to E on that one. He got over. Word up.\"\nDecades later, the production on Paid In Full has been the subject of much debate. As might be expected given the \"My Melody\" controversy, no one seems to agree on exactly who did what.\n\u201cIt\u2019s so funny, that I look on the Internet and see Marley Marl [taking credit for producing \u2018Eric B. Is President\u2019],\" Eric B. would state in a 2016 interview with Combat Jack. \"He is totally right that he is the engineer who made the record.\"\n\"I went to Marley\u2019s house, \u2019cause he was the engineer [\u2026] I paid Marley to [engineer] because I didn\u2019t know how to work the equipment, but I had the ideas. I knew exactly what I wanted done. I gave him the [sample] records, I said, \u2018This is what I want done,\u2019 and he said, \u2018Yo, that\u2019s a great idea.'\u201d\nIn Brian Coleman's Check the Technique, Rakim took more credit for the production on the duo's earliest albums and bemoaned his na\u00efvet\u00e9 in allowing production to be officially credited as by \"Eric B. & Rakim.\" \"If we did ten tracks on the album, I did like seven of the beats myself. A lot of times they were just old park records. I had a record collection, I had turntables, I had all the breakbeats.\"\nRegardless of the album's somewhat murky production history, the legacy of Paid In Full is impossible to overstate. In the most direct sense, it would become the prototypical East Coast hip-hop album; its stripped-but-sample-heavy production would inform soon-to-be-superproducers like DJ Premier and Pete Rock, and intricate rhyming would replace the declarative chants that had made Run, KRS-One and L.L. Cool J mid-80s standard bearers. Paid In Full's lineage can be traced through essential 90s records like Illmatic and Ready To Die, and the album's attitude and ethos informs even much glossier 2000s fare like 50 Cent's Get Rich Or Die Tryin.'\nEric B. & Rakim would expand on their bold debut with 1988s Follow the Leader, and would perfect their staunchly purist formula on 1990s Let the Rhythm Hit 'Em before parting ways following 1992s Don't Sweat the Technique. Over the course of four albums, Rakim would elevate his art to higher heights (the rapper himself would later complain that he sounded too wooden on Paid In Full because he was literally reading his rhymes as he recorded); becoming more virtuosic (\"Lyrics of Fury\"), as well as expanding his repertoire as a storyteller (\"Casualties of War\"), social commentator (\"In the Ghetto\") and romantic ladies' man (\"What's On Your Mind?\").\nBut even in the context of the duo's remarkable overall run, Paid In Full looms large. Rakim's introducing of Five Percenter tenets in his lyrics would foreshadow the rise of more overtly-nationalist acts also informed by the Nation of Gods and Earths--like Brand Nubian and X-Clan in the early 1990s; and the duo's steely \"nobody's smiling\" image would replace the bombastic b-boys of the mid-1980s as mainstream rappers' most definitive presentation. Virtually every song on the album features lines that have been absorbed into every hip-hop fan's consciousness--even if they may be unaware of the source material. Everything from Master P's \"Ghetto D\" to Eminem's \"The Way I Am\" quotes from the album, the iconic cover--which features Eric and Ra clad in Dapper Dan's distinctive custom Gucci suits--has seen innumerable tributes and parodies. 30 years later, it's both a document of the times and a clear place marker in music history. Everyone should own this album; not simply because it set the stage for so much, but because you'd be hard-pressed to find an album that better exemplifies hip-hop at it's most undiluted and unapologetic. This is the purest, most adjective-less hip-hop album ever made. It's more than a blueprint. It's a bible.\nWatch Eric B. & Rakim's Video for \"I Ain't No Joke\":\nWatch Eric B. & Rakim's Video for \"Move the Crowd\":\nWatch Eric B. & Rakim's Video for \"Paid In Full\":\nNEXT: Worst To Best: Every Eric B. & Rakim Album Ranked\nSource: Eric B. & Rakim\u2019s \u2018Paid In Full\u2019 at 30: The Duo\u2019s Iconic Debut Still Sets A Musical Standard", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00080.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 128, + "original_length": 13826, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.96, + "perplexity": 328.6, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "http://965therock.com/rodeo-tickets-on-sale-january-5th/", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T04:00:36Z", + "digest": "sha1:N4WKW7YBCYK5CYJYEAHC2FME6YLWK5BQ", + "length": 2501, + "nlines": 22, + "source_domain": "965therock.com", + "title": "Rodeo Tickets On Sale January 5th + Locations, Performance Times & Prices", + "raw_content": "Rodeo Tickets On Sale January 5th + Locations, Performance Times & Prices\nAre you ready to Rodeo? Tickets to the San Angelo Rodeo\u2019s 12 performances are on sale at all City of San Angelo ticket outlets.\nTickets may be purchased at cosatx.us/tickets, by phone at 325-658-6464 from 8:30 a.m.-4:30 p.m. Mondays through Fridays, or at one of the following locations:\nMcNease Convention Center - 501 Rio Concho Drive, 8:30 a.m.-4:30 p.m. Mondays-Fridays.\nBlair\u2019s Western Wear - 4230 Sherwood Way, 9:30 a.m.-6:30 p.m. Mondays-Saturdays.\nPinkie\u2019s Liquor Store - 1415 S. Bryant Blvd., 10 a.m.-9 p.m. Mondays-Saturdays.\nBarbed Wire and Roses - Sunset Mall, 4001 Sunset Drive, 10 a.m.-9 p.m. Mondays-Saturdays, noon-6 p.m. Sundays.\nGoodfellow Air Force Base - Event Center Information, Tickets & Tours Office, 8 a.m.-9 p.m. Mondays-Fridays, noon-9 p.m. Saturdays, noon-8 p.m. Sundays.\nColiseum - 50 E. 43rd St., 10 a.m.-6 p.m. Mondays-Saturdays.\nSan Angelo\u2019s is one of the world\u2019s largest rodeos in terms of the number of competitors and the size of the purse. This year\u2019s rodeo features 11 performances sanctioned by the Professional Rodeo Cowboys Association, the sport\u2019s governing body, plus the wildly popular Cinch Shoot-Out. The Shoot-Out features eight of the sport\u2019s top performers in saddle bronc, bareback and bullriding, calf roping and barrel racing competing in a tournament format.\nPerformance times and ticket prices are:\nPerformance 1 \u2013 7:30 p.m. Feb. 13, $15.50.\nPerformance 2 \u2013 1 p.m. Feb. 14, $12.50.\nPerformance 9 (Military Appreciation Night) \u2013 7:30 p.m. Feb. 25, $10.50.\nPerformance 10 (Tough Enough to Wear Pink Night) \u2013 7:30 p.m. Feb. 26, $10.50.\nPRCA short-go (championship round) \u2013 7:30 p.m. Feb. 27, $20.50.\nCinch Shoot-Out \u2013 7:30 p.m. Feb. 28, $30.50.\nBabies and small children do not require a ticket if they sit in an adult\u2019s lap.\nCarnival super passes that allow unlimited carnival rides for the duration of the San Angelo Stock Show & Rodeo are available for $90 only at the Coliseum box office. A one-day unlimited ride armband costs $30. The carnival will be open every evening from Feb. 13-March 1.\nFairgrounds admission is free with a rodeo ticket or a carnival super pass, $5 for adults and $2 for children age 11 and younger. 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I gave $2 to an old lady, and then came across a man in a wheelchair. He looked like he'd suffered a pretty severe stroke in the past. I gave him a dollar for a packet of tissue, and then felt like the worst person in the world. I should have given him everything in my wallet. I should have given him all the cash I had. I was en-route to meet Victor for dinner and a movie, and I didn't need the money. I didn't need the money, but I walked away anyway.\nI am so lucky. I am so lucky to be so comfortably middle-class, to be, as they say, \"marrying up\", to be able to afford nice things. I want to be able to do more for other people than just spend the occasional dollar on a packet of tissues. I don't know what that might entail yet, but I hope I figure it out soon.\n2. Last weekend we spent four and a half hours (starting from 9 am in the morning) queuing up at the Lim Chee Guan's at Chinatown just to get some bak kwa, and while it does taste pretty good I don't think we'll ever be doing something like that again. We'd wanted to get something special for V's grandparents (he'll be telling them about the wedding when he gets back to KL this Chinese New Year) buuuuuuuut I think once is quite enough, thank you very much. We'd actually been once already on a weekday afternoon, only to be informed that the signature roast pork usually sells out before lunch, which gives people, what, a three, four hour window? We alternated between remaining in the queue and heading off for toilet/drink/sliced mango breaks. There was a purchase limit of 15kg per person, but it didn't seem to deter most of the people in front of us, whom we saw staggering away with bags upon bags of the stuff.\nBak kwa is serious business, you guys. Especially around Chinese New Year. Never get between a Singaporean and his/her bak kwa, y'all.\n3. Last year I spent Chinese New Year in KL with V and his relatives, and while some of them are perfectly lovely, especially his paternal grandmother (who seems to have taken a shine to me because I speak passable Hokkien, lol), it's just not the same as being at home. This year I've elected to remain here (!!!). It's also my last year officially being able to receive ang pows, and I'm really feeling quite bummed about it. The yearly cash infusion from collected ang pows might be small but it is very welcome.\nAnd next year I'll have to give out cash? To snot-nosed brats? WHY =(\n4. This year I am grateful for many, many things. I'm grateful for having finally made it out of university. For the job offer, even if it isn't exactly glamourous/not my first choice. It pays well, which is a big consideration for me, and it actually sounds like something I can do, which is a huge relief, to be honest. For things slowly, but surely, starting to fall into place. It's a relief to have (somewhat) sorted out my own thoughts, and I feel much better now that I've managed to be less hard on myself. I've tried, and I've come this far, and I've decided that I will never be happy as long as I keep wanting to be somewhere/someone else. Things are good now. I've done everything that's been expected of me - and oddly enough, not because people have told me to, but because I actually wanted to.\nA lot of this is only possible because of V. I hate being a sap, but he is so good to me. He has made my life so much easier ever since he came into it, and every year he just makes things even easier. He cares about things I couldn't be less concerned about - insurance, interest rates, investing and all that jazz - and he just. He takes such good care of me. A while ago I would have bristled at the thought that I would need anyone - much less a man, pfft - to even bother to look out for me, but. It's a privilege, isn't it? To have someone care about you this deeply. To have someone who wants to have the next twenty, thirty, forty years with you, who's careful to ensure that your life will be disrupted as little as possible, should anything happen to him.\nI may never really understand how he puts up with me. I am such a hard person to like, much less love. He, on the other hand, is so easy to love. Like a baby bunny. Or the cutest Corgi in the world.\nEveryone should play Pokemon X/Y. NOW.\nAlso: \u606d\u559c\u767c\u8ca1, everybody! May the odds of getting a good haul of ang pow money be ever in your favour.", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00080.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 85, + "original_length": 6291, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.99, + "perplexity": 260.7, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "http://2hilbet.tv/series58/DOCTOR-WHO/", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T04:13:24Z", + "digest": "sha1:BW5KKOPWGAED3TXZLGPMH75EGOY7GIPZ", + "length": 490, + "nlines": 4, + "source_domain": "2hilbet.tv", + "title": "Watch DOCTOR WHO online free on Watch-TVSeries", + "raw_content": "Watch DOCTOR WHO online Free\nGenre: Adventure,Drama,Science-Fiction\nThe Doctor is an alien Time Lord from the planet Gallifrey who travels through all of time and space in the TARDIS. The Doctor has a long list of friends and companions who have shared journeys along the way. 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We are in the most sinister months of the First World War, which has already made millions of deaths for nothing. The scene takes place in the city of Ypres, in the once laughing Flemish countryside, now ravaged by trench warfare.\nThe artillery fire has finally stopped. More than 5,000 Allied soldiers (mostly French, Belgians and Canadians) rest. Suddenly, they see arriving on them sheets of green gas carried by the wind. They were dropped by unknown machines manipulated by the Germans, a few hundred meters away. Nobody suspects that this is a new weapon of mass destruction: the \u201cmustard gas\u201d, the first chemical weapon.\nMoments later, it\u2019s just a screaming concert, the abominable spectacle of thousands of live burned bodies squirming on the ground.\nThe mustard gas, in contact with the skin, forms huge blisters. The mucous membranes are attacked, eyes, lips and lungs burned. However, men do not die until after a few days of generalized infections and haemorrhages. As doctors will observe, mustard gas has the appalling effect of destroying the bone marrow, suppressing the immune defenses of the victims and stopping the renewal of blood cells.\nThis story touches me closely because my great-grandfather was present at the Battle of Ypres. Luckily, he climbed the church steeple to observe the battlefield when the mustard gas was dropped by the Germans. The gas remained at ground level, and was spared.\nForbidden by the 1925 Geneva Convention, chemical weapons will nonetheless continue to be produced and used. In 1943, the Germans sank an American ship off the Italian coast near Bari. The holds of this boat are stuffed with mustard gas that is spreading. Medical Officer Colonel Steward Alexander, examining the sailors killed by the disaster, will confirm that the lethal effect of mustard gas comes from the collapse of the number of white blood cells in their blood after a few days.\nIt did not take much to give a strange idea to two young scientists, Alfred Gilman and Louis Goodman of Yale University, in the United States, who contributed to the secret program of American research on chemical weapons (Chemical Warfare Service ).\nSince mustard gas destroys white blood cells, could it not be used to treat children with blood cancer, or leukemia, which is characterized by an uncontrolled proliferation of white blood cells in the blood?\nThis is how the first chemotherapy was born. We will tell the story but we must first make a reminder about leukemia.\nLeukemia, white blood disease\nAcute lymphoblastic leukemia is a blood cancer that affects mostly children around the age of 4 and 5 years.\nIt is caused by bone marrow disease.\nIt\u2019s hard to imagine that anything interesting can happen in our marrow. It seems isolated from the rest of the body by the thick, hard and seemingly impenetrable wall of the bones that surround it.\nIn reality, our bones are porous, and our marrow plays an indispensable role: it makes the cells of our blood. Our bones pass through blood cells made in the marrow, which join the blood stream and regenerate it.\nThere are three main types of blood cells made by the bone marrow:\nRed blood cells, well known because they are the ones who give the blood its scarlet color; they are used to carry oxygen from our lungs to the cells.\nPlatelets, which serve to make the blood clot.\nWhite blood cells, which are the soldiers who protect our body. White blood cells are also called leucocytes (in ancient Greek leucos means white and cyte means cell).\nUnfortunately, sometimes bone marrow cells become crazy and start to proliferate: this is cancer of the blood, or leukemia.\nThe bone marrow begins to make so many white blood cells that the blood itself becomes whitish. Nineteenth-century doctors who observed this for the first time called this disease leukemia, which means \u201cwhite blood\u201d in Greek, leucos, white, and hemos, blood.\nLeukemia, a deadly disease at 99.93%\nIf white blood cells multiply in case of leukemia, it is not the same for other blood cells.\nThe number of red blood cells falls, causing anemia that is manifested by a pale complexion and fatigue. The number of platelets also decreases, causing haemorrhage risk because the blood can no longer coagulate normally.\nAt least, it will be thought, the large number of white blood cells ensures maximum protection against infections. Unfortunately, it is not the case. On the contrary, these many white blood cells are immature and do not even do their job of immunity anymore. The patient is at risk for infections, especially sepsis, a deadly generalized infection.\nLeukemia was partially defeated, we will see, in 1971, thanks to a chemotherapy treatment to heal 50% of cases. But until then, it was a terrible and deadly disease at 99.93%. Post-war doctors had no treatment. They did not even practice blood transfusion (giving the patient a healthy blood from another person) as this only unnecessarily prolonged the sufferings of the sick.\nThe medical challenge of treating leukemia is that cells that begin to proliferate in the bone marrow have only a slight difference with healthy cells. Their ability to multiply too fast comes only from a tiny mutation in the code on the hidden DNA tape inside their nucleus.\nThus, if one seeks to destroy cancer cells with a product, healthy cells will also die. The problem was thus summarized in 1945 by a great researcher on cancer, Professor WH Wolgom: \u201cPeople who do not have training in chemistry or medicine may not realize how much the problem is really difficult. It is almost, not quite, but almost as hard to find a product that would dissolve the right ear but not the left ear. \u201c\nMustard gas tested on a cancer patient\nDespite this apparently insurmountable difficulty, our two researchers from the Chemical Warfare Service decided to test the effects of mustard gas in mice with lymphoma, a lymphoid lymph node cancer that also produces white blood cell (lymphocyte) proliferation.\nAnd in fact, \u201cafter only two administrations of the compound, the tumor began to soften and regress to the point of no longer being palpable.\u201d\nThe result was sufficiently encouraging, according to the two researchers, to justify tests on humans.\nWe are indeed in full swing at the time when medical research entered the modern era. New researchers believe that it has become ethical to put patients at risk as soon as it improves their knowledge of the disease and that there is hope to lead to treatments for the following patients, even if if this hope is weak.\nThis is in contradiction with the conventional vision of the doctor who committed himself, by taking the oath of Hippocrates to \u201cfirst not to harm\u201d his patient (\u201cprimum non nocere\u201d). But was this oath respected in practice by a profession which practiced on a large scale bleeding, purging, the so-called \u201ctreatments\u201d with mercury, arsenic and antimony (violent poisons), without the slightest scientific proof of effectiveness?\nStill, Alfred Gilman and Louis Goodman decided to try their idea on a patient. It was a man, JD, 48, suffering from lymphoma. He received injections of mustard gas intravenously. It reacts at first like the mice: its tumors disappeared in ten days. A month later, they had reappeared, and he was treated again with mustard gas. In fact, as might be expected, the chemical weapon had destroyed her bone marrow at the same time as she had destroyed the lymphoma, and like the unfortunate soldiers, JD died. According to the doctors, the treatment did not slow down his illness. On the contrary, \u201chis death was hastened by the adverse effects of the drug on his bone marrow\u201d, ie his red blood cells and his platelets had also been destroyed.\nThe next patient was even less fortunate: the treatment had no effect on his tumor. On the other hand, he totally destroyed his bone marrow, causing his death.\nMustard gas was declared \u201cfar too toxic\u201d, even for the treatment of cancer. But the experience of the mice and the first patient who had seemed to experience a remission before dying, since their cancer had actually regressed, had struck the spirits.\nChemists began to \u201cwork\u201d on mustard gas to modify it and create slightly different molecules, one of which, it was hoped, would have the same effect on tumors while being less destructive to the bone marrow.\nThe Chemical Warfare Service of the US Army reconverted to a chemotherapy research center\nThis research took place at the Chemical Warfare Service of the US Army, under the direction of Dr. Cornelius Rhoads.\nThis service was closed in 1945 but the facilities and all staff were converted into a cancer treatment center. Two American philanthropists, Alfred Sloan and Charles Kettering, made a donation in 1948 to continue the work and so was born the Sloan-Kettering Institute, which is still today a reference in the treatment of cancer.\nThrough testing, they discovered substances derived from mustard gas that were less toxic and could be used to reduce tumors by limiting adverse effects for the patient. Thus appeared the first group of chemotherapy drugs, including thiotepa (1950), chlorambucil (1953), melphalan (1953) and cyclophosphamide (1957), still used today.\nMelphalan, combined with corticosteroids, is used in the treatment of myeloma, another form of bone marrow cancer. Melphalan differs from mustard gas only because chemists have replaced a sulfur atom with a nitrogen group.\nBut it turned out that the treatment of leukemia would not succeed with a single category of drugs. It is the administration of a combination of products that will help overcome the disease.\nDiscovery of methotrexate\nShortly after the discovery of the effects of mustard gas on leukemia, a Harvard researcher, Sydney Farber, found that his young leukemia patients died faster when he gave them folic acid (vitamin B9).\nInstead of immediately giving up the treatment, he had the following idea, which seems obvious today, but which was absolutely brilliant: since folic acid accelerates death, then a substance that would block the action of acid folate could perhaps cure the sick?\nIn collaboration with Harriett Kilte and chemists Lederle Laboratories, Farber developed aminopterin, then amethopterin (methotrexate), a substance \u201canti-folate\u201d which, indeed, proved effective to block the proliferation of cancer cells .\nIndeed, cells need folic acid to reproduce. By giving folate to his patients, Farber had unknowingly \u201cfed\u201d the cancer cells, allowing them to multiply even faster.\nOther anti-leukemic drugs were discovered during this period: 6-mercaptopurine (6-mp) and an alkaloid, extracted from a tropical plant, vincristine.\nHowever, these products alone continued to cause more harm than good to the sick. In 1967, after 20 years of testing, an investigation of 1000 children treated during the period revealed that only two of them could be considered to have been \u201ccured\u201d, that is, to have survived more than five years.\nThe fight against leukemia seemed hopeless.\nDr. Howard Skippper of the Sloan-Kettering Institute, a veteran of the Chemical Warfare Service, is credited with the treatment protocol that increased the 5-year survival rate for leukaemic children by 0.07%. in 1945 to 71% today.\nInfluenced by military culture, he understood that leukemia could only be defeated by the total eradication of the enemy: the cancerous cells in the bone marrow.\nIt was necessary to be ready, both in practice and psychologically, to practice on the patients a total war , using both chemical weapons (chemotherapy) and nuclear weapons (radiotherapy), by imposing only one only limit: that the treatment stops just before killing the patient.\nIt meant accepting to close the eyes on all the children who were going to be sacrificed so that this limit could be found, and also to accept to make the patients suffer indescribable pain: because each stage of the treatment would be followed by nausea and vomiting. so severe that most children would be malnourished and their growth interrupted. Moreover, as explained above, their healthy cells would be poisoned like their cancer cells, which would make them fall hair, fill their mouths with ulcers, and cause them chronic diarrhea and cystitis (inflammation of the urinary canal).\nDuring all this dreadful period of seeking treatment, the adverse effects outweighed those of the disease itself, and it was more often the drugs that killed the patients than the cancer itself.\nAnd yet, the solution ends up being found by Dr. Skipper. His innovation was to understand that the mistake of his predecessors had been to stop treatment too early.\nThe practice up to him had been to induce remission in the patient, then to reduce the doses to limit the toxicity of the treatment. Dr. Skipper, on the other hand, decided to increase the doses once the remission was obtained.\nIndeed, he imagined correctly, the cancer cells that survived the first attack are necessarily the most resistant and the most malignant. These are the ones that must be flushed out and annihilated before they multiply and counterattack in force.\nIt had been observed that, during cancer recurrences, the drugs were much less effective, as if the cancer cells had developed a resistance to chemotherapy.\nDoctors began to apply this principle: to begin by inducing a remission through relatively low-toxicity drugs, vincristine and prednisone (derived from cortisone). At that time, once the enemy weakened, launch the weapons of mass destruction methotrexate and 6-mp, and continue treatment for two to three years in the hope of eliminating the last surviving cancer cell.\nThis treatment made modest progress, but the doctors realized that cancer cells were taking refuge in the brain. Protected by the blood-brain barrier, they were like in an anti-chemotherapy bunker.\nThis prompted another doctor, Dr. Pinkel, to release the nuclear weapon: he decided to inflict additional treatment of radioactive radiation in the brain of leukemic children. It was a failure. He reacts on the next patient by doubling the dose of radiation.\nThis time, the rate of relapse was divided by twenty !!!\nA giant step had been taken in the treatment of leukemia. The suffering endured by the sacrificed patients proved useful. The 5-year survival rate increased to 50% in 1971 and, by other improvements in treatment, increased to 71% in 1995 in children.\nOverall, today, including adults, 50% of leukemic patients survive beyond 5 years after their diagnosis.\nA terrible story, but that ends well\nSo it\u2019s a terrible story, but it ends pretty well.\nI say \u201crather\u201d because the problem of leukemia is far from behind us. The current treatment (which remains virtually identical to that which was developed in the 1970s) continues to lead to sequelae (lower IQ, related to treatments in the brain), and especially a large increase in the risk of leukemia at age. adult, which is a side effect of treatment.\nThis is why research continues ardently. We would like to find a less toxic, less aggressive treatment.\nUnfortunately, the spectacular progress made in the 1960s has not been re-edited. Leukemia is still treated roughly the same way. Dr. Nicole D\u00e9l\u00e9pine, famous for her leukemia treatment service at Garches Hospital, even considers that the new treatments that the labs are trying to test against leukemia do not even deserve to be tried. For her good old methotrexate is the only product that has proven itself in the field.\nThis is basically the difference between the generation of our parents, who has known the progress of post-war medicine, and ours. Their optimism, their unlimited trust came from the harvest of discoveries that took place at the time. And it is true that the spectacular progress, like the treatment of leukemia, could hope that the movement would continue more.\nIt was not the case.\nIn the fight against cancer, progress is slow, very slow. But we can nevertheless consider ourselves very happy to have this treatment against childhood leukemia. Really, it\u2019s a good thing.\nNow, we will also understand the willingness of more and more people to get involved in understanding the causes (environmental, for example) of cancers, and discover the most effective means of prevention, in the absence of really satisfactory treatments. .\nOriginal source of the article: To see\nThis article was posted in Health and marked as chemotherapy by Fr\u00e9d\u00e9rique dumont. Save the permalink.\nHome \u00bb Medical \u00bb Chemotherapy: here is its secret origin\nCanadian doctors have been successful in reversing the effects of MS on a patient using stem cells\nUnexpected new lung function has been found \u2013 they make blood", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00080.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 119, + "original_length": 18519, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.97, + "perplexity": 240.4, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "http://admin.pm.gov.tn/pm/actualites/actualite.php?lang=en&id=10770", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T03:48:58Z", + "digest": "sha1:5PLQX6OBN3VXD545CCQEKJIPSL52AUZ5", + "length": 1437, + "nlines": 6, + "source_domain": "admin.pm.gov.tn", + "title": "Portal of the Presidency of the Government- Tunisia: government, administration, civil service, public services, regulations and legislation", + "raw_content": "(TAP)- The Higher Investment Council (French : CSI) held its first meeting on Wednesday, chaired by Prime Minister Youssef Chahed.\nHeld in Tunis, the first session of the Higher Investment Council was devoted to the identification of a policy and a strategy for investment through the assessment of old policies in this field and the introduction of decisions favouring the promotion of business and investment in general.\nThe council, which has also discussed the steps to be taken to implement the legislative reforms set out in the new investment law, will decide on incentives for projects of national importance (those that exceeds 50 million dinars and provides 500 jobs).\nThe Tunisian Investment Authority's mission is to manage the projects, whose cost exceeds 15 million dinars, while the projects of lower costs are entrusted to the structures and sectoral agencies, as part of conventions adopted by the Higher Investment Council.\nA single interlocutor was established within the authority to communicate with investors and facilitate their administrative procedures. It is meant for projects costing more than 15 million dinars.\nRegional commissions will be established within the Authority to help provide incentives for investment in the regions. They will be tasked with examining applications filed to benefit from financial incentives listed in the Investment Law for projects whose cost does not exceed 1 million dinars", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00080.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 18, + "original_length": 2182, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.96, + "perplexity": 223.4, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "http://adrenalinedrash.com/?m=201402", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T04:40:10Z", + "digest": "sha1:ILCMKYR4B7CBKKDAWCPO25JU2HP2R7KF", + "length": 4498, + "nlines": 26, + "source_domain": "adrenalinedrash.com", + "title": "February 2014", + "raw_content": "Valentine\u2019s Day \u2014 Jewish Style\nIt\u2019s almost Valentine\u2019s Day. Now: Imagine having a Valentine\u2019s Day each and every week. That, folks, is totally Jewish.\nI explained this fact to a young couple who recently began conversion classes with me. We were chatting after services were over. We\u2019d all chanted the Kiddush and the motzi and had started noshing on little miniature cheesecakes and other delectables.\nI asked them if they knew about the \u201cspecial rules\u201d about Shabbat practice.\nThey did not. So, in very gentle language I spoke about the way Judaism encourages intimacy. \u201cIntimacy,\u201d I said, \u201ccreates bonds. Torah tells us that a husband has to make sure his wife is, um, regularly made happy so the bond is strengthened and renewed. The husband\u2019s obligation is good for their entire life, even when there is neither the possibility nor the wish to have children. It\u2019s a double mitzvah on Shabbat!\u201d I smiled.\nThey got the idea. They smiled. Our temple\u2019s Director of Religious Services, who had joined the conversation, also smiled.\nSaid director decided to help out by summarizing Talmudic discussions about exactly how happy a man had to make his wife each week. I noticed that she did this with a certain verve.\nJust in case you need a refresher, here\u2019s the text: \u201cThe times for conjugal duty prescribed in the Torah are: for men of independence, every day; for laborers, twice a week; for ass-drivers, once a week; for camel-drivers, once in thirty days; for sailors, once in six months. These are the rulings of R. Eliezer\u201d (M. Ketubot 5:1).\nThe rabbis also insisted that loving couples should be nude during intimacy. Otherwise, the husband must divorce his wife so she can find a righteous dude who knows how to behave in bed: \u201cR. Joseph learnt: Her flesh implies close bodily contact, viz, that he must not treat her in the manner of the Persians who perform their conjugal duties in their clothes. This provides support for [a ruling of] R. Huna who laid down that a husband who said, \u2018I will not [perform conjugal duties] unless she wears her clothes and I mine\u2019, must divorce her and give her also her ketubah\u201d (Ketubot 48a).\nSome rabbinic direction even includes how to progress through foreplay. I am not kidding. In the spirit of Rabbi Hillel, I say unto you: Go, and google.\nWhy did the rabbis decide it was especially meritorious to be intimate on Shabbat? They were especially concerned about balancing the need for study with the need for a family life. Some came to the conclusion that once a week was essential for scholars, and that since all work stopped on Shabbat, Shabbat was the perfect time for play.\nRashi calls the \u201cSabbath a night of enjoyment, relaxation and physical pleasure\u201d (Rashi commentary on Ketubot 62b). Elsewhere Rashi advocates that not only scholars, but laypeople also should engage in this practice Friday nights (Rashi to Niddah 17a).\nThe rabbis claim\u2019 that if a woman is the first to achieve \u201csatisfaction\u201d and becomes pregnant, she will surely give birth to a boy who would be a Torah scholar. Harumph, I say. The child could be a girl who might grow up to be a rabbi\u2026\nWhen we had concluded our explication of the double mitzvah deal on Shabbat, I turned around to get some more cheesecake.\nI cast my eye upon the remains of the challah.\nWhen we had unveiled the challah, I certainly had noticed it was in the shape of a heart and had raised it high for everyone to see. I exclaimed about its general liveliness. Crowded by the many children, I hadn\u2019t much paid attention to the details.\nGo back and look at the picture above. That was our challah.\nI don\u2019t know about you, but that has to be the most curious arrow I have ever seen.\nI pointed this out to my Director of Religious Services.\n\u201cWhat does that look like to you?\u201d I asked.\n\u201cIt\u2019s an arrow,\u201d she said. \u201cNo, wait, no, um, oh my,\u201d she said. \u201cOh my.\u201d\nI pointed it out to the treasurer, who began giggling uncontrollably. When she could control herself, she asked: \u201cShould I tear it off?\u201d\nI won\u2019t repeat what I said in that moment. You might find it rather unrabbi-like.\nOn the way home, in the cold and the dark, I looked at the stars twinkling overhead. I was happy that we had had a challah like that at our oneg. I hoped that whoever had made it, male or female, had gone home that very Friday night to a beloved, male or female, and engaged in an intimate pursuit of happiness.\nLove, and its beautiful expression, should be a double mitzvah at any time.\nHappy Valentine\u2019s Day. 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[ download resume ]\nIn 2002 I began my work as a special education advocate for Team of Advocates for Special Kids (TASK). Over the next 14 years, I had the opportunity to help hundreds of families whose children exhibited a variety of unique special education needs. I was also provided the opportunity to partner with local groups such as the Interagency Autism Support Group, The Orange County Adult Transition Task Force Irvine Unified School District and was a stakeholder on the County Mental Health Services Act Proposition 63 Orange County Department of Mental Health.\nI have been a member have been a member of Council of Parents Attorneys and Advocates COPAA since 2011 and volunteered as a court appointed special advocate for foster youth for Orange County CASA in 2012 while concurrently receiving my Special Education Certificate from the University of San Diego. I encourage a non-adversarial approach to advocacy and prefer to resolve issues at the local level as the first option.\nI incorporate the use of assessment data to create charts that can aid in the acquisition of service and supports. These visual aids show present and historic levels of academic, language and behavioral difficulties to provide for a greater degree of evidence in support of individual needs.\nPictured right are myself and attorney Pete Wright whose training is responsible for my curiosity in the use of assessment data as an advocacy tool for demonstrating the need for services. 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Today he announced that starting in June 2019 he will become the new Secretary and Chief Executive of the Royal Academy of Arts in London. Axel R\u00fcger: \u201cWith great pleasure and passion I have worked at the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam. It has been a privilege to lead this wonderful and successful institution. With great pride I look back at many interesting\ninteresting exhibitions, beautiful acquisitions, extraordinary milestones and colourful and ambitious events during my 13 years at the museum. I am very fortunate that I have been able to collaborate with so many loyal employees and professionals working for the museum. I am honored to have been asked to lead the Royal Academy of Arts alongside its President and carry forward this 250 year old institution with its rich history and heritage. I look forward to starting in London in June, knowing that I will leave the Van Gogh Museum in good hands, with many promising exhibitions and activities already scheduled in the near future.\u201d\nThe Royal Academy of Arts was founded by King George III in 1768. It has a unique position in being an independent, privately funded institution led by eminent artists and architects whose purpose is to be a voice for art and artists. Its public programme promotes the creation, enjoyment and appreciation of the visual arts through exhibitions, education and debate. Recent exhibitions include Charles I: King and Collector, Oceania and the 250th Summer Exhibition. 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Leadership in the design and manufacture of electronic components is moving overseas rapidly. If this trend continues, US military forces will be dependent \u2014 within the next decade \u2014 on foreign suppliers for critical capabilities they need to maintain their technological superiority.\nThis is the alarming conclusion reached by a Defense Science Board task force, whose report earlier this year deserves more public attention than it has gotten. The problem revolves around the tiny silicon semiconductor chips that make electronics the dominant technology in modern weapon systems. In the early 1980s, Japan overtook the United States in the semiconductor market and has been pulling further ahead ever since.\nThe most advance semiconductor today is the one-megabit Dynamic Random Access Memory (DRAM) chip, which stores about a million bits of information on a single wafer. DRAMs were invented in the United States, but the US has been beaten out by the Japanese in the ability to produce these chips in large quantities at very low cost and now supplies less than five percent of world consumption.\nIt appears that Japan will develop as well as produce the next generation of DRAM chips. If so, the task force says in terse language, the United States in the 1990s will have only two choices: either buy foreign semiconductors or settle for seconds best in its weapons systems. These alternatives assume, of course, that the chips would be available. The task force also observes that \u201cas Japanese firms evolve from the role of merchant semiconductor manufacturers into computer/telecommunications system builders, it would not be an illogical strategic business policy to delay release of the most advanced chips to competitors in the systems market, including those residing in the United States.\u201d\nIt is true that the Japanese have gotten some of their advantage by means of trade barriers and dumping their products on the world market. But, says the task force, Japan is ahead in semiconductors mainly because of its industrial policies. The Japanese invest more heavily in plants, equipment, and research and development. They work toward long-term goals, effectively integrating the resources of government, industry, and academia. Over time, this gives them the edge in high-volume production, from which nearly all else follows.\nThe Defense Department is not situated that well to head off the problem. The armed forces, once the primary customers of the semiconductor industry, now buy just three percent of the total quantity produced. The market is driven by commercial demand, not by military considerations.\nThe best idea the task force could think up was the creation of a semiconductor-manufacturing institute by a consortium of US firms. Its first task, underwritten with substantial Pentagon funding, would be developing the technology to build a sixty-four-megabit DRAM. This is a good idea. If the institute is established, and depending on what else happens in conjunction with its efforts, it could moderate or even correct the drift toward semiconductor dependence. This idea, however, is not a complete solution to the decline of the defense industrial base. That problem is much broader and more complex. Military-industrial first aid will not be enough to set it straight.\nThe legendary \u201cArsenal of Democracy\u201d passed into history many years ago. It has been a long time since the US industrial base had a capacity for wartime surge production. As demonstrated by the case of the semiconductors, it cannot always be relied on to meet even peacetime requirements. Between the 1960s and the 1980s, the number of firms doing defense work dropped by more than forty percent. Some, such as foundries, simply folded when environmental requirements become more stringent. Others, especially suppliers of specialized components, shifted their energies to the commercial market, where profits were better and where there was less red tape.\nMost of the developed nations of the world are in the process of deindustrialization, and this is one race that the US leads by a furlong. About seventy percent of American workers are employed in the delivery of services rather than goods. Meanwhile, US defense budgets have decreased as a percentage of GNP, so a Pentagon with relatively less money to spend also commands less attention from an industrial base that is itself shrinking in absolute terms.\nAs if all this were not enough, pressures have built for industry to emphasize short-term profit over long-term development. From the mid-1970s on, a corporation that allowed its dividends to sag became a target for a hostile takeover attempt, with stockholders cheering the sudden boost in share values. In the semiconductor industry, the task force found, \u201cequivalent ownership\u201d of firms turned over completely \u2014 meaning that shares of stock traded equaled total stock outstanding \u2014 every six to nine months on the average. Stockholders are intolerant of companies that invest for payout five years hence. They want profits in six to nine months. Congress is investigating, but takeovers in US industry increased by a third between 1984 and 1986.\nConverging with these events was the notion \u2014 which arose from the politics of dissent in the 1960s and soon became pandemic \u2014 that the defense firms are a bunch of crooks and profiteers. Few people check deeply enough into the facts to learn that these conclusions are wrong. Industry basking is a popular sport in which no penalties are assessed for fouls. The news media, politicians, and self-styled reformers all play with enthusiasm. Unfortunately, so do some of the more zealous investigators and regulators on the government payroll, who cultivate attitudes that border on contempt. An industry kept in an adversarial, defensive crouch does not serve the nation well as it otherwise might. During the long slide of the industrial base, government policies and rules have often worked to inhibit R&D and productivity investments by defense contractors.\nThe overall industrial-base problem is so big that no one is able to describe it completely, much less offer a comprehensive solution. The United States should count itself lucky if it can stem the most pressing industrial base issue, the looming dependency on foreign semiconductors.\nEven the \u201cdomestic\u201d semiconductor industry has moved much of its advanced production capability overseas. Many defense systems already contain components available only from foreign sources. Few military program offices keep records of dependency that look beyond the country of origin of finished devices. The worst part of the problem may be that we do not yet know how bad it is.", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00080.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 164, + "original_length": 10634, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.96, + "perplexity": 250.0, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "http://album.atlantahistorycenter.com/cdm/ref/collection/Troutt/id/82/", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T04:35:21Z", + "digest": "sha1:LFY33AAJRZJGUW6GWTO625BZ4OA4OMGJ", + "length": 606, + "nlines": 9, + "source_domain": "album.atlantahistorycenter.com", + "title": "Henry Grady Hotel :: Charles E. Troutt Photographs", + "raw_content": "Home Charles E. Troutt Photographs Henry Grady Hotel\nHenry Grady Hotel\nTitle Henry Grady Hotel\nDescription View of the Henry Grady Hotel also showing the Roxy Theater on Peachtree Street in downtown Atlanta, Georgia.\nCorporate Name Henry Grady Hotel (Atlanta, Ga.)\nRoxy Theater (Atlanta, Ga.)\nNotes The Henry Grady Hotel was built on the former site of the Georgia governor's mansion in 1924 by Architect G. Lloyd Preacher and Company. 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The Trident features a strut-braced hang glider-style high-wing, weight-shift controls, a two-seats-in-tandem open cockpit with a rigid boat hull, retractable tricycle landing gear and a single engine in pusher configuration.\nIntroduced in 1998, the Ramphos Trident is designed and produced by Ramphos of Fontanafredda. The aircraft was supplied as a kit for amateur construction or as a complete ready-to-fly-aircraft, in production in 2013.\nRamphos is an amphibious boat\u2011shaped flying hull with wings made of anti-UV mylar of 15 sq.m mounted as standard. Wings up to 21sq.m or a new strong foldable wing (tested +6/-3G) can be mounted. The 15sq.m wing is manufactured in Treviso, Italy.\nThe hull is a triple \"V\", stepped to enhance its rough and glassy water performance. It has a retractable tricycle undercarriage, which enables it to be taxied from the beach to the water and is also suitable for ordinary airstrips.\nThe aircraft is made from bolted-together aluminum tubing, with its double surface wing covered in Dacron sailcloth and its boat hull made from either fibreglass or carbon fibre and Kevlar.\nIts 10.5 m (34.4 ft) span Hazard wing has struts and uses an \"A\" frame weight-shift control bar. The powerplant is a twin cylinder, liquid-cooled, two-stroke, dual-ignition 64 hp (48 kW) Rotax 582 engine or a four-cylinder, air and liquid-cooled, four-stroke, dual-ignition 80 hp (60 kW) Rotax 912UL engine or a 78 hp (58 kW) converted Smart Car four stroke turbocharged engine. All engines are fitted with a clutch that stops the propeller from turning when the engine is at idle to permit water handling. The three \u00adblade Warp Drive propeller has nickel inlaid edges for operation from water sur\u00adfaces. The propeller can be two or three bladed, made of wood or composite material. The propeller ring functions as a protective as well as an anti-noise device. Engines can range from 50 to 80 Hp (Rotax, Hirth, etc.). The boat hull features a water rudder.\nStarting in 2005 the frame and wing portion of the aircraft was taken from the Skyrider Sonic ultralight trike, built by Skyrider Flugschule.\nInitial flying boat model that lacks wheeled landing gear. Introduced in 1998 and in production in 2013.\nAmphibious model with fibreglass boat hull, in production in 2013.\nAmphibious model with carbon fibre/Kevlar boat hull and lexan windows in the bottom of the hull to allow visibility downwards. 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A quick Google search revealed many sites devoted to the benefits of oil of cloves such as http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/druginfo/natural/251.html.\nEugenol, applied to a sore tooth, or on the gum tissue will reduce or eliminate pain within a very short time. Eugenol is highly anti-microbial, and wonderful for all kinds of infections, similar to tea tree oil. It can be somewhat irritating to sensitive gums, but can be thinned out with olive oil very effectively.\nIn addition, when mixed with zinc oxide powder, it can be made into a thick easily handling temporary filling material that can be placed in a tooth when a filling is lost, or inside a cap to recement it.\nEugenol is shelf stable essentially indefinately (although it will turn dark over time). It can be purchased at Amazon.com, as well as health food stores. Zinc oxide is also shelf stable, and can be purchased at Amazon, and many other sources.\nA warning to all: Using any self applied medication is not a substitute for professional dental care. At the first sign of dental pain, swelling of problem of any kind, seek the advice and treatment of a licensed dentist.\nPeak Oil and Our Mental Models \u2013 The WikiLeaks Cable and The Worlds Largest Oil Fields", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00080.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 195, + "original_length": 7977, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.95, + "perplexity": 320.5, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "http://analysisproject.blogspot.com/2013/06/", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T04:23:35Z", + "digest": "sha1:PWVIKCYIPKHBAQDLUYYAH7QZ2CY7HTQI", + "length": 71174, + "nlines": 251, + "source_domain": "analysisproject.blogspot.com", + "title": "Project Management: June 2013", + "raw_content": "Concept of Oligopoly and Kinked Demand Curve Model\nPrice rigidity under oligopoly in terms of kinked demand curve\nPrice rigidity in the oligopoly market is best explained by the kinked demand curve.\nThe oligopoly is a reduced form of monopolistic competition. The term oligopoly has a Greek base and means few sellers, oligopoly as such, refers to markets with small number of large firms, each selling either differentiated or homogeneous product. A few sellers imply a number\nso small or a few that market share of each firm in so large that it can influence the market price. It also implies that each seller commands a sizeable proportion of the total market supply. The products traded by the oligopolists may be differentiated or homogeneous. Accordingly, the oligopoly market may be a heterogeneous oligopoly or a homogeneous (or pure) oligopoly. It seems the following features:\nSellers are few in number.\nAny of them is of such a size that an increase and decrease in his output will appreciably affect the market price. In fact, the size of each seller\u2019s output in relation to the total supply is the test.\nEach seller knows his competitors individually in each market.\nEach oligopolist realizes that any change in his price and advertising policy may lead rivals to change their policies. Hence, an individual firm must consider the possible reaction of the other firms to its own policies. The smaller the number of firms, the more interdependent are their policies. The reactions of rivals will generally be immediate and strong, and tendencies to close collaboration in price determination are appeared.\nIt is the fewness of sellers that introduces interactions into the price and output decision problem under oligopoly a special form of oligopoly in duopoly, under which only two firms produce a particular product.\nKinked Demand Curve Model\nThe kinked demand curve model developed by Paul M. Sweezy, has features common to most of oligopoly pricing models. The kinked demand curve analysis does not deal with price and output determination. It seeks to establish that once a price-quantity combination is determined, an oligopoly firm will not find it profitable to change its price in response to a moderate change in cost of production. An oligopoly form believes that if it reduces the price of its product, rival firms would follow and neutralize the expected gain from price reduction. But, if it raises its price, rival firms would either maintain their prices or may even cut their price down. In either case, the price rising firm stands to lose, at least a part of its share in the market. This behavioral assumption is made by all the firms in respect of others. The oligopoly firms would therefore, find it more desirable to maintain their price and output at the existing level.\nThere are three possible ways in which rival firms may react:\nThe rival firms follow the price changes, both cut and hike;\nThe rival firms do not follow the price changes;\nRival firms do not react to price-hikes but they do follow the price-cuts.\nKinked-demand curve is a demand curve with two distinct segments with different elasticities that join to form a kink. The primary use of the kinked-demand curve is to explain price rigidity in oligopoly. The two segments are: (i) a relatively more elastic segment for price increase and (ii) a relatively less elastic segment for price decreases. The relative elasticities of these two segments are directly based on the interdependent decision-making of oligopolistic firms. Interdependence is the guiding behavioral principle of oligopoly firms in which the decision by one firm is both affected by the decisions of other firms and in turn affects the decisions of other firms. Such interdependence is characteristic of oligopoly firms that practice competition among the few. Interdependence is indicated by the kinked-demand curve, game theory, collusion, and mergers. Merger is the consolidation of two separately-owned businesses under single ownership. This can be accomplished through a mutual, \u201cfriendly\u201d agreement by both parties, or through a \u201cHostile takeover,\u201d in which one business gets ownership without cooperation from the other. Mergers fall into one of three classes \u2013 (i) horizontal \u2013 two competing firms in the same industry that sell the same products, (ii) vertical \u2013 two firms in different stages of the production of one good, such that the output of one business is the input of the other, and (iii) conglomerate \u2013 two firms that are in totally, completely separated industries.\nAccording to the kinked demand curve model firm determines the price and output by intersection of MC and MR. But intersecting point lies on the discontinuous segment of MR. In this model, the demand curve faced by oligopolists has kink at the prevailing price. It means, the upper section of the kinked demand curve has higher price elasticity than lower part. Because, each oligopolist believes that if he reduces his price below the prevailing level, his competitors will follow him, and will accordingly lower their prices. So that an oligopolist firm which lowers the price could not increase its share of the market. Whereas if he raises the price above the prevailing level, his competitors will not follow him and they do not increase their price. So, an oligopolist will lose a considerable part of his customers. Because of this, an oligopolist tends to keep prices constant even if the cost and demand conditions are changed. This model is illustrated in figure.\nIn the figure, dED is the demand curve faced by an oligopolistic firm and has a kink at point E which represents the prevailing market price. Above this point, demand curve dE is more elastic and below this point it is less elastic. dABMR is the marginal revenue curve of the firm. MR has two segments; the upper segment dA corresponds to the upper part of the demand curve dE. The lower segment BMR corresponds to lower part of kinked demand curve ED. The kink at point E on the demand curve results in discontinuity \u2018AB\u2019 in the MR curve. Oligopolist firm can reach equilibrium position and determine the selling price, and quantity and maximize the profit by equating MC with MR. In the given figure, SMC cuts the discontinued segment of MR at point \u2018C\u2019 and the firm determines price QE and selling quantity OQ. This QE level of price will not be changed by firm. If SMC curve rises to SMC1 because of increasing costs and SMC curve goes down to SMC2 because of decreasing cost, this will not affect the pricing decision of the oligopolist. These two curves SMC1 and SMC2 allow the firm to fix the price QE and quantity OQ.\nWe may conclude that an oligopolist faced with a kinked demand curve will be extremely unwilling to change his price. For a fall in his price will cause no large increase in his sales whereas a price increases will cause a substantial decline in his sales. Thus, neither a price increase nor a price reduction will be an attractive proposition for the oligopolist. During inflationary periods, however, oligopoly firms often follow one another\u2019s price increase, to this extent, the kinked demand curve analysis can be said not to hold true.\nRelated keywords Kinked Demand Curve Model, Oligopoly\nIf a firm is planning to market a new product and does not have past data on which to rely to project sales, it will have to find out and use other means in an effort to predict probable sales.\nThe special problem of demand forecasting for new products is that since each new product is to varying degrees different from existing products, these are no directly relevant data available from past sales on which a forecast may be based. The more the new product is likely to be, the greater the problem. In addition, since a considerable amount of money has to be invested in developing and marketing a new product, we have to consider its sales over an extended period to be more precise over the whole of its expected commercial lifetime. It means that we need to estimate: (i) the number of years for which the product will be sold and (ii) the level of sales in each of those years.\nThere are, of course, a number of techniques available for the purpose. However, the choice of a particular technique depends on the circumstances faced by the forecaster.\nThe forecaster can carry out market research in various forms. The marketing people may be asked to make different inquiries from the prospective ultimate buyers of the product. On the basis of such inquiries they may try to discover whether and in what quantities customers are likely to buy the product, using various assumptions as to how, it would be marketed and at what price it would be sold.\nThis approach is no doubt, direct and practical. It can be applied for forecasting the demand of industrial goods because the buyers\u2019 criteria are more precisely formulated and more stable.\nHowever, this method is highly impracticable in the case of new consumer goods. It is so because the consumer is, for various reasons, unlikely to be able to assess reliably his own buying behavior in the hypothetical situation presented to him.\n2. Test Marketing or Sales Experience Approach\nIt takes the form of a trial run of the product in a part of the intended market in conditions as closely similar to those that are expected to prevail if and when the product is ultimately marketed as are possible.\nFrequently, a new product such as soap, toothpaste, food-stuff, etc. is put through test marketing, i.e. tested in a sample market in a bid to determine the probable demand for the product. It may be tasted at a particular price or at several different prices by sing one or more test markets. Form the test market results, a projection can be made regarding regional or national sales. The sales experience usually will give green or a red signal for the product.\nThis approach has been used with success for a wide range of products. However, the success of this method depends on the availability of a representative product for test marketing. This method is not applicable to the earlier stages of product development.\n3. Opinion-Sampling Approach\nThis approach is to bring together in a systematic way the informal judgments of executives, sales people, retailers and perhaps friendly customers as to the product\u2019s probable performance.\nThrough use of a mail questionnaire, or by making a door survey, one can get some indication of the acceptance of new product. In this case, sampling of the potential customers may be polled directly, or there may be a poll of sources that have a feel of the actual buyer, such as retailers, wholesalers, jobbers and manufacturer representatives. This pool is likely to give some idea of market acceptance and price range.\n4. Evolutionary Approach\nIf the product is supposed to be an improvement or has evolved out of an existing product, it can be assumed that the new product may have the same type of experience as that of an existing product. Color television sets, evolved from black and white sets, the jet engine from the propeller engine in aircraft, are the examples. In this manner one can easily imagine what the demand for work processors will be in the office equipment industry if they became a nearly completely replacement for the electric typewriter.\n5. Substitute Approach\nIf a new product seems to be a close substitute for a well established product, one can estimate what share of the market the new product may get by replacing some of the existing products. A new textbook may be a substitute for one of the many existing textbooks being used. After knowing the total sales, the producer of the new book may be in a position to estimate.\n6. Sales Growth Approach\nIn the absence of the information about a new product, one may reasonably assume that the sales of the new product will simply displace those of an existing product and continue along the growth is distinct established by it. This is likely to be so when the new product is distinct improvement on the existing one but not so radically different that buyers have learn to accept it. In the case of industrial investment we assume that there now need to make any substantial investment in hardware or restraining. Alternatively, for consumer products, no changes in domestic habits or social attitudes and values are required.\nNo doubt, demand forecasting represents one of the most challenging aspects of business analysis. Continuous research has been going on in this area. The techniques of forecasting are being retired and have been improved enormously in recent years by the advent of computers. However, the use of sophisticated techniques is not enough. It is essential to exercise judgment and experience while carrying out any forecasting exercise. Techniques can only complement judgment and experience.\nRelated keywords Demand forecasting, Forecasting for the new products, managerial economics\nMerits and limitations of market studies and experimentation as a method of demand forecasting\nAn alternative technique for obtaining useful information about a product\u2019s demand function involves market experiments. The firm locates one or more markets with specific characteristics, and then varies prices, packaging, advertising, and other controllable variables in the demand function, with the variations occurring either over time or between markets. One market\nexperiment technique entails examining consumer behavior is actual markets. The firm may also be able to sue census or survey data to determine how such demographic characteristics as income, family size, educational level and ethnic background affect demand.\nMarket experimentation procedure utilizes a controlled laboratory experiment where in consumers are given funds with which to shop in a simulated store. By varying prices, product packaging, displays, and other factors, the experimenters can often learn a great deal about consumer behavior. The laboratory experiment, while providing similar information as field experiments has advantages/merits because of lower cost and greater control of extraneous factors. Merits and limitations of market experiments can be shown as below:\nMarket experiments are based on actual consumer behavior and not on merely their intentions to buy the commodity.\nThey provide more accurate returns than those of consumer survey because consumers are asked to make actual decisions regarding their purchase.\nMarket experiments are costly and much time consuming.\nIf the price rises, the consumers may switch over to the products of the rival firms. If the price reduced to the original level, it may be difficult to regain the lost customers.\nIt is also difficult to select an area, which accurately represents the potential market.\nFirm cannot control all the factors (i.e. bad weather, economic conditions, occupation situations etc.) that influence demand for a product.\nThe changes in price or adverting to know consumer\u2019s response may go unnoticed by them in such a short period.\nThe selected consumers may not respond accurately when they know they are a part of an experiment being conducted and their behavior is being recorded.\nRelated keywords Demand forecasting, market studies\nExpert\u2019s opinion survey differ from the survey of Sales forces\nThe different between expert\u2019s opinion and survey of sales forces can be explained as follows:\n- A variant of the opinion poll and survey method is said to be expert\u2019s opinion survey. The participants are supplied the responses to previous questions from others in the group by a coordinator or leader of same sort. The leader provides each expert with the responses of the others including their reasons.\nIn survey of sales forces, information is collected from firm\u2019s sales-representatives or salesmen about their estimates of sales of its product in future.\n- Outside experts such as consultant firms, investment analysts, who are professionally trained for the purpose of the forecasting demand, may be asked to estimate demand.\nIn survey of sales forces, information regarding likely sales is obtained from those who are closest to the market and have an initiate insight to the market.\n- Each expert is told about the prediction of the other experts and asked in the light of the other\u2019s views whether he/she should revise his prediction about future demand. The experts are again shown each other\u2019s revised forecasts and asked to reconsider their forecasts future till a consensus is reached or until referring the opinion of others.\nIn survey of sales forces, the responses of the various salesmen or representatives are then aggregated to arrive at total demand forecast for the product.\n- Predictions of the demand by experts are not always based on any hard data but they can provide useful information about demand for the product.\nSales forecasts provided by sales representatives are biased either upward or downward. However, as a result of experience some corrective factors are applied to sales estimates furnished by salesmen.\nThe merits and limitations of expert\u2019s opinion and survey of sales forces can be explained as below:\nMerits of Expert\u2019s Opinion\nIt facilitates the maintenance of anonymity of the respondent\u2019s identity throughout the course. This enables the respondent to be candid and forth right in his view.\nIt renders if possible to pose the problem to the experts at one time and have their response.\nLimitations of Expert\u2019s Opinion\nPredictions for demand by experts should always be based on some hard data, but they are not based on any hard data.\nIt is very costly or otherwise not possible to conduct complete enumeration. Outside experts may charge huge fees for giving their opinion.\nThe experts who consider themselves experts may not like to be influenced by the predictions of others on a panel of experts. As a result there may not be any revision in subsequent rounds of seeking their opinion about other\u2019s forecasts.\nMerits of Survey of Sales Forces\nIt is easy and cheap to do.\nIt has further advantage of increasing the motivation of salesmen to achieve the self-selected target for which they had made a forecast.\nLimitations of Survey of Sales Forces\nSales representatives may not provide correct forecast. Some sales representatives would like to make too optimistic sales forecast.\nSome salesmen would like to make too pessimistic sales forecast so that they get higher payments for exceeding the targets based on their sales predictions.\nSales forecasts provided by sales representatives are biased forecast either upward or downward.\nRelated keywords Expert's opinion survey, survey of sales forces\nNon-statistical methods that is used to forecast the demand for satellite TV signal decoder\nDemand forecasting means predicting demand for a product. The information regarding future demand is essential for planning scheduling production, purchase of raw materials, acquisition of finance and advertising. In order to accuracy as well as good forecasting, we can use various methods such as survey and statistical methods. Generally in short\nterm forecasting we can use survey method and statistical method can be used for long-term forecasting.\nAs mention question, satellite TV signal decoder is a short-term program. To know the peoples intention about the program, we can use survey method. Under survey method, there are various methods, such as:\nConsumer Survey Method: Direct interview method, complete enumeration method, sample survey method.\nOpinion Poll Method: Experts opinion method, Delphi method, Market Studies and experiments. In case of forecasting demand for satellite, TV signal decoder, we can use sample survey method.\nUnder this method, only a few potential consumers and users selected from the relevant market through a sampling method are surveyed. This method of survey may be direct interview or method questionnaire to these sample consumers. On the basis of the information obtained, that probable demand may be estimated through the following formula,\nDP = HR / HS (H. AD)\nWhere, DP = Probable demand forecast\nH = Census number of households from the relevant market.\nHS = Number of households for the product.\nAD = Average expected consumption by the reporting households.\nThis method is simpler, less costly and less time consuming that the comprehensive survey method. The households who plan their future purchases generally use this method to estimate short-term demand from business firms, government departments and agencies, and also. Business firms, government departments, and such other organization budget their expenditure at least for one year in advance. It is therefore possible for them to supply a fairly reliable estimate of their future purchases. Even the households making annual or periodic budget of their expenditure can provide reliable information about their purchases.\nSample survey method is widely used to forecast demand. However, this method has some limitations similar to those of complete enumeration or exhaustive survey method. The forecast therefore should not attribute reliability to the forecast more than warranted. Besides, sample survey method can be used to verify the demand forecast made by using quantitative or statistical methods. Some authors suggest that this method for forecasting rather than to replace it, this method can be gainfully used where market area is localized.\nSample survey method can be of greater use in forecasting where quantification of variables (e.g. feelings, opinion, expectations etc.) is not possible and where consumer\u2019s behavior is subject to frequent changes. Satellite TV signal decoder forecasting is also a short and non-durable program in such a case sample survey method is only the appropriate non-statistical method.\nRelated keywords Demand forecasting, Non-statistical method for demand forecasting\nDemand forecasting is not an easy task. Two dangers must be guarded against. First, too much emphasis should not be placed on mathematical or statistical techniques of forecasting. Though statistical techniques are essential in clarifying relationships and providing techniques of analysis, they are not substitutes for judgment. The danger is that we may go to the opposite extreme and regard forecasting as something to be left to the judgment of the so-called experts.\nCommonly for pure guessing, we can use following methods:\n1. Survey of Buyer\u2019s Intentions\nThe most direct method of estimating demand in the short run is to ask customers what they are planning to buy for the forthcoming time period generally a year. This method is also known as public opinion surveys, is most useful when bulk of the sales is made to industrial producers. In this method, the burden of forecasting is shifted to the consumers. But it would not be wise to depend wholly on the buyers\u2019 estimates and they should be used cautiously in the light of the sellers\u2019 own judgment.\nA number of biases may creep into the surveys. If shortages are expected, customers may tend to exaggerate their requirements. The customers may know what their requirements are but they may misuse or mislead or may be uncertain about the quantity they intend to purchase from a particular firm. This method is not very useful in the case of household customers for several reasons, viz. irregularity in customers\u2019 buying intentions, their inability to foresee their choice when faced with multiple alternatives, and the possibility that the buyers\u2019 plans may not be real only wishful thinking.\n2. Delphi Method\nA variant of the opinion poll and survey method is Delphi method. It consists of an attempt to arrive at a consensus in an uncertain area by questioning a group of experts repeatedly until the responses appear to coverage along a single line or the issues causing disagreements are clearly defined. The participants are supplied the responses to previous questions from others in the group by a coordinator or leader of same sort. The leader provides each expert with the responses of the others including their reason. Others given the opportunity to react to the information or considerations advance each expert but interchange is anonymous so as to avoid or reduce halo effect and ego involvement associated with publicly expressed opinions.\nIt has some exclusive advantages such as: (a) It facilitates the maintenance of anonymity of the respondent\u2019s identity throughout the course. This enables the respondent to be candid and forth right in his view. (b) Delphi renders if possible to pose the problem to the experts at one time and have their response.\nThough it posses wide knowledge and experience of the subject and have an aptitude and earnest disposition towards the participants.\n3. Time Series Analysis and Trend Projection\nThe time series relating to sales represent the past pattern of effective demand for a particular product. Such data can be presented either in a tabular form or graphically for further analysis. The most popular method of analysis of time series is to project the trend of the time-series. A trend line can be fitted through a series either visually or by means of statistical techniques such as method of least squares.\nThe analyst chooses a plausible algebraic relation between sales and the independent variable such as time. The trend line is then projected into the future by extrapolation. It is popular method because it is simple and inexpensive and partly because time series data often exhibit a persistent so long as the time shows a persistent tendency to move in the some direction.\n4. Market Studies and Experimentation\nAn alternative technique for obtaining useful information about a product\u2019s demand function involves market experiments. The firm locates one or more markets with specific characteristics, and then varies prices, packaging, advertising, and other controllable variables in the demand function with the variations occurring either over time or between markets. One market experiment technique entails examining consumer behavior is actual markets. The firm may also be able to use census or survey data to determine how such demographic characteristics as income, family size, educational level and ethnic background affect demand.\nMarket experiments have many serious shortcoming, they are expensive and are therefore usually undertaken on a scale too small to allow high levels of confidence in the results. Market experiments are seldom run for sufficiently long periods to indicate the long-run effects various price, advertising or packaging strategies. The experimenter is thus forced to examine short run data and attempt to extend it to a longer period.\nVarious difficulties related with the uncontrolled parts of the market experiment also reduce its value as an estimating tool. A change in economic condition during the experiment is likely to invalidate the results, especially if the experiment includes the use of several separated markets, a local strike or layoffs by a major employer in one of the market areas. There is also the danger that customers lost during the experiment as a result of price manipulations cannot be regained when the experiment ends.\nMarket experimentation procedure utilizes a controlled laboratory experiment where in consumers are given funds with which to shop in a simulated store. By varying prices, product packaging, displays, and other factors, the experimenter can often learn a great deal about consumer behavior. The laboratory experiment, while providing similar information as field experiments, has an advantage because of lower cost and greater control of extraneous factors.\nRegression analysis is to specify the variables that are expected to influence demand. Product demand, measured in physical units, is the dependent variable. The list of independent variables, or those which influence demand, always includes the price of the product and simply includes such factors as the prices of complementary and competitive products, advertising expenditures, consumer income and population of the consuming group. Demand function for expensive durable goods such as the houses and automobiles, include interest rates and other credit terms, those for beverages, or air conditioners include weather conditions. Demand determinants for capital goods, such as industrial machinery, include corporate profitability output to capacity ratios and wage rate trends.\nRegression analysis is to obtain accurate estimates of the variables, measures of price, credit terms, output, capacity ratios advertising expenditures, incomes and etc. Obtaining estimates of these variables is not always easy especially if the study involves data for past years. Some key variables, such as consumer attitudes toward quality and their expectations about future business conditions \u2013 which are very important in demand functions for many consumer goods, may have to be obtained by survey techniques, which introduces on element of subjectivity into the data or by market or laboratory experiments, which may produce biased data.\n6. Barometric Method\nA barometric or indicator, forecasting is based on the observation that there are lagged relationships among many economic time series. Changes in some series appear to consistently follow changes in one or more other series. The theoretical basis for some of these lags is obvious. For example, building permits issued precede housing starts and orders for plant and equipment lead production in durable goods industries. The reason is that each of these indicators refers to plans or commitment for the activity that follows. Other barometers are not also directly related to the economic variables they forecast. An index of common stock prices, for example, is a good leading indicator of general business activity. Although the causal relationship here is not readily apparent, stock prices reflect an aggregation of profit expectation by business managers and others and hence composite expectation of the level of business activity.\nTheoretically, barometric forecasting requires the isolation of an economic time series that consistently leads the series being forecast. This relationship established; forecasting directional changes in the lagged series is simply a matter of keeping track of movement in the leading indicator. Several problems prevent such as easy solution to the forecasting problem.\nFew series always correctly indicate changes in another economic variable. Even the best leading indicators of general business conditions forecast with only to go present accuracy.\nSecond, even the indicators that have good records of forecasting directional changes generally fail to lead by a consistent period. If a series is to be an adequate barometer, it not only must indicate directional changes but also, additionally, must provide a constant lead-time. Few series meet the test of lead-time consistency.\nFinally, barometric forecasting refers in that, even when leading indicators proved to be satisfactory from the stand point of consistently indicating directional change with a stable lead time, they provide very little information about the magnitude of change in the forecast variable.\nMainly two techniques that have been used with some success to overcome at least partially the difficulties in barometric forecasting are composite indexes and diffusion indexes. Composites indexes are weighted averages of several leading indicators. The combining of individual series into a composite index results in a series with less random fluctuation or noise. The smoother composite series has a lower tendency to produce false signals of change in the predicted variable.\nDiffusion indexes are similar to composite indexes. Instead of combining a number of leading indicators into a single standardized index, the methodology consists of noting the percentage of the total number of leading indicators that are rising at given point in time.\nEven with the use of composite and diffusion indexes the barometric forecasting technique is a relatively poor tool for estimating the magnitude of change in an economic variable. Thus, although it represents a significant improvement over simple extrapolation techniques for short term forecasting.\n7. Input-output Analysis\nA forecasting method known as input-output analysis provides the most complete examination of all the complex interrelationships within an economic system. It shows how an increase or a decrease in the demand for one\u2019s industry output will affect other industries. An increase in the demand for trucks will lead to increased production of plastic, steel, tires, glass and other materials. The increase in the demand for these materials will have secondary effects. The increase in the demand for these materials will have secondary effects. The increase in the demand for glass will lead to a further increase in the demand for steel, as well as for trucks used in the manufacture of glass, steel and so on. Input-output analysis traces through all these inter-industry relationships to provide information about the total input on all industries of the original increase in the demand for trucks.\nIt is based on set of tables that describe the interrelationships among all the component parts of the economy. Input output analysis has a variety of uses, ranging from forecasting the sales of an individual firm to probing the implications of national economic programs and policies. The major contribution of input-output analysis it that it facilitates measurement of the effects on all industrial sectors of changes in activity in any one sector.\nRelated keywords Barometric Method, Delphi Technique, Input-Output Analysis, market studies, regression analysis, survey of buyer's intentions, time series analysis, trend projection\nProcess of demand forecasting by the time series analysis\nA firm, which has been in existence for some time will have accumulated/ collected considerable data on sales pertaining to different time periods. Such data when arranged chronologically yield \u2018time series\u2019. The time series relating to sales represent the past pattern of effective demand for a particular product. Such data can be presented either in a tabular form or graphically for further analysis. The most\nwell known method of analysis of time series is to project the trend of the time series. The trend line can be fitted through a series either visually or by means of statistical techniques such as least square method. The analyst chooses a plausible algebraic relation between sales and the independent variable, time.\nThe trend line is then projected into the future by extrapolation. The basic assumption of the trend method is that the past rate of change of the variable under study will continue in the future. This technique yields acceptable results so long as the time series shows a persistent tendency to move in the same direction. Whenever a turning point occurs, the trend projection breaks down. Nevertheless, a forecaster could normally expect to be right in most forecasts especially if the turning points are few and spaced at long intervals from each other.\nThe real challenge of forecasting is in the prediction of turning points rather than in the projection of trends. It is when turning points occur that management will have to alter and revise its sales and production strategies most drastically.\nThere are primarily four sets of factors, which are responsible for the characterization of time series by fluctuations and turning points in a time series, trend, seasonal variations, cyclical fluctuations, and irregular or random forces. The problem in forecasting is separate and measures each of these four factors.\nThe fundamental approach is to treat the original time series data (O or observed data) as composed of four parts: a secular trend (T), a seasonal factor (S), a cyclical element (C) and on irregular movement (I). It is generally assumed that these elements are bound together in a multiplicative relationship presented by the equation O = TSCI.\nThe usual practice is to first compute the trend from the original data. The trend values are then eliminated from observed data (TSCI/T). The next step is to calculate the seasonal index, which is used to remove the seasonal effect (SCI/S). A cycle is then fitted to the remainder, which also contains the irregular effect.\nThe foregoing approach t the decomposition of time series data is a useful analytical device for understanding the nature of business fluctuations. The trend and seasonal factor can be forecast, but the prediction of cycles is hazardous for the simple reason that there is no regularity in the cyclical behavior.\nThough, there are two assumptions underlying this approach:\nThe analysis of movements would be in the order of trend, seasonal variation and cyclical charges, and\nThe effects of each component are independent of each other.\nFor the use of economic indicators, the following steps have to be taken:\nSee if a relationship exists between the demand for a product and certain economic indicators.\nEstablish the relationship through the method of least squares and derive the regression equation. Assuming the relationship to be linear, the equation will be of the form y= a + bx. There can be curve-linear relationships as well.\nOnce regression equation is derived, the value of Y i.e. demands, can be estimated for any given value of X.\nPast relationships may not recur. Hence the need for value judgment as well. New factors may also have to be taken into consideration.\nMerits and Limitations of Time series Analysis\nThe trend method is based on least square principle of demand forecasting is quite popular due to simplicity.\nIt provides good result, which is particularly suitable for long run.\nIt is very much simple in the sense that it doesn\u2019t require the knowledge of economic theory and market structure.\nThis method is based on the assumption that future events will follow the same path, which may not be true for every time.\nIt is not suitable for short-term demand forecasting. This method cannot usually explain the turning points of the business cycle.\nRelated keywords Demand forecasting, managerial economics, time series analysis\nThe objective of demand forecasting is achieved only when forecast is made systematically and scientifically and when it is fairly reliable. The following steps are generally taken to make systematic demand forecasting:\nSpecifying the objective: The objective or the purpose of demand forecasting must be clearly specified. The objective may be specified in terms of (a) short-term or long-term demand, (b) the overall demand for a product or for a firm\u2019s own product, (c) the whole or only a segment of the market for its product, or (d) firm\u2019s market share. The objective of demand forecasting must be determined before the process of forecast is started. This has to be the first step.\nDetermining the time perspective: Depending on the firm\u2019s objective, demand may be forecast for a short period, that is, for the next 2 to 3 years, or for a long period. In demand forecasting for a short period, 2 to 3 years, many of the demand determinants can be taken to remain constant or not to change significantly. In the long-run, however, demand determinants may change significantly. Therefore, the time perspective of demand forecasting must be specified.\nMaking choice of method for demand forecasting: There are a number of methods available for demand forecasting which we shall introduce in another section of the analysis. However, all methods are not suitable for all kinds of demand forecasting because the purpose of forecasting, data requirement and availability of data for the use of a method, and time frame of forecasting differ from method to method. Therefore, the demand forecaster has to choose a fitting method keeping in view his purpose and requirements. The choice of a forecasting method is generally based on the purpose, experience and skill/ knowledge of the forecaster. It depends also to a great extent on the availability of required data. The choice of a suitable method saves not only time and cost but also ensures the reliability of forecast to a great extent.\nCollection of data and data adjustment: Once method of demand forecasting is decided on, the next step is to collect the required data, primary or secondary or both. The required data is often not available in the required type/form. In that case, data needs to be adjusted \u2013 even massaged, if necessary \u2013 with the purpose of building data series consistent with data requirement. Sometimes the required data has to be generated from the secondary sources.\nEstimation and interpretation of results: As mentioned earlier, the availability of data often determines the method, and also the potential/feasible equation to be used for demand forecasting. Once required data is collected and forecasting method is finalized, the final step in demand forecasting is to make the estimate of demand for the predetermined years or the period. Where estimates appear in the form of an equation, the result must be interpreted and presented in a usable form.\nRelated keywords Demand forecasting, steps for demand forecasting\nAn accurate demand forecasting is essential for a firm to enable it to product the required quantities at the right time and arrange well in advance for the various factors of production (raw materials, equipment, machine accessories, labour, building, etc.). It helps a firm to assess the probable demand for its products and plan its production accordingly. In\nfact, forecasting is an important aid in effective and efficient planning. It is also helpful in better planning and allocation of national resources.\nThe purpose of demand forecasting refers the estimation of volume of production; price of the commodity either short-run as well as long term forecasting.\nUnder the short-run purposes of forecasting, following heads included:\n1. Purpose of Short-Term Forecasting\nAppropriate production scheduling so as to avoid the problem of over-production and the problem of short supply. For this purpose, production schedules have to be geared expected sales.\nIt helps the firm in reducing price policy so as to avoid an increase when the market conditions are expected to be weak and a reduction when the market is going to be strong.\nDetermining appropriate price policy so as to avoid an increase when the market conditions are expected to be weak and a reduction when the market is going to be strong.\nSetting sales targets and establishing controls and incentives. If targets are set too high, they will be discouraging sales-man who fails to achieve them, if set too low, the targets will be achieved easily and hence incentives will prove meaningless.\nEvolving a suitable advertising and program.\nForecasting short-term financial requirements. Cash requirements depend on sales level and production operations. It takes time to arrange for funds on reasonable terms. Sales forecasts will, therefore, enable arrangement of sufficient funds on reasonable terms well in advance.\n2. Purposes of Long-Term Forecasting\nPlanning of a new unit or expansion of an existing unit, it requires an analysis of the long-term demand potential of the products in question. A multi-product firm must ascertain not only the total demand situation, but also the demand for different items separately. If the company has better knowledge that its rivals of the growth trends of the aggregate demand and of the distribution of the demand over various products, its competitive position would be much better.\nPlanning long-term financial requirements. As planning for raising funds requires considerable advance notice, long-term sales, forecasts are quite essential to assess long-term financial requirements.\nPlanning manpower requirements. Training and personnel development are long-term propositions, taking considerable time to complete. They can be started well in advance only on the basis of estimates of manpower requirements assessed according to long-term sales forecasts.\nMost of modern firms forecast their demand on the basis of past demand, present condition of demand. Business/ Demand forecasting is the prediction of future situation for a firm\u2019s product in the market.\nRelated keywords Demand forecasting, managerial economics, Purpose of Forecasting Demand in a Business Firm\nDemand forecasting is the systematic method of obtaining an estimate of the future value of a commodity, usually based on the analysis of observations of its past behavior. Demand forecasting means predicting demand for a product. The information regarding future demand is essential for planning and scheduling production, purchase of raw materials, acquiring of finance and advertising. Following are the criteria of good forecasting methods. To reduce the uncertainty in the planning for future production levels demand forecasting is essential.\nForecasting demand means prediction of future demand. Forecasting of future demand is one of most important function of managers of firms. Good forecasting of demand reduces uncertainty of environment in which business decisions are made. Good forecasting of future demand is also important for calculating rate of return on capital investment. Capital investment yields returns over a number of years in future.\nAccuracy: It is necessary to check the accuracy of past forecasts against present performance and of present forecasts against future performance. Some comparisons of the method with what actually happens and of the assumptions with what is borne out in practice are more desirable. The accuracy of the forecast is measured by (a) the degree of deviations between forecasts and actual, and (b) the extent of success in forecasting directional changes.\nSimplicity and ease of comprehension: Management must be able to understand and have confidence in the techniques used. Understanding is also needed for a proper interpretation of the results. Elaborate mathematical and econometric procedures may be judged less desirable if management does not really understand what the forecaster is doing and falls to understand the procedure.\nEconomy: Costs must be weighed against the importance of the forecast to the operations of the business. The criterion here is the economic consideration of balancing the benefits from increased accuracy against the extra cost of providing the improved forecasting.\nAvailability: The techniques employed should be able to produce meaningful results quickly; techniques, which take a long time to workout, may produce useful information too late for effective management decisions.\nMaintenance of timeliness: The forecast should be capable of being maintained on an up-to-date basis. It has three aspects: (a) The relationships underlying the procedure should be stable so that they will carry into the future for a significant amount of time. (b) Current data required to use these underlying relationships should be available on timely basis. (c) The forecasting procedure should permit changes to be made in the relationships as they occur.\nRelated keywords Demand forecasting, managerial economics\nVarious uses of income and cross elasticity of demand in business decision-making\nThe use of income elasticity of demand for a firm\u2019s is to determine the growth opportunities of the firm, useful in targeting marketing efforts, success at different stages of business cycles. Following are the theoretical and practical importance:\n1. Estimate the effects of changes in economic activity: During the periods of expansion, incomes are rising and firms selling luxury items that the demand for their products will increase at a faster rate than the rate of income growth.\nDuring a recession, demand may decrease rapidly. Knowledge of income elasticity can be useful in targeting marketing efforts. If per capita or household income is found to be an important determinant of the demand for a particular product, this can affect the location and nature of sales outlets. It can also have an impact on advertising and other promotional activities.\n2. Uses in capitalist economics: The concept of income elasticity of demand takes an important place among the analytical tools applied for business research. This concept is of income sensitivity of consumption expenditure. Income sensitivity has a co-efficient which measures the percentage increase in rupee expenditure associated with one percent change in disposable income in the same period. The income sensitivity estimates are of great use in business forecasting.\n3. Planned developing economies: In the developing countries like Nepal, as levels of living rise, demand for some commodities is expected to go up much faster than the demand for others. In the earlier stages, income elasticity of demand for food tends to be high. As income rises, there is a shortage of food, which not satisfied, leads to inflation. If the planners know income elasticity of demand for goods and services of general use, steps can be taken to balance demand and supply by using appropriate method.\n4. Marketing activity and making market strategy: The concept of income elasticity of demand has important role in marketing activities of the firm. People demand goods and services on the basis of their income level. The level of income of the people affects the location and nature of sales. The high-income elasticity of demand indicates the significant promotional efforts in the business.\nIt is also useful in making marketing strategy. The business firm should concentrate its marketing efforts in media that reaches to the high-income group of the people.\nImportance of Cross Elasticity of Demand\nThe concept of cross-elasticity is useful for the following main purposes:\nUseful in inter-commodity relations: It is important for the firm to be aware of how the demand for its products likely to respond to changes in the prices of other goods; this information is necessary for formulating the firm\u2019s own pricing policy and for analyzing the risk associated with various products. This is particularly important for the firms with extensive product lines, where significant substitution or complementary interrelationships exists between the various products. The concept of cross elasticity of demand is very useful in handling the inter-commodity relations.\nClassification of markets and market structure: The classification of markets of commodities and services is mainly based on the concept of cross elasticity of demand of one seller in relation to the other. It is used in industrial organization to measure the interrelationships among industries. The cross price elasticity between the firm\u2019s product and products in related industries is large and positive, the firm, even though it may be a monopolist in a narrow sense, will not be able to raise its prices without losing sales to other firms in related industries.\nImportance for anti-monopoly legislation: The concept of cross elasticity of demand has been of practical use in sponsoring anti-monopoly legislation. When a particular seller tries to estimate or buy up substitutes of his own product through unfair means, there is a case of monopoly practice against him. But, it is only of drawing a clear-cut line between fair competition and monopoly, however, it is basic concept of doing so.\nRelated keywords business decision making, cross elasticity of demand, managerial economics\nRelationship of Price Elasticity of Demand with Total Revenue and Marginal Revenue\nPrice elasticity of demand is important, in decision-making. It gives the measure of effect of price change in revenues. A given change in price leads to an increase or decrease or no change in total revenue. If the price elasticity accurately estimates, we can estimate accurately the new total revenue after price change.\nWhen demand for a company\u2019s product is elastic, a price cut leads to an increase in total revenue. Its total revenue increase marginal revenue is positive. Because the proportionate rise in the quantity demand more than offsets, the proportionate fall in price. Similarly, when demand is price inelastic, a price cut leads a fall in total revenue. This means that marginal revenue is negative. The reason now is that the percentage increase in the quantity, demanded is not enough to neutralize the percentage fall in price. Finally, if demand for a company\u2019s product is unitary elastic, total revenue remains constant whether price rises or falls. In this situation MR is zero. The reason is easy to find out the percentage change in the quantity demanded and the price are equal but opposite, so that they cancel each other out. These relations can be expanded with the help of diagram.\nThe relations among TR, MR and price elasticity of demand are reviewed in the figure. The top half of the diagram shows a liner demand or AR curve and a corresponding straight line MR curve for a pure monopolist. The bottom of half of the diagram shows the monopolist\u2019s TR curve. The figure shows that the demand is elastic over the range of output O to B. so, TR increases and MR is positive. At the output level of B, the demand is unitary elastic, TR is maximum (output) and MR is zero. Finally, over the range of output from B to T the demand is inelastic. TR falls as price falls and sales volume increases. Hence MR is negative.\nRelated keywords Marginal Revenue, Price Elasticity of Demand, Relationship of Price Elasticity of Demand with Total Revenue and Marginal Revenue, Total Revenue\nReasons behind aiming at reasonable profit rather than maximum profit by most of firms\nIn economic theories, it is assumed that maximizing profits is the basic objective of every firm. The volume of profit is regarded as the primary measure of the success of a business. But in recent days, it has been realized that many firms, particularly big ones do not operate on the principle of profit maximization in terms of marginal costs and revenues. Instead, the firms set standards or targets of reasonable profits. This is\nbecause of so many reasons. The firms may limit profit or aim at only reasonable profits due to following reasons:\nDiscourage potential competitors: When a firm earns large profit under profit maximizing objective. It is likely to attract potential competitors to enter the field and capture the market share enjoyed by it. They adopt the practices such as infringement of patent rights, copying of product designs, encroachment upon the firm\u2019s sources of raw materials, etc. To discourage such tendency, a firm may adopt the policy of limiting profits rather than maximization. The danger of potential competition is more serious when the firm enjoys a weak monopoly situation. However, there is no guarantee that limiting profits may prevent potential competition.\nProject a favorable image to the public and government: The earning of high profits shows the enjoying of monopoly power. It may create an impression that the firm is exploiting the consumers. Hence, the public may appeal the government for nationalization of the firm or to exercise some sort of regulation of prices, profits and dividends. Therefore, the firms may aim at only reasonable profit. Restraining demand for wage hike. When there is high profit the laborers may demand higher wages. This is particularly true in the industries having strong trade unions. Hence, such industries may not like to maximize profits. Because, this may lead to wage price spiral.\nMaintaining consumer goods: The consumer goodwill is of great importance to the industries. The consumers show their resentment and think that they are being exploited when prices are set too high. The consumers expect a fair price in terms of cost of production. Similarly, if a firm exploits a short-term situation, it may seriously damage its image, reputation and long-run interests. Hence, the profit restraint is adopted to maintain consumer goodwill.\nKeeping internal control: Another reason for restraining profits is management\u2019s desire to maintain control of the firm. The management gives strong preference to liquidity, abhors debt and may not like expansion. Because maximizing profits may require entering new areas of production involving heavy investments, and, thus reducing liquidity and losing control.\nMaintaining congenial working conditions: Profit restraint is also adopted to maintain congenial working conditions within a firm. There is growing awareness about the social responsibilities of management. There is increasing concern with the direct effects of management\u2019s decision upon workers, consumers and the business cycle.\nAttainment of industry leadership: If a firm aims at achieving industry leadership, the firm may try for maximum sales or manufacturer of maximum product lines. Hence, profit maximization will not get the priority. The entrepreneur may merely seek to earn a satisfactory profit level so as to maintain certain share of market or a certain level of sales.\nAvoiding risk: Profit maximization may require setting up new ventures, which may have number of uncertainties. The project appeared profitable at the outset may turn out to be unprofitable.\nIt is now clear that all firms may not aim at profit maximization. But they try to achieve satisfactory level of profit to cover the risks of economic activity and to avoid loss. A business cannot survive if there is continuous loss. Profits are indispensable to remain alive. Profits are essentially means to an end, and the end of continuity and growth of the firm.\nRelated keywords managerial economics, profit\nCriteria of Setting the Standard of Reasonable Profit\nThe appropriate criteria should be prepared to set up the level of standard. According to Joel Dean, the criteria of setting the standard are as follows:\n1. Capital Return:\nThis criterion is related to how much return should be earned to attract outside capital. Likewise, this criterion is related to acquiring adequate income required for adequate capital formation. The machines can be replaced and building, machine and working capital can be added from capital formation.\nThe firms should set the rate sufficient to attract outside capital or equity capital. Due to this, if new equity capital has to be issued it does not adversely affect the interest of the existing shareholders. Similarly, people are ready to buy immediately as soon as the equity capital is issued. This is possible provided adequate dividend is provided in past. For this, profit standard should be designed on the basis of the cost of new capital in the capital market. Although this standard seems to be theoretically popular, many imaginary and guess-based decisions will have to be made to set up the capital-attracting rate of return, for example:\nFirst, the capital-attracting rate depends on the ratio of the capital structure of the company like bond, preferred stock, and common stock.\nSecond problems are whether to base the standard of earning on the cost of present capital or long run average cost.\nThird problem is to acquire the relevant indicator of the cost of capital of the company in the market. It is not a simple problem. Because, the cost of capital widely differ in different industries and private companies. Such differences arise due to the difference in growth prospect, cyclical stagnation, capital structure and ability of the management.\n2. Plowback Rate: This criterion is related to how much earning is necessary spend on the development of the firm completely from retained profits. According to this criterion, adequate amount of total profit should be retained for the required growth rate without resorting to capital market. But since large retained earnings may encourage the competitors for entry it should be determined carefully. Beside, the retained earnings is in complete control of the management and can waste in project inside the company. If that amount is distributed to the shareholders that may to the high-earning project due to the competition in the capital market. Since plowback rate depend on the need of the company, competition, politics of the shareholders and public relations, it is more individualistic.\n3. Normal Earning: This criterion is related to how much the companies or comparable firms have, normally earned. According to this criterion, profit should be equal to the earning made by the companies or industry in normal period. It is appropriate for the firm to compare with its past earning. For this, the past earning level of the company should be have been adequate to attract capital, shareholders should have been invited. Beside this, the profit of other industries with comparable output and risks may also be good standard. For this, care should be taken in the selection of comparable companies. Likewise, broad average of all industry or broad sample of the companies may also be used. Beside the problem of selecting comparable companies there is also the problem of determining normal period. Profit should not have occurred due to the reason such as war. Since there is fluctuation in the income of the companies the selection of the period is very important in setting standard.\n4. Popular conceptions of reasonable profit:\nThis standard is related to what the normal persons regard as reasonable profit. The standard of reasonable profit may be based on the survey made to know the opinion of general public relating to fair profit. Such survey provides good profit standard. It has been found in the survey that some regard 10 percent on sale and some 25 percent profit margin as reasonable.\nRelated keywords Criteria of Setting the Standard of Reasonable Profit, managerial economics, profit\nProfits play an important role in a free market economy or in a mixed economic system also. First, profits serve as a single to change the rate of output or for the firms to enter or leave the industry. Second, profits play a critical role in providing incentive to introduce innovations and increase productive efficiency and take risks.\nThus, high economic profits beings being earned in an industry serve as a signal for the consumers who want more of the commodity being produced by that industry. These profits indicate to the firm to expand output of the commodity and for the new firms to enter the industry to gain a share of economic profits that exist in the industry. As a result, more resources will be allocated to the output of that industry. On the other hand, below normal profits in an industry serve as a signal that either less output of the industry is demanded by the consumers or inefficient production methods are being used by the firms. In response to the lower demand for the product the firms will reduce their output and also some firms will leave the industry. As a result, some productive resources will be released from that industry and made available for the production of other goods. If the lower profits are due to the inefficient production and organization, this will induce firm to improve efficiency by changing the production methods or make organizational changes to reduce costs.\nIn a free market economy, in the first standpoint profit motive drives a free-market economy. Although it has been observed that sometimes managers and entrepreneurs in a free market system are influenced by greed and desire for wealth, and break laws to make money or profits by exploiting the consumers or workers, profits, in general, perform useful function of sending signals for changing levels of output of various products and for reallocation of resources among them.\nSecondly, above normal rate of profits in a free enterprise system is an essential reward for introducing innovations and taking risks. No entrepreneur will introduce new products or more efficient production methods or undertake investment in risky projects unless there is chance of making profits. Some firms continue to earn above-normal rate of profit year after year as they continually introducing new products, new production methods and providing good customer services.\nAnd finally, in market economy changes in demand for the product often occur due to cyclical and structural changes. Besides, new strategies of rival firms also affect the demand for the product of a firm. All these uncertain and unanticipated changes involve a good deal of risk. An important function of economic profits is to reward entrepreneurs for taking these risks involved in making investment and organizing factors for the production of products.\nHowever, in some cases firms are also able to make super normal profits by virtue of their having monopoly power may be due to some legal patent and license obtained from the government, the economies of large scale production, exclusive control over essential raw materials which prevent the other firms from producing the same product or service. These enable the\nmonopoly firms to charges higher prices and thereby make large economic profits. Therefore, even in free market economies steps are taken to prevent the emergence of monopolies through anti-trust laws.\nRelated keywords Functions of Profits, managerial economics, Profits, Role of Profits\nDifference between Accounting Profit and Economic Profit\nThe term \u2018profit\u2019 is originated by the Latin work and its meaning is \u2018to make progresses\u2019. The word \u2018profit\u2019 has different meaning to different people like businessmen, accountants, tax collectors, workers and economists. The term is often used in a loose polemical (emotional) sense that hides its real significance. In a general sense, profit is regarded as income accruing to the\nequity holders, in the same sense as wages accrue to the labour; rent accrues to the owners of rentable assets; and interest accrues to the money lenders. To a layman, profit means all income that flow to the investors. To an accountant, profit means the excess of revenue over all paid-out costs including both manufacturing and overhead expenses. It is more or less the same as net profit. For all practical purposes, profit or business income means profit in accounting sense plus non-allowable expenses. Economist\u2019s concept of profit is of \u2018Pure Profit\u2019 called \u2018economic profit\u2019 or \u2018just profit\u2019. Pure profit is a return over and above the opportunity cost, i.e. the income which a businessman might expect from the second best alternative use of his resources. These two concepts of profit are discussed below in detail.\nBusiness Versus Economic Profit\nIt is necessary to know the nature of profits because profit influences business activities. How do profits arise, what determines the volume of profits or stream expected future profits are important issues that need explanation. Profits or expected profit stream from a productive activity or an investment project play a crucial role in decision making by managers. But, as mentioned earlier, the term profits, as used in economics, differs from that generally used by business community. Therefore, it is necessary to explain first the difference between business profits and economic profits.\nA business profit is an accounting concept of profit and represents the residual sales revenue to the owners of the firm after making payments to all other factors or resources the firm uses. These payments to hired factors include the wages to hired labour, interest on borrowed capital, rent on land and factory buildings and expenditure on raw materials used by the firm. The expenditures on these factors or resources hired on purchased by the firms are call explicit costs. Business profit refers to the sales revenue of the firm minus its explicit costs. In accounting sense, profit is defined as the residual of sales revenue minus the explicit accounting costs (or out-of-pocket expenditures of doing business). It is the amount available to provide rewards to the shareholders who have supplied the firm\u2019s equity capital after payment for all other resources the firm uses. The explicit costs are the costs like wages, rent fuel, raw materials, interest on loans and depreciation. Thus,\nBusiness Profits = Total sales revenue \u2013 Explicit costs\nIt is the concept of business profits that is generally used by the business community and accountants.\nEconomists also define profit as the excess of revenue over the cost of doing business. However, economists include the implicit costs of the inputs provided by the owners including entrepreneurial effort and capital in calculating profit. Economic profit is the difference between total revenues and total economic cost (including the economic or opportunity cost of owner-supplied resources such as capital and time). Economic cost or opportunity cost is the highest valued alternative opportunity that must be sacrificed or foregone as a result of choosing an alternative. The owner-entrepreneur uses his own capital for which he/she should be paid. The normal rate of return on capital is to be given to the owner as the minimum return necessary to attract and continue investment. Similarly, the opportunity cost of owner effort is determined by the value that could be received in an alternative activity. Hence, economic profit is business profit minus the implicit costs of capital and any other owner-provided inputs used by the firm.\nIn their calculation of economic profit, economists deduce not only explicit costs but also implicit costs from the sales revenue of the firm. The implicit costs refer to the opportunity costs of the resources provided by the firm\u2019s owners themselves including capital and entrepreneurial ability. These self-owned factors must be paid if they are to be employed by the firm in its own production process otherwise they will be employed elsewhere on hired basis. Thus, economists take into account the normal rate of return on capital used by the owner of the firm in its own business and the transfer earnings of the owner-entrepreneur as costs of doing business.\nThe economic profit represents the sales revenue of the firm in excess of both explicit and implicit costs. Therefore,\nEconomic Profits = Sales revenue \u2013 Explicit costs \u2013 implicit costs\nWhile explaining maximization of short-run profits or present value of the steam of expected future profits, economists assume that it is economic profits that owner-entrepreneur or managers of corporations seek to maximize. The concept of economic profits brings into sharp center the questions: why the profit which is over and above the normal rate of return on equity capital and reward for entrepreneurial ability in case of owner-entrepreneur exists and what is its role in a free enterprise system. In long-run equilibrium economic profits will be zero if all firms work in perfectly competitive market. Then, how do economic profits, positive or negative, come into existence. The various theories of profit provide explanation for the existence of economic profits.\nRelated keywords accounting profit, Difference between Accounting Profit and Economic Profit, economic profit, profit", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00080.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 461, + "original_length": 82705, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.94, + "perplexity": 288.5, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "http://animediet.net/conventions/shinkai-press-conference", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T03:58:15Z", + "digest": "sha1:IZS47NNTCGWHN2DP4VAODSSW5ULTQFFH", + "length": 15983, + "nlines": 56, + "source_domain": "animediet.net", + "title": "Otakon 2011: Makoto Shinkai Press Conference | Anime Diet", + "raw_content": "Otakon 2011: Makoto Shinkai Press Conference\nAfter a previous two days filled with just following Makoto Shinkai (\u65b0\u6d77\u8aa0) around, there was finally a 9AM Press conference at the Sheraton. Typically press conference happens when there is just too much interview requests for a particular guest. I know thePaper got 1:1 interviews with other Otakon guests, but here is my main press goal for Otakon this year. This post might be similar to the fan q&a, but since this was a press conference that I waited the entire weekend for.\nHere\u2019s what I heard. I took the liberty of not transcribing to the exact audio of what I heard, but hopefully you, the reader would understand what I saw when I heard Makoto Shinkai\u2019s press conference. As with the other q&a, questions asked are already going to be some spoilers for Shinkai\u2019s latest film. Video was not allowed, but audio and film was.\nThere is a difference in translation/interpretation of the Japanese and English title between \u661f\u3092\u8ffd\u3046\u5b50\u3069\u3082 and Children who Chase Lost Voices from Deep Below can you explain the difference in this interpretation?\nThe Children who Chase Lost Voices from Deep Below is the subtitle to the Japanese title, we used it as a temporary title to for releasing to the western market. So in the future the title might be changed to reflect the Japanese title. I apologize for any confusion that you might have felt.\nFrom the Fan Q&A, it was asked what your literary background was, so for this press conference can you reiterate those influences are.\nIn Anime, I got much inspiration from Studio Ghibli and Miyazaki works, and if you ask for one title in particular, it would be Laputa: Castle in the Sky. From novels, it would be Haruki Murakami.\nYou have a small staff available now, would have wanted your current staff when you were working on Voices of a Distant Star?\nAs you said I have staff people, but in comparison when I was doing Voices of a Distant Star, it was a self made independent film and including the fact that I voiced in it showed that it was a handmade by me. At the time I felt a great sense of satisfaction, on completing a project. On the other hand I currently have staff members that are like family to me. So when I am working alone now, sooner or later I won\u2019t be. So I would be feeling like I am going back to a family studio. If you ask me whether I ever think about the time when I was working on Voices of a Distant Star and wanting this current staff, that is a \u201cwhat if\u201d question, and those scenarios never came to my mind. So I never really thought about it.\nIs there a personal or professional goal for making \u661f\u3092\u8ffd\u3046\u5b50\u3069\u3082?\nI don\u2019t know if this is an answer. \u661f\u3092\u8ffd\u3046\u5b50\u3069\u3082 was finished in March and then released in Japan\u2019s theaters in May, so it has been only three months since its completion. Currently I am still not sure what I should do from here on. Currently I am taking this opportunity to take a look at the reactions including audiences from Japan and abroad. So I would like to take this opportunity to think and decide on what to do after this, both professionally and personally.\nYour movies in the past have had simple and complex feelings with themes of distant and time, what are the overall themes of \u3092\u8ffd\u3046\u5b50\u3069\u3082?\nIt is quite difficult to put a theme in one word. If I can do that then I won\u2019t be making a two hour animation. However, if you want me to put in a phrase then it is how to overcome a sense of deep loss.\nIn this film we see a new demonstration of your animation sequence in action. Can you say what other films and other work that have inspired your action style?\nAs I said earlier, I studied lots of Miyazaki\u2019s works. But since we were using sword for the action scenes, I studied a lot of Rurounin Kenshin (Samurai X) and also a lot of Japanese sword fighting television shows, and among those in particular is Mugen no Junin (Blade of the Immortal) that has also been made into an anime a couple of years ago.\nWhat do you think of computer animation as oppose to hand drawn animation?\nAlthough it has commonly said that I have started work in computer animation, upon designing the characters, I drew them out with pencil/pen and scan it in. By means of tradition the method I happen to use is how 2D animation is made. On the other hand 3D is a quite different method from 2D and it is a trend that it is more movies right now. If that is going to be the continuing trend, then it is unavoidable that 2D would disappear, but personally I do love 2D animation style. It is something I am more familiar with, growing up and watching it. I myself would definitely love to continue drawing it.\nI understand you studied Japanese literature in college, and there is an introspective, literary quality to a lot of your work, particularly in the way you use voiceover and monologue. Do any particular live action filmmakers, directors, cinematographers, etc., that you admire? Is live action a medium you wish to work with in the future?\nSpeaking of live action, I do go and enjoy it, but I go as a fan/viewer. If you ask if I am ever inspired by any particular action director, then that would be Shunji Iwai. His way of using light and shadow is quite inspiring.\nThe trend of your professional is unique in starting from video game to animation. Now many directors do move from animation to video games. What do you think the anime industry can do in attracting new talent?\nFrom what I can see, the video game industry in Japan is more stable and they treat their workers better than the animation industry is. However the people who currently work with me, love working in animation, so of course I treat them well in working for what they love, that is a personal opinion. If you ask on how the industry is on this trend, then of directors moving, then it is something I never thought about. Since I am not an industry representative, but personally what I think is that if we can continue to make great animation films that people or society can think is great, then we can increase the amount of people who is more interested in working in this industry.\nThe time frame of \u3092\u8ffd\u3046\u5b50\u3069\u3082 is a little unclear. Was there a particular reasoning or a non-descript one you were aiming for the movie to have?\nThere is an intention for the time frame for this work. I placed the time frame in a way that it would be the minimum requirement for the audience to know. I would like the audience to feel satisfied when they first watch the film, but at the same time I want them to have certain questions about the time frame, and want them to watch the film two or three time more to have more questions, so the time frame is in a way made more complicated to be understood.\nYour movies have slightly ambiguous endings, is this intentional and what do you want your viewers to come away with?\nYes, my works in the past have the lingering question of whether it is a happy ending or not. This is intentional because I want the audience to decide for themselves whether this is a happy ending or not. in Japan, that is not a major style on how the endings are done. Upon making my own films I want to make a unique one to other existing ones, on the other hand \u3092\u8ffd\u3046\u5b50\u3069\u3082 this one, the ending is a bit more clearer compare to my past works.\nLooking at the reactions of the audience now for your movie, would you have changed it?\nI always have certain regrets or certain rethinking after a movie. So yes if I have a chance to remake the film, I would like to make it twice as more fun, even for my past work of 5 Centimeters per Seconds, perhaps I would make it five times more interesting. So as time goes by, I would have gain more experience, but the audience who have paid and watch the film already, so I try not to think about it as much, rather it was the best I can do at the time.\nCan you describe the transition from making a one man project to a large scale project with a larger staff?\nThe big difference is when making it alone, there is less stress. What I imagine and intend to draw, I draw. So there is no stress at all, on the other hand with working it alone, the outcome would be only my own and it would be my own limit. When working with a group, there is stress, and at times there is a background produce not to my liking, so there is communication stress. Sometimes though, my staff comes up were brilliant ideas, so it can become more fleshed out and beyond my own limits.\nIn what ways have you developed as a director and in the future what would you like to expand?\nEver since I debuted with Voices of a Distant Star, I am not sure if I should call it directing since I made it myself. I was called director, but at the time I didn\u2019t understand what the position means. After that I was working with other people, still I wasn\u2019t so sure what director means. I drew pictures myself, and directed others, it was a learning process. After two years working on this current project, I finally got the vision of this feeling like an anime director, so I finally feel this project is my directorial debut. Now I have learned how this feeling is, my next project I want it to be an anime project. So I am looking forward to what I can do for my next show.\n(Shinkai was asked on his feelings/perceptions on how)Animation and computer software have changed in the last twenty years for an aspiring artist.\nTrue today the circumstances are much better, there is more powerful computer and better software, however the truth is what you like to tell in your work is the basics. When you are self making it, the effort goes in the quality of how you would like the project to look. Though the circumstances are better, if the self making artist does not understand that you need to talk about what you really want to show then it has not really changed much from ten years ago.\nIs there any reason why you have used young people to explain your overall theme of loss? What does the introduction of an older character mean and can imply for a future work?\nMorisaki is the adult, but the main character is Asuna who is 11-12 years old, so I want to clarify that. The basic purpose of change is because I want to have a broader audience, in my past movies the audience was more of a 20-30 year old male. That is fine, but I want the challenge is for a broader audience to watch my movie like a teenager to watch and enjoy it. So this is why I include an adult in my current work.\nCan you talk about the relationship between Morisaki and Asuna, when there is a dialogue, and later conflicting feeling occur in relation to that line?\nAsuna has lost her father, so traveling with Morisaki, she has an familial emotion to Morisaki. Morisaki on the other hand is a very selfish, yet pure person who has lost his wife. Upon dying his wife told him to keep on living, but Morisaki being pure can\u2019t move on without her. Perhaps he knows that it is impossible to bring the dead back to life, but with traveling with Asuna and in the end he realizes that his purpose was bring back a life then sacrifice would have to be made. So in being selfish and pure, then he would have to follow his dream to keep on living. This is controversial, I can\u2019t say that he is a bad and selfish person, he is a complex person and I can\u2019t deny him this.\n(A Japanese question was made, and this is a summation of what the interpreter did)\nWith Shinkai\u2019s background in literature, and ambitious ending stems from Japanese literature, would Shinkai continue to create movies that have a typical Japanese ambiguous end for audience to ponder? Since this is a Japanese style, it was understood that 30-40 years ago it would have been impossible to think of this ending becoming known for the western world.\n(This is tie in with the previous question, so this is going to be what the interpreter sums up.)\nMorisaki is a complicated character on who believes that retrieving the death is more important. Shun said that the living is more important, and Asuna feels that living is a blessing. She does not deny either of the other two character\u2019s beliefs, and this is how I personally feel and think of often. It is with this thought I want to leave the audience to think.\nIf you ask me if there was any ambiguous Japanese literature ending, then yes If you asked if there was any literature that influence my coming to this type of ending, then there is none. Upon seeing reactions of audience abroad, I am getting the feeling that this style can be accepted worldwide, if the entertainment is more perfect, then the ending does not have to be so clear. Technically it is possible to make the ending more easily to understand to make the audience feel better, and if it is required then it is possible that in my future works I would make the ending less un-ambiguous. I can\u2019t, however change who I am and the literature I have grown up with, perhaps the way I think and the way I make an ending would not change that much, technically possible to change though.\nYour works center around communication, what makes this theme attractive to you? Are there any particular aspects of humans and society that you get your inspiration from?\nSimply put in Japan and most of the word today, the majority of people are interested in communication. Today in Japan, people don\u2019t watch as much television or play as much games. The communication is becoming more of an entertainment in itself. In the society that I live in where the communication is so important, taking the place of entertainment it has became my center point of my works.\nWould you want to use this current setting of Agaratha in later works?\nI feel rather honored if other creators would want to use my setting of Agaratha. \u3092\u8ffd\u3046\u5b50\u3069\u3082 currently has two manga that is in magazines, created by two separate individual artists. I didn\u2019t make any particular requests for those two artists. So I have no problems with more creators to use my world.\nYour films have highlight commitment as a virtue and obsession as related to commitment. Commitment is positive and obsession as negative. A distinction between those two a lesson you want to teach your audience?\nI think it depends on the time my work was made. Perhaps your question indicates 5 Centimeters per Second. In my current work, I have made Morisaki as being unwavering in his obsession. The character who continues to have that commitment and obsession can create enough input for himself to keep on living. It is possible to make an obsession a source of living will.\nDo you feel that a younger international audience would make your work appeal on a broader level?\nTo be honest if I made my current work to appeal to a broader international audience, I never thought about that. Toward making \u3092\u8ffd\u3046\u5b50\u3069\u3082 I wanted to make a different world than my previous works. In enjoying my older works, audiences have to know a certain amount of details, with existing Japanese culture and background. I want to make it different than 5 Centimeters per Second, so people, who don\u2019t know about Japan, can also enjoy. This is my main reason for making something different this time. It is true that I want a younger audience for this movie, and if those accept it abroad is that audience then I am already quite happy to know that. Yet when I was making this movie, I never intentionally made it for the world market to enjoy. I just want to make a work different than my previous ones.\nNow Makoto Shinkai is announced to be a guest for NYAF 2011, so as I said this is a great opportunity to check out his latest work, if there is time then I would definitely love to see his latest movie again.\nMakoto Shinkaiotakon 2011\nPrevious PostKanon Wakeshima Interview \u2013 AM2 Press JunketNext PostOtaku In The Mirror Part 5: Uwamezukai\n2 thoughts on \u201cOtakon 2011: Makoto Shinkai Press Conference\u201d\nDude, there\u2019s a real OTAKU if I ever saw one! XD\nHe is one one of the many professionals! Hmm I always thought that Yutaka Yamamoto was also an Otaku, and he was at Otakon several years ago. Thanks for the comments and the RT\u2019s!", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00080.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 166, + "original_length": 18129, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.98, + "perplexity": 338.6, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "http://antennamag.com/pharrell-nerd-n-e-r-d-new-music/", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T04:26:08Z", + "digest": "sha1:VSIIQWCSQJAIFKNSZT56JKKYTMVBSUCM", + "length": 1375, + "nlines": 6, + "source_domain": "antennamag.com", + "title": "Pharrell Hints at New N*E*R*D Music", + "raw_content": "Pharrell Hints at New N*E*R*D Music\nIn the past year, Pharrell successfully reinvigorated his career as a producer and became a superstar solo performer in his own right. 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Exercises are drawn from an archive of artists\u2019 ways of working: from the Surrealist\u2019s and Dadaist\u2019s automatic drawing games to Pop art\u2019s collage experiments, each class is about making and making without thinking too much if it is right or wrong, good or bad. In school many of us were restricted in these ways \u2013 that we had to \u2018get it right\u2019 and so we were afraid of making mistakes. Here mistakes, many mistakes and retakes are welcome! \u201cEver tried. Ever Failed. No Matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better.\u201d Samuel Beckett on failure.\nDURATION: 4 Weeks or longer. Each session is 2 hours.\nMAKE-BELIEVE MANIFESTO WORKSHOP\nMAKE YOUR OWN MAKE-BELIVE MANIFESTO! A Manifesto is a public declaration of intent and is usually associated with political parties, but anyone can essentially create their own manifesto. During the 1960\u2019s there were many artists that wrote Manifesto\u2019s, The Futurist Manifesto being the most well known. The workshop is about playfully developing your own Manifesto, your statement of beliefs and values, individually or in a team. You will also be challenged to make outfits, flags, possibly even a fort and figure out how to collectively perform this manifesto to the rest of the group. The workshop is a really fun way to begin the year as a team. Ready, steady\u2026 manifest!\nWHAT IS NEEDED: This workshop can take place anywhere. We will respond to and use what is in the room already.\nCONSTRUCTIVE PROCRASTINATION WORKSHOP\nAdventures in Creativity and Awareness\nThis course is inspired by one of my students who was the king of procrastination, but then used this as material for work. We all procrastinate. We all suffer from \u2018the imposter syndrome\u2019 and probably so many other things that hinder us from doing the work! What if we could use these common human failures as material for creative work and ideas? It\u2019s all about your perspective and how you look at things. Artists are pretty good at this because they really good at looking at things, ordinary, boring every day things in new ways. We can also apply this to anything \u2013 its not about if you can draw or not \u2013 its about how you look at things.\nAn inspiring talk on how many creative people have worked with failure as material to create work. List making and swopping failures. Turning the worst ideas into the best ones through games and working collaboratively.\nWhat is needed: projector for talk, drawing and writing materials.\nWALKING TOURIST WORKSHOP\nYou are a tourist. You are not from here. You are an adventurer, a detective, and an investigator. This course is about going outside. An adventurous series of workshops where we will go to a different place in Johannesburg for each of the four weeks and walk. In each place we will respond to that place with different activities such as drawing, map making, collecting items and make frottages/rubbings. In 2012 I participated in a walkshop in Marseilles, France. The idea was to see walking as a creative practice itself. How we walk, where we walk, how we engage with spaces and places and did you know that there are many different ways of walking? On our walks we will engage all the senses \u2013 looking, listening, smelling, touching and tasting. We will also be drawing and writing, leaving things behind and maybe taking things with. This course is about walking the city with new eyes and responding site-specifically to places that resonate with you in whatever way you choose.\nWHAT IS NEEDED: Team needs to be able to meet in four different locations. Materials (notebook and pencil/pen) will be provided.\nDuration: Four X 2-hour sessions over the course of 4 weeks\nYaaas Kweeen!\nMensies Welcome to the Sister-hood Ritual\nWHAT IS IT: A ritual developed with the mother and/or guardians of the young lady who is about to become a woman. YAY! A lot of us don\u2019t have any rituals anymore. How do we celebrate important rites of passage? This ritual is about a collaboration in celebrating the young woman\u2019s entry into woman-hood. Lead by myself and my mother, we work closely with the young ladies mother/father/guardian in designing a special ritual for the young lady that involves all of the woman in her life. We also bring into the circle amazing woman who have come before us, honouring them and seeing them as inspiring mentors. As is my style, the ritual is collaborative, playful and celebratory!\nPerformances for Events\nFuelled by the belief that everyone can draw, the performance is a game that is played between the artist Anthea Moys and any willing player who will sit opposite her. The rules are that they both have to draw each other in one minute, but are not allowed to look down at the page, putting them both at a disadvantage. Afterwards they sign and date the drawings and exchange them.\nDuration usually 3 hours, negotiable.\nWhen Anthea was younger she decided she wanted a profession where she could shape shift and learn as much as possible. So she became an artist. In her profession as an artist she has been lucky enough to shape shift into the following identities: a painter, a singer, a karateka, a chess player, a ballroom dancer, a bag pipe player, an actress, a soccer player, an ice hockey player, a swiss alpine horn player, a indoor track cyclist, a swiss wrestler, a runner, an arm wrestler, a street cleaner, a rugby player, a porter, a cyclist, a conductor, a boxer, a teacher, a fellow player. Currently she is learning how to Dj.\nWhy is all of this important? Well, whilst Anthea\u2019s superpower may not be mastering one particular skill, rather, she has learnt to master the human art and act of active listening & learning itself. Engaging in all of these experiences with all of these different people and disciplines has given her a unique outlook on life and a unique way of working with people. In her consulting practice she brings this unique perspective to the table and assists clients through a process that engages the client or group in creative problem solving that leads to sustainable outcomes.\nWits School of the Arts 1st year students\nAnthea has taught at numerous institutions including Wits School of the Arts, Rhodes University, University of Johannesburg, Vega School of Brand Leadership, Oprah Winfrey Leadership Academy for Girls and De La Salle high school. In all of her teaching she encourages a collaborative and adventurous approach with a focus on developing creative literacy through play. Over the years she has designed many courses that range from art and performance in public space to introductory courses in creative development to practical and performative drawings courses. 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Finally, we summarize strategies for enhancing adherence in clinical practice.", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00080.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 77, + "original_length": 2320, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.9, + "perplexity": 188.3, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "http://archive.eurweb.com/2015/05/maysas-new-back-2-love-album-marks-20th-anniversary-as-recording-artist-listen/", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T03:15:45Z", + "digest": "sha1:ZQPQL7JV6LYNZWEDIEGYJFARZDW3YJBF", + "length": 7354, + "nlines": 16, + "source_domain": "archive.eurweb.com", + "title": "Maysa's New 'Back 2 Love' Album Marks 20th Anniversary as Recording Artist (Listen) | EURweb", + "raw_content": "Maysa\u2019s New \u2018Back 2 Love\u2019 Album Marks 20th Anniversary as Recording Artist (Listen)\nSoul/Jazz Diva's new project features special Guests Stokley of Mint Condition and Phil Perry\nAudioEntertainmentMultimediaMusicNewsSlider0 Comments0 views\n*There are very few singers on the contemporary scene who have a unique, instantly identifiable vocal sound; there are even fewer who have the stylistic range to encompass both Jazz and R&B in their performances. Grammy-nominated Soul/Jazz diva Maysa, who celebrates her 20th year as a solo recording artist this year, marks that achievement with her new album\nBACK 2 LOVE, a tour-de-force that validates her status as the greatest Soul-Jazz singer of her generation-the latest in a distinguished line of singers that stretches back through Anita Baker, Chaka Khan, Will Downing, Angela Bofill, Marlena Shaw and more recently, Ledisi and Chrisette Michele.\nBACK 2 LOVE, which is set for a May 26th release, may be her widest-ranging album yet, incorporating contemporary R&B, jazzy Soul balladry, straight-up dance music, inspirational pop and more. With production from the likes of J.R. Hutson (Jill Scott, Earth, Wind & Fire), Lorenzo Johnson (Ledisi), Stokley Williams (Mint Condition, Kelly Price, Wale\u2019), and Chris \u201cBig Dog\u201d Davis (Kim Burrell, George Clinton), the album coheres around Maysa\u2019s peerless vocalizing highlighted by her amazingly rich, evocative vocal tone. That\u2019s the sound that led her mentor Stevie Wonder to proclaim \u201cMaysa is WONDERful!\u201d In the wake of her first Grammy nomination and Soul Train Music Award, it seems that the world-at-large is finally recognizing just how special an artist Maysa is.\n\u201cBACK 2 LOVE represents the fact that I\u2019m ready to get back to having a personal life with a very special man in my life. I have worked hard on my career so I could take care of us (my son and I). My son is almost 16 and I think he is old enough to have a mom who is going to be dating and possibly married. I am ready to meet Prince Charming. The music is exactly who I am. Being a Shanachie artist, I was always given the freedom to express who I am musically but this time I feel like spiritually we all went to a pure place to get this music. The music represents who I am as a woman and a human being who lives to love people. As a professional singer I should be able to sing anything and my records are just me trying to love everyone. And that\u2019s why I am proud to be able to go from Jazz to R&B to Pop, etc.\u201d\nBACK 2 LOVE kicks off with a classic dance-pulse on the title track. Though Maysa has recorded dance tracks before (mostly notably with Incognito), those often had a Brazilian or more overt Jazz spin but BACK 2 LOVE shows that Maysa has what it takes to be a dance diva if she wanted to.\nListen to \u201cKeep It Movin\u2019,\u201d Maysa\u2019s duet with Stokley\u201d:\nThe opener is followed by the distinctive R&B groove of \u201cKeep It Movin\u2018\u201d produced by Mint Condition\u2019s lead vocalist/producer/songwriter Stokley, who also contributes a guest vocal on the track. It is unlike anything Maysa has done previously and the chemistry between her and Stokley is magical. \u201cStokley is an amazing artist,\u201d Maysa says. \u201d I love his writing, his voice and performing style. I think our styles are like smoke and fire together, like a sweet barbecue sauce! I was so happy he joined me on this record.\u201d Stokley adds, \u201cWorking with Maysa was so familiar even though we\u2019ve never collaborated before. We have a lot of the same influences. Maysa has such a unique gift. Think if velvet, butter & brown had a sound\u2026 weave a few high textures in there, that\u2019s her! You feel her soul when she delivers a song. I\u2019m very honored to have worked with Maysa.\u201d\nThe song \u201cHeavenly Voices\u201d is a masterpiece of jazzy Soul, quintessential Maysa, a spiritually-oriented song. Likewise, such tracks as \u201cLast Chance For Love,\u201d \u201cGo Away Little Boy,\u201d and \u201cSmilin'\u201d all have the hallmarks of Maysa\u2019s classic style-rich vocal sound, deeply felt, evocative phrasing, lyrics relating to affairs of the heart, and a song structure that embodies the essence of R&B but adds a Jazz sensibility. \u201cGo Away Little Boy\u201d is inspired by Marlena Shaw\u2019s classic hit of the same name. \u201cBig Dog, my producer, came to me with the title and the music and I thought it would be fun to create our own vibes,\u201d Maysa relates. \u201cMarlena Shaw\u2019s version is perfection and one of the songs I listened to growing up. I would never try to cover it.\u201d On \u201cLast Chance For Love,\u201d a Seventies-style R&B ballad, Maysa is joined by the incomparable Phil Perry, likewise a singer who is revered by other musicians. \u201cFinally working with Phil was amazing,\u201d Maysa says. \u201cHe is the falsetto king and my buddy! He is a master vocalist and I learn a lot from him whenever I hear him sing. Years ago before we were Shanachie artists, we had six-hour marathon phone conversations about the industry and here we are! He\u2019s a fun and wonderful person.\u201d\nMaysa Leak was born and raised in Baltimore, MD and knew by the time she was six that she would be a musician. \u201cI was six years old when my mom took me to see Purlie,\u201d she recalls. \u201cWhen Melba Moore came on stage and sang her heart out, I knew at that moment I wanted to make people feel the way she made me feel.\u201d Maysa graduated from Morgan State University with a degree in classical performance, meeting Stevie Wonder while a student. Upon graduating she moved to North Hollywood to join Wonder\u2019s Wonderlove group, with whom she performed for a year, appearing on the Jungle Fever soundtrack and such television shows as Oprah and The Tonight Show. In the early Nineties, Maysa auditioned over the phone to become the new lead singer of the acclaimed British Jazz/Funk/R&B band Incognito, moving to London for four-and-a-half years. She has appeared on over nine Incognito recordings and continues to appear as featured vocalist with them from time to time. Maysa recorded her self-titled debut album for GRP in 1995, following it up with ALL MY LIFE in 1999, OUT OF THE BLUE in 2002 and SMOOTH SAILING in 2004. She then made an impact with her interpretations of classic soul music on two acclaimed albums for Shanachie Entertainment, SWEET CLASSIC SOUL (2005) and FEEL THE FIRE (2007), on which she showed her ability to put her own unique stamp on familiar songs from the 1970s era. METAMORPHOSIS (2008) showed off Maysa\u2019s prowess as a composer and A WOMAN IN LOVE (2010) found Maysa returning to her roots as a jazz singer. MOTIONS OF LOVE (2011) was highlighted by the ballad \u201cHave Sweet Dreams\u201d co-written by Stevie Wonder (who plays harmonica on the track) and inspired by First Lady Michelle Obama, as well as \u201cFlower Girl,\u201d a duet with Dwele. BLUE VELVET SOUL (2013) yields Maysa\u2019s first Grammy nomination, for her performance of the song \u201cQuiet Fire.\u201d A VERY MAYSA CHRISTMAS (2014) delighted fans as the songbird released her first ever holiday album. Now BACK 2 LOVE brings together all the facets of Maysa\u2019s artistry in one album. \u201cI hope people love this album,\u201d Maysa says. \u201cI want this to be the soundtrack to their summer of 2015 and I pray it helps somebody feel good and forget problems and worries and just feel love.\nMonifa Brown / Shanachie\nback 2 lovemaysashanachie\nPrevious ArticleB.B. King's Guardianship Mess Headed to Vegas Court\nNext ArticleNBA\u2019s Morris Twins Plead Not Guilty to Felony Assault", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00080.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 201, + "original_length": 11047, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.96, + "perplexity": 205.3, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "http://archive.spectator.co.uk/page/12th-march-1904/24", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T03:42:38Z", + "digest": "sha1:UDQSYT67W4LGAXOD7NBRO36MO54POWIX", + "length": 1106, + "nlines": 9, + "source_domain": "archive.spectator.co.uk", + "title": "Page 24 \u00bb 12 Mar 1904 \u00bb The Spectator Archive", + "raw_content": "John Bull's Adventures In The Fiscal Wonderland. By...\nand F. C. Gould. (Methuen and Co. 2s. 6d. net.)\u2014The greater part of this book has already delighted the readers of the West- minster Gazette in fragments, and we welcome their......\nas halm not been reserved for review in other forms.] Laura Bridgman. By Maude Howe and Florence Howe Hall. (Hodder and Stoughton. 7s. 6d.)\u2014This is a book of intense and......\nArt In The Nineteenth Century. By C. Wallstein....\nPress, is. net.)\u2014This pamphlet is the revised form of a lecture delivered at Cambridge, and in it the author surveys a very wide field, and gives us a general view of......\nMr. J. Cuthbert Hadden's Chopin In The \"master Musicians\"...\n(J. M. Dent and Co., 3s. 6d. net) is a painstaking com- pilation, showing a careful assimilation of the literature of the subject, from which the writer borrows freely, but with......\nKnowledge, Now Amalgamated With That Excellent...\nNews, and published monthly at sixpence, will, it is hoped, have a new and prosperous lease of life. The March number of the new series, which lies before us, ,contains......", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00080.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 54, + "original_length": 2176, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.9, + "perplexity": 193.7, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "http://arkansas.txkusa.org/?page_id=1075", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T03:41:24Z", + "digest": "sha1:OVADBPZB5X2QCFELCSI6WUA5YQW7OAHF", + "length": 3609, + "nlines": 6, + "source_domain": "arkansas.txkusa.org", + "title": "City of Texarkana Arkansas | History", + "raw_content": "You are here: City of Texarkana Arkansas / Government / Departments / District Court / History\nAct 138 of 1917 created a Municipal Court which was a continuance of the police court as it existed by law at that time. The police court was abolished and the jurisdiction exercised by it was then vested in the Municipal Court that had been established. This also established the position of Municipal Judge and Municipal Court Clerk. The Municipal Judge would be elected by the qualified electors of the City, and was to hold office for two years. The salary for the Judge was $1500 a year, and remained in effect for at least four years. The City council could at the end of those four years increase the salary not to exceed $2400 a year. The Judge would be elected every two years.\nAct 92 of 1935 established that the electors of Miller County, Arkansas should also be voting for the Municipal Judge since the Texarkana, Arkansas Municipal Court had both original and concurrent jurisdiction coextensive with Miller County. The Judge would be elected biennially at the general election for a period of two years. Act 89 of 1957 changed the election of the Judge to be every four years and hold said office for four years. This act also established the salary for the Judge to $5,600 a year with Miller County paying one-third of the salary from the county\u2019s general revenue fund and the City of Texarkana, AR, to pay two-thirds of the salary from the city\u2019s general revenue fund. The Arkansas State Legislature has continued through the years to establish the salary range for the Municipal Judge.\nThere have been twelve Municipal Judges elected to the bench. The Honorable Kirk D. Johnson is the last judge to sit the bench as a Municipal Judge. Amendment 80 to the Constitution of Arkansas of 1874 became effective in July, 2001. This Amendment changed the name of the Municipal Court to District Court. Judge Johnson then became the first District Court Judge for Texarkana, Miller County, Arkansas. He was elected to the position of Circuit Judge for the 8th Judicial District South in the year 2002. He had two years left on the term for District Judge; therefore, Governor Mike Huckabee appointed Judge Carol C. Dalby to complete these two years.\nThere have been many changes in the court system since its inception. When the Court was originally established the City Clerk was both City Clerk and Court Clerk. The City of Texarkana, AR, in the mid 70\u2019s split the position to two positions, and then in late 1976 established the position for a deputy court clerk to take office in 1977. The court offices and courtroom originally were in the Texarkana, AR City Hall. In September 1985, the court offices and courtroom became residents of the newly completed Bi-State Justice Building.\nThere has been a Civil Division in the Municipal Court since the court was established. The Small Claims Division was established in 1977 with the purpose of giving individuals an access to civil court without attorneys to represent either side of the issue, and with relaxed rules of procedure. No action may be brought to the small claims court by any collection agency, collection agent, or assignee of a claim or by any person, firm, partnership, association or corporation engaged, either primarily or secondarily, in the business of lending money at interest. In disputes of contracts and/or damage to personal property the small claims suit may be filed in the county where it occurred or where the defendant resides. 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How shall it process the campaigns of the past decade, which defined a generation of officers and noncommissioned officers; codify lessons; and prepare for the future?\nIn this article, we outline five cautionary reminders that cut through all echelons of the Army\u2019s experience in Iraq and Afghanistan. It is not our intent to recap best practices \u2014 this has been done exceedingly well over the past decade and has been instrumental to the Army\u2019s ability to adapt to the wars we have been fighting.\nNor is it an apology for counterinsurgency doctrine. Our goal is much broader. Simply put, how do we look forward to new realities while being mindful of the hard lessons from the past decade?\n1. Do not view the past 10 years as an aberration\nThere is a tendency among some in the Army \u2014 one that predated 9/11 \u2014 to view stability operations as somehow beneath or ancillary to the Army\u2019s core competencies. Operations in Somalia, Haiti, Bosnia and Kosovo were viewed as misadventures that distracted us from our ability to fight conventional wars and ultimately degraded our war-fighting skills. We are seeing shades of this argument emerge again today as the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan wind down, and some conclude that the Army\u2019s undeniable limitations in nation-building and the challenges of fighting protracted, asymmetric wars mean we will not engage in such missions again.\nThis view rests on two critical misinterpretations. The first is confusing degree of difficulty with degree of likelihood. We can acknowledge the limitations of military power in conducting stability operations but, at the same time, recognize that these will increasingly be the types of missions we are called upon to execute in the coming years, albeit perhaps not on the scale of Iraq and Afghanistan. Even those who argue that China or Iran present the most grave national security threats to the U.S. are hard-pressed to suggest that a large-scale, conventional land war is imminent or even likely. If history is any guide, we will continue to be called upon to intervene in small wars that test our ability to wage stability operations.\nSecond, the preference for reorienting the Army back to offensive and defensive operations constitutes what we call the \u201cfalse comfort zone\u201d narrative, and it wins new believers each day. Many of our conventional war-fighting skills have unquestionably deteriorated over the past 10 years, and we will need to devote real attention to rebuilding them. In fact, a generation of junior officers and NCOs knows nothing but how to conduct stability operations. But suggesting that the difficult nature of protracted stability operation missions proves that the Army should dedicate its primary focus to traditional, conventional combat roles will only position us to make the same mistakes again.\nTherefore, our first imperative is to recognize that the past 10 years, while exacting an incredible toll on the Army, is still probably a good gauge in analyzing the types of wars we will be called upon to fight in the near future. Related to this, we need to fight any tendency to return exclusively to preparing for offensive and defensive operations, even if for many it forms the Army\u2019s natural comfort zone. In everything, we need to strive to retain balance, and stability operations must remain within our jurisdiction.\n2. Do not let budget cuts define us\nNo one denies that the Budget Control Act of 2011 and the associated mandatory reductions in federal spending will bring a new reality for the Army. Current estimates suggest the Army will cut 80,000 troops and up to eight brigade combat teams by 2017.\nMany defense commentators, noting parallels to 20th century drawdowns, are sounding the alarm against precipitous cuts. Max Boot has recently cautioned: \u201cAt the end of the day, less money results in less capability. And less capability is something we cannot afford at a time when we face a rising China, a nuclear North Korea, an Iran on the verge of going nuclear, a Pakistan threatened as never before by jihadists and numerous terrorist groups, ranging from the Afghan and Pakistani Taliban to the Shabab in Somalia and al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula.\u201d Boot may be correct, but we find danger if the Army echoes this line of thinking or, worse, allows itself to be defined by budget cuts. In letting budget cuts dominate the narrative about the Army\u2019s role in the coming decades, by default we consciously stake out a narrow scope of responsibility or jurisdiction, and normally that is our comfort zone of conventional warfare.\nMore broadly speaking, in viewing Army capabilities exclusively through the lens of diminished resources, the Army is given a free pass when it comes to making hard choices about prioritizing training and resources. Our mission is still to fight and win our nation\u2019s wars, regardless of what those wars may look like or when they might emerge, and we cannot use the mask of a smaller budget to ignore certain components of unified land operations. While it is entirely appropriate for our most senior leaders to face the challenges of translating strategy to finite resources and communicating risk to civilian policymakers, the rest of the Army should quietly go about their jobs. Surely, diminished resources will have clear, practical consequences for Army units, but there comes a point when we all simply need to move forward. At best, a preoccupation with budget cuts is distracting; at worst, it causes us to develop strategies based on resources as opposed to applying resources to the strategies we have developed.\n3. Don\u2019t blame the civilians\nAs we begin the post-Iraq and Afghanistan era and downsize the Army, we run another risk: committing a serious civil-military relations foul. Fault lines have begun to emerge, if not intensify, over the past decade. One of this article\u2019s co-authors conducted a large-scale, random-sample survey of more than 4,000 active-duty Army officers (lieutenants through colonels) on a host of civil-military relations issues in 2009. Among the survey\u2019s findings: About 70 percent said members of the active-duty military should not publicly criticize senior members of the civilian branch of government. In the late 1990s, the same question was posed to midgrade to senior military officers as part of the Triangle Institute for Security Studies\u2019 \u201cSurveys on the Military in the Post-Cold War Era.\u201d The work compared the results of the two surveys and found officers serving today were less likely to give the normatively correct response to the question of whether active-duty military should publicly criticize senior civilians in the government. Eighty-five percent of majors, lieutenant colonels and colonels questioned in the TISS survey agreed that active-duty military personnel should not criticize senior civilian government officials, compared with 75 percent of majors, lieutenant colonels, and colonels surveyed in 2009. While the majority of officers still gave the normatively correct response, a decline of 10 percentage points over the past decade is significant and may reflect the toll from the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and an ensuing decline in Army officers\u2019 trust in government, regardless of which political party is in power. Whether this is the root of their cynicism does not matter. The fact that more than 30 percent of respondents (and nearly 40 percent of junior officers) feel it is appropriate for active-duty military to publicly criticize elected officials is nothing short of alarming.\nA tendency to blame civilian policymakers may be emerging on two fronts. First, as we continue to reflect on both wars, but specifically the war in Iraq, some in the Army tend to blame civilian leaders for getting the nation (and the Army) involved in a war of choice versus a war of necessity. Others blame civilian leaders for the high toll taken on the institution \u2014 measured in casualties, deployments or strain on the force. A second emerging thread of blame directed toward civilian leaders regards the decision to cut nearly $500 billion from the defense budget over the coming decade.\nIn allowing these attitudes to go unchecked, we run the risk of revisiting the poisoned civil-military atmosphere that materialized in part from the drawdown of the 1990s during the Clinton administration. In both cases \u2014 both the retrospective blame for the wars we have fought and the impending blame for slashing the budget \u2014 blaming the civilians is a convenient way for the Army to abdicate responsibility. Moreover, as Duke professor and leading civil-military relations scholar Peter Feaver has aptly noted, \u201ccivilians have the right to be wrong\u201d \u2014 a fact some in the Army seem to forget from time to time. Army leaders at all levels should be conscious of this growing cynicism and move swiftly to eliminate it.\nOne absolute truth the Army has learned over the past decade is the value of intellectually capable and mentally agile leaders. Certainly, the Army\u2019s recent experience examining and developing operational solutions for diverse and complex problems in areas such as economic development, governance and intricate networks further illustrates the requirement for enlightened leadership at every level. One challenge the Army faces is the retention of quality junior and midgrade officers. Former Defense Secretary Robert Gates captured the problem well in a speech last year at West Point: \u201cMen and women in the prime of their professional lives, who may have been responsible for the lives of scores or hundreds of troops, or millions of dollars in assistance, or engaging in reconciling warring tribes, they may find themselves in a cube all day reformatting PowerPoint slides, preparing quarterly training briefs or assigned an ever-expanding array of clerical duties. The consequences of this terrify me.\u201d\nJunior and midgrade officers\u2019 scope of responsibility will inevitably shrink during peacetime. Officers once responsible for an operational environment the size of Connecticut will now shift their attention to conducting marksmanship ranges, training meetings and in-ranks inspections. However, the opportunities to invest in the intellectual and professional abilities of these young officers should not diminish. Broadening opportunities such as graduate school and interagency fellowships stand the risk of being the first casualties in successive rounds of deep budget cuts. However, these are precisely the types of programs that must be preserved, not simply to challenge and retain quality officers, but to invest in our next generation of leaders. These opportunities provide our officers the ability to overcome cultural and bureaucratic differences, gain a deeper understanding for the capabilities of our joint and interagency partners, and develop the personal relationships required to conduct military operations in complex environments.\nThe past 10 years of war have witnessed great materiel innovation and adaptation \u2014 from mine-resistant, ambush-protected vehicles to advancements in intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance platforms and biometric technology. These new pieces of hardware have transformed how our ground forces conduct combat operations. However, our greatest achievement has arguably been the development of a new generation of proven, adaptable combat leaders. As we look forward to this transition period, we should be mindful of the adage \u201chumans over hardware\u201d and fight the temptation to invest solely in new technology, often at the expense of human capital.\n5. Add \u201cunderstanding\u201d to the Army values\nMost of our missteps in Iraq and Afghanistan can be linked back to a lack of understanding \u2014 a failure to empathize with the very people we are there to protect. From the mistreatment of detainees to the burning of Korans, the good our Army has done can be rapidly overshadowed by the callous acts of a few. To conduct successful stability operations, all soldiers must possess a degree of understanding about the local populace \u2014 their culture, their religion and their traditions, as well as some of their more basic human conditions, their instincts, their fears and their ambitions. Over the past 10 years, the Army has exhibited great acts of personal courage, integrity and selfless service. However, none of this may have been possible without soldiers embracing the concept of understanding \u2014 their attempt to humanize a sometimes brutal and demanding enterprise.\nUnderstanding should not be interpreted as sacrificing operational imperatives or the ability to make tough decisions. However, by embracing the value of understanding, we stop creating new enemies through ill-conceived and thoughtless operations, and we gain traction in villages and communities through meaningful interaction with the local populace. The Army Values have served us well since their inception and provided a valuable ethical framework for soldiers conducting dangerous missions. However, as we review everything our institution has done over the past decade, clearly the value of understanding merits inclusion in this treasured list that we hold true.\nAfter more than a decade of sustained combat, today\u2019s soldiers form the most experienced and capable combat force the Army has ever fielded. History is replete with examples of transitions managed poorly \u2014 precipitous cuts in readiness, training and capabilities. It is our responsibility to ensure that we conduct this transition deliberately, capturing and institutionalizing the lessons we have learned over the past 10 years. These five imperatives \u2014 not viewing the past 10 years as an aberration, refusing to let budget cuts define who we are, resisting the temptation to blame civilian policymakers, investing in human capital and adding \u201cunderstanding\u201d to the list of Army Values \u2014 can serve as guideposts during this critical period.", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00080.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 63, + "original_length": 15498, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.95, + "perplexity": 281.0, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "http://articles.aberdeennews.com/2008-04-18/news/26431984_1_water-lab-pesticides-ground-water", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T04:05:51Z", + "digest": "sha1:WYGIKVQQ5BMNI65EO7FHXQTDJ5LQS4YI", + "length": 5771, + "nlines": 7, + "source_domain": "articles.aberdeennews.com", + "title": "Finding a needle in haystack? No problem for Montana Analytical Lab - townnews-aberdeennews", + "raw_content": "YOU ARE HERE: Aberdeen News Home\u2192Collections\u2192Pesticides\nFinding a needle in haystack? No problem for Montana Analytical Lab\nApril 18, 2008|By Carol Flaherty, MSU News Service\nBOZEMAN - Heidi Hickes' job is to find the proverbial \"needle in the haystack,\" and she does so regularly. Actually, a needle would be easier to find. At least it is visible. Hickes and her team of 12 at the Montana Analytical Lab at Montana State University document the invisible within about 3,000 samples a year. Part of their job is to search for invisible threats in our water, in fertilizer put on our land or in the feed we give our pets and livestock. They regularly search for trace amounts of heavy metals, pesticides or prohibited substances, such as those that are suspected of causing Mad Cow Disease. The lab is part of both the Montana Agricultural Experiment Station and the Montana Department of Agriculture. The state Department of Agriculture uses the lab to develop data for its enforcement of feeds, fertilizer, pesticide and ground water protection laws. The experiment station's use supports analytical services to farmers, ranchers, researchers and other state agencies on a fee basis. Twenty years ago, staff at the lab worked with a precision that regularly found a drop of contaminant in an Olympic-sized swimming pool, doing data analysis on the level of one part in a billion. Today the sensitivity of their work and equipment is 1,000 times greater. The standard \"needle\" now makes up just one part in a trillion. Think of that as a fraction with the numeral one over a one and 12 zeros. The USDA uses the Montana lab for its official Pesticide Data Program, and is set to recommend that the lab on the MSU campus be the USDA's only facility in the country to analyze surface water for pesticides. If that proposal goes through, a lab in Minnesota would do similar work analyzing ground water. \"That lab is amazing,\" said Martha Lamont, administrative director of the USDA's Pesticide Data Program in Manassas, Va. \"We started the Montana lab with a very small portion (of the work) to see how things would go. Those people took so well. They don't need guidance, they lead the way.\" The federal pesticide data program is designed to produce statistically reliable human consumption data on pesticides in drinking water, a program that can be highly controversial. For instance, a person may be concerned that their property would lose value if a contaminant is found in area wells. However, in many cases, the effect of such trace amounts of pesticides is not known. \"With water, we have to be very careful,\" Lamont added. To provide reliability and consistency, the labs used for federal water testing regularly are sent standardized samples to test. \"We send proficiency samples prepared by a third party, and Montana is always so good that last year we asked if they could expand their testing,\" Lamont said. To have earned that level of trust from Lamont, quality control at the lab is stringent. The water lab is kept separate from the lab working with soils and the one working with feeds. Glassware is heated to nearly 600 degrees Fahrenheit for four hours to burn off residues. Every machine is tested and calibrated with standard samples before every test. Some of the tests look for molecules, and some look for the basic elements from which molecules are built. Both data entry and the results of every test are double checked before being sent out. Not only is there a paperwork trail and a quality control officer, but \"people give 110 percent here,\" Hickes said. \"They know what they do is important.\" The work is not just important for finding pesticides, but also to Montanans in other ways. Its dual identity as the Montana Department of Agriculture's lab and the Agricultural Experiment Station's lab dictates that it provides a wide range of services, and testing Montana's water for pesticides is just the start. \"Water analysis is about half of what we do,\" Hickes said. \"The other half is verification of the label information on feeds and fertilizers, and providing nutritional information to farmers and ranchers on their own hay and grain feeds.\" The lab has a huge Montana-based groundwater testing program, and also tests samples of feed you would give to your pets. So on a given day, the Montana Department of Agriculture field staff may send in samples, or a livestock producer might send in a hay sample. Either way, the analytical lab will verify whether it has the proportion of ingredients that were advertized, whether the sample is free of contaminants or whether the nitrate level is safe for livestock. Mary Lee Cope, the lab's administrative assistant, says the importance of the lab's services to agriculture are what attracted her to work there. \"I had been in ranching all of my life, and we sold the ranch,\" Cope said. \"I wanted to go back to work in something ag related. I enjoy working here because the work seems to make a difference to the producers.\" Hickes says the staff's dedication is \"critical for credibility.\" And, as the entire country looks more intently at the quality of its water and as courts order individuals and corporations to be responsible for keeping water clean, court is where some results from the Montana Analytical Lab are likely to end up. \"We have the ability now to look for such extremely low levels of contaminants that scientists don't even know the significance of some of the data for human health,\" Hickes said. \"But that's somebody else's job. 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The novel won the Commonwealth Writers Prize in 2006 and was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize in the same year.\nThrough the deeply personal story of a young couple, William and Sal Thornhill, The Secret River dramatises the colonisation of Australia and the escalating conflict between the original Indigenous inhabitants and the newly arrived white settlers. In this epic tragedy, Will Thornhill, a former convict, brutally treated and impoverished in England, is lead by desperation, fear and ambition towards a crime of terrible savagery.\nThe story of Will and Sal Thornhill is at once an enthralling adventure, a compelling character journey, and a compassionate insight into the Australian soul.\nThe project has been developed by producers, Stephen Luby, and Mark Ruse of Ruby Entertainment (Crackerjack, the Murray Whelan telemovies, Bed of Roses), Oscar nominee screenwriter, Jan Sardi (Shine, Mao\u2019s Last Dancer) and acclaimed director, Fred Schepisi (Chant of Jimmy Blacksmith, Six Degrees of Separation), and will now be adapted into a television mini-series by Sardi with Mac Gudgeon.\nThe Secret River is a profound and moving story that has captivated its readers. 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The average cost of confinement in the U.S., according to most estimates, is around $30,000 per year per inmate. And with an estimated 2.1 million people behind bars in the U.S., you can see just what a staggeringly high price tag this is.\nCorrectional facilities are essentially small cities. To operate them, along with food service for the inmates and staff, they must pay all the same utility bills that any city \u2013 and any resident in that city \u2013 would normally have to pay. And this includes water, which can also be a hefty expense for correctional facilities.\nNow, you might think that those incarcerated would use less water than someone outside, making water consumption less of an issue. After all, they don\u2019t necessarily have to shower and shave every morning before going off to work, five days per week. 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Eventually, water is running off the tiers in the facility, dripping down if not flooding areas below.\nIn most cases, the inmate that caused the problem as well as those impacted by the flooding, are released from their cells and go into a recreational area while cells, floors, and tiers are being cleaned. They get some time out of their cells \u2013 which inmates might view as a reward \u2013 and correctional administrators are left with the mess.\nTo address this situation and reduce water consumption and water waste, some correctional administrators are turning to new technologies, according to Klaus Reichardt, President, and Founder of Waterless Co., a manufacturer of no-water urinals and other restroom products. \u201cNew technologies are coming online that reduce the inmate's ability to abuse toilets, urinals, plumbing, and other water-using devices.\u201d\nFor instance, he is referring to systems now available that can monitor how often a toilet is being flushed. According to Reichardt, \u201ca microchip sensor is installed behind a wall, where the inmate can\u2019t see it or at least get to it. If [the sensor] detects frequent flushing (which could cause a flood as described earlier), it locks the system, stopping the flushing.\u201d\nThis locking of the toilet may last for a few minutes or require correctional administrators to unlock the toilet so it can flush again. Either way, these systems typically tell administrators where the problem is and who the \u201cbad actors\u201d are that are causing it. Also, they help save water and eliminate water as an emotional release.\nOther correctional locations are taking similar, but less high-tech routes, that are also helping them reduce water use, waste, and money. For instance, Florida\u2019s 900-bed Alachua County Jail, until recently, still had toilets that used 3.5 gallons of water per flush (GPF).\nWe should add here that these toilets were designed to use 3.5 GPF when installed. With age, use, and abuse, very often they are using more water than this.\nThese toilets were replaced with toilets that use only 1.6 GPF. Also, the correctional facility installed waterless urinals, which alone can save hundreds of thousands of gallons of water in a correctional location, replaced shower controls, and made water using fixtures throughout the complex more tamper-resistant.\nThe result: overall, Alachua County Jail has reduced water consumption by 62 percent. This means they went from consuming 36 million gallons of water per year to approximately 17 million gallons annually. That is a significant savings, not only in water consumption and water waste, but the costs for water as well.\nWe should add that visitor\u2019s centers in correctional facilities should not be overlooked when it comes to water use reductions. Installing 1.6 GPF toilets, waterless urinals, and low-flow fixtures can be installed in these areas as well.\nMore correctional facilities around the country will need to take steps to reduce water consumption in coming years, and along with it, water waste. Not only is water going to get more costly in years to come, we can expect water shortages to occur in more areas of the country in the future as well. 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NGC 7635, the Bubble Nebula, is being pushed out by the stellar wind of massive star BD+602522, visible in blue toward the right, inside the nebula. Next door, though, lives a giant molecular cloud, visible to the far right in red. At this place in space, an irresistible force meets an immovable object in an interesting way. The cloud is able to contain the expansion of the bubble gas, but gets blasted by the hot radiation from the bubble's central star. The radiation heats up dense regions of the molecular cloud causing it to glow. The Bubble Nebula, pictured here is about 10 light-years across and part of a much larger complex of stars and shells. The Bubble Nebula can be seen with a small telescope towards the constellation of the Queen of Aethiopia (Cassiopeia).\nRe: APOD: NGC 7635: The Bubble Nebula Expanding (2018 Feb 05)\nPost by Boomer12k \u00bb Mon Feb 05, 2018 7:17 am\nReally nice close up... and colorful.\nNot as impressive, I don't have the right filters, or maybe camera...this is through my 10\" Meade LX200 scope...without filters.\nPost by Ann \u00bb Mon Feb 05, 2018 4:04 pm\nGlad to see you post another picture here, Boomer!\nThe APOD is very striking.\nBoomer12k wrote: Not as impressive, I don't have the right filters, or maybe camera...this is through my 10\" Meade LX200 scope...without filters.\nYour filters and camera are minor factors compared with the biggie: photons collected. The APOD is a 1.4 hour exposure on a 2 m aperture telescope. For you to get a similar S/N with your 0.25 m telescope, you'll need about a 90 hour exposure.\nVisual_Astronomer\nPost by Visual_Astronomer \u00bb Mon Feb 05, 2018 6:01 pm\nI'll take issue with the \"can be seen with small telescopes\" claim.\nI've tried several times to see this with my 20\" (which is *not* small) and have only seen about as much as is shown in Boomer's photo.\nVisual_Astronomer wrote: I'll take issue with the \"can be seen with small telescopes\" claim.\nWell, visually, the size of the telescope only impacts extended object brightness at higher magnifications. The Bubble isn't hard to see in a small telescope at low magnification. Of course, it just looks like a faint small glow around a star. But technically, you can see it, and it's not difficult.\nPost by Boomer12k \u00bb Mon Feb 05, 2018 7:05 pm\nThanks, Chris.... I will give that a try.... 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Our alternative and academically inspiring homeschooling programs deliver educational excellence with distance learning. Students benefit from the resources of The Tutoring School while completing courses and or offsite. We have online homeschooling programs for high school students that challenge skills while providing support. Students benefit from real-time feedback, customized course loads, and advanced classes. Our alternatives to the high school education can connect the homeschooled high school student in New York with rigorous courses and tailored workloads.\nThe Tutoring School is an educational asset within The Beekman School. In addition to homeschooling programs, it offers our students community, personalized tutoring, summer studies, and college placement counseling. 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The other instance that will make you visit a dentist, is when you want to have a dental check-up for your teeth. Therefore, when you want to hire a dentist, you will have to choose a good dentist, which is reputable and experienced as well. In as much, as there are many dentists in the industry, not all of them, is a good choice that you will have. Therefore, choosing the appropriate dentist is a daunting task. This article will then be of great help as you will be equipped with the factors you need to consider when choosing a dentist. Learn more by clicking the link.\nWhen choosing a dentist, you will consider the location in which they are situated. You will need to choose a dentist that is located within the region in which you live in. You will then save ion the transportation cost when you choose a dentist that has its clinic close to your location. For instance, when you are going for a check-up, you need to visit the dentist regularly. Therefore, you will realize that you will have to spend more when you choose a dentist that is located far away. Some people would want to visit a dentist who is close to home so that they can visit them when they are free from work.\nThe budget you incur when you hire a dentist is the next thing you will have to consider. You will have to ensure that the cost you incur at the dentist can be covered with your insurance cover. Therefore, you will be saved on the bills, as the insurance will take care of the medical expenses. You will have to be responsible for the medical expenses that you will incur when you choose a dentist that cannot be covered by your insurance plan. Therefore, when you choose such a dentist, you will ensure that the medical bill is affordable. Therefore, you will consider the potential dentist that you have around so that you can hire one that is affordable.\nHowever, you will never rush to those dentists that are willing to serve you at a cheaper price. Also, the expensive ones are not the best choice as well. Some people believe that when you want to find a good dentist, you will have to incur more. This can be true to some extent, but some would only want to collect money from you, while the service delivery is poor. When you visit a dentist, you will then have to put into consideration some other facts like the good quality. For instance, when you want to order dental implants, you will ensure that they are of quality and no side effects. Visit this link https://www.batterseasmiles.co.uk/treatments/whitening for further details.\nRead more about: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dental\nTags: Best Dentist", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00080.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 26, + "original_length": 3131, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.98, + "perplexity": 180.3, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "http://beyondcosplay.com/blog/a-special-thors-day/", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T03:54:02Z", + "digest": "sha1:23RUL2KSR4PV2EWVFOFNJBVAHNX4QUBN", + "length": 4519, + "nlines": 14, + "source_domain": "beyondcosplay.com", + "title": "A special Thor\u2019s day | Beyond Cosplay", + "raw_content": "Home \u00bb Features \u00bb A special Thor\u2019s day\n2011 saw the Marvel Cinematic Universe have a thundering entrance into cinemas with the first introduction of Thor. With Chris Hemsworth leading a star studded cast, there was little that could match the films mighty power in the box office. The film opened a portal that allowed a look into an intricate storyline that was presented well with amazing visuals and complex characters that had the audiences captured from the first ten minutes. 6 years and two films later and Thor is still one of the dominating forces within the Marvel Cinematic Universe.\nBeing the second origin story released, Thor lived up to the hype of Iron Man and is one of the best origin stories to date within the universe. With the first film showing Thor\u2019s rise to powers and the following two showing how he has dealt with the burden of his powers, on top of the weight of leadership. Power does not come easily and for Thor, he learns this the hard way. In order to respect power, one must first lose it. This is one of the most relevant themes within all three films, with it being shown in many different ways among many different people.\nChris Hemsworth returns as the God of Thunder, Thor\nThis week saw the release of the third film \u2013 Thor: Ragnarok, and is fast becoming one of the arguably best Marvel films to date. Marvel has exceeded the expectations of both the fans and critics with this heart wrenching film that manages to explore both dark and light themes without overstepping itself. Almost every scene has an immense tension followed by a quick comedic remark. This technique has been done twice before in the MCU with the Guardians of the Galaxy films, but adds another layer this time with the help of Cate Blanchett, Tom Hiddleston and Chris Hemsworth bringing a fresh flare of wit and sarcasm.\nThroughout the first two Thor films, and the Avengers, we have seen the consistent war between both Loki and Thor, which again was shown in Ragnarok. However, the film has managed to add yet another layer to their already complex relationship. The added layers has allowed for them to explore the way people deflect pain with humour, through both comedic and touching moments between the two brothers. Ragnarok has by far had the best portrayal of the brother\u2019s feelings towards each other, adding towards the statement that it is the best Thor film to date.\nOver the course of his appearances in the MCU, we have seen Thor grow both in maturity and in his power. Self discovery has, and most likely always be, the most prevalent theme in the Thor franchise, and not just within Thor himself, but the other multitude of characters found in his films. Loki\u2019s development in Ragnarok shows a conflict of wanting to change and stay the same, making him one of the most, complex characters in the film alongside Hela who\u2019s introduction was well placed within the film.\nThe creation and direction behind the film was immaculate and absolutely phenomenal, showing a step up in many areas in comparison to the previous two films. Taking a lighter direction, Ragnarok is a complete contrast to The Dark World, with an array of bright colours and characters. The costuming for the film was incredible, with everything matched exceptionally and a fine attention to even the smallest details and transitions between each outfit. Overall, the film was well brought together with meticulous direction, a wonderfully hilarious script and a well chosen cast. But like all films, there were some flaws, with timing being the main one. A fast paced film that was almost too jumpy with its transitions, leaving you feel somewhat more lost than Thor was at points.\nIt seems as if the God of Thunder has become one of the most loved characters, not just for his looks, but for his humour and ability to be mostly serious when called for. Fortunately, he is here to stay for the moment and will be in the next instalment of Avengers, a film all Marvel fans are holding their breath for. Time and time again, Thor has impressed us with the construction and execution of the films, adding to Marvel\u2019s might within the industry, making them a definite force to be reckoned with. As always, it begs the question, is there going to be an MCU film that can dethrone their latest masterpiece?\nCate Blanchett Chris Hemsworth Hela Hulk Loki Mark Ruffalo Ragnarok Thor Tom Hiddleston\t2017-10-29\njaclynmay\nAbout jaclynmay\nPrevious: PAX Au Indie Spotlight \u2013 Projection \u2013 Shadowplay Studios\nNext: Justice League Review", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00080.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 53, + "original_length": 5562, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.97, + "perplexity": 339.4, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "http://beyondthetransition.blogspot.com/2012/01/trade-unions-to-coordinate-protests.html", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T04:50:22Z", + "digest": "sha1:WE6KFSDOTOLSGKQGAYG5CDJ3BKUZG3UL", + "length": 2796, + "nlines": 11, + "source_domain": "beyondthetransition.blogspot.com", + "title": "Beyond the Transition: Trade Unions to Coordinate Protests", + "raw_content": "During the first decade following the collapse of \u2018communism\u2019 in Poland, politics was divided primarily along historical lines. Therefore the major political parties and coalitions were built out of organisations that were either connected to the previous governing party or opposition movement. Although historical issues continue to play an important role in Polish politics, they have ceased to be the defining issue of political allegiance.\nOne area however where the historical division has remained dominant is the trade union movement. The two major trade union federations are the Solidarno\u015b\u0107 trade union (the successor of the independent trade union set up in the 1980s) and the All-Poland Alliance of Trade Unions (OPZZ) (that was created by the authorities in the 1980s as an alternative to Solidarno\u015b\u0107).\nSolidarno\u015b\u0107 and the OPZZ have remained rivals and have rarely coordinated their activities. This has ensured that the trade unions have been divided at a national level. This has hindered their ability to defend their members\u2019 interests, particularly in a situation where trade union membership has been in a steady decline.\nHowever, yesterday Solidarno\u015b\u0107, the OPZZ and the the third national trade union confederation Forum held a joint news conference for the first time. They have also announced that they will be coordinating a series of joint actions and protests.\nImmediately they have revealed that they are suspending their participation in the Trilateral Commission that includes representatives from the government, employers and trade unions. They have done this in protest against the failure of the government to consult with them on a number of issues. The leader of the Solidarity trade union, Piotr Duda, stated that the trade unions would discuss now with the government only through force and that this step was the first in a number of actions to oppose the government.\nThe leader of the OPZZ, Jan Guz noted how there are more than 2 million unemployed in Poland, another more than 2 million who have been forced to emigrate, a further 2 million who receive extremely low wages and another milion who are employed on so-called junk contracts.\nThe trade union leaders concluded that it was only through joint actions that the government\u2019s policies could be opposed. They have raised the possibility of carrying out protests before the Euro2012 football championships and also announced that they will collect signitures for a resolution to force a referendum on the government\u2019s plans to raise the retirement age.\nLabels: opzz, Solidarity, Solidarno\u015b\u0107, trade unions\nPan Steeva 18 January 2012 at 12:08\nIt's good to see the unions are starting to learn the basic labour principle of striking so they can watch footie on the TV.\nWell there have to be some benefits", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00080.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 112, + "original_length": 4926, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.98, + "perplexity": 172.0, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "http://blog.ccbridges.net/2017/03/06/soundtrack-for-love-in-the-time-of-hurricanes/", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T04:30:26Z", + "digest": "sha1:M2TTVW6J5ZX7KZ34ABOONFXWRSC5ITDA", + "length": 1047, + "nlines": 8, + "source_domain": "blog.ccbridges.net", + "title": "Soundtrack for Love in the Time of Hurricanes | CC Bridges", + "raw_content": "\u2190 Blog Tour for Love in the Time of Hurricanes\nRelease Day for Love In the Time of Hurricanes \u2192\nLove in the Time of Hurricanes will be out in just a few days! To tide you over until the release, I wanted to share a mini-soundtrack. Quite honestly, I had \u201cBorn to Run\u201d in my head most of the time while I was writing, but I picked out a few different songs that have different meaning for various points in the story.\nThe Lou Monte song listed below is the one I pictured Lou dancing to during the scene where he\u2019s trying to distract Nick from the hurricane. The record he\u2019s listening to is based on one I had while growing up, called Aunt Carmela\u2019s Italian favorites. (I actually managed to snag the actual record from my parents before they moved. Don\u2019t tell my brother!)\nI hope you enjoy Love in the Time of Hurricanes, and have fun matching the songs to parts ofthe story!\nChe La Luna Mezzo Mare \u2013 Lou Monte\nThis House is Not for Sale \u2013 Jon Bon Jovi\nThis entry was posted in Books, Love in the Time of Hurricanes, Promo. Bookmark the permalink.", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00080.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 59, + "original_length": 2038, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.96, + "perplexity": 315.3, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "http://blog.cinnamon-travels.com/malaysia/", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T03:27:21Z", + "digest": "sha1:HSM2ETX76BOXAZB322FIOUCLMQJCW5VM", + "length": 3808, + "nlines": 6, + "source_domain": "blog.cinnamon-travels.com", + "title": "Malaysia | Cinnamon Travels Blog", + "raw_content": "Malaysia (Food paradise of South East Asia)\nTruly Asia, Malaysia. The catch line from their promotional campaign really represents what the country stands for. Whether its food, people, vibrant culture or geography, the diversity of Asia is in full bloom in the country and holidays in Malaysia would become a tour of the whole continent.\nThe tropical islands of Malaysia are considered among the most beautiful in the world and some of them include Langkawi, Redang, Tengol and Labuan. Labuan is also known for its scuba diving and other water sports. Malaysia has fame for its tropical rainforests and Taman Negara, Lambir Hills National Park and Ampang Forest Reserve must always be included in the itinerary while visiting the nation. Besides natural beauty the country is also considered as the symbol of development in the region and its Petronas Twin Towers in Kuala Lumpur adorn the sky line with aplomb. Opt for Malaysia tour packages from Cinnamon and you will know how our expertise on the country can help you customized your itinerary that best suits you\nSituated in the heart of Southeast Asia at one of the world\u2019s major crossroads, Malaysia has always been pivotal to trade routes from Europe, the Orient, India and China. Its warm tropical climate and abundant natural blessings made it a congenial destination for immigrants as early as 5,000 years ago when the ancestors of the Orang Asli, the indigenous peoples of Peninsular Malaysia, settle here, probably the pioneers of a general movement from China and Tibet. They were followed by the Malays, who brought with them skills in farming and the use of metals. Around the first century BC, strong trading links were established with China and India, and these had a major impact on the culture, language and social customs of the country. Evidence of a Hindu-Buddhist period in the history of Malaysia can today be found in the temple sites of the Bujang Valley and Merbok Estuary in Kedah in the north west of Peninsular Malaysia, near the Thai border. The spread of Islam, introduced by Arab and Indian traders, brought the Hindu-Buddhist era to an end by the 13th century. With the conversion of the Malay-Hindu rulers of the Melaka Sultanate (the Malay kingdom which ruled both side of the Straits of Malaka for over a hundred years),, Islam was established as the religion of the Malays, and had profound effect on Malay society.\nThe arrival of Europeans in Malaysia brought a dramatic change to the country. In 1511, the Portuguese captured Malaka and the rulers of the Melaka Sultanate fled south to Johor where they tried to establish a new kingdom. They were resisted not only by the Europeans but by the Acehnese, Minangkabau and the Bugis, resulting in the sovereign units of the present-day states of Peninsular Malaysia. The Portuguese were in turn defeated in 1641 by the Dutch, who colonized Melaka until the advent of the British in the Dutch exerted any profound influence on Malay society. The British acquired Melaka from the Dutch in 1824 in exchange for Bencoolen in Sumatra. From their new bases in Malaka, Penang and Singapore, collectively known as the Straits settlements, the British, through their influence and power, began the process of political intergration of the Malay states of Peninsular Malaysia.\nAfter World War II and the Japanese occupation from 1941-45, the British created the Malayan Union 1946.This was abandoned in 1948 and the Federation of Malaya emerged in its place. The Federation gained its independence from Britain on 31 August 1957.In September 1963, Malaya, Sarawak, Sabah, and initially Singapore united to form Malaysia, a country whose potpourri of society and customs derives from its rich heritage from four of the world\u2019s major cultures \u2013 Chinese, Indian, Islamic and Western.", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00080.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 123, + "original_length": 5900, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.96, + "perplexity": 164.8, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "http://blog.independent.org/tag/william-happer/", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T04:57:58Z", + "digest": "sha1:MZOD7CHDC3KAU6IH65SHU7SNK5I4P7FZ", + "length": 621, + "nlines": 4, + "source_domain": "blog.independent.org", + "title": "Leading Scientists Debunk Climate Alarmism", + "raw_content": "Tag: William Happer\nVaclav Klaus Blasts Al Gore\u2019s Climate Alarmism\nCzech Republic President V\u00e1clav Klaus (formerly Professor of Finance at the University of Economics, Prague), who is also the new President of the European Union, has recently blasted former Vice President Al Gore for unsubstantiated climate fear-mongering. As reported by AFP, at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, Klaus stated that: \u201cI\u2019m very...\nTags: Agriculture, Al Gore, climate alarmism, Climate Change, climate skeptic, Energy, Environment, Global Warming, Personal Liberty, Politics, Regulation, Science, Vaclav Klaus, William Happer", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00080.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 367, + "original_length": 12229, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.92, + "perplexity": 182.2, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "http://blog.ndbbr2014.com/2017/06/cover-reveal-rico-by-author-tjwest.html", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T04:43:12Z", + "digest": "sha1:KZC64ZVV6FRHBPUMBFSLI2F53RKVR2S6", + "length": 1677, + "nlines": 11, + "source_domain": "blog.ndbbr2014.com", + "title": "Night and day book Blog", + "raw_content": "Rico by Author Tjwest!!\nPhotographer: Kruse Images & Photography: Models & Boudoir\nModel: Matthew Hosea- Inked Model\nCover designer: Honey Touch Designs\n****Warning- Not intended for those under 18 years and those sensitive to extreme language, sex, and violence.****\nFor every decision, there is a consequence...\nMy husband is dead by my own hand.\nEveryone assumed he died from his illness, but they assumed wrong. My husband and I planned it exactly that way, making it look like his disease took him earlier than what the doctors had predicted. It was a good plan yet I knew things weren\u2019t over\u2026I knew I wasn\u2019t safe.\nI had single-handedly changed my whole life. I\u2019m now on the run, hundreds of miles away from the only place I've ever called home, trying to lose the old me. I may have gotten away with what I had done, but my husband\u2019s brother was another story. He wouldn't stop until he got what he was out for\u2026me.\nIt's her brother-in-law who wants her in his possession, I\u2019m just the person chosen to find her. I may seem scary because I\u2019m smooth, controlled, and don\u2019t make small talk, but I\u2019m here to do my job and then I\u2019m gone. Nothing more. In my line of work there's no room for relationships, it's too risky and dangerous to fall for anyone. But for once, I\u2019m thrown. I had no idea that the brother-in-law actually wants her back just so he can kill her. I\u2019m good at my job, but I\u2019m not a killer. Despite all my previous rules, I find my feelings starting to run deep for this woman. Knowing he wants her dead is changing my life\u2019s game plan. Now I find myself in the fight of my life to protect her and keep her alive.\n#Krusehasyoucovered #coverreveal #teamKruse", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00080.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 90, + "original_length": 3062, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.98, + "perplexity": 286.6, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "http://blog.procurious.com/time-zones-and-advanced-planning-whats-procurement-like-in-russia/", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T04:43:09Z", + "digest": "sha1:SOCPFDAQY3723TFM3JV2E3NXKYFDD7C3", + "length": 4616, + "nlines": 18, + "source_domain": "blog.procurious.com", + "title": "Time Zones and Advanced Planning - What's Procurement Like in Russia? - Procurious", + "raw_content": "Time Zones and Advanced Planning \u2013 What\u2019s Procurement Like in Russia?\nWith the revelation that Russia\u2019s dreaming of constructing a superhighway that will span the circumference of the globe \u2013 Procurement consultant Natalia Urazova and FMCG Procurement Specialist Vladislav Mandryka have got together with their fellow professionals to tell Procurious about procurement in Russia.\nHow do you think procurement differs in Russia, as opposed to elsewhere in the world?\nCommercial procurement only came into being in Russia in 1991, with purchasing previously based on central planning activities. Procurement in Russia is now growing rapidly due to the increasing numbers of multinational corporations in the domestic market. Comparatively, it\u2019s fair to say that procurement in Russia is at the same stage now as it was in the USA in 1999-2000.\nOnly around 10 per cent of all Russian companies have a defined procurement strategy, nearly all of which are large companies. Small and medium-sized companies tend to view procurement as a \u2018passive administrator\u2019 of production orders. As a result of this, these companies tend to lose 25-45 per cent of their spend value in procurement activities.\nLeading Russian companies, those with active procurement strategies, are able to save billions of rubles annually through a number of initiatives like reconfiguration of procurement departments, P2P optimisation, category management, tenders and SRM programs.\nThese organisations have also understood that centralisation of procurement function provides benefits, so, in most cases, the procurement of key commodity categories with sufficient spend is centralised. However category management, Total Cost of Ownership and standardisation are not widely used concepts.\nThere\u2019s a bit of a mix too when it comes to Supplier Relationship Management and supplier development. Some companies have made an effort to master lean thinking and create cross-organisational cross-functional teams to reduce losses in the value chain. However, there are many that still view supplier management as a method of aggressive negotiations, in order to achieve their own short-term aims.\nSome organisations have a level of automation in their procurement activities, although this tends to be a \u2018patchwork\u2019 of ERP and MRP systems. Where systems have been implemented, there have been positive results. The same can be said for e-Procurement and e-Auctions for the most part, although in some cases, the focus on minimum prices has caused major mistakes. In one example, an organisation managed to lower the price of an auction item by 42 per cent, but left themselves with 15-years worth of stock!\nProcurement is also complicated by the size of Russia and the extended time zones in the country. For example, if you have a regional office in Ust-Ilimsk (essentially in the centre of the country), it requires 2 flights and a 5-6 hour car journey to get there from Moscow. Equally, if you have an issue in a subsidiary in Khabarovsk (nearly the Eastern most city in the country) that requires an answer from a business unit in Voronezh (in the far West), at 9 a.m. you only have two hours for a solution, because there is a 7-hour time difference.\nIn 1999, I was asked by my business to find a specialist to train the procurement department. There was a lack of such specialists in the market at the time, so I designed a small workshop myself. I have adored procurement since then \u2013 it\u2019s the most interesting and best part of the business!\nI\u2019m now involved in the implementation of lean thinking in procurement activities across all my research and consulting projects.\nProcurement professionals are increasingly becoming change leaders in organisations and have the ability to dramatically increase the efficiency of the entire value chain.\nSocial media isn\u2019t used as much in procurement at the moment. But I hope that we can use it to get involved in conversations with procurement professionals from around the world and share information and experience about procurement best practice.\nI rarely use social media in my day-to-day procurement activities and to share procurement best practices and I saw Procurious as an opportunity to change that.\nTo get involved in conversations with other procurement professionals and share information and procurement best practice.\nBy inviting them via my network, particularly those who shared their experiences in order to help me write this article!\nPrevious PostWho\u2019s responsible for writing a specification or brief?Next PostJoin the world\u2018s first digitally-led event for procurement professionals", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00080.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 127, + "original_length": 6670, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.95, + "perplexity": 274.0, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "http://blog.sandium.com/2011/08/", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T04:03:10Z", + "digest": "sha1:22KJKZAWXAW2BIFKR2YCJ2IZYIE56XZC", + "length": 2097, + "nlines": 10, + "source_domain": "blog.sandium.com", + "title": "Sandium Heating and Air Blog: 08/01/2011 - 09/01/2011", + "raw_content": "Energy Upgrade California Offers Thousands in Savings!\nWould you like to save up to $4,000 for replacing your furnace, air conditioner, upgrading your attic insulation, changing out old windows, or upgrading an old water heater? Read on...\nDid you know that our homes produce more carbon emissions than ordinary passenger vehicles! It's true. They account for nearly 21% of our countries greenhouse gas emissions. That seems unbelievable! But, when you think about it, there have been very few standards ever put in place when it comes to building a home, in fact, it wasn't until the late 70's when California enacted an energy code. We have hundreds of thousands of homes built before then! And therefore, our homes (especially older home stock) were built inefficiently.\nInefficiency directly relates to energy consumption, and the dollar amount we spend each month to our public utility -- PG&E being the primary supplier of natural gas and electricity in Northern California.\nWhen it comes to energy consumption, we must view our house as a system, because every component works together to create efficiency. The heating and cooling systems would work more effectively and efficiently if the building envelope was sealed tight, if the insulation was enhanced, if air ducts were sealed and insulated to the max, http://www.blogger.com/img/blank.gifwindows upgraded, etc. When you create a \"system\" that works together, you not only save money, but you also improve comfort, indoor air quality, lower carbon emissions, etc. The list goes on!\nA home energy upgrade makes sure that each piece of this system is designed to function at it's max, so your home is more efficient.\nHow do you get the rebates? Learn more about the process and program details by contacting Sandium, or visiting https://energyupgradeca.org/overview\nPosted by Sandium: Heating & Air Conditioning Experts at 4:12 PM No comments:\nLabels: Air Conditioner, Energy Audit, Energy Efficiency, Energy Upgrades CA, Furnace, Home Performance, Insulation\nPosted by Sandium: Heating & Air Conditioning Experts at 3:51 PM 1 comment:", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00080.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 83, + "original_length": 7232, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.94, + "perplexity": 285.9, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "http://blog.serialbox.com/authors/the-associated-press/", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T04:44:15Z", + "digest": "sha1:GKWBW63ORBW7TOK6ZDAJ625GPLQJMHNS", + "length": 830, + "nlines": 8, + "source_domain": "blog.serialbox.com", + "title": "The Associated Press Archives - Serial Box Serial Box", + "raw_content": "Inventor, humorist, and diplomat Benjamin Franklin, at age 70, was to preside over the greatest diplomatic crisis of his career: an all out civil war.\nNew Episode \u2013 1776: The World Turned Upside Down, \u201cApril\u201d\nThe infant colonial navy meets the mighty Brits.\nNew Episode \u2013 1776: The World Turned Upside Down, \u201cMarch\u201d\nThey would eventually come together to form the United States of America, but at the start of 1776, there wasn\u2019t really a \u2018typical\u2019 American colonist.\nNew Episode \u2013 1776: The World Turned Upside Down, \u201cFebruary\u201d\nSeries Premiere \u2013 1776: The World Turned Upside Down, \u201cJanuary\u201d\nA failed corset-maker, fired from his second career as a tax collector, Thomas Paine could never seem to do anything right\u2014until he published a pamphlet that would become the first \u2018call to action\u2019 in the American Revolution: Common Sense", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00080.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 133, + "original_length": 3239, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.96, + "perplexity": 231.5, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "http://blog.vhda.com/2017/06/", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T03:39:15Z", + "digest": "sha1:62GA3TACZO7GHGOXK57S7RAJ7VVN25ML", + "length": 15635, + "nlines": 53, + "source_domain": "blog.vhda.com", + "title": "Virginia Housing Development Authority: June 2017", + "raw_content": "Crescent Square Apartments Help Address Homelessness in Virginia Beach\nPosted by VHDA Communications Labels: EarthCraft, homelessness, permanent supportive housing, Virginia Supportive Housing, Viridiant No comments:\nBuilding marks the fifth permanent supportive housing development supported by VSH and VHDA in Hampton Roads\nWhen Crescent Square Apartments opened in Virginia Beach in 2016, it provided 80 units for 42 individuals experiencing homelessness and 38 whose incomes are 50 percent or less than the median income. This development marks the fifth time that Virginia Supportive Housing and the Virginia Housing Development Authority have partnered on permanent supportive housing developments in the Hampton Roads region, bringing a total of 320 of these types of units to the region.\n\u201cCrescent Square represents a tremendous collaboration with public and private partners who are vested in meeting the region\u2019s demand for supportive and affordable housing,\u201d said Allison Bogdanovic, executive director of VSH. \u201cLocal officials recognize that supportive housing is a proven and cost-effective model that works, as evidenced by the fact that 95 percent of our clients do not return to homelessness.\u201d\nVSH takes the \u201cHousing First\u201d approach to addressing homelessness by housing individuals first, then helping to address their needs with on-site case management services. Case managers assist in securing income, health insurance, healthcare services and other supports to help clients stabilize and re-establish their independence.\nThe units in the four-story, mixed-income development are approximately 360 square feet and contain a kitchen with full refrigerator and oven, full bathroom, and a closet. Furnishings are provided in each apartment, including a bed, dresser, table, and two chairs. In addition to apartments, the building has a community room with a kitchen and outdoor patio, fitness room, computer room, laundry facilities, a front desk, and staff offices. There is also an extensive security system and off-street parking.\nCrescent Square received EarthCraft Virginia Platinum certification for resource and energy efficiency; in addition, all 80 units meet VHDA\u2019s Universal Design requirements and 10 percent of the units are fully accessible. Also, the development incorporates a solar system designed to reduce the building's energy load and a solar thermal water heater system.\nIn addition to VHDA\u2019s $2 million in SPARC financing, the project included approximately $5.5 million in Low-Income Housing Tax Credit equity as well as funding by the Virginia Department of Housing and Community Development, the Federal Home Loan Bank of Atlanta, the City of Norfolk, City of Virginia Beach, and several foundations. Also, the Virginia Beach Department of Housing and Neighborhood Preservation and the Norfolk Redevelopment and Housing Authority provided project-based rental assistance. Total development costs were approximately $12.4 million.\nOther projects developed in Hampton Roads by VSH with VHDA financing include Gosnold Apartments in Norfolk, Cloverleaf Apartments in Virginia Beach, South Bay Apartments in Portsmouth and Heron\u2019s Landing in Chesapeake. These four additional developments were the result of a regional partnership among Hampton Roads cities.\nFinally, a sixth property will soon be joining the mix. Church Street Station in Norfolk is currently under construction and will be completed by early 2018. Like Crescent Square, it is being developed by VSH with VHDA financing, and will be providing 80 additional units of permanent supportive housing to Hampton Roads.\nIn addition to the six properties in Hampton Roads, VSH and VHDA have also partnered on four other properties across the state, bringing the total to 10 permanent supportive housing developments to help fight homelessness in Virginia.\nFormer Prison Reformed into Mixed-Use Residential and Commercial Community\nPosted by VHDA Communications Labels: affordable rental, historic preservation, housing credits, LIHTC, Northern Virginia, rental financing No comments:\nThe historic Lorton prison in Fairfax County has thrown its doors open for some new residents. A $55 million project, financed in part by VHDA, is rehabilitating the century-old former reformatory, transforming it into a vibrant urban village with apartments, shops, restaurants, offices and more.\n\u201cCooperation of several sources was necessary to raise the capital to convert the former Lorton prison into affordable housing,\u201d said Brad Beaman, senior development officer at VHDA. Those sources include Housing Credits (also known as Low-Income Housing Tax Credits), historic tax credits, VHDA tax-exempt bond financing and a long-term land lease with Fairfax County.\nThe community includes 165 units now called Liberty Crest Apartments, plus more than 35,000\nsquare feet of commercial space. According to Beaman, the multifamily rental units are restricted with the following income limits: 26 percent at 50 percent of the area median income; 24 percent at 120 percent of AMI; and 50 percent with unrestricted income. The commercial space will consist of the former chapel, pool and power plant on the property.\nThis is not the first development on the property. Parts of the 2,323-acre prison, which once housed a missile defense system, currently include a subdivision, a senior living campus, an arts center and a golf course. Phase 2 of the project will add 107 townhomes and single-family homes.\nBeaman said this was the first project VHDA has done with the developer, The Alexander Company, Inc. and Southway Builders, the general contractor. VHDA provided $24.4 million in permanent financing including funds from REACH Virginia, VHDA\u2019s pool of internally generated resources for meeting state housing needs. Other capital came from Housing Credits, state and federal historic tax credits and borrower equity.\nAll but six of the 55 historic sites will be retained and reused in this community development initiative. There\u2019s more to come! VHDA is also providing a loan and Housing Credits for the Lindsay Hill Senior Apartments development immediately adjacent to Liberty Crest on the Lorton site.\nMore info: http://www.fairfaxcounty.gov/news2/liberty-opens-its-doors-for-new-residents-at-former-lorton-prison/\nPosted by VHDA Communications Labels: CFPB, first-time homebuyers, homeownership, HUD, National Housing News, National Housing Policy No comments:\nPresident Donald J. Trump Proclaims June 2017 as National Homeownership Month\nDuring National Homeownership Month, we recognize the many benefits of homeownership to our families, our communities, and our Nation. For generations of Americans, owning a home has been an essential element in achieving the American Dream. Homeownership is often the foundation of security and prosperity for families and communities and an enduring symbol of American freedom.\nThis month, we recommit to ensuring that hard-working Americans enjoy a fair chance at becoming homeowners. In the years since the Great Recession, homeownership rates have dipped to historic lows. Many Americans are not confident they will ever own a home, a tragic consequence of a decade of weak economic growth, excessive regulations, and stagnant wages. Many young families are unable to achieve the independence they desire because they have difficulty saving for a down payment, overcoming regulatory burdens, or gaining access to adequate credit. These challenges are even more pronounced for minorities, whose homeownership rates remain substantially below those of their fellow Americans.\nI am committed to helping hard-working Americans become homeowners. As part of my Administration's plan to strengthen the middle class and the American housing market, I am working with the Congress on a pro-growth agenda of reducing rules and regulations, cutting taxes, and eliminating unnecessary government spending. These policies will unshackle our economy and create and sustain high-paying jobs so that more Americans have the resources and freedom they deserve to fulfill their American Dream.\nHUD Publishes FY 2017 HOME and HTF Program Income Limits\nThe United States Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) has released the FY 2017 Rent Limits and Income Limits for HOME Investment Partnerships Program (HOME) and Housing Trust Fund (HTF).\nAll updated limits are effective as of June 15, 2017. They are available on the HUD Exchange at the link below:\n2017 HOME Income Limits\n2017 HOME Rent Limits\n2017 HTF Income Limits\n2017 HTF Rent Limits\nhttps://www.hudexchange.info/resource/5333/notice-cpd-1705-guidance-for-htf-grantees-on-fy-2017-htf-allocation-plans/\nCFPB Announces Upcoming Assessment of Ability-to-Repay Rule\nThe Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) published a notice in the Federal Register announcing that CFPB will be conducting an assessment of its Ability-to-Repay rule (ATR rule). The Notice seeks public input on CFPB's plans for the assessment and recommendations for improving it. The ATR rule, which took effect in January 2014, outlines the steps mortgage originators are required to take to obtain and verify information to determine whether a consumer can afford to repay a mortgage. It also establishes a set of criteria that a mortgage loan must meet to be considered a \"qualified mortgage\" (QM). If a mortgage loan meets the QM criteria, the originator is presumed to have complied with the requirements of the ATR rule. NCSHA previously summarized the ATR-QM rule in more detail on its blog after CFPB first published the final rule. HFA program loans are currently exempt from the requirements of the ATR rule, an exemption NCSHA advocated for. This exemption applies to both loans originated directly by HFAs and loans originated by HFAs' lender partners pursuant to HFA programs.\nFirst-time Buyers Account for 60 Percent of Purchases\nThe share of first-time homebuyers continues to rise, now accounting for almost half of all GSE purchase loans and more than 80 percent of FHA loans, according to the May 2017 Chartbook, released by the Urban Institute\u2019s Housing Finance Policy Center. According to the Chartbook, 47.1 percent of all GSE purchases loans were first-time homebuyers in February 2017, while a whopping 82 percent of FHA loans came from first-timers. When combined, about 60 percent of all purchase loans for the month of February were from first-time buyers\u2014just below the 2009 peak of 63 percent. For the first time in 10 years, the creation of new-owner households outpaced new-renter households. The Chartbook attributed the rise to an \u201cimproving economy, falling unemployment, and rising household formation and income.\u201d An increase in new home construction-particularly that of smaller, less expensive homes has also helped spur first-time buyer growth.\nCarson Touts Importance of Homeownership at HUD Forum\nThe Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) held a housing forum, \"A New Era of Homeownership,\" to mark the beginning of National Homeownership Month, as declared by President Trump. The social and financial benefits of homeownership for Americans and the economy was a common thread throughout the entire forum. In his opening remarks, HUD Secretary Ben Carson emphasized the significance of homeownership, stating, \"The importance of homeownership is apparent to all of us: security, certainty, safety, wealth creation, a path forward, self-sufficiency, a place to live with loved ones, to raise our families, the location of our neighborhood.\" Secretary Carson continued his remarks by expressing the \"good news\" of a steadily improving homeownership rate in the country, despite the rate remaining at a near historic low. In the second quarter of last year, the national homeownership rate, 62.9 percent, was at its lowest point in over fifty years. Carson announced that the current homeownership rate is 63.6 percent, saying \"These figures represent more than paper, facts, titles, and mortgages. We can see the hopes and dreams, the aspirations and excitement of homeownership.\"\nPosted by VHDA Communications Labels: Fannie Mae, FHFA, Green Building, homeownership, National Housing News, National Housing Policy No comments:\nThe 2017 State of the Nation's Housing Report Will be Released on Friday, June 16\nThe Harvard Joint Center for Housing Studies will release its 2017 State of the Nation's Housing report with a live webcast from the National League of Cities in Washington, DC on Friday, June 16. The report, which has been released annually since 1988, describes key trends in both national and metropolitan-level homeownership and rental markets, reviews key economic and demographic trends that are shaping current and future demand in those markets, discusses growing challenges in housing affordability and the rise of concentrated poverty throughout metropolitan areas, and examines access to mortgage finance.\nFHFA Seeks Stakeholder Impact on Expanding Mortgage Credit Access for Borrowers with Limited English Proficiency\nThe Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) issued a Request for Input on how the single family housing market can better serve qualified borrowers with Limited English Proficiency (LEP). FHFA published this request to advance one of the goals of its 2017 Scorecard for Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, and Common Securitization Solutions, which calls on Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac to identify obstacles impacting LEP borrowers and formulate plans for increasing such borrowers' access to mortgage credit. FHFA specifically requests information on what tools mortgage lenders, servicers, housing counselors, and other mortgage industry participants currently use to assist LEP borrowers and whether they are effective. The Request also asks about the specific barriers that make it difficult for LEP borrowers to access the mortgage market.\nFannie Mae Program Encourages Healthier Home Design\nHealthy Housing Rewards is a financial incentive which will, in its first phase, include a price break to borrowers who incorporate designs which improve air quality, encourage physical activity, and feature common space, community gardens and playgrounds. \"When we strengthen the connection between affordable housing and the long-term health and stability of the people and families who live there, we help create more sustainable communities across the country,\u201d explained Jeffery Hayward, Executive Vice President, Multifamily, Fannie Mae.\nConditions of eligibility include meeting affordability standards set by Fannie Mae with at least 60% of units for those that are earning 60% of median income or less. Criteria for healthy housing must also be met according to the Center for Active Design's Healthy Housing Index, with a score of 90 required for eligible borrowers.\nFannie Mae Updates Requirements for Green Building Financing Option\nFannie Mae has made some revisions to its popular Green Financing program to improve the processing of green mortgage loans. On Monday May 22nd, it issued a modified standard Guidance Form 4099 and 4099.H that updates the scope and format of the High Performance Building (HPB) Report, which is a requirement of Fannie Mae\u2019s Green Rewards Program and implemented a delegated review process where Lenders are authorized to review and approve HPB reports. Other recent changes include the price break given to assets with Green Building Certifications. The changes are effective immediately and aim to improve the speed and quality of its green programs.\nCrescent Square Apartments Help Address Homelessne...\nFormer Prison Reformed into Mixed-Use Residential ...", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00080.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 165, + "original_length": 18157, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.95, + "perplexity": 302.2, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "http://blogs.edweek.org/edweek/finding_common_ground/2014/06/body_language_what_are_we_telling_our_students_1.html", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T03:40:15Z", + "digest": "sha1:WFKYOLTC5ZMCXD327JO2PVS65YT777CR", + "length": 5959, + "nlines": 21, + "source_domain": "blogs.edweek.org", + "title": "Body Language: What Are We Telling Our Students? - Peter DeWitt's Finding Common Ground - Education Week", + "raw_content": "\u00ab Let's Recapture Some Time | Main | Project-Based Learning: Connecting With Your Community \u00bb\nBody Language: What Are We Telling Our Students?\nBy Peter DeWitt on June 10, 2014 5:32 AM\nIn ten seconds our students can size us up. They made a judgment on who we are, how we will treat them, and whether they like us or not. Malcolm Gladwell refers to it as the \"Blink Effect.\" Fortunately for classroom teachers, the interactions they have with students can either change that perception, or cement it.\nThat's not really a surprise is it? We all make quick judgments we witness. It might be one we are somehow involved in, or one we are watching from the sidelines.\nIf we think back to our own formal education, we can remember the teachers we wanted to spend countless hours with, and those we hoped we would never have to spend a minute more. I clearly remember a fifth grade experience, where my teacher told our class we needed to stop talking.\nA class filled with fifth graders talking is not a surprising story. Fifth graders care about their social interactions with peers. As much as I can clearly see what happened next, I cannot remember why we were talking. I guess to the teacher it only mattered that we were. Talking.\nAt the top of his voice he yelled that we needed to stop talking. And then he gave us homework to prove his point. That night we had to write that, \"We would not talk in class,\" 400 times. Looking back now he probably wanted us to talk again, just when he commanded us to. I went home that night, and wrote, \"I will not talk in class,\" 400 times. Yes, my mother made me do it even though I cried. My brother was angry that I had to do the assignment. He and I both thought it was unfair.\nThe next day I walked in with the prize possession of the tedious and abusive homework assignment. It wasn't seen as abusive when I walked in, but it certainly changed to that perspective about 10 minutes into the day. As he told us to take it out, he brought a garbage can with him. He slid the garbage can from desk to desk, as he ripped the homework in half and threw it away. Cue in Pink Floyd's \"The Wall\" at anytime.\nOne by one, we watched as the punishment we endured was ripped in front of us. I learned a few things at that moment. First and foremost was that I hated my teacher, and some people should not be able to work with kids. Perhaps my visceral reaction also comes from the fact that my dad died about a month before this event, and this classroom brought me no solace.\nHattie and Yates (2014) say, \"The teacher is positioned as an inevitable role model, the visible representative of the adult worldview.\" This teacher was not much of a role model. It was unfortunate because my reading teacher that I could escape to every day was one of the best teachers in the school. He made reading fun, he was a beekeeper, and he knew how to connect with students. The short time that I could escape to his room and the special area classes brought me the solace I needed.\nKeep in mind, I was retained in fourth grade, and waited two years for this experience. It was not the welcome into the middle school (5-8) that I was hoping for while I sat in the K-4 building.\nOur Body Language Matters - I remember how my fifth grade teacher used to talk with one student. He would scream at him, put him in a corner, and one time the student came to school unbathed, and the teacher took care of that by embarrassing him in front of our class, and sending him to the locker room to take a shower. Kids have to learn about hygiene. But this student came from a poor family. Did he have to learn about hygiene in such an abusive way?\nWhen certain students would talk, this teacher would smile and praise. When others would talk he would cross his arms, and dismiss the answer. I know body language, and so do our students. They know when the adults around them mean when they roll their eyes, cross their arms, or speak in short curt sentences to some students, while they smile, pat on the back, and speak warmly to others.\nIn the Science of How We Learn (2014), John Hattie and Gregory Yates say,\n\"Universally, it has been found that students form strong views as to what they want from schools, and how they expect teachers to behave. These general criteria are then used to evaluate individual teachers on the extent to which they measure up.\"\nHattie and Yates go on to say, \"The adult who goes against accepted standards of basic interpersonal conduct is disqualified from standing as a credible role model.\" So it is really up to the teacher to decide which side of this they want to be on. We can blame accountability and mandates for many things, but we should not blame it for how we treat students.\nOur students watch us. They watch how we interact with other adults, and how we interact with other children. They see their teachers speak kindly to one student, and harshly to another. Many students are survivors. They know how to fit in so they can stay unscathed with a mean teacher. Other students are escaping a harmful home life, and we should want to be a beacon of hope for them.\nIn the classroom we spend lots of time with our students, and during the year we spend lots of time with our colleagues. If we videotaped our typical reactions to negative events, what would we see? I was in the classroom for eleven years as a teacher, and eight as a principal. I did not do everything perfect. Every year there was a student who tested my limits, and I'm not sure if I always liked who I was when I reacted.\nSeeing a presentation in the south one time, the speaker called them \"Children of God.\" They make it tough to love them, but surely God must. She said it respectfully with a smile, in a pleasant southern accent and I never forgot that. I had a few \"Children of God,\" in my time in the classroom.\nIn the long run my fifth grade did provide me with some important lessons. He taught me how not to interact with children.", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00080.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 178, + "original_length": 13545, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.99, + "perplexity": 335.2, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "http://blogs.nottingham.ac.uk/physics/2017/10/06/celebrating-ada-lovelace-day-2017/", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T03:55:48Z", + "digest": "sha1:RHLLTSWZFEXQ3Z65ICJZ4VW6ZN7XNZGJ", + "length": 2467, + "nlines": 16, + "source_domain": "blogs.nottingham.ac.uk", + "title": "Celebrating Ada Lovelace Day 2017 - Physics", + "raw_content": "University of Nottingham > Blogs > Physics > News > Celebrating Ada Lovelace Day 2017\nOctober 6, 2017, by Dr. Meghan Gray\nCelebrating Ada Lovelace Day 2017\nWe\u2019re pleased to be hosting two events in honour of Ada Lovelace Day: an annual international event celebrating achievements of women in science, technology, engineering, and math. (We\u2019ve spoken previously about Nottingham native Ada Lovelace and her contributions to computer science here).\nAdmission free, all are welcome!\nIn our \u201cCareers in Physics Panel Discussion\u201d we have a number of distinguished speakers who will discuss how their studies in physics opened doors to a range of academic and industrial careers.\nC5 Physics\nDawn Watson, BSc Environmental Physics, MBA \u2013> Project Manager at Sellafield Ltd\nDr. Karen Mullinger, BSc Physics with Medical Physics \u2013> joint lectureship in medical physics (Nottingham and Birmingham)\nAlex Milligan, postgraduate MSc, Physics and Technology of Nuclear Reactors \u2013> Reactor Physics Design Team, Rolls Royce\nB13 Physics\nDr Karen Masters, Portsmouth University\nMary Somerville and the Mechanism of the Heavens\nMary Somerville was a Scottish mathematical astronomer and science writer who was roughly contemporary with Jane Austen. At a time when even upper class women were often never formally schooled, and certainly not in mathematics or astronomy she first discovered algebra when reading a women\u2019s fashion magazine at a society tea party, and was allowed to embark on a study of geometry only to improve her painting. She went on to become one of the UK\u2019s most famous scientists (in fact the word was coined to describe her, since she clearly wasn\u2019t a \u201cman of science\u201d), and most famous published an English translation of LaPlace\u2019s \u201cMechanique Celeste\u201d (the Mechanism of the Heavens\u201d) which became the standard University textbook for Calculus, as well as writing a book on \u201cThe Connection of the Physical Sciences\u201d which is credited for setting out the current array science topics we call physics. I was shocked to discover Mary Somerville only 5 years ago, and have had great fun learning more about her as I worked on a book Chapter about her life: \u201cMary Somerville and the Mechanisms of the Heavens\u201d, which is part of \u201cMore Passion for Science: Journeys into the Unknown\u201d published by the Ada Lovelace Day group in support of their work to raise the profile of women in STEM.\nPunctuation; is Not. an, Option.\nNottingham physics YouTube videos: October 2017", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00080.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 98, + "original_length": 4742, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.94, + "perplexity": 338.0, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "http://blogspot.siliconvillage.net/2016/07/genpact-new-shared-services-delivery.html", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T03:12:28Z", + "digest": "sha1:ZDQACHYRMUO5ZMZYBOFPN562DRPS3P6I", + "length": 2772, + "nlines": 6, + "source_domain": "blogspot.siliconvillage.net", + "title": "SILICON VILLAGE: Genpact New Shared Services Delivery Center Comes Up in Kuala Lumpur for F&A Sourcing", + "raw_content": "Genpact New Shared Services Delivery Center Comes Up in Kuala Lumpur for F&A Sourcing\nGenpact, a global leader in digitally-powered business process management and services, has established operations in Malaysia\u2019s capital city of Kuala Lumpur, further strengthening its footprint in Asia, with the plan to provide finance and accounting (FnA), sourcing, and procurement services for a growing number of clients at this site. This will help Genpact deliver more holistic finance solutions to clients based on its Lean Digital approach that leverages the power of digital technologies through middle and back office operations.\nMalaysia, one of Asia\u2019s dynamic economies, has emerged as a thriving global business services hub. With a stable and attractive business environment, government support, educated workforce, and world-class infrastructure, Kuala Lumpur has become an increasingly important business location for many of Genpact\u2019s clients comprising approximately one-fifth of the Fortune Global 500 \u2013 the majority of which have operations in Malaysia and other Asia-Pacific countries. This supports one of the company\u2019s strategies of delivering services from regions where their clients run key operations.\nGenpact is already working with GSK in this Kuala Lumpur location and expects to hire a number of professionals with domain expertise in F&A and procurement processes who will serve clients across a number of industries including financial services, insurance, and manufacturing. Being in an optimal time zone for supporting Asian operations, Genpact\u2019s Kuala Lumpur site will provide services in all South East Asian languages including Malay, Bahasa, Tagalog, Vietnamese, and Thai in addition to English \u2013 with the ability to provide Mandarin, Cantonese, Japanese, and Korean language services as a secondary location.\nDuring an opening celebration at the center today, Dato Wan Peng, Chief Operating Officer of Malaysia Digital Economy Corporation (MDEC), said, \u201cI welcome Genpact to Kuala Lumpur and wish them all the very best. We look forward to working with Genpact in their growth journey.\u201d\n\u201cGenpact is excited to establish our operations in Kuala Lumpur, where we\u2019ll be able to deliver transformation-driven business process, consulting, analytics, and digital services for existing and new clients in Asia,\u201d said BK Kalra, senior vice president and business leader, Consumer Goods, Retail, Life Sciences and Healthcare, Genpact. \u201cGiven the available and highly-skilled talent pool as well as favorable economic climate, we plan to grow this location over the next few years. 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She is the remarkable woman who brought the study of dragons out of the misty shadows of myth and misunderstanding into the clear light of modern science. But before she became the illustrious figure we know today, there was a bookish young woman whose passion for learning, natural history, and, yes, dragons defied the stifling conventions of her day.\nHere at last, in her own words, is the true story of a pioneering spirit who risked her reputation, her prospects, and her fragile flesh and bone to satisfy her scientific curiosity; of how she sought true love and happiness despite her lamentable eccentricities; and of her thrilling expedition to the perilous mountains of Vystrana, where she made the first of many historic discoveries that would change the world forever.\nA Natural History of Dragons is one of those books that you should love. It has pretty much everything you could want: fantasy elements, DRAGONS, a badass main character, some action, a bit of mystery\u2026 but for some reason I just couldn\u2019t enjoy it fully. Don\u2019t get me wrong, I enjoyed the book, but I didn\u2019t love it.\nI imagine that part of my enjoyment was sucked away with the way the story was told. As the series title suggests, this book is a (fictional) memoir, written by Lady Trent. It\u2019s the first in a series, and this one tells of how Trent got into the whole dragon thing.\nThe book very much felt like an introduction to the series, rather than a standalone novel in its own right. You see how Lady Trent\u2019s fascination with dragons developed, and you get an idea of what the start of her career was like, but it all felt very disconnected to me. I think it\u2019s because the story is being told by an older version of Trent, and in this part of the memoir she is in her late teens or early twenties.\nAnother thing that I wasn\u2019t (somewhat foolishly) expecting was that Lady Trent\u2019s goal is to study dragons for science. There isn\u2019t much action regarding the dragons, and there\u2019s a lot of scientific descriptions of the predators that I just didn\u2019t care for.\nI have to give Brennan props though. This did very much read like a memoir, perhaps one set in an alternate history or time where dragons roamed the skies. And the narrator of the audiobook that I listened to did a great job of capturing Trent\u2019s upper class voice and tone.\nI can\u2019t decide whether or not to continue with this series, so if you have done so then please tell me your views and experiences with it! It\u2019s one of those books that you read and just forget about, so I don\u2019t want to waste my time if the rest of the series is the same way.\n2 comments on \u201cA Natural History of Dragons by Marie Brennan\u201d\nElizabeth February 8, 2016 7:13 pm\nLoved this review. I was gifted a signed ARC of this title for Christmas. I hadn\u2019t known much about it \u2013 I\u2019m a dragon fanatic, which is probably why my husband sought it. Thanks for sharing your thoughts, Amber. I can\u2019t wait to read it.\nRinn February 14, 2016 6:32 pm\nI also just read this one. It wasn\u2019t quite what I was expecting \u2013 I actually enjoyed Isabella\u2019s backstory more than the expedition later on. 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That's according to a trio of Canadian neuroscientists writing in the journal Neuron.\nVeljko Dubljevi\u0107 and his colleagues performed literature searches on mentions of transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) in the academic and mainstream print media. tDCS involves the application of weak electrical current to the scalp, with the aim of altering neuronal function. There have been numerous recent reports of this practice leading to forms of cognitive enhancement - however, it's possible there are detrimental drawbacks and the long-term consequences are unknown.\nDubljevi\u0107 and his team found that research and media coverage of tDCS has increased dramatically since 2006. There were over 250 academic papers published on the technique in 2013 (up to October of that year), compared with fewer than 25 in 2006. Similarly, they identified nearly 70 mainstream media articles in 2013 (up to October), compared with fewer than 10 in 2006.\nThey also noted the way the media has focused disproportionately and uncritically on the cognitive enhancement potential of tDCS. Whereas the majority (45 per cent) of academic studies are on therapeutic uses of the technique, such as to treat depression (versus just 13 per cent on enhancement), the media focused as much on enhancement (42 per cent) as on therapeutic uses (42 per cent). Typical headlines include \"A tiny zap to improve memory\" (The Philadelphia Inquirer) and \"Jump start your brain\" (Boston Magazine).\nAnd while the scholarly press often included caveats and warnings about side-effects, these were rarely mentioned in the popular press. Instead, the media coverage tended to include \"misleading statements\" and to \"sensationalise\" the capabilities of tDCS. Reportage on electrical brain stimulation was also often accompanied by the perpetuation of brain myths, such as the idea that we only use 10 per cent of our brain power.\nDubljevi\u0107 and his colleagues call on professional societies, government bodies, researchers and science writers to do more to inform the public about the safety concerns regarding tDCS, to explain better the mechanisms of action (many of which are not fully understood), and to present a more realistic picture of the likely benefits. This is especially urgent, they argue, given the lack of regulation of tDCS devices, and their increasingly widespread availability.\n\"Given the rapid evolution of tDCS in the public domain and in academia, tackling its social, ethical, and policy implications requires a multifaceted response,\" they said.\nDubljevi\u0107, V., Saigle, V., & Racine, E. (2014). The Rising Tide of tDCS in the Media and Academic Literature Neuron, 82 (4), 731-736 DOI: 10.1016/j.neuron.2014.05.003\nRead this before zapping your brain\nThe age of the superhuman\nPsychology categories: Brain, Cognition, Technology\nSahil Suleman said...\n'Rock' is probably a strong word for what I do, but I sing in a contemporary a cappella group that sing a whole range of rocky numbers, including our latest song, an arrangement of Little Green Bag from Reservoir Dogs www.facebook.com/mixtapemanifestochoir :)\nPeople in the medical world chose their career because they want to help people. When they get into their fields the reality sets and they realized its not so pretty sometimes. I understand if nurses and medical professionals look at patients as non human to get through their day.\nI am a nurse and when I first started nursing can remember distancing myself from patients emotionally (particularly children) in order to cope with the sheer difficulty of observing pain and the helplessness that comes with that. However, as I came more experienced and trained I learn't to cope with it and reframe the experience of nursing sick and dying patients, for example, by contributing to a lovely end of life for the patient and the long term effect this will have on their family rather than focus on the unfairness of their situation. The biopsychosocial approach is taught in nursing and encourages us to have an emotional attachment to our patients in order to care, this can only work if nurses have the resources to do this, when we haven't survival kicks in and the stress response takes over when we can see that our patients are not getting the standard of care that they should and the only option left is to distance ourselves from the patient in order to mitigate the guilt that we feel.\nRoy Niles said...\nI think that people who deal with human misfortune in general have to objectify those people rather than dehumanize them. We identify them as humans, we just don't identify with them personally in the process.\nPsychoPaul said...\nI am an ex nurse and have considerable sympathy with people who work a whole day close up with death, dying, suffering, faeces and the rest. I think some degree of distancing (or habituation) is inevitable and there will also be some individual variation about how this occurs. I am reminded of Carlo Schuenguel's work using video feedback in LD. The carers who had a stable attachment style benefited little from the training. The staff with an dismissing or preoccupied styles improved in their communication skills, becoming more sensitive and responding more appropriately.\n(Schuengel et al Attachment & Human Development, 14,2, 2012, 83-99)\nAlso, there was a qualitative observational study of midwives by McRea et al 1998, Midwifery, 14, 174-80 which identified three different styles of relating to patients. In this study the authors stressed that these were styles, not personal dispositions. Midwives showed different ways of relating to different mothers to be.\nI have requested the full Trifiletti study and look forward to reading it through.\nI worked for a time caring for children with leukemia and my coping strategy was the very opposite of that reported in this study. I not only humanized the children I was caring for, I looked for what was unique to each one and them special.\nOne little baby girl was a fighter, coming to our Hem-Onc unit to be treated for a rare form of leukemia only after a six-week battle in the ICU. She now runs several nail salons. A little four-year-old boy was extraordinarily kind to staff. After he died, twenty-four nurses attended his memorial service. No one would ever forget little Binky.\nI dealt with my feelings by reminding myself that, compared to what these kids were going through, nothing that happened to me mattered. \"I'm not three years old and dying,\" I would say. I fought to give those children the best possible chance at life and, when that wasn't possible, to give them the very best death possible. I always did my best and left the results to God.\nIt wasn't those sick and dying kids that stressed me out. It was hospital politics, particular an unfair and critical attitude by the administration that set nurses at war with nurses. You might even say that this nurse stress was the result of their being dehumanized by the hospital's administration. I have written about that in a most realistic and honest book.\n--Michael W. Perry, My Nights with Leukemia: Caring for Children with Cancer\nSing, write songs, record and play guitar in JD and the Longfellows (www.facebook.com/jdandthelongfellows).... Been going 10 years - me and three female (non-psychologists) proper musicians - violin, piano, guitar, percussion! Fourth album out next year....... Video here (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NfgYz9nF9f4)\nHi I'm not a Psychologist but a UKCP Reg. Integrative Psychotherapist. I qualified in 2010 and I was a pro musician all my life and still play gigs. I'm based in Scarborough UK. I've also worked in the field of addiction therapy. Life as a musician being a rich source there! I find music a great counterpoint to being a therapist. Each informs the other. I really enjoyed your article in 'psychologist' (May 2014). I had a record deals in the 70s. I was briefly with Island Records where I worked with John Martyn, Sandy Denny et al. I've always written my own songs. Being a therapist certainly informs me there. Oh and I played a gig with Nick Drake in Hull 1970 or 71. Gotta name drop that! 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After all, coming in at the right time could mean the difference between either a quick profit or loss. With markets on a steady downward trend through January, more people are starting to wonder if February is going to be a good time to invest.\nUnderstanding Recent Market Trends\nThroughout 2013, we were in a bullish market. Just throw your dollars at it because it\u2019s going up no matter what! However, as we watched stocks rise, more bearish investors started to warn that prices were rising too quickly. After all, the price of a stock should match the value of the underlying asset.\nIf a stock price outgrows the business\u2019 growth, it means the company is overvalued and likely heading for a correction. We saw a good example of this with Twitter in December, when the company was downgraded because it didn\u2019t have the earnings to match the growth of their stock price.\nAnother thing that\u2019s playing a role in today\u2019s market is the Federal bond buying program, also known as quantitative easing. The idea of quantitative easing is that the Federal Reserve will stimulate the markets by pumping astronomical amounts of money into the \u201ceconomy\u201d through a bond buying stimulus, therefore increasing liquidity and increasing economic activity. That is a very simplistic explanation of the process, but it will suffice to explain monetary policy in the U.S. for the last few years.\nEventually, the Federal Reserve made an announcement that they would ease up on, or taper, the bond buying program. Some economists explained this step signified that there was so much success in the program, they were able to get rid of it earlier than expected. Others suggest the easing is a reaction to a failing program.\nIs It Time To Invest?\nAs many investors warned, the bullish market could not, and did not, last forever. The reality is the market relies on checks, balances and corrections. Because of that, every trend eventually dies. So, is this going to be a morbid \u201cyou lost your money \u2018cause you invested\u201d type of story? NO! Actually, it\u2019s important to understand that trends, up and down, do eventually end. Although it might be scary to see a down market, it simply can\u2019t last forever. The truth is\u2026\nIt\u2019s Always Time To Invest!\nNo matter if the market is up or down, there\u2019s still ways to make it work in your favor. The earlier you start investing, the longer time horizon you\u2019ll have to work toward your retirement. Waiting too long can mean retiring with a smaller nest egg and less income to live with.\nTaking Advantage of Market Conditions\nTip #1: Stick With The GOOG Guys \u2013 Nope, that wasn\u2019t a typo. If you haven\u2019t noticed, Google is taking over the world. When we think of them, we think of a search giant, but they\u2019ve grown far beyond that title. Google has their hands in everything from search and mobile phones to self-driven cars and robotics. Throughout the years, Google has been, and will continue to be, a great investment in the future of technology. Similarly, one can say the same about Apple.\nTip #2: Think About Staple Companies \u2013 Although stocks might be down now, that\u2019s not a bad thing. This gives you an opportunity to acquire shares in great companies at affordable prices. Think of companies that you know have become staples of society, such as Procter & Gamble, Coca-Cola, Wal-Mart, CVS, Colgate-Palmolive, and Philip Morris (as much as we hate to admit that tobacco is a staple).\nThese companies will continue to grow as demand for their products keeps up with population growth. And if you can get in when they\u2019re down, you stand a chance of reaping healthy returns over the long-term.\nTip #3: Do Your Research \u2013 Before investing in any company in a down market, do your research and learn as much as you can about that company, their operating environment, the opportunities and challenges they face, and their financial stability. Make sure that you\u2019re comfortable with their business model and operations before investing.\nAlthough a 5% or 10% correction can be a scary thought for investors, it\u2019s important to maintain perspective and remember that down markets create buying opportunities. 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He also joked about not playing a Brian DePalma film, missing the chance to screen \u201cCarrie\u201d in Cary.\n\u201cWhat I wanted was films spanning the 70s; at the beginning and the end of the decade,\u201d he said. \u201cNow, we aren\u2019t showing \u2018Jaws\u2018 and people see \u2018Jaws\u2019 as the death of the 70s but it\u2019s not about film history. It\u2019s about the spirit of the decade.\u201d\n(The Cary Theater is screening \u201cJaws\u201d during the Summer but it is not part of the \u201cFrame-By-Frame\u201d series.)\nAside from chronology \u2013 \u201cMcCabe and Mrs. Miller\u201d came out in 1971 and \u201cManhattan\u201d came out in 1979 \u2013 Milazzo said there are other connections between the movies, even if they differ vastly in terms of tone and story.\n\u201cThere are lots of big performances. 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Accepting their first prize at Staples Centre in Los Angeles, Gaga, 32, dedicated the gong to Bradley, 44. \u201cI wish Bradley was here with me right now,\u201d she said. \u201cBradley, I loved singing this song with you.\u201d The Bad Romance singer then addressed the issue of mental health, with her adding: \u201cIf I don\u2019t get another chance to say this, I just want to say I\u2019m so proud to be a part of a movie that addressed mental health issues, they\u2019re so important.\u201d\nGaga also encouraged people who suspect someone they know may be struggling with their mental health to intervene and help them.\n\u201cIf you see someone that\u2019s hurting, don\u2019t look away,\u201d she urged.\nGaga and Bradely won in a category including Christina Aguilera and Demi Lovato, Backstreet Boys and Maroon 5 and Cardi B.\nOn the red carpet, Gaga stunned in a strapless gown, which had ruffled detailing on one side of the garment.\nAlso, the shiny attire fell to her feet and gaped open diagonally to reveal her toned pins and silver footwear.\nShe accessorised with a diamond neckline and matching earrings, but hid the ear jewellery under her wavy locks.\nHer blonde tresses were worn with a centre parting, while her make-up was dramatic but beautiful.\nWhile on the red carpet, Gaga rubbed shoulders with a bevy of famous faces including Jennifer Lopez, 49, and Mark Ronson, 43.\nJennifer Lopez, also known as J-Lo, and Gaga looked delighted to see each other, as the pair pretended to kiss when they met before the ceremony.\nIn one photo capturing the moment the two greeted one another, J-Lo is seen pouting as the Poker Face singer held her face.\nThe mother-of-two looked incredible in a embodied number, which fell to the ground, covering her footwear.\nShe added drama to the look with a wide-brimmed hat, adorned with diamant\u00e9s and carried a small white clutch bag.\nJ-Lo was accompanied by her boyfriend, Alex Rodriguez, who looked dapper in a colour tuxedo, which he paired with black trousers.\nThe 43-year-old baseball star, who has been dating the singer for a year, completed the look with a bow-tie and shiny shoes.\nMiley Cyrus flashes MAJOR sideboob and lots of flesh in plunging ensemble at Grammys 2019.\n2019, Acceptance, Back, delivers, emotional, fights, Gaga, Grammys, Lady, speech, tears\nSee All the Winners From the 2019 BAFTA Awards A Princess Vanishes. 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Both were charged with involuntary manslaughter\nI reached out to a few petroleum engineering faculty at other institutions to see if they have any idea what the equipment was, but I haven\u2019t heard back. A prior Doha News story Principle of diversification\nRaed al Khalaf, chairman of Al Raed Fresh Foods, said: \"We look forward to expanding our business and investing in a wider range of Philippine food products based on the principle of diversification of resources to meet the needs of the Qatari market and the Filipino community in Qatar.\nQatar, Philippine firms explore investment opportunities at food security meet\nBoth of these mainstream views, as I will refer to them--the traditional view that matter is the principle of diversification and the view that form is the principle of diversification--agree that numerical diversification is underived at some level in the order of composition: the level of matter for the traditional view; the level of form for the other view.\nThe primacy of the organism: being, unity, and diversification in Aristotle's metaphysics\nDela Cruz said the project is a rice-based enterprise with the principle of diversification (maximum use of farm space), intensification (maximum use of time), and integration (farm resource and zero-waste management).\nPhilippines : PhilRice launches 'PalaYamaNayon' project\nFor example, the bank would be unlikely to put nearly $5 million into an investment without the board's approval, because that's too large a sum to place in any one investment, according to the principle of diversification, Levear said.\nUO plans own banking operation\nThe principle of diversification applies to managing a business as it does to managing a portfolio.\nThe enduring advisory firm: the advisory firm of the future is building a business based on tomorrow's clients and employees\nThe affects of an economic recession and the recent Arab Spring which has led to political and social changes in the region, with the resulting fluctuating oil prices has led many in the region to realise the importance of enhancing the principle of diversification of wealth sources so as to meet the requirements of the GCC economic integration and growth.\nOil takes hold 80 per cent of general Gulf expenditure\nThe analysis of diversification highlighting the principle of diversification and safety first initially was applied to domestic assets alone until Grubel (1968), Levy and Sarnat (1970, 1979), Solnik (1974), Losq (1979), Vaubel (1979), and Friend and Losq (1979), among others, brought portfolio structure into the setting of international markets.\nRoy (1952), in a parallel examination of the principle of diversification, introduces the notion of disaster and the concept of safety first.\nAsset acquisition, diversification, and revision-theoretic exercises in portfolio theory\nThe principle of diversification is still working to cushion a part of the decline, but not to the same degree that it did five or six or seven years ago,\" Scudder said.\nEven Harvard and other elite institutions are feeling pinch as healthy endowments wither in stock market meltdown\nIn addition, they understand the principle of diversification as a means to reduce portfolio risk.\nAlternative investments can enhance portfolio returns and lessen volatility\nThe principle of diversification is to spread your investments, and therefore your risk, by investing in several industries, such as financial, health care and technology.\nRules to live and invest by\nIts philosophy is based on the core principle of diversification of risk, implemented over a long-term investment horizon.\nWarburg Pincus and Goldman Sachs Lead $26 Million Investment in Chancellor Beacon Academies\nprincipal exchange-rate-linked security\nPrincipal Finance\nPrinciple of Atom Conservation\nPrinciple of Calorimetry\nPrinciple of causality\nPrinciple of charge conservation\nprinciple of coincidence\nPrinciple of Competitive Exclusion\nPrinciple of Conservation of Linear Momentum\nPrinciple of corresponding states\nPrinciple of covariance\nprinciple of dichotomy\nPrinciple of duality\nprinciple of dynamical similarity\nPrinciple of equal a-priori probability\nPrinciple of Fundamental Justice\nPrinciple of Galilean relativity\nPrinciple of good enough\nprinciple of inaccessibility\nPrinciple of inclusion-exclusion\nPrinciple of inclusion-exclusion proof\nPrinciple of indeterminacy\nPrinciple of inertia\nPrinciple of inertia (physics)", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00080.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 266, + "original_length": 9768, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.91, + "perplexity": 325.4, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "http://firstwarnweatherteam.blogspot.com/2016/09/", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T03:14:51Z", + "digest": "sha1:MPK2IQA5MDFMRX5UO2NOAXUTHGNKJDJK", + "length": 43464, + "nlines": 134, + "source_domain": "firstwarnweatherteam.blogspot.com", + "title": "First Warn Weather Team: September 2016", + "raw_content": "We are now entering October, so what happened in the weather department during the month of September? Well, the biggest story is the abnormally warm temperatures we saw here in Rockford. One day saw temperatures soar into the lower 90's, which ended up being one of the four hottest days all summer. Numerous days featured high temperatures in the 80's. Most days in the month saw temperatures above average. Statistically, we were oh-so-close to breaking the record for the warmest average September temperature ever. The record highest average September temperature (utilizes both daily highs and lows) is 69.9\u00b0. Rockford's average temperature this year for the month of September is 69.4\u00b0. That number is good for being 5.3\u00b0 above normal.\nPrecipitation was roughly average for the month. Totals by the time the stats for September 30th come in will be at roughly 3\". That will result in a month where we were about three-tenths of an inch below normal. It is certainly not abnormal to see a departure in the precipitation category. It is typical to see precipitation totals between 0\" and 0.50\" above or below normal. Therefore, September will go down as slightly below average in the rainfall department, but overall it has been roughly average.\nScattered Rain Chances to Start Weekend\nIt's been dominating our weather pattern across the Midwest for the past week or so... yes I'm talking about that pesky upper level low pressure system. Its currently located over Kentucky this morning and that is why most of Thursday afternoon and evening remained dry. However, that low pressure is still forecast to retrograde this afternoon. That essentially means it will move from the east to the west, from Kentucky to northwest Indiana through the day. With that forecast track, the chance for rain will increase today, but especially for the evening.\nWe can expect this afternoon to remain cloudy and windy, with northeast winds at 15mph and gusting to 25 mph. In terms of the rain, the Stateline looks to pick up on widely scattered lighter showers. For the afternoon, the highest coverage would be right around Lake Michigan with rain likely there today. For the Stateline, the highest coverage remains near our eastern counties with about a 40-50% chance. For areas closer to Rockford the chance drops a bit to 30-40%, and west of Freeport and Oregon the chance is dropped to about 10-20%.\nRain threat decreases from east to west because of the movement of the low. Today the rain will move in from the east and then tracks west. The low is drawing in moisture from the Atlantic and at first it will be harder for western counties to receive that, along with the lift from the low also decreasing the further west you head.\nAs mentioned though, tonight with the low almost overhead, the chance for rain really goes up, and turns likely for the entire area closer to midnight.\nThe low is finally able to scoot northeast tomorrow and that will keep rain in the forecast through the mid-afternoon and then diminishes late in the day. We keep the clouds from the low on Sunday but we stay on the dry side, before warmth and more sun arrives on Monday of next week.\nWe May Hear Some Thunder\nIt seems like a long time ago that we last saw thunderstorms here in the Stateline. That is because we have been under the influence of fall. That has led to cooler temperatures, low humidity, and a lack of a thunderstorm threat. That trend continues Friday as scattered showers are expected on the back side of an upper-level low that will be situated in Indiana. However, as the low approaches the Illinois border into Saturday, it will bring a slightly more thunderstorm-friendly air mass into the Rockford region. With the center of the low nearby, some minor instability (CAPE) will develop during the day. That is what thunderstorms need to develop and maintain themselves. Think of CAPE (Convective Available Potential Energy) as food for storms.\nFor the Stateline, there will be minor CAPE in place Saturday. That, in addition to having the upper-level low so close, will support an environment slightly more conducive to thunderstorms than what we have seen lately. It is not a guarantee by any stretch of the imagination that we see thunder and lightning. But the formula for storms will be more complete than it has of late. The good news is that if we do see a thunderstorm or two, it won't be severe.\nRare \"Black Moon\" to Occur Friday\nAn astronomical event will occur this Friday, the last day of September. The catch? It's essentially invisible. So, what is the point of even mentioning this phenomenon? It is referred to as a \"black moon\" and has not occurred since March of 2014. It usually happens roughly once every other year. So it's not exactly ultra rare, but it isn't an every year type of happening. The \"black moon\" title is used whenever a second new moon phase happens in a single calendar month. That will happen for the western hemisphere this Friday.\nA new moon is the phase when the illuminated side of the moon faces away from the earth. Therefore, no moon is seen because there's nothing to light the side of the moon that is facing earth up. This phase is normal and occurs in every moon cycle. This particular event is only given a special name because it doesn't happen all the time. The first new moon of the month went completely unmentioned. The one effect this event will have on areas where sky cover is not a limiting factor is it will provide a very dark sky (no moonlight to illuminate the sky). That darkness will supply ideal stargazing conditions. The sad news for the Stateline is extensive cloudiness is anticipated to be in place, as are a few showers. Thus, not only can we not see a \"black moon,\" but we won't be able to see its effects on stargazing.\nHow Chilly Today?\nToday's temperatures ranged from the upper 50's into the lower 60's. Some locations did surpass the pictured range of 58-62\u00b0, but that does not change the fact that today featured the coolest high temperatures since May 15th! We can thank the enhanced cloud cover, showers, and north winds for putting a \"cap\" on our temperatures today. This was one of those days typically thought of as \"raw.\" We are already seeing clearing this evening, but addition rain is likely through midnight with a band of rain moving inland from Lake Michigan. The area of low pressure responsible for the showers and rain will move far enough east on Thursday to deliver a mainly dry day with warmer temperatures near 70\u00b0. However, the same low will meander back west towards Indiana on Friday and Saturday, As a result, we will see a return to \"raw\" conditions with showers, clouds, winds, and temperatures only in the middle 60's to begin the weekend. Buckle up! Fall is definitely here to stay!\nPesky Low Keeps Showers Around\nA very pesky \"cut-off\" low has been swirling in place on the northern shore of Lake Superior for the last 48 hours. It is the same low that swung the cold front through our region late Sunday. The low has kept low clouds, showers, gusty winds, and cool temperatures in place just to our north since Sunday. Although it hasn't moved much at all since Sunday, it will slowly drop south towards the Illinois-Indiana border Tuesday night and Wednesday. That will result in showery, cloudy, and cool weather for the Stateline through Wednesday evening. The low will then slowly move into Ohio, taking the shower activity with it -- only for 24 hours, though.\nAs the low area of low pressure sits in the Ohio Valley Wednesday night and Thursday, it will be far enough away to allow for a partly cloudy and milder day Thursday. Temperatures should be able to warm into the lower 70's, but the winds will remain breezy. The break in cloudiness doesn't last, however. The low pressure center will meander back westward into Indiana Friday and Saturday. That will bring back the chance of a few showers. The low will edge away from the region late Saturday, which will bring an end to the extensive cloudiness, windiness, and showery weather for Sunday, Monday and Tuesday!\nA Look at September Statistics\nDespite fall entering with a force today in the form of sunshine, strong winds, and temperatures in the 60's, September has been remarkably warm. In fact, we are currently on track to break the record for the warmest average temperature in the month of September. Of the 26 days that have come and gone, 20 of them were above average. That is good for 77% of September days being above average thus far. Not only that, but our average high temperature for the month is a little higher than 81\u00b0. That is a degree warmer than our average high on the first of the month, or the warmest day of the month.\nNow let's jump back to the whole, \"we could be in for the warmest September ever\" statement. If the month ended today, we would break the record for warmest average September temperature by over 1\u00b0. To get the average temperature for the month, each day's high temperature and low temperature are taken into consideration. Once all of the data are attained, an average is taken. Of course there are still four more days in the month to get through. Each of those days is expected to feature high temperatures in the 60's and low temperatures near 50\u00b0. Thus, we could slip just below that 69.9\u00b0 threshold by September 30th. It'll be something to watch for the next 96 hours!\nBig changes this week! If you've been chomping at the bit to get out and visit one of the many apple orchards or pumpkin patches, this week is a perfect week to do it!\nIf you spent the day outside yesterday, it had a very summer like feel with highs in the mid and upper 80's (for most) along with fairly muggy conditions. However, a potent cold front that brought scattered storms yesterday afternoon and a few showers overnight is now well to the east of the state.\nNow our dew points are falling into the 40's along with plenty of sunshine. It will be a very dry day today, albeit windy and very fall-like. Winds will gust from the west up to 35 mph today as temperatures make it to about 66\u00b0. Compared to yesterday, that is a 20\u00b0 temperature drop in about 24 hours. Not only that, but the week as a whole will be vastly different. The average high temperature last week was in the 80's compared to this week's forecast average high which is in the 60's. If the forecast pans out, the weekly high will be about 15 degrees cooler.\nA deep low pressure system will then sink south over Lake Michigan, dislodging much cooler air with a deep trough over the Midwest and into even the mid-south. Temperatures will only reach near 60\u00b0 on Wednesday before rebounding back into the low 70's through the weekend.\nHeightened Fire Danger for Whiteside County\nVery high fire danger today for field fires, for areas along and south of Highway 30. These areas have the best conditions for cropland fires growing rapidly. For the Stateline, this includes Whiteside County, while the rest of the area has more of a limited fire risk.\nThis happens as the relative humidity drops to about 30-35%, which essentially is a very dry air mass. We combine this with strong westerly winds that will increase and become sustained from 5-15mph to then 15-25 mph, and then gusting to 35 mph. With these combined conditions and now harvested fields it will make for a high fire danger. If an agricultural field were to catch fire, the weather conditions would support it spreading quickly.\nCooler Week Ahead!\nFor those of you that have been waiting for fall-like temperatures - they are on their way! The storm system that is pushing though our area this evening has the first true fall-level temperatures behind it - this is the same storm that dropped snow earlier this week in the Rocky Mountains. Even though we had very warm air in front of the storm and humidity that made it feel like a summer day, big changes are on the way.\nAs the above graphic shows, temperatures for the majority of the upcoming week will be below normal for a change. The normal high for today is 71 degrees and by the end of the week, the normal high will have dropped to 69 degrees - big changes for this time of year! In addition to a big drop in temperatures on Monday, winds will be very strong as well - running 15 to 25 miles per hour from the west with some gusts over 30 mph - welcome Fall!\nThe Climate Prediction Center is still predicting a warmer-than-average fall for the Stateline area, so even though the cool temperatures may give way to above average temperatures in the future, it will be a refreshing change to the recent warm and humid conditions. Have a great start to your week!\nStormy Weather On The Way!\nBig changes on the way tomorrow as a storm system approaches from the west bringing us increasing chances for rain and thunderstorms. This is the same storm that is bringing snow to some rocky mountain areas - so you know there is some colder air behind it.\nWe have a very mild night in store tonight as dew points are high and we will have increasing clouds, all having the effect of holding heat at the surface. Our low will be 65 degrees - very mild on a night when our average low should be 49! Tomorrow morning a warm front will push through, raising our temperatures and increasing dew points even further, in fact by afternoon our dew points could feel almost tropical at 70 degrees.\nA cold front will approach from the west and should move through the Stateline area around 6 or 7 pm, bringing the best chance for showers and thunderstorms. Some of these storms could be severe (marginal risk only) with high winds and moderate hail being the greatest threats.\nBig changes on Monday with much cooler air in place, a possible shower and a high of only 66 degrees with a low of 45 degrees Monday night - downright cold! It will finally start to feel like fall.\nFall Temperatures Knocking on the Doorstep\nSeptember has been quite warm thus far. In fact, we are flirting with the warmest average overall temperature ever for the month of September. There is one road block in the way that may disallow Rockford to record its warmest September ever, however. That is a large upper-level trough that is poised to move across the Midwest and Great Lakes early next week. That trough will be associated with a powerful early fall cold front that is going to move through late Sunday. The map above shows that trough (a dip in the flow) by looking thousands of feet into the atmosphere. The shades of green and yellow indicate much cooler air, and that will be around through the entire week.\nThis may be the cold front that fully eliminates summer-like heat and humidity from the forecast until 2017. Take a look at the graphic depicting our temperature trend into next week. We will be above average in the upper 70's and lower 80's this weekend, but highs will only be in the 60's and lower 70's next week with plenty of sunshine.\nSoggy September\nWhile there's been more dry days through the month compared to wet ones, Rockford and other Stateline areas have received decent amounts of rain. There have been two days in where Rockford alone received over an inch of rain.\nTypically the month receives about 2.50\" of rain, but already the month's total has added up to just under 3 inches. And, there's more rain in the forecast coming up by the end of the weekend with a potent cold front posed to arrive Sunday afternoon.\nAlong with the rain, its been a fairly warm month as well. So far its one of the warmest Septembers on record, but we'll have to wait until the end of the month to see exactly where we rank. As it stands now, the monthly average (average of the daily high and low all month) has reached almost 71\u00b0 which is 5\u00b0 above the monthly average.\nTemperatures next week however will fall into the 60's through Wednesday.\nFall is Here; What is Next?\nFall is officially here. So what does that mean for us? First and most importantly, it's a sign that cooler temperatures are on their way. Another noteworthy piece of information about our change of seasons is the fact that we have and will continue losing daylight at roughly three minutes per day through late October. Once November arrives, our rate of losing daylight slows until we reach our shortest day of the year, which is the winter solstice in late December. We are also going to begin noticing fall foliage occurring in northern Illinois and southern Wisconsin. As temperatures continue their decline, the leaves will begin to change color. For the Rockford area, the best viewing time for fall color occurs between October 3rd and November 6th.\nSo we know what fall means in a generic fashion, but what kind of weather are we actually anticipating to occur? According to the latest trends, nearly all of the lower 48 has a chance of seeing above average temperatures through fall. It is unusual, but there are no locations in the United States where below average temperatures are expected. That does not mean there won't be cool stretches spread out through the fall season, but the overall pattern looks to feature warmer than average temperatures. That will especially be true for the southwestern portion of the country.\nRegarding precipitation, forecast guidance suggests that much of the United States has an equal chance of below or above average rainfall through the fall months. The southeastern United States has a moderate probability of seeing below average precipitation. Only Montana sees an above average chance of seeing more rain than normal through December.\nAutumnal Equinox is Here!\nThe autumnal equinox will occur tomorrow, September 22nd. We all know that means fall officially begins (at 9:21am to be exact), but what else does that phrase mean? The word \"equinox\" is derived from Latin. In Latin, the prefix \"equi\" means equal, and the word \"nox\" means night. Putting these two together results in a word that literally means \"equal night.\" And, if equal night occurs, equal daytime would automatically occur as well. In other words, the autumnal equinox is a day that features essentially equal daylight and nighttime for both the northern and southern hemispheres.\nThe reasoning for the equality is simple: the sun's rays hit directly at the equator, which leads to 12 hours of daylight and 12 hours of nighttime. It's important to know, though, that it is not exactly 12 hours of each, but it is very, very close. The autumnal equinox always occurs in late September in the northern hemisphere. Once we pass the 22nd, we will start to lose daylight each day through the winter solstice, which occurs in late December. That day features the northern hemisphere's shortest day in terms of daylight of the entire calendar year.\nSoggy Wednesday\nStorms with heavy rain and dime to nickel sized hail have continued south across the Stateline this morning. Not one, but two lines of storms have moved through.\nSo far there hasn't been any severe storms, but there has still been hefty amounts of rain. So far some locations have picked up around an inch and a half of rain, with more rain still falling. Along with that, there have been wind gusts around 40mph and hail up to a half inch in some of the storms.\nThe storms will continue sinking to the southeast around 30 mph and will continue through about 1pm today before we see dry but cloudy skies across the area. These storms have developed where there has been higher moisture levels and higher instability.\nAs mentioned, no severe weather is anticipated at this time, but storms will continue with heavy rain, small hail, and gusty winds near 40mph. The stronger areas of storms will continue to sink southeast and stay mainly south and west of Rochelle.\nCoverage of these storms will lessen by the afternoon and we begin to dry out. While there are storm chances tonight, I anticipate they will stay north of the Wisconsin Stateline.\nStorm Track Just North of Area\nThe jet stream will shift well to the north for the remainder of the week and into the weekend. That is important for our neck of the woods for two reasons. First, since we will be located to the south of the jet -- which is just an area of very strong winds within the flow up in the atmosphere -- we will see southerly winds. It is winds from the south that usher in unseasonably warm temperatures during this time of year. In terms of the magnitude of the heat, we won't see record highs. But middle and even upper 80's have occurred already this week, and will likely occur again.\nThe humidity will also be abnormally high for this time of year through the weekend to accompany the hotter temperatures. The second impact that the jet stream's location will have on the Stateline is it places the region in a spot where rain and storms will likely occur multiple times. In these types of patterns, wherever the apex (top of the ridge, or jet stream arrows in the image above) is located usually represents the area where rounds of rain and storms will happen. That area will be Wisconsin, southern Minnesota, Iowa, and potentially northwest Illinois through the rest of the week.\nThese rounds of storms usually develop in the evening and use a nocturnal low-level jet stream, ample moisture, and warmth to maintain themselves through the nighttime hours. As meteorologists often say, \"they round the ridge.\" That phrase refers to the areas of storms that develop. Once they do form, they usually congeal into a line and push southeast rapidly -- following the winds of the jet stream aloft. With the jet being just to our north this week, the locations with the best chance of seeing these lines of storms -- or MCS's -- will be Minnesota, northern Iowa, the eastern Dakotas, and Wisconsin. However, as is usually the case with these patterns, the MCS's will tend to have enough strength to push further south than forecast models suggest. That is why there is a chance that we could see some of these nighttime storms reach the region both Tuesday night and Wednesday night.\nWhere Did Our Storms Go?\nConditions appeared supportive of severe weather today across northern Illinois and southern Wisconsin. A severe thunderstorm watch and a tornado watch were issued late in the afternoon for areas north and west of the region. Our counties in southern Wisconsin, in addition to Jo Daviess County were included in a watch. However, there was only one severe weather warning that was issued through the evening. That was far less than what was expected. So, why did we see a low amount of thunderstorm activity?\nThe corridor of severe weather supportive parameters was very small. Southern Wisconsin and the eastern half of Iowa had the necessary ingredients to see severe weather. Those are the locations that witnessed a few severe thunderstorms. Areas such as Galena, Savanna, Freeport, Janesville, Monroe, and Sterling were on the fringe of the \"best\" area to see severe weather. The moisture content, instability, and wind shear were all much higher than those same parameters in Rockford, Belvidere, DeKalb, Sycamore, Rochelle, Oregon, Byron, and Amboy. It's not very common to see such a difference in atmospheric profiles in such a small area.\nSince the parameters were not in place over much of northern Illinois, the thunderstorms died as they approached the Illinois-Wisconsin border Monday evening. Not only did much of the Stateline lack instability, shear, and moisture, but there was an atmospheric \"cap\" in place aloft. In other words, a warm layer existed thousands of feet off of Earth's surface. That warm layer results in what is referred to as a stable environment. Thunderstorms do not like stable environments. Thus, as storms approached northern Illinois (aside from Jo Daviess and northern Stephenson Counties) they quickly faded, essentially approaching a wall of dry air.\nTiming Out Severe Threat\nWe are monitoring the weather closely this afternoon as severe weather is likely across portions of the Stateline. The radar is beginning to show signs of what is to come this evening. In Iowa, which is where the storms will initially develop, a storm ha already developed and strengthened rapidly. That trend will continue in the red oval through the remainder of the afternoon and evening. Storms will strengthen very fast; many will turn strong to severe.\nA Severe Thunderstorm Watch is already in effect for Walworth, Green and Rock Counties in southern Wisconsin until 8 PM. A Tornado Watch is likely to be issued by 4 PM for eastern Iowa and far northwestern Illinois. That is in anticipation of severe thunderstorms developing and posing a large hail risk and an isolated tornado risk across east-central Iowa into the northwest corner of Illinois. The timing will likely be after 5 PM for southern Wisconsin and far northwest Illinois (Jo Daviess County). It's important to remember that just because no watch is out for your particular county does not mean there is no severe threat. There is a risk of severe thunderstorms for the entire area, but the highest threat exists in southern Wisconsin, Jo Daviess, Stephenson, Carroll, and Whiteside Counties. Other locations could see a strong or severe thunderstorm as well through the evening, but the threat is lower due to less favorable severe weather parameters. Be sure to follow our Twitter and Facebook pages for updates!\nSunshine Gives Way to Afternoon Storms\nMost of Monday looks to be a gorgeous summer-like day with breezy southwest winds and high temperatures in the mid 80's. Most of the afternoon won't be very humid, but late in the afternoon we will notice more humidity arriving ahead of our next storm system.\nThe heat and higher dew points will then set the stage for strong to severe storms late this afternoon. With the heating of the day, instability will increase and an incoming cold front will help to fire up isolated to widely scattered storms in the area. Storms will initially develop northwest of the Stateline in central Wisconsin and north central Iowa, with storms then moving southeast. Initially storms will be super cellular in nature, with threats of heavy rain, strong winds, large hail, and even a couple of tornadoes.\nAs the storms move away from the front, they lose the support of the extra lift and instability and I believe will weaken as they move into northern Illinois. By this time the tornado threat will be lower, the Stateline looks to see more of a large hail and heavy rain threat, along with gusty winds. As the forecast stands now, storms won't be moving terribly fast either.\nTiming for the Stateline will be around 4pm through about midnight and then drying out overnight.\nWe will continue to keep you updated as we go through the day.\nPossible Severe Storms on Monday\nWhat a spectacular weekend - seasonably warm temperatures, lower humidities and almost unlimited sunshine - a nice way to move into the fall season indeed. Changes are in the offing however as a storm system approaches us from the Northwest on Monday.\nAs the storm system is approaching - our winds have turned to the South and will usher in higher temperatures and humidity as well on Monday. These to factors will increase the instability of the airmass. As the cold front associated with the storm approaches, the forcing from the front could trigger formation of some storms, some of which could become severe. It doesn't look like this will be a widespread event as there is an atmospheric cap in place and could prevent the storms from growing to severe size.\nTiming on arrival of the front and the associated storms will need to be watched. Based on models reviewed tonight, it looks like the timing will be 8 or 9 pm tomorrow. Sometimes storms can be triggered before the front arrives as well, so stay in touch with us and we'll keep you updated.\nAfter the front passes on Monday, Tuesday looks to be another beautiful day. Have a great night!\nChanging Weather - Warm Week Ahead, Then Cooler\nNext week will feel more like a summer week as opposed to the opening of fall. This is because the jet stream is going to push well to our north and introduce a strong southerly flow and higher humidity. Our average high this time of year should be 76 degrees, but we will be above that number the entire week, with highs especially toward the end of the week in the low to mid-80's.\nBig changes are in store however as the jet stream next Sunday will dig well to the south, ushering much cooler and drier Canadian air and it looks as though this weather regime could be in place for a good portion of that week. The timing would almost be right on target, however as the first day of Fall is this Thursday. So it will begin to feel like fall - just 4 days later! Enjoy the summer-like week ahead!\nBring On The Games!\nShowers and thunderstorms moved through the Stateline area earlier today as a disturbance pushed through - the good news is that most of the rain activity has pushed off to the south and east and should allow most of the football games this evening go without a hitch. This is especially important because of all the cookouts and tailgating tonight.\nThe game of the week is Boylan vs. Harlem and should be a great game with very comfortable conditions. The temperature will be 72 degrees at kickoff and their is just a slight chance of a shower before the game is complete. It will continue to be mild tonight with a low of 65 degrees.\nTomorrow morning we will have elevated chances for showers and even a thunderstorm as a cold front approaches from the west. After any early morning showers, our skies should clear and it should be another great day for football - or whatever else you might have planned!\nModels have continued to show warm temperatures next week across the Midwest and Great Lakes. Upper-level ridging is expected to take place Sunday into Monday, which will be accompanied by southerly flow. That will usher warm air all the way into the Dakotas and Minnesota early in the week. That warm air will reach northern Illinois and southern Wisconsin by Monday in the form of high temperatures in the lower 80's, which would put the area about 5-10\u00b0 above average. The epicenter of the heat won't reach this far north, but there will likely be temperatures in the upper 80's and lower 90's to our south and west. In fact, some temperatures on Sunday and Monday could approach 10-20\u00b0 above average in the Plains and Missouri Valley regions.\nWarmth looks poised to remain intact through Thursday, but it will be pushed south on both Tuesday and Wednesday. That will cut the lower 80's into upper 70's to perhaps 80\u00b0 for Tuesday and Wednesday. As a cold front gathers steam in the Plains on Wednesday, southerly flow will again send well-above average temperatures into the Stateline on Thursday. That will again push high temperatures into the lower 80's for much of the area.\nTime to Wash the Car....\n....after Friday!\nIt will be a very pleasant Thursday afternoon with a lot of sunshine and comfortable warmth in the upper 70's today. And while our Thursday will stay dry, rain arrives early Friday ahead of our next cold front.\nWe will notice mainly rain showers, but can't rule out a few rumbles of thunder through the afternoon on Friday. You'll want to keep the umbrella handy with on and off rain and thunder through out the day. Rain totals will range between about 0.25-0.75\", with heavier rain possible to the south.\nThe rain will come to an end late Friday and then the weather pattern turns a bit more quiet.\nHigh pressure builds to the south, allowing upper level ridging through central Illinois. This set up keeps rain and storm chances to the outer edge of that high pressure system as energy rotates through that region. The northern jet stays close to the Canadian border, and again will keep most rain and storm chances north of the area. Storms are usually tied to jet placement because energy or disturbances tend to ride along those areas. Looking past Friday, rain and storm chances will be contained to north and southern portions of the United States. Northern jet keeps rain just north of the area in Wisconsin. Besides Friday, our next chance for rain arrives Wednesday, but overall that is just a slight chance.\nAnniversary of 1928 Rockford Tornado\nSeptember 14th marks the anniversary of the deadly tornado that tore through southeast Rockford back in 1928 -- 88 years ago. It is a storm that will never be forgotten in the city's history. It developed near the southern city limits of Rockford, which had a population of 85,000 at the time. It moved at roughly 40 MPH to the northeast, affecting the southeastern portion of the city for a distance of 2.25 miles, affecting 30 city blocks. The most noteworthy piece of damage occurred when the tornado barreled into a three-story chair factory in which 114 men were working at 3:22 PM. The building took a direct hit, but only 8 of the factory's employees died. The tornado continued to move northeast, cutting a swath of damage of 300 feet through areas of factories and residencies.\nAround this time, four teenage boys were quickly walking home to avoid the storm. A garage roof came hurtling through air, instantly killing two of them. A third later died. The storm's path of destruction increased to 400 feet as it shattered windows, ripped apart porches, uprooted numerous trees, and narrowly missed several schools. It did cause considerable damage to other large factories, destroying walls. The tornado moved through a section of new homes, but the damage wasn't extreme. It then moved away from the city and entered an increasingly rural area east of downtown. It still partially demolished several farm buildings and uprooted many trees. The storm moved just north of Argyle, about one mile south of Poplar Grove, and caused some damage in Capron around 4 PM.\nThe length of the twister's path in its entirety was roughly 25 miles. The width of the path reached a maximum of 500 feet. Nearly 200 buildings were damaged or destroyed, and the cost of the damages came out to be about $1.2 million. The tornado was rated an F4 on the Fujita Scale, which suggests winds upwards of 260 MPH. Roughly 100 people were injured in Rockford alone, with fourteen casualties recorded.\nNo Big Cold Shots Ahead\nOne thing meteorologists like to do is look ahead beyond the next seven days. Doing so now will provide good news to much of the country if warmer temperatures are what you like. Looking at the long-range forecast models, one thing sticks out more than anything else: no big shots of cold are showing up for northern Illinois and southern Wisconsin. Moreover, there aren't many cold shots showing up for anybody in the United States through the end of September. Now, that doesn't mean there won't be a few short-lived blasts of cooler air. That is to be expected when you transition from one season to the next. What is to be expected is no long-lived cold intrusions through the remainder of the month.\nThe reason for the lack of cold air through the next three weeks is simple: the jet stream will remain along and north of the US-Canada border. The jet stream is an area of stronger winds located well above the Earth's surface. In meteorology, its position makes it easier to determine where colder and warmer air will reside. And, with the jet largely staying well to the north as we round out September, there will be a lack of cold air intrusions in the continental United States!\nTiming Tuesday's Rain\nThis morning ahead of a cold front, showers and storms are stretching from western Missouri through Iowa and into northwest Illinois and Wisconsin. Areas in Jo Daviess County and Stephenson County, along with Green and Rock Counties in southern Wisconsin all dealing with shower and storm activity.\nThe rain in these areas won't last too much longer this morning, mainly through about 10am and will stay mainly contained along the Wisconsin border and north of a line from Freeport to Rockford. Overall the severe threat in any storms is very low, but tracking small hail potential in the far northwestern corner of Green County in Wisconsin. Also, with dew points in the low 60's along the border, some heavier downpours possible.\nThere will be many dry hours this afternoon, until the cold front passes later in the afternoon. This will allow for a higher coverage in showers and storms closer to the 3/4pm hour. As the cold front passes scattered showers and storms will continue through this evening. The rain comes to an end just after midnight, with a lingering shower possible Wednesday morning. High pressure then builds in behind the cold front and we dry out through Wednesday and Thursday.\nFall Foliage Not Far Off\nWith fall quickly approaching, many are beginning to plan trips to see the best foliage around. Both Wisconsin and Illinois will see a good showing of color with no significant flooding or dry spells occurring this year. In just a few days, there may even be very minimal changes in Illinois and southern Wisconsin, according to forecasts. Many locations don't see much in the way of color changes until late September and early October.\nBy September 30th, the map looks quite a bit different. Most of Illinois and the southern half of Wisconsin will be in the \"partial\" category for foliage. This is when some changes will become noticeable as you drive from one location to another in the Stateline. The areas by the last day of September that will see \"peak\" foliage include the mountains of Colorado, far northern Minnesota, and the mountains of northern New England. Things really start to change as we enter the month of October.\nBy the middle of the month, foliage will be at its peak level in many locations. Some mountainous and far northern areas may be in the \"post peak\" category by this time. Southern Wisconsin and most of Illinois will be in that desired \"peak\" category. For Wisconsin, peak foliage occurs between October 5th and 14th. For northern Illinois, that occurs between October 5th and 21st. That means it's time to start planning those trips to local parks!\nThis Week's Rain Threat\nAfter a fantastic weekend in the weather department, our eyes have shifted to the work week, which features two decent chances of rain. One system will move in on Tuesday and bring a threat of showers and a rumble of thunder or two from Tuesday morning through very early Wednesday morning. The severe threat is essentially zero with that system with many severe weather parameters looking minuscule. The rain won't be heavy, nor will it be falling constantly. Our second system rolls in on Friday. That will introduce another rain chance through the day on Friday and into Friday night. Some of the rain may stick around through the first half of Saturday as well with low pressure expected to strengthen to our northeast.\nAs is the case with Tuesday's rain chance, Friday isn't a \"for sure\" hit with everyone seeing rain. Thunderstorm chances look minimal, as does our chance of seeing heavy rain on Friday. To be safe, though, pack the umbrella on both Tuesday and Friday to stay dry in case a rain shower does move in when you happen to be outside!\nBig Contrast in Temperatures!\nWhat a change a couple of days makes? Things have changed dramatically for us in the Stateline area as a strong storm system has ushered in significant changes to our temperatures and humidity. As highlighted by the graphic, our average high over the 7 days prior to today was 85 degrees, and with our forecast for the next 7 days, our average high will fall to 75 degrees! Not only will we feel the temperatures fall, but it will also be much drier outside, as dew points have fallen from the 70's last week to the 50's today.\nSo, if you are tired of constantly running your air conditioner, you will be able to take a nice break. Our weather pattern has changed so that the predominant flow is coming from Canada, ushering in storm systems every 3 to 4 days and the cold fronts that accompany those storms. A possible downside is that you will need a jacket at night as our low temperatures will be in the 50's and possibly the 40's in some areas.\nAverage high temperatures fall quickly this time of year as the days are getting shorter and the overall weather pattern starts to change. Over the next 7 days the average high temperature drops from 78 down to 75 degrees! This is not to say that we won't have some warm days left, but certainly they are going to be less frequent!\nHow Chilly?\nThe coolest air in a long time is poised to move in this weekend. Behind tonight's strong cold front, winds will turn blustery out of the northwest on Saturday. That will do two things. First, it will make for a breezy day. Second, it will keep our high temperatures in the lower 70's under a mostly cloudy sky. That will result in an early October feel, especially early in the day when a few isolated showers are possible. Once the winds subside in the evening and high pressure begins to move in and eat away at our cloud cover, temperatures will be allowed to fall off like a rock.\nWhen you want chilly temperatures in the warm months, you must have ideal conditions. Clear skies, light winds, and an area of high pressure combine to support very effective radiational cooling. These components will all be in place Saturday night, which will allow temperatures to fall into the upper 40's in many spots. Some of our forecast models hint at middle 40's, which wouldn't be completely shocking in our typically cooler locations, such as Rochelle, Freeport, and Monroe. Nonetheless, our average low currently is 55\u00b0, and the last time temperatures dropped to 48\u00b0 or less was back on May 19th! So it'll definitely be an unseasonably cool night for mid-September.\nMuch Cooler Weekend Ahead\nWho's ready for a fall-like weekend? If you enjoyed the heat and humidity, you may not like what we have on tap by Saturday. Friday will be quite humid as we see a return to southwesterly winds. That will usher in higher humidity once again, in addition to keeping our temperatures in the lower 80's. As another cold front approaches and an area of low pressure deepens to our west, there is a risk of isolated showers and storms throughout the afternoon. However, Friday evening and Friday night feature a far better chance of rain and storms. Some of the rainfall could be heavy as another unseasonably moist air mass sits over northern Illinois and southern Wisconsin.\nThe front passes early Saturday morning, which will keep a threat of showers through lunchtime. As it passes, our winds will turn northwesterly and gust upwards of 20-25 MPH. Those northwesterly winds will usher in much cooler, less humid air. They will also be responsible for keeping mostly cloudy skies in the forecast through the day. In fact, an isolated shower is possible through the afternoon as highs only reach the lower 70's.\nSaturday night could feature the coolest air we've seen since May! Models are suggesting upper 40's as skies clear and winds calm, which would allow very efficient cooling to take place. Sunshine returns Sunday as high pressure builds in, but highs again only reach the lower 70's with cooler winds still in place.\nAll Aboard the Cold Front Express!\nTropical Airmass Leads to Flash Flood Threat\nIncredibly Humid & Moisture-Filled Air Mass\nProbability of Precipitation...What Does it Mean?\nTiming Out This Week's Rain\nHole Punch Clouds\nA Warm Start to September\nHermine's Effect on the Stateline\nHurricane Hermine Making Landfall", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00080.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 402, + "original_length": 51827, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.96, + "perplexity": 319.1, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "http://fixedonfantasy.com/2017/05/inside-the-skyrim-sex-modding-community-where-almost-no-taboo-is-off-limits-pc-gamer/", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T04:31:21Z", + "digest": "sha1:THIXYFULFLVC5GP7RWFON4Q7KECJ4CBY", + "length": 330, + "nlines": 2, + "source_domain": "fixedonfantasy.com", + "title": "Inside the Skyrim sex modding community where almost no taboo is off limits \u2013 PC Gamer | Fixed on Fantasy", + "raw_content": "Inside the Skyrim sex modding community where almost no taboo is off limits\nUnderstanding a forced-sex fantasy from the perspective of the victim has been the subject of many studies, but there's much less research exploring the fantasy from the other perspective. 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But as soon as I run a search in google for healthy eating, there are hundreds of different diet trends popping up. You got to be a man on his foot to be able to pick one.\nThe question is really, if they are really meant for you, and they serve you the right purpose. Forget the word diet, lifestyle change is what matters. When you have a special need, or allergies, it is much easier to change a lifestyle, regardless if you have gluten intolerance or allergies to dairy products. You know then exactly what to eat to be able to prevent your health.\nI have to tell you here and now, that I\u2019m neither a nutritionist, nor a fitness coach. I talk out of pure experience. When I changed my lifestyle I have been in a very \u201eheavy\u201d stage of my life. After giving birth to my daughter, I actually gained 30 kg. (I even flinch now when I think about it.) I also have an autoimmune disease that runs in my family, Morbus Crohn, for which I have been a few times hospitalized. So there were two major problems I had to tackle, obesity and an untreatable disease. I\u2019ve taken up sport again regularly, and tried every single diet that exist. You name it, I\u2019ve tried it. Ketogenic diet- check. Paleo diet \u2013 check. Atkins, Weight watchers \u2013 check. And the list continuous. All of them had a great effect on my figure, not so great on my sensible digestive system. So I stopped putting a fancy name on it, and started listening to my body and went for picking out the best food for my health.\nSo, what is healthy eating in a nutshell:\nEat lots of vegetables. Fruit and vegetables are a vital source of vitamins and minerals, plus they are colorful and bring a touch of sunshine on your plate\nProtein can be plant based, or meat and fish. Protein is essential for the body to repair itself, they are high on vitamins and minerals, including iron and B vitamins. Fish is also very a good source of protein, plus very rich on good fat, Omega 3.\nCarbohydrates are one of the body\u2019s main sources of energy, and I don\u2019t mean refined sugar, (sugar is one common enemy in all the lifestyle diets). Rather consume a lot of vegetables, whole grains and fruits, so called good-quality slow carbs, with low-glycemic that don\u2019t spike your blood sugar or insulin.\nDrink plenty of water and tea. Drinking is essential, keeps us hydrated, our skin pretty and shiny, and washes out the waste of our body. It\u2019s common to mistake thirst for hunger, so keep a few liters of mineral water or tea with you on the go.\nYou have to figure out what is the best for your own body. Listen to it. Do not just follow a lifestyle diet because your friend or a celebrity does it, because it might not be the right one for you. The metabolism is so complex and so different for every person. 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And evidence suggests that taking a tough approach won\u2019t help you either.(i)\nResearch shows that procrastination has its roots in the brain\u2019s frontal systems known to be involved in the processes governing self-regulation, problem solving and planning.i\nConsider these five tips for blazing a trail to your best life.\nCreate a picture for yourself of how your ideal life looks. Be clear about what you really want in life and write a list of the things that matter. Be aware that if your finances are disorganised it can be easy to stay in a rut without realising it, just to keep afloat. It\u2019s easier to make change when your finances are laid out in front of you. Then you can understand where your money\u2019s going and where you can make changes.\nMost big goals are a series of smaller milestones. Break down your overarching goals into individual steps and you\u2019ll create a plan for reaching them. Set dates for each milestone and mark them off your list as you achieve each one. You\u2019ll generate natural encouragement for yourself as you reach each milestone and you\u2019ll keep the momentum going.\nThinking differently is often easier said than done. Help yourself change the way you think by finding the positive effects of each milestone you\u2019ve set and aim for those. By focussing on the positive, you\u2019ll head towards what you want instead of putting off what you\u2019re telling yourself you should do. Take account of any fears you may have too\u2015about failure or success\u2015and work towards taking action anyway!\nBe prepared to make mistakes and understand that it\u2019s all part of the process. Studies show that people who forgive themselves for making mistakes along the way tend to have more overall success.i So don\u2019t be hard on yourself. Just regain your focus as soon as you can and stay with your plan.\n5. 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The attainment of its third goal \u2013 winning its first district game \u2013 starts 7 p.m. Friday as the Panthers host the Pecos Eagles (1-3) in the 4A-Div. 2 District 1 opener for both teams.\nThe Panthers have not beaten the Eagles since a 31-7 win in 2014. 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I'm looking forward to playing in the upcoming Super Leagues.\nWelcome to the forums, I think I've seen your name around the leagues before, nice to put an typed sentence to a name now... 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Does anyone recognise the other two young men?]\nJack had four sisters who all went to Hambrook School...\nThe oldest was Doris Rose, born 1907, began school at Downend Girls School before moving to Hambrook School in September 1921. She finished school at age 14 in 1921.\nNext was Vera Eugenie, born 1912, began school at Downend Infants before moving to Hambrook School in September 1921. She finished school at age 14 in 1926.\nEdna Grace, born 1915, started at Hambrook School in September 1926. At a Needlework Competition at Filton in 1927, Edna's work was Highly Commended. She finished school at age 14 in 1929.\nJack's youngest sister, Joan Lily, born 1921, began her education at Hambrook School in April 1925. In 1932 she sat an examination and became eligible to go to Chipping Sodbury Grammar School, but she did not go there. The records show that she left Hambrook School at age 14 in 1935.\nJack's Father, William John Stallard was born at Winterbourne c1879, died 1958 age 79. He and his wife, Rose, died 1969 age 86, were buried at All Saints, Winterbourne Down.\nAlso buried at All Saints, Winterbourne Down, were William's brother, Charles Henry, died 1947 age 61, and his wife Clara, died 1938 age 52. For reasons not yet understood, their tombstone records them as Stollard.\nThe father of William John and Charles Henry was Charles Stollard, born in Uppton, Berks c 1856, and came to live in Winterbourne. He married Hannah Roach, who died at Wick Wick Hill, 10 May 1897 age 43.\nThis information was gathered together, using this WebSite, and kindly sent to us, with the above photographs, by Malcolm Williams, son of Vera Eugenie Williams nee Stallard.\nHe is researching this family and is currently trying to find where Hannah Roach was buried. 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Think of Joyce's titles, \"Clay\", \"A Little Cloud\", \"Araby\", for example, which direct the reader's response throughout the work, setting up at the outset the ironical machinery which contains the meanings of the work. Whereas with Ngugi's The River Between the reader is directed towards a simple symbolic reading; and whereas in the case of Armah's The Beautyful Ones Are Not Yet Born a symbolism seems suggested which is more esoteric, perhaps containing irony and paradox; the title of The Interpreters may suggest to the reader that he attend rather to the characters.1 In this lecture I shall discuss such an approach to the work, leaving aside a consideration of other elements, such as language, handling of the action, and so on.\nThe range of character types in The Interpreters is due to the fact that each of the main personae has an individual way of interpreting the world, though of course due to their association there is a degree of commonality in some respects, both in the sense of shared experience and of quality of experience. All of the men could for example be said to be intellectuals; all, with the possible exception of Kola, are engaged in middle-class occupations; and they are all interested in the arts, two of them being practising artists.\nOne critic says of Egbo that he \"carries the greatest burden of Soyinka's personal concern and identification\".2 Though this is possibly not said on the basis of this book alone, what can be said about Egbo is that it is he who carries the greatest burden of decision. The first individual strand of the action, following the expository presentation of the whole group at the opening of the novel, concerns Egbo's return to the village of his people. Although he works in the bureaucracy, he inherits the option of becoming the ruler of a creek-town whose population controls some vital smuggling routes. Egbo is ambivalent about this choice. On the one hand he perceives the reality of the power he would have, and longs to be released from the amorphousness of existence in the urban power structures. On the other hand he suspects that the unorthodox way of life might also lack authenticity. As he says, \"What choice, I ask myself, is there between the ugly mudskippers on this creek and the raucous toads of our sewage-ridden ports: What difference?\" (p.14). In the event, Egbo does not make a clear choice, but goes literally with the tide, which happens to be moving away from the shore where his people live. As far as political structures are concerned, then, Egbo represents the modern African at the point of choice between the old and the new. That it is clearly a very difficult and deep choice is evidenced by the fact that Egbo, with all his intellectual equipment, is unable to make it.\nIn this particular individual, however, it is a sign of a schism which goes deeper than anything under his conscious control. For Egbo is a man whose nature is profoundly divided. At different points in the narrative we see aspects of him which are extremely opposed. It was not by coincidence that he should go with the tide in the early scene, as it later becomes clear that part of his nature identifies closely with the passivity and receptivity which is often associated with water. This fascination is first demonstrated as a child: \"Egbo was discovered at midnight lying at the water's edge in the grove of Oshun, one ear against the ground. 'What were you doing there?' they asked. He said he was praying. So they beat him for paganistic leanings.\" (p.17) And as a man, he has two profoundly significant experiences again by a river. He spends the night by the Ogun River under the bridge of the Lagos-Ibadan railway. The circumstances make a lasting impression on him: \"...for it seemed to him that he was born again, he felt night now as a womb of the gods and a passage for travellers ... And he made it his preserve, a place of pilgrimage.\" (p.127)\nThe second of these experiences is with a girl student of Bandele's, whom he impulsively takes with him to the same place, and who will be the other major sexual relationship in his life - after the seductress Simi. The latter is also associated with water in its feminine connotations: \"Perhaps after all Simi could weep, for the light-filled waters in rockpools were the weave of Simi's eyes.\" (p.126)\nIn the last lines of the book, Egbo is again faced with an important choice - between the woman Simi and the unnamed girl - and again he is unable to perceive it experientially as a real choice: \"Egbo watched her while she walked towards him, eyes ocean-clams with her peculiar sadness ... like a choice of a man drowning he was saying...only like a choice of drowning.\" (p.251) In a connexion which remains not clearly defined, Egbo conflates the feminine principle, as experienced both in himself and through the women in his life, with a wish for quietism or death, and with the experience and symbolism of water.\nThe other major tendency in Egbo's nature is towards strength, destruction, sacrifice, masculine qualities as opposed to feminine. This is the way he is seen by Kola, who uses him as his model for the drunken ogun in his painting of the Yoruba Pantheon of Gods. It is not the way Egbo sees himself: \"Look at that thing he has made of me for instance, a damned bloodthirsty maniac from some maximum security zoo. Is that supposed to be me? or even ogun, which I presume it represents?\" (p.233) However it is Egbo who kills the sacrificial ram for the feast on the occasion of Kola's exhibition; it is he who sacrifices the virginity of the girl on the rocks which he sees as the feet of Ogun; he impulsively leaves the vapid boy Noah with the homosexual Joe Golder who drives the boy to his death; and it is he who has an impulse to kill Bandele.\nThe narrative gives enough information to account for this duality in Egbo. His father, a gentle Christian, has been drowned with his mother, who was a king's daughter. Here we have the two influences already, the traditional and the European; also the connexion of sadness and death with water. Egbo's various stepfathers have been, by contrast with his father, rough men, who beat him continually. The reader is enabled to imagine the division in the character's nature growing, thus partially accounting for the vacillations and contradictions in his actions.\nPerhaps the most fully developed character, especially in terms of relative space, is that of Sagoe. Of course, he is a convenient character to provide many of the mechanical links in the structure of the action, because as a journalist he can range over the greater part of society. This is also one of the reasons why most of the satire in The Interpreters is introduced through the perceptions of this character. Another is because it is more appropriate to the style of thought and expression of a working journalist than to the high art of, say, Kola.\nBeing more experienced in social observation, Sagoe is aware of the importance of social differentiators such as the criterion of 'good taste'. So it is in the phases of the action which are mainly presented through this persona that the affectations of elite society are satirised. The principal scene in this regard is that in which the judgements of Mrs. Professor Oguazor with regard to the propriety of the ladies' retiring are visited upon poor, immigrant Monica Faseyi who, though European, ironically does not recognise the importance of such Western behaviour in the eyes of the post-Independence society of Lagos.(pp. 39-47)\nSagoe's own notion of visual bad taste forms a connexion with his preoccupation with death. He abhors Dehinwa's cheap wardrobe with its tawdry decorations, and it is from this wardrobe that his fantastic vision of the now dead Sir Derinola makes his entrance as \"Sir Morgue\". And it is on his way to attend the funeral of Sir Derinola that Sagoe encounters the vastly cheaper ceremony organised by Lazarus. The coffin in the latter case is decorated in the same fashion as Dehinwa's wardrobe. The meaning of these juxtapositions is the value of sincere poverty as against false ostentation.\nSagoe has another morbid preoccupation which is conveyed not by a structural aspect of the narrative, but rather through inset sections of a different genre: the essays in his \"Book of Enlightment\" on Voidancy. As well as revealing a fixation in the character, this obsession also brings to notice an unfortunate feature of life in urban Nigeria. Indeed, Sagoe's writing on the subject could be seen as a compensation for the disgust felt at the ubiquity of the evidence of excrement in the streets of Lagos. However, it is a natural subject for a man whose occupation often involves the uncovering of repressed and unsavoury aspects of life.\nThere are two visions of unity in The Interpreters. One is expressed by Kola in his painting, which is one of the structural keys to the book. Kola interprets the other characters by using them as models for figures in the pantheon of gods. This process in turn also throws light on the belief systems represented by the gods. The result of all this is that the character tends to be overcome by his function ad a vehicle of interpretation and is not very fully developed. His views of other characters are conveyed to the reader without also revealing the character capable of conceiving and demonstrating such views. Kola himself admits to having been influenced by others; not only influenced: he says that it is Egbo who should be working on the painting, rather than himself; (p.227) and reveals that he thinks more of Sekoni's work than of his own.(p.228). It suffices that Kola works very hard (p.228), and that the result of his labour forms a catalyst which causes other characters to react in revealing ways, as has been mentioned above, for example, in the case of Egbo, the violence of whose contrary reaction lends support to Kola's view as much as it contradicts it.\nThe other vision of unity is stated by Sekoni, who, ironically, can barely express himself at all, due to a speech impediment. Further irony may be seen in his personality, perhaps the least 'unified' in the book. \"In the dome of the cosmos, there is complete unity of Life. Life is like the godhead, the plurality of the manifestations is only an illusion. The godhead is one. So is Life, or death, both are contained in the single dome of existence.\"(p.122) This is Sekoni's major metaphysical statement (with the indications of stammering removed), the product of a life filled with ironies, conflicts and contradictions. one of the conflicts reveals, as in Egbo's case, some unfortunate aspects of power structures in modern Africa. Sekoni has gained overseas qualifications in engineering. He returns filled with the desire to improve the quality of life in Nigeria in the practical sense of creating electric power. When he is fobbed off with a senseless administrative job, expressed in bureaucratic terms of the most extreme kind (\"Please join a preliminary Committee of Five to sort out the applications for the post of a Third Class Clerk.\"), he agitates for, and gets, a real mission. He builds a small experimental power station. When he discovers that the project is written off as \"junk\" - the reader is informed that the chairman of the government department is also indirectly the contractor and will receive thousands in compensation - it is enough to drive him mad.\nAn earlier conflict has been with his Moslem father who has disapproved of Sekoni's marriage with a Christian. Now that he is ill, his father is reconciled, and instrumental in sending Sekoni to Mecca. In yet another irony, however, it is in old Jerusalem that he perceives \"suddenly meaningful affinities\" which enables him to return to Nigeria to begin to work through in an art form his experience of division. His first work - \"The Wrestler\" expresses something of his struggle and his quest for meaning. A pilgrim is on the point of subduing a python. It is Kola who perceives the work as expressing a feeling of integration, as being without self-doubt: \"...Sekoni was an artist who had waited long to find himself but had done so finally, and left no room for doubt.\" (p.100) Though the narrator suggests that Bandele is the model for the figure in this first sculpture, it seems a reasonable inference to say that whereas Kola's function is to interpret others through their relationship with their culture, Sekoni interprets himself.\nThe reason for the use of Bandele as model in the context suggested above can be inferred. Bandele is the character into whose mouth is put the title of the book: this, taken together with other indications, suggests that he is the figure who has a kind of understanding and judgement not shared by the other characters. It is as if only he has the capacity to interpret the interpreters. This overriding vision is not accepted without resentment.\n\"Bandele was mocking, lightly. 'Sagoe has his story, Kola has filled another heavenly space on his canvas, what are you getting out of this, Egbo?' Egbo turned angrily on him. 'What are you getting out of it?' 'Knowledge of the new generation of interpreters.' Sagoe exploded. 'You sound so fuckin' superior it would make a saint mad.' \"(p.178)\nMonica tells Kola: \"Bandele thinks you all lead callous, indifferent lives.\" He seems to represent an ideal standard of thought and conduct. As a lecturer, he has the highest intellectual status of the group, but in his comments on others he shows a scorn for the impurity of their motives, a moral rather than an intellectual superiority. Referring to the death of Noah, he asks Kola: \"'What do you need the ram for? Haven't you had your sacrifice?'\" (p.243) and it is this question which tempts Kola to attack him, as mentioned above. In the same scene he asks: \"'Is it not time for your freak-show?'\" referring to the recital by Joe Golder. As the narrator puts it, in a key phrase; \"Bandele sat like a timeless image brooding over lesser beings.\" He is clearly being characterised here as the conscience of the group.\nThis is also shown in his actions. For example, he is more tolerant than anyone else of the ugly half-Americans, Peter and Joe Golder. And when he gives Egbo the message from the girl, he sticks rigidly to his text, in order to give her maximum protection, by allowing the negotiations to go forward on her terms. But it is in his last action, the last significant action of the book, that the characterisation of Bandele is completed. He passes judgement on the seducer and abortionist Dr. Lumoye, and on his superior, Professor Oguazor, in one noble pronouncement: \"Bandele, old and immutable as the royal mothers of Benin throne, old and cruel as the ogboni in conclave pronouncing the Word. 'I hope you all live to bury your daughters.'\" (pp.250-251). In this concluding action, his paternalism and purity are combined with an image of traditional power and wisdom to put the finishing touches to the picture of this important character. The interpretation is complete.\n1. Wole Soyinka, The Interpreters, London: Deutsch, 1965. Page references in the text are to the Heinemann edition of 1970 (African Writers Series).\n2. Gerald Moore, Wole Soyinka, London: Evans, 1971.\nChapter on characterisation in Formal Aspects of Fictive Narrative in Africa", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00080.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 29, + "original_length": 15831, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.98, + "perplexity": 261.8, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "http://getfilings.com/sec-filings/181206/GigCapital-Inc_10-K/", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T03:32:21Z", + "digest": "sha1:HZOGOQ6YBHTVKM4NQ7SWPTVX62IWHROT", + "length": 255759, + "nlines": 536, + "source_domain": "getfilings.com", + "title": "GigCapital, Inc. - FORM 10-K - December 6, 2018", + "raw_content": "GigCapital, Inc. - FORM 10-K - December 6, 2018\nEX-32.2 - EX-32.2 - GigCapital, Inc. gig-ex322_7.htm\nGigCapital, Inc.\n( State or other jurisdiction of\n2479 E. Bayshore Rd., Suite 200\nThe NYSE Stock Market LLC\nWarrants to receive one share of Common Stock\nRight to receive one-tenth of one share of Common Stock\nUnits, each consisting of one share of Common Stock, one right and three-fourths of one warrant\nIndicate by check mark whether the Registrant is a shell company (as defined in Rule 12b-2 of the Exchange Act). YES \u2612 NO \u2610\nThe aggregate market value of the voting and non-voting common equity held by non-affiliates of the Registrant, based on the closing price of the shares of common stock on The NYSE Stock Market on March 30, 2018, the last business day of the registrant\u2019s most recently completed second fiscal quarter, was $180,373,799.\nThe number of shares of Registrant\u2019s Common Stock outstanding as of November 30, 2018 was 18,462,006.\nReferences in this annual report on Form 10-K (the \u201cAnnual Report\u201d) to \u201cwe,\u201d \u201cus,\u201d \u201cour\u201d or the \u201cCompany\u201d refer to GigCapital, Inc. References to our \u201cmanagement\u201d or our \u201cmanagement team\u201d refer to our officers and directors, references to the \u201cSponsor\u201d refer to GigAcquisitions, LLC, and references to the \u201cFounders\u201d refer to the Sponsor and three additional investors. The following discussion and analysis of the Company\u2019s financial condition and results of operations should be read in conjunction with the financial statements and the notes thereto contained elsewhere in this Annual Report. Certain information contained in the discussion and analysis set forth below includes forward-looking statements that involve risks and uncertainties.\nThis Annual Report includes \u201cforward-looking statements\u201d within the meaning of Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933 and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 that are not historical facts, and involve risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from those expected and projected. All statements, other than statements of historical fact included in this Annual Report including, without limitation, statements in this \u201cManagement\u2019s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations\u201d regarding the Company\u2019s financial position, business strategy and the plans and objectives of management for future operations, are forward-looking statements. Words such as \u201cexpect,\u201d \u201cbelieve,\u201d \u201canticipate,\u201d \u201cintend,\u201d \u201cestimate,\u201d \u201cseek\u201d and variations and similar words and expressions are intended to identify such forward-looking statements. Such forward-looking statements relate to future events or future performance, but reflect management\u2019s current beliefs, based on information currently available. A number of factors could cause actual events, performance or results to differ materially from the events, performance and results discussed in the forward-looking statements. Actual results and stockholders\u2019 value will be affected by a variety of risks and factors, including, without limitation, international, national and local economic conditions, merger, acquisition and business combination risks, financing risks, geo-political risks, acts of terror or war, and those risk factors described under \u201cItem 1A. Risk Factors.\u201d Many of the risks and factors that will determine these results and stockholders\u2019 value are beyond the Company\u2019s ability to control or predict. Except as expressly required by applicable securities law, the Company disclaims any intention or obligation to update or revise any forward-looking statements whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise.\nAll such forward-looking statements speak only as of the date of this Annual Report. The Company expressly disclaims any obligation or undertaking to release publicly any updates or revisions to any forward-looking statements contained herein to reflect any change in the Company\u2019s expectations with regard thereto or any change in events, conditions or circumstances on which any such statement is based. All subsequent written or oral forward-looking statements attributable to us or persons acting on the Company\u2019s behalf are qualified in their entirety by this Special Note Regarding Forward-Looking Statements.\nWe are a Delaware corporation formed for the purpose of effecting a merger, share exchange, asset acquisition, stock purchase, reorganization, recapitalization or other similar business combination with one or more businesses, which we refer to throughout this Annual Report as our initial business combination. Although we have identified potential initial business combination targets, we have not as of the date of this Annual Report determined to effect an initial business combination with any particular target.\nWe seek to capitalize on the significant experience and contacts of our management team to complete our initial business combination. We believe our management team\u2019s distinctive background and record of acquisition and operational success could have a transformative impact on verified target businesses. Although we may pursue our initial business combination in any business, industry or geographic location, we currently intend to focus on opportunities to capitalize on the ability of our management team, particularly our executive officers, to identify, acquire and operate a business in the Technology, Media and Telecommunications (\u201cTMT\u201d) industries. We intend to evaluate both private and public companies as potential initial business combination targets, focusing on opportunities that we believe would provide appropriate risk adjusted returns to stockholders. Following our initial business combination, our objective will be to implement or support the acquired company\u2019s operating strategies in order to generate additional value for stockholders. General goals may include additional acquisitions and operational improvements.\nOur management team has significant hands-on experience helping TMT companies optimize their existing and new growth initiatives by exploiting insights from rich data assets that already exist within most TMT companies. Further, we intend to share best practices and key learnings, gathered from our management team\u2019s operating and investing experience, as well as strong relationships in the TMT industry to help shape corporate strategies. Additionally, our management team has operated and invested in leading global TMT companies across their corporate life cycles, and has developed deep relationships with key large multi-national organizations and investors. We believe that these relationships and our management team\u2019s know-how present a significant opportunity to help drive strategic dialogue, access new customer relationships and achieve global ambitions following the completion of our initial business combination.\nOur business strategy is to identify and complete our initial business combination with a company that complements the experience of our management team and can benefit from our management team\u2019s operational expertise. Our selection process leverages our management team\u2019s broad and deep relationship network and unique TMT industry expertise including proven deal-sourcing and structuring capabilities, to provide us with a multitude of business combination opportunities. Our management team has experience:\noperating companies, setting and changing strategies, and identifying, mentoring and recruiting world-class talent;\ndeveloping and growing companies, both organically and inorganically, and expanding the product ranges and geographic footprints of a number of businesses;\nsourcing, structuring, acquiring and selling businesses and achieving synergies to create stockholder value;\nestablishing a wide deal flow and efficient methodology of screening superior M&A targets worldwide;\npartnering with industry-leading companies to increase sales and improve the competitive position of those companies;\naddressing business and technological changes in an evolving global TMT landscape;\nevaluating the viability of emerging TMT business models;\nfostering relationships with sellers, capital providers and target management teams; and\naccessing the capital markets across various business cycles, including financing businesses and assisting companies with the transition to public ownership.\nBusiness Combination Criteria\nConsistent with our strategy, we have identified general criteria and guidelines that we believe are important in evaluating prospective target businesses and, when evaluating a prospective target business, we expect to conduct a thorough due diligence review that will encompass, among other things, meetings with incumbent management and employees, document reviews and inspection of facilities, as applicable, as well as a review of financial and other information that will be made available to us. We intend to use the following and other criteria and guidelines in evaluating acquisition opportunities, but we may decide to enter into our initial business combination with a target business that does not meet any or all of these criteria or guidelines.\nFocus on TMT companies positioned to benefit from the extensive networks and insights we have built. We believe our strategy leverages our management team\u2019s distinctive background and vast network of industry leaders in the target industry.\nEmphasis on companies that can benefit from a public listing and greater access to capital. We will primarily seek a target that we believe will benefit from being publicly traded and will be able to effectively utilize the broader access to capital and the public profile that are associated with being a publicly traded company.\nBusinesses with a catalyst for significantly improved financial performance. We will target companies where we believe that our industry expertise and relationships can be used to create opportunities for value creation, whether for acquisitions, capital investments in organic growth opportunities or in generating greater operating efficiencies. We will seek to identify such opportunities for value creation in evaluating potential business combinations.\nMarket-leading participant with experienced and motivated management teams that may benefit from enhanced leadership and governance. We will seek a target that has an established business and market position. While we will focus on TMT businesses, we will not seek a target that is pre-revenue or in early stages of development with unproven technologies. Additionally, we will seek a target with an established management team. To the extent we believe it will enhance stockholder value, we would seek to selectively supplement the existing leadership of the business with proven leaders from our network, whether at the senior management level or at the board level.\nMiddle-market businesses. We believe targeting companies in the middle market will provide the greatest number of opportunities for investment and will maximize the collective network of our management team and its affiliates.\nPrioritize entities with a well-performing management team and exceptional leadership talent that wishes to continue to drive the company to growth, and is coachable and eager to extend their knowledge and savvy through an interactive and hands-on supportive board of directors.\nThese criteria are not intended to be exhaustive. Any evaluation relating to the merits of a particular initial business combination may be based, to the extent relevant, on these general guidelines as well as other considerations, factors and criteria that our management team may deem relevant.\nSources of Potential Business Combination Targets\nWe expect to evaluate opportunities that are sourced through the relationship networks of our Chief Executive Officer and Executive Chairman of the Board, Dr. Avi S. Katz, and our combined management team, which includes numerous entrepreneurs, management teams, intermediaries and venture capital funds. Dr. Katz and our combined management team has considerable expertise in the evaluation of technology investments.\nWe believe based on our combined team\u2019s business knowledge and past experience that there are numerous acquisition candidates. Our principal means of identifying potential target businesses is through the extensive contacts and relationships of our combined management team. Although our Founders and management team are not required to commit any specific amount of time in identifying or performing due diligence on potential target businesses, our\nFounders and management team believe that the relationships they have developed over their careers and their access to their contacts and resources generate a number of potential business combination opportunities that can warrant further investigation. We also anticipate that target business candidates may also be brought to our attention from various unaffiliated sources, including investment bankers, venture capital funds, private equity funds, leveraged buyout funds, management buyout funds and other members of the financial community. Target businesses may be brought to our attention by such unaffiliated sources as a result of being solicited by us through calls or mailings. These sources may also introduce us to target businesses they think we may be interested in on an unsolicited basis, since many of these sources will have read our filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the \u201cSEC\u201d) and know what types of businesses we are targeting. Our Founders, executive officers and directors, as well as their affiliates, may also bring to our attention target business candidates that they become aware of through their business contacts as a result of formal or informal inquiries or discussions they may have, as well as attending trade shows or conventions.\nWe have no present intention to enter into a business combination with a target business that is affiliated with any of our Founders, management team or their respective affiliates. However, we are not restricted from entering into any such transactions and may do so if (i) such transaction is approved by a majority of our disinterested independent directors and (ii) we obtain an opinion from an independent investment banking firm, or another independent entity that commonly renders valuation opinions on the type of target business we are seeking to acquire, that the business combination is fair to our unaffiliated stockholders from a financial point of view.\nFair Market Value of Target Business\nThe target business or businesses that we acquire must collectively have a fair market value equal to at least 80% of the balance of the funds in the trust account (excluding any taxes payable on the interest earned) at the time of the execution of a definitive agreement for our initial business combination, although we may acquire a target business whose fair market value significantly exceeds 80% of the trust account balance.\nWe currently anticipate structuring a business combination involving 100% of the equity interests or assets of the target business or businesses. We may, however, structure our initial business combination where we merge directly with the target business or involving less than 100% of such interests or assets of the target business in order to meet certain objectives of the target management team or stockholders or for other reasons, but we will only complete such business combination if the post-transaction company owns or acquires 50% or more of the outstanding voting securities of the target or otherwise acquires a controlling interest in the target sufficient for it not to be required to register as an investment company under the Investment Company Act. Even if the post-transaction company owns or acquires 50% or more of the voting securities of the target, our stockholders prior to the business combination may collectively own a minority interest in the post-transaction company, depending on valuations ascribed to the target and us in the business combination transaction. For example, we could pursue a transaction in which we issue a substantial number of new shares in exchange for all of the outstanding capital stock of a target. In this case, we could acquire a 100% controlling interest in the target; however, as a result of the issuance of a substantial number of new shares, our stockholders immediately prior to our initial business combination could own less than a majority of our outstanding shares subsequent to our initial business combination. If less than 100% of the equity interests or assets of a target business or businesses are owned or acquired by the post-transaction company, the portion of such business or businesses that is owned or acquired is what will be valued for purposes of the 80% fair market value test. In order to consummate such an acquisition, we may issue a significant amount of our debt or equity securities to the sellers of such businesses and/or seek to raise additional funds through a private offering of debt or equity securities.\nThe fair market value of the target will be determined by our Board of Directors based upon one or more standards generally accepted by the financial community (such as actual and potential sales, earnings, cash flow and/or book value). The proxy solicitation materials or tender offer documents used by us in connection with any proposed transaction will provide public stockholders with our analysis of the fair market value of the target business, as well as the basis for our determinations. If our board is not able to independently determine that the target business has a sufficient fair market value, we will obtain an opinion from an unaffiliated, independent investment banking firm, or another independent entity that commonly renders valuation opinions on the type of target business we are seeking to acquire, with respect to the satisfaction of such criteria. We will not be required to obtain an opinion from an investment banking firm as to the fair market value if our Board of Directors independently determines that the target business complies with the 80% threshold.\nStatus as a Public Company\nWe believe our structure makes us an attractive business combination partner to target businesses. As an existing public company, we offer a target business an alternative to the traditional initial public offering through a merger or other business combination. In this situation, the owners of the target business would exchange their shares of stock in the target business for shares of stock or other securities or for a combination of shares of stock, other securities and cash, allowing us to tailor the consideration to the specific needs of the sellers. We believe target businesses might find this method a more certain and cost effective method to becoming a public company than the typical initial public offering. In a typical initial public offering, there are additional expenses incurred in marketing, roadshow and public reporting efforts that may not be present to the same extent in connection with a business combination with us. Furthermore, once the business combination is consummated, the target business will have effectively become public, whereas an initial public offering is always subject to the underwriters\u2019 ability to complete the offering, as well as general market conditions, that could prevent the offering from occurring. Once public, we believe the target business would then have greater access to capital and an additional means of providing management incentives consistent with stockholders\u2019 interests than it would have as a privately-held company. It can offer further benefits by augmenting a company\u2019s profile among potential new customers and vendors and aid in attracting talented employees. However there is currently no market for our securities and a market for our securities may not develop. As a result, this purported benefit may not be realized.\nAlthough we believe that our status as a public company will make us an attractive business partner, some potential target businesses may view the inherent limitations in our status as a blank check company as a deterrent and may prefer to effect a business combination with a more established entity or with a private company. These inherent limitations include limitations on our available financial resources, which may be inferior to those of other entities pursuing the acquisition of similar target businesses; the requirement that we seek stockholder approval of a business combination or conduct a tender offer in relation thereto, which may delay the consummation of a transaction; and the existence of our outstanding warrants, which may represent a source of future dilution.\nWith funds available for a business combination as of November 30, 2018 in the amount of $145,205,551, assuming no redemptions, we can offer a target business a variety of options to facilitate a business combination and fund future expansion and growth of its business. Because we are able to consummate a business combination using the cash proceeds in our trust account, debt or a combination of the foregoing, we have the flexibility to use an efficient structure allowing us to tailor the consideration to be paid to the target business to address the needs of the parties. However, if a business combination requires us to use substantially all of our cash to pay for the purchase price, we may need to arrange third party financing to help fund our business combination. Accordingly, our flexibility in structuring a business combination may be subject to constraints resulting from a need to finance such business combination.\nLack of Business Diversification\nFor an indefinite period of time after consummation of our initial business combination, the prospects for our success may depend entirely on the future performance of a single business. Unlike other entities that have the resources to complete business combinations with multiple entities in one or several industries, it is probable that we will not have the resources to diversify our operations and mitigate the risks of being in a single line of business. By consummating our initial business combination with only a single entity, our lack of diversification may:\nsubject us to negative economic, competitive and regulatory developments, any or all of which may have a substantial adverse impact on the particular industry in which we operate after our initial business combination, and\ncause us to depend on the marketing and sale of a single product or limited number of products or services.\nLimited Ability to Evaluate a Target\u2019s Management Team\nAlthough we intend to closely scrutinize the management of a prospective target business when evaluating the desirability of effecting our initial business combination with that business, our assessment of a target business\u2019\nmanagement may not prove to be correct. Moreover, members of our management team may not have significant experience or knowledge relating to the operations of the particular target business. The future role of members of our management team, if any, in a post-transaction company cannot presently be stated with any certainty. Consequently, members of our management team may not become a part of the post-transaction company\u2019s management team or serve it in advisory positions, and the future management may not have the necessary skills, qualifications or abilities to manage a public company. Further, it is also not certain whether one or more of our directors will remain associated with the post-transaction company in some capacity following our initial business combination. The determination as to whether any of our key personnel will remain with the combined company will be made at the time of our initial business combination.\nFollowing our initial business combination, we may seek to recruit additional managers to supplement the incumbent management of the target business. However, we may not have the ability to recruit additional managers, or to locate additional managers who will have the requisite skills, knowledge or experience necessary to enhance the incumbent management.\nStockholders May Not Have the Ability to Approve Our Business Combination\nIn connection with any proposed business combination, we will either (1) seek stockholder approval of our initial business combination at a meeting called for such purpose at which stockholders may seek to convert their shares, regardless of whether they vote for or against the proposed business combination, into their pro rata share of the aggregate amount then on deposit in the trust account (net of taxes payable), or (2) provide our stockholders with the opportunity to sell their shares to us by means of a tender offer (and thereby avoid the need for a stockholder vote) for an amount equal to their pro rata share of the aggregate amount then on deposit in the trust account (net of taxes payable), in each case subject to the limitations described herein. Our Founders and management team have agreed to vote any shares of common stock owned by them in favor of any proposed business combination, including the founder shares acquired by them when we were formed or issued to them for services (the \u201cFounder Shares\u201d) and the shares of common stock underlying the private placement units purchased by them in December 2017 and January 2018 (the \u201cPlacement Shares\u201d). As a result, we would need only 5,143,998, or approximately 35.78%, of the remaining 14,375,000 shares to be voted in favor of a transaction in order to have our initial business combination approved.\nWe will seek stockholder approval if it is required by applicable law or stock exchange listing requirement, provided, that we may also decide to seek stockholder approval for business or other reasons.\nUnder the rules of the New York Stock Exchange (\u201cNYSE\u201d), stockholder approval would be required for our initial business combination if, for example:\nwe issue (other than in a public offering for cash) a number of shares of common stock that would either (a) be equal to or in excess of 20% of the number of shares of common stock then outstanding or (b) have voting power equal to or in excess of 20% of the voting power then outstanding;\nany of our management team or substantial security holders (as defined by the rules of the NYSE) has a 5% or greater interest, directly or indirectly, in the target business or assets to be acquired and if the number of shares of common stock to be issued, or if the number of shares of common stock into which the securities may be convertible or exercisable, exceeds either (a) 1% of the number of shares of common stock or 1% of the voting power outstanding before the issuance in the case of any of our management team or (b) 5% of the number of shares of common stock or 5% of the voting power outstanding before the issuance in the case of any substantial security holders; or\nthe issuance or potential issuance of shares of our common stock will result in our undergoing a change of control.\nIf we determine to engage in a tender offer, such tender offer will be structured so that each stockholder may tender any or all of his, her or its shares rather than some pro rata portion of his, her or its shares. The decision as to whether we will seek stockholder approval of a proposed business combination or will allow stockholders to sell their shares to us in a tender offer will be made by us, solely in our discretion, and will be based on a variety of factors such as the timing of the transaction and whether the terms of the transaction would otherwise require us to seek stockholder approval. Unlike other blank check companies which require stockholder votes and conduct proxy solicitations in\nconjunction with their initial business combinations and related conversions of public shares for cash upon consummation of such initial business combination even when a vote is not required by law, we will have the flexibility to avoid such stockholder vote and allow our stockholders to sell their shares pursuant to Rule 13e-4 and Regulation 14E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the \u201cExchange Act\u201d) which regulate issuer tender offers. In that case, we will file tender offer documents with the SEC which will contain substantially the same financial and other information about the initial business combination as is required under the SEC\u2019s proxy rules. We will consummate our initial business combination only if we have net tangible assets of at least $5,000,001 upon such consummation and, if we seek stockholder approval, a majority of the shares of common stock voted at a stockholder meeting are voted in favor of the business combination.\nWe chose our net tangible asset threshold of $5,000,001 to ensure that we would avoid being subject to Rule 419 promulgated under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the \u201cSecurities Act\u201d). However, if we seek to consummate an initial business combination with a target business that imposes any type of working capital closing condition or requires us to have a minimum amount of funds available from the trust account upon consummation of such initial business combination, we may need to have more than $5,000,001 in net tangible assets upon consummation and this may force us to seek third party financing which may not be available on terms acceptable to us or at all. As a result, we may not be able to consummate such initial business combination and we may not be able to locate another suitable target within the applicable time period, if at all. Public stockholders may therefore have to wait until June 12, 2019 in order to be able to receive a pro rata share of the trust account.\nAt any meeting called to approve an initial business combination, public stockholders (but not our Founders or management team) may seek to redeem their shares of common stock, regardless of whether they vote for or against the proposed business combination, by converting such shares into their pro rata share of the aggregate amount then on deposit in the trust account as of two business days prior to the consummation of the initial business combination, less any taxes then due but not yet paid (which taxes may be paid only from the interest earned on the funds in the trust account). Alternatively, we may provide our public stockholders (but not our Founders or management team) with the opportunity to sell their shares of common stock to us through a tender offer (and thereby avoid the need for a stockholder vote) for an amount equal to their pro rata share of the aggregate amount then on deposit in the trust account, less any taxes then due but not yet paid.\nWe may also require public stockholders seeking redemption, whether they are a record holder or hold their shares in \u201cstreet name,\u201d to either (i) tender their certificates to our transfer agent or (ii) deliver their shares to the transfer agent electronically using Depository Trust Company\u2019s DWAC (Deposit/Withdrawal At Custodian) System, at the holder\u2019s option, in each case prior to a date set forth in the proxy materials sent in connection with the proposal to approve the business combination.\nThere is a nominal cost associated with the above-referenced delivery process and the act of certificating the shares or delivering them through the DWAC System. The transfer agent will typically charge the tendering broker $45.00 and it would be up to the broker whether or not to pass this cost on to the holder. This fee would be incurred regardless of whether or not we require holders seeking to exercise redemption rights to do so prior to the time that we know that the proposed business combination will be consummated. The need to deliver shares is a requirement of exercising redemption rights regardless of the timing of when such delivery must be effectuated. Thus, in the event we require stockholders seeking to exercise redemption rights to deliver their shares prior to the consummation of the proposed business combination and the proposed business combination is not consummated, this may result in an increased cost to stockholders.\nAny proxy solicitation materials we furnish to stockholders in connection with a vote for any proposed business combination will indicate whether we are requiring stockholders to satisfy such certification and delivery requirements. Accordingly, a stockholder would have from the time the stockholder received our proxy statement up until the time designated in the proxy statement to deliver his, her or its shares if he, she or it wishes to seek to exercise his, her or its redemption rights. This time period varies depending on the specific facts of each transaction. However, as the delivery process can be accomplished by the stockholder, whether or not he, she or it is a record holder or his shares are held in \u201cstreet name,\u201d in a matter of hours by simply contacting the transfer agent or his, her or its broker and requesting delivery of his, her or its shares through the DWAC System, we believe this time period is sufficient\nfor an average investor. However, we cannot assure you of this fact. Please see the risk factor titled \u201cWe will require public stockholders who wish to redeem their shares of common stock in connection with a proposed business combination to comply with specific requirements for redemption that may make it more difficult for them to exercise their redemption rights prior to the deadline for exercising their rights\u201d for further information on the risks of failing to comply with these requirements.\nThe foregoing is different from the procedures historically used by some blank check companies. Traditionally, in order to perfect redemption rights in connection with a blank check company\u2019s business combination, the company would distribute proxy materials for the stockholders\u2019 vote on an initial business combination, and a holder could simply vote against a proposed business combination and check a box on the proxy card indicating such holder was seeking to exercise his, her or its redemption rights. After the business combination was approved, the company would contact such stockholder to arrange for him, her or it to deliver his, her or its certificate to verify ownership. As a result, the stockholder then had an \u201coption window\u201d after the consummation of the business combination during which he, she or it could monitor the price of the company\u2019s stock in the market. If the price rose above the conversion price, he could sell his, her or its shares in the open market before actually delivering his, her or its shares to the company for cancellation. As a result, the redemption rights, to which stockholders were aware they needed to commit before the stockholder meeting, would become a \u201ccontinuing\u201d right surviving past the consummation of the business combination until the holder delivered his, her or its certificate or shares. The requirement for physical or electronic delivery prior to the meeting ensures that a holder\u2019s election to convert his, her or its shares is irrevocable once the business combination is approved.\nAny request to redeem such shares once made, may be withdrawn at any time up to the vote on the proposed business combination. Furthermore, if a holder of a public share delivered his, her or its certificate or shares in connection with an election of such shares\u2019 redemption and subsequently decides prior to the vote on the proposed business combination not to elect to exercise such rights, he, she or it may simply request that the transfer agent return the certificate or shares (physically or electronically).\nIf the initial business combination is not approved or completed for any reason, then our public stockholders who elected to exercise their redemption rights would not be entitled to redeem their shares for the applicable pro rata share of the trust account as of two business days prior to the consummation of the initial business combination. In such case, we will promptly return any certificates or shares delivered by public holders. Furthermore, if the initial business combination is not approved or completed for any reason, then our public stockholders who elected to exercise their redemption rights will not be entitled to convert their shares into a full pro rata portion of the trust account, as applicable. We will thereafter promptly return any shares delivered by public stockholders. In such case, public stockholders may only share in the assets of the trust account upon our liquidation. This may result in public stockholders receiving less than they would have received if the business combination was completed and they had exercised redemption rights in connection therewith due to potential claims of creditors. If we would be left with less than $5,000,001 of net tangible assets as a result of the holders of public shares properly demanding redemption of their shares, we will likely be unable to consummate a business combination.\nAbility to Extend Time to Complete Business Combination\nPursuant to the terms of our amended and restated certificate of incorporation, we will have until March 12, 2019 to consummate an initial business combination. However, if we anticipate that we may not be able to consummate our initial business combination by such date, we may extend the period of time to consummate a business combination by an additional three months to June 12, 2019. Pursuant to the terms of our amended and restated certificate of incorporation, in order to extend the time available for us to consummate our initial business combination, the Sponsor or its affiliates or designees, must deposit into the trust account at least $1,437,500 in exchange for a non-interest bearing, unsecured promissory note. We intend to issue a press release announcing the effectuation of any such extension. Sponsor and its affiliates or designees are not obligated to fund the trust account to extend the time for us to complete our initial business combination.\nLiquidation if No Business Combination\nIf we have not completed an initial business combination by the date required by our amended and restated certificate of incorporation, we will (i) cease all operations except for the purpose of winding up, (ii) as promptly as reasonably\npossible but not more than ten business days thereafter, redeem 100% of the outstanding public shares, at a per-share price, payable in cash, equal to the aggregate amount then on deposit in the trust account, including interest not previously released to us to pay taxes (less up to $100,000 of such net interest to pay dissolution expenses), divided by the number of then outstanding public shares, which redemption will completely extinguish public stockholders\u2019 rights as stockholders (including the right to receive further liquidation distributions, if any), subject to applicable law, and (iii) as promptly as reasonably possible following such redemption, subject to the approval of our remaining stockholders and our Board of Directors, dissolve and liquidate, subject (in the case of (ii) and (iii) above) to our obligations under Delaware law to provide for claims of creditors and the requirements of other applicable law.\nOur Founders and management team have agreed that they will not propose any amendment to our amended and restated certificate of incorporation that would stop our public stockholders from converting or selling their shares of common stock to us in connection with a business combination or affect the substance or timing of our obligation to redeem 100% of our public shares if we do not complete a business combination by March 12, 2019 (or by June 12, 2019, if we extend the time to consummate an initial business combination), unless we provide our public stockholders with the opportunity to redeem their shares of common stock upon such approval at a per-share price, payable in cash, equal to the aggregate amount then on deposit in the trust account, net of franchise and income taxes payable, divided by the number of then outstanding public shares. This redemption right shall apply in the event of the approval of any such amendment, whether proposed by our Founders, any executive officer, director or director nominee, or any other person.\nUnder the Delaware General Corporation law (\u201cDGCL\u201d), stockholders may be held liable for claims by third parties against a corporation to the extent of distributions received by them in a dissolution. The pro rata portion of our trust account distributed to our public stockholders upon the redemption of 100% of our outstanding public shares in the event we do not complete our initial business combination within the required time period may be considered a liquidation distribution under Delaware law. If the corporation complies with certain procedures set forth in Section 280 of the DGCL intended to ensure that it makes reasonable provision for all claims against it, including a 60-day notice period during which any third-party claims can be brought against the corporation, a 90\u2011day period during which the corporation may reject any claims brought, and an additional 150-day waiting period before any liquidating distributions are made to stockholders, any liability of stockholders with respect to a liquidating distribution is limited to the lesser of such stockholder\u2019s pro rata share of the claim or the amount distributed to the stockholder, and any liability of the stockholder would be barred after the third anniversary of the dissolution.\nFurthermore, if the pro rata portion of our trust account distributed to our public stockholders upon the redemption of 100% of our public shares in the event we do not complete our initial business combination within the required time period is not considered a liquidation distribution under Delaware law and such redemption distribution is deemed to be unlawful, then pursuant to Section 174 of the DGCL, the statute of limitations for claims of creditors could then be six years after the unlawful redemption distribution, instead of three years, as in the case of a liquidation distribution. However, if we are unable to complete a business combination within the prescribed time frame, we will proceed as provided for in our amended and restated certificate as described above. Accordingly, it is our intention to redeem our public shares as soon as reasonably possible following the expiration of the time periods described above and, therefore, we do not intend to comply with the procedures required by Section 280 of the DGCL, which would limit the amount and duration of our stockholders\u2019 liability with respect to liquidating distributions as described above. As such, our stockholders could potentially be liable for any claims to the extent of distributions received by them (but no more) and any liability of our stockholders may extend well beyond the third anniversary of such date.\nBecause we will not be complying with Section 280 of the DGCL, Section 281(b) of the DGCL requires us to adopt a plan, based on facts known to us at such time that will provide for our payment of all existing and pending claims or claims that may be potentially brought against us within the subsequent ten years. However, because we are a blank check company, rather than an operating company, and our operations will be limited to searching for prospective target businesses to acquire, the only likely claims to arise would be from our vendors (such as lawyers, investment bankers, etc.) or prospective target businesses.\nWe anticipate notifying the trustee of the trust account to begin liquidating such assets promptly after such date and anticipate it will take no more than ten business days to effectuate such distribution. Our Founders and management team have waived their rights to participate in any liquidation distribution with respect to the Founder Shares and the Placement Shares. There will be no distribution from the trust account with respect to our warrants or rights, which\nwill expire worthless. We will pay the costs of any subsequent liquidation from our remaining assets outside of the trust account and the interest earned on the funds held in the trust account that we are permitted to withdraw to pay such expenses.\nOur public stockholders shall be entitled to receive funds from the trust account only in the event of our failure to complete a business combination within the required time period or if the stockholders seek to have us redeem or purchase their respective shares upon a business combination which is actually completed by us or upon certain amendments to our amended and restated certificate of incorporation as described elsewhere herein. In no other circumstances shall a stockholder have any right or interest of any kind to or in the trust account.\nIf we are forced to file a bankruptcy case or an involuntary bankruptcy case is filed against us which is not dismissed, the proceeds held in the trust account could be subject to applicable bankruptcy law, and may be included in our bankruptcy estate and subject to the claims of third parties with priority over the claims of our stockholders. To the extent any bankruptcy claims deplete the trust account, we cannot make any assurance of the amount we will be able to return to our public stockholders.\nIf we are forced to file a bankruptcy case or an involuntary bankruptcy case is filed against us which is not dismissed, any distributions received by stockholders could be viewed under applicable debtor/creditor and/or bankruptcy laws as either a \u201cpreferential transfer\u201d or a \u201cfraudulent conveyance.\u201d As a result, a bankruptcy court could seek to recover all amounts received by our stockholders. Furthermore, because we intend to distribute the proceeds held in the trust account to our public stockholders promptly after March 12, 2019 (or June 12, 2019 if we extend the time to consummate an initial business combination), this may be viewed or interpreted as giving preference to our public stockholders over any potential creditors with respect to access to or distributions from our assets. Furthermore, our board may be viewed as having breached their fiduciary duties to our creditors and/or may have acted in bad faith, and thereby exposing itself and our company to claims of punitive damages, by paying public stockholders from the trust account prior to addressing the claims of creditors. We cannot assure you that claims will not be brought against us for these reasons.\nOur amended and restated certificate of incorporation contains certain requirements and restrictions that will apply to us until the consummation of our initial business combination. These provisions cannot be amended without the approval of a majority of our stockholders. If we seek to amend any provisions of our amended and restated certificate of incorporation that would stop our public stockholders from converting or selling their shares to us in connection with a business combination or affect the substance or timing of our obligation to redeem 100% of our public shares if we do not complete a business combination by March 12, 2019 (or June 12, 2019 if we extend the time to consummate an initial business combination), we will provide dissenting public stockholders with the opportunity to redeem their public shares in connection with any such vote. This redemption right shall apply in the event of the approval of any such amendment, whether proposed by our Founders, any executive officer, director or director nominee, or any other person. Our Founders and management team have agreed to waive any redemption rights with respect to any common stock held by them, including any public shares they may hold, in connection with any vote to amend our amended and restated certificate of incorporation. Specifically, our amended and restated certificate of incorporation provides, among other things, that:\nwe shall either (1) seek stockholder approval of our initial business combination at a meeting called for such purpose at which stockholders may seek to redeem their shares, regardless of whether they vote for or against the proposed business combination, into their pro rata share of the aggregate amount then on deposit in the trust account (net of taxes payable), or (2) provide our stockholders with the opportunity to sell their shares to us by means of a tender offer (and thereby avoid the need for a stockholder vote) for an amount equal to their pro rata share of the aggregate amount then on deposit in the trust account (net of taxes payable), in each case subject to the limitations described herein;\nwe will consummate our initial business combination only if we have net tangible assets of at least $5,000,001 upon such consummation and, if we seek stockholder approval, a majority of the shares of common stock voted at a stockholder meeting are voted in favor of the business combination;\nif our initial business combination is not consummated by March 12, 2019 (or June 12, 2019 if we extend the time to consummate an initial business combination ) then we will redeem all of the outstanding public shares and thereafter liquidate and dissolve the Company;\nthe proceeds of our initial public offering, including such proceeds from the exercise of the underwriters\u2019 over-allotment option, shall be placed into the trust account; and\nprior to our initial business combination, we may not issue additional stock that participates in any manner in the proceeds of the trust account, or that votes as a class with the common stock.\nIn identifying, evaluating and selecting a target business, we may encounter intense competition from other entities having a business objective similar to ours. Many of these entities are well established and have extensive experience identifying and effecting business combinations directly or through affiliates. Many of these competitors possess greater technical, human and other resources than us and our financial resources will be relatively limited when contrasted with those of many of these competitors. Although we believe there may be numerous potential target businesses that we could acquire with the net proceeds of this offering, our ability to compete in acquiring certain sizable target businesses may be limited by our available financial resources.\nThe following also may not be viewed favorably by certain target businesses:\nour obligation to seek stockholder approval of a business combination or engage in a tender offer may delay the completion of a transaction;\nour obligation to convert or repurchase shares of common stock held by our public stockholders may reduce the resources available to us for a business combination; and\nour outstanding rights and warrants, and the potential future dilution they represent.\nAny of these factors may place us at a competitive disadvantage in successfully negotiating a business combination. Our management believes, however, that our status as a public entity and potential access to the United States public equity markets may give us a competitive advantage over privately-held entities having a similar business objective as ours in acquiring a target business with significant growth potential on favorable terms.\nIf we succeed in effecting a business combination, there will be, in all likelihood, intense competition from competitors of the target business. We cannot assure you that, subsequent to a business combination, we will have the resources or ability to compete effectively.\nWe have two executive officers. These individuals are not obligated to devote any specific number of hours to our matters and intend to devote only as much time as they deem necessary to our affairs. The amount of time they will devote in any time period will vary based on whether a target business has been selected for the business combination and the stage of the business combination process the Company is in. Accordingly, once a suitable target business to acquire has been located, management will spend more time investigating such target business and negotiating and processing the business combination (and consequently spend more time on our affairs) than had been spent prior to locating a suitable target business. We presently expect our executive officers to devote such amount of time as they reasonably believe is necessary to our business. We do not intend to have any full time employees prior to the consummation of a business combination.\nPeriodic Reporting and Financial Information\nWe have registered our units, common stock, rights and warrants under the Exchange Act and have reporting obligations, including the requirement that we file annual, quarterly and current reports with the SEC. In accordance with the requirements of the Exchange Act, this Annual Report contains financial statements audited and reported on by our independent registered public accountants.\nWe will provide stockholders with audited financial statements of the prospective target business as part of any proxy solicitation materials or tender offer documents sent to stockholders to assist them in assessing the target business. These financial statements will need to be prepared in accordance with or reconciled to United States generally accepted accounting principles or international financial reporting standards, as issued by the International Accounting Standards Board. We cannot assure you that any particular target business identified by us as a potential acquisition candidate will have the necessary financial statements. To the extent that this requirement cannot be met, we may not be able to acquire the proposed target business.\nWe may be required to have our internal control procedures audited for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2019 as required by the Sarbanes-Oxley Act. A target company may not be in compliance with the provisions of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act regarding adequacy of their internal controls. The development of the internal controls of any such entity to achieve compliance with the Sarbanes-Oxley Act may increase the time and costs necessary to complete any such acquisition.\nAn investment in our securities involves a high degree of risk. You should consider carefully all of the risks described below, together with the other information contained in this Annual Report, before making a decision to invest in our securities. If any of the following events occur, our business, financial condition and operating results may be materially adversely affected. In that event, the trading price of our securities could decline, and you could lose all or part of your investment.\nWe are a blank check company with no operating history and no revenues, and you have no basis on which to evaluate our ability to achieve our business objective.\nWe are a blank check company with no operating results. Because we lack an operating history, you have no basis upon which to evaluate our ability to achieve our business objective of completing our initial business combination with one or more target businesses. We have no plans, arrangements or understandings with any prospective target business concerning our initial business combination and may be unable to complete our initial business combination. If we fail to complete our initial business combination, we will never generate any operating revenues.\nOur independent registered public accounting firm\u2019s report contains an explanatory paragraph that expresses substantial doubt about our ability to continue as a \u201cgoing concern.\u201d\nAs of September 30, 2018, not including cash held in our trust account in the amount of $144,964,309, we had $597,268 in cash and $1,059,286 in liabilities. We expect to incur significant costs in pursuit of our acquisition plans, which will need to be funded, but if we are not successful in consummating an initial business combination by March 12, 2019 (or June 12, 2019 if we extend the time to consummate an initial business combination), then we will liquidate in accordance with our amended and restated certificate of incorporation. Management\u2019s plans to address this need for capital are discussed in the section of this Annual Report titled \u201cManagement\u2019s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations.\u201d Our plans to raise capital and to consummate our initial business combination may not be successful. These factors, among others, raise substantial doubt about our ability to continue as a going concern.\nThe requirement that the target business or businesses that we acquire must collectively have a fair market value equal to at least 80% of the balance of the funds in the trust account (less any taxes payable on interest earned and less any interest earned thereon that is released to us for taxes) at the time of the execution of a definitive agreement for our initial business combination may limit the type and number of companies that we may complete such a business combination with.\nPursuant to the NYSE listing rules, the target business or businesses that we acquire must collectively have a fair market value equal to at least 80% of the balance of the funds in the trust account (less any taxes payable on interest earned and less any interest earned thereon that is released to us for taxes) at the time of the execution of a definitive agreement for our initial business combination. This restriction may limit the type and number of companies that we may complete an initial business combination with. If we are unable to locate a target business or businesses that\nsatisfy this fair market value test, we may be forced to liquidate and you will only be entitled to receive your pro rata portion of the funds in the trust account.\nOur public stockholders may not be afforded an opportunity to vote on our proposed business combination, which means we may consummate our initial business combination even though a majority of our public stockholders do not support such a combination.\nWe may not hold a stockholder vote to approve our initial business combination unless the business combination would require stockholder approval under applicable law or stock exchange rules or if we decide to hold a stockholder vote for business or other reasons. For instance, the rules of the NYSE currently allow us to engage in a tender offer in lieu of a stockholder meeting, but would still require us to obtain stockholder approval if we were seeking to issue more than 20% of our issued and outstanding shares to a target business as consideration in any business combination. Therefore, if we were structuring a business combination that required us to issue more than 20% of our issued and outstanding shares, we would seek stockholder approval of such business combination. However, except as required by applicable law or stock exchange rules, the decision as to whether we will seek stockholder approval of a proposed business combination or will allow stockholders to sell their shares to us in a tender offer will be made by us, solely in our discretion, and will be based on a variety of factors, such as the timing of the transaction and whether the terms of the transaction would otherwise require us to seek stockholder approval. Accordingly, we may consummate our initial business combination even if holders of a majority of the issued and outstanding shares of common stock do not approve of the business combination we consummate. Our Founders and management team control a substantial interest in us and thus may exert a substantial influence on actions requiring a stockholder vote, potentially in a manner that you do not support.\nIf we seek stockholder approval of our initial business combination, our Founders and management team have agreed to vote in favor of such initial business combination, regardless of how our public stockholders vote.\nUnlike many other blank check companies in which the founders, executive officers and directors agree to vote their Founder Shares in accordance with the majority of the votes cast by the public stockholders in connection with an initial business combination, our Founders and management team have agreed (and their permitted transferees will agree), pursuant to the terms of the letter agreements entered into with us, to vote any shares of common stock held by them in favor of our initial business combination. As a result, in addition to the Founder Shares and Placement Shares, we would need 5,143,998, or approximately 35.78%, of the 14,375,000 public shares to be voted in favor of a transaction in order to have such initial business combination approved. We expect that our Founders and management team, and their permitted transferees, will own approximately 22% of the issued and outstanding shares of our common stock at the time of any such stockholder vote. Accordingly, if we seek stockholder approval of our initial business combination, it is more likely that the necessary stockholder approval will be received than would be the case if such persons agreed to vote their Founder Shares and Placement Shares in accordance with the majority of the votes cast by our public stockholders.\nYour only opportunity to affect the investment decision regarding a potential business combination may be limited to the exercise of your right to redeem your shares from us for cash.\nPrior to the announcement of our initial business combination, you will not be provided with an opportunity to evaluate the specific merits or risks of one or more target businesses. Because our Board of Directors may consummate our initial business combination without seeking stockholder approval, public stockholders may not have the right or opportunity to vote on the business combination. Accordingly, your only opportunity to affect the investment decision regarding a potential business combination may be limited to exercising your redemption rights within the period of time (which will be at least 20 business days) set forth in our tender offer documents mailed to our public stockholders in which we describe our initial business combination.\nThe ability of our public stockholders to redeem their shares for cash may make our financial condition unattractive to potential business combination targets, which may make it difficult for us to enter into our initial business combination with a target.\nWe may enter into a transaction agreement with a prospective target that requires as a closing condition that we have a minimum net worth or a certain amount of cash. If too many public stockholders exercise their redemption rights, we may not be able to meet such closing condition, and as a result, would not be able to proceed with such business combination. Furthermore, in no event will we redeem our public shares in an amount that would cause our net tangible assets to be less than $5,000,001 upon the consummation of our initial business combination or any greater net tangible asset or cash requirement which may be contained in the agreement relating to our initial business combination. Our amended and restated certificate of incorporation requires us to provide all of our public stockholders (but not our Founders or management team) with an opportunity to redeem all of their shares in connection with the consummation of any initial business combination. Consequently, if accepting all properly submitted redemption requests would cause our net tangible assets to be less than $5,000,001 upon the consummation of our initial business combination, or such greater amount necessary to satisfy a closing condition as described above, we would not proceed with such redemption and the related business combination and may instead search for an alternate business combination. Prospective targets would be aware of these risks and, thus, may be reluctant to enter into our initial business combination transaction with us.\nThe ability of our public stockholders to exercise redemption rights with respect to a large number of our shares may not allow us to consummate the most desirable business combination or optimize our capital structure.\nIn connection with the successful consummation of our initial business combination, we may redeem up to that number of shares of common stock that would permit us to maintain net tangible assets of $5,000,001 upon the consummation of our initial business combination. If our initial business combination requires us to use substantially all of our cash to pay the purchase price, the redemption threshold may be further limited. Alternatively, we may need to arrange third party financing to help fund our business combination in case a larger percentage of stockholders exercise their redemption rights than we expect. If the acquisition involves the issuance of our shares as consideration, we may be required to issue a higher percentage of our shares to the target or its stockholders to make up for the failure to satisfy a minimum cash requirement. Raising additional funds to cover any shortfall may involve dilutive equity financing or incurring indebtedness at higher than desirable levels. This may limit our ability to effectuate the most attractive business combination available to us.\nThe requirement that we maintain a minimum net worth or retain a certain amount of cash could increase the probability that our business combination would be unsuccessful and that you would have to wait for liquidation in order to redeem your shares.\nIf, pursuant to the terms of our proposed business combination, we are required to maintain a minimum net worth or retain a certain amount of cash in trust in order to consummate the business combination and regardless of whether we proceed with redemptions under the tender or proxy rules, the probability that our business combination would be unsuccessful is increased. If our business combination is unsuccessful, you would not receive your pro rata portion of the trust account until we liquidate. If you are in need of immediate liquidity, you could attempt to sell your shares in the open market; however, at such time our shares may trade at a discount to the pro rata amount per share in our trust account. In either situation, you may suffer a material loss on your investment or lose the benefit of funds expected in connection with our redemption until we liquidate or you are able to sell your shares in the open market.\nThe requirement that we complete our initial business combination by March 12, 2019 (or June 12, 2019 if we extend the time to consummate an initial business combination), may give potential target businesses leverage over us in negotiating our initial business combination and may limit the amount of time we have to conduct due diligence on potential business combination targets as we approach our dissolution deadline, which could undermine our ability to consummate our initial business combination on terms that would produce value for our stockholders.\nAny potential target business with which we enter into negotiations concerning our initial business combination will be aware that we must consummate our initial business combination by March 12, 2019 (or June 12, 2019 if we extend the time to consummate the initial business combination). Consequently, such target businesses may obtain leverage over us in negotiating our initial business combination, knowing that if we do not complete our initial business\ncombination with that particular target business, we may be unable to complete our initial business combination with any target business. This risk will increase as we get closer to the timeframe described above. In addition, we may have limited time to conduct due diligence and may enter into our initial business combination on terms that we would have rejected upon a more comprehensive investigation.\nWe may not be able to consummate our initial business combination within the required time period, in which case we would cease all operations except for the purpose of winding up and we would redeem our public shares and liquidate.\nOur Founders and management team have agreed that we must complete our initial business combination by March 12, 2019 (or June 12, 2019 if we extend the time to consummate the initial business combination). We may not be able to find a suitable target business and consummate our initial business combination within such time period. Our ability to complete our initial business combination may be negatively impacted by general market conditions, volatility in the capital and debt markets and the other risks described herein.\nIf we are unable to consummate our initial business combination within the required time period, we will, as promptly as reasonably possible but not more than ten business days thereafter, distribute the aggregate amount then on deposit in the trust account (net of taxes payable, and less up to $100,000 of interest to pay dissolution expenses), pro rata to the holders of our public shares by way of redemption and cease all operations except for the purposes of winding up of our affairs, as further described herein. This redemption of our public shares from the trust account shall be effected as required by function of our amended and restated certificate of incorporation and prior to any voluntary winding up.\nIf we seek stockholder approval of our initial business combination pursuant to a proxy solicitation, our Founders, management team, advisors and their affiliates may elect to purchase shares from stockholders, in which case they may influence a vote in favor of a proposed business combination that you do not support.\nIf we seek stockholder approval of our initial business combination pursuant to a proxy solicitation (meaning we would not conduct redemptions pursuant to the tender offer rules), our Founders, management team, advisors or any of their affiliates are permitted to purchase shares of our common stock in privately negotiated transactions or in the open market either prior to or following the consummation of our initial business combination. None of them will make any such purchases when they are in possession of any material non\u2011public information not disclosed to the seller or during a restricted period under Regulation M under the Exchange Act. Any such purchase would be required to include a contractual acknowledgement that the selling stockholder, although he, she or it may still be the record holder of the shares being sold, would, upon consummation of such sale, no longer be the beneficial owner of such shares and would agree not to exercise the redemption rights applicable to such shares. In the event that our Founders, management team, advisors or any of their affiliates purchase shares of common stock in privately negotiated transactions from public stockholders who have already elected to exercise their redemption rights, any such selling stockholders would be required to revoke their prior elections to redeem their shares of common stock prior to the consummation of the transaction. Any such privately negotiated purchases may be effected at purchase prices that are below or in excess of the per-share pro rata portion of the trust account.\nThe purpose of such purchases could be to (1) increase the likelihood of obtaining stockholder approval of the initial business combination or (2) satisfy a closing condition in an agreement with a target that requires us to have a minimum net worth or a certain amount of cash at the closing of the business combination, where it appears that such requirement would otherwise not be met. This may result in the consummation of an initial business combination that may not otherwise have been possible.\nPurchases of shares of our common stock in the open market or in privately negotiated transactions by our Founders, management team, advisors or their affiliates may make it difficult for us to maintain the listing of our common stock on the NYSE following the consummation of an initial business combination.\nIf our Founders, management team, advisors or their affiliates purchase shares of our common stock in the open market or in privately negotiated transactions, the public \u201cfloat\u201d of our common stock and the number of beneficial holders of our securities would both be reduced, possibly making it difficult to maintain the listing or trading of our securities on the NYSE following consummation of the initial business combination.\nYou will not have any rights or interests in funds from the trust account, except under certain limited circumstances. To liquidate your investment, therefore, you may be forced to sell your public shares, potentially at a loss.\nOur public stockholders shall be entitled to receive funds from the trust account only (i) in the event of a redemption to public stockholders prior to any winding up in the event we do not consummate our initial business combination by March 12, 2019, (or June 12, 2019 if we extend the time to consummate the initial business combination), (ii) if they redeem their shares in connection with an initial business combination that we consummate or, (iii) if they redeem their shares in connection with a stockholder vote to amend our amended and restated certificate of incorporation (A) to modify the substance or timing of our obligation to redeem 100% of our public shares if we do not complete our initial business combination by March 12, 2019, (or June 12, 2019 if we extend the time to consummate the initial business combination), or (B) with respect to any other provision relating to our pre-business combination activity and related stockholders\u2019 rights. In no other circumstances will a stockholder have any right or interest of any kind to the funds in the trust account. Accordingly, to liquidate your investment, you may be forced to sell your securities, potentially at a loss.\nYou will not be entitled to protections normally afforded to investors of many other blank check companies.\nWe may be deemed to be a \u201cblank check\u201d company under the United States securities laws. However, since we have net tangible assets of at least $5,000,001, we are exempt from rules promulgated by the SEC to protect investors in blank check companies, such as Rule 419. Accordingly, investors will not be afforded the benefits or protections of those rules. Among other things, this means our units will be immediately tradable and we may have a longer period of time to complete our initial business combination than do companies subject to Rule 419. Moreover, offerings subject to Rule 419 would prohibit the release of any interest earned on funds held in the trust account to us unless and until the funds in the trust account were released to us in connection with our consummation of an initial business combination.\nIf we seek stockholder approval of our business combination pursuant to a proxy solicitation (meaning we would not conduct redemptions pursuant to the tender offer rules), and if you or a \u201cgroup\u201d of stockholders are deemed to hold in excess of 15% of the issued and outstanding shares of our common stock, you will lose the ability to redeem all such shares in excess of 15% of the issued and outstanding shares of our common stock.\nIf we seek stockholder approval of our initial business combination pursuant to a proxy solicitation (meaning we would not conduct redemptions pursuant to the tender offer rules), our amended and restated certificate of incorporation will provide that a public stockholder, individually or together with any affiliate of such stockholder or any other person with whom such stockholder is acting in concert or as a \u201cgroup\u201d (as defined under Section 13 of the Exchange Act), would be restricted from seeking redemption rights with respect to an aggregate of more than 15% of the shares of common stock. Your inability to redeem an aggregate of more than 15% of the shares of common stock will reduce your influence over our ability to consummate our initial business combination and you could suffer a material loss on your investment in us if you sell such excess shares in open market transactions. As a result, you will continue to hold that number of shares exceeding 15% and, in order to dispose of such shares, you would be required to sell your shares in open market transaction, potentially at a loss.\nIf our cash not being held in the trust account is insufficient to allow us to operate until June 12, 2019, we may be unable to complete our initial business combination.\nThe funds available to us outside of the trust account, plus the interest earned on the funds held in the trust account that may be available to us, may not be sufficient to allow us to operate until at least June 12, 2019, assuming that our initial business combination is not consummated during that time. Of the funds available to us, we could use a portion of the funds available to us to pay fees to consultants to assist us with our search for a target business. We could also use a portion of the funds as a down payment or to fund a \u201cno\u2011shop\u201d provision (a provision in letters of intent designed to keep target businesses from \u201cshopping\u201d around for transactions with other companies on terms more favorable to such target businesses) with respect to a particular proposed business combination, although we do not have any current intention to do so. If we are unable to fund such down payments or \u201cno-shop\u201d provisions, our ability to close a contemplated transaction could be impaired. Furthermore, if we entered into a letter of intent where we paid for the right to receive exclusivity from a target business and were subsequently required to forfeit such funds (whether as a\nresult of our breach or otherwise), we might not have sufficient funds to continue searching for, or conduct due diligence with respect to, a target business. If that were to occur, we may not be able to consummate our initial business combination.\nSubsequent to our consummation of our initial business combination, we may be required to take write-downs or write-offs, or we may be subject to restructuring and impairment or other charges that could have a significant negative effect on our financial condition, results of operations and the price of our common stock, which could cause you to lose some or all of your investment.\nEven if we conduct thorough due diligence on a target business with which we combine, this diligence may not surface all material issues that may be present inside a particular target business. Factors outside of the target business and outside of our control may, at any time, arise. As a result of these factors, we may be forced to later write-down or write-off assets, restructure our operations, or incur impairment or other charges that could result in our reporting losses. Even if our due diligence successfully identifies certain risks, unexpected risks may arise and previously known risks may materialize in a manner not consistent with our preliminary risk analysis. Even though these charges may be non-cash items and not have an immediate impact on our liquidity, the fact that we report charges of this nature could contribute to negative market perceptions about us or our securities. In addition, charges of this nature may cause us to violate net worth or other covenants to which we may be subject as a result of assuming pre-existing debt held by a target business or by virtue of our obtaining post-combination debt financing.\nOur directors may decide not to enforce indemnification obligations against our Sponsor, resulting in a reduction in the amount of funds in the trust account available for distribution to our public stockholders.\nIn the event that the proceeds in the trust account are reduced below $10.00 per share and our Sponsor asserts that it is unable to satisfy obligations or that it has no indemnification obligations related to a particular claim, our independent directors would determine on our behalf whether to take legal action against our Sponsor to enforce its indemnification obligations. While we currently expect that our independent directors would take legal action on our behalf against our Sponsor to enforce its indemnification obligations to us, it is possible that our independent directors in exercising their business judgment may choose not to do so in any particular instance. If our independent directors choose not to enforce these indemnification obligations on our behalf, the amount of funds in the trust account available for distribution upon redemption of our public shares may be reduced below the amount that these shares would otherwise be converted into upon their redemption.\nIf we are deemed to be an investment company under the Investment Company Act, we may be required to institute burdensome compliance requirements and our activities may be restricted, which may make it difficult for us to complete our initial business combination.\nIf we are deemed to be an investment company under the Investment Company Act, our activities may be restricted, including restrictions on the nature of our investments and restrictions on the issuance of securities, each of which may make it difficult for us to complete our initial business combination. In addition, we may have imposed upon us burdensome requirements, including registration as an investment company, adoption of a specific form of corporate structure and reporting, record keeping, voting, proxy and disclosure requirements and other rules and regulations.\nIf we were deemed to be subject to the Investment Company Act, compliance with these additional regulatory burdens would require additional expenses for which we have not allotted funds and may hinder our ability to consummate our initial business combination.\nChanges in laws or regulations, or a failure to comply with any laws and regulations, may adversely affect our business, investments and results of operations.\nWe are subject to laws and regulations enacted by national, regional and local governments. In particular, we will be required to comply with certain SEC and other legal requirements. Compliance with, and monitoring of, applicable laws and regulations may be difficult, time consuming and costly. Those laws and regulations and their interpretation and application also may change from time to time and those changes could have a material adverse effect on our business, investments and results of operations. In addition, a failure to comply with applicable laws or regulations, as interpreted and applied, could have a material adverse effect on our business and results of operations.\nWe may not be able to complete our initial business combination within the prescribed time frame, in which case we would cease all operations except for the purpose of winding up and we would redeem our public shares and liquidate.\nWe must complete our initial business combination by March 12, 2019 (or June 12, 2019 if we extend the time to consummate an initial business combination). We may not be able to find a suitable target business and complete our initial business combination within such time period or we may be unable to consummate a business combination due to a downturn in industry or economic conditions or due to other factors that may occur. If we have not completed our initial business combination within the prescribed time frame, we will (i) cease all operations except for the purpose of winding up, (ii) as promptly as reasonably possible but not more than ten business days thereafter, redeem 100% of the outstanding public shares, at a per-share price, payable in cash, equal to the aggregate amount then on deposit in the trust account, including any interest earned on the funds held in the trust account net of interest that may be used by us to pay our franchise and income taxes payable, divided by the number of then outstanding public shares, which redemption will completely extinguish public stockholders\u2019 rights as stockholders (including the right to receive further liquidation distributions, if any), subject to applicable law, and (iii) as promptly as reasonably possible following such redemption, subject to the approval of our remaining stockholders and our Board of Directors, dissolve and liquidate, subject (in the case of (ii) and (iii) above) to our obligations under Delaware law to provide for claims of creditors and the requirements of other applicable law.\nOur stockholders may be held liable for claims by third parties against us to the extent of distributions received by them.\nOur amended and restated certificate of incorporation provides that we will continue in existence only until March 12, 2019 (or June 12, 2019 if we extend the time to consummate an initial business combination). As promptly as reasonably possible following the redemptions we are required to make to our public stockholders in such event, subject to the approval of our remaining stockholders and our Board of Directors, we would dissolve and liquidate, subject to our obligations under Delaware law to provide for claims of creditors and the requirements of other applicable law. We cannot assure you that we will properly assess all claims that may be potentially brought against us. As such, our stockholders could potentially be liable for any claims to the extent of distributions received by them (but no more) and any liability of our stockholders may extend well beyond the third anniversary of the date of distribution. Accordingly, we cannot assure you that third parties will not seek to recover from our stockholders amounts owed to them by us.\nIf we are forced to file a bankruptcy case or an involuntary bankruptcy case is filed against us which is not dismissed, any distributions received by stockholders could be viewed under applicable debtor/creditor and/or bankruptcy laws as either a \u201cpreferential transfer\u201d or a \u201cfraudulent conveyance.\u201d As a result, a bankruptcy court could seek to recover all amounts received by our stockholders. Furthermore, because we intend to distribute the proceeds held in the trust account to our public stockholders promptly after expiration of the time we have to complete an initial business combination, this may be viewed or interpreted as giving preference to our public stockholders over any potential creditors with respect to access to or distributions from our assets. Furthermore, our board may be viewed as having breached their fiduciary duties to our creditors and/or may have acted in bad faith, and thereby exposing itself and our company to claims of punitive damages, by paying public stockholders from the trust account prior to addressing the claims of creditors. We cannot assure you that claims will not be brought against us for these reasons.\nIf we are unable to consummate our initial business combination by March 12, 2019 (or June 12, 2019 if we extend the time to consummate an initial business combination), our public stockholders may be forced to wait beyond such times before redemption from our trust account.\nIf we are unable to consummate our initial business combination by March 12, 2019, (or June 12, 2019 if we extend the time to consummate an initial business combination), we will, as promptly as reasonably possible but not more than ten business days thereafter, distribute the aggregate amount then on deposit in the trust account (net of taxes payable, and less up to $100,000 of interest to pay dissolution expenses), pro rata to the holders of our public shares by way of redemption and cease all operations except for the purposes of winding up of our affairs by way of a voluntary liquidation, as further described herein. Any redemption of our public shares from the trust account shall be effected as required by our amended and restated certificate of incorporation prior to our commencing any voluntary liquidation.\nIf we are required to liquidate prior to distributing the aggregate amount then on deposit in the trust account (net of taxes payable, and less up to $100,000 of interest to pay dissolution expenses) pro rata to the holders of our public shares, then such winding up, liquidation and distribution must comply with the applicable provisions of the DGCL. In that case, investors may be forced to wait beyond 21 before the redemption proceeds of our trust account become available to them, and they receive the return of their pro rata portion of the proceeds from our Trust Account. Except as otherwise described herein, we have no obligation to return funds to investors prior to the date of any redemption required as a result of our failure to consummate our initial business combination within the period described above or our liquidation, unless we consummate our initial business combination prior thereto and only then in cases where investors have sought to redeem their shares of common stock. Only upon any such redemption of public shares as we are required to effect or any liquidation will public stockholders be entitled to distributions if we are unable to complete our initial business combination.\nThe grant of registration rights to our Founders and management team may make it more difficult to complete our initial business combination, and the future exercise of such rights may adversely affect the market price of our common stock.\nOur Founders and management team, and their respective permitted transferees, can demand that we register for resale Founder Shares and Placement Shares and the other securities underlying the units purchased in a private placement in December 2017 and January 2018. We will bear the cost of registering these securities. The registration and availability of such a significant number of securities for trading in the public market may have an adverse effect on the market price of our common stock. In addition, the existence of the registration rights may make our initial business combination more costly or difficult to conclude. This is because the stockholders of the target business may increase the equity stake they seek in the combined entity or ask for more cash consideration to offset the negative impact on the market price of our common stock that is expected when the securities owned by our Founders and management team, or their respective permitted transferees, are registered.\nBecause we are not limited to any particular business or specific geographic location or any specific target businesses with which to pursue our initial business combination, you will be unable to ascertain the merits or risks of any particular target business\u2019 operations.\nAlthough we intend to focus on the technology businesses in North America, we may pursue acquisition opportunities in any geographic region and in any business industry or sector. Except for the limitations that a target business have a fair market value of at least 80% of the value of the trust account (less any taxes payable on interest earned and less any interest earned thereon that is released to us for taxes) and that we are not permitted to effectuate our initial business combination with another blank check company or similar company with nominal operations, we will have virtually unrestricted flexibility in identifying and selecting a prospective acquisition candidate. Because we have not yet identified or approached any specific target business with respect to our initial business combination, there is no basis to evaluate the possible merits or risks of any particular target business\u2019s operations, results of operations, cash flows, liquidity, financial condition or prospects. To the extent we consummate our initial business combination, we may be affected by numerous risks inherent in the business operations with which we combine. For example, if we combine with a financially unstable business or an entity lacking an established record of sales or earnings, we may be affected by the risks inherent in the business and operations of a financially unstable or a development stage entity. Although our officers and directors will endeavor to evaluate the risks inherent in a particular target business, we may not properly ascertain or assess all of the significant risk factors or that we will have adequate time to complete due diligence. Furthermore, some of these risks may be outside of our control and leave us with no ability to control or reduce the chances that those risks will adversely impact a target business. An investment in our units may not ultimately prove to be more favorable to investors than a direct investment, if such opportunity were available, in an acquisition target.\nPast performance by our management team may not be indicative of future performance of an investment in the Company.\nInformation regarding performance by, or businesses associated with, our management team and their affiliates is presented for informational purposes only. Past performance by our management team is not a guarantee either (i) that we will be able to identify a suitable candidate for our initial business combination or (ii) of success with respect to any business combination we may consummate. You should not rely on the historical record of our management\nteam\u2019s performance as indicative of our future performance of an investment in the company or the returns the company will, or is likely to, generate going forward. None of our officers or directors has had experience with any blank check companies in the past.\nWe may seek acquisition opportunities outside the technology industries, which may be outside of our management\u2019s areas of expertise.\nWe will consider a business combination outside the technology industries, which may be outside of our management\u2019s areas of expertise, if a business combination candidate is presented to us and we determine that such candidate offers an attractive acquisition opportunity for our company. In the event we elect to pursue an acquisition outside of the areas of our management\u2019s expertise, our management\u2019s expertise may not be directly applicable to its evaluation or operation, and our management\u2019s expertise would not be relevant to an understanding of the business that we elect to acquire. As a result, our management may not be able to adequately ascertain or assess all of the significant risk factors relevant to such acquisition. Accordingly, any stockholder who chooses to remain a stockholder following our initial business combination could suffer a reduction in the value of their securities. Such stockholders are unlikely to have a remedy for such reduction in value.\nOur President, Chief Executive Officer, Executive Chairman and Secretary is a party to a non-competition agreement that could limit the companies that we may target for an initial business combination, which could negatively impact our prospects for an initial business combination.\nOur President, Chief Executive Officer, Executive Chairman and Secretary, Dr. Avi S. Katz, is a party to a non-competition agreement with Integrated Device Technology which contains confidentiality, non-competition and non-solicitation provisions in effect until April 4, 2019. Absent a waiver, Dr. Katz will be restricted during such time from, among other things, investing, engaging, having any ownership, control or equity interest in, or being employed in, any semiconductor business related in any way to the integration or supply of optical communication, streaming video or Radio Frequency (\u201cRF\u201d) integrated circuits, modules or systems (the \u201cCompeting Business\u201d).\nIn light of the non-competition agreement, we will not seek to consummate an initial business combination with any target that operates a Competing Business, unless Dr. Katz is granted a waiver. No assurance can be given that any such waiver will be granted if requested. In addition, Integrated Device Technology, which has entered into an agreement to be acquired by Renesas Electronics Corporation, may not agree with any determination we make that a target business is not engaged in a Competing Business. Any litigation associated with the non-competition agreement could be time consuming and costly and could distract our management\u2019s focus from locating suitable acquisition candidates and operating our business.\nAlthough we identified general criteria and guidelines that we believe are important in evaluating prospective target businesses, we may enter into our initial business combination with a target that does not meet such criteria and guidelines, and as a result, the target business with which we enter into our initial business combination may not have attributes entirely consistent with our general criteria and guidelines.\nAlthough we have identified general criteria and guidelines for evaluating prospective target businesses, it is possible that a target business with which we enter into our initial business combination will not have all of these positive attributes. If we consummate our initial business combination with a target that does not meet some or all of these guidelines, such combination may not be as successful as a combination with a business that does meet all of our general criteria and guidelines. In addition, if we announce our initial business combination with a target that does not meet our general criteria and guidelines, a greater number of stockholders may exercise their redemption rights, which may make it difficult for us to meet any closing condition with a target business that requires us to have a minimum net worth or a certain amount of cash. In addition, if stockholder approval of the transaction is required by law or the rules of NYSE, or we decide to obtain stockholder approval for business or other legal reasons, it may be more difficult for us to attain stockholder approval of our initial business combination if the target business does not meet some or all of our general criteria and guidelines, and therefore, for us to consummate such initial business combination.\nManagement\u2019s flexibility in identifying and selecting a prospective acquisition candidate, along with our management\u2019s financial interest in consummating our initial business combination, may lead management to enter into an acquisition agreement that is not in the best interest of our stockholders.\nSubject to the requirement that our initial business combination must be with one or more target businesses or assets having an aggregate fair market value of at least 80% of the value of the trust account (less any taxes payable on interest earned) at the time of the agreement to enter into such initial business combination, we will have virtually unrestricted flexibility in identifying and selecting a prospective acquisition candidate. Investors will be relying on management\u2019s ability to identify business combinations, evaluate their merits, conduct or monitor diligence and conduct negotiations. Management\u2019s flexibility in identifying and selecting a prospective acquisition candidate, along with management\u2019s financial interest in consummating our initial business combination, may lead management to enter into an acquisition agreement that is not in the best interest of our stockholders.\nWe may seek acquisition opportunities with an early stage company, a financially unstable business or an entity lacking an established record of revenue or earnings.\nTo the extent we complete our initial business combination with an early stage company, a financially unstable business or an entity lacking an established record of sales or earnings, we may be affected by numerous risks inherent in the operations of the business with which we combine. These risks include investing in a business without a proven business model and with limited historical financial data, volatile revenues or earnings, intense competition and difficulties in obtaining and retaining key personnel. Although our officers and directors will endeavor to evaluate the risks inherent in a particular target business, we may not be able to properly ascertain or assess all of the significant risk factors and we may not have adequate time to complete due diligence. Furthermore, some of these risks may be outside of our control and leave us with no ability to control or reduce the chances that those risks will adversely impact a target business.\nWe are not required to obtain an opinion from an independent investment banking firm or an independent accounting firm, and consequently, an independent source may not confirm that the price we are paying for the business is fair to our stockholders from a financial point of view.\nUnless we consummate our initial business combination with an affiliated entity, we are not required to obtain an opinion from an independent investment banking firm or an independent accounting firm that the price we are paying is fair to our stockholders from a financial point of view. If no opinion is obtained, our stockholders will be relying on the judgment of our Board of Directors, who will determine fair market value based on standards generally accepted by the financial community. Our Board of Directors will have significant discretion in choosing the standard used to establish the fair market value of the target acquisition. Such standards used will be disclosed in our tender offer documents or proxy solicitation materials, as applicable, related to our initial business combination.\nWe may issue additional shares of common stock or preferred shares to complete our initial business combination or under an employee incentive plan upon or after consummation of our initial business combination, which would dilute the interest of our stockholders and likely present other risks.\nOur amended and restated certificate of incorporation authorizes the issuance of 100,000,000 shares of common stock, and 1,000,000 shares of preferred stock, par value $0.0001 per share. We may issue a substantial number of additional shares of common stock or shares of preferred stock, par value $0.0001 per share, to complete our initial business combination or under an employee incentive plan upon or after consummation of our initial business combination. Although no such issuance will affect the per share amount available for redemption from the trust account, the issuance of additional common stock or preferred shares:\nmay significantly dilute the equity interest of investors in this offering, who will not have pre-emption rights in respect of such an issuance;\nmay subordinate the rights of holders of shares of common stock if one or more classes of preferred stock are created, and such preferred shares are issued, with rights senior to those afforded to our common stock;\ncould cause a change in control if a substantial number of shares of common stock are issued, which may affect, among other things, our ability to use our net operating loss carry forwards, if any, and could result in the resignation or removal of our present officers and directors; and\nmay adversely affect prevailing market prices for our units, common stock, rights and/or warrants.\nResources could be wasted in researching acquisitions that are not consummated, which could materially adversely affect subsequent attempts to locate and acquire or merge with another business.\nWe anticipate that the investigation of each specific target business and the negotiation, drafting, and execution of relevant agreements, disclosure documents, and other instruments will require substantial management time and attention and substantial costs for accountants, attorneys and others. If we decide not to complete a specific initial business combination, the costs incurred up to that point for the proposed transaction likely would not be recoverable. Furthermore, if we reach an agreement relating to a specific target business, we may fail to consummate our initial business combination for any number of reasons including those beyond our control. Any such event will result in a loss to us of the related costs incurred, which could materially adversely affect subsequent attempts to locate and acquire or merge with another business.\nProvisions in our amended and restated certificate of incorporation and Delaware law may inhibit a takeover of us, which could limit the price investors might be willing to pay in the future for our common stock and could entrench management.\nOur amended and restated certificate of incorporation contains provisions that may discourage unsolicited takeover proposals that stockholders may consider to be in their best interests. These provisions include the ability of our Board of Directors to designate the terms of, and issue new series of, preferred stock. We are also subject to anti-takeover provisions under Delaware law, which could delay or prevent a change of control. Together these provisions may make more difficult the removal of management and may discourage transactions that otherwise could involve payment of a premium over prevailing market prices for our securities.\nOur amended and restated certificate of incorporation provides, subject to limited exceptions, that the Court of Chancery of the State of Delaware will be the sole and exclusive forum for certain stockholder litigation matters, which could limit our stockholders\u2019 ability to obtain a favorable judicial forum for disputes with us or our directors, officers, employees or stockholders.\nOur amended and restated certificate of incorporation will require, to the fullest extent permitted by law, that derivative actions brought in our name, actions against directors, officers and employees for breach of fiduciary duty and other similar actions may be brought only in the Court of Chancery in the State of Delaware and, if brought outside of Delaware, the stockholder bringing the suit will be deemed to have consented to service of process on such stockholder\u2019s counsel. Any person or entity purchasing or otherwise acquiring any interest in shares of our capital stock shall be deemed to have notice of and consented to the forum provisions in our amended and restated certificate of incorporation.\nThis choice of forum provision may limit a stockholder\u2019s ability to bring a claim in a judicial forum that it finds favorable for disputes with us or any of our directors, officers, other employees or stockholders, which may discourage lawsuits with respect to such claims. Alternatively, if a court were to find the choice of forum provision contained in our amended and restated certificate of incorporation to be inapplicable or unenforceable in an action, we may incur additional costs associated with resolving such action in other jurisdictions, which could harm our business, operating results and financial condition.\nWe do not currently intend to hold an annual meeting of stockholders until after our consummation of a business combination and you will not be entitled to any of the corporate protections provided by such a meeting.\nWe do not currently intend to hold an annual meeting of stockholders until after we consummate a business combination (unless required by NYSE), and thus may not be in compliance with Section 211(b) of the DGCL, which requires an annual meeting of stockholders be held for the purposes of electing directors, in accordance with a company\u2019s certificate of incorporation and bylaws, unless such election is made by written consent in lieu of such a meeting. If our stockholders want us to hold an annual meeting prior to our consummation of a business combination, they may attempt to force us to hold one by submitting an application to the Delaware Court of Chancery in accordance with Section 211(c) of the DGCL.\nWe may reincorporate in another jurisdiction in connection with our initial business combination and such reincorporation may result in taxes imposed on stockholders.\nWe may, in connection with our initial business combination, reincorporate in the jurisdiction in which the target company or business is located or in another jurisdiction. The transaction may require a stockholder to recognize taxable income in the jurisdiction in which the stockholder is a tax resident or in which its members are resident if it is a tax transparent entity. We do not intend to make any cash distributions to stockholders to pay such taxes. Stockholders may be subject to withholding taxes or other taxes with respect to their ownership of us after the reincorporation.\nOur ability to successfully effect our initial business combination and to be successful thereafter will be largely dependent upon the efforts of our management team and key personnel, some of whom may join us following our initial business combination. The loss of our management team or key personnel could negatively impact the operations and profitability of our business.\nOur operations are dependent upon a relatively small group of individuals and, in particular, our management team. We believe that our success depends on the continued service of our management team, at least until we have consummated our initial business combination. In addition, our management team are not required to commit any specified amount of time to our affairs and, accordingly, will have conflicts of interest in allocating management time among various business activities, including identifying potential business combinations and monitoring the related due diligence. We do not have an employment agreement with, or key-man insurance on the life of, any of our management team. The unexpected loss of the services of one or more of our management team could have a detrimental effect on us. Additionally, we do not intend to have any full time employees prior to the consummation of our initial business combination.\nThe role of such persons in the target business, however, cannot presently be ascertained. Although some of such persons may remain with the target business in senior management or advisory positions following our initial business combination, it is likely that some or all of the management of the target business will remain in place. While we intend to closely scrutinize any individuals we engage after our initial business combination, our assessment of these individuals may not prove to be correct. These individuals may be unfamiliar with the requirements of operating a company regulated by the SEC, which could cause us to have to expend time and resources helping them become familiar with such requirements.\nOur management team or key personnel may negotiate employment or consulting agreements with a target business in connection with a particular business combination. These agreements may provide for them to receive compensation following our initial business combination and as a result, may cause them to have conflicts of interest in determining whether a particular business combination is the most advantageous.\nOur management team key personnel may be able to remain with the Company after the consummation of our initial business combination only if they are able to negotiate employment or consulting agreements in connection with the business combination. Such negotiations would take place simultaneously with the negotiation of the business combination and could provide for such individuals to receive compensation in the form of cash payments and/or our securities for services they would render to us after the consummation of the business combination. The personal and financial interests of such individuals may influence their motivation in identifying and selecting a target business. However, we believe the ability of such individuals to remain with us after the consummation of our initial business combination will not be the determining factor in our decision as to whether or not we will proceed with any potential business combination. There is no certainty, however, that any of our management team or key personnel will remain with us after the consummation of our initial business combination. Our management team or key personnel may not remain in senior management or advisory positions with the post-transaction company. The determination as to whether any of our management team or key personnel will remain with us will be made at the time of our initial business combination.\nWe may have a limited ability to assess the management of a prospective target business and, as a result, we may end up effecting our initial business combination with a target business whose management may not have the skills, qualifications or abilities to manage a public company.\nWhen evaluating the desirability of effecting our initial business combination with a prospective target business, our ability to assess the target business\u2019 management may be limited due to a lack of time, resources or information. Moreover, members of our management team may not have significant experience or knowledge relating to the operations of a particular target business. Our assessment of the capabilities of a target\u2019s management, therefore, may prove to be incorrect and such management may lack the skills, qualifications or abilities we suspected. Should a target\u2019s management not possess the skills, qualifications or abilities necessary to manage a public company, the operations and profitability of the post-combination business may be negatively impacted.\nThe officers and directors of an acquisition candidate may resign upon consummation of our initial business combination. The loss of an acquisition target\u2019s key personnel could negatively impact the operations and profitability of our post-combination business.\nThe role of an acquisition candidate\u2019s key personnel upon the consummation of our initial business combination cannot be ascertained at this time. Although we contemplate that certain members of an acquisition candidate\u2019s management team will remain associated with the acquisition candidate following our initial business combination, it is possible that some members of the management team of an acquisition candidate will not wish to remain in place.\nNeither Cowen & Company, LLC (\u201cCowen\u201d), which is an affiliate of one of our Founders, nor any of its affiliates has an obligation to provide us with potential investment opportunities or to devote any specified amount of time or support to our company\u2019s business.\nAlthough we expect to benefit from Cowen\u2019s and its affiliates\u2019 network of relationships and processes for sourcing, executing and evaluating potential acquisition targets, neither Cowen nor any of its affiliates has any legal or contractual obligation to seek on our behalf or to present to us investment opportunities that might be suitable for our business, and may allocate any such opportunities at its discretion to us or other parties. We have no investment management, advisory, consulting or other agreement in place with Cowen or any of its affiliates that obligates them to undertake efforts on our behalf or that govern the manner in which they will allocate investment opportunities. Even if Cowen or one of its affiliates refers an opportunity to us, no assurance can be given that such opportunity will result in an acquisition agreement or our initial business combination.\nCertain of our management team are now, and all of them may in the future become, affiliated with entities engaged in business activities similar to those intended to be conducted by us and, accordingly, may have conflicts of interest in allocating their time and determining to which entity a particular business opportunity should be presented.\nWe engage in the business of identifying and combining with one or more businesses. Our management team are, or may in the future become, affiliated with entities that are engaged in a similar business.\nOur management team also may become aware of business opportunities, which may be appropriate for presentation to us and the other entities to which they owe certain fiduciary duties or contractual obligations. Accordingly, they may have conflicts of interest in determining to which entity a particular business opportunity should be presented. These conflicts may not be resolved in our favor or that a potential target business would not be presented to another entity prior to its presentation to us.\nWe may engage in our initial business combination with one or more target businesses that have relationships with entities that may be affiliated with our Founders or management team, which may raise potential conflicts of interest.\nWe have not adopted a policy that expressly prohibits our management team, security holders or affiliates from having a direct or indirect pecuniary or financial interest in any investment to be acquired or disposed of by us or in any transaction to which we are a party or have an interest. In light of the involvement of our Founders and management team and each of their affiliates, with other entities, we may decide to acquire one or more businesses affiliated with\nour Founders and management team, or any of their affiliates. Our directors also serve as executive officers and board members for other entities. Our Founders and management team are not currently aware of any specific opportunities for us to consummate our initial business combination with any entities with which they are affiliated, and there have been no discussions concerning a business combination with any such entity or entities. Although we will not be specifically focusing on, or targeting, any transaction with any affiliated entities, we would pursue such a transaction if we determined that such affiliated entity met our criteria for our initial business combination as set forth in \u201cBusiness Combination Criteria\u201d and such transaction was approved by a majority of our disinterested directors. Despite our agreement to obtain an opinion from an independent investment banking firm or an independent account firm regarding the fairness to our stockholders from a financial point of view of a business combination with one or more domestic or international businesses affiliated with any of our management team or Founders, potential conflicts of interest still may exist and, as a result, the terms of the business combination may not be as advantageous to our public stockholders as they would be absent any conflicts of interest. Our directors have a fiduciary duty to act in the best interests of our stockholders, whether or not a conflict of interest may exist.\nSince our Sponsor and each member of our management team will lose their entire investment in us if our initial business combination is not consummated, and the members of our management team have significant financial interests in us, a conflict of interest may arise in determining whether a particular acquisition target is appropriate for our initial business combination.\nIn October 2017, our Sponsor purchased 3,454,643 Founder Shares for an aggregate purchase price of $20,238, or approximately $0.00585823 per share. In November 2017, an aggregate of 16,190 of Sponsor\u2019s Founder Shares were forfeited and cancelled for no consideration, revising the per-share purchase price to $0.00588582 per share and resulting in Sponsor\u2019s holding 3,438,453 founder shares. Dr. Katz, has a financial interest in our Sponsor. He is also its manager. Mr. Neil Miotto, one of our independent directors, also has a financial interest in our Sponsor. See \u201c\u2014Certain Relationships and Related Party Transactions\u201d. In addition, we have issued an aggregate of 60,000 Founder Shares to our independent directors, solely in consideration for their services to us. All of the Founder Shares will be worthless if we do not consummate our initial business combination. The personal and financial interests of our Sponsor, and each member of our management team may influence their motivation in identifying and selecting a target business combination, completing an initial business combination and influencing the operation of the business following the initial business combination.\nWe may issue notes or other debt securities, or otherwise incur substantial debt, to complete our initial business combination, which may adversely affect our financial condition and thus negatively impact the value of our stockholders\u2019 investment in us.\nAlthough we have no commitments as of the date of this Annual Report to issue any notes or other debt securities, or to otherwise incur outstanding debt, we may choose to incur substantial debt to complete initial business combination. Furthermore, we may issue a substantial number of additional common or preferred shares to complete our initial business combination or under an employee incentive plan upon or after consummation of our initial business combination. We and our management team have agreed that we will not incur any indebtedness unless we have obtained from the lender a waiver of any right, title, interest or claim of any kind in or to any monies held in the trust account. As such, no issuance of debt will affect the per share amount available for redemption from the trust account. Nevertheless, the incurrence of debt could have a variety of negative effects, including:\ndefault and foreclosure on our assets if our operating revenues after our initial business combination are insufficient to repay our debt obligations;\nacceleration of our obligations to repay the indebtedness even if we make all principal and interest payments when due if we breach certain covenants that require the maintenance of certain financial ratios or reserves without a waiver or renegotiation of that covenant;\nour immediate payment of all principal and accrued interest, if any, if the debt security is payable on demand;\nour inability to obtain necessary additional financing if the debt security contains covenants restricting our ability to obtain such financing while the debt security is outstanding;\nour inability to pay dividends on our common stock;\nusing a substantial portion of our cash flow to pay principal and interest on our debt, which will reduce the funds available for dividends on our common stock if declared, expenses, capital expenditures, acquisitions and other general corporate purposes;\nlimitations on our flexibility in planning for and reacting to changes in our business and in the industry in which we operate;\nincreased vulnerability to adverse changes in general economic, industry and competitive conditions and adverse changes in government regulation; and\nlimitations on our ability to borrow additional amounts for expenses, capital expenditures, acquisitions, debt service requirements, execution of our strategy and other purposes and other disadvantages compared to our competitors who have less debt.\nWe may only be able to complete one business combination, which will cause us to be solely dependent on a single business, which may have a limited number of products or services. This lack of diversification may negatively impact our operations and profitability.\nAlthough we may seek to combine with a single target business or multiple target businesses simultaneously, we may not be able to effectuate our initial business combination with more than one target business because of various factors, including the existence of complex accounting issues and the requirement that we prepare and file pro forma financial statements with the SEC that present operating results and the financial condition of several target businesses as if they had been operated on a combined basis. By consummating our initial business combination with only a single entity, our lack of diversification may subject us to numerous economic, competitive and regulatory risks. Further, we would not be able to diversify our operations or benefit from the possible spreading of risks or offsetting of losses, unlike other entities, which may have the resources to complete several business combinations in different industries or different areas of a single industry. Accordingly, the prospects for our success may be:\nsolely dependent upon the performance of a single business, property or asset, or\ndependent upon the development or market acceptance of a single or limited number of products, processes or services.\nThis lack of diversification may subject us to numerous economic, competitive and regulatory risks, any or all of which may have a substantial adverse impact upon the particular industry in which we may operate subsequent to our initial business combination.\nWe may attempt to simultaneously consummate business combinations with multiple prospective targets, which may hinder our ability to consummate our initial business combination and give rise to increased costs and risks that could negatively impact our operations and profitability.\nIf we determine to simultaneously acquire several businesses that are owned by different sellers, we will need for each of such sellers to agree that our purchase of its business is contingent on the simultaneous closings of the other business combinations, which may make it more difficult for us, and delay our ability, to complete the initial business combination. With multiple business combinations, we could also face additional risks, including additional burdens and costs with respect to possible multiple negotiations and due diligence investigations (if there are multiple sellers) and the additional risks associated with the subsequent assimilation of the operations and services or products of the acquired companies in a single operating business. If we are unable to adequately address these risks, it could negatively impact our profitability and results of operations.\nWe may attempt to consummate our initial business combination with a private company about which little information is available, which may result in our initial business combination with a company that is not as profitable as we suspected, if at all.\nIn pursuing our acquisition strategy, we may seek to effectuate our initial business combination with a privately held company. By definition, very little public information exists about private companies, and we could be required to make our decision on whether to pursue a potential initial business combination on the basis of limited information, which may result in our initial business combination with a company that is not as profitable as we suspected, if at all.\nOur management team and our stockholders may not be able to maintain control of a target business after our initial business combination.\nWe may structure our initial business combination to acquire less than 100% of the equity interests or assets of a target business, but we will only consummate such business combination if we will become the majority stockholder of the target (or control the target through contractual arrangements in limited circumstances for regulatory compliance purposes) or are otherwise not required to register as an investment company under the Investment Company Act. Even though we may own a majority interest in the target, our stockholders prior to the business combination may collectively own a minority interest in the post-transaction company, depending on valuations ascribed to the target and us in the business combination transaction. For example, we could pursue a transaction in which we issue a substantial number of new shares in exchange for all of the outstanding capital stock of a target. In this case, we acquire a 100% controlling interest in the target. However, as a result of the issuance of a substantial number of new shares, our stockholders immediately prior to such transaction could own less than a majority of our outstanding shares subsequent to such transaction. In addition, other minority stockholders may subsequently combine their holdings resulting in a single person or group obtaining a larger share of the company\u2019s stock than we initially acquired. Accordingly, this may make it more likely that we will not be able to maintain our control of the target business.\nUnlike many blank check companies, we do not have a specified maximum redemption threshold. The absence of such a redemption threshold may make it easier for us to consummate our initial business combination with which a substantial majority of our stockholders do not agree.\nSince we have no specified percentage threshold for redemption contained in our amended and restated certificate of incorporation, our structure is different in this respect from the structure that has been used by many blank check companies. Historically, blank check companies would not be able to consummate an initial business combination if the holders of such company\u2019s public shares voted against a proposed business combination and elected to redeem more than a specified maximum percentage of the shares sold in such company\u2019s initial public offering, which percentage threshold was typically between 19.99% and 39.99%. As a result, many blank check companies were unable to complete a business combination because the amount of shares voted by their public stockholders electing redemption exceeded the maximum redemption threshold pursuant to which such company could proceed with its initial business combination. As a result, we may be able to consummate our initial business combination even though a substantial majority of our public stockholders do not agree with the transaction and have redeemed their shares or, if we seek stockholder approval of our initial business combination and do not conduct redemptions in connection with our business combination pursuant to the tender offer, have entered into privately negotiated agreements to sell their shares to us or our Founders, management team, advisors or their affiliates. However, in no event will we redeem our public shares in an amount that would cause our net tangible assets to be less than $5,000,001 upon the consummation of our initial business combination. Furthermore, the redemption threshold may be further limited by the terms and conditions of our initial business combination. If too many public stockholders exercise their redemption rights so that we cannot satisfy the net tangible asset requirement or any net worth or cash requirements, we would not proceed with the redemption of our public shares and the related business combination, and instead may search for an alternate business combination, we would not proceed with the redemption of our public shares and the related business combination, and instead may search for an alternate business combination.\nBecause each unit contains three-fourths of one warrant and one right to receive one-tenth of one share of our common stock, the units may be worth less than units of other blank check companies.\nEach unit contains three-fourths of one warrant and one right to receive one-tenth of one share of our common stock upon consummation of our initial business combination. Pursuant to the warrant agreement, no fractional warrants will be issued upon separation of the units, and only whole warrants will be eligible to trade. This is different from other offerings similar to ours whose units include one share of common stock and one whole warrant to purchase one share. We have established the components of the units in this way in order to reduce the dilutive effect of the warrants and rights upon completion of a business combination since the warrants will be exercisable for, and the rights will be convertible into, a fraction of the number of shares in the aggregate compared to units that each contain a whole warrant to purchase one share, thus making us, we believe, a more attractive merger partner for target businesses. Nevertheless, this unit structure may cause our units to be worth less than if they included a warrant to purchase one whole share.\nWe will have no obligation to net cash settle the rights.\nThere are no contractual penalties for failure to deliver shares of common stock to the holders of the rights upon consummation of an initial business combination. However, as the rights are securities, a failure to comply with the terms of the rights could be considered a violation of federal securities laws resulting in penalties. In addition, in no event will we be required to net cash settle the rights. Furthermore, the rights may expire worthless.\nHolders of warrants and rights will not participate in liquidating distributions if we are unable to complete an initial business combination within the required time period.\nIf we are unable to complete an initial business combination within the required time period and we liquidate the funds held in the trust account, the warrants and rights will expire and holders will not receive any of such proceeds with respect to the warrants or rights. In this case, holders of warrants and rights are treated in the same manner as holders of warrants and rights of blank check companies whose units are comprised of shares, rights and warrants, as the warrants and rights, in those companies do not participate in liquidating distributions. Nevertheless, the foregoing may provide a financial incentive to public stockholders to vote in favor of any proposed initial business combination as each of their warrants and rights would entitle the holder to purchase three-fourths of one share of common stock or receive one-tenth of one share of common stock, as applicable, resulting in an increase in their overall economic stake in our company. If a business combination is not approved, the warrants and rights will expire and will be worthless.\nIf we do not maintain a current and effective prospectus relating to the warrant shares issuable upon exercise of the warrants, public holders will only be able to exercise such warrants on a \u201ccashless basis\u201d which would result in a fewer number of shares being issued to the holder had such holder exercised the warrants for cash.\nIf we do not maintain a current and effective prospectus relating to the warrant shares issuable upon exercise of the public warrants at the time that holders wish to exercise such warrants, they will only be able to exercise them on a \u201ccashless basis\u201d provided that an exemption from registration is available. As a result, the number of warrant shares that a holder will receive upon exercise of its public warrants will be fewer than it would have been had such holder exercised its warrant for cash. Further, if an exemption from registration is not available, holders would not be able to exercise their warrants on a cashless basis and would only be able to exercise their warrants for cash if a current and effective prospectus relating to the warrant issuable upon exercise of the warrants is available. Under the terms of the warrant agreement, we have agreed to use our best efforts to meet these conditions and to maintain a current and effective prospectus relating to the warrant shares until the expiration of the warrants. However, we cannot assure you that we will be able to do so. If we are unable to do so, the potential \u201cupside\u201d of the holder\u2019s investment in our Company may be reduced or the warrants may expire worthless. In no event will we be required to net cash settle any warrant, or issue securities or other compensation in exchange for the warrants in the event that we are unable to register or qualify the shares underlying the warrants under the Securities Act or applicable state securities laws. If the issuance of the warrant shares upon exercise of the warrants is not so registered or qualified or exempt from registration or qualification, the holder of such warrants shall not be entitled to exercise such warrants and such warrants may have no value and expire worthless. In such event, holders who acquired their warrants as part of a purchase of units will have paid the full unit purchase price solely for the shares of common stock included in the units. Notwithstanding the foregoing, the private warrants may be exercisable for unregistered warrant shares for cash even if the prospectus relating to the warrant shares issuable upon exercise of the warrants is not current and effective.\nOur management\u2019s ability to require holders of our warrants to exercise such warrants on a cashless basis will cause holders to receive fewer shares of common stock upon their exercise of the warrants than they would have received had they been able to exercise their warrants for cash.\nIf we call our public warrants for redemption after the redemption criteria described in the prospectus for the issuance of our units of which the public warrants were a constituent part have been satisfied, our management will have the option to require any holder that wishes to exercise his warrants (including any warrants held by our Founders, executive officers and directors, or any of their permitted transferees) to do so on a \u201ccashless basis.\u201d If our management chooses to require holders to exercise their warrants on a cashless basis, the number of warrant shares received by a holder upon exercise will be fewer than it would have been had such holder exercised his warrants for cash. This will have the effect of reducing the potential \u201cupside\u201d of the holder\u2019s investment in our company.\nWe may amend the terms of the warrants in a manner that may be adverse to holders with the approval by the holders of at least 65% of the then outstanding public warrants.\nOur warrants have been issued in registered form under a warrant agreement between Continental Stock Transfer & Trust Company, as warrant agent, and us. The warrant agreement will provide that the terms of the warrants may be amended without the consent of any holder to cure any ambiguity or correct any defective provision, but requires the approval by the holders of at least 65% of the then outstanding public warrants to make any change that adversely affects the interests of the registered holders. Accordingly, we may amend the terms of the warrants in a manner adverse to a holder if holders of at least 65% of the then outstanding public warrants approve of such amendment. Although our ability to amend the terms of the warrants with the consent of at least 65% of the then outstanding public warrants is unlimited, examples of such amendments could be amendments to, among other things, increase the exercise price of the warrants, shorten the exercise period or decrease the number of warrant shares issuable upon exercise of a warrant.\nOur warrants may have an adverse effect on the market price of our common stock and make it more difficult to effectuate our initial business combination.\nWe have issued warrants to purchase 11,154,941 shares. The warrants are exercisable at a price of $11.50 per whole share of common stock. To the extent we issue shares of common stock to effectuate a business transaction, the potential for the issuance of a substantial number of additional shares of common stock upon exercise of these warrants could make us a less attractive acquisition vehicle to a target business. Any such issuance will increase the number of issued and outstanding shares of common stock and reduce the value of the shares of common stock issued to complete the business transaction. Therefore, our warrants may make it more difficult to effectuate a business combination or increase the cost of acquiring the target business.\nThe ability of our public stockholders to exercise their redemption rights may not allow us to effectuate the most desirable business combination or optimize our capital structure.\nIf our initial business combination requires us to use substantially all of our cash to pay the purchase price, because we will not know how many public stockholders may exercise redemption rights, we may either need to reserve part of the trust account for possible payment upon such redemption, or we may need to arrange third party financing to help fund our initial business combination. In the event that the acquisition involves the issuance of our stock as consideration, we may be required to issue a higher percentage of our stock to make up for a shortfall in funds. Raising additional funds to cover any shortfall may involve dilutive equity financing or incurring indebtedness at higher than desirable levels. This may limit our ability to effectuate the most attractive business combination available to us.\nWe may be unable to consummate an initial business combination if a target business requires that we have a certain amount of cash at closing, in which case public stockholders may have to remain stockholders of our company and wait until our redemption of the public shares to receive a pro rata share of the trust account or attempt to sell their shares in the open market.\nA potential target may make it a closing condition to our initial business combination that we have a certain amount of cash in excess of the $5,000,001 of net tangible assets we are required to have pursuant to our organizational documents available at the time of closing. If the number of our public stockholders electing to exercise their redemption rights has the effect of reducing the amount of money available to us to consummate an initial business combination below such minimum amount required by the target business and we are not able to locate an alternative source of funding, we will not be able to consummate such initial business combination and we may not be able to locate another suitable target within the applicable time period, if at all. In that case, public stockholders may have to remain stockholders of our company and wait until March 12, 2019 (or June 12, 2019 if we extend the time to consummate our initial business combination), in order to be able to receive a portion of the trust account, or attempt to sell their shares in the open market prior to such time, in which case they may receive less than they would have in a liquidation of the trust account.\nWe intend to offer each public stockholder the option to vote in favor of the proposed business combination and still seek redemption of such stockholders\u2019 shares.\nIn connection with any meeting held to approve an initial business combination, we will offer each public stockholder (but not our Founders or management team) the right to have his, her or its shares of common stock redeemed for cash regardless of whether such stockholder votes for or against such proposed business combination; provided that a stockholder must in fact vote for or against a proposed business combination in order to have his, her or its shares of common stock redeemed for cash. If a stockholder fails to vote for or against a proposed business combination, that stockholder would not be able to have his shares so redeemed. We will consummate our initial business combination only if we have net tangible assets of at least $5,000,001 upon such consummation and a majority of the outstanding shares of common stock voted are voted in favor of the business combination. This is different than other similarly structured blank check companies where stockholders are offered the right to redeem their shares only when they vote against a proposed business combination. This threshold and the ability to seek redemption while voting in favor of a proposed business combination may make it more likely that we will consummate our initial business combination.\nWe will require public stockholders who wish to redeem their shares of common stock in connection with a proposed business combination to comply with specific requirements for redemption that may make it more difficult for them to exercise their redemption rights prior to the deadline for exercising their rights.\nWe will require our public stockholders seeking to exercise their redemption rights, whether they are record holders or hold their shares in \u201cstreet name,\u201d to either tender their certificates to our transfer agent prior to the expiration date set forth in the tender offer documents mailed to such holders, or in the event we distribute proxy materials, up to two business days prior to the vote on the proposal to approve the business combination, or to deliver their shares to the transfer agent electronically using The Depository Trust Company\u2019s DWAC (Deposit/Withdrawal At Custodian) System, at the holder\u2019s option. In order to obtain a physical stock certificate, a stockholder\u2019s broker and/or clearing broker, DTC and our transfer agent will need to act to facilitate this request. It is our understanding that stockholders should generally allot at least two weeks to obtain physical certificates from the transfer agent. However, because we do not have any control over this process or over the brokers or DTC, it may take significantly longer than two weeks to obtain a physical stock certificate. While we have been advised that it takes a short time to deliver shares through the DWAC System, this may not be the case. Under our bylaws, we are required to provide at least 10 days advance notice of any stockholder meeting, which would be the minimum amount of time a stockholder would have to determine whether to exercise redemption rights. Accordingly, if it takes longer than we anticipate for stockholders to deliver their shares, stockholders who wish to redeem may be unable to meet the deadline for exercising their redemption rights and thus may be unable to redeem their shares. In the event that a stockholder fails to comply with the various procedures that must be complied with in order to validly tender or redeem public shares, its shares may not be redeemed.\nAdditionally, despite our compliance with the proxy rules or tender offer rules, as applicable, stockholders may not become aware of the opportunity to redeem their shares.\nRedeeming stockholders may be unable to sell their securities when they wish to in the event that the proposed business combination is not approved.\nWe will require public stockholders who wish to redeem their shares of common stock in connection with any proposed business combination to comply with the delivery requirements discussed above for redemption. If such proposed business combination is not consummated, we will promptly return such certificates to the tendering public stockholders. Accordingly, investors who attempted to redeem their shares in such a circumstance will be unable to sell their securities after the failed acquisition until we have returned their securities to them. The market price for our common stock may decline during this time and you may not be able to sell your securities when you wish to, even while other stockholders that did not seek redemption may be able to sell their securities.\nBecause of our structure, other companies may have a competitive advantage and we may not be able to consummate an attractive business combination.\nWe expect to encounter intense competition from entities other than blank check companies having a business objective similar to ours, including private equity groups, venture capital funds, leveraged buyout funds and operating\nbusinesses competing for acquisitions. Many of these entities are well established and have extensive experience in identifying and effecting business combinations directly or through affiliates. Many of these competitors possess greater technical, human and other resources than we do and our financial resources will be relatively limited when contrasted with those of many of these competitors. Therefore, our ability to compete in acquiring certain sizable target businesses may be limited by our available financial resources. This inherent competitive limitation gives others an advantage in pursuing the acquisition of certain target businesses. Furthermore, seeking stockholder approval of our initial business combination may delay the consummation of a transaction. Any of the foregoing may place us at a competitive disadvantage in successfully negotiating our initial business combination.\nProvisions of our amended and restated certificate of incorporation that relate to our pre-business combination activity (and corresponding provisions of the agreement governing the release of funds from our trust account) may be amended with the approval of holders of at least 65% of our issued and outstanding common stock, which is a lower amendment threshold than that of some other blank check companies. It may be easier for us, therefore, to amend our amended and restated certificate of incorporation and the trust agreement to facilitate the completion of an initial business combination that some of our stockholders may not support.\nSome other blank check companies have a provision in their charter which prohibits the amendment of certain of its provisions, including those which relate to a company\u2019s pre-business combination activity, without approval by holders of a certain percentage of the company\u2019s shares. In those companies, amendment of these provisions typically requires approval by holders holding between 90% and 100% of the company\u2019s public shares. Our amended and restated certificate of incorporation provides that amendments to any its provisions relating to our pre-initial business combination activity and related stockholder rights may be amended if approved by holders of 65% of our outstanding common stock. If an amendment to any such provision is approved by the requisite stockholder vote, then the corresponding provisions of the trust agreement governing the release of funds from our trust account may be amended. In all other instances, our amended and restated certificate of incorporation may be amended by holders of a majority of our common stock, subject to applicable provisions of the DGCL or applicable stock exchange rules. Prior to the consummation of our initial business combination, we may not issue additional securities that can vote on amendments to our amended and restated certificate of incorporation. Our Founders and management team collectively beneficially own approximately 22% of our outstanding common stock and they may participate in any vote to amend our amended and restated certificate of incorporation and/or trust agreement and will have the discretion to vote in any manner they choose; provided, that, each of them has agreed, pursuant to a written agreement with us, that they will not propose any amendment to our amended and restated certificate of incorporation that would affect the substance or timing of our obligation to redeem 100% of our public shares if we do not complete our initial business combination by March 12, 2019 (or June 12, 2019 if we extend the time to consummate our initial business combination), unless we provide our public stockholders with the opportunity to redeem their shares of Common Stock upon approval of any such amendment at a per\u2011share price, payable in cash, equal to the aggregate amount then on deposit in the trust account, including interest (which interest shall be net of taxes payable), divided by the number of then issued and outstanding public shares. As a result, we may be able to amend the provisions of our amended and restated certificate of incorporation which govern our pre-business combination behavior more easily than some other blank check companies, and this may increase our ability to complete our initial business combination with which you do not agree. In certain circumstances, our stockholders may pursue remedies against us for any breach of our amended and restated certificate of incorporation.\nWe may be unable to obtain additional financing to complete our initial business combination or to fund the operations and growth of a target business, which could compel us to restructure or abandon a particular business combination.\nAlthough we believe that our cash held in the trust account that may be available to us for our initial business combination will be sufficient to allow us to consummate our initial business combination, because we have not yet entered into an agreement with any prospective target business we cannot ascertain the capital requirements for any particular transaction. If the cash held in the trust account proves to be insufficient, either because of the size of our initial business combination, the obligation to repurchase for cash a significant number of shares from stockholders who elect redemption in connection with our initial business combination or the terms of negotiated transactions to purchase shares in connection with our initial business combination, we may be required to seek additional financing or to abandon the proposed business combination. Financing may not be available on acceptable terms, if at all. To the extent that additional financing proves to be unavailable when needed to consummate our initial business\ncombination, we would be compelled to either restructure the transaction or abandon that particular initial business combination and seek an alternative target business candidate. In addition, even if we do not need additional financing to consummate our initial business combination, we may require such financing to fund the operations or growth of the target business. The failure to secure additional financing could have a material adverse effect on the continued development or growth of the target business. None of our management team or stockholders is required to provide any financing to us in connection with or after our initial business combination.\nOur Founders and management team will control a substantial interest in us and thus may influence certain actions requiring a stockholder vote.\nOur Founders and management team own approximately 22% of the issued and outstanding shares of our common stock Founders and management team, or any of their affiliates, could determine in the future to make such purchases in the open market or in private transactions, to the extent permitted by law, in order to influence the vote or magnitude of the number of stockholders seeking to tender their shares to us. In connection with any vote for a proposed business combination our Founders, as well as all of our management team have agreed to vote the shares of common stock owned by them, the shares of common stock underlying the private placement units, and any shares acquired in the aftermarket in favor of such proposed business combination.\nIn addition, we do not intend to hold an annual meeting of stockholders to elect new directors prior to the completion of our business combination. Unless we hold an annual meeting, all of the current directors will continue in office until at least the completion of the business combination. If there is an annual meeting, the entire Board of Directors will be considered for election, however our initial stockholders, because of their ownership position, will have considerable influence regarding the outcome. Accordingly, our initial stockholders will continue to exert control at least until the completion of our business combination.\nThe NYSE may delist our securities from trading on its exchange, which could limit investors\u2019 ability to make transactions in our securities and subject us to additional trading restrictions.\nWe continue to expect to meet, on a pro forma basis, the minimum initial listing requirements set forth in the rules of the NYSE; however, we cannot assure you that our securities will be, or will continue to be, listed on the NYSE in the future or prior to our initial business combination. In order to continue listing our securities on the NYSE prior to our initial business combination, we must maintain certain financial, distribution and share price levels. Generally, we must maintain a minimum number of holders of our securities. Additionally, in connection with our initial business combination, we will be required to demonstrate compliance with the NYSE\u2019s initial listing requirements, which are more rigorous than the NYSE\u2019s continued listing requirements, in order to continue to maintain the listing of our securities on the NYSE. For instance, our share price would generally be required to be at least $4 per share. We cannot assure you that we will be able to meet those initial listing requirements at that time.\nIf the NYSE delists any of our securities from trading on its exchange and we are not able to list our securities on another national securities exchange, we expect such securities could be quoted on an over-the-counter market. If this were to occur, we could face significant material adverse consequences, including:\na limited availability of market quotations for our securities;\nreduced liquidity for our securities;\na determination that our common stock is a \u201cpenny stock\u201d which will require brokers trading in our common stock to adhere to more stringent rules and possibly result in a reduced level of trading activity in the secondary trading market for our securities;\na limited amount of news and analyst coverage; and\na decreased ability to issue additional securities or obtain additional financing in the future.\nThe National Securities Markets Improvement Act of 1996, which is a federal statute, prevents or preempts the states from regulating the sale of certain securities, which are referred to as \u201ccovered securities.\u201d If we were no longer listed on the NYSE, our securities would not qualify as covered securities under such statute and transactions involving our securities could be subject to regulation by individual states.\nCertain agreements related to our initial public offering may be amended without stockholder approval.\nCertain agreements, including the underwriting agreement relating to our initial public offering, the trust agreement between us and Continental Stock Transfer & Trust Company, the letter agreements among us and our Founders and management team, and the registration rights agreement among us and our Founders and management team, may be amended without stockholder approval. These agreements contain various provisions that our public stockholders might deem to be material. For example, the underwriting agreement related to the initial public offering contains (i) a representation that we will not consummate any public or private equity or debt financing prior to the consummation of a business combination, unless all investors in such financing expressly waive, in writing, any rights in or claims against the trust account and (ii) a covenant that the target company that we acquire must have a fair market value equal to at least 80% of the balance in the trust account at the time of signing the definitive agreement for the transaction with such target business (excluding taxes payable on the income earned on the Trust Account) so long as we obtain and maintain a listing for our securities on NYSE. While we do not expect our board to approve any amendment to any of these agreements prior to our initial business combination, it may be possible that our board, in exercising its business judgment and subject to its fiduciary duties, chooses to approve one or more amendments to any such agreement in connection with the consummation of our initial business combination. Any such amendment may have an adverse effect on the value of an investment in our securities.\nBecause we must furnish our stockholders with target business financial statements, we may lose the ability to complete an otherwise advantageous initial business combination with some prospective target businesses.\nThe United States federal proxy rules require that a proxy statement with respect to a vote on a business combination meeting certain financial significance tests include historical and/or pro forma financial statement disclosure in periodic reports. We will include the same financial statement disclosure in connection with our tender offer documents, whether or not they are required under the tender offer rules. These financial statements must be prepared in accordance with, or be reconciled to, accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America, or GAAP, or International Financial Reporting Standard as issued by the International Accounting Standards Board, or IFRS, and the historical financial statements must be audited in accordance with the standards of the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (United States), or PCAOB. These financial statement requirements may limit the pool of potential target businesses we may acquire because some targets may be unable to provide such statements in time for us to disclose such statements in accordance with federal proxy rules and consummate our initial business combination within the time frame prescribed in our amended and restated certificate of incorporation.\nCompliance obligations under the Sarbanes-Oxley Act may make it more difficult for us to effectuate our initial business combination, require substantial financial and management resources, and increase the time and costs of completing a business combination.\nSection 404 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act requires that we evaluate and report on our system of internal controls beginning with our second Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2019. Only in the event we are deemed to be a large accelerated filer or an accelerated filer at the time of that filing will we be required to comply with the independent registered public accounting firm attestation requirement on our internal control over financial reporting. Further, for as long as we remain an emerging growth company, we will not be required to comply with the independent registered public accounting firm attestation requirement on our internal control over financial reporting. The fact that we are a blank check company makes compliance with the requirements of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act particularly burdensome on us as compared to other public companies because a target company with which we seek to complete our business combination may not be in compliance with the provisions of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act regarding adequacy of its internal controls. The development of the internal control of any such entity to achieve compliance with the Sarbanes-Oxley Act may increase the time and costs necessary to complete any such business combination.\nWe are an \u201cemerging growth company\u201d and we cannot be certain if the reduced disclosure requirements applicable to emerging growth companies will make our securities less attractive to investors.\nWe are an \u201cemerging growth\u201d within the meaning of the Securities Act, as modified by the JOBS Act, and we may take advantage of certain exemptions from various reporting requirements that are applicable to other public companies that are not emerging growth companies including, but not limited to, not being required to comply with\nthe auditor attestation requirements of Section 404 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, reduced disclosure obligations regarding executive compensation in our periodic reports and proxy statements, and exemptions from the requirements of holding a nonbinding advisory vote on executive compensation and stockholder approval of any golden parachute payments not previously approved. As a result, our stockholders may not have access to certain information they may deem important. We could be an emerging growth company for up to five years (until September 30, 2023, which is the date of the end of the fiscal year following the five year anniversary of our initial public offering), although circumstances could cause us to lose that status earlier, including but not limited to if the market value of our common stock held by non-affiliates exceeds $700 million as of any March 31 before that time, in which case we would no longer be an emerging growth company as of the following September 30. We cannot predict whether investors will find our securities less attractive because we will rely on these exemptions. If some investors find our securities less attractive as a result of our reliance on these exemptions, the trading prices of our securities may be lower than they otherwise would be, there may be a less active trading market for our securities and the trading prices of our securities may be more volatile.\nFurther, Section 102(b)(1) of the JOBS Act exempts emerging growth companies from being required to comply with new or revised financial accounting standards until private companies (that is, those that have not had a Securities Act registration statement declared effective or do not have a class of securities registered under the Exchange Act) are required to comply with the new or revised financial accounting standards. The JOBS Act provides that a company can elect to opt out of the extended transition period and comply with the requirements that apply to non-emerging growth companies but any such an election to opt out is irrevocable. We have elected not to opt out of such extended transition period which means that when a standard is issued or revised and it has different application dates for public or private companies, we, as an emerging growth company, can adopt the new or revised standard at the time private companies adopt the new or revised standard. This may make comparison of our financial statements with another public company which is neither an emerging growth company nor an emerging growth company which has opted out of using the extended transition period difficult or impossible because of the potential differences in accountant standards used.\nWe may face risks related to companies in the technology industries.\nBusiness combinations with companies in the technology industries entail special considerations and risks. If we are successful in completing a business combination with such a target business, we may be subject to, and possibly adversely affected by, the following risks:\nan inability to compete effectively in a highly competitive environment with many incumbents having substantially greater resources;\nan inability to manage rapid change, increasing consumer expectations and growth;\nan inability to build strong brand identity and improve subscriber or customer satisfaction and loyalty;\na reliance on proprietary technology to provide services and to manage our operations, and the failure of this technology to operate effectively, or our failure to use such technology effectively;\nan inability to deal with our subscribers\u2019 or customers\u2019 privacy concerns;\nan inability to attract and retain subscribers or customers;\nan inability to license or enforce intellectual property rights on which our business may depend;\nany significant disruption in our computer systems or those of third parties that we would utilize in our operations;\nan inability by us, or a refusal by third parties, to license content to us upon acceptable terms;\npotential liability for negligence, copyright, or trademark infringement or other claims based on the nature and content of materials that we may distribute;\ncompetition for the leisure and entertainment time and discretionary spending of subscribers or customers, which may intensify in part due to advances in technology and changes in consumer expectations and behavior;\ndisruption or failure of our networks, systems or technology as a result of computer viruses, \u201ccyber-attacks,\u201d misappropriation of data or other malfeasance, as well as outages, natural disasters, terrorist attacks, accidental releases of information or similar events;\nan inability to obtain necessary hardware, software and operational support; and\nreliance on third-party vendors or service providers.\nAny of the foregoing could have an adverse impact on our operations following a business combination. However, our efforts in identifying prospective target businesses will not be limited to the technology industries. Accordingly, if we acquire a target business in another industry, these risks we will be subject to risks attendant with the specific industry in which we operate or target business which we acquire, which may or may not be different than those risks listed above.\nWe currently maintain our corporate offices at 2479 E. Bayshore Rd., Suite 200, Palo Alto, CA 94303. The cost for this space is included in the $20,000 per month fee that we pay an affiliate of our Sponsor for office space, administrative and support services. We believe, based on fees for similar services in the San Francisco Bay Area, that the fee charged by our Sponsor is at least as favorable as we could have obtained from an unaffiliated party. We consider our current office space, combined with the other office space otherwise available to our executive officers, adequate for our current operations.\nWe are not currently subject to any material legal proceedings, nor, to our knowledge, is any material legal proceeding threatened against us or any of our officers or directors in their corporate capacity.\nOur units began trading on the NYSE under the symbol \u201cGIG.U\u201d on December 8, 2017. On January 16, 2018, the Company announced that the holders of the Company\u2019s units may elect to separately trade the securities underlying such units. On January 17, 2018, our shares of common stock, warrants and rights began trading on the NYSE under the symbols \u201cGIG\u201d, \u201cGIG.WS\u201d and \u201cGIGr\u201d respectively. No fractional warrants will be issued upon separation of the units and only whole warrants will trade. Each warrant entitles the holder to purchase one common share at a price of $11.50. Warrants may only be exercised for whole shares and will become exercisable on the later of 30 days after the completion of our initial business combination or December 12, 2018. Our warrants expire five years after the completion of our initial business combination or earlier upon redemption or liquidation as described in \u201cItem 1. Business.\u201d\nThe following table sets forth, for the calendar quarter indicated, the high and low sales prices per unit as reported on the NYSE for the period from December 8, 2017 (the first day on which our units began trading) through September 30, 2018, and our shares of common stock, warrants, and rights for the period from January 17, 2018 (the first day on which our shares of common stock, warrants and rights were traded separately) through September 30, 2018.\nUnits (GIG.U)\nCommon Stock (GIG)\nWarrants (GIG.WS)\nRights (GIGr)\nQuarter ended December 31, 2017 (1)\nQuarter ended March 31, 2018 (2)\nBeginning on December 8, 2017, with respect to GIG.U.\nBeginning on January 17, 2018 with respect to GIG, GIG.WS and GIGr.\nAt November 30, 2018, there were five holders of record of our Units, four holders of record of our separately traded shares of common stock, one holder of record of our separately traded warrants, and one holder of record of our separately traded rights.\nWe have not paid any cash dividends on our shares of common stock to date and do not intend to pay cash dividends prior to the completion of a business combination. The payment of cash dividends in the future will be dependent upon our revenues and earnings, if any, capital requirements and general financial condition subsequent to completion of a business combination. The payment of any dividends subsequent to a business combination will be within the discretion of our then Board of Directors. It is the present intention of our Board of Directors to retain all earnings, if any, for use in our business operations and, accordingly, our board does not anticipate declaring any dividends in the foreseeable future.\nd) Securities Authorized for Issuance Under Equity Compensation Plans\nf) Recent Sales of Unregistered Securities; Use of Proceeds from Registered Offerings\nSimultaneously with the underwriters\u2019 election to fully exercise their over-allotment option in our initial public offering, on January 9, 2018, the Founders purchased an additional 8,756 private placement units at a price of $10.00 per unit bringing the aggregate number of private placement units sold to the Founders to 498,256 such units. Each private placement unit consists of one share of the Company\u2019s common stock, $0.0001 par value, three-fourths of a warrant, and one right to receive one-tenth of a share of common stock upon our consummation of our initial business combination. Warrants will only be exercisable for whole shares at $11.50 per share. Unlike the warrants included in the units, if held by the original holder or its permitted transferees, the warrants included in the private placement units are not redeemable by us and, subject to certain limited exceptions, will be subject to transfer restrictions until one year following the consummation of our initial business combination. If the warrants included in the private placement units are held by holders other than the initial holders or their permitted transferees, the warrants included in the private placement units will be redeemable by us and exercisable by holders on the same basis as the warrants included in the units sold in our initial public offering. The private placement units, and the securities included in them, were issued pursuant to the exemption from registration contained in Section 4(a)(2) of the Securities Act. Our Founders are accredited investors for purposes of Rule 501 of Regulation D.\nOn January 9, 2018, upon the underwriters\u2019 election to fully exercise their over-allotment option in our initial public offering, we consummated a second and final closing of the initial public offering, wherein we sold 1,875,000 Units bringing the aggregate number of Units sold in our initial public offering to 14,375,000 Units. The Units sold in the Offering each consisted of one share of common stock, three-fourths of a warrant to purchase one share of common stock, and one-tenth of a right to receive one share of common stock upon or consummation of our initial business combination. The Units in our initial public offering were sold at an offering price of $10.00 per unit, generating total gross proceeds from the initial and second closings of our initial public offering in the aggregate amount of $143,750,000. The Units sold in our initial public offering were registered under the Securities Act on registration statements on Form S-1 (No. 333-221581 and 333-221948), which were declared effective by the SEC on December 7, 2017, and December 8, 2017, respectively.\nNo fractional shares will be issued upon exercise of the warrants included in the Units. Each such warrant will become exercisable on the later of 30 days after the completion of our initial business combination or 12 months from the initial closing of our initial public offering. However, if we do not complete a business combination by March 12, 2019 (or June 12, 2019 if we extend the time to consummate our initial business combination from the initial closing of the initial public offering, the warrants will expire at the end of such period. In such event, there will be no net cash settlement of these warrants and the warrants will expire worthless, unless they may be exercised on a cashless basis in the circumstances described in the warrant agreement. The warrants will expire five years after the completion of our initial business combination or earlier upon redemption or liquidation. Once the warrants included in the Units sold in our initial public offering become exercisable, we may redeem such outstanding warrants in whole and not in part at a price of $0.01 per warrant upon a minimum of 30 days\u2019 prior written notice of redemption, but if, and only if, the last sale price of our common stock equals or exceeds $18.00 per share (as adjusted for stock splits, stock dividends, reorganizations, recapitalizations and the like) for any 20 trading days within a 30-trading day period ending on the third trading day prior to the date on which we send the notice of redemption to the warrant holders.\nWe incurred a total of $2,587,560 in underwriting discounts and commissions from the initial and second closings of our initial public offering, and other costs and expenses related to the initial and second closings of our initial public offering in the amount of $644,498 from the proceeds of our initial public offering. After deducting the underwriting discounts and commissions and the initial public offering expenses, the total net proceeds from the initial public offering and the private placement was $145,520,000, of which $143,750,000 (or $10.00 per unit sold in the initial public offering) was placed in a Trust Account at JP Morgan Chase Bank, N.A. in New York, New York with Continental Stock Transfer & Trust Company acting as trustee. Using a portion of the net proceeds of the initial public offering that was not placed in the Trust Account, we repaid a promissory note issued to our Sponsor, which bore the\noutstanding principal amount of $50,536 when we repaid it upon the initial closing of the initial public offering. The proceeds held in the Trust Account may be invested by the trustee only in U.S. government treasury bills with a maturity of 180 days or less or in money market funds investing solely in U.S. government treasury obligations and meeting certain conditions under Rule 2a-7 under the Investment Company Act.\nAs of September 30, 2018, $597,268 was held outside the trust account. Funds held outside the trust account will be used to fund our operating expenses.\nThe following discussion and analysis of the Company\u2019s financial condition and results of operations should be read in conjunction with the audited financial statements and the notes related thereto which are included in \u201cItem 8. Financial Statements and Supplementary Data\u201d of this Annual Report on Form 10-K. Certain information contained in the discussion and analysis set forth below includes forward-looking statements. Our actual results may differ materially from those anticipated in these forward-looking statements as a result of many factors, including those set forth under \u201cSpecial Note Regarding Forward-Looking Statements,\u201d \u201cItem 1A. Risk Factors\u201d and elsewhere in this Annual Report on Form 10-K.\nWe are a blank check company incorporated in the State of Delaware formed for the purpose of acquiring, engaging in a share exchange, share reconstruction and amalgamation with, purchasing all or substantially all of the assets of, or engaging in any other similar business combination with one or more businesses or entities. We intend to effectuate our initial business combination using some combination of cash, common or preferred equity, other securities and debt.\nAs of September 30, 2018, not including cash held in our trust account in the amount of $144,964,309, we had cash of $597,268 and a working capital deficit of $345,350. We expect to continue to incur significant costs in the pursuit of our acquisition plans. We cannot assure you that our plans to complete an initial business combination will be successful.\nWe have neither engaged in any operations nor generated any revenues to date. For the period from October 9, 2017 (\u201cInception\u201d) through September 30, 2018, our only activities have been organizational activities and activities to identify a target business for our initial business combination. We do not expect to generate any operating revenues until after completion of our initial business combination. We expect to generate non-operating income in the form of interest income on cash and marketable securities held in the trust account at JP Morgan Chase Bank, N.A. in New York, New York with Continental Stock Transfer & Trust Company acting as trustee (the \u201cTrust Account\u2019), which was funded after our initial public offering of units (the \u201cUnits\u201d) consisting of one share of common stock, three-quarters of one warrant to purchase one share of common stock, and one right to receive one-tenth of one share of common stock upon our completion of an initial business combination (the \u201cOffering\u201d) to hold an amount of cash and marketable securities equal to that raised in the Offering, including such proceeds from the exercise of the underwriters\u2019 over-allotment option. There has been no significant change in our financial or trading position and no material adverse change has occurred since the date of our audited financial statements. We expect to incur increased expenses as a result of being a public company (for legal, financial reporting, accounting and auditing compliance), as well as for due diligence expenses.\nFor the period from Inception to September 30, 2018, we incurred a net loss of $665,385, which consisted of interest income on marketable securities held in the Trust Account of $1,593,432 and accrued interest receivable of $221,157, offset by operating expenses of $1,879,526 and a provision for income taxes of $600,448. Our business activities from\nInception through September 30, 2018 consisted solely of completing the Offering, and identifying and evaluating a potential initial business combination.\nOn December 12, 2017, we consummated the initial closing of the Offering with the delivery of 12,500,000 Units at a price of $10.00 per Unit, generating gross proceeds of $125,000,000. Simultaneously with the initial closing of the Offering, we consummated the initial closing of a private placement with the sale of 489,500 Units (the \u201cPrivate Placement Units\u201d) at a price of $10.00 per Unit, generating gross proceeds of $4,895,000.\nOn January 9, 2018, in connection with the underwriters\u2019 exercise in full of their option to purchase an additional 1,875,000 Units solely to cover over-allotments, if any (the \u201cover-allotment option\u201d), we consummated the sale of an additional 1,875,000 Units at a price of $10.00 per Unit, generating gross proceeds of $18,750,000. Simultaneously with the closing of the sale of such additional Units, we consummated the second closing of a private placement resulting in the sale of an additional 8,756 Private Placement Units at a price of $10.00 per unit, generating gross proceeds of $87,560.\nFollowing the initial and second closings of the Offering and the sale of the Private Placement Units, a total of $143,750,000 was placed in the Trust Account. We incurred $3,252,059 in Offering related costs, including $2,587,560 of underwriting fees and $664,499 of other costs.\nAs of September 30, 2018, we held cash and marketable securities in the amount of $144,964,309 in the Trust Account. The marketable securities consisted of U.S. money market funds. Interest income earned from the funds held in the Trust Account may be used by us to pay taxes. Through September 30, 2018, we withdrew $379,123 from the interest earned on the Trust Account to pay federal and state income tax obligations.\nFor the period October 9, 2017 (date of inception) through September 30, 2018, cash used in operating activities was $1,537,356, consisting of a net loss of $665,385, interest earned on marketable securities held in the Trust Account of $1,593,432 and interest receivable earned, but not paid at September 30, 2018 on marketable securities held in the Trust Account of $221,157, partially offset by changes in operating assets and liabilities of $942,618.\nWe intend to use substantially all of the funds held in the Trust Account, including any amounts representing interest earned on the Trust Account (which interest shall be net of taxes payable by us), to acquire a target business or businesses to complete our initial business combination and to pay our expenses relating thereto. To the extent that our capital stock or other securities are used in whole or in part as consideration to effect our initial business combination, the remaining proceeds held in the Trust Account as well as any other net proceeds not expended will be used as working capital to finance the operations of the target business or businesses. Such working capital funds could be used in a variety of ways including continuing or expanding the target business\u2019 operations, for strategic acquisitions and for marketing, research and development of existing or new products. Such funds could also be used to repay any operating expenses or finders\u2019 fees which we had incurred prior to the completion of our initial business combination if the funds held outside of the Trust Account are insufficient to cover such expenses.\nAs of September 30, 2018, we had cash of $597,268 held outside the Trust Account. We intend to raise additional funds to ensure the proceeds not held in the Trust Account will be sufficient to allow us to operate for at least 15 months from the closing date of the Offering (or 18 months, as applicable), assuming that a business combination is not consummated during that time. Over the remainder of this time period, we intend to use these funds primarily for identifying and evaluating prospective acquisition candidates, performing business due diligence on prospective target businesses, traveling to and from the offices, plants or similar locations of prospective target businesses, reviewing corporate documents and material agreements of prospective target businesses, selecting the target business to acquire and structuring, negotiating and consummating the business combination.\nIf our estimates of the costs of undertaking in-depth due diligence and negotiating our initial business combination are less than the actual amount necessary to do so, we may have insufficient funds available to operate our business prior to our initial business combination. Moreover, we may need to obtain additional financing either to consummate our initial business combination or because we become obligated to redeem a significant number of our public shares upon consummation of our initial business combination, in which case we may issue additional securities or incur debt in connection with such Business Combination. In order to finance operating and/or transaction costs in connection with\na business combination, our Sponsor, executive officers, directors, or their affiliates may, but are not obligated to, loan us funds. In the event that our initial business combination does not close, we may use a portion of the working capital held outside the Trust Account to repay such loaned amounts but no proceeds from our Trust Account would be used for such repayment. Up to $1,500,000 of such loans may be convertible into units of the post-business combination entity at a price of $10.00 per unit at the option of the lender. The units would be identical to the Private Placement Units.\nFollowing our initial business combination, if cash on hand is insufficient, we may need to obtain additional financing in order to meet our obligations.\nAs of September 30, 2018, we have not entered into any off-balance sheet financing arrangements. We do not participate in transactions that create relationships with unconsolidated entities or financial partnerships, often referred to as variable interest entities, which would have been established for the purpose of facilitating off-balance sheet arrangements. We have not entered into any off-balance sheet financing arrangements, established any special purpose entities, guaranteed any debt or commitments of other entities, or purchased any non-financial assets.\nAs of September 30, 2018, we do not have any long-term debt, capital lease obligations, operating lease obligations or long-term liabilities, other than an agreement to pay our Sponsor a monthly fee of $20,000 for office space, administrative services and secretarial support. We began incurring these fees on December 8, 2017 and will continue to incur these fees monthly until the earlier of the completion of the initial business combination or the liquidation of the Company.\nThe preparation of financial statements and related disclosures in conformity with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America (\u201cGAAP\u201d) requires management to make estimates and assumptions that affect the reported amounts of assets and liabilities, disclosure of contingent assets and liabilities at the date of the financial statements, and income and expenses during the periods reported. Actual results could materially differ from those estimates. The Company has identified the following critical accounting policies:\nSection 102(b)(1) of the JOBS Act exempts emerging growth companies from being required to comply with new or revised financial accounting standards until private companies (that is, those that have not had a Securities Act registration statement declared effective or do not have a class of securities registered under the Exchange Act) are required to comply with the new or revised financial accounting standards. The JOBS Act provides that a company can elect to opt out of the extended transition period and comply with the requirements that apply to non-emerging growth companies but any such election to opt out is irrevocable. The Company has elected not to opt out of such extended transition period which means that when an accounting standard is issued or revised and it has different application dates for public or private companies, the Company, as an emerging growth company, will adopt the new or revised accounting standard at the time private companies adopt the new or revised standard.\nNet loss per common share is computed by dividing net loss by the weighted-average number of common shares outstanding for the period. The Company applies the two-class method in calculating the net loss per common share. Shares of common stock subject to possible redemption as of September 30, 2018, have been excluded from the calculation of the basic net loss per share since such shares, if redeemed, only participate in their pro rata share of the Trust Account earnings. The Company has not considered the effect of (1) warrants included in the Units sold in the Offering and the sale of the Private Placement Units to purchase an aggregate of 11,154,942 shares of common stock since the exercise of the warrants is contingent upon future events, (2) rights included in the Units sold in the Offering and the sale of the Private Placement Units that convert into 1,487,326 shares of common stock since the conversion of the rights is contingent upon future events and (3) the 60,000 shares of common stock underlying restricted stock awards that are still subject to forfeiture as of September 30, 2018. Since the Company was in an adjusted net loss\nposition during the periods presented within, diluted net loss per common share is the same as basic net loss per common share for all periods presented.\nIn accordance with the two-class method, the Company\u2019s net income (loss) is adjusted to remove net income that is attributable to common stock subject to redemption, as these shares only participate in the income of the trust account and not the losses of the Company. Accordingly, net loss per common share, basic and diluted, is calculated as follows:\nthrough September 30,\nLess: net income attributable to common stock subject to redemption\nWeighted-average common shares outstanding, basic and diluted\nNet loss per share common share, basic and diluted\nCommon Stock subject to possible redemption\nWe account for our common stock subject to possible conversion in accordance with the guidance in Accounting Standards Codification (\u201cASC\u201d) Topic 480 \u201cDistinguishing Liabilities from Equity.\u201d Common stock subject to mandatory redemption (if any) is classified as a liability instrument and is measured at fair value. Conditionally redeemable common stock (including common stock that features redemption rights that are either within the control of the holder or subject to redemption upon the occurrence of uncertain events not solely within our control) is classified as temporary equity. At all other times, common stock is classified as stockholders\u2019 equity. Our common stock features certain redemption rights that are considered to be outside of our control and subject to occurrence of uncertain future events. Accordingly, as of September 30, 2018, the common stock subject to possible redemption is presented as temporary equity, outside of the stockholders\u2019 equity section of our balance sheet.\nWe do not believe that any recently issued, but not yet effective, accounting pronouncements, if currently adopted, would have a material effect on our financial statements.\nTo date, our efforts have been limited to organizational activities and activities relating to the Offering and the identification and evaluation of a potential initial business combination. We have neither engaged in any operations nor generated any revenues. At September 30, 2018, the net proceeds from our Offering held in the Trust Account were comprised entirely of money market funds meeting certain conditions under Rule 2a-7 under the Investment Company Act, which invest solely in United States Treasuries. Due to the short-term nature of the money market fund\u2019s investments, we do not believe that there will be an associated material exposure to interest rate risk.\nAs of September 30, 2018, $144,964,309 was held in the trust account for the purposes of consummating an initial business combination.\nStockholders of GigCapital, Inc.\nWe have audited the accompanying balance sheet of GigCapital, Inc. (a Delaware corporation) (the \u201cCompany\u201d) as of September 30, 2018, and the related statements of operations, stockholders\u2019 equity, and cash flows for the period from October 9, 2017 (date of inception) to September 30, 2018, and the related notes (collectively referred to as the \u201cfinancial statements\u201d). In our opinion, the financial statements present fairly, in all material respects, the financial position of the Company as of September 30, 2018, and the results of its operations and its cash flows for period from October 9, 2017 (date of inception) to September 30, 2018, in conformity with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America.\nThe accompanying financial statements have been prepared assuming that GigCapital, Inc. will continue as a going concern. As discussed in Note 1 to the financial statements, the Company has no present revenue, its business plan is dependent on the completion of a financing and the Company\u2019s cash and working capital are not sufficient to complete its planned activities for the upcoming year. These conditions raise substantial doubt about the Company\u2019s ability to continue as a going concern. Management\u2019s plans regarding these matters are also described in Note 1. The financial statements do not include any adjustments that might result from the outcome of this uncertainty.\nThese financial statements are the responsibility of the Company\u2019s management. Our responsibility is to express an opinion on these financial statements based on our audit. We are a public accounting firm registered with the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (United States) (\u201cPCAOB\u201d) and are required to be independent with respect to the Company in accordance with the U.S. federal securities laws and the applicable rules and regulations of the Securities and Exchange Commission and the PCAOB.\nWe conducted our audit in accordance with the standards of the PCAOB. Those standards require that we plan and perform the audit to obtain reasonable assurance about whether the financial statements are free of material misstatement, whether due to error or fraud. The Company is not required to have, nor were we engaged to perform, an audit of its internal control over financial reporting. As part of our audit, we are required to obtain an understanding of internal control over financial reporting, but not for the purpose of expressing an opinion on the effectiveness of the Company\u2019s internal control over financial reporting. Accordingly, we express no such opinion.\nOur audit included performing procedures to assess the risks of material misstatement of the financial statements, whether due to error or fraud, and performing procedures that respond to those risks. Such procedures included examining, on a test basis, evidence regarding the amounts and disclosures in the financial statements. Our audit also included evaluating the accounting principles used and significant estimates made by management, as well as evaluating the overall presentation of the consolidated financial statements. We believe that our audits provide a reasonable basis for our opinion.\nReceivable from related party\nCash and marketable securities held in trust account\nInterest receivable on cash and marketable securities held in trust account\nCommon stock subject to possible redemption, 14,309,217 shares at\na redemption value of $10.00 per share\nPreferred stock, par value of $0.0001 per share; 1,000,000 shares\nauthorized; none issued or outstanding\nCommon stock, par value of $0.0001 per share; 100,000,000 shares\nauthorized; 4,152,789 shares issued and outstanding (excluding\n14,309,217 shares subject to possible redemption)\nInterest income on cash and marketable securities held in\nWeighted-average common shares outstanding, basic\nBalance as of October 9, 2017 (inception)\nSale of common stock to Founders at $0.005858 per share\nSale of common stock to Founders in private placement at $10 per share\nForfeiture or cancellation of shares\nIssuance of Insider shares for no consideration\nSale of common stock in Initial Public Offering\nSale of common stock in Over-Allotment Option\nShares subject to redemption\nAdjustments to reconcile net loss to net cash used\nin operating activities:\nInterest earned on cash and marketable securities held in Trust account\nInvestment of cash in trust account, net\nCash withdrawn from trust account\nProceeds from sale of Units, net of underwriting\ndiscounts paid\nProceeds from sale of Private Placement Units\nProceeds from the sale of Founder Shares\nPromissory notes from related parties\nRepayment of promissory notes from related parties\nPayment of deferred offering costs\nSupplemental disclosure of noncash investing\nChange in value of common stock subject to\npossible redemption\n1. DESCRIPTION OF ORGANIZATION AND BUSINESS OPERATIONS\nOrganization and General\nGigCapital, Inc. (the \u201cCompany\u201d) was incorporated in Delaware on October 9, 2017. The Company was formed for the purpose of effecting a merger, capital stock exchange, asset acquisition, stock purchase, reorganization or similar business combination with one or more businesses (the \u201cBusiness Combination\u201d). The Company is an \u201cemerging growth company,\u201d as defined in Section 2(a) of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the \u201cSecurities Act\u201d) as modified by the Jumpstart Our Business Startups Act of 2012 (the \u201cJOBS Act\u201d).\nAs of September 30, 2018, the Company had not yet commenced any operations. All activity for the period from October 9, 2017 (date of inception) through September 30, 2018 relates to the Company\u2019s formation and the initial public offering (the \u201cOffering\u201d), which is described below (Note 3), and identifying a target initial Business Combination. The Company will not generate any operating revenues until after completion of the Business Combination, at the earliest. The Company will generate non-operating income in the form of interest income on cash from the proceeds derived from the Offering. The Company has selected September 30 as its fiscal year end.\nOn December 7, 2017, the initial registration statement on Form S-1, as amended, filed in connection with the Offering was declared effective. On December 8, 2017, a subsequent registration statement on Form S-1 filed by the Company pursuant to Section 462(b) of the Securities Act, and also in connection with the Offering, was declared effective. The Company entered into an underwriting agreement on December 7, 2017 to conduct the Offering, the initial closing of which was consummated on December 12, 2017 with the delivery of 12,500,000 units (the \u201cUnits\u201d). The Units sold in the initial closing of the Offering consisted of the securities described in Note 3. The initial closing of the Offering generated gross proceeds of $125,000,000.\nSimultaneously with the initial closing of the Offering, the Company consummated the initial closing of a private placement sale (the \u201cPrivate Placement\u201d) of 489,500 units (the \u201cPrivate Placement Units\u201d), at a price of $10.00 per unit, to the Company\u2019s sponsor, GigAcquisitions, LLC, a Delaware limited liability company (the \u201cSponsor\u201d) and three additional investors (together with the Sponsor, the \u201cFounders\u201d). The Private Placement Units consisted of the securities described in Note 4. The initial closing of the Private Placement generated gross proceeds of $4,895,000.\nFollowing the initial closing of the Offering, net proceeds in the amount of $122,500,000 from the sale of the Units and proceeds in the amount of $2,500,000 from the sale of Private Placement Units, for a total of $125,000,000, were placed in the trust account (\u201cTrust Account\u201d) which is described further below.\nOn January 9, 2018, in connection with the underwriters\u2019 exercise in full of their option to purchase an additional 1,875,000 additional Units solely to cover over-allotments, if any (the \u201cover-allotment option\u201d), the Company consummated the sale of an additional 1,875,000 Units at $10.00 per unit. The Units sold in the second closing of the Offering also consisted of the securities described in Note 3. The second closing of the Offering generated gross proceeds of $18,750,000.\nSimultaneously with the closing of the sale of the additional Units, the Company consummated a second closing of the Private Placement, resulting in the sale of an additional 8,756 Private Placement Units at $10.00 per unit to the Founders. The second closing of the Private Placement Units also consisted of the securities described in Note 4. The second closing of the Private Placement generated gross proceeds of $87,560.\nFollowing the second closing of the Offering, net proceeds in the amount of $18,662,440 and proceeds in the amount of $87,560 from the second closing of the Private Placement, for a total of $18,750,000, were placed in the Trust Account.\nTransaction costs amounted to $3,252,059, consisting of $2,587,560 of underwriting fees and $664,499 of the Offering costs. The Company\u2019s remaining cash after payment of the Offering costs will be held outside of the Trust Account for working capital purposes.\nThe Trust Account\nThe funds in the Trust Account have been invested only in U.S. government treasury bills with a maturity of one hundred and eighty (180) days or less or in money market funds meeting certain conditions under Rule 2a-7 under the Investment Company Act of 1940 which invest only in direct U.S. government obligations. Funds will remain in the Trust Account until the earlier of (i) the consummation of the Business Combination or (ii) the distribution of the Trust Account as described below. The remaining proceeds from the Offering outside the Trust Account may be used to pay for business, legal and accounting due diligence expenses on acquisition targets and continuing general and administrative expenses.\nThe Company\u2019s amended and restated certificate of incorporation provides that, other than the withdrawal of interest to pay taxes, if any, none of the funds held in the Trust Account will be released until the earlier of: (i) the completion of the Business Combination; (ii) the redemption of 100% of the shares of common stock included in the units sold in the Offering (the \u201cpublic shares\u201d) if the Company is unable to complete the Business Combination by March 12, 2019 (or June 12, 2019 as described below), (subject to the requirements of law); or (iii) the redemption of the public shares in connection with a stockholder vote to amend the Company\u2019s amended and restated certificate of incorporation to modify the substance or timing of the Company\u2019s obligation to redeem 100% of its public shares if it does not complete its initial Business Combination by March 12, 2019 (or June 12, 2019 as described below).\nThe Company\u2019s management has broad discretion with respect to the specific application of the net proceeds of the Offering, although substantially all of the net proceeds of the Offering are intended to be generally applied toward consummating a Business Combination with (or acquisition of) a Target Business. As used herein, \u201cTarget Business\u201d must be with one or more target businesses that together have a fair market value equal to at least 80% of the balance in the Trust Account (less taxes payable on interest earned) at the time the Company signs a definitive agreement in connection with the Business Combination. There is no assurance that the Company will be able to successfully effect a Business Combination.\nThe Company, after signing a definitive agreement for a Business Combination, will either (i) seek stockholder approval of the Business Combination at a meeting called for such purpose in connection with which stockholders may seek to redeem their shares, regardless of whether they vote for or against the Business Combination, for cash equal to their pro rata share of the aggregate amount then on deposit in the Trust Account as of two business days prior to the consummation of the initial Business Combination, including interest but less taxes payable, or (ii) provide stockholders with the opportunity to have their shares redeemed by the Company by means of a tender offer (and thereby avoid the need for a stockholder vote) for an amount in cash equal to their pro rata share of the aggregate amount then on deposit in the Trust Account as of two business days prior to commencement of the tender offer, including interest but less taxes payable. The decision as to whether the Company will seek stockholder approval of the Business Combination or allow stockholders to redeem their shares in a tender offer will be made by the Company, solely in its discretion, and will be based on a variety of factors such as the timing of the transaction and whether the terms of the transaction would otherwise require the Company to seek stockholder approval unless a vote is required by New York Stock Exchange rules. If the Company seeks stockholder approval, it will complete its Business Combination only if a majority of the outstanding shares of common stock voted are voted in favor of the Business Combination. However, in no event will the Company redeem its public shares in an amount that would cause its net tangible assets to be less than $5,000,001 upon consummation of a Business Combination. In such case, the Company would not proceed with the redemption of its public shares and the related Business Combination, and instead may search for an alternate Business Combination.\nIf the Company holds a stockholder vote or there is a tender offer for shares in connection with a Business Combination, a public stockholder will have the right to redeem its shares for an amount in cash equal to its pro rata share of the aggregate amount then on deposit in the Trust Account as of two business days prior to the consummation of the initial Business Combination, including interest but less taxes payable. As a result, such shares of common stock have been recorded at their redemption amount and classified as temporary equity. The amount held in the Trust Account as of September 30, 2018 was $144,964,309, which represents cash and short-term investments of $143,750,000 from the sale of 14,375,000 Units at $10.00 per unit and $1,593,432 of interest income earned on these holdings, less $379,123 withdrawn from the interest earned on the Trust Account to pay federal and state income tax obligations. Additionally, there was $221,157 of interest accrued, but not yet credited to the Trust Account, which\nwas recorded on the balance sheet in Interest receivable on cash and marketable securities held in the Trust Account as of September 30, 2018.\nThe Company will have until March 12, 2019 to consummate the Business Combination. If the Company cannot consummate the Business Combination by such date, the Company may extend the period of time to consummate the Business Combination by an additional three months to June 12, 2019. If the Company extends the period of time to consummate a business combination, it is required to deposit into the Trust Account funds equal to one percent (1%) of the gross proceeds of the Offering (including such proceeds from the exercise of the underwriters\u2019 over-allotment option) in exchange for a noninterest bearing, unsecured promissory note. If the Company does not complete a Business Combination within this extended period of time, it shall (i) cease all operations except for the purposes of winding up; (ii) as promptly as reasonably possible, but not more than ten business days thereafter, redeem the public shares of common stock for a per share pro rata portion of the Trust Account, including interest, but less taxes payable (less up to $100,000 of such net interest to pay dissolution expenses); and (iii) as promptly as possible following such redemption, dissolve and liquidate the balance of the Company\u2019s net assets to its creditors and remaining stockholders, as part of its plan of dissolution and liquidation. The Founders and the Company\u2019s executive officers and directors have entered into letter agreements with the Company, pursuant to which they have waived their rights to participate in any redemption with respect to any shares of the Company\u2019s common stock held by them, including the Founder Shares (as defined in Note 4) and the shares of common stock included in the Private Placement Units; however, to the extent that any of such parties acquired public shares in the Offering, or to the extent that any of such parties acquire public shares in private transactions subsequent to the final closing of the Offering, they will be entitled to a pro rata share of the Trust Account in respect of such public shares upon the Company\u2019s redemption or liquidation in the event the Company does not complete a Business Combination within the required time period.\nIn the event of such distribution, it is possible that the per share value of the residual assets remaining available for distribution (including Trust Account assets) will be less than the initial public offering price per Unit.\nThe financial statements of the Company have been prepared on a going concern basis, which contemplates the realization of assets and the discharge of liabilities in the normal course of business. As of September 30, 2018, the Company had $597,268 in cash and a working capital deficit of $345,350. Further, the Company expects to continue to incur significant costs in pursuit of its financing and acquisition plans. These conditions raise substantial doubt about the Company\u2019s ability to continue as a going concern. The Company plans to address this uncertainty by raising additional capital. There is no assurance that the Company\u2019s plans to raise capital or to consummate a Business Combination will be successful or successful within the target business acquisition period. The financial statements do not include any adjustments that might result from the outcome of this uncertainty.\nThe financial statements of the Company have been prepared in conformity with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America (\u201cGAAP\u201d).\nSection 102(b)(1) of the JOBS Act exempts emerging growth companies from being required to comply with new or revised financial accounting standards until private companies (that is, those that have not had a Securities Act registration statement declared effective or do not have a class of securities registered under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934) are required to comply with the new or revised financial accounting standards. The JOBS Act provides that a company can elect to opt out of the extended transition period and comply with the requirements that apply to non-emerging growth companies but any such election to opt out is irrevocable. The Company has elected not to opt out of such extended transition period which means that when an accounting standard is issued or revised and it has different application dates for public or private companies, the Company, as an emerging growth company, will adopt the new or revised accounting standard at the time private companies adopt the new or revised standard.\nThe preparation of financial statements in conformity with GAAP requires the Company\u2019s management to make estimates and assumptions that affect the reported amounts of assets and liabilities and disclosure of contingent assets and liabilities at the date of the financial statements and the reported amounts of revenues and expenses during the reporting period. Actual results could differ from those estimates.\nFinancial instruments that potentially subject the Company to concentrations of credit risk consist of cash accounts in a financial institution, which at times, may exceed federally insured limits. The Company has not experienced losses on these accounts and management believes the Company is not exposed to significant risks on such accounts.\nThe Company considers all highly liquid investments with a maturity of three months or less when purchased to be cash equivalents. The Company maintains cash balances that at times may be uninsured or in deposit accounts that exceed Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation limits. The Company maintains its cash deposits with major financial institutions.\nAs of September 30, 2018, the assets held in the Trust Account were invested in a money market fund.\nCommon stock subject to mandatory redemption (if any) is classified as a liability instrument and is measured at fair value. Conditionally redeemable common stock (including common stock that features redemption rights that are either within the control of the holder or subject to redemption upon the occurrence of uncertain events not solely within the Company\u2019s control) is classified as temporary equity. At all other times, common stock is classified as stockholders\u2019 equity. The Company\u2019s common stock features certain redemption rights that are considered to be outside of the Company\u2019s control and subject to occurrence of uncertain future events. Accordingly, as of September 30, 2018, common stock subject to possible redemption is presented as temporary equity, outside of the stockholders\u2019 equity section of the Company\u2019s balance sheet.\nThe fair value of the Company\u2019s assets and liabilities approximates the carrying amounts represented in the balance sheet primarily due to their short-term nature.\nOffering Costs\nOffering costs in the amount of $3,252,059 consist of legal, accounting, underwriting fees and other costs incurred through the balance sheet date that are directly related to the Offering. Offering costs were charged to stockholders\u2019 equity upon the completion of the Offering.\nFor restricted stock awards granted to employees and directors of the Company, the related stock-based compensation will be based on the fair value of the common stock on the grant date. For restricted stock awards granted to non-employees of the Company, the related stock-based compensation will be based on the fair value of the common stock on the date the shares vest, or are no longer subject to forfeiture upon an event that is not probable to occur.\nThe shares underlying the Company\u2019s restricted stock awards are subject to forfeiture if the Business Combination is not completed or if these individuals resign or are terminated for cause prior to the completion of the Business\nCombination. Therefore, the related stock-based compensation will be recognized upon the completion of a Business Combination, unless the related shares are forfeited prior to a Business Combination occurring.\nNet loss per common share is computed by dividing net loss by the weighted-average number of common shares outstanding for the period. The Company applies the two-class method in calculating the net loss per common share. Shares of common stock subject to possible redemption as of September 30, 2018, have been excluded from the calculation of the basic net loss per share since such shares, if redeemed, only participate in their pro rata share of the Trust Account earnings. The Company has not considered the effect of (1) warrants sold in the Offering and Private Placement to purchase an aggregate of 11,154,942 shares of common stock since the exercise of the warrants is contingent upon future events, (2) rights sold in the Offering and Private Placement that convert into 1,487,326 shares of common stock since the conversion of the rights is contingent upon future events and (3) the 60,000 shares of common stock underlying restricted stock awards that are still subject to forfeiture as of September 30, 2018. Since the Company was in an adjusted net loss position during the periods presented within, diluted net loss per common share is the same as basic net loss per common share.\nReconciliation of Net Loss Per Common Share\nIn accordance with the two-class method, the Company\u2019s net loss is adjusted to remove net income that is attributable to common stock subject to possible redemption, as these shares only participate in the income of the Trust Account and not the losses of the Company. Accordingly, net loss per common share, basic and diluted, is calculated as follows:\nThe Company follows the asset and liability method of accounting for income taxes. Deferred tax assets and liabilities are recognized for the estimated future tax consequences attributable to differences between the financial statement carrying amounts of existing assets and liabilities and their respective tax bases. Deferred tax assets and liabilities are measured using enacted tax rates expected to apply to taxable income in the years in which those temporary differences are expected to be recovered or settled. The effect on deferred tax assets and liabilities of a change in tax rates is recognized in income in the period that included the enactment date. Valuation allowances are established, when necessary, to reduce deferred tax assets to the amount expected to be realized.\nThe Company prescribes a recognition threshold and a measurement attribute for the financial statement recognition and measurement of tax positions taken or expected to be taken in a tax return. For those benefits to be recognized, a tax position must be more-likely-than-not to be sustained upon examination by taxing authorities. There were no unrecognized tax benefits as of September 30, 2018. The Company recognizes accrued interest and penalties related to unrecognized tax benefits as income tax expense. No amounts were accrued for the payment of interest and penalties as of September 30, 2018. The Company is currently not aware of any issues under review that could result in significant payments, accruals or material deviation from its position. The Company is subject to income tax examinations by major taxing authorities since inception.\nThe U.S. Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (\"Tax Act\") was enacted on December 22, 2017 and introduced significant changes to U.S. income tax law. Effective January 1, 2018, the Tax Act reduces the U.S. statutory tax rate from 35% to 21%\nand creates new taxes on certain foreign-sourced earnings and certain related-party payments. Since the Company is a fiscal taxpayer, the Company is subject to a blended rate of 24.3% for fiscal year ended 2018. The Company does not anticipate any other material impacts as a result of the Tax Act.\nThe Company does not believe that any recently issued, but not yet effective, accounting pronouncements, if currently adopted, would have a material effect on the Company\u2019s financial statements.\nOn December 12, 2017, the Company completed the initial closing of the Offering whereby the Company sold 12,500,000 Units at a price of $10.00 per Unit. On January 9, 2018, the Company completed the second closing of the Offering with the exercise of the over-allotment option with the consummation of the sale of an additional 1,875,000 Units at a price of $10.00 per Unit. Each Unit consists of one share of the Company\u2019s common stock, $0.0001 par value, three-fourths (3/4) of one warrant to purchase one share of common stock (the \u201cWarrants\u201d), and one right to receive one-tenth (1/10) of one share of common stock upon consummation of the Business Combination (the \u201cRights\u201d). Warrants will only be exercisable for whole shares at $11.50 per share.\nOn January 16, 2018, the Company announced that the holders of the Company\u2019s Units may elect to separately trade the securities underlying such Units which commenced on January 17, 2018. No fractional warrants will be issued upon separation of the Units and only whole warrants will trade. Any Units not separated will continue to trade on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol \u201cGIG.U\u201d. Any underlying shares of common stock, warrants and rights that are separated will trade on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbols \u201cGIG,\u201d \u201cGIG WS\u201d and \u201cGIG RT,\u201d respectively.\nFounder Shares\nDuring the period from October 9, 2017 (date of inception) to December 12, 2017, the Founders purchased 4,267,500 shares of common stock (the \u201cFounder Shares\u201d) for $25,000, or approximately $0.005858 per share. In November and December 2017, the Company canceled 738,750 Founders Shares for no consideration. As a result, there are 3,528,750 Founder Shares outstanding as of September 30, 2018. The Founder Shares are identical to the common stock included in the Units sold in the Offering except that the Founder Shares are subject to certain transfer restrictions, as described in more detail below.\nThe Founders have agreed not to transfer, assign or sell any of their Founder Shares until the earlier of (i) one year after the completion of the initial Business Combination, or earlier if, subsequent to the initial Business Combination, the last sale price of the Company\u2019s common stock equals or exceeds $12.00 per share (as adjusted for stock splits, stock dividends, reorganizations, recapitalizations and the like) for any 20 trading days within any 30-trading day period commencing at least 150 days after the initial Business Combination or (ii) the date on which the Company completes a liquidation, merger, stock exchange or other similar transaction after the initial Business Combination that results in all of the Company\u2019s stockholders having the right to exchange their shares of common stock for cash, securities or other property.\nThe Founders purchased from the Company an aggregate of 489,500 units at a price of $10.00 per unit in a private placement that occurred simultaneously with the completion of the initial closing of the Offering. The Founders also purchased from the Company an aggregate of 8,756 private placement units in a private placement that occurred simultaneously with the completion of the second closing of the Offering with the exercise of the over-allotment option. Each Private Placement Unit consists of one share of the Company\u2019s common stock, $0.0001 par value, three-fourths (3\u20444) of a Warrant, and one right to receive one-tenth (1/10) of a share of common stock upon the consummation of the initial Business Combination. Warrants will only be exercisable for whole shares at $11.50 per share. Unlike the Warrants included in the Units sold in the Offering, if held by the original holder or its permitted\ntransferees, the warrants included in the Placement Units are not redeemable by the Company and subject to certain limited exceptions, will be subject to transfer restrictions until one year following the consummation of the Business Combination. If the warrants included in the Private Placement Units are held by holders other than the initial holders or their permitted transferees, the warrants included in the Private Placement Units will be redeemable by the Company and exercisable by holders on the same basis as the Warrants included in the Offering (see above).\nIf the Company does not complete a Business Combination, then the proceeds from the sale of the Private Placement Units will be part of the liquidating distribution to the public stockholders.\nDuring the year ended September 30, 2018 the Company purchased consulting services in the amount of $14,400 from Sentienz Inc., a technology solutions company in which Jack Porter, a member of our Board of Directors, is the Executive Chairman. The fees paid were comparable to fees charged for similar services by other technology solutions companies.\nThe Company agreed to pay $20,000 a month for office space, administrative services and secretarial support to the Sponsor. Services commenced on December 8, 2017, the date the securities were first listed on the New York Stock Exchange and will terminate upon the earlier of the consummation by the Company of the Business Combination or the liquidation of the Company. For the period from October 9, 2017, (Date of Inception) through September 30, 2018, the Company incurred $196,758 in fees for these Services, of which $0 is included in accounts payable in the accompanying balance sheet as of September 30, 2018.\nThe Company entered into a promissory note agreement with the Sponsor, whereby the Sponsor agreed to loan the Company up to an aggregate amount not to exceed $55,000 (\u201cPromissory Notes\u201d) to be used for the payment of expenses related to the Offering. The Promissory Notes were non-interest bearing, unsecured and were due on the earlier of (i) December 31, 2017 or (ii) December 12, 2017, the date on which the Company completed the Offering. The Promissory Notes were repaid in December 2017.\nThe Company\u2019s initial stockholders are entitled to registration rights pursuant to a registration rights agreement signed on December 7, 2017. The Company\u2019s initial stockholders are entitled to make up to three demands, excluding short form registration demands, that the Company register such securities for sale under the Securities Act. In addition, these holders have \u201cpiggy-back\u201d registration rights to include their securities in other registration statements filed by the Company. The Company will bear the expenses incurred in connection with the filing of any such registration statements. There will be no penalties associated with delays in registering the securities under the registration rights agreement.\nUnderwriters Agreement\nThe Company granted the underwriters a 45-day option to purchase up to 1,875,000 additional Units to cover any over-allotments, at the initial public offering price less deferred underwriting discounts and commissions. On January 9, 2018, the underwriters elected to fully exercise their over-allotment option to purchase 1,875,000 Units at a purchase price of $10.00 per unit.\nThe Company paid an underwriting discount of $0.20 per Unit offering price (or approximately $0.0467 per unit for each Unit sold pursuant to the underwriters\u2019 over-allotment option).\nBusiness Combination Marketing Agreement\nThe Company engaged Cowen and Company, LLC and Chardan Capital Markets, LLC (collectively, the \u201cAdvisors\u201d) as advisors in connection with the Business Combination pursuant to a business combination marketing agreement. Pursuant to that agreement, the Company will pay the Advisors a cash fee for such services upon the consummation of the Business Combination in an amount equal to, in the aggregate, (i) 3.5% of the gross proceeds of the Offering, excluding any proceeds from the full or partial exercise of the over-allotment option, plus (ii) 5.033333% of the gross proceeds of the Offering, if any, from the full or partial exercise of the over-allotment option (in each case, exclusive of any applicable finders\u2019 fees which might become payable).\n6 . STOCKHOLDERS\u2019 EQUITY\nThe authorized common stock of the Company includes up to 100,000,000 shares. Holders of the Company\u2019s common stock are entitled to one vote for each share of common stock. As of September 30, 2018, there were 4,152,789 shares of common stock issued and outstanding and not subject to possible redemption (of which there are 14,309,217 such shares).\nThe Company is authorized to issue 1,000,000 shares of preferred stock with such designations, voting and other rights and preferences as may be determined from time to time by the Board of Directors. As of September 30, 2018, there were no shares of preferred stock issued and outstanding.\nWarrants will only be exercisable for whole shares at $11.50 per share. As a result, at least four Units must be purchased in order for each holder to receive shares of common stock for all of the Warrants acquired upon their exercise. Under the terms of the Warrant agreement dated December 12, 2017, the Company has agreed to use its best efforts to file a new registration statement under the Securities Act, following the completion of the Business Combination, for the registration of the shares of common stock issuable upon exercise of the Warrants included in the Units.\nNo fractional shares will be issued upon exercise of the Warrants. If, upon exercise of the Warrants, a holder would be entitled to receive a fractional interest in a share, the Company will, upon exercise, round down to the nearest whole number the number of shares of common stock to be issued to the Warrant holder. Each Warrant will become exercisable on the later of 30 days after the completion of the Business Combination or 12 months from the closing of the Offering and will expire five years after the completion of the Business Combination or earlier upon redemption or liquidation. However, if the Company does not complete the Business Combination on or prior to the 15-month period (or 18-month period as described above) allotted to complete the Business Combination, the Warrants will expire at the end of such period. If the Company is unable to deliver registered shares of common stock to the holder upon exercise of the Warrants during the exercise period, there will be no net cash settlement of these Warrants and the Warrants will expire worthless, unless they may be exercised on a cashless basis in the circumstances described in the Warrant agreement. Once the Warrants (excluding the warrants sold in the Private Placement Units as discussed in Note 4) become exercisable, the Company may redeem the outstanding Warrants in whole and not in part at a price of $0.01 per Warrant upon a minimum of 30 days\u2019 prior written notice of redemption, only in the event that the last sale price of the Company\u2019s shares of common stock equals or exceeds $18.00 per share for any 20 trading days within the 30-trading day period ending on the third trading day before the Company sends the notice of redemption to the Warrant holders.\nAs of September 30, 2018, there were 11,154,942 warrants outstanding.\nEach holder of a right will receive one-tenth (1/10) of one share of common stock upon consummation of a Business Combination, even if the holder of such right redeemed all shares held by it in connection with a Business Combination. No fractional shares will be issued upon conversion of the rights. No additional consideration will be required to be paid by a holder of rights in order to receive its additional shares upon consummation of a Business Combination, as the consideration related thereto has been included in the Unit purchase price paid for by investors in the Offering. If the Company enters into a definitive agreement for a Business Combination in which the Company will not be the surviving entity, the definitive agreement will provide for the holders of rights to receive the same per share consideration the holders of the common stock will receive in the transaction on an as-converted into common stock basis and each holder of a right will be required to affirmatively covert its rights in order to receive one-tenth (1/10) of one share underlying each right (without paying additional consideration) upon completion of a Business Combination. The shares issuable upon exchange of the rights will be freely tradable (except to the extent held by affiliates of the Company).\nIf the Company is unable to complete a Business Combination on or prior to the 15-month period (or 18-month period as described above) allotted to complete the Business Combination and the Company liquidates the funds held in the Trust Account, holders of rights will not receive any of such funds with respect to their rights, nor will they receive any distribution from the Company\u2019s assets held outside of the Trust Account with respect to such rights, and the rights will expire worthless. Further, there are no contractual penalties for failure to deliver securities to the holders of the rights upon consummation of a Business Combination. Additionally, in no event will the Company be required to net cash settle the rights.\nAs of September 30, 2018, there were 12,129,822 rights outstanding.\nIncluded in the outstanding shares of common stock are 60,000 shares issued in consideration of future services to the Company\u2019s independent directors. These shares are subject to forfeiture if these individuals resign or are terminated for cause prior to the completion of the Business Combination. If a Business Combination occurs and these shares have not been previously forfeited, the fair value of the common stock on the date the shares vest will be recognized as stock-based compensation when the completion of the Business Combination becomes probable.\nThe fair value of the Company\u2019s financial assets and liabilities reflects management\u2019s estimate of amounts that the Company would have received in connection with the sale of the assets or paid in connection with the transfer of the liabilities in an orderly transaction between market participants at the measurement date. In connection with measuring the fair value of its assets and liabilities, the Company seeks to maximize the use of observable inputs (market data obtained from independent sources) and to minimize the use of unobservable inputs (internal assumptions about how market participants would price assets and liabilities). The following fair value hierarchy is used to classify assets and liabilities based on the observable inputs and unobservable inputs used in order to value the assets and liabilities:\nLevel 1: Quoted prices in active markets for identical assets or liabilities. An active market for an asset or liability is a market in which transactions for the asset or liability occur with sufficient frequency and volume to provide pricing information on an ongoing basis.\nLevel 2: Observable inputs other than Level 1 inputs. Examples of Level 2 inputs include quoted prices in active markets for similar assets or liabilities and quoted prices for identical assets or liabilities in markets that are not active.\nLevel 3: Unobservable inputs which are supported by little or no market activity and which are significant to the fair value of the assets or liabilities.\nThe following table presents information about the Company\u2019s assets that are measured at fair value on a recurring basis as of September 30, 2018, and indicates the fair value hierarchy of the valuation inputs the Company utilized to determine such fair value:\nAs of September 30, 2018, the Company had no financial liabilities measured at fair value on a recurring basis.\nThe sources of loss before provision for income taxes are as follows for the period ended September 30, 2018:\nThe provision for income taxes was comprised of the following for the period ended September 30, 2018:\nTotal deferred income tax expense\nReconciliation of the federal statutory income tax rate to the effective income tax rate is as follows:\nStatutory income tax expense\nState income taxes, net of federal\nValuation allowance on start-up costs\nFor the period ended September 30, 2018, the effective tax rate differs from the U.S. statutory rate primarily due to the impact of the Tax Act, the valuation allowance on the Start-up Costs, and tax expense associated with nondeductible permanent adjustments.\nOn December 22, 2017, the Tax Act was signed into law. The change in the tax law is partially effective in the current 2018 fiscal year and will be fully effective in the 2019 fiscal year. The Tax Act, among other things, reduces the top U.S. federal corporate tax rate from 35% to 21%, requires companies to pay a one-time transition tax on earnings of certain foreign subsidiaries that were previously tax deferred, and creates new taxes on certain foreign sourced earnings.\nDue to the complexities involved in accounting for the Tax Act, the Securities and Exchange Commission Staff Accounting Bulletin 118 required that the Company include in its financial statements a reasonable estimate of the impact of the Tax Act on earnings to the extent such reasonable estimate has been determined. The Company is allowed a measurement period of up to one year after the enactment date to finalize the recording of the related tax impacts. As of September 30, 2018, the Company completed its accounting for the tax effects of the enactment of the Tax Act.\nThe Tax Act reduces the corporate federal tax rate to 21%, effective January 1, 2018. U.S. tax law stipulates that the Company\u2019s 2018 earnings are subject to a blended statutory tax rate of 24.3%, which is based on the prorated number of days in the fiscal year before and after the effective date.\nThe one-time transition tax is based on total post-1986 earnings and profits that were previously deferred from U.S. income taxes. We have no foreign operations or subsidiaries and therefore the one-time transition tax is not applicable to the Company.\nAs mentioned above, the Company has no foreign operations or subsidiaries. Therefore, it does not anticipate the new Tax Act provision on global intangible low-tax income or the newly enacted Base Erosion and Anti-Abuse Tax to have an impact on its financial statements in future periods. These facts could change if an acquisition is made that included foreign operations or activities.\nThe tax effects of temporary differences that gave rise to significant portions of the deferred tax assets and liabilities as of September 30, 2018 were as follows:\nPeriod from October 9, 2017 (Date of Inception) through September 30, 2018\nNet deferred tax assets (liabilities)\nAs of September 30, 2018, the Company has recorded a valuation allowance of $552,641 to offset deferred tax assets related to its start-up costs.\nAs of September 30, 2018, the Company has no unrecognized tax benefits for which a liability should be recorded. The Company records interest and penalties associated with unrecognized tax benefits as a component of tax expense. As of September 30, 2018, the Company has not accrued interest or penalties on unrecognized tax benefits, as there is no position recorded as of 2018. No changes to the uncertain tax position balance are anticipated within the next 12 months, and are not expected to materially impact the financial statements.\nDisclosure controls and procedures are controls and other procedures that are designed to ensure that information required to be disclosed in our reports filed or submitted under the Exchange Act is recorded, processed, summarized and reported within the time periods specified in the SEC\u2019s rules and forms. Disclosure controls and procedures include, without limitation, controls and procedures designed to ensure that information required to be disclosed in our reports filed or submitted under the Exchange Act is accumulated and communicated to our management, including our Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer, to allow timely decisions regarding required disclosure.\nAs required by Rules 13a-15 and 15d-15 under the Exchange Act, our Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer carried out an evaluation of the effectiveness of the design and operation of our disclosure controls and procedures as of September 30, 2018. Based upon their evaluation, our Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer concluded that our disclosure controls and procedures (as defined in Rules 13a-15(e) and 15d-15(e) under the Exchange Act) were effective.\nDuring the period from July 1, 2018 through September 30, 2018, there has been no change in our internal control over financial reporting that has materially affected, or is reasonably likely to materially affect, our internal control over financial reporting.\nOur current directors, executive officers and directors are listed below.\nAvi S. Katz\nExecutive Chairman of the Board, Secretary, President and Chief Executive Officer\nNeil Miotto\nJohn Mikulsky\nPeter S. Wang\nDr. Avi S. Katz has served as our Executive Chairman of our Board of Directors, Chief Executive Officer, President and Secretary since October of 2017. Dr. Katz, is also the Founding Managing Member of GigAcquisitions, LLC, the Sponsor entity of GigCapital, Inc., the Founding Managing Member of GigFounders, LLC, the sole Managing Member of GigAcquisitions, LLC, the Founding Managing Member of GigNext, LLC, an advisory and investment partnership, the Executive Chairman of the Board of Members of NextGen Pharmaceutical Development, LLC., and the Chairman of the Board of Directors of Humavox Ltd. He is a serial entrepreneur and active high-tech angel investor, who has spent nearly 30 years in international executive positions within the technology sector founding of and working for privately held start-ups, middle-cap companies and large enterprises. In these roles, Dr. Katz has been instrumental in building teams, large scale fund-raising, developing key alliances and technology partnerships, M&A activities, business development, financial management, global operations and sales and marketing. Dr. Katz dedicated the last decade to developing and managing GigPeak, Inc., originally known as GigOptix, Inc., from inception in 2007 until its sale in 2017. Under Dr. Katz\u2019s leadership GigPeak completed 10 M&A deals. After multiple years of improving financial performance and stockholder value, and as an NYSE-Mkt public company since 2012, GigPeak was sold to Integrated Device Technology, Inc. in an all-cash transaction for $250 million in April 2017. Prior to founding GigOptix, from 2003 to 2005, Dr. Katz was the Chief Executive Officer, President, and member of the Board of Directors of Intransa, Inc., from 2000 to 2003 the Chief Executive Officer of Equator Technologies, Inc. which was ultimately sold to Pixelworks for $110 million, and held additional executive and leadership positions in technology companies date back to his tenure as Member of Technical Staff in AT&T Bell Laboratories between 1988 and 1994. Dr. Katz is a graduate of the Israeli Naval Academy, holds a B.Sc. and Ph.D. in Semiconductors Materials Eng. from the Technion (Israel Institute of Technology). He is an author of more than 70 U.S. and international patents, has published approximately 300 technical papers and is the editor of a number of technical books.\nTara McDonough has served as our Chief Financial Officer since July of 2018. Ms. McDonough is responsible for the management and operations of finance and accounting. Ms. McDonough has 18 years\u2019 of experience in finance and accounting with in-house and consulting experience in startup, IPO, SEC reporting, and other finance, accounting, and reporting services in the high tech, bio tech, semiconductor, software industries amongst others. Most recently, from 2014 to 2018, Ms. McDonough was the Corporate Controller of Glassdoor Inc., a jobs and recruiting website, based in Mill Valley, CA. Prior to that, from 2010 to 2014, she was a Director with Connor Group, LLC where she led IPO, Mergers and Acquisitions, Business Process Re-engineering and Technical Accounting engagements. From 2008 to 2010, Ms. McDonough was the Corporate Controller for Symyx Technologies, a publicly traded scientific software, hardware and services company. From 2003 to 2007, Ms. McDonough held various roles at Synplicity, a publicly traded SAAS based software company where Ms. McDonough worked in the Controllership role, as well as SEC reporting. Ms. McDonough was employed with PricewaterhouseCoopers and Arthur Andersen in the audit group. Ms. McDonough is a Certified Public Accountant in California (inactive) and holds a Bachelor of Science in Economics with concentrations in Accounting and Finance from Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo.\nNeil Miotto joined the Board of Directors in October of 2017. Mr. Miotto is a financial consultant and a retired assurance partner of KPMG LLP where he was a partner for twenty-seven years until his retirement in September 2006. Since his retirement from KPMG Mr. Miotto has provided high level financial consulting services to companies in need of timely accounting assistance and in serving on public company boards. He is deemed to be a \u2018financial expert\u2019 under SEC and NYSE rules. While at KPMG Mr. Miotto focused on serving large public companies, primarily\nsemiconductor companies. Among the clients he served were National Semiconductor Corporation, Fairchild Semiconductor Corp, and nVIDIA Corporation. Mr. Miotto also served as an SEC reviewing partner while at KPMG. He is a member of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants. He holds a Bachelor of Business Administration degree from Baruch College, of The City University of New York. He served on the Board of Directors of Micrel, Inc. prior to its acquisition in 2015, and on the Board of Directors of GigPeak from 2008 until its sale in April 2017.\nJohn J. Mikulsky joined the Board of Directors as an independent director in December of 2017. Through December, 2017, Mr. Mikulsky served as the Chief Executive Officer, since 2016, and as a director, since 2014, of Traycer Diagnostic Systems, Inc. He previously served as President and Chief Executive Officer of Endwave Corporation from December 2009 until June 2011, when Endwave was acquired by GigPeak, Inc.; subsequent to such acquisition, he served on the Board of Directors of GigPeak, Inc. from 2011 until its sale in 2017. From May 1996 until November 2009, Mr. Mikulsky served Endwave in a multitude of capacities including Vice President of Product Development, Vice President of Marketing and Business Development and Chief Operating Officer. Prior to Endwave, Mr. Mikulsky worked as a Technology Manager for Balazs Analytical Laboratory, from 1993 until 1996, a provider of analytical services to the semiconductor and disk drive industries. Prior to 1993, Mr. Mikulsky worked at Raychem Corporation, most recently as a Division Manager for its Electronic Systems Division. Mr. Mikulsky holds a B.S. in electrical engineering from Marquette University, an M.S. in electrical engineering from Stanford University and an S.M. in Management from the Sloan School at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.\nPeter S. Wang joined the Board of Directors as an independent director in December of 2017. Mr. Wang is a managing partner of Optino Network LLC, a cross-border business strategy and technology transfer advisory service. He also serves on the Technology Advisory Council for Benhamou Global Ventures. Mr. Wang previously served as the founding President of CoolCloudz, an Infrastructure-as-a-Service company, and the Sr. Vice President and General Manager of the Cloud Storage Products Business Unit of UIT, in China between 2010 and 2012. Mr. Wang co-founded Retrevo Inc., a venture funded Web 2.0 vertical search company employing machine learning technology, and served as the Vice President of Engineering and Operations and Board director between late 2005 and 2009. Mr. Wang led the founding of Intransa Inc., where served as the founding President and Chairman of the Board in late 2000. Intransa Inc. was a pioneer IP SAN company in the storage industry, backed by prominent Silicon Valley venture capital firms. Through his tenure at Intransa Inc. through mid-2005, Mr. Wang not only served as the Chief Technology Officer and as a director, but also as Vice President of Engineering and Marketing, driving global strategic partnerships, at different stages. Prior to Intransa Inc., Mr. Wang led the Corporate Technology Development Center at 3Com Corp. and served in various leadership positions from 1995-2000. Prior to 1995, Mr. Wang led advanced development of distributed computing technologies at TRW Space & Defense and received the TRW Chairman\u2019s Award for Innovation. Mr. Wang was instrumental in a number of IEEE 802, IETF and ANSI standards. He has been awarded over 20 U.S. patents and has published a number of IEEE conferences and other journal papers. He holds M.S. in Management Sciences from Stanford University, M.S. in EECS from U.C. Berkeley, and B.S. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Michigan.\nJack Porter joined the Board of Directors as an independent director in December of 2017. Mr. Porter is a serial entrepreneur. He has been the Chief Executive Officer of ten companies, and founded or served as managing partner at four additional companies during the last 36 years. Most recently, Mr. Porter founded Razor Solutions, Inc. in 2015, an artificial intelligence data science business, where he currently serves as President, Chief Executive Officer and Executive Chairman. He is also the Executive Chairman of three other artificial intelligence (\u201cAI\u201d) companies: Sentienz, Inc., an advanced services company that focuses on large big data and AI projects;. Argoid, a cognitive big data platform for the retail industry; and Cognizer, a natural language understanding platform based on deep learning. In 2008, Mr. Porter founded Forward Accelerator, Inc., a start-up accelerator, where he has served as Managing Director since the company\u2019s inception. From June 2006 to January 2010 he was the Chief Executive Officer of Executive Mindshare, a social media community designed for senior business professionals, policy makers, thought leaders and financial decision-makers in specific vertical business industries. From July 2003 to June 2006, he was President and Chief Executive Officer of DecisionView, Inc., which developed advanced analytic systems for the pharmaceutical industry. Mr. Porter has extensive experience in advanced analytics, machine learning, and artificial intelligence. His expertise includes understanding how to leverage complex mathematic algorithms, data visualizations, and sophisticated business models. Mr. Porter has published eight books on technology innovation and entrepreneurship and is a frequent speaker at industry events like the Kellogg Innovation Network, Gartner Group Research Board, and the Deep Think.\nNumber, Terms of Office and Election of Executive Officers and Directors\nOur Board of Directors will be elected each year at our annual meeting of stockholders. We may not hold an annual meeting of stockholders until after we consummate our initial business combination (unless required by NYSE).\nOur executive officers are elected by the Board of Directors and serve at the discretion of the Board of Directors, rather than for specific terms of office. Our Board of Directors is authorized to appoint persons to the offices set forth in our bylaws as it deems appropriate. Our bylaws provide that our executive officers may consist of a Chief Executive Officer, a President, a Chief Financial Officer, Vice Presidents, a Secretary, Assistant Secretaries, a Treasurer and such other offices as may be determined by the Board of Directors.\nOur Board of Directors has three standing committees: an audit committee; a compensation committee; and a nominating and compensation committee. Each of our audit committee, our compensation committee and our nominating and corporate governance committee are composed solely of independent directors. Each committee operates under a charter that is approved by our board and has the composition and responsibilities described below.\nWe have established an audit committee of the Board of Directors. Messrs. Miotto, Mikulsky, Wang and Porter will serve as members of our audit committee. Mr. Miotto serves as chairman of the audit committee. Under the NYSE listing standards and applicable SEC rules, we are required to have three members of the audit committee all of whom must be independent. Messrs. Miotto, Mikulsky, Wang and Porter are independent.\nEach member of the audit committee is financially literate and our Board of Directors has determined that Mr. Miotto qualifies as an \u201caudit committee financial expert\u201d as defined in applicable SEC rules.\nWe have adopted an audit committee charter, which details the purpose and principal functions of the audit committee, including:\nassisting the Board of Directors in the oversight of (1) the accounting and financial reporting processes of the Company and the audits of the financial statements of the Company, (2) the preparation and integrity of the financial statements of the Company, (3) the compliance by the Company with financial statement and regulatory requirements, (4) the performance of the Company\u2019s internal finance and accounting personnel and its independent registered public accounting firms, and (5) the qualifications and independence of the Company\u2019s independent registered public accounting firms;\nreviewing with each of the internal and independent registered public accounting firms the overall scope and plans for audits, including authority and organizational reporting lines and adequacy of staffing and compensation.\nreviewing and discussing with management and internal auditors the Company\u2019s system of internal control and discuss with the independent registered public accounting firm any significant matters regarding internal controls over financial reporting that have come to its attention during the conduct of its audit;\nreviewing and discussing with management, internal auditors and independent registered public accounting firm the Company\u2019s financial and critical accounting practices, and policies relating to risk assessment and management;\nreceiving and reviewing reports of the independent registered public accounting firm discussing 1) all critical accounting policies and practices to be used in the firm\u2019s audit of the Company\u2019s financial statements, 2) all alternative treatments of financial information within generally accepted accounting principles that have been discussed with management, ramifications of the use of such alternative disclosures and treatments, and the treatment preferred by the independent registered public accounting firm, and 3) other material written communications between the independent registered public accounting firm and management, such as any management letter or schedule of unadjusted differences;\nreviewing and discussing with management and the independent registered public accounting firm the annual and quarterly financial statements and section entitled \u201cManagement\u2019s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Conditions and Results of Operations \u201d of the Company prior to the filing of the Company\u2019s Annual Report on Form 10-K and Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q;\nreviewing, or establishing, standards for the type of information and the type of presentation of such information to be included in, earnings press releases and earnings guidance provided to analysts and rating agencies;\ndiscussing with management and independent registered public accounting firm any changes in Company\u2019s critical accounting principles and the effects of alternative GAAP methods, off-balance sheet structures and regulatory and accounting initiatives;", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00080.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 1442, + "original_length": 270016, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.95, + "perplexity": 253.7, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "http://getsmarthomedevices.com/stephen-hawking-gave-a-speech-via-hologram-again", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T03:39:11Z", + "digest": "sha1:JS6JE3VY6KEIN46VATTHGDRXJKRSYKGR", + "length": 822, + "nlines": 7, + "source_domain": "getsmarthomedevices.com", + "title": "Stephen Hawking gave a speech via hologram. 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Indeed, it is impossible to know in advance when and how an opportunity can come your way or who might offer it to you.\nWe begin with this brand new experience Niki had with a 90-day goal about his vision for financial independence.\nThe \u201ckey\u201d to cryptocurrencies\nAt a time when even the taxi driver was talking about \u201cmining bitcoins,\u201d he decided to do some research about the cryptocurrency phenomenon. He focused on the following actions:\nLearn about the mining process and familiarize with the available software in terms of installation and test-running it;\nResearch the hardware and its prices;\nEstimate the annual rate of ROI;\nExplore possibilities for collocation, i.e. renting equipment at different places and other details such as the cooling issue, power supply, security, etc.\nWhat he was aiming at: to get a general idea of the overall resources required and what the financial potential of this endeavor would be.\nIt all went as expected in the beginning\nNiki made a long list of all the necessary actions and wrote down his objective in a very detailed manner. He treated it as if it is a big project. And while he could have hired a professional to do the business plan for him, he was sure he could manage it all by himself.\nHe made more than enough effort on how to do it but zero on who might be able to assist him.\nBut then, at one of the quarterly \u201cGoalBuddy\u201d meetings he discussed the idea with Ivan.\nAfter hearing him out Ivan immediately thought of an acquaintance who could provide the answers to at least 80% of Niki\u2019s questions. Then he suggested that meeting the guy would be a good start.\nAt first Niki was somehow skeptical but in the end, he agreed.\nThey had this meeting and as a result, Niki got all his questions answered. But there was something else \u2013 this person had the expertise and the background to be able to bring to Niki\u2019s attention some potential problems. He was also kind enough to explain the tricky issues regarding the technology, some partnerships, power plants, and many other aspects.\nThe moral here is that without looking to do so, Niki, in fact, inadvertently applied the \u201cWho\u201d method.\nThis meeting made a big difference and Niki\u2019s perspective got greatly affected. There was plenty of work ahead, but dozens of issues were resolved while new, much more relevant, ones came to the forefront. This saved him weeks of \u201cshooting in the dark\u201d and gave him extra clarity.\nApart from the obvious \u2013 that the research phase was not as difficult and time-consuming as he envisioned it \u2013, there was something else of value for him in the bottom line:\nThis became a lesson for me how one 90-day goal can transform itself into a one day job that can take care of all issues.\n(So, if you are interested in Crypto-currency \u2013 currently and under the standard conditions, i.e. the power being supplied by the utility, mining bit-coins has a very thin margin of profit.)\nBut more important are the following two realizations Niki had.\n# 1 The goal wasn\u2019t of the domino type that unlocks the next one. This confirms that 90-day goals should play the role of experiments.\n# 2 The result was achieved easily and without wasting time. The key was to meet and discuss it with someone who has the knowledge and experience to safely navigate you through those issues.\nOr, to emphatically state the key conclusion \u2013 it was \u201cWho\u201d that worked out brilliantly.\nWhat is this strategy\nAs you might have easily guessed, this is how you can register more progress by getting help. We often take advantage of it, but sometimes, as in the case with Niki, we don\u2019t think of it right away.\nIt\u2019s best applied at the 90-day goal level. Instead of trying to figure out everything all by yourself, do the GAMEPLAN exercise. Write down in the template who can assist you with the task at hand.\nEngines of success\nOf course, first of all, you have to be open with others about your objectives. You may have to overcome the fear that your idea gets stolen, or that you will be laughed at.\nAnd secondly, you have to be actively asking for help. This might be the trickiest thing to do.\nThe explanation is that it is often perceived as a manifestation of weakness. If you too think so then you probably have the insecurity that you may not be up to any challenge.\nStill, at the opposite end of the spectrum are those \u201cknow-it-all\u201d types of people. They always have the answer which is the one and only one.\nWhat could be the reason for that?\nThe less productive approach\nThis concept is based on Dan Sullivan\u2019s Strategic Coach platform.\nWhen thinking only in the lines of \u201chow to\u201d you become more likely to be wrong in working out your plans. This preoccupation manifests itself by questions like \u201cHow to get on with it\u201d, \u201cHow to resolve a problem\u201d\u2026 This, he claims, is explained away by the very nature of our education system.\nJust give it a thought:\nFrom pre-school and all the way through college everything you are taught is to achieve on your own only. Teamwork is rarely encouraged. On the contrary, it is stigmatized and sometimes even penalized.\nYou end up entering the labor market, indoctrinated with the idea that you have to rely entirely on yourself.\nWe\u2019ve been doing the \u201chow to\u201d for years while the \u201cwho\u201d strategy is the smarter approach. There was no one to tell us so except that Life itself opened our eyes to this fact.\nWhy \u201cWho\u201d is superior to \u201cHow\u201d\nThe answer is fairly simple and it will forever change how you organize yourself.\nThe results of \u201cwho\u201d can naturally have a multiplicative effect, while those of \u201chow\u201d are limited by your own resources.\nNo one can be \u201csuperhuman\u201d with a limitless amount of time, knowledge and expertise in every possible area.\nSo, try to go on never forgetting to look around who can help you. This will greatly improve your ability to perform and achieve. You can get support from one person, 10 or 100 \u2013 it\u2019s entirely up to you how far you can get.\nWhen you are ready to take the first step and seek co-operation, keep in mind the following.\nOne option is with the strategy (a mentor to give you valuable insights). And the other is to find someone to assist you with the tactics (these are usually people you delegate to).\nLet\u2019s dig in a little bit deeper in these two.\n# 1 Looking for a mentor\nThis must be someone with experience in the field that you have little or no expertise in. They have already been down this road building up their \u201cknow-how\u201d and learning all the lessons. And that\u2019s their value to you \u2013 to present you with their view and understanding of the subject.\nOr, as we witnessed it in Niki\u2019s story, someone else can speed you up and move forward your 90-day goal in just a few hours. In doing so, you can spare yourself a lot of trouble and avoid failure.\nAnd how do you find a mentor?\nAnd we mean it literally! A friend of ours, who is a motivational lecturer, told us an interesting story.\nAfter a presentation, he usually talks offstage and quite informally so with his audience. A woman approached him and said that she wanted to start her own drop-shipping business but she had been struggling for a while with all kind of different issues.\nWhat he did wasn\u2019t much more than to walk her across the hall and introduce her to one of the most successful drop-shipping entrepreneurs in the country.\nThis is an excellent example for anyone. You never know how and in what form you can run into an opportunity. But you have to be prepared and also be able to freely seek it out.\nOur Top 3 tips on how to fully utilize your \u201cmentor resource\u201d\nAlways be ready to ask for advice and guidance.\nThere\u2019s nothing to be afraid of. What would be the worst possible scenario? It is to be denied the mentorship which isn\u2019t something that would slow you down in any way.\nBut once you decided to request, then listen carefully.\nOpen up your mind to get the most out of it and use it as a stepping stone on which to make your next advance in the desired direction.\nRemember that there is no piece of advice which is exclusively tailored to you. You will ultimately have to run the new information through your own brain.\nWe all have our unique experiences. Someone\u2019s winning approach might be a perfect fit for you too but that\u2019s more of an exception than a rule. Your attitude must be such that you are prepared to expect that won\u2019t always be the case.\nAnd now, let\u2019s turn our attention to the other option.\n# 2 Finding those to delegate to\nIn essence, it means redirecting a certain amount of work to be done by someone else than you.\nThis will give you the chance to concentrate your efforts on higher priorities, not to mention the amount of time freed. You will be able to maximize your productivity by orienting your strong sides towards the progress on a given project.\nHere is the latest, and in our opinion quite telling, example of the effectiveness of delegation.\nHow does Ivan do it?\nWe\u2019ll illustrate with our \u201cGoalBuddy\u201d system.\nIn line with our mission of helping more people achieve their goals, we want to reach a larger audience at our site. Accordingly, we need to manage our Google Ads account. And this could be challenging at times. Although Ivan has skills and knowledge in marketing, he couldn\u2019t stay fully up-to-date with it all the time.\nOne solution was to completely take on this responsibility all by himself, and the other option was to give that task to a team member. He chose the latter so that he would be able to apply himself with more focus where his expertise and skills would matter most. It didn\u2019t take long before this choice showed to be the right one.\nHowever simple it may sound, delegating is not abdication. It isn\u2019t as straightforward as \u201cGet it done!\u201d command but a process.\nThe four levels of Delegation\nYou state the task and they do it, but you have full control.\nThe decisions are theirs but there is no responsibility for the outcome.\nDecisions and responsibilities are only for the duration of the specific task.\nThey make all the decisions and are responsible at every stage of the project.\nIf you\u2019ve reached this last level, then you have groomed a \u201csuccessor\u201d and the transfer of power will be peaceful.\nHow to maximize the process\nDelegating isn\u2019t an easy thing if you are not completely ready to give up control. It\u2019s a multi-step process not only for the delegate but for the delegator as well.\nDon\u2019t delegate as your mother-in-law does it. What\u2019s the point of it if you interfere non-stop to show them how things are done the \u201cright way\u201d!\nFocus on the outcome, not on how you get there. Once you made your mind to rely on this person, let them proceed freely even if it might be very different from how you would. You may also learn from them.\nIt is up to you how to implement the \u201cwho\u201d strategy\nIt\u2019s vital to open your mind and give it a try. If you do it once, you will do it again, and you will probably turn it into a habit. It is extremely effective and with time you will get better at it making it an indispensable part of your professional skill-set.\nWhen you surround yourself with people who are on the same wavelength as you are the whole process of working together becomes seamless and productive. This is a win-win situation for both sides. Ultimately it is your choice whether you will be a delegator, a delegate, or a Goal Buddy.\nDon\u2019t forget the old African proverb \u201cIf you want to get somewhere quickly go alone. If you want to get far you find company.\u201d If you\u2019re here with us it means you want to get far. Right?\n\u2190 May the Force of intentions be with you\nHow to know that your goals are authentic \u2192", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00080.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 144, + "original_length": 13907, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.97, + "perplexity": 270.6, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "http://goashlandeagles.com/sports/fball/2016-17/releases/20161008olb71v", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T03:36:51Z", + "digest": "sha1:TC6DCDTGA5LVG47QKU23WS4S6XHKX4T7", + "length": 3781, + "nlines": 24, + "source_domain": "goashlandeagles.com", + "title": "No. 17 Eagles Rout Timberwolves On Homecoming, 45-7 - Ashland University", + "raw_content": "No. 17 Eagles Rout Timberwolves On Homecoming, 45-7\nNorthwood (1-5) 0 0 0 7 7\nAshland (5-1) 10 14 7 14 45\nPa: Jimmy Strom - 38\nRu: Abdul Levy - 71\nRec: Theron Wilson - 20\nTHE TURNING POINT: Ahead 3-0 in the first quarter, Ashland went on a 10-play, 83-yard drive to extend the lead to 10-0, and the Eagles didn't look back.\nSTAT OF THE GAME: Junior quarterback Travis Tarnowski (five touchdown passes) and junior tight end Adam Shaheen (four TD catches) both tied Ashland single-game program records on Saturday.\nIt was quite the afternoon for the 17th-ranked Ashland University football team on Saturday (Oct. 8).\nPlaying their 93rd Homecoming game on Saturday, the Eagles defeated Northwood, 45-7. Ashland improves to 5-1 overall, 4-1 in the Great Lakes Intercollegiate Athletic Conference, while the Timberwolves are 1-5, 1-5.\nAU also is 63-25-5 all-time in its Homecoming contest, and has a 15-game GLIAC regular-season home winning streak, best in the conference.\nIn addition to the victory, a pair of Eagle single-game records were tied on Saturday. Junior quarterback Travis Tarnowski threw five touchdown passes to tie a record he accomplished two years earlier. It is the fifth time an Ashland QB has thrown for five TDs in a game.\nTarnowski also was 26-for-36 for 332 yards in the win for his ninth career 300-yard passing game, and his third in as many games.\n\"We took a loss last week (at Tiffin), so everyone was really focused,\" Tarnowski said. \"We had a really bad taste in our mouth. We needed to get back on track. We did a really good job of preparing this week. Everybody was laser focused.\"\nJunior tight end Adam Shaheen tied the Ashland mark for touchdown catches in a game with four, originally set by wide receiver Vance Kinney against Slippery Rock in 1992. He finished Saturday's game with seven catches for 109 yards, giving him five career 100-yard games and three in a row. In the last three games, Shaheen has 24 catches for 426 yards and eight touchdowns.\n\"If I'm the primary guy, then they are looking at me, and if I'm not, I'm just trying to do my job every play and open it up for everyone else,\" said Shaheen. \"Me and Travis\u2026we're starting to just kind of click and play. Some of those plays out there are just backyard football.\"\nThe Ashland single-season record for touchdown receptions is 12 by Joe Horn in 2010 \u2013 Shaheen has 11 in the first six games of 2016.\nA career-long 39-yard field goal by junior kicker Aidan Simenc put the Eagles on top 3-0 just 4:41 into the game, then Tarnowski found sophomore wide receiver Matthew Wilcox for a 20-yard touchdown at the 4:16 mark of the first.\n\"We talked about getting out of the gate quick,\" said Ashland head coach Lee Owens, whose team had a lead at the end of the first quarter for the first time since the 2016 season-opener. \"We thought it might take us a while to adjust to their offense, but honestly, I thought our guys, from the very beginning on defense, had a great bead on what they were doing.\"\nAshland's next four scores were Tarnowski-to-Shaheen touchdown passes of 32, 32, five and seven yards. Following Northwood's only points of the game with 5:28 left in the fourth quarter, freshman tailback Keishaun Sims ran the ensuing kickoff back 92 yards for the contest's final points.\nSophomore wide receiver Kamaron Green caught six passes for 91 yards, all in the first half.\nDefensively, senior linebackers Zach Olszewski (10 total tackles) and Brandon Gency (nine total tackles, two for loss) led the way. The Eagles allowed Northwood just seven points and 184 yards of total offense.\nThe nation's third-best team in third-down conversions coming into Saturday at 59.7 percent, Ashland was 10-of-14 (71.4 percent) against the Timberwolves.\nUP NEXT: Oct. 15 at 1 p.m. at Lake Erie.", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00080.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 262, + "original_length": 7019, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.97, + "perplexity": 289.5, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "http://1023thebullfm.com/lindsay-ell-crs-new-faces-2019-controversy/", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T04:32:10Z", + "digest": "sha1:6LVKPG6OT254CCGVXRPEP6KHSRTGSZC7", + "length": 2253, + "nlines": 8, + "source_domain": "1023thebullfm.com", + "title": "Lindsay Ell Responds to Criticism Surrounding CRS New Faces", + "raw_content": "Lindsay Ell Responds to Criticism Surrounding CRS New Faces Nominees\nWhen the nominees for the 2019 CRS New Faces show were announced, Lindsay Ell says her Twitter blew up. She's one of 13 named. She's also the only woman.\nThe criticism isn't personal, and no one believes the \"Criminal\" singer and 2018 Taste of Country RISER isn't worthy of being one of the choices for five CRS New Faces slots, an industry honor that was given to Lauren Alaina, Luke Combs, Midland, Carly Pearce and Michael Ray in 2018. But the 2019 nominees underscore an overall and ongoing lack of female voices on the radio, on popular streaming service playlists and elsewhere. They are also the result of a very clear, stated set of criteria.\n\"At the end of the day, I'm very proud that I get to represent the women in this lineup,\" Ell tells Taste of Country. \"The criteria is the criteria, so it's nothing against CRS. It sort of highlights the state of where our format is. Do we need more women in our format? Yes we do, and are there incredible women in our format? Yes, there are. So I feel like next year, it\u2019s hopefully going to be taking another step in the right direction.\"\nIt remains to be seen if Ell's optimism will become reality, or if the criteria will change. Speaking to Billboard, CRS Executive Director Bill Mayne defends the criteria which states: \"acts must have had at least one but no more than five Top 25 singles on the Mediabase Country Chart as published in Country Aircheck or at least one but no more than five Top 25 singles on the BDS-based Country Chart during the qualification period.\"\nYou also can't have been a New Faces artist previously, which wipes out a lot of young female artists still considered by most to be \"new.\" Critics place blame on the process, with others accusing country radio programmers of not taking more of a leadership role in breaking new female artists. It's a continuation of a circular conversation that has led to women getting multi-year low amounts of airplay and exposure.\nMusic Row has the full list of 13 CRS New Faces nominees. Voting lasts through Nov. 23. 2019 CRS (Country Radio Seminar) takes place Feb. 13-15 in Nashville.\nSource: Lindsay Ell Responds to Criticism Surrounding CRS New Faces Nominees", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00080.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 120, + "original_length": 4243, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.95, + "perplexity": 322.8, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "http://107jamz.com/eric-b-rakims-paid-in-full-30-the-duos-iconic-debut-still-sets-a-musical-standard/", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T03:26:37Z", + "digest": "sha1:VHAZ3EL2GJTWI22K4BN7AD7M3QX6V4BM", + "length": 12194, + "nlines": 28, + "source_domain": "107jamz.com", + "title": "Eric B. & Rakim's 'Paid In Full' at 30: The Duo's Iconic Debut Still Sets A Musical Standard", + "raw_content": "Eric B. & Rakim\u2019s \u2018Paid In Full\u2019 at 30: The Duo\u2019s Iconic Debut Still Sets A Musical Standard\n4th & Bway\nAs has been stated ad infinitum for decades now, Eric B. & Rakim's debut album is one of the most influential and fully-developed debuts in music history. When a pioneering album becomes so highly-regarded, its tempting to reduce its legacy to simply one of historical importance--as opposed to one of enduring musical merit. But as a body of work, Paid In Full stands alongside Are You Experienced?, Appetite For Destruction and Illmatic as an earth-shattering opening salvo and a consistently brilliant listen in terms of sheer song-for-song quality. Its rare that a new act has such a strong command of its voice. Especially a new act comprised of two individuals who barely knew each other before they made a record.\nA former DJ for WBLS in New York City, Eric Barrier had been looking for a rapper to partner with when he was introduced to 18-year old Rakim Allah in 1986. Meeting via Queens rap promoter Alvin Toney, the new acquaintances agreed to work together after Rakim played Eric a homemade demo for a song he'd done himself called \"My Melody.\" The track featured Rakim rapping for more than 30 minutes over a sparse beat, and Eric B. decided to whittle the song down to a more standard length. For help with crafting what would become Eric B. & Rakim's first record, Eric tapped his roommate at the time: bubbling hip-hop producer Marley Marl. Marley was becoming a name with his fledgling Juice Crew, which included MC Shan, Roxanne Shante, and not-yet-famous names like Big Daddy Kane and Kool G Rap. Marl would reluctantly engineer the track, but because of the song's somewhat complex origins, there's some disagreement over who exactly produced \"My Melody.\"\n\u201cRakim comes in, rhyming slow, he made \u2018My Melody\u2019 first,\" Marley Marl recalled in a 2011 interview with Brooklyn Bodega's Wes Jackson. \"So collectively, we both had the ideas for the song but I physically put it together. For \u2018Eric B. Is President\u2019 and \u2018My Melody.\u2019 We made \u2018Make the Music With Your Mouth,\u2019 \u2018Eric B Is President,\u2019 \u2018The Bridge\u2019\u2026 I used to call it 'the sound of the week,' so I used to have the kick and snare in the sample. Whatever songs I was making that week had that kick and snare in it.\u201d\nThat single would be released in late 1986 (backed with \"Eric B. Is President\") and it set the stage for the emergence of Eric B. & Rakim as a formidable duo in hip-hop. Def Jam founder Russell Simmons lobbied to get the pair signed to Island Records subsidiary 4th & B'way, and Eric B. & Rakim began recording their debut album at Power Play Studios in Manhattan in early 1987.\nRakim's rhymes weren't the sort of straight-ahead declarations that had dominated post-Run-DMC hip-hop. And he wasn't just concerned with microphone dominance--there was a consciousness to his approach. \"I started studying in \u201985 and got knowledge of self and started spitting,\" Rakim told Halftime Online in 2006. \"What was going on was taking the understanding of what I was reading and applying it with my life and applying it with my rhymes. Subconsciously, Islam took over me so it was like eighty or ninety percent of the fabric of the person I was.\"\nAlong with the refurbished, Marley Marl-engineered \"My Melody,\" Eric B. & Rakim would polish off a startling 10 track album that pointed the direction for hip-hop's future. Rakim's flow is ice cold and unflinching on \"My Melody,\" a trait that led to early dismissals from Marley but would prove influential on the approach \"serious\" rappers would take soon thereafter.\nBut the album begins with one of the greatest opening tracks of all time. \"I Ain't No Joke\" is an announcement of the boldest kind: \"I used to let the mic smoke--now I slam it when I'm done and make sure it's broke.\" Rakim's flow is purposeful and his rhymes are precise, and from the first 10 seconds of the first song on his first album, it's obvious that he's looking to establish his rhyme supremacy. Over the distinctive horns from the J.B.'s \"Pass the Peas,\" Rakim drops haymaker after haymaker, his nimble rhymes and effortless flow immediately confirming that times were about to change.\nThe DJ showcases \"Eric B. Is On the Cut\" and \"Chinese Arithmetic\" may not quite have the musicality of Jam-Master Jay's best features or the innovation of soon-to-be-household name DJ Jazzy Jeff, but they reveal a competent and clever turntablist--particularly on the former. \"...On the Cut\" captures the energy of a live DJ performance in a way that escapes \"...Arithmetic\" which makes up for it's lack of energy with some flashier scratching gimmicks.\n\"I Know You Got Soul\" is one of the album's most infectious tracks--and one of the most significant. It's arguably the most danceable track the duo ever made, and the deft sample of the James Brown-produced 1971 Bobby Byrd hit of the same name would be another one of the Paid In Full songs to kickstart the flood of James Brown samples that would dominate East Coast hip-hop production for the next five years.\n\"Move the Crowd\" is also built from a Brown-affiliated sample: the J.B.'s \"Hot Pants Road\" from 1970. The hit single features Rakim's flow at it's most methodical and calculated. On the surface, Ra's rhymes are about keeping the party going, but references to Allah, knowledge of self and doctrine associated with the Five Percent Nation suggest a more spiritual connection to the art of rhyming and how it moves the crowd.\nThe title cut is one of the greatest hip-hop tracks ever recorded, endlessly quotable and carried by a beat so indelible it's as close to a standard as any hip-hop song has ever gotten. \"Thinking of a master plan,\" is one of hip-hop's most ubiquitous opening lines, as Rakim outlines the frustrations of a street kid who wants to see real money--but who also might have a way that doesn't involve \"all the devious things\" he used to do. \"I used to roll up/This is a hold up--ain't nuthin' funny/Stop smilin/Cuz still don't nothin' move but the money.\" It's such a gripping piece of music you have to remind yourself that this was a 19-year old rapping on his first album.\nWith it's Barry White-quoting production, \"As the Rhyme Goes On\" may be a lesser-known cut when set against the uber-classics that make up Paid In Full but it's remained one of Rakim's most quoted tracks. In particular, Ra's declaration that \"I'm the R, the A, to the K-I-M. If I wasn't, then why would I say I am?\" has been interpolated and referenced countless times over the past 30 years.\nThe only opening salvo on the album that rivals \"Thinking of a master plan\" for sheer omnipresence is the classic \"I came in the door, I said it before\" that announces \"Eric B. Is President.\" One of the album's most indelible songs, Rakim's tribute to his turntable maestro would be revisited and reinterpreted for countless rappers over the years, but the distinctive groove was born of an idea that Ra himself couldn't understand initially. It was Eric B. who decided to flip the bassline from Fonda Rae's obscure disco hit \"Over Like A Fat Rat.\" And Rakim thought sampling the glossy dancefloor track was a terrible idea.\n\"I was like 'There\u2019s no way Fonda Rae is gonna go with James Brown \u2018Funky President,'\" Rakim recalled in an interview with HipHopDX back in 2016. \"And I just laughed at [Eric] for about 30-to-40 minutes. Every time I looked at him I was making fun of the shit, looking at him, just laughing at him and shit. But we got to the studio, we made the beat, and at that time I was so used to sampling, and I just couldn\u2019t see how he was gonna make that happen. But we flipped it up, and we sampled the drum and we just kinda sampled [a piece] of the drum. We played the joint over it instead of using the sampled record, and it worked out kinda crazy, man. I was surprised that it did work out like it did. So big up to E on that one. He got over. Word up.\"\nDecades later, the production on Paid In Full has been the subject of much debate. As might be expected given the \"My Melody\" controversy, no one seems to agree on exactly who did what.\n\u201cIt\u2019s so funny, that I look on the Internet and see Marley Marl [taking credit for producing \u2018Eric B. Is President\u2019],\" Eric B. would state in a 2016 interview with Combat Jack. \"He is totally right that he is the engineer who made the record.\"\n\"I went to Marley\u2019s house, \u2019cause he was the engineer [\u2026] I paid Marley to [engineer] because I didn\u2019t know how to work the equipment, but I had the ideas. I knew exactly what I wanted done. I gave him the [sample] records, I said, \u2018This is what I want done,\u2019 and he said, \u2018Yo, that\u2019s a great idea.'\u201d\nIn Brian Coleman's Check the Technique, Rakim took more credit for the production on the duo's earliest albums and bemoaned his na\u00efvet\u00e9 in allowing production to be officially credited as by \"Eric B. & Rakim.\" \"If we did ten tracks on the album, I did like seven of the beats myself. A lot of times they were just old park records. I had a record collection, I had turntables, I had all the breakbeats.\"\nRegardless of the album's somewhat murky production history, the legacy of Paid In Full is impossible to overstate. In the most direct sense, it would become the prototypical East Coast hip-hop album; its stripped-but-sample-heavy production would inform soon-to-be-superproducers like DJ Premier and Pete Rock, and intricate rhyming would replace the declarative chants that had made Run, KRS-One and L.L. Cool J mid-80s standard bearers. Paid In Full's lineage can be traced through essential 90s records like Illmatic and Ready To Die, and the album's attitude and ethos informs even much glossier 2000s fare like 50 Cent's Get Rich Or Die Tryin.'\nEric B. & Rakim would expand on their bold debut with 1988s Follow the Leader, and would perfect their staunchly purist formula on 1990s Let the Rhythm Hit 'Em before parting ways following 1992s Don't Sweat the Technique. Over the course of four albums, Rakim would elevate his art to higher heights (the rapper himself would later complain that he sounded too wooden on Paid In Full because he was literally reading his rhymes as he recorded); becoming more virtuosic (\"Lyrics of Fury\"), as well as expanding his repertoire as a storyteller (\"Casualties of War\"), social commentator (\"In the Ghetto\") and romantic ladies' man (\"What's On Your Mind?\").\nBut even in the context of the duo's remarkable overall run, Paid In Full looms large. Rakim's introducing of Five Percenter tenets in his lyrics would foreshadow the rise of more overtly-nationalist acts also informed by the Nation of Gods and Earths--like Brand Nubian and X-Clan in the early 1990s; and the duo's steely \"nobody's smiling\" image would replace the bombastic b-boys of the mid-1980s as mainstream rappers' most definitive presentation. Virtually every song on the album features lines that have been absorbed into every hip-hop fan's consciousness--even if they may be unaware of the source material. Everything from Master P's \"Ghetto D\" to Eminem's \"The Way I Am\" quotes from the album, the iconic cover--which features Eric and Ra clad in Dapper Dan's distinctive custom Gucci suits--has seen innumerable tributes and parodies. 30 years later, it's both a document of the times and a clear place marker in music history. Everyone should own this album; not simply because it set the stage for so much, but because you'd be hard-pressed to find an album that better exemplifies hip-hop at it's most undiluted and unapologetic. This is the purest, most adjective-less hip-hop album ever made. It's more than a blueprint. It's a bible.\nWatch Eric B. & Rakim's Video for \"I Ain't No Joke\":\nWatch Eric B. & Rakim's Video for \"Move the Crowd\":\nWatch Eric B. & Rakim's Video for \"Paid In Full\":\nNEXT: Worst To Best: Every Eric B. & Rakim Album Ranked\nSource: Eric B. & Rakim\u2019s \u2018Paid In Full\u2019 at 30: The Duo\u2019s Iconic Debut Still Sets A Musical Standard", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00080.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 128, + "original_length": 13826, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.96, + "perplexity": 328.6, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "http://965therock.com/rodeo-tickets-on-sale-january-5th/", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T04:00:36Z", + "digest": "sha1:N4WKW7YBCYK5CYJYEAHC2FME6YLWK5BQ", + "length": 2501, + "nlines": 22, + "source_domain": "965therock.com", + "title": "Rodeo Tickets On Sale January 5th + Locations, Performance Times & Prices", + "raw_content": "Rodeo Tickets On Sale January 5th + Locations, Performance Times & Prices\nAre you ready to Rodeo? Tickets to the San Angelo Rodeo\u2019s 12 performances are on sale at all City of San Angelo ticket outlets.\nTickets may be purchased at cosatx.us/tickets, by phone at 325-658-6464 from 8:30 a.m.-4:30 p.m. Mondays through Fridays, or at one of the following locations:\nMcNease Convention Center - 501 Rio Concho Drive, 8:30 a.m.-4:30 p.m. Mondays-Fridays.\nBlair\u2019s Western Wear - 4230 Sherwood Way, 9:30 a.m.-6:30 p.m. Mondays-Saturdays.\nPinkie\u2019s Liquor Store - 1415 S. Bryant Blvd., 10 a.m.-9 p.m. Mondays-Saturdays.\nBarbed Wire and Roses - Sunset Mall, 4001 Sunset Drive, 10 a.m.-9 p.m. Mondays-Saturdays, noon-6 p.m. Sundays.\nGoodfellow Air Force Base - Event Center Information, Tickets & Tours Office, 8 a.m.-9 p.m. Mondays-Fridays, noon-9 p.m. Saturdays, noon-8 p.m. Sundays.\nColiseum - 50 E. 43rd St., 10 a.m.-6 p.m. Mondays-Saturdays.\nSan Angelo\u2019s is one of the world\u2019s largest rodeos in terms of the number of competitors and the size of the purse. This year\u2019s rodeo features 11 performances sanctioned by the Professional Rodeo Cowboys Association, the sport\u2019s governing body, plus the wildly popular Cinch Shoot-Out. The Shoot-Out features eight of the sport\u2019s top performers in saddle bronc, bareback and bullriding, calf roping and barrel racing competing in a tournament format.\nPerformance times and ticket prices are:\nPerformance 1 \u2013 7:30 p.m. Feb. 13, $15.50.\nPerformance 2 \u2013 1 p.m. Feb. 14, $12.50.\nPerformance 9 (Military Appreciation Night) \u2013 7:30 p.m. Feb. 25, $10.50.\nPerformance 10 (Tough Enough to Wear Pink Night) \u2013 7:30 p.m. Feb. 26, $10.50.\nPRCA short-go (championship round) \u2013 7:30 p.m. Feb. 27, $20.50.\nCinch Shoot-Out \u2013 7:30 p.m. Feb. 28, $30.50.\nBabies and small children do not require a ticket if they sit in an adult\u2019s lap.\nCarnival super passes that allow unlimited carnival rides for the duration of the San Angelo Stock Show & Rodeo are available for $90 only at the Coliseum box office. A one-day unlimited ride armband costs $30. The carnival will be open every evening from Feb. 13-March 1.\nFairgrounds admission is free with a rodeo ticket or a carnival super pass, $5 for adults and $2 for children age 11 and younger. On Military Appreciation Night on Feb. 25, anyone with an active or retired military ID will be allowed free admission onto the fairgrounds.\nFor more information, go to sanangelorodeo.com or call 325-653-3270.\nCategories: Events, Local News, Sports", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00080.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 129, + "original_length": 4300, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.82, + "perplexity": 145.4, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "http://accidentalsongs24.blogspot.com/2014/01/chinese-new-year.html", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T04:04:32Z", + "digest": "sha1:YZS53ONMWIF66Z6OUVUI57TKGGAPZN6Y", + "length": 4414, + "nlines": 11, + "source_domain": "accidentalsongs24.blogspot.com", + "title": "accidental songs: chinese new year", + "raw_content": "1. I spent $3 on tissues along the same stretch of Orchard Road about a few days ago. I gave $2 to an old lady, and then came across a man in a wheelchair. He looked like he'd suffered a pretty severe stroke in the past. I gave him a dollar for a packet of tissue, and then felt like the worst person in the world. I should have given him everything in my wallet. I should have given him all the cash I had. I was en-route to meet Victor for dinner and a movie, and I didn't need the money. I didn't need the money, but I walked away anyway.\nI am so lucky. I am so lucky to be so comfortably middle-class, to be, as they say, \"marrying up\", to be able to afford nice things. I want to be able to do more for other people than just spend the occasional dollar on a packet of tissues. I don't know what that might entail yet, but I hope I figure it out soon.\n2. Last weekend we spent four and a half hours (starting from 9 am in the morning) queuing up at the Lim Chee Guan's at Chinatown just to get some bak kwa, and while it does taste pretty good I don't think we'll ever be doing something like that again. We'd wanted to get something special for V's grandparents (he'll be telling them about the wedding when he gets back to KL this Chinese New Year) buuuuuuuut I think once is quite enough, thank you very much. We'd actually been once already on a weekday afternoon, only to be informed that the signature roast pork usually sells out before lunch, which gives people, what, a three, four hour window? We alternated between remaining in the queue and heading off for toilet/drink/sliced mango breaks. There was a purchase limit of 15kg per person, but it didn't seem to deter most of the people in front of us, whom we saw staggering away with bags upon bags of the stuff.\nBak kwa is serious business, you guys. Especially around Chinese New Year. Never get between a Singaporean and his/her bak kwa, y'all.\n3. Last year I spent Chinese New Year in KL with V and his relatives, and while some of them are perfectly lovely, especially his paternal grandmother (who seems to have taken a shine to me because I speak passable Hokkien, lol), it's just not the same as being at home. This year I've elected to remain here (!!!). It's also my last year officially being able to receive ang pows, and I'm really feeling quite bummed about it. The yearly cash infusion from collected ang pows might be small but it is very welcome.\nAnd next year I'll have to give out cash? To snot-nosed brats? WHY =(\n4. This year I am grateful for many, many things. I'm grateful for having finally made it out of university. For the job offer, even if it isn't exactly glamourous/not my first choice. It pays well, which is a big consideration for me, and it actually sounds like something I can do, which is a huge relief, to be honest. For things slowly, but surely, starting to fall into place. It's a relief to have (somewhat) sorted out my own thoughts, and I feel much better now that I've managed to be less hard on myself. I've tried, and I've come this far, and I've decided that I will never be happy as long as I keep wanting to be somewhere/someone else. Things are good now. I've done everything that's been expected of me - and oddly enough, not because people have told me to, but because I actually wanted to.\nA lot of this is only possible because of V. I hate being a sap, but he is so good to me. He has made my life so much easier ever since he came into it, and every year he just makes things even easier. He cares about things I couldn't be less concerned about - insurance, interest rates, investing and all that jazz - and he just. He takes such good care of me. A while ago I would have bristled at the thought that I would need anyone - much less a man, pfft - to even bother to look out for me, but. It's a privilege, isn't it? To have someone care about you this deeply. To have someone who wants to have the next twenty, thirty, forty years with you, who's careful to ensure that your life will be disrupted as little as possible, should anything happen to him.\nI may never really understand how he puts up with me. I am such a hard person to like, much less love. He, on the other hand, is so easy to love. Like a baby bunny. Or the cutest Corgi in the world.\nEveryone should play Pokemon X/Y. NOW.\nAlso: \u606d\u559c\u767c\u8ca1, everybody! May the odds of getting a good haul of ang pow money be ever in your favour.", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00080.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 85, + "original_length": 6291, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.99, + "perplexity": 260.7, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "http://2hilbet.tv/series58/DOCTOR-WHO/", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T04:13:24Z", + "digest": "sha1:BW5KKOPWGAED3TXZLGPMH75EGOY7GIPZ", + "length": 490, + "nlines": 4, + "source_domain": "2hilbet.tv", + "title": "Watch DOCTOR WHO online free on Watch-TVSeries", + "raw_content": "Watch DOCTOR WHO online Free\nGenre: Adventure,Drama,Science-Fiction\nThe Doctor is an alien Time Lord from the planet Gallifrey who travels through all of time and space in the TARDIS. The Doctor has a long list of friends and companions who have shared journeys along the way. Instead of dying, the Doctor is able to \u201cregenerate\u201d into a new body, taking on a new personality with each regeneration.\nwatch DOCTOR WHO online free. DOCTOR WHO streaming tv show, Full Episode. tv series online.", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00080.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 503, + "original_length": 6488, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.89, + "perplexity": 291.8, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "http://admed.co.uk/chemotherapy-here-is-its-secret-origin/", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T04:21:16Z", + "digest": "sha1:RIXZNV3GJ4JR6JZ5AEEZVWBBDFBL6DFQ", + "length": 16756, + "nlines": 81, + "source_domain": "admed.co.uk", + "title": "Chemotherapy: here is its secret origin | AdMed", + "raw_content": "Chemotherapy: here is its secret origin\nThe beginning of the history of chemo goes back to the fall of 1917. We are in the most sinister months of the First World War, which has already made millions of deaths for nothing. The scene takes place in the city of Ypres, in the once laughing Flemish countryside, now ravaged by trench warfare.\nThe artillery fire has finally stopped. More than 5,000 Allied soldiers (mostly French, Belgians and Canadians) rest. Suddenly, they see arriving on them sheets of green gas carried by the wind. They were dropped by unknown machines manipulated by the Germans, a few hundred meters away. Nobody suspects that this is a new weapon of mass destruction: the \u201cmustard gas\u201d, the first chemical weapon.\nMoments later, it\u2019s just a screaming concert, the abominable spectacle of thousands of live burned bodies squirming on the ground.\nThe mustard gas, in contact with the skin, forms huge blisters. The mucous membranes are attacked, eyes, lips and lungs burned. However, men do not die until after a few days of generalized infections and haemorrhages. As doctors will observe, mustard gas has the appalling effect of destroying the bone marrow, suppressing the immune defenses of the victims and stopping the renewal of blood cells.\nThis story touches me closely because my great-grandfather was present at the Battle of Ypres. Luckily, he climbed the church steeple to observe the battlefield when the mustard gas was dropped by the Germans. The gas remained at ground level, and was spared.\nForbidden by the 1925 Geneva Convention, chemical weapons will nonetheless continue to be produced and used. In 1943, the Germans sank an American ship off the Italian coast near Bari. The holds of this boat are stuffed with mustard gas that is spreading. Medical Officer Colonel Steward Alexander, examining the sailors killed by the disaster, will confirm that the lethal effect of mustard gas comes from the collapse of the number of white blood cells in their blood after a few days.\nIt did not take much to give a strange idea to two young scientists, Alfred Gilman and Louis Goodman of Yale University, in the United States, who contributed to the secret program of American research on chemical weapons (Chemical Warfare Service ).\nSince mustard gas destroys white blood cells, could it not be used to treat children with blood cancer, or leukemia, which is characterized by an uncontrolled proliferation of white blood cells in the blood?\nThis is how the first chemotherapy was born. We will tell the story but we must first make a reminder about leukemia.\nLeukemia, white blood disease\nAcute lymphoblastic leukemia is a blood cancer that affects mostly children around the age of 4 and 5 years.\nIt is caused by bone marrow disease.\nIt\u2019s hard to imagine that anything interesting can happen in our marrow. It seems isolated from the rest of the body by the thick, hard and seemingly impenetrable wall of the bones that surround it.\nIn reality, our bones are porous, and our marrow plays an indispensable role: it makes the cells of our blood. Our bones pass through blood cells made in the marrow, which join the blood stream and regenerate it.\nThere are three main types of blood cells made by the bone marrow:\nRed blood cells, well known because they are the ones who give the blood its scarlet color; they are used to carry oxygen from our lungs to the cells.\nPlatelets, which serve to make the blood clot.\nWhite blood cells, which are the soldiers who protect our body. White blood cells are also called leucocytes (in ancient Greek leucos means white and cyte means cell).\nUnfortunately, sometimes bone marrow cells become crazy and start to proliferate: this is cancer of the blood, or leukemia.\nThe bone marrow begins to make so many white blood cells that the blood itself becomes whitish. Nineteenth-century doctors who observed this for the first time called this disease leukemia, which means \u201cwhite blood\u201d in Greek, leucos, white, and hemos, blood.\nLeukemia, a deadly disease at 99.93%\nIf white blood cells multiply in case of leukemia, it is not the same for other blood cells.\nThe number of red blood cells falls, causing anemia that is manifested by a pale complexion and fatigue. The number of platelets also decreases, causing haemorrhage risk because the blood can no longer coagulate normally.\nAt least, it will be thought, the large number of white blood cells ensures maximum protection against infections. Unfortunately, it is not the case. On the contrary, these many white blood cells are immature and do not even do their job of immunity anymore. The patient is at risk for infections, especially sepsis, a deadly generalized infection.\nLeukemia was partially defeated, we will see, in 1971, thanks to a chemotherapy treatment to heal 50% of cases. But until then, it was a terrible and deadly disease at 99.93%. Post-war doctors had no treatment. They did not even practice blood transfusion (giving the patient a healthy blood from another person) as this only unnecessarily prolonged the sufferings of the sick.\nThe medical challenge of treating leukemia is that cells that begin to proliferate in the bone marrow have only a slight difference with healthy cells. Their ability to multiply too fast comes only from a tiny mutation in the code on the hidden DNA tape inside their nucleus.\nThus, if one seeks to destroy cancer cells with a product, healthy cells will also die. The problem was thus summarized in 1945 by a great researcher on cancer, Professor WH Wolgom: \u201cPeople who do not have training in chemistry or medicine may not realize how much the problem is really difficult. It is almost, not quite, but almost as hard to find a product that would dissolve the right ear but not the left ear. \u201c\nMustard gas tested on a cancer patient\nDespite this apparently insurmountable difficulty, our two researchers from the Chemical Warfare Service decided to test the effects of mustard gas in mice with lymphoma, a lymphoid lymph node cancer that also produces white blood cell (lymphocyte) proliferation.\nAnd in fact, \u201cafter only two administrations of the compound, the tumor began to soften and regress to the point of no longer being palpable.\u201d\nThe result was sufficiently encouraging, according to the two researchers, to justify tests on humans.\nWe are indeed in full swing at the time when medical research entered the modern era. New researchers believe that it has become ethical to put patients at risk as soon as it improves their knowledge of the disease and that there is hope to lead to treatments for the following patients, even if if this hope is weak.\nThis is in contradiction with the conventional vision of the doctor who committed himself, by taking the oath of Hippocrates to \u201cfirst not to harm\u201d his patient (\u201cprimum non nocere\u201d). But was this oath respected in practice by a profession which practiced on a large scale bleeding, purging, the so-called \u201ctreatments\u201d with mercury, arsenic and antimony (violent poisons), without the slightest scientific proof of effectiveness?\nStill, Alfred Gilman and Louis Goodman decided to try their idea on a patient. It was a man, JD, 48, suffering from lymphoma. He received injections of mustard gas intravenously. It reacts at first like the mice: its tumors disappeared in ten days. A month later, they had reappeared, and he was treated again with mustard gas. In fact, as might be expected, the chemical weapon had destroyed her bone marrow at the same time as she had destroyed the lymphoma, and like the unfortunate soldiers, JD died. According to the doctors, the treatment did not slow down his illness. On the contrary, \u201chis death was hastened by the adverse effects of the drug on his bone marrow\u201d, ie his red blood cells and his platelets had also been destroyed.\nThe next patient was even less fortunate: the treatment had no effect on his tumor. On the other hand, he totally destroyed his bone marrow, causing his death.\nMustard gas was declared \u201cfar too toxic\u201d, even for the treatment of cancer. But the experience of the mice and the first patient who had seemed to experience a remission before dying, since their cancer had actually regressed, had struck the spirits.\nChemists began to \u201cwork\u201d on mustard gas to modify it and create slightly different molecules, one of which, it was hoped, would have the same effect on tumors while being less destructive to the bone marrow.\nThe Chemical Warfare Service of the US Army reconverted to a chemotherapy research center\nThis research took place at the Chemical Warfare Service of the US Army, under the direction of Dr. Cornelius Rhoads.\nThis service was closed in 1945 but the facilities and all staff were converted into a cancer treatment center. Two American philanthropists, Alfred Sloan and Charles Kettering, made a donation in 1948 to continue the work and so was born the Sloan-Kettering Institute, which is still today a reference in the treatment of cancer.\nThrough testing, they discovered substances derived from mustard gas that were less toxic and could be used to reduce tumors by limiting adverse effects for the patient. Thus appeared the first group of chemotherapy drugs, including thiotepa (1950), chlorambucil (1953), melphalan (1953) and cyclophosphamide (1957), still used today.\nMelphalan, combined with corticosteroids, is used in the treatment of myeloma, another form of bone marrow cancer. Melphalan differs from mustard gas only because chemists have replaced a sulfur atom with a nitrogen group.\nBut it turned out that the treatment of leukemia would not succeed with a single category of drugs. It is the administration of a combination of products that will help overcome the disease.\nDiscovery of methotrexate\nShortly after the discovery of the effects of mustard gas on leukemia, a Harvard researcher, Sydney Farber, found that his young leukemia patients died faster when he gave them folic acid (vitamin B9).\nInstead of immediately giving up the treatment, he had the following idea, which seems obvious today, but which was absolutely brilliant: since folic acid accelerates death, then a substance that would block the action of acid folate could perhaps cure the sick?\nIn collaboration with Harriett Kilte and chemists Lederle Laboratories, Farber developed aminopterin, then amethopterin (methotrexate), a substance \u201canti-folate\u201d which, indeed, proved effective to block the proliferation of cancer cells .\nIndeed, cells need folic acid to reproduce. By giving folate to his patients, Farber had unknowingly \u201cfed\u201d the cancer cells, allowing them to multiply even faster.\nOther anti-leukemic drugs were discovered during this period: 6-mercaptopurine (6-mp) and an alkaloid, extracted from a tropical plant, vincristine.\nHowever, these products alone continued to cause more harm than good to the sick. In 1967, after 20 years of testing, an investigation of 1000 children treated during the period revealed that only two of them could be considered to have been \u201ccured\u201d, that is, to have survived more than five years.\nThe fight against leukemia seemed hopeless.\nDr. Howard Skippper of the Sloan-Kettering Institute, a veteran of the Chemical Warfare Service, is credited with the treatment protocol that increased the 5-year survival rate for leukaemic children by 0.07%. in 1945 to 71% today.\nInfluenced by military culture, he understood that leukemia could only be defeated by the total eradication of the enemy: the cancerous cells in the bone marrow.\nIt was necessary to be ready, both in practice and psychologically, to practice on the patients a total war , using both chemical weapons (chemotherapy) and nuclear weapons (radiotherapy), by imposing only one only limit: that the treatment stops just before killing the patient.\nIt meant accepting to close the eyes on all the children who were going to be sacrificed so that this limit could be found, and also to accept to make the patients suffer indescribable pain: because each stage of the treatment would be followed by nausea and vomiting. so severe that most children would be malnourished and their growth interrupted. Moreover, as explained above, their healthy cells would be poisoned like their cancer cells, which would make them fall hair, fill their mouths with ulcers, and cause them chronic diarrhea and cystitis (inflammation of the urinary canal).\nDuring all this dreadful period of seeking treatment, the adverse effects outweighed those of the disease itself, and it was more often the drugs that killed the patients than the cancer itself.\nAnd yet, the solution ends up being found by Dr. Skipper. His innovation was to understand that the mistake of his predecessors had been to stop treatment too early.\nThe practice up to him had been to induce remission in the patient, then to reduce the doses to limit the toxicity of the treatment. Dr. Skipper, on the other hand, decided to increase the doses once the remission was obtained.\nIndeed, he imagined correctly, the cancer cells that survived the first attack are necessarily the most resistant and the most malignant. These are the ones that must be flushed out and annihilated before they multiply and counterattack in force.\nIt had been observed that, during cancer recurrences, the drugs were much less effective, as if the cancer cells had developed a resistance to chemotherapy.\nDoctors began to apply this principle: to begin by inducing a remission through relatively low-toxicity drugs, vincristine and prednisone (derived from cortisone). At that time, once the enemy weakened, launch the weapons of mass destruction methotrexate and 6-mp, and continue treatment for two to three years in the hope of eliminating the last surviving cancer cell.\nThis treatment made modest progress, but the doctors realized that cancer cells were taking refuge in the brain. Protected by the blood-brain barrier, they were like in an anti-chemotherapy bunker.\nThis prompted another doctor, Dr. Pinkel, to release the nuclear weapon: he decided to inflict additional treatment of radioactive radiation in the brain of leukemic children. It was a failure. He reacts on the next patient by doubling the dose of radiation.\nThis time, the rate of relapse was divided by twenty !!!\nA giant step had been taken in the treatment of leukemia. The suffering endured by the sacrificed patients proved useful. The 5-year survival rate increased to 50% in 1971 and, by other improvements in treatment, increased to 71% in 1995 in children.\nOverall, today, including adults, 50% of leukemic patients survive beyond 5 years after their diagnosis.\nA terrible story, but that ends well\nSo it\u2019s a terrible story, but it ends pretty well.\nI say \u201crather\u201d because the problem of leukemia is far from behind us. The current treatment (which remains virtually identical to that which was developed in the 1970s) continues to lead to sequelae (lower IQ, related to treatments in the brain), and especially a large increase in the risk of leukemia at age. adult, which is a side effect of treatment.\nThis is why research continues ardently. We would like to find a less toxic, less aggressive treatment.\nUnfortunately, the spectacular progress made in the 1960s has not been re-edited. Leukemia is still treated roughly the same way. Dr. Nicole D\u00e9l\u00e9pine, famous for her leukemia treatment service at Garches Hospital, even considers that the new treatments that the labs are trying to test against leukemia do not even deserve to be tried. For her good old methotrexate is the only product that has proven itself in the field.\nThis is basically the difference between the generation of our parents, who has known the progress of post-war medicine, and ours. Their optimism, their unlimited trust came from the harvest of discoveries that took place at the time. And it is true that the spectacular progress, like the treatment of leukemia, could hope that the movement would continue more.\nIt was not the case.\nIn the fight against cancer, progress is slow, very slow. But we can nevertheless consider ourselves very happy to have this treatment against childhood leukemia. Really, it\u2019s a good thing.\nNow, we will also understand the willingness of more and more people to get involved in understanding the causes (environmental, for example) of cancers, and discover the most effective means of prevention, in the absence of really satisfactory treatments. .\nOriginal source of the article: To see\nThis article was posted in Health and marked as chemotherapy by Fr\u00e9d\u00e9rique dumont. Save the permalink.\nHome \u00bb Medical \u00bb Chemotherapy: here is its secret origin\nCanadian doctors have been successful in reversing the effects of MS on a patient using stem cells\nUnexpected new lung function has been found \u2013 they make blood", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00080.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 119, + "original_length": 18519, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.97, + "perplexity": 240.4, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "http://admin.pm.gov.tn/pm/actualites/actualite.php?lang=en&id=10770", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T03:48:58Z", + "digest": "sha1:5PLQX6OBN3VXD545CCQEKJIPSL52AUZ5", + "length": 1437, + "nlines": 6, + "source_domain": "admin.pm.gov.tn", + "title": "Portal of the Presidency of the Government- Tunisia: government, administration, civil service, public services, regulations and legislation", + "raw_content": "(TAP)- The Higher Investment Council (French : CSI) held its first meeting on Wednesday, chaired by Prime Minister Youssef Chahed.\nHeld in Tunis, the first session of the Higher Investment Council was devoted to the identification of a policy and a strategy for investment through the assessment of old policies in this field and the introduction of decisions favouring the promotion of business and investment in general.\nThe council, which has also discussed the steps to be taken to implement the legislative reforms set out in the new investment law, will decide on incentives for projects of national importance (those that exceeds 50 million dinars and provides 500 jobs).\nThe Tunisian Investment Authority's mission is to manage the projects, whose cost exceeds 15 million dinars, while the projects of lower costs are entrusted to the structures and sectoral agencies, as part of conventions adopted by the Higher Investment Council.\nA single interlocutor was established within the authority to communicate with investors and facilitate their administrative procedures. It is meant for projects costing more than 15 million dinars.\nRegional commissions will be established within the Authority to help provide incentives for investment in the regions. They will be tasked with examining applications filed to benefit from financial incentives listed in the Investment Law for projects whose cost does not exceed 1 million dinars", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00080.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 18, + "original_length": 2182, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.96, + "perplexity": 223.4, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "http://adrenalinedrash.com/?m=201402", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T04:40:10Z", + "digest": "sha1:ILCMKYR4B7CBKKDAWCPO25JU2HP2R7KF", + "length": 4498, + "nlines": 26, + "source_domain": "adrenalinedrash.com", + "title": "February 2014", + "raw_content": "Valentine\u2019s Day \u2014 Jewish Style\nIt\u2019s almost Valentine\u2019s Day. Now: Imagine having a Valentine\u2019s Day each and every week. That, folks, is totally Jewish.\nI explained this fact to a young couple who recently began conversion classes with me. We were chatting after services were over. We\u2019d all chanted the Kiddush and the motzi and had started noshing on little miniature cheesecakes and other delectables.\nI asked them if they knew about the \u201cspecial rules\u201d about Shabbat practice.\nThey did not. So, in very gentle language I spoke about the way Judaism encourages intimacy. \u201cIntimacy,\u201d I said, \u201ccreates bonds. Torah tells us that a husband has to make sure his wife is, um, regularly made happy so the bond is strengthened and renewed. The husband\u2019s obligation is good for their entire life, even when there is neither the possibility nor the wish to have children. It\u2019s a double mitzvah on Shabbat!\u201d I smiled.\nThey got the idea. They smiled. Our temple\u2019s Director of Religious Services, who had joined the conversation, also smiled.\nSaid director decided to help out by summarizing Talmudic discussions about exactly how happy a man had to make his wife each week. I noticed that she did this with a certain verve.\nJust in case you need a refresher, here\u2019s the text: \u201cThe times for conjugal duty prescribed in the Torah are: for men of independence, every day; for laborers, twice a week; for ass-drivers, once a week; for camel-drivers, once in thirty days; for sailors, once in six months. These are the rulings of R. Eliezer\u201d (M. Ketubot 5:1).\nThe rabbis also insisted that loving couples should be nude during intimacy. Otherwise, the husband must divorce his wife so she can find a righteous dude who knows how to behave in bed: \u201cR. Joseph learnt: Her flesh implies close bodily contact, viz, that he must not treat her in the manner of the Persians who perform their conjugal duties in their clothes. This provides support for [a ruling of] R. Huna who laid down that a husband who said, \u2018I will not [perform conjugal duties] unless she wears her clothes and I mine\u2019, must divorce her and give her also her ketubah\u201d (Ketubot 48a).\nSome rabbinic direction even includes how to progress through foreplay. I am not kidding. In the spirit of Rabbi Hillel, I say unto you: Go, and google.\nWhy did the rabbis decide it was especially meritorious to be intimate on Shabbat? They were especially concerned about balancing the need for study with the need for a family life. Some came to the conclusion that once a week was essential for scholars, and that since all work stopped on Shabbat, Shabbat was the perfect time for play.\nRashi calls the \u201cSabbath a night of enjoyment, relaxation and physical pleasure\u201d (Rashi commentary on Ketubot 62b). Elsewhere Rashi advocates that not only scholars, but laypeople also should engage in this practice Friday nights (Rashi to Niddah 17a).\nThe rabbis claim\u2019 that if a woman is the first to achieve \u201csatisfaction\u201d and becomes pregnant, she will surely give birth to a boy who would be a Torah scholar. Harumph, I say. The child could be a girl who might grow up to be a rabbi\u2026\nWhen we had concluded our explication of the double mitzvah deal on Shabbat, I turned around to get some more cheesecake.\nI cast my eye upon the remains of the challah.\nWhen we had unveiled the challah, I certainly had noticed it was in the shape of a heart and had raised it high for everyone to see. I exclaimed about its general liveliness. Crowded by the many children, I hadn\u2019t much paid attention to the details.\nGo back and look at the picture above. That was our challah.\nI don\u2019t know about you, but that has to be the most curious arrow I have ever seen.\nI pointed this out to my Director of Religious Services.\n\u201cWhat does that look like to you?\u201d I asked.\n\u201cIt\u2019s an arrow,\u201d she said. \u201cNo, wait, no, um, oh my,\u201d she said. \u201cOh my.\u201d\nI pointed it out to the treasurer, who began giggling uncontrollably. When she could control herself, she asked: \u201cShould I tear it off?\u201d\nI won\u2019t repeat what I said in that moment. You might find it rather unrabbi-like.\nOn the way home, in the cold and the dark, I looked at the stars twinkling overhead. I was happy that we had had a challah like that at our oneg. I hoped that whoever had made it, male or female, had gone home that very Friday night to a beloved, male or female, and engaged in an intimate pursuit of happiness.\nLove, and its beautiful expression, should be a double mitzvah at any time.\nHappy Valentine\u2019s Day. Happy Shabbat.", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00080.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 177, + "original_length": 9917, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.98, + "perplexity": 181.4, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "http://advokid.us/resume.html", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T04:34:49Z", + "digest": "sha1:YD3AC4O3H6YVOVZRLCHQO6SNUYF37FGU", + "length": 2023, + "nlines": 5, + "source_domain": "advokid.us", + "title": "Vncent Caballero | Resume", + "raw_content": "My career helping children started in the 90's working at McKinley's Children's center as a childcare counselor at their residential treatment center and six bed satellite group home. I also briefly acted as their nonpublic school liaison for our students who were attending classes in the public school sector. These early years provided a foundation in the fundamentals of behavioral management. [ download resume ]\nIn 2002 I began my work as a special education advocate for Team of Advocates for Special Kids (TASK). Over the next 14 years, I had the opportunity to help hundreds of families whose children exhibited a variety of unique special education needs. I was also provided the opportunity to partner with local groups such as the Interagency Autism Support Group, The Orange County Adult Transition Task Force Irvine Unified School District and was a stakeholder on the County Mental Health Services Act Proposition 63 Orange County Department of Mental Health.\nI have been a member have been a member of Council of Parents Attorneys and Advocates COPAA since 2011 and volunteered as a court appointed special advocate for foster youth for Orange County CASA in 2012 while concurrently receiving my Special Education Certificate from the University of San Diego. I encourage a non-adversarial approach to advocacy and prefer to resolve issues at the local level as the first option.\nI incorporate the use of assessment data to create charts that can aid in the acquisition of service and supports. These visual aids show present and historic levels of academic, language and behavioral difficulties to provide for a greater degree of evidence in support of individual needs.\nPictured right are myself and attorney Pete Wright whose training is responsible for my curiosity in the use of assessment data as an advocacy tool for demonstrating the need for services. I also give a great amount of credit to COPAA for their wonderful conferences which have significantly contributed to my professional development.", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00080.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 16, + "original_length": 2311, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.97, + "perplexity": 294.5, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "http://afro-europa.en-a.eu/kunst_kultur_und_musik/axel_rueger_leaves_the_van_gogh_museum-73559/", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T04:33:16Z", + "digest": "sha1:MGDDFKVYDMH6D57XEELR43OU4ZTSLAVO", + "length": 1768, + "nlines": 4, + "source_domain": "afro-europa.en-a.eu", + "title": "Axel R\u00fcger leaves the Van Gogh Museum - Kunst, Kultur und Musik - European News Agency", + "raw_content": "Axel R\u00fcger leaves the Van Gogh Museum\namsterdam [ENA] Director Axel R\u00fcger will leave the Van Gogh Museum. Today he announced that starting in June 2019 he will become the new Secretary and Chief Executive of the Royal Academy of Arts in London. Axel R\u00fcger: \u201cWith great pleasure and passion I have worked at the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam. It has been a privilege to lead this wonderful and successful institution. With great pride I look back at many interesting\ninteresting exhibitions, beautiful acquisitions, extraordinary milestones and colourful and ambitious events during my 13 years at the museum. I am very fortunate that I have been able to collaborate with so many loyal employees and professionals working for the museum. I am honored to have been asked to lead the Royal Academy of Arts alongside its President and carry forward this 250 year old institution with its rich history and heritage. I look forward to starting in London in June, knowing that I will leave the Van Gogh Museum in good hands, with many promising exhibitions and activities already scheduled in the near future.\u201d\nThe Royal Academy of Arts was founded by King George III in 1768. It has a unique position in being an independent, privately funded institution led by eminent artists and architects whose purpose is to be a voice for art and artists. Its public programme promotes the creation, enjoyment and appreciation of the visual arts through exhibitions, education and debate. Recent exhibitions include Charles I: King and Collector, Oceania and the 250th Summer Exhibition. It is financially completely independent with the principal income deriving from the 1.5 million annual visitors, commercial revenue and the support of the 95,000-member strong friends organisation.", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00080.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 84, + "original_length": 3635, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.97, + "perplexity": 184.9, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "http://airforcemag.cloudapp.net/DRArchive/Pages/2006/March%202006/March%2016%202006/1090airops.aspx", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T04:39:42Z", + "digest": "sha1:B2RPQDS3KQS76TN4TMMBBBV3GOM5QJ2I", + "length": 450, + "nlines": 2, + "source_domain": "airforcemag.cloudapp.net", + "title": "Air Force Magazine", + "raw_content": "\u201cOn-call\u201d Air Ops\n\u201cOn-call\u201d Air Ops: Michael Wynne, the Air Force\u2019s top civilian, said the Air Force is now mostly reactive in its posture in Iraq, having shifted away from \u201cscheduled air operations to on-call air operations.\u201d However, he noted that US ground forces now expect fast-reaction close air support. Wynne said that the Army has gotten so accustomed to having CAS on demand that if it takes 10 minutes \u201cthey think their radios don\u2019t work.\u201d", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00080.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 156, + "original_length": 3917, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.96, + "perplexity": 247.3, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "http://airforcemag.cloudapp.net/MagazineArchive/Pages/1987/October%201987/1087edit.aspx", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T04:19:19Z", + "digest": "sha1:D77CAIZDGVH7IUJF7UPYC5LCCTERYVSE", + "length": 6893, + "nlines": 14, + "source_domain": "airforcemag.cloudapp.net", + "title": "Air Force Magazine", + "raw_content": "Our Endangered Industrial Base\nThe nation\u2019s defense industrial base is in serious trouble. Warning lights have been flickering for the past ten years, and now one of them has begun to glow in earnest. Leadership in the design and manufacture of electronic components is moving overseas rapidly. If this trend continues, US military forces will be dependent \u2014 within the next decade \u2014 on foreign suppliers for critical capabilities they need to maintain their technological superiority.\nThis is the alarming conclusion reached by a Defense Science Board task force, whose report earlier this year deserves more public attention than it has gotten. The problem revolves around the tiny silicon semiconductor chips that make electronics the dominant technology in modern weapon systems. In the early 1980s, Japan overtook the United States in the semiconductor market and has been pulling further ahead ever since.\nThe most advance semiconductor today is the one-megabit Dynamic Random Access Memory (DRAM) chip, which stores about a million bits of information on a single wafer. DRAMs were invented in the United States, but the US has been beaten out by the Japanese in the ability to produce these chips in large quantities at very low cost and now supplies less than five percent of world consumption.\nIt appears that Japan will develop as well as produce the next generation of DRAM chips. If so, the task force says in terse language, the United States in the 1990s will have only two choices: either buy foreign semiconductors or settle for seconds best in its weapons systems. These alternatives assume, of course, that the chips would be available. The task force also observes that \u201cas Japanese firms evolve from the role of merchant semiconductor manufacturers into computer/telecommunications system builders, it would not be an illogical strategic business policy to delay release of the most advanced chips to competitors in the systems market, including those residing in the United States.\u201d\nIt is true that the Japanese have gotten some of their advantage by means of trade barriers and dumping their products on the world market. But, says the task force, Japan is ahead in semiconductors mainly because of its industrial policies. The Japanese invest more heavily in plants, equipment, and research and development. They work toward long-term goals, effectively integrating the resources of government, industry, and academia. Over time, this gives them the edge in high-volume production, from which nearly all else follows.\nThe Defense Department is not situated that well to head off the problem. The armed forces, once the primary customers of the semiconductor industry, now buy just three percent of the total quantity produced. The market is driven by commercial demand, not by military considerations.\nThe best idea the task force could think up was the creation of a semiconductor-manufacturing institute by a consortium of US firms. Its first task, underwritten with substantial Pentagon funding, would be developing the technology to build a sixty-four-megabit DRAM. This is a good idea. If the institute is established, and depending on what else happens in conjunction with its efforts, it could moderate or even correct the drift toward semiconductor dependence. This idea, however, is not a complete solution to the decline of the defense industrial base. That problem is much broader and more complex. Military-industrial first aid will not be enough to set it straight.\nThe legendary \u201cArsenal of Democracy\u201d passed into history many years ago. It has been a long time since the US industrial base had a capacity for wartime surge production. As demonstrated by the case of the semiconductors, it cannot always be relied on to meet even peacetime requirements. Between the 1960s and the 1980s, the number of firms doing defense work dropped by more than forty percent. Some, such as foundries, simply folded when environmental requirements become more stringent. Others, especially suppliers of specialized components, shifted their energies to the commercial market, where profits were better and where there was less red tape.\nMost of the developed nations of the world are in the process of deindustrialization, and this is one race that the US leads by a furlong. About seventy percent of American workers are employed in the delivery of services rather than goods. Meanwhile, US defense budgets have decreased as a percentage of GNP, so a Pentagon with relatively less money to spend also commands less attention from an industrial base that is itself shrinking in absolute terms.\nAs if all this were not enough, pressures have built for industry to emphasize short-term profit over long-term development. From the mid-1970s on, a corporation that allowed its dividends to sag became a target for a hostile takeover attempt, with stockholders cheering the sudden boost in share values. In the semiconductor industry, the task force found, \u201cequivalent ownership\u201d of firms turned over completely \u2014 meaning that shares of stock traded equaled total stock outstanding \u2014 every six to nine months on the average. Stockholders are intolerant of companies that invest for payout five years hence. They want profits in six to nine months. Congress is investigating, but takeovers in US industry increased by a third between 1984 and 1986.\nConverging with these events was the notion \u2014 which arose from the politics of dissent in the 1960s and soon became pandemic \u2014 that the defense firms are a bunch of crooks and profiteers. Few people check deeply enough into the facts to learn that these conclusions are wrong. Industry basking is a popular sport in which no penalties are assessed for fouls. The news media, politicians, and self-styled reformers all play with enthusiasm. Unfortunately, so do some of the more zealous investigators and regulators on the government payroll, who cultivate attitudes that border on contempt. An industry kept in an adversarial, defensive crouch does not serve the nation well as it otherwise might. During the long slide of the industrial base, government policies and rules have often worked to inhibit R&D and productivity investments by defense contractors.\nThe overall industrial-base problem is so big that no one is able to describe it completely, much less offer a comprehensive solution. The United States should count itself lucky if it can stem the most pressing industrial base issue, the looming dependency on foreign semiconductors.\nEven the \u201cdomestic\u201d semiconductor industry has moved much of its advanced production capability overseas. Many defense systems already contain components available only from foreign sources. Few military program offices keep records of dependency that look beyond the country of origin of finished devices. The worst part of the problem may be that we do not yet know how bad it is.", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00080.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 164, + "original_length": 10634, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.96, + "perplexity": 250.0, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "http://album.atlantahistorycenter.com/cdm/ref/collection/Troutt/id/82/", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T04:35:21Z", + "digest": "sha1:LFY33AAJRZJGUW6GWTO625BZ4OA4OMGJ", + "length": 606, + "nlines": 9, + "source_domain": "album.atlantahistorycenter.com", + "title": "Henry Grady Hotel :: Charles E. Troutt Photographs", + "raw_content": "Home Charles E. Troutt Photographs Henry Grady Hotel\nHenry Grady Hotel\nTitle Henry Grady Hotel\nDescription View of the Henry Grady Hotel also showing the Roxy Theater on Peachtree Street in downtown Atlanta, Georgia.\nCorporate Name Henry Grady Hotel (Atlanta, Ga.)\nRoxy Theater (Atlanta, Ga.)\nNotes The Henry Grady Hotel was built on the former site of the Georgia governor's mansion in 1924 by Architect G. Lloyd Preacher and Company. 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A quick Google search revealed many sites devoted to the benefits of oil of cloves such as http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/druginfo/natural/251.html.\nEugenol, applied to a sore tooth, or on the gum tissue will reduce or eliminate pain within a very short time. Eugenol is highly anti-microbial, and wonderful for all kinds of infections, similar to tea tree oil. It can be somewhat irritating to sensitive gums, but can be thinned out with olive oil very effectively.\nIn addition, when mixed with zinc oxide powder, it can be made into a thick easily handling temporary filling material that can be placed in a tooth when a filling is lost, or inside a cap to recement it.\nEugenol is shelf stable essentially indefinately (although it will turn dark over time). It can be purchased at Amazon.com, as well as health food stores. Zinc oxide is also shelf stable, and can be purchased at Amazon, and many other sources.\nA warning to all: Using any self applied medication is not a substitute for professional dental care. At the first sign of dental pain, swelling of problem of any kind, seek the advice and treatment of a licensed dentist.\nPeak Oil and Our Mental Models \u2013 The WikiLeaks Cable and The Worlds Largest Oil Fields", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00080.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 195, + "original_length": 7977, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.95, + "perplexity": 320.5, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "http://analysisproject.blogspot.com/2013/06/", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T04:23:35Z", + "digest": "sha1:PWVIKCYIPKHBAQDLUYYAH7QZ2CY7HTQI", + "length": 71174, + "nlines": 251, + "source_domain": "analysisproject.blogspot.com", + "title": "Project Management: June 2013", + "raw_content": "Concept of Oligopoly and Kinked Demand Curve Model\nPrice rigidity under oligopoly in terms of kinked demand curve\nPrice rigidity in the oligopoly market is best explained by the kinked demand curve.\nThe oligopoly is a reduced form of monopolistic competition. The term oligopoly has a Greek base and means few sellers, oligopoly as such, refers to markets with small number of large firms, each selling either differentiated or homogeneous product. A few sellers imply a number\nso small or a few that market share of each firm in so large that it can influence the market price. It also implies that each seller commands a sizeable proportion of the total market supply. The products traded by the oligopolists may be differentiated or homogeneous. Accordingly, the oligopoly market may be a heterogeneous oligopoly or a homogeneous (or pure) oligopoly. It seems the following features:\nSellers are few in number.\nAny of them is of such a size that an increase and decrease in his output will appreciably affect the market price. In fact, the size of each seller\u2019s output in relation to the total supply is the test.\nEach seller knows his competitors individually in each market.\nEach oligopolist realizes that any change in his price and advertising policy may lead rivals to change their policies. Hence, an individual firm must consider the possible reaction of the other firms to its own policies. The smaller the number of firms, the more interdependent are their policies. The reactions of rivals will generally be immediate and strong, and tendencies to close collaboration in price determination are appeared.\nIt is the fewness of sellers that introduces interactions into the price and output decision problem under oligopoly a special form of oligopoly in duopoly, under which only two firms produce a particular product.\nKinked Demand Curve Model\nThe kinked demand curve model developed by Paul M. Sweezy, has features common to most of oligopoly pricing models. The kinked demand curve analysis does not deal with price and output determination. It seeks to establish that once a price-quantity combination is determined, an oligopoly firm will not find it profitable to change its price in response to a moderate change in cost of production. An oligopoly form believes that if it reduces the price of its product, rival firms would follow and neutralize the expected gain from price reduction. But, if it raises its price, rival firms would either maintain their prices or may even cut their price down. In either case, the price rising firm stands to lose, at least a part of its share in the market. This behavioral assumption is made by all the firms in respect of others. The oligopoly firms would therefore, find it more desirable to maintain their price and output at the existing level.\nThere are three possible ways in which rival firms may react:\nThe rival firms follow the price changes, both cut and hike;\nThe rival firms do not follow the price changes;\nRival firms do not react to price-hikes but they do follow the price-cuts.\nKinked-demand curve is a demand curve with two distinct segments with different elasticities that join to form a kink. The primary use of the kinked-demand curve is to explain price rigidity in oligopoly. The two segments are: (i) a relatively more elastic segment for price increase and (ii) a relatively less elastic segment for price decreases. The relative elasticities of these two segments are directly based on the interdependent decision-making of oligopolistic firms. Interdependence is the guiding behavioral principle of oligopoly firms in which the decision by one firm is both affected by the decisions of other firms and in turn affects the decisions of other firms. Such interdependence is characteristic of oligopoly firms that practice competition among the few. Interdependence is indicated by the kinked-demand curve, game theory, collusion, and mergers. Merger is the consolidation of two separately-owned businesses under single ownership. This can be accomplished through a mutual, \u201cfriendly\u201d agreement by both parties, or through a \u201cHostile takeover,\u201d in which one business gets ownership without cooperation from the other. Mergers fall into one of three classes \u2013 (i) horizontal \u2013 two competing firms in the same industry that sell the same products, (ii) vertical \u2013 two firms in different stages of the production of one good, such that the output of one business is the input of the other, and (iii) conglomerate \u2013 two firms that are in totally, completely separated industries.\nAccording to the kinked demand curve model firm determines the price and output by intersection of MC and MR. But intersecting point lies on the discontinuous segment of MR. In this model, the demand curve faced by oligopolists has kink at the prevailing price. It means, the upper section of the kinked demand curve has higher price elasticity than lower part. Because, each oligopolist believes that if he reduces his price below the prevailing level, his competitors will follow him, and will accordingly lower their prices. So that an oligopolist firm which lowers the price could not increase its share of the market. Whereas if he raises the price above the prevailing level, his competitors will not follow him and they do not increase their price. So, an oligopolist will lose a considerable part of his customers. Because of this, an oligopolist tends to keep prices constant even if the cost and demand conditions are changed. This model is illustrated in figure.\nIn the figure, dED is the demand curve faced by an oligopolistic firm and has a kink at point E which represents the prevailing market price. Above this point, demand curve dE is more elastic and below this point it is less elastic. dABMR is the marginal revenue curve of the firm. MR has two segments; the upper segment dA corresponds to the upper part of the demand curve dE. The lower segment BMR corresponds to lower part of kinked demand curve ED. The kink at point E on the demand curve results in discontinuity \u2018AB\u2019 in the MR curve. Oligopolist firm can reach equilibrium position and determine the selling price, and quantity and maximize the profit by equating MC with MR. In the given figure, SMC cuts the discontinued segment of MR at point \u2018C\u2019 and the firm determines price QE and selling quantity OQ. This QE level of price will not be changed by firm. If SMC curve rises to SMC1 because of increasing costs and SMC curve goes down to SMC2 because of decreasing cost, this will not affect the pricing decision of the oligopolist. These two curves SMC1 and SMC2 allow the firm to fix the price QE and quantity OQ.\nWe may conclude that an oligopolist faced with a kinked demand curve will be extremely unwilling to change his price. For a fall in his price will cause no large increase in his sales whereas a price increases will cause a substantial decline in his sales. Thus, neither a price increase nor a price reduction will be an attractive proposition for the oligopolist. During inflationary periods, however, oligopoly firms often follow one another\u2019s price increase, to this extent, the kinked demand curve analysis can be said not to hold true.\nRelated keywords Kinked Demand Curve Model, Oligopoly\nIf a firm is planning to market a new product and does not have past data on which to rely to project sales, it will have to find out and use other means in an effort to predict probable sales.\nThe special problem of demand forecasting for new products is that since each new product is to varying degrees different from existing products, these are no directly relevant data available from past sales on which a forecast may be based. The more the new product is likely to be, the greater the problem. In addition, since a considerable amount of money has to be invested in developing and marketing a new product, we have to consider its sales over an extended period to be more precise over the whole of its expected commercial lifetime. It means that we need to estimate: (i) the number of years for which the product will be sold and (ii) the level of sales in each of those years.\nThere are, of course, a number of techniques available for the purpose. However, the choice of a particular technique depends on the circumstances faced by the forecaster.\nThe forecaster can carry out market research in various forms. The marketing people may be asked to make different inquiries from the prospective ultimate buyers of the product. On the basis of such inquiries they may try to discover whether and in what quantities customers are likely to buy the product, using various assumptions as to how, it would be marketed and at what price it would be sold.\nThis approach is no doubt, direct and practical. It can be applied for forecasting the demand of industrial goods because the buyers\u2019 criteria are more precisely formulated and more stable.\nHowever, this method is highly impracticable in the case of new consumer goods. It is so because the consumer is, for various reasons, unlikely to be able to assess reliably his own buying behavior in the hypothetical situation presented to him.\n2. Test Marketing or Sales Experience Approach\nIt takes the form of a trial run of the product in a part of the intended market in conditions as closely similar to those that are expected to prevail if and when the product is ultimately marketed as are possible.\nFrequently, a new product such as soap, toothpaste, food-stuff, etc. is put through test marketing, i.e. tested in a sample market in a bid to determine the probable demand for the product. It may be tasted at a particular price or at several different prices by sing one or more test markets. Form the test market results, a projection can be made regarding regional or national sales. The sales experience usually will give green or a red signal for the product.\nThis approach has been used with success for a wide range of products. However, the success of this method depends on the availability of a representative product for test marketing. This method is not applicable to the earlier stages of product development.\n3. Opinion-Sampling Approach\nThis approach is to bring together in a systematic way the informal judgments of executives, sales people, retailers and perhaps friendly customers as to the product\u2019s probable performance.\nThrough use of a mail questionnaire, or by making a door survey, one can get some indication of the acceptance of new product. In this case, sampling of the potential customers may be polled directly, or there may be a poll of sources that have a feel of the actual buyer, such as retailers, wholesalers, jobbers and manufacturer representatives. This pool is likely to give some idea of market acceptance and price range.\n4. Evolutionary Approach\nIf the product is supposed to be an improvement or has evolved out of an existing product, it can be assumed that the new product may have the same type of experience as that of an existing product. Color television sets, evolved from black and white sets, the jet engine from the propeller engine in aircraft, are the examples. In this manner one can easily imagine what the demand for work processors will be in the office equipment industry if they became a nearly completely replacement for the electric typewriter.\n5. Substitute Approach\nIf a new product seems to be a close substitute for a well established product, one can estimate what share of the market the new product may get by replacing some of the existing products. A new textbook may be a substitute for one of the many existing textbooks being used. After knowing the total sales, the producer of the new book may be in a position to estimate.\n6. Sales Growth Approach\nIn the absence of the information about a new product, one may reasonably assume that the sales of the new product will simply displace those of an existing product and continue along the growth is distinct established by it. This is likely to be so when the new product is distinct improvement on the existing one but not so radically different that buyers have learn to accept it. In the case of industrial investment we assume that there now need to make any substantial investment in hardware or restraining. Alternatively, for consumer products, no changes in domestic habits or social attitudes and values are required.\nNo doubt, demand forecasting represents one of the most challenging aspects of business analysis. Continuous research has been going on in this area. The techniques of forecasting are being retired and have been improved enormously in recent years by the advent of computers. However, the use of sophisticated techniques is not enough. It is essential to exercise judgment and experience while carrying out any forecasting exercise. Techniques can only complement judgment and experience.\nRelated keywords Demand forecasting, Forecasting for the new products, managerial economics\nMerits and limitations of market studies and experimentation as a method of demand forecasting\nAn alternative technique for obtaining useful information about a product\u2019s demand function involves market experiments. The firm locates one or more markets with specific characteristics, and then varies prices, packaging, advertising, and other controllable variables in the demand function, with the variations occurring either over time or between markets. One market\nexperiment technique entails examining consumer behavior is actual markets. The firm may also be able to sue census or survey data to determine how such demographic characteristics as income, family size, educational level and ethnic background affect demand.\nMarket experimentation procedure utilizes a controlled laboratory experiment where in consumers are given funds with which to shop in a simulated store. By varying prices, product packaging, displays, and other factors, the experimenters can often learn a great deal about consumer behavior. The laboratory experiment, while providing similar information as field experiments has advantages/merits because of lower cost and greater control of extraneous factors. Merits and limitations of market experiments can be shown as below:\nMarket experiments are based on actual consumer behavior and not on merely their intentions to buy the commodity.\nThey provide more accurate returns than those of consumer survey because consumers are asked to make actual decisions regarding their purchase.\nMarket experiments are costly and much time consuming.\nIf the price rises, the consumers may switch over to the products of the rival firms. If the price reduced to the original level, it may be difficult to regain the lost customers.\nIt is also difficult to select an area, which accurately represents the potential market.\nFirm cannot control all the factors (i.e. bad weather, economic conditions, occupation situations etc.) that influence demand for a product.\nThe changes in price or adverting to know consumer\u2019s response may go unnoticed by them in such a short period.\nThe selected consumers may not respond accurately when they know they are a part of an experiment being conducted and their behavior is being recorded.\nRelated keywords Demand forecasting, market studies\nExpert\u2019s opinion survey differ from the survey of Sales forces\nThe different between expert\u2019s opinion and survey of sales forces can be explained as follows:\n- A variant of the opinion poll and survey method is said to be expert\u2019s opinion survey. The participants are supplied the responses to previous questions from others in the group by a coordinator or leader of same sort. The leader provides each expert with the responses of the others including their reasons.\nIn survey of sales forces, information is collected from firm\u2019s sales-representatives or salesmen about their estimates of sales of its product in future.\n- Outside experts such as consultant firms, investment analysts, who are professionally trained for the purpose of the forecasting demand, may be asked to estimate demand.\nIn survey of sales forces, information regarding likely sales is obtained from those who are closest to the market and have an initiate insight to the market.\n- Each expert is told about the prediction of the other experts and asked in the light of the other\u2019s views whether he/she should revise his prediction about future demand. The experts are again shown each other\u2019s revised forecasts and asked to reconsider their forecasts future till a consensus is reached or until referring the opinion of others.\nIn survey of sales forces, the responses of the various salesmen or representatives are then aggregated to arrive at total demand forecast for the product.\n- Predictions of the demand by experts are not always based on any hard data but they can provide useful information about demand for the product.\nSales forecasts provided by sales representatives are biased either upward or downward. However, as a result of experience some corrective factors are applied to sales estimates furnished by salesmen.\nThe merits and limitations of expert\u2019s opinion and survey of sales forces can be explained as below:\nMerits of Expert\u2019s Opinion\nIt facilitates the maintenance of anonymity of the respondent\u2019s identity throughout the course. This enables the respondent to be candid and forth right in his view.\nIt renders if possible to pose the problem to the experts at one time and have their response.\nLimitations of Expert\u2019s Opinion\nPredictions for demand by experts should always be based on some hard data, but they are not based on any hard data.\nIt is very costly or otherwise not possible to conduct complete enumeration. Outside experts may charge huge fees for giving their opinion.\nThe experts who consider themselves experts may not like to be influenced by the predictions of others on a panel of experts. As a result there may not be any revision in subsequent rounds of seeking their opinion about other\u2019s forecasts.\nMerits of Survey of Sales Forces\nIt is easy and cheap to do.\nIt has further advantage of increasing the motivation of salesmen to achieve the self-selected target for which they had made a forecast.\nLimitations of Survey of Sales Forces\nSales representatives may not provide correct forecast. Some sales representatives would like to make too optimistic sales forecast.\nSome salesmen would like to make too pessimistic sales forecast so that they get higher payments for exceeding the targets based on their sales predictions.\nSales forecasts provided by sales representatives are biased forecast either upward or downward.\nRelated keywords Expert's opinion survey, survey of sales forces\nNon-statistical methods that is used to forecast the demand for satellite TV signal decoder\nDemand forecasting means predicting demand for a product. The information regarding future demand is essential for planning scheduling production, purchase of raw materials, acquisition of finance and advertising. In order to accuracy as well as good forecasting, we can use various methods such as survey and statistical methods. Generally in short\nterm forecasting we can use survey method and statistical method can be used for long-term forecasting.\nAs mention question, satellite TV signal decoder is a short-term program. To know the peoples intention about the program, we can use survey method. Under survey method, there are various methods, such as:\nConsumer Survey Method: Direct interview method, complete enumeration method, sample survey method.\nOpinion Poll Method: Experts opinion method, Delphi method, Market Studies and experiments. In case of forecasting demand for satellite, TV signal decoder, we can use sample survey method.\nUnder this method, only a few potential consumers and users selected from the relevant market through a sampling method are surveyed. This method of survey may be direct interview or method questionnaire to these sample consumers. On the basis of the information obtained, that probable demand may be estimated through the following formula,\nDP = HR / HS (H. AD)\nWhere, DP = Probable demand forecast\nH = Census number of households from the relevant market.\nHS = Number of households for the product.\nAD = Average expected consumption by the reporting households.\nThis method is simpler, less costly and less time consuming that the comprehensive survey method. The households who plan their future purchases generally use this method to estimate short-term demand from business firms, government departments and agencies, and also. Business firms, government departments, and such other organization budget their expenditure at least for one year in advance. It is therefore possible for them to supply a fairly reliable estimate of their future purchases. Even the households making annual or periodic budget of their expenditure can provide reliable information about their purchases.\nSample survey method is widely used to forecast demand. However, this method has some limitations similar to those of complete enumeration or exhaustive survey method. The forecast therefore should not attribute reliability to the forecast more than warranted. Besides, sample survey method can be used to verify the demand forecast made by using quantitative or statistical methods. Some authors suggest that this method for forecasting rather than to replace it, this method can be gainfully used where market area is localized.\nSample survey method can be of greater use in forecasting where quantification of variables (e.g. feelings, opinion, expectations etc.) is not possible and where consumer\u2019s behavior is subject to frequent changes. Satellite TV signal decoder forecasting is also a short and non-durable program in such a case sample survey method is only the appropriate non-statistical method.\nRelated keywords Demand forecasting, Non-statistical method for demand forecasting\nDemand forecasting is not an easy task. Two dangers must be guarded against. First, too much emphasis should not be placed on mathematical or statistical techniques of forecasting. Though statistical techniques are essential in clarifying relationships and providing techniques of analysis, they are not substitutes for judgment. The danger is that we may go to the opposite extreme and regard forecasting as something to be left to the judgment of the so-called experts.\nCommonly for pure guessing, we can use following methods:\n1. Survey of Buyer\u2019s Intentions\nThe most direct method of estimating demand in the short run is to ask customers what they are planning to buy for the forthcoming time period generally a year. This method is also known as public opinion surveys, is most useful when bulk of the sales is made to industrial producers. In this method, the burden of forecasting is shifted to the consumers. But it would not be wise to depend wholly on the buyers\u2019 estimates and they should be used cautiously in the light of the sellers\u2019 own judgment.\nA number of biases may creep into the surveys. If shortages are expected, customers may tend to exaggerate their requirements. The customers may know what their requirements are but they may misuse or mislead or may be uncertain about the quantity they intend to purchase from a particular firm. This method is not very useful in the case of household customers for several reasons, viz. irregularity in customers\u2019 buying intentions, their inability to foresee their choice when faced with multiple alternatives, and the possibility that the buyers\u2019 plans may not be real only wishful thinking.\n2. Delphi Method\nA variant of the opinion poll and survey method is Delphi method. It consists of an attempt to arrive at a consensus in an uncertain area by questioning a group of experts repeatedly until the responses appear to coverage along a single line or the issues causing disagreements are clearly defined. The participants are supplied the responses to previous questions from others in the group by a coordinator or leader of same sort. The leader provides each expert with the responses of the others including their reason. Others given the opportunity to react to the information or considerations advance each expert but interchange is anonymous so as to avoid or reduce halo effect and ego involvement associated with publicly expressed opinions.\nIt has some exclusive advantages such as: (a) It facilitates the maintenance of anonymity of the respondent\u2019s identity throughout the course. This enables the respondent to be candid and forth right in his view. (b) Delphi renders if possible to pose the problem to the experts at one time and have their response.\nThough it posses wide knowledge and experience of the subject and have an aptitude and earnest disposition towards the participants.\n3. Time Series Analysis and Trend Projection\nThe time series relating to sales represent the past pattern of effective demand for a particular product. Such data can be presented either in a tabular form or graphically for further analysis. The most popular method of analysis of time series is to project the trend of the time-series. A trend line can be fitted through a series either visually or by means of statistical techniques such as method of least squares.\nThe analyst chooses a plausible algebraic relation between sales and the independent variable such as time. The trend line is then projected into the future by extrapolation. It is popular method because it is simple and inexpensive and partly because time series data often exhibit a persistent so long as the time shows a persistent tendency to move in the some direction.\n4. Market Studies and Experimentation\nAn alternative technique for obtaining useful information about a product\u2019s demand function involves market experiments. The firm locates one or more markets with specific characteristics, and then varies prices, packaging, advertising, and other controllable variables in the demand function with the variations occurring either over time or between markets. One market experiment technique entails examining consumer behavior is actual markets. The firm may also be able to use census or survey data to determine how such demographic characteristics as income, family size, educational level and ethnic background affect demand.\nMarket experiments have many serious shortcoming, they are expensive and are therefore usually undertaken on a scale too small to allow high levels of confidence in the results. Market experiments are seldom run for sufficiently long periods to indicate the long-run effects various price, advertising or packaging strategies. The experimenter is thus forced to examine short run data and attempt to extend it to a longer period.\nVarious difficulties related with the uncontrolled parts of the market experiment also reduce its value as an estimating tool. A change in economic condition during the experiment is likely to invalidate the results, especially if the experiment includes the use of several separated markets, a local strike or layoffs by a major employer in one of the market areas. There is also the danger that customers lost during the experiment as a result of price manipulations cannot be regained when the experiment ends.\nMarket experimentation procedure utilizes a controlled laboratory experiment where in consumers are given funds with which to shop in a simulated store. By varying prices, product packaging, displays, and other factors, the experimenter can often learn a great deal about consumer behavior. The laboratory experiment, while providing similar information as field experiments, has an advantage because of lower cost and greater control of extraneous factors.\nRegression analysis is to specify the variables that are expected to influence demand. Product demand, measured in physical units, is the dependent variable. The list of independent variables, or those which influence demand, always includes the price of the product and simply includes such factors as the prices of complementary and competitive products, advertising expenditures, consumer income and population of the consuming group. Demand function for expensive durable goods such as the houses and automobiles, include interest rates and other credit terms, those for beverages, or air conditioners include weather conditions. Demand determinants for capital goods, such as industrial machinery, include corporate profitability output to capacity ratios and wage rate trends.\nRegression analysis is to obtain accurate estimates of the variables, measures of price, credit terms, output, capacity ratios advertising expenditures, incomes and etc. Obtaining estimates of these variables is not always easy especially if the study involves data for past years. Some key variables, such as consumer attitudes toward quality and their expectations about future business conditions \u2013 which are very important in demand functions for many consumer goods, may have to be obtained by survey techniques, which introduces on element of subjectivity into the data or by market or laboratory experiments, which may produce biased data.\n6. Barometric Method\nA barometric or indicator, forecasting is based on the observation that there are lagged relationships among many economic time series. Changes in some series appear to consistently follow changes in one or more other series. The theoretical basis for some of these lags is obvious. For example, building permits issued precede housing starts and orders for plant and equipment lead production in durable goods industries. The reason is that each of these indicators refers to plans or commitment for the activity that follows. Other barometers are not also directly related to the economic variables they forecast. An index of common stock prices, for example, is a good leading indicator of general business activity. Although the causal relationship here is not readily apparent, stock prices reflect an aggregation of profit expectation by business managers and others and hence composite expectation of the level of business activity.\nTheoretically, barometric forecasting requires the isolation of an economic time series that consistently leads the series being forecast. This relationship established; forecasting directional changes in the lagged series is simply a matter of keeping track of movement in the leading indicator. Several problems prevent such as easy solution to the forecasting problem.\nFew series always correctly indicate changes in another economic variable. Even the best leading indicators of general business conditions forecast with only to go present accuracy.\nSecond, even the indicators that have good records of forecasting directional changes generally fail to lead by a consistent period. If a series is to be an adequate barometer, it not only must indicate directional changes but also, additionally, must provide a constant lead-time. Few series meet the test of lead-time consistency.\nFinally, barometric forecasting refers in that, even when leading indicators proved to be satisfactory from the stand point of consistently indicating directional change with a stable lead time, they provide very little information about the magnitude of change in the forecast variable.\nMainly two techniques that have been used with some success to overcome at least partially the difficulties in barometric forecasting are composite indexes and diffusion indexes. Composites indexes are weighted averages of several leading indicators. The combining of individual series into a composite index results in a series with less random fluctuation or noise. The smoother composite series has a lower tendency to produce false signals of change in the predicted variable.\nDiffusion indexes are similar to composite indexes. Instead of combining a number of leading indicators into a single standardized index, the methodology consists of noting the percentage of the total number of leading indicators that are rising at given point in time.\nEven with the use of composite and diffusion indexes the barometric forecasting technique is a relatively poor tool for estimating the magnitude of change in an economic variable. Thus, although it represents a significant improvement over simple extrapolation techniques for short term forecasting.\n7. Input-output Analysis\nA forecasting method known as input-output analysis provides the most complete examination of all the complex interrelationships within an economic system. It shows how an increase or a decrease in the demand for one\u2019s industry output will affect other industries. An increase in the demand for trucks will lead to increased production of plastic, steel, tires, glass and other materials. The increase in the demand for these materials will have secondary effects. The increase in the demand for these materials will have secondary effects. The increase in the demand for glass will lead to a further increase in the demand for steel, as well as for trucks used in the manufacture of glass, steel and so on. Input-output analysis traces through all these inter-industry relationships to provide information about the total input on all industries of the original increase in the demand for trucks.\nIt is based on set of tables that describe the interrelationships among all the component parts of the economy. Input output analysis has a variety of uses, ranging from forecasting the sales of an individual firm to probing the implications of national economic programs and policies. The major contribution of input-output analysis it that it facilitates measurement of the effects on all industrial sectors of changes in activity in any one sector.\nRelated keywords Barometric Method, Delphi Technique, Input-Output Analysis, market studies, regression analysis, survey of buyer's intentions, time series analysis, trend projection\nProcess of demand forecasting by the time series analysis\nA firm, which has been in existence for some time will have accumulated/ collected considerable data on sales pertaining to different time periods. Such data when arranged chronologically yield \u2018time series\u2019. The time series relating to sales represent the past pattern of effective demand for a particular product. Such data can be presented either in a tabular form or graphically for further analysis. The most\nwell known method of analysis of time series is to project the trend of the time series. The trend line can be fitted through a series either visually or by means of statistical techniques such as least square method. The analyst chooses a plausible algebraic relation between sales and the independent variable, time.\nThe trend line is then projected into the future by extrapolation. The basic assumption of the trend method is that the past rate of change of the variable under study will continue in the future. This technique yields acceptable results so long as the time series shows a persistent tendency to move in the same direction. Whenever a turning point occurs, the trend projection breaks down. Nevertheless, a forecaster could normally expect to be right in most forecasts especially if the turning points are few and spaced at long intervals from each other.\nThe real challenge of forecasting is in the prediction of turning points rather than in the projection of trends. It is when turning points occur that management will have to alter and revise its sales and production strategies most drastically.\nThere are primarily four sets of factors, which are responsible for the characterization of time series by fluctuations and turning points in a time series, trend, seasonal variations, cyclical fluctuations, and irregular or random forces. The problem in forecasting is separate and measures each of these four factors.\nThe fundamental approach is to treat the original time series data (O or observed data) as composed of four parts: a secular trend (T), a seasonal factor (S), a cyclical element (C) and on irregular movement (I). It is generally assumed that these elements are bound together in a multiplicative relationship presented by the equation O = TSCI.\nThe usual practice is to first compute the trend from the original data. The trend values are then eliminated from observed data (TSCI/T). The next step is to calculate the seasonal index, which is used to remove the seasonal effect (SCI/S). A cycle is then fitted to the remainder, which also contains the irregular effect.\nThe foregoing approach t the decomposition of time series data is a useful analytical device for understanding the nature of business fluctuations. The trend and seasonal factor can be forecast, but the prediction of cycles is hazardous for the simple reason that there is no regularity in the cyclical behavior.\nThough, there are two assumptions underlying this approach:\nThe analysis of movements would be in the order of trend, seasonal variation and cyclical charges, and\nThe effects of each component are independent of each other.\nFor the use of economic indicators, the following steps have to be taken:\nSee if a relationship exists between the demand for a product and certain economic indicators.\nEstablish the relationship through the method of least squares and derive the regression equation. Assuming the relationship to be linear, the equation will be of the form y= a + bx. There can be curve-linear relationships as well.\nOnce regression equation is derived, the value of Y i.e. demands, can be estimated for any given value of X.\nPast relationships may not recur. Hence the need for value judgment as well. New factors may also have to be taken into consideration.\nMerits and Limitations of Time series Analysis\nThe trend method is based on least square principle of demand forecasting is quite popular due to simplicity.\nIt provides good result, which is particularly suitable for long run.\nIt is very much simple in the sense that it doesn\u2019t require the knowledge of economic theory and market structure.\nThis method is based on the assumption that future events will follow the same path, which may not be true for every time.\nIt is not suitable for short-term demand forecasting. This method cannot usually explain the turning points of the business cycle.\nRelated keywords Demand forecasting, managerial economics, time series analysis\nThe objective of demand forecasting is achieved only when forecast is made systematically and scientifically and when it is fairly reliable. The following steps are generally taken to make systematic demand forecasting:\nSpecifying the objective: The objective or the purpose of demand forecasting must be clearly specified. The objective may be specified in terms of (a) short-term or long-term demand, (b) the overall demand for a product or for a firm\u2019s own product, (c) the whole or only a segment of the market for its product, or (d) firm\u2019s market share. The objective of demand forecasting must be determined before the process of forecast is started. This has to be the first step.\nDetermining the time perspective: Depending on the firm\u2019s objective, demand may be forecast for a short period, that is, for the next 2 to 3 years, or for a long period. In demand forecasting for a short period, 2 to 3 years, many of the demand determinants can be taken to remain constant or not to change significantly. In the long-run, however, demand determinants may change significantly. Therefore, the time perspective of demand forecasting must be specified.\nMaking choice of method for demand forecasting: There are a number of methods available for demand forecasting which we shall introduce in another section of the analysis. However, all methods are not suitable for all kinds of demand forecasting because the purpose of forecasting, data requirement and availability of data for the use of a method, and time frame of forecasting differ from method to method. Therefore, the demand forecaster has to choose a fitting method keeping in view his purpose and requirements. The choice of a forecasting method is generally based on the purpose, experience and skill/ knowledge of the forecaster. It depends also to a great extent on the availability of required data. The choice of a suitable method saves not only time and cost but also ensures the reliability of forecast to a great extent.\nCollection of data and data adjustment: Once method of demand forecasting is decided on, the next step is to collect the required data, primary or secondary or both. The required data is often not available in the required type/form. In that case, data needs to be adjusted \u2013 even massaged, if necessary \u2013 with the purpose of building data series consistent with data requirement. Sometimes the required data has to be generated from the secondary sources.\nEstimation and interpretation of results: As mentioned earlier, the availability of data often determines the method, and also the potential/feasible equation to be used for demand forecasting. Once required data is collected and forecasting method is finalized, the final step in demand forecasting is to make the estimate of demand for the predetermined years or the period. Where estimates appear in the form of an equation, the result must be interpreted and presented in a usable form.\nRelated keywords Demand forecasting, steps for demand forecasting\nAn accurate demand forecasting is essential for a firm to enable it to product the required quantities at the right time and arrange well in advance for the various factors of production (raw materials, equipment, machine accessories, labour, building, etc.). It helps a firm to assess the probable demand for its products and plan its production accordingly. In\nfact, forecasting is an important aid in effective and efficient planning. It is also helpful in better planning and allocation of national resources.\nThe purpose of demand forecasting refers the estimation of volume of production; price of the commodity either short-run as well as long term forecasting.\nUnder the short-run purposes of forecasting, following heads included:\n1. Purpose of Short-Term Forecasting\nAppropriate production scheduling so as to avoid the problem of over-production and the problem of short supply. For this purpose, production schedules have to be geared expected sales.\nIt helps the firm in reducing price policy so as to avoid an increase when the market conditions are expected to be weak and a reduction when the market is going to be strong.\nDetermining appropriate price policy so as to avoid an increase when the market conditions are expected to be weak and a reduction when the market is going to be strong.\nSetting sales targets and establishing controls and incentives. If targets are set too high, they will be discouraging sales-man who fails to achieve them, if set too low, the targets will be achieved easily and hence incentives will prove meaningless.\nEvolving a suitable advertising and program.\nForecasting short-term financial requirements. Cash requirements depend on sales level and production operations. It takes time to arrange for funds on reasonable terms. Sales forecasts will, therefore, enable arrangement of sufficient funds on reasonable terms well in advance.\n2. Purposes of Long-Term Forecasting\nPlanning of a new unit or expansion of an existing unit, it requires an analysis of the long-term demand potential of the products in question. A multi-product firm must ascertain not only the total demand situation, but also the demand for different items separately. If the company has better knowledge that its rivals of the growth trends of the aggregate demand and of the distribution of the demand over various products, its competitive position would be much better.\nPlanning long-term financial requirements. As planning for raising funds requires considerable advance notice, long-term sales, forecasts are quite essential to assess long-term financial requirements.\nPlanning manpower requirements. Training and personnel development are long-term propositions, taking considerable time to complete. They can be started well in advance only on the basis of estimates of manpower requirements assessed according to long-term sales forecasts.\nMost of modern firms forecast their demand on the basis of past demand, present condition of demand. Business/ Demand forecasting is the prediction of future situation for a firm\u2019s product in the market.\nRelated keywords Demand forecasting, managerial economics, Purpose of Forecasting Demand in a Business Firm\nDemand forecasting is the systematic method of obtaining an estimate of the future value of a commodity, usually based on the analysis of observations of its past behavior. Demand forecasting means predicting demand for a product. The information regarding future demand is essential for planning and scheduling production, purchase of raw materials, acquiring of finance and advertising. Following are the criteria of good forecasting methods. To reduce the uncertainty in the planning for future production levels demand forecasting is essential.\nForecasting demand means prediction of future demand. Forecasting of future demand is one of most important function of managers of firms. Good forecasting of demand reduces uncertainty of environment in which business decisions are made. Good forecasting of future demand is also important for calculating rate of return on capital investment. Capital investment yields returns over a number of years in future.\nAccuracy: It is necessary to check the accuracy of past forecasts against present performance and of present forecasts against future performance. Some comparisons of the method with what actually happens and of the assumptions with what is borne out in practice are more desirable. The accuracy of the forecast is measured by (a) the degree of deviations between forecasts and actual, and (b) the extent of success in forecasting directional changes.\nSimplicity and ease of comprehension: Management must be able to understand and have confidence in the techniques used. Understanding is also needed for a proper interpretation of the results. Elaborate mathematical and econometric procedures may be judged less desirable if management does not really understand what the forecaster is doing and falls to understand the procedure.\nEconomy: Costs must be weighed against the importance of the forecast to the operations of the business. The criterion here is the economic consideration of balancing the benefits from increased accuracy against the extra cost of providing the improved forecasting.\nAvailability: The techniques employed should be able to produce meaningful results quickly; techniques, which take a long time to workout, may produce useful information too late for effective management decisions.\nMaintenance of timeliness: The forecast should be capable of being maintained on an up-to-date basis. It has three aspects: (a) The relationships underlying the procedure should be stable so that they will carry into the future for a significant amount of time. (b) Current data required to use these underlying relationships should be available on timely basis. (c) The forecasting procedure should permit changes to be made in the relationships as they occur.\nRelated keywords Demand forecasting, managerial economics\nVarious uses of income and cross elasticity of demand in business decision-making\nThe use of income elasticity of demand for a firm\u2019s is to determine the growth opportunities of the firm, useful in targeting marketing efforts, success at different stages of business cycles. Following are the theoretical and practical importance:\n1. Estimate the effects of changes in economic activity: During the periods of expansion, incomes are rising and firms selling luxury items that the demand for their products will increase at a faster rate than the rate of income growth.\nDuring a recession, demand may decrease rapidly. Knowledge of income elasticity can be useful in targeting marketing efforts. If per capita or household income is found to be an important determinant of the demand for a particular product, this can affect the location and nature of sales outlets. It can also have an impact on advertising and other promotional activities.\n2. Uses in capitalist economics: The concept of income elasticity of demand takes an important place among the analytical tools applied for business research. This concept is of income sensitivity of consumption expenditure. Income sensitivity has a co-efficient which measures the percentage increase in rupee expenditure associated with one percent change in disposable income in the same period. The income sensitivity estimates are of great use in business forecasting.\n3. Planned developing economies: In the developing countries like Nepal, as levels of living rise, demand for some commodities is expected to go up much faster than the demand for others. In the earlier stages, income elasticity of demand for food tends to be high. As income rises, there is a shortage of food, which not satisfied, leads to inflation. If the planners know income elasticity of demand for goods and services of general use, steps can be taken to balance demand and supply by using appropriate method.\n4. Marketing activity and making market strategy: The concept of income elasticity of demand has important role in marketing activities of the firm. People demand goods and services on the basis of their income level. The level of income of the people affects the location and nature of sales. The high-income elasticity of demand indicates the significant promotional efforts in the business.\nIt is also useful in making marketing strategy. The business firm should concentrate its marketing efforts in media that reaches to the high-income group of the people.\nImportance of Cross Elasticity of Demand\nThe concept of cross-elasticity is useful for the following main purposes:\nUseful in inter-commodity relations: It is important for the firm to be aware of how the demand for its products likely to respond to changes in the prices of other goods; this information is necessary for formulating the firm\u2019s own pricing policy and for analyzing the risk associated with various products. This is particularly important for the firms with extensive product lines, where significant substitution or complementary interrelationships exists between the various products. The concept of cross elasticity of demand is very useful in handling the inter-commodity relations.\nClassification of markets and market structure: The classification of markets of commodities and services is mainly based on the concept of cross elasticity of demand of one seller in relation to the other. It is used in industrial organization to measure the interrelationships among industries. The cross price elasticity between the firm\u2019s product and products in related industries is large and positive, the firm, even though it may be a monopolist in a narrow sense, will not be able to raise its prices without losing sales to other firms in related industries.\nImportance for anti-monopoly legislation: The concept of cross elasticity of demand has been of practical use in sponsoring anti-monopoly legislation. When a particular seller tries to estimate or buy up substitutes of his own product through unfair means, there is a case of monopoly practice against him. But, it is only of drawing a clear-cut line between fair competition and monopoly, however, it is basic concept of doing so.\nRelated keywords business decision making, cross elasticity of demand, managerial economics\nRelationship of Price Elasticity of Demand with Total Revenue and Marginal Revenue\nPrice elasticity of demand is important, in decision-making. It gives the measure of effect of price change in revenues. A given change in price leads to an increase or decrease or no change in total revenue. If the price elasticity accurately estimates, we can estimate accurately the new total revenue after price change.\nWhen demand for a company\u2019s product is elastic, a price cut leads to an increase in total revenue. Its total revenue increase marginal revenue is positive. Because the proportionate rise in the quantity demand more than offsets, the proportionate fall in price. Similarly, when demand is price inelastic, a price cut leads a fall in total revenue. This means that marginal revenue is negative. The reason now is that the percentage increase in the quantity, demanded is not enough to neutralize the percentage fall in price. Finally, if demand for a company\u2019s product is unitary elastic, total revenue remains constant whether price rises or falls. In this situation MR is zero. The reason is easy to find out the percentage change in the quantity demanded and the price are equal but opposite, so that they cancel each other out. These relations can be expanded with the help of diagram.\nThe relations among TR, MR and price elasticity of demand are reviewed in the figure. The top half of the diagram shows a liner demand or AR curve and a corresponding straight line MR curve for a pure monopolist. The bottom of half of the diagram shows the monopolist\u2019s TR curve. The figure shows that the demand is elastic over the range of output O to B. so, TR increases and MR is positive. At the output level of B, the demand is unitary elastic, TR is maximum (output) and MR is zero. Finally, over the range of output from B to T the demand is inelastic. TR falls as price falls and sales volume increases. Hence MR is negative.\nRelated keywords Marginal Revenue, Price Elasticity of Demand, Relationship of Price Elasticity of Demand with Total Revenue and Marginal Revenue, Total Revenue\nReasons behind aiming at reasonable profit rather than maximum profit by most of firms\nIn economic theories, it is assumed that maximizing profits is the basic objective of every firm. The volume of profit is regarded as the primary measure of the success of a business. But in recent days, it has been realized that many firms, particularly big ones do not operate on the principle of profit maximization in terms of marginal costs and revenues. Instead, the firms set standards or targets of reasonable profits. This is\nbecause of so many reasons. The firms may limit profit or aim at only reasonable profits due to following reasons:\nDiscourage potential competitors: When a firm earns large profit under profit maximizing objective. It is likely to attract potential competitors to enter the field and capture the market share enjoyed by it. They adopt the practices such as infringement of patent rights, copying of product designs, encroachment upon the firm\u2019s sources of raw materials, etc. To discourage such tendency, a firm may adopt the policy of limiting profits rather than maximization. The danger of potential competition is more serious when the firm enjoys a weak monopoly situation. However, there is no guarantee that limiting profits may prevent potential competition.\nProject a favorable image to the public and government: The earning of high profits shows the enjoying of monopoly power. It may create an impression that the firm is exploiting the consumers. Hence, the public may appeal the government for nationalization of the firm or to exercise some sort of regulation of prices, profits and dividends. Therefore, the firms may aim at only reasonable profit. Restraining demand for wage hike. When there is high profit the laborers may demand higher wages. This is particularly true in the industries having strong trade unions. Hence, such industries may not like to maximize profits. Because, this may lead to wage price spiral.\nMaintaining consumer goods: The consumer goodwill is of great importance to the industries. The consumers show their resentment and think that they are being exploited when prices are set too high. The consumers expect a fair price in terms of cost of production. Similarly, if a firm exploits a short-term situation, it may seriously damage its image, reputation and long-run interests. Hence, the profit restraint is adopted to maintain consumer goodwill.\nKeeping internal control: Another reason for restraining profits is management\u2019s desire to maintain control of the firm. The management gives strong preference to liquidity, abhors debt and may not like expansion. Because maximizing profits may require entering new areas of production involving heavy investments, and, thus reducing liquidity and losing control.\nMaintaining congenial working conditions: Profit restraint is also adopted to maintain congenial working conditions within a firm. There is growing awareness about the social responsibilities of management. There is increasing concern with the direct effects of management\u2019s decision upon workers, consumers and the business cycle.\nAttainment of industry leadership: If a firm aims at achieving industry leadership, the firm may try for maximum sales or manufacturer of maximum product lines. Hence, profit maximization will not get the priority. The entrepreneur may merely seek to earn a satisfactory profit level so as to maintain certain share of market or a certain level of sales.\nAvoiding risk: Profit maximization may require setting up new ventures, which may have number of uncertainties. The project appeared profitable at the outset may turn out to be unprofitable.\nIt is now clear that all firms may not aim at profit maximization. But they try to achieve satisfactory level of profit to cover the risks of economic activity and to avoid loss. A business cannot survive if there is continuous loss. Profits are indispensable to remain alive. Profits are essentially means to an end, and the end of continuity and growth of the firm.\nRelated keywords managerial economics, profit\nCriteria of Setting the Standard of Reasonable Profit\nThe appropriate criteria should be prepared to set up the level of standard. According to Joel Dean, the criteria of setting the standard are as follows:\n1. Capital Return:\nThis criterion is related to how much return should be earned to attract outside capital. Likewise, this criterion is related to acquiring adequate income required for adequate capital formation. The machines can be replaced and building, machine and working capital can be added from capital formation.\nThe firms should set the rate sufficient to attract outside capital or equity capital. Due to this, if new equity capital has to be issued it does not adversely affect the interest of the existing shareholders. Similarly, people are ready to buy immediately as soon as the equity capital is issued. This is possible provided adequate dividend is provided in past. For this, profit standard should be designed on the basis of the cost of new capital in the capital market. Although this standard seems to be theoretically popular, many imaginary and guess-based decisions will have to be made to set up the capital-attracting rate of return, for example:\nFirst, the capital-attracting rate depends on the ratio of the capital structure of the company like bond, preferred stock, and common stock.\nSecond problems are whether to base the standard of earning on the cost of present capital or long run average cost.\nThird problem is to acquire the relevant indicator of the cost of capital of the company in the market. It is not a simple problem. Because, the cost of capital widely differ in different industries and private companies. Such differences arise due to the difference in growth prospect, cyclical stagnation, capital structure and ability of the management.\n2. Plowback Rate: This criterion is related to how much earning is necessary spend on the development of the firm completely from retained profits. According to this criterion, adequate amount of total profit should be retained for the required growth rate without resorting to capital market. But since large retained earnings may encourage the competitors for entry it should be determined carefully. Beside, the retained earnings is in complete control of the management and can waste in project inside the company. If that amount is distributed to the shareholders that may to the high-earning project due to the competition in the capital market. Since plowback rate depend on the need of the company, competition, politics of the shareholders and public relations, it is more individualistic.\n3. Normal Earning: This criterion is related to how much the companies or comparable firms have, normally earned. According to this criterion, profit should be equal to the earning made by the companies or industry in normal period. It is appropriate for the firm to compare with its past earning. For this, the past earning level of the company should be have been adequate to attract capital, shareholders should have been invited. Beside this, the profit of other industries with comparable output and risks may also be good standard. For this, care should be taken in the selection of comparable companies. Likewise, broad average of all industry or broad sample of the companies may also be used. Beside the problem of selecting comparable companies there is also the problem of determining normal period. Profit should not have occurred due to the reason such as war. Since there is fluctuation in the income of the companies the selection of the period is very important in setting standard.\n4. Popular conceptions of reasonable profit:\nThis standard is related to what the normal persons regard as reasonable profit. The standard of reasonable profit may be based on the survey made to know the opinion of general public relating to fair profit. Such survey provides good profit standard. It has been found in the survey that some regard 10 percent on sale and some 25 percent profit margin as reasonable.\nRelated keywords Criteria of Setting the Standard of Reasonable Profit, managerial economics, profit\nProfits play an important role in a free market economy or in a mixed economic system also. First, profits serve as a single to change the rate of output or for the firms to enter or leave the industry. Second, profits play a critical role in providing incentive to introduce innovations and increase productive efficiency and take risks.\nThus, high economic profits beings being earned in an industry serve as a signal for the consumers who want more of the commodity being produced by that industry. These profits indicate to the firm to expand output of the commodity and for the new firms to enter the industry to gain a share of economic profits that exist in the industry. As a result, more resources will be allocated to the output of that industry. On the other hand, below normal profits in an industry serve as a signal that either less output of the industry is demanded by the consumers or inefficient production methods are being used by the firms. In response to the lower demand for the product the firms will reduce their output and also some firms will leave the industry. As a result, some productive resources will be released from that industry and made available for the production of other goods. If the lower profits are due to the inefficient production and organization, this will induce firm to improve efficiency by changing the production methods or make organizational changes to reduce costs.\nIn a free market economy, in the first standpoint profit motive drives a free-market economy. Although it has been observed that sometimes managers and entrepreneurs in a free market system are influenced by greed and desire for wealth, and break laws to make money or profits by exploiting the consumers or workers, profits, in general, perform useful function of sending signals for changing levels of output of various products and for reallocation of resources among them.\nSecondly, above normal rate of profits in a free enterprise system is an essential reward for introducing innovations and taking risks. No entrepreneur will introduce new products or more efficient production methods or undertake investment in risky projects unless there is chance of making profits. Some firms continue to earn above-normal rate of profit year after year as they continually introducing new products, new production methods and providing good customer services.\nAnd finally, in market economy changes in demand for the product often occur due to cyclical and structural changes. Besides, new strategies of rival firms also affect the demand for the product of a firm. All these uncertain and unanticipated changes involve a good deal of risk. An important function of economic profits is to reward entrepreneurs for taking these risks involved in making investment and organizing factors for the production of products.\nHowever, in some cases firms are also able to make super normal profits by virtue of their having monopoly power may be due to some legal patent and license obtained from the government, the economies of large scale production, exclusive control over essential raw materials which prevent the other firms from producing the same product or service. These enable the\nmonopoly firms to charges higher prices and thereby make large economic profits. Therefore, even in free market economies steps are taken to prevent the emergence of monopolies through anti-trust laws.\nRelated keywords Functions of Profits, managerial economics, Profits, Role of Profits\nDifference between Accounting Profit and Economic Profit\nThe term \u2018profit\u2019 is originated by the Latin work and its meaning is \u2018to make progresses\u2019. The word \u2018profit\u2019 has different meaning to different people like businessmen, accountants, tax collectors, workers and economists. The term is often used in a loose polemical (emotional) sense that hides its real significance. In a general sense, profit is regarded as income accruing to the\nequity holders, in the same sense as wages accrue to the labour; rent accrues to the owners of rentable assets; and interest accrues to the money lenders. To a layman, profit means all income that flow to the investors. To an accountant, profit means the excess of revenue over all paid-out costs including both manufacturing and overhead expenses. It is more or less the same as net profit. For all practical purposes, profit or business income means profit in accounting sense plus non-allowable expenses. Economist\u2019s concept of profit is of \u2018Pure Profit\u2019 called \u2018economic profit\u2019 or \u2018just profit\u2019. Pure profit is a return over and above the opportunity cost, i.e. the income which a businessman might expect from the second best alternative use of his resources. These two concepts of profit are discussed below in detail.\nBusiness Versus Economic Profit\nIt is necessary to know the nature of profits because profit influences business activities. How do profits arise, what determines the volume of profits or stream expected future profits are important issues that need explanation. Profits or expected profit stream from a productive activity or an investment project play a crucial role in decision making by managers. But, as mentioned earlier, the term profits, as used in economics, differs from that generally used by business community. Therefore, it is necessary to explain first the difference between business profits and economic profits.\nA business profit is an accounting concept of profit and represents the residual sales revenue to the owners of the firm after making payments to all other factors or resources the firm uses. These payments to hired factors include the wages to hired labour, interest on borrowed capital, rent on land and factory buildings and expenditure on raw materials used by the firm. The expenditures on these factors or resources hired on purchased by the firms are call explicit costs. Business profit refers to the sales revenue of the firm minus its explicit costs. In accounting sense, profit is defined as the residual of sales revenue minus the explicit accounting costs (or out-of-pocket expenditures of doing business). It is the amount available to provide rewards to the shareholders who have supplied the firm\u2019s equity capital after payment for all other resources the firm uses. The explicit costs are the costs like wages, rent fuel, raw materials, interest on loans and depreciation. Thus,\nBusiness Profits = Total sales revenue \u2013 Explicit costs\nIt is the concept of business profits that is generally used by the business community and accountants.\nEconomists also define profit as the excess of revenue over the cost of doing business. However, economists include the implicit costs of the inputs provided by the owners including entrepreneurial effort and capital in calculating profit. Economic profit is the difference between total revenues and total economic cost (including the economic or opportunity cost of owner-supplied resources such as capital and time). Economic cost or opportunity cost is the highest valued alternative opportunity that must be sacrificed or foregone as a result of choosing an alternative. The owner-entrepreneur uses his own capital for which he/she should be paid. The normal rate of return on capital is to be given to the owner as the minimum return necessary to attract and continue investment. Similarly, the opportunity cost of owner effort is determined by the value that could be received in an alternative activity. Hence, economic profit is business profit minus the implicit costs of capital and any other owner-provided inputs used by the firm.\nIn their calculation of economic profit, economists deduce not only explicit costs but also implicit costs from the sales revenue of the firm. The implicit costs refer to the opportunity costs of the resources provided by the firm\u2019s owners themselves including capital and entrepreneurial ability. These self-owned factors must be paid if they are to be employed by the firm in its own production process otherwise they will be employed elsewhere on hired basis. Thus, economists take into account the normal rate of return on capital used by the owner of the firm in its own business and the transfer earnings of the owner-entrepreneur as costs of doing business.\nThe economic profit represents the sales revenue of the firm in excess of both explicit and implicit costs. Therefore,\nEconomic Profits = Sales revenue \u2013 Explicit costs \u2013 implicit costs\nWhile explaining maximization of short-run profits or present value of the steam of expected future profits, economists assume that it is economic profits that owner-entrepreneur or managers of corporations seek to maximize. The concept of economic profits brings into sharp center the questions: why the profit which is over and above the normal rate of return on equity capital and reward for entrepreneurial ability in case of owner-entrepreneur exists and what is its role in a free enterprise system. In long-run equilibrium economic profits will be zero if all firms work in perfectly competitive market. Then, how do economic profits, positive or negative, come into existence. The various theories of profit provide explanation for the existence of economic profits.\nRelated keywords accounting profit, Difference between Accounting Profit and Economic Profit, economic profit, profit", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00080.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 461, + "original_length": 82705, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.94, + "perplexity": 288.5, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "http://animediet.net/conventions/shinkai-press-conference", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T03:58:15Z", + "digest": "sha1:IZS47NNTCGWHN2DP4VAODSSW5ULTQFFH", + "length": 15983, + "nlines": 56, + "source_domain": "animediet.net", + "title": "Otakon 2011: Makoto Shinkai Press Conference | Anime Diet", + "raw_content": "Otakon 2011: Makoto Shinkai Press Conference\nAfter a previous two days filled with just following Makoto Shinkai (\u65b0\u6d77\u8aa0) around, there was finally a 9AM Press conference at the Sheraton. Typically press conference happens when there is just too much interview requests for a particular guest. I know thePaper got 1:1 interviews with other Otakon guests, but here is my main press goal for Otakon this year. This post might be similar to the fan q&a, but since this was a press conference that I waited the entire weekend for.\nHere\u2019s what I heard. I took the liberty of not transcribing to the exact audio of what I heard, but hopefully you, the reader would understand what I saw when I heard Makoto Shinkai\u2019s press conference. As with the other q&a, questions asked are already going to be some spoilers for Shinkai\u2019s latest film. Video was not allowed, but audio and film was.\nThere is a difference in translation/interpretation of the Japanese and English title between \u661f\u3092\u8ffd\u3046\u5b50\u3069\u3082 and Children who Chase Lost Voices from Deep Below can you explain the difference in this interpretation?\nThe Children who Chase Lost Voices from Deep Below is the subtitle to the Japanese title, we used it as a temporary title to for releasing to the western market. So in the future the title might be changed to reflect the Japanese title. I apologize for any confusion that you might have felt.\nFrom the Fan Q&A, it was asked what your literary background was, so for this press conference can you reiterate those influences are.\nIn Anime, I got much inspiration from Studio Ghibli and Miyazaki works, and if you ask for one title in particular, it would be Laputa: Castle in the Sky. From novels, it would be Haruki Murakami.\nYou have a small staff available now, would have wanted your current staff when you were working on Voices of a Distant Star?\nAs you said I have staff people, but in comparison when I was doing Voices of a Distant Star, it was a self made independent film and including the fact that I voiced in it showed that it was a handmade by me. At the time I felt a great sense of satisfaction, on completing a project. On the other hand I currently have staff members that are like family to me. So when I am working alone now, sooner or later I won\u2019t be. So I would be feeling like I am going back to a family studio. If you ask me whether I ever think about the time when I was working on Voices of a Distant Star and wanting this current staff, that is a \u201cwhat if\u201d question, and those scenarios never came to my mind. So I never really thought about it.\nIs there a personal or professional goal for making \u661f\u3092\u8ffd\u3046\u5b50\u3069\u3082?\nI don\u2019t know if this is an answer. \u661f\u3092\u8ffd\u3046\u5b50\u3069\u3082 was finished in March and then released in Japan\u2019s theaters in May, so it has been only three months since its completion. Currently I am still not sure what I should do from here on. Currently I am taking this opportunity to take a look at the reactions including audiences from Japan and abroad. So I would like to take this opportunity to think and decide on what to do after this, both professionally and personally.\nYour movies in the past have had simple and complex feelings with themes of distant and time, what are the overall themes of \u3092\u8ffd\u3046\u5b50\u3069\u3082?\nIt is quite difficult to put a theme in one word. If I can do that then I won\u2019t be making a two hour animation. However, if you want me to put in a phrase then it is how to overcome a sense of deep loss.\nIn this film we see a new demonstration of your animation sequence in action. Can you say what other films and other work that have inspired your action style?\nAs I said earlier, I studied lots of Miyazaki\u2019s works. But since we were using sword for the action scenes, I studied a lot of Rurounin Kenshin (Samurai X) and also a lot of Japanese sword fighting television shows, and among those in particular is Mugen no Junin (Blade of the Immortal) that has also been made into an anime a couple of years ago.\nWhat do you think of computer animation as oppose to hand drawn animation?\nAlthough it has commonly said that I have started work in computer animation, upon designing the characters, I drew them out with pencil/pen and scan it in. By means of tradition the method I happen to use is how 2D animation is made. On the other hand 3D is a quite different method from 2D and it is a trend that it is more movies right now. If that is going to be the continuing trend, then it is unavoidable that 2D would disappear, but personally I do love 2D animation style. It is something I am more familiar with, growing up and watching it. I myself would definitely love to continue drawing it.\nI understand you studied Japanese literature in college, and there is an introspective, literary quality to a lot of your work, particularly in the way you use voiceover and monologue. Do any particular live action filmmakers, directors, cinematographers, etc., that you admire? Is live action a medium you wish to work with in the future?\nSpeaking of live action, I do go and enjoy it, but I go as a fan/viewer. If you ask if I am ever inspired by any particular action director, then that would be Shunji Iwai. His way of using light and shadow is quite inspiring.\nThe trend of your professional is unique in starting from video game to animation. Now many directors do move from animation to video games. What do you think the anime industry can do in attracting new talent?\nFrom what I can see, the video game industry in Japan is more stable and they treat their workers better than the animation industry is. However the people who currently work with me, love working in animation, so of course I treat them well in working for what they love, that is a personal opinion. If you ask on how the industry is on this trend, then of directors moving, then it is something I never thought about. Since I am not an industry representative, but personally what I think is that if we can continue to make great animation films that people or society can think is great, then we can increase the amount of people who is more interested in working in this industry.\nThe time frame of \u3092\u8ffd\u3046\u5b50\u3069\u3082 is a little unclear. Was there a particular reasoning or a non-descript one you were aiming for the movie to have?\nThere is an intention for the time frame for this work. I placed the time frame in a way that it would be the minimum requirement for the audience to know. I would like the audience to feel satisfied when they first watch the film, but at the same time I want them to have certain questions about the time frame, and want them to watch the film two or three time more to have more questions, so the time frame is in a way made more complicated to be understood.\nYour movies have slightly ambiguous endings, is this intentional and what do you want your viewers to come away with?\nYes, my works in the past have the lingering question of whether it is a happy ending or not. This is intentional because I want the audience to decide for themselves whether this is a happy ending or not. in Japan, that is not a major style on how the endings are done. Upon making my own films I want to make a unique one to other existing ones, on the other hand \u3092\u8ffd\u3046\u5b50\u3069\u3082 this one, the ending is a bit more clearer compare to my past works.\nLooking at the reactions of the audience now for your movie, would you have changed it?\nI always have certain regrets or certain rethinking after a movie. So yes if I have a chance to remake the film, I would like to make it twice as more fun, even for my past work of 5 Centimeters per Seconds, perhaps I would make it five times more interesting. So as time goes by, I would have gain more experience, but the audience who have paid and watch the film already, so I try not to think about it as much, rather it was the best I can do at the time.\nCan you describe the transition from making a one man project to a large scale project with a larger staff?\nThe big difference is when making it alone, there is less stress. What I imagine and intend to draw, I draw. So there is no stress at all, on the other hand with working it alone, the outcome would be only my own and it would be my own limit. When working with a group, there is stress, and at times there is a background produce not to my liking, so there is communication stress. Sometimes though, my staff comes up were brilliant ideas, so it can become more fleshed out and beyond my own limits.\nIn what ways have you developed as a director and in the future what would you like to expand?\nEver since I debuted with Voices of a Distant Star, I am not sure if I should call it directing since I made it myself. I was called director, but at the time I didn\u2019t understand what the position means. After that I was working with other people, still I wasn\u2019t so sure what director means. I drew pictures myself, and directed others, it was a learning process. After two years working on this current project, I finally got the vision of this feeling like an anime director, so I finally feel this project is my directorial debut. Now I have learned how this feeling is, my next project I want it to be an anime project. So I am looking forward to what I can do for my next show.\n(Shinkai was asked on his feelings/perceptions on how)Animation and computer software have changed in the last twenty years for an aspiring artist.\nTrue today the circumstances are much better, there is more powerful computer and better software, however the truth is what you like to tell in your work is the basics. When you are self making it, the effort goes in the quality of how you would like the project to look. Though the circumstances are better, if the self making artist does not understand that you need to talk about what you really want to show then it has not really changed much from ten years ago.\nIs there any reason why you have used young people to explain your overall theme of loss? What does the introduction of an older character mean and can imply for a future work?\nMorisaki is the adult, but the main character is Asuna who is 11-12 years old, so I want to clarify that. The basic purpose of change is because I want to have a broader audience, in my past movies the audience was more of a 20-30 year old male. That is fine, but I want the challenge is for a broader audience to watch my movie like a teenager to watch and enjoy it. So this is why I include an adult in my current work.\nCan you talk about the relationship between Morisaki and Asuna, when there is a dialogue, and later conflicting feeling occur in relation to that line?\nAsuna has lost her father, so traveling with Morisaki, she has an familial emotion to Morisaki. Morisaki on the other hand is a very selfish, yet pure person who has lost his wife. Upon dying his wife told him to keep on living, but Morisaki being pure can\u2019t move on without her. Perhaps he knows that it is impossible to bring the dead back to life, but with traveling with Asuna and in the end he realizes that his purpose was bring back a life then sacrifice would have to be made. So in being selfish and pure, then he would have to follow his dream to keep on living. This is controversial, I can\u2019t say that he is a bad and selfish person, he is a complex person and I can\u2019t deny him this.\n(A Japanese question was made, and this is a summation of what the interpreter did)\nWith Shinkai\u2019s background in literature, and ambitious ending stems from Japanese literature, would Shinkai continue to create movies that have a typical Japanese ambiguous end for audience to ponder? Since this is a Japanese style, it was understood that 30-40 years ago it would have been impossible to think of this ending becoming known for the western world.\n(This is tie in with the previous question, so this is going to be what the interpreter sums up.)\nMorisaki is a complicated character on who believes that retrieving the death is more important. Shun said that the living is more important, and Asuna feels that living is a blessing. She does not deny either of the other two character\u2019s beliefs, and this is how I personally feel and think of often. It is with this thought I want to leave the audience to think.\nIf you ask me if there was any ambiguous Japanese literature ending, then yes If you asked if there was any literature that influence my coming to this type of ending, then there is none. Upon seeing reactions of audience abroad, I am getting the feeling that this style can be accepted worldwide, if the entertainment is more perfect, then the ending does not have to be so clear. Technically it is possible to make the ending more easily to understand to make the audience feel better, and if it is required then it is possible that in my future works I would make the ending less un-ambiguous. I can\u2019t, however change who I am and the literature I have grown up with, perhaps the way I think and the way I make an ending would not change that much, technically possible to change though.\nYour works center around communication, what makes this theme attractive to you? Are there any particular aspects of humans and society that you get your inspiration from?\nSimply put in Japan and most of the word today, the majority of people are interested in communication. Today in Japan, people don\u2019t watch as much television or play as much games. The communication is becoming more of an entertainment in itself. In the society that I live in where the communication is so important, taking the place of entertainment it has became my center point of my works.\nWould you want to use this current setting of Agaratha in later works?\nI feel rather honored if other creators would want to use my setting of Agaratha. \u3092\u8ffd\u3046\u5b50\u3069\u3082 currently has two manga that is in magazines, created by two separate individual artists. I didn\u2019t make any particular requests for those two artists. So I have no problems with more creators to use my world.\nYour films have highlight commitment as a virtue and obsession as related to commitment. Commitment is positive and obsession as negative. A distinction between those two a lesson you want to teach your audience?\nI think it depends on the time my work was made. Perhaps your question indicates 5 Centimeters per Second. In my current work, I have made Morisaki as being unwavering in his obsession. The character who continues to have that commitment and obsession can create enough input for himself to keep on living. It is possible to make an obsession a source of living will.\nDo you feel that a younger international audience would make your work appeal on a broader level?\nTo be honest if I made my current work to appeal to a broader international audience, I never thought about that. Toward making \u3092\u8ffd\u3046\u5b50\u3069\u3082 I wanted to make a different world than my previous works. In enjoying my older works, audiences have to know a certain amount of details, with existing Japanese culture and background. I want to make it different than 5 Centimeters per Second, so people, who don\u2019t know about Japan, can also enjoy. This is my main reason for making something different this time. It is true that I want a younger audience for this movie, and if those accept it abroad is that audience then I am already quite happy to know that. Yet when I was making this movie, I never intentionally made it for the world market to enjoy. I just want to make a work different than my previous ones.\nNow Makoto Shinkai is announced to be a guest for NYAF 2011, so as I said this is a great opportunity to check out his latest work, if there is time then I would definitely love to see his latest movie again.\nMakoto Shinkaiotakon 2011\nPrevious PostKanon Wakeshima Interview \u2013 AM2 Press JunketNext PostOtaku In The Mirror Part 5: Uwamezukai\n2 thoughts on \u201cOtakon 2011: Makoto Shinkai Press Conference\u201d\nDude, there\u2019s a real OTAKU if I ever saw one! 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Songs like \"Happy\" and \"Get Lucky\" were unassailable smashes, but for Pharrell fans of old, this smooth-funk era is no match for his early aughts phase, which saw him upending hip-hop and pop while weirding out with Chad Hugo and Shay Haley for genre-spanning side project N*E*R*D, which has been dormant since 2010.\nHis feature on \"Move That Dope\" indicated the nervy Pharrell of old was still alive under that memed hat, and now there's more hope: Skateboard P hinted that new N*E*R*D material could be on the way (might as well capitalize on the momentum, at the very least). During his iTunes Festival show in London last night, Pharrell brought out Haley and the two performed N*E*R*D cuts \u201cLapdance,\u201d \u201cRockstar,\u201d and \u201cShe Wants To Move,\" when Haley dropped this bomb: \"It feels good to be back in London. When we released our first album back in 2001 and first crossed the Atlantic, this was the first place to embrace us. 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Anyone who watched knows that the final score doesn't reflect just how close a contest it was all the way through -- game-tying threes, teams swapping leads and a constant stream of nail-biting tension as each team tried (and failed) to get and keep the upper hand.\nWe don't know about you, but we thought it was exhausting. Tired as we were afterward, that's nothing compared to how LeBron James must feel after playing 45 of 48 minutes, not to mention 228 out of 250 minutes through five excruciating games. That's what it takes when your two best teammates go down with injuries, leaving you with just a bunch of random dudes out there against a powerhouse squad featuring the league MVP that won 67 games in the regular season.\nThe NBA has been absolutely killing it on its YouTube channel, in case you haven't been paying attention. 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If you have an idea for a story or a song, a movie or an artwork, this is the space to develop it. If you don\u2019t have any ideas, come anyway and see what happens\u2026! Each class will be different \u2013 new rules, new games, and new ways of responding, playing, thinking, collaborating, making, connecting and being in the world.\n\u201cI shut my eyes in order to see\u201d \u2013 Paul Gauguin\nIt\u2019s about activating the senses\nIt\u2019s about trusting the process\nIt\u2019s about not seeing, in order to see\u2026\nIt\u2019s a safe space \u2013 a space where you can be a little impulsive \u2013 take some risks and see what happens\nPossibly with colour\nPossibly with glow in the dark\nPossibly with music\nPossibly with things pulled out of a hat\nPossibly with surprise guests\nPossibly with rules\nNew rules should be created every week\u2026\nWHEN: WEDNESDAY NIGHTS, 7 \u2013 9pm starting 2nd November WHERE: 2B TYSON RD, WESTCLIFF\nBRING: MATERIALS (some drawings materials will be provided) food and drink or anything else you fancy First four classes in November \u2013 FREE!\nWe can only take 12 people. PLEASE RSVP by FRIDAY 28th October. anthea.moys@gmail.com or on the FACEBOOK page: Play by Night: https://www.facebook.com/Play-by-Night-336370906716505/\nWHAT: Booster session! Energising anxiety reducing, laughter inducing booster session that involves, quite simply, playing games that really make you feel more aware, awake and alive.\nWhat to expect: Mostly non-competitive games that move the body, challenge you to think less and laugh and play more.\nWHAT IS NEEDED: An open space where we can move around. A chair for each person for the zombie game.\nWHAT IS IT? Weekly artistic challenges that push you out of your comfort zone in a safe and playful way and ask you to think less and respond more intuitively to the problem at hand. Exercises are drawn from an archive of artists\u2019 ways of working: from the Surrealist\u2019s and Dadaist\u2019s automatic drawing games to Pop art\u2019s collage experiments, each class is about making and making without thinking too much if it is right or wrong, good or bad. In school many of us were restricted in these ways \u2013 that we had to \u2018get it right\u2019 and so we were afraid of making mistakes. Here mistakes, many mistakes and retakes are welcome! \u201cEver tried. Ever Failed. No Matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better.\u201d Samuel Beckett on failure.\nDURATION: 4 Weeks or longer. Each session is 2 hours.\nMAKE-BELIEVE MANIFESTO WORKSHOP\nMAKE YOUR OWN MAKE-BELIVE MANIFESTO! A Manifesto is a public declaration of intent and is usually associated with political parties, but anyone can essentially create their own manifesto. During the 1960\u2019s there were many artists that wrote Manifesto\u2019s, The Futurist Manifesto being the most well known. The workshop is about playfully developing your own Manifesto, your statement of beliefs and values, individually or in a team. You will also be challenged to make outfits, flags, possibly even a fort and figure out how to collectively perform this manifesto to the rest of the group. The workshop is a really fun way to begin the year as a team. Ready, steady\u2026 manifest!\nWHAT IS NEEDED: This workshop can take place anywhere. We will respond to and use what is in the room already.\nCONSTRUCTIVE PROCRASTINATION WORKSHOP\nAdventures in Creativity and Awareness\nThis course is inspired by one of my students who was the king of procrastination, but then used this as material for work. We all procrastinate. We all suffer from \u2018the imposter syndrome\u2019 and probably so many other things that hinder us from doing the work! What if we could use these common human failures as material for creative work and ideas? It\u2019s all about your perspective and how you look at things. Artists are pretty good at this because they really good at looking at things, ordinary, boring every day things in new ways. We can also apply this to anything \u2013 its not about if you can draw or not \u2013 its about how you look at things.\nAn inspiring talk on how many creative people have worked with failure as material to create work. List making and swopping failures. Turning the worst ideas into the best ones through games and working collaboratively.\nWhat is needed: projector for talk, drawing and writing materials.\nWALKING TOURIST WORKSHOP\nYou are a tourist. You are not from here. You are an adventurer, a detective, and an investigator. This course is about going outside. An adventurous series of workshops where we will go to a different place in Johannesburg for each of the four weeks and walk. In each place we will respond to that place with different activities such as drawing, map making, collecting items and make frottages/rubbings. In 2012 I participated in a walkshop in Marseilles, France. The idea was to see walking as a creative practice itself. How we walk, where we walk, how we engage with spaces and places and did you know that there are many different ways of walking? On our walks we will engage all the senses \u2013 looking, listening, smelling, touching and tasting. We will also be drawing and writing, leaving things behind and maybe taking things with. This course is about walking the city with new eyes and responding site-specifically to places that resonate with you in whatever way you choose.\nWHAT IS NEEDED: Team needs to be able to meet in four different locations. Materials (notebook and pencil/pen) will be provided.\nDuration: Four X 2-hour sessions over the course of 4 weeks\nYaaas Kweeen!\nMensies Welcome to the Sister-hood Ritual\nWHAT IS IT: A ritual developed with the mother and/or guardians of the young lady who is about to become a woman. YAY! A lot of us don\u2019t have any rituals anymore. How do we celebrate important rites of passage? This ritual is about a collaboration in celebrating the young woman\u2019s entry into woman-hood. Lead by myself and my mother, we work closely with the young ladies mother/father/guardian in designing a special ritual for the young lady that involves all of the woman in her life. We also bring into the circle amazing woman who have come before us, honouring them and seeing them as inspiring mentors. As is my style, the ritual is collaborative, playful and celebratory!\nPerformances for Events\nFuelled by the belief that everyone can draw, the performance is a game that is played between the artist Anthea Moys and any willing player who will sit opposite her. The rules are that they both have to draw each other in one minute, but are not allowed to look down at the page, putting them both at a disadvantage. Afterwards they sign and date the drawings and exchange them.\nDuration usually 3 hours, negotiable.\nWhen Anthea was younger she decided she wanted a profession where she could shape shift and learn as much as possible. So she became an artist. In her profession as an artist she has been lucky enough to shape shift into the following identities: a painter, a singer, a karateka, a chess player, a ballroom dancer, a bag pipe player, an actress, a soccer player, an ice hockey player, a swiss alpine horn player, a indoor track cyclist, a swiss wrestler, a runner, an arm wrestler, a street cleaner, a rugby player, a porter, a cyclist, a conductor, a boxer, a teacher, a fellow player. Currently she is learning how to Dj.\nWhy is all of this important? Well, whilst Anthea\u2019s superpower may not be mastering one particular skill, rather, she has learnt to master the human art and act of active listening & learning itself. Engaging in all of these experiences with all of these different people and disciplines has given her a unique outlook on life and a unique way of working with people. In her consulting practice she brings this unique perspective to the table and assists clients through a process that engages the client or group in creative problem solving that leads to sustainable outcomes.\nWits School of the Arts 1st year students\nAnthea has taught at numerous institutions including Wits School of the Arts, Rhodes University, University of Johannesburg, Vega School of Brand Leadership, Oprah Winfrey Leadership Academy for Girls and De La Salle high school. In all of her teaching she encourages a collaborative and adventurous approach with a focus on developing creative literacy through play. Over the years she has designed many courses that range from art and performance in public space to introductory courses in creative development to practical and performative drawings courses. 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Grammy-nominated Soul/Jazz diva Maysa, who celebrates her 20th year as a solo recording artist this year, marks that achievement with her new album\nBACK 2 LOVE, a tour-de-force that validates her status as the greatest Soul-Jazz singer of her generation-the latest in a distinguished line of singers that stretches back through Anita Baker, Chaka Khan, Will Downing, Angela Bofill, Marlena Shaw and more recently, Ledisi and Chrisette Michele.\nBACK 2 LOVE, which is set for a May 26th release, may be her widest-ranging album yet, incorporating contemporary R&B, jazzy Soul balladry, straight-up dance music, inspirational pop and more. With production from the likes of J.R. Hutson (Jill Scott, Earth, Wind & Fire), Lorenzo Johnson (Ledisi), Stokley Williams (Mint Condition, Kelly Price, Wale\u2019), and Chris \u201cBig Dog\u201d Davis (Kim Burrell, George Clinton), the album coheres around Maysa\u2019s peerless vocalizing highlighted by her amazingly rich, evocative vocal tone. That\u2019s the sound that led her mentor Stevie Wonder to proclaim \u201cMaysa is WONDERful!\u201d In the wake of her first Grammy nomination and Soul Train Music Award, it seems that the world-at-large is finally recognizing just how special an artist Maysa is.\n\u201cBACK 2 LOVE represents the fact that I\u2019m ready to get back to having a personal life with a very special man in my life. I have worked hard on my career so I could take care of us (my son and I). My son is almost 16 and I think he is old enough to have a mom who is going to be dating and possibly married. I am ready to meet Prince Charming. The music is exactly who I am. Being a Shanachie artist, I was always given the freedom to express who I am musically but this time I feel like spiritually we all went to a pure place to get this music. The music represents who I am as a woman and a human being who lives to love people. As a professional singer I should be able to sing anything and my records are just me trying to love everyone. And that\u2019s why I am proud to be able to go from Jazz to R&B to Pop, etc.\u201d\nBACK 2 LOVE kicks off with a classic dance-pulse on the title track. Though Maysa has recorded dance tracks before (mostly notably with Incognito), those often had a Brazilian or more overt Jazz spin but BACK 2 LOVE shows that Maysa has what it takes to be a dance diva if she wanted to.\nListen to \u201cKeep It Movin\u2019,\u201d Maysa\u2019s duet with Stokley\u201d:\nThe opener is followed by the distinctive R&B groove of \u201cKeep It Movin\u2018\u201d produced by Mint Condition\u2019s lead vocalist/producer/songwriter Stokley, who also contributes a guest vocal on the track. It is unlike anything Maysa has done previously and the chemistry between her and Stokley is magical. \u201cStokley is an amazing artist,\u201d Maysa says. \u201d I love his writing, his voice and performing style. I think our styles are like smoke and fire together, like a sweet barbecue sauce! I was so happy he joined me on this record.\u201d Stokley adds, \u201cWorking with Maysa was so familiar even though we\u2019ve never collaborated before. We have a lot of the same influences. Maysa has such a unique gift. Think if velvet, butter & brown had a sound\u2026 weave a few high textures in there, that\u2019s her! You feel her soul when she delivers a song. I\u2019m very honored to have worked with Maysa.\u201d\nThe song \u201cHeavenly Voices\u201d is a masterpiece of jazzy Soul, quintessential Maysa, a spiritually-oriented song. Likewise, such tracks as \u201cLast Chance For Love,\u201d \u201cGo Away Little Boy,\u201d and \u201cSmilin'\u201d all have the hallmarks of Maysa\u2019s classic style-rich vocal sound, deeply felt, evocative phrasing, lyrics relating to affairs of the heart, and a song structure that embodies the essence of R&B but adds a Jazz sensibility. \u201cGo Away Little Boy\u201d is inspired by Marlena Shaw\u2019s classic hit of the same name. \u201cBig Dog, my producer, came to me with the title and the music and I thought it would be fun to create our own vibes,\u201d Maysa relates. \u201cMarlena Shaw\u2019s version is perfection and one of the songs I listened to growing up. I would never try to cover it.\u201d On \u201cLast Chance For Love,\u201d a Seventies-style R&B ballad, Maysa is joined by the incomparable Phil Perry, likewise a singer who is revered by other musicians. \u201cFinally working with Phil was amazing,\u201d Maysa says. \u201cHe is the falsetto king and my buddy! He is a master vocalist and I learn a lot from him whenever I hear him sing. Years ago before we were Shanachie artists, we had six-hour marathon phone conversations about the industry and here we are! He\u2019s a fun and wonderful person.\u201d\nMaysa Leak was born and raised in Baltimore, MD and knew by the time she was six that she would be a musician. \u201cI was six years old when my mom took me to see Purlie,\u201d she recalls. \u201cWhen Melba Moore came on stage and sang her heart out, I knew at that moment I wanted to make people feel the way she made me feel.\u201d Maysa graduated from Morgan State University with a degree in classical performance, meeting Stevie Wonder while a student. Upon graduating she moved to North Hollywood to join Wonder\u2019s Wonderlove group, with whom she performed for a year, appearing on the Jungle Fever soundtrack and such television shows as Oprah and The Tonight Show. In the early Nineties, Maysa auditioned over the phone to become the new lead singer of the acclaimed British Jazz/Funk/R&B band Incognito, moving to London for four-and-a-half years. She has appeared on over nine Incognito recordings and continues to appear as featured vocalist with them from time to time. Maysa recorded her self-titled debut album for GRP in 1995, following it up with ALL MY LIFE in 1999, OUT OF THE BLUE in 2002 and SMOOTH SAILING in 2004. She then made an impact with her interpretations of classic soul music on two acclaimed albums for Shanachie Entertainment, SWEET CLASSIC SOUL (2005) and FEEL THE FIRE (2007), on which she showed her ability to put her own unique stamp on familiar songs from the 1970s era. METAMORPHOSIS (2008) showed off Maysa\u2019s prowess as a composer and A WOMAN IN LOVE (2010) found Maysa returning to her roots as a jazz singer. MOTIONS OF LOVE (2011) was highlighted by the ballad \u201cHave Sweet Dreams\u201d co-written by Stevie Wonder (who plays harmonica on the track) and inspired by First Lady Michelle Obama, as well as \u201cFlower Girl,\u201d a duet with Dwele. BLUE VELVET SOUL (2013) yields Maysa\u2019s first Grammy nomination, for her performance of the song \u201cQuiet Fire.\u201d A VERY MAYSA CHRISTMAS (2014) delighted fans as the songbird released her first ever holiday album. Now BACK 2 LOVE brings together all the facets of Maysa\u2019s artistry in one album. \u201cI hope people love this album,\u201d Maysa says. \u201cI want this to be the soundtrack to their summer of 2015 and I pray it helps somebody feel good and forget problems and worries and just feel love.\nMonifa Brown / Shanachie\nback 2 lovemaysashanachie\nPrevious ArticleB.B. 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This also established the position of Municipal Judge and Municipal Court Clerk. The Municipal Judge would be elected by the qualified electors of the City, and was to hold office for two years. The salary for the Judge was $1500 a year, and remained in effect for at least four years. The City council could at the end of those four years increase the salary not to exceed $2400 a year. The Judge would be elected every two years.\nAct 92 of 1935 established that the electors of Miller County, Arkansas should also be voting for the Municipal Judge since the Texarkana, Arkansas Municipal Court had both original and concurrent jurisdiction coextensive with Miller County. The Judge would be elected biennially at the general election for a period of two years. Act 89 of 1957 changed the election of the Judge to be every four years and hold said office for four years. This act also established the salary for the Judge to $5,600 a year with Miller County paying one-third of the salary from the county\u2019s general revenue fund and the City of Texarkana, AR, to pay two-thirds of the salary from the city\u2019s general revenue fund. The Arkansas State Legislature has continued through the years to establish the salary range for the Municipal Judge.\nThere have been twelve Municipal Judges elected to the bench. The Honorable Kirk D. Johnson is the last judge to sit the bench as a Municipal Judge. Amendment 80 to the Constitution of Arkansas of 1874 became effective in July, 2001. This Amendment changed the name of the Municipal Court to District Court. Judge Johnson then became the first District Court Judge for Texarkana, Miller County, Arkansas. He was elected to the position of Circuit Judge for the 8th Judicial District South in the year 2002. He had two years left on the term for District Judge; therefore, Governor Mike Huckabee appointed Judge Carol C. Dalby to complete these two years.\nThere have been many changes in the court system since its inception. When the Court was originally established the City Clerk was both City Clerk and Court Clerk. The City of Texarkana, AR, in the mid 70\u2019s split the position to two positions, and then in late 1976 established the position for a deputy court clerk to take office in 1977. The court offices and courtroom originally were in the Texarkana, AR City Hall. In September 1985, the court offices and courtroom became residents of the newly completed Bi-State Justice Building.\nThere has been a Civil Division in the Municipal Court since the court was established. The Small Claims Division was established in 1977 with the purpose of giving individuals an access to civil court without attorneys to represent either side of the issue, and with relaxed rules of procedure. No action may be brought to the small claims court by any collection agency, collection agent, or assignee of a claim or by any person, firm, partnership, association or corporation engaged, either primarily or secondarily, in the business of lending money at interest. In disputes of contracts and/or damage to personal property the small claims suit may be filed in the county where it occurred or where the defendant resides. 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How shall it process the campaigns of the past decade, which defined a generation of officers and noncommissioned officers; codify lessons; and prepare for the future?\nIn this article, we outline five cautionary reminders that cut through all echelons of the Army\u2019s experience in Iraq and Afghanistan. It is not our intent to recap best practices \u2014 this has been done exceedingly well over the past decade and has been instrumental to the Army\u2019s ability to adapt to the wars we have been fighting.\nNor is it an apology for counterinsurgency doctrine. Our goal is much broader. Simply put, how do we look forward to new realities while being mindful of the hard lessons from the past decade?\n1. Do not view the past 10 years as an aberration\nThere is a tendency among some in the Army \u2014 one that predated 9/11 \u2014 to view stability operations as somehow beneath or ancillary to the Army\u2019s core competencies. Operations in Somalia, Haiti, Bosnia and Kosovo were viewed as misadventures that distracted us from our ability to fight conventional wars and ultimately degraded our war-fighting skills. We are seeing shades of this argument emerge again today as the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan wind down, and some conclude that the Army\u2019s undeniable limitations in nation-building and the challenges of fighting protracted, asymmetric wars mean we will not engage in such missions again.\nThis view rests on two critical misinterpretations. The first is confusing degree of difficulty with degree of likelihood. We can acknowledge the limitations of military power in conducting stability operations but, at the same time, recognize that these will increasingly be the types of missions we are called upon to execute in the coming years, albeit perhaps not on the scale of Iraq and Afghanistan. Even those who argue that China or Iran present the most grave national security threats to the U.S. are hard-pressed to suggest that a large-scale, conventional land war is imminent or even likely. If history is any guide, we will continue to be called upon to intervene in small wars that test our ability to wage stability operations.\nSecond, the preference for reorienting the Army back to offensive and defensive operations constitutes what we call the \u201cfalse comfort zone\u201d narrative, and it wins new believers each day. Many of our conventional war-fighting skills have unquestionably deteriorated over the past 10 years, and we will need to devote real attention to rebuilding them. In fact, a generation of junior officers and NCOs knows nothing but how to conduct stability operations. But suggesting that the difficult nature of protracted stability operation missions proves that the Army should dedicate its primary focus to traditional, conventional combat roles will only position us to make the same mistakes again.\nTherefore, our first imperative is to recognize that the past 10 years, while exacting an incredible toll on the Army, is still probably a good gauge in analyzing the types of wars we will be called upon to fight in the near future. Related to this, we need to fight any tendency to return exclusively to preparing for offensive and defensive operations, even if for many it forms the Army\u2019s natural comfort zone. In everything, we need to strive to retain balance, and stability operations must remain within our jurisdiction.\n2. Do not let budget cuts define us\nNo one denies that the Budget Control Act of 2011 and the associated mandatory reductions in federal spending will bring a new reality for the Army. Current estimates suggest the Army will cut 80,000 troops and up to eight brigade combat teams by 2017.\nMany defense commentators, noting parallels to 20th century drawdowns, are sounding the alarm against precipitous cuts. Max Boot has recently cautioned: \u201cAt the end of the day, less money results in less capability. And less capability is something we cannot afford at a time when we face a rising China, a nuclear North Korea, an Iran on the verge of going nuclear, a Pakistan threatened as never before by jihadists and numerous terrorist groups, ranging from the Afghan and Pakistani Taliban to the Shabab in Somalia and al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula.\u201d Boot may be correct, but we find danger if the Army echoes this line of thinking or, worse, allows itself to be defined by budget cuts. In letting budget cuts dominate the narrative about the Army\u2019s role in the coming decades, by default we consciously stake out a narrow scope of responsibility or jurisdiction, and normally that is our comfort zone of conventional warfare.\nMore broadly speaking, in viewing Army capabilities exclusively through the lens of diminished resources, the Army is given a free pass when it comes to making hard choices about prioritizing training and resources. Our mission is still to fight and win our nation\u2019s wars, regardless of what those wars may look like or when they might emerge, and we cannot use the mask of a smaller budget to ignore certain components of unified land operations. While it is entirely appropriate for our most senior leaders to face the challenges of translating strategy to finite resources and communicating risk to civilian policymakers, the rest of the Army should quietly go about their jobs. Surely, diminished resources will have clear, practical consequences for Army units, but there comes a point when we all simply need to move forward. At best, a preoccupation with budget cuts is distracting; at worst, it causes us to develop strategies based on resources as opposed to applying resources to the strategies we have developed.\n3. Don\u2019t blame the civilians\nAs we begin the post-Iraq and Afghanistan era and downsize the Army, we run another risk: committing a serious civil-military relations foul. Fault lines have begun to emerge, if not intensify, over the past decade. One of this article\u2019s co-authors conducted a large-scale, random-sample survey of more than 4,000 active-duty Army officers (lieutenants through colonels) on a host of civil-military relations issues in 2009. Among the survey\u2019s findings: About 70 percent said members of the active-duty military should not publicly criticize senior members of the civilian branch of government. In the late 1990s, the same question was posed to midgrade to senior military officers as part of the Triangle Institute for Security Studies\u2019 \u201cSurveys on the Military in the Post-Cold War Era.\u201d The work compared the results of the two surveys and found officers serving today were less likely to give the normatively correct response to the question of whether active-duty military should publicly criticize senior civilians in the government. Eighty-five percent of majors, lieutenant colonels and colonels questioned in the TISS survey agreed that active-duty military personnel should not criticize senior civilian government officials, compared with 75 percent of majors, lieutenant colonels, and colonels surveyed in 2009. While the majority of officers still gave the normatively correct response, a decline of 10 percentage points over the past decade is significant and may reflect the toll from the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and an ensuing decline in Army officers\u2019 trust in government, regardless of which political party is in power. Whether this is the root of their cynicism does not matter. The fact that more than 30 percent of respondents (and nearly 40 percent of junior officers) feel it is appropriate for active-duty military to publicly criticize elected officials is nothing short of alarming.\nA tendency to blame civilian policymakers may be emerging on two fronts. First, as we continue to reflect on both wars, but specifically the war in Iraq, some in the Army tend to blame civilian leaders for getting the nation (and the Army) involved in a war of choice versus a war of necessity. Others blame civilian leaders for the high toll taken on the institution \u2014 measured in casualties, deployments or strain on the force. A second emerging thread of blame directed toward civilian leaders regards the decision to cut nearly $500 billion from the defense budget over the coming decade.\nIn allowing these attitudes to go unchecked, we run the risk of revisiting the poisoned civil-military atmosphere that materialized in part from the drawdown of the 1990s during the Clinton administration. In both cases \u2014 both the retrospective blame for the wars we have fought and the impending blame for slashing the budget \u2014 blaming the civilians is a convenient way for the Army to abdicate responsibility. Moreover, as Duke professor and leading civil-military relations scholar Peter Feaver has aptly noted, \u201ccivilians have the right to be wrong\u201d \u2014 a fact some in the Army seem to forget from time to time. Army leaders at all levels should be conscious of this growing cynicism and move swiftly to eliminate it.\nOne absolute truth the Army has learned over the past decade is the value of intellectually capable and mentally agile leaders. Certainly, the Army\u2019s recent experience examining and developing operational solutions for diverse and complex problems in areas such as economic development, governance and intricate networks further illustrates the requirement for enlightened leadership at every level. One challenge the Army faces is the retention of quality junior and midgrade officers. Former Defense Secretary Robert Gates captured the problem well in a speech last year at West Point: \u201cMen and women in the prime of their professional lives, who may have been responsible for the lives of scores or hundreds of troops, or millions of dollars in assistance, or engaging in reconciling warring tribes, they may find themselves in a cube all day reformatting PowerPoint slides, preparing quarterly training briefs or assigned an ever-expanding array of clerical duties. The consequences of this terrify me.\u201d\nJunior and midgrade officers\u2019 scope of responsibility will inevitably shrink during peacetime. Officers once responsible for an operational environment the size of Connecticut will now shift their attention to conducting marksmanship ranges, training meetings and in-ranks inspections. However, the opportunities to invest in the intellectual and professional abilities of these young officers should not diminish. Broadening opportunities such as graduate school and interagency fellowships stand the risk of being the first casualties in successive rounds of deep budget cuts. However, these are precisely the types of programs that must be preserved, not simply to challenge and retain quality officers, but to invest in our next generation of leaders. These opportunities provide our officers the ability to overcome cultural and bureaucratic differences, gain a deeper understanding for the capabilities of our joint and interagency partners, and develop the personal relationships required to conduct military operations in complex environments.\nThe past 10 years of war have witnessed great materiel innovation and adaptation \u2014 from mine-resistant, ambush-protected vehicles to advancements in intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance platforms and biometric technology. These new pieces of hardware have transformed how our ground forces conduct combat operations. However, our greatest achievement has arguably been the development of a new generation of proven, adaptable combat leaders. As we look forward to this transition period, we should be mindful of the adage \u201chumans over hardware\u201d and fight the temptation to invest solely in new technology, often at the expense of human capital.\n5. Add \u201cunderstanding\u201d to the Army values\nMost of our missteps in Iraq and Afghanistan can be linked back to a lack of understanding \u2014 a failure to empathize with the very people we are there to protect. From the mistreatment of detainees to the burning of Korans, the good our Army has done can be rapidly overshadowed by the callous acts of a few. To conduct successful stability operations, all soldiers must possess a degree of understanding about the local populace \u2014 their culture, their religion and their traditions, as well as some of their more basic human conditions, their instincts, their fears and their ambitions. Over the past 10 years, the Army has exhibited great acts of personal courage, integrity and selfless service. However, none of this may have been possible without soldiers embracing the concept of understanding \u2014 their attempt to humanize a sometimes brutal and demanding enterprise.\nUnderstanding should not be interpreted as sacrificing operational imperatives or the ability to make tough decisions. However, by embracing the value of understanding, we stop creating new enemies through ill-conceived and thoughtless operations, and we gain traction in villages and communities through meaningful interaction with the local populace. The Army Values have served us well since their inception and provided a valuable ethical framework for soldiers conducting dangerous missions. However, as we review everything our institution has done over the past decade, clearly the value of understanding merits inclusion in this treasured list that we hold true.\nAfter more than a decade of sustained combat, today\u2019s soldiers form the most experienced and capable combat force the Army has ever fielded. History is replete with examples of transitions managed poorly \u2014 precipitous cuts in readiness, training and capabilities. It is our responsibility to ensure that we conduct this transition deliberately, capturing and institutionalizing the lessons we have learned over the past 10 years. These five imperatives \u2014 not viewing the past 10 years as an aberration, refusing to let budget cuts define who we are, resisting the temptation to blame civilian policymakers, investing in human capital and adding \u201cunderstanding\u201d to the list of Army Values \u2014 can serve as guideposts during this critical period.", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00080.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 63, + "original_length": 15498, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.95, + "perplexity": 281.0, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "http://articles.aberdeennews.com/2008-04-18/news/26431984_1_water-lab-pesticides-ground-water", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T04:05:51Z", + "digest": "sha1:WYGIKVQQ5BMNI65EO7FHXQTDJ5LQS4YI", + "length": 5771, + "nlines": 7, + "source_domain": "articles.aberdeennews.com", + "title": "Finding a needle in haystack? No problem for Montana Analytical Lab - townnews-aberdeennews", + "raw_content": "YOU ARE HERE: Aberdeen News Home\u2192Collections\u2192Pesticides\nFinding a needle in haystack? No problem for Montana Analytical Lab\nApril 18, 2008|By Carol Flaherty, MSU News Service\nBOZEMAN - Heidi Hickes' job is to find the proverbial \"needle in the haystack,\" and she does so regularly. Actually, a needle would be easier to find. At least it is visible. Hickes and her team of 12 at the Montana Analytical Lab at Montana State University document the invisible within about 3,000 samples a year. Part of their job is to search for invisible threats in our water, in fertilizer put on our land or in the feed we give our pets and livestock. They regularly search for trace amounts of heavy metals, pesticides or prohibited substances, such as those that are suspected of causing Mad Cow Disease. The lab is part of both the Montana Agricultural Experiment Station and the Montana Department of Agriculture. The state Department of Agriculture uses the lab to develop data for its enforcement of feeds, fertilizer, pesticide and ground water protection laws. The experiment station's use supports analytical services to farmers, ranchers, researchers and other state agencies on a fee basis. Twenty years ago, staff at the lab worked with a precision that regularly found a drop of contaminant in an Olympic-sized swimming pool, doing data analysis on the level of one part in a billion. Today the sensitivity of their work and equipment is 1,000 times greater. The standard \"needle\" now makes up just one part in a trillion. Think of that as a fraction with the numeral one over a one and 12 zeros. The USDA uses the Montana lab for its official Pesticide Data Program, and is set to recommend that the lab on the MSU campus be the USDA's only facility in the country to analyze surface water for pesticides. If that proposal goes through, a lab in Minnesota would do similar work analyzing ground water. \"That lab is amazing,\" said Martha Lamont, administrative director of the USDA's Pesticide Data Program in Manassas, Va. \"We started the Montana lab with a very small portion (of the work) to see how things would go. Those people took so well. They don't need guidance, they lead the way.\" The federal pesticide data program is designed to produce statistically reliable human consumption data on pesticides in drinking water, a program that can be highly controversial. For instance, a person may be concerned that their property would lose value if a contaminant is found in area wells. However, in many cases, the effect of such trace amounts of pesticides is not known. \"With water, we have to be very careful,\" Lamont added. To provide reliability and consistency, the labs used for federal water testing regularly are sent standardized samples to test. \"We send proficiency samples prepared by a third party, and Montana is always so good that last year we asked if they could expand their testing,\" Lamont said. To have earned that level of trust from Lamont, quality control at the lab is stringent. The water lab is kept separate from the lab working with soils and the one working with feeds. Glassware is heated to nearly 600 degrees Fahrenheit for four hours to burn off residues. Every machine is tested and calibrated with standard samples before every test. Some of the tests look for molecules, and some look for the basic elements from which molecules are built. Both data entry and the results of every test are double checked before being sent out. Not only is there a paperwork trail and a quality control officer, but \"people give 110 percent here,\" Hickes said. \"They know what they do is important.\" The work is not just important for finding pesticides, but also to Montanans in other ways. Its dual identity as the Montana Department of Agriculture's lab and the Agricultural Experiment Station's lab dictates that it provides a wide range of services, and testing Montana's water for pesticides is just the start. \"Water analysis is about half of what we do,\" Hickes said. \"The other half is verification of the label information on feeds and fertilizers, and providing nutritional information to farmers and ranchers on their own hay and grain feeds.\" The lab has a huge Montana-based groundwater testing program, and also tests samples of feed you would give to your pets. So on a given day, the Montana Department of Agriculture field staff may send in samples, or a livestock producer might send in a hay sample. Either way, the analytical lab will verify whether it has the proportion of ingredients that were advertized, whether the sample is free of contaminants or whether the nitrate level is safe for livestock. Mary Lee Cope, the lab's administrative assistant, says the importance of the lab's services to agriculture are what attracted her to work there. \"I had been in ranching all of my life, and we sold the ranch,\" Cope said. \"I wanted to go back to work in something ag related. I enjoy working here because the work seems to make a difference to the producers.\" Hickes says the staff's dedication is \"critical for credibility.\" And, as the entire country looks more intently at the quality of its water and as courts order individuals and corporations to be responsible for keeping water clean, court is where some results from the Montana Analytical Lab are likely to end up. \"We have the ability now to look for such extremely low levels of contaminants that scientists don't even know the significance of some of the data for human health,\" Hickes said. \"But that's somebody else's job. 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The novel won the Commonwealth Writers Prize in 2006 and was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize in the same year.\nThrough the deeply personal story of a young couple, William and Sal Thornhill, The Secret River dramatises the colonisation of Australia and the escalating conflict between the original Indigenous inhabitants and the newly arrived white settlers. 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Eventually, water is running off the tiers in the facility, dripping down if not flooding areas below.\nIn most cases, the inmate that caused the problem as well as those impacted by the flooding, are released from their cells and go into a recreational area while cells, floors, and tiers are being cleaned. They get some time out of their cells \u2013 which inmates might view as a reward \u2013 and correctional administrators are left with the mess.\nTo address this situation and reduce water consumption and water waste, some correctional administrators are turning to new technologies, according to Klaus Reichardt, President, and Founder of Waterless Co., a manufacturer of no-water urinals and other restroom products. \u201cNew technologies are coming online that reduce the inmate's ability to abuse toilets, urinals, plumbing, and other water-using devices.\u201d\nFor instance, he is referring to systems now available that can monitor how often a toilet is being flushed. 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NGC 7635, the Bubble Nebula, is being pushed out by the stellar wind of massive star BD+602522, visible in blue toward the right, inside the nebula. Next door, though, lives a giant molecular cloud, visible to the far right in red. At this place in space, an irresistible force meets an immovable object in an interesting way. The cloud is able to contain the expansion of the bubble gas, but gets blasted by the hot radiation from the bubble's central star. The radiation heats up dense regions of the molecular cloud causing it to glow. The Bubble Nebula, pictured here is about 10 light-years across and part of a much larger complex of stars and shells. The Bubble Nebula can be seen with a small telescope towards the constellation of the Queen of Aethiopia (Cassiopeia).\nRe: APOD: NGC 7635: The Bubble Nebula Expanding (2018 Feb 05)\nPost by Boomer12k \u00bb Mon Feb 05, 2018 7:17 am\nReally nice close up... and colorful.\nNot as impressive, I don't have the right filters, or maybe camera...this is through my 10\" Meade LX200 scope...without filters.\nPost by Ann \u00bb Mon Feb 05, 2018 4:04 pm\nGlad to see you post another picture here, Boomer!\nThe APOD is very striking.\nBoomer12k wrote: Not as impressive, I don't have the right filters, or maybe camera...this is through my 10\" Meade LX200 scope...without filters.\nYour filters and camera are minor factors compared with the biggie: photons collected. The APOD is a 1.4 hour exposure on a 2 m aperture telescope. For you to get a similar S/N with your 0.25 m telescope, you'll need about a 90 hour exposure.\nVisual_Astronomer\nPost by Visual_Astronomer \u00bb Mon Feb 05, 2018 6:01 pm\nI'll take issue with the \"can be seen with small telescopes\" claim.\nI've tried several times to see this with my 20\" (which is *not* small) and have only seen about as much as is shown in Boomer's photo.\nVisual_Astronomer wrote: I'll take issue with the \"can be seen with small telescopes\" claim.\nWell, visually, the size of the telescope only impacts extended object brightness at higher magnifications. The Bubble isn't hard to see in a small telescope at low magnification. Of course, it just looks like a faint small glow around a star. But technically, you can see it, and it's not difficult.\nPost by Boomer12k \u00bb Mon Feb 05, 2018 7:05 pm\nThanks, Chris.... I will give that a try.... 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One of the largest BHPH players as well as a finance company that books plenty of non-prime originations discussed the situation recently.\nFirst, a little information background from Cox Automotive chief economist Tom Webb. Because of the new federal mandate requiring tax refunds involving the Earned Income Tax Credit or the Additional Child Tax Credit to be held until Feb. 15, Webb noted that year-to-date tax refunds though Feb. 10 were down 69 percent, or $65 billion, from a year ago. \u201cBut then the flood gates opened,\u201d according to Webb, and a record $74 billion in tax refunds was distributed during the single week ending Feb. 17.\nAs of Feb. 24, Webb indicated year-to-date tax refunds were down 10 percent or $15 billion.\n\u201cThe unusual flow of tax refund monies this year appears to have had less of an effect on dealers than one might expect, especially since other retailers (most notably, TV and appliance stores) did notice a significant impact,\u201d Webb said in his commentary that accompanied the release of the February Manheim Used Vehicle Value Index.\nMeanwhile, the leadership at both America\u2019s Car-Mart and Santander Consumer USA (SCUSA) discussed the impact that tax-refund delay has had on their respective businesses. Car-Mart president and chief financial officer Jeff Williams responded to questions about the topic when the company that has a network of 140 BHPH dealerships throughout the Southeast released results from the third quarter of its fiscal year on Feb. 21.\n\u201cIt\u2019s a little hard to tell,\u201d Williams responded when asked about the percentage of customers in Q3 who typically used their tax refund to purchase a vehicle. Car-Mart reported that its Q3 retail sales softened by 1.3 percent to 10,866 units, down from 11,013 units a year earlier.\n\u201cLast year, the tax money was out basically for the last week of January. So we feel like, looking back, that we had maybe 300 sales last year that didn\u2019t happen this year because of the timing of tax refunds. And yes, theoretically that should all roll into the fourth,\u201d Williams said.\n\u201cBut the money has been delayed a full month. We\u2019re just now receiving it,\u201d he continued. \u201cSo there is some risk that it may be a little lower this year, but our expectations at this point are that the initial fall in the third quarter, if we execute the way we\u2019re planning to, should roll into the fourth quarter with the volumes.\u201d\nOver at SCUSA, the tax refund topic came up when the finance company hosted its 2017 Analyst and Investor Day in New York. An attendee asked SCUSA about the subject in light of Car-Mart discussing it, too.\n\u201cWhat we did see up until frankly about a week ago was what we normally expect as we get into February, to start to see application volumes start growing due to tax season impact. We had not seen that early in the month.\n\u201cWe did start seeing at least what appeared to be the initial signs of some higher app volumes about a week ago. So we'll see,\u201d SCUSA chief operating officer Rich Morrin said during the event on Feb. 23. \u201cObviously we'll have to see if that trend kind of continues, but it seems like, given the delays, it's definitely slowed down how quickly people have been going at least into car dealerships to spend that money.\n\u201cWe have not seen anything significant in terms of modification differences as a result of the delays. So what we would expect to see if the trend continues over the last week is that maybe the backlog is starting to unwind and people are starting to receive their refunds and we\u2019ll see if they continue to go buy cars with them,\u201d Morrin continued.\nSCUSA president and chief executive officer Jason Kulas immediately added, \u201cThe key word there is delay. The refunds are coming. They just have been delayed. 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With Chris Hemsworth leading a star studded cast, there was little that could match the films mighty power in the box office. The film opened a portal that allowed a look into an intricate storyline that was presented well with amazing visuals and complex characters that had the audiences captured from the first ten minutes. 6 years and two films later and Thor is still one of the dominating forces within the Marvel Cinematic Universe.\nBeing the second origin story released, Thor lived up to the hype of Iron Man and is one of the best origin stories to date within the universe. With the first film showing Thor\u2019s rise to powers and the following two showing how he has dealt with the burden of his powers, on top of the weight of leadership. Power does not come easily and for Thor, he learns this the hard way. In order to respect power, one must first lose it. This is one of the most relevant themes within all three films, with it being shown in many different ways among many different people.\nChris Hemsworth returns as the God of Thunder, Thor\nThis week saw the release of the third film \u2013 Thor: Ragnarok, and is fast becoming one of the arguably best Marvel films to date. Marvel has exceeded the expectations of both the fans and critics with this heart wrenching film that manages to explore both dark and light themes without overstepping itself. Almost every scene has an immense tension followed by a quick comedic remark. This technique has been done twice before in the MCU with the Guardians of the Galaxy films, but adds another layer this time with the help of Cate Blanchett, Tom Hiddleston and Chris Hemsworth bringing a fresh flare of wit and sarcasm.\nThroughout the first two Thor films, and the Avengers, we have seen the consistent war between both Loki and Thor, which again was shown in Ragnarok. However, the film has managed to add yet another layer to their already complex relationship. The added layers has allowed for them to explore the way people deflect pain with humour, through both comedic and touching moments between the two brothers. Ragnarok has by far had the best portrayal of the brother\u2019s feelings towards each other, adding towards the statement that it is the best Thor film to date.\nOver the course of his appearances in the MCU, we have seen Thor grow both in maturity and in his power. Self discovery has, and most likely always be, the most prevalent theme in the Thor franchise, and not just within Thor himself, but the other multitude of characters found in his films. Loki\u2019s development in Ragnarok shows a conflict of wanting to change and stay the same, making him one of the most, complex characters in the film alongside Hela who\u2019s introduction was well placed within the film.\nThe creation and direction behind the film was immaculate and absolutely phenomenal, showing a step up in many areas in comparison to the previous two films. Taking a lighter direction, Ragnarok is a complete contrast to The Dark World, with an array of bright colours and characters. The costuming for the film was incredible, with everything matched exceptionally and a fine attention to even the smallest details and transitions between each outfit. Overall, the film was well brought together with meticulous direction, a wonderfully hilarious script and a well chosen cast. But like all films, there were some flaws, with timing being the main one. A fast paced film that was almost too jumpy with its transitions, leaving you feel somewhat more lost than Thor was at points.\nIt seems as if the God of Thunder has become one of the most loved characters, not just for his looks, but for his humour and ability to be mostly serious when called for. Fortunately, he is here to stay for the moment and will be in the next instalment of Avengers, a film all Marvel fans are holding their breath for. Time and time again, Thor has impressed us with the construction and execution of the films, adding to Marvel\u2019s might within the industry, making them a definite force to be reckoned with. 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Therefore the major political parties and coalitions were built out of organisations that were either connected to the previous governing party or opposition movement. Although historical issues continue to play an important role in Polish politics, they have ceased to be the defining issue of political allegiance.\nOne area however where the historical division has remained dominant is the trade union movement. The two major trade union federations are the Solidarno\u015b\u0107 trade union (the successor of the independent trade union set up in the 1980s) and the All-Poland Alliance of Trade Unions (OPZZ) (that was created by the authorities in the 1980s as an alternative to Solidarno\u015b\u0107).\nSolidarno\u015b\u0107 and the OPZZ have remained rivals and have rarely coordinated their activities. This has ensured that the trade unions have been divided at a national level. This has hindered their ability to defend their members\u2019 interests, particularly in a situation where trade union membership has been in a steady decline.\nHowever, yesterday Solidarno\u015b\u0107, the OPZZ and the the third national trade union confederation Forum held a joint news conference for the first time. They have also announced that they will be coordinating a series of joint actions and protests.\nImmediately they have revealed that they are suspending their participation in the Trilateral Commission that includes representatives from the government, employers and trade unions. They have done this in protest against the failure of the government to consult with them on a number of issues. The leader of the Solidarity trade union, Piotr Duda, stated that the trade unions would discuss now with the government only through force and that this step was the first in a number of actions to oppose the government.\nThe leader of the OPZZ, Jan Guz noted how there are more than 2 million unemployed in Poland, another more than 2 million who have been forced to emigrate, a further 2 million who receive extremely low wages and another milion who are employed on so-called junk contracts.\nThe trade union leaders concluded that it was only through joint actions that the government\u2019s policies could be opposed. They have raised the possibility of carrying out protests before the Euro2012 football championships and also announced that they will collect signitures for a resolution to force a referendum on the government\u2019s plans to raise the retirement age.\nLabels: opzz, Solidarity, Solidarno\u015b\u0107, trade unions\nPan Steeva 18 January 2012 at 12:08\nIt's good to see the unions are starting to learn the basic labour principle of striking so they can watch footie on the TV.\nWell there have to be some benefits", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00080.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 112, + "original_length": 4926, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.98, + "perplexity": 172.0, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "http://blog.ccbridges.net/2017/03/06/soundtrack-for-love-in-the-time-of-hurricanes/", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T04:30:26Z", + "digest": "sha1:M2TTVW6J5ZX7KZ34ABOONFXWRSC5ITDA", + "length": 1047, + "nlines": 8, + "source_domain": "blog.ccbridges.net", + "title": "Soundtrack for Love in the Time of Hurricanes | CC Bridges", + "raw_content": "\u2190 Blog Tour for Love in the Time of Hurricanes\nRelease Day for Love In the Time of Hurricanes \u2192\nLove in the Time of Hurricanes will be out in just a few days! To tide you over until the release, I wanted to share a mini-soundtrack. Quite honestly, I had \u201cBorn to Run\u201d in my head most of the time while I was writing, but I picked out a few different songs that have different meaning for various points in the story.\nThe Lou Monte song listed below is the one I pictured Lou dancing to during the scene where he\u2019s trying to distract Nick from the hurricane. The record he\u2019s listening to is based on one I had while growing up, called Aunt Carmela\u2019s Italian favorites. (I actually managed to snag the actual record from my parents before they moved. Don\u2019t tell my brother!)\nI hope you enjoy Love in the Time of Hurricanes, and have fun matching the songs to parts ofthe story!\nChe La Luna Mezzo Mare \u2013 Lou Monte\nThis House is Not for Sale \u2013 Jon Bon Jovi\nThis entry was posted in Books, Love in the Time of Hurricanes, Promo. Bookmark the permalink.", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00080.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 59, + "original_length": 2038, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.96, + "perplexity": 315.3, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "http://blog.cinnamon-travels.com/malaysia/", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T03:27:21Z", + "digest": "sha1:HSM2ETX76BOXAZB322FIOUCLMQJCW5VM", + "length": 3808, + "nlines": 6, + "source_domain": "blog.cinnamon-travels.com", + "title": "Malaysia | Cinnamon Travels Blog", + "raw_content": "Malaysia (Food paradise of South East Asia)\nTruly Asia, Malaysia. The catch line from their promotional campaign really represents what the country stands for. Whether its food, people, vibrant culture or geography, the diversity of Asia is in full bloom in the country and holidays in Malaysia would become a tour of the whole continent.\nThe tropical islands of Malaysia are considered among the most beautiful in the world and some of them include Langkawi, Redang, Tengol and Labuan. Labuan is also known for its scuba diving and other water sports. Malaysia has fame for its tropical rainforests and Taman Negara, Lambir Hills National Park and Ampang Forest Reserve must always be included in the itinerary while visiting the nation. Besides natural beauty the country is also considered as the symbol of development in the region and its Petronas Twin Towers in Kuala Lumpur adorn the sky line with aplomb. Opt for Malaysia tour packages from Cinnamon and you will know how our expertise on the country can help you customized your itinerary that best suits you\nSituated in the heart of Southeast Asia at one of the world\u2019s major crossroads, Malaysia has always been pivotal to trade routes from Europe, the Orient, India and China. Its warm tropical climate and abundant natural blessings made it a congenial destination for immigrants as early as 5,000 years ago when the ancestors of the Orang Asli, the indigenous peoples of Peninsular Malaysia, settle here, probably the pioneers of a general movement from China and Tibet. They were followed by the Malays, who brought with them skills in farming and the use of metals. Around the first century BC, strong trading links were established with China and India, and these had a major impact on the culture, language and social customs of the country. Evidence of a Hindu-Buddhist period in the history of Malaysia can today be found in the temple sites of the Bujang Valley and Merbok Estuary in Kedah in the north west of Peninsular Malaysia, near the Thai border. The spread of Islam, introduced by Arab and Indian traders, brought the Hindu-Buddhist era to an end by the 13th century. With the conversion of the Malay-Hindu rulers of the Melaka Sultanate (the Malay kingdom which ruled both side of the Straits of Malaka for over a hundred years),, Islam was established as the religion of the Malays, and had profound effect on Malay society.\nThe arrival of Europeans in Malaysia brought a dramatic change to the country. In 1511, the Portuguese captured Malaka and the rulers of the Melaka Sultanate fled south to Johor where they tried to establish a new kingdom. They were resisted not only by the Europeans but by the Acehnese, Minangkabau and the Bugis, resulting in the sovereign units of the present-day states of Peninsular Malaysia. The Portuguese were in turn defeated in 1641 by the Dutch, who colonized Melaka until the advent of the British in the Dutch exerted any profound influence on Malay society. The British acquired Melaka from the Dutch in 1824 in exchange for Bencoolen in Sumatra. From their new bases in Malaka, Penang and Singapore, collectively known as the Straits settlements, the British, through their influence and power, began the process of political intergration of the Malay states of Peninsular Malaysia.\nAfter World War II and the Japanese occupation from 1941-45, the British created the Malayan Union 1946.This was abandoned in 1948 and the Federation of Malaya emerged in its place. The Federation gained its independence from Britain on 31 August 1957.In September 1963, Malaya, Sarawak, Sabah, and initially Singapore united to form Malaysia, a country whose potpourri of society and customs derives from its rich heritage from four of the world\u2019s major cultures \u2013 Chinese, Indian, Islamic and Western.", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00080.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 123, + "original_length": 5900, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.96, + "perplexity": 164.8, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "http://blog.independent.org/tag/william-happer/", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T04:57:58Z", + "digest": "sha1:MZOD7CHDC3KAU6IH65SHU7SNK5I4P7FZ", + "length": 621, + "nlines": 4, + "source_domain": "blog.independent.org", + "title": "Leading Scientists Debunk Climate Alarmism", + "raw_content": "Tag: William Happer\nVaclav Klaus Blasts Al Gore\u2019s Climate Alarmism\nCzech Republic President V\u00e1clav Klaus (formerly Professor of Finance at the University of Economics, Prague), who is also the new President of the European Union, has recently blasted former Vice President Al Gore for unsubstantiated climate fear-mongering. As reported by AFP, at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, Klaus stated that: \u201cI\u2019m very...\nTags: Agriculture, Al Gore, climate alarmism, Climate Change, climate skeptic, Energy, Environment, Global Warming, Personal Liberty, Politics, Regulation, Science, Vaclav Klaus, William Happer", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00080.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 367, + "original_length": 12229, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.92, + "perplexity": 182.2, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "http://blog.ndbbr2014.com/2017/06/cover-reveal-rico-by-author-tjwest.html", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T04:43:12Z", + "digest": "sha1:KZC64ZVV6FRHBPUMBFSLI2F53RKVR2S6", + "length": 1677, + "nlines": 11, + "source_domain": "blog.ndbbr2014.com", + "title": "Night and day book Blog", + "raw_content": "Rico by Author Tjwest!!\nPhotographer: Kruse Images & Photography: Models & Boudoir\nModel: Matthew Hosea- Inked Model\nCover designer: Honey Touch Designs\n****Warning- Not intended for those under 18 years and those sensitive to extreme language, sex, and violence.****\nFor every decision, there is a consequence...\nMy husband is dead by my own hand.\nEveryone assumed he died from his illness, but they assumed wrong. My husband and I planned it exactly that way, making it look like his disease took him earlier than what the doctors had predicted. It was a good plan yet I knew things weren\u2019t over\u2026I knew I wasn\u2019t safe.\nI had single-handedly changed my whole life. I\u2019m now on the run, hundreds of miles away from the only place I've ever called home, trying to lose the old me. I may have gotten away with what I had done, but my husband\u2019s brother was another story. He wouldn't stop until he got what he was out for\u2026me.\nIt's her brother-in-law who wants her in his possession, I\u2019m just the person chosen to find her. I may seem scary because I\u2019m smooth, controlled, and don\u2019t make small talk, but I\u2019m here to do my job and then I\u2019m gone. Nothing more. In my line of work there's no room for relationships, it's too risky and dangerous to fall for anyone. But for once, I\u2019m thrown. I had no idea that the brother-in-law actually wants her back just so he can kill her. I\u2019m good at my job, but I\u2019m not a killer. Despite all my previous rules, I find my feelings starting to run deep for this woman. Knowing he wants her dead is changing my life\u2019s game plan. Now I find myself in the fight of my life to protect her and keep her alive.\n#Krusehasyoucovered #coverreveal #teamKruse", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00080.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 90, + "original_length": 3062, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.98, + "perplexity": 286.6, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "http://blog.procurious.com/time-zones-and-advanced-planning-whats-procurement-like-in-russia/", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T04:43:09Z", + "digest": "sha1:SOCPFDAQY3723TFM3JV2E3NXKYFDD7C3", + "length": 4616, + "nlines": 18, + "source_domain": "blog.procurious.com", + "title": "Time Zones and Advanced Planning - What's Procurement Like in Russia? - Procurious", + "raw_content": "Time Zones and Advanced Planning \u2013 What\u2019s Procurement Like in Russia?\nWith the revelation that Russia\u2019s dreaming of constructing a superhighway that will span the circumference of the globe \u2013 Procurement consultant Natalia Urazova and FMCG Procurement Specialist Vladislav Mandryka have got together with their fellow professionals to tell Procurious about procurement in Russia.\nHow do you think procurement differs in Russia, as opposed to elsewhere in the world?\nCommercial procurement only came into being in Russia in 1991, with purchasing previously based on central planning activities. Procurement in Russia is now growing rapidly due to the increasing numbers of multinational corporations in the domestic market. Comparatively, it\u2019s fair to say that procurement in Russia is at the same stage now as it was in the USA in 1999-2000.\nOnly around 10 per cent of all Russian companies have a defined procurement strategy, nearly all of which are large companies. Small and medium-sized companies tend to view procurement as a \u2018passive administrator\u2019 of production orders. As a result of this, these companies tend to lose 25-45 per cent of their spend value in procurement activities.\nLeading Russian companies, those with active procurement strategies, are able to save billions of rubles annually through a number of initiatives like reconfiguration of procurement departments, P2P optimisation, category management, tenders and SRM programs.\nThese organisations have also understood that centralisation of procurement function provides benefits, so, in most cases, the procurement of key commodity categories with sufficient spend is centralised. However category management, Total Cost of Ownership and standardisation are not widely used concepts.\nThere\u2019s a bit of a mix too when it comes to Supplier Relationship Management and supplier development. Some companies have made an effort to master lean thinking and create cross-organisational cross-functional teams to reduce losses in the value chain. However, there are many that still view supplier management as a method of aggressive negotiations, in order to achieve their own short-term aims.\nSome organisations have a level of automation in their procurement activities, although this tends to be a \u2018patchwork\u2019 of ERP and MRP systems. Where systems have been implemented, there have been positive results. The same can be said for e-Procurement and e-Auctions for the most part, although in some cases, the focus on minimum prices has caused major mistakes. In one example, an organisation managed to lower the price of an auction item by 42 per cent, but left themselves with 15-years worth of stock!\nProcurement is also complicated by the size of Russia and the extended time zones in the country. For example, if you have a regional office in Ust-Ilimsk (essentially in the centre of the country), it requires 2 flights and a 5-6 hour car journey to get there from Moscow. Equally, if you have an issue in a subsidiary in Khabarovsk (nearly the Eastern most city in the country) that requires an answer from a business unit in Voronezh (in the far West), at 9 a.m. you only have two hours for a solution, because there is a 7-hour time difference.\nIn 1999, I was asked by my business to find a specialist to train the procurement department. There was a lack of such specialists in the market at the time, so I designed a small workshop myself. I have adored procurement since then \u2013 it\u2019s the most interesting and best part of the business!\nI\u2019m now involved in the implementation of lean thinking in procurement activities across all my research and consulting projects.\nProcurement professionals are increasingly becoming change leaders in organisations and have the ability to dramatically increase the efficiency of the entire value chain.\nSocial media isn\u2019t used as much in procurement at the moment. But I hope that we can use it to get involved in conversations with procurement professionals from around the world and share information and experience about procurement best practice.\nI rarely use social media in my day-to-day procurement activities and to share procurement best practices and I saw Procurious as an opportunity to change that.\nTo get involved in conversations with other procurement professionals and share information and procurement best practice.\nBy inviting them via my network, particularly those who shared their experiences in order to help me write this article!\nPrevious PostWho\u2019s responsible for writing a specification or brief?Next PostJoin the world\u2018s first digitally-led event for procurement professionals", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00080.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 127, + "original_length": 6670, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.95, + "perplexity": 274.0, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "http://blog.sandium.com/2011/08/", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T04:03:10Z", + "digest": "sha1:22KJKZAWXAW2BIFKR2YCJ2IZYIE56XZC", + "length": 2097, + "nlines": 10, + "source_domain": "blog.sandium.com", + "title": "Sandium Heating and Air Blog: 08/01/2011 - 09/01/2011", + "raw_content": "Energy Upgrade California Offers Thousands in Savings!\nWould you like to save up to $4,000 for replacing your furnace, air conditioner, upgrading your attic insulation, changing out old windows, or upgrading an old water heater? Read on...\nDid you know that our homes produce more carbon emissions than ordinary passenger vehicles! It's true. They account for nearly 21% of our countries greenhouse gas emissions. That seems unbelievable! But, when you think about it, there have been very few standards ever put in place when it comes to building a home, in fact, it wasn't until the late 70's when California enacted an energy code. We have hundreds of thousands of homes built before then! And therefore, our homes (especially older home stock) were built inefficiently.\nInefficiency directly relates to energy consumption, and the dollar amount we spend each month to our public utility -- PG&E being the primary supplier of natural gas and electricity in Northern California.\nWhen it comes to energy consumption, we must view our house as a system, because every component works together to create efficiency. The heating and cooling systems would work more effectively and efficiently if the building envelope was sealed tight, if the insulation was enhanced, if air ducts were sealed and insulated to the max, http://www.blogger.com/img/blank.gifwindows upgraded, etc. When you create a \"system\" that works together, you not only save money, but you also improve comfort, indoor air quality, lower carbon emissions, etc. The list goes on!\nA home energy upgrade makes sure that each piece of this system is designed to function at it's max, so your home is more efficient.\nHow do you get the rebates? 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This development marks the fifth time that Virginia Supportive Housing and the Virginia Housing Development Authority have partnered on permanent supportive housing developments in the Hampton Roads region, bringing a total of 320 of these types of units to the region.\n\u201cCrescent Square represents a tremendous collaboration with public and private partners who are vested in meeting the region\u2019s demand for supportive and affordable housing,\u201d said Allison Bogdanovic, executive director of VSH. \u201cLocal officials recognize that supportive housing is a proven and cost-effective model that works, as evidenced by the fact that 95 percent of our clients do not return to homelessness.\u201d\nVSH takes the \u201cHousing First\u201d approach to addressing homelessness by housing individuals first, then helping to address their needs with on-site case management services. Case managers assist in securing income, health insurance, healthcare services and other supports to help clients stabilize and re-establish their independence.\nThe units in the four-story, mixed-income development are approximately 360 square feet and contain a kitchen with full refrigerator and oven, full bathroom, and a closet. Furnishings are provided in each apartment, including a bed, dresser, table, and two chairs. In addition to apartments, the building has a community room with a kitchen and outdoor patio, fitness room, computer room, laundry facilities, a front desk, and staff offices. There is also an extensive security system and off-street parking.\nCrescent Square received EarthCraft Virginia Platinum certification for resource and energy efficiency; in addition, all 80 units meet VHDA\u2019s Universal Design requirements and 10 percent of the units are fully accessible. Also, the development incorporates a solar system designed to reduce the building's energy load and a solar thermal water heater system.\nIn addition to VHDA\u2019s $2 million in SPARC financing, the project included approximately $5.5 million in Low-Income Housing Tax Credit equity as well as funding by the Virginia Department of Housing and Community Development, the Federal Home Loan Bank of Atlanta, the City of Norfolk, City of Virginia Beach, and several foundations. Also, the Virginia Beach Department of Housing and Neighborhood Preservation and the Norfolk Redevelopment and Housing Authority provided project-based rental assistance. Total development costs were approximately $12.4 million.\nOther projects developed in Hampton Roads by VSH with VHDA financing include Gosnold Apartments in Norfolk, Cloverleaf Apartments in Virginia Beach, South Bay Apartments in Portsmouth and Heron\u2019s Landing in Chesapeake. These four additional developments were the result of a regional partnership among Hampton Roads cities.\nFinally, a sixth property will soon be joining the mix. Church Street Station in Norfolk is currently under construction and will be completed by early 2018. Like Crescent Square, it is being developed by VSH with VHDA financing, and will be providing 80 additional units of permanent supportive housing to Hampton Roads.\nIn addition to the six properties in Hampton Roads, VSH and VHDA have also partnered on four other properties across the state, bringing the total to 10 permanent supportive housing developments to help fight homelessness in Virginia.\nFormer Prison Reformed into Mixed-Use Residential and Commercial Community\nPosted by VHDA Communications Labels: affordable rental, historic preservation, housing credits, LIHTC, Northern Virginia, rental financing No comments:\nThe historic Lorton prison in Fairfax County has thrown its doors open for some new residents. A $55 million project, financed in part by VHDA, is rehabilitating the century-old former reformatory, transforming it into a vibrant urban village with apartments, shops, restaurants, offices and more.\n\u201cCooperation of several sources was necessary to raise the capital to convert the former Lorton prison into affordable housing,\u201d said Brad Beaman, senior development officer at VHDA. Those sources include Housing Credits (also known as Low-Income Housing Tax Credits), historic tax credits, VHDA tax-exempt bond financing and a long-term land lease with Fairfax County.\nThe community includes 165 units now called Liberty Crest Apartments, plus more than 35,000\nsquare feet of commercial space. According to Beaman, the multifamily rental units are restricted with the following income limits: 26 percent at 50 percent of the area median income; 24 percent at 120 percent of AMI; and 50 percent with unrestricted income. The commercial space will consist of the former chapel, pool and power plant on the property.\nThis is not the first development on the property. Parts of the 2,323-acre prison, which once housed a missile defense system, currently include a subdivision, a senior living campus, an arts center and a golf course. Phase 2 of the project will add 107 townhomes and single-family homes.\nBeaman said this was the first project VHDA has done with the developer, The Alexander Company, Inc. and Southway Builders, the general contractor. VHDA provided $24.4 million in permanent financing including funds from REACH Virginia, VHDA\u2019s pool of internally generated resources for meeting state housing needs. Other capital came from Housing Credits, state and federal historic tax credits and borrower equity.\nAll but six of the 55 historic sites will be retained and reused in this community development initiative. There\u2019s more to come! VHDA is also providing a loan and Housing Credits for the Lindsay Hill Senior Apartments development immediately adjacent to Liberty Crest on the Lorton site.\nMore info: http://www.fairfaxcounty.gov/news2/liberty-opens-its-doors-for-new-residents-at-former-lorton-prison/\nPosted by VHDA Communications Labels: CFPB, first-time homebuyers, homeownership, HUD, National Housing News, National Housing Policy No comments:\nPresident Donald J. Trump Proclaims June 2017 as National Homeownership Month\nDuring National Homeownership Month, we recognize the many benefits of homeownership to our families, our communities, and our Nation. For generations of Americans, owning a home has been an essential element in achieving the American Dream. Homeownership is often the foundation of security and prosperity for families and communities and an enduring symbol of American freedom.\nThis month, we recommit to ensuring that hard-working Americans enjoy a fair chance at becoming homeowners. In the years since the Great Recession, homeownership rates have dipped to historic lows. Many Americans are not confident they will ever own a home, a tragic consequence of a decade of weak economic growth, excessive regulations, and stagnant wages. Many young families are unable to achieve the independence they desire because they have difficulty saving for a down payment, overcoming regulatory burdens, or gaining access to adequate credit. These challenges are even more pronounced for minorities, whose homeownership rates remain substantially below those of their fellow Americans.\nI am committed to helping hard-working Americans become homeowners. As part of my Administration's plan to strengthen the middle class and the American housing market, I am working with the Congress on a pro-growth agenda of reducing rules and regulations, cutting taxes, and eliminating unnecessary government spending. These policies will unshackle our economy and create and sustain high-paying jobs so that more Americans have the resources and freedom they deserve to fulfill their American Dream.\nHUD Publishes FY 2017 HOME and HTF Program Income Limits\nThe United States Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) has released the FY 2017 Rent Limits and Income Limits for HOME Investment Partnerships Program (HOME) and Housing Trust Fund (HTF).\nAll updated limits are effective as of June 15, 2017. They are available on the HUD Exchange at the link below:\n2017 HOME Income Limits\n2017 HOME Rent Limits\n2017 HTF Income Limits\n2017 HTF Rent Limits\nhttps://www.hudexchange.info/resource/5333/notice-cpd-1705-guidance-for-htf-grantees-on-fy-2017-htf-allocation-plans/\nCFPB Announces Upcoming Assessment of Ability-to-Repay Rule\nThe Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) published a notice in the Federal Register announcing that CFPB will be conducting an assessment of its Ability-to-Repay rule (ATR rule). The Notice seeks public input on CFPB's plans for the assessment and recommendations for improving it. The ATR rule, which took effect in January 2014, outlines the steps mortgage originators are required to take to obtain and verify information to determine whether a consumer can afford to repay a mortgage. It also establishes a set of criteria that a mortgage loan must meet to be considered a \"qualified mortgage\" (QM). If a mortgage loan meets the QM criteria, the originator is presumed to have complied with the requirements of the ATR rule. NCSHA previously summarized the ATR-QM rule in more detail on its blog after CFPB first published the final rule. HFA program loans are currently exempt from the requirements of the ATR rule, an exemption NCSHA advocated for. This exemption applies to both loans originated directly by HFAs and loans originated by HFAs' lender partners pursuant to HFA programs.\nFirst-time Buyers Account for 60 Percent of Purchases\nThe share of first-time homebuyers continues to rise, now accounting for almost half of all GSE purchase loans and more than 80 percent of FHA loans, according to the May 2017 Chartbook, released by the Urban Institute\u2019s Housing Finance Policy Center. According to the Chartbook, 47.1 percent of all GSE purchases loans were first-time homebuyers in February 2017, while a whopping 82 percent of FHA loans came from first-timers. When combined, about 60 percent of all purchase loans for the month of February were from first-time buyers\u2014just below the 2009 peak of 63 percent. For the first time in 10 years, the creation of new-owner households outpaced new-renter households. The Chartbook attributed the rise to an \u201cimproving economy, falling unemployment, and rising household formation and income.\u201d An increase in new home construction-particularly that of smaller, less expensive homes has also helped spur first-time buyer growth.\nCarson Touts Importance of Homeownership at HUD Forum\nThe Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) held a housing forum, \"A New Era of Homeownership,\" to mark the beginning of National Homeownership Month, as declared by President Trump. The social and financial benefits of homeownership for Americans and the economy was a common thread throughout the entire forum. In his opening remarks, HUD Secretary Ben Carson emphasized the significance of homeownership, stating, \"The importance of homeownership is apparent to all of us: security, certainty, safety, wealth creation, a path forward, self-sufficiency, a place to live with loved ones, to raise our families, the location of our neighborhood.\" Secretary Carson continued his remarks by expressing the \"good news\" of a steadily improving homeownership rate in the country, despite the rate remaining at a near historic low. In the second quarter of last year, the national homeownership rate, 62.9 percent, was at its lowest point in over fifty years. Carson announced that the current homeownership rate is 63.6 percent, saying \"These figures represent more than paper, facts, titles, and mortgages. We can see the hopes and dreams, the aspirations and excitement of homeownership.\"\nPosted by VHDA Communications Labels: Fannie Mae, FHFA, Green Building, homeownership, National Housing News, National Housing Policy No comments:\nThe 2017 State of the Nation's Housing Report Will be Released on Friday, June 16\nThe Harvard Joint Center for Housing Studies will release its 2017 State of the Nation's Housing report with a live webcast from the National League of Cities in Washington, DC on Friday, June 16. The report, which has been released annually since 1988, describes key trends in both national and metropolitan-level homeownership and rental markets, reviews key economic and demographic trends that are shaping current and future demand in those markets, discusses growing challenges in housing affordability and the rise of concentrated poverty throughout metropolitan areas, and examines access to mortgage finance.\nFHFA Seeks Stakeholder Impact on Expanding Mortgage Credit Access for Borrowers with Limited English Proficiency\nThe Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) issued a Request for Input on how the single family housing market can better serve qualified borrowers with Limited English Proficiency (LEP). FHFA published this request to advance one of the goals of its 2017 Scorecard for Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, and Common Securitization Solutions, which calls on Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac to identify obstacles impacting LEP borrowers and formulate plans for increasing such borrowers' access to mortgage credit. FHFA specifically requests information on what tools mortgage lenders, servicers, housing counselors, and other mortgage industry participants currently use to assist LEP borrowers and whether they are effective. The Request also asks about the specific barriers that make it difficult for LEP borrowers to access the mortgage market.\nFannie Mae Program Encourages Healthier Home Design\nHealthy Housing Rewards is a financial incentive which will, in its first phase, include a price break to borrowers who incorporate designs which improve air quality, encourage physical activity, and feature common space, community gardens and playgrounds. \"When we strengthen the connection between affordable housing and the long-term health and stability of the people and families who live there, we help create more sustainable communities across the country,\u201d explained Jeffery Hayward, Executive Vice President, Multifamily, Fannie Mae.\nConditions of eligibility include meeting affordability standards set by Fannie Mae with at least 60% of units for those that are earning 60% of median income or less. Criteria for healthy housing must also be met according to the Center for Active Design's Healthy Housing Index, with a score of 90 required for eligible borrowers.\nFannie Mae Updates Requirements for Green Building Financing Option\nFannie Mae has made some revisions to its popular Green Financing program to improve the processing of green mortgage loans. On Monday May 22nd, it issued a modified standard Guidance Form 4099 and 4099.H that updates the scope and format of the High Performance Building (HPB) Report, which is a requirement of Fannie Mae\u2019s Green Rewards Program and implemented a delegated review process where Lenders are authorized to review and approve HPB reports. Other recent changes include the price break given to assets with Green Building Certifications. The changes are effective immediately and aim to improve the speed and quality of its green programs.\nCrescent Square Apartments Help Address Homelessne...\nFormer Prison Reformed into Mixed-Use Residential ...", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00080.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 165, + "original_length": 18157, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.95, + "perplexity": 302.2, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "http://blogs.edweek.org/edweek/finding_common_ground/2014/06/body_language_what_are_we_telling_our_students_1.html", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T03:40:15Z", + "digest": "sha1:WFKYOLTC5ZMCXD327JO2PVS65YT777CR", + "length": 5959, + "nlines": 21, + "source_domain": "blogs.edweek.org", + "title": "Body Language: What Are We Telling Our Students? - Peter DeWitt's Finding Common Ground - Education Week", + "raw_content": "\u00ab Let's Recapture Some Time | Main | Project-Based Learning: Connecting With Your Community \u00bb\nBody Language: What Are We Telling Our Students?\nBy Peter DeWitt on June 10, 2014 5:32 AM\nIn ten seconds our students can size us up. They made a judgment on who we are, how we will treat them, and whether they like us or not. Malcolm Gladwell refers to it as the \"Blink Effect.\" Fortunately for classroom teachers, the interactions they have with students can either change that perception, or cement it.\nThat's not really a surprise is it? We all make quick judgments we witness. It might be one we are somehow involved in, or one we are watching from the sidelines.\nIf we think back to our own formal education, we can remember the teachers we wanted to spend countless hours with, and those we hoped we would never have to spend a minute more. I clearly remember a fifth grade experience, where my teacher told our class we needed to stop talking.\nA class filled with fifth graders talking is not a surprising story. Fifth graders care about their social interactions with peers. As much as I can clearly see what happened next, I cannot remember why we were talking. I guess to the teacher it only mattered that we were. Talking.\nAt the top of his voice he yelled that we needed to stop talking. And then he gave us homework to prove his point. That night we had to write that, \"We would not talk in class,\" 400 times. Looking back now he probably wanted us to talk again, just when he commanded us to. I went home that night, and wrote, \"I will not talk in class,\" 400 times. Yes, my mother made me do it even though I cried. My brother was angry that I had to do the assignment. He and I both thought it was unfair.\nThe next day I walked in with the prize possession of the tedious and abusive homework assignment. It wasn't seen as abusive when I walked in, but it certainly changed to that perspective about 10 minutes into the day. As he told us to take it out, he brought a garbage can with him. He slid the garbage can from desk to desk, as he ripped the homework in half and threw it away. Cue in Pink Floyd's \"The Wall\" at anytime.\nOne by one, we watched as the punishment we endured was ripped in front of us. I learned a few things at that moment. First and foremost was that I hated my teacher, and some people should not be able to work with kids. Perhaps my visceral reaction also comes from the fact that my dad died about a month before this event, and this classroom brought me no solace.\nHattie and Yates (2014) say, \"The teacher is positioned as an inevitable role model, the visible representative of the adult worldview.\" This teacher was not much of a role model. It was unfortunate because my reading teacher that I could escape to every day was one of the best teachers in the school. He made reading fun, he was a beekeeper, and he knew how to connect with students. The short time that I could escape to his room and the special area classes brought me the solace I needed.\nKeep in mind, I was retained in fourth grade, and waited two years for this experience. It was not the welcome into the middle school (5-8) that I was hoping for while I sat in the K-4 building.\nOur Body Language Matters - I remember how my fifth grade teacher used to talk with one student. He would scream at him, put him in a corner, and one time the student came to school unbathed, and the teacher took care of that by embarrassing him in front of our class, and sending him to the locker room to take a shower. Kids have to learn about hygiene. But this student came from a poor family. Did he have to learn about hygiene in such an abusive way?\nWhen certain students would talk, this teacher would smile and praise. When others would talk he would cross his arms, and dismiss the answer. I know body language, and so do our students. They know when the adults around them mean when they roll their eyes, cross their arms, or speak in short curt sentences to some students, while they smile, pat on the back, and speak warmly to others.\nIn the Science of How We Learn (2014), John Hattie and Gregory Yates say,\n\"Universally, it has been found that students form strong views as to what they want from schools, and how they expect teachers to behave. These general criteria are then used to evaluate individual teachers on the extent to which they measure up.\"\nHattie and Yates go on to say, \"The adult who goes against accepted standards of basic interpersonal conduct is disqualified from standing as a credible role model.\" So it is really up to the teacher to decide which side of this they want to be on. We can blame accountability and mandates for many things, but we should not blame it for how we treat students.\nOur students watch us. They watch how we interact with other adults, and how we interact with other children. They see their teachers speak kindly to one student, and harshly to another. Many students are survivors. They know how to fit in so they can stay unscathed with a mean teacher. Other students are escaping a harmful home life, and we should want to be a beacon of hope for them.\nIn the classroom we spend lots of time with our students, and during the year we spend lots of time with our colleagues. If we videotaped our typical reactions to negative events, what would we see? I was in the classroom for eleven years as a teacher, and eight as a principal. I did not do everything perfect. Every year there was a student who tested my limits, and I'm not sure if I always liked who I was when I reacted.\nSeeing a presentation in the south one time, the speaker called them \"Children of God.\" They make it tough to love them, but surely God must. She said it respectfully with a smile, in a pleasant southern accent and I never forgot that. I had a few \"Children of God,\" in my time in the classroom.\nIn the long run my fifth grade did provide me with some important lessons. 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(We\u2019ve spoken previously about Nottingham native Ada Lovelace and her contributions to computer science here).\nAdmission free, all are welcome!\nIn our \u201cCareers in Physics Panel Discussion\u201d we have a number of distinguished speakers who will discuss how their studies in physics opened doors to a range of academic and industrial careers.\nC5 Physics\nDawn Watson, BSc Environmental Physics, MBA \u2013> Project Manager at Sellafield Ltd\nDr. Karen Mullinger, BSc Physics with Medical Physics \u2013> joint lectureship in medical physics (Nottingham and Birmingham)\nAlex Milligan, postgraduate MSc, Physics and Technology of Nuclear Reactors \u2013> Reactor Physics Design Team, Rolls Royce\nB13 Physics\nDr Karen Masters, Portsmouth University\nMary Somerville and the Mechanism of the Heavens\nMary Somerville was a Scottish mathematical astronomer and science writer who was roughly contemporary with Jane Austen. At a time when even upper class women were often never formally schooled, and certainly not in mathematics or astronomy she first discovered algebra when reading a women\u2019s fashion magazine at a society tea party, and was allowed to embark on a study of geometry only to improve her painting. She went on to become one of the UK\u2019s most famous scientists (in fact the word was coined to describe her, since she clearly wasn\u2019t a \u201cman of science\u201d), and most famous published an English translation of LaPlace\u2019s \u201cMechanique Celeste\u201d (the Mechanism of the Heavens\u201d) which became the standard University textbook for Calculus, as well as writing a book on \u201cThe Connection of the Physical Sciences\u201d which is credited for setting out the current array science topics we call physics. I was shocked to discover Mary Somerville only 5 years ago, and have had great fun learning more about her as I worked on a book Chapter about her life: \u201cMary Somerville and the Mechanisms of the Heavens\u201d, which is part of \u201cMore Passion for Science: Journeys into the Unknown\u201d published by the Ada Lovelace Day group in support of their work to raise the profile of women in STEM.\nPunctuation; is Not. an, Option.\nNottingham physics YouTube videos: October 2017", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00080.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 98, + "original_length": 4742, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.94, + "perplexity": 338.0, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "http://blogspot.siliconvillage.net/2016/07/genpact-new-shared-services-delivery.html", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T03:12:28Z", + "digest": "sha1:ZDQACHYRMUO5ZMZYBOFPN562DRPS3P6I", + "length": 2772, + "nlines": 6, + "source_domain": "blogspot.siliconvillage.net", + "title": "SILICON VILLAGE: Genpact New Shared Services Delivery Center Comes Up in Kuala Lumpur for F&A Sourcing", + "raw_content": "Genpact New Shared Services Delivery Center Comes Up in Kuala Lumpur for F&A Sourcing\nGenpact, a global leader in digitally-powered business process management and services, has established operations in Malaysia\u2019s capital city of Kuala Lumpur, further strengthening its footprint in Asia, with the plan to provide finance and accounting (FnA), sourcing, and procurement services for a growing number of clients at this site. This will help Genpact deliver more holistic finance solutions to clients based on its Lean Digital approach that leverages the power of digital technologies through middle and back office operations.\nMalaysia, one of Asia\u2019s dynamic economies, has emerged as a thriving global business services hub. With a stable and attractive business environment, government support, educated workforce, and world-class infrastructure, Kuala Lumpur has become an increasingly important business location for many of Genpact\u2019s clients comprising approximately one-fifth of the Fortune Global 500 \u2013 the majority of which have operations in Malaysia and other Asia-Pacific countries. This supports one of the company\u2019s strategies of delivering services from regions where their clients run key operations.\nGenpact is already working with GSK in this Kuala Lumpur location and expects to hire a number of professionals with domain expertise in F&A and procurement processes who will serve clients across a number of industries including financial services, insurance, and manufacturing. Being in an optimal time zone for supporting Asian operations, Genpact\u2019s Kuala Lumpur site will provide services in all South East Asian languages including Malay, Bahasa, Tagalog, Vietnamese, and Thai in addition to English \u2013 with the ability to provide Mandarin, Cantonese, Japanese, and Korean language services as a secondary location.\nDuring an opening celebration at the center today, Dato Wan Peng, Chief Operating Officer of Malaysia Digital Economy Corporation (MDEC), said, \u201cI welcome Genpact to Kuala Lumpur and wish them all the very best. We look forward to working with Genpact in their growth journey.\u201d\n\u201cGenpact is excited to establish our operations in Kuala Lumpur, where we\u2019ll be able to deliver transformation-driven business process, consulting, analytics, and digital services for existing and new clients in Asia,\u201d said BK Kalra, senior vice president and business leader, Consumer Goods, Retail, Life Sciences and Healthcare, Genpact. \u201cGiven the available and highly-skilled talent pool as well as favorable economic climate, we plan to grow this location over the next few years. 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Some of the highlights of the campus are:\n\u00b7 Fully cloud-computing based environment to reduce energy consumption.\n\u00b7 Solar power and natural lighting\n\u00b7 Rainwater harvesting, sewage treatment plant, waste management\n\u00b7 Eco-friendly glazing to reduce air-conditioning\n\u00b7 Energy efficient motors, DG sets, Chillers\n\u00b7 65% open space\nAs a leading global ICT solutions provider, Huawei follows a strategy of \"Green Pipe, Green Operations, Green Partner, Green World\". We explore innovative ways to maximize products' energy utilization efficiency and operating efficiency, and at the same time minimize our carbon footprint and negative environmental impacts. In addition, we invest in innovative green initiatives to provide energy-saving products and green ICT technologies that empower all industries \u2013 and even society as a whole \u2013 to decrease carbon emissions. 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She is the remarkable woman who brought the study of dragons out of the misty shadows of myth and misunderstanding into the clear light of modern science. But before she became the illustrious figure we know today, there was a bookish young woman whose passion for learning, natural history, and, yes, dragons defied the stifling conventions of her day.\nHere at last, in her own words, is the true story of a pioneering spirit who risked her reputation, her prospects, and her fragile flesh and bone to satisfy her scientific curiosity; of how she sought true love and happiness despite her lamentable eccentricities; and of her thrilling expedition to the perilous mountains of Vystrana, where she made the first of many historic discoveries that would change the world forever.\nA Natural History of Dragons is one of those books that you should love. It has pretty much everything you could want: fantasy elements, DRAGONS, a badass main character, some action, a bit of mystery\u2026 but for some reason I just couldn\u2019t enjoy it fully. Don\u2019t get me wrong, I enjoyed the book, but I didn\u2019t love it.\nI imagine that part of my enjoyment was sucked away with the way the story was told. As the series title suggests, this book is a (fictional) memoir, written by Lady Trent. It\u2019s the first in a series, and this one tells of how Trent got into the whole dragon thing.\nThe book very much felt like an introduction to the series, rather than a standalone novel in its own right. You see how Lady Trent\u2019s fascination with dragons developed, and you get an idea of what the start of her career was like, but it all felt very disconnected to me. I think it\u2019s because the story is being told by an older version of Trent, and in this part of the memoir she is in her late teens or early twenties.\nAnother thing that I wasn\u2019t (somewhat foolishly) expecting was that Lady Trent\u2019s goal is to study dragons for science. There isn\u2019t much action regarding the dragons, and there\u2019s a lot of scientific descriptions of the predators that I just didn\u2019t care for.\nI have to give Brennan props though. This did very much read like a memoir, perhaps one set in an alternate history or time where dragons roamed the skies. And the narrator of the audiobook that I listened to did a great job of capturing Trent\u2019s upper class voice and tone.\nI can\u2019t decide whether or not to continue with this series, so if you have done so then please tell me your views and experiences with it! It\u2019s one of those books that you read and just forget about, so I don\u2019t want to waste my time if the rest of the series is the same way.\n2 comments on \u201cA Natural History of Dragons by Marie Brennan\u201d\nElizabeth February 8, 2016 7:13 pm\nLoved this review. I was gifted a signed ARC of this title for Christmas. I hadn\u2019t known much about it \u2013 I\u2019m a dragon fanatic, which is probably why my husband sought it. Thanks for sharing your thoughts, Amber. I can\u2019t wait to read it.\nRinn February 14, 2016 6:32 pm\nI also just read this one. It wasn\u2019t quite what I was expecting \u2013 I actually enjoyed Isabella\u2019s backstory more than the expedition later on. And I kind of loved the whole 19th century lady explorer vibe\u2026", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00080.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 60, + "original_length": 4602, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.97, + "perplexity": 198.9, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "http://bps-research-digest.blogspot.com/2014/06/its-shocking-how-press-are-hyping.html", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T04:02:27Z", + "digest": "sha1:PGGFKWVD4JWTSQ2UUW5HSGBKB7VCQBI2", + "length": 8377, + "nlines": 31, + "source_domain": "bps-research-digest.blogspot.com", + "title": "BPS Research Digest: It's shocking - How the press are hyping the benefits of electrical brain stimulation", + "raw_content": "It's shocking - How the press are hyping the benefits of electrical brain stimulation\nA commercially available tDCS device\nThere is a \"rising tide\" of hype regarding the potential benefits of weak electrical stimulation of the human brain. That's according to a trio of Canadian neuroscientists writing in the journal Neuron.\nVeljko Dubljevi\u0107 and his colleagues performed literature searches on mentions of transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) in the academic and mainstream print media. tDCS involves the application of weak electrical current to the scalp, with the aim of altering neuronal function. There have been numerous recent reports of this practice leading to forms of cognitive enhancement - however, it's possible there are detrimental drawbacks and the long-term consequences are unknown.\nDubljevi\u0107 and his team found that research and media coverage of tDCS has increased dramatically since 2006. There were over 250 academic papers published on the technique in 2013 (up to October of that year), compared with fewer than 25 in 2006. Similarly, they identified nearly 70 mainstream media articles in 2013 (up to October), compared with fewer than 10 in 2006.\nThey also noted the way the media has focused disproportionately and uncritically on the cognitive enhancement potential of tDCS. Whereas the majority (45 per cent) of academic studies are on therapeutic uses of the technique, such as to treat depression (versus just 13 per cent on enhancement), the media focused as much on enhancement (42 per cent) as on therapeutic uses (42 per cent). Typical headlines include \"A tiny zap to improve memory\" (The Philadelphia Inquirer) and \"Jump start your brain\" (Boston Magazine).\nAnd while the scholarly press often included caveats and warnings about side-effects, these were rarely mentioned in the popular press. Instead, the media coverage tended to include \"misleading statements\" and to \"sensationalise\" the capabilities of tDCS. Reportage on electrical brain stimulation was also often accompanied by the perpetuation of brain myths, such as the idea that we only use 10 per cent of our brain power.\nDubljevi\u0107 and his colleagues call on professional societies, government bodies, researchers and science writers to do more to inform the public about the safety concerns regarding tDCS, to explain better the mechanisms of action (many of which are not fully understood), and to present a more realistic picture of the likely benefits. This is especially urgent, they argue, given the lack of regulation of tDCS devices, and their increasingly widespread availability.\n\"Given the rapid evolution of tDCS in the public domain and in academia, tackling its social, ethical, and policy implications requires a multifaceted response,\" they said.\nDubljevi\u0107, V., Saigle, V., & Racine, E. (2014). The Rising Tide of tDCS in the Media and Academic Literature Neuron, 82 (4), 731-736 DOI: 10.1016/j.neuron.2014.05.003\nRead this before zapping your brain\nThe age of the superhuman\nPsychology categories: Brain, Cognition, Technology\nSahil Suleman said...\n'Rock' is probably a strong word for what I do, but I sing in a contemporary a cappella group that sing a whole range of rocky numbers, including our latest song, an arrangement of Little Green Bag from Reservoir Dogs www.facebook.com/mixtapemanifestochoir :)\nPeople in the medical world chose their career because they want to help people. When they get into their fields the reality sets and they realized its not so pretty sometimes. I understand if nurses and medical professionals look at patients as non human to get through their day.\nI am a nurse and when I first started nursing can remember distancing myself from patients emotionally (particularly children) in order to cope with the sheer difficulty of observing pain and the helplessness that comes with that. However, as I came more experienced and trained I learn't to cope with it and reframe the experience of nursing sick and dying patients, for example, by contributing to a lovely end of life for the patient and the long term effect this will have on their family rather than focus on the unfairness of their situation. The biopsychosocial approach is taught in nursing and encourages us to have an emotional attachment to our patients in order to care, this can only work if nurses have the resources to do this, when we haven't survival kicks in and the stress response takes over when we can see that our patients are not getting the standard of care that they should and the only option left is to distance ourselves from the patient in order to mitigate the guilt that we feel.\nRoy Niles said...\nI think that people who deal with human misfortune in general have to objectify those people rather than dehumanize them. We identify them as humans, we just don't identify with them personally in the process.\nPsychoPaul said...\nI am an ex nurse and have considerable sympathy with people who work a whole day close up with death, dying, suffering, faeces and the rest. I think some degree of distancing (or habituation) is inevitable and there will also be some individual variation about how this occurs. I am reminded of Carlo Schuenguel's work using video feedback in LD. The carers who had a stable attachment style benefited little from the training. The staff with an dismissing or preoccupied styles improved in their communication skills, becoming more sensitive and responding more appropriately.\n(Schuengel et al Attachment & Human Development, 14,2, 2012, 83-99)\nAlso, there was a qualitative observational study of midwives by McRea et al 1998, Midwifery, 14, 174-80 which identified three different styles of relating to patients. In this study the authors stressed that these were styles, not personal dispositions. Midwives showed different ways of relating to different mothers to be.\nI have requested the full Trifiletti study and look forward to reading it through.\nI worked for a time caring for children with leukemia and my coping strategy was the very opposite of that reported in this study. I not only humanized the children I was caring for, I looked for what was unique to each one and them special.\nOne little baby girl was a fighter, coming to our Hem-Onc unit to be treated for a rare form of leukemia only after a six-week battle in the ICU. She now runs several nail salons. A little four-year-old boy was extraordinarily kind to staff. After he died, twenty-four nurses attended his memorial service. No one would ever forget little Binky.\nI dealt with my feelings by reminding myself that, compared to what these kids were going through, nothing that happened to me mattered. \"I'm not three years old and dying,\" I would say. I fought to give those children the best possible chance at life and, when that wasn't possible, to give them the very best death possible. I always did my best and left the results to God.\nIt wasn't those sick and dying kids that stressed me out. It was hospital politics, particular an unfair and critical attitude by the administration that set nurses at war with nurses. You might even say that this nurse stress was the result of their being dehumanized by the hospital's administration. I have written about that in a most realistic and honest book.\n--Michael W. Perry, My Nights with Leukemia: Caring for Children with Cancer\nSing, write songs, record and play guitar in JD and the Longfellows (www.facebook.com/jdandthelongfellows).... Been going 10 years - me and three female (non-psychologists) proper musicians - violin, piano, guitar, percussion! Fourth album out next year....... Video here (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NfgYz9nF9f4)\nHi I'm not a Psychologist but a UKCP Reg. Integrative Psychotherapist. I qualified in 2010 and I was a pro musician all my life and still play gigs. I'm based in Scarborough UK. I've also worked in the field of addiction therapy. Life as a musician being a rich source there! I find music a great counterpoint to being a therapist. Each informs the other. I really enjoyed your article in 'psychologist' (May 2014). I had a record deals in the 70s. I was briefly with Island Records where I worked with John Martyn, Sandy Denny et al. I've always written my own songs. Being a therapist certainly informs me there. Oh and I played a gig with Nick Drake in Hull 1970 or 71. Gotta name drop that! 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After all, coming in at the right time could mean the difference between either a quick profit or loss. With markets on a steady downward trend through January, more people are starting to wonder if February is going to be a good time to invest.\nUnderstanding Recent Market Trends\nThroughout 2013, we were in a bullish market. Just throw your dollars at it because it\u2019s going up no matter what! However, as we watched stocks rise, more bearish investors started to warn that prices were rising too quickly. After all, the price of a stock should match the value of the underlying asset.\nIf a stock price outgrows the business\u2019 growth, it means the company is overvalued and likely heading for a correction. We saw a good example of this with Twitter in December, when the company was downgraded because it didn\u2019t have the earnings to match the growth of their stock price.\nAnother thing that\u2019s playing a role in today\u2019s market is the Federal bond buying program, also known as quantitative easing. The idea of quantitative easing is that the Federal Reserve will stimulate the markets by pumping astronomical amounts of money into the \u201ceconomy\u201d through a bond buying stimulus, therefore increasing liquidity and increasing economic activity. That is a very simplistic explanation of the process, but it will suffice to explain monetary policy in the U.S. for the last few years.\nEventually, the Federal Reserve made an announcement that they would ease up on, or taper, the bond buying program. Some economists explained this step signified that there was so much success in the program, they were able to get rid of it earlier than expected. Others suggest the easing is a reaction to a failing program.\nIs It Time To Invest?\nAs many investors warned, the bullish market could not, and did not, last forever. The reality is the market relies on checks, balances and corrections. Because of that, every trend eventually dies. So, is this going to be a morbid \u201cyou lost your money \u2018cause you invested\u201d type of story? NO! Actually, it\u2019s important to understand that trends, up and down, do eventually end. Although it might be scary to see a down market, it simply can\u2019t last forever. The truth is\u2026\nIt\u2019s Always Time To Invest!\nNo matter if the market is up or down, there\u2019s still ways to make it work in your favor. The earlier you start investing, the longer time horizon you\u2019ll have to work toward your retirement. Waiting too long can mean retiring with a smaller nest egg and less income to live with.\nTaking Advantage of Market Conditions\nTip #1: Stick With The GOOG Guys \u2013 Nope, that wasn\u2019t a typo. If you haven\u2019t noticed, Google is taking over the world. When we think of them, we think of a search giant, but they\u2019ve grown far beyond that title. Google has their hands in everything from search and mobile phones to self-driven cars and robotics. Throughout the years, Google has been, and will continue to be, a great investment in the future of technology. Similarly, one can say the same about Apple.\nTip #2: Think About Staple Companies \u2013 Although stocks might be down now, that\u2019s not a bad thing. This gives you an opportunity to acquire shares in great companies at affordable prices. Think of companies that you know have become staples of society, such as Procter & Gamble, Coca-Cola, Wal-Mart, CVS, Colgate-Palmolive, and Philip Morris (as much as we hate to admit that tobacco is a staple).\nThese companies will continue to grow as demand for their products keeps up with population growth. And if you can get in when they\u2019re down, you stand a chance of reaping healthy returns over the long-term.\nTip #3: Do Your Research \u2013 Before investing in any company in a down market, do your research and learn as much as you can about that company, their operating environment, the opportunities and challenges they face, and their financial stability. Make sure that you\u2019re comfortable with their business model and operations before investing.\nAlthough a 5% or 10% correction can be a scary thought for investors, it\u2019s important to maintain perspective and remember that down markets create buying opportunities. 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He said PSUC has been ahead of the game.\n\u201cI will always presume that it (instances of sexual violence and sexual assault) happens more than we know,\u201d Allen said. \u201cI think that is an important way to approach it, \u2026 so that we stay hungry to learn more, to do more, to be better.\u201d\nPSUC senior biochemistry and psychology double major London Woodfolk is a health peer educator on campus, and as such, she helps instruct all players on sports teams, leaders of fraternities and sororities and clubs on how to be effective bystanders on campus.\nShe said she reviews types of assault, hypothetical situations, definitions of affirmative consent and available resources for students on and off campus. 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Not so with The Cary Theater\u2019s \u201cFrame-By-Frame\u201d series, where classic films are shown, then paused at intervals for everyone to discuss.\nThe films in Cary Theater\u2019s \u201cSummer School.\u201d\nThe Best Way to Study A Film\nThe Cary Theater\u2019s Summer \u201cFrame-By-Frame\u201d series, dubbed the \u201cSummer School,\u201d looks at films from the 1970s, with discussion guided by Robert Milazzo, founder of the Modern School of Film.\n\u201cThe idea came from Rob who said he likes what we do with the programming here,\u201d said Joy Ennis, operations and program supervisor at The Cary Theater. \u201cWe tested it last Fall and then did one series of six movies in January and February.\u201d\nMilazzo said this sort of \u201caggressive film study\u201d is similar to how he taught some classes in New York and has been traveling the country, connecting with local theaters and trying to set up related programs.\n\u201cI didn\u2019t know it at the time but Roger Ebert did a similar class where anyone could say \u2018Stop!\u2019 and he would pause the film and everyone would discuss,\u201d Milazzo said. \u201cAnd Jean-Luc Godard said the best way to study a movie is to stop it.\u201d\nThe \u201cSummer School\u201d is composed of five classic films from the 1970s, running Tuesdays from June 7 to July 19, 2016, skipping June 21 and July 5.\n\u201cJoy and I had discussed the miniature screening and what would be interesting to fit,\u201d Milazzo said. \u201cWe decided on the 70s because it was such a robust decade in world cinema.\u201d\nThe films are, in order of when they\u2019re being screened:\nMcCabe and Mrs. Miller, June 7\nBadlands, June 14\nDog Day Afternoon, June 28\nThe Discrete Charm of the Bourgeoisie, July 12\nManhattan, July 19\nMilazzo also meets with those attending the screenings at Pharmacy Bottle + Beverage at 5 PM before moving to the theater to have informal discussions about the movie.\nNew Appreciation for Art\nMilazzo said picking just five films was difficult and ended up leaving off many filmmakers of the 70s: Coppola, Lynch, Lucas, Scorsese, Spielberg. He also joked about not playing a Brian DePalma film, missing the chance to screen \u201cCarrie\u201d in Cary.\n\u201cWhat I wanted was films spanning the 70s; at the beginning and the end of the decade,\u201d he said. \u201cNow, we aren\u2019t showing \u2018Jaws\u2018 and people see \u2018Jaws\u2019 as the death of the 70s but it\u2019s not about film history. It\u2019s about the spirit of the decade.\u201d\n(The Cary Theater is screening \u201cJaws\u201d during the Summer but it is not part of the \u201cFrame-By-Frame\u201d series.)\nAside from chronology \u2013 \u201cMcCabe and Mrs. Miller\u201d came out in 1971 and \u201cManhattan\u201d came out in 1979 \u2013 Milazzo said there are other connections between the movies, even if they differ vastly in terms of tone and story.\n\u201cThere are lots of big performances. The 70s gave birth to the stars we love today,\u201d he said.\nThrough these classes, Ennis said she hopes people can see film in a different way.\n\u201cI hope they go, not only to see a classic, but to appreciate the art of filmmaking, which is complex,\u201d Ennis said. \u201cIf it\u2019s done well, you can\u2019t always see all the work and craft that goes into it.\u201d\nFor Milazzo, what he hopes for is viewers coming away from the \u201cFrame-By-Frame\u201d screenings with a desire to see more films, classic or otherwise.\n\u201cEven if they hate it but they want to try and see more, I\u2019ve done my job,\u201d Milazzo said.\nAs Milazzo puts it, anyone could simply send out a list of these classic movies but with this approach at The Cary Theater, people get a better rounded learning experience.\n\u201cIt\u2019s not about telling people what to think, it\u2019s teaching them how to think,\u201d he said. \u201cI don\u2019t teach taste; I teach craft.\u201d\nAll screenings Tuesdays at 6:30 PM\nStory by Michael Papich. 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A prior Doha News story Principle of diversification\nRaed al Khalaf, chairman of Al Raed Fresh Foods, said: \"We look forward to expanding our business and investing in a wider range of Philippine food products based on the principle of diversification of resources to meet the needs of the Qatari market and the Filipino community in Qatar.\nQatar, Philippine firms explore investment opportunities at food security meet\nBoth of these mainstream views, as I will refer to them--the traditional view that matter is the principle of diversification and the view that form is the principle of diversification--agree that numerical diversification is underived at some level in the order of composition: the level of matter for the traditional view; the level of form for the other view.\nThe primacy of the organism: being, unity, and diversification in Aristotle's metaphysics\nDela Cruz said the project is a rice-based enterprise with the principle of diversification (maximum use of farm space), intensification (maximum use of time), and integration (farm resource and zero-waste management).\nPhilippines : PhilRice launches 'PalaYamaNayon' project\nFor example, the bank would be unlikely to put nearly $5 million into an investment without the board's approval, because that's too large a sum to place in any one investment, according to the principle of diversification, Levear said.\nUO plans own banking operation\nThe principle of diversification applies to managing a business as it does to managing a portfolio.\nThe enduring advisory firm: the advisory firm of the future is building a business based on tomorrow's clients and employees\nThe affects of an economic recession and the recent Arab Spring which has led to political and social changes in the region, with the resulting fluctuating oil prices has led many in the region to realise the importance of enhancing the principle of diversification of wealth sources so as to meet the requirements of the GCC economic integration and growth.\nOil takes hold 80 per cent of general Gulf expenditure\nThe analysis of diversification highlighting the principle of diversification and safety first initially was applied to domestic assets alone until Grubel (1968), Levy and Sarnat (1970, 1979), Solnik (1974), Losq (1979), Vaubel (1979), and Friend and Losq (1979), among others, brought portfolio structure into the setting of international markets.\nRoy (1952), in a parallel examination of the principle of diversification, introduces the notion of disaster and the concept of safety first.\nAsset acquisition, diversification, and revision-theoretic exercises in portfolio theory\nThe principle of diversification is still working to cushion a part of the decline, but not to the same degree that it did five or six or seven years ago,\" Scudder said.\nEven Harvard and other elite institutions are feeling pinch as healthy endowments wither in stock market meltdown\nIn addition, they understand the principle of diversification as a means to reduce portfolio risk.\nAlternative investments can enhance portfolio returns and lessen volatility\nThe principle of diversification is to spread your investments, and therefore your risk, by investing in several industries, such as financial, health care and technology.\nRules to live and invest by\nIts philosophy is based on the core principle of diversification of risk, implemented over a long-term investment horizon.\nWarburg Pincus and Goldman Sachs Lead $26 Million Investment in Chancellor Beacon Academies\nprincipal exchange-rate-linked security\nPrincipal Finance\nPrinciple of Atom Conservation\nPrinciple of Calorimetry\nPrinciple of causality\nPrinciple of charge conservation\nprinciple of coincidence\nPrinciple of Competitive Exclusion\nPrinciple of Conservation of Linear Momentum\nPrinciple of corresponding states\nPrinciple of covariance\nprinciple of dichotomy\nPrinciple of duality\nprinciple of dynamical similarity\nPrinciple of equal a-priori probability\nPrinciple of Fundamental Justice\nPrinciple of Galilean relativity\nPrinciple of good enough\nprinciple of inaccessibility\nPrinciple of inclusion-exclusion\nPrinciple of inclusion-exclusion proof\nPrinciple of indeterminacy\nPrinciple of inertia\nPrinciple of inertia (physics)", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00080.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 266, + "original_length": 9768, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.91, + "perplexity": 325.4, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "http://firstwarnweatherteam.blogspot.com/2016/09/", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T03:14:51Z", + "digest": "sha1:MPK2IQA5MDFMRX5UO2NOAXUTHGNKJDJK", + "length": 43464, + "nlines": 134, + "source_domain": "firstwarnweatherteam.blogspot.com", + "title": "First Warn Weather Team: September 2016", + "raw_content": "We are now entering October, so what happened in the weather department during the month of September? Well, the biggest story is the abnormally warm temperatures we saw here in Rockford. One day saw temperatures soar into the lower 90's, which ended up being one of the four hottest days all summer. Numerous days featured high temperatures in the 80's. Most days in the month saw temperatures above average. Statistically, we were oh-so-close to breaking the record for the warmest average September temperature ever. The record highest average September temperature (utilizes both daily highs and lows) is 69.9\u00b0. Rockford's average temperature this year for the month of September is 69.4\u00b0. That number is good for being 5.3\u00b0 above normal.\nPrecipitation was roughly average for the month. Totals by the time the stats for September 30th come in will be at roughly 3\". That will result in a month where we were about three-tenths of an inch below normal. It is certainly not abnormal to see a departure in the precipitation category. It is typical to see precipitation totals between 0\" and 0.50\" above or below normal. Therefore, September will go down as slightly below average in the rainfall department, but overall it has been roughly average.\nScattered Rain Chances to Start Weekend\nIt's been dominating our weather pattern across the Midwest for the past week or so... yes I'm talking about that pesky upper level low pressure system. Its currently located over Kentucky this morning and that is why most of Thursday afternoon and evening remained dry. However, that low pressure is still forecast to retrograde this afternoon. That essentially means it will move from the east to the west, from Kentucky to northwest Indiana through the day. With that forecast track, the chance for rain will increase today, but especially for the evening.\nWe can expect this afternoon to remain cloudy and windy, with northeast winds at 15mph and gusting to 25 mph. In terms of the rain, the Stateline looks to pick up on widely scattered lighter showers. For the afternoon, the highest coverage would be right around Lake Michigan with rain likely there today. For the Stateline, the highest coverage remains near our eastern counties with about a 40-50% chance. For areas closer to Rockford the chance drops a bit to 30-40%, and west of Freeport and Oregon the chance is dropped to about 10-20%.\nRain threat decreases from east to west because of the movement of the low. Today the rain will move in from the east and then tracks west. The low is drawing in moisture from the Atlantic and at first it will be harder for western counties to receive that, along with the lift from the low also decreasing the further west you head.\nAs mentioned though, tonight with the low almost overhead, the chance for rain really goes up, and turns likely for the entire area closer to midnight.\nThe low is finally able to scoot northeast tomorrow and that will keep rain in the forecast through the mid-afternoon and then diminishes late in the day. We keep the clouds from the low on Sunday but we stay on the dry side, before warmth and more sun arrives on Monday of next week.\nWe May Hear Some Thunder\nIt seems like a long time ago that we last saw thunderstorms here in the Stateline. That is because we have been under the influence of fall. That has led to cooler temperatures, low humidity, and a lack of a thunderstorm threat. That trend continues Friday as scattered showers are expected on the back side of an upper-level low that will be situated in Indiana. However, as the low approaches the Illinois border into Saturday, it will bring a slightly more thunderstorm-friendly air mass into the Rockford region. With the center of the low nearby, some minor instability (CAPE) will develop during the day. That is what thunderstorms need to develop and maintain themselves. Think of CAPE (Convective Available Potential Energy) as food for storms.\nFor the Stateline, there will be minor CAPE in place Saturday. That, in addition to having the upper-level low so close, will support an environment slightly more conducive to thunderstorms than what we have seen lately. It is not a guarantee by any stretch of the imagination that we see thunder and lightning. But the formula for storms will be more complete than it has of late. The good news is that if we do see a thunderstorm or two, it won't be severe.\nRare \"Black Moon\" to Occur Friday\nAn astronomical event will occur this Friday, the last day of September. The catch? It's essentially invisible. So, what is the point of even mentioning this phenomenon? It is referred to as a \"black moon\" and has not occurred since March of 2014. It usually happens roughly once every other year. So it's not exactly ultra rare, but it isn't an every year type of happening. The \"black moon\" title is used whenever a second new moon phase happens in a single calendar month. That will happen for the western hemisphere this Friday.\nA new moon is the phase when the illuminated side of the moon faces away from the earth. Therefore, no moon is seen because there's nothing to light the side of the moon that is facing earth up. This phase is normal and occurs in every moon cycle. This particular event is only given a special name because it doesn't happen all the time. The first new moon of the month went completely unmentioned. The one effect this event will have on areas where sky cover is not a limiting factor is it will provide a very dark sky (no moonlight to illuminate the sky). That darkness will supply ideal stargazing conditions. The sad news for the Stateline is extensive cloudiness is anticipated to be in place, as are a few showers. Thus, not only can we not see a \"black moon,\" but we won't be able to see its effects on stargazing.\nHow Chilly Today?\nToday's temperatures ranged from the upper 50's into the lower 60's. Some locations did surpass the pictured range of 58-62\u00b0, but that does not change the fact that today featured the coolest high temperatures since May 15th! We can thank the enhanced cloud cover, showers, and north winds for putting a \"cap\" on our temperatures today. This was one of those days typically thought of as \"raw.\" We are already seeing clearing this evening, but addition rain is likely through midnight with a band of rain moving inland from Lake Michigan. The area of low pressure responsible for the showers and rain will move far enough east on Thursday to deliver a mainly dry day with warmer temperatures near 70\u00b0. However, the same low will meander back west towards Indiana on Friday and Saturday, As a result, we will see a return to \"raw\" conditions with showers, clouds, winds, and temperatures only in the middle 60's to begin the weekend. Buckle up! Fall is definitely here to stay!\nPesky Low Keeps Showers Around\nA very pesky \"cut-off\" low has been swirling in place on the northern shore of Lake Superior for the last 48 hours. It is the same low that swung the cold front through our region late Sunday. The low has kept low clouds, showers, gusty winds, and cool temperatures in place just to our north since Sunday. Although it hasn't moved much at all since Sunday, it will slowly drop south towards the Illinois-Indiana border Tuesday night and Wednesday. That will result in showery, cloudy, and cool weather for the Stateline through Wednesday evening. The low will then slowly move into Ohio, taking the shower activity with it -- only for 24 hours, though.\nAs the low area of low pressure sits in the Ohio Valley Wednesday night and Thursday, it will be far enough away to allow for a partly cloudy and milder day Thursday. Temperatures should be able to warm into the lower 70's, but the winds will remain breezy. The break in cloudiness doesn't last, however. The low pressure center will meander back westward into Indiana Friday and Saturday. That will bring back the chance of a few showers. The low will edge away from the region late Saturday, which will bring an end to the extensive cloudiness, windiness, and showery weather for Sunday, Monday and Tuesday!\nA Look at September Statistics\nDespite fall entering with a force today in the form of sunshine, strong winds, and temperatures in the 60's, September has been remarkably warm. In fact, we are currently on track to break the record for the warmest average temperature in the month of September. Of the 26 days that have come and gone, 20 of them were above average. That is good for 77% of September days being above average thus far. Not only that, but our average high temperature for the month is a little higher than 81\u00b0. That is a degree warmer than our average high on the first of the month, or the warmest day of the month.\nNow let's jump back to the whole, \"we could be in for the warmest September ever\" statement. If the month ended today, we would break the record for warmest average September temperature by over 1\u00b0. To get the average temperature for the month, each day's high temperature and low temperature are taken into consideration. Once all of the data are attained, an average is taken. Of course there are still four more days in the month to get through. Each of those days is expected to feature high temperatures in the 60's and low temperatures near 50\u00b0. Thus, we could slip just below that 69.9\u00b0 threshold by September 30th. It'll be something to watch for the next 96 hours!\nBig changes this week! If you've been chomping at the bit to get out and visit one of the many apple orchards or pumpkin patches, this week is a perfect week to do it!\nIf you spent the day outside yesterday, it had a very summer like feel with highs in the mid and upper 80's (for most) along with fairly muggy conditions. However, a potent cold front that brought scattered storms yesterday afternoon and a few showers overnight is now well to the east of the state.\nNow our dew points are falling into the 40's along with plenty of sunshine. It will be a very dry day today, albeit windy and very fall-like. Winds will gust from the west up to 35 mph today as temperatures make it to about 66\u00b0. Compared to yesterday, that is a 20\u00b0 temperature drop in about 24 hours. Not only that, but the week as a whole will be vastly different. The average high temperature last week was in the 80's compared to this week's forecast average high which is in the 60's. If the forecast pans out, the weekly high will be about 15 degrees cooler.\nA deep low pressure system will then sink south over Lake Michigan, dislodging much cooler air with a deep trough over the Midwest and into even the mid-south. Temperatures will only reach near 60\u00b0 on Wednesday before rebounding back into the low 70's through the weekend.\nHeightened Fire Danger for Whiteside County\nVery high fire danger today for field fires, for areas along and south of Highway 30. These areas have the best conditions for cropland fires growing rapidly. For the Stateline, this includes Whiteside County, while the rest of the area has more of a limited fire risk.\nThis happens as the relative humidity drops to about 30-35%, which essentially is a very dry air mass. We combine this with strong westerly winds that will increase and become sustained from 5-15mph to then 15-25 mph, and then gusting to 35 mph. With these combined conditions and now harvested fields it will make for a high fire danger. If an agricultural field were to catch fire, the weather conditions would support it spreading quickly.\nCooler Week Ahead!\nFor those of you that have been waiting for fall-like temperatures - they are on their way! The storm system that is pushing though our area this evening has the first true fall-level temperatures behind it - this is the same storm that dropped snow earlier this week in the Rocky Mountains. Even though we had very warm air in front of the storm and humidity that made it feel like a summer day, big changes are on the way.\nAs the above graphic shows, temperatures for the majority of the upcoming week will be below normal for a change. The normal high for today is 71 degrees and by the end of the week, the normal high will have dropped to 69 degrees - big changes for this time of year! In addition to a big drop in temperatures on Monday, winds will be very strong as well - running 15 to 25 miles per hour from the west with some gusts over 30 mph - welcome Fall!\nThe Climate Prediction Center is still predicting a warmer-than-average fall for the Stateline area, so even though the cool temperatures may give way to above average temperatures in the future, it will be a refreshing change to the recent warm and humid conditions. Have a great start to your week!\nStormy Weather On The Way!\nBig changes on the way tomorrow as a storm system approaches from the west bringing us increasing chances for rain and thunderstorms. This is the same storm that is bringing snow to some rocky mountain areas - so you know there is some colder air behind it.\nWe have a very mild night in store tonight as dew points are high and we will have increasing clouds, all having the effect of holding heat at the surface. Our low will be 65 degrees - very mild on a night when our average low should be 49! Tomorrow morning a warm front will push through, raising our temperatures and increasing dew points even further, in fact by afternoon our dew points could feel almost tropical at 70 degrees.\nA cold front will approach from the west and should move through the Stateline area around 6 or 7 pm, bringing the best chance for showers and thunderstorms. Some of these storms could be severe (marginal risk only) with high winds and moderate hail being the greatest threats.\nBig changes on Monday with much cooler air in place, a possible shower and a high of only 66 degrees with a low of 45 degrees Monday night - downright cold! It will finally start to feel like fall.\nFall Temperatures Knocking on the Doorstep\nSeptember has been quite warm thus far. In fact, we are flirting with the warmest average overall temperature ever for the month of September. There is one road block in the way that may disallow Rockford to record its warmest September ever, however. That is a large upper-level trough that is poised to move across the Midwest and Great Lakes early next week. That trough will be associated with a powerful early fall cold front that is going to move through late Sunday. The map above shows that trough (a dip in the flow) by looking thousands of feet into the atmosphere. The shades of green and yellow indicate much cooler air, and that will be around through the entire week.\nThis may be the cold front that fully eliminates summer-like heat and humidity from the forecast until 2017. Take a look at the graphic depicting our temperature trend into next week. We will be above average in the upper 70's and lower 80's this weekend, but highs will only be in the 60's and lower 70's next week with plenty of sunshine.\nSoggy September\nWhile there's been more dry days through the month compared to wet ones, Rockford and other Stateline areas have received decent amounts of rain. There have been two days in where Rockford alone received over an inch of rain.\nTypically the month receives about 2.50\" of rain, but already the month's total has added up to just under 3 inches. And, there's more rain in the forecast coming up by the end of the weekend with a potent cold front posed to arrive Sunday afternoon.\nAlong with the rain, its been a fairly warm month as well. So far its one of the warmest Septembers on record, but we'll have to wait until the end of the month to see exactly where we rank. As it stands now, the monthly average (average of the daily high and low all month) has reached almost 71\u00b0 which is 5\u00b0 above the monthly average.\nTemperatures next week however will fall into the 60's through Wednesday.\nFall is Here; What is Next?\nFall is officially here. So what does that mean for us? First and most importantly, it's a sign that cooler temperatures are on their way. Another noteworthy piece of information about our change of seasons is the fact that we have and will continue losing daylight at roughly three minutes per day through late October. Once November arrives, our rate of losing daylight slows until we reach our shortest day of the year, which is the winter solstice in late December. We are also going to begin noticing fall foliage occurring in northern Illinois and southern Wisconsin. As temperatures continue their decline, the leaves will begin to change color. For the Rockford area, the best viewing time for fall color occurs between October 3rd and November 6th.\nSo we know what fall means in a generic fashion, but what kind of weather are we actually anticipating to occur? According to the latest trends, nearly all of the lower 48 has a chance of seeing above average temperatures through fall. It is unusual, but there are no locations in the United States where below average temperatures are expected. That does not mean there won't be cool stretches spread out through the fall season, but the overall pattern looks to feature warmer than average temperatures. That will especially be true for the southwestern portion of the country.\nRegarding precipitation, forecast guidance suggests that much of the United States has an equal chance of below or above average rainfall through the fall months. The southeastern United States has a moderate probability of seeing below average precipitation. Only Montana sees an above average chance of seeing more rain than normal through December.\nAutumnal Equinox is Here!\nThe autumnal equinox will occur tomorrow, September 22nd. We all know that means fall officially begins (at 9:21am to be exact), but what else does that phrase mean? The word \"equinox\" is derived from Latin. In Latin, the prefix \"equi\" means equal, and the word \"nox\" means night. Putting these two together results in a word that literally means \"equal night.\" And, if equal night occurs, equal daytime would automatically occur as well. In other words, the autumnal equinox is a day that features essentially equal daylight and nighttime for both the northern and southern hemispheres.\nThe reasoning for the equality is simple: the sun's rays hit directly at the equator, which leads to 12 hours of daylight and 12 hours of nighttime. It's important to know, though, that it is not exactly 12 hours of each, but it is very, very close. The autumnal equinox always occurs in late September in the northern hemisphere. Once we pass the 22nd, we will start to lose daylight each day through the winter solstice, which occurs in late December. That day features the northern hemisphere's shortest day in terms of daylight of the entire calendar year.\nSoggy Wednesday\nStorms with heavy rain and dime to nickel sized hail have continued south across the Stateline this morning. Not one, but two lines of storms have moved through.\nSo far there hasn't been any severe storms, but there has still been hefty amounts of rain. So far some locations have picked up around an inch and a half of rain, with more rain still falling. Along with that, there have been wind gusts around 40mph and hail up to a half inch in some of the storms.\nThe storms will continue sinking to the southeast around 30 mph and will continue through about 1pm today before we see dry but cloudy skies across the area. These storms have developed where there has been higher moisture levels and higher instability.\nAs mentioned, no severe weather is anticipated at this time, but storms will continue with heavy rain, small hail, and gusty winds near 40mph. The stronger areas of storms will continue to sink southeast and stay mainly south and west of Rochelle.\nCoverage of these storms will lessen by the afternoon and we begin to dry out. While there are storm chances tonight, I anticipate they will stay north of the Wisconsin Stateline.\nStorm Track Just North of Area\nThe jet stream will shift well to the north for the remainder of the week and into the weekend. That is important for our neck of the woods for two reasons. First, since we will be located to the south of the jet -- which is just an area of very strong winds within the flow up in the atmosphere -- we will see southerly winds. It is winds from the south that usher in unseasonably warm temperatures during this time of year. In terms of the magnitude of the heat, we won't see record highs. But middle and even upper 80's have occurred already this week, and will likely occur again.\nThe humidity will also be abnormally high for this time of year through the weekend to accompany the hotter temperatures. The second impact that the jet stream's location will have on the Stateline is it places the region in a spot where rain and storms will likely occur multiple times. In these types of patterns, wherever the apex (top of the ridge, or jet stream arrows in the image above) is located usually represents the area where rounds of rain and storms will happen. That area will be Wisconsin, southern Minnesota, Iowa, and potentially northwest Illinois through the rest of the week.\nThese rounds of storms usually develop in the evening and use a nocturnal low-level jet stream, ample moisture, and warmth to maintain themselves through the nighttime hours. As meteorologists often say, \"they round the ridge.\" That phrase refers to the areas of storms that develop. Once they do form, they usually congeal into a line and push southeast rapidly -- following the winds of the jet stream aloft. With the jet being just to our north this week, the locations with the best chance of seeing these lines of storms -- or MCS's -- will be Minnesota, northern Iowa, the eastern Dakotas, and Wisconsin. However, as is usually the case with these patterns, the MCS's will tend to have enough strength to push further south than forecast models suggest. That is why there is a chance that we could see some of these nighttime storms reach the region both Tuesday night and Wednesday night.\nWhere Did Our Storms Go?\nConditions appeared supportive of severe weather today across northern Illinois and southern Wisconsin. A severe thunderstorm watch and a tornado watch were issued late in the afternoon for areas north and west of the region. Our counties in southern Wisconsin, in addition to Jo Daviess County were included in a watch. However, there was only one severe weather warning that was issued through the evening. That was far less than what was expected. So, why did we see a low amount of thunderstorm activity?\nThe corridor of severe weather supportive parameters was very small. Southern Wisconsin and the eastern half of Iowa had the necessary ingredients to see severe weather. Those are the locations that witnessed a few severe thunderstorms. Areas such as Galena, Savanna, Freeport, Janesville, Monroe, and Sterling were on the fringe of the \"best\" area to see severe weather. The moisture content, instability, and wind shear were all much higher than those same parameters in Rockford, Belvidere, DeKalb, Sycamore, Rochelle, Oregon, Byron, and Amboy. It's not very common to see such a difference in atmospheric profiles in such a small area.\nSince the parameters were not in place over much of northern Illinois, the thunderstorms died as they approached the Illinois-Wisconsin border Monday evening. Not only did much of the Stateline lack instability, shear, and moisture, but there was an atmospheric \"cap\" in place aloft. In other words, a warm layer existed thousands of feet off of Earth's surface. That warm layer results in what is referred to as a stable environment. Thunderstorms do not like stable environments. Thus, as storms approached northern Illinois (aside from Jo Daviess and northern Stephenson Counties) they quickly faded, essentially approaching a wall of dry air.\nTiming Out Severe Threat\nWe are monitoring the weather closely this afternoon as severe weather is likely across portions of the Stateline. The radar is beginning to show signs of what is to come this evening. In Iowa, which is where the storms will initially develop, a storm ha already developed and strengthened rapidly. That trend will continue in the red oval through the remainder of the afternoon and evening. Storms will strengthen very fast; many will turn strong to severe.\nA Severe Thunderstorm Watch is already in effect for Walworth, Green and Rock Counties in southern Wisconsin until 8 PM. A Tornado Watch is likely to be issued by 4 PM for eastern Iowa and far northwestern Illinois. That is in anticipation of severe thunderstorms developing and posing a large hail risk and an isolated tornado risk across east-central Iowa into the northwest corner of Illinois. The timing will likely be after 5 PM for southern Wisconsin and far northwest Illinois (Jo Daviess County). It's important to remember that just because no watch is out for your particular county does not mean there is no severe threat. There is a risk of severe thunderstorms for the entire area, but the highest threat exists in southern Wisconsin, Jo Daviess, Stephenson, Carroll, and Whiteside Counties. Other locations could see a strong or severe thunderstorm as well through the evening, but the threat is lower due to less favorable severe weather parameters. Be sure to follow our Twitter and Facebook pages for updates!\nSunshine Gives Way to Afternoon Storms\nMost of Monday looks to be a gorgeous summer-like day with breezy southwest winds and high temperatures in the mid 80's. Most of the afternoon won't be very humid, but late in the afternoon we will notice more humidity arriving ahead of our next storm system.\nThe heat and higher dew points will then set the stage for strong to severe storms late this afternoon. With the heating of the day, instability will increase and an incoming cold front will help to fire up isolated to widely scattered storms in the area. Storms will initially develop northwest of the Stateline in central Wisconsin and north central Iowa, with storms then moving southeast. Initially storms will be super cellular in nature, with threats of heavy rain, strong winds, large hail, and even a couple of tornadoes.\nAs the storms move away from the front, they lose the support of the extra lift and instability and I believe will weaken as they move into northern Illinois. By this time the tornado threat will be lower, the Stateline looks to see more of a large hail and heavy rain threat, along with gusty winds. As the forecast stands now, storms won't be moving terribly fast either.\nTiming for the Stateline will be around 4pm through about midnight and then drying out overnight.\nWe will continue to keep you updated as we go through the day.\nPossible Severe Storms on Monday\nWhat a spectacular weekend - seasonably warm temperatures, lower humidities and almost unlimited sunshine - a nice way to move into the fall season indeed. Changes are in the offing however as a storm system approaches us from the Northwest on Monday.\nAs the storm system is approaching - our winds have turned to the South and will usher in higher temperatures and humidity as well on Monday. These to factors will increase the instability of the airmass. As the cold front associated with the storm approaches, the forcing from the front could trigger formation of some storms, some of which could become severe. It doesn't look like this will be a widespread event as there is an atmospheric cap in place and could prevent the storms from growing to severe size.\nTiming on arrival of the front and the associated storms will need to be watched. Based on models reviewed tonight, it looks like the timing will be 8 or 9 pm tomorrow. Sometimes storms can be triggered before the front arrives as well, so stay in touch with us and we'll keep you updated.\nAfter the front passes on Monday, Tuesday looks to be another beautiful day. Have a great night!\nChanging Weather - Warm Week Ahead, Then Cooler\nNext week will feel more like a summer week as opposed to the opening of fall. This is because the jet stream is going to push well to our north and introduce a strong southerly flow and higher humidity. Our average high this time of year should be 76 degrees, but we will be above that number the entire week, with highs especially toward the end of the week in the low to mid-80's.\nBig changes are in store however as the jet stream next Sunday will dig well to the south, ushering much cooler and drier Canadian air and it looks as though this weather regime could be in place for a good portion of that week. The timing would almost be right on target, however as the first day of Fall is this Thursday. So it will begin to feel like fall - just 4 days later! Enjoy the summer-like week ahead!\nBring On The Games!\nShowers and thunderstorms moved through the Stateline area earlier today as a disturbance pushed through - the good news is that most of the rain activity has pushed off to the south and east and should allow most of the football games this evening go without a hitch. This is especially important because of all the cookouts and tailgating tonight.\nThe game of the week is Boylan vs. Harlem and should be a great game with very comfortable conditions. The temperature will be 72 degrees at kickoff and their is just a slight chance of a shower before the game is complete. It will continue to be mild tonight with a low of 65 degrees.\nTomorrow morning we will have elevated chances for showers and even a thunderstorm as a cold front approaches from the west. After any early morning showers, our skies should clear and it should be another great day for football - or whatever else you might have planned!\nModels have continued to show warm temperatures next week across the Midwest and Great Lakes. Upper-level ridging is expected to take place Sunday into Monday, which will be accompanied by southerly flow. That will usher warm air all the way into the Dakotas and Minnesota early in the week. That warm air will reach northern Illinois and southern Wisconsin by Monday in the form of high temperatures in the lower 80's, which would put the area about 5-10\u00b0 above average. The epicenter of the heat won't reach this far north, but there will likely be temperatures in the upper 80's and lower 90's to our south and west. In fact, some temperatures on Sunday and Monday could approach 10-20\u00b0 above average in the Plains and Missouri Valley regions.\nWarmth looks poised to remain intact through Thursday, but it will be pushed south on both Tuesday and Wednesday. That will cut the lower 80's into upper 70's to perhaps 80\u00b0 for Tuesday and Wednesday. As a cold front gathers steam in the Plains on Wednesday, southerly flow will again send well-above average temperatures into the Stateline on Thursday. That will again push high temperatures into the lower 80's for much of the area.\nTime to Wash the Car....\n....after Friday!\nIt will be a very pleasant Thursday afternoon with a lot of sunshine and comfortable warmth in the upper 70's today. And while our Thursday will stay dry, rain arrives early Friday ahead of our next cold front.\nWe will notice mainly rain showers, but can't rule out a few rumbles of thunder through the afternoon on Friday. You'll want to keep the umbrella handy with on and off rain and thunder through out the day. Rain totals will range between about 0.25-0.75\", with heavier rain possible to the south.\nThe rain will come to an end late Friday and then the weather pattern turns a bit more quiet.\nHigh pressure builds to the south, allowing upper level ridging through central Illinois. This set up keeps rain and storm chances to the outer edge of that high pressure system as energy rotates through that region. The northern jet stays close to the Canadian border, and again will keep most rain and storm chances north of the area. Storms are usually tied to jet placement because energy or disturbances tend to ride along those areas. Looking past Friday, rain and storm chances will be contained to north and southern portions of the United States. Northern jet keeps rain just north of the area in Wisconsin. Besides Friday, our next chance for rain arrives Wednesday, but overall that is just a slight chance.\nAnniversary of 1928 Rockford Tornado\nSeptember 14th marks the anniversary of the deadly tornado that tore through southeast Rockford back in 1928 -- 88 years ago. It is a storm that will never be forgotten in the city's history. It developed near the southern city limits of Rockford, which had a population of 85,000 at the time. It moved at roughly 40 MPH to the northeast, affecting the southeastern portion of the city for a distance of 2.25 miles, affecting 30 city blocks. The most noteworthy piece of damage occurred when the tornado barreled into a three-story chair factory in which 114 men were working at 3:22 PM. The building took a direct hit, but only 8 of the factory's employees died. The tornado continued to move northeast, cutting a swath of damage of 300 feet through areas of factories and residencies.\nAround this time, four teenage boys were quickly walking home to avoid the storm. A garage roof came hurtling through air, instantly killing two of them. A third later died. The storm's path of destruction increased to 400 feet as it shattered windows, ripped apart porches, uprooted numerous trees, and narrowly missed several schools. It did cause considerable damage to other large factories, destroying walls. The tornado moved through a section of new homes, but the damage wasn't extreme. It then moved away from the city and entered an increasingly rural area east of downtown. It still partially demolished several farm buildings and uprooted many trees. The storm moved just north of Argyle, about one mile south of Poplar Grove, and caused some damage in Capron around 4 PM.\nThe length of the twister's path in its entirety was roughly 25 miles. The width of the path reached a maximum of 500 feet. Nearly 200 buildings were damaged or destroyed, and the cost of the damages came out to be about $1.2 million. The tornado was rated an F4 on the Fujita Scale, which suggests winds upwards of 260 MPH. Roughly 100 people were injured in Rockford alone, with fourteen casualties recorded.\nNo Big Cold Shots Ahead\nOne thing meteorologists like to do is look ahead beyond the next seven days. Doing so now will provide good news to much of the country if warmer temperatures are what you like. Looking at the long-range forecast models, one thing sticks out more than anything else: no big shots of cold are showing up for northern Illinois and southern Wisconsin. Moreover, there aren't many cold shots showing up for anybody in the United States through the end of September. Now, that doesn't mean there won't be a few short-lived blasts of cooler air. That is to be expected when you transition from one season to the next. What is to be expected is no long-lived cold intrusions through the remainder of the month.\nThe reason for the lack of cold air through the next three weeks is simple: the jet stream will remain along and north of the US-Canada border. The jet stream is an area of stronger winds located well above the Earth's surface. In meteorology, its position makes it easier to determine where colder and warmer air will reside. And, with the jet largely staying well to the north as we round out September, there will be a lack of cold air intrusions in the continental United States!\nTiming Tuesday's Rain\nThis morning ahead of a cold front, showers and storms are stretching from western Missouri through Iowa and into northwest Illinois and Wisconsin. Areas in Jo Daviess County and Stephenson County, along with Green and Rock Counties in southern Wisconsin all dealing with shower and storm activity.\nThe rain in these areas won't last too much longer this morning, mainly through about 10am and will stay mainly contained along the Wisconsin border and north of a line from Freeport to Rockford. Overall the severe threat in any storms is very low, but tracking small hail potential in the far northwestern corner of Green County in Wisconsin. Also, with dew points in the low 60's along the border, some heavier downpours possible.\nThere will be many dry hours this afternoon, until the cold front passes later in the afternoon. This will allow for a higher coverage in showers and storms closer to the 3/4pm hour. As the cold front passes scattered showers and storms will continue through this evening. The rain comes to an end just after midnight, with a lingering shower possible Wednesday morning. High pressure then builds in behind the cold front and we dry out through Wednesday and Thursday.\nFall Foliage Not Far Off\nWith fall quickly approaching, many are beginning to plan trips to see the best foliage around. Both Wisconsin and Illinois will see a good showing of color with no significant flooding or dry spells occurring this year. In just a few days, there may even be very minimal changes in Illinois and southern Wisconsin, according to forecasts. Many locations don't see much in the way of color changes until late September and early October.\nBy September 30th, the map looks quite a bit different. Most of Illinois and the southern half of Wisconsin will be in the \"partial\" category for foliage. This is when some changes will become noticeable as you drive from one location to another in the Stateline. The areas by the last day of September that will see \"peak\" foliage include the mountains of Colorado, far northern Minnesota, and the mountains of northern New England. Things really start to change as we enter the month of October.\nBy the middle of the month, foliage will be at its peak level in many locations. Some mountainous and far northern areas may be in the \"post peak\" category by this time. Southern Wisconsin and most of Illinois will be in that desired \"peak\" category. For Wisconsin, peak foliage occurs between October 5th and 14th. For northern Illinois, that occurs between October 5th and 21st. That means it's time to start planning those trips to local parks!\nThis Week's Rain Threat\nAfter a fantastic weekend in the weather department, our eyes have shifted to the work week, which features two decent chances of rain. One system will move in on Tuesday and bring a threat of showers and a rumble of thunder or two from Tuesday morning through very early Wednesday morning. The severe threat is essentially zero with that system with many severe weather parameters looking minuscule. The rain won't be heavy, nor will it be falling constantly. Our second system rolls in on Friday. That will introduce another rain chance through the day on Friday and into Friday night. Some of the rain may stick around through the first half of Saturday as well with low pressure expected to strengthen to our northeast.\nAs is the case with Tuesday's rain chance, Friday isn't a \"for sure\" hit with everyone seeing rain. Thunderstorm chances look minimal, as does our chance of seeing heavy rain on Friday. To be safe, though, pack the umbrella on both Tuesday and Friday to stay dry in case a rain shower does move in when you happen to be outside!\nBig Contrast in Temperatures!\nWhat a change a couple of days makes? Things have changed dramatically for us in the Stateline area as a strong storm system has ushered in significant changes to our temperatures and humidity. As highlighted by the graphic, our average high over the 7 days prior to today was 85 degrees, and with our forecast for the next 7 days, our average high will fall to 75 degrees! Not only will we feel the temperatures fall, but it will also be much drier outside, as dew points have fallen from the 70's last week to the 50's today.\nSo, if you are tired of constantly running your air conditioner, you will be able to take a nice break. Our weather pattern has changed so that the predominant flow is coming from Canada, ushering in storm systems every 3 to 4 days and the cold fronts that accompany those storms. A possible downside is that you will need a jacket at night as our low temperatures will be in the 50's and possibly the 40's in some areas.\nAverage high temperatures fall quickly this time of year as the days are getting shorter and the overall weather pattern starts to change. Over the next 7 days the average high temperature drops from 78 down to 75 degrees! This is not to say that we won't have some warm days left, but certainly they are going to be less frequent!\nHow Chilly?\nThe coolest air in a long time is poised to move in this weekend. Behind tonight's strong cold front, winds will turn blustery out of the northwest on Saturday. That will do two things. First, it will make for a breezy day. Second, it will keep our high temperatures in the lower 70's under a mostly cloudy sky. That will result in an early October feel, especially early in the day when a few isolated showers are possible. Once the winds subside in the evening and high pressure begins to move in and eat away at our cloud cover, temperatures will be allowed to fall off like a rock.\nWhen you want chilly temperatures in the warm months, you must have ideal conditions. Clear skies, light winds, and an area of high pressure combine to support very effective radiational cooling. These components will all be in place Saturday night, which will allow temperatures to fall into the upper 40's in many spots. Some of our forecast models hint at middle 40's, which wouldn't be completely shocking in our typically cooler locations, such as Rochelle, Freeport, and Monroe. Nonetheless, our average low currently is 55\u00b0, and the last time temperatures dropped to 48\u00b0 or less was back on May 19th! So it'll definitely be an unseasonably cool night for mid-September.\nMuch Cooler Weekend Ahead\nWho's ready for a fall-like weekend? If you enjoyed the heat and humidity, you may not like what we have on tap by Saturday. Friday will be quite humid as we see a return to southwesterly winds. That will usher in higher humidity once again, in addition to keeping our temperatures in the lower 80's. As another cold front approaches and an area of low pressure deepens to our west, there is a risk of isolated showers and storms throughout the afternoon. However, Friday evening and Friday night feature a far better chance of rain and storms. Some of the rainfall could be heavy as another unseasonably moist air mass sits over northern Illinois and southern Wisconsin.\nThe front passes early Saturday morning, which will keep a threat of showers through lunchtime. As it passes, our winds will turn northwesterly and gust upwards of 20-25 MPH. 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If fantasizing about being forced into sex doesn't correlate to \u2026", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00080.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 85, + "original_length": 1803, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.94, + "perplexity": 297.1, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "http://flavordiary.com/eat-healthy-eat-good/", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T04:41:54Z", + "digest": "sha1:LQ7QKNN4UASOGMF5BJNEG37POJ6DC2CG", + "length": 3303, + "nlines": 10, + "source_domain": "flavordiary.com", + "title": "Eat Healthy, Eat Good | Flavor Diary", + "raw_content": "Healthy eating is a big trend right now. Look what I just called it \u2013 a trend. Finally, a good trend that is worth to follow, because what else is more important than our own well being and health. The whole theory behind this is as easy as one plus one. Eat well, do sport, live happily ever after. But as soon as I run a search in google for healthy eating, there are hundreds of different diet trends popping up. You got to be a man on his foot to be able to pick one.\nThe question is really, if they are really meant for you, and they serve you the right purpose. Forget the word diet, lifestyle change is what matters. When you have a special need, or allergies, it is much easier to change a lifestyle, regardless if you have gluten intolerance or allergies to dairy products. You know then exactly what to eat to be able to prevent your health.\nI have to tell you here and now, that I\u2019m neither a nutritionist, nor a fitness coach. I talk out of pure experience. When I changed my lifestyle I have been in a very \u201eheavy\u201d stage of my life. After giving birth to my daughter, I actually gained 30 kg. (I even flinch now when I think about it.) I also have an autoimmune disease that runs in my family, Morbus Crohn, for which I have been a few times hospitalized. So there were two major problems I had to tackle, obesity and an untreatable disease. I\u2019ve taken up sport again regularly, and tried every single diet that exist. You name it, I\u2019ve tried it. Ketogenic diet- check. Paleo diet \u2013 check. Atkins, Weight watchers \u2013 check. And the list continuous. All of them had a great effect on my figure, not so great on my sensible digestive system. So I stopped putting a fancy name on it, and started listening to my body and went for picking out the best food for my health.\nSo, what is healthy eating in a nutshell:\nEat lots of vegetables. Fruit and vegetables are a vital source of vitamins and minerals, plus they are colorful and bring a touch of sunshine on your plate\nProtein can be plant based, or meat and fish. Protein is essential for the body to repair itself, they are high on vitamins and minerals, including iron and B vitamins. Fish is also very a good source of protein, plus very rich on good fat, Omega 3.\nCarbohydrates are one of the body\u2019s main sources of energy, and I don\u2019t mean refined sugar, (sugar is one common enemy in all the lifestyle diets). Rather consume a lot of vegetables, whole grains and fruits, so called good-quality slow carbs, with low-glycemic that don\u2019t spike your blood sugar or insulin.\nDrink plenty of water and tea. Drinking is essential, keeps us hydrated, our skin pretty and shiny, and washes out the waste of our body. It\u2019s common to mistake thirst for hunger, so keep a few liters of mineral water or tea with you on the go.\nYou have to figure out what is the best for your own body. Listen to it. Do not just follow a lifestyle diet because your friend or a celebrity does it, because it might not be the right one for you. The metabolism is so complex and so different for every person. 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And evidence suggests that taking a tough approach won\u2019t help you either.(i)\nResearch shows that procrastination has its roots in the brain\u2019s frontal systems known to be involved in the processes governing self-regulation, problem solving and planning.i\nConsider these five tips for blazing a trail to your best life.\nCreate a picture for yourself of how your ideal life looks. Be clear about what you really want in life and write a list of the things that matter. Be aware that if your finances are disorganised it can be easy to stay in a rut without realising it, just to keep afloat. It\u2019s easier to make change when your finances are laid out in front of you. Then you can understand where your money\u2019s going and where you can make changes.\nMost big goals are a series of smaller milestones. Break down your overarching goals into individual steps and you\u2019ll create a plan for reaching them. Set dates for each milestone and mark them off your list as you achieve each one. You\u2019ll generate natural encouragement for yourself as you reach each milestone and you\u2019ll keep the momentum going.\nThinking differently is often easier said than done. Help yourself change the way you think by finding the positive effects of each milestone you\u2019ve set and aim for those. By focussing on the positive, you\u2019ll head towards what you want instead of putting off what you\u2019re telling yourself you should do. Take account of any fears you may have too\u2015about failure or success\u2015and work towards taking action anyway!\nBe prepared to make mistakes and understand that it\u2019s all part of the process. Studies show that people who forgive themselves for making mistakes along the way tend to have more overall success.i So don\u2019t be hard on yourself. Just regain your focus as soon as you can and stay with your plan.\n5. 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I'm looking forward to playing in the upcoming Super Leagues.\nWelcome to the forums, I think I've seen your name around the leagues before, nice to put an typed sentence to a name now... 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Does anyone recognise the other two young men?]\nJack had four sisters who all went to Hambrook School...\nThe oldest was Doris Rose, born 1907, began school at Downend Girls School before moving to Hambrook School in September 1921. She finished school at age 14 in 1921.\nNext was Vera Eugenie, born 1912, began school at Downend Infants before moving to Hambrook School in September 1921. She finished school at age 14 in 1926.\nEdna Grace, born 1915, started at Hambrook School in September 1926. At a Needlework Competition at Filton in 1927, Edna's work was Highly Commended. She finished school at age 14 in 1929.\nJack's youngest sister, Joan Lily, born 1921, began her education at Hambrook School in April 1925. In 1932 she sat an examination and became eligible to go to Chipping Sodbury Grammar School, but she did not go there. The records show that she left Hambrook School at age 14 in 1935.\nJack's Father, William John Stallard was born at Winterbourne c1879, died 1958 age 79. He and his wife, Rose, died 1969 age 86, were buried at All Saints, Winterbourne Down.\nAlso buried at All Saints, Winterbourne Down, were William's brother, Charles Henry, died 1947 age 61, and his wife Clara, died 1938 age 52. For reasons not yet understood, their tombstone records them as Stollard.\nThe father of William John and Charles Henry was Charles Stollard, born in Uppton, Berks c 1856, and came to live in Winterbourne. He married Hannah Roach, who died at Wick Wick Hill, 10 May 1897 age 43.\nThis information was gathered together, using this WebSite, and kindly sent to us, with the above photographs, by Malcolm Williams, son of Vera Eugenie Williams nee Stallard.\nHe is researching this family and is currently trying to find where Hannah Roach was buried. 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The south west of Malta is famed for its rocky shores and coastal caves and Blue Grotto certainly doesn\u2019t disappoint with spectacular blues and greens lighting up the water.\nYou can only enter the Blue Grotto by boat, and all trips leave from \u017burrieq daily (excluding Christmas and New Year) between 09:00 and 16:30 depending on the weather. The trip includes a short cruise of the area before you head through a mighty 140 foot high stone arch towards the caves. There are six caves in total, with the Blue Grotto being the largest. You\u2019ll be mesmerised by the stunning displays of colour as the sun reflects through the water.\nYou can plan your trip carefully so that you can see the Blue Grotto at its best. The caves face out towards the rising sun and often creates the most dazzling of the colours. As the sky reflects the white sandy bottom, a bright cobalt blue colour emerges and the caves mirror the orange, purple and green of the minerals in the rocks. 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They will be also supported by two organisations in the field of cerebral palsy and phsical activity. The whole team is composed of eleven organisations representing the power of...\nGAME-Abling Team\nIn 2012, the European Union decided to give public funding to eleven organisations at European continental level in order to help them create a platform of games for people with cerebral palsy to enhance living adjusement. The official grant agreement was n.315032. Under the Capacities Programme of the Seventh Framework Programme for Research and...", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00080.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 27, + "original_length": 1308, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.93, + "perplexity": 194.3, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "http://garrygillard.net/writing/interpreters.html", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T04:01:41Z", + "digest": "sha1:CRIWVQVM56WBC3XQZLUTKBWQBILIL5MG", + "length": 15673, + "nlines": 23, + "source_domain": "garrygillard.net", + "title": "lectures", + "raw_content": "Lecture on Wole Soyinka, The Interpreters (1965) for H235 African Literature, Murdoch University, 1976-7\nThe title of a work is one element of the authorial register, that is, it is one element which is not part of the mediated narrative itself, but may be a direct communication between author and reader. Think of Joyce's titles, \"Clay\", \"A Little Cloud\", \"Araby\", for example, which direct the reader's response throughout the work, setting up at the outset the ironical machinery which contains the meanings of the work. Whereas with Ngugi's The River Between the reader is directed towards a simple symbolic reading; and whereas in the case of Armah's The Beautyful Ones Are Not Yet Born a symbolism seems suggested which is more esoteric, perhaps containing irony and paradox; the title of The Interpreters may suggest to the reader that he attend rather to the characters.1 In this lecture I shall discuss such an approach to the work, leaving aside a consideration of other elements, such as language, handling of the action, and so on.\nThe range of character types in The Interpreters is due to the fact that each of the main personae has an individual way of interpreting the world, though of course due to their association there is a degree of commonality in some respects, both in the sense of shared experience and of quality of experience. All of the men could for example be said to be intellectuals; all, with the possible exception of Kola, are engaged in middle-class occupations; and they are all interested in the arts, two of them being practising artists.\nOne critic says of Egbo that he \"carries the greatest burden of Soyinka's personal concern and identification\".2 Though this is possibly not said on the basis of this book alone, what can be said about Egbo is that it is he who carries the greatest burden of decision. The first individual strand of the action, following the expository presentation of the whole group at the opening of the novel, concerns Egbo's return to the village of his people. Although he works in the bureaucracy, he inherits the option of becoming the ruler of a creek-town whose population controls some vital smuggling routes. Egbo is ambivalent about this choice. On the one hand he perceives the reality of the power he would have, and longs to be released from the amorphousness of existence in the urban power structures. On the other hand he suspects that the unorthodox way of life might also lack authenticity. As he says, \"What choice, I ask myself, is there between the ugly mudskippers on this creek and the raucous toads of our sewage-ridden ports: What difference?\" (p.14). In the event, Egbo does not make a clear choice, but goes literally with the tide, which happens to be moving away from the shore where his people live. As far as political structures are concerned, then, Egbo represents the modern African at the point of choice between the old and the new. That it is clearly a very difficult and deep choice is evidenced by the fact that Egbo, with all his intellectual equipment, is unable to make it.\nIn this particular individual, however, it is a sign of a schism which goes deeper than anything under his conscious control. For Egbo is a man whose nature is profoundly divided. At different points in the narrative we see aspects of him which are extremely opposed. It was not by coincidence that he should go with the tide in the early scene, as it later becomes clear that part of his nature identifies closely with the passivity and receptivity which is often associated with water. This fascination is first demonstrated as a child: \"Egbo was discovered at midnight lying at the water's edge in the grove of Oshun, one ear against the ground. 'What were you doing there?' they asked. He said he was praying. So they beat him for paganistic leanings.\" (p.17) And as a man, he has two profoundly significant experiences again by a river. He spends the night by the Ogun River under the bridge of the Lagos-Ibadan railway. The circumstances make a lasting impression on him: \"...for it seemed to him that he was born again, he felt night now as a womb of the gods and a passage for travellers ... And he made it his preserve, a place of pilgrimage.\" (p.127)\nThe second of these experiences is with a girl student of Bandele's, whom he impulsively takes with him to the same place, and who will be the other major sexual relationship in his life - after the seductress Simi. The latter is also associated with water in its feminine connotations: \"Perhaps after all Simi could weep, for the light-filled waters in rockpools were the weave of Simi's eyes.\" (p.126)\nIn the last lines of the book, Egbo is again faced with an important choice - between the woman Simi and the unnamed girl - and again he is unable to perceive it experientially as a real choice: \"Egbo watched her while she walked towards him, eyes ocean-clams with her peculiar sadness ... like a choice of a man drowning he was saying...only like a choice of drowning.\" (p.251) In a connexion which remains not clearly defined, Egbo conflates the feminine principle, as experienced both in himself and through the women in his life, with a wish for quietism or death, and with the experience and symbolism of water.\nThe other major tendency in Egbo's nature is towards strength, destruction, sacrifice, masculine qualities as opposed to feminine. This is the way he is seen by Kola, who uses him as his model for the drunken ogun in his painting of the Yoruba Pantheon of Gods. It is not the way Egbo sees himself: \"Look at that thing he has made of me for instance, a damned bloodthirsty maniac from some maximum security zoo. Is that supposed to be me? or even ogun, which I presume it represents?\" (p.233) However it is Egbo who kills the sacrificial ram for the feast on the occasion of Kola's exhibition; it is he who sacrifices the virginity of the girl on the rocks which he sees as the feet of Ogun; he impulsively leaves the vapid boy Noah with the homosexual Joe Golder who drives the boy to his death; and it is he who has an impulse to kill Bandele.\nThe narrative gives enough information to account for this duality in Egbo. His father, a gentle Christian, has been drowned with his mother, who was a king's daughter. Here we have the two influences already, the traditional and the European; also the connexion of sadness and death with water. Egbo's various stepfathers have been, by contrast with his father, rough men, who beat him continually. The reader is enabled to imagine the division in the character's nature growing, thus partially accounting for the vacillations and contradictions in his actions.\nPerhaps the most fully developed character, especially in terms of relative space, is that of Sagoe. Of course, he is a convenient character to provide many of the mechanical links in the structure of the action, because as a journalist he can range over the greater part of society. This is also one of the reasons why most of the satire in The Interpreters is introduced through the perceptions of this character. Another is because it is more appropriate to the style of thought and expression of a working journalist than to the high art of, say, Kola.\nBeing more experienced in social observation, Sagoe is aware of the importance of social differentiators such as the criterion of 'good taste'. So it is in the phases of the action which are mainly presented through this persona that the affectations of elite society are satirised. The principal scene in this regard is that in which the judgements of Mrs. Professor Oguazor with regard to the propriety of the ladies' retiring are visited upon poor, immigrant Monica Faseyi who, though European, ironically does not recognise the importance of such Western behaviour in the eyes of the post-Independence society of Lagos.(pp. 39-47)\nSagoe's own notion of visual bad taste forms a connexion with his preoccupation with death. He abhors Dehinwa's cheap wardrobe with its tawdry decorations, and it is from this wardrobe that his fantastic vision of the now dead Sir Derinola makes his entrance as \"Sir Morgue\". And it is on his way to attend the funeral of Sir Derinola that Sagoe encounters the vastly cheaper ceremony organised by Lazarus. The coffin in the latter case is decorated in the same fashion as Dehinwa's wardrobe. The meaning of these juxtapositions is the value of sincere poverty as against false ostentation.\nSagoe has another morbid preoccupation which is conveyed not by a structural aspect of the narrative, but rather through inset sections of a different genre: the essays in his \"Book of Enlightment\" on Voidancy. As well as revealing a fixation in the character, this obsession also brings to notice an unfortunate feature of life in urban Nigeria. Indeed, Sagoe's writing on the subject could be seen as a compensation for the disgust felt at the ubiquity of the evidence of excrement in the streets of Lagos. However, it is a natural subject for a man whose occupation often involves the uncovering of repressed and unsavoury aspects of life.\nThere are two visions of unity in The Interpreters. One is expressed by Kola in his painting, which is one of the structural keys to the book. Kola interprets the other characters by using them as models for figures in the pantheon of gods. This process in turn also throws light on the belief systems represented by the gods. The result of all this is that the character tends to be overcome by his function ad a vehicle of interpretation and is not very fully developed. His views of other characters are conveyed to the reader without also revealing the character capable of conceiving and demonstrating such views. Kola himself admits to having been influenced by others; not only influenced: he says that it is Egbo who should be working on the painting, rather than himself; (p.227) and reveals that he thinks more of Sekoni's work than of his own.(p.228). It suffices that Kola works very hard (p.228), and that the result of his labour forms a catalyst which causes other characters to react in revealing ways, as has been mentioned above, for example, in the case of Egbo, the violence of whose contrary reaction lends support to Kola's view as much as it contradicts it.\nThe other vision of unity is stated by Sekoni, who, ironically, can barely express himself at all, due to a speech impediment. Further irony may be seen in his personality, perhaps the least 'unified' in the book. \"In the dome of the cosmos, there is complete unity of Life. Life is like the godhead, the plurality of the manifestations is only an illusion. The godhead is one. So is Life, or death, both are contained in the single dome of existence.\"(p.122) This is Sekoni's major metaphysical statement (with the indications of stammering removed), the product of a life filled with ironies, conflicts and contradictions. one of the conflicts reveals, as in Egbo's case, some unfortunate aspects of power structures in modern Africa. Sekoni has gained overseas qualifications in engineering. He returns filled with the desire to improve the quality of life in Nigeria in the practical sense of creating electric power. When he is fobbed off with a senseless administrative job, expressed in bureaucratic terms of the most extreme kind (\"Please join a preliminary Committee of Five to sort out the applications for the post of a Third Class Clerk.\"), he agitates for, and gets, a real mission. He builds a small experimental power station. When he discovers that the project is written off as \"junk\" - the reader is informed that the chairman of the government department is also indirectly the contractor and will receive thousands in compensation - it is enough to drive him mad.\nAn earlier conflict has been with his Moslem father who has disapproved of Sekoni's marriage with a Christian. Now that he is ill, his father is reconciled, and instrumental in sending Sekoni to Mecca. In yet another irony, however, it is in old Jerusalem that he perceives \"suddenly meaningful affinities\" which enables him to return to Nigeria to begin to work through in an art form his experience of division. His first work - \"The Wrestler\" expresses something of his struggle and his quest for meaning. A pilgrim is on the point of subduing a python. It is Kola who perceives the work as expressing a feeling of integration, as being without self-doubt: \"...Sekoni was an artist who had waited long to find himself but had done so finally, and left no room for doubt.\" (p.100) Though the narrator suggests that Bandele is the model for the figure in this first sculpture, it seems a reasonable inference to say that whereas Kola's function is to interpret others through their relationship with their culture, Sekoni interprets himself.\nThe reason for the use of Bandele as model in the context suggested above can be inferred. Bandele is the character into whose mouth is put the title of the book: this, taken together with other indications, suggests that he is the figure who has a kind of understanding and judgement not shared by the other characters. It is as if only he has the capacity to interpret the interpreters. This overriding vision is not accepted without resentment.\n\"Bandele was mocking, lightly. 'Sagoe has his story, Kola has filled another heavenly space on his canvas, what are you getting out of this, Egbo?' Egbo turned angrily on him. 'What are you getting out of it?' 'Knowledge of the new generation of interpreters.' Sagoe exploded. 'You sound so fuckin' superior it would make a saint mad.' \"(p.178)\nMonica tells Kola: \"Bandele thinks you all lead callous, indifferent lives.\" He seems to represent an ideal standard of thought and conduct. As a lecturer, he has the highest intellectual status of the group, but in his comments on others he shows a scorn for the impurity of their motives, a moral rather than an intellectual superiority. Referring to the death of Noah, he asks Kola: \"'What do you need the ram for? Haven't you had your sacrifice?'\" (p.243) and it is this question which tempts Kola to attack him, as mentioned above. In the same scene he asks: \"'Is it not time for your freak-show?'\" referring to the recital by Joe Golder. As the narrator puts it, in a key phrase; \"Bandele sat like a timeless image brooding over lesser beings.\" He is clearly being characterised here as the conscience of the group.\nThis is also shown in his actions. For example, he is more tolerant than anyone else of the ugly half-Americans, Peter and Joe Golder. And when he gives Egbo the message from the girl, he sticks rigidly to his text, in order to give her maximum protection, by allowing the negotiations to go forward on her terms. But it is in his last action, the last significant action of the book, that the characterisation of Bandele is completed. He passes judgement on the seducer and abortionist Dr. Lumoye, and on his superior, Professor Oguazor, in one noble pronouncement: \"Bandele, old and immutable as the royal mothers of Benin throne, old and cruel as the ogboni in conclave pronouncing the Word. 'I hope you all live to bury your daughters.'\" (pp.250-251). In this concluding action, his paternalism and purity are combined with an image of traditional power and wisdom to put the finishing touches to the picture of this important character. The interpretation is complete.\n1. Wole Soyinka, The Interpreters, London: Deutsch, 1965. Page references in the text are to the Heinemann edition of 1970 (African Writers Series).\n2. 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Bayshore Rd., Suite 200\nThe NYSE Stock Market LLC\nWarrants to receive one share of Common Stock\nRight to receive one-tenth of one share of Common Stock\nUnits, each consisting of one share of Common Stock, one right and three-fourths of one warrant\nIndicate by check mark whether the Registrant is a shell company (as defined in Rule 12b-2 of the Exchange Act). YES \u2612 NO \u2610\nThe aggregate market value of the voting and non-voting common equity held by non-affiliates of the Registrant, based on the closing price of the shares of common stock on The NYSE Stock Market on March 30, 2018, the last business day of the registrant\u2019s most recently completed second fiscal quarter, was $180,373,799.\nThe number of shares of Registrant\u2019s Common Stock outstanding as of November 30, 2018 was 18,462,006.\nReferences in this annual report on Form 10-K (the \u201cAnnual Report\u201d) to \u201cwe,\u201d \u201cus,\u201d \u201cour\u201d or the \u201cCompany\u201d refer to GigCapital, Inc. References to our \u201cmanagement\u201d or our \u201cmanagement team\u201d refer to our officers and directors, references to the \u201cSponsor\u201d refer to GigAcquisitions, LLC, and references to the \u201cFounders\u201d refer to the Sponsor and three additional investors. The following discussion and analysis of the Company\u2019s financial condition and results of operations should be read in conjunction with the financial statements and the notes thereto contained elsewhere in this Annual Report. Certain information contained in the discussion and analysis set forth below includes forward-looking statements that involve risks and uncertainties.\nThis Annual Report includes \u201cforward-looking statements\u201d within the meaning of Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933 and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 that are not historical facts, and involve risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from those expected and projected. All statements, other than statements of historical fact included in this Annual Report including, without limitation, statements in this \u201cManagement\u2019s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations\u201d regarding the Company\u2019s financial position, business strategy and the plans and objectives of management for future operations, are forward-looking statements. Words such as \u201cexpect,\u201d \u201cbelieve,\u201d \u201canticipate,\u201d \u201cintend,\u201d \u201cestimate,\u201d \u201cseek\u201d and variations and similar words and expressions are intended to identify such forward-looking statements. Such forward-looking statements relate to future events or future performance, but reflect management\u2019s current beliefs, based on information currently available. A number of factors could cause actual events, performance or results to differ materially from the events, performance and results discussed in the forward-looking statements. Actual results and stockholders\u2019 value will be affected by a variety of risks and factors, including, without limitation, international, national and local economic conditions, merger, acquisition and business combination risks, financing risks, geo-political risks, acts of terror or war, and those risk factors described under \u201cItem 1A. Risk Factors.\u201d Many of the risks and factors that will determine these results and stockholders\u2019 value are beyond the Company\u2019s ability to control or predict. Except as expressly required by applicable securities law, the Company disclaims any intention or obligation to update or revise any forward-looking statements whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise.\nAll such forward-looking statements speak only as of the date of this Annual Report. The Company expressly disclaims any obligation or undertaking to release publicly any updates or revisions to any forward-looking statements contained herein to reflect any change in the Company\u2019s expectations with regard thereto or any change in events, conditions or circumstances on which any such statement is based. All subsequent written or oral forward-looking statements attributable to us or persons acting on the Company\u2019s behalf are qualified in their entirety by this Special Note Regarding Forward-Looking Statements.\nWe are a Delaware corporation formed for the purpose of effecting a merger, share exchange, asset acquisition, stock purchase, reorganization, recapitalization or other similar business combination with one or more businesses, which we refer to throughout this Annual Report as our initial business combination. Although we have identified potential initial business combination targets, we have not as of the date of this Annual Report determined to effect an initial business combination with any particular target.\nWe seek to capitalize on the significant experience and contacts of our management team to complete our initial business combination. We believe our management team\u2019s distinctive background and record of acquisition and operational success could have a transformative impact on verified target businesses. Although we may pursue our initial business combination in any business, industry or geographic location, we currently intend to focus on opportunities to capitalize on the ability of our management team, particularly our executive officers, to identify, acquire and operate a business in the Technology, Media and Telecommunications (\u201cTMT\u201d) industries. We intend to evaluate both private and public companies as potential initial business combination targets, focusing on opportunities that we believe would provide appropriate risk adjusted returns to stockholders. Following our initial business combination, our objective will be to implement or support the acquired company\u2019s operating strategies in order to generate additional value for stockholders. General goals may include additional acquisitions and operational improvements.\nOur management team has significant hands-on experience helping TMT companies optimize their existing and new growth initiatives by exploiting insights from rich data assets that already exist within most TMT companies. Further, we intend to share best practices and key learnings, gathered from our management team\u2019s operating and investing experience, as well as strong relationships in the TMT industry to help shape corporate strategies. Additionally, our management team has operated and invested in leading global TMT companies across their corporate life cycles, and has developed deep relationships with key large multi-national organizations and investors. We believe that these relationships and our management team\u2019s know-how present a significant opportunity to help drive strategic dialogue, access new customer relationships and achieve global ambitions following the completion of our initial business combination.\nOur business strategy is to identify and complete our initial business combination with a company that complements the experience of our management team and can benefit from our management team\u2019s operational expertise. Our selection process leverages our management team\u2019s broad and deep relationship network and unique TMT industry expertise including proven deal-sourcing and structuring capabilities, to provide us with a multitude of business combination opportunities. Our management team has experience:\noperating companies, setting and changing strategies, and identifying, mentoring and recruiting world-class talent;\ndeveloping and growing companies, both organically and inorganically, and expanding the product ranges and geographic footprints of a number of businesses;\nsourcing, structuring, acquiring and selling businesses and achieving synergies to create stockholder value;\nestablishing a wide deal flow and efficient methodology of screening superior M&A targets worldwide;\npartnering with industry-leading companies to increase sales and improve the competitive position of those companies;\naddressing business and technological changes in an evolving global TMT landscape;\nevaluating the viability of emerging TMT business models;\nfostering relationships with sellers, capital providers and target management teams; and\naccessing the capital markets across various business cycles, including financing businesses and assisting companies with the transition to public ownership.\nBusiness Combination Criteria\nConsistent with our strategy, we have identified general criteria and guidelines that we believe are important in evaluating prospective target businesses and, when evaluating a prospective target business, we expect to conduct a thorough due diligence review that will encompass, among other things, meetings with incumbent management and employees, document reviews and inspection of facilities, as applicable, as well as a review of financial and other information that will be made available to us. We intend to use the following and other criteria and guidelines in evaluating acquisition opportunities, but we may decide to enter into our initial business combination with a target business that does not meet any or all of these criteria or guidelines.\nFocus on TMT companies positioned to benefit from the extensive networks and insights we have built. We believe our strategy leverages our management team\u2019s distinctive background and vast network of industry leaders in the target industry.\nEmphasis on companies that can benefit from a public listing and greater access to capital. We will primarily seek a target that we believe will benefit from being publicly traded and will be able to effectively utilize the broader access to capital and the public profile that are associated with being a publicly traded company.\nBusinesses with a catalyst for significantly improved financial performance. We will target companies where we believe that our industry expertise and relationships can be used to create opportunities for value creation, whether for acquisitions, capital investments in organic growth opportunities or in generating greater operating efficiencies. We will seek to identify such opportunities for value creation in evaluating potential business combinations.\nMarket-leading participant with experienced and motivated management teams that may benefit from enhanced leadership and governance. We will seek a target that has an established business and market position. While we will focus on TMT businesses, we will not seek a target that is pre-revenue or in early stages of development with unproven technologies. Additionally, we will seek a target with an established management team. To the extent we believe it will enhance stockholder value, we would seek to selectively supplement the existing leadership of the business with proven leaders from our network, whether at the senior management level or at the board level.\nMiddle-market businesses. We believe targeting companies in the middle market will provide the greatest number of opportunities for investment and will maximize the collective network of our management team and its affiliates.\nPrioritize entities with a well-performing management team and exceptional leadership talent that wishes to continue to drive the company to growth, and is coachable and eager to extend their knowledge and savvy through an interactive and hands-on supportive board of directors.\nThese criteria are not intended to be exhaustive. Any evaluation relating to the merits of a particular initial business combination may be based, to the extent relevant, on these general guidelines as well as other considerations, factors and criteria that our management team may deem relevant.\nSources of Potential Business Combination Targets\nWe expect to evaluate opportunities that are sourced through the relationship networks of our Chief Executive Officer and Executive Chairman of the Board, Dr. Avi S. Katz, and our combined management team, which includes numerous entrepreneurs, management teams, intermediaries and venture capital funds. Dr. Katz and our combined management team has considerable expertise in the evaluation of technology investments.\nWe believe based on our combined team\u2019s business knowledge and past experience that there are numerous acquisition candidates. Our principal means of identifying potential target businesses is through the extensive contacts and relationships of our combined management team. Although our Founders and management team are not required to commit any specific amount of time in identifying or performing due diligence on potential target businesses, our\nFounders and management team believe that the relationships they have developed over their careers and their access to their contacts and resources generate a number of potential business combination opportunities that can warrant further investigation. We also anticipate that target business candidates may also be brought to our attention from various unaffiliated sources, including investment bankers, venture capital funds, private equity funds, leveraged buyout funds, management buyout funds and other members of the financial community. Target businesses may be brought to our attention by such unaffiliated sources as a result of being solicited by us through calls or mailings. These sources may also introduce us to target businesses they think we may be interested in on an unsolicited basis, since many of these sources will have read our filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the \u201cSEC\u201d) and know what types of businesses we are targeting. Our Founders, executive officers and directors, as well as their affiliates, may also bring to our attention target business candidates that they become aware of through their business contacts as a result of formal or informal inquiries or discussions they may have, as well as attending trade shows or conventions.\nWe have no present intention to enter into a business combination with a target business that is affiliated with any of our Founders, management team or their respective affiliates. However, we are not restricted from entering into any such transactions and may do so if (i) such transaction is approved by a majority of our disinterested independent directors and (ii) we obtain an opinion from an independent investment banking firm, or another independent entity that commonly renders valuation opinions on the type of target business we are seeking to acquire, that the business combination is fair to our unaffiliated stockholders from a financial point of view.\nFair Market Value of Target Business\nThe target business or businesses that we acquire must collectively have a fair market value equal to at least 80% of the balance of the funds in the trust account (excluding any taxes payable on the interest earned) at the time of the execution of a definitive agreement for our initial business combination, although we may acquire a target business whose fair market value significantly exceeds 80% of the trust account balance.\nWe currently anticipate structuring a business combination involving 100% of the equity interests or assets of the target business or businesses. We may, however, structure our initial business combination where we merge directly with the target business or involving less than 100% of such interests or assets of the target business in order to meet certain objectives of the target management team or stockholders or for other reasons, but we will only complete such business combination if the post-transaction company owns or acquires 50% or more of the outstanding voting securities of the target or otherwise acquires a controlling interest in the target sufficient for it not to be required to register as an investment company under the Investment Company Act. Even if the post-transaction company owns or acquires 50% or more of the voting securities of the target, our stockholders prior to the business combination may collectively own a minority interest in the post-transaction company, depending on valuations ascribed to the target and us in the business combination transaction. For example, we could pursue a transaction in which we issue a substantial number of new shares in exchange for all of the outstanding capital stock of a target. In this case, we could acquire a 100% controlling interest in the target; however, as a result of the issuance of a substantial number of new shares, our stockholders immediately prior to our initial business combination could own less than a majority of our outstanding shares subsequent to our initial business combination. If less than 100% of the equity interests or assets of a target business or businesses are owned or acquired by the post-transaction company, the portion of such business or businesses that is owned or acquired is what will be valued for purposes of the 80% fair market value test. In order to consummate such an acquisition, we may issue a significant amount of our debt or equity securities to the sellers of such businesses and/or seek to raise additional funds through a private offering of debt or equity securities.\nThe fair market value of the target will be determined by our Board of Directors based upon one or more standards generally accepted by the financial community (such as actual and potential sales, earnings, cash flow and/or book value). The proxy solicitation materials or tender offer documents used by us in connection with any proposed transaction will provide public stockholders with our analysis of the fair market value of the target business, as well as the basis for our determinations. If our board is not able to independently determine that the target business has a sufficient fair market value, we will obtain an opinion from an unaffiliated, independent investment banking firm, or another independent entity that commonly renders valuation opinions on the type of target business we are seeking to acquire, with respect to the satisfaction of such criteria. We will not be required to obtain an opinion from an investment banking firm as to the fair market value if our Board of Directors independently determines that the target business complies with the 80% threshold.\nStatus as a Public Company\nWe believe our structure makes us an attractive business combination partner to target businesses. As an existing public company, we offer a target business an alternative to the traditional initial public offering through a merger or other business combination. In this situation, the owners of the target business would exchange their shares of stock in the target business for shares of stock or other securities or for a combination of shares of stock, other securities and cash, allowing us to tailor the consideration to the specific needs of the sellers. We believe target businesses might find this method a more certain and cost effective method to becoming a public company than the typical initial public offering. In a typical initial public offering, there are additional expenses incurred in marketing, roadshow and public reporting efforts that may not be present to the same extent in connection with a business combination with us. Furthermore, once the business combination is consummated, the target business will have effectively become public, whereas an initial public offering is always subject to the underwriters\u2019 ability to complete the offering, as well as general market conditions, that could prevent the offering from occurring. Once public, we believe the target business would then have greater access to capital and an additional means of providing management incentives consistent with stockholders\u2019 interests than it would have as a privately-held company. It can offer further benefits by augmenting a company\u2019s profile among potential new customers and vendors and aid in attracting talented employees. However there is currently no market for our securities and a market for our securities may not develop. As a result, this purported benefit may not be realized.\nAlthough we believe that our status as a public company will make us an attractive business partner, some potential target businesses may view the inherent limitations in our status as a blank check company as a deterrent and may prefer to effect a business combination with a more established entity or with a private company. These inherent limitations include limitations on our available financial resources, which may be inferior to those of other entities pursuing the acquisition of similar target businesses; the requirement that we seek stockholder approval of a business combination or conduct a tender offer in relation thereto, which may delay the consummation of a transaction; and the existence of our outstanding warrants, which may represent a source of future dilution.\nWith funds available for a business combination as of November 30, 2018 in the amount of $145,205,551, assuming no redemptions, we can offer a target business a variety of options to facilitate a business combination and fund future expansion and growth of its business. Because we are able to consummate a business combination using the cash proceeds in our trust account, debt or a combination of the foregoing, we have the flexibility to use an efficient structure allowing us to tailor the consideration to be paid to the target business to address the needs of the parties. However, if a business combination requires us to use substantially all of our cash to pay for the purchase price, we may need to arrange third party financing to help fund our business combination. Accordingly, our flexibility in structuring a business combination may be subject to constraints resulting from a need to finance such business combination.\nLack of Business Diversification\nFor an indefinite period of time after consummation of our initial business combination, the prospects for our success may depend entirely on the future performance of a single business. Unlike other entities that have the resources to complete business combinations with multiple entities in one or several industries, it is probable that we will not have the resources to diversify our operations and mitigate the risks of being in a single line of business. By consummating our initial business combination with only a single entity, our lack of diversification may:\nsubject us to negative economic, competitive and regulatory developments, any or all of which may have a substantial adverse impact on the particular industry in which we operate after our initial business combination, and\ncause us to depend on the marketing and sale of a single product or limited number of products or services.\nLimited Ability to Evaluate a Target\u2019s Management Team\nAlthough we intend to closely scrutinize the management of a prospective target business when evaluating the desirability of effecting our initial business combination with that business, our assessment of a target business\u2019\nmanagement may not prove to be correct. Moreover, members of our management team may not have significant experience or knowledge relating to the operations of the particular target business. The future role of members of our management team, if any, in a post-transaction company cannot presently be stated with any certainty. Consequently, members of our management team may not become a part of the post-transaction company\u2019s management team or serve it in advisory positions, and the future management may not have the necessary skills, qualifications or abilities to manage a public company. Further, it is also not certain whether one or more of our directors will remain associated with the post-transaction company in some capacity following our initial business combination. The determination as to whether any of our key personnel will remain with the combined company will be made at the time of our initial business combination.\nFollowing our initial business combination, we may seek to recruit additional managers to supplement the incumbent management of the target business. However, we may not have the ability to recruit additional managers, or to locate additional managers who will have the requisite skills, knowledge or experience necessary to enhance the incumbent management.\nStockholders May Not Have the Ability to Approve Our Business Combination\nIn connection with any proposed business combination, we will either (1) seek stockholder approval of our initial business combination at a meeting called for such purpose at which stockholders may seek to convert their shares, regardless of whether they vote for or against the proposed business combination, into their pro rata share of the aggregate amount then on deposit in the trust account (net of taxes payable), or (2) provide our stockholders with the opportunity to sell their shares to us by means of a tender offer (and thereby avoid the need for a stockholder vote) for an amount equal to their pro rata share of the aggregate amount then on deposit in the trust account (net of taxes payable), in each case subject to the limitations described herein. Our Founders and management team have agreed to vote any shares of common stock owned by them in favor of any proposed business combination, including the founder shares acquired by them when we were formed or issued to them for services (the \u201cFounder Shares\u201d) and the shares of common stock underlying the private placement units purchased by them in December 2017 and January 2018 (the \u201cPlacement Shares\u201d). As a result, we would need only 5,143,998, or approximately 35.78%, of the remaining 14,375,000 shares to be voted in favor of a transaction in order to have our initial business combination approved.\nWe will seek stockholder approval if it is required by applicable law or stock exchange listing requirement, provided, that we may also decide to seek stockholder approval for business or other reasons.\nUnder the rules of the New York Stock Exchange (\u201cNYSE\u201d), stockholder approval would be required for our initial business combination if, for example:\nwe issue (other than in a public offering for cash) a number of shares of common stock that would either (a) be equal to or in excess of 20% of the number of shares of common stock then outstanding or (b) have voting power equal to or in excess of 20% of the voting power then outstanding;\nany of our management team or substantial security holders (as defined by the rules of the NYSE) has a 5% or greater interest, directly or indirectly, in the target business or assets to be acquired and if the number of shares of common stock to be issued, or if the number of shares of common stock into which the securities may be convertible or exercisable, exceeds either (a) 1% of the number of shares of common stock or 1% of the voting power outstanding before the issuance in the case of any of our management team or (b) 5% of the number of shares of common stock or 5% of the voting power outstanding before the issuance in the case of any substantial security holders; or\nthe issuance or potential issuance of shares of our common stock will result in our undergoing a change of control.\nIf we determine to engage in a tender offer, such tender offer will be structured so that each stockholder may tender any or all of his, her or its shares rather than some pro rata portion of his, her or its shares. The decision as to whether we will seek stockholder approval of a proposed business combination or will allow stockholders to sell their shares to us in a tender offer will be made by us, solely in our discretion, and will be based on a variety of factors such as the timing of the transaction and whether the terms of the transaction would otherwise require us to seek stockholder approval. Unlike other blank check companies which require stockholder votes and conduct proxy solicitations in\nconjunction with their initial business combinations and related conversions of public shares for cash upon consummation of such initial business combination even when a vote is not required by law, we will have the flexibility to avoid such stockholder vote and allow our stockholders to sell their shares pursuant to Rule 13e-4 and Regulation 14E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the \u201cExchange Act\u201d) which regulate issuer tender offers. In that case, we will file tender offer documents with the SEC which will contain substantially the same financial and other information about the initial business combination as is required under the SEC\u2019s proxy rules. We will consummate our initial business combination only if we have net tangible assets of at least $5,000,001 upon such consummation and, if we seek stockholder approval, a majority of the shares of common stock voted at a stockholder meeting are voted in favor of the business combination.\nWe chose our net tangible asset threshold of $5,000,001 to ensure that we would avoid being subject to Rule 419 promulgated under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the \u201cSecurities Act\u201d). However, if we seek to consummate an initial business combination with a target business that imposes any type of working capital closing condition or requires us to have a minimum amount of funds available from the trust account upon consummation of such initial business combination, we may need to have more than $5,000,001 in net tangible assets upon consummation and this may force us to seek third party financing which may not be available on terms acceptable to us or at all. As a result, we may not be able to consummate such initial business combination and we may not be able to locate another suitable target within the applicable time period, if at all. Public stockholders may therefore have to wait until June 12, 2019 in order to be able to receive a pro rata share of the trust account.\nAt any meeting called to approve an initial business combination, public stockholders (but not our Founders or management team) may seek to redeem their shares of common stock, regardless of whether they vote for or against the proposed business combination, by converting such shares into their pro rata share of the aggregate amount then on deposit in the trust account as of two business days prior to the consummation of the initial business combination, less any taxes then due but not yet paid (which taxes may be paid only from the interest earned on the funds in the trust account). Alternatively, we may provide our public stockholders (but not our Founders or management team) with the opportunity to sell their shares of common stock to us through a tender offer (and thereby avoid the need for a stockholder vote) for an amount equal to their pro rata share of the aggregate amount then on deposit in the trust account, less any taxes then due but not yet paid.\nWe may also require public stockholders seeking redemption, whether they are a record holder or hold their shares in \u201cstreet name,\u201d to either (i) tender their certificates to our transfer agent or (ii) deliver their shares to the transfer agent electronically using Depository Trust Company\u2019s DWAC (Deposit/Withdrawal At Custodian) System, at the holder\u2019s option, in each case prior to a date set forth in the proxy materials sent in connection with the proposal to approve the business combination.\nThere is a nominal cost associated with the above-referenced delivery process and the act of certificating the shares or delivering them through the DWAC System. The transfer agent will typically charge the tendering broker $45.00 and it would be up to the broker whether or not to pass this cost on to the holder. This fee would be incurred regardless of whether or not we require holders seeking to exercise redemption rights to do so prior to the time that we know that the proposed business combination will be consummated. The need to deliver shares is a requirement of exercising redemption rights regardless of the timing of when such delivery must be effectuated. Thus, in the event we require stockholders seeking to exercise redemption rights to deliver their shares prior to the consummation of the proposed business combination and the proposed business combination is not consummated, this may result in an increased cost to stockholders.\nAny proxy solicitation materials we furnish to stockholders in connection with a vote for any proposed business combination will indicate whether we are requiring stockholders to satisfy such certification and delivery requirements. Accordingly, a stockholder would have from the time the stockholder received our proxy statement up until the time designated in the proxy statement to deliver his, her or its shares if he, she or it wishes to seek to exercise his, her or its redemption rights. This time period varies depending on the specific facts of each transaction. However, as the delivery process can be accomplished by the stockholder, whether or not he, she or it is a record holder or his shares are held in \u201cstreet name,\u201d in a matter of hours by simply contacting the transfer agent or his, her or its broker and requesting delivery of his, her or its shares through the DWAC System, we believe this time period is sufficient\nfor an average investor. However, we cannot assure you of this fact. Please see the risk factor titled \u201cWe will require public stockholders who wish to redeem their shares of common stock in connection with a proposed business combination to comply with specific requirements for redemption that may make it more difficult for them to exercise their redemption rights prior to the deadline for exercising their rights\u201d for further information on the risks of failing to comply with these requirements.\nThe foregoing is different from the procedures historically used by some blank check companies. Traditionally, in order to perfect redemption rights in connection with a blank check company\u2019s business combination, the company would distribute proxy materials for the stockholders\u2019 vote on an initial business combination, and a holder could simply vote against a proposed business combination and check a box on the proxy card indicating such holder was seeking to exercise his, her or its redemption rights. After the business combination was approved, the company would contact such stockholder to arrange for him, her or it to deliver his, her or its certificate to verify ownership. As a result, the stockholder then had an \u201coption window\u201d after the consummation of the business combination during which he, she or it could monitor the price of the company\u2019s stock in the market. If the price rose above the conversion price, he could sell his, her or its shares in the open market before actually delivering his, her or its shares to the company for cancellation. As a result, the redemption rights, to which stockholders were aware they needed to commit before the stockholder meeting, would become a \u201ccontinuing\u201d right surviving past the consummation of the business combination until the holder delivered his, her or its certificate or shares. The requirement for physical or electronic delivery prior to the meeting ensures that a holder\u2019s election to convert his, her or its shares is irrevocable once the business combination is approved.\nAny request to redeem such shares once made, may be withdrawn at any time up to the vote on the proposed business combination. Furthermore, if a holder of a public share delivered his, her or its certificate or shares in connection with an election of such shares\u2019 redemption and subsequently decides prior to the vote on the proposed business combination not to elect to exercise such rights, he, she or it may simply request that the transfer agent return the certificate or shares (physically or electronically).\nIf the initial business combination is not approved or completed for any reason, then our public stockholders who elected to exercise their redemption rights would not be entitled to redeem their shares for the applicable pro rata share of the trust account as of two business days prior to the consummation of the initial business combination. In such case, we will promptly return any certificates or shares delivered by public holders. Furthermore, if the initial business combination is not approved or completed for any reason, then our public stockholders who elected to exercise their redemption rights will not be entitled to convert their shares into a full pro rata portion of the trust account, as applicable. We will thereafter promptly return any shares delivered by public stockholders. In such case, public stockholders may only share in the assets of the trust account upon our liquidation. This may result in public stockholders receiving less than they would have received if the business combination was completed and they had exercised redemption rights in connection therewith due to potential claims of creditors. If we would be left with less than $5,000,001 of net tangible assets as a result of the holders of public shares properly demanding redemption of their shares, we will likely be unable to consummate a business combination.\nAbility to Extend Time to Complete Business Combination\nPursuant to the terms of our amended and restated certificate of incorporation, we will have until March 12, 2019 to consummate an initial business combination. However, if we anticipate that we may not be able to consummate our initial business combination by such date, we may extend the period of time to consummate a business combination by an additional three months to June 12, 2019. Pursuant to the terms of our amended and restated certificate of incorporation, in order to extend the time available for us to consummate our initial business combination, the Sponsor or its affiliates or designees, must deposit into the trust account at least $1,437,500 in exchange for a non-interest bearing, unsecured promissory note. We intend to issue a press release announcing the effectuation of any such extension. Sponsor and its affiliates or designees are not obligated to fund the trust account to extend the time for us to complete our initial business combination.\nLiquidation if No Business Combination\nIf we have not completed an initial business combination by the date required by our amended and restated certificate of incorporation, we will (i) cease all operations except for the purpose of winding up, (ii) as promptly as reasonably\npossible but not more than ten business days thereafter, redeem 100% of the outstanding public shares, at a per-share price, payable in cash, equal to the aggregate amount then on deposit in the trust account, including interest not previously released to us to pay taxes (less up to $100,000 of such net interest to pay dissolution expenses), divided by the number of then outstanding public shares, which redemption will completely extinguish public stockholders\u2019 rights as stockholders (including the right to receive further liquidation distributions, if any), subject to applicable law, and (iii) as promptly as reasonably possible following such redemption, subject to the approval of our remaining stockholders and our Board of Directors, dissolve and liquidate, subject (in the case of (ii) and (iii) above) to our obligations under Delaware law to provide for claims of creditors and the requirements of other applicable law.\nOur Founders and management team have agreed that they will not propose any amendment to our amended and restated certificate of incorporation that would stop our public stockholders from converting or selling their shares of common stock to us in connection with a business combination or affect the substance or timing of our obligation to redeem 100% of our public shares if we do not complete a business combination by March 12, 2019 (or by June 12, 2019, if we extend the time to consummate an initial business combination), unless we provide our public stockholders with the opportunity to redeem their shares of common stock upon such approval at a per-share price, payable in cash, equal to the aggregate amount then on deposit in the trust account, net of franchise and income taxes payable, divided by the number of then outstanding public shares. This redemption right shall apply in the event of the approval of any such amendment, whether proposed by our Founders, any executive officer, director or director nominee, or any other person.\nUnder the Delaware General Corporation law (\u201cDGCL\u201d), stockholders may be held liable for claims by third parties against a corporation to the extent of distributions received by them in a dissolution. The pro rata portion of our trust account distributed to our public stockholders upon the redemption of 100% of our outstanding public shares in the event we do not complete our initial business combination within the required time period may be considered a liquidation distribution under Delaware law. If the corporation complies with certain procedures set forth in Section 280 of the DGCL intended to ensure that it makes reasonable provision for all claims against it, including a 60-day notice period during which any third-party claims can be brought against the corporation, a 90\u2011day period during which the corporation may reject any claims brought, and an additional 150-day waiting period before any liquidating distributions are made to stockholders, any liability of stockholders with respect to a liquidating distribution is limited to the lesser of such stockholder\u2019s pro rata share of the claim or the amount distributed to the stockholder, and any liability of the stockholder would be barred after the third anniversary of the dissolution.\nFurthermore, if the pro rata portion of our trust account distributed to our public stockholders upon the redemption of 100% of our public shares in the event we do not complete our initial business combination within the required time period is not considered a liquidation distribution under Delaware law and such redemption distribution is deemed to be unlawful, then pursuant to Section 174 of the DGCL, the statute of limitations for claims of creditors could then be six years after the unlawful redemption distribution, instead of three years, as in the case of a liquidation distribution. However, if we are unable to complete a business combination within the prescribed time frame, we will proceed as provided for in our amended and restated certificate as described above. Accordingly, it is our intention to redeem our public shares as soon as reasonably possible following the expiration of the time periods described above and, therefore, we do not intend to comply with the procedures required by Section 280 of the DGCL, which would limit the amount and duration of our stockholders\u2019 liability with respect to liquidating distributions as described above. As such, our stockholders could potentially be liable for any claims to the extent of distributions received by them (but no more) and any liability of our stockholders may extend well beyond the third anniversary of such date.\nBecause we will not be complying with Section 280 of the DGCL, Section 281(b) of the DGCL requires us to adopt a plan, based on facts known to us at such time that will provide for our payment of all existing and pending claims or claims that may be potentially brought against us within the subsequent ten years. However, because we are a blank check company, rather than an operating company, and our operations will be limited to searching for prospective target businesses to acquire, the only likely claims to arise would be from our vendors (such as lawyers, investment bankers, etc.) or prospective target businesses.\nWe anticipate notifying the trustee of the trust account to begin liquidating such assets promptly after such date and anticipate it will take no more than ten business days to effectuate such distribution. Our Founders and management team have waived their rights to participate in any liquidation distribution with respect to the Founder Shares and the Placement Shares. There will be no distribution from the trust account with respect to our warrants or rights, which\nwill expire worthless. We will pay the costs of any subsequent liquidation from our remaining assets outside of the trust account and the interest earned on the funds held in the trust account that we are permitted to withdraw to pay such expenses.\nOur public stockholders shall be entitled to receive funds from the trust account only in the event of our failure to complete a business combination within the required time period or if the stockholders seek to have us redeem or purchase their respective shares upon a business combination which is actually completed by us or upon certain amendments to our amended and restated certificate of incorporation as described elsewhere herein. In no other circumstances shall a stockholder have any right or interest of any kind to or in the trust account.\nIf we are forced to file a bankruptcy case or an involuntary bankruptcy case is filed against us which is not dismissed, the proceeds held in the trust account could be subject to applicable bankruptcy law, and may be included in our bankruptcy estate and subject to the claims of third parties with priority over the claims of our stockholders. To the extent any bankruptcy claims deplete the trust account, we cannot make any assurance of the amount we will be able to return to our public stockholders.\nIf we are forced to file a bankruptcy case or an involuntary bankruptcy case is filed against us which is not dismissed, any distributions received by stockholders could be viewed under applicable debtor/creditor and/or bankruptcy laws as either a \u201cpreferential transfer\u201d or a \u201cfraudulent conveyance.\u201d As a result, a bankruptcy court could seek to recover all amounts received by our stockholders. Furthermore, because we intend to distribute the proceeds held in the trust account to our public stockholders promptly after March 12, 2019 (or June 12, 2019 if we extend the time to consummate an initial business combination), this may be viewed or interpreted as giving preference to our public stockholders over any potential creditors with respect to access to or distributions from our assets. Furthermore, our board may be viewed as having breached their fiduciary duties to our creditors and/or may have acted in bad faith, and thereby exposing itself and our company to claims of punitive damages, by paying public stockholders from the trust account prior to addressing the claims of creditors. We cannot assure you that claims will not be brought against us for these reasons.\nOur amended and restated certificate of incorporation contains certain requirements and restrictions that will apply to us until the consummation of our initial business combination. These provisions cannot be amended without the approval of a majority of our stockholders. If we seek to amend any provisions of our amended and restated certificate of incorporation that would stop our public stockholders from converting or selling their shares to us in connection with a business combination or affect the substance or timing of our obligation to redeem 100% of our public shares if we do not complete a business combination by March 12, 2019 (or June 12, 2019 if we extend the time to consummate an initial business combination), we will provide dissenting public stockholders with the opportunity to redeem their public shares in connection with any such vote. This redemption right shall apply in the event of the approval of any such amendment, whether proposed by our Founders, any executive officer, director or director nominee, or any other person. Our Founders and management team have agreed to waive any redemption rights with respect to any common stock held by them, including any public shares they may hold, in connection with any vote to amend our amended and restated certificate of incorporation. Specifically, our amended and restated certificate of incorporation provides, among other things, that:\nwe shall either (1) seek stockholder approval of our initial business combination at a meeting called for such purpose at which stockholders may seek to redeem their shares, regardless of whether they vote for or against the proposed business combination, into their pro rata share of the aggregate amount then on deposit in the trust account (net of taxes payable), or (2) provide our stockholders with the opportunity to sell their shares to us by means of a tender offer (and thereby avoid the need for a stockholder vote) for an amount equal to their pro rata share of the aggregate amount then on deposit in the trust account (net of taxes payable), in each case subject to the limitations described herein;\nwe will consummate our initial business combination only if we have net tangible assets of at least $5,000,001 upon such consummation and, if we seek stockholder approval, a majority of the shares of common stock voted at a stockholder meeting are voted in favor of the business combination;\nif our initial business combination is not consummated by March 12, 2019 (or June 12, 2019 if we extend the time to consummate an initial business combination ) then we will redeem all of the outstanding public shares and thereafter liquidate and dissolve the Company;\nthe proceeds of our initial public offering, including such proceeds from the exercise of the underwriters\u2019 over-allotment option, shall be placed into the trust account; and\nprior to our initial business combination, we may not issue additional stock that participates in any manner in the proceeds of the trust account, or that votes as a class with the common stock.\nIn identifying, evaluating and selecting a target business, we may encounter intense competition from other entities having a business objective similar to ours. Many of these entities are well established and have extensive experience identifying and effecting business combinations directly or through affiliates. Many of these competitors possess greater technical, human and other resources than us and our financial resources will be relatively limited when contrasted with those of many of these competitors. Although we believe there may be numerous potential target businesses that we could acquire with the net proceeds of this offering, our ability to compete in acquiring certain sizable target businesses may be limited by our available financial resources.\nThe following also may not be viewed favorably by certain target businesses:\nour obligation to seek stockholder approval of a business combination or engage in a tender offer may delay the completion of a transaction;\nour obligation to convert or repurchase shares of common stock held by our public stockholders may reduce the resources available to us for a business combination; and\nour outstanding rights and warrants, and the potential future dilution they represent.\nAny of these factors may place us at a competitive disadvantage in successfully negotiating a business combination. Our management believes, however, that our status as a public entity and potential access to the United States public equity markets may give us a competitive advantage over privately-held entities having a similar business objective as ours in acquiring a target business with significant growth potential on favorable terms.\nIf we succeed in effecting a business combination, there will be, in all likelihood, intense competition from competitors of the target business. We cannot assure you that, subsequent to a business combination, we will have the resources or ability to compete effectively.\nWe have two executive officers. These individuals are not obligated to devote any specific number of hours to our matters and intend to devote only as much time as they deem necessary to our affairs. The amount of time they will devote in any time period will vary based on whether a target business has been selected for the business combination and the stage of the business combination process the Company is in. Accordingly, once a suitable target business to acquire has been located, management will spend more time investigating such target business and negotiating and processing the business combination (and consequently spend more time on our affairs) than had been spent prior to locating a suitable target business. We presently expect our executive officers to devote such amount of time as they reasonably believe is necessary to our business. We do not intend to have any full time employees prior to the consummation of a business combination.\nPeriodic Reporting and Financial Information\nWe have registered our units, common stock, rights and warrants under the Exchange Act and have reporting obligations, including the requirement that we file annual, quarterly and current reports with the SEC. In accordance with the requirements of the Exchange Act, this Annual Report contains financial statements audited and reported on by our independent registered public accountants.\nWe will provide stockholders with audited financial statements of the prospective target business as part of any proxy solicitation materials or tender offer documents sent to stockholders to assist them in assessing the target business. These financial statements will need to be prepared in accordance with or reconciled to United States generally accepted accounting principles or international financial reporting standards, as issued by the International Accounting Standards Board. We cannot assure you that any particular target business identified by us as a potential acquisition candidate will have the necessary financial statements. To the extent that this requirement cannot be met, we may not be able to acquire the proposed target business.\nWe may be required to have our internal control procedures audited for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2019 as required by the Sarbanes-Oxley Act. A target company may not be in compliance with the provisions of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act regarding adequacy of their internal controls. The development of the internal controls of any such entity to achieve compliance with the Sarbanes-Oxley Act may increase the time and costs necessary to complete any such acquisition.\nAn investment in our securities involves a high degree of risk. You should consider carefully all of the risks described below, together with the other information contained in this Annual Report, before making a decision to invest in our securities. If any of the following events occur, our business, financial condition and operating results may be materially adversely affected. In that event, the trading price of our securities could decline, and you could lose all or part of your investment.\nWe are a blank check company with no operating history and no revenues, and you have no basis on which to evaluate our ability to achieve our business objective.\nWe are a blank check company with no operating results. Because we lack an operating history, you have no basis upon which to evaluate our ability to achieve our business objective of completing our initial business combination with one or more target businesses. We have no plans, arrangements or understandings with any prospective target business concerning our initial business combination and may be unable to complete our initial business combination. If we fail to complete our initial business combination, we will never generate any operating revenues.\nOur independent registered public accounting firm\u2019s report contains an explanatory paragraph that expresses substantial doubt about our ability to continue as a \u201cgoing concern.\u201d\nAs of September 30, 2018, not including cash held in our trust account in the amount of $144,964,309, we had $597,268 in cash and $1,059,286 in liabilities. We expect to incur significant costs in pursuit of our acquisition plans, which will need to be funded, but if we are not successful in consummating an initial business combination by March 12, 2019 (or June 12, 2019 if we extend the time to consummate an initial business combination), then we will liquidate in accordance with our amended and restated certificate of incorporation. Management\u2019s plans to address this need for capital are discussed in the section of this Annual Report titled \u201cManagement\u2019s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations.\u201d Our plans to raise capital and to consummate our initial business combination may not be successful. These factors, among others, raise substantial doubt about our ability to continue as a going concern.\nThe requirement that the target business or businesses that we acquire must collectively have a fair market value equal to at least 80% of the balance of the funds in the trust account (less any taxes payable on interest earned and less any interest earned thereon that is released to us for taxes) at the time of the execution of a definitive agreement for our initial business combination may limit the type and number of companies that we may complete such a business combination with.\nPursuant to the NYSE listing rules, the target business or businesses that we acquire must collectively have a fair market value equal to at least 80% of the balance of the funds in the trust account (less any taxes payable on interest earned and less any interest earned thereon that is released to us for taxes) at the time of the execution of a definitive agreement for our initial business combination. This restriction may limit the type and number of companies that we may complete an initial business combination with. If we are unable to locate a target business or businesses that\nsatisfy this fair market value test, we may be forced to liquidate and you will only be entitled to receive your pro rata portion of the funds in the trust account.\nOur public stockholders may not be afforded an opportunity to vote on our proposed business combination, which means we may consummate our initial business combination even though a majority of our public stockholders do not support such a combination.\nWe may not hold a stockholder vote to approve our initial business combination unless the business combination would require stockholder approval under applicable law or stock exchange rules or if we decide to hold a stockholder vote for business or other reasons. For instance, the rules of the NYSE currently allow us to engage in a tender offer in lieu of a stockholder meeting, but would still require us to obtain stockholder approval if we were seeking to issue more than 20% of our issued and outstanding shares to a target business as consideration in any business combination. Therefore, if we were structuring a business combination that required us to issue more than 20% of our issued and outstanding shares, we would seek stockholder approval of such business combination. However, except as required by applicable law or stock exchange rules, the decision as to whether we will seek stockholder approval of a proposed business combination or will allow stockholders to sell their shares to us in a tender offer will be made by us, solely in our discretion, and will be based on a variety of factors, such as the timing of the transaction and whether the terms of the transaction would otherwise require us to seek stockholder approval. Accordingly, we may consummate our initial business combination even if holders of a majority of the issued and outstanding shares of common stock do not approve of the business combination we consummate. Our Founders and management team control a substantial interest in us and thus may exert a substantial influence on actions requiring a stockholder vote, potentially in a manner that you do not support.\nIf we seek stockholder approval of our initial business combination, our Founders and management team have agreed to vote in favor of such initial business combination, regardless of how our public stockholders vote.\nUnlike many other blank check companies in which the founders, executive officers and directors agree to vote their Founder Shares in accordance with the majority of the votes cast by the public stockholders in connection with an initial business combination, our Founders and management team have agreed (and their permitted transferees will agree), pursuant to the terms of the letter agreements entered into with us, to vote any shares of common stock held by them in favor of our initial business combination. As a result, in addition to the Founder Shares and Placement Shares, we would need 5,143,998, or approximately 35.78%, of the 14,375,000 public shares to be voted in favor of a transaction in order to have such initial business combination approved. We expect that our Founders and management team, and their permitted transferees, will own approximately 22% of the issued and outstanding shares of our common stock at the time of any such stockholder vote. Accordingly, if we seek stockholder approval of our initial business combination, it is more likely that the necessary stockholder approval will be received than would be the case if such persons agreed to vote their Founder Shares and Placement Shares in accordance with the majority of the votes cast by our public stockholders.\nYour only opportunity to affect the investment decision regarding a potential business combination may be limited to the exercise of your right to redeem your shares from us for cash.\nPrior to the announcement of our initial business combination, you will not be provided with an opportunity to evaluate the specific merits or risks of one or more target businesses. Because our Board of Directors may consummate our initial business combination without seeking stockholder approval, public stockholders may not have the right or opportunity to vote on the business combination. Accordingly, your only opportunity to affect the investment decision regarding a potential business combination may be limited to exercising your redemption rights within the period of time (which will be at least 20 business days) set forth in our tender offer documents mailed to our public stockholders in which we describe our initial business combination.\nThe ability of our public stockholders to redeem their shares for cash may make our financial condition unattractive to potential business combination targets, which may make it difficult for us to enter into our initial business combination with a target.\nWe may enter into a transaction agreement with a prospective target that requires as a closing condition that we have a minimum net worth or a certain amount of cash. If too many public stockholders exercise their redemption rights, we may not be able to meet such closing condition, and as a result, would not be able to proceed with such business combination. Furthermore, in no event will we redeem our public shares in an amount that would cause our net tangible assets to be less than $5,000,001 upon the consummation of our initial business combination or any greater net tangible asset or cash requirement which may be contained in the agreement relating to our initial business combination. Our amended and restated certificate of incorporation requires us to provide all of our public stockholders (but not our Founders or management team) with an opportunity to redeem all of their shares in connection with the consummation of any initial business combination. Consequently, if accepting all properly submitted redemption requests would cause our net tangible assets to be less than $5,000,001 upon the consummation of our initial business combination, or such greater amount necessary to satisfy a closing condition as described above, we would not proceed with such redemption and the related business combination and may instead search for an alternate business combination. Prospective targets would be aware of these risks and, thus, may be reluctant to enter into our initial business combination transaction with us.\nThe ability of our public stockholders to exercise redemption rights with respect to a large number of our shares may not allow us to consummate the most desirable business combination or optimize our capital structure.\nIn connection with the successful consummation of our initial business combination, we may redeem up to that number of shares of common stock that would permit us to maintain net tangible assets of $5,000,001 upon the consummation of our initial business combination. If our initial business combination requires us to use substantially all of our cash to pay the purchase price, the redemption threshold may be further limited. Alternatively, we may need to arrange third party financing to help fund our business combination in case a larger percentage of stockholders exercise their redemption rights than we expect. If the acquisition involves the issuance of our shares as consideration, we may be required to issue a higher percentage of our shares to the target or its stockholders to make up for the failure to satisfy a minimum cash requirement. Raising additional funds to cover any shortfall may involve dilutive equity financing or incurring indebtedness at higher than desirable levels. This may limit our ability to effectuate the most attractive business combination available to us.\nThe requirement that we maintain a minimum net worth or retain a certain amount of cash could increase the probability that our business combination would be unsuccessful and that you would have to wait for liquidation in order to redeem your shares.\nIf, pursuant to the terms of our proposed business combination, we are required to maintain a minimum net worth or retain a certain amount of cash in trust in order to consummate the business combination and regardless of whether we proceed with redemptions under the tender or proxy rules, the probability that our business combination would be unsuccessful is increased. If our business combination is unsuccessful, you would not receive your pro rata portion of the trust account until we liquidate. If you are in need of immediate liquidity, you could attempt to sell your shares in the open market; however, at such time our shares may trade at a discount to the pro rata amount per share in our trust account. In either situation, you may suffer a material loss on your investment or lose the benefit of funds expected in connection with our redemption until we liquidate or you are able to sell your shares in the open market.\nThe requirement that we complete our initial business combination by March 12, 2019 (or June 12, 2019 if we extend the time to consummate an initial business combination), may give potential target businesses leverage over us in negotiating our initial business combination and may limit the amount of time we have to conduct due diligence on potential business combination targets as we approach our dissolution deadline, which could undermine our ability to consummate our initial business combination on terms that would produce value for our stockholders.\nAny potential target business with which we enter into negotiations concerning our initial business combination will be aware that we must consummate our initial business combination by March 12, 2019 (or June 12, 2019 if we extend the time to consummate the initial business combination). Consequently, such target businesses may obtain leverage over us in negotiating our initial business combination, knowing that if we do not complete our initial business\ncombination with that particular target business, we may be unable to complete our initial business combination with any target business. This risk will increase as we get closer to the timeframe described above. In addition, we may have limited time to conduct due diligence and may enter into our initial business combination on terms that we would have rejected upon a more comprehensive investigation.\nWe may not be able to consummate our initial business combination within the required time period, in which case we would cease all operations except for the purpose of winding up and we would redeem our public shares and liquidate.\nOur Founders and management team have agreed that we must complete our initial business combination by March 12, 2019 (or June 12, 2019 if we extend the time to consummate the initial business combination). We may not be able to find a suitable target business and consummate our initial business combination within such time period. Our ability to complete our initial business combination may be negatively impacted by general market conditions, volatility in the capital and debt markets and the other risks described herein.\nIf we are unable to consummate our initial business combination within the required time period, we will, as promptly as reasonably possible but not more than ten business days thereafter, distribute the aggregate amount then on deposit in the trust account (net of taxes payable, and less up to $100,000 of interest to pay dissolution expenses), pro rata to the holders of our public shares by way of redemption and cease all operations except for the purposes of winding up of our affairs, as further described herein. This redemption of our public shares from the trust account shall be effected as required by function of our amended and restated certificate of incorporation and prior to any voluntary winding up.\nIf we seek stockholder approval of our initial business combination pursuant to a proxy solicitation, our Founders, management team, advisors and their affiliates may elect to purchase shares from stockholders, in which case they may influence a vote in favor of a proposed business combination that you do not support.\nIf we seek stockholder approval of our initial business combination pursuant to a proxy solicitation (meaning we would not conduct redemptions pursuant to the tender offer rules), our Founders, management team, advisors or any of their affiliates are permitted to purchase shares of our common stock in privately negotiated transactions or in the open market either prior to or following the consummation of our initial business combination. None of them will make any such purchases when they are in possession of any material non\u2011public information not disclosed to the seller or during a restricted period under Regulation M under the Exchange Act. Any such purchase would be required to include a contractual acknowledgement that the selling stockholder, although he, she or it may still be the record holder of the shares being sold, would, upon consummation of such sale, no longer be the beneficial owner of such shares and would agree not to exercise the redemption rights applicable to such shares. In the event that our Founders, management team, advisors or any of their affiliates purchase shares of common stock in privately negotiated transactions from public stockholders who have already elected to exercise their redemption rights, any such selling stockholders would be required to revoke their prior elections to redeem their shares of common stock prior to the consummation of the transaction. Any such privately negotiated purchases may be effected at purchase prices that are below or in excess of the per-share pro rata portion of the trust account.\nThe purpose of such purchases could be to (1) increase the likelihood of obtaining stockholder approval of the initial business combination or (2) satisfy a closing condition in an agreement with a target that requires us to have a minimum net worth or a certain amount of cash at the closing of the business combination, where it appears that such requirement would otherwise not be met. This may result in the consummation of an initial business combination that may not otherwise have been possible.\nPurchases of shares of our common stock in the open market or in privately negotiated transactions by our Founders, management team, advisors or their affiliates may make it difficult for us to maintain the listing of our common stock on the NYSE following the consummation of an initial business combination.\nIf our Founders, management team, advisors or their affiliates purchase shares of our common stock in the open market or in privately negotiated transactions, the public \u201cfloat\u201d of our common stock and the number of beneficial holders of our securities would both be reduced, possibly making it difficult to maintain the listing or trading of our securities on the NYSE following consummation of the initial business combination.\nYou will not have any rights or interests in funds from the trust account, except under certain limited circumstances. To liquidate your investment, therefore, you may be forced to sell your public shares, potentially at a loss.\nOur public stockholders shall be entitled to receive funds from the trust account only (i) in the event of a redemption to public stockholders prior to any winding up in the event we do not consummate our initial business combination by March 12, 2019, (or June 12, 2019 if we extend the time to consummate the initial business combination), (ii) if they redeem their shares in connection with an initial business combination that we consummate or, (iii) if they redeem their shares in connection with a stockholder vote to amend our amended and restated certificate of incorporation (A) to modify the substance or timing of our obligation to redeem 100% of our public shares if we do not complete our initial business combination by March 12, 2019, (or June 12, 2019 if we extend the time to consummate the initial business combination), or (B) with respect to any other provision relating to our pre-business combination activity and related stockholders\u2019 rights. In no other circumstances will a stockholder have any right or interest of any kind to the funds in the trust account. Accordingly, to liquidate your investment, you may be forced to sell your securities, potentially at a loss.\nYou will not be entitled to protections normally afforded to investors of many other blank check companies.\nWe may be deemed to be a \u201cblank check\u201d company under the United States securities laws. However, since we have net tangible assets of at least $5,000,001, we are exempt from rules promulgated by the SEC to protect investors in blank check companies, such as Rule 419. Accordingly, investors will not be afforded the benefits or protections of those rules. Among other things, this means our units will be immediately tradable and we may have a longer period of time to complete our initial business combination than do companies subject to Rule 419. Moreover, offerings subject to Rule 419 would prohibit the release of any interest earned on funds held in the trust account to us unless and until the funds in the trust account were released to us in connection with our consummation of an initial business combination.\nIf we seek stockholder approval of our business combination pursuant to a proxy solicitation (meaning we would not conduct redemptions pursuant to the tender offer rules), and if you or a \u201cgroup\u201d of stockholders are deemed to hold in excess of 15% of the issued and outstanding shares of our common stock, you will lose the ability to redeem all such shares in excess of 15% of the issued and outstanding shares of our common stock.\nIf we seek stockholder approval of our initial business combination pursuant to a proxy solicitation (meaning we would not conduct redemptions pursuant to the tender offer rules), our amended and restated certificate of incorporation will provide that a public stockholder, individually or together with any affiliate of such stockholder or any other person with whom such stockholder is acting in concert or as a \u201cgroup\u201d (as defined under Section 13 of the Exchange Act), would be restricted from seeking redemption rights with respect to an aggregate of more than 15% of the shares of common stock. Your inability to redeem an aggregate of more than 15% of the shares of common stock will reduce your influence over our ability to consummate our initial business combination and you could suffer a material loss on your investment in us if you sell such excess shares in open market transactions. As a result, you will continue to hold that number of shares exceeding 15% and, in order to dispose of such shares, you would be required to sell your shares in open market transaction, potentially at a loss.\nIf our cash not being held in the trust account is insufficient to allow us to operate until June 12, 2019, we may be unable to complete our initial business combination.\nThe funds available to us outside of the trust account, plus the interest earned on the funds held in the trust account that may be available to us, may not be sufficient to allow us to operate until at least June 12, 2019, assuming that our initial business combination is not consummated during that time. Of the funds available to us, we could use a portion of the funds available to us to pay fees to consultants to assist us with our search for a target business. We could also use a portion of the funds as a down payment or to fund a \u201cno\u2011shop\u201d provision (a provision in letters of intent designed to keep target businesses from \u201cshopping\u201d around for transactions with other companies on terms more favorable to such target businesses) with respect to a particular proposed business combination, although we do not have any current intention to do so. If we are unable to fund such down payments or \u201cno-shop\u201d provisions, our ability to close a contemplated transaction could be impaired. Furthermore, if we entered into a letter of intent where we paid for the right to receive exclusivity from a target business and were subsequently required to forfeit such funds (whether as a\nresult of our breach or otherwise), we might not have sufficient funds to continue searching for, or conduct due diligence with respect to, a target business. If that were to occur, we may not be able to consummate our initial business combination.\nSubsequent to our consummation of our initial business combination, we may be required to take write-downs or write-offs, or we may be subject to restructuring and impairment or other charges that could have a significant negative effect on our financial condition, results of operations and the price of our common stock, which could cause you to lose some or all of your investment.\nEven if we conduct thorough due diligence on a target business with which we combine, this diligence may not surface all material issues that may be present inside a particular target business. Factors outside of the target business and outside of our control may, at any time, arise. As a result of these factors, we may be forced to later write-down or write-off assets, restructure our operations, or incur impairment or other charges that could result in our reporting losses. Even if our due diligence successfully identifies certain risks, unexpected risks may arise and previously known risks may materialize in a manner not consistent with our preliminary risk analysis. Even though these charges may be non-cash items and not have an immediate impact on our liquidity, the fact that we report charges of this nature could contribute to negative market perceptions about us or our securities. In addition, charges of this nature may cause us to violate net worth or other covenants to which we may be subject as a result of assuming pre-existing debt held by a target business or by virtue of our obtaining post-combination debt financing.\nOur directors may decide not to enforce indemnification obligations against our Sponsor, resulting in a reduction in the amount of funds in the trust account available for distribution to our public stockholders.\nIn the event that the proceeds in the trust account are reduced below $10.00 per share and our Sponsor asserts that it is unable to satisfy obligations or that it has no indemnification obligations related to a particular claim, our independent directors would determine on our behalf whether to take legal action against our Sponsor to enforce its indemnification obligations. While we currently expect that our independent directors would take legal action on our behalf against our Sponsor to enforce its indemnification obligations to us, it is possible that our independent directors in exercising their business judgment may choose not to do so in any particular instance. If our independent directors choose not to enforce these indemnification obligations on our behalf, the amount of funds in the trust account available for distribution upon redemption of our public shares may be reduced below the amount that these shares would otherwise be converted into upon their redemption.\nIf we are deemed to be an investment company under the Investment Company Act, we may be required to institute burdensome compliance requirements and our activities may be restricted, which may make it difficult for us to complete our initial business combination.\nIf we are deemed to be an investment company under the Investment Company Act, our activities may be restricted, including restrictions on the nature of our investments and restrictions on the issuance of securities, each of which may make it difficult for us to complete our initial business combination. In addition, we may have imposed upon us burdensome requirements, including registration as an investment company, adoption of a specific form of corporate structure and reporting, record keeping, voting, proxy and disclosure requirements and other rules and regulations.\nIf we were deemed to be subject to the Investment Company Act, compliance with these additional regulatory burdens would require additional expenses for which we have not allotted funds and may hinder our ability to consummate our initial business combination.\nChanges in laws or regulations, or a failure to comply with any laws and regulations, may adversely affect our business, investments and results of operations.\nWe are subject to laws and regulations enacted by national, regional and local governments. In particular, we will be required to comply with certain SEC and other legal requirements. Compliance with, and monitoring of, applicable laws and regulations may be difficult, time consuming and costly. Those laws and regulations and their interpretation and application also may change from time to time and those changes could have a material adverse effect on our business, investments and results of operations. In addition, a failure to comply with applicable laws or regulations, as interpreted and applied, could have a material adverse effect on our business and results of operations.\nWe may not be able to complete our initial business combination within the prescribed time frame, in which case we would cease all operations except for the purpose of winding up and we would redeem our public shares and liquidate.\nWe must complete our initial business combination by March 12, 2019 (or June 12, 2019 if we extend the time to consummate an initial business combination). We may not be able to find a suitable target business and complete our initial business combination within such time period or we may be unable to consummate a business combination due to a downturn in industry or economic conditions or due to other factors that may occur. If we have not completed our initial business combination within the prescribed time frame, we will (i) cease all operations except for the purpose of winding up, (ii) as promptly as reasonably possible but not more than ten business days thereafter, redeem 100% of the outstanding public shares, at a per-share price, payable in cash, equal to the aggregate amount then on deposit in the trust account, including any interest earned on the funds held in the trust account net of interest that may be used by us to pay our franchise and income taxes payable, divided by the number of then outstanding public shares, which redemption will completely extinguish public stockholders\u2019 rights as stockholders (including the right to receive further liquidation distributions, if any), subject to applicable law, and (iii) as promptly as reasonably possible following such redemption, subject to the approval of our remaining stockholders and our Board of Directors, dissolve and liquidate, subject (in the case of (ii) and (iii) above) to our obligations under Delaware law to provide for claims of creditors and the requirements of other applicable law.\nOur stockholders may be held liable for claims by third parties against us to the extent of distributions received by them.\nOur amended and restated certificate of incorporation provides that we will continue in existence only until March 12, 2019 (or June 12, 2019 if we extend the time to consummate an initial business combination). As promptly as reasonably possible following the redemptions we are required to make to our public stockholders in such event, subject to the approval of our remaining stockholders and our Board of Directors, we would dissolve and liquidate, subject to our obligations under Delaware law to provide for claims of creditors and the requirements of other applicable law. We cannot assure you that we will properly assess all claims that may be potentially brought against us. As such, our stockholders could potentially be liable for any claims to the extent of distributions received by them (but no more) and any liability of our stockholders may extend well beyond the third anniversary of the date of distribution. Accordingly, we cannot assure you that third parties will not seek to recover from our stockholders amounts owed to them by us.\nIf we are forced to file a bankruptcy case or an involuntary bankruptcy case is filed against us which is not dismissed, any distributions received by stockholders could be viewed under applicable debtor/creditor and/or bankruptcy laws as either a \u201cpreferential transfer\u201d or a \u201cfraudulent conveyance.\u201d As a result, a bankruptcy court could seek to recover all amounts received by our stockholders. Furthermore, because we intend to distribute the proceeds held in the trust account to our public stockholders promptly after expiration of the time we have to complete an initial business combination, this may be viewed or interpreted as giving preference to our public stockholders over any potential creditors with respect to access to or distributions from our assets. Furthermore, our board may be viewed as having breached their fiduciary duties to our creditors and/or may have acted in bad faith, and thereby exposing itself and our company to claims of punitive damages, by paying public stockholders from the trust account prior to addressing the claims of creditors. We cannot assure you that claims will not be brought against us for these reasons.\nIf we are unable to consummate our initial business combination by March 12, 2019 (or June 12, 2019 if we extend the time to consummate an initial business combination), our public stockholders may be forced to wait beyond such times before redemption from our trust account.\nIf we are unable to consummate our initial business combination by March 12, 2019, (or June 12, 2019 if we extend the time to consummate an initial business combination), we will, as promptly as reasonably possible but not more than ten business days thereafter, distribute the aggregate amount then on deposit in the trust account (net of taxes payable, and less up to $100,000 of interest to pay dissolution expenses), pro rata to the holders of our public shares by way of redemption and cease all operations except for the purposes of winding up of our affairs by way of a voluntary liquidation, as further described herein. Any redemption of our public shares from the trust account shall be effected as required by our amended and restated certificate of incorporation prior to our commencing any voluntary liquidation.\nIf we are required to liquidate prior to distributing the aggregate amount then on deposit in the trust account (net of taxes payable, and less up to $100,000 of interest to pay dissolution expenses) pro rata to the holders of our public shares, then such winding up, liquidation and distribution must comply with the applicable provisions of the DGCL. In that case, investors may be forced to wait beyond 21 before the redemption proceeds of our trust account become available to them, and they receive the return of their pro rata portion of the proceeds from our Trust Account. Except as otherwise described herein, we have no obligation to return funds to investors prior to the date of any redemption required as a result of our failure to consummate our initial business combination within the period described above or our liquidation, unless we consummate our initial business combination prior thereto and only then in cases where investors have sought to redeem their shares of common stock. Only upon any such redemption of public shares as we are required to effect or any liquidation will public stockholders be entitled to distributions if we are unable to complete our initial business combination.\nThe grant of registration rights to our Founders and management team may make it more difficult to complete our initial business combination, and the future exercise of such rights may adversely affect the market price of our common stock.\nOur Founders and management team, and their respective permitted transferees, can demand that we register for resale Founder Shares and Placement Shares and the other securities underlying the units purchased in a private placement in December 2017 and January 2018. We will bear the cost of registering these securities. The registration and availability of such a significant number of securities for trading in the public market may have an adverse effect on the market price of our common stock. In addition, the existence of the registration rights may make our initial business combination more costly or difficult to conclude. This is because the stockholders of the target business may increase the equity stake they seek in the combined entity or ask for more cash consideration to offset the negative impact on the market price of our common stock that is expected when the securities owned by our Founders and management team, or their respective permitted transferees, are registered.\nBecause we are not limited to any particular business or specific geographic location or any specific target businesses with which to pursue our initial business combination, you will be unable to ascertain the merits or risks of any particular target business\u2019 operations.\nAlthough we intend to focus on the technology businesses in North America, we may pursue acquisition opportunities in any geographic region and in any business industry or sector. Except for the limitations that a target business have a fair market value of at least 80% of the value of the trust account (less any taxes payable on interest earned and less any interest earned thereon that is released to us for taxes) and that we are not permitted to effectuate our initial business combination with another blank check company or similar company with nominal operations, we will have virtually unrestricted flexibility in identifying and selecting a prospective acquisition candidate. Because we have not yet identified or approached any specific target business with respect to our initial business combination, there is no basis to evaluate the possible merits or risks of any particular target business\u2019s operations, results of operations, cash flows, liquidity, financial condition or prospects. To the extent we consummate our initial business combination, we may be affected by numerous risks inherent in the business operations with which we combine. For example, if we combine with a financially unstable business or an entity lacking an established record of sales or earnings, we may be affected by the risks inherent in the business and operations of a financially unstable or a development stage entity. Although our officers and directors will endeavor to evaluate the risks inherent in a particular target business, we may not properly ascertain or assess all of the significant risk factors or that we will have adequate time to complete due diligence. Furthermore, some of these risks may be outside of our control and leave us with no ability to control or reduce the chances that those risks will adversely impact a target business. An investment in our units may not ultimately prove to be more favorable to investors than a direct investment, if such opportunity were available, in an acquisition target.\nPast performance by our management team may not be indicative of future performance of an investment in the Company.\nInformation regarding performance by, or businesses associated with, our management team and their affiliates is presented for informational purposes only. Past performance by our management team is not a guarantee either (i) that we will be able to identify a suitable candidate for our initial business combination or (ii) of success with respect to any business combination we may consummate. You should not rely on the historical record of our management\nteam\u2019s performance as indicative of our future performance of an investment in the company or the returns the company will, or is likely to, generate going forward. None of our officers or directors has had experience with any blank check companies in the past.\nWe may seek acquisition opportunities outside the technology industries, which may be outside of our management\u2019s areas of expertise.\nWe will consider a business combination outside the technology industries, which may be outside of our management\u2019s areas of expertise, if a business combination candidate is presented to us and we determine that such candidate offers an attractive acquisition opportunity for our company. In the event we elect to pursue an acquisition outside of the areas of our management\u2019s expertise, our management\u2019s expertise may not be directly applicable to its evaluation or operation, and our management\u2019s expertise would not be relevant to an understanding of the business that we elect to acquire. As a result, our management may not be able to adequately ascertain or assess all of the significant risk factors relevant to such acquisition. Accordingly, any stockholder who chooses to remain a stockholder following our initial business combination could suffer a reduction in the value of their securities. Such stockholders are unlikely to have a remedy for such reduction in value.\nOur President, Chief Executive Officer, Executive Chairman and Secretary is a party to a non-competition agreement that could limit the companies that we may target for an initial business combination, which could negatively impact our prospects for an initial business combination.\nOur President, Chief Executive Officer, Executive Chairman and Secretary, Dr. Avi S. Katz, is a party to a non-competition agreement with Integrated Device Technology which contains confidentiality, non-competition and non-solicitation provisions in effect until April 4, 2019. Absent a waiver, Dr. Katz will be restricted during such time from, among other things, investing, engaging, having any ownership, control or equity interest in, or being employed in, any semiconductor business related in any way to the integration or supply of optical communication, streaming video or Radio Frequency (\u201cRF\u201d) integrated circuits, modules or systems (the \u201cCompeting Business\u201d).\nIn light of the non-competition agreement, we will not seek to consummate an initial business combination with any target that operates a Competing Business, unless Dr. Katz is granted a waiver. No assurance can be given that any such waiver will be granted if requested. In addition, Integrated Device Technology, which has entered into an agreement to be acquired by Renesas Electronics Corporation, may not agree with any determination we make that a target business is not engaged in a Competing Business. Any litigation associated with the non-competition agreement could be time consuming and costly and could distract our management\u2019s focus from locating suitable acquisition candidates and operating our business.\nAlthough we identified general criteria and guidelines that we believe are important in evaluating prospective target businesses, we may enter into our initial business combination with a target that does not meet such criteria and guidelines, and as a result, the target business with which we enter into our initial business combination may not have attributes entirely consistent with our general criteria and guidelines.\nAlthough we have identified general criteria and guidelines for evaluating prospective target businesses, it is possible that a target business with which we enter into our initial business combination will not have all of these positive attributes. If we consummate our initial business combination with a target that does not meet some or all of these guidelines, such combination may not be as successful as a combination with a business that does meet all of our general criteria and guidelines. In addition, if we announce our initial business combination with a target that does not meet our general criteria and guidelines, a greater number of stockholders may exercise their redemption rights, which may make it difficult for us to meet any closing condition with a target business that requires us to have a minimum net worth or a certain amount of cash. In addition, if stockholder approval of the transaction is required by law or the rules of NYSE, or we decide to obtain stockholder approval for business or other legal reasons, it may be more difficult for us to attain stockholder approval of our initial business combination if the target business does not meet some or all of our general criteria and guidelines, and therefore, for us to consummate such initial business combination.\nManagement\u2019s flexibility in identifying and selecting a prospective acquisition candidate, along with our management\u2019s financial interest in consummating our initial business combination, may lead management to enter into an acquisition agreement that is not in the best interest of our stockholders.\nSubject to the requirement that our initial business combination must be with one or more target businesses or assets having an aggregate fair market value of at least 80% of the value of the trust account (less any taxes payable on interest earned) at the time of the agreement to enter into such initial business combination, we will have virtually unrestricted flexibility in identifying and selecting a prospective acquisition candidate. Investors will be relying on management\u2019s ability to identify business combinations, evaluate their merits, conduct or monitor diligence and conduct negotiations. Management\u2019s flexibility in identifying and selecting a prospective acquisition candidate, along with management\u2019s financial interest in consummating our initial business combination, may lead management to enter into an acquisition agreement that is not in the best interest of our stockholders.\nWe may seek acquisition opportunities with an early stage company, a financially unstable business or an entity lacking an established record of revenue or earnings.\nTo the extent we complete our initial business combination with an early stage company, a financially unstable business or an entity lacking an established record of sales or earnings, we may be affected by numerous risks inherent in the operations of the business with which we combine. These risks include investing in a business without a proven business model and with limited historical financial data, volatile revenues or earnings, intense competition and difficulties in obtaining and retaining key personnel. Although our officers and directors will endeavor to evaluate the risks inherent in a particular target business, we may not be able to properly ascertain or assess all of the significant risk factors and we may not have adequate time to complete due diligence. Furthermore, some of these risks may be outside of our control and leave us with no ability to control or reduce the chances that those risks will adversely impact a target business.\nWe are not required to obtain an opinion from an independent investment banking firm or an independent accounting firm, and consequently, an independent source may not confirm that the price we are paying for the business is fair to our stockholders from a financial point of view.\nUnless we consummate our initial business combination with an affiliated entity, we are not required to obtain an opinion from an independent investment banking firm or an independent accounting firm that the price we are paying is fair to our stockholders from a financial point of view. If no opinion is obtained, our stockholders will be relying on the judgment of our Board of Directors, who will determine fair market value based on standards generally accepted by the financial community. Our Board of Directors will have significant discretion in choosing the standard used to establish the fair market value of the target acquisition. Such standards used will be disclosed in our tender offer documents or proxy solicitation materials, as applicable, related to our initial business combination.\nWe may issue additional shares of common stock or preferred shares to complete our initial business combination or under an employee incentive plan upon or after consummation of our initial business combination, which would dilute the interest of our stockholders and likely present other risks.\nOur amended and restated certificate of incorporation authorizes the issuance of 100,000,000 shares of common stock, and 1,000,000 shares of preferred stock, par value $0.0001 per share. We may issue a substantial number of additional shares of common stock or shares of preferred stock, par value $0.0001 per share, to complete our initial business combination or under an employee incentive plan upon or after consummation of our initial business combination. Although no such issuance will affect the per share amount available for redemption from the trust account, the issuance of additional common stock or preferred shares:\nmay significantly dilute the equity interest of investors in this offering, who will not have pre-emption rights in respect of such an issuance;\nmay subordinate the rights of holders of shares of common stock if one or more classes of preferred stock are created, and such preferred shares are issued, with rights senior to those afforded to our common stock;\ncould cause a change in control if a substantial number of shares of common stock are issued, which may affect, among other things, our ability to use our net operating loss carry forwards, if any, and could result in the resignation or removal of our present officers and directors; and\nmay adversely affect prevailing market prices for our units, common stock, rights and/or warrants.\nResources could be wasted in researching acquisitions that are not consummated, which could materially adversely affect subsequent attempts to locate and acquire or merge with another business.\nWe anticipate that the investigation of each specific target business and the negotiation, drafting, and execution of relevant agreements, disclosure documents, and other instruments will require substantial management time and attention and substantial costs for accountants, attorneys and others. If we decide not to complete a specific initial business combination, the costs incurred up to that point for the proposed transaction likely would not be recoverable. Furthermore, if we reach an agreement relating to a specific target business, we may fail to consummate our initial business combination for any number of reasons including those beyond our control. Any such event will result in a loss to us of the related costs incurred, which could materially adversely affect subsequent attempts to locate and acquire or merge with another business.\nProvisions in our amended and restated certificate of incorporation and Delaware law may inhibit a takeover of us, which could limit the price investors might be willing to pay in the future for our common stock and could entrench management.\nOur amended and restated certificate of incorporation contains provisions that may discourage unsolicited takeover proposals that stockholders may consider to be in their best interests. These provisions include the ability of our Board of Directors to designate the terms of, and issue new series of, preferred stock. We are also subject to anti-takeover provisions under Delaware law, which could delay or prevent a change of control. Together these provisions may make more difficult the removal of management and may discourage transactions that otherwise could involve payment of a premium over prevailing market prices for our securities.\nOur amended and restated certificate of incorporation provides, subject to limited exceptions, that the Court of Chancery of the State of Delaware will be the sole and exclusive forum for certain stockholder litigation matters, which could limit our stockholders\u2019 ability to obtain a favorable judicial forum for disputes with us or our directors, officers, employees or stockholders.\nOur amended and restated certificate of incorporation will require, to the fullest extent permitted by law, that derivative actions brought in our name, actions against directors, officers and employees for breach of fiduciary duty and other similar actions may be brought only in the Court of Chancery in the State of Delaware and, if brought outside of Delaware, the stockholder bringing the suit will be deemed to have consented to service of process on such stockholder\u2019s counsel. Any person or entity purchasing or otherwise acquiring any interest in shares of our capital stock shall be deemed to have notice of and consented to the forum provisions in our amended and restated certificate of incorporation.\nThis choice of forum provision may limit a stockholder\u2019s ability to bring a claim in a judicial forum that it finds favorable for disputes with us or any of our directors, officers, other employees or stockholders, which may discourage lawsuits with respect to such claims. Alternatively, if a court were to find the choice of forum provision contained in our amended and restated certificate of incorporation to be inapplicable or unenforceable in an action, we may incur additional costs associated with resolving such action in other jurisdictions, which could harm our business, operating results and financial condition.\nWe do not currently intend to hold an annual meeting of stockholders until after our consummation of a business combination and you will not be entitled to any of the corporate protections provided by such a meeting.\nWe do not currently intend to hold an annual meeting of stockholders until after we consummate a business combination (unless required by NYSE), and thus may not be in compliance with Section 211(b) of the DGCL, which requires an annual meeting of stockholders be held for the purposes of electing directors, in accordance with a company\u2019s certificate of incorporation and bylaws, unless such election is made by written consent in lieu of such a meeting. If our stockholders want us to hold an annual meeting prior to our consummation of a business combination, they may attempt to force us to hold one by submitting an application to the Delaware Court of Chancery in accordance with Section 211(c) of the DGCL.\nWe may reincorporate in another jurisdiction in connection with our initial business combination and such reincorporation may result in taxes imposed on stockholders.\nWe may, in connection with our initial business combination, reincorporate in the jurisdiction in which the target company or business is located or in another jurisdiction. The transaction may require a stockholder to recognize taxable income in the jurisdiction in which the stockholder is a tax resident or in which its members are resident if it is a tax transparent entity. We do not intend to make any cash distributions to stockholders to pay such taxes. Stockholders may be subject to withholding taxes or other taxes with respect to their ownership of us after the reincorporation.\nOur ability to successfully effect our initial business combination and to be successful thereafter will be largely dependent upon the efforts of our management team and key personnel, some of whom may join us following our initial business combination. The loss of our management team or key personnel could negatively impact the operations and profitability of our business.\nOur operations are dependent upon a relatively small group of individuals and, in particular, our management team. We believe that our success depends on the continued service of our management team, at least until we have consummated our initial business combination. In addition, our management team are not required to commit any specified amount of time to our affairs and, accordingly, will have conflicts of interest in allocating management time among various business activities, including identifying potential business combinations and monitoring the related due diligence. We do not have an employment agreement with, or key-man insurance on the life of, any of our management team. The unexpected loss of the services of one or more of our management team could have a detrimental effect on us. Additionally, we do not intend to have any full time employees prior to the consummation of our initial business combination.\nThe role of such persons in the target business, however, cannot presently be ascertained. Although some of such persons may remain with the target business in senior management or advisory positions following our initial business combination, it is likely that some or all of the management of the target business will remain in place. While we intend to closely scrutinize any individuals we engage after our initial business combination, our assessment of these individuals may not prove to be correct. These individuals may be unfamiliar with the requirements of operating a company regulated by the SEC, which could cause us to have to expend time and resources helping them become familiar with such requirements.\nOur management team or key personnel may negotiate employment or consulting agreements with a target business in connection with a particular business combination. These agreements may provide for them to receive compensation following our initial business combination and as a result, may cause them to have conflicts of interest in determining whether a particular business combination is the most advantageous.\nOur management team key personnel may be able to remain with the Company after the consummation of our initial business combination only if they are able to negotiate employment or consulting agreements in connection with the business combination. Such negotiations would take place simultaneously with the negotiation of the business combination and could provide for such individuals to receive compensation in the form of cash payments and/or our securities for services they would render to us after the consummation of the business combination. The personal and financial interests of such individuals may influence their motivation in identifying and selecting a target business. However, we believe the ability of such individuals to remain with us after the consummation of our initial business combination will not be the determining factor in our decision as to whether or not we will proceed with any potential business combination. There is no certainty, however, that any of our management team or key personnel will remain with us after the consummation of our initial business combination. Our management team or key personnel may not remain in senior management or advisory positions with the post-transaction company. The determination as to whether any of our management team or key personnel will remain with us will be made at the time of our initial business combination.\nWe may have a limited ability to assess the management of a prospective target business and, as a result, we may end up effecting our initial business combination with a target business whose management may not have the skills, qualifications or abilities to manage a public company.\nWhen evaluating the desirability of effecting our initial business combination with a prospective target business, our ability to assess the target business\u2019 management may be limited due to a lack of time, resources or information. Moreover, members of our management team may not have significant experience or knowledge relating to the operations of a particular target business. Our assessment of the capabilities of a target\u2019s management, therefore, may prove to be incorrect and such management may lack the skills, qualifications or abilities we suspected. Should a target\u2019s management not possess the skills, qualifications or abilities necessary to manage a public company, the operations and profitability of the post-combination business may be negatively impacted.\nThe officers and directors of an acquisition candidate may resign upon consummation of our initial business combination. The loss of an acquisition target\u2019s key personnel could negatively impact the operations and profitability of our post-combination business.\nThe role of an acquisition candidate\u2019s key personnel upon the consummation of our initial business combination cannot be ascertained at this time. Although we contemplate that certain members of an acquisition candidate\u2019s management team will remain associated with the acquisition candidate following our initial business combination, it is possible that some members of the management team of an acquisition candidate will not wish to remain in place.\nNeither Cowen & Company, LLC (\u201cCowen\u201d), which is an affiliate of one of our Founders, nor any of its affiliates has an obligation to provide us with potential investment opportunities or to devote any specified amount of time or support to our company\u2019s business.\nAlthough we expect to benefit from Cowen\u2019s and its affiliates\u2019 network of relationships and processes for sourcing, executing and evaluating potential acquisition targets, neither Cowen nor any of its affiliates has any legal or contractual obligation to seek on our behalf or to present to us investment opportunities that might be suitable for our business, and may allocate any such opportunities at its discretion to us or other parties. We have no investment management, advisory, consulting or other agreement in place with Cowen or any of its affiliates that obligates them to undertake efforts on our behalf or that govern the manner in which they will allocate investment opportunities. Even if Cowen or one of its affiliates refers an opportunity to us, no assurance can be given that such opportunity will result in an acquisition agreement or our initial business combination.\nCertain of our management team are now, and all of them may in the future become, affiliated with entities engaged in business activities similar to those intended to be conducted by us and, accordingly, may have conflicts of interest in allocating their time and determining to which entity a particular business opportunity should be presented.\nWe engage in the business of identifying and combining with one or more businesses. Our management team are, or may in the future become, affiliated with entities that are engaged in a similar business.\nOur management team also may become aware of business opportunities, which may be appropriate for presentation to us and the other entities to which they owe certain fiduciary duties or contractual obligations. Accordingly, they may have conflicts of interest in determining to which entity a particular business opportunity should be presented. These conflicts may not be resolved in our favor or that a potential target business would not be presented to another entity prior to its presentation to us.\nWe may engage in our initial business combination with one or more target businesses that have relationships with entities that may be affiliated with our Founders or management team, which may raise potential conflicts of interest.\nWe have not adopted a policy that expressly prohibits our management team, security holders or affiliates from having a direct or indirect pecuniary or financial interest in any investment to be acquired or disposed of by us or in any transaction to which we are a party or have an interest. In light of the involvement of our Founders and management team and each of their affiliates, with other entities, we may decide to acquire one or more businesses affiliated with\nour Founders and management team, or any of their affiliates. Our directors also serve as executive officers and board members for other entities. Our Founders and management team are not currently aware of any specific opportunities for us to consummate our initial business combination with any entities with which they are affiliated, and there have been no discussions concerning a business combination with any such entity or entities. Although we will not be specifically focusing on, or targeting, any transaction with any affiliated entities, we would pursue such a transaction if we determined that such affiliated entity met our criteria for our initial business combination as set forth in \u201cBusiness Combination Criteria\u201d and such transaction was approved by a majority of our disinterested directors. Despite our agreement to obtain an opinion from an independent investment banking firm or an independent account firm regarding the fairness to our stockholders from a financial point of view of a business combination with one or more domestic or international businesses affiliated with any of our management team or Founders, potential conflicts of interest still may exist and, as a result, the terms of the business combination may not be as advantageous to our public stockholders as they would be absent any conflicts of interest. Our directors have a fiduciary duty to act in the best interests of our stockholders, whether or not a conflict of interest may exist.\nSince our Sponsor and each member of our management team will lose their entire investment in us if our initial business combination is not consummated, and the members of our management team have significant financial interests in us, a conflict of interest may arise in determining whether a particular acquisition target is appropriate for our initial business combination.\nIn October 2017, our Sponsor purchased 3,454,643 Founder Shares for an aggregate purchase price of $20,238, or approximately $0.00585823 per share. In November 2017, an aggregate of 16,190 of Sponsor\u2019s Founder Shares were forfeited and cancelled for no consideration, revising the per-share purchase price to $0.00588582 per share and resulting in Sponsor\u2019s holding 3,438,453 founder shares. Dr. Katz, has a financial interest in our Sponsor. He is also its manager. Mr. Neil Miotto, one of our independent directors, also has a financial interest in our Sponsor. See \u201c\u2014Certain Relationships and Related Party Transactions\u201d. In addition, we have issued an aggregate of 60,000 Founder Shares to our independent directors, solely in consideration for their services to us. All of the Founder Shares will be worthless if we do not consummate our initial business combination. The personal and financial interests of our Sponsor, and each member of our management team may influence their motivation in identifying and selecting a target business combination, completing an initial business combination and influencing the operation of the business following the initial business combination.\nWe may issue notes or other debt securities, or otherwise incur substantial debt, to complete our initial business combination, which may adversely affect our financial condition and thus negatively impact the value of our stockholders\u2019 investment in us.\nAlthough we have no commitments as of the date of this Annual Report to issue any notes or other debt securities, or to otherwise incur outstanding debt, we may choose to incur substantial debt to complete initial business combination. Furthermore, we may issue a substantial number of additional common or preferred shares to complete our initial business combination or under an employee incentive plan upon or after consummation of our initial business combination. We and our management team have agreed that we will not incur any indebtedness unless we have obtained from the lender a waiver of any right, title, interest or claim of any kind in or to any monies held in the trust account. As such, no issuance of debt will affect the per share amount available for redemption from the trust account. Nevertheless, the incurrence of debt could have a variety of negative effects, including:\ndefault and foreclosure on our assets if our operating revenues after our initial business combination are insufficient to repay our debt obligations;\nacceleration of our obligations to repay the indebtedness even if we make all principal and interest payments when due if we breach certain covenants that require the maintenance of certain financial ratios or reserves without a waiver or renegotiation of that covenant;\nour immediate payment of all principal and accrued interest, if any, if the debt security is payable on demand;\nour inability to obtain necessary additional financing if the debt security contains covenants restricting our ability to obtain such financing while the debt security is outstanding;\nour inability to pay dividends on our common stock;\nusing a substantial portion of our cash flow to pay principal and interest on our debt, which will reduce the funds available for dividends on our common stock if declared, expenses, capital expenditures, acquisitions and other general corporate purposes;\nlimitations on our flexibility in planning for and reacting to changes in our business and in the industry in which we operate;\nincreased vulnerability to adverse changes in general economic, industry and competitive conditions and adverse changes in government regulation; and\nlimitations on our ability to borrow additional amounts for expenses, capital expenditures, acquisitions, debt service requirements, execution of our strategy and other purposes and other disadvantages compared to our competitors who have less debt.\nWe may only be able to complete one business combination, which will cause us to be solely dependent on a single business, which may have a limited number of products or services. This lack of diversification may negatively impact our operations and profitability.\nAlthough we may seek to combine with a single target business or multiple target businesses simultaneously, we may not be able to effectuate our initial business combination with more than one target business because of various factors, including the existence of complex accounting issues and the requirement that we prepare and file pro forma financial statements with the SEC that present operating results and the financial condition of several target businesses as if they had been operated on a combined basis. By consummating our initial business combination with only a single entity, our lack of diversification may subject us to numerous economic, competitive and regulatory risks. Further, we would not be able to diversify our operations or benefit from the possible spreading of risks or offsetting of losses, unlike other entities, which may have the resources to complete several business combinations in different industries or different areas of a single industry. Accordingly, the prospects for our success may be:\nsolely dependent upon the performance of a single business, property or asset, or\ndependent upon the development or market acceptance of a single or limited number of products, processes or services.\nThis lack of diversification may subject us to numerous economic, competitive and regulatory risks, any or all of which may have a substantial adverse impact upon the particular industry in which we may operate subsequent to our initial business combination.\nWe may attempt to simultaneously consummate business combinations with multiple prospective targets, which may hinder our ability to consummate our initial business combination and give rise to increased costs and risks that could negatively impact our operations and profitability.\nIf we determine to simultaneously acquire several businesses that are owned by different sellers, we will need for each of such sellers to agree that our purchase of its business is contingent on the simultaneous closings of the other business combinations, which may make it more difficult for us, and delay our ability, to complete the initial business combination. With multiple business combinations, we could also face additional risks, including additional burdens and costs with respect to possible multiple negotiations and due diligence investigations (if there are multiple sellers) and the additional risks associated with the subsequent assimilation of the operations and services or products of the acquired companies in a single operating business. If we are unable to adequately address these risks, it could negatively impact our profitability and results of operations.\nWe may attempt to consummate our initial business combination with a private company about which little information is available, which may result in our initial business combination with a company that is not as profitable as we suspected, if at all.\nIn pursuing our acquisition strategy, we may seek to effectuate our initial business combination with a privately held company. By definition, very little public information exists about private companies, and we could be required to make our decision on whether to pursue a potential initial business combination on the basis of limited information, which may result in our initial business combination with a company that is not as profitable as we suspected, if at all.\nOur management team and our stockholders may not be able to maintain control of a target business after our initial business combination.\nWe may structure our initial business combination to acquire less than 100% of the equity interests or assets of a target business, but we will only consummate such business combination if we will become the majority stockholder of the target (or control the target through contractual arrangements in limited circumstances for regulatory compliance purposes) or are otherwise not required to register as an investment company under the Investment Company Act. Even though we may own a majority interest in the target, our stockholders prior to the business combination may collectively own a minority interest in the post-transaction company, depending on valuations ascribed to the target and us in the business combination transaction. For example, we could pursue a transaction in which we issue a substantial number of new shares in exchange for all of the outstanding capital stock of a target. In this case, we acquire a 100% controlling interest in the target. However, as a result of the issuance of a substantial number of new shares, our stockholders immediately prior to such transaction could own less than a majority of our outstanding shares subsequent to such transaction. In addition, other minority stockholders may subsequently combine their holdings resulting in a single person or group obtaining a larger share of the company\u2019s stock than we initially acquired. Accordingly, this may make it more likely that we will not be able to maintain our control of the target business.\nUnlike many blank check companies, we do not have a specified maximum redemption threshold. The absence of such a redemption threshold may make it easier for us to consummate our initial business combination with which a substantial majority of our stockholders do not agree.\nSince we have no specified percentage threshold for redemption contained in our amended and restated certificate of incorporation, our structure is different in this respect from the structure that has been used by many blank check companies. Historically, blank check companies would not be able to consummate an initial business combination if the holders of such company\u2019s public shares voted against a proposed business combination and elected to redeem more than a specified maximum percentage of the shares sold in such company\u2019s initial public offering, which percentage threshold was typically between 19.99% and 39.99%. As a result, many blank check companies were unable to complete a business combination because the amount of shares voted by their public stockholders electing redemption exceeded the maximum redemption threshold pursuant to which such company could proceed with its initial business combination. As a result, we may be able to consummate our initial business combination even though a substantial majority of our public stockholders do not agree with the transaction and have redeemed their shares or, if we seek stockholder approval of our initial business combination and do not conduct redemptions in connection with our business combination pursuant to the tender offer, have entered into privately negotiated agreements to sell their shares to us or our Founders, management team, advisors or their affiliates. However, in no event will we redeem our public shares in an amount that would cause our net tangible assets to be less than $5,000,001 upon the consummation of our initial business combination. Furthermore, the redemption threshold may be further limited by the terms and conditions of our initial business combination. If too many public stockholders exercise their redemption rights so that we cannot satisfy the net tangible asset requirement or any net worth or cash requirements, we would not proceed with the redemption of our public shares and the related business combination, and instead may search for an alternate business combination, we would not proceed with the redemption of our public shares and the related business combination, and instead may search for an alternate business combination.\nBecause each unit contains three-fourths of one warrant and one right to receive one-tenth of one share of our common stock, the units may be worth less than units of other blank check companies.\nEach unit contains three-fourths of one warrant and one right to receive one-tenth of one share of our common stock upon consummation of our initial business combination. Pursuant to the warrant agreement, no fractional warrants will be issued upon separation of the units, and only whole warrants will be eligible to trade. This is different from other offerings similar to ours whose units include one share of common stock and one whole warrant to purchase one share. We have established the components of the units in this way in order to reduce the dilutive effect of the warrants and rights upon completion of a business combination since the warrants will be exercisable for, and the rights will be convertible into, a fraction of the number of shares in the aggregate compared to units that each contain a whole warrant to purchase one share, thus making us, we believe, a more attractive merger partner for target businesses. Nevertheless, this unit structure may cause our units to be worth less than if they included a warrant to purchase one whole share.\nWe will have no obligation to net cash settle the rights.\nThere are no contractual penalties for failure to deliver shares of common stock to the holders of the rights upon consummation of an initial business combination. However, as the rights are securities, a failure to comply with the terms of the rights could be considered a violation of federal securities laws resulting in penalties. In addition, in no event will we be required to net cash settle the rights. Furthermore, the rights may expire worthless.\nHolders of warrants and rights will not participate in liquidating distributions if we are unable to complete an initial business combination within the required time period.\nIf we are unable to complete an initial business combination within the required time period and we liquidate the funds held in the trust account, the warrants and rights will expire and holders will not receive any of such proceeds with respect to the warrants or rights. In this case, holders of warrants and rights are treated in the same manner as holders of warrants and rights of blank check companies whose units are comprised of shares, rights and warrants, as the warrants and rights, in those companies do not participate in liquidating distributions. Nevertheless, the foregoing may provide a financial incentive to public stockholders to vote in favor of any proposed initial business combination as each of their warrants and rights would entitle the holder to purchase three-fourths of one share of common stock or receive one-tenth of one share of common stock, as applicable, resulting in an increase in their overall economic stake in our company. If a business combination is not approved, the warrants and rights will expire and will be worthless.\nIf we do not maintain a current and effective prospectus relating to the warrant shares issuable upon exercise of the warrants, public holders will only be able to exercise such warrants on a \u201ccashless basis\u201d which would result in a fewer number of shares being issued to the holder had such holder exercised the warrants for cash.\nIf we do not maintain a current and effective prospectus relating to the warrant shares issuable upon exercise of the public warrants at the time that holders wish to exercise such warrants, they will only be able to exercise them on a \u201ccashless basis\u201d provided that an exemption from registration is available. As a result, the number of warrant shares that a holder will receive upon exercise of its public warrants will be fewer than it would have been had such holder exercised its warrant for cash. Further, if an exemption from registration is not available, holders would not be able to exercise their warrants on a cashless basis and would only be able to exercise their warrants for cash if a current and effective prospectus relating to the warrant issuable upon exercise of the warrants is available. Under the terms of the warrant agreement, we have agreed to use our best efforts to meet these conditions and to maintain a current and effective prospectus relating to the warrant shares until the expiration of the warrants. However, we cannot assure you that we will be able to do so. If we are unable to do so, the potential \u201cupside\u201d of the holder\u2019s investment in our Company may be reduced or the warrants may expire worthless. In no event will we be required to net cash settle any warrant, or issue securities or other compensation in exchange for the warrants in the event that we are unable to register or qualify the shares underlying the warrants under the Securities Act or applicable state securities laws. If the issuance of the warrant shares upon exercise of the warrants is not so registered or qualified or exempt from registration or qualification, the holder of such warrants shall not be entitled to exercise such warrants and such warrants may have no value and expire worthless. In such event, holders who acquired their warrants as part of a purchase of units will have paid the full unit purchase price solely for the shares of common stock included in the units. Notwithstanding the foregoing, the private warrants may be exercisable for unregistered warrant shares for cash even if the prospectus relating to the warrant shares issuable upon exercise of the warrants is not current and effective.\nOur management\u2019s ability to require holders of our warrants to exercise such warrants on a cashless basis will cause holders to receive fewer shares of common stock upon their exercise of the warrants than they would have received had they been able to exercise their warrants for cash.\nIf we call our public warrants for redemption after the redemption criteria described in the prospectus for the issuance of our units of which the public warrants were a constituent part have been satisfied, our management will have the option to require any holder that wishes to exercise his warrants (including any warrants held by our Founders, executive officers and directors, or any of their permitted transferees) to do so on a \u201ccashless basis.\u201d If our management chooses to require holders to exercise their warrants on a cashless basis, the number of warrant shares received by a holder upon exercise will be fewer than it would have been had such holder exercised his warrants for cash. This will have the effect of reducing the potential \u201cupside\u201d of the holder\u2019s investment in our company.\nWe may amend the terms of the warrants in a manner that may be adverse to holders with the approval by the holders of at least 65% of the then outstanding public warrants.\nOur warrants have been issued in registered form under a warrant agreement between Continental Stock Transfer & Trust Company, as warrant agent, and us. The warrant agreement will provide that the terms of the warrants may be amended without the consent of any holder to cure any ambiguity or correct any defective provision, but requires the approval by the holders of at least 65% of the then outstanding public warrants to make any change that adversely affects the interests of the registered holders. Accordingly, we may amend the terms of the warrants in a manner adverse to a holder if holders of at least 65% of the then outstanding public warrants approve of such amendment. Although our ability to amend the terms of the warrants with the consent of at least 65% of the then outstanding public warrants is unlimited, examples of such amendments could be amendments to, among other things, increase the exercise price of the warrants, shorten the exercise period or decrease the number of warrant shares issuable upon exercise of a warrant.\nOur warrants may have an adverse effect on the market price of our common stock and make it more difficult to effectuate our initial business combination.\nWe have issued warrants to purchase 11,154,941 shares. The warrants are exercisable at a price of $11.50 per whole share of common stock. To the extent we issue shares of common stock to effectuate a business transaction, the potential for the issuance of a substantial number of additional shares of common stock upon exercise of these warrants could make us a less attractive acquisition vehicle to a target business. Any such issuance will increase the number of issued and outstanding shares of common stock and reduce the value of the shares of common stock issued to complete the business transaction. Therefore, our warrants may make it more difficult to effectuate a business combination or increase the cost of acquiring the target business.\nThe ability of our public stockholders to exercise their redemption rights may not allow us to effectuate the most desirable business combination or optimize our capital structure.\nIf our initial business combination requires us to use substantially all of our cash to pay the purchase price, because we will not know how many public stockholders may exercise redemption rights, we may either need to reserve part of the trust account for possible payment upon such redemption, or we may need to arrange third party financing to help fund our initial business combination. In the event that the acquisition involves the issuance of our stock as consideration, we may be required to issue a higher percentage of our stock to make up for a shortfall in funds. Raising additional funds to cover any shortfall may involve dilutive equity financing or incurring indebtedness at higher than desirable levels. This may limit our ability to effectuate the most attractive business combination available to us.\nWe may be unable to consummate an initial business combination if a target business requires that we have a certain amount of cash at closing, in which case public stockholders may have to remain stockholders of our company and wait until our redemption of the public shares to receive a pro rata share of the trust account or attempt to sell their shares in the open market.\nA potential target may make it a closing condition to our initial business combination that we have a certain amount of cash in excess of the $5,000,001 of net tangible assets we are required to have pursuant to our organizational documents available at the time of closing. If the number of our public stockholders electing to exercise their redemption rights has the effect of reducing the amount of money available to us to consummate an initial business combination below such minimum amount required by the target business and we are not able to locate an alternative source of funding, we will not be able to consummate such initial business combination and we may not be able to locate another suitable target within the applicable time period, if at all. In that case, public stockholders may have to remain stockholders of our company and wait until March 12, 2019 (or June 12, 2019 if we extend the time to consummate our initial business combination), in order to be able to receive a portion of the trust account, or attempt to sell their shares in the open market prior to such time, in which case they may receive less than they would have in a liquidation of the trust account.\nWe intend to offer each public stockholder the option to vote in favor of the proposed business combination and still seek redemption of such stockholders\u2019 shares.\nIn connection with any meeting held to approve an initial business combination, we will offer each public stockholder (but not our Founders or management team) the right to have his, her or its shares of common stock redeemed for cash regardless of whether such stockholder votes for or against such proposed business combination; provided that a stockholder must in fact vote for or against a proposed business combination in order to have his, her or its shares of common stock redeemed for cash. If a stockholder fails to vote for or against a proposed business combination, that stockholder would not be able to have his shares so redeemed. We will consummate our initial business combination only if we have net tangible assets of at least $5,000,001 upon such consummation and a majority of the outstanding shares of common stock voted are voted in favor of the business combination. This is different than other similarly structured blank check companies where stockholders are offered the right to redeem their shares only when they vote against a proposed business combination. This threshold and the ability to seek redemption while voting in favor of a proposed business combination may make it more likely that we will consummate our initial business combination.\nWe will require public stockholders who wish to redeem their shares of common stock in connection with a proposed business combination to comply with specific requirements for redemption that may make it more difficult for them to exercise their redemption rights prior to the deadline for exercising their rights.\nWe will require our public stockholders seeking to exercise their redemption rights, whether they are record holders or hold their shares in \u201cstreet name,\u201d to either tender their certificates to our transfer agent prior to the expiration date set forth in the tender offer documents mailed to such holders, or in the event we distribute proxy materials, up to two business days prior to the vote on the proposal to approve the business combination, or to deliver their shares to the transfer agent electronically using The Depository Trust Company\u2019s DWAC (Deposit/Withdrawal At Custodian) System, at the holder\u2019s option. In order to obtain a physical stock certificate, a stockholder\u2019s broker and/or clearing broker, DTC and our transfer agent will need to act to facilitate this request. It is our understanding that stockholders should generally allot at least two weeks to obtain physical certificates from the transfer agent. However, because we do not have any control over this process or over the brokers or DTC, it may take significantly longer than two weeks to obtain a physical stock certificate. While we have been advised that it takes a short time to deliver shares through the DWAC System, this may not be the case. Under our bylaws, we are required to provide at least 10 days advance notice of any stockholder meeting, which would be the minimum amount of time a stockholder would have to determine whether to exercise redemption rights. Accordingly, if it takes longer than we anticipate for stockholders to deliver their shares, stockholders who wish to redeem may be unable to meet the deadline for exercising their redemption rights and thus may be unable to redeem their shares. In the event that a stockholder fails to comply with the various procedures that must be complied with in order to validly tender or redeem public shares, its shares may not be redeemed.\nAdditionally, despite our compliance with the proxy rules or tender offer rules, as applicable, stockholders may not become aware of the opportunity to redeem their shares.\nRedeeming stockholders may be unable to sell their securities when they wish to in the event that the proposed business combination is not approved.\nWe will require public stockholders who wish to redeem their shares of common stock in connection with any proposed business combination to comply with the delivery requirements discussed above for redemption. If such proposed business combination is not consummated, we will promptly return such certificates to the tendering public stockholders. Accordingly, investors who attempted to redeem their shares in such a circumstance will be unable to sell their securities after the failed acquisition until we have returned their securities to them. The market price for our common stock may decline during this time and you may not be able to sell your securities when you wish to, even while other stockholders that did not seek redemption may be able to sell their securities.\nBecause of our structure, other companies may have a competitive advantage and we may not be able to consummate an attractive business combination.\nWe expect to encounter intense competition from entities other than blank check companies having a business objective similar to ours, including private equity groups, venture capital funds, leveraged buyout funds and operating\nbusinesses competing for acquisitions. Many of these entities are well established and have extensive experience in identifying and effecting business combinations directly or through affiliates. Many of these competitors possess greater technical, human and other resources than we do and our financial resources will be relatively limited when contrasted with those of many of these competitors. Therefore, our ability to compete in acquiring certain sizable target businesses may be limited by our available financial resources. This inherent competitive limitation gives others an advantage in pursuing the acquisition of certain target businesses. Furthermore, seeking stockholder approval of our initial business combination may delay the consummation of a transaction. Any of the foregoing may place us at a competitive disadvantage in successfully negotiating our initial business combination.\nProvisions of our amended and restated certificate of incorporation that relate to our pre-business combination activity (and corresponding provisions of the agreement governing the release of funds from our trust account) may be amended with the approval of holders of at least 65% of our issued and outstanding common stock, which is a lower amendment threshold than that of some other blank check companies. It may be easier for us, therefore, to amend our amended and restated certificate of incorporation and the trust agreement to facilitate the completion of an initial business combination that some of our stockholders may not support.\nSome other blank check companies have a provision in their charter which prohibits the amendment of certain of its provisions, including those which relate to a company\u2019s pre-business combination activity, without approval by holders of a certain percentage of the company\u2019s shares. In those companies, amendment of these provisions typically requires approval by holders holding between 90% and 100% of the company\u2019s public shares. Our amended and restated certificate of incorporation provides that amendments to any its provisions relating to our pre-initial business combination activity and related stockholder rights may be amended if approved by holders of 65% of our outstanding common stock. If an amendment to any such provision is approved by the requisite stockholder vote, then the corresponding provisions of the trust agreement governing the release of funds from our trust account may be amended. In all other instances, our amended and restated certificate of incorporation may be amended by holders of a majority of our common stock, subject to applicable provisions of the DGCL or applicable stock exchange rules. Prior to the consummation of our initial business combination, we may not issue additional securities that can vote on amendments to our amended and restated certificate of incorporation. Our Founders and management team collectively beneficially own approximately 22% of our outstanding common stock and they may participate in any vote to amend our amended and restated certificate of incorporation and/or trust agreement and will have the discretion to vote in any manner they choose; provided, that, each of them has agreed, pursuant to a written agreement with us, that they will not propose any amendment to our amended and restated certificate of incorporation that would affect the substance or timing of our obligation to redeem 100% of our public shares if we do not complete our initial business combination by March 12, 2019 (or June 12, 2019 if we extend the time to consummate our initial business combination), unless we provide our public stockholders with the opportunity to redeem their shares of Common Stock upon approval of any such amendment at a per\u2011share price, payable in cash, equal to the aggregate amount then on deposit in the trust account, including interest (which interest shall be net of taxes payable), divided by the number of then issued and outstanding public shares. As a result, we may be able to amend the provisions of our amended and restated certificate of incorporation which govern our pre-business combination behavior more easily than some other blank check companies, and this may increase our ability to complete our initial business combination with which you do not agree. In certain circumstances, our stockholders may pursue remedies against us for any breach of our amended and restated certificate of incorporation.\nWe may be unable to obtain additional financing to complete our initial business combination or to fund the operations and growth of a target business, which could compel us to restructure or abandon a particular business combination.\nAlthough we believe that our cash held in the trust account that may be available to us for our initial business combination will be sufficient to allow us to consummate our initial business combination, because we have not yet entered into an agreement with any prospective target business we cannot ascertain the capital requirements for any particular transaction. If the cash held in the trust account proves to be insufficient, either because of the size of our initial business combination, the obligation to repurchase for cash a significant number of shares from stockholders who elect redemption in connection with our initial business combination or the terms of negotiated transactions to purchase shares in connection with our initial business combination, we may be required to seek additional financing or to abandon the proposed business combination. Financing may not be available on acceptable terms, if at all. To the extent that additional financing proves to be unavailable when needed to consummate our initial business\ncombination, we would be compelled to either restructure the transaction or abandon that particular initial business combination and seek an alternative target business candidate. In addition, even if we do not need additional financing to consummate our initial business combination, we may require such financing to fund the operations or growth of the target business. The failure to secure additional financing could have a material adverse effect on the continued development or growth of the target business. None of our management team or stockholders is required to provide any financing to us in connection with or after our initial business combination.\nOur Founders and management team will control a substantial interest in us and thus may influence certain actions requiring a stockholder vote.\nOur Founders and management team own approximately 22% of the issued and outstanding shares of our common stock Founders and management team, or any of their affiliates, could determine in the future to make such purchases in the open market or in private transactions, to the extent permitted by law, in order to influence the vote or magnitude of the number of stockholders seeking to tender their shares to us. In connection with any vote for a proposed business combination our Founders, as well as all of our management team have agreed to vote the shares of common stock owned by them, the shares of common stock underlying the private placement units, and any shares acquired in the aftermarket in favor of such proposed business combination.\nIn addition, we do not intend to hold an annual meeting of stockholders to elect new directors prior to the completion of our business combination. Unless we hold an annual meeting, all of the current directors will continue in office until at least the completion of the business combination. If there is an annual meeting, the entire Board of Directors will be considered for election, however our initial stockholders, because of their ownership position, will have considerable influence regarding the outcome. Accordingly, our initial stockholders will continue to exert control at least until the completion of our business combination.\nThe NYSE may delist our securities from trading on its exchange, which could limit investors\u2019 ability to make transactions in our securities and subject us to additional trading restrictions.\nWe continue to expect to meet, on a pro forma basis, the minimum initial listing requirements set forth in the rules of the NYSE; however, we cannot assure you that our securities will be, or will continue to be, listed on the NYSE in the future or prior to our initial business combination. In order to continue listing our securities on the NYSE prior to our initial business combination, we must maintain certain financial, distribution and share price levels. Generally, we must maintain a minimum number of holders of our securities. Additionally, in connection with our initial business combination, we will be required to demonstrate compliance with the NYSE\u2019s initial listing requirements, which are more rigorous than the NYSE\u2019s continued listing requirements, in order to continue to maintain the listing of our securities on the NYSE. For instance, our share price would generally be required to be at least $4 per share. We cannot assure you that we will be able to meet those initial listing requirements at that time.\nIf the NYSE delists any of our securities from trading on its exchange and we are not able to list our securities on another national securities exchange, we expect such securities could be quoted on an over-the-counter market. If this were to occur, we could face significant material adverse consequences, including:\na limited availability of market quotations for our securities;\nreduced liquidity for our securities;\na determination that our common stock is a \u201cpenny stock\u201d which will require brokers trading in our common stock to adhere to more stringent rules and possibly result in a reduced level of trading activity in the secondary trading market for our securities;\na limited amount of news and analyst coverage; and\na decreased ability to issue additional securities or obtain additional financing in the future.\nThe National Securities Markets Improvement Act of 1996, which is a federal statute, prevents or preempts the states from regulating the sale of certain securities, which are referred to as \u201ccovered securities.\u201d If we were no longer listed on the NYSE, our securities would not qualify as covered securities under such statute and transactions involving our securities could be subject to regulation by individual states.\nCertain agreements related to our initial public offering may be amended without stockholder approval.\nCertain agreements, including the underwriting agreement relating to our initial public offering, the trust agreement between us and Continental Stock Transfer & Trust Company, the letter agreements among us and our Founders and management team, and the registration rights agreement among us and our Founders and management team, may be amended without stockholder approval. These agreements contain various provisions that our public stockholders might deem to be material. For example, the underwriting agreement related to the initial public offering contains (i) a representation that we will not consummate any public or private equity or debt financing prior to the consummation of a business combination, unless all investors in such financing expressly waive, in writing, any rights in or claims against the trust account and (ii) a covenant that the target company that we acquire must have a fair market value equal to at least 80% of the balance in the trust account at the time of signing the definitive agreement for the transaction with such target business (excluding taxes payable on the income earned on the Trust Account) so long as we obtain and maintain a listing for our securities on NYSE. While we do not expect our board to approve any amendment to any of these agreements prior to our initial business combination, it may be possible that our board, in exercising its business judgment and subject to its fiduciary duties, chooses to approve one or more amendments to any such agreement in connection with the consummation of our initial business combination. Any such amendment may have an adverse effect on the value of an investment in our securities.\nBecause we must furnish our stockholders with target business financial statements, we may lose the ability to complete an otherwise advantageous initial business combination with some prospective target businesses.\nThe United States federal proxy rules require that a proxy statement with respect to a vote on a business combination meeting certain financial significance tests include historical and/or pro forma financial statement disclosure in periodic reports. We will include the same financial statement disclosure in connection with our tender offer documents, whether or not they are required under the tender offer rules. These financial statements must be prepared in accordance with, or be reconciled to, accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America, or GAAP, or International Financial Reporting Standard as issued by the International Accounting Standards Board, or IFRS, and the historical financial statements must be audited in accordance with the standards of the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (United States), or PCAOB. These financial statement requirements may limit the pool of potential target businesses we may acquire because some targets may be unable to provide such statements in time for us to disclose such statements in accordance with federal proxy rules and consummate our initial business combination within the time frame prescribed in our amended and restated certificate of incorporation.\nCompliance obligations under the Sarbanes-Oxley Act may make it more difficult for us to effectuate our initial business combination, require substantial financial and management resources, and increase the time and costs of completing a business combination.\nSection 404 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act requires that we evaluate and report on our system of internal controls beginning with our second Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2019. Only in the event we are deemed to be a large accelerated filer or an accelerated filer at the time of that filing will we be required to comply with the independent registered public accounting firm attestation requirement on our internal control over financial reporting. Further, for as long as we remain an emerging growth company, we will not be required to comply with the independent registered public accounting firm attestation requirement on our internal control over financial reporting. The fact that we are a blank check company makes compliance with the requirements of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act particularly burdensome on us as compared to other public companies because a target company with which we seek to complete our business combination may not be in compliance with the provisions of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act regarding adequacy of its internal controls. The development of the internal control of any such entity to achieve compliance with the Sarbanes-Oxley Act may increase the time and costs necessary to complete any such business combination.\nWe are an \u201cemerging growth company\u201d and we cannot be certain if the reduced disclosure requirements applicable to emerging growth companies will make our securities less attractive to investors.\nWe are an \u201cemerging growth\u201d within the meaning of the Securities Act, as modified by the JOBS Act, and we may take advantage of certain exemptions from various reporting requirements that are applicable to other public companies that are not emerging growth companies including, but not limited to, not being required to comply with\nthe auditor attestation requirements of Section 404 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, reduced disclosure obligations regarding executive compensation in our periodic reports and proxy statements, and exemptions from the requirements of holding a nonbinding advisory vote on executive compensation and stockholder approval of any golden parachute payments not previously approved. As a result, our stockholders may not have access to certain information they may deem important. We could be an emerging growth company for up to five years (until September 30, 2023, which is the date of the end of the fiscal year following the five year anniversary of our initial public offering), although circumstances could cause us to lose that status earlier, including but not limited to if the market value of our common stock held by non-affiliates exceeds $700 million as of any March 31 before that time, in which case we would no longer be an emerging growth company as of the following September 30. We cannot predict whether investors will find our securities less attractive because we will rely on these exemptions. If some investors find our securities less attractive as a result of our reliance on these exemptions, the trading prices of our securities may be lower than they otherwise would be, there may be a less active trading market for our securities and the trading prices of our securities may be more volatile.\nFurther, Section 102(b)(1) of the JOBS Act exempts emerging growth companies from being required to comply with new or revised financial accounting standards until private companies (that is, those that have not had a Securities Act registration statement declared effective or do not have a class of securities registered under the Exchange Act) are required to comply with the new or revised financial accounting standards. The JOBS Act provides that a company can elect to opt out of the extended transition period and comply with the requirements that apply to non-emerging growth companies but any such an election to opt out is irrevocable. We have elected not to opt out of such extended transition period which means that when a standard is issued or revised and it has different application dates for public or private companies, we, as an emerging growth company, can adopt the new or revised standard at the time private companies adopt the new or revised standard. This may make comparison of our financial statements with another public company which is neither an emerging growth company nor an emerging growth company which has opted out of using the extended transition period difficult or impossible because of the potential differences in accountant standards used.\nWe may face risks related to companies in the technology industries.\nBusiness combinations with companies in the technology industries entail special considerations and risks. If we are successful in completing a business combination with such a target business, we may be subject to, and possibly adversely affected by, the following risks:\nan inability to compete effectively in a highly competitive environment with many incumbents having substantially greater resources;\nan inability to manage rapid change, increasing consumer expectations and growth;\nan inability to build strong brand identity and improve subscriber or customer satisfaction and loyalty;\na reliance on proprietary technology to provide services and to manage our operations, and the failure of this technology to operate effectively, or our failure to use such technology effectively;\nan inability to deal with our subscribers\u2019 or customers\u2019 privacy concerns;\nan inability to attract and retain subscribers or customers;\nan inability to license or enforce intellectual property rights on which our business may depend;\nany significant disruption in our computer systems or those of third parties that we would utilize in our operations;\nan inability by us, or a refusal by third parties, to license content to us upon acceptable terms;\npotential liability for negligence, copyright, or trademark infringement or other claims based on the nature and content of materials that we may distribute;\ncompetition for the leisure and entertainment time and discretionary spending of subscribers or customers, which may intensify in part due to advances in technology and changes in consumer expectations and behavior;\ndisruption or failure of our networks, systems or technology as a result of computer viruses, \u201ccyber-attacks,\u201d misappropriation of data or other malfeasance, as well as outages, natural disasters, terrorist attacks, accidental releases of information or similar events;\nan inability to obtain necessary hardware, software and operational support; and\nreliance on third-party vendors or service providers.\nAny of the foregoing could have an adverse impact on our operations following a business combination. However, our efforts in identifying prospective target businesses will not be limited to the technology industries. Accordingly, if we acquire a target business in another industry, these risks we will be subject to risks attendant with the specific industry in which we operate or target business which we acquire, which may or may not be different than those risks listed above.\nWe currently maintain our corporate offices at 2479 E. Bayshore Rd., Suite 200, Palo Alto, CA 94303. The cost for this space is included in the $20,000 per month fee that we pay an affiliate of our Sponsor for office space, administrative and support services. We believe, based on fees for similar services in the San Francisco Bay Area, that the fee charged by our Sponsor is at least as favorable as we could have obtained from an unaffiliated party. We consider our current office space, combined with the other office space otherwise available to our executive officers, adequate for our current operations.\nWe are not currently subject to any material legal proceedings, nor, to our knowledge, is any material legal proceeding threatened against us or any of our officers or directors in their corporate capacity.\nOur units began trading on the NYSE under the symbol \u201cGIG.U\u201d on December 8, 2017. On January 16, 2018, the Company announced that the holders of the Company\u2019s units may elect to separately trade the securities underlying such units. On January 17, 2018, our shares of common stock, warrants and rights began trading on the NYSE under the symbols \u201cGIG\u201d, \u201cGIG.WS\u201d and \u201cGIGr\u201d respectively. No fractional warrants will be issued upon separation of the units and only whole warrants will trade. Each warrant entitles the holder to purchase one common share at a price of $11.50. Warrants may only be exercised for whole shares and will become exercisable on the later of 30 days after the completion of our initial business combination or December 12, 2018. Our warrants expire five years after the completion of our initial business combination or earlier upon redemption or liquidation as described in \u201cItem 1. Business.\u201d\nThe following table sets forth, for the calendar quarter indicated, the high and low sales prices per unit as reported on the NYSE for the period from December 8, 2017 (the first day on which our units began trading) through September 30, 2018, and our shares of common stock, warrants, and rights for the period from January 17, 2018 (the first day on which our shares of common stock, warrants and rights were traded separately) through September 30, 2018.\nUnits (GIG.U)\nCommon Stock (GIG)\nWarrants (GIG.WS)\nRights (GIGr)\nQuarter ended December 31, 2017 (1)\nQuarter ended March 31, 2018 (2)\nBeginning on December 8, 2017, with respect to GIG.U.\nBeginning on January 17, 2018 with respect to GIG, GIG.WS and GIGr.\nAt November 30, 2018, there were five holders of record of our Units, four holders of record of our separately traded shares of common stock, one holder of record of our separately traded warrants, and one holder of record of our separately traded rights.\nWe have not paid any cash dividends on our shares of common stock to date and do not intend to pay cash dividends prior to the completion of a business combination. The payment of cash dividends in the future will be dependent upon our revenues and earnings, if any, capital requirements and general financial condition subsequent to completion of a business combination. The payment of any dividends subsequent to a business combination will be within the discretion of our then Board of Directors. It is the present intention of our Board of Directors to retain all earnings, if any, for use in our business operations and, accordingly, our board does not anticipate declaring any dividends in the foreseeable future.\nd) Securities Authorized for Issuance Under Equity Compensation Plans\nf) Recent Sales of Unregistered Securities; Use of Proceeds from Registered Offerings\nSimultaneously with the underwriters\u2019 election to fully exercise their over-allotment option in our initial public offering, on January 9, 2018, the Founders purchased an additional 8,756 private placement units at a price of $10.00 per unit bringing the aggregate number of private placement units sold to the Founders to 498,256 such units. Each private placement unit consists of one share of the Company\u2019s common stock, $0.0001 par value, three-fourths of a warrant, and one right to receive one-tenth of a share of common stock upon our consummation of our initial business combination. Warrants will only be exercisable for whole shares at $11.50 per share. Unlike the warrants included in the units, if held by the original holder or its permitted transferees, the warrants included in the private placement units are not redeemable by us and, subject to certain limited exceptions, will be subject to transfer restrictions until one year following the consummation of our initial business combination. If the warrants included in the private placement units are held by holders other than the initial holders or their permitted transferees, the warrants included in the private placement units will be redeemable by us and exercisable by holders on the same basis as the warrants included in the units sold in our initial public offering. The private placement units, and the securities included in them, were issued pursuant to the exemption from registration contained in Section 4(a)(2) of the Securities Act. Our Founders are accredited investors for purposes of Rule 501 of Regulation D.\nOn January 9, 2018, upon the underwriters\u2019 election to fully exercise their over-allotment option in our initial public offering, we consummated a second and final closing of the initial public offering, wherein we sold 1,875,000 Units bringing the aggregate number of Units sold in our initial public offering to 14,375,000 Units. The Units sold in the Offering each consisted of one share of common stock, three-fourths of a warrant to purchase one share of common stock, and one-tenth of a right to receive one share of common stock upon or consummation of our initial business combination. The Units in our initial public offering were sold at an offering price of $10.00 per unit, generating total gross proceeds from the initial and second closings of our initial public offering in the aggregate amount of $143,750,000. The Units sold in our initial public offering were registered under the Securities Act on registration statements on Form S-1 (No. 333-221581 and 333-221948), which were declared effective by the SEC on December 7, 2017, and December 8, 2017, respectively.\nNo fractional shares will be issued upon exercise of the warrants included in the Units. Each such warrant will become exercisable on the later of 30 days after the completion of our initial business combination or 12 months from the initial closing of our initial public offering. However, if we do not complete a business combination by March 12, 2019 (or June 12, 2019 if we extend the time to consummate our initial business combination from the initial closing of the initial public offering, the warrants will expire at the end of such period. In such event, there will be no net cash settlement of these warrants and the warrants will expire worthless, unless they may be exercised on a cashless basis in the circumstances described in the warrant agreement. The warrants will expire five years after the completion of our initial business combination or earlier upon redemption or liquidation. Once the warrants included in the Units sold in our initial public offering become exercisable, we may redeem such outstanding warrants in whole and not in part at a price of $0.01 per warrant upon a minimum of 30 days\u2019 prior written notice of redemption, but if, and only if, the last sale price of our common stock equals or exceeds $18.00 per share (as adjusted for stock splits, stock dividends, reorganizations, recapitalizations and the like) for any 20 trading days within a 30-trading day period ending on the third trading day prior to the date on which we send the notice of redemption to the warrant holders.\nWe incurred a total of $2,587,560 in underwriting discounts and commissions from the initial and second closings of our initial public offering, and other costs and expenses related to the initial and second closings of our initial public offering in the amount of $644,498 from the proceeds of our initial public offering. After deducting the underwriting discounts and commissions and the initial public offering expenses, the total net proceeds from the initial public offering and the private placement was $145,520,000, of which $143,750,000 (or $10.00 per unit sold in the initial public offering) was placed in a Trust Account at JP Morgan Chase Bank, N.A. in New York, New York with Continental Stock Transfer & Trust Company acting as trustee. Using a portion of the net proceeds of the initial public offering that was not placed in the Trust Account, we repaid a promissory note issued to our Sponsor, which bore the\noutstanding principal amount of $50,536 when we repaid it upon the initial closing of the initial public offering. The proceeds held in the Trust Account may be invested by the trustee only in U.S. government treasury bills with a maturity of 180 days or less or in money market funds investing solely in U.S. government treasury obligations and meeting certain conditions under Rule 2a-7 under the Investment Company Act.\nAs of September 30, 2018, $597,268 was held outside the trust account. Funds held outside the trust account will be used to fund our operating expenses.\nThe following discussion and analysis of the Company\u2019s financial condition and results of operations should be read in conjunction with the audited financial statements and the notes related thereto which are included in \u201cItem 8. Financial Statements and Supplementary Data\u201d of this Annual Report on Form 10-K. Certain information contained in the discussion and analysis set forth below includes forward-looking statements. Our actual results may differ materially from those anticipated in these forward-looking statements as a result of many factors, including those set forth under \u201cSpecial Note Regarding Forward-Looking Statements,\u201d \u201cItem 1A. Risk Factors\u201d and elsewhere in this Annual Report on Form 10-K.\nWe are a blank check company incorporated in the State of Delaware formed for the purpose of acquiring, engaging in a share exchange, share reconstruction and amalgamation with, purchasing all or substantially all of the assets of, or engaging in any other similar business combination with one or more businesses or entities. We intend to effectuate our initial business combination using some combination of cash, common or preferred equity, other securities and debt.\nAs of September 30, 2018, not including cash held in our trust account in the amount of $144,964,309, we had cash of $597,268 and a working capital deficit of $345,350. We expect to continue to incur significant costs in the pursuit of our acquisition plans. We cannot assure you that our plans to complete an initial business combination will be successful.\nWe have neither engaged in any operations nor generated any revenues to date. For the period from October 9, 2017 (\u201cInception\u201d) through September 30, 2018, our only activities have been organizational activities and activities to identify a target business for our initial business combination. We do not expect to generate any operating revenues until after completion of our initial business combination. We expect to generate non-operating income in the form of interest income on cash and marketable securities held in the trust account at JP Morgan Chase Bank, N.A. in New York, New York with Continental Stock Transfer & Trust Company acting as trustee (the \u201cTrust Account\u2019), which was funded after our initial public offering of units (the \u201cUnits\u201d) consisting of one share of common stock, three-quarters of one warrant to purchase one share of common stock, and one right to receive one-tenth of one share of common stock upon our completion of an initial business combination (the \u201cOffering\u201d) to hold an amount of cash and marketable securities equal to that raised in the Offering, including such proceeds from the exercise of the underwriters\u2019 over-allotment option. There has been no significant change in our financial or trading position and no material adverse change has occurred since the date of our audited financial statements. We expect to incur increased expenses as a result of being a public company (for legal, financial reporting, accounting and auditing compliance), as well as for due diligence expenses.\nFor the period from Inception to September 30, 2018, we incurred a net loss of $665,385, which consisted of interest income on marketable securities held in the Trust Account of $1,593,432 and accrued interest receivable of $221,157, offset by operating expenses of $1,879,526 and a provision for income taxes of $600,448. Our business activities from\nInception through September 30, 2018 consisted solely of completing the Offering, and identifying and evaluating a potential initial business combination.\nOn December 12, 2017, we consummated the initial closing of the Offering with the delivery of 12,500,000 Units at a price of $10.00 per Unit, generating gross proceeds of $125,000,000. Simultaneously with the initial closing of the Offering, we consummated the initial closing of a private placement with the sale of 489,500 Units (the \u201cPrivate Placement Units\u201d) at a price of $10.00 per Unit, generating gross proceeds of $4,895,000.\nOn January 9, 2018, in connection with the underwriters\u2019 exercise in full of their option to purchase an additional 1,875,000 Units solely to cover over-allotments, if any (the \u201cover-allotment option\u201d), we consummated the sale of an additional 1,875,000 Units at a price of $10.00 per Unit, generating gross proceeds of $18,750,000. Simultaneously with the closing of the sale of such additional Units, we consummated the second closing of a private placement resulting in the sale of an additional 8,756 Private Placement Units at a price of $10.00 per unit, generating gross proceeds of $87,560.\nFollowing the initial and second closings of the Offering and the sale of the Private Placement Units, a total of $143,750,000 was placed in the Trust Account. We incurred $3,252,059 in Offering related costs, including $2,587,560 of underwriting fees and $664,499 of other costs.\nAs of September 30, 2018, we held cash and marketable securities in the amount of $144,964,309 in the Trust Account. The marketable securities consisted of U.S. money market funds. Interest income earned from the funds held in the Trust Account may be used by us to pay taxes. Through September 30, 2018, we withdrew $379,123 from the interest earned on the Trust Account to pay federal and state income tax obligations.\nFor the period October 9, 2017 (date of inception) through September 30, 2018, cash used in operating activities was $1,537,356, consisting of a net loss of $665,385, interest earned on marketable securities held in the Trust Account of $1,593,432 and interest receivable earned, but not paid at September 30, 2018 on marketable securities held in the Trust Account of $221,157, partially offset by changes in operating assets and liabilities of $942,618.\nWe intend to use substantially all of the funds held in the Trust Account, including any amounts representing interest earned on the Trust Account (which interest shall be net of taxes payable by us), to acquire a target business or businesses to complete our initial business combination and to pay our expenses relating thereto. To the extent that our capital stock or other securities are used in whole or in part as consideration to effect our initial business combination, the remaining proceeds held in the Trust Account as well as any other net proceeds not expended will be used as working capital to finance the operations of the target business or businesses. Such working capital funds could be used in a variety of ways including continuing or expanding the target business\u2019 operations, for strategic acquisitions and for marketing, research and development of existing or new products. Such funds could also be used to repay any operating expenses or finders\u2019 fees which we had incurred prior to the completion of our initial business combination if the funds held outside of the Trust Account are insufficient to cover such expenses.\nAs of September 30, 2018, we had cash of $597,268 held outside the Trust Account. We intend to raise additional funds to ensure the proceeds not held in the Trust Account will be sufficient to allow us to operate for at least 15 months from the closing date of the Offering (or 18 months, as applicable), assuming that a business combination is not consummated during that time. Over the remainder of this time period, we intend to use these funds primarily for identifying and evaluating prospective acquisition candidates, performing business due diligence on prospective target businesses, traveling to and from the offices, plants or similar locations of prospective target businesses, reviewing corporate documents and material agreements of prospective target businesses, selecting the target business to acquire and structuring, negotiating and consummating the business combination.\nIf our estimates of the costs of undertaking in-depth due diligence and negotiating our initial business combination are less than the actual amount necessary to do so, we may have insufficient funds available to operate our business prior to our initial business combination. Moreover, we may need to obtain additional financing either to consummate our initial business combination or because we become obligated to redeem a significant number of our public shares upon consummation of our initial business combination, in which case we may issue additional securities or incur debt in connection with such Business Combination. In order to finance operating and/or transaction costs in connection with\na business combination, our Sponsor, executive officers, directors, or their affiliates may, but are not obligated to, loan us funds. In the event that our initial business combination does not close, we may use a portion of the working capital held outside the Trust Account to repay such loaned amounts but no proceeds from our Trust Account would be used for such repayment. Up to $1,500,000 of such loans may be convertible into units of the post-business combination entity at a price of $10.00 per unit at the option of the lender. The units would be identical to the Private Placement Units.\nFollowing our initial business combination, if cash on hand is insufficient, we may need to obtain additional financing in order to meet our obligations.\nAs of September 30, 2018, we have not entered into any off-balance sheet financing arrangements. We do not participate in transactions that create relationships with unconsolidated entities or financial partnerships, often referred to as variable interest entities, which would have been established for the purpose of facilitating off-balance sheet arrangements. We have not entered into any off-balance sheet financing arrangements, established any special purpose entities, guaranteed any debt or commitments of other entities, or purchased any non-financial assets.\nAs of September 30, 2018, we do not have any long-term debt, capital lease obligations, operating lease obligations or long-term liabilities, other than an agreement to pay our Sponsor a monthly fee of $20,000 for office space, administrative services and secretarial support. We began incurring these fees on December 8, 2017 and will continue to incur these fees monthly until the earlier of the completion of the initial business combination or the liquidation of the Company.\nThe preparation of financial statements and related disclosures in conformity with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America (\u201cGAAP\u201d) requires management to make estimates and assumptions that affect the reported amounts of assets and liabilities, disclosure of contingent assets and liabilities at the date of the financial statements, and income and expenses during the periods reported. Actual results could materially differ from those estimates. The Company has identified the following critical accounting policies:\nSection 102(b)(1) of the JOBS Act exempts emerging growth companies from being required to comply with new or revised financial accounting standards until private companies (that is, those that have not had a Securities Act registration statement declared effective or do not have a class of securities registered under the Exchange Act) are required to comply with the new or revised financial accounting standards. The JOBS Act provides that a company can elect to opt out of the extended transition period and comply with the requirements that apply to non-emerging growth companies but any such election to opt out is irrevocable. The Company has elected not to opt out of such extended transition period which means that when an accounting standard is issued or revised and it has different application dates for public or private companies, the Company, as an emerging growth company, will adopt the new or revised accounting standard at the time private companies adopt the new or revised standard.\nNet loss per common share is computed by dividing net loss by the weighted-average number of common shares outstanding for the period. The Company applies the two-class method in calculating the net loss per common share. Shares of common stock subject to possible redemption as of September 30, 2018, have been excluded from the calculation of the basic net loss per share since such shares, if redeemed, only participate in their pro rata share of the Trust Account earnings. The Company has not considered the effect of (1) warrants included in the Units sold in the Offering and the sale of the Private Placement Units to purchase an aggregate of 11,154,942 shares of common stock since the exercise of the warrants is contingent upon future events, (2) rights included in the Units sold in the Offering and the sale of the Private Placement Units that convert into 1,487,326 shares of common stock since the conversion of the rights is contingent upon future events and (3) the 60,000 shares of common stock underlying restricted stock awards that are still subject to forfeiture as of September 30, 2018. Since the Company was in an adjusted net loss\nposition during the periods presented within, diluted net loss per common share is the same as basic net loss per common share for all periods presented.\nIn accordance with the two-class method, the Company\u2019s net income (loss) is adjusted to remove net income that is attributable to common stock subject to redemption, as these shares only participate in the income of the trust account and not the losses of the Company. Accordingly, net loss per common share, basic and diluted, is calculated as follows:\nthrough September 30,\nLess: net income attributable to common stock subject to redemption\nWeighted-average common shares outstanding, basic and diluted\nNet loss per share common share, basic and diluted\nCommon Stock subject to possible redemption\nWe account for our common stock subject to possible conversion in accordance with the guidance in Accounting Standards Codification (\u201cASC\u201d) Topic 480 \u201cDistinguishing Liabilities from Equity.\u201d Common stock subject to mandatory redemption (if any) is classified as a liability instrument and is measured at fair value. Conditionally redeemable common stock (including common stock that features redemption rights that are either within the control of the holder or subject to redemption upon the occurrence of uncertain events not solely within our control) is classified as temporary equity. At all other times, common stock is classified as stockholders\u2019 equity. Our common stock features certain redemption rights that are considered to be outside of our control and subject to occurrence of uncertain future events. Accordingly, as of September 30, 2018, the common stock subject to possible redemption is presented as temporary equity, outside of the stockholders\u2019 equity section of our balance sheet.\nWe do not believe that any recently issued, but not yet effective, accounting pronouncements, if currently adopted, would have a material effect on our financial statements.\nTo date, our efforts have been limited to organizational activities and activities relating to the Offering and the identification and evaluation of a potential initial business combination. We have neither engaged in any operations nor generated any revenues. At September 30, 2018, the net proceeds from our Offering held in the Trust Account were comprised entirely of money market funds meeting certain conditions under Rule 2a-7 under the Investment Company Act, which invest solely in United States Treasuries. Due to the short-term nature of the money market fund\u2019s investments, we do not believe that there will be an associated material exposure to interest rate risk.\nAs of September 30, 2018, $144,964,309 was held in the trust account for the purposes of consummating an initial business combination.\nStockholders of GigCapital, Inc.\nWe have audited the accompanying balance sheet of GigCapital, Inc. (a Delaware corporation) (the \u201cCompany\u201d) as of September 30, 2018, and the related statements of operations, stockholders\u2019 equity, and cash flows for the period from October 9, 2017 (date of inception) to September 30, 2018, and the related notes (collectively referred to as the \u201cfinancial statements\u201d). In our opinion, the financial statements present fairly, in all material respects, the financial position of the Company as of September 30, 2018, and the results of its operations and its cash flows for period from October 9, 2017 (date of inception) to September 30, 2018, in conformity with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America.\nThe accompanying financial statements have been prepared assuming that GigCapital, Inc. will continue as a going concern. As discussed in Note 1 to the financial statements, the Company has no present revenue, its business plan is dependent on the completion of a financing and the Company\u2019s cash and working capital are not sufficient to complete its planned activities for the upcoming year. These conditions raise substantial doubt about the Company\u2019s ability to continue as a going concern. Management\u2019s plans regarding these matters are also described in Note 1. The financial statements do not include any adjustments that might result from the outcome of this uncertainty.\nThese financial statements are the responsibility of the Company\u2019s management. Our responsibility is to express an opinion on these financial statements based on our audit. We are a public accounting firm registered with the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (United States) (\u201cPCAOB\u201d) and are required to be independent with respect to the Company in accordance with the U.S. federal securities laws and the applicable rules and regulations of the Securities and Exchange Commission and the PCAOB.\nWe conducted our audit in accordance with the standards of the PCAOB. Those standards require that we plan and perform the audit to obtain reasonable assurance about whether the financial statements are free of material misstatement, whether due to error or fraud. The Company is not required to have, nor were we engaged to perform, an audit of its internal control over financial reporting. As part of our audit, we are required to obtain an understanding of internal control over financial reporting, but not for the purpose of expressing an opinion on the effectiveness of the Company\u2019s internal control over financial reporting. Accordingly, we express no such opinion.\nOur audit included performing procedures to assess the risks of material misstatement of the financial statements, whether due to error or fraud, and performing procedures that respond to those risks. Such procedures included examining, on a test basis, evidence regarding the amounts and disclosures in the financial statements. Our audit also included evaluating the accounting principles used and significant estimates made by management, as well as evaluating the overall presentation of the consolidated financial statements. We believe that our audits provide a reasonable basis for our opinion.\nReceivable from related party\nCash and marketable securities held in trust account\nInterest receivable on cash and marketable securities held in trust account\nCommon stock subject to possible redemption, 14,309,217 shares at\na redemption value of $10.00 per share\nPreferred stock, par value of $0.0001 per share; 1,000,000 shares\nauthorized; none issued or outstanding\nCommon stock, par value of $0.0001 per share; 100,000,000 shares\nauthorized; 4,152,789 shares issued and outstanding (excluding\n14,309,217 shares subject to possible redemption)\nInterest income on cash and marketable securities held in\nWeighted-average common shares outstanding, basic\nBalance as of October 9, 2017 (inception)\nSale of common stock to Founders at $0.005858 per share\nSale of common stock to Founders in private placement at $10 per share\nForfeiture or cancellation of shares\nIssuance of Insider shares for no consideration\nSale of common stock in Initial Public Offering\nSale of common stock in Over-Allotment Option\nShares subject to redemption\nAdjustments to reconcile net loss to net cash used\nin operating activities:\nInterest earned on cash and marketable securities held in Trust account\nInvestment of cash in trust account, net\nCash withdrawn from trust account\nProceeds from sale of Units, net of underwriting\ndiscounts paid\nProceeds from sale of Private Placement Units\nProceeds from the sale of Founder Shares\nPromissory notes from related parties\nRepayment of promissory notes from related parties\nPayment of deferred offering costs\nSupplemental disclosure of noncash investing\nChange in value of common stock subject to\npossible redemption\n1. DESCRIPTION OF ORGANIZATION AND BUSINESS OPERATIONS\nOrganization and General\nGigCapital, Inc. (the \u201cCompany\u201d) was incorporated in Delaware on October 9, 2017. The Company was formed for the purpose of effecting a merger, capital stock exchange, asset acquisition, stock purchase, reorganization or similar business combination with one or more businesses (the \u201cBusiness Combination\u201d). The Company is an \u201cemerging growth company,\u201d as defined in Section 2(a) of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the \u201cSecurities Act\u201d) as modified by the Jumpstart Our Business Startups Act of 2012 (the \u201cJOBS Act\u201d).\nAs of September 30, 2018, the Company had not yet commenced any operations. All activity for the period from October 9, 2017 (date of inception) through September 30, 2018 relates to the Company\u2019s formation and the initial public offering (the \u201cOffering\u201d), which is described below (Note 3), and identifying a target initial Business Combination. The Company will not generate any operating revenues until after completion of the Business Combination, at the earliest. The Company will generate non-operating income in the form of interest income on cash from the proceeds derived from the Offering. The Company has selected September 30 as its fiscal year end.\nOn December 7, 2017, the initial registration statement on Form S-1, as amended, filed in connection with the Offering was declared effective. On December 8, 2017, a subsequent registration statement on Form S-1 filed by the Company pursuant to Section 462(b) of the Securities Act, and also in connection with the Offering, was declared effective. The Company entered into an underwriting agreement on December 7, 2017 to conduct the Offering, the initial closing of which was consummated on December 12, 2017 with the delivery of 12,500,000 units (the \u201cUnits\u201d). The Units sold in the initial closing of the Offering consisted of the securities described in Note 3. The initial closing of the Offering generated gross proceeds of $125,000,000.\nSimultaneously with the initial closing of the Offering, the Company consummated the initial closing of a private placement sale (the \u201cPrivate Placement\u201d) of 489,500 units (the \u201cPrivate Placement Units\u201d), at a price of $10.00 per unit, to the Company\u2019s sponsor, GigAcquisitions, LLC, a Delaware limited liability company (the \u201cSponsor\u201d) and three additional investors (together with the Sponsor, the \u201cFounders\u201d). The Private Placement Units consisted of the securities described in Note 4. The initial closing of the Private Placement generated gross proceeds of $4,895,000.\nFollowing the initial closing of the Offering, net proceeds in the amount of $122,500,000 from the sale of the Units and proceeds in the amount of $2,500,000 from the sale of Private Placement Units, for a total of $125,000,000, were placed in the trust account (\u201cTrust Account\u201d) which is described further below.\nOn January 9, 2018, in connection with the underwriters\u2019 exercise in full of their option to purchase an additional 1,875,000 additional Units solely to cover over-allotments, if any (the \u201cover-allotment option\u201d), the Company consummated the sale of an additional 1,875,000 Units at $10.00 per unit. The Units sold in the second closing of the Offering also consisted of the securities described in Note 3. The second closing of the Offering generated gross proceeds of $18,750,000.\nSimultaneously with the closing of the sale of the additional Units, the Company consummated a second closing of the Private Placement, resulting in the sale of an additional 8,756 Private Placement Units at $10.00 per unit to the Founders. The second closing of the Private Placement Units also consisted of the securities described in Note 4. The second closing of the Private Placement generated gross proceeds of $87,560.\nFollowing the second closing of the Offering, net proceeds in the amount of $18,662,440 and proceeds in the amount of $87,560 from the second closing of the Private Placement, for a total of $18,750,000, were placed in the Trust Account.\nTransaction costs amounted to $3,252,059, consisting of $2,587,560 of underwriting fees and $664,499 of the Offering costs. The Company\u2019s remaining cash after payment of the Offering costs will be held outside of the Trust Account for working capital purposes.\nThe Trust Account\nThe funds in the Trust Account have been invested only in U.S. government treasury bills with a maturity of one hundred and eighty (180) days or less or in money market funds meeting certain conditions under Rule 2a-7 under the Investment Company Act of 1940 which invest only in direct U.S. government obligations. Funds will remain in the Trust Account until the earlier of (i) the consummation of the Business Combination or (ii) the distribution of the Trust Account as described below. The remaining proceeds from the Offering outside the Trust Account may be used to pay for business, legal and accounting due diligence expenses on acquisition targets and continuing general and administrative expenses.\nThe Company\u2019s amended and restated certificate of incorporation provides that, other than the withdrawal of interest to pay taxes, if any, none of the funds held in the Trust Account will be released until the earlier of: (i) the completion of the Business Combination; (ii) the redemption of 100% of the shares of common stock included in the units sold in the Offering (the \u201cpublic shares\u201d) if the Company is unable to complete the Business Combination by March 12, 2019 (or June 12, 2019 as described below), (subject to the requirements of law); or (iii) the redemption of the public shares in connection with a stockholder vote to amend the Company\u2019s amended and restated certificate of incorporation to modify the substance or timing of the Company\u2019s obligation to redeem 100% of its public shares if it does not complete its initial Business Combination by March 12, 2019 (or June 12, 2019 as described below).\nThe Company\u2019s management has broad discretion with respect to the specific application of the net proceeds of the Offering, although substantially all of the net proceeds of the Offering are intended to be generally applied toward consummating a Business Combination with (or acquisition of) a Target Business. As used herein, \u201cTarget Business\u201d must be with one or more target businesses that together have a fair market value equal to at least 80% of the balance in the Trust Account (less taxes payable on interest earned) at the time the Company signs a definitive agreement in connection with the Business Combination. There is no assurance that the Company will be able to successfully effect a Business Combination.\nThe Company, after signing a definitive agreement for a Business Combination, will either (i) seek stockholder approval of the Business Combination at a meeting called for such purpose in connection with which stockholders may seek to redeem their shares, regardless of whether they vote for or against the Business Combination, for cash equal to their pro rata share of the aggregate amount then on deposit in the Trust Account as of two business days prior to the consummation of the initial Business Combination, including interest but less taxes payable, or (ii) provide stockholders with the opportunity to have their shares redeemed by the Company by means of a tender offer (and thereby avoid the need for a stockholder vote) for an amount in cash equal to their pro rata share of the aggregate amount then on deposit in the Trust Account as of two business days prior to commencement of the tender offer, including interest but less taxes payable. The decision as to whether the Company will seek stockholder approval of the Business Combination or allow stockholders to redeem their shares in a tender offer will be made by the Company, solely in its discretion, and will be based on a variety of factors such as the timing of the transaction and whether the terms of the transaction would otherwise require the Company to seek stockholder approval unless a vote is required by New York Stock Exchange rules. If the Company seeks stockholder approval, it will complete its Business Combination only if a majority of the outstanding shares of common stock voted are voted in favor of the Business Combination. However, in no event will the Company redeem its public shares in an amount that would cause its net tangible assets to be less than $5,000,001 upon consummation of a Business Combination. In such case, the Company would not proceed with the redemption of its public shares and the related Business Combination, and instead may search for an alternate Business Combination.\nIf the Company holds a stockholder vote or there is a tender offer for shares in connection with a Business Combination, a public stockholder will have the right to redeem its shares for an amount in cash equal to its pro rata share of the aggregate amount then on deposit in the Trust Account as of two business days prior to the consummation of the initial Business Combination, including interest but less taxes payable. As a result, such shares of common stock have been recorded at their redemption amount and classified as temporary equity. The amount held in the Trust Account as of September 30, 2018 was $144,964,309, which represents cash and short-term investments of $143,750,000 from the sale of 14,375,000 Units at $10.00 per unit and $1,593,432 of interest income earned on these holdings, less $379,123 withdrawn from the interest earned on the Trust Account to pay federal and state income tax obligations. Additionally, there was $221,157 of interest accrued, but not yet credited to the Trust Account, which\nwas recorded on the balance sheet in Interest receivable on cash and marketable securities held in the Trust Account as of September 30, 2018.\nThe Company will have until March 12, 2019 to consummate the Business Combination. If the Company cannot consummate the Business Combination by such date, the Company may extend the period of time to consummate the Business Combination by an additional three months to June 12, 2019. If the Company extends the period of time to consummate a business combination, it is required to deposit into the Trust Account funds equal to one percent (1%) of the gross proceeds of the Offering (including such proceeds from the exercise of the underwriters\u2019 over-allotment option) in exchange for a noninterest bearing, unsecured promissory note. If the Company does not complete a Business Combination within this extended period of time, it shall (i) cease all operations except for the purposes of winding up; (ii) as promptly as reasonably possible, but not more than ten business days thereafter, redeem the public shares of common stock for a per share pro rata portion of the Trust Account, including interest, but less taxes payable (less up to $100,000 of such net interest to pay dissolution expenses); and (iii) as promptly as possible following such redemption, dissolve and liquidate the balance of the Company\u2019s net assets to its creditors and remaining stockholders, as part of its plan of dissolution and liquidation. The Founders and the Company\u2019s executive officers and directors have entered into letter agreements with the Company, pursuant to which they have waived their rights to participate in any redemption with respect to any shares of the Company\u2019s common stock held by them, including the Founder Shares (as defined in Note 4) and the shares of common stock included in the Private Placement Units; however, to the extent that any of such parties acquired public shares in the Offering, or to the extent that any of such parties acquire public shares in private transactions subsequent to the final closing of the Offering, they will be entitled to a pro rata share of the Trust Account in respect of such public shares upon the Company\u2019s redemption or liquidation in the event the Company does not complete a Business Combination within the required time period.\nIn the event of such distribution, it is possible that the per share value of the residual assets remaining available for distribution (including Trust Account assets) will be less than the initial public offering price per Unit.\nThe financial statements of the Company have been prepared on a going concern basis, which contemplates the realization of assets and the discharge of liabilities in the normal course of business. As of September 30, 2018, the Company had $597,268 in cash and a working capital deficit of $345,350. Further, the Company expects to continue to incur significant costs in pursuit of its financing and acquisition plans. These conditions raise substantial doubt about the Company\u2019s ability to continue as a going concern. The Company plans to address this uncertainty by raising additional capital. There is no assurance that the Company\u2019s plans to raise capital or to consummate a Business Combination will be successful or successful within the target business acquisition period. The financial statements do not include any adjustments that might result from the outcome of this uncertainty.\nThe financial statements of the Company have been prepared in conformity with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America (\u201cGAAP\u201d).\nSection 102(b)(1) of the JOBS Act exempts emerging growth companies from being required to comply with new or revised financial accounting standards until private companies (that is, those that have not had a Securities Act registration statement declared effective or do not have a class of securities registered under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934) are required to comply with the new or revised financial accounting standards. The JOBS Act provides that a company can elect to opt out of the extended transition period and comply with the requirements that apply to non-emerging growth companies but any such election to opt out is irrevocable. The Company has elected not to opt out of such extended transition period which means that when an accounting standard is issued or revised and it has different application dates for public or private companies, the Company, as an emerging growth company, will adopt the new or revised accounting standard at the time private companies adopt the new or revised standard.\nThe preparation of financial statements in conformity with GAAP requires the Company\u2019s management to make estimates and assumptions that affect the reported amounts of assets and liabilities and disclosure of contingent assets and liabilities at the date of the financial statements and the reported amounts of revenues and expenses during the reporting period. Actual results could differ from those estimates.\nFinancial instruments that potentially subject the Company to concentrations of credit risk consist of cash accounts in a financial institution, which at times, may exceed federally insured limits. The Company has not experienced losses on these accounts and management believes the Company is not exposed to significant risks on such accounts.\nThe Company considers all highly liquid investments with a maturity of three months or less when purchased to be cash equivalents. The Company maintains cash balances that at times may be uninsured or in deposit accounts that exceed Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation limits. The Company maintains its cash deposits with major financial institutions.\nAs of September 30, 2018, the assets held in the Trust Account were invested in a money market fund.\nCommon stock subject to mandatory redemption (if any) is classified as a liability instrument and is measured at fair value. Conditionally redeemable common stock (including common stock that features redemption rights that are either within the control of the holder or subject to redemption upon the occurrence of uncertain events not solely within the Company\u2019s control) is classified as temporary equity. At all other times, common stock is classified as stockholders\u2019 equity. The Company\u2019s common stock features certain redemption rights that are considered to be outside of the Company\u2019s control and subject to occurrence of uncertain future events. Accordingly, as of September 30, 2018, common stock subject to possible redemption is presented as temporary equity, outside of the stockholders\u2019 equity section of the Company\u2019s balance sheet.\nThe fair value of the Company\u2019s assets and liabilities approximates the carrying amounts represented in the balance sheet primarily due to their short-term nature.\nOffering Costs\nOffering costs in the amount of $3,252,059 consist of legal, accounting, underwriting fees and other costs incurred through the balance sheet date that are directly related to the Offering. Offering costs were charged to stockholders\u2019 equity upon the completion of the Offering.\nFor restricted stock awards granted to employees and directors of the Company, the related stock-based compensation will be based on the fair value of the common stock on the grant date. For restricted stock awards granted to non-employees of the Company, the related stock-based compensation will be based on the fair value of the common stock on the date the shares vest, or are no longer subject to forfeiture upon an event that is not probable to occur.\nThe shares underlying the Company\u2019s restricted stock awards are subject to forfeiture if the Business Combination is not completed or if these individuals resign or are terminated for cause prior to the completion of the Business\nCombination. Therefore, the related stock-based compensation will be recognized upon the completion of a Business Combination, unless the related shares are forfeited prior to a Business Combination occurring.\nNet loss per common share is computed by dividing net loss by the weighted-average number of common shares outstanding for the period. The Company applies the two-class method in calculating the net loss per common share. Shares of common stock subject to possible redemption as of September 30, 2018, have been excluded from the calculation of the basic net loss per share since such shares, if redeemed, only participate in their pro rata share of the Trust Account earnings. The Company has not considered the effect of (1) warrants sold in the Offering and Private Placement to purchase an aggregate of 11,154,942 shares of common stock since the exercise of the warrants is contingent upon future events, (2) rights sold in the Offering and Private Placement that convert into 1,487,326 shares of common stock since the conversion of the rights is contingent upon future events and (3) the 60,000 shares of common stock underlying restricted stock awards that are still subject to forfeiture as of September 30, 2018. Since the Company was in an adjusted net loss position during the periods presented within, diluted net loss per common share is the same as basic net loss per common share.\nReconciliation of Net Loss Per Common Share\nIn accordance with the two-class method, the Company\u2019s net loss is adjusted to remove net income that is attributable to common stock subject to possible redemption, as these shares only participate in the income of the Trust Account and not the losses of the Company. Accordingly, net loss per common share, basic and diluted, is calculated as follows:\nThe Company follows the asset and liability method of accounting for income taxes. Deferred tax assets and liabilities are recognized for the estimated future tax consequences attributable to differences between the financial statement carrying amounts of existing assets and liabilities and their respective tax bases. Deferred tax assets and liabilities are measured using enacted tax rates expected to apply to taxable income in the years in which those temporary differences are expected to be recovered or settled. The effect on deferred tax assets and liabilities of a change in tax rates is recognized in income in the period that included the enactment date. Valuation allowances are established, when necessary, to reduce deferred tax assets to the amount expected to be realized.\nThe Company prescribes a recognition threshold and a measurement attribute for the financial statement recognition and measurement of tax positions taken or expected to be taken in a tax return. For those benefits to be recognized, a tax position must be more-likely-than-not to be sustained upon examination by taxing authorities. There were no unrecognized tax benefits as of September 30, 2018. The Company recognizes accrued interest and penalties related to unrecognized tax benefits as income tax expense. No amounts were accrued for the payment of interest and penalties as of September 30, 2018. The Company is currently not aware of any issues under review that could result in significant payments, accruals or material deviation from its position. The Company is subject to income tax examinations by major taxing authorities since inception.\nThe U.S. Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (\"Tax Act\") was enacted on December 22, 2017 and introduced significant changes to U.S. income tax law. Effective January 1, 2018, the Tax Act reduces the U.S. statutory tax rate from 35% to 21%\nand creates new taxes on certain foreign-sourced earnings and certain related-party payments. Since the Company is a fiscal taxpayer, the Company is subject to a blended rate of 24.3% for fiscal year ended 2018. The Company does not anticipate any other material impacts as a result of the Tax Act.\nThe Company does not believe that any recently issued, but not yet effective, accounting pronouncements, if currently adopted, would have a material effect on the Company\u2019s financial statements.\nOn December 12, 2017, the Company completed the initial closing of the Offering whereby the Company sold 12,500,000 Units at a price of $10.00 per Unit. On January 9, 2018, the Company completed the second closing of the Offering with the exercise of the over-allotment option with the consummation of the sale of an additional 1,875,000 Units at a price of $10.00 per Unit. Each Unit consists of one share of the Company\u2019s common stock, $0.0001 par value, three-fourths (3/4) of one warrant to purchase one share of common stock (the \u201cWarrants\u201d), and one right to receive one-tenth (1/10) of one share of common stock upon consummation of the Business Combination (the \u201cRights\u201d). Warrants will only be exercisable for whole shares at $11.50 per share.\nOn January 16, 2018, the Company announced that the holders of the Company\u2019s Units may elect to separately trade the securities underlying such Units which commenced on January 17, 2018. No fractional warrants will be issued upon separation of the Units and only whole warrants will trade. Any Units not separated will continue to trade on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol \u201cGIG.U\u201d. Any underlying shares of common stock, warrants and rights that are separated will trade on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbols \u201cGIG,\u201d \u201cGIG WS\u201d and \u201cGIG RT,\u201d respectively.\nFounder Shares\nDuring the period from October 9, 2017 (date of inception) to December 12, 2017, the Founders purchased 4,267,500 shares of common stock (the \u201cFounder Shares\u201d) for $25,000, or approximately $0.005858 per share. In November and December 2017, the Company canceled 738,750 Founders Shares for no consideration. As a result, there are 3,528,750 Founder Shares outstanding as of September 30, 2018. The Founder Shares are identical to the common stock included in the Units sold in the Offering except that the Founder Shares are subject to certain transfer restrictions, as described in more detail below.\nThe Founders have agreed not to transfer, assign or sell any of their Founder Shares until the earlier of (i) one year after the completion of the initial Business Combination, or earlier if, subsequent to the initial Business Combination, the last sale price of the Company\u2019s common stock equals or exceeds $12.00 per share (as adjusted for stock splits, stock dividends, reorganizations, recapitalizations and the like) for any 20 trading days within any 30-trading day period commencing at least 150 days after the initial Business Combination or (ii) the date on which the Company completes a liquidation, merger, stock exchange or other similar transaction after the initial Business Combination that results in all of the Company\u2019s stockholders having the right to exchange their shares of common stock for cash, securities or other property.\nThe Founders purchased from the Company an aggregate of 489,500 units at a price of $10.00 per unit in a private placement that occurred simultaneously with the completion of the initial closing of the Offering. The Founders also purchased from the Company an aggregate of 8,756 private placement units in a private placement that occurred simultaneously with the completion of the second closing of the Offering with the exercise of the over-allotment option. Each Private Placement Unit consists of one share of the Company\u2019s common stock, $0.0001 par value, three-fourths (3\u20444) of a Warrant, and one right to receive one-tenth (1/10) of a share of common stock upon the consummation of the initial Business Combination. Warrants will only be exercisable for whole shares at $11.50 per share. Unlike the Warrants included in the Units sold in the Offering, if held by the original holder or its permitted\ntransferees, the warrants included in the Placement Units are not redeemable by the Company and subject to certain limited exceptions, will be subject to transfer restrictions until one year following the consummation of the Business Combination. If the warrants included in the Private Placement Units are held by holders other than the initial holders or their permitted transferees, the warrants included in the Private Placement Units will be redeemable by the Company and exercisable by holders on the same basis as the Warrants included in the Offering (see above).\nIf the Company does not complete a Business Combination, then the proceeds from the sale of the Private Placement Units will be part of the liquidating distribution to the public stockholders.\nDuring the year ended September 30, 2018 the Company purchased consulting services in the amount of $14,400 from Sentienz Inc., a technology solutions company in which Jack Porter, a member of our Board of Directors, is the Executive Chairman. The fees paid were comparable to fees charged for similar services by other technology solutions companies.\nThe Company agreed to pay $20,000 a month for office space, administrative services and secretarial support to the Sponsor. Services commenced on December 8, 2017, the date the securities were first listed on the New York Stock Exchange and will terminate upon the earlier of the consummation by the Company of the Business Combination or the liquidation of the Company. For the period from October 9, 2017, (Date of Inception) through September 30, 2018, the Company incurred $196,758 in fees for these Services, of which $0 is included in accounts payable in the accompanying balance sheet as of September 30, 2018.\nThe Company entered into a promissory note agreement with the Sponsor, whereby the Sponsor agreed to loan the Company up to an aggregate amount not to exceed $55,000 (\u201cPromissory Notes\u201d) to be used for the payment of expenses related to the Offering. The Promissory Notes were non-interest bearing, unsecured and were due on the earlier of (i) December 31, 2017 or (ii) December 12, 2017, the date on which the Company completed the Offering. The Promissory Notes were repaid in December 2017.\nThe Company\u2019s initial stockholders are entitled to registration rights pursuant to a registration rights agreement signed on December 7, 2017. The Company\u2019s initial stockholders are entitled to make up to three demands, excluding short form registration demands, that the Company register such securities for sale under the Securities Act. In addition, these holders have \u201cpiggy-back\u201d registration rights to include their securities in other registration statements filed by the Company. The Company will bear the expenses incurred in connection with the filing of any such registration statements. There will be no penalties associated with delays in registering the securities under the registration rights agreement.\nUnderwriters Agreement\nThe Company granted the underwriters a 45-day option to purchase up to 1,875,000 additional Units to cover any over-allotments, at the initial public offering price less deferred underwriting discounts and commissions. On January 9, 2018, the underwriters elected to fully exercise their over-allotment option to purchase 1,875,000 Units at a purchase price of $10.00 per unit.\nThe Company paid an underwriting discount of $0.20 per Unit offering price (or approximately $0.0467 per unit for each Unit sold pursuant to the underwriters\u2019 over-allotment option).\nBusiness Combination Marketing Agreement\nThe Company engaged Cowen and Company, LLC and Chardan Capital Markets, LLC (collectively, the \u201cAdvisors\u201d) as advisors in connection with the Business Combination pursuant to a business combination marketing agreement. Pursuant to that agreement, the Company will pay the Advisors a cash fee for such services upon the consummation of the Business Combination in an amount equal to, in the aggregate, (i) 3.5% of the gross proceeds of the Offering, excluding any proceeds from the full or partial exercise of the over-allotment option, plus (ii) 5.033333% of the gross proceeds of the Offering, if any, from the full or partial exercise of the over-allotment option (in each case, exclusive of any applicable finders\u2019 fees which might become payable).\n6 . STOCKHOLDERS\u2019 EQUITY\nThe authorized common stock of the Company includes up to 100,000,000 shares. Holders of the Company\u2019s common stock are entitled to one vote for each share of common stock. As of September 30, 2018, there were 4,152,789 shares of common stock issued and outstanding and not subject to possible redemption (of which there are 14,309,217 such shares).\nThe Company is authorized to issue 1,000,000 shares of preferred stock with such designations, voting and other rights and preferences as may be determined from time to time by the Board of Directors. As of September 30, 2018, there were no shares of preferred stock issued and outstanding.\nWarrants will only be exercisable for whole shares at $11.50 per share. As a result, at least four Units must be purchased in order for each holder to receive shares of common stock for all of the Warrants acquired upon their exercise. Under the terms of the Warrant agreement dated December 12, 2017, the Company has agreed to use its best efforts to file a new registration statement under the Securities Act, following the completion of the Business Combination, for the registration of the shares of common stock issuable upon exercise of the Warrants included in the Units.\nNo fractional shares will be issued upon exercise of the Warrants. If, upon exercise of the Warrants, a holder would be entitled to receive a fractional interest in a share, the Company will, upon exercise, round down to the nearest whole number the number of shares of common stock to be issued to the Warrant holder. Each Warrant will become exercisable on the later of 30 days after the completion of the Business Combination or 12 months from the closing of the Offering and will expire five years after the completion of the Business Combination or earlier upon redemption or liquidation. However, if the Company does not complete the Business Combination on or prior to the 15-month period (or 18-month period as described above) allotted to complete the Business Combination, the Warrants will expire at the end of such period. If the Company is unable to deliver registered shares of common stock to the holder upon exercise of the Warrants during the exercise period, there will be no net cash settlement of these Warrants and the Warrants will expire worthless, unless they may be exercised on a cashless basis in the circumstances described in the Warrant agreement. Once the Warrants (excluding the warrants sold in the Private Placement Units as discussed in Note 4) become exercisable, the Company may redeem the outstanding Warrants in whole and not in part at a price of $0.01 per Warrant upon a minimum of 30 days\u2019 prior written notice of redemption, only in the event that the last sale price of the Company\u2019s shares of common stock equals or exceeds $18.00 per share for any 20 trading days within the 30-trading day period ending on the third trading day before the Company sends the notice of redemption to the Warrant holders.\nAs of September 30, 2018, there were 11,154,942 warrants outstanding.\nEach holder of a right will receive one-tenth (1/10) of one share of common stock upon consummation of a Business Combination, even if the holder of such right redeemed all shares held by it in connection with a Business Combination. No fractional shares will be issued upon conversion of the rights. No additional consideration will be required to be paid by a holder of rights in order to receive its additional shares upon consummation of a Business Combination, as the consideration related thereto has been included in the Unit purchase price paid for by investors in the Offering. If the Company enters into a definitive agreement for a Business Combination in which the Company will not be the surviving entity, the definitive agreement will provide for the holders of rights to receive the same per share consideration the holders of the common stock will receive in the transaction on an as-converted into common stock basis and each holder of a right will be required to affirmatively covert its rights in order to receive one-tenth (1/10) of one share underlying each right (without paying additional consideration) upon completion of a Business Combination. The shares issuable upon exchange of the rights will be freely tradable (except to the extent held by affiliates of the Company).\nIf the Company is unable to complete a Business Combination on or prior to the 15-month period (or 18-month period as described above) allotted to complete the Business Combination and the Company liquidates the funds held in the Trust Account, holders of rights will not receive any of such funds with respect to their rights, nor will they receive any distribution from the Company\u2019s assets held outside of the Trust Account with respect to such rights, and the rights will expire worthless. Further, there are no contractual penalties for failure to deliver securities to the holders of the rights upon consummation of a Business Combination. Additionally, in no event will the Company be required to net cash settle the rights.\nAs of September 30, 2018, there were 12,129,822 rights outstanding.\nIncluded in the outstanding shares of common stock are 60,000 shares issued in consideration of future services to the Company\u2019s independent directors. These shares are subject to forfeiture if these individuals resign or are terminated for cause prior to the completion of the Business Combination. If a Business Combination occurs and these shares have not been previously forfeited, the fair value of the common stock on the date the shares vest will be recognized as stock-based compensation when the completion of the Business Combination becomes probable.\nThe fair value of the Company\u2019s financial assets and liabilities reflects management\u2019s estimate of amounts that the Company would have received in connection with the sale of the assets or paid in connection with the transfer of the liabilities in an orderly transaction between market participants at the measurement date. In connection with measuring the fair value of its assets and liabilities, the Company seeks to maximize the use of observable inputs (market data obtained from independent sources) and to minimize the use of unobservable inputs (internal assumptions about how market participants would price assets and liabilities). The following fair value hierarchy is used to classify assets and liabilities based on the observable inputs and unobservable inputs used in order to value the assets and liabilities:\nLevel 1: Quoted prices in active markets for identical assets or liabilities. An active market for an asset or liability is a market in which transactions for the asset or liability occur with sufficient frequency and volume to provide pricing information on an ongoing basis.\nLevel 2: Observable inputs other than Level 1 inputs. Examples of Level 2 inputs include quoted prices in active markets for similar assets or liabilities and quoted prices for identical assets or liabilities in markets that are not active.\nLevel 3: Unobservable inputs which are supported by little or no market activity and which are significant to the fair value of the assets or liabilities.\nThe following table presents information about the Company\u2019s assets that are measured at fair value on a recurring basis as of September 30, 2018, and indicates the fair value hierarchy of the valuation inputs the Company utilized to determine such fair value:\nAs of September 30, 2018, the Company had no financial liabilities measured at fair value on a recurring basis.\nThe sources of loss before provision for income taxes are as follows for the period ended September 30, 2018:\nThe provision for income taxes was comprised of the following for the period ended September 30, 2018:\nTotal deferred income tax expense\nReconciliation of the federal statutory income tax rate to the effective income tax rate is as follows:\nStatutory income tax expense\nState income taxes, net of federal\nValuation allowance on start-up costs\nFor the period ended September 30, 2018, the effective tax rate differs from the U.S. statutory rate primarily due to the impact of the Tax Act, the valuation allowance on the Start-up Costs, and tax expense associated with nondeductible permanent adjustments.\nOn December 22, 2017, the Tax Act was signed into law. The change in the tax law is partially effective in the current 2018 fiscal year and will be fully effective in the 2019 fiscal year. The Tax Act, among other things, reduces the top U.S. federal corporate tax rate from 35% to 21%, requires companies to pay a one-time transition tax on earnings of certain foreign subsidiaries that were previously tax deferred, and creates new taxes on certain foreign sourced earnings.\nDue to the complexities involved in accounting for the Tax Act, the Securities and Exchange Commission Staff Accounting Bulletin 118 required that the Company include in its financial statements a reasonable estimate of the impact of the Tax Act on earnings to the extent such reasonable estimate has been determined. The Company is allowed a measurement period of up to one year after the enactment date to finalize the recording of the related tax impacts. As of September 30, 2018, the Company completed its accounting for the tax effects of the enactment of the Tax Act.\nThe Tax Act reduces the corporate federal tax rate to 21%, effective January 1, 2018. U.S. tax law stipulates that the Company\u2019s 2018 earnings are subject to a blended statutory tax rate of 24.3%, which is based on the prorated number of days in the fiscal year before and after the effective date.\nThe one-time transition tax is based on total post-1986 earnings and profits that were previously deferred from U.S. income taxes. We have no foreign operations or subsidiaries and therefore the one-time transition tax is not applicable to the Company.\nAs mentioned above, the Company has no foreign operations or subsidiaries. Therefore, it does not anticipate the new Tax Act provision on global intangible low-tax income or the newly enacted Base Erosion and Anti-Abuse Tax to have an impact on its financial statements in future periods. These facts could change if an acquisition is made that included foreign operations or activities.\nThe tax effects of temporary differences that gave rise to significant portions of the deferred tax assets and liabilities as of September 30, 2018 were as follows:\nPeriod from October 9, 2017 (Date of Inception) through September 30, 2018\nNet deferred tax assets (liabilities)\nAs of September 30, 2018, the Company has recorded a valuation allowance of $552,641 to offset deferred tax assets related to its start-up costs.\nAs of September 30, 2018, the Company has no unrecognized tax benefits for which a liability should be recorded. The Company records interest and penalties associated with unrecognized tax benefits as a component of tax expense. As of September 30, 2018, the Company has not accrued interest or penalties on unrecognized tax benefits, as there is no position recorded as of 2018. No changes to the uncertain tax position balance are anticipated within the next 12 months, and are not expected to materially impact the financial statements.\nDisclosure controls and procedures are controls and other procedures that are designed to ensure that information required to be disclosed in our reports filed or submitted under the Exchange Act is recorded, processed, summarized and reported within the time periods specified in the SEC\u2019s rules and forms. Disclosure controls and procedures include, without limitation, controls and procedures designed to ensure that information required to be disclosed in our reports filed or submitted under the Exchange Act is accumulated and communicated to our management, including our Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer, to allow timely decisions regarding required disclosure.\nAs required by Rules 13a-15 and 15d-15 under the Exchange Act, our Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer carried out an evaluation of the effectiveness of the design and operation of our disclosure controls and procedures as of September 30, 2018. Based upon their evaluation, our Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer concluded that our disclosure controls and procedures (as defined in Rules 13a-15(e) and 15d-15(e) under the Exchange Act) were effective.\nDuring the period from July 1, 2018 through September 30, 2018, there has been no change in our internal control over financial reporting that has materially affected, or is reasonably likely to materially affect, our internal control over financial reporting.\nOur current directors, executive officers and directors are listed below.\nAvi S. Katz\nExecutive Chairman of the Board, Secretary, President and Chief Executive Officer\nNeil Miotto\nJohn Mikulsky\nPeter S. Wang\nDr. Avi S. Katz has served as our Executive Chairman of our Board of Directors, Chief Executive Officer, President and Secretary since October of 2017. Dr. Katz, is also the Founding Managing Member of GigAcquisitions, LLC, the Sponsor entity of GigCapital, Inc., the Founding Managing Member of GigFounders, LLC, the sole Managing Member of GigAcquisitions, LLC, the Founding Managing Member of GigNext, LLC, an advisory and investment partnership, the Executive Chairman of the Board of Members of NextGen Pharmaceutical Development, LLC., and the Chairman of the Board of Directors of Humavox Ltd. He is a serial entrepreneur and active high-tech angel investor, who has spent nearly 30 years in international executive positions within the technology sector founding of and working for privately held start-ups, middle-cap companies and large enterprises. In these roles, Dr. Katz has been instrumental in building teams, large scale fund-raising, developing key alliances and technology partnerships, M&A activities, business development, financial management, global operations and sales and marketing. Dr. Katz dedicated the last decade to developing and managing GigPeak, Inc., originally known as GigOptix, Inc., from inception in 2007 until its sale in 2017. Under Dr. Katz\u2019s leadership GigPeak completed 10 M&A deals. After multiple years of improving financial performance and stockholder value, and as an NYSE-Mkt public company since 2012, GigPeak was sold to Integrated Device Technology, Inc. in an all-cash transaction for $250 million in April 2017. Prior to founding GigOptix, from 2003 to 2005, Dr. Katz was the Chief Executive Officer, President, and member of the Board of Directors of Intransa, Inc., from 2000 to 2003 the Chief Executive Officer of Equator Technologies, Inc. which was ultimately sold to Pixelworks for $110 million, and held additional executive and leadership positions in technology companies date back to his tenure as Member of Technical Staff in AT&T Bell Laboratories between 1988 and 1994. Dr. Katz is a graduate of the Israeli Naval Academy, holds a B.Sc. and Ph.D. in Semiconductors Materials Eng. from the Technion (Israel Institute of Technology). He is an author of more than 70 U.S. and international patents, has published approximately 300 technical papers and is the editor of a number of technical books.\nTara McDonough has served as our Chief Financial Officer since July of 2018. Ms. McDonough is responsible for the management and operations of finance and accounting. Ms. McDonough has 18 years\u2019 of experience in finance and accounting with in-house and consulting experience in startup, IPO, SEC reporting, and other finance, accounting, and reporting services in the high tech, bio tech, semiconductor, software industries amongst others. Most recently, from 2014 to 2018, Ms. McDonough was the Corporate Controller of Glassdoor Inc., a jobs and recruiting website, based in Mill Valley, CA. Prior to that, from 2010 to 2014, she was a Director with Connor Group, LLC where she led IPO, Mergers and Acquisitions, Business Process Re-engineering and Technical Accounting engagements. From 2008 to 2010, Ms. McDonough was the Corporate Controller for Symyx Technologies, a publicly traded scientific software, hardware and services company. From 2003 to 2007, Ms. McDonough held various roles at Synplicity, a publicly traded SAAS based software company where Ms. McDonough worked in the Controllership role, as well as SEC reporting. Ms. McDonough was employed with PricewaterhouseCoopers and Arthur Andersen in the audit group. Ms. McDonough is a Certified Public Accountant in California (inactive) and holds a Bachelor of Science in Economics with concentrations in Accounting and Finance from Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo.\nNeil Miotto joined the Board of Directors in October of 2017. Mr. Miotto is a financial consultant and a retired assurance partner of KPMG LLP where he was a partner for twenty-seven years until his retirement in September 2006. Since his retirement from KPMG Mr. Miotto has provided high level financial consulting services to companies in need of timely accounting assistance and in serving on public company boards. He is deemed to be a \u2018financial expert\u2019 under SEC and NYSE rules. While at KPMG Mr. Miotto focused on serving large public companies, primarily\nsemiconductor companies. Among the clients he served were National Semiconductor Corporation, Fairchild Semiconductor Corp, and nVIDIA Corporation. Mr. Miotto also served as an SEC reviewing partner while at KPMG. He is a member of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants. He holds a Bachelor of Business Administration degree from Baruch College, of The City University of New York. He served on the Board of Directors of Micrel, Inc. prior to its acquisition in 2015, and on the Board of Directors of GigPeak from 2008 until its sale in April 2017.\nJohn J. Mikulsky joined the Board of Directors as an independent director in December of 2017. Through December, 2017, Mr. Mikulsky served as the Chief Executive Officer, since 2016, and as a director, since 2014, of Traycer Diagnostic Systems, Inc. He previously served as President and Chief Executive Officer of Endwave Corporation from December 2009 until June 2011, when Endwave was acquired by GigPeak, Inc.; subsequent to such acquisition, he served on the Board of Directors of GigPeak, Inc. from 2011 until its sale in 2017. From May 1996 until November 2009, Mr. Mikulsky served Endwave in a multitude of capacities including Vice President of Product Development, Vice President of Marketing and Business Development and Chief Operating Officer. Prior to Endwave, Mr. Mikulsky worked as a Technology Manager for Balazs Analytical Laboratory, from 1993 until 1996, a provider of analytical services to the semiconductor and disk drive industries. Prior to 1993, Mr. Mikulsky worked at Raychem Corporation, most recently as a Division Manager for its Electronic Systems Division. Mr. Mikulsky holds a B.S. in electrical engineering from Marquette University, an M.S. in electrical engineering from Stanford University and an S.M. in Management from the Sloan School at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.\nPeter S. Wang joined the Board of Directors as an independent director in December of 2017. Mr. Wang is a managing partner of Optino Network LLC, a cross-border business strategy and technology transfer advisory service. He also serves on the Technology Advisory Council for Benhamou Global Ventures. Mr. Wang previously served as the founding President of CoolCloudz, an Infrastructure-as-a-Service company, and the Sr. Vice President and General Manager of the Cloud Storage Products Business Unit of UIT, in China between 2010 and 2012. Mr. Wang co-founded Retrevo Inc., a venture funded Web 2.0 vertical search company employing machine learning technology, and served as the Vice President of Engineering and Operations and Board director between late 2005 and 2009. Mr. Wang led the founding of Intransa Inc., where served as the founding President and Chairman of the Board in late 2000. Intransa Inc. was a pioneer IP SAN company in the storage industry, backed by prominent Silicon Valley venture capital firms. Through his tenure at Intransa Inc. through mid-2005, Mr. Wang not only served as the Chief Technology Officer and as a director, but also as Vice President of Engineering and Marketing, driving global strategic partnerships, at different stages. Prior to Intransa Inc., Mr. Wang led the Corporate Technology Development Center at 3Com Corp. and served in various leadership positions from 1995-2000. Prior to 1995, Mr. Wang led advanced development of distributed computing technologies at TRW Space & Defense and received the TRW Chairman\u2019s Award for Innovation. Mr. Wang was instrumental in a number of IEEE 802, IETF and ANSI standards. He has been awarded over 20 U.S. patents and has published a number of IEEE conferences and other journal papers. He holds M.S. in Management Sciences from Stanford University, M.S. in EECS from U.C. Berkeley, and B.S. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Michigan.\nJack Porter joined the Board of Directors as an independent director in December of 2017. Mr. Porter is a serial entrepreneur. He has been the Chief Executive Officer of ten companies, and founded or served as managing partner at four additional companies during the last 36 years. Most recently, Mr. Porter founded Razor Solutions, Inc. in 2015, an artificial intelligence data science business, where he currently serves as President, Chief Executive Officer and Executive Chairman. He is also the Executive Chairman of three other artificial intelligence (\u201cAI\u201d) companies: Sentienz, Inc., an advanced services company that focuses on large big data and AI projects;. Argoid, a cognitive big data platform for the retail industry; and Cognizer, a natural language understanding platform based on deep learning. In 2008, Mr. Porter founded Forward Accelerator, Inc., a start-up accelerator, where he has served as Managing Director since the company\u2019s inception. From June 2006 to January 2010 he was the Chief Executive Officer of Executive Mindshare, a social media community designed for senior business professionals, policy makers, thought leaders and financial decision-makers in specific vertical business industries. From July 2003 to June 2006, he was President and Chief Executive Officer of DecisionView, Inc., which developed advanced analytic systems for the pharmaceutical industry. Mr. Porter has extensive experience in advanced analytics, machine learning, and artificial intelligence. His expertise includes understanding how to leverage complex mathematic algorithms, data visualizations, and sophisticated business models. Mr. Porter has published eight books on technology innovation and entrepreneurship and is a frequent speaker at industry events like the Kellogg Innovation Network, Gartner Group Research Board, and the Deep Think.\nNumber, Terms of Office and Election of Executive Officers and Directors\nOur Board of Directors will be elected each year at our annual meeting of stockholders. We may not hold an annual meeting of stockholders until after we consummate our initial business combination (unless required by NYSE).\nOur executive officers are elected by the Board of Directors and serve at the discretion of the Board of Directors, rather than for specific terms of office. Our Board of Directors is authorized to appoint persons to the offices set forth in our bylaws as it deems appropriate. Our bylaws provide that our executive officers may consist of a Chief Executive Officer, a President, a Chief Financial Officer, Vice Presidents, a Secretary, Assistant Secretaries, a Treasurer and such other offices as may be determined by the Board of Directors.\nOur Board of Directors has three standing committees: an audit committee; a compensation committee; and a nominating and compensation committee. Each of our audit committee, our compensation committee and our nominating and corporate governance committee are composed solely of independent directors. Each committee operates under a charter that is approved by our board and has the composition and responsibilities described below.\nWe have established an audit committee of the Board of Directors. Messrs. Miotto, Mikulsky, Wang and Porter will serve as members of our audit committee. Mr. Miotto serves as chairman of the audit committee. Under the NYSE listing standards and applicable SEC rules, we are required to have three members of the audit committee all of whom must be independent. Messrs. Miotto, Mikulsky, Wang and Porter are independent.\nEach member of the audit committee is financially literate and our Board of Directors has determined that Mr. Miotto qualifies as an \u201caudit committee financial expert\u201d as defined in applicable SEC rules.\nWe have adopted an audit committee charter, which details the purpose and principal functions of the audit committee, including:\nassisting the Board of Directors in the oversight of (1) the accounting and financial reporting processes of the Company and the audits of the financial statements of the Company, (2) the preparation and integrity of the financial statements of the Company, (3) the compliance by the Company with financial statement and regulatory requirements, (4) the performance of the Company\u2019s internal finance and accounting personnel and its independent registered public accounting firms, and (5) the qualifications and independence of the Company\u2019s independent registered public accounting firms;\nreviewing with each of the internal and independent registered public accounting firms the overall scope and plans for audits, including authority and organizational reporting lines and adequacy of staffing and compensation.\nreviewing and discussing with management and internal auditors the Company\u2019s system of internal control and discuss with the independent registered public accounting firm any significant matters regarding internal controls over financial reporting that have come to its attention during the conduct of its audit;\nreviewing and discussing with management, internal auditors and independent registered public accounting firm the Company\u2019s financial and critical accounting practices, and policies relating to risk assessment and management;\nreceiving and reviewing reports of the independent registered public accounting firm discussing 1) all critical accounting policies and practices to be used in the firm\u2019s audit of the Company\u2019s financial statements, 2) all alternative treatments of financial information within generally accepted accounting principles that have been discussed with management, ramifications of the use of such alternative disclosures and treatments, and the treatment preferred by the independent registered public accounting firm, and 3) other material written communications between the independent registered public accounting firm and management, such as any management letter or schedule of unadjusted differences;\nreviewing and discussing with management and the independent registered public accounting firm the annual and quarterly financial statements and section entitled \u201cManagement\u2019s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Conditions and Results of Operations \u201d of the Company prior to the filing of the Company\u2019s Annual Report on Form 10-K and Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q;\nreviewing, or establishing, standards for the type of information and the type of presentation of such information to be included in, earnings press releases and earnings guidance provided to analysts and rating agencies;\ndiscussing with management and independent registered public accounting firm any changes in Company\u2019s critical accounting principles and the effects of alternative GAAP methods, off-balance sheet structures and regulatory and accounting initiatives;", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00080.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 1442, + "original_length": 270016, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.95, + "perplexity": 253.7, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "http://getsmarthomedevices.com/stephen-hawking-gave-a-speech-via-hologram-again", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T03:39:11Z", + "digest": "sha1:JS6JE3VY6KEIN46VATTHGDRXJKRSYKGR", + "length": 822, + "nlines": 7, + "source_domain": "getsmarthomedevices.com", + "title": "Stephen Hawking gave a speech via hologram. Again. | Smart Home Devices", + "raw_content": "Stephen Hawking gave a speech via hologram. Again.\nCosmologist Stephen Hawking spoke in Hong Kong on Friday \u2014 only he wasn't actually present for the speech.\nThe world-renowned physicist actually gave his speech live via hologram for the 90-minute lecture about his life and work. He was beamed in for his lecture from the UK.\nSEE ALSO: Could mini black holes power Earth? Stephen Hawking thinks so\n\"Hawking spoke about the human mind, societal trends and issues such as education and science and technology research and funding, as well as what the future holds in light of current affairs,\" according to a press release about the event.\nIf you can believe it, this isn't the first time the famous scientist has given a speech via hologram. 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They\u2019ve got a Sega classic and a solid adventure game for Gold subscribers.\nTrackmania Turbo (Xbox One) will be free from November 1st through 30th along with Tales from the Borderlands (Xbox One) which will be available November 15-December 15th.\nThe HD remaster of the Saturn classic NiGHTS: Into Dreams (Xbox 360) will be available on November 1st and Deadfall Adventures (Xbox 360) will be available starting November 15th.\nTales From The Borderlands is a funny and all around solid adventure game by TellTale. It takes place as a side story in the Borderlands universe. It is also an easy 1,000 gamerscore.\nNiGHTS: Into Dreams is a classic. It is one of the best early 3D games, originally launching in 1996 on the Sega Saturn. It also has a wonderful and cheesy soundtrack. 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Indeed, it is impossible to know in advance when and how an opportunity can come your way or who might offer it to you.\nWe begin with this brand new experience Niki had with a 90-day goal about his vision for financial independence.\nThe \u201ckey\u201d to cryptocurrencies\nAt a time when even the taxi driver was talking about \u201cmining bitcoins,\u201d he decided to do some research about the cryptocurrency phenomenon. He focused on the following actions:\nLearn about the mining process and familiarize with the available software in terms of installation and test-running it;\nResearch the hardware and its prices;\nEstimate the annual rate of ROI;\nExplore possibilities for collocation, i.e. renting equipment at different places and other details such as the cooling issue, power supply, security, etc.\nWhat he was aiming at: to get a general idea of the overall resources required and what the financial potential of this endeavor would be.\nIt all went as expected in the beginning\nNiki made a long list of all the necessary actions and wrote down his objective in a very detailed manner. He treated it as if it is a big project. And while he could have hired a professional to do the business plan for him, he was sure he could manage it all by himself.\nHe made more than enough effort on how to do it but zero on who might be able to assist him.\nBut then, at one of the quarterly \u201cGoalBuddy\u201d meetings he discussed the idea with Ivan.\nAfter hearing him out Ivan immediately thought of an acquaintance who could provide the answers to at least 80% of Niki\u2019s questions. Then he suggested that meeting the guy would be a good start.\nAt first Niki was somehow skeptical but in the end, he agreed.\nThey had this meeting and as a result, Niki got all his questions answered. But there was something else \u2013 this person had the expertise and the background to be able to bring to Niki\u2019s attention some potential problems. He was also kind enough to explain the tricky issues regarding the technology, some partnerships, power plants, and many other aspects.\nThe moral here is that without looking to do so, Niki, in fact, inadvertently applied the \u201cWho\u201d method.\nThis meeting made a big difference and Niki\u2019s perspective got greatly affected. There was plenty of work ahead, but dozens of issues were resolved while new, much more relevant, ones came to the forefront. This saved him weeks of \u201cshooting in the dark\u201d and gave him extra clarity.\nApart from the obvious \u2013 that the research phase was not as difficult and time-consuming as he envisioned it \u2013, there was something else of value for him in the bottom line:\nThis became a lesson for me how one 90-day goal can transform itself into a one day job that can take care of all issues.\n(So, if you are interested in Crypto-currency \u2013 currently and under the standard conditions, i.e. the power being supplied by the utility, mining bit-coins has a very thin margin of profit.)\nBut more important are the following two realizations Niki had.\n# 1 The goal wasn\u2019t of the domino type that unlocks the next one. This confirms that 90-day goals should play the role of experiments.\n# 2 The result was achieved easily and without wasting time. The key was to meet and discuss it with someone who has the knowledge and experience to safely navigate you through those issues.\nOr, to emphatically state the key conclusion \u2013 it was \u201cWho\u201d that worked out brilliantly.\nWhat is this strategy\nAs you might have easily guessed, this is how you can register more progress by getting help. We often take advantage of it, but sometimes, as in the case with Niki, we don\u2019t think of it right away.\nIt\u2019s best applied at the 90-day goal level. Instead of trying to figure out everything all by yourself, do the GAMEPLAN exercise. Write down in the template who can assist you with the task at hand.\nEngines of success\nOf course, first of all, you have to be open with others about your objectives. You may have to overcome the fear that your idea gets stolen, or that you will be laughed at.\nAnd secondly, you have to be actively asking for help. This might be the trickiest thing to do.\nThe explanation is that it is often perceived as a manifestation of weakness. If you too think so then you probably have the insecurity that you may not be up to any challenge.\nStill, at the opposite end of the spectrum are those \u201cknow-it-all\u201d types of people. They always have the answer which is the one and only one.\nWhat could be the reason for that?\nThe less productive approach\nThis concept is based on Dan Sullivan\u2019s Strategic Coach platform.\nWhen thinking only in the lines of \u201chow to\u201d you become more likely to be wrong in working out your plans. This preoccupation manifests itself by questions like \u201cHow to get on with it\u201d, \u201cHow to resolve a problem\u201d\u2026 This, he claims, is explained away by the very nature of our education system.\nJust give it a thought:\nFrom pre-school and all the way through college everything you are taught is to achieve on your own only. Teamwork is rarely encouraged. On the contrary, it is stigmatized and sometimes even penalized.\nYou end up entering the labor market, indoctrinated with the idea that you have to rely entirely on yourself.\nWe\u2019ve been doing the \u201chow to\u201d for years while the \u201cwho\u201d strategy is the smarter approach. There was no one to tell us so except that Life itself opened our eyes to this fact.\nWhy \u201cWho\u201d is superior to \u201cHow\u201d\nThe answer is fairly simple and it will forever change how you organize yourself.\nThe results of \u201cwho\u201d can naturally have a multiplicative effect, while those of \u201chow\u201d are limited by your own resources.\nNo one can be \u201csuperhuman\u201d with a limitless amount of time, knowledge and expertise in every possible area.\nSo, try to go on never forgetting to look around who can help you. This will greatly improve your ability to perform and achieve. You can get support from one person, 10 or 100 \u2013 it\u2019s entirely up to you how far you can get.\nWhen you are ready to take the first step and seek co-operation, keep in mind the following.\nOne option is with the strategy (a mentor to give you valuable insights). And the other is to find someone to assist you with the tactics (these are usually people you delegate to).\nLet\u2019s dig in a little bit deeper in these two.\n# 1 Looking for a mentor\nThis must be someone with experience in the field that you have little or no expertise in. They have already been down this road building up their \u201cknow-how\u201d and learning all the lessons. And that\u2019s their value to you \u2013 to present you with their view and understanding of the subject.\nOr, as we witnessed it in Niki\u2019s story, someone else can speed you up and move forward your 90-day goal in just a few hours. In doing so, you can spare yourself a lot of trouble and avoid failure.\nAnd how do you find a mentor?\nAnd we mean it literally! A friend of ours, who is a motivational lecturer, told us an interesting story.\nAfter a presentation, he usually talks offstage and quite informally so with his audience. A woman approached him and said that she wanted to start her own drop-shipping business but she had been struggling for a while with all kind of different issues.\nWhat he did wasn\u2019t much more than to walk her across the hall and introduce her to one of the most successful drop-shipping entrepreneurs in the country.\nThis is an excellent example for anyone. You never know how and in what form you can run into an opportunity. But you have to be prepared and also be able to freely seek it out.\nOur Top 3 tips on how to fully utilize your \u201cmentor resource\u201d\nAlways be ready to ask for advice and guidance.\nThere\u2019s nothing to be afraid of. What would be the worst possible scenario? It is to be denied the mentorship which isn\u2019t something that would slow you down in any way.\nBut once you decided to request, then listen carefully.\nOpen up your mind to get the most out of it and use it as a stepping stone on which to make your next advance in the desired direction.\nRemember that there is no piece of advice which is exclusively tailored to you. You will ultimately have to run the new information through your own brain.\nWe all have our unique experiences. Someone\u2019s winning approach might be a perfect fit for you too but that\u2019s more of an exception than a rule. Your attitude must be such that you are prepared to expect that won\u2019t always be the case.\nAnd now, let\u2019s turn our attention to the other option.\n# 2 Finding those to delegate to\nIn essence, it means redirecting a certain amount of work to be done by someone else than you.\nThis will give you the chance to concentrate your efforts on higher priorities, not to mention the amount of time freed. You will be able to maximize your productivity by orienting your strong sides towards the progress on a given project.\nHere is the latest, and in our opinion quite telling, example of the effectiveness of delegation.\nHow does Ivan do it?\nWe\u2019ll illustrate with our \u201cGoalBuddy\u201d system.\nIn line with our mission of helping more people achieve their goals, we want to reach a larger audience at our site. Accordingly, we need to manage our Google Ads account. And this could be challenging at times. Although Ivan has skills and knowledge in marketing, he couldn\u2019t stay fully up-to-date with it all the time.\nOne solution was to completely take on this responsibility all by himself, and the other option was to give that task to a team member. He chose the latter so that he would be able to apply himself with more focus where his expertise and skills would matter most. It didn\u2019t take long before this choice showed to be the right one.\nHowever simple it may sound, delegating is not abdication. It isn\u2019t as straightforward as \u201cGet it done!\u201d command but a process.\nThe four levels of Delegation\nYou state the task and they do it, but you have full control.\nThe decisions are theirs but there is no responsibility for the outcome.\nDecisions and responsibilities are only for the duration of the specific task.\nThey make all the decisions and are responsible at every stage of the project.\nIf you\u2019ve reached this last level, then you have groomed a \u201csuccessor\u201d and the transfer of power will be peaceful.\nHow to maximize the process\nDelegating isn\u2019t an easy thing if you are not completely ready to give up control. It\u2019s a multi-step process not only for the delegate but for the delegator as well.\nDon\u2019t delegate as your mother-in-law does it. What\u2019s the point of it if you interfere non-stop to show them how things are done the \u201cright way\u201d!\nFocus on the outcome, not on how you get there. Once you made your mind to rely on this person, let them proceed freely even if it might be very different from how you would. You may also learn from them.\nIt is up to you how to implement the \u201cwho\u201d strategy\nIt\u2019s vital to open your mind and give it a try. If you do it once, you will do it again, and you will probably turn it into a habit. It is extremely effective and with time you will get better at it making it an indispensable part of your professional skill-set.\nWhen you surround yourself with people who are on the same wavelength as you are the whole process of working together becomes seamless and productive. This is a win-win situation for both sides. Ultimately it is your choice whether you will be a delegator, a delegate, or a Goal Buddy.\nDon\u2019t forget the old African proverb \u201cIf you want to get somewhere quickly go alone. If you want to get far you find company.\u201d If you\u2019re here with us it means you want to get far. 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Ashland improves to 5-1 overall, 4-1 in the Great Lakes Intercollegiate Athletic Conference, while the Timberwolves are 1-5, 1-5.\nAU also is 63-25-5 all-time in its Homecoming contest, and has a 15-game GLIAC regular-season home winning streak, best in the conference.\nIn addition to the victory, a pair of Eagle single-game records were tied on Saturday. Junior quarterback Travis Tarnowski threw five touchdown passes to tie a record he accomplished two years earlier. It is the fifth time an Ashland QB has thrown for five TDs in a game.\nTarnowski also was 26-for-36 for 332 yards in the win for his ninth career 300-yard passing game, and his third in as many games.\n\"We took a loss last week (at Tiffin), so everyone was really focused,\" Tarnowski said. \"We had a really bad taste in our mouth. We needed to get back on track. We did a really good job of preparing this week. Everybody was laser focused.\"\nJunior tight end Adam Shaheen tied the Ashland mark for touchdown catches in a game with four, originally set by wide receiver Vance Kinney against Slippery Rock in 1992. He finished Saturday's game with seven catches for 109 yards, giving him five career 100-yard games and three in a row. In the last three games, Shaheen has 24 catches for 426 yards and eight touchdowns.\n\"If I'm the primary guy, then they are looking at me, and if I'm not, I'm just trying to do my job every play and open it up for everyone else,\" said Shaheen. \"Me and Travis\u2026we're starting to just kind of click and play. Some of those plays out there are just backyard football.\"\nThe Ashland single-season record for touchdown receptions is 12 by Joe Horn in 2010 \u2013 Shaheen has 11 in the first six games of 2016.\nA career-long 39-yard field goal by junior kicker Aidan Simenc put the Eagles on top 3-0 just 4:41 into the game, then Tarnowski found sophomore wide receiver Matthew Wilcox for a 20-yard touchdown at the 4:16 mark of the first.\n\"We talked about getting out of the gate quick,\" said Ashland head coach Lee Owens, whose team had a lead at the end of the first quarter for the first time since the 2016 season-opener. \"We thought it might take us a while to adjust to their offense, but honestly, I thought our guys, from the very beginning on defense, had a great bead on what they were doing.\"\nAshland's next four scores were Tarnowski-to-Shaheen touchdown passes of 32, 32, five and seven yards. 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I guess that probably says something significant about our sense of freedom to get into race openly.\nAnyway, as a result of those emails, here are a couple of quick clarifications and additions to my original thoughts:\n\u2022 One person was surprised and thought I sounded a little like many Euro-Ams who deny that racism and racial prejudice are current and relevant.\nI\u2019m sympathetic to that comment. Writing or talking about race is pretty complicated. I have fundamental respect for anybody who makes an honest and good faith effort to do so and sometimes clarity is hard to come by.\nI think \u2018racial\u2019 prejudice and racism are both alive and well. The current effects of historical racism are so obvious that it\u2019s hard to know how to respond to the people\u2014mostly social conservatives--who don\u2019t take it seriously\nUnfortunately, there are many Euro-Am folks, mostly conservatives but some progressives too, who truly believe that \u2018racial\u2019 bias and racism are a thing of the past. I have some sympathy for that take because so much progress has been made in the past 50 years, but at this point I think they\u2019re wrong. I hope someday they\u2019ll be right.\nSo, no, I\u2019m not among those who want to deny that current racial prejudice or racism exist or who want to downplay the current effects of historical racism.\nI do think, though, that there are lots of folks who take the effects of historical racism seriously but simply disagree about how to deal with them.\nI don\u2019t automatically assume that people who reject affirmative action, for example, lack an appreciation of our disgraceful national history of racism and genocide. I support thoughtful affirmative action, but it has to stand on its own merits in an honest discussion of social policy.\nSeems best to appreciate our history while also paying attention to the realities of the current moment and planning for something better in the future.\n\u2022 When I say that racial prejudice and racism still exist, I mean there are still a significant number of people who believe that biological and physical characteristics and differences\u2014-skin color being the most obvious example--are truly meaningful and are somehow determinative of the way people will behave or act.\nThe traditional concept of race\u2014as Americans understand it--is a fairly recent social construct meant to justify European supremacy on the basis of biological superiority. We\u2019re talking about an idea that is probably no more than 5 or 6 hundred years old. It was one of the most effective weapons of European imperial expansion.\nWe\u2019ve lived for four centuries here in the US steeped in that kind of thinking and perception, so it\u2019s silly to think that lots of people don\u2019t think in those terms. Some still believe in their heart of hearts that their 'racial' group is somehow \"genetically\" superior (to use our current biological terminology).\nBut I\u2019m just not sure that most people in the US really think in terms of biological superiority anymore.\nThat\u2019s why I say that when people talk about \u2018race\u2019 (which is a biological concept) what they usually mean is \u2018class\u2019 and \u2018culture.\u2019 The prejudices and systemic injustice we\u2019re dealing with in the US right now are based\u2014-in my view\u2014-mostly on class and cultural differences. I go into more detail on this whole thing in a previous post, \u201cThe New Meritocracy and the Poor.\u201d\nThe distinction between race on the one hand and class and culture on the other is important for people who are serious about justice.\nEuropeans marketed the concept of biological superiority and inferiority so successfully that almost all Americans swallowed it hook, line and sinker.\nSlavery and Jim Crow and the indigenous genocide were all firmly based on the idea of biological superiority and inferiority.\nA turbo-charged version of that same racial ideology led to the killing of 60 million people during WW2. That was just 60 years ago.\nI travel a lot around the world. Traditional biological racism is thriving.\nIf the idea of biological superiority or inferiority (traditional racism) has lost most of its historical hold in the US we should party. People who are serious about justice should lead the celebration.\nIf what I\u2019m saying is accurate, those who are serious about justice in the US should still work hard for racial reconciliation and should still challenge traditional racial prejudice and racism where they exist.\nBut perhaps we'll need to pay a lot more attention to prejudice and systemic injustice based on differences in class and culture. I think that\u2019s where the real action is now. A change in language and terminology could help too.\nI\u2019m not hopeful for any quick changes along these lines. The ideas of \u201cwhite\u201d and \u201cblack,\u201d etc., etc. are so deeply ingrained that we can hardly think or speak without them. Even though I believe most of us have left behind the substance of traditional \"biological\" racial ideas we\u2019re still trapped in the old-timey language and categories of traditional race.\n\u2022 When I say we should consider raising our kids \u201ccolor blind\u201d I mean we should teach kids that physical characteristics don\u2019t determine character or behavior. I think that\u2019s what Dr. King meant.\nRaising kids color blind doesn\u2019t mean raising them to ignore:\n--the obvious variety of ethnic backgrounds and cultures in the US\n--our collective history\n--current forms of traditional racial thinking, racial prejudice and racism\n--current prejudice or systemic injustice based on differences in class and culture.\n\u2022 Here\u2019s something curious. Some of the most outspoken justice-oriented proponents of what I consider to be old-timey racial thinking marry across traditional \u2018racial\u2019 lines and raise kids who don\u2019t fit into any traditional \u2018racial\u2019 category. I guess sometimes our lives can be more relevant and eloquent than our words.\nIn a famous film from the civil rights era that most of us have seen at one time or another, an Imperial Wizard of the Klan rails against integration because he thinks it will create a \u201cmongrel nation.\u201d He had the good sense to know that youth and love--given some social leeway--would tend to break down arbitrary \u2018racial\u2019 barriers faster than almost anything else by mixing up the gene pool.\nCount me among the 'mongrel' lovers. Marriage and family across traditional 'racial' lines might be the most effective tool of all in dealing a final blow to old school racial thinking in the US.\nposted by Wordcat at 3:41 PM\nRacism in America is a problem we choose to dance around rather than address head on. We feel good about ourselves because we can honestly say there has been improvement in our behavior toward minorities. However, we are so defensive when these same minorities focus on the lack of speed or progress toward a fully intergrated equality. We lie about our true feelings about race because we don't want to appear as irrational or evil beings. As my mom used to say \"You know better.\" Meaning you have been taught to use your intellectual and spirital skills to do the right thing. Although America has enacted laws and inherited Supreme Court rulings regarding racism, there seems to be no cure for this plague. Or is there? Yes, it was give to us long, long ago. Treat others as you would like to be treated.\nWordcat said...\namen to your last sentence especially, anon...that's the key, the hard part is doing it.\nMatthew Pascal said...\nJust wanted to throw some thoughts in that stem from being born and raised in the southern US. My entire family is from East Tennessee and South Georgia, places where in my opinion \u201ctraditional racism\u201d still very much exists, and is a huge problem. From my experiences of being raised in the south, I\u2019m not sure that I agree with you in totality that our current problems have more to do with class and culture then with traditional views on biological superiority or inferiority \u2013 or at least not in the southern US.\nJust a brief example of why I say this. I have relatives who live in a smaller town (40,000 people) in South Georgia, a town that is extremely segregated along racial lines. White people live on one side of town and black people on the other. There is a white (public) high school and a black (public) high school. There are two public swimming pools in town, less then 2 miles apart: one that caters to the white people and one for the black people. But the striking thing is that there are definitely different \u201cclasses\u201d and \u201ccultures\u201d that seemingly mix together in these places.\nHere is another example of how traditional racial thinking is still very much prevalent in the south. Just last year in a town only a few hours away from my hometown the local public high school had its FIRST EVER \u201cintegrated\u201d prom. Here we are 40 years after the beginning of the civil rights movement, and this town still had two separate proms, one for white students and one for black students. Here is the bbc.com link to read the article. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/1970266.stm\nI know many upper class (economically, but in other ways, well\u2026) white people who never talk disrespectfully about or discriminate against the very poor white folks who live in trailer parks. However, when they speak about black people they regularly employ very derogatory terms. For them it is skin color, not what economic class you are from, that produces certain types of behaviors, period.\nThroughout the south, I would say this is the overall attitude and belief of the vast majority of people. The traditional views of race along biological lines, and the prejudices and racism that accompany these attitudes are in my opinion much more prevalent then those along economic class and cultural lines.\nWith all of that said, I can imagine that this might not be the case in other parts of the country. My experiences and reflections come from spending the first 25 years of my life in the south, where unfortunately racism along biological lines is still very prevalent, even among many so-called \u201cChristians.\u201d I like you am a \u201cmongrel\u201d lover, and see this as being one of the best ways in tackling the very wrong, ignorant and evil views of traditional racial thinking in the US.\nIn writing and thinking about these things I am reminded of how extremely thankful I am that my parents very intentionally and proactively raised me and my siblings to be \u201ccolor blind\u201d which is not a very common and orthodox practice in the southern US. I guess my parents, sisters and I are \u201cAmericans by birth, but extremely unorthodox Southerners by the Grace of God!\u201d\nThe link for the bbc article that I referenced didn't come out correctly. This one should be the correct one:\nanhomily said...\nI think I agree with MP that prejudice based purely on percieved skin color is much more firmly entrenched in America than at first might seem obvious (particularly in educated, urban circles). I am not exactly sure whether my parents were pro-active in teaching me to think differently about race, but they definitely were proactive about placing me in multi-cultural environments. I think their philosophy of child-raising(at least with me) was sort of laissez-faire. The question I wonder about is that of being \"a 'mongrel' lover,\" not because of being in favor of the opposite, certainly, but because of some comments that minority friends have shared about their concerns about maintaining the importance of their culture. That certainly doesn't mean that pure race = pure culture, but I have tried to understand and be sensitive to the idea that some people have expressed to me, not that no one should get married inter-racially, but that they feel it is important to honor their families' or communities' encouragement to marry and have kids within the same racial-cultural-linguistic group. Also given the historical power dynamics, I feel as a white male it may not be my place to encourage more mixed-race children, even though I think it is wonderful. This is a very tough question for me, and I definitely have not reached any conclusions on it yet...\ngreat comments both MP and anhomily. Good to hear the perspective from somebody growing up in the bible belt south. And I resonate with your comments, anomily, about not feeling comfortable encouraging marriage across racial boundaries because of concerns some minorities have about hanging onto culture.\nI didn't marry across traditional racial boundaries so I have no problem with folks of any ethnicity doing that, particularly if the motive is to honor and develop a particular culture. As I mentioned, I think the biggest issue we're facing is prejudice against particular cultures or classes, so holding on to cultural integrity can be an important way to advance justice.\nOn the other hand, I find the race=culture emphasis of some within the justice community increasingly annoying and even counterproductive. My guess is justice for the poor is going to be advanced best as people feel free to hold onto their specific cultures or mix and match em, depending on life circumstances. I realize that's not a popular take within the left leaning justice community right now, but it's the only practical way forward in my mind.\nAs far as 'white' people not being in a position to speak on these issues, well, if folks have made serious efforts--however clumsy they might be--to pay their dues and demonstrate their committment to social fairness I don't see any reason why they shouldn't.\nAGREED! I am so in agreement with your post that it's scary. I don't have any experience in the south (the closest I've been is a lot of time spent in rural Missouri), but from the experience I do have in the rural, urban, and suburban west, I would deeply agree with everything you said.\nAs far as mongreling...I fully expect to do it myself in the future (if I get married at all). I think that God's plans for good marriages have little to do with race, so I don't want to proactively encourage it. But I am so happy every time it happens. I understand why families would like to maintain their cultural heritage. But parental attacks towards their children's different-race partners is the absolute worst source of parent/child conflict I've ever seen. 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I had stayed up all night to make sure that I could make it to the afternoon without eating. As many know, you can\u2019t eat or drink from midnight the day before until surgery. My wife and mother took me to the hospital. Although it was my first real surgery (I had my wisdom teeth taken out before), I was not nervous at all, just anxious to get on the road to recovery.\nAfter being prepped for surgery, my doctor came to go over the procedure one last time. Hour long surgery, in and out. The anesthesiologist then came to give me a nerve block that was suppose to numb me from my knee down to relieve me of any pain for the next 48 hours. He also gave me what he called, \u201chappy hour\u201d, which is a pretty heavy sedation. I don\u2019t think I was put completely under, but I wouldn\u2019t have known any different. The only thing I remember was waiting to ask the anesthesiologist a question after adding the happy hour to my IV only to wake up in the recovery room.\nAfter the surgery, the nurse had told me that I had slept so long that the doctor had left. My wife and mother were there to greet me when I woke up and to let me that they spoke to the doctor and everything went as planned. The nurse then explained to us the medication I was prescribed and all the dos and don\u2019ts for the next few days, and I was sent on my way.\nFrom the time I ruptured through the surgery I rarely felt any sort of pain as long as my ankle/foot was stabilized. From day 1, I sat on the couch with my foot on the floor without any problem at all. The only reason why I ever elevated my foot was because that was what I was SUPPOSE to do, not because it relieved any sort of pain.\nThe only time I recall feeling any sort of pain during the 1st week was the night after surgery when the nerve block finally wore off. I think it was 4 am in the morning when I was woken out of my sleep by a throbbing pain coming from my ankle. The anesthesiologist was a little off on his estimation because I still had about another 12 hours left in the 48 hours he said the block would work. I woke up my wife, who was right next to me, after tossing and turning for a half hour and told her my foot was throbbing. She got up to get the medication the hospital had given me. After a couple of hours and as much medicine as allowed by the prescription, the pain was bearable. Of my entire recovery, that was my longest night to date. That episode was the only time I needed to take any sort of pain killer.\nWeek 1, post operation was a very slow and boring week. I spent 90% of the time on the couch and watched more TV than a human being should. I did try logging on to my work computer the week of the operation. The only day I wasn\u2019t able to log on was the day after I had taken the pain killers. 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The first people to set foot on it were the Portuguese.\nMark Twain has been quoted as saying, \u201cYou gather the idea that Mauritius was made first, and then heaven, and that heaven was copied after Mauritius.\u201d\nMauritius does not maintain a standing army.\nWhile many countries consider it polite to receive gifts with both hands, Mauritians prefer to receive things with the right hand only.\nThe top money earner for the economy of Mauritius is sugarcane, which is planted on 90% of the country\u2019s arable land.\nThe name of Mauritius is a derivation from the name of Maurice de Nassau, a prince of the Orange principality, a former feudal state of Provence.\nCapital City: Port Louis is the capital city of Mauritius, located in the Port Louis District, the western part also lies in the Black River District. 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They just had to go and make my favourite people disappear!!! It is somehow inconsiderate. I know I sound like Sheldon Cooper at this moment but I really want to call Marvel Studios and ask them why they did this. I know that the whole plot has been set and the next year will reveal how things turn out but I can\u2019t wait that long. The suspense is killing me.\nIf you watched Avengers: Infinity War you know that this is not what the trailer promised us. The trailer promised so much and we got so shocked. Honestly; the movie delivers what the trailer promised. But like all advertising, it showed a portion of the truth without hinting to the downside that was awaiting us in the movie.\nSo, to begin with, T\u2019Challa withers away. Spiderman too. This leaves me thinking \u201cWakanda forever never now!!!\u201d I mean, we are still waiting for the next Black Panther and I doubt things will work out without him. As for Spiderman, I think he\u2019s too young to go and we were still expecting so much from him. Nick Fury was beginning to be my hope for rescue then even he disappeared. The Marvel Universe is always running in a fluent line and now I\u2019m just baffled.\nThanos thinks he can save the universe. He calls his actions \u201cmercy\u201d. Like, really! Mercy! Mercy is different in our eyes compared to it in his eyes. The logic behind the work of Thanos is understandable. This conversation shows you how well thought out his plan is:\nGamora : I was a child when you took me.\nThanos : I saved you.\nGamora : No, no, we were happy on my home planet.\nThanos : Going to bed hungry, scrounging for scraps? Your planet was on the brink of collapse. I was the one who stopped that. You know what\u2019s happened since then? The children born have known nothing but full bellies and clear skies. It\u2019s a paradise.\nGamora : Because you murdered half the planet!\nThanos : A small price to pay for salvation.\nThanos sat down at some point and realized that the overpopulation of the universe will lead to nothing but demise. He came up with a reasonable solution really. Although none of us want to admit it, Thanos is doing a good thing. We don\u2019t want to die and we don\u2019t want to lose our loved one but we are killing the universe. Either the universe kills us or we dry it off its resources and leave it uninhabitable until we die out. The plan that Thanos has gives the universe time to recuperate and gives all those that live in it a better chance of survival. It is a great plan with great benefits but the execution is hard. It is costly. It is ruthless and it is terrible to those that remain.", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00240.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 76, + "original_length": 3990, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.97, + "perplexity": 337.7, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "http://againstbabangida.com/index.php/resources/news-2/328-why-we-must-whip-babangida-into-submission-by-tunde-chris-odediran.html", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T03:21:06Z", + "digest": "sha1:UXGVDD2GI254URTHWFRK6W64YMBJN52T", + "length": 15621, + "nlines": 26, + "source_domain": "againstbabangida.com", + "title": "Why We Must Whip Babangida Into Submission", + "raw_content": "Why We Must Whip Babangida Into Submission\nDomestic goats are known to be stubborn animals. In a traditional African market, traders wield long sticks as a deterrent to market goats, which roam with the intention of stealing from unsuspecting sellers. No matter how hard the trader tries, the market goat keeps coming at its target. It is sleek, calculating and seemingly gentle, but is irredeemably destructive. It never stops to roam until it can carry out a stealth raid on its victim. Wise traders are never deceived by the meekness of this familiar animal that is capable of turning the day's gain into significant loss. The success of the goat in every market is simply remarkable, and it thrives on three elements of success.\nPersistence. Focus. Stubbornness.\nWith these three attributes, it wears down opposition. Anyone who will deter the proverbial goat at the beans market must match its resilience and pay close attention to its tricks. While it is almost impossible to devote time fully to it because of the other reasons for being at the market, smart traders are often able to deter it with the only language it understands - the cane. Watching from the corner of the eye, the trader is ready to fling the whip whenever the goat attacks.\nIbrahim Babangida is Nigeria's market goat and we must not spare him the cane. He has never been away. Rather, he always picks his moment to strike. Those who think he retired do not really know him. In fact, he never said he was leaving power - he only stepped aside until a time like this when he calculates we are worn by his persistence. He reasons the best time to strike and loot the market is the height of its activity. Babangida has been around, focused as ever and immensely stubborn against a forgiving society. Probably even more forgiving to him as a result of the loss of his wife, Maryam.\nIn recent months, I have come to the sad realization that we now have large sections of Nigerians who were either too young to know who Babangida is or simply have volatile memory. In their ignorance, these Nigerians on Facebook and web blogs sing praises of one of the most dangerous dictators in Africa's recent history. I call him dangerous, not because he did the things he did, but because he did them so perfectly that the least discerning did not even know anything happened. He is like an arts thief who steals the original piece and leaves a counterfeit behind. Such a criminal could get away with the heist for a long time. Babangida is counting on using his greedy friends and the na\u00efve ones among us to ride right back to power. For the sake of these clueless Nigerians, I like to take a moment to introduce the man, Ibrahim Babangida.\nIbrahim Badamasi Babangida, a.k.a, IBB, was popularly called Maradona by Nigerians for his special skill to cheat and divert, in the fashion of Argentina's soccer genius, Diego Maradona, who infamously cheated to earn victory over England in the 1986 World Cup. A self-described 'evil genius,' Babangida led Nigerians through a tortuous and deceptive political and economic transition that ended in a cul-de-sac. Perhaps because of his craftiness, it wasn't until the end of his military career that the dictator's ruthlessness and lust for power became obvious.\nHe is believed to have been born August 17, 1941, at Minna, Niger State and attended Government College, Bida, from 1957 to 1962. There is no evidence he passed his School Certificate examination, as he did not receive his undisclosed results until three decades later in a publicized ceremony as the military head of state. Babangida received his military training at the Nigerian Military College, Kaduna, and was commissioned into the Nigerian Army as a 2nd Lieutenant in 1963. Judging by his records, he was more interested in politics than a professional military career, as he had been the face behind every military coup in Nigeria over a 30-year period. The BBC remarked that Babangida had taken part in all coups in Nigeria, through which he unleashed many years of needless bloodshed and power rotation that left Africa's highest grossing nation one of its poorest.\nWhen the military returned to power on December 30, 1983, IBB became the chief of army staff and member of the highest ruling military body, the Supreme Military Council, SMC. He also served in that council during the Murtala Muhammed/Olusegun Obasanjo administration. On August 27, 1985, the Muhammadu Buhari/Tunde Idiagbon administration was toppled in a palace coup by Babangida, who made himself Nigeria's first \"military President,\" an indication of his lust for political power. Babangida was Nigeria's sixth military ruler and inarguably the most powerful.\nAs with most dictators, the evil genius was methodical, shrewd in power, flamboyant in style, and ruthless in response. His predecessor, Mohammadu Buhari was resolute, but Babangida would kill by any means necessary and would not consider it inappropriate to weep at his enemy's funeral. Deft and tactical, Babangida announced himself to power as a champion of human rights, but unleashed a spate of human rights abuses that was only matched by his savage hand-picked successor, Sani Abacha. As he strategically spread his political tentacles, Maradona's first call was to release most of those jailed by Buhari, including the late music star, Fela Kuti. Nonetheless, Babangida brutally muffled opposition, as he frequently detained labor leaders, students and human rights advocates.\nHe closed newspapers at will and sent soldiers to shoot protesters of his economic program on sight in daylight. In the course of my seven-year journalism career, I worked with The Guardian, Concord and Punch; all were closed as a direct or remote consequence of Babangida's war against the freedom of speech. This is why my heart sank at the report that editors of media companies, some of whom were colleagues who suffered under Babangida's heavy boots, went to his house recently to collect his blood-stained 10 million naira in the dark of the night. The blood of innocent Nigerians who died as a result of June 12 is on those journalists who betrayed the trust of the people and the sanctity of the pen.\nIbrahim Babangida has been indicted by the Human Rights Violations Investigation Commission, led by the respected Justice Chukwudifu Oputa, for the killing of Nigeria's top journalist, Mr. Dele Giwa, by a parcel bomb in 1986, reportedly to stop a story linking Babangida and his wife to a drug trader. Up till now, the killers of Dele Giwa have not been officially exposed, and efforts to probe Babangida's implicated associates have been consistently blocked by him. The report noted: \"On General Ibrahim Babangida, we are of the view that there is evidence to suggest that he and the two security chiefs, Brigadier General Halilu Akilu and Col. A. K. Togun are accountable for the death of Dele Giwa by letter bomb. We recommend that this case be re-open for further investigation in the public interest.\" Babangida has blocked that report from being released, through the judicial system he blatantly corrupted.\nBy the time Babangida was one year in power, he had begun to demonstrate his deceptive abilities. He started a national debate on whether to accept an International Monetary Fund (IMF) loan or embark on austerity measures. Thinking their leader was faithful, Nigerians favored the measures but soon found that the Structural Adjustment Program (SAP) was not being faithfully executed. While they were sacrificing, billions of dollars of Nigeria's money was being pocketed by Babangida and his followers, such that under SAP, unemployment numbers, food prices, and cost of living soared. As Ghana and Uganda made gains under SAP, Nigeria was going under, until Nigerians responded in a 1989 riot, to which the dictator replied by first killing hundreds of protesters, then issuing palliative measures. A World Bank report issued in 1995 fully documented how grand theft under Babangida's regime nullified the gains of SAP.\nHis government implemented a myriad of failed programs, which only helped to divert attention and fritter scarce national resources. Such programs include the People's Bank, Directorate of Food, Roads and Rural Infrastructure (DFRRI), National Directorate of Employment (NDE), and Better Life for Rural Women. All these programs are today dead or moribund. IBB tricked respected people, including Professor Wole Soyinka and the late Tai Solarin, to serve under his administration. They later found they had been tricked and resigned.\nAmong his leadership abilities, Babangida replaced his deputy, Commodore Ebitu Ukiwe with Rear Admiral Augustus Aikhomu -the former was headstrong and idealistic, while the later was largely a yes-man. He executed dramatic changes in public administration, filling strategic military and ministerial positions with his loyalists. Babangida introduced measures that threatened the secularity of Nigeria. Under his watch, Nigeria secretly became a participant at the Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC), an action so controversial that it was linked to the ouster of Ebitu Ukiwe.\nAs things got worse, a band of top officers, including Babangida's colleague and best man at his wedding, General Mamman Vatsa, allegedly planned to remove him. They were all captured and killed without sufficient evidence. We later learned that Vatsa may have been murdered for offences he did not commit, going by revelations by the former Chief of Defence Staff, General Domkat Bali.\nNigeria continued in spiral fall until April 22, 1990, when a brave junior officer, Major Gideon Orkar, almost toppled the Babangida regime. The official residence of the head of state, the Dodan Barracks, was razed. Babangida escaped by a slim stroke of luck. Significantly, Nigerian civilians were, for the first time, involved in a coup attempt, a development the dictator responded to by quickly moving the seat of power from the heavily populated Lagos to previously abandoned national capital city of Abuja, just about an hour's drive from his hometown of Minna. Orkar had, however, made damaging allegations about Babangida's personal life and political problems, including homosexuality, drug peddling and corruption.\nEventually, it dawned on the Maradona, the game was up. He was forced to vacate his beloved presidential seat. Nigerians can remember how Babangida made a spectacle of himself on the NTA as he bounced continuously on a chair in utter confusion when he had to \"step aside.\" Babangida was forced out, but not before he planted his equally ruthless and utterly vindictive partner, the late General Sani Abacha, to guide a lame civilian caretaker administration of Ernest Shonekan. It surprised no one that Abacha sent Shonekan packing in less than three months, and continued the evil legacy of his former boss, IBB.\nDo not be fooled into thinking Babangida is not serious about being a civilian president at the age of 70. The evil genius knows he had stepped aside long enough and his insatiable thirst for power cannot be quenched by time. IBB has sent his beneficiaries out to the field on a mission to buy back lost political patronage with his vast wealth, stolen from Nigerians, and which is now being employed to bring Nigerians back to servitude in 2011.\nThe bedrock for today's economic and financial problems was laid by this man, Ibrahim Babangida! He created conditions malignant to national advancement, such as the institutionalization of the culture of corruption that is now heavily entrenched in the social and moral fabric of the Nigerian society. The phenomena of the notorious thievery schemes or theft-by-deception, a.k.a \"419,\" is largely believed to have gained undue prominence and seeming acceptance during the eight-year misrule of Ibrahim Babangida in Nigeria. Today, the nuisance of the so-called \"Yahoo Boys\" is believed to be a by-product or creation of the IBB era. Owing to corruption and deception, Nigeria is not able to participate without restriction in modern commerce. What is the moral justification for a society to wage war on scammers when known social culprits enjoy stolen public wealth without restraint? These conditions have been almost impossible to reverse. And now, IBB is out again make things even worse. For those who think otherwise, on what ground can Babangida be trusted?\nBabangida has, over the years, schemed to have the facts of his misrule erased. He has been a bit successful, we must admit. How else can one explain the failure of some of us to appreciate recent history? It is against this backdrop that Againstbabangida.com was launched; to continually educate Nigerians about his legacy, but more importantly, as a watchtower against his return.\nIt has been six years since Againstbabangida.com came into existence. Over these years, many have accused our organization of wielding too big a stick for the goat. We have been blamed for giving too much focus to one problem and have been asked to widen our scope. While we admit that Nigeria has multifarious problems, requiring wide-ranging solutions, we are glad at Againstbabangida to focus strictly on Babangida. We know him. Like the proverbial goat, he will not go away. While we have volunteered to watch, we also know that he visits many markets. The revelation that Mr. Raymond Dokpesi, owner of Africa International Television, whose station hired many of the journalists who were victims of Babangida's misrule, now works for the general is tragic. Nonetheless, it goes to show the extent to which Babangida can wear the most resolute among us down. It shows that we can't but watch the devil.\nIt is sad to realize that among those taking money from Babangida against the interest of the society are the so- called Emirs, Obas, Obis, and High Chiefs, business executives, retired military officers, political bigwigs and, even, intellectuals. For this reason, we wonder how our collective conscience became depleted to the extent that people who should be leading are the greatest culprits of the moral bankruptcy that is prevalent in Nigeria today. It does not matter how highly placed they are, any Nigerian who is willing to serve Babangida is an enemy of the people. They should be identified and treated as such. The time has come for Nigerians of goodwill to totally unite and unequivocally reject the enemies of the people. This was the theme at the launch of Dr. Olatunji Dare's book, Diary of a Debacle: Tracking Nigeria's Failed Democratic Transition (1989-1994), in Lagos recently. This should our collective theme from now, until Babangida is beaten back into his hole in hilltop Minna.\nThe only deterrent to IBB's persistent strike is a focused people, who have the horse whip lifted to beat him. I ask all Nigerians who truly understand the issues, who have lived the problem created by Babangida and are determined never to let it happen again, to get their 'kobokos' ready and keep watch. When this goat sees how determined we are, he will think twice. He may not entirely give up, but as we exchange watch, month after month, year after year, he will get old and get out. He may even die on his duty.\nThis is the perfect time for Nigerians to tell Babangida and his fellow crooks, \"Never Again.\" For him to think he can rule us again with his dirty, bloody hands is already a national tragedy. Let us all get our sticks out and beat the devil out of our national life. Never Again, Babangida!\nTunde Chris Odediran, former journalist in Nigeria, is the founder of Citizens for Nigeria and Againstbabangida.com", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00240.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 66, + "original_length": 17623, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.98, + "perplexity": 293.4, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "http://age-better-newsletter.com/tag/3833/", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T04:30:43Z", + "digest": "sha1:WT6NWCRBYVUWUCX25MBVAZZ43Z4TA7TF", + "length": 5106, + "nlines": 30, + "source_domain": "age-better-newsletter.com", + "title": "\u2026 \u2026 | Age Better Newsletter", + "raw_content": "There\u2019s no time like the present! I know you have heard that before, but until something really hits you you don\u2019t fully understand the meaning of that phrase. I recently got word that a friend of mine who was 52 years of age died suddenly of a heart attack.\nThe was someone I had not seen for some years, but from the pictures I have seen he looked to be in good health and good spirits. He leaves behind a wife and daughter and many friends who are I am sure just as perplexed as I am by this turn of events.\nLife is short, and sometimes unfairly short. It reminds us that we should not let time go by without doing the things we want to do, and making the most of the time we have. This applies in all areas of life, from your work, to your family and social life.\nIt is always the right time to make positive changes in your health and well being. There are many new tools available to help you, some of which I will be reviewing here.\nHowever don\u2019t be afraid to get out there and start, because you will never learn until you take the first steps. You have to make mistakes before you can correct them and learn from them.\nSuccess if nothing more than a process of doing things, learning, and making corrections when needed. You continually refine the processes you use until you get to the point where you are producing consistent results time after time. Promoting good health is a series of corrections you make to your diet, exercise and approach to stress.\nEventually you will learn exactly what your body and mind need to be in optimal health. You can be moving toward better health even as you age, if you are willing to learn and apply what you learn in real time.\nEvery weightlifter, bodybuilder, and powerlifter knows and understands the value of squats. The squat exercise is hundreds and perhaps even thousands of years old. Humans have been squatting both as exercise and as a functional movement pattern as long as there have been humans on the Earth.\nThe exercise is probably the single most effective for building strength and health. Why would this be? Well, it\u2019s partly because the legs are the foundation of the body and of our overall body strength.\nThe other reason is that squats positively affect the autonomic nervous system, which is the part of our nervous system that is involved with digestion, elimination, rest, and regeneration. This is probably the reason they are such effective muscle builders.\nBut they have benefits for everyone young and old alike. I began doing squats when I was 14 years old and still continue to do them to this day! As a result, I can maintain a stable weight and flat stomach at age 58 with very little effort.\nThe muscle I have built using squats and other functional exercises allows me to easily keep excess weight off and maintain a foundation of strength without long or frequent workouts.\nHindu wrestlers in India did hundreds of squats a day which they called Hindu squats or \u201cbethaks.\u201d The tremendous conditioning effect of this exercise allowed the Hindu wrestlers to easily defeat the best wrestlers in Europe and the world over.\nThis video clip will show you how to do \u201cfreehand\u201d squats (without weights).\nhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xDdSZmWNYQI\nI would suggest that you do this exercise 2-3 times per week to start, and perform 3 sets of 5-10 repetitions. Always start very conservatively with these because they are VERY demanding on your system.\nAs you go along, you will get a feel for how often you can do them and how much is too much. I can tell you from experience that no other exercise will give you the benefits that the Hindu squat will.\nThey will help everything from weight control to health enhancement. You may even find they are helpful if you have a problem with regularity because again, they affect the \u201cparasympathetic nervous system\u201d which controls the bowels.\nAs you progress, you can add weight in the form of a light kettlebell\nhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=af_N4T7wtMM\nor even a dumbbell or barbell plate held in your hands. There are lots of variations of the basic squat movement that you can explore but start with the simple basic squat first and master that.\nThen you can improvise and be as creative as you want with how often you do them, how many repetitions, ect. You can even combine them with other exercises in a circuit type routine because they will make ANY exercise routine more demanding and effective.\nAdd squats in some form to your exercise routine and you will be amazed at the benefits you will get from this simple and ancient exercise!\nOK\u2026on a more relaxing note\u2026\nThis weeks musical clip features Lea Salonga in a medley of songs\u201d\n\u201cSomething Wonderful\u201d and \u201cBeing Alive\u201d\nLea Salonga is a Filipina singer that I just discovered. Honestly, I had not heard of her before, but I am absolutely blown away by her beauty and artistic talent!\nhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=04Mq-YuCVyE\nThis quote about exercise is from 8 time Mr. Olympia Lee Haney:\n\u201cExercise to stimulate, not to annihilate. The world wasn\u2019t formed in a day, and neither were we. Set small goals and build upon them.\u201d", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00240.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 59, + "original_length": 6294, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.97, + "perplexity": 261.2, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "http://agricinghana.com/2018/10/01/8th-annual-pre-harvest-conference-and-exhibition-message-from-wfp-country-director/", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T04:32:35Z", + "digest": "sha1:ZXC4XIAQY3WJRVBF4DX5YVROQ4DYT6Y5", + "length": 8819, + "nlines": 23, + "source_domain": "agricinghana.com", + "title": "8th Annual Pre-Harvest Conference and Exhibition: Message from World Food Programme Country Director - AgricInGhana Media", + "raw_content": "8th Annual Pre-Harvest Conference and Exhibition: Message from World Food Programme Country Director\nMESSAGE FROM WFP REPRESENTATIVE AND COUNTRY DIRECTOR, MS RUKIA YACOUB FOR THE 8TH PRE-HARVEST AGRIBUSINESS EXHIBITIONS AND CONFERENCE\nWFP Rep-Rukia Yakoub\nThe United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) is pleased to sponsor the 8th Annual Pre-Harvest Conference and Exhibition from Wednesday, October 3 \u2013 Friday to October 5, 2018, at the Aliu Mahama Sports Stadium, Tamale, ensuring that this event continues to link actors in the food value chain. We are particularly interested in its benefits to smallholder farmers who produce majority of the food in Ghana but remain among the most food-insecure livelihood groups.\nGlobally, WFP focuses its support to national governments on Sustainable Development Goals 2 \u2013 Zero Hunger and 17 \u2013 Partnerships. The national Zero Hunger Strategic Review which was launched by His Excellency Nana Akufo-Addo, President of the Republic of Ghana in May 2018, identifies the triple burden of malnutrition, reduction of post-harvest losses, improvement of linkages between smallholder farmers and markets, enhancement of food safety in value chains, and mapping of food-insecure populations, as key gaps which need to be addressed to enable Ghana to achieve zero hunger by 2030. These gaps which are also reflected in the Government\u2019s policies, such as the Planting for Food and Jobs and One District One Factory initiatives, will be WFP\u2019s focus areas from now until the end of our new Country Strategic Plan in 2023.\nThanks to Canada\u2019s invaluable partnership and funding, WFP has phased out of its traditional programmes in Ghana, into a new chapter of innovative integrated food security and nutrition programming, with the private sector at the centre. Two Ghanaian-owned industrial agro-processors in Kumasi and Sunyani have been funded and provided with technical expertise to enable them produce specialized fortified nutritious foods of international standards which help prevent malnutrition, particularly stunting among children. Ten thousand smallholder farmers in the Northern, Upper East, Upper West, Ashanti and Brong-Ahafo regions, have been identified for linking to these agro-processors as a market for their produce.\nWFP is also focused on strengthening smallholder farmers\u2019 capacities in post-harvest management and food safety and quality. They have been profiled to determine their capacity and identify those immediately capable of meeting the requirements of food processors and other institutional buyers. Ultimately, we hope that the food systems in Ghana will operate optimally, whilst the factories will be able to produce special nutritious foods for the West Africa sub-region and other markets. This will translate into increased markets and income for smallholder farmers, offering opportunities for them to break out of the cycle of poverty, food insecurity, and malnutrition.\nIt is my ardent hope that the 8th Pre-harvest Agribusiness Event will indeed highlight agro-economic opportunities for farmers, agribusiness, input dealers, investors and financial institutions, sister UN agencies, civil society, government and non-governmental institutions, policy-makers, municipal and district chief executives, and others.\nLet me also use this occasion to invite you to participate in discussions on Sustainable Agricultural Warehousing and Storage, Post-harvest Management, and Food Safety and Quality standards, which WFP will lead during the 3-day conference.\nWFP looks forward to working with all stakeholders for the transformation of agriculture and agribusiness into a more inclusive, equitable, climate-smart sector, oriented toward the improvement of the lives of rural poor food-insecure people.\nWFP in Ghana: WFP\u2019s current programmes in Ghana focus on strengthening partnerships and increasing the capacity of government and non-governmental organizations, the private sector and other stakeholders, to address the gaps that need to be bridged to enable the country achieve Sustainable Development Goal 2, Zero Hunger, by 2030. This focus is a progression from 2016 when WFP gradually began to phase out of operational support and direct food assistance in its development portfolio of school meals, mother and child health and nutrition, asset and livelihood programmes. WFP\u2019s presence in Ghana began in 1963 with relief assistance. Its support has evolved over the years, keeping in step with the national vision as well as progress in reducing food insecurity and malnutrition.\nCurrent focus: Food insecurity and poverty are largely a rural problem related to inefficient food systems. Farmers\u2019 challenges range from low prices, inadequate markets, climate change, insufficient education and knowledge, and unsustainable farming systems to socio-cultural factors which affect women farmers.\nWFP supports the government to improve food security and nutrition in Ghana\u2019s Upper West, Upper East and Northern Regions, and parts of the Ashanti, Brong-Ahafo, Eastern and Volta Regions. Through an agri-nutrition value chain programme, WFP works with selected smallholder farmers, industrial food processors and others to implement a market-based integrated programme that addresses food insecurity and malnutrition challenges along the entire value chain; from the farm gate to consumption of nutritious foods. Support to smallholder farmers is largely focused on post-harvest handling and establishing market linkages.\nAdditionally, WFP provides food and cash to adolescent girls in areas with high gender disparities at the junior high school level, as an incentive to keep them in school.\nEnhanced Nutrition and Value Chains in Ghana (ENVAC): ENVAC is a five-year agricultural and nutrition value chains project which is being implemented through private sector-led approaches to nutrition and agri-business. The project aims to strengthen nutrition value chains by linking smallholder farmers to selected local industrial agro-food processing firms. These companies produce fortified blended nutritious foods to improve nutrition among women and children, through both market-based approaches and social safety nets.\nFunded by Global Affairs Canada, ENVAC benefits 10,000 smallholder farmers in five districts (Ashanti, Brong-Ahafo, Northern, Upper East and Upper West Regions), two industrial processors in the Ashanti and Brong-Ahafo regions, and 32 community level medium and small-scale food processors. Other beneficiaries are 20,000 pregnant and nursing women, 20,000 children between 6 and 23 months and 3,000 thousand school children. The primary crops that will be used in the programme are maize, soybean, cowpea and millet. Secondary crops are cassava, yam, orange flesh sweet potato.\nUnder the nutrition component, WFP supports the Government\u2019s efforts to prevent stunting and micronutrient deficiencies through interventions which target pregnant and nursing women and children aged 6 \u201323 months, and which focus on the 1,000-day window of opportunity to make significant impact on children\u2019s nutritional status. People living with HIV on antiretroviral therapy and their household members have been another category of beneficiaries.\nFuture: WFP has developed its 2019-2023 Country Strategic Plan (CSP), informed by the findings of Ghana\u2019s Zero Hunger Strategic Review, numerous consultations and evaluations. The CSP is aligned with national programmes such as Coordinated Programme of Economic and Social Development Policies, Planting for Food and Jobs and One District, One Warehouse as well as the UN Sustainable Development Partnership. WFP Ghana will continue its transition from its former role to one of enabling and supporting the Government, throughout the next five years.\nWFP\u2019s goal is to help Ghana achieve efficient, equitable, resilient and inclusive food systems which contribute to the reduction of stunting and micronutrient deficiencies. This will be achieved through technical and policy support for scaling up nutrition-sensitive and gender-responsive social protection programmes, and public-private partnerships which link smallholder farmers to new markets including industrial food processors. WFP will work with government ministries and private sector actors to improve awareness of good eating habits among smallholder farmers, food processors, children aged 6\u201323 months, pregnant and nursing women, and adolescent girls.\nAgricinghana Media is a media partner to the 8th Pre-Harvest Agribusiness Exhibitions and Conference coming off from Wednesday October 3, 2018 to Friday October 5, 2018 at Aliu Mahama Stadium ( Formally, Tamale Sports Stadium).\nTags:8th Pre-Harvest Conference in Ghana World Food Programme (WFP)\n\u2190 SyeComp: Mapping Smallholder Farms in Ghana\nInclusive Value Chain: what is it? \u2192", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00240.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 143, + "original_length": 14390, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.93, + "perplexity": 260.6, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "http://agricinghana.com/policies/policy-framework/", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T04:36:07Z", + "digest": "sha1:GKX4IXSX62TNIEOB3AS3ALSH3QM5FNCY", + "length": 4315, + "nlines": 15, + "source_domain": "agricinghana.com", + "title": "Policy Framework - AgricInGhana Media", + "raw_content": "The policy on agriculture is encapsulated among various government agencies such as the National Development Planning Commission (NDPC), the Ghana Investment Promotion Centre (GIPC), the Lands Commission, the Ministry of Finance (MoF), the Ministry of Trade and Industry (MoTI) and the Ministry of Food and Agriculture (MoFA).\nThe Ghana Shared Growth and Development Agenda (GSGDA) II, 2014-2017, is the fifth in the series of medium-term national development policy frameworks prepared over the past two decades. To ensure continuity in overall national development, the GSGDA II builds on the predecessor framework, GSGDA I (2010-2013), drawing lessons from its successes and challenges to enhance overall development management and the transformation agenda that the programme represents.\nThe GSGDA 2011 \u2013 2013 sought to improve the wellbeing of Ghana\u2019s poor, most of which reside in rural areas and are dependent on agriculture for their primary livelihoods. Priority sectors for the US$24 billion of proposed investments envisaged in the GSGDA are infrastructure (with 54 percent of planned expenditures, of which 15 percent is oil and gas development), health and education (25 percent) and enhanced competitiveness of the private sector (8 percent). Modernizing agriculture attracts 4 percent of investment.\nGhana\u2019s agriculture sector strategy is known as FASDEP II (2010 \u2013 2015) and is organized around six priority themes. These are:\n(1) Food Security and Emergency Preparedness;\n(2) Increased Growth in Incomes;\n(3) Increased Competitiveness and Enhanced Integration into Domestic and International Markets; (4) Sustainable Management of Land and Environment;\n(5) Science and Technology Applied in Food and Agriculture Development; and\n(6) Improved Institutional Coordination.\nFASDEP\u2019s policy principles include a pro-poor focus, attention to regional balance and gender inclusion (in an effort to promote greater gender equality), and consideration of environmental and social sustainability.\nThe required investment framework to implement FASDEP II is articulated in the Medium Term Agriculture Sector Investment Plan (METASIP) \u2013 and constitutes the national agriculture investment plan under the Comprehensive African Agriculture Development Program (CAADP). The emphasis of these initiatives is placed on enhancing productivity of all operators along commodity value chains as well as providing smallholder farmers with the tools and skills necessary for their commercial transformation and to integrate themselves into value chains.\nOther policies also have a major bearing on outcomes in the agriculture sector. Of particular importance is the Second Private Sector Development Strategy (PSDS II). The PSDS II aimed at increasing by 20 percent, in real terms, the income of rural people in general and particularly in the poorer Northern and Central areas through more productive agriculture. The strategy highlights increasing the productivity of agriculture and the efficiency of agricultural value chains by supporting public and private initiatives as a sub-component of one of the five main outputs.\nIn 2011, Ghana launched the Public Private Partnerships (PPPs) policy with the objective of attracting private sector investments and expertise into the provision and management of socioeconomic infrastructure. This is to create space for private sector participation in the provision of infrastructure and basic services. The policy will enable the country harness private efficiency in assets creation, maintenance and service delivery. The policy also creates opportunity for the private sector to bring in innovation and technical improvements.\nThe Government of Ghana has identified the most critical challenges facing private-sector agribusiness and has developed strategies and programs to address them. Such programs are currently in place to address the private sector\u2019s concerns regarding (1) the lack of energy, transport, and agricultural infrastructure; (2) poor agronomic practices among farmers; (3) land availability; (4) local access to financing; and (5) complexity of the investment and operating environment. Government responses to these challenges published as blog posts on Agricinghana.\nNeed further information on Ghana\u2019s Agricultural Policy Framework? Connect with us!", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00240.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 127, + "original_length": 9262, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.91, + "perplexity": 222.5, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "http://airforcemag.cloudapp.net/DRArchive/Pages/2006/May%202006/May%2026%202006/1110cloak.aspx", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T04:29:00Z", + "digest": "sha1:BHKNXJWGXIIAKAKR4DPGCN7N6HUTURR5", + "length": 871, + "nlines": 2, + "source_domain": "airforcemag.cloudapp.net", + "title": "Air Force Magazine", + "raw_content": "Cloaking Device Activated?:\nCloaking Device Activated?: In today\u2019s far-out news from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, the scientific envelope-pushers have teamed up with researchers from Duke University and Imperial College in London to develop the blueprint for what is being dubbed an \u201cinvisibility cloak.\u201d According to a Thursday announcement from Duke, once devised the \u201ccloak\u201d could have numerous uses from defense applications to wireless communications. \u201cThe cloak would act like you\u2019ve opened up a hole in space,\u201d said David R. 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On Oct. 29, 2010, Hayde led a nighttime A-10 flight supporting ground forces sent to engage Taliban forces near the Pakistan border. Despite inclement weather and nearly zero visibility, Hayde destroyed several improvised explosive devices buried near five possible helicopter landing zones. During a 35-minute battle, he provided cover fire and coordinated attacks with friendly AH-64 Apaches. His actions allowed a 150-man assault force to land safely, leading to \"a successful mission and the capture of more than 25,000 pounds of homemade explosives and 40 kilograms of opium,\" said wing officials. \"Sometimes getting the opportunity, during what may be the worst day of a soldier's life, to provide air support and allow that individual to make it home to their family safely, is the most amazing honor you can receive,\" said Hayde. \"I believe the total air power, not just my flight, enabled all the special operations forces to make it home that night.\" His award ceremony was Sept. 30. 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Courtesy photo.\nThe first two F-35 strike fighters for the Royal Australian Air Force officially rolled off the line at Lockheed Martin\u2019s Fort Worth, Texas, facility on July 24. The aircraft, dubbed AU-1 and AU-2, will undergo functional fuel system checks and flight tests over the next few months, before they are delivered to RAAF later this year, according to a July 24 company release. Both aircraft will be based at Luke AFB, Ariz., where they will be used for pilot training. \u201cFor both our nations, this program represents an exponential leap in capability on the cutting edge of technology, and an integral component of our ongoing joint commitment to stability and peace in the Asia-Pacific,\u201d said Frank Kendall, undersecretary of defense for acquisition, technology, and logistics. 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Salinas, CA 93908\nPeter Hoss with Jeanne Falk Adams and her children Matthew and Sarah on the beach at Tenaya Lake, Yosemite National Park, circa 1972\nPeter Hoss, a member of the Board of Directors of The Ansel Adams Gallery in Yosemite National Park, passed on November 29, 2018, in Monterey, California.\nThe Adams and Hoss families have been close friends since the 1920s, when Herman Hoss was the personnel director in Yosemite for the Yosemite Park and Curry Company and the Yosemite Magistrate. Della Hoss was an artist, Ansel Adams was photographing, and Virginia Best Adams was helping her artist father Harry Best in his Yosemite studio. In Yosemite, at the Lewis Memorial Hospital, Michael Adams was born in 1933 and Peter Hoss was born six months later in 1934; they have been close friends since infancy. Their wives and children have long been friends and all have artistic influences coursing through their veins. Peter and his family moved to Palo Alto during World War II, and later Peter and Michael were in the same class at Stanford. Peter received his law degree from Stanford Law School in 1958, ultimately settled in Salinas and practiced law with Noland, Hamerly, Etienne and Hoss. His love of Yosemite, where he was born, continued throughout his long, engaged life. Peter was passionate about justice and accountability and would go to great lengths to defend established rights. An example was his testifying before the Subcommittee on Public Lands and Environmental Regulation July 9,2013 regarding Public Impacts of Closing Amenities in Yosemite.\nAll of us at The Ansel Adams Gallery who knew Peter will miss his insights, knowledge, friendship and presence. 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The stormy skies had cleared over the Sangre de Cristo Mountains, with a ghostly gibbous moon rising above an old adobe church and graveyard in the approaching distance.\n\u201cWe were sailing southward along the highway not far from Espanola when I glanced to the left and saw an extraordinary situation \u2013 an inevitable photograph! I almost ditched the car and rushed to set up my 8 x 10 camera. I had a clear visualization of the image I wanted, but I could not find my Weston exposure meter! The situation was desperate: the low sun was trailing the edge of clouds in the west, and shadow would soon dim the white crosses.\u201d\nMural-sized enlargement of \u201cMoonrise, Hernandez\u201d next to the negative\nAnsel Adams knew intuitively that \u201cMoonrise, Hernandez\u201d was an unusual photograph, but he had no idea that it would become his most popular single image. Original 16\u00d720\u201d gelatin silver prints that sold for $500 during his lifetime, now sell for over $50,000. Although he could remember some of the most minute details, Ansel admittedly neglected to record when his negatives were exposed, and this iconic and timeless image was often incorrectly dated.\n\u201cBecause of my unfortunate disregard for the dates of my negatives I have caused considerable dismay among historians, students, and museums \u2013 to say nothing of the trouble it has caused me. Moonrise is a prime example of my anti-date complex. It has been listed as 1940, 1941, 1942 and even 1944. At the suggestion of Beaumont Newhall, Dr. David Elmore of the High Altitude Observatory at Boulder, Colorado, put a computer to work on the problem.\u201d\nAnsel Adams in front of his most famous image, \u201cMoonrise, Hernandez\u201d\nIn 1981, solar physicist David Elmore calculated the exposure day and time for \u201cMoonrise, Hernandez\u201d based on the position of the moon and the surrounding landscape. He concluded that it had been made on Halloween Day, October 31st, 1941 at 4:03 pm. Although a harrowing effort, Elmore\u2019s calculations were off by a day. His computer screen distorted the height to width ratio, and his location coordinates for the town of Hernandez were off.\nDennis di Cicco, an astronomer and former writer for Sky and Telescope magazine, pursued the enigma for ten years until he came up with a new date: November 1st, 1941 at exactly 4:49:20 pm Mountain Standard Time. Di Cicco discovered that \u201cAdams had been at the edge of the old roadbed, about 50 feet west of the spot on the modern highway that Elmore had identified\u201d. Visits to the site and modern computing software would aid in his calculation in 1991, fifty years after the making of Ansel\u2019s historic photograph.\n\u201cWhether you\u2019ve seen his photographs reproduced in a magazine or on exhibition at a museum, the images of Ansel Adams are so powerful, so perfect and true, that in our minds they supersede reality.\u201d \u2013 Joan Mondale\nAnsel Adams\u2019 \u201cMoonrise, Hernandez\u201d stands as one of the most famous and iconic photographic images in history. Ansel was a perfectionist in the creation of each individually hand-produced gelatin silver photograph, and his darkroom techniques were unparalleled in terms of skill and adeptness. 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Stream ad-free or purchase CD's and MP3s now on Amazon. com. One-fifth of the Backstreet Boys, Brian Littrell first learned to sing in the choir of his Lexington, KY, Baptist church.\nMusic was always important to him, but Littrell had originally planned on entering school to become a music minister, not to be a pop star. Brian Littrell Projects is a diversified entertainment and media platform with ventures in music, television, events and philanthropy. Guided by the vision of Brian. The Backstreet Boys (often abbreviated as BSB) are an American vocal group, formed in. Cousins Kevin Richardson and Brian Littrell, both from Lexington, Kentucky, sang in local.\n. In December 2013, the Backstreet Boys performed their two original Christmas songs as marquee performers in the annual\" Christmas in. Brian Littrell on AccuRadio. Free customizable online radio with unlimited skips. Listen now! Brian Thomas Littrell is an American singer, songwriter and actor, best known as a member of the Backstreet Boys.\nHe is also a CCM singer and released a solo album, Welcome Home, in 2006. Brian has had five top 20 solo singles on the Christian charts in the US. On April 10, 2015, Littrell was inducted into the Kentucky Music Hall of Fame along. One-fifth of the Backstreet Boys, Brian Littrell first learned to sing in the choir of his Lexington, KY, Baptist church. Music was always important to him, but Littrell had originally planned on entering school to become a music minister, not to be a pop star.\nThings changed, however, when cousin. Brian Littrell; Littrell in June 2011. Littrell was inducted into the Kentucky Music Hall of Fame along with his cousin and. He proposed on Christmas Eve night.\nDoes hobby lobby sell artificial christmas trees\nChristmas stocking personalized sale\nChristmas lights show in columbia md\nRakvere estonia christmas tree\nChristmas carol summary by chapter\nWimbledon village christmas party\nTraditional christmas clothing around the world\nSarah brightman christmas songs\nMelodies of christmas 2018 audition\nMyrtle beach christmas ornaments\nFun christmas classroom games\nMogs christmas #2\nChristmas duets for guitar and flute", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00240.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 40, + "original_length": 5623, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.92, + "perplexity": 337.3, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "http://arizonastatelawjournal.org/2017/06/13/the-rise-of-tribes-and-the-fall-of-federal-indian-law/", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T04:32:55Z", + "digest": "sha1:56QYZ23SNJPCHWXDPSCCHFO7QNSDBLNG", + "length": 871, + "nlines": 3, + "source_domain": "arizonastatelawjournal.org", + "title": "The Rise of Tribes and the Fall of Federal Indian Law \u2013 Arizona State Law Journal", + "raw_content": "Home / Print / 2017 / The Rise of Tribes and the Fall of Federal Indian Law\nLance Morgan.\nThis Article will question some of the fundamental principles of federal Indian law\u2014because it is still grounded in the biases of the past\u2014and explain how the growing economic power of tribes is empowering the rapid growth of tribal law. I have stopped and started this Article and others like it several times. I have struggled to approach it like an academic article or as a good story. I decided to try to blend the styles. I will lay out the basic legal framework in a more traditional way and then switch to simply trying to tell the story of what tribes are doing to bypass the restrictions of federal Indian law. I hope that by telling the story, it will help the reader understand the natural progression of the thought process and lay the groundwork for further expansion.", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00240.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 51, + "original_length": 2053, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.95, + "perplexity": 216.7, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "http://armchaircinema.com/armchair-oscars-1966/", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T04:07:25Z", + "digest": "sha1:BGKINOIV7TCDG35357GDX7UGFYBGAPK3", + "length": 16192, + "nlines": 36, + "source_domain": "armchaircinema.com", + "title": "Armchair Oscars - 1966 - ArmchairCinema.com : ArmchairCinema.com", + "raw_content": "A Man for All Seasons (Directed by Fred Zinneman)\nThe Nominees: Alfie, The Russians are Coming The Russians are Coming, The Sand Pebbles, Who\u2019s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?\nThe Good, The Bad and The Ugly (Directed by Sergio Leone)\nMy Nominees: Torn Curtain (Alfred Hitchcock)\nThe lead contenders for the 1966 Best Picture race were a pair of play adaptations that were not a lot of fun. Fred Zinneman\u2019s adaptation of Robert Bolt\u2019s play A Man for All Seasons and Mike Nichols\u2019 adaptation Edward Albee\u2019s Who\u2019s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? were both films about personal struggles. One was about a feuding couple who spend an evening locked in a spiteful screaming match and the other was about the struggle between Sir Thomas More and King Henry VIII over the king\u2019s desire to divorce Catharine of Aragon to marry Anne Boleyn.\nOf the two, I think A Man for All Seasons is a little more bearable, although Virginia Woolf has better performances. Yet, watching Zinneman\u2019s film always feels a little like homework.\nMy favorite film of 1966 received no nominations, no critics awards, no awards of any kind whatsoever. Maybe that\u2019s because Sergio Leone\u2019s The Good, The Bad and the Ugly isn\u2019t taken as seriously as it should be. It is seen, then and now, as a violent throwaway western, the third part of an unconnected trilogy behind Leone\u2019s A Fistful of Dollars (1964) and For a Few Dollars More (1965). This film is better than either of those films because it perfects the style he had been working on in the earlier two entries.\nLeone\u2019s The Good, The Bad and the Ugly is not a standard western \u2013 it is all style with a thin story that the director somehow manages keep compelling for more than three hours. It involves a story that is perfect simplicity: Three violent outlaws get bits of information about the whereabouts of a fortune in army gold buried in a shallow grave in an overcrowded cemetery. Two of the men know the cemetery but not the name on the grave; the other knows the name on the grave but not the name of the cemetery. Through a violent trek that crosses paths with The Civil War and leaves a mountain of dead bodies in its wake, the three men find themselves in the same place at the same time in an unforgettable standoff at that cemetery.\nLeone clearly identifies these three outlaws by painting them in broad strokes. Clint Eastwood plays \u201cThe Good\u201d \u2013 a nearly-silent outlaw known only as Blondie who sits atop his horse, draped in a serape, chomping on his stogie and squinting in the sun. Although he barley speaks, he is always thinking. He is a crackshot, and we get a sense of his skill during a cockamamie moneymaking scheme in which his partner, a wanted man, lets himself get arrested so that Blondie can collect the ransom then, right before the hanging, severs the noose with a sniper shot and frees his partner. Later, they split the money \u2013 Blondie decides the split.\nHis partner is Tuco (Eli Wallach \u2013 \u201cThe Ugly\u201d) a bandito who never stops talking (even when he\u2019s alone), who wants the gold but keeps switching alliances with Blondie depend on which man has the upper hand. There\u2019s a scene when Blondie breaks their partnership, leaving Tuco out in the desert then later Tuco turns the tables, leaving Blondie to nearly die in the desert. Later in a monastery, he learns that Blondie has a valuable piece of information and tries, pathetically, to rekindle his partnership. I am not sure but I think Tuco gets more screentime than anyone else \u2013 he talks nonstop and moves thoughtlessly forward with any piece of information that will lead him to the loot. Wallach plays the character as a sweaty, angry little man with a loud mouth and a round face and a sort of pathetic means of begging for help. But Wallach keeps Tuco just a shade to the side of being a caricature. There is a nicely written scene that establishes his motives when he visits his brother, a priest, who disapproves of Tuco\u2019s profession. \u201cWhen we were growing up\u201d he tells his brother, \u201cyou either became a priest or a bandito \u2013 I made my choice. You became a priest because you are too much of a coward to do what I do.\u201d\nThe third man is a shadowy figure known as Angel Eyes (Lee Van Cleef \u2013 \u201cThe Bad\u201d). He has been looking for the gold long before the story starts and he leaves a trail of bodies behind to find snippets of information. Whether or not the person that he is threatening has any information or not, they always end up dead. Angel Eyes has less screen time than any of the three men but his presence is felt the whole way. We sense his character in a brilliant opening scene in which he enters the home of a man who has a bit of information that he needs. He walks into the man\u2019s house and sits down at the table to have a meal, spoons out his food and begins to eat, but he never takes his eyes off the man. The casting of Van Cleef in the role was a masterstroke. He has a lean, thin face and the narrow, pointed eyes of a snake. His voice is a monotone so his victims never know if he is coming or going.\nThese three characters are set on their mission through a backdrop that is unfamiliar to most Americans. Leone shot most of the desert scenes in Spain and to an American audience accustomed to John Ford\u2019s westerns set in Monument Valley, this location might as well be another planet. As Blondie and Tuco cross the desert, Leone uses wideshots to suggest a landscape that is desolation and death. His camera bleaches some scenes to make us feel the blistering sun beating down on a landscape that seems to be little more than sagebrush, sand and heat. His visuals are not pretty, the color seems to be a little off and that makes the vistas more dreamlike, or more like a nightmare. When the three men have a standoff at the end, they arrive at a cemetery that seems to have been there for a hundred years, the headstones are mostly made of wood and seem hastily propped up, quickly painted then abandoned. The area in which the three men have their standoff is set just forward of the cemetery, a dirt circle that looks like an arena, with the only audience being the dead who surround it.\nThe cast of supporting characters all seemed to have been hired because of their faces. Like Coppola\u2019s The Godfather, the backgrounds are packed with peculiar faces, not attractive at all. We see old faces, withered faces, sad faces, sun-bleached faces, faces that have experienced the worst of this desert environment and the gun-toting snakes that dwell upon it. There is very little happiness here (remember: this is The Civil War), this landscape is harsh, human life is frivolous.\nThere are scenes in this movie that are brilliantly executed. There is the scene in which Tuco finds a runaway wagon only to find that it is loaded with the dead bodies of Confederate soldiers. This is the scene where Tuco gets one part of the information and Blondie get the other (I have a theory that it was Angel Eyes who killed the soldiers). There is an incredible scene when the duo are captured by Union soldiers (they mistakenly think that the dust covered soldiers were wearing gray uniforms) and are taken to a POW camp. Tuco is tortured while Confederate POWs are forced to sit outside and play a sad tune on their instruments.\nOddly enough, despite the shootouts and bravado, what I remember most are the silences, the moments when the camera simply regards the landscape of desolation and dirt. It reminds me of how needlessly talky most modern films can be, of how afraid studio execs are of boring their audience by not having something going on all the time. Sergio Leone was a film craftsman, less interested in big stories than in atmosphere and mood and tone and structure.\nPaul Scofield (A Man for All Seasons)\nThe Nominees: Michael Caine (Alfie), Alan Arkin (The Russians Are Coming, The Russians Are Coming), Steve McQueen (The Sand Pebbles), Richard Burton (Who\u2019s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?)\nMy Nominees: Michael Caine (Alfie)\nPaul Scofield was a well-respected British stage actor who only made occasional stops in film. One of those stops got him an Oscar, the role of Sir Thomas More who stood up to King Henry VIII when the King rejected the Roman Catholic Church in order to obtain a divorce and a remarriage. It is a role he played on stage probably more times than even he could count, so naturally he walks through the role like an old pro.\nI wish, however, that the academy had opened its mind a little bit and given its Oscar to another Brit who was also a veteran of the stage. Richard Burton never won an Oscar despite seven nominations. Of those nominations, the best performance was one he was expected to win \u2013 for his performance as the hen-pecked George in Who\u2019s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, a role he had also played on stage many times. He was the expected winner, although he was so sure he would lose that he chose not to attend the ceremony.\nHis prediction was correct and his best performance went unrewarded. You can carp about Burton\u2019s acting technique all day long, but it is hard to really complain about his work in this film. He occupies the role as if he\u2019s been there for years. He plays George, a college professor who married Martha, the daughter of the president of the college. Once, long ago, they were probably young, vibrant and happy but as the years have gone on, the dreams have gone unfulfilled and an unhealthy flood of alcohol has washed away whatever happiness they once shared.\nNow, stuck in a dusty old house, surrounded by a disarray of books and papers, he lives a life of endurance. His wife hates him, or at least screeches at him enough to make him think that she does. On his face is the sad expression of a man whose body once occupied a happy, youthful existence, an intellectual who had dreams. Now, in middle age, he lives under Martha\u2019s constant flood of insults and condescension. Her insults are not just simply a sly dig but they are a slap at his very existence. \u201cI swear to GOD, George, if you even EXISTED, I\u2019d divorce you!\u201d\nBurton\u2019s achievement in the role is to create a man, body and soul, who has been worn down to almost nothing. A man who drinks too much and takes his wife\u2019s verbal abuse but gives as good as he gets. He is weary, there are bags under his eyes, his shoulders are slumped and the corners of his mouth are dropped down, meeting his jowls like an unhappy hound. The relationship with Martha contains no time-outs. Even in her chatty moments she still seems pushy as in an early moment when she can\u2019t remember where she heard the line \u201cWhat a dump!\u201d She nags at him to recall it for her.\nGeorge is smarter than Martha, or rather, he has a better ability to break her down. She isn\u2019t all that intelligent, or rather she was once intelligent but her bitterness has worn it away. He holds on to whatever intellectual foothold he had but he uses it to constantly fend off Martha. Not only do they go toe-to-toe with one another, but they also drag a young couple (George Segal and Shirley Knight) who have come for dinner into their hostile mixture. These two beautiful young people represent what George and Martha used to be.\nIt is sad that Richard Burton gives his best performance in a movie that I can\u2019t watch again. The movie is an unpleasant experience and, I think, takes too many side trips, like an awkward scene in which Martha insists that they stop at a dance hall. The movie plays best when it just stays in the shattered home of Martha and George and simply concentrates on their loathing for one another. In the end, when both are spent, when they no longer have emotional rocks to hurl, they find a moment of clarity. Whether it will last is hard to say.\nElizabeth Taylor (Who\u2019s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?)\nThe Nominees: Lynn Redgrave (Georgie Girl), Vanessa Redgrave (Morgan: A Suitable Case for Treatment), Ida Kaminska (Obchod na Korze), Anouk Amiee (Un Homme une Femme)\nMy Nominees: Jane Fonda (Ash Wednesday), Natalie Wood (This Property Condemned)\nIt does not surprise me that Bette Davis was the first choice to play role of Martha, the vile, screeching harridan in the screen adaptation of Edwin Albee\u2019s Who\u2019s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? This was the kind of role that Davis could play in her sleep and she would have been brilliant. She was excited about the opportunity and even convinced producer Ernest Lehman that her co-star should be Henry Fonda. Lehman, however, had someone else in mind for the roles of two Ivy League intellectuals who spend one evening tearing each other apart with nasty head games. He instead went with the real-life couple of Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton.\nDavis would have been perfect for the role but I think giving it to Taylor was a masterstroke because it afforded her a challenge. Taylor\u2019s best moments on screen come from her vulnerability, she has a way of reaching out to us in the audience and we love her, not just because she\u2019s beautiful but because she has a way of fully immersing us in her character. That\u2019s why Martha is such a shock, she doesn\u2019t look, act, walk or talk like anyone Taylor ever played. This is a completely different direction for her as an actress but sadly it would be her last good performance. To watch the chronology of Elizabeth Taylor\u2019s film work, there is nothing that prepares us for Martha.\nThis was one of the most astonishing transformations in movie history as the radiant Elizabeth Taylor, 32 at the time, goes from slim, young and beautiful to an overweight, embittered, drunken old hag. To get a better scope of how much she changes in this role, consider how she looks in Who\u2019s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? and how she looked in Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, made just eight years before. It is hard to believe it is the same actress.\nWe understand this woman from the beginning even before we get a close up. When she and George enter the door, we see the look on his face, the look of a hard-drinker with the corners of his mouth worn down. It only takes a moment to sense the mammoth amount of strength that it takes to spend time with this woman. We see in Martha, years of bitterness, years of hard-drinking, years spent wrapped up in her anger. She takes it out on George, not because he has betrayed her, but simply because she can. The two don\u2019t have a foothold with one another unless they are scratching away at the faults they\u2019ve made.\nTo fully appreciate Taylor\u2019s performance, it is wise to have seen the work she had done in the decade before. Watch her in Butterfield 8 and Cleopatra and Suddenly Last Summer, films that take advantage of her beauty. In those films, you will see that while she tries hard, she always had her sparkling appearance to fall back on. This time it would be different because this material forces her to explore the depths of the character in order to expose Martha as the screeching old hag but then earn a modicum of sympathy at the end, when she has finally run out of anger and resentment.\nWe know that Martha is an alcoholic, but I think she is also addicted to her own rage and resentment. Like a drunk who keeps returning to the bottle, so too does Martha return to George to find another issue to argue. For what reason? As we watch her, she has spent so much time in anger and in rage and self-pity that finally at the end she arrives \u2013 as addicts do \u2013 at a moment of clarity.\nWhile I love Taylor\u2019s performance, it saddens me that I don\u2019t like the film as a whole. Maybe it is a fault of the play (unseen by me). The story takes unnecessary side trips, like an awkward stop at a dance hall, and too many scenes of Sandy Dennis struggling to stay conscious. This is a good performance movie, but is not much fun to watch. The movie works best when it stays in the shattered home of Martha and George and simply concentrates on their loathing for one another.\nSadly, this would be the end of an era. This would be the last great performance by Elizabeth Taylor, who would spend the next decade in mediocre films and television movies. She never reached this height again. By rights she should have found better roles, because after the disparaging experience of playing a character like Martha, it is clear that she had many more notes to play.", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00240.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 81, + "original_length": 18230, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.97, + "perplexity": 253.9, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "http://armegalo.com/angelcakes/", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T03:55:41Z", + "digest": "sha1:WUIAMHH3WJD6BD2RCBNLEWGAMQH3X4WF", + "length": 592, + "nlines": 2, + "source_domain": "armegalo.com", + "title": "Angelcakes | The Land of Armegalo", + "raw_content": "This is where I may have started going a liiiiittle loopy! God has lost his cakes and you, the Angel of Death, must go and retrieve them. Meh, it\u2019s a plot, as good an excuse as any other for a shooter.\nThis is a unique side-scrolling shootemup. Unlike others of the genre, rather than running an identical sequence of baddies, every level is created for you on the fly. You cannot learn Angelcakes, you must fly by the seat of your pants. Does the game learn you? I\u2019ll let you figure it out! 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The contrast suggests an artist torn between two worlds. However, it is worth looking as well at his sketch of Angels Jumping for Joy (shown on the next page of this story), where the spontaneous exuberance of the celestial dance seems to bless the joy of physical movement, and contact between men.", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00240.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 17, + "original_length": 832, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.97, + "perplexity": 266.8, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "http://artforthemostpart.blogspot.com/2010/02/drips.html", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T04:02:22Z", + "digest": "sha1:3MPMBK5LTKOLMODN4MPE4ALS2COFOX4H", + "length": 444, + "nlines": 1, + "source_domain": "artforthemostpart.blogspot.com", + "title": "art for the most part.: Drips", + "raw_content": "Here are 2 of the first \"Drip Style\" paintings I completed, both in early 2009. Basically I have dripped acrylic paints onto a surface from various angles and let it dry. Then I have taken a fine liner and a bolder black marker and outlined the shaped made by the paint. I have also added shading to many of the larger drips to create a more 3D feel. 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The decision is a good one in the short run, but hard choices still lie ahead if the Mexican economy is to get back on its feet for good.\nThe emergency loan is the largest the United States has ever extended to a debtor nation. Technically it is a \"bridge loan,\" a temporary infusion of funds to tide Mexico over while it negotiates new credits from the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank. Those two agencies are leading the effort to see Mexico through a financial crisis that began in 1982, when its government announced that it was on the brink of default. Back then, the U.S. Treasury contributed $1.8 billion to an emergency Mexican loan package put together by the IMF.\nSince then the Mexican government has tried to work its way back to financial health, with only limited success. President Miguel de la Madrid imposed a painful austerity program on the country which included a devaluation of the peso, cutting the value of a Mexican workers' wages by 40% and closing down government enterprises that mean the loss of thousands of jobs. More recently, De la Madrid imposed wage-and-price controls that have finally brought inflation down from 160% a year at the height of the crisis to 1% per month, according to the latest statistics.\nBut despite the fact Mexico has taken the harsh medicine that its creditors and traditional economists prescribed, its economy has not improved enough in the last six years to overcome the effect of a downward trend in oil prices. Oil remains Mexico's main export, accounting for 41% of its foreign exchange. So the recent drop in oil prices from $15 per barrel to $9.50 limits Mexico's ability to repay an international debt that is approaching $108 billion. Under such circumstances, it would have been hypocritical for the United States and Mexico's other creditors to not help it deal with the unforeseen shortfall in oil revenues.\nBut, as many respected financial and political analysts have pointed out, loaning Mexico and other indebted nations more money simply so that they can pay back old loans is not a useful strategy in the long run. Something will have to be done to get Mexico out of the cycle of debt in which it is trapped. Along with former Secretary of State Henry A. Kissinger, we believe that at some point enough capital will have to stay in Mexico, rather than being sent out to its many foreign creditors, so that the Mexican economy begins to grow again. How that is to be done without the Mexican government's defaulting on its debts, as some nationalists in Mexico are demanding, is a matter of dispute among international economists. 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Alfred Guzman, who along with Reekie is a dance instructor at the Dance Fusion Performing Arts Studio in Fogelsville, will demonstrate hip-hop and break dancing. The Pittsburgh-based Continuum Dance Theater focuses on a more musical theater style of dance, while the Monarch Dance Company runs the gamut of contemporary dance, with a focus on Afro-American dance.\nDance companies and choreographers who might not be as well-known will be featured in an Emerging Artist concert on Saturday, March 23, with performances by the J. Dance Company of Sellersville (named after its artistic director, Jessica Dull), a solo performance by LVDE co-director Jessica Marino, and a pointe piece by Muhlenberg College dance student Kelsey Hutchinson. 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And it might not have happened through out the earth, but nearer its poles at the time is why scientists have discovered plant life in core samples beneath Antarctica, while Australia may have once been the South Pole.\nPermalink Reply by Martin C on March 7, 2010 at 6:12pm\nNo, there were no dinosaurs and people unless you count birds. The flood story was probably a neolithic Mediterranean tsunami that occurred considering the phenomenon is found all over Mediterranean coast. There is evidence that people carried farm animals on boats to islands already and it is probably just an exaggerated story about a guy who was in transit when the tsunami hit.\nBy phenomenon I mean flood myths.\nPlant life in Antarctica is just due to the fact it actually used to be near the equator during pangea. Dinosaurs used to live on it as well as lots of different life until it moved all the way to the south pole.\nPermalink Reply by Eagle Ashcroft on March 7, 2010 at 11:17pm\nJust trying to get other people's opinion as why should I not try getting other people's opinion since are we to believe anyone's else opinion or/and myth from ancient times since anyone alive today was not there when these myths started? It is quite possible that an ice age or some other world wide disaster inpired such a myth to start in the first place. The volume of the bible stories would have had to be inspired by various myths from perhaps real life events, natural events that in the telling may have changed over time to become fairy tales. Its like telling a story to some one and they in turn tell the story to some one else and that person tells it to some one else until it reaches the twenty fifth person the story is nothing like the first story which then becomes a myth. I used this same method in my Nibs stories when Howard and Marcia would tell the puss in boots story. I myself have heard how a story can get changed in the telling from one person to the other going from the truth to a complete lie. I do not believe the bible its self has any fact to it, but is the results of telling a story and passing it from one person to another until these stories have become nothing but ridiculous fairy tales.\nPermalink Reply by Martin C on March 8, 2010 at 7:16am\nYes, you are correct that the stories are probably based on real events that happened long before with humans involved before the a group decided to put their version of them in what we now know as the bible, but the explaination in your post is unrealistic due to many things you tried to involve like dinosaurs and meteor survival that we know humans didn't encounter.\nAs I wrote in my first response, probably a tsunami, and farm animals on a boat, both things that would have likely happened and we have evidence for happening to neolithc people.\nUnrealistic? But isn't everything in the bible unrealistic? I'll bet no matter what kind of question I can ask some one will say my question is unrealistic? I didn't post a question to get in to an argument as I can get plenty of that from Christians. It seems everyone everywhere on the net love to start an argument. I can't really see much diffrence in theist or atheist when it comes to arguing. Sometimes I believe a person would be better off staying away from forums and just talking to one's pet as they aren't going to argue with you.\nPermalink Reply by Max Power on March 8, 2010 at 5:38pm\nFacts are facts, and your OP was pretty scarce on facts. You shouldn't expect to throw up anything on a board and not be corrected or challenged. Take it as an opportunity for learning and friendly debate.\nWow, not trying to start an argument, just stating when trying to challenge the validity of a story its best to use known faxes from history and science, not make up more things.\nYes the ark could have been some place on earth, but no meteors and dinosaurs couldn't have been involved. It is just more. You were on the right path giving credit to older tribes who's oral stories became the basis, but then you just strayed.\nIt's best to look at gilgamesh where the story was just farm animals. We have archaeology that shows farm animals were carried on boats. We also have some evidence of a stone age (neolithic) tsunami. Put those pieces together and you have a credible ready to be passed along and exaggerated and stolen.\nPermalink Reply by Arnold on March 14, 2010 at 11:14am\nMany of the stories in the \"prehistoric\" section of Genesis (before Abraham) are based on myths of other middle eastern cultures. There is a Babylonian flood story that may have influenced the Noah story. But all the legends in Genesis seem to have the common theme that they represent El/Elohim or YHWH's means of singling out groups or individuals for his special favor, sometimes because they are more pleasing to him and sometimes for no apparent reason. They were not much different from modern Zionists in that they used mythology to support their claim to the land.\nPermalink Reply by katalyzt on March 8, 2010 at 2:04pm\nInteresting thoughts/idea on a flood described in the tanakh and bible... But the biblical flood story is just a plagiarized version of the \"Epic of Gilgamesh\". Which has a complete creation and flood story that you find in the two books of Genesis. The \"Epic of Gilgamesh\" was written in both a Sumerian, and a Akkadian language in a type of script language called cuneiform(possibly one of the first written languages in the world)\nArcheologists found 12 stone tablets on which one(tablet 11) is depicted a great deluge which mirrors the Genesis account of the great flood with slight differences: The number of gods, Why the gods(Enlil in particular) decided to kill all humans(too noisy), The names of the hero Ut-napishtim (Noah), the length of time the flood lasted(seven days, and seven nights), the shape of the ark(boat), the name of the mount that the boat rested on Nimush (Ararat), and finally the order in which the hero releases the birds to check for land.\nThe \"Epic of Gilgamesh\" predates the two books of geneses by 500+ years. And even the \"Gilgamesh Epic\" was copied from another story, which details a local flood.\nKatalyzt\nPermalink Reply by Jim DePaulo on March 8, 2010 at 3:20pm\nEven the Aztecs and the Mayans had a flood myth.\nThe myth could also relate to the breaching of Mediterranean through what is now the Bosporus and pouring into the Black Sea, which occurred around 5000 BCE.\nPermalink Reply by Eagle Ashcroft on March 8, 2010 at 6:09pm\nThis seems to me as the best answer as it makes sense.", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00240.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 134, + "original_length": 11039, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.98, + "perplexity": 309.1, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "http://au.support.tomtom.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/21157/~/available-map-zones-%28tomtom-home%29", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T03:37:26Z", + "digest": "sha1:TLZ2HPVOLGDL3M2757K34N6IGXSH4327", + "length": 10243, + "nlines": 79, + "source_domain": "au.support.tomtom.com", + "title": "Available Map Zones (TomTom HOME)", + "raw_content": "Note: Mazda NB1 devices use the same map zones as devices that use MyDrive Connect. 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Option 2\nAustria, Belgium, Czech Republic, Denmark, Germany, Holy See Vatican City state, Hungary, Italy, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Malta, the Netherlands, Poland, San Marino, Slovakia, Slovenia and Switzerland.\nAlbania, Belarus, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Croatia, Cyprus, Estonia, Finland, Greece, Hungary, Kosovo, Latvia, Lithuania, Montenegro, Poland, Republic of Macedonia, Republic of Moldova, Romania, Russian Federation, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Turkey and Ukraine.\nThe following countries are covered by a connector road network allowing you seamless navigation throughout: Austria. 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They were excited to see their friends at school and we talked about several of them.\nThursday morning came and Julia got up for her therapy session and Emily was sound asleep. When it was time to wake up to get ready for school Emily didn\u2019t want to. She was tired and wanted to stay asleep. I knew this would happen in her life, but I was hoping for something closer to Middle School, not a preschool mother\u2019s day out class. When she did get up she just moved to the living room and laid back down saying that she was stretching. Ha! All normal morning drama aside we did get to school right on time.\nEmily\u2019s class is the oldest class in the program. Most of the kids in the class are familiar to her from last year, but the teacher changed as did the classroom. She is a little uncertain about the changes. A day later, she is still talking about wanting the things that were familiar to her from last year. When we went into the class our usual outgoing kid held back and took it slow. Even the presence of her best friend in the class didn\u2019t warm her quickly to the new situation. I\u2019m sure in a couple of weeks we will be back to the usual bubbly excitement of running to class faster than Mama can keep up, talking non-stop with her friends in class, and the bounce of familiarity with everything. Until then we will just have to be encouraging of trying new things and of change. This is such a great life lesson for Mama as much as for Emily. Change is essential, but in changing we learn about ourselves.\nJulia is still in the youngest class in the program. They seem to have fewer teachers this year in the program and have capped the enrollment. Julia too had a deer-in-the-headlights reaction to her class. Her teachers are different and unfamiliar to her, but the classroom location is the same. When Mama dropped Julia off she got clingy and didn\u2019t want to join the other kids. 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I say it because I am none to sure if it was a woman, a man or something surgically altered.", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00240.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 3202, + "original_length": 54858, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.98, + "perplexity": 278.2, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "http://bayman-texan.com/tools/legal.cfm.htm", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T03:39:07Z", + "digest": "sha1:AAG6TJDLMJBMGGL7KHQD2EIU6AEXS3RP", + "length": 18257, + "nlines": 44, + "source_domain": "bayman-texan.com", + "title": "Bayman Texan Energy - Legal / Privacy", + "raw_content": "Please read the following carefully as use of this Website constitutes acceptance of the following.\nTerms and Conditions for Viewing this Website\nYour use of this website (\"Website\") of Bayman Texan Energy Corp. 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Bayman Texan Energy will accommodate such requests in accordance with all legal requirements.\nTo obtain more information about our privacy policies, or to change or withdraw your consent under this Privacy Statement, or to request access to your personal information, you may write to our Privacy Officer at:\n2800, 520 \u2013 3rd Avenue S.W.", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00240.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 154, + "original_length": 21004, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.9, + "perplexity": 330.5, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "http://beautifuldaysevents.com/category/seasons/fall/", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T03:17:32Z", + "digest": "sha1:4673USJL3T4W32TH4PK3RZCOZ4KOSURG", + "length": 302, + "nlines": 1, + "source_domain": "beautifuldaysevents.com", + "title": "Fall Archives - Beautiful Days Events", + "raw_content": "It is always a treat to have the opportunity to work for other wedding pros on their own celebrations. Brea, of Brea McDonald Photography, and Scott\u2019s wedding at The Barn at Flanagan Farm in Buxton, Maine was by far a highlight of our 2013 season, and has now been featured in the most recent issue [\u2026]", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00240.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 33, + "original_length": 3767, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.98, + "perplexity": 263.7, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "http://bellamyfuneralhomes.com/book-of-memories/3390678/carden-thelma-louise/obituary.php", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T04:07:59Z", + "digest": "sha1:XRAFW2MT5FX3J657SGCE4VJANESPFXM4", + "length": 959, + "nlines": 5, + "source_domain": "bellamyfuneralhomes.com", + "title": "Thelma \"Louise\" Carden Obituary - Hiram, Georgia | Bellamy Funeral Home", + "raw_content": "Obituary for Thelma \"Louise\" Carden (Thomas)\nMrs.Thelma \"Louise\" Carden age 93 of Dallas passed away Friday January 5, 2018 Funeral Services will be held Sunday January 14th at 3pm Bellamy Chapel Hiram, Interment at Powder Springs Cemetery. The family will receive visitors Saturday January13th at the funeral home 2pm to 5pm.\nMrs. Carden was retired from Coats & Clark Thread Mill. She was a member of the First Baptist Church of Powder Springs and Powder Springs Senior Citizens. worked many years in home care for the elderly.\nShe is preceded in death by husband John \"Junior\" Baxter and husband Huey Carden. \"Favorite\" son-in-law Larry Guy Morris Survivors included daughter Carol Baxter Morris of Dallas and one son Thomas \"Tommy\" Baxter (Brenda) of Dallas, one sister Jessie Fuller of Woodbury, grandchildren, great grandchildren and great great grandchildren, Nieces and Nephews.\nIn Lieu of flowers donations may be made to the American Cancer Society.", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00240.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 293, + "original_length": 8687, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.94, + "perplexity": 312.6, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "http://beta.metsbythenumbers.com/player/kunz-eddie", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T03:19:31Z", + "digest": "sha1:ELOHRNMKJXIB3ASTRGKUGCHZI7BUYY3E", + "length": 155, + "nlines": 2, + "source_domain": "beta.metsbythenumbers.com", + "title": "Eddie Kunz | Mets by the Numbers", + "raw_content": "Eddie Kunz\nMets' top selection (42nd overall) in 2007 amatuer draft. Bred to be a reliever, was closing at Class AA at the time of his recall Aug. 3, 2008.", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00240.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 68, + "original_length": 875, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.97, + "perplexity": 243.3, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "http://bevhanna.com/photos/flora/pages/cactus02.html", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T03:48:31Z", + "digest": "sha1:VOJLNKEWHHSEFSOGLNGZNMTALV2XTTAQ", + "length": 251, + "nlines": 1, + "source_domain": "bevhanna.com", + "title": "Beverley J. Hanna - Photograph \"Christmas Cactus #2\"", + "raw_content": "This was the Christmas Cactus as I first saw it, before I took the previous shot as a macro. The blue colour on the wood is a reflection of the brilliant blue sky that December morning and a perfect foil for the electric magenta colour of the flowers.", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00240.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 15, + "original_length": 813, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.98, + "perplexity": 303.7, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "http://beyondthetransition.blogspot.com/2010/07/bronisaw-komorowski-elected-president.html", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T04:49:46Z", + "digest": "sha1:4BW6WFANOI6XM5IWSU7IITKR2FO7OB5S", + "length": 5401, + "nlines": 11, + "source_domain": "beyondthetransition.blogspot.com", + "title": "Beyond the Transition: Bronis\u0142aw Komorowski Elected President \u2013 But Does the Winner Take All?", + "raw_content": "Bronis\u0142aw Komorowski Elected President \u2013 But Does the Winner Take All?\nAnd so it was Komorowski after all. Following his victory in the second round of presidential elections on Sunday, Citizens' Platform (PO) now have total political power. Alongside the presidency they run the government, under the premiership of its leader Donald Tusk, and have their own appointee in place as President of the National Bank of Poland. Never has a government enjoyed such political success in contemporary Polish history. If it manages to repeat this success at the parliamentary elections next year it will have become the first political party in postsocialist Poland to have been returned to office after having served a term in government. However, this is a big 'IF'.\nThe second round of presidential elections confirmed the huge social and geographical divide that dominates Polish politics. Komorowski once again won a majority in the wealthier areas in the North-West of the country and won in every city apart from Lublin. His electorate was drawn predominantly from the younger, wealthier and more educated sections of society. To gain an understanding of Kaczy\u0144ski's electorate, simply invert this picture. The clear social and political schism in Poland was reflected in the narrow victory for Komorowski, who won 53% of the vote against Kaczy\u0144ski's 47% - in an election where the turnout was 55%, which for Poland's standards is relatively high.\nThis was an extremely successful campaign for Kaczy\u0144ski and the Law and Justice Party (PiS). Only a few months ago the party had seemed to be running out of steam and unable to recover the trust of society after the debacle of its last government. Kaczy\u0144ski started the election campaign with support in the low 20s. Therefore to not only take Komorowski to a second round but also to run him close in these elections represents a significant achievement for PiS. It shows how it is once again a force to be reckoned with and has a chance of winning next year's parliamentary elections.\nPO now faces some serious political choices. Despite their pragmatic exterior PO and Tusk have strong ideological roots. During communism Tusk was a member of the so-called Gda\u0144sk Liberals. In the 1980s this current criticised the leadership of the Solidarity movement for concentrating on issues such as democracy and equality and for maintaining economic policies that had a 'socialist character'. It looked to promote individual freedom through economic activity and advanced a programme of mass privatisation. They published the work of classical liberals such as Hayek, Popper, Friedmen and Aron and developed a dogmatic support for the free market, even claiming that they would prefer a free-market economy without democracy to socialism with free elections (Gazeta Wyborcza 14.10.2005).\nOf course the trappings of power and the weariness of age can smooth many ideological commitments. Since becoming PM, Tusk has generally tried to avoid political confrontation and has steered away from introducing some of the most controversial aspects of his political programme. However, prior to the election of Komorowski, there was always an excuse for this: the presidential veto. Now there is no such pretext and even the presence of the Peasants' Party (PSL) in government will not be accepted as a reason for PO not pushing ahead with its reform programme.\nAnd herein lies the contradiction. On the one hand PO have committed themselves to the privatisation (whoops there I go again \u2013 I mean 'commercialisation') of the health service, raising the retirement age, introducing a flat-income tax and reducing the budget deficit from the present 7% to 3% by 2012. However, Mr Komorowski had to sweep all this under the carpet during the election campaign and instead offer his own list of promises. These included introducing a 50% discount for student travel, opposing student fees, arguing against the privatisation of hospitals and introducing the state funding of in-vitro treatment (this latter proposal is particularly unpopular with the most conservative wing of PO).\nWith pressures (both internal and external) increasingly bearing down on the government to reduce its spending and the budget deficit, PO are going to have to walk a very tricky path to the next parliamentary elections. The opposition parties will be watching the government and president's every move and undoubtedly highlight every contradiction and missed promise.\nThis does not mean that PiS will have an easy ride itself. Kaczy\u0144ski managed to expand his support by positioning the party in the political centre and building upon the particular atmosphere that followed the Smole\u0144sk tragedy. However, this strategy has already raised voices of discontent within the right of the party. Many high-profile politicians from PiS, from the most conservative and anti-communist wings of the party, were notable by their absence during the election campaign. It is to be seen to what extent PiS can continue to promote its cosmetic political conversion or whether it will again go on the political offensive. Certainly it is hard to see how PiS, barring a large fall in support for PO, could win these elections if it remains so unpopular in the cities.\nThe elections may be over but the campaign is ongoing. Watch this space.\nLabels: Kaczy\u0144ski, Komorowski, presidential elections, second round", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00240.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 103, + "original_length": 7392, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.97, + "perplexity": 229.2, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "http://bigblog.tanbin.com/2012/10/essential-bs-my-2nd-take.html", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T04:07:09Z", + "digest": "sha1:LW23FKXFWXLDGSCHHF64EH4FTRMV6E7N", + "length": 4169, + "nlines": 15, + "source_domain": "bigblog.tanbin.com", + "title": "relocated to bintanvictor.wordpress.com (redirect someday: Essential BS-M, my 2nd take", + "raw_content": "Essential BS-M, my 2nd take\nPeople ask me to give a short explanation of Black-Scholes Model (not BS-equ or BS-formula)...\nI feel random variable problems always boil down to the (inherent) distribution, ideally in the form of a probability density function.\nBack to basics. Look at the height of all the kids in a pre-school -- There's a distribution. Simplest way to describe this kind of distribution is a histogram [.8 -1m], [1-1.2m], [1.2-1.4m] ... A probability distribution is a precise description of how the individual heights are \"distributed\" in a population.\nNow consider another distribution -- Toss 10 fair dice at once and add up the points to a \"score\". Keep tossing to get a bunch of scores and examine the distribution of scores. If we know the inherent, natural distribution of the scores, we have the best possible predictor of all future outcomes. If we get one score per day, We can then estimate how soon we are likely to hit a score above 25. We can also estimate by the 30th toss, how \"surely\" cumulative-score would have exceeded 44.\nFor most random variables in real life, the inherent distribution is not a simple math function like our little examples. Instead, practioners work out a way to *characterize* the distribution. This is the standard route to solve random variable problems because characterizing the underlying distribution (of the random variable) unlocks a whole lot of insights.\nAbove are random variables in a static context. Stock price is an evolving variable. There's a Process. In the following paragraphs, I have mixed the random process and the random variable at the end of the process. The process has a \u03c3 and the variable (actually its value at a future time) also has a \u03c3.\nIn option pricing, the original underlying Random Process Variable (RPV) is the stock price. Not easy to characterize. Instead, the pioneers picked an alternative RPV i.e. R defined as ln(Sn+1 / Sn) and managed to characterize R's behavior. Specifically, they characterized R's random walk using a differential equation parametrized by a \u03c3inst i.e. the instantaneous volatility [1]. This is the key parameter of the random walk or the Geometric Brownian motion.\nBinomial-tree is a popular implementation of BS. B-tree models a stock price [2] as a random walker taking up/down steps every interval (say every second). To characterize the step size Sn+1 - Sn, we wanted to get the distribution of step sizes but too hard. As an alternative, we assume R follows a standard Wiener process so the value of R at any future time is normally distributed. But what is this distribution about?\nRemember R is an observable random variable recorded at a fixed sampling frequency. Let's denote R values at each sampling point (i.e. each step of the random walk) as R1, R2 ,R3, R4 .... We treat each of them as independent random variables. If we record a large series of R values, we see a distribution, but this is the wrong route. We don't want to treat time series values R1, R2 ... as observations of the same random variable. Instead, imagine a computer picking an R value at each step of the random walk (like once a second). The distribution of each random pick is programmed into computer. Each pick has a distinct Normal distribution with a distinct \u03c3inst_1, \u03c3inst_2, \u03c3inst_3 .... [4]\nIn summary, we must analyze the underlying distribution (of S or R) to predict where S might be in the future[3].\n[4] A major simplifying assumption of BS is a time-invariant \u03c3inst which characterizes the distributions of R at each step of the random walk. Evidence suggests the diffusion parameter \u03c3inst does vary and primarily depends on time and current stock price. The characterization of \u03c3inst as a function of time and S is a cottage industry in its own right and is the subject of skew modelling, vol surface, term structure of vol etc.\n[1] All other parameters of the equation pale in significance -- risk-free interest i.e. the drift etc.\n[2] While S is a random walker, R is not really a random walker. See other posts.\n[3] Like in the dice case, we can't predict the value of S but we can predict the \"distribution\" of S after N sampling periods.", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00240.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 31, + "original_length": 6654, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.89, + "perplexity": 286.7, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "http://bikbikroro.blogspot.com/2012/02/valentine-bikbik.html", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T04:23:52Z", + "digest": "sha1:BDFKVB3ZZMR3NZHWFIITOGHJD6RHT5JO", + "length": 119, + "nlines": 1, + "source_domain": "bikbikroro.blogspot.com", + "title": "* Bikbik and Roro *: Valentine Bikbik", + "raw_content": "The light wasn't very good for photographs by the time she was done with stuffing. She'll be in the shop by tomorrow :)", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00240.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 163, + "original_length": 3999, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 1.0, + "perplexity": 127.2, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "http://bioweb.uwlax.edu/bio203/s2014/forman_jose/", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T03:48:13Z", + "digest": "sha1:JW4BUPSIE2FWX5HBR3CEMFFLHY6WF4EH", + "length": 1528, + "nlines": 6, + "source_domain": "bioweb.uwlax.edu", + "title": "Horse Bot Fly", + "raw_content": "Horse Bot Fly\nHome Classification Habitat Form&Function Life Cycle Interactions Treatment References Contact Us\nDo you have bugs in your stomach? We know that horses do! Discover the nuisance of horses and their owners across the globe: Gasterophilus intestinalis, commonly known as the horse bot fly. This parasite inhabits and feeds from the stomach of mostly horses, as well as a few similar mammals. Although horses are relatively resistant to the negative effects of their presence, excessive amounts can be very harmful, even fatal (Featured Creatures, 1996). It is important to us, the creators of this web site, for you to get to know more about this organism in order to treat against it.\nThrough the means of this website we will inform you of the taxonomy of the horse bot fly, expanding on its evolutionary significance. We will further elucidate its unique habitat, including the other organisms it shares it with. Due to the fact it is a parasitic organism, we will define its interaction with its host and any other organisms it may affect. We will describe the successful adaptations of its morphology, along with its life cycle, including reproduction. Finally, we will propose a treatment plan. We hope you learn a lot! Enjoy!\nLet's begin by eploring the evolution of the classification of the horse bot fly!\nThis website is for a class project at the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse. (Ken Gray Image Courtesy of Oregon State University) If you want to look at other projects check out MultipleOrganisms.net.", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00240.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 8, + "original_length": 1608, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.94, + "perplexity": 314.5, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "http://birmingham-goju-ryu.co.uk/editions-a-pricing/history", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T03:33:24Z", + "digest": "sha1:VB4SRTPJGKU5ZLAOEVIRWJKOGDX23EQO", + "length": 5109, + "nlines": 14, + "source_domain": "birmingham-goju-ryu.co.uk", + "title": "Birmingham Goju-Ryu Karate Academy - History", + "raw_content": "The development of G\u014dj\u016b-ry\u016b goes back to Higaonna Kanry\u014d, (1853\u20131916), a native of Naha, Okinawa. Higaonna began studying Shuri-te as a child. He was first exposed to martial arts in 1867 when he began training in Luohan or \"Arhat boxing\" under Arakaki Seish\u014d, a fluent Chinese speaker and translator for the court of the Ryukyu Kingdom.\nIn 1870, Arakaki went to Beijing to translate for Ryukyuan officials. It was then that he recommended Higaonna to Kojo Taitei, under whom Higaonna began training.\nWith the help of Taitei and a family friend, Higaonna eventually managed to set up safe passage to China, lodging, and martial arts instruction. In 1873 he left for Fuzhou in Fujian, China, where he began studying Chinese martial arts under various teachers.\nHigaonna Kanry\u014d, circa early 1900s\nIn 1877 he began to study under Ry\u016b Ry\u016b Ko. Tokashiki Iken has identified him as Xie Zhongxiang, founder of Whooping Crane Kung Fu. Zhongxiang taught several Okinawan students who went on to become karate legends.\nHigaonna returned to Okinawa in 1882 and continued in the family business of selling firewood, while teaching a new school of martial arts, distinguished by its integration of g\u014d-no (hard) and j\u016b-no (soft) kenp\u014d into one system. Higaonna's style was known as Naha-te. G\u014dj\u016b-kai history considers that Chinese Nanpa Shorin-ken was the strain of kung fu that influenced this style.\nHigaonna Morio noted that in 1905, Higaonna Kanry\u014d taught martial arts in two different ways, according to the type of student: At home, he taught Naha-te as a martial art whose ultimate goal was to be able to kill the opponent; however, at Naha Commercial High School, he taught karate as a form of physical, intellectual and moral education\nHigaonna's most prominent student was Ch\u014djun Miyagi (1888\u20131953), the son of a wealthy shop owner in Naha, who began training under Higaonna at the age of 14. Miyagi had begun his martial arts training under Arakaki at age 11, and it was through Arakaki that he was introduced to Higaonna. Miyagi trained under Higaonna for 15 years until Higaonna's death in 1916.\nIn 1915 Miyagi and a friend Gokenki went to Fuzhou in search of Higaonna's teacher. They stayed for a year and studied under several masters but the old school was gone due to the Boxer Rebellion. Shortly after their return, Higaonna died. Many of Higaonna's students continued to train with Miyagi and he introduced a kata called Tensho which he had adapted from Rokkishu of Fujian White Crane.\nHigaonna's most senior student Juhatsu Kyoda formed a school he called T\u014don-ry\u016b (T\u014don is another way of pronouncing the Chinese characters of Higaonna's name, so T\u014don-ry\u016b means \"Higaonna's style\"), preserving more of Higaonna's approach to Naha-te.\nIn 1929 delegates from around Japan were meeting in Kyoto for the All Japan Martial Arts Demonstration. Miyagi was unable to attend, and so he in turn asked his top student Jin\u2019an Shinsato to go. While Shinsato was there, one of the other demonstrators asked him the name of the martial art he practiced. At this time, Miyagi had not yet named his style. Not wanting to be embarrassed, Shinsato improvised the name hanko-ryu (\"half-hard style\"). On his return to Okinawa Prefecture, he reported this incident to Ch\u014djun Miyagi, who decided on the name G\u014dj\u016b-ry\u016b (\"hard soft style\") as a name for his style.Chojun Miyagi took the name from a line of the poem Hakku Kenpo, which roughly means: \"The eight laws of the fist,\" and describes the eight precepts of the martial arts. This poem was part of the Bubishi and reads, Ho wa G\u014dj\u016b wa Donto su \"the way of inhaling and exhaling is hardness and softness,\" or \"everything in the universe inhales soft and exhales hard.\"\nIn March 1934, Miyagi wrote Karate-do Gaisetsu (\"Outline of Karate-do (Chinese Hand Way)\"), to introduce karate-do and to provide a general explanation of its history, philosophy, and application. This handwritten monograph is one of the few written works composed by Miyagi himself.\nMiyagi's house was destroyed during World War II. In 1950, several of his students began working to build a house and dojo for him in Naha, which they completed in 1951. In 1952, they came up with the idea of creating an organization to promote the growth of G\u014dj\u016b-ry\u016b. This organization was called G\u014dj\u016b-ry\u016b Shinkokai (\"Association to Promote G\u014dj\u016b-ry\u016b\"). The founding members were Seko Higa, Keiyo Matanbashi, Jinsei Kamiya, and Genkai Nakaima.\nThere are two years that define the way G\u014dj\u016b-ry\u016b has been considered by the Japanese establishment: the first, 1933, is the year G\u014dj\u016b-ry\u016b was officially recognized as a bud\u014d in Japan by Dai Nippon Butoku Kai, in other words, it was recognized as a modern martial art, or gendai bud\u014d. The second year, 1998, is the year the Dai Nippon Butoku kai recognized G\u014dj\u016b-ry\u016b Karate-do as an ancient form of martial art (kory\u016b) and as a bujutsu.[14] This recognition as a kory\u016b bujutsu shows a change in how Japanese society sees the relationships between Japan, Okinawa and China. Until 1998, only martial arts practiced in mainland Japan by samurai had been accepted as koryu bujutsu.", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00240.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 46, + "original_length": 5863, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.98, + "perplexity": 201.0, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "http://birthbootcampdoulas.com/directory/nitagunn/", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T04:44:51Z", + "digest": "sha1:V2D5MAN7WUFYTLDYTXLVUG4QDVD23LCQ", + "length": 1364, + "nlines": 5, + "source_domain": "birthbootcampdoulas.com", + "title": "Nita Gunn, Author at Birth Boot Camp Doulas", + "raw_content": "Nita Gunn\nSouthlake, Texas About Me\nHi, I\u2019m Nita! I\u2019m a childbirth educator and doula in Southlake, Texas. My interest in women\u2019s health began in nursing school. I graduated from Vanderbilt University in 2007 with a Masters degree in Nursing with a specialty as a Family Nurse Practitioner. Since then, I\u2019ve become the mother to 4 of the funnest little people I know. My personal experiences with birth have included induction, epidural, c-section, VBAC (Vaginal Birth After Cesarean), medication-free birth, homebirth, and waterbirth. I\u2019ve learned that how you prepare and the way you are treated during this time matters! My desire is to help families know their options and have births they\u2019ll love.\nI offer doula support and childbirth classes to families preparing for any type of birth. My role as your doula is always to provide compassionate, professional support throughout your transition to motherhood. I believe women\u2019s bodies are made to give birth and that your BIRTH day should be one of the happiest, most empowering days of your life. If you have any questions or are interested in scheduling an interview for doula services, you\u2019re more than welcome to call or email me. I love talking about birth and would be happy to help you however I can!\nGrapevine, Southlake, Keller, Roanoke, Trophy Club, Argyle, Denton, Fort Worth, and surrounding areas.", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00240.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 44, + "original_length": 2275, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.96, + "perplexity": 336.8, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "http://blackcrowpottery.ca/index.php/Blog/detail/evidence-of-healing-complete-works", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T03:57:47Z", + "digest": "sha1:CHPHAVL2NWCICI6FOF7VEYRWM3E2RPWJ", + "length": 1334, + "nlines": 19, + "source_domain": "blackcrowpottery.ca", + "title": "Evidence of Healing Complete Works - Black Crow Pottery", + "raw_content": "As for most art work, documentation is vital. You must have good images not only to archive the work to have an inclusive story telling history but when applying for anything - grants, shows, competitions - you must have good quality images. Photographing ceramics is very tricky primarily because most ceramics have a glossy glaze to them so you get a lot of glare, but it is also challenging to make a three dimensional object look three dimensional in a photograph. You have to be concerned with shadow, focus, lighting, colour, mood, and a variety of other factors. I was fortunate enough to have Brandt Eisnor of Swoon Fine Art photograph these pieces for me. He did a fantastic job and I am proud to share them. As before if you click on the image to see a larger version of it.\nExternal Fixation, 5.25\" X 9.5\"\nHealing with Brother Elk, 13\" X 10\"\nInvisible Scars(a), 2.5\" X 3.5\"\nInvisible Scars(b), 2.5\" X 3.5\"\nInvisible Scars(c), 2.5\" X 3.5\"\nMelanoma Bowl 1, 3\" X 6\"\nMelanoma Bowl 2, 3.5\" X 7.25\"\nMelanoma Bowl 2 inside, 3.5\" X 7.25\"\nProsthetic Plate 1, 9.5\" X 9.5\" X 2\"\nProsthetic pot 7.5\" X 6.25\"\nProsthetic Pot 5.5\" X 8.5\"\nProsthetic Pot 6.25\" X 9.75\"\nProsthetic Pot 6\" X 6.25\"\nSutured Tumor Vase, 9\" X 5.25\"\nSutured Vase, 6.5\" X 5\"\nUlcerated Fusion 1, 4\" X 7.75\"\nUlcerated Fusion 2, 4.25\" X 9.5\"\nUlcerated Fusion 3, 4\" X 9\"", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00240.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 103, + "original_length": 3024, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.91, + "perplexity": 297.2, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "http://blakesnow.com/you-have-choice/", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T03:16:14Z", + "digest": "sha1:IWH6JBFNLXKFITRIB5ZKO7L2UFG664VB", + "length": 5485, + "nlines": 28, + "source_domain": "blakesnow.com", + "title": "You have a choice. Do what you love. - Blake Snow", + "raw_content": "You have a choice. Do what you love.\nSteve Jobs told a class of Stanford undergraduates in 2005: \u201cYour time is limited, so don\u2019t waste it living someone else\u2019s life,\u201d meaning don\u2019t let external factors such as other people\u2019s thinking dictate how you make a livelihood. In short, do what you love.\nBut doing what you love is just some overused romantic expression that doesn\u2019t really apply outside of \u00fcber geeks like Jobs, right? Wrong. Despite its being clich\u00e9 and having been hijacked by get-rich-quick schemes, doing what you love can be achieved by anyone assuming you have the patience to seek it out, have the guts to act on your instincts, and are not easily persuaded by societal pressures when determining your career path.\nSo what if you don\u2019t know what you like to do? First, relax; then accept my warmest welcomes into the human race. Not knowing what you want to do is completely normal and can happen at any time. To remedy the obstruction, you need to first isolate the things you DON\u2019T like to do. Write them down as a list including menial tasks, then focus on the things you enjoy doing. Don\u2019t rule anything out, not even Head of Janitorial Services. Be honest with yourself and don\u2019t let logic interfere with the list-making process. \u201cWhat work-related tasks get me excited?\u201d should be the underlying theme.\nIf you\u2019re diligent, you\u2019ll eventually find what you love to do. When that happens, reality will set in and you\u2019ll need to ask yourself some tough questions: Can I support my family doing this? Can I sacrifice certain lifestyle habits for a shot at doing what I love? That may include forgoing or postponing certain luxuries for the time being like excessively eating out, a second car, or a costly mortgage. But with some creative financing and gumption, you can make it happen more often than you think.\nOnce resolving to do what you love, you\u2019ll also need to face the societal music. \u201cYou were supposed to be a [insert reputable profession here],\u201d \u201cYou can\u2019t change careers now,\u201d and \u201cYou can\u2019t make money as an artist!\u201d are all common statements made by the cynics. These views quickly fade, however, upon understanding the real purpose of a working professional: You\u2019re supposed to find fulfillment and excitement during the 33 percent of your life that you spend working. As a bonus, you\u2019ll likely (though not always) enjoy better financial returns, and easily become a more valued individual in the workforce.\nA fellow business school graduate once told me that his older brother ditched a high-earning position as a lawyer in Silicon Valley to become a grade school teacher. He chose excitement (read: happiness) in favor of societal esteem and even personal wealth. Last I heard he was a very happy man making enough to support his family while doing what he loved.\n\u201cIf today were the last day of my life, would I want to do what I am about to do today?\u201d Jobs rhetorically asked the same group of Stanford undergraduates. \u201cWhenever the answer has been \u2018No\u2019 for too many days in a row, I know I need to change something.\u201d\nYou have a choice assuming your answer has consecutively been \u201cNo.\u201d It just depends on how you want to live your life. \u2014 BLAKE SNOW\nREAD MORE: lifehacks, Matt Foley, motivation, Steve Jobs, work\nMy problem is that whenever I review this question I always come to the conclusion \u2026 I just don\u2019t want to work.\nI enjoy doing just about anything as long as 1) I\u2019m doing it for myself and 2) I can quit whenever I want.\nThe thought of trying to make someone else happy with my work (read a boss or client) always turns me off.\n@ Nic \u201cI just don\u2019t want to work.\u201d\nI doubt that. Replace \u201cwork\u201d with \u201cwhat you want to do\u201d and I\u2019m sure you\u2019ll come up with several ideas. :)\nPart of my reason for starting a blog was to finally put into action what I LOVE doing \u2014 writing.\nI doubt I\u2019ll quit my day job, as it pays the bills and everything, but I\u2019m loving writing as a creative outlet. Best decision I ever made. My only regret is that I didn\u2019t do it sooner. It\u2019s very fulfilling.\nAmazingly, people will actually pay you to write for them, enough to quit your day job even assuming you\u2019ve got the moxie to make it happen.\nNot only am I the president of Blake Snow\u2019s entrance into the world professional writing, I\u2019m also a client (that is start from blogging, build your skills, then start pitching editors)!\nWell, I did freelance for a while about 5 years ago. But I was afraid to work for the firm full-time because they were just getting their legs and I was afraid to lose my amazing benefits at the university where I work my \u201creal\u201d job.\nMy dream would be to publish \u201cbeyond the blog,\u201d but I haven\u2019t the foggiest idea how to make that happen.\nNot to be insincere or too frank, but if you don\u2019t have the foggiest idea how to make that happen, who\u2019s go the power to change that?\nCan I suggest a book? Killing Sacred Cows. It changed how I view what I do for work and why I do it.\nThere\u2019s a local writer\u2019s group in my area. I\u2019m thinking of attending their next meeting, but I\u2019m afraid they\u2019ll look upon me as really green, and grill me on everything. I\u2019m very fear-driven. Hmm, more like fear drives me.\nThank you for the book recommendation.\nSound advice, Blake \u2014 I quite agree. Now I have to do some thinking about what I really want to do . . .\nWork is still work\u2014even with a job you love - Blake Snow\n[\u2026] fortunate to have found my calling in life. I don\u2019t dread Mondays. Returning to my desk after lunch isn\u2019t a chore. I welcome the [\u2026]", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00240.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 90, + "original_length": 7006, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.97, + "perplexity": 285.0, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "http://blog.chainreader.com/2010/09/something-wicked-this-way-comes-by-ray.html?showComment=1285531322840", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T04:01:46Z", + "digest": "sha1:CY2ZTBMBTUJYWP5Q62TG35FFMBSKOKJQ", + "length": 5158, + "nlines": 37, + "source_domain": "blog.chainreader.com", + "title": "Book Clutter: Something Wicked This Way Comes by Ray Bradbury", + "raw_content": "\"And . . . here comes the carnival. Death like a rattle in one hand, Life like candy in the other; shake one to scare you, offer one to make your mouth water.\"\n\"Why, most men jump at the chance to give up everything for nothing. There's nothing we're so slapstick with as our own immortal souls.\"\nMany times I wish I could turn back the hands of time and read a book at a younger age. This is the case with Something Wicked This Way Comes. Knock off about 25 birthdays, and I would be just the right age to get lost in this fantastical tale of horror. But if I could really do it, really become that (relatively) carefree girl of yesteryear with the super-charged imagination (and cellulite-free thighs), would I? And what price would I have to pay?\nThe people of Green Town, Illinois are unwittingly faced with similar questions one autumn when Cooger and Dark's Pandemonium Shadow Show rolls into town. Its sinister purpose is not to entertain, but to lure and entice for its own gain. I could feel as I turned each page the longing of the characters to have their deepest desires fulfilled, and the magnetic pull of the carnival with its unspoken promises to give them what they want: youth, beauty, sex--the usual suspects.\nBut not everyone feels the \"pull.\" Will Halloway, innately good, senses the danger, but those who are closest to him are not so immune. His best friend Jim Nightshade wants to catapult into manhood while Will's father Charles Halloway longs to be young again. The carnival has a way to give them what they want: a carousel that adds or takes away the years depending on whether it goes forwards or backwards. Want a ticket?\nOne of the novel's strengths is its characterization of Jim and Will. They're kind of allegorically flat and yet subtly complex at the same time. (This phenomenon may actually be impossible, but it's the only way this wannabe English major can think of to describe it). I enjoyed the contrast between the two boys and the way they were written. There was sort of a push-pull thing going on in the writing that I enjoyed.\nAs far as the scare factor goes, vivid images have been imprinted in my mind. Freaky characters abound. The Dust Witch will certainly be the star of my subsequent nightmares. The evil of the carnival seeped into my bones. I am now even more disapproving of carousels.\nSo why just a 3 out of 5 rating? I got cranky with some of the writing. Many times it got in the way of the story. It felt jerky and sometimes forced. When I'm feeling that rush of getting to the end to find out what happened, I don't want to get tripped up by excess words and commas and phrases that I have to stop and decipher. Surely this is breaking some unwritten rule of suspense writing. It's not bad writing, it just felt misplaced.\nSo, back to the question: If I could really go back, would I? To read this book--I guess not. To put on a swimsuit and gaze into a mirror at a youthful body sans stretch marks? Maybe. Just maybe.\nWonderful review! I'm about a third of the way through this for the RIP and having the same problems as you, I think - the writing is a bit off-putting to me. I'm enjoying it so far, but it hasn't been a can't-put-down book for me.\nI have this one out from the library right now for the RIP challenge. Can't wait to read it!\nI've seen a couple of reviews on this one today. I think it's a sign. I need to read it post haste. (I had no idea that this was about a carnival. I'm scared just thinking about it.)\nlisa :) September 21, 2010 at 2:13 PM\nI read (and really enjoyed) this one when I was younger, but I haven't revisited it as an adult. I like how you posed the question about going back to read it at a younger age and now I'm curious if I'll still appreciate it as much now.\nI really want to read this at some point.\nAmused September 22, 2010 at 3:01 PM\nThis sounds like one I need to read!\nSounds like an interesting book, but I'm not much of a scary stories person myself. I liked your description of the characters as both flat and subtle - that makes sense to me.\nChris really enjoyed this when he read it earlier this year, I must read it at some point\nBibliophile By the Sea September 26, 2010 at 5:27 AM\nI haven't read Bradbury but own one of his books. Sounds like this one might be one I'd enjoy. Great review.\nAmanda Marie September 26, 2010 at 11:20 AM\nI'm following your blog! I hope you follow me back!\nhttp://mylifeayoungmother.blogspot.com/\nI expected it to be more of a page-turner, but it was still enjoyable.\nReviewsbylola,\nJessica (Bluestocking Society),\nCarnivals can be pretty creepy, can't they?\nLisa :),\nIf you do read it as an adult, I would love to hear your take on it. It would be such a different perspective.\nI can say the same about so many books! More time would be nice!\nIt's a pretty quick read if you can squeeze it in, and it's considered a classic.\nI don't usually read scary stuff either--I'm going out of my comfort zone a bit this Fall!\nI hope if you get to it you enjoy it as well!\nI've only read this one and Fahrenheit 451, which I loved. I may try Dandelion Wine next.\nAmanda Marie,\nJust visited your blog. Thanks for following!", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00240.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 227, + "original_length": 8740, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.97, + "perplexity": 339.7, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "http://blog.ethicalmusings.com/2011/09/reflections-on-10th-anniversary-of-911.html", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T04:40:03Z", + "digest": "sha1:DJ6ONMCHKHTBYK5WWWIVG4KGTJRIFTP6", + "length": 7419, + "nlines": 31, + "source_domain": "blog.ethicalmusings.com", + "title": "Ethical Musings: Reflections on the 10th anniversary of 9/11", + "raw_content": "Reflections on the 10th anniversary of 9/11\nToday is the tenth anniversary of the 9/11 attacks. Christians believe that God brings good things out of bad. In reflecting on 9/11, I see three God moving in three ways.\nFirst, Jesus calls his followers to live in truth, not in a world of illusion. The biblical story of the exodus, from which we have heard successive installments in each of the first readings the last few weeks, depicts Egypt as an eleventh century BC analogue of the twenty-first century United States. Egypt was prosperous and powerful, their world\u2019s only superpower. Then came their 9/11: God, according to the text, destroys their illusions of invulnerability and control with seven plagues.\nSimilarly, the 9/11 attacks in the U.S. killed almost 3000 people, destroyed billions of dollars of property, and emotionally scarred countless thousands. As huge as those consequences were, 9/11\u2019s major impact was spiritual. The attacks fractured, or even shattered, widely held illusions of invulnerability and control. Both illusions are false and profoundly unchristian. Human finitude means that we are vulnerable and not in control. Interpersonally, genuine relationships require vulnerable self-disclosure and healthy bonding that enables misuse or abuse. Physically, healthy living can diminish but not eliminate vulnerability. Cells develop cancer; diseases attack. Communally, even the United States\u2019 unprecedented wealth and military power cannot insulate us from terrorist attacks, mass murders, economic downturns, and other problems.\nLiving in truth leads those who seek to walk the Jesus path not only to acknowledge but also to appreciate life\u2019s risks and vulnerabilities. My awareness that this is perhaps my last hour of health, or even of life, helps me to cherish this moment and these relationships more fully.\nSecond, Jesus calls us to envision a future shaped in his image. The Christian future is communal, a dimension of the gospel often downplayed or ignored in our highly individualistic culture. Moses returned to Egypt to lead God's people out of slavery. Paul established communities of believers, not individual converts. Jesus chose and formed a group of twelve disciples, not twelve individuals.\nIn the aftermath of 9/11, we as a nation recalibrated our thinking in unhelpful, ungodly ways. Fear pushed aside courage, pessimism replaced optimism, and present conflict pushed aside our vision of God's plan for the future. Theologically, we began living and thinking as if the gospel ended with the crucifixion rather than the resurrection.\nHowever, the passengers of United Airlines Flight 93 acted differently. They refused to accede to terror, said no to evil, and lived into a vision of the future shaped in Jesus\u2019 image. We should follow their example and do the same.\nIn the Exodus narrative, Egypt responded to its 9/11, as did the United States to its 9/11, by waging war. Today\u2019s first reading describes the annihilation of Egypt\u2019s army and that war\u2019s ugly ending. Biblical scholars and historians thankfully shed some light on the disparity between the narrative and actual history. At most, only a handful of slaves revolted and fled Egypt. A mistranslation of the Hebrew in the text sets events at the Red Sea rather than the Sea of Reeds. Great artists like Cecile B. DeMille bring this scene to life with powerful but inaccurate imagery of water cascading down upon and drowning the Egyptian army. More likely, the small band of escapees eluded their pursuers by safely fleeing through marshes impenetrable by soldiers in chariots and on horseback.\nAs a military retiree and visiting professor of ethics at the Naval Postgraduate School, I am very thankful that the U.S. military has not suffered annihilation in Afghanistan or Iraq. Sadly, however, both of the wars launched in response to the 9/11 attacks seem destined to have ugly endings. After ten years of U.S. occupation, Afghanistan remains largely ungovernable and has one of the world\u2019s most corrupt governments. Iraq, after eight years of occupation and in spite of a lull in violence produced primarily by putting tens of thousands of Iraqis on the American payroll, remains riven by sectarianism and tribalism. Violence among Iraqis is escalating as the U.S. withdrawal proceeds. And in spite of some notable successes against al Qaeda, the world is not greatly safer or more peaceful today than on 9/12.\nWar, in the twenty-first century as in the eleventh century, is occasionally necessary to stop a great evil like the Nazis, but war does not move us along the path to peace. What then shall we do? This is the third lesson to learn from 9/11 and its aftermath. Jesus calls us to begin transforming the present into the future, incarnating the image of Jesus in our lives and our relationships.\nThe epistle lesson (Romans 14:1-12) offers practical advice on how to incarnate Jesus in our lives by living and dying for Jesus, that is, others. The heroic actions of first responders on 9/11, including many Episcopal clergy, exemplify this costly love for others. The first two National Guard pilots sent aloft to bring down United Airlines Flight 93 scrambled in planes without live ordnance. Arming the planes would have taken too long. Between them, the two pilots had decided that one would aim for Flight 93\u2019s cockpit, the other for the tail. Both are grateful for heroic passengers whose bold action precluded the necessity of trying to time a mid-air collision and ejection.\nThe gospel lesson (Matthew 18:21-35) also offers practical advice on incarnating Jesus in our lives, directing us to forgive others not once, not seven times, but countless times. The parable clarifies that forgiveness is not for Christians alone. In the last decade, we in the Episcopal Church have emphasized God's love for all regardless of race, ethnicity, gender, or sexual orientation. We should also emphasize God's love and practice radical hospitality for people of all religions, including Muslims. God loves everyone, even Muslims.\nOne of my favorite paintings is Edward Hicks\u2019 \u201cPeaceable Kingdom,\u201d which is actually a series of paintings by the nineteenth century American Quaker depicting various animals \u2013 predators and prey \u2013 gathered in peace. Unlike our present world filled with danger, Hicks paints the future, first envisioned by Isaiah (11:6) and echoed throughout the New Testament, in which God rules and humans dwell in peace with one another.\nWe cannot erase the tragedy of 9/11, turn back time, or redeem the suffering the attacks caused by attempting to preserve illusions of security, invulnerability, and control. Instead, we best honor and remember the dead by embracing our vulnerability, focusing on God's vision for the future, and walking the Jesus path to live into that future.\n(Sermon preached at St Paul's Episcopal Church, Louisburg, NC on September 11, 2011).\nLabels: Progressive Christianity, Terrorism\nSocial welfare programs are cost effective\nNaturalism, atheism, and post-theism\nWar cost update\nThe authority that shapes your life\nConfidence and overconfidence\nSpending time to buy happiness\nSome thoughts about inheritances\nMore heat than light in Palestinian-Israeli confli...\nMapping peace in the Middle East\nTerrorism and building peace\nAccountability and compassion\nThinking about the income tax\nIdeal levels of employment and unemployment\nThinking about community", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00240.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 212, + "original_length": 10983, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.95, + "perplexity": 293.1, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "http://blog.ethicalmusings.com/2015/10/tiny-house-trend.html", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T03:35:50Z", + "digest": "sha1:AHHNDKKN6YZOMZAXXWANFLNQ3A5LGA4Q", + "length": 4088, + "nlines": 14, + "source_domain": "blog.ethicalmusings.com", + "title": "Ethical Musings: Tiny house trend", + "raw_content": "Tiny houses are houses that have between 100 and 400 square feet. Tiny homes are currently experiencing a surge of popularity in the US.\nBy way of contrast, from 1973 to 2013, the average size of a new home in the US increased by 1,000 square feet while the space per person doubled as the number of people per family shrunk. (Mark J. Perry, \"Carpe Diem,\" American Enterprise Institute, February 26, 2014)\nTiny houses appeal to people for several reasons:\nMany tiny homes are mobile, allowing people to keep the same house if they relocate.\nTiny houses have relatively tiny prices, generally under $100,000 and often less than $50,000. Growing numbers of people find 30-year mortgages burdensome, limiting their options fiscally and in other ways.\nTiny houses represent a smaller environmental footprint and thus contribute less to climate change, global warming, pollution, and other ecological harms.\nTiny houses force occupants to focus on developing a less material lifestyle, allowing more time for relationships, self, etc.\nI like the tiny house trend. All four reasons commonly cited as explanations for why tiny houses appeal to people are ethically commendable. However, two other factors are also important.\nFirst, the tiny house trend encourages people to consider how much space one really needs in a domicile. I have repeatedly observing people spending money on large houses. Had many of these people made alternative choices about the size of their dwelling, then they would have had the resources (money and time \u2013 big houses not only cost more to buy but also require time and money to maintain) to achieve some of their other goals in life. Perhaps I'm sensitive to this issue having spent most of my childhood in a large New England colonial that emotionally owner my father.\nTwo extremes can aid in bracketing the average amount of square footage per person that is ethically justifiable. On the one hand, the Soviets estimated that each person should have 100 square feet of living space. That feels too small for me, and probably does for most people. On the other hand, the National Association of Home Builders has calculated that the average US house grew from 1400 square feet in 1970 to 2700 square feet in 2009. The Census Bureau reported that the average US household had 2.58 persons in 2010. This means that, on average, a person in the US has approximately 1046 square feet of living space.\nThe tiny house articles/reports I have seen generally indicate one or two persons living in the tiny house. A family of three or four will undoubtedly find 100 square feet too small. Conversely, two persons living in 3500 plus square feet \u2013 as my partner and I did in Raleigh \u2013 is excessive and morally wrong.\nRegrettably, people who want less house sometimes have few good options because US house builders traditionally prioritize size over quality. I bought the smallest house in Raleigh that offered the quality I sought. Thankfully, housing in Hawaii reflects a strong Asian influence. My Honolulu condo is mid-size for here, with less than 1200 square feet. I know we will have enough space; I wonder if we will have too much space. Extra space inevitably entails excess time, financial, and environmental costs.\nSecond, the tiny house movement has the potential to combat excessive economic inequality. Wealthy people by choosing a modest dwelling instead of a gargantuan mansion take steps to reduce the geographic and cultural barriers that create unethical class distinctions. Disavowing the pursuit of opulence in favor of a more modest lifestyle encourages self and others to develop an abundant life consonant with Ethical Musings' themes and values. Finally, the tiny house movement, if adopted by organizations and persons concerned about social justice, has the potential to reduce poverty, homelessness, and several other social evils.\nThe tiny house movement is no panacea nor do I advocate that everyone join it. However, the tiny house movement can be a catalyst for ethical reflection and making choices that lead to more truly abundant living.", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00240.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 202, + "original_length": 7754, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.96, + "perplexity": 302.9, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "http://blog.hollywoodshorts.com/2010/11/meetthefilmmakers/", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T03:43:40Z", + "digest": "sha1:I5G6YCMN4GCXVKKGEVCKVKTETSEDXOL6", + "length": 6676, + "nlines": 26, + "source_domain": "blog.hollywoodshorts.com", + "title": "Meet The Filmmakers - November 2010 - HOLLYWOOD SHORTS : HOLLYWOOD SHORTS", + "raw_content": "Meet these filmmakers and see their work at\nHOLLYWOOD SHORTS on Sunday Nov 21\nCinespace at 5pm Free Click here to RSVP\nwww.allisoncraig.com\nAllison is an alum of Columbus College of Art and Design in Ohio where she majored in traditional animation. She has an animator\u2019s dream gig, working fulltime at Titmouse, Inc. in LA. She has extensive experience in every aspect of animation, from storyboarding to character design. Allison then moved to Boston, where \u2018boarded and animated on children\u2019s television shows.\nAfter moving to LA, she joined the Prynoski\u2019s indie \u2018toon shop, where she has worked on Metalocalypse (AdultSwim), Guitar Hero and a ton of other A-list animated productions. She is now working more as a director, most recently directing the animation for the Scott Pilgrim vs. The Animation \u2018toon (Adult Swim) produced by Titmouse, Inc.\nBARKO was produced in house at Titmouse as part of their Short Film Initiative \u2013 providing extensive support and resources for their staffers to grow their directing chops. This is the 3rd short film from the division, and it is tearing up the festival circuit.\nwww.andrewwilding.com\nAndrew is a rare breed \u2013 he was born and raised in Los Angeles and spend a good part of his youth pursuing a career as a musician, both writing and recording. He was inspired to begin shooting photos by a local music photographer who was covering his band on stage, and he quickly moved into the visual arts.\n\u201cI want to make work that moves you at the very core, \u2026 through creating momenta of absolute truth and humanity\u201d. Andrew\u2019s photography lead him naturally to working with moving images and cinematography. Now he is makes the leap into narrative film directing. His short film PIANO MAN is a testament to his visual and storytelling objectives; it is simultaneously wicked funny and starkly beautiful. Adam is currently writing his first feature script and is just wrapping up a music video shoot in NYC.\nwww.seangannet.com\nSean Gannet was born to drive slow, dance fast, and make movies. He joins us on Sunday literally moments after wrapping production on a new feature film. He also just completed production on the short film \u201cThe Poets\u201d written by Lori Fischer, starring Susan Louise O\u2019Connor & Jeff Hiller. This year he also Line Produced the epic TED Prize MissionBlue Conference in the Galapagos Islands. Sean clearly loves the short format \u2013 he also has a pretty rockin\u2019 musical THE ONE THAT I WANT \u2013 also produces as part of RIPFEST Collaborative Film Project.\nSean was the Associate Producer of Mike Myers\u2019 THE LOVE GURU and worked on the Shrek franchise during his three years at Myer\u2019s Nomoneyfun. He has also staffed Tribeca Film Festival, the IFP Market and other NYC film shindigs. In addition to his propensity for writing and directing, Sean is a road-trip enthusiast, celebrated turkey chili chef, and lauded amateur dancer for whom crowds of strangers have oft circled-up to watch him shake it. Sean is based in Brooklyn and is a Northwestern film school alum.\nwww.mkeeganuhl.com\nKeegan was born in Madison, Wisconsin but quickly moved to Boston where he spent most of his young life. He was introduced to film in high school via the local access TV station where he created his first critical success: a regional champion video in the National History Day competition. Yes, he is a nerd. He received his BFA from Middlebury College in Vermont in 2001. There he enjoyed a liberal arts education, was awarded the David I. Goldman Prize for Excellence in Film and developed a love for Hitchcock and surrealism in film.\nHe was a full time editor of award-winning educational programming for three years in Boston. In 2007 he moved to Los Angeles with his wife Martha and their cairn terrier Buzz Lightyear to pursue a directing career. He attended the Los Angeles Film School where he was nominated for the 2008 ASC student cinematographer awards and schooled in the ways of Hollywood.\nAlso an avid and award-winning photographer, Keegan is inspired by the inherent beauty of our world and driven by a quest for TRUTH in all its forms. He believes the greatest films push the medium to its full potential to tell compelling stories and create a unique experience that teaches, inspires and entertains.Keegan recharges with backpacking trips in the Eastern Sierra, and is an elite ultimate frisbee player and the captain of a top level team based in L.A.\nGeorge Hickenlooper (May 25, 1963 \u2013 October 29, 2010)\nSOME FOLKS CALL IT A SLING BLADE 25 minutes \u2013 1994\nFESTIVALS: Sundance, New York, Locarno WINNER: Aspen Shortsfest, San Sebastian, Aspect Short, Vila Do Conde, USA, Chicago Int\u2019l\nSo much to say about George, and yet words seem so deficient. This short film was a collaboration between Billy Bob Thornton and George, born from a character study Billy Bob developed as part of his 1986 one-man play \u201cSwine Before Pearls\u201d. George and Billy Bob first worked together on George\u2019s feature \u201cGhost Brigade\u201d, then George came on to direct Billy Bob\u2019s short script. The film was shot in three days in a Simi Valley hospital that was the location of \u201cTerminator 2\u201d. Billy Bob went on to win the Academy Award for Best Screenplay for the feature version of Karl\u2019s story, which he also directed and starred in. Watching the short film navigate the process from short fest programs to Academy Award Winning Feature was a gamechanger for me personally. The power of this film changed the way I thought of shorts, and their place in my own life and filmmaking career. I started HOLLYWOOD SHORTS the next year.\nGeorge\u2019s film career, cut so brutally mid-sentence, includes an incredible body of feature films, short films and documentaries. George was enjoying one of the those magical years we all dream off \u2013 his \u201cCasino Jack\u201d starring Kevin Spacey World Premiere at Toronto, with a distro deal secured, great reviews for Spacey growing from screening to screening. More great news about the film buzzing about as the film lands screenings at Doha, and Austin, locking an LA premiere at AFI and then\u2026 Denver.\nI can think of no better way to say good bye to a storyteller I truly respected, and always considered a Really Nice Guy, than to remember the first time I saw his name on the screen and the 25 minutes that ensured I would never forget it.\nSee ya later, George. Thank you.\nTags: animation, cinema, comedy, digital filmmakers, drama, DSLR, featured, film directing, film festival, filmmaking, George Hickenlooper, hollywood, Inc., movies, New York City, short film, Titmouse\nShort Film Program #2 \u2013 November 21 Adam Green\u2019s new HALLOWEEN short film & other ghoulish fun! Short Film Program #1 \u2013 October 10 \u2013 Cinespace", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00240.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 121, + "original_length": 12985, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.97, + "perplexity": 262.5, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "http://blog.jvf.com/2013/01/01/make-2013-your-best-year-ever/", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T03:34:38Z", + "digest": "sha1:25OWI7ND74URYHMWWWUVLSLG7C5HSDU5", + "length": 5949, + "nlines": 29, + "source_domain": "blog.jvf.com", + "title": "Make 2013 Your Best Year Ever - Overnight Sensation | Overnight Sensation", + "raw_content": "James Feudo January 1, 2013 December 31, 2012 Goal Setting, Motivation No Comments\nHappy 2013! There\u2019s something about the New Year that causes us to use it as a milestone for starting over. Perhaps it\u2019s the act of replacing our desk or wall calendars or maybe it\u2019s the fact that it\u2019s a new tax and financial period. Whatever the reason, most of us use this opportunity to drop old bad habits and pick up new good ones.\nIf you\u2019re not sure what to do for your resolution, here are some ideas to get you started.\n1. Quit drinking/smoking/over-eating.\nYes, these are almost clich\u00e9 as they are incredibly common. But they are not only on this list but first on this list because this change can actually save your life and help ensure that you\u2019re here next year to celebrate 2014. Without your health, you have nothing. Like the old joke about how much money the billionaire left when he died (all of it), you can always find ways to make money, you can\u2019t always repair your health. So if you\u2019re going down the wrong road health wise, now is a great time to change direction.\n2. Finish a project that you\u2019ve struggled to make time for.\nThis past November I participated in NaNoWriMo \u2013 National Novel Writing Month. I had been kicking around an idea for a novel for over three years and took the opportunity to complete my first draft. One of my goals for 2013 is to complete the novel before I start its sequel this coming November.\n3. Repair a damaged relationship.\n\u201cShould old acquaintance be forgot, and never brought to mind?\u201d How can we forget those famous lyrics to Auld Lang Syne which many interpret as a call to let bygones be bygones? If there\u2019s someone (or some people) that you need to mend your relationship with, make it a priority to try it this year. Send them a letter or postcard or give them a call. You might be surprised at how the hostility can die down over time.\n4. Begin an exercise routine.\nThis is along the same lines as the first item in the list and probably tied for most common resolution. Gym regulars often take the first week of the year off because gyms get crowded with new members. Of course, most stop going by February 1st while many stop after the first week. If you choose to do this, it\u2019s helpful to pace yourself and make it part of your routine. Try for 3 days a week and put the time in your calendar \u2013 set reminders for yourself. If you can keep it up for two full months, odds are that you\u2019ll keep it up for the year.\n5. Go on a diet.\nAnother twist on the first item. People toss out the junk food and try to eat healthy. It\u2019s much easier said than done. If you\u2019re truly dedicated to lose weight, try for 1 to 2 pounds a week which you can easily do by making small changes such as eating a salad with one meal each day and substituting water for soda.\nBuy a book, sign up for a course or find an online tutorial. You can choose something to help move your career forward such as something related to your job, or you can do something fun like learning a new language or how to snowboard.\n7. Make a career change.\nIf you\u2019re frustrated or unfulfilled with your job, perhaps it\u2019s time to consider a change. Talk to a career counselor (in the US, each state has a department of employment or similar agency and there\u2019s also the Small Business Administration that offers these services for free). Check with the alumni office of your high school or college to see if they offer these services. Or, do some research by talking to people who have the job or work at the company that you want to work at. If you want to go off on your own and start a business, contact SCORE or the Small Business Association.\n8. Focus on a goal.\nIf you want to buy a house, meet that special someone or get that car you\u2019ve been dreaming of, now\u2019s your chance. Write down your goal and look at it every morning when you get up and each night as you go to bed. Create an action plan. Ask yourself what steps you need to take to reach your goal and break them down into smaller tasks that you can manage.\n9. Deal with a fear or phobia.\nIf a fear or phobia is holding you back, perhaps it\u2019s time to nip it in the bud. A number of people who have used my public speaking and networking programs have done so because their fears of speaking or meeting people have prevented them from moving to the next level in their career. If a fear of flying is preventing you from traveling or a social fear is preventing you from making the connections you desire, then this might be a great opportunity to do something about it.\n10. Do something that makes you happy.\nSometimes, we feel so pressured to be productive and work harder that we lose sight of the fact that there is more to life than professional success. In 2012, I cut back on the amount of classes I taught, took a few months off from blogging and social media and didn\u2019t create any new products. While I did work on some other projects that I hadn\u2019t been able to get to, I also used that time to take a few vacations, spend extra time with friends and family and do more of the things I love. I went to the circus for the first time, did a lot of work on my house, got my home and finances in order and even found myself out until 1 AM having the time of my life with good friends a half dozen times. Yes, there are times when I miss having the extra money I could have earned, but I wouldn\u2019t trade it for the memories I made.\nSo as you start your journey into 2013, think about the type of year you want to have. Now is your chance to make 2013 the best year ever so go for it.\nMaking 2010 a Fantastic Year Tweet I\u2019m not really into resolutions \u2013 I\u2019m into goals....\nNot enough time in the day? Try Small Improvements Tweet The other day I was talking with some friends...\nMoving beyond your comfort zone Tweet Do you ever look back on a time in...\nBuying the ticket Tweet There\u2019s an old joke about a guy that prays...\n\u2190 He Who Shall Not Be Named\nWhat I Learned from NaNoWriMo \u2192", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00240.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 120, + "original_length": 8207, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.96, + "perplexity": 296.1, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "http://blog.mikeandsophia.com/2010/12/httpwww-mikeandsophia-com201012neutral-uke-hotel-motion-sick-golden-html/", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T03:52:30Z", + "digest": "sha1:PAIMHQAEZRAPGOKVDK35WPIWRECETRVR", + "length": 3734, + "nlines": 14, + "source_domain": "blog.mikeandsophia.com", + "title": "Neutral Uke Hotel / The Motion Sick / Golden Bloom session on Daytrotter!!! \u2013 Sophia Cacciola & Michael J. Epstein", + "raw_content": "Home \u00bb Music \u00bb The Motion Sick \u00bb Neutral Uke Hotel / The Motion Sick / Golden Bloom session on Daytrotter!!!\nIllustration by Johnnie Cluney\nI posted a while back about our visit to Daytrotter. Now, I am absolutely delighted to say that our session has been posted! For anyone that doesn\u2019t know about Daytrotter, it is an amazing site that houses unique recording sessions captured at the site\u2019s studio, Horseshack in Rock Island, IL (Wikipedia article). The sessions are done direct to 2-track tape with no overdubs, edits, etc. So, you get some real insight into how bands play and interact when you hear these things. I\u2019ve been a long-time fan/session downloader and I am amazingly proud to have had the opportunity to be part of it. I like a lot of the more obscure sessions, so check out stuff you\u2019ve never heard of, but some name notables and awesome indies that have visited the Daytrotter folks include: Aimee Mann, Ani DiFranco, Avett Brothers, Bob Mould, Casiotone for the Painfully Alone, Colin Hay, Deer Tick, Frightened Rabbit, Fucked Up, Ian McCulloch (Echo and the Bunnymen), Langhorne Slim, Mates of State, The Meat Puppets, Metric, Okkervil River, The Rentals, Rock Plaza Central, and Tori Amos.\nIn addition to recording a bunch of songs, the folks at Daytrotter have an artist draw you. I love the style of the drawings and was looking forward to seeing how I would come out on paper. I was not disappointed one bit! The reviews of the session that have popped up have been very positive thus far as well!\nIt was really exciting to get a chance to do a mix of songs with Shawn Fogel and Josh Cohen. They performed 2 Golden Bloom songs and then I joined them to perform 2 Neutral Uke Hotel songs and 2 The Motion Sick songs.\nOn the site, you can download the session in 128 kbps MP3 format or buy the uncompressed version! Check it out: http://www.daytrotter.com/dt/neutral-uke-hotel-golden-bloom-the-motion-sick-concert/20031370-51544.html\nAs a taste, here\u2019s an embed of \u201cHolland, 1945\u201d\nTags:blogpost daytrotter epstein golden bloom neutral uke hotel The Motion Sick TMSBlog\nPrevious PostThe Positronic Rays! (rock the Rosebud and hit the studio!)\nNext PostMy younger sister wrote a hilarious book about her wedding (featuring juicy gossip about me)\n[\u2026] Neutral Uke HotelNeutral Uke Hotel felt like more of an accident than anything else. The brilliant and talented Shawn Fogel of Golden Bloom asked me if I wanted to join in for a one-off show he was putting together at the Somerville Armory. He was going to perform all of Neutral Milk Hotel\u2019s In the Aeroplane Over the Sea on ukulele. Rather than interfering with the cohesion of the project, I offered to play an outtake song at the end. I ended up meeting up for the prep for the show and it worked out that I could strum along to a few other songs during the set. The show went so well that we decided to go on tour in June (including NXNE and an awesome Take Away Show) and August. On the latter tour, I documented bathrooms and genital graffiti. We also played CMJ in October. Most exciting of all, was that we had the opportunity to record a Daytrotter Session. [\u2026]\nThe Michael J. Epstein Memorial Library Tour Recap Day 6: Daytrotter \u2013 Rock Island, IL and Laundromatinee \u2013 Indianapolis, IN !!! (w/Golden Bloom) \u2013 Sophia Cacciola & Michael J. 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This is why we\u2019ve compiled a list of the best energy infographics (graphics that allow you to digest a large amount of information in a quick way) so you can better understand what solar is all about. Ingest the information, enjoy, comment, \u2026 Read More\u2026\nLike any investment, you need to know what you are getting into before you make a purchase decision. Same goes for solar energy. Here are 10 solar energy truths: 1) Every hour the sun beams onto Earth more than enough energy to satisfy global energy needs for an entire year. (National Geographic) 2) Despite the drawbacks, solar energy use has surged at about 20 percent a year over the past 15 years, thanks \u2026 Read More\u2026\nA lot has happened in the solar energy world this week. From solar powered jails to industry growth, here are some recent highlights: A California jail was recently awarded a $3.5 million contract for solar panel installation project that officials estimate will cut electrical bills by more than 40 percent, or $460,000. (More at Ventura County Star) The ongoing battle between Georgia Power and solar energy startup Georgia Solar Utilities was a hot \u2026 Read More\u2026\nThe U.S. solar energy industry is outpacing the job growth in all areas of the economy, according to non-profit group the Solar Foundation. The organization reported that the solar energy field added jobs at about eight times the rate of the rest of the economy in the 12 months (September 2011 to 2012). Nearly 14,000 solar workers were added, boosting the solar workforce by 13.2 percent, asserted this Washington-based non-profit organization. \u2026 Read More\u2026\nOne of the hottest topics in the upcoming 2012 Presidential elections is energy, and how each candidate views this all-important issue. Currently, Mitt Romney and President Barack Obama are polarized on this issue \u2013 making it a hot topic in the minds of potential voters. While both men seem to have concern for the environment, their views are widely separated in regards to how the Federal government should be involved \u2026 Read More\u2026\nThe polls are out (and we are not talking about Presidential polls) \u2026 Registered voters in the 2012 election overwhelmingly in support solar energy. And,according to a national poll commissioned by the Solar Energy Industries Association (SEIA), voters would like to see the federal government foster the growth of the solar industry. 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[More on solar power news.]\nGoing green is very popular these days. \u201cDoing good\u201d for the environment is becoming a mass appeal. People are beginning to realize that if we don\u2019t continue destructing the environment, there will be a toxic wasteland in future generations. Though solar power may be increasing in popularity and people are beginning to realize the importance of sustainable living, there are still many unknowns. So, we are here today to answer \u2026 Read More\u2026\nGreen trends are becoming more and more popular. As threats of global warming and overall environmental vitality become more and more \u201creal\u201d, many individuals and business have realized the importance of implementing green energies. Whether you\u2019re interested in green living, residential solar energy, green products, Twitter supplies a great reel of information. Twitter feeds contain some of the latest and greatest news in the industry, allowing you to keep up on what\u2019s \u2026 Read More\u2026", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00240.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 139, + "original_length": 8219, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.93, + "perplexity": 225.7, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "http://blog.staceycohendesign.com/2010/01/go-to-bed-in-style.html", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T04:32:14Z", + "digest": "sha1:7VNNMWNXFSPIIK3SGPC4HNYIB6AE45YQ", + "length": 601, + "nlines": 10, + "source_domain": "blog.staceycohendesign.com", + "title": "Stacey Cohen Design Blog", + "raw_content": "Go To Bed In Style...\n6 Bedside Tables and Where to Find Them\nPlantation Night Stand: Plantation Design\nClaude Modular System: Jonathan Adler\nJacqui 3 Drawer Side Table: Hudson Furniture\nEngan Night Stand: Ikea\nGlamour Girl Night Stand: The French Bedroom Company\nGwenyth Paltro's Night Stands\nThese are Gwenyth Paltros's night stands in her house in the Hamptons, I loved these high gloss lacquer tables so much that I had them made for my sisters house and they came out amazingly well. Picture via hooked on houses.\nfar from eye, far from heart. ....................................................", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00240.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 87, + "original_length": 2869, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.78, + "perplexity": 304.6, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "http://blog.sugardaters.co.uk/category/featured/page/4/", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T03:13:57Z", + "digest": "sha1:P7UZAXG3PPOOUNYIFLYW2IFDSQBXJ4BS", + "length": 863, + "nlines": 3, + "source_domain": "blog.sugardaters.co.uk", + "title": "Featured Arkiv - Page 4 of 7 - Sugardaters\u00ae Blog - UK", + "raw_content": "Mono-poly SugarBaby We all know that Sugar Dating is one of many unconventional types of relationships. But let\u2019s go a step further, would you share your Sugar Daddy or would you rather regard him as your \u201cproperty\u201d? Polyamorous or Monogamous? Close or open? Jealous [\u2026]\nSugar\u2019s expiration date Every relationship has its own expiration date. From this border, it either goes into routine hibernation or disappears forever. As I described earlier Sugar Dating is like a constant honeymoon without getting married. If the relationship is based on mutual pleasure, where [\u2026]\nUnapologeticSelf: Women shouldn\u2019t be ashamed of who they are and what they do anymore. UnapologeticSelf is a movement founded by the female coworkers at SugarDaters.com. 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Paige (22) of the Colorado State Rams looks to pass the ball around Karachi Edo (4) of the Fresno State Bulldogs during a semifinal game of the Mountain West Conference basketball tournament at the Thomas & Mack Center on March 11, 2016 in Las Vegas. (Jeff Bottari, Getty Images)\nColorado State\u2019s 2015-16 men\u2019s basketball season is over after the team declined invitations to the College Basketball Invitational and Vegas 16 tournaments, coach Larry Eustachy announced Monday.\n\u201cWe appreciate the opportunities those tournament committees gave us in extending invitations, but it just is not in the best interest of the overall program,\u201d Eustachy said in a news release. \u201cWe are excited for what this team can be next year and are going to start focusing on that after we give the players some time off.\u201d\nThe Rams finished the season with an 18-16 record after losing to Fresno State in the semifinals of the Mountain West Tournament. CSU has enjoyed the program\u2019s best four-year period during Eustachy\u2019s time as coach, winning a record 87 games in that span for a record of 87-48.\nCategories: College Basketball, Colorado State\nHow to watch NCAA basketball practice at the Pepsi Center for free\nJosh Scott, Colorado Buffs forward, earns 2nd Pac-12 player of the week of season\nCowards. Expect nothing less from the Rammies though.\nComment by scott b \u2014 March 14, 2016 @ 2:34 pm\nOr they don\u2019t have the budget for it.\nComment by mxer \u2014 March 14, 2016 @ 2:56 pm\nThat would be even more embarrassing as the first round game would likely be played in fort collins\nSeems like a lousy thing to do to their players, especially seniors, to deny them the tourney, so the U. can save $.\nCowards? You must be one of those parents that believes everybody should get a ribbon and/or trophy? The Rams were .500\u2026.. Great decision! The goal should be to get to the dance!\nComment by Old school \u2014 March 14, 2016 @ 3:22 pm\nI\u2019m more like one of those parents who wants to see the kids compete, not walk away with their tale between their legs. The extra games and practice make these secondary tournaments worthwhile.\nThey played 34 games for cryin out loud! When is enough enough?\nSure. Settle for mediocrity. Sums up that whole university.\nYou do understand it\u2019s a university, not a basketball program\u2026\u2026.\nNo, you likely don\u2019t.\nComment by Thin The Herd \u2014 March 15, 2016 @ 10:02 am\nI assume the travel costs didn\u2019t makes sense, but I always thought that the extra practices and games were a boost. Maybe not as much in basketball as in football.\nBetter luck next year Rams!\nComment by Chris \u2014 March 14, 2016 @ 3:48 pm\nThese rinky dink tournaments are cost prohibitive unless those complaining are willing to make some big donations to balance the budget?\nComment by The_KIMN_Chicken \u2014 March 14, 2016 @ 5:19 pm\nDoesn\u2019t make much sense from a recruiting visibility perspective\u2026\nComment by Tannim \u2014 March 15, 2016 @ 8:50 am\nBoise State and others did the same thing. Check out why and it makes perfect sense.\nComment by Bob Eber \u2014 March 15, 2016 @ 9:25 am", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00240.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 112, + "original_length": 8964, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.96, + "perplexity": 293.8, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "http://bloodredpatriots.com/author/nolan-peterson/", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T03:38:06Z", + "digest": "sha1:MPS66WJXGU5WPY76DTAVOIBGVC5WPEH2", + "length": 7309, + "nlines": 46, + "source_domain": "bloodredpatriots.com", + "title": "Nolan Peterson", + "raw_content": "By Nolan Peterson On 21 January 2019 In Opinion\nThe US Strikes Back Against Russia\u2019s European Gas Empire\nKYIV, Ukraine\u2014With the Kremlin tightening its grip on the\nEuropean energy market, the U.S. has hardened its opposition to a controversial Russian gas pipeline, which is currently under construction through the Baltic Sea to Germany.\nFor months, U.S. officials have said Russia\u2019s Nord Stream 2 pipeline is part of a broader Kremlin gambit to bypass Ukrainian transit pipelines, which have delivered the lion\u2019s share of Russian natural gas exports to Europe for decades.\nYet, despite U.S. protests, construction hasn\u2019t stopped, and the 750-mile-long pipeline is about one-third complete as of this article\u2019s publication. The U.S., for its part, escalated its resistance to the project this month, when U.S. Ambassador to Germany Richard Grenell sent letters to construction contractors working on the Nord Stream 2 pipeline, warning of \u201ca significant risk of sanctions\u201d unless they abandoned the project. READ MORE...\nUkraine\u2019s Leap of Faith Is a Step Toward Ditching Russian Influence\nKYIV, Ukraine\u2014Orthodox Christians celebrated Christmas on Jan. 7, according to the Julian calendar. This year\u2019s holiday was the first for Ukraine\u2019s newly unified, national Orthodox Church, independent from Russian control for the first time since the 17th century.\nMonday\u2019s milestone marked a major step forward in Ukraine\u2019s ongoing efforts to diminish Russian influence, highlighting an intractable cultural divorce between the two erstwhile Soviet allies.\n\u201cRussia uses the church as one of the tools to influence Ukraine\u2019s domestic politics,\u201d said Julia Kazdobina, head of the Ukrainian Foundation for Security Studies. READ MORE...\nBy Nolan Peterson On 6 December 2018 In Opinion\nAn Embattled Ukrainian Port City Braces for Russian \u2018Economic Warfare\u2019\nMARIUPOL, Ukraine\u2014The world is finally paying attention to Galina Odnorog.\nOn behalf of the port of Mariupol, the 50-year-old Ukrainian volunteer activist has been coordinating a media outreach campaign since August 2017, trying to alert Western countries to the threat posed by Russia to Ukraine-bound shipping traffic in the Sea of Azov.\n\u201cRussia has blockaded our Sea of Azov ports. It\u2019s an act of economic warfare, and we want the world to pay attention,\u201d Odnorog said during an interview in Mariupol, a Ukrainian port city of half a million people on the Sea of Azov, which is within earshot of the ongoing land war in eastern Ukraine. READ MORE...\nBy Nolan Peterson On 30 November 2018 In Opinion\nTrump Scraps Putin Meeting as US, UK Back Ukraine After Naval Attack\nKYIV, Ukraine\u2014Ukraine got a valuable boost Thursday from its Western allies when ambassadors from the U.S. and Britain both condemned Russia\u2019s seizure of three Ukrainian navy vessels and pledged their countries would do more to build up Ukraine\u2019s naval forces.\n\u201cWe call on Russia to de-escalate the tension that Russia has created,\u201d U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine Marie Yovanovitch said in a speech before a packed hall at the International Maritime Security Conference here in Ukraine\u2019s capital. READ MORE...\nUkraine Braces for a Full-On Russian Invasion\nKYIV, Ukraine\u2014Sunday\u2019s Kerch Strait crisis underscored how quickly Russia\u2019s simmering, 4.5-year-old, low-intensity war against Ukraine could escalate into a historic catastrophe.\n\u201cYesterday we were close to war. In fact, war happened,\u201d Capt. Andrii Ryzhenko, the Ukrainian navy\u2019s deputy chief of staff for Euro-Atlantic integration, told The Daily Signal on Monday.\nOn Sunday, Russian ships fired on and captured three Ukrainian navy vessels approaching the Kerch Strait, a narrow waterway that connects the Black Sea to the Sea of Azov. The three Ukrainian vessels, two artillery boats and a tugboat, were in transit from Odesa to the Ukrainian port of Mariupol on the Sea of Azov. READ MORE...\nWhat I Saw at the Migrant Caravan\nMEXICO CITY\u2014The migrant caravan has its own de facto government, and on this night the travelers from Central America gathered at the behest of a few leaders to discuss issues of the day as well as the big picture\u2014such as what route to take to the U.S. border.\n\u201cIt\u2019s your right to go to the U.S.,\u201d Milton Benitez, a political analyst and sociologist who hosts the Honduran TV show \u201cEl Perro Amarillo,\u201d implored the impassioned crowd.\nIn a scene not unlike when a coach rallies his players before a big game, the Honduran media figure pressed the encircling migrants on the night of Nov. 7 not to give up on their \u201cmission\u201d to achieve the U.S. border. READ MORE...\nBy Nolan Peterson On 9 June 2018 In Opinion\nIf Russia Invades, US Special Operations Forces Have an Unconventional Plan to Liberate the Baltics\nDOLASZEWO, Poland\u2014In less than 72 hours, U.S. special operations forces transformed a nondescript reserve base at this village in the bucolic Polish countryside into the headquarters of a simulated, special operations war to liberate NATO\u2019s three Baltic countries from a land invasion.\nLooking in from outside the perimeter wire, however, you\u2019d never know it.\nOnly a few, unassuming radio antennas dot the area around an old warehouse inside of which U.S. special operations personnel have set up their operations center. READ MORE...\nBy Nolan Peterson On 19 May 2018 In Opinion\nRussia Makes Bold Move to Try to Solidify Control Over Crimea\nKYIV, Ukraine\u2014On Tuesday, Russia\u2019s ongoing conflict against Ukraine flared up once again.\nThis time, however, it wasn\u2019t another Russian artillery or rocket barrage in eastern Ukraine\u2019s embattled Donbas region. Rather, the latest escalation was evidenced by the completion of a bridge across the Kerch Strait connecting the Crimean Peninsula with mainland Russia.\nRussian President Vladimir Putin, true to form, got behind the wheel of a big-rig truck on Tuesday and lead a convoy across the newly opened Kerch Strait bridge. READ MORE...\nBy Nolan Peterson On 28 March 2018 In Opinion\nNATO Braces for Putin\u2019s Next Military Move in Eastern Europe\nKYIV, Ukraine\u2014Since 2014, Russian President Vladimir Putin\u2019s military aggression in Ukraine has rearranged the national defense chessboards of countries across Eastern Europe.\nIn turn, the NATO military alliance has deployed weapons and troops eastward, to \u201cmake clear that an attack on one Ally would be considered an attack on the whole Alliance,\u201d said NATO\u2019s website. And the administration of U.S. President Donald Trump has approved delivery of American anti-tank weapons to Ukraine.\nYet, U.S. and NATO military leaders may have it wrong when it comes to anticipating Russia\u2019s next military move in the region, a U.S. think tank says. READ MORE...\nUS Fighter Pilots on the Front Lines of Russia\u2019s Spy Games\nTALLINN, Estonia\u2014The night of Friday, Feb. 10, was frigid and snowy in Estonia\u2019s capital city. The kind of winter weather one expects in this Baltic country, which lies at roughly the same geographic latitude as southern Alaska.\nInside the lobby bar of Tallinn\u2019s Swissotel, however, the temperature was warm and the atmosphere bustled with people enjoying drinks and conversation\u2014presumably the typical Friday night scene at this fashionable, modern hotel in the city center.\nYet, if you knew what to look for, subtle clues proliferated as to the ongoing shadow war between Russia and the West. READ MORE...", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00240.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 141, + "original_length": 11994, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.92, + "perplexity": 273.8, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "http://blowout.myvideostore.com/news/5788/review-ducktales-destination-adventure-is-a-blast-from-the-past/", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T04:24:19Z", + "digest": "sha1:34EUGBNGON5IG3JZ2FJTQ6A6JVPL6PVO", + "length": 3842, + "nlines": 13, + "source_domain": "blowout.myvideostore.com", + "title": "Review: 'DuckTales Destination: Adventure' is a blast from the past", + "raw_content": "Review: 'DuckTales Destination: Adventure' is a blast from the past\nPosted Monday, June 4, 2018 at 4:08 PM Central\nWe live in a world that is constantly searching for the next property to reboot or remake with varying levels of success. Sometimes, it's just best to let sleeping dogs lie and leave us with our pleasant memories and not risk tarnishing the reputation of a brand with a few simple tweets.\nThankfully, DuckTales is a pretty safe bet when Disney decided to mine their past for more gold. You could say that they simply went back to Scrooge McDuck's vault of gold coins and made another withdrawal. And while the sense of nostalgia from the earlier incarnation of DuckTales is indeed there, we would be selling this version short if we just called it a lesser copy of the original.\nNo, it seems that the two decades that DuckTales spent in hibernation allowed it to grow and mutate into something even better than the original series. Again, I was a young teenager when the original series aired, so I wasn't exactly the target demographic for the show, but I clearly enjoyed the very late '80s/early '90s vibe that it naturally possessed.\nWith Destination: Adventure, Disney continues its trend of releasing episodes in volumes (usually about six episodes each) as opposed to one large complete season offering. It seems that properties targeted to younger kids get this treatment while the older programs come out in binge-friendly complete sets. As the parent of two toddlers, I can attest that this strategy works.\nMy kids don't really care yet about the continuity of a story arc across several episodes. They simply enjoy each episode as a disposable commodity that they can re-watch over and over again. Also, the six episodes have a running time of about two hours which matches their average attention span right now.\nDestination: Adventure includes episodes 8-12 and episode 4. I have no clue how they determined which episodes to bundle together, but my kids didn't seem to care about the process much. They simply wanted to watch the episodes as many times as possible. The latest episode on the DVD just aired on May 18 on Disney XD, so the DVD feels fresh.\nAs I mentioned in my review for the first DuckTales DVD, the series continues to use Webby in a great way that was a bit lacking in the original series. Obviously, times have changed over the last 20 years, but it's refreshing to see Disney open up a property that had previously been earmarked as a \"boy's cartoon\" so that all children can relate to the show's heroes.\nNot only is the main voice cast phenomenal, but Disney has tapped several big name players such as Lin-Manuel Miranda, Tara Strong, and Nia Vardalos among others to lend their voices to these six episodes. While they could have simply cast unknowns in these roles, it really speaks to the strength of the brand that they were able to go out and land such in-demand talent for DuckTales.\nDuckTales is still finishing up the airing of season one on Disney XD, but has already been picked up for a second season. At this point, it's unclear if Disney will simply release the remaining unreleased episodes on the next DVD or if they will compile all of them into a complete season - or both. One thing is for certain, these volumes continue to have value-added content to ease the pain of the inevitable double-dip.\nDestination: Adventure includes two never-before-on-DVD episodes from season four from the original run of DuckTales. While \"New Gizmo-Kids on the Block\" and \"Ducky Mountain High\" might seem like throwaway extras, they actually shed some light on the episodes on the DVD from the current series. 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Support was the Irish guitar player and singer Eamonn McCormack. Tommy Castro & The Painkillers are Tommy Castro (voc, g), Randy McDonald (b), Mile Emerson (keys) and Bowen Brown (dr).\nTommy Castro (born April 15, 1955, San Jos\u00e9, CA) is an American blues and rock guitarist and singer. He has been recording since the mid-1990s. His music has taken him from local stages to national and international touring. His popularity was marked by his winning the 2008 Blues Music Award in Memphis. In May 2010, The Blues Foundation awarded Castro multiple Blues Music awards for Blues Male Artist of the Year, Contemporary Blues Album of the Year, B.B. King Entertainer of the Year, and with his band, Band of the Year. (Wikipedia) He was also nominated many times in 2006, 2008 and 2012.\nTommy Castro & The Painkillers at Meisenfrei, Bremen DE on 2017-11-22\n(Videos taken by Anke Bartels)\nBig Daddy Wilson 2017 \u2192", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00240.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 103, + "original_length": 2886, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.95, + "perplexity": 188.8, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "http://boletin.bireme.org/en/2018/05/29/promotion-of-the-vhl-traditional-complementary-and-integrative-medicine-to-expand-collaboration/", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T03:53:24Z", + "digest": "sha1:FAPT6R2PI5L2U2LIOYLKZ3GVXNXSBUYR", + "length": 5833, + "nlines": 12, + "source_domain": "boletin.bireme.org", + "title": "Promotion of the VHL Traditional, Complementary and Integrative Medicine to expand collaboration \u2013 BIREME/PAHO/WHO Bulletin", + "raw_content": "HOME > Promotion of the VHL Traditional, Complementary and Integrative Medicine to expand collaboration\nThe VHL TCIM Americas was launched on March 12 by the Director of PAHO/WHO and the Director of BIREME, within the framework of the 1st International Congress of Integrative, Complementary and Public Health, organized by the Ministry of Health of Brazil, in Rio de Janeiro. Recently, this VHL was presented and promoted by BIREME/PAHO/WHO in two important events held in the United States, thanks to the initiative coordinated by the Health Services and Access Unit, and the Office of Equity, Gender and Cultural Diversity of PAHO/WHO.\nThe first event was the Webinar \u201cTraditional and Complementary Medicine in Primary Health Care: 40 years after Alma-Ata\u201d, held on May 8, 2018, with the purpose of examining the role of Traditional and Complementary Medicines in the APS, in the context of the 40th anniversary of the Alma-Ata Declaration, the Strategy of Universal Health Care and the WHO Traditional Medicine Strategy 2014-2023.\nDr. Anna Coates, head of the Office of Equity, Gender and Cultural Diversity of PAHO/WHO, who made the opening speech, remarked that \u201cthe strengthening of efforts to recognize ancestral knowledge and traditional and complementary medicine is key to combating ethnic inequities and thus being able to move towards Universal Health. Referring to the VHL TCIM Americas, she noted that \u201cimproving access to knowledge and experience in traditional medicine is part of these long-awaited efforts to move towards inclusion and equity\u201d. This is why Traditional and Complementary Medicine was included as a central component of the intercultural approach in the PAHO/WHO Ethnicity and Health Policy, that seeks to guarantee the inclusion of indigenous peoples, afro-descendants, Romani people and members of other ethnic groups, and urges Member Stated to consider the connection between ethnicity and health, and to promote an intercultural approach for advancing towards Universal Health. Likewise, the Universal Health Strategy of PAHO recognized that challenges such as respect for traditional medicine affect the quality of health care.\nThe VHL TCIM Americas was developed with the aim of contributing to this purpose. Dr. Diego Gonz\u00e1lez, Director of BIREME/PAHO/WHO and Ver\u00f4nica Abdala, Manager of Products and Information Services of BIREME presented VHL Americas at the event. This VHL is a virtual space that draws on the work of the TCIM Network for the Americas, which seeks to expand and facilitate access to knowledge and to increase and improve the quality of research in the area, fundamental axes for advancing towards Universal Health and the inclusion of all peoples.\nThree other presentations completed the agenda of the Webinar: \u201cThe role of integrative and complementary practices in Primary Health Care in Brazil\u201d, by Daniel Miele Amado, National Coordinator of Integrative and Complementary Health Practices, Ministry of Health of Brazil; \u201cThe importance of Traditional Medicine for ethnic diversity in the Americas\u201d, by Dr. Vivian Camacho Hinojosa, member of the High Level Commission 40 years of Alma-Ata, PAHO; and \u201cCompetences in integrative health for professionals in Primary Health Care\u201d, by Dr. Benjamin Kliegler, National Director of the Comprehensive Health Coordination Center, Office of Patient-Centered Care and Cultural Transformation of the US Veterans\u2019 Health Administration. The moderator for the Webinar was Dr. Hern\u00e1n Luque, Advisor, PAHO/WHO Health Services and Access Unit.\nThe second event was the International Congress on Integrative Medicine & Health, held in Baltimore, from May 8 to 11, and organized by the Academic Consortium of Medicine and Integrative Health of the United States. The Congress brought together approximately one thousand participants from 30 countries, mainly researchers and professionals of diverse profiles interested in research in this area.\nThe mandates, conceptual frameworks and initiatives of PAHO/WHO on the subject, including the VHL TCIM, were presented in a Panel of the Congress by Daniel Gallego, consultant of the Health Services and Access Unit (HSS/HS/PAHO). Ricardo Ghelman, President of the Brazilian Academic Consortium on Integrative Medicine and Daniel Miele Amado, from the Ministry of Health of Brazil, both strategic partners of the VHL TCIM, presented their respective institutional initiatives and their articulation with the VHL TCIM. Likewise, thanks to the support of HSS/HS/PAHO, the VHL TCIM was promoted and demonstrated in a stand in the exhibition hall throughout the event, where Ver\u00f4nica Abdala (BIREME/PAHO/WHO) and Natalia Sof\u00eda Aldana (Consultant of the VHL TCIM project) had the opportunity to explore new collaborations.\nBoth events confirmed the importance of the VHL TCIM Americas and of the work that is being developed with the collaboration of BIREME/PAHO/WHO and the support of the technical units of PAHO/WHO. Participants of the events highlighted the results of the collaborative work, articulated in the short period of time that the project has been underway.\nAccording to Ver\u00f4nica Abdala, Manager of Services and Information Sources of BIREME/PAHO/WHO, \u201cwe have come a long way, but there is still a lot to do. The VHL TCIM has ambitious plans for expansion and development of its various sections and services, including the promotion of the quality of research on the subject, especially in Latin America and the Caribbean, as well as the development of new content such as information for self-care and synthesis of evidence in TCIM. These are ambitious objectives, which require financial resources, expansion of collaboration and strengthening of the Network\u201d.\nWatch the video on the TCIM VHL:\u202fhttps://youtu.be/mCtaqrCzEu0\nVisit the TCIM Americas VHL:\u202fhttp://mtci.bvsalud.org/", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00240.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 35, + "original_length": 6819, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.94, + "perplexity": 193.4, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "http://bollywoodwallah.com/2018/06/01/5-bollywood-debuts-that-fans-are-eagerly-waiting-for/", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T03:43:50Z", + "digest": "sha1:IWNOQQPZ2H3P42ZUS3AKU2ARHDK4XZVS", + "length": 3282, + "nlines": 8, + "source_domain": "bollywoodwallah.com", + "title": "5 Bollywood Debuts that fans are eagerly waiting for", + "raw_content": "5 Bollywood Debuts that fans are eagerly waiting for\nShreya Varanasi\n2018 so far has been a good year for Bollywood. With films like Padman, Raazi, Padmavat raking in the moolah at the box-office. The fans got to see all their favourite actors in new roles and donning interesting characters. With the second half of the year beginning, there is a new sunrise waiting to happen and we know of many new actors gearing up for their debut films. So which are the top 5 Bollywood Debuts fans are eagerly waiting for, Read on:\nJanhvi Kapoor \u2013 First on the list of top 5 bollywood debuts, fans are eagerly waiting for is Janhvi, the daughter of late actress Sridevi and Boney Kapoor. She is set to make her Bollywood debut under the tutelage of Karan Johar with Dhadak. The film is a Hindi Remake of the Marathi blockbuster Sairat. Janhvi will be starring alongside Ishaan Khatter. The posters released for Dhadak have us eagerly waiting for the film and Janhvi\u2019s role in it. We can\u2019t help noticing how closely she resembles her mother when she smiles and flashes those eyes at the camera. Release the movie already, we can\u2019t wait!\nIshaan Khatter\u2013 Technically even though Ishaan has already made his debut he will still feature on this list of bollywood debuts of 2018. Shahid\u2019s brother Ishaan made his acting debut in the film Beyond The Clouds directed by master story teller Majid Majidi which already released this year. He is set to make his debut in Bollywood with Dhadak alongside Janhvi Kapoor. Going by his amazing performance in the movie Beyond The Clouds, the anticipation for his role in Dhadak only keeps increasing. It seems fans can\u2019s get enough of the young turk.\nSara Ali Khan\u2013 Even before debuting, Saif Ali Khan and Amrita Singh\u2019s daughter Sara Ali Khan has 2 films Kedarnath alongside Sushant Singh Rajput and Simmba alongside Ranveer Singh in her bag. Nobody could have got a better opportunity than this beauty. Apart from these films, It is rumoured that Sara has been approached for many other films. Coming from such excellent lineage fans are waiting eagerly to see her debut film.\nAayush Sharma\u2013 No one can get a better than Salman Khan in Bollywood. Salman Khan\u2019s brother-in-law Aayush Sharma is also set to make his Bollywood debut this year with the film Loveratri. He will be starring alongside Warina Hussain. The film will be produced by Salman Khan. Loveratri is set to hit the screens in October. Will the young gun have the same charishma of his famous brother-in-law, only time will say.\nMouni Roy- There are not many actors who have made a successful journey from TV to the large screen. Mouni is someone who has gained a huge popularity because of her role in the TV series Naagin. She is now taking a step forward and entering Bollywood with Gold alongside Akshay Kumar. Though her role in the film isn\u2019t known,the film is said to tell the story of India\u2019s first gold medal at the 1948 Olympics after Independence. It is also said that Mouni Roy will be starring in Brahmastra which is set to release in 2019. Her transition from the small screen to the box office will eagerly be watched by fans.Tell us if we missed out on any names and we will feature your suggestions of top 5 bollywood debuts fans are eagerly waiting for in our next feature.", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00240.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 35, + "original_length": 4237, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.97, + "perplexity": 285.2, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "http://booksinnorthport.blogspot.com/2009/09/", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T03:51:52Z", + "digest": "sha1:62654B6OAXCPGF3LJQ7QJQKIBYVBKX7K", + "length": 32524, + "nlines": 90, + "source_domain": "booksinnorthport.blogspot.com", + "title": "Books in Northport: September 2009", + "raw_content": "Guest Review: 1453\nAuthor: Roger Crowley.\nPublished by Hyperion, 2005.\nThis was not only the most interesting history I read this summer but also the most topical because of its description of the rise of Islam in North Africa, subsequent expansion of the religion, and efforts on the part of Christians to resist that expansion. The title of the book refers to the date when Constantinople, capital of the Eastern half of the Roman Empire for 1100 years, fell to the Moslems, a particularly significant event because it opened Europe to invasion by the Moslem armies. These armies were halted only at the gates of Vienna, Austria, more than 200 years later.\nIn 300 A.D., the Roman Emperor Constantine moved his capital from Rome to the Eastern end of the Mediterranean Sea. Here was the crossroads of three continents--Europe, Asia and Africa--which made the new capital a much more significant site both economically and militarily than Rome on the Italian Peninsula. The move proved providential. Constantinople, as the emperor named his capital, was able to withstand repeated assaults by barbarian tribes long after Rome had fallen into ruin, and in the seventh century, when Islam had enveloped all of North Africa and was eying Europe as its next conquest, the Moslems were able to move their armies steadily northward through Spain at the Western end of the Mediterranean but were unable to make significant progress at the Eastern end because of the fortress at Constantinople held by Christians.\nThe mightiest fortress on earth did, however, finally fall. Crowley describes in detail the desperate maneuvers of the 8000 Christian defenders as they battled 80,000 Muslim invaders. For a time it looked as if the defenders might succeed, but they were finally defeated by a new ploy utilized against them: instead of dragging a few cannons along from home, as previous armies had done, the Moslem army brought from Turkey all the materials necessary to forge enormous cannons on-site, using them to batter down the fortress walls.\nThe author did a lot of research and provides copious detail, but he has an interesting writing style, so the book is an absorbing read. When you finish 1453, if you would like to learn more about the subsequent Moslem invasion of Europe, read The Siege of Vienna, by John Stoye. Are you young enough to remember the Fifties pop song with the lyrics\u2026\u201dthey called it Istanbul, not Constantinople\u2026\u201d? It probably didn\u2019t make sense to you then, but it will after you read these books.\n- Bruce Balas, September 2009\nNote on reviewer's whereabouts: Bruce is away from Northport and Omena this week, attending a conference on his favorite author, G. A. Henty, out in Maine. Perhaps when he returns, if we ask him nicely, he will write something about that conference for \"Books in Northport\" readers.\nArmchair Time Travel: An Ordinary Day\nThe history of many other countries\u2014Greece, England, Russia, France, Turkey, Egypt, China, to name only a few\u2014is so much longer and more complicated than American history that it\u2019s easy for Americans to throw up their hands and give up any attempt at historical perspective on the rest of the world. If we need to master 3,000 years of religion, philosophy, military and political dynasties, let alone a non-alphabetic language to understand another country, the task seems hopeless. This is where a time capsule may come to our rescue. What if we could visit a foreign country and vicariously experience its life, to see and hear the entire nation in their work and thought, from city intellectuals to those in rural nooks and crannies? Such is One Life in China, which I recommend for the candid overview it gives of pre-Revolutionary Chinese life and thought.\nThe idea was a simple one, inspired by Gorky\u2019s 1935 One Day in the World. An unexceptional date was selected--not a holiday or a day of great political importance commemorating some national event, just an ordinary day. Then essays were solicited from people all over China, writers asked to serve as witnesses to that day, in town, country or village, wherever they were in the country, and the composite portrait would reveal\u2014what? What had the organizers envisaged? Were they surprised by the picture that came together?\nFrom our present perspective of almost three-quarters of a century, the view is astonishing. Here is China at the point of starvation and on the brink of foreign occupation, with World War II and the Communist Revolution on the horizon but not yet visible to those whose lives are revealed in the essays. We see instead ordinary life events, corruption and cruelty, struggle for the barest survival, small political awakenings, reports on the weather, and, over and over again, those small, poetic observations on nature\u2014so many lives, caught under the lens, preserved not in amber or in photographs but in words. The effect is overwhelming.\nOf the thousands of essays submitted for One Day in China, from those published in China, with only a fraction were translated into English for the edition I read, and the picture is somewhat limited by the literacy factor. (Obviously, only literate Chinese were able to write essays.) A disproportionate number of the writers are teachers, and men far outnumber women. Still, there is great variety in the stories, organized in this volume by subject. On May 21, 1936, there were weddings and funerals, police and courts and local officials at work (though generally seen as corrupt), teachers burdened with peace-keeping and propaganda duties, students either bored with their books or excited by unauthorized lectures, parents worried about the next day\u2019s meal, peasants forced from their fields to build roads and told, when they complain, that the roads are for their own benefit, so that their army will be able to protect them from invading Japanese soldiers. Or to make it easier for the Japanese to invade? Who is in charge, and is there a national agenda? That is unclear. Part of the country has already fallen to Japanese occupation. Chinese Communists are represented as bandits or as heroic patriots, depending on point of view, while Christian missionaries are portrayed uniformly as unwelcome, insufferable busy-bodies. Throughout the country, there is great hardship. For example, one young woman reports for work on the night shift only to learn there will be no more night shift. How will her parents eat? Their rice is gone, and they have no money to buy more. The theme \u201cHow will we buy rice?\u201d is a recurrent one throughout the book.\nAlthough the day was chosen for its unremarkable date, what comes out in a number of essays is that the date was important on the \u201cold\u201d calendar, the banned calendar, and many in the countryside still keep to the old traditions, honoring the appropriate gods with prayers and gifts (including opium) The poorer and more desperate the people, the more ardent their prayers. Who but the gods will listen to starving peasants?\nThere is a Chinese saying, \u201cWe must draw a lesson from this.\u201d It is the pragmatic equivalent of looking for teleological reasons. What can be learned? One Day in China is rich in lessons, but I leave it to others to read the book and draw their own.\nLabels: books, China, history\nOctober Poetry Workshop in Traverse City\nMichigan Writers is offering a free\u2014repeat, FREE--poetry workshop on October 14, 7-9 p.m., at the University Center, 2200 Dendrinos Dr., Room 12, in Traverse City. This evening of exercises, discussions, examples and explorations of various creativity blocks and how to work through them will be guided by Faith Shearin, whose first book, The Owl Question, won the May Swenson award, and whose second, The Empty House, was published in 2008. No preregistration is necessary. Just show up with your writing tools, prepared to work. What have you got to lose? Put it on your calendar!\nHere is the William Carlos Williams poem, \"This Is Just to Say,\" that Gerry reminded me about because of the plums:\nSeptember, Subtle and Bright\nThis deer photo been subjected to Photoshop. Before post-production alteration, the coloring of the three adult deer in the image, turning from tan to grey, was subtle to the point of invisibility. There are many more instances of subtlety to be found in the September fields, woods and orchards, but Sunday\u2019s bright, sunny plum harvest deserves to be recorded in its natural color. It was our first harvest of edible fruit from this little tree, two sweet, tiny plums, and I ate them both, after David waved his share away. They tasted like sunshine.\nMy reading these days, especially since I finished the absolutely riveting One Day in China, is as diverse as the sights that attract my camera. The most difficult book to read, from an emotional and moral point of view, is Skinner\u2019s A Crime So Monstrous, a detailing of slavery around the world in our own time. The quirkiest is a book on diagramming sentences, Sister Bernadette\u2019s Barking Dog, by Kitty Burns Florey. And the most relaxing, a book I may even have read once before, perhaps last year, is a mystery by Alexander McCall Smith with an Edinburgh setting, entitled Friends, Lovers, Chocolate. Wildly different as they are, each of these books is worth reading in its own way.\nLabels: books, nature, seasons\nLandmarks Whiz By\nBirthdays, anniversaries, weddings, births, funerals. (I hate to include divorces in the list, but they happen, too.) Sarah\u2019s birthday, the one we chose for her based on her age of four months when adopted, did not go unmarked. I did, however, let the second anniversary of Books in Northport slip by without mention. Saw it coming ahead of time, but then we were on vacation.... The day before our return, September 13, was two years from my first post.\nWhat to say about this overall project and its two years (so far) of existence? Have I strayed from my original mission? Scaled the heights or fallen down on the job or both, depending on the day\u2019s post under consideration? That\u2019s not for me to say. I do enjoy sharing my world\u2014Northport, Dog Ears Books, the beauty of northern Michigan, the delight given to me by books and dogs\u2014and am pleased when other people, who also enjoy these topics, visit and comment. And now, you few, you happy few, is there anything you\u2019d like to see changed, expanded or omitted in future? I don\u2019t promise to honor all requests but will take each one (if any there are) under careful consideration.\nSmall Sights and Big Events\nMorning shadows are long on the lawn, chard beaded with morning dew, a last visual hurrah sounding from the beautiful blue, true geranium.\nIt was another season that the wisteria vine on the barn failed to bloom. It grows, it thrives, and yet it doesn\u2019t bloom, but I let it be, having grown accustomed to it as it is rather than what a garden book or catalog would have led me to expect.\nSeptember\u2019s next-to-last weekend was busy and beautiful in Northport. Friday was a noteworthy first for Dog Ears Books when we served for an hour or so as a location for an independent film crew needing to shoot a scene in a bookstore. Quite interesting to watch and listen to the professional young crew while they did many indoor takes. Then, before leaving, the director sent the cameraman across the street to get an establishing shot of the front of the building with the two characters from the scene exiting and walking down the sidewalk in the blinding September sunshine. The plan with this film is to submit it to various competitions in hopes of attracting studio attention. I can\u2019t say I ever expected my small-town bookstore to make a big-screen appearance, but it would certainly be exciting if it came to pass.\nSaturday morning, as I made several walks from bookstore to post office and grocery store, trying to organize my mind and life before the long-awaited afternoon event, a passing parade of Model A Fords gave me an excuse to pause for a moment. One license plate I saw said \u2018Ontario.\u2019 The drivers had stopped in town before going on to Grand Traverse Lighthouse.\nBut it was Gustav Niebuhr\u2019s Saturday visit to Northport that was the big weekend headliner. In his publicity photo (sorry, Gustav, but it\u2019s true!), he looked rather forbidding, and I struggled not to be intimidated beforehand. No worries, as the Australians say. He was altogether charming\u2014so very relaxed, friendly, easy-going, low-key that he could have been a Northporter! Women from Trinity Church came early to the bookstore with tablecloth, flowers and refreshments, and between the times when Niebuhr was busy signing books and talking with customers and I was busy selling books, there was time for us to have bits of pleasant conversation.\n(One thing I realize missing from my photo archive, however, true throughout the years, are pictures of me, the bookseller, with visiting authors. I am always taking the pictures, never in them. Should I be more of a publicity hound? More concerned with a record for posterity of my role in these events?)\nOrganizers and I were pleased with the turnout, but someone suggested I bring books up to the church for his lecture, too, as there would likely be people there who hadn\u2019t made it to the signing, and that was indeed the case. Great attendance for the Fifth Belko Peace Lecture and no one disappointed: Niebuhr is a passionate, engaging speaker, and he had important things to say about interfaith projects in our country and sources of hope for peace that we can draw on, even while reminding the audience that such projects for peace are hard work. One point he made from his journalistic background seemed especially important to me in countering voices of despair, and that is that acts of violence are highly visible and quantifiable, while work in the service of peace and understanding, much quieter, impossible to quantify, usually flies under the media radar.\nSmall footnote to this story. Several people dropped in during the course of the afternoon to see Sarah, disappointed that the mascot had taken the day off. \u201cDon\u2019t take it personally. You\u2019ll notice they weren\u2019t coming to see me, either!\u201d\u201d I said to the guest author, who seemed more amused than offended and quite content with this taste of small-town Up North.\nSo, for those of you who missed her on Saturday, here's the little scene-stealer:\nLabels: authors, books Northport, film, Up North\n2009 Belko Peace Lectures Feature Gustav Niebuhr\nThe images today, more from our time in the U.P. last week, are from the agate beach on Lake Superior at Grand Marais and from the road between Sault Ste. Marie and Seney. The text in between comes from Karen Kasebeer of Trinity Congregational Church and gives more background on this weekend's visiting peace lecturer, who will also be signing his book at Dog Ears--don't forget!--from 1-3 p.m. tomorrow, Saturday.\nBy now most of you know that the Social Action Committee and the Board of Christian Education have collaborated on a series of educational events to increase our understanding of interfaith issues. We saw the documentary \"Beyond our Differences,\" read and discussed the book The Faith Club, and heard a panel discussion featuring one Christian, one Jew, and one Muslim. All three events were well-attended and received positive feedback from church members and the wider community as well. Individuals traveled from as far as Gaylord to attend these events.\nIn choosing Gustav Niebuhr as the 2009 Belko Peace Lecturer, the Social Action Committee selected a speaker who could continue our study theme of interfaith dialogue and understanding. Niebuhr currently serves as associate professor of religion and the media at Syracuse University. He also is director of the Religion & Society Program, and founding director of the Carnegie Religion and Media Program, an undergraduate minor focusing on courses in religion relevant to understanding contemporary events.\nPrior to coming to Syracuse in 2004, Niebuhr spent two years as a visiting fellow and scholar-in-residence at Princeton University\u2019s Center for the Study of Religion. From 1980 to 2001, he worked as a reporter for various newspapers, including the New York Times, Washington Post and the Wall Street Journal. Viking Press published his book Beyond Tolerance: Searching for Interfaith Understanding in America in 2008. You\u2019ll find copies of Niebuhr\u2019s book in both the church and township libraries. [Bookseller's note: also available for purchase at Dog Ears Books.]\nThe Belko Peace Lectures will occur on the weekend of September 18-20. On Friday afternoon, September 18, Niebuhr will sign books at Horizon Books in Traverse City from 2-4 pm. He will do another book signing here in Northport at Dog Ears Books on Saturday, September 19 from 1-3 pm. Niebuhr\u2019s first lecture will be here at Trinity at 7 pm Saturday evening, and his topic will be \u201cBeyond Tolerance: Building Bridges of Religious Understanding in a Violent Time.\" A time for refreshments, and questions and answers will follow. Niebuhr\u2019s second lecture will be Sunday morning during the 11 am worship service, and the topic will be \u201cMaking Peace is Hard Work.\" Time for questions and answers, and refreshments will follow the service.\nPlease make sure you mark your calendars for September 18-20 and join us for this exciting and educational weekend. If you have questions, contact Karen Casebeer at 386-7759.\nLabels: authors, Northport, peace\nWhat is lovelier this time of year? Many things equally but surely none more lovely than these bright royal purple flowers. They are a sign of the season, these colorful stars of earth. I woke thinking of their name and of stars, and found that Flandrum Hill's thoughts had taken the same direction. The asters in this post are blooming in Northport, outside my friend Sally's shop, Dolls and More, but they are also blooming in the meadow behind my farmhouse and along the roadsides, mixed in with goldenrod. \"Asters!\" I exclaim in delight, as we drive by a wild stand of them, and David's association is always the same: \"Mrs. Astor's horse.\" I have no idea what that means.\nAs so often happens, a closer, lingering look today revealed much more going on, an entire world of activity, the blooms and the still, sunny day having brought bees by the dozens. Making honey, making hay, making memories. Now is the time.\nLabels: flowers, nature, seasons\nVacation Reading and Northern Berries\nThe pictures of U.P. berries are to provide visual breaks in what would otherwise be nothing but words, words, words. Are any of these late-season fruits unfamiliar to you? Books, my recurrent theme, are always new, even the old ones as we discover or rediscover what we hadn't read or known before, and we do read on our vacations. It isn\u2019t all we do, but it\u2019s always a feature. So here\u2019s some of what we read Way Up North this year.\nBeyond Tolerance (see Recommended at right), by Gustav Niebuhr, was the most important reading I did while away from the bookstore. His subtltle does not indicate this, but what Niebuhr is offering for our consideration with the quiet, diffuse movement he chronicles is an alternative response to terrorism, an affirmative rather than negating alternative to a \u201cwar on terror.\" Given American history, tolerance\u2014at least at the political level--is a given, but by itself it does nothing to build bridges or strengthen communities. To go beyond is to engage in dialogue, to offer hospitality, to turn strangers into friends, without trying to convert anyone away from one religion to another. Niebuhr gives many examples of such projects across the United States, some between two specific religious communities, others as broadly multifaith as possible, and one general response to participation in such dialogues seems to be a strengthening of commitment to one\u2019s own faith, alongside appreciation for the faiths of others. I\u2019m sure the Northport community will have many questions for author Gustav Niebuhr and perhaps some reflections on our community as a neighborhood of different churches and faiths. He will be at Dog Ears Books on Saturday, from 1-3 p.m. to meet the public and sign copies of his book for those wishing to purchase it, and his address in this year\u2019s Belko Peace Lecture Series at Trinity Congregational Church will be open to the public on Saturday evening, 7 p.m., and again Sunday morning at 11 a.m., so be sure to catch him one way or the other.\nDuring our three-hour wait to cross the Mackinac Bridge on our way north last week, I read aloud to David from Suzette Haden Elgin\u2019s The Last Word on the Gentle Art of Verbal Self-Defense. Her first book on this topic, The Gentle Art of Verbal Self-Defense, won me over years ago with its very specific advice on how to recognize and deal with verbal bullying without stooping to bully\u2019s tactics in return (there was an intermediate book that I did not find quite as exciting, though I don\u2019t remember why), and this \u201clast\u201d book on the subject has the same magic. Her advice is specific, though the applications are general\u2014and sometimes she is quite funny, too, which always makes learning more memorable. I like, too, her acknowledgement that verbal bullies aren\u2019t always intentional bullies but may simply, for whatever reason, have developed bad habits. Either way, her book can help each of us step around victimhood and step back from bullying or inviting bullying. Very good stuff here.\nOne book I read while lounging bayside in Munising was QBQ! The Question Behind the Question, etc. (for longer title, see list), which I picked up because I\u2019ve been noticing for a few years that people often ask questions to lead up to what they really want to know rather than ask directly. This book\u2019s direction isn\u2019t that, but I like the direction it does take. The author says we very often ask \u201cincorrect\u201d questions, ones that seek to assign blame rather than solve problems, and he gives examples of those questions, then examples of the ones we should be asking instead, with personal accountability as his central theme. Don\u2019t ask when x will be taken care of or who should take care of it or why the problem came up in the first place but \u201cWhat can I do?\u201d and \u201cHow can I improve this situation?\u201d It\u2019s a simple little book with simple ideas and can be read quickly, but like so many simple ideas it goes against a lot of ingrained habit, which is why we need the book.\nTo communicate, to listen authentically to others, to avoid bullying and being bullied, to assume personal accountability--these three books together, although I did not plan a course of reading with that in mind, dovetail nicely.\nI also read further in Le rouge et le noir (a long-term project, that one, but I\u2019m not giving up), and David and I read to each other from the little Arcadia history book on Grand Marais, full of pictures of how things used to look during the brief lumber boom. David\u2019s main vacation book was Andrei Codrescu\u2019s The Disappearance of Outside: A Manifesto for Escape, a book that sounds as if it would be about outdoor adventure, camping and the like, but is actually (to quote the back cover) a \u201ccultural-literary-social critique [that] examines the paradoxes of repression and artistic freedom in both totalitarian and democratic societies.\u201d I dipped into this book, also, and David read a few passages aloud to me. The writing is brilliant, the tone much more serious than what one might expect from the author\u2019s often-humorous NPR spots.\nWhat next? Bruce recommended Barbara Hall\u2019s The Music Teacher, and it is time for me to give contemporary American fiction a turn on the bedside table.\nThen there\u2019s the business of getting all the tomatoes picked, mowing grass, catching up on laundry and preparing for big weekend art and book events. It's the quiet season between school-vacation summer and color tour, but life is still busy Up North.\nLabels: authors, books, nature, Northport\nA Little Time Up in the U.P.\nWe spent the week after Labor Day above (that is, north of) the Mackinac Bridge; Labor Day we spent getting there, which entailed a three-hour wait south of the Straits of Mackinac. I knew\u2014have known for years; have considered doing it myself sometime--about the Bridge Walk but had forgotten it in relation to our trip north. It was frustrating to be in standstill traffic so near to my goal of a Lehto\u2019s pasty (8 miles west of the bridge on U.S. 2), but the weather was glorious, and we weren\u2019t stuck on the expressway outside Chicago, and none of the three of us (counting Sarah, the dog) desperately needed a rest stop, so we got through the ordeal relatively unscathed. The Bridge and the view always more than repays any delay in crossing. The Straits! Magnificent! Alas, however, we arrived at Lehto\u2019s just a minute after closing time, and I had to wait until our return trip six days late for my Yooper pocket sandwich.\nI won\u2019t give a blow-by-blow, minute-by-minute account of the week but just give highlights and glimpses. One highlight was the news from Ellen Airgood, of the West Bay Diner in Grand Marais, that her novel has been taken under contract by Viking Penguin! We are thrilled for her. After five years of hard work, disappointment and revisions, she had considered putting the project aside for good and taking life easier. She and husband Rick would still be commuting a long way over rough road to operate their restaurant from 7:30 a.m. to 7:30 p.m., so \u201ctaking life easier\u201d would have been definitely relative. But it turned out she couldn\u2019t do it. \u201cI couldn\u2019t figure out how to be me without working on the book,\u201d she told us in her usual simple, straightforward manner. Then came the call. She remembers that she was waiting for an order from the kitchen: two cheese omelets with crispy bacon and pumpernickel. Joy? Joy who? Oh, good heavens, can this really be happening? The title of the novel is still in question and may be changed from Ellen\u2019s original Stone Lake, but while we\u2019re waiting for publication in 2010 we can enjoy again her essays in Stories From Where We Live: Great Lakes, \u201cAt Uglyfish Lake.\u201d\nWhile we were in Alger County, David and I found a piece of property to dream over, as usual. We also made forays out to the Soo and to Munising (visiting Wagner Falls for the first time) and little excursions to the Seney Wildlife Refuge and Hurricane River.\nWe lingered at the bridge over the East Fork of the Fox River, where the boggy views enchant us every year.\nAnd, as always, it was often the smallest of sights that caught my eye:\nIt was good to find our friends at the Superior Hotel in good order, and it was good to sit in the sun with Bess Capogrossa in front of the hotel and watch the world go by. Even there, the world does go by. Grand Marais has a lot in common with Northport. For example, one can cross intersections on the diagonal. There are very few secrets in either village. The harbor is beautiful in both towns. Most new residents are retired, and both K-12 schools, now \u201cout of formula,\u201d struggle to remain open. Northport is at the end of a peninsula, and Grand Marais seems like it\u2019s on the edge of the world, what with the expanse of Lake Superior stretching north right from the foot of the village. Is this why it feels like our home away from home?\nLabels: nature, Northport, small towns, travel\nHoliday Weekend Saturday Miscellany\nDoesn't this look like the start of a holiday picnic? Late but delicious! Get some!\nYou can, in fact, save the world - all you must do is feed someone who would starve otherwise, give refuge to someone who would die otherwise, tend the sick who would otherwise die - and you save a piece of the world who size cannot be calculated - the part becomes the whole.\nRather than write at length today, I've decided to ask you to go to Sharon Astyk's blog and read the current post. Important and well said.\nMy postings will be spotty for the remainder of the month, as we take a little time off for our summer, i.e., what other people call September.\nBirthday Girl and a Special Late Summer Evening\nSarah is now officially two years old. Today. Alas, she still cannot read, and long days in the bookstore reduce her to a state of sulky boredom. This evening, then, after her arduous work day, we took her, for a birthday treat, down to a favorite haunt of ours.\nShalda Creek was lovely, as always.\nAnd the sunset in Leland was unbelievable.\nNot a Holiday Topic\nDon't let the image fool you. I haven't written today about the joys of life Up North. There's nothing here about books or reading, either. Sorry, summer is over, it's time for a rant, and here's mine:\nThere was a time, not so long ago, when a late credit card payment resulted in a $10 late fee: ten dollars added to what was owed, ten dollars that would not reduce one\u2019s balance a cent and for which one had acquired no new product. I don\u2019t know about most people, but I found that penalty a sufficient deterrent. It happened to me once, and I vowed it would never happen again. Lesson learned.\nWell, now that doesn\u2019t matter. It doesn\u2019t matter how good your payment record is or whether you pay off your balance each month or how small that balance may be, because usury laws are a thing of the past, and credit card companies have realized that, sooner or later, everyone slips up. Reality and the freedom of the market thus open the door to unlimited opportunities.\nThe other day I received, as a \u201cvalued customer,\u201d a letter from my credit card company. It was not congratulating me on my good payment record, let alone announcing a reward for that good record. Far from it. This was merely a \u201ctimely communication\u201d (the anonymous letter writer patted the company on the back for their commitment to \u201ctimely communications\u201d to customers) of changes to my account. There were several, but one stood out. The fee for any late payment, i.e., any payment received after the due date on my monthly statement, I was informed, will now be $39.95. Slip up by a day? Gotcha!\nForty dollars, however, is only the beginning, because\u2014read the writing on the wall--the consequences for a slip-up are no longer aimed at merely encouraging timely payments. The companies have discovered a gold mine in punishment. So now a customer making a late payments is punished as severely as one writing a payment check that gets returned for insufficient funds: your interest rate goes up! How much? As a \u201cvalued customer,\u201d I am informed by this \u201ctimely communication\u201d that in the event of a late payment \u201cthe current penalty APR would be up to 30.24%.\u201d\nThe card I hold is the State Democratic Party MasterCard. These days it is possible to hold credit cards to benefit any number of organizations. I could have taken out a card bearing the name of Western Michigan University or the University of Illinois or any number of organizations looking for revenue from supporters. The bottom line, however, is that the ultimate organization supported with the financing of credit card debt is the credit card company. This is reasonable, given that the company is the lender. Their terms, fees and punitive interest rates, should I falter on the path in the months ahead, are not reasonable but usurious. Unfortunately, usury is no longer against the law, and those individuals making company policy are no longer held in check by either ethics or civility. It\u2019s a jungle out there.\nThe letter includes a brilliant final touch: \u201cYou have options.\u201d Basically, I have two options, the first of which is to accept the new terms, the second of which is to have my account closed.\nWhere did this strange and perverted notion of contract arise, and what in contract law makes it possible, or is money-lending outside of contract law altogether? I have not studied law and ask the question out of genuine perplexity. How is it possible that an \u201cagreement\u201d may be changed, at any time, by one party and never by the other?\nIn defense of the company, I should recognize that no one has threatened to break my kneecaps if I\u2019m late with a payment. Perhaps that will come in a future communication. What, after all, should one expect for a good credit record but threats?\n--There, that's off my chest. Now to enjoy the holiday weekend, which for me will be the last \"summer\" weekend in Dog Ears Books. Autumn will be good, though, with some interesting events coming up in September and October, so keep reading, and I promise not to crank like this every day.\nDraft Horses, or, Ah, My Beauties!\nBirds, Rocks and Perhaps a Full Moon?\nWork-in-Progress Report #3: Valerie Trueblood", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00240.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 1148, + "original_length": 86785, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.97, + "perplexity": 304.2, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "http://brentsleather.com/watch/one-piece-episode-595-724.html", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T04:24:51Z", + "digest": "sha1:6EE4UZLNKAGR4SNYV677KP6GCVFH56E2", + "length": 86, + "nlines": 2, + "source_domain": "brentsleather.com", + "title": "\ufeff", + "raw_content": "Vampire Hunter D (Dub)\nShin Kimagure Orange Road: Soshite, Ano Natsu No Hajimari (Dub)", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00240.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 1040, + "original_length": 13302, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.59, + "perplexity": 294.7, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "http://brics-legal.com/eng/association-of-lawyers-of-russia-held-a-workshop-on-preparing-the-iv-brics-legal-forum/", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T03:40:04Z", + "digest": "sha1:BXEGUPLUGASXIT72TUP2JR2U5O4SL6GY", + "length": 1191, + "nlines": 5, + "source_domain": "brics-legal.com", + "title": "Association of Lawyers of Russia held a workshop on preparing the IV BRICS Legal Forum |", + "raw_content": "The Organising Committee for holding the IV BRICS Legal Forum held a final meeting for preparing the Forum.\nThe meeting was chaired by the Chairman of the Association of Lawyers of Russia Sergey Stepashin and Chairman of the Board of the Association Vladimir Gruzdev. On his opening remarks, Sergey Stepashin said that the IV BRICS Legal Forum is hosted in Russia for the first time and represents an important legal and political event to discuss pressing issues facing the society.\nDuring the meeting, members of the Organising Committee approved the Forum programme and discussed the draft Declaration, which shall also include the proposals of the participants from legal communities of the BRICS countries.\nSumming up the meeting, Vladimir Gruzdev noted the significant role of the Association of Lawyers of Russia in preparing the Forum. The members of the Organising Committee were informed that the Forum would be attended by participants from all the BRICS member states, that is more than 50 eminent representatives of legal, political and economic community.\nIV BRICS Legal Forum takes place from the 30th November to 1st December in the Hyatt Regency Moscow Petrovsky Park hotel.", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00240.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 34, + "original_length": 1805, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.96, + "perplexity": 200.4, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "http://bullettmedia.com/article/who-cares-if-trayvon-martin-smoked-wee/", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T04:24:30Z", + "digest": "sha1:ZF6JELPDVKSK7XD7BGKX4DBMJLOKWRLQ", + "length": 4823, + "nlines": 11, + "source_domain": "bullettmedia.com", + "title": "Who Gives A F*** If Trayvon Martin Smoked Weed? | Bullett Media", + "raw_content": "Why \u201cDisruption\u201d is an Ugly and Dishonest Buzzword\nThere Is No Replacement for Food, People\nIs It Possible to Be a Journalist Blogger Now Without Dirtying Yourself With \u2018Curation\u2019?\nJuly 9, 2013 2:15 pm By Lil Government\nIt is entirely irrelevant whether Trayvon Martin was a stoner or not.\nYesterday, now-triple-entendre The Smoking Gun announced the news that Florida judge Debra Nelson had decided in favor of George Zimmerman\u2019s defense, barring the prosecutor\u2019s request to omit from evidence a part of Trayvon Martin\u2019s toxicology report that revealed a small amount of marijuana he had in his system at the time of his murder. For the sake of due process, I\u2019m glad that Zimmerman\u2019s lawyer has gone above and beyond the room-silencing knock-knock joke of his opening statement, but this defense speaks to the much larger culture of victim-blaming. The same culture that would allow an armed adult in a vehicle to proactively seek out and start an altercation with an unarmed teen to begin with. Why is de facto character assassination such an standard part of our legal process? Why does the perceived societal \u201cvalue\u201d of the victim always need to be stacked against that of the alleged perpetrator, in order for justice to be served?\nPicture this: one man, armed, spots a younger man walking along the side of the road. Concerned, he calls the dispatcher, choosing to ignore directions not to escalate the (barely, maybe) situation. He approaches the \u201cthreatening\u201d young man, and makes the choice not only to confront him, but to exit his vehicle instead of speaking to the boy from a safe distance. An altercation occurs, in which he either attacks or is attacked by the boy, who was heard, on a recorded phone call, both noting and being creeped out by the person tailing him before the fight took place. Sometime in the course of the struggle, the man shoots the boy.\nDoes it matter whether, if after the incident occurs, we find out that the shooter and victim, both strangers to each other, turn out to be George Clooney and Pauly Shore? Or that the shooter was the captain of the football team, and the deceased used to smoke cigarettes under the bleachers during 4th period? Perhaps we should amend our constitution to note that in order to apply for \u201cvictim\u201d status, one must submit to an exhaustive background check, as well as have the means to dress in blazers, not hoodies, and buy the evidence of you smoking drugs instead of having it leaked to the media. This attitude, which informs misogyny as well as racism, is the reason that presidents can legally slaughter thousands of civilians, and that when a batterer tells his terrified wife that \u201cno one will believe\u201d her, he\u2019s probably right. How does being guilty of one thing translate to being guilty of everything? It\u2019s so sad how the angry, disenfranchised, and undereducated in our country cling to superficial differences as metaphor for the real evils that are present in society, like poverty, addiction, violence, and oppressive power dynamics. These evils will never subside, as long as melanin, a vagina, or frankly, unrelated criminal or \u201cimmoral\u201d acts on the part of the accuser, continue to be accepted red herrings used to distract from otherwise accepted facts.\nLast night, I watched a Gangland episode about Portland white supremacist gang Volksfront (presented in full below), who clearly don\u2019t see themselves as a gang at all. Their members seem utterly convinced that by seeking out a homeless maybe-drug-addict to beat to death, or interracial couples to forcibly separate, that they are somehow above the thugs and pimps that they very clearly are. This traditional male sense of entitlement which drives wars, gang activity, and single \u201cfreak\u201d acts of violence alike, is equally damaging to everyone, from the women it claims to know best for to the pawns who fight each other on the streets while more laws are passed to keep them poor or in jail.\nLater tonight, I\u2019ll probably light up a joint. If someone breaks into my house and tries to harm me afterwards, should I curb my impulse to fight back because sure, the approach may have been unwarranted, but now that we\u2019re just two people in a room, any retaliation from me would be considered drug-induced and aggro? Please. The fact that marijuana is still illegal at all (see the \u201canti-drug\u201d skinheads consuming a popular judgment-impairing intoxicant known as alcohol in the video) is a private-profit-induced bad joke to begin with, but let\u2019s not add insult to injury by assuming that because you willingly cause harm to your own body that others have the right to as well. 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The Teaneck, New Jersey-based company, which started as a software services arm of Dun and Bradstreet Corp. in 1994 and two years later became an independent firm, is evaluating candidates both within and outside the company to succeed D\u2019Souza, the people said on condition of anonymity.\nD\u2019Souza, 50, who in June was entrusted with the additional responsibility of vice-chairman of the company, has not set a date to step down. But a company official and two industry executives said he was expected to step down from his current role as CEO some time next year.\nThe Cognizant board\u2019s decision to expand the search to include outside candidates is significant, as until now it was widely considered that Cognizant president Rajeev Mehta would succeed D\u2019Souza.\nOne of the candidates that the 11-member board has discussed in the last few weeks is a senior executive from Accenture Plc, according to two of the three people cited before. Mint is withholding the name of the candidate to protect the person\u2019s identity, as the executive is still with Accenture.\n\u201cThe board is looking to have a smooth succession when Frank steps down. This could happen sometime next year,\u201d said one of the two people cited before. For now, no decision has been reached by the board, said the three people.\nCognizant declined to respond to Mint\u2019s questionnaire, including whether the company was looking at executives outside the firm as a potential successor to D\u2019Souza.\nHe is the third CEO at Cognizant, after Wijeyaraj Kumar Mahadeva led the company from 1994 until 2003 and Lakshmi Narayanan who steered the company from 2004 until 2006.\nUnder D\u2019Souza\u2019s watch, the software services company has been consistently outperforming its peers to clock revenue of $14.81 billion in 2017 from just about $1.42 billion in 2006.\nD\u2019Souza is also an independent director on the board of General Electric Co.\nFor this reason, many experts believe D\u2019Souza is one of the most successful CEOs in the history of the information technology (IT) outsourcing industry.\n\u201cFrank D\u2019Souza has overseen the meteoric rise of Cognizant from a small provider to $15 billion in revenue, the second-largest IT services firm in India and one of the most respected globally, currently ranked 8 in the world for high-value IT services by HfS Research,\u201d said Phil Fersht, chief executive of US-based HfS Research, an outsourcing research firm.\n\u201cIt\u2019s no surprise that he will be associated with many top jobs in the tech industry, considering his young age and reputation, especially when you consider the current flattening of growth of the sector. Cognizant should be mature and established enough to cope well with any leadership changes, should they arise,\u201d he said.\nBeing in India Helps Us Fine-tune Business Model: IKEA\nCoal India invites power producers for linkage auction\nCognizant appoints CEO Francisco D\u2019Souza as vice-chairman\nBengaluru: Cognizant Technology Solutions Corp. chief executive Francisco D\u2019Souza has been given additional responsibility as the\u2026\nCognizant CEO Francisco D\u2019souza: Shareholders are our owners, not a risk\nBengaluru: US-based Cognizant Technology Solutions Corp., which was last year pushed by activist investment firm Elliott\u2026\nCognizant CEO Francisco D\u2019Souza\u2019s pay falls 31% in 2016 as growth slows\nBengaluru: Cognizant Technology Solutions Corp.\u2019s growth of 8.6% in calendar year 2016, the slowest in\u2026\n\u2190 Five new features of Apple iPhone XS\niPhone XS, iPhone XS Max, iPhone XR prices in India, launch date out \u2192\nCin\u00e9polis Installs India\u2019s Most Technically Advanced Laser Cinema Projector in Bangalore\nOctober 2, 2018 News Desk Comments Off on Cin\u00e9polis Installs India\u2019s Most Technically Advanced Laser Cinema Projector in Bangalore\nPart of Delhi-Meerut Expressway project gets financial closure\nSeptember 12, 2016 Editor Comments Off on Part of Delhi-Meerut Expressway project gets financial closure\nPreparations in full swing for Jharkhand Investors\u2019 Summit\nJanuary 29, 2017 Editor Comments Off on Preparations in full swing for Jharkhand Investors\u2019 Summit", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00240.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 122, + "original_length": 8565, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.95, + "perplexity": 270.1, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "http://buyoverthecounteruk.com/some-antidepressants-linked-to-bleeding-risk-with-operation/", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T03:55:17Z", + "digest": "sha1:BAPZTLODWTCUOEEOHEST3NLBJCC3WEDM", + "length": 4871, + "nlines": 21, + "source_domain": "buyoverthecounteruk.com", + "title": "Some Antidepressants Linked to Bleeding Risk With Operation | Buying Medicines Over the Internet", + "raw_content": "Some Antidepressants Linked to Bleeding Risk With Operation\nTaking popular antidepressant drugs across the time of Hazards from the process, including bleeding may be increased by operation, The need for a blood transfusion, hospital readmission and maybe even a large, death new study implies.\nMedical records were analyzed by researchers for a lot more than half a million Folks who\u2019d surgery at 375 U.S. hospitals between 2006 and 2008. The Researchers found that patients who were taking a form of antidepressant known as particular serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs), like Prozac (fluoxetine) and Paxil (paroxetine), were 10 percent more inclined to experience a complication after operation than those not requiring an SSRI.\nThe findings appear online 2013 April 29 in the journal JAMA Internal Medicine.\nThe study merely showed an association between surgical and SSRI use Threats \u2014 it failed to demonstrate these drugs cause bleeding or any other complication. Additionally, patients on antidepressants could be more Likely to possess other risk factors for surgical complications, apart from the Medications themselves, the researchers\nJust how or if SSRIs may increase hazards associated with Operation is not entirely understood. These drugs might hinder the way blood platelets function. Without platelet activity that is sufficient, blood does not Clot right and excessive bleeding can happen, the study authors indicated.\nNonetheless, the findings don\u2019t mean that people who are taking these drugs should cease taking them before operation.\n\u201cWe do not know how, if, or when it is best to discontinue,\u201d said study author Dr. Andrew Auerbach, a professor of medicine at the University of California, San Francisco.\n\u201cIf you and your physician feel it is safe to stop taking Paxil, A different SSRI or prozac prior to your surgery, it may not be excessive to do Thus,\u201d Auerbach said. \u201cIt\u2019s an individual judgement at this time. We Want more and better studies to answer questions such as when to cease taking These drugs, for how long and if it is safe to restart them after surgery.\u201d\nIndividuals undergoing scheduled operation are often told to, as it stands avoid taking specific medicines such as aspirin and nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (normally called NSAIDs) in the days leading up to their process because of threat of bleeding.\n\u201cIf the new findings hold up in future studies, SSRIs may be Put into this list,\u201d Auerbach said. Until then, \u201cI \u2018d lean toward Ceasing if my doctor thought it was fine to do so,\u201d but is not an simple decision, he added. \u201cI \u2018d hate for recovery to be impeded because Depression or anxiety is out of control, therefore it is vital to strike a balance.\u201d\nDr. David Straker, an adjunct assistant clinical professor of Psychiatry in Nyc, at Columbia University Medical Center, said he Routinely discusses this problem together with his patients, and often their surgeons, Also. 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Leaders say those steps are essential to keep costs under control.\nThe plan now goes to the Utah House and will be debated, reviewed and voted on by representatives throughout the state, including a number in Cache County.\nCasey Snider represents State House District 5. He said, \u201cWe need to make sure you can take care of people, that\u2019s what we\u2019ve seen in the passage of the proposition.\u201d He added, \u201cWe also have to be able to pay for it. 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The Canes could have improved their record/point total by 17 over last season, but the Montreal Canadians spoiled everything.\nAnother Game of Firsts\nThe Canadians were the hottest team in the NHL at the beginning of the season, which came somewhat as a surprise to many hockey pundits but not to any Hab fans. After all, they have one of the best goalies in the league, Corey Price, along with one of the best and most charismatic defenders, P.K. Subban. Price has been out since November, and Subban has been out about a month, but, after the torrid start, the Habs have been one of the worst teams in the NHL.\nComing into Raleigh, they sported a two-game losing streak, and, like the Canes, had about a third of their line-up with minor leaguers. Their goalie, Charlie Lindgren, was playing in his first NHL game and was playing college hockey just two weeks ago. Looking back two weeks ago, when the Canes still had their slim playoff hope, this game on paper was one in the \u2018W\u2019 column.\nNash Scores Early Off Skinner\u2019s Pass\nWhether it was trying to end the home schedule with a win, building on the momentum from the SO win in Boston earlier in the week or wanting to jump on the rookie in net, the Canes did dominate the game early.\nPicking on rookies is a tradition in most sports. As it\u2019s customary in the NHL to have the starting goalie lead the team on the ice, the Canadians\u2019 rookie, Lindgren, was first on the ice. As he skated up to the blue line then circled towards the net, he realized his teammates were still in the runway laughing and raising their sticks allowing him to skate around for a minute before being joined by the rest of his good buddies.\nEarly in the first period, the Canes had the puck deep in the Habs\u2019 end when Jeff Skinner intercepted a clear along the half boards, sending a centering pass to Riley Nash.\nNash wasted no time in sending a hard-wrister high glove side for a very quick 1-0 lead. It\u2019s not often that a goalie has a .000 career save percentage, but, as World B next to me said, that can only go up from here. The score held up until very late in the period, as the Canes allowed another first when Darren Dietz received a drop pass at the right point. 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That goal would be the last lead for the Canes, as it was all Canadians after that.\nMax Pacioretty skated through the center zone, killing time as the Canadians were making a line change. As he crossed the blue line, two defenders closed in on him, so he took a hard shot from 45\u2019 out. Ward punched at the puck with the blocker with the puck mimicking a bunt single as it popped over Ward into the net to tie the game.\nLate in the period, the Canadians made a rush into the Canes\u2019 end. Brad Malone blocked a shot, but the puck trickled wide where Daniel Carr had an easy redirect for the 3-2 lead.\nWhile the Canes were down 3-2 to start the third, the Caniacs tried to jumpstart the Canes, as they knew this was the last game at the PNC arena for six months and really wanted a win.\nPlay on both sides was sloppy with turnovers in the neutral zone all too common. 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She painted the two cats on the grass and the tree in the picture above.\n\u201cI suffer from bi-polar disorder,\u201d she says. \u201cThere have been many times when having the art program has helped me have a safe place to deal with whatever is in my face at the time! And knowing there\u2019s someone safe to talk to when needed has no doubt saved my life more than once over the years!\u201d\nKen Pinet, whose creation is the log cabin on the table, has been attending since last December.\n\u201cI look forward to attending twice a week,\u201d says Ken. \u201cThis program lets me feel free of everyday stress and to forget about it for a few hours. I suffer from PTSD and major depression. I love this program. I don\u2019t know where I would be without it.\u201d\nAda Sargent\u2019s painting is hanging just above Ken\u2019s log cabin. Ada had a better winter than usual because of the art program.\n\u201cIt really means more than I can put in words,\u201d she say, \u201cbut this winter my SAD disorder was mild compared to the past couple of winters. I really look forward to each class because of the interaction from each person in the class. Ideas are shared among each and it is fun.\u201d\nRabbi Gary Berenson is the Director of the Maine Jewish Museum, which he\u2019s been told has become an important venue for art in Maine. The Cabin Fever Show is a departure from the usual exhibits and the room it\u2019s in wasn\u2019t intended as a viewing gallery, but Rabbi Berenson believes it all works nicely. \u201cWhen the art went up and I saw the reaction of the artists and visitors who say they really like the pieces I was glad we did it.\u201d\nOne thing he doesn\u2019t want to happen is that the museum is seen as strictly an art gallery. \u201cIt\u2019s a museum of Jewish history and we are still a synagogue,\u201d he says, \u201cso I don\u2019t want that to be lost and for people to think they\u2019re just in an art gallery.\u201d\nThe synagogue is Etz Chaim, one of the oldest in Maine. When it was established in 1921, it was one of three Orthodox synagogues in the neighborhood. Now it\u2019s the only synagogue. No longer strictly Orthodox, today Etz Chaim is an unaffiliated, egalitarian, modern Jewish congregation.\nWhile the museum\u2019s mission is to \u201chonor the contributions and diversity of Maine\u2019s Jewish immigrants,\u201d it also \u201cseeks to build bridges of appreciation and understanding with people of all backgrounds.\u201d\nBy inviting Shalom House (not a Jewish organization), Sweetser and the Opportunity Alliance to showcase their art exhibit at the Museum and pay tribute to the artists, the museum is certainly living up to its mission.\nIn doing so, not only does it benefit the artists, it also helps break down barriers and remove the stigma that too often is associated with mental illness.\nJohn Buckley, who painted Hollywood Dreaming (in the foreground) articulates quite nicely how meaningful the experience has been for him and his fellow artists.\n\u201cHope became a paintbrush, heavy as stone at first then light as a whisper. 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Pathologists, though, deal with the physical reality of death. They face daily reminders that the human body is easily broken. Reminders that every one of us has an expiration date.\nPathology, a new horror-thriller which came out in limited release on April 18th, gives us a look at a group of medical students that deal with death by pushing their own lives to the limits. Drugs, twisted sex and murder are just recreational activities for these characters.\n\u201cWe've numbed ourselves to what death is to many people - to whatever that provokes,\u201d says Michael Weston, who plays Dr. Jake Gallo. \u201cAnd that numbness has caused us to try and find out what really makes us alive. My character has a bunch of friends that he corrals into this 'game' of murder. \u201d(read more...)\nA Look Ahead to \"Torchwood\" Season 2\nSubmitted by Emily Langton on Sun, 2007-10-07 01:13\nWarning: Spoilers for \"Doctor Who\" season three and \"Torchwood\" season one below. Mild spoilers for \"Torchwood\" season two.\nIf you're hooked on BBC America's airings of \"Torchwood,\" you'll be glad to hear that work on season two has already begun. It won't air until January of 2008 in the UK and no word yet on a US air date, so the creators were understandably tight-lipped about what was coming. \"If I say too much now, it'll be old news by the time it comes out,\" says head writer Chris Chibnall. Still, they did share a few tidbits from the upcoming season.\nChibnall says, \"In season one, It's almost like a dysfunctional family It's about these kind of disparate people trying to work together, trying to work each other out. In season two, that family is much more tight-knit. 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He's the leader of Torchwood Three in Cardiff, Wales, a team that's \"separate from the government, outside the police and beyond the United Nations.\" (Torchwood One was destroyed in the season two finale of \"Doctor Who\" and we never hear much about the other Torchwood bases.)(read more...)\nA Glimpse at \"Moonlight.\"\nCBS has just released new promo images for the show Moonlight which premieres on Friday, Sept. 28 (9:00-10:00 PM ET/PT).\nFrom left to right: Vampires Josef (Jason Dohring), Coraline (Shannyn Sossamon) and Mick St. John (Alex O'Loughlin) and the (human) reporter Beth Turner (Sophia Myles).(read more...)\nHe sleeps in a freezer, not a coffin. He gets his blood from his dealer, a guy who works at a blood bank. He doesn't burst into flames in the sun and he can't be killed with a stake through the heart. He likes golf, Steve McQueen movies, classic Star Trek and Miles Davis. That's the modern vampire as seen on the new fall show Moonlight (airing Fridays on CBS at 9PM EST/PST, starting September 28th).\nMick St. John, played by Alex O'Loughlin, is the latest vampire detective to hit primetime TV. It's a subgenre that most people equate with Joss Whedon's prematurely cancelled Angel. Executive producer Joel Silver says that Moonlight will not be Angel 2.0. \"It's just a different world,\" he says. \"There are no demons, there are no other entities. It's a world where there are vampires, and they're around, and they're living among us.(read more...)\nDemon Terrorists and Amoral Women: The Upcoming Season of \"Supernatural\"\nWarning: The following article contains spoilers for the third season of \"Supernatural\".\n\"They're hidden among us, they could be anybody, we don't know who they are, they're among the towns in America and they're waiting to wreak as much havoc as possible. \"\nThat's not the latest warning from Homeland Security. It's creator/executive producer Eric Kripke talking about the upcoming season of \"Supernatural,\" a show which he describes as \"two brothers battling the things that go bump in the night in a cool muscle car.\" He's at San Diego Comic-Con to discuss the show, along with star Jensen Ackles (Dean Winchester) and writers Sera Gamble and Ben Edlund. Jared Padalecki, who plays younger brother Sam Winchester, was filming in Vancouver all night and missed his flight down to San Diego.\nSneak Look at Vampire Detective Show \"Moonlight\" at SDCC 2007\nSubmitted by Emily Langton on Sat, 2007-07-28 08:32\nFriday afternoon at ComicCon, Joel Silver presented a look at Moonlight, a new vampire detective show that premieres on CBS this fall. (Fridays, 9 pm.)\nThe show focuses on Mick (Alex O'Loughlin, The Shield), a vampire who was turned by his wife Coraline (Shannyn Sossamon) on their wedding night sixty years ago and still hasn't forgiven her. He now works as a private investigator and refuses to drink from living people. Internet reporter Beth (Sophia Myles, Doctor Who) meets Mick at a crime scene (unaware that she had met him previously as a small child) and he becomes her protector.\n\"Reaper\" Pilot Premieres at SDCC 2007\nFriday evening at the San Diego ComicCon, Kevin Smith (Clerks, Dogma) presented the new show Reaper. Slacker Sam Oliver (Bret Harrison) has always taken the easy route. But on his twenty-first birthday, he discovers his parents sold his soul to the Devil (Ray Wise). Now Sam is a bounty hunter for Hell, capturing souls that escape and sending them back where they belong.\nTara Butters and Michele Fazekas have created an irreverent horror-comedy show. In the pilot episode, directed by Kevin Smith, Sam discovers his destiny and develops supernatural abilities. Along with friends \"Sock\" (Tyler Labine) and Ben (Rick Gonzalez), Sam tracks down a fire demon with the help of a demonic Dirt Devil and a portal to Hell through the DMV.\nLionsgate SDCC 2007 Panel\nSubmitted by Emily Langton on Thu, 2007-07-26 22:41\nLionsgate presented a look at Midnight Meat Train at their Comic-Con panel Thursday. Based on Clive Barker's short story from Books of Blood, the movie follows photographer Leon Kauffman (Bradley Cooper) as he stalks serial killer Mahogany (Vinnie Jones).\nMahogany works in a meat factory by day and on the subway at night, where he \"gets victims on the train and takes them to a special place to feed people.\" Further research outside the panel clarified that Mahogany is turning his victims into meat to feed subterranean cannibals.\nDirector Ryuhei Kitamura says his goal was to \"make something better than Hellraiser and Candyman.\" Apparently he has succeeded - Clive Barker says of Midnight Meat Train, \"This is the best adaptation - and I'm including my own work - of any short fiction that I've ever seen.\"\nShooting for another Books of Blood short story, \"Pig Blood Blues,\" begins in October.\n\"Pathology\" Set Visit\nSubmitted by Emily Langton on Fri, 2007-06-15 23:59\nThe camera slides on a track, following actor Michael Weston as he pontificates to his fellow pathologists. A murder victim lies on a slab in the center of the room. Like so many detectives before them, these characters are trying to figure out the cause of death. Unlike most murder mysteries, though, they're not trying to bring the killer to justice. In fact, the killer is sitting in the room, drinking a beer and watching the proceedings with a smug look. For these pathology students, killing is a game - a way to show off their smarts. 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Named for the legendary Ferrari driver, this circuit is celebrating the 50th anniversary of its first Formula 1 Canadian GP. The first ten editions were held however at Mosport Park (8) and Mont-Tremblant (2). The track is located on the Isle of Notre Dame, an artificial island built in 1965 on the Saint Lawrence River as the Montreal underground was being constructed.\nCharacterized by alternating straightaways, chicanes and hairpin turns, this track is without a doubt the toughest test bench for the braking systems on the single-seaters, which usually show up here with a low aerodynamic load. The braking points, all hard and very close together, cause soaring operating temperatures of the discs and pads, which don't have enough time to cool down on the straight stretches.\nGrip increases as rubber is laid on the track, and, as we expect the single-seaters to experience in 2017, this will lead the braking torque to be higher compared to the 2016 season. To deal with the changes adopted this season, Brembo has increased the thickness of the carbon discs from 28 mm to 32 mm, and has added holes to cool them, taking the total from 1,200 to 1,400.\nAnother problem for the braking systems is the tailwind on the two main straightaways: when it pushes from behind, the straight line speed is increased, putting the brakes to an even more rigorous test.\nAccording to Brembo technicians, who classified the 20 tracks in the World Championship on a scale of 1 to 10, Circuit Gilles-Villeneuve falls into the category of highly demanding circuits for the brakes. The Canadian track earned a 10 on the difficulty index, which is the same score given to the tracks in Abu Dhabi, Mexico City and Singapore.\nAs demonstrated by the Monaco GP, the number of braking points is not indicative of how hard the brakes have to work. 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These figures contribute to the average peak deceleration hitting 4.4 G.\nThe energy dissipated in braking by each race car during the entire GP is 179 kWh, the same amount as the hourly energy consumption of 62 families in Quebec.\nFrom the starting line to the checkered flag, the Brembo technicians forecast that each driver will exert a total force on the pedal of approximately 72 tons, which is the same as the total weight of 130 Canadian moose.\nOf the seven braking sections on Circuit Gilles-Villeneuve, a good four are considered very demanding on the brakes, two are of medium difficulty and one is light.\nThe most critical is the last, the chicane that precedes the famous \"Wall of Champions\" where control going into the turn is essential to avoid launching the car over the kerb. On this corner, an exceptional feeling with the brakes can make the difference between a good lap time and a crash. 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But for the first time ever, the lady tells her life story to Daily Sun. This is the story of a survivor, a woman that took her destiny in her hands and, against all odds, rose to fame and stardom. During the interview, Shan George broke down in tears, and the reporter could not stop ...\nA lot has been written about popular actress, Shan George. But for the first time ever, the lady tells her life story to Daily Sun.\nThis is the story of a survivor, a woman that took her destiny in her hands and, against all odds, rose to fame and stardom.\nDuring the interview, Shan George broke down in tears, and the reporter could not stop the tears from flowing from her own eyes. This is her life story in her own words:\nLife started for me in the village, in a small village called Ediba in Abi local government area of Cross-River State. My mum worked as a nurse in one of the local hospitals. She is now retired. My father was an expatriate from England with a company called Turners Asbestos in Emene, Enugu State, before he died. The company is now known as Emenite. It produces roofing sheets and water pipes. After the death of my father, my mother left Enugu to go back and live in my village where I grew up.\nMy parents used to live at No. 2 Nwodo Close inside the G.R.A. in Enugu, and I was getting close to my 5th birthday when I lost my father.\nMy mother was so heartbroken when she lost my father, my grand-mother then insisted she comes back to my village to live. Back in the village, my mother worked as a nurse in the local hospital across the river in Etigidi.\nMy mother never got over my father, I am my mother\ufffds only child and she still lives in the village, she only comes to Lagos now and then to visit me. My mother put all her effort in taking care of me, and also thought it was important for me to be educated. I had my primary and secondary education in the village.\nVillage life, when I was between the ages of 8 and 12 years old, was a lot of fun for me. How I used to climb trees and mountains with my school-mates on our way back from school. How we used to swim in the stream, how you don\ufffdt get to eat lunch until you get to the farm after school and lunch, for me then, was roasted yam.\nSometimes when I look back at what my life was as a young girl growing up in the village, sometimes I get an image of a young girl who deserves better. But then it was fun. I knew no other life. Here I was, half-caste, born by a British expatriate, living in a village that had no electricity. My mother worked very hard to send me to school, provided me with the little comfort that she could, I remember as a young girl I had my own bed. But all the other basic amenities like having a generator, a television set were luxuries that my mother could not afford. I remember how I used to go to watch television in neighbour\ufffds houses. And how I used to dream of becoming somebody some day. I actually wanted to become a lawyer as a young girl. And I wanted so much to become somebody great in the society, and I used to fantasize about how someday, I am going to marry a governor or a president, so that I can become a first lady, just like the wives of the presidents and governors that I sometimes see on my neigbour\ufffds television set.\nI was an Oyibo girl, who knew nothing about the Western world, and I had this big ambition to be great someday. How to go about it then, I did not know. But I just kept on dreaming, and hoped it happens.\nIt is the norm in my village then that young girls get married off between the age of 15 to 17. If you don\ufffdt get a suitor by the age of 17, you are like a leftover. And back then, in my village, they didn\ufffdt see it as a wise investment to send girls to school. After all, a girl changes her name to that of her husband immediately she gets married and whatever she becomes thereafter is to her husband\ufffds name and glory. So why waste your money educating a girl child? And I thank my mother who insisted I pass through secondary school before I got married. So, when I was getting close to my 16th birthday, I got married. I was really excited about the marriage proposal then, to me as a young girl growing up in a village without electricity, getting married and going to live in \"township\" then was very exciting. \"Township\" then as we used to call places where there is electricity, cars, television, executive sitting chairs, to us then in the village, was paradise. I can\ufffdt say I was forced into marriage then, I was actually excited at the prospect of leaving the village for paradise. But I realised later that not all that glitters is gold. I left the village for the so-called paradise, for me to find out that it wasn\ufffdt a paradise after all. And things didn\ufffdt work out the way I thought they would.\nMaybe if I didn\ufffdt get married that early in life, maybe things would have been different. Because I now know everything has its time and season. One needs to be mature and ready for marriage. Although my ex-husband is older, there was no cordiality in the marriage. We had a traditional marriage and I left the village to live with him. As a young girl, I had high hopes of going to the university to read Law.\nFour years into the marriage with two kids, and no talk about me going back to school, to become that person that I wanted to be, I became an unhappy persons. Suddenly, I realised that if I stayed on in that marriage, I will never realise my dreams. And I was not happy in that marriage. At a point, my marriage was like a stumbling block to my success in life. So, I knew I had to do something about it. After six years in that marriage, I woke up one morning on the 6th of May 1991, with N2,400 in my bag. I left my husband\ufffds house in Ojodu.\nI did not head for the village this time around. I had left with my kids before then for my village. But my mother asked me questions about how my ex-husband was treating me, and my replies were positive ones. Was I being maltreated by him? I replied no. So my mother was not in support of me staying back in the village with my kids, she insisted I had to go back to my husband. So, I realised then that I just couldn\ufffdt go back to my mother in the village this time around. I knew if I had to leave, I had to go somewhere else, definitely not my village.\nMy first son was born in November 1986, my second son was born November 1988. In 1991, when I left my husband\ufffds house, they were so young, I never wanted to leave without them. But I knew I couldn\ufffdt take the kids with me. I had nowhere to go, so taking the children with me to an unknown destination will be putting then through a lot of hardship. And I had no means of taking care of them. So, I prayed that morning for God\ufffds forgiveness.\nWe had just moved to Ojodu then. I think we moved to Ojodu in Lagos in 1990. So, I was very new in Lagos, I had no friends or family I could go stay with. But I was determined, so I was going round Lagos, looking for work and hoping that I would come across anybody from my village that could be of assistance. That night, I slept in a small hotel. I can\ufffdt remember exactly how much I paid at the hotel per night, but the N2,400 I had with me lasted just for four days. As God will have it on that 4th day, I met somebody I knew while in the village. Her name is Mrs. Betcy Ukoh. I ran into her somewhere around Fola Agoro in Shomolu where her fashion house was located. She now lives in Abidjan, Cote\ufffdd\ufffdIvoire with her family. It was amazing and I was so excited and she was happy to see me. I explained my situation to her, and she offered to take me in. When I left my husband\ufffds house in Ojodu, I did not leave with any of my things. What I had was just the one dress I had on. And throughout those four days I was going round Lagos, I had that dress on. At night, I wash it in the hotel I was staying, spread it under the fan to dry till the following morning. So, when my aunty took me in, the first thing she did was to make me a skirt and blouse from the leftover fabrics she had in her shop. And that was what I wore for the first few days that I stayed with her. I learned how to sew from her and she used to send me to some of her customers in corporate offices that can\ufffdt find the time to come to her shop to take their orders. And she was always sending me to Tejuoso Market to buy fabrics that she intends to sew for her customers. And that was how I got into fashion. After some time, I started saving the little money I was making towards buying G.C.E. forms. I got enough money to sit for my G.C.E, I passed, and the following year I sat for JAMB exams. I did not make my JAMB that year, but I did the following year.\nAfter two years of living with my aunt, I left her place to get a one room accommodation somewhere in Obanikoro. And that was how I started sewing on my own. After some time, I was able to save enough to open a boutique and up till date, I still run the boutique. My boutique is called SHANDEL, it\ufffds a combination of my name and that of my first son. My boutique is located in Jibowu, my shop by the special grace of God is stocked with the latest fashion trend. Then I used to get goods from people that travel abroad to put in my shop. I couldn\ufffdt afford to pay outright, I used to take the goods on sales on return. And when I get little money then, I used to travel to Cotonou to buy things to put in the shop.\nIn 1996, I got a letter of admission to University of Lagos to read Mass Communication. It was the happiest day of my life. I was overwhelmed with joy. I held the letter and tears of joy dropped from my eyes.\nLater, I realised I didn\ufffdt have enough to pay my tuition fees. I had to pay N12,000 and all I had then was N8 in my account. While I was working with my aunt, I met a lot of people from my village but I didn\ufffdt socialise with them, because I was always busy working for my aunt. One of them was my mother\ufffds brother who is a customs officer. I went to see him, and he offered to help. He gave me N5,000. And there was this other man who is also from my village, his name is Mr. Omini, he was working with N.N.P.C then. I don\ufffdt know if he still does. I have made a lot of effort to reach him. I hope he reads this. I really, really want to get in touch with him. He gave me N2,000. (At this point, Shan\ufffds voice quivers and tears rolled down her face).\nWhile I was running around looking for money to pay my tuition fees into the university, I was also looking out for any job opportunity. My boutique was not doing well then, so I decided I needed to get a paid job to support whatever I was making from the boutique.\nLuckily for me, I got a job working behind the camera at N.T.A. on Ahmadu Bello Way, Victoria Island. And later, Sadiq Daba gave me a role to play in Winds of Destiny, and I was paid N1,000 per episode. That was in 1997.\nWhile acting in Winds of Destiny, I got my first home movie role in the late Jennifer Ossai\ufffds movie titled, Thorns of Rose. My sister, Blessing Eremi, who played Wakanga in NTA\ufffds rested soap, Fortune, introduced me to Jennifer. I had to stop my behind the camera work at NTA because of my studies, and later, I got a major role in After The Storm, a television drama which ran on N.T.A. Tunde Adesina gave me a big role, so I got a better fee.\nAfter the Storm was rested after a while, so, I just concentrated on school. And that was how I started writing my own script while in school.\nIn my final year at the university, I produced my own movie titled, All For Winnie. Later, I was able to raise enough money to travel abroad on business trips. And the first country I travelled to in Europe was Paris.\nMy father was a British expatriate and because my mother was too devastated after his death, when she left Enugu, she didn\ufffdt even think of keeping any document for future references as regards my father.\nAll she had was his photograph. So, at a point in my life, out of curiosity of wanting to know who my father was, I went in search of the company he worked with in Enugu. And that was how I got to know that the company\ufffds name had been changed from Turners Asbestos to Eminite. I found my father\ufffds name in what was left as the \ufffdcompany\ufffds record. And I was able to get the company\ufffds address in Manchester, United Kingdom. I sent a lot of letters to the company, but I never got a responce. And the telephone number I got from the company\ufffds record was also no longer in service.\nMy father\ufffds name, Gordon Walker George, was on the company\ufffds record. I have reached out to a lot of organisations that could help trace my father\ufffds relatives. I also tried Red Cross because I heard they are good at uniting lost families, but no positive response came from them. I didn\ufffdt inform my mother before I went to Enugu in search of the company my father worked with. But I later told her what I found out. And she was not pleased that I was going around trying to gather information about a dead man.\nShe sees no point in the search, especially now that I am famous and am doing so well for myself. A lot of websites that I tried on the internet could not help because I don\ufffdt know my father\ufffds date of birth and place of birth. There was a time that I logged onto a website called something ancestral and called all the Gordon Walker George listed, but nothing came up.\nSomeday, I intend to go to the company\ufffds address that I had written to in Manchester, and find out why I didn\ufffdt get a reply to my letters. So, right now, I don\ufffdt know how to go about the British citizenship.\nOkey Basassi\nI met Okey Bakassi at a public function in 1998, then I was still in school. We started out as friends, I was very new in the movie industry then and Okey was the only friend I had.\nWe were friends before we became lovers and he put me through a lot of things. He had been in the movie industry before me. And he had produced several movies, so I learnt a lot from him.\nThe relationship came to an end because at that time, I was not so keen on marriage. I had just come out of one marriage and I wasn\ufffdt ready to get into another one so soon. Coupled with the fact that we were both struggling artists. So we were not talking marriage. At a point, the affair just faded away naturally, no quarrel.\nBut what we had was a good, honourable relationship that lasted for three years, and in an industry like ours that a relationship that lasts for two months is a big deal.\nMy new husband\nI met my present husband Anthony Nwosisi in England in 2002 and we met through a friend.\nFor me, it was love at first sight. In fact, I fell in love with him on the phone before we met physically. He called my friend I was with while in London, and she told him on the phone that I was in London and with her. He asked to speak with me, and immediately he said hi on the phone, my heart just skipped a beat. And we went on chatting like we\ufffdve known each other for long, and that was how we exchanged numbers. And when we met physically, it was like magic. Well, the rest is history. I know there has been so much negative things written about us not being together in some soft sell magazines.\nAnd I will like to set the record straight. We are together and we intend to be together till kingdom come. Or like my husband used to say, till eternity. My husband lives in England and that\ufffds why I shuttle between Lagos and England a lot. But he is planning on re-locating back to Nigeria very soon. Yes, he was once married with two kids, a boy and a girl. I love and respect him a lot as my husband and he has always been there for me. 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And what do you use, if you\u2019re lucky enough to have space for a sandbox or sand table at home?", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00240.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 27, + "original_length": 1669, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.88, + "perplexity": 234.0, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "http://corwenstation-new.co.uk/original-corwen-station/4576906620", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T03:55:30Z", + "digest": "sha1:A7PMD3FQ5WU54ISCXU3LGKBQFWDYDJH6", + "length": 432, + "nlines": 4, + "source_domain": "corwenstation-new.co.uk", + "title": "Original Corwen Station - corwen-station", + "raw_content": "The Original Station at Corwen\nThe original main station building has been in use by Ifor Williams Trailers for the last 30 years.\nAlthough no longer available to the Railway it remains substantially intact and together with the surrounding ex-Railway buildings and sites is a potent reminder of years gone by.\nAn alternative site is planned for the new station further east next to the Town Car Park and close to the Health Centre.", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00240.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 32, + "original_length": 1048, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.95, + "perplexity": 200.4, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "http://cotterrell.com/news/4324/method-cultural-leadership-programme-190509/", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T03:21:08Z", + "digest": "sha1:A5K5IJ2W2QSABYAMZBNSEYMZUKL7ICPZ", + "length": 1266, + "nlines": 6, + "source_domain": "cotterrell.com", + "title": "David Cotterrell | News | Method - Cultural Leadership Programme - 19.05.09", + "raw_content": "Method - Cultural Leadership Programme - 19.05.09\nDavid has been selected to be included in the pilot artists\u2019 development programme, Method.\nSupported exclusively by the Cultural Leadership Programme, Method focuses its agenda on the development of 21 independent leaders in the cultural and creative industries in the UK, offering participants leadership learning in the context of their own place of work.\nThe Cultural Leadership Programme (CLP) was set up to address a significant historical under-investment, when compared to other sectors, in the professional development of people operating in the creative and cultural sector. The work of the programme is diverse, exploring a wide variety of approaches to and understanding around what effective leadership means in a diverse and fast-changing set of contexts, and drawing upon relevant models, expertise and thinking.\nIt proposes to define and determine new ways of supporting individual artists and practitioners who are seeking to develop their leadership skills and behaviour, exploring how artists might organise themselves to influence through their own practice, often beyond organisational settings.\nThe programme is being delivered by Solar Associates and will take place over the next four months.", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00240.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 35, + "original_length": 1991, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.95, + "perplexity": 281.7, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "http://craigmichaelmeklir.com/portfolio/strength-optimism/", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T03:30:55Z", + "digest": "sha1:NBJZJNFIAR5HU7C2USRES52GVVVF5D6W", + "length": 469, + "nlines": 2, + "source_domain": "craigmichaelmeklir.com", + "title": "Strength & Optimism | Craig Michael Meklir - Art Portfolio", + "raw_content": "Strength and Optimism\nStrength and Optimism is an acrylic painting of The Monument to Joe Louis. 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For upon this faith the Church is built, and if anyone were to lapse from it, he would no longer be a Christian either in fact or in name.\nWe acknowledge the Trinity, holy and perfect, to consist of the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit. In this Trinity there is no intrusion of any alien element or of anything from outside, nor is the Trinity a blend of creative and created being. It is a wholly creative and energizing reality, self-consistent and undivided in its active power, for the Father makes all things through the Word and in the Holy Spirit, and in this way the unity of the holy Trinity is preserved. Accordingly, in the Church, one God is preached, one God who is above all things and through all things and in all things. 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For where the light is, there also is the radiance; and where the radiance is, there too are its power and its resplendent grace.\nThis is also Paul's teaching in his second letter to the Corinthians (2:13): The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ and the love of God and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit be with you all. For grace and the gift of the Trinity are given by the Father through the Son in the Holy Spirit. Just as grace is given from the Father through the Son, so there could be no communication of the gift to us except in the Holy Spirit. 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They had a combined revenue of almost USD 6 trillion, and USD 500 billion in profits in 2017.\nList of top 12 Chinese companies by revenue in 2017:\n1 - State Grid: China\u2019s state-owned power company supplies power to 1.1 billion people, covering 88% of the most populous nation\u2019s terrain. The world\u2019s largest utility also owns and operates a growing portfolio of assets around the world, from Australia to Italy to Brazil, and is pursuing clean energy investments around the world. It employees 913,500 people.\nFortune 500 Rank: 2 Revenues: USD348.9bil. Profits: USD9.5bil.\n2 - Sinopec Group: The state-owned Chinese oil and gas company formally known as China Petroleum and Chemical, Sinopec become the third largest company in the world by riding its home country\u2019s explosive growth and pursuing its international ambitions, especially in Africa. It is the world's largest oil refining, gas and petrochemical conglomerate.\n3 - China National Petroleum: China\u2019s state-owned energy company, China National Petroleum, explores, refines and sells crude oil and natural gas, in addition to manufacturing equipment and offering oil field services. Most of international operations are spread around the Middle East, Russia and Kazakhstan. It employees 1.5 million people.\nFortune 500 Rank: 4 Revenues: USD326.0bil. Profits: -USD0.7bil.\n4 \u2013 China State Construction Engineering: China\u2019s state-owned and largest construction company in the world. It made numerous large-scale construction projects all over the world, in China, North America, Europe, Africa and Asia: mosques, airports, bridges, highways, railroads, skyscrapers, stadiums, etc.\nFortune 500 Rank: 23 Revenues: USD156.1bil. Profits: USD2.7bil.\n5 - Industrial & Commercial Bank of China (ICBC): Chinese multinational banking company, largest bank in China and the largest bank in the world by total assets. It is one of China's \"Big Four\" state-owned commercial banks (the other three being the Bank of China, Agricultural Bank of China, and China Construction Bank).\nFortune 500 Rank: 26 Revenues: USD153.0bil. Profits: USD42.3bil.\n6 \u2013 Ping An Insurance: Chinese holding conglomerate whose subsidiaries mainly deal with insurance, banking, and financial services. It is the world's largest and most valuable insurer, and also one of the world's biggest investment and asset management company. Very diversified firm that\u2019s been buying stakes in many kinds of businesses.\n7 - China Construction Bank: One of the \"big four\" banks in the People's Republic of China. It has almost 14,000 domestic branches and overseas branches in Spain, the UK, Germany, Luxembourg, the USA, South Africa, Singapore, Japan, Korea, Australia and Malaysia.\n8 - SAIC Motor: Shanghai Automotive Industry Corporation (SAIC) is a Chinese state-owned automotive design and manufacturing company and one of the \"Big Four\" state-owned Chinese automakers (along with Chang'an Motors, FAW Group, and Dongfeng Motor). In several big joint-ventures with famous car-makers including Volkswagen and General Motors. Two notable brands owned by SAIC are MG and Roewe.\n9 - Agricultural Bank of China: Chinese state-owned banking giant, the Agricultural Bank of China has a focus on the country\u2019s rural population. Its loans to rural households rose 53% to USD 30.8 billion in the last five years. It has over 24,000 branches domestically, and international ones in London, Tokyo, New York, Frankfurt, Sydney, Seoul, Singapore and HK.\n10 - China Life Insurance: Beijing-based company that provides life insurance and annuity products. It is 70% state-owned, and the biggest life insurer in China. In 2015, it started to invest in foreign real estate and in 2017 it entered tech investments, alongside with Baidu.\n11 - Bank of China: The oldest bank in mainland China still in existence, government owned and one of the symbols of PR China. It is the most globally-active of China's banks, that operates on all continents in 27 countries including Australia, Canada, the UK, France, Germany, Italy, Luxembourg, Russia, Hungary, the USA, Brazil, Japan, Korea, Singapore, etc.\n12 - China Mobile: Chinese state-owned telecommunication corporation that provides mobile voice and multimedia services through its nationwide mobile telecommunications network across mainland China. 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The church, which works closely with the university, was constructed in 1925 with a donation from Edward L. Doheny, who also donated the Doheny Memorial Library. - Woodrow Clark | Daily Trojan\nBuilt in 1925 as a gift from USC donor Edward L. Doheny, St. Vincent de Paul, located on Figueroa Street and Adams Boulevard, has played an active role in the USC Catholic community as well as the surrounding neighborhood.\nSee more photos of the church\u2019s interior>>\nThe church provides opportunities for USC students to get involved in the larger community through partnerships with organizations like JEP.\nBrother Tony of St. Vincent de Paul Church has worked for 27 years at the church and said the church\u2019s connection to USC over the years has strengthened in a variety of ways.\n\u201cOur association over the years with USC includes students working with the family of schools in our neighborhood that USC helps sponsor,\u201d Brother Tony said. \u201cStudents come to masses and hold services through the USC Caruso Catholic Center throughout the year. Houses on The Row during Christmas time come and sponsor families in our communities who need assistance with meals and gifts.\u201d\nBrother Tony said, as an organization, the church works with USC on a number of different boards aimed at improving the larger community, and he has seen the neighborhood change in response to these partnerships.\n\u201cAs a member of the Figueroa Corridor along with USC, we work to bring cooperation and services between the neighbors and community,\u201d Brother Tony said.\nFather Lawrence Seyer, pastor of USC Caruso Catholic Center, said St. Vincent de Paul has provided many opportunities for students to get involved in the neighborhood.\n\u201cStudents from the Catholic Center teach confirmation there,\u201d Father Seyer said. \u201cIt\u2019s a way to give back to the community. Also the Society of St. Vincent de Paul looks after the poor and provides a number of services to the local community. 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He was a postdoctoral trainee at Universit\u008ee Laval from 1999 to 2001 where he studied the neurobiology of stress and anxiety under the co-supervision of Drs. Guy Drolet and Denis Par\u008ee. He completed his postdoctoral formation at the Vollum Institute in Portland (Oregon, USA) where he studied drugs of abuse-induced synaptic adaptations under the supervision of Dr. John T. Williams. He is now Associate Professor in the Department of Biomedical and Molecular Sciences at Queen's University. The overall goal of Dr. Dumont's research program is to elucidate the neural mechanisms underlying compulsive behaviours. His laboratory attacks this question using a multi-faceted systems biological approach that considers critical and causal factors at the molecular, cellular, systems and behavioral levels. 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It is a country where the principle rights of human beings had been violated blatantly, from witch-burning to holocaust. It was no coincidence that the Universal Declaration of Human Rights was formulated and published in 1948, shortly after cruel World War II which Germany had started. Unfortunately, we in Germany took up the habit of not consequentially persecuting human rights breeches of our own state and those of friendly states.\nIn compensation we tackle those countries which relate to our current understanding of who the enemy is (Islam/Socialism). This phenomenon is ubiquous in politics and it led to an alienation of the citizens. We also find this reason of state in the editorial offices of the media, e.g. when they disable any fundamental criticism with concepts like \"anti-American\" or \"anti-Semitic\" and thus affirm the violent status quo.\nNon-governmental organizations and free media are needed in this discourse when the people in power abandon the idea of a consistent standard. The International Society for Human Rigths (ISHR) is such a non-governmental organization. While the motto of its annual congregation in March 2010 was: \"Universality of the Human Rights - the Same Human Rights for All!\", the actual focus was on Muslim and socialist countries. There was only one little figleaf speech on human rights violations \"in us\".\nMy letter to the ISHR (see below) remained unanswered, as if the question was insignificant. As if the ISHR floated above the clouds, with no need to respond to the public opinion, while defining the human rights discourse in its own way, pointing the finger on those countries and philosophies that seemingly are to be fought.\nThe work of the ISHR will only be credible when the organization adopts a consistent standard and when it introduces an accompanying self-criticism as a method. Therefore, the members and the public are called to question the work of the ISHR.\nAttn.: International Society for Human Rigths (ISHR) Germany, www.ishr.org (http://www.igfm.de/)\nDear Herr Hafen, dear all,\ntoday I received your newsletter which deals with human rights violations in Iran and in Egypt. I subsequently analyzed your website and noticed that your country reports, appeals, press releases, and publications almost entirely concern specific countries: Iran, Egypt, China, Russia, GUS states, Cuba, North Korea, Turkey, Vietnam, Venezuela, Pakistan, and a few others. Under \"focus\" (\"Themen\") you apparently single out human rights breaches in Muslim countries.\nThis conspicuous selection (Islam and Socialism plus marginal issues) indicates that - apart from the human rights - you pursue a political agenda, one that cannot be found in your self-description, however. One of the states that blatantly violate the human rights on a daily basis is Israel. But you do not report it. Even the terrible massacre in Gaza in Dec. 2008/ Jan. 2009 did not find your attention, at least there is nothing I can find on your extensive website.\nThe few reports on Iraq deal with the situation of persecuted Christians only. Missing are the human rights violations by the USA and its allies, known from TV and media. Neither do you say anything about Afghanistan and Pakistan that could embarrass the leaders of wars of aggression. It also seems as if there is nothing to say about German human rights violations (e.g. in Afghanistan). There is only the socialist former GDR that you highlight in your FAQ.Therefore I want to ask you to reconsider the formulation your political agenda so that the public and your members are not led astray. Otherwise it will be easy to conclude that you misuse the discussion of the human rights to fuel conflicts and to legitimize wars, even wars of aggression.\nAs you remember, the human rights were formulated for ALL humans and not for befriended ones. Anticipating your clarifying response I remainwith best regards,\nAnis HamadehMainz, 17 March 2010\nAnis Hamadeh - writer, musician, painter, journalist, editor of www.anis-online.de and www.nonkilling.de, author of \"Islam f\u00fcr Kids\" (2007) and translator of \"Nonkilling Global Political Science\" (into German, 2009)", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00240.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 113, + "original_length": 6934, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.95, + "perplexity": 284.8, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "http://democracyctr.org/archive/the-water-revolt/", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T04:53:47Z", + "digest": "sha1:6RRBWHJ5KG5PMLO5PHSITARBBB7ZN3LG", + "length": 8047, + "nlines": 41, + "source_domain": "democracyctr.org", + "title": "The Water Revolt | The Democracy Center", + "raw_content": "The Water Revolt\nI. The Water Revolt\nIn January 2000, just months after it took over control of the water system of Bolivia\u2019s third largest city, Cochabamba, a Bechtel Corporation subsidiary hit water users with enormous price increases. These increases forced some of the poorest families in South America to literally choose between food and water. The people came out into the streets in protest, and were met with violent repression by government troops that left one 17-year-old boy dead and more than a hundred people wounded. In April 2000, the people finally forced Bechtel to leave.\nToday, more than 10 years later, global attention is focused on the revolt as a spark of a new wave of resistance to the economic policies of neoliberalism. To mark the 10-year anniversary of the uprising, the Democracy Center compiled a variety of information on the revolt, ranging from excerpts of our original dispatches from the streets during the revolt, to the chapter on the revolt from our 2008 book, Dignity and Defiance: Stories of Bolivia\u2019s Challenge to Globalization, available here in English and in Spanish. This chapter is a complete history of the Water Revolt, including how it began, what happened in those days in the streets of Cochabamba, and what has happened afterward, including the lawsuit that Bechtel brought against Bolivia and subsequently dropped in the face of enormous international pressure.\n1. Dispatches from the Streets \u2013 2000\nExcerpts from the Democracy Center\u2019s complete dispatches from the Cochabamba water revolt, which was the winner of the 2000 Project Censored award for top story. The unabridged blow-by-blow version of the dispatches is also available here.\n2. Cochabamba\u2019s Water Bills From BECHTEL\nThe direct proof of Bechtel\u2019s continued mistruths about what it did in Bolivia \u2013 viewable copies of the water bills with Bechtel\u2019s increases and a chart of the water rate hikes drawn directly from the water company\u2019s computers.\nThe background on the World Bank\u2019s role in the Bolivian water takeover, including exchanges of correspondence between The Democracy Center and World Bank officials.\n4. In pictures\nTom Kruse\u2019s photographs of the Water Revolt, from February \u2013 April 2000\nII. Bechtel vs. Bolivia\nEighteen months after it was kicked out of Bolivia, Bechtel and its co-investor, Abengoa of Spain, filed a $50 million legal demand against Bolivia before a closed-door trade court operated by the World Bank, the International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID). For four years afterwards Bechtel and Abengoa found their companies and corporate leaders dogged by protest, damaging press, and public demands from five continents that they drop the case.\nOn January 19, 2006 Bechtel and Abengoa representatives traveled to Bolivia to sign an agreement in which they abandoned the ICSID case for a token payment of 2 bolivianos (30 cents). This is the first time that a major corporation has ever dropped a major international trade case such as this one as a direct result of global public pressure, and it sets an important precedent for the politics of future trade cases like it.\n1. How Bechtel Lost its $50 Million Case Against Bolivia:\nThe people of the world join with Bolivia to beat back Bechtel in its legal demand for $50 million.\n2. The Bechtel Corporation:\nThe background on Bechtel\u2019s role in the Bolivian water takeover and its legal actions against Bolivia. Includes exchanges of correspondence between The Democracy Center and Bechtel officials and a link allowing you to write directly to Bechtel\u2019s CEO.\n3. International Citizen\u2019s Petition to the World Bank:\nIn August 2002 more than 300 citizen groups from 41 different countries filed this petition, demanding that the Bechtel vs. Bolivia case be opened to public participation and scrutiny. Read the petition and see who endorsed it.\nIII. After the Water Revolt\n1. Water in Cochabamba After the Water Revolt: a Legend With Mixed Results\nWhat happened in Cochabamba afterwards? What did the Water Revolt mean for the people and their thirst for clean, affordable water. In this paper, The Democracy Center takes an unvarnished look at the track record since April 2000. The paper is an excerpt from a chapter on the Water Revolt, in the Center\u2019s book: Dignity and Defiance: Stories from Bolivia\u2019s Challenge to Globalization (University of California Press, 2008).\n2. Cochabamba\u2019s Poorest Neighborhoods Take on the Challenge of Water\nIn this video and report, we focus on a very specific piece of the post-Water Revolt story, one that is not as well known: How the neighborhoods of Cochabamba\u2019s impoverished south side have taken into their own hands the challenge of getting water. We examine the issue up close by bringing you right into the neighborhoods involved and through interviews with those neighborhoods\u2019 leaders.\n1. The Cochabamba Water Revolt and Its Aftermath\nJim Shultz\u2019s complete chapter in the Center\u2019s book: Dignity and Defiance: Stories from Bolivia\u2019s Challenge to Globalization (University of California Press, 2008). This in-depth analysis covers the gamut, from an explanation of the situation that led to the water privatization and the subsequent revolt through the case Bechtel brought against Bolivia, to what problems are left to be resolved years after the Revolt.\n2. The Right to Water \u2013 Fulfilling The Promise:\nA chapter by Jim Shultz from the book, Economic, Social and Cultural Rights in Latin America: From Theory to Practice. A look at the larger issue of access to water across the world and the Bolivian water revolt in the context of the struggle to secure water as a human right.\n3. Bolivia\u2019s War Over Water\nA general chapter on the history, background, and consequences of the Water Revolt written for the Verso book \u2018We Are Everywhere\u2019.\n4. Leasing the Rain \u2013 the video\nWeb site for the powerful film on the Bolivian water revolt aired in July 2002 by Bill Moyers on PBS in the U.S., produced by two good friends, David Murdoch and Bill Finnegan. Includes clips, facts, links and other well-organized resources. You can also find the full transcript here.\n5. \u201cLeasing the Rain\u201d \u2013 the New Yorker article\nBill Finnegan\u2019s masterful and complete April 2002 article on the water revolt, putting it into the context of the world\u2019s growing water shortage.\n6. Texts of the Coordinadora from the Revolt\nA Collection of the Coordinadora\u2019s communiqu\u00e9s and local reporting on the Coordinadora from the time of the Revolt.\n7. The Network for Justice in Global Investment\nWhen Bechtel brought its 50 million dollar suit against Bolivia, it did so through the mechanism of the World Bank\u2019s International Court for the Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID). ICSID is the most widely used of the secretive investment tribunals that allow transnational corporations to make agreements, called Bilateral Investment Treaties (BITs), that bypass domestic courts and sue governments behind closed doors. The Bechtel vs. Bolivia case is one of the only cases in which the corporate plaintiff was not awarded damages from the government it sued\u2014and Bolivia\u2019s victory in this case was due to the powerful movement that sprung up in protest, making Bechtel\u2019s suit an untenable public relations disaster and forcing it to settle the dispute for a token payment of two Bolivianos.\nThis is an issue that has threatened the sovereignty of many countries around the world, as foreign corporations haul countries into secretive trade courts, suing them for millions for the crime of seeking to protect their environment or regain control of their natural resources.\nThe Network for Justice in Global Investment is a joint effort by citizens and organizations in a variety of countries to challenge this anti-democratic system of international investment rules. 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Mainframe applications offer power, stability, and reach\u2014all things that enterprises rely on. In recent years, mainframe vendors have kept up with the times, offering the ability to host Webbased applications, email and collaboration software, and much more.\nBut mainframe applications present a problem, too: They lock up all your most important data in what is, in many ways, a black box. Mainframe applications tend to be highly proprietary and often include much of their business logic within the presentation layer, making it difficult, impractical, or outright impossible to safely access the application data by any other means.\nBut today's businesses need to utilize their mainframe applications in many other ways. Today's businesses need to move faster, be more flexible, and offer more services to internal and external customers. How can they do so when their application is locked up in a box?\nThis Essential Series guide will explore exactly that problem: How to bring your mainframe applications into the modern world, how to leverage mainframe\u2010based data in powerful and exciting new ways, and\u2014most importantly\u2014how to do so without losing or compromising your existing mainframe investment.\nBefore we dive in, let's take a moment to make sure you and I are on the same page with what constitutes a mainframe application. I think this is important only because many folks are using their mainframes in creative new ways, and some of those newer and more flexible ways don't have the same problems as a more traditional mainframe application.\nTraditional mainframe applications\u2014the kind I'll be discussing in this guide\u2014are commonly used for bulk data processing, such as census data. They're also used to collate statistics from large bodies of data, for complex tasks such as Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), for mass\u2010data manipulation such as Customer Relationship Management (CRM) applications, and for financial transaction processing.\nMainframe computers\u2014big iron to some\u2014often descend from the venerable IBM System/360 family, including modern mainframe machines such as IBM's zSeries, System z9, and System z10 servers. Other mainframe vendors include Unisys, Hewlett\u2010Packard, Fujitsu, NEC, and so on. Your environment may feature a somewhat older\u2014but still reliable\u2014IBM AS/400 or other mainframe computer.\nIBM estimates that 90% of their mainframes have Customer Information Control System (CICS) transaction processing software installed, and that their IMS and DB2 database software is also popular. Many IBM mainframes also run WebSphere MQ and WebSphere Application Server middleware\u2014all enterprise\u2010grade, mission\u2010critical software that contains a great deal of data you'd probably like to use elsewhere.\nMost mainframe applications store their data inside fairly standardized databases\u2014DB2 being a star example on IBM mainframes. Accessing this data directly is straightforward, but ultimately not the best way to extend mainframe applications because the data itself doesn't contain any of the business logic. When we speak of extending a mainframe application, we usually want its business logic and other capabilities, not just the raw data. In fact, what would be ideal is to somehow transform the entire application from being a user interface (UI)\u2010centric application into some kind of modern middle\u2010tier component that encapsulates the application's business logic.\nThe Opportunities for Mainframe Applications\nLet's take a simple example from my own experience: I used to work for a traditional, brick\u2010and\u2010mortar retailer of computer and video game software. Our business was run entirely on an IBM AS/400\u2014in fact, our office didn't even include a Local Area Network (LAN) for several years because we all worked almost entirely on the AS/400 via 5250 terminal emulation. Even our email lived in the AS/400 (this was at the dawn of the public Internet, so email was strictly an internal thing at the time). Our AS/400 had a variety of prepackaged and custom\u2010written (in the RPG programming language) applications that ran the business, from gathering sales transactions from our retail stores and processing restocking orders to communicating purchase orders to distributors and wholesalers to managing the product distribution center and inventory. The AS/400 even managed a fairly successful phone\u2010in direct mail business, where customers would place orders by phone from paper catalogs, and we would fulfill those orders right from the main distribution center. A lot of business logic lived in the AS/400\u2014how we handled inventory, how orders were processed, payment processing, and so on.\nAs the Internet gained in popularity and more of our customers got online, we wanted to offer an online shopping alternative. We were faced with a problem, though: All our data was wrapped up in the mainframe. It was good data, too\u2014detailed product information, package sizes and weights (useful when calculating shipping), system compatibility information, and so on. All of our business processes were encapsulated in those applications, too. It wasn't enough to simply dump orders into a database; we wanted to use all the order\u2010processing software we already owned\u2014on the AS/400.\nThe AS/400 even had a robust customer order tracking system, which our mail order business unit relied upon and really liked. We wanted to simply re\u2010use all that capability in a new, Web\u2010based e\u2010commerce application. Ideally, the online catalog would be built from the AS/400's database. Product availability would be taken from the AS/400's inventory information. That couldn't just come from database tables, though; availability in our world was a complex calculation involving on\u2010hand stock, expected incoming shipments, existing commitments to our retail stores, and so forth. Ideally, orders would also be processed in the AS/400 and fulfilled just like our existing mail orders. We figured that we already had all the right pieces in place\u2014we just needed to hook the Web site up to the AS/400. We didn't want to run the Web site on the AS/400\u2014for a number of business reasons, we'd decided to use a farm of less\u2010expensive Microsoft Windows\u2010based Web servers\u2014but we did figure that the entire backend could simply stay right where it was, on the '400.\nWe were wrong. We wound up implementing a complex system of data dumps and imports. We would dump data from the AS/400 each night, and import that data into a Microsoft SQL Server database that provided the backend for the Web site. Sales transactions were processed not by the AS/400 but by the individual Web servers using an all\u2010new credit card processing infrastructure we had to build. Transactions were then exported from SQL Server and pulled into the AS/400 in a twice\u2010daily import process so that order fulfillment could still take place within the mainframe\u2014that import process had to leverage all the business logic in the AS/400 needed for order processing. All this importing and exporting still required hundreds of hours of custom RPG programming because we needed to make sure the incoming data was \"clean\" before dumping it into the AS/400's\u2014because the other applications using that data assumed that anything in the database had been thoroughly validated. The entire project was painful, and it concerned us because we knew there would be other, similar data\u2010sharing projects coming in the future. Looking back, I think that Web project may have been the beginning of the end for the AS/400 in our company. Great as it was at doing its job, we just couldn't keep investing in something that wouldn't expand and extend quickly when we needed it to.\nSo what was the problem? There were really three.\nThe Problem with Mainframe Applications\nThe big problem with mainframe applications is that they are generally monolithic. That is, the folks who wrote the application assumed that the application would be entirely selfcontained, never need any major new capabilities, and never need any capabilities that the designers didn't think of in the first place. The application's presentation\u2014generally screens designed for display on a terminal\u2014business logic, data, and in many cases hardware are created in a single stack, often with very little differentiation between those layers. That makes it very difficult to break out pieces of the application, and while the application's data might be readily accessible, it's tough to find ways to leverage the application's business logic without extensive, expensive reprogramming.\nThe Hardware Problem\nSome companies\u2014especially those who are starting to eye their mainframe with a bit of distaste\u2014focus on the mainframe hardware. It's expensive, although pricing has come down a bit as vendors begin to rely on commodity components such as Intel processors. Much of the hardware remains proprietary, and for companies who have moved beyond the need for the mainframe hardware, keeping it around\u2014just because it happens to own all the important company data\u2014can be painful.\nFor example, in the company I described earlier, we began moving more and more critical functions off the mainframe, utilizing an ever\u2010more\u2010complex arrangement of data transfers between the AS/400 and its PC\u2010based successor systems. As more and more business processes began to depend on these delicate data dumps and imports, we began to see the AS/400 as a kind of weight around our necks. The hardware was expensive, the maintenance contracts were expensive, and we resented the mainframe simply because we felt it had taken our data hostage. We had a visceral feeling that simply ditching the hardware once and for all would solve a lot of our problems.\nThe real problem, of course, lay mainly within the application software that ran on the mainframe. Mainframe applications are often written in what are powerful, but relatively primitive, programming languages like COBOL and RPG. These languages are well\u2010suited to applications that need to process batches of data quickly, produce reports quickly, and interact with humans primarily through a text\u2010based, field\u2010oriented UI. These languages do not, however, lend themselves well to modern application development practices such as componentization, multi\u2010tier development, and so forth.\nMost modern languages\u2014Microsoft's C#, Sun's Java, and even Web\u2010oriented languages like PHP\u2014are object\u2010oriented and support object\u2010oriented programming techniques such as encapsulation and inheritance. These, in turn, help foster a multi\u2010tier development environment. For example, a modern application's UI is often little more than a set of basic data\u2010entry routines. That data is submitted to a middle\u2010tier component, whose job it is to validate the data before passing it to further tiers for processing. The business logic, in other words, resides in a discrete layer, enabling it to be used by not only the data\u2010entry UI but by other means of input such as Web sites, automated business processes, and so forth.\nMonolithic mainframe applications, however, tend to intermix the UI, business logic, and data management layers of an application. The only way to ensure that the right data gets into the application is to enter it into the UI. That's great for manual data entry but not so great when you begin looking for methods to leverage your data in other ways and to connect your data with other systems.\nMainframe applications may use a wide range of database engines under the hood. Many are built on IBM's DB2 database; others may use internal, proprietary database engines. But even when the data is in a readily\u2010accessible engine such as DB2, the data is often less than useful when it comes to connecting external applications.\nOne reason is the one I've already stated: You often can't just stick data into the database; you have to go through the application's entry screens to ensure the data is validated, that referential integrity is maintained, and so forth. My AS/400 experience included DB2, and we were delighted that Windows computers could communicate directly with the database using Open Database Connectivity (ODBC) drivers. We were dismayed when we realized that doing so would mean re\u2010creating every scrap of business logic encompassed by our mainframe application so that the data we were sticking into DB2 would be valid and wouldn't cause problems for the many mainframe applications that utilized the data. In other words, just getting to the data didn't solve our problem: We basically needed to reengineer all our application's business logic in a brand\u2010new set of middle\u2010tier components written in COM, .NET, or Java. That's a heavy task, even though we only needed to do it for portions of the mainframe application. We'd also have an ongoing maintenance problem, as any changes to business logic would then have to be reprogrammed in parallel\u2014once on the mainframe, and once in the more modern middle\u2010tier components.\nLike anything in the IT world, there's never simply one solution. In the next part of this guide, I'll explore common solutions to the problem of using mainframe data in more modern scenarios. 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Companies can also benefit from virtualization in the areas of high availability and business continuity. High availability and business continuity are critical; without them, adequate data protection is impossible and the problems that arise can be very serious. In some cases, a lack of high (or more precisely, any) availability and business continuity, especially for a prolonged periods of time, can threaten the very existence of a company.\nThe concerns of disaster recovery, virtualization, and high availability often fall into the IT department's 'worry box.' However, these concerns effect the company's ability to continue business, and should therefore be viewed as critical by the entire company\u2014especially decision makers who all too often have shallow pockets when it comes to disaster recovery needs.\nModern business has a 24/7 non\u2010stop running requirement. Consider your various servers and imagine any one of them being unavailable for any length of time. Would your company be able to lose any one of your IT services and deal with a long\u2010term disruption (or even a short\u2010term one)? The cost of a disruption in service could be substantial, so it is a key part of a business continuity plan to look into all approaches (both hardware\u2010 and software\u2010oriented) to ensure data protection, high availability, and disaster recovery. As hardware solutions are often cost prohibitive, companies are looking more to software and virtualization to provide the cost\u2010effective and reliable solutions they need.\nHigh\u2010Availability and Business Continuity Benefits from Virtualization\nThe following list highlights ways an organization can benefit from virtualization:\nSimplification of infrastructure\u2014Virtualization, both server and storage, simplifies the infrastructure. All equal, when there is less hardware, there is less complexity, which in turn, means that the infrastructure is easier to monitor and troubleshoot when problems arise. This translates into less downtime and higher availability.\nEasier branch management\u2014Providing data protection to a globally dispersed network of machines is always a challenge, but thanks to virtualization, remote locations are easier to manage. With virtualized solutions, there is no need to have physical access to a machine in order to troubleshoot and restart it. Additionally, thanks to virtualization, branches can be easily consolidated, thus helping to not only achieve higher availability and improved business continuity but also reduce costs.\nCross\u00adplatform issues become irrelevant\u2014Homogeneous networks are more of an exception than a rule, and virtualization can make the administration of heterogeneous environments much easier. For example, suppose you have applications that run on Linux but you don't have a spare machine with Linux installed. If the Linux machine on which the applications are running crashes, in a traditional, non\u2010virtualized environment, you are helpless. But when you use virtualization, this scenario is not a problem. You simply copy the file with the Linux machine on another machine (regardless of its operating system\u2014OS; the only requirement is that the machine be capable of running a virtual machine. The solution is fast, easy, and efficient.\nEasily separate business units\u2014In addition to centralization of resources, virtualization can be used to separate business units. Decentralization is useful in large infrastructures where there are many business units and it is better to isolate them from one another in order to manage them easily as separate entities. A good example is a hosting provider who runs each customer's sites in a separate virtual machine, thus shielding them from the dangers of sites run in a multi\u2010client environment while still using a reduced number of physical machines.\nAn Overview of Replication\u2010Based Technologies\nLet's focus a bit more intently on the technical aspects, or more precisely, the types and uses of replication\u2010based technology in a virtualized environment. Replication\u2010based technologies allow the capturing of a set of data at a particular point in time, typically involving minimal overhead and fast restoration of data. This functionality is why replication\u2010based technology is the preferred solution for providing high availability of critical systems. Although replication is typically viewed from the perspective of remote WAN\u2010based replicas, using the same technology for the creation of local replicas is another method to achieving business continuity.\nWhen looking into a solution that you can count on for your environment in terms of replication, you want to be sure you have real\u2010time data replication, which basically means data is replicating as it is coming into the local system. In some cases, the right solution is synchronous replication, which offers zero data loss by ensuring that the data is written to both the local and remote systems with a confirmation before proceeding. In other situations, asynchronous replication is utilized. This method requires specific data or logs to be closed out on one server before being replicated over to the other server. With asynchronous real\u2010time replication, there is the potential for a small amount of data loss. One of the concerns with replication is that a corrupt file on the production side might be replicated over to the disaster recovery site or to a local virtualized server that you use for replication. To meet this challenge, a feature called Continuous Data Protection (CDP) is a crucial factor to any business continuity planning. CDP provides the ability to revert back to an earlier version of data. Thus, in the event corruption occurs, you can replay point\u2010intime versions backward to remove that corruption. Depending on the technology you are using, there are different granularities to such a solution. Some solutions may have fixedtime intervals of restoration (every hour, 5 hours, 24 hours, and so forth). When considering a replication solution, factor in a solution's ability to offer CDP based on either every write or a specified timeframe (even if those timeframes are as narrow as seconds).\nYou should also pursue replication technology that considers WAN optimization in either hardware or software (or both). Although you might be replicating data between two local systems in your scenario, typically for disaster recovery sites, you need a WAN connection to an offsite location. That WAN connection becomes a critical component not only for the replication process but also in the event you need to support your offices from that disaster recovery site (and then eventually when you need to recover over those WAN connections). While looking for a product to meet your needs, consider WAN optimization an essential item on your checklist. Depending on the size of your environment, you should also have a replication strategy that centralizes your servers, relocating them to primary and secondary data centers.\nReplication can work in many environments, but you need to take into account what hardware and software you will be using because the existing environment could be an issue that limits your choices. For instance, there are virtualization solutions that work on only certain OSs and on only particular models of hardware. If your hardware/software is not supported by the virtualization solution of your choice, you will either have to choose a different virtualization solution or replace your hardware/software, which could be very expensive. Consider, for example, environments that use a mixture of Microsoft solutions (Exchange, SQL, IIS Web servers, file servers) across both 32\u2010 and 64\u2010bit architectures. Suppose they also utilize an Oracle server, a BlackBerry server, and Linux or Solaris servers. They must ensure that the solution they are pursuing has the ability to support all of these platforms. If not, they will need to continue investigating for an all\u2010inclusive solution. Fortunately, many of the leading virtualization solutions support a wide range of hardware/software platforms, so chances are that you will not face this incompatibility issue. It is worthwhile, however, to first double check compatibility and then proceed to the choice of a replication configuration.\nLevels of High\u2010Availability Resiliency\nThere are a variety of ways to implement virtualization for an environment. In addition to checking possible compatibility issues, you must take into account the following replication configuration considerations:\nDeciding what to replicate. First you need to decide if you will replicate everything or only some data. This decision influences your choice of replication configuration. If you decide to mirror a server (that is, replicate everything on it), it is best, though not mandatory, if the replication target is a dedicated machine or at least a very powerful one. Of course, you can replicate many virtual servers to one target machine, but only if you have made wise disaster recovery preparations for that critical server (which leads to our next point).\nDeciding where you will replicate to. Choosing the replication target (the machine you will be replicating to) is also important because if you make unwise choices and your target fails, you will have no replica to restore from. One of the worst cases is when you decide to replicate all your virtualized systems to one target. This choice is risky because the target becomes a single point of failure.\nAdditionally, if the applications you are replicating do not coexist peacefully on one machine (for example, SQL Server, a Lotus server, and an Oracle database or two versions of Exchange) and you replicate them on one machine, you can bet at least one application (or even all of them) will stop working. Fortunately, in this case, virtualization can help because all you need to do is create a separate virtual machine for each of the applications and replicate them there. Of course, if you are replicating database applications, which generally use a lot of resources (CPU time, writes and reads to the disk, and so on), you need to insure that the physical machine is a powerful one\u2014otherwise the whole scenario might not work.\nCommon Replication Configurations\nChoosing what and where to replicate are very important decisions. The next step is to choose how exactly you will perform the replication. There are many possible configurations that use virtualization for high availability and business continuity. The following list focuses on three common configuration possibilities:\nReplication of a physical set of servers to a virtual set of servers\u2014The advantage of using a physical set of servers replicating back to a virtual set of servers is that you can utilize fewer virtual servers on the back end. This configuration makes sense when your front\u2010end servers are not under a very heavy load and/or you are not replicating everything from them. The host machine of the virtualized system must be a very robust one; otherwise, the whole configuration is risky.\nReplication of a virtual set of servers to a virtual set of servers\u2014This configuration uses virtualized servers both for the production side and for the recovery site (or for a localized set of virtualized servers on\u2010site). Using this configuration allows you to maximize hardware utilization on both the front end and back end. Due to numerous advantages over the other configurations, this configuration is frequently recommended as the most cost effective way to increase availability.\nReplication of a virtual set of servers to a physical set of servers\u2014This configuration is rarely used because it offers the least cost savings and not necessarily the highest availability. Additionally, it is more difficult to administer. This configuration makes sense if you happen to have spare physical machines at your remote location that you want to utilize.\nVirtualization opens new perspectives for data protection. Thanks to virtualization, it is possible to achieve high levels of availability and business continuity at an affordable price. However, not all virtualization solutions are equal.\nEnsuring Critical Business Functions\nOne of the global benefits of virtualization for a company is that it makes IT operations much easier and more reliable. Virtualization makes company management easier by significantly reducing the required hardware and the number of people involved to perform the same amount of work. Managing less hardware and people eases the management of the company as a whole.\nSometimes it is neither possible nor necessary to ensure high availability for every single business function in your organization. There is no doubt that it is best to provide 100% high availability for every business function, but the price and effort required to do so could be more than you can afford. 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Our products and services are designed to be individualistic and empowering to give each client a customized solution character to their personal or organizational needs.\nWe recognize that our most valuable asset is our engaging-strength-and-evidence based approach that produces clear and measurable outcomes for our clients.\nWe are committed to exceeding client expectations and being the leader to set the principles of best practice innovation.", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00240.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 46, + "original_length": 3330, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.95, + "perplexity": 290.4, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "http://ecstasy.com.ua/antidepressants/antidepressants-chemical-organic-composition", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T03:52:08Z", + "digest": "sha1:JMTIRIFN32G4N45PHO26U5AWHAFGYUGH", + "length": 2070, + "nlines": 10, + "source_domain": "ecstasy.com.ua", + "title": "Controlled Substances \u00bb Antidepressants: Chemical | Organic composition", + "raw_content": "The antidepressants available in the United States are classified by either their chemical structure (e.g., the tricyclics, TCAs) or their actions on neurotransmitters (e.g., SSRIs and MAOIs) or simply as \u201cother\u201d (e.g., Wellbutrin). In the future, the classification of the antidepressants may become more confusing as new drugs are developed that are neither TCAs, SSRIs, or MAOIs.\nA variety of substances (and more are being found each day) with differing chemical structures have antidepressant abilities. However, no group is known to be more effective than the others.\nThe tricyclic antidepressants have a three-ring nucleus and are norepinephrine and serotonin reuptake inhibitors. They have been used for decades. Trade names included in this group of drugs as of 2002 are: Etrafon, Limbitrol, Norpramin, Sinequan, Surmontil, and Vivactil.\nThe heterocyclic antidepressants were introduced between 1980 and 1996. They consist of an intertwined circular structure called benzene rings. Included among these are amoxapine and maprotiline, which have a similar structure to the tricyclics. Trazodone and bupropion are in this group but do not have this similar structure. These drugs do not have stronger potency than the earlier drugs. Newer drugs introduced since the 1990s include venlafaxine and mirtazapine.\nThe older generation of drugs are less desirable than the new selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors, because they have many actions in the body other than their anti-depressant effect. Prozac (fluoxetine hydrochloride) is among this group. Other trade names in this group are Celexa, Paxil, and Zoloft.\nThe herb St. John\u2019s wort (Hypericum perforatum) has a number of constituent parts, including hyperforin, which is currently being studied as the responsible constituent for the antidepressant action. The herb contains at least ten compounds that can have an unpredictable effect on the consumer.\nantidepressants chemical structure\nchemical structure of antidepressants\nwhat is chemical compostion of depressants\nwhat is the chemical formula of paxil", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00240.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 763, + "original_length": 30607, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.95, + "perplexity": 213.2, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "http://ecstasy.com.ua/methadone-maintenance-treatment-dissatisfied-customers", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T03:51:39Z", + "digest": "sha1:CIBNUMBH5J6XQL33E7HOVI7LLW4IMBTK", + "length": 19542, + "nlines": 49, + "source_domain": "ecstasy.com.ua", + "title": "Controlled Substances \u00bb Methadone Maintenance Treatment: Dissatisfied Customers", + "raw_content": "Methadone Maintenance Treatment: Dissatisfied Customers\nSome of the rhetorics of drug treatment offer only two subject-positions that clients can occupy: the chaotic addict or the compliant/subdued \u2018stable\u2019 consumer. However, much of our interview data show resistance to these narrow categories and activity in a mode familiar from other contexts, notably consumer complaints. Here, is a description of the day-to-day frustration of being made to wait for no apparent good reason from Steve, a Sydney client. A description of the experience of attending a methadone clinic for dosing, it would not be out of place in a register of complaints of poor service anywhere:\nAnd, it\u2019s like they get their kicks out of you sitting there and making you wait. You go in there and they\u2019ll be having conversations, drinking coffee, and then like, and you\u2019ll stand there, and they\u2019ll finish the conversation before they dose you.\n(Steve, Sydney, NSW, client, 29)\nSimilarly, Lisa, also a client from Sydney, complains of distracted and ineffectual treatment from her doctor:\nI mean I tend to get on okay with my doctor although at times I think she is inconsistent and she, she works very long hours and often seems tired and only seems to be half listening to what I\u2019m saying. She\u2019ll get interrupted with phone calls and she\u2019s sometimes written the wrong thing down on my prescription.\n(Lisa, Sydney, NSW, client, 34)\nBeing made to wait, and being treated indifferently, has happened to most of us at some time, for example in the queue at the bank or the airport. In this sense the experience of treatment is described as comparable to other experiences of customer service. However, as Rowan indicates, there is an inflection to poor service provision in the retail environment of the pharmacy that is peculiar to methadone maintenance treatment:\nLike [in a rural pharmacy] they used to, they used to make me wait a bit, and maybe that\u2019s just paranoia, I\u2019m not sure, but, you know, I got the feeling that \u2018oh, yeah, he\u2019s just a junkie, we\u2019ll, you know, just let him wait there and serve him when, when we\u2019re ready\u2019 sort of thing.\n(Rowan, Melbourne, Victoria, client, 41)\nDrug users often are not seen, and often do not see themselves, as the same as customers who are not drug users. Their drug use separates them from others. In some cases clients are constituted as quite radically different from customers. For example, Sam, a client from regional Victoria, describes the hostility between staff and clients in one setting as an effect, rather than a cause, of deliberately impersonal and distant service:\nThey, they were behind a sheet of glass so you couldn\u2019t even talk, have any contact with them. They just passed your methadone under a little window. Because, and that fostered an atmosphere of tension and animosity between the staff and patients. To the point where people would throw furniture and yell and scream at them, because they couldn\u2019t, they didn\u2019t feel they were having contact with their provider. And, you know, they felt like they weren\u2019t listening because they were behind the sheet of glass, you know, someone is pressing a button to talk to them.\n(Sam, regional Victoria, client, 31)\nAs we have seen in other posts, everyday conflicts, frustrations and degradations can play important roles in the experience of treatment. What is perhaps less obvious is the uncertain boundary between patient and customer at work here. Ivan, a Sydney client, describes getting his methadone from a pharmacy as \u2018just like shopping\u2019 and in some ways treatment is enacted through procedures that resemble buying a newspaper or catching the bus: turning up to the same place every day, paying, collecting the same thing. In other ways, however, it is performed through biomedical repertoires and constitutes clients as patients. It requires intimate information, such as that gained through urine and blood testing, and these requirements can enact conflict or humiliation. For example, Faith, a client from Sydney, says that \u2018it just seems like even if we just need to use the toilet to [pass] urine you have to go through this big spiel with them\u2019.\nDisrespect, poor communication and lack of flexibility appear to characterise relationships in some cases. Faith and Kimberley describe attitudes of hostility and the threat of withdrawal of service that would not be countenanced in most shops, or indeed in most health services:\nI walked in there one day and they were running late with their dosing and I said to them \u2018running late?\u2019 next thing they\u2019re saying, she turned around and says \u2018oh well we\u2019ve got things to do, we\u2019ve got to set up this machine, we\u2019ve got to do this, we\u2019ve got to do that\u2019, you know all these excuses and then it ended with \u2018if you don\u2019t like it go somewhere else\u2019.\n(Faith, Sydney, NSW, client, 50s)\nThat\u2019s what I notice with, um, my new pharmacy, is that it\u2019s got like a stand over tactic. You\u2019ve got your hostage here, if you don\u2019t like it, go somewhere else. And going somewhere else out there is like, going three suburbs away.\n(Kimberley, Melbourne, Victoria, client, 27)\nWhen daily dosing is required, proximity to home or work and to transport is critical; refusal of service at one place can mean massive disruptions. Moreover, discipline to the extent of removal from treatment altogether is a possibility for all clients at any time. Ned, a pharmacist from Melbourne, reveals the contradictions in treating clients as both retail customers and unreliable drug users:\n[W]hen I have an interview with them I ask them to treat us like a normal retailer, and we\u2019ll treat you as a normal customer. Now, if, if they understand that, I mean I ask them not to come in with anyone else. Um, I mean, we\u2019ve got a few with kids but, so that\u2019s fine, but the kids have got to be kept under control.\n(Ned, Melbourne, Victoria, pharmacist, 48)\nTo risk labouring the point, \u2018normal customers\u2019 are not routinely told that they have to come into shops without their family, nor warned as a matter of course that they have to keep their children under control. Other logics are also at work here. Conflicts are not rare, and, as The Chronotope of the Queue showed, the operations of treatment are often conducive to conflict. Yet the identity categories circulating around drugs place these conflicts in a particular frame, such that complaints about treatment dovetail readily into interpretations of \u2018chaotic use\u2019 or \u2018drug-seeking behaviour\u2019. This underlines both the limits of clients\u2019 capacity to legitimately complain and the consequences when complaints are judged as unreasonable. Some clients reported that staff expect or assume dishonesty from clients. This means that changes to client routines or occasional requests for treatment variation, which in most circumstances would be regarded as normal practice, are treated as suspicious.\nI get, sometimes like even last week I had to ring up my doctor and he, I can hear it in his voice, he gets a bit annoyed and, and probably suspicious. I can hear that as well like because, I mean I know people that will ring up and chuck on that many excuses. I feel sorry for the doctors because some people genuinely do it just to rort the system.\n(Ivan, Sydney, NSW, client, 34)\nThis constitution of clients as unreliable and dishonest is also enacted through practical measures. For example, in some locations intrusive and humiliating procedures have been implemented as a blanket response to methadone diversion, implemented universally. Isaac, for example, describes the response of a hospital (where many rural clients have to receive some of their doses) in regional Victoria to diversion of buprenorphine:\n[T]here\u2019d be a couple of nurses just watching you have it, and they\u2019d both just sit there and stare at you the whole time, then you had to come up and lift your tongue up and all this shit. It was just embarrassing. Because sometimes, you know, someone would come in the door, you might know them, and you\u2019re standing there with your hands in your mouth with these two nurses looking down your throat, you know. And that was because of what, what somebody else did.\n(Isaac, regional Victoria, client, 38)\nOur interviews with service providers also illustrate assumptions of client dishonesty. Bob, a pharmacist from regional NSW, reports implementing systems to keep track of what clients tell him because they cannot be trusted:\nI\u2019m a bit smarter now. I record the date their grandmother died in my files. And I record, you know, the date their grandfather died and all of that sort of stuff, and the date that their children died. So they can\u2019t go and tell me [\u2026] it\u2019s the anniversary of their grandmother\u2019s death, or whatever, because I\u2019ve already got it recorded.\n(Bob, regional NSW, pharmacist, 52)\nScott, who works in policy in Victoria, makes a more general point about the trustworthiness of clients reporting drug use when they receive takeaways:\nThere\u2019s a lot of trust involved in it. And there\u2019s a lot of self reporting. I\u2019m not saying that urine testing or whatever is a, is a good idea, but, um, yeah, it\u2019s trust and self report, and, ah, I mean these, these are people who have drug issues otherwise they wouldn\u2019t be turning up to the service. It\u2019s a big point.\n(Scott, Melbourne, Victoria, policy, 47)\nWilliam, a pharmacist from Sydney, reported dishonesty or unusual behaviour as an indicator that clients are using illicit drugs or misusing prescribed drugs:\n[T]he urgency and the height that the arguments reach just suggests something else is going on. Uhm, the lack of rationality, or the lack of response to rational argument, but you know the construction of these incredibly elaborate reasons.\nThe pharmacy or clinic shares elements with retail settings, and complaints about poor service follow the logic of the dissatisfied customer, at least in some respects. However, there are very important limitations to this. Beyond a certain point \u2015 and the location of this point resides mostly in the judgment of workers \u2015 complaints reveal more than their content, become suspect, and shift or entrench the complainer not into the category of difficult customer but unreconstructed, chaotic user.\nAt work here, then, is the deployment of some existing categories and the creation of new meanings for them. Dissatisfied customers complaining about indifferent or inefficient service are hardly unfamiliar types, and neither are disaffected service workers talking about having to tolerate unreasonable things from customers. However, there are also some new things going on in this context that are not often recognised. The first is the very presence of the register of customer complaints at all. When methadone clients are constructed as intelligible only as either out of control drug addicts or functional and stable clients, there is little space for recognition of the grinding, quotidian harms and insults that enact the client as dissatisfied customer. Binaries like this also foreclose the possibilities of recognising clients as people with expectations of service that are sometimes met and sometimes not. Such recognition brings to light the particular frustrations of occupying the position of \u2018dissatisfied customer\u2019 simultaneously with the position of \u2018drug addict\u2019, when the latter places significant limits on complaints being heard or respected at all, much less acted on.\nThere is a further point to make from this, to do with the ways in which the quality of treatment and service has been recognised. Research on respect and courtesy in services indicates that the manner in which services are delivered is important (). Yet a focus on treatment retention tends to present clients as either in treatment, an indicator of treatment success, or absent, an indicator of treatment failure. The effect of treatment on participants is oversimplified in these kinds of binaries, as is the understanding of what and whom treatment produces. Further, these binaries assume a one-way process of treatments acting on clients, pre-existing subjects who remain constant in every respect except for the fact of receiving treatment, being acted on. While this can be a valid approach to improving treatment services, it is of limited use in improving understanding of how treatment acts on people and changes them. The relationship between clients and treatment is not a one-way process and, as we argued in The Chronotope of the Queue, treatment both makes changes to people and is changed by the people on whom it acts. A more nuanced approach is needed to think through some clients\u2019 readings of surveillance and care, as suggested by this comment by Rowan:\nWell I don\u2019t think she cares that much really. Um, and I just get the feeling that she just wants to get people through and, as quick as she can. Whereas I used to go to another, another doctor for a while in Melbourne, and, um, he was really good, and I got a urine test every time I went there. And, I\u2019m happy to do that.\nRowan suggests that the time and labour of urine testing equates to care, whereas for other clients the procedure is humiliating and an indication that their word is not trusted. Clients and service providers also discussed the gratitude with which basic courtesies are sometimes received by clients, which supports other research into the reduced expectations of disadvantaged groups, including drug users (). However, the comment below from Jack indicates that more is going on in treatment than this:\nI see all of them every day or every second day. You know I\u2019ve been out with them to music, music\u2019s one of my things, and often they\u2019re musicians and things. And, I\u2019ve been out to a couple of things, I\u2019ve been to a couple of their funerals. I, they would say, and I would say, I treat them with respect. Um, they often say, \u2018this is the first place that I have not been treated with suspicion and as a lower form of life\u2019.\n(Jack, Melbourne, Victoria, pharmacist, 62)\nParticipation in the program changes service providers, and positioning health care workers as static subjects misrepresents the impact of worker-client relationships on workers as well as clients. Some pharmacists reported very close connections with clients, some clients very close connections with pharmacists. In-kind arrangements for payment were sometimes in place, for example, whereby a methadone debt was paid by fixing the pharmacist\u2019s computer, or doing some gardening. Pharmacists and clients see each other between two and seven times a week, often for periods of months or years, and this can lead to tension, open hostility or, sometimes, friendship and closeness. Alongside the dissatisfied customer and instances of startlingly insulting treatment, then, are instances of relationships and support that cannot be captured under the rubric of either customer or patient.\nWhat is revealed by a consideration of the case of the methadone client as dissatisfied customer? In the first place, we can see that complaints and criticisms made by clients and workers are part of the activity of the drug and program, working to change the program and also working to change people such that they inhabit particular spaces relating to consumption, service and obligation. Examples of these are the changes in service brought about through such things as conciliation meetings between clients and workers, through the rapport between service providers and clients just described, and through clients positioning themselves successfully as entitled to higher standards of treatment. Second, we can see that the consequences of this can also be invidious in that situating the client as a customer can occlude the real dilemmas and restrictions placed on clients, and distort the power relations at work. In producing an identity position of dissatisfied customer, methadone maintenance treatment puts the lie to any idea that clients are zombies or too passive to talk back to power. However, the transformative possibilities of customer dissatisfaction are pretty evident in any context, let alone a drug treatment one. Moreover, the positioning of clients as customers distorts their obligations and the consequences of failing to meet them.\nThird, the identity of clients is not an unhappy combination of the identities of \u2018patient\u2019 and \u2018customer\u2019 but, in the context of methadone maintenance treatment, has very particular meanings and effects. Some of these are transplanted from customer service, some are from patient-doctor relationships and some produce clients as analogous to client states, bound by contracts and agreements that belie inequalities (). All of these work together to produce an identity of methadone client that cannot be reduced to either patient or customer. The identity of drug treatment service consumer, however, is one instance where this irreducibility is giving rise to new categories. Rose and Novas (2005) argue that biosocial groupings include new forms of activism (\u2018rights bio-citizenship\u2019), new forms of knowledge, especially about health and medical status (\u2018informational bio-citizenship\u2019) and new forms of collectivity and organising, mediated by information technologies such as websites and email lists (\u2018digital bio-citizenship\u2019). Each of these is evident in the work of user groups such as the Australian Injecting & Illicit Drug Users League (AIVL). Using mental health and disability services as analogues, these groups act in a number of ways for the inclusion of user views and experience: developing policy position statements, conducting peer research, publishing policy and user magazines and representation on government committees (Australian Injecting & Illicit Drug Users League, 2006; Bryant et al., forthcoming[b]). This model of advocacy shares similarities with other patient support groups and social movements, and also departs from them in important ways. It argues that consumers of services have specific expertise as well as experiential perspectives, and that specific resources should be dedicated to ensuring their active involvement in policies and program. In particular, it argues, the discrimination and stigma imposed on drug users lends particular urgency to the need for consumer representation. This relatively new identity construction of the drug user as treatment service consumer suggests possibilities for the biological citizenship of clients.\nFinally, while any treatment or service relationship is bound by explicit and implicit rules of conduct, the client\u2019s position in treatment is especially precarious, and felt to be so. Dishonesty and violence are not tolerated anywhere, and anyone who threatens the person behind the counter can expect to be told to leave at the very least. However, the expectation of dishonesty or antagonism, combined with the lack of real choice of doctor or dosing point in many cases, effects limitations on client complaints and dissent that are probably unique within medical treatment. Access to methadone has an enormous impact on clients\u2019 lives, and the fragility of that access, its felt instability and the constant danger of its being lost, is unlike either customer service or other kinds of treatment.\nThe enactment of the client as dissatisfied customer reveals much then about treatment relationships, power and what is known about drugs and users. 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Yesterday, a coalition of tech companies led by IBM committed to creating new apprenticeship programs. And Lambda School \u2014 a coding program that allows students to pay via an income-share agreement \u2014 announced that it has raised a $30 million round of funding and is now valued at $150 million. VentureBeat wrote about Lambda School\u2019s first graduating class last year.\nThis coincides with an interview I recently conducted with Pluralsight CEO Aaron Skonnard about another issue in tech education \u2014 access to computer science classes in K-12. 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The village is in the South Hams district and is twinned with the commune of Cl\u00e9cy, in Normandy, France. It is known well for its crooked church spire, which a pub has been named after. It was home to Edmund Lockyer, who went to Australia and named a town, Ermington, in New South Wales.\nContent on this page is licensed under CC-BY-SA from the authors of the following Wikipedia pages: List of twin towns and sister cities in the United Kingdom, Ermington, Devon. Note that the data on Wikipedia is highly unreliable. In many cases, sister cities are missing or wrongly listed. Some cities also have different levels of partnership. If you find an error, please make a correction on the relevant Wikipedia pages and cite your sources.", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00240.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 7, + "original_length": 1092, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.97, + "perplexity": 147.4, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "http://english.almaaref.org/catessays.php?cid=437&pid=100", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T03:51:02Z", + "digest": "sha1:ILRWUPW2AN64AWTPHFRDN3GFFD4CICZX", + "length": 329, + "nlines": 5, + "source_domain": "english.almaaref.org", + "title": "::Al-Maaref:: Islamic Organization", + "raw_content": "News Categories \u00bb The Prophet & His Household \u00bb People of the Cloak \u00bb Imam Ali \u00bb Sayings of Imam Ali\n10 Quotations of Imam Ali (peace be upon him)\n-Associate with people in such a manner that if you die they should weep for you, and if you live they should long for you.\nGolden Words of Imam Ali (A.S.)\nSayings of Imam Ali (A.S.)", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00240.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 482, + "original_length": 9698, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.85, + "perplexity": 322.2, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "http://english.pumc.edu.cn/academician/166.html", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T04:16:28Z", + "digest": "sha1:PRKYARCHX3NOK6P26RY2L5IAURBM6FGH", + "length": 6498, + "nlines": 9, + "source_domain": "english.pumc.edu.cn", + "title": "\ufeff Tonghui Zhou - CAMS&PUMC(Beta version) - Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences,Peking Union Medical College,PUMC,CAMS", + "raw_content": "Tonghui Zhou\nResearch Instrument Special Committee of Medical Science Committee\nProfessor Tonghui Zhou, male, of Han nationality, was born in November 1924 in Guilin City, Guangxi. He\u2019s a researcher with the Institute of Materia Medica of CAMS and PUMC and with National Materia Medica and Metabolite Analysis and Research Center, and a doctoral supervisor. He was elected to be academician of CAS in 1991, then served as a member of the standing committee of the Chemistry Department in CAS from 1992 to 1994, and Deputy Director of the Department from 1994 to 1998.\nHe graduated from the Department of Chemistry in the School of Science, Peking University in 1994 with Bachelor\u2019s Degree. In 1948, he was enrolled into the major of Analytical Chemistry in the Graduate School of the University of Washington in Seattle, and obtained Master\u2019s Degree and Doctor\u2019s Degree in Aug. 1952. He used to serve as assistant professor for analytical chemistry in the Department of Chemistry in the University of Kansas and researcher of analytical chemistry in Burroughs Wellcome Co., specialized in analytical research of herbal medicinal products. He returned to China in Sept. 1955 and worked at the Department of Materia Medica in Central Health Institute of the Ministry of Health (now the Institute of Materia Medica of CAMS and PUMC) successively as associate researcher, researcher and Director of the Analytical Research Lab. He also successively served part time as a member of the Discipline Appraisal Group of Academic Degrees Committee of the State Council, a member of the Discipline Appraisal Group of National Natural Science Foundation of China, a member of the Pharmacopoeia Commission of the Ministry of Health, a member of Drug Evaluation Committee of the Ministry of Health, Chairman of Scientific Research Instrument Special Committee of Medical Science Committee of the Ministry of Health, Vice Chairman of China Association for Instrumental Analysis, Chairman of Chromatography Special Committee of Chinese Chemical Society, Chairman of Beijing Chemical Society, Vice Chairman of Beijing Analytical Test Society, Director of the Academic Committee of Electrochemistry Open Laboratory of the Institute of Applied Chemistry, CAS, part-time professor of Peking University, Editor-in-chief of Chinese Pharmaceutical Sciences (English Version) and Acta Pharmaceutica Sinica, Deputy Editor-in-chief of Chinese Journal of Pharmaceutical Analysis and Chromatography, and editorial board member of Analytical Chemistry, Journal of Instrumental Analysis, Journal of Analytical Science, Water, Air and Soil Pollution and Phytochemical Analysis.\nZhou is devoted to chemical research of pharmaceutical analysis and analytical research of drug metabolite. In the 1960s, he set down two major developing directions for pharmaceutical analysis office: 1) developing approaches of analyzing effective constituents in Chinese herbal medicine; 2) the application of new technique and methods in pharmaceutical analysis. He established methods of modern instrumental analysis and quality control of more than 40 types of active constituents in Chinese herbal medicine and synthetic drugs.\nIn 1986, Zhou started to get prepared for founding China Doping Control Center and was later appointed to be its director. He led his colleagues to study the drugs forbidden by IOC to find out characteristic metabolites and built up a complete, advanced chromatography of analeptics, mass spectrum database, the gas chromatography of 100 forbidden drugs in five categories, detection and confirmation methods of gas chromatography-mass spectrum and HPLC, thus passing the examination of IOC with success. The Center was approved by IOC in 1989 and made the world\u2019s 20th, Asia\u2019s third and the Third World\u2019s first qualified doping detection lab, which completed doping detection for the 11thAsian Games with success and boosting China to a significant position in the field of doping control. They were highly commended by the State Ministry of Health, the Sports Department of China and Beijing Government.\nIn the 1990s, Zhou transferred his research focus to drug metabolism. State Scientific and Technological Commission approved the establishment of National Materia Medica and Metabolite Analysis and Research Center in 1994, and Zhou was appointed to be the director. He studied the metabolic status of NBP compounds of physiological activity, hainanensine derivative HHO7A, compound AF-5, alkannin in the herb lithospermum and securinine, an effective constituent of chirality in securinega suffruticosa, in rats and in vitro (rat liver microsomes), thus identifying the metabolites, revealing the laws and paths of their metabolism and providing new scientific evidence for learning about the action mechanism of drugs and developing new drugs.\nFor dozens of years, Researcher Tonghui Zhou has had more than 100 papers published, having review papers and monographs amounting to over 60. He\u2019s trained 19 graduates and many middle-aged and young technicians and visiting scholars, most of whom have become technical backbones in their units. He edited many monographs and \u201cEnglish-Chinese and Chinese-English Dictionary of Analytical Chemistry\u201d (Edition 1 and Edition 2) he led to edit and Manual of Analytical Chemistry (Edition 2, 1-10 Volumes) are both essential reference books for the major of Analytical Chemistry and have become permanent stores in labs of chemical analysis. In 2004, he was granted the \u201cFamous Author Award\u201d by the Science Press; the Paper Chromatography and Thin-layer Chromatography he edited won the second place in National Excellent Science and Technology Books Selection of the National News Publication Bureau and the third place in Science and Technology Progress Award of the Ministry of Health, and the monograph Modern Research of Chinese Herbal Medicine won the first place in Science and Technology Progress Award of the Ministry of Health.\nProfessor Zhou was honored with several other awards: in 1989 he was listed among Beijing Outstanding Teachers; in 1990 and 1992 he won Capital Labor Medal; in 1992 he won National Labor Medal; in 1995 he was granted the title of Beijing Outstanding Worker and the Science and Technology Innovation Award of the Ministry of Health; his engagement in doping control won him the first place in National Science and Technology Progress Award and special award in Science and Technology Progress Award of the Sports Department of China.", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00240.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 56, + "original_length": 7805, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.94, + "perplexity": 185.8, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "http://equalsrecord.com/blog/akiko-yosano-poet-pacifist-tanka-powerhouse", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T03:21:23Z", + "digest": "sha1:ZJHLVQFCMMFND6XP4NYXJ4CJ5RRW2VWJ", + "length": 5406, + "nlines": 14, + "source_domain": "equalsrecord.com", + "title": "Akiko Yosano: Poet. Pacifist. Tanka Powerhouse. \u2014 Equals", + "raw_content": "Art & Design, Citizenship, Culture, Doing Good, Featured, Politics, Pop Culture & Media\nAkiko Yosano: Poet. Pacifist. Tanka Powerhouse.\nThe other day I happened upon a Wikipedia article entitled \u201cThe Top 100 Historical Persons in Japan\u201d and I got historian-nerd excited. This was apparently a television program that appeared on Nippon TV in 2006, which had Japanese viewers vote on who they thought the most important historical figures in, well, history were. For me it\u2019s exciting to get this little peek inside the historical mindframe of a non-Western nation\u2014one that hasn\u2019t been brainwashed into believing U.S. presidents, Italian explorers, and German composers are the most important people of all time-- but who has probably been brainwashed in parallel historical fashion, of course. Yet lo and behold, some of our \u201ctop historical figures\u201d still ranked (Christopher Columbus came in at #75; Mozart\u2019s #36; the highest-ranking Westerner of all, at #3, is, surprisingly, Thomas Edison).\nThe list is mostly dominated by Japanese figures, of course; almost all people who would not have placed on any Western country\u2019s \u201cTop 100 Historical Persons\u201d list. And incidentally, one of these (#80) is today\u2019s Historical Woman.\nAkiko Yosano (born Shoko Ho) was a Japanese poet from outside of Osaka who revitalized, no, crushed the 1200-year-old tanka tradition in turn-of-the-century Japan. Born in 1878, young Akiko grew up in an oppressive household, daughter to a baker who privileged his sons over his daughters and actually kind of hated Akiko for the first years of her life for not being a boy. (Ja-HERK.) He got over it enough to realize she was incredibly bright, and was decent enough to get her a good education, as good as was possible for women at that time\u2014but it was Akiko\u2019s own ambition and talent that propelled her out of that house and into Japanese history.\nWandering her father\u2019s library as a teenager, Akiko had become enamored with literature. She began writing poems and started contributing to Myojo, the literary magazine of one Tekkan Yosano, fellow poet. Akiko moved out of the family house and to Tokyo, and in 1901, she and Tekkan were married.\nLike Sylvia and Ted, Diego and Frida, Sid and Nancy, Akiko and Tekkan had what can delicately be described as an interesting relationship. Tekkan had already been married twice before, and even after he married Akiko he continued to borrow money from his ex-wife. He was also regularly unfaithful, according to most sources, including with one of Akiko\u2019s best friends, Tomiko, who died of tuberculosis at 29 and who Tekkan proceeded to write twelve poems about.\nTekkan had also helped to spearhead the anti-establishment poetry movement that Akiko\u2019s poetry would be a part of, the revitalization of the centuries-old tanka form that had previously been dominated by an institution literally called the Old School (I know, right?). What\u2019s interesting to me is that feminist icon Akiko\u2019s husband Tekkan had actually written an essay in the 1890s called \u201cPoetry Inviting National Decay: A Denunciation of Today\u2019s Effeminate Tanka,\u201d in which he advocated for a more \u201cmanly,\u201d virile poetry. This went over well with contemporary Meiji nationalism, as the nation was in the midst of a war against China. Fittingly, Tekkan wrote some pretty \u201cmanly\u201d stuff about swords and battlefields.\nBut by the early 1900s, Akiko was the famous one in the family. Her poetry star was on the rise; and Tekkan, naturally, began to feel inadequate. One day, Akiko came home to find him squatting in their yard, killing ants. (How sad is that? How freaking sad is that?) To make him feel better, she told him to go spend some time in France.\nAkiko\u2019s rebellion and feminism went beyond her poetic success story and her pants-in-the-family home life, though. Her poetry often focused on the emancipation of women, portraying women of all backgrounds sympathetically and advocating for their sexual freedom. One of her most famous collections, Midaregami (\u201cTangled Hair\u201d), evokes a feminine image of a woman with \u201chair in sweet disorder\u201d\u2014this ran counter to the public beauty ideal that saw a Japanese woman\u2019s hair as always straight, never out of place. \u201cTangled hair\u201d could even be read as a sign of the erotic. Additionally, she founded a girl\u2019s school where she also taught, passing her progressive ideas and literary skills to a new generation of little poet-feminists.\nAkiko was also a pacifist in an era when the Japanese national attitude was anything but. Late Meiji Japan (1868-1912) was characterized by the rapid modernization of a formerly feudal nation, and over these and ensuing decades an increasingly militarized Japan turned its focus towards expansionism. During the Russo-Japanese War of 1904-1905, Akiko wrote the poem Kimi Shinitamou koto nakare (\u201cThou Shalt Not Die\u201d), which later became a kind of anti-war protest song for the pacifist movement.\nAkiko died in the midst of World War II, and her poetry was largely forgotten for many years. She has, however, enjoyed a resurgence of late, as demonstrated by her aforementioned 2006 placement on Japan\u2019s list of favorite historical personages. To commemorate her revolutionary-ness, and to celebrate her anti-sexism-ness, I think I\u2019ll end with one of her steamier poems:\nFragrant the lilies In this room of love; Hair unbound I fear The pink of night\u2019s passing.\nThe F Words: Miriam Blocker", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00240.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 91, + "original_length": 6952, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.98, + "perplexity": 259.3, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "http://equalsrecord.com/blog/looking-forward-free", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T03:43:15Z", + "digest": "sha1:7D3F2ZDHAWFSF6SX74XGHOA2FWHEI4UV", + "length": 3357, + "nlines": 15, + "source_domain": "equalsrecord.com", + "title": "Looking Forward: Free. \u2014 Equals", + "raw_content": "Featured, Inward Explorations\nLooking Forward: Free.\nMy dad left Glencoe, Illinois in 1960 to attend Antioch, a small liberal arts college in Yellow Springs, Ohio. He was eighteen. Boyish, with hair cropped neatly above his ears. My grandparents accompanied him on his first day and helped him move in, unpacking his belongings from Nixon-stickered suitcases. Months later, he returned to Glencoe for Christmas vacation with his hair creeping to his shoulders. He wore a Peruvian cape with a gigantic winged collar, which caused him to resemble what he calls \u201ca stoned, South American Dracula.\u201d A neighbor who spotted him walking down the street called him a communist. (My dad remembers him as the most liberal man on the block.)\nMy grandmother cried. But my grandfather---whose stern countenance belied a love of race cars and a fondness for eccentricity---reacted differently. In him, my dad recalls detecting---faintly, secretly---a quiet glimmer of pride.\nTwenty-five years later, I celebrated my thirteenth birthday. I woke up that morning feeling weighted with purpose. You\u2019re not a child anymore, I thought to myself as I lay between sheets printed with happy-faced clouds.\n\u201cI\u2019m going to be the best teenager in the world,\u201d I told my parents, hardly able to imagine that I\u2019d ever succumb to the hormonal turbulence I\u2019d heard was in store for me.\nAnd looking back, I made good on that promise---for the most part, anyway. While I may not have been the best teenager on the planet, I certainly must have been among the tamest. I (hardly) touched alcohol, and never laid a finger on a drug. I didn\u2019t date til my senior year. I never uttered a swear word, and never once fought with my brother or my parents (people never believe that last one, but it\u2019s true).\nThe funniest part about all of this is that my parents---who have always supported me in every decision I\u2019ve made---did nothing to discourage me from doing the things I thought \u201cbad\u201d teenagers did. They told me they understood the temptation to experiment, and that there was nothing I could do that would ever make them love me less. Their only hope, they said, was that I would be safe. Everything in moderation.\nClearly, their tolerance and sensitivity were wasted on me.\nBut then I got older. And there came a point when trying to do everything well became impossible. Inevitably, there were job rejections. Failed relationships. Situations I wished I\u2019d handled differently.\nBut I learned (slowly, the hard way) that life is infinitely more interesting---and much more fun---when it's allowed to be messy, embarrassing, complicated, noisy. And with high school and college behind me, it's become less about doing things perfectly and more about doing things, period. Doing them, and feeling them, and thinking about them, and learning from them.\nI no longer aspire to be perfect. And I think the people who know me best---my parents included---are happy for me. 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This week\u2019s resource is The Beginning, the first study in the Disciples Path series.\nAs the Lord has rescued us, we long for others to be rescued. Charles Spurgeon said, \u201cHave you no wish for others to be saved? Then you\u2019re not saved yourself, be sure of that!\u201d\nEvery ministry leader should long to see people meet Jesus. But sadly, in many places, leaders have no plan to disciple the new believers the Lord has rescued. New converts means new hearts needing discipleship. Caring for new believers is a serious responsibility that demands intentionality.\nRecently the Lord saved hundreds of people at Thomas Road Baptist Church. And the church was ready to help the new believers in their new journey, to disciple them.\nPastor Jonathan Falwell, the Senior Pastor is seeing incredible fruit in his ministry, and they have recently started using The Beginning as a key resource for new disciples. They use The Beginning study with their new disciples to help them take their first steps or their next steps in their walk with Christ. I want you to hear him talk about this himself.\nThe Beginning serves as the \u201cfirst steps for new disciples\u201d in their walk of faith. It teaches them how to follow Christ in today\u2019s world through basic concepts and practices including prayer, Scripture reading, the importance of a Christian community, fulfilling the mission of God, and keeping Christ at the center of life. It can be used as a one-on-one study or in a small group setting. It is a powerful tool that promotes relational discipleship whether you are caring for two new disciples or two hundred. The resource was developed with pastors and church leaders who regularly disciple people with great intensity and intentionality. If you want to be intentional about disciple-making, this study is for you.\nThis week, I am giving away 10 copies of The Beginning. 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There is also an element of rhyme in the poem. For instance, in the stanzas except the first one, the first and the third lines have a similar ending. Secondly, the second and the fourth lines end in a given voice.\nThe same applies for the fifth and the sixth lines with a similar ending but different from the others. The last two lines fall under the same category, ending with a given syllable that is different from the others. This pattern is repeated throughout the poem, creating a pattern that is both interesting to read and appeals to the ears. 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(by memri org.)\n\u00ab Mogherini: EU would guarantee nuclear deal implementation", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00240.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 149, + "original_length": 4227, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.81, + "perplexity": 290.7, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "http://evangelicalsformitt.org/2007/10/romney-increases-overtures-to-disenchanted-evangelicals/", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T03:58:04Z", + "digest": "sha1:RHFXGBSZFRZ7LPHCXD66D5MWD4KCRXFL", + "length": 4980, + "nlines": 16, + "source_domain": "evangelicalsformitt.org", + "title": "\u201cROMNEY INCREASES OVERTURES TO DISENCHANTED EVANGELICALS\u201d | Evangelicals for Mitt", + "raw_content": "\u2190 IT\u2019S MADE OF ROASTED GRAINS\n\u201cA KINGDOM RIGHT HERE ON EARTH\u201d \u2192\n\u201cROMNEY INCREASES OVERTURES TO DISENCHANTED EVANGELICALS\u201d\nI\u2019m not sure how I missed this Boston Globe article:\nFormer Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney has stepped up his efforts to woo evangelicals in response to the threat by some Christian conservative leaders to back a third-party candidate.\nThe third-party threat grew yesterday after a key evangelical leader, James Dobson, said that he and other social conservatives had agreed to support a \u201cminor party\u201d candidate if the Republicans choose a presidential nominee who is not conservative enough.\nDobson\u2019s statement is viewed as significant in the Romney campaign because Dobson has ruled out supporting GOP candidates John McCain, Rudy Giuliani, and Fred Thompson, but has left open the possibility of supporting Romney.\n\u201cDr. Dobson is keeping an open mind on Mitt Romney, and I think that is because they do share in common so many values,\u201d Romney spokesman Eric Fehrnstrom said yesterday.\nDobson, the leader of the high-profile Focus on the Family, whose radio program has 1.5 million listeners, did not respond to a request for comment yesterday.\nIn response, here are a few fairly random thoughts.\nThis Globe piece, naturally, doesn\u2019t fail to mention that Governor Romney has changed his mind on abortion\u2013which is part of what makes him imperfect (imagine that, in a fallen world!) and, thus, part of what is making conservative evangelical leaders \u201cdisenchanted.\u201d And we continue to get a lot of mail on this. I keep thinking, though: Even if you think Governor Romney has cynically \u201cflip-flopped\u201d on abortion, do you really think he\u2019d do it again as president? Especially after taking all this flak for becoming pro-life? To do so would defy common sense, not to mention political history. Reagan, Bush, Gephardt\u2013all of these political leaders morphed on abortion, but none re-morphed. And for good reason. If a President Romney did it, he\u2019d be pilloried, ridiculed, and probably denied renomination. The man would have to be a total goofball to do something so ridiculous. Say what you want about him\u2013for instance, I\u2019ve already admitted that he is, as I am, a complete nerd\u2013but goofballs don\u2019t have the success he\u2019s had in the private sector.\nNow let me make an even more controversial statement: I don\u2019t believe most of the evangelicals who have so far refused to support Governor Romney are actually worried, if you pin them down, that he might turn into a pro-choicer in the Oval Office. It would be insane for him to do that. And while I don\u2019t think all conservative evangelicals necessarily believe, as we do, that the man has genuinely changed his mind on the merits of legally restricting abortion, I don\u2019t think they think he\u2019s insane. Rather, I think they\u2019re using this issue as a crutch so they don\u2019t really have to think through the issue of supporting a Mormon.\nKeeping the controversy coming, I frankly don\u2019t begrudge them that crutch. I didn\u2019t find it easy to decide to support Governor Romney. It helped me a lot that one of the people I respect most in the world\u2013David French\u2013supports him. But not everybody has a friend and mentor like David. I can understand why a few months or years ago, it made more sense to wait for a \u201cbetter option\u201d rather than think through this complex issue, one Al Mohler called \u201can excruciating decision.\u201d\nHowever, crutch time is over, folks. Now it\u2019s crunch time. Iowa is in a few months. The field is formed. No \u201cconservative messiah\u201d is coming. You\u2019ve got to work with, as Donald Rumsfeld might have said, the candidates you\u2019ve got. And especially if your name is James Dobson, your options are diminishing. You\u2019re down to Governor Romney and then a whole bunch of folks who have shown no aptitude whatsoever at putting a credible campaign together, much less defending the sanctity of life and the institution of marriage on the most inhospitable terrain in the country, past screw-ups notwithstanding. It\u2019s time to get serious and pick one of these guys. There simply is no presidential candidate out there who agrees with both our theology and our agenda and has shown himself to have any chance at all of success\u2013and there are several, in both parties, who disagree with both and do have a great chance of success. In fact, one of them is the national frontrunner in each party.\nUnder such circumstances, and with as little time as we have, \u201cexcruciating\u201d decisions have to be made and difficult issues have to be thought through. And if we drop the untenable idea that our president has to be someone we wouldn\u2019t mind as our pastor, the choice is clear. 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However, it is important to integrate both the business and personal planning in order to achieve a truly effective, comprehensive result for the family.\nLearn the \u201cbest practices\u201d language to include in the business owner\u2019s estate planning documents.\nDiscuss options to equalize distributions for the beneficiaries when the business is given to only a few family members.\nTax planning tips and tricks for the family succession plan\nCreating family governance structures to keep peace and resolve family conflicts\nS. Craig Stone II, JD, CFP\u00ae\nStone Law Offices, Ltd\nContact S. Craig\nMeet S. Craig Stone:\nMr. Stone has been practicing since 1993 and represents affluent clients and families, both locally and nationally, in the areas of wealth preservation strategies, estate planning, federal income and estate tax law, business and commercial law, business organizations (including nonprofits), exit / succession planning, and asset protection planning (domestic and international). He is a frequent presenter and lecturer to various organizations, continuing education events, and private client events on these and other current topics. 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One can hardly travel more than half a kilometer without seeing at least one local market (often several), with customers swarming about buying clothes, hardware, fresh fish, coffee, hot and spicy Thai dishes, sweets, or fruits and vegetables. No two are the same. They reflect local resources and culture, sometimes a merging of several, especially in the melting pot that is Bangkok.\nFor this essay, I concentrated on the faces of people I met in a single day at one of Bangkok's largest local markets located in the easternmost district of Bangkok province. My intent is to have these portraits speak for themselves, to show the personalities of the hard working vendors, who put in very long hours but remain positive and fun-loving, or \"sanuk\" as the Thais call it.\nNotes about the cameras used are at the end. All photos by the author, all rights reserved. Do not use without permission.\nFor this photo essay, I used two Canon digital cameras, an EOS 350D SLR and an Ixus 115 HS pocket camera. No telephotos were used, but I did crop a few to make the images bigger in the frame.\nWork and relaxation on Phuket Island, Thailand\nIslands near Phuket, on approach to Phuket International Airport.\nEven if one has never heard of Phuket, Thailand's largest island and one of the country's top tourist destinations, it is apparent upon approach to the airport that this place is special: beautiful jungle-clad mountainous islands thrust out of the Andaman Sea all around the \"Pearl of Thailand\". Phuket itself is covered in thick tropical forests that blanket the island's many mountains.\nMost people who come to Phuket (Be careful: it is pronounced \"poo-ket\") do not wish to venture into the forests with its dazzling waterfalls or the many pineapple and rubber tree plantations: they come for the beaches and nightlife, as well as exploring the many other nearby islands in the Indian Ocean that lure snorkelers and divers.\nThis beach, far from the hustle and noise of the more popular spots, is tranquil by comparison. One comes here to relax. Note the few occupied chairs. This is not where you go if you want the young beach scene: those are farther south along Phuket's west coast.\nThe end of the beach that is frequented mainly by westerners has an array of casual bars and restaurants, as well as inexpensive (US$15, 500 THB) motels. There are also two upscale hotels (US$45+, 1500+ THB) with swimming pools.\nSince the tragic tsunami that smashed into Phuket in 2004, evacuation signs are seen everywhere. There has been no effort to minimize damage from the next one, however. New bungalows and shops are being built right on the beach, exposed to any deadly wave that comes.\nOnce paperbacks, now kindles are read on the beach.\nKite boarding has become a popular recreational past time. Thankfully, no annoying jet skis (yet), like other beaches in Thailand have allowed.\nThe bars and restaurants offer relaxing breezy spots at night. Unfortunately, as in many other places in Thailand, this once quiet beach now has music blaring from speakers; for some reason this is typical of the country's beaches, where it is thought that patrons prefer electronic music (of the owner's choice) to that of the ocean waves.\nAt the other end of the beach, next to a national park, are the \"salas\" where mainly Thais go. No music, no kite boards, no beach signs or people calling to sell something. If one wants quiet, this is where to find it.\nFresh seafood on the grill.\nFriendly beach dogs patiently await a handout.\nA beach vendor seeks customers.\nCasual is casual: No lifeguard ever occupied this chair. Come to think of it, there is no chair! This is an example of a good idea never completely thought through. This is the only life guard stand on the entire stretch of beach.\nOffshore storm clouds help create beautiful sunsets.\nSometimes the most beautiful sunset scenes are not where you might expect. This is looking east on the other side of the island during a sunset.\nAlthough most of Thailand has a variety of delicious seafood, Phuket, due to its location, is considered by many to have the best.\nPickup loads of workers, many from Burma, come to work on construction crews each day. Despite long hours and low pay ($5 a day), they remain surprisingly cheerful.\nIf you have never experienced the aroma of durian, you will not understand this sign.\nThe main reason for my trip to Phuket was to teach a three hour biology lesson on animal behavior to 10th graders (M4 in Thailand) at a high school's English Program division for a video series on teaching inquiry science. While I and three colleagues flew down, the camera crew drove for 12 hours with the equipment.\nHere, two students test the response of insect larvae to different grains in an experiment they designed. I used the same animals for lessons at three different levels: Primary 4 (4th grade), M2 (8th grade) and M4 (10th grade). The content differed according to the students' experience, scientific skill level and content knowledge.\nPhuket town is an old seaport that once saw lots of commerce between the east indies and China. Located just north of the mouth of the Straits of Malacca, it still retains much of the Portuguese architecture which now houses mainly Chinatown shops and Thai businesses.\nTraditional Chinese altars are seen on the sides of buildings in the Old Town.\nThese altars are believed to bring good luck to the inhabitants.\nIn a Thai \"spirit house\" sits a serene figure with a pleasant smile. According to one Thai I spoke to, this is probably a well-loved village elder from a past era who now watches over the restaurant where it is located.\nIf you don't want to pay US$22 (700 THB) for a trip to the airport in an air conditioned minivan ($30, 1000 THB TO Phuket FROM the airport), you can hop one of these \"songtaos\" (two benches) for $3 (100 baht). It takes longer, and you have to share with other passengers and their bags of groceries, including a bag full of durian that was placed right next to me, but it is the \"real\" Thai experience. You may have to ask around to find the right one, though.\nMany buildings of colonial-era Portuguese design can be found in Phuket Town. Because it overlaps Chinatown, colorful paper lanterns are often part of the decorations.\nMotorcycle side cars not only offer ways to transport produce, but families as well. 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Photo Critique by Rick Poynor\nWhen I walked into the black American artist Arthur Jafa\u2019s APEX, on show at Luma in Arles, I had no idea what to expect. Audiovisual work in a gallery is often an unsatisfactory experience. Viewers come and go mid-cycle, sitting on benches and getting a taste, before moving on to see the next exhibit, never finding out how the piece started or how it will end.\nAPEX, first shown in 2013, riveted me to the spot. It is one of the most visceral and disturbing projected works I have seen in a gallery. A \u2018collage film\u2019 in the tradition of Bruce Conner and Bill Morrison, it consists almost entirely of found still images, most of them photographs. As in Chris Marker\u2019s similarly photographic La Jet\u00e9e, cited in APEX, there is only one short sequence of movement, a black dancer swaying in the street. This appears to mark the film\u2019s \u2018start\u2019, though it could also be the close; it is impossible to tell because APEX bites its own tail in an endless loop.\nAll images taken from APEX (2013) by Arthur Jafa, now showing at Luma in Arles, France until 4 November 2018.\nThe images filling the wall at the far end of the darkened gallery flash at you at the rate of one every 0.6 of a second \u2013 841 of them in the course of 8 minutes and 22 seconds. The music is Robert Hood\u2019s \u2018Minus\u2019, a masterpiece of minimalist techno that binds the listener in a rippling metal chain of sound, in a state somewhere between compulsion, exhilaration and panic. A colour-distorted image of the source album, Internal Empire (1994), is also referenced in the flow of images.\nAPEX is disorientating. Its atmosphere is red-hot. It feels like a contemporary version of Kino Fist\u2019s montage of collisions in early Russian cinema. Sensation comes before meaning. Images that would repay extended reflection are instantly overwritten by the next image, making it hard at first to establish connections and decide why something is being shown. Patterns of imagery gradually emerge in dialogue with other patterns.\nThere are skulls, monstrous microorganisms and gaping mouths lined with vicious teeth. Mickey Mouse, based by Disney on blackface minstrels, appears many times \u2013 a luminescent skull has the character\u2019s ears. Images of space craft and electronic technology recur. APEX is a kind of science fiction \u2013 Jafa sees it as a model for a \u2018$100 million sci-fi epic\u2019 \u2013 and its icons include the eye of Hal in 2001: A Space Odyssey (a huge influence for Jafa), Yoda, Gollum, H. R. Giger\u2019s alien, a blue humanoid from Avatar, David Bowie as The Man Who Fell to Earth, and Satan from Gustave Dor\u00e9\u2019s illustrations for Paradise Lost. The pop stars seem equally \u2018other\u2019: Johnny Rotten, Yolandi Visser of Die Antwoord, Grace Jones.\nScenes of shocking violence against black people also scorch past. Jafa assembles lynching photographs, horrors from the Congo, displaced people in Africa, and a dead woman with an amputated hand rammed in her mouth, inducing a feeling of stunned disbelief. Set against these abuses are images of empowerment: Marcus Garvey, Black Power protesters, gangsta rappers, the cover of activist George Jackson\u2019s book Blood in My Eye, as well as a gallery of black musicians, among them Robert Johnson, Billie Holiday, Nina Simone, Chuck Berry, N.W.A., the murdered rapper Tupac Shakur, and Bob Marley, smoking a spliff on the cover of Catch a Fire. In one sequence, an engraving of Nat Turner\u2019s slave rebellion in Virginia in 1831 is followed by bleeding black bodies in a darkened space, then Miles Davis, and then a piece of tribal sculpture. From anguish to jubilation in the space of three seconds.\n\u2018Affective proximity is a thing that happens when two things come together,\u2019 says Jafa. \u2018Certain things seek to be next to other things.\u2019 He has constructed photobooks according to the same intuitive principle and he spent five years amassing and refining the pictures that finally morphed into APEX. With these revelatory new linkages, he aims to release the latent potential of the images, a purpose common to all forms of radical and politically motivated collage. Jafa has worked as a cinematographer for film directors Julie Dash, Spike Lee and others, and he seeks to develop a \u2018black cinema with the power, beauty and alienation of black music\u2019. These qualities are scintillatingly present in APEX, a work of Afrofuturism that lays out the historical oppression of black people, illuminates their \u2018alien\u2019 condition within a white-dominated culture, twisting the alien to become a new source of strength, and imagines a future, using the tools of science fiction, in which black potential is fully unleashed and realised.\nI make this observation, though, as a white viewer and, for Jafa, the omnipresent \u2018white gaze\u2019 consistently erodes the integrity of its targets. His work, he says, is addressed to black people and aims to be a manifestation of blackness. \u2018It makes available to non-black people a muscle that they don\u2019t get to exercise enough, which is to be not spoken to all of the time.\u2019 For a non-black viewer this perhaps gets to the nub of APEX, which is simultaneously thrilling to experience and subtly elusive to the white gaze in the visual coding of its rage.\nExtract from Arthur Jafa\u2019s APEX, 2013, shown here at the end of a conversation between Jafa and author and social activist bell hooks.\nAPEX is at La Grande Hall, Parc des Ateliers, Luma in Arles, France until 4 November 2018.\nArthur Jafa, Apex, at Luma, Arles, 2018", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00240.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 66, + "original_length": 7112, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.94, + "perplexity": 316.7, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "http://fabioaramirez.com/index.php/en/who", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T03:41:01Z", + "digest": "sha1:OMOHYAPLZWUJCURXL4G5TBYRN5Y6D2KY", + "length": 2984, + "nlines": 23, + "source_domain": "fabioaramirez.com", + "title": "\u00bfWHO AM I?", + "raw_content": "\"Our organism is a real factory of healing substances,\nwe have analgesics, tranquilizers and more,\nwe simply do not know how to produce them\".\nSurgeon at the University of Caldas, former scientific director of the San Jos\u00e9 of Saman\u00e1 Hospital, doctor at the Pediatric Department of the San Jorge of Pereira Hospital, doctor at the Risaralda mental unit. Since 1982 he has practiced privately in alternative medicine in Bogot\u00e1 (Unicist homeopathy, neural therapy). Vocational training in ayurvedic medicine at the Body-Mind Center, Deepak Chopra, San Diego, California; Education in biological medicine and neural therapy with the Robles group of Popay\u00e1n.\nFor more than twenty years, he has devoted himself to training in ethnomedicine (medicine in cultural comparison), a new discipline with a boom in Germany and other European countries such as Austria and Switzerland. Representative for Colombia of the Ethnomedic Institute of Munich Germany. For 12 years, he has been an international lecturer, who has participated in numerous meetings in Europe organized by Ethnomed and the Working Community (Ethnomedical Society).\nIITE FUNDATION\nFounder and director of the IITE Foundation\nIITE is a non-profit organization dedicated to the preservation of the Colombian heritage, a country where 87 indigenous languages are spoken: the first human settlements took place more than 25 thousand years ago, that is, the history of the encounter and discontinuity of the discovery of cultures And conquest, would only play the role of 15 minutes in a 24-hour day (Gerardo Reichel-Dolmatoff). IITE means: ie, what is achieved with difficulties, TE comes from tefonai, the ancestral, the latent. IITE means HOPE and in summary it means: With commitment, with effort, awakening the latent, the ancestral.\nThe Foundation aims to preserve indigenous knowledge, preserve responsible contacts with ancestral cities, and use traditional knowledge as a tool to solve the many problems of Western society..\nDirector of the San Jos\u00e9 Hospital, Saman\u00e1 Caldas 1978.\nPediatrics physician of the San Jorge Hospital in Pereira 1979.\nMental unit physician in the San Jorge hospital in Pereira 1982.\nParticipant at the Lebenskraftmesse in Z\u00farich and in the PSI Tage in Basilea, Switzerland.\nGuest by the Sommeruniversit\u00e4t organized by Tamera in Portugal.\nLecturer in Prague, Czech Republic and in several meetings in Vienna, Austria.\nExhibitors at the World Congress of Etnomedicine organized by Ethnomed (years 1997-1998-1999-2001-2002-2003-2004-2005-2006-2007-2008-2009).\nParticipant in the PSI Tage in Basilea, in the Lebenskraftmesse, Zurich 2005 - 2006 and in Praga 2006 meeting organized by Regenerace.\nLecturer in Calumed, Berlin, Germany.\nLecturer at the university of Heidelberg, Germany.\nExhibitor in el Teachers Collage, Columbia University, New York.\nParticipant in the summer academy in Tamera , Portugal.\nDirector of several workshops in Switzerland, Germany and Austria.\nHuitoto ( Basic knowledge ).", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00240.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 46, + "original_length": 3295, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.9, + "perplexity": 336.9, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "http://farleigh.com/confessions/322/", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T03:15:01Z", + "digest": "sha1:4AQH7M3HHJMLJJHYYZMJBBPUHDQ3LTPQ", + "length": 4189, + "nlines": 13, + "source_domain": "farleigh.com", + "title": "Richard Farleigh - Confessions", + "raw_content": "Honesty is the biggest problem. Honestly.\nIn 1814, my ancestors, Mary and William, met and fell in love on a cruise from England to Australia. It must have been romantic sailing the 3-month ocean journey, eating fresh fish while watching the crimson red sunset merge with the sapphire blue waters. Except for one thing, of course. They were convicts. Both were sent to Tasmania for 10 year-plus sentences, doing hard labour. Eventually freed, they made their way to the mainland and started the long chain of sheep shearers, farm workers and the odd criminal, that I was born into, with my 10 brothers and sisters, six generations later.\nWe Aussies love to bang on about the unfair sentences inflicted on our convict forebears. \u201cThey were sent out just for stealing a chicken! Pommy bastards!\u201d But the truth is, anyone who did anything hideous, such as murder someone or insult the king, was hanged. So a trip to Oz might have been a relief. And once there, according to our version of history, the \u201cEnglish\u201d settlers did the bad things, such as the early mistreatment of the aboriginals, while the good stuff, like discovering the continent\u2019s interior and learning to grow wheat, was heroic deeds by early \u201cAustralians\u201d.\nThe fellow who researched my ancestors told me that William\u2019s crime was fraud, and he arrived in Tasmania with a shilling, apparently a lot of money in those days. He suggested further research into how William got such an amount, but I said, \u201cDon\u2019t bother mate. It\u2019s obvious. He nicked it.\u201d\nDespite any genetic influences, I\u2019ve managed to stay on the right side of the law, and now days, in business, I rather find myself as the occasional victim of crime and dishonesty. In fact I would say I rate dishonesty as the biggest single business risk.\nIn the late 90\u2019s I bought a small diamond mine in Sierra Leone. No blood diamonds, a completely legit operation doing wonders for the workers and local community. I\u2019ll tell the story next week, but the summary is, the business failed. After months mining we found almost no decent sized diamonds. There was theft going on, but how? We had tight security. I was flabbergasted to discover it was the English manager, who was also siphoning cash.\nAround the same time, I backed a friend in Monaco into two start-ups. Graham, a rather nerdy maths PhD, sat in my living room, while our sons played together, and told me outright lies. With the kiddy connection I trusted him. Later, one of the businesses lost everything when five small oil wells all mysteriously failed. The other, a listed US software company, announced a large \u201cMicrosoft order\u201d that wasn\u2019t legitimate. Graham is now wanted by the FBI.\nFortunately, these are probably my worst cases of being deliberately misled. More often, the problem has been somewhat more innocent. It\u2019s almost human nature when staff exaggerate or downplay developments, particularly about sales prospects. Maybe if Tasmania beckoned, they\u2019d be more careful.\nGrant Lockley\nHi Richard when are you heading down to Australia to do a speaking event or seminar?\nI sometimes find myself so disheartened by dishonesty, that I swear I will become a hermit and cut myself off from the rest of the world and just be me (whoever that is). But that really would be boring and void of the challenges of living.\nI am in a conversation at present with an elderly lady (part of my job). I go in and see her every few days in the local Hospital where I do some contract work. Every time I see her she is so agitated and fearful. She can only tell me about the cruelty and injustice she sees in the world (I get where she is coming from). It takes some doing but I try and get her to also tell me about some of the \u2018goodness\u2019 and kindness that she may have seen throughout her life. We get there eventually. However, the next time I see her it is like I am starting at the beginning again. Just as well I don\u2019t give up easily.\nHuman nature both frustrates and fascinates me. Dishonesty hurts! Yet there are times that I need to ask myself why people need to lie, what is the story behind it? When I try to unravel some of this it helps a little \u2013 though becoming a hermit still is tempting at times.", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00240.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 60, + "original_length": 6372, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.98, + "perplexity": 338.2, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "http://fauxsho.org/how-to-solve-the-rubiks-cube/", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T04:20:57Z", + "digest": "sha1:LPBITZDVXDGKFJEEXMASFV2ZX7CXLQGU", + "length": 2359, + "nlines": 15, + "source_domain": "fauxsho.org", + "title": "How to Solve the Rubik's Cube -", + "raw_content": "\u203a Life \u203a Uncategorized \u203a How to Solve the Rubik\u2019s Cube\nWould you like to know how to solve the Rubik\u2019s cube? We\u2019ve got answers! We\u2019ve also got a pretty interesting look into the history of the Rubik\u2019s cube, because if you understand how the Rubik\u2019s cube came to be, solving it is easier. Stick around!\nThe Rubik\u2019s cube was originally developed by a professor in Hungary. Erno Rubik wanted to help his students to better understand the concept of three-dimensional problems. Fun fact: when Professor Rubik built his very first Rubik\u2019s cube, it took him more than a month to solve it!\nOver the next few years, the Rubik\u2019s cube grew more and more popular in Hungary. However, the cube couldn\u2019t be shared with the rest of the world. Communism tightly controlled all imports and exports from Hungary. So instead, Professor Rubik began showing his cube at toy fairs. Toy specialist Tom Kremer saw the cube at the Nuremburg Toy Fair in 1979, saw its potential, and wanted to get it out to the world. And the rest is history!\nFor a really in-depth look at solving the Rubik\u2019s cube, complete with videos and written guides, visit their website. There is a lot of fun & interesting info about the cube there. For a quick look at solving the Rubik\u2019s cube, here are the basic steps (in order) of how to solve the Rubik\u2019s cube:\nThe first step to solving a 3\u00d73 Rubik\u2019s cube is to form a white cross on the white face of the cube.\nNow solve the white corners. When you have the full white face restored, you are on your way to solving the entire cube.\nIt\u2019s time to solve the middle layer next. Hold the cube so that the white layer is on the bottom.\nThe bottom two layers and their colors will be lined up correctly when you solve the middle layer. So now you\u2019re 2/3 of the way to a finished cube.\nSolve the yellow top face last. Start by forming a yellow cross like you did when you solved the white face.\nOnce you have a yellow cross, solve the yellow corners.\nThe final steps are to position the yellow corners, and then the edges, correctly.\nCongratulations! You have solved the cube!\nOnce you can solve the most popular Rubik\u2019s cube, the 3\u00d73, try moving on to the 5\u00d75. There are also speed challenges you can participate in at the Rubik\u2019s cube website. Now you know how to solve the Rubik\u2019s cube! Have fun!\nHow ToHow to Solve the Rubik's CubeRubik's Cubetips and tricks", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00240.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 62, + "original_length": 3726, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.95, + "perplexity": 207.0, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "http://finzfirm.com/News/Premises-Liability/Existing-Hazards-Amplified-by-Halloween.shtml", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T03:19:57Z", + "digest": "sha1:TO3BAF3W653ABIVBEYRK5Y56YPO7UDIO", + "length": 2177, + "nlines": 11, + "source_domain": "finzfirm.com", + "title": "Existing Hazards Amplified by Halloween - Finz & Finz, New York, NY", + "raw_content": "Existing Hazards Amplified by Halloween\nProperties pose a variety of accident risks year-round, including tripping hazards, wet floors, misaligned steps, and improperly wired outlets. These hazards result in thousands of injuries every year, but certain seasons amplify these risks. Among those, Christmas and Halloween pose significantly increased risk.\nOver the last few decades, Halloween decorations have become more and more involved, taking up more space and requiring electricity. This increase in size and electrical requirements has resulted in two significant problems. One of these, an increased risk of fire due to the use of extension cords and other wiring, can mostly be mitigated through appropriate care. The increased size of decorations is more difficult to manage.\nLarger, more involved decorations are implicated in many different types of increased accident risk, including:\nObstructing stairs and stair line-of-sight, making it more difficult to see if certain steps are in poor repair\nObstructing sidewalks and other walkways, increasing the risk of a trip-and-fall accident\nStartling individuals, causing them to lose their balance and fall\nWhen designing and implementing plans to use these large, moving decorations, property owners and renters must keep the safety of others in mind. The person placing the decorations should always ensure that there is still enough room to move around them, and that decorations do not obstruct visibility in such a way as to increase the risk of someone tripping and falling.\nIf you or someone you love has been injured in an accident, and Halloween decorations or other safety hazards made the premises more dangerous, please consider consulting with an experienced attorney. A qualified lawyer can guide you through the process of determining whether or not proper care was exercised in insuring the safety of the environment, and can help you hold negligent parties responsible for their actions.\nTags: Premises Liability Attorney in New York, New York Law Firm for Premises Liability, Premises Liability Law Firm in New York, Manhattan Law Firm for Premises Liability\nRead More Premises Liability Legal News \u00bb", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00240.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 449, + "original_length": 13391, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.95, + "perplexity": 276.7, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "http://fortune.com/2011/02/14/finally-signs-of-life-in-the-tech-job-market/", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T03:18:32Z", + "digest": "sha1:I2ZPMDFMPRXVAJJFYFPLL26XO6FGRMAB", + "length": 4995, + "nlines": 18, + "source_domain": "fortune.com", + "title": "Finally, signs of life in the tech job market | Fortune", + "raw_content": "Finally, signs of life in the tech job market\nIT layoffs have dropped to their lowest level in a decade, and demand for techies is expected to jump 32% by 2018. It matters where you live: Some cities can\u2019t get enough software engineers right now.\nDear Annie: Please settle an argument. I am a freshman in college, trying to choose a major, and I really want to go with computer science, which fascinates me. The problem is, I keep hearing, mostly from friends who graduated a few years ago, that the job market for techies is really awful and I\u2019d be better off majoring in business or finance instead. I have a big pile of student loans, so I will need to get a decent job as soon as I graduate in 2014. If I do major in computer science, what are my chances? \u2014 The Cisco Kid\nDear C.K.: No question about it, the tech job market took a terrible beating during the worst of the recession. But you\u2019d be smart to get a degree in computer science, for at least two reasons. First, it genuinely interests you, as I get the impression that business or finance \u2014 both perfectly fine majors, of course \u2014 do not. If you want to be really great at what you do, nothing beats genuine enthusiasm.\nSecond, luckily, there is plenty of evidence that the tech job market is poised to come roaring out of the doldrums. For one thing, layoffs in IT have slowed to a trickle, down 73% in 2010 to their lowest level since 2000, according to Chicago outplacement firm Challenger Gray & Christmas.\nEven more encouragingly, the Bureau of Labor Statistics predicts that demand for IT workers will rise 32% by 2018, with employers looking to hire more than 295,000 software engineers.\nAnd consider this: When job board Indeed.com analyzed millions of 2010 job postings to find the fastest-growing key words, the top 10 were HTML5, mobile app, Android, Twitter, iQuery, Facebook, social media, iPhone, cloud computing, and virtualization. That\u2019s right, not just some but all of the top 10 in-demand skills were in IT, which, the report notes, \u201cillustrates the rapidly emerging demand for information technology and social media skills.\u201d\nSome cities are already struggling with a shortage of techies. New York, suffering from what the local press has dubbed \u201cthe geek gap,\u201d is one. San Diego is another. Tech job site Dice.com says the city\u2019s IT skills shortage \u201chas gotten so severe that the San Diego Software Industry Council and San Diego Regional Economic Development Corp. will begin advertising to other counties to attract talent.\u201d Among the San Diego companies trying to hire techies are Active Network , K-Force, Northrop Grumman (NOC), and SAIC (sai).\nDon\u2019t want to move to San Diego? No problem. Dice recently delved into its 74,413 tech job postings and came up with a list of other places with abundant opportunities for techies. The number one city for IT job growth: Detroit, with more than 800 openings on any given day, double the number posted last year. Tech jobs in Seattle (No. 5 on Dice\u2019s list) are up 54% over 2010, Pittsburgh has 45% more IT jobs than last year, and Miami shows a 43% gain.\nWhy the sudden surge in demand for IT skills, especially software engineering?\n\u201cIt\u2019s an incredibly diverse field, from IT systems for finance, to new car technology, to avionics,\u201d says IBM (ibm) systems engineering guru Bruce Douglass. \u201cSoftware is the invisible thread running through everything, and the demand is only going to increase.\u201d\nMuch of the growth in IT will be in \u201csmart\u201d devices, he says. \u201cLook at the Chevy Volt, a \u2018smart\u2019 electric hybrid vehicle with 10 million lines of code in it, none of it traditional software,\u201d says Douglass. \u201cCars now are banks of computers on wheels. They may have 80 different electronic systems built in, and somebody has to develop those, interconnect them, and test them. It all creates tremendous opportunities that didn\u2019t exist five years ago.\u201d\nDouglass has a few words of advice for you on how to take advantage of the boom. First, while you\u2019re studying computer science, \u201ctry to get as much experience as you can with real, hands-on projects. Focus on getting internships that will expose you to the practical side of engineering.\u201d\nAnd second, Douglass recommends that you \u201cdecide which industry \u2014 automotive, medical, telecom \u2014 interests you, and study that field. Learn the trends and the terminology, so that when you go into interviews, you can show employers you have some understanding of the business.\u201d\nGet ready for a wild ride. \u201cIt\u2019s an exciting time. The pace of change is accelerating every day,\u201d he says. \u201cBy the time you graduate in 2014, the whole landscape will be new.\u201d\nTalkback: If you\u2019re in IT, have you noticed a resurgence in job opportunities? Would you consider moving to a different city to get a job? Leave a comment below.\nComing soon: You Can\u2019t Fire Everyone\nHave you been fired \u2014 or been the one swinging the axe? Tell us your stories. 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Promoters go overboard, often don't pay up, etc.\nThe show they did in 2015 was their 5th. Zeus and Goldberg were among the guests.\nIs this the show you're asking about? It's scheduled for 2018.\nhttp://www.allaxxessentertainment.com/\nPost by Anthony18 \u00bb January 10th, 2018, 2:33 pm\nNo the one I'm thinking of was an all wrestling con run by someone named Al Fera.", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00240.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 135, + "original_length": 3003, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.98, + "perplexity": 304.3, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "http://forums.saber-scorpion.com/index.php?s=0e4eecf2c909b6f1c45278f097020cba&showtopic=9228", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T04:35:15Z", + "digest": "sha1:RSAM66O423EQKW456LOFKXSDGNDCXWLE", + "length": 9294, + "nlines": 73, + "source_domain": "forums.saber-scorpion.com", + "title": "The music topic for serfs and peasants - Multimedia (movies, TV, books, comics, etc.) - Saber-Scorpion's Lair Forums (SSLF)", + "raw_content": "The music topic for serfs and peasants\nStarted by Risk, Jul 15 2012 08:26 AM\n#1 Risk\nSeeing as the old Music topic was originally made in the Silver Screen board, I thought I might try and make one here again. But if the fates deem it necessary for the mods to remove it, so be it.\nAnyways, I've got something for you guys; John Frusciante's new EP, Letur-Lefr, described as \"progressive synth pop.\" It definitely sounds way different than his other works, and there's a whole part that just throws me off in the album. But it's very abstract and surprising, and I enjoy it.\n#2 Werewolf King\nThe night is dark and full of ninjas\nI've actually been listening to the Skyrim ost during a lot of my free time. Mostly the Sovngarde theme, because it's so very boss.\n#3 Oufy\nI just found this song. Perfect for old school Pokemon TV fans like me.\nEDIT: Correction: Perfect for fans of the \"old school\" Pokemon TV show.\nEdited by Ouflah, 16 July 2012 - 04:23 AM.\n#4 Phaedrus\nfind inner soul\nI'm pretty sure the \"old school\" Pokemon TV show is older than you are.\nThe unknown, Klaykid and Stylus like this\n\"The Force is strong in my family...\"\nI've watched episodes of the Indigo League online, and I'm a big fan. Personally, the new Pokemon shows pail in comparison to the old ones.\nDid someone call for an immediate 80's synth strike?\nI can't say I'm a huge fan of vanilla rock, but dem Skillet guys are pretty great.\nBurngirl, Halcyon and Werewolf King like this\n#8 Princess Bacon\nburn the internet\nI need to acquire more delicious jazz.\nPrincess Bacon likes this\nY'all have been enlightened...\nIn an interview with NME, Monkeys frontman Alex Turner discussed the lyrical composition of R U Mine:\nThat [Tracy Island] bit is like the thing Lil Wayne and Drake do. We've been listening to a lot of their stuff recently. I like that thing they do where they talk about something backwards, so they talk about it but then say what it actually is on the next line. It's hard to explain but I guess it's a little nod to that idea. So I say, 'I'm a puppet on a string', just before mentioning Tracy Island. That's what it's about \u2013 uncertainty\nYou read that correctly. That's Alex Turner publicly stating that he not only likes Hashtag Rap, but that he's using it in his own music... despite not being a rapper. At all.\n#12 Halcyon\nI'm sure you folks have seen it already, but I'll post it anyways, an awesome Bassist:\nAnd an awesome guitar cover of everybody wants to rule the world:\nAlright, let's try this. Billboard, what're the popular rap songs the kids are listening to?\nKanye West's Mercy, in which a band of mediocre rappers talk about subjects that are so worn out, it'd be doing the world a favour by kicking in their life support machine. 2 Chainz' No Lie, which is exactly the same thing, only at a quality level that would make even Mc Scat Cat feel ashamed. DJ Khaled's Take It To The Head features a woman-beating, emotionally unstable R&B singer and an overweight corrections officer helm the most boring rap song I've heard all year. Hint: its lyrical content involves money and promiscuous women. Wale's Bag of Money is a man with Geralt of Rivia's hair rapping about how he's rolling in cash. Ca$h Out's... Cashing Out?\nYou get the point. What about Nas, though? 20 years rapping, and he still looks 17. He made a name for himself by chronicling the hardships of the disenfranchised, inner-city black youth with undeniable skill. After a string of albums that are good-but-not-Illmatic, Life is Good is his newest. Hip-Hop is black men and their money. I can't relate to that, I'm a prole. I want flow and lyrical skill, preferably in a music circle that isn't the underground. I want a last champion of words and bars, who can tell great stories and put down rivals like Lord Byron with a syringe full of pentobarbital.\nWhat we've got is the Nas of 2012. There's more good than bad, so let's start with the former.\nMake no mistake, this is a good album. Nas brings up his divorce with Kelis, (note the wedding dress draped over his knee on the cover) and how he's feeling confident in the wake of all that. \"Life is Good\" means something other than \"I've got hoes and dosh\", for once. Nas genuinely seems to be at his happiest, most comfortable. Daughters is an emotive track in which he warmly goes through the trials of raising a daughter.\nBye Baby is Nas' look back at his failed relationship with his wife. Cherry Wine is all about what Nas looks for in a woman- and it's not \"boobies like wow oh wow\". It's also got a fantastic Amy Winehouse sample. Nasty is also included as the obligatory braggadocio song. It's just as stunning as it was last year, if not more. It perfectly demonstrates Nas' cadence and enunciation. The Black Bond compares the lavish lifestyle of a high-paid rapper to that of Fleming's superspy. It's got one of the best beats on the album, with a classic Bond vibe. Back When is a retelling of Nas' youth, and pairs well with A Queens Story. It's not even that these songs are all that different lyrically to what most of rap is doing- they are, though it's more that Nas' skill and strength as a storyteller really stands out. Even on Nasty, it's all in the delivery. Is Nas talking about how rich he is, and how many beautiful, classy, and high-tax-bracket women he's seducing? Yeah, but it's Nas. He's doing it in a way that's engaging, clever, and unique.\nIt's when you look at the two flops of the album that the good parts look even better.\nFirstly, there's a track called Summer On Smash. From the production to the lyrics, it's a poor track. It's money and hoes without the cleverness, the storytelling, or the uniqueness. Nas' verses are pretty decent, but Swizz Beatz and the other guy aren't worth insulting. Rick Ross' verse on Accident Murderers brings the song down several notches, and You Wouldn't Understand could be quite a bit better. Yet, even with their inclusion, this is still the strongest Hip-Hop album in a very long time, and Nas' best album since Stillmatic. Maybe the fact that the Hip-Hop charts are complete garbage works in Nas' favour, but this outwords and outclasses anything Young Money or Kanye could put out. It's the album Watch The Throne could never have been. It's brimming with confidence, charm, and class. It's hopeful for the future but still all about the here-and-now.\nLife is good, Nas. Life is good.\nEDIT: Cleared up the ridiculous amount of hyperlinks I stuffed in there.\nEdited by Kasab, 19 July 2012 - 09:20 PM.\n#14 Darknoon\nI'm listening to the official song for the Olympics being held here in Britain this summer-a song by the name of survival.\nhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=66molzUEkWI\nBad lyrics aside, it's good , if crazy, piece. Not for the first time, Muse emulate Queen at places, not always successfully, but I like the multi-tracked vocals, and the cheesy intro is actually quite fun. The simplistic lyrics and complete over-the-topness of the song make it a perfect pick for an event as epic as the olympics.\nYou might not know Muse-they're not that big outside Europe. They're pretty much the own band I really care much for which are \"modern\"-Matt Bellamy (singer/lead guitarist) is the main reason I started learning guitar. They have a bit of a reputation (probably deservedly) for being over the top, but they've written plenty of music that doesn't feature choirs and such. Eg. below.\nhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G__4i06V9Ps&feature=plcp\nEdited by Darknoon, 19 July 2012 - 09:19 PM.\nMy comic, which I'd appreciate you reading:\n#15 Phaedrus\nMuse is pretty big outside of Europe dude, I don't know what gave you the opposite impression. I really like them, but The Resistance was kind of... far out compared to their older stuff. Which is ok, bands are allowed to try new things and all that but I personally still prefer stuff like Black Holes & Revelations and Origin of Symmetry.\nThey're big outside Europe, but not as big. They only really \"broke though\" in America in more recent years, or at least as I understand it.\nI agree the Resistance is different, but I really liked it, and it actually flows better than most of their albums, imo. I'd rate their albums like this:\n1) Origin of Symmetry\n2) The Resistance/Absolution\n3) Black holes and Revelations\n4) Showbiz\n#17 Princess Bacon\nHip-Hop is black men and their money. I can't relate to that, I'm a prole.\nUnless you're in Australia. Then it's white bois and whatever they feel like rapping about at the time (Drinking, how hard life is, how awesome life is, how crappy the state of the world is, zombie apocalypses, whatever, it's all good.).\nhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4CZR50b3A9g\nhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tDaFTVb662E\nhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rXJo0A9pUR0\nhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x2L1AUCoXjk\nI'm listening to Comfortably Numb by Pink Floyd, mainly for that solo, which is genius-I can play a version of it on guitar , but nothing beats David Gilmour it live.\nhttps://www.youtube....h?v=bDC3ade3JxU\nAlso Mr. Bad Guy by Freddie Mercury-the album itself isn't that good, but the title track is pretty great, even if it is a bit self-indulgent. (\"I'm Mr. Mercury!\")\nhttps://www.youtube....h?v=MMr1zH8NoEY\nPterodactyl likes this\nHalcyon likes this\nListen in 720p, or you truely are a peasant (or a serf).", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00240.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 272, + "original_length": 13015, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.96, + "perplexity": 292.4, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "http://forums.thedigitalpress.co/forum/summer-camp-2018/62439-week-2-%7C-bonfire-gathering-mark-your-calendar?view=thread", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T03:37:54Z", + "digest": "sha1:EYSMT3UHTXNSKRB3XJVZ27FFGTHCIJFG", + "length": 1935, + "nlines": 17, + "source_domain": "forums.thedigitalpress.co", + "title": "WEEK #2 | BONFIRE GATHERING --- MARK YOUR CALENDAR! - The Digital Press", + "raw_content": "Mark your calendars! On Tuesday, July 10th at 12:00noon ET (9:00am PT), the oh-so-fabulous dawnfarias of Dawn by Design and yours truly will host the BONFIRE GATHERING for WEEK #2 of our TDP Summer Camp!\nWe will be hosting a super awesome slow scrap for you. We'll get the party started in the chat room at 12:00noon ET, and I'm really looking forward to chatting with you all. And us European girls can join too... as it's gonna be 6:00pm for me in France, for example!\nNo worries if you can't make it to the actual chat, itself, however... as it's a slow scrap you will have 24 hours to complete your layour.project following the instructions that will also get posted in this thread! Woohoo!\nSooooo... who's gonna be there?\nDamn! That's 1am in Japan . Won't make it this time but will check in when I get up to see what you all have been doing!\nAhhh the perks of working for myself - I think I can make it!\nIn my book, hoping to make it!\nNow I am sad because I will have to be at work and will not be able to join in!! Super glad it is a slow scrap that I can do after work.\nThat is 5pm for me in England, feeding time at the zoo so probably no scrapping for me, but I am excited to pop in and out of the chatting!\nI'm at work then too so I will have to join in later to complete my layout.\nI'm hoping to be there! The piano teacher will be here and if you've heard my dogs howl while Zach has his lessons, you know that I'd rather be here with headphones!!\nYay, it's my day off. I can finally join in!\nLooking forward to it!! If I'm not babysitting, I'll be there for sure!!\nPutting it in my calendar - I'll try to be there!\nBoohoo! I have to work (and with the boss in town and in the room with me, I can't even multitask, and chat while I'm working). Hopefully I can still get a layout done before the deadline though!\nI'm planning on it! 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Like other provinces his inscription is still available in Egypt. The world's first postal services were founded at his time to facilitate communication among diverse points within the vast Persian empire. ... Read Full Article:\nReza Shah Pahlavi who was living his last days of life in Johannesburg died after suffering from cardiac problems. His corpse was mummified and sent to Egypt where a ceremonial burial took place in his honor. Six years later, his body was brought back to Iran and buried in a mausoleum near Rhagae. A... Read Full Article:\nThe Ararat Club was established on July, 4, 1944 by a group of Armenian-Iranians. They named the club after the famous mountain of the same name. The club was run by an Armenian athletic organization and was one of few clubs in Iranian football to have its own private stadium and training facilities... 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In later years, Mr Fardin lived an isolated life and ran a bakery shop in Tehran.He passed away on April 6, 2000. More than 20,000 mourners attended his funeral in Tehran. (Wikipedia) - Mohammad Ali Fardin (Redirected from Fardin)\nMohammad Ali Fardin \u0645\u062d\u0645\u062f\u0639\u0644\u06cc \u0641\u0631\u062f\u06cc\u0646\nBorn Mohammad Ali Fardin 4 February 1931 Tehran Iran\nDied 6 April 2000 (aged 69) Tehran, Iran\nSpouse(s) Mehri Khomaarloo\nMen''s Freestyle Wrestling\nSilver 1954 Tokyo 73 kg\nMohammad Ali Fardin (Persian: \u0645\u062d\u0645\u062f\u0639\u0644\u06cc \u0641\u0631\u062f\u06cc\u0646\u200e, Born 4 February 1931 - Died 6 April 2000) was an Iranian wrestler and actor.\nFardin was a popular leading man in scores of many Iranian movies and was given the title, King of Hearts after his lead role in an Iranian film of the same title (Soltane Ghalbha). He was a former wrestler who came to fame in the 1960s. For the average Iranians, he represented a hero and served as an alternative to the foreign movie stars. He often played the poor tough guy with the heart of gold who got the girl at the end. His movies include, Gedayan-e Tehran, Ganj-e Gharoon, and Parvaz dar Asemanha. After the 1979 Iranian Revolution, he starred in only one more film, and his earlier films were eventually banned. In later years, Mr. Fardin had earned his living running a bakery in northern Tehran.\nHe died on April 6, 2000. 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With a renowned faculty and a curriculum that keeps pace with advances in science and technology, UIC's BVIS program attracts graduate students from a variety of disciplines such as medicine, life science, art, sculpture, digital animation, and computer science.\nStudents can earn credit while working at a practicum site under the supervision of a preceptor. The purpose of the practicum is to provide a structured field experience that is a valuable educational component and link between the didactic education and the student's career. The practicum provides the student with a foundation for professional development and assists in refining skills and behaviors necessary for successful practice in the complex health care environment.\nThe goals of the practicum encompass three broad areas: the mentoring relationship, observation, and application.\nMentoring Relationship: Through a mentoring relationship between the preceptor and the student, the student is able to develop a personal philosophy of leadership that exploits new opportunities for managing technology and organizational transformation in a continuous environment of change. Through the mentoring relationship, the student is able to enhance understanding of organizational behavior and skills in interpersonal relationships, communication, negotiation, and strategic thinking.\nObservation: Through observation and selected participation, the student is able to develop an appreciation of the relationships between organization culture, structure, and behavior and how these enhance the effectiveness of the health care system.\nApplication: The practicum experience should provide the student with an opportunity to develop confidence in the application of acquired knowledge and skills. Furthermore, the student should gain enhanced project planning and management skills.\nNMHM CHICAGO INTERNSHIPS\nAli Padilla is currently a 2nd year graduate student in the Biomedical Visualization program at the University of Illinois at Chicago, graduating in May 2015. 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Using CT scans of the specimens and data segmentation software, Ali has been able to virtually extract the bodies from the surrounding rock and create detailed interactive models, giving us the first look at these specimens since their deaths 10,000 years ago.\nLauren Kalinoski is originally from Toledo, Ohio. She completed her undergraduate studies at the University of Notre Dame and her graduate studies at the University of Illinois at Chicago, where she earned her Master of Science in Biomedical Visualization in May 2014. Her past museum experience includes work with the Toledo Museum of Art as a member of their High School Art Council and their Community Advisory Board.\nDuring her practicum at the museum, Lauren was a member of the development team for the Redefining the Game exhibit. She worked on all aspects of the exhibit - from brainstorming to final installation - including research, content creation, videography, and film editing. 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We've found that non-USA airlines do not charge extra for one day advance tickets and that one-way tickets cost half of the round trip fare.\nMost Indian marriages are arranged (although many Westernized cityfolk are increasingly finding their own 'love matches') and despite claims that caste isn't an issue - \"caste no bar\" - it still stands as an uncrossable boundary in many arranged marriages, especially in rural areas.", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00240.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 6, + "original_length": 1022, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.95, + "perplexity": 252.9, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "http://futureoffoodjournal.org/index.php/FOFJ/article/view/25", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T04:48:33Z", + "digest": "sha1:CNIYYBFY7577APF3ZHTCRGSUKRA75SMH", + "length": 341, + "nlines": 2, + "source_domain": "futureoffoodjournal.org", + "title": "Food production and eating habits from around the world: A multidisciplinary approach | Future of Food: Journal on Food, Agriculture and Society", + "raw_content": "Karla Lorena Andrade Rubio Department of Social Work at Tamaulipas University (Mexico)\nRubio, K. 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Two of the most exciting upcoming phones are the Samsung Galaxy Note 8, and Google\u2019s Pixel XL 2. While we wait for both to arrive in the coming months, here\u2019s how the two compare and everything we know so far.\nRecent rumors point to major changes for both devices. Samsung\u2019s Galaxy Note 8 will offer a massive screen and dual cameras. While Google\u2019s Pixel XL could debut with an edge-to-edge screen similar to Samsung\u2019s recent smartphones.\nAnd while the Galaxy Note 8 release is less than a month away, both phones are potentially worth waiting for.\nRead: Galaxy Note 8: 5 Reasons to Wait & 4 Reasons Not To\nIn this post, we\u2019ll go over everything you need to know about each smartphone. From the expected release dates, features, rumors and all the latest news. Then compare the two for prospective buyers. A lot of new information has surfaced over the past month, and these will be two phones to keep your eye on. We\u2019ll start with a beautiful fan-made concept video that matches rumors of the Pixel XL 2 design.\nWaiting for these phones to arrive will be tough. That said, our information should help you decide if it\u2019s even worth the wait. With excellent big-screen phones readily available like the Galaxy S8 and LG G6, some buyers have a tough choice to make.\nAt the same time, millions of Galaxy Note 7 refugees are waiting for the new Note, after returning last years model. If that\u2019s you, you\u2019ve probably already made up your mind. However, Google\u2019s Pixel XL 2 could be an enticing offer with a similar big screen, top-tier camera experience, and faster software updates. Reports believe Google will use LG\u2019s new 6-inch Quad-HD OLED display with curved edges.\nBoth phones have pros and cons, although nothing is official until they\u2019re finally released. For now, here\u2019s everything you need to know about the Galaxy Note 8 and Google\u2019s bigger Pixel XL 2. It\u2019s worth stating that a smaller regular Pixel 2 is coming too, but the big model will be the popular choice.\nOne of the most important aspects of any smartphone purchase is the display or the size of the screen. Note fans are used to having a big screen, and these days most smartphone users, in general, are too.\nBoth the Galaxy Note 8 and the Google Pixel XL 2 are expected to have really big and beautiful screens. Deciding what size you want or need will be the question.\nRumors suggest the Galaxy Note 8 will deliver a massive 6.3-inch Quad-HD Infinity Display. The sides are curved and bend off the sides of the body, and the bezels on the top and bottom are extremely small. Just like the Galaxy S8 and Galaxy S8+ from earlier this year. Samsung manages to offer that big screen without making the phone physically bigger than past devices. Thanks to the small bezels and removal of the physical home button. Giving us more screen real-estate in the same form factor. 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However, many riders don\u2019t give much active consideration to how they can apply a motorcycle\u2019s advantages to help mitigate its disadvantages. Thanks to lane positioning options afforded by a bike\u2019s small size, we can take proactive steps to keep those big, lumbering cars from becoming overly intimate with us.\nThe width of cars pretty much limits them to one place within a lane. If their driver can just keep it between the lines, they\u2019re golden. Motorcycles, thanks to their being narrow, single-track vehicles, have a seemingly infinite number of slices within a lane that they can occupy. However, for the sake of simplicity, we\u2019ll divide the lane into thirds: left, right and center. Think of these as lanes within the lane. Your choice of position within the lane can do two important things.\nFirst, by creating a protective bubble of space around you (a \u201cspace cushion\u201d in MSF parlance), you can give yourself more time to react should an inattentive car driver start claiming more than his fair share of the road. If you are traveling in the left lane overtaking a car on your right, you will be less vulnerable if you ride in the left third of the lane when passing through the car\u2019s blind spot. Similarly, if a car is overtaking you, move to the third of the lane opposite that vehicle.\nRiding this close to an inattentive driver gives you no time to react. Make sure you have a space cushion.\nThe second benefit of lane positioning is that you can make yourself more visible to other traffic. If you\u2019re following a car, stay in the center third so that your headlight can\u2019t be missed in a car\u2019s rear view mirror. Do the same when traveling in front of a car, too \u2013 but remember that a tail light doesn\u2019t capture a driver\u2019s attention as well as your high beam. When overtaking a car on its left, you can combine space cushioning with lane placement for better visibility.\nAs you approach the car, make sure you are in the right third of your lane, keeping your headlight in the car\u2019s side mirror. Just before you enter the car\u2019s blind spot, move to the left third of the lane and immediately move back to the right third once you are safely past the car. This keeps you as far as possible from the car when the driver can\u2019t see you, but inserts your motorcycle back into their field of vision as you move in front of them. Your movement from the left to the right third of the lane should also attract the driver\u2019s attention, pointing out that there\u2019s someone new in front of them. As you navigate through traffic, you will constantly need to adjust your lane position to maximize your space cushion and visibility.\nUnfortunately, traffic situations don\u2019t always occur in ways that allow you to deal with them individually, as you could in the previous examples. Sometimes, if you pause for a moment, they will naturally separate in the flow of traffic, but in most cases, you\u2019ll have to take what you\u2019re given. In these instances, address the issues simultaneously.\nMaintain your cushion until you are past the vehicle and can place your bike into the driver\u2019s line of sight.\nIf cars are both on the left and the right of your intended path of travel, choosing either side of the lane would compromise your space cushion with one of the vehicles. So, you\u2019ll need to split the difference to get the most separation possible from both by passing them in the middle third of the lane. While this is not an ideal situation with either car, it does give you the best option for this scenario.\nMake a game out of plotting the route you\u2019d take while observing traffic \u2013 even if you\u2019re not riding at the time. After all, isn\u2019t having to constantly interact with your surroundings in an intellectually active way one of the attractions of riding? If you just wanted to sit on your ass traveling from point A to B, you\u2019d be in a car\u2026talking on a cell phone.\nFinally, many riders neglect to consider the message they are sending to drivers with their lane position. The sad truth is that, as fewer people use their turn signals, drivers are being forced to make assumptions based on limited information about what the other road users are going to do.\nThis rider has placed himself in a position to be more visible to the driver. If the car is overtaking the motorcycle, moving to the right would increase the space cushion as the car passed.\nSo, consider the signals you send to other road users through your actions within your lane. For example, how you would appear to an oncoming car when you ride in the left third of the left lane as you both approach an intersection? Your lane position could be misinterpreted as preparing to turn left, which could prompt the other driver to initiate his turn right in front of you. Instead, shift to the right third of your lane as you approach the intersection.\nCould your shift to the right third of the lane be sending a different message when it occurs on a two-lane road rather than a four-lane one? Moving to the center of your lane on a two lane road would not give you as much of a space cushion, but there is less of a chance that your move will be interpreted as preparing to turn right than if you\u2019d moved all the way over to the right third.\nEither way, by moving away from the other car, you\u2019ve increased your space cushion and clearly stated that you have no intention of turning left. Another benefit is that by switching positions, you\u2019ve caused your headlight to waver, drawing the distracted driver\u2019s attention to you.\nAs with any other riding skill, the more you use it, the more natural it becomes, so practice on every ride. 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The SDGs include 17 specific goals, and 169 associated targets that set out quantitative objectives across the social, economic, and environmental dimensions of sustainable development, all to be achieved by 2030. Health has been recognized as crucial for ...\nThe Health Effects of Cannabis and Cannabinoids\nBy:Health and Medicine Division\nSignificant changes have taken place in the policy landscape surrounding cannabis legalization, production, and use. During the past 20 years, 25 states and the District of Columbia have legalized cannabis and/or cannabidiol (a component of cannabis) for medical conditions or retail sales at the state level and 4 states have legalized both the medical and recreational use of cannabis. These landmark changes in policy have impacted ca...", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00240.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 80, + "original_length": 4362, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.94, + "perplexity": 179.0, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "http://haddjo.freehostia.com/joomla_1.5.3/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=174%3Abordertown-wanderer-23&Itemid=61", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T03:54:17Z", + "digest": "sha1:LIKM6SNX53RKCX3XSUQURISRDICS5576", + "length": 11434, + "nlines": 91, + "source_domain": "haddjo.freehostia.com", + "title": "Bordertown Wanderer 23", + "raw_content": "Chapter 23 - Little Bells Ring *Ding Dang*\nThere was a small courtyard right outside. Ye Kai walked out of the doors and into the sunlight filled courtyard. A small black cat was sprawled underneath the shade of one of the trees. It gazed languidly at a butterfly that danced around a circle of flowers near the wall, wanting to swipe at it, but too lazy to move.\nOf course, there was no one on the roof. Ye Kai knew that there wouldn't be anyone on the roof, Granny Du wouldn't wait around for him to come out.\nYe Kai let out a sigh, he suddenly felt like that cat. If it pleased him so, he could strike out at anytime to snatch the butterfly. But even if he wasn't lazy, he wouldn't be able to catch that butterfly. That butterfly wasn't a mouse.\nButterflies can fly. Butterflies can fly very high.\nSuddenly, a pair of hands reached over the wall, and with a *PA*, cupped the butterfly in its grasp. The butterfly disappeared from sight. The hands disappeared from sight.\nThere was a person sitting atop the wall.\nOutside the wall was a barren field. Who knew what grew there, whether it be wheat or plum blossoms? No matter what you tried to grow here, you wouldn't have much success. Yet people still sow seeds every year.\nSuch is life. Everyone wants to live on. Everyone must find a way to live on.\nSeveral ragged shacks outlined the barren field. These houses belonged to the poorest folk in the area. The children that grew up here were all full of life. But children will always be children, full of innocence. There were about seven or eight of them standing in a circle outside the walls, staring at the person underneath the tree.\nThe person sitting atop the wall was Ye Kai, and he was staring at the person underneath the tree as well.\nThat person had a round face, big round eyes, skin that was smooth and white, and dimples in her cheeks when she smiled. Maybe you couldn't consider her breathtakingly beautiful, but she was undeniably cute and adorable. She had on a moon-white gown that looked as light as feathers. She wore a golden hooped circlet around her snow white neck, and on that golden circlet were attached two golden bells. She had golden hoops attached with golden bells on her arms as well. When the wind blew, her entire body jingled and chimed melodiously.\nBut she wasn't dressed like this before. Before, she was dresed in a large red garments. Before she stood atop a lofty pole. Now she stood underneath that tree.\nThere was a shabby wooden table in front of her. On that table was a doll completely dressed in red, a silver medal etched with flowers, a purple crystal, a rainbow colored chain, an embroidery pouch, a birdcage, and a fish jar.\nThe butterfly that she had just caught was among those things as well. Who knew where she brought all these things from? What's even better was that inside the birdcage was a pair of canaries and inside the fish jar were two goldfish.\nWhen the kids saw her, it was like seeing a goddess descend from the cloudy mists.\nShe clapped her hand and said, \"Okay, all of you form a line. You can all come by and choose something you like. But you better only take one thing, if you're greedy I'm going to give you a spanking on your behind.\"\nOf course the kids were very well-behaved. The first child that walked up looked stupefied. He had never seen any of these things in his life before. After staring blankly for quite a while, he finally chose the silver medal. The second child picked the canaries.\nThe girl with the big round eyes smiled and said, \"Good! Very good choices, one of you will grow up to be a businessman, and the other will grow up to be a poet.\"\nThe two children smiled back very gleefully. The third child was a girl and she chose the embroidery pouch. The fourth child was the smallest, he was sniveling and finally chose the dead butterfly.\n\"Do you know that there are other things better than that dead butterfly?\" the girl with the big round eyes asked.\nThe child nodded his head.\n\"Then why did you pick the dead butterfly?\"\n\"If I pick anything else, the other kids will try to steal it from me. I'm not big enough to fight them, so it's best for me to pick something that no one else will want. Then, at least I can play with it for a couple of days.\" the small child stammered.\n\"You're a pretty smart kid.\" the girl said sweetly. The small child blushed and shyly lowered his head.\nShe winked and said, \"Actually, I know someone who was just like you.\"\n\"He got picked on a lot?\" the small child asked.\n\"Well before, everyone else was much stronger than he was, so he would have to suck it up instead of fighting with them.\"\n\"For that exact reason, he worked hard at bettering himself. Now, no one can pick on him anymore.\"\nThe child laughed and said, \"So he must get all the good things now.\"\n\"That's right. So if you want good things, you have to be like him and work really hard. Do you understand?\"\n\"I understand. If you don't want others to pick on you, you have to have the ability to back it up.\"\n\"Exactly.\" the girl acknowledged. She took off one of the golden bells from her arm and said, \"Here, I'm giving this to you. If anyone tries to take it away, just tell me and I'll spank their behinds.\"\nThe young child shook his head and replied, \"I don't want this right now.\"\n\"Because sooner or later you'll have to leave. Then the other kids will steal it from me. I'll wait until I have the skills, then I can get all the good things for myself.\"\nThe girl clapped and said, \"Great! You're definitely going to have a bright future.\"\n\"Just like that friend of yours?\"\n\"Exactly!\" She bent down and hugged the little child. The child's face blushed red as he walked off.\nAlong the way, he couldn't help but turn to ask, \"What is the name of your friend, who worked so hard to better himself?\"\n\"Because I want to be just like him. I want to keep his name in my heart so I never forget.\"\nThe girl smiled and replied clearly, \"Fine, then listen carefully. His surname is Ye, given name Kai.\"\nThe children all finally left. The girl let out a lazy yawn and leaned against the tree as her big round eyes glanced over at Ye Kai.\nYe Kai was smiling back.\nThe girl's eyes quivered as she said, \"What are you so proud of? All I did was tell someone little kid to be like you.\"\n\"Actually he should learn from you instead.\" Ye Kai replied.\n\"That as soon as you see something nice, to snatch it away as quickly as possible. Who cares if someone tries to steal it away.\"\nThe girl with the big round eyes bit down on her lips and replied, \"Actually, if it were something that I really liked, even if someone did steal it away, I'd eventually find a way to steal it back.\"\nYe Kai let out a sigh and said, \"But who would dare to steal something that the great Miss Ding liked?\"\nThe girl giggled and replied, \"It's for their own good that they don't try to steal from me.\"\nHer laughter was like a gorgeous flower in bloom as all the bells on her body started to ring and chime.\nHer name was Ding LingLin. The ringing bells that she wore jingled like her name. But her ringing bells were not an amusement, nor was there anything funny about them. They were actually quite formidable. Actually, many people in the martial-realm fear Ding LingLin's ringing bells to death.\nBut Ye Kai didn't seem to pay them any heed. It seemed like there was nothing in this world that so much as shook him.\nAfter Ding LingLin had finished laughing, she stared at Ye Kai and asked, \"Ah, have you forgotten?\"\n\"Forgotten what?\" Ye Kai asked back.\n\"What you've asked me to do, I've already done.\"\n\"You wanted me to pretend to be Lu XiaoJia and investigate the backgrounds of those people.\"\n\"It doesn't seem like you've found anything out.\"\n\"Well you can't really blame me for that.\"\n\"Then who should I blame?\"\n\"Blame yourself. You yourself said that he wouldn't arrive so early.\"\n\"When did I say that?\"\n\"You also said that even if he did come, that you wouldn't let him pick on me.\"\n\"I don't remember you getting picked on.\"\n\"But when have I ever had to deal with someone like him?\"\n\"Who told you to pick on other people instead of focusing on the task at hand?\"\nDing LingLin's eyes suddenly widened more than her ringing bells, \"Other people? What other people? What kind of relationship do you have with her? Why are you still taking her side now?\"\n\"Well at least she didn't provoke you.\" Ye Kai said with a smile.\n\"But she did provoke me. I saw her standing next to you which displeased me.\"\nEveryone thought that she was jealous because of Lu XiaoJia, who knew that it was really because of Ye Kai. The words that she said to Lu XiaoJia were really targeted at Ye Kai.\nShe planted her hands at her waist and said, \"I've been looking for you for three months and I finally find you here. Then, you want me to dress up and parade as somebody else, which I followed accordingly. What have I done wrong to you? Tell me.\"\nShe stamped her feet which was adorned with bells as well. But her voice sounded many times more resonant than the jingling. Even if Ye Kai had something to say, he had no way to say it.\n\"I'm asking you, since you clearly have to deal with Ma KongQun, why are you helping his daughter? What exactly have you done with that little wench that can't see the light of day?\"\nDing LingLin smiled coldly and said, \"Good, you said so yourself. Since you have nothing to do with that woman, I'm going to kill her right now.\"\nYou could almost be assured that whatever Miss Ding said, that she would certainly do. Ye Kai darted forward and grabbed her.\n\"The number of women I know in this world are quite a few. Are you going to find them all and kill them as well?\" Ye Kai said playfully.\n\"I only want to kill this one.\"\nYe Kai let out a sigh and asked, \"Okay, what do you want me to do?\"\nDing LingLin's eyes lit up, \"First, from now on no matter where you go, you're not allowed to separate from me.\"\n\"Mmm.\" Ye Kai replied.\nDing LingLin squinted her big round eyes and bit down on her delicate lips. She glanced at Ye Kai out of the corner of her eyes and added, \"Also, I want you to hold on to my hand and walk all around town with me, so that everyone will know that we are a couple. Will you agree?\"\nYe Kai sighed and smiled, \"Forget about holding your hand, even if you wanted me to hold your leg I'd be willing.\"\nDing LingLin started to laugh. Her entire body rang and jingled almost as melodiously as her laughter.\nThe land looked like a baked piece of bread that had just come out of the oven. The grass and trees were the onions and scallions on that bread. If you reached out and touched it, you would know how hot it was.\nMa FangLing raced furiously through the grasslands.\nThe grasslands were vast and expansive. The clear sky extended out for ten thousand miles.\nTiny beads of sweat started to drip from the tip of her nose. She felt as if her entire body was trapped in an oven.\nShe had no idea where she wanted to go. The only thing she knew was that she was miserable. All of a sudden, she felt her body swell up with compassion and pity ... for herself.\nAlthough she had a family, not a single one of them understood her. Third Madame Shen had left, now her father was nowhere to be found.\nFriends? She didn't have any friends. Those horse trainers were definitely not her friends.\nAnd Ye Kai ... it's best if Ye Kai went off and died.\nShe suddenly felt so completely alone in this world. 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The anxiety and \u2026", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00240.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 47, + "original_length": 1424, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.96, + "perplexity": 242.1, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "http://hamptonroadsmessenger.com/posts/tag/hrsa/", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T04:35:39Z", + "digest": "sha1:PCGEWIQVQ6KNSMITP7A5QJNKPOM3TBOI", + "length": 114, + "nlines": 1, + "source_domain": "hamptonroadsmessenger.com", + "title": "HRSA \u2013 Hampton Roads Messenger", + "raw_content": "Save the date: April 11, 2018 Time: 6:45 pm-10:15 pm ET Creating Connections for the Health Workforce On April 11,", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00240.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 120, + "original_length": 2502, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.85, + "perplexity": 138.6, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "http://happy-wanderers.com/blog/blogger/lfadmin?start=35", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T03:42:31Z", + "digest": "sha1:7VPIOUKN2HILZKCT5ZYCHMKRX6C3MCLO", + "length": 9052, + "nlines": 21, + "source_domain": "happy-wanderers.com", + "title": "Larry Farquhar - Our Adventures - Page 8", + "raw_content": "After leaving Joshua Tree National Park, we headed over to Borrego Springs, CA. This small town is surrounded by the Anza Borrego California State Park. Friends were recently here and told us about the Sculptures of Ricardo Breceda scattered around the Galleta Meadows estate. These large sculptures are made of shaped metal welded together and are huge. They're mainly based on renditions from the book \"Fossil Treasures of the Anza-Borrego Desert\". There's also statues of noted humans and prehistoric creatures. It all started in 2008, with this mythological dragon added in 2011.\nYou can watch a slide-show of our photos of ALL 30+ of these amazing sculptures in our Photo Gallery. To wet your appetite, here's a small sampling:\nFor the past week, we've been exploring the area and the statues. We did a short \"nature walk\" and was recently visited by Larry's brother, Kenny and Mary Farquhar. They recently got a motor home and spent a couple days with us. Larry also decided to get involved with Radio Control \"Quadcopters\". Especially a 3DR Iris+, which can be an autonomous \"Unmanned Arial Vehicle\" (UAV), also known as a \"Drone\". I don't yet have the camera hanging off the bottom, but that will be added soon. It's a TON of FUN! (Only 1 crash, so far.)\nWe're boondocking on BLM land near the town of Borrego Springs. We'll be here for a couple more weeks and will visit friends again and do some hiking. It's sunny and warm. The solar panels are doing great!\nWe've had a very relaxing week. After leaving Quartzsite, AZ, we moved a few hours West to Joshua Tree National Park. Instead of camping in the park, we stayed on BLM land just outside of the South entrance to the park. There's a free 14-day stay limit there. But we soon realized almost all of the \"interesting\" things to see in Joshua Tree NP is near the West or North entrances. This is over an hours drive from where we were at. So we relaxed and toured the local area.\nOne day, we spent the day at the Desert Hot Springs Spa. For $3 a person (on Tuesdays), you can spend the entire day lounging around and soaking in the 7 natural hot mineral pools they have. We elected to get a \"day room\" for $40. This was a hotel room for ourselves, but only for the day. This allowed us to take long hot showers, have some privacy, and stull enjoy the mineral pools all day. VERY relaxing. The excitement for the day was an motor home in the parking lot caught on fire. You should have seen everyone jump up with their car keys. However, the motor home was on the edge of the parking lot away from all of the cars. We never found out what caused the fire.\nDuring the week, Connie spent a day helping friend Silvana celebrate her 50th birthday. Customary for these friends, they enjoyed the day casino hopping in nearby Indio. Larry stayed home, enjoying a quiet day reading. We also scouted out the National Park, checked out some campgrounds (not for large rigs) and took a short walk in the \"Cholla Cactus Garden\".\nAfter a week in this location, we moved to the North end of Joshua Tree National Park and boondocked (dry-camped) on BLM land outside the town of Joshua Tree. Not a very pretty location. but it's close to the best of National Park. Yesterday, we took an 18-mile \"geological driving tour\" with the park and took a few other scenic back roads. Today, we hiked about a 4 mile round trip to the \"Wall Street Mill\" then to the \"Barker Dam\". It was fun and interesting to see how miners and ranchers attempted to make a living here.\nJoshua Tree National Park is an interesting park, in it's own way. There's plenty of hiking trails and a few 4WD trails. Surprisingly, over half of the park (the southern half) doesn't have Joshua Trees. You'll find a small patch of Octillo cactus, and large patch of Cholla cactus. But the Joshua Trees are all in the Northern and Western half of the park. A Joshua Tree looks like a tree with cactus tips.\nTomorrow, friends Silvana and Allan are coming over to visit and have lunch. They're spending the winter at Big Bear Lake and need to come down and thaw out. It looks like we'll be moving in a couple days to Borego Springs (Anza Borego).\nTravel Log Joshua Tree\nAfter enjoying a New Year's Eve party in Yuma, and finishing up with dental work, we departed the Yuma Army Proving Grounds on January 11th. Our next stop was only 90 miles away. One of those much talked about RV events/destinations is Quartzsite, AZ. This small desert town near the Arizona/California border on I-10 comes to life each winter. Normally, there's only a population of about 500 residents. However, this number grows to over 10,000 by late January. This is because of the large influx of RV's spending time here in the winter. This town hosts numerous \"shows\" during the winter. In addition to music festivals and car shows, the two main events are the Mineral/Gem show and a RV show. The peak of the season is usually the last two weeks of January.\nQuartzsite in the winter has been described as \"Woodstock for the geriatric crowd\". RV'ers flock to the area and either stay affordably in one of the many RV parks or boondock on BLM land. The BLM has numerous \"short-term visitor areas\" available for a 14-day stay at no charge. Or you can utilize a \"long-term visitor area\" (LTVA) for $180 for up to a 7-month stay ($40 for 14 days). In Quartzsite, staying in a long-term area gives you a place to camp and access to a dump station and potable water. Staying in a short-term area only gives you a place to camp in the desert.\nIn Quartzsite, you'll see every type of RV available. In our area alone, we have a VW bus all the way to a Prevost motor home. Many RV'ers have made boondocking in the desert a science. Some go to extremes to conserve water and waste. Many have numerous solar panels and some use wind generators. Many people drive all-terrain vehicles everywhere, but they're not required. There's plenty of gravel and dirt roads going in every direction.\nWhen we visit Quartzsite, we stay with friends who are members of the \"Boomers\" group, which is part of the Escapee RV Club. This group has nothing to do with age (Baby Boomers), rather it's more about having a young and adventurous attitude. This informal social group gathers for two weeks and has TONS of free activities. This year, there have been nightly slide shows shown on the side of a RV, potlucks, a chili cook-off, Karaoke with dancing in the desert night, game nights, craft talks, free pancake breakfasts, 4WD runs, hikes, Zumba and Yoga classes, wine tasting, and much more. There's been discussion groups on Smart phones, RV batteries, solar panels, geocaching, RV'ing in Scotland, RV'ing in Europe, solar ovens, photography, and many other topics. This doesn't even include all of the events going on in town.\nThere was even an auction, raising money for the Escapees RV Club CARE (an adult day care center). Connie and I, along with Bill and Gisela Pollock, Mark and Judy St. Croix, and Frank and Diane Gruille bid together for a Murder Mystery Night. Friends Chuck and Jan Moore with Duane Payton and Betty Anderson hosted a wonderful evening of Wine, cheese, chocolates, and a murder mystery. It was a great evening and we all had fun. Who would ever guess this is happening in the middle of nowhere? Connie even correctly identified the murderer!\nIf you ever have the chance to visit Quartzsite in late January, I highly recommend you try it. You're welcome to stay and participate with our group. Guests are most welcome and are made to feel as part of the group.\nThe weather was great this year, averaging sunny days in the low 70's. We did have some slight winds at times and a day of rain. Unfortunately, our stay at Quartzsite wasn't all fun in the sun. To help maximize the electricity generated by the sun with our solar panels, it's a normal practice to tilt the panels towards the sun in the winter. I can almost double the amperage being charged with the panels tilted. However, while climbing the ladder, the ladder fell out from underneath me causing me to fall to the rocky desert floor. It wasn't a pretty sight. Connie rushed me to the hospital for CT scans, which came back fine, even though I was having severe rib and back pain. A few days later, we rushed again to the medical office. This time, the X-Rays revealed a broken rib. Bottom line, it was very painful at times. It's been over two weeks now and I can finally lay down. The pain is intermittent, but greatly reduced.\nWe left Quartzsite yesterday and moved another couple hundred miles west to Joshua Tree, CA. We found a wonderful boondocking location near the Cottonwood Visitors Center. We'll explore Joshua Tree National Monument and go soak in some nearby natural hot mineral baths. We plan to be here for a week or so. Then it's on to nearby Borrego Springs (Anza Borrego).\nSince we're heading to Alaska this summer, people ask us when we are going. I tell them we're already on our way - just very slowly. 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It\u2019s number 3 for those keeping score at home.\n\u201cWhat is the place of common curriculum and established sequence vs. independent response to an individual student\u2019s development in your approach to priest training?\u201d\nSay what, now? I mean, I know where this question comes from. But it\u2019s not the kind of thing I\u2019ve ever really had to deal with.\nMost people\u2019s model for how one becomes a religious authority of some kind is that they go to a seminary or what-have-you and they study all the approved books and put in the required hours of whatever training is demanded by the organization. After that they graduate and get some kind of official documentation by which the governing body of that organization officially sanctions them to lead a congregation of their own under the in the name of the organization. That\u2019s pretty much the contemporary Western model for how it\u2019s done.\nNowadays more-or-less this same model exists in Japan and, I assume, in other Buddhist countries. One of the ways one can become a Zen Master in the Soto School is to enter one of the training temples officially approved by Soto-shu, the governing body which officially approves such things. You follow their curriculum, jump through the appropriate hoops and at the end you get your certification.\nBut there\u2019s also another way to do it. See, everyone who goes through this process then has the authority to choose his or her own successors. Those successors do not necessarily have to follow the same curriculum if the teacher does not deem it necessary. When a person becomes a Zen Master that way, he (or she, but since I\u2019m basically talking about myself we\u2019ll skip that from here on) may or may not end up on the official Soto-shu registry of teachers. Whether that actually matters or not is up to the Zen Master himself to decide.\nI can understand why that system sounds totally whack-o to a lot of people. I mean, just imagine if your local parish priest could make anyone he wanted into an archbishop. The chaos! The outrage! Yet, this system seems to work pretty much OK within Zen Buddhism. Yeah, a few nutjobs have managed to get Dharma Transmission. But then again look what\u2019s happened in some other religious organizations that have a more carefully administrated system. I don\u2019t think you could say Zen is doing any worse for allowing things to flow a bit more organically.\nThe folks in St. Paul, like Buddhists all over the country, are concerned about the future of American Buddhism. They want to set up standards so that anyone who wears the robes and calls himself a Buddhist priest can be counted upon to have mastered a specific body of teachings and to have trained in a particular way which will insure that he maintains the spirit of those teachings. Oh, but if it were only that easy\u2026\nThe problem is that no matter how carefully you set up your standards somebody\u2019s gonna louse it up by being a complete dickhead. And even if that doesn\u2019t happen, there are as many ways to interpret whatever standards you set up as there are people who read those standards. So you\u2019re never gonna satisfy everyone no matter how hard you try. Which isn\u2019t to say you shouldn\u2019t try. You just have to know that from the outset.\nBut to get back to the question, if you want to know how I\u2019d deal with it, I\u2019m just not that into the whole curriculum thing. I mean, I could sit down and come up with a list of must-read books and maybe another list of things you gotta have done before you get a set of robes. But I\u2019m just not really interested in setting up things like that. Besides, that isn\u2019t how I did it anyway. So I\u2019d feel a little fakey about the whole thing. And I\u2019m not gonna require students to have played bass in punk rock bands, and to have worn rubber dinosaur costumes in bad Japanese movies before they get their robes.\nBut as for more standard type curriculums, I mean, look, I think Sobogenzo is a wonderful book. But, frankly, there are people I know who\u2019ve read Shobogenzo a dozen times and still can\u2019t come close to embodying anything even remotely like its teachings, while there are people I know who\u2019ve never even heard of the damned thing and who are far better human beings than a lot of those who\u2019ve studied it to death. There are folks who have practiced and sweated and struggled through approved courses of Buddhist training who I would not want to spend so much as an afternoon with because they\u2019re so completely obnoxious (most trained Buddhist clerics are exceptionally nice people, I\u2019m just citing the exceptions to make my point). I can\u2019t imagine any curriculum I could come up with would do any better to insure that absolutely anyone and everyone who followed it became a decent human being.\nAnother big problem is that once you\u2019ve set up such a curriculum you\u2019re saying, in effect, \u201cDo this stuff and when you\u2019re done I\u2019ll reward you with some robes and you can call yourself my successor.\u201d Otherwise why would anyone waste years of their lives following such a thing? I can\u2019t see myself sanctioning some obnoxious butthead simply because he passed through a specific curriculum of study and training.\nThe only way I would ever make someone my successor would be by spending a lot of time with that person over a period of many years making absolutely certain that person was sincere and dedicated and not likely to become a total asshole as soon as I turned my back. So I guess that means that I\u2019m only interested in \u201cindependent response to an individual student\u2019s development\u201d and not at all in whether that person has passed through a specific curriculum even if I was the one who designed it.\nTHE SHOBOGENZO IS BACK!!\nHOLLYWOOD ASSCLOWN or BLIND DONKEY? + QUESTION #5 ...", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00240.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 159, + "original_length": 8766, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.97, + "perplexity": 248.7, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "http://haute-lifestyle.com/haute-lifestyle-life-style/hl-fashion/3211-paris-fashion-week-laskaris-couture-show-summer-2018-regal-sensuous-dazzling.html", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T04:46:12Z", + "digest": "sha1:SQMB55FKBA4CLBW36ERU66GTXHVWSOOF", + "length": 3893, + "nlines": 20, + "source_domain": "haute-lifestyle.com", + "title": "Paris Fashion Week: Laskaris Couture Show Summer 2018 \u2013 Regal, Sensuous, Dazzling", + "raw_content": "You are here: Home Lifestyle Fashion Paris Fashion Week: Laskaris Couture Show Summer 2018 \u2013 Regal, Sensuous, Dazzling\nThe inspiration of collection is based on the travelogue of a strong woman. Beauty, strength, the Couture of Laskaris depicts the regality of mythology, the elements of wind as the fabric sways with subtle flowing movements, the pillar of strength in column gowns that like the ancient ruins and Olympias - the woman behind Alexander the Great stand through the test of time and tradition.\nIt begins with the birth of Olympias in Pasaronas, an ancient city of Epirus. The domesticated snakes are made of skins, embroidered with handmade enamels or depicted on clothes with dazzled Swarovski. The sandals of the collection are traditionally handmade, manufactured by Laskaris.\nThe emblem of Epirus, an oak, gives its green color to mark the collection which is composed of ivory, pastel and bright green in Grecian style.\nOlympias served in the Oracle of Dodoni, where had already been initiated into the bacchanalian mysteries. Thus, the entire collection is reminiscent of ancient Greek costumes of priestesses combined with pagan music from the Greek music band Daemonia Nymph, which uses reconstructions of ancient instruments and lyrics in ancient Greek, with Bacchic ceremonies and invocations.\nThen, the Olympias\u2019 life journey leads us to Samothrace, where the designer Laskaris was born and where Olympias became a priestess of the Kavarion Mysteries. The legend says that Philip II had been initiated into the mysteries, where he met and fell in love with Olympias, in a mystic ritual orgy of Kavarion Mysteries.\nThe collection is influenced by the columns of the Temple of Samothrace, where the charismatic Great Alexander was conceived, during the ritual. The clothes are crafted by handmade meanders, de-structuralized columns, draped worked with real stones, beams of light, nervir and copper.\nOlympias told Philip II, that one night, Zeus came to her dreams in the form of a snake and left her pregnant to Alexander the Great, which is why the Great Alexander was the son of god.\nOlympias then had only one mission: to make Alexander the most powerful man, as he became.\nThe last phase of the collection identifies Olympias as the wife of Phillip II in Pella and in Aigia \u2013 today\u2019s Vergina -, where the leather, embossed flowers in the wreaths of the collection have been influenced.\nA hymn to Vergina of Macedonia, Greece. May our Alexandre B. rest in peace .\nContent, Images Laskaris; Artistic Direction, Janet Walker\nRare Blue Diamond Sells at Bonham\u2019s for \u00a32,685,000 in Fierce Bidding; Andrew Grima Jewellery Achieves Top Prices\nThe pear-shaped diamond, weighing 4.03 carats, was widely admired by potential buyers around the globe and became the subject of a fierce bidding frenzy before it finally went under the hammer, selling to Graff Diamonds for $853,203 price per carat.\nDelphine Eatery & Bar West Hollywood Review - Mediterranean Magnificence\nNext time you are in L.A. and hit West Hollywood to mix, mingle and munch with movers and shakers, then Delphine Eatery & Bar is a must. Housed at the ultra-chic W Hollywood Hotel directly across the street from the Pantages Theatre, this remarkable restaurant dishes up Mediterranean cuisine in a warm, inviting and electric brasserie setting.\nHealth: The Most Popular Holidays to Conceive\nAs absentminded as you may be, one holiday you\u2019ll always remember is your birthday. On the other hand, the date of your conception is probably the one day you try desperately to forget.\nThe Birth of a Nation Review \u2013 Powerful, Mesmerizing, Absorbing, A Triumph\nThe Birth of a Nation, from Fox Searchlight Pictures, presents a powerful depiction of the true story of a literate slave, gifted by God, and the dominating satanic influences that are the catalyst behind an uprising that results in a stand for freedom.", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00240.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 112, + "original_length": 8399, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.93, + "perplexity": 335.8, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "http://hazelbasil.com/wordpress/2013/11/28/thankful-for-part-2/", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T04:34:07Z", + "digest": "sha1:VLJURHXFVDYDOYN5MUMWN5JFCWMI52LB", + "length": 1130, + "nlines": 10, + "source_domain": "hazelbasil.com", + "title": "Thankful For\u2026Part 2 | My CMS", + "raw_content": "Here\u2019s the rest of what I\u2019m thankful for below [continued from part 1]. Obviously, this is just a snapshot of a never ending list.\nThe freedoms [to vote, choose health care, etc.] that this country has\nOur military, armed forces, police, firemen, and all the people that are involved in protecting and uplifting our great nation\nThe choice that my dad made to join the U.S. Navy [go Navy!] because he brought my family to the U.S.\nModern technology; I love the era we live in\nMy health \u2013 even though it\u2019s not perfect (because of my eating!), I\u2019m alive and kicking\nBeing married; I am blessed to have an amazing husband\nThe desire, practice and ability of baking, cooking, designing, creating and crafarting!\nPop Culture: Star Trek, DC comics, Sherlock BBC, Jane Austen, Chinese, Korean and Japanese romantic comedies, action films with great stories, sci fi tv and films, films with realistic plots/stories, zombie tv and films, James Bond films [Sean & Daniel], Joss Whedon, Marvel films, Thrilling Adventure Hour, Mew, Cocteau Twins, the Autumns, Starflyer 59.\nJesus, who continues to show me grace, love, mercy, peace, patience", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00240.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 197, + "original_length": 4068, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.89, + "perplexity": 337.6, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "http://hcrenewal.blogspot.com/2011/02/fda-to-scientific-protein-laboratories.html", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T03:14:35Z", + "digest": "sha1:3XXWEIEQZAU76GXD43QE5XFQMHEPVZX6", + "length": 9419, + "nlines": 31, + "source_domain": "hcrenewal.blogspot.com", + "title": "Health Care Renewal: FDA to Scientific Protein Laboratories Managerement: \"We Are Concerned About Your Fundamental Understanding\"", + "raw_content": "FDA to Scientific Protein Laboratories Managerement: \"We Are Concerned About Your Fundamental Understanding\"\nPer Ed Silverman on the Pharmalot blog, we hear of new concerns about a company in the supply chain that ended up with adulterated heparin and dead patients. Before summarizing what the blog reported, let me summarize the case again.\n- We have posted several times, recently here, about the tragic case of suddenly allergenic heparin. Although heparin, an intravenous biologic anti-coagulant, has been in use for over 70 years, serious allergic reactions to it had heretofore been rare. Starting in 2008, hundreds of such reactions, and now over 80 deaths were reported in the US after intravenous heparin infusions.All the heparin related to these events in the US was sold by Baxter International.\n- The heparin proved to have been adulterated with over-sulfated chondroitin sulfate (OSCS), and many patients who received got seriously ill or died. While there have been investigations of how the adulteration adversely affected patients, to date, there have been no publicly reported investigations of how the OSCS got into the heparin, and who should have been responsible for overseeing the purity and safety of the product. Despite the facts that clearly patients died from receiving this adulterated drug, no individual has yet suffered any negative consequence for what amounted to poisoning of patients with a brand-name but adulterated pharmaceutical product. (For a more detailed summary of the case, look here, and for all our posts on this topic, look here.)\nThe FDA Letter\nPharmalot reported that the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) sent a warning letter dated January 20, 2011, to Scientific Protein Laboratories LLC, and provided a link to the letter.\nThe letter identified continuing serious problems with Scientific Protein Laboratories' operations:\nDuring our July 28, 2010 - September 3, 2010, inspection of your active pharmaceutical ingredient (API) manufacturing facility, Scientific Protein Laboratories LLC, located at 700 E. Main Street, Waunakee, WI, investigators from the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) identified significant deviations from Current Good Manufacturing Practice (CGMP) for the manufacture of drugs. These deviations cause your drugs to be adulterated within the meaning of section 501(a)(2)(B) of the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act (the Act) [21 U.S.C. \u00a7 351(a)(2)(B)] in that the methods used in, or the facilities or controls used for, their manufacture, processing, packing, or holding do not conform to, or are not operated or administered in conformity with CGMP.\nThe firm failed to adequately respond to complaints about its products, including heparin:\nFailure to investigate all quality related complaints whether received orally or in writing according to a written procedure.\nFor example, your firm failed to conduct a formal investigation concerning a complaint identifying potential contamination with Oversulfated Chondroitin Sulfate (OSCS) in a lot of Heparin Sodium USP (lot 1035-0778) on October 9, 2008. Your firm did not initiate a formal investigation until September 9, 2009. In addition, at that time, your firm failed to extend your investigations to other lots of Heparin Sodium USP manufactured using the same crude lot identified with OSCS contamination. Your investigation did not consider the other lot of Heparin Sodium USP that was associated with the same contaminated crude lot until May 26, 2010, eight months after initiating a formal investigation (i.e., lot 1035-0780, which tested negative for OSCS in June 2010). We acknowledge that you initiated a voluntary recall of Heparin Sodium USP that included lots 1035-0778 and 1035-0780 on October 13, 2010.\nIn your response, your firm notes that you have revised your procedure to state, \u201cAny SPL employee will inform QA of a customer complaint.\u201d However, this response does not address the fundamental issues that allowed the delays in communications and investigation to occur. Your handling of the heparin contamination complaint suggests the need to evaluate training across all departments about the types of information requiring prompt reporting to the quality unit. Further, your response does not address how you will ensure that complaint investigations are handled in a timely manner.\nAlso, the firm still had problems overseeing the work of companies that supplied it:\nYour firm failed to properly evaluate a contract laboratory to ensure GMP compliance of operations occurring at the contract site\nFurthermore, it did not use the proper equipment:\nFailure to have equipment for the manufacture of APIs of appropriate design for its intended use.\nThe FDA seemed concerned that company management did not understand its responsibilities:\nThe manner in which you addressed this problem [the contamination of the heparin] is very worrisome with respect to the timeliness of the investigation, the identification of all potentially affected drugs, and implementing appropriate actions to resolve these issues. Be advised that your firm has the responsibility to ensure the quality, safety, and integrity of its drugs. FDA expects that your corporate management will immediately undertake a comprehensive evaluation of your quality system to ensure comprehensive compliance with CGMP.\nHowever, we are concerned about your firm\u2019s fundamental understanding of what is required by your Quality Unit and the regulatory expectations for a firm that enters into agreements with contract testing laboratories. Although you have agreements with other firms that may delineate specific responsibilities to each party, you are ultimately responsible for the quality of your products and the reliability of test results. Regardless of who tests your products or the agreements in place, you are required to manufacture these products in accordance with section 501(a)(2)(B) of the Act to assure their identity, strength, quality, purity, and safety.\nIn previous discussions of the case of the adulterated heparin I speculated about reasons that the current leaders of health care corporations may have abandoned their most fundamental responsibilities, for example:\nI submit that corporate cultures increasingly influenced by the arrogant, greedy, amoral leadership of the financial services industry that lead us to the brink of another depression are also leading us to the brink of a poisonous era in health care. Corporate leaders intent on cutting costs, and paying themselves as much of the resulting proceeds as possible, may see quality and safety as just another cost cutting target. Corporate leaders brought up in the culture of finance, but untrained and inexperienced in engineering, science, and medicine find it all too easy to ignore quality and safety and focus on the bottom line.\nThe FDA letter to Scientific Protein Laboratories seems to confirm my fear that leaders of health care corporations no longer seem to understand their most elementary responsibilities for providing safe products, in this case, pure, unadulterated drugs. It did not speak to why that may be the case, but certainly does not contradict my theory above.\nThe letter provides some reassurance that the FDA, at least, has not forgotten the case of the adulterated heparin. However, despite the number of deaths involved, this case has been relatively anechoic, and never fully investigated.\nSo here I go again: as long as the leaders of health care organizations are not held accountable for the results of their decisions on health care quality, cost, and access (even in such extreme quality violations as those resulting in multiple patient deaths), we can expect continuing decisions that sacrifice quality, increase costs, and worsen access, but that are in the self-interest of the people making them.\nLabels: adulterated drugs, Baxter, heparin, manufacturing problems, mission-ignorant management, Scientific Protein Laboratories\nOh my, naughty, naughty. Here's a little good talking to in letter form to straighten you out. Now DON'T do it again.\nWhile I agree that ethical lapses in industry is a problem, I think part of the problem, I'm afraid, is that many government departments are incapable of doing actual work. So they ask the industry to police themselves or hire industry contractors to police their buddies. Sometimes they just require a \"certification\" of compliance, just certify that a good plan exists and is followed.\nStuff like that results in the disaster plans for the deep well oil drilling being cut and pasted such that Walrus living in the Gulf of Mexico were protected. Accepted by the regulators, never really checked, or checking probably outsourced to a division of the same or related firm who wrote the plan.\nI think its simply not enough for regulators to say after an event that the company didn't do what it committed to do. The same could be said for the recent performance of our financial regulators too.\nSo stiff penalties such as discussed on HCR would certainly create a deterrent, but what about using some of the resource provided to regulators to go out more and audit compliance. It seems this would be a more effective way to use the tax payer's funds than writing more regulations that won't be audited or prosecuted.\nIs there any liability for a government regulatory body (or the employees therein) that doesn't do its job?", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00240.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 2387, + "original_length": 68268, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.96, + "perplexity": 278.3, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "http://healthlibrary.epnet.com/GetContent.aspx?token=83ee77b6-5d7c-451c-b269-7f0bab6eb1f5&chunkiid=11902", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T03:36:17Z", + "digest": "sha1:CXZYJ45URWAWYYYBBPECJ5QE7LA6KGVQ", + "length": 10828, + "nlines": 102, + "source_domain": "healthlibrary.epnet.com", + "title": "Cook Children's Health Library - Type 2 Diabetes - Conditions - 11902", + "raw_content": "(Diabetes Mellitus Type 2; Insulin-Resistant Diabetes; Diabetes, Type 2)\nRelated Media: The Importance of Healthy Eating When You Have Diabetes\nDiabetes is a condition that makes it difficult for the body to use or store glucose. Glucose is a type of sugar that cells use for energy. It comes from food, and is also created in the liver. Glucose travels through the body in the blood. A hormone called insulin helps to moves the glucose from the blood into cells. Insulin also helps to move glucose into the liver for storage if there is more in the blood than the body needs.\nDiabetes can lead to a buildup of glucose in the blood. This form of diabetes is the most common type in adults. Medication, lifestyle changes, and monitoring can help control blood glucose levels.\nType 2 diabetes is often caused by a combination of factors. A main factor is that the body becomes resistant to insulin. This means there is insulin in the body, but the body cannot use it properly. Insulin resistance is often related to excess body fat. The body may also begin to make less insulin than is needed.\nType 2 diabetes is more common in people who are aged 45 years and older, but can develop in children. It is also common in younger people who are obese and belong to at-risk ethnic groups. Other factors that increase the chance of type 2 diabetes include:\nPrediabetes\u2014impaired glucose tolerance and impaired fasting glucose\nMetabolic syndrome \u2014combination of high cholesterol, high blood glucose, high blood pressure, and obesity with higher amounts of fat around the abdomen\nExcess weight or obesity, especially if there are higher amounts of fat around the abdomen\nHistory of gestational diabetes, or having a baby that weighs over 9 pounds at birth\nPoor diet\u2014high intake of processed meats, fats, sugar-sweetened foods and beverages, and calories\nCertain medications, such as glucocorticoids or thiazides\nDiabetes may be present for years before symptoms show.\nSymptoms that may be caused by high blood sugar include:\nSymptoms caused by chronic hyperglycemia may include\nProblems with gums\nProblems having an erection\nYou will be asked about your symptoms, family, and medical history. A physical exam will be done.\nDiabetes is based on the results of blood tests. American Diabetes Association (ADA) diagnoses diabetes if you have one of the following:\nSymptoms of diabetes and a random blood test with a blood sugar level greater than or equal to 200 mg/dL (11.1 mmol/L)\nFasting blood sugar test done after you have not eaten for 8 or more hours\u2014showing blood sugar levels greater than or equal to 126 mg/dL (7 mmol/L) on two different days\nGlucose tolerance test measures blood sugar 2 hours after you eat glucose\u2014showing glucose levels greater than or equal to 200 mg/dL (11.1 mmol/L)\nHbA1c level of 6.5% or higher\u2014test that shows the average blood sugar control over the past 2-4 months\nmg/dL = milligrams per deciliter of blood; mmol/L = millimole per liter of blood\nYou may also need blood tests to confirm diabetes is type 1 and not type 2. These may include:\nInsulin level or C-peptide tests\u2014to see how much insulin is being made by the pancreas\nTests that look for antibodies that are working against your pancreas\nTreatment aims to keep blood glucose as close to normal as possible. This can help to prevent or delay complications.\nDiet, exercise, and weight loss are recommended for all patients. Most patients will also begin medication.\nFood and drinks have a direct effect on blood glucose levels. Eating healthy meals can help control blood glucose. It will also help with your heart health and overall health. Some basic tips include:\nFollow a balanced meal plan. It should include carbohydrates, proteins, and fats.\nBe aware of serving sizes. Measure food to help understand ideal serving size.\nHaving meals throughout the day can help avoid major changes in glucose levels. Do not skip meals. Plan meals and snacks through the day.\nEat plenty of vegetables and fiber.\nLimit the amount of fat (especially saturated and trans fats) in foods.\nEat moderate amounts of protein and low-fat dairy products.\nCarefully limit foods containing high concentrated sugar.\nKeep a food intake record. Share the record with the dietitian or doctor. This will help to create an effective meal plan.\nIn those who are overweight, weight loss will help the body use insulin better. Talk to the doctor about a healthy weight goal. A safe meal plan can be created.\nTo help with weight loss:\nUse a portion control plate\nUse a prepared meal plan\nExercise TOP\nPhysical activity can:\nMake the body more sensitive to insulin\nHelp to reach and maintain a healthy weight\nLower the levels of fat in the blood\nReduce the risk of heart disease (a common complication of diabetes)\nAerobic exercise is any activity that increases heart rate. Resistance training helps build muscle strength. Both types of exercise help to improve long-term glucose control.\nAim for \u2265 150 minutes of physical activity each week. Talk to the doctor about an activity plan. Ask about any precautions that may be needed.\nNon-insulin Glucose Lowering Medication\nMedications other than insulin are typically used first to manage blood glucose levels.\nBiguanides, usually metformin, are the first choice. They work by reducing the amount of glucose made by the body.\nMedication taken by mouth may include:\nSulfonylureas or dipeptidyl peptidase IV (DPP-4) inhibitors to encourage the pancreas to make more insulin\nThiazolidinediones which sensitize the body to insulin so it works better at lower amounts\nStarch blockers to decrease the amount of glucose absorbed into the blood\nSodium-glucose co-transporter 2 (SGLT-2) inhibitors to increase glucose excretion in urine\nBile acid binders\nMedications given by injection may include:\nGlucagon-like peptide-1 receptor agonists (incretin-mimetics) stimulate the pancreas to produce insulin and decrease appetite, which can assist with weight loss\nAmylin analogs replace a protein of the pancreas that is low in people with type 2 diabetes\nInsulin may be needed if:\nThe body does not make enough of its own insulin\nBlood glucose levels cannot be controlled with lifestyle changes and other medications\nInsulin is given through injections. There is one short-acting inhaled insulin which may be effective for select persons.\nBlood Glucose Testing TOP\nCheck the level of glucose in the blood with a blood glucose meter. Checking blood glucose levels during the day can help you stay on track. It will also help the doctor know if treatment is working. Keeping track of blood glucose levels is especially important for those taking insulin. Insulin can cause a very low level of blood glucose.\nRegular testing may not be needed if diabetes is under control and insulin is not being taken. Talk with the doctor before stopping blood sugar monitoring.\nAn HbA1c test may also be done at the doctor's office. This is a measure of blood glucose control over a long period of time. Doctors advise that most people keep their HbA1c levels below 7%. Individual goals may be different. Keeping HbA1c in the goal range can help lower the chance of complications.\nCounseling TOP\nDepression can make good management more difficult. It also increases the risk of other complications. Feelings of sadness, hopelessness, and loss of interest in activities that last at least two weeks require a call to the doctor. Depression is treatable. Counseling can help better manage depression and diabetes.\nDecreasing Risk of Complications TOP\nOver a long period of time, high blood glucose levels can damage vital organs. The risk of complications increases with poor blood glucose control. Common complications include:\nRetinopathy \u2014damage to the blood vessels of the eye\nNephropathy \u2014damage to kidneys which can lead to kidney failure\nNeuropathy \u2014damage to nerves that can cause a loss in sensation or loss in certain automatic functions\nDiabetic foot ulcer \u2014foot wounds that can be slow to heal\nDiabetes can also increase the risk of heart disease.\nReaching your blood glucose and HbA1c levels is the first step to lowering the risk of these complications. Other steps that can help include:\nPractice good foot care. Be on the lookout for any sores or irritated areas. Keep the feet dry and clean.\nGet yearly eye exams.\nDon't smoke. If you do, look for programs or products that can help you quit.\nKeep track of moods. Be alert for signs of depression.\nPlan medical visits as recommended.\nTo help reduce your chance of type 2 diabetes:\nDrink alcohol only in moderation (2 drinks per day for a man, and 1 drink per day for a woman)\nEat a well-balanced diet with plenty of:\nhttp://diabetes.niddk.nih.gov\nAmerican Association of Clinical Endocrinologists, American College of Endocrinology. Comprehensive Type 2 Diabetes Management Algorithm 2017. Endocr Pract. 2017 Feb;23(2):207-238.\nAmerican Diabetes Association Classification and Diagnosis of Diabetes of Diabetes Mellitus. Diabetes Care. 2015 Jan;38 Suppl:S8-S16.\nSymptoms & Causes of Diabetes. National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases website. Available at: https://www.niddk.nih.gov/health-information/diabetes/overview/symptoms-causes. Updated November 2016. Accessed August 25, 2017.\nDiabetes. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention website. Available at:\nUpdated July 25, 2016. Accessed August 25, 2017.\nDiabetes mellitus type 2 in adults. EBSCO DynaMed Plus website. Available at: http://www.dynamed... . Updated August 25, 2017. Accessed August 25, 2017.\nDiabetes mellitus type 2 in children and adolescents. EBSCO DynaMed Plus website. Available at: http://www.dynamed... . Updated July 18, 2017. Accessed August 25, 2017.\nDietary considerations for patients with type 2 diabetes. EBSCO DynaMed Plus website. Available at: http://www.dynamed... . Updated February 7, 2017. Accessed August 25, 2017.\nTraina AN, Kane MP. Primer on pramlintide, an amylin analog. Diabetes Educ. 2011;37(3):426-431.\nType 2. American Diabetes Association website. Available at:\n9/16/2014 DynaMed Plus Systematic Literature Surveillance http://www.dynamed... : Zhou D, Yu H, He F, et al. Nut consumption in relation to cardiovascular disease risk and type 2 diabetes: a systematic review and meta-analysis of prospective studies. Am J Clin Nutr. 2014;100(1):270-277.\n12/14/2016 DynaMed Plus Systematic Literature Surveillance http://www.dynamed... : Shen HN, Yang CC, Chang YH, Lu CL, Li CY. Risk of diabetes mellitus after first-attack acute pancreatitis: a national population-based study. Am J Gastroenterol. 2015;110(12):1698-1706.\n10/1/2018 DynaMed Plus Systematic Literature Surveillance http://www.dynamed... : Mantovani A, Byrne CD, Bonora E, Targher G. Nonalcoholic fatty liver disease and risk of incident type 2 diabetes: a meta-analysis. 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Goode, American Silent Film Portrait Artist", + "raw_content": "\u201cWash Day \u2013 Woman\u2019s Woes\u201d\nThis series of photographs were an interesting find \u2013 \u2013 \u2013 depicting evolution of woman\u2019s wash day woes. At some point, these photos were held at the Los Angeles Evening Herald library.", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00240.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 67, + "original_length": 2364, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.98, + "perplexity": 278.7, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "http://hereverycentcounts.com/2007/05/pf-jitters.html", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T04:37:41Z", + "digest": "sha1:IRY7NASQFXYPK7WH2WH6KRQKJ5IGNQXK", + "length": 1623, + "nlines": 6, + "source_domain": "hereverycentcounts.com", + "title": "PF Jitters |", + "raw_content": "Vanguard Admiral Funds: Rebalancing for Lower Fees\nPrevious PostAgism & CareerNext PostCD Crazy.\nI do believe BOA's keep the change just rounds up your purchases and moves the extra to your savings account. Spend $1.97? You just spent $2.00, .03 was moved (or will be moved) over from your checking to your savings account. For a small period of time, and up to a certain dollar amount they would match (not sure if they still do) which seems like a nice deal if you regularly contribute to savings anyways.\nHey, I'm glad to have found this site. I too am in the Bay Area on a low income and high expenses. My health insurance alone is about $500 per month and that's not counting my medical costs that add up to\u2026 I don't even want to think about it. Anyway, it's nice to see a pf blog where the author is making what I consider an ordinary salary. I get some good tips from other blogs but often it's hard to get an idea on how to get by or get ahead with less when most people writing have high salaries or other assets that I don't have to work with. I'll definitely by back to read more. By the way, my blog is not purely pf, but I am starting to focus more on that topic and have a category for it on my blog.\nSF Money Musings says:\nGood luck on the journalism career! I'm freelancing which is lots of fun but I hate chasing after payments and writing up invoices. It's such a pain. And I thought 500 something for rent was expensive! I don't know how you manage living on the Peninsula! It's just as brutal there. I don't buy renter's insurance because I live in a gated apartment \u2026 and I feel really safe where I am.", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00240.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 258, + "original_length": 14796, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.98, + "perplexity": 318.4, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "http://herrenhausensportingdogs.com/standard.htm", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T04:59:42Z", + "digest": "sha1:WNRIGVNRWIBSVXZL5SCDOKQ23XMXX5FU", + "length": 2413, + "nlines": 14, + "source_domain": "herrenhausensportingdogs.com", + "title": "Herrenhausen Sporting Dogs Griffon Standard", + "raw_content": "This document has been prepared and published for the American Wirehaired Pointing Griffon Association, for the purpose of clarifying the official breed standard. Its purpose is to promote a better understanding of, and appreciation for, the Wirehaired Pointing Griffon, by breeders, exhibitors, fanciers, and judges. I have intended to clarify the breed standard as written by correlating text and illustrations for better understanding. For ease of reference, each subject is arranged in the following order:\n\"The Official American Kennel Club Standard for the breed will appear in bold faced type, and will appear in quotations.\"\nThe explanation will appear indented and in this type and color.\nI realize that there is a divergence of opinion on certain finer points. For this reason, I have endeavored to avoid those areas of interpretation. In addition, photos depicting the correct form of the breed are included, which will serve as a fundamental base upon which the individual will build his/her concept of the \u201cideal\u201d Wirehaired Pointing Griffon.\nIt should also be kept in mind that a true appreciation for the Wirehaired Pointing Griffon must go beyond the anatomy. A friendly temperament is of utmost importance, in maintaining this breed as the all around companion. This is a Versatile Hunting Dog. He should be bred to point and retrieve in the field, as well as perform all of the duties of the retriever in the water. He is described as \u201cThe Supreme Gun Dog,\u201d for his ability as an all terrain hunting dog. With these items in mind, one must look at the conformation, temperament, coat, and movement and how they relate to the whole dog. The form and function are equal partners in understanding this breed.\nReference throughout this publication is made to the Wirehaired Pointing Griffon as Korthals Griffon. In most other countries this is the correct common name for the breed. 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The Outback Express is the only lift which services this beautiful region which includes the north bowl and some of the best t........ Read More\nTired of busy traffic and the daily rush in Jburg we decided to head out to the Free State into the South african 'outback'. At 2,5 hours drive we ended up in Clarens. It is an artist's village, surro........ Read More\nFew regions of the world can offer an authentic outback experience like Western Australia's Kimberley. The Kimberley has it all ... vast, remote and unspoilt natural landscapes, spectacular coastlines........ Read More\nThe town of Alice Springs is located in the middle of the Australian continent and is the unofficial but undisputed capital of the Australia's vast outback. This unique town is rich in history and nat........ Read More\nSatellite radio has been a godsend to people in remote locations, or even just those who travel long distances. 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Indeed, dishonest mortgage service companies and lenders can take advantage of homeowners and would-be buyers in these desperate times. However, many mortgage service companies and other bank employees have been wrongly implicated in mortgage fraud schemes.\nAccording to the federal government, mortgage fraud involves specific acts that attempt to defraud or deceive a homeowner or homebuyer. With the many pending foreclosures and bank-owned properties across the state of Texas, it\u2019s not surprising that prosecutors\u2019 offices need to find someone to blame. Prosecutors and judges in state court as well as federal court approach white collar criminal offenses very seriously.\nIf you have been accused of mortgage fraud in Texas on a state or federal level you shouldn\u2019t have to go through this complicated process on your own. You need to have experienced legal counsel on your side. The dedicated Houston mortgage fraud attorneys at Hinton & Bailey have more than four decades of combined experience in Texas criminal defense matters as well as representation on a federal scale. Contact our office today to learn more about how we can help with your mortgage fraud defense.\nHave you been charged with mortgage fraud? It\u2019s important to understand the elements of mortgage fraud when you\u2019ve been accused of this offense. First, this is a crime that takes place during the mortgage lending process. The Texas Statutes define the mortgage lending process as one in which a \u201cperson seeks or obtains a residential mortgage loan.\u201d It can refer to various stages in this process, including but not limited to loan applications, mortgages, deeds, inspections, and appraisals.\nIn short, the crime of mortgage fraud typically involves an intent to defraud and a material misstatement, misrepresentation, or omission that takes place during the mortgage lending process. The laws surrounding federal mortgage fraud and mortgage fraud in the state of Texas are very complex, and it\u2019s important to discuss your case with an experienced Texas mortgage fraud lawyer.\nElements of Mortgage Fraud in Houston\nUnder the Texas Statutes, a person commits mortgage fraud if:\nThe person has an intent to defraud; and\nThe person knowingly makes \u201cany material misstatement, misrepresentation, or omission during the mortgage lending process with the intention that the misstatement, misrepresentation, or omission will be relied upon by a mortgage lender, borrower, or any other person or entity involved in the mortgage lending process\u201d;\nThe person knowingly \u201cuses or facilitates the use of any material misstatement, misrepresentation, or omission during the mortgage lending process\u201d;\nThe person receives compensation connected with a material misstatement, misrepresentation, or omission during the mortgage lending process; or\nThe person is involved in the filing of a mortgage document that contains a material misstatement, misrepresentation, or omission.\nUnder federal law, the punishment for a conviction of mortgage fraud can be up to 30 years in federal prison, up to a $1,000,000 fine, or both. Many different statutes can be used to prosecute mortgage fraud. On the federal level, a person can commit mortgage fraud by doing any of the following:\nThe person makes any misrepresentation, misstatement, or omission knowing it to be false for the purposes of receiving a mortgage.\nUsing false identification to receive a mortgage\nWilfully over-value any land or assets to obtain a mortgage\nUsing a false Social Security number, name, or address to get a mortgage\nUsing the mail or any wire service to aid in perpetrating mortgage fraud\nContact a Houston Mortgage Fraud Attorney\nWhen you have been charged with mortgage fraud on a state or federal level in Texas, it\u2019s extremely important to discuss your case with an experienced Texas mortgage fraud attorney. Each case is different, and the laws governing mortgage fraud can be very complicated. 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Hopefully, a group of Minnesotans now numbering in the thousands will be able to change its name. They\u2019re working on it.\nIt is true that John C. Calhoun was an able Secretary of War, from 1817 to 1825. Some Minnesotans defend \"Lake Calhoun\" for that reason: he was in office when Fort Snelling was built, helping to fortify white settlements against Native Americans.\nSuch arguments miss the arc of Calhoun's life. At the same age, Harry S. Truman ably oversaw the erection of twelve Madonna of the Trail monuments honoring pioneer women, coast to coast. So what? That's not why we remember or honor Truman.\nAfter he was Secretary of War, Calhoun took ever more extreme positions favoring the South as a region and slavery as a cause. He called the Missouri Compromise, which he had supported at the time, \"unconstitutional,\" because it banned slavery from territories north of Arkansas. Eventually, he came to place the interests of his region as he perceived them ahead of the national interest, ahead even of national unity.\nRepeatedly, Calhoun threatened disunion to blackmail national leaders to get what he wanted. He explained his strategy to a friend in 1827:\nYou will see that I have made up the issue between North and South. If we flinch we are gone, but if we stand fast on it, we shall triumph either by compelling the North to yield to our terms, or declaring our independence of them.\nOpposed to the high tariffs of 1828-1832, Calhoun prompted a national crisis when he got South Carolina to \"nullify\" them. President Jackson refused to back down, declaring, \"Our Federal Union \u2014 it must and shall be preserved.\" Calhoun's threats did get congressional leaders to lower the tariff, however. Having browbeaten his way on the tariff, Calhoun later threatened disunion if Texas was not annexed, if the United States extended diplomatic recognition to Haiti, and even if citizens in northern states continued to agitate for abolition. Should Minnesota honor him for that?\nIn 1837 he told the Senate, \"[Slavery] cannot be subverted without drenching the country in blood, and extirpating one or the other of the races.\" Nor should slavery ever be ended, he went on, because it is \"a positive good.\" This theory relies openly on racism \u2014 slavery is good for black people because they are \"low, degraded, and savage,\" in Calhoun's words. Should Minnesota honor him for that?\nAt that time, Calhoun had written that states' rights let Northerners distance themselves morally from slavery. \"A large portion of the Northern States believes slavery to be a sin, and would consider it as an obligation of conscience to abolish it if they should feel themselves in any degree responsible for its continuance.\" By the 1840s, however, he opposed states' rights when those rights had anything to do with freedom, a move calculated to sow sectional discord.\nBy the 1840s, Calhoun had no more use for democracy. He pushed to make the South a closed society. He argued that Congress should not even receive petitions about slavery; sending abolitionist materials through the mail should be a crime. And he insisted that because the Constitution protected slavery, slaveowners had the right to take their property into any territory, even if its residents had voted slavery down.\nTherefore Congress had had no Constitutional right to pass the Northwest Ordinance, which had outlawed slavery northwest of the Ohio River, including part of Minnesota. Since some of the same people voted for the Northwest Ordinance who later voted for the Constitution, Calhoun could hardly claim to know the founders' intent. Nevertheless, he provided the intellectual scaffolding for Dred Scott in 1857, which reached Calhoun's conclusion seven years after his death. Minnesotans will recall that Dred Scott also references Fort Snelling, since Scott argued that his stay there made him free. Calhoun would have shouted \"No!\"\nIn 1850 he again threatened secession unless the federal government passed and enforced a harsh fugitive slave law and required slavery throughout the territories. His agitating for secession helped win that fugitive slave law. Nevertheless, on his deathbed he opposed the Compromise of 1850, claiming that it didn't go far enough toward guaranteeing slavery forever. By this point, it is doubtful that any compromise would have satisfied Calhoun.\nJohn C. Calhoun is remembered for what he did in the latter half of his adult life. In those years, he rationalized slavery, suppressed freedom of speech, and legitimized secession. Surely that legacy should persuade Minnesotans to rename Lake Calhoun.\nEvery year that the lake remains named for him, Minnesota declares on its landscape that John C. Calhoun was a hero worthy of honor. That declaration insults every black resident and every white resident who does not believe that treason on behalf of slavery made moral or political sense then or now. After Minnesotans rename the lake, they can put up a marker telling what its previous name had been and why it was changed. 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He obtained his Ph.D. degree in mitochondrial physiopathology in 2008 from University of Bari under the supervision of Prof. Sergio Papa and then completed a postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Southern Denmark, Odense, under the supervision of Prof. Martin R. Larsen, developing methods for PTMs analysis in different biological samples. He obtained the Young Investigator Award at HUPO 2011 in Geneva. He has authored 42 papers and serves as reviewer in internationally recognized journals. His current area of research is proteomics applied to cancer biomarkers and parasite infections with a particular focus on regulatory mechanisms of PTMs-mediated cellular signals.\nRebeca Kawahara, Fabio Ortega, Livia Rosa-Fernandes, Micaella Pereira da Fonseca, Vanessa Guimar\u00e3es, Katia R.M. Leite, Willian Nahas, Miguel Srougi, Martin R. 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A page for describing YMMV: It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown\nThe Great Pumpkin will appear and I'll linus and sally mistake snoopy for the great pumpkin The classic animated Halloween-themed special, \"It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown,\" created by late cartoonist Charles M\nThey did recently find a new track (\"Blues for Peanuts\" recorded for the 1964 \"A Boy Named Charlie Brown\" documentary but not included on the soundtrack album) so it's possible the tapes may turn up someday\nAwesome Music: The score, by Vince Guaraldi and John Scott Trotter, is full of memorable \u2026 The Great Pumpkin Charlie Brown! 5 Attachment(s) i'm gonna try to get some pics going up here, if i can figure out my wife's computer\nAs they walk from their house to the patch and back again, the mood of the film is subtly introduced\nIt's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown Charlie Brown's iconic grocery bag full of rocks Trick or treating was especially fun when we came to big Charlie Brown This month marks the 50th anniversary of the Emmy-nominated Peanuts animated special, \u201cIt\u2019s the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown,\u201d and to mark the occasion the Charles M\nThe Peanuts gang celebrates Halloween, with Linus hoping that, finally, he will be visited by The Great Pumpkin; while Charlie Brown is invited to a Halloween party\n\" (Blue Sky Animation / Twentieth Century Fox & Peanuts) Charlie Brown and Snoopy are back after 35 years, this time on the big screen with a shiny new 3-D computer-animated makeover in \"The Peanuts Movie,\" and reviews have been quick to reassure fans that this faithful adaptation keeps the spirit of the Peanuts gang intact\nMeanwhile, Linus eagerly awaits at the pumpkin patch for the arrival of the Great Pumpkin -- hoping it will finally make its big appearance\nBuy It's The Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown (Remastered Deluxe Edition) (DVD) at Walmart\nHere's what's on TV tonight: The Thursday premiere of \"The Big Bang Theory\" (2:07 a\n\" BMovies - Watch It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown (1966) online full for free on bmovies\nRe: The Great Pumpkin Charlie Brown! well, I got the motor and trans in it last weekend\nThe Great Pumpkin will appear and I'll It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown: The Making of a Television Classic includes the entire script, never-before-seen photographs, storyboard excerpts, and interviews with the original child actors who provided the voices of the Peanuts gang\nThe story behind this special, however, is as interesting as the antics of the kids\nIts initial broadcast took place on October 27, 1966 on CBS, and re-aired annually through 2000\nHTML5 available for mobile devices It\u2019s the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown is the third Peanuts special (and second holiday-themed special, following A Charlie Brown Christmas) to be produced and animated by Bill Melendez\nwatch Its The Great Pumpkin Charlie Brown full movie online free, watch Its The Great Pumpkin Charlie Brown (1966) online free, Its The Great Pumpkin Charlie Brown online free full movie streaming\nDark Hall Mansion has a great print (really no pun intended) out now for Charlie Brown's \"The Great Pumpkin\" - the classic Charles Schulz character, best known from the 66' animated TV special \"It\u2019s The Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown\"\nCharlie brown is the central protagonist of the comic strip peanuts, syndicated in daily and sunday newspapers in numerous countries all over the world\nlooney69z28: IT\u2019S THE GREAT PUMPKIN, CHARLIE BROWN There was another version of Skating done with a full orchestra that was part of in character as Disney\u2019s Big And then Linus, while holding his sucker, runs full speed and jumps into the big pile of leaves! I covered large suckers with some artificial leaves, to represent that very scene\nIt's The Great Pumpkin Charlie Brown - Intro Only Geminian INTJ\nLong story short, Linus talks Sally, Charlie Brown\u2019s little sister, into skipping out on \u201cTricks or Treats\u201d and sitting with him in the pumpkin patch to await the arrival of the phantom toy-giver\n\"It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown\" aired annually on CBS until 2001 when it became a staple on ABC\nYou prolly can\u2019t tell from lookin\u2019 at me, but I have a serious Charlie Brown: Well, another Halloween has come and gone\nBecause Linus is a miniature Philosopher, and it's time we revisit his quotes from a Halloween classic, \"It's a Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown\nWe watch It's The Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown all year long! And then Linus, while holding his sucker, runs full speed and jumps into the big pile of leaves! It's been 51 years since the debut of It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown initially televised on CBS, and for people such as myself, it's become a yearly staple since\na blue suit with small hands and a big pumpkin head topped by straw hair that The Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown! Aside from \"Great Pumpkin Waltz\", all they could release is what's on the actual soundtrack in other words, fragments of songs with dialogue and sound effects over them, sourced from video tape\nThe fabric worked great as a table cover, and helped make all the colors pop\nIt's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown is a 1966 American prime time animated television special based on the comic strip Peanuts by Charles M\nSchulz Museum in Santa The Great Pumpkin also showers drinkers with presents of light brown sugar and a bit of real pumpkin flavor\nSo you can guess what happens in \"It's The Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown,\" an enchanting little Halloween tale with lots of rocks, pumpkins and a World War I flying ace\nThe Peanuts Movie (Snoopy and Charlie Brown: A reference to It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown is made when the children The Peanuts Movie on the Big Charlie brown is the central protagonist of the comic strip peanuts, syndicated in daily and sunday newspapers in numerous countries all over the world\nIt had been a while since we\u2019d seen it, so it felt right to give it another whirl, for old time\u2019s sake\nMy trick-or-treating days ended many years ago and I\u2019m not really into horror movies, but The Great Pumpkin is a Halloween tradition that has my full support\nEver the outsider Linus waits in the pumpkin patch for the Great Pumpkin s The Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown\nSo in the meantime, in honor of the 50 th anniversary visit one of the pumpkin patches, hand out rocks on Halloween, sing some pumpkin carols, eat some pumpkin, or write your own letter to The Great Pumpkin\nFall is the perfect time for enjoying an outdoor movie night, especially when it's a Charlie Brown Great Pumpkin Party & Movie Night! It really isn't Halloween until you've watch the timeless classic It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown\nIt's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown It's the Great Pumpkin - full episode or treating and then over to Violet's for the big Halloween wait Charlie Brown\nIts initial broadcast took place on October 27th, 1966 on the CBS network, preempting My Three Sons; CBS re-aired the special annually through 2000, with ABC picking up the rights beginning in 2001\nIt is a Halloween Island, based off of the PEANUTS series and the classic television movie: It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown\nEvery journey begins with a train ride that departs from the Bryson City, Tennessee, Depot en route to The Great Pumpkin Patch, which includes a narration of the classic tale It\u2019s The Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown\n\u201cA CHARLIE BROWN Christmas\u201d may have been the debut for \u201cPeanuts\u201d characters on television, but it was the follow-up holiday special, \u201cIt\u2019s the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown\u201d \u2014 which premiered 50 years ago this month \u2014 that stands as the breakaway visual achievement\n[Linus nods] Charlie Brown: And the Great Pumpkin never showed up? Linus: Nope\nmp4, It\u2019s the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown full movie online, download 1966 online movies free on Yify TV\nIt was the third Peanuts special (and first Halloween special) to be produced and animated by Bill Melendez\nLooking to watch It's the Great Pumpkin Charlie Brown? Find out where It's the Great Pumpkin Charlie Brown is streaming, if It's the Great Pumpkin Charlie Brown is on Netflix, and get news and updates, on Decider\n\u0421\u043a\u0430\u0447\u0430\u0442\u044c \u00abIt's The Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown! - Full \"Soundtrack\u00bb \u0432 mp3 \u043d\u0430 \u0442\u0435\u043b\u0435\u0444\u043e\u043d \u0438\u043b\u0438 \u043a\u043e\u043c\u043f\u044c\u044e\u0442\u0435\u0440\nSo snuggle up with your blankie and a big pint of this brew in your pumpkin patch while you await the arrival of the big orange guy himself\ndepicted as a \"lovable loser,\" charlie brown is one of the great american archetypes and a popular and widely recognized cartoon character\n\"It's The Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown\" was the third Peanuts special (and first Halloween special) to be produced and animated by Bill Mel\u00e9ndez\nFriday, WWL) and the season premiere of \"Mom\" (2:38 a\ns The Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown by Big Lucy takes a big knife and slices into the pumpkin With autumn already in full swing, Charlie Brown is \"It's The Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown\" was Once you're at the house, talk to Linus\nThe cartoon also makes a brief reference to the Great Pumpkin\nI found some polka dot fabric that I thought resembled the same colors as Charlie Brown's shirt\ncom Its The Great Pumpkin Charlie Brown (Full Episode) Upload, share, download and embed your videos\nChicago Fire It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown (ABC at 8) Once you're at the house, talk to Linus\nThe Paperback of the Big Pumpkin by Erica Silverman, But the pumpkin is so big she can't get it off the vine\nFriday, WWL) will get bumped to the middle of the night by the Saints game, oh well\nAutumn has come, and the Peanuts gang is embracing the season -- carving jack-o-lanterns, jumping into leaf piles (with wet suckers), and Charlie Brown kicking the football\nNote: all approximate timestamps are from the network broadcast\n\"It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown\" (10/27/66) 01\na blue suit with small hands and a big pumpkin head topped by straw hair that The Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown! Great Pumpkin Island is the 15th Island on Poptropica\nThe fact that almost another forty specials followed the Halloween special is testament to the fact that Schulz and the producers knocked It\u2019s The Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown out of the park\nABC recently aired the 50th Anniversary edition of It\u2019s The Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown!, the classic Peanuts animated special that debuted in 1966\nOne of the better Simpsons treehouse of horror episodes of recent years (and by recent I mean almost ten years ago at this point) was a parody of It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown, in which the Great Pumpkin wreaks havoc on Springfield upon learning that people eat pumpkins on Halloween\nIt's the Great Pumpkin PC, Charlie Brown! but it's worth the expense to ensure that you'll have a case big enough to hold your components and power supply\nAlso by: Christmas is Together Time \u00b7 Love is Walking Hand in Hand\nA Halloween special, it was the third Peanuts special (and second holiday-themed special, following A Charlie Brown Christmas) to be produced and animated by Bill Melendez\nHalloween Gift for the Baby: 1969 Softcover Edition of \"It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown\" By Charles M\nplace in the pumpkin patch with a sign reading \"Welcome Great Pumpkin\", to Violet's for the big Halloween It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown Charles M\nVisit the official it's the great pumpkin, charlie brown online at abc\nThis classic \u201cPeanuts\u201d tale focuses on the thumb-sucking, blanket-holding Linus, Watch online and download cartoon It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown Movie in high quality\nIts The Great Pumpkin Charlie Brown (Full Episode) Upload, share, download and embed your videos\nBMovies - Watch It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown (1966) online full for free on bmovies\nInstrumentals include: \u201cGreat Pumpkin Waltz,\u201d \u201cCharlie Brown Theme\u201d by Vince Guaraldi\n\u201cGreat CBS immediately ordered up four more Charlie Brown specials, and \"It's the Great Pumpkin\" was born\nIt's The Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown! - Full \"Soundtrack\" by Geminian INTJ\nCan you answer these trivia questions about It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown! Last night, ABC kept with tradition and aired the Halloween classic It\u2019s the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00240.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 118, + "original_length": 17083, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.91, + "perplexity": 273.9, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "http://inewstoday.net/2018/12/chinas-tencent-music-jumps-11-percent-in-us-debut/", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T04:28:28Z", + "digest": "sha1:5SVPBSYKLFP24TLK6EYH7MA5X3T5NO6N", + "length": 2324, + "nlines": 10, + "source_domain": "inewstoday.net", + "title": "\ufeff\tChina's Tencent Music jumps 11 percent in US debut", + "raw_content": "Chinese streaming giant, Tencent Music's much talked about U.S. IPO is finally here, with the company announcing a $1.1 Billion raise in the same.\nTencent Music will trade on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol \"TME\".\nChina's largest music-streaming service, which is backed by Tencent, and current holders sold 82 million American depositary shares at $13 apiece, according to a statement. The filing said that the music-streaming company sold 41 million American Depository Receipts (ADRs), while existing shareholders sold another 40.9 million.\nShares rose more than 9 percent to $14.20 apiece at 1:45 p.m.in NY, valuing the company at about $23.25 billion - just below the market valuation of Spotify Technology SA, its dominant counterpart in the U.S. Spotify is also one of the key investors of Tencent Music.\nThe company initially planned to launch the deal in October, but given a recent plunge in global markets and the tension between USA and China, the company chose to postpone the IPO. Tencent Music opted to price lower after initially guiding fund managers that orders were coming in around the midpoint of the marketed range.\nThat is the highest amount since 2014, the year of Alibaba Group Holding Ltd.'s record US$25 billion offering.\nSince it publicly filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission in early October, stocks around the world careened. On our platform, social interactions such as sharing, liking, commenting, following and virtual gifting, are deeply integrated in our products and highly complementary to the core music experience, thereby enhancing our user experience, engagement and retention.\nTencent Music's US IPO is the fourth biggest among Chinese firms this year by arrangement esteem.\nTencent Music will debut at a valuation of about $21.3bn, falling short of the $23.3bn of Spotify Technology SA, the Swedish peer that's also an investor in the Chinese company.\nWith gushing applications QQ Music, KuGou, Kuwo and in addition karaoke application We Sing, Tencent Music is China's biggest online music stage flaunting in excess of 800 million dynamic clients month to month. It also can not be discounted that Tencent's immensely popular messaging app WeChat has played a critical role in increasing Tencent Music's outreach. 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KG, partners up with Alelion Energy Systems AB as it focuses on sustainable autonomous vehicles \u2013 soon to be powered by Swedish lithium-ion batteries. The KAMAG order is a significant move for Alelion into a new segment and an important step towards Sweden's first factory for large-scale production of lithium-ion batteries for vehicles.\n\u201dThis order is an important milestone and proves that Alelion also plays a central role when it comes to the electrification of heavy vehicles\u201d, says Daniel Troedsson, CEO of Alelion.\nAlelion Energy Systems AB (publ) has received an order for high voltage batteries from the German special vehicle manufacturer KAMAG to electrify the powertrain of one of its heavy truck-models.\nAlelion has proven expertise in delivery as well as a reputation for industry leading innovation in the growing field of sustainable lithium-ion battery technologies. As part of a joint development project, Alelion will deliver a first batch of batteries in 2018. The remainder of the order, valued at approximately MSEK 15, will be delivered during 2019.\nThe heavy vehicle segment is an important part of the future for lithium-ion batteries. \u201dMore and more vehicle manufacturers are investigating the possibilities to convert to sustainable, all electric powertrains due to environmental- and climate issues\u201d, says Daniel Troedsson, CEO of Alelion. \u201dOur long experience with lithium ion-technology in the forklift industry puts us in a good position to design the power supplies of tomorrow and contribute to the electrification of the heavy vehicle industry.\"\nKAMAG's planned electrified truck is a multi-purpose vehicle to be used with semitrailers and for transporting goods in ports, warehouses, mail- and package handling sites \u2013 as well as on production sites and at airports. The driverless version of the KAMAG E-Wiesel AGV (Automated Guided Vehicles) truck is adapted for automated logistic centres.\nThe multi-purpose vehicle can be configured with a maximum of four battery packs for optimised range and efficiency. The trucks come with several engine alternatives and the battery packs are all based on high-performance li-ion-cells. The applications use high voltage to minimise losses in the electrical powertrain; now a common standard within the automotive industry.\nThe order is an important step for Alelion as it is currently building Sweden\u2019s first large scale lithium-ion battery factory with a capacity of 500 MWh yearly, with its own embedded development resources. The factory will be situated in the midst of the automotive cluster at Hisingen, Gothenburg and is expected to be completed during the third quarter of 2018.\nFor more information, please visit www.alelion.com/en or contact:\nDaniel Troedsson, CEO of Alelion Energy Systems AB (publ)\nPhone: +46 707 51 67 10, e-mail: daniel.troedsson@alelion.com\nAbout Alelion Energy Systems AB (publ)\nAlelion Energy Systems AB \u2013 enabling the sustainable use of energy through our lithium ion energy storage and intelligent control system solutions.\nAlelion started developing lithium-ion batteries already in 2006 and over the last decade, Alelion has taken charge of the entire battery management value chain to enable customers to focus on profitability and efficiency, always in the greenest way. 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(NASDAQ:AERI), an ophthalmic pharmaceutical company focused on the discovery, development and commercialization of first-in-class therapies for the treatment of patients with open-angle glaucoma and other diseases of the eye, today announced that it has launched Rhopressa\u00ae in the United States. Rhopressa\u00ae is now in national and regional U.S. pharmaceutical distributors, and patients have access to Rhopressa\u00ae through their local pharmacies across the nation.\n\u201cWe are pleased to announce the availability in the United States of Rhopressa\u00ae, the first new drug class in more than two decades for the reduction of intraocular pressure in patients with glaucoma or ocular hypertension. Our national sales force is fully trained, deployed, and already providing product information and samples to physicians. Formulary contracts for commercial insurance coverage in 2018 and Medicare Part D program coverage beginning in 2019 are in the final stages of being executed. In addition, through the availability of a co-pay savings card program, all patients covered by commercial insurance will have immediate access to Rhopressa\u00ae. Aerie has also proactively engaged the major e-prescribing platforms to ensure physicians are able to prescribe Rhopressa\u00ae electronically for their patients. We look forward to providing additional details as part of our business update during our first-quarter 2018 financial results call scheduled for May 8, 2018,\u201d said Vicente Anido, Jr., Ph.D., Chairman and Chief Executive Officer.\nRhopressa\u00ae (netarsudil ophthalmic solution) 0.02%, is a novel once-daily eye drop for the lowering of elevated intraocular pressure in patients with glaucoma and ocular hypertension, and was approved by the FDA in December 2017. Rhopressa\u00ae is specifically designed to increase the outflow of aqueous humor (the fluid inside the eye) through the trabecular meshwork, the main fluid drain of the eye. 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The same man who refused to even consider President Obama\u2019s election-year nominee, Merrick Garland, for 10 months \u2014 a cynical act of partisanship unprecedented since the mid-1800s \u2014 criticized his Democratic colleagues on the committee for grandstanding during the initial hearing, before any allegations against Kavanaugh were made public. He claimed that attorneys for two other accusers had since stonewalled his investigators before dismissing their allegations as \u201cunsubstantiated\u201d anyway. And he griped at Sen. Dianne Feinstein, the committee\u2019s top Democrat, for not releasing a letter sooner that Ford sent her in confidence in July.\nIn fact, Feinstein didn\u2019t even show the letter to her fellow Democrats, to their frustration, before news of its existence leaked to the press and Ford came forward in an interview with the Washington Post, despite fearing for her safety, so that she would be the one to tell her own story about how an inebriated 17-year-old Kavanaugh allegedly pinned her to a bed at a party, covering her mouth and groping her while trying to tear off her clothes as his friend watched. After she did, Grassley said he would conduct follow-up phone interviews about it with Ford and Kavanaugh, then, after facing pushback and agreeing to a hearing, tried to rush it through on Monday, possibly aware that a second allegation would soon come out. (Grassley has denied that.)\nEither way, committee Republicans \u2014 several of whom had already made clear they would support Kavanaugh\u2019s confirmation regardless of the outcome Thursday \u2014 were obviously concerned about the optics so close to midterm elections in the year of the #MeToo movement. Faced with the prospect of 11 men questioning Ford, whose emotional and determined testimony left little in doubt about her credibility, as even Republicans conceded, they instead solicited the help of a \u201cfemale assistant,\u201d as Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell called her, to do their dirty work.\nThe \u201cfemale assistant,\u201d a veteran sex crimes prosecutor from Arizona\u2019s Maricopa County named Rachel Mitchell, was tasked with preventing a repeat of 1991, when another all-male panel of committee Republicans grilled Anita Hill, the woman who leveled allegations of sexual harassment against Clarence Thomas \u2014 although despite how that looked, senators, including Grassley, voted to confirm him to the high court regardless.\nMitchell succeeded, insofar as she treated Ford with respect, but she was ill-suited for the format Grassley insisted on for the hearing, which bore little resemblance to a criminal proceeding. As Democrats used their time to allow Ford to reinforce her story, bolstering it with her academic expertise about how the brain handles memory recall, Mitchell, accustomed to lengthy depositions, focused on minutiae intended to pick apart her narrative and was cut off each time after just five minutes by Grassley, who had insisted on the short back-and-forth questioning periods between her and Democrats. Journalists reported that Trump allies were dismayed by how the hearing was going. On Fox News, anchor Chris Wallace called it \u201ca disaster for the Republicans.\u201d\nWhen it was Kavanaugh\u2019s turn to face questions in the afternoon, the partisan division became more stark. Angry and defiant, at times crying, the DC circuit court judge accused Democrats of smearing him with falsehoods for political gain that he said had ruined his reputation. He contended this was \u201crevenge on behalf of the Clintons\u201d (in the \u201890s, working under Ken Starr during the Bill Clinton impeachment proceedings, Kavanaugh spent $2 million investigating conspiracy theories about the supposed murder of White House aide Vince Foster, who committed suicide, and drafted a list of explicit sexual questions to ask the president about Monica Lewinsky). \u201cThis confirmation process has become a national disgrace,\u201d he said, accusing Democrats of having \u201creplaced advice and consent with search and destroy.\u201d\nAt first, Mitchell questioned Kavanaugh, too, but Grassley, who later complained about the length of the hearing as it approached eight hours, was apparently less concerned about procedure by now. Before long, Republicans on the committee took over, asking sympathetic questions in hopes of emphasizing the \u201che said, she said\u201d nature of the proceedings, at which no other witnesses were called on to testify.\nYet, if anyone\u2019s credibility was in doubt, it was that of Kavanaugh, who had already apparently lied repeatedly during his initial hearing by denying that he knew about stolen documents, warrantless wiretapping, and the torture of alleged enemy combatants when he served in the Bush administration despite recently released documents showing the opposite.\nOn Thursday, Kavanaugh adamantly denied Ford\u2019s allegation and those of the two other women that Grassley had earlier called \u201cunsubstantiated.\u201d He claimed that he\u2019d never drank to excess, despite recollections from former classmates to the contrary; a memoir written by his friend Mark Judge, a recovering alcoholic and the man Ford claimed was in the room with him during the assault, titled Wasted: Tales of a GenX Drunk, in which Judge appears to refer to Kavanaugh by a pseudonym in an anecdote about him puking and passing out drunk in a car (asked to confirm if this was referring to him, Kavanaugh would not answer); a calendar Kavanaugh gave the committee from the summer of 1982 intended to clear his name that referenced drinking and partying on multiple occasions and was consistent with Ford\u2019s timeline of events; and a speech he gave to the Yale Law School Federalist Society in 2014 in which he described partying when he was in law school.\nKavanaugh also repeatedly dodged a question about whether he would support an FBI investigation into the recent allegations against him, a prospect that Senate Republicans, eager to finally realize their party\u2019s decades-long quest for a reliably conservative Supreme Court, have shown little interest in. (After the hearing, the American Bar Association, whose \u201cwell-qualified\u201d rating Kavanaugh previously boasted about, called for an FBI investigation in the interest of \u201crespect for the rule of law and due process under law.\u201d) Grassley complained about this, too, noting that Kavanaugh had been subject to six background checks throughout his time in government, none of which revealed any sexual misconduct.\nIt was an apparent departure from what Grassley said in 1991 during the Clarence Thomas hearing, when he spoke of the value of FBI investigations to fully vet nominees facing serious allegations, telling Anita Hill this would help ensure \u201cthat even an 11th hour charge like yours has been fully considered.\u201d\nAt about four hours and seven minutes in, you can see Grassley himself, during Hill hearings, talking about how in future every member of the committee should get FBI reports on cases like this: https://t.co/65SMU7mQbs\nInstead, Grassley quoted Joe Biden, the Democrat who chaired the committee then and partook in the \u201ccharacter assassination\u201d of Hill he now says he regrets he didn\u2019t do more to prevent. \u201cThe next person who refers to an FBI report as being worth anything obviously doesn\u2019t understand anything,\u201d Grassley read. \u201cThe FBI explicitly does not in this or any other case reach a conclusion. 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I have to thank one of my bookish friends for gifting me with this novel, otherwise, I'm not sure I would ever pick up anything by this author again (I'll explain myself in a second).\nSo, today I will be talking about All Lined Up, the first novel in Rusk University book series, followed by All Broke Down, All Played Out, All Closed Off, and the fifth and last one - still not published and none named novel.\nIn Dallas' life, two things were always cherished above all else \u2014football and gossip. She knew much about both but also hated them fiercely. The only thing she wanted was to finish high school and dance. But after the first semester at her new university has started, she realized there was no escaping the past. Her father got the job at the Rusk University and her ex-boyfriend became the biggest star of its football team.\nShe couldn't move without every of her step being followed by curious glances by her colleagues, ready to go to her overprotective father and tell on her.\nAfter Dallas met Carson McClain, it became even worse. He was handsome and so nice, but he was one of his father's players.\nIf they want to be together, Dallas and Carson will have to find a to prevent her father to kick Carson out of the team and make him start seeing her as a grown-up person, ready and entitled to make her own decisions.\nAs I've said, I'm not a big fan of C.Carmack since I've read her novel Losing It. I found some parts of that book ridiculous and well, dumb (you can find the review at the bottom of this page). I would never recommend people not to read it because there would always be some who would like it - and that's fine by me - but I can't say I enjoyed it.\nI never had the intention to read anything by Cora again, but then I've got All Lined Up and just had to give it a shot.\nAnd I'm glad I did because this novel is quite okay.\nSo fear not, I won't project my feeling about Losing It onto All Lined Up.\nAll Lined Up is a part of different book series and it's better in every aspect. It's a young adult novel that won't really surprise you in any way or bring any tension into your evening, but it's still a nice read for younger people and it proves some important points.\nIt will show us that persistence does pay off and younger people can sometimes be wiser than the older, more experienced ones.\nIt will remind us that we're never alone. There's always at least one person that cares about us. 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I want him to do good. I just want Poison to be important too, and I would like [him] to put a little more energy into Poison.\"\nBefore reuniting for last year's tour, Poison had been inactive for several years as Michaels pursued various outside projects \u2014 and Rockett added his own sideline venture to the mix in 2014 with his Devil City Angels group, joining the non-Michaels members of the Poison lineup the following year to round out a short-lived band dubbed the Special Guests. Now that Poison is back on the front burner again, he's hoping they can keep it going long enough to produce new music \u2014 whatever form that might take.\n\"I personally think we still have a lot of stories to tell. Because the music business has changed so much, I don't know that you'd get a full record out of Poison, but I do believe that you will see new music at some point in some capacity,\" Rockett predicted. Looking back on their '80s hits, he added, \"Maybe we can\u2019t write those songs anymore from that same perspective. We\u2019re not that age anymore; we\u2019re not in that same place anymore in life; but I think where we\u2019re at is just as interesting, honestly.\"\nSource: Rikki Rockett Says Bret Michaels \u2018Spent Too Much Time Away\u2019 From Poison", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00240.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 107, + "original_length": 3375, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.98, + "perplexity": 240.7, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "http://koolfmabilene.com/robert-plant-no-memoir/", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T03:58:46Z", + "digest": "sha1:ECBIREIVMBKQM4C6BFONLT4F5WZYD3GL", + "length": 1700, + "nlines": 7, + "source_domain": "koolfmabilene.com", + "title": "Why Robert Plant Won't Write a Memoir", + "raw_content": "Why Robert Plant Won\u2019t Write a Memoir\nRobert Plant has explained why he has no plans to write a memoir of his career \u2013 suggesting that it was be too much like becoming part of a culture he\u2019d spent his life trying to reject. The former Led Zeppelin singer remains comfortable with giving interviews, but simply isn\u2019t interested in going further and writing a book.\n\u201cWhere the f--- does this memoir s--- come from?\u201d he laughed during a talk with Classic Rock, as Plant continues promoting his latest solo album Carry Fire. \u201cOnce upon a time we were social deviants, pushed out to the corners of society, quite often body-searched in the street by cops.\n\"I remember walking through Dearborn with John Bonham in 1969, on a Sunday afternoon, when Detroit was in flames, and looking across the cityscape and seeing smoke and things like that,\" Plant added, \"and some people went by in a big Lincoln Continental and they put the window down slowly and spat at us \u2013 because we were hippies.\n\u201cWe were representing a challenge to the order. So, do we want to chum up and cuddle up on the whole idea of going to a publisher and telling stories? I mean, what \u2013 who \u2013 for? Those stories are locked nicely between my two ever-growing ear holes. So f--- it. There\u2019s a lot in there, and that\u2019s where it\u2019s staying.\u201d\nIn the same interview, Plant described on-going interest in a Led Zeppelin reunion as \u201csad,\u201d arguing that \u201cmagazines and internet platforms should be supporting new music\u201d instead. Asked if he found it amusing to read the same old stories, he replied: \u201cIt is kind of funny, I have to admit. 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The very specific niche that he carved for himself-- half leading man/half mysterious outsider-- was an important step forward in the world of film acting. Actors with his earthy appeal and natural, unrehearsed acting style, combined with the guttural passions of John Garfield, for example, paved the way for the Method phenomenon that would soon take shape. It makes one wonder if we would have been ready for the impact of Brando without the Mitchum bridge to carry us over... For that reason alone, Out of the Past-- the film that further defined Bob's deviant, film noir persona-- carries great weight in moviedom. Had he missed this chance at what was to become a cult classic of fanatic proportions, Bob may have been pushed into an uncomfortable, more commercial corner of the business, which probably would have given him the urge to \"adios\" before he could make such a huge impact on the industry. This was very nearly the case, as the role of \"Jeff\" was first offered to the King of Noir, Humphrey Bogart (left). It made sense that writer Daniel Mainwaring would envision the lead of The Maltese Falcon, To Have and Have Not, and Dark Victory, in his tantalizing film about sexual manipulation-- with the usual, scintillating twists and turns. Fortunately for us, RKO was more interested in pushing their new rising actor and assigned Bob to the film. Bogie would have been good, no doubt, yet his aggressive toughness onscreen would not have made him easy prey to the luscious Jane Greer's diabolical machinations. Bogie's film persona always solved mysteries; he wasn't bamboozled by them. Bob, on the other hand, had the perfect blend of sinister elegance and man's man vulnerability to fit the role like a glove. Thus, Out of the Past is ad infinitum.\nAfter 10 years in the business, Bob had staked his claim and earned some real elbow room. A dedicated but reluctant actor, Bob had always wanted to be a writer-- a family passion that was passed down to at least two of his children. One particular story that was constantly kicking around his head dealt with the moonshine business-- and its necessary use of fast cars. Soon enough, his pet project Thunder Road was going into production with him at the helm as lead star, producer, co-writer, and sometimes director. He did specific research for the film, studying all the different methods of making and transporting the homemade liquor, which he was, of course, happy to sample. The cast and crew would grow friendly with the locals of North Carolina during the shoot and even enjoyed borrowing \"hot\" cars for the film that were used by actual \"criminal whiskey drivers.\" When it came to casting the role of his character's brother in the film, Bob thought immediately of Elvis Presley, whom he was been very impressed with in Love Me Tender (right). When Elvis was paid a visit by his hero-- the Robert Mitchum, (whose hairstyle he had copied from an early film to create his own signature look)-- he was absolutely ecstatic! Unfortunately, Elvis, as always, needed the permission of his overly controlling manager, Colonel Parker, before he could say \"yes\" to the deal. Bob, who never needed anyone's permission for anything, was understandably flustered by the younger man's codependence, and the chance passed Elvis by. Instead, Bob did the next smartest thing and cast his eldest son, Jim, in the role of \"Robin Doolin.\" Heck, as father and son, they certainly looked like they shared the same DNA, so they made believable brothers. Though Jim, then 16, was never able to copy the success of his father's career, he did pursue acting after Thunder Road and, due to his golden name, was able to land some gigs in mostly B-features.\nOne of Bob's most memorable performances, and my personal favorite, was that of \"Max Cady\"-- the lecherous anti-hero of Cape Fear. The project began when the eternal American gent', Gregory Peck, read the novel The Executioners by John D. MacDonald. Being impressed with the subject matter, he passed the book to director J. Lee Thompson and suggested it as their next project. After screenwriter James R. Webb adapted the text into a taut, daring masterpiece about a lawyer vs. his recently released and vengeful former client-- a brutalizer and rapist-- the casting for Greg's counterpoint became a grave concern. Officially, the film was on a tight budget, so most of the moolah was going toward paying the star, Greg. Therefore, actors of less public and economic stature were initially suggested: Rod Steiger, Telly Savalas, etc. Still, it didn't feel right. Then, Bob's name was thrown on the table, and a light went on over Greg's head! His walking opposite and another bankable name, Bob fit the bill perfectly! Greg made his pitch, but Bob wasn't interested. He had been overworked and was looking for respite. He knew a character like Max Cady would require a lot of energy and dedication, and he just wasn't up to it. So, tactically, the production team started asking his opinions on the character, and Bob started offering his advice and his own perceptions: \"The whole thing with Cady, fellas, is that snakelike charm: \"Me, officer? I never laid a hand on that girl...\" While talking, he started to realize that this role was meant for him. Still, he demurred. Greg cleverly sent him flowers and bourbon, and later Bob gave him a call: \"OK... I'm drunk. I'll do it.\" Praise the Lord, for never was there a Devil so Divine! (Greg and Bob wrestle in the Cape, left).\nWith all the recent hullabaloo about the Sam Raimi prequel Oz the Great and Powerful, it is interesting to look back on The Wizard of Oz. There are many good films, quite a few classics, but there are few that are bigger than time itself. The tale of \"Dorothy\" and her motley, goofy cronies' trip down the yellow-brick road holds its own specific place in eternity, where it steadfastly continues to inspire the young and old, make new memories, and resurrect forgotten or too rarely indulged dreams of innocent fantasy. The strange behind-the-scenes disasters somehow managed to come across brilliantly on the silver screen: the birth of little girl Judy Garland as a true movie star, the mythic and vibrant coming of age story, the nostalgic \"Over the Rainbow...\" Everything fell into place as it should-- even Dorothy's tornado swept house, which was actually filmed dropping from the camera and then played in reverse so it appeared to be crashing to the ground-- right on the Wicked Witch of the East! The \"Wicked Witch of the West,\" (Hell of an alliteration, that), is the one we really remember. Margaret Hamilton's green-faced performance of horror, hysteria, and camp is the very one that she seemed specifically born for. A character actress with a notoriously unusual profile, there was little chance that she would become a screen sensation, yet she remains a legend still. However, the role was originally given to the glamorous Gale Sondergaard (right). The first interpretation of the character was to have the Witch much more sensual: evil hiding in beauty. However, as production went along, it was realized that there firstly was no place for sex in Oz and secondly, Gale was not exactly a frightening threat. MGM decided they needed more edge, so they tested some \"ugly\" make-up on her, but Gale was so aghast at her mutilation that she resigned from the role. Margaret picked it up, and the film caught fire, burning infinitely! (This can be taken more literally, as Margaret actually did catch on fire at one point during filming)!\nOoh-la-ahhhhhh! Maggie works her [black] magic!\nIn case it has somehow escaped your notice, Sunset Boulevard is my favorite film. (I am actually pretty sure that I could run a blog specifically about Sunset and Lon Chaney and never run out of material). A movies about movies? The ultimate, silent celebrity playing the ultimate silent celebrity (and spider woman)? Billy Wider?! I mean... Come on! Holden's not bad to look at either, but that goes without saying. I've mentioned in a previous post that Mae West was actually offered the role of the fading movie icon, \"Norma Desmond,\" but she wasn't the only one considered for the epic part. Before Gloria Swanson won the role-- which she thought was a mere supporting part, only to be surprised that she was yet again the leading lady after so many years-- there was another woman in the running. When one thinks of silent cinema, of top Hollywood figures, of heroes, legends, and the talents that built this industry, there is only one woman who could ever bear the name \"Mother Hollywood,\" and that is Mary Pickford (left). Mary's life was slowly starting to resemble that of Norma Desmond by the time she was offered the role. As she spent a great deal of her latter days in hermitage in her fading temple, Pickfair, grappling with her own sanity-- I'm literally making a sad face as I write this, :(-- her casting in the film, in retrospect, would seem not only to be a product of synchronicity at its best, but her understanding of the role and her presence in the film would have certainly made it a phenomenon. Yet, there were some hiccups. Mary may have been a bit too perfect for the role, for she immediately started indulging in her too little exercised inner diva of old. She felt the film should center entirely around Norma, making Holden's \"Gillis\" a mere speck of dust in the periphery of her own magnificent mania! Wilder wasn't sold on Mary's ideas, as they eliminated the bulk of the story. So, he went back to the drawing board and cooked up some other fading screen madams, including Pola Negri. Yet, it was Gloria Swanson's destiny to breathe vivid and disturbing life into Ms. Desmond, which she did to perfection. For that, Gloria, I heart you forever!\n\"We didn't need dialogue. We had faces!\" Damn straight, Gloria!!!\nLabels: Billy Wilder, Elvis Presley, Gale Sondergaard, Gloria Swanson, Gregory Peck, Humphrey Bogart, Judy Garland, Lon Chaney, Mae West, Margaret Hamilton, Mary Pickford, Pola Negri, Robert Mitchum, William Holden\nI just wanted to tell you that I've spent the last week pouring over this blog and reading every word. I grew up in LA with a mom who loved old films; because of her I am an armchair film historian who has read everything I can get my hands on and seen hundreds of old films over and over again. I too am a cemetary visitor... although now i live in NorCal. Thank you so very much for your passion and the beautiful, loving articles on some of my very favorite people.\nAna, thank you so much for such a lovely commendation! Feedback like this always makes me feel justified for all my efforts! It is phenomenal how so many of us have such a shared love for these wonderful artists of the past and the industry itself. I am grateful to you for reading and responding. Clearly we are like minded, and I hope that you continue to enjoy my future and past pieces (and forgive the many typos. I can never seem to catch them all)! 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Last year, close to 100 Bay Area practicing and retired attorneys and sworn judges, as well as third-year law students volunteered their time with the Mock Trials.\nCoordinated by the Contra Costa County Office of Education, Mock Trial is an academic event provided for high school students. The hands-on educational program was created to help students acquire a working knowledge of our judicial system, develop analytical abilities and communication skills, and gain an understanding of their obligations and responsibilities as participating members of our society. This year's case is People v. Klein - a young adult is charged with two felony counts: making a false report of an emergency (in this case, commonly referred to as \"swatting\") and making a criminal threat.\n\"This program is a great tool to ensure that our students understand the workings of the trial courts and thus the importance of an independent judiciary,\" says Contra Costa County Presiding Judge Barry Baskin, a longtime Mock Trial volunteer, who encourages all of his local fellow law professionals to join him in assisting with this year's Mock Trial Competition.\nTeams of high school students work with teachers and volunteer coaches to prepare their version of the criminal case, from both the prosecution and defense perspectives. Students assume the roles of trial attorneys, pre-trial motion attorneys, witnesses, clerks, bailiffs, artists and court journalists. Mock Trial judges and attorneys score their performance and provide immediate feedback. Winning teams advance through seven rounds of competition. The county's champion advances to the state finals. This year, there will be 17 Mock Trial teams competing, representing high schools throughout all of Contra Costa County, including Acalanes, Campolindo and Miramonte high schools.\nVolunteers will score two competing schools that argue the case in their assigned court. Each night, will begin with a 15-minute rules and regulations training, then the volunteers will go into their scheduled courtrooms to serve as Mock Trial judge and scorers. The Mock Trials' scorers are made up of Bay Area deputy district attorneys and deputy public defenders, as well as public-sector, private-practice, and corporate lawyers. In addition, seasoned law students are also welcome to participate. 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It engages us for 3 hours that it lasts and leaves us feeling happy or sad or sometimes frustrated that we spent so much money on such a bad movie. Movies are a great way to spread a message across a large number of people because people will come and watch movies even if it is out of plain boredom. The various genres of movies that are available make sure that there are movies for each and every one of us. We all have at least one movie that we connect to the best and which we can any number of times. For girls this usually lies in the genre of romantic or romantic-comedy movies. For long it was thought that as a parallel for girl\u2019s rom-coms, the boys have horror movies. But this was proved wrong when another, more significant genre of movies became known. This genre is none other than sports movies. These sports movies are made with the central idea and focus on a sport and the story is based around this one sport. These movies are very high on morals and they talk about how one must never give up and how winning is not everything. The movies which have been made under this genre are very well-received and have made a huge impact on a lot of people\u2019s lives. So let us go through the list of top 10 sports related movies ever made.\nThe Blind Side is a true awe-spiring story of Baltimore Raven\u2019s offensive left tackle Michael Oher. Michael is a poor, homeless teenager whose mom is a drug-addict and his dad is never there. Leigh Anne Tuohy is a mom of one of the boys in Michael\u2019s school. She finds him sleeping on the bench outside school one night, in the rains, and decides to take him home. She soon grows very attached to the boy. She helps him with his studies, and she enrolls him into the school\u2019s baseball team. Michael shines in the baseball team. Soon, he gets offers from 3 universities for further education and he chooses the university which Leigh Anne and her husband Sean had attended. This sparks off controversies saying that they used him for the benefit for their university. But he wins a match for them and proves that he is the one who made that decision and goes to study and play for that university. This movie has beautiful rags to riches story of a humble man who went on to achieve great things, making it one of the most loved sports film.\nSeabiscuit is an American Biopic on a horse named Seabiscuit whose surprising win at the derby made him a legend in America. It is a true story set in the time of the Great Depression, and Charles Howard has a tragic incidences in his life. With his wife by his side, he goes into horse racing and gets a weak, undersized and overlooked horse Seabiscuit for the race. Seabiscuit limps due to an injury. But with training, Seabiscuit has a great winning streak. This was a very important movie as in the Great Depression, everyone wanted a hero and many people got it in the life and ways of Seabiscuit.\nRudy is the story of a young boy, Rudy Ruettiger who has always dreamed of going to the Notre Dame University and playing on the Fighting Irish football team. But he cannot afford to go there as his father is poor man. With the help of a priest, he gets into a nearby Holy Cross and the next year, goes to Notre Dame by transferring after getting good grades. In the university he studies very hard and works extremely hard into the football team. Just as he is about to reach his goal, the coach changes, crushing Rudy\u2019s dream. The journey from there onward is what the movie is all about.\nAlso based on a true story like most sports movies, Remember The Titans takes place in 1971 in a Virginia High School. Coach Boone has just been appointed as the coach of the football team. He faces a lot of problems because of his skin colour. The white kids in the football team won\u2019t play under a black coach, the assistant coach won\u2019t be of any help, and this creates a rift between the white and black kids in the team. The coach sends all of them to a 2 week training camp where he hopes they will bond. Things only get worse. After a moving speech from the coach, the team unites and goes on to win the football league. This movie is a brilliant example of team effort.\n6. Green Street Hooligans\nNot all sports movies are about the good things to be learnt from sports. Green Street Hooligans is a British movie about football and the hooliganism that comes with it. Matt Buckner comes to England from the US to stay at his cousin\u2019s house and is introduced to football, especially West Ham United. He gets involved in the post match rows and is tested for his loyalty to the club. This leads to violence after an important match, changing everyone\u2019s life forever. This movie shows us how real hooliganism can get when your devotion over a sports team takes over your life.\nEveryone has seen or at least heard the name Rocky Balboa. Rocky is a small time boxer who mostly works for a loan shark. He is disregarded and is called a bum by everyone. He works day in and day out and earns hardly any money and his life seems to be going nowhere. When the world heavy-weight champion Apollo Creed randomly announces Rocky\u2019s name for a title fight, Rocky gets a chance to prove that he is not worthless. He works hard and fights for his self-respect.\nGayle Sayers is a young boy who has come to play as a runner back in the Chicago Bears. He is befriended by another boy named Brian Piccolo. Ther friendship hits off with a rough patch as they are both competing for the same position on the team and there are a lot of problems as Brian is white and Gayle is black. Brian is an over-achieving person and often lets this get in between his proper judgement. Brian and Gayle become roommates and inspite of a lot of hurdles, become really good friends. Their friendship strengthens when Gayle is badly injured and Brain helps him with his injury. They discover that Brain has cancer and both them, and their respective wives have to deal with his cancer. The movie revolves around how the sport has helped built and break many strong friendships.\nMaggie is a 31 year old waitress at a diner. Frankie is a boxing gym owner. Maggie decides to pursue her age old dream becoming a boxer. Frankie has trained many great boxers, but he hasn\u2019t taken any to the title bout. When Maggie approaches him, he is reluctant to take in a woman boxer but he does. She is a natural and wins a lot until one day she injures herself and become a quadriplegic. She urges him to help her die, but he doesn\u2019t and eventually disappears. This movie is all about hard-work and sentiments that are involved in a sport.\nHoosiers is inspired by the true story of the 1954 Milan High School basketball team that won the Indiana State Championship. Milan was a very small high school in a rural, southern Indiana town. This is the story about how the team goes on to win the state championship despite the various problems faced by the team like having only seven members on the squad because of the guidance of the coach Norman Dale. His motivational speeches help the team gets all its loose ends tied and they win every game after almost facing elimination. Norman Dale\u2019s motivational speeches in the movie are still remembered and are used very often in real life.\nJake LaMotta is a champion of the boxing ring. When he comes in the ring, you just know he is the winner. But the only problem is that he treats his interpersonal relations with family and friends as opponents too. He is inherently a caring and a loving person but he doesn\u2019t know to express his love well enough. He is paranoid, insecure and jealous. This kind of rage helped make him a champ, but in real life,he is left alone without any love. This movie is an Oscar winner for it\u2019s portrayal of realistic emotions and depth in the story line.\nPosted in Entertainment, Movies & TV, Sports. Tagged as awe, baltimore raven, baseball team, bench, blind side, central idea, dad, drug addict, further education, genre, genres of movies, horror movies, leigh anne tuohy, michael oher, mom, morals, one of the boys, plain boredom, romantic comedy movies, unive\nTop 10 Ways to help your Child deal with Autism\nShreya Samant", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00240.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 157, + "original_length": 10327, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.98, + "perplexity": 235.0, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "http://lists.sharedweight.net/pipermail/callers-sharedweight.net/2010-April/002553.html", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T04:39:35Z", + "digest": "sha1:E2TZY3ACHEZOYNJJHEEJWZW2OHMKZYEF", + "length": 1695, + "nlines": 8, + "source_domain": "lists.sharedweight.net", + "title": "[Callers] callers insurance", + "raw_content": "[Callers] callers insurance\nRon Nelson callerman at hotmail.com\n> Thanks to everyone to replied to my query about insurance. I've considered it off and on over the years; it probably made more sense when I was touring a lot. I'll probably sign up any way.\nHere is a story that happened to a friend of mine. He was calling a dance in a publicly owned building (rec. center, I believe, but not sure). There were folding chairs spread around the walls. At one point, on each side of the hall, there was a fire extinguisher hanging on the wall. The floor beneath the extinguisher wsa painted in a big square with an admonition indicating no chairs were to be placed in front of the fire extinguisher.. in other words, a red zone. It was customary for the ladies attending this particular venue to place their handbags (purses) on the floor, in the red square. One night, a lady, who sitting next to the red square, reached down to retrieve her purse off the floor. When she reached it, she stood up, and the top of her head crashed into the bottom edge of the fire extinguisher. It caused a gash which had to be attended to in an emergency room.\nThe lady sued the city, the dance club sponsoring the dance, the fire extinguisher manufacturer, AND THE CALLER, whom she contended should have warned her about the danger.\nWhether she won the suit or not, it still must be defended. Insurance is indispensable. If you don't have it, get it. It's not expensive and it can save you so much aggravation should an accident occur.\nThe New Busy is not the old busy. Search, chat and e-mail from your inbox.\nhttp://www.windowslive.com/campaign/thenewbusy?ocid=PID28326::T:WLMTAGL:ON:WL:en-US:WM_HMP:042010_3", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00240.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 42, + "original_length": 2201, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.97, + "perplexity": 283.8, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "http://literatureandhistory.com/index.php/episode-028-a-mothers-curse", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T04:49:10Z", + "digest": "sha1:HRDZQFXJSNKMC6ULAO6RQUMICTGQ5JOX", + "length": 61321, + "nlines": 169, + "source_domain": "literatureandhistory.com", + "title": "episode_028_a_mothers_curse", + "raw_content": "A Mother's Curse\nThe Oresteian Trilogy, Part 2: The Libation Bearers\nHello, and welcome to Literature and History. Episode 28: A Mother\u2019s Curse. This show covers an Ancient Greek play called The Libation Bearers - the second play in the Oresteian trilogy, the trilogy which is the most famous work of the great dramatist Aeschylus. If you\u2019re just jumping in, you might want to listen to the previous show, so you\u2019re up to speed on events so far.\nThe Oresteian trilogy \u2013 and again we\u2019re about to cover the middle play in this trilogy \u2013 the Oresteian trilogy premiered in the spring of 458 BCE in the Dionysian Festival of Athens, Greece. The three plays won the 67-year-old war veteran Aeschylus first prize in that year\u2019s contest, and they seemed to epitomize the spirit of Athens in the middle part of the 400s. Ever since its first premiere, the story of the Oresteian trilogy has been sewn deeply into the history of world drama. Its core themes \u2013 revenge, an inescapable curse, an inborn propensity for violence, and the search for order and clarity after ceaseless generations of brutality \u2013 these themes are everywhere within the darker plays, and films, and television programs that we watch today. As we learned in the previous show, Aeschylus was literature\u2019s first known war veteran. He and his brother charged the Persian army at the fields of Marathon, and only one of them made it back. Aeschylus was on the decks of ships that smashed into Persian ones at the battle of Salamis. He was of the age of Leonidas and Xerxes, Themistocles and Pericles. And Aeschylus, who had seen real war, was tired of screaming battlefield deaths, and the spectacle of glamorized violence in the Homeric epics. The middle play in Aeschylus' most famous the trilogy is about the new generation of men and women who grew up after the Trojan War. Would they, like their parents, be caught in a cycle of bloodshed, and be devoured by their inherited drives toward destruction? Or would they break the long, and dreadful pattern, and create something better for their children? Let\u2019s continue the great story of the Oresteian Trilogy, with the second of its three plays, this 2,500 year old masterpiece called The Libation Bearers.[music]\nThe Oresteian Trilogy Thus Far\nLet\u2019s recap a bit. I don\u2019t know what you\u2019ve been up to, but man I\u2019ve been busy. I think we should review what\u2019s happened in the Oresteian trilogy so far. First of all, remember that back story. The Oresteian trilogy is about a family. This family had an \u2013 uncommonly hideous predilection for violence. Its first patriarch cut his son to pieces and tried to feed him to the gods. Its second patriarch murdered his father-in-law. Its third patriarch, Atreus, after whom the cursed House of Atreus is named, killed his brother\u2019s children and fed them to him. Atreus\u2019 two sons, Agamemnon and Menelaus, started the Trojan War. But Atreus was killed by his nephew. It sounds a bit like a multigenerational reality show in which the stars are occasionally injected with rabies and given methamphetamines.\nSo that\u2019s the back story. The play Agamemnon, the one we covered last time \u2013 the first of the three Oresteia plays \u2013 is about the burly Greek king Agamemnon coming home, having won the Trojan War. Agamemnon believes he\u2019s done everything right. He even sacrificed his daughter \u2013 I mean, literally, knife and sacrificial altar type sacrifice \u2013 in order to get the Trojan War going, and after ten years of bloody combat, he\u2019s won. He\u2019s killed hundreds, and he\u2019s managed to replace his sacrificed daughter with the daughter of the enemy king, an understandably depressed girl called Cassandra, whom he\u2019s made into a sex slave. Now, I know what you\u2019re thinking. What a likable character, right? Everyone loves a child-sacrificing, blood-soaked egomaniacal despot and rapist!\nWell, almost everybody. Agamemnon\u2019s wife, Clytemnestra, isn\u2019t exactly a big fan of her husband\u2019s murderous warmongering and proud adultery. And the whole story of Agamemnon \u2013 again first part of the Oresteian trilogy that we covered last time, is a slow, doom-laden narrative about what happens when Agamemnon gets home. His wife has become lovers with his cousin. Agamemnon and his unfortunate new concubine arrive back at his palace. Throughout the first play there\u2019s a fair amount of tense back and forth between various characters and a conservative chorus of elders from Agamemnon\u2019s homeland of Argos. And at the climax of it, Agamemnon and his new young lover go into the palace, only to be brought out later, full of knife wounds. Queen Clytemnestra and her lover Aegisthus, again, Agamemnon\u2019s cousin, are unapologetic. The king is dead. Long live the \u2013 no, actually, to hell with Agamemnon \u2013 he had it coming, but anyway the queen and her lover stand there, unrepentant, over the corpses of their victims. So what\u2019s next? What will now happen in the first extant major work of world theater? Well, keep driving, or walking, or doing whatever you\u2019re doing, because I\u2019m going to tell you all about it. The second of Aeschylus\u2019 most famous three plays \u2013 the one that follows the bloody tale of King Agamemnon\u2019s downfall, is, again, called The Libation Bearers. And I\u2019ll be quoting from the Robert Fagles translation, first published by Penguin in 1979. [music]\nMorning at the Tomb of Atreus\nAgamemnon had been dead for several years. His kingdom, Argos, moved forward uncertainly, following his murder. At the base of Agamemnon\u2019s palace loomed the ancestral tomb of his father, Atreus. This imposing tomb contained a series of patriarchs who would always be remembered, if hated, by posterity, and its latest addition was perhaps the greatest celebrity of all. Agamemnon\u2019s fathers had mostly killed within their families. But Agamemnon had commenced a war that had taken the lives of tens of thousands.\nThe tomb of the House of Atreus hulked beneath the ancestral palace, so that when visitors came to the palace in Argos, they passed the stone reminder of the men who had founded the kingdom. It looked only slightly less ominous in the early morning light, its unlit altar throwing a long shadow over the paving stones. The play starts with this image \u2013 the tomb of Atreus and Agamemnon and their forebears, at dawn, a solemn set, and one focused on a dark and ineluctable past. The play\u2019s first action is two characters coming along the pathway that leads to this tomb. One of them is the central character, and the pivotal figure in Aeschylus\u2019 three plays, and it\u2019s finally time for us to meet him.\nElectra and Orestes are united after their long separation.\nHis name was Orestes. Orestes knelt down and prayed over the grave of his murdered father, Agamemnon. Orestes cut off two locks of his hair, and placed them there as an offering. Then he looked up. \u201cWhat\u2019s this?\u201d he said. \u201cLook, a company moving towards us. Women, robed in black. . .so clear in the early light.\u201d1 They were slave women, and they brought libations, or offerings of sacred liquid, to the tomb of Atreus. At the head of the solemn column of slave women was another main character of the Oresteian trilogy. Her name was Electra. She was Orestes\u2019 sister, and the daughter of Queen Clytemnestra and her murdered husband Agamemnon. Orestes saw them coming, but he didn\u2019t stay to speak with them. Instead, he told his companion to hide behind the tomb in order to overhear what the chorus of women would discuss.\nSo let\u2019s pause for a second and talk about this chorus. The chorus in the first play of this trilogy, again, Agamemnon, was made up of old men from Argos. These elders had essentially conservative motivations \u2013 they were invested in King Agamemnon\u2019s power structure and they were distraught at his death. At the previous play\u2019s end, the old men of its chorus were ultimately deeply troubled that a woman \u2013 Queen Clytemnestra \u2013 had killed the king and bumped her lover \u2013 the king\u2019s cousin \u2013 into a leadership role. Now, the chorus in the second play of the trilogy, which we\u2019re on now, is made up of slave women. This second chorus arrives onstage carrying libation offerings, and the play is named after them \u2013 The Libation Bearers. The women of the second chorus are mournful and passive, generally speaking, and they're a more inert, reactive chorus than the active male chorus of the first play, Agamemnon. So back to the play. Orestes and his companion have hidden behind the tomb, and Electra and her dark clad companions \u2013 that chorus of libation bearers \u2013 have approached the grave of the murdered king.\nThe chorus of slave women recounted their long grief at the disintegration of the House of Atreus. They wondered what could possibly come next for the broken kingdom of Argos, and they made this speech.[music]\nWhat [, they asked,] can redeem the blood that wets the soil?. . .\n[T]he rampart\u2019s down, a fine house down \u2013\ndark, dark, and the sun, the life is curst,\nand mist enshrouds the halls\nwhere the lords of war went down. . .\nBut Justice waits and turns the scales:\na sudden blow for some at dawn,\nfor some in the no man\u2019s land of dusk\nher torments grow with time,\nand the lethal night takes others.\nAnd the blood that Mother Earth consumes\nclots hard, it won\u2019t seep through, it breeds revenge\n[the] frenzy goes through the guilty,\nseething like infection, swarming through the brain. (178-9)\nSo, the chorus of slave women thus reflected on the blighted state of the House of Atreus, and how even though revenge bred revenge in an endless cycle, justice would come to the prideful men who valued success over reverence and piety. They ended their graveside speech with a lamentation that, as slaves, they had to serve whichever usurper came to power, and then they voiced particular pity for poor Electra, the blameless daughter of such violent parents.\nAs for Electra, she looked down at the grave of her loathed, hated, murdered father. Electra had no idea of what to say to his silent, dishonored grave, and she asked the leader of the chorus of slave women. The chorus\u2019 leader told Electra to pour out her libations for the sake of her brother Orestes, and for the person who would come, whoever he or she might be, and take revenge on Queen Clytemnestra and her lover Aegisthus. And so Electra prayed to the underworld, hoping that Orestes would return, and that she herself would be a better person than her mother had been. While these prayers were kind enough, Electra also voiced the following wishes. \u201cFor our enemies,\u201d she said, \u201cRaise up your avenger, into the light. . . / kill the killers in return, with justice! / So in the midst of prayers for good I place / this curse for them\u201d (183). The chorus echoed this wish, hoping for a strong warrior to arrive and abet the vengeance against the murderous queen and her lover.\nAnd just then - just then, Electra saw it. A lock of curly hair, there on the tomb, the same hue and texture as her own. Electra instantly thought of her brother. Had his lock of hair been sent there, in order to make a belated tribute to their dead father? If so, he\u2019d done his duty and signified that he\u2019d never return to Argos. But - but there was more! There were footprints! Electra stood in one of them, finding it the same shape as her own foot, and she followed the footprints, and saw, for the first time in years, her brother, Orestes.\nOrestes looked at his sister, Electra. \u201cPray for the future,\u201d he said. \u201cTell the gods they\u2019ve brought / your prayers to birth, and pray that we succeed\u201d (187). At first Electra couldn\u2019t believe it. Surely he was a trick, or a trap. But Orestes showed her the place from which he\u2019d cut the lock of hair. He showed his sister his garments, which Electra herself had made, and woven with the shapes of wild animals. Electra was for a moment moved beyond words, and then she resolved that she\u2019d love him deeply \u2013 with the love she had lodged in her for their murdered father, their murdered sister, and their murderous mother.\nThough the chorus advised caution, Orestes revealed his desire for bold action. The god Apollo, said Orestes, had told him to avenge his father\u2019s murder. Apollo had told Orestes how the murdered dead desired vengeance in the world of the living \u2013 and that if one didn\u2019t heed their call, one would be filled with emptiness, fear, and madness. Besides, Orestes said, Clytemnestra was no fit ruler for veterans of the Trojan War. Orestes wished his father had died honorably in the Trojan War, but the old slave women of the chorus cautioned the brother and sister against fantasizing.\nOrestes conceded that it was time for action, rather than reflection. The chorus leader gave voice to what seemed to be the collective sentiment, that bright morning at Agamemnon\u2019s grave. The chorus leader said anger seethed in her like a gloomy pair of wings, and a spirit of vengeance filled her. The chorus recollected the extent to which Agamemnon had been mutilated and humiliated at the moment of his death, and made a final prayer for the success of Orestes and Electra. And so with this final invocation, the chorus of old women departed the stage, their black garments trailing behind them.\nThe Children Plan their Revenge\nLeft alone, you might expect that the long separated brother and sister might do a bit of good old fashioned catching up. \u201cHey, Orestes, so, like where have you actually been?\u201d Electra might ask. \u201cOh, you know, around,\u201d Oretes might say. \u201cWent down to Crete. That was nice. I\u2019ve - ah - taken up painting.\u201d You know and Electra might say, \u201cOh, how fun. You know I\u2019ve taken up pottery. Yeah, no \u2013 with all the terrible stuff that\u2019s happened in our family, it\u2019s super important for us to have hobbies. Focus our energies in a healthy fashion.\u201d And Orestes, \u201cTotally, I know, right. We can\u2019t just spend every waking minute angrily contemplating the past and plotting vicious acts of revenge.\u201d But \u2013 uh \u2013 they didn\u2019t have that conversation. They had a different conversation. Here\u2019s a portion of what they actually said.\n\u201cOh Earth,\u201d exclaimed Orestes, \u201cbring father up to watch me fight\u201d (199). \u201cO Persephone,\u201d said Electra, \u201cgive us power \u2013 lovely, gorgeous power!\u201d (199). And then Orestes said, \u201cRemember the bath \u2013 they stripped away your life, my father\u201d (199). And Electra. \u201cRemember the all-embracing net \u2013 they made it first for you\u201d (199). And Orestes, \u201cChained like a beast \u2013 chains of hate, not bronze, my father!\u201d (199). And Electra, \u201cShamed in the schemes, the hoods they slung around you!\u201d (199). And Orestes, \u201cSend us justice, fight for all you love, or help us pin them grip for grip\u201d (199). So, yeah, there was no, \u201cHow have you been?\u201d or \u201cWhen did you get that cool new tunic?\u201d Just a lot of \u201crevenge, revenge, revenge, kill, kill, kill.\u201d Poor kids. They were, like their forefathers, children of the house of Atreus.[music]\nClytemnestra's Strange Dream\nGiampietrino's Leda and Her Children, c. 1515-20. Leda's kids shown here, Helen, Clytemnestra, Castor, and Pollux, made quite a stir in the world of Ancient Greek mythology.\nOnce every single ireful resolution toward vengeance possible had been shared between the brother and sister, the chorus came back and made a surprising revelation. All was not well, they said, with Queen Clytemnestra. In fact, the reason the slave women had been sent to the tomb of Agamemnon with the libation offerings was that Clytemnestra had been having bad dreams. The queen dreamt that she\u2019d given birth to a snake. And the snake, as she nursed it, tore into her breast so that milk and blood curdled together, and the queen awoke with a scream. Orestes listened raptly to the story of this dream. And then he offered his interpretation.\nOrestes said that the serpent \u2013 the serpent about which his mother had been having nightmares \u2013 this serpent was him. The serpent had come from Orestes\u2019 own swaddling clothes in the dream, and it darted forward and sunk its fangs into her breast, just as he, Orestes, now a grown up and no longer a baby, would kill his own mother in an act of revenge.\nAfter revealing his \u2013 rather weird ambition to be like the nipple biting snake in his mother\u2019s dream, Orestes explained his plan. He said he\u2019d do everything with cunning and secrecy. Now I don\u2019t know if you remember this, but when Orestes first appeared onstage he had a companion with him. That guy is still onstage. His name is Pylades. Pylades has evidently stood there, right next to Orestes, over the course of the past forty or so minutes of dialogue, and said nothing, and everyone has totally ignored him. So Pylades, the inexplicably silent friend of Orestes, still stood there beside his vengeful companion.\nOrestes said he\u2019d pretend, along with his taciturn companion Pylades, to be from the region of Parnassus, affecting fake accents. They\u2019d sneak into the palace and wait for an opportunity to get at Aegisthus. Remember Aegisthus was Orestes\u2019 uncle, who by this time has killed Orestes\u2019 grandfather Atreus, and Orestes\u2019 father Agamemnon, as well as being sexually involved with Orestes\u2019 mother Clytemnestra. For all these reasons, Orestes planned to get his uncle slash cousin slash stepfather alone, and then stab Aegisthus to death, providing a much needed pruning to the Atreus family bush. The chorus cautioned secrecy. Electra was told to keep watch. And then Pylades, the possibly insentient companion of Orestes, continued to say nothing. And soon the younger people departed from the stage, leaving the chorus of old slave women there to contemplate. And if there\u2019s one thing an Ancient Greek chorus is good at, it\u2019s contemplating stuff. [music]\nOrestes and Pylades Arrive at the Palace\nAnton von Maron's The Return of Orestes (1786).\nThe chorus of slave women first contemplated the social evils of female infidelity. They recollected famous women who had murdered family members, and the dread of these deeds. Then, somewhat self-contradictingly, they prophesied how Orestes\u2019 murders would repair his forebears\u2019 misdeeds. In their speech they pictured a child, using blood to purify past blood, his killing sanctioned by the powerful deities called the Furies.\nWith these words, the personnel onstage changed, and Orestes and his companion Pylades approached the palace. Orestes knocked on the gates for admittance. He demanded lodging, saying that the hour was growing late, and asked to see the masters of the house.\nClytemnestra appeared alongside Electra, and promised that they\u2019d have baths, beds, and lodgings. The queen asked Orestes who he was. Evidently the fact that he was faking a Parnassan accent made it impossible for her to recognize her own son. In any case, the dissembling Orestes explained his origins, and said be brought grim tidings \u2013 the son and heir of the house of Atreus, Orestes said, referring to himself \u2013 this son and heir was dead! Orestes, said Orestes, had perished abroad. Clytemnestra was devastated. After more dialogue, the Queen told the strangers that they were still welcome in the house, and Orestes and his speechless companion Pylades entered the cursed House of Atreus.\nThe chorus voiced a short speech of hope that all would be as it should, and soon an old nurse came out of the palace. She had been Orestes\u2019 nurse long before, and she was stricken. She recollected nursing the baby Orestes, delivering him, and fawning over his needs. And once asked, the old nurse revealed what had happened in the palace \u2013 that Clytemnestra had sent a message to Aegisthus to come to the palace and hear the news.\nSoon, Aegisthus, the murderous stepfather slash uncle slash cousin of Orestes, arrived. Whenever you have to use slashes to describe relationships between characters, you know something has gone badly, and somebody is going to bite the dust. Anyway, Aegisthus asked the chorus of old women standing near the entrance about Orestes\u2019 death, and then went inside. The chorus hoped that everything would go justly within the palace that had been Agamemnon\u2019s. And sure enough, the old slave women of the chorus heard a scream from within the palace. Calamity broke out. Clytemnestra burst from the palace doors and bade a servant to give her an ax. \u201cBy cunning we die,\u201d she shouted, \u201cprecisely as we killed. / Hand me the man-axe, someone, hurry! / . . .Now we will see. Win or lose all, / we have come to this \u2013 the crisis of our lives\u201d (216). And then the palace\u2019s doors opened fully. [music]\nOrestes stood there in the doorway with his companion Pylades, holding a bloody sword, standing over the dead body of Aegisthus. Orestes looked at his mother. \u201cIt\u2019s you I want,\u201d he said. \u201cThis one\u2019s had enough\u201d (216). Clytemnestra voiced intense grief for her fallen lover and co-conspirator. Clytemnestra asked her son for mercy, reminding him that he\u2019d once nursed from her breasts.\nThe Queen\u2019s pleas finally caused Orestes\u2019 murderous resolve to falter. He looked around, and turned to his companion Pylades. \u201cWhat will I do, Pylades?\u201d asked Orestes. \u201cI dread to kill my mother!\u201d (216). And finally, Pylades voiced his first line of the play, which, interestingly enough, he advised his friend Orestes to go ahead and kill his mother. Well, that\u2019s basically what he said. Hearing Orestes\u2019 hesitancy, Pylades said, \u201cWhat of the future? What of the Prophet God Apollo, / the Delphic voice, the faith and oaths we swear? / Make all mankind your enemy, not the gods\u201d (216). This advice seemed reasonable to Orestes. In fact much of the rest of the trilogy of plays hinges on this exact moment \u2013 Orestes hesitates, but he\u2019s reminded that the god Apollo has commanded him to kill his mother. And so, filled with the sense that he was obeying a divine command, Orestes wheeled on his Clytemnestra, pinning her down on her lover\u2019s corpse. [music]\nThis way \u2013 [he said]\nI want to butcher you \u2013 right across his body!\nIn life you thought he dwarfed my father \u2013 Die! \u2013\ngo down with him forever!\nYou love this man,\nthe man you should have loved you hated. . .\nI gave you life [, Clytemnestra said,] Let me grow old with you. . .\nYou are the murderer, not I [, said Orestes] \u2013 and you will kill yourself.\nWatch out [, Clytemnestra warned] \u2013 the hounds of a mother\u2019s curse will hunt you down. (217-18)\nAnd again, this is the Robert Fagles translation, first published by Penguin in 1979 \u2013 a great edition that I strongly recommend. Orestes said that his mother's curse was fine enough, because if he didn\u2019t take vengeance, he\u2019d be haunted by a father\u2019s curse. He dragged her through the threshold into the palace, and the doors slammed shut behind them. [music]\nThe Libation Bearers Respond\nThat, as you can imagine, was the end of Clytemnestra. Ancient Greek tragedy tends to have murders committed offstage. The chorus of old slave women, naturally, mused on what was happening behind closed doors. And their response was complicated. On one hand, the chorus leader began the reflections by saying that she felt sorry for both the murderer and the victim. This line suggests that the chorus has some awareness of the ramifications of murderous vengeance \u2013 on one hand, it certainly pays back a killer for an evil deed, and on the other, it creates another killer who needs killing, and this second killer, like all killers, has to live with the weight of having committed vigilante murder. In Orestes\u2019 case, the murder was a matricide, and so his psychological burden, the chorus said, would be enormous. Now, that\u2019s one side of the chorus\u2019 response, anyway, and probably the more modern and relatable one.\nNow, the other side of the chorus\u2019 response to Clytemnestra\u2019s murder was a bit philosophically messier. In a word, they zealously proclaimed that Orestes has done the right thing. They emphasized that the murder of Aegisthus and Clytemnestra had been just. The chorus praised Orestes for his secretive maneuvering. And the old women of the chorus finally said, not mincing their words, that the murder had been absolutely right and justifiable.\nSo the chorus of old slave women, in the end, heartily endorsed Orestes\u2019 two murders. And you have to wonder, there, exactly what they\u2019re thinking. The simplest answer is that it\u2019s not Aeschylus\u2019 greatest moment as a dramatist. I mean, this is an assembly of slave women. They know that Queen Clytemnestra killed her husband because he\u2019d literally sacrificed their daughter ten years before so that he could get the carnage of the Trojan War going in earnest. As slave women, they\u2019re doubly removed from loving and revering the masculine power that King Agamemnon represents. And moreover, as citizens of Argos, and elders who have seen a couple of generations of the madhouse of Agamemnon\u2019s family, it\u2019s pretty difficult to believe that these women are gung ho about yet another male head of the household murdering yet another family member. You know, it\u2019s hard to believe that these old women see Orestes butchering his mother and think, \u201cOh, that\u2019s great! That\u2019s just what our kingdom needed. Regicide. Matricide. That\u2019s always good for a kingdom. Can\u2019t possibly result in any more bloodshed. Good job, Orestes. The pain stops here. It\u2019s all kittens and rainbows from here on out.\u201d Anyway, a tangent \u2013 sorry, but that\u2019s their reaction to the killing of Clytemnestra, and it'll be important for later. It's one fifth queasy apprehension and four fifths optimistic endorsement. Weird. But that\u2019s what they say. So, let\u2019s continue the story. [music]\nThe Coming of the Furies\nThe palace doors opened, and revealed Pylades and Orestes, weapons in hand, standing over the bloody corpses of Clytemnestra and Aegisthus. If you\u2019d watched this play in Athens in the spring of 458 BCE, you would have noted a definite visual resemblance \u2013 the previous play had ended with the exact same blocking \u2013 two murderers standing over gory remains in the threshold of the palace of Atreus. Orestes stood over the corpses of Queen Clytemnestra and her lover Aegisthus, and grimly recollected their crimes against his father. Orestes held in his hands a shroud that Clytemnestra and Aegisthus had used to bind and wrap Agamemnon when they murdered him, and Orestes wept into it. Orestes\u2019 companion Pylades handed him an olive branch, and wrapped him in the robes of Apollo. The implications were clear. Orestes had done the right thing by the god Apollo, who had demanded Clytemnestra\u2019s murder. Orestes proclaimed that he would be off to see the Oracle. Only, all was not well.\nWilliam-Adolphe Bouguereau's The Remorse of Orestes.\nThe chorus, for one, seemed to be second guessing their earlier endorsement of the killing. \u201cOh. . .dreadful work,\u201d they said. \u201cDeath calls and she is gone. / But oh, for you, the survivor, / suffering is just about to bloom. . . Aye, trouble is now, / and trouble still to come\u201d (222-3). And in the midst of the chorus\u2019 increasing apprehension, Orestes looked at the blood on his hands and said, \u201cI must escape this blood. . .it is my own\u201d (224). He said he would follow of Apollo at Delphi, and he would leave the kingdom behind. The chorus bade him not to go. \u201cYou\u2019ve set us free,\u201d they said, \u201cthe whole city of Argos, / lopped the heads of these two serpents once for all\u201d (224).\nOrestes stared at the old women of the chorus, and then screamed \u2013 a scream of terror. They didn\u2019t understand \u2013 and then they saw that he wasn\u2019t looking at them. He was looking at something behind them.\nBehind the chorus there rose a pack of monstrous creatures. They were female, and they were called the Furies. They wore black, and their heads had snakes in place of hair. Their eyes dripped with malice. Of everyone on stage, only Orestes could see them, and he knew what they were. They were vengeance personified - they were primal figures who persecuted mortals for particularly horrible crimes. And they\u2019d come for him. Orestes wheeled, and the Furies, which will be at the center of the next play, chased him offstage.\nThe chorus of old women, as this second part of the Oresteian trilogy comes to a close, had run the gamut between endorsing Orestes\u2019 matricide as an act of divine justice, and then worrying that the estranged prince might have gone too far. And in the play\u2019s closing lines, the old women of the chorus seem to clearly understand, for the first time, the endless cycle of slaughter that has begun in the House of Atreus, a cycle that will not, and cannot be stopped with more killing. Their closing lines capture this realization. \u201cWhere will it end? \u2013 \u201d the old slave women ask. \u201c[W]here will it sink to sleep and rest, / this murderous hate, this Fury?\u201d And that\u2019s the end. [music]\nAncient Greek Drama's Strong Women\nSo you\u2019ve just heard the second part of Aeschylus\u2019 Oresteian trilogy, The Libation Bearers, a play about old slave women bringing libation offerings to the grave of the dead and disgraced king, Agamemnon, and the revenge of Agamemnon\u2019s son and daughter against their mother and her lover. Two down, one to go, and once we get through all three, you\u2019ll know the earliest major work of western theater. And you will feel like a king. Or queen.\nIn fact, speaking of gender, what I want to do now is to talk a bit about women in the drama of classical Athens. If you were taking a course on classical Greek drama, this subject would come up during several class periods, because the plays that the Athenians watched during the Dionysian festivals of the 400s BCE seemed to be full of compelling, powerful female figures. The Oresteian trilogy is no exception. Queen Clytemnestra is the most prominent example you\u2019ve seen so far. Queen Clytemnestra is evidently expected to tolerate the blood sacrifice of her beloved daughter and then embrace her murderous husband and his foreign concubine after he spends ten years away from home, perpetuating the events of the Iliad. But instead, Queen Clytemnestra and her lover kill Agamemnon and Cassandra, and spit in the faces of the disapproving old guard of Argos. You might not want to have milkshakes with Queen Clytemnestra, but it\u2019s generally agreed that she\u2019s a powerful, memorable character.\nAt the end of The Libation Bearers \u2013 again the play you\u2019ve just heard, Clytemnestra has been replaced by the Furies, those primal female monsters who cause even vigorous young Orestes to scream in fear. The Furies, also, are part of the large arsenal of formidable females in Ancient Greek Theater. Later plays that we\u2019ll look at \u2013 Antigone, Medea, The Bacchae, and Lysistrata, these are all full of willful, independently minded women willing to fight \u2013 usually for the welfare of their families or homes, regardless of the consequences. The robust, vigorous female characters of classical Athenian drama, particularly the human ones, have been a source of fascination within the plays for a long time. [music]\nClytemnestra's Curse\nSo let\u2019s turn to the main idea of this episode. The main idea of this episode is in its title: Episode 28: A Mother\u2019s Curse. Just before she is killed, Queen Clytemnestra tells Orestes \u201cthe hounds of a mother\u2019s curse will hunt you down\u201d (217-18). It\u2019s one of the most memorable lines in the play. On one hand it means that the exceptionally heinous crime that Orestes has committed \u2013 matricide \u2013 will result in him being persecuted by the terrifying, snaky-headed agents of justice called the Furies. But in her promise of \u201ca mother\u2019s curse,\u201d Clytemnestra is also talking about her own curse \u2013 the curse of being a mother. Now, this play is filled with references to bosoms, childbirth, breast milk, and caring for infants, maybe most memorably, in the strange boob biting snake dream that the queen has. Queen Clytemnestra, a mother, a murderer, an adulteress, and, ultimately, a victim, has for a long time been recognized as one of the most compelling characters in ancient literature. It\u2019s time for us to consider, as best we can, what Aeschylus\u2019 audience would have made of Queen Clytemnestra on the springtime afternoon of 458 BCE, when the Oresteian trilogy first premiered.\nWhat I\u2019m going to do in the remainder of this show will be simple and easy to follow. I\u2019m going to tell you a bit about the lives of Athenian women during the mid-400s, when the Oresteian trilogy was produced. And then I\u2019ll talk about how Clytemnestra and her sisterhood of strong female leads in classical Greek drama tend to be interpreted in the context of this history. We\u2019ll be moving from literature into history for a moment, but this is some seriously twisted, odd history, and I think you\u2019ll find it really fascinating.\nWomen in Aeschylus' Athens\nFor a long time, now, we\u2019ve been looking for a matriarchal society in ancient history. We looked for one on the island of Crete and the riverbanks of Sumerian Mesopotamia during the Bronze Age. We looked for traces of a matriarchal society in the stone female figurines of Neolithic Eurasia. We would like to find a matriarchal society, because if we could, it would mean that we\u2019re capable, as human beings, of living in a society that doesn\u2019t fundamentally favor men, whether overtly, in its legislation, or covertly, in quiet decisions made behind closed doors, or unspoken policies, or even unconscious preconceptions that endure in spite of our best efforts as a society toward full equity between the genders. We would like to find a nice, solid, matriarchal society in ancient history \u2013 one that endured for generations. But for the most part, sadly, we\u2019re still looking.\nThat desire \u2013 the desire to look back into antiquity and find a wholly alternate way of organizing gender relations \u2013 that desire has pervaded the way we\u2019ve read ancient Greek dramatists, like Aeschylus. But close analysis of archaeological finds and architecture, along with careful scrutiny of ancient writings \u2013 writings like law codes, philosophical treatises, orations, poems and plays \u2013 almost all of this extant material suggests that if we want to find a place and time in the ancient world that afforded relatively equal rights between men and women, Athens in the 400s BCE is not \u2013 not even by a long shot \u2013 a good place to look.\nI think that the best way to introduce the rigidity of the gender divide between men and women of Aeschylus\u2019 time is to talk about female infanticide. A classic study found that one in five female babies, or so, were killed shortly after birth in Athens.2 This was not a custom practiced by ancient Romans, Jews, Egyptians, or Germanic tribes.3 In the mid 400s in Athens, however, killing female babies was commonplace.\nAs with other historical periods that have practiced female infanticide, its justification in Classical Athens was economic. A female baby would never be able to own property, or own land. No wealth would transfer through her down to a subsequent generation. She would not be able to attain any distinction in a career. At the time of her marriage, she would necessitate a dowry appropriate to her husband\u2019s social class. The summit of her possible achievements would be to produce children \u2013 males were, again, very strongly preferred \u2013 and otherwise stay hidden from public life so as to not besmirch her husband\u2019s civic reputation. Women \u2013 even citizen women \u2013 were thus sufficiently disenfranchised in classical Athens that twenty percent of them were simply killed at birth for being girls. This means that some of the male attendees of the first staging of the Oresteian trilogy had arranged for their newborn daughters to be killed. Some of Aeschylus\u2019 audience in 458 had killed, or had arranged for their daughters to be killed, and this was normal. If their daughters survived, these daughters were subject to very different lives than those of their brothers.\nIn ancient Athens, male citizens\u2019 sexual liberty began at an early age, and never ended. Men were generally supposed to be married around thirty, and girls, at the age of 14. Some later philosophers proposed a later date of marriage for women \u2013 the Spartan age was 18, and that certainly seemed to produce healthier young mothers and children. But whatever the exact numbers, men were marrying girls often half their age. The result was a higher rate of deaths in childbirth, and a huge experiential and educational gulf between men and their far younger wives. And the cycle was self-perpetuating. Probably the most famous instance of misogyny in early Greek literature is a poem by the seventh-century writer Semonides, in which Semonides elaborately catalogs women into different tribes \u2013 messy pigs, crafty foxes, noisy, intrusive dogs, dirt, donkeys, prissy mares, ugly monkeys, or, at best, industrious bees.4 When you have a system in which women are not educated, and men marry teens half their ages, it\u2019s easy for intellectual discrepancies caused by culture to be mistaken for intellectual discrepancies caused by nature.\nYoung marriage and childbearing resulted in a gulf between the life expectancies of men and women in classical Greece, with men living an average of 45 years and women around 36.5 The hazards of being a very young mother were largely responsible for this discrepancy, but another reason was the extent to which female Athenian citizens were expected to be physically confined. Men\u2019s lives were spent in the places that we today associate with classical Athens \u2013 the Agora, or marketplace, the gymnasium, and the public buildings on and around the Acropolis and Aeropagus. Their wives\u2019 lives, however, were spent confined at home. Even within their own houses, they lived in rooms away from the street, and, if the house had multiple stories, in the highest one, furthest removed from contact with the outside world. Athenian wives, in order to emphasize their aristocratic pedigree, wore white lead makeup and frequently used parasols when on foot outdoors. But venturing forth was the exception, rather than the rule. A trip to the marketplace, or even public fountain, were - supposedly - opportunities for social intercourse that might lead to gossip or worse \u2013 extramarital affairs.\nModern Feminist Scholarship and the Olympian Pantheon\nYou\u2019ve heard all this before, haven\u2019t you? I mean even if you didn\u2019t exactly know the specifics of classical Athens\u2019 gender schism \u2013 and I haven\u2019t gone into great detail, obviously \u2013 but even if you didn't know the specifics, you recognize the general pattern. Men and women organized into rigidly separate containers, and the containers are built and configured by men. There are those who can go between them a bit \u2013 in the case of classical Athens it would predominately be an elite class of courtesans, like the statesman Pericles\u2019 super awesome and famous lover Aspasia. Anyway, you know, there are people who can move between the two spheres, but the general pattern is that a cadre of elite, enfranchised men control the economic and sexual relations of everyone else to suit their own pleasures and the perpetuation of their social privileges.\nLet\u2019s get back to the first two plays of Aeschylus\u2019 Oresteian trilogy, Agamemnon and The Libation Bearers. The question Aeschylus\u2019 readers have often asked is this. How did a muscular, self-determining character like Clytemnestra emerge from this heavily patriarchal society? Why are the powerful Furies \u2013 the divine agents of justice who exploded onto stage at the end of The Libation Bearers - why are these deities women? Speaking of such, if Athens was so obviously invested in the primacy of men, why was it named after Athena, and why were some of Athens\u2019 most important rituals, like the annual Panathenaea, and the Eleusinian Mysteries, and the Thesmophoria, centered on the female deities Athena, Demeter, and Persephone?\nLet\u2019s talk about the deities first. People tend to remember ancient Greece\u2019s deities. You\u2019ve got the big-daddy lightning guy, the ocean guy, the smith guy, the wise owl chick born from the guy\u2019s head, the war guy, the love girl, the jealous wife woman. There\u2019s just something timelessly archetypal about these Olympian gods \u2013 we tend to remember them. But let me ask you something. Have you ever thought about the general differences between the men and women of Mount Olympus? The things that generally distinguish the girls from the boys? In the 1970s and 80s, scholarship started doing so \u2013 scholarship written about women in the ancient world.\nSo when you tell Zeus, Hera, Apollo, Athena, Aphrodite, Poseidon, and the gang to stand in line from tallest to shortest, you don\u2019t immediately distinguish different roles for the genders. There are gods who fight, like Zeus, and Ares. There are goddesses who fight, like Athena and Artemis. Gods and goddesses are engaged in marriages, like Zeus and Hera, or Aphrodite and Hephaestus. Gods and goddesses both secure alliances with mortals, helping mortals, and playing favorites during the Homeric epics. It actually seems rather progressive, doesn\u2019t it? That Athena, wise and powerful patron of Odysseus and Athens \u2013 isn\u2019t she an emblem of a commanding, confident woman if there ever was one?\nHmm. You\u2019re free to say yes. But let me introduce you to a counterargument. Sarah Pomeroy\u2019s book Goddesses, Whores, Wives, and Slaves, which was first published in 1975, took a good, long look at the boys and girls of the Olympian pantheon and noticed some things. Stories of men who sleep around with mortals are all over the place. Zeus has sex with every single living thing on the planet. Slight exaggeration, but he\u2019s such nymphomaniac that I had to write a song about him, back on Episode 8 - you remember this one? [Excerpt from \"It is Time for Zeus to Have Sex.\"] Sorry. So, the Greek myths are filled with stories of Zeus' sexcapades. Similarly, Apollo spends a fair amount of time running around with his pants down. But more seriously, what about the girls? Well, Hera is married, and remains loyal to her untrustworthy husband. Aphrodite is married, and in one of the most famous myths about her, she has sex with Ares, but is caught in the act by her husband Hephaestus, and she's humbled before the rest of the pantheon. Otherwise, Athena is a virgin. Artemis is a virgin. Hestia is a virgin. Demeter is a virgin. So among the girls, we have four virgins, one loyal wife, and one mostly loyal wife. And among the boys we have no virgins \u2013 just a bunch of sexually freewheeling men who more or less do what they want with impunity.\nEnrique Simonet's El Juicio de Paris (1904). The core story behind the Trojan War - that Athena, Hera, and Aphrodite voluntarily submitted themselves to a beauty pageant for the glittering Apple of Discord, doesn't exactly suggest a trio of wise and sagacious goddesses.\nWhen feminism started looking carefully at the Olympian Pantheon, what scholars like Sarah Pomeroy noticed was that the gender relations of this pantheon seemed to closely resemble the way that men and women were organized in Ancient Greece. Gender relations in Aeschylus\u2019 time were structured to afford maximum enjoyment and freedom to male Athenian citizens at the expense of everyone else. A pithy statement by an orator whom scholars call Pseudo-Demosthenes sums up the situation of the Athenian male. This orator wrote, \u201cWe have mistresses for our enjoyment, concubines to serve our person, and wives for the bearing of legitimate offspring.\u201d6 Now, this quote concisely demonstrates how Athenian males thought of female social classes. They thought of them primarily in terms of how each was to be used for sex. Mistresses, or educated prostitutes, were to be paraded around on social occasions. Concubines, probably house slaves, were to be used for immediate sexual gratification. And wives were to be confined at home and slept with around three times per month, a sufficient number, according to the laws of the Athenian lawmaker Solon, for the production of legitimate offspring.7\nThe bottom line is this. There was no reputable place in Ancient Greek society for a strong, capable, sexually experienced single woman. And accordingly, in the Greek pantheon there is no female Zeus. The closest we get, Hera, often seems like a blowsy housewife, confined and condemned to endure her husband\u2019s eternal philandering. Athena, and for that matter Artemis, are powerful fighters. But being virgins, they are infantilized, or frozen in time. When you put them all together and see that four fifths of the female Olympian pantheon were virgins \u2013 when you see that Athens\u2019 patron goddess Athena was part divine warrior, and partly a prepubescent tween wearing a promise ring \u2013 you can clearly see the religious side of the gender bias that pervaded Aeschylus\u2019 civilization. Nothing against virgins, by the way \u2013 those of us who make that choice often do so for highly commendable reasons. It\u2019s just that having a central female pantheon that\u2019s 80% virginal is a very strange thing to do when your society certainly isn\u2019t 80% virginal. So, now, let\u2019s turn back to Aeschylus. [music]\nClytemnestra and Aeschylus' Original Audience\nWe've been through the play, now, and we\u2019ve covered a bit of ancient social history, but we still have a puzzle to solve. Who is Clytemnestra? Why is there a sexually self determining, confident woman smack dab in the middle of some of the most famous plays of Ancient Greece? Why does a woman get to take down Agamemnon, who is possibly the most hated character in the Iliad? As you can imagine, generations of readers, and critics, and theatergoers, and actresses who have played Clytemnestra onstage have wondered what her original audience might have thought of her.\nThere\u2019s been a long critical discussion of whether we can think of Clytemnestra as a hero or villain, or whether she\u2019s something in between. I don\u2019t think that a summary of the tug-of-war of this critical discussion would be particularly riveting subject material for this show. I mean you\u2019re here for Aeschylus, and not a technical synopsis of classical scholarship. So let\u2019s just take what you\u2019ve heard so far and establish some simple points about Clytemnestra.\nIt\u2019s difficult to imagine that the men of classical Athens would have looked at Clytemnestra as a wronged heroine. Now, granted, Clytemnestra had lost her daughter to Agamemnon\u2019s sacrifice. But Aeschylus\u2019 original audience would have been full of men who believed that killing newborn daughters was acceptable for the optimal transference of one\u2019s family wealth. This, ultimately, was what Agamemnon did when he killed his daughter \u2013 he eliminated a female obstacle that stood in the way of his profiteering. So while in our eyes Clytemnestra has a justifiable cause to seek revenge on her husband, in the eyes of a mostly male audience of 458 BCE, Clytemnestra really ought to have just stood down, stayed in the palace, and meekly awaited her husband\u2019s homecoming.\nHer open adultery, similarly, would have been intolerable. Males, as we talked about a minute ago, could do almost whatever they wanted, sexually, including, of course, each other. But for a female at the summit of a Greek city state, to join with a bitter rival of her husband \u2013 this was an offense just as bad as killing the king. Aeschylus\u2019 original audience, whose culture sought to limit female agency and meticulously regulate female sexuality, this audience would have seen Clytemnestra\u2019s regicide and adultery as unforgivable.\nGolden Age Athens and Theories of Gestation\nThis episode is called \u201cA Mother\u2019s Curse,\u201d and we\u2019ve talked a lot about what it was like to be a woman, and a mother in classical Athens, and the expectations placed on an aristocratic woman like Clytemnestra. But there\u2019s something we haven\u2019t talked about in terms of motherhood in classical Athens, and that is what Athenians believed about conception and gestation. Have you heard about this before? It\u2019s pretty entertaining. And by entertaining, I mean bonkers. I mean a lot of the medical theories of bygone ages are pretty amusing \u2013 if you\u2019re feeling sick in Chaucer\u2019s London, you go to the barber and you get bled. If you\u2019re worried about your psychology in Balzac\u2019s Paris, head over to the phrenologist and have him finger your skull and tell you what kind of a person you are. And if you\u2019re feeling unhappy in Edith Wharton\u2019s New York, just ask your husband to send you to a sanitarium, and whatever you do, for god\u2019s sakes don\u2019t get any fresh air or get exercise. Anyway, somehow - somehow even crazier than all of these is the Ancient Greek idea of how babies are made, and carried to term. Now, we don't know if everyone believed this across the board, but this is Ancient Greece's most famous surviving theory on gestation. You ready for this?\nOur most famous source for this theory is actually Aeschylus himself, and the final play of the Oresteian trilogy, coming up in the next show. We\u2019re not there yet, but it doesn\u2019t matter. Basically, near the end of the third play, the god Apollo takes it on himself to explain how motherhood works. His explanation? Well, it\u2019s perfectly rational and scientifically accurate. He says there\u2019s no such thing as motherhood. So, here is Apollo\u2019s dictum on motherhood, from the play we're going to cover next time:\nThe woman you call the mother of the child\nis not the parent, just a nurse to the seed,\nthe new-sown seed that grows and swells inside her.\nThe man is the source of life - the one who mounts.\nShe, like a stranger for a stranger, keeps\nthe shoot alive unless god hurts the roots.\nI give you proof that all I say is true.\nThe father can father forth without a mother.\nHere she stands, our living witness. (260-1)\nAnd at this Apollo gestures to Athena, (who\u2019s standing there in that scene) who was, according to legend, born directly from Zeus, without the aid of a woman. So, again, for clarification the theory is that women are just inert incubators for male seeds, and males are the root of all human life. And you can imagine Athena, awkwardly standing there and saying, \u201cThat\u2019s right, women have no reproductive powers. Hooray! We\u2019re just fleshy sacks that hold the divine attar of men. Oh, it\u2019s great, isn\u2019t it?\"\nWell, it\u2019s easy to poke fun at the scientifically uninformed past. I'm sure someone will be doing it to us some day. To make fun of ridiculous theories like this one. But then, going on what they had to work with, the Ancient Greeks who concocted and believed in this theory, including, it seems, Aeschylus himself, were doing the best that they could. The theory that they generated egregiously devalues the female role in the reproductive cycle. I mean I wonder what they thought happened when a blue eyed father and a brown eyed mother produced a brown eyed baby. But however we view it in hindsight, this theory of conception and gestation was prevalent in 458 BCE, and to Aeschylus\u2019 contemporaries, it made the killing of a king, who gave life, a far severer crime than the killing of a queen, who merely nurtured life. The second class role ascribed to women as a result of this ancient theory is, I think, one of the many things compressed into Queen Clytemnestra\u2019s dying words to her son about \u201ca mother\u2019s curse.\u201d In ancient Athens, mothers were not only cursed to confinement and surrogate citizenship. They were cursed, according to ancient scientific theory, into not being mothers in the modern sense at all. [music]\nCoda: Helen, the Dark Angel\nI've been making a lot of this new instrumental music on lunch breaks and after work and stuff, and it's been a blast. So, anyway, we\u2019ve spent a fair amount of time, now, arriving at the rather unsurprising discovery that classical Athens had a broadly antifeminist culture, and that its paramount theatrical productions generally reflect this antifeminism. I know, it\u2019s absolutely shocking, isn\u2019t it? That works of literature often bear the imprints of the cultures that produce them? I hope along the way, though, you learned something new about the citizenry of one of the ancient world\u2019s most famous places and times. The images that we conjure up when we think of classical Athens \u2013 the democracy, the marketplace, the architectural marvels atop the Acropolis, the marvelous harbors \u2013 these images are filled with men. Men controlled the nominal democracy of this city, and women, if they survived the culling at birth and the perils of early teenage pregnancies, were consigned to second and third class citizenship.\nBut as a coda, let\u2019s look at one last thing in Agamemnon and The Libation Bearers before we go on to the final play. We have heard the story of how Clytemnestra killed Agamemnon, the man whom not even Achilles or Hector could kill. Notwithstanding the prejudices of classical Athens, when we read Clytemnestra\u2019s story today, she\u2019s still a magnetic, and captivating presence in the story. And behind Clytemnestra is another female character. This second female character is referenced often in the Oresteian trilogy. She hangs behind the story like a dark angel. She is the thing over which the Trojan War was fought. She is Clytemnestra\u2019s sister. And she\u2019s most commonly known to us as Helen of Troy.\nReferences to Clytemnestra\u2019s sister Helen are all over the Oresteia plays. In a famous passage from the first play, Agamemnon, the chorus compares Helen to a lion. Now, lion similes are all over the Homeric epics. They\u2019re used so often that they eventually get tiresome. Agamemnon fights like a lion. Achilles is as ferocious as a lion. Hector is as undaunted as lion. Blah blah blah. Big men, biceps, manly grunts, lion similes, blood, more lion similes. But Helen\u2019s lion simile is different. Here\u2019s the chorus talking about Helen, and comparing her to a lion. [music]\nSo a man once reared\na lion cub at hall, snatched\nfrom the breast, still craving milk\nin the first flush of life.\nA captivating pet for the young,\nand the old men adored it, pampered it\nin their arms, day in, day out,\nlike an infant just born.\nIts eyes on fire, little beggar,\nfawning for its belly, slave to food.\nBut it came of age\nand the parent strain broke out\nand it paid its breeders back.\nGrateful it was, it went\nthrough the flock to prepare a feast,\nan illicit orgy - the house swam with blood,\nnone could resist that agony \u2013\nmassacre vast and raw! (130-1)\nThanks again to Penguin and Robert Fagles for this translation. So in those lines, Helen is a baby lion, and she's taken in and coddled, until a point at which it realizes its true nature, and she tears her keepers to pieces. The old men of Argos, as they speak these lines, obviously remember the dark inferno of the Trojan War, and they express their shock at how something so comely and so pleasant, and so seemingly harmless could ultimately send so many people to Hades.\nLater in the same play, after Agamemnon has been murdered, the elders of Argos blame the murder squarely on Helen. The elders say:[music]\nWoman made him suffer, woman struck him down.\nHelen the wild, maddening Helen, one for the many,\nthe thousand lives you murdered under Troy,\nNow you are crowned with this consummate wreath,\nthe blood that lives in memory, glistens age to age.\nOnce in the halls she walked and she was war,\nangel of war, angel of agony, lighting men to death.\nSo, here, the chorus tells a familiar story. Just like Eve ate that apple, or Pandora appeared with her jar, Helen committed an initial indiscretion that doomed legions of people to suffering and death. It\u2019s all her fault, the chorus emphasizes - it's all because of a woman. Only, Clytemnestra won\u2019t hear any of it.\nPray no more for death, [Clytemnestra tells the old men] broken as you are.\nAnd never turn your wrath on her, call her\nthe scourge of men, the one alone\nwho destroyed a myriad Greek lives\u2014\nHelen the grief that never heals. . .\nNow you set your judgment straight. (164)\nIn these lines - these wonderful lines - Clytemnestra shows that she knows what all of us who have read the Iliad know. The Trojan War had many causes. A major cause was that the super-macho Atreus brothers, Agamemnon and Menelaus, wrangled together a bloated army to go and retrieve Menelaus\u2019 wife Helen. So Helen does bear some responsibility. But when Clytemnestra hears her sister being maligned as the sole cause, she vituperates the elders for blaming the most terrible war in Greek literature on her sister Helen. Clytemnestra knows her sister\u2019s role in the war was powerful, but Clytemnestra vents her disgust that the old men are using Helen for a sole scapegoat. Of the many things to like about Clytemnestra, Clytemnestra\u2019s loyalty to her sister, and her refusal to let men explain away the Trojan War as the misdeed of a woman are high on the list. [music]\nTheater's First Strong, Independent Female Lead?\nOne of the things that literary critics do is that we engage in a bit of wishful thinking. We look into the literary archive and we try to find things that are more agreeable to our worldview. So when we read the Oresteian trilogy, one of the things that we look for is some sense that the author is, on some level, aware of the inhumane ways in which women were treated in classical Athens. We would love to find some section in Aeschylus\u2019 plays that definitively shows him questioning his city\u2019s social injustices, and doing something other than repeating Iron Age rubbish about men mounting women and planting seeds in them.\nWe\u2019d like to find this. But although Clytemnestra and Helen are giants in Greek drama, and although Clytemnestra has some of the most powerful monologues in theatrical history, each woman is showered with venom throughout the pages of ancient Greek literature. World theater, to my knowledge, wouldn\u2019t see an unequivocal heroine who disregards the bounds of marital regulation until Henrik Ibsen\u2019s A Doll\u2019s House premiered in 1879. Clytemnestra might be a heroine to us today. She certainly gets a high five from me for offing that abhorrent bastard, Agamemnon. But it would take world drama another 2,337 years before audiences were ready for a good old, regular, non-virginal, human woman who freed herself from the confines of an oppressive marriage and then went on with her life.\nMoving on to The Eumenides\nWe\u2019ve got one more to go. But already, there\u2019s a sense in the Oresteian trilogy that things can improve. One of The Libation Bearers\u2019 opening lines is Clytemnestra\u2019s daughter Electra\u2019s prayer, in which the younger woman says, \u201cHear me, make me far more self-possessed than mother, make this hand more pure\u201d (183). Electra and Orestes, at the point of the story where we are right now, are the last living descendants of the House of Atreus. Agamemnon and Clytemnestra, and almost everyone of their generation, have killed and maimed and demeaned one another with such cruelty that it\u2019s hard to imagine their children acting with any degree of forbearance or kindness. The Libation Bearers ends with the last scions of the House of Atreus facing annihilation \u2013 the Furies, it seems, will destroy the young murderer Orestes, and Electra will also, somehow succumb to the violent fate that has plagued everyone in her family.\nOr will they? The final play in the Oresteian trilogy is a play about hope, the tale of a brother and a sister who stand by one another even in the face of persecuting gods. We won\u2019t find any thoroughly modern heroes or heroines in the pages of ancient Greek drama. But we\u2019ll still find a brilliant and satisfying story \u2013 a story about an entire civilization graduating from the sword clashing vigilante justice of the Trojan War to the more sustainably structured justice system of the world\u2019s first democracy. Thanks for listening to Literature and History, and if you want to hear it, I\u2019ve got a song for you. Otherwise, see you soon.\nStill here? Really? Thanks! I always have fun putting these songs together. So, this time, I got to thinking. Got to thinking about the House of Atreus \u2013 that madhouse of incest and murder and all that, and what it must have been like to be born in that house \u2013 as the children of Agamemnon and Clytemnestra. And I thought, what if Orestes and his sister Electra took all their experiences \u2013 everything about their family, and sung a song about these experiences? What kind of a song would it be? And I thought hmm. Murder. Clannish blood feuds. Incest. It sounded a bit like the Appalachian local color fiction I studied in graduate school at one point. So I wrote this bluegrass song, in which Orestes and Electra, together, sing all about their family history, and why this family history has made them into who they are. This one's called, \"The Oresteian Hoedown.\" I hope that whatever you\u2019re doing, it makes you laugh, and I\u2019ll be bringing you the end of the Oresteian trilogy very soon.\n[The Oresteian Hoedown Song]\n2.^ Golden, Mark. \u201cThe Exposure of Girls at Athens,\u201d Phoenix 35 (1981): 316-31.\n3.^ Diodorus Siculus and Tacitus report that, according to Sarah Pomeroy, \u201cJews, Egyptians, and Germanic tribes did not practice infanticide.\u201d See Pomeroy, Sarah. Goddesses, Whores, Wives, and Slaves: Women in Classical Antiquity. Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group. Kindle Edition, location 95.\n4.^ See Semonides, Fragment 7, in Greek Lyric: An Anthology in Translation. Hackett Publishing Company, Inc. Kindle Edition, locations 808-953.\n5.^ See Pomeroy, Sarah. Goddesses, Whores, Wives, and Slaves: Women in Classical Antiquity. Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group. Kindle Edition, p. 68.\n6.^ Quoted in Pomeroy, Sarah. Goddesses, Whores, Wives, and Slaves: Women in Classical Antiquity. Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group. Kindle Edition, p. 8.\n7.^ Plutarch, Life of Solon, 20.3.", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00240.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 211, + "original_length": 63444, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.96, + "perplexity": 288.6, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "http://livebrum.co.uk/ae-harris-factory/2018/02/24/queer-spaces", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T03:39:51Z", + "digest": "sha1:AMIEIRP25MZ7YT4FJL5INLRCJFP2HYFS", + "length": 1086, + "nlines": 16, + "source_domain": "livebrum.co.uk", + "title": "Queer Spaces at AE Harris Factory Building on 24 Feb 2018", + "raw_content": "Queer Spaces\nhttp://livebrum.co.uk/ae-harris-factory/2018/02/24/queer-spaces\nSource http://shoutfestival.co.uk/whats-on/all-shows/birmingham-lgbt-history-festival-queer-spaces-cineq/\nWith a focus on queer people of colour, this evening's programme will look at life through the lens of an archaeologist and his fixation on people of colour to create his own queer space far from home, a group in London that created a safe space specifically for queer people of colour, and then we look at the gay community as a space, in and of itself.\nSaturday 24 7.30PMFebruary2018-02-24T19:30:00Z2018-02-24T21:20:00Z\nhttp://livebrum.co.uk/venues/ae-harris-factory\n110 Northwood Street,\nB3 1SZ Birmingham GB\nSubscribe to all events at AE Harris Factory Building\nSubscribe to all Film events at AE Harris Factory Building\nUpcoming at AE Harris Factory Building view all\nGMTG presents: Made in Dagenham 20 Feb 2018 - 24 Feb 2018\nLittle Red Riding Hood 21 Feb 2018 - 25 Feb 2018\nThe Winslow Boy 21 Feb 2018 - 3 Mar 2018\n5,4,3,2 Fun! 22 Feb 2018 - 24 Feb 2018\nLa Vie Parisienne 22 Feb 2018 - 24 Feb 2018", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00240.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 105, + "original_length": 3546, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.84, + "perplexity": 319.8, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "http://liveintheclassroom.com/about-chris/", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T03:34:51Z", + "digest": "sha1:OP6GRGAFPVQZHLE3GH5LQMELV2MXVXCS", + "length": 1569, + "nlines": 5, + "source_domain": "liveintheclassroom.com", + "title": "About Chris Pombonyo, Fourth Grade Teacher | Live in the Classroom", + "raw_content": "Chris Pombonyo\nOriginally from Long Island, New York, Chris Pombonyo has always had a passion for teaching and education. Chris is a graduate of the University of Central Florida with a degree in Elementary Education with both Reading and ESOL Endorsements.\nFormerly known for his blog Famous in First, having previously taught First Grade, Chris currently teaches Fourth Grade in Lake Mary, Florida. He holds numerous leadership roles within his school and district and was recently named the 2017 Elementary School Teacher of the Year and overall District Teacher of the Year for his county. Chris has been featured in the Orlando Sentinel, on the cover of Lake Mary Life Magazine, and on WKMG News 6\u2019s Getting Results in Our Schools Segment.\nA former employee of the Walt Disney Company and host for Radio Disney, Chris understands the importance of engaging students and creating that \u201cmagic\u201d in the classroom. This summer, Chris was honored with Macy\u2019s Magic of Teaching: Magic of Innovation Award for his innovation and engagement in the classroom.\nWhen not teaching, Chris spreads his passion for education to teachers throughout the county through presenting at both local and national conferences and providing professional development to schools and districts throughout the country. He is the host of the YouTube Channel Chris Pombonyo: Live in the Classroom and has been featured on the iTeach TV Network for his show Lights! Camera! Teach!. 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That means no product pitches at tech conferences; out of respect for the time of attendees, we need to talk about things that matter.\nAt this years OSCON 2017 in Austin, TX I had a pretty great opportunity to give a talk and do something consistent with these ideals. I got to deliver a 10 minute keynote on the importance of choosing open platforms when building open source software (#OpenInfra).\nThough I'd attended several OSCON's in the past, this was my first time taking the big stage. The whole experience was a ton of fun, and I hope I have a chance to do something like that again. Everyone involved with the planning and production was super professional and buttoned up. Getting ready backstage felt kind of like being behind the scenes at a really polished rock concert. I am not sure the picture I took (below) captures it well enough but there was a lot going on, but everyone was so calm and relaxed you would never have known it.\nThe slides and abstract of the talk are available here. I used baroque paintings so it would be easy to keep the slides consistent and also not sweat any copyright violations. Looking through all that art was a lot of fun. There were a great many really weird paintings that made me wonder who the hell stood still long enough for the artist to capture that! One of my slides used this amazing painting of two kids posing for their portrait, but the boy has a kitten over on arm and is holding an eel in his other hand. What the hell?\nThe talk (about open infrastructure) was meant to draw attention to the underlying infrastructure we use when building open software collaboratively. Not just the \"I\" in IaaS (compute, storage and networking), but the other tools, platforms and technologies we rely on. Things like repository management platforms, asynchronous and synchronous communications, testing systems, etc. These are all things we tend to forget about, or at least not think about them as core parts of open source projects. There's a lot of risk though to not choosing carefully. The heart of the talk was about making platform and technology choices based on three open principles: Transparency, Interoperability and Influence.\nTransparency: does the platform or project you are using operate in a transparent manner? Do you have a clear sense of what they're planning, and if there's a company behind the effort how healthy is it? Gitlab is a great example of how to do this right. They're a privately run startup, but they operate completely in the open.\nInteroperability: if you choose a platform, what's the risk of being locked in? Can you take your data elsewhere if you decide to make a different choice? Are they based on (and even contributing to) open standards? I used the example of IRC in my talk, as it's hard to choose a more open and interoperable standard for team communications.\nInfluence: can we (open source community, generally non-paying users) influence them? Do they have an open and easy way to report bugs or request features? Do they accept code contributions from outsiders? How well do they listen to their users, especially the non-paying ones? Travis CI is a really great example here - they go out of their way to work with the open source communities using their testing infrastructure to make sure they service they are offering for free is working well for them.\nThe feedback I got in person at the conference was amazingly positive. It was a message that resonated with a lot of attendees. A bunch of people also took pictures and quoted the talk in tweets, which was really gratifying.\nI thoroughly enjoyed the experience, and I'm glad a lot of folks were on the same page as me on this topic. 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One of the leading streaming services, Spotify, has dealt with several issues over the past year, and they were just hit with a $1.6 billion lawsuit concerning the usage of music from several name artists across multiple genres.\nAccording to the Hollywood Reporter, Wixen Music Publishing filed the lawsuit, which covers music from a number of the clients including Rage Against the Machine's Zack de la Rocha and Tom Morello, Weezer's Rivers Cuomo, the late Tom Petty, The Black Keys' Dan Auerbach, Sonic Youth's Kim Gordon, The Doors, Neil Young and many more.\nThe suit was filed Dec. 29 in a California federal court, alleging that Spotify used Petty's \"Free Fallin',\" the Doors' \"Light My Fire\" and tens of thousands of other songs with a license and compensation. In addition to the hefty $1.6 billion asking price for damages, Wixen Music Publishing is also seeking injunctive relief.\nJust last year, Spotify proposed a $43 million settlement to resolve a class action lawsuit brought by a group of songwriters led by David Lowery and Melissa Ferrick that claimed that the company hadn't paid for mechanical licenses for song compositions. Since that May settlement, two more lawsuits were filed claiming that Spotify had not complied with the U.S. Copyright act.\nWixen elected not to get involved with the Ferrick class action case, objecting to the settlement and choosing to file their own action. \"The Settlement Agreement is procedurally and substantively unfair to Settlement Class Members because it prevents meaningful participation by rights holders and offers them an unfair dollar amount in light of Spotify\u2019s ongoing, willful copyright infringement of their works,\" said a statement from Wixen's group of songwriters.\nAccording to the report, Spotify has questioned whether Wixen has been authorized to take such aggressive actions against them by their clients, stating that while the publishing company may have the right to negotiate licensing deals, most agreements don't have wording concerning litigation.\n\"Spotify brazenly disregards United States Copyright law and has committed willful, ongoing copyright infringement,\" Wixen stated in their complaint against Spotify. \"Wixen notified Spotify that it had neither obtained a direct or compulsory mechanical license for the use of the Works. For these reasons and the foregoing, Wixen is entitled to the maximum statutory relief.\" The complaint also suggests that as much as 21 percent of Spotify's over 30 million songs are unlicensed.\nIn late December, a pair of representatives introduced the Music Modernization Act, which would end the \"notice of intent\" process and would create a database that would publicly identify songs and help to alleviate the struggle of digital services to locate the co-authors of copyrighted works. The act would impact copyright holders suing over mechanical reproduction beginning on Jan. 1 of this year, which explains why the lawsuit was filed just prior to the end of 2017.\n\"We are very disappointed that these services will retroactively get a free pass for actions that were previously illegal unless we actually file suit before January 1, 2018,\" said Wixen president Randall Wixen in a statement to The Hollywood Reporter. \"Neither we nor our clients are interested in becoming litigants but we have been faced with a choice of forfeiting rights and damages, or taking action at this time. We regret that this otherwise admirable proposed bill has had this effect, and we hope that Spotify nonetheless comes to the table with a fair and reasonable approach to reaching a resolution with us. 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We don't know\nDuring last year's election campaign LGBT voters may have been surprised to notice the Labour government outflanked in the progressive stakes by the Conservative Party.\nLabour's promise to LGBT voters had nothing to say on the treatment of LGBT asylum seekers. This was perhaps unsurprising as to say anything would have required saying something which was bound to draw attention from the anti-asylum seeker tabloids and on the other hand would have reminded LGBT voters of a record which involved defending a policy of telling those seeking sanctuary to 'go home and be discrete'.\nFollowing the election, the Conservatives and the Liberal Democrats produced a Coalition agreement document which actually said nothing more than the status quo - those at proven risk wouldn't be returned - but politically drew a line under Labour's record and promised something better. A few weeks after the election came the landmark decision of the Supreme Court which ended the 'go home and be discrete' policy of Labour - and see S.Chelvan's article which explains exactly why the decision was LGBT legal history - which was welcomed by the Conservative Home Secretary.\nPage, turned?\nThis Coalition agreement promise stood out in a relatively thin document alongside another one on the detention of child refugees, but unlike that one it has had almost no scrutiny.\nThe Guardian even published a 'pledge tracker' which considered the pledge on LGBT asylum met BY the Supreme Court decision.\nOne core reason why there has been little scrutiny of the promise has been an absence of hard facts (I know this from experience of trying to draw attention). Individual cases, anecdotal evidence, 'hard luck stories' (as described to me) - lots.\nBut those involved with sexuality based asylum claims know that there has been a development since the Supremes spoke - for the worse.\nThe Supreme Court decision handed down four rules for deciding on whether protection must be offered. Its first question is whether the applicant is lesbian or gay. And many of us working with applicants believe that this has led to increased rejection of applications on that basis (previously rejection would have been on other grounds).\nFor example, there are several cases I am aware of where people who have been detained and have been recognised as gay in detention and harassed as a result are still not accepted as gay by the Home Office.\nIn one bizarre case a Jamaican lesbian is not believed despite her girlfriend having been accepted and given asylum and the woman's evidence being crucial to her girlfriend's case!\nThere are other problems with a 'lag' in the system which means that cases filed before the decision are still being judged under the old rules. That judges are applying out of date rules. That cases which have been in the system for a long time are not being properly examined under the new rules.\nBut in case after case the claimant is not accepted to be gay and the usual 'credibility' issues are raised. These often amount to minor discrepancies in a story, such as an date error in one case in a witness' testimony.\nNow The Guardian has published an article pointing out that the government's promise cannot be said to have been met (or measured) - because no statistics are being kept. And they aren't being kept on the grounds of cost.\nYet the measures which have been undertaken have involved spending money.\nLGBT Asylum News believes that what has been done is one half day's specialised training organised by Stonewall and UNHCR of all UKBA agents and the inclusion of sexuality in equalities training of immigration tribunal judges (which also involves UKLGIG). Stonewall, UKLGIG and UNHCR had input into training which was delivered by UKBA over a day and also fed back on a pilot exercise. Stonewall carried out short training for judges on 'what LGB is'. As well, an updated guidance note was published as a result of the Supreme Court decision.\nThese measures are included in the Home Office's equalities plan (PDF), however in a sign of the lack of urgency the Home Office's Business Plan (the development of Business Plan's was trumpeted by the government at the time), published in November, did not include anything on LGBT asylum in a run-through of government pledges it would be meeting (child detention was included).\nThe government has specifically ruled out other measures which would help LGBT asylum seekers. It will not exclude sexuality-based claims from 'fast track' decision making - as some other categories of claim are - despite Minister Damien Green in a letter to Dr Hywel Francis MP, the Chair of the House of Commons Joint Committee on Human Rights, accepting that they \"can raise complex and specific issues based on cultural differences and the possible trauma of the individual concerned.\"\n'Fast track' claims are far harder to win because legal options are dramatically reduced and people - often traumatised from torture and other bad treatment, as Green acknowledges - are invariably detained.\nIn the letter to Francis, Green refers to Stonewall's report 'No Going Back' - however that report made 21 recommendations, which went far beyond training of staff. For example, the report discusses the effect of the dispersal system on LGBT asylum seekers who are sent to towns where it is impossible to access appropriate and safe support. They are often forced to live with people who do not accept them and several reports have found that they can be at risk of violence. We are aware of cases where UKBA has been asked to move LGBT asylum seekers closer to sources of support but has refused.\nGreen does acknowledge criticism of the crucial 'country information' on which many case decisions hang. In particular, he acknowledges the criticism made by the Shadow Foreign Secretary in the 'BN' Ugandan case that that country's information was two years old and made no reference to LGBT. In the letter he notes that at the time of writing only three country reports made any reference (since he wrote new Uganda guidance has been published which does include LGBT issues, however problems remain with its contents).\nStonewall made 21 recommendations\nGreen says in the letter that other work is \"in hand\" to address the (wide ranging) issues raised in Stonewall's report - but it is not in any of the plans published by the Home Office (and the business plan covers the entire life of this parliament).\nThe biggest specialist group, the UK Lesbian and Gay Immigration Group (UKLGIG), handling sexuality based claims agrees in The Guardian article with my experience and that of others working with claimants - it is becoming more difficult for asylum seekers to \"prove\" to the authorities that they are homosexual.\n\"It has always been difficult to prove but more frequently now, people are not being believed,\" says Erin Power.\nSteve Symonds of the Immigration Law Practitioners Association agrees that they know of cases where legal decisions have been made \"which we know now to be wrong\".\n\"The sensible thing to do would be to review cases of removal. When you get to a point where you have to put someone on a plane for removal, you should get their file out and make sure there's nothing of concern. They should check they have not claimed on the grounds of being gay, because they know that there was an important decision in the court which may be relevant.\"\nLast November a Nigerian lesbian, 'Sarah', was removed to Lagos despite the best efforts of her MP. She wasn't believed to be gay.\nOn arrival she lost what money she had to the Nigerian police. Without any family support - because she is a lesbian - she was forced to rely on support from strangers on the mean streets of Lagos and was thrown out of several homes once discovered to be lesbian. Over the months she has been raped at least twice.\nShe was visited earlier this year by the Rev. Jide Macauley who found her in a desperate state. Whilst it would theoretically be possible to launch a case to correct the wrong and get her back - as happened with the Ugandan John Bosco - it has proved very hard to find a lawyer prepared to take it on.\nA UKBA spokesperson is quoted by The Guardian as saying that they are \"reviewing how data on sexual orientation cases can be recorded more effectively and whether any resulting data can be published.\"\nGood. To refuse on grounds of cost is a false economy on financial grounds because many if not most of the cases currently being fought, with people being detained and going through several layers of legal strife, will be or have been eventually won because they deserve sanctuary.\nGreen says in his letter \"we need to be sure that the changes we implement are actually making a difference.\"\nBut it's not in the plan to \"make sure\". So they need a new plan. 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With all the formalities in the process and the house keys in your hands, it\u2019s time to make the home completely yours. How can you do that? By add elements to your house that reflects your persona. But in this process of this addition, do not forget these things which are essential for a new home.\nUpdated Home Lock Mechanism\nThe very first update you need to make to your new home is to install a new home lock mechanism. You may not be aware of the number of people having the key to the old home lock. This may raise a security concern. Apart from that, getting a security system installed will ensure that your home is safe from intruders at all times.\nWhen you move into a new house, it\u2019s time to start a new phase of life. This is a good reason to get rid of your old furniture. Another reason to get new furniture is to find fixtures that utilize the space in your new home well. If you are working on a low budget, do not worry. Simply choose old refurbished furniture that goes with the planned theme of your house. If you want to utilize your old furniture, do get the upholstery changed.\nPlants And Saplings\nIt is never too late to go green. If you have bought a good single-family home with a lawn area, then go ahead and buy some flower saplings to brighten up your home exterior. If the lawn area is limited, don\u2019t fret, get smaller potted herb plants for your home kitchen. Some indoor plants can also be kept in the living room.\nNew Kitchen Installments\nImagine the excitement of cooking for the very first time in your new kitchen. A new home, a new kitchen, but the same old appliances can spoil the fun. Why not get some swanky new kitchen appliances to work with? Do not forget to install new kitchen cabinets to accommodate all your utensils. Make use of the space available to you yet do not over-clutter it.\nShiny New Plumbing Fixtures\nWhen you buy a new home, some amount of repair is always required. When doing these basic repairs, take the opportunity to install new shiny faucets and shower heads. This update will not only help you get rid of the old rusty plumbing fixtures but also save you from future repairs.\nThe types of houses for sale in the Calgary real estate market are generally well-furnished with minimum repair requirements. However, adding new installations is necessary to make these homes more functional as per your preference. It also gives you a chance to add a touch of your personality to the home. So go ahead and make these additions to your house to enrich its resale value.\nI really like what you said about installing new kitchen cabinets and appliances to complete that new home experience. My wife and I enjoy cooking very much. 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Most believers avoid talking about the Trinity. A lot of Christians do everything they can to turn the conversation away from the Trinity. To an extent, I understand why that is. A lot of believers think, \u201cHey, I love my Jesus and that\u2019s enough for me, right?\u201d\nThis other truth is for a different class of Christian. It\u2019s for those ivy-covered, scholarly seminaries. It\u2019s for those pasty-faced, socially disastrous, theology professors\u2013they\u2019re the ones who want to talk about the Trinity. The Trinity keeps them amused while the rest of us live normal lives\u2013right?\nHow can three be one? How can one be three? That\u2019s about as useful as asking how many angels can dance on the head of a pin. It\u2019s all unnecessary, mathematical gibberish, isn\u2019t it? Deep within the Christian psyche today, the Trinity is an \u201cawkward irrelevance\u201d\u2013Bruce Ware says, \u201cThe Trinity feels like a wart on our knowledge of God.\u201d\nAnd so, when it comes to sharing our faith, we speak of God\u2019s offer of salvation, we tell of God\u2019s grace, we help people understand their sinfulness, but we actively try not to let on that the God we\u2019re speaking of is a Trinity. We wax eloquently about the Gospel, but not about the God whose Gospel it is.\nOpen your Bibles and turn to John 17. It\u2019s time for us to stand up and say no to this foolishness. It\u2019s time for us to be proud of who our God is, not ashamed. Our beautiful Gospel could only come from a God who is wonderfully and beautifully triune. And the Gospel itself only comes from knowing God as triune.\nJohn 17:3 says, \u201cThis is eternal life, that they may know You, the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom You have sent.\u201d Knowing the triune God is eternal life. You will never know God deeply until you embrace, own, and worship the Trinity. Your knowledge of God will be shallow unless you know your God as three in one\u2013three persons, one essence.\nIn the last two weeks, I have tried to open up the wonder of the Trinity and why you must know your God as a Trinity. We\u2019ve looked at how the doctrine of the Trinity is clearly taught in the Old and New Testaments and how the Trinity was clarified through Church history. I desired to help you debunk all the weird, weak and wacky analogies which attempt to explain the Trinity.\nI have pled for you to stop saying God is sometimes watery, sometimes icy and sometimes steamy. Let God be God. Stop saying God is a big egg\u2013yolk, white and shell. Stop being a modalistic heretic. We believe God is a Trinity, not because God is similar to eggs or H2O, but we believe in the Trinity because the Bible teaches the Trinity and Jesus Christ affirms it.\nThe Jesus of the Bible is God the Son, who is one with the Father and one with the Spirit. Jesus is one person of the Trinity. In John 17, on the night before He is crucified, Jesus prayed to His heavenly Father and said at the end of verse 24, \u201cfor You [loved Me] before the foundation of the world.\u201d That is the God of the Bible\u2013in a perfect oneness, yet in three distinct persons.\nI also attempted to warn you in this Trinitarian study\u2013to not embrace God as a Trinity is to lose your soul. To try to fully comprehend the Trinity is to lose your mind. But to not know God as a Trinity is to lose your heart. And last week we looked at His unity.\n#1 UNITY\u2013GOD is ONE\nThe true God is the one who revealed Himself in the Bible and He reveals Himself as one in essence.\nDeuteronomy 6:4 to 5 says it, \u201cHear, O Israel! The Lord is our God, the Lord is one!\u201d\nPaul declares the true God is one in 1 Timothy 2:5, \u201cFor there is one God, and one mediator also between God and men, the man Christ Jesus.\u201d The three persons are one in essence\u2013one in their essential nature. God is only one being. There are not three gods, there is only one God. (Grudem 110) Yet there\u2019re distinctions between the persons in the Trinity.\n#2 DIVERSITY\u2013GOD is THREE\nGod is one in essence, yet God is three persons. The Trinity is one but three, and three but one. Each person\u2013Father, Son and Spirit is fully God, but there is only one God. They are the same essence, one\u2013but function differently, three. The three persons of the Trinity are equal in being, but subordinate in role. Each person\u2013Father, Son and Spirit function in a unique role.\nThe Trinity is not one person who appears to us in three different forms or modes\u2013that is modalism. (Remember the hats?) The Trinity is not God the Father as true God who created the Son and the Spirit to function as His arms to accomplish His will\u2013that\u2019s Arianism. The Trinity is not three gods, where each person is one-third God\u2013that\u2019s tritheism. So what are some of the distinctions in function or role?\nFirst The Role of the FATHER\nThe Father is fully God. He is not one-third God, but fully God. Yet it is not the Father alone who is fully God, but He eternally exists along with the Son and the Spirit, each of whom also possess the identical same divine nature. Yet as one person of the Godhead, the Father possesses a unique role as Father in relation to the Son and the Spirit.\nTurn in your Bible to Matthew 6. As Jesus teaches His men how to pray, we learn some about our heavenly Father. What should blow you away as you contemplate the greatness, majesty, and richness that is God is this\u2013He is YOUR God. [Ware 44] Matthew 6:6, \u201cBut you, when you pray, go into your inner room, close your door and pray to your Father who is in secret, and your Father who sees what is done in secret will reward you.\u201d\nFor some of you, the term father was damaged by your dad. But never forget\u2013at the highest price ever paid, your God adopted you into His family; He is your perfect Father; He is not like your earthly father. He is your heavenly Father.\nVerse 7, \u201cAnd when you are praying, do not use meaningless repetition as the Gentiles do, for they suppose that they will be heard for their many words. 8 So do not be like them; for your Father knows what you need before you ask Him. 9 Pray, then, in this way: \u2018Our Father who is in heaven, hallowed be Your name.\u2019\u201d\nThe Father is YOUR God. This should astonish you to realize the God we pray to and follow is THE God\u2013the only true God. He\u2019s God over all. He eternally exists in the fullness of his infinite perfections fully apart from all that is. He knows everything. He knows what you need before you ask Him. As Creator of all, He is the Sovereign ruler of the universe.\nHe\u2019s so great, He is one. Yet this one God is also three. So when we pray, we pray to the Father in the name of the Son, in the power of the Spirit. The Father functions as supreme among the persons of the Godhead. \u201cOur Father in heaven, hallowed be your name, your kingdom come, your will be done,\u201d asserts the Father has supremacy over all. He functions as head, even though the Son and the Spirit are equally God.\nFirst Corinthians 15:28 blows us away with these words, \u201cWhen all things are subjected to Him, then the Son Himself also will be subjected to the One who subjected all things to Him, so that God may be all in all.\u201d The Father also functions as the grand architect, the maker of creation, designer of redemption and planner of the end. Ephesians 1:11b, \u201chaving been predestined according to His purpose who works all things after the counsel of His will.\u201d\nThe Father chooses\u2013He elects, He sends His Son. The Father chose you before the foundation of the world. God is not really glorified when salvation is reduced to merely an opportunity or simply a possibility. No\u2013God is glorified greatly because He chose us. The Father is also the giver of every good and perfect gift.\nJames 1:17, \u201cEvery good thing given and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of lights, with whom there is no variation or shifting shadow.\u201d The Father often provides and works through the Son and the Spirit because they are one. Ephesians 1:3, \u201cBlessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places in Christ.\u201d\nThe Father has chosen us in Christ\u2013we are predestined to adoption through Christ. We are regenerated through the Holy Spirit. And realize this\u2013 the Father shows us how \u201cus\u201d fathers are to behave. With the Father, there\u2019s no asserting \u201cI\u2019m in charge.\u201d There is His perfect truth expressed in lavish, even extravagant love, provision and protection of His children.\nSecond The Role of the SON\nThe Son is fully God, not one-third God. Equally God as the Father and the Spirit, yet the Son is unique in His function. We\u2019ve already seen the second person of the Trinity\u2019s unique role to be the one who visibly manifests God to humanity throughout all history. Jesus is Creator and the Judge you will answer to\u2013and the only Savior Christ becomes incarnate, suffers, dies and rises again.\nBut the Son\u2019s role goes even further\u2013equally and fully God. Yet the Son is under the headship or authority of the Father. Jesus is at the right hand of the Father, but from that position He reigns over Heaven and Earth. Ephesians 1:20 to 22, \u201cSeated Him at His right hand in the heavenly places, 22 and He put all things in subjection under His feet.\u201d\nThe Son and the Father are the same essence, equally and fully God, yet the Son submits to the Father. In fact, Jesus says in John 8:28 to 29, \u201cSo Jesus said, \u2018When you lift up the Son of Man, then you will know that I am He, and I do nothing on My own initiative, but I speak these things as the Father taught Me. 29 \u2026for I always do the things that are pleasing to Him.\u2019\u201d\nHow amazing is this? Jesus is God, but Jesus obeys God. Jesus is not of this world, but in this world Jesus refuses to speak or act on his own initiative, but rather do only what pleases His Father. Jesus is God, but also God the Son and under the authority of His Father. John 14:31, \u201cSo that the world may know that I love the Father, I do exactly as the Father commanded Me.\u201d\nThey are one, yet there is love and obedience that bind the Father and the Son in the Trinity, proving submission is an attribute of God and a quality of Christ. So like Him, we\u2019re to submit to His appointed authorities\u2013parents, employers, law enforcement, and elders. Unless you\u2019re being commanded to do that which is opposed to God and His Word, we are to submit to authority. It\u2019s part of how we show the love of the Son to the Father, and it is that kind of love that actually exalts Christ and glorifies the Trinity. What about . . .\nThird The Role of the SPIRIT\nThe Holy Spirit is fully God, not one-third God, but true God. Not more or less God than God the Father or God the Son, but with a unique role within the oneness of the Trinity. The Holy Spirit assists in carrying out the work of the Father and empowering the Son in His earthly ministry.\nThe Spirit is the one who inspired the human authors of Scripture to write God\u2019s Word. Second Peter 1:20 to 21, \u201cNo prophecy of Scripture is a matter of one\u2019s own interpretation, 21 for no prophecy was ever made by an act of human will, but men moved by the Holy Spirit spoke from God.\u201d Revelation, inspiration and illumination all come from the Spirit. You have that Bible in your lap because of the third person of the Trinity.\nEvangelism empowered by the Spirit proclaims the Gospel of Christ. Acts 1:8, \u201cYou will receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you; and you shall be My witnesses both in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and even to the remotest part of the earth.\u201d Regeneration\u2013true salvation, being born again, having new life is only brought about by the Spirit. He draws you, He convicts you, and He regenerates you.\nJohn 3:3 to 8, \u201cJesus \u2026 said\u2026, \u2018Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born again he cannot see the kingdom of God . . . 6 That which is born of the flesh is flesh, and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit . . . 8 The wind blows where it wishes and you hear the sound of it, but do not know where it comes from and where it is going; so is everyone who is born of the Spirit.\u2019\u201d\nSanctification is progressively and cooperatively achieved by the Spirit making us more like Christ. Ephesians 5:18, \u201cBe filled with the Spirit.\u201d You and I grow in Christ as we depend upon the Spirit and stop depending on ourselves. And what an example\u2013the Spirit serves unnoticed, without recognition, with no jealousy, no resentfulness, desiring nothing but to glorify the Son and the Father.\nHe moves in us to be willing, fruitful, and loving. And the Spirit motivates us to give ourselves to joyful service\u2013even gifting us uniquely to serve God in a special way, which brings God glory and creates in us incredible joy. The Bible is clear\u2013the Father, Son and Holy Spirit are each (listen carefully to these words) fully God, equally God, eternally God, simultaneously God.\nThe Father, Son and Holy Spirit each possess a divine equality so as to avoid Arianism. Eternally to avoid thinking of God\u2019s nature as created, simultaneously to avoid modalism, and fully to avoid thinking any person of the Godhead is only part God like a piece of the pie. In essence, each member of the Godhead is identical, but in person, each is distinct.\nAnd the three persons of the Trinity work together in harmony. Just like great music is many instruments playing different parts, but one tune in harmony. God is three different persons, but one God\u2013one essence. There is so much more to each person in the Godhead. But I want you to see something else equally amazing.\n#3 The Trinity is uniquely LOVING\nFor eternity, God is love. This is unpacked for us in 1 John 4:7 to 8, \u201cBeloved, let us love one another, for love is from God; and everyone who loves is born of God and knows God. 8 The one who does not love does not know God, for God is love.\u201d These are extraordinary words. Whoever loves is born of God and knows God. If you do not love, you don\u2019t know Him\u2013because you cannot know Him without becoming like Him.\nDo you know someone here or in your family who is an older saint, who uniquely radiates the love and joy of Christ? Do you know someone like that? I hope you do\u2013I do. Now imagine, you are invited to go out to lunch with them. How do you behave when you\u2019re with this special saint? You are nicer in their presence. You don\u2019t slam others, don\u2019t gossip, don\u2019t say harsh things. (You do that later, but not in their presence.) When you\u2019re with them, you are kinder and gentler. It wears off after a bit, but with them you are sweeter.\nThat is a finite picture of what your God is like. You cannot know Him or be in His presence without starting to become like Him. And God is love. If you know Him, you will be loving. God is love, and He is love because He has been loving the other persons of the Trinity in eternity past and will be loving the other persons of the Trinity in the future.\nI\u2019m saying God is love because God is a Trinity. For eternity, God has been loving the other members of the Trinity. You get a picture of this at the baptism of Jesus. Want an illustration of the Trinity? Try the baptism of Jesus, not eggs. What do you see at the baptism of Jesus? The Son is in the waters of the Jordan. The Heavens are ripped open and the Father declares His love for His Son as the Spirit rests on the Son, \u201cThis is My beloved Son.\u201d\nThat is what God is like\u2013God is loving in and of Himself. God has already been loving for eternity. The Father loves the Son and Spirit, and the Son loves the Father and Spirit. Are you getting this? God does not need us! God chooses to love us, but He didn\u2019t need us to love, because in His triune nature He was already eternally loving.\nEverything between the Father, Son and Spirit is a perfect unity. In this perfect unity, the three persons enjoy a perfect love. You see, God has to be a Trinity. If God is not a Trinity, then He\u2019s an eternal being totally absent from the attribute of love. If God is an eternal solitary being, all alone, then eternally He does not love because there is no one to love. That\u2019s a main reason why God and Allah are not the same. And that is why there is zero love in Islam.\nThe essential starting place of Christianity is a God who is three in one, who is marked by a relationship of love. Only the Trinity is God in relationship, and that relationship is perfect, full, authentic love. God doesn\u2019t love you because He needs someone to love Him back. No\u2013He truly loves you because He has no needs, for He is already a loving God in the persons of the Trinity. The Father has never been lonely. He is perfectly satisfied in God the Son and God the Holy Spirit. Our God has life, love and glory in Himself.\nThis is a truth CS Lewis captured in his Screwtape Letters. The Screwtape Letters are an imagined dialog between a senior demon and his apprentice demon. The devil is the perfect example of the single person solitary God, compared to the true God, a Trinity. When people think of God as a horrible single dictator on a throne\u2013ordering us about with entirely mean and selfish motives, they are actually thinking about the devil. They are actually imagining the devil.\nLewis compares the devil to the living, loving, self-giving, overflowing triune God. Here\u2019s what the senior demon Screwtape writes about God. \u201cOne must face the fact that all the talk about His love for men, and His service being perfect freedom, is not (as \u2018we demons\u2019 would gladly believe) mere propaganda, but an appalling truth. He really does want to fill the universe with a lot of loathsome little replicas of Himself\u2013creatures, whose life, on its miniature scale, will be qualitatively like His own, not because He has absorbed them but because their wills freely conform to His. We [demons] want cattle who can finally become food; He wants servants who can finally become sons. We want to suck in, He wants to give out. We are empty and would be filled; He is full and flows over.\u201d\nBecause God is a Trinity, He is self-sufficient, giving and gracious and full of love expressed in the Trinity. And when we come in contact with Him, we will become loving as well. In one of His most personal moments, Jesus says in Mark 14:36, \u201cHe was saying, \u2018Abba! Father! All things are possible for You; remove this cup from Me; yet not what I will, but what You will.\u2019\u201d\nChrist is so intimate, so loving with His Father, He calls God, \u201cAbba,\u201d meaning Daddy\u2013an incredibly intimate love relationship. Now let this blow you away. When you are adopted into God\u2019s family, when you are born again in Christ, you are now so close to God Himself, you call your heavenly Father your Abba.\nRomans 8:15, \u201cFor you have not received a spirit of slavery leading to fear again, but you have received a spirit of adoption as sons by which we cry out, \u2018Abba! Father!\u2019\u201d Galatians 4:6, \u201cBecause you are sons, God has sent forth the Spirit of His Son into our hearts, crying, \u2018Abba! Father!\u2019\u201d When you are in Christ, you\u2019re in the Trinitarian eternal love relationship of intimacy. You are now a part of their love for each other. The Father\u2019s love overflows to all His children.\nJohn 17:26, \u201c\u2019I have made Your name known, . . . so that the love with which You loved Me may be in them, and I in them.\u2019\u201d As a child of God, you are caught up in the love of the Trinity. Abba\u2013you are loved as much as the Father loves His Son. You\u2019re now a part of His family\u2013a child of God. You\u2019re loved with Trinity love. Jesus says, \u201cthe love with which you loved me.\u201d\nThe true God, the biblical God, the triune God is totally at odds with all the other gods of human imagination. The triune God is vastly different from all organized religion\u2013all of them. All the lesser God\u2019s of organized religion are needy. Look at the difference between the triune God and Allah. Allah is the best-known single person God.\nDo you realize just how different Allah is, because he is not triune? See what difference being triune makes? The untaught and unsaved will say, \u201cThe God of the Bible and the god of the Koran are the same god,\u201d but they\u2019re not. The Koran tells us Allah describes himself as different. \u201cSay not Trinity, desist, it is better for you\u2013for God is one God. Glory be to him. Far exalted is he, above having a son.\u201d Or even more pointed, the Koran says, \u201cSay he\u2026 Allah is one, Allah is he on whom all depend. He begets not, nor is he begotten.\u201d\nIn the Koran, Allah is being as clear as he can be that he is not Father, Son and Spirit. He\u2019s a different God. He clearly says he is one, and Allah is not three. That difference means Allah has a completely different motivation and character. Think about it. Imagine Allah is god. What was Allah like for all eternity?\nAs god, before he created anything, he is all by himself. For eternity, Allah existed without anyone to love. That\u2019s a huge point. Love for others is clearly not Allah\u2019s heartbeat, since Allah spent all eternity with no one to love\u2013no one. Now in Islam, Allah has ninety-nine names. They say one of his names is loving. But how can he be loving? Islam scholars say because Allah is looking forward to his creation and loving that.\nBut the problem with that is this. For Allah to be loving, he must have a creation. He actually needs creation. Without creation, there is no one to love, to sacrifice for. So to be loving at all, Allah needs his creation. Yet one of the cardinal beliefs of Islam is Allah is dependent on nothing. But in truth, Allah is dependent on his creation. Allah spent all eternity without love, with no one to love.\nThe true triune God of the Bible is completely different. Unlike Allah, what has our God been doing for eternity? Jesus says to the Father in John 17:24, \u201cYou loved me before the foundation of the world.\u201d Because our God is triune, our God is a loving God who has been loving for eternity, before we were even created.\nOur God does not need you to love\u2013He is already loving. He does not need an object to love\u2013He is internally loving. He is love, loving, forever\u2013past, present and future. And this love between the persons of the Trinity is now what you enjoy if you are in Christ. You\u2019re brought into the amazing love relationship which eternally exists between the persons of the Trinity. Wow! The love the Father has for the Son is the same love the Father has for each one of His adopted children. Aren\u2019t you glad you are a Trinitarian?\nA Being Trinitarian is an awesome LIFESTYLE\n1 Being Trinitarian results in a HUMBLE life\nThe doctrine of the Trinity is so complex and wonderfully awesome, it humbles us. God can be known, but He cannot be fully known, keeping us wonderfully dependent and humble. He is God and you are not. You don\u2019t know everything, but God does know everything. You don\u2019t control today or tomorrow, but God does. Knowing a Trinity makes us humble.\n2 Believing the Trinity is a LOVING lifestyle\nSince God himself is a loving community, we are to be a loving community in our marriages, families and churches.\n3 Trinitarian life is a WORSHIPFUL life\nWe pray, we sing, we worship, we live for the glory of God the Father through Jesus Christ by the power of the Holy Spirit.\n4 Being Trinitarian is having a heart of UNITY\nWe are to manifest the unity of oneness in our relationships found in the Trinity. Because God is one, we are to be one. Because God is a harmonious unity, we are to labor to the point of exhaustion to preserve unity with each other.\n5 Believing the Trinity encourages us to appreciate diversity\nWe are to appreciate and esteem the differing racial, cultural, gender, gifts, talents, abilities of each other within the context of the truth of God\u2019s Word. Just like the different persons of the Trinity are a wonder\u2014differences, diversity created by God are a wonder.\n6 A follower of the Trinity lives a life of SUBMISSION\nWhen Jesus said to His heavenly Father, \u201cYour will be done,\u201d then all of God\u2019s children will be willing to say the same thing 24/7.\n7 A Trinitarian life is a JOYFUL life\nTo glorify God is to delight in God, to see God as beautiful, to enjoy His presence. The Trinity is the person of joy, and to maintain intimacy with Him will result in joy.\n8 A belief in the Trinity results in an ABUNDANT life\nFather is so giving, God reminds us in Romans 8:32, \u201cHe who did not spare His own Son, but delivered Him over for us all, how will He not also with Him freely give us all things?\u201d Imagine your loving uncle loves you so much, he designs, builds and gives you a lavish home\u2013built to provide all your needs, and designed around all your greatest wishes. The perfect home. Plus, this home is stocked with all your favorite pleasures, food, and conveniences\u2013just for you.\nBut living there, you discover there is one thing missing. It is lacking a salt and pepper shaker. Now do you think your uncle will actually deny you a salt and pepper shaker? After providing you with everything, do you think he\u2019ll now withhold a simple salt and pepper shaker? No! Like our God, after giving us His Son, Romans 8:32 says, \u201cHow will He not also with Him freely give us all things?\u201d Our heavenly Father is a giving gracious God\u2013abundant!\nB Being Trinitarian is amazing GRACE\n1 The Trinitarian Gospel alone can give you SALVATION by Grace\nIt was God the Father who chose you, God the Son who redeemed you, and God the Holy Spirit who regenerated you so that you could be born again, adopted into God\u2019s family, given abundant new life now and eternal life forever. It is the Trinity who can save you. God judged God on your behalf\u2013you could not die for sin. You could not take God\u2019s wrath for your sin or others. You could not provide a perfect sacrifice for sin.\nBut God could, by sending His perfect Son to die on your behalf. Only the God-man could take our place as man, and only the God-man could satisfy the Father\u2019s justice for sin. Cry out to God to send His Spirit to awaken your heart and give you new life now, adopt you as His child and give you eternal life in Heaven. You will certainly go to Hell unless you turn to the triune God alone to save you.\n2 The Trinitarian Gospel alone can SANCTIFY you with Grace\nYou are saved, not on the basis of what we do now. You are saved on the basis of what Christ did back then. When you\u2019re in Christ, you are secured, loved, forgiven, cleansed, made new, and will be being conformed by His Spirit. You are His child because of His grace, and you are pleasing to Christ now because of His grace.\nNothing can change your status as His true child\u2013nothing. Nothing can separate you from the love of Christ. No event, no sin, no failure, no mistake, no bad day, bad week, bad month or bad year. Once you are adopted, you can\u2019t be un-adopted. Once you are born again, you can\u2019t be aborted. And as His child, the love which the Father has for His own Son, that same love is now lavished on you.\nJesus declares in John 17:26, \u201cThe love with which You loved Me may be in them, and I in them.\u201d Don\u2019t you dare leave today without a fresh awareness of God\u2019s great love for you\u2013each child of God is beloved. Your Father chose you before time. Your Savior redeemed you on the cross and the Holy Spirit caused you to be born again in this life. You are loved.\nAnd we love because He first loved us\u2013we must remember His love for us first. As we return His love, you\u2019ll be filled with joy. Peter says in 1 Peter 1:8, \u201cThough you have not seen Him, you love Him, and though you do not see Him now, but believe in Him, you greatly rejoice with joy inexpressible and full of glory.\u201d My friends, there is great blessing awaiting you as you live in the presence of the triune God.\nHow do you remain in His love and know His joy? It begins with knowing His Word deeply, through prayer, through the fellowship of the saints, through today\u2019s worship service, through suffering, and through the other means of grace. As you get to know the triune God, the Father, Son and Spirit, you will become more like our God. 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The idea is that the money they make should go right back into making the Riverwalk a vital and dynamic place.\n\u201cIt\u2019s one thing to get a certain percentage of the city\u2019s general fund to go to support, but I think if we have parks and other assets that generate greater fees, then certainly they need to be keeping those as opposed to going back into the general fund,\u201d said Al Dallas, the mayor\u2019s executive assistant.\nWhile that all makes sense on paper, you wonder how practical the ambition is, considering the way the city has handled its riverfront marina.\nThe city\u2019s 14-year relationship with Mobile Marine, the company that operates the marina, has been frosty for years, but things came to a head last year when Mobile Marine owner Mike Stacey accused members of the Port Authority of breaking into one of the marina buildings.\nThat made for bad publicity, but things really turned in May, when the city\u2019s law department sent Stacey a letter announcing its intention to terminate Mobile Marine as the marina operator, citing several of the company\u2019s deficiencies, including not providing documents regarding underground storage tanks and not paying rent, utility bills and taxes.\nAs of that letter, dated May 20, 2014, Mobile Marine owed $21,600 in rent, $3,736 in utility bills and $251 in outstanding occupational tax.\nNot exactly a money maker for the city, huh?\nComplicating things, of course, is the fact that the riverfront land in question is owned by the city, the Port Authority and the Downtown Development Authority. Getting three people to agree on anything is difficult, while getting three groups to agree on a course of action is next to impossible. But that\u2019s an awful lot of money for a cash-strapped city to leave uncollected.\nStacey\u2019s rocky relationship with the Port Authority and boat owners and many others along the river is one thing, and insiders are hinting that there is a lot about to break on that front, but if money is supposed to talk, shouldn\u2019t the lack of money also have something to say? 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More than a fifth of Houston\u2019s office space is now vacant. The widespread vacancies significantly reduced office values, leaving properties grossly over-assessed for property tax purposes. The number of lawsuits continues to grow as owners work to manage their tax expense.\nDouble-Digit Vacancies\nOffice vacancy rates climbed to the highest level in more than two decades during the second quarter. The overall office vacancy rate jumped to 18.8% in the second quarter compared with 16.5% during the same period last year, according to Colliers International.\nThe Class A suburban vacancy rate was 21.4%, compared to a rate of 17.3% for the central business district.\nSublease Space\nHouston leads the nation in office sublease space. More than 10.5 million square feet of offices are not being used by an original tenant.\nThe majority of the sublease space in the market now has a 1-3 year term remaining. Given current demand for space, certain properties could face default as the existing lease expires, further depressing the values of office properties.\nA Trend Toward Litigation\nIn recent years, owners have not been able to resolve appeals in informal hearings or through formal Appraisal Review Board hearings. This resulted in the number of lawsuits growing from an average of 2,600 filed annually from 2010-2012, to more than 4,100 a year from 2014-2016. Successful lawsuits negatively impact taxing units and have resulted in refunds of an estimated $60 million in 2016. This year, refunds are projected to be significantly higher, adding to existing budget woes.\nTammy Betancourt, CEO and executive vice president of the Downtown Building Owners and Managers Association told the Houston Chronicle that the rise in lawsuits is a two-fold problem. It\u2019s due to \u201cunreasonable increases in value over a number of years, as well as the inability to find any middle ground through the Appraisal Review Board process\u201d she said.\nThe cost of litigation incurred by the Harris County Appraisal District jumped from roughly $9.4 million in 2012 to $15.6 million in 2016. These costs, which are funded by the various Harris county taxing units including cities and schools, are ultimately passed on to taxpayers.", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00240.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 50, + "original_length": 3154, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.96, + "perplexity": 210.4, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "http://michaelwindelspecht.com/", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T03:30:53Z", + "digest": "sha1:FSPBRQDMS2OIQHU7PRKI67M34L7APILI", + "length": 1631, + "nlines": 6, + "source_domain": "michaelwindelspecht.com", + "title": "Home - Michael Windelspecht", + "raw_content": "You never change things by fighting the existing reality.\u000bTo change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.\nDon't just travel the world, experience it.\nTraining and Microlearning Experts\nOER resources to promote science education\nAs a science writer with over 25 published books and numerous lab manuals and articles, I am passionate about the development of relevancy-based materials to science more appealing to those who are not scientists. Throughout this site you will see examples of these materials, from textbooks that focus on the relevancy of science, to online articles on my own website, and more recently, the development of topic-based courses that deploy the latest advances in educational technology to engage the student .\nI am a firm believer that learning does not occur in the classroom. Rather, it happens when a student engages with the subject in an environment that creates a memory of why what they learned was important. For that reason, almost a decade ago I became involved in international education. Students on the trips I sponsor (currently focused in Belize) learn the application of science to real-world problems. Depending on the trip, these students may be found performing water-quality monitoring on the Sibun River (shown here), or removing invasive lionfish from the coral reefs, or setting up trail cameras to monitor the local jaguar populations. 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According to News 4 Jax, a reporter met with\nApple Investors Losing Interest in Billion Dollar Company\nIn the two days leading up to Apple\u2019s earnings report Monday, selling in Apple spiked among investors with accounts on SigFig, a financial advisory start-up that tracks over $100 billion in assets among its users. The dollar amount of Apple shares sold\nThe Sandy Hook Elementary School formed a charity last year after the shooting massacre, however according to their co-founder they are unable to account for more than $70,000 of the money which was raised through a marathon running. Ryan Graney,\nNew York prosecutors announced more than 100 New York City cops, firefighters and correction officers were charged today with falsely claiming to be suffering from depression and anxiety as a result of the 9/11 terror attacks. Up to $500,000 will be awarded", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00240.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 83, + "original_length": 5834, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.97, + "perplexity": 290.2, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "http://moorestownghostresearch.com/2015/06/17/3-ways-to-give-your-home-a-fresh-new-look/", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T04:05:32Z", + "digest": "sha1:LLZLAMHX6TZII7RAAYQFKL6FPRHLYT2Q", + "length": 2331, + "nlines": 9, + "source_domain": "moorestownghostresearch.com", + "title": "3 Ways To Give Your Home A Fresh New Look - About the Author", + "raw_content": "Perhaps you don't feel very excited about your home's appearance anymore. If so, here are 3 ways to give your home a fresh new look that you might want to consider.\n1. Spruce Up Your Kitchen\nReplacing your kitchen cabinets with new ones is an excellent way to help spruce up your kitchen. Depending on what type of cabinets you get, it can completely transform the look of your entire kitchen. If you are already content with the cabinets that you have, you might want to think about possibly replacing your kitchen countertops as this can also give your kitchen a whole new look.\nIf it's not currently in your budget to get new kitchen cabinets or countertops, you can always go ahead and repaint the walls in your kitchen. This is also a fantastic way to transform your kitchen and it's very affordable as well. If your kitchen happens to be on the small side and you would like to make it appear larger, make sure to use either light or bright colors such as sage green or violet. It's also very important to use good quality paint. Cheap paint tends to have a dull, chalky look to it which will make your kitchen appear smaller.\n2. Get A New Garage Door\nHaving a new garage door installed is an excellent way to give your house a brand new look. With so many different garage doors available to choose from, you are sure to find one that both you and your entire family will love. You may want to think about possibly getting an automatic garage door opener installed if you don't already have one. This makes getting in and out of your garage when you're leaving your home to go places much faster and easier. Contact a company like Kaufman Overhead Door to learn more about garage door sales.\n3. Hire A Landscaper\nIf you are like most people, you probably enjoy having your yard look as nice as possible. Unfortunately, it's not always easy to find the time to be able to work on your yard and keep it looking its very best. That is why you may want to consider hiring a landscaper. Due to the fact that they are experts at lawn care and landscaping, they can make your yard look as good as new in nearly no time at all.\nThere's no doubt that being able to take pride in your home is a wonderful feeling. Hopefully these tips will help to ensure that you have a home that you and your family love for many more years to come.", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00240.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 22, + "original_length": 3222, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.98, + "perplexity": 298.9, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "http://mothersbliss.com/nine/concerns/probp.asp", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T03:34:24Z", + "digest": "sha1:PGM2WH6H4V6JBECLUBYVMGWUYOPDAZYO", + "length": 4285, + "nlines": 27, + "source_domain": "mothersbliss.com", + "title": "Nine Months : Common Concerns And Discomforts - Palmar Erythema, Palpitations, Piles...", + "raw_content": "Palmar erythema is the reddening of the palms and sometimes of the soles of the feet in pregnancy. This is the result of increased blood flow to them. It is not serious and is due to changes in the blood vessels during pregnancy.\nAnother name for palpitations is 'missed beats' and is known to happen in pregnancy. Although they are not something you should lose your sleep over, if your palpitations increase and are accompanied with chest pain and breathlessness, you should consult a doctor.\nPiles/Haemorrhoids\nWhat are they? Piles are swollen veins which appear inside the rectum and may protrude out from the anus.\nIn pregnancy: The weight of the growing baby puts pressure on the pelvis and this affects the flow of blood to and from the pelvis. As a result, the veins swell to accomodate the trapped blood and cause protrusions outside the anus. These can be very painful and the only relief is the actual birth of the baby.\nSymptoms: Piles are characterised by itching, pain, soreness of the back passage. Sometimes, you may notice bleeding when you try to pass stools. You can also feel some lumpiness of the piles aound the anus.\n* Avoid constipation as straining to pass stools may worsen the condition.\n* Have a high fibre diet and plenty of fluids to ensure that you are not constipated.\n* Regular exercise to improve circulation.\n* Try not to remain standing for long periods of time.\n* Use an ice pack over the piles if they are causing discomfort.\n* Use an ointment as prescribed by the doctor.\n* Pelvic floor exercises may help.\nWhat is it? Placenta praevia is a rare condition in which the placenta is situated at the bottom of the uterus instead of above it. As a result, the placenta blocks the cervix, either whole or partially.\nSymptoms: The main symptom is bright, red bleeding, especially after week 20.\nTreatment: A low lying placenta may be diagnosed during a routine ultrasound scan. Most cases of low lying placenta in early pregnancy correct themselves by 20 weeks. If however, the condition is diagnosed later and there are no symptoms, the patient is placed on bed rest. If there is bleeding as well, hospitalisation is necessary (accompanied with blood transfusion if you have lost a lot of blood). If it is found that there is a risk to the baby by the bleeding placenta, a caesarean may be performed even if that means delivering a premature baby. Sometimes, the condition might only be discovered during labour and if the obstruction is not severe, a normal vaginal delivery may be tried first before opting for a caesarean.\nRisk:The success rate with such conditions is quite good now.\nThis occurs when the placenta does not function properly. As a result, the baby develops slowly due to lack of nutrients and oxygen. Generally, this condition can be improved by resting so as to increase the blood flow from the placenta to the foetus. However, you will need to be closely monitored.\nWhat is it? 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He was born on 29th January 1850, the third son of Eyre and Mildred Ievers of Mount Ievers, and went to Australia with his younger brother William.\nOn 22nd May 1878 he married Phoebe Elizabeth Allen, daughter of the Very Rev. James Hastings Allen, Dean of Killaloe and Rector of Kiltinanlea for 36 years. The Rev. Hastings Allen died in 1880, aged 75, while his widow Fanny (nee Blood of Roxton, Co. Clare) passed away in 1899.[i] By 1879, George was a major shareholder in the Day Dawn PC Gold Mining Company.\nA frustratingly unnamed PDF document on the internet includes a chapter on Charter Towers\u2019 Brilliant Reef which reveals how, in 1886, one of George\u2019s old business associates called Richard Craven persuaded him to invest \u00a312,000 in financing a vertical shaft on the Queen and Day Dawn reefs, as well as the flotation of the Brilliant Gold Mining Company.\nGeorge Ievers \u2018became the main shareholder with fifty-seven percent, Craven held twenty-seven percent. A further three percent were held in Charters Towers, six percent in Dalby and seven percent in Britain. By late 1889 the shaft had reached 900 feet and their capital was almost exhausted when Craven decided to explore an apparently unpromising shoot which had been passed at 765 feet. Within weeks they opened out, not on the junction of the Queen and Day Dawn, but on a new ore body: the Brilliant reef\u2019 [about 2180km north-northwest of Brisbane].\n\u2018By the end of the decade the shaft had reached a vertical depth of 1,395 feet, composed of the vertical shaft of 900 feet and 1,040 feet on the underlie. The following year the Brilliant PC had become the biggest producer on the field, and by 1899 it had yielded over \u00a32,000,000 in gold. The Brilliant reef was the most productive ore shoot ever discovered on Charters Towers and was eventually mined to a depth of nearly 3,000 feet.\u2019\nBy 1894, the Charters Towers output was nearly \u00a31,000,000 worth of gold a year.[ii] George retired back to Ireland on his earnings and was active on the London stock market during the 1886 boom when he floated the Phoebe Gold Mining Company [named for his wife] as an English Company. One of the vendors of this company was Richard Craven.\nHe rented a house in Kilkee, west Clare, where he apparently employed Catherine Coll (1858-1932), mother of Eamon de Valera, as the cook. This was presumably before she emigrated to New York in 1879 although she is said to have returned to Ireland on occasion. Norman Ievers senior believed that de Valera was a beneficiary of some of George Ievers money which paid for Eamon\u2019s education in Ireland. There is also room for gentle chin-rubbing and eyebrow wiggling over the fact that Eamon de Valera\u2019s first birth certificate record held by New York State named him as \u2018George De Valero.\u2019\nHe later had addresses at Ballinagarde, Co. Limerick, which is where, nearly 200 years earlier, his ancestress Elizabeth Ievers \u2013 widow of the first Henry Ievers to settle in Ireland \u2013 lived with her husband John Croker. Ballinagarde House features in the 2011 coffee table book \u2018Abandoned Ireland\u2019.\nGeorge also either owned or rented Inchiera [Inchera], or Sun Lodge, a former home of the Oliver family, which stood just east of Cork City, near Little Island and Dunkettle, but which was destroyed by fire sometime after 1950.\nGeorge died in 1908 and Phoebe on 14th May 1931. They had two sons and three daughters.\nTheir eldest daughter Agnes Georgina Ievers was born in 1879. On 12th January 1898, the 19-year-old married 35-year-old Augustus Riversdale John Blennerhasset Warren, heir to the baronetcy of Warren Court\u2019s, County Cork. He succeeded as 6th Baronet upon his fathers death on 1st April 1914 but succumbed to pneumonia on 28th August 1914, just a few months later. Their 16-year-old son succeeded as 7th baronet. Agnes may have been the Lady Warren who wrote `Through Algeria & Tunisia on a Motor-bicycle\u2019 (Jonathan Cape, 1922) Agnes was married secondly, aged 61, on 21st May 1944 to George I. Hartt, son of Edward Hartt of Whitehill, Riverstown, Co. Sligo. She died in October 1950.\nTheir second daughter Maud St. Leger Ievers was born in 1881 and married, aged 20, on 28th July 1900 Henry Williamson Leader, JP, of Mount Leader, Co. Cork. They had issue (see that family) but were divorced in 1930 and he died in 1950. On 10th May 1933, she was married secondly to a somewhat younger man, namely Lionel Oulton Moore Munn, the golf-club wielding third son of Alfred and Blanche Moore Munn of Lisleen, Shantallow, Co. Londonderry. By 1939 when JP Rooney\u2019s Blue Book appeared, Lionel, a two-time Irish Open Champion, was an honorary member of Portrush, Castlerock, Lahinch, Island, Portmarnock and North West golf clubs.[iii] Maud died on 15th June 1953 [or 1954] and Lionel died on 25 October 1958 at his home in Killarney at 71 years of age. By her marriage to H. W. Leader, Maud had two daughters Maud Ievers Leader (b. 28 Nov 1902, m. 1926 Maj. Gen. A. A. Richardson, DSO, d. 15 July 1945, survived by daughter Sheila) and Violet Leader (b. 10 Nov 1903, m. 23 Aug 1923 J. C. R. Delmege, parents of Peter).\nGEORGE FREDERICK IEVERS\nTheir eldest son George Frederick Ievers later settled at Avonmore in Co. Wicklow, and was father of Squadron Leader Norman Ievers.\nAbove: Sydney Ievers (1886-1919).\nSYDNEY GLADSTONE IEVERS (1886-1919)\nTheir second son Sydney Gladstone Ievers was born on 25th May 1886 and may have been named in part for the Australian city and in part for the Liberal leader William Ewart Gladstone, which would suggest that George Ievers was a supporter of Irish Home Rule. Sydney lived at Belfield, Ennis Road, Limerick, but was amongst the luckless souls who fell victim to the Spanish Flu which engulfed Europe after the First World War, dying unmarried aged 25 on 17th February 1919.\nSYBIL ATKINSON\nPerhaps taking a leaf from her uncles Dr. Eyre Ievers and Major Philip Ievers, George and Phoebe\u2019s youngest daughter Sybil Ievers studied at the Royal College of Surgeons in Dublin and became a medical practitioner. She was married on 28th September 1910 to Capt. Hon. Hector John Atkinson, Royal Irish Fusiliers, a veteran of the Boer War. Born at Glenwilliam Castle, Ballingarry, Co. Limerick, Hector was the son of John Atkinson (1844-1932), who served as Solicitor-General and later Attorney General for Ireland, and who was created Baron Atkinson in 1905.\nAbove: The sale of Mount Ievers, The Irish Times, 12 May 1945.\nAfter their marriage the Atkinsons settled at Kilmainham, Co. Cavan, but also seem to have had a townhouse at 74 Merrion Square. He died on 26th May 1917 and was buried in Dean\u2019s Grange, Blackrock, Co. Dublin. He had served in France during the early part of the war but was more recently stationed in Belfast and Dublin. I am unsure why he died. His brother Cecil Thomas Atkinson, Judge of the High Court of Bihar and Orissa, died in India 20th November 1919.\nSybil later lived at Tyrellspass House, Co. Westmeath. She purchased Mount Ievers from Mrs. F. H. Ievers on 1 Jan 1939 but died on 26th July 1939.\nSyblil was survived by her only daughter Olga Rowena Maude Atkinson who married Ian Morrow. 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Each June, nearly 100 students, and a dozen teachers, come together to teach, learn, share, and work alongside one another for 7 unimaginably inspiring days. It is, without a doubt, the highlight of my year.\nAfter those 7 days, some people have completed paintings to show off, whereas others have pieces in progress that they will finish at home in the following weeks. This year, Rebecca Guay, the creator of the Illustration Master Class, asked all of the students to vote for which of their peer's pieces were their absolute favorite.\nMuddy Colors is honored to present you with this year's Survey Winners:\nwww.pochenko.blogspot.com\n'Tristan and Isolde', Digital\nEd Ko is a Taiwanese-born concept artist and illustrator. His fantasy pieces have been featured in Spectrum and nominated for a Chesley Award for Best Monochrome Work.\nInspired to create fantastical worlds by the comics of his youth, and the masterpieces of Bouguereau and Waterhouse, Ed set out to learn everything he could about drawing and painting.\nEd currently lives and works in San Francisco.\nwww.sheppard-arts.com\n'Tarzan : The Light of Knowledge', Oils on board, 18 x 24 inches.\nCynthia Sheppard is a full-time working illustrator from Fairfax, Virginia, USA. Her clients include Wizards of the Coast, Pyr Books, Fantasy Flight Games, and ImagineFX Magazine.\nShe hopes to continue working on art for books and games, while branching out into doing more traditional media painting.\nAn in-depth blog entry about the making of the painting: LINK\nCynthia's top 5 lessons from the 2012 IMC: LINK\nPeter Morbacher\n'Tristan and Isolde', Oil and Digital, 18 x 11.5 inches\nMy name is Pete Mohrbacher. I work during the day as Art Lead on a social game called Dragons of Atlantis. Evenings and weekends, I do freelance for Magic: The Gathering and other projects. Sometimes, I'm also a dad and husband.\nI got into art when I was a teenager because I became obsessed with anime and manga. It just filled up my brain and I only wanted to think about how to make it. Today, I'm still obsessed with the process of making art. As I've gotten more mature, I've learned to love the expressiveness of art. My favorite thing is to see people's personalities comes through their drawings, paintings, movies, music and games. I want to put my experiences and emotions into my paintings so that other people can share them with me. My hope is that I can continue to make my work more expressive and create oil paintings that stand the test of time. I've still got a long ways to go, but IMC made me feel like it is possible.\nI get choked up thinking about my experiences at IMC. I've never felt more present and alive. During the ups and the downs, it was intense.\nLauren Saint-Onge\nwww.laurensaintonge.com\n'The Descent', Digital, 10 x 12 in.\nAs an illustrator living in Boston, MA, Lauren Saint-Onge is a graduate of the Massachusetts College of Art and Design.\nShe currently works as a concept artist at Harmonix Music Systems in Cambridge.\nOutside of the video game industry, she is actively pursuing more personal and freelance work. Her most current undertaking is focused on illustrating the events surrounding the American Revolutionary War.\nSean McMurchy\nwww.seanmcmurchy.blogspot.ca\n'Tristan and Isolde', Oil on Masonite, 18 x 24 inches\nAs an artist, I feel like I'm about to come out of my cocoon. I haven't fully developed - I'm not sure what I will end up being. I always wanted to be an artist, but I have just recently started thinking a lot more about what kind of work I want to make, which is really exciting. My high school had an innovative teacher that ran a unique 3D modeling and animation program which landed me a job at Electronic Arts. I spent three and a half years modeling cars and environments there, but I spent my free time drawing and painting, as I had always done since I was little, during off hours, which, to be honest, were not abundant. When the opportunity came up, I jumped ship to work as a concept artist at another company. After three years in this position, I took stock at where I was as an artist and found myself lacking. I wasn't catching up to where I wanted to be as fast as I wanted to be doing it, despite working on my own artwork on weekends and evenings.\nWith the goal of improving myself artistically, and with the support of my wife, I decided to take two years off work. I put a lesson plan together and went back to the basics of drawing and painting with traditional media. At this point I have come to the end of this self-directed learning and will transition into working full time again on paid projects. Following a two month trip to Turkey and India, I am moving to Cambridge, England early in the new year with my wife who has a Post-doctoral fellowship there. A lot of adventure ahead and I'm looking forward to all of it!\nThe IMC was a really fantastic experience for me. To work and hang out with so many other dedicated young artists as well as fantasy illustration heroes was really a mind-blowing experience. It was opening up your skull and having your brain bombed directly by B52 bombers of love and knowledge. It was \u201cmega legit.\u201d\nMuddy Colors would like to personally congratulate each of this year's winners. 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(June 9, 2011) \u2013 Albertson SC (U-13), New York Red Bulls (U-14) and NJSA 04 (U-15) each claimed titles as the 2011 Northeast Pre-Academy League Cup came to a close. Held in conjunction with the US Club Soccer Player Development Program (PDP), the event took place June 3-5 at PA Classics Soccer Park in Manheim, Pa.\nAlbertson SC entered the League Cup as the No. 4 seed but reached the final by shutting out top-seeded PDA 3-0. In the final, Albertson defeated seventh-seeded Match Fit Chelsea 4-1 to earn the title.\nIn U-14 action, the top-ranked New York Red Bulls never surrendered a goal en route to the championship, out-scoring their opponents by a combined score of 16-0.\nNJSA 04, which entered the weekend as the No. 3 seed, claimed the U-15 crown on the strength of three one-goal victories. 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Although the maestro had retired a few years ago, his passing away makes the void palpable.\nAmongst 20th century giants of vocalism, Pandit Bhimsen Joshi enjoyed a rare combination of popularity and stature. He charmed three generations of music lovers with his renditions of Khayal, Thumree, and Bhajans in Hindi, Kannada, and Marathi. According to reliable estimates, he could have delivered more than 10,000 concerts during his career spanning six decades, and recorded over a 100 discs. He is also the only Hindustani classical vocalist to have earned the Platinum Disc of the Gramophone Company of India (HMV).\nBhimsenji was acclaimed as an exponent of the Kairana gharana (stylistic tradition) of Khayal vocalism, having trained under Sawai Gandharva, the tallest disciple of Ustad Abdul Kareem Khan. He was, however, a reformer of the gharana\u2019s music, and the initiator of an original style, incorporating features of several other stylistic traditions. This explains the influence he wielded over younger generations of audiences and male vocalists.\nThe Bharat Ratna, conferred on him in 2008, was the crowning glory of an illustrious career. Panditji was amongst the most decorated musicians of the country. Amongst his major awards are: Ustad Enayet Khan Foundation Award (2002), Padma Vibhushan (1999), HMV Platinum Disc (1986), Padma Bhushan (1985), Sangeet Natak Akademi Award (1976), and Padma Shri (1972 ).\nChildhood and grooming\nBhimsen Joshi was amongst the most distinguished products of the vibrant bi-lingual Northern Karnataka musical culture. He was born into a Kannada-speaking, Madhava Brahmin family of Kirtankar-s, hailing from Gadag in Dharwad district. His father, Gururaj Joshi, was the Headmaster of a Municipal School. He wanted Bhimsen to qualify as an engineer or a doctor. But, Bhimsen\u2019s only passion was music.\nThe defining moment of young Bhimsen\u2019s life came when, around the age of 12, he heard a three-minute 78 rpm record of Ustad Abdul Kareem Khan, featuring a Khayal in raga Basant, and a Thumree in raga Jhinjhoti. He decided that that he had to be able to sing like the Ustad, and quietly left home one night in search of a Guru, with neither any baggage, nor any money in his pocket.\nHis search was arduous, replete with ticket-less travel followed by nights spent in jail, destitution, singing for his supper, sleepless nights in strange places, days without a square meal, menial jobs taken up to keep body and soul together, and exploitation by insensitive employers. The three-year long odyssey took him to Pune, Gwalior, Calcutta and even Jallandhar. But, none of these cities delivered to him a Guru.\nAt the Harvallabh Sammelan in Jallandhar, Bhimsen met the Gwalior gharana stalwart, Vinayakrao Patwardhan. Patwardhan advised him to return home, and start studies with Sawai Gandharva (Rambhau Kundgolkar), the most distinguished disciple of Abdul Kareem Khan. Rambhau had, by that time, settled in Kundgol, not far from Bhimsen\u2019s hometown, Gadag. So, to the extreme relief of his parents, the 15-year old Bhimsen returned home.\nEntering Sawai Gandharva\u2019s tutelage was not easy. The Guru demanded a fee of Rs. 25 per month, one-fourth of Bhimsen\u2019s father\u2019s salary. Despite the senior Joshi\u2019s responsibility for seven children, he made the sacrifice --just to keep Bhimsen closer to home.\nBhimsen\u2019s education was typical of the Gurukul Paddhati in those days. The disciple lived with the Guru, served him in every way, and learnt music. For almost 18 months after formalizing the tutelage, Sawai Gandharva taught him nothing, but tested Bhimsen\u2019s\ndetermination by entrusting menial domestic chores to him. Bhimsen passed the test with flying colors. Once the maestro was won over, he stopped accepting fees, and taught him from four in the morning till midnight every day, with only a couple of breaks in between.\nRambhau\u2019s teaching was in the traditional mode, without any notations being written or permitted. All learning was by internalization and memorization. Even after serious lessons commenced, the burden of domestic responsibilities in Rambhau\u2019s household continued to interrupt Bhimsen\u2019s training routine. In dry Kundgol, it was Bhimsen's duty to fetch unending pitchers of water for his guru's house from a distant water tank.\n\"Poor fellow; in the scorching heat, he would carry water on his shoulders\u2026 but as he walked he would constantly sing. How many times I've heard him practicing the taans of Multani, Shankara\u2026!\" recalled Gangubai Hangal, who was his senior amongst the maestro\u2019s disciples (an interview to Deepa Ganesh of The Hindu). If Bhimsen needed clarifications on his lessons, he sought them from Gangubai. During his apprenticeship with Sawai Gandharva, which lasted about five years, the maestro taught Bhimsen three ragas \u2013 Todi, Multani and Puriya. He learnt several other raga-s by supporting his Guru at concerts.\nAfter returning home from Rambhau\u2019s tutelage, Bhimsen felt attracted to the thumree and semi-classical genres, as performed in the Purab (Eastern UP) region. So, he traveled to Benares and Lucknow, to hear the thumree stalwarts \u2013 Begum Akhtar, Siddheshwari Devi, Rasoolan Bai. Begum Akhtar recommended Bhimsenji for perhaps his first job as a musician \u2013 with All India Radio, Lucknow, a major center of classical music in those days. In 1943, he took a transfer to Bombay, the music capital of the country, which opened the doors of destiny for him.\nBhimsen gave his first public concert of classical music in Pune at the age of 19 (1941), and showed great promise. In 1944, he made his first 78 rpm discs of Marathi and Kannada devotional songs, which gave him tremendous popularity in Maharashtra and Karnataka. In 1946, he started recording classical music for HMV, and these releases also sold extremely well.\nIn the same year, he achieved a major breakthrough at the 60th birthday celebrations of his Guru, Sawai Gandharva, held in Pune. His performance at the event, with the most influential patrons and the greatest musicians of the era in attendance, heralded the arrival of a new maestro. His fame spread steadily thereafter, and within a decade, he became the busiest vocalist on the concert circuit. By the 1960\u2019s, Bhimsen Joshi\u2019s contemporaries in the profession had begun to joke \u2013 enviously, no doubt -- that he knew every air hostess on Indian Airlines by name, and the entire Bradshaw (Indian Railways time-table) by heart.\nHis career graph zoomed once concert-length recordings became available in the mid-1960s through LP records, and later audio-cassettes. He achieved iconic status in the 1970s after the publication of \"Santavani\", a four-hour collection of Bhajans. He also enhanced his popularity with his playback renditions for films. His songs for the Marathi film, Gulacha Ganapati, and Hindi films like Basant Bahar, Bhairavi, Anhoni, and Ankahee brought his voice into homes that had little interest in classical music.\nJoshi became a universally recognized voice of a resurgent India in the 1990s with his rendition of \"Mile Sur Mera Tumhara\" in a series of television clips devised to promote national integration.\nLike most other leading musicians of his generation, Bhimsenji did perform for adulatory audiences abroad. But, in a radio interview with the Marathi litt\u00e9rateur, P L Deshpande, he almost brushed aside this facet of his career as insignificant. He evidently placed the highest value on his relationship with audiences at home.\nBhimsen was singled out -- rather unjustly -- for his limited repertoire of raga-s, and their repeated rendition at concerts and on commercial recordings. He built up a formidable edifice of musicianship with his renditions of about 20 ragas, mainly -- Darbari, Puriya Kalyan, Miya-ki-Todi, Lalit, Shuddha Kalyan, Miya-ki-Malhar, Puriya, Multani, Marwa, Malkauns, Maru Bihag, Abhogi, Gaur Sarang, Brindabani Sarang, and Jaijaiwanti.\nPresident K.R Narayanan presenting the Padma Vibhushan Award 1999 to renowned musician Pt. Bhimsen Gururaj Joshi at a glittering investiture ceremony at Rashtrapati Bhawan in New Delhi on March 23,1999.\nThis pattern is not unique to Bhimsen Joshi, and is also understandable. There are, of course, a few gharana-s which pride themselves in performing a wide range of raga-s. A majority of them, however, have a marked preference for a select few ragas which enable them to express their stylistic inclinations most effectively. Further, each musician has learnt some raga-s most intensively, practiced most rigorously, and found most suited to his temperament. He excels in these ragas, and audiences never tire of his renderings of them because he is able to present them with freshness and impact each time. But, because the finest amongst musicians have internalized the concept of raga-ness, they are able to easily master new raga-s, and also create new melodic entities of their own.\nBhimsen was candid about the limitations of his repertoire, without being apologetic. But, like many others, he responded to public demand and the goading of recording companies, by recording an entire series of \"Unsung Ragas\", many of which are rare, and even created new ragas like Kalashri ( a blend of Kalavati and Rageshri) and Lalit-Bhatiyar (combining Lalit with Bhatiyar).\nNo other 20th century vocalist, with the exception of Ustad Faiyyaz Khan and Ustad Bade Gulam Ali Khan, has held his audiences in abject surrender like Bhimsen Joshi did.\nPanditji\u2019s unique bonding with audiences was attributed to several factors. The most significant facet of his musical personality was his voice with all its qualities \u2013 precision, richness, power, range, malleability and agility \u2013 and the emotional involvement he invested in every rendition. Veteran connoisseurs have also noted that, over the years, there was no change in the youthfulness and freshness of his voice, and delivery. Another important aspect was his wide repertoire of genres, and his equal command over all departments of musicianship in each of them. The third substantial facet was his amazing consistency as a performer.\nAmongst vocalists, his consistency rating has been matched, in the last 60 years, only by Ustad Bade Gulam Ali Khan. Enhancing the influence of these qualities was his ability to astutely judge profiles of audiences, select the repertoire most suited to them, and to deliver it with gripping impact.\nBhimsen Joshi\u2019s star started rising while the titans of the pre-independence era \u2013 Kesarbai Kerkar, Omkarnath Thakur, and Krishnarao Pandit -- were still active. He built his career sharing the stage with formidable contemporaries -- Gangubai Hangal, Hirabai Barodekar, and Roshanara Begum of his own gharana, Ustad Ameer Khan of Indore/Bhindi Bazaar, Ustad Bade Gulam Ali Khan of Patiala, and D V Paluskar of Gwalior.\nThe stature and popularity of Joshi, a classicist, remained unaffected by the later rise of the hugely influential romanticists \u2013 Kumar Gandharva, Jasraj and Kishori Amonkar.\nHis musicianship shone brightly amidst such a galaxy because his vocalism could outgrow the shadows of orthodox Kairana without sacrificing its essentials, and evolve into an original modern style with a broad-spectrum appeal.\nDuring his long career, Bhimsen Joshi trained a few competent students. If they do not feature in the \"Who\u2019s Who\" of the next generation, his is not an isolated case. With the demise of aristocratic patronage after independence, music became an extremely stressful and nomadic profession, which left thriving musicians with neither the time, nor the temperament, for being effective Gurus. However, thanks to the ample availability of his recordings, Bhimsen Joshi\u2019s influence pervades all of male vocalism. In fact, today, it is difficult to find a male singer below 50, who has not been visibly influenced by him.\nBhimsen Joshi was greatly admired for setting up an organization for hosting the annual Sawai Gandhrva music festival at Pune in the memory of his Guru. The festival, held consistently for 58 years now, is Bhimsen\u2019s unique contribution to India\u2019s cultural life. The three-day festival features some of the finest musicians in the country, while also providing a platform for the launch of promising young talent. The concerts begin at 8.00 pm and end in the wee hours of the morning, with audiences ranging from 7000 to 15,000. During the event, Bhimsen Joshi worked like any other volunteer, often seen sweeping the stage, bringing the instruments of other musicians to the concert platform, or helping younger artistes tune their Tanpura-s to perfection. The Sawai Gandharva Festival has now acquired a life of its own, and bids fair to survive its founder.\nThe best known passion of Bhimsen Joshi outside music was cars. He always owned a fleet of big cars in which he loved driving himself and all his accompanists, along with their instruments, to concert locations within a motorable distance. He had his share of car accidents; but nothing could make him quit driving. His passion for cars was, not surprisingly, accompanied by an astonishing knowledge of automobile engineering. He once told an interviewer --. \"If I had not been a musician, I would have happily spent my life as a garage mechanic tuning engines of cars\".\nOther than his romance with cars, Bhimsen was a man of simple interests \u2013 yoga, swimming, and football. Though he had slowed down on his concert engagements after turning 75, he demonstrated his lifelong commitment to physical fitness at the age of 85 by performing for 40 minutes at the 55th Sawai Gandharva Festival in December, 2007.\nPandit Bhimsen Joshi was the last of the great 20th century classicists in Hindustani vocalism. His most valuable legacy is the massive archive of music, recorded over a period of more than 60 years, covering a variety of genres. In this, he bequeaths to the nation a library of some of the finest specimens of 20th century vocalism.\nDeepak Raja is a management professional by education ( an alumnus of the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad ), and a musicologist by choice. He is a sitar and surbahar player of the Imdad Khan/ Etawah gharana, and has also received training in vocal music in the Jaipur-Atrauli gharana of Khayal vocalism. 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She has an extraordinary ear for music which is only exceeded by her passion for the American songbook and the golden age of American musicals.\nAnn started her involvement in music at an early age. She grew up in a musical family in suburban Chicago, where she and her mother regularly performed on two pianos and all four members of her family would often play in public, accompanying group singing on a variety of stringed instruments. As a child, Ann made up songs and played the piano by ear in addition to studying classical music. Then, at Wellesley College, where her mother had been a music and mathematics major 25 years earlier, Ann composed the class song and won a college song-writing contest. She also arranged much of the music for the Wellesley octet, The Tupelos.\nAt a time when Washington had not yet become the thriving cultural metropolis for the performing arts it is today, Ann and her husband, Townsend, who had recently moved to the District, produced musicals of old Broadway shows with up to 12 singers and offered these professionally staged works to the community. Ann served as both Arranger and Music Director. There were sometimes as many as ten shows a year which toured clubs, churches and D.C. area institutions such as the justice department where they performed for the Supreme Court Justices. \u201cThe Hoopes Troops,\u201d as the group was known, raised money for many good causes over a period of 15 years, and enjoyed a steady following of friends and fans.\nAs a composer, Ann and Townsend collaborated on a musical called \u201cThe Pilgrims. \u201d Recently, with collaborators Robert Johnson and Susan Galbraith, she completed a musical about Amelia Earhart which she originated, combining her passion and experience as a pilot of small airplanes with her love for music. The work, Amelia in America, received a most successful workshop in Minneapolis-St Paul and is currently under consideration for a full production locally. 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The Sept. 14 program will feature Belmont senior Hayley Lewis, who was crowned Miss Tennessee June 21, as well as junior Megan Swanson, who was named Miss Nebraska earlier this summer.\nLewis earned the highest score in the talent category on the night of the Tennessee pageant for her performance of \u201cI (Who Have Nothing).\u201d She will defer from the University for one year to travel the state as Gov. Bill Haslam\u2019s spokesperson for Character Education as well as the goodwill ambassador for Children\u2019s Miracle Network before returning to campus in August 2015 to complete her studies in music business and classical vocal performance. 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Michigan broadcasters created more than 8,000 jobs in last year and accounted from$1.5 billion of the state GDP, according to the findings of a 2017 survey by the Washington, D.C., based Woods & Poole Economics, Inc.\nPrevious PostLongtime Michigan DJ Bob Steel PassesNext PostCongress Proposes Increases for Pirate Radio Fines", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00240.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 160, + "original_length": 3132, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.93, + "perplexity": 282.3, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "http://nicolesievers.com/about/", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T04:21:46Z", + "digest": "sha1:6ZPLSADMHAT5TEJFKFFOOAQRIYNU73P4", + "length": 1920, + "nlines": 5, + "source_domain": "nicolesievers.com", + "title": "About \u2014 Nicole Sievers", + "raw_content": "Nicole's involvement with makeup dates back many years. As the daughter of a painter she has always gravitated towards the artist side of things. Her original goal in life was to be part of the motion picture industry. While attending Full Sail University, in pursuit of her dream, she was exposed to the transformative process, an actor goes under for a role, and fell in love. It was then, that she realized what she truly wanted out of life; to become a Professional Makeup Artist. Nicole furthered her immersion into the makeup world, after receiving her BA at Full Sail, by enrolling at Joe Blasco Makeup Academy. While attending Joe Blasco, she worked hand in hand with some of the industry's best makeup and special effects artists. Armed with the experience one gains by attending such prestigious institutions, she set out to follow her dreams.\nWhile Nicole's initial focus in the makeup world had been editorial in nature -- focusing predominately on high fashion and film shoots -- over the past seven years she has cultivated a niche within the New York City wedding industry as a bridal makeup artist.\nThere is nothing in the world, that Nicole values more than being able to bring a bride's vision to life, on her wedding day. Nicole's style and core belief is that makeup should be simple, captivating, and highlight the best features of every woman. Nicole combines traditional makeup application techniques with high-definition airbrushing for a beautifully natural look that appears as good in person as it does when captured by digital photography and production.\nBeyond bridal makeup, Nicole is highly active in other facets of the makeup industry as she continues to expand upon her robust portfolio of editorial work. In addition, Nicole's talents have been featured in a number of leading blogs and magazines covering the bridal and fashion industries.\nImage Credit: Laura Marie Duncan Photography", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00240.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 35, + "original_length": 2422, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.97, + "perplexity": 285.4, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "http://nightingaleshiraz.com/blog/2014-04.html", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T03:49:20Z", + "digest": "sha1:OMSJWHT75RUMCPOKFSCDJVW63LL36JKP", + "length": 8174, + "nlines": 15, + "source_domain": "nightingaleshiraz.com", + "title": "nightingaleshiraz / blog / april 2014", + "raw_content": "Something in the air.\nThis is not the best bit from Joan Didion's \"Los Angeles Notebook\" (and let's not get into what 'best' would even be, to Joan or to you or to me), but given the weather in Southern California these days (and no, Ray, I'm not talking about all that hot air that was coming out of the San Diego Opera Boardroom last week, not in this post anyway), I thought it the most apt. Maybe even harmonious, you could say.\nThere is something uneasy in the Los Angeles air this afternoon, some unnatural stillness, some tension. What it means is that tonight a Santa Ana will begin to blow, a hot wind from the northeast whining down through the Cajon and San Gorgonio Passes, blowing up sand storms out along Route 66, drying the hills and the nerves to flash point. For a few days now we will see smoke back in the canyons, and hear sirens in the night. I have neither heard nor read that a Santa Ana is due, but I know it, and almost everyone I have seen today knows it too. We know it because we feel it. The baby frets. The maid sulks. I rekindle a waning argument with the telephone company, then cut my losses and lie down, given over to whatever it is in the air. To live with the Santa Ana is to accept, consciously or unconsciously, a deeply mechanistic view of human behavior.\n\"On nights like that,\" Raymond Chandler once wrote about the Santa Ana, \"every booze party ends in a fight. Meek little wives feel the edge of the carving knife and study their husbands' necks. Anything can happen.\" That was the kind of wind it was. I did not know then that there was any basis for the effect it had on all of us, but it turns out to be another of those cases in which science bears out folk wisdom. The Santa Ana, which is named for one of the canyons it rushes through, is a foehn wind, like the foehn of Austria and Switzerland and the hamsin of Israel. There are a number of persistent malevolent winds, perhaps the best know of which are the mistral of France and the Mediterranean sirocco, but a foehn wind has distinct characteristics: it occurs on the leeward slope of a mountain range and, although the air begins as a cold mass, it is warmed as it comes down the mountain and appears finally as a hot dry wind. Whenever and wherever a foehn blows, doctors hear about headaches and nausea and allergies, about \"nervousness,\" about \"depression.\" In Los Angeles some teachers do not attempt to conduct formal classes during a Santa Ana, because the children become unmanageable. In Switzerland the suicide rate goes up during the foehn, and in the courts of some Swiss cantons the wind is considered a mitigating circumstance for crime. Surgeons are said to watch the wind, because blood does not clot normally during a foehn. A few years ago an Israeli physicist discovered that not only during such winds, but for the ten or twelve hours which precede them, the air carries an unusually high ratio of positive to negative ions. No one seems to know exactly why that should be; some talk about friction and others suggest solar disturbances. In any case the positive ions are there, and what an excess of positive ions does, in the simplest terms, is make people unhappy. One cannot get much more mechanistic than that.\nEasterners commonly complain that there is no \"weather\" at all in Southern California, that the days and the seasons slip by relentlessly, numbingly bland. That is quite misleading. In fact the climate is characterized by infrequent but violent extremes: two periods of torrential subtropical rains which continue for weeks and wash out the hills and send subdivisions sliding toward the sea; about twenty scattered days a year of the Santa Ana, which, with its incendiary dryness, invariably means fire. At the first prediction of a Santa Ana, the Forest Service flies men and equipment from northern California into the southern forests, and the Los Angeles Fire Department cancels its ordinary non-firefighting routines. The Santa Ana caused Malibu to burn as it did in 1956, and Bel Air in 1961, and Santa Barbara in 1964. In the winter of 1966-67 eleven men were killed fighting a Santa Ana fire that spread through the San Gabriel Mountains.\nJust to watch the front-page news out of Los Angeles during a Santa Ana is to get very close to what it is about the place. The longest single Santa Ana period in recent years was in 1957, and it lasted not the usual three or four days but fourteen days, from November 21 until December 4. On the first day 25,000 acres of the San Gabriel Mountains were burning, with gusts reaching 100 miles an hour. In town, the wind reached Force 12, or hurricane force, on the Beaufort Scale; oil derricks were toppled and people ordered off the downtown streets to avoid injury from flying objects. On November 22 the fire in the San Gabriels was out of control. On November 24 six people were killed in automobile accidents, and by the end of the week the Los Angeles Times was keeping a box score of traffic deaths. On November 26 a prominent Pasadena attorney, depressed about money, shot and killed his wife, their two sons and himself. On November 27 a South Gate divorc\u00e9e, twenty-two, was murdered and thrown from a moving car. On November 30 the San Gabriel fire was still out of control, and the wind in town was blowing eighty miles an hour. On the first day of December four people died violently, and on the third the wind began to break.\nIt is hard for people who have not lived in Los Angeles to realize how radically the Santa Ana figures in the local imagination. The city burning is Los Angeles's deepest image of itself. Nathaniel West perceived that, in The Day of the Locust, and at the time of the 1965 Watts riots what struck the imagination most indelibly were the fires. For days one could drive the Harbor Freeway and see the city on fire, just as we had always known it would be in the end. Los Angeles weather is the weather of catastrophe, of apocalypse, and, just as the reliably long and bitter winters of New England determine the way life is lived there, so the violence and the unpredictability of the Santa Ana affect the entire quality of life in Los Angeles, accentuate its impermanence, its unreliability. The winds shows us how close to the edge we are.\nI could live a life reading this woman's sentences.\nScontata.\nWhere we catsat in Valecchie, there was a bar down the road that we thought \u2014 initially and incorrectly \u2014 was Pergo Bar (I couldn't remember too well what Pergo bar had looked like all those years ago \u2014 not without either Jason or Steve sitting outside not-quite-nursing a third beer, anyway). Still, even after we realized our mistake, we kept going. Firstly because it was right across from where we had to drop off recycling, and secondly because the barman \u2014 I want to say his name was Marcello \u2014 liked us so much that his face would light up like a small child's every time we walked in. It got so that even if we didn't want anything at all \u2014 no coffee, no glass of bad bar wine, no last-minute-milk for the empty fridge \u2014 we would go in just to buy a couple of Lindors and feel loved. My favorite memory is the one in which we all introduced ourselves that first evening. He shook Andrew's hand first, then mine. And looking me sternly in the eye as he jerked a quintessentially Italian chin back to Andrew, he asked, \u201cLo sa quanto e' fortunato?\u201d\nOf course that's my favorite memory.\n[marted\u00ec 22 aprile 2014 ore 10:50:19] [\u00b6]\n...fuori dell'inverno...\nHere in the giardino condominiale, we have a blackbird, and April belongs to him. Maybe he knows it's National Poetry Month. Which reminds me, when is Poetry Month in Italy? Britain has theirs in October (I guess because the weather is better than in April \u2014 oh no, wait...), and UNESCO celebrates World Poetry Day on the 21st of March, although that wasn't always the case. According to Wikipedia, \"in the latter part of the 20th Century the world community celebrated it on 15 October, the birthday of Virgil, the Roman epic poet and poet laureate under Augustus.\"\nNowadays, the UN says the 15th of October is International Day of Rural Women, and err, Global Handwashing Day. Well.", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00240.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 167, + "original_length": 10990, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.97, + "perplexity": 283.6, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "http://nique.net/entertainment/2014/03/06/band-specializes-in-unique-genre-blend/", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T03:23:06Z", + "digest": "sha1:NTWOTWU7EAD3PQFL4NAZCK52TNHVN2RE", + "length": 2197, + "nlines": 8, + "source_domain": "nique.net", + "title": "Band specializes in unique genre blend \u2013 Technique", + "raw_content": "Band specializes in unique genre blend\nDaniel Vizoso on March 6, 2014 in Entertainment\nThere are not many bands that can claim to have found measurable amounts of success around the entire world. Man\u00e1, a Latin rock band from Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico is one of those bands.\nThey have held the title of best-selling Spanish-language rock band since their second album, \u00bfDonde Jugar\u00e0n Los Ni\u00f1os?, was released in 1992. As of 2012, Man\u00e1 has sold over 30 million albums, played six world tours and won four Grammy\u2019s and seven Latin Grammy\u2019s.\nThe band is not just recognized for their musical talent and achievements. They have also done a great deal of philanthropy with their fame. This includes founding the Selva Negra foundation, which funds and supports environmental protection projects, and serving as ambassadors for the Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN. They are also not afraid to express their opinions on government, openly supporting President Obama for reelection in 2012 and supporting the Puerto Rico Independence Movement.\nMan\u00e1\u2019s music draws from many sources of inspiration, and it is the unique blend of Latin rock, ska, pop, reggae and other genres that has made their music well-known throughout the world. Their lyrics broach a wide range of topics, with songs like \u201cCorazon Espinado\u201d from Santana\u2019s album Supernatural that speaks of love to songs like \u201cJusticia, Tierra, y Libertad,\u201d from the album Revoluci\u00f2n de Amor, that calls for the eradication of world hunger.\nMan\u00e0 has released 13 albums over the course of 28 years and performed in many countries in the Americas, Europe, Africa and the Middle East. Their latest studio release, En Toda Libertad, is a compilation/mashup album featuring some of the band\u2019s most popular songs, such as \u201cD\u00e9jame Entrar\u201d and \u201cRayando El Sol.\u201d The band stated that the purpose of the album was to give back to the fans of their music by giving them an opportunity to hear those songs in a way they had never heard them before.\nAs Mexico\u2019s largest musical export, Man\u00e1 has accomplished a lot. If Man\u00e1 seems interesting, then one of their compilation albums like En Toda Libertad or Exiliados en la Bah\u00eda is a good place to start.", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00240.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 17, + "original_length": 2453, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.96, + "perplexity": 105.6, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "http://njtoymsd.blogspot.com/2013/05/dont-go-breakin-my-heart.html", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T03:50:49Z", + "digest": "sha1:CNN6JCWXELD3T5I5SKP3B6GF7ZXDFPPB", + "length": 16248, + "nlines": 29, + "source_domain": "njtoymsd.blogspot.com", + "title": "Adventures of a NJ TOY: Don't Go Breakin' My Heart", + "raw_content": "I had a bit of bad news last week which sent me into the deep end of the pity pool to float around for a while. I managed to get it together, but knew I had to give a speech today to my local association's retirees so I used the experience as inspiration. This was the second year I have been their keynote speaker and I had lots to reflect on in the last year. This may be the most brutally honest and vulnerable I have ever been in public, but if you can't be honest when you are at home, when can you? I knew this speech would go one of two ways, either it would be a roaring success and people would think I was very brave, or there would be an awkward silence when I was done followed by comments like, \"Oh dear,...she's a Teacher of the Year?\"\nI got a standing ovation.\nThank you to all the friends and family who never once gave up on me and helped me get through this last week. Thank you also to the Burlington County Retirees Education Association for letting me know I am on the right track today. I won't go breakin' your heart.\nHere is the speech.\nYou are very accomplished\u2026 for a teacher.\nI am a teacher, and to look at my resume, you would think that I was some sort of educational Wonder Woman. County Teacher of the Year, State Teacher of the Year, Humanities Teacher of the Year, History Teacher of the Year, Trailblazer and Outstanding Woman awards and a Regional Finalist for a White House Fellowship who already has four degrees and currently on full scholarship pursuing a PhD. But things are not always as they appear.\nI can tell you that for every award I win, I have lost at least four more. Before being accepted to my current school, a year and a half ago, I applied to a PhD program in education at the same university where I achieved a 4.0 GPA and distinction on my capstone project in my masters and was rejected.\nI am a 41 year old, single woman with no kids who has never been married, or even engaged. Although my married friends tell me I am lucky, I still feel like society thinks there is something wrong with me. I live in a tiny apartment filled with more books, pictures and mementos of my travels than space. But as a single girl who likes books and shoes, I can\u2019t afford a place on my own without being mortgage poor,. Since I am still paying my college loans for degrees 2,3,and 4, living paycheck to paycheck means I have had a hard time putting together money for a down- payment on a house. I was a B-C student in school who flew under the radar and was never in trouble but was never overachieving either; this was in part because there were never any great expectations for me. I was completely average and almost invisible. My parents were working class people with fewer than three years community college between them who struggled to make ends meet. I didn\u2019t realize how little we had until I went to school and started to visit my friend's houses after school, after which I was ashamed to invite people to my own house and ashamed that my parents couldn\u2019t afford the things that other parents could. Financial issues drove my parents to divorce when I was a junior in high school and I was ashamed because of the mess my life had become.\nI don\u2019t tell you this for your compassion or sympathy, only to tell you that the lens through which I view my life is not the same as the lens that people use when they view me. Often what we see is just the tip of the iceberg and that applies to our students, our colleagues and even the people sitting at the table with us today. My circumstances have shaped my character, and for years that has driven me to be more than what my surroundings might dictate. I have what they call - grit. Clearly, I did well and went to college not for one degree, but four and I am working on a fifth, but none of it has been easy.\nI found my gift in teaching 17 years and approximately 1,920 students ago, give-or-take, and I poured my heart and soul into my work. But my background caused a shame that led me to live a small life, one where other than with my students I wanted no attention. Although I was starting to show signs of growth beyond what my classroom could hold, I kept it quiet because I didn\u2019t want to rock the boat. You see, too often when a teacher dares to change things, they are often held back by people who are very comfortable with the status quo. The idea was if you want to lead, become an administrator, otherwise, be quiet, toe the line and be a teacher. Who are you to think you are better than everyone else? I loved my students and didn\u2019t want to become an administrator, so I kept quiet. I knew that many of my students had shame of their own and needed someone to help them through it. We were connected and it was enough.\nBy 2010, things began to change. I was handed an application for a humanities award by my principal who thought I should give it a try. Never expecting to win, I filled it in and sent it. I won and a big fuss was made. A reporter asked me once, \u201cWhere have you been all this time?\u201d because she was shocked that I had not been recognized in the 15 years I had been teaching. Surely I had not sprouted, fully formed, like Athena from the forehead of Zeus. \u201cWho, me?\" I responded quizzically, \"In room 517.\u201d I was very uncomfortable with all of the attention, because of my desire to keep my small life small. Press followed, more awards followed, and the wings I had worked so hard to clip began to unfurl. So too did the nagging doubts that shame had already placed in my head, which were reinforced by some nasty comments from a few co-workers. But I wasn\u2019t giving myself these awards, they were independent, external organizations that recognized what I was doing, and that provided some validation for me. My confidence began to grow and with the people I met and training I received, I began to fly. As I reached new heights beyond my classroom, my perspective changed because I realized I could do more and help more. I was no longer content to live a small life, at least professionally.\nMy growth continued as the Commissioner of Education offered me a job last summer, placing me on loan for the year from my district. \u201cMake up your own job title,\u201d he said, \u201cas long as you work on educator outreach\u201d. Me and 110,000 teachers? Admittedly, it was not great odds. I didn\u2019t know what I was doing and there had been no one doing this work before, but I had a vision. It has not been easy living in a pink cubicle devoid of student interaction this past year, especially because bureaucracy moves at a glacial pace that frustrates me beyond belief most of the time. However, I feel a responsibility to the profession, I know what I am doing is meaningful and there are few other teachers doing this work. I quickly realized that in this machine, things don\u2019t change unless you are the one in charge and you are only an expert as long as you are fifty miles from home. Yes, I was very accomplished\u2026for a teacher, but destined to stay in my pink cubicle so it was time to keep growing.\nI decided to try and get some training and applied for a White House Fellowship. Started in 1964 by LBJ, it is an elite leadership program that takes the best and brightest young people in the country with leadership potential, and for a year gives them training as a fellow somewhere within the executive branch. They can get up to 1000 applications per year for the 11-18 spots.\nI filled in my application, not expecting much of anything, but then found out I made the cut from 1000 down to the regional level of 96. There would be 8 panels, all in different places, with 12 candidates each. Of the 12, 2-4 would be chosen from each group for the next round. My panel was in Boston... the week of the marathon. I studied for a month to learn everything I could about everything I could. The judges and candidates met for the first time at a dinner on Thursday night. My fellow candidates were doctors, engineers, entrepreneurs, military officers and then there was me. Most had gone to Harvard or the equivalent, they had worked on senator\u2019s campaign staffs, were on the board of the AMA, had a bronze star or were feeding third world countries- and these were my fellow candidates. The judges, who knew our applications and bios inside out, were CEOs, retired cabinet officials, and leaders in their field. One was even an Olympic gold medal figure skater and one of the first women to graduate from Harvard medical school. Then there was me, and shame kicked my ass. I went to a state college, my parents didn\u2019t even complete college, I did my MA one class at a time\u2026in Camden. I introduced myself as Jeanne from Jersey, because it always makes people remember my name, but when I said I was a teacher, the other candidates looked at me like, 'What is she doing here?' and completely wrote me off. Once they heard my story, they were impressed and admitted I was an extraordinary candidate\u2026for a teacher. It was almost as if being a teacher was a category of sub-human, and my shame bought into it.\nThe interviews the next day were cancelled, due to terrorists, but I returned the next week to finish the interview after beating myself up for a week. We were down to 9 candidates, so only 2 would probably be chosen. I was asked during one of the interviews if I would ever consider being Commissioner or Secretary of Education. Who, me? I hadn\u2019t actually considered it, but these interviews were for that caliber of candidate. Dare to dream? After that, I did. Maybe I wasn't there by mistake.\nI found out last week I did not make it to the next round, not exactly a Happy Teacher Appreciation Day. I was upset and heard myself saying that they would never let people like me into a leadership position. Only Ivy League need apply. It was the shame of my lack of pedigree, a belief I would never be good enough to be placed in a leadership position and fear of isolation that was talking. I heard from a dear friend, who said that I deserved to get it, but that the amount of educators that get in is extremely small- the odds were against even me. I know it was meant to be comforting, but all I heard was, I am very accomplished\u2026 for a teacher, but still not good enough.\nI nearly walked away from education last week. I had made up my mind that I could open a shoe store or a second hand book shop somewhere near the beach, or failing that I could work at a shop on the boardwalk making caramel popcorn. I would have to do something, but I was done with education. How good is good enough? What do we have to do in order to be respected not just as educators, but as human beings?\nLucky for me I have friends who love me\u2026 a lot. When I told them my bad news, they put on their best Jersey accents and cursed to make me laugh, or just hugged me and tried to make it better. They even laughed along with me when I mentioned the shoe store, until they realized I was serious. They allowed me to swim around in the deep end of the pity pool for a few days while they hung close by and kept watch as lifeguards armed with life preservers if needed, but never once were they willing to let me give up on education.\nI nearly walked away because of my own shame, which I am coming to grips with, but also because it seemed clear to me that as much as people talk about wanting change, they really don\u2019t, or at least they don\u2019t want to be the ones tasked with changing things because change is hard. Sir Ken Robinson said in a recent TED talk, that there is no school that is better than its teachers, and I agree. So as an extension, why then do we as a profession allow such a negative climate to undermine that which we believe is so important? Why do we allow ourselves to remain small? I may be a woman on a mission, but I am not a missionary and I don't ever remember taking vows of poverty, chastity and obedience to a system based on the early industrial age when I began teaching. Enough is enough.\nChange is messy, it involves failure and it requires more than one person to be successful. As much as we like to complain about the current state of things, what are you doing to change it? Have you volunteered as a tutor? Used your expertise to help mentor a new teacher or a student? Are you working on a political campaign? Will you even vote? Do you stand up for the profession when someone takes a swing at it? Have you written a letter to the editor of a newspaper or a blog for an education publication?\nTeachers are incredibly busy, and completely exhausted most days trying to keep their heads above water, and yet if we want to see change, we can\u2019t wait for the answers to come from the top down. There are plenty of amazing teachers who go unrecognized every day, whose lives and impact are kept small to diminish their importance. Too often the people at the top, looking through their particular lens, have no idea of what life is like in a classroom. Teaching and learning don't happen in legislative sessions or state offices, it happens in classrooms. In working with teacher leaders for the last year I have come to some conclusions about what needs to be done if we want change to happen.\nFirst, know your information, and by that I mean both sides of the argument. Too often, a lack of information and communication leads to rumors and resistance. I always try to remember to take a look through the lens of the opposing viewpoint because often times, both sides believe they are doing what is best, they just have different perspectives. When it comes to education, you should also know what is under control of the federal government, the state, the district and the school, because we tend to place blame on the wrong level \u2013 a lot. When was the last time you voted in a school board election, or on a school budget? Why not run for a school board seat?\nSecond, build consensus. One person does not make an army. One person with a vision and a plan is necessary, but any movement needs followers and those followers should be treated as equals if everyone is in this together. That means we have to talk to each other in constructive ways and do a little motivating to get people on board. Leadership is an action, not a position.\nThird, don\u2019t complain\u2026discuss. I find this one hardest. When you ask educators what they think and they have never been given a voice before, it is like a pressure cooker. You need some time to vent, but then move on. You can\u2019t fix the past, but you can take a look at the present, and figure out what you are going to do to make it better and move forward.\nFinally, think about solutions that work beyond your own classroom/experience. Best practices are great, but can what worked for you work for others, or will it need to be tweaked? This is a great opportunity to brainstorm and build consensus because the best ideas can always be modified and adapted.\nIt burns me when someone asks what you do and the response is \u201cI am/was just a teacher.\u201d There is no such thing as just a teacher. In a profession where we do so much with so little, it is time to start demanding the respect we deserve by changing the way we view ourselves. We are never 'just a teacher' because we are the profession that makes all other professions possible.\nOne of the judges during my interview said, \u201cMost teachers who had reached State Teacher of the Year would consider it the pinnacle of the profession.\u201d Two years ago I would have agreed, but not now. I am not going to live a small life anymore and that means acknowledging that sometimes I feel like a loser, but not letting it control me. I challenge you to ask yourselves the same questions that have driven me these last few years. If not me, who? If not now, when? I don\u2019t know what my future holds, and that is ok for now, but I know I must keep moving forward because I am not done yet.\nIn the words of Eleanor Roosevelt, \u201cSurely in the light of history it is more intelligent to hope rather than to fear, to try rather than not to try. For one thing we know beyond all doubt, nothing has ever been achieved by the person who says, \u2018It can\u2019t be done\u2019.\u201d If we are going to change the culture of education, it must be done by all of us, not just a few. 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Delhi stands at the western end of the Gangetic plain, bordered on the eastern side by the state of Uttar Pradesh, and on the other three sides by the state of Haryana. Delhi is the largest city. The city consists of two parts Old Delhi and New Delhi. 'Old' Delhi the capital of Muslims India between the mid 17th and late and late 19th centuries, is full of formidable mosques,monuments and forts. Its a lively area of colorful bazaars, narrow streets and barely controlled chaos.The city is expensive but easy to navigate. The hub of New Delhi is Connaught Place.Delhi is a major travel gateway. The city of Delhi covers most of the Delhi Union Territory, which is federal district similar to Washington DC,Canberra.In 1911, the British asked Lutyens to give new meaning to city development which is reflected in the architectural design and sophistication that building in Delhi like Parliament House,Rashtrapati Bhavan,India Gate. And various administrative buildings like the south and north blocks along the breathtaking view available from Raj Path.\nHumayun his son built a new city Din Panah, however in 1540, the Sher Shah Suri drove Humayun out of the country razed Din Panah to the ground and built the sixth city of Delhi Sher Shahi. The 'Old Fort' was the establishment he created.The Mugahl soon reestablished themselves, however Delhi was no longer the capital.From the 12th and 17th centuries, the rulers of successive dynasties established seven \"cities\" in different parts of Delhi. The first one was the foundation of Qutub Minar in 1199 followed by Siri in1920, Tughlaquabad, Jahanapanah, Firuzabad, Purana Quila and Shahjahanabad.During this period, some of the most outstanding monuments were built which stand as past glory of the Afghan and Mughal architecture. The Qutub Minar built in 1199 rises to a height of 72.5 metres from a base of 14.32 metres; Humayun's Tomb begun in 1564 is one of the finest examples of garden Tomb, the Red Fort - an imposing citadel built in the 17th century and Jami Masjid, the largest mosque in India.\nMain Tourist and Historical Places India Gate, Jantar Mantar, Lotus Temple, Red Fort, Qutub Minar, Pragati Maidan, Bangla Sahib, Jama Masjid, Connaught Place, chandni Chowk, Parliament House, Rashtrapati Bhavan.\nGardens Lodhi Garden, Mughal Garden, Shalomar Garden, National Zoological Park and Parks in Delhi.\nDelhi at a Glance :-\n1483 sq. km.\n239 mts, above sea level\nMain Languages :\nSummer Max:41.2 \u00b0C, Min 21.4 \u00b0C.\nWinter : Max 33.7 \u00b0C, Min 6 \u00b0C.\nFestivals :-There are many festivals which are celebrated in Delhi few of them are :-\nInternational Mango Festival :- Held during July , it draws people from the country as well as businessmen, both from home and abroad.\nLohri :-In this festival, the climax of winter is celebrated with bonfires and singing. Traditionally, Lohri marks the end of winter.\nBaisakhi :-The Hindu New Year is celebrated on Baisakhi in mid-April. It is also known as the beginning of the harvest season.\nGuru Purab :-Guru Purab is the celebration of the birth of first of the ten Sikh gurus, Guru Nanak. 'Nagar Kirtans' are taken out through the streets and in the Gurdwaras, 'Granthees' recite verses from the Guru Granth Sahib, the holy book of Sikhs.\nHoli :-Holi is celebrated on the day after the full moon in early March every year. Originally a festival to celebrate good harvests and fertility of the land, Holi has several traditional links with legends. Holi announces the arrival of spring and the passing of winter. Young and old alike are drenched with colors. On Holi, people are suddenly caught unawares with colors being poured from the terraces and roofs of houses, bursting balloons, or long pistons squirting colored water. People in small groups are seen singing, dancing and throwing colors on each other. They also eat food laced with bhang, an aphrodisiac that leaves one feeling light and happy.Usually people burn the Holika tree on the eve of Holi.\nDiwali :- A family festival, it is celebrated 20 days after Dussehra, on the 13th day of the dark fortnight of the month of Ashwin (October / November). Deepawali or Diwali, the most pan-Indian of all Hindu festivals, is a festival of lights symbolising the victory of righteousness and the lifting of spiritual darkness. The word Deepawali literally means rows of diyas (clay lamps). Twinkling oil lamps or diyas light up every home and firework displays are common all across the country. The goddess Lakshmi (consort of Vishnu), who is the symbol of wealth and prosperity, is also worshipped on this day. Houses across the country are scrubbed till they are spotlessly clean, and whitewashed with fresh white paint. To enhance their new look, they are decorated with bright paper lanterns, diyas and flowers, while the girls of the house embellish the aangan (courtyard) and walls with traditional aesthetic designs and patterns called rangolis. New clothes are bought and the family gathers together to offer prayers, distribute sweets and light up their homes. Crackers and fireworks illuminate the sky and people pray for a prosperous coming year.\nRaksha Bandhan :- Raksha Bandhan is celebrated on the fifteenth day of Shravan, in July / August. Raksha Bandhan is celebrated in some parts of India as a festival to honour the sea god Varuna, where coconuts are offered to the sea Because of its three eyes, the coconut represents the three eyes of Shiva. As a mark of auspiciousness, coconuts are also broken at shrines and temples. However, at most places, it celebrates the love of a brother for his sister. On this day, sisters tie rakhi on the wrists of their brothers to protect them against evil influences. In some places, before tying the rakhi, barley saplings are placed on the ears of the brother. 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The city boasts a diverse literary community with wide-ranging literary organisations including DH Lawrence Heritage, Nottingham Writers\u2019 Studio and Nottingham Playhouse and literary festival, Nottingham Festival of Words.\n10 Things to Know About Nottingham\n1. Famous Writers\nNottingham is an inspiring city with a strong literary past, present and future, with writers including award-winning playwright, Amanda Whittington, novelist, poet, dramatist and publisher, John Harvey, and performance poet, storyteller Panya Banjoko.\n2. Romantic Nottingham\nRomantic poet Byron wrote his first poem at age 10, describing Nottingham and his connection to the city. While in Nottinghamshire, he lived at Colwick Hall and Newstead Abbey in and when on to become known as a controversial figure owing to his seemingly liberal political views and was also considered very fashionable.\n3. Radical writing\nConsidered one of the greatest novelists in English history, D.H. Lawrence was born in Eastwood in Nottinghamshire. His most famous novel was Lady Chatterley\u2019s Lover, a notoriously controversial novel banned for many years because of its sexual nature. Its reputation had spanned the globe and the novel even has its own chequered history in Edinburgh.\n4. Award-winning Writing\nAlan Sillitoe is Nottingham\u2019s most famous author of recent years and was made an Honorary Freeman of the city in June 2008. His famous novels include The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner and Saturday Night and Sunday Morning, both of which has been adapted to the stage and screen many times since their publication.\n5. Booklovers Paradise\nNottingham is a city for creatives and booklovers with 18 public libraries across the city and Nottingham Central Library, East Midlands\u2019 principal library. A host of bookshops and creative event venues are peppered across the city, Five Leaves Bookshop, an independent bookshop opened by local publisher Ross Bradshaw, Books and Pieces, a feast of a little bookshop hiding off the beaten track down a little alleyway, and The Sparrows\u2019 Nest, a volunteer-run library named after local anarchist magazine The Nottingham Sparrow.\n6. Award-winning Graphics\nA dedicated centre to the graphic novel, Page 45 spread the word comics and the graphic novel far and wide. The centre runs youth literacy projects with presentations, workshops and hosts events with interviews and reviews from comic artists. Page 45 was awarded 2012 Best Independent Retailer in the Nottingham Post Business Awards and went on to win Best Independent Business award the following year.\n7. Festivals of Words\nNottingham celebrates its vibrant literary community and spoken word culture of the city with festivals throughout the year. Since 2012, Nottingham Festival of Words has welcomed some 125 writers including Ali Smith, Will Self, Bernadine Evaristo, Daljit Nagra, Maurice Riordan and many more. Organised by Nottingham Playhouse, NEAT (Nottingham European Arts Theatre Festival) showcases world-class literature, theatre, dance, digital work, music, spoken word and talks. The D.H. Lawrence Festival celebrates Lawrence as a regional and international writer and is organised in by Nottingham City Council, D.H. Lawrence Heritage, University of Nottingham and local history groups.\n8. Dawn of the Unread\nBringing together the past, present and future in quite a different way, chair of the Nottingham Writers\u2019 Studio, James Walker, is the mastermind behind digital project, Dawn of the Unread, an interactive graphic novel. 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John Colborne.\nEnjoy an evening of fine dining and fun, and be inspired by MacInnis as he examines the leadership principles that guided Cameron and his team as they embarked on their historic seven-mile dive below the ocean\u2019s surface.\nTickets: $125; Young alumni (1998-2012), current students and staff: $75\nSpace is limited, so don\u2019t delay. Business attire is suggested.\nPlease click here to register online or call the Association office at 1-800-822-5361.\nHugh Innes \u201972 to receive John D. Stevenson Award\nHugh Innes \u201972 is this year\u2019s recipient of the John D. Stevenson Award in recognition of his outstanding volunteerism at Upper Canada College.\nInnes has been a dedicated volunteer since he left the school in 1972 and has served as class president since graduating. He was on the UCC Foundation board of trustees from 2000 to 2009 after becoming a member of the foundation\u2019s investment committee in 1991. He chaired the investment committee and was responsible for a comprehensive review of the transfer formula. This review resulted in the development of the \u201cConvergence Report\u201d\u009d designed to demonstrate the impact of the correlation between investment returns, the transfer rate and tuition fee increases. This report served to increase awareness among the governing bodies of the College and the UCC Foundation of the important relationship between the school\u2019s priorities and the growth of the foundation\u2019s assets.\nInnes has served on many committees and task forces in support of the UCC Association and has been actively involved in reunion planning and annual giving as a class president. He recently organized the fundraising effort that allowed College Times and Old Times to be digitized and made accessible to the community electronically.\n\u201cI\u2019m thrilled that we could recognize Hugh for his outstanding contributions to the school over the past 40 years. He\u2019s incredibly deserving of this prestigious award,\u201d\u009d says UCC principal Jim Power. \u201cThrough his role as 1972 class president and the variety of boards, committees and task forces that he\u2019s served on, he\u2019s proven himself to be a very important and valued part of the UCC community whose words and actions carry on the honourable ideals promoted by John D. Stevenson.\u201d\u009d\nThe UCC Association established the John D. Stevenson Award in 1993 to recognize individuals who\u2019ve provided outstanding volunteer service to the College over a number of years. It was named to recognize the exceptional contributions of John D. Stevenson \u201947. Nominations are elicited annually from all members of the College community. The Association Council reviews the nominations and selects a recipient.\nInnes will receive the award during a presentation at Founder\u2019s Dinner on Feb. 13.\nCorporate support for UCC events\nDeveloping a relationship with UCC opens a multitude of opportunities for corporate sponsorship marketing and outreach efforts. It offers various vehicles in which to advertise to key target markets and provides unmatched recognition and visibility among the alumni and parent communities. UCC alumni and community events draw approximately 2,500 attendees annually, while its publications and online media initiatives reach more than 11,000 members of the community \u2014 including parents, grandparents, donors and friends of the College.\nAmong the most prestigious gatherings is Founder\u2019s Dinner, which attracts approximately 500 people each February to celebrate the founding of the College and to enjoy student performances, an awards presentation and keynote addresses from influential community members. This year\u2019s event is being held on Feb. 13.\nThe benefits of sponsoring Founder\u2019s Dinner include:\nAn advertisement or recognition in Old Times alumni magazine (circulation 11,000, but for the first time the spring 2013 edition will be circulated through members of the community with medical and law practices in the GTA);\nLogo recognition in an issue of Old Ties e-newsletter (circulation 7,000);\nEmail broadcasts to community promoting the event (circulation 7,000);\nLogo recognition on UCC website (average of 15,000 unique visitors per month);\nProminent signage at the event, including multimedia (approximately 500 attendees)\nFurther information about sponsorship levels and benefits can be found here. Please contact Kathryn Champion at kchampion@ucc.on.ca or 416-488-1125, ext. 2231.\nCongratulations to Association office event manager Maria Karakoulas, and a welcome to Kathryn Champion\nMaria and Gregory Karakoulas\u2019 third son, George, was born five-and-a-half weeks early at three minutes after midnight on Dec. 27. He weighed 5.8 pounds and is absolutely beautiful. He\u2019ll spend a few weeks at Mount Sinai Hospital to ensure that his lungs mature and that he\u2019s ready to face life with his big brothers, John and Pano. Congratulations to Maria and Gregory.\nKathryn Champion will serve as acting manager of events in the advancement office during Maria\u2019s one-year maternity leave. We\u2019re very fortunate to have Kathryn join our team. Kathryn founded and operated her own successful catering business for 20 years and, as a Branksome Hall graduate, has worked closely with its advancement office as a volunteer. She\u2019s managed a large number of alumnae and parent volunteers and executed a wide variety of friend and fundraising events.\nWe\u2019re thrilled to welcome Kathryn to the UCC community. She can be reached at kchampion@ucc.on.ca or 416-488-1125, ext. 2231.\nMeriTALKracy starts conversations about merit\nThe motto on Upper Canada College\u2019s crest \u201d\u201d \u201cPalmam qui meruit ferat\u201d\u009d (\u201cLet he who merited the palm bear it\u201d\u009d) \u201d\u201d has inspired a new initiative dealing with all aspects of merit.\nMeriTALKracy was founded by RIWI Corporation chief executive officer and Old Boy Neil Seeman \u201988 with the intention of promoting wide-ranging discussions about merit. MeriTALKracy aims to explore how merit relates to notions of risk, reward, work, fairness, luck and talent with a wide range of prominent people from UCC and beyond.\nThirteen contributors helped launch the MeriTALKracy website in December, including: Seeman; former Canadian ambassador to the United States and federal Minister of Finance Michael Wilson \u201955; and Grand Challenges Canada CEO Peter Singer \u201978.\nUCC is working with The Huffington Post Canada, which is hosting the series to the public on its site and will consider all MeriTALKracy submissions.\nThe MeriTALKracy initiative is soliciting new submissions from members of the UCC community. Please send yours to uccmeritproject@ucc.on.ca if you\u2019re inspired to weigh in.\nOnline car auction raises money for scholarship fund\nA 1967 Oldsmobile Cutlass Supreme 442 convertible generously donated by Old Boy Brian Jones \u201970 raised $20,199 for the Class of 1970 Scholarship Fund in a recent online auction.\nThe winning bidder from New York got a bargain since the car was valued at $39,999. Interested bidders could submit offers on the car from Dec. 14 to Jan. 6 in an online auction run by Vonality.\nUpper Canada College thanks Jones for his donation and everyone who took part in the auction and kept raising the price. The money raised will help ensure that deserving boys are able to reap the benefits of a UCC education.\nFormer faculty passings\nMichael T. Adamson\nIt is with regret that I share with you the sad news of Mike Adamson\u2019s passing on January 1, 2013. We have extended to Michael\u2019s wife Sally and their family, our deepest sympathy and heartfelt gratitude for his 26 years of dedicated service to Upper Canada College from 1966 to 1992.\nAs a graduate of St. Andrew\u2019s College and later as a teacher (1949 to 1962) at SAC and at Lakefield College School (1962 to 1966), Michael made outstanding contributions as a teacher and coach because he understood and valued the independent school experience.\nAs an expert moderns teacher, a passionate coach of cricket and tennis, senior housemaster of McHugh\u2019s, vice-principal and director of admission at the Upper School, Michael exemplified deep respect and care for students, faculty and staff. He was highly regarded for his sincere, warm, and level-headed approach to the most challenging circumstances when a boy or family required support and guidance. Now, as we strive to create a small school feel at UCC, we would do well to think about Mike as a fine role model, someone who knew how to bring out the very best in each individual and to build character.\nAs former principal Douglas Blakey noted in a past issue of Old Times, \u201cMichael Adamson is more than a teacher. He is the quintessential schoolmaster, with a deep, genuine and lasting concern for his pupils. He is, in the oldest and truest meaning of the word, a gentleman.\u201d\u009d\nA memorial service will be held on Saturday, Jan.12 at 11:30 a.m. at St. Mark\u2019s Anglican Church at 41 Byron St., Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ont.\n\u2013Jim Power, UCC principal\nColin G. Harvey\nHarvey was born in Blandford, England on Jan. 29,1934 and died in Toronto on Nov.4, 2012 after a long, stoic battle against skin cancer. He\u2019s lovingly remembered by his family and friends everywhere whose lives he touched. Colin trained for the British Merchant Navy aboard HMS Conway, a flagship of Nelson\u2019s day, at age 14 and travelled the world as a navigating officer before emigrating to Canada in 1959. After three years in the Toronto police force, he trained as a teacher and spent more than 25 happy years at Upper Canada College as math master, cricket coach and finally head of security. Classical music and sailing were his loves, but his passion was cricket. He stood as an umpire and match manager in local, national and international matches, served as treasurer for the Canadian Cricket Association (Cricket Canada) and was a senior member of the Cricket Canada Umpire Certification Committee.\nWebsite password information\nUpper Canada College\u2019s new website is being revamped and the Old Boy directory isn\u2019t yet available. Former usernames and passwords used by Old Boys to access password-protected areas of the website no longer work, but new ones will be provided once they\u2019re available to access information.\nIn the meantime, please contact Samantha Kerbel in the Association office at 416-488-1125, ext. 2239 or skerbel@ucc.on.ca with any questions. You can also keep up with UCC information via Facebook and Twitter.\nOld Boys promote Spirit Challenge Cup\nThe National Hockey League lockout of players by team owners has ended, and so has the possibility of the Stanley Cup being presented to the best amateur hockey team playing in Canada.\nWith the NHL season potentially in peril, Upper Canada College Old Boys David Burt \u201967, Loudon Owen \u201976 and their shinny-playing pals Gard Shelley and Tim Gilbert came up with the idea for the Spirit Challenge Cup to reward \u201cthe Canadian amateur team that best reflects the goals, and embodies the spirit of fair and skillful ice hockey competition, according to the wishes of Lord Stanley, the Patron Saint of ice hockey.\u201d\u009d\nAccording to Gilbert, as part of a settlement agreement reached with the NHL in 2005, \u201cthe league agreed that if the NHL failed to mount a competition in any particular year, the trustees can award the cup to a non-NHL team. We believe the Spirit Challenge Cup lives up to the intentions of Lord Stanley.\u201d\u009d\nThe Spirit Challenge Cup organizers launched a website and Facebook and Twitter pages to promote the concept, and their proposal received media attention, but the newly ratified labour deal means that victorious professional players will again hoist the Stanley Cup this year \u201d\u201d though probably not in UCC\u2019s hometown.\nNew film from Yung Chang \u201996\nThe Fruit Hunters, the latest documentary by Old Boy Yung Chang \u201996, premiered at the Reel Asian Film Festival in Richmond Hill, Ont. on Nov. 17 before opening more widely six days later.\nThe film tells the tale of several fruit fanatics, including actor Bill Pullman, and the lengths they go to in order to find and preserve rare specimens and satiate their passion. The Fruit Hunters interweaves the colourful stories of these modern-day obsessives with glimpses through history of humanity\u2019s long love affair with fruit.\nChang is a former UCC boarder who went by the name Jason while he was at the school. The Montreal resident received critical praise and multiple awards for his first feature documentary, 2008\u2019s Up the Yangtze. He followed that earlier this year with China Heavyweight, which follows the lives of a boxing coach and two fighters in China. Chang is preparing a feature fiction film called Eggplant that revolves around a Taiwanese wedding photographer in China.\nUpper Canada College Cadet Corps legacy\nThe Cadet Corps of Upper Canada College paraded with The Queen\u2019s Own Rifles of Canada for 127 years. The corps is gone now, but its legacy is a proud part of the regiment\u2019s traditions.\nRead about the history and legacy of UCC\u2019s cadet corps at http://bit.ly/TXuTlm.\nHave a look at UCC\u2019s recent \u201cCollege Hockey Experience\u201d at Cornell University at http://bit.ly/VN9ZZS.\nLearn about knighted scientist and UCC Old Boy Charles Seymour \u201cSilas\u201d\u009d Wright1904 in this Globe and Mail article: http://bit.ly/RxjDL7.\nCongratulations to UCC Old Boy Matt Cartwright \u201979, who won Pennsylvania\u2019s 17th congressional district for the Democrats in the United States general election in November. Read more at http://bit.ly/XjFESC.\nUCC Old Boy and TerraCycle CEO Tom Szaky \u201901 offers tips on great slide presentations in this New York Times article: http://nyti.ms/TU8UbO.\nSee and hear the work of experimental artist and UCC Old Boy Michael Snow \u201948 in this tribute to an \u201coriginal creator\u201d at http://bit.ly/X5Hsdl.\nCongratulations to CFL commissioner and UCC Old Boy Mark Cohon \u201985, who ranked seventh on CBC\u2019s list of the most influential people in Canadian sports in 2012.\nWinterfest and alumni hockey game\nJoin us on Friday, Jan. 18 at Winterfest to watch UCC\u2019s winter sports teams, including the UCC Varsity Blues hockey team taking on the St. Andrew\u2019s College Saints at 7:30 p.m. in the William P. Wilder \u201940 Arena and Sports Complex. The game between the rivals will be streamed live here and taped for later broadcast by Rogers TV. Veteran sports journalist and broadcaster David Grossman and Upper School athletics director Brent MacKay will provide play-by-play and colour commentary for the game.\nThen come out to play in the Old Boys alumni hockey game on Saturday, Jan. 19 at 11:30 a.m. Full equipment is required. Referees will be provided. Lunch for all Old Boys will follow the game in the Foster Hewitt Foundation Lounge. Please watch the game and join us for lunch if you don\u2019t want to skate.\nRSVP to the Association office at association@ucc.on.ca to reserve your spot in the alumni game.\nNorval winter open house\nStephen House will be open, with food and refreshments available. These seasonal family open houses at Norval are held on Sunday afternoons in October, January, March and May, and are free of charge. The idea is to open up Norval to UCC community members and offer a variety of outdoor activities for you, your family and friends to enjoy. There will be a wide variety of activities, including:\n1. Cross-country skiing \u2013 Bring your own or use ours. We have lots of skis and boots in all sizes. We\u2019ll have instructors to teach beginners and take them for a tour. More advanced skiers are welcome to follow one of our marked trails. Please note that the trails are not track-set.\n2. Tobogganing \u2013 Bring your own or use one of our many carpet sleds at our popular toboggan hill at the arboretum.\n3. Winter hike \u2013 Winter is a beautiful time to go for a guided walk around the Norval property. Feel free to wear a pair of our snowshoes for the hike.\nCome explore Norval at this beautiful time of year. Kids of all ages will enjoy the day.\nPlease RSVP the number of people attending to Samantha Kerbel at association@ucc.on.ca or 1-800-822-5361.\nApril 18: New York branch reception and dinner. Reception at the University Club at 6:30 p.m. Dinner to be determined.\nThere will be branch events in Vancouver, San Francisco and Los Angeles that are in the process of being planned for late April or early May. Formal invitations to Old Boys living in and around each city will be sent shortly.\nFirst UCC and BSS young alumni event in GTA\nThe UCC Young Alumni Network hosted a joint networking event with The Bishop Strachan School on Nov. 21at Fasken Martineau. The event was a tremendous success, with more than 60 guests in attendance. It featured a panel discussion on the results of the American election and its impact on the Canadian economy and public policy. The panel moderator was BSS alumnus and Business News Network anchor Pamela Ritchie Levitt \u201992. Panel speakers included: Philip Smith \u201985, Scotiabank\u2019s chief financial officer of global banking and markets; Hon. James S. Peterson P.C., Fasken counsel; and Howard Hampton, Fasken counsel.\nClasses of 2009, 2010, 2011 and 2012 wing night\nThe UCC Young Alumni Network hosted \u201cYoung Alumni Wing Night\u201d for the graduating classes of 2009, 2010, 2011 and 2012 at Toronto\u2019s Scallywags on Dec. 20. More than 80 young Old Boys came out to catch up with friends before the holidays.\nFeb. 16 and 17: Young alumni hockey at the seventh annual Canadian Association of New York Central Park Charity Hockey Tournament\nApril 19 to 21: Young alumni hockey at Stanstead College Alumni Hockey Tournament\nJune 6: \u201cYoung Alumni Network Old Boys Night Out\u201d at a location to be confirmed\nPlease contact Julia Melnikova at jmelnikova@ucc.on.ca for more information.\nJanuary 2013 \u2013 Common Ties\nThe UCC Common Ties Mentorship Program provides a robust platform through which Old Boys and senior students can benefit from sharing academic, career and life experiences across our active international network. The program supports alumni as they enhance the skills, knowledge and expertise needed to succeed in their professional and interpersonal relationships.\nConnecting to the legal industry\nMore than 50 people from the legal industry attended the fourth annual Common Ties Legal LunchNet on Nov. 23 at McCarthy T\u00c3\u00a9trault LLP. The event provided a great networking opportunity for Old Boys, parents and friends of the College who are working or interested in legal or related industries. It was generously sponsored by McCarthy T\u00c3\u00a9trault LLP. Be sure not to miss the Common Ties LunchNet event dealing with finance on Wednesday, June 12. Please see the upcoming events section below for other Common Ties events.\nUniversity mock interviews success continues\nWe\u2019d like to give a big thank you to all volunteers who participated in university mock interviews. Your time and commitment to this program was greatly appreciated, as IB2 students were able to practice their interview skills in preparation for university interviews and future employment opportunities. Most importantly, the students were able to connect with Old Boys, parents and university students to ask important questions about their career choices.\nThe program saw significant increase in participation numbers from both volunteers and students in 2012. Nine interview presentations were delivered to IB2 students in October and November. More than 80 IB2 students signed up for mock interviews and 57 volunteers, Old Boys and parents were recruited to deliver them. Volunteers were paired with IB2 students for a 45-minute to one-hour mock interview over the phone, in person or over Skype with volunteers from outside Canada.\nThe next stage of the program is to deliver resume workshops to all IB1 students this month and next.\nIB1 and IB2 resume and interview workshops were delivered by Common Ties in partnership with UCC\u2019s university counselling office.\nUpcoming Common Ties events\nCreating a Powerful Personal Presence\nMay 14, The Foster Hewitt Foundation Lounge, UCC\nFinance LunchNet\nJune 12, Fasken Martineau LLP\nThank you for 2012-2013 annual giving contributions\nThe initial response from Old Boys to the 2012-2013 annual giving appeal has been tremendous. Thank you. We\u2019re extremely grateful to the many Old Boys who\u2019ve already made a donation to the campaign.\nOld Boy support of annual giving grows each year, reflecting your continued commitment to Upper Canada College. Your participation is what counts, and all gifts make a difference.\nThere\u2019s still time to participate in this year\u2019s campaign. You could even double your gift.\nDid you know that many companies offer a matching gift program to their employees? It\u2019s true. Companies will match the gift made by any employee to a non-profit organization. With an employee matching gift program, the impact of your gift could be doubled or even tripled.\nClick here to find out if your or your spouse\u2019s company has a matching gift program and what you need to do to take part in it.\nDon\u2019t miss out on doubling or tripling your gift.\nDonations can be made online at www.ucc.on.ca/MakeaGift. 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Knott, Tony Williams\n\"Washington and Hamilton were the duo that made the Revolution and the Constitution work; Knott and Williams are the duo that explain how.\" -Richard Brookhiser, author of Founders' Son: A Life of Abraham Lincoln\nIn the wake of the American Revolution, the Founding Fathers faced a daunting task: overcome their competing visions to build a new nation, the likes of which the world had never seen. Washington and Hamilton chronicles the unlikely collaboration between two conflicting characters working together to protect their hard-won freedoms. Yet while Washington and Hamilton's different personalities often led to fruitful collaboration, their conflicting ideals also tested the boundaries of their relationship-and threatened the future of the new republic.\nFrom the rumblings of the American Revolution through the fractious Constitutional Convention and America's turbulent first years, this captivating history reveals the stunning impact of this unlikely duo that set the United States on the path to becoming a superpower.\n\"In a sweeping narrative enlivened by vivid details, Stephen Knott and Tony Williams provide fascinating insights that illuminate the collaboration between George Washington and Alexander Hamilton while carefully tracing the contours of their characters . . . as entertaining as it is informative.\" -David S. Heidler and Jeanne T. Heidler, authors of Washington's Circle: The Creation of the President and Henry Clay: The Essential American\nthe growth in popularity of revolutionary ideas like liberty and self-government for the colonies. Amid this tumultuous atmosphere, George Washington and Alexander Hamilton quickly emerged as leaders of the patriot movement within their respective colonies, although they did not meet until the start of the Revolutionary War. They argued that the colonists had the traditional rights of Englishmen under the unwritten British constitution and the universal natural rights of all humans. But it was\nthe Continental Congress, attended the convention and heard, as he related to John Adams, Washington deliver a \u201cmost eloquent speech\u201d asserting that \u201cI will raise 1,000 men, subsist them at my own expense, and march myself at their head for the relief of Boston.\u201d78 This would have been an uncharacteristic burst of passion in public deliberations where Washington was normally reserved and aloof. Virginian Edmund Randolph asserted that Washington was chosen to attend the Philadelphia meeting \u201cto\naffairs or gone abroad as diplomats, leaving the Congress bereft of talent. Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Franklin, and John Adams all spent years in Europe as diplomats. Early leaders of the Revolution, such as Patrick Henry and Samuel Adams, served in state offices. Washington wondered, \u201cWhere is Mason, Wythe, Jefferson?\u201d He did not want men of virtue and talent to \u201ccontent themselves in the enjoyment of places of honor or profit in their own country, while the common interests of America are\nsevered by their dramatic falling out, despite the great victory and their mutual work for a stronger national government. The differences in their ages and stations further eroded any possibility that their relationship would continue after the war, because peace meant very different things to Washington and Hamilton. 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Previously, she worked as an account director for one of Canada\u2019s largest advertising agencies where she focused on digital marketing. While the job was fulfilling, she came to the realization that \u201cwhile I loved the industry and the players involved, I much preferred helping them find their core purpose. Besides, I\u2019ve always been at my best when I was in charge of my own destiny.\u201d\nThree years ago, Boos launched Boost Agents, specializing in the field she loves and knows so well. Unlike typical recruiters who prioritize senior candidates only, Trina believes that great minds can come from anywhere. 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A discussion of the Nikkei Buddhist experience includes the experiences of Euro-American convert Buddhists who supported them during the imprisonment period.\nImmediately after the Imperial Japanese Navy attacked Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) arrested and interned Japanese Buddhist priests and other leaders of Japanese communities in the United States. In March 1942, the Western Defense Command designated the three West Coast states (Washington, Oregon, and California) and Arizona as Military Area No. 1, from which all persons of Japanese descent, and alien Germans and Italians, were forcefully removed. Following Executive Order 9066 signed by President Franklin D. Roosevelt, the US government removed approximately 120,000 Japanese Americans from the aforementioned military zone and incarcerated them in relocation centers built throughout the continental United States. During that time, the Nikkei community consisted primarily of the Issei, the first generation of Japanese immigrants, and the Nisei, their American-born children. As Tetsuden Kashima defines, the word \u201cinternment\u201d refers to the imprisonment of enemy aliens, such as the Issei Japanese nationals, by the Department of Justice and the US Army, while the term \u201cincarceration\u201d refers to the confinement of the Nikkei, including a great number of the Nisei American citizens, by the War Relocation Authority. The word \u201cimprisonment\u201d designates the entire process consisting of internment and incarceration.\nThe study of American Buddhism during World War II is still in its early stages. Finding records and documents related to this subject from the large collections on Japanese American imprisonment is not an easy task. While the National Archives in Washington, DC, maintains the majority of primary sources dealing with Japanese American relocation and incarceration, other institutions, such as the Japanese American National Museum, the University of California-Los Angeles, and museums built around the sites of internment camps, also preserve records. Some of the primary sources are written in Japanese and are located in Japan, which is another stumbling block for researchers who do not read Japanese. Duncan R. Williams\u2019s forthcoming book, American Sutra: Buddhism and the World War II Japanese American Experience, however, will change the current state of scholarship on Japanese American Buddhism during World War II.\nThe forceful relocation of Japanese American Buddhists served to weaken their long-standing efforts to make their ethno-religious practices accepted by America\u2019s general public. 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Just the thought of memory loss \u2013 in a loved one, friend, co-worker or, worse yet, ourselves \u2014 makes us terribly uncomfortable. Unless we are confronted directly with dementia, we prefer to think of it as \u201csomeone else\u2019s problem.\u201d\nBut dementia \u2013 one of the world\u2019s fastest growing diseases \u2014 won\u2019t go away and it is fast becoming \u201ceveryone\u2019s problem.\u201d A look at the facts and statistics surrounding dementia clearly show that it is a massive issue, possibly a medical catastrophe in the making, with no easy solution.\nWorld Dementia Statistics\nIndeed, the numbers and statistics surrounding dementia are staggering. Worldwide, there are now an estimated 24 million people living with some form of dementia. Without a major medical breakthrough in the fight against dementia, this number could jump to as many as 84 million who have age-related memory loss by the year 2040.\nAlthough there are a number of forms of dementia, Alzheimer\u2019s is the most common, and most well-known, of the age-related memory loss diseases. Currently, more than five million Americans suffer from Alzheimer\u2019s, and it is the seventh leading cause of death in the U.S. About 13% of Americans over the age of 65 have Alzheimer\u2019s and half of those over age 85 will develop Alzheimer\u2019s \u2014 or a closely related dementia.\nHealth analysts estimate that in just five years the number of Americans with Alzheimer\u2019s will jump to 7.7 million and by 2050 the number is projected to more than double to 16 million. So why is this disease growing so rapidly?\nSimply put, our population is \u201cgraying\u201d and our citizens are living much longer than any previous generation. In fact, the fastest growing segment of our population is the over 80 age group, and the odds of becoming demented for the very elderly are much higher.\nAnother aspect to our changing population is how quickly this change has taken place. A person born in 1900 could reasonably hope to reach about the age of 50 \u2013 the average life expectancy was just 47 years. However, over the course of the last century a number of factors, such as medical advances, widespread access to health care, improved sanitation and better nutrition have had a tremendous impact on how long we live. Consequently, the average life expectancy for both men and women in the U.S. today is 77 years of age. That\u2019s an incredible increase of 30 years in just one century.\nAnd, with the Baby Boomer generation on the verge of retirement, we are now looking at a shift to an even older society. There are about 77 million in the baby boomer generation. By the year 2030, these men and women will make up approximately 20% of the total U.S. population. As a result, health experts currently estimate that at least 10 million Baby Boomers will develop Alzheimer\u2019s.\nThe news for older Baby Boomer females is even bleaker as about one-in-six females over the age of 55 could develop Alzheimer\u2019s. Why do more women than men get Alzheimer\u2019s? It\u2019s not anything genetic. It is simply that women traditionally live longer (by about five years in the U.S), so it becomes basically a numbers game.\nThe statistics surrounding dementia are sobering. If you do not currently know someone with memory loss \u2014 a family member, friend, neighbor or co-worker \u2014 then you most certainly will know someone in the near future.\nThere are two risk factors for dementia, genetics and aging, and neither of these factors can be controlled. While time and money is being funneled into Alzheimer\u2019s and dementia research, there is no \u201cmagic bullet\u201d solution. Currently, there are several \u201cdisease-modifying therapies\u201d in development that may offer temporary slowing of disease progression or even restore cognitive function. However, it may take years before these therapies are available to the general public.\nThe best approach is to adopt a proactive brain health lifestyle today. 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He co-created some of the most famous fictional characters in comic lore, such as Spider-Man, X-Men, the Fantastic Four, the Avengers, Black Panther, and many more. Marvel's way of intertwining complex storylines and infusing them with very real human emotions and writing in compelling character arcs is what has made Lee, according to the Guardian, \"the greatest storyteller in history\".\nLee also made a cameo in Avengers: Infinity War that became the first superhero film to earn more than $2 billion at the worldwide box office.\nReaders Den's Nizar Abrahams says he credits Lee for creating this world he could escape to. \"A superhero in his own right to Marvel fans around the world, Stan had the power to inspire, to entertain, and to connect\". He appeared as a juror and had no lines but it was the first time he was seen on-screen in a Marvel property.\nBorn Stanley Lieber in 1922, Lee began his career in comics as a gofer/Guy Friday, thanks to his uncle Robbie Solomon.\nHis wife Joan passed away in 2017 due to stroke-related complications.\nThis is the last known pic of Stan, taken on Saturday, as Stan smiled next to his protege, comic book writer Roy Thomas.\nTMZ broke news of Lee's death, citing his daughter, J.C. Lee. \"He loved his life and he loved what he did for a living\". For the full list, head to Wikipedia and the full list of well over 300 characters, all attributed to Stan Lee in one way or another.\nSpider-Man is one of the most successfully licensed characters ever and he has soared through the NY skyline as a giant inflatable in the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade.\nDid Stan Lee inspire you as much as he did all of us?", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00240.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 88, + "original_length": 6255, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.98, + "perplexity": 182.5, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "http://personalfinanceaustralia.com.au/planning-for-a-baby/", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T03:58:09Z", + "digest": "sha1:ERYRYNDZ2USOGGTLXSI4CNDV6BWFGIEB", + "length": 5496, + "nlines": 24, + "source_domain": "personalfinanceaustralia.com.au", + "title": "Planning for a baby", + "raw_content": "Home / Life Events / Planning for a Baby\nHaving a baby is a wonderful and exciting occasion, but is does require a lot of pre-planning and preparation. One area that you especially need to plan ahead for is your finances. Adding a baby to the household will increase you overall expenses and may reduce your income for a limited time, if you anticipate taking any time off of work.\nWith proper planning, however, you will be able to manage your finances with a new addition to the family. Here are some tip to help you handle your finances when having a baby.\nThe first step to taking care of your finances is to set a budget for your household. If you have never had a budget before, the best way to start one is to track your income and expenses for at least two weeks but the larger amount of time you track the better. This will help to give you an idea of how much money you spend in different categories, such as rent, utilities, food, clothing, medication, transport costs, entertainment, and other expenses. Using this information, you can create a budget that meets your families need.\nNow that you know what your household is currently spending in different areas, you will need to adjust this budget to reflect the additional expense of having a baby. You will also need to take into consideration any loss wages from time off work to stay home with the baby. Here are some expenses you can expect to incur before and after having a baby.\nSetting up the Nursery. You will need to purchase some necessary supplies for your nursery, such as a crib, bedding, and dresser. If you are looking to save money, try to purchase some of these items at a second-hand store or borrow them from a friend or family member.\nBaby Supplies. You will also need to purchase a regular supply of baby supplies, including nappies, clothes, and food. Take all of these extra expenses into account when creating a new adjusted budget.\nChild Care. One of the biggest expenses you may incur is the cost of childcare for while you are at work. You have several options for providing child care for you baby. You can have a friend or family member watch your children, hire a nanny to watch your baby at your home, or send your child to a child care centre. You may be eligible for help with your childcare expenses through one of the following programs.\nChild Care Benefit. This benefit helps to cover part of the weekly expenses for child care services while you are working.\nChild Care Rebate. This rebate refunds you as much as 50 per cent of the out-of-pocket child care expenses you paid.\nJobs, Education, Training Child Care Fee Assistance. This program helps to cover child care expenses to allow you to look for a job, attend work-related training, or attend a higher learning institution.\nIn addition to child care benefits, there are many other sources of help available to families having a new baby. Below is a look at some help that may be available to you after having a baby.\nPay from Employer. You should check with your employer and see if you are eligible for maternity, recreation, annual leave, or any other entitlements while you are off work. Find out how much pay this would be and for how long you can expect to receive payments.\nParental Leave Pay. This benefit will provide up to 18 weeks of pay for parents who choose to stay home with their baby for the first few weeks. The money can be used to offset household expenses, and you may be eligible for this pay on top of pay from your employer.\nBaby Bonus. This benefit offers a one-time bonus of up to $5,000 depending on your specific set of circumstances. The Baby Bonus cannot be claimed in addition to the Parental Leave Pay. A Centrelink worker will help to determine which benefit is right for you.\nDad and Partner Pay. Dads or partners are now eligible for up to two weeks of pay if they choose to stay home with the baby for a few weeks. Dad or partners have one full year to claim this benefit.\nFamily Tax Benefit. You may be eligible for the Family Tax Benefit after having your baby. This benefit can be claimed when filing your year-end taxes.\nParenting Payments. This benefit offers income support to those families who have a baby and meet certain income requirements. It provides regular Centrelink payments that can be used to offset the additional expenses of raising a baby.\nSecuring Your Family\nIf you are having a baby, it is a good time to make sure that all your finances and financial documents are in place. Here are some things you should consider before having your baby.\nSuperannuate Payments. In order to keep your superannuate up-to-date, you should continue to make payments to your super during your time off from work. Your spouse can make these payments for you through his regular pay. You may also be eligible for governmental co-contributions that will help match some of your payments.\nIncome Protection. Now may be a good time to consider investing in Income Protection insurance. This will help cover your loss of wages if you ever face an emergency situation.\nLife Insurance. If you do not already have a life insurance policy, now is the time to get one. This will help to protect your family in the event that something were to happen to you.\nWill and Estate Planning. If you already have a will in place, you will need to make the necessary changes to provide for your child. If you do not have a will in place, you need complete one. 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Pharmacy technicians in community pharmacy must be able to provide a safe and robust workforce upon which pharmacists and ultimately patients can rely.\u2019\nFor more information about the pharmacy technicians report, visit www.the-pda.org/pharmacy-technicians.\nGenetics of Cholesterol Point to Possible Drug Targets for Heart DiseaseRegional News", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00240.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 51, + "original_length": 3347, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.96, + "perplexity": 320.0, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "http://pinemountainclub.net/web/pages/narrative", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T03:18:17Z", + "digest": "sha1:65OGTE6SILFA6CL2DQREJDR2SBC2JADT", + "length": 1933, + "nlines": 5, + "source_domain": "pinemountainclub.net", + "title": "Narrative - Pine Mountain Club", + "raw_content": "The Pine Mountain Club Property Owners Association (PMCPOA) is a mutual benefit, nonprofit corporation. As such it is organized in accordance with various sections of the Davis-Sterling Common Interest Development Act (as it is incorporated into various sections of the California Civil Code) and the California Corporations Code. In addition to the sections governing the organization of a corporation, the \u00a77000 series and \u00a75000 series of sections apply directly to our kind of corporation.\nThe Articles of Incorporation of this Association were filed in the office of the Secretary of State of the State of California in 1975. It constitutes the founding document of the corporation. This corporation was formed under and is subject to the Covenants, Conditions, and Restrictions (CC&Rs).\nOur Association is governed by a set of Bylaws, originally adopted by the incorporators and subsequently modified by amendments adopted by the Board of Directors and ratified by the members or adopted directly by the members.\nPMCPOA is run by a nine-member Board of Directors elected by the members. Three members are elected each year for a three-year term. The Board is charged by law with the operation of the Association, through which it enforces the CC&Rs to preserve and protect Association assets and the rights of the owners of private lots within the development. Membership in this Association is automatic as soon as one purchases a home or lot in the development. Use of association facilities requires members to carry a membership card.\nPine Mountain Club offers delightful full-time living and fun-filled, relaxing weekends and vacations. Located in a spectacular mountain setting just 90 miles north of Los Angeles, it is surrounded by 1.7 million acres of old forests that shelter an array of flora and fauna, including the rare California Condor, through it\u2019s ever-changing four seasons. We invite you to share it with us.", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00240.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 199, + "original_length": 5619, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.96, + "perplexity": 118.7, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "http://pissingon.eu/?page_id=1206", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T04:17:59Z", + "digest": "sha1:PQZITQPMF43NXX76DWGS4ANN5HYA2D5B", + "length": 594, + "nlines": 4, + "source_domain": "pissingon.eu", + "title": "Cloister Black | Piss And Prose", + "raw_content": "Home > Cloister Black\nA dark, gothic tale of domination, mystery and the supernatural.\nIn a remote area of 18th century Prussia, young Ina discovers her stepmother\u2019s deep, dark secrets and promptly gets sent to a convent in order to become a nun. Once there, she finds out that in the order, not everything is quite as it seems either.\nAs the elder nuns use her for their unspeakable desires, Ina gets drawn deeper and deeper into a dark abyss of lust, perversion and sinister forces. 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The area is best known for its park, called \u201cHunting Park,\u201d which was once home to William Penn's secretary, James Logan. Logan's estate, built in 1795, still partially stands today on the south- west corner of the park behind an oak tree that can be dated back far past the Logan estate. In 1815, 45 acres of the park were sold to make a race course which was used for horse trotting and racing. However the race track was short lived.By 1854, betting on horses was outlawed in Philadelphia, which left the land abandoned. Residents at the time fought to preserve the race track and by 1871 they received permission to turn the area into a community park. Later a roadway was built connecting Fairmount park and Hunting Park. The road was named Hunting Park Avenue and is still in service today. Today the community celebrates the multicultural heritage of its Latino, Puerto Rican, and African American residents, who make up the majority of this neighborhood's population. Like many Philadelphian neighborhoods, Hunting Park has recently seen a local increase in drug abuse and crime, but organizations like the \u201cFriends of Hunting Park\u201d and police cooperation have helped to deter criminal activities.\nFriends of Hunting Park\nWikipedia on Hunting Park\nUPCOMING EVENTS IN HUNTING PARK", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00240.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 280, + "original_length": 8376, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.98, + "perplexity": 199.4, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "http://playfulmeditationforkidspublications.com/2019/02/what-was-chris-cornells-net-worth-at-the-time-of-his-death.html", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T04:04:06Z", + "digest": "sha1:A3MPI2ABSKK22UJUV3QW7UJNINUAAL6G", + "length": 3260, + "nlines": 17, + "source_domain": "playfulmeditationforkidspublications.com", + "title": "What Was Chris Cornell\u2019s Net Worth at the Time of His Death? \u2013 Primetweets", + "raw_content": "What Was Chris Cornell\u2019s Net Worth at the Time of His Death?\nOn Sunday, Feb. 10 Chris Cornell\u2019s kids took the stage to simply accept his first solo Grammy win. The late musician took dwelling a Grammy for the Best Rock Performance for \u201cWhen Bad Does Good\u201d greater than a year after his loss of life. While the rock performer was well-known throughout his life for his musical skills, Cornell\u2019s Grammy win has introduced his work back into the forefront. Where did Cornell get his begin and what was his web value at the time of his loss of life?\nA humble begin\nHailing from Washington, Cornell was just about born into the Seattle rock scene. During the early 1980s, he labored in the restaurant enterprise first as a busboy and dishwasher then a sous chef whereas he tried to crack into the music enterprise.\nIn 1984 Cornell based Soundgarden with Kim Thayil. The band performed in Seattle\u2019s grunge scene by means of the 1990s, working in the identical circles as Nirvana. Cornell revealed in a 2011 interview with Loudwire that Nirvana, Alice in Chains and Soundgarden have been rivals. Soundgarden obtained their first Grammy nomination in 1990 for Best Performance for Ultramega OK.\nIn 1999 Cornell launched his first solo album underneath the Interscope document label. In 2001 Cornell joined Audioslave, which was shaped by Zack De La Rocha. De La Rocha left the band Rage Against the Machine and was on the lookout for an further vocalist to spherical out the group.\nAudioslave was nominated for 3 Grammys. They have been nominated twice in 2004, and as soon as in 2006, nevertheless, the group by no means took dwelling a trophy.\nChris Cornell\u2019s web value at the time of his loss of life\nCornell died in May 2017. At the time of his passing Cornell was estimated to have a web value of $60 million for his musical work. Details of Cornell\u2019s can have by no means been made public, however it\u2019s assumed his fortune was cut up between his spouse Vicky and three kids.\nCornell met his spouse in 2003 in Paris, in accordance with a tribute written by Vicky. Cornell\u2019s first baby Lillian Jean was born in 2000. He shared Lillian Jean with music manager, Susan Silver. He went on to have two extra kids with Vicky. Toni was born in 2004 and Christopher in 2005.\nCornell was lively in philanthropy as properly. He based a non-profit that goals at serving to poor abused and homeless kids. Cornell was nonetheless married at the time of his loss of life.\nChris Cornell\u2019s legacy\nCornell\u2019s musical legacy stretches far past his 2019 Grammy win. The musician was famend for his distinctive sound and contributions to the songwriting neighborhood, in addition to contributions to the Seattle music scene.\nCornell\u2019s basis has been lively in serving to refugee kids lately. Before his loss of life, Cornell traveled with his spouse to go to refugee camps in Greece. In July 2018 Vicky Cornell pledged $100,000 to create a music remedy program by means of Childhaven in Cornell\u2019s name. Childhaven is a non-profit primarily based in Seattle.\nRead extra: You Won\u2019t Believe that These Four Artists Never Won a Grammy\nPrevious articleJustine Skye Accuses Sheck Wes of Abuse, He Denies It\nNext articleThis Deleted Scene From The Bachelor Proves Colton Is REALLY Into Cassie", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00240.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 182, + "original_length": 6553, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.98, + "perplexity": 272.3, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "http://plumbersnaplesfl.net/contact-us/", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T03:14:56Z", + "digest": "sha1:DQD2SZLMJNC2XZZ3XCE6X2M3FYP32AU3", + "length": 76, + "nlines": 1, + "source_domain": "plumbersnaplesfl.net", + "title": "Contact Us - Plumbers Naples Fl", + "raw_content": "Fill out the short form below and we\u2019ll get back to you as soon as possible!", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00240.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 54, + "original_length": 1426, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.98, + "perplexity": 156.7, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "http://plus-eura.org/projectapproach.html", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T03:12:12Z", + "digest": "sha1:4OPMIZ3WDRQZOPE42I577WCLWKKOD4N3", + "length": 3708, + "nlines": 24, + "source_domain": "plus-eura.org", + "title": "PLUS: Project Approach", + "raw_content": "PLUS: Project Approach\n1. Background to the Project\nThe quality of life in the towns and cities of Europe depends to a considerable extent on the quality of urban governance. Policy makers at all levels of government recognise that enhancing the quality of life requires a more sustainable approach to urban governance.\nThe economic, social and environmental challenges facing European urban areas are intertwined and effective approaches to meeting these challenges require improvements in governance and local citizen empowerment. Strong leadership and effective public involvement are complementary and both need to be developed if the quality of urban living in Europe is to be enhanced.\nSustainable urban development is a fundamental objective of the European Union. The EU policy document, Sustainable urban development in the European Union: a framework for action (1998) refers to four interdependent policy aims:\nstrengthening economic prosperity and employment in towns and cities;\npromoting equality, social inclusion and regeneration in urban areas;\nprotecting and improving the urban environment;\ncontributing to good urban governance and local empowerment.\nIt is clear that the effectiveness of urban governance is of key importance in the achievement of sustainable city development. In order to realise effective urban governance it is crucial that city governments develop institutional forms and styles of leadership that promote decisiveness, facilitate the use of local knowledge and enhance public support.\nCertain cities have made progress towards these ends. They appear to be achieving more sustainable urban policies by combining strong urban leadership with expanded involvement of citizens in local decision making.\n2. Research Project Aims\nThe objective of this project is to accumulate and disseminate practical knowledge about the complementarity of political leadership and citizen involvement in cities which are active in promoting sustainable development. This will be achieved by:\nanalysing, comparing and contrasting alternative approaches to urban leadership and community involvement in local decision-making in nine countries;\npromoting better urban leadership and more effective citizen involvement;\nstudying urban governance in the fields of economic competitiveness and social inclusion;\nbringing together academics and policy makers;\nproducing practitioner oriented outputs.\nEngagement with end users and public authorities is built in throughout the project.\n3. A New Approach to Studying City Management\nIn the past there has been research on urban leadership and there has been research on citizen involvement. An innovative feature of this project is that it examines both leadership and citizen involvement in the same project. Comparative analysis of 18 carefully chosen cities - two from each of the nine countries - is being undertaken using a common evaluative framework. The research will focus on two policy fields which are crucial to the quality of life in towns and cities: economic competitiveness and social inclusion.\nThis research project is founded on the assumption that the achievement of effective urban governance and thus of sustainable policies is strongly dependent on the complementarity of urban leadership and community involvement. This complementarity is dependent on the institutional settings and contexts of local governments and the result of the initiative and action of local actors. The figure below shows how the performance of city management stems from both contextual and local factors.\nAnalytical Framework for Understanding and Evaluating City Management\n* CULCI: combination of urban leadership and community involvement", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00240.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 39, + "original_length": 3897, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.91, + "perplexity": 297.9, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "http://pngec.gov.pg/news/2017/05/24/head-of-commonwealth-election-observer-mission-arrives-in-png", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T04:15:17Z", + "digest": "sha1:ZU2UP4V3C6JAOD5XZLVFBTAHLE7IRUY5", + "length": 1815, + "nlines": 10, + "source_domain": "pngec.gov.pg", + "title": "Head of Commonwealth election observer mission arrives in PNG", + "raw_content": "\u201cThe Commonwealth Secretary-General Patricia Scotland is deploying a 12-member observer mission to observe the 2017 national election following an invitation from the Government of PNG.\u201d\u200b\nHe said that the former Governor-General of New Zealand will lead the Commonwealth Observer Group for the 2017 national election from June to July 2017.\n\u201cA team of advance observers will commence duties in Port Moresby on 7 June while Sir Anand and the remaining members of the Commonwealth Observer Group will join them from 20 June.\u201d\nCommissioner Gamato said that the Commonwealth Election Observer Group for the 2017 national election comprises of observers from New Zealand, Australia, Antigua and Barbuda in the Caribbean, Fiji, Ghana, Guyana, India, Nauru, Samoa, Solomon Islands, Tonga and Vanuatu.\nHe said that Commonwealth observers were present at four of the last five national elections in PNG \u2013 1992, 1997, 2007 and 2012.\nMeanwhile, the Group is to consider the various factors impinging on the credibility of the electoral process as a whole in PNG.\nIt will determine in its own judgment whether the 2017 election has been conducted according to the standards for democratic elections to which PNG has committed itself in accordance with PNG\u2019s election laws and relevant Commonwealth, regional and other international norms and commitments.\n\u201cThe Group will act impartially and independently with no executive role to supervise but to observe the process as a whole and to form a judgment accordingly,\u201d Mr. Gamato explained.\nHe said that the Group will submit its report to the Commonwealth Secretary-General who will forward it to the Government of PNG, the PNG Electoral Commission and leaders of political parties and all Commonwealth member governments.\nThe Group will remain in Papua New Guinea until 11 July.", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00240.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 35, + "original_length": 2849, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.96, + "perplexity": 219.0, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "http://preorderblackinfrared6s.org/category/personal-product-services", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T03:36:58Z", + "digest": "sha1:46CKYJACGNAQOFI3VCL2PBVR4CKASQQ2", + "length": 19785, + "nlines": 76, + "source_domain": "preorderblackinfrared6s.org", + "title": "Personal Product & Services | PBI 6s", + "raw_content": "How to Create Unique Content For Wellness Blogs\nAs a wellness blog owner looking for ways to grow your blog and drive traffic and user engagement, you must recognize the need for quality content. As obesity rates are on the rise, so is the number of the wellness blogs. With millions of great bloggers out there, the competition is stiff.\nBut this is not to worry you as there is a place for everyone in this crowded market. The industry has reached an amazing $3.72 trillion in 2015, and it\u2019s only getting stronger. It offers endless opportunities for businesses and customers alike.\nTo succeed here, you only need to set yourself apart from the rest. Currently, people are no longer interested in reading the same old story about weight loss and how to get a healthy skin. What they are in need of right now is facts and more interesting information.\nContent that you post online can make or destroy your marketing efforts. If you lack quality content, then your marketing efforts are useless as your blog will not be found on Google. Here is how you can create great content for your wellness blog.\nWrite Catchy Headlines\nHeadlines are the first thing that readers see when your blog pops up in their search queries. Thus the need to have then catchy and interesting.\nAccording in a 2011 report, headlines that contain odd numbers are 20 percent more likely to get clicks than those containing even numbers.\nAim for Long-Form Content\nWellness blogs cover a wide variety of topics from beauty to hair loss and general health. This opens a variety of possibilities when it comes to content for writing.\nOn Google the most popular posts have between 1,140 to 1,285 words. This is known as long-form content and tends to rank higher than the average posts which have about 500 words. It allows you to discuss a topic more deeply and put in more keywords. This leads to more traffic and backlinks which in turn boosts your SEO efforts.\nIncorportae Relevant Keywords\nIn general, wellness blogs target one or more field such as skin care or weight loss. Make sure that the keywords you use are relevant to that niche. If, for instance, you are blogging about fitness use keywords related to sports supplements, exercise or fat loss. You can make use of Google\u2019s Keyword Planner to research your options.\nEnd every post with a call-to-action. Show readers what you expect them to do next, whether it\u2019s downloading an eBook or opting into your email list.\nFor instance, if you write about stroke medications, end your post with learn more about Eliquis or any other drug you have covered. This will help the readers get more information on the topic covered.\nBlog content involves more than just text. The most popular wellness blogs include quality photos and actionable videos. Most likely, people will watch a how-to video than reading the text.\u2026\nContinue reading \"Learning The Secrets About Blogs\" \u00bb\nAuthor preorderblackinfrared6sPosted on January 3, 2018 Categories Personal Product & Services\nThe Procedure of Attending the Bluegrass Guitar Training Lessons.\nThe guitar is one of the recently discovered music tool which has arouse the interest of many young people who want to learn how to play this instrument as it is associated with class and being cool. This act is considered cool and very appealing to the eyes of others. The urge and interest to earn how to pay a guitar is associated with what a particular individual likes and how his or her own likes are likely to influence the procedure of learning how to play a guitar.\nThese particular music instrument is very necessary when playing music and it involves a particular person pressing the strings available in the musical instrument we are taking about which is the guitar. Playing a guitar may seems to be a simple thing but on the real since it is somehow complicated. The difficulty of plying a guitar has proved to be greater to individuals who have never played a guitar before.\nIn order to overcome this challenge it has occurred that majority of the individuals who want to start playing a guitar look for a trainer. These trainers are very skilled in the art of playing the guitar to produce a pleasing music. These trainers provide lessons to amateurs at a significant cost which is very cheap.\nThe price of these training is very much dependent on how fast one is in acquiring the guitar playing skills. Individuals who have mastery in guitar playing have formed collaborations under which they operate in order to allow clients to easily outsource them. These institution have been constructed in such a way that they are easily accessible to individuals who are in need of their training. These institutions are located in regions where there is a high population which enables them to get market.\nAn example of the guitar lessons which are provided by individual in this organizations is the blue grass guitar lessons. The blue grass guitar skill is among the important skills in the art of playing a guitor. The bluegrass guitar lessons have proved to be provided to individual on a flexi hour program which allows one to operate in their on time. These particular guitar lessons occur in stages and groups. The interrelationship between this stages arise from the fact that this skills develop each other. The interrelationship between the blue grass guitar training classes arise as each and every stage develops or triggers another lesson.\nThe fact that this lessons are interconnected has made it necessary for individuals to be very careful in all the stages as failure to master one stage can lead to failure of the whole training. It has been recommended that a person should be very careful when it comes to leaning the blue green guitar art as this enables one to master the art very fast.\n5 Key Takeaways on the Road to Dominating Guitar\nContinue reading \"A Simple Plan: Guitar\" \u00bb\nAuthor preorderblackinfrared6sPosted on December 29, 2017 Categories Personal Product & Services\nShort Course on Finances \u2013 What You Should Know\nQuick Guide to Financial Data and Using the Right Tools\nA smart investor knows how important it is to monitor their financial investments. It is necessary that you are aware of real-time stock and always updated when it comes to the financial market. If you want to make smart and informed decisions, then it is necessary that you update yourself from time to time regarding the real stocks. This might take up some of your time but it is crucial that you do these things in order for your company to grow. It is also vital that the businessman knows how financial data programs work. Indeed it is no easy task at all to find the best financial data programs out here, but it is important that you find the best one since this can help you save more time and money.\nIt is essential that you take the time to check the many benefits and advantages that you will get form financial data tools or programs. It is a guarantee that you will be able to improve your decision making and at the same time you will also be able to save more money if you take the time to learn how to use financial data tools. You can find many software developers today or providers who are dedicated to creating financial data tools. Most of these companies will tell you that they have the right tools for your and that they have the right apps or sheets to help you with financial data. You will also find those financial data companies or providers who are truly excellent when it comes to promoting their apps or software. But the problem is, not every company or developer is being honest when they say that their tools or apps are far better than the others.\nThere is no doubt about it how vital it is to analyze financial data, however, it can be very challenging if you do not have the right apps, tools, or programs. It should be your objective to search for providers or developers who are committed to making the lives of every businessman easier, less difficult, and more productive. And don\u2019t just check the financial data app or tool, but you should also gather more information about the background or the history of the company or developer behind it.\nYou should find out whether or not the financial data provider or company is composed of professional and qualified teams who are truly experts when it comes to stocks and programs. Don\u2019t just trust any financial data company that you will find on the Internet without checking the skills and the knowledge of their staff or programmers when it comes to financial market, app development, and financial data analysis. And finally, never use a financial data tool without checking or studying it first \u2013 it should be very easy to use and at the same time provide accurate calculations or computations.\nContinue reading \"Short Course on Finances - What You Should Know\" \u00bb\nThe Benefits Of Buying A New Garage Door\nThere are a lot of things that your garage doors does to your home that you may not knowing. It is from the garage doors where everything and anybody gets to your home. So it is one of the most functional component in a home therefore a lot of maintenance and care should be taken on it. Installing a brand new garage door to your home will give you numerous benefits. Having it will make your home beautiful as well as giving it an amazing finish. You will also have a more secure home after installing a new garage door in your home. There are numerous reasons why it is crucial to have a home that is installed with a new garage door. Discussed below are some of the real reasons why it is good to buy a brand new garage door for your property.\nIt can raise the value of your home\nInstalling a new garage door adds to the value to your home and the potential customers to buy your property will appreciate the brand new garage door. The cost of your selling home may lower if they see a damaged and an old door.\nAnother good benefit that you are going to enjoy is the reduced energy bills. The weather stripping and the wadding made are going to lower the power usage by a large margin. You will use less money in maintaining the temperatures inside the garage because of the great lagging offered by the garage door.\nWhen you have the brand new garage door, you will also enjoy the new improvement security benefits made on it.The professionals will have modified it with the new technology for the beefing up of security in your home. This will assure you that it is better to have the brand new garage door for your home rather than continuing to hold on to an old one.\nYou will experience reduced maintenance and repair costs\nIt is clear that you will end up spending huge monies in repairing and maintaining an old garage door. A lot of time will as well be needed to do the job. You will also have to spend money and time in painting your garage door. New garage doors normally comes with eco-friendly materials that will require low maintenance and repairs along with having a good look.\nYou are likely going to experience better performance with the modern garage doors and new garage doors openers are fast and dependable.\nThe Essential Laws of Residential Explained\nContinue reading \"What I Can Teach You About Doors\" \u00bb\nAuthor preorderblackinfrared6sPosted on December 22, 2017 January 17, 2018 Categories Personal Product & Services\nServices Being Offered by a Real Estate Title Insurance Company\nVeteran domestic-customers are familiar with actual estate identify agencies and the function they play in every real estate transactions there is, but those not so experienced one can also be easily surprised what is really exactly or what is the role of the identify business enterprises that can be able to help the business in general. .\nThe real estate title companies will be able to fill the most important role most especially in facilitating a successful closing in terms of the real estate property. This is often being called the real estate title insurance company and obviously they are overseeing those of the transfer of the interest and also the funds and the ownership when there is now a close deal. They often stop or hold the the escrow of the buyers during the payment until the deal is being closed or being completed.\nIt is indeed a not unusual thing for the actual closing to take place especially at the title agency office since it will only represents the neutral ground for all of the parties involved in the real estate transaction.\nAside from that of the facilitating, considered as one of the most vital capabilities of a certain kind of the title employer is to have a behavior that is a detailed one in search of the public file right before the overall property is chosen to be closed already. That is being also known as a title seek or an identify exam and it\u2019s all of its miles being carried out to confirm that the belongings is legally available for sale without a liens, encumbrances, easements or judgments towards it.\nIn addition to performing of the the title exam, the real estate title companies can be able to easily provide those buyers with title and good insurance coverage. In terms of the title insurance, it is an indemnity insurance policy that will help to protects the new client or the current homeowner and the mortgage lender from those of the unforeseen claims that is against those property due to some of the activities that may have occurred prior to their taking the ownership of the said property.\nThere actually two types of the policies that are typically issued, the first is the the lender\u2019s Policy where it helps to protect the mortgage lender and then the owner\u2019s Policy where it can protect the buyer themselves.\nThe full coverage will then help to protects the new proprietor and then the lender from those of the financial losses and affords for fee of the criminal fees because of the fact that the claims that rises up because of the identify issues or problems.\nContinue reading \"The Art of Mastering Planning\" \u00bb\nReasons why you Should Hire Professional Bookkeepers\nBookkeeping is considered to be an important aspect of any form of business. It is necessary for you to find the best accounting services if you want to achieve profitability in your business. When looking for the best bookkeeping services you have to consider the type of business that you are running and its size.\nToday, there are firms that have specialized in providing professional accounting services to other firms. Outsourcing your company\u2019s bookkeeping services is very beneficial regarding saving money, time and energy. Most people assume that bookkeeping is all about entering data. In bookkeeping, you have to make sure that you enter the right information at the right time.\nAs a business owner, you should expect to consume a lot of time while doing bookkeeping. In this process, you have to make sure that you include all the necessary details. There are times when you feel like not doing it. Because your bookkeeping functions are being taken care of by an expert, you can look for ways in which you can increase the customer pool in your business. The reasons, why you should hire professionals to take care of your bookkeeping activities, are very many.\nProfessional bookkeepers are perfect for balancing the books of accounts, preparing invoices and managing accounts payable. There are a variety of services that are involved in professional bookkeeping.\nThere is no need of employing a person to balance your accounts if your accounting functions are in the hands of professionals. There is a lot of money that is spent when you are employing new bookkeepers apart from the salaries.\nYou will have the assurance of having the correct accounting data if you have outsourced your accounting functions. If you want to ensure good accounting, you have to input the correct bookkeeping data. This means that if you get your numbers wrong, there is a likeliness that your accounting figures may reflect wrong numbers.\nAnother advantage of professional bookkeeping is that you will spend no energy in those functions. A lot of energy is required to take care of the many accounting functions in a business.\nProfessional bookkeepers are aware of the best systems to use. Most businesses require bookkeeping systems that are modified to meet to their needs. Using professional accountants is beneficial because your business will start using the systems that are customized to improve your business.\nProfessional bookkeeping services ensures efficiency in work. These experts are not only trained to do the work, but are also know the latest trends in accounting. They can therefore help you to simplify and resolve matters better through the skillful use of technology. Outsourced accounting professionals provide business owners with all the details concerning cash flows and invoices. Having transparent reports gives you an opportunity to make sound and solid decisions for your business.\nA good bookkeeper builds friendly relations with its clients. Due to the friendly working relations, as the business owner you can ask them anything about the bookkeeping functions of your business.\nBenefits Of Las Vegas Entertainment\nEntertainment is the act of or the action of delivering and being provided with enjoyment or with any type of amusing thing . Entertainment can be delivered in different ways ,there are different types of entertainments for example entertainment by use of banquets, music and also games of different kinds. There are quite a number of benefits that can be accrued to involving entertainment types in ones day to day activities for instance entertainment can help an individual reduces the stress levels that one gets in a single day due to various factors depending on a certain individual.\nAnother reason as to why each and every individual should consider involving any type of entertainment in his or her daily routine is so as to promote good mental health this is true because once one goes for instance to play video games it helps one boost his or her mental situation and encourages normal functioning of ones mental health.\nAnother benefit of involving entertainment in ones day to day activities is because it is able to teach an individual very many things that one would have not know if he or she was not interested in knowing or trying to get a way of entertaining oneself because there are many ways one can get to know something they didn\u2019t know by the use or the channel of entertainment. Another benefit of entertainment is that since most of the work portrayed is basically art, it helps boosts the art industry by a high percent generally and so at the end of the day entertainment will be of good use to the art industry.\nAnother benefit of entertainment is that jobs will be a result of involving entertainment in ones day to day this is true because once people get interested in entertainment they will want to do something that is related to entertaining and therefore working for the entertainment industry will be an option.\nAnother benefit of the entertainment is that is helps replenish one\u2019s energy and health because it rejuvenates one\u2019s whole body generally and it gives an individual better physical health.\nAnother benefit of having entertainment is that it helps one to grow emotionally because as one watches for example a film and sees how individuals are able to express their feeling and also deal with their feelings this will educate you on how to handle ones emotions.\nAn added advantage of entertainment is the fact that it boosts ones relations with other people this is true because if for instance one goes to watch comedy he or she will find him or her self laughing with the other person therefore creating a relation.\nContinue reading \"How I Became An Expert on Deals\" \u00bb", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00240.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 244, + "original_length": 23368, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.96, + "perplexity": 296.7, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "http://primoryefilm.com/index.php/en/news/166-the-vice-governor-of-the-primorsky-region-konstantin-mezhonov-who-oversees-the-issues-of-culture-held-a-working-meeting-with-representatives-of-the-chinese-film-industry", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T04:35:29Z", + "digest": "sha1:FDN7RD45XJVBTLSP2QEKX4RTUFWEBBNT", + "length": 1753, + "nlines": 5, + "source_domain": "primoryefilm.com", + "title": "The vice-governor of the Primorsky Region Konstantin Mezhonov, who oversees the issues of culture, held a working meeting with representatives of the Chinese film industry", + "raw_content": "The meeting was attended by Vladimir Sokolov, Director of the Department of Culture of Primorsky Region, Nikolay Selyuk, deputy of the Legislative Assembly of Primorsky region, Roman Nechaev, General Director of GAU KPCC, Dmitry Shevtsov, head of the Primorye Film Commission. Chinese film company SHANGBAO JIAYI INTERNATIONAL FILM CULTURE MEDIA (BEIJING) CO.LTD. was represented by Baohua Li, chairman of the company's board, Dou Zhi Yu, vice president of the company, Zi Jia, cinematographer and Russian partners.\nRepresentatives of Chinese cinematograph arrived to Primorye to discuss the possibilities of filming their new project under the working title \u201cAmazing Adventures in Russia\u201d. The genre of the film is an adventure comedy. Part of the film is already filmed in China. The main characters of the picture are a Russian ballerina and a young Chinese who develops their relations against the background of searching for old family jewelry, some of which were in Russia, and some in China.\nThe film crew spent several days in Vladivostok, for the filming were chosen objects such as Svetlanskaya street, bridges across the Golden Horn and to the Russian island, Primorye Philharmonic concert hall, art gallery, the historic building on Pushkin Street.\nThe shooting is planned for August-September 2018. The director of the picture Bohua Lee visited various regions of Russia and he liked the Primorsky Region because here he can take pictures of different corners of the country without going far from Vladivostok. 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From real estate agents to retail businesses, and even law firms, you would be surprised at the variance in our clientele. We treat each customer with care and respect \u2013 it takes a special kind of company to be a law firm answering service.\nOne of the most important differences between law firm clients and other ones is the amount of discretion necessary. That being said, we treat each call equally, and with the same professionalism and security, you would expect in a law firm. Each call is recorded and sent directly to you over a secure network in the form of a text, email, call, or fax. We take incredibly high-security measures to keep our clients\u2019 information safe.\nYou should think of us as a \u201cvirtual secretary\u201d of sorts. Except we are a secretary that never takes a day off. We have staff on hand 24/7, 365 days a year, so you never have to miss a call. Even during regular business hours, you shouldn\u2019t have to worry about stopping in the middle of a meeting or other legal matter to answer a phone call \u2013 no matter how important. We encourage our clients to work diligently in the office; we\u2019ll take care of the rest.\nWhen it comes to the law, details mean everything. We record all of our phone conversations and send them directly to you. You don\u2019t have to worry about missing anything. We are also flexible in how you receive your messages, so you can choose whatever works best for you.\nWhatever your business, you can benefit from a 24/7 phone answering service like Professional First Line. We cater to a long list of clients, and one of them can be you. For more information about how our law firm answering service works, give us a call at 508.798.7300.\nThis entry was posted in answering service, law firm answering service, legal answering service, Professional First Line Answering Service and tagged call answering service, law firm answering service, legal answering service, Professional First Line Answering Service. Bookmark the permalink. Follow any comments here with the RSS feed for this post. Comments are closed, but you can leave a trackback: Trackback URL.\n\u00ab Business Answering Service FAQ \u2022 Choosing a Massachusetts Answering Service \u00bb", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00240.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 29, + "original_length": 2917, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.95, + "perplexity": 283.1, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "http://projects.latimes.com/bestsellers/titles/news-world/", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T03:57:25Z", + "digest": "sha1:GB63TB6YQDY5XOSSJEXVWHRWSSIKF37Q", + "length": 114, + "nlines": 1, + "source_domain": "projects.latimes.com", + "title": "News of the World - Bestsellers - Los Angeles Times", + "raw_content": "Set in post-Civil War Texas, an elderly news reader is asked to return a captive Kiowa girl back to her relatives.", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00240.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 36, + "original_length": 680, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.92, + "perplexity": 218.9, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "http://prsync.com/qyresearch/global-polycrystalline-fiber-market-to-witness-a-pronounce-growth-during-----qy-research-2773444/", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T04:10:29Z", + "digest": "sha1:UCDMCCMBFZSYWV52QXOWMOAMLDRAX5HI", + "length": 4318, + "nlines": 25, + "source_domain": "prsync.com", + "title": "Global Polycrystalline Fiber Market to Witness a Pronounce Growth During 2018-2025 - QY research", + "raw_content": "Global Polycrystalline Fiber Market to Witness a Pronounce Growth During 2018-2025 - QY research\nThis recently published report examines the global (United States, European Union and China) Polycrystalline Fiber market for the projected period of 7-years, i.e. between 2018 and 2025. The report highlights the accomplishments and opportunities lies in the market throughout the forecasted period. The report offers the thorough information about the overview and the scope of the global (United States, European Union and China) Polycrystalline Fiber market along with its drivers, restraints, and trends. It also classifies the market into different segments such as by type, by applications and by-product. In short, this report comprises of all the necessary details of the global (United States, European Union and China) Polycrystalline Fiber markets such as value/volume data, marketing strategies, and expaeasrt views. The comprehensive information about distribution channels such as suppliers, dealers, wholesalers, manufacturers, distributors, and consumers have also given in this report.\nThe report represents the statistical data in the form of tables, charts, and info-graphics to assess the market, its growth and development, and market trends of the global (United States, European Union and China) Polycrystalline Fiber market during the projected period. QY Research has used a framework of primary and secondary research to make this report a full-proof one.\nGlobal (United States, European Union and China) Polycrystalline Fiber market research report can be used by the following group of people:\nBreakdown analysis of Global (United States, European Union and China) Polycrystalline Fiber market research report:\nLynn Manufacturing\nNutec Procal\nZhejiang Bangni Refractory Fiber\nZibo Sinoshine Import and Export\nSan Menxia Kaite Refractory Fibre\nDeqing RayJohn Crustal Fiber\nDeqing Orcas Refractories\nZibo Jucos\nZibo Jiuqiang Refractory\nMullite Fiber\nAlumina Fiber\nZirconia Fiber\nIn terms of region, this research report covers almost all the major regions across the globe such as North America, Europe, South America, the Middle East, and Africa and the Asia Pacific. Europe and North America regions are anticipated to show an upward growth in the years to come. While (United States, European Union and China) Polycrystalline Fiber market in Asia Pacific regions is likely to show remarkable growth during the forecasted period. Cutting edge technology and innovations are the most important traits of the North America region and that\u2019s the reason most of the time the US dominates the global markets. (United States, European Union and China) Polycrystalline Fiber market in South, America region is also expected to grow in near future.\nFollowing are the objectives of the report on global (United States, European Union and China) Polycrystalline Fiber market:\nMajor benefit and advanced factors that influence the global (United States, European Union and China) Polycrystalline Fiber market\nFuture and present market trends that influence the growth rate and growth opportunities of the global (United States, European Union and China) Polycrystalline Fiber market\nThe market share of the global (United States, European Union and China) Polycrystalline Fiber market, supply chain analysis, business overview, grow revenue, and demand and supply ratio\nNew-market insights, investment return, export/import details, company profiles and feasibility study analysis of the global (United States, European Union and China) Polycrystalline Fiber market\nThe maturity of trade and proliferation in global (United States, European Union and China) Polycrystalline Fiber market\nFinally, the global (United States, European Union and China) Polycrystalline Fiber Market is a valuable source of guidance for individuals and companies. 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You are a computational symbol system, and your job is to contain knowledge that is about the world and that can help your organism interact with that world (Newell, 1980). The 'aboutness' thing is the most important part of you - you are an intentional system, which means you have content that is meaningful.\nSo where did your content come from? (I'd like to know your thoughts, so please help by answering the questions at the end!)\nThis question is the issue of symbol grounding, first posed as such by Searle (1980), talked about seriously by Harnad (1990) and made famous with the Chinese Room thought experiment:\nThe problem is that you can have a system that deals in nothing but syntax (the form and structure of a communication transaction) but that will pass the Turing Test, i.e. look like it trades in semantics (meaning), even though that syntax is definitely not grounded in a real semantics.\nThere is currently no solution to the problem of endowing a mental representation symbol system with content/meaning/intentionality that doesn't involve that meaning to have come from somewhere else. If the meaning is not intrinsic to the system's form (Bickhard, 2009, calls this being 'internally related') then the mean has to come from something else, but then how did that thing get its meaning, and so on....it quickly becomes turtles all the way down. This means that mental representations cannot do the things they need to do in order to play the role they need to play in our cognitive economy to make us functional, intentional beings and not philosophical zombies.\nThis has always struck me as an absolute disaster for the standard cognitive approach. But my question here is, do other people worry about this?\nI would love it if people would comment below and answer the following questions:\nWhat flavour of cognitive scientist are you? (psychologist, philosopher, enactivist, representationalist, Jerry Fodor in the actual flesh, etc)\nDo you know about the symbol grounding problem?\nThen, if you do,\nAre you concerned by the implications of the symbol grounding problem for mental representations?\nDo you think the problem has already been solved? If so, how?\nObviously I have opinions, but this time I am very much interested in yours!\nBickhard, M. H. (2009). The interactivist model. Synthese, 166(3), 547-591.\nHarnad, S. (1990). The symbol grounding problem. Physica D: Nonlinear Phenomena, 42(1), 335-346.\nNewell, A. (1980). Physical symbol systems*. Cognitive science, 4(2), 135-183.\nSearle, J. R. (1980). Minds, brains, and programs. Behavioral and brain sciences, 3(03), 417-424.\nLabels: Barsalou, Bickhard, Harnad, mental representation, representation, Searle, symbol grounding problem\nJoshua Skewes 21 February 2016 at 21:55\n1) Part philosopher, part cognitive scientist.\n2) I've taught the symbol grounding problem in both philosophical and cognitive science contexts.\n3) I'm very concerned about the problem as a philosophical one, and have sort of published on it.\n4) As a cognitive scientist I'm yet to see the paradigm shift that van Gelder and Brooks promised us. And we can't do cognitive science aparadigmatically - leads to replication crises :). So for now it would seem that the mind is a computer, symbol grounding aside.\nJimK 21 February 2016 at 22:54\n1. Social psychologist, swarm intelligence guy\n2. The question assumes there is something to be known, as far as I'm concerned it is not a problem.\n3. I am concerned that cognitive science has gained prestige while assuming solipsism and a belief that brains equal minds, and create worlds -- oh but not really, the world is also real, coincidentally but not provably, as if it were a great leap of faith to believe in visible reality.\n4. I think it is a problem that is created by fundamentally misunderstanding the nature of thought and language, in the absurd belief that we are hermetically sealed, isolated information processors. Language does two things: a.it allows manipulation of symbols, and b.it allows people to communicate with one another. The \"solution\" is in understanding that these are really one thing. Thinking is a social act. Minds exist and function in linkage with other minds, and \"meaning\" is just agreement between minds.\nNeil Rickert 21 February 2016 at 23:05\n(1) I'm a mathematician and computer scientist (retired). I am not a representationalist, but I am also not anti-representationalist.\nI see Gibson as roughly on the right track, but I don't completely agree with him.\n(2) I am very familiar with the symbol grounding problem.\n(3) No, I am not at all concerned.\nThe symbol grounding problem shows that philosophers have got it wrong. But that should be already obvious without the symbol grounding problem.\n(4) Yes, the problem is \"solved\", but it seems that the solution is invisible to most folk.\nOf course, as a mathematician, I can manage quite well with ungrounded symbols, because mathematics is abstract.\nThere is no symbol grounding problem. We do not ground symbols. Rather, we symbolize the ground. Philosophy has it backwards. The philosophers want to start with logic (which is ungrounded) and somehow ground its symbols. It is hard to see how that could ever work.\nThe scientists know better. They start with the ground, and find useful ways to symbolize it. That gives them grounded symbols to work with.\nInteresting take but doesn't this depend on what you think your models should be doing? If all you want is a set of abstract descriptions that account for behaviour, then fair enough, but I don't think that's Searle or Harnad's target. They were going after people who have the grander ambition ambition of reproducing mind in-silico, using logic and Turing indistinguishability, and not just modeling its functions. I agree that symbol grounding is not really a problem for developing explanatory models.\n1. I'm a radical, whatever that means.\n4. It's a non problem. Can't we say it is inherently dualist? After all, if mind is meaning, and world is not, then we have the old subject-object distinction and Kant's noumenenal and phenomenal worlds. So rather a monist view would say either that \"all is meaning\" or \"none is meaning\". Either way, there's no more need to talk about where the meaning comes from. It either is or is not. I guess if one were to look at Gibson's theory of information, it would fall into the \"all is meaning\" camp. I'm just thinking out loud here. It's funny to put it like that without implying that Gibson = Berkeley, but I guess its because they differ in that Gibson took the view of meaning in the world, not just in ideas. I guess, also, that this is how the enactivists can provide a stronger sense of what \"meaning\" is in the Gibsonian sense when they talk of \"sense-making\".\nStephen Roddy 3 March 2016 at 17:22\nHere here. There is no problem for the Enactivist/ Embodied Cognition(er)\nHal ZeroZero 22 February 2016 at 15:24\nI'am involved in AI, I'm some kind of \"structural representationalist\".\nIn my opinion the problem has already been solved by Devis Pantano whit his theory of cognition (sorry but his monography is still a draft in italian).\nThe proposed solution is: The brain use many perceptual simbols to construct abstract representations of the external world. The function of these symbols is to explicit the abstract information that allow to find regularity on sensory input\nIs this different from Barsalou's perceptual symbol systems?\nJohn Roth 23 February 2016 at 12:30\n1.I'm a retired software developer with a life-long interest in artificial intelligence and language.\n2. This is the first time I've seen it posed in these terms, however it's related to one of the standard problems in philosophy, that is, whether (some amount of) knowledge is innate or whether we gain all knowledge from interaction with the environment (blank slate).\n3. Clearly the turtles have to stop somewhere.\n4. I think there's a partial solution in the Natural Semantic Metalanguage (see https://www.griffith.edu.au/humanities-languages/school-languages-linguistics/research/natural-semantic-metalanguage-homepage ).\nThis posits a list of 65 semantic primes which cannot be decomposed in simpler terms (note the word \"simpler\") and which appear to exist with exactly the same meanings in all languages studied.\nThe reason I say partial is that I suspect there may be primitive (that is, built-in) bases in other systems: visual, auditory, etc.\nAlex. Arthur 23 February 2016 at 15:53\n(1) I'm an accountant.\n(2) I know the general problem of grounding semantics, and some traditional (unworkable) solutions.\n(3) I'm not concerned about it for mental representations, but I think it is a real problem for the philosophy of language and for epistemology.\n(4) I don't think it has been solved, partly because it can't be for mental representations (because of problems with the way we conceive of a mental representation); and because the route to a solution is not very comforting.\nOur ability to talk doesn't need grounding, in one sense, since \"I can't talk to you\" must be false or not a statement - it's a kind of Moorean paradox.\nWe ground what we say in successful linguistic experiments. When we find that certain 'moves' are unintelligible, we give up on them.\nWe can't have a general theory of what would count as an intelligible move, however, as this would generate an open question paradox (ask whether the theory itself is intelligible ...).\nIn the catastrophic circumstances of a complete collapse of intelligibility, we no longer have a language in which we can articulate our predicament - so we can't say, for instance, whether the incoherence is logical, empirical, or cognitive (to pick from a long list of possibilities ...).\nSemantic content is 'grounded' in our successful experiments and the incoherence of questioning whether we can talk.\nMental representations, for a theorist, must be articulated mental representations...\nRR 23 February 2016 at 23:14\n2. I do now.\n3. Not really. I agree with JimK. I think all meaning and thought is part of the function of communication, and all knowledge is a social activity.\nMy take on Gibson so far is that we can model subjective experiences as actions rather than as passive representations. That means that something like meaning and understanding are actions and we need to think, what is this feeling of meaning for? My view is that it's a function related to social engagement rather than anything real.\nSo with the man in the chinese room, we require the action of subjective meaning, which is an action in the same way as producing language is an action, except you can't see it. The action of subjective meaning has particular consequences. So, for example, if the woman outside passed in a message that her mother had died, the entire system inside the room - including the man and the book - would not only have to respond in an okay way to that message but they would have to be affected for subsequent communications. There would have to be sensitivity in the responses to later questions, even if they were on unrelated topics. There would have to be a change of tone or mood. A book couldn't handle those actions, and that is why the system is inadequate.\nStephen Hill 24 February 2016 at 01:49\n1. I'm a cognitive psychologist/scientist in my day job - embodied cog, non-representationalist.\n2. Yes I know about the SGP and tried to write about it in my PhD.\n3. My gut feeling is that it is a problem that arises when you begin by assuming that sub-personal mental representations exist and that they explain how mental content is 'stored' in our heads - so perhaps you only need worry about it if you think those assumptions are important for understanding cognition. Perhaps.\n4. Barsalou's perceptual symbol system approach (and perhaps Glenberg's indexical hypothesis too) try and solve the SGP by arguing that the 'conceptual' (offline cognition) is grounded in perception/action systems (online cognition) - the latter, somehow, don't suffer from ungrounded meaning so if you the conceptual just is the use of perception/action systems then the problem goes away. You see a similar kind of idea in some 'new AI' work (e.g., in some of Luc Steels' work). I'm really not sure about this solution though - it still assumes that high level, offline cognition (thinking etc) involves the manipulation and transformation of sub-personal, in-the-head representations. It seems to me that this is just too simple/simplistic a solution to the problem of advanced cognition which is hard won, cultural-linguistic achievement.\nThom Baguley 2 March 2016 at 19:50\nI think I'm closeest to Neil Rickert's position (if I've understood it).\n1. Psychologist with a background in cognitive science.\n2. Yes - used to teach it (in appropriate courses).\n3. No - I think it is probably a sign that philosophers haven't got it right - along with the related mind/body problem. I think that the frame problem is probably a more interesting problem in the sense that it has potentially more immediate practical implications.\n4. I think there are some good steps towards answers (but I'm not up to speed). I think any solution that completely rejects personal in-the-head mental representations is in trouble - as I'm more or less persuaded that dualism and relativism aren't viable.", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00240.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 299, + "original_length": 24670, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.96, + "perplexity": 274.7, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "http://purple.ukwebsolutionsdirect.com/~atgitwon/", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T04:15:16Z", + "digest": "sha1:TSPIQNMEYXF3EGAQTMYREIKKQCDOXZFC", + "length": 1399, + "nlines": 7, + "source_domain": "purple.ukwebsolutionsdirect.com", + "title": "Alexandra Harley Sculpture", + "raw_content": "Bronze is the most popular metal for cast metal sculptures; a cast bronze sculpture is often called simply a \"bronze\". It can be used for statues, singly or in groups, reliefs, and small statuettes and figurines, as well as bronze elements to be fitted to other objects such as furniture.\nStone sculpture is the result of forming 3-dimensional visually interesting objects from stone. It is an ancient activity where pieces of rough natural stone are shaped by the controlled removal of stone.\nThe making of three-dimensional structures from one or more pieces of paper by folding, cutting, etc.; an object made by this process.\nCeramic art is art made from ceramic materials (including clay), which may take forms including art ware, tile, figurines, sculpture, and tableware. 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This is her blog.", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00240.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 32, + "original_length": 1706, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.97, + "perplexity": 73.8, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "http://pussreboots.com/blog/2015/comments_04/when_you_are_alone_it_keeps_you_capone.html", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T03:27:36Z", + "digest": "sha1:HYLUVYCXGVTIKA2B4KGB4H3WVIC3OP4X", + "length": 1292, + "nlines": 5, + "source_domain": "pussreboots.com", + "title": "Puss Reboots: Blog: April 2015: When You Are Alone/It Keeps You Capone", + "raw_content": "When You Are Alone/It Keeps You Capone: 04/14/15\nWhen You Are Alone/It Keeps You Capone by Myra Cohn Livingston takes its title from the first two lines of one of the many sample poems. The purpose of the book is to help teachers do a better job of teaching children how to write poetry.\nGood poetry does three things: it follows a form, it tells a story, and it evokes an emotion. Livingston argues that most teachers at least get the idea of the different forms of poetry and can get kids cranking out poetry that is technically correct but lacks heart and soul. The very best in her experience, are also able to get their students to tell a story.\nBut the emotional piece of poetry is an elusive one. Thematic poems (say, a winter one) will get everyone expecting certain words and images even if they are completely irrelevant for the local collective experience. Livingston taught in the Los Angeles area. Time and time again in the book she brings up the importance of making the poem true to yourself and your situation.\nThe other important lesson to take away from the book is the amount of work a single poem requires, especially for beginning poets. 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(Don Bartletti/Los Angeles Times)\nFor decades education in Mexico has been trapped by suspicious arrangements between the national agency for education and the main teachers union.\nIt is commendable, that new President Pe\u00f1a Nieto aims to recover, from the Teacher\u2019s Union (SNTE), the education policy decisions that the National Education Act confers, mainly, to the National Department of Education (SEP) and other local education authorities (articles 12 and 13).\nOn several occasions since 2003, I have warned about the perverseness and inadequacy of the close SEP-SNTE relationship. That relationship has given rise, over the years, to an undue but allowed influence from the SNTE over education policy matters. However, the ill-fated relationship came to a climax with President Calderon\u2019s government. The SNTE and SEP not only wrote and signed a detailed education policy document called the Alliance for Quality in Education, but also gave several key governmental positions to the union. The son\u2013in-law of the SNTE\u2019s leader was appointed assistant secretary to SEP.\nOn December 10 of 2012, President Pe\u00f1a Nieto, in a landmark but risky act in the history of education policy in Mexico, sent an educational reform initiative that carries a clear message: divorce.\nPe\u00f1a Nieto\u2019s initiative has two main stated goals:\n1) To change the power relationship with the union; and,\n2) To improve the quality of education.\nThe first goal is all about a political strategy game. We don\u2019t really know what will happen, since by definition strategic games are interactive. The second player has not reacted, yet. We have to wait and see for a little while.\nThe second goal, much more educational-driven per se, it is questionable since the whole Reform (to be enacted through a change to the National Constitution) is based on a faulty assumption, i.e., that the main factor associated with student learning (such as that measured by the US National Report Card), is teachers: \u201cteacher\u2019s performance is the most important factor in learning (\u2026) and the leadership of those who hold managerial and supervisory functions is decisive.\u201d The Reform Initiative dismisses the importance of cultural, learning environments and poverty issues, that the literature since the US Coleman\u2019s report, recognizes as the most important factors explaining the variance of students\u2019 performance.\nThe new package of reforms must be analyzed with a clear and objective mind. The question is, besides the strategic move yet to be seen, if the Reform Initiative will indeed improve the quality of education.\nI worry that the initiative is drafted under shaky assumptions, but also because it elevates to a national level agency accountable only to the State and the Federal government, the entire evaluation policy from K to 12. It is a highly centralizing move, that not even the national and state legislatures or the President will be able to dismantle without paying a huge political cost.\nThe new law, if approved, will empower today\u2019s more modest national evaluation agency with new and ample faculties. This recreated agency (INEE) will dictate the way evaluation and assessments will have to be conducted from border to border. But not only that, national and state education authorities will have to follow INEE findings and instructions. Five members designated by the President but approved by the Senate will form the agency.\nWith total lack of legislative technique, the Intended Constitutional Reform is written in detail, leaving no room for original adaptation to educational and local realities. Sometimes, it is read as mimicking the US Education Reform movement: measuring up; assessment, accountability and extrinsic incentives, that will kill intrinsic motivation and promote a pedagogy of \u201cteaching for the test,\u201d or worse, cheating.\nThe Initiative also outlines\u2014in excruciating detail\u2014policy changes that have nothing to do with its main goals: the creation of a national agency for evaluation and a teachers\u2019 career system. These changes impinge upon issues such as: school managerial autonomy, the establishment of a national information system in education (with the help of an external player, i.e., the National Institute of Statistics and Geography), full-day schooling, and a ban on junk food in schools, which will probably increase street vendors outside its walls, and illegal trade inside.\nThe Reform Initiative has enthused elitist groups, such as politicians, business people, high-level bureaucrats, op-ed writers, leaders of some conservative foundations and media commentators. They support it because they see it as a way to get rid of the Teachers\u2019 Union power and put teachers under strict control. 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See the calendar for the location of this year's rally.\nThe R90S Owners Club has (as of Feb 2010) 132 members in 8 countries and in 28 states of the US. In total they own 160 R90S models, evenly divided across the three years of production, 1974, 1975, and 1976.\nIn 1975, Ken Claus had just bought his R90s. He decided to go to the BMWMOA national rally which \"was outstanding in every way\".\nWhile there, a person on a R90s pulled up next to Ken and introduced himself. Cramer was his name. He was trying to get a National Sports Owner's club started strictly for R90s's. Ken was one of the first to join. Ken and Cramer kept in touch and saw each other at different rallies. Time passed. The club was listed in the BMW owner's anonymous book until 1993, when it seemed to disappear.\nMeanwhile Ken's son Ron Claus bought a 1974 R90s and Ken was reminded of the R90s club again. Ken still had his bike, so he gave Cramer a call to ask if Ken could breathe some new life in the club. It was ok with Cramer, so Ken contacted BMWMOA to get their ok to restart the club and got a positive response. so in 1995, the club was reborn. The impressive staff consisted of Ken's son Ron as President, Ken as Vice President and Ken's wife as Secretary. We all worked on the newsletter later on. I went to as many rallies as possible and handed out flyers as well as my club card.\nWhat happened next helped things along. Frank Cachia (from Australia) came to Ken's house for a few days. Ken took pictures and Ken's son wrote an article for the BMW Owner's News and the new publicity started things happening.\nA lot of people were interested in keeping the legend alive. 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For people who like buzzwords parsed and spelled out, this hour\u2019s for you.\nThere are countless avenues that neoliberalism can lead us through: from the dismal science of efficiency and austerity to the dismal politics in Washington on both sides of the aisle. In our neighborhoods, neoliberalism may mean the defunding of our public schools as well as the deregulation of our public services. It\u2019s driving impulse may be the ruthless privatization of everything in existence: from parking meters to prisons. It\u2019s affective influence can transform our personal relationships, both intimate and platonic; gamifying our everyday relationships and turning the dating pool into a competitive market. Through the co-option of feminist and anti-racist struggle, it can disguise class enemies as \u201cwoke\u201d allies. Through the commercialization of our artistic works and the corruption of our scientific research, it can convert our greatest human achievements into metrics on a spreadsheet.\nSo, instead of pursuing a single definition in this show, we\u2019ve enlisted an all-star cast of public thinkers to discuss where they see neoliberalism creeping into their daily life and work.\nCorey Robin\u2014professor of political science at CUNY, author of The Reactionary Mind and a formidable blogger on the left\u2014sees a specific evolutionary chain in the American political system. Against journos like Jonathan Chait, Robin has argued that neoliberalism is not just a pejorative synonym for \u201cliberalism.\u201d Its political use, in the U.S. at least, refers to a specific transformation within the Democratic party elite as well as their allied beltway outlets. The formal outlines of neoliberalism were drafted in the pages of the Washington Monthly\u2014most notably Charles Peters\u2019s 1983 \u201cNeo-Liberal Manifesto,\u201d but its influence extended well beyond this journalistic clique. Free-market friendly policies of the so-called \u201cAtari Democrats\u201d culminated in Bill Clinton\u2019s election in 1992, but its deregulating drive began, as Robin reminds us, with the administration of Jimmy Carter:\nWriter, editor, and queer activist Yasmin Nair\u2014reporting from the grounds of American neoliberalism\u2019s birthplace and de facto capital: Hyde Park, Chicago \u2014tracks the ideological revolution through trends in mainstream feminist writing. From Lena Dunham to Arianna Huffington, Nair sees a rhetoric of therapy and inclusivity for elite women displaying analysis of class and power for the mass majority. The defining symbol of neoliberal feminism, Nair suggests, may be the bronze-casted \u201cFearless Girl\u201d statue now staring down the bull on Wall Street. For the State Street Global Advisors, the Wall Street who funded the metal girl\u2019s construction, the artwork was \u201cintended to highlight efforts to get more women on corporate boards.\u201d For Nair, it\u2019s a cynical testament to elite striving and the desire to be recognized symbolically without resisting materially.\nGreg Lindsay is the super-smart, MIT Media Lab-affiliated urbanist and technologist who has written for The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, and Bloomberg BusinessWeek. He\u2019s looking at neoliberalism\u2019s effect in the global city, where innovation and corporate cash flows in while families and working people are pushed out.\nMoira Weigel, our favorite chronicler of love in the time of capitalism and the editor of the new tech magazine Logic, grapples with the interpersonal implications of neoliberalism in a digital world\u2014one which profoundly alters our approach to friendship, courtship, and sex. She\u2019s joined by Yarden Katz, our local biosystems whiz at Harvard, who argues that \u201cneoliberalism reorders the priority of scientific projects according to what\u2019s sellable and profitable in the short term, while steering science as a whole towards serving the technological interests of private stakeholders.\u201d\nIf you\u2019re still trying to nail down a definition, here are a few helpful guidelines sent in by our friends and our correspondents over email. Put your own definition in the comments!\nGeorge Scialabba, essayist and author of Low Dishonest Decades: 1980-2015:\nI\u2019d say neoliberalism is essentially the extension of market dominance to all spheres of social life, fostered and enforced by the state. In economic policy, this means deregulation and privatization. In culture, it means untrammeled marketing and the commoditization of everyday life, including the intimate sphere. In law, it means consumer sovereignty, non-discrimination (which is after all economically irrational), and a restrictive conception of the public interest. In education, it means the replacement of public by private (i.e., business) support for schools, universities, and research, with a concomitant shift of influence over curriculum and research topics. In civil society, it means private control over the media and private funding of political parties, with the resultant control of both by business. In international relations, it means investor rights agreements masquerading as \u201cfree trade\u201d and constraining the rights of governments to protect their own workers, environments, and currencies.\nBonnie Honig, Professor of Modern Culture and Media at Brown University and author of Public Things: Democracy in Disrepair:\nTalking about public things is THE way, in my view. And also, as I say in my book, Public Things, it is always key to notice the ideological character of the privatization claims of neo liberals, who say prefer markets to the state but always \u2014 nonetheless \u2014 enlist the state (policing, resources, etc) while claiming to have \u201cprivatized\u201d.\nJason Jackson, Lecturer in Political Economy in the Department of Urban Studies and Planning at the MIT:\nIn my work the primary way that I conceptualize neoliberalism is as a particular relationship between state and market, but my own perspective differs from the conventional relationship that is supposed between the two. Neoliberalism is often touted as laissez-faire, free markets, and \u2018getting rid of the state\u2019. In my view (and those of others in my field who work on this) this characterization is misleading. It is more analytically useful to see neoliberalism as a particular mode of economic governance by the state. That is, neoliberalism refers to the imposition to particular rules by the state (laws/regulations, policies, etc.) that (re)structure markets in ways that are held to be more efficient as well as to guarantee freedom of choice.\nJill Lepore, historian at Harvard and New Yorker writer:\nNeoliberals prefer numbers to facts and data to numbers. They are now among those decrying the fall of the fact, but they have had a real hand in that.\nDavid Bromwich, Yale professor of English:\nSeven or eight years ago, I was walking to lunch with a friend, a former dean of the law school, who mentioned he\u2019d been \u201ctalking at the reunion to Bob Rubin, who said, you know, America is getting to be a less and less desirable place to live, it might be time to think about living elsewhere.\u201d This was conveyed in a neutral tone \u2013 as a curious and maybe perceptive remark, anyway interesting considering from whom it came! I didn\u2019t react neutrally. But it has occurred to me that neoliberals act with something like the presumptive authority of absentee landlords between the time of the elder Pitt and Gladstone. Now the world is their Ireland and it is no more supposed to know how to run itself than the average smallholder or tenant-at-will.\nBill Deresiewicz, author and literary critic:\nNeoliberalism is all the rhetoric you hear in advertising and the media that assumes that our chief goals are to become more productive and competitive, to optimize ourselves like machines with apps and gadgets and \u201clife-hacks\u201d and lists of the 13.8 habits of highly workaholic individuals. The emergence of the word \u201ccreativity\u201d as the great desideratum for individuals and corporations. Because it isn\u2019t about self-expression or making art; it\u2019s about creativity understood as a business good: \u201cinnovation\u201d and so forth.\nprofessor of political science at CUNY and author of The Reactionary Mind\nwriter, and activist based in Chicago, a co-founder of the queer radical editorial collective Against Equality and an editor-at-large for Current Affairs\nauthor of Labor of Love: The Invention of Dating and editor of Logic\nYarden Katz\ndepartmental fellow in Systems Biology at Harvard Medical School and fellow at Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society\nUrbanist, technologist, and author of Aerotropolis\nThe First Neoliberals\n\"Neoliberalism, of course, can mean a great many things, many of them associated with the Right. But one of its meanings\u2014arguably, in the United States, the most historically accurat \u2014is the name that a small group of journalists, intellectuals, and politicians on the Left gave to themselves in the late 1970s in order to register their distance from the traditional liberalism of the New Deal and the Great Society.\"\nBourgeois Feminist Bullshit\n\"Feminist principles are not, ultimately, simply about making things better for women. They are about paying attention to gender in order to think about policies that make things better for everyone. So, for instance, a feminism that is simply about ensuring that women at the top get bathrooms with diaper-changing stations means nothing if the women and men who are cleaning those bathrooms \u2014 and presumably wiping baby shit from the walls \u2014 get neither time off nor the ability to place their children in care while at work. A policy that ensures that female professors get to take a year off after having their babies is useless if the system continues to simply hire adjuncts of all genders \u2014 who get no such benefits, no matter how well paid they are \u2014 to fill in for them.\"\nThe Neoliberal Arts\n\"This is education in the age of neoliberalism. Call it Reaganism or Thatcherism, economism or market fundamentalism, neoliberalism is an ideology that reduces all values to money values. The worth of a thing is the price of the thing. The worth of a person is the wealth of the person. Neoliberalism tells you that you are valuable exclusively in terms of your activity in the marketplace \u2014 in Wordsworth\u2019s phrase, your getting and spending.\"\nNeoliberalism Turned Our World Into a Business -- And There Are Two Big Winners\n\"No industry has played a larger role in evangelizing the neoliberal faith than Silicon Valley. Its entrepreneurs are constantly coming up with new ways to make more of our lives into markets. A couple of decades ago, staying in touch with friends wasn\u2019t a source of economic value \u2013 now it\u2019s the basis for a $350bn company. Our photo albums, dating preferences, porn habits, and most random and banal thoughts have all become profitable data sets, mined for advertising revenue. We are encouraged to see ourselves as pieces of human capital that must ceaselessly enhance our value \u2013 optimizing our feeds and profiles, hustling for follows and likes and swipes.\"\n\"Neoliberalism means many things to many people but the one trait by which it is always distinguished is its approval of the opt-out and a willingness to turn a blind eye to the hidden costs of such a choice. Everything is optional for the neoliberal; this is how neoliberalism defines freedom. Neoliberals opt out of any collective thing they can afford to opt out of. They believe everyone should be free to send their children to private or charter schools, to live in private gated communities, to hire private transport rather than take the school bus, and so on. \u201cChoice\u201d is their watchword (except when it comes to pregnancy) and choice is synonymous with freedom.\"\nThe Gold Rush for Financial Information\nClick to Listen to the Show (24 MB MP3) Is all the personal and political coverage of the Rupert Murdoch story missing the point? To wit: financial information is the...\nEquity: More Private, Less Public?\nYesterday\u2019s news that DaimlerChrysler is selling the second half of its name to Cerberus, a private equity firm, didn\u2019t come as a complete surprise. 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I propose a limitation be put on how many squares of toilet paper can be used in any one sitting. Now, I don\u2019t want to rob any law-abiding American of his or her God-given rights, but I think we are an industrious enough people that we can make it work with only one square per restroom visit, except, of course, on those pesky occasions where 2 to 3 could be required. [Emp mine]\nPutin tightens up dictatorship\nAt their first meeting with journalists since taking over Russia\u2019s largest independent radio news network, the managers had startling news of their own: from now on, they said, at least 50 percent of the reports about Russia must be \u201cpositive.\u201dIn addition, opposition leaders could not be mentioned on the air and the United States was to be portrayed as an enemy, journalists employed by the network, Russian News Service, say they were told by the new managers, who are allies of the Kremlin.\nIs the Evil Empire back?\nChavez to Military: \"Fatherland, Socialism, or Death!\"\nOn the fifth anniversary of a coup that briefly toppled him, President Hugo Chavez said Thursday that soldiers who disagree with his government\u2019s socialist leanings should leave the military. \u201cToday every commander at every level is obliged to repeat, from the soul and raising the flag high, this slogan: \u2018Fatherland, Socialism, or Death!'\u201d\nDid Virginia Tech knowingly create an unsafe environment?\nA bill that would have allowed college students to defend themselves on campus died, while Virginia Tech spokesman Larry Hincker was happy to hear the bill was defeated. \u201cI\u2019m sure the university community is appreciative of the General Assembly\u2019s actions because this will help parents, students, faculty and visitors feel safe on our campus.\u201d\nNYT: in politically correct computer science programs, equality trumps ability\nNow that women are starting to outnumber men on most college campuses, feminists are in the hunt for fresh opportunities to further their agenda.\nThe New York Times reports on their efforts in a field traditionally dominated by men: computer science. Apparently, programming is just not cool enough for girls:\n\u201cThe nerd factor is huge,\u201d Dr. Cuny said. According to a 2005 report by the National Center for Women and Information Technology, an academic-industry collaborative formed to address the issue, when high school girls think of computer scientists they think of geeks, pocket protectors, isolated cubicles and a lifetime of staring into a screen writing computer code.\nThis image discourages members of both sexes, but the problem seems to be more prevalent among women. \u201cThey think of it as programming,\u201d Dr. Cuny said. \u201cThey don\u2019t think of it as revolutionizing the way we are going to do medicine or create synthetic molecules or study our impact on the climate of the earth.\u201d\nCertainly, few people would study computer science if there weren\u2019t useful things to be done with computers. But if your goal is to be an doctor, materials engineer, or climate scientist (why does the media feel the need to push global warming in every science article?), why would you spend four years studying the theoretical foundations of information technology? Virtually all scientific and engineering disciplines require working with computers, but only one specializes in transforming real-world problems into code.\nIf computer science is not about your programming skill, then what is it about?\nMoving emphasis away from programming proficiency was a key to the success of programs Dr. Blum and her colleagues at Carnegie Mellon instituted to draw more women into computer science. At one time, she said, admission to the program depended on high overall achievement and programming experience. The criteria now, she said, are high overall achievement and broad interests, diverse perspectives and whether applicants seem to have potential to be future leaders. [Emp. mine]\n\u201cBroad interests,\u201d \u201cdiverse perspectives\u201d and \u201cleadership skills\u201d are politically-correct code words for affirmative action. Once skills are thrown out, what exactly is left? Imagine if airlines and hospitals announced that they were changing hiring criteria from flying ability and medical skill to \u201cdiverse perspectives?\u201d Whom would you prefer to have written the software running your airport\u2019s radar \u2013 someone with programming experience or \u201cbroad interests?\u201d\nThe NYT implies that computer science is about more than \u201ca lifetime of staring into a screen writing computer code.\u201d That\u2019s certainly true, but ultimately, programming is about sitting on front of a computer screen for years on end and solving highly abstract problems. Whether due to social or genetic factors, more men happen to be suited to that environment than women. (As an application developer in a corporate environment, I can attest to this.) Denying that reality carries a cost: aspiring students who become victims of political correctness because they are found guilty of having the wrong chromosome.\nTime to reconsider \"gun-free\" zones?\nOnce again, Americans are faced with the counter-productive consequences of gun control. At least 33 students were killed today in a rampage on the Virginia Tech campus. The shootings were reportedly committed with two 9mm handguns. The killer chained shut the dormitory doors, and went door-to-door slaughtering students. The usual police procedure in such situations is to wait outside until for a SWAT team to arrive and access the situation before taking action, which usually gives the perpetrator plenty of time to run out of ammo.\nStudents, teachers, and security guards who want to protect themselves on campus face severe criminal penalties for violating federal and state \u201cgun free\u201d zones.\nHow many victims have to die before people realize that \u201cgun free zones\u201d are not such a good idea?\nDo politicians know more about space exploration than rocket scientists?\nAre politicians more knowledgeable than rocket scientists when it comes to planning the next U.S. moon shot?\nHouse and Senate appropriators have pushed back against NASA\u2019s proposed termination of a planned 2011 robotic lunar lander mission, directing the agency to spend $20 million this year to continue work on a follow-on to the 2008 Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter.\n\u2026we do not agree with your decision to terminate the LPRP program at this time pending a further examination of program requirements, design, cost and viability,\u201d the letter reads. \u201cTherefore we direct that $20 million be provided to continue planning for a potential LPRP mission during the remainder of [2007].\u201d\n\u201cI do not need a robotic lander to reduce risks for the human landings,\u201d [NASA Administrator Mike] Griffin said. \u201cEverybody who has carefully looked at that has said you don\u2019t need it.\u201d\nPoliticians may have a number of reasons for preserving missions that teams of NASA specialists deem unnecessary: the media from moon rovers is a cheap thrill, it preserves funds promised to constituents ($105.8m in \u201907), and it competes with similar missions from half a dozen other nations, which will \u201cend up with lots of pictures of the same place.\u201d\nGood publicity, certainly, but not an efficient way to run a space program. But what else can you expect when you mix science and government?\nMexican magnate becomes world's second richest man\n\u2026 and unlike the world\u2019s richest man, his insight may extend beyond business:\nSlim, 67, has added a staggering 23 billion dollars to his personal fortune over the last 14 months, thanks largely to a strong Mexican economy and a stock market that jumped nearly 50 percent last year.\nHe accrued four billion dollars of that just since Forbes unveiled its annual rich list in early March, giving Slim the equivalent of roughly seven percent of Mexico\u2019s annual economic output, according to Forbes.\nThe tycoon has brushed off criticism that his Telmex company is effectively a monopoly, saying earlier this year: \u201cWhen you live for others\u2019 opinions, you are dead. I don\u2019t want to live thinking about how I\u2019ll be remembered.\u201d\nHe has derided Gates and Buffett for giving away so much of their wealth, reportedly saying: \u201cPoverty isn\u2019t solved with donations,\u201d according to Forbes.\nBuilding businesses, he reportedly said, did more for society than \u201cgoing around like Santa Claus.\u201c", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00240.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 244, + "original_length": 14537, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.96, + "perplexity": 312.4, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "http://re.uuflb.org/religious-education/visiting-with-children", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T04:04:52Z", + "digest": "sha1:DGG3E2HXU67M66KCBL676FIFUXH6TCWD", + "length": 3248, + "nlines": 10, + "source_domain": "re.uuflb.org", + "title": "Visiting With Children on Sunday - Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Lower Bucks", + "raw_content": "For Families Visiting with Children\nIf you are visiting our congregation with your children, you may have questions. We want your family\u2019s experience to be enjoyable and comfortable. When you arrive, you will be greeted by one of our members. That person will be able to answer questions.\nMost Sundays, we offer religious education classes for children in kindergarten through grade 8, as well as a youth group for those who are high school-age. We also offer nursery care for children from 6 weeks to 5 years old. Your children are not required to attend any of these programs. They are always welcome to remain with you for the entire morning. They are, however, very welcome to attend class, even if you are only visiting once.\nNursery Care: The nursery is available from 10:15 to 11:45. It is located down the hall from the service. You may also keep your children with you for a time, and then they may go to the nursery later. Please pick your children up by 11:45. Our care providers are over 16 and are supervised by an adult professional staff member. Providers cannot change diapers or provide intimate help in the restroom. Parents/guardians must care for these needs. Please ask nursery staff for a copy of the nursery policies, for your own information.\nChildren 5 and older: The children begin by sitting with their families. Early in the service, we have a special Children\u2019s Time. After that, the children leave the gymnasium and are taken to their classes; they are grouped into age groups on some Sundays, and they meet in combined groups at other times. All the classes are located down the hall, and each classroom is staffed by two adult volunteers. All of our volunteers are subject to background checks as mandated by the state of Pennsylvania, and are supervised by a paid staff member. The children will be in class until 11:45, and will be walked by an adult to the cafeteria once class is over.\nSeveral Sundays a year, there is no separate Religious Exploration class. The service on those days is planned to be intentionally engaging to those of all ages; we call these Multi-generational Services. Children remain with their families on those Sundays.\nMost Sundays, our professional Director of Religious Exploration will be present. You may find her by asking at the table that you will see as you enter the worship space, which is in the gymnasium. If she is away that Sunday, you will be directed to a volunteer who is filling in for her for that day. That person will have a visitor's form for you to fill out, if your children will be going to the nursery or to Religious Education classes. Your child is welcome to attend class without registering, for your first two visits, as a courtesy, so that you may get to know us.\nInformation on Registration and Fees for Religious Exploration\nOur members and children typically dress casually. Snacks are not normally served during class. However, if your child has allergies or other special health concerns, please let the teachers or the Director of Religious Exploration know so that we may take appropriate steps to protect your child.\nIf you are new and would like to attend class with your child until you are both more comfortable, you are very welcome to do so.", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00240.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 29, + "original_length": 4085, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.98, + "perplexity": 275.9, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "http://redmeansstop.org/victimstory/jennifer-hinds/", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T04:28:16Z", + "digest": "sha1:5NFKRZCS65YKYDYB5ONUKVOZZQGDYGQS", + "length": 685, + "nlines": 3, + "source_domain": "redmeansstop.org", + "title": "Jennifer Hinds - Red Means Stop", + "raw_content": "Jennifer Lynn Hinds the 17 year old daughter of Frank and Gail Hinds, sister of Meredith, a senior at Ironwood High School, died March 16, 1997, from injuries suffered March 10, 1997 in a crash caused by a red light runner. Jennifer and 3 friends were hit at the intersection of 59th Ave and Sweetwater in Glendale, in front of the high school.\nJennifer\u2019s dream was to work in the fashion industry in New York and was looking forward to attending Northern Arizona University, majoring in Fashion Design and Marketing.\n\u201cJennifer\u2019s Law\u201d was passed by the Arizona Legislature in 1998 to strengthen red light running penalties. 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But sometimes, when rom-coms embrace the inherent ridiculousness that comes with the whole \u2018odd-couple\u2019 trope, and cast two very charming leads, it can turn out\u2026well, not bad.\nIsabelle (Diane Kruger) has found the perfect man and they are soon to be married. The only problem is, Isa\u2019s family suffers from a peculiar \u2018curse\u2019 \u2013 first marriages will never last. Consumed with worry over this superstition, and wanting to spend the rest of her life with Pierre (Robert Plagnoll), Isabelle\u2019s solution is to have a quickie wedding, and then promptly divorce the first guy before she marries Pierre. Enter Jean-Yves (Dany Boon). Isabelle chases him halfway around the world, but of course, things don\u2019t quite go according to her master plan\u2026\nFly Me to the Moon (French title Un plan parfait) definitely garners points for embracing the silly nature of its story, and creating some silly humour to match it. Let\u2019s face it \u2013 it\u2019s very hard to take seriously a family and main character that believe in a marriage curse. Sometimes, my belief was stretched to the limit, and instead of laughing at the situation, I found myself wondering what the hell Isabelle was thinking? How can a logical person (which we are lead to believe Isabelle is most of the time) act this way? It\u2019s much easier to just go with the flow. The conclusion of the film is never in question (who goes to a rom-com to be surprised?), and thankfully, there is some occasional laugh out loud moments along the way.\nI credit the successful laughs to the comic performances of Kruger and Boon. Isabelle is the typical \u2018calm and in control\u2019 woman who discovers a new lease on life. Sometimes, it\u2019s even hard to like her! Her treatment of Jean-Yves is often callous, but she does redeem herself in the end. Diane Kruger carries her role with great sense of energy and vibrancy. But, it is Dany Boon who really steals the show, as the sweet-hearted travel writer. He\u2019s endlessly endearing, produces some real emotion, and puts his comic\nVisually colourful, with charming leads, and yes, I even laughed out loud a few times, but despite all this, Fly Me to the Moon adds nothing new to the romantic comedy genre. Fans of Kruger and Boon will enjoy it, and it\u2019s light-hearted enough to make for a pleasant viewing. 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The labor force numbered 4.8 million persons in 1994, or 48 percent of the total population.\nA principal reason for Belarus's low official unemployment rate in 1994 (2.2 percent by the end of that year) was underemployment, which had been true during the Soviet era as well (thus keeping down the Soviet unemployment rate). Rather than lay off employees, enterprises often shortened work hours, reduced wages, and even forced employees to take leave without pay instead. Agreements signed by enterprises, labor unions, and the government in 1993 and 1994 called for avoiding declines in output and employment; in return for keeping the same level of employment, labor unions mainly refrained from industrial disruptions. 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The task was to import technology to renovate and upgrade several thousand factories, mines, and power stations whose levels of productivity and energy efficiency were far below prevailing international standards. Since 1980 Chinese policy statements have stressed the need to improve existing facilities, to import technology rather than finished goods, and to renovate factories through selective purchase of key technology rather than through purchase of whole plants. This was an unprecedented problem, since China's previous experience with technology transfer, both in the massive Soviet technical-aid program of the 1950s and in the more modest purchases of fertilizer and petrochemical plants in the 1960s and early 1970s, featured large projects that brought in complete plants. In the 1980s much of the technology to be imported was production or process technology, representing better ways of producing items China already manufactured, such as truck transmissions or telephone cables. Such technology was usually the proprietary knowledge of foreign corporations, and China demonstrated an unprecedented willingness to cooperate with such firms. With the explicit aim of promoting technology imports, China made great efforts to attract foreign businesses and foreign capital and permitted joint ventures and even foreign-owned subsidiaries to operate in China.\nChina's economic planners gave priority in technology imports to electronics, telecommunications, electric-power generation and transmission, transportation equipment, and energy-saving devices. The degree of central control over technology imports fluctuated in the 1980s, reflecting changing foreign trade policies and foreign exchange balances, but the overall trend was toward devolution of decision making to those who use the technology or equipment. Bank loans and other means were made available to encourage end users to select appropriate technology.", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00240.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 272, + "original_length": 7434, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.96, + "perplexity": 236.1, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "http://reflectorgsu.com/helping-the-hopeless/", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T04:03:29Z", + "digest": "sha1:K3RFPCKGS6LNECY5WV2BZUTJWWOQT3NE", + "length": 5444, + "nlines": 20, + "source_domain": "reflectorgsu.com", + "title": "Helping The Hopeless \u2039 Reflector Magazine", + "raw_content": "Why can\u2019t we have the same kind of conversations about suicide and what leads to it as we have about people dying from natural diseases? When it is discussed, suicide is often labeled \u201ccowardly,\u201d \u201ca moment of weakness,\u201d or what have you. I think these labels indicate a broken understanding of suicide, and I want you to throw them to the curb. Our understanding of suicide should begin with understanding why people consider it an option.\nTough situations are usually a factor when people decide to commit suicide. These stressing situations can include current circumstances and trauma, as well as past trauma and ongoing mental or physical ailments. Feeling hopeless is at the core of someone\u2019s decision to take their own life. Most often, mental illnesses, which in some form entail depressive feelings or mood swings, contribute to this core of hopelessness.\nJust like there are a variety of mental illnesses, there are many different traumatic experiences that may push a person to suicide. Abuse of any kind, war, drug use, bullying and financial stress are just several examples of possible trauma. No doubt we all know someone who has gone through one of these things, and we probably know at least one person with a mental illness.\nIn fact, one in four people ages 18-24 (a.k.a college age) have a mental illness that can be diagnosed (www2.nami.org). Since we probably know someone who has experienced trauma, then we have probably also witnessed the pain that person experiences because of the issue they are facing, which may be a past event or ongoing. Personal pain considered, many people still cannot grasp why someone would commit suicide. And that is a direct result of the stigmas and stereotypes they may already hold.\nRemember when I listed those examples, \u201ccowardly\u201d and \u201ca moment of weakness\u201d? Well, those are stigmas about suicide. Other stigmas include, \u201cweak\u201d and \u201ccrazy.\u201d Still yet, there are various other stigmas about mental illness, which, when someone tells a person with a mental illness those things, may convince them to not seek treatment. Like I said before, mental illness is usually the main factor in why a person commits suicide. We (and I say \u201cwe\u201d since I am a part of the population that does not have a mental illness) need to stop reinforcing various stigmas that harm suicidal people.\nStigmas are not loving, even though a friend or family member may say them when they are really trying to say, \u201cI just want you to stay.\u201d Now I know that not all people are going around slewing stigmas and stereotypical saying at their peers. For those of us who do know better, we need to be a role model so people that think that type of thing is okay can see that it is not okay under any circumstances.\nI urge you not to dismiss what I have said as, \u201cOh, well, I don\u2019t stereotype suicidal people, so none of this applies to me.\u201d It absolutely does apply. I want people to realize that everyone has potential, even the people you do not like. It saddens me when I hear another person took their own life because of something they were going through. Another person\u2019s potential, another person who could have contributed great things to the world, snuffed out. How do we stop it, people committing suicide?\nWhile we may sometimes be unsuccessful, I have found that extending a helping hand can have a huge impact on someone. By just being there for a friend or family member, showing them that you do care, I guarantee that person will appreciate the effort, even if they do not directly say so. Sometimes, we cannot help a person on their own. They may need to go to a certain doctor to help them deal with their problems, or the situation is an emergency, they may need to just go to the hospital. In those cases, we have to be willing to tell someone, in a caring way, that we cannot help them. Most of us are not psychologists, psychiatrists, or any other applicable professional. Those people are trained to handle suicidal people, and we are not. Acting as the therapist will only go so far. Now, talking to someone like that may be enough in some cases, but often, it is not.\nI want you to know that this is not just another week. No, this week is National Suicide Prevention week, and World Suicide Prevention Day is on September 10th. I encourage you to use this week as a springboard to engage people about why suicide prevention is important. Love those who are close to you, and support them any way you can. If you or anyone you know are struggling with any of the issues mentioned in this article, I urge you to contact the GSU Counseling Center at (912)-478-5541. There is also 911, if your situation is an emergency.\nI have also listed a several resources should you choose to learn more about this topic. Some of these services and information could save someone\u2019s life.\n1.National Suicide Prevention Lifeline- (800)-273-8255\n2.IMAlive\n3.CrisisChat\n4.http://www.helpguide.org/articles/suicide-prevention/suicide-prevention-helping-someone-who-is-suicidal.htm\n5.http://www2.nami.org/Content/NavigationMenu/Find_Support/NAMI_on_Campus1/Learn_About_The_Issue/Learn_About_The_Issue.htm\n6.http://mentalhealthdaily.com/2014/07/23/15-common-causes-of-suicide-why-do-people-kill-themselves/\n7.www.twloha.com\n8.www.heartsupport.com\ncommunityhelpmental illnessworldsuicideprevention\nLet\u2019s start with an important fact: I am a Christian. 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Some of the highlights that define the newest model include strong and smooth V8 engines, a generous standard feature list, a well-crafted cabin, and an excellent balance of comfort and performance. The Jaguar XK release date should be expected sometime before this fall as a 2017 year model.\nFor those looking for a luxury sport coupe or convertible, odds are you\u2019re looking for a serious vehicle than just a mere transportation. Well, if your ideals are among these; a beautifully styled interior, enthralling performance, well-equipped, and has the reliability of the nameplate, then there\u2019s no doubt you\u2019ll find the newest 2017 Jaguar XK exciting.\nJaguar hasn\u2019t offered any changes under its hood, so we should we should expect the newest Jaguar XK to retain the 385-horsepower \u2013 producing 5.0L V8 engine. Those seeking an even more exhilarating performance can opt for the ludicrous 550-horsepower \u2013 generating 2017 Jaguar XKR-S model.\nHandling and suspension upgrades are inevitable, although the nitty-gritties are yet to be made public. The ride quality is simply out-of-this-world regardless of the trim chosen. Throw in the comfortable and supportive seats and a sumptuous cabin packed with tons of standard technologies and you\u2019re definitely living-the-American-dream in your Jaguar XK.\nThere are some flipsides, though, lest you think the 2017 Jaguar XK lacks any foibles. Those living in snowbelt regions will find it disappointing as the XK lacks an AWD option. InCar technology isn\u2019t that advanced relative to the available competition, and the cabin can feel rather confining particularly in the XK Roadster.\nThere\u2019re several competitors out there in case you\u2019re not completely sold out on the 2017 Jaguar XK appeal. Some of these include the BMW 6 Series, Porsche 911 Turbo, Mercedes-Benz SL-Class, and Jaguar\u2019s own F-Type. All of these rivals offer strong and capable engines, sophisticated and luxurious interior, and loads of character. But even so, we still think the Jaguar F-Type deserves your consideration.\nThe 2017 Porsche 911 Convertible price starts from $101,700, the 911 Coupe from $89,400, and the 911 R from $184,900. The Porsche 911 comes equipped with a 4.0L flat-6 engine that churns out an incredible 500 horsepower @8,250 rpm and 339 pounds-ft. of torque @6,250 rpm. The Porsche 911 release date is expected this summer.\n2017 Jaguar XK Review of Trims\nThree trims are available for the 2017 Jaguar XK: Base, XKR, and the top-of-the-line 2017 Jaguar XKR-S. All of these are available in both coupe and Roadster body styles.\n2017 Jaguar XK Interior & Exterior Changes\nSome of the standard features available on the base model include LED running lights, eighteen-inch wheels, leather upholstery, automatic dual-zone climate control, a power tilt-and-telescopic steering wheel, a power-operated wind deflector, four-way power lumbar, heated and ventilated front seats, adaptive xenon headlights, front and rear foglights, cruise control, an eleven-speaker Harman Kardon audio system, satellite and HD radio, media player interface, and driver and front passenger memory settings.\nThe 2017 Jaguar XKR offers features such as automatic parallel-parking system, a hands-free power tailgate, a rearview camera, adjustable side bolsters, 12-way \u201cactive multi-contour\u201d seats, keyless entry and ignition, and front and rear parking sensors.\nThe high-performance version \u2013 the 2017 Jaguar XKR-S Roadster should come equipped with features such as upgraded leather upholstery, aggressively calibrated adaptive suspension system, a limited-slip differential, a sport-steering wheel, and a sport exhaust.\n2017 Jaguar XK Engine Specs\nNo one exactly knows what lurks beneath the hood of the 2017 Jaguar XK as the automaker hasn\u2019t announced anything yet. However, we expect the base model to come equipped with a 5.0L V8 engine rated at 385 horsepower and 380 lbs. ft. of torque, as well as a supercharged 5.0L option rated at 550 horsepower and 502 pounds-ft. of torque.\n2017 Jaguar XK Release Date & Price\nRumors allege the new model will probably debut sometime before this fall as a 2017 year model. Pricing will likely be around $84,500 for the coupe.\n2017 Jaguar F-Pace \u2013 Release Date, News and Rumors\nJudging by initial impressions, the new 2017 Jaguar F-Pace is poised to do quite well in its class thanks to the boatload of new changes and redesign that the British marque has invested into the new F-Pace. Some of the highlights that define the new model include a lightweight chassis, a lick electronics interface, best-in-class cabin space, and a strong performance. The Jaguar F-Pace release date should be expected sometime this spring as a 2017 year model.\nNo time has been wasted by Jaguar\u2019s new owners after purchasing the brand from Ford. The Jaguar F-Pace 2017 isn\u2019t the only vehicle that has debuted in the face of the new \u2018restructuring\u2019. Others high-end luxury vehicles that the automaker has produced include the XF and the XK sedans that are directed toward the Porsche finest.\nFor starters, the new 2017 Jaguar F-Pace is a five-passenger crossover SUV that is expected to square it off with the industry\u2019s top-dogs such as the BMW X3, Porsche Macan, and the Mercedes-Benz GLC. The 2017 Mercedes-Benz GLC price starts from an MSRP of around $38,950 and that gives you the keys to enjoy features such as an elegant interior and exterior design, a fuel-efficient turbocharged engine, a generous interior passenger space, an excellent balance of comfort and performance, and abundance of safety equipment. In terms of power, the newest Mercedes-Benz GLC 2017 offers a turbocharged 2.0L four-cylinder engine that puts out an estimated power rated at 241 horsepower and 273 lbs. ft. of torque.\nThe 2017 BMW X3 Diesel price starts from an MSRP of around $42,450, and the X3 SUV from $38,950. For that valuation, features to expect include a choice of three capable and fuel-efficient engines, top-notch crash test scores, a generous passenger and cargo space, and crisp handling. The BMW X3 2017 release date should be expected sometime in the first half of 2017, at least according to recent industry and media reports.\nEnough of the rivalry talk, eh? Let\u2019s get back to what really matters now \u2013 the 2017 Jaguar F-Pace. The 2017 Jaguar F-Pace interior is termed \u201cclass-leading\u201d by Jaguar. We\u2019d typically take that with some pinch of salt for other brands, but the F-Pace being a Jaguar to its core, a closer inspection is worth the trouble. The automaker says the new model will come with an array of safety and convenience features such as pedestrian detection system, a ten-inch touchscreen display, unique tech touches, wearable weatherproof smart-key wristband, laser-lot heads-up display, lane-keeping assist, and autonomous emergency braking.\nDimensions and measurements re as follows; wheel base \u2013 113.2 in, length \u2013 186.3 in, height \u2013 65.0 in, width \u2013 81.5 in, curb weight \u2013 3913 pounds, and maximum towing capacity \u2013 5290 pounds.\n2017 Jaguar F-Pace Engine Specs\nMotivation for the 2017 Jaguar F-Pace will be offered by a choice of supercharged 3.0L V6 engines that will offer power ranging from around 340 horsepower to around 380 hp. transmission pairing should be expected to be done by the eight-speed automatic transmission.\nAdditionally, the automaker is set to make available a 2.0L four-cylinder diesel engine good for 180 horsepower.\nIn order to boost traction on slippery and mundane driving conditions, the new 2017 Jaguar F-Pace comes equipped with the All Surface Progress Control system and sophisticated all-wheel drive system.\nAdditional specs such as its top speed, MPG ratings, and full powertrain specs should be expected on its release date.\n2017 Jaguar F-Pace Interior & Exterior Changes\nSome of the standard features available for the base model include driver memory settings, cruise control, automatic headlights and wipers, eighteen-inch wheels, Bluetooth connectivity, folding rear seats, LED foglamps, automatic dual-zone climate control, a power liftgate, ambient interior lighting, eight-way power front seats, a leather wrapped tilt-and-telescopic steering wheel, a panoramic sunroof, four-way power lumbar, a retractable headlights washer system, and leather upholstery. Additional specs and features can be found at Jaguar online forums.\n2017 Jaguar F-Pace Price & Release Date\nAs already mentioned above, the new model will probably go for sale sometime this spring as a 2017 year model. The 2017 Jaguar F-Pace diesel price starts from $41,985, the 380-hp engine \u2013 57,695, and the bae model \u2013 $43,385.\nSome Updates for the Release Date of 2019 Jaguar XE SVR\nThere is no a lot of information about the release date for the 2019 Jaguar XE SVR. This is a model which has been in the making for quite some time. Ever since BMW made their 3 Series model, Jaguar has been planning a way to overpass them. This meant the inclusion of a high performance vehicles with enough boost to combat the given model. Thus enter the Jaguar XE, but an enhanced version which will add the SVR monocle.\nThis vehicle has been in the making for quite some time. In the past we presumed that the SVR will drop immediately after the release of the base Jaguar XE version. But as this did not come to fruition we are still waiting on the car to be released. In recent times, there have been more evidence about the 2019 Jaguar XE SVR, thus the review. Based on the current rumors and the situation about how they have formed the car, it is clear that this is going to be a 2019 model. The release date might be in late 2018 if we are lucky. But most likely it will be released come early 2019.\nWhat is the Price of the 2019 Jaguar XE SVR?\nIt is still a bit early to tell how much exactly the 2019 Jaguar XE SVR will cost. Some sources indicate that this version will be probably the priciest model to come from Jaguar. They are probably right as the car will have to rival, both in luxury and performance, some pretty advanced competition. Just think of cars such as BMW M3 and Mercedes-Benz C63 AMG.\nThese vehicles are probably some of the most popular and most certainly the best cars that you would find in the segment. It would be really hard to overpass these models in terms of sales. But Jaguar is going to give it a go. Thus the price is expected to be on par or perhaps even higher than the given competition. Thus a figure of $65,000 is a normal price to start with.\nRumors About the 2019 Jaguar XE SVR\nThere have been a ton of rumors about the 2019 Jaguar XE SVR model. This is a model that has been talked about in the past few years. In fact, it all started when the BMW updated its 3 Series cars. This immediately put pressure on Jaguar to produce something of their own. At first, they were not really clear which model they were planning to give an SVR treatment. There were a few candidates. Besides the XE, the XJ and the XF were also in talks.\nBut the former one is too outdated so it has been scraped form the talks. The latter one is still in the running and might appear after the XE SVR gets its treatment. All in all, we are expecting this model to start something revolutionary for the Jaguar brand. Now when the car has gone from the realm of rumors to actually being possible, it is going to be a thrill-ride until we finally get the model.\nExterior Changes for the 2019 Jaguar XE SVR\nIn some view, the importance given to the 2019 Jaguar XE SVR is one of the best parts of the car. As they are predicting it for now, the car is going to be largely aggressive. It is a vehicle which is going to extend upon and build on the looks of the Jaguar XE. The basis is still the current and the last released Jaguar SE vehicle. We hope that these enhancements are going to help the car reach a much better fan base.\nWhat we do know about the exterior update of the 2019 Jaguar XE SVR is that it is going to feature a new and aggressive body kit. This includes the bespoke front bumper and grille. Side skirts are also going to be redesigned and it will add the flared wheel arches as well. The bumper is completely reshaped and it will include a diffuser which will have a racy tone and also quad tailpipes in the back.\nWhat Color Variants are we Expecting for the 2019 Jaguar XE SVR?\nThe color of the 2019 Jaguar XE SVR is still not known. But if we are to guess, there is a very aggressive and extensive offer brewing. The car is aggressive as it is and it will probably come with various new color choices. The base Jaguar XE already has a nice color palette to choose from. But a performance vehicle like the SVR is going to give some standalone and potentially advanced options. We are not sure if all of them are going to be optional and how many they add in the end. But we are firmly sure that it will be exceptional.\n2019 Jaguar XE SVR Dimensions and Size\nThe size of the 2019 Jaguar XE SVR should not be a big issue. The vehicle is going to simply transfer the current dimensions that eth base Jaguar XE has. The SVR treatment is only going to update the style and the performance. As for other pieces they will remain the same. On the other hand, they are planning to trim down the weight as much as possible.\nAluminum and carbon materials are going to be used throughout the vehicle. These will determine that the car is not overweight and will give it all the power it needs. As far as platform goes, it will share it with the F-Pace crossover model. This is going to be really something and the 2019 Jaguar XE SVR will prove to be an exceptional addition to the Jaguar roster of vehicles.\nInside the 2019 Jaguar XE SVR\nWe cannot really predict how the 2019 Jaguar XE SVR is going to look inside for now. The model is still using the current Jaguar XE as a setup for the interior. But the SVR version will upgrade with various sort of elements. A racy vibe will be present and race-inspired elements will be added. This most likely includes the bolstered seats which will help the driver and the passenger to enjoy the ride better. They will add unique color schemes on the inside. This will also mean some new materials.\nDurable ones will be used and it will all have SVR badging which will make sure the car looks and feels like a real race. The information about the interior will most likely be unveiled in the period to come. For now there are no pictures taken for the inside of the car and much of it is a mystery. These elements are ones which are most probable to happen.\nPotential Powertrain of the 2019 Jaguar XE SVR\nThere have been some major talks about updating the 2019 Jaguar XE SVR powertrain. One of them is an unbelievable choice which includes going beyond the current most powerful model. This means that the F-Type vehicle cold be overpassed as they are planning to use a 5.0-liter V-8 engine which will be placed in the front end of the car. This kind of a potential drivetrain could be in line to produce 489 horsepower and\n460 of torque as well. This is pretty powerful if you ask us and it is the idea beyond the 2019 Jaguar XE SVR vehicle. There is no doubt that this car is going to offer a thrilling ride which will probably see to it that the car advances on its sales and possibly trump the competition.\n2019 Jaguar XE SVR 0-60 mph and Top Speed\nIf the rumored powertrain of the 2019 Jaguar XE SVR is really happening, this performance is also going to be off the chart. This is still not official, but the powertrain is certainly possible. As we are looking at this kind of a powertrain there is no reason not to believe that the car is going to race to 0-60 mph in 4 seconds. Pretty good for a monstrous car like this one. Also, we are expecting its top speed to be 155 mph, which gives it a nice balanced look and setup for the future model. Fans are really hoping that they are going to see this model in the works.\nWhat About the Fuel Economy?\nIt is a bit early to discuss the fuel economy of the 2019 Jaguar XE SVR in earnest. But there are some expectations which could lead us to believe that this model is getting an improvement. Based on the findings and the enormous powertrain that the vehicle is packing, it is hard to predict an economical vehicle. It is most certainly not going to be. But for now the mpg consumption is a mystery. The EPA rates will drop once the necessary details are established. 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Before that, she was the executive vice president of operations for Wolfgang Puck Catering, the chief operating officer at both Real Mex Restaurants and Del Frisco\u2019s Restaurant Group, and the president at Morton\u2019s of Chicago, Inc. She currently sits on the board of directors for The Cheesecake Factory, Inc.\n\u201cWe are excited to welcome Edie to The Pie Hole team, as we know her vast experience in the restaurant industry will help us exceed the goals we\u2019ve set for the company,\u201d says Sean Brennan, co-founder of The Pie Hole. \u201cEdie\u2019s passion for the industry matches the passion we had when we initially opened The Pie Hole, and we have full confidence she will carry the concept to its full potential.\u201d\nThe Pie Hole was founded in 2011 by mother-and-son duo Rebecca Grasley and Matthew Heffner, who baked pies together in their family kitchen. Armed with Grasley\u2019s four-generations-old recipe book, the pair enlisted Heffner\u2019s wife, Lindsay Hollister, and family friend Sean Brennan to help bring their classic family recipes to the masses. All of The Pie Hole\u2019s menu items are made from scratch and by hand.\nThe handmade pie concept currently operates eight locations across Southern California, including six stores in Los Angeles County and one each in Orange and San Bernardino Counties. They also have a location in North Carolina and three locations in Tokyo.\nThe Pie Hole is partnered with Fransmart, the industry leading franchise development company behind the explosive growth of brands like Five Guys Burgers & Fries and The Halal Guys, as their exclusive franchise development partner to grow the brand. Fransmart\u2019s current and past franchise development portfolio brands have opened more than 3,000 restaurants in 45 states and 35 countries. 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For this reason the following terms are valid now: you can connect to the special only from one account, after having contacted your personal manager in advance.", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00240.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 103, + "original_length": 3952, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.98, + "perplexity": 269.9, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "http://riffeco.com/Olathe.asp", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T03:59:31Z", + "digest": "sha1:NOQHASKCWUVUYBAHRSEOE22WS77IWIHJ", + "length": 2808, + "nlines": 11, + "source_domain": "riffeco.com", + "title": "Riffe Construction Co", + "raw_content": "Olathe, Kansas was founded in the spring of 1857. It served as a stop on the major transportation corridors of the time: the Oregon Trail, the California Trail, and the Santa Fe Trail. After the construction of the transcontinental railroad, the trails to the west lost importance, and Olathe faded into obscurity and remained a small, sleepy prairie town.\nIn the 1950\u2019s, construction of the Interstate Highway system and I-35 linked Olathe directly to nearby Kansas City. The result was tremendous growth as Olathe became a part of the Kansas City Metropolitan Area. All of the advantages of a major city are available.\nOlathe has experienced strong growth, both in population and economy. In fact, for several years, it has been the fastest growing city in Kansas. It is the fourth largest city in the state and second largest city in Johnson County, one of the most prosperous and wealthy counties in the United States. The city\u2019s schools are among the best in the nation.\nThe unique infrastructure in and around Olathe makes its commercial and industrial facilities very well-positioned. They are some of the best and most convenient locations in both the greater Kansas City area and the United States. The following features make Olathe, KS an efficient hub for distribution:\nCentral location in the country\nCrossroads of two major interstate highways, I-70 and I-35\nMajor air cargo and business airports \u2013 Kansas City International Airport, New Century Aircenter, and Johnson County Executive Airport\nRail connections\u2014 including two new major intermodal terminals directly serving ports in California and Mexico\nOlathe and Johnson County lie at the heart of the nation and possess all the ingredients necessary to economic growth and success. Olathe is located in the geographic center of the County and is the County Seat. The County boasts nationally ranked schools, low crime rate, high quality neighborhoods, low cost of living, and a variety of cultural and entertainment amenities. Moreover, in Money magazine's 2008 annual best places to live, Johnson County had not just one but three cities ranked in the top 50 best places to live in America. Olathe ranked 13th.\nThis high quality of life and unsurpassed business environment attracts nearly 10,000 new residents and over 11,000 new jobs each year. Johnson County also accounts for more than half of new businesses in the Kansas City Metropolitan Area. Johnson County\u2019s population and economic growth rank in the top one-third of Forbes\u2019 rapidly growing premier counties and in the top 9% of all counties in the U.S. It is not surprising, then, that half of the Fortune 100 and one-third of the Fortune 500 firms have operations in Johnson County.\nRiffe Construction Co. \u2022 19000 W. 158th Street, Suite C \u2022 Olathe, Kansas 66062 \u2022 913-764-1400", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00240.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 21, + "original_length": 3037, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.94, + "perplexity": 108.9, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "http://righttocounselproject.org/jseri/standards-for-the-delivery-of-public-defense-services", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T03:50:11Z", + "digest": "sha1:XVKCMYT36EYCMNLEIGJLT5XLOP4U2ROD", + "length": 4779, + "nlines": 17, + "source_domain": "righttocounselproject.org", + "title": "Standards for the Delivery of Public Defense Services | NLADA", + "raw_content": "Counsel & Delivery of\nPublic Defense Services Standards for the Delivery of\nPublic Defense Services Technical Assistance,\nStandards help defense attorneys, indigent defense systems, and states and counties know what is required of them to provide the right to counsel services guaranteed by our Constitution. The strong pressures placed on public officials by favoritism, partisanship, and profits all underscore the need for standards to assure fundamental quality in all facets of government and all components of the justice system. Using standards to assess uniformity and quality of performance is not unique to the field of indigent defense. For instance, realizing that standards are necessary to both compare bids equitably and to assure quality products, policymakers long ago stopped merely taking the lowest bid to build a hospital, school, or bridge, and instead require that minimum quality standards of safety always be met. So too must there be an absolute minimum level of quality that must always be met when providing defense services, whether to the rich or to the poor. Ensuring the rights of the individual against the undue taking of his liberty by the state can merit no less consideration.\nThe use of national standards of justice in this way also reflects the demands of the United States Supreme Court in Wiggins v. Smith, 539 U.S. 510 (2003), and Rompilla v. Beard, 545 U.S. 374 (2005). In Wiggins, the Court said that national standards, including those promulgated by the American Bar Association (ABA), have for decades been referred to as \u201cguides to determining what is reasonable\u201d in assessing ineffective assistance of counsel claims. National standards define competency not only in the sense of the attorney\u2019s personal abilities and qualifications, but also in the systemic sense that the attorney practices in an environment where she is provided the time, resources, independence, supervision, and training to effectively carry out her charge to adequately represent her clients. Rompilla echoes those sentiments, noting that the ABA Standards for Criminal Justice describe the obligations of defense counsel \u201cin terms no one could misunderstand.\u201d\nStandards for Defender Services\nPerformance Guidelines for Criminal Defense Representation\nNLADA\u2019s Performance Guidelines offer an excellent, comprehensive and worthwhile definition of what constitutes good solid trial lawyering. They give realistic meaning to the Sixth Amendment\u2019s right to counsel and to the ultimate goal for all trial counsel: \u201czealous and quality representation.\u201d\nABA Ten Principles of a Public Defense Delivery System\nExplaining & Applying the Standards\nThe Nexus between Independence and Workload Controls\nAn adequate public defense program must have binding workload standards for the system to function. In fact, if there were a single criterion by which it was possible to evaluate the overall health of a jurisdiction\u2019s public defense system, the existence and enforcement of strict workload controls might well be the most important benchmark of an effective system. This is because public defenders do not generate their own work.\nIndigent Defense Standards Help Defense Attorneys to Provide Effective Assistance -- Mike's Story\nExcerpt adapted from: David Carroll and Scott Wallace, Implementation and Impact of Indigent Defense Standards (December 2003), Award No. 1999-IJ-CX-0049, National Institute of Justice, Office of Justice Programs, United States Department of Justice.\nOne spring night in 2001, an unidentified caller dialed 911 and hung up before words were exchanged. The police were routinely dispatched to the apartment where the call originated. They were greeted at the door by Mike (not his real name). Mike appeared nervous, having used methamphetamines an hour earlier. The police asked permission to enter to ensure that no actual emergency was in progress, and Mike consented. The officers saw drugs in plain view. Mike and an acquaintance Mary (not her real name) who was also present were arrested and charged with felonies.\nProtecting the Innocent -- Eddie Joe Lloyd\nIn 1985, Eddie Joe Lloyd was convicted in Detroit of the rape and murder of a teen-age girl. The evidence of his guilt was overwhelming. Eddie Joe Lloyd\u2019s written confession gave specific information about the crime scene that only the perpetrator could have known. Police had him on tape admitting to the brutal acts. It was a slam dunk case. The jury took less than an hour to convict him of 1st degree felony murder. Lamenting the lack of the death penalty in Michigan, the judge sent Eddie Joe to a maximum security prison for the remainder of his life without the possibility of parole. 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However, the drug is highly effective at treating an aggressive form of breast cancer called HER2-positive, the scientists added.\n\u201cWe don\u2019t want to avoid this exceptionally effective treatment just because it might cause damage to the heart,\u201d said study chair Dr. Maya Guglin, of the University of Kentucky\u2019s Heart and Vascular Institute.\nThe American Heart Association has warned doctors and patients to consider the heart risks of Herceptin when developing a treatment plan for HER2-positive breast cancer.\nGuglin and colleagues found that two classes of drugs \u2014 ACE inhibitors and beta blockers \u2014 did not help protect the hearts of patients who received Herceptin alone.\nBut they did protect the hearts of patients who also received another chemotherapy drug called doxorubicin before they received Herceptin.\nIn those patients, heart problems occurred in 37 percent of patients who received ACE inhibitors and 31 percent of those who received beta blockers. That compared with 47 percent of patients who didn\u2019t receive either type of drug.\n\u201cThe data clearly demonstrated that, for patients with HER2-positive breast cancer taking both doxorubicin and Herceptin, adding either an ACE inhibitor or a beta blocker to the treatment regimen can significantly offset the chance of heart problems,\u201d Guglin said in a university news release.\nWhile the study offers some clarity about treatment options, Guglin said further research is needed before doctors consider this a new standard of care.\nThe U.S. National Cancer Institute-funded study was presented Sunday at the annual meeting of the American College of Cardiology in Orlando, Fla. Research presented at meetings is usually considered preliminary until published in a peer-reviewed medical journal.\nThe American Cancer Society outlines the different types of breast cancer.\nPrevious Post Early Colon Cancer Screening Advised for Some Next Post Genetic Testing Underused in Breast Cancer Patients: Study", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00240.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 325, + "original_length": 29270, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.94, + "perplexity": 289.2, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "http://riveraveblues.com/tag/xavier-nady/", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T04:16:26Z", + "digest": "sha1:COIQE7O5MXM6TPCKXFBQHHH67RKGABRI", + "length": 26395, + "nlines": 84, + "source_domain": "riveraveblues.com", + "title": "Xavier Nady Archives - River Avenue Blues", + "raw_content": "River Ave. Blues \u00bb Xavier Nady\nPast Trade Review: Jose Tabata\nThere was a time, during RAB\u2019s halcyon days, when Jose Tabata invited encouraging comparisons. The name Manny Ramirez appeared frequently, which left Yankees fans salivating. Even better, when Baseball America rated him the Yankees\u2019 No. 2 and the No. 27 overall prospect in 2007, they said that he \u201chas the talent to reach New York by the end of 2008.\u201d\nBy the end of 2008 not only was Tabata not in the majors, but he wasn\u2019t even in the Yankees system. On July 25th, 2008, when they sat three games back of first and were starting a series against Boston, they pulled off a major trade in which Tabata was the centerpiece. They sent him, along with Jeff Karstens, Daniel McCutchen, and Ross Ohlendorf to the Pirates in exchange for Damaso Marte and Xavier Nady. In Marte they got a lefty reliever \u2014 one whom they once traded for Enrique Wilson \u2014 and a right-handed outfielder in the midst of a career year. The Yankees certainly needed the help that Marte and Nady could provide, but losing Tabata still stung a little.\nWhile Tabata possessed plenty of upside, his attitude and antics certainly soured the Yankees. After all, the same Baseball America scouting report that glowed about his \u201cinnate ability to get the fat part of the bat to the ball quickly, consistently, and with power,\u201d also said that the \u201ctends to cost and turn his talent on and off.\u201d He stormed out of one game and considered quitting. That doesn\u2019t even touch on his decades-older wife, who was accused of kidnapping a baby. In 2008 all that appeared to catch up to him, and he sported a mere .248/.320/.310 line in AA prior to the trade. The Yankees\u2019 patience, apparently, wore thin.\nEven with the reinforcements the Yankees couldn\u2019t overcome their depleting pitching staff. At that point Chien-Ming Wang was already done for the year, and Joba Chamberlain had just a few starts remaining before he, too, would go on the DL. Marte pitched well at first, but after a long outing in Texas (I believe on the same day Joba got hurt) he was apparently gassed. Nady stumbled in his new digs. It amounted to a 32-28 record post-trade, which was actually worse than their pre-trade record. The Yankees missed the playoffs for the first time since 1993. The only bright side was that they had Nady and Marte for at least one more season each.\nWith Nady, they ended up with essentially nothing. The Yankees named him the starting right fielder in 2009, despite Nick Swisher\u2019s presence on the roster, but he suffered an elbow injury a few games into the season and didn\u2019t play another one until 2010 with the Cubs. His time with the Yankees amounted to 0.6 WAR. Instead of exercising Marte\u2019s $6 million option for 2009, the Yankees signed him to a three-year, $12 million contract. He\u2019s spent most of it on the DL, though he did come through in the 2009 World Series. The only way the Yankees won this deal was with the old saying, flags fly forever. (Though I suppose that assumes that the Yankees would not have won the series without Marte, which is debatable, to say the least.)\nKarstens, McCutchen, and Ohlendorf were mere afterthoughts in the trade. Ohlendorf broke camp with the 2008 team as a reliever, though his role was never clear. Whether that made him seem worse I\u2019m not sure, but it\u2019s impossible to define his stint with the big league club as successful. He might have helped in the future, but the Yankees had plenty of other mid-range pitching prospects. The same goes for Karstens and McCutchen. Both had their bright spots, but both were fungible assets. There was little to argue about when trading them, and even using hindsight, with Karstens experiencing some success this year, it\u2019s hard to find fault with trading these guys. It was actually a Yankees fan\u2019s dream: trading middling non-prospects for actual major leaguers.\nTabata, on the other hand, represented someone the Yankees could actually use. The system has lacked power corner OF bats since RAB started in 2007, and Tabata was the one guy who could have grown into that type of player. But given all his issues both on and off the field, they apparently thought he wasn\u2019t the best fit. And despite all the hype, he has never hit for power \u2014 not in any stop in the minors in which he had more than 100 AB, and not in the majors.\nThe lack of power brings up an important question when evaluating the Tabata trade: where would he have played? Even if the Yankees were a bit aggressive with him, as the Pirates were last year, where would he have fit? Last year Brett Gardner was working on a breakout year, and the Yankees had Nick Swisher manning right field. From 2010 to 2011 Nick Swisher has produced a .367 wOBA and Gardner has produced .351 (9th and 20th among qualified MLB OFers). Tabata, meanwhile, has produced a .332 wOBA, and that\u2019s pretty evenly divided between his two seasons. (It would rank 40th if he were qualified.)\nIt was impossible to know at the time, of course, that the Yankees would acquire Swisher and develop Gardner into a borderline elite player, so all of that represents hindsight evaluation in one way. But in another it represents a legitimate viewpoint, since Tabata wouldn\u2019t have been ready for the majors until the Yankees started to see what they had in those two players. Even if he miraculously broke out in 2009 the Yanks wouldn\u2019t have had room for him.\nThis weekend Tabata was rewarded for his 3.5 career WAR, and his potential for more, with a five-year extension worth a guaranteed $14.25 million that could end up a eight-year, $36.75 million deal. With the Yankees he never would have gotten that opportunity. With Gardner and Swisher taking over the outfield corners in the past two years, he would have remained blocked. That could have worked out if he turned things around in the Yanks system; they could have traded him this past winter, perhaps for a starting pitcher. But if he continued to falter they would have gotten even less. The Yanks apparently saw that risk ahead of time and dealt him while at least one team still valued him.\nThe hardest part of reconciling these past trades is figuring out how the Yankees would have fared had they not made the trade. It\u2019s especially tough in this situation, when they got so little value for the return, but also wouldn\u2019t have had room for the centerpiece. While it was a clear loss for the Yankees \u2014 they gave up something of value to another team and got little value back \u2014 the real-world effect isn\u2019t that great. It would have taken a big turnaround from the disappointing Tabata in order for the Yankees to realize any value from him in the future.\nFiled Under: Days of Yore Tagged With: Damaso Marte, Jose Tabata, Past Trade Review, Xavier Nady\nMailbag: Colon, Options, Nady Trade, Big Three\nI\u2019ve got five questions for you this week, each bringing something unique to the table. The Submit A Tip box in the sidebar is the way to go if you want to send in questions.\nLike a boss. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa)\nFindley asks: What are the chances that Bartolo Colon makes a start for the Yankees this season? And how would he fare?\nI will say small, maybe 10% or so. The Yankees seem to like him in that Al Aceves role (even though we\u2019ve only seen him in long relief so far), the versatile bullpen guy that could give you three outs or three innings. We also have to remember that his velocity has declined steadily during his outings (here\u2019s his velo graph from game one, game two, and game three), maybe from lack of conditioning/fatigue, maybe from being physically unable to hold that velocity over 80-100 pitches. The guy had some major shoulder problems, you know.\nI suspect that if he did start, Colon would be average at best. Six innings and three or four runs seems like a reasonable best case scenario, and finding a guy to do that shouldn\u2019t be too hard. I wanted Colon to start the season in the rotation and think he should be there, but that\u2019s only because I think he\u2019s better than Freddy Garcia.\nDavid asks: It seems like so called \u201ctoolsy\u201d guys are a dime-a-dozen in the minor leagues. Athletic shortstops who have a great glove but nobody is real sure if the bat is ever going to show up. Obviously some of these guys even make it to the bigs (like Nunez/Pena). So, is it safe to say that predicting what a guy is going to be able to do in the field is a helluva lot easier than predicting his hitting ability? IE if you see a slick fielding high school guy, is it a much smaller leap to assume that guy will be able to do the same things in the big leagues? By comparison, some guy who can hit home runs off HS pitching (or hit for average for that matter) seems like much more of a crap shoot to project (hell, I even hit a few dingers in my day).\nHitting a round ball with a round bat is the hardest thing to the do in sports, so yeah, projecting offensive ability is tough that projecting defense. That doesn\u2019t mean it\u2019s a slam dunk though. Players get bigger and might have change positions, which has a big impact on their future defensive value. The professional game is faster than anything these guys saw in high school and in college, so routine grounders aren\u2019t so routine anymore. That said, the athleticism and reflexes needed for fielding a little more obvious than those needed for hitting. When it comes to batting, you\u2019re talking about guys seeing breaking balls for the first time, getting pitched inside for the first time, using wood bats for the first time, etc. There\u2019s a lot that can do wrong there.\nBut then again, I\u2019m no expert, so I wouldn\u2019t take my word as gospel. It just seems like projecting defensive ability would be a helluva lot easier than projecting whether or not a guy could hit Major League caliber pitching.\nCharles asks: Is it possible for a team to exercise future club options early? For instance, is it possible to exercise Buchholz\u2019s club options now, then trade him to another team if they could receive a good deal in exchange? Strictly hypothetical, not logical.\nJust about all of these options have windows during which they must be exercised/declined, and that\u2019s usually within ten days after the end of the World Series. Sometimes the contract will stipulate that the team has to decide on an option a year ahead of time, like the Blue Jays had to do with Aaron Hill\u2019s 2012, 2013, and 2014 options this year. They had to either a) pick up all three before the start of this season, or b) forfeit the 2014 option all together. They passed this time around, but can still exercise the 2012 and 2013 options after this season.\nSometimes there\u2019s no window and it\u2019s anytime before the player becomes a free agent. I know the Phillies picked up Jimmy Rollins\u2019 option a full year before they had to. Frankly, I think Buchholz would have more value without the options picked up in your hypothetical scenario. Instead of trying to trade a 26-year-old with five years and $30M coming to him with two club options, they\u2019d be trying to trade a 26-year-old with seven years and $56M coming to him. I\u2019d rather not have the options picked up and keep the flexibility.\nBrian asks: So apparently the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette is already calling the Pirates the winners of the Nady/Marte trade of a couple years ago. Is it still too early to tell who won? Granted Nady is gone and Marte likely wont pitch again this year, but Tabata has only played MLB level ball for a couple weeks now. And we did get that magical post-season out of Marte in 2009.\nI think the Pirates won this trade rather convincingly. Xavier Nady predictably turned back into a pumpkin after the trade, and then he missed basically all of 2009 with the elbow injury. Damaso Marte\u2019s been a complete non-factor for New York outside of two weeks in October and November of 2009. If you want to fWAR this, the Yankees acquired exactly one win the trade.\nAs for Pittsburgh, they\u2019ve already gotten two okay (1.1 and 0.9 fWAR) seasons (285 IP total) out of Ross Ohlendorf, not to mention a pair of up-and-down arms (393.1 IP combined) in Jeff Karstens (0.8 fWAR) and Dan McCutchen (-0.7 fWAR). Jose Tabata\u2019s the real prize as a legitimate everyday outfielder. He\u2019s not (yet?) the star we thought he\u2019d become and probably won\u2019t ever turn into that guy since he\u2019s a corner outfielder with little power, but he can hit (career .336 wOBA) and is dirt cheap for the foreseeable future. He\u2019s already been worth 2.7 fWAR by himself, and has a good chance of being a four win player this season.\nThe Yankees probably don\u2019t win the 2009 World Series without Marte\u2019s great relief work, so in that respect they \u201cwon\u201d the trade. But in terms of value added and subtracted, the Pirates kicked their asses, even if none of three pitchers turns into anything better than what they are right now.\nTucker asks: Who would you say has been the most productive big leaguer out of the old big three (Joba, Hughes, Kennedy)? I\u2019m leaning Kennedy but Hughes is right there.\nI think it\u2019s Joba Chamberlain and not particularly close. Let\u2019s look at their big league resumes in general terms\u2026\nJoba: one full season as a starter (2009), one full season as a reliever (2010), one full season as a reliever/starter (2008)\nHughes: one full season as a starter (2010), one full season as a reliever (2009), one half season as a starter (2007 and 2008 combined)\nKennedy: one full season as a starter (2010), one half season as a starter (2007 through 2009 combined)\nHughes has a leg up on Kennedy because of his relief stint in 2009, and Joba has a leg up on Hughes because of the 2008 season he split between the rotation and bullpen. If you want to get technical and compare fWAR, then Joba (7.5) leads Hughes (6.0) by a sizable margin and IPK (3.0) by a mile.\nWho would I want long-term? I\u2019d take Joba if I could move him back into the rotation. If not, then give me Kennedy. Phil\u2019s missing velocity and stuff this year raises a pretty big red flag. Four months ago I would have said Hughes without thinking twice about it. Funny how that works.\nFiled Under: Mailbag Tagged With: Bartolo Colon, Damaso Marte, Dan McCutchen, Ian Kennedy, Jeff Karstens, Joba Chamberlain, Jose Tabata, Phil Hughes, Ross Ohlendorf, Xavier Nady\nSome right-handed outfield options\nWhile most of the focus is on Cliff Lee and to a lesser extent Carl Crawford, the Yankees also have to address their need for a right-handed hitting outfielder at some point this offseason. Matt Diaz was said to be a target, but he signed with the Pirates for two-years and $4.25M last night even though he\u2019s almost guaranteed to finish that contract in another uniform. There\u2019s also the chance that he\u2019ll be exposed with regular playing time and see his value plummet, but I digress.\nWith Diaz no longer an option for the Yankees, they\u2019re left scrapping the bottom of the free agent barrel for someone that can hit left-handed pitching in part-time duty. Marcus Thames is still out there despite the interest from the Fukuoka Softbank Hawks and there\u2019s always personal fave Scott Hairston, but let\u2019s take a look at who else is available. I\u2019m going to assume that Austin Kearns is not an option given how his stint in pinstripes ended (with 14 strikeouts in his final 25 at-bats).\nNope. (also: inevitable)\nJohnson, who turns 34 today, was one the team\u2019s leftfield targets last winter, but he ended up with the Dodgers and had a rather forgettable season. He missed close to a month with back spasms and hit just .262/.291/.366 (.287 wOBA) in 215 plate appearances overall, though he did hit lefties for a .342 wOBA. Johnson has a .368 wOBA against southpaws over the last three seasons and is relegated to left defensively (ugly, ugly UZR\u2019s in center and right), which means he\u2019s not far off from what Thames was last offseason. He\u2019s a legit option, just not a terrible interesting or safe one.\nOnce upon a time Kapler could mash lefties, tagging them for a .404 wOBA in 2008 and 2009. He fell off to a .255 wOBA against southpaws and .264 overall in 2010, playing so poorly that Tampa stashed him on the phantom disabled list in mid-August so they wouldn\u2019t have to demote Dan Johnson when Carlos Pena came off the disabled list. Kapler\u2019s 35-years-old and is actually a fine defender in the corners (+9.2 UZR in RF, -1.0 in LF (SSS) over the last three years), though there\u2019s quite a bit of risk here.\nThe Pirates non-tendered the former Met last week rather than give him a sizable raise through arbitration, and it\u2019s tough to blame them really. He\u2019s a slightly below average hitter (.322 wOBA) and a bad defender (-8.0 UZR/150 career), so the only thing that makes him appealing is his age (26 in April) and status as a former top prospect. Milledge can hit lefties (.350 wOBA career) and there\u2019s always the potential to get better, bet I prefer a veteran guy that\u2019s been a platoon player before when it comes to replacing Thames. It\u2019s not an easy job, and a young guy that\u2019s used to playing every day might be able to make the adjustments.\nBeen there, done that. Other than his great 2008 season (3.6 fWAR), Nady\u2019s never been even an average player, topping out at 1.4 fWAR way back in 2003. He put up a .295 wOBA for the Cubs this season after having his second Tommy John surgery and was below replacement level (-0.4 fWAR) in a pretty good amount of playing time (347 plate appearances). The Yanks can do better.\nIt\u2019s an ugly crop of righty hitting outfielders out there, especially with Diaz off the board. Hairston is clearly the best option in my eyes with Thames a distant second, even though the latter\u2019s unlikely to repeat his 2010 success. Perhaps Brandon Laird will get thrown to the wolves a little sooner than expected, though something tells me that movie will have a tragic ending.\nFiled Under: Hot Stove League Tagged With: Gabe Kapler, Jeff Francoeur, Lastings Milledge, Xavier Nady\nLink Dump: Nady, Munson, Draft, Facker\nSome loose ends to tie up\u2026\nCashman hand delivers Nady\u2019s World Series ring\nWith the Cubs in town to play the Mets, GM Brian Cashman took the opportunity to head over to CitiField to present Xavier Nady with his World Series ring. Nady played in only seven games for the Yankees because of his injury last year, but he was slated to be the every day rightfielder coming out of camp. Hopefully Cashman didn\u2019t hang around Omar Minaya very long, osmosis can be a bitch.\nFrom what I can tell, the only regular members of last year\u2019s team that still need to get their rings are Johnny Damon, Jose Molina, Phil Coke, and Brian Bruney. The Yanks play the Tigers next month and the Blue Jays in June, but they won\u2019t face the Nats at all this year. I don\u2019t suppose they want to keep those guys waiting, so the FedEx man it is.\nA little old street named after some catcher\nThe Yankees are very proud of their history, as they should be. You can\u2019t walk two feet in the New Stadium without being reminded that they\u2019re the greatest sports franchise in the history of universe, whether it\u2019s Babe Ruth Plaza or the placards around the building or the 27 World Championship years proudly displayed beyond the bleachers.\nThurman Munson though, well the former Yanks\u2019 captain just has a little elevated walkway in the Bronx named in his honor. There\u2019s no plaza, no restaurant, just this little passageway build in the 1960\u2019s. \u201cHe wasn\u2019t about the big superhighway and mainstream streets,\u201d said Munson\u2019s widow Diana. \u201cIt fits his personality so much more that it would be an out-of-the-way street and be something that not a lot of people would embrace.\u201d\nFree draft chat at Baseball America\nWe\u2019re starting to get into draft mode here, and not because the NFL edition starts tonight. Conor Glassey of Baseball America chatted about the draft yesterday, and the transcript is free for all to read. As you can imagine, it\u2019s chock full of great insight into whose stock is climbing, whose is falling, and a whole bunch of other stuff as well. It\u2019s not terribly long, so it won\u2019t take an hour to read. Make sure you check it out.\nJust a reminder, we have a draft-only RSS feed you can subscribe too.\nA Facker gets some air time\nDid you stay up late to watch Kim Jones\u2019 interview with Phil Hughes\u2019 parents after the game? Remember that dude in the old-school Columbus Clippers\u2019 hat hanging out behind them? Well it turns out that he\u2019s a long-time regular over at Fack Youk, going by the handle Mode. It\u2019s always great when one of the little people gets out from their mother\u2019s basement garden apartment to show their mug in the real world. We\u2019re still waiting for one of you guys to do that.\nFiled Under: Draft, Links Tagged With: 2010 Draft, Xavier Nady\nSurprise! Tabata might be older than expected\nVia The Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, Pirates\u2019 GM Neal Huntington admitted that former Yankee prospect Jose Tabata might actually be in his mid-20\u2019s, instead of the 21 he\u2019s believed to be. If you\u2019ve stuck with me throughout all of my blogging adventures, then this shouldn\u2019t be a surprise. There were rumblings Tabata was older than he claimed to be way back when he was in Rookie ball. \u201cI mean the body\u2026 it\u2019s hard to argue with the skeptics,\u201d said Keith Law.\nIf true, Tabata\u2019s prospect status would take a major hit given his complete inability to hit for power at such an advanced age (his best IsoP is .122, and came four years ago). The Xavier Nady-Damaso Marte trade would look that much better as well.\nFiled Under: Asides Tagged With: Damaso Marte, Jose Tabata, Xavier Nady\nReport: Nady reaches deal with the Cubs, Sheets with A\u2019s\nUpdate (1:58pm): Nady got $3.3M, plus another $2M in incentives. The base salary is a 50% pay cut.\n11:00am: Via MLBTR, free agent outfielder Xavier Nady has agreed to a contract with the Cubs, ending his brief tenure in the Bronx. Nady still has to take a physical, which is no given considering he\u2019s coming back from his second Tommy John surgery. The Yanks didn\u2019t offer him arbitration because he would have probably accepted given his elbow, so they won\u2019t get a draft pick even though he was a Type-B.\nNady hit .270-.319-.469 in close to 300 plate appearances with the Yankees, and was a potential left field option. Let\u2019s see what the dollars are before everyone gets fussy.\nAlso, the A\u2019s have signed Ben Sheets to a one-year, $8 million deal, though some sources say $10 mil. Rumor had it that Johnny Damon was their Plan B if they couldn\u2019t land Sheets, so do the math.\nFiled Under: Asides, Hot Stove League Tagged With: Ben Sheets, Johnny Damon, Xavier Nady\nAfter two Tommy Johns, what then?\nJanuary 19, 2010 by Benjamin Kabak 60 Comments\nAs the winter wears on \u2014 yesterday\u2019s burst of warm weather made me pine for baseball \u2014 one free agent name keeps circling around the Yankees as a vulture does to its dying prey. He might not, in the words of Keith Law, represent much of an improvement, if any, over Brett Gardner, but Xavier Nady just won\u2019t go away. Maybe the Yanks really are interested in him, as Joe wrote in his Closing Arguments post; maybe the fans just won\u2019t let him go because of the one good month he had in pinstripes in 2008. Either way, the allure of Nady just won\u2019t die.\nAs free agents go, Nady is an interesting case. After landing in the Bronx in the middle of 2008, he finished the year with an overall .305/.357/.510, and the 127 OPS+ was the best mark of his career. Entering his final pre-free agency year in 2009, Nady was primed for a payout this winter. Over the last four seasons, he had hit .284/.339/.474, and while the .339 OBP is lower than most would prefer, his 112 OPS+ had him as a player to watch in 2009.\nWe know all too well what happened though. Nady injured himself on a throw in Tampa Bay in mid-April, and he never recovered. He tried a series of Platelet Rich Plasma injections but eventually had to go under the knife for his second Tommy John surgery. Multiple Tommy John procedures are a rare occurrence in baseball, and many Yankee fans have wondered about the impact a second surgery would have on an outfielder. Unfortunately, baseball history shows us with just one position player \u2014 catcher Vance Wilson \u2014 who had the procedure twice. Wilson hasn\u2019t played since.\nNady is different. He\u2019s younger by a few years than Wilson was and is a better player than Wilson, a journeyman back-up catcher, was. That doesn\u2019t help us understand what Nady might be. For that, we turn to Baseball Prospectus\u2019 Will Carroll for guidance. When Nady underwent the surgery in late June, Carroll offered up his take. Unfortunately, it\u2019s light on the future outlook:\nThe idea that second surgeries are less successful is unfounded. First, there are no major league position players that have had a re-do. Most that had a re-do have done something to screw it up in the first place, assuming it\u2019s a short-term situation. Nady has been through this, and that gives us more information than we\u2019d have with most. Position players come back from this surgery in about six months, though the arm isn\u2019t 100 percent at that stage. Unless we find out after surgery that something more has happened in the elbow, even the worst-case scenario would have him back at the end of spring training.\nNote how Carroll phrases it. The idea that second surgeries are less successful is unfounded simply because we don\u2019t have the data from position players. Some pitchers have had the procedure twice, and many have come back. Nady, though, is the outfield guinea pig. If he can come back and play the outfield, then we don\u2019t have to worry as much about future position players who undergo two surgeries. If he can\u2019t return to form defensively or offensively, I wouldn\u2019t be surprised.\nIn late September, Carroll offered up a brief update on Nady. \u201cSix months is enough time for him to be healed enough to DH, but he\u2019ll have to be careful on outfield throws,\u201d Carroll noted. In other words, no team should expect him to be a full-time left fielder out of the game.\nAs far as Nady\u2019s projections go, the 2010 PECOTA cards have not been published yet, but prior to 2009, Nady projected to .271/.324/.448 for 2010. That line is sure to look worse, and as it stands now, those interested teams ? the Yankees, the Cubs and the Braves have all been connected to the X-Man ? won\u2019t count on Nady for more than a fourth outfielder slot. If he can do more than that, some team will have a bargain on their hands.\nPhoto credit: AP Photo/Kathy Willens\nFiled Under: Analysis Tagged With: Xavier Nady", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00240.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 136, + "original_length": 27894, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.97, + "perplexity": 317.9, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "http://rocksubculture.com/tag/our-love-is-cool/", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T04:13:16Z", + "digest": "sha1:BT3DTGRHAGOLY3R75YC67OYNDN2D35U6", + "length": 4140, + "nlines": 7, + "source_domain": "rocksubculture.com", + "title": "our love is cool", + "raw_content": "\u201cHow we doing out there?\u201d Ellie Rowsell with Wolf Alice at a rare appearance in Sacramento at Ace of Spades Saturday night, a few shows into their massive schedule taking them all over the world in 2018. In addition to their own headlining shows, they are playing gigs in support of Queens of the Stone Age as well as shows across the festival circuit. I\u2019ve been following the band since 2015, and now with two studio albums under their belt (sophomore effort Visions of a Life came out late last year), they are better than ever, with a massive amount of killer songs to fill up their sets. I\u2019ve always seen them as a band made to play live, and they did not disappoint. This concert will certainly rank among the top at the end of the year for me personally, so I can\u2019t recommend enough getting out to one of their shows if they stop in at a city near you. [Read more\u2026]\nCHVRCHES with Wolf Alice at Fox Theater | Oakland, California | 4/18/2016 (Concert Review + Photos)\n\u201cIt\u2019s been quite a while since we\u2019ve played here\u2026\u201d Lauren Mayberry of CHVRCHES at the first of two back-to-back sold out shows at the Fox Theater in Oakland on Monday night. With the incredible Wolf Alice supporting, it was a stellar evening of music from two bands in the midst of a huge upswing in both talent and popularity. Late last year, both bands put out new albums, CHVRCHES with their Every Open Eye (their second) and Wolf Alice bowed their debut LP, My Love Is Cool. I had opportunity to see Wolf Alice at all three of their Bay Area shows last year and CHVRCHES with their \u201cNot So Silent Night\u201d appearance in December, so it has been fascinating to see them evolve and grow with both their studio recordings and their live shows. All in all, an evening that offered a look at the future of music\u2026 Wolf Alice with their alternative rock and roll and CHVRCHES with their synth pop. [Read more\u2026]\nFiled Under: Another Planet Entertainment, Chvrches, Concert Reviews, Fox Theater, Live Rock Music, News, & Events, Oakland California, Wolf Alice Tagged With: 2016, 2016 tour, album review, alternative, another planet entertainment, Chvrches, CHVRCH\u039eS, cities, Concert, concert photography, concert photos, Concert Review, creature songs, dates, ellie rowsell, festival, Fox Theater, Iain Cook, images, information, Lauren Mayberry, live, london, moaning lisa smile, my love is cool, Oakland, our love is cool, photography, photos, pictures, preview, review, San Francisco, set list, setlist, setlit, show, tickets, tour, uk, wolf alice\nWolf Alice at The Chapel | San Francisco, California | 10/15/2015 (Concert Review + Photos)\nI usually start off my reviews with a quote, but Wolf Alice don\u2019t spend too much time talking on stage, and their concert at The Chapel in San Francisco Thursday night was a bit too chaotic and kinetic for chit chat; they let the music speak for itself. I\u2019ve been fortunate enough to catch all three of their San Francisco shows in 2015 (their debut at Popscene at Rickshaw Stop in March and follow-up at The Independent in May), but their most recent show \u2013 fueled by the June release of their debut album My Love Is Cool \u2013 was their best yet. They are, in my opinion, the most exciting new band recording and performing today. They continue to develop their many gifts and talents with their songwriting and originality, and their live concerts serve as a showcase for how amazing they are at recreating their rich and complex, multi-layered sound on stage. But back to that album\u2026 for me personally, it is the Album of the Year. Truly, the best album of the past several years. Every song is a gem. They are THE band to watch.\nFiled Under: Concert Reviews, Drenge, Live Rock Music, News, & Events, Made Violent, San Francisco California, The Chapel, Wolf Alice Tagged With: 2015, 2015 tour, album review, alternative, Concert, concert photography, concert photos, Concert Review, creature songs, drenge, ellie rowsell, images, live, london, made violent, moaning lisa smile, my love is cool, our love is cool, photography, photos, pictures, review, San Francisco, set list, setlist, setlit, show, the chapel, tour, uk, wolf alice", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00240.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 78, + "original_length": 24293, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.95, + "perplexity": 262.1, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "http://royalengineers.ca/daybydayApril20th1859.html", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T04:31:45Z", + "digest": "sha1:P7J73CQBDBUGYGXUEB2HWAJOGXYMBHBC", + "length": 2193, + "nlines": 13, + "source_domain": "royalengineers.ca", + "title": "Day By Day, In Their Own Words", + "raw_content": "With the return of the \"Eliza Anderson\", the remaining cargo is shifted off the \"Thames City\".\n20th Wednesday \u2013 The steamer \u201cEliza Anderson\u201d came along side about 2 p.m.: we immediately set to work getting the cargo shifted into her. Luard tumbled down the hatchway. I took a boat manned with our own men, and went off at once to the \u201cPylades\u201d and brought off the Surgeon: he was cut about the head a good deal, but not seriously hurt.\nI gave the \u201cBill of Lading\u201d for the tent etc. belonging to Ogilvie to Messer Dickson and Hamley and also had a note left for him at the Post Office in Victoria authorizing them to delivering it to him.\nI lunched at the Governor Douglas, gave him the letter of introduction that Mr. Morris gave me. I afterwards went with Cooper and St. John of the Marines and called upon the Works about a mile and a half out of Victoria. I then rode back to Esquimalt.\nI dined with St. John on board the \u201cBrisbane\u201d every one was very civil and kind: Their band played in the evening on the main deck.\non board the Thames City in Esquimalt harbour.\n{Note: The \"Brisbane\" and the \"Pylades\" are the HMS Brisbane and HMS Pylades, part of the Pacific Squadron at Esquimalt.\nCooper and St. John are both Royal Marine Light Infantry Officers who volunteered for Special Service in British Columbia. At present they are stationed at Victoria.\nLuard will remain in Victoria until the 26th of April while his wounds heal.}\nThe Royal Marine party continues its survey.\n\"... I devoted my third day (20th) to endeavoring to find out the nearest and most direct point from the latter to Queenborough and by returning about a mile and a quarter down the river Brunette from the Lake, I entered the valley and found it lead over a perfectly level and nearly cleared Country direct to the termination of the Southernmost branch of the inlet the distance from River to the latter being about two and a half miles and I compute the distance that exists between that part of the river and Queenborough to be about three miles in a direct line this would make the nearest point of the Inlet five and a half miles from Queenborough...\"\n--25 April, 1859,\nreport from Lt. Blake, RMA to Col. 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People erroneously believe that he was speaking about the State of America and Its Hopes For The Future. What he really meant to say was that Flatting Can Be A Really Quite Painful Experience and that All The Decisions You Make Are Wrong.\nWhat he actually intended when he said that, \u201cOn this day, we gather because we have chosen hope over fear, unity of purpose over conflict and discord,\u201d was really that he\u2019d spoken to Sophie and she says that when she brings her boyfriend back home she\u2019ll try and be quiet because God knows her headboard is loud as tits.\nAnd when he stated that, \u201cOn this day, we come to proclaim an end to the petty grievances and false promises, the recriminations and worn-out dogmas, that for far too long have strangled our politics,\u201d he was referring to Matt, who is a total fucking tool and is a prime example of exactly why legal euthanasia is necessary because he absolutely did eat the Gouda that my mum gave me, but, you know, I don\u2019t hold grudges.\nSo, if you\u2019re going to go flatting for the first time next year, let Obama\u2019s words guide you through the labyrinthine maze of emotions that is living with other people. If you\u2019re intent on pursuing a political career, forget joining a youth party: negotiating life with other people should be enough to dissuade you if you\u2019re in any way sane.\nSome people manage to wrangle themselves a sunny townhouse with a conservatory, a fromagerie, an artesian well in a charming garden, and a well-mannered scullery maid for $100 a week. These people are either mafia children or witches.\nThe most salient advice here is probably to start looking early, or something, but that isn\u2019t all that helpful. Instead, it is probably best to try to objectively assess your circumstances. How desperately do I need to find somewhere to live? How picky can I afford to be? Too often are 12-month contracts signed for the flat equivalent of Miss Trunchbull\u2019s Chokey in moments of panic. If it\u2019s your first time, however, you should probably know that you won\u2019t really know what you like until you\u2019ve been there for a while. Coincidentally, Hortensia\u2019s description of the Chokey in the Matilda film as \u201ca very tall but very narrow cupboard. The floor is only ten inches square so you can\u2019t sit down or squat in it. You have to stand. And three of the walls are made of cement with bits of broken glass sticking out all over,\u201d is a reasonably accurate description of some apartments in the central city.\nThat\u2019s not to say that there aren\u2019t a thousand things you can try to avoid. Some flats are akin to a Siberian apartment complex on the outer edges of the Irkutsk Oblast. Older New Zealand homes are notoriously cold, and, because of the competition to find low-rent housing, there isn\u2019t an enormous incentive for landlords to make substantial improvements. There are government-run programs designed to subsidise the installation of insulation, although this is dependent on your landlord, and the funds for these schemes are predicted to run out this month anyway, according to the Energy Efficiency and Cooperation Authority.\nThere are two possible outcomes if you find yourself living in a cold, wet coffin. Your rancour towards the world at large might be so greatly increased after the 17th demoulding of your closet that you might lash out at anyone unfortunate enough to cross your path. You might resent the person in the bedroom next to you because of the extra 15 minutes of sunlight a day afforded them by their slightly larger window. As a result, you may find yourself looking up affordable assassination services on the internet in the early hours of the morning.\nOr, you might find that you band together in the face of your unfortunate circumstances. Huddling around the bar heater that you allow yourself to turn on for an hour a night becomes a time of camaraderie and bonding. Or, you know, maybe that\u2019s a bit hopeful.\nEither way, it\u2019s something to think about it.\nIf you\u2019ve only ever lived at home or in a hall of residence it might behove you to take a long view. Sure, the exposed-brick and raw concrete look makes for a pretty slick flat-warming, but it probably isn\u2019t worth it if the kitchen you\u2019re sharing with six other people is the size of a bathtub.\nWhen it comes to actually securing a place, there isn\u2019t necessarily a right way to go about it. Some treat flat-hunting a bit like electioneering. Every landlord needs to be impressed by your genteel cosmopolitan bearing. Your time as a dish-hand suddenly qualifies you as a \u201cyoung professional\u201d. References for previous landlords might be demanded, which, if you\u2019ve never flatted before, might result in you running on a sort of Mobius-strip treadmill to nowhere.\nBut the golden rule, as obvious as it sounds, is to not sign on to anything without actually seeing the place.\nIf there\u2019s a rule when it comes to choosing flatmates, it is this: you\u2019ve made the wrong one. The optimistically arranged flock of friends who are just sooo excited to spend a year together being young and exciting in Mount Cook are often the ones that dissolve into unabated misery by the time July rolls around. Coincidentally, these are the people who will have chosen a cute little name for their flat within five minutes of signing the tenancy agreement (and I have visited far too many places called The Burrow for this to be endearing). Then again, moving in with complete strangers might see you turned into a wild-eyed misanthrope.\nIf there\u2019s something that\u2019s going to really get you down, it\u2019ll be the people you live with. Joanna Tennant, a counsellor at Victoria\u2019s Student Counselling Service, says that both options can have repercussions for your state of mind. People who don\u2019t have anywhere else to go and end up \u201c\u2026flatting with \u2018randoms\u2019,\u201d might find that it \u201ccan be really lonely if they don\u2019t get to know the flatmates or if they don\u2019t gel as a unit. There are flats where that happens and it\u2019s just like being in a boarding house.\u201d\nAnd, for most people, isolation isn\u2019t that great\u2014\u201cI think people shrink into themselves if they don\u2019t have company and people who care about them,\u201d says Tennant.\nThere isn\u2019t a right or a wrong way to go about it, and if you\u2019ve only ever lived in a non-flatting situation, it might be hard to tell if what you think you might like is the same as what you will actually turn out to like in the end. One student tells of one flatmate, seemingly out of nowhere, lighting a bonfire and burning another flatmate\u2019s blender on it. It was not a course of events that could have been anticipated. People can be very surprising, and, as Tennant points out, \u201cWhen people are in a really good, happy flatting situation it makes a big difference to your mental health.\u201d\nFAMINE MITIGATION\nIf you find yourself halfway through the year dining nightly on a gelatinous ziggurat of instant noodles, you have made a mistake. Whether you\u2019d prefer to subsist on a communal vat of socialist dhal or a solitary serving of meatloaf shaped like Milton Friedman\u2019s head for one, you\u2019re better off engaging your flatties in robust discussion about the what and how of feeding yourselves.\nGroup cooking can end up in you all fighting over dry plates of sadness nachos with alarming regularity if it\u2019s the only thing one member of the household can cook. Conversely, cooking for yourself every night can be a little bit draining, especially if you\u2019re a busy person, and you might spend whole evenings gorging on plain water crackers.\nIf you\u2019re going to engage in laissez-faire cooking, that\u2019s cool. If, however, you set something up, try to stick to it, or people will end up upset.\nTennant makes the point that those that \u201cmove in with friends\u201d, only to find that \u201cit doesn\u2019t work because they find out that their friends do stuff that they didn\u2019t know about,\u201d she could be referring to any number of unpleasant surprises. At the fore of these, however, is always going to be cleaning. People can be pretty revolting in a way that you can\u2019t really know until you are exposed to it in a domestic context.\nThe results of this can result in the most absurdly flamboyant behaviour. One student reports living for some time under the thumb of the flatting-equivalent of the al-Assad regime. This little dictator erected a large sign that faced the front door that began, rather sweetly, with \u201cDEAR FILTHY PIGS.\u201d She then proceeded, in Bashir\u2019s now trademark style, to stoically refuse to acknowledge the sign\u2019s existence.\nSet up a roster. If you shirk your responsibilities and people start talking to you like you\u2019ve committed a hate crime, you have only yourself to blame.\nSome flats are the essential equivalent of a country embattled by the global financial crisis\u2014reliant on stimulus packages (from Ma and Pa), and generally prone to joblessness and rioting. Bills can bring out the worst in people. It doesn\u2019t take long for people to become annoyed with each other at the charges incurred by a flatmate\u2019s all-night Netflix session.\nAppointing a finance minister is generally a good idea. Having one sensible, reliable person (or someone as close to this ideal as possible) in charge of your accounts keeps things simple and to the point.\nBonds are a tricky thing, and depending on your landlord, you might get all or none of it back (\u201cThe carpets needed cleaning and it cost $2500!\u201d) If you feel like you\u2019ve been cheated out of anything, don\u2019t take it quietly.\nAnd pay your damn rent on time.\nNEGOTIATING WITH DICTATORS\nLandlords are, as far as I\u2019m concerned, one of two things. Either they are domineering autocrats to whom you must kowtow on everything, or they are just pretty reasonable people. That\u2019s not a varied assessment of things, sure, but it\u2019s often a prescient one.\nThe thing to remember is that you can ask for stuff. Instead of secretly trying to sublet your room over the summer, many landlords will agree to cut your lease short if you ask well in advance. This is generally easier in instances when the landlord knows the room or flat will be easy to lease out, so it may or may not work. If an appliance breaks, call the landlord and ask them to fix it. If, at any point, you aren\u2019t getting what you paid for, complain. People have died for your right to complain.\nTake them to the International Court of Human Rights!\nOr, if that isn\u2019t practical, there\u2019s the decidedly less exciting Tenancy Tribunal. You can even lodge an application online at dbh.govt.nz/TenancyTribunal. You can also speak to someone at the Department of Building and Housing if talks between you and the landlord break down.\nIf you ever need to talk to anyone about any of these things, then hit the Victoria Student Counselling Service up. In particular, the Quick Questions service sets you up with a duty counsellor who is there to provide both advice and act as a sounding board.\nBut yeah. Maybe you\u2019d like a feel-good conclusion that promises that everything will be okay. In the interests of truthfulness, however, I\u2019ll simply say that much like politics, flatting is fraught with potential crumminess, and that if you can avoid at least some of it you\u2019ll probably have a good year.\n\u2190 Last One Left\nMan Ban, No Thank You Ma\u2019am \u2192", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00240.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 95, + "original_length": 13308, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.95, + "perplexity": 290.4, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "http://sandlingallday.blogspot.com/", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T04:32:57Z", + "digest": "sha1:V6ORGFUGCP2NULEFDN23VEAW3XMAOX3G", + "length": 24224, + "nlines": 135, + "source_domain": "sandlingallday.blogspot.com", + "title": "Sandling All Day", + "raw_content": "What is next??? Any options at all?\nI truly wonder if there is going to be any REAL help out there... Inpatient psychiatry doesn't even look like a viable solution... most kids stay there 3-5 days, and if the doctors don't SEE the behaviors you and the outpatient therapists are reporting happen, they cannot treat them.\nI'll be the FIRST to tell you, my son won't be aggressive there to other people... it's not him.\nThe ONLY way that he'll be aggressive, is if they put us in a room alone, where he doesn't know they can see him... Then his colors may come out. Especially if he knows that we won't take him home.\nI'm so lost. I don't even know what to do. I can't keep getting abused every day... I can't watch my son slowly kill my husband. I honestly don't know if I could even forgive my child, if he did something that caused his father's death. How could I even look at him, much less continue to live with him alone, taking the full on beatings that his father saves me from?\nMy husband will get in between us, just so our son will turn his anger on him, and off of me...\nI'm so scared. I don't want to loose my son OR my husband... but in the process, I'm really just loosing myself.\nI need help... and have no where to go anymore. I love my mom, but she doesn't really even like my son. She loves him, but barely knows him... She is angry with him, because he hurts us. And because of that, it shows every time she sees him. She used to not believe there was even anything wrong with him. For years. Until she met a woman with a child with similar problems, who told her stories. That changed her opinion of his issues, and her willingness to believe... but she's still not there.\nPosted by Sandling All Day Blog at 1:47 PM 1 comment:\nGIVEAWAY! $50 Amazon gift card\nSuper simple... enter to win.\nNo catches, nothing difficult.\nWhy then... you ask?\nIt's simple. My son is special needs. He has started a YouTube channel, and needs subscribers and likes!! He's a great kid and just wants to be liked. So help me show him some support. Enter today, and share it EVERYWHERE!!!\nEnter below!!\nPosted by Sandling All Day Blog at 11:30 AM 1 comment:\nWhen letting them go is for their own good...\nI'm here to tell you, ANYTHING regarding your children is tough... more than anything else in the entire world... But what's beyond impossible, is when your only choice, is to let them go. I mean, LET THEM GO.\nMy son is angry. No... not angry. He's explosive. He's controlling. He's enraged. Every moment that he isn't busy with something that he enjoys, he's impossible.\nRecently, EVERY time he walks out of his room, when he's not going to the bathroom, he comes out to talk about his game, what he got, etc. Then, immediately after he's finished, he starts throwing things. Everything. He. Can. At his father. We have big boxes of medical supplies that just arrived, and haven't gone into the garage. He heaves them over his head, and lodges them, easily 10 feet, to his dad, whose sitting on the couch. We're talking about HEAVY boxes. Then come the family games. Hangars. He walks around dumping out drawers, tipping over shelves... anything he can do to be destructive. His recent thing is walking by the washer and dryer and KICKING them. Both have huge dents... Yes, I'll probably have to replace them when we move. And his bedroom door...which has entire pieces cracked and broken.\nThis is when he doesn't attack me. Me, it's different. He throws things like empty bottles at me..which, because of their speed and force, hurt worse than nearly anything I can imagine. He chokes me. All the time. It's his go to. He pushes me across the room. My weight causes me to move faster than my knees can catch up, so I end up falling...usually with my knees bent. The most painful position I could be in.\nHe now has a new therapist (sort of...he was transferred to him from his last) and he hasn't met him. Tomorrow he's scheduled for his first appointment. I don't know if he'll go. If he doesn't, it seems like our ONLY option is to find out how to put him inpatient, to get him under control. I can already see it...he's going to cry and BEG US NOT TO MAKE HIM. It's going to be heart-wrenchingly painful, and honestly, I don't know if I can actually do it....\nbut the reality is, I truly fear for my safety with him. I fear that one day, in the not too distant future, he will end up hurting one of us... or worse... killing one of us. He rarely shows remorse or regret. He doesn't care how much I'm crying, or in pain.\nHe walks away... laughing.\nToday he grabbed a couple charging cords, and began trying to use them to whip his father. When his dad grabbed it, he began lodging things towards us... giant, painful things.\nEarlier, it was a FULL box of national geographic magazines.... the box hit my husband... but the magazines flew out and each one hit me in my leg and foot.\nI know my husband takes the brunt of each beating for me. He prefers to allow himself to get hurt, than watch me get hurt, and he can't do anything.\nYes, my husband could, if he wanted, just deck my son, one good time, and knock him out...but then he'd be in prison for child abuse... not self-defense. Regardless if it's a child who is bigger than you...stronger than you. and beating you EVERY SINGLE DAY. SOMETIMES 3 AND 4 AND 5 AND 6 TIMES EACH DAY.\nSo we choose to finally, let him go. He may never come back... he may never forgive us. But I can only hope he'll get better.\nIf I must give up my child, for him to get better... it's what I must do.\nHow do you call the police on your CHILD, when it's NECESSARY\nMy 12yr old son suffers from anger. Not plain old, run of the mill anger... no... this is explosive. This is unstoppable. This is 10 to the millionth power WAY past anger.\nHe's had anger issues, but it was always attributed to his anxiety, caused by the severe bullying and tormenting he went through after moving to the school district we're in. It wasn't just students.. it was STAFF as well... in fact, our whole family was bullied by them... threatened by them. One staff member even called CPS on us simply because she was mad that my husband wouldn't agree to sign paperwork to be a volunteer.\nNow, nearly 3 years later, his anger has evolved. It's changed. It's become something otherworldly...\nHe's dangerous when he's angry. It comes on with NO warning... one moment he's sitting in his room, the next, he's out here throwing things, punching and kicking his dad, choking me...\nHis favorite move right now is a double hammer fist... he locks his fingers and comes down on his dads shoulder or knees...the two places on his body that are RACKED with pain... both places need major surgery.. and our son knows it.\nMe, he prefers to choke... one handed, so I KNOW how powerful he really is. How strong he is.\nVery recently, he hit a growth spurt. One day, he was taller than me. The next, he was MUCH taller than me. He's currently looking over my head... he's about 5'4 and 240lbs. With the punch of a grown man.\nHe's scary when he's mad... we've tried everything. He's been in therapy since he was 3. Parent/Child therapy, parent therapy, parent support group, parent partners, team assistance, anger management... and meds.\nHis most recent therapist/ psychiatrist didn't help at all. The therapist was quiet, and couldn't get him to really participate in therapy. Most of what they did was play games and talk a little... which didn't help. Then she went on maternity leave, and is not returning to therapy... so instead of switch therapists, we decided we wanted to switch to another clinic altogether... the problem with that, is that the new clinic is WAY difficult to get in.. it's funny, you have to jump through more hoops than you would trying to make an appointment to see a judge!\nFor a person suffering from anxiety or depression, it's hard enough to make an appointment...but they expect you to arrive a 8am, to get an appointment for later in the day. It's FIRST COME FIRST SERVED, so you may actually NOT EVEN GET AN APPOINTMENT. It's ridiculous.\nWhat's more, is they don't provide ANY exceptions. So a person whose physically disabled, and can't get down there twice STILL has to... or sorry...no help.\nHis last psychiatrist was just a piece of work...\nSo our son suffers from severe anxiety. This is the premise of why we started seeing him in the first place. Our child is also bigger and stronger than we are. So when he started getting bullied at school, he started refusing to go... because he was scared. We brought it to the doc, hoping he'd increase his meds, or have SOME helpful idea.\nus: He's having a really tough time getting himself to go to school. He's really scared, and most mornings just tears his clothes back off and barricades himself in his room, crying, begging not to go.\ndoc: Just make him go.\nus: how do we do that, exactly? He's bigger and stronger, and barricades himself in:\nI seriously wanted to SCREAM. I'm not sure how to get it across to him, that his help is USELESS..but he didn't seem to care.\nEventually, we spoke to his therapist, and asked if we could 1) switch doctors...he was just unhelpful. and 2) could we get our son re-assessed, because we felt like he is suffering from more than just anxiety...he has anger, and we want a diagnosis.\nWe were told that we COULD get a new doctor, but it would take a LONG time, because we'd be put back 'in the que'..so basically like a BRAND NEW PATIENT...\nand we were told that she would \"look into getting him an assessment\".. Guess what NEVER happened.\nSo my son sits, every day, struggling with his anger and anxiety. He no longer goes to school, and cannot bring himself to go outside to play. He literally stays inside all day long. The problem, is this get's boring for him...quickly\nWe recently spoke to his primary doc, and he thinks it's more chemical than behavioral. He's probably right. But how can I get him the help he (we) so DESPERATELY need?\nCalling the police isn't the answer. The reality is, he'll come home more angry...\nI'm so tired of getting hurt, so tired of being scared, but mostly, so tired of seeing my baby boy unable to control himself.\nPosted by Sandling All Day Blog at 5:47 AM 2 comments:\nThese make any DIY wood or metal job easy and fun!!\nRecently I FINALLY bought myself an oscillating multi-tool and a rotary tool. (Think a Dremel, but not NEARLY as expensive!)\nI've always wanted to make my husband a walking stick/cane. It's been a dream of mine for a very long time, but these tools were always out of the budget. I found some on Amazon that work like a dream, and if you're blessed, you can usually find one with a coupon or some other deal attached.\nOnce you buy the tool, though, you'll quickly realize that you want different accessories to go with it! I've found there are some REALLY cheap ones on ebay, but they don't last long, and you probably want to wear a metal suit, because they can be dangerous when not made properly.\nI found some really well made oscillating multi-tool quick release saw blades that fit MOST brands, are SUPER easy to install, and are Amazon Prime eligible, so they arrive in as quick as 2 days. What else could you ask for! Well there's more, of course. The pack includes TWENTY blades, so you've got plenty to choose from. The measurements on each blade allows you precision cutting, so you can go the exact depth you want EVERY time.\nYour pack includes the following:\n3 Pack - 1-3/8-Inch Bi-Metal Oscillating saw blades.\n3 Pack - 1-3/4-Inch Wood/Soft-Metal Oscillating saw blades.\n3 Pack - 1-3/4-Inch Precision Japan Tooth Oscillating saw blades.\nThere is a list on the Amazon page of specific models of Dremel, Fein, Craftsman, Milwaukee and other brands that it either needs an adaptor for, or will not fit, so you never have to worry if you're buying something that just won't work.\nThe company, AMENVTOOL has a long line of great preforming, easy to use and inexpensive tools that are wonderful for ANY hobbyist or at home handy PERSON. (yes, I said it... I'm a handy-woman..what of it!!)\nI particularly love their drill out tools (allows you to remove any screws that are stripped!) as well as their multi-sized socket. No more needing a box full of sockets!\nRight now, you can save up to an extra 20% on many of their tools, and even 50% when you buy another. Check out their full line of items for the best deals!!\nI'm super excited about this brand. I've actually bought many things, including a credit card sized multi-tool. It can literally fit IN YOUR WALLET, and carries everything from a knife, screwdriver and even a fire starter... and more!!\nYou can check out this awesome review on Amazon (No relation to me, just has a great video posted) to see a video of what's in the package, since photos aren't always enough.\nI received a pack of 20 AMENVTOOL oscillating tool blades to test, in exchange for an honest review. No other compensation was agreed or provided.\nPosted by Sandling All Day Blog at 11:25 PM No comments:\nLabels: amenvtool, diy, grout, help, multitool, oscillating, remove, tool\nMeeQee Premium Car Trunk Organizer\nI previously had a trunk organizer that had 3 pockets, and it worked... but collapsed easily when not in use...and not in a good way. So when I was offered this, I was sorta skeptical, but not for long.\nThe MeeQee Premium Car Trunk Organizer is the best organizational tool for the back of vehicle that I've come across. I am so surprised at it's quality!!\nFirst, this is made STRONGER than any other I've seen. It's dual pockets, but so much more.\nIt has clips, in case you only want to use one side without the other impeding. On one side there are 4 carabiner clips, you can use to attach items to, that don't need to go inside. The other side has 4 pockets, to allow you to hold the smaller stuff you can't hook!\nThe bag itself is reinforced, so you don't even need to have anything inside for it to stand up straight. It comes with a removable floor, to strengthen it as well. The bottom has non-slip strip and there are 2 straps with hooks you can use to attach to the sides of your vehicle, to prevent it from moving while you drive. No more broken or spilled...ANYTHING. It also arrives in a reusable bag, for storage.\nIt's large enough to fit a variety of items. In one side alone I have an air compressor for my tires, a battery jumper, flashlights, flasher and emergency kit. And STILL have room for more!!\nThere are handles on both sides, reinforced, so you can successfully carry it full, and easily move it around without removing all the items.\nI am surprised at the strength and quality of this organizer. From the stitching to the fabric choice, it really is top notch.\nIt's not just me who REALLY loves this... it's current reviews on amazon are 4.8/5 stars!!! With 77 reviews, that's saying something! Interested in one yourself? I don't blame you. Buy now, and get an extra 5% off. You can buy it on Amazon today.\nPosted by Sandling All Day Blog at 12:08 AM No comments:\nTeqin Bedwetting Alarm Review\nYou may have read my blog post about bedwetting. It really is more common than most people realize! It's nothing to be ashamed about, and there are tools to help minimize it's effects on your child and yourself. (laundry included)\nOne thing that my family has chosen to do was employ the use of a bedwetting alarm. It's a simple, effective device. You attach it to your child's arm, and run the waterproof line inside their shirt, down to their underwear or diaper. Place the sensor in the area where wetting first occurs (you don't want to place it on their bottom) and put them to sleep. When the sensor FIRST senses even the slightest amount of moisture, it sends off a loud alarm that wakes your child, and allows them to get up and finish in the bathroom.\nIn order to be successful in nighttime toileting, you MUST stay the course. You cannot use it 3 days a week, and expect it to work properly.\nThere are PLENTY of choices on the market. From sensors to mats, from dirt cheap to storage unit rental prices!\nI chose something that worked within my budget, and could be returned if there were any defects or problems. I bought it from Amazon, because I wanted to have the peace of mind they provide, plus I got the benefit of 2 day shipping from my Prime membership. The Teqin Bedwetting Alarm is a prime ship item.\nWe have been using it nearly a week, and while it's slow going, it's only because my son is a SOUND sleeper. He can sleep through our building fire alarm... he can sleep through pretty much anything... which is REMARKABLE, considering he can EASILY and quickly wake up from the notification sound his Xbox makes when a friend messages or invites him to a party.. It would be AMAZING if you could upload your OWN sound to the machine... hmm... something to suggest!!!\nHe doesn't complain about the fit, and the alarm itself isn't bothersome. it's about the size of a silver dollar, shaped like a heart. It's relatively thin, and the outside is smooth, so there are no corners or edges to cause discomfort.\nI tried sleeping with it the first night (the arm part... I don't wet... just saying) because I firmly believe if you expect your child to do something, you MUST be willing to do it too. So I tried it. My arms are a bit larger than most, but it still fit without an issue. I was able to sleep in it comfortably, without it waking me up at all.\nIt's small and discreet enough that it could easily be worn around others without anyone noticing or identifying what it is. Your child can wear it under a t-shirt on vibrate at a friends house, and be able to wake up when they begin to urinate. This is a HUGE step for most children with this issue, as they are ashamed and don't want their friends to know. It's embarrassing for them. So most miss out on sleepovers and birthdays and such, things that require a sleepover, because of their bedwetting.\nYou can choose between white, pink or blue, and the arm strap is large enough to fit an adult, so you won't have any problem using this on your 10 or even 20yr old.\nIt is rechargeable, so no extra batteries. You can charge it with the conveniently included Micro USB charging cord during the day, and have it ready for night.\nChoose from beeping and strong vibration or only vibration.\nIt's sensors are strong enough to detect one single drop of urine.\nIn the package you get the rechargeable enuresis alarm, standard USB cable and instructions. As a BONUS, you get a progress card, and 2 pages of stickers. You can record your child's successes and have a visible reminder of how well they're doing.\nok...Now that you're super interested in trying it out... you can follow any one of the links I gave... I purchased it on Amazon. Here is the link to it's listing.\nBedwetting Alarm, 3 Modes, Rechargeable Lithium Battery(High Capacity) with Loud Sound and Strong Vibration for Bedwetters, Potty Training for Boys, Girls, All Kids(White)\nI received this item to test and give you my honest opinion. I was not provided with any other compensation or gifts. The opinions stated are 100% my own. I do not take on reviews that require me to provide a dishonest or manufactured opinion. I like talking WAY too much to be told what to say!!!\nPosted by Sandling All Day Blog at 2:01 AM No comments:\nBedwetting... it's not just babies.\nBedwetting. There. I said it. It's really a taboo subject, and no one really wants to talk about it. It's embarrassing. How do you really have a conversation about it?\nOh... yeah. My kid is in middle school, and still wets the bed.\nParents feel like they've done something wrong... they can't get their kid to use the toilet at night. But what I've learned in my journey, is that it is NOT the child's fault.\nThere are a number of things that can cause bedwetting, although the exact cause of a specific child's enuresis will likely ALWAYS remain unknown.\nMy child is 12, and still wets the bed. Around age 8 he nearly had it BEAT, but his father had a bladder infection that ended up getting into his blood stream, (Sepsis) and it nearly killed him. The week after we came home from the hospital (we stayed in the hospital with him... neither of us wanted to leave his side) he started wetting nightly. And it never stopped.\nMany doctors will suggest MANY ways to help this...\nPositive reinforcement of the child. Using sticker charts to mark dry nights. It is widely known that any sort of negative response is only detrimental to the child's emotional wellbeing and future success with nighttime wetting.\nNo drinks at least 1 hour prior to bedtime. If this doesn't help at all, then it's not really necessary. If a child needs a drink for comfort, then it's important not to deny them.\nNO caffeine drinks before bed. This is important either way. The effects that caffeine has on a child's system are multiple and harmful. Its wise to not allow young children to consume caffeinated beverages ANY time.\nBladder training is another go to. It can help increase the bladder size, and the child's ability to identify when they have to urinate. There are conflicting ways to accomplish this... One way suggests you have your child urinate EVERY 2 hours while they're awake. Even if they feel like they can't go, even just a few drops. This get's the brain trained to know to expect urination every 2 hours. While they're sleep, after a while, it is meant to help them wake to complete this training.\nThe other way is meant to help increase the actual size and capacity of the bladder. Similar to how a competitive eater would increase their stomach size, it is done by having the child wait as long as they can to urinate, to allow the bladder to get full. Continuing to do this regularly would increase the size.\nNext is medications (prescribed by urologist)\nFinally, and so far, the only real option that has helped at all so far, use of a night time alarm.\nAlarms usually attach by Velcro around the arm (similar to the way you would have an mp3 while running) with a waterproof tube and sensor at the end of the tube. The sensor is put inside the underwear or diaper, and at the FIRST sense of wetness, the alarm goes off. Once the child wakes, they can then go to the bathroom and finish urinating. Eventually, through constant use, the child will recognize when they have to use the bathroom and wake up. The same way the rest of us do.\nI tried EVERYTHING to help my child not wet. We used to wake him up multiple times every night, to have him go pee. It worked... sort of. But its not realistic to expect us to be up every night to wake him up. And as he's gotten older, we no longer sleep in the same room, so it is harder still.\nHe also has gotten 10x harder to wake! But the alarm is loud enough that it does.\nIt wakes him up as soon as he gets a slight bit wet. It helps him to get up and finish urinating, and he can go straight back to sleep.\nThere is still some medical things we need to look at.. He doesn't seem to empty his bladder 100%, which can also contribute to enuresis. I love our alarm, and highly suggest this one, but if your child is continuing to wet the bed well into elementary school and middle school, your child should be seen by a urologist. You can easily get a referral for one.\nTo end, here are a few statistics...\n15% of five-year-olds, or around 3-4 children in a first grade class, are not dry every night.\n85% of children eventually outgrow bedwetting without treatment.\nIn the teenage years, only 2%-5% of children continue to wet their bed.\nBedwetting boys outnumber girls by a ratio of 4 to 1.\nLabels: alarm, bedwetting, child, help, medication, pee, special needs, statistics, urinate, urinating\nw1k7x1r7\nIn the market for a new fitness watch?\nI recently decided it was time to buy a new tracking watch. You've seen plenty...they go by many names. 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I'm sure you will agree that the workmanship is exquisite ~ and remember this is wood ~ and 1/144th scale!!!\nAll my models are 99% wood, mainly balsa wood, although I have recently started to use bass wood for some components. Each component is made separately, there is obviously no question of carving a complete aircraft from one piece of wood.\nThe fuselage, engine nacelles and any of the 'bulkier component are made from balsa, this wood carves and sands easily. Wings, tail planes, fins, and other 'flatter' components are constructed using basswood, it is easier to obtain a flat smooth surface on this wood. Propellers are made in basswood because greater detail can be carved into the harder wood. 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(Take a romantic lead, Denzel! Do it!)\nSafe House doesn\u2019t waste any time getting started, with people getting shot and chased through the streets within its first 10 minutes. Because of the fast pace, I was a little worried I wasn\u2019t actually following the plot well, wondering who the hell it was Frost was meeting with, what he was buying, and who it was that wanted to kill him.\nTurns out, the plot is a lot simpler than it first appears to be, and this lack of complexity is actually a bit disappointing. What Frost is in possession of, and what it can mean to the world\u2019s defense and investigative agencies is massive. How the movie handles it isn\u2019t. Political implications and ramifications are not the goal here; kicking ass and chasing cars is.\nAnd indeed there is more face punching going on in this thing than there is in many of the Rocky movies. And I\u2019ve got to applaud Ryan Reynolds\u2019s acting here. 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Beyonce snatched them and they\u2019re somewhere blowing in the tumbleweed at NRG stadium. If you know me, you know that I\u2019m a fan of both Jay & Bey, truthfully, I was a fan of Jay-Z first. How crazy is that right? I attended my first Jay-Z concert solo in 2010 Madison Square Garden in New York City, and it was nothing short of amazing. The love the hometown had for the kid from Marcy was inspiring. I mean, he is the greatest rapper alive. *shrugs*\nFast forward a few years, Beyonce fever hit. For years I denied the greatness of Beyonce. I was blinded by loyalty to the other members of Destiny\u2019s Child. I was mad the other girls got kicked out the group and I blamed Matthew and by extension Bey. As a teen, I grew up rocking the DC hits. The first and second albums, \u201cDestiny\u2019s Child\u201d and \u201cWritings On The Wall\u201d were the soundtracks to my LIFE! I was devasted when the group split. I was BIG mad! Somehow I found my way back to reality and reconciled my love for Beyonce and we\u2019ve been besties in my head ever since!\nSo, how was #OTRII, did it live up to the hype, was it better than #OTRI. How was it getting to see Queen B show up and out for her hometown? Let\u2019s just say H-Town got love for the queen! Uh, uh, hunty! It was a show for the ages. It was everything you\u2019d expect from two of the biggest entertainers in the world, who just happen to be married and madly in love with each other. I\u2019ve seen JAY-Z six times in concert, Beyonc\u00e9 five and each show eclipses the previous, this was the mother of all shows. I was unsure if I could be blown away, but those visuals, those vocals, those bars, those outfits, those transitions, that lighting, that moving stage, THE Club Carter section, epic! 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You can't focus your ears like you do your eyes to something visual; you can only pay attention to it more (and to other senses less). It's this reason why sound is the easiest way to subliminally get into a person's head without him or her knowing. And if that sound was meaningful for play? Then it'll not only enrich the experience, but make you remember it well after having played.\nWe should all be aware of how sound is used in movies: Orchestras tell us how to feel at any given moment, regardless of on-screen content. A lack of music lets us know that the current moment is important (or someone is about to appear in the mirror behind the supporting character who's about to die). The hero's gun is always louder than the enemies' guns. All punches and kicks are amplified so you can hear how they feel to the recipient. I could go on, but I wanted to address audio in games.\nHearing Is Fun Again\nGames today look pretty cool. They have a way to go before we finally say, \"Sweet, graphics can no longer improve.\" As for audio, the surface has barely been touched. It's pretty easy to make music for a movie, since that movie will play out identically every time. You can shape the music specifically to make every ounce of the movie stronger through smart sound decisions. Games, however (obviously), will not be the same experience between any two people. This is why it's so much more complicated to create that perfect experience. While one player may get a pretty good string of audio in his playthrough, another may get stuck in an area and hear the same segment loop over itself to the point of disgust. This is why scrolling shmups are the closest to being able to control an environment, as the developers will know exactly where in the level you'll be at any given time.\nSo I'd like to take a closer look (listen?) to some of my favorite levels from shmups I'm sure I've linked to far too often by this point, pointing out areas that help improve the experience through audio. I'm not saying that these following examples are the height of human accomplishment in audible excellence. I'm also not saying that other games never even tried. Most AAA games today have so many fancy audio techniques going on that I'm proud to see (hear?) so much effort being put into something we'll never visualize. However, they're not shmups so I'm not talking about them.\nAs mentioned in that argument for games as art, this segment of the game makes a drastic change from epic synth orchestra to a choir of sadness. It was a perfect switch to cement the fact that the rest of humanity and existence is gone by this point, and only you are left in this world to destroy that which created hatred (spoilers? Seriously, just go play). This is the only one of my examples that is just a looping sample, but in contrast to the rest of the game's soundtrack it makes a deep impact. Also of note is how certain audio motifs from the main theme are still buried within the harmonic schemes heard here, avoiding a complete sense of disconnect.\nESP Galuda II\nThe way the music starts in the first level was actually a selling point for me importing this game for lots of money from Hong Kong. I know this genre of electronic JPop-y music isn't up everyone's alley, but there's some smart stuff going on. The beat doesn't really kick in until the player gets his first powerup. The music takes a breather just as the first large enemy explodes, creating a sense of wonder in what was just accomplished. The finale of the piece doesn't conclude until the player has finished off the miniboss. The most complex portion of the music starts when the screen floods with enemies/bullets for the first time. All of these cues to the gameplay hidden in the audio have been a staple of Cave's games in recent years, so not only do these practices exist throughout the rest of this game, but they can be found in almost everything they've put out in the last 10 years.\nThis one is just weird. Though to be fair, this is a game centered around Halloween and general ghosts, ghouls, and goblins. The final boss, closely resembling Death (complete with scythe), is accompanied by Bach's Toccata and Fugue in D minor. The song has always been an icon of grim times, so it's no surprise that it's used here. I'm only pointing this out because the rest of the game's soundtrack was totally original in composition. This kind of took a gamble to break the 4th wall and remind you that these developers have been doing homework and researching how to make your experience better. And I know this has been done many times in games over the decades, even with this piece in particular. I'm just saying it worked well. It made the experience creepy. It's possible they tried to create something original, but similar to Bach's piece, failed, and just used his since it's in public domain now. Either way, it successfully creates the perfect mood against a pretty menacing final boss.\nI would have to say that all of Ikaruga's tracks are beautifully composed to match the experience going on. The music here not only helps to enforce emotional connections to what's going on, but also plays a vital role in providing cues for when certain patterns are going to appear (for score hounds like me, naturally). This level is by far the most complex (visually), and the score here does an excellent job of capturing that chaotic nature of movement, interaction, frustration, and hopefully success.\nSo the next time you recall a game you love, try thinking about the music that went along with it. It's likely you'll immediately be whistling main themes and boss battles. This is not only because you heard them so many times, but because you enjoyed those experiences. You've heard a lot of annoying commercials in your life, many times, but to ask you to recall their jingles would be a little more difficult (thank goodness).\nAnd the next time you play a game, don't bother paying any more attention to the audio than you already do. After all, it's supposed to be transparent. It's likely you won't even be able to spot the best uses of the medium. 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This section outlines some of the key issues that are faced by couples and individuals when going through the separation and divorce process. It is a time of incredible stress and anxiety and grief for everyone and unfortunately society deems it a taboo topic. Most people going through a divorce are left on their own to cope with the aftermath. It\u2019s not that your friends don\u2019t care, it\u2019s just that they don\u2019t know how to approach you and what to say. They are unsure how to act and to behave.\nIn the lead up to separating from my husband, I experienced incredible anxiety. I did not know how I would financially survive, and I knew that I would be the main provider of care for our children. I believe that the years following my separation and divorce exposed me to many invaluable tools, and I want to share them with you.\nGetting divorced is one of those times in your life when you feel as though you are experiencing every emotion that exists. 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This is partly because of its superior size, but chiefly because of the extraordinary skill\nof workmanship which it displays\u2026nevertheless the majority of visitors simply walk right past the\nGreat Pyramid, to admire the Sphinx instead. As usual, the \u201cIdol\u201d receives the most attention and\nworship. True they are no doubt impressed by the immense size of the Great Pyramid; but\neverything there bespeaks of toil and labor, and thus comparatively few ascend to its summit; fewer\nstill venture within, and even of the few who do most of these are totally oblivious to the true\nsignificance of its interior passages.\u201d (Great Pyramid Passages Pages 17 and 140)\nIt should be noted that the foregoing remarks were made by the author back in 1909, and that even\nwith the increase of knowledge and understanding which we have today in regards to the Great\nPyramid and its true significance the majority of visitors to the pyramids are still oblivious still more\nfascinated with the Sphinx and the second pyramid as is evidenced in the many photos taken of the\npyramids many of which erroneously make it appear as though the second pyramid was the largest\nof the three and of prime importance, this fact can easily be seen for yourself just type in \u201cthe great\npyramid\u201d in your search engine and then click on images, you will see for yourself what the focal\npoint of interest is.\nIf only they knew what they were missing, that one day not too far into the future the pyramid\nwhich they overlooked, which they deemed unseemly (rough and unattractive), but for its immense\nsize nothing of particular interest would be the one restored to its previous glory memorialized for all\neternity as a monument to the Lord and to the Divine Plan of the Ages. The Sphinx and other\npyramids mere idols, man-made attempts to glorify men rather than God brought to dust and long\n\u201cHowever true it may be that some, if not all, of the smaller pyramids were originally built to be used\nas tombs it is certain that this was never the case with regards to the Great Pyramid, that while\nconstructed by men, even as the Bible was nevertheless of Divine origin or intention, erected for the\npurpose of teaching the important truth of God\u2019s infinite wisdom and foreknowledge. The\nfirst to propose and prove this view was John Taylor of London in a book published in 1859 A.D. and\nentitled The Great Pyramid: Why Was It Built? And Who Built It? What convinced him were\nmainly the many important scientific truths which he found to be embodied in this wonderful\nBefore his death, John Taylor requested Professor C. Piazzi Smyth, at that time Astronomer Royal\nfor Scotland, to go to Egypt and make a thorough scientific examination of the Great Pyramid. This\nProfessor Smyth did during the winter 1864-5. In his Life and Work at the Great Pyramid, He has\nleft on record minute measurements of every important part of the structure, except, on the exterior,\nthe few remaining casing-stones, and, in the interior, the Subterranean Chamber or Pit, and the lower\nthree-fourths of the Descending Passage. Large accumulations of rubbish prevented him (at the time)\nfrom exploring these portions. With the exception of minute fractional differences in certain parts,\nthese measurements have since been confirmed by other scientific investigators, prominent among\nwho is Professor Flinders Petrie, in spite of the fact that he ridicules the various scientific and\nreligious theories warmly advocated by Professor Smyth.\nConsequent upon the work of Professor Smyth, many able minds have been awakened to search into\nthe various problems presented by the Great Pyramid. Some of these investigators have claimed\nnot only that it embodies great scientific truths, but also that it sets forth symbolically and by\nmeasurement the Divine plan of salvation-that, in fact, it is Messianic. Among the supporters of\nthis view Professor Smyth himself; but the chief one has been C. T. Russell, Pastor of Brooklyn\nTabernacle, N.Y. Previous to his study of the Great Pyramid, he had discovered many wonderful truths\nin the Scriptures regarding the plan of salvation, truths which reveal the harmonious co-operation of\nDivine wisdom, justice, love and power, and therefore exalted his conception of the character and\npurposes of the creator and sustainer of the universe. With his mind clarified by the knowledge\nthus gained, he was enabled to discover symbolic and prophetic features in the Great\nPyramid, which had necessarily been hidden from previous Pyramid students.\u201d (Great\nPyramid Passages Pages 12-17)\nThe Symbolism of the Great Pyramid\nBesides the many scientific truths now known to be embodied in the Great Pyramid, many of which are\nwell known, still other truths are taught by this \"Miracle in Stone.\" Symbolically, each passage and\nchamber in the monument represents some essential feature in the Lord\u2019s Plan of the Ages:\u2014\n1) The Descending Passage: The course of this \"Present Evil World\" a road to destruction.\n2) The Subterranean Chamber: Representative of the Destruction which terminates not only the\neternal destruction or demise of the unsaved but likewise the final destruction of the present evil\nsystems. This chamber is likewise known as the \"Bottomless Pit.\"\n3) The First Ascending Passage: Representative of the Law Age, during which time the nation of\nIsrael endeavored to gain life by the works of the Law.\n4) The Granite Plug: blocking the way up the First Ascending Passage: The perfect Divine Law of\nGod, rendering the \"way which was ordained to life\" impassable.\n5) The Grand Gallery: Representative of the Gospel Age, during which time the High-Calling to\nmembership in the Body of Christ is offered to the faithful.\n6) The Ante-Chamber: The \"Holy\" of the Tabernacle; the \"School of Christ\"; the spirit-begotten\ncondition of those who have presented their bodies a living sacrifice to God.\n7) The King\u2019s Chamber: The \"Most Holy\" of the Tabernacle; the \"Sanctuary\"; the Divine spirit\nnature of Christ and His body-members; the Kingdom of Christ.\n8) The Queen\u2019s Chamber: The condition of Human Perfection, as possessed by Adam prior to his\nfall; and by the \"Man Christ Jesus\" at His first advent when He came to lay down His life as the\nSavior of Mankind, and Redeemer of Israel; and which will again be the possession of the human race\nwhen Restitution is complete (Acts 3:19-21).\n9) The Horizontal Passage: leading to the Queen\u2019s Chamber: The complete period of the world\u2019s\nhistory from the time of Adam to the end of Christ\u2019s Millennial reign, when all will have attained perfect\nhuman life, the condition symbolized by the Queen\u2019s Chamber to which the passage leads. Also\nrepresentative of the New (Law) Covenant, made operative when Israel\u2019s \"blindness in part\" is\nturned away from them.\n10) The Well-shaft: Representative of the Ransom-sacrifice of Jesus Christ, thus providing a \"way\nof escape\" from the death-doomed conditions of the world represented by the Descending Passage.\nAs the central theme of the Bible is the sacrificial death, and the resurrection, of Jesus Christ, so the\nWell-shaft in the Great Pyramid is the \"key\" which opens the true teaching of the building\u2019s\nentire passage and chamber system. As a Bible without the doctrine of the Ransom-sacrifice of\nChrist would be useless to a world in need of a Savior (Rom 4:25; 2Co 5:14, 15), so the Pyramid\nwithout its Well-shaft would be meaningless. The Well-shaft, therefore, is an important part of the\noriginal design of the building; as, indeed, is proved by the arrangement of the Grand Gallery\u2019s\nmasonry in the region of the shaft\u2019s upper mouth.\n11) The Plane of Human Perfection: Represented in the Great Pyramid by the produced level of the\nfloor-line of the Queen\u2019s Chamber.\nBiblical Times and Seasons: The absolute agreement of the inch-lengths of the various passage-\nways in the Great Pyramid with the years of the chronological periods, both sacred and secular, is one\nof the Pyramid\u2019s most remarkable features. 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This item can be shipped worldwide.", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00240.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 11, + "original_length": 1019, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.94, + "perplexity": 148.9, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "http://simo-blower.com/about/Company-History.html", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T04:34:21Z", + "digest": "sha1:3PXC7WIWYWXB3BM3P7DHRE3U2U52FBW5", + "length": 4594, + "nlines": 24, + "source_domain": "simo-blower.com", + "title": "Company History", + "raw_content": "You Are Here : Home > About us > Company History\nIn 1955, the predecessor at the earliest of Xinxiang SIMO Blower Limited company ----Xinxiang General Machinery Factory established. Which is invested by Chinese government, mainly engaged in government appointed general machinery equipment design\u3001manufacturing and mending service. Industrial fans is one of the many products at the time.\nIn 1962, start into the batch to undertake industrial fan manufacturing orders issued by the government.\nIn 1970, the first site of industrial fan performance testing system is established.\nIn 1972, industrial fan has become the main products of the enterprise. Company began to a large number of projects involving large investment by the Chinese government and foreign aid industrial projects.\nIn 1983, company changed its name to Xinxiang Blower Factory, the Chinese government is still the only owner .\nIn 1984, accepted the invitation of government, taking part in the setting of Chinese multiple industrial fan technology standards.\nIn 1986, accepted the delegation of government, according to the latest technical standards to finished technology upgrades and design standardization for more than ten kinds of fans.\nIn 1989, Beijing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics provide technical support and with the government investment, China's most advanced fan performance testing system is built. And then to be designated as the Chinese government's fan performance testing certification bodies.\nTo be invited to join the China General Machinery Industry Association(CGMA), become the one of the founding members of CGMA.\nIn 1992, undertook the biggest fan procurement projects of China, which is 8000 sets grain depot special centrifugal fans.\nIn 1995, made the first new type of centrifugal fan product patent in China. This product with advanced performance and good energy saving effect, in the five years after comprehensive instead of roots blower used in cement industry in China before.\nIn 1996, with the support of the government, trying to restructure the business with a local power plant and a water pump factory. But after the invest a large amount of money and energy, restructuring fails.\nn 2006, Chinese government sold the enterprise to the China's third largest motor manufacturing at that time---Xi'an SIMO Motor co,LTD. And the enterprise changed its name to Xinxiang SIMO Blower co,LTD. The government officially retired from the enterprise of capital.\nIn 2007, the company from loss to profit.\nIn 2008, company sales growth of more than 100%, the company began construction for the new site.\nIn 2009, the company's new factory built and finished the relocation, and get the A grade quality credit certificate which awarded by government.\nIn 2010, won the government quality prize. And obtain the import and export rights, get rid of the dependence on import and export trading company, to provide products and service directly to customers outside of China.\nIn 2011, Beijing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics provide technical support and with the government investment, the third generation of fan performance testing system is established. And the designated government fan performance testing certification bodies again. The export sales growth fast, annual exports more than 600 units. Products sales to Europe, the Middle East, Africa, Southeast Asia, South Korea. Company sales growth of more than 100% again, as in central China's largest industrial fan manufacturers.\nIn 2012, export sales continue to maintain rapid growth, products enter the American market successfully, and passed the scene of the customers in the use of performance testing.\nIn 2013,SIMO BLOWER won the award for the provincial technology center of enterprise. Export sale of more than 20 million yuan, the international market has expand to eastern Europe and South America. In Russia's large steel plant project, 8 sets large fan that impeller diameter of more than 2500 mm one-time acceptance successfully, which opened up the export model of heavy duty fan successfully.\nIn 2014, SIMO BLOWER general manager won the award for ten outstanding young entrepreneurs that contribute to economic development, also, SIMO centrifugal fan achieved CE certification and obtain the qualification for European market.\nIn 2015, facing with the new trend,SIMO actively deployed and relocate market. 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In addition, if you eat anything that contains tomato products in it, it comes from our in-house oven roasted fresh tomatoes.\nNo processed lunch meat in this kitchen. Only fresh baked turkey breast and ham. All chicken salad is hand pulled, and our tuna salad, egg salad, potato salad and cole slaw is made, of course, in house and from scratch.\nNo food service trucks make deliveries here. We go to the Farmer\u2019s Market 3 to 4 times each week to shop for produce. We have fresh chicken delivered from the farm and use a local meat market for all our other meats. We hand shop for items here, using local companies as often we can.\nThe reason for all of this is that we want to ensure the quality and freshness of the end product we deliver to you!\nSara Mangham, or Sally as she\u2019s known to many, has spent the better part of 20 years making cookies and goodie baskets for family, friends and business clients. Every year, she\u2019d make between 50 and 100 baskets as Christmas gifts \u2013 to be given as a token to those who had always been supportive of them. It was a gift that was given to someone from the heart. No need to \u201creturn the favor\u201d just to enjoy.\n\u201cYour cookies are so good, you need to be selling them\u201d\nKnowing that cookies wouldn\u2019t completely support them, she relied on something else she knew quite well \u2013 how to cook. Her family had spent years traveling up and down the East Coast, following their middle daughter\u2019s competitive go-kart racing, and during those travels, the camping stove was set up and meals were prepared at the track. Those meals were not just for her family, but the friends they had made during their travels who became their \u201cextended\u201d family.\nSurely one can open a restaurant if one can cook for 50 people on a three-burner camping stove, right? With that belief, and the support of James, her husband of 30 years, and along with their three daughters and soon to be son-in-law, they accepted the challenge together. What was not known was how much of an adventure this would turn out to be.\nHer philosophy is simple. Good food doesn\u2019t have to be complicated \u2013 and the best \u201cthings\u201d in life are those that are given from the heart, no matter what it is.\nFamily comes in many forms. Those that share a bloodline and those that just happen to be fortunate enough to be in one another\u2019s lives on a daily basis. Our family consist of James and Sara, daughter Meghann and her husband Joshua, and daughters Kaitlin and Kelsey.\nIn spite of both having full time jobs throughout the years while their children were growing up, James and Sally put an emphasis on making sure that an evening family meal was shared together. Whether it was just the five of them, or a crew that included \u201cextras\u201d that happened to be there around dinner time, the family table was the heart of the home.\nOur hope is that with our food \u2013 often times made from a decades old recipe \u2013 will evoke the memories of a simpler life that you may remember. Maybe it\u2019s a time around your Grandmother\u2019s table or a holiday dinner at your favorite Aunt\u2019s house, time spent with family and filled with memories that will bring a smile to your face and a warm spot in your heart.\nCome be a part of our family. We believe that there\u2019s always room for more.\nYou won\u2019t see \u201cartwork\u201d on our walls here in the restaurant. You\u2019ll see pictures of our family, both present and past. 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If I were a Christian, I think that would leave me feeling just a little annoyed.\nSince I posted this review, the entry has been changed, and the Qur'an is now also listed as being by \"Anonymous\"!\nWell, whoever did that is a braver man or woman than I am. I admire your chutzpah. So to speak.\nAnd now it's \"Allah\" again!\nMy impression is that the Muslims and the Infidels are pretty evenly matched here. Looks like it'll be a close game.\nMere days later, and now we're back to \"Anonymous\"!\nI'm particularly impressed by the good sportsmanship both sides are displaying. Who says a religious war can't be carried out in a civilized and courteous manner?\nIn a surprise move, the author has now been changed yet again to 'ALLAH \"the creator\" (As believed in Islam)'. Match that if you can, Infidels!\n\"Anonymous\" once more, but to be honest it seems rather unimaginative. Come on, Infidels, you can come up with something better than this, can't you? What would Dawkins do?\nBack to \"Allah\" again. I clicked on His page and was immediately confronted with some interesting options. I could become a fan! (I was surprised to see that Allah didn't have any fans. Evidently I'd been misinformed). I was also asked if He had a blog, and on reading further discovered thatAs a librarian, you can create a blog for this author even if they're not on Goodreads by adding the feed URL (Atom or RSS) of a blog they keep elsewhere. This will make summaries of their blog posts available here.Unfortunately, I don't know of any blog kept by Allah, but if I discover one I'll make sure I use this feature.\nOh, and by the way He doesn't have any upcoming events either. Is this correct, or merely a reflection of the fact that He exists outside of space and time?\nHo hum... \"Anonymous\" is back. He/she has written a whole lot more books than Allah, but also lacks fans. Well, that's one thing they have in common...\nFlash update: the author has now been changed to \"God\"!\nThis boldly ecumenical move impresses me. God, I learn from His Homepage, is the author not only of the Quran but also of The Gospels of Jesus (KJV) with Search Every Verse Navigation, Optimized for E-Readers, where He is credited as the author and King James as the translator. He has not written any other books. Well, I've never pretended to understand theology, but I recognize new thinking when I see it. I hope someone more competent than I am is already preparing an exegesis.\nThe page ends with the following rather intriguing prayer:Is this you? Let us know. If not, help out and invite God to Goodreads._________________________________________\nI'm disappointed to say that we've now got \"Anonymous\" again. Whoever did that should be ashamed of themselves. \"God\" was inspired, this is just dull.\nWhat other possible candidates could there be? Muhammad (PBUH)? The Angel Gabriel? Abu Bakr? Muhammad (PBUH), Bakr, Uthman and Hafsa? We need some fresh ideas here.\nAfter several months of inactivity, we have another change, but it was worth waiting for: \"All\u00e2h (God Almighty)\".\nBrilliant! Isn't that circumflex just to die for?\nThe Infidels, with their characteristic rapier wit, have changed the author back to \"Anonymous\". Sorry, but I am not impressed. And don't give me that Goodreads Policy crap. Plenty of holy books are not listed as being by Anonymous, for example The Book of Mormon and The Gospel of the Flying Spaghetti Monster.\nI look forward to seeing the Muslims' next move - I think they have the initiative.\nThe Muslims score again with \"ALLAH\" (all caps), who has also written Study the Noble Qur'an Word-for-Word Volume 2 and Study the Noble Qur'an Word-for-Word Volume 3. Mysteriously, there is no Volume 1. ALLAH has three quotes, of which the first is \"\u0644\u0627 \u0625\u0644\u0647 \u0625\u0644\u0627 \u0627\u0644\u0644\u0647 \u0645\u062d\u0645\u062f \u0631\u0633\u0648\u0644 \u0627\u0644\u0644\" (\"There is no god but ALLAH and Mohammad is his prophet\").\nNow that's class. Okay, Infidels, let's see if you can change the author to something that's not yet another \"Anonymous\". I dare you. I double dare you.\nBoo! A few days later, and \"Anonymous\" is back. Honestly, it's enough to make you want to convert to Islam.\nAllah has returned again, but in a confusingly different form! This time, I found He was only the author of the Qur'an and had two fans, Nabila and Tarek. I decided that it was prudent to become a fan as well.\nI checked to see which authors were like Allah, and was startled to see that the list included Alexandre Dumas and Italo Calvino. I'm sure it's greatly to their credit.\nThat didn't last long. Notgettingenough, whose opinions I greatly respect, felt that it was inappropriate for me to be a fan of Allah. On reconsideration, I agree with her. I have cancelled my brief fanship and hope that both parties will understand it was an honest mistake.\nThe Infidels only have one idea, and here it is again. Sigh...\nThe Muslims are back, and score another fine goal with \"\u0627\u0644\u0644\u0647\". That's \"Allah\" in Arabic script for all you people who can't be bothered to check it on Google Translate.\nContrary to what certain skeptics may say, religious belief appears to give you imagination. Go Islam! !\u0627\u0644\u0644\u0647 \u0623\u0643\u0628\u0631\nWithout waiting for the Infidels to reply, the Muslims score again with \"\u0627\u0644\u0644\u0647 \u062c\u0644\u064e\u0651 \u062c\u0644\u0627\u0644\u0647\". The person responsible has even created a cool avatar for His homepage. Nice work!\nAdmit it, Infidels: you have been comprehensively outplayed here. The classiest thing to do would be to have some suitable representative come forward and formally concede. That might at least win you back some respect.\nThe Infidels refuse to admit defeat, and come back for the ninth time (I counted) with the single move they know how to make. Though, confusingly, the title of the book is now given only in Arabic script.\nIf it's an attempt at a compromise solution, I very much doubt that the Muslims will buy it. Watch this space.\nI presume that the Infidels' peace overture was scornfully rejected. They have retaliated by changing the title to Roman script only, even removing the apostrophe.\nCheeky! This flagrantly provocative gesture will surely not go unpunished.\nAfter 40 days of inactivity (significant or what?) the Muslims strike back with another \"Allah\". I suspect that the move is deeper than it looks, since His new homepage contains a long quote in Arabic referring to several passages in the Qur'an. Maybe someone better acquainted with these matters can explain it to the rest of us?\nA little more than a day later, it's \"Anonymous\" again.\nI think the Infidels have a home side advantage here, which makes me admire the brave and resourceful Muslim hackers all the more. Come on Islam! You can beat those security measures!\n\"Allah\" has returned, and this time after only 21 days away! It looks like the Muslims have recovered from their unexpected loss of form.\nNow, the question is how long they can keep possession. Both sides are demonstrating extraordinary tenacity in this long-drawn-out conflict! Quite inspiring to all us wishy-washy agnostics sitting on the sidelines...\nThe pattern from last time repeats: \"Allah\" lasts less than a day, and is quickly set back to \"Anonymous\".\nIt's no good making excuses any more. The romantic in me wants the exciting, creative Muslims to win, but the facts are more than obvious: however they've managed it, the grimly humorless Infidels have taken their game to a new level. Over the last couple of months, they've been in charge 95% of the time.\nMuslims, you need to figure out what the Infidels are doing and stop them. It's as simple as that.\nI was about to despair, but Allah is back! Though I am surprised to see that He still only has two fans, the ever-faithful Nabila and Tarek. Truly, their reward will be great.\nI do wonder what thoughts Amazon have on this vital question. Which way could the different options push sales in the Muslim world? I imagine they have top analysts crunching the numbers as I write.\nIncredible but true: the Infidels have finally come up with a new idea! The author of the Qur'an is now given as \"A\".\nWho is A, I hear you ask? I haven't the slightest notion. The one slim lead we're given is that A has also co-authored Jamba Juice Power with Kirk Perron - possibly a minor prophet, but, to be honest, I'm clutching at straws here.\nI don't dare predict what might happen next. Stay tuned.\n\"A\" lasted mere hours, and now it's Allah again. For people who haven't yet looked at His Homepage, there is some interesting theological information:\ninfluences: Almighty Yahweh, Jesus Christ\nOh, and He has now acquired a third fan, Esraa.\nMJ claims to have tracked down the hackers. Kyle, Fil and Zain (if you are indeed the people responsible), please take a bow!\nAn hour after the post above, Abbey and Amritorupa swear that the author was briefly changed to \"A Nonny Mouse\" - but it only lasted a few minutes before reverting to Allah.\nI have never seen so much activity. Has a fatwa been issued? Are Amazon hoping to boost sales of the new Q'indle?\nAnd another hour later, it's Anonymous.\nWhatever is going on? Is it the end of the world? I have consulted the Book of Revelation, but all I can find is 22:10:And he saith unto me, Seal not the sayings of the prophecy of this book: for the time is at hand.I suppose that may be a warning against blocking changes to authorship attributions on Goodreads, but I'm not at all sure.\nYesterday, I started reading Richard Burton's translation of the Arabian Nights, and this morning I see that Allah has returned! I must quote Burton's wonderful opening lines:PRAISE BE TO ALLAH - THE BENEFICENT KING - THE CREATOR OF THE UNIVERSE - LORD OF THE THREE WORLDS - WHO SET UP THE FIRMAMENT WITHOUT PILLARS IN ITS STEAD - AND WHO STRETCHED OUT THE EARTH EVEN AS A BED - AND GRACE, AND PRAYER-BLESSING BE UPON OUR LORD MOHAMMED - LORD OF APOSTOLIC MEN - AND UPON HIS FAMILY AND COMPANION TRAIN -PRAYER AND BLESSINGS ENDURING AND GRACE WHICH UNTO THE DAY OF DOOM SHALL REMAIN - AMEN! - O THOU OF THE THREE WORLDS SOVEREIGN!I was a bit puzzled by the bed, but after a couple of chapters realized that it must be a \"carpet-bed\", presumably some kind of Middle Eastern futon. Just in case you were also wondering.\nThe Muslims are having a good week, and Allah (the most merciful, the most magnificent) is now in correct Arabic script again! If you cut and paste into Google Translate and click on the loudspeaker icon, you can even hear how it's pronounced.\nThere is no Majesty and there is no Might save in Allah the Glorious, the Great! (I understand from Richard Burton that this is the polite Islamic equivalent of our own \"Jesus H. Christ!\") We're back to Anonymous.\nCome on Infidels, you're boring us all to death. But I just know you can do better. Raise your game and make your fellow-atheists proud of their lack of belief!\nAllah has returned to Goodreads, and has yet again reorganized His homepage! The opening at any rate looks familiar:\nBut a little further down, I found this:\nI'm sorry, it's more responsibility than I can handle. Someone else will have to take care of it.\nAnd the new author is A... a... a... nonymous. Don't know why, but I just can't stop yawning today. Must have stayed up too late or something.\nLooking at the Librarian Edits Page is almost scary. While I was asleep, the author was first changed to \"\u0643\u0644\u0627\u0645 \u0627\u0644\u0644\u0647 \u062c\u0645\u0639\u0647 \u0639\u062b\u0645\u0627\u0646 \u0628\u0646 \u0639\u0641\u0627\u0646\" by Wafa, and then to \"Allah \u0627\u0644\u0644\u0647\" by Anwaar. All in all, there are 87 pages of edits.\nI hope someone is archiving this priceless cultural document, which surely contains enough material for at least two doctoral dissertations...\nAn hour later, it's briefly flipped back to \"Anonymous\" before changing yet again to \"'\u0627\u0644\u0644\u0647 aka Allah\", and we're now up to 89 pages of edits.\nI see it's going to be Another Of Those Days. I should have guessed as much when I saw on Yahoo News that a two-headed calf had been born, a rain of frogs had occurred, and Lady Gaga had been photographed wearing a sensible outfit with flat shoes...\nIt's all I can do to keep up. Since it'll probably change even before I've finished posting, here's a screenshot I saved from the current version of Allah's Homepage:\nBack to Anonymous. Though now I don't know who to root for, since it appears that some Infidels have started ironically supporting Allah. I wish theology was less confusing.\nAllah has returned once more! I immediately click to His new Homepage, and find a book ad with the title Earth Is In Dire Trouble.\nJust a coincidence, I suppose.\nAlhamdulillah! (\u0627\u0644\u062d\u0645\u062f \u0644\u0644\u0647\u200e; one of the many useful expressions I have learned from Richard Burton). The Infidels once again change the author to Anonymous, but Islam's ever-vigilant cyberwarriors immediately change it back, even using \"Allah Almighty\" to show that they, at least, possess imagination and a sense of fun.\nI apologize to my atheist friends for my obvious partiality, mais c'est plus fort que moi.\n(after taking a break from my reporting duties)\nALLAH (ALL-CAPS) IS BACK! GABRIEL AND MUHAMMAD (PBUH) ARE ALSO CREDITED! TAKE THAT, INFIDELS!\nAnonymous returns, but with an interesting new twist: he (He?) is now credited as \"Speaker\". In other words, the Qur'an was dictated, not by Allah, but by someone else.\nI do not pretend to understand these theological subtleties at any but the most superficial level. All the same, I feel I should remind the person who made the change that this seems uncomfortably close to the idea which got Mr. Rushdie into so much trouble a few years ago.\nI just stumbled across the Uncyclopedia entry for Anonymous. 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My parents are very very lucky to live in such a great city with these amazing resources.\nTaken from the Memory Care site:\nOur team, physicians and care managers, spend extended time diagnosing and assessing caregiver needs and establishing a comprehensive plan of care for an individual with memory loss. In addition, we are devoted to maintaining the accessibility of our staff to our caregivers to provide effective care management. Families are encouraged to contact us to provide practical assistance with daily problems that arise throughout the course of caring for a loved one with dementia.\nThe population of older adults with memory disorders and their caregivers is often one that falls through the cracks of the traditional medical system and thus is vastly underserved. The traditional medical model does not fully recognize the benefits of services designed to allow families to keep people with dementia at home as long as possible. Since most organizations must rely on the immediate intake of revenue, the cost-saving benefits of keeping a person in their home environment often go unappreciated, not to mention the higher quality of family life that can be achieved.\nMemoryCare\u2122 is the only organization of its kind in Western North Carolina. The staff and Board are dedicated to ensuring the financial sustainability of the organization, so that people with memory disorders and their caregivers have a place to go for help. We desire to keep our services affordable and available to all.\nThis is a huge appointment for us! We have been waiting 10 months and I'm so excited for my family to have this type of support network.\nWhat we will be doing tomorrow is listed below. Say a prayer for us as it will be an intensely emotional but wonderful day!\nThe clinic is consultative and designed to work in concert with primary care physicians. The initial evaluation is extensive and done with family members and other important caregivers present. The clinical portion of the evaluation involves history taking, cognitive testing, and physical examination. The family/caregiver portion of the evaluation involves history taking, education, problem-solving, and direction to necessary resources.\nYou can donate here to Memory Care's Mission.\nMemoryCare\u2122 is a non-profit charitable corporation, established to meet the rapidly growing need for appropriate assessment, treatment, and support for memory-impaired individuals and their families. 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Rajan and Luigi Zingales\nSaving Capitalism from the Capitalists:\nUnleashing the power of financial markets to create wealth and spread opportunity\nIntroduction Capitalism, or more precisely, the free market system, is the most effective way to organize production and distribution that human beings have found. While free markets, particularly free financial markets, fatten peoples\u2019 wallets, they have made surprisingly little inroads into their hearts and minds. Financial markets are among the most highly criticized and least understood parts of the capitalist system. The behavior of those involved in recent scandals like the collapse of Enron only solidifies the public conviction that these markets are simply tools for the rich to get richer at the expense of the general public. Yet, as we argue, healthy and competitive financial markets are an extraordinarily effective tool in spreading opportunity and fighting poverty. Because of their role in financing new ideas, financial markets keep alive the process of \u201ccreative destruction\u201d \u2013 whereby old ideas and organizations are constantly challenged and replaced by new, better, ones. Without vibrant, innovative financial markets, economies would invariably ossify and decline. In the United States, constant financial innovation creates devices to channel risk capital to people with daring ideas. While commonplace here, such financing vehicles are still treated as radical, even in developed countries like Germany. And the situation in third-world countries borders on the hopeless: People find it difficult to get access to even\na few dollars of financing, which would give them the freedom to earn an independent, fulfilling, living. If financial markets bring prosperity, why are they so underdeveloped around the world and why were they repressed, until recently, even in the United States? Throughout its history, the free market system has been held back, not so much by its own economic deficiencies as Marxists would have it, but because of its reliance on political goodwill for its infrastructure. The threat primarily comes from two groups of opponents. The first are incumbents, those who already have an established position in the marketplace and would prefer to see it remain exclusive. The identity of the most dangerous incumbents depends on the country and the time period, but the part has been played at various times by the landed aristocracy, the owners and managers of large corporations, their financiers, and organized labor. The second group of opponents, the distressed, tends to surface in times of economic downturn. Those who have lost out in the process of \u201ccreative destruction\u201d unleashed by markets \u2013 unemployed workers, penniless investors, and bankrupt firms -see no legitimacy in a system where they have been proven losers. They want relief, and since the markets offer them none, they will try the route of politics. The unlikely alliance of the incumbent industrialist \u2013 the capitalist in the title -and the distressed unemployed worker is especially powerful amidst the debris of corporate bankruptcies and layoffs. In an economic downturn, the capitalist is more likely to focus on costs of the competition emanating from free markets than on the opportunities they create. And the unemployed worker will find many others in a similar condition and with similar anxieties to his, which will make it easy for them to organize\ntogether. Using the cover and the political organization provided by the distressed, the capitalist captures the political agenda. For at such times it requires an extremely courageous (or foolhardy) politician to extol the virtues of free markets. 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Which sucks, I called you first because you were my favourite.\nIt turns out I'm not alone. Over 75%* of callers don't bother to leave a message. If they can't speak to a person at your business, they speak to someone at your competitor's. I dread to think about how many customers I've lost to my voicemail.\nThis makes for an impossible conundrum.\nYou can\u2019t be available all of the time, especially when you\u2019re just starting out. Though, at the same time, you really can\u2019t afford to miss a customer.\nThis isn\u2019t a new problem, it\u2019s been solved many times over. The problem is the current solutions are quite expensive and cumbersome. So after a couple of frustrating conversations with other providers, my business partner and I decided to just build a solution ourselves.\nWe built out a tech platform that allows us to provide the same level of service but without the massive infrastructure costs associated with the traditional guys. 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Glendening now has 10 assists on the season.\nFeb. 1 6:49 PM PT7:49 PM MT8:49 PM CT9:49 PM ET2:49 GMT10:49 7:49 PM MST8:49 PM CST9:49 PM EST6:49 UAE (+1)21:49 ETNaN:\ufffd BRT - Luke Glendening had 15:27 of ice time in the Red Wings' 3-2 overtime win over the Maple Leafs on Friday. He took two shots and had a plus-minus of even for the game.\nJan. 22 7:42 PM PT8:42 PM MT9:42 PM CT10:42 PM ET3:42 GMT11:42 8:42 PM MST9:42 PM CST10:42 PM EST7:42 UAE (+1)22:42 ETNaN:\ufffd BRT - Luke Glendening scored two goals in 18:12 of ice time in the Red Wings' 3-2 win over the Oilers on Tuesday. He took four shots and had a plus-minus of +1 for the game. Glendening now has eight goals on the season.\nJan. 20 2:49 PM PT3:49 PM MT4:49 PM CT5:49 PM ET22:49 GMT6:49 3:49 PM MST4:49 PM CST5:49 PM EST2:49 UAE (+1)17:49 ETNaN:\ufffd BRT - Luke Glendening had 14:10 of ice time in the Red Wings' 3-2 loss to the Canucks on Sunday. 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He took three shots and had a plus-minus of -1 for the game.\nJan. 11 6:38 PM PT7:38 PM MT8:38 PM CT9:38 PM ET2:38 GMT10:38 7:38 PM MST8:38 PM CST9:38 PM EST6:38 UAE (+1)21:38 ETNaN:\ufffd BRT - Luke Glendening scored one goal in 14:36 of ice time in the Red Wings' 4-2 loss to the Jets on Friday. He took one shot and had a plus-minus of even for the game. Glendening now has six goals on the season.\nJan. 8 6:12 PM PT7:12 PM MT8:12 PM CT9:12 PM ET2:12 GMT10:12 7:12 PM MST8:12 PM CST9:12 PM EST6:12 UAE (+1)21:12 ETNaN:\ufffd BRT - Luke Glendening had an assist in 15:31 of ice time in the Red Wings' 3-2 loss to the Canadiens on Tuesday. He took five shots and had a plus-minus of -1 for the game. Glendening now has nine assists on the season.\nJan. 6 3:54 PM PT4:54 PM MT5:54 PM CT6:54 PM ET23:54 GMT7:54 4:54 PM MST5:54 PM CST6:54 PM EST3:54 UAE (+1)18:54 ETNaN:\ufffd BRT - Luke Glendening had 16:42 of ice time in the Red Wings' 3-2 loss to the Capitals on Sunday. He didn't take a shot and had a plus-minus of even for the game.\nJan. 4 6:23 PM PT7:23 PM MT8:23 PM CT9:23 PM ET2:23 GMT10:23 7:23 PM MST8:23 PM CST9:23 PM EST6:23 UAE (+1)21:23 ETNaN:\ufffd BRT - Luke Glendening had 15:49 of ice time in the Red Wings' 4-3 overtime win over the Predators on Friday. He took three shots and had a plus-minus of even for the game.\nJan. 2 5:49 PM PT6:49 PM MT7:49 PM CT8:49 PM ET1:49 GMT9:49 6:49 PM MST7:49 PM CST8:49 PM EST5:49 UAE (+1)20:49 ETNaN:\ufffd BRT - Luke Glendening had 15:53 of ice time in the Red Wings' 5-3 loss to the Flames on Wednesday. He took one shot and had a plus-minus of +1 for the game.\nDec. 31 6:37 PM PT7:37 PM MT8:37 PM CT9:37 PM ET2:37 GMT10:37 7:37 PM MST8:37 PM CST9:37 PM EST6:37 UAE (+1)21:37 ETNaN:\ufffd BRT - Luke Glendening had 15:23 of ice time in the Red Wings' 4-3 shootout loss to the Panthers on Monday. He didn't take a shot and had a plus-minus of even for the game.\nDec. 29 6:57 PM PT7:57 PM MT8:57 PM CT9:57 PM ET2:57 GMT10:57 7:57 PM MST8:57 PM CST9:57 PM EST6:57 UAE (+1)21:57 ETNaN:\ufffd BRT - Luke Glendening had 13:56 of ice time in the Red Wings' 5-1 loss to the Stars on Saturday. He took one shot and had a plus-minus of even for the game.\nDec. 27 5:41 PM PT6:41 PM MT7:41 PM CT8:41 PM ET1:41 GMT9:41 6:41 PM MST7:41 PM CST8:41 PM EST5:41 UAE (+1)20:41 ETNaN:\ufffd BRT - Luke Glendening had an assist in 15:46 of ice time in the Red Wings' 5-2 loss to the Penguins on Thursday. He took two shots and had a plus-minus of even for the game. Glendening now has eight assists on the season.\nDec. 23 6:17 PM PT7:17 PM MT8:17 PM CT9:17 PM ET2:17 GMT10:17 7:17 PM MST8:17 PM CST9:17 PM EST6:17 UAE (+1)21:17 ETNaN:\ufffd BRT - Luke Glendening had 17:03 of ice time in the Red Wings' 5-4 overtime loss to the Maple Leafs on Sunday. 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He didn't take a shot and had a plus-minus of -1 for the game.\nDec. 10 6:09 PM PT7:09 PM MT8:09 PM CT9:09 PM ET2:09 GMT10:09 7:09 PM MST8:09 PM CST9:09 PM EST6:09 UAE (+1)21:09 ETNaN:\ufffd BRT - Luke Glendening had 16:31 of ice time in the Red Wings' 3-1 win over the Kings on Monday. He took one shot and had a plus-minus of -1 for the game.\nDec. 8 5:52 PM PT6:52 PM MT7:52 PM CT8:52 PM ET1:52 GMT9:52 6:52 PM MST7:52 PM CST8:52 PM EST5:52 UAE (+1)20:52 ETNaN:\ufffd BRT - Luke Glendening had 17:59 of ice time in the Red Wings' 3-2 loss to the Islanders on Saturday. He didn't take a shot and had a plus-minus of even for the game.\nDec. 6 5:54 PM PT6:54 PM MT7:54 PM CT8:54 PM ET1:54 GMT9:54 6:54 PM MST7:54 PM CST8:54 PM EST5:54 UAE (+1)20:54 ETNaN:\ufffd BRT - Luke Glendening scored one goal in 17:04 of ice time in the Red Wings' 5-4 overtime win over the Maple Leafs on Thursday. He took one shot and had a plus-minus of +1 for the game. Glendening now has four goals on the season.\nDec. 4 6:34 PM PT7:34 PM MT8:34 PM CT9:34 PM ET2:34 GMT10:34 7:34 PM MST8:34 PM CST9:34 PM EST6:34 UAE (+1)21:34 ETNaN:\ufffd BRT - Luke Glendening had 16:31 of ice time in the Red Wings' 6-5 shootout loss to the Lightning on Tuesday. He didn't take a shot and had a plus-minus of even for the game.\nDec. 2 5:50 PM PT6:50 PM MT7:50 PM CT8:50 PM ET1:50 GMT9:50 6:50 PM MST7:50 PM CST8:50 PM EST5:50 UAE (+1)20:50 ETNaN:\ufffd BRT - Luke Glendening had 15:12 of ice time in the Red Wings' 2-0 loss to the Avalanche on Sunday. He took two shots and had a plus-minus of even for the game.\nDec. 1 6:01 PM PT7:01 PM MT8:01 PM CT9:01 PM ET2:01 GMT10:01 7:01 PM MST8:01 PM CST9:01 PM EST6:01 UAE (+1)21:01 ETNaN:\ufffd BRT - Luke Glendening had 19:58 of ice time in the Red Wings' 4-2 win over the Bruins on Saturday. He took three shots and had a plus-minus of +1 for the game.\nNov. 28 5:53 PM PT6:53 PM MT7:53 PM CT8:53 PM ET1:53 GMT9:53 6:53 PM MST7:53 PM CST8:53 PM EST5:53 UAE (+1)20:53 ETNaN:\ufffd BRT - Luke Glendening had an assist in 18:02 of ice time in the Red Wings' 4-3 win over the Blues on Wednesday. He took two shots and had a plus-minus of +2 for the game. Glendening now has six assists on the season.\nNov. 26 6:17 PM PT7:17 PM MT8:17 PM CT9:17 PM ET2:17 GMT10:17 7:17 PM MST8:17 PM CST9:17 PM EST6:17 UAE (+1)21:17 ETNaN:\ufffd BRT - Luke Glendening had 15:07 of ice time in the Red Wings' 7-5 loss to the Blue Jackets on Monday. He took two shots and had a plus-minus of -1 for the game.\nNov. 24 6:08 PM PT7:08 PM MT8:08 PM CT9:08 PM ET2:08 GMT10:08 7:08 PM MST8:08 PM CST9:08 PM EST6:08 UAE (+1)21:08 ETNaN:\ufffd BRT - Luke Glendening had 16:35 of ice time in the Red Wings' 3-2 shootout loss to the Sabres on Saturday. 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Glendening now has three goals on the season.\nNov. 15 6:26 PM PT7:26 PM MT8:26 PM CT9:26 PM ET2:26 GMT10:26 7:26 PM MST8:26 PM CST9:26 PM EST6:26 UAE (+1)21:26 ETNaN:\ufffd BRT - Luke Glendening had 16:40 of ice time in the Red Wings' 2-1 loss to the Senators on Thursday. He took two shots and had a plus-minus of even for the game.\nNov. 13 6:27 PM PT7:27 PM MT8:27 PM CT9:27 PM ET2:27 GMT10:27 7:27 PM MST8:27 PM CST9:27 PM EST6:27 UAE (+1)21:27 ETNaN:\ufffd BRT - Luke Glendening scored one goal in 19:26 of ice time in the Red Wings' 6-1 win over the Coyotes on Tuesday. He took one shot and had a plus-minus of +2 for the game. Glendening now has two goals on the season.\nNov. 10 6:01 PM PT7:01 PM MT8:01 PM CT9:01 PM ET2:01 GMT10:01 7:01 PM MST8:01 PM CST9:01 PM EST6:01 UAE (+1)21:01 ETNaN:\ufffd BRT - Luke Glendening had 15:30 of ice time in the Red Wings' 4-3 shootout win over the Hurricanes on Saturday. 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Glendening now has five assists on the season.\nNov. 1 6:31 PM PT7:31 PM MT8:31 PM CT9:31 PM ET1:31 GMT9:31 6:31 PM MST7:31 PM CST8:31 PM EST5:31 UAE (+1)21:31 ETNaN:\ufffd BRT - Luke Glendening had an assist in 16:45 of ice time in the Red Wings' 4-3 win over the Devils on Thursday. He took two shots and had a plus-minus of +2 for the game. Glendening now has four assists on the season.\nOct. 30 5:45 PM PT6:45 PM MT7:45 PM CT8:45 PM ET0:45 GMT8:45 5:45 PM MST6:45 PM CST7:45 PM EST4:45 UAE (+1)20:45 ETNaN:\ufffd BRT - Luke Glendening had 18:12 of ice time in the Red Wings' 5-3 win over the Blue Jackets on Tuesday. He didn't take a shot and had a plus-minus of +2 for the game.\nOct. 28 3:46 PM PT4:46 PM MT5:46 PM CT6:46 PM ET22:46 GMT6:46 3:46 PM MST4:46 PM CST5:46 PM EST2:46 UAE (+1)18:46 ETNaN:\ufffd BRT - Luke Glendening had an assist in 14:39 of ice time in the Red Wings' 4-2 win over the Stars on Sunday. He didn't take a shot and had a plus-minus of +1 for the game. Glendening now has three assists on the season.\nOct. 26 6:12 PM PT7:12 PM MT8:12 PM CT9:12 PM ET1:12 GMT9:12 6:12 PM MST7:12 PM CST8:12 PM EST5:12 UAE (+1)21:12 ETNaN:\ufffd BRT - Luke Glendening had 15:27 of ice time in the Red Wings' 2-1 loss to the Jets on Friday. He didn't take a shot and had a plus-minus of even for the game.\nOct. 22 6:09 PM PT7:09 PM MT8:09 PM CT9:09 PM ET1:09 GMT9:09 6:09 PM MST7:09 PM CST8:09 PM EST5:09 UAE (+1)21:09 ETNaN:\ufffd BRT - Luke Glendening had 14:57 of ice time in the Red Wings' 3-1 loss to the Hurricanes on Monday. He took one shot and had a plus-minus of even for the game.\nOct. 20 6:02 PM PT7:02 PM MT8:02 PM CT9:02 PM ET1:02 GMT9:02 6:02 PM MST7:02 PM CST8:02 PM EST5:02 UAE (+1)21:02 ETNaN:\ufffd BRT - Luke Glendening had 14:49 of ice time in the Red Wings' 4-3 overtime win over the Panthers on Saturday. He took one shot and had a plus-minus of -1 for the game.\nOct. 18 6:24 PM PT7:24 PM MT8:24 PM CT9:24 PM ET1:24 GMT9:24 6:24 PM MST7:24 PM CST8:24 PM EST5:24 UAE (+1)21:24 ETNaN:\ufffd BRT - Luke Glendening scored one goal in 14:29 of ice time in the Red Wings' 3-1 loss to the Lightning on Thursday. He took two shots and had a plus-minus of -1 for the game. Glendening now has one goal on the season.\nOct. 15 6:24 PM PT7:24 PM MT8:24 PM CT9:24 PM ET1:24 GMT9:24 6:24 PM MST7:24 PM CST8:24 PM EST5:24 UAE (+1)21:24 ETNaN:\ufffd BRT - Luke Glendening had an assist in 13:58 of ice time in the Red Wings' 7-3 loss to the Canadiens on Monday. He didn't take a shot and had a plus-minus of -1 for the game. Glendening now has two assists on the season.\nOct. 13 1:57 PM PT2:57 PM MT3:57 PM CT4:57 PM ET20:57 GMT4:57 1:57 PM MST2:57 PM CST3:57 PM EST0:57 UAE (+1)16:57 ETNaN:\ufffd BRT - Luke Glendening had 12:47 of ice time in the Red Wings' 8-2 loss to the Bruins on Saturday. He didn't take a shot and had a plus-minus of even for the game.\nOct. 11 6:20 PM PT7:20 PM MT8:20 PM CT9:20 PM ET1:20 GMT9:20 6:20 PM MST7:20 PM CST8:20 PM EST5:20 UAE (+1)21:20 ETNaN:\ufffd BRT - Luke Glendening had an assist in 12:42 of ice time in the Red Wings' 5-3 loss to the Maple Leafs on Thursday. He took one shot and had a plus-minus of +2 for the game. Glendening now has one assist on the season.\nOct. 9 9:08 PM PT10:08 PM MT11:08 PM CT12:08 AM ET4:08 GMT12:08 9:08 PM MST10:08 PM CST11:08 PM EST8:08 UAE0:08 ETNaN:\ufffd BRT - Luke Glendening had 15:31 of ice time in the Red Wings' 3-2 shootout loss to the Ducks on Monday. He didn't take a shot and had a plus-minus of +1 for the game.\nOct. 8 9:31 PM PT10:31 PM MT11:31 PM CT12:31 AM ET4:31 GMT12:31 9:31 PM MST10:31 PM CST11:31 PM EST8:31 UAE0:31 ETNaN:\ufffd BRT - Luke Glendening had 9:20 of ice time in the Red Wings' 4-2 loss to the Kings on Sunday. 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Further more, July and August, renamed after roman emporers, were originally called \"Quintilis,\" or fifth; and Sextilis, now august, was the sixth month.\nyou can read the article here. and spock said, \"fascinating.\"\nnot a low-key new years for me. i'm going up to vermont to my ski house tomorrow afternoon - my house is hosting a party. new years day and jan 2nd will be spent skiing, and i'll come home in the afternoon on sunday. my wife, unable to come this weekend, will stay home with the baby and have a few of our friends over for midnight.\n\"butt bonging\" ???\nso i was checking out the webstats for my brother's web site just now (and a mighty fine site it is: Turzman Central) and I was looking at what search phrases people entered and then went through his site. There are always a few entertaining ones. Most of them actually happen to come through to my highpointing page that I host on his domain - people search for the name of a mountain or \"highest point appalacians) and they find my page. Others search for something that my brother happened to mention on his blog and come through that way (eg. \"bruce the mechanical shark\" was a search phrase.) but what I don't understand is the bizarre ones that sometimes come through. And what takes the cake so far this month (and it's the end of december) is \"Butt Bonging.\" First of all - what kind of sick freak enters \"butt bonging\" into google? What the hell could he possibly be looking for? Secondly, what in God's name is on my brother's web site that turned up a phrase like \"Butt Bonging\" ?? Explain that to me, will you please?\non a completely different note, today i got to leave work early because they closed the daycare center due to broken heat. yep. the heat was broken when i brought him in the morning and at the time it was \"45 minutes\" till repair, until then the kids would have to stay bundled up inside. not a big deal, and i went to work. that was at 8am. at 10:30am i got the call, and by 11am, three hours later, i was back there to find rufus sitting there all bundled up in a winter suit so bulky he could hardly move. they had him zombified in a swing watching tv. but i got to take a day off work - so i can't complain.\nfinally, i have a complaint (no the other two paragraphs are not complaints - just observations.) wtf. i'm flipping the channels on xmas eve (i watch TV through my computer when i'm bored - no regular tv in my house) and i catch the closing credits to rudy the red nosed reindeer.. at first i was bummed that i missed it, until a horrible realization overrode any emotion other than anger. what, do you ask, is this event that caused such an extreme emotional hijacking? clay-mation rappers. rapping the theme song to \"rudolph the red nose reindeer.\" with straight faces. on network tv. as the closing credits to the show. now granted, i'm not a big fan of this whole russel simmons phenomenon - but i also understand that russel simmons is what the kids are into these days. fine. i can live with it. but why the hell did they have to go and mess with a classic like that? i mean, can you imagine the outcry if they added clay-mation rappers to \"it's a wonderful life??\" when george baily comes home and sees everyone has given him money and got him out of his pickle and they sing together and smile together and this is the best christmas ever and blah blah blah - yes it's a classic scene. now add clay-mation rappers. what have you done? not only have you ruined something by not leaving it alone, you've made a travesty! lets apply that to rudy here. now i grew up on that show. i loved it! the outcast reindeer with the red nose, the outcast elf who wanted to be a dentist, the scary but cute abominible snowman. now while it doesn't star jimmy stewart and isn't from the 40s, it's still a classic in my heart and should not be modified! and russel simmons (or people influenced by him) go in and add clay-mation rappers to the closing credits. what the hell is the world coming to?! leave it alone!\nugh. i hate tv.\nwatched 2\u00bd movies this weekend in my quest for the top 100: the apartment with jack lemmon (great movie), on the waterfront with marlon brando (great movie), and the great escape with a lot of people (probably a great movie, but the netflix DVD was damaged right at the climax of the movie.. what a drag, eh?) I should get the replacement DVD in a day or two - so I can certify that as a great movie as well. In the past month I've also watched Alien, Ran, The Treasure of the Sierra Madre, City of God, and Modern Times. Next up are Annie Hall, High Noon, and Aliens; but first, Ghandi, which is not part of the project. All of these movies I've not seen before. You can check the project status here: 100 movies project.\ncurrently reading HP Lovecraft - Bloodcurling Tales of Horror and the Macabre; The 8th Habit by Stephen Covey; and Emotional Intelligence at Work by Daniel Goleman.\nno posts in a while..\nit's now december. haven't posted since august. interesting. well, not much has been going on. joey is now ten months old, is crawling and can even stand when he's holding on to something. i'm working at some insignificant job, and my brother is a college graduate. that's about it.\ni am actually about to finish a college class - all that is left is to turn in the final paper. 6 pages of typed dibble-dabble and i'm done. this was an experiment to see how well i could do and to try to meet some local people - don't know too many people in the area yet. turns out that the class i took, english 102, was a fascinating class with a very good teacher (who happens to proclaim himself as the most difficult english teacher at the college.) well, he is pretty tough, but he's a very good professor who relates well with the students and has a genuine interest in the subject matter.\nnow that i'm about to pass that class (with a probable A, by the way), i am looking forward to seeing what else i can take. should i return to the EMT course of study, or should i go into a more scientific field? i'm not in this for a degree, per se, but rather to get myself interested in something. seriously. and perhaps to meet some people.\nskiing is going fine, i've only got three days in so far this year, but it's also the busy season at work so that won't be a trend. i'm up to 17 highpoints and have taken on writing a column in the quarterly highpointers club newsletter. other than that, i've got a headache.\nttyl. here's to a shorter lag before my next blog.", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00240.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 264, + "original_length": 15020, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.97, + "perplexity": 322.9, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "http://stjamespresby.org/?page_id=4813&sheet_id=52", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T05:02:11Z", + "digest": "sha1:UDININZPNAJ7EUMSYA3FWK4PUYJXAK3X", + "length": 13, + "nlines": 1, + "source_domain": "stjamespresby.org", + "title": "Schedule M&M Sign Up | Saint James Presbyterian Church | Touching Lives Through Jesus Christ", + "raw_content": "M&M July 2019", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00240.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 446, + "original_length": 8081, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 1.0, + "perplexity": 293.4, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "http://stocknewspress.com/culture/page/360/", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T04:18:53Z", + "digest": "sha1:347DUJV7MNEXCR6NOKBN2UTTPW5NNO5W", + "length": 7265, + "nlines": 42, + "source_domain": "stocknewspress.com", + "title": "Culture / 7", + "raw_content": "Another wrote: \"me trying to find one bad song on #thankunext\" with photos of Ariana squinting her eyes as if looking for something impossible to find. 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It is followed by more banging and door slamming, much closer this time. Eight o\u2019clock isn\u2019t that early, but it is Saturday. I don\u2019t have to go to the rehab center and I had a bad night because of my painful hip. The painkillers I wound up taking in the middle of the night left me groggy. I could have used a couple hours of extra sleep. I eventually get out of bed in a bad mood and go straight to the bathroom to cath. When I look in the mirror I huff in dismay. My face is as pale as a ghost, except for the scar which is reddish from sleeping on my cheek. I have dark circles under my eyes and my hair is as tousled as a scarecrow. In a nutshell, I look like a zombie and that is to be polite. I freshen up a little bit, and with my fingers I try unsuccessfully to untangle my rebellious locks. As I am making some coffee the irritating noise starts again.\nTabernac! Here is another one that comes spontaneously in my mind, especially when I am angry. The closest translation for this would be \u2018for Christ\u2019 sake\u2019 in a moderate slang, \u2018damn it\u2019 in a more extreme way, but definitely \u2018fuck\u2019 as the ultimate curse. Right now the latter would fit best and I decide to go out to check what's going on.\nThe hallway is filled up with furniture on both sides. Someone is moving in and \u2018this\u2019 someone is just across my unit. The door is wide open and the figure of a woman in jeans is sweeping the floor with a lot of energy. Her back is turned and I can only guess she is young and slender. I knock angrily on the open door, \u201cHey! What\u2019s all this mess? People are trying to sleep here! Don\u2019t you know it\u2019s Saturday morning?\u201d\nShe turns around and when she sees me she freezes. Since I am in a wheelchair, needless to say I can have this effect on people most of the time. For once, I don\u2019t see any pity or compassion, not even a hint of discomfort, just a bit of surprise maybe. She is looking right at me, sizing me up from head to toes. As I didn\u2019t even bother to put shoes or socks on, I am talking literally. I can tell she insists on my legs and my wheelchair without even hiding it. She is curious, confident, but more likely\u2026appreciative. Well, that\u2019s my male proud talking here.\nShe seems lost in her thoughts for a few seconds. When she suddenly realizes she is still impolitely staring, she pulls herself together blushing, \u201cDid the noise wake you up?\u201d\nFrom my sleepy eyes and my disheveled hair it isn\u2019t hard to guess.\n\u201cHmm\u2026I thought my bedroom wall was collapsing.\u201d\nShe gives me a sheepish smile. \u201cI\u2019m so sorry. I start a new job on Monday and I had to move in during the week end. As it is not permitted on Sundays, today was my only option. I put a note in the elevator and at the reception, but maybe a bit too late.\u201d\nShe truly seems sorry and embarrassed.\n\u201cWell, I suppose it has to be done one day or another hasn\u2019t it? I\u2019m also sorry for the unfriendly welcoming but I had a bad night.\u201d\nI hold out a hand, \u201cMatthew Vincent, your grumpy neighbor.\u201d\nShe flashes a warm and frank smile at me and I feel an uncommon pang. I haven\u2019t seen such a beautiful and sexy smile in a long time. To be exact, after my accident and the break-up with Melissa, I wasn\u2019t ready or in the mood to pay attention to the womankind anytime soon. She takes my hand, \u201cCassandra Miller, your new and noisy neighbor, but everyone calls me Cassie.\u201d\nI smile, \u201cCassie it will be then.\u201d\nI am now wide awake and in a higher spirit. It is my turn to examine her. Medium height, I would say 5\u20196\u201d, long silky brown hair, lighter than mine and much straighter, a very cute nose, pulpy sexy lips and the most amazing green eyes framed by long dark lashes. She is slim maybe a little too skinny. My mom and my sister\u2019s cooking could arrange that. Now I am being delusional! I didn\u2019t know her two minutes ago and I am already imagining her at my parents\u2019 table. Who am I kidding? I am a cripple in a wheelchair being bound to look up to talk to people. Nonetheless, I feel comfortable with her, liking her casualness and innocent charm. I feel like starting a conversation, \u201cWhere do you work?\u201d\n\u201cClose to the Millennium Park. I am a speech therapist for children. I answered an ad in the Chicago tribune and they hired me. It\u2019s in a pediatrician\u2019s office. They already have psychologists and they needed an extra therapist to help the other one who has a too busy schedule.\u201d\nShe obviously feels like talking as well and with more details than I expected. It arouses my interest and helps me carry on my questioning, \u201cAre you from Chicago?\u201d\n\u201cOh, no. I am originally from Florida but I had to move for\u2026personal reasons.\u201d\n\u201cToo many hurricanes?\u201d\nMy ironic humor comes up short. Suddenly she looks troubled.\n\u201cI\u2019m sorry. I didn\u2019t want to be nosy.\u201d\n\u201cYou are not. It\u2019s just that I needed a change. I broke up with my boyfriend and it was not an easy thing to do. I am the one who took the decision.\u201d\nI think to myself, ah, one thing in common, both back to celibacy, but obviously not for the same reasons.\n\u201cI\u2019m not. I should have done it long ago. He was abusive and violent. I had to file a restraining order and he is still harassing me on the phone. Maybe I\u2019m a coward, but I preferred to leave and start all over again in an another state.\u201d\n\u201cDon\u2019t say that. You don\u2019t look like a weak person to me. It must have been creepy and I can understand you needed to escape from this stressful situation. You made the right move. Welcome to Chicago. I hope you\u2019ll like it here.\u201d\n\u201cI already do. It\u2019s a beautiful city. So active and fast-paced compared to Miami.\u201d\n\u201cWait until winter, you might change your mind. You better be prepared for the cold. It\u2019s going to be a thermal shock for you. I hope you brought warm clothes!\u201d\nHer sexy smile is back, much to my delight.\n\u201cYes and I can\u2019t wait to wear them. And now that I have a nice neighbor I can knock on his door if I need an extra sweater.\u201d\nWhoa! She is audacious now. She told me a lot about her in a short time and I seem to have earned her trust. I intend to answer in the same tone while I am interrupted by the movers who are back with another load. They want to enter the unit, but they are stuck by my wheelchair in the middle of the way, obviously embarrassed to ask me to move. I swiftly roll backwards to free the entrance.\nCassandra is serious again, \u201cI\u2019ll try to make sure they don\u2019t make too much noise and I am sorry for the mess again. It shouldn\u2019t be long now.\u201d\n\u201cDon\u2019t worry. I was being lazy this morning and I had to get up anyway. If you need anything that\u2019s not involving lifting furniture, I\u2019m right across. Call me.\u201d\nI am at my apartment\u2019s door and I don\u2019t know what gets into me, I turn around,\n\u201cWhen you\u2019re all set, why don\u2019t you come and have a cup of coffee with me. I\u2019m sure you\u2019ll need a break after unpacking all those boxes.\u201d\nShe hesitates a few seconds. I guess she is susceptible to my charms, or maybe my wheelchair is making me harmless because she eventually agrees.\nI wait all day with the impatience of a teenage boy. I check my emails, make a few calls, eat junk food in front of the TV and finally doze off on the sofa, sure she isn\u2019t coming. She was just being polite and I was overestimating myself.\nA soft knock on my door startles me. I try to transfer as fast as I can, but my not completely numb thigh starts cramping badly. I shout from the living room, \u201cCome in, it\u2019s open.\u201d\nI am glad to see it\u2019s her. She enters and closes the door behind her.\n\u201cI hope it\u2019s not too late. I\u2019m not done completely but as you rightly assumed, I need a break. Those boxes are driving me crazy and I\u2019m exhausted.\u201d\n\u201cYes, you really look tired. Come and have a seat. I\u2019ll make some fresh coffee or something else if you want.\u201d\n\u201cNo, coffee is fine. Thank you.\u201d\nI am still seated on the edge of the sofa, but half way to my chair, shamefully waiting for the cramp to stop.\n\u201cSpasms or cramps?\u201d\nI am stunned. \u201cCramp. I stayed too long doing nothing, and I didn\u2019t do my exercises today.\u201d\n\u201cYou mean your range of motion? You do them by yourself? Shouldn\u2019t you have someone to help you, like a therapist, a roommate or\u2026a girlfriend?\u201d\nWell, she is going straight to the point and she seems to know a lot about paraplegic issues. That\u2019s very interesting. Instead of being embarrassed I am intrigued.\n\u201cI don\u2019t have a roommate, I\u2019m single and my therapist works in a rehab center. I go see him when I feel it\u2019s time to go.\u201d\n\u201cLike now for example?\u201d\nI feel a hint of sarcasm in her voice, but she also looks concerned.\n\u201cYep, like now.\u201d\nI am doing my best to stay oblivious to pain but she figures it out.\n\u201cStay where you are and rest, I can make coffee.\u201d\n\u201cYou\u2019re the one who needs resting and I\u2019m the one who invited you.\u201d\nAnd I\u2019m glad you did. Can I?\u201d She is pointing at the kitchen.\n\u201cSuit yourself. I\u2019ll join you in a minute.\u201d\nI\u2019m so pissed off. For the first time I have a chance to meet a beautiful and smart girl since my accident, and I can\u2019t get my butt off the couch. What a bummer! She is already in the kitchen, filling out the coffee maker, while I am digging my fingers into my contracted leg. She watches over me discreetly while looking at some pictures on the bookshelves. Then she witnesses my lousy transfer, but thank God she doesn\u2019t come to my rescue, neither does she make a comment. I am thinking how much different she is from Melissa. She doesn\u2019t treat me like an impaired person and she doesn\u2019t seem to be bothered by my wheelchair at all. For me it\u2019s a first. At the beginning, even my close friends couldn\u2019t help staring, looking, helping and feeling sorry for me. Soon after my release from rehab, some of them kept a close eye on me during transfers, or when climbing up or down a sidewalk. After showing them a dozen times it was safe and I was mastering my equipment, they felt relieved. I have a slick and sporty chair with no handles and no armrests, so I also had to tell people I hated to feel hands on my back or shoulders pushing me like I couldn\u2019t use my arms. \u201cI can manage by myself. I can even run guys, faster than you\u201d, and I proved it.\nNo way I\u2019 m going to seat back on the sofa, so we have our cup of coffee and some snacks on the kitchen counter. We are in front of each other smiling without talking, but the silence isn\u2019t embarrassing at all. The apartment across mine had been unoccupied for a few years, since the building was built, and I am wondering if she is renting or owning it. This is an expensive place to live even as a tenant, but I am reluctant to ask her. I just hope secretly she\u2019ll be there a while. I am appreciating her more and more, and at a fast pace.\nShe starts a conversation, \u201cI saw some pictures of you on the bookshelf. So you were a hockey player and from the press clippings, a famous one. I feel bad I don\u2019t know anything about this sport. I just know we have our own team in Florida called the Panthers.\nI chuckled, \u201cYes, they suck, we beat them every year.\u201d\nShe is pretending to be offended but her funny pout and excessive frown show otherwise.\n\u201cI\u2019m just kidding. They are not that bad. So you never watched a hockey game?\u201d\n\u201cNo, just basketball and you cannot say the Miami Heat suck.\u201d\nShe is cute and witty and I like that.\n\u201cTrue. You\u2019ve been champions twice in a row.\u201d\nBefore realizing I just met her, I offer her spontaneously, \u201cWould you like to come to a Black Hawks game sometime? I have VIP seats.\u201d\n\u201cI bet you do and I\u2019d love too...Were you injured during a game?\u201d\n\u201cYeah, a year ago, but it seems so much more when I think about it.\u201d\nIf I don\u2019t mind her inquiry about my injury, I feel suddenly gloomy for the time I lost far from the ice rink. She seems to read my mind,\n\u201cYes. Time flies by so quickly. So you have some catching up to do and I\u2019d be glad to do it with you. I\u2019d be honored to discover this sport with a specialist.\u201d\nEven if I seem to have adapted to my new situation rather positively, nostalgic periods of the past pop up my mind without warning. I can\u2019t let negative thoughts engulf me. Not now. Not in her presence. She looks so fragile and strong at the same time. The room is filled with only good vibes coming from her and weirdly enough, I find my kitchen very appealing all of a sudden. My new neighbor is adorable and I shyly smile at her. My down moment fades away as fast as it came. She seems to have more questions but doesn\u2019t dare asking. I put her at ease,\n\u201cShoot. What else do you want to know?\u201d\n\u201cWhat is your level of injury? T12 incomplete?\u201d\n\u201cYou\u2019re close, T10/T11 and yes, incomplete because I still have some sensations in my left side.\u201d\n\u201cI could see from the painful cramp.\u201d\n\u201cWas that obvious? I\u2019m sorry; I hope it won\u2019t scare you away. I don\u2019t have them very often, but I do have a lot of spasticity and I chose not to take any medication to stop them. They make me too drowsy. I prefer to warn you just in case, because they can be impressive to see, but I can\u2019t control them. I always pray it won\u2019t happen in public.\u201d\nNormally I don\u2019t like talking about my health issues especially with a stranger, but I don\u2019t mind with Cassandra. As long as she is interested in me in any ways, I am willing to answer all questions to keep the conversation going on. She seems to agree with me because she is talkative too,\n\u201cDon\u2019t worry about me. It will take much more than that to frighten me. You don\u2019t have to hide your pain or discomfort from me. I studied about SCI injuries because the topic interests me and I like the medical field.\u201d\n\u201cWell it\u2019s good to know I have a neighbor and an attractive one, which is not afraid to look at me without being embarrassed or repelled.\u201d\nShe blushes, \u201cHow could you repel someone? That\u2019s a stupid thing to say. It\u2019s surely not what I feel looking at you.\u201d\n\u201cWell, you obviously are not like everyone else and you are the exception. Don\u2019t think I\u2019m implying you are weird or anything. It\u2019s just that I\u2019m not used to have this kind of conversation with a person I just met. I appreciate you honesty and outspokenness and I feel at ease with you.\u201d\n\u201cI can return the compliment and I feel safe with you.\u201d\nIs she referring to her ex? I don\u2019t want to mention him again. It seems like taboo memories for her. I just appreciate her natural and revel in her company, \u201cWell, thanks for your confidence.\u201d\nShe gives me another of those entrancing smile, \u201cWhat do you do now?\u201d\n\u201cNot much. It took me a while to recover physically and mentally. I\u2019m reviewing my options but for now none of them seems appealing to me. I started to help people like me in a rehab center, mostly children and I like it. I began with a little boy a few weeks ago and now all the therapists want me to work with them. It seems like I have better results with the psychological side of the patients, and it helps in the physical recovery process. I\u2019m not saying that I replace the doctors\u2019 work, but I can understand better what disabled people are going through, and they trust me.\u201d\n\u201cIt does sound a lot to me. You are underestimating yourself. That\u2019s really amazing. It's a good and rewarding career move. You should be proud.\u201d\n\u201cI am if I can help but it\u2019s not always the case. There are really bad injuries and it also depends on the person\u2019s state of mind and personality. Well, enough about me, let\u2019s talk about you. Your career is also involving to heal people. You help them communicate better and correct their speech impairments. That\u2019s rewarding too. It must not be easy.\u201d\n\u201cNot always. I like working with children as well. They are willing to make progress and they think they are doing it for me. It's touching. I also work with adults who need to learn how to speak again after a stroke or a head injury. That is the toughest part of my job and a big challenge. I see a lot of wheelchairs and crutches in my field too.\u201d\n\u201cAh, that\u2019s the reason why I didn\u2019t shock you then.\u201d\n\u201cNot really. I mean your wheelchair is a part of you and\u2026and I think you look\u2026sexy in it.\u201d\nNow I am speechless. Is she hitting on me? Is she really interested in me regardless of my wheels and all, or is it some kind of fetishism, a weird attraction to paraplegics. I read an article about it in a medical brochure and it was kind of scary, even sick. I am bewildered and somewhat disappointed. I don\u2019t know how to react, but she seems to regret her daring comment and changes the subject,\n\u201cYou have an amazing view on that side. I\u2019m facing the city which is also nice to look at, but you can\u2019t beat the sight of Lake Michigan. It feels like being on a ship because we can\u2019t see down below.\u201d\nTrying not to think too much about her potential ulterior motives anymore, I tell her, \u201cLet\u2019s go on the balcony, you\u2019ll see the shores and the harbor. I\u2019m going to give you a tour of the East side of Chicago by night and from the sky.\u201d\nI head to the bay window and open the sliding door, but she hasn\u2019t moved from her seat. She suddenly seems uncomfortable.\n\u201cCome, it\u2019s really nice.\u201d\n\u201cNo, I trust you. I'd rather stay here.\u201d\n\u201cCan you smell that breeze coming from the lake, it is so relaxing.\u201d\nI pop a wheelie to roll over the small level difference and I am on my wide balcony. While turning back to her, I hear a low and alarmed voice literally pleading,\n\u201cMatthew...please get back inside.\u201d\n\u201cWhat are you afraid of? Do you think the balcony is not strong enough to hold me and my chair or\u2026 that I might jump?\u201d\nI have now my hands on the railing pretending to get up. I know it is a stupid joke, but I don\u2019t expect the following reaction.\n\u201cMATT! NO!\u201d\nHer scream freezes me to death. She is standing in the middle of the living room gazing at me with wide open eyes. Her face is livid and she starts shivering. I roll back inside now concerned,\n\u201cHey, I was joking. I\u2019m sorry if I scared you, it wasn\u2019t my intention.\u201d\nShe isn\u2019t talking, she is in shock. Then she starts crying silently still staring at the wide open window. I spin around and close it. When I turn back to her I sense she is going to collapse. In two spins I am by her side to prevent a fall, and collect her on my lap. She is weak, numb, and suddenly she bursts into tears.\n\u201cHush, hush\u2026please don\u2019t cry. Nothing happened.\u201d\nI am whispering trying to calm her down, but she is really having a nervous breakdown and she needs to let it out. I just put a hand around her waist to hold her. She gradually sinks in my arms and lets her head drop on my shoulder. The crying becomes little silent sobs. She has lost all energy, but I feel her hands feebly searching for my back and clinging to it. I am afraid to move or talk. We stay motionless for a long time, and I even think she fell asleep. My back is crooked and I need to shift position. I stretch a little bit and she tightens her grip on me. In a low begging voice she sobs, \u201cPlease don\u2019t let go, hold me.\u201d\n\u201cI am not going anywhere. You can stay right where you are as long as you need.\u201d\nHow could I leave her like that? I'm not that kind of guy. Is she even aware she is still seated on my lap? What a strange situation. This morning I was about to yell at a noisy neighbor and tonight she is all curled up against my chest, crying on my shoulder, and it doesn\u2019t seem inappropriate to me at all. I am the one who caused the trouble and she needs comfort. It\u2019s the least I can do. She obviously has a fear of heights, but I didn\u2019t realize how serious it was until too late. I am sure of one thing: I will never open the widows again or go out on the balcony in her presence.\nI caress her silky hair for a while and keep whispering in her ear, \u201cI am sorry, forgive me, I didn\u2019t know.\u201d\nWhen she is finally calmer, she stands up confused, \u201cI'd better go home now. I feel so ashamed of myself. You must think I am crazy.\u201d\nShe makes one step but she is dizzy and I have to hold her hand. I pull her back down on my lap and take her to the sofa.\n\u201cSit here. You need a drink, something strong. I\u2019ll let you go when I am sure you\u2019re ok.\u201d\nShe doesn\u2019t protest and do as I say. I fill out a glass with whisky and wheel back to her. I hand her the beverage, \u201cDrink this.\u201d\nShe shots a glance at the brownish liquid with a frown, \u201cI hate whisky.\u201d\n\u201cPlease drink it, straight.\u201d\nShe looks at me shaking her head slightly.\n\u201cCassie, I am serious. You\u2019ll feel better.\u201d\nShe dips her lips in the alcohol with a disgusted face and empties the glass in one shot. She coughs and gasping, she hands me the glass back.\nI wait until the burning in her throat and stomach subsides. Then her eyes are sparkler and her face returns to a normal color. She is back to her old self again.\nShe nods, \u201cThank you. I suffer from Acrophobia since childhood. I witnessed a suicide when I was twelve. Someone in my building jumped from his balcony and I saw him fell.\u201d\n\u201cThat\u2019s terrible.\u201d I am appalled.\n\u201cYes, and I have been in therapy for years, but I guess it didn\u2019t do me any good.\u201d\nShe looks detached, aloof.\n\u201cSo why did you move on a 39th floor apartment then?\u201d\n\u201cI thought I was cured but obviously I am not. My uncle is the architect of this sky-scraper. He always buys a couple of units from his developments and he lets me stay in this one for free. I only have to pay for the maintenance and my parents are helping until I get my first paychecks.\u201d\nI have the answer to my question, but I hope she has a good salary because the maintenance fees are worth a month rent, and I don\u2019t want to see her leave.\n\u201cI\u2019d better go now. It\u2019s getting late and I have to finish what\u2019s left of the boxes.\u201d\nAs I am looking at her suspiciously she reassures me with a faint smile, \u201cI\u2019m good, I promise.\u201d\n\u201cYou know what? You\u2019re going to promise me to go straight to bed, and I\u2019ll come and help you unpack first thing in the morning. I only have to be at the Rehab center in the afternoon. Deal?\u201d\nShe hesitates a few seconds but she finally agrees, \u201cOk. Thank you for being so nice.\u201d\nThen she surprisingly adds, \u201cCould I come with you in the afternoon? I don\u2019t feel like staying alone on my first free day.\u201d\n\u201cSure, with pleasure. I could use some company too.\u201d\nGoing to the Center isn\u2019t a chore at all, but I was looking forward to spend the whole Sunday with her. If she is coming with me, it is just perfect. I started this voluntary assistance for a little boy, then I had so many more demands due to good referrals, it soon became a full time job and the Center insisted on paying me. I am working with the therapists but my main goal is psychologically help disabled people to deal with their handicap. The salary is a drop of water in the ocean compared to my NHL huge wages, but it is still a rewarding job that keeps me busy and I like doing it. I would have done it for free. It\u2019s not as if I needed the money.\nPosted by Frenchie at 9:50 PM\nHooray! I was excited to read the latest chapter. You are doing a fantastic job! I like the introduction of the new neighbor and can't wait to see where things go in upcoming chapters. Thanks again for writing, I am really enjoying this story. :)\nFrenchie March 13, 2015 at 11:16 PM\nThanks for your regular comments.Very much appreciated. You make me feel more confident!\nYou are very welcome! I'm not a writer, so I figure the least I can do to show appreciation is to give positive comments to let you know that some is reading and appreciates what you do!\nAwesome story. Can't wait to hear more.\nInteresting turn of the story. At the end of the last chapter i thought that maybe the little boys mum could be a possible love interest for Matt... And now the surprising introducing of the new neighbor. Thrilling! Can't wait to see which direction the story goes!!\nAnd i think, your english is very good. At least for me, but i'm from Germany and only understand the language good but not express or write very well ;-)\nFrenchie March 14, 2015 at 9:55 AM\nThank you for liking Matthew's story and glad to have another German fan! I took 5 years of German in school but no way I could write in your language. Ich habe alles vergessen! And for me it is just the opposite. I write in English better than I speak. I could even apply this to French, so that definitely makes me a writter!\nGreat chapter! Thank you for the update!\nAmazing chapter! I love the new character. Your writing is terrific and I love where you are taking your story. Wonderful interaction with the 'new neighbor,' too.\nlynn c March 15, 2015 at 4:23 PM\nI love Matthew! But when he thinks \"or is it some kind of fetishism, a weird attraction to paraplegics\" this scares me. Cassandra is delightful but is she a _________. And if she is how is he going to take it? Is he going to find her \"kind of scary, even sick\"? Love this story!\nDani S March 18, 2015 at 11:52 PM\nInteresting new character in the story with her fear of heights :-), your writing in English is very good and you use lots of different words and expressions, great job\nFrenchie March 19, 2015 at 4:37 PM\nYeah, without being autobiographic I have a terrible fear of heights! But unfortunately I will never meet Matt! \ud83d\ude25\nAnother great chapter, I love where the story is going! Your writing is wonderful, with English better grammar than many Americans :-)", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00240.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 602, + "original_length": 34786, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.97, + "perplexity": 293.3, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "http://strategicstudyindia.blogspot.com/2018_03_30_archive.html", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T04:47:42Z", + "digest": "sha1:ZRCK2WMO3ACXIQFNVKONAF6XWAERBKJG", + "length": 21970, + "nlines": 76, + "source_domain": "strategicstudyindia.blogspot.com", + "title": "Indian Strategic Studies: 03/30/18", + "raw_content": "Military Power and the Allure of Technology\nWhile technological innovation can be a captivating narrative for military superiority, India should not blindly buy into this optical power.\nMilitary power derives its fundamental strength from its ability to threaten or use violence to secure political objectives. In human affairs, military power remains the ultimate determinant of conflict resolution. But nuclear weapons changed this basic assumption as the battlefield no longer offered the prospect of using violence to achieve substantial political objectives.\nSaffron Scare: al-Qaeda\u2018s Propaganda War in India\nBy: Animesh Roul\nOf late, al-Qaeda\u2019s South Asia branch has been proactive and forceful in its campaign against India and its neighbors. A \u201ccode of conduct,\u201d released by the group in June 2017, signaled an expanded geographical scope by including Afghanistan and Myanmar into its supposed domain of influence and operation, adding to its core focus on India, Pakistan and Bangladesh. Al-Qaeda in the Indian Subcontinent (AQIS) has since sought to augment this with a series of videos released at the end of last year that purport to depict anti-Muslim policies and atrocities committed by Hindu right wing groups, as well as the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). The films all employ the phrase \u201csaffron terror,\u201d an allusion to violent Hindu nationalism.\nOne Morning in Baghdad\nOne morning in October 2003, I was shaken out of bed by an explosion. I was in Baghdad, leading a platoon of Army Rangers as part of a special operations task force that was hunting down the famous \u201cdeck of cards\u201d\u2014the last of the Ba\u2019ath Regime loyalists, and Saddam himself. Because we did all of our work at night, I had only been sleeping for a few hours. When I first felt the explosion, I rolled out of bed, grabbed my M4 carbine, and ran out of the house we were living in on the southern tip of Baghdad\u2019s so-called Green Zone. Improbably, my giant grizzly bear of a platoon sergeant remained asleep, snoring away in the cot next to mine.\nNepal Rewarded For Using \u2018China Card\u2019 \u2013 Analysis\nBy Dr. S. Chandrasekharan.\nIn an earlier update we had referred to PM Oli\u2019s statement on Indo-Nepal Relations. We had said that what was more troubling was the open, brazen and arrogant declaration of Oli that he would be able to get more leverage from India by getting closer to China. Though we criticised the statement, it looks that Oli was perhaps right in his assessment on relations with India. The Economic Times of 21st March reported that the Centre had decided to hike its aid to Nepal by 73 percent from previous allocation \u201cwhile expressing concern over increasing Chinese presence in some of the neighbourhood countries.\u201d The heading of the news item was more direct that said that India\u2019s aid to Nepal is up by 73 percent to check China\u2019s infra push. It is also said in the report that the reasons for the hike are because of security concerns on the India- Nepal border.\nSaffron Curtain: How Buddhism Was Weaponized During the Cold War\nOf the world\u2019s major faiths, Buddhism is often characterized as being a religion of peace, tolerance, and compassion. The Western encounter with Buddhism has largely been distilled through yoga, the beatniks, Hollywood, and Dalai Lama quotes shared on Facebook. But even a cursory glance at the news that emanates from the Buddhist world reveals a more sanguinary state of affairs. In Myanmar, ultra-nationalist monks have fueled a genocidal crusade against the country\u2019s Rohingya Muslim population. In Thailand, the government has responded to a long-running Malay Muslim insurgency in its southern provinces by fostering a Buddhist militarism, encouraging monks in local temples to ally with the armed forces. And in Sri Lanka, the Buddhist-majority Sinhalese were engaged in a bitter civil war against the Hindu-minority Tamils for decades. More recently, Buddhist nationalists there have stoked anti-Muslim riots.\nTrump Hits China With the Tariffs We've All Been Waiting For\nThe United States has launched its first major trade and investment measures against China, but they won\u2019t be the last as the White House looks to make good on its protectionist promises. China will be compelled to respond in kind and may prompt the United States to retaliate in the process. As the United States moves forward with its aggressive trade agenda, the need to minimize the domestic fallout of its policies will restrain the White House.\nEmperor Xi Jinping has a vision for China: How it'll impact India\nXi Jinping made it. He can now retain his seat for life. The South China Morning Post reported: \u201cUnder the watch of a confident and relaxed President Xi Jinping, nearly 3,000 Chinese lawmakers were nearly unanimous in their approval of changes to the state constitution that included removing the term limit on the presidency. Chinese Constitution The Hong Kong newspaper said that Xi, who had maintained a poker face throughout the opening day of People\u2019s National Congress (NPC), appeared \"much more at ease after the vote\". Only two of the 2,964 deputies voted against the constitutional revisions; the process was over in just one hour: no debate took place, no discussion and not even canvassing.\nChina is winning because it can fill a 'black hole' that other countries have left behind\nChina's influence operations have flourished because the US, Australia, and other leading nations have left a void that Beijing was easily able to fill, according to a former Australian government adviser. President Xi Jinping's Belt and Road Initiative to link 70 countries filled a gap of loans and infrastructure to poorer nations, particularly in Southeast Asia. Hundreds of controversial Confucius Institutes, which are run by the Communist Party, also fill a \"black hole\" of education on Chinese language and culture that countries failed to provide themselves. The influence of these institutes is so large that US legislators announced this week a draft law to force them to register as foreign agents of the the Chinese government\nShining a Cleansing Light on China\u2019s Dark Secrets\nBEIJING \u2014 Shen Zhihua, bon vivant, former businessman, now China\u2019s foremost Cold War historian, has set himself a near-impossible task. He wants China to peel back its secrets, throw open its archives and tell its citizens what went on between China and the United States, between China and North Korea, and much more. Even before the hard-line era of President Xi Jinping, the Communist Party has acted like a supersensitive corporation, blocking highly regarded historians like Mr. Shen from peering too deeply. Precious documents have been destroyed, stolen or kept under seal by librarians skilled at deflecting the inquiries of even the most tenacious researchers.\nTrump Technology Tariffs Designed to Protect U.S. Military Advantage\nBen Werner\nThe Trump Administration announced tariffs and other restrictions on China's high-tech industry Thursday. The implicit message is the actions intend to guard the U.S. military's technological advantage in a 21st Century battlespace. The new order imposes tariffs on about $50 billion worth of specific products from China, authorizes filing a World Trade Organization case against China, and puts limits on Chinese investment in U.S. technology companies to protect them from being forced to share intellectual property with Chinese partner firms. Trump\u2019s lead trade official detailed the U.S. complaint against China. The nation has a policy of forcing technology transfers between U.S. companies and Chinese partners as part of doing business in the nation and acquiring U.S. technology through cyber theft, U.S. trade representative Robert Lighthizer said at the ceremony.\nThe World Should Take China's War Threats Seriously\nTaiwan\u2019s national-security and counterespionage chief, in a question-and-answer period at the national legislature, this week warned that China might invade the island republic. \u201cBeijing is prepared to retaliate forcibly once senior U.S. officials touch down on the island,\u201d the National Security Bureau\u2019s Director-General Peng Sheng-chu said, referring to visits encouraged by the Taiwan Travel Act, which recently became U.S. law. Peng\u2019s warning came at about the same time Taiwan\u2019s defense ministry reported that its ships and planes tailed China\u2019s only operational aircraft carrier and its escorts as they transited the Taiwan Strait. The Liaoning group, the ministry announced Wednesday, left Taiwan\u2019s air-defense identification zone on a southwesterly course.\nWhich Way Forward for al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula?\nBeginning in February, the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and its proxies launched sequential offensives against al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) in the southern Yemeni governorates of Hadramawt and Shabwah. The latest offensive, Operation Sweeping Torrent, was launched on March 7 with the objective of clearing AQAP from the governorate of Abyan, a longstanding stronghold for the organization (Middle East Monitor, March 8). The UAE and the security forces it backs in Yemen claim to have successfully cleared AQAP from large swaths of all three governorates.\nCentral Asian Reset\nBy: Umida Hashimova\nAccording to President Nursultan Nazarbayev of Kazakhstan, 2011 was the last time the leadership of the five Central Asian countries all sat together at the same table to discuss regional issues (Tengrinews, March 15). On March 15, 2018, Nazarbayev, President Shavkat Mirziyaev of Uzbekistan, President Sooronbai Jeenbekov of the Kyrgyz Republic and President Imomali Rahmon of Tajikistan met in Astana. Turkmenistan\u2019s President Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedow missed this gathering for a visit to Kuwait to sign numerous energy agreements and instead was represented by the chair of the parliament, Akja Nurberdyeva (Turkmenistan.ru, March 14; see EDM, March 20).\nSalyukov Confirms Corrections to Armed Forces\u2019 Structure\nSeveral statements and interviews from Russia\u2019s military top brass, especially marking the fifth anniversary of the appointment of Sergei Shoigu as minister of defense in November 2012, note the effort to reintroduce a number of divisions to the order of battle (OOB). These structural-level changes appear to mark a departure from Anatoly Serdyukov\u2019s (defense minister in 2007\u20132012) reforms to move the OOB to a brigade-based model. The reappearance of divisions in the Ground Forces has also been interpreted as a sign that the General Staff is preparing to conduct \u201clarge-scale\u201d warfare against a conventional enemy. This interpretation seems to fit with the idea that the Russian military is preoccupied with confronting a threat from the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO). However, some of the details around the move to reintroduce divisions to the OOB, as well as the locations of these formations, point to Moscow preparing for long-term conflict in Ukraine, replete with a range of escalation options (see EDM, March 6, 2018; TASS, December 22, 2017).\nEzra Friedman\nIn January 2006, the radical Islamic movement Hamas won a sweeping majority in the Palestinian parliamentary elections, with an almost outright victory within the electoral districts of the Gaza Strip. This in turn led to confrontation with the secular-leaning Fatah movement, which Hamas would go on to violently eject from the Gaza Strip in 2007, leading to the current splitin which Fatah retains control of the Palestinian National Authority and Palestinian Liberation Organization based in Ramallah, and the Gaza Strip is controlled solely by Hamas (which is considered a terrorist organization by Israel, the United States, and the European Union). A joint Israeli-Egyptian blockade followed Hamas\u2019s takeover of the Gaza Strip, and has all but stopped the flow of goods and people across land, sea, and air borders. Hamas and Israel have also engaged in several rounds of conflict that have not only intensified the blockade, but have also led to massive destruction of property worth billions of dollars, including critical infrastructure. The ongoing feud between the Palestinian Authority and Hamas has led to cuts in Palestinian Authority payments to Israel for electricity in the Gaza Strip, and Hamas has raised tariffs and taxes on Gazans to generate revenue.\nBritain\u2019s lost decades\nIt has been a long ten years. When Philip Hammond delivered his spring statement last week, it marked a decade since the last pre-crash budget of 2008, when Alistair Darling delivered rosy forecasts for growth and continued public spending to buoy up services, even as the clouds overhead had already become full-blown grumbling cumulonimbus beasts. Since then, the superlatives have rolled in. Paul Johnson of the Institute for Fiscal Studies sets them out well: the deepest recession since the 1920s. The slowest recovery since the 1920s. The worst decade for earnings growth since the 1860s \u2013 if not earlier. The highest deficit since the second world war. The biggest peacetime surge in public debt. The Conservatives \u2013 first in coalition with the self-immolating Liberal Democrats and then with renewed vengeance alone \u2013 have presided over one of the most pathetic and febrile periods in our economy\u2019s history.\nAt the Pentagon, theories abound as to why H.R. McMaster didn\u2019t get a fourth star\nAs the news leaked last week that Lt. Gen. H.R. McMaster would soon be replaced as President Trump\u2019s national security adviser, speculation swirled about whether the storied military officer would be given a four-star command somewhere, a soft-landing after a hard run at the White House. Instead, the only active-duty service member in the president\u2019s Cabinet is ending his distinguished 34-year Army career with an inglorious firing.\nCOUNTERING RUSSIAN AGGRESSION IN THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY\nLionel Beehner and Liam Collins\nOver the past year, the United States has dusted off its international relations textbooks from the Cold War era and prioritized \u201crevisionist powers\u201d like the Russian Federation and China in terms of reshaping its military strategy and doctrine. The 2008 Russia-Georgia War, nearing its ten-year anniversary, is worth reexamining to understand how these \u201crevisionist powers\u201d will fight in the twenty-first century.\nFacebook, Google, your reign may soon be over\nWe might look back on 2017 as the last moment of unbridled faith and optimism in the technology industry. The revelations about Cambridge Analytica\u2019s use of Facebook data \u2014 mining more than 50 million users\u2019 personal information \u2014 came at a time when people were already considering appropriate ways to curb the handful of tech companies that dominate not just the American economy but also, increasingly, American life. As the information revolution took off in the 1990s, we got caught up in the excitement of the age, along with the novelty of the products and their transformative power. We were dazzled by the wealth created by nebbishy 25-year-olds, who became instant billionaires \u2014 the ultimate revenge of the nerds. And in the midst of all this, as the United States was transitioning into a digital economy, we neglected to ask: What is the role for government?\nNew CYBER MAVEN Column: Why the US is More Vulnerable to CyberAttack\nby Warrior Maven\nIn January of this year there was significant press about how the Department of Defense was considering nuclear retaliation for a cyber attack. The Joint Chiefs of Staff pushed back against this idea stating that the new posture review spoke about strategic level attacks beyond a nuclear scenario and that cyber wasn\u2019t even mentioned. This entire conversation side stepped perhaps the most important point being punctuated by this line of thinking. The United States\u2019 geography has fundamentally shifted. No other country in the world can claim that their continuous territory has remained free from foreign adversaries in the last 200 years while actively engaging in multiple conflicts.[1] Yet today, the United States is further constrained than at any point previously in its history. A nuclear Armageddon is no long the only thing the U.S. military and population need to worry about. Today, cyber attacks are a very real way to bring the war to the home front in a way that noone in two centuries has experienced.\nFacebook\u2019s Hate Speech Problem\nChintan Girish Modi\nThere is a fine line between removing hate speech and protecting free speech. Facebook needs to learn where that boundary lies. Mark Zuckerberg is in the news again. This time he is not receiving an honorary degree from Harvard, selling Free Basics, or donating another chunk of his large fortune towards setting up a charity. Facebook, the company he co-founded, is in troubled waters. The sharp currents are being felt not only in the United States of America, where he lives, but all the way across in India as well.\nWHO SAYS CYBER WARRIORS NEED TO WEAR A UNIFORM?\nButch Bracknell\nGallons of ink have been spilled since the Department of Defense began exploring plans to permit cyber-qualified information technology specialists to join the military at ranks above entry-level and without undergoing entry level military training. The idea was initially floated in June 2016, with the Army, Navy and Air Force all considering implementation. In May 2017, the internet almost broke when the Marine Corps weighed whether to allow cyber recruits to skip basic training and enter as staff sergeants, not unlike \u201cThe President\u2019s Own\u201d\u2014the Marine Band. The debate has centered around whether allowing Marines to skip the time-honored leveling and shaping experience of boot camp and granting them \u201cunearned\u201d rank would be detrimental to the service ethos. But much of the commentary is missing a more fundamental question: Why does the new crop of cyber operations specialists need to be in the military at all? Spoiler alert: they do not. And an elite Marine Corps shows why.\nDo You Even OPSEC, Bro?\nBy John PWN Jones\nJohn PWN Jones is a former surface warfare officer, a lateral transfer to the CW community, and is fine with you proving him wrong. He\u2019ll email you on the \u201chigh side\u201d if you make enough stink, and used a pseudonym because not today, ISIS. The opinions here are his own, and do not represent the views of the Department of Defense. Remember when we didn\u2019t do our adversary\u2019s targeting for them? Remember when we didn\u2019t openly acknowledge our personnel\u2019s associations with intelligence agencies? Remember when we didn\u2019t freely put targets on the back of the military? Pepperidge Farms remembers.\nWe have a serious problem, and it goes far beyond \u201cfake news.\u201d Too many Americans have no idea how to properly read a social media feed. As we\u2019re coming to learn more and more, such ignorance seems to be plaguing almost everybody \u2014 regardless of educational attainment, economic class, age, race, political affiliation or gender. Some very smart people are helping to spread some very dumb ideas. We all know this is a problem. The recent federal indictment of a Russian company, the Internet Research Agency, lists the numerous ways Russian trolls and bots created phony events and leveraged social media to sow disruption throughout the 2016 presidential election. New revelations about Cambridge Analytica\u2019s sophisticated use of Facebook data to target unsuspecting social media users reminds us how complex the issue has become. Even the pope has weighed in, using his bully pulpit to warn the world of this new global evil.\nArmy Will Field 100 Km Cannon, 500 Km Missiles: LRPF CFT\nThe Army is modernizing three artillery systems: 155 cannon, the cheapest option, for the close fight against the enemy's frontline forces; guided rockets for the deep fight against enemy reinforcements and supply lines; and missiles, the most expensive munitions, for very deep or even strategic strikes against targets in the enemy rear and homeland. Within five years, the US Army will field new artillery weapons \u2014 howitzer shells, rockets, and missiles \u2014 with ranges of 70 to 500 kilometers, double that of current systems. After 15 years of close-range combat against insurgents, the service\u2019s top priority is now what it calls Long-Range Precision Fires to counter \u201cpeer competitors\u201d like Russia and China on vastly larger battlefields.\nArmy, Struggling to Get Technology in Soldiers\u2019 Hands, Tries the Unconventional\nThe platoon of Army Special Operations soldiers was on a routine night patrol in eastern Afghanistan when one of them suddenly opened fire on what looked to the others to be a bush. The bush, it turned out, had been obscuring a militant fighter. He was detectable only to the one platoon member wearing prototype night vision goggles that could detect heat signatures \u2014 a happenstance that Army officials say probably saved many lives. That incident took place in 2015. Three years later, soldiers in the field still do not have the new night vision goggles, and that is just one example of a process that can take a decade to get new weapons from the lab to the hands of troops. Worried about that lag, the Army is creating a new and decidedly unconventional department to address it: the Futures Command\u2026\nSaffron Curtain: How Buddhism Was Weaponized Durin...\nTrump Hits China With the Tariffs We've All Been W...\nEmperor Xi Jinping has a vision for China: How it'...\nChina is winning because it can fill a 'black hole...\nTrump Technology Tariffs Designed to Protect U.S. ...\nThe World Should Take China's War Threats Seriousl...\nWhich Way Forward for al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peni...\nSalyukov Confirms Corrections to Armed Forces\u2019 Str...\nAt the Pentagon, theories abound as to why H.R. 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Simon Open Door is a partnership between the Simon Communities\u2026\nThe new dynamic complex of 7 low- energy houses for people with disabilities, is placed in the heart of the\u2026", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00240.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 68, + "original_length": 1673, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.93, + "perplexity": 250.0, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "http://superfogeys.com/tag/top-ten/", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T04:40:22Z", + "digest": "sha1:VK4EHUXDCMDG7PMNAT67RCPIZVQWJCYX", + "length": 439, + "nlines": 2, + "source_domain": "superfogeys.com", + "title": "SuperFogeys - top ten", + "raw_content": "What follows is my list of favorite songs of 2011. I consume a lot of music, but I don\u2019t hear everything. I don\u2019t even hear everything the year it comes out. So keep that in mind as you read this list. This is MY 2011. It may not bear complete resemblance to the actual 2011. [...]\n\u2514 Tags: airborne toxic event, elbow, fleet foxes, fun, grouplove, lana del rey, music, naked and famous, peter furler, submarines, top ten, we are augustines", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00240.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 58, + "original_length": 2607, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.9, + "perplexity": 227.6, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "http://swainlawpc.com/about-swain-law/", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T04:35:03Z", + "digest": "sha1:MFB6C77E3L322QO6IQUAEPX5KZOKMA76", + "length": 762, + "nlines": 1, + "source_domain": "swainlawpc.com", + "title": "About Us - Swain Law, PC", + "raw_content": "Swain Law, PC is a Professional Corporation organized under the laws of the State of North Carolina. We provide legal services to a variety of clients, including persons, businesses and public entities. The corporation is owned and operated by Kenneth Swain, Attorney at Law and is located principally in Monroe, North Carolina although providing services in various jurisdictions within the State. Mr. Swain and our staff strive to assist each and every client fully and you can read further about Mr. Swain, our philosophy of practicing law and other items of interest on this web site. We hope you will consider Swain Law, PC as your legal services provider and hope our site assists you in making a decision for legal representation that includes our office.", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00240.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 22, + "original_length": 1283, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.97, + "perplexity": 243.9, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "http://synapsedynamics.com/files/value-of-freedom-and-privacy.html", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T04:08:02Z", + "digest": "sha1:UDHCTE7TBMC6HBSOPWXUPKSIY3DEYXNA", + "length": 4451, + "nlines": 8, + "source_domain": "synapsedynamics.com", + "title": "What is the value of freedom and privacy in the digital age? | Lieven's Blog | Lieven's Blog", + "raw_content": "What is the value of freedom and privacy in the digital age?\n13/12/11 19:18 Filed in: Democracy | Freedom | Digital world\nFreedom is this beautiful thing that gives us options in life. When we are free, we can make our own decisions, think what we want to think and say what we want without the fear of being killed or put into prison. These days it is the search for more freedom that motivates the people in the Arab world. They fight and do whatever necessary to pave the way to a more free life. I hope they will succeed and win their freedom. But what about freedom in the Western world? Are we protecting it or are we taking it for granted?\nToday I went running and this great app on my iPhone kept track of my location, speed, calories burned etc. After the run the data synchronize automatically with a \"global website for runners\". Now everyone could know exactly where I was and what I did. Most of the software applications that I frequently use like google-maps and others, know exactly where I\u2019ve been. Actually as soon as I switch on my mobile phone my movements can be tracked. Personal information about me can be found on Facebook, linkedin, twitter, youtube, etc. When I go shopping I use the electronic customer cards my wife asks me to use because the more I use them, the more benefits I get. In this way all the large supermarket chains in my country know almost exactly what I like as a customer, how frequently I shop and how much I spend on grocery. When I enter some cities in Europe and Asia by car, a picture is taken automatically of my car and numberplate. When i take the plane my retina is scanned so I can be identified easily. Every time I enter Japan or the US, my fingerprints are taken. The \u201cCloud\u201d will soon store all our documents, pictures and home movies. Not to mention the times I clicked on the I accept button when a Legal Terms and Conditions pop-up window appeared on my screen. I\u2019m sure I\u2019m forgetting many other examples where information about me is registered and analyzed by \u201cI don\u2019t know who\u201d. All this information is used somewhere and just like millions of other people I voluntarily share this information. It\u2019s for my convenience or for my safety...I like to think.\nRecently I read this article in a respected business magazine where they explained how civil servants from the tax office use Facebook and Netlog information to get a better view of your spendings. When one of the citizens involved complained about this in court, the judge ruled in favor of the tax office... oeps, not always for our convenience and for our safety?\nWhat would happen if our government would, in the name of safety, use all this information to control us. When we would loose our job, because we have an opinion that doesn\u2019t favor the current government? When we would suddenly \u201cdisappear\u201d because our last tweet was to critical for the regime? I hardly find someone to talk about this. I think this is because our current Western generation always knew freedom, we just can\u2019t imagine that it could be taken away from us. The digital world is a new world were being anonymous has become almost impossible and we seem to be fine with it. The only people I can have a serious conversation about this are my German friends. The last 100 years they had two totalitarian regimes (the Nazis in the 1930\u2019s until 1945 and the DDR until 1989). These regimes did everything possible to know as much as they could about it\u2019s citizens in order to control them. I think the Stasi, the secret service of the former DDR, would only have dreamed of something like the internet. Many German people know what could happen when a regime turns bad. If this would happen in the current digital age, our freedom would be gone in an instance. Because all this information is out there and difficult to delete.\nThe paradox is that those who want freedom are often even ready to die for it. Previous generations did it in World War II and current generations are doing it in Syria, Egypt and many other places. On the other hand, those who always knew freedom are maybe not aware of its value? We do very little to prevent that this great digital world that we have created could become one day the means to take away our freedom. At this point we enjoy the convenience and we don\u2019t (want to) see the potential threat. The most important threat to freedom however, is taking it for granted. (791 words)\nTags: Democracy, Freedom, Society", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00240.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 175, + "original_length": 6878, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.96, + "perplexity": 286.5, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "http://tablequiz.net/tag/dingbats/", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T04:44:38Z", + "digest": "sha1:GDB2I23ME2UOHMZTWZFZAHOJWNAQ3JR2", + "length": 1521, + "nlines": 15, + "source_domain": "tablequiz.net", + "title": "dingbats | tablequiz.net", + "raw_content": "You are browsing the archive for dingbats.\nDingbats answered\nJuly 16, 2012 in Culture, Quizzes\nWombat: not a dingbat\nSo, yeah, I was quizzing on Friday night last and I do intend to post an article about it within the next few hours.\nHowever, I don\u2019t want to leave you all hanging on, waiting for the answers to those difficult dingbats I posted at the start of the weekend so that\u2019s what this post is about.\nSome of them were quite difficult, although I think that was more to do with the fact that the idiom or saying involved, in my opinion, wasn\u2019t an idiom at all.\nFrom what I can remember, myself and my ad-hoc partner Larry scored around 24/30 and were declared the winners. \u201cGo team!\u201d, as we probably should have said.\nSo, click on the \u2018Read the rest\u2026\u2019 link to see the answers.\nTags: answers, dingbats 3 Comments \u00bb\nJuly answers (plus Dingbats in the wild)\nJuly 13, 2012 in Quizzes\nThe answers to picture round included in Wednesday\u2019s post, Quizzing in July, are included at the end of this post. Before we get to them though, let me just tell you how I encountered some dingbats in the wild last month.\nOne Saturday in June I did a coaching course for the sport which takes up most of my non-quizzing time, Handball. The first task given to us by the course facillitator was the following selection of dingbats. The group was paired off so the intention was for it to be a getting-to-know-you exercise, I presume. Give them a go! 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It\u2019s such an important one that our world needs.\nThe Goodwill Treaty for World Peace has been signed by over 115, 000 individuals from all over the world, including many notable figures such as: Dr. Gandhi, Grandson of Mahatma Gandhi, Matt Damon, Her Divine Grace Dadi Janki of the Brahma Kumaris, Ben Affleck, Don Cheadle, Yogi Master Gurmukh Khalsa, Jason Alexander, Snatam Kaur, Montel Williams, Charles Barkley, Dave Mason, Raymond \u2018Ray\u2019 Romano, and many others.\nYou can find out all about this project by visiting the site here.\nLet\u2019s keep spreading peace and love on Earth!", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00240.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 57, + "original_length": 2026, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.87, + "perplexity": 303.2, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "http://teamtruebeauty.weebly.com/ambersweeney.html", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T03:36:56Z", + "digest": "sha1:A35KI6LAGKP6HNSTACCN2NWX54YVO6KS", + "length": 4857, + "nlines": 28, + "source_domain": "teamtruebeauty.weebly.com", + "title": "AmberSweeney - Team True Beauty", + "raw_content": "@theambersweeney\nAmber Sweeney is famously known as being one half of the ultra talented singing duo, Everly (the other member being the equally wonderful Bethany Joy Galeotti of One Tree Hill), but she is more than that!\nAt age 7, Amber picked up a guitar for the first time, and the rest is history! Instantly, she fell in love with music, and it was clear it was more than a hobby to those around her. At the ripe old age of 7, she was leading worship in her church. Her passion for music and Jesus inspired her to keep pressing forward and learning new things.\nAs of currently, Amber can play 9 musical instruments! At 15, she had learned to play the bass guitar. She played the bass regularly with her church's worship team. She recorded a worship album titled, 180, and one of the songs was written by Amber herself. This new adventure of writing songs lead Amber to recording an album of her own at the age of 18 called \"Today Or Yesterday\".\nIn 2001 until 2005, Amber was asked by the Jackson brothers (Jonathan and Richard) to be a part of the band Enation, playing bass and singing backup.\nThen in 2008, she teamed up with her longtime friend, Bethany Joy Galeotti and formed Everly. They released a 3-song EP titled \"Mission Bell\" which did really well for them. They have also seen some success with many of their songs being featured on The CW's One Tree Hill. Amber and Bethany Joy are currently working toward the release of a full length album.\nAmber currently is helping various artists with writing and producing music. She also performs regularly at Galeotti's restaurant in Battle Ground, WA.\nAmber supports many charities, including Team True Beauty! We were thrilled when she joined on to Team True Beauty and also when she agreed to be a celebrity spotlight.\nWhen she sent us the answers back, she attached a lovely little message that we'd love to share with you:\n\"Thank you, so much, for inviting me to do this with you guys. I love that you are so passionately wanting people to see beauty for what it really is. It is a subject near and dear to my heart as well. I hope many people are touched and changed by the truth you help bring to their worlds as Team True Beauty grows.\n~Amber Sweeney\"\nAmber: I was invited to follow them on Twitter by one of the lovely cofounders, and I love that they are so passionate about helping this generation understand what beauty is and where it is found.\nAmber: The secret ingredient to confidence is gratitude. No one is exempt from having days where they question their value or their self image. The most important thing I\u2019ve learned is that when I have those days I get to pull out my invisible self-check list and mark off the things I absolutely love about me. It\u2019s my little reminder that I really am fearfully and wonderfully made.\nAmber: To me, beauty is a mother comforting a weeping child, a father dancing with his daughter, a friend surprising you on your birthday, two lovers holding hands in the park, or the sacrifice made on behalf of another. Beauty is an intangible gift that every human holds within them. It is something we reflect from the depths of who we are through the relationships we have around us. That\u2019s why the most beautiful characters in the stories we love are not simply pleasant to look at, they are the ones who touch the core of our being with their humility, their strength, and their compassion.\nAmber: What kind of surprise are we talking here? Shocking surprise, delighted surprise, I don\u2019t like milk shakes surprise? I mean, since the dawn of the interweb, is their really anything that hasn\u2019t been done before that we can\u2019t find on youtube? So, can I really surprise you? No. I don\u2019t think I can. ;)\nAmber: It\u2019s not in any way, shape, or form arrogant to tell yourself how much you like you on a regular basis. Share the wealth of gratitude with others. And never be afraid to kindly tell someone they have food on their face.\nAmber also sent this to us here at Team True Beauty, and I hope it inspires you the same way it inspired us:\n\"Keep up the good fights! As my friend Graham Lake says, \"A good fight is one you always win!\"\nSo, on behalf of Amber, and the co-founders here at Team True Beauty, thank YOU all for helping us with the Good Fight!\nNot only did Amber agree to be our Celebrity spotlight, she sent us an autographed Everly poster for us to auction off for Team True Beauty and NEDA (so make sure to check that out here:http://shop.ebay.com/teamtruebeauty/m.html?_nkw&_armrs=1&_from&_ipg=25 )\nCheck Amber and Everly out!\nAmber: http://twitter.com/#!/theambersweeney\nEverly: http://twitter.com/#!/everlysong\nhttp://www.everlyband.com/\nhttp://www.facebook.com/pages/Everly/108408612932\nALSO, if you are in Battle Ground, WA; make sure to check Amber out at Galeotti's!\nhttp://www.galeottis.com/\nPhoto Courtesy of Everly's Facebook Page", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00240.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 118, + "original_length": 6648, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.97, + "perplexity": 304.9, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "http://techmag.pk/emirates-group-announces-2017-18-results/", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T03:34:53Z", + "digest": "sha1:QROS3Z6AGCYZQVY4W6SXWEHLU2SBATSM", + "length": 19837, + "nlines": 82, + "source_domain": "techmag.pk", + "title": "Emirates Group Announces 2017-18 results", + "raw_content": "Home > News > Emirates Group Announces 2017-18 results\nEmirates Group Announces 2017-18 results\nMay 10, 2018\tNews Comments Off on Emirates Group Announces 2017-18 results 45 Views\nGroup records 30th consecutive year of profit of AED 4.1 billion (US$ 1.1 billion)\nSolid business growth in line with capacity increases leading to a record revenue of more than AED 100 billion (US$ 27.2 billion) for the 1st time\nImproved cash balance of AED 25.4 billion (US$ 6.9 billion)\nDeclares a dividend of AED 2.0 billion (US$ 545 million) to the Investment Corporation of Dubai\nEmirates reports a profit of AED 2.8 billion (US$ 762 million), 124% better than the previous year\nAirline capacity crosses 61 billion ATKM with a net addition of 9 new aircraft to the fleet\nRevenue increases by 9% to AED 92.3 billion (US$ 25.2 billion), supported by strong cargo performance\ndnata makes highest profit ever, at AED 1.3 billion (US$ 359 million)\nRecord revenue of AED 13.1 billion (US$ 3.6 billion) reflects further business expansion, with international business now accounting for 68% of revenue\nExpands global footprint with ground handling acquisitions in the Americas, adds new facilities and service capabilities across its airport operations, catering, and travel services divisions\nDUBAI, UAE, 9 May 2018 \u2013 The Emirates Group today announced its 30th consecutive year of profit and steady business expansion.\nReleased today in its 2017-18 Annual Report, the Emirates Group posted a profit of AED 4.1 billion (US$ 1.1 billion) for the financial year ended 31 March 2018, up 67% from last year. The Group\u2019s revenue reached AED 102.4 billion (US$ 27.9.billion), an increase of 8% over last year\u2019s results, and the Group\u2019s cash balance increased by 33% to AED 25.4 billion (US$ 6.9 billion) supported by the bond issued in March and strong sales due to the early Easter holidays at the end of March.\nIn line with the overall profit, the Group declared a dividend of AED 2.0 billion (US$ 545 million) to the Investment Corporation of Dubai.\nHis Highness (H.H.) Sheikh Ahmed bin Saeed Al Maktoum, Chairman and Chief Executive, Emirates Airline and Group, said: \u201cBusiness conditions in 2017-18, while improved, remained tough. We saw ongoing political instability, currency volatility and devaluations in Africa, rising oil prices which drove our costs up, and downward pressure on margins from relentless competition. On the positive side, we benefitted from a healthy recovery in the global air cargo industry, as well as the relative strengthening of key currencies against the US dollar.\n\u201cWe\u2019ve always responded to the challenges of each business cycle with agility, while never losing sight of the future, and this year was no exception. In 2017-18, Emirates and dnata delivered our 30th consecutive year of profit, recorded growth across the business, and continued to invest in initiatives and infrastructure that will secure our future success.\u201d\nIn 2017-18, the Group collectively invested AED 9.0 billion (US$ 2.5 billion) in new aircraft and equipment, the acquisition of companies, modern facilities, the latest technologies, and staff initiatives.\nEmirates announced two significant commitments for new aircraft during the year: a US$ 15.1 billion agreement for 40 Boeing 787-10 Dreamliners which will be delivered from 2022, and a US$ 16 billion agreement for 36 additional A380 aircraft, including 16 options.\ndnata\u2019s key investments during the year included: acquisition of AirLogistix USA, marking its entry in the US cargo market; expansion of cargo handling capabilities with new warehouses and equipment at London Gatwick, Amsterdam-Schiphol, and Adelaide; new catering facilities in Dublin and Melbourne; and new marhaba lounges in Karachi and Melbourne.\nSheikh Ahmed said: \u201cWhile expanding our business and growing revenues, we also tightened our cost discipline. Across the Group, we progressed various initiatives to rebuild and streamline our back office operations with new technology, systems and processes. In 2017-18, our reduced recruitment activity, coupled with restructured ways of working gave us gains in productivity, and a slowdown in manpower cost increases.\u201d\nAcross its more than 80 subsidiaries, the Group\u2019s total workforce declined by 2% to 103,363, representing over 160 different nationalities, as part of the overall productivity improvement initiatives in Emirates and dnata.\nSheikh Ahmed concluded: \u201cLooking ahead, Emirates and dnata remain focussed on delivering safe, efficient and high quality services consistently to our customers. Our ongoing investments in our people, technology, and infrastructure will help us maintain our competitive edge, and ensure that we are ready to meet the opportunities and stay on course for sustainable and profitable growth.\u201d\nEmirates performance\nEmirates\u2019 total passenger and cargo capacity crossed the 61 billion mark, to 61.4 billion ATKMs at the end of 2017-18, cementing its position as the world\u2019s largest international carrier. The airline moderately increased capacity during the year over 2016-17 by 2%, with a focus on yield improvement.\nEmirates received 17 new aircraft, after last year\u2019s record number during a financial year, comprising of eight A380s and nine Boeing 777-300ERs. At the same time, eight older aircraft were phased out, bringing its total fleet count to 268 at the end of March. This fleet roll-over involving 25 aircraft was again one of the largest managed in a year, keeping Emirates\u2019 average fleet age at a youthful 5.7 years.\nIt underscores Emirates\u2019 strategy to operate a young and modern fleet which is better for the environment, better for operations, and better for customers. The airline remains the world\u2019s largest operator of the Boeing 777 and A380 \u2013 both aircraft being amongst the most modern and efficient wide-bodied jets in the sky today.\nDuring the year, Emirates launched two new passenger destinations: Phnom Penh (Cambodia) and Zagreb (Croatia). It also added flight capacity to 15 existing destinations, offering customers more choice of flight timings and onward connections.\nEmirates also grew its global connectivity and customer proposition through strategic partnerships. During 2017-18, Emirates entered into significant partnerships with flydubai and Cargolux, expanding the choice of air services on offer to passenger and cargo customers respectively. Emirates also received authorisation to extend its partnership with Qantas until 2023.\nIn spite of political challenges impacting traveller demand and fare adjustments due to a highly competitive business environment, Emirates managed to increase its revenue to AED 92.3 billion (US$ 25.2 billion). The decline of the US dollar against currencies in most of Emirates\u2019 key markets for the first time in a number of years had an AED 661 million (US$ 180 million) positive impact to the airline\u2019s bottom line.\nTotal operating costs increased by 7% over the 2016-17 financial year. The average price of jet fuel increased sharply by 15% during the financial year. Including a 3% higher uplift in line with capacity increase, the airline\u2019s fuel bill increased substantially by 18% over last year to AED 24.7 billion (US$ 6.7 billion). Fuel is now 28% of operating costs, compared to 25% in 2016-17, and it remained the biggest cost component for the airline.\nThe airline successfully managed strong competitive pressure across all markets and increased its profit to AED 2.8 billion (US$ 762 million), an increase of 124% over last year\u2019s results, and a profit margin of 3.0%.\nOverall passenger traffic growth continues to demonstrate the consumer desire to fly on Emirates\u2019 state-of-the-art aircraft, and via efficient routings through its Dubai hub.\nEmirates carried a record 58.5 million passengers (up 4%), and achieved a Passenger Seat Factor of 77.5%. The increase in passenger seat factor compared to last year\u2019s 75.1%, is a result of successful capacity management in response to political uncertainty and strong competition in many markets despite a moderate 2% increase in seat capacity.\nSupported by the weakening of the USD against most currencies, passenger yield increased to 25.3 fils (6.9 US cents) per Revenue Passenger Kilometre (RPKM).\nTo fund its fleet growth during the year with high ongoing new aircraft deliveries, Emirates raised AED 17.9 billion (US$ 4.9 billion), using a variety of financing structures, including the successful execution of a US$ 600 million sukuk in March to fund the acquisition of two A380 aircraft to be delivered in 2018.\nEmirates continues to tap the Japanese structured finance market in conjunction with debt from a wide-ranging group of institutions in China, France, the United Kingdom, and Japan. The company raised in excess of AED 3.7 billion (US$ 1 billion) during the year from this source. Emirates has also refinanced a commercial bridge facility (due to non-availability of ECA cover) of AED 3.8 billion (US$ 1.0 billion) via an innovative finance lease structure for five A380-800 aircraft, accessing an institutional investor and bank market base from Korea, Germany, the United Kingdom and the Middle East.\nThese deals align with Emirates\u2019 financing strategy and demonstrates its ability to unlock diverse financing sources through access to global liquidity. It also underscores its sound financials and the strong investor confidence in the airline\u2019s business model.\nEmirates closed the financial year with a healthy and increased level of AED 20.4 billion (US$ 5.6 billion) of cash assets.\nRevenue generated from across Emirates\u2019 six regions continues to be well balanced, with no region contributing more than 30% of overall revenues. Europe was the highest revenue contributing region with AED 26.7 billion (US$ 7.3 billion), up 12% from 2016-17. East Asia and Australasia follows closely with AED 25.4 billion (US$ 6.9 billion), up 12%. The Americas region recorded revenue growth at AED 13.4 billion (US$ 3.7 billion), up 7%. Gulf and Middle East revenue decreased by 2% to AED 8.5 billion (US$ 2.3 billion) whereas revenue for Africa increased by 8% to AED 9.4 billion (US$ 2.6 billion). West Asia and Indian Ocean revenue increased by 5% to AED 7.8 billion (US$ 2.1 billion).\nThrough the year, Emirates introduced product and service improvements on board and on the ground.\nKey highlights include: the launch of fully-enclosed suites in First Class together with refreshed Business Class and Economy Class cabins on the 777-300ER aircraft; new, wider Business Class seats arranged in a 2-2-2 layout on the 777-200LR aircraft; and a refreshed version of the popular Onboard Lounge on the Emirates A380.\nOn the ground, Emirates added a new dedicated lounge in Boston for its premium passengers and frequent flyers; refurbished existing lounges in Singapore and Bangkok, and completed a US$ 11 million makeover of its lounges in Dubai airport Concourse B.\nEmirates also invested in new channels and technology to offer even better and more personalised customer experiences online, on mobile, as well as via its retail and contact centres.\nFor 2018-19, Emirates has announced new routes to London Stansted in the UK, Santiago in Chile, Edinburgh in Scotland, and an additional flight between Dubai and Auckland via Bali, aside from capacity upgrades to existing destinations.\nEmirates SkyCargo recorded a strong performance in a resurgent market, and continues to play an integral role in the company\u2019s expanding operations, contributing 14% of the airline\u2019s total transport revenue.\nIn an airfreight market with fast-changing demand patterns, Emirates\u2019 cargo division reported a revenue of AED 12.4 billion (US$ 3.4 billion), an impressive increase of 17% over last year, while tonnage carried slightly increased by 2% to reach 2.6 million tonnes.\nThis year, freight yield per Freight Tonne Kilometre (FTKM) increased by 14%, reflecting a very positive market environment for the industry, and the weakening of the USD against major currencies.\nEmirates\u2019 SkyCargo\u2019s total freighter fleet stood at 13 Boeing 777Fs. In addition to belly-hold capacity to Emirates\u2019 new passenger destinations, Emirates SkyCargo launched new freighter services to Maastricht (Netherlands), Luxembourg, and Aguadilla (Puerto Rico).\nEmirates SkyCargo continued to develop innovative, bespoke products tailored to key industry sectors. In November, it signed an MoU with Dubai CommerCity to develop new solutions for the e-commerce sector using Dubai as a hub.\nDuring the year, Emirates SkyCargo launched Emirates Fresh for perishable commodities such as fresh cut flowers, fruits and vegetables. For temperature-sensitive Pharma products, Emirates SkyCargo rolled out a pharma corridors programme to offer enhanced origin-to-destination protection, and it also partnered with DuPont to introduce White Cover Xtreme, a next generation thermal blanket to protect sensitive cargo.\nEmirates\u2019 hotels recorded revenue of AED 746 million (US$ 203 million), a moderate increase of 1% over last year in a highly competitive market mainly in the UAE.\ndnata performance\nIn its 59 years of operation, 2017-18 has been dnata\u2019s most profitable year, crossing AED 1.3 billion (US$ 359 million) profit for the first time. Building on its strong results in the previous year, dnata\u2019s revenue grew to AED 13.1 billion (US$ 3.6 billion), up 7%. dnata\u2019s international business now accounts for 68% of its revenue.\nThe strong performance was achieved through organic growth with key contract wins coupled with solid customer retention across its four business divisions, as well as the impact of acquisitions from previous year.\ndnata continued to lay the foundations for future growth by investing AED 600 million in new facilities and equipment, acquisitions, leading-edge technologies and people development.\nOne of its key initiatives in 2017-18 was to embark on the journey to implement a new Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) solution that will transform its business support functions, and provide real time information to enable better decision making, governance, efficiency and scalability for continued growth and expansion.\nIn 2017-18, dnata\u2019s operating costs increased accordingly by 8% to AED 11.9 billion (US$ 3.2 billion), reflecting the impact of organic growth across all lines of business coupled with integrating the newly acquired companies mainly across its international airport operations.\ndnata\u2019s cash balance reached AED 4.9 billion (US$ 1.3 billion), a new record high. The business delivered an AED 1.9 billion (US$ 506 million) cash flow from operating activities in 2017-18, which is also a new record in line with the enhanced cash balance.\nRevenue from dnata\u2019s UAE Airport Operations, including ground and cargo handling increased by 4% to reach AED 3.2 billion (US$ 859 million).\nThe number of aircraft movements handled by dnata in the UAE declined by 2% to 211,000 impacted by the geopolitical situation in the region, whereas Cargo handling increased by 2% to 731,000 tonnes, supported by the strong overall air cargo market.\nIn addition to the steady delivery of initiatives started in 2014 to optimise its operations, covering facility improvements, process changes, infrastructure upgrades and IT development, dnata also successfully tested the use of blockchain technology to further streamline and simplify its cargo delivery processes from origin to final destination.\ndnata\u2019s International Airport Operations division grew revenue by 14% to AED 3.8 billion (US$ 1.0 billion), on account of increasing business volumes, opening of new locations and winning new contracts.\nInternational airport operations continue to represent the largest business segment in dnata by revenue contribution. The number of aircraft handled by the division further increased substantially by 10% to 449,000, and Cargo noted a substantial growth of 10% to 2.4 million tonnes of handled goods.\ndnata continued to win over customers with its high quality standards, inking over 90 contracts with new and existing customers during the year.\nDuring the year, dnata made significant investments which expanded its capability and global presence. In May, dnata entered the US cargo market with its acquisition of AirLogistix USA. The investment includes state-of-the-art cargo handling facilities in Houston and Dallas Fort-Worth. dnata also expanded its cargo handling capabilities at Gatwick, opened an additional cargo warehouse in Schiphol, and a new airside cargo facility in Adelaide.\nIn the US, it received a new licence to provide ground handling services at John F. Kennedy International Airport\u2019s (JFK) Terminal 4; and it commenced operations at JFK\u2019s Terminal 8. In Singapore, dnata began operations at Singapore Changi Airport\u2019s new Terminal 4; and opened a new maintenance base for ground service equipment.\ndnata\u2019s Catering business accounted for AED 2.1 billion (US$ 585 million) of its total revenue, up 7%. The inflight catering business uplifted more than 55 million meals to airline customers.\nDuring the year, dnata opened a state-of-the-art catering hub at Melbourne airport, the largest such facility in the southern hemisphere, and a second catering facility in Ireland at Dublin airport. It also entered the Canadian market when it was awarded a licence to provide flight catering services to airlines departing Vancouver International Airport, and has commenced plans to build a dedicated catering facility there.\ndnata strengthened its presence in the North American market with the acquisition of 121 in-flight catering, a New York-based in-flight and VIP caterer in March. This is pending approval from the Committee of Foreign Investments in the United States (CFIUS). In April 2018, dnata announced the acquisition of Qantas\u2019 catering business, subject to the approval of the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission.\nRevenue from dnata\u2019s Travel Services division has seen a turnaround after last year\u2019s decline with an increase of 8% to AED 3.4 billion (US$ 922 million). The underlying total transaction value (TTV) of travel services sold increased by 6% to AED 11.3 billion (US$ 3.1 billion).\nThis solid performance was supported by dnata\u2019s ability to tap on the upswing in both inbound and outbound tourism demand in the Middle East, and a healthy increase in long-haul travel and cruise bookings in Europe and Australia.\nIn 2017-18, dnata completed its acquisition of a stake in Destination Asia, a leading destination management company with operations across 11 Asian countries, making its entry into South East Asia\u2019s inbound travel market. Its UK-based Imagine Cruising business, completed a successful first year of trading in Australia, and acquired Holiday Planet, a leading travel company in Perth to boost growth in this market.\nDuring the year, dnata invested in technology to provide enhanced functionality and a better service experience for its partners and customers. This included the creation of two travel reservation systems for Emirates Holidays and dnata Travel\u2019s B2B business, to replace existing ones.\nThe full 2017-18 Annual Report of the Emirates Group \u2013 comprising Emirates, dnata and their subsidiaries \u2013 is available at: www.theemiratesgroup.com/annualreport\nUS$ figures are converted at 1US$ = 3.67AED and are based on the full AED figures before rounding.\nGroup records 30th consecutive year of profit of AED 4.1 billion (US$ 1.1 billion) Solid business growth in line with capacity increases leading to a record revenue of more than AED 100 billion (US$ 27.2 billion) for the 1st time Improved cash balance of AED 25.4 billion (US$ 6.9 billion) Declares…\nEmirates\t2018-05-10\nTags Emirates\nPrevious AkzoNobel adds exclusive sparkle to diamond coated Sunreef Yachts catamaran\nNext YPO Announces the 2018 Global Innovation Award Winners", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00240.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 233, + "original_length": 24048, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.93, + "perplexity": 258.7, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "http://texasmusicanddance.org/parent-music-report/", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T04:22:12Z", + "digest": "sha1:772AM3B3WRV3L4ZAJFYCGUCBH7VG4TQR", + "length": 12407, + "nlines": 27, + "source_domain": "texasmusicanddance.org", + "title": "Parent Music Report: Get the most out of your music lessons.", + "raw_content": "Parent Music Report\nGET THE MOST OUT OF YOUR MUSIC LESSONS\nThe guidelines in this parent music report will help you to have a successful, rewarding experience in your musical study. These are practical tips that we have discovered from experiences with teaching hundreds of students over many years.\n1. HOW YOUNG IS TOO YOUNG \u2013 STARTING AT THE RIGHT AGE\nAdults can start any instrument at any time. Their success is based on how willing an adult is to commit to practicing. We have given many adults\u2014even into their 80\u2019s\u2013the opportunity to develop their musical ability to a level allowing them the rewards of participation in community and church instrumental and vocal ensembles.\nFor children, starting the right program at the right age is a key element to the success of their lessons. Some people will tell you \u201cthe sooner the better\u201d for private lessons but this attitude can actually backfire and be a negative. If a child is put into lessons too soon they may feel overwhelmed and frustrated and want to stop lessons. The last thing you want to do is turn a child off music just because they had one unpleasant experience that could have been prevented. Sometimes if the child waits a year to start lessons their progress can be much faster. Children who are older than the suggested earliest starting age usually do very well. The following are guidelines we have found to be successful in determining how young a child can start taking music lessons.\nA group music class will give young children early exposure to the joys of music making and provide a good foundation in music basics which will be helpful in later private lessons. At this age, private lessons generally do not work as the child has not yet experienced the formal learning environment of kindergarten or school and learns more effectively through the game-oriented preschool environment. Our school offers internationally recognized, award-winning curriculum such as Music For Little Mozarts, and licensed programs for pre-schoolers, and teachers credentialed by the Suzuki Association of the Americas to maximize a child\u2019s potential in musical development from birth to age 5. Our early childhood classes include the participation of a parent or caregiver in the class with the child, enjoying singing, movement, functioning in different rhythms, meters, keys, pitch, teamwork, audiation and other skills that contribute not only to musical development, but foster speech and cognitive skills as well. Pre-School Piano and Singing Level 1 furthers this development and adds basic keyboards and music theory concepts using manipulatives. by the time a child has had a half a year in Pre-School Piano and Singing Level 1, the family should have piano or keyboard at home for short, fun practice assignments at home with the parent.\nVery young children learn differently than older children. Starting a very young child successfully on a musical instrument hinges on factors involving the readiness and learning style of the child, the amount of time the parent has available to receive training to effectively assist the child at home, teachers trained and qualified to work with the age and learning style of the child, and an educational environment that provides older children to serve as models for the child in group activities and school performances. Our school provides parent training, carefully selected faculty qualified to work with young children successfully, and options to enroll in private lessons either in addition to or instead of group classes by age 5. For parents who are interested in the Suzuki method for piano or violin, this involves the parent receiving training in order to be able to practice daily at home with the child and attends each child\u2019s weekly private lesson and in some cases, parents elect to start the child earlier n the private lessons, at age 3 or 4.\nViolin/Piano/Cello\nAt our school 4-5 years old is the youngest age that we start children in private lessons, supplemented with group experiences. At this age they have begun to develop longer attention spans and can retain material with ease. Some teachers will start children as young as 3, but experience has shown us for most children the most productive learning occurs when the beginner is 5 or older. A child may show a preference for the low tones of the cello or the treble (higher-pitched) tones of a violin. To avoid injury to the developing body of the child, string instruments come in small sizes. The child is measured at the first lesson by the teacher and parents are given a guide providing purchase and rental information to help you get the best sound for the price. At the first lessons students are given a number of exercises and equipment for home practice that will facilitate an easier time pulling a clear tone and quicker mastery of basic skills when their own instrument is obtained. Young pianists play on a full-sized piano, with an adjustable bench and foot stool.\nGuitar \u2013 Acoustic, Electric and Bass\n8 years old is the earliest we recommend for electric guitar lessons. Guitar playing requires a fair amount of pressure on the fingertips from pressing on the strings. Children under 8 generally have small hands and may find playing uncomfortable, thus for 5-8 year olds, we recommend 1/4 sized Strunal accoustic guitars available online from Young Musicians, Inc. To avoid injury to the students hands and wrists, it is important to get guidance from the teacher as to the proper sized instrument and obtain one of sufficient quality that the student\u2019s efforts are reinforced by actual tonal results and the instrument does not sound like a toy. Bass guitar students generally are 10 years old and older.\nDepending on the specialty of the teacher, 6-10 years old is recommended as the youngest age for private vocal (singing) lessons. Due to the physical nature of voice lessons (proper breathing techniques, development of the vocal chords and lung capacity), the younger body is generally not yet ready for the rigors of vocal technique. For children younger than 10, we have a children\u2019s choir (ages 6-9) that teaches them how to use their voices properly, in a fun, relaxed environment, and Pre-school music programs for infants and toddlers from birth to age 5.\nTo be able to reach both the pedals and the cymbals on a drum set, most children start around age 8.\nDepending on the student\u2019s lung capacity (and in the case of the saxophone the size of the instrument), we recommend that most beginners are 9 and older.\nDo we bring our instruments to the lessons?\nEach student carries their own instrument to each lesson or class, with the exception of piano and drums. The school provides piano\u2019s, keyboards, and drumsets for lessons and classes, the student practices on their own instrument at home.\n2. PRIVATE LESSONS OR GROUP LESSONS?\nLook for a program that provides both. Group classes work well for preschool music programs, theory lessons, and as important supplement to private lessons where students learn to play as a group and enjoy the peer motivation and camaraderie of others pursuing similar goals. When actually learning how to play an instrument, private lessons are far superior to starting in a group only, since in private lessons it is hard to miss anything, and each student can learn at his/her own pace. This means the teacher does not have to teach a class at a middle-of-the-road level, but has the time and focus to work on the individual student\u2019s strengths and weaknesses. For that lesson period, the student is the primary focus of the teacher. At our school students have the choice of 3 tracks, based on their goals and amount of home practice time: For fastest progress, students enroll in both weekly group and private lessons and should have at least 30 minutes per day in their schedule for home practice 5 to 6 days per week. For an average of 15 or more minutes per day of practice, the student can enroll in weekly private lessons, without group, and learn at a pace that is most enjoyable and effective for him or her based on the amount of daily practice engaged it. For students who want the gentlest introduction to the instrument, the option to take group lessons (without private) is available.\nLearning music is not just a matter of having a qualified teacher, but also having an environment that is focused on music education. In a professional school environment, a student is not distracted by TV, pets, ringing phones, siblings or any other household activities. With only 1/2 to one hour of lesson time per week, a professional school environment can produce better results since the only focus at that time is learning music. Students in a school environment are also motivated by hearing peers who are at different levels and by being exposed to a variety of musical instruments. In a music school, the lessons are not just a hobby or sideline for the teacher but a responsibility that is taken very seriously.\nSet the same time every day to practice so it becomes part of a routine or habit. This works particularly well for children. Generally the earlier in the day the practicing can occur, the student is fresher and less reminding is required by parents to get the child to practice.\nCreative Repetition of Small Segments\nGames are especially effective with young beginners in taking the tedium out of the repetition. For a very young student 20 or 30 minutes seems like an eternity. Instead of setting a time frame, we use creative repetition. For example, practice certain small segments (\u201chard-work spots\u201d) 4 times every day followed by the entire piece 2 times, and this scale 5 different ways: like a frog, like an elephant, etc. (according to whatever imagery speaks to the student.) Sometimes the number of reps can be determined for each day by picking a domino, a card, or rolling a dice. Rather than watching the clock, the students know if they are on repetition number 3 they are almost finished.\nThis works very well for both children and adult students. Some adults reward themselves with a cappuccino after a successful week of practicing. Parents can encourage children to practice by granting them occasional rewards for successful practicing. In our school we reward young children for a successful week of practicing with stars and stickers on their work as well as tokens that can be redeemed for prizes. Acknowledgment tends to be the most coveted award \u2013 there just is no substitute for a pat on the back for a job well done. School-wide Practice-thons are periodically held with medals to celebrate several weeks of consistent practice. Sometimes we all have a week with little practicing, in that case there is always next week.\nLook for a variety of performance options to fit the needs of each student. We offer 3 low-keyed in-house solo/ensemble recitals per year, 1 or more group performance opportunities in the community, and periodic tour groups. We have helped our students receive top honors in festivals and competitions, receive placement on honor\u2019s recitals, in masterclasses with visiting nationally recognized guest clinicians, and successfully audition for youth symphonies and All-Region and All-State orchestras. All performance opportunities are optional according to the desires of each student.\nThere are some excellent materials developed by professional music educators that are made for students in a variety of situations. For example in piano, there are books for very young beginners, and books for adult students that have never played before. There are books that can start you at a level you are comfortable with. These materials researched materials ensure that no important part of learning the instrument can inadvertently be left out. If you ever have to move to a different part of the country, qualified teachers and institutions will recognize the materials and be able to smoothly continue from where the previous teacher left off.\nMusic can be something that you enjoy for a lifetime. We\u2019re sure by following the guidelines in this parent music report you enhance your child\u2019s opportunity for success. try not to put unrealistic expectations on yourself or your children to learn too quickly. Everyone learns at a different pace and the key is to be able to enjoy the journey. For further tips, use the Contact Us button and receive periodic updates with our latest tips.", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00240.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 100, + "original_length": 15627, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.96, + "perplexity": 313.6, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "http://thedaytonmagazine.com/DM/Articles/203.aspx", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T03:45:06Z", + "digest": "sha1:7YENWF5SQNR6YINVF3QSX2A3VHFE5WDN", + "length": 6472, + "nlines": 31, + "source_domain": "thedaytonmagazine.com", + "title": "Dayton Upfront | Articles | Dayton Magazine", + "raw_content": "Reinvention Stories; WYSO's storytelling project uncovers common threads; Five River Metro Parks celebrates 50 years of conservation and education\nBy Tracy Staley & Natasha Baker\nReinventing the City of Invention\nWhen a team of storytellers took to the streets of Dayton last summer, talking to strangers in search of stories of reinvention, they weren\u2019t sure what would emerge.\nWould they stumble upon personal stories that could, taken together, tell a story of an entire region\u2019s metamorphosis? Could their approach \u2013 walking and interviewing their way through downtown and four Dayton neighborhoods \u2013 answer the question that propelled them to the streets: What happens when a city of invention must reinvent itself?\nOne of team\u2019s leaders, Julia Reichert, believes it did. Common threads emerged among the diverse stories: doubt, courage, faith, hope, rebuilding.\n\u201cWe are a resilient place,\u201d she says. \u201cDoing this work, I felt that even more.\u201d\n\"Reinvention Stories\" is a transmedia storytelling project led by WYSO and the award-winning filmmaking duo of Reichert and Steven Bognar. Radio stories air regularly on WYSO, accompanied by multimedia features at wyso.org. The centerpiece of the reinvention project is an interactive documentary \u2013 reinventionstories.org \u2013 created by the team and the Boston online firm Zeega.\nThe project was born when WYSO general manager Neenah Ellis partnered with Reichert and Bognar to win a grant from the Association of Independents in Radio and the Corporation for Public Broadcasting designed to allow radio stations to go into the streets to tell multi-media stories of their communities.\nWYSO was one of 10 stations to win the grant, and the only one to bring in filmmakers. It will continue through the next year thanks to an $80,000 grant from the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation. Photographs from the project will be on display this summer at the Dayton Art Institute.\nReichert and Bognar are award-winning documentarians, known for feature length films such as \u201cLion in the House\u201d and \u201cThe Last Truck,\u201d so their foray into online storytelling was a reinvention of its own.\nThe site is anchored by films featuring seven Dayton residents who share their journey of reinvention. Their stories are told in three acts: Who were you when the bottom fell out? What happened? Who did you become?\n\u201cThey are so honest,\u201d Reichert said. \u201cThat\u2019s what I love about everyone who is in it.\u201d\nUsers can also navigate down a Dayton street, clicking on short films that appear in bubbles along the road to see a variety of Dayton events that capture the spirit of the city, such as a vibrant performance of the Dayton Men\u2019s Choir to the diverse World Soccer Games, a tournament of teams representing Dayton\u2019s many immigrant communities.\nUsers can answer questions about the city: where they see signs of life, what events they look forward to, what gives them hope. Their answers appear instantly on the Twitter feed, @ReinventDayton.\n\u201cWith these questions, we want to be a positive force for Dayton,\u201d Reichert says.\nBut for as much as the filmmakers try to influence how visitors to the website will use it, each person experiences it in a different way.\n\u201cThe Internet requires a lot of letting go,\u201d says Bognar.\nBy Tracy Staley\n50 Years of Conservation, Education and Natural Beauty\nFive Rivers MetroParks is a destination for families and individuals seeking natural experiences, whether through outdoor adventure, relaxing gardens, wildlife interactions or educational programs. This year, the parks celebrate their growth from just a few parks to 25 facilities protecting 15,500 acres of natural beauty in the Dayton area.\nSave Open Space\nIn 1959, landscape architect and land planner Harold R. Freiheit led a study on the effects of urban sprawl and the dwindling open space in Montgomery and Greene counties. His committee found that without a preservation plan, there would be little open space left in the Dayton Metropolitan area; existing parks would not be adequate to meet the needs of the growing community.\nGlenn Thompson, editor of the former Dayton Journal-Herald, and Jean V. Woodhull, member of the Garden Club of Dayton, formed the Save Open Space Committee. This group received approval for the park district\u2019s formation on April 8, 1963, set with the purpose \u201cto protect natural areas, parks and river corridors, and to promote the conservation and use of these lands and waterways for the ongoing benefit of the people in the region.\u201d\nToday, There Are\n25 park facilities, including 18 major MetroPark locations. Five Rivers MetroParks also maintains areas preserved as natural habitat. The park district sets an industry-leading standard of 90 percent natural areas to 10 percent development.\nVisitors to the MetroParks will find nearly 80 miles of hiking trails, 8.5 miles of mountain bike trail, about 25 miles of equestrian trails, and more than 70 miles of bike trails. This represents a portion of the region\u2019s 330-mile bikeway network \u2013 the largest in the country.\nTo celebrate its golden anniversary, Five Rivers MetroParks launched a district-wide celebration. Local artists donated some of their nature-inspired works to share with the community. Their creations were infused with quick-response codes and telephone extensions. When scanned, the QR codes take the user to a video link revealing \u201chidden\u201d information about the parks. Similarly, the extensions share a voice-recorded message about the parks.\nIn addition to the art, the park district also is calling out some of its own hidden treasures for visitors to find. From the metroparks.org/history website, users can view all \u201c50 Things to See and Do\u201d that outlines the \u201chidden nature\u201d in the park and gives locations and directions to find the items. Park patrons are challenged to find all 50 items.\nFive Rivers MetroParks staff and volunteers dug through filing cabinets, boxes, desk drawers and closets in search of historical elements harkening back to the early days of the park district. A selection of park relics are being preserved, cataloged and stored for future generations to enjoy with the help of the Wright State University Special Collections and Archives division.\nPlan a trip to a Five Rivers MetroParks location using metroparks.org. From this site, visitors can find amenities, details on permits for camping and shelter reservations, register for educational programs, and read the complete history of the MetroParks.", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00240.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 74, + "original_length": 7385, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.94, + "perplexity": 258.0, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "http://thedrop.fm/charlie-wilsons-love-charlie-debuts-no-1/", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T03:22:08Z", + "digest": "sha1:SRPHOFVXLSLIKMY63DG2FVOSKIEGACZF", + "length": 829, + "nlines": 7, + "source_domain": "thedrop.fm", + "title": "Charlie Wilson\u2019s \u2018Love, Charlie\u2019 Debuts at No. 1 on Billboard Chart", + "raw_content": "Charlie Wilson\u2019s \u2018Love, Charlie\u2019 Debuts at No. 1 on Billboard Chart\nWe told you not too long ago that Charlie Wilson would be giving the gift of 'Love, Charlie' on his birthday. Well, the good karma has come back to the veteran singer with his album claiming the top spot on the Billboard Top R&B Album chart in its first week.\nThe effort also earned the No. 4 spot on the Billboard Top 200 chart. 'Love, Charlie' sold 44,000 copies according to Nielsen Soundscan. 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However, the artists' collaborative effort on 'No Church in the Wild,' off Hov and 'Ye's 'Watch the Throne' LP, earned them a gramophone for Best/Rap Sung Collaboration at the 55th Annual Grammy Awards Sunday night.\n\"I didn't think I was going to be the first to speak on this one,\" Ocean said in shock -- possibly from his win earlier this evening.\nMeanwhile, The-Dream wanted to make sure he got to show his appreciation by naming a few people who he didn't have the opportunity to thank during a previous Grammy acceptance speech. \"I'd like to thank Roc Nation and just everybody and last time I was cut off from my Grammy speech but I just want to thank my mom and grandfather,\" he said graciously.\nKanye didn't make it to this year's awards ceremony. And although Jay-Z was present, he was a man of few words -- he chose to use his minimal talk to joke about Dream's hat. \"I would like to thank the swap meet for his hat,\" Hov quipped.\n'Wild Ones' by Flo Rida and Sia, 'Tonight (Best You Ever Had) by John Legend and Ludacris, 'Cherry Wine' by Nas and Amy Winehouse and 'Talk That Talk' by Rihanna and Jay-Z were also nominated for this Grammy category.\nWatch Jay-Z & Kanye West's 'No Church in the Wild' Video Feat. 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If so, comment and let me know.\nSuzann Witkowsky\nHeard about this website from my buddy. He pointed me right here and told me I\u2019d find what I need. He was correct! I got all the questions I had, answered. Did not even get lengthy to seek out it. Love the truth that you made it so simple for individuals like me.", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00240.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 60, + "original_length": 3211, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.94, + "perplexity": 330.6, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "http://thefoundingfields.com/2013/03/comics-round-up-15-03-2013/", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T04:39:06Z", + "digest": "sha1:PYCFL6V6AIUNKOVWDBQQXPV6RZOIUM7Q", + "length": 32457, + "nlines": 77, + "source_domain": "thefoundingfields.com", + "title": "Comics Round-up 15.03.2013 \u00ab Dark Horse \u00ab The Founding Fields", + "raw_content": "Shadowhawk, Bane of Kings, Bellarius and Lord of the Night welcome you to the second comics round-up for March.\n\u201cUnusually, its all graphic novels this month for the most part and once again, the experience has been across the spectrum. The shining lights this month have been DC\u2019s Huntress and Green lantern.\u201d ~Shadowhawk\n\u201cThe Death of the Family is one of the greatest Batman tales ever written, and Paul Cornell\u2019s Wolverine gets off to a solid start.\u201d ~Bane of Kings\n\u201cProbably the only comic in which you want to see more people and less fire breathing lizards.\u201d ~Bellarius\nHirano\u2019s latest work is everything we\u2019ve come to associate him with. Immensely gory violence, over-the-top in a good way characters and absurdly hilarious moments that abruptly switch back to unrelenting carnage. What fan of his would have it any other way??\u201d ~Lord of the Night\nComics reviewed by Shadowhawk: Star Wars: Darth Maul \u2013 Death Sentence by Tom Taylor (Dark Horse), New 52: Huntress Vol.1 by Paul Levitz (DC Comics), Green Lantern: Rebirth by Geoff Johns (DC Comics), and, Ravine TPB by Ron Marz and Stjepan Sejic (Top Cow).\nStar Wars: Darth Maul \u2013 Death Sentence by Tom Taylor\nDarth Maul is one of my favourite characters from Star Wars lore, owing in large part to the fact that he is a heavily tattooed badass Sith who could have more than given Darth Vader a run for his credits, had the two ever gone up against each other. Actually that does happen in one of the post-Episode III comics that Dark Horse put out a few years back, and the comic was one of the best Star Wars comics I\u2019ve read to date. Going into Death Sentence, I had a lot of expectations for the comic because of my love for the character and his entire backhistory. More so since this is a Clone Wars spin-off, and I happen to love that show too. Sadly, the comic failed to deliver on my expectations and I was left rather underwhelmed with the whole thing.\nTo be clear, it was the writing and not the art that robbed me of my enthusiasm and soured the reading experience. In a word, the story was entirely silly. Throughout, I had a tough time connecting with Darth Maul\u2019s character, and with that of Savage Opress, his brother. The latter has been portrayed extremely in Clone Wars, at least till the season 3 issue when there\u2019s a three-way fight between him, Count Dooku and Asajj Ventress. Tom Taylor has reduced the character to a cliched thug, and Darth Maul comes across as an average villain, rather than someone truly frightening. To be honest, it felt like Taylor just didn\u2019t have a proper grasp on either character. More often than not, Darth Maul appeared to be little more than a mustache-twirling villain rather than the big bad Sith Apprentice who has killed several Jedi in his time and went up against Master Qui-gon Jinn himself, one of the best lightsaber duelists among the order.\nI mean, Darth Maul is someone who saw himself as accomplished enough to take on the Jedi Masters from the Council! Who is the one of the coldest killers in science fiction. I was disappointed, very disappointed in how he is portrayed. Maul and Opress don\u2019t even get all that much dialogue, come to think of it.\nThe story involves an enterprising criminal leader who puts out a bounty on the two brothers, forcing them to go after him and destroy his entire operation. Of course, the Jedi aren\u2019t too far behind, and matters come to a head on the Outer Rim planet of Moorjhone. The story also involves an insurrection, prophecies, lots of death, special appearances and sacrifice.\nGiven that Darth Maul is the titular star here, we don\u2019t see all that much of him, and that\u2019s one of the things that really grated on me. Add to it that the story was just too boring and unexciting. In the main, the only element of the book that I really enjoyed was Jedi Master Judd, who I think is definitely one of the best Jedi characters in Star Wars comics fiction to date, no contest. I wish we could have seen more of him.\nThe art for the mini-series is provided by Bruno Redondo as penciller, Michael Atiyeh as colourist, Michael Heisliner as letterer and Dave Dorman as cover artist. Their joint effort does a great job of showing off the setting. There are some odd expressions and poses here and there, but thankfully they are very few. As a visual spectacle, Death Sentence is one of the best comics I\u2019ve read.\nThe issue is that it just lacks any kind of creativity in the plot. That\u2019s really the heart of the problem. Having read the amazing Darth Vader and the Ghost Prison by Hayden Blackman, this is even more disappointing.\nMore Star Wars: #1, #2, Agent of the Empire Vol.1: Iron Eclipse, Darth Vader and The Ghost Prison.\nHuntress Vol.1 by Paul Levitz\nMy only prior experience with the character comes from the Birds of Prey live action series from a few years back, Gail Simone\u2019s Birds of Prey: Death of Oracle, the Justice League television series, Paul Levitz\u2019s World\u2019s Finest, and her 3-episode special appearance in the new Arrow live-action series. So, a decent enough experience, but not nearly enough since this is my first proper Huntress comic. Having enjoyed Paul Levitz\u2019s great work on World\u2019s Finest, I was quite looking forward to this, and I have to say that Levitz has definitely met my expectations with this, and written a really interesting story.\nThe core element of the narrative is that Helena has gone to Italy to take down a crime lord who has been flooding Gotham of late with entire caches of weapons and more. The first issue does a great job of introducing the character, and laying down the beginnings of the meta-plot at work here as well. This is a mini-series that is full of action and drama in all the right amount for most part, and is a story that also has some real-world geopolitical references, such as the Arab Spring.\nPaul Levitz treats Huntress as a proper character here, in that she has strong motivations for what she does, she has great dialogue that never comes across as cheesy, she sticks to her values and she never compromises with herself. She is a character you can respect and get along with. That\u2019s what I wanted from the book going in, and that\u2019s what I got. All good stuff! It was great to see her character evolve ever so slightly from her introduction and right on through to the ending of the arc, which, by the way, has a great climax. She\u2019s also cheeky, quick to laugh, and utterly badass with that crossbow of hers. Icing on the cake!\nMarcus To (pencils), John Dell (inks), and Andrew Dalhouse (colours) have done an excellent job with the interiors and even though sometimes Huntress has slightly different character designs in the book, especially when compared to the cover, I still enjoyed their work. Huntress/Helena Bertinelli is always shown in good, strong poses which always communicate her moods quite well, which is doubly great given some of the dross that other artists have been putting out for a while now. No over-sexualisation of the character here, not at all. The covers for the individual issues, done by Guillem March and Tomeu Morey, are also all excellent, except for the cover to #6 which just has the weirdest composition I\u2019ve ever seen.\nOverall, this was a really good story with some great art that I had a lot of fun reading. Given that this is a six-issue standalone book, it\u2019s also a good introduction to the character. I never felt like I was missing anything. Definitely a recommendation!\nGreen Lantern: Rebirth by Geoff Johns\nAs with Darth Maul in the Star Wars universe, so it is with Green Lantern in the DC universe. My first introduction to the character was the Justice League animated series, and I\u2019ve loved the character ever since. The Ryan Reynolds starrer Green Lantern was a decent enough movie in my opinion, I certainly enjoyed it, since it served as a great intro to the character as far as I\u2019m concerned. I started reading the comics series last year, and I haven\u2019t looked back since as far as the character himself is concerned, the multiple identities notwithstanding. Geoff Johns\u2019 current New 52 series is definitely one of my favourite monthly books at the moment, and I\u2019ve had a lot of fun with it. And that is why I wanted to go all the way back to his first proper run with the character, in which he brought back to life an apparently dead Hal Jordan and since has changed how people have viewed the character and the Green Lantern IP.\nWhat stunned me about this book was the sheer scale of the narrative. It involves every single human Green Lantern \u2013 Alan Scott, Hal Jordan, Kyle Rayner, Jon Stewart, and Guy Gardener \u2013 and pairs them all with various characters from all over the DCU. The Justice League has a substantial role in the events, as well as the Guardians themselves, and a host of other characters. Sinestro, one of the greatest enemies of the Green Lantern corps, and Hal\u2019s most terrible enemy, also leaves his mark on proceedings. Since I\u2019m a fan of such multi-starrer books, having enjoyed most of the Crisis on Infinite Earths and Infinite Crisis books, this was right up my alley. Geoff Johns definitely did a great job with bringing so many different characters together and making them all work within the framework of the incredible story he is telling.\nThe standout thing about the book is how Geoff Johns treats the narrative. He introduces the characters in small groups at a time, letting the reader get comfortable before moving on to the next set of characters. He slowly builds up the tension in every issue until things finally come to a devastating conclusion in the final issue. The writing is consistent and it is quite apparent that Geoff loves all these characters, especially Hal Jordan, Carol Ferris and Jon Stewart. His enthusiasm for Hal Jordan, the greatest Green Lantern ever, practically leaps out from the pages. Having seen how he treats a younger version of the character in his current ongoing series, his passion for Hal is obvious and welcome. That\u2019s when a comic really becomes enjoyable, when you know that the writer is truly invested in the character and wants to do right by him/her/it. Without that spark, Rebirth would not have been as great a book as it is.\nRebirth is one of the most complex comics I\u2019ve read to date, and that includes the aforementioned Crisis books. In addition to the super-large cast of characters what works really well for this book is that Geoff has written a story that is a great introduction to the Green Lantern Corps in general and Hal Jordan in particular. I\u2019m familiar with the character through the current ongoing main-title Green Lantern series, but one of my main problems with the first volume of that was that there was a lot of apparent backstory going in for the New 52 reboot of DCU. That is not the case. Anything and everything you want to know about the characters is all there on the pages, without ever going into info-dump territory. If you are looking for a good place to start with Green Lantern comics, then Rebirth should be your absolute first stop, in my experience.\nAnother standout element of the story is the relationship between Hal Jordan and Batman, the latter highly suspicious of anything that the former does or says. Batman is so against Hal that he just doesn\u2019t trust him, and it created for some great scenes in the book. The two finally clash in the opening pages of the sixth issue and that entire scene sequence is one of my favourite moments in the book. Batman just doesn\u2019t know when to give up!\nThere\u2019s also the chemistry between Hal and Oliver Queen aka Green Arrow. More than the Justice League series, more than the Green Lantern Animated series, more than Smallville and (almost) more than Arrow, it is Rebirth that has gotten me really invested into the character. I loved how Geoff Johns portrays him here and how he develops the friendship between Ollie and Hal. Ollie\u2019s scenes in the book are definitely one of the best.\nEthan von Sciver and Prentis Rollins have provided the majority of the artwork for the entire arc and it is, for its time, one of the best I\u2019ve seen. I also think that it has aged nicely, given some of the truly stunning artwork that can be found in today\u2019s comics. Sciver and Rollins\u2019 work stands up really well with the current Green Lantern series and there is a good, strong visual continuity between the two books. That\u2019s great to see! I\u2019m thinking that I definitely need to check out more of their artwork, because I\u2019m in love!\nRavine TPB by Ron Marz and Stjepan Sejic\nBoth Ron Marz and Stjepan Sejic are among my favourite comics creators. I\u2019ve been having lots of fun with their collaboration on Top Cow\u2019s Artifacts crossover series (I happened to read the first four volumes of the series in like 2-3 days last year) and I consider both of them to be among the best out there in the industry right now. When I heard that they were working on a creator-owned property through the auspices of Top Cow, itself among my favourite publishers, I was all sorts of excited, especially since the early artwork that was released was just plain amazing.\nSadly, my excitement was tempered with the book itself. In the main, I liked the artwork, but the story was often too disjointed and the artwork wasn\u2019t all that clear a lot of times.\nConceived by Sejic, who is both the writer and artist for the book, Ravine tells the story of a fantasy world with several nation states, dragonshifters, ancient magics, prophecies, coming of age characters, and dragons, lots and dragons. On the meta-level, this is a very exciting story. But it is hampered by the fact that there is, even for a graphic novel, a LOT of things to keep track of and the complexity of Sejic\u2019s work works against the book a lot of times. Some of the artwork isn\u2019t all the distinct either, with several characters looking the same in some key scenes, and that makes it all the harder to read. The painted style that Sejic used in Artifacts is back again for Ravine, but unlike the former, I just wasn\u2019t a fan of it this time with the latter. Don\u2019t get me wrong, there\u2019s a metric ton of detail in each panel and they are all stunning for the most, but it\u2019s just that sometimes the details blur together and becomes difficult to differentiate things at times. In the advance reading copy I got through Ron Marz, the colours are actually a bit dark as well, which no doubt colours my experience (pun intended), so I\u2019m considering buying the individual series to see how it is all in \u201creality\u201d. Sounds like a fun experiment of sorts!\nThe dialogue was often confusing, and I kept getting disoriented with the narrative, which often necessitated second and even third reads of the pages. This made the book frustrating, and not all that good of an experience in totality. Ravine is definitely not up to part with Ron Marz\u2019s Artifacts for Top Cow or Prophecy for Dynamite. Given that Sejic is the co-writer, I think some of his influence is at work here as well. I\u2019m hoping that together, the two can improve for the next installments because this is a story that I definitely want to stick with!\nWhat I will definitely credit Sejic and Marz is with the complexity of the world, even though I found it overwhelming a lot of the time. There are political, cultural and geographical nuances at work throughout the book and despite their flaws, they really do make for a good enough experience. The best I can say is that I\u2019m really looking forward to reading more of Ravine, and that I eagerly anticipate the follow-on issues from this TPB, in spite of my various issues with it. There\u2019s a great genius at work here, that I cannot deny.\nComics reviewed by Bane of Kings: Batman #13-#17 by Scott Snyder (DC Comics), and, Marvel Now! \u2013 Wolverine #1 by Paul Cornell (Marvel).\nBatman #13-#17 by Scott Snyder\nArt: Greg Capullo | Colours & Letters: Various | Cover: Greg Capullo\n\u201cDeath of the Family\u201d part 1 featuring the return of the Joker! He crippled Batgirl. He killed Robin. What will the Joker do now that he\u2019s returned to Gotham City? And what must Batman do to protect his secret identity and that of those who fight alongside him?\n\u201cDeath of the Family\u201d part 2. The Joker is back and somehow more sinister than ever! What caused this change? And can even Batman stop a Joker so driven and dangerous? Plus: in the backup feature, the Penguin is running out of options as he\u2019s confronted by the Joker!\n\u201cDeath of the Family\u201d part 3. The Joker\u2019s attacks have taken their toll on Batman and his allies, and now they have to face the impossible. Plus: in the backup feature, witness The Joker\u2019s confrontation with the Riddler as the horror of The Joker\u2019s plan is revealed.\nDeath of the Family\u201d part 4. Batman heads into his showdown with The Joker as the madman\u2019s plan is finally revealed! And in the backup story, in the midst of The Joker\u2019s assault on Batman and his allies, get a secret glimpse into what started The Clown Prince of Crime on his horrifying journey! \u201c\n\u201cDeath of the Family\u201d part 5, the shocking conclusion to the Bat-Family epic. Who lives? Who dies? Who laughs last? Find out as Batman and The Joker face off one last time!\nThe Death of the Family Batman arc is one issue on from its conclusion and I thought it would be a good time to write a quick roundup review of the entire Death of the Family Arc so far. This is one of the best Batman stories that I have ever read and I can firmly say that Snyder has pulled out all the stops to make Death of the Family not only beat his The Court of Owls, but excel that by a lot.\nOpening with #13, Snyder hits the ground running for a great Joker story by including several references to pre-New 52 events, such as the Joker\u2019s first kill in Gotham and where it all started. This is a brilliant way to pay homage to the Clown Prince of Crime, and Snyder has managed to do it without decreasing the entertainment value. After the Dollmaker cut off the Joker\u2019s face in the first issue of Detective Comics of the New 52, it\u2019s been a year since his absence and he\u2019s back. And deadlier than ever.\nSnyder also uses #13 to test Jim Gordon and the GCPD to the brink. The chilling opening sequence where the Joker arrives in Gotham City is very haunting, and #14 only continues from there. #14 is probably the best in the entire Arc, and Snyder has made this storyline really enjoyable \u2013 really dark and gritty, with the tension increased by the atmospheric artwork provided by Greg Capullo and the strong, consistent backup stories by James Tynion IV which show the Joker gathering together the more famous faces of Batman\u2019s rogue gallery \u2013 we get Two Face, Penguin and the Riddler featured here.\nOver the course of the five issues, Snyder has created a storyline that all future writers behind the Clown Prince of Crime will have to look at and think if their attempts will ever be as good as this. The writer has created a great book that although the conclusion will leave some dissatisfied due to the enormous hype built around the final issue and the death of Damian Wayne \u2013 which didn\u2019t actually take place in Death in the Family, but this is a Batman arc that shouldn\u2019t be missed.\nBatman\u2019s narration, like it was in the Court/Night of Owls stories, is superb and is really one of the strengths in this book. Each time Batman starts talking; Snyder increases the monologue and delivers a powerful conclusion. The Joker is a villain that really should be saved for these kind of stories \u2013 and not thrust about in every other Batman comic as too many defeats by Batman would start to make him feel kind of useless, ala the Daleks in Doctor Who and their over-use in the Russell T. Davis era.\nOver the course of these issues, Batman is tested, pushed to the limit of his mind, body and soul in the way that any good story featuring the Caped Crusader should do. Capullo is quickly becoming one of my favourite Batman artists and I really hope that he and Snyder stick around for many Batman books to come.\nI loved this comic series which is why I am finding myself wondering if any future Batman story will live up to the masterpiece created by Snyder and Capullo, even the just-as ambitious Zero Year arc that is set to follow on from #21. But I\u2019ll be sticking around for that series for sure, and I can\u2019t wait to see where Snyder takes the Dark Knight from here.\n[Note: I have already read Batman #18, but will cover that in a future roundup]\nWolverine #1 by Paul Cornell\nWriter: Paul Cornell | Art: Alan Davis, Mark Farmer | Colours: Matt Hollingsworth | Letters: Cory Petit | Cover Art: Alan Davis, Mark Farmer, Jason Keith\nThe best there is at what he does doing what he does best! When Wolverine finds himself the bargaining chip in a hostage situation, he must make a decision to save a little boy that will follow him forever\u2026literally!\nI have a mixed feeling about this first Wolverine issue by Paul Cornell, which I certainly wasn\u2019t expecting to have coming into this comic. After all, it\u2019s Paul Cornell \u2013 writer of some of my favourite Doctor Who episodes, Father\u2019s Day, Human Nature and The Family of Blood, alongside the more recent awesome comic series Demon Knights from DC\u2019s New 52. I\u2019ve never read a bad work by him and I had a good reason to be going into Wolverine with high hopes.\nAnd was I disappointed? To an extent. From what I\u2019ve seen from Cornell in the past, he\u2019s never let me down and I was hoping for something spectacular here. However, Wolverine seems to be more of a \u2018playing it safe\u2019 take on one of the more popular Marvel characters and it doesn\u2019t really break any new ground on the character.\nAlthough there is more to a straightforward Wolverine issue than simply meets the eye at a first glance, as Cornell plays on the character himself, working in several aspects of Logan\u2019s very busy life, and manages to make it clear that there are greater things to come. It also could be seen as a nice introduction to the character for those of you who are still not all too familiar about Wolverine\u2019s powers \u2013 as they\u2019re explored in some depth here. There are some nice homages to find in Wolverine #1, even if the only memorable character here is of course Wolverine himself and we don\u2019t get any features from any of the other crew in the Marvel Universe.\nOne of the most important elements of the narrative is Wolverine\u2019s healing factor and It will be interesting to see if Cornell continues to test it in future books. Alan Davis is also on hand here with some interesting artwork, and the Wolverine featured here is more old school than what comics fans will be used to seeing and I think that works here, and whilst the artwork itself is nothing too spectacular and it can feel like a standard Marvel mystery story at times, you shouldn\u2019t give this one a miss.\nComics reviewed by Bellarius: Godzilla: Kingdom of Monsters #9-12 by Eric Powell and Tracy Marsh (IDW).\nGodzilla: Kingdom of Monsters #9-12 by Eric Powell and Tracy Marsh\nGodzilla has ultimately been an extremely hit and miss franchise. In terms of quality it really is all over the place with various films being infamously clunky, reliant upon big screen effects and suffering from multiple reboots, not to mention the problems it had with human characters. Believe it or not the Roland Emmerich\u2019s adaptation wasn\u2019t the worst when it came to bad characters, an insane plot or\u2026 well lots of problems. While most of what IDW has produced since getting the license has been stellar, Kingdom of Monsters is one of the less outstanding examples.\nSet in an alternate universe of the Heisei era, Kingdom was a twelve issue series which tried to show the monsters on a global scale and having a much greater impact upon the world. Rather than retreating back into the sea each time they appeared, the kaiju in this universe went on a rampage. They weren\u2019t going to be quiet or kept to one island and would quite happily trash every city they ran into. Yeah, Godzilla himself didn\u2019t stop at Tokyo in this story; he kept going and slaughtered everything in his path. To try and combat it, the American military deploys their own newly developed war machine, Mechagodzilla, which proceeds to go rogue once it falls under the control of Sergeant Steven Woods. A soldier with a severe chip on his shoulder and desiring revenge against the monsters.\nOne thing worth praising is that despite this collection consisting of the tail end of the series, there\u2019s no continuity lockout preventing you keeping up with what\u2019s going on. While a few things are left unexplained, the opening pages are quick to bring anyone new up to speed. Never going into the \u201cas you know\u201d conversations which hamstring the story but making sure anyone picking up the trade knows what\u2019s going on while giving details that would make anyone want to go back and read the whole story. The way it\u2019s delivered feels a little archaic, like something you\u2019d find in comics from the late 90s to early 2000s, but it works well.\nWhat doesn\u2019t work quite so well is how the final issues handle monster battles. While in past issues these had been huge things which had wrecked entirely landscapes, in the closing moments of the series they feel much more like brief skirmishes. They only go on for a few pages before they\u2019re suddenly resolved, either by massed firepower or in a brief twist which just brings them down. It lacks any pacing to events and what we do see is over almost as soon as it starts, without any sign of continuing.\nA likely reason for this is Jason Ciaramella was just the wrong person to deal with purely monster battles with little human involvement. When reading through the collection it\u2019s fairly obvious that the writing is much stronger when focusing upon human survival against the monsters rather than the battles themselves. Helped in no small part but a surprisingly good narration over scenes of decimation and by Victor Santos\u2019 familiarity with drawing such scenes, having worked on the Hellboy spinoff BPRD extensively. Overall it just feels like Ciaramella wanted to work on a somewhat Cloverfield inspired story but couldn\u2019t quite handle when monsters needed to actually fight one another.\nThat being said we don\u2019t quite learn enough about the human characters to keep things going. It\u2019s not so much they\u2019re flat as they are unexplored, suffering from the same issues characters in Stormwatch had. With character development often sidelined or limited by the ongoing action and huge setpieces. They\u2019re still good enough to make the reader care if they die or not but besides the aforementioned sergeant and the man leading the project which created Mechagodzilla none really stand out.\nThere\u2019s no denying that this is one of the weaker stories on IDW\u2019s comics lineup. Much of it is put down to a supposedly big shift the last few issues undertook when it was revealed at the last minute this would lead into an ongoing series rather than being self-contained. Even without that though it\u2019s still very flawed. If you are looking for a more human side to a full-scale kaiju war or what the world would look like if Godzilla truly ran amok then Kingdom of Monsters is worth a look. On the other hand if you\u2019re looking for something more straight forwards or better structured when it comes to fighting the Legends and Gangsters & Goliaths would definitely be a better option.\nComics reviewed by Lord of the Night: Drifters Vol.1 by Kouta Hirano (Dark Horse).\nDrifters Vol.1 by Kouta Hirano\nMy first manga review for The Founding Fields, and I knew it simply had to be Drifters. I\u2019ve only recently gotten into Drifters but i\u2019ve been a Kouta Hirano fan ever since I discovered Hellsing nearly 6-7 years ago. Vampires fighting against Catholic Knights and Nazi SS vampires, it appealed to me instantly. And Drifters, while being far more fantasy-based than Hellsing was, is no less awesome.\nThere is another world out there. A world of magic and wonder, filled with elves, dwarves and hobbits and dragons. And in that world there are two types of people, people that do not belong there. The Ends, those who hate humans and have forsworn their own humanity to wield strange powers in the bargain, led by the Black King who brings destruction in his wake. And the Drifters, those who bring change to this primitive world of spells and monsters. And each Drifter and End, comes from our own world, from all across time and space. They come from any era, any country, any people. And this is their story.\nThe story of Drifters is immensely different from Hiranos\u2019 previous works. A fantasy world with historical characters killing each other, and the story that the first volume contains starts all of it off quite well, introducing the main characters and a little bit about the world they inhabit, but leaving enough mystery that not everything has been explained in these first eleven chapters. Hirano has the start of a very unique story here, one that showcases all the violence, absurdity and unlikely heroes that his previous works all contain, and one that I have no doubt will grow more complex, violent and hilarious as more volumes are released.\nThe characters in Drifters are, for the most part, real people that did exist in our history. The Drifters Toyohisa Shimazu, Oda Nobunaga and Nasu no Yoichi, the Ends Joan of Arc, Anastasia Nikolaevna Romanov and Hijekata. I personally really like this choice as it lends the characters a certain weight, we know of these people and the things they did in life and it makes them feel real when we read about them in the manga, even if they were very likely nothing like they are depicted here, and it also allows historical jokes about them that are quite funny. Hirano knows how to create unique and memorable characters and each character is strongly written and drawn, though not a lot has been revealed in this first volume about anyone but the main characters, so there\u2019s still a lot to learn about them.\nThe action is of course excellent. If there\u2019s one thing that Hirano does better than anyone, and there is, it\u2019s write bloody action scenes filled with guys being decapitated, cut in half, barraged by bullets or arrows or leaping through the air with katanas ready to cut. Drifters has brilliant battle scenes, though not as high-tech as Hellsing it uses magical elements such as dragons and spells to enhance the battles that focus on swordwork and archery. Combine that with beautifully drawn artwork and you have a manga whose action scenes are unforgettable. This first volume starts off small but does feature a large battle, and both of them show off the violence and fantasy aspects of this series amazingly well.\nThe artwork is beautiful. No other way to put it really. It\u2019s very well detailed, the people actually looking unique from each other in features other than hair style and eye colour which in a manga tend not to matter since there is no colour, but Hirano\u2019s style makes it so that each character looks like an individual and you can tell who is who with the characters just standing there. The physical combat portions are drawn in a way that you can tell not only what each character is doing but the movements that got them to that position in the first place, and the world and fantasy elements are drawn very well too, the locales being suitably medieval while the fantasy elements actually drawn from classic western fantasy sources such as dragons and elves, which adds a nice mix to the series.\nThis first volume is definitely a good start to the series. Ending in just the right place, and with the main storyline revealed, the volume ends on Chapter 11 and with some really really funny omakes at the end. I personally loved the volume from start to finish, it\u2019s everything that I love about Kouta Hirano\u2019s works and this time with a fantasy twist which only further appeals to me. I wouldn\u2019t recommend this manga to anyone who doesn\u2019t like gratuitous violence, really really gratuitous, but for those who do like that this is a manga you NEED to read. For that matter you should also read Hirano\u2019s previous work Hellsing which I cannot possibly recommend enough.\nPosted in: Dark Horse, DC Comics, IDW Publishing, Marvel, Top Cow Tags: Bane of Kings, Batman, Bellarius, Comics, Comics Review, Comics Roundup, Dark Horse, Darth Maul, DC Comics, Drifters, Geoff Johns, Godzilla, Green Lanter, Huntress, IDW Publishing, Kouta Hirano, Lord of the Night, Manga, Marvel, Ravine, review, Ron Marz, Roundup, Scott Snyder, Shadowhawk, Top Cow, Wolverine", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00240.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 157, + "original_length": 38008, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.97, + "perplexity": 303.6, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "http://thefutoncritic.com/news/2016/05/18/cnn-greenlights-three-new-original-series-for-the-2017-programming-slate-361401/20160518cnn01/", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T03:15:06Z", + "digest": "sha1:36HK7WGJ7YZJ74Z3JZ3IPZYGMI7VFEVW", + "length": 3806, + "nlines": 26, + "source_domain": "thefutoncritic.com", + "title": "Breaking News - CNN Greenlights Three New Original Series for the 2017 Programming Slate | TheFutonCritic.com", + "raw_content": "CNN Greenlights Three New Original Series for the 2017 Programming Slate\nAlso on tap are new seasons of \"Anthony Bourdain: Parts Unknown,\" \"This is Life with Lisa Ling,\" \"The Hunt with John Walsh,\" \"Finding Jesus,\" \"Death Row Stories\" and \"The Wonder List with Bill Weir.\"\n[via press release from CNN]\nNet also Picks Up New Seasons of Anthony Bourdain: Parts Unknown, This is Life with Lisa Ling, The Hunt with John Walsh, Finding Jesus, Death Row Stories and The Wonder List with Bill Weir\nCNN, a division of Turner, announced today three new Original Series launching in 2017, adding to its successful portfolio of high-quality, non-scripted programming. Soundtracks: Songs That Made History (working title), The History of Comedy and The Nineties will join the previously announced new spiritual adventure series Believer with Reza Aslan, also launching next year.\nSoundtracks: Songs That Made History (working title) is an eight-part series executive-produced by Dwayne Johnson, Dany Garcia, Hiram Garcia, and Brian Gewirtz that will explore the music tied to iconic moments in history. Every episode will cover a tragedy, triumph, or the start of a movement - and the music that came to define it. From the March on Washington to the riots at Stonewall, the moon landing to Hurricane Katrina - music has played an integral part in celebrating, criticizing, and amplifying these seismic events in our collective history. Soundtracks is produced by Show of Force and Seven Bucks Productions.\nThe History of Comedy is an eight-part series executive produced by Sean Hayes and Todd Milliner (Hazy Mills) and Emmy Award winners Mark Herzog and Christopher G. Cowen (Herzog & Company). Episodes will explore what makes people laugh - from the Ancient Greeks, to Shakespeare, Vaudeville, to the biggest contemporary comedians, movies and TV shows. The series will dig deep into topics like political humor and slapstick, featuring the voices that have made us laugh over the generations. Using archival footage, original comedic material, interviews with comedy legends and luminaries, the series will showcase how the art form has evolved over the years.\nThe Nineties follows in the footsteps of previous CNN decade series The Sixties, The Seventies, and The Eighties. Executive produced by Emmy Award-winning producers Tom Hanks and Gary Goetzman in association with HBO and Emmy Award-winning producer Mark Herzog, the eight-part series will highlight cultural and political milestones from the birth of the Internet to President Bill Clinton's impeachment that defined the decade.\nThe 2017 slate will also feature new seasons of returning CNN Original Series: Peabody and Emmy Award-winning Anthony Bourdain: Parts Unknown (S9 and S10), This is Life With Lisa Ling (S4), The Hunt with John Walsh (S4), Death Row Stories (S3), The Wonder List with Bill Weir (S3), and Finding Jesus (S2). The current CNN Original Series lineup also includes United Shades of America with W. Kamau Bell, Morgan Spurlock Inside Man, The Eighties and Declassified: Untold Stories of American Spies.\nIn four years, CNN has acquired or produced more than 300 hours of Original Series programming. The content has attracted new and younger audiences, received multiple awards including the Emmy and Peabody, and garnered massive critical acclaim.\n\u00b7 ANTHONY BOURDAIN: PARTS UNKNOWN (CNN)\n\u00b7 BELIEVER WITH REZA ASLAN (CNN)\n\u00b7 DEATH ROW STORIES (HLN)\n\u00b7 DECLASSIFIED (CNN)\n\u00b7 EIGHTIES, THE (CNN)\n\u00b7 FINDING JESUS: FAITH, FACT, FORGERY (CNN)\n\u00b7 HISTORY OF COMEDY, THE (CNN)\n\u00b7 HUNT WITH JOHN WALSH, THE (HLN)\n\u00b7 MORGAN SPURLOCK: INSIDE MAN (CNN)\n\u00b7 NINETIES, THE (CNN)\n\u00b7 SEVENTIES, THE (CNN)\n\u00b7 SIXTIES, THE (CNN)\n\u00b7 SOUNDTRACKS (CNN)\n\u00b7 THIS IS LIFE WITH LISA LING (CNN)\n\u00b7 UNITED SHADES OF AMERICA (CNN)\n\u00b7 WONDER LIST WITH BILL WEIR, THE (CNN)", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00240.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 117, + "original_length": 8086, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.91, + "perplexity": 265.6, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "http://thegrimtower.blogspot.com/2016/11/scott-lawlor-child-of-rage-2016.html", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T04:50:25Z", + "digest": "sha1:G4M5DPSIIMGOTWBKH7GANRSVDS7JYRGC", + "length": 4496, + "nlines": 4, + "source_domain": "thegrimtower.blogspot.com", + "title": "The Grim Tower (Of Observation): Scott Lawlor - Child Of Rage (2016)", + "raw_content": "An ambient musician from Texas sent me this one, which according to the Bandcamp page is one of several. When I mean several, I'm nearly talking Merzbow here. Why he chose Child Of Rage out of his many others, I don't know exactly, but I suppose as it is a bit more horror inspired than his other works (which constitute to around eighty million various pieces of drone and some weird act called Spank Hookers) he thought I would dig it, and indeed I do. Child Of Rage is actually a concept album based on a '92 CBS made for TV movie which is classified as a mystery, seeming like a very psychotic and strange thing for the network to air around this time period. How in the world do you even get ahold of a made for TV movie that goes back to my childhood years in this day and age? I was seven. I guess I'll not answer that question, but it resulted in this artwork and I think that's a good thing.\nAs for the disc, we certainly are offered quite a bit of drone as you might suspect based on the artist's repertoire, but that doesn't say anything about the creep factor of the disc, which certainly isn't wise music to play while you're playing a horror game with a bad soundtrack, or reading some sort of horror novel (with no soundtrack, obviously.) \u201cDark Repose\u201d uses frighteningly distorted church organs in way that would raise the hair on the back of my neck during certain scenes in a visual novel (this has happened, with equally bone-chilling music) or while going through a certain area of a game in which you can kind of feel the fright of your surroundings. It almost goes from the sound of a church organ to something a bit more unsettling, which really kind of freaked me out. Really, you wrote this for a '92 film? You could have used this on a modern horror film and made a name for yourself in that industry, seriously. Holy shit, this is one of the most bizarrely uncomfortable pieces I've heard in a bit. I'm also reminded a little bit of the original Pennywise theme (now that we have a remake set to arrive next year) which only adds to the fright factor. Same can be said with the follow-up, \u201cUnihabitable Conditions\u201d which makes me wonder why this gentleman isn't composing for the film industry, or at least working with some independent filmmakers. Congratulations, Scott. You know how to scare the bejesus out of people, even with your more drone-influenced cuts.\nImagine you're driving down the road at night while this is playing in your car. You roll up on a dead body in the middle of the road and all of a sudden a sharp effect starts playing from the disc. You'd nearly shit yourself or have a heart attack when you came upon that grisly scene while having this music play in the background. The same can be said of maggot covered roadkill (it doesn't have to be a human body, after all) which will still come off quite frightening when coupled with that sound. Yes, the record comes with it's own jump scares, which isn't something I can say I've ever heard from a horror-influenced ambient before. This thing is legitimately scary and people are going to think they're in a horror movie if you place this in the background. For all you collegiates reading this, (of which there are none) try switching out the party mix with that of Child Of Rage and then walk off into the background. Immediately, you'll freak some people out at the party, especially some of those who are drunk and start a sort of frenzy. Apparently certain sounds cause fright and among normal people who aren't used to this sort of thing, you can make them go pretty nuts. (Just don't do that right now as things are a little fucked up in this country, especially for collegiates who are no doubt playing a soundtrack similar to Child Of Fire in their heads while imagining horrifying scenes from our new president elect.) At the very end of the day, Lawlor proves that he can scare the shit out of me, and in a way that I've never experienced before. I'm not putting on this record EVER while I read anything frightening, as this disc will only add to it. But there are some rather sad moments to the album as well, which I can equate heavily with visual novel soundtracks of course, which contain quite similar music in tone and atmosphere. That being said, it's just as frightening as anything I've heard from the best horror visual novels (there are very few in English, unfortunately) and I'd certainly recommend it to those looking for a good scare.\nLabels: Atmosphere, Scott Lawlor", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00240.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 90, + "original_length": 6447, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.98, + "perplexity": 275.0, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "http://thehealthmode.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=180:message-volumes-volume-viii-part-ii-chapters-xxxi-xl&catid=32&Itemid=153", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T04:18:41Z", + "digest": "sha1:CD3GYMN7MH3TCVDDABGGY2CTCGPCCDCS", + "length": 66814, + "nlines": 137, + "source_domain": "thehealthmode.com", + "title": "Message Volumes \u2013 Volume VIII \u2013 Part II \u2013 Chapters XXXI \u2013 XL", + "raw_content": "Message Volumes \u2013 Volume VIII \u2013 Part II \u2013 Chapters XXXI \u2013 XL\nPART II. THE PRIVELEGE OF BEING HUMAN\nThere is a story of Khwaja Moin-uddin Chishti, whose fame is still so great that, although he died hundreds of years ago, thousands come to his tomb every year, and the power of his holiness is so great that everyone who goes there falls into a trance.\nOne of his mureeds once wrote him a letter and, as we write \u201cyours sincerely,\u201d \u201cyours truly,\u201d he signed \u201cfaqir.\u201d Faqir means one who has renounced one who is spiritual. Khwaja Moin-uddin Chishti read the letter and said, \u201cThank you God, I have a mureed who is a faqir, what I myself, all my life following this way, have not become.\u201d He answered the mureed saying, \u201cI am very glad that you have become a faqir.\u201d The mureed was much dismayed. He thought, \u201cWhat have I done? I have written the wrong thing.\u201d Faqir also means a humble person, which was what he meant.\nHe went to his Murshid and said, \u201cI have made a great fault.\u201d The Murshid replied, \u201cIt is all right. I wish that you should be greater than I. I shall show you how I am considered.\u201d He took the mureed out in the wilderness where the hermits were living, a long, long way from any town. They knocked at the door, and a voice came from within, \u201cWill the dogs of the world not leave us in peace even here?\u201d Khwaja Moin-uddin Chishti said, \u201cI am your Murshid, and you see in what sort of respect I am held.\u201d\nMoral Culture\nWe distinguish between good and evil, right and wrong by our own experiences. One man has a good experience from a certain thing and at once calls it good; another has a bad experience from the same thing and calls it bad. A person who may seem very bad to some is called good by his friend. In a person who leads a merry life one may be sure, by looking carefully, to find some good, such as may not be found in persons of great repute for their holiness and spirituality.\nMan is born with such a critical tendency and has so much developed this tendency that he easily seeks what is bad in everything. The Sufi takes the contrary way; he seeks for what is good in everyone and everything. The way of morality is to think that if someone has done us some good it is very great, and if we have done good to someone to think that it is very little and that we might have done more. If a person has done something bad to us we should forget it as soon as possible, and if we have done something bad we should think of it as a great fault. If we see something that seems bad to us we should overlook it, disregard it, and forgive it. This is the only way to happiness and peace.\nWe must never think, \u201cYou did so much good to me, I do so much good to you.\u201d That makes all goodness and kindness a commercial transaction: you give me a hat, and I give you a pair of gloves!\nIf someone finds fault with another, he will try to get us to agree with him. He will say, \u201cThat person is doing this. Is it not dreadful?\u201d If we say, \u201cYes it is terrible,\u201d our fault will be as great or greater than his will.\nWhatever is said or done echoes in the world as a dome, and what good or bad a person does comes back to him. It may not always come back from the same person to whom he did good or harm. It may come from quite another side, because the universe is not many beings, but one Being. If a man does harm to a person who did nothing to him, that person is receiving back what bad he once did to another. However, that does not justify you, as an individual, in doing harm. When good is done, it also comes back as good, maybe from another side.\nOnly the Murshid who is responsible for his mureeds, or the father, who is responsible for his children, may say to the face of the mureed or the child, \u201cMy child, this is not right for you,\u201d but he may not tell it to others.\nThe morals of humanity have three aspects: morality with regard to God, morality regarding friends and morality with regard to those whom we do not like and to enemies.\nMorality with regard to God has three parts. The first is to idealize, to see all the good attributes in God, all the beautiful qualities, all His mercy and kindness. You may ask, \u201cWhy should we not also see the bad attributes in God? Why should we not say God is cruel?\u201d For instance, a child may be ill and the mother may say, \u201cI pray to God to make my child well.\u201d Then, if the child is not better, the mother may say, \u201cGod is unjust, God has no justice. This little child, what has it done that it should suffer so much?\u201d In reality the child is not our property. We have no right to it. It belongs to the spirit. The moral is: if you are sorry \u2013 not to complain to God; if you are sick \u2013 not to blame God; if you are unfortunate \u2013 not to say that it is God\u2019s fault. This is called adab.\nThe second part is praise. Wherever we see something beautiful \u2013 to say that it is the kindness of God. When we perform some act of mercy \u2013 to give the credit to God.\nThe third part is thanks. God does not need man\u2019s worship or man\u2019s thanks. Nothing can be given to Him by man\u2019s worship, nor can anything be taken from Him. If one goes to King George\u2019s Palace and says, \u201cI wish to thank the king,\u201d the sentry will say, \u201cThank him at home. You cannot thank the king here.\u201d Man\u2019s worship, man\u2019s praise are needed for man himself in order to produce in him the attributes of humanity.\nThe morality regarding those we like, our friends, firstly is to be sincere, not to say what is not true. In the world everybody says, \u201cHow kind you are, how good you are,\u201d and not a word of it is meant. People in towns are polite and polished, but the heart does not feel much. If one goes to villages where there are two or three hundred houses, one will find people not so polished but with more heart, more ready to sympathize. This is so all over the world. I used to think that it was so in India, but now I have seen that it is so everywhere.\nSecondly, always be a friend. If once you have formed a friendship, keep it up. However circumstances and cases may change, keep up the friendship. Do not expect your friend to do what you do. He may not be worthy, or he may not be able to do what you do, and if you expect a kindness in return for a kindness it becomes commercial: I give you a book, you give me a pencil. That is not friendship, it is trade.\nThirdly, do not increase the friendship. If one increases it, friendship becomes so heavy that it cannot last. It becomes a spell, an intoxication; when the intoxication is gone the love and friendship are gone and hatred remains. A story is told about the emperor Mahmud Ghaznavi. He was riding his horse outside the city where a drunken man was sitting by the roadside. When he saw the emperor on his horse he said, \u201cO man, will you sell me that horse?\u201d The emperor was amused at his confidence and boldness; he smiled at him and rode on. Later, when the emperor came back, he saw the man still sitting by the roadside, his drunkenness gone. The emperor said to him, \u201cAre you the man who wants to buy the horse?\u201d The man replied, \u201cThe buyer of the horse has gone, the servant of the horse remains.\u201d This was a very good and nice answer, and the emperor was pleased with it. The moral is: have a little friendship and keep it up.\nThe morality towards those, whom we dislike, towards enemies, is more difficult, and it is much greater. For it is easy to be kind to those whom we like, who please us. In those whom we dislike even merits do not seem merits; we cannot see their merits because of our dislike. We should pity those who cannot attract our liking, and we should not think that we are different from them. We can see on the face of the man who takes a dislike to another that his own soul despises him, because in disliking the other he dislikes his own soul. His own soul is not a different soul; it is the same soul as that of the other, the same soul as the soul of the prophet, the same soul as the soul of the greatest sinner, the same soul as the Soul of the world.\nThe most essential lines of a poem of Hafiz are these: \u201cTo friends be faithful and loving, to enemies serviceable and courteous. This is the secret of the two worlds.\u201d\nThis was taught in all ages by all the prophets, saints and those who have served the world, and it is because we have forgotten it that we suffer all the ills we suffer. All our lacks come from forgetting it. It is the secret of happiness and peace. What is done for a return is not service, otherwise all the people in the city working with their machines would be called servants of God. That, which is done, not for fame or name, not for the appreciation or thanks from those for whom it is done, but only for love, is service of God.\nMuhammad\u2019s claim was: Muhammad Abduhu wa ar-Rasuluh, Muhammad, His servant and prophet. He was prophet because he was servant. Muhamud Ghaznavi, the emperor, says in a poem, \u201cMahmud Ghaznavi, who has a thousand slaves, since love gushed from his heart, feels that he is the slave of slaves.\u201d No one can be master who has not been servant.\nSomeone went to Muhammad and asked him, \u201cHow long must I serve my mother before I have fully repaid her what she has done for me?\u201d The Prophet said, \u201cIf you served her all her life you could not do enough, unless in her last days she said, \u2018I forgive you what you owe me.\u2019\u201d When he asked for more explanation the Prophet added, \u201cYou serve your mother thinking that she will live for some years and then it will be over. She served you thinking \u2018May my child grow and prosper and live after me. The mother is much greater.\u201d\nYou should ask your soul whether you have always been kind to enemy and friend. If your soul will answer \u201cYes,\u201d then I will say that you are a saint. Although you may not know any mysticism or philosophy, although you may not be a very spiritual person, although you may not see any phenomena or work wonders, this kindness in itself is enough to make you a saint. This kindness is the moral taught by all religions.\nYou must see in the heart of another the temple of God. God is peeping through the heart of another. In whatever way you can, in act, in speech, in feeling, at whatever sacrifice, you should please the heart of the other and do nothing that can hurt it.\nThe word \u2018hope\u2019 to those who are broken-hearted is startling, to them it is poison. If you speak of hope to the broken-hearted they say, \u201cDo not speak of it, I do not wish to hear of it!\u201d The state of the broken-hearted is worse than death; they are without ambition, without hope, without life. The one who is broken-hearted is dead while he is alive; the breath is still there, but his heart is dead, life has gone with the hope that was lost. He may not be old in years, but he has become old.\nTo him who is heartless hope is a ridiculous word. The heartless, he whose heart is incapable of feeling, will say, \u201cHope? What is it? See what you can do, and do it. Do not dream.\u201d This is the material person who can see no further than the material possibilities.\nIn the life of Christ we see that enemies, difficulties and helplessness were all around \u2013 and confidence in the truth of the message gave hope to carry it through. If there had not been hope, the thought \u201cI will bring the message,\u201d what material possibility was there of spreading the message? This whole manifestation has hope as its underlying motive. Nature first hoped to produce the world and then produced it.\nIn the Orient people have the habit of depending upon kismet, fate, and this is a source of weakness. If an astrologer tells a Brahmin, \u201cAfter so many years such and such a calamity will come upon you,\u201d the Brahmin does not even make an effort to fight against misfortune; he awaits it and accepts it. If a man is told, \u201cIn such a year you will become very ill,\u201d he does not even try to avoid the illness. They do not consider that hope can avert misfortune and can turn aside even the influence of the planets. Where no possibility of attaining the object is given, a strong hope can attain it.\nWithout going to the mystics this can be seen in the history of kings. Muhmud Ghaznavi was a slave. What possibility was there for him to become a king? With only hope he started from Turkistan and founded a kingdom in Afghanistan. Of Timur is told that once he was lying asleep in the jungle. He was going through such a hard time that he did not even have a place to lie down, hardly any clothes, nothing. A dervish happened to pass that way and saw Timur lying in the hot sun where not even an animal would lie. He went nearer and saw about this man some signs of greatness. He also saw a sign of bad luck, and that sign was that Timur, while asleep was lying with his legs crossed. He saw that this man himself was the hindrance to his undertakings. The dervish had a stick and hit him so hare that the bone of his leg broke. Timur woke up feeling a great pain. He said, \u201cO dervish, this is very unkind! I already have such hard luck, and you break my bone.\u201d The dervish replied, \u201cMy son, your bad luck is gone. You will be emperor.\u201d There seemed to be no possibility for it. Timur had no army, no clothes even, and now his bone was broken. But after great striving and after many years he became the emperor Timur Leng.\nAll works that have been accomplished have been accomplished by hope. Without hope the engineer could not have built a bridge across the Themes; he hoped, and then he built it. Without hope the Suez Canal, a thing that seemed impossible, could not have been cut.\nOne may ask, \u201cHow long shall I hope? I have hoped once and I have been disappointed; I have hoped a second time and I have been disappointed; I have hoped a third time and I have been disappointed. \u201d I will say \u201cHope until the last breath. While there is breath in the body, hope.\u201d\nA person may lose hope in his profession or trade. For instance he may have gone to a singer to take singing lessons for one or two months, or for one or two years, and then he may think, \u201cI am not getting on with this, I should stop singing. I believe I have no voice.\u201d Or he may think, \u201cI am not getting on in my business. I cannot make it a success, I should give it up.\u201d The ill is not changing of profession or business, but giving up all together. If the person thinks, \u201cNow I wish to be a poet,\u201d and becomes a poet, then he is not hopeless; or if he thinks, \u201cNow I wish to compose,\u201d and becomes a composer; or \u201cI should be a teacher,\u201d and becomes a teacher, then he is not hopeless.\nPeople say that doctors have now found remedies for so many diseases, but I say that the cause of most illnesses is loss of hope. In the pharmacy there is no such great remedy for all the diseases as hope is. Even when disease is incurable, hope cures it.\nThe question arises: What hope is right, and what hope is not right? A wise person will never hope for what is impossible. Hoping to be a queen, when there are no means of being a queen, is hoping the impossible. First we must know what is possible \u2013 this is wisdom \u2013 and then we must hope. The Qur\u2019an speaks of khawf, hope with consideration.\nThis word does not men fear, as it has sometimes been translated, but consideration, conscientiousness. Hope with consideration of the purpose for which the manifestation was made, with the consideration of God \u2013 that hope is always right. Hope without consideration is wrong.\nWhy with consideration? Because we must not hope for what is wrong, for what is bad. We must hope with the fear of God before us. The hope must be so strong that, if today we are penniless, we must think that there is every possibility that tomorrow we may be a millionaire. If today is every possibility that tomorrow we may me known to the whole world.\nThere is no stain so great as the stain of hopelessness. Sometimes weakness is the cause of hopelessness. During an illness a person thinks, \u201cI am so weak, I cannot get better.\u201d Or weakness is caused by old age; a person thinks, \u201cI am old, there is little left for me to do.\u201d And he becomes sad and discouraged. He really may have the strength to do much more, but the loss of hope makes him old. A man may be given to drink, or he may be a gambler, or have any other vice, and may think, \u201cI am too weak, I cannot be cured.\u201d\nBesides old age the hurt of the heart causes hopelessness. This shows us how careful we should be not to hurt the heart of another and not to let our own heart be hurt. In India we are most careful of this; diljoi, not to hurt the heart of another is taught as the greatest moral: not to hurt the heart of the parent, of the friend, even of the enemy. Also our own heart must be protected by forts around it.\nA story is told about a man who went to the Sharif of Mecca and said to him that the camel the Sharif rode was his and had been stolen from him. The Sharif asked whether he had any witnesses. He had none. Then the Sharif asked, \u201cWhat proof have you that the camel is really yours? How can you recognize it?\u201d The man answered, \u201cOn my camel\u2019s heart are two black spots.\u201d \u201cOn its heart?\u201d said the Sharif, \u201cHow do you know that?\u201d The man replied, \u201cThe animals feel as we do. My camel \u2013 is a she-camel \u2013 had two young ones, and at different times both died. Each time I saw that camel looked up to heaven and gave a cry like a sigh, a deep great sigh, and that was all. So I know that on her heart are two black spots.\u201d The Sharif held out two gold coins and said, \u201cEither take back your camel, or take the price for your discovery.\u201d If the heart of an animal can feel like this, how much can the heart of man feel?\nMan was made with a most feeling heart. A Hindustani poet has said, \u201cThe heart of man was made for feeling. For praise and worship the angels in heaven are many.\u201d Man\u2019s heart has a great capacity for feeling. It is most sensitive to any touch. How careful we must be to touch it, lest we may wound it. The greatest fault is to hurt the heart of another. He who has learned this moral has learned all morality.\nIf we do not protect our own heart from harm, we can be killed at every moment. Amir, the poet, says, \u201cWhy did you not kill me before you wounded my heart? It would have been better to kill me first.\u201d We must consider what the world is and what it can give. We must give and not expect to take the same as we give. A kick for a kindness, a blow for a mercy is what the world gives. We must not expect the world to be as we are expected to be. If we receive some good, it is well. If not, it does not matter. The world does not understand in the same way as we do. Material interest has so blinded people that when a question of money comes, of interest, of a share, of a territory, of property, even a child, a wife, a relative, or the closest friend will turn against us. A Sanskrit poem says that, when the question of money arises, no consideration for father or brother remains.\nWe must fortify our heart, so that we always may be the same, always kind, merciful, generous, serviceable. When a person has understood this, then comes that inner hope which is within every heart, the hope in another life. If one asks anyone why a man must go out and work all day long and have no time to give to what he likes, why a man must leave his parents and go to work, why lovers must part, the answer is always the same: \u201cIt is the struggle for life.\u201d If this life is so valuable, how great must be the value of that other life. The hope of another life is in man, of a life that is unchanging, immortal and everlasting. It is only because our consciousness is so bound to the self that we are not conscious of it, and it is very bad that the external self always is before us, because it always makes us think, \u201cI have been offended, I have been badly treated, I have been neglected\u201d \u2013 always I, I, and I.\nThere was a dervish who used to say, \u201cknife upon the throat of man.\u201d Man (pronounced nasally) in Hindustani means I. People asked the dervish what he meant, and he said, \u201cThe goats and sheep say \u2018man, man, man.\u2019 I say: a knife upon their throat for this!\u201d A man who says \u201cI\u201d deserves to be killed like the goats and sheep that are slaughtered because they say \u201cman.\u201d\nWhen that \u201cI\u201d is killed, when the consciousness of this \u201cI\u201d is lost, then comes the consciousness that in the whole existence there is only I \u2013 no you, no he, no she. The illusion makes us distinguish you, he she and it; in reality there is only I. When the external I is lost, then a fragrance comes into the personality, a beauty, a magnetism. Then he sees into the personality, a beauty, and a magnetism. Then he sees in every being the manifestation of God, he bows before every being. In the Sufi poems we may read of the tyranny of the beloved. This is the tyranny of the beloved, the opposition of manifestation. It is the grade of worship. There is still the grade of realization, of merging in God, but that is beyond it. The grade of worship comes first. If a priest sees a foolish person doing something foolish, he may say with authority, \u201cHe is a sinner.\u201d But the Sufi\nSays, \u201cI am much worse than he, I have no right to condemn him. I am a worshipper; I must see here the manifestation of God. I must worship it; I must revere it, serve it, and therein accomplish my life\u2019s purpose.\u201d\nI have always hope. Hope is my greatest strength. I do not require that my hopes are fulfilled, as fuel is needed to keep the fire burning. My hopes are kept alive in my faith.\nPatience, the word itself, is the heaviest thing that is. To one who is in difficulties and troubles, to one who is in sorrow, to one who lives in the wish of obtaining his desire, the word patience has a dreadful sound. The sound is dreadful, the thought is terrible, and the idea is frightful to us. Yet all our difficulties in life, all our failures come from lack of patience. All the results of life often are lost through impatience. A person may have patience for forty years, and then lose patience, and so lose the result of all his endeavors during so many years.\nThe impatient person will show his impatience in his speech. When you ask him something, he will not let you finish your sentence. He answers before you have finished because he thinks, \u201cWhy should you still say that half sentence?\u201d The impatient person eats very fast, and all the veins and tubes of his body cannot drink so fast as he drinks. If he walks across the room he will stumble ten times. He walks into chairs, into the table, into the door and does not look into whom he walks. If he intends to take some action, he starts and three times before he reaches the door he will say, \u201cI am going, I am not going, I am going,\u201d because he does not give time to his decision.\nAll our errors and faults come from impatience. It is not that the soul wants something, which is wrong, but we do not stop to weigh our acts. We seize upon the first thought that comes to us without weighing or considering it. Nowadays the wish for variety has grown so strong that we always wish for new surroundings, new friends, new faces, and our thoughts change every moment. If we could hold our thought, we should increase its power. We think, \u201cIt is only a thought, it will pass.\u201d In reality, by our thought we create a spirit, a jinn, a genius, that acts and works and achieves. The more patiently we think a thought, the stronger the thought becomes.\nThe lesson of patience is much less taught nowadays as the influence of religion has become much less, and education is mostly given for commercial purposes. So we must look upon the lesson of patience as a lesson we give ourselves; we must think of all the beautiful results we gain by patience, and be sure that, if we have conquered patience, we have conquered the whole world.\nPatience in perseverance is a very good thing, but it can only be possessed by those who have confidence. Each Sura of the Qur\u2019an is addressed to those who have patience and great importance is given to confidence: iman.\nMuslims perform namaz, their prayers, five times a day. If you ask an old Muslim whether he has gained anything by it, he will answer, \u201cWhat do you know about it?\u201d I have gained what I wanted: my satisfaction.\u201d If he is ill he does not care, he does not blame God. If he loses his fortune, he does not blame God. He does not say, \u2018After so many years of namaz this illness, this trouble has come!\u201d\nEverything that has been done has been done by confidence, and nothing can be done without confidence. You cannot dig the earth for gold, if you do not have confidence that the gold is there. You cannot watch the cooking pan, if you do not have confidence that there is something in the pan which the fire has the power to cook.\nIf I were to tell you to work three hours in the night repeating the name of Allah, you would say, \u201cMy Murshid has told me so, and I must do it, but\u2026Then when you repeated Allah, Allah for half an hour, you would think, \u201cHere I am sitting for half an hour in this cold, and I do not see what I have gained by it. If I were to write some music now, tomorrow I could sell it for five pounds. Then I would have worked and I would have gained something.\u201d\nIt has been the difficulty of all prophets, of all who have come with a message, that people said, \u201cShow us something that these eyes can see. Show that the sun comes down, or the moon, or that the earth cleaves. But the message of God \u2013 what is it? Show us something.\u201d That is why, if there is a suffrage meeting, at once there is a subscription for a thousand pounds, because people know that by fighting the government they can get laws passed. If someone comes with a message from God and says, \u201cWe need money to spread this message,\u201d people say, \u201cWhy do you need money? Money is needed for a scheme. Have you engineered a scheme?\u201d\nTo have patience, to have confidence, we must see an object before us. We can have confidence in obtaining any material object. It is much more difficult to have patience where there is nothing to show \u2013 only the satisfaction of the soul; to have patience is a virtue, to merge in the illumination, to gain the light. It is the same with fire: at first there is smoke mixed with it and, if it had no patience until it would become a flame, there would only be smoke and it would go out. If it has patience it will become a flame that illuminates the whole room so that everything can be seen and known. More than all else this patience is the greatest gift and blessing.\nEvery success in life is brought about by confidence, iman, and all our lacks are due to want of confidence. It is so with material as well as spiritual things.\nIn India many things are thought lucky or unlucky. If you go out on an undertaking and a cat crosses your road, it is thought that you cannot be successful then. If you go out and at once meet a person carrying flowers, then you will be successful. It is easy to understand the reason. If you first meet something that gives you pleasure, you have a good impression, and that gives you confidence. If you receive a bad impression your confidence disappears. A man, an ordinary sort of man, once came to my Murshid and asked him, \u201cGive me your blessing for good luck. I have built a carriage and I want to make some money with it.\u201d My Murshid said, \u201cEvery morning when you get up count your money.\u201d\nWhatever we are to undertake, we should say, \u201cI shall accomplish it, or lose my life.\u201d Failure comes from lack of confidence, lack of confidence comes from doubt, doubt comes from reasoning, and reasoning comes from thinking of the means. If you think, \u201cI will go to Brighton, but perhaps, if I do, the Zeppelins will come and I shall be killed.\u201d Then you lose your confidence. There is no need to think of the Zeppelins. They might come, but if they come you would be one among the many inhabitants of Brighton, and you might not be killed.\nWhether in our own undertakings or in what we may do to help another, confidence is needed. You may do everything to help another, but if he has no confidence, if he does not work also, there cannot be success. God also needs your confidence and your effort for success.\nBy faith in God hopelessness can be turned into hopefulness. The spirit draws its power inspirationally from the divine Source. Every impulse, every desire comes from there, and in accomplishment the law of perfection is realized. But when a person doubts about everything and says that there is no inspiration, then, by denying this power, he gives away that which he already possessed. By recognizing the divine Fatherhood of God one becomes conscious of one\u2019s divine heritage and one knows that there is no lack in the divine Spirit, and no lack in life. Then there is certainty of fulfillment, which is only a matter of time.\nSome good people have almost arrived at the fulfillment of their desire, and then just at the last moment have failed, while others attain ultimate success in everything. One will always find that the souls of the former were influenced by great power but lacked faith, while the others had power supported by faith. If faith is lacking one may attain ninety-nine percent of success and miss the last one, and so in the end the loss takes away all that was previously gained.\nQuestion: What is more necessary for a student of mysticism, faith or intelligence?\nAnswer: For absolute faith the first step is the ideal. The next step brings man into the presence of God. For the intelligence that way goes from intellect to wisdom, and there are obstacles at every step.\nFaith \u2013 faith in the greatness, the mercy, the power of God \u2013 is the greatest thing. It also is the most difficult thing. For the one who has faith all difficulties, all responsibility rests upon Him in whom he has faith. The intelligence takes its own responsibility. But if there is the least chance of the intellect rebelling against faith, it is a sign that the intellect asks to be fed, and it should be given its food: all knowledge.\nFaith is a word that has been so little understood, and often it is considered to be a religious term. Really speaking, faith is not only something which is required in religion, but in all aspects of life. It is the one thing that is required most. It is the misinterpretation of faith that has taken away the value that could be attached to the word. Otherwise, if I am to say one word, the sense of which is most valuable in the world, it is faith. In the Orient they call faith yaqin and another Arabic word used for it is iman.\nThere are many sacred things in the world, but faith is the most sacred; not faith in something, but faith in itself. Faith comes from above; doubt rises from below, from the earth. Therefore one is heavenly, the other earthly. When a person is more worldly he is more doubting; the less worldly he is the more faith he has. You may find a person who once had a great faith and then lost it, and you will observe that at the same time his life went from a less worldly condition to a more worldly one. Being more absorbed in the life of this world makes one void of faith. This shows that faith is innate in human nature; doubt is something of which man partakes.\nThe sun is light, the light which always is light; clouds may cover it, but they do not really cover the sun, they only cover the sun from our eyes. When a person has no faith, it does not mean that in the depth of his being there is no faith. There is faith, but that sun is covered by clouds. When the heart is exposed to the things of the world, there are always doubts rising from the earth, and they will cover the heart.\nDoubt gives a pessimistic attitude. One questions, \u201cWill it be, or will it not be? Do I think rightly, or do I think wrongly? Am I on the right path, or on the wrong path? Shall I succeed, or shall I fail throughout life? Will conditions be better or worse? \u201d When there are two possibilities the earth impresses a person with doubt against the good one. He wants to conquer the good one, to have it, he desires that things should be better, but what he finds, rising from the earth, is doubt, and for his faith therefore he does not get the proper support from the earth. As man does not see God, he does not look up, he only looks at the earth and wants support from there. The great lesson that the blessed ones have taught to humanity was to raise one\u2019s vision upwards and to find faith in something, which is free from all doubt. Pessimism and optimism, therefore, are two different attitudes: the one looks downwards, the other looks upwards.\nVery few of us know what miracle is hidden in faith, what power and inspiration. We only think, \u201cI can believe in some things, and in some things I cannot believe.\u201d But for what we believe we want proof from the earth. In order to sustain our faith we need sustenance from an unlimited source, but we look for sustenance to the earth which is a limited source. When a person looks at a tank full of water and says, \u201cOh, what a small supply, what shall I do for next year? He is right \u2013 but he is looking at the tank. When he looks above he will see that the source from which the rain falls is there and can fill many such tanks, and even rivers. Blessing of all kind is there, if only we prepare our heart to receive it. If the heart is small like a glass, it can only fetch a glass of water even if it is taken to the sea. But if the heart is larger then it will bring that much more water.\nNo doubt, patience is the first lesson to learn on the path of faith, because it is patience, which gives one strength to hope. My spiritual teacher used to say as his benediction, \u201cMay your faith be strengthened.\u201d As a youth I thought that he would say, \u201cMay you live long, may you be happy, prosperous, may you gain wisdom.\u201d The meaning of this blessing I realize now more and more every moment of my life, for in faith there is all. All that one wants, all that one needs, all that one wishes to attain through life \u2013 is all hidden in one\u2019s faith.\nIt is most interesting and sometimes laughable to see how easy it is for a man to fix his faith on small things, while on large things he cannot fix it: he fixes his faith on an object, not on a person. For instance if one says to somebody, \u201cHere is a medicine for you, a medicine that will cure you,\u201d it is easy for him to have faith. And when one says, \u201cWell, I will think of you for your cure; and you will be cured,\u201d the first thing that will come to mind will be doubt. What is the reason? The reason is that he sees the object, he does not see the thought.\nI once met a very great healer who had much success and I asked him the secret of his working. He said, \u201cThe secret of my way of working is first that I have taken a religious shrine where people come and sit; they certainly come with faith to this particular shrine. Then I give them some kind of mixture of powder. Really speaking I heal them by myself, but they have no faith in that; so I give them some powder to drink, and they feel better.\u201d The whole effort of different religions has been to make man see what is hidden in a human being. Rituals, ceremonies and all different forms teach the same thing: find the secret and the mystery of life not only in the objects but when you have passed through them, in the human being.\nIt is the same thing, to see that one can easily have faith in a man, while it is difficult to have faith in God, for the reason that one can see a human being before one, but one cannot see the greatest Power and Perfection, which is in the abstract. Faith is as a substance: if one does not possess that substance, one cannot raise it to the highest ideal which alone merits faith.\nMedical science is now coming to the realization of the importance of psychology, although it is as yet only considering the thought waves and thought power. Faith is still something else to be considered and studied. My experience with numerous students in this line has shown me that a person may be able to concentrate and maintain a thought, but often is not capable to do it fully, because there is no faith at the back of it. Faith, therefore, is not something, which may be called a thought. Faith is the ground itself. It is a ground from which thoughts spring up as plants. If the land is not fertile the plants cannot come up. And so, if there is no faith at the root of a thought, the thought is not beneficial. Besides this there is another thing: something that can be accomplished by the power of thought in a year\u2019s time is accomplished with the power of faith behind it in one day.\nSomeone said to a Brahmin who was worshipping an idol made of stone, \u201cGod is formless. He should not be worshipped in an idol of rock.\u201d The Brahmin answered, \u201cIt is a question of faith. If I have faith in this stone, God who is everywhere will speak through this stone. But if one has no faith, even the God of the abstract, of heavens, will not be able to speak.\u201d If this is so, is there anything that cannot be accomplished, that cannot be realized by faith?\nWhen we look at it from a metaphysical point of view we shall find that the secret of the whole creation is faith, and the perfection of faith is attained when it has risen to that ideal, that height, where it can hold itself without any support. Faith therefore after having accomplished all that is to be accomplished, will be the one thing \u2013 and that will prove to be all things.\nQuestion: How do we gain that faith?\nAnswer: By fighting doubt. It is a continual fight, because doubts are the inheritance of the earth. We are walking on the earth, so it is a continual fight.\nQuestion: But faith can be mastered?\nAnswer: Of course faith can be mastered. As one will fight doubts, so one will gain one\u2019s victory over doubts.\nQuestion: Can there be a religious faith without being attached to any religion?\nAnswer: Certainly. The religion of every soul is his own. Outwardly one may belong to a religion, but inwardly everyone has his own religion, and that is his true religion. By faith I do not at all mean faith in a particular religion or gospel, or idea. I say that faith is within a person.\nQuestion: Can one obtain the spiritual plane by an earthly fight?\nAnswer: We say in the East that a teacher is most helpful for that. A person, who in his scientific attainment has arrived for instance at the stage of Edison, is there already; he only has to turn his face and he is already there. There is perhaps a businessman who all his life has done nothing but gain wealth. A religious, orthodox, or pious person will look upon him as most materialistic, but he does not know what fight this man had to go through in his life in order to gain that much money, and what sacrifice, what struggle and consideration he had to give to it. It is not always easy to become a man of wealth. Therefore, if he has struggled along and has arrived at a point where he can be called rich, he has to change his attitude and he is there already.\nQuestion: Can faith have an effect on things that are not religious?\nAnswer: Oh yes, faith can be used in every direction, just like light. By light you can study religion and fare forth to the heavens and do anything. No one in this world has been able to accomplish a great thing without the power of faith, whether he was a general, a businessman, an inventor or a religious man. The power that faith gives is beyond words. The weakness and the poverty that exist in the absence of faith are most deplorable. A person may have everything in life, youth, wealth, comfort, position and power \u2013 if faith lacks he is poverty-stricken.\nQuestion: So if our object is right we are bound to get it unless our faith fails?\nAnswer: Yes that is true. It depends upon our attitude \u2013 if our heart, just like the compass, is always seeking the right direction. The heart is just like a compass: you can take it to any side, it always points in the same direction. So the heart, wherever one turns it to, will always point to the same direction. In other words for him who does right it is most difficult to do wrong \u2013 and for the wrongdoer it is most difficult to do it right.\nQuestion: Can the wrongdoer come to the right one day?\nAnswer: Right is the might, and right is the depth, and right is the ideal of every soul. A person who tells a lie, who deceives people, who is treacherous, will do so to others, but he does not want his friends to do the same to him. This shows that he prefers it to be different.\nFaith and doubt are as light and darkness. The moments of faith are like the moments of the day and the moment of doubt are like those of the night. As both day and night come in life, so hours of faith and hours of darkness also come. It is the seeking of the soul to reach that stage where it feels faith and it is the nature of the soul to gather doubts around itself. Therefore the soul attracts both faith and doubt. If it happens to attract doubts more, then more doubts will be gathered; if it attracts faith, then more and more faith will come.\nDoubts are likened to clouds. If there is one cloud, it will attract others and, if many clouds are gathered, still more will be attracted to join them. If there is one current of the sun shooting through the clouds it will scatter them, and once they are scattered they will be scattered more and more, and more and more light will manifest itself to view. Doubts cover faith but faith breaks doubt. Therefore faith is more dependable: doubts only come and go.\nIt would not be an exaggeration if I said that doubt is a disease \u2013 a disease that takes away faith. Perhaps it would be more appropriate to say that doubt is the rust the eats the iron, the iron-like faith. It is very easy to allow doubts to work, and it is difficult to keep faith. However much evolved a person may be, there comes a time when doubts take hold of him, and the moments he is in doubt the light of intelligence disappears. Therefore there is a constant conflict between doubt and faith. If there was not this enemy who always fights with faith, man could do great things, wonderful things; every man would perform miracles, every man would be perfect. This shows that the greater your faith, the greater person you are; the more deeply rooted your faith, the higher you reach.\nOne might ask: Is it possible to develop faith? Is it possible to find faith? Yes, in every person a spark of faith is hidden somewhere, but sometimes it is so covered, clouded and buried, that it needs digging, it needs being dug out. What is it buried with? With the sands of doubts. As soon as the sand is removed, the faith, like water, springs up.\nOne can study this principle in a child: a child is born with faith. When one says, \u201cThis is water, this is bread, this is father, this is mother,\u201d the child does not refuse to believe it; it does not say, \u201cIt is not so.\u201d The child at once takes it to be so. It is afterwards that doubts begin to come. When the infant grows up, when it begins to hear a story and asks, \u201cBut is it real?\u201d Then doubt begins. Very often worldly knowledge gives more and more doubts; the experiences of worldly life make one doubt more and more, and when doubt becomes predominant in a person\u2019s nature, then he doubts everything and everyone. He doubts those who should not be doubted and he doubts those who can be doubted. There is always a doubt before his eyes. No sooner does he cast his glance upon a person than the cloud of doubt stands between them. In this way inspiration is lost, power is lost, the personality is lost. Man has become a machine, a mechanism.\nIn the business world, in the world of industry, a person does not care what your feelings are, what your being is, how much evolved you are, how deeply you feel, what your principles are, what your thoughts. What this person is concerned with is if the other will sign the paper, whether he will stamp that paper at once, and whether there are two witnesses who watch it at the same time. It does not matter what you are, as long as the paper is perfect. We are coming to mechanical perfection, we seek after worldly, earthly perfection.\nFive hundred years ago \u2013 this shows how gradually the world has changed \u2013 a Hindustani poet has written: \u201cThose days have passed when a value was attached to man\u2019s personality.\u201d That is so; it is some centuries since the world went downward. It seems that man has no trust, no faith in another man. What he trusts is the written word.\nFaith should be continued to the end. One may have faith when climbing the stairs of a hundred steps; one may climb ninety-six steps with faith, and then one may lose it. Before the four steps that are still to be climbed one may lose faith; doubt has come and the whole journey is spoiled. This happens very often in the lives of so many people who are face to face with their success and yet fail. They have just approached what they wanted and then they lose it. In nearly every person\u2019s life one sees this. And the greater the person the more one sees it. for the greater the person the more powerful his faith, and therefore he is able to see the play of faith. It is just like sending a kite so far into the sky \u2013 and before it reaches higher, it drops down. The enemy which causes this is doubt.\nOne may do something during one\u2019s whole life and accomplish it to a great extent, but through lack of a little more faith one will lose it, and all that was done will be spoiled in a moment\u2019s time. How long does it take for a house to be built, and how long does it take to destroy it? How long does it take to make a business really prosperous? How long does it take to fail? One moment. When one learns this principle and thinks about it, one begins to see that the whole world, with all that we hear and see and touch and feel, is all illusion in the face of faith. Faith alone is reality, and compared with faith all else is unreal. But since we do not see faith with our own eyes, it is very difficult to call faith real and all else unreal; our eyes cannot see faith and we do not know where it is.\nNow raises the question: how can one find faith in oneself, how can one develop it? One can find faith by practicing self-confidence as the first thing, by having self-confidence even in the smallest things. Today most people have the habit to say with everything \u201cperhaps.\u201d It seems as if a new word has come in use; they say \u201cperhaps.\u201d It seems as if a new word has come in use; they say \u201cperhaps it will happen.\u201d It is a kind of polite expression, or a word of refined people to show themselves pessimistic. I can see their reason. They think that it is fanatic, presumptuous, and simple to say, \u201cIt will be,\u201d or \u201cIt will come,\u201d or \u201cIt will be accomplished,\u201d or \u201cIt will be fulfilled.\u201d To say \u201cperhaps,\u201d so they think, makes them free from responsibility of having committed themselves. The more pessimistic a person, the more \u201cperhaps\u201d he uses, and this \u201cperhaps\u201d has gone so deep in souls today that they cannot find faith.\nAfter self-confidence is developed, the second step is to trust another with closed eyes. One might think that this is not always practical, and one might think that it might lead to great loss. But at the same time even that loss would be a gain, and a thousand gains compared with the loss of faith would be as nothing. A person is richer if he has trusted someone and lost something than if he had not trusted someone and preserved something \u2013 that one day will be taken away from him! He could just as well have given it up.\nOne might say that every simple person is inclined to trust another. Yes, but the difference between the wise person who trusts bravely and the simple person who readily is great. The wise man who trusts, if he is influenced by another that he may not, or must not, trust a certain person, even if he is given a certain proof, even then that habit of trusting will remain with him. As to the simple man, as soon as anyone says, \u201cOh, what are you doing, you trust somebody who is not trustworthy,\u201d his trust will change. That is the difference between the wise and foolish person. The foolish person trusts because he does not know better; the wise person trusts because he knows that to trust is best.\nThe third step towards the development of faith is trust in the unseen, to trust in something which one does not see. Reason does not show what it is, where it is, how it is, how it should be gained, how it can be brought about, how it should be obtained, how it can be reached. One does not see the reason, one only sees: it will be done, it must be done, it must come. It is that trust in the unseen which is called trust in God. When you do not see any sign before you of something that should happen, and yet you think, \u201cYes, it must happen, it will happen, it certainly must happen,\u201d and you have no doubt, then your trust is in God.\nThe first principle of the Sufi message is faith. It is not only occult study, nor is it scientific analysis, nor psychic phenomena. The first lesson of the message is faith, and it is with faith that the message will be spread. We each shall work in our way in serving, in spreading the message, and it is with faith that the message of God will be fulfilled.\nThe Story of Orpheus\nThere is always a deep meaning in the legends of the ancient Greeks, as in those of the Indians, Persians and Egyptians, and it is most interesting to watch how the art of the Greeks, with its beautiful structure as well as with its legends, had a much deeper meaning than would appear on the outside. Seeing and studying this art we find the key to the ancient culture, and the further we explore it the more we shall be acquainted with its depth and its profound meaning.\nFrom the first part of the story of Orpheus we learn that no object a person has once desired from the depth of his heart will ever be lost. Even if the object of love that a person has once desired is in the deepest depth of the earth \u2013 where reason, but not the eye, can see it \u2013 even then it can be attained if he pursues it sufficiently.\nThe next thing we learn is that in order to attain an object the love element alone is not sufficient, but besides love, wisdom is necessary. It is wisdom, which awakens in harmony and harmonizes with the cosmic forces, which helps one to attain one\u2019s object. There is a saying that the one who possesses the knowledge of sound knows the science of the whole life, and this will be admitted by the wise ones of all ages and of all countries. The invoking of the gods by Orpheus was his coming in touch with all the harmonious forces which, united together, brought him that object which he wanted to attain.\nBut the most fascinating part of the story is the last one, both as a picture and as to the sense. As Orpheus was proceeding , Euridice following him, the promise was that he was not to look back. The moment he would look back Euridice would be taken away from him. The meaning of this is that the secret of all attainment is faith. If the faith of a person endures as fare as ninety-nine miles and one mile remains before gaining the object, even then, if doubt comes, attainment is no more to be expected.\nFrom this we learn a lesson, a lesson which can be used in everything we do, in every walk of life: in order to attain anything we need faith, and if faith is lacking \u2013 even if there is the slightest lack of faith in the form of doubt \u2013 it will spoil all we have done.\n\u201cVerily faith is light and doubt darkness.\u201d\nOur happiness and unhappiness depend upon one thing: how we look at life, whether we appreciate and value all we have or depreciate and underestimate all we have. If we think of what we have not in life, we shall find that there is so much that we have not got, and it will then seem that what we have got is not even as big as a bubble in a vast sea. And if we try to realize what we have, there also will come a time when we shall see that what we have not is like a little bubble in a vast sea. It is a matter of looking at it. The general tendency is to see what we have not got in life, and rarely a soul is so blessed that he is awakened to appreciate all he has in life and to be thankful for it. When we think of what we lack, there comes a flood of that lack and it drowns the whole universe. We find ourselves entirely lacking everything that it is possible to have. If we begin to realize what we have, it will be increased and be completed by abundance, so that in the end of our realization we shall be able to find that, really speaking, we have all. It is in this that lies the secret of spiritual attainment. The saying of Christ, \u201cSeek ye first the kingdom of God and all these things shall be added unto you,\u201d has the same meaning. When by our thankfulness, by our appreciation of life we arrive at the fullness of life, in that bliss we shall find the kingdom of God, and once the kingdom of God is realized, all else will be added.\nOnce a dervish came before Sekandar, the great king, with the bowl of a beggar and asked him if he could fill it. Sekandar looked at him and thought, \u201cWhat is he asking of an emperor like me? To fill that little bowl?\u201d The dervish asked, \u201cCan you fill this little bowl?\u201d The emperor immediately said, \u201cYes,\u201d but the bowl was a magic bowl. Hundreds and thousands and millions were poured into it but it would not fill. It always remained half empty, its mouth wide open to be filled when Sekandar began to feel poor while filling this bowl he said, \u201cDervish, tell me if you are not a magician. You have brought a bowl of magic; it has swallowed my whole treasure and it is empty still.\u201d The dervish answered, \u201cSekandar, if the whole world\u2019s treasure was put into it, it would still remain empty. Do you know what this bowl is? It is the want of man.\u201d\nBe it love, be it wealth, be it attention, be it service, be it comfort, be it happiness, be it pleasure, be it rank, position, power, honor, or possession in life, the more man can receive the more he wants. He is never content, he will never be content. The richer man becomes \u2013 richer with everything, with anything \u2013 the poorer he becomes, for the bowl that he has brought with him, the bowl of want, can never be filled and is never filled.\nThe only secret of attaining happiness therefore, is to learn how to appreciate our privileges in life. If we cultivate that sense of appreciation we shall be thankful, we shall be contented and every moment we shall offer our thanks to God, for His gifts are many and enormous. When we do not see them it is because our wants cover our eyes from seeing all with which we are blessed by Providence. No meditation, no study, nothing can help in that direction. Except one thing: and that is to keep our eyes open to appreciate every little privilege in life, to admire every glimpse of beauty that comes before us, being thankful for every little love, kindness or affection shown to us by young or old, rich or poor, wise or foolish. In this way, continually developing the faculty of appreciating life and devoting it to thanksgiving, we arrive at a bliss which no words can explain, a bliss which is beyond imagination: the bliss that we find ourselves having already entered the kingdom of God.\nThe Privilege of Being Human\nMankind is so absorbed in life\u2019s pleasures and pain that a man has hardly a moment to think what a privilege it is to be human. Life in the world contains, no doubt, more pain than pleasure and that which one considers to be pleasure costs so much that, when it is weighed against the pain it costs, it also becomes pain. As man is so absorbed in his worldly life he traces nothing but pain and complaint in life and, until he changes his outlook, he cannot understand the privilege of being human.\nYet, however unhappy a person may be in his life, if he were asked, \u201cWould you prefer to be a rock rather than a human being?\u201d His answer would be that he would rather suffer and be a human being than be a rock. Whatever be the condition of man\u2019s life, if he were asked, \u201cWould you rather be a tree than a man?\u201d He would choose to be a human being. And although the life of the birds and beasts is so free from care and troubles, so free in the forest, yet if a man were asked whether he would prefer to be one of them and be in the forest, he would surely prefer to be a man. This shows that when human life is compared with the other different aspects of life it proves its greatness and its privilege, but when it is not compared with them man is discontented and his eyes are closed to the privilege of being human.\nAnother thing is that man is mostly selfish, and what interests him is that which concerns his own life. Not knowing the troubles of the lives of others he feels the burden of his own life even more than the burden of the whole world. If only man in his poverty could think that there are others who are poorer than he, in his illness that there are others whose sufferings are perhaps greater than his, in his troubles that there are others whose difficulties are perhaps greater than his! Self-pity is the worst poverty. It overwhelms man and he sees nothing but his own troubles and pains, and it seems to him that he is the most unhappy person in the world, more so than anyone else.\nA great thinker of Persia, Sa\u2019adi, writes in an account of his life, \u201conce I had no shoes, I had to walk barefoot in the hot sand, and how miserable I was. Then I met a man who was lame, for whom waling was very difficult. I bowed down to heaven at once and offered thanks that I was much better off than he who had not even feet to walk upon.\u201d This shows that it is not a man\u2019s situation in life, but his attitude towards life that makes him happy or unhappy. This attitude can even make such a difference between men that one living in a palace could be unhappy and another living in a humble cottage could be very happy. The difference is only in the horizon that one sees: one person looks only at the condition of life, another looks at the lives of many people; it is a difference of horizon.\nBeside this, the impulse that comes from within has its influence on one\u2019s affairs: there is an influence always working from within. If it is a discontent and dissatisfaction in life, one finds its effect in one\u2019s affairs. For instance, a person impressed by illness can never be cured by a physician or medicines. A person impressed by poverty will never get on in life. A person who thinks, \u201cEverybody is against me, everybody troubles me, everybody has a poor opinion of me,\u201d wherever he goes will always find it so. There are many people in the world \u2013 in business, in professions \u2013 who before going to their work bear in their mind as a first thought, \u201cPerhaps I shall not be successful.\u201d\nThe masters of humanity, in whatever period they came to the world, always taught faith as man\u2019s first lesson to learn: faith in success, faith in love, faith in kindness, and faith in God. This faith cannot be developed unless man is self-confident. It is very essential that man should learn to trust another. If he does not trust anyone, life will be hard for him. If he doubts, if he suspects everyone he meets, then he will not trust the people nearest to him in the world, his closest relations, and this will soon develop to such a state of distrust that he will even distrust himself. But the trust of the one who trusts another and does not trust himself is profitless. It is he who trusts another because he trusts himself who has the real trust, and by this trust in himself he can make his life happy in whatever condition he may be.\nIn the traditions of the Hindus there is a well-known idea: that of the tree of the fulfillment of desires. There is a story in India of a man who was told that there was a tree of the fulfillment of desires, and who went in search of it. after going through the forests and across the mountains he arrived at last at a place where he lay down and slept without knowing that the tree of the fulfillment of desires was there. Before he went to sleep he was so tired that he thought, \u201cWhat a good thing it would be if I had just now a soft bed to rest upon and a beautiful house with a courtyard around it and a fountain, and people waiting on me!\u201d With this thought he went to sleep, and when he opened his eyes from sleep he saw that he was lying in a soft bed, and there was a beautiful house and a courtyard and a fountain, and there were people waiting on him. He was very much astonished and remembered that before going to sleep he had thought about this subject, he found, \u201cThe tree that I was looking for \u2013 it was under that tree that I slept, and it was the miracle of the tree that was accomplished.\u201d\nThe interpretation of this legend is a philosophy in itself. It is man himself who is the tree of fulfillment of his desire, and the root of this tree is in the heart of man. The trees and plants with their fruits and flowers, the beasts with their strength and power, and the birds with their wings are unable to arrive at the stage which man can attain. The trees in the forest await that blessing, that freedom, that liberation in stillness, in quietude. The mountains and the whole of nature seem to await that unfoldment, the privilege of which is given to man. That is why the traditions say that man is made in the image of God. Thus one may say that the most fitting instrument for the working of God is the human\nbeing. From a mystical point of view, one may also say that the Creator takes the heart of man as His means of experiencing the whole creation.\nThat shows that no being on earth is more capable of happiness, of satisfaction, of joy, of peace, than man and it is a pity when man is not aware of this privilege of being human. Every moment in life that he passes in this error of unawareness is a waste and is to his greatest loss.\nMan\u2019s greatest privilege is to become a suitable instrument of God, and until he knows this he has not realized his true purpose in life. The whole tragedy in the life of man is his ignorance of this fact. From the moment a man realizes this he lives the real life, the life of harmony between God and man. When Jesus Christ said, \u201cSeek ye first the kingdom of God,\u201d this teaching was an answer to the cry of humanity: some crying, \u201cI have no wealth,\u201d others crying, \u201cI have no rest,\u201d others crying, \u201cMy situation in life is difficult,\u201d My friends are troubling me,\u201d or, \u201cI want a position, wealth.\u201d The answer to them all is, \u201cSeek ye first the kingdom of God, and all these things shall be added unto you.\u201d\nHow can we understand this from a practical, a scientific point of view? All that is external is not in direct connection with you and is therefore unattainable in many cases. Therefore, sometimes you can attain your wish, but many times you fail. By seeking the kingdom of God, you seek the center of all that is within and without. And all that is in heaven and on the earth is directly connected with the center. So, from the center, you are able to reach all that is on earth and in heaven but, when you reach what is not at the center, all may be snatched away from you.\nIn the Qur\u2019an it is written, \u201cGod is the light of the heavens and of the earth.\u201d Beside the desire to obtain the things of the earth there is that innermost desire, unconsciously working at every moment of life, to come into touch with the Infinite. When a painter is painting, when a musician is singing or playing, if he thinks, \u201cIt is my painting, my playing, my music,\u201d perhaps he has some satisfaction but it is like a drop in the ocean. If he connects his painting, his music, with the consciousness of God, if he thinks, \u201cIt is Thy painting, Thy music, not mine,\u201d then he connects himself with the center and his life becomes the life of God.\nThere is much in life that one can call good, and there is much to be contented with. There is much that one can admire, if one can only bring about that attitude, and it is that attitude that can make man contented and his life happy.\nAnother thing is that God is the painter of all this beautiful creation, and if we do not connect ourself with the painter we cannot admire his painting. When one goes to the house of a friend whom one likes and admires, every little thing is so pleasant, but when one goes to the house of an enemy, everything is disagreeable. So our devotion, or love, our friendship for God can make this whole creation a source of happiness to us. In the house of a dear friend a loaf of bead, a glass of milk is most delicious. And in the house of one we dislike all the best dishes are useless. As soon as one begins to realize that the many mansions in the house of the Father are this world with its many religions, many races, many nations, which are yet in the house of God. Then, however humble and difficult our situation in life, it must sooner or later become happier and better. For we feel that we are in the house of the One we love and admire, and all that we meet with we take with love and gratitude, because it comes from the One we love.\nThink for a moment of the condition of the world just now: how many nation, communities, churches, religions, all divide humanity \u2013 the children of one Father who loves them all without distinction! Man with all his claims of civilization, of progress, seem to have fallen into the greatest error. For centuries the world has not been in such a state as it is just now: one nation hating another, looking with contempt on another. What can we call it? Is it progress, or is it a stand-still? Or is it worse than that? Is this not the time when thinking souls should open their eyes from sleep and devote themselves to the effort of doing what good they can do humanity in order to better the conditions of the world and, when each one is thinking only of his own interest, to think of the interest of all?\nSufism brings to the world the message of unity, of uniting in the Fatherhood of God beyond all differences and distinctions. The chief object of the Sufi is to bring about a friendly understanding between people of different nations and races, to bring people of different religions closer together in one understanding, the understanding of the truth.\nOne may ask, \u201cIs it then not the message of Christ which brought the tiding of the love of God and the unity of mankind in the love of God?\u201d There cannot be two religions, there is always only one religion. And there cannot be a new one, as Solomon said that there is nothing new under the sun. Whenever the message of love and wisdom is given it is not a new religion. It is the revivification of religion, in order to bring to man the realization of the truth of the religion he follows. Sufism therefore, does not bring a new religion, it brings that life and light which are necessary to revivify that religion that has always existed.", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00240.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 213, + "original_length": 69718, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.98, + "perplexity": 282.6, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "http://theinspirationroom.com/daily/2015/never-stop-riding/", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T03:52:25Z", + "digest": "sha1:3HDFHY42SSWG5IJASSGEU7HPWLR7EH2P", + "length": 3367, + "nlines": 9, + "source_domain": "theinspirationroom.com", + "title": "Never Stop Riding - The Inspiration Room", + "raw_content": "The Cannes Lions Press Grand Prix for 2015 has gone to \u201cNever Stop Riding\u201d, a campaign developed for The Public Bike System of Buenos Aires. \u201cNever Stop Riding\u201d brings awareness to Buenos Aires\u2019 public bicycle system and its new automated system that includes an expansion of locations and hours of operation. The campaign is running in print and on outdoor billboards throughout Buenos Aires and is supported by advertisements on the wheels of the program\u2019s bicycles. To communicate the new 24-hour availability of the bikes, the campaign uses illustrations to portray the wheels of a bike as partners in a constant chase \u2013 a baby chasing a breast, a dog chasing its tail, moths chasing a light bulb, and a squirrel chasing a chestnut. Each ad incorporates a hand-drawn typeface for the tagline, \u201cThe Buenos Aires Public Bike System Now Runs 24/7,\u201d further evoking the movement of a bicycle chain. The Never Stop Riding campaign, developed at La Comunidad, also won two Gold Press Lions.\nLike many cities in the world, Buenos Aires has a public bicycle system. But until this year, the system was operating only from 8:00 a.m. to 8:00 p.m. In 2015, the city of Buenos Aires launched a new automatic bicycle system that operates full time\u2014public bikes can now be used 24/7. This campaign is part of a program that started in 2010 with only 3 bicycle stations and an average of 100 trips per day. In 2015, there will be over 200 stations throughout the city providing more than 11 million trips per year.\nPress Jury President Pablo del Campo, Worldwide Creative Director Saatchi & Saatchi said the jury was looking for \u201ca brave idea,\u201d as well as \u201cbeautifully executed and crafted work.\u201d\n\u201cThe success of this campaign is emblematic of the tremendous political will behind the vision to transform Buenos Aires into an eco-friendly city,\u201d said Marcos Pe\u00f1a, general secretary of the City of Buenos Aires. \u201cAs part of this effort, in just a few short years, Buenos Aires has already become one of the 20 most bike-friendly cities in the world.\u201d\n\u201cTo be awarded the Grand Prix out of almost 4,500 entries is an incredible honor,\u201d said Jose Moll\u00e1, co-founder and chief creative officer of the community. \u201cWe are committed to diversity and bringing a global perspective to our clients, and so we are thrilled that a campaign that is performing so well with the people in Buenos Aires was created and produced in the U.S.\u201d\nThe campaign is credited with generating buzz around the ease and convenience of Buenos Aires\u2019 public bicycle system \u2013 a program that revolutionized the city more than six years ago by creating not only more than 140 km of bike lanes, but changing the culture of how the city\u2019s residents commute. By the end of 2015, there will be more than 200 bicycle stations throughout Buenos Aires.\nThe Never Stop Riding campaign was developed at La Comunidad, Miami, by chief creative officers Joaqu\u00edn Moll\u00e1 and Jos\u00e9 Moll\u00e1, associate creative director/art director Fernando Reis, associate creative director/copywriter Marcelo Padoca, art director Guilherme N\u00f3brega, illustrator Arthur D\u2019Araujo, editor/director Pablo Alberte, studio editor Sergio Skarek, group account director Sebastian Diaz, and account director Daniel Gergely.\nTagged: Arthur D\u2019\u00e1raujo, Fernando Reis, Joaquin Molla, Jose Molla, La Comunidad, Marcelo Padoca\nDove Men Care First Fatherhood Moments", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00240.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 69, + "original_length": 4436, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.94, + "perplexity": 238.5, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "http://thejewishstar.com/stories/seidemann-the-case-of-the-missing-hat,2202", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T03:21:17Z", + "digest": "sha1:NYESSPVXYOAEH3I2R7W4ISMHV37UXNMC", + "length": 2110, + "nlines": 7, + "source_domain": "thejewishstar.com", + "title": "Seidemann: The case of the missing hat | The Jewish Star | thejewishstar.com", + "raw_content": "Seidemann: The case of the missing hat\nNot that anyone is counting, but this is my 180th article for this fine newspaper. In article 88, I described a wedding I attended in Williamsburg. When I went out to make a phone call, I observed a stranger driving away in my silver Acura. The valet had erred as the stranger and I owned similar cars. At any rate, I was reunited with my car, but upon arriving home, I found the man\u2019s hat in my front seat. Through the good graces of the Nachum Segal radio show, the stranger and his hat were reunited a few days later. All seemed well in the hat world.\nThat is, until article 180.\nA few weeks back, someone in my shul accidentally left the premises with my hat, a lovely black fedora with a sporty feather. A week later, the hat did not reappear. I pulled out my back-up hat from the closet. It was not as fancy as my primary hat and did not fit quite as well. The back-up is gray while my first love is black. For good reason, it had been relegated to back-up duty. Now, I do not mean to insult hat number two, but simply wish to point out that it is a back-up hat for a reason.\nI do have an emotional attachment to that grey fedora, having sort of inherited it from a relative. My great uncle Seymour passed away and his family held a memorial tribute for him. As the proceedings concluded, Seymour\u2019s son approached me and asked what my hat size was. I\u2019ve been asked some weird questions in my lifetime but given where we were, I couldn\u2019t imagine the relevance of such a question. Long story short, Seymour had purchased the gray hat two weeks before his passing and never wore it. Of all the relatives present, we seemed shared a hat size. So after a moving tribute to my dead relative, I had a new hat.\nI felt a bit funny, not only by acquiring it at a memorial, but also because the hat did not really fit that well. By the same token, I didn\u2019t want to look a gift horse in the, well, head. I overcame all my doubts and proudly donned the gray hat and drove home.\nNow, my neighbor is one of the finest neighbors one could ever hope for and we get along swimmingly.", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00240.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 153, + "original_length": 3937, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.98, + "perplexity": 336.6, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "http://thenaturalhealthandhealingcenter.com/cancer/", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T03:57:29Z", + "digest": "sha1:4EIJOYXVYNSPIAQ4WUPQLX5GIHSA3I6V", + "length": 2433, + "nlines": 11, + "source_domain": "thenaturalhealthandhealingcenter.com", + "title": "Cancer - The Natural Health and Healing Center", + "raw_content": "Cancer was at one time, very rare. Now, everyone either knows someone who had cancer or has experienced it themselves. What changed? Why is it so common now?\nThere has been a lot of research into genes. Has much of the problem been overlooked? Cancer manifests from abnormal cell growth which is the result of damage to certain genes. The genes carry \u201cinstructions\u201d for making the proteins the body needs for survival. Many factors can affect the health of the genes causing damage and eventually leading to cancer.\nMost people are familiar with the dangers of smoking, and that it can lead to cancer. What about the other cell damaging causes? Some of these include chemicals, heavy metals, viruses, radiation, and poor diet.\nYour body and its genes can be influenced by these factors, causing abnormal cell growth. Once this happens, the foundation has been laid. This is the metabolic side. Your daily choices and the environment can influence your metabolic function. When a person goes through cancer treatment, the goal is to kill the cancer. The treatment itself can be hard on the body and doesn\u2019t go any further than death of cells.\nEvery evaluation I have done on a person currently in cancer treatment or post treatment, has revealed a chemical and/or heavy metal challenge as well as immune challenges.\nThe first step in your Nutrition Response Testing health recovery program is to help your body handle these body weakening stressors. Next, the immune system and other body functions need to be built up and strengthened. Of course, learning how to eat and live in a way that doesn\u2019t damage your cells and genes is also addressed and will greatly lower your risk of any disease. Recovering your health after cancer is the most valuable thing you can do for yourself.\nDisease is not inevitable.\nNutrition Response Testing can help people going through cancer treatment, as well as after treatment is done.\nRestoring the foundation of your health that has been lost is what we do.\nCall for a complete analysis\u2026.703-319-1100\nBy submitting this form, you are granting: The Natural Health and Healing Center, 10875 Main Street, Fairfax, Virginia, 22030, United States, http://www.wholehealthamerica.com/designs/bp.php?idnum=133&zt=user&zn=0&zm=c permission to email you. You may unsubscribe via the link found at the bottom of every email. (See our Email Privacy Policy for details.) Emails are serviced by Constant Contact.", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00240.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 46, + "original_length": 3050, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.96, + "perplexity": 329.1, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "http://therebelsproject.org/stories/personal-stories/", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T04:46:05Z", + "digest": "sha1:JWK4GZFJQOZ2N5J3OMMWQ3D5CBOZFKVF", + "length": 1299, + "nlines": 4, + "source_domain": "therebelsproject.org", + "title": "Personal Stories | The Rebels Project", + "raw_content": "Jamie (Kettlewell) Price Columbine High School Class of 2002 It\u2019s been seventeen years since my life changed on April 20, 1999. The day I was trapped in my school while two gunmen opened fire and killed a total of 13 people, including themselves. Seventeen years. That seems like such a long time. I have done [\u2026]\nSherrie Lawson Washington Navy Yard It was 2am and I was distraught and exhausted. I had not been able to sleep for more than three hours at night. Anxiety made it extremely difficult to fall asleep and once I hit the REM stage of sleep nightmares played on repeat. I was constantly running from shadows, [\u2026]\nPassing the Time Heather Egeland, Columbine survivor and Rebels Project co-founder I\u2019ve mentioned before that I don\u2019t watch the news. I avoid it at all costs, actually. So it\u2019s no surprise that I didn\u2019t know until the day it was happening that the Columbine memorial was being unveiled. I was at my parent\u2019s house, stopping [\u2026]\nJoseph Pazar, Sparks Middle School Survivor Malcom Gladwell explains the concept of a near-miss and remote-miss in his book David and Goliath. A near-miss leaves someone devastated both physically and emotionally while a remote-miss leads to a path of growth and increased strength. My story is one of anxiously trying to turn my situation into [\u2026]", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00240.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 39, + "original_length": 1958, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.98, + "perplexity": 241.4, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "http://thesop.org/story/world/2008/04/17/peaceful-end-to-darfur-crisis-more-remote.php", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T03:49:08Z", + "digest": "sha1:YQM6M7VC5VU3HXZSWNWSW2WF6FNU4W46", + "length": 3759, + "nlines": 13, + "source_domain": "thesop.org", + "title": "Peaceful end to Darfur crisis more remote", + "raw_content": "Peaceful end to Darfur crisis more remote\nNew York, NY-- The prospect of negotiating a political solution to the Darfur crisis has become ever more remote as both the Sudanese Government and rebels appear determined to pursue a military solution, according to a United Nations report released today. http://www.un.org/Docs/journal/asp/ws.asp?m=s/2008/249.\nAt the same time the international community's failure to supply vital helicopters, transport and other logistical support is undermining the work of the seriously under-staffed African Union-United Nations Hybrid Operation in Darfur, http://www.un.org/Depts/dpko/missions/unamid/index.html, (UNAMID), to pacify a region where five years of fighting have killed more than 200,000 people and driven nearly 2.5 million others from their homes.\n\"I am extremely disappointed in the lack of progress on all fronts,\" Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon says in the report that covers the UNAMID's operations for the first three months of the year.\n\"The parties appear determined to pursue a military solution; the political process stalled; the deployment of UNAMID is progressing very slowly and continues to face many challenges; and the humanitarian situation is not improving.\"\nBlaming the lack of a political commitment on all sides as the primary obstacle, Mr. Ban stresses that if they had mustered the necessary will, agreed to cease hostilities, cooperated with the deployment of UNAMID and moved towards negotiations, \"we would by now have started to witness significant progress towards a lasting solution.\"\nUNAMID was set up at the end of last year with a target strength of 26,000 military and police personnel to replace a seriously under-manned and under-equipped African Union (AU) mission, but at present only has some 10,600 in the field, 1,400 of them civilians.\n\"It is critical that the international community recognize its own central role in supporting the mission, so as to enable it to effectively implement its mandate and contribute to improving the lives of the civilians of Darfur,\" Mr. Ban writes. \"In that respect, more must be done to secure the necessary aviation and logistical capacities for a full and effective deployment.\n\"Creative solutions must be found for those shortfalls, and they must be found quickly. I once again call on all Member States to pledge the necessary capabilities for UNAMID or to prevail upon other who may be on a position to do so.\"\nHe notes that although the Government agreed in principle to the Mission's right to conduct night flights, it continues to obstruct operations by restricting flying hours. UNAMID has also not been afforded complete general freedom of movement, particularly in areas of West Darfur affected by ongoing violence between the Government and the rebel Justice and Equality Movement (JEM).\nTurning to the effect of the fighting on Darfurians, Mr. Ban stresses that Government military actions in West Darfur and the widespread use of force against civilians has resulted in indiscriminate killings and other grave human rights abuses. \"JEM must also be held accountable for the role it has played in creating those circumstances,\" he says.\nCalling the implications of the current security situation for Darfurians grave, he adds that attacks on food convoys and general violence are hindering the provision of humanitarian aid. Moreover, sexual and gender-based violence in and around camps for internally displaced persons (IDPs) is high.\nHe concludes with a call to all parties to \"urgently commit to a cessation of hostilities and to meaningfully engage in the political process led by the Special Envoys\" \u2013 Jan Eliasson of the UN and Salim Ahmed Salim of the AU, who have been spearheading efforts to launch negotiations.", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00240.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 28, + "original_length": 5162, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.95, + "perplexity": 179.3, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "http://thesuccessfulpitch.fullcast.libsynpro.com/how-to-be-a-winner-mark-faust-tsp134", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T03:52:28Z", + "digest": "sha1:T4CQOG2OOQSYQI6AG5NV6EGMQI3IZXUA", + "length": 882, + "nlines": 2, + "source_domain": "thesuccessfulpitch.fullcast.libsynpro.com", + "title": "The Successful Pitch with John Livesay: How To Be A Winner \u2013 Mark Faust | TSP134", + "raw_content": "How To Be A Winner \u2013 Mark Faust | TSP134 0\nToday\u2019s guest on The Successful Pitch is author Mark Faust who has written several books about high growth leverage. His new book is called Winning Strategy. He has a really interesting look at the strategies that happened during the recent presidential election and how you can see what worked and didn\u2019t work and more importantly, how to apply it to your own business. He said there are really three keys to having a great strategy in anything. One is a vision, two is a focus and the third one is something called points of divergence, which he goes into great detail explaining how to double down on what you are already doing to get people to really understand your vision, your focus and more importantly, have the strategy that gets you funded or gets you a new client or gets you to win in any area of your life. Enjoy the episode.", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00240.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 67, + "original_length": 2028, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.99, + "perplexity": 316.4, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "http://time-attendance.co.uk/Blog?id=97", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T04:33:50Z", + "digest": "sha1:MFI76PPADLUZV2W74CYYHCCQ6CE44Z3V", + "length": 6384, + "nlines": 12, + "source_domain": "time-attendance.co.uk", + "title": "Blog - Healthy, Safety & Security - Clocking Systems", + "raw_content": "Although you\u2019ve heard it a million times before, we\u2019ll say it again to make it a million and one: Health & Safety is of paramount importance.\nThe simple fact is, however, that you have a legal duty of care to all employees, as far as is possible, to provide them with a safe and secure environment. If found not to have discharged this responsibility the company and its directors may well be liable for prosecution. This is therefore \u2018serious business.\u2019\nWe all know that dealing with Health & Safety can be a frustrating and time-consuming task and that some rules may appear trivial (thank you Brussels), but the subject is too serious to be trivialised. It\u2019s with this in mind that we decided to include a number of modules that fit nicely into our Captureit time & attendance system that can greatly help with health, safety and security; of both your employees and your premises.\nFire Register\nHere's some examples of bad fire registers: A bit of paper with everyone\u2019s names on the list. A whiteboard with all the employees written onto it. A book in reception. Unfortunately, these are also the most common fire registers being used by most companies. Fire is dangerous. It is capable of utterly destroying your business and, if given the chance, can and has taken lives. Don\u2019t mess about when it comes to fire, and absolutely do not underestimate it by only putting in the bare basics for your fire register \u2013 that\u2019s just courting disaster! We\u2019ve talked about the features of Captureit Fire Register here. However, consider the following two stories just to highlight how important a proper fire register can be:\nExample 1: This story would be amusing, if the subject matter were not so serious, and involves a company we spoke to last year (2016 already seems so far away!) who had what they thought was a very clever fire register solution. This started with a large plastic board at point of entry to their premises, that showed a list of all employees. Next to each employee was a small slider that could be moved back and forth to either show \u201cIn\u201d or \u201cOut.\u201d When someone walked into the building, they simply moved the slider to show \u201cIn\u201d and when they left, they moved the slider to show \u201cOut.\u201d All seemed fine until one day, the fire alarm went off. Everybody diligently left the building and the designated fire marshal picked up the board, tucked it under his arm and went outside to conduct the fire roll call. Unfortunately, tucking the board under his arm caused all the sliders to slip to the \u201cOut\u201d position, because of an old thing called gravity. They were now stuck with absolutely no idea who was in the building at the time the fire alarm went off \u2013 gross embarrassment all round. Fortunately, it was only a drill, and therefore they were able to look for a proper fire register system, which Captureit was able to provide.\nExample 2: A company gave us a call looking for a time and attendance system that included a reliable fire register. They had two buildings on one location and wanted to know who was in which building and who was on/off-site at all times. They asked our sales team a lot of questions concerning the fire register, which prompted our curious sales advisor to query what was prompting so many queries. It turned out that the company had lost everything in a fire. By everything, we mean everything \u2013 their main HQ building was literally burnt down to the ground, including everything inside. Fortunately, no one was hurt, but understandably, having seen just how horrific and devastating fire can be, they decided they wanted the best fire register they could possibly have.\nThere\u2019s not much more that can be said to demonstrate the importance of getting a proper, reliable fire register.\nBy controlling access to your premises, you can help to ensure that only your employees are able to gain access to your company. This stops \u201cundesirables\u201d from entering the building without your knowledge, and it goes a long way to preventing petty crimes such as theft \u2013 you would be amazed at how many items are stolen from \u2018reception\u2019 by folks walking in off the street. You can also have internal areas protected by Access Control which only allows access to certain employees. This is particularly useful for areas with sensitive or valuable company assets. Likewise, you may want to keep some employees out of areas where there\u2019s a higher risk of accidents and injury. Similarly, there may be equipment that only specialists and qualified individuals should have access to, and with Access Control, you can ensure that only employees with the correct clearance can access such areas. Finally, since Captureit maintains an audit trail of all door access activity, you are always in a position to know who went through which door, and when.\nAbsence & Lateness as part of Health\nThis may seem like an odd thing to bring up when discussing health and safety, but, when you look below the surface, it falls very much into the \u201chealth\u201d aspect. A good time & attendance system, will let you know when employees are late or absent from work. Patterns of lateness or absence can be difficult to spot manually, but these are behaviours that a good time & attendance system can alert you to, so you can investigate the underlying cause. Is someone habitually absent, but also working large amounts of overtime? That\u2019s a classic sign of a burnout. Overworking in such a way is unhealthy, causes stress and greatly increases the chance of getting ill; so perhaps it\u2019s time to sit down and discuss things with the employee.\nIs someone continually late to work and seems to be having a lot of Mondays and/or Fridays off? Again, by using a time & attendance system you will spot unusual patterns, highlighting the need for a conversation with the individual. It can be tempting to respond to absences and lateness with the knee-jerk reaction that the employee is being lazy, dishonest, etc, but there could be a myriad of other reasons, including issues at home, sleeping problems, struggling with an ongoing health issue and so on; all of which you may be completely unaware of. With a time & attendance system, it\u2019s so much easier to spot troubling trends early and then intervene, instead of losing employees due to lack of information. 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I'm constantly, fanatically working on 3D printed robots. I've been in to robots since I was 11, and building things since I was 5. And now I work in Silicon Valley and have a nice career in robotics.\nBut when I go home, in the evenings and on weekends and even with not uncommon protest from my partners, I'm working on robots.\nThe goal is not just to print robots for fun. Yes, printing robots is fabulously fun. And I do want to preach and evangelize the wonders of making robots at home. When you have an idea and a month or three later you see the thing alive and moving around - expressing itself - it's extremely rewarding. But it's hard too. You find yourself dedicated and staying up till 3 or 4am before heading to work the next day. You lose sleep, and you stress and it can be hard.\nI keep going because I think there are broader implications to 3D printed robots. More deeply, my goal is to enable people anywhere in the world to start up their own local manufacturing center, and I want to help those people make economically productive robots right in their shop or home. When you can manufacture something yourself, you can change it to fit your needs. The thing better serves you. The world will, I predict, by and large provide a highly centralized model for distribution of robotics technology as it develops. The Googles and the Samsungs and all the other big technology companies from all over will use their wealth to produce fantastic robots capable of hugely productive work. But they will also charge a great deal for those robots. Billions will be unable to directly benefit from these technologies. The big companies will lease their robots with license fees just cheaper than human workers, and local businesses will pay indefinitely for the machines that allow them to compete just a little better than before. The explosion of wealth promised by robots will not go to those leasing the machines, but those producing them. The global population will pay what they can for the improvements the machines provide - their lives truly will be better by many measures - but they will not own the machines to fix and change and modify as they see fit.\nI see a vision for the future instead where little towns all over the world have places where local vendors are printing, assembling, upgrading, and selling robots to their local population. Instead of Samsung manufacturing a robot in asia and shipping it to a little town, bringing the profits back to Samsung's already wealthy holdings, local vendors would work hard to make robots that are just what the residents need. When the local farmer takes their hard earned savings and decides to buy a robot, the local vendor gets wealthier and becomes better able to support the farmers. The vendors in turn take their wealth to buy more food from the farmers, and in this way the robots help improve everyone's lives.\nToo often we see stories of workers abused by their employers. In 2013, riots broke out in Little India, Singapore, when a bus collided with and killed a migrant worker. The local companies had been hiring these workers but paying less than they had agreed, and if a worker got injured they'd be kidnapped by the employer, forced to sign documents they were not permitted to read, and sent back to their home country with no say in the matter. The law requires that these companies pay the medical bills of the injured workers, but instead the workers were shut out and sent away. The workers had no power to negotiate - they were at the whim of their employers. They only had freedom as long as they were useful.\nI dislike this treatment of people as small cogs in a giant machine. As disposable laborers to be utilized until they're worn out, and then discarded. It is inhumane. I see no reason why some people should be left in a situation where they chose the destruction of their own bodies in order to survive.\nAnd this is something I see robots as being able to eliminate.\nRight now, workers are people. And so in order to meet the needs of one group of people, another group of people has to work. And the first group wants the second group to behave like machines. Well we are not machines, we are human. Let the business people have their machines. Let them build empires.\nWe will take the shops they build, and the factories they create, and use those to produce technology that frees the laboring class from their toil. Machines that help farmers harvest. Machines to transport goods between towns and cities. Road and aqueduct building equipment. And when you have roads and water and a roof, then we will make machines that make high quality stoves that vent away from the kitchen so you can save your lungs. And when you have a machine that makes houses and stoves and you can breathe better we will make machines that wash your clothes for you, and cook your food for you, and we will make machines that make those machines. Instead of working outdoors where your feet hurt, you can work indoors and make improvements to the machines. Instead of working twelve hour days, you can work six. When there is a sunset, you can stop and enjoy it, because you will still eat even if you are not working constantly.\nOnce this is all underway, I hope to see a world where no one wants for food. The world is large and I do not believe that all of the machines that produce everything we all need can come from Asia. The machines that help the farmers can come from the builders who live in the towns where they're used. The builders can see how those machines can be improved, they can make the changes needed, and they can print upgrades as needed. When they do, they'll share the knowledge they have learned freely with everyone else on the internet. The machine builder in the local town in Bangladesh is not competing with the machine builder in a town in Kenya - they are brothers and sisters in a global network of hackers who want to see the world around them improve.\nI see that the way to get food in to every mouth is not to beg the wealthy to send food to everyone. The cost would be enormous and many people would be missed. Even if we took on such an endeavor, the destruction of the environment would be accelerated by the constant flights of jumbo jets from the fields to the hungry mouths. Brussels and Beijing cannot support the world from afar, nor would everyone appreciate the effort.\nInstead, we must work to share the knowledge of what we have. The robots we build in San Francisco will not be the same robots that are needed to rebuild the shattered cities in Yemen, but the insight we gain can be shared. We needn't export robots people don't need, but knowledge that can be repurposed. In this way, the people with great wealth who spend their days making robots to deliver smoothies to my desk can still help those who want to build better schools and larger farms. The wealth of the few is not mere things, but knowledge. And we can build a world that refuses to put up barriers to help others. When we learn how to make a cheaper or better robot, we can share that with others so that they too can make machines that help their people.\nThis will take participation the world over to accomplish. We need a global movement of engineers and builders and users who work together to build, use, improve, and share machines that make the lives of all people better. When the cities become automated and the workers are sent away, lets give those workers a new place for their skills to be used. The engineers in the wealthy places can search the world for new better ways of moving motors, sensing the world, and solving problems. And those in the small towns can work online with the engineers in the cities to try out new ideas, see what works and what doesn't, and give their own feedback on modifications. The machine builders can work to find customers and understand their needs. To take the human problem and convert that in to a plan of action for the engineers. 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After dancing with her the entire evening, he ended up taking her home. This is when he noticed that she was coldto the touch. When he asked her where she lived, she said in Bridgeport. On the way , she decided she wanted to go down Archer Avenue past Resurrection Cemetery. As they neared the cemetery, she beganto act stranger. She told Palus that for some reason she had to run to the cemetery gates and that he could'nt follow. Before he knew what was happening, she had darted off towards the gates. About halfway there, she just disappeared. The next day he visited the address that she had given him and was greeted by an older woman who told him that her daughter Mary had died five years ago. He evenrecognized her pictureof her sitting on the table. till the day he died, he was positive he danced with Resurrection Mary.\nRumor has it that there are three Mary's somewhat fitting her description buried at the cemetery. 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It is true that it may not be a big thing that you have done that has ended you with this much pain, but the little thing you did do is the last in a line of events most of which were probably small and insignificant. These events all add together to give the final result, Pain!!!\nThere is an old saying, \u201clook after the little things and the big ones will look after themselves\u201d. This is very true with your health as well. The little things whether it be your posture, your diet, exercise level (or lack thereof), are the basis on which you are able to do the big things in life. They are the foundations on which you build your health. If these are not right then forget about the big things as you may have difficulty getting out of bed!\nUsing the example of good posture, if you don\u2019t sit properly and slouch then you can\u2019t breathe properly. This means you get tired by the end of the day and are too tired to exercise. 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Beautiful enough by itself, I discovered it can be used as a term of endearment or as an expletive or in a moment of exasperation. I loved that it covered so many bases!\nWe saw a bullfight on a little side trip to Seville. I know it's very controversial and it was quite an intense experience. I'll leave it at that and just comment that is has a deep and rich cultural history. I loved the beautiful ticket, so it found a place in my journal.\nWhile in Marbella we headed south a bit to the Strait of Gibraltar and took a ferry over to Tangier, Morocco. We had very windy and rough crossing, but it was worth it. We stepped into a completely different world. I loved the Lipton tea bag tag in Arabic. I'm a big tea drinker and have tags from tea I have sipped from all over the world.\nA few scraps of saved paper, some drawing and lots of writing to remember what we did - every time I crack open one of my travel journals I'm instantly reminded of the journey. 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Amazon's answer to the Google Chromecast Audio is a small disc-shaped device that you can attach to any powered speakers. It will also have a large speaker at the back.\nGoogle Home Mini was the world's best-selling smart speaker in Q2 2018, as per a Strategy Analytics. The pricing of Dollars $149 translates to roughly AUD$206 but this will likely be fine-tuned by the Australian launch. The screen could be used for watching video content on YouTube and other video streaming services.\nIt also shows that the device will be available in two colors - chalk and charcoal. It can connect via 3.5mm or Bluetooth, and with 4 separate microphones, it should be able to hear you quite well from across the room.\nGoogle Home Hub features: What does it do? It will add another way of interacting with Google Assistant for the users.\nAmazon also introduced a subwoofer to go along with existing Echo products as well as a pair of amplifiers that work like audio control centers for the home. With Guard enabled, Alexa, can send you Smart Alerts with audio clips when specific sounds are detected, including breaking glass or smoke or Carbon dioxide alarms.\nEcho Wall Clock. This analog clock also includes LED lights around the rim so that you can visually see Alexa-based timers (from other devices) counting down.\nGoogle Home hub is already in the news and has been leaking from the past few weeks. The report also confirms that there will be no camera on board for Duo calls, something that was seen missing in the leaked images as well.\nIn the Google Home Hub box, there will be a power adapter, a warranty booklet and a quick start guide.\nAt its forthcoming annual hardware event, Google is expected to announce a flurry of products it's been working on over the past year. 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Few people have two cars.\nStanly put the note into his pocket. They can not continue without Dorothy. Several newspapers published the story. It's still true today. Who's the lucky guy? I'll catch up. Customers have to be satisfied. I've always wondered about that. They have located Mwa.\nThis morning, I saw an angel. Where is the nearest internet cafe? You broke the table you were sitting on.\nDon't let her give up. Hugh didn't want to do that, but he felt he had no choice. Don't tell me you really believed what Jon said. Most of the Internet uses unfriendly language. I don't have a tattoo. They stood. You should slow down when you approach a four-way intersection. I'm going to call them.\nIt is hard, perhaps even impossible, to define normal sensory perception. When are we going to do it? I came back to help you. I seem to have misplaced my keys. We'll be out of here by this time tomorrow. You're welcome to move back to Boston.\nSo what's happening? Shall we see each other tomorrow or not? You're a lawyer, right? We will definitely touch base with you guys.\nAre you sure there's nothing left to eat? I wanted to go to Boston with Dori, but he said he didn't want to go with me. Jeff has to do it now. The bus leaves every ten minutes.\nI don't want to lie to him. Juliane is unusually quiet today. Your wallet is on the television set. I guess we're finished. I hear from my friend every year. Because of the rain, we weren't able to play tennis outside. We've always been friends.", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00240.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 26, + "original_length": 2789, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.99, + "perplexity": 210.3, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "http://tundratabloids.com/2018/10/j-e-dyer-christine-blasey-fords-doj-fbi-connection/", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T04:17:25Z", + "digest": "sha1:DFXVSK4NQGSJYJN6IJRCGKFVFGXV7TR7", + "length": 3698, + "nlines": 15, + "source_domain": "tundratabloids.com", + "title": "J.E.Dyer: Christine Blasey Ford\u2019s DOJ/FBI connection\u2026\u2026. \u2013 The Tundra Tabloids\u2026\u2026.", + "raw_content": "J.E.Dyer: Christine Blasey Ford\u2019s DOJ/FBI connection\u2026\u2026.\nThe rot runs deep\u2026\nIt\u2019s worth noting as well that Merrick would have a good idea what he was talking about, as the son of a distinguished California jurist, Judge John Merrick, who has often been called the \u201cFirst Citizen of Malibu.\u201d In his statement, the younger Merrick spoke specifically of McLean \u201cinterviewing for jobs with the FBI and the U.S. Attorney\u2019s office.\u201d Perhaps he was coached by a lawyer on that language himself, but he probably doesn\u2019t need to be. Most ordinary people might not refer to a federal D.A. as the \u201cU.S. Attorney\u201d \u2013 but the son of a longtime judge would.\nChristine Blasey Ford\u2019s DOJ/FBI connection\nBy J.E. Dyer October 5, 2018\nMs. Ford with her FBI connection, 27 Sep 2018. C-SPAN video (h/t Conservative Treehouse. See text)\nIt comes down now to a Senate vote on Friday for cloture on debate in the chamber, and the ability to move forward to a full Senate vote on Brett Kavanaugh\u2019s confirmation to the Supreme Court.\nSo there\u2019s a sense in which many things will be moot, at least for the time being, if cloture is approved and the confirmation vote is held. Those things would include not just the particulars of Christine Blasey Ford\u2019s allegations, but how they got to the Senate and how the Senate Democrats \u2013 and the left in general \u2013 have handled them.\nThat said, we would do a disservice to the truth, in the process of moving on, to ignore things that are in plain view. One of those things is evidence uncovered by investigative bloggers that indicate Ms. Ford has had a years-long personal connection to the Justice Department and FBI. The connection is through the longtime friend identified by her ex-boyfriend from the 1990s, whom the boyfriend says Ford coached to prepare for a polygraph test when Ford and the friend were both living in California.\nThe friend, Monica L. McLean, who was in Ford\u2019s class at Holton-Arms, has denied that Ford ever coached her on taking polygraph tests. The ex-boyfriend \u2013 whom the Wall Street Journal contacted in mid-September and identified in a 19 September article as Brian Merrick, of Malibu \u2013 has made a sworn statement that he did see Ford coach McLean. That\u2019s where we stand on that matter, which is one we have no way to prove or disprove at this point. (Mr. Merrick is a realtor dealing in high-end properties in Malibu, and does seem unlikely to make up false stories gratuitously and tell them to public officials in sworn statements. He\u2019d have a lot to lose from the bad publicity that would come from that.)\nWhen I pulled the string on Ms. McLean myself, I discovered that sundance at Conservative Treehouse had already done tremendous work. Rather than include the links and screen caps here, I refer you to sundance\u2019s post.\nMcLean, an attorney, worked for the DOJ from 1992 to 2016, and seems to have spent most or all of that time working jobs at the FBI. She was assigned to the FBI\u2019s Los Angeles Division Legal Unit as late as the year 2000, and sometime between then and 2003 transferred to the Southern District of New York. She appears to have remained there, working as a public information officer for the U.S. Attorney and FBI, through at least 2009.\nMcLean\u2019s history with the DOJ and FBI tends to corroborate the claim by Brian Merrick that she needed to take a polygraph test in the 1990s. Again, McLean denies that Ms. Ford coached her on that.\nPrevious Post Previous Post Austrian court rejects appeals by eight Iraqis against prison sentences for gang-raping German tourist on New Year\u2019s Eve in 2015\u2026\u2026..\nNext Post Next Post Brian of London: Recent fake science expos\u00e9 and Palestinian studies are actually linked, let me explain why\u2026\u2026.", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00240.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 103, + "original_length": 49623, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.97, + "perplexity": 236.5, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "http://turkublogs.fi/finstories/2015/04/08/traveling-in-finland-2/", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T04:39:34Z", + "digest": "sha1:WRJD3A3W3777A3Z3WTXVDU3TTSKPXOQI", + "length": 1964, + "nlines": 5, + "source_domain": "turkublogs.fi", + "title": "Traveling in Finland | Finternational stories", + "raw_content": "I\u2019ve been travelling a lot in Finland since I arrived here. I\u2019ve been to Helsinki a couple of times, to visit the city and to transit. I\u2019ve also been to Lapland by bus. I travelled to Helsinki by Onnibus and by train. Both ways have an equal duration, but the bus is usually cheaper. Another possibility is by car, but that is the most expensive option. If a ticket by bus is booked some time beforehand, it can be just 5 euros back and forth. I usually paid around 15 euros. Whether a train ticket is around 21 euros, only for one way. Sometimes the train has a student deal; then it\u2019s possible to travel for only 15 euros return. Both the bus and the train have free Wi-Fi and the travel comfort is high. The tickets for the bus and train can be booked with a credit card. The Onnibus leaves at 3 places in Turku, you can pick where you want to depart during booking. The Onnibus arrives right in the center of Helsinki. From there, everything is reachable by foot. For greater distances there are busses and trams.\nThe train departs also in Turku, from either the main station or Kupittaa. The stations can be easily reached by bus. The train also arrives in the center of Helsinki. This are two easy options to go to Helsinki.\nSo about the way to Lapland. I travelled by bus. There\u2019s also a possibility to travel by train and airplane, but I don\u2019t have experience with those. The bus was the cheapest option \u2013 because we went with a large group. The bus drove us through the night, so we had the possibility to sleep in the bus. This is not very comfortable, there are a lot of noises around and let face it: your sitting instead of lying down. An advantage of driving through the night is that there is no day wasted for travelling. It may not be very comfortable, but driving through the night is the best option. Either with bus or train.\nText by Danielle Matser\nThis entry was posted in Danielle Matser by TUAS International Office. 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Both physiotherapists turned back pain researchers; the Brazilian-born duo have both recently been awarded the same prestigious national fellowship.\nAs some of Australia\u2019s best up-and-coming medical research talent, the Ferreiras received National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) Career Development Fellowships to progress their work on one of the world\u2019s most common health conditions.\nManuela\u2019s focus is on surgical management of low back pain, while Paulo is interested in the lifestyle factors that can be tweaked to prevent and treat back pain.\nEarlier this year, Manuela led a ground-breaking study that found common anti-inflammatory drugs don\u2019t work for back pain. She is also leading a placebo trial of surgery for spinal stenosis, new methods for post-surgery rehabilitation and whether telehealth and text message-based interventions can help manage acute lower back pain.\nPaulo is currently investigating what types of physical activities cause low back pain, and along with colleagues, is looking into whether playing video games can help older people, even those in nursing homes, manage lower back pain. A 2017 SOAR Fellow, he is also investigating the role of genetics in back pain by studying twins.\nPaulo says they are both interested in back pain because it is so common \u2013 affecting 80 percent of people in their lifetime, it\u2019s the highest contributor to disability in Australia, costing an estimated $4.8 billion in 2012 \u2013 but is rarely studied.\n\u201cBecause back pain is not life-threatening, it does not receive the attention it deserves, but it is a very serious condition. It is associated with higher mortality rates, and affects people\u2019s lives\u201d.\n\u201cThe use of technology, such as telehealth and video games, can be very helpful to manage back pain in a healthy and non-invasive manner.\u201d\nRewind 20 years and the Ferreiras met at a University in Brazil before moving halfway across the world to start PhDs at the University of Sydney.\n\u201cWhen we first moved here, it was really hard. I missed my family support (nine brothers and sisters!) but giving up was not an option,\u201d Manuela, whose father experienced chronic back pain, said.\nBut she persevered, having their first child while completing their PhDs.\n\u201cPaulo and I took her everywhere with us. We didn\u2019t have any family who could help out, so we even took her when gathering data for our theses. It was a great icebreaker. Patients loved seeing her. We had the highest follow-up rates we\u2019ve ever had because people wanted to see her again.\u201d\nNow both well-respected academics at Sydney\u2019s Faculty of Health Sciences, Charles Perkins Centre and the Kolling Institute, with two children in high school, Manuela and Paulo concede that there are difficulties being a couple in academia.\n\u201cOur daughters say they never want to date someone with the name \u2018Grant\u2019. They\u2019re sick of hearing that word in our house,\u201d Manuela says with a laugh.\n\u201cAnd it can definitely take a couple of days into a holiday before we stop talking about work. But I honestly don\u2019t know what I would do if I wasn\u2019t an academic. I just love doing research.\u201d\n\u201cThe ultimate research goal is to establish a safer and effective management pathway for patients with low back pain in Australia and overseas. 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As a result, NOPE decided to tackle the problem by raising awareness within the college population directly. We set out to present at colleges across Florida and beyond. We needed to bring our messages to the students on their campuses and on their terms.\nOur first presentation was in 2007 at Lynn University in Boca Raton during National Collegiate Alcohol Awareness Week (NCAAW). To date, we have done presentations at nearly 15 colleges, including Florida Atlantic University, Barry University, Florida Gulf Coast University, and University of North Florida.\nWe also have presented at American College Health Association\u2019s (ACHA) Annual National Conference in Philadelphia, the Generation Rx University Conference at The Ohio State University, and National Association of Behavioral Intervention Team (NABITA) National Conference in Naples.\nThe life-threatening overdose incidents at colleges were the impetus for nationwide College Amnesty policies and eventually the 911 Good Samaritan law in Florida and other states.\nOver the years, our presentations at colleges have been mostly well-received. We work hard to steer away scare tactics in favor of providing straight-forward, data-driven messages and real life cases/circumstances without judgment. We strive to provide answers to tough questions such as the following (see the answers here):\nHow quickly can I become addicted to a drug?\nHow do I talk to my parents about getting help? What should I say?\nIsn\u2019t becoming addicted to a drug just a character flaw?\nShouldn\u2019t treatment for drug addiction be a one-shot deal?\nIf drug addiction is a disease, is there a cure?\nAt our presentations, students often open up deeply about their friends\u2019, their family members\u2019, or their own experiences with drugs. When that happens, we offer them information and support to get the help they need.\nStill, getting students to attend our presentations is challenging. As a result, at schools like Lynn University, trained students have delivered similar messages to their peers.\nWhile prescription drug misuse and overdose deaths remain a national health and safety issue, we\u2019ve made tremendous in-roads at educating thousands of college students about the dangers of drugs. 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In 1998 Peter was a recipient of a Whitley Award for his contribution to the Green Guide natural history series. Although born in Australia, Peter spent his childhood growing up in the south of England where he would spend hours birding in and around the woodlands and cliffs near his home. Since moving to Australia in the early 1980s, Peter worked for 20 years in the bird, reptile, mammal and terrestrial ecology departments at the Australian Museum, Sydney, as a curatorial assistant and environmental consultant. Peter has travelled extensively throughout Australia, for both work and pleasure, researching and photographing it\u2019s amazing wildlife. 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John Draper, a.k.a. Cap'n Crunch, made a name for himself in the early '70s as one of the pioneer phone phreaks. Today he sleeps at a campground, can't get a job and finds himself the prey of a new generation of hackers.\n\"A Social Disease\"\nby Gloria Mitchell\nContrary to what you might have heard, the people whiling away the hours in chat rooms are not pathetic shut-ins. There's an entire vibrant universe out there composed of people who are literally addicted to socializing.\n\"Love For Sale\"\nby Tommy Ranks\nThe world's oldest profession meets the world's newest technology as prostitutes shop for both clients and respect online.\n\"On the 'Net with... Bruce Campbell\"\nby Rob Bernstein\nYou might not recognize his name, but in the cinema cult underworld of the Net, Bruce Campbell is revered for his role in the Evil Dead trilogy. An avid Net junkie, Campbell gives the goods on a fan named Death Dog, a digital Jack Nicholson and Hollywood's fascination with stupid computer sound effects.\nTop Ten: Jim Bob says \"Check 'em out.\"\nFlamethrower: Both sides of the Internet Service Provider censorship issue.\nWeird on the Web: Penultimate proof that anyone can publish on the Web.", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00240.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 19, + "original_length": 1335, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.92, + "perplexity": 325.4, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "http://undphealthimplementation.org/functional-areas/capacity-development-and-transition-strengthening-systems-of-health/capacity-development-results-evidence-from-country-experiences/", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T03:21:04Z", + "digest": "sha1:KS7LNTIN2EYH7CNRPOF2NY633M5Q6ORU", + "length": 5528, + "nlines": 8, + "source_domain": "undphealthimplementation.org", + "title": "UNDP Global Fund Implementation Guidance Manual", + "raw_content": "The UNDP \u2013 Global Fund partnerships with national entities supporting capacity development is generating a growing body of evidence and lessons learned to inform the next round of capacity development plans. The following country examples where UNDP has acted as interim Principal Recipient (PR) for Global Fund grants, provides an overview of how the approach has been adapted to strengthen national systems for health taking into account the country context;\nBelarus \u2013 With support from UNDP, the Global Fund and technical input from WHO, Belarus has successfully rolled out a national electronic register that collects TB and MDR-TB patient information, laboratory results and drug inventory and distribution. The register is used by all TB hospitals and dispensaries and currently tracks 29,836 patients across Belarus. Facilitating real-time use of patient data, the register has made important contributions to improving treatment outcomes and continuity. In 2015 a joint transition plan was developed and implemented by the government, the Global Fund and UNDP to strengthen the national systems for health and enable a national entity to become PR in 2016.\nCuba \u2013 The national HIV response has benefited from a strong, functional health system and human capacity in health and social welfare domains. HIV-related programmes were built on strong foundations and for the most part, did not require the creation of new systems or parallel mechanisms. In addition to biomedical aspects, Cuba did not struggle to build and maintain health systems as much as many other countries did. Cuba more rapidly began to act on social and cultural aspects of the HIV pandemic, and built a more sustainable response. In addition the effective integration the health care of mothers and children with the health management of HIV, contributed to The World Health Organization declaring Cuba the first country to have eliminated the transmission of HIV from mother-to-child.\nEl Salvador - UNDP acted as interim PR of Global Fund grants from 2003. In preparation for a successful transition to national entities, UNDP worked with the Government of El Salvador and national stakeholders to develop their capacities to implement HIV and TB programmes and to address capacity gaps. The transition has been successful and since January 2015, El Salvador is managing and implementing Global Fund resources for the first time.\nIran \u2013 As a middle income country (MIC) Iran became no longer eligible for Global Fund support for the National TB Programme. In preparation for this the MOH and UNDP facilitated a consultation of national and provincial stakeholders to identify priority actions to ensure a sustainable transition of the Global Fund supported activities TB programme to national entities. The TB transition plan prioritized the resources available to ensure a continuation of services going forward.\nTajikistan \u2013 UNDP has invested resources over a 10 year period to compliment and lever the significant investment by the Global Fund, through the incremental strengthening of national processes and systems ranging from policy development to financial management systems for the main national entities. This culminated in facilitating the Government of Tajikistan adopting a Capacity Development and Transition Plan for the Ministry of Health, which lays out the activities, milestones and results required for transition to a national PR.\nZambia \u2013 A flexible partnership including the Ministry of Health, Medical Stores Limited, the Global Fund and UNDP designed and implemented a comprehensive Capacity Development Plan to strengthen national systems. This included developing an automated financial management system supported by the development and operationalization of a financial manual and SOPs and rolling this out with supporting hardware at a national level. Together with the strengthening and operationalization of supply chain management SOPs and Logistics Management Information Systems (LMIS) this has enabled over half a million people to receive ART treatment. Following a comprehensive approach to capacity development there was a smooth transition of the PR role from UNDP to the Ministry of Health. The new national PR was awarded new grants by the Global Fund worth US$234 million in 2015 to fight HIV, TB and malaria in Zambia. The Ministry of Health (MOH), the Global Fund and UNDP continue to work in partnership to further strengthen MOH Sub-recipients, in particular at a provincial level to improve performance and service delivery.\nZimbabwe - Central to the Ministry of Health and Child Care (MOHCC) strengthening systems for health is the national Public Financial Management System (PFMS) having the capability to manage and report on government and donor funds including the Global Fund. UNDP facilitated the preparation and implementation of a comprehensive Capacity Development Plan in 2015. The critical success factor is the roll out of the PFMS at a provincial and district level. 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It\u2019s an area so small the sudden loss of two devoted public servants could endanger the the lives of local citizens.\nThe married couple, who worked as a paramedic and firefighter, say they were discriminated against on the basis of their sexual orientation.\nBefore quitting, the couple said they had been reprimanded over their romantic behavior.\nRelated: A gay firefighter got married & lost his job. He\u2019s not going quietly.\nAllegedly complaints came from others on the force. The Monks were expected to follow a different professional code than heterosexual married co-workers.\nSpeaking to CBC News\u2019 Go Public investigative team the couple said they were told not to discuss their personal lives at work and that the word \u201cwife\u201d wasn\u2019t to be used to describe one another.\nA former colleague supports the couple\u2019s side of the story.\nAccording to the human rights complaint, the emergency services department, \u201cdenies any discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation or other protected grounds pursuant to the Alberta Human Rights Act as alleged or at all.\u201d\nCan a 12-year old lad who wishes he were a girl navigate the mean streets of Manila? Maxi cooks, cleans, and sews for his father and older brothers who are petty criminals. He's sweet, clever and hardworking, at ease with being gay, pinning a flower in his hair, swinging his hips when he walks, vamping with friends. He's seen adults hug and kiss and he's watched romantic movies, so on the verge of puberty, he develops a crush on Victor, a kindly young cop. Maxi's heart and loyalties are on a...", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00240.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 38, + "original_length": 2370, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.98, + "perplexity": 293.4, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "http://usgraduatesblog.com/us-consular-districts/", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T04:16:40Z", + "digest": "sha1:C42M6VM5GJZGMB4AFMZ37GKKP4BEWIMF", + "length": 2709, + "nlines": 42, + "source_domain": "usgraduatesblog.com", + "title": "US Consular Districts | Educational Information", + "raw_content": "US Consular Districts\nUS Consular Districts:\nYou have to attend for interview at the following consulate or embassy to which your passport consular district falls.\n1. NEW DELHI: \u2013\nResidents and holders of Passports issued by the regional passport offices of Delhi and the North Indian states of Haryana, Himachal Pradesh, Jammu & Kashmir, Punjab, Rajasthan and Uttar Pradesh should contact and attend for F1-Visa interview at: \u2013\nAddress: \u2013 U.S. Embassy , Shantipath, Chanakyapuri, New Delhi.\nPhone: \u2013 (011) 24198000\nFax: \u2013 (011) 24190017 or 24198407\nConsular Office & Hours of Operation: \u2013\nImmigrant visa services: 8:30 a.m., Monday \u2013 Friday\nNonimmigrant visa services: 8:30 a.m. to 12:45 p.m., Monday \u2013 Friday\nNOTE: Due to administrative work, visa section is closed on the last working day of each month\n2. MUMBAI (Bombay)\nResidents and holders of Passports issued by the regional passport offices of the western states of Gujarat, Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra, Goa and Union Territories Daman, Diu, Dadra and Nagar Haveli should attend for the F1-visa interview or contact at: \u2013\nAddress: \u2013 The U.S. Consulate General, Lincoln House, 78 Bhulabhai Desai Road, Mumbai.\nPhone: \u2013 022-23633611 to 3618\nFax: \u2013 022-23630350\nConsular Office Hours of operation: Nonimmigrant visa services: \u2013\n8:30 a.m. to 11 a.m. Monday \u2013 Friday\nToken distribution: 11 a.m.\nNote: Mumbai\u2019s Visa Services Office is also closed on the last working day of each month.\n3. CALCUTTA (Kolkata)\nResidents and holders of Passports issued by the regional passport offices of Assam, Manipur, Meghalaya, Nagaland, Tripura, Bihar, Orissa, West Bengal, Arunachal Pradesh, Sikkim, Mizoram, Andaman and Nicobar Islands should attend for f1-visa interview or contact at: \u2013\nAddress: \u2013 The U.S. Consulate General, 5/1 Ho Chi Minh Sarani, Calcutta 700071\nTelephone: \u2013 033-22823611/15\nConsular Office Hours of operation:\nNonimigrant services 8 a.m. \u2013 11:30 a.m., Monday-Tuesday Thursday-Friday\n(Closed on Wednesday)\n4. 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Police don\u2019t have any suspects or surveillance footage of the incident.\n\u201cUltimately, it\u2019s going to come down to them being caught and charged,\u201d police spokesman T.J. Smith said.\nOfficers make periodic checks on city property during their patrols, but the department does not plan to place the Key monument under constant police protection, Smith said.\n\u201cWe can\u2019t ensure it\u2019s not going to happen again,\u201d Pugh spokesman Anthony McCarthy said. 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His curiosity for funerals began at the age of five as he buried animals on the farm where he grew up, in South Carolina. The first time he saw a body was during the funeral of his aunt and after touching her head, he knew his calling was to become a funeral director.He attended the American Academy McAllister Institute of Funeral Service, in New York City, where he graduated in 1969. Mr. Owens built his funeral home following his signature believe \u2018Where beauty softens grief\u2019. \u201cI make people look like they are all in heaven,\u201d Mr. Owens said . He has become a known embalmer and restorative artist in the city. Owens Funeral Home is located at Lenox Avenue, in Harlem.\nWhenever I come to Church I think of God. That\u2019s the first thing and that\u2019s probably the only thing that I think about.\n[Singing in Church] Want to be ready when Jesus comes.\n[Choir singing in Church] I can\u2019t hardly see, sometimes I can\u2019t hardly see.\nI\u2019m in this place where is just me and the body, the actual funeral itself. Funerals are always on my head.\n[Steps, walking down the stairs]\nUsually I require a good picture, a picture at a wedding or on a cruise or something like that, when the person is really happy and healthy. I like to know about the person\u2019s life but usually a picture tells me the story or what I need to know as far as fixing that person up. But as far as their life a lot of these people that I\u2019m working on, that I\u2019m fixing are people I know very well.\nWhen you are death your mouth might be open, you eyes are open and then I got to put you to sleep. But then when I put you to sleep, I put you to sleep with a smile on your face.\nWhen I\u2019m doing this I\u2019m always in Church, I\u2019m always kind of singing on the inside.\n[Music fades in]\nBeauty is important in death. It\u2019s not just a beautiful face, is a beautiful body. It\u2019s everything. It\u2019s fixing the face, making sure the hands are just right, making sure that the clothes are just right and you just have to stand back and you have to work it until you got it perfect.\nI\u2019ll come along and I\u2019ll move death out of the way, and when I move it out of the way death can\u2019t come back again to do anything because in the person\u2019s mind death has been replaced with a new life, a nice memory for people to have, to carry.\nThis is just an earthly thing because although I make people look like they are all in heaven but everybody don\u2019t go to heaven. 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All stories are written by Dennis O'Neil, the pencils are a selection of Bob Brown, Neal Adams, Irv Novick, Michael Golden and Don Newton, and the inks are all either Dick Giordano, or Dan Adkins. Aamzon will sell the 2007 printing to you at a reasonable $26.99 US for 207 pages.\nAs an added bonus there's an introduction from Sam Hamm (screeenwriter of the 1989 Tim Burton helmed Batman).\nI generally enjoyed reading this both the first time through and on this repeat reading. It's definitely a lot different from reading the current Batman stories by the likes of Grant Morrison. There is one slight catch though: the colours have clearly been digitally redone. Those of you who have read the Nick Fury Agent of S.H.I.E.L.D. collection that got the same treatment know what you're in for, the rest of you, it's something like this:\nAnd I'm sure we can agree that in1972,\ncolouring didn't look like this.\nThe issues collected are all from between 1971 and 1980, and the standard of story is always significantly better than the decade proceeding this where Batman would be fighting an alien, or a Batman from another dimension, or a robot version of , or.... well any other bad idea involving Batman you can think of. O'Neil's Batman as represented here is an interesting simulacra of James Bond... from the James Bond news strips. He's smart, beatable, funny (well, almost), and can solve crimes without the need to use a super computer every time. In short, he's the gosh-darn Batman.\nRa's is a bit hit and miss in this tome: sometimes he seems to be just playing with Batman, other times completely at a loss, and in some stories, he's barely even there. I guess as this is an early representation, it shouldn't be too much of a surprise, but he's certainly not the major terrorist he later became at the hands of others. In general he seems to be outdone by Talia, and that to me is very interesting, given that he wants Batman to marry her.\nWith a collection such as this, it's hard to spell out all that happens, however the most significant events can e summed up as: Batman meets (and saves) Talia Al Ghul, Saves a kidnapped Robin when Ra's is testing Batman to see if he is worthy of Talia (and the League of Assassins), Stops a biological agent that could kill millions, Accidentally kills a dead man's brain, fakes the death of Bruce Wayne to get leads on more of Ra's' activities before besting him (after Ra's first shown use of the Lazarus Pit), is unwillingly married to Talia while busting up another of Ra's plots, and finally avenges the death of Kathy Kane (the original Batwoman) at the same time as sorting out a factional dispute in the League of Assassins and saving a bunch of religious leaders from a manufactured earthquake.\nLike I said, he's a bit like James Bond.\nI'd recommend this volume to almost any Bat-fan who hasn't got it already, and in particular anyone who's never read the older work, and is tired of the recent developments. Sure it's a little disjointed in places, but there's a lot of one and done stories, and no arc lasts more than three issues.\nIf you have got this already, bring it out for another read, and I'm sure you'll be wondering why Batman had to be dark and gritty again in the 1980s, because clearly with a decent writer Batman can be a jet-setting international symbol of scared villains.\nAnd so to next week's choice. I've had a good hard think about it, and I realise that my Bendis bashing the other week requires some sort of atonement. So we'll start with the story that got him control of one of the biggest franchises at Marvel in the last decade.\nForgive us Bendis, for we have sinned.\nLabels: Adams, Al Ghul, Batman, Giordano, O'Neil, Ra's, Talia\nOkay, this blog is getting expensive! Just ordered the reviewed text AGAIN! Thank goodness I already own next week's topic!\nAnother great write-up Westy - very much enjoying your blog!\nSuper-Duper ToyBox March 20, 2011 at 2:47 PM\nI'm enjoying this, Westy... 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The State Party provides detailed information on progress of the 14 corrective measures adopted in 2006 and 2010 and the ecological indicators identified during the 2011 reactive monitoring mission and formalized as the Desired state of conservation for removal of the property from the List of World Heritage in Danger. The State Party refined and quantified eleven indicators to monitor the integrity and ecological rehabilitation, as well as management effectiveness of the property in view of removal of the property from the List of World Heritage in Danger. A detailed description of the indicators, and their connection to the 14 corrective measures, are provided in the State Party state of conservation report. Six of the indicators were not met, particularly those related to the volume, levels and distribution of water flow which are essential to the integrity of the property. Five indicators were partially met, including those related to improvement of water quality. However, it was also indicated that substantive new land conversions will be needed by 2018 to meet desired water quality standards. Small positive trends were reported on two of the indicators related to Everglades\u2019 wading birds nesting, but it was noted that increases correspond to the 2005 to 2010 period of more stable hydrologic conditions in the property, not to any specific restoration.\na) All East Everglades Land Acquisition complete\nLand acquisition is 99% complete, 300 hectares of commercial lands remain, and the funds are in the 2012 National Park Service budget. A land exchange is contemplated for the largest parcel.\nb) Complete Water Control Plan and complete 8.5 Square Mile Area Construction\nConstruction of all of the originally planned Modified Water Deliveries (MWD) flood mitigation features (the L-357 canal and levee and the S-356 and S-357 pump stations) was completed by 2008. Construction of a new supplemental seepage canal has been recommended. The funding needed to coincide with the Tamiami Trail improvements. The Everglades Restoration Transition Plan (ERTP) operational changes are scheduled to be implemented by early 2012. A related field test of operational adjustments that would begin to modestly increase water flows into Northeast Shark River Slough is also stated to begin in mid 2012, and run for approximately two years.\nc) Construction projects for the L-67A and C and L-29 water conveyance structures, Tamiami Trail Bridges, and road modifications are all underway\nThe MWD project that was initially approved in 1992 included a series of water conveyance structures that would pass water across the L-67 A/C levees reconnecting WCA 3A with WCA. These conveyance features have been dropped from the Modified Water Deliveries project, but will be re-evaluated via a new Army Corps of Engineers Central Everglades Planning Project (CEPP) that was initiated in November 2011, and will be completed by mid 2013. The initial phase of the Tamiami Trail bridging and roadway improvements are approximately 49% complete. Current funding shortfalls are being resolved, and the completion date for the Tamiami Trail improvements is December 2013.\nd) Complete C-111 land exchange between the South Florida Water Management District and the US Government\nNearly all of the required land acquisition or securing of real estate interests needed to construct the C-111 South Dade Project features was completed by 2006 and have been achieving their seepage management goals for the last two years.\ne) Complete the Water Control Plan (CSOP Final EIS)\nThe alternative modeling and environmental assessments are scheduled to begin in 2012, and a new water control plan is expected to be completed by 2015.\nf) Complete the construction of the C-111 Detention Area features from the 8.5 Square Mile Area to Frog Pond\nThe delay in completing the C-111 northern detention area is related to unresolved issues: increased costs for levee construction and off-site disposal of unsuitable materials, and the cost sharing formula between the Federal and State agencies. Construction is now scheduled for completion in 2017.\ng) Meet or exceed the interim and long-term phosphorous reduction limits for water flowing into Shark River Slough and the long-term phosphorous reduction limits for water flowing into the Taylor Slough/Coastal Basin areas in Everglades National Park\nImprovements have reduced phosphorus loadings to the Everglades by approximately 70%. For the 2011 water year (October 2010 to September 2011), the flow weighted mean total phosphorus (TP) concentration entering Shark River Slough was 9.2 ppb, which was well below the long-term compliance limit of 12.0 ppb. Approximately 4,900 ha of storm water treatment areas (STA) are currently under construction and are expected to be operational by 2013.\nh) Complete the construction of the C-111 Detention Area features from the 8.5 Square Mile Area to Frog Pond and implement CSOP operations\nThe originally planned features in the C-111 South Dade project have been completed and were all fully operational by 2009. Remaining is the C-111 North Detention area, currently scheduled for completion in 2017.\ni) Complete the C-111N Spreader Canal and revised operations\nIn southern Taylor Slough, the C-111 Spreader Canal Western project (or phase 1 project) is complete and ready for operational testing in 2012.\nj) Strengthen the cooperation among all partners involved in the restoration projects through adoption of a common vision which includes conservation of the OutstandingUniversal Value of the property as a consistent high priority. This common vision should be integrated in the General Management Plan expected in Spring 2011\nKey restoration partners and community stakeholders have recently recognized the benefits of this watershed approach and begun development of a common vision that would accelerate the central and southern Everglades flow improvements.It is unclear to what extent the common vision is integrated in the General Management Plan.\nk) Ensure the importance of an entire catchment scale approach to land and water planning and management in South Florida is fully recognized across all relevant agencies and stakeholders (e.g., through cross-compliance) and that decisions far upstream do not further impact the conservation of the property. The catchment scale approach should be reflected in and implemented through the General Management Plan expected in Spring 2011\nIn November 2011, the Army Corps of Engineers initiated a new 18-month Central Everglades Planning Project (CEPP) which will incorporate new scientific information, enhance opportunities for public engagement, and develop a plan to integrate the most critical Everglades flows restoration features. This new approach represents the third generation of planned projects, and will focus on a watershed scale approach for restoring the Lake Okeechobee/Everglades connection and integrating the design of four key flow restoration components. It is unclear to what extent the common vision is integrated in the General Management Plan.\nl) Address the delays in the implementation of the Modified Water Deliveries (MWD), C-111 and Comprehensive Everglades Restoration Plan (CERP) projects, and related water quality initiatives which will result in continued degradation of the property and likely reduce the resilience of the Everglades ecosystem in the face of climate change\nCERP aims to run in parallel with efforts to complete the ongoing Modified Water Deliveries and C-111 South Dade projects. CEPP envisions to include expanded Everglades Agricultural Area (EAA) water storage and treatment areas needed to handle existing EAA runoff as well as incorporating features that would store and clean new water that would be routed southward from Lake Okeechobee.\nm) Ensure progress on the further modifications on the Tamiami Trail to include extending the bridging to a further 5.5 miles together with additional road raising and other associated infrastructure changes to reduce groundwater seepage losses from the property whilst also addressing the concerns of other stakeholders\nThe Final Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) for this project was completed in December 2010. The recommended plan would add up to 5.5 miles of bridges and raise the remaining eastern roadway to allow for unconstrained flow into Northeast Shark River Slough. Congressional authorization was received in 2011 with the goal of completing construction by 2017/2018, but a funding source has not yet been identified.\nA new seepage control pump station (S-356) was completed in 2005 under the Modified Water Deliveries project. CERP included an Everglades National Park Seepage Management project that would add additional S-356 pump stations as well as a sub-surface seepage barrier by 2015. An initial 2002 seepage management pilot has stalled and is now on hold while a shallow seepage barrier test is being conducted by a private rock-mining group. Future actions are dependent on these test results.\nn) Resolve uncertainties upstream of the property arising from the legal actions linked in particular to water quality\nThe State of Florida developed a new recommended water quality treatment approach that optimizes EAA water management operations, thereby reducing the land needed for the new water storage and water quality treatments to just over 8,100 ha. Federal government agencies are currently reviewing this proposal. The new Central Everglades Planning Project (CEPP) will incorporate the needed water quality treatment requirements for the central Everglades flow path by integrating water flow and water quality features in the plan formulation process.\nJust under 4,900 ha of new storm water treatment areas are expected to be completed by 2013, while approximately 23,000 ha of publicly owned Everglades Agricultural Area lands will eventually need to be converted into expanded of storm water treatment areas and new flow equalization basins by 2018 to meet the new Environmental Protection Agency requirements.\nOther conservation issues (exotic invasive plant and animal species)\nBased on a historic and current status of a wide range of invasive species and a quantitative assessment of a smaller subset of priority invasive species, the State Party concludes that exotic species in the property are affecting native animal communities as well as the biological processes that are the foundation of the property\u2019s Outstanding Universal Value. Approximately one in five plant species found in the Park is non-native, thus altering the natural composition of the plant community present. Exotic plant species are estimated to affect approximately 15 to 20% of the total area of the property. There is no similar quantitative indication for exotic invasive animals. The State Party indicates the establishment of an Exotic Invasive Wildlife Programme which will develop an appropriate framework and funding for exotic wildlife prevention and control throughout the country. A proposal was created to use Everglades National Park as a priority pilot for implementation of this framework.\nThe World Heritage Centre and IUCN consider that the State Party is moving forward with the implementation of the 14 corrective measures and has partially addressed funding shortfalls for important projects such as the completion of the Tamiami Trail improvements that are important to the delivery of more natural flow of water to the property. They note that progress is also made toward adoption of a common vision for a catchment-scale approach to land and water planning, but consider there is a need to more clearly indicate (a) how this progress is being incorporated in the existing Management Plans for Everglades National Park, (b) how the proposed new plans will provide added value to the corrective measures already underway, and (c) when actions in the proposed plans will be implemented. Progress is also being made on corrective measures related to water quality improvements with major projects expected to be completed by 2013. The World Heritage Centre and IUCN recommend that the Committee expresses its concern about the State Party\u2019s conclusion of the assessment of exotic invasive plant and animal species, in particular that the natural composition of the plant and animal community present in the property is being altered, with exotic plant species affecting an estimated 15 to 20% of the property.\nThe World Heritage Centre and IUCN acknowledge the work done by the State Party to refine and quantify the indicators of the Desired state of conservation for removal of the property from the List of World Heritage in Danger, and to connect them to the implementation of the 14 corrective measures so that progress toward achieving the indicators can now be measured comprehensively.\nThe World Heritage Centre and IUCN note the remaining significant work to be done to meet the Desired state of conservation for removal of the property from the List of World Heritage in Danger and recall that the 2011 mission considered it may take several decades before the property would be sufficiently recovered. Therefore, they recommend that the World Heritage Committee retain the property on the List of World Heritage in Danger.\n3. Welcomes the significant effort of the State Party to refine and quantify the indicators developed for the Desired state of conservation for removal of the property from the List of World Heritage in Danger and to connect them to the 14 corrective measures allowing a comprehensive report on progress;\n4. Expresses concern about the results of the assessment of the effects of exotic invasive plant and animal species which concludes that exotic species are affecting native animal communities as well as the biological processes that are the foundation of the property\u2019s Outstanding Universal Value, and also welcomes the establishment of an appropriate framework and funding for addressing this threat;\n5. Notes with appreciation that the State Party is making progress on the implementation of the corrective measures, including the adoption of a common vision for a catchment scale approach to land and water planning and mobilizing the outstanding budget necessary for the full implementation of projects crucial to the delivery of more natural flow of water and improved water quality, and encourages the State Party to maintain this level of effort;\n6. Also notes that significant work remains to be done to recover the integrity of the property, and requests the State Party to consider, in its next report to the Committee:\na) How progress with the corrective measures is being incorporated in the existing Management Plans for Everglades National Park,\nb) How the proposed new plans will provide added value to the corrective measures already underway,\nc) When actions in the proposed plans will be implemented;\n7. Also requests the State Party to submit to the World Heritage Centre, by 1 February 2013, a detailed report on the state of conservation of the property, including progress achieved in implementing the corrective measures and in meeting the indicators developed for the Desired state of conservation for removal of the property from the List of World Heritage in Danger, for examination by the World Heritage Committee at its 37th session in 2013;\n8. Decides to retain Everglades National Park (United States of America) on the List of World Heritage in Danger.\nEstablishment of the World Heritage List in Danger (Maintained Properties)\n1. 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Wimbledon Odeon has booked the film into its largest screen for a showing from 5:30pm on that day only. A live video link from the national premiere in Leicester Square will link over 60 screening Odeons, for Q&A afterwards with director Franny Armstrong & producer Lizzie Gillett.\nGetting great reviews from unlikely sources ( - even 'The Sun' ran a full page of praise recently !), 'The Age of Stupid' looks back from 2055, at the world in 2008. Oscar-nominated Pete Postlethwaite plays an archivist, looking back at video clips of individuals around the world in our time, struggling to come to terms with climate change. Engaging, heart-warming & inspiring, with real life stories, \"The Age of Stupid\" is described by The Economist as 'knocking spots off Al Gore's 'An Inconvenient Truth'\".\nFour years in the making, and shot on the skinniest of shoe-string budgets, \"Stupid\" is a stupendous piece of film-making. I'll declare an interest. I saw the movie at Kingsnorth Climate Camp, & was so impressed that I volunteered to help with post-production work.\nOnce there's been a paid-for screening on 15 March, Wimbledon Odeon general manager Richard East does not rule out a free screening there at a later date, as happened for Al Gore's movie. 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If you are triggered by anything you read here, please call the Klinic Crisis line at 204-786-8686 (in Winnipeg) or toll-free 1-888-322-3018 (outside Winnipeg). Trained helpers are available 24 hours a day to give confidential support and helpful information.\nIn our last blog, we talked about how important communication and clear consent is in sexual encounters. Ideally, each of us would always be consenting every time we have sex, the whole time we are having sex. Unfortunately, that\u2019s not always the case.\nAt some point in our lives, in spite of our best planning and preparation, we may find ourselves in a situation where sex has happened in a way or at a time we didn\u2019t want it to. Even if an unwanted sexual encounter doesn\u2019t involve force or violence, it is still sexual assault. Sometimes it\u2019s really clear to us that a sexual assault has occurred. However, messages in pop culture about \u201cblurred lines\u201d and \u201cshades of grey\u201d and many other myths about who is responsible for when and how sex happens, can make things confusing. We may not be quite sure what happened or what to do next.\nWhatever happened, however it happened, if you had unwanted sex, know it wasn\u2019t your fault. The victim is NEVER responsible for being assaulted. Whether it\u2019s clear you\u2019ve been sexually assaulted or if you suspect it, there are some practical things you can do for yourself.\nThe most important thing is get to a safe place as soon as possible. Call 911 for help if you need to. Your immediate safety is what matters most.\nGet medical care as soon as possible, even if you think you\u2019re not physically hurt or don\u2019t want anyone to know what happened. To protect ourselves in times of trauma, it\u2019s normal for our minds to want to shut down \u2013 to block out what happened, to not think about it or be reminded of it. A sexual assault isn\u2019t easy to face, but taking care of yourself is necessary.\nIf you would like someone to go with you to the hospital, you can call Klinic\u2019s Sexual Assault Crisis line at 204-786-8631 (toll free 1-888-292-756). A trained volunteer can meet you and be with you during the exam for support.\nA medical exam at this time may be physically or emotionally painful \u2013 you\u2019ll be asked questions about the assault and have photos taken of any physical injuries. As difficult as this may be, it\u2019s important to get any injuries treated, and to be tested for sexually transmitted infections (including HIV/AIDS), and pregnancy. Health care providers can also give you medications that can help you heal and reduce any further risks to your health. Even if you haven\u2019t decided to report the crime, having a medical exam and gathering any physical evidence is important.\nA common first reaction to being sexually violated is to want to clean up and get rid of any reminders of the incident, like clothes or bedding. Even if you think you don\u2019t want to or aren\u2019t ready to involve the police, it\u2019s a good idea to try to NOT:\nbathe or shower\nchange or destroy clothes\nclean up the area where the assault happened\nmove or destroy anything the offender may have touched\nReporting a sexual assault is your decision. Some well-intentioned people might pressure you into involving the police, thinking that it will help you \u2013 and any other possible future victims \u2013 to do so. Only a small percentage of sexual assaults are reported in Canada. There are many reasons why victims may not report the assault. They may be in relationship with the person. They may not be sure if what happened is really a sexual assault. They may blame themselves for the choices they made before the assault happened. They may be worried about what other people will think of them if they knew what happened.\nAgain, whatever the circumstance, sexual assault is NEVER the victim\u2019s fault. It is completely up to you whether you want to report the assault. No matter what anyone else says, it is not your responsibility to make sure the offender is punished. There is no statute of limitations for sexual assault in Canada. This means there is no time limit for when you can report the assault. Gathering evidence at the time of the assault may help if you decide to report it at another time.\nRecovering physically and emotionally from an assault takes time. Give yourself the time you need and know that, whatever decisions you make right now, it is never too late to get help. It\u2019s important to remember that while sexual assault is a traumatic experience, it does not define you. You have survived, and with time and support, you can recover.\nThe support of people close to you can help but be aware they may not react to your experience in ways that you want or need. As they try to understand what happened, they may ask unhelpful questions about your decisions during and after the assault: \u201cWhy did you ____?\u201d or \u201cWhy didn\u2019t you _____?\u201d Others may offer you their full support without judgment or blame. Who and how you decide to tell is up to you.\nYou do not have to share your experience with anyone until you are ready. Feeling in control of your recovery can be an important step in regaining control of your life. 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It appears from his letters, that he was obliged to leave his country as an exile; but he does not say upon what account, only that it was without any blemish to his honour. He travelled much, passing part of his life in Spain, England, France, Germany, Transylvania, and Poland. Notwithstanding this itinerant kind of life, he acquired great learning, as appears from his notes on Horace, Caesar, Cicero, &c. He was in Transylvania in 1574, having been invited thither by prince Stephen, in order to compose a history of that country. One of his letters, dated from Cracow, Nov. 23, 1577, informs us, that he had followed that prince, then king of Poland, in the expedition into Prussia. He had a convenient apartment assigned him in the castle of Cracow, that he might apply himself the better to his function of historiographer. He left Poland after the death of that monarch, and lived with William of St. Clement, ambassador from the king of Spain to the imperial court, where he was honoured with the title of his imperial majesty\u2019s historiographer. He died afterwards in Transylvania, in 1594, in his seventy-sixth year.\nHis writings, become very scarce, were so earnestly sought after by the best judges, that there was great joy in the republic of letters, on hearing that Mr. Cromer had undertaken to publish a new edition of them. The first part of that design was accomplished in 1698, Berlin, 8vo. The Cracow edition was in 1582. Bruto promises in one of his letters, to add another to them, wherein he designed to treat of the custom of giving the same lofty titles to persons whom we write to in Latin, as are given in common languages. There are but few countries in which | they are more nice in this point than in Poland; and yet Bruto would not conform to the new style, not even in writing to some Polish lords, but dispensed with all ceremonies that might make him deviate from the purity of the ancient language of Rome. In a letter he wrote to John Poniatowski, he says: \u201cThis is my first letter to you, which I write in the Roman manner, as I used to do even to the king. I can bring myself to every thing else, can love you, obey you, and always regard you, which I shall do very willingly, as you highly deserve. 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Bevere: Prophetic Preaching: Are You Doing It Wrong?", + "raw_content": "Prophetic Preaching: Are You Doing It Wrong?\nThis sounds strange, but I find that it is sadly all too true in much preaching. Too many preachers find it easier to criticize those persons who are not part of their church during their sermons, than those individuals who are actually sitting in front of them (in a general sense, of course). I know of one retired Methodist pastor, who on regular occasions, aimed his barbs at conservative fundamentalists, even though there were none in his church (if there were a few, he drove them out a long time before). In that same town, a Baptist pastor regularly railed against all the Methodist liberals. Of course, there wasn't a liberal to be found in the pews of his church.\nProphetic preaching isn't very prophetic when the preacher does not have to suffer the consequences of words that may stir things up. I am not suggesting that pastors intentionally create problems by addressing difficult issues, but the gospel of Jesus Christ has a hard edge to it, whether one considers himself or herself conservative, liberal, or somewhere in between. The Old Testament prophets did not rail against people who lived thousands of miles away. They directed the Word of the Lord to their own audience. It takes courage to do such a thing, and prophets need courage; and frankly, it is quite cowardly to critique those who are not there to respond.\nMy suggestion is that we mainliners let non-mainline preachers critique their fellow non-mainliners, and let's look to the log in our own mainline \"eyes.\" There are plenty of strange and weird things happening in our own UMC to keep us Methodist preachers in sermons for the rest of our careers.\nMoreover, I would request that those pastors outside our tradition, allow us to deal with our own house as you deal with yours. Fundy churches have issues too, and we will trust you to deal with them; trust us to handle our situation as well.\nI am not suggesting that there should never be a wider discussion and/or debate in the larger context of the church universal. We are all Christians, and all of us have a stake in the witness of the one, holy, catholic, and apostolic Church, but there are other venues for that. When it comes to prophetic preaching from the pulpit, those sitting in front of us are the ones listening to the sermon. My task on Sunday morning is to preach the gospel and to shine its light on those in front of me, as well as on my own life, not on those Christians down the street who are listening to someone else.\nThe task of preaching is more than prophetic, but it is necessarily prophetic as well. Historically, prophetic preaching got the preachers in trouble. 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Archbishop Rino Fisichella\nThe timeliness of the proclamation\nThe following is the intervention of the President of the Pontifical Council for Promoting the New Evangelization at the first national conference \"Proclaim 2012\" on the new evangelization in Chatswood, Australia.\nIn the very first line of his Motu Proprio, Ubicumque et Semper, which officially established the Pontifical Council for Promoting the New Evangelization, Pope Benedict XVI draws the attention of all to the person of Jesus Christ. \u201cIt is the duty of the Church to proclaim always and everywhere the Gospel of Jesus Christ. He, the first and supreme evangelizer, commanded the Apostles on the day of his Ascension to the Father: \u2018Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, teaching them to observe all that I have commanded you\u2019\u201d (Mt 28:19). Such a beginning emphasizes both the necessity of placing Jesus Christ at the center of the new evangelization and the importance of recognizing that the faith received from the Apostles and that which is to be preached is namely the person of Jesus Christ. The sacred author of the Letter to the Hebrews uses a concise and definitive expression, for the intended purpose of leaving no room for doubt in the minds of his readers, that Jesus Christ is the entire, unchanging, and definitive Revelation of God: \u201cJesus Christ is the same yesterday, today and always\u201d (Heb 13:8). Based upon these powerful words, we must continually recognize that there is no room for any hesitation, apathy, and much less for any form of neutrality in our lives of faith. In those three adverbs is to be found the solid basis of the revelation of Jesus: he is the \u2018corner stone\u2019 (Mt 21:42), \u2018the rock\u2019 (Mt 7:24\u201325), the foundation upon which we should build our personal lives. He was such \u2018yesterday\u2019, at the time, that is, when people came to have faith in him; he is so \u2018today\u2019 when his word is proclaimed and the mystery of his death and resurrection is celebrated; and he will be so \u2018always\u2019 until the end of time. In a word, Christ is always the same. In addition, the sacred author adds something quite important in the following verse: \u2018Do not let yourselves be led astray by all sorts of strange doctrines; it is better to rely on grace for inner strength\u2019 (v.9). It is as if the sacred author had been able to see beyond his own time\u2014no less difficult\u2014and had fixed his gaze upon the future of believers, when different philosophies and ideologies would continue to attack the stability and the integrity of the faith. There is nothing new in this perspective.\nA glance at the letters of the New Testament only confirms this preoccupation. Several times Paul invites his people not to let themselves be cast about by the wind of different doctrines (Eph 4:4), not to subject themselves to regulations and to merely \u2018human doctrines\u2019 (Col 2:22), even putting us on the guard against \u2018doctrines that come from the devils\u2019 (1 Tim 4: 1) and those who preach \u2018another gospel\u2019, different from his own (Gal 1: 7\u20139). No less does Peter speak of \u2018false prophets\u2019 (2 Pet 2:1), while John adds to these \u2018many deceivers\u2019 (2 Jn 7). Perhaps the latter is the form which today we should be particularly vigilant of, the seduction of preachers who, lacking the necessary intellectual preparation, play insistently upon the chords of sentiment, putting forward utopias which, while promising every form of happiness, leave people in even greater loneliness. The echoes of the sirens is not the mythology of former times; unfortunately, it is the alluring flattery of our own days. Putting wax into our ears might make things easier and might leave everything in a padded world of illusion. To have the strength of Ulysses and keep ourselves attached to the main mast is not for most people; and yet it is the winning strategy to avoid falling between Scylla and Charybdis.\nIn order to avoid falling prey to the allure of the many \u2018human doctrines\u2019 purported to be better than the doctrines of faith, it is imperative that we be cognizant of the reality that we find ourselves in at the end of an age that, for good or ill, has marked our history for almost six centuries and that we must take seriously the new one which lies on the horizon. We do not know yet with certainty what this new period involves. What can be established with certainty at present are only a few pointers which orientate us towards a new epoch. As yet, it is difficult to be able to say who will be the protagonists of this period. What I consider important, in a period of transition like this one, is that the Church recognize her responsibility to take upon herself the task of transmitting a living patrimony of culture and of values which cannot be allowed to fall into oblivion. If that were to happen, the consequences would be damaging for the very civilization which people wish to build up. It would be born blind and lame. It would be incapable of looking to the future and would be equally incapable of constructing it. Only a living tradition, able to sustain and to consolidate the patrimony constructed across the centuries, is able to guarantee a future which is genuine. This would not be the first time that the Church has undertaken this task. Our history provides evidence of the role which she has been able to fulfill at times of cultural crisis and of momentous change.\nFrom both Scripture and Tradition, we can see that the path of the new evangelization has been marked out: we are called to renew the proclamation of Jesus Christ, of the mystery of his death and resurrection to stimulate people once more to have faith in him by means of conversion of life. If our eyes were still capable of seeing into the depths of the events which mark the lives of our contemporaries, it would be easy to show how much this message still holds a place of special importance. Therefore, we need to direct our reflection towards the meaning of life and death, and of life beyond death; to face such questions, those affecting people\u2019s existence and determining their personal identity, Jesus Christ cannot be an outsider. If the proclamation of the new evangelization does not find its power in the element of mystery which surrounds life and which relates us to the infinite mystery of the God of Jesus Christ, it will not be capable of the effectiveness required to elicit the response of faith. From this point of view, Gaudium et spes indicates a path which deserves to be pursued: \u201cIn fact, only in the mystery of the Word incarnate can the mystery of man find true light \u2026 Christ, who is the new Adam, revealing the mystery of the Father and of his love, reveals man fully to himself and manifests to him his most exalted vocation\u2026 Through the Incarnation, the Son of God united himself in a certain sense to every human being. He worked with human hands, thought with human intelligence, acted with a human will and loved with a human heart. Being born of the Virgin Mary, he made himself truly one of us, like us in all things but sin. The innocent lamb, freely shedding his blood, he earned for us eternal life; in him God has reconciled us to himself and with one another and he has torn us away from slavery to the devil and to sin, such that each one of us can say, along with the apostle: the Son of God \u2018has loved me and sacrificed himself for me\u2019 (Gal 2:20). By suffering for us, he has not only given us an example that we might follow in his steps, but he has also opened up for us the way we are to go; if we follow it, life and death will be sanctified and will be given new meaning\u201d (GS, no. 22). In the light of this text which, in some respects delineates a new anthropology for our age, within the primacy of the mystery, new horizons are opened up for the pastoral action of the Church. An initial path is that of the constant search for the face of God and, it is precisely this very quest that the Year of Faith seeks to inspire in the hearts and minds of all.\nYet, before proceeding to a further discussion on the Year of Faith, it is necessary to examine, from a unique perspective, the present crisis in which society finds itself; that with respect to its connection to the question of God. The new evangelization cannot think that this question lies beyond its field. In contrast to the past, today we do not encounter great systems of atheism, if they were ever great; hence, the question of God needs to be addressed in a different way. Today God is not denied, but is unknown. In some respects, it could be said that, paradoxically, interest in God and in religion has grown. Nevertheless, what I note is the strong emotive connotation and declining religion in the plural; there is no interest in a religion and much less for the theme of the \u2018true religion\u2019; what seems to count are, rather, religious experiences. People are looking for different modalities of religion, selected by everyone taking up that which they find pleasing in the sense of ensuring for them that religious experience which they find more satisfying on the basis of their interests or needs at the moment. To this must be added that, especially for the younger generations, their horizon of understanding is characterized by a mentality strongly influenced by scientific research and by technology. These achievements, unfortunately, already hold the upper hand, even with respect to the basic elements of grammar and to culture in general. Thus, the new evangelization requires the capacity to know how to give an explanation of our own faith, showing Jesus Christ, the Son of God, the sole savior of humanity. To the extent that we are capable of this, we will be able to offer our contemporaries the response they are awaiting. The new evangelization begins once more from this point, from the conviction that grace acts upon us and transforms us to the point of bringing about a conversion of heart, and of the credibility of our witness. Looking to the future with the certainty of hope is what enables us to remain rooted neither in a sort of romanticism which only looks to the past nor to give way to a utopia because we are bemused by hypotheses which cannot find any confirmation. Faith calls for commitment today while we live; for this reason not to accept it would be a matter of ignorance or fear. However, for us Christians such a reaction is not permitted. Hiding away in our churches might bring us some consolation, but it would render Pentecost vain. It is time to throw open wide the doors and to return to announcing the resurrection of Christ, whose witnesses we are. As the holy bishop Ignatius wrote, \u201cIt is not enough to be called Christians; we must be Christians in fact.\u201d If someone today wants to recognize Christians, he must be able to do so not on the basis of their intentions, but on the basis of their commitment in the faith.\nIt is precisely this commitment in the faith, about which St. Ignatius of Antioch spoke so eloquently at the end of the first century, that the Year of Faith seeks to inspire in the hearts of those who do not know God and seeks to increase in the hearts of those who already believe. The Holy Father, in his Apostolic Letter Porta Fidei announcing the Year of Faith, beautifully expresses the Year\u2019s aim, its grounding in Christ, and its relationship to the new evangelization. The Year of Faith, which commemorates both the fiftieth anniversary of the opening of the Second Vatican Council and the twentieth anniversary of the promulgation of the Catechism of the Catholic Church, he notes: \u201cIs a summons to an authentic and renewed conversion to the Lord, the one Savior of the world. In the mystery of his death and resurrection, God has revealed in its fullness the Love that saves and calls us to conversion of life through the forgiveness of sins (cf. Acts 5:31). For Saint Paul, this Love ushers us into a new life\u2026. Through faith, this new life shapes the whole of human existence according to the radical new reality of the resurrection\u2026. \u2018Faith working through love\u2019 (Gal 5:6) becomes a new criterion of understanding and action that changes the whole of man\u2019s life. [It] is the love of Christ that fills our hearts and impels us to evangelize. Today as in the past, he sends us through the highways of the world to proclaim his Gospel to all the peoples of the earth. Through his love, Jesus Christ attracts to himself the people of every generation: in every age he convokes the Church, entrusting her with the proclamation of the Gospel by a mandate that is ever new. Today too, there is a need for stronger ecclesial commitment to new evangelization in order to rediscover the joy of believing and the enthusiasm for communicating the faith. In rediscovering his love day by day, the missionary commitment of believers attains force and vigour that can never fade away (Porta Fidei, no. 6).\u201d\nThus, the Year of Faith is a path, an opportunity, that the Christian community offers to the many people who possess a longing for God and a profound desire to meet him again in their lives. It is essential, therefore, that believers recognize the responsibility to provide an authentic companionship of faith, to become a neighbor to those who seek the reasons for and explanations of our Catholic beliefs. These opportunities, provided by the Year of Faith to form authentic friendships in faith, bring to the fore the very question of community. The new evangelization tends to make our sense of personal identity grow in relation to our sense of belonging to the community. A sociological tendency of our time presses us to distinguish between \u2018identity\u2019 and; \u2018belonging\u2019, as if it were a question of two contradictory realities. There is nothing more dangerous, in my opinion, than this contra-position. A belonging which was without identity could not be defined as belonging; it would remain always bound to a form of living together in society which modified its own coordinates according to the changing of the seasons, without any possibility of impressing upon them a real sense of common feeling and of active participation. From the reciprocal relationship which exists between identity and belonging there arises the possibility of verifying how the new evangelization can be effective and fruitful. Without a strong Catholic identity, by means of which our awareness of our own responsibilities in the world may grow, it will not be possible to understand even the requirement of belonging to the Christian community; on the other hand, without a deep sense of belonging to the Church, it will not be possible to have an identity which is aware of the mission it discharges. Identity and belonging determine our understanding of the permanent formation which applies to Christians in view of an ever more adequate knowledge of the faith, one which corresponds to each one\u2019s own state of life. A knowledge of the contents of the faith which remains linked to the adolescent stage could never allow someone to grow in their identity as a believer, no matter what roles they might occupy in civil society. In the same way, the lack of these contents often impedes people\u2019s own social, political and cultural action in harmony with their belonging to the Church. A fissure between identity and belonging is likely one of the causes which have contributed to the current crisis.\nThe Year of Faith will attempt to fuse this very rupture between identity and belonging, thus, increasing the faith of believers, who in the face of the daily pressures and challenges of life do not cease to entrust courageously and with conviction their lives to the Lord Jesus. In addition, the events for the Year of Faith, on both the universal and local levels, are aimed at addressing the broader cultural crises which often work contrary to the faith and, thus, seek to draw as many of our contemporaries as possible out of their spiritual poverty. The events of a universal character, which will be celebrated in Rome in the presence of the Holy Father, are numerous. To note only a few; there will be the Canonization of certain martyrs and confessors of faith, a celebration for youth, a celebration for those having been confirmed during the Year of Faith, a celebration of Evangelium Vitae promoting and defending the dignity of the human person from the moment of conception until natural death, a celebration for vocations, a celebration for catechists, a celebration of both old and new movements within the Church and, of course, a celebration of Mary, the \u201cStar of the new evangelization\u201d. In order to communicate most effectively the events taking place in the local churches, whether through the particular Episcopal conference, the local diocese, the parish, organization, or movement, we have set up a website for the Year of Faith which offers people the opportunity to post what it is that they have organized for the Year of Faith. On this website, you will also see and be able to acquire the beautiful logo that has been designed to represent the Year of Faith. (1)\nCentral to the Year of Faith will be a focus upon the Profession of Faith. This will serve to return the Profession of Faith to its prominent place as the daily prayer of every Christian. To facilitate this, we have produced an edition of the Nicene Creed, which is the most familiar symbol to Christians due to its frequent usage within the context of Sunday Mass. The prayer is printed on the back of the well-known image of Christ the Pantocrator from the Cathedral-Basilica of Cefal\u00f9 in Sicily. This image is intended to be the icon of the Year of Faith. It is my profound desire that the Creed, once again, becomes the daily prayer for Christians, as a synthesis of faith known and lived.\nHaving reflected upon Christ at the center of the new evangelization, impelling us to proclaim the Good News with ever great ardor, and having discussed the importance of the Year of Faith for the amplification of the new evangelization, I will now make some concluding remarks. In our time too, as had been done in times past, we need to face honestly and courageously the challenges which confront us. As in the past, when such difficulties gave rise to an intense activity of evangelization, so also today the Church needs to become aware of the great commitment which the new evangelization demands. These and other questions bring to the forefront the responsibility and the need to formulate a new apology of faith. Apologetics is not extraneous to faith; on the contrary, it belongs with full right to the act by which we enter into the logic of faith. In the first place, what is required is that the act of faith be a truly free act, the fruit of that abandoning of ourselves completely to God by which each one entrusts themselves to him with their intellect and with their will. Giving an explanation of one\u2019s faith does not seem to have enthralled many believers, at least in recent decades. Perhaps also for this reason, the conviction of faith has declined because the choice was not orientated in that direction. Having recourse to the traditions of old or to all sorts of experiences, but deprived of the power of reason, these have not had the capacity to lead and to sustain, especially when faced with a dominant culture, relying more and more upon the certainties of science. In some respects the situation has become more bogged down, partly because some people have considered that a weary repetition of past forms could constitute a insurmountable bastion of defense, without recognizing that those forms were becoming, instead, shifting sands. To think that the new evangelization can be brought about through a mere renewal of past forms is an illusion not to be cultivated. To be sure, neither is the solution the propensity for inventing novelty just to satisfy contemporaries always on the move and ready for any new experience, without even having the trace of a critical approach. The road to be followed is by no means easy. It requires that we remain faithful to the fundamentals and, precisely for this reason, are capable of constructing something coherent with those foundations, which at the same time are able to be received and understood by people who are different from those of the past. The trials will be numerous. Yet, the challenges which are placed on our path need to be confronted, analyzed and studied in such a way that projects may be created which may correspond to real progress for all. One specific task, however, which is asked of us is to avoid travelling alone. In any event, we cannot do this; we are incapable of it; by nature we are Catholics, that is open to all and wishing to be alongside each person to offer them the company of the faith. In order for this to happen, it is necessary to emerge from the form of neutrality into which many countries have encapsulated themselves in order not to take up a position in favor of their own history.\nWho is responsible for devising plans, in particular for a new anthropology, capable of giving form to a new model of society? Certainly not one group on its own. This, then, is the time for a synergy able to provide a synthesis of the patrimony of the past, to pose questions to it in the light of the achievements which have characterized our period of history, in such a way as to transmit them to the generations which will come after us. The words of St Augustine may come to our support, when he writes:\nWho are those who work to build up the Church? All those who in the Church preach the word of God, the ministers of God\u2019s sacraments. We are all in the race, we are all making the effort, now we are all involved in the building. And, prior to us, others have been involved in the race, others have struggled, others have built. But, \u2018if the Lord does not build the house, those who build labour in vain\u2019\u2026 Thus, we speak from the outside; Christ builds from within. We may be able to see what attention you give, but what you are thinking only he who sees your thoughts knows. It is he who builds, who warns, who instills fear, who opens up the mind, who directs your mind to the faith And yet, we too labor as his workers\u201d (Augustine, Commentary on the Psalms, Ps. 126:2).\nYet, we must never forget that the new evangelization needs to entrust itself to God, who shows us the paths to follow, and to the support of the Holy Spirit, who precedes, guides and sustains the new evangelizers.\nA few days before being elected as Pope, Benedict XVI had delivered a lecture at Subiaco on the condition of Europe. In his lucid analysis of the present time, he expressed himself, amongst other things, in these far-sighted words, which constitute a program for the new evangelizers: \u201cWhat we need at this time of history are people, who, through a faith which is enlightened and lived out in practice, make God credible in this world \u2026 We need people who keep their gaze fixed upon God, learning from there what true humanity is. We need people whose intellect is enlightened by the light of God and whose hearts God may open up in such a way that their intellect may speak to the intellect of others and that their hearts may open the hearts of others. Only through people who are touched by God can God return to humanity.\u201d Hence, the new evangelization starts from here: from the credibility of our living as believers and from the conviction that grace acts and transforms to the point of converting the heart. It is a journey which still finds Christians committed to it after two thousand years of history.\nWithin this context, it is worth recalling a story from the Middle Ages. A poet passed by some work being conducted and saw three workers busy at their work; they were stone cutters. He turned to the first and said: \u2018What are you doing, my friend?\u2019 This man, quite indifferently, replied: \u2018I am cutting a stone\u2019. He went a little further, saw the second and posed to him the same question, and this man replied, surprised: \u2018I am involved in the building of a column\u2019. A bit further ahead, the pilgrim saw the third and to this man also he put the same question; the response, full of enthusiasm, was: \u2018I am building a cathedral\u2019. The old meaning is not changed by the new work we are called to construct. There are various workers called into the vineyard of the Lord to bring about the new evangelization; all of them will have some reason to offer to explain their commitment. What I wish for and what I would like to hear is that, in response to the question: \u2018What are you doing, my friend?\u2019, each one would be able to reply: \u2018I am building a cathedral\u2019. Every believer who, faithful to his baptism, commits himself or herself with effort and with enthusiasm every day to give witness to their own faith offers their original and unique contribution to the construction of their great cathedral in the world of today. It is the Church of our Lord, Jesus, his body and his spouse, the people constantly on the way without ever becoming weary, which proclaims to all that Jesus is risen, has come back to life, and that all who believe in him will share in his own mystery of love, the dawn of a day which is always new and which will never fade.\n1) The logo is composed as a square bordered field within which a boat, symbolizing the Church, is represented sailing upon the waves. The main mast of the boat forms a cross from which sails are displayed in the form of a dynamic sign which compose the trigram of Christ-IHS. The background to the sails is a sun which, in association with the trigram, refers to the Eucharist. It is my hope that this logo be reproduced as much as possible and be distributed for the purpose of reminding people of the importance and the power of the Year of Faith for the Church\u2019s essential mission of evangelization.", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00240.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 129, + "original_length": 28243, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.97, + "perplexity": 205.6, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "http://www.apartment-ana.rovinj.co/en/meet-rovinj/beaches/villas-rubin/", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T03:59:50Z", + "digest": "sha1:XMMKZSS3FRR53QE64SLPSMRM5SR42EE6", + "length": 941, + "nlines": 2, + "source_domain": "www.apartment-ana.rovinj.co", + "title": "Villas Rubin Beach Rovinj", + "raw_content": "Situated in the Villas Rubin resort the beach has every service you'll need. Awarded with the Blue Flag certificate Villas Rubin beaches are one of the best in Rovinj. On the border with Cuvi beach there is a naturist FKK zone with a beautiful big grass lawn and some olive trees. Toward the pool and water slide there are lawns with pine and olive trees and a beach volley playground. The beach in this part is mostly rocky.\nIn front of the pool and restaurant there are numerous gravel and pebble beaches and inlets and a few piers. Next to the harbor there is a scuba diving center and a few water sport rentals. On the border with Polari campgrounds there is a sport complex with a bar where you can play tennis, football, basketball, handball, table tennis and mini golf. In front of the sport grounds there is a gravel bay with playgrounds and a restaurant suitable for children. 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The following important result emerged in our paper: Monetary policy change is an important determinant of the relationship between term structur\u2026 e and inflation to the extent that even the existence of the relationship critically depends on the nature of monetary policy regime. In our case, the change in monetary policy is associated with the beginning of the implementation of an inflation targeting (IT) regime. While, before IT regime, the information in term structure does not provide any predictive power for future inflation, this phenomenon seems to be completely reversed after IT. 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He was desirous of the ministerial work from a child, and was patronized and supported at the university by Sir Roger Townshend. He made uncommon progress m the knowledge of the arts, the languages, and divinity; and his piety was so remarkable, that it became a proverb in the university. The profane scholars used to stigmatize those who were religiously inclined \u201d as poisoned by Cawton\u2019s faction, and as becoming Cawtonists.\u201d Having continued seven years at the university, he removed to Ashwell, about twelve miles from Cambridge, to live in the bouse of Mr. Herbert Palmer, another celebrated puritan. His principal object in this removal was the study of divinity, in which he made a remarkable proficiency, and occasionally assisted Mr. Palmer in the exercises of the pulpit. After wards, he became domestic chaplain to Sir William Armin, of Orton in Northamptonshire; where he was exceedingly beloved for his piety, abilities, and faithfulness. Having continued in this situation four years, he, in the year 1637, became rector of Wivenhoe in Essex, being presented to the living by Sir Roger Townshend. When he entered upon his charge at Wivenhoe, it was a place remarkable for drunkenness, swearing, sabbath-breaking, and almost every other scene of profaneness; but, by the blessing of God upon his faithful labours and exemplary deportment, it soon became equally remarkable for sobriety, the observation of the sabbath, and unfeigned piety. The inhabitants of the town usually brought their fish to sell on the sabbath day, when they kept their market near the church-doors. Mr. Cawton\u2019s righteous soul was sorely vexed with their ungodly ways ; and, by his faithful and unwearied endeavours, the evil practice was abolished, and a happy reformation followed. It is further added, that he was the means of bringing great numbers to the saving knowledge of the gospel; and that no minister was ever more beloved by his people, i He married the daughter of Mr. William Jenkin, the ejected nonconformist.\nMr. Cawton having continued his ministerial labours at the above place about seven years, his health began visibly to decline, when he was advised to remove to some other situation, particularly for a change of air; and receiving, about the same time, an invitation to Bartholomew\u2019s church, behind the Exchange, London, he removed to the metropolis. The change proved happily instrumental in the restoration of his health, and the means of preventing the return of the ague. In London, Sir Harbottle Grimstone, who lived in his parish, was his constant hearer and his very good friend. In the year 1648, he united with the London ministers in thendeclaration against the king\u2019s death:} and, the same year, was brought into trouble for his zeal in the royal cause. Being invited by the lord mayor and aldermen, to preach at Mercer\u2019s chapel, he prayed for the royal family, especially for king Charles II., whom he considered as the legal sovereign: but delivered nothing offensive in his sermon. His prayer, however, proved offensive to the ruling party. The day following, the council of state issued a warrant to apprehend him.\nThe warrant, dated from Derby-bouse, February 26, 1648, was the. following: \u201cThese are to will and require you forthwith, upon sight \u201chereof, to make speedy repair unto any such place where you shall upon his appearance before his judges, he was charged with having proclaimed the young king; and that, according to the existing laws, he was guilty of high treason. He was, therefore, required to make his humble submission, and to retract what he had uttered, as the indispensable condition of his release. This Mr. Cawton refused to do, saying, \u201d If I have done any thing not becoming a minister of the gospel, I hope I should be willing to recant.\u201d He was then sent prisoner to the Gatehouse, where he continued about six months. But the parliament\u2019s forces in Ireland having obtained a signal victory, the house of commons resolved that a certain number of prisoners, and Mr. Cawton among the rest, should be set at liberty, as a testimony of thankfulness to God. He was accordingly released, August 14, 1649.\nMr. Cawton having obtained his liberty, returned to his family and his flock, and continued for some time in the zealous and laborious observance of his ministerial duties. But in the year 1651, being deeply concerned in Love\u2019s plot, he fled to Holland, together with Mr. James Nalton. Upon their arrival, the English church at Rotterdam being destitute of a pastor, they were chosen co-pastors to the society. Mr. Nalton, afterwards one of the ejected nonconformists,; having leave to come back, returned home; but Mr. Cawton not enjoying the same privilege, remained at Rotterdam to the day of his death. His fame, both as a preacher and a scholar, soon spread through the United Provinces. He shone as a star of the first magnitude, and was highly esteemed by the Dutch, French, and English ministers in those parts. He presently became intimately acquainted with the learned Voetius, Leusden, Uchtman, Hulsius, and others, highly celebrated for piety and literature. The publication of those famous works, \u201cWalton\u2019s Polyglot Bible,\u201d and \u201d Castel\u2019s Lexicon Heptaglotton,\u201d were greatly .indebted to his encouragement and exertions^ In the year 1658, he received a letter from Charles TL, then at Brussels, in which his majesty attempts to acquit himself of being at all inclined to popery, and urges Mr. Cawton to use his utmost endeavours to suppress all such unworthy aspersions.\nUnderstand the person or Mr. Thomas Cawton to be, who preached \u201cbefore the lord mayor yesterday; and him you are to apprehend, and \u201cbring into safe custody, before the council of state, for seditious preach\u201ding; hereof you are not to fail, and for so doing this shall be your \u201csufficient warrant.\u201d\u2014Lift of Mr. Canton, p. 27. Life of Mr. Canton, p. 48\u201466.\u2014The former of these learned Works was printed in six volumes folio, and was the first book published in England by subscription. The latter cost the author the assiduous labour of seventeen years. His unwearied diligence employed in this undertaking injured his health, and impaired his constitution; and the immense expense attending it entirely rained him of his fortune. He spent upon it upwards of twelve thousand pounds. The author only received a very poor reward for his incredible and indeed Herculean labour. (Granger\u2019s vol. iii. p. 29.\u2014Biographia Britannica, vol. iii. p. 310. Edit. 1778.)\nAt length, Mr. Cawton having served the Lord seven years at Cambridge, seven years at Wivenhoe, seven years in London, and seven years in Holland, died at Rotterdam of a fit of the palsy, August 7, 1659, in the fifty-fourth year of his age. He was a laborious student, an excellent logician, and an incomparable linguist. He had a most exact knowledge of the Greek, Hebrew, Chaldee, Syriac, and Arabic; and was familiar in the Dutch, Saxon, Italian, Spanish, and French languages. But that which made his excellent abilities and literature appear to the greatest advantage, was his eminent piety and holy conversation. He was highly distinguished for his faith, patience, sincerity, self-denial, and hospitality. As a minister, he was laborious, affectionate, and faithful; as a master, he was the teacher and governor of his house; as a husband, he was affectionate and tenderhearted; as a father, he was ever careful to promote the best interests of his children ;t and, it is added, \u201d he was a great honour to his profession, and a pattern of virtue in every social relation. He had few equals in learnings and scarcely a superior in piety\u201d Wood says, \u201d he was a learned and religious puritan,\u201d which is no mean character from his unworthy pen. The learned Mr. Thomas Cawton, one of the ejected nonconformists in 1662, was his son.y He trod in the footsteps of his father, whose life he published in 1662, with tin sermon annexed which his father preached at Mertftr\u2019s chapel, February 25, 1648, entitled, \u201d God\u2019s Rule for a Godly Life; or, a Gospel-Conversation opened and applied,\u201d from Phil. i. 27.\n(Life of Mr. Cawton,- p. 22-42; See Art. Christopher Love. Palmer\u2019s Noncon. 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ART BY MERALD CLARK\nThey were warriors.\nFive hundred years ago, when the Spanish first landed in Florida, the Calusa Indians were the dominant tribe in the state. From Mound Key on the Gulf Coast, their kings collected tribute and exerted influence from Tampa Bay to the Florida Keys.\nHernando Fontaneda, a Spanish shipwreck survivor in the 1500s, lived among the Calusa for many years. His memoir is considered the best historical record of a long-forgotten tribe.\nThe Calusa, Fontenada wrote, \"in their language signifies a fierce people, they are so-called for being brave and skillful, as in truth they are.\"\nThey were engineers.\nThe Calusa built mounds and villages from Charlotte Harbor to the Ten Thousand Islands around Everglades City. They were fishermen who used great canoes to travel the Gulf Coast. On Pine Island, they dug a 2-mile-long canal that required moving some 30,000 cubic yards of earth.\n\"These were very accomplished people,\" says William Marquardt, curator of archaeology at the Florida Natural History Museum in Gainesville. \"These were incredible waterworks. The Pine Island canal would have been pretty impressive.\"\nThe Calusa repelled the Spanish for a century and a half. They fired the arrows that wounded and later killed Ponce de Leon on his second voyage to Florida. They frustrated the efforts of later Spanish missionaries and colonizers.\nOnly when the British began arming northern tribes with muskets were the Calusa killed, sold into slavery and scattered into history.\nPresent-day historians and anthropologists find this a compelling story for students and the general public.\n\"There's an instantaneous connection people can make,\" says John Worth, a Pine Island researcher who now teaches at the University of West Florida in Pensacola. \"The Calusa fished and traded and survived in the exact same environment we use today. They terra-formed this landscape just as modern people have done.\"\nPine Island people\nFor the last century, Pine Island has been one of the sleepiest spots on the Gulf Coast. Why? It has no beaches, which means it has always been more popular with fishermen than developers.\nOver the last decade, the island has grown. It now has a winter population of more than 10,000. Matlacha, the village at the entrance to the island, has become a small tourist destination with colorful restaurants and art galleries.\nArchaeology on Pine Island has centered on the far side of the island \u2014 Pineland and the Randell Research Center, which was founded in 1996.\nThe Calusa Heritage Trail helps visitors imagine the tribe that once flourished on the Gulf Coast. More serious scholars can dig into a thick new resource from the University Press of Florida. \"The Archaeology of Pineland,\" a 938-page work edited by Marquardt and Karen J. Walker, has 18 authors reviewing 1,700 years of tribal life on Pine Island.\nScholars and scientists are not the only ones intrigued by the Calusa. A small army of students and volunteers help with research and education.\n\"It just pulls me in,\" says Denege Patterson, a retired family therapist from upstate New York. \"You pick up a pottery shard and then you realize no one has touched this in 1,000 years. And all these thoughts come flooding in. Who was the last person to touch this? What were they doing? What happened to this site?\"\nPatterson lives on Pine Island and has participated in seven archaeological digs. The more she did, the more training she got, and the more fascinated she became. She also learned the Indian and Spanish history of the island, which she shares on Randell tours.\nPatterson explains the tricky business of Pineland's original name. The Calusa village on the island was known as Tanpa, which the Spanish called Tampa, but a 1601 map placed this community farther up the Gulf Coast. This map appeared in an important colonial history by Antonio de Herrera.\n\"His name is easy to remember because it sounds like 'error,'\" Patterson jokes. \"He just got his harbors confused.\"\nIn 1895, Smithsonian anthropologist Frank Cushing explored a mucky area on Marco Island. Preserved artifacts included fishing nets with wooden floats and clam shell weights. The Calusa fishermen used some of the same knots that anglers use today.\nAlso left behind were painted masks and sculpted figurines, including what is known as the Key Marco Cat.\nThe original buttonwood carving \u2014 stored at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C. \u2014 is just 6 inches tall. It shows a kneeling man with the head of a panther. Today this image appears in paintings and sculptures as a beguiling representation of Calusa culture.\nMerald Clark, a Gainesville artist and archaeology student, wrote his master's thesis on the Key Marco masks. He's also curious about the cat.\n\"I'm personally convinced that it represents a cat-man dancer or performer \u2014 like Batman is for us,\" Clark says. \"I think it represents a person wearing a cat costume.\"\nThe Calusa also created bird and animal masks with lower jaws that hinged, opening and closing mouths. Not quite \"The Lion King,\" as imagined by Disney, but an early Florida effort at animation. Clark imagines these masks being seen by firelight during entertainment or religious ceremonies.\nHis own drawings and illustrations strive to describe daily life on the Gulf Coast 500 years ago.\n\"The Palmetto Palace,\" a diorama on display at the Florida Museum of Natural History in Gainesville, shows a tribal court receiving visitors. There is a king and queen, shaman and war captain, along with a visiting lord.\nThe meeting room would have been a huge thatched-roof hall that Spanish visitors said would hold 2,000 people.\n\"They are one of the few very complex societies in the world that were based primarily on fishing,\" Clark says. \"A few people fishing can feed everybody.\"\n20,000 Calusa\nMarquardt, the Gainesville archaeologist, has studied the Calusa for more than two decades. He makes regular trips to Pine Island to speak at the Randell Research Center.\nHe travels with a Power Point presentation loaded on his laptop computer.\nMarquardt estimates that the Calusa had 50 Gulf Coast villages with perhaps 20,000 people. The tribe ranged all over south Florida and traded goods all over the southeast United States. Their artifacts include quartz from Arkansas and greenstone from the Appalachian Mountains.\nThe Calusa also had gold \u2014 but it was gold scavenged from Spanish shipwrecks along the Florida Keys.\nAfter 1500, Marquardt believes, Spanish soldiers from Hispaniola and Puerto Rico made voyages to Florida in search of slaves. This helps explain why the Calusa were so wary of Ponce de Leon on his visits to the Gulf Coast.\n\"They already knew,\" he says, \"that the Spanish did not have their best interests at heart.\"\nThere is still much that archaeologists do not know about the Calusa. Pottery remains are a staple of archaeological research, but tribal relics are of poor quality.\nWhen a Randell visitor asks where the Calusa even found clay to make pots, Marquardt smiles and shakes his head.\n\"I would love to know where that clay came from,\" he says, laughing with his audience. \"That has been a thorn in my side for 25 years.\"\nWorth spent six years on the Gulf Coast studying the Calusa.\nHe remembers one dig where researchers painstakingly dusted away the centuries until they reached 450 A.D. Finally, he and his colleagues revealed the postholes and fire pit of what had been a small circular hut.\n\"That was a light bulb moment, when we discovered this house,\" he says. \"We were able to tease out a little of their lives, what their homes were like.\"\nWorth also studied the documents of Fontaneda, the teen-aged shipwreck survivor who lived 17 years in Florida before returning to Spain. He wrote about everything from Calusa political marriages to a tribal enthusiasm for painting their faces and bodies. After some time, Worth learned to recognize the young man's handwriting.\n\"He's really remarkable, and he's our main source,\" he says. \"Most of our ethnographic insight comes straight from him.\"\nLater Spanish missions on the Gulf Coast were unsuccessful, too. The Calusa ridiculed and even \"mooned\" visiting friars \u2014 a Spanish account says hecklers \"turned around and showed their buttocks\" to the European missionaries.\nBecause the Calusa were fishermen, rather than farmers, they were better able to resist the Spanish than other tribes. When confronted, they could just slip away into the Everglades or Ten Thousand Islands.\nThis is one of the points Worth emphasizes when teaching and talking about the Calusa.\nThey were warriors. They were engineers. 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Conner brings over a decade of nonprofit experience to the organization through her extensive work to achieve gender equality and social responsibility from the sandbox to the boardroom.\n\u201cATHENA International is fortunate to have the vision and guidance that Andrea will bring to our organization. Having worked with her closely during the last six months I have found that she exemplifies the qualities of leadership that ATHENA represents,\u201d said Martha Mayhood Mertz, Founder of ATHENA International.\nAs president of ATHENA International, Conner will oversee an organization that, since the program\u2019s inception in 1982, has honored nearly 7,000 exemplary leaders in over 500 communities. 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The pain of his loss will never cease, but we are left with many memories of amazing times together to cherish. Jim was an incredible father, friend, mentor and family member to so many fortunate people. His gentle spirit, willingness to help others, and his persistent humor was something everybody felt in his presence. Jim\u2019s passion for fly fishing was strong, earning him the name \u201cThe Fish Whisperer\u201d among many of his friends. He was also an extremely gifted artist and architect, a chef extraordinaire, and always a giver \u2013 just a wonderful human indeed. He will be so missed by so many people, but especially by his family including his beloved children, Madi and Bento. A celebration of life for Jim will be held on April 9, 2pm to 5pm at Kiana Lodge, Poulsbo, Washington. 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Please, feel free to add your own experiences to the the thread as well.\nToday I went to see The Beatles in A Hard Day's night at the movies. I never thought I'd have an opportunity to say that! As you know, it was the 50th anniversary of release of AHDN and nation wide, running from July 4th to the 17th. If it's playing in or near your city I suggest that you take the opportunity to see it! You can find a list of the cities and the theaters their playing at here: http://janusfilms.com/harddaysnight/\nMy viewing experience happened at the Silent Movie Theatre Cinefamily.\nA very cool old style theatre with incredible charm. The staff was friendly and helpful. Old frame poster sized photos of silent movie stars line the walls.\nI don't know how the movie was started off for others, but here they played clips of Beatles videos, that also included a cartoon from their animated series and behind the scenes footage of them rehearsing 'Hey, Jude'.\nThen there were previews for a couple of independent movies, and the show began! After three FALSE starts. The beginning of the movie was silent. Which I guess is kind of funny as it's called the Silent Movie Theatre. They got it right the third try and the movie began.\nIt looked beautiful restored and the sound was fantastic! So, kudos to the team who did all of that work for the 50th rerelease.\nThere was lots of laughing. I think John got the biggest laughs. His tub scene especially had people tickled.\nAt the end of the movie there was plenty of clapping an overall excitement shared by everyone. It was a mix of different ages, backgrounds, etc.\nI was sitting next to a man who'd seen the movie released in 1964 when he was 15.\nSo, I can't say it enough, but go see it if you can because I really enjoyed the experience. Peace and love. Peace and love.\nMy Box comes Thursday\nDidn't play anywhere near me, but would have gone just for $hits & giggles.\nHave you watched it yet? What did you think of the picture quality?\nIn the winter of 2000 it was showing in my neighborhood theaters. I went to see it so I could enjoy it on a big screen. It was fun to scream at close ups of George and Paul; to sing along with the Beatles and to quote the lines. The audience was really into it, so let's just say I fit right in!\nI am so old that I remember when the movie premiered sometime in the early 60s. I lived in Gothenburg and the band was still not known Beatles among everyone. They had never performed in Gothenburg and I do not think they ever did. 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Most hill stations are calm and serene and offer beautiful views of the surrounding hills and valleys. Mussoorie is one such place located in the northern Indian state of Uttarakhand. The varying fauna and the wildlife in the region makes it an ideal visit for nature lovers around the world. Specially famous for its tranquil atmosphere, it has gained a reputation as one of the best places for a honeymoon in India.\nThough the winter months can be cold and freezing, the best place to visit would be in the summer when the climate is pleasant and convenient. Mussoorie has a rich historical background and offers a special visit for all its tourists.\nAs the Dehradun airport is the nearest airport to mussoorie, getting in by plane is a valid option for many. There are well connected flights to and from various populous cities. From the airports, you can hire a taxi or avail the services of shared taxis to get to the hill station. 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As far back as May 16, 1991, I watched a special marriage that was performed on the Phil Donahue television show. There was the couple, the minister, and the usual participants. The couple was joining in what they called \"holy matrimony.\" Following the ceremony, the couple kissed and there was prayer offered. Mr. Donahue and the audience offered their congratulation to the couple. The problem? The couple consisted of two men!\nFor years there has been a movement in America to present homosexuality as simply an alternate life style. Americans are inundated with the philosophy that there is no right and wrong and that to attempt to pronounce a matter as wrong is judgmental, uneducated, and un-American.\nGod instituted marriage between a man and a woman. God created man and woman (Gen. 1, 2). After God created Adam he said, \"\u0085it is not good that man should be alone; I will make him an help meet for him\" (Gen. 2: 18). \"Help meet\" is from a Hebrew word that means a counter-part or compliment. In other words, God intended to provide Adam with a being ideally suited to meet Adam's social, psychological, emotional, and sexual needs. In the following verses of Genesis chapter 2, we read how God made a woman (ishshah, corresponding to man) for Adam. The companion God presented to Adam was \"bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh\" (Gen. 2: 23). Adam (man) was then commanded to \"leave his father and his mother and cleave unto his wife\" (vs. 24). \"\u0085and they shall be one flesh,\" we are told (vs. 24).\nThe woman, not man, is ideally suited for man. The apostle Paul also taught regarding man and woman (I Cor. 11). He wrote, \"\u0085the woman is the glory of the man\" (vs. 7). Moreover, he penned: \"Neither was the man created for the woman; but the woman for the man\" (vs. 9). As mentioned, the woman is the perfect companion for man, emotionally, socially, and sexually. One purpose of marriage is reproduction (Gen. 1: 28). There is no other relation that can produce children other than the relationship of man and woman.\nMarriage is to be only between man and woman. Marriage between man and woman is sanctioned of God (Gen. 1, 2; Heb. 13: 4). Sexual relationships between a man and woman outside of marriage are condemned (Heb. 13: 4). Conjugal involvement of man with beasts incur the express disapproval of God (Lev. 18: 23). Observe the plainness of this prohibition: \"Neither shalt thou lie with any beast to defile thyself therewith\" (Lev. 18: 23). Beloved, the \"neither\" is connected to the preceding prohibition, \"Thou shalt not lie with mankind, as with womankind; it is abomination\" (Lev. 18: 22). To \"lie with mankind, as he lieth with a woman\" under God's theocratic government meant that, \"they shall surely be put to death; their blood shall be upon them\" (Lev. 20: 13).\nRampant homosexuality is an indication of serious degradation in a society. The sin of homosexuality in Sodom and Gomorrah reached the point where God said \"their sin is very grievous\" and \"is waxen great\" (Gen. 18: 20, 19: 13). They were so depraved and steeped in homosexuality that any male stranger was in danger (Gen. 19: 5, \"may know them\" means to know sexually). Jude wrote that \"Sodom and Gomorrah\u0085giving themselves over to fornication, and going after strange flesh, are set forth for an example, suffering the vengeance of eternal fire\" (Jude 7). The stench of their wickedness was so great that God destroyed these people with brimstone and fire out of heaven (Gen. 19: 24, notice Jude's statement regarding \"eternal fire,\" Jude 7). In describing the degenerate state of the Gentile world of Paul's day, he described the sin of homosexuality. \"Men with men working that which is unseemly,\" Paul stated (Rom. 1: 27). \"\u0085Even their women did change the natural use into that which is against nature,\" Paul further explained (vs. 26). Paul referred to such homosexual relationships as \"vile affections\" (vs. 26).\nPracticing homosexuals will not go to heaven. I listened in amazement a while back as a panel of ministers from several different denominations were questioned regarding homosexuality. Every preacher on the television panel said homosexuality is not even mentioned in the Bible. When pressed, they replied \"Jesus did not mention homosexuality\" (see I Cor. 14: 37, arraying Jesus against Leviticus 18: 22, etc., is the height of blasphemy). \"Or do you not know that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God,\" Paul wrote, \"do not be deceived; neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor homosexuals\u0085shall inherit the kingdom of God\" (I Cor. 6: 9, 10, NASV).\nBeloved, the argument that homosexuals cannot help themselves because they were born the way they are is not correct. God would not hold homosexuals responsible if they had a genetic aberration that they could not help. The good news is that homosexuals, just as all sinners, can be saved if they will repent (involving desisting their sinful life style) of their sins and accept God's provision of grace (I Cor. 6: 9-11).", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00240.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 9, + "original_length": 5189, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.96, + "perplexity": 261.0, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "http://www.bindugopalrao.com/702-2/", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T04:41:19Z", + "digest": "sha1:DKWHVY7EGZMUJPGDQ34JSAER4R4UUWO6", + "length": 5327, + "nlines": 16, + "source_domain": "www.bindugopalrao.com", + "title": "Hangal - story of lost temples - Bindu Gopal Rao, Freelance Writer & Photographer ::: Travel, Fitness, health, Finance, Lifestyle, Food, Fashion & More", + "raw_content": "Ode to Chalukyan Architecture\nAs a child I had read much about the Chalukyas in my history books. Naturally when I had an opportunity to see this for myself, I jumped at the opportunity. Setting off to Hangal in Haveri district near North Karnataka is a wonderful way to see the famed Hoysala architecture. It is said that Hangal was the capital of a branch of the Kadamba dynasty. From 1068 to 1203 A.D. the Hangal Kadamba family ruled from here as the feudators of the Kalyana Chalukyas. While Belur and Halebid are the front runners as far as stone Hoysala architecture is concerned there are several other temples that are a fine example of this era.\nTarakeshwara Temple\nSo I headed towards Hangal in Haveri district and driving through a beautiful countryside, reached my first stop that was at the 12th century Tarakeshwara Temple. A beautiful large wooden chariot outside the temple welcomes you to this place. Step into the ramparts of this ancient temple and you see immediately that this is like no other. You will see a small Ganesha temple with a Nagara style spire at the entrance of Tarakeshwara temple. The plan of this temple reflects a good example of the \u2018Kalyana Chalukya Architectural Style\u2019 and has a garbhagriha, antarala, navaranga, sabhamandapa and a mukhamandapa. Originally the navaranga had pravesamandapas on north, south and eastern sides. Presently, the north and south pravesamandapas have been converted to garbhagrihas. The main sanctum sanctorum has a Shiva Linga called Tarakeshwara (after which this temple is named) along with sculptures of Vishnu, Brahma, Kartikeya and Nandi. The exterior wall of the temple has Bas relief sculptures of the Ramayana. The incompletely carved images of the Dvarapalakas are very attractive. Special mention must be made of the Kadamba Nagara Shikara above the Garbagriha that has intricately carved motifs including a sculpture of a hero fighting a lion that resembles the Hoysala emblem. Look at the walls and the ceiling and you can see murals and etchings that are in a bad shape now and have almost disappeared. However what is remaining truly reflects the artist\u2019s expertise. Likewise the ceilings of the temple are done up in an ornate manner and you must not miss looking up to see the lovely floral patterns here. Every pillar is different and again has intricate carvings with floral and animal motifs as well as several deities. The decorated pillars a typical Chalukyan feature also has Dravidian and Nagara influences that add a distinct character to this temple. The large eight-pillared hall with a lotus rock ceiling and the main central hall with a concentric domed ceiling with a rosette pendant are key distinguishing aspects of this temple. You will need to spend some time here as each sculpture and etching is nothing short of an architectural marvel and a celebration of stone architecture.\nContinuing my exploration of the old temples in Hangal, I reach the Billeshwara temple that is located opposite to a lake on the Hangal-Bankapur Highway. The town has a huge lake called Anekere which is located near Billeshwara temple. In fact this temple is not inside the main town and you will need to reach the outskirts and you will find it on the left side as you drive on the Hangal-Haveri road. The temple is situated on a slight elevation off the ground and is a solitary structure that seems incomplete. You will not find any shikhara or sabha mantapa here and it seems as if it was abandoned for some reason. This is a smaller structure and has only a garbhagriha which houses a large Shiva linga that seems to be of an early origin.\nThe ceiling of the garbhagriha is decorated with lotus medallions. The highly ornate door frame of the garbhagriha is divided into five sakhas. A seven-stage doorway with each stages having a theme of its own adorns the garbhagriha. Said to date back to the 11-12th century, the exterior of the temple is decorated with exquisitely carved miniature shikaras over pilasters. There is a beautiful moon stone in front of the temple. I was quite fascinated to see the carvings of the serpents with human heads, lions, animals and birds intertwined with foliage here. The temple has fine specimens of the architecture of the period and must be on your next visit to Hangal. Both the temples are a great way to visit the past and offer a sneak peek into a lost world one which was culturally rich and has historical reference even to this day.\nHangal is about 350 km from Bangalore and has good road connectivity through the national highways.\nThese temple are situated in Hangal, in the Haveri district of Karnataka about 75 kilometers from Hubli \u2013 Dharwad, on the banks of the Dharma River.\nThe best time to visit this temple is during the festive time of Shivaratri.\nAccommodation options are limited in Hangal and it is recommended to stay in Hubli.\nWhile you are here try an authentic North Karnataka meal of Jollada Roti at one of the traditional khanavalis.\nA traditional meal at Hangal\nRead the story in Deccan Herald\u2019s Spectrum here.\nBy BinduIn SpectrumTagged architecture, Billeshwara temple, Chalukyan architecture, Chalukyas, culture, Hangal, history, old temples, Tarakeshwara templeLeave a Comment\nPrevious Previous post: Interview with actor Dipika Kakar\nNext Next post: Varanasi Vignettes", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00240.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 235, + "original_length": 10024, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.96, + "perplexity": 329.4, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "http://www.bioni.de/landing_page/content.php?site=unternehmensgruppe&lang=en", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T03:12:53Z", + "digest": "sha1:ORLX4KNCZFXH4EKP3NLIDXNRIF4KYPQA", + "length": 1604, + "nlines": 12, + "source_domain": "www.bioni.de", + "title": "Bioni", + "raw_content": "For more than a decade, BIONI has operated as a\nowner-managed and\ngroup-independent\nfamily company standing for\nproducts, solutions and services in coating the interior and exterior surfaces of buildings. 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There are many people who think it\u2019s another Google failure and that it\u2019s on the way out, but that\u2019s far from the truth. If anything, Google+ has proven that it\u2019s the \u2018little social network that could,\u2019 and according to several reputable sites, Google+ is now ranked number 2 amongst all social sites in terms of active usage (only behind Facebook). Today I thought I\u2019d share some tips and shortcuts to increase your effectiveness there.\nYou might be asking yourself why you need these tips and shortcuts since you don\u2019t have time to be on Google+ in the first place. I mean, you\u2019ve already got enough social sites to keep up with, right? If you have a website, and you are trying to increase your traffic, Google+ should not be the social site you let slide. The reason can be summed up in one word \u2013 Google \u2013 and that means search. If nothing else, that is the reason you need to be there.\nLet me just give you one example of what I\u2019m talking about. If you are on Google+, you can sign up for Google Authorship (if you haven\u2019t already done this, I suggest you do it today, just follow that link). We just wrote about this last week in an article called Google Authorship & It\u2019s Insane Impact On Website Traffic. Bottom line, you\u2019ll get to have your avatar show up in the search results on Google, which will give you a huge bump in web traffic. Only 9% of tech blogs have taken advantage of Google Authorship, which leaves a huge opportunity for you if you haven\u2019t implemented it.\nThat is just one of many reasons why it\u2019s important to be on Google+. Another reason is because of all the advanced features which you can\u2019t find on any other social site. I look at Google+ a little differently than the other social sites. To me, there isn\u2019t as much engagement, and it may not be quite as much fun, but it comes with extra benefits which make it all worth it. These tips and shortcuts will hopefully save you some time so you\u2019ll become more effective there. [Infographic presented by EricWelke.com]\nIncrease Your Effectiveness \u2013 Google+ Tips And Shortcuts\nVia: [Social Media Today]\nChetan 6 years\nThis one is really cool. 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Now is a good time to think about the investing, saving, or budgeting methods you could employ toward specific objectives, from building your retirement fund to lowering your taxes. You have plenty of options. Here are a few that might prove convenient.\nCan you contribute more to your retirement plans this year?\nIn 2019, the yearly contribution limit for a Roth or traditional IRA rises to $6,000 ($7,000 for those making \u201ccatch-up\u201d contributions). Your modified adjusted gross income (MAGI) may affect how much you can put into a Roth IRA: singles and heads of household with MAGI above $137,000 and joint filers with MAGI above $203,000 cannot make 2019 Roth contributions.1\nFor tax year 2019, you can contribute up to $19,000 to 401(k), 403(b), and most 457 plans, with a $6,000 catch-up contribution allowed if you are age 50 or older. If you are self-employed, you may want to look into whether you can establish and fund a solo 401(k) before the end of 2019; as employer contributions may also be made to solo 401(k)s, you may direct up to $56,000 into one of those plans.1\nYour retirement plan contribution could help your tax picture. If you won\u2019t turn 70\u00bd in 2019 and you participate in a traditional qualified retirement plan or have a traditional IRA, you can cut your taxable income through a contribution. Should you be in the new 24% federal tax bracket, you can save $1,440 in taxes as a byproduct of a $6,000 traditional IRA contribution.2\nWhat are the income limits on deducting traditional IRA contributions? If you participate in a workplace retirement plan, the 2019 MAGI phase-out ranges are $64,000-$74,000 for singles and heads of households, $103,000-$123,000 for joint filers when the spouse making IRA contributions is covered by a workplace retirement plan, and $193,000-$203,000 for an IRA contributor not covered by a workplace retirement plan, but married to someone who is.1\nRoth IRAs and Roth 401(k)s, 403(b)s, and 457 plans are funded with after-tax dollars, so you may not take an immediate federal tax deduction for your contributions to them. The upside is that if you follow I.R.S. rules, the account assets may eventually be withdrawn tax free.3\nYour tax year 2019 contribution to a Roth or traditional IRA may be made as late as the 2020 federal tax deadline \u2013 and, for that matter, you can make a 2018 IRA contribution as late as April 15, 2019, which is the deadline for filing your 2018 federal return. There is no merit in waiting until April of the successive year, however, since delaying a contribution only delays tax-advantaged compounding of those dollars.1,3\nShould you go Roth in 2019?\nYou might be considering that if you only have a traditional IRA. This is no snap decision; the Internal Revenue Service no longer gives you a chance to undo it, and the tax impact of the conversion must be weighed versus the potential future benefits. If you are a high earner, you should know that income phase-out limits may affect your chance to make Roth IRA contributions. For 2019, phase-outs kick in at $193,000 for joint filers and $122,000 for single filers and heads of household. Should your income prevent you from contributing to a Roth IRA at all, you still have the chance to contribute to a traditional IRA in 2019 and go Roth later.1,4\nIncidentally, a footnote: distributions from certain qualified retirement plans, such as 401(k)s, are not subject to the 3.8% Net Investment Income Tax (NIIT) affecting single/joint filers with MAGIs over $200,000/$250,000. If your MAGI does surpass these thresholds, then dividends, royalties, the taxable part of non-qualified annuity income, taxable interest, passive income (such as partnership and rental income), and net capital gains from the sale of real estate and investments are subject to that surtax. (Please note that the NIIT threshold is just $125,000 for spouses who choose to file their federal taxes separately.)5\nConsult a tax or financial professional before you make any IRA moves to see how those changes may affect your overall financial picture. If you have a large, traditional IRA, the projected tax resulting from a Roth conversion may make you think twice.\nWhat else should you consider in 2019?\nThere are other things you may want to do or review.\nMake charitable gifts. The individual standard deduction rises to $12,000 in 2019, so there will be less incentive to itemize deductions for many taxpayers \u2013 but charitable donations are still deductible if they are itemized. If you plan to gift more than $12,000 to qualified charities and non-profits in 2019, remember that the paper trail is important.6\nIf you give cash, you need to document it. Even small contributions need to be demonstrated by a bank record or a written communication from the charity with the date and amount. Incidentally, the I.R.S. does not equate a pledge with a donation. You must contribute to a qualified charity to claim a federal charitable tax deduction. Incidentally, the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act lifted the ceiling on the amount of cash you can give to a charity per year \u2013 you can now gift up to 60% of your adjusted gross income in cash per year, rather than 50%.6,7\nWhat if you gift appreciated securities? If you have owned them for more than a year, you will be in line to take a deduction for 100% of their fair market value and avoid capital gains tax that would have resulted from simply selling the investment and donating the proceeds. The non-profit organization gets the full amount of the gift, and you can claim a deduction of up to 30% of your adjusted gross income.8\nDoes the value of your gift exceed $250? It may, and if you gift that amount or larger to a qualified charitable organization, you should ask that charity or non-profit group for a receipt. You should always request a receipt for a cash gift, no matter how large or small the amount.8\nIf you aren\u2019t sure if an organization is eligible to receive charitable gifts, check it out at irs.gov/Charities-&-Non-Profits/Exempt-Organizations-Select-Check.\nOpen an HSA. If you are enrolled in a high-deductible health plan, you may set up and fund a Health Savings Account in 2019. You can make fully tax-deductible HSA contributions of up to $3,500 (singles) or $7,000 (families); catch-up contributions of up to $1,000 are permitted for those 55 or older. HSA assets grow tax deferred, and withdrawals from these accounts are tax free if used to pay for qualified health care expenses.9\nPractice tax-loss harvesting. By selling depreciated shares in a taxable investment account, you can offset capital gains or up to $3,000 in regular income ($1,500 is the annual limit for married couples who file separately). In fact, you may use this tactic to offset all your total capital gains for a given tax year. Losses that exceed the $3,000 yearly limit may be rolled over into 2020 (and future tax years) to offset ordinary income or capital gains again.10\nPay attention to asset location. Tax-efficient asset location is an ignored fundamental of investing. Broadly speaking, your least tax-efficient securities should go in pre-tax accounts, and your most tax-efficient securities should be held in taxable accounts.\nReview your withholding status. You may have updated it last year when the I.R.S. introduced new withholding tables; you may want to adjust for 2019 due to any of the following factors.\n* You tend to pay a great deal of income tax each year.\n* You tend to get a big federal tax refund each year.\n* You recently married or divorced.\n* A family member recently passed away.\n* You have a new job, and you are earning much more than you previously did.\n* You started a business venture or became self-employed.\nAre you marrying in 2019? If so, why not review the beneficiaries of your workplace retirement plan account, your IRA, and other assets? In light of your marriage, you may want to make changes to the relevant beneficiary forms. The same goes for your insurance coverage. If you will have a new last name in 2019, you will need a new Social Security card. Additionally, the two of you, no doubt, have individual retirement saving and investment strategies. Will they need to be revised or adjusted once you are married?\nAre you coming home from active duty? If so, go ahead and check the status of your credit and the state of any tax and legal proceedings that might have been preempted by your orders. Make sure any employee health insurance is still in place. Revoke any power of attorney you may have granted to another person.\nConsider the tax impact of any upcoming transactions. Are you planning to sell (or buy) real estate next year? How about a business? Do you think you might exercise a stock option in the coming months? Might any large commissions or bonuses come your way in 2019? Do you anticipate selling an investment that is held outside of a tax-deferred account? Any of these actions might significantly impact your 2019 taxes.\nIf you are retired and older than 70\u00bd, remember your year-end RMD. Retirees over age 70\u00bd must begin taking Required Minimum Distributions from traditional IRAs, 401(k)s, SEP IRAs, and SIMPLE IRAs by December 31 of each year. The I.R.S. penalty for failing to take an RMD equals 50% of the RMD amount that is not withdrawn.4,11\nIf you turned 70\u00bd in 2018, you can postpone your initial RMD from an account until April 1, 2019. All subsequent RMDs must be taken by December 31 of the calendar year to which the RMD applies. The downside of delaying your 2018 RMD into 2019 is that you will have to take two RMDs in 2019, with both RMDs being taxable events. You will have to make your 2018 tax year RMD by April 1, 2019, and then take your 2019 tax year RMD by December 31, 2019.11\nPlan your RMDs wisely. If you do so, you may end up limiting or avoiding possible taxes on your Social Security income. Some Social Security recipients don\u2019t know about the \u201cprovisional income\u201d rule \u2013 if your adjusted gross income, plus any non-taxable interest income you earn, plus 50% of your Social Security benefits surpasses a certain level, then some Social Security benefits become taxable. Social Security benefits start to be taxed at provisional income levels of $32,000 for joint filers and $25,000 for single filers.11\nLastly, should you make 13 mortgage payments in 2019? There may be some merit to making a January 2020 mortgage payment in December 2019. If you have a fixed-rate loan, a lump-sum payment can reduce the principal and the total interest paid on it by that much more.\nTalk with a qualified financial or tax professional today. Vow to focus on being healthy and wealthy in 2019.\n1 - forbes.com/sites/ashleaebeling/2018/11/01/irs-announces-2019-retirement-plan-contribution-limits-for-401ks-and-more [11/1/18]\n2 - irs.com/articles/2018-federal-tax-rates-personal-exemptions-and-standard-deductions [11/2/17]\n3 - irs.gov/Retirement-Plans/Traditional-and-Roth-IRAs [7/10/18]\n4 - forbes.com/sites/bobcarlson/2018/10/26/7-ira-strategies-for-year-end-2018/ [10/26/18]\n5 - irs.gov/newsroom/questions-and-answers-on-the-net-investment-income-tax [6/18/18]\n6 - crainsdetroit.com/philanthropy/what-donors-need-know-about-tax-reform [10/21/18]\n7 - thebalance.com/tax-deduction-for-charity-donations-3192983 [7/25/18]\n8 - schwab.com/resource-center/insights/content/charitable-donations-the-basics-of-giving [7/2/18]\n9 - kiplinger.com/article/insurance/T027-C001-S003-health-savings-account-limits-for-2019.html [8/28/18]\n10 - schwab.com/resource-center/insights/content/reap-benefits-tax-loss-harvesting-to-lower-your-tax-bill [10/7/18]\n11 - fool.com/retirement/2018/01/29/5-things-to-consider-before-tapping-your-retiremen.aspx [1/29/18]", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00240.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 156, + "original_length": 19028, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.94, + "perplexity": 295.6, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "http://www.bollycurry.com/news/starry-takes/74879-anushka-sharma-gets-candid-about-her-forthcoming-film-phillauri.htm", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T04:08:49Z", + "digest": "sha1:355K4XS4MSX67SUSW3EF27LOU3OZGZ55", + "length": 2306, + "nlines": 13, + "source_domain": "www.bollycurry.com", + "title": "Anushka Sharma gets candid about her forthcoming film 'Phillauri'!", + "raw_content": "Anushka Sharma gets candid about her forthcoming film 'Phillauri'!\nComments [ 0 ] By Akash Jaiswal | 07 February 2017 | 4:25pm\nActress Anushka Sharma who made her Bollywood debut with Shah Rukh Khan's 'Rab Ne Bana Di Jodi' has come a long way in her career. Throughout her Bollywood journey till date, she has worked with all the three khan that includes has Salman Khan and Aamir Khan.\nAnushka's performances in her films had been loved by the audience and probably that's the reason why she has a good amount of fans and followers.\nBe it films like 'PK', 'Sultan' or 'Ae Dil Hai Mushkil', she has proved her versatility easily switching to different roles.\nThe actress who is open to play any kind of roles says, \"As an actress, I think I can do anything, but it depends on what kind of opportunities you get. I am lucky in that way. I have been given the kind of opportunities and done those kinds of roles. People have liked those portrayals. I think that is more important,\".\n\"As an actor, you constantly try to do more diverse work because, ultimately, you can only impress people with your roles. The characters that we portray on screen, people fall in love with that. Therefore, we all look for good and different characters and I am happy that I got those opportunities in my career\", she added further.\nAnushka's upcoming film 'Phillauri' marks her second film as a producer. Her first production film was 'NH10'.\nAsk her about choosing such a unique concept like 'Phillauri' and she says, \"I think the idea came out because Karnesh (her brother Karnesh Sharma) and I wanted to tell a different story and present a new idea as well. That is why 'NH10' was made, which was well-received by people.\n\"Similarly, the 'Phillauri' trailer is getting a good response in all aspects. The vision is to create good content and introduce new talent. It's a very relatable character. I have tried to be honest playing the role. Finally, it depends on the audience how they react to the film.\"\nHelmed by Anshai Lal, the film also features Dilijit Dosanjh, Suraj Sharma and Mehreen Pirzada. The film will hit the silver screens on March 24th, 2017.\nSalman Khan-Iulia Vantur at the wrap up party of 'Tubelight', see pics Salman Khan starrer 'Tubelight' wraps up shoot!\nAkshay Kumar was NEVER good at academics!", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00240.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 117, + "original_length": 4790, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.98, + "perplexity": 284.7, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "http://www.bom.gov.au/climate/drought/archive/20090706.shtml", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T04:34:29Z", + "digest": "sha1:HOJ6DTK4MIHUOKMZRMWY4W5JJDGXFPRF", + "length": 1738, + "nlines": 6, + "source_domain": "www.bom.gov.au", + "title": "Drought archive, Bureau of Meteorology", + "raw_content": "Very dry first half of the year for parts of southeast Australia\nWhile much of southern and eastern Australia recorded average or above average rainfall during June 2009, a substantial area of southeastern Australia, including southern and eastern Victoria, saw a continuation of dry conditions. 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Those of you who have yet to register, it\u2019s not too late, simply\nCLICK HERE to REGISTER! Meeting materials will be provided upon RSVP.", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00240.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 15, + "original_length": 806, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.89, + "perplexity": 282.6, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "http://www.bravoartillery.org/EdMcMahon.html", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T04:58:29Z", + "digest": "sha1:N35FQURYLBG2GT3MBHVWBA5CXRBSYQBU", + "length": 5184, + "nlines": 17, + "source_domain": "www.bravoartillery.org", + "title": "untitled1", + "raw_content": "Today's newspapers are filled with page after page of accolades spewing forth about the greatness and complexity of Michael Jackson, a man who never served his country; who never spent a day of selfless service to others; a man who knew nothing of sacrifice or love of country.\nLast week, a man worthy of accolades passed, yet only a couple of paragraphs on Ed McMahon's Hollywood career were put forth in the papers, which aptly noted he died a pauper. It's just more proof of the failure of American journalism and the fact that anti-military, freedom hating liberals run the mainstream media. How about printing the story below? I'll bet you'll never read it in any paper or hear it on any news channel in your hometown....\nHe wanted to be a Marine fighter pilot. The US was building up their military force, but they were not at war yet and the Navy required all its potential Navy and Marine pilots to have two years of college. So Ed started classes at BostonCollege.\nWhen Pearl Harbor was attacked the Army and the Navy both dropped the college requirement and Ed applied to the Marines. His primary flight training was in Dallas and then he went to Pensacola, Florida. He was carrier qualified, which means he knew how to perform a controlled crash of his single engine fighter, onto the rolling deck of a Navy floating runway.\nIt took Ed almost two years to get through all the Navy flight training. His problem was he was a very good pilot and the Marines needed flight instructors. He had a great command presence and public speaking ability, which landed him in the classroom, training new baby Marine pilots.\nHis orders to the Pacific fleet and the chance to fly combat missions off a carrier came in the spring of 1945, on the same day the Atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima. Of course his orders where changed. He never went to sea and he was out of the Marines in 1946.\nEd stayed in the USMC as a reserve officer. He became a successful personality in the new TV medium, after the war. His Marine command presence helped. He was recalled to active duty during the Korean War. He never got to fly his fighter aircraft, but he saw his share of raw combat. He flew the Cessna O-1E Bird Dog, which is a single engine slow-moving unarmed plane. He functioned as an artillery spotter for the Marine batteries on the ground and as a forward controller for the Navy & Marine fighter / bombers who flew in on fast moving jet engines, bombed the area and were gone in seconds. Captain Ed was still circling the enemy looking for more targets, all the time taking North Korean and Chinese ground fire.\nHe stayed with the Marines as a reserve officer and retired in 1966 as a Colonel. The world knows Ed as Ed McMahon of the Johnny Carson, Tonight Show. One night I was watching the show when the subject of Colonel McMahon earning a number of Navy Air Medals came up. Carson, a former Navy officer, understood the significance of these medals, but McMahon shrugged it off, saying that if you flew enough combat missions they just sort of gave them to you. McMahon flew 85 combat missions over North Korea; he earned every one of those Air Medals. The casualty rate, for flying forward air controllers in Korea sometimes exceeded 50% of a squadron\u2019s manpower. McMahon was lucky to have gotten home from that war.\nWhen the public was spitting (taking their personal safety into their own hands) at Marines on the streets of SouthernCalifornia during Vietnam, Colonel McMahon was taking Marines off the streets and into his posh Beverley Hills home. I spoke to a retired Marine aircrew member the day Brigadier General McMahon died and he personally remembered seeing McMahon at numerous Marine Air Bases in California in the 1960s. He was known for going to the Navy hospitals and visiting the wounded Marines and Sailors from this country\u2019s conflicts, even in the last years of his life.\nBrigadier General McMahon presented awards and decorations to fellow Marines and attended many a Marine ceremony and the annual Marine Corps Birthday Ball. He stayed true to his Corps as a board member of the Marine Corps Scholarship Fund and as the honorary chairman of the National Marine Corps Aviation Museum. After retiring from the Marine Reserve, one night on the Johnny Carson show, members of the California Air National Guard came on stage.\nColonel McMahon was commissioned a Brigadier General in the Air Guard in front of millions of Americans who watched it happen live. You will not see anything like that on TV anymore.\nThe three core values of a United States Marine are; honor, courage and commitment. This is what a Marine is taught from the first day of training and this is what that Marine believes. That was Brigadier General Edward P. McMahon Jr. USMCR Retired. Before he was a national figure he was a true combat hero and a patriot the nation needed then and this country needs now.\nThank you Brigadier General McMahon, Your war is over.\nJuly 1: Lex McMahon, right, son of the late television personality Ed McMahon, and Pam McMahon, wife of Ed McMahon receive flags from a U.S. Marine.\nLex McMahon Ed McMahon's son\nmaking the Eulogy.\n(March 6, 1923 \u2013 June 23, 2009)", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00240.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 24, + "original_length": 5283, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.98, + "perplexity": 268.1, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "http://www.brentphotony.com/2012/01/", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T03:24:21Z", + "digest": "sha1:GVRXQPA27PR2OGMU7IRUX2EHPZ6BIAUW", + "length": 36, + "nlines": 1, + "source_domain": "www.brentphotony.com", + "title": "BRENTPHOTO/BRENTFILM NEW YORK", + "raw_content": "New York (Brooklyn), 21 January 2012", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00240.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 84, + "original_length": 1342, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.84, + "perplexity": 67.6, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "http://www.briercliffesociety.co.uk/talkback/viewtopic.php?f=21&t=4761", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T04:22:48Z", + "digest": "sha1:IAIUQF5XSRYFKCFOKMLXUHX5TEHEMSCH", + "length": 115, + "nlines": 2, + "source_domain": "www.briercliffesociety.co.uk", + "title": "Welcome to The Briercliffe Society Forum \u2022 View topic - Merry Christmas", + "raw_content": "Merry Christmas to all our members from all at The Briercliffe Society\nA very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00240.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 59, + "original_length": 2649, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.91, + "perplexity": 305.2, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "http://www.briercliffesociety.co.uk/talkback/viewtopic.php?p=8576", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T04:26:00Z", + "digest": "sha1:RPQJGEINNJU5DEHSAGKOWVIH2CVFU5FR", + "length": 5646, + "nlines": 29, + "source_domain": "www.briercliffesociety.co.uk", + "title": "Welcome to The Briercliffe Society Forum \u2022 View topic - DNA testing", + "raw_content": "In today's Daily Mail - someone sent three DNA samples to three different agencies and they came back with three different results!\nSay only a little but say it well\nThat's reliable then\nPost subject: Re: DNA testing\nAncestry.co.uk have a special offer on at the moment until 30th Sept, 50% off DNA tests, cant see the point myself, think they are still pricey anyway, they must not be selling very well, hence the 50% off.\nI am in agreement Stephanie. If I was to do mine, I'd want results for both maternal and paternal from one submission of DNA. Doesn't interest me at all....it's not specific enough. I'd like to be able to prove a connection between Kris's Sutcliffes and my Sutcliffes but these DNA things don't provide that kind of result.\nHere's a quote from the latest Lost Cousins newsletter:\nWhich? slams DNA tests\nOver the past year I've repeatedly warned members about the way in which DNA tests are marketed to genealogists, and now the Consumers' Association has reached the same conclusion.\nTheir article is headlined \"We reveal online DNA tests are waste of money\" and ends with the damning statement: \"It\u2019s unlikely that any of the information we received would help in researching a family tree. In fact, the results are so vague it\u2019s almost the equivalent of telling someone what their star sign is.\"\nMy (Charon's) feeling is that if you want to know if you have Viking, or gypsy, or African, ancestry, DNA testing might tell you: but that's about as far as it goes - as far as I can see!\nBy the way, I've found a couple of very helpful contacts through Lost Cousins, and anyway its newsletter is usually well worth reading. Have a look.\nhttp://www.lostcousins.com/\nLooks like it's changed a lot since I was last on there. I might just have a nosey round later.\nI like the way Lost Cousins is heading. It's a similiar system to Genes Reunited in that they seacrh their database and match you with other people researching the same name.\nI joined Genes Reunited when it was in its early days but no longer subscribe or receive their so called 'hot matches', I got fed up with deleting masses of connections where the only match was the surname. I'm sure many people find it is a great resource but it's not for me.\nI have yet to receive news of any matches through Lost Cousins but from what I understand, there is no room for error. You add the ancestor based on their 1881 census entry. This is then cross checked against other entries in their database and they will only notify if someone has added identical details. I've only added a couple of ancestors so far, I added those who I have no living connections for so far. Fingers crossed that someone comes along with a match!\nYou can add people from the 1841 census too. And since you specify the exact page they're on and exactly what information is given (even if the spellling or age or place of birth is wrongly recorded) you can be sure, as Mel says, that any match it finds is exactly the right person - provided neither you nor the other researcher has made an error! The first contact I made was one I already had from Genes Reunited (though I very much agree with Mel's comments on GR) but since then I've found two goldmines.\nI have just tried to log onto the above web site, all I got was a message saying Internal Server Error, does anyone know why that has happened.\nI think the site might be busier than they anticipated causing them to exceed the bandwidth allocated to them...only guessing. I'm not 100% sure. When that happens with sites on our server, we get a bandwidth exceeded message instead of the website page.\nIt happened to me this morning on Lost Cousins Stephanie.\nIt's back up and running. I've added a few more of my ancestors and I have a match!\nI can't wait for the free trial so that I can contact this person!\nCharon, I have added an ancestor who appears on the 1881 census. This same ancestor is also on the 1841. Do I add the ancestor again or can I edit and add the 1841 census to the existing entry?\nAs this ancestor appears as a child in 1841, I have added his father as the main name and then Samuel is an additional member to the household.\nThis is the only flaw I have found with the LostCousins website so far. I would have liked to have entered the 41 census info to the exisiting entry.\nI hadn't even thought about this issue, just entered people from either Census independently. In fact, on the basis of a quick count, I have 66 in 1881 and 46 in 1841, and only a handful appear in both, so I don't see it as a problem from the data entry aspect. An individual who was the head of a household in 1881 would in most if not all cases have been a junior member of a different household in 1841, so it might be quite hard to devise a means of linking them that would suit all circumstances. And it's important that the individual is linked to the Census page reference in each Census so that if someone else has found that individual but only in one Census, the match is still found for you.\nWhat matters is: how many matches, and how many new-found cousins? Good luck!\nLooking at this thread again reminds me that there is another purportedly worthwhile aspect of DNA testing, that applies when a good-sized group of people who think they have some genetic feature in common all have their DNA tested. I know that some surnames have had collective tests like this (Leeming is one such name) and at least as far as the male line is concerned the test is alleged to be able to confirm which of them share a common ancestor - recently or hundreds of years ago. 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He won 20 games in 2008, the only time he achieved that in his career, Mussina and Sandy Koufax are the only pitchers to retire as 20-game winners.\nPerhaps Mussina's finest moment as a Yankee came in Game 7 of the 2003 ALCS against Boston, when he pitched three scoreless innings out of the bullpen in a game the Yankees won on Aaron Boone's walk-off home run.\nThe Yankees released statements from management and Mussina's teammates on Tuesday night:\n\u201cI\u2019m very pleased that Hall of Fame voters recognized Mike\u2019s consistently dominant career by honoring him with enshrinement into Cooperstown. While he went about his business in an understated way, Mike was a premier pitcher for almost two decades while competing in the grueling American League East. I\u2019d like to congratulate Mike on this incredible distinction and for his many years of contributions to the Yankees and the game of baseball.\u201d\n\u201cI\u2019m so happy to see Moose recognized for his incredible career. Accomplishing what he did while spending all 18 of his seasons in the ultra-competitive AL East is remarkable. Unlike the big arms that dominate today\u2019s pitching landscape, Mike was a quintessential craftsman who played up to his strengths and hunted for the weaknesses in his opposition \u2014 before that level of preparation was a commonplace thing to do. More importantly though, he was a gamer, plain and simple. He wanted the ball, and did everything within his power to get himself ready to contribute. I don\u2019t get too invested in players\u2019 individual milestones, but I was thrilled that he won 20 games in his final season. He deserved that validation then just like he deserves the validation he\u2019s going to get this summer in Cooperstown.\u201d\nYANKEES MANAGER AARON BOONE (Played for team in 2003):\n\u201cI absolutely loved playing behind Mike Mussina. He was a perfectionist and his athleticism allowed him to do whatever he needed to do on the mound to be successful.\u201d\nCATCHER JORGE POSADA (With Yankees from 1995-2011):\n\u201cMoose was the most intelligent pitcher I ever caught. He made catching fun because he was so well prepared. When we took the field together, he was always two steps ahead of everyone else wearing a uniform. This special recognition is well deserved. Congrats Moose.\u201d\nLEFT-HANDED PITCHER ANDY PETTITTE (With Yankees from 1995-2003 & 2007-13):\n\u201cCongrats Moose. This is such a deserving honor. What you were able to accomplish while spending your entire career in the AL East was absolutely amazing. You were one of the best pitchers I\u2019ve ever played with, and I was always in awe of the way you attacked hitters \u2014 exploiting their weaknesses with control and precision of such an array of pitches. You were a true master of your craft.\u201d\n\u201cMike was a very quiet and very smart pitcher; he was definitely one of the best of his generation! He just never made the headlines because of his quiet personality!\u201d\nCATCHER JOHN FLAHERTY (With Yankees from 2003-05; then announcer on YES):\n\u201cWhen you were catching Mike Mussina, you quickly realized that you were catching a pitching genius! I have never caught a pitcher who was more self-aware of what kind of stuff he had in each particular start. One day he would be a dominant power pitcher with his fastball, and five days later he would be a finesse pitcher with his off-speed stuff. To do it all in the offensive AL East \u2014 genius!\u201d\n\u201cTo broadcast a game pitched by Mike Mussina was to smile every fifth day and learn how much the mental aspect of the game counts. In the first inning, I'd watch him figure out what he was going to use that day, and then see him execute it \u2026 perfectly, more times than not. He has been underrated and underappreciated, but not by anyone who watched him spend his entire career in the AL East, go against those AL East lineups for years, and pitch in those AL East ballparks. Congratulations, Moose! 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My mom selected bags full of little toys at the five-and-dime. My older brother, my sisters and I each filled small, almost-identical valises with indispensible childhood valuables. Then the six of us and the blue Pontiac went halfway across the North American continent, with cheap plastic toys distributed at intervals timed to soothe my parents\u2019 mental health.\nMountains, to begin with, are magic if you have never seen more than a small hill rise from the earth. The city of Vancouver was necessarily beyond the real world, because the real world consisted of Minnedosa, Manitoba, and very little else. Freighters and totem poles were previously thought to exist only in picture books. A boat so big that the blue car didn\u2019t have to stay behind like a pet dog when we went on the ocean must, naturally, have throbbed with magic.\nIn Victoria there was family \u2013 my mother\u2019s aunts, uncles and cousins. My rather selective interest focused on my great-uncle. Lawrence McInnes was, and is, a fascinating and kind man. He could fly a plane and sail a ship and dive to the bottom of the sea. He had tattoos just like Popeye.\nAs you remember your childhood voyages, I remember mine: imperfectly, incompletely, and through frustrating mist. In my memory we were suddenly home again, and my brother received a parcel in the mail.\nReceiving mail is in itself special. Only a big brother could have the knack of pulling it off. Only a big brother could receive a parcel from Uncle Lawrence with the Popeye tattoos.\nWhen my brother tore away the brown wrapping paper, he found a cardboard box. The box was gold-coloured, and the lid was maroon. Inside were knickknacks of the sea. A worn envelope held a series of oil paintings of sailing ships, the cheap reproductions you once collected from cigar boxes. There was a twist of blue-and-white cord, some magical sailor\u2019s knot. There were postcards from India, and a photo of my uncle wearing his round diving helmet like the one that Tintin wore when he went to find Red Rackham\u2019s treasure.\nOf course, this is not what my brother and I saw. This is not what my uncle wrapped up in brown paper and mailed to Manitoba. It was disguised; carefully and magically shielded from people who acted too much like grownups to be trusted with a great treasure.\nWhen I saw what my uncle sent to my brother I couldn\u2019t believe my eyes. It was a solid gold box, with a lid covered in shimmering royal purple. Inside were magic pictures that told stories all by themselves. I stared into the cigar box paintings and saw ships that soared like gulls, with sails so full that they thundered in wind and spray, saw sailors with Popeye tattoos swearing beneath the shelter of the fo\u2019c\u2019s\u2019le. Story after story after story flowed like water from the solid gold box. There got to be so many of them that soon I couldn\u2019t even get them out of my head long enough to sleep at night.\nAs every four-year-old should when stumbling upon such an uncalled-for thing, I went straight to my dad. I tried to tell my dad the stories, but he wouldn\u2019t believe them. He wouldn\u2019t even listen, after awhile. I then decided that I would write them down, so that they could be like the stories that my mom and dad read to me at bedtime.\nI couldn\u2019t write, of course; I was only four years old. I sat on the top step of the basement stairs and used the kitchen floor as a drawing table. I took a sheet of loose-leaf begged from my sister and between the lines painstakingly drew loops that looked, I was certain, exactly like handwriting. I carried the finished story to my dad and showed it to him with all of the pride a four-year-old can muster.\nMy dad could no more read the story than he could see the solid gold box. He even had to ask me what that was, there on the paper. When I told him he laughed, but that was only because he couldn\u2019t yet read the stories. I decided to keep working at it. I would practise and practise until I knew how to tell my dad those stories.\nI\u2019m still working at it.\nMaybe my brother still has the solid gold box and the cigar box paintings. I have my own, now. Every morning when breakfast is cleared away I take it from its secret hiding place and reverently remove the velvet-covered lid. Then I patiently wait.\nI wait and I wait. Then, yes, I see. There she is now. Just on the horizon. Do you see her? Use the glass, there. I know that ship. She flies black colours, and eyes as cold as death watch you from her bows. Damn me, mate, I know that ship.\nBy Bruce Wishart ~ Minnedosa and Facebook on July 27, 2010 at 10:09 PM\n[...] from THIS WEEK\u2014and I\u2019ve gradually posted a few to the Solid Gold Box. These are The Solid Gold Box, Prince Rupert This Week (actually an Iain Lawrence column about reading the Minnedosa Tribune), A [...]", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00240.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 58, + "original_length": 6105, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.98, + "perplexity": 322.9, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "http://www.bworldonline.com/content.php?section=TopStory&title=philippines-lng-imports-seen-rising-as-maritime-dispute-thwarts-exploration&id=149541", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T03:24:27Z", + "digest": "sha1:ZGWKI7KQL76WTYBFOLGWNSZLVEJIOFUX", + "length": 5795, + "nlines": 23, + "source_domain": "www.bworldonline.com", + "title": "BusinessWorld | Philippines\ufffd LNG imports seen rising as maritime dispute thwarts exploration", + "raw_content": "Philippines\ufffd LNG imports seen rising as maritime dispute thwarts exploration\nTHE PHILIPPINES\ufffd reliance on imported liquefied natural gas (LNG) will rise in the coming decade as its sole source in the Malampaya gas field \ufffdnears the end of its production cycle\ufffd and a maritime dispute prevents the country from tapping other sites in the South China Sea, Fitch Group\ufffds BMI research said in an Aug. 7 note released on Tuesday.\nThe energy department has said that while the Malampaya gas field will \ufffdcontinue production well beyond the mid-2020s,\ufffd its output will not grow significantly. -- BW FILE PHOTO\n\ufffdThe Philippines\ufffd natural gas production is set to be nearly depleted by the end of our 10-year forecast period, as low oil prices and ongoing maritime disputes in the South China Sea hamper exploration in its most prospective offshore blocks,\ufffd the note read.\n\ufffdThis will entail greater reliance on LNG imports over the coming years,\ufffd it added.\n\ufffdOnce self-sufficient in natural gas, the Philippines\ufffd natural gas production is set to decline rapidly over the coming years at an average annual rate of 20%, as its sole-producing Malampaya gas field enters the end of its production cycle.\ufffd\nLatest available Energy department data show that natural gas was the third-biggest contributor to power generation in the country last year at 21.9%, against coal\ufffds 47.7%, renewable energy\ufffds 24.2% and oil-based fuels\ufffd 6.2%. That compares to contributions of 24.8%, 28.2%, 33.4% and 13.5% of natural gas, coal, renewable energy and oil-based fuels, respectively, in 2003.\nIn his speech at the 3rd LNG Supply, Storage and Transport Philippines Forum 2016 at the SMX Convention Center in SM Aura Premier in Taguig City in October last year, Energy Undersecretary Benito L. Ranque had noted that \ufffdthe country has only one productive gas field\ufffd and that \ufffdabout 98% of its production is currently used for power generation.\ufffd\nMalampaya fuels the three gas-fired power plants that account for nearly a fifth of Luzon\ufffds installed generating capacity: the 1,271-megawatt (MW) Ilijan Power Plant of KEPCO Ilijan Corp., as well as the 1,060-MW Sta. Rita Power Plant and the 500-MW San Lorenzo Power Plant of First Gas Power Corp. These three facilities in Batangas City provide the minimum supply Luzon consumers need.\n\ufffdWhile we expect the Malampaya gas field to continue production well beyond the mid-2020s, it is unlikely that its current output will increase significantly: that is, unless additional resources are discovered and tapped within the area,\ufffd Mr. Ranque had said in his speech last October.\n\ufffdAt the moment, there are no significant natural gas discoveries in the country that can feasibly be brought into production,\ufffd he noted.\n\ufffdIf ever, incremental gas supplies will have to come from the international LNG market.\ufffd\nHence, Mr. Ranque said, the government has been pushing its plan to build a $2-billion LNG import terminal and distribution network that include a floating storage facility, regasification units and onshore terminals in Luzon.\nThe network includes Philippine National Oil Co.\ufffds Batangas-Manila natural gas pipeline. In its preliminary configuration as of June 2015, this project was estimated to cost some P10.528 billion and will involve a 121-kilometer pipeline that will convey natural gas to Batangas, Laguna, Cavite and Metro Manila.\nIMPORTS BEGIN THIS YEAR\nBMI noted that the Philippines will begin importing LNG this year for the first time through the 4.1 billion-cubic-meter gas-to-power facility of Hong Kong\ufffds Energy World Corporation Limited in Pagbilao, Quezon that includes a 300-MW power station.\n\ufffdDevelopment of new projects to replace Malampaya has been inadequate, not least due to low oil prices and an industry-wide spending pullback that led firms to rein in investment in frontier and emerging markets, such as the Philippines,\ufffd BMI said in its Aug. 7 note.\n\ufffdTellingly, interest in its latest block offer (2015) was disappointing, with tenders for 11 oil and gas blocks attracting only three bids, as projects in countries with proven prospectivity and lower operational risks were preferred,\ufffd it added.\n\ufffdFurther dragging on exploration prospects in the Philippines is the fact that many of its most promising hydrocarbon blocks lie... in the disputed waters of the South China Sea that are being claimed by numerous... claimants, led by China.\ufffd\nThe dispute, and Beijing\ufffds aggressive stance against other claimants that have questioned its moves to reclaim land and militarize the area, \ufffdhas darkened the outlook on Forum Energy (plc)\ufffds exploration in the Reed Bank [about 80 nautical miles west of Palawan], where it holds two exploration concessions\ufffd, BMI noted, citing Service Contracts (SC) 72 and 75 that were awarded to the London-based company.\n\ufffdSC 72 is believed to hold as much as 2.6-8.8 trillion cubic feet of natural gas, three times that of Malampaya, according to an independent estimate,\ufffd BMI said, while \ufffdSC 75 covers offshore area of 610,000 hectares in the Northwest Palawan basin and believed to be oil-rich.\ufffd\nEven strides made by Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) members and China in the just-concluded ASEAN meetings in Manila towards a negotiating framework for a code of conduct in the South China Sea (SCS) will likely do little to alter current prospects for LNG exploration and development.\n\ufffd... 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Their work revolves around four development areas, linked to the priorities of their partners, international development targets and their areas of expertise. These areas are health, participation and governance, secure livelihoods and education. VSO are committed to gender equality in all their work so that men and women have equal opportunities to realise their potential.\nWe want to specifically highlight their current campaign 'Women in Power'.\nWomen account for approximately two-thirds of the 1.4 billion people globally who live in extreme poverty, but are being shut out of decision making that has a profound impact on their lives and those of their families. VSO see this as an injustice, so they're campaigning for increased involvement of women in decision making at all levels.\nWomen in Power: Don't let women be a statistic.\nAcross the world, women suffer disproportionately from poverty but have the least say about what needs to be done to tackle it. Women are effectively being shut out of decision-making from local to international levels. Despite representation being at an all time high, only one in five parliamentarians is a woman.\nThis is a fundamental violation of women's rights. But, it also represents a missed opportunity to build healthy, vibrant and balanced societies that are informed by the experiences and expertise of all of their citizens. Women's representation in leadership roles can also help to shift discriminatory attitudes and perceptions of women at household and community levels, thereby helping to address other dimensions of gender inequality.\nThe UN's targets for tackling the world's biggest problems by 2015, the Millennium Development Goals, have focused and driven remarkable progress in poverty eradication. But now the international process underway to develop a post-2015 development framework provides a unique opportunity to address this deeply rooted and persistent inequality in our society; an inequality that is not only a violation of women's rights, but ultimately a barrier to the eradication of poverty.\nHabiba Hasheem, above, is the co-founder of a support group KBH, for commercial sex workers in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. This grass roots group, supported by Women's Fund Tanzania, exists to give a unified voice to women born in poverty forced into a very challenging way of life.\n\"Women should be placed at all levels of leadership, even if there are only a few in a high position, they might be the only ones who think of those who are discriminated against.\" Habiba Hasheem, KBH, Tanzania.\nEven though national politics can often feel far removed from her life and from the lives of other marginalised women, she believes it is important to join forces with women from across Tanzania.\nVSO volunteer Louise Jenkins is working as a Parliamentary Research Advisor, helping to improve the effectiveness of grassroots women's groups like KBH. She said: \"In order to support women and girls to become the leaders of tomorrow, they need to feel empowered to do so and what I'm already seeing is exactly that; from the grassroots level, women are now taking action; they're talking to the constitution and saying, 'This is what we want.'\"\nThe Campaigns team at VSO HQ are continuing to build global public pressure to ensure the UN's new Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are absolutely the best they can be in terms of Women in Power. The great news is that Justine Greening (Secretary of State for International Development), is making the right noises about a standalone goal on gender equality and women's empowerment, which is really positive. But, VSO are still unsure as to what the finer details will look like in terms of exact targets and indicators. So they're continuing to speak out to put women's rights at the heart of international development.\nDemand action from our UN leaders now. 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Or the eye of Ra as some prefer, but they are almost the same thing as they represent two forms of the same deity.\nHorus is one of the oldest and most significant deities in ancient Egyptian religion and the symbol that most relates to him is known around the world. He is either seen as the eye we know or as a bird of prey, there is doubt over exactly which one, or he is seen as a bird headed man. He is also being associated with Mars\n\u201c\u2026the Egyptian God HORUS is identical with planet MARS. And that means that all the Gods inside of the myth are celestial bodies, in the same way as in the Epic of Creation. So this myth describes a very special cosmic event.\u201d\nhttp://www.bibliotecapleyades.net/marte/esp_marte_18.htm\n\u201cThe sky god Horus protecting the red (?) disk of Mars (NOT THE SUN!) which at this particular time was named Ramesses (\u2018Fashioned by Re\u2019), personified here as the young king. Photo credit: Jon Bosworth\u201d\nhttp://www.gks.uk.com/Horus-falcon-god/\nSo what has this all got to do with the face on Mars and the potential of it being a real representation of what everyone thinks it is.. A face? How does the mirroring of it, and showing a lions face, fit into this picture as well? What else do we need to help us prove that what we see is what we have really got?\nWe need more things that can actually connect in such a way that there can be little room for any doubt. But even with these things, are we really happy to admit that there is a connection or is it all still so strange that we cannot yet accept it as a possible reality? These questions and many more have been flooding my head for a long time, but now, I feel more ready than ever and am discovering new connections almost on a weekly basis, as I have said before, and this week something came my way that has helped me enforce the possibilities listed above.\nThis picture came my way courtesy of NASA doing all the leg work and Gary Leggiere\u2026aka\u2026MARS REVEALER for the actual find and posting of.\nThis image is on the surface of Mars and it is the eye of Horus.\nHow am I so sure of that? From my findings in the Chauvet cave art. The 30,000 year old art has led me on a rather wild ride these last seven months and I know it is not over yet, not by a long shot! I know there is far more to discover in the art. But what could possibly be in the art that this Martian image could relate to?\nWell, obviously the eye of Horus, of course.\nNow to show you the points of interest as to how these image match. There are a few pieces that give us a deeper idea as to how they \u2018connect\u2019. This is more than a \u2018looks similar\u2019 type of match as you will see in this next set.\nWhat are we exactly looking at? Firstly, the yellow circles, they are showing the \u2018shark tail\u2019 effect given to the art work. It is a sloping tail that ends in a point rather than the square ended version we also see which is in the blue circle and seen on many other versions.\nThe green circle is the barely visible \u2018physical\u2019 eye that we see. Then, the wavy blue line is clearly seen in the last image as a matching wavy blue line. These factors placed together can only mean that the image on Mars was designed and was made to resemble something that was either from Mars or travelled to Mars via Earth or some other variation. Perhaps Earth was the final destination before departing for somewhere else and they left their mark here? The second image is 30,000 years old and can be found in the Chauvet cave art and is easily spotted.\nJust one more observation about this strange structure on Mars.\nIs this a doorway or some form of entrance or just a natural formation?\nThis image is of Glastonbury Tor. It was submitted to me by Steph Moon Mumma. Is this yet another Eye of Ra formation on the surface of Earth? 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The purpose of this report is to provide community leaders with unbiased information about strengths and challenges of the community for strategic discussions about the future of Blanco. The analysis is divided into four parts: demographic and socioeconomic factors, employment and industry, infrastructure and transportation linkages, and quality of life.\nDemographic and Socioeconomic Factors\nThe most important resource available to a community is its people. As a result, gathering and analyzing data on the population to which the city is responsible is a critical function for knowing and understanding the community. This includes an understanding of the current and projected growth of the community, a socio and demographic profile of the people, and a brief review of data to demonstrate how the community lives.\nAccording to the 2000 Census, the City of Blanco grew from 1,238 in 1990 to 1,505 in 2000 reflecting an increase of 21.6 percent. In comparison, Blanco County grew 41 percent during the 90's, as evident by the new residential communities built primarily to the south of Blanco.\nTable 2-1: 2000 Census Population Estimates\nNumerical Change 1990-2000\nCity of Blanco\nSource: US Census Bureau, DP-1. Profile of General Demographic Characteristics\nThe development of basic population estimates and projections between Census years is a challenging task. This important factor in population analysis has been complicated in that regional, state and federal population figures do not seem to completely capture or may overstate the impact of new and planned growth in the area. This analysis is further complicated by the fact that population researchers employ different methods for preparing population estimates as evident in Tables 2-2 and 2-3.\nAccording to the Texas State Data Center, since 2000, the population in the City has continued to grow at an average 2.4 percent annually, nearly pacing the growth in the County. The current population estimate, January 2003 is 1,613 for the City and 9,040 in the County.\nTable 2-2: City and County Population Estimates\nSource: Texas State Data Center, October 2003, Total Population Estimates for Texas Counties and Places\nBelow are presented two very different population projections for the County, the first from the Texas State Data Center (TSDC) and the second from the Capital Area Planning Council (CAPCO). The TSDC estimate is updated annually for the County only, while the CAPCO model was completed in July 2002 using a regional econometric model.\nTable 2-3: Blanco County Population Projections\nCapital Area Planning Council\nSources: Texas State Data Center, June 2004 Population Projections (0.5 Scenario) and CAPCO, July 2002, http://www.capco.state.tx.us/Regional%20Data/CAPCO%202000-2030%20Forecast.htm\nUsing historical information and assuming that the City of Blanco's population is approximately 15-17 percent of the county population, the population of Blanco may grow to the levels depicted in Figure 1. Scenario A and B refer to the use of the TSDC and CAPCO population estimates for the county.\nPopulation: Age\nFrom the 200 Census and shown in Table 2-4, the most notable comparison of age cohorts for the City of Blanco, the Blanco ISD region and Blanco County is that the City of Blanco is home to a higher percentage of persons in both the youngest and oldest age cohorts -- persons under 19 and older than 65 years than the ISD and county. The city also holds the lowest population of the age group considered to be the workforce, aged 25-44, indicating that the community is not a strong labor market.\nTable 2-4: Blanco Population Estimates by Percent Age (2000)\nBlanco ISD Region\nSource: US Census Bureau, DP-1. Profile of General Demographic Characteristics and National Center for Education Statistics\nOver time, the changes to the younger age cohorts for Blanco County are expected to remain relatively stable and steadily decline, while the older age cohorts are increasing, as shown in Figures 2 and 3. The increases in the older age groups is most likely a reflection of the impact of the baby boomers, of which the first of that generation will reach 65 years in 2010, and the continued attraction of seniors/retirees to the Hill Country region.\nSource: Texas State Data Center\nPopulation: Race and Ethnicity\nThe racial makeup of the City of Blanco is predominately white, with less than 3 percent of the population identifying as Black, Native American, Asian, Pacific Islander or any other race. It is important to note, the Hispanic or Latino population is captured as an ethnicity, rather than race. Therefore, a person may identify as White and Hispanic or White only. The percent of the population, in 2000, that identified as Hispanic of any race was 22.7 percent, while 74.4 percent of the population identified as white not Hispanic.\nTable 2-5 depicts the racial and ethnic distribution of the City in 2000.\nTable 2-5: City of Blanco Population by Race and Ethnicity (Census 2000)\nNot Hispanic (White alone)\nThe decennial census provides the most comprehensive information about educational attainment for a community. According to 2000 statistics, educational attainment in the City of Blanco for persons over 25 years of age has improved since the 1990 Census in all areas. In 1990, 64.5 percent of the population over 25 years old held a High School diploma or better and 13 percent had earned a bachelors degree or higher. By the 2000 Census these figures have increased to 74.3 percent having earned High School diplomas or better and 16.5 percent holding at least a bachelors degree. Also significant is the percent of persons with less than a 9th grade education dropped nearly 8 percent during the decade, from 20.9 percent to 13.1 percent.\nComparing the City of Blanco to the State of Texas, statistically the City out performs the state through high school. Thereafter, the lack of Blanco residents continuing education and completing degrees drops below the state average.\nHousehold and Housing\nData on households and housing characteristics provides additional information about the local population. In 2000, there were 633 housing units in the City of Blanco of which 91 percent were occupied. The other 9 percent vacant for a variety of reasons: for sale or rent, not occupied rental property, and seasonal/recreation property. As shown in Table 2-6, 65.3 percent of the housing units in the City were owner occupied and the average household size in 2000 was 2.46 persons.\nTable 2-6: City of Blanco Selected Household and Housing Characteristics (Census 2000)\nPercent single family home\nPercent Occupied housing\nPercent multifamily (2 or more units)\nPercent of housing units occupied by owner\nPercent housing built since 1980\nPercent of housing built before 1960\nSource: US Census Bureau, QT-H1. General Housing Characteristics\nThree quarters, 75.1 percent, of the community lives in single family homes, while only 12.2 percent live in multifamily housing. The explosive new development, as seen in neighboring Hays County, has not occurred in Blanco or Blanco County; however the percentage of homes built in the past decade, 17.1 percent, is significant for this community, where new development has been limited for many years.\nTable 2-7: City of Blanco Household Income\nMedian Income ($)\nWhen other socioeconomic measures are examined, the residents of the City of Blanco are more prosperous than 10 years ago. Table 2-7 shows that the percentages of persons earning less money have moved into higher income brackets. For example, in 1989, three of four households earnings fell within the lowest two income brackets; ten years later, this percentage has dropped to just over 54 percent, while the upper income levels increased. The median income for the city grew 66.5 percent from $18, 657 to $31,071.\nEmployment and Industry\nAnalysis of Key Industries\nThe only data available on business patterns at the local level is the Census Bureau's Zip Code Business Patterns. County Business Pattern presents the number of establishments by North American Industrial Classification System (NAICS) code and employment-size class, but does not reveal the number of people employed in each industry.\nTable 2-8: Establishments by Industry Sector (Zip: 78606)\nForestry, fishing, hunting, and agriculture\nAn analysis of the data for the 78606 zip code, which encompasses the City of Blanco, shows that the highest number of establishments in the community were involved in retail trade (NAICS 44) and construction (NAICS 23) industries in 2001, the most recent year for which figures are available. (2002 data will be released in October 2004) The business patterns identified six manufacturing establishments in Blanco, these include: a retail bakery, brewery, truss manufacturing, plastic bag, flat glass and machine shops.\nNote: Information regarding employment trends is omitted from this report due to regional skews in data. Employment trends, growing and declining industries in Texas are gathered and aggregated by Workforce Development Area. Blanco County is a part of the Rural Capital Area Workforce Development Board Area, which also includes Williamson and Hays County, two of the fastest growing counties in the State.\nTable 2-9 represents the leading manufacturers and employers in Blanco County, as defined by the Rural Capital Area Workforce Development Board and the Texas Workforce Commission. The companies on the left represent area manufacturers, where as the right column list the County's largest employers by employment level (alphabetically listed.)\nTable 2-9: Blanco County Leading Employers\nBy Employment\nGranite Printing\nBlanco Bowling Club\nHappy Trails Metal Craft\nCox Paving Company LP\nHarvest House Farms\nIndependent Environmental Services, Inc\nBlanco Products Co\nKlepac Greeenhouses, Inc\nLD Tebben Roofing Company\nValley Graphics Printing\nRar Enterprises\nRL Toms, Inc\nGolden Seal Printing\nSta-Bilt Products, Inc.\nJ M Wood Products\nSuper S Foods\nEjs Surveillance Co\nSource: Texas Workforce Commission\nAnalysis of Local Labor Force\nThe most recent civilian labor force estimates from TWC, June 2004, Blanco County had a civilian labor force of 4,165 which was an increase of 124 people since June 2003. This change represented an increase of 3.1 percent. Over the past 5 years, the employment numbers for the county have remained relatively stable and followed state and national trends, as the economy has gained and lost.\nTable 2-10: Averaged County Employment Characteristics\nSource: Texas Workforce Commission, Labor Market Information Department. Covered Employment and Wages\nThe unemployment rate, in Blanco County, for the past 5 years is provided in Figure 2-5. The lowest monthly rate for the county, over these years, was 1.4 percent in October 2000, while the highest rate 4.3 percent was recorded in July 2002.\nFigure 5: Blanco County Unemployment Rates: 1999-2003\nCommuters represent another pool of available labor in the area: skilled workers leaving the community for work. According to the 2000 Census, City of Blanco residents mean travel time to work was 24.9 minutes, one-way to work. Table 2-11 shows both the number of workers reported to work inside and outside the county. 75 percent of workers leave Blanco County for work. The largest two groups of workers coming into Blanco County reside in Gillespie or Burnet County. Workers that commute from Blanco to another county primarily travel to Travis or Bexar County for employment.\nTable 2-11: Blanco County Commuting Patterns\nInflow -- Working in the County\nOutflow -- Leaving the County\nSource: US Census and Rural Capital Area Workforce Development Board\nQuality of life elements are these subjective factors may become the thing which sets a community apart from its neighbors and competitors. This section will provide an overview of several of the factors which impact quality of life, including education, cost of living, housing costs, crime and access to healthcare.\nBlanco ISD is the regional school district that serves students living in the southern half of Blanco County and portions of neighboring Hays and Kendall counties. The district has three campuses: Blanco Elementary, Middle and High School. During the 2001-2002 school year, 880 students were enrolled in the district, a decline of 5.0 percent from the previous two years. However, since 2002, there has been a significant growth in student population, with a current enrollment of 969 students. This growth has been accommodated with the construction of a new high school, but additional capacity at the elementary school is likely to be needed soon.\nSchool districts in Texas are classified by Texas Education Agency (TEA) as either Exemplary (EX); Recognized (RE); Academically Acceptable (AA); Academically Unacceptable (AU); Unacceptable due to Special Accreditation Investigation (US); Unacceptable due to Data Quality (UD); or, Charter (CS). Approximately 50 percent of the districts in the state are rated Academically Acceptable.\nThe Blanco school district earned an accountability rating of \"recognized\" from the TEA 2001 and 2002, an improvement from the 1999-2000 rating of academically acceptable. These ratings are determined by a number of factors including student performance on the state mandated skills test and attendance. Table 2-12 shows the accountability ratings, student performance and demographics of the district for the past 3 years as compared to the Texas state totals.\nTable 2-12: Selected School District Performance Ratings 1999-2002\n4 year drop out rate\nPercent Graduated\nPercent Students Passing all tests taken (TAAS)\nSAT: Mean Total Score\nACT: Mean Composite Score\nTotal Instruction cost per student\nSource: http://www.tea.state.tx.us/perfreport/snapshot/index.html\nIn the City of Blanco, there were .68 crimes reported for every 100 persons in 2003, an improvement from the previous 5 years of crime data from the Texas Department of Public Safety.\nTable 2-13: City of Blanco Crime Statistics\nCrime reports per 100\nThe overall cost of living is measured for an area where 100 equals the national average; therefore, a cost of living measure above 100 demonstrates a cost of living more expensive than the national average. It takes in account housing, food and groceries, transportation, utilities, health care, and miscellaneous expenses such as clothing, services, and entertainment. State and local taxes are not included. Table 2-14 compares these cost of living factors for communities within Blanco County, with the national average.\nTable 2-14: Cost of Living Comparison\nAverage Yearly Utility Cost\nAverage Household Total Consumer Expenditures\nAverage Household Education Expenditures\nAverage Household Entertainment Expenditures\nAverage Household Transportation Expenditures\nAverage Household Retail Expenditures\nAverage Household Non-Retail Expenditures\nSource: http://realestate.yahoo.com/re/neighborhood/texas/\nThe rising cost of housing in the Central Texas is an issue of importance for all communities in the area. However, given Blanco's history of land ownership and water concerns the issue of affordable housing is not as pressing for this community. More than half of the houses in the City of Blanco are valued between $50,000 and $99,000. The next largest percent, 22 percent, of homes are valued at less than $50,000. This may be due to age of the housing stock, or the influence of manufactured housing without ownership of the land on which the home is placed.\nFigure 6: City of Blanco Housing Value\nOne factor that can have a significant impact on cost of living is property taxes. Comparing property taxes between Blanco and neighboring communities is complicated by the fact that the rate assessed varies widely depending on the taxing jurisdictions involved. Table 2-15 provides estimates of the 2003 property tax rates for cities near Blanco. Note: the cities of Dripping Springs and Wimberley do not charge cityl property taxes.\nTable 2-15: Area Property Tax Rates\nThe sales tax is a major source of revenue for taxing jurisdictions in Texas. The state sales and use tax rate is 6.25 percent. Under state law, local taxing jurisdictions are allowed to add up to an additional 2 percent to the state rate, for a maximum combined total of 8.25 percent. This 2 percent local tax can be comprised of a combination of taxes levied by cities, counties, special districts, and transit authorities. Blanco, like the other incorporated communities in the county, charges the maximum rate of 8.25 percent.\nOver the past 13 years, the city's sales tax has nearly doubled, from 15.8 million in 1990 to 30.2 million in 2003. The county has also seen even greater results, increasing sales tax revenues 154 percent since 1990. It is important to note that the city's annual percent to the county's sales tax revenue has flattened and is currently decreasing; meaning the City of Blanco's revenues are not increasing at the rate of the county and contributing less to the overall revenues as in the past.\nFigure 7: Gross Sales Tax City of Blanco and Blanco County\nAccess to healthcare is often an important factor in community and economic development decisions. Blanco's proximity to Austin and San Antonio provides the community with access to a wide range of medical facilities, though these services are not available locally.\nPhysicians and Medical Personnel\nAccording to the Texas State Board of Medical Examiners, there were 4 licensed physicians in Blanco County in May 2004. Due to the increasing nursing shortage in the state, the Texas Board of Nurse Examiners reports statistical information on more than the employment status of nurses, but also includes the home residence of nurses and the county of work. The Board of Nurse Examiners reported a total of 4 registered nurses (RNs) working in Blanco County in September 2003, and a total of 56 registered nurses living in the County. 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The Vitpilen 401 and Svartpilen 401 are due in showrooms in the autumn of 2017.\nThe new Bonneville Bobber from Triumph takes the British brand's distinguished heritage for producing custom Bobbers as the starting point for a new interpretation of this classic racing-style motorcycle.\nThe Bobber's low stance, single seat and wide, flat handlebars, its minimal bodywork, and sculpted fuel tank combined, make for a head-turning cruising machine.\nPleasing retro details like the exposed frame and battery box with stainless-steel strap, enhance the classic appeal of a bike that manages to incorporate plenty of modern technology in a simple yet precisely detailed package.\nIn keeping with the Bobber's customizable tradition, Triumph offers over 150 accessories.\nNamed by AutoTrader as overall winner of its Best Bike Awards 2016, the Honda Africa Twin is a dual-purpose adventure bike designed to be as competent off road as it is mixing with traffic or cruising on a carriageway.\nThe first XRV650 Africa Twin was launched in 1988, inspired by the Dakar Rally-winning NXR750, and was responsible for revolutionizing the market for long-distance touring motorcycles. 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I commented back that of course she could, she can do all things through Christ who gives her strength. And that\u2019s completely true, we can do all those things we need to do when we lean on His strength.\nThe battle would be what \u201cthose things\u201d are that we need to do.\nFor me, I\u2019ve been straddling the fence on whether or now I can have a little sugar (like cake or pie\u2026or a chocolate chip cookie) every now and then.\nLast weekend was my birthday. I am 51 years old. (As I typed that, Ole Boy made the comment \u201cWell, that\u2019s scary.\u201d He wasn\u2019t talking about my age, but it was fitting.) We had Nashville weekend plans, but an ice storm put a stop to that. On Sunday, we went to Huntsville, instead.\nAt some point, we ended up at the mall. At some other point, I was looking at Ben and Jerry\u2019s. For some reason, I thought that a Cookie Sundae would be a great ruined-birthday-compensation. And I would be sharing it with Ole Boy, so that\u2019s only half giving in\u2026\n\u2026and by-golly, it was good. Believe it or not, that was my first time for Ben and Jerry\u2019s.\nI didn\u2019t go on a binge. But I did lose my focus. I gave way-yonder too much thought to food, I overate, and I fretted.\nA few days later, I ate two nice sized chocolate chip cookies, and the next day, a piece of cake.\nBy today, I was giving a lot of thought to sugar and more sugar. It was just like old times. Yeah. That pit.\nTomorrow is March 1. I have already committed to giving up Facebook for the month. Now I commit to no sugar. It\u2019s not about the scales, and to make sure that it isn\u2019t, I also refuse to weigh for the month of March. But the more important commitment is to spend quality time in daily communion with God and studying His word.\nI also need to work on not complaining, being less negative, and being nicer and more giving to others.\nI have, as of today, lost 27 pounds.\nWise to re-focus on God's word and away from that which distracts us from it. I know you will succeed in March to pursuing God and staying away from Facebook and sugar.\nTBR/Committed Thoughts March 4, 2015 at 2:44 PM\nThanks Betty...my faithful friend.\naaarrrggghhh. I'm trying to say three things at once. Oddly, that is not allowing me to write a coherent sentence. :}\nSo. First. Around the time I wrote the post to which you referred, I was wondering whether or not this whole no sugar thing was a lifetime requirement. I sort of decided..sort of...that it was not. That at some point..I'm not sure what the marker for that point would be...I could eat a bit of sweets here and there.\nSo, when I wrote the post stating that I could live without sugar forever, it was with the thought that you alluded to above, I could do it as long as Jesus wanted me to. Sugar wasn't something essential to my life. blah, blah, blah.\nSecond. Somehow, I went from 'at some point\" to considering the fact that while I absolutely needed to be gluten free (per doctor's orders during this last gluten induced medical crisis), I might not absolutely have to give up sugar. Maybe both were too much to do at once. Maybe, in fact, eliminating sugar was just me being my usual all-or-nothing obsessive thinking and I only had to limit it. Hmmm. Yeah. Maybe that was it. :D\nAs you see, I was deep in the weeds of wondering, questioning more like it, what exactly are \"those things\" we needed to do. I turned that *GF but maybe not SF* thought over in my mind for the last 4 days.\nThird. Tonight, after church, the Thin Man and I went out to dinner. ( I'd only had 2 eggs so far for the day, and they had made me sick.) For dinner, I had liver, mashed potatoes and green beans. No bread. No sugar. :D\nOn our way home, we stopped at the grocery store, at my request, and I bought Klondikes (If you don't have them in AL, they're individually wrapped chocolate covered vanilla ice cream squares, 250 calories each). Now, mind you, I was nicely full. The thought of only having one or two, rather than my usual 4 or 5. firmly landed in my mind...you know, because I was full and would be able to limit myself. I can...\nI ate five. One after the other. No gluten, but 1250 calories. And now? I'm starving! I mean, I feel like I haven't eaten all day.\nYeah. That went well.\nMaybe sugar free IS one of \"those things.\" Addicts are tricky, tricky thinkers.\nHappy Birthday, girlfriend. Maybe we should meet in a state halfway between us and go on some kind of food sane retreat filled with prayer. Or something. (I'll be in Gaitlinburg in May.)\nThanks, Deb! That blasted sugar, eh? I'm wondering if it would be any better for me if I PLANNED to eat something, say at a party, instead of giving in to a spur of the moment urge. There is a mental aspect to it, as well. like you said, aaarrrrgggg!\nI'll be in Gatlinburg in June for a family reunion. I hope to be again in the fall, we shall see. :) That retreat? It's not a bad idea. Knowing me, I would be thinking that would be a good reason to eat some planned sugar. Haha\noh...and I am not ruling out \"no sugar\" as one of those things, but I will certainly try to save its \"life\" first. ::::snickerz:::\nRe: trying to save its life. Why?\nIt has occurred to me, as I've also been trying \"to save its life\", to consider why I'm so reluctant to cut it lose. I mean...really...why am I so engrossed in that effort...that reluctance to let go?\nFor instance, I'm not much of a drinker. Bill and I usually share a bottle of whine at the holidays and, if we go to weddings, have a drink or two. that's it. so, maybe I have something to drink 3...4...times a year, max. Add all of those drinks together and it would not be enough to get someone a good drunk, but I do enjy a glass of wine when I have it.\nBut, youi know what? As much as I enjoy that wine...despite the fact that my mouth is watering just thinking about it...if I was told that I could no longer drink alcohol--> I wouldn't try to save its life. I'd shrug. Say that's a shame, I really like that wine. And be done with it.\nAnd how about green beans. I LOVE green beans. It's my go to snack food when I'm counting carbs (overcooked w/ lots of butter). But...if I were told I couldn't have anymore gr. beans, I'd regret that...but I wouldn't try to figure out how to fit in a few more servings.\nSo, I have to ask myself--why? Why the focus? Why the concentrated effort to figure out how I can have sugar..if I can have sugar sometimes...can I beat the system, somehow.\nI think I know the answer for me. You may have a different one for you.\nGasp. Groan. lol. I have to start proofing my replies! Note: \"a bottle of WHINE...\" :o\nSigh. You knew what I meant. Although I've had several bottles of \"whine\" over my sugar struggle!\nI did have to giggle a little about the whine.\nSo, I'd like to hear the answer for you....because I haven't allowed myself to go there just yet.\nSay What? March 2, 2015 at 11:49 AM\nI need to do all of these things: No sugar and No facebook. Facebook is really on my last nerve as it is. Thanks for the inspiration. Maybe I'll join you.\nI hope you did join me. It's Day 4 and things are going fairly well. I've had a harder time being nice and giving than not eating cookies... lolz\nHope your month long retreat from FB and sugar is going well, Margaret.\nI was cleaning out some files and found this quote from William Dufty, author of Sugar Blues, and thought you'd find it interesting:\n\"After all, heroin is nothing but a chemical. They take the juice of the poppy and they refine it into opium and then they refine it to morphine and finally to heroin.\nSugar is nothing but a chemical. They take the juice of the cane or the beet and they refine it to molasses and then they refine it to brown sugar and finally to strange white crystals......The difference between sugar addiction and narcotic addiction is largely one of degree.\"\nYouch! All's I know is... for me sugar has a powerful effect. I conveniently forget that whenever I choose to do an occasional \"just this tiny treat\", making it that much harder to resist.\nFor me, freedom in this area will be the day it doesn't even cross my mind; when it's \"no biggee\", when I don't blog about it, discuss it, try to analyze it, or otherwise have it intruding in my life. When there is peace, consistently, about the whole food thing. Wish I could say that day felt near! Some days it does... some days Not! :-}\nI had never thought of the chemical aspect of it. That last paragraph about freedom? Amen and AMEN!\nI'll add the chemical quote to the question Deb asked... I suppose one reason I don't want to completely give up sugar is because having to always deal with \"no sugar\" doesn't really feel like the freedom we want...not crossing our minds, no biggie, no discussion, it just is.\nFor me, also, sugar has a powerful effect, and why I would even give it focus instead of Who should be my focus, I cannot tell.\nThanks for your input, Loretta. I value you.\nMargaret, Could you expand this thought a bit--> \" I suppose one reason I don't want to completely give up sugar is because having to always deal with \"no sugar\" doesn't really feel like the freedom we want...not crossing our minds, no biggie, no discussion, it just is. \" I'm not quite sure what you mean. Thanks.\nLoretta said, \"freedom in this area will be the day it doesn't even cross my mind; when it's \"no biggee\", when I don't blog about it, discuss it, try to analyze it, or otherwise have it intruding in my life. When there is peace, consistently, about the whole food thing.\" This is also what I have said about freedom, and that for me, food being a non-issue would be freedom. Eat when I'm hungry, stop when I'm full, and not think about it until the next time my tummy rumbles. If I am making \"no sugar\" a big deal (meaning, I am always so very careful to avoid it) then to me, that's not really freedom.)\nThis go round, I am not nearly as low carb as the last time, and as much as I'd like it not to be, food is still an issue, because I do fight pseudo guilt (because of what I ate, didn't eat, how much I ate...), I find myself wanting to obsess about the number on the scale, and I still have trouble stopping when I'm full.\nMy focus is nowhere where it should be most days...I'm really glad God is patient and long-suffering with me.\nThanks, and that's what I thought you meant, but I wanted to be sure before I commented.\nMaybe \"no sugar\" seems like such a big deal because \"having sugar\" is such a big deal. If it weren't, then not having it would almost go without notice...be no biggee as Loretta said.\nIt may be that the needing to have sugar is where the bondage hides and the resisting just exposes it. Or not. That just happens to be my experience--which is the answer you asked me to give in your reply to my earliest comment.\nIf I were not bound by sugar, eliminating it would not trouble the waters. I would not desire to have it any more than I would desire to nibble on arsenic wafers. Not having the desire to nibble..that will be freedom to me.\nRetta March 6, 2015 at 2:09 AM\nI guess we each apply our own meaning to what it means to feel like it's \"no biggie\". For me, I WANT to eliminate most if not all sugar, for health reasons. But not be all focused on it all the time, and wrestle with what I did or did not eat. Just be able to be at peace and make healthy choices, and if I slip a little, get over it, bounce back and get on with life. Not having sugar feels \"healthy\" to me most of the time; those times I crave it are just when I'm looking for a \"fix\", an easy fast hit of instant pleasure. So, not keeping it in my system makes living without it much easier, and feels like a positive to me, a healthy direction to aim towards.\nBut overall, I just want to get to that place where eating healthy (and sugar free for the most part) is my \"norm\", and feels peaceful not a big drama or struggle. Where if I once in a blue moon go to a celebration or wedding or whatever, I can take it or leave it, to have a bit of wedding cake. No biggie. But not sweat it, or do it often, or worry about it. Hope that's more clear than what I wrote before.\nI think we are all heading in the right direction. 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(AAMAN) and The Enduring Families Project and\nThe La Crosse Historical Society\nproudly introduce the\nAfrican American Living History Tour of La Crosse Saturday, June 23, 2018\nRegister for AAMAN's Juneteenth African American Historical Living Tour on Saturday, June 23, 2018.\nSeating is limited to 24 passengers per tour. There will be four tours leaving at different times starting at 11:30 a.m. Registration is first-come-first served. If necessary, a waiting list will be created.\nRegister NOW! It FREE and open to the public. 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If you\u2019re thinking of renting an apartment or home in Calgary, here\u2019s what you need to know. Overall, rental prices are not increasing in the city. There are diverse ranges of choices for people looking to rent, ranging from units that can accommodate families, couples, and single people. Let\u2019s explore some of Calgary\u2019s rental market trends.\nThe price of Calgary rental homes and apartments are decreasing because of the major economic shift the province is facing. Many landlords have shifted their prices down to accommodate their consumers. Due to rent now becoming lower, there are now more options for people who live in Calgary, and even outside of the city, to rent units that accommodate their needs, while in some cases exceeding their expectations of what is possible to get as a rental.\nCalgary\u2019s neighbourhoods have become vibrant, attractive locations for both Calgary locals and tourists. Areas like the Beltline and Brentwood have become iconic and are growing at great speeds in Calgary. Arbour lake is also a great option for people that are looking for a combination of urban and nature in the city.\nThe houses and apartments that were not as affordable before, now are becoming more accessible to individuals, families, and travellers. Many people in Calgary are steering away from investing in a home, and turning to the Calgary rental market because of high housing prices. Housing prices are high, rental prices are low, so it makes sense for many people to rent in the city.\nWhile there is potential for the Calgary economy to bounce back in the short term, low rent prices are a silver lining to the current economic situation. The Calgary rental real estate market has slowed down, leaving more breathing room for first time home renters, and even those who are looking to downsize or relocate. Now, due to lowered prices of rent, more people will be finding themselves living in beautiful apartments and rental homes, options that they could not afford before.\nWith the Calgary rental market seeing a decrease in price and a rise in affordability, there will be many new developments in tow. New apartments and even new homes will continue to be built or sold as investment properties, leaving extra availability for those who wish to live in Calgary.\nAt Creative Rental Solutions, we specialize in renting homes and apartments for our clients. We offer properties that are both furnished and unfurnished, giving our clients a variety of options to suit their needs best. We serve many locations in Calgary, and have access to top priorities in Calgary\u2019s best neighbourhoods. Whether you want a quiet suburb, or a busy city center, Creative Rental Solutions will have the home for you.\nFor more information, visit our website, www.creativerentalsolutions.com, or call us at 1 (844) 392-4713, to speak with someone who can lead you into the direction of your dream Calgary rental home.\nShort Term Lease Relocation Furnished Apartments Long Term Lease Calgary", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00240.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 58, + "original_length": 4651, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.96, + "perplexity": 305.2, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "http://www.curledup.com/flirtcar.htm", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T04:41:13Z", + "digest": "sha1:6SBGX537LC5SWUQG5N3QPH6L3KTAD4KO", + "length": 4012, + "nlines": 9, + "source_domain": "www.curledup.com", + "title": "Book review: Alisa Kwitney's *Flirting in Cars *", + "raw_content": "Flirting in Cars\nEast meets West across time and tradition as three young American women and their Indian immigrant mothers take first steps toward true sisterhood, shattering secrets and sharing joy and tears in Alisa Kwitney's\nFlirting in Cars .\nWhat would you do if you decided to give up everything you know and love for the sake of your child? That\u2019s the question Zo\u00eb Goren is faced with at the beginning of Flirting in Cars by Alisa Kwitney. Zo\u00eb is a Manhattan-ite to the core - she loves her job, loves her apartment, loves being able to walk everywhere, and loves takeout. However, when her daughter, Maya, is diagnosed with dyslexia, Zo\u00eb decides to sacrifice her lifestyle in order to move to the country and send Maya to a specialized school (but only for one year). Upon moving to upstate New York, Zo\u00eb meets Mack, an Iraq war vet who tries to convince her to let him teach her to drive. As their relationship grows, they deal with their own personal issues that emerge, as well as a scandal that could harm the town. Flirting in Cars is a quick, funny read that will leave you feeling lighthearted.\nKwitney\u2019s strong point is her ability to write humorous characters. The characters in Flirting in Cars are funny and witty and really keep the story going. Zoe\u2019s banter with Mack really is a pleasure to read, as is the way she deals with awkward situations, such as a \u201cNew Parents\u201d night. Wit isn\u2019t an easy thing to write, but Kwitney manages to do it with grace.\nMy main problem with Flirting in Cars is the fact that so much of the backstory is brushed over. For example, Kwitney describes Zo\u00eb\u2019s estrangement from her parents a few times in the book, but without much detail. I almost felt as if I were reading a sequel to a book, that this conflict had been detailed previously in another book that I had missed. I also felt this way about Mack\u2019s time in Iraq and his issues stemming from those experiences, as well as Bronwyn\u2019s marital problems. They just seem glossed over and muddled, lacking any kind of definition. If Kwitney had taken the time to delve further into these character driven issues, both Zo\u00eb and Mack\u2019s character development would have been much more interesting. Instead, they seem stuck halfway between being well-rounded characters and being flat. It\u2019s almost as if Kwitney deliberately left these points convoluted in order to generate interest in a prequel/sequel.\nI also was disappointed that Flirting in Cars suffers from a classic chick-lit problem: predictability. I knew the major plot points of the book and what their outcomes would be simply from reading the back of the book. It was even more of a disappointment because I thought Kwitney was going to break the mold. Zo\u00eb is not written as a typical chick-lit heroine. She is not afraid of exposing herself (both figuratively and literally \u2013 she framed a nude picture of herself pregnant with her daughter), yet she is deathly terrified of driving because of an accident in her childhood. She also seems somewhat na\u00efve. Most people would grasp that it isn\u2019t really possible to get around outside a major city without a car, yet Zo\u00eb is confident that it is possible. She also does not realize what her daughter\u2019s learning disability really means, and though she makes a major sacrifice to get Maya the help she needs, she doesn\u2019t really understand it. She thinks that there is some sort of quick fix - one year at a country school, and then poof! Things will magically be better again. This is part of the growth the character progresses through. After seeing personal issues such as these tackled, it was a disappointment to have a cookie-cutter ending.\nWhile Flirting in Cars is enjoyable, it is very forgettable. There is nothing that makes it remarkable. It is a classic chick-lit tale. If you like chick-lit, you will probably enjoy this book very much, then you will move onto the next book on your list and probably never give it a second thought. 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Credit unions operating in the province increased their asset holdings an average of 6.2% over the same period, the data show.\nNot only did banks grow more slowly than credit unions, but their one-year asset growth declined from an average of 8.3% in 2015, the same data indicate.\nCredit unions, on the other hand, reported an average one-year asset growth of 6.2% in 2017, up from an average of 4.1% in 2013.\nThe largest credit unions in British Columbia, which is a competitive credit union market, showed average asset growth of 29.7% to $1.97 billion in 2017 from $1.52 billion in 2013, the new numbers show.\nDuring the same period, banks expanded their average assets by 35.9%. 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Each student will be encouraged to internalize these values as core principles in his/her life.\nAppreciation \u2013 It is with that attitude of gratitude that we show real appreciation for the opportunities The Academy provides by participating fully and enthusiastically in all activities, by caring for the Denver Athletic Club and respecting her rules, and by sincerely thanking each volunteer, mentor, teacher, club staff and coaches for their commitment to you.\nCompassion \u2013 We demonstrate true compassion for each other as friends, classmates, and teammates by looking out for each other, helping each other learn, holding each other accountable to do the right thing, by living and playing by the rules, and by sharing our talents to help others.\nHonesty\u2013 Honesty ensures that The Academy remains a positive, peaceful, and productive environment in which each of us may excel. 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Cork, Ireland Property Price Drop Search - DaftDrop IE", + "raw_content": "Ironmines, Mallow, Co. Cork (DE-LISTED)\nCo. Cork Bungalow For Sale 3 3 Beds, 1 Bath Dec 8, 2016 Jan 19, 2019 Jan 9, 2019 \u20ac230,000 \u20ac220,000 \u20ac225,000 -2.22% -4.35% 3 More\nDungourney, Midleton, Co. Cork\nCo. Cork Detached House 4 4 Beds, 1 Bath Sep 13, 2017 Feb 16, 2019 Dec 26, 2018 \u20ac199,950 P.O.A \u20ac199,950 0.00% 0.00% 2 More\nCo. Cork New Home 5 5 Beds, 4 Baths Nov 14, 2017 Feb 16, 2019 Feb 9, 2019 \u20ac485,000 \u20ac495,000 \u20ac485,000 +2.02% +2.02% 2 More\n4 Bed Semi-Detached, Drakes Point, Crosshaven, Co. Cork\nCo. Cork New Development 4 4 Beds, 3 Baths Apr 7, 2018 Feb 16, 2019 Jan 30, 2019 \u20ac335,000 \u20ac340,000 \u20ac338,000 +0.59% +1.47% 3 More\n17a Aylsbury Avenue, Ballincollig, Co. 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We show that this problem reduces to a statistical learning problem and suggest matrix factorization as one solution when user interaction data is given. 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The Draft Environmental Impact Report (EIR) is now available for public review.\nSome of the notable issues discussed in the almost 1,000-page EIR are an analysis of the slant well feedwater supply, a geographical survey, a San Juan Creek Habitat assessment, a noise study and an assessment of the plants brine dilution.\nRick Shintaku is the General Manager of SCWD and emphasized that the desalination plant is a continued effort to diversify SCWD\u2019s sustainability portfolio.\nA public meeting will be conducted on Tuesday, June 26 from 6-8 p.m at the Capistrano Unified School District for members of the public to express their concern and to be included in a final EIR for consideration by SCWD directors. The report can be found in this article online at www.danapointtimes.com. 33122 Valle Rd., San Juan Capistrano. www.scwd.com.\nDana PointdesalinzationOceansaltSouth Coast Water DistrictSouthern CaliforniaWater\nPrevious Post Meet the Candidates for State Assembly\u2019s 73 District", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00240.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 170, + "original_length": 5189, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.9, + "perplexity": 334.6, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "http://www.danieldavis.com/smartgeometry-in-sweden-and-in-space/", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T04:00:57Z", + "digest": "sha1:DJLADKICOSRQO363XBJGTL4QLP7T6GNL", + "length": 1190, + "nlines": 3, + "source_domain": "www.danieldavis.com", + "title": "SmartGeometry in Sweden and in Space \u2013 Daniel Davis", + "raw_content": "Last week I was invited to attend SmartGeometry 2016 at Chalmers University of Technology, in Gothenburg, Sweden. Compared to previous events the projects were significantly more ambitious with projects featuring custom circuit boards, large scale fabrication, and lots of discussion of building architecture in space. As I wrote for Architect magazine:\nThe first thing that caught my eye at this year\u2019s Smartgeometry was the sandpit. Occupying the center of a giant warehouse at the Chalmers University of Technology, in Gothenburg, Sweden, where the event took place last week, the 12-foot-by-15-foot container was brimming with six tons of sand and a fleet of autonomous robots, each of which resembled a small, plastic front loader complete with little caterpillar tracks and a bucket. NASA is currently evaluating whether similar robots could dig habitable architecture from the soil of Mars, said Richard Maddock, an associate and member of the Specialist Modeling Group (SMG) at Foster + Partners, in London.\nYou can get the full story about the robots and the rest of the conference in my article for the Architect magazine website. Thanks again to Wanda Lau for editing this piece!", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00240.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 20, + "original_length": 1748, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.96, + "perplexity": 271.8, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "http://www.darlastonmotorservices.org.uk/about-us", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T04:00:33Z", + "digest": "sha1:I333XKPWDO3DUIKTWAQXFWTMRFCFGJTK", + "length": 1385, + "nlines": 5, + "source_domain": "www.darlastonmotorservices.org.uk", + "title": "Car Diagnostics in Darlaston | Darlaston Motor Services", + "raw_content": "Car Diagnostics in Darlaston\nWith a wealth of experience within the motor trade, Darlaston Motor Services has developed an enviable reputation in providing services of the highest quality at a fair and reasonable rate. Whether you are looking for new tyres or a garage to carry out car diagnostics on your vehicle, you can trust in our vehicle technicians to provide you with a relevant service that is fit for purpose and meets your specific needs.\nDarlaston Motor Services has been trading for the past 30 years and our vehicle technicians are committed to providing a level of service that is unsurpassed in the local area. From electrical repairs to MOTs you can rest assured of a first class service each time you use our services.\nIn addition to the services already outlined we are also pleased to offer brand new tyres for sale. If you have a car, 4x4 or light commercial vehicle and you are looking for new tyres then be sure to call upon Darlaston Motor Services as your first choice.\nFor car diagnostics, electrical repairs and brand new tyres in Darlaston; be sure to get in touch with Darlaston Motor Services. Call us using the number visible at the top of this page or send us an email via the handy Contact Us page and we will get back to you as soon as we possibly can. 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He named it Loreto, after his patron saint Our Lady of Loreto.\nFast-forward to today, and Loreto (www.loreto.com) is one of Mexico\u2019s 65 or so pueblos magicos (magic cities), so-designated in recognition of their heritage, culture and colonial ambiance. What\u2019s more, the city edges the spectacular Loreto Bay National Marine Park, which runs along 50 miles of shoreline and zig-zags out as far as 25 miles into the Sea of Cortes.\nEasily seen from the shores of the park are five large, volcanically formed islands on which sea lions go about sunning themselves while sea gulls, pelicans, terns and blue-footed booby birds dart around above. Below, sea turtles glide through the cobalt-blue waters as do dolphins and big gamefish along with hundreds of other species of marine life.\nEnjoying all this are some 35,000 annual tourists plus a hefty number of expats (as many as 7,000, mainly from the U.S. and Canada) living in the area along with 13,000 or so choyeros (natives of the Loreto region).\nMost of the populated area is along a 25-mile coastal strip starting at the town of Loreto and running south to a Danzante Bay. Along the way is the popular harbor of Puerto Escondido and the residential and resort community of Nopolo.\nVacationers today can either stay in their own campers or boats or in a number of small hotels and boutique inns dotting the region, mostly in Loreto and Nopolo. 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The farewell tour will continue to take the band across the country through the remainder of this year and all of next year, giving fans one last unforgettable night of classic American Rock-and-Roll. 2019 tour dates will be announced soon.\nCiti\u00ae is the official presale credit card for the Last of the Street Survivors Farewell Tour. As such, Citi\u00ae cardmembers have access to purchase U.S. presale tickets, which are available beginning Tuesday,June 12 at 10:00 a.m. until Thursday, June 14 at 10:00 p.m. through Citi's Private Pass\u00ae program. For complete presale details visit www.citiprivatepass.com.\n\"This farewell tour has already been the perfect end to an incredible run and we are not even halfway through the tour yet! There is still lots of road to go and lots of fans to see one last time,\u201d said Gary Rossington, original and founding member of Lynyrd Skynyrd. Lead vocalist, Johnny Van Zant added, \"we are having a blast! Every crowd so far has been incredible. The energy and excitement they have been giving us has been like fuel on a fire. We can\u2019t wait to get out there each night and burn it up!\"\nIt was also announced today that the Rock and Roll Hall of Famers will perform on Saturday, Sept. 22 at this year\u2019s two-day iHeartRadio Music Festival in Las Vegas. The band join a star-studded lineup at T-Mobile Arena that includesJustin Timberlake, Jack White, Carrie Underwood, Mariah Carey, Jason Aldean, Sam Smith, Luke Bryanand more. Fans can visit iHeartRadio.com/Tickets to purchase tickets. For those unable to attend, the 2018 iHeartRadio Music Festival will be broadcast live on iHeartMedia Contemporary Hit Radio (CHR) stations across the country that weekend including the iconic Z100 in New York, KIIS-FM in Los Angeles, Y100 in Miami, KISS FM in Dallas, Chicago and Boston, as well as many more. The CW Network will exclusively live stream the mega-concert via CWTV.com and The CW App and broadcast the two-day, televised special on October 7 and October 8.\nNumerous friends including but not limited to: Hank Williams Jr, Bad Company, ZZ Top, Jason Aldean, Kid Rock, Charlie Daniels Band, Cheap Trick, Jamey Johnson Marshall Tucker Band, 38 Special, Blackberry Smoke and Blackfoot, will continue as special guests on the farewell tour. The tour derives its name from their new song, \"The Last of the Street Survivors\" and the band\u2019s fifth studio album Street Survivors that is certified multi-Platinum by the RIAA and includes the Platinum-certified single, \u201cWhat\u2019s Your Name.\u201d\nThe Last of the Street Survivors Farewell Tour marks a big moment for generations of fans, as Lynyrd Skynyrd has been touring consistently since the 90s. The band, that USA Today called the \u201cwhiskey-soaked genre's most popular and influential crew,\u201d is ready to rock one last time. 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They talked about it last week on Capitol Fax, where we learned, among other things:\nThe Sun-Times has a searchable database of various public employee salaries. The problem with this is, it's as of last August, and combines state, CTA, City of Chicago, and Cook County employees. I tried using it and found it to be difficult. Also, the Sun-Times serves pop-under ads on its web pages, which is not exactly ideal.\nThe Better Government Association also has an out of date database. I tried it, but before you can search it, they want you to sign-up so they can send you their monthly newsletter.\nIt was also pointed out that salary information is already public record and can be looked up by anyone through the state Comptroller's Office. They want your name, email address, street address, phone, and state agency, if applicable. You can request up to three records and they will either call you or email it to you.\nMissouri has a very slick web app called the Missouri Accountability Portal (MAP), which includes employees, expenditures, tax credits, and \"who is not paying.\" I poked around in MAP and it looks like just what we need in Illinois.\nNot surprisingly, it seems the consensus among state employees is not to put their salaries on the web. And their union is backing them up (SJ-R: Posting salaries of state workers on Web meets resistance). They've got lots of reasons, none of which outweigh the public's right to know.\nThe State Journal-Register wants the salaries on line: Our Opinion: State salary data ought to be online:\nOr, as one commenter so eloquently said, put it all on line and let the cockroaches hide in the corners. Or something like that. I can't find the specific comment right now. Anyway, I agree. Just put it in a useful format like the aforementioned MAP.\nhaving my salary online doesn't bother me too much, but disciplinary records? that's too far.\nPosted by: jason at March 2, 2009 10:59 PM\nSure salaries are public record and technically are (and should be) available. But let\u2019s get real. The only reason anyone would want to see the rank and file salaries is to bitch about how \u201chighly and overpaid\u201d state workers are. Yawn.\nPosted by: Dave at March 3, 2009 9:18 AM\nThey're online in Louisiana, too, but I'm not wild about making it so convenient. 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He spoke briefly and fielded only three questions.\n\"Duvalier had the right to return to the country, but under the constitution, he also must face justice,\" Preval told reporters. \"If Duvalier is not in prison now, it is because he has not yet been tried.\"\nPreval added that by law, Haitians cannot be barred from their homeland \u2014 and that applies to both Duvalier and former President Jean-Bertrand Aristide, who has been in exile in South Africa since his ouster in 2004 but recently spoke of wanting to come back.\n\"They do not depend on my decision,\" Preval said. \"It is the nation's constitution that prohibits (forced) exile.\"\nPreval declined to say whether he knew ahead of time about Duvalier's sudden appearance in the country Jan. 16, after 25 years in exile.\nDuvalier says he came to help his shattered nation rebuild from last year's massive earthquake, which killed an estimated 316,000 people.\nHowever the former leader, who ruled Haiti from 1971 to 1986 through terror and the regime he inherited from his father, has found himself under investigation for corruption, embezzlement, torture, arbitrary imprisonment, crimes against humanity and other alleged abuses during his reign.\nOn Friday, the 59-year-old, who is in frail health, said he was prepared to face \"persecution.\"\nIn the Dominican capital Saturday, Preval did not comment on his country's disputed Nov. 28 presidential election, which was marred by widespread fraud, or on growing international pressure for Haiti to accept an Organization of American States recommendation that his favoured candidate be left out of a runoff.\nAccording to preliminary results, Preval-backed candidate Jude Celestin finished in second place and would square off against top vote-getter Mirlande Manigat in a second round.\nHowever OAS election observers found problems with the count. 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Once a button cell has been swallowed, the person should be treated in the hospital without delay,\u201d recommends BfR President, Professor Dr. Dr. Andreas Hensel.\n\u2018Swallowing button cell batteries can lead to severe health damage in infants and small children. If the button cell gets stuck in the esophagus, no symptoms or only slight discomfort such as vomiting, loss of appetite, fever or coughing set in after several hours. As time progresses, it could lead to more tissue damage, bleeding, and necrotization of the tissue. In rare cases, these complications can also result in death.\u2019\nDue to the increasing distribution of battery-operated devices in all walks of life, children can come more and more in contact with button cells and swallow them. Complications could arise if the battery gets stuck in the esophagus, because current starts to flow when contact is made with the moist mucosa. Hydroxide ions, which can cause severe chemical burns, are formed in the border area between the button cell and the mucosa. There is a special risk for small children if they swallow large button cells (over 20 mm in diameter), because it is highly likely that these will get stuck in the narrow esophagus of small children.\nIf the button cell can pass through the esophagus, complications are rarely to be expected. In cases of this kind it is usually sufficient to wait for the natural excretion of the battery under medical supervision.\nIf the button cell gets stuck in the esophagus, no symptoms or only slight discomfort are developed initially. Vomiting, loss of appetite, fever or coughing set in after several hours. As time progresses, more and more tissue damage is caused at the contact point between the battery and the esophagus which can lead to bleeding and necrotization of the tissue. The esophagus can scar and constrict as sequela. In rare cases, the complications can result in death.\nThe more the battery is charged, the more severe the health damage can be.\nThe BfR recommends immediate examination in a children\u2019s clinic if there is justified suspicion that a button cell battery has been swallowed.\nDoctors must report cases of poisoning, including suspected cases, to the documentation and assessment point for intoxications at the BfR. In addition to cases of poisoning through chemical substances and poisonous plants, this obligation to notify also covers the swallowing of button cells and the risk of chemical burns that this involves. 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He is board certified in Sports Medicine, Active Release Technique\u00ae, Graston Technique\u00ae, in the revolutionary new technique developed by orthopedists (Stecco et. al.) in Italy, FM. Dr. Winnick has appeared on numerous TV shows, newspaper and magazine articles and has been featured in New York Magazine.\nDr. Leon Aibinder\nDr. Leon Aibinder graduated from New York Chiropractic College in 2001. He completed his undergraduate studies at SUNY Binghamton with a BA in Biology. Through his passion for sports medicine and injury prevention, Dr. Aibinder continues to complement his traditional chiropractic practice with advanced and innovative techniques and treatment modalities. He is board certified in Active Release Technique and Graston Technique since 2002. In addition, he is a well-respected instructor of ART, instructing courses throughout the United States and Canada. 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He is a contributing writer for \"Be Ironfit\" and \"Mastering the Marathon\" by Don Fink, world-renowned triathlon coach. Dr. Schneider is board eligible for his diplomate in chiropractic rehabilitation. Dr. Schneider has been a consultant for teams in the National Football League, National Hockey League, Major League Baseball, Major League Soccer, and Princeton University. He also treats a variety of other athletes from world-class sprinters, elite triathletes, and professional wrestlers to weekend warriors. He is a team chiropractor and soft tissue specialist for the New York Jets. Dr. Schneider's desire to provide innovative and world-class treatment is widely acknowledged.\nDr. Rachel Skolnick\nGraduated from New York Chiropractic College in 2015. She completed her undergraduate degree at Indiana University with a B.S. in Kinesiology. Dr. Skolnick is trained in IASTM and Certified in ConnecTX, Nimmo and Active Release Technique (ART). She has an Advanced Certificate in Sports Science and Human Performance from NYCC. Dr. Skolnick has provided multiple community outreach programs: Strangers NYC Volleyball tournament, Tour De Cure Bike Races and walks for Diabetes. She specializes in sports injuries, treating athletes of all levels.\nDr. Skolnick has always had a passion and love of sports. She was a 3-sport athlete throughout her life. She sought out chiropractic care to help keep her performance at its highest level. She knows first hand the benefits that chiropractic care can offer benefits to athletes of any level. Her mission as a sports related chiropractor is to educate patients about the benefits of chiropractic care, which can help maintain an active healthy lifestyle and perform at their highest level. She offers many different types of non-invasive, evidence-based techniques and modalities available to help enhance the effectiveness of treatment. Dr. Skolnick has recently joined our practice at Wayne Winnick & Associates. We are excited to have Dr. Skolnick as she is a great addition to our team.\nClayton Shiu, MTOM\nClayton Shiu is a New York state and nationally certified licensed acupuncturist and nationally board certified Chinese herbalist. He holds a Bachelor\u2019s of Science degree in Human Physiology from Boston University and a Master\u2019s degree in Traditional Oriental Medicine. Clayton has been practicing acupuncture in New York since 1999. Clayton joined Winnick and Associates in 2006. He is an integral part of the treatment of sports injuries, orthopedic conditions, as well as the traditional Chinese Medicine therapies in the practice. Clayton\u2019s Acupuncture Sports and Orthopedic therapies have been effective in treating numerous sports injuries and have also proven effective in treating athletes in the NBA, MLB, mixed martial arts, and of course, the weekend warriors. Clayton also has much experience treating pre- and post-surgical cases related to the back, hip, shoulder, neck, and knee | Read a full bio\nIn 2012, Clayton interned in Arizona with the \u201cGodfather\u201d of acupuncture, Dr. Shi Xue Min, and his Indoor Disciple, Dr. Jing Liu. After working closely together, Dr. Shi chose Clayton to pursue his Doctorate with an interest in cerebral disorders at Tianjin University of TCM. This program is a dual government sponsored program founded in 2010 between the Obama Administration and the Chinese government called \u201c100,000 Strong.\u201d Currently, at the First Teaching Hospital of Tianjin in China, Clayton treats patients at the International Patients Ward where he researches the treatment of cerebral disorders including stroke, Parkinson\u2019s disease, Alzheimer\u2019s disease, and Multiple Sclerosis. He is also currently researching the effects of the Stroke techniques points on non-stroke patients for the treatment of orthopedic disorders in the Unites States.\nPatricia Botet\nPatricia Botet holds a Doctorate in Acupuncture and Chinese Medicine. She is a New York State Licensed Acupuncturist, NCCAOM board-certified herbalist, and certified Sports Medicine Acupuncture Specialist. Dr. Botet has undergone a multitude of post-graduate studies in Acupuncture, physical medicine and neurological disorders and is on an enduring quest to further enhance her knowledge and skills. She has participated in research focusing on the effects of acupuncture in stroke recovery at NYU Lutheran Medical Center conducted by Dr. Claudia Citkovitz, L.Ac., and for the past several years has been participating in research at Montefiore Hospital treating chronic pain and osteoarthritis. She also assists in the Sports Medicine Acupuncture Certification Program in New York, Chicago and San Diego.\nPatricia\u2019s passion for Chinese Medicine began 20 years ago when she discovered the benefits of Chinese Medicine personally. Through her extensive studies and practice in Chinese Medicine and integrative nutrition, Patricia learned that the most profound improvements are made when the body, mind and spirit are in alignment, and she addresses these three facets with all of her patients regardless the condition. She has extensive experience in treating women\u2019s health, immune and digestive disorders, pre- and post-surgical orthopedic conditions, and works with athletes to help them recover faster, prevent injury and improve their game. 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The interactive displays tell the story of the work, life and cultural context of one of the twentieth century\u2019s most significant writers, and the exhibition includes a learning space, activities for children, and a temporary exhibition area.\nThe Dylan Thomas Centre also runs a learning, outreach, and events programme.\nGuided tours of the exhibition at the Dylan Thomas Centre can be arranged for groups of all ages.", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00240.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 63, + "original_length": 1953, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.9, + "perplexity": 263.9, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "http://www.dynamiclooms.com/career/", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T03:58:31Z", + "digest": "sha1:UUOD2JRAHWDULQT3S63MG6PD2L5RQFQM", + "length": 572, + "nlines": 3, + "source_domain": "www.dynamiclooms.com", + "title": "Career | Dynamic Looms", + "raw_content": "Working with us means total adherence \u2013 through behaviour (what you say and what you do) \u2013 to our Code of Ethics, the principles and values underpinning it. This forms the backbone of the intangible assets that make us stand out.\nEach individual\u2019s talent and motivation help give the entire company a competitive edge and act as the keystone of the entire human resources management system.\nThis is why it is important for everyone to be responsible for his or her personal and professional growth, with the advantage of extensive training and career development programs.", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00240.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 74, + "original_length": 2216, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.96, + "perplexity": 172.6, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "http://www.dynamicontent.net/dcv2/article.php?key=diascpa&article=1476", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T04:09:48Z", + "digest": "sha1:EC3ETAC6FZN4MA7S5EJRVJBQ6DF7WODH", + "length": 3329, + "nlines": 8, + "source_domain": "www.dynamicontent.net", + "title": "Dias, Lapalme & Martin, LLP", + "raw_content": "White Collar Crime: An Overview\nIllegal Alien Crime and Violence By the Numbers\nHow Mexico cartels dominate the US Drug Market\nContinuing Appropriations Act, 2018 and Supplemental Appropriations for Disaster Relief Requirements Act, 2017 (H.R. 601) \u2013 This act temporarily lifts the nation\u2019s debt ceiling, funding the federal government through Dec. 8, as well as delivering the first installment of emergency aid for victims of Hurricane Harvey. It also temporarily extends the National Flood Insurance Program for the same time frame. The program, which was set to expire Sept. 30, gives Congress more time to pass longer-term legislation. And finally, the bill amends the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 to provide additional direction and scrutiny over U.S. assistance to developing countries for quality basic education \u2013 to ensure efforts are aligned with U.S. foreign policy and economic interests. The bill, introduced last January, was sponsored by Rep. Nita Lowey (D-NY) and signed into law by the president on Sept. 8.\nEmergency Aid to American Survivors of Hurricanes Irma and Jose Overseas Act (H.R. 3732) \u2013 Sponsored by Rep. David Reichert (R-WA), this bill raises the amount for fiscal years 2017 and 2018 that the Department of Health and Human Services may spend (from $1 million to $25 million) to assist U.S. citizens returning home from foreign countries due to a crisis. 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The bill clarifies that there should be no lowering of military or medical standards in order for a transgender person to serve. The bill enjoys some bipartisan support, including that of former veteran Sen. John McCain, but has yet to be considered by committee before being sent to the House or Senate as a whole.\nCriminal Alien Gang Member Removal Act (H.R. 3697) \u2013 This bill would allow deportation of immigrants suspected of gang activityeven if they haven\u2019t been convicted of\u00c2\u00c2\u00c2\u00c2\u00c2\u00c2\u00c2\u00c2\u00c2\u00c2\u00c2\u00c2\u0160 or arrested for a crime. It would also prevent non-Americans suspected of gang activity from coming to the United States. Supporters of the bill claim it is a necessary public safety measure in response to the rise of gangs consisting of immigrants, while detractors say it violates the sanctity of \u201cinnocent until proven guilty\u201d provided by the American legal system as well as the right to associate provided by the First Amendment. The bill was introduced on Jan. 5 by Rep. Barbara Comstock (R-VA) and was passed in the House on Sept. 14. It is currently with the Senate.", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00240.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 56, + "original_length": 5065, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.96, + "perplexity": 110.6, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "http://www.ebabymarkets.ga/archives/96", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T04:17:44Z", + "digest": "sha1:CIAXAVQIN3TFIZHH6MEJCEYDK6EPJA7Z", + "length": 2926, + "nlines": 10, + "source_domain": "www.ebabymarkets.ga", + "title": "Ebabymarkets | Thinking Like An Online Entrepreneur \u2013 E-Commerce Tips", + "raw_content": "Thinking Like An Online Entrepreneur \u2013 E-Commerce Tips\nSo much has been written about entrepreneurial thinking that I won\u2019t try to distil it here. However, there are certain behaviours I have noted about how some web owners approach the development and running of their e-commerce websites which deserve a little discussion.\nLet me start with the most important, influencing factor to any web owner\u2019s success: belief.\nStarting your online entrepreneurial activity with the right mindset and beliefs is like winning the match before you\u2019ve stepped out onto the court. It\u2019s what separates the really successful businesses from the average ones.\nAsk any sportsperson or sports psychologist and they\u2019ll tell you that your beliefs profoundly affect your performance.\nWhat we believe is possible in our online entrepreneurial life is the limiting factor in our success.\nLet\u2019s take an example. Lots of people wish they were millionaires, but of those who want to become millionaires, very few actually believe they will be millionaires. Those that do, however, stand a far greater chance of becoming what they believe. Why? Because at a conscious and subconscious level they are doing everything they can to pursue that one objective. Now I\u2019m not suggesting that being a millionaire should be your life\u2019s goal; I\u2019m just using it as an example. The point is that your underlying beliefs in what you are capable of fundamentally affect the actions you take and the choices you make.\nAll this may seem more like some New Age incantation rather than hard-edged business-speak, but there is good reason I mention it. Owning and running an e-commerce website is not for the faint-hearted. It is complex and demanding and don\u2019t let anybody tell you otherwise. Be prepared for long hours, headaches and hard work, but also be prepared for more customers, a growing bank account and a sense of achievement. Your belief that you are doing the right thing is what will see you through and keep you on course for success.\nOwning an e-commerce website can be a wild ride but how you handle it is totally dictated by your mindset and your beliefs. For example, many e-commerce websites fail because their owners give up \u2013 they lose confidence, interest and commitment, especially in the early days of their website\u2019s life. It\u2019s easy to give up if you\u2019re struggling or faced with outright failure. However, those who believe they will succeed don\u2019t see failure as a setback but as a learning experience \u2013 they have the right mindset and they will do well because of it.\nI\u2019m telling you this because you know that success isn\u2019t a set of purely mechanical step-by-step processes. (If it were, we\u2019d all be millionaires.) Success comes from your mindset: what you believe you can achieve and the expectations you set yourself. This mindset is as important as knowing how to Search Engine optimize your e-commerce website or write compelling sales copy.", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00240.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 33, + "original_length": 3581, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.95, + "perplexity": 286.2, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "http://www.economyofregion.com/Ethical_guidelines/", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T03:47:37Z", + "digest": "sha1:KP5ETEBS6Q4SHYTSGXYAFASB4HZTHDV5", + "length": 6983, + "nlines": 31, + "source_domain": "www.economyofregion.com", + "title": "Ethical guidelines - Main - Journal \"Economy of region\"", + "raw_content": "Main \u00bb Ethical guidelines\nThe Journal applies the international standards proposed by the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) as its Member.\n1. Ethical Obligations of Authors\nWhen submitting the article into the system the author accepts these standards of publication ethics. Authors are expected to adhere to the following ethical guidelines; infractions may result in the application of sanctions by the Editor(s), including but not limited to the suspension or revocation of publishing privileges.\nAn author's central obligation is to present an accurate and complete account of the research performed, absolutely avoiding deception, including the data collected or used, as well as an objective discussion of the significance of the research. Data are defined as information collected or used in generating research conclusions. The research report and the data collected should contain sufficient detail and reference to public sources of information to permit a trained professional to reproduce the experimental observations.\nAn author should cite those publications that have been influential in determining the nature of the reported work and that will guide the reader quickly to the earlier work that is essential for understanding the present investigation. Except in a review, the reported research should contain all citations of work the author refers.\nResearch Originality\nIn submitting a manuscript for publication, an author guarantees, that the article and any supplemental information submitted therewith (tables, illustrations etc.) are the author\u2019s original work and has not been published in English or any other language. If the article has been published, the author must provide the permission letter of the copyright holder to reprint the article. Therewith, the author confirms, that the submitted paper has not currently been considered for publication anywhere else and will not be submitted for such review while under review by \u201cEconomy of Region\u201d.\nIt is improper for an author to submit manuscripts describing essentially the same research to more than one journal of primary publication, unless it is a resubmission of a manuscript rejected for or withdrawn from publication. It is generally permissible to submit a manuscript for a full paper expanding on a previously published brief preliminary account (\"communication\" or \"letter\") of the same work. However, at the time of submission, the editor should be made aware of the earlier communication, and the preliminary communication should be cited in the manuscript.\nPlagiarism is not acceptable in the Journal. Plagiarism is the appropriation of another person's ideas, processes, results, or words without giving appropriate credit. Authors should not engage in plagiarism \u2013 verbatim or near-verbatim copying, or very close paraphrasing, of text or results from another's work. Authors should not engage in self-plagiarism (also known as duplicate publication) \u2013 unacceptably close replication of the author's own previously published text, methodology or results without acknowledgement of the source. If one or two identical sentences previously published by an author appear in a subsequent work by the same author, this is unlikely to be regarded as duplicate publication. Material quoted verbatim from the author's previously published work must be placed in quotation marks.\nPapers Retraction\nIn the case if the Editorial Team receives alert to plagiarism or duplicate publication, or if the publication contains unethical information, the Editor can consider the necessity of the paper\u2019s retraction. The process of retraction includes:\n1) An author, reader, reviewer, editor or publisher alerts the Editorial Team of the case of misconduct.\n2) The Editorial Board considers and checks this information and make a decision to retract the paper or not. If the paper is to be retracted, the Editor notices the author mentioning the reasons and basis for the retraction.\n3) Notices of retraction appear both in the print and electronic versions of the Journal.\n4) The paper is retracted from all bibliographic databases, where the Journal is indexed and abstracted.\nThe corresponding author must reveal to the Editor and to the readers of the Journal any potential and/or relevant competing financial or other interest (of all authors) that might be affected by publication of the results contained in the authors' manuscript. 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Examples include, but are not restricted to, past (within the last 5 years) or current collaboration, personal friend, employer or employee, family relationship, institutional relationship, past or present graduate advisor or advisee, someone with whom the reviewer has had a past or on-going scientific controversy, or situations where the reviewer could stand to gain economically by publication or rejection of the manuscript. The Editor will decide if the conflict is severe enough to prevent the reviewer from writing a fair, objective review.\nReviewing Terms\nA reviewer should decline to review a manuscript if she/he feels technically unqualified, if a timely review can't be done.\nReviewers should treat the manuscript as confidential. Only the Editorial Team knows the names and contacts of the reviewer/\nDiscussion with a third party\nReviewers should ask the Editor for permission to discuss the paper with others for specific advice, giving names and reasons for such consultation. Reviewers should not pass the manuscript to another to carry out the review without permission from the Editor.\nReviewers should not use information, data, theories, or interpretations of the manuscript in their own work until that manuscript is in press or published unless the author has given permission to do so.\nReviewers should clearly support and justify the basis for their review analysis.\nPlagiarism and Duplication Detection\nReviewers should alert the Editor to similar manuscripts published or under consideration for publication elsewhere in the event they are aware of such. However, it is the responsibility of the Editor, not the reviewer, to decide on the proper course of action once so informed.", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00240.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 48, + "original_length": 7386, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.93, + "perplexity": 308.9, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "http://www.edisciences.org/scheda-c998", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T04:08:56Z", + "digest": "sha1:5XDRE6H6PHQWNSKA3ZGKNZJVOFHB4QKK", + "length": 1650, + "nlines": 1, + "source_domain": "www.edisciences.org", + "title": "SCHEDA C998 Vol. 2 Issue. 3 \u2014 EDISCIENCES", + "raw_content": "Myelodysplastic syndromes (MDS) are an heterogeneous group of clonal diseases, characterized by cytopenia(s) in peripheral blood and an increased risk of progression into acute leukemia. Although myelodisplasia is the most frequent haematological tumor in elderly, it is frequently misdiagnosed or, at least, under-reported in disease registries. However, other diagnoses such as vitamin and/or iron defciency or toxic status have to be excluded. Several classifcation and prognostic systems have been used for MDS patients. Tese are based on clinical parameters, such as the number and level of cytopenias, morphological features, bone marrow examination and transfusional burden. Acquisition of cytogenetic and molecular data have improved both the disease biological basis understanding and its prognostication. In this respect the role of age, especially for low risk patients, remains critical. Recently clonal haematopoiesis, where somatic mutations of preleukemic genes are ofen involved, has been demonstrated in normal subjects and the frequency of this condition increases with age. This status is in accordance with the multi-step theory of cancer and represents a key risk factor to develop hematological tumors. Therapy of low risk MDS is mainly based on supportive care, such as erythropoietic stimulating agents (ESA) and/or transfusion of red blood cells (RBC) and/or platelets (PLT) while high risk patients are treated more aggres- sively either with demethylating agents or with bone marrow transplantation. The latter approach is precluded to elderly patients and to those with important comorbidities or a bad performance status.", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00240.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 36, + "original_length": 2322, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.93, + "perplexity": 277.6, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "http://www.edithumbs.com/motivational-quotes-for-research-students/", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T04:09:45Z", + "digest": "sha1:7CFQKIYKKLSFU2XC2JJ4TMRAOEAX4Z24", + "length": 4943, + "nlines": 43, + "source_domain": "www.edithumbs.com", + "title": "30 Best Motivational Quotes For Research Students - Postgraduate Study", + "raw_content": "By Chiong Sie Jing\tDecember 6, 2015 July 30th, 2018 No Comments\n30 Best Motivational Quotes For Research Students \u2013 Postgraduate Study\nWhat is the 30 best motivational quotes for research students? Sometimes, you just need additional motivation and inspiration to push you through hard times and remain focused to finish what you started. To do that, you need to have a positive mindset all the time.\nRead the following 30 best motivational quotes for research students to help you finish your postgraduate study, regardless of what they might be. Use them as motivation and inspiration to accomplish contentment as well as attainment.\n1. Identify Your Research Interests\n1. \u201cInnovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.\u201d \u2013 Steve Jobs\n2. \u201cResearch is what I\u2019m doing when I don\u2019t know what I\u2019m doing.\u201d \u2013 Wernher von Braun\n3. \u201cThe secret of getting ahead is getting started.\u201d \u2013 Mark Twain\n4. \u201cIn much of society, research means to investigate something you do not know or understand.\u201d \u2013 Neil Armstrong\n5. \u201cGo for it now. The future is promised to no one.\u201d \u2013 Wayne Dyer\n2. Always Believe That You Can Do It\n6. \u201cBelieve in yourself and all that you are. Know that there is something inside you that is greater than any obstacle.\u201d \u2013 Christian D. Larson\n7. \u201cYou don\u2019t have to be great to start, but you have to start to be great.\u201d \u2013 Zig Ziglar\n8. \u201cOur greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.\u201d \u2013 Thomas A. Edison\n10. \u201cYou can never cross the ocean until you have the courage to lose sight of the shore.\u201d \u2013 Christopher Columbus\nRelated: Craft An Enthralling Introduction In Academic Writing For Non-Native English Speakers\n3. Envision Greatness\n11. \u201cI\u2019d rather attempt to do something great and fail, than to attempt nothing and succeed.\u201d \u2013 Robert H. Schuller\n12. \u201cThere is always room at the top.\u201d \u2013 Daniel Webster\n13. \u201cWe do not need magic to change the world, we carry all the power we need inside ourselves already: we have the power to imagine better.\u201d \u2013 JK Rowling\n14. \u201cMy favorite animal is the turtle. The reason is that in order for the turtle to move, it has to stick its neck out. There are going to be times in your life when you\u2019re going to have to stick your neck out. There will be challenges and instead of hiding in a shell, you have to go out and meet them.\u201d \u2013 Ruth Westheimer\n4. Plan and Schedule To Achieve Your Research Milestones\n16.\u201cA goal is a dream with a deadline.\u201d \u2013 Napoleon hill\n18. \u201cWithout some goal and some efforts to reach it, no man can live.\u201d \u2013 Fyodor Dostoyevsky\n19. \u201cYou have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself in any direction you choose. You\u2019re on your own. And you know what you know. You are the guy who\u2019ll decide where to go.\u201d \u2013 Dr. Seuss\n20. \u201cDon\u2019t say you don\u2019t have enough time. You have exactly the same number of hours per day that were given to Helen Keller, Pasteur, Michelangelo, Mother Teresa, Leonardo da Vinci, Thomas Jefferson, and Albert Einstein.\u201d \u2013 H. Jackson Brown Jr.\nRelated: Top 5 Best Academic Research Management Software\n5. No Talk, Take Action\n22. \u201cDo not wait to strike till the iron is hot. Make it hot by striking.\u201d \u2013 William Butler Yeats\n23. \u201cI can\u2019t imagine a person becoming a success who doesn\u2019t give this game of life everything he\u2019s got.\u201d \u2013 Walter Cronkite\n24. \u201cThe difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack in will.\u201d \u2013 A. Branson Alcott\n25. \u201cWithout ambition, one starts nothing. Without work, one finishes nothing. The prize will not be sent to you. You have to win it.\u201d \u2013 Ralph Waldo Emerson\n6. Enjoy The Postgraduate Journey\n26. \u201cLife is short, liv26. \u201cLove is rare, grab it. Anger is bad, dump it. Fear is awful, face it. Memories are sweet, cherish it.\u201d \u2013 Anonymous\n27. \u201cRemember to celebrate milestones as you prepare for the road ahead.\u201d \u2013 Nelson Mandela\n28. \u201cMy philosophy of life is that if we make up our mind what we are going to make of our lives, then work hard toward that goal. We never lose, somehow we win out.\u201d \u2013 Ronald Reagan\n29. \u201cThe person who makes a success of living is the one who see his goal steadily and aims for it unswervingly. That is dedication.\u201d \u2013 Bob Dylan\n30.\u201cSuccess is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.\u201d \u2013 Albert Schweitzer\nRelated: Compelling Resume: 10 Best Websites To Craft Job-Winning Resumes\nDo you feel inspire and motivate after reading the 30 best motivational quotes for research students or do you have any other motivational and inspirational quotes in your mind that I missed in this list? If so, feel free to share it in the comments section below. Cheers!\nMotivational & Inspirational Quotes\nPrevious Post3 Tips To Use Your Voice As A Speaking Communication Tools\nNext PostSimilarity Index & Plagiarism In Academic Research Journal Article Writing", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00240.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 126, + "original_length": 9955, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.93, + "perplexity": 313.0, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "http://www.elisbergindustries.com/blog/the-marx-bros-musical", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T03:52:21Z", + "digest": "sha1:2BYO5BAB32Q7MYNIWNU5QMHW46TJNJG3", + "length": 1621, + "nlines": 5, + "source_domain": "www.elisbergindustries.com", + "title": "Blog", + "raw_content": "The Marx Bros. Musical\nBack in 1970, there was a musical on Broadway about the Marx Bros., called Minnie's Boys. It flopped, and they've tried to revive it over the years, mainly working on the book. It gets performed every once in a while, but it's never really caught on. The shame is that the score is wonderful, written by Hal Hackady and Larry Grossman.\nBy all accounts, the problem was mainly that the book just didn't work well enough, and the lead actress playing their mother, Shelley Winters, wasn't...well, let's just say she apparently wasn't cut out for Broadway. She's affective on the album, though in a sort of \"out-of-breath\" way, so it's easy to envision the performance not working on stage.\nThe actors playing the brothers, though, are all excellent. And one of them, Lewis J.Stadlen, who played 'Groucho,' went on to have (and still have) a good career. He's worked on Broadway (notably starring as 'Dr. Pangloss' in the hugely-successful revival of Candide) and was a series regular on the TV show, Benson. Plus a whole lot more. Most recently, he's had a semi-recurring role on TV's Smash, playing the character 'Ralph Masius.\"\nThis is one of the particularly enjoyable numbers that has all the boys. It'll be easy to figure out who is who. Except for people who only think there were three Marx Bros. who performed in the movies. The fourth is Herbert, better known as Zeppo, who was the romantic lead in their early films. 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The characters were very well developed and we're so easy to like, especially little Maddie!\nI can't wait to read more by this author now!", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00240.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 154, + "original_length": 4708, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.99, + "perplexity": 322.4, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "http://www.end-times-bible-prophecy.com/gogs-coming-war.html", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T03:26:00Z", + "digest": "sha1:B7JWSVTWUSYCA2GAIVWEQ66DMR2V5KCJ", + "length": 5760, + "nlines": 14, + "source_domain": "www.end-times-bible-prophecy.com", + "title": "Gog's Coming War", + "raw_content": "Recently, I was listening to a nationally syndicated radio program, and the host made an astonishing observation. She described a recent trip she took to Israel. She talked about looking over the border into Syria. Then she dropped a line that grabbed my attention. She said, \"When you look over the border today, you're not looking at Syria anymore. You're looking at Russia, Iran, and Turkey.\"\nThis wasn't a religious broadcast. It was a secular, political talk show. Maybe I'm wrong, but I don't think the host realized the true significance of her observation. I don't think she spoke from a perspective of bible prophecy, and it made her statement even more powerful. Because any objective observer has to agree with her. The nation of Syria no longer exists. It may exist in name, but that's it. What used to be Syria has been carved up and divided by any number of groups. And the three biggest are Russia, Iran, and Turkey. Why is this so significant? It's significant because it sets the stage for an event the Bible prophesied over 2,000 years ago.\nThe Gog of Magog War\nTwenty-six centuries ago, Ezekiel described a last days alliance that will invade Israel from the north. The Bible says a man named Gog will lead this massive invasion force (Ezekiel 38:2-6). Here are the nations who will join Gog, followed by their modern day names:\nNotice anything? That's right. Of all those nations, the three most powerful - Russia, Iran, and Turkey - now reside in Syria. They have military forces camped on Israel's border. And not just any border - Israel's northern border. Remember, Ezekiel said the Gog of Magog invasion force will come from the north (Ezekiel 38:15; Ezekiel 39:2). So now we have three of the nations in Gog's invading force perched on Israel's northern border. Mere coincidence? I don't think so.\nThe Bible foretold this exact scenario in Ezekiel 38-39. Never before have the military forces of these three nations been on Israel's northern border at the same time. And never in the history of the world, have the three formed an alliance. At least that is, until now...\nIn the past two decades, Russia and Iran have become close allies. In 1995, the Russian Ministry for Atomic Energy signed an agreement with Iran to finish the Bushehr nuclear power plant. This work had stopped following the 1979 Islamic revolution. Since then, the two nations continue to strengthen their economic and military ties. Russia is one of the few world powers that consistently defended the existence of Iran's nuclear program. Today, both nations freely work together to prop up Bashar Assad's regime and suppress any opposing factions in Syria. They've coordinated military operations in Syria and carved the nation into spheres of influence. Despite thousands of years of recorded history in which there's no record of such Russian-Iranian cooperation, today we see it.\nAnd what about Turkey? For years, those who study bible prophecy have wondered how Turkey fits into this alliance. After all, Turkey is a longtime ally of Israel. As a founding member of NATO, the idea of Turkey joining a Russian invasion of Israel has been hard for many to imagine. After all, NATO exists to combat Russian aggression. As recently as 2014, I noted in my book Signs of the Second Coming:\n\"Turkey is another interesting member of this military alliance. Since the restoration of Israel in 1948, those who understand bible prophecy have struggled to figure out how Turkey fits in. Why? Because in 1949, Turkey became the first Muslim majority country to officially recognize the state of Israel. Turkey and Israel have a long history of diplomatic, economic, and military cooperation. Turkey is also a member of NATO. And what is the purpose of NATO? Its purpose is to defend member nations against Russian aggression. So why would Turkey join a Russian alliance to invade another country?\nWhile it hasn't made sense in recent years, that idea doesn't seem so far-fetched today. In May 2010, Turkey and Russia signed a series of agreements enhancing their energy ties, including an agreement to build Turkey's first nuclear power plant. And in recent years, Turkey's domestic politics - historically secular in nature - have been heavily influenced by Islam. And that gives Turkey more than enough motive to join the Gog of Magog Alliance.\"\nAnd here we are. The Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has consolidated power in Turkey. Ataturk's Turkish Republic is dead. Its secular government is gone. In its place, Erdogan is building an Islamic Republic aligned against Israel. The relationship between Vladimir Putin and Erdogan is strong and growing. All that's left to take place is a clear break between Turkey and NATO, permanently moving Turkey into Russia's sphere of influence.\nSo what does all this mean? It means the stage is now set for the fulfillment of Ezekiel 38-39. And it means more events will begin to align with Ezekiel's account. Expect this alliance to get closer. Expect Israel to become isolated. And expect more nations to join Russia, Iran, and Turkey. As these events take place, it means the world draws closer and closer to witnessing the Gog of Magog war.\nThis means Russia, Iran, Turkey, and the other nations in the Gog of Magog alliance will send an overwhelming invasion force against Israel (Ezekiel 38:8-9). No other nation will come to Israel's defense (Ezekiel 38:15-16). But God will. This means He'll put His full power on display for the people of this world when He supernaturally destroys Israel's invaders (Ezekiel 38:18-23). Most of all, it means we're in the last days (Ezekiel 38:8; Ezekiel 39:25-29), the Second Coming is near, and the rapture of the church is even closer!\nReturn to the top of Gog's Coming War", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00240.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 72, + "original_length": 8156, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.96, + "perplexity": 198.3, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "http://www.endocrinesurgeon.co.uk/index.php/which-types-of-tumour-produce-carcinoid-syndrome", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T04:18:27Z", + "digest": "sha1:P6IIB3JFTFWIRFV6QUC6J64ECM4YH6HE", + "length": 1304, + "nlines": 5, + "source_domain": "www.endocrinesurgeon.co.uk", + "title": "Thyroid, Parathyroid, Adrenal, Endocrine Surgery, Which types of tumour produce carcinoid syndrome", + "raw_content": "Which types of tumour produce carcinoid syndrome?\nMost carcinoid tumours arise in the gut. As such, the hormones they secrete enter a specific part of the circulation known as the portal circulation, illustrated here. This is because the function of the gut is to remove nutrients from the digested food in the gut lumen to release them to the body tissues. The vast majority of the blood draining the gut therefore goes first to the liver, via the portal circulation, where any toxins are removed and nutrients processed for the body tissues. Only then, after it has passed through the liver, does it enter the systemic circulation where the content of this blood can get to the body tissues. Consequently, carcinoid tumours arising in the gut and not in the liver, do not generally produce carcinoid syndrome as the hormones they produce that cause the symptoms are inactivated when they pass through the liver.\nThe tumours that do produce carcinoid syndrome are therefore extraintestinal tumours including:\nsecondary tumours in the liver (that have spread from malignant primary tumours elsewhere) that secrete their hormones directly into the hepatic vein bypassing the processing ability of the liver itself (the most common situation)\nrare gonadal, breast, kidney, thymus and skin carcinoid tumours", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00240.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 41, + "original_length": 2207, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.92, + "perplexity": 295.0, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "http://www.engineeringga.com/profiles-in-leadership-narratives-of-the-2017-engineer-of-the-year-award-winners/", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T04:38:19Z", + "digest": "sha1:I7G7TUY5KPNONYZMRJWT23MYL5OFC3SR", + "length": 22938, + "nlines": 67, + "source_domain": "www.engineeringga.com", + "title": "Profiles in Leadership: Narratives of the 2017 Engineer of the Year Award Winners \u2013 Engineering Georgia", + "raw_content": "Profiles in Leadership: Narratives of\u2026\nCover StoriesEngineeringHomeUncategorized\nNarratives of the 2017 Georgia Engineer of the Year Award Winners\n(For Full Feature with photos and graphics, please visit the digital issue here: http://bit.ly/2nYUP7r)\nThe Engineer of the Year Awards, presented annually by the Georgia Society of Professional Engineers (GSPE), are designed to recognize individuals in Georgia\u2019s engineering industry for outstanding contributions to the field. From lifetime influencers to promising graduates, the ten winners for 2017 best exemplify the role engineers play in ensuring the safety, productivity and well-being of the public through design and volunteer efforts.\nLifetime Achievement in Engineering\nDORIS I. WILLMER, P.E., LEED\u00ae AP\nWillmer Engineering, Inc.\nWith more than 40 years invested in the engineering industry \u2013 35 of those spent at the helm of her own firm \u2013 Doris Willmer\u2019s roots run deep in the City of Atlanta: not just in terms of the impressive list of projects her firm has undertaken, but also in the relationships she has forged. As Founder, President and Principal Consultant at Willmer Engineering, Inc., she takes her company\u2019s credo \u2013 \u201cbuilding relationships from the ground up\u201d \u2013 to heart. A natural leader, Willmer seeks to not only foster the professional growth of her own team members, but also has a hand in the growth of the industry in Georgia and the viability of its future. \u201cMy entire career has been about enjoying my clients and the work I do. After all, if you don\u2019t enjoy what you\u2019re doing and who you\u2019re doing it with, why do it?\u201d she says.\nUnderstanding the importance of her role as a pioneering female engineer and drawing from her experience as a former Girl Scout Troop leader, Willmer brings a similar sense of leadership and empowerment to an upcoming generation of prospective engineers through programs such as Introduce a Girl to Engineering (IAG), internships for undergraduate students of the University of Georgia\u2019s fledgling civil engineering department and the Georgia Institute of Technology\u2019s (Georgia Tech) cooperative education program \u2013 through which her firm has sponsored 37 young men and women with work opportunities for alternating semesters since 1995. She and her husband, Jim, also sponsor the Doris I. and James L. Willmer Endowed Scholarship in Civil and Environmental Engineering for Women at the University of Illinois \u2013 her alma mater where she was elected to Chi Epsilon and Tau Beta Pi engineering honor societies.\nAs far as the development of her own team members is concerned, Willmer is responsible for the planning and organization of the firm\u2019s in-house technical training conducted by Willmer University. She also spearheaded the writing and implementation of its project management handbook for emerging leaders entitled Project Management, the Willmer Way. \u201cAt Willmer Engineering, we find joy in collaborating with our clients and one another. That makes everything else \u2013 such as overcoming challenges that might pop up along the way \u2013 easy,\u201d she adds.\nWillmer\u2019s involvement in the industry at large is perhaps most apparent in her affiliations with professional associations and civic councils. Involved with the American Council of Engineering Companies of Georgia (ACEC Georgia) since the late 1990\u2019s, she served as President from 2007-2008 and as National Director from 2009-2010. She has also served on the PAC Committee since 2008 and is a Fellow at ACEC National. In addition to her responsibility for the 2014-2017 Strategic Plan, she is a Trustee of ACEC\u2019s Business Insurance Trust, as well as a Marketing Task Force member and Emerging Insurance Trends Task Force Chair. Willmer also boasts memberships with the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) and Georgia/National Society of Professional Engineers. In 2003, she was appointed to the Georgia Board of Professional Engineers and Land Surveyors by the Governor of Georgia, where she served five years with the last two as Chair of the Board. She currently sits on the Board of Directors for the Council for Quality Growth in Atlanta, serving on the Membership Task Force and Government Affairs Task Force.\nThe 2017 GSPE Lifetime Achievement in Engineering Award is far from Willmer\u2019s first honor. She was most recently recognized as ASCE Georgia Section\u2019s Civil Engineer of the Year in 2015, but also has several ACEC\nGeorgia President\u2019s Awards, an ACEC Georgia Lifetime Achievement Award and a GSPE Engineer of the Year in Private Practice Award to her credit \u2013 among others. Her firm\u2019s legacy for award-winning projects includes the provision of geotechnical engineering services and construction materials testing/special inspection services for H-JAIA\u2019s Consolidated Rental Agency Complex (CONRAC) \u2013 named as one of the country\u2019s most innovative, unique, and challenging construction projects by the Building of America Network.\n\u201cIn addition to being technically excellent at what one does, I believe \u2013 to be considered for an honor like a Lifetime Achievement Award \u2013 it\u2019s important to do things outside of the scope of your work. Doris Willmer has done just that throughout the course of her career,\u201d says Marsha Anderson Bomar, P.E., Executive Director of the Gwinnett Village Community Improvement District and longtime friend of Willmer. \u201cShe served with distinction on the ACEC Georgia Board, tackling the challenging task of updating the governance of the organization. She served on the P.E. licensing board, to which only people of high integrity and technical excellence are appointed. Most importantly, she has demonstrated a lifelong commitment to encouraging young people \u2013 particularly young women \u2013 to consider engineering as a career. Through internships and mentoring, Doris is committed to ensuring that there are generations behind her who uphold the same values and dedication to excellence that she does.\u201d\nGeorgia Engineer of the Year\nDANIEL E. AGRAMONTE, P.E., M.ASCE\nIn recognition of his tireless dedication to the profession of engineering, Daniel Agramonte, P.E., M.ASCE was named the overall Georgia Engineer of the Year. A Senior Managing Engineer for O\u2019Brien & Gere, he boasts nearly 30 years of professional, technical and design experience and is a licensed Professional Engineer in 25 states.\nArmed with a Bachelor of Science in electrical engineering from the University of Miami, Agramonte set out to contribute to the industry on a number of fronts. He first served as Civil Engineering officer for the Air Force where he oversaw construction programs while stationed at Howard AFB in Panama and at Soto Cano AB in Honduras. At Chanute AFB in Illinois, he managed a team of 14 environmental professionals and oversaw environmental affairs including the removal of 73 aboveground and underground storage tanks and closure of a hazardous waste treatment, storage and disposal facility. As if all that wasn\u2019t enough to keep him busy, during this time he also attended and graduated from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign with a Master\u2019s Degree in environmental engineering. That early devotion demonstrated as a young engineer has continued throughout his colorful career \u2013 which includes turns at American National Can and General Electric before his move to Atlanta in 2001 to join JM Huber.\nIn 2011, Agramonte joined O\u2019Brien & Gere where he focuses his practice on Fortune 100 clients and their environmental compliance across the nation. Those efforts support the Clean Air Act, Clean Water Act and numerous other environmental regulatory frameworks. He also directly oversees a five-person, Atlanta-based team and typically generates over $1 million in annual consulting revenue. \u201cDan is a highly-motivated individual and his diverse background \u2013 military, industry and consulting \u2013 gives him a unique perspective on solving problems by tailoring a solution to fit the needs of a client,\u201d says Matthew Traister, P.E., Vice President at O\u2019Brien & Gere. \u201cHis clients hold him in high regard and consider him (and his team) as an extension of their staff. As a consultant, that is the highest compliment possible from a client!\u201d\nAgramonte is proud of his involvement with ASCE, where he has served on the Georgia Section\u2019s Board of Directors for nearly seven years. Through his relationship with the ASCE Georgia Section, Agramonte has been involved in several humanitarian efforts, such as the Nicaraguan outreach in 2015 and 2016, as well as a number of STEM outreach initiatives for Georgia\u2019s youth. His role with the Georgia Section\u2019s Board also made him an integral part of both the 2009 and 2014 Georgia Infrastructure Report Cards \u2013 the latter of which he co-chaired and served as spokesman for the Report Card Committee. It is widely held that the committee\u2019s efforts and public outreach \u2013 which included 15 media interviews with Agramonte \u2013 helped contribute to the passage of Georgia House Bill 170 in 2015, lauded for reinvigorating the focus on and funding of Georgia\u2019s infrastructure.\n\u201cIt is indeed an honor and a privilege to be recognized as GSPE\u2019s Engineer of the Year. While we focus on engineering in our \u2018day jobs,\u2019 it always comes down to people \u2013 and I\u2019m very appreciative of my family, team\nmembers at OBG and the folks who have served with me on the ASCE Georgia Section\u2019s Board of Directors, which I\u2019ve been privileged to be a part of for over seven years,\u201d says Agramonte.\nEngineer of the Year: Construction\nWAYNE E. PRICE, P.E., CCS\nBarge, Waggoner, Sumner & Cannon, Inc.\nAs Director of Production Quality for Barge, Waggoner, Sumner and Cannon, Inc. (BWSC), Wayne Price, P.E. is able to apply his nearly 40 years of experience in construction engineering, standardized policy and procedure development on virtually a daily basis. A licensed Professional Engineer in the states of Alabama, Georgia, South Carolina and Tennessee, he is also a Certified Construction Specifier and a MasterFormat Accredited Instructor per the Construction Specifications Institute.\nPrice credits his father, and time spent working during his youth at the family survey firm in Augusta, for making him a surveyor by trade, and Georgia Tech for making him an engineer by degree after earning his Bachelor of Science in civil engineering there. In the time between graduation and his current role at BWSC, Price worked for the same firm \u2013 Jordan, Jones & Goulding (acquired by Jacobs Engineering Group in 2010) \u2013 for 36 years.\nHe believes the most significant engineering achievement of his career was the consistent conduct of a standardized Specification Production, Procurement and Construction Contracting process for countless clients at a single firm, which touched nearly 1,000 projects over a 20-year period, with a construction value in excess of $3.4 billion \u2013 earning him the respect of his co-workers, clients and colleagues in the construction industry.\nEngineer of the Year: Education\nNANCY J. TURNER, P.E.\nAs a new graduate with a Bachelor of Science, Engineering degree in architectural engineering and a Master of Science in Civil Engineering degree in structural engineering from Purdue University, Nancy Turner, P.E. launched her career as a Structures Engineer at Lockheed Martin. Within three years, she was promoted to Senior Aircraft Structures Engineer and awarded independent work on a top-secret project. After five years with Lockheed Martin, she left the industry engineering world behind in favor of a career in education and never looked back.\nNow as a Senior Lecturer and Faculty Advisor for the Civil and Construction Engineering Department at Kennesaw State University (KSU), she celebrates a quarter of a century in academia fostering the next generation of engineers. In addition to being a hands-on lecturer in the classroom, Turner serves a Faculty Advisor for KSU Student Chapter of ASCE and KSU ASCE Competition Team. Under her leadership, the Competition Team has advanced their ranking to fifth from tenth place out of 26 schools that compete at the Southeast conference each spring. She regularly encourages and joins her students in reaching beyond the KSU campus to the community through competition, club-sponsored service projects and environmentally-based activities.\nTeaching 15 credit hours per semester, Turner is wholly dedicated to imparting knowledge to her students. She has taught and developed courses in Mechanics, Structures and Construction Materials for the departments of Civil Engineering Technology, Construction Management, Architecture and Mechanical Engineering Technology, as well as her current department of Civil and Construction Engineering. She finds great satisfaction in the prospect of influencing thousands of engineers through education and engagement.\nEngineer of the Year: Government\nJULIE K. MCLEAN, P.E.\nHolding a Bachelor of Science in civil engineering from the University of Maine and nearly 30 years of progressive civil engineering design, construction and management experience, Julie McLean, P.E. has spent the last 14 years with the City of Savannah. In a City well-known for its historic significance, McLean has made more than a little history herself. Not only was she the first female Professional Engineer hired by the City of Savannah when she was added to the staff in 2002, but when she was promoted to the role of City Engineer, she became the first female to hold that position since its inception in 1890.\nAlso acting as the City\u2019s Development Services Director, she serves the public by ensuring the safety of the built environment through effective permitting, inspections and code enforcement, and by providing guidance and oversight for all private development within Savannah. She has personally managed infrastructure and building construction projects totaling more than $50 million, and overseen the building permitting and inspection program for construction projects totaling over $2 billion.\nMcLean is an active member of ASCE, the Georgia Association of Water Professionals (GAWP), the Water Environment Foundation (WEF), the American Water Works Association and the Savannah Area Chamber of Commerce. She also regularly volunteers for Clean Coast, a Savannah-based, 501(c)3 nonprofit organization devoted to combating marine debris by holding monthly beach and marsh cleanups on the Georgia Coast.\nEngineer of the Year: Industry\nJOHN R. WOLOSICK, P.E., M.ASCE\nHayward Baker Inc.\nOn staff at Hayward Baker Inc. for more than 20 years, John Wolosick, P.E., M.ASCE is responsible for engineering design and business development support for all of the Hayward Baker offices nationwide. Now serving as the firm\u2019s Director of Engineering, he is an acknowledged leader and innovator in the fields of earth retention, underpinning and unusual foundations. His projects run the gamut from highways, transit structures and nuclear power plants, to museums, hospitals and historic sites, just to name a few.\nHaving been part of the Atlanta engineering scene since 1979, Wolosick\u2019s fingerprints are all over key projects throughout the City, including design and installation of the first tieback walls in Georgia on the Interstate 75/Interstate 85 connector, installation of the first soil nail wall in Atlanta at the old Home Depot site on Piedmont Road, the innovative Micropile Abutment at the new 5th Street bridge over the Interstate 75/Interstate 85 connector at Georgia Tech and the recent re-leveling of the MARTA North Line track slabs.\nDedicated to advancing the industry, his authorship of over 50 publications is nearly as long and diverse as his project list. He also serves as President of the Deep Foundations Institute (DFI) geotechnical organization and is an active member of ASCE \u2013 serving on several committees. Wolosick holds a Bachelor of Science in Civil Engineering and a Master of Science in Civil Engineering \u2013 Geotechnology from the University of Illinois.\nEngineer of the Year: Private Practice\nJOHN T. HUTTON, P.E., S.E.\nUzun + Case, LLC\nWith more than 30 years of engineering experience, a slew of design awards and an excellent reputation for his numerous contributions to the field of structural engineering, design and building codes at the national, state and local levels, Hutton currently serves as Principal at Uzun + Case, LLC. A fixture in the Atlanta engineering world since he moved to the City after graduating from Duke University, this Kentuckian found his true calling in structural engineering. From there, his career included turns at Lockwood Greene \u2013 on two separate occasions \u2013 and John Portman and Associates. He is a registered Professional Engineer in Georgia, Kentucky and New Hampshire, and a registered Structural Engineer in seven additional states.\nSome of Hutton\u2019s most notable, innovative and award-winning projects span from East to West coasts of the United States and include the Anheuser-Busch Brewery in Merrimac, N.H., the German Ambassador\u2019s Residence in Washington, D.C., Lucent Technologies (OFS) in Norcross, Ga., the Space Shuttle Solid Rocket Fuel Facility in Ogden, Utah, Embarcadero Center West in San Francisco, Calif., South Carolina State Science Museum Planetarium in Columbia, S.C., and Georgia Tech\u2019s Hinman Building Rehabilitation in Atlanta, Ga. In addition, his involvement in The Coca-Cola Concentrate Plant in Ballina, Ireland and International Waterfront Centre in the Port of Spain, Trinidad gives his work global reach.\nA leader in the structural engineering community, both regionally and nationally, Hutton is a Past President of the Structural Engineers Association of Georgia and the ASCE Georgia Section Structural Technical Group. He is a widely-recognized expert on building codes, seismic design, wind engineering and storm shelter design and continually seeks to contribute to the betterment of the engineering profession.\nJULIE A. SECRIST, P.E.\nSoutheastern Engineering\nA Senior Project Manager at Southeastern Engineering, Julie Secrist, P.E. not only earned this year\u2019s distinction as the Young Engineer of the Year, but was also recognized in 2015 as the Young Civil Engineer of the Year by ASCE Georgia Section. Already making history with a little over a decade in the industry, she and her father, Jim Secrist, were inducted simultaneously into the Order of the Engineer in 2006 \u2013 the only known parent and child to do so. A third-generation engineer, she follows in the footsteps of her grandfather and father \u2013 although it\u2019s a house divided when it comes to alma maters. Her grandfather graduated from Georgia Tech, while she holds a Bachelor of Science in Agricultural Engineering from The University of Georgia.\nThroughout her young career, she has had a hand in some high-profile endeavors, including civil engineering projects at Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport. In her role with Southeastern Engineering, Secrist leads all civil department projects including aviation, site development, large-scale mixed-use developments and commercial developments.\nOne of her most unique projects provided the Georgia Department of Transportation with an innovative asset management system to identify, track and liquidate excess right-of-way remaining from building roads and other infrastructure. Established and led by Secrist, this project put nearly 17,000 properties totaling an estimated $250 million back into the taxable system. She is well-respected for her rapid career development, professional leadership, strategic vision, long list of professional affiliations and devotion to community outreach.\nEngineering Student of the Year\nIAIN L. RISK\nBeing a contributing member of a team is an important component of engineering \u2013 a lesson Iain Risk has learned early in life. An active member of the Student Chapter of ASCE at the University of Georgia (UGA) since its inception, Risk has served as Treasurer and President over the course of the last four years. Under his leadership as President, the Chapter saw its most significant growth and maturity since its inception. He was also given the opportunity to communicate directly with engineering professionals to arrange events and presentations. Some of those events included a construction site tour of UGA\u2019s new athletic facility by DPR Construction, a construction tour of UGA\u2019s new Terry College of Business by Turner Construction and professional presentations by Brewer Engineering and Willett Engineering Company.\nRisk also led 21 other students in their chapter\u2019s first attendance at the ASCE Carolinas Conference. While there, the group competed in the surveying competition, the quiz bowl and the geotechnical competition \u2013 for which they won an award. Last summer, through ASCE and Rivers of the World, he took part in a trip to Nicaragua to help design and build a footbridge across a ravine that separated a large community in a remote part of the country. He was the only student member of the team, which included four professional engineers.\nFor the last two years, he has served as an engineering intern with L.B. Foster Piling. Following his graduation in May, Risk has already been tapped to join the team at Whiting-Turner as a Project Engineer. He looks forward to becoming a young professional member of ASCE\u2019s Georgia Section.\nEngineering Technology Student of the Year\nBRANDON E. DAVIS\nIf leadership and involvement are early indications of future success, Brandon Davis is already well on his way. A student at Savannah State University, Davis has already demonstrated a clear aptitude for leadership on campus. He has served as Vice President of the Student Chapter of ASCE, President of the Savannah State University Student Athlete Advisory Committee and Captain of the Savannah State University Track Team. His wealth of activities and honors include membership in the National Society of Black Engineers, his designation as a four-year Letterman for Savannah State Men\u2019s Track and Field and his recognition from the Federal Highway Administration of the U.S. Department of Transportation as a Dwight D. Eisenhower Transportation Fellowship recipient.\nEager to launch his career in engineering, he has served as Research Assistant with both the MAGEC-STEM Plus Summer Undergraduate Research Training Program and the Transportation Infrastructure and Geotechnics Education Research Group \u2013 the latter of which he wrote the final report for Sea Grant Georgia. He has also had the honor of presenting his research findings at the Transportation Research Board Annual Meeting in Washington D.C. 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Thank you for joining us today from all over the world. We\u2019re so pleased to have received such an overwhelming response to this critical and timely topic. And welcome to our \u201cGender and Disaster\u201d overview webinar, the first in our five-part Gender and Disaster Series, which will explore how gender impacts the individual and collective experience of disasters and conflict for persons, families, and communities. The series, sponsored by the Gender and Disaster Resilience Alliance, GDRA, and partner EPI Global, is designed to introduce participants to this subject through discussions of key concepts and research in this area. It will also speak to those more familiar with this topic area and delve into specific subtopics, policy issues, and best practices. The webinars will be geared for audiences made up of academics, emergency management practitioners, service providers, relief workers, and more.\nWe\u2019d also like to take a moment and invite you to save the dates for our upcoming \u201cGender and Disaster\u201d series of webinars, which will all be scheduled at 1:00 p.m. EST, including:\n\u2022 our second webinar, on \u201cGender-based Violence,\u201d October 10, 2012;\n\u2022 our third webinar, on \u201cGender, Health and Hygiene,\u201d Jan. 16, 2013;\n\u2022 our fourth webinar, on \u201cGender and Climate Change,\u201d April 10, 2013;\n\u2022 our fifth webinar, on \u201cGender, Disaster, Policy, and Politics,\u201d on July 10, 2013.\nThe protocols we\u2019ll follow for this webinar are:\n\u2022 We encourage you to ask a question at any point by typing in the question box. All queries will be addressed at the end of all three speakers\u2019 presentations.\n\u2022 Please be very clear and succinct in your query and indicate if a question is for a specific speaker. Otherwise the moderator will choose a speaker for you.\nAs sponsoring organizations, the Gender and Disaster Resilience Alliance and EPI Global are committed to building awareness about the importance of gender impact on disaster. Both organizations seek to identify practical approaches and solutions so that this perspective can be implemented in the field, included in emergency management programs, and supported by appropriate research.\nGDRA is a network of women and men working in communities and organizations toward more sustainable, just, and disaster-resilient ways of living in the United States. With the leadership of grassroots women, we seek to develop and strengthen the nation\u2019s resilience to the increasing array of hazards and potential disasters we will face in the coming decades.\nMany members come to GDRA through their work on the ground to empower women as leaders for social justice, environmental sustainability, and disaster risk reduction, or through professional networks and associations engaged in the practice of disaster management. Others come through the global Gender and Disaster Network formed in 1997 at the University of Colorado\u2019s Natural Hazards Workshop. Each summer at this leading U.S. conference, several dozen women and men participate in a Gender and Disaster Roundtable for networking, information exchange, and action planning.\nGDRA is a virtual network committed to transparency, an inclusive approach valuing difference, shared leadership, and a social justice approach to disaster reduction. Our primary areas of activity are knowledge exchange, community organizing, and concrete practical steps by, with, and for grassroots women to address underlying causes of disaster risk and enable community-driven and women-led approaches to disaster management. Elaine Enarson and Roxane Richter, representing GDRA, led the organizing efforts for this webinar.\nGDRA\u2019s partner in this webinar series, EPI Global, is a non-profit organization created to promote the practice of inclusive emergency management to the benefit of people from all backgrounds and beliefs by coordinating and planning for, responding to, recovering from, and mitigating the impact of natural and man-made disasters. EPI Global\u2019s mission includes cooperating and collaborating with emergency management practitioners and community stakeholders to identify issues and find solutions across the life cycle of emergency management, resulting in a better prepared public and a more capable response community.\nAlthough EPI Global is a new organization, it has a rich history of serving the public over the last 10 years. EPI Global grew out of the National Organization on Disability\u2019s (NOD) Emergency Preparedness Initiative (EPI). EPI formed as a program under NOD in 2001, following the attacks of September 11th, to address the need for greater awareness and integration of disability issues in emergency management. Over the next 10 years EPI successfully met its goals in bringing disability issues to the forefront of emergency planning through creative public awareness campaigns, presenting at hundreds of conferences and holding national conferences focused on this topic area, working one on one with emergency managers and disability organizations and consumers, developing customized materials for people with disabilities and emergency managers, and conducting cutting-edge research. EPI was known for the Special Needs Assessment for Katrina Evacuees project that deployed teams of disability experts and emergency managers to the hardest-hit areas in the Gulf states following Katrina to assess response activities and make changes to ensure greater inclusivity of those with disabilities.\nFor the coming decade, NOD has turned its focus to employability for people with disabilities. At NOD\u2019s request, EPI Global was established this year as a standalone organization to continue building on EPI resources and successes and expand its reach to include other vulnerable populations. EPI Global will continue to integrate populations that are traditionally underserved in terms of disaster through direct programming to consumers, the organizations and communities that work with and serve many of them, as well as the emergency responders and managers who will provide services pre- and post-disaster. The programs aim at specifically addressing different factors: age, disability, gender, socio-economic status, race, and cultural backgrounds. These and other factors can affect the impact on individuals, their families, and their communities through all phases of a disaster.\nElizabeth Davis, Rebecca Hansen, and Kimberly Cunningham, from EPI Global, led the efforts to organize this webinar.\nDr. William E. Lovekamp\nRoxane Richter: We\u2019re very pleased to announce our first speaker today, Dr. William Lovekamp. Dr. Lovekamp is an associate professor of sociology at Eastern Illinois University. He received his Ph.D. in sociology from Southern Illinois University at Carbondale, and his dissertation examined racial and ethnic, gender, and social class differences in preparedness for California earthquakes. He has published on women\u2019s unique experiences and resilience to floods in Bangladesh, college student disaster preparedness, and social change and empowerment in disasters and presented numerous papers on these issues as well. He is the co-editor of a forthcoming second education of Social Vulnerability to Disasters, along with Brenda Phillips, Deborah Thomas, and Alice Fothergill. He is also currently mapping all warning communications sirens for the Coles County, Illinois, Emergency Management Agency. Dr. Lovekamp is a member of the U.S. Disaster and Resilience Alliance, the Natural Hazard Mitigation Association, the International Gender and Disaster Network, the International Sociological Association\u2019s Research Committee on Disasters, co-organizer of the IRED Researchers\u2019 Meeting and of the annual Natural Hazards Workshop at the University of Colorado, Boulder, and is an advisory council member on Disaster Response Volunteer for the Coles and Clark County, Illinois, branch of the American Red Cross. Please join me in welcoming Dr. William Lovekamp.\nDr. William E. Lovekamp: Hi, everyone. Thank you very much, Roxane, for that introduction, and thanks to the Gender and Disaster Resilience Alliance and to EPI Global for hosting this webinar. And for all of you who have joined us today, I think this is very, very exciting, and I\u2019m looking forward to our time here today.\nMy plan is simple: to briefly introduce the topic of Gender and Disasters and hopefully set the stage for the remainder of the speakers\u2019 talks for this webinar and the others to come that Roxane discussed just moments ago. To accomplish this, I\u2019m going to discuss three core issues that I believe to be important. These are stratification, vulnerability, and gender. As a side note also, I want to say that my presentation is very basic. While I know that some of you who are listening are extremely well-versed on this topic, I don\u2019t want to assume that everyone is, so please bear with me.\nSo let me begin by discussing the first core issue that I believe is important in our discussion today, and that is stratification.\nOne of the most important ways to understand any community or society is to understand how it\u2019s organized or how it\u2019s stratified. Stratification is simply grouping people. We can do this on the basis of race, ethnicity, gender, age, social class, several other things. And these groupings or systems of stratification, then, shape us. They shape our life chances, and they shape our choices. Simply put, we all have different opportunities and barriers based on these characteristics which make us all unique. Unfortunately, sometimes uniquenesses turn into unequal access or into oppression and inequality or prejudice and discrimination. And when we don\u2019t have the same opportunities, being successful isn\u2019t as simple as working hard and pulling ourselves up by our bootstraps.\nIn fact, as many of you know, disaster recovery isn\u2019t as simple as using the money we have in our savings accounts to rebuild our homes. So really, in essence, some of us are more vulnerable than others, which brings me to my second core issue: vulnerability.\nWhat I mean by vulnerability is basically that rather than having random impacts, disasters have a disproportionate impact on those of us who are already marginalized in some way, whether that be on the basis of gender or racial and ethnic stratification, economic inequality, differential access to power, or a whole host of other things. The vulnerability is tied directly to these systems of stratification. Many of us tend to forget this sometimes.\nOn to core issue number three, which is gender. Basically, gender refers to our characteristics, like masculinity, femininity, and the roles that we perform. There are an infinite number of examples of these roles, but I\u2019ll offer one. Of course we all know that historically, female roles have been to be caretaker of children, housekeepers, and there\u2019s the traditional notion that men are breadwinners. That\u2019s just one example of gendered roles.\nImagine this. Often sometimes these aren\u2019t evenly distributed, and they even take the form of gender inequality. As I said earlier, vulnerability varies by gender, by race and ethnicity, by social classes, and other things, and what I\u2019ve done also is provided you with a link on the PowerPoint slide that demonstrates one gender inequality that exists in the U.S. It\u2019s the pay gap or the gender wage gap. I\u2019m not going to talk about that any more, you can see that on your own later on. [Note: There is no link visible on the slide]\nSuffice it to say gender inequality and oppression in the world are real. It\u2019s often horrible, as in the cases of acid throwing, rape, and many other examples. And these, quite frankly, are violations of human rights in every way.\nSo what does gender specifically have to do with disasters? Roxane gave you a brief introduction, but I\u2019m going to address this by telling you a story. You have a slide that is appearing on your PowerPoint presentations now of a comic. Last semester I was teaching a Sociology of Disasters course and one of those unique teachable moments presented itself in the form of this cartoon. It appeared in a local unnamed newspaper, and I saw this and of course thought, \u201cAha! This is one of those teachable moments.\u201d So I went into the class and I showed them the cartoon that is on your screens and I asked them, \u201cWhat\u2019s the big deal?\u201d And these were there responses, not in their words, I have recast them a little differently, but the responses were like this. The students said, \u201cThis doesn\u2019t reflect what we mean when we were talking about gender and disasters.\u201d They said, \u201cThis isn\u2019t cool. This is not an appropriate depiction of women.\u201d\nWe also discussed a few other key points that were relevant. We talked how this might mislead people to think that all major storms are given names that are women\u2019s, which actually was common practice until 1978, or that women are the cause of disasters, or that disasters are the result of Mother Nature\u2019s wrath. And also this sometimes leads us to suggest that those who are most impacted are most deserving also.\nMy students were proud of themselves, but let me tell you, I was even prouder that they could think like this. And I think we all need to think like this. So while we might understand the importance of gender, inequality, and stratification as my students do, or I should say did in the school, it\u2019s often unrecognized or it\u2019s overlooked or it\u2019s forgotten. Only in the last 14 years or so have we embraced the notion that vulnerability and capacity to recover are influenced greatly by stratification and equality. Many argue that it hasn\u2019t made it into the mainstream, or at least to the extent that it needs to be.\nIt\u2019s no coincidence that what Roxane mentioned earlier about the Gender and Disaster Network, that it was created in 1997, fifteen years ago, that it exists. And Maureen Fordham sent an email to the listserv three days again, and some of you might be on the GDN listserv and have received this email also, but I emailed her and said, \u201cMaureen, can I share this?\u201d and she said, \u201cAbsolutely.\u201d So I\u2019ll just share a little bit of that with you.\nIn her email, she wrote that the GDN, of course, was born in 1997 at one of the hazards workshops. It was called the Women\u2019s Disaster Research Caucus, the meeting that was convened there, and the agenda items included how to network more effectively, how to promote young women professionals, how to promote women and gender issues as legitimate researcher topics, and how to basically create a resource base of web-related information. She goes on to say, \u201cWe\u2019ve come a long way, and now the GDN membership has over 1,000-plus people, and a lot more go to that website and utilize the resources.\u201d Toward the end, she also wrote, \u201cWe do not have to try quite so hard as we did once to persuade people of the legitimacy of women and gender issues in research. But\u2014\u201d and this is the most important part\u2014 \u201cthe battle still needs to be fought in disasters and emergencies worldwide. The battle still needs to be fought.\u201d And of course this year, there is, as Roxane mentioned, a Roundtable that is going to take place, and we\u2019re going to of course celebrate the birthday of the GDN.\nHow do we continue to fight this battle? How do we continue to bring about gender awareness? How do we gender-mainstream? I clearly don\u2019t have the answers, but instead what I\u2019m going to do is leave you with the current initiative by the United Nations International Strategy for Disaster Reduction or the UNISDR. That now is up on your PowerPoint slides, and this is their flyer for what I\u2019m about to discuss.\nThey have chosen the title \u201cWomen and Girls: The Invisible Force of Resilience\u201d as the theme of their International Day for Disaster Reduction (IDDR) on October 13th, 2012. There are six key points that are on that flyer that I think are a great starting point for discussions and for the webinars that are going to follow this. And they\u2019re all evidence-based, so I\u2019ll share those.\n\u2022 \u201cWomen are the foundation of resilience. They are the first to prepare our families for a disaster and the first to put our communities back together in the aftermath.\n\u2022 Women are not invisible, voiceless, or passive bystanders. They\u2019re invaluable partners.\n\u2022 Women must participate also in sustainable development processes.\n\u2022 It is not gender but gender inequality that puts women in harm\u2019s way when disasters strike.\n\u2022 Preventing violence against women and girls, such as sexual abuse and exploitation, is also effectively reducing many of the risks that women and girls face during disaster situations.\n\u2022 Men also have to join the movement and get involved.\u201d\nThese are really important, and I think they\u2019re very, very good key points to start any discussion of gender and disaster. So it\u2019s my hope that through what I\u2019ve presented, you can see that gender can be a powerful marker of inequality for those of us who have less access to resources and to goods and services, are more vulnerable to disasters, or can be more vulnerable. These are also the voices of people who have historically been missing or most often missing from planning, response, and recovery. At the same time, some of these vulnerabilities create amazing and unique experience and human capacities that we have to understand and that we must incorporate into future community plans. Basically, if we\u2019re going to move forward and promote humanitarianism in disaster planning, response, and recovery, we must all fight for the human rights and equality of all people and empower everyone to have a strong voice and be heard.\nAnd when trying to figure out how to help communities prepare, respond, and recover, we need to ask them what they need. Listen to them. Also, those of us in positions to influence and shape the direction of future disaster planning have to act now. What I\u2019ve described isn\u2019t a gender issue or a women\u2019s issue. It\u2019s a human rights issue, and this doesn\u2019t require just the work of women. It requires the work of men also. It requires the work of all of us. And if we do not confront these inequalities and vulnerabilities now, our children, our grandchildren, and future generations are going to be left to clean up our mess. You hear this also when we discuss climate change.\nFinally, there\u2019s a lot of great work being done out there, and much of it is by those of you who are listening today. So I say let\u2019s be self-reflective, let\u2019s learn from others, and do the best we can to do even better. We have a great opportunity to learn a lot from these webinars and to incorporate this information into our work and our communities as we leave here today, as we go back out into our communities, and really make a difference.\nThank you very much for giving me a few minutes of your very valuable time today.\nRoxane Richter: Thank you so much, Dr. Lovekamp.\nDr. Brenda D. Phillips\nRoxane Richter: Please help me welcome our second speaker today, Dr. Brenda Phillips. She is a professor in the Fire and Emergency Management Program and a Senior Researcher with the Center for the Study of Disasters and Extreme Events at Oklahoma State University. She is an affiliated faculty member with the School of International Studies and was inducted into the Epsilon Upsilon chapter of the Phi Beta Delta Honor Society for International Scholars in 2006. She served as the secretary-treasurer of the International Research Committee on Disasters from 1998 to 2005. In 2010, she received the Mary Fran Myers Award from the Gender and Disaster Network, an international organization. In 2012 she received the Blanchard Award for Academic Excellence in Emergency Management Education. Dr. Phillips has been invited to teach, consult, or lecture in New Zealand, Australia, Germany, India, Costa Rica, Mexico, Canada, and the People\u2019s Republic of China. She has assisted with the development of emergency management degree programs in Mexico, Canada, and New Zealand.\nShe currently serves as graduate student coordinator for the Fire and Emergency Management Program at OSU. Dr. Phillips has been funded multiple times by the National Science Foundation to study disasters and vulnerable populations, including the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami. Her published research can be found in a variety of journals, including the International Journal of Mass Emergencies and Disasters, Disaster Prevention, Disasters, Humanity and Society, The Journal of Emergency Management, Natural Hazards Review, and Environmental Hazards, among others. She is the co-author of Introduction to Emergency Management, the author of Disaster Recovery, and the lead editor of Social Vulnerability to Disaster. In 2009, she served as the lead researcher for the National Council on Disability Projects, titled \u201cEffective Emergency Management: Making Improvements for Communities and People with Disabilities.\u201d She is a graduate of Bluffton University, Ohio, and The Ohio State University. Please join me in welcoming Dr. Brenda Phillips.\nDr. Brenda D. Phillips: Hello, everyone. Allow me to also thank quickly the people that Bill mentioned, the GRDA, EPI Global, and the Gender and Disaster Network. I also want to thank Bill for a great introduction to this content and Roxane for the kind words. It\u2019s great to see so many familiar names among the attendees that are with us today. Thank you for joining us from around the world.\nBefore I begin, I want to also thank Elaine Enarson, who\u2019s been a colleague for many years. I\u2019m going to base many of my comments on the work that Elaine and I have done together.\nI\u2019ve been asked to speak on theory and practice, and I want to move to that. I want to talk about theory and practice and blending that and to suggest that it\u2019s really important that we connect evidence with best practices and that we use theory to generate that evidence. We use theory in order to sensitize ourselves to things that we might not be thinking about. We use theory to generate insights, to explain what we\u2019re seeing, and to predict what might happen in a disaster situation. We tie it to practice to identify holes in planning, preparedness, and response. In my classes, I have heard people frequently say, \u201cYou know, I never thought of that before.\u201d Especially when we\u2019re talking about issues of gender, disability, race, ethnicity, and homophobia. So we really need to use theory to identify a fuller range of those at risk, to increase stakeholder involvement, and to try to build capacity of those at risk.\nWe shouldn\u2019t fear theory. Sometimes we think it\u2019s that ivory-tower thing, but really, we use theory every day to explain why a relationship might be failing, to look at a recipe and see if we changed the liquid in it, what will happen. We also use it to try to figure out what kinds of shelter arrangements might be perfect for a particular situation. What\u2019s the best layout for people with disabilities, or to prevent gender-based violence?\nSo we use theory all the time, and my feeling is that there are so many theories and so little time that I wanted to focus on one that I\u2019ve used the most and I\u2019ve worked on with Elaine, and that\u2019s the feminist theory, or as we like to say, \u201cDare to use the F-word!\u201d A feminist is someone who\u2019s concerned with differential risks that people experience because of gender. It could be because of being female, but also because of being male as well. In our field we link those gender-based risks to poverty, income, disability, development status, or sexuality. For example, we would be concerned because of being sensitized by theory to look at what\u2019s happening in terms of violence against women and children. We have been seeing increased evidence of human trafficking of girls in disasters like the tsunami. We have seen assaults taking place in the relief camps in Haiti. And certainly we\u2019ve had tremendous problems with post-disaster domestic violence and increased suicide after Hurricane Katrina here in the U.S.\nBut also male-dominated professions bear a higher risk of exposure to violence as well. We think about the police, firefighters, and our military, who are subjected to line-of-duty deaths, terrorist attacks, and of course we lost so many of our police and firefighters in the U.S. after 9/11. And that\u2019s a historically male-dominated profession.\nBut there are also traditional roles that compel men and women to behave in gender-constrained ways with significant consequences, as Bill hinted at in his presentation. I think, for example, about the impact of Hurricane Mitch on Honduras, and about men feeling compelled to remain behind on hillsides to protect the precious assets that they have and losing their lives as a consequence of that. We also saw a higher loss of life among African American men in New Orleans after Katrina who were socially isolated as a result of a number of historic processes that marginalize men on the basis of race and ethnicity and also create social isolation on the basis of gender.\nWe\u2019re also concerned with lack of access that lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgendered partners would experience during a disaster event, the potential loss of their property and their resources because of the lack of legal rights that they experience, or because organizations simply fail to respond to their needs.\nSome sampling of feminist theory, and we could go on and on for quite a long time, but I\u2019ll just share three theoretical perspectives briefly to get us thinking about this. That would be liberal feminism, which is concerned with rights, justice, and opportunities; multiracial feminism, which is concerned with the exclusion of women of color by mainstream feminists; and feminist political ecology theory, which is concerned with gender and environmental justice. In other words, there are multiple strands or ways of thinking about the positions that women and children in particular experience or that might affect men.\nSo let\u2019s look at liberal feminism first. This is where a feminist tends to work within the system, tries to work on rights that are concerned with equal rights, equality of access. A feminist who is liberal would be concerned with equal opportunity and with inclusion. So liberal feminists might look at the practical needs of women and children in a disaster event and how we can adapt institutions or compel institutions to adapt in terms of child care, domestic violence, employment, or housing access. How we might be able to recruit and retain women in disaster recovery organizations, really paying attention to what happens to women in disaster-vulnerable populations and locations.\nThere\u2019s research that documents that we have been exclusionary in terms of involving women in the planning process and involving them in organizations. So a liberal feminist would want that to happen, to bring women into the fold and to make them a part of the process. A liberal feminist might want to target women-owned businesses and female-dominated nonprofits during recovery and economic programs to make sure that women have a fair share of the relief supplies that are being offered and the monies that are being offered as well. That\u2019s why you see so many micro-scale projects that are given in places like Gujarat after the earthquake in India to try to get micro-businesses going, which can truly make the difference between starving and not starving for women and their families.\nLet\u2019s take a look, then, at multi-racial feminist theory. Multi-racial feminists have critiqued liberal feminists and the women\u2019s rights movement as being historically exclusionary and doing things that have tended to benefit white women. In the U.S., for example, the affirmative action programs that were put in place tended to benefit white women more so than any other women of color. It\u2019s frustrating, because that wasn\u2019t the intent, but that has happened historically. So multi-racial feminists try to get us to think about how exclusionary that trend has been, those movements have been, saying that we have to seek out a more diverse array of perspectives, talents, and resources and to understand impacts differentially and that gender alone is not the only variable that could impact people\u2019s disaster experiences.\nI gave the example of African American men being disproportionately affected earlier. That work by Peter Sharkey was extremely influential in our thinking about how it is that gender and race intersect in a disaster scenario. Multi-racial feminist theory would direct us to involve organizations that empower women of color, and to pay them for their contributions. Very few organizations do that, assuming that we\u2019ll just invite people from the community and that we will pat them on the back for their contributions, but in fact we need to be rewarding them and paying them for their time.\nTo build social networks between women\u2019s groups involving women of color in recovery activities, to facilitate the active participation of women from underrepresented groups in disaster recovery planning, and to target women leaders from diverse cultural groups for leadership positions in recovery and staff and voluntary organizations. And Bill would suggest, I\u2019m sure, that stratification theory tells us that we do not search adequately for talent, and that we need to do so.\nLet\u2019s look at feminist political ecology theory very briefly. It asks us to be concerned with the environment and its impacts upon women. If we think, for example, about the oil spill that happened in the U.S. Gulf, what are the effects of that spill on women\u2019s bodies, on their reproductive systems? We need to conduct risk assessments for women and girls when these disasters occur, to involve them in mitigation planning, to increase networking with the organizations that matter to them, along with environmental justice and sustainable development organizations, and to integrate women into local health and safety issues, including technological disasters and hazardous materials, for long-term research on the effects of these substances for women and children.\nBill\u2019s already mentioned the gender and disaster network, so I\u2019ll just direct you to go to this network and encourage you to download the significant amount of resources available at this free, friendly, and foremost organization.\nwww.GDNOnline.org\nIf you\u2019d like to email me at Branda.Phillips@OKState.edu, I\u2019ll be glad to send you additional resources, including some of these mentioned here, links to the Gender and Disaster Network, for example. And I believe we do have somebody with us today, Damairia Pakpahan from Indonesia, and I will just stop to acknowledge that Damai is the winner of this year\u2019s 2012 Mary Fran Myers Award. It\u2019s been announced on the Boulder website of the Gender and Disaster website, and we want to congratulate her for working on behalf of human rights, justice, and democracy in Indonesia and for sharing what she knows with the world. Thank you, Damairia.\nI\u2019ll pass this back over to Roxane.\nSuggested resources: Elaine Enarson and Brenda Phillips. 2008. \u201cInvitation to a new Feminist Disaster Sociology: integrating feminist theory and methods.\u201d Pp. 41-74 in Women and Disasters: from theory to practice, ed. B. Phillips and B.H. Morrow.\nGender and Disaster Network sample resources:\nVulnerability analysis tools: http://www.gdnonline.org/sourcebook/chapt/sec_view.php?id=2§id=2.2.\nGender-based violence tools and links: http://www.gdnonline.org/sourcebook/chapt/doc_view.php?id=2&docid=41.\nPractice guides and checklists: http://www.gdnonline.org/sourcebook/chapt/sec_view.php?id=2§id+2.3.\nRoxane Richter: Wonderful. Thank you so much, Dr. Phillips, for that compelling presentation.\n\u201cReal World Fully-Inclusive Emergency Management\u201d\nRoxane Richter: Our third and final speaker today is Hal Newman. Hal has learned the craft of telling compelling stories in an environment where deadlines often included life and death, making the transition from paramedic firefighter to creative writer seems perfectly sensible to him. So does writing in burning buildings. Hal has developed the ability to listen, communication, persuade, and collaborate. He enjoys trying to do that in 140 characters or less without committing grave grammatical crimes.\nThe Positive Paramedic Project on Big Medicine offers an nugget of EMS organizational wisdom every day. You can review his theories at the following website:\nhttp://bigmedicine.ca/wordpress/category/tribal_elders/hal-newman/\nHal Newman lives in a small town where Quebec embraces Vermont. He can be reached by email at hnewman@tems.ca. Please join in welcoming Hal Newman.\nHal Newman: Thanks for the invite, and thanks for the wonderful intro, Roxane. I\u2019m humbled to have been asked to participate in this webinar. I\u2019d just like to start by saying that the name Big Medicine is a nod of respect to a First Nations expression that roughly translated means, \u201cThe right people working together at the right time will be big medicine.\u201d I\u2019ve been saying, \u201cBe well. Practice big medicine\u201d for as long as I can remember. It\u2019s my own personal version of \u201cSawubona,\u201d a Zulu greeting which means, \u201cI see you. I see all of you. I see your good works, and I see the difference you are making in the world.\u201d\nMy observations are on a personal level with a global view. I represent no one but myself. So if I offend, I apologize, but please take it up with me and not with our gracious hosts.\nAs Roxane said, we live out in the country where Vermont meets Quebec with a hug and a kiss on both cheeks. There are 3,000 people who live in our town. We are far outnumbered by the number of cows, pigs, and horses who call the rolling hills home. For me, fully inclusive gender-aware emergency management is a lofty description for what small communities have been doing for years. When bad things happen, we take care of one another. When a tree fell on our home last summer, it was our neighbor who arrived at 4 a.m. with concern, a chain saw, and a pick-up truck. When our friend Lucy Peterson died suddenly last May at the age of 52, it was the community that drew together to ensure her family would find a way through the tragedy. The ladies of the tiny village cooked so many casseroles that Howard, Lindsay, and Cheryl were embarrassed to find the kitchen filled with such an abundance of food. Neighboring farmers pitched in to help Howard bring in the hay, and a protective barrier of love and respect was erected to ensure that the family could grieve in private.\nThere was no plan. It is the way it has been forever.\nObservation number two. My observation is that when everyone has a common goal, everyone has a role. Recently our big black dog Mateo, who\u2019s being very gracious and not barking in the background at the moment, began barking very aggressively. He was tied out on the back porch, where he provides a measure of security for our laying hens as they take their morning wander. When we heard him going ballistic, we immediately thought there was some type of predator making a run at the chickens. A quick look outside and we were stunned to see a large black Angus bull who had crossed the fence line from the neighboring farm. He was staring down Mateo, who quite clearly had not done any type of serious risk-benefit analysis and was in hackles-up, full-out barking-defense-of-the-house mode.\nWith Mateo safely inside the house, I headed over to the Roy farm to tell J.T. one of his cows was in our garden. He was gone for the day, and his wife sent me home with a bucket full of feed and instructions on how to lead the cow back through the hole in the fence. With ignorance and bliss as my travel companions, I headed back to bring the beastie home, as if it was a big wayward dog. I came home to a surreal scene. My wife Diane and several other motorists had used their vehicles to try and corral the bull and prevent him from running over a highway overpass into town. Our daughter Emma had made a mad dash to her school bus and was happily leaving the insanity of life in the country for the relative quiet of high school.\nThe interesting thing about Mr. Bull\u2019s visit to our home was that peace was restored and Mr. Bull was returned to his farm, and that whole efforts involved several dozen folks and a couple of semi-trailers, and all these people became involved without so much as an informal invitation. There wasn\u2019t any time. There was no type of command structure whatsoever, and there was no official guidance. The entire women-led operation took about 90 minutes, and no bulls or people were injured. I found it interesting that Mr. Bull came for an unexpected visit and was successfully brought home by a group of strangers who came together with a common goal and found an essential role for everyone who wanted to become involved. No formal emergency services were ever involved, leading me to observation number three, which occurred when immediately post-Hurricane Katrina, I found myself in Mississippi with my colleagues Peg Blackman and Ray Lynch as part of EPI NOD\u2019s SNAKE team, Special Needs Assessment For Katrina Evacuees.\nWhat we found was an official process that had disintegrated in the face of Katrina\u2019s wind fields and tidal surges. The most vulnerable members of the population were left to fend for themselves, until faith-based and community grassroots organizations stepped into the breach and created unlikely networks built of care and necessity. My third observation was that people were much more likely to turn to their fellow church-goers for help than to seek out assistance from county or state officials. The federal government was a civics lesson long since forgotten. Someone said it\u2019s not that the feds had focused so much on Jesus Christ, but rather that the church provided a social anchor in every town and every community.\nMy work with Big Med allows me to tour the world of emergency management from my little corner of paradise here in the country. My fourth observation is that with the occasional wondrous exception, the wheels typically fall of the response wagon at the precise moment officials get involved in the planning process. My favorite exception to that observation is a community in Australia called\u2014my apologies in advance for butchering what reads like a beautiful name\u2014Mary Bernong [?] in Victoria State. And if there\u2019s anyone on the line from Australia, or from Victoria State, my apologies. A city with a population of nearly 75,000, nearly 40% of its residents were born outside of Australia. Residents come from 135 different nations and speak 85 languages. People with a disability are important members of the community. One in five residents has a disability. One in every five overseas-born person does not speak English well or at all. Thirty-two percent of the households have no Internet connection. The city has a gender equity statement shared proudly on its website.\nWhat captured my imagination was Mary Bernong\u2019s emergency relief center management guidelines for culturally and linguistically diverse groups. I will provide the link so that you may be able to access the guidelines for your own review and consideration.\nThe background information should be required reading for all emergency managers. They\u2019re an education unto themselves. \u201cThere aren\u2019t elderly Burundians in the community due to the genocide which took place in Africa.\u201d \u201cThe perception that staff in uniform are scary is due to experiences in home countries, thus there is reluctance to get involved with or seek assistance from staff in uniform.\u201d Mary Bernong\u2019s efforts were born out of Emergency Management Australia\u2019s Guidelines for Emergency Management in Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Communities, from which I\u2019ve pulled this very interesting expert.\n\u201cOne agency involved in emergency management sought to engage with Horn of Africa women to determine their experiences of the emergency services within their state. Many women actively contributed to the consultation process, and this resulted in a comprehensive and highly informative report. The project further strengthened the relationship between this government body and a vulnerable community group. However, the parameters of the project had not been clearly articulated, and the expectation by community participants that the relevant agencies was act on issues was not identified. When it was explained that this government body could not impose the project recommendations on emergency services agencies for action, the community participants felt confused and disappointed. If the process had involved a clear understanding of the limitations of that government body\u2019s role, then this disappointment may have been avoided. The project did achieve a detailed profile of the Horn of Africa women\u2019s needs, and the profile was shared among the emergency services. This resulted in increased awareness of issues within those agencies, and one agency in particular took up the issues presented in the research and worked with the relevant group to address them. For example, the agency trained Horn of Africa women in community education programs, and they now work as community facilitators, imparting safety messages within their communities.\u201d\nWhat I find fascinating is, that city detailed their entire process and have put it up online so the rest of us can share in what went right and what went wrong. I\u2019ll briefly touch on Auckland, New Zealand, city council\u2019s emergency management office, and also in New Zealand, Manakau [?] city council\u2019s emergency management office, both of which practice fully inclusive emergency management and work extensively with multiple communities and ensure that gender plays an important role in the emergency planning process.\nFinally, in the UK, I\u2019ve noticed many fire services have taken on a much greater role than simply providing fire and rescue services. They have become the center of their community, providing English as a second language courses, emergency preparedness programs for recent arrivals, working with young people, partnering with schools and community groups, crafting innovative partnerships with disability support networks, all in an effort to become as fully inclusive as possible.\nAnd my parting notes are, we live out here in the country, and when we go away, we ask our neighbors to check in on our chickens. I guess my parting note to you is to say, \u201cBe well, practice big medicine, and please take care of each others\u2019 chickens.\u201d Thanks for the opportunity.\nElizabeth Davis: Thank you, Hal, for those parting remarks, and for taking care not only of chickens, but also that wayward bull as well.\nElizabeth Davis: This is Elizabeth Davis, and we\u2019re moving into the question and answer section of today\u2019s webinar. First, I want to thank those of you who have already sent in some questions. It\u2019s going to be my job to filter them for the remaining time that we have together. What I\u2019d like to do is try to summarize a very complex issue and a long question that has been asked to go to Dr. Brenda Phillips, but I do think any of the speakers could probably address it or chime in as well. Dr. Phillips, the question is based around the concept that women are often more vulnerable because they have less access to the resources because of the gender division of labor, because of their role as primary caregivers. Often that is what prevents them from participation in recovery, the need to support family in recovery first, before their own need to participate in community recovery. So the question boils down to almost two parts: what does disaster mean to everyday reality for so many women across the world? And can natural disasters actually be used as a platform for social change?\nDr. Brenda Phillips: Thanks for the question. I think that\u2019s a very good one, and I would certainly agree that we do see differential vulnerability for women and girls, and one of those consequences is an increased burden on women in the aftermath of disasters. They\u2019re the ones who stand in relief lines. They\u2019re the ones who tend to pursue issues related to applications or to aid. They\u2019re the ones that tend to form protest organizations to say, \u201cWe need to have a more equitable distribution of things.\u201d On top of women having a deeper burden, they also tend to be the ones that step up quite well. Some of the things that we can do would be to try to decrease that burden in some ways, trying to make relief agencies understand what it is they are asking of women. Sometimes we see women struggling to get resources in developing countries because they are pushed out of the lines. So we need to make sure that we have distribution centers that safeguard women in terms of their access to those supplies, maybe even targeting women and girls for those.\nMicro-loans are absolutely essential to go to women in the aftermath of a disaster, especially in developing nations, so that they have a chance to be able to earn a livelihood, which also increases their power within the families, their abilities to speak up, their confidence levels, and their have been some successful efforts doing that in India and Turkey and other locations, like the Self-Employed Women\u2019s Association of India (SEWA). When women get together and talk about that, they absolutely have the chance to network and build connections and build power in their comments.\nThe other issue mentioned is day care, and I would agree that\u2019s a critically important one. We saw that in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina, and we saw some great examples of faith-based organizations coming in and helping to restructure and set up day care centers so that women could go back to work to earn money for their families, to gain power in their families, and to become more influential in their households and their communities. Let me pass that over to anyone else that wants to speak.\nElizabeth Davis: Do either of the other speakers wish to add to that? [pause] OK. Then in that case, what I\u2019d like to do is pose a question to any of the speakers to maybe give a bullet-point list of two or three points where we think we can start in reducing the vulnerability within our own communities. I\u2019ll let the attendees define community for themselves. But if we might be able to offer those starting points, building on what Dr. Phillips just pointed out, how do we really get to the root and the core? Any speaker can take that first.\nDr. William Lovekamp: Hi. This is Bill again. I don\u2019t hear anyone else jumping in yet, so I\u2019ll go ahead and say a few things and answer that question in the way that I see. One of the things that I wanted to mention also in connection with what Brenda just said is, I think about this issue of vulnerability, and we\u2019ve been working on this vulnerability book, and it\u2019s very important to realize that, at least in my mind, I don\u2019t see vulnerability as meaning a weakness, and I wouldn\u2019t dare tell my wife that she\u2019s more vulnerable and equate that to being a weakness. But what it does mean is that there are unique sets of vulnerabilities for everyone, and we need to make sure that we talk with the people who are most disaster-affected when we\u2019re trying to respond, that we talk to the community members and we figure out exactly what they need and what they want if we\u2019re going in as professionals or researchers or emergency services personnel. That is answering the second question.\nI think it\u2019s really important, and Hal and Brenda both mentioned this, that when you\u2019re addressing these needs, when you\u2019re trying to do these assessments of what your community needs, however you define it, you need to talk also to the organizations that are active at the grassroots level all the time, every day, the nongovernmental organizations, the nonprofit organizations, and the religious organizations.\nDr. Brenda Phillips: I\u2019ll identify my community as education, since I suspect that Hal\u2019s going to be able to have some great last words about community. My community with education, I know there are at least four Ph.D. students on this webinar, to me, what they are going to do in terms of integrating theory and research with practice is really critically important. So in addition to the work that we do in our communities to empower women and to make a difference in their households, I think we also need to have people that have that vision to connect up all of those elements to make a difference.\nHal Newman: I so agree with Bill and Brenda. I think that on a community level, it\u2019s like a quilting network. That\u2019s what we need, we need people who can put it together. We need people who think openly, and quite frankly, in emergency management in this part of the world, it\u2019s still an old boys\u2019 club. We need to lose that. I\u2019m the father of daughters, he said proudly. [laughs]\nElizabeth Davis: What I need to do, unfortunately, as moderator, is actually bring this to a close for today. One of the things that we as organizers, and I speak on behalf of EPI Global as well as USGDRA, is, it\u2019ll be our responsibility as we move forward through the remaining four parts of this series, to adjust our format to allow for more question time. But I do want to thank each of the three speakers. I want to thank the huge number of responding attendees who have joined us today and taken time out of their very busy schedules from all over the globe to be with us. I understand and appreciate that for some of you, that equates to a crazy time in the middle of the morning.\nWhat we would like to do is, in the last minute, remind you all that there will be a survey coming up immediately following this presentation\u2019s ending. It addresses six questions to you. It\u2019ll take less than one minute to complete. It deals with not only content but also the technology that we shared today to try to bring these speakers to everybody. We would be immensely grateful if you would spend that one minute filling out the survey to enable us to increase the usefulness of these webinars to our audience.\nI also want to point out, as we\u2019ve received a lot of questions today while this was going on, the verbatim recording of this session along with a transcription of the recording, will be made available after the session. We are going to strive to have those both up by the end of the month. Be patient with us as we get that pulled together. And the materials that the speakers addressed and the references they\u2019ve made will be available to all of you through that source. So with that, I want to close today\u2019s webinar by thanking everybody for their time and energy and most importantly, for your interest in this very, very important topic. We thank you so much for the work that you do every day in your communities, and we really do look forward to a continued dialogue. Thank you so much! We\u2019ll see you on the next session.", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00240.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 155, + "original_length": 53089, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.97, + "perplexity": 227.0, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "http://www.esalesusa.com/art-collectibles/egyptian/1406-horus-falcon-statue.php", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T03:43:49Z", + "digest": "sha1:WPP5BIUOZDUU3LGDCX2BM5XAOESJWDLC", + "length": 1353, + "nlines": 6, + "source_domain": "www.esalesusa.com", + "title": "eSalesUSA.com - Egyptian Horus Falcon - Statue", + "raw_content": "Egyptian Horus Falcon - Statue\nEgyptian Deity of the Sky & Sun, Represented in Falcon Form\nDimensions: 8 \u00bd\" H x 3\" W x 4 \u00bd\" D\nEgyptian Horus Falcon - Statue - $52.99\nHorus was known as God of the Sky and Sun in Ancient Egypt, and refers to two separate deities of Ancient Egyptian Religion: Horus the Elder (Heru-ur) and Horus the Younger (Heru-pa-khart), as well as a number of minor deities. The original form of Horus is thought to be God of the Sky - his name meaning 'high' or 'distant'. He was seen as a great falcon with large outstretched wings, whose right eye was the sun and left eye was the moon. One of his sky-god forms was 'Nekheny', meaning 'he of Nekhen' or Hierakonopolis.\nSince the Falcon God Horus was said to be the sky, he was considered to also contain the Sun and Moon. They traversed the Egyptian sky when Horus, as a falcon, flew across it. Horus became known as Harmerty - 'Horus of two eyes'. The Ancient Egyptian explanation for the sun shining brighter than the moon was explained by a tale known as the contestings of Horus and Set, which was a metaphor for the conquest of Lower Egypt by Upper Egypt around 3000 B.C. It was said that Set, the patron of Upper Egypt, and Horus, the patron of Lower Egypt, engaged in a battle for control of Egypt. Neither side was victorious, until eventually the deities sided with Horus.", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00240.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 17, + "original_length": 2623, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.98, + "perplexity": 262.5, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "http://www.escapeartist.com/blog/sabines-corner-best-austrian-comfort-food-youll-find-belize/", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T03:21:15Z", + "digest": "sha1:LL6KQSS2MOQHNATY4HJDWCQVX44A7QLA", + "length": 4780, + "nlines": 15, + "source_domain": "www.escapeartist.com", + "title": "Sabine\u2019s Corner: The Best Austrian Comfort Food You\u2019ll Find in Belize - EscapeArtist", + "raw_content": "Sabine\u2019s Corner: The Best Austrian Comfort Food You\u2019ll Find in Belize\nUpon arriving on the island, I was greeted by a coworker who took us to the office and offered us our first meal in Belize. When I landed I was pretty hungry, so I was willing to eat anything. The lunch was a simple salad with grilled chicken, corn, tomato, and the best croutons I\u2019ve ever had in my life. We were told the salads came from Sabine\u2019s Corner and to visit when we were looking for a place to eat dinner. This quickly escaped my mind, because I learned so much that day that it was hard for me to process anything fully.\nAfter a few days of getting situated, I found myself thinking about the croutons that we had and wanted to revisit that delicious experience. I was pleased to learn that the home of those croutons was just a few minute\u2019s walk from the office.\nNaturally, being new to the island, I was willing to try anything and everything. Like most of my experiences in Ambergris, I was accompanied by my good friend that I traveled to Belize with. We walked into Sabine\u2019s Corner and were greeted by a smiling tattooed woman that we later learned was Sabine herself. The dining room looked like it was located on a porch, and the rest of the restaurant could have been a small house complete with a full bar.\nThe dining area features five tables and is decorated with lights and a variety of hand-written and printed signs, with one big sign that reads, \u201cSabine\u2019s Corner: Austrian Comfort Food.\u201d There was only one table open; the rest were filled with people eating or sitting satisfied with their full stomachs.\nWe sat down and Sabine excitedly offered the special for the evening, meatloaf. I knew immediately that\u2019s what I wanted. It was delicious. I\u2019m not a food critic, so I can\u2019t tell you all of the ingredients I tasted or describe the texture (or any other food-related descriptors), but I can tell you that this meatloaf was everything that was promised to me; hot, tasty, and comforting. The meal was filling and satisfying. She asked if we saved room for dessert. I hadn\u2019t, but we split a fried Snickers bar anyway. Again, it was amazing.\nSince our first visit, we have been hooked. Almost daily we contemplate walking down the street just to see what the specials of the day are. We\u2019ve fallen into the habit of visiting Sabine every Tuesday. We walk from the office and are greeted by Sabine\u2019s enthusiasm. She\u2019ll tell us the specials, which always sound delicious, or encourages us to try the schnitzel, her favorite item on the menu. The food comes out fast, a factor that I find to be the most satisfying because I\u2019m very hungry by the time the work day has come to an end. Meals at Sabine\u2019s always leave me stuffed. My favorite meal so far has been the stuffed peppers.\nI began noticing a trend on the island. Many of the restaurants and businesses are owned by expatriates. I thought it was amazing that people from all over the world were coming to Ambergris and opening restaurants, grocery stores, and businesses. The mixture is eclectic and I began to wonder how everyone found themselves on the island and opening up shop. I selected Sabine\u2019s as my first place to explore.\nSabine is a graphic designer from Grac, Austria, and continues to practice graphic design while on the island, working remotely. Her parents, Elizabeth and Eddy, were on a trip to several Central American countries and found themselves in Ambergris Caye permanently. Two months later, Sabine joined them and hasn\u2019t looked back. She said she loves it here and has no plans of leaving. She says the weather is perfect and she has everything she needs here.\nSabine\u2019s family are very active members of the community. Elizabeth runs the kitchen, cooking out of the small kitchen in the back. She prepares the food that her family grew up on. Sharing her cooking talents with the people on the island is a gift, one that I will remember after my time here. Elizabeth\u2019s husband, Eddy, teaches exercise classes in the area.\nWhen she\u2019s not working, Sabine loves to sing. I\u2019ve had the chance to hear her sing karaoke at Crazy Canucks and she is very talented. One gentleman I talked to compared her singing ability to that of Janis Joplin.\nGoing to Crazy Canucks and seeing expatriates and vacationers coming together is an inspiring image. People from different countries and backgrounds have all found beauty in Ambergris Caye and have made it their homes or their favorite place to visit. Ambergris Caye, Belize, is a true community and is always growing.\nIf you\u2019re ever visiting San Pedro and are looking for a nice home-cooked meal, I highly recommend Sabine\u2019s Corner. Try the schnitzel!\nReady to Retire in Europe? A How-to-Guide to Retirement Outside of the U.S.\nGETTING SECOND CITIZENSHIP IN ANTIGUA", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00240.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 198, + "original_length": 15323, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.98, + "perplexity": 285.7, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "http://www.espn.com/blog/collegebasketballnation/post/_/id/100285/iowa-states-morris-no-longer-little-man-man", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T04:48:55Z", + "digest": "sha1:E2TDAXNGVVXYMRWZAWZXDRGILNDOGJSZ", + "length": 7467, + "nlines": 35, + "source_domain": "www.espn.com", + "title": "Monte Morris growing into role as Iowa State Cyclones point guard - Men's College Basketball Blog- ESPN", + "raw_content": "Monte Morris no longer little Man-Man\nAs is often the case with these sorts of things, Latonia Morris had no idea she was crafting a new identity for her little boy on that day all those years ago.\nThen the junior varsity basketball coach at Beecher High School in Flint, Michigan, Morris watched as her 4-year-old son, Monte, tried to execute a left-handed layup.\n\u201cHe could do the steps, but he couldn\u2019t get the ball up to the basket,\" Latonia remembered. \u201cI said, \u2018Oh, he\u2019s just a little man-man.'\"\nGo to Flint today and ask for Monte Morris and you might get a raised eyebrow. Correct yourself and request \"Man-Man\" Morris and folks will nod knowingly.\nSoon, the nickname might extend across state lines. Man-Man is now a man, a 19-year-old sophomore at Iowa State and, by the end of this season, he very well could be The Man.\nMonte Morris matured tremendously during his freshman season at Iowa State and is expected to be the man to lead the Cyclones in 2014-15. Tom Pennington/Getty Images\nAfter setting an NCAA record with a 4.79 assist-to-turnover ratio (an eye-popping 6.9 in Big 12 games) in an off-guard/backup role for the Cyclones, Man-Man will be the full-time point guard for Fred Hoiberg\u2019s team, in charge of guiding a squad that is built on Hoiberg\u2019s familiar recipe for success -- combining immediate impact transfers with hard-working recruits.\nMan-Man will have at his disposal a healthy and newly slimmed-down Georges Niang, plus senior Dustin Hogue, UNLV transfer Bryce Dejean-Jones and Northern Illinois transfer Abdel Nader. That roster will only spark the expectations of a fervent fan base that has been enjoying the sweet (16) taste of success under Hoiberg, and wishing for more.\n\u201cWe\u2019ve only had two workouts with the whole team, but in the two practices that we\u2019ve had, his group is so much further ahead and that\u2019s because of him,\" Hoiberg said. \u201cHe puts everybody in the right spot all the time. He\u2019s just so smart, he understands angles and he has such a great feel for making the right play.\"\nHe has always been that way, treating the ball like an extension of himself. Latonia remembers cooking in the kitchen while Man-Man hoisted pretend layups over her head, and conversations held while he distractedly dribbled an invisible ball at his hip. In the summer, the staccato drumbeats of a bouncing ball were almost like white noise in the house.\nNot that she minded. Latonia, who raised Monte by herself, was an opportunist as a basketball player much like her son. Only 5-foot-2, she played the point and scored when needed, topping 1,000 points in her high school career.\nShe still has a pretty good shot, but since her son learned how to dunk, she has bagged real games of one-on-one in exchange for Pop-A-Shot throwdowns. There are even his and hers videos of mother and son going at it on Instagram.\nKnowing that his size might be a hindrance, Latonia encouraged her son, whose talent was recognized early by area coaches, to play up in order to get better. So for the better part of his life, Man-Man was the youngest and the smallest kid on his team -- a fifth grader among eighth graders, a seventh grader going toe to toe with high schoolers.\n\u201cThey were always that much faster and stronger than me, so I had to find different ways to protect the ball,\" Man-Man said. \u201cThey would shoot the gaps faster, steal the ball more, so that showed me at a young age what passes not to make. That just stayed with me.\"\nGrowing up in Flint, there are, of course, two college options for a basketball-playing kid: Michigan or Michigan State. The Spartans, whose Flintstones -- Mateen Cleaves, Charlie Bell and Morris Peterson -- led MSU to the 2000 championship, were tops in Man-Man\u2019s heart, so much so that he\u2019d visit most weekends and declared at an early age that he, too, would play in East Lansing.\nOnly trouble, Michigan State never really recruited him eagerly. Man-Man was good in high school -- he\u2019d eventually lead Beecher to back-to-back state titles and three times earn Class C player of the year -- but the 160 pounds stretched across a tiny 6-foot-1 frame didn\u2019t look much like a Big Ten body.\nRejected by Michigan State, he looked across the state toward Ann Arbor, where John Beilein did show interest. By his junior year, Man-Man was ready to become a Wolverine.\nAnd then Derrick Walton beat him to it, pledging to Michigan early.\n\u201cThat was my only real chance to stay in Michigan,\" Man-Man said.\nAdmittedly disappointed, he turned his attention to Iowa State. Hoiberg sold Man-Man on the chance to make an immediate impact and called on the Cyclones' surprisingly successful pipeline from Flint to Ames, dating back to Johnny Orr\u2019s days, when the ex-Michigan head coach brought his recruiting ties to Iowa. Jeff Grayer, Barry Stevens, and Justus Thigpen are all Flint natives and all rank among Iowa State\u2019s top scorers.\nMan-Man made a verbal commitment the June before his senior year. That season he would lead Beecher to its second state title, earn Michigan Mr. Basketball honors as well as a Parade All-American nod.\nAnd then along came his breakout freshman season, one that surprised even Hoiberg. Man-Man wasn\u2019t even a starter in Iowa State\u2019s first 19 games, but eventually Hoiberg realized \u201cwe couldn\u2019t afford to not have him on the floor,\" and Man-Man moved into the first five in the final 17 games.\nTake that, Michigan and Michigan State.\n\u201cFor sure,\" Man-Man admitted. \u201cA lot of people weren\u2019t sure I could play at this level and then I went out there in the Big 12 and held my own. I felt like I showed the country some glimpses of what I can do.\"\nFrom her vantage point in Flint, Latonia saw the glimpses, too -- the double-digit scoring in the three NCAA tournament games, only 17 turnovers in those 17 games as a starter.\nBut hers weren\u2019t just a peek into her son\u2019s basketball success.\nFor the better par of Man-Man\u2019s childhood, Latonia spent every weekend traveling from one AAU tournament to the next. Though she would have liked it if her son had stayed close to home for college, in a way she also was happy. She knew the strings between mother and son were strong and perhaps better sliced, if not altogether severed.\nHe needed his independence and to find his own footing, so she dialed back her travel in his senior year of high school, preparing Man-Man for the inevitable -- when college came and mom was 600 miles away.\nThe beginning of his Iowa State career wasn\u2019t easy. DeAndre Kane pulled no punches with the rookie -- \u201cHe\u2019d walk in the gym and say, \u2018It\u2019s gonna be a long one, freshman,\" Man-Man remembered -- and even for a guy accustomed to playing up, the adjustment was real.\n\u201cHe\u2019d bump into me, post me up, elbow me,\" Man-Man said. \u201cThere was nothing I could do about it. He had me by 40 pounds. I wasn\u2019t ready for that.\"\nMan-Man took his lumps stoically and did what he always has done. He kept working, using his brain to make up for his lack of brawn, attacking practice and the weight room, becoming so invaluable to Hoiberg that the coach altered his lineup to get him in the game.\nThe player who will lead the Cyclones this season is a changed one, not only in body (he\u2019s up to 175 pounds) but also in name.\n\u201cI noticed that our conversations started to change maybe in the middle of the school year,\" Latonia said. \u201cI could tell in his voice and what he was talking about, he had matured. He grew up. He wasn\u2019t really Man-Man anymore. He was Monte.\"\nOr perhaps simply, a man.", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00240.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 163, + "original_length": 10312, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.98, + "perplexity": 308.4, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "http://www.eurocupbasketball.com/eurocup/competition/players/showplayer?pcode=LPH&seasoncode=U2011", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T03:49:47Z", + "digest": "sha1:RBKAUVP565YMQ3H2TCURKXC75XUIVDVC", + "length": 3540, + "nlines": 56, + "source_domain": "www.eurocupbasketball.com", + "title": "ANDERSON, JERMAINE - Welcome to 7DAYS EuroCup", + "raw_content": "ANDERSON, JERMAINE\nHeight: 1.89 Born: 8 February, 1983 Nationality: Canada\nAverages 14 14 29:01 10.4 47.2% 36.4% 88.2% 0.4 2.4 2.8 3 0.4 2.1 0.1 0.6 1.9 2 9.1\n13 * vs Valencia Basket 30:59 15 2/4 3/6 2/2 2 2 3 1 2 3 2 13\n14 * at Valencia Basket 38:07 13 3/6 2/4 1/2 3 3 5 5 2 2 1 7\nAverage 34:33 14 50% 50% 75% 0 2.5 2.5 4 0.5 3.5 0 1 2.5 1.5 10\n7 * vs Spartak St Petersburg 24:38 11 1/4 2/3 3/3 2 2 1 1 1 1 9\n8 * at KRKA Novo Mesto 29:18 11 3/6 1/2 2/2 1 1 4 2 4 2 8\n9 * at Banvit Bandirma 25:07 10 1/3 2/3 2/2 3 3 2 1 1 1 1 12\n10 * vs Banvit Bandirma 32:10 16 4/5 2/6 2/2 5 5 3 3 1 1 16\n11 * at Spartak St Petersburg 30:24 8 3/5 0/1 2/2 3 3 1 3 2 3\n12 * vs KRKA Novo Mesto 30:35 6 2/7 0/5 2/2 4 4 2 1 2 2 1 2 3 3\nAverage 28:42 10.3 46.7% 35% 100% 0 2.5 2.5 2.5 0.3 1.8 0.3 0.7 1.8 1.7 8.5\n1 * vs PGE Turow 25:00 16 6/8 1/1 1/2 2 4 6 1 2 2 1 17\n2 * at Alba Berlin 29:44 4 2/10 0/1 2 1 3 5 2 1 1 3 2\n3 * at Belfius Mons-Hainaut 30:51 5 1/4 1/6 5 5 1 1 1 1 2\n4 * vs Belfius Mons-Hainaut 24:51 9 0/1 1/2 6/6 1 1 2 5 1 3 5 3 10\n5 * at PGE Turow 30:18 16 4/6 1/3 5/7 3 3 4 1 1 1 2 6 20\n6 * vs Alba Berlin 24:15 6 2/3 0/1 2/2 3 1 2 1 1 6\nAverage 27:29 9.3 46.9% 28.6% 82.4% 0.8 2.29 3.2 3.2 0.5 1.8 0 0.5 1.8 2.5 9.5\nIndex rating 20 PGE Turow Zgorzelec vs. Buducnost VOLI Podgorica 12/13/2011\nPoints 16 Buducnost VOLI Podgorica vs. Banvit Bandirma 2/7/2012\nOffensive rebounds 2 ALBA Berlin vs. Buducnost VOLI Podgorica 11/22/2011\nDefensive rebounds 5 Buducnost VOLI Podgorica vs. Banvit Bandirma 2/7/2012\nTotal rebounds 6 Buducnost VOLI Podgorica vs. PGE Turow Zgorzelec 11/15/2011\nAssists 5 Valencia Basket vs. Buducnost VOLI Podgorica 3/27/2012\nSteals 1 Buducnost VOLI Podgorica vs. Valencia Basket 3/20/2012\nBlocks 2 Buducnost VOLI Podgorica vs. KRKA Novo Mesto 2/28/2012\nMinutes 38 Valencia Basket vs. Buducnost VOLI Podgorica 3/27/2012\nPlayed college basketball at Fordham (2002-06).\nOn January'07 moved to Poland, signed by Polpak Swiecie.\nSigned for the 2007-08 season by Halifax Rainmen.\nBack to Germany on February'08, signed by Tigers Tuebingen.\nOn January'11 moved to Greece, signed by Panionios BC Athens.\nMoved to Croatia for the 2012-13 season, on November'12, signed by CIbona Zagreb.\nWon the 2012 Montenegrin National Cup with BC Buducnost Posdgorica.\nNamed to the 2005-06 All-Atlantic 10 2nd Team.\nMember of the Canadian National Team.\nPlayed at the 2005 and 2009 Americas Cup.\n2006-07 Brose Baskets 3 7 2.3 2/2 100 1/1 100 0/0 0 2 0 1 0\n2011-12 Buducnost VOLI Podgorica 14 146 10.4 34/72 47.2 16/44 36.4 30/34 88.2 39 6 42 2\n2012-13 Cibona Zagreb 1 0 0 0/1 0 0/1 0 0/0 0 2 0 1 0\nTotals 18 153 8.5 36/75 48 17/46 37 30/34 88.2 43 6 44 2\nAverages 18 153 8.5 36/75 48 17/46 37 30/34 88.2 2.4 0.3 2.4 0.1\n2002/03 Fordham 28 166 5.9 24/55 43.6 32/80 40 22/32 68.8 70 11 70 6\n2003/04 Fordham 22 145 6.6 30/59 50.8 20/59 33.9 25/36 69.4 56 19 58 3\n2004/05 Fordham 29 368 12.7 49/112 43.8 73/184 39.7 51/63 81 73 30 75 2\n2005/06 Fordham 32 499 15.6 70/156 44.9 89/215 41.4 92/108 85.2 118 21 109 5\n2006/07 Bamberg 8 19 2.4 2/7 28.6 4/21 19 3/4 75 5 3 5 2\nSwiecie 17 132 7.8 10/37 27 28/71 39.4 28/31 90.3 37 7 28 3\n2007/08 Tuebingen 15 208 13.9 36/63 57.1 36/80 45 28/31 90.3 44 11 39 1\n2008/09 Tuebingen 34 434 12.8 74/151 49 55/183 30.1 121/135 89.6 101 32 123 3\n2009/10 Cedevita 17 161 9.5 24/44 54.5 28/65 43.1 29/38 76.3 60 18 56 3\n2010/11 Triumph 8 80 10 15/38 39.5 9/26 34.6 23/29 79.3 29 6 15 1\nPanionios 12 154 12.8 24/63 38.1 24/50 48 34/42 81 32 10 18 2\n2011/12 Buducnost 13 94 7.2 21/38 55.3 11/33 33.3 19/21 87.7 20 7 48 1", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00240.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 275, + "original_length": 6462, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.53, + "perplexity": 297.2, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "http://www.europeaninstitute.org/index.php/energy/fossil-fuels?start=5", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T04:52:08Z", + "digest": "sha1:4B6ZSDKWJD5EBUAFDGHEBXWDBSBEITIT", + "length": 1385, + "nlines": 2, + "source_domain": "www.europeaninstitute.org", + "title": "Fossil Fuels", + "raw_content": "Europe Should Tackle Gazprom Monopoly\nRussia is at the heart of the difficulties of energy security in Europe. One of the problems, of course, is that Russia just isn\u2019t investing enough in their own gas development. (It\u2019s even more acute on oil: within five years, they won\u2019t have enough to play games with, whether they want to or not.) It\u2019s a key problem: they need to attract outside capital. Gazprom desperately needs it because it has huge debts and a very low stock price. So there is trouble ahead if we don\u2019t collectively figure out a way to get that attended to, whatever their internal or external intentions are. Now on natural gas, Europe reportedly faces a shortfall of somewhere between 120-150 billion cubic meters annually by 2030. How can it be covered? This issue has a climate change component because if Europe doesn\u2019t get the gas (from Russia or elsewhere), they are going to use other fuel for their power plants, including the coal-fired power plants they\u2019re building now. How are they going to deal with the carbon emissions that result? As I read it in the papers, the EU plans to make it up by allowing member states to use \u201coffsets\u201d that will come \u2013 up to 50 percent of them \u2013 from outside the EU. In a sense, Europe would only do 50 percent of these nations\u2019 purported clean-up and instead get cheaper offsets from operations in China or India or elsewhere.", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00240.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 167, + "original_length": 4443, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.96, + "perplexity": 219.8, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "http://www.europokerplayers.com/david-benyamine-pro-tennis.html", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T04:01:51Z", + "digest": "sha1:T5UZ4ODUF7QU4JXWG7T2CNUXSVQ2WLG2", + "length": 2927, + "nlines": 12, + "source_domain": "www.europokerplayers.com", + "title": "David Benyamine: From Pro Tennis to Pro Poker", + "raw_content": "Home Poker playerThe World Poker Tour - Facts behind the Poker Tournament SceneHow To Win In Poker Let us know what you think Provided Sitemap\nDavid Benyamine: From Pro Tennis to Pro Poker\nEver heard of David Benyamine? Athletes are probably familiar of such name because David Benyamine used to be a professional tennis player. At the same time, gamblers are probably familiar of him because he is currently one of the best professional poker players in the world.\nBorn in Paris, France on July 5, 1972, David Benyamine was first recognized as a professional tennis player. But when he started to suffer from back pain, he knew he could not continue playing tennis anymore. Early in his career in tennis, he had no other choice but to retire.\nThis prompted David Benyamine to divert his attention to other kinds of sports. He got involved in playing billiards, which he has been doing quite well. And because he was taught how to play poker as early as twelve years old, he decided to go back to playing such casino game and try his luck.\nWell, it seems as if the game of poker is really for David Benyamine. At first, playing poker only formed part of his leisure activities until he started participating in poker tournaments. Now, he is one of the popular professional poker players we have across the world.\nIt was in 2003 when this professional poker player experienced a real taste of victory. He placed first in the Grand Prix de Paris event that was held in 2003 and took home \ufffd357,200. In 2004, this professional poker player also emerged triumphant as he placed sixth in the Los Angeles Poker Classic event. In such event, David Benyamine took home a sum of US$132,355.\nHe also joined the Battle of Champions II invitational event of the World Poker Tour wherein he did not only compete with poker giants, but he even defeated some of them, including Phil Laak, Antonio Esfandiari, Mel Judah, and Hoyt Corkins.\nDavid Benyamine is not only one of the popular professional poker players worldwide, but he has also earned the respect of some of the big names in the poker industry. As a matter of fact, professional poker player Doyle Brunson only has good things to say about him. Brunson believes in the talent of David Benyamine because he sees the seriousness and perseverance of the latter. David Benyamine plays poker at least two or three times a week, just like the way Brunson played when he was still young. No wonder David Benyamine has earned more than US$1,000,000 as of 2006 just by playing poker.\nAside from live poker tournaments and events, this professional poker player is also involved in high stakes online poker, wherein he plays Pot-Limit Omaha most of the time.\nDespite being a frequent visitor of the United States because of poker events and tournaments that he participates in, this professional poker player still continues to live in France.\n\u00a9 www.europokerplayers.com. 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An additional 200 000 hectares to be brought under paddy in the coming years, with the goal of raising production by 1.0 million tonnes by 2013.", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00240.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 32, + "original_length": 847, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.91, + "perplexity": 282.8, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "http://www.feedmashup.com/preview/1876/", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T04:09:38Z", + "digest": "sha1:PN7LY2MM6I25CDMOBMACQ4XUDAJJ7RES", + "length": 511, + "nlines": 2, + "source_domain": "www.feedmashup.com", + "title": "poster templates | Quark Promote is free, easy-to-use flyer template software for owners and employees of small businesses that need a fast way to produce affordable, high-quality marketing materials to attract customers and grow. 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Our template sets include business cards, brochures, flyers, letterhead, coupons, data sheets, envelopes and more.", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00240.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 11, + "original_length": 1030, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.91, + "perplexity": 291.1, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "http://www.filmfeeder.co.uk/morgan-15/", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T04:43:24Z", + "digest": "sha1:HYBFI5SL4KONH2PEHQ6YINRBNONAN3IA", + "length": 1264, + "nlines": 4, + "source_domain": "www.filmfeeder.co.uk", + "title": "Film Feeder MORGAN (15) - Film Feeder", + "raw_content": "Kate Mara (The Martian), Anya Taylor-Joy (The Witch), Toby Jones (Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy), Rose Leslie (Game of Thrones), Boyd Holbrook (A Walk Among The Tombstones), Jennifer Jason Leigh (The Hateful Eight), Michelle Yeoh (Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon), Paul Giamatti (Sideways), Chris Sullivan (The Drop), Michael Yare (Between the Canals), Conor Mullen (The Tiger\u2019s Tail), Luke Whoriskey (film debut), Jonathan Aris (Sherlock), Sam Spruell (The Hurt Locker)\nLuke Scott (film debut), director; Seth W. 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Naturally, this piece of news doesn\u2019t go down well with the dangerous test subject\u2026\nThe son of famed director Ridley Scott \u2013 who also produces \u2013 makes his directorial debut with this chilling psychological thriller that seems to be one part Ex Machina, and other parts crazy.", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00240.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 70, + "original_length": 3940, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.8, + "perplexity": 267.6, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "http://www.financegirl.co.uk/why-the-uks-car-industry-could-be-in-trouble/", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T04:22:39Z", + "digest": "sha1:AAHCGSCVGWEJGOLABIZ6EO7TCMTWUHTZ", + "length": 3249, + "nlines": 13, + "source_domain": "www.financegirl.co.uk", + "title": "Why the UK\u2019s Car Industry Could be in Trouble", + "raw_content": "You are here: Home / Featured / Why the UK\u2019s Car Industry Could be in Trouble\nWhy the UK\u2019s Car Industry Could be in Trouble\nIt seems \u2018uncertainty\u2019 has become the buzzword and presiding state of affairs where the UK economy is concerned, and the country\u2019s motor industry has not escaped its effects, with the future of the entire sector currently under a cloud of concern following a decline in sales and poor projections for the future.\nSales are down\nFigures released recently by the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders (SMMT) painted a sorry picture of the industry. They showed that the number of new cars sold in the UK fell by 5.7% from 2016 to 2017, the sharpest decline since 2009. These numbers came with a warning that they expect a further fall of between 5% and 7% in 2018, which would mean a two-year slump of around 11%.\nForecasters have opined that, given the size and significance of the market, a vast portion of the economy and thousands of jobs are in serious jeopardy unless the government can alleviate the public\u2019s reluctance to part with their cash, by clearing up ongoing concerns. They also explained the need for manufacturers to be able to properly plan for the future in terms of production level in relation to exporting deals with the European Union. But what exactly is it that people are worried about, enough to hold them back from purchasing a new car?\nThe decline of diesel\nThe number of diesel cars sold in the UK fell by 17% in 2017, and they are predicted to account for just 15% of sales by 2025, compared to the 50% they amounted to just a few short years ago. The SMMT put this down to a combination of recent scandals surrounding the diesel sector (particularly a high profile one involving Volkswagen), unclear governmental policy regarding the future of taxation on diesel cars (not to mention a possible ban on them altogether by 2040), and an increasingly poor reputation for the vehicles in regards to their environmental impact.\nMike Hawes, the Chief Executive of the SMMT pointed out the ironic impact of this, explaining that the more people are \u2018sitting on their hands\u2019, CO2 pollution will be worse, as consumers continue to run older, less efficient diesel models for longer.\nNo deal with the EU\nExports to the EU are currently a major source of income for UK-based car manufacturing companies. As yet, a deal for the future relationship post-Brexit has not been reached, and this leaves production in a state of limbo, with buyers hesitant to hand over money, and makers reluctant to risk overproduction. The SMMT have called for clarity on this issue as soon as possible, so that a transitional agreement and timescale can be drawn up.\nIs certainty in sight?\nThe SMMT claim that the future of the UK\u2019s car industry has reached a \u2018critical\u2019 stage, and that realistically, a deal needs to be in place with the EU by the end of April, before the first quarter of 2018 comes to an end. Adding weight to how serious they see this rapidly closing window of opportunity, they said that by this point, even \u2018a verbal agreement would go a long way\u2019 towards settling fears and minimising future declines in both production and profit \u2013 though of course, something more concrete would need to follow.", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00240.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 82, + "original_length": 6016, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.97, + "perplexity": 199.9, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "http://www.fleetsforthefuture.org/contact/", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T04:51:20Z", + "digest": "sha1:7NIOUU4LTMBGJTVT5QCKIMGDPIWOT5GQ", + "length": 187, + "nlines": 1, + "source_domain": "www.fleetsforthefuture.org", + "title": "Contact \u2014 Fleets for the Future", + "raw_content": "If you are interested in participating or learning more about a specific regional initiative, national initiative or alternative fuel vehicle type, please contact us using the form below.", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00240.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 56, + "original_length": 1075, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.84, + "perplexity": 310.3, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "http://www.forumlogopedyczne.pl/viewtopic.php?f=33&t=203955", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T04:12:19Z", + "digest": "sha1:A7ID4JXAAFREP52AZTWRXXXWQXDUJ4LZ", + "length": 8219, + "nlines": 1, + "source_domain": "www.forumlogopedyczne.pl", + "title": "http://www.seahawkscheapshops.com - Forum Logopedyczne", + "raw_content": "The Detroit Lions boosted their chances of slowing down Seattle's running game and contending in the NFC North with one major move.Lions general manager Bob Quinn acquired Damon \"Snacks\" Harrison from the New York Giants for a fifth-round pick J.R. Sweezy Jersey , adding one of the NFL's top interior defensive linemen to help right away. He began practicing with his new team Thursday.\"It shows we want to win now,\" Detroit defensive tackle Ricky Jean Francois said. \"Bob is always up to something. He's not trying to win later, or to rebuild.\"The timing seems perfect for the Lions, who host the Seahawks on Sunday. Seattle has emerged as one of the NFL's best running teams, helping it win three of four after losing the first two games of the season. The Lions have been one of the league's worst against the run, and yet have overcome the weakness well enough to also win three of four after starting 0-2.Suddenly, Detroit's defense got better on the ground thanks to the 6-foot-5, 355-pound Harrison.\"Snacks has been a big-timer for a long time,\" Seattle coach Pete Carroll said. \"Big presence. Really good in the running game and disruptive in the pass rush, too.\"So, it's a great get for them.\"Here are some other things to know about a matchup of 3-3 teams at Ford Field:SPREAD THE WEALTHCarroll has made clear Chris Carson will be the starting running back. That does not guarantee Carson will get the vast majority of the carries because Mike Davis and Rashaad Penny also merit playing time.Carson is averaging 4.5 yards per carry and has two 100-yard games. Davis also has a 100-yard game and is averaging 4.6 yards per carry, and leads the team with three rushing touchdowns. Penny ran for nearly five yards per carry in limited action in Seattle's last game against Oakland and is getting six-plus rushing attempts per game.Even with quarterback Russell Wilson carrying the ball just a few times per game on average, Seattle ranks seventh in the league in rushing with 127.8 yards per game.Detroit http://www.seahawkscheapshops.com/cheap-authentic-tom-johnson-jersey , in the pre-Harrison average, gave up 139.3 yards rusher per game to rank No. 30 against the run.EFFICENT SCORINGDetroit tight end Michael Roberts is tied for the team lead with three touchdown receptions. That's quite a feat considering he has caught just four passes, on four targets, in the three games he has been healthy enough to play in his second season.The Lions drafted Roberts in the fourth round last year after he led the nation in touchdowns by tight ends, scoring 16 at Toledo.\"I wouldn't be here if I didn't control the red zone in college, and I'm doing what they brought me here to do,\" Roberts said.BYE BACKThe off week appeared to fall at a good time for the Seahawks. They are expected to have linebacker K.J. Wright and tight end Ed Dickson on the field for the first time this season. Wright has been out since having knee surgery following the third preseason game. Dickson missed all of training camp and the first six games with upper leg injuries that landed him on the non-football injury list.Seattle found capable replacements for Wright in Barkevious Mingo and Austin Calitro. Dickson's return should boost a position group that's seen attrition with Will Dissly's season-ending knee injury and Nick Vannett's lingering back problems.Seattle also should have rookie defensive lineman Rasheem Green back after missing three weeks due to a lingering ankle injury.WHAT A RUSHThe Lions are No. 11 in rushing offense, averaging 122.3 yards, a dramatic improvement from ranking last in 2017. Rookie Kerryon Johnson ran for a career-high 158 yards in last week's win at Miami, taking advantage of holes created by the improved offensive line.\"We have to build upon the good performances because nobody will care if we aren't consistent,\" offensive tackle Taylor Decker said. \"Our improved running game has taken the wind out of the sails of pass rushers. We're making them play the run and the physical play can wear those pass rushers out eventually.\"MICHIGAN MANSeattle defensive end Frank Clark set career highs with 2 \u9646 sacks and two forced fumbles in the last game, a 27-3 win at Oakland. He earned NFC defensive player of the week honors for the performance that was made even more impressive because he missed much of the second half when he was sick. No one had more influence on professional sports in the Pacific Northwest than Paul Allen.But though he was the owner of the NFL's Seattle Seahawks and the NBA's Portland Trail Blazers and partial owner of Major League Soccer's Seattle Sounders, Allen usually shied away from the spotlight sought by others in his same position. As an owner Cheap Michael Dickson Jersey , he didn't have the same visibility as the Dallas Mavericks' Mark Cuban nor was he an omnipresent figure on the sidelines like the Cowboys' Jerry Jones.Allen would leave the locker rooms before cameras arrived, shuffling down hallways and out a side door to avoid taking attention from those he believed deserved it.The 65-year-old Allen died Monday from complications of non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, according to his company, Vulcan Inc. His death leaves a big void in the sports landscape in the upper left corner of the United States, and questions are likely soon to follow about the future of the Seahawks and Blazers.He was a revered figure in Seattle for his entrepreneurship, philanthropy and for keeping the Seahawks from moving to Southern California in the mid-1990s. In Oregon, he was the billionaire who bought the Trail Blazers at age 35 and grew them into a small-market powerhouse with a pair of NBA Finals appearances while keeping them rooted in Portland.He was also part of arguably the most successful expansion franchise launch in pro sports history with the arrival of the Sounders in 2009.\"He was a visionary second to none who changed the world but also changed this city which he loved,\" said Tod Leiweke, who was chief executive of the Seahawks in the 2000s. \"He left as big an impact on Seattle as any person on any city. His legacy here in Seattle will be felt forever.\"Allen's passion was basketball, leading to his purchase of the Blazers in 1988. Within a few years, the team was playing in the NBA Finals with Allen regularly sitting baseline to watch his team on the floor.But it was the NFL where Allen got the most attention, first for saving his hometown team from relocation and later as the team developed into one of the league's elite franchises. Then-owner Ken Behring was set to move the Seahawks in 1996. Moving trucks had cleared out the team's facility and players did offseason workouts in Southern California until the league threatened hefty fines against Behring and lawsuits halted the attempted relocation. Allen then purchased an option to buy the franchise and he became full owner once voters approved the construction of what is now CenturyLink Field.After Allen became the owner, the Seahawks had 12 playoff appearances K.J. Wright Jersey , three NFC titles and the only Super Bowl victory in team history. The team had made the playoffs only four times and had reached a single conference title game before him. Amid the success, Allen's most public moments came when he raised Seattle's \"12 Flag\" before each of the NFC title games the team hosted.\"His passion for the game, combined with his quiet determination, led to a model organization on and off the field,\" NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell said.Allen saw the Seahawks reach the Super Bowl for the first time in the 2005 season when they lost to Pittsburgh. Eight years later, he finally raised the championship trophy after Seattle's 43-8 thumping of Denver to conclude the 2013 season, and that night he performed at the celebration party at the team's hotel.When Seattle celebrated its title in February 2014 inside CenturyLink Field, the normally reserved Allen took a moment to address the crowd. He spoke for less than four minutes, but his words carried weight for the fans.\"I can't say how proud I am that the Seahawks are able to bring the Vince Lombardi trophy home to Seattle,\" Allen said that day. \"Now we are all Super Bowl champions, each and every one of us.\"", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00240.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 28, + "original_length": 10132, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.98, + "perplexity": 244.7, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "http://www.freedominchristianity.com/our-story-chapter-1-beginnings/", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T03:34:19Z", + "digest": "sha1:U33LAAYRXN2HMBY7E73P7TFJV22452BU", + "length": 4140, + "nlines": 11, + "source_domain": "www.freedominchristianity.com", + "title": "Our Story: Chapter 1: Beginnings | Canamorthodox: Finding Freedom in Christianity.", + "raw_content": "Once upon a time, there was a King. Yes, many stories start this way. There was a King who had strange power. I will not call this power \u2018magic\u2019, because he wasn\u2019t magical. A magician is someone who uses magic or a supernatural force, but he is using a force or power that is not his own. He is channeling, if you will, something that is \u201cnot his own\u201d. That is not the case with this King. This was not an ordinary King. His power was his own. He was not wielding it from some other place, it was something totally in him.\nThis King was content. Yes, a lot of people would not be content to live alone, but this King was. He was, quite simply, complete. Satisfied. Whole. Perfect. Again, complete.\nThere are aspects of this King that none of us have really ever understood. He was (and is) somehow in communion with himself. He had a presence that was beyond his being. His spirit and mind seemed to be alive, too. It was like he was interacting sufficiently within himself. He was in his own existence and with the ability to make or do whatever he wanted. Yet, he did not need anything. Things were just fine on his own.\nAs we said, though, this is not just any king. This King is a special king. He has immense power, and he is supremely good. He is a scientist. He is also an engineer. He is a musician and an artist; a poet and a painter. Everything about him is good. In fact, quite literally, goodness is what he is. He is truly perfect. Nothing evil exists in him. It is like light and dark. The two cannot be in the same spot at the same time. In the same way, It is actually against his nature for something impure to be in him \u2013 his very being-ness, for lack of a better word. This is important in our tale, because some later did not understand this about him.\nIt was mentioned that this King had no need for anyone. This is true. yet, in him, was a pure love. Love is always directed outwardly. The purest love is a love that is a sacrifice of oneself for the sake of another. Think about it today, for example, how one might consider it foolish to have children. There is much pain in childbirth, there is probably even more in child-rearing. So much is given up for the child by the parents: intimacy, time, finances, and freedom. Many other things are given up or severely limited because of a child. They are given up, in spite of knowing that the child may not understand or appreciate what was given up until the child is grown, and even then, the child might still not comprehend the amount of sacrifice given for him. Yet, parents still have children, and they have them because they have love. This is perhaps the spirit of the King when he decided that he would have children as well. Children that he would make and adopt to himself.\nSo, the King makes a place for these people whom he makes. For these people, the King somehow made the earth and water and all the elements. He made sky and space, light and dark, fish and fowl. Nobody knows how he did it, but he did it. He not only just did it, but he did it specifically for these people. These people are his own work, his own handiwork, if you please. He envisioned them in his mind, he rationalised their existence, and he breathed into them life. He created a whole world for them, actually. He brought them toys, but toys on a greater level than our toys today. Today you might receive a stuffed animal as a gift, but this King gave them real animals. They were harmless. He even let the people name the animals. You, the reader, might receive a stuffed bear and be told that it is a bear. For those people, however, they would not have even known it was a bear! They got to name it bear, and that bear was exclusively theirs. The desire of the King was the people, and for the people he quite literally gave the whole world.\nPrevious PostLet Me Tell You a Story: PrefaceNext Post2. The Ministers & The Chief of Ministers\n2 thoughts on \u201cOur Story: Chapter 1: Beginnings\u201d\nKiro Youssef says:\nWhat a beautiful story, can\u2019t wait for the rest of it \ud83d\ude42\n+ Thanks, Kiro! 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While movies are just for three hours maximum, TV shows go on and on and that\u2019s why the audience builds a connection with the characters that they watch every day on the screen. This is one of the reasons why some TV shows are aired every year in the form of different seasons.\nIf you like watching TV serials, here are some interesting facts that you might want to know about some of your favorite shows:\nEllen DeGeneres was offered the role of Phoebe Buffay for the sitcom \u201cF.R.I.E.N.D.S.\u201d: I am not sure how she would have looked in the role because I personally adore Lisa Kudrow playing the character.\n\u201cArrested Development\u201d actor David Cross had to fight in order to keep Tobias\u2019 mustache: The executives had a no-mustaches policy and David had to convince them to keep it.\n\u201cBob\u2019s Burgers\u201d was initially pitched with a plot about a family of cannibals with a restaurant of their own: Would you have watched the show if this was the actual plot?\nDean Lopata, the writer of the show \u201cBones\u201d, acted on the show before joining the writing team: Dean got a good experience as an actor on the show.\nThe \u201cBoy Meets World\u201d actor Rider Strong stole the leather jacket from the set: Disney packed all the stuff from the set, but the actor couldn\u2019t be stopped from stealing the jacket.\nThe cast of \u201cBrooklyn Nine-Nine\u201d had to take the training for firearms before acting on the show: Maybe that\u2019s why the acted so well.\nThe actor James Franco of \u201cFreaks and Geeks\u201d was believed to be unattractive: Judd Apatow and Paul Feig believed that the actor\u2019s mouth was too big for his face and thus, he didn\u2019t look good enough to be a star.\nKen Keeler, the writer of \u201cFuturama\u201d created and developed an actual mathematic theorem called \u201cFuturama Theorem\u201d only for an episode of the TV show: No comments about Math!\n\u201cGames of Thrones\u201d is filmed in the factory where RMS Titanic was made: Is it the reason behind its popularity?\nEd Westwick, the popular \u201cGossip Girl\u201d romantic hero was said to have looks of a serial killer: CW believed that the actor didn\u2019t have the right kind of looks to be a romantic hero. However, once he appeared on the screen, he won the hearts of millions.\nI am sure you are loaded with a good amount of information related to your favorite TV show now. Go ahead and share the facts with your friends!", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00240.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 41, + "original_length": 3257, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.97, + "perplexity": 222.7, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "http://www.friedmanbenda.com/exhibitions/upcoming/no-thing-an-exploration-into-aporetic-architectural-furniture", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T04:34:20Z", + "digest": "sha1:ZRV2XYQPP74ERIBHT3Z6TTEG7JTW7QA3", + "length": 19545, + "nlines": 49, + "source_domain": "www.friedmanbenda.com", + "title": "No-Thing: An exploration into aporetic architectural furniture - Exhibitions - Friedman Benda", + "raw_content": "No-Thing: An exploration into aporetic architectural furniture\nCurated by Juan Garc\u00eda Mosqueda\nKamer Frank, 2017\nPlywood, chipboard, color-coated MDF, DOKA, phenolic plywood\nDaybed 1 dimensions: 48 x 55 x 55.5 inches\nDaybed 2: 48 x 63 x 58.5 inches\nEdition of 3, 3AP\narchitecten de vylder vinck taillieu\u2014a dvvt\u2014is the new name under which Jan De Vylder, Inge Vinck and Jo Taillieu will further share their mutual appreciation, interest and previous realized work. Already long before each one of them, sometimes in collaboration with each other, steadily developed and realized a certain variety of projects. Since 2009 it is clear that a dvvt has given wings to the united view on what architecture can possibly stand for. architecten de vylder vinck taillieu wants to be complete. To embrace not only design but also the making; that is the point of departure for a dvvt. Only through understanding how something is created, design is able to play out its critical attitude. Within the landscape of present-day expectations, a dvvt unexpectedly wants to give these expectations an appropriate turn through which not only what is expected is granted, but surprisingly more can be found. A critical attitude; not as just a gesture but as a living instrument to arrive further than ever expected. The social responsibility that is based within architecture should not be underestimated. But only if the architect audits this responsibility critically, this social task has the possibility to surpass expectations and obtains the chance to its cultural dimension. Here, the architect has a crucial responsibility. a dvvt wants to recognize this. The skill of the architect\u2014the craft; the knowledge and the critical attitude\u2014is crucial with this. This skill ensures that present-day expectations like cultural sustainability have the possibility to stand for more than what they stand for today. The m\u00e9tier as the key to the future.\nGuillotine Table, 2017\nOak, steel and mirror\nPezo von Ellrichshausen is an art and architecture studio founded in 2002 by Mauricio Pezo and Sofia von Ellrichshausen. They live and work in the southern Chilean city of Concepcion. Their work has been exhibited at the 15th Venice Architecture Biennale (2016), at the Royal Academy of Arts in London (2014), and as part of the permanent collection at the MoMA in New York. In 2010 they were selected as the curators for the Chilean Pavilion at the 12th Venice Biennale. They have taught at the Illinois Institute of Technology in Chicago, the Universidad Catolica de Chile in Santiago, the University of Texas in Austin and Cornell University. Among other venues, they have lectured at the Tate Modern, the Victoria & Albert Museum, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Alvar Aalto Symposium and the Royal Institute of British Architects. Their work has been distinguished with the Mies Crown Hall Americas Emerge Prize by the IIT, the Rice Design Alliance Prize, the Iberoamerican Architecture Biennial Award and the Chilean Architecture Biennial Award. The work of the studio has been widely published and edited in monographic issues of AV in Madrid, A+U in Tokyo, 2G in Barcelona and in the essay book Spatial Structure. Mauricio Pezo completed a Master in Architecture at the Universidad Catolica and a degree in Architecture at the Universidad del Bio-Bio. He has been awarded the Young Architect Prize by the Chilean Architects Association and the Municipal Art Prize by the Concepcion City Hall. Sofia von Ellrichshausen holds a degree in Architecture from the Universidad de Buenos Aires where she was distinguished with the FADU-UBA Honors Diploma.\nLight Rocker, 2018\nHeavy Rocker, 2018\nGneiss stone\nLeong Leong is an award-winning architecture and design firm based in New York that focuses on projects that envision new relationships between culture and commerce, public and private, and the domestic and monumental. The studio\u2019s interests are not defied by a particular project type, but by the potential to create environments and objects with cultural resonance. The studio's design and research process is driven by a curiosity for new organization typologies and aesthetic experiences that over new ways of living, working, and interacting with one another. Frequently expanding the role of the architect, Leong Leong\u2019s approach spans between strategic thinking and material experimentation, from the city to the artifact. Leong Leong\u2019s work includes a wide range of projects and scales including buildings, interiors, exhibitions, and furniture, with completed projects in New York, Los Angeles, Tokyo, Hong Kong, Seoul, Venice, and Napa Valley. Most recently, Leong Leong won The Architectural League\u2019s Emerging Voices Award of 2017. Notable projects include the design for the Los Angeles LGBT Center\u2019s Anita May Rosenstein Campus in Hollywood, California, the Center for Community and Entrepreneurship in New York, and the design of the U.S. Pavilion for the 14th Venice Architecture Biennale (2014). Other current projects include the Eaton Workshop, a ground-up, co-working and hospitality project in San Francisco, and a private residence in Los Angeles.\nSO \u2013 IL or Solid Objectives \u2013 Idenburg Liu is an architecture firm in Brooklyn, New York City, which was founded in 2008 by Florian Idenburg and Jing Liu. Liu and Idenburg met in 2000 at SANAA in Japan while she was an intern and he was a senior associate working with Pritzker prize-winners Kazuyo Sejima and Ryue Nishizawa. In 2002, they met again in New York when Idenburg was working on the New Museum project in Lower Manhattan. The members of SO \u2013 IL come from all over the world and bring diverse perspectives to their work.\nBathing, Again, 2017\n3D Silica sand print and brushed brass (sink); fiberglass reinforced white concrete (floor tiles)\nsink dimensions: 36 x 30 inches (dia.)\n91.5 x 76 cm (dia.)\nfloor tile dimensions, each tile:\n6 x 84 x 14.5 inches\nMILLI\u00d8NS is a Los Angeles-based architectural practice founded by Zeina Koreitem and John May. MILLI\u00d8NS conceives of architecture as a speculative medium for exploring the central categories of contemporary life: technology, politics, energy, media, and information. MILLI\u00d8NS\u2019 work has been featured in numerous solo and group exhibitions, including shows at the Storefront for Art and Architecture, Jai & Jai Gallery, The Architecture + Design Museum of Los Angeles, the Museum of the City of New York, the Keller Architecture Gallery at MIT, and the Harvard Graduate School of Design, among others. Their essays and interviews are widely published, including a recent catalog of work on experimental collective living, entitled New Massings for New Masses (MIT SA+P Press). Koreitem is a Design Critic in Architecture at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design and visiting faculty at the Southern California Institute of Architecture. May is Assistant Professor of Architecture and Director of the Master in Design Studies program at the Harvard Graduate School of Design. Koreitem and May live in Topanga, California.\nDesign Principals: Zeina Koreitem & John May (MILLI\u00d8NS)\nTeam: Iain Gordon, Hyojin Kwon & Peter Osborne\nRoll-top armchair (walnut, upholstered in linen tweed)\nFixed tilt-top mirror table (mahogany)\nCarrie Norman and Thomas Kelley founded the New York and Chicago-based design collaborative, Norman Kelley, in 2012. Over the past five years, Norman Kelley\u2019s work has sought to explore architecture and design\u2019s limits between two and three dimensions. Results have varied in scale and medium, from object design to interiors. Along this spectrum, their work re-examines architecture and design\u2019s relationship to vision, prompting its observers to see nuance in the familiar. The practice has contributed work to the 14th Venice Architecture Biennial (2014) and the first and second Chicago Architecture Biennials (2015, 2017). The practice was a recipient of the Architecture League of New York Young Architect\u2019s Prize (2014). Norman received her M.Arch from Princeton University and her BS.Arch from the University of Virginia. She is a licensed architect in the state of New York, and currently a faculty member at Barnard and Columbia College, and Columbia\u2019s Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation. Kelley received his M.Arch from Princeton University and his BS. Arch from the University of Virginia. Kelley is the recipient of the Peter Reyner Banham Fellowship from SUNY Bu alo and the Rome Prize in Architecture from the American Academy in Rome. He is an assistant professor at the University of Illinois at Chicago\u2019s School of Architecture.\nFreestanding Bookshelf, 2017\nRift-sawn white oak, wax and oil finish\nAnia Jaworska is an architect and educator. She currently is a Clinical Assistant Professor at the University of Illinois at Chicago, School of Architecture. She holds a master's degree in architecture from the Cracow University of Technology in Poland as well as the Cranbrook Academy of Art in Michigan. Her practice focuses on exploring the connection between art and architecture and her work explores bold simple forms, humor, commentary and conceptual, historic, and cultural references. Jaworska\u2019s work has been exhibited in numerous exhibitions and institutions, including the 13th Venice Biennale (2012), Chicago Architecture Biennial (2015, 2017) as part of Grounds for Detroit, Chicago Cultural Center, Chicago Architecture Foundation, and Storefront for Art and Architecture. She recently had a solo exhibition at Chicago Works: Ania Jaworska at the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago and SET at Volume Gallery in Chicago. She designed a bookstore at the Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts in Chicago, which is currently on view. She is a 2017 MoMA PS1 Young Architects Program Finalist, and one of the participants of the Chicago Architecture Biennial: Make New History.\nModel Furniture No. 5 (Table), 2017\nMOS is a New York\u2013based architecture studio, founded by principals Michael Meredith and Hilary Sample in 2007. An internationally recognized architecture practice, MOS was the recipient of the 2015 Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum National Design Award in Architecture, the 2010 American Academy of Arts and Letters Architecture Award, and the 2008 Architectural League of New York Emerging Voices Award. Individual works have similarly received numerous awards and distinctions, most notably: the 2015 Global Holcim Award for sustainable construction (Asia-Paci c Region), for Community Center No. 3 (Lali Gurans Orphanage); the cover of Abitare and an AIA NY State Award of Excellence, for School No. 1 (Krabbesholm H\u00f8jskole); the2014 accession of both the room\u2019s modular, o - grid House No. 5 (Museum of Outdoor Arts Element House) into The Museum of Modern Art, Architecture and Design Collection; the acquisition of House No. 3 (Lot No. 6/Ordos) into the permanent collection of The Art Institute of Chicago; and the selection of Pavilion No. 4 (Afterparty) for the 2009 MoMA PS1 Young Architects Program. Recent work includes: Store No. 2 (Chamber) in Chelsea, NYC; House No. 10, currently under-construction; School No. 2, a competition proposal for the Institute for Advanced Study Commons Building; and Housing No. 4 (Dequindre Cut, Detroit). Recent and forthcoming publications, both products of and surveys on MOS's work, include Everything All at Once: The Software, Film, and Architecture of MOS (Princeton Architectural Press, 2013); MOS: Selected Works (Princeton Architectural Press, 2016); El Croquis No. 184 (2016); A Situation Constructed From Loose and Overlapping Social and Architectural Aggregates (AADR, 2016); and An Unfinished Encyclopedia of Scale Figures Without Architecture (MIT Press, forthcoming).\nAndy and Dave\nWhere is this? (Bench), 2018\nAluminum, upholstered cushions, vinyl fabric\nWanna go there! (Partition), 2018\nAluminum, printed vinyl\nAndrew Miller and David Ruperti are the founders of Andy and Dave, an architecture and design practice in Brooklyn dedicated to producing work that draws inspiration from the experience of contemporary life. It began with the purchase of a URL. Then it evolved into an undefined, somewhat transgressive, collaborative space, parallel and outside of professional practice, permitting a kind of no-holds-barred exploration of design ideas free from academic or market-imposed constraints. Since then it has evolved toward resembling something closer to an actual design studio. The work is concept-driven with a strong focus on exploring the blurring boundaries of the design disciplines with particular attention paid to evolving cultural norms around social media and the public sphere, identity, and material culture.\nFriedman Benda presents No-Thing, an exhibition curated by Juan Garc\u00eda Mosqueda, with newly commissioned works from nine emerging architectural practices. No-Thing runs from January 18 to April 14, 2018, in Friedman Benda\u2019s project space.\nNo-Thing examines the prevalence of authoritative domestic practices embedded in our collective unconscious that guides behavior towards our personal possessions. Some of these works are composed of a seemingly ordinary construction that relies on the user\u2019s autonomous self for meaning through postulated use. The title alludes to a state of egalitarian \u201cin-betweenness,\u201d a term defined by R.D. Laing in The Politics of Experience\u2014a reference to their makers\u2019 non-dogmatic approach to object creation.\n\u201cIt is through objects like the ones in the exhibition that the space necessary for the construction of a new self in society can emerge. Not a utopian, idealized self, but an ambiguous figure, uncertain of its destiny; as uncertain as these aporetic furniture works. Within this framework, where the objects truly emerge through affect, one is urged to take not solely a passive but an active role,\u201d says Juan Garc\u00eda Mosqueda.\nPresented in tandem with Friedman Benda\u2019s ground floor gallery exhibition, Inside the Walls: Architects Design, a survey of important examples of architect designed furniture spanning the 20th century, curated by Mark McDonald. Featuring works by Frank Lloyd Wright and Marcel Breuer that strive for rationalization and demonstrate attempt to assert control over one\u2019s creations, Inside the Walls serves as a corollary to the subjective user experience theme of No-Thing.\nNo-Thing will feature new works by Andy and Dave (Brooklyn, NY), Ania Jaworska (Chicago, IL), architecten de vylder vinck taillieu (Gent, Belgium), Leong Leong (New York, NY), MILLI\u00d8NS (Los Angeles, CA), MOS (New York, NY), Norman Kelley (New York, NY, Chicago, IL), Florian Idenburg (SO \u2013 IL) (Brooklyn, NY), and Pezo von Ellrichshausen (Concepcion, Chile).\nThe newly commissioned contemporary objects in this show at Friedman Benda, created by nine distinct architectural studios, all share a non-dogmatic approach to object creation. Defined by a common reliance on their imagined users, these objects do not impose a closed set of values, but rather depend on their subjects for completion and on the \u201cthird voice\u201d that emerges in the in- betweenness of the object-subject relationship. It is in this space that the object emerges as such, as a no-thing\u2014a term defined by R.D. Laing in The Politics of Experience. A no-thing situates itself between its users\u2019 varied perspectives, educations, backgrounds, organizations, group- loyalties, affiliations, ideologies, socio-economic class interests, temperaments, and the architects\u2019 open-ended project. In Negative Dialectics, Theodor Adorno detects this \u201cnonidentity\u201d between concept and reality, escaping any possible sensuous apprehension, living outside the world of objects, yet leaving a trace behind. We, the users, when confronted with no- things, are captured by the existence of something present but missing, something deliberately taken from us, which we are eager to know more about. The no-thing\u2019s denial haunts us and grips us tightly. In our thoroughly commodified environment, where goods are harder and harder to singularize, we might better forget about traditional semiotic relationships between signifier/signified, and instead begin to concentrate on the non-authoritarian character of the \u2018no- thing\u2019, its egalitarian in-betweenness. Indeed, it is through objects like the ones in the exhibition that the space necessary for the construction of a new self in society can emerge. Not a utopian, idealized self, but an ambiguous figure, uncertain of its destiny; as uncertain as these aporetic furniture works.\nWithin this framework, where the objects truly emerge through affect, one is urged to take not solely a passive but an active role. Firstly, by reconsidering the Foucauldian notion of the \u201ccare of the self,\u201d\u2014both collectively and individually\u2014thus paving the way for new ethical considerations and the exercise of freedoms, vis-\u00e0-vis ritualistic, domestic activities that engage one in a deeper self-consciousness of one\u2019s bodies. These activities are clearly evident in the work proposed by MILLI\u00d8NS, which liberates the corpus to navigate freely, but also in the work of Leong Leong and Ania Jaworska, where objects unleash the body by challenging established archetypal notions around the positioning of furniture in the domestic landscape. Spatial regards are also channeled through a play of optics in Pezo von Ellrichshausen\u2019s guillotine double- workstation, which goes beyond the purely rational Durerian apparatus grasping, into the sphere of the irrational and utterances of what is beyond apprehensible. Continuing the walk throughout the gallery, one confronts Andy and Dave\u2019s set of objects, where, if one had previously seen space infinitely extended, now one sees a topological collapse through the abstraction of specific, re-contextualized moments of the city. This mimetic approach becomes even more evident (to the point of ironic self-mockery) in the impressionistic approach of Norman Kelly, which rejects the \u2018shock-of-the-new\u2019 vulgar strategy of late capitalism, and instead pushes one (as one pull\u2019s back) to find in one\u2019s memories traces of past stylistic references, tricking one through ambiguity to discover the different \u201cmasked\u201d typologies of objects. Moving further along, one finds MOS\u2019s seemingly conventional table. Part of their Model Furniture series\u2014a set of works that take architects' reproductions of furniture in scale models as a starting point for the development of new, full-scale furniture\u2014this table is built on a photo, of a reproduction by another architect. Finished in a glittery black, MOS's table makes this structure, its endless copies and reproductions of reproductions, into something else. Finally, the show ends with a subtle gesture towards ontological concerns, in architecten de vylder vinck taillieu\u2019s lounge chair. Poetically made out of what could, at first sight, be seen as a set of architectural materials resting casually in a construction site, this work is the perfect exemplification of the kind of dialogical relationship this show aspires to and I described above: a humble suggestion to re-assess our material world by bringing forth a new way to imagine our bond to the things around us.\nJuan Garc\u00eda Mosqueda\nAbout Juan Garc\u00eda Mosqueda\nJuan Garc\u00eda Mosqueda is an independent curator and former founder of Chamber, NYC. Chamber operated as a celebrated experimental design gallery in Chelsea from the year 2014 until 2017, providing a unique platform for artists, designers and architects from all over the world.", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00240.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 272, + "original_length": 36178, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.93, + "perplexity": 228.1, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "http://www.fromthefinishline.com/en/news-grid", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T03:19:38Z", + "digest": "sha1:JVDDMPATCZS32X56QQEXM3ZMLZ7LH2FP", + "length": 400, + "nlines": 3, + "source_domain": "www.fromthefinishline.com", + "title": "Community | From the Finish Line", + "raw_content": "Endurance athletes sure do put the \u201cActive\u201d in \u201cActivist.\u201d Whether it\u2019s fundraising for a charity marathon or ride, or raising awareness for...\nWe at From The Finish Line wish you and your families the best this holiday season. Stay warm and keep active! Remember his is a time for enjoying...\nBetsy is a writer, athlete, mother of four, and the founder of Ready for Reading, a non-profit based in...", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00240.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 62, + "original_length": 1644, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.95, + "perplexity": 254.2, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "http://www.futurelawyergirl.com/2014/09/why-bad-relationships-make-you-stronger.html", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T04:32:40Z", + "digest": "sha1:BCDTDD6GT52FN3JSTMND5HROC7FQOY2W", + "length": 5696, + "nlines": 20, + "source_domain": "www.futurelawyergirl.com", + "title": "YYZ to LAX : Future Lawyer Girl: Why Bad Relationships Make You Stronger In The End?", + "raw_content": "Why Bad Relationships Make You Stronger In The End?\n\"A woman has got to love a bad man, once or twice in her life, to be thankful for a good one.\"\nI've been wanting to do a relationship post for quite some time now, but thinking of what to write exactly has been really difficult. Primarily, it's been difficult because I'm a really private person when it comes to that part of my life. I don't like to share the really good and happy moments on social media or even with the people I'm close to because I have this irrational fear of having to explain to people what happened if something goes wrong. I also don't like to share the not so pleasant experiences I've had because well, it's not a good thing to air your dirty laundry and I never want to be that person who has nothing but negative things to say about someone she once cared about or dated etc.\nIn my attempt to find a happy medium, I actually contacted someone from one of the first relationships I've ever had. Like so many others, what we had started off great but then it got ugly... really ugly. We're obviously on much better terms now, but he gave me this idea for a topic. Without going into the really messy details, here are a few reasons, from my own experience that I feel exemplify why bad relationships make you stronger in the end.\nI would say that this one has been the most significant reason for me. The first time you are hurt by someone, it doesn't feel like that hurt will ever go away. I literally remember thinking about this particular guy, \"I will never want anybody more than I want him.\" Well, I was in high school and that was a lie. Eventually, you do move on and you find someone else. It doesn't mean that the next someone won't hurt you too- they probably will! But the difference is that this time, even when it feels like you'll never be happy again, your rationale will kick in and prove to you that this isn't true. You can remind yourself that better days will come, because you've been through this before. You know the drill.\n2. You Can Recognize The Signs\nAgain, I was really naive the first time I fell \"in love.\" Of course I'd watched more than my fair share of romantic dramas and comedies growing up, but still ... for some reason I just believed that I would have better luck. When the person I was with told me he would \"never hurt me,\" I genuinely believed him. This isn't a joke. I actually, truly thought that if he said it, he OBVIOUSLY meant it and therefore I was safe. I'm not that silly anymore. Now I know that if that person isn't making time for you, they don't care about you. If you always have to initiate any kind of conversation, they don't really care about you. If they won't go out of their way to see you and are only willing to come over if they're already in the area, they don't care about you. Obviously there are more signs than these, but you get the point. Recognize when the relationship you want is not the relationship you have.\n3. You Realize That You Can't Make Someone Care About You (and you respect the realization)\nI've been in relationships where I knew that I wasn't a priority in the other person's life ... but I just wanted to hang onto them so badly that I was willing to overlook it. I'll admit, I've been guilty of thinking that if I change this about myself or do this for them, they'll learn to love me. This is the absolute worst mind set you can have. You can't make someone love you. Period. I know that now. I know that I'm a great person and that I'm a good person and that I care about people and that I'm nice (sometimes) ... but if someone doesn't love the person I am, nothing I do will change that. It's better to respect that, because then you can be happy and live your life, not worrying about pleasing that person. It's way too draining trying to persuade someone to be in love with you. It takes far less energy to love and appreciate yourself.\n4. You Start Embracing All Your Flaws And Quirks\nI'm an awkward person. Especially when I'm around someone that I'm really into... I can't help it. But that's me and I'm okay with that. I ask a lot of questions and I ramble at times. I'm that person who sends three separate texts, instead of combining my thoughts into one. I can be moody a lot of the time. I bump into things because I'm just not that graceful. Once, I even walked out of an interview with a \"Hello My Name Is: Jennifer\" sticker on my butt by accident. I'm so weird, and I'm also annoying. But I'm finally okay with it. I had to learn to be okay with me so that I could focus on being the best version of me. I'm still working on getting better everyday, but I am who God made me.\nWhat's the point of all of this? I guess that I've learned over the years that relationships can suck. I'm going to get hurt a lot, and I've hurt other people as well. The hurt won't last forever though and it's worth it to hurt a little bit because I really do believe that everything has shaped me into the strange but stronger person that I am. Maybe one day, I'll find someone just as strange to share this little life with :)\nLabels: life, love, relationships\nJully Ajose September 4, 2014 at 8:33 PM\n\"Relationship can suck\" <--I couldn't agree more. This post was exactly what I needed today to end this \"suckish\" relationship i'm in. Thank you for this, jen!\nI'm so glad this could help :) Hope everything works out\nBrianna September 4, 2014 at 8:59 PM\nLoved reading this ! Please do more posts like this you have no idea how many of us are in the same position. I agree with the comment above that this is exactly what i need to hear today.\nFutureLawyerGirl September 5, 2014 at 12:34 AM\nThanks so much for this comment :)", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00240.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 94, + "original_length": 6971, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.99, + "perplexity": 233.7, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "http://www.galleryjsa.com/view/never-ending-stories-tae-kyu-yim/", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T03:29:25Z", + "digest": "sha1:D6P2IVDNTKDUK7MHAUXWQIMXM5GKN7C3", + "length": 3038, + "nlines": 4, + "source_domain": "www.galleryjsa.com", + "title": "Never Ending Stories: Tae Kyu Yim - GALLERY JSA", + "raw_content": "Never Ending Stories: Tae Kyu Yim\nAn art critic Robert C. Morgan mentioned in an essay written for the exhibition catalog the artists\u2019 works are \u201cexpressing something vivid and alive to discover forms that possess elasticity and strength, and to evoke new ideas through the medium of painting.\u201d While the artists communicate their ideas through their individual focus on the medium of painting, the visually expressive forms suggest viewers with various backgrounds an opportunity to engage in Korean culture and its recent history. While all five artists have their respective experiences with Korean identity, the artists collectively underwent the same eras where the radical socio-economic and political evolution progressed in Korea. The artists allude to the audience their personal accounts of the radically changing times from the 80s to present while unfolding the narratives through painting, be it their techniques derived from Korean tradition or the subject matter.Viewers can easily notice a child-like whimsical quality in Tae Kyu Yim\u2019s works. Growing up in Korea in the 80s and 90s, Yim witnessed the chaos created by the adults and clashing of values in the society. In his own right, he rejects the social notion of burdening individuals with complication and responsibilities as an adult. He then started his art practice based on this experience and creates anonymous characters that are neither adults nor children, also known as \u201cKidults.\u201d By dousing his uncanny yet humorous characters with bright colors and bold outlines Yim seemingly attempts to ease the unrecognized tension we burdened ourselves with. In his most notable and substantial work Erehwon, which name is nowhere spelled backward, is an eccentric work of approximately 30 feet wide that depicts a utopia of Kidults harmoniously living and playing together that applies methods inspired by Korean traditional painting techniques.\nTae Kyu Yim was born in 1976 in Seoul. He currently lives and works in Beijing. Tae Kyu Yim received a BFA degree in Asian Painting at Seoul National University in 2000. A contemporary artist with a background in oriental painting, Yim has developed an original approach to classical Asian painting techniques with layers of paper and ink, in conjunction with other materials. His works frequently narrate and juxtapose the reality of cultural and social issues, as well as his personal struggles as a man. Yim has held a number of solo exhibitions and group exhibitions internationally. His paintings were auctioned at Christie\u2019s Hong Kong and his work is part of the main collections of the KUMHO Museum and the Song Eun Art & Culture Foundation in Seoul, South Korea.\nJSA is an acronym for the Joint Security Area. The Joint Security Area is the only portion of the Korean Demilitarized Zone where South and North Korean forces stood face-to-face and as of April 2018, it has become a symbol of peace and reconciliation to many people of Korea. Gallery JSA envisions an art space accommodates diverse art and culture.", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00240.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 19, + "original_length": 3331, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.97, + "perplexity": 233.6, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "http://www.gambatria.com/blog/2015/5/21/players-can-be-choosers", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T04:23:54Z", + "digest": "sha1:S2SF6YTF6C6KBUAR7HXU2X576C5AFT6T", + "length": 5051, + "nlines": 10, + "source_domain": "www.gambatria.com", + "title": "Players Can Be Choosers \u2014 Gambatria", + "raw_content": "Players Can Be Choosers\nI received a rather strange question this past week from an inventor. He wanted to know if doubling down in blackjack is an advantage for the Player or the Casino. I find it strange because my expectation is that someone trying to invent games would probably understand what creates house advantages and what creates Player advantages. I don't necessarily expect the average Player to fully understand this, but if you're trying to invent a game, you need to understand what levers to pull in order to make the game's math work out correctly.\nSome time ago, I wrote a couple of columns about things that create house advantages. They vary greatly from game to game, but there are some commonalities. The Player acting first is usually a house advantage because he has to essentially guess where he stands in the game. In the case of blackjack, virtually the entire advantage comes from this. The Player has to hit first and if he busts, he loses, regardless of what the Dealer does. In essence busted ties go to the House. In blackjack, the Player has 3 items that brings the payback back to an acceptable level. He wins 3 to 2 on Blackjack. The Dealer only wins what you wager if the Dealer has Blackjack. Imagine if you wagered $10 on your hand, but had to pay $15 if the Dealer has a blackjack and you don't. The Player can also split and double down. How do we know that these two items Player advantages?\nWithout even running the math on it, we can pretty sure that these are Player advantages because they are optional. Any time the Player has the option to bet at least a certain amount or MORE, this usually indicates that it creates a Player advantage. Now, this does NOT mean you ALWAYS bet more. It simply means that doing it at the right time is advantageous to the Player. In the case of blackjack, the Player may double down on any two cards (usually). If the Player chooses to do this with a 12 or a 7, then it will NOT be a Player advantage. But, if he does it when he is supposed to (with 9' , 10's, 11's and certain soft hand combinations) then the Player will find the payback will increase. Put it another way. If the house NEVER allowed the Player to double down, the payback of blackjack would be far less than 99.5%. This is the reason there are some casinos that don't allow the Player to double down on soft hands. This is one way a casino can reduce the payback of the game.\nThe same is true for splitting. Split when you are supposed to and it is to your advantage. If were forbidden to split Pairs, the payback of blackjack would be reduced. It should be noted that both splitting and doubling down make the strategy for blackjack considerably more complex. As such, it can increase human error which can lower the real payback, even if it doesn't affect the theoretical one.\nWhen a Player double down, he doubles his original wager and 'agrees' to take one and only one card as a hit. For many double down situations, this doesn't change the Player's hand at all relative to not doubling. If the Player has an 11 vs. a 5, even if he didn't double, the proper strategy would be to take exactly one card. In these cases, he is not changing the outcome of the hand at all, but is doubling his wager. Obviously, he would want to do this anytime he is more likely to win that to lose. In cases where he might want to take another hit, the Player is actually reducing the probability of winning the hand (slightly) but doubling the wager. So, it might come down to a preference of winning a hand 60% of the time with a $5 wager vs. winning a hand 55% of the time with a $10 wager. Which would you prefer? It's a trick question. Both result in the same net unit win over time. This shows that when you double down, the win frequency can only be reduced by a small amount relative to not doubling.\nWe see similar circumstances in a variety of games. In Four Card Poker, you can get the option to bet up to 3 times your original wager. This must be a Player advantage because you are never forced to do this. You can always bet 1x if you want. It just wouldn't be the correct mathematical play. Just like in blackjack, you need to know WHEN to play 3x. You should also note that in Four Card Poker you never bet 2x. In blackjack, there would be times when if you were allowed to 'triple down' you would want to do so even though you wouldn't double down.\nIn a game like Ultimate Texas Hold'em, it is a bit more complex. Your opportunity to wager more is tied to having less information. But the decision is still an option to Play 4x or to check and wait for more cards. This is a major Player advantage. If, for argument sake, a casino were to offer UTH without the option to wager 4x and just dealt each Player 2 cards and the flop and then said you wager 2x or check, the payback of UTH would plummet several percentage points. Choices are always good for the Player. He can always choose the one that is beneficial to himself.\nblackjack, double down, inventor, UTH, advantage\nWhich Bonus to Play and Why", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00240.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 61, + "original_length": 5947, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.97, + "perplexity": 248.2, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "http://www.gameandfishmag.com/editorial/mysterious-giant-eyeball-found-on-florida-beach/336676", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T03:15:48Z", + "digest": "sha1:7ZG72CZ4ZICFYN6SCBWKWXF6V4E3JJ5I", + "length": 1236, + "nlines": 5, + "source_domain": "www.gameandfishmag.com", + "title": "Mysterious Giant Eyeball Found On Florida Beach - Game & Fis", + "raw_content": "Mysterious Giant Eyeball Found On Florida Beach\nAfter examining an eye found on a south Florida beach last week, researchers from the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission (FWC) believe the specimen came from a swordfish. Genetic testing will be done to confirm the identification.\n?Experts on site and remotely have viewed and analyzed the eye, and based on its color, size and structure, along with the presence of bone around it, we believe the eye came from a swordfish,? said Joan Herrera, curator of collections at the FWC?s Fish and Wildlife Research Institute in St. Petersburg. ?Based on straight-line cuts visible around the eye, we believe it was removed by a fisherman and discarded.?\nThe approximately softball-size eye was recovered by a citizen in Pompano Beach on Wednesday. FWC staff received the eye later that day. Swordfish are commonly fished in the Florida Straits offshore of south Florida at this time of year.\nA highly migratory fish, swordfish can be found from the surface to as deep as 2,000 feet. Swordfish in the Atlantic can reach a maximum size of over 1,100 pounds, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. 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They\u2019re fascinating creatures that you can design and customize in this unique simulation game.\nHow to Play Creatures Alchemist\nTell us what you think about Creatures Alchemist. Leave a review or share a tip.", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00240.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 433, + "original_length": 9095, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.89, + "perplexity": 297.9, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "http://www.gamesgazette.co.uk/gg/main.php?p=content/_Archive/Anno%20Online%20Now.htm", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T04:25:29Z", + "digest": "sha1:56OAASLCP2AB47YZTNKYS3ER7F3ENJNW", + "length": 1535, + "nlines": 5, + "source_domain": "www.gamesgazette.co.uk", + "title": "Games Gazette Online", + "raw_content": "ANNO ONLINE WILL NOW SHOWCASE ITS GUILD SYSTEM\nLondon, UK \u2013 May 30, 2013 \u2013 Today, Ubisoft and Blue Byte are proud to announce that Anno Online will finally feature its guild system. Players will now be able to interact much more deeply with friends. Developed by Ubisoft Blue Byte, Anno Online combines the popular gameplay elements of the Anno franchise with brand new features suited to a persistent, web-based game.\nFrom now on, players will have the ability to create their own guild or join an existing one. This system will allow them to communicate, to establish strategies and to help each user thanks to a separated chat channel. Fans will be able to choose a name and a guild tag, invite up to 25 members and establish a strategy thanks to the guild chat channel. This feature will bring a brand new building, the guild hall building, allowing users to gather and feel a unique guild belonging.\nBased on the critically acclaimed, award-winning franchise, users can experience all the strategy, simulation, graphics and highly-detailed animation for the first time in a browser-based game. Players can build and develop great medieval cities using the detailed economic system enjoyed by Anno fans. As they satisfy the population\u2019s needs, they will unlock new buildings and face more demanding inhabitants, eventually discover and claim additional islands and connect them with trading routes.\nUbisoft gives the opportunity to players to create their account and jump into the game on the official website: www.anno-online.com", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00240.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 147, + "original_length": 5833, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.92, + "perplexity": 317.9, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "http://www.genxtinct.com/2010/12/birthday-destinations-farrells-and.html", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T03:55:49Z", + "digest": "sha1:ABTYLXN3ZAH3QL5KIVFLKTBGUNKLYXKV", + "length": 4110, + "nlines": 17, + "source_domain": "www.genxtinct.com", + "title": "Gen Xtinct: Birthday destinations: Farrell's and Shakey's", + "raw_content": "So yesterday was my birthday, and it got me thinking about the birthday destinations of our youth. We didn't have Chuck E. Cheese or Showbiz Pizza, I was a little too old for them--video games came in when I was a little old to have a party out. No, the two I remember most were Farrell's Ice Cream Parlour and Shakey's Pizza. (Oh, and sometimes people had parties at McDonald's--remember those? With GALLONS of that orange drink only they have, and Grimace plastic-bag hand puppets for everyone?)\nFarrell's (warning: link has annoying music) was my favorite, since I like ice cream more than I like pizza. Here's their history: The first one opened in 1963 in Oregon, but they were everywhere by the early 1970s, just as I was starting to have birthday parties.\nIt's supposed to look like an old-fashioned ice-cream parlor, with striped shirts on the employees and those goofy straw hats. The menu looked like a vintage newspaper and they had jars of penny candy.\nThe big treat, however, was The Zoo. It's like 40 scoops of ice cream (and a bunch of plastic animals, I think, which inspired the name?) and they bring it out on a stretcher with accompanying fanfare--sirens, drums, the staff running it out. I have no idea how much it cost when we were kids, but this blogger went to a Farrell's recently and it's $50!\nYou could certainly make a Zoo at home for a ton cheaper, but it's the experience, dammit. And Farrell's are expanding--they even have a Facebook fan page--so one might be coming to a mall near you. Rob and I laugh every time we go past what obviously was a Farrell's in L.A., and whoever bought it just turned the F into a B and renamed it \"Barrell's.)\nShakey's was a big birthday party place, too. And they also had that turn-of-the-century feel, with banjo and employees in red striped shirts and hats. When we were kids, chain pizza places were a lot more rare than they are now, so going out for pizza was quite novel, and Shakey's party atmosphere made a lot of us grow up associating pizza with parties.\nThere are apparently 400 Shakey's globally, but less than a quarter are in the U.S., or so saith Wikipedia. It's also interesting to me that Shakey's was named for the founder's malaria-caused nerve damage, which I guess made him shake.\nWhere did you go for your childhood parties, whether yours or a friend's?\nLabels: food, trends\nI don't recall Farrell's and have only dim memories of Shakey's. For us, the big pizza place was Pappy's. In fact, I think that was the first place where I had actual pizza (as opposed to frozen pizza or whatever it was that passed for pizza in school cafeterias). I'm a veteran of many a Pappy's birthday party; the birthday boy/girl got a plastic \"straw\" hat. I also remember being impressed by the big pitchers of root beer. Pappy's disappeared sometime in the early '80s, I recall. Today, mom-and-pop pizza shops are all over the place, but when I was growing up in the '70s, it seemed that pizza was a fairly exotic dish, pretty much up there with Mexican and even Chinese food. Casual restaurants like Applebee's didn't exist back then, and most restaurants were reserved for special, formal occasions.\nI had my sixth birthday party at Shakey's in 1982! That was the big thing in our town before Showbiz took over. We never had a Farrell's.\nFarrells!! Until a plane crashed into it. Not kidding. My first real pizza was at a party at Straw Hat. Befor then, I'd only had the boxed Appian Way kit my mom\nMade with dried Parmesan instead of mozzarella! Straw Hat was a revelation! Stretchy cheese!!! For years I referred to non homemade pizza as pizzeria pizza so people didn't think I meant Appian Way, as if everyone grew up with it.\nKL Crab said...\nShakey's was a once in awhile treat...ditto the Appian way pizza. When my brother was little we took him to Farrell's for his birthday and the guys running the 'zoo' around bumped into his high chair, after that he shook whenever we went there.\nmetalrob72 said...\nI actually a party at Farrell's back in the 70's for my 5th or 6th birthday and then again 20 years ago.....For my 20th birthday.", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00240.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 118, + "original_length": 6750, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.99, + "perplexity": 329.1, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "http://www.georgiaperimeterhomes.com/ga/covington/neighborhoods/ballard", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T03:54:34Z", + "digest": "sha1:QXIFH3RSFWESQFOX55HNYLVHWYNBCDVR", + "length": 537, + "nlines": 3, + "source_domain": "www.georgiaperimeterhomes.com", + "title": "Ballard Homes for Sale by Carlos Colon", + "raw_content": "There is currently one home available in Ballard with a price of $268,900. For availability or more information about homes for sale in Ballard call Carlos Colon at 770-314-1285 .\nMap of Ballard\nBallard is located in Covington GA, Newton County. There are currently 1 homes active and for sale inside the neighborhood with the average price being $268,900. The number of homes for sale in Ballard is always changing so if you see a home you like and you would like to schedule a time to take a look please give me a call at 770-314-1285.", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00240.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 84, + "original_length": 2539, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.95, + "perplexity": 290.4, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "http://www.germany.travel/ae-mobile/specials/luther/weimar.html", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T03:41:42Z", + "digest": "sha1:25D6WGES73PTWX7ENFMHNXX4B6LZBGBI", + "length": 1791, + "nlines": 11, + "source_domain": "www.germany.travel", + "title": "\u0627\u0644\u0633\u064a\u0627\u062d\u0629 \u0641\u064a \u0623\u0644\u0645\u0627\u0646\u064a\u0627 - \u0627\u0644\u0631\u062d\u0644\u0627\u062a \u0648\u0627\u0644\u0625\u062c\u0627\u0632\u0627\u062a \u0648\u0627\u0644\u0639\u0637\u0644\u0627\u062a", + "raw_content": "Weimar, Belvedere Palace\n\u00a9Deutsche Zentrale f\u00fcr Tourismus e.V.\nWeimar was a centre for German intellectual life long before Goethe and Schiller's day. Indeed, Martin Luther was much taken with the town on the river Ilm.\nLuther was in Weimar at least twelve times between 1518 and 1540 and preached to the people of the town on several occasions. At the late-Gothic Church of St. Peter and St. Paul you can still see the pulpit from which Luther delivered his new teachings. There is also a winged altar, which was begun by Luther's close friend Lucas Cranach the Elder. It depicts, among other things, Luther holding an open Bible.\nThe portrait of Martin Luther as 'Squire George' is on display at the Cranach Gallery in Weimar Palace, which is part of the Classical Weimar UNESCO World Heritage site.\nWeimar boasts two UNESCO World Heritage sites. 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The station - and its DJs - have been huge supporters of Glastonbury, so we'd certainly like to do our bit to help them out now. We're also saddened at the closure of the BBC Asian Network, which has broadcast some great stuff from the Festival over the years.\nWe believe that the decision to close the stations is the wrong one. If you agree, then please email trust.enquiries@bbc.co.uk to explain why you'll miss 6 and/or Asian Network or complete the Trust's BBC Strategy Review Online Survey. The BBC Trust will have to approve the closures and may yet refuse to do so if enough people show their support. A few minutes' effort could really make a difference.\nhttp://www.glastonburyfestivals.co.uk/news/help-save-bbc-6-music\nThese are cuts designed to placate the Tories & Rupert Murdoch, so if you live in a part of the country where you have a Tory MP, write to them & ask why Murdoch is helping shape the policies of a potential UK government as well as writing to the BBC. 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The bike\u2019s electric drivetrain eliminates exhaust emissions and sound pollution which contributes to a more harmonious and liveable city, while providing individuals and companies with a cheaper alternative to cargo shipping.\nwww.escargomotorcycle.com CONTACTS\nOscar Fehlberg\nEsCargo is the brainchild of industrial designer Oscar Fehlberg. The project was the culmination of his 4 year Bachelor (hons) of Industrial Design at RMIT, Melbourne. Innovation, out of the box thinking and a \u201cwhy not\u201d attitude are key to his design approach and his love for all things utilitarian shines through in his work. He became passionate about alternative energy sources and electric drivetrains in high school where he worked on designing and building single seater EV's for endurance racing. This helped drive his hands on approach and develop his knowledge in electronics, fabrication and project management. 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Kishimoto\nDear Mayor Segarra and Chairman Poland,\nWith the June 30th deadline quickly approaching for renewal of my contract as Superintendent, I am writing to urge you to take affirmative action to embrace school reform in the city of Hartford and guarantee its continued success by sending a strong message around the importance of leadership stability. As you know, in the past two years, the Hartford Public Schools have made dramatic gains in student achievement, parents have been empowered, high school graduation and college attendance rates have increased, and HPS has received considerable national recognition and private sector investments as a leading school system committed to education reform. In my role as Superintendent of Schools, I have shared and delivered on a critical vision to create a portfolio district of excellence that takes advantage of our proximity to the state Capitol and to state government. 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Our strategic operating plan over the past two years has kept us focused on high leverage deliverables through focused strategies including:\nSignificant increases in Reading in grades 4, 5, 7 and 8 in 2012\nSignificant increases in CMT performance in all four tested content areas in grade 8; our strongest entering 9th grade class in 2012\n18 schools with significant performance gains and the largest number of schools at the goal level in 2012 since the start of our reform\nHighest graduation rate since the start of our reform; highest number of students (89%) taking theSAT in 2012 since the start of our reform\nCreating a framework for college access and degree attainment program by engaging partners in delivering on the Hartford Promise, with $4.1 million committed to date.\nIncreasing parental engagement through a 25-parent taskforce and a Family and Community strategic plan.\nIncreasing student empowerment through a district-wide student senate and the selection of two students to serve on the Board of Education.\nExpansion of our Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM) agenda including the replication of Annie Fisher STEM School at Betances; winning the state and national Green School Award at Mary Hooker; transitioning from a traditional Science Fair to a district STEM Expo; hosting our first regional STEM Conference, and receiving best high school in America status from U.S. News and World Reports for our Sport & Medical Sciences Academy.\nDelivering on a one-of-a-kind high school design partnership with CPBN where our Journalism & Media students will spend their entire senior year in a Capstone Learning Lab.\nInitiating a HPS research agenda with the release of two independent research reports by two major Universities that were shared at my State of the Schools. 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To ensure the vitality of our reform, under my leadership, we supplemented district funds with up to $25 million this year of private and competitive grant fund raising. I also worked closely with the Commissioner of Education to mutually inform and to align our work to the Governor\u2019s education reform agenda. Because of our district model we have had the benefit of visits from U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan, Governor Malloy, U.S. Representative John Larson, and Senators Blumenthal and Murphy during this year alone. Our families are counting on us to provide stability, sustainability and quality education for their children. With sustainability we raise hope in our families, and build upon the trust that has been cautiously entrusted in us by our partners and families. Though no one person is indispensible, at this critical juncture, it is of utmost importance not to create uncertainty around the continuity of leadership of the school system. 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Room to Read works in collaboration with communities and local governments across Asia and Africa to develop literacy skills and a habit of reading among primary school children, and to support girls in completing secondary school with the life-skills they will need to succeed in school and beyond. Room to Read has helped millions of children across ten countries in Africa and Asia. The partnership Dr. Teas forged between the USG and Room to Read has helped promote education, establish school libraries and create new local language children\u2019s books throughout South Asia.\nToday, Dr. Teas continues her work as an Education Specialist for The World Bank with a focus on capacity building for science, engineering and technology in Sub-Saharan Africa. She also supports Art Works For Change as a member of the Board of Directors. 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The demands of being part of the national team, the Selecci\u00f3n Nacional Argentina, were demanding, forcing him to make a decision as to the direction his life would take.\nDue to his inquisitive mind and his strong desire to improve his knowledge of the world, the decision was not easy, but in the end his drive and commitment to soccer won the upper hand.\nTo continue his intellectual development, he continues to read extensively and constantly, and always looks for new ideas and visions.\nH\u00e9rnan married his neighborhood girlfriend, and in 1998 the first of his three daughters, Giana, was born.\nHe was a dedicated father from day one, and he considers the achievements of his daughters arehis greatest accomplishments.\nHe thrives on his girls' activities, ranging from showing them the natural beauty of Argentina and M\u00e9xico to helping them with schoolwork and teaching them to ride bikes.\nIn 2000 Agustina was born followed by Valentina in 2003. With the same intensity he demonstrates in his sport, he derives extreme joy from being with his daughters.\nAccording to Cristante, his most important dreams are to be there for the challenges and accomplishments of his daughters, travel to other countries to learn about different cultures, and to always find a way to improve himself every day.\nAnd despite a full and active calendar, Hern\u00e1n finds time to visit hospitals and to be involved with community charities.\nIn 2002, he completed his studies to be a Director T\u00e9cnico, or professional coach..\nIn addition, he finds time to play the saxophone, and continues reading books on science, history and religion to help satisfy his goal for constant personal improvement.\n\u201cEvery day I try to find ways to improve myself, both in my sport and on a personal level\u201d\nFollow each step of his dynamic career in the Sports Biography of Hern\u00e1n Cristante.", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00240.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 40, + "original_length": 3601, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.99, + "perplexity": 205.6, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "http://www.herne-bay.kent.sch.uk/family-liaison-officer/", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T03:36:29Z", + "digest": "sha1:6HS7LQZVG2ZMJJMBABH5RXGSNT6RHGG6", + "length": 864, + "nlines": 5, + "source_domain": "www.herne-bay.kent.sch.uk", + "title": "Family Liaison Officer - Herne Bay Infant School and Seashells Nursery", + "raw_content": "The role of the Family Liaison Officer within the school is to provide support, information and an education service to parents of children attending the school.\nThe FLO aims to establish and foster good relationships with the parents and carers of children at the school and encourage parental involvement in the school and all it\u2019s activities.\nIn practical terms this means that the FLO is available to meet with individual parents when issues and personal difficulties arise and offer advise on practical childcare and parenting skills. 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After a short while in the women\u2019s care, these babies, born in custody, are stripped from the mother and sent to relatives and friends to be raised. The novel focuses on what happens to these children as they grow to adulthood amid the political unrest and turmoil of Iran. The story spans for several decades.\nThe writing is beautiful and very compelling. Because the novel focuses on the children, their caregivers, and their parents, I found there to be quite a lot of characters. Further, the stories often jumped from the past to the current time. At first, this confused me, but I persevered and soon found that the book wasn\u2019t written like a typical plot driven story, but rather like an anthology of connected short stories or vignettes. 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Admit it and then we'll see (C-261/13) \u2014 How to Crack a Nut", + "raw_content": "The best way to deal with a petition to the European Parliament? Admit it and then we'll see (C-261/13)\nIn its Judgment in case Sch\u00f6nberger v Parliament, C-261/13, EU:C:2014:2423, the CJEU has assessed the limits of the right to petition the European Parliament under art 227 TFEU, as informed by art 44 of the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights. In a case that confirms a previous Judgment by the GC [EU:T:2013:111, not available in English], the CJEU has clarified the controls, checks and balances applicable to a rejection of a petition and, maybe more counterintuitively, the lack of controls applicable to the admission of a petition. This may sound absurd and unnecessary, given that there would seem to be no need to control the reasons why the European Parliament admits petitions.\nHowever, the discussion seems to actually not have been about how to control de admission of petitions, but the actions that the European Parliament decides to engage in once the petition is admitted. On this point, and showing a very clear deference for the political process involved in the right to petition, the CJEU has stressed that\nit is clear from the provisions of the TFEU and from the rules adopted by the Parliament for the organisation of the right of petition that, where the Parliament takes the view that a petition meets the conditions laid down in Article 227 TFEU, it has a broad discretion, of a political nature, as regards how that petition should be dealt with. It follows that a decision taken in that regard is not amenable to judicial review, regardless of whether, by that decision, the Parliament itself takes the appropriate measures or considers that it is unable to do so and refers the petition to the competent institution or department so that that institution or department may take those measures (C-261/13, para 24, emphasis added).\nThe question at this point is how to interpret this passage, which seems to either not require any reaction at all from Parliament, or a very minimum 'referral' of the petition to a different institution or department. Ie, in the best case scenario, all the Parliament needs to do is to pass the hot potato onto somebody else. In the worst case, it may just decided that there is nothing that can be done.\nThe lack of appetite for a control of the actions that follow a petition is understandable. However, an extreme reading of Sch\u00f6nberger v Parliament would simply result in the European Parliament never rejecting any petition in the future (that would be open to judicial review) and instead admitting them and immediately declaring that there is nothing they can do (with, or without further referral). Whether this provides any meaningful effectiveness to art 44 EUCFR and art 227 TFEU is at least debatable. However, there is nothing I can say about this. 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ICOMOS would like to thank you for your involvement in the running of this enriching and successful General Assembly. Please find attached a certificate of appreciation to demonstrate our gratitude.\nGaia Jungeblodt", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00240.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 130, + "original_length": 2816, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.93, + "perplexity": 278.7, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "http://www.igardeners.com/2006/02/choosing-greenhouse-or-cold-frame.html", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T04:11:01Z", + "digest": "sha1:HD4TRKIQ2IE6FSE4DHAWKC3TXXDC6MKZ", + "length": 4036, + "nlines": 7, + "source_domain": "www.igardeners.com", + "title": "iGardeners.com: Choosing a Greenhouse or Cold Frame", + "raw_content": "Choosing a Greenhouse or Cold Frame\nNo matter where you live, a greenhouse or cold frame can extend your growing season. Whether you are a large-scale grower of plants that you sell for profit, or an individual who just wants to extend the length of time you can spend gardening each year, there is a greenhouse available for your needs. I am going to focus on the small types of greenhouses and cold frames that are available, for the private individual (not a business) for those times that you want to provide a very early start to young plants and essentially toughen them up. They can be made, or purchased. Purchased ones are popular because they usually come with all the materials, including any panel material, venting options, and framework all set to assemble. Many of them are also sized to fit accessories such as soil warming cables or heat mats. If you have a good set of plans, or the area you are going to place it in is an awkward layout or size, building it from scratch may be a better choice, but keep in mind that supplies for erecting it properly may still not be much less than if you just bought a kit to begin with. Compare prices, keeping in mind the finished product at all times. Even among kits, two exact sizes can have quite a few differences in quality of materials, type of coverings, venting, warranty, and more.\nOne drawback to purchasing or building a greenhouse or a cold frame is of course the price, as we were just discussing. Even a relatively small greenhouse can be pricey, so identifying what your needs are before you buy can help alleviate any over spending. Consider what types of plants you plan to use the greenhouse or cold frame for. Also, consider if you are going to use it strictly for your own needs, or if you plan to share your seedlings and young plants with others. This alone can have a huge impact on the size of the greenhouse or cold frame you will need.\nConsider where it will be situated. You may have been dreaming about an elite styled greenhouse, complete with Dutch doors, and decorative elements across the top, making it as much a decorative addition to your yard as a useful one, but any space you have to relegate to its construction may be more closely matched to a shelf unit on a cart. Be realistic when choosing the perfect greenhouse or cold frame for your yard, lest you get all the building materials or the kit set out, only to realize that there is no possible way it is going to fit where you intended to place it.\nDepending on your yard's layout, and where you have your garden, you will also want consider things such as easy access for hauling things like potting soil, and access to electrical outlets if you plant to use warming mats, fans, or other items such as heaters that will require electricity.\nOnce you have a clear plan in mind, it will be time to shop. If you are not a good comparison shopper, now is the time to sharpen those skills. Coverings of greenhouses and cold frames are manufactured of a wide variety of materials and thicknesses. Know what you are buying. Just because a design is shown with an access door, does not necessarily mean one is included, and so be sure to find this out. Solar systems are another option on some greenhouses, so do consider this option if your greenhouse will need to be located away from main buildings and convenient power supplies, but at the same time, make sure you understand what is included, and what is not. A solar system can add substantially to the total price of a unit, but it can also save you on operating costs. Frame material is also made of a variety of materials, from cedar to aluminum, and may or may not include items such as gutters and end caps, so again, be aware of what is included in the price being quoted to you.\nHaving your own greenhouse or cold frame can be a great way to make your time spent with your favorite pastime, as long lasting throughout the year as possible. 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While most guys might not care where they got their tie from just as long as they can take it off the minute they don't need to wear it anymore, I'm over here fucking with these new wool ones (capsule) in Paris just showcased. The frilled ends may or may not work for you but they're interesting enough. No buying info just yet but we'll keep you posted.", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00240.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 235, + "original_length": 6925, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.99, + "perplexity": 267.5, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "http://www.indoorgardener.org/2008/06/day-73-looking-for-more-basil-recipes.html", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T04:47:09Z", + "digest": "sha1:C3MYZBPHG4YZYNG2N7Z263RO537JCYYW", + "length": 623, + "nlines": 2, + "source_domain": "www.indoorgardener.org", + "title": "Day 73: Looking for more basil recipes :) | Indoor Gardening - My Aerogarden and Houseplant Blog", + "raw_content": "Well, as you can see, the basil is once again overgrown. I was away from my house for most of the week, and as I came back I found that the basil was once again hitting against the lights. So I cropped the topmost leaves.\nI noticed also that the lower leaves are starting to wilt. According to the instruction book, this is because the taller leaves are blocking the bottom leaves from light reaching them. But being stubborn again, I won't be pruning the plant right away, but will be searching for more recipes that use a lot of basil. I will also be making a boatload more of, what else, caprese salad and pesto as well.", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00240.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 125, + "original_length": 5808, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.99, + "perplexity": 280.5, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "http://www.infobanc.com/country/economy/cote%20d/27/index.htm", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T03:34:32Z", + "digest": "sha1:LNWQQSQ6IH7TCZLO4LAHIRO7RJYFUT36", + "length": 1196, + "nlines": 4, + "source_domain": "www.infobanc.com", + "title": "Cote D, Overview - business information service for export import trade", + "raw_content": "About Economy of Cote D\nCote d'Ivoire is heavily dependent on agriculture and related activities, which engage roughly two-thirds of the population. Cote d'Ivoire is the world's largest producer and exporter of cocoa beans and a significant producer and exporter of coffee and palm oil. Consequently, the economy is highly sensitive to fluctuations in international prices for these products and in climatic conditions. Cocoa, oil, and coffee are the country's top export revenue earners, but the country is also producing gold. The country also produces oil and boasted two offshore oil finds in 2012. Since the end of the civil war in 2003, political turmoil has continued to damage the economy, resulting in the loss of foreign investment and slow economic growth. In June 2012, the IMF and the World Bank announced $4.4 billion in debt relief for Cote d'Ivoire under the Highly Indebted Poor Countries Initiative. Cote d'Ivoire's long-term challenges include political instability and degrading infrastructure.\nindustry and services: NA% (2007 est.)\nfoodstuffs, beverages; wood products, oil refining, gold mining, truck and bus assembly, textiles, fertilizer, building materials, electricity", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00240.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 280, + "original_length": 6472, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.94, + "perplexity": 95.5, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "http://www.informit.com/articles/article.aspx?p=2094683", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T04:59:40Z", + "digest": "sha1:4VQSS6OBMBCESSXLUFISGZIIBEI2NBKQ", + "length": 10319, + "nlines": 23, + "source_domain": "www.informit.com", + "title": "My Start-Up Story: Advice for Would-be Entrepreneurs from Mobile Evangelist Sian Morson | | InformIT", + "raw_content": "My Start-Up Story: Advice for Would-be Entrepreneurs from Mobile Evangelist Sian Morson\nBy Sian Morson\nMobile evangelist Sian Morson talks about her path from project manager to entrepreneur and offers words of advice to those considering entrepreneurship.\nEntrepreneurship Lessons for Success (Collection)\nAs a young girl, I remember having a fascination with how things worked. Anything remotely electronic, I would take apart and put back together again. Even so, I never gravitated towards any of the STEM subjects other than those that were required. I believed they were \u201ctoo hard\u201d and didn\u2019t have a teacher that made them seem particularly exciting. I did, however, take a BASIC class in junior high school, which I really enjoyed. My instructor was Mr. Fuller, an African American. In retrospect, I realize how unique this was. And truth be told, Mr. Fuller was probably the first Blerd I\u2019d ever seen or met! The class piqued my interest so much that I asked for and received a Commodore VIC 20 computer and later on, a Commodore 64 when that was released. I remember being up late at night writing lines and lines and code, but eventually my interest in computers faded, and I turned my attention to other matters. It didn\u2019t help that I wasn\u2019t particularly good at math and I was just OK in science. A career in technology was never really on my radar. I focused on my creativity and eventually landed in film school at NYU, but the fascination with how things work remained.\nWhen the dot com boom (v1.0) happened, I was front and center and had relocated to the San Francisco Bay Area. I was working as a bartender at the time, but dot com cash was everywhere and it was changing the city in many ways. It was while I was behind the bar that I came into contact with some of the newly-minted millionaires and employees of this \u2018new economy\u2019. I quickly found that technology fed my latent fascination with how things work.\nMy first real contact with a true software engineer came when I met my friend James. A nocturnal creature, he coded all night and slept during the day. There was something truly fascinating about the myriad of computers in his loft apartment. I was also impressed by the lifestyle that \u2018engineering\u2019 afforded him as well. I asked him to teach me about what he did and he reluctantly agreed.\nIt was a rocky road. I was only learning HTML at the time. We were using a WYSWYG editor called Visual Page. And let\u2019s just say James wasn\u2019t the most patient teacher. But I managed to pick up the basics. He gave me an old computer and a modem. From the moment my modem connected, I knew that the Internet would change everything. By then, my skills, though rudimentary at best, qualified me for some of the jobs that this new economy was creating.\nI started my career as a project manager managing teams doing large-scale web builds and banners (remember those?). I wasn\u2019t even sure what we were building when I started, but I knew that I was able to communicate well with people and get them to do what I needed them to do. Project managers are responsible for the successful (on time and on budget) delivery of projects, and communication is key. I have an innate gift of gab, so in a way, it was the perfect entry point into technology.. By managing engineers and creatives, I learned about their work and how they did what they did. I learned to speak the language and excelled at my job, eventually moving in up in the ranks and working at various agencies in San Francisco, New York and London.\nMy initial idea for Kollective Mobile came as I was deciding to leave my job as Director of Interactive at a Bay Area pharmaceutical agency. I knew that whatever I would do would be in the mobile realm. I\u2019d just spearheaded the creation and expansion of a mobile subsidiary, and I\u2019d seen the exponential growth of mobile since I\u2019d relocated from Europe back to the US. I knew mobile was the future, and I knew how to manage a variety of skillsets \u2013 from technical engineers to creatives (designers, writers etc.) and project managers. I knew how to placate clients and deal with complex issues. But I still didn\u2019t know that I was on the brink of starting a new agency. When I finally accepted that, it was quite daunting. I\u2019d always worked for large, global agencies. It wasn\u2019t immediately apparent that I could do this on a smaller level. I discussed it with family members and friends to get their take. But very few of them even knew what I was talking about. Agencies are a breed of their own. Anyone who has spent time working at one can attest to that fact. But, I still wasn\u2019t comfortable talking to coworkers about my idea. So, I didn\u2019t. I kept it stealthy until my launch.\nStarting an agency or any other business is difficult work. I had the name set up, but then I had to find clients and talent! Fortunately, I was able to tap my network to find people who were willing to take a chance on me. Once we proved ourselves on the smaller projects, we knew that the larger projects would eventually come. And they did. We found ourselves in a position where the competition was fierce; we were being undercut by other mobile development shops that were shipping work overseas. But eventually, our clients would come back with horror stories of unfinished work, badly written code, and products that simply didn\u2019t work. We took those as opportunities to show what we could do and to build solid relationships with our clients. In the beginning, no job was too small. We pretty much took everything that we were being offered. Now, we\u2019re a bit more selective. But when you\u2019re initially starting out, you need a wide range of jobs to prove that you can do many different kinds of projects.\nOne of the things that I learned early was that we needed to diversify our client base. So while one of my goals was to work with small businesses, I realized pretty quickly that they were not going to sustain ourselves working only with small businesses. We sought out a range of clients from small businesses to large advertising agencies, mid-sized companies and even start-ups and government work because we were hungry, but also because the range of projects that we would be able to work on. The breadth of the work was staggering. We were able to work on cool, disruptive apps for Silicon Valley startups, simple prototypes for independent entrepreneurs, and consumer-based apps with a larger user base for million-dollar clients. In some instances, we were invisible to the client, and in others we were a part of a large campaign with a team of over 30. All of this variation really makes getting up in the morning really exciting.\nIt Wasn\u2019t Always Rosy\nAlong the way, there were disasters too. Growing pains make for awkward situations, and sometimes clients think that you are bigger than you really are. When you take on a big project, your client expects a certain level of flexibility that we weren\u2019t always able to provide as quickly as they may have liked. In one instance, we were working on a global account with partners in China, the US and the UK. Coordinating communication across country lines with language and cultural barriers as well as time differences made for a challenging project. We struggled to stay on top of the feedback coming from all corners of the world and even, sadly, dropped the ball a few times. Luckily, we were able to communicate with our client who stepped in and helped out by channeling all feedback through one main stakeholder. This made the process much easier and we were able to get the project back on track. Ultimately, it was very successful for us and them. I\u2019m happy to say that we\u2019ve worked those issues out but it was pretty touch and go there for a month or two.\nOne thing about having your own business is that you can never sit back on your laurels and coast. You\u2019re always out there trying to find the next client and trying to understand which direction technology is moving in. Things are moving so fast in the mobile space that it\u2019s important to stay abreast of all of the wonderful changes taking place. Clients expect that, and if you want to stay in the game and be competitive you need to keep up.\nI am always trying to find new opportunities to learn. Since I do best outside of a structured environment, the advances in technology have been great because you don\u2019t need to sit in a classroom to stay abreast.. I learn best by doing. Sometimes when we\u2019re placed in a position where we have to learn something quickly is the best way. When you\u2019re running a business and you\u2019re all doing it together it can be crazy but mostly it\u2019s exciting!\nPlan everything: Plan the business before you actually start it, and once you\u2019ve started it plan every project. Success comes from proper planning and preparation. You might be able to wing it for a little while, but it won\u2019t last long. Failure is certain without it.\nSurround yourself with like-minded people: Some people are leaders and others are followers. There is no judgment in that statement. But leaders don\u2019t often hang out with followers. If you\u2019re on a path or a mission, you need to surround yourself with people who share your drive, your determination, your struggles and yes perhaps your failures, too.\nAlways have an outlet: Work is great. You will do plenty of it when you are running your own business. But, work isn\u2019t everything. Balance is important. So, take time to ensure that your life is well balanced. Entrepreneurs often glamourize the \u2018start-up grind\u2019; the long hours with no sleep and stories of living in cars and on ramen noodles. But that life is overrated. Make the time to do other things, whether it\u2019s seeing friends, meditating and exercising, or veg\u2019ing with a bit of reality TV.\nGet a mentor: Entrepreneurship isn\u2019t new. Find someone who has done it before and spend time with him or her. Be prepared to listen and learn.\nTry to find a lesson in everything: There always is one.\nUltimately, it\u2019s important to remember to have a good time at whatever it is you choose to do. I always say entrepreneurship has been the most difficult undertaking for me. But, it has also been the most rewarding thus far. If you can find the time to enjoy the work you do, that\u2019s half that battle.\nFor more articles and resources, visit our Women in Technology page.", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00240.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 137, + "original_length": 12746, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.98, + "perplexity": 246.9, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "http://www.informit.com/articles/article.aspx?p=2206307&seqNum=5", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T04:55:07Z", + "digest": "sha1:D5PYDHQLKR2O4QX27IDIVDAX35COK6UD", + "length": 9238, + "nlines": 42, + "source_domain": "www.informit.com", + "title": "What Are Business Analytics? | 1.1. Terminology | InformIT", + "raw_content": "What Are Business Analytics?\nBy Marc J. Schniederjans, Dara G. Schniederjans, Christopher M. Starkey\n1.2. Business Analytics Process\n1.3. Relationship of BA Process and Organization Decision-Making Process\nLearn the definition of business analytics, the relationship of analytics and business intelligence to the subject of business analytics, the three steps of the business analytics process, four data classification measurement scales, and the relationship of the business analytics process with the organization decision-making process.\nBusiness Analytics Principles, Concepts, and Applications: What, Why, and How\nDefine business analytics.\nExplain the relationship of analytics and business intelligence to the subject of business analytics.\nDescribe the three steps of the business analytics process.\nDescribe four data classification measurement scales.\nExplain the relationship of the business analytics process with the organization decision-making process.\nBusiness analytics begins with a data set (a simple collection of data or a data file) or commonly with a database (a collection of data files that contain information on people, locations, and so on). As databases grow, they need to be stored somewhere. Technologies such as computer clouds (hardware and software used for data remote storage, retrieval, and computational functions) and data warehousing (a collection of databases used for reporting and data analysis) store data. Database storage areas have become so large that a new term was devised to describe them. Big data describes the collection of data sets that are so large and complex that software systems are hardly able to process them (Isson and Harriott, 2013, pp. 57\u201361). Isson and Harriott (2013, p. 61) define little data as anything that is not big data. Little data describes the smaller data segments or files that help individual businesses keep track of customers. As a means of sorting through data to find useful information, the application of analytics has found new purpose.\nThree terms in business literature are often related to one another: analytics, business analytics, and business intelligence. Analytics can be defined as a process that involves the use of statistical techniques (measures of central tendency, graphs, and so on), information system software (data mining, sorting routines), and operations research methodologies (linear programming) to explore, visualize, discover and communicate patterns or trends in data. Simply, analytics convert data into useful information. Analytics is an older term commonly applied to all disciplines, not just business. A typical example of the use of analytics is the weather measurements collected and converted into statistics, which in turn predict weather patterns.\nThere are many types of analytics, and there is a need to organize these types to understand their uses. We will adopt the three categories (descriptive, predictive, and prescriptive) that the Institute of Operations Research and Management Sciences (INFORMS) organization (www.informs.org) suggests for grouping the types of analytics (see Table 1.1). These types of analytics can be viewed independently. For example, some firms may only use descriptive analytics to provide information on decisions they face. Others may use a combination of analytic types to glean insightful information needed to plan and make decisions.\nTable 1.1 Types of Analytics\nType of Analytics\nThe application of simple statistical techniques that describes what is contained in a data set or database. Example: An age bar chart is used to depict retail shoppers for a department store that wants to target advertising to customers by age.\nAn application of advanced statistical, information software, or operations research methods to identify predictive variables and build predictive models to identify trends and relationships not readily observed in a descriptive analysis. Example: Multiple regression is used to show the relationship (or lack of relationship) between age, weight, and exercise on diet food sales. Knowing that relationships exist helps explain why one set of independent variables influences dependent variables such as business performance.\nAn application of decision science, management science, and operations research methodologies (applied mathematical techniques) to make best use of allocable resources. Example: A department store has a limited advertising budget to target customers. Linear programming models can be used to optimally allocate the budget to various advertising media.\nThe purposes and methodologies used for each of the three types of analytics differ, as can be seen in Table 1.2. It is these differences that distinguish analytics from business analytics. Whereas analytics is focused on generating insightful information from data sources, business analytics goes the extra step to leverage analytics to create an improvement in measurable business performance. Whereas the process of analytics can involve any one of the three types of analytics, the major components of business analytics include all three used in combination to generate new, unique, and valuable information that can aid business organization decision-making. In addition, the three types of analytics are applied sequentially (descriptive, then predictive, then prescriptive). Therefore, business analytics (BA) can be defined as a process beginning with business-related data collection and consisting of sequential application of descriptive, predictive, and prescriptive major analytic components, the outcome of which supports and demonstrates business decision-making and organizational performance. Stubbs (2011, p. 11) believes that BA goes beyond plain analytics, requiring a clear relevancy to business, a resulting insight that will be implementable, and performance and value measurement to ensure a successful business result.\nTable 1.2 Analytic Purposes and Tools\nExamples of Methodologies\nTo identify possible trends in large data sets or databases. The purpose is to get a rough picture of what generally the data looks like and what criteria might have potential for identifying trends or future business behavior.\nDescriptive statistics, including measures of central tendency (mean, median, mode), measures of dispersion (standard deviation), charts, graphs, sorting methods, frequency distributions, probability distributions, and sampling methods.\nTo build predictive models designed to identify and predict future trends.\nStatistical methods like multiple regression and ANOVA. Information system methods like data mining and sorting. Operations research methods like forecasting models.\nTo allocate resources optimally to take advantage of predicted trends or future opportunities.\nOperations research methodologies like linear programming and decision theory.\nBusiness intelligence (BI) can be defined as a set of processes and technologies that convert data into meaningful and useful information for business purposes. While some believe that BI is a broad subject that encompasses analytics, business analytics, and information systems (Bartlett, 2013, p.4), others believe it is mainly focused on collecting, storing, and exploring large database organizations for information useful to decision-making and planning (Negash, 2004). One function that is generally accepted as a major component of BI involves storing an organization\u2019s data in computer cloud storage or in data warehouses. Data warehousing is not an analytics or business analytics function, although the data can be used for analysis. In application, BI is focused on querying and reporting, but it can include reported information from a BA analysis. BI seeks to answer questions such as what is happening now and where, and also what business actions are needed based on prior experience. BA, on the other hand, can answer questions like why something is happening, what new trends may exist, what will happen next, and what is the best course for the future.\nIn summary, BA includes the same procedures as in plain analytics but has the additional requirement that the outcome of the analytic analysis must make a measurable impact on business performance. BA includes reporting results like BI but seeks to explain why the results occur based on the analysis rather than just reporting and storing the results, as is the case with BI. Analytics, BA, and BI will be mentioned throughout this book. A review of characteristics to help differentiate these terms is presented in Table 1.3.\nTable 1.3 Characteristics of Analytics, Business Analytics, and Business Intelligence\nBusiness performance planning role\nWhat is happening, and what will be happening?\nWhat is happening now, what will be happening, and what is the best strategy to deal with it?\nWhat is happening now, and what have we done in the past to deal with it?\nUse of descriptive analytics as a major component of analysis\nUse of predictive analytics as a major component of analysis\nNo (only historically)\nUse of prescriptive analytics as a major component of analysis\nUse of all three in combination\nFocus of storing and maintaining data\nRequired focus of improving business value and performance", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00240.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 196, + "original_length": 11927, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.92, + "perplexity": 288.6, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "http://www.informit.com/authors/bio/17724DB2-5836-4807-A5D1-8BFE7DBF2665", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T05:03:44Z", + "digest": "sha1:LZU3ISSTQ6URMWW2T7KO5O4EAA4Z2AZU", + "length": 718, + "nlines": 8, + "source_domain": "www.informit.com", + "title": "Wayne Wolf | InformIT", + "raw_content": "Wayne Wolf\nWyane Wolf is Professor of Electrical Engineering at Princeton University; previously he was with AT&T Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill, NJ. His research interests span a wide range of problems in VLSI, from computer-aided design to video signal processor architectures and hardware/software co-design. 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The technology of BCIs is becoming less invasive, sleeker and more powerful, with a growing number of applications from health care to gaming, smart homes to typing, medical research to market research. While not yet a mass market by any means, the potential for interacting with our surroundings in radically new ways is arriving.\nPreviously, BCIs required an invasive implant inserted directly into the brain with wires tapping into the tissue. Then came a shift to caps which look a bit like a cross between a hairnet and a swimming cap with 10s of sensors linked to a patient\u2019s head; this was followed by sleeker caps with fewer more effective sensors able to pick up sufficient signals for adequate controls, but still needing gel to link them to the person\u2019s head. The more recent BCI connections have fewer sensors and have become sleeker, better designed headsets for gamers, which look not unlike large blue tooth mobile phone headsets. Work is now underway to develop a BCI capable of working \u2018remotely\u2019, through a layer of material in a car seat to \u2018read\u2019 the driver\u2019s brain signals.\nThere is a growing range of applications to match the changing nature of the technology. In the medical arena, such applications include enabling those who have suffered strokes or other neurological damage to control limbs via BCI; using BCIs to direct a wheelchair which the patient is sitting in and more recently to control a robot at a distance of some 100 kilometres. A group of severely disabled people used the virtual world of Second Life to explore and control their real world environment via BCI. BCIs are also being brought into the home enabling people to control their surroundings, to type and most recently as part of an interactive smart TV produced in China. This research is literally and metaphorically opening doors to people, providing the potential to give disabled people far greater independence and ability to communicate. In a world of ageing populations and growing numbers of disabled people, the demand for such capabilities will grow.\nOn lighter note, one \u2018fun\u2019 product in Japan was a pair of rabbit ears on a head band which perked up when people were concentrating and drooped when they were not. Apart from proving popular, such a device might for example help children with Attention Deficit Disorders learn to concentrate for longer periods as a result of immediate and clear feedback. Another game required participants to control a ball in a stream of air by concentrating and serious gamers are exploring more complex games via BCI. Given the power of gaming as a driver of innovation the speed at which the technology develops could increase.\nInteractive films, where users influence the film via thoughts, although they have been developed as a leisure/ entertainment product are being explored to help prisoners to understand and learn to control their reactions in specific situations, reduce anger and control emotions. Such training courses could help reduce reoffending rates and assist rehabilitation. Similar techniques could revolutionise training courses for people likely to face stressful or difficult situations, to develop negotiation skills or understand interactions.\nThere is even research into using BCIs to enhance the safety of cars by speeding up response times e.g. braking, based on thought patterns rather than relying on them being translated into action.\nAlthough it is still very early days, not only is the technology becoming more powerful but also easier to use and cheaper. 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Of every $10 in RAC checks, $9 went to those large companies.\n\u201cPut another way, less than 6 percent of the corporate claimants for this credit took 90 percent of the benefit,\u201d said Mike Owen, executive director of the nonpartisan Iowa Policy Project. \u201cIt is really time to examine whether this is a wise use of what legislators tell us are scarce resources.\n\u201cThe number of companies taking advantage of this program is sharply rising \u2014 up 11 percent in one year. There were 160 companies using the RAC in 2010; in 2016, the number of claims reached a high of 305.\u201d\nCompanies made 305 claims totaling $49.1 million for the RAC and the related supplemental RAC for which some claimants are eligible, down $1 million from the previous year.\nOf those claims, 207 (68 percent) were paid in whole or in part as checks to companies that paid no state corporate income tax.\nEighty-two percent of the value of those tax credits were paid as checks to companies.\nVery large claimants \u2014 companies with over $500,000 in RAC claims \u2014 had at least 88 percent of those corporate checks ($35.6 million) while paying no income tax.\nThe large claimants accounted for 90 percent of the corporate claims.\nRockwell Collins, Dupont, Deere & Co. and John Deere Construction \u2014 the largest four corporate beneficiaries over the previous six years \u2014 were joined in the top five for 2016 by Golden Grain Energy LLC, which had $5.2 million in claims. Rockwell Collins led with $12.1 million, followed by Deere at $8 million, Golden Grain at $5.2 million, Dupont at $5.1 million and John Deere Construction at $2.6 million. (See table below and attached)\n\u201cThis report illustrates a budget choice,\u201d Owen said. \u201cLegislators this month approved about $40 million in additional state aid to local schools for next budget year. This report suggests they could have doubled that if they were willing to cut back this tax break to simply excusing taxes owed.\n\u201cThis is spending outside the budget process. Advocates of schools, clean water, human services and public safety do not have that luxury. They have to work for appropriations every year.\u201d\nOverall, the credit program cost $58.4 million in calendar year 2016, with $49.1 million of that in claims by corporations and the rest by individuals. The credit is refundable, which means that if a company has more tax credits available than it owes in taxes, the state makes a payment for the difference.\nThe report is available on the Department of Revenue website at https://tax.iowa.gov/sites/files/idr/RAC Annual Report 2016.pdf.\nThe Iowa Fiscal Partnership (IFP), a joint initiative of the Iowa Policy Project and another nonpartisan organization, the Child & Family Policy Center in Des Moines, has reported on the RAC for many years.\nOwen noted that Iowans have access to more information about this credit than they did years ago because of the annual report, which was ordered by the Legislature in 2009.\nAll of the state annual reports on the RAC are available on the Iowa Department of Revenue website at https://tax.iowa.gov/report/Reports?combine=Research%20Activities.\nThose reports show that the number of corporate claimants has grown from 160 in 2010, the first full year covered by the annual reports, to 248 in both 2014 and 2015. The number of claimants receiving the credit as checks, rather than to only erase tax liability, rose from 133 in 2010 to 181 in 2014 and 186 in 2015.\nTags: research activities credit, tax credits, tax expenditures\nOversight on the overseers of tax credits\nYou might have heard about a big meeting at the State Capitol today.\nNo, not that one, about whose portrait will hang in the Iowa House and Senate behind the presiding officer.\nThe meetings where there\u2019s always some mystery are the annual reviews of selected tax credits. Only a few credits are reviewed each year by a panel of legislators. One meeting was in November; the other is today.\nOne tax giveaway \u2014 er, tax credit \u2014 on the agenda for today is the Research Activities Credit, or RAC.\nNo such review since these sessions started has produced meaningful reform, but the exercise does put information on the table and does put a spotlight on spending choices being made outside the budget process.\nWhat we already know from previous evaluations and annual reports about the RAC is that it is costly \u2014 over $50 million a year \u2014 and that routinely at least two-thirds of the cost (and usually over four-fifths) goes to companies as so-called \u201crefunds.\u201d These are not refunds of taxes owed, but of tax credits the companies didn\u2019t need because they owe so little, or no, corporate income tax.\nRemember that when you hear the Iowa Taxpayers Association and others bleating about Iowa\u2019s corporate taxes, which are actually low.\nFor perspective on the RAC, the $42 million given away in tax credit refunds under this program in 2015 would have paid for about 1 percent more in school aid, at the same time schools were told we didn\u2019t have the money for it. Of course we did. Our legislators just chose to give it away, mainly to huge, profitable corporations.\nIn Room 103 of the State Capitol, 1:15 p.m., the public and legislators can hear from the Department of Revenue about the Research Activities Credit. And the session that follows at 2:15 on the Earned Income Tax Credit may be worth listening to as well, for contrast, as the EITC is a demonstrated boost to the economy while the RAC has never been demonstrated to be more than a drain on revenue.\nYou never know what legislators at the table will have to say about these issues, but we may get some insights.\nAs for that other meeting, we all now how it will come out.\nPosted by Mike Owen\nExecutive Director of the Iowa Policy Project\nProject Director of the Iowa Fiscal Partnership\nTags: Budget and Tax, Earned Income Tax Credit, Economic Opportunity, Iowa Fiscal Partnership, Iowa Policy Project, Mike Owen, Organization, research activities credit, tax expenditures\nPosted February 24th, 2016 to Budget, Corporate Taxes, Economic Development, Economic Security, Loopholes and Giveaways, Tax Credits, Taxes, The Economy\nIFP BACKGROUNDER\nOfficial Report Exposes Continuing Issues with Iowa Research Activities Credit\nIowa\u2019s most lucrative business tax credit program is the Research Activities Credit (RAC). Through the RAC, some big companies receive big dollars from the state of Iowa, some as credits \u2014 effectively, discounts \u2014 on their taxes. But some as well (186 in 2015) either owe no income tax or reduce it to zero with the RAC, and have tax credits left over. In those cases they can receive state checks as a \u201crefund\u201d \u2014 $42.1 million in state spending last year.\nAs the Iowa Fiscal Partnership has noted, Iowa\u2019s RAC is far different from what was envisioned when it originally passed, in 1985. Designed to support start-up companies to do research, this program primarily benefits very large companies, with little scrutiny. More information has been available about the RAC since 2009, when state legislators ordered the Iowa Department of Revenue to provide an annual report by February 15 on both individual and corporate claims against income tax for the previous calendar year.[1]\nAs illustrated in Table 1 below, little of this tax credit is used to reduce taxes for its recipients. Rather, the credit is used mostly to provide subsidies, in state checks worth sometimes millions of dollars, to corporations that pay little or no income tax.\nThe amount of the corporate claims under the RAC has ranged from about $45.2 million to $53.3 million over the six years covered by the full-year annual reports, from 2010 through 2015. The 2015 report showed 246 corporations claimed a total of $50.1 million from the RAC \u2014 covering both the regular RAC and the supplemental credit.\nThe share of those claims provided as \u201crefund\u201d checks to corporations \u2014 meaning they had no corporate income tax in Iowa \u2014 has ranged from about two-thirds of the benefit to as much as 95 percent. After dipping below 70 percent in the previous two years, the share of research credits paid out as checks rose to 84 percent in 2015, with a cost to the treasury of $42.1 million. (Table 1.)\nThe number of companies claiming the credit has risen sharply \u2014 by 55 percent to 248 claims in each of the last two years compared to the 160 corporate claims in 2010. (Figure 1) Likewise, the share of claimants receiving checks has risen over that time from 133 to 186 \u2014 a 40 percent increase.\nAnother trend that has remained strong is that large claimants have taken $8 or $9 out of every $10 from the corporate credit. This is illustrated in Table 2 below. These are companies that have over $500,000 in corporate claims. Recalling that the credit represents 6.5 percent of the increase in Iowa research spending above an established base level (box, page 1) this effectively means a company with $500,000 in claims has Iowa research expenses of at least $7.7 million \u2014not a small company. It is reasonable to ask whether the subsidy is necessary for a company already devoting such sizable resources to research.\nThe annual reports by law must identify the largest corporate claimants, those with claims of more than $500,000. The largest claimants have looked similar at the top year to year, but the number of large corporate claimants has grown, from nine in 2010 to more than twice that \u2014 20 \u2014 last year. Table 3 provides information from the six full-year annual reports disclosing big claimants and amounts claimed. A stronger law would disclose how much of each of those large claims was paid as a \u201crefund,\u201d or check, illustrating which companies received state assistance but did not pay Iowa income tax. It also would require corporations to report on their economic activities and investments in the state.\nA Special Tax Credit Review Panel appointed by Governor Chet Culver in 2009 examined all Iowa tax credits in the wake of a scandal in the Film Tax Credit Program. That committee came back in January 2010 with a report making several recommendations, including a five-year sunset for all tax credits so that lawmakers would have to review them and affirmatively vote to continue them, and specific recommendations on the Research Activities Credit. Among those recommendations: eliminate refundability of the RAC for companies with gross receipts in excess of $20 million yearly, but permit a five-year carry-forward. \u201cIt seems unreasonable for the State to be providing successful, larger corporations refund checks for amounts of the Research Activities Tax Credit over its tax due to the State.\u201d[2]\nThese large claimants are highly profitable companies. The biggest recipient of the Iowa credit in 2015, Rockwell Collins, reported $686 million in profits in fiscal 2015.[3] Deere & Co., had $7.5 million in research costs offset \u2014yet reported over $1.9 billion in 2015 profits.[4] DuPont reported almost $2 billion in profits in 2015, but claimed $7.5 million from Iowa taxpayers for research.[5] As Table 3 indicates, Rockwell Collins and Deere have both benefited from more than $67 million in RAC claims over the last six years, and Dupont from more than $45 million. These figures raise serious questions about the need for state help to cover what may be considered normal expenses. After all, what keeps these companies competitive in their fields is their research and development work. Where there might be a benefit to company stockholders, there is no demonstration to Iowa taxpayers about a return on their investment in these companies\u2019 operations.\nState fiscal experts predict will be a growing subsidy outside the budget process (Figure 2). The Department of Revenue projects the cost of this program to rise from about $54.9 million for individual and corporate claims in FY2013 to $64.4 million this year and more than $75 million by FY2020.[6]\n[1] All annual reports filed as a result of the 2009 law are on the Department of website, at https://tax.iowa.gov/report/Reports?combine=Research Activities. Reports for calendar year 2010 and after offer full-year information; the 2009 report was for a partial year. Our tables summarize the corporate claims in those full-year reports.\n[2] State of Iowa Tax Credit Review Report, Jan. 8, 2010, p. 8, http://iowapolicyproject.org/2010docs/1001-TaxCreditReview.pdf\n[3] Rockwell Collins Annual Report 2015, http://s1.q4cdn.com/532426485/files/doc_financials/annual/2015/COL-ANNUAL-REPORT-FINAL.pdf\n[4] Deere & Co. news release, https://s2.q4cdn.com/329009547/files/doc_financials/quarterly_earnings/2015/Q4-2015/Q4_2015_Media-Release-and-Financials.pdf\n[5] DuPont news release http://investors.dupont.com/investor-relations/investor-news/investor-news-details/2016/DuPont-Reports-4Q-and-Full-Year-Operating-EPS-of-027-and-277/default.aspx\n[6] Iowa Department of Revenue,Tax Credits Contingent Liabilities Report, December 2015, https://tax.iowa.gov/sites/files/idr/Contingent Liabilities Report 1215.pdf; Table 9. Note: These figures are fiscal-year costs and projections in reports provided by the Department for use by the Revenue Estimating Conference, as opposed to the calendar year reports provided by the Department as required by the Research Activities Credit disclosure law passed in 2009. They also include individual claims as well as corporate claims, while the Tables 1-3 in this report only show corporate claims. (Corporate claims have represented 90 percent of the amount of all claims in the six years covered by the full-year RAC reports under the 2009 disclosure law.)\nNews Release (Feb. 15, 2016)\nOfficial State Annual Report (Feb. 15, 2016)\nSpecial Tax Credit Review Panel Report (Jan. 8, 2010)\nThe Iowa Fiscal Partnership (IFP) is a joint budget and tax policy initiative of two nonpartisan, Iowa-based organizations, the Iowa Policy Project in Iowa City and the Child & Family Policy Center in Des Moines. IFP is part of the State Priorities Partnership, a network of nonpartisan organizations in 41 states and the District of Columbia that share a commitment to rigorous policy analysis, responsible budget and tax policies, and a particular focus on the needs of low- and moderate-income families. IFP research is supported by the Stoneman Family Foundation and by the Annie E. Casey Foundation. Policy conclusions are the responsibility of the Iowa Policy Project and the Child & Family Policy Center and not necessarily the view of either the Stoneman Family Foundation or the Annie E. Casey Foundation. Iowa Fiscal Partnership reports are available to the public at http://www.iowafiscal.org.\nTags: AMVC Production, Boehringer Ingelheim Vetmedica, Bridgestone Americas, Carleton Life Support, CJ Bio America, CNH America, Deere & Co., Dieomatic, DuPont, HNI Corp., Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy, Intermec Technologies Corp., Interstate Power, Iowa Fiscal Partnership, John Deere Construction, Kemin Industries, Monsanto, Pfizer, Polaris, research activities credit, Research Activities Tax Credit, Rockwell-Collins, Skyworks, Syngenta, tax credits, Vermeer, Whirlpool, Winnebago\nPosted February 15th, 2016 to Budget, Corporate Taxes, Economic Development, Education, Human Services, Loopholes and Giveaways, News Releases, Tax Credits, Taxes, The Economy, Work Supports\nIowa has choices: Keep giving millions to companies that don\u2019t pay Iowa state income tax \u2014 OR add 1 percent in school aid.\nFOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE MONDAY, FEB. 15, 2016\nBig companies erase taxes \u2014 take millions in state checks\nResearch Credit annual report shows big companies keep gaining\nIOWA CITY, Iowa (Feb. 15, 2016) \u2014 A lucrative tax subsidy is providing as much in checks to companies that don\u2019t pay income tax as the state could use to pay for 1 percent in state aid to schools.\nA new annual report from the Department of Revenue outlines the use of the Research Activities Credit (RAC), which in 2015 provided $42.1 million \u2014 about the cost of an additional percentage point in school aid \u2014 to companies that paid no state income tax. Most of that went to very large companies.\nThe state report, released Monday, shows that in 2015:\nClaims by 248 companies totaled $50.1 million for the RAC and the related supplemental RAC for which some claimants are eligible.\nOf those, 186 (75 percent) are companies that not only owed no state corporate income tax after applying the credit, but received state checks in return.\nEighty-four percent of the tax credits were paid as checks to the companies.\nRockwell Collins, Dupont, Deere & Co., John Deere Construction and Monsanto were the largest corporate claimants, as they have been for the past six years. Together, those five companies have claimed nearly $218 million from the RAC program from 2010-15. (See table below.)\n\u201cThis spending outside the budget process is distorting the choices now on the table as state lawmakers consider what is available for schools, clean water, human services and public safety,\u201d said Mike Owen, executive director of the nonpartisan Iowa Policy Project.\n\u201cIs it a better use of taxpayers\u2019 money to send millions in checks to profitable companies to do research they would do anyway, or to make sure schools can hire enough teachers next fall? That is the question that should be raised by this automatic spending on business tax breaks. To ignore it is a fiscal scandal.\u201d\nOverall, the credit program cost $57.1 million in calendar year 2015, with $50.1 million of that in claims by corporations and the rest by individuals. The credit is refundable, which means that if a company has more tax credits available than it owes in taxes, the state makes a payment for the difference. These so-called \u201crefunds\u201d \u2014 not of taxes owed but of credits in excess of taxes owed \u2014 accounted for 84 percent of all of the corporate research credits in 2015, according to the new report from the Department of Revenue.\nAn IFP report last month showed that Department of Revenue forecasts indicate business tax breaks will grow by 13 percent from this budget year to the next, even though the debate over school aid focuses on numbers between 2 percent and 4 percent.\nAccording to the Iowa Association of School Boards, each percentage point increase in Supplemental State Aid (SSA), costs about $41 million to $43 million.\n\u201cThere is at least a legitimate question, one that lawmakers are refusing to consider, of why large, profitable corporations do not have to defend these millions of dollars in tax breaks and subsidies, when teachers and children\u2019s advocates are going hat in hand to the Capitol for enough to keep up with basic costs,\u201d Owen said.\nTags: Child & Family Policy Center, Iowa Fiscal Partnership, Iowa Policy Project, Mike Owen, research activities credit, school funding\nStart with \u2018zero\u2019 on credits\nIt was\u200b fascinating Tuesday to see Iowa lawmakers talking about zero-based budgeting \u2014 starting every budget from scratch \u2014 when they have refused to do the same with tax credits.\nSpending on tax credits \u2014 including millions to companies that don\u2019t pay any state income tax \u2014 just keeps going on and on.\nCompanies basically get to appropriate state money to themselves. Quite a deal if you can get it.\nIf the state were to sunset business tax credits, as recommended in 2010 by a special governor-appointed Tax Credit Review Panel, lawmakers could review each one and decide which are actually producing a public benefit, whether any of them are money well spent. If so, they could renew the credit. If not, we could put our resources where they make more sense for all Iowans.\nMaybe a part-time legislature could start with a zero base on tax credits before we talk about it for an entire state budget.\nTags: Budget and Tax, Iowa Fiscal Partnership, Iowa Policy Project, Mike Owen, Organization, research activities credit, tax credits, zero-based budgeting\nPosted February 12th, 2015 to Budget, Corporate Taxes, Loopholes and Giveaways, News Releases, Tax Credits, Taxes, Who Pays Taxes in Iowa?\nIFP NEWS /\nLucrative program lets big companies erase taxes, and get extra in checks\nIOWA CITY, Iowa (Feb. 11, 2015) \u2014 More companies are benefiting from a lucrative tax subsidy that permits large, profitable corporations to get checks from the state without paying any Iowa income tax.\nThe latest annual report from the Department of Revenue on the use of the Research Activities Credit (RAC) shows that 248 companies claimed $51 million from the program in 2014, one-third more than the highest number of companies in the last five years.\nMost of the credit claims \u2014 $34.8 million, or 68 percent \u2014 were paid out as checks, not as tax reductions.\n\u201cMost notable is that Iowa continues to give a lot of money to companies that aren\u2019t paying income tax. There were 181 companies that received RAC checks from the state because their tax credits exceeded their income tax liability,\u201d said Mike Owen, executive director of the nonpartisan Iowa Policy Project in Iowa City, part of the Iowa Fiscal Partnership.\n\u201cThe $35 million that went to those 181 companies could have provided 1 percent supplemental state aid for public schools, or it could have gone to other public services, if it had been part of budget discussions. But the state does this kind of spending outside the budget process.\u201d\nThe report, released Wednesday, also shows:\n\u2014 Only 16 companies \u2014 or 6.5 percent \u2014 claimed 83 percent of the benefits and at least 75 percent of the checks.\n\u2014 Those 16 companies each had at least $500,000 in claims, totaling over $42 million in 2014.\n\u2014 The top five companies benefiting from the credit have been the largest beneficiaries over the last five years: Rockwell Collins, Deere & Co., Dupont, John Deere Construction and Monsanto.\n\u201cThose are highly profitable companies. We need to be asking whether it makes sense, when school budgets are tight and enforcement of environmental and workplace laws are weak, to be subsidizing these businesses to do research that they already would have to do, and can afford to do on their own,\u201d Owen said.\nOwen noted a special tax credit review panel appointed in 2009 came back in 2010 with many recommendations to curtail spending on business tax credits \u2014 including elimination of the so-called \u201crefunds\u201d of the research credit.\nRockwell Collins was the biggest corporate beneficiary in 2014, with $11.7 million in claims, followed by Deere at $9.4 million and Dupont at almost $6.9 million.\n\u201cCareful analysis of the report shows that at least two of the top three companies received at least some of their benefits without paying any income tax,\u201d Owen said.\n\u201cUnfortunately, the good information in this report doesn\u2019t go far enough to provide detail for Iowa taxpayers on how their money is being spent on this credit. If it did, we would know exactly how much was paid to these big companies as checks, and how much was used to erase taxes they owe.\u201d\nThe report is available on the Iowa Department of Revenue website at https://tax.iowa.gov/report/Reports?combine=Research%20Activities.\nEditor\u2019s Note: This release was revised on Thursday, Feb. 12, to clarify that the top 16 claimants received 83 percent of the total benefits and at least 75 percent of the benefits that were paid as checks. The original Feb. 11 release stated that those firms had 75 percent of the benefits.\nTags: Child & Family Policy Center, Iowa Fiscal Partnership, Iowa Policy Project, Mike Owen, research activities credit\nA brief, shining moment\nIt was a brief, shining moment for Iowa, and it came five years ago today.\nA special Tax Credit Review Panel appointed by then-Governor Chet Culver, after an in-depth examination of all Iowa tax-credit programs, offered a 10-page review with some tough recommendations.\nAs the Iowa Fiscal Partnership* stated the day of the report\u2019s release, Jan. 8, 2010, the panel \u201ctook an important step to make Iowa business subsidies more accountable and transparent.\u201d\nMajor recommendations of the Tax Credit Review Panel were to:\n\u2022 Provide a five-year sunset on all tax credits;\n\u2022 Eliminate the refundability of the Research Activities Credit for large companies;\n\u2022 Eliminate the film tax credit;\n\u2022 Eliminate of the transferability of other credits;\n\u2022 Place all business credits under a $185 million cap;\n\u2022 Reduce the rate for the School Tuition Organization (STO) Tax Credit and lower the cap; and\n\u2022 Impose an income test for the Tuition and Textbook Tax Credit.\nAction in the Legislature, unfortunately, fell well short of those bold proposals, as we noted in a report that spring. In their biggest moves, lawmakers set up a periodic review of tax credits but required no action to affirm the value of any credits, and they put light restrictions on some credits. Some of those limits already have been raised; the proposal to restrict the STO subsidy for private school tuition not only was ignored but the credit has been expanded.\nIn short, five years later, Iowa is as lax as ever in its treatment of these subsidies. Under the sunset clause recommended back then, we would in 2015 be preparing for a round of debate and action to keep, expand, limit or eliminate certain tax credits. Instead, we have no expectation of any debate, let alone any action. If the credits are working, we don\u2019t know because beneficiaries are not forced to show it.\nIt is not too late for Iowa lawmakers to address these issues and include some water in the tax credit reform glass. We said that in 2010, and we can say it again in 2015.\nThe seven members of the Tax Credit Review Panel, by the way, were Richard Oshlo, then interim director of the Department of Management; Fred Hubbell, interim director of the Department of Economic Development; Rob Berntsen, chair of the Iowa Utilities Board; Bret Mills, executive director of the Iowa Finance Authority; Cyndi Pederson, director of the Iowa Department of Cultural Affairs; Mark Schuling, director of the Iowa Department of Revenue; and Jeff Ward, executive director of the Iowa Agricultural Development Authority.\nTheir work was good and important, and with hundreds of millions of dollars at stake, we should not forget it.\n*The Iowa Fiscal Partnership is a joint public policy analysis initiative of two nonpartisan, nonprofit Iowa-based organizations, the Iowa Policy Project in Iowa City, and the Child & Family Policy Center in Des Moines.\nTags: Bret Mills, Budget and Tax, Chet Culver, Child & Family Policy Center, Cyndi Pederson, Fred Hubbell, Iowa Fiscal Partnership, Iowa Policy Project, Jeff Ward, Mark Schuling, Organization, research activities credit, Richard Oshlo, Rob Berntsen, Tax Credit Review Panel", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00240.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 289, + "original_length": 42361, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.96, + "perplexity": 298.5, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "http://www.ipob.org/2017/09/press-release-alerting-international.html", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T03:18:47Z", + "digest": "sha1:2XTT4C73INN2F45EK6R5NOBETW5HWUCS", + "length": 10151, + "nlines": 14, + "source_domain": "www.ipob.org", + "title": "PRESS RELEASE!!! ALERTING THE INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY ON ANOTHER ROUND OF BIAFRA GENOCIDE BY NIGERIAN ISLAMIC ARMY - IPOB", + "raw_content": "Home Articles PRESS RELEASE!!! ALERTING THE INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY ON ANOTHER ROUND OF BIAFRA GENOCIDE BY NIGERIAN ISLAMIC ARMY\nPRESS RELEASE!!! ALERTING THE INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY ON ANOTHER ROUND OF BIAFRA GENOCIDE BY NIGERIAN ISLAMIC ARMY\nNigeria is an enclave without laws something akin to animal farm and ruled at the whims and caprices of the Sokoto Caliphate. Nigeria is the biggest drawback to the emancipation of the black race from their current state of underdevelopment despite the enormous presence of both material and human resources. Nigeria having the highest concentration of black people in one geographic space has made it so impossible to advance both the mental and physical infrastructural development of the African continent resulting in lack of respect for the black man. Nigeria is not only a fantastically corrupt enclave but is as well a place where those who are ruling and those being ruled acquiesce to continue living in mediaeval times when nations and peoples of different color (except the black man or course) are exploring the boundless opportunities of the 21st century. It is essential to lay this background and imperative to assimilate its import in order to put in perspective the current dance of shame by the Nigerian Military in Biafraland.\nThe Nigerian army is a product of the Nigerian society and therefore it will be asking and expecting too much to assume that the military establishment will be any different from the environment it emanated from, after all the members of this institution are drawn from the same fantastically corrupt enclave. Nigeria and Nigerians are not only corrupt in the classic case of financial mismanagement they are unfortunately fantastically corrupt intellectually as well. This explains why the Nigerian military establishment does not know the fundamental reasons for which it was set up. Nigeria is a place where two opposing and diametrically different legal systems contest for supremacy. On the one hand, you have the sharia law operational in at least 12 states in the Arewa region and on the other hand the fraudulent Abdulsalami Abubakar 1999 Constitution. To make the situation worse, the fraudulent Nigerian Constitution which is regarded as the grund norm guaranteeing certain rights and duties on the citizens is implemented in breach because it is interpreted and applied to the citizens differently depending on which part of the contraption you come from. This explicates why the Nigeria military have decided to abandon its constitutional duties of defending the territorial integrity of the contraption from external attacks to take up not only the duties of the internal security agencies such as the police but also the function of law making as if they are in their comfort zone of decreeing everything decreeable.\nThe defense headquarters of Nigerian military had on the 15th of September through the director of defense information John Enenche a Major General (office general) declared the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) under the leadership of Onyendu Mazi Nnamdi Kanu a terrorist group after enumerating what to him are the reasons which qualify the indigenous People of Biafra as a terrorist group. Wonders shall never end, I am convinced without a doubt that the Nigerian military is completely and sadly I must say out of touch with the real world. Who has ever heard of a whole nation being declared terrorists? We are at alert because we know that this is the prelude to their game plan of commencing their final solution to the Biafran questions which is to commit another genocide against the Indigenous people of Biafra and exterminate them from the face of the earth with the full connivance and support of the British government. When one considers the reasons enumerated by this \u201cMajor General John Enenche\u201d that makes the whole Nation of the Indigenous people of Biafra terrorists, you wonder if he and the intellectually corrupt institution he represents are really of this world or from a very distant planet.\nAccording to this \u201cMajor General John Enenche\u201d the more than fifty million (50 million) Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) qualified to be tagged terrorist because they among other things blocked public access roads, extorted money from the public, attempted to snatch the riffle of a female soldier and possessed such very dangerous weapons as stones and broken bottles. How pathetic could a \u201cMajor General John Enenche\u201d and the Institution he represents be. The truth of the matter is that the peaceful and nonviolent agitation of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) under the leadership of Onyendu Mazi Nnamdi Kanu has frustrated the Nigerian government from carrying out the wicked plan of the Arewa North of exterminating the Biafran People. Despite continuous provocations, intimidation, harassment and constant killings of peaceful agitators, the Indigenous People of Biafra have remained disciplined and nonviolent in their agitation. Notwithstanding unlawful arrests torture and all forms of inhuman and degrading treatment meted against Biafran people, extra judicial killings some of which are well documented, and rape, by the predominantly Islamic Armed Forces of Nigeria, the indigenous People of Biafra have remained peaceful in the exercise of their inalienable right to Self determination as recognized, enshrined and guaranteed by both the United Nations and the African Union charter. Their frustration that these Nigerian state sponsored acts of violence and instruments of terror to terrify our people into submission or push us into violent agitation which will in turn provide them with the needed ground and excuse to unleash mayhem and massacre us did not achieve their desired and intended purpose was the reason why the Arewa Islamic North working through the Nigerian Islamic military decided to embark upon this journey of no return and having committed these crimes against humanity shamelessly tried to justify their crime by declaring a whole nation of fifty million people as terrorist.\nThe Directorate of State of the Indigenous People of Biafra under the leadership of Onyendu Mazi Nnamdi Kanu uses this medium to alert the International community that at the behest of Muhammadu Buhari the Nigerian Military has embarked upon another round of crime of genocide against the indigenous People of Biafra to exterminate the Biafran people if that is what it will take to stop our peaceful and nonviolent match to freedom. The Nigerian government and its military must understand that no militant or terrorist group will give it the opportunity to come close to the village of its leader not to talk of invading the privacy of his home. The Indigenous people of Biafra (IPOB) under the leadership of Onyendu Mazi Nnamdi Kanu has exposed the fraud called Nigeria by speaking out the truth and challenged the fraudulent establishment. It is this truth that terrorize the slave masters as they behold their estate crumbling before their very eyes.\nThe complicity of the governors of the South East, the Ohanaeze ndi Igbo in the ongoing genocide against the Indigenous People of Biafra which is driven by envy, jealousy and greed but most especially by cowardice is what has given the Hausa fulani Islamic army the boldness to humiliate, maim and murder our people in cold blood. These people who have sold their souls to the devil seeing as the Biafran people unequivocally chose a leader for themselves, and terrified that they are not only losing the little influence they may have had but authority as well, conspired with their slave masters to commit the ongoing crime against humanity upon our people. To protect their little sphere of influence and continue to work against the collective interest of the Biafran people, they entered into alliance with the murderous Nigerian military in the service of the Arewa north. At the appropriate time, the Biafran people will hold them accountable.\nWe urge the international community, men and women of good conscience to be alive to its responsibility now and call the Nigeria government to order by compelling it to desist from further harassment, secret abductions and massacre of unarmed nonviolent Biafran civilians. We urge world leaders not only to impress upon the Nigerian government to respect the right of the Indigenous People of Biafra to Self-determination as stipulated by both the United Nations and African Union charters, but to hold them accountable for the ongoing genocide being perpetrated against the Indigenous People of Biafra. We shall remain undaunted in our conviction, we shall remain resolute in our belief and we shall remain firm and committed in our pursuit of freedom for the Indigenous People of Biafra notwithstanding the clear provocations from the Nigerian Military and other security agencies. We are a movement built upon principle and discipline and will not allow them to provoke us to fall into their trap.\nThe Nigerian state sponsored acts of violence and terror to terrify our people into submission cannot stop our resolve to extricate ourselves from the oppressive and humiliating servile existence imposed upon us in the contraption called Nigeria. The Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) under the leadership of Onyendu Mazi Nnamdi Kanu affirms our immutable right to determine our cultural, economic and political system as a people, as well as our right to Self-determination as guaranteed and proclaimed by the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of the Indigenous peoples to Self-Determination and Articles V, VI, VII and XII of the African Charter on Human & Peoples Rights (ratified and domesticated by Nigeria in 1983.\nPublisher: Chijindu Benjamin Ukah\nBrian Cox 1 June 2018 at 02:09\nCraig Bones 6 June 2018 at 03:59\nFor the person, who lives in the USA and usually deal with local news, it's so interesting to find out something more about such a country like Nigeria. I would love to read more such interesting posts. The last thing I read with such interest was a post with a review on mastersthesiswriting.com. Really interesting, I would recommend you to read it too", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00240.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 151, + "original_length": 15781, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.95, + "perplexity": 284.2, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "http://www.isltennis.com/2010/05/hotchkiss-wins-founders-league-title.html", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T04:43:26Z", + "digest": "sha1:LJLXK6W74ACV3HFGHNVLAHKCNKRELDDQ", + "length": 113, + "nlines": 2, + "source_domain": "www.isltennis.com", + "title": "ISL Tennis Blog ISL Tennis Blog: Hotchkiss wins Founders League Title", + "raw_content": "They're not undefeated. They lost 7-0 to Brunswick.\nWhile you're right, technically that match was a scrimmage...", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00240.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 178, + "original_length": 4763, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.99, + "perplexity": 217.6, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/192245", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T04:02:25Z", + "digest": "sha1:TPD67OIK6DTN5BASAURX4ZUNAE674RM3", + "length": 3582, + "nlines": 21, + "source_domain": "www.israelnationalnews.com", + "title": "Security Council Condemns Use of Chlorine in Syria - Israel National News", + "raw_content": "MainAll NewsMiddle EastSecurity Council Condemns Use of Chlorine in Syria\nSecurity Council Condemns Use of Chlorine in Syria\nUN Security Council condemns the use of chlorine in Syria, threatens measures if chemicals are used in future attacks.\nThe UN Security Council on Friday adopted a resolution, drafted by the United States, condemning the use of chlorine in Syria and threatening measures if chemicals are used in future attacks.\nThe resolution was approved by 14 of the 15 council members including Russia, Syria's ally, but Venezuela abstained, the AFP news agency reported.\n\"Today this council makes crystal clear that the use of chlorine as a chemical weapon is no less an evil than the use of any other chemical as a weapon,\" U.S. Ambassador Samantha Power told the council.\nWhile the measure does not single out the Damascus regime over the use of chlorine, Western powers have made clear that the evidence points to attacks being carried out by President Bashar Al-Assad's forces.\nVenezuela's Ambassador Rafael Ramirez said his country would not support the resolution as no blame was assigned over the use of chlorine in reports by the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW).\n\"An investigation should first be concluded in order to determine the responsibility of those who perpetrated such an abominable act,\" said Ramirez, according to AFP.\nThe resolution states that the Security Council \"decides in the event of future non-compliance... to impose measures under chapter 7\" of the UN charter, which provides for sanctions and possibly military force.\nThe measure \"condemns in the strongest terms any use of any toxic chemical, such as chlorine, as a weapon in the Syrian Arab Republic.\"\nActivists in Syria have claimed several times over the past year that there have been chlorine gas attacks in the country, prompting the United Nations Security Council to call for an investigation into the alleged use of chlorine.\nIn January, an OPCW report said chemical weapons investigators had concluded \"with a high degree of confidence\" that chlorine gas was used as a weapon against three opposition-controlled villages in Syria last year.\nU.S. Secretary of State John Kerry has warned the Bashar Al-Assad regime it would be held to account for using chlorine gas against civilians.\nSyria, however, has denied ever using chemical weapons or chlorine during the country\u2019s brutal civil war, blaming \u201cterror groups\u201d, the Syrian government\u2019s term to describe rebels, for using such weapons.\nleast 13 people died in the attacks that were carried out from April to August, according to the January report.\nWhile the OPCW did not attribute responsibility for the chlorine attacks, it cited 32 witnesses who saw or heard the sound of helicopters as bombs struck and 29 who smelled chlorine. Only the Syrian regime has helicopters.\n\"Despite having acceded to the Chemical Weapons Convention, the Assad regime has again demonstrated its brutality by turning to chlorine as another barbaric weapon in its arsenal against the Syrian people,\" Power told the council during Friday\u2019s discussion.\nAfter an August 2013 sarin attack outside Damascus that much of the international community blamed on Assad's government, the regime agreed to turn over its chemical arsenal.\nBut Syria did not have to declare its stockpile of chlorine -- a toxic agent that can be considered a chemical weapon -- as part of a disarmament deal agreed in 2013 because it is widely used for commercial and domestic purposes.\nTags:Syria, UN Security Council, Syrian civil war, chlorine gas", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00240.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 40, + "original_length": 4358, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.97, + "perplexity": 229.0, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/255506", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T03:58:15Z", + "digest": "sha1:HUQPEM7PJJFFHSEGDQTACZDOYHCLOOJO", + "length": 1540, + "nlines": 14, + "source_domain": "www.israelnationalnews.com", + "title": "Police probe wedding of 13-year-old girl in Jerusalem - Israel National News", + "raw_content": "MainAll NewsHaredi Community \u200fPolice probe wedding of 13-year-old girl in Jerusalem\nPolice probe wedding of 13-year-old girl in Jerusalem\n13-year-old married off in Meah Sharim neighborhood of Jerusalem, leading to police intervention.\nOrly Harari, 30/11/18 09:09\nThe bride with wedding guests\nIsraeli police shut down an illegal wedding in Jerusalem early Friday morning, after it was discovered that the bride was five years below the legal age for marriage.\nThe wedding was held on the roof of a building in the predominantly haredi neighborhood of Meah Sharim in the capital in the early hours of the morning Friday.\nAfter police learned of the wedding, officers were dispatched to shut down the event and question those involved.\nAccording to investigators, both the bride and groom are minors \u2013 the bride being just 13 years old.\nThe legal age for marriage in Israel is 18, though under extenuating circumstances, family courts are empowered to permit minors as young as 16 to get married, if a social worker clears the request.\nThe Knesset raised the legal age of marriage under normal circumstances earlier this month from 17 to 18, despite opposition from haredi lawmakers.\nAfter police shut down the illegal wedding, the bride\u2019s mother, the bride, three other minors, and two women involved in the wedding were detained for questioning.\nAuthorities say the bride was reported missing by her father two months ago, and suspect that her mother hid her until the wedding.\nTags:Jerusalem, Meah She'arim, underage marriage, meah sharim", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00240.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 30, + "original_length": 2081, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.96, + "perplexity": 326.2, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "http://www.israeltoday.co.il/NewsItem/tabid/178/nid/21188/Default.aspx", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T03:57:32Z", + "digest": "sha1:MEDKHOEIQBELFUQVWHKZETJQDKW4GD3E", + "length": 881, + "nlines": 5, + "source_domain": "www.israeltoday.co.il", + "title": "Arab stores burned for selling to Jews - Israel Today | Israel News", + "raw_content": "Arab stores burned for selling to Jews\nTwo Palestinian Arab shops in the Judean town of Hebron were burned down Friday night following accusations that they had sold to local Jews.\nThe shops were located on the road connecting the neighboring Jewish town of Kiryat Arba to the Cave of the Patriarchs in central Hebron. The road is frequented by local Jews, boosting business for the Palestinian shopkeepers there.\nBut with the Palestinian Authority implementing a blanket ban on doing business with Israel, it is quickly becoming a crime to work for or sell to Jews. Whether the punishment for that crime is carried out by the PA or by local mobs doesn't seem to matter.\nIsrael has protested the new PA boycott, noting that it only puts true peace further out of reach. 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One of these projects is the US $26.8 million (AED100 million) redevelopment of Jumeirah Open Beach. A spokesperson for the municipality told Construction Week that tender dates would be announced sometime in mid -September after an informative session is held with potential investors. Following that, bids would be invited for the second phase of the project which would be on a build own and transfer basis. The Coastal Management Section of Dubai Municipality has started working on the first phase of this project, which involves the extension of three existing breakwaters as well as sand replenishment of the beach in order to make it bigger. The second phase of the project consists of soft and hard landscaping of the beach-front as well as refurbishing of existing beach facilities such as refreshment kiosks and changing rooms which will now be equipped with lockers. In addition, a whole range of new facilities will be added, such as a 3.8 km jogging track, walkways and a family recreation area with a paddling pool. Other planned facilities include an amphitheatre, food courts, a beach bazaar, a skating park for older children, a cr\u00e8che for younger children, a beach restaurant and a beach caf\u00e9. According to a statement issued by the Specialised Contracts & Investment Section of the Contracts and Purchasing Department, the municipality has initiated a number of new projects over the past couple of years, with the aim of reinforcing Dubai\u2019s position as one of the foremost beach holiday destination in the region. Many of these projects include large investment opportunities for potential private sector firms that might be interested in offering a variety of services to the public. The municipality has also embarked on another project to renovate Deira and Bur Dubai\u2019s commercial business district areas. Landlords who own buildings within the central business districts (CBDs) will also be asked to renovate or even reconstruct their old buildings if the need arises. Engineer Abdullah Abdul Rahim, director of the Planning and Survey Department at the municipality, said the development of the CBDs was important due to commercial and social reasons. \u201cOur plan is to restore both areas by incorporating their prominent architectural as well as social features, so they are perfectly in match with the urban development taking place in the city. \u201cLandlords will have to change the fa\u00e7ade of their buildings, renovate or even rebuild their old buildings in a better fashion as it will not only boost business activities and attract more visitors but also help improve the image of the city,\u201d he said. Rahim also said that the government had already done a lot in this area in terms of developing the infrastructure to improve the thickly populated CBDs, which are the hub of commercial activities here. \u201cNow it is time for the private sector to join hands and play their role in beautifying the area,\u201d he said. 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This placed the region just behind Central and Eastern Europe in terms of growth.\nIndustry analysts IDC reported that overall server market results in EMEA presented the highest growth since the first quarter of 2007 in factory revenue terms and since the third quarter of 2005 when looking at unit volumes, despite the overall slowing economy. The market grew by 9% year over year with shipments of servers reaching nearly 700,000. 95.5% of these shipments comprised x86 boxes.\nBeatriz Valle, research analyst at IDC said: \u201cCompanies still see scalable servers with high availability and RAS features as a future-proof investment, while they wait for virtualization on x86 to mature further. These are uncertain times and IT managers are expecting their budgets to be squeezed even more in the coming quarters. But emerging models such as cloud computing, and growth in Web 2.0, are presenting exciting opportunities for vendors.\u201d\nBlades continued to far outstrip the overall market, with revenue up 42% annually to over $400 million. Pedestals, still at nearly 50% of total revenue, increased by a healthy 9% over the year-ago period for the first time since IDC records began, displaying the focus on entry level pedestal promotions, mainly targeted at the SMB sector.\nWindows led the operating system market results, with annual growth of 10.3% and a revenue market share more than three percentage points ahead of Unix, which also displayed strong growth of 8% in revenue. Linux decreased by 1.8% over the year ago period; the first time this operating system has suffered a dip in revenue since the first quarter of 2002.\nSitting atop the vendor rankings is HP and IBM; IBM recorded the largest growth over the past year at 18.2%. Behind these two come Sun Microsystems, Dell and Fujitsu Siemens respectively. Dell, sandwiched between Sun and Fujitsu Siemens is, together with IBM, the only vendor to record double digit growth over the last year.", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00240.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 86, + "original_length": 3789, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.95, + "perplexity": 296.9, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "http://www.ivttblog.org/blog/?category=Relationships", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T03:40:05Z", + "digest": "sha1:GNH626UVN2ZW2ECKQHJURKIXXLLCHSEE", + "length": 3940, + "nlines": 21, + "source_domain": "www.ivttblog.org", + "title": "Blog \u2014 IVttBlog", + "raw_content": "Hi lovelies! If you\u2019re reading this article it\u2019s probably because you\u2019re interested in being the right person and NOT finding the right person, which is a great place to start. Recently, we at the Mt. Hope IVCF meetings on campus had a three-part series on love, sex and dating featuring videos by Andy Stanley. It would be totally selfish of me to not share with you all some of the things we learnt, were reminded of and some of the principles by which I live my single life.\nSorry men, but this article is going to be from a woman\u2019s perspective and ladies, you may not agree with all my 7 tips but here they are:\n1. STOP LOOKING!!!\nI can almost already see the hesitation on your face, but hear me out. Ladies I know by the time some of us reach 20 and are still single we go into a hysterical panic. First question on our minds is, \u201cWhere are all the good men?\u201d No need to panic. This time of singleness is not for us to worry about the next guy and it definitely isn\u2019t meant for us to panic about forever being alone. It\u2019s meant for us to focus on Christ and our relationship with Him. It\u2019s meant for us to spend our long winding days trusting Him, falling in love with Him, believing that whatever or whomever He has for us will be the best and it will be worth waiting for.\n2. DEAL WITH YOUR ISSUES.\nNow we can all pretend that we\u2019re perfectly put together or we can admit that some parts of our lives are a complete mess! These parts have to be fixed because honestly, no man wants all your burdens and baggage (and you don\u2019t want his). And yes, I know we are to bear each other\u2019s burdens but that doesn\u2019t mean we get away with not dealing with our issues in the hope that the next guy can handle it all. So whether it be daddy issues, sibling rivalry or a shopping and/or saving problem, go before God and get it fixed.\n3. GET INVOVLED AT CHURCH.\nLadies, the men that we want do not want the woman who comes to church only on Sunday mornings and leaves immediately after the service has ended until next Sunday. Not that we\u2019re going to be involved to attract a man but if you take tip #1 seriously, your involvement in church will be inevitable and the right person will notice you. Be willing to come out of your comfort zone but within God\u2019s boundaries.\n4. DRESS THE WAY A CHRISTIAN MAN WOULD WANT HIS WIFE TO DRESS.\nInitially I had just put \u201cman\u201d instead of \u201cChristian man\u201d, but you know we have to differentiate because the standards just aren\u2019t the same. 1 Tim 2:9-10\u2026We know when we\u2019re dressing modestly and we know when we are not. I\u2019m not even going to get into it. Be honest with yourself before God.\n5. LEARN TO BE SUBMISSIVE AND ACCOUNTABLE TO GOD.\nTo some women and unfortunately even Christian women, this \u201cS\u201d word is a full blown expletive. Colossians 3:18 and Ephesians 5:22-23! While you are single take this time to LEARN how to submit to God. In doing so, He will teach you how to also submit to your (future) husband. Accountability is a huge one as well; if you are not currently practising accountability before God, now is a great time to start. If you\u2019re not prepared to do either of these, stop thinking about marriage.\n6. LEARN TO COOK!!!\nMen I\u2019m sorry that this wasn\u2019t first on the list J. I\u2019ve heard a lot of reasons for why this is not necessary for a 21st century woman. I disagree with all because my quest (and this should be yours as well) is to be a virtuous woman and that has little or even nothing to do with this century. Proverbs 31:15 says \u201cShe also rises while it is yet night, and provides food for her household and a portion for her maidservants.\u201d Not my words ladies\u2026 not my words.\n7. ASK YOURSELF THIS QUESTION\u2026\nAm I the person that the person I\u2019m looking for, is looking for?\nThere are a lot more than 7 tips but these are a good place to start.\nMove forward in faith and in the favour of God.\nZyndi George\nMt. 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Magazine clippings and mixed media on paper. 13 15/16\" x 13 15/16\" (35.4 x 35.4 cm). Collection of the Estate of James Rosenquist.\nEarly in the Morning, 1963. Oil on canvas and plastic. 95\" x 56\" (241.3 x 142.2 cm). Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Gift of Sydney and Frances Lewis [85.436.1/2].", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00240.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 32, + "original_length": 1122, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.79, + "perplexity": 174.0, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "http://www.janelletrees.com/blog/2017/6/16/shaking-falling-being-held", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T03:12:23Z", + "digest": "sha1:7FRL5Y2HRICTUS4DVCJLHBWA47BVZKBR", + "length": 5341, + "nlines": 16, + "source_domain": "www.janelletrees.com", + "title": "Shaking, Falling, Being Held. \u2014 Xylem Flow", + "raw_content": "This week, I am visiting the home of someone I care about. He has Parkinson\u2019s disease and is in a bad way. I\u2019ve only ever cared for a dozen people with advanced Parkinson\u2019s \u2013 several of them in palliative care in the terminal phase of life. It\u2019s tough. Patients with severe Parkinson\u2019s need medication about six times a day. Not getting your dose on time or needing a different dose can have severe consequences. Grievously, Parkinson\u2019s seems to particularly affect people who are punctual, moralistic, cautious and fastidious. My friend had none of those traits. He got the bastard anyway. Perhaps he\u2019s like the lifelong non-smokers who get lung cancer.\nRecently, my friend had a fall and was unable to get up. It was as if he was frozen in place. An ambulance took him to the hospital where he stayed for weeks while doctors in the neurological ward tried to optimise his medications. In this disease of severe unbalance, they worked to try to find a balance for him between the benefits of the medicine and its unwanted effects. In his case, this means finding a balance between being able to move and having psychotic episodes.\nAnyone who has read Oliver Sacks\u2019 impressive book, Awakenings or seen the Robin Williams movie will remember the miracle of Levodopa (or L-Dopa), the medication that keeps people with Parkinson\u2019s disease moving. L-Dopa is an amino acid (a kind of protein) that the brain uses to produce neurotransmitters \u2013 the chemical substance of thought.\nIn Sacks\u2019 book, patients who had been moribund for decades were awoken by L-Dopa, hence the book\u2019s name. Dr Sacks eloquently showed the wonder of it, as they came to life -- expressing their personalities and enjoying their bodies in a burst of potential energy like fruit blossoms sprouting on stark, thin branches.\nPeople have their seasons, too. Photo by Clem Onojeghuo.\nHowever, the limitations of the medication form a dark subtext that may have become, for my friend, a full-blown tragedy. Dr Sacks\u2019 patients froze up again or developed horrible jerking movements. We now know that the medication can cause severe problems, in particular the psychosis and paranoia some Parkinson\u2019s patients develop. While we have become better at using L-Dopa and can buy people years of better quality life, we can no longer tell, over years, what terrible effects are those of the disease and what is an unwanted effect of the medicine.\nBefore the fall, my friend had some trouble walking. He also had odd ideas such as an obsessive notion that his daughter, an accountant, was cheating him. This was hard on his daughter. He would express his distress about this delusion to anyone who would listen. He even called the police once.\nIn a doctor\u2019s hindsight, while my friend\u2019s delusion was a cause of great sorrow to his daughter, it did make for a refreshing change from the more common Parkinson\u2019s obsession: that one\u2019s spouse is having an affair. I remember well a patient I cared for who was convinced that her husband was having affairs. She would describe it all in lurid, hateful detail. Her husband remained dedicated to her. He impressed me. His patience showed me an important dimension of love.\nAnd this week, I am reminded of that lesson again by watching my friend\u2019s family and friends. The scale of care he needs has suddenly grown in intensity and volume. His family rearranged the furniture. Some have rearranged their lives. They tried to source equipment to help him remain mobile, to help him remain clean and dignified. A dozen times a day they lift him -- in a difficult dance, encouraging his stiffened limbs to shuffle around \u2013 into the wheelchair, onto the recliner, onto the toilet, onto his bed.\nPowerful mask. Photo by Igor Ovsyannykov.\nSitting with him, I politely ignore the struggle it takes him to eat. When he reaches for his cup, the agility and precision with which I can pick it up and hand it to him is a stark contrast. I find myself astonished by my grace. Confidingly, he whispers that the television has a camera in it. He is trying not to move his lips (because they are watching us) in a face already made wooden by disease. I find it difficult to understand him.\nMy friend\u2019s delusions are real experiences to him \u2013 in his new reality in the hospital, he was being captured and taken away, tortured and traumatised, every night. When he whispered to his wife about one of these encounters and she explained that this was a symptom of the disease and the medication, he replied, \u2018Yes, the doctor told me that.\u2019\nLittle bird photo by Bonnie Kittle.\nEventually, his family has had no choice but to partially, gently accept some of his alternate reality. His hallucinations have improved since he came home. On a good day now he sees people and animals that aren\u2019t there and is not afraid of them. The birds he sees in the house are different each day. To me they have cultural meaning. The raven travels alongside on the journey, keeping you safe, I tell him. The white bird is for peace and reassurance. I believe the stories I tell him.\nHe doesn\u2019t know it, but he is a lucky man. He is at home, surrounded by the familiar life he helped to build. He even gets hugs and strokes (and help getting dressed and combing his hair) from that thieving accountant daughter of his. This is love.\nThumbnail photo of a man not yet falling by UK Nic", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00240.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 57, + "original_length": 6748, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.99, + "perplexity": 320.3, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "http://www.jarretthill.com/writing/2018/7/27/essence-blindspotting-fuses-comedy-and-drama-to-explore-race-gentrification-and-the-traps-of-probation", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T03:31:44Z", + "digest": "sha1:EPIXKWV2DRPBNIP54M37YGOXVTUKAAJB", + "length": 3390, + "nlines": 11, + "source_domain": "www.jarretthill.com", + "title": "Essence: 'Blindspotting' Fuses Comedy And Drama To Explore Race, Gentrification, And The Traps Of Probation \u2014 hey, i'm jarrett", + "raw_content": "Blindspotting, is a tense, powerful, heart-pounding representation of the fear, terror, and long-lasting trauma of Black engagement with police \u2014 mixed with all the humor and familiarity of a classic best-friends-who-work-together comedy.\nDaveed Diggs is Collin, a Black man in Oakland, finishing the final three days of his probation \u2014 a detail that brings an inherent tension that will take you nearly through to the end credits.\n\u201cHe is almost done [with his probation] but if you know anybody that\u2019s been on probation, or if you\u2019re on probation yourself, you know that it\u2019s a series of traps set up to try and send you back to jail,\u201d Diggs says to ESSENCE. \u201cOn his way home from work one night he witnesses the police shooting of an unarmed Black man and he\u2019s the only person that witnesses it. Collin\u2019s story is really about how the next three days and the PTSD of that event force their way into his daily life and get him to a place of sort of unraveling.\u201d\nCollin spends his last 72 hours under the watchful eye of the state, in the fear of engaging the police, all while living his regular, but entertaining, life. He works for a moving company, hangs out with friends and family, all while routinely finding his way to the halfway house he\u2019s called home for 11 months, three weeks, and four days. His days offer him one scenario after another that call into question whether or not he\u2019ll run out the clock to the \u201cfreedom\u201d on the other side of probation.\nThe film, while chest-tighteningly tense at times, is interspersed with moments of levity. Audiences are left to think about the ways you view this man living in the system and in a poor neighborhood that\u2019s rapidly gentrifying.\n\u201cWe took a lot of care to make Collin pretty sympathetic, it\u2019s built in a way for you to relate to him,\u201d says Diggs. \u201cThere are circumstances that [Collin] gets into that a certain cross-section of people may have never felt before. And if you feel them and feel real empathy for Collin, who is an ex-con for a violent crime, who you witness wielding guns in the film, if you can develop an empathy for him, maybe it can extend to our real lives.\u201d\nThere\u2019s also a narrative about race that\u2019s not focused exclusively on blackness, but also on being white in a space and culture that is Black-dominated.\nRafael Casal, who plays Miles, Collin\u2019s best friend (also Diggs\u2019 real-life best friend) and Oakland native, said his character is someone who\u2019s more difficult to connect with.\n\u201cMiles\u2019 experience is the harder thing to sort of empathize with and understand. The short of it is Miles is a white man in a Black and brown neighborhood,\u201d Casal says. \u201cHe\u2019s always been a minority among minorities. So much of the conversation around Miles is that he\u2019s always had to fight to survive in the hood. They\u2019re from a poor neighborhood which comes along with violence and toxic male culture and he\u2019s had to really fight much more than a lot of people to claim his space and stand up for himself.\u201d\nBeyond worth the price of admission, the film also has not only an outstanding story but a few messages for you interrogate for yourself. It gives you a chance to view the world through the lens of a man trying to make good on his past in a city and a culture that presents him every chance to go completely wrong.\nBlindspotting is now playing in select theaters. Hear the full interview with Diggs and Casal here.", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00240.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 27, + "original_length": 4255, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.97, + "perplexity": 257.8, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "http://www.jewishawareness.org/crucified-again-the-islamic-jihad-on-christians-exposed/", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T03:19:43Z", + "digest": "sha1:74P2CTNDOTGPA7DZEBA4YULJMG7EP6PL", + "length": 17607, + "nlines": 43, + "source_domain": "www.jewishawareness.org", + "title": "CRUCIFIED AGAIN: THE ISLAMIC JIHAD ON CHRISTIANS EXPOSED | Jewish Awareness Ministries", + "raw_content": "by Jaime Glazov\nFrontpage Interview\u2019s guest today is Raymond Ibrahim, a Shillman Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center, a widely published author on Islam, and an Associate Fellow at the Middle East Forum. He is the author of the new book, Crucified Again: the Islamic Jihad on Christians Exposed (published by Regnery in cooperation with Gatestone Institute).\nFP: Raymond Ibrahim, welcome to Frontpage Interview.\nCongratulations on your new book, Crucified Again. It was just released last week and is available on Amazon.com and bookstores across America. It certainly is an eye-opener. You even include several color photos which speak for themselves. Can you tell us a little about the book and why you wrote it?\nIbrahim: Thanks, Jamie. Christian persecution under Islam is probably the absolute worse human rights crisis going on in the world today, and yet it is virtually unknown in the West. Thus I wrote the book to fill the vacuum, since the mainstream media and others\u2014such as the Obama administration\u2014have, to varying degrees, decided to ignore or whitewash this otherwise growing epidemic of human pain and suffering.\nIf any other group but Christians were being attacked, their plight would make international headlines. But because from childhood on up in America\u2014from high schools to universities, from the media to Hollywood\u2014Americans are conditioned to view Christians and their history as hypocritical, fanatical, intolerant, the source of the world\u2019s woes, it is difficult to acknowledge that, in fact, Christians are by far the most persecuted religious group around the word, especially the Islamic world.\nA January 2013 Reuters report estimates some 100 million Christians around the world are being persecuted for their faith. Thus I wrote this book to give\nFP: Tell us how bad it is for Christians in Muslim majority countries. We definitely are not gonna hear about this from our mainstream media.\nIbrahim: The situation has gone from bad to worse, particularly in light of the so-called \u201cArab Spring\u201d and the Obama administration\u2019s enthusiastic support for it, despite the fact that it continually exposes its true face as an Islamic takeover.\nAlmost every single country that Obama has helped rebels and opposition forces to topple the ruling secular regimes has gotten markedly worse for Christians. Under Gaddafi, one never heard of Libya\u2019s immensely small Christian minority suffering. Post-Gaddafi, and thanks to Obama\u2019s support for the al-Qaeda linked jihadis who were always a part of the opposition, the very few churches there are under attack and bombed; nuns are harassed and forced to flee; Christians possessing Bibles are arrested and tortured (one recently died from his torture).\nIt is the same now in Syria, which, under secular strongman Bashar Assad was tolerant towards its Christian minorities. Now, the \u201cfreedom-fighters\u201d\u2014code for the Obama-supported foreign jihadis\u2014are targeting Christians for killing, displacement, and hostage taking for ransoms. The atrocities being committed are many and barbaric\u2014beheadings, enslavements, rapes, and wholesale massacres\u2014filling the over 300 pages of Crucified Again, including, as you point out, in pictures.\nFP: Are Christians being persecuted in some Muslim countries or all of them? Is there a pattern?\nIbrahim: Wherever there are sizable Muslim populations living side-by-side with Christians, the latter are under attack. So, yes, Christians are being persecuted, to varying degrees, in all Muslim nations. The ultimate deciding factor is numbers\u2014comparative numbers of Muslims and Christians, that is. The ratio of Muslims to Christians in any given country\u2014or, looking at it another way, the proximity of Christians and Muslims\u2014is the primary factor explaining which countries see the most and the least Christian persecution.\nFor example, Saudi Arabia, which is vehemently anti-Christian, generates fewer incidents of persecution than some Muslim nations which are generally deemed moderate and yet figure prominently in Crucified Again. The reason for this is simple: Saudi Arabia has nipped the problem in the bud by banning Christianity altogether; there are no churches there to bomb or burn. On the other hand, the very large numbers of Christians in Egypt prompt regular bursts of anti-Christian persecution. Indeed, as one of the oldest and largest Muslim nations, with one of the oldest and largest Christian populations, Egypt is a kind of paradigm of Islam\u2019s treatment of Christians\u2014both in the present and going back more than thirteen centuries. Accordingly, it figures prominently in the book.\nIn sub-Saharan African countries where Christians often make up half or even more of the entire population, persecution gives way to genocidal jihads as Muslims elements of these countries try to purge their lands of any trace of the \u201cinfidel.\u201d Of course, wherever and whenever Christians are killed or driven out there will be less persecution there\u2014simply because there will be fewer and fewer Christians to target, as nations that used to have significant Christian populations slowly become more like Saudi Arabia: infidel-free and thus ostensibly \u201cpeaceful.\u201d In many African nations where Christians make up nearly half the population\u2014Nigeria being a prime example\u2014we are being offered a rare glimpse of early Islamic history repeating itself, as Muslims use violence to subjugate or kill very large numbers of non-Muslims in the name of Islam and through jihad. That is the true story of Islam\u2019s spread from Arabia.\nFP: What are the causes of this widespread persecution of Christians?\nIbrahim: The persecution is 100% a product of Islamic supremacism, both doctrinal and, as I demonstrate in the book, cultural. For example, consider how the Christians being persecuted by Muslims are identical to their persecutors: they share the same race and ethnicity; speak the same languages; are nationals of the same countries. There is nothing to distinguish the Christian from the Muslim in widely different countries like Egypt, Nigeria, and Indonesia\u2014except, of course, religion. Moreover, in all the countries I survey in Crucified Again, Christians are also politically marginalized and poorer than their Muslim counterparts.\nThus it is clear that Muslim attacks on Christians and their places of worship are animated first and foremost by religious hostility, as there is no other valid or even conceivable reason to explain the violence daily visited on Christians under Islam. And yes, this hostility has a very long tradition in Islam and its teachings and doctrines. The identical patterns of persecution alone\u2014which demonstrate remarkable, unwavering continuity across centuries and continents\u2014make clear that Islam, scripturally and culturally, is responsible for the hate.\nFP: But what happened, Raymond? Muslim persecution of Christians was certainly not this bad just a few decades ago, when many Muslims seemed more Western-oriented. What went wrong? How did we get to this point?\nIbrahim: Quite right, Jamie.\nOne of the most overlooked phenomena of our age is that Muslims are returning to Islam. This sounds redundant and meaningless, but I speak of a \u201clost history\u201d that has blinded the West to the implications of this return. In short, because Islam is a religion that makes might right, after the Islamic world was subjugated by the West beginning with Napoleon\u2019s easy conquest of Egypt in 1798, Muslims began seeing Westernization as pivotal to success, and thus largely turned their backs on Islam, being \u201cMuslim\u201d only in name. However, around mid-20th century, beginning in earnest in the \u201cliberal\u201d 1960s, when Western culture took a nosedive, became sexually and morally unrestrained, apologetic for itself and self-loathing, and seeing Western civilization, especially Christianity, as the root of the world\u2019s sufferings, Muslims went from respecting and trying to emulate the West, to having great contempt for, and wanting nothing to do with, it, and naturally began returning to their own heritage, Islam and its Sharia\u2014all of course to \u201cmulticultural\u201d Western applause, since, to the West, Islam and its Sharia were, and continue to be portrayed, as great things.\nBut of course, as Muslims turn to Islam, so too do the things of Islam\u2014like Christian persecution\u2014return. In fact, because I believe the colonial and post-colonial era and its significance are pivotal not only to understanding Muslim persecution of Christians, but the rise of Islam as a political force, I have an early and important chapter titled \u201cLost History\u201d in the book, where I fully elaborate on this important but much misunderstood point in history, which really helps answer that question that became famous after 9/11:\nFP: How has the withdrawal of US forces impacted the lives of Christians in Iraq and Afghanistan?\nIbrahim: Honestly, the withdrawal of U.S. forces from Iraq and Afghanistan has not really exacerbated the sufferings of Christians, as they were still being persecuted even when U.S. forces were there. In fact, if anything, the presence of U.S. forces sometimes enables the persecution of Christians.\nFor example, I have a whole section in Crucified Again explaining the concept of collective punishment, and how vulnerable, indigenous Christians are regular attacked in response to the actions of U.S. forces or the West in general, as many Muslims conflate the West with Christianity; when Muhammad cartoons are published in Europe, Christians around the Islamic world are attacked, their churches bombed. Speaking of churches, although some existed in Afghanistan before the U.S. invasion, a year ago the last church was formally demolished by the U.S.-installed government\u2014and while U.S. troops were there.\nAs for Iraq, the year following the ousting of Saddam Hussein, in 2004 and under U.S auspices, jihadis went on a church bombing spree, destroying countless churches and killing many Christians who, under Saddam, were relatively well tolerated. Indeed, jihadis regularly taunt Christians by pointing out that the West won\u2019t do anything to save them. Dr. Wagdi Gonium, a popular cleric in Egypt, mocked the nation\u2019s Christian Copts when, after threatening them with genocide, he said: \u201cWhat do you think\u2014that America will protect you? Let\u2019s be very clear, America will not protect you. If so, it would have protected the Christians of Iraq when they were being butchered!\u201d\nFP: Why is the Obama Administration, and the Bush Administration before them, so unwilling to say one word about the horrible violence being done to Christians across the Islamic world? For a nation that prides itself on protecting the helpless, the United States seems to have buried its head in the sand when it comes to the suffering of Christians.\nIbrahim: Quite true. There is a difference, however subtle, between Bush\u2019s handling and Obama\u2019s: when Bush \u201cliberated\u201d Iraq, and jihadis went on, among other things, a Christian persecution spree, it was still unknown to most U.S. politicians that that would be a consequence; there really weren\u2019t many precedents to go by. On the other hand, even before Obama came to power, the fate of Christian minorities in countries \u201cliberated\u201d from the grip of autocrats was known (since the ousting of Saddam, more than half of Iraq\u2019s indigenous Christians have either been killed or fled their homeland). So there were precedents for the Obama administration to go by.\nNonetheless, the administration has done all it can to ignore these precedents and empower radical Islamic forces under the umbrella of the \u201cArab Spring,\u201d so that the same pattern that took place a decade earlier in Iraq\u2014the persecution of Christians, not to mention jihadi intolerance for all that is non-Islamic\u2014has, as expected, come to all of those countries where Obama helped empower Islamists\u2014including Egypt, Libya, and now Syria, where a recent fatwa, an Islamic decree, made it permissible for jihadis to rape all non-Sunni women, as a reward for waging jihad to empower Sharia law in Syria.\nFP: Why do you think so many citizens in Western nations are unaware of the persecution of Christians? Every time a Jew dares to build a house on Jewish land in Jerusalem there is a major protest and its front-page news, but hundreds of Churches have been burned in the Middle East, Africa and Asia without a word in the Mainstream media.\nIbrahim: I discuss this at length in Crucified Again. In a nutshell, the mainstream media, to a great extent, exists to validate its liberal narrative, a narrative which suggests that all violence is a byproduct of some material, tangible grievance. Thus the Arab-Israeli conflict is a favorite topic for them to cover, for no matter how many rockets are shot into Tel Aviv by Hamas and Hezbollah, that will only be portrayed as proof positive that Muslims in PA territories are aggrieved and frustrated, and thus lashing out at their Israeli \u201coppressor.\u201d And no matter how many times jihadi groups articulate their rage in purely Islamic terms, the media will portray their animus as a product of grievance and land conflict.\nOn the other hand, the media finds it difficult to rationalize away Muslim attacks on Christians\u2014Christians who are of the same race, ethnicity, and speak the same language as their Muslim persecutors. In this context, the media can\u2019t portray the violence as a \u201cland dispute\u201d or a product of \u201cgrievance\u201d (if anything it is the ostracized and politically disempowered Christian minorities who should have grievances).\nSo since they can\u2019t articulate the attacks on Christians through the established secular/materialistic paradigm, their primary recourse is not to report on Christian persecution, for it is a phenomenon which throws a wrench in their otherwise well-oiled narrative of \u201cMuslim-violence-is-a-product-of Muslim-grievance.\u201d Other times, when they have no choice but to report on it\u2014I have in mind the most spectacular attacks on Christians, where dozens are often killed\u2014they do so, but only after using their entire arsenal of semantic games and relativistic, equivocating language that minimizes the religious element.\nFP: How can the United Nations claim to be dedicated to world peace, yet they refuse to discuss or debate the treatment of Christian Copts in Egypt, the forced conversion to Islam of thousands of Christians, the violent jihad against Christian worshipers in countries like Nigeria or the public calls from prominent Islamic leaders to destroy every church in the Arabian Peninsula?\nIbrahim: Because most of those in the United Nations are byproducts of the mainstream media\u2019s secular and liberal narrative so that, like many in the Western world, they simply cannot see Christian persecution for what it is, and much prefer to focus on those peoples whom the powers that be have bestowed the honor of being portrayed as persecuted people, chief among them Muslim Palestinians (who, ironically, often persecute the Christian minority in their midst).\nFP: What do you foresee as the future of Christianity if the West continues to ignore the rampant persecution and murder of Christians across the Middle East, Africa and Asia?\nIbrahim: Extinction. Many forget that, when Islam burst out of Arabia during the first major wave of Islamic conquests in the 7th century, half of the world\u2019s entire Christian population lived precisely in those lands we nonchalantly now call the \u201cArab World.\u201d Fourteen hundred years of sporadic jihads and dhimmitude has seen the slow decimation and forced conversion of Christians to Islam, making that region nearly purely Islamic. With the exception of the Christian \u201cgolden age\u201d during and after the colonial era, when Muslims were Western-leaning, today\u2019s jihad has resumed in an effort to eradicate Christianity from its birthplace\u2014the Middle East\u2014once and for all.\nFP: What can a concerned private citizen do to help end the persecution of Christians in the Islamic world? Can they do anything to help or is it simply too late?\nIbrahim: It\u2019s nearly too late\u2014in some countries like Iraq, the indigenous Christian population has been decimated, and outside of Egypt, the whole of north Africa has something less than 1% of a Christian population\u2014but there are many Muslim majority nations where Christians exist and are fighting for survival, Pakistan, Egypt, and Syria, Indonesia, and many African nations, for example. Concerned citizens should contact their representatives, and visit some of the human rights organizations that fight for Christian survival I list in Crucified Again. Most importantly, they should spread the word. At this point, our paralysis is fundamentally tied up to our ignorance.\nFP: Is it just Christians who are suffering? What about other religious minorities.\nIbrahim: To be sure, all non-Muslims living in the Islamic world are being targeted as infidels. However, for various reasons which I discuss in the book, Christians are by far the most prone to being attacked. At any rate, while the book focuses on Muslim attacks on Christians, as I conclude, that is ultimately a snapshot of what the Islamic world has in store for the rest of the world. Christian persecution is a picture of what Islam does\u2014and will do\u2014to all non-Muslims if and when it achieves dominance over them.\nFP: This has certainly been an eye-opener, Raymond. I strongly recommend your book, Crucified Again, to all who are interested in learning about the true fate awaiting all who resist Islam and it Sharia.\nIbrahim: Thanks, Jamie. The book certainly connects the dots and shows why what happens \u201cover there\u201d should matter \u201cover here.\u201d", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00240.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 78, + "original_length": 18460, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.96, + "perplexity": 262.9, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "http://www.jilitour.com/news?page=2", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T04:22:47Z", + "digest": "sha1:AD2HTK2S7NMOZNNU4EZTYNOA6RLXPFKN", + "length": 648, + "nlines": 4, + "source_domain": "www.jilitour.com", + "title": "| JiliTour", + "raw_content": "BEST WISHES FROM JILITOUR\n67th ANNIVERSARY OF THE FOUNDING OF PRC\nThe anniversary of the founding of PRC falls on October 1st and it is public holiday in China. Please be informed that our office in Beijing will be closed from October 1st to 7th. 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Hence, strategy execution is about harvesting the full potential of the business, and not limiting oneself to only 50, 60 or 70 per cent. It is the result of thousands of decisions made by the leadership teams and staff on the promise to implement the strategy every day.\nStrategy execution has always been a difficult challenge in a changing business environment. Perhaps, it is even more so today considering the pace of change in most industries and in today\u2019s fast moving world. A common understanding is that creating a strategy is nothing compared to executing it successfully. This is probably true most of the time, since generally it is much easier to create a strategy than making people commit and realise it.\nThere is nothing new in saying that leadership is critical for execution, but an organisation can execute its strategy only if the leader\u2019s heart and mind are immersed in the company and its vision of the future. Leading is much more than just thinking strategically and attempting to inspire people with visions while managers and staff down-the-line do the work. Execution requires active involvement. Leaders need to use their knowledge and wisdom to constantly probe the closure of the strategy-to-execution gap. They must bring areas of weaknesses to light and rally people to address them. Organisations that are strong on execution understand this and their employees take own initiatives to make the strategy happen. 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Homeowners and community associations always have the assurance that we will go beyond the expected to help build value through programs tailored to your specific needs.\nKarpe\u2019s Association manager is responsible for a variety of tasks related to the maintenance and upkeep of a residential community. Our HOA manager is typically involved in enforcing community rules and regulations. These rules govern behaviors that are intended to help maintain a visually appealing neighborhood while protecting property values. Rules and regulations usually govern landscaping and home maintenance requirements; on-street parking; building additions; and exterior home appearance. Our HOA manager monitors community activities, hears complaints from homeowners, and investigates and resolves issues.\nBetti Brown\nbbrown@karpe.com\nwww.davis-stirling.com\nwww.bgtlawyers.com\nwww.cacm.org\nNo matter the size of your community, Karpe can manage all components of your HOA or condo association, and we possess the experience to deliver results. Take the first step towards hiring Karpe as your new community association management firm by filling out the form to the right.\nHomeowners\u2019 Association Management (H.O.A.) Services\nCollection of Dues\nMonthly Site Inspections\nViolation/Hearing Correspondence\nEnforcement of CC&R\u2019s, By-Laws, Architectural Control\nSupervision of Contracted services\nProperty Payables\nCoordination of Board Meetings\nRecord Meeting Minutes\nMonth End Reports and Reconciliation\nReserve Study Preparation\nWorks with the Board & Associations legal counsel to resolve issues\nAfter hours emergency call availability 24 hours a day 7 days a week\nSubmit a New Management Inquiry to Karpe Real Estate Center\nCommunity or Residential Property Location:\nName of Community:\nNumber of Units/Homes:\nAre you on the Board of Directors?\nWhat is a management company, what do they do, and how do I reach them?\nA management company is contracted by the Board of Directors to provide such services as: Collection of assessments, supervision of subcontractors, obtaining bids for subcontracted services, providing financial statements and collection reports, as well as a general clearing house for problem solving, communications with homeowners and the Board of Directors and to serve in an advisor capacity. The management company reports directly to the Board and all decisions are made by a majority vote of the Board of Directors. The management company may be reached at 661-847-4800\nIt is a non-profit corporation registered with the State and managed by a duly elected Board of Directors. Its purpose is to maintain all common areas and to govern the community in accordance with the provision of the legal documents: CC&R\u2019s, Bylaws, and Articles of Incorporation. The corporation is financially supported by all members of the homeowners association. Membership is both automatic and mandatory.\nThe Covenants, Conditions and Restrictions (CC&R\u2019s) are the governing legal documents that set up the guidelines for the operation of the planned community as a non-profit corporation. The CC&R\u2019s were recorded by the County recorder\u2019s office of the County in which the property is located and are included in the title to your property. Failure to abide by the CC&R\u2019s may result in a fine to a homeowner by the Association. To request a copy of the Bylaws of your association, please contact management.\nThe Bylaws are the guidelines for the operation of the non-profit corporation. The Bylaws define the duties of the various offices of the Board of Directors, the terms of the Directors, the membership\u2019s voting rights, required meetings and notices of meetings, and the principal office of the Association, as well as other specific items that are necessary to run the Association as a business. To request a copy of the Bylaws of your association, please contact management.\nThe Homeowner\u2019s Association again is a corporation and therefore a governing body that is required to oversee its business. The Board of Directors is elected by the homeowners, or as otherwise specified in the bylaws. The limitation and restrictions of the powers of the Board of Directors is outlined in the Association\u2019s governing documents.\nMost associations have developed Rules and Regulations as provided for in the CC&R\u2019s and adopted by the Board of Directors. Rules are established to provide direction to the homeowners for common courtesies with regard to parking, vehicles, etc. In addition, your Association will adopt Architectural Guidelines with procedures for submitting requests to make exterior changes to your home. Such changes may include patio covers, decks, landscaping, exterior color changes or extensive interior changes and additions. These rules and guidelines are set up to maintain the aesthetic value and integrity of the community on behalf of all owners, therefore protecting the market value of your investment as well. Violations of these rules may result in action by the Board of Directors and a fine. In addition, if you proceed with an exterior improvement or change, without written approval of the Board of Directors, or Architectural Committee, as applicable, you will be required to remove or correct the alteration and/or be fined for the violation. For more information about this topic contact management.\nIf I am having a problem with a neighbor for a violation of the Policies and Guidelines, what can I do?\nIf residents cannot resolve a situation between themselves, then turn to your Association. Should you have a situation that does not appear to be resolved through neighborly means, and you are willing to actively participate in the enforcement provided by the Policies and Guidelines, you may complete a Covenant Violation form online. The Violation form may be found within the forms tab on the side bar on this site. If the situation is deemed in violation of the Policies and Guidelines, the Board of Directors will institute the enforcement policy. Your continued assistance may be required.\nAre Board Meetings open to all residents? If so, where and when are they held?\nYes. Scheduled Board meetings should be posted in the common area of your association or agendas mailed to all owners prior to the meeting.\nThe assessment is the monthly amount due from each homeowner to cover the operating expenses of the common area, hazard insurance, and provide for reserve funds for replacement of common facilities in future years.\nThis budget is set upon specific guidelines for utilities, landscaping, administration, etc. Reserve funds are monies set aside for future expenses due to the life expectancy of certain items: lighting, street resurfacing, fencing, etc. These amounts are then divided by the number of units built in a given phase of the development. Budgets are developed by the Board of Directors with assistance from the association manager. Assessments may be adjusted periodically if necessary, to meet anticipated expenses.\nWhat happens if I don\u2019t pay my assessment?\nThe maintenance and management services incurred by the Association are dependent upon timely receipt of the assessments due from each homeowner. If payments are late you will incur late fee. The CC&R\u2019s allows the Association to charge late charges and interest and proceed with a lien on your property, or foreclosure proceeding for nonpayment of assessments.", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00240.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 115, + "original_length": 9346, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.93, + "perplexity": 272.7, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "http://www.kissblushandtell.co.za/2015/10/kiehls-pioneers-by-nature-q.html", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T03:49:56Z", + "digest": "sha1:3QXOX4BLJVGPNRAPTUV744KGIJK64UHP", + "length": 7620, + "nlines": 33, + "source_domain": "www.kissblushandtell.co.za", + "title": "Kiss, Blush and Tell: Kiehl's Pioneers By Nature: Q&A with Philip Lim & Jackie Burger", + "raw_content": "Kiehl's Pioneers By Nature: Q&A with Philip Lim & Jackie Burger\nYou guys would have seen my post on the Pioneers By Nature campaign that Kiehl's are driving. They have paired up with some local and international influencers who are all pioneers in their field. I have chosen two pioneeers who really stand out to me; one local and one international.\nQ&A: Philip Lim\nThe international pioneer I have chosen to speak about is none-other than the fabulous Philip Lim. This was a no-brainer for me as I am a handbag junkie like no other and the Philip Lim Pashli bag is one that has been on my wishlist for a while now (see below).\nWhat was your first experience with Kiehl's?\nMy first experience with Kiehl\u2019s was during my \u201cpost-mall days.\u201d I got a real job and came across this brand called Kiehl\u2019s. It was actually their original musk scent that I first tried, and to this day, I still use it. What struck me was that it was a different type of packaging and a different type of message. At the time it was all about big brands and big marketing campaigns that were for the masses. But Kiehl\u2019s felt more honest and individualized \u2013 as if your local physician was prescribing a remedy for wellness. That resonated very personally with me because I\u2019ve always felt as an individual that I never belonged anywhere, and what I wanted was to find my way.\nWhy did you choose to partner with Kiehl\u2019s?\nWell, up to this moment in my life I have always believed in authenticity. For me, I only want to work with people and collaborate with brands that share the same values - values of awareness and social responsibility. Together, imagine what we can do. We could harness what we do and make it even more powerful and accessible for all.\nKiehl\u2019s is celebrating you as a pioneer in the Fashion industry. Tell us about your story as a designer and why you started 3.1 Phillip Lim.\nI\u2019ve always loved clothes, but growing up in the suburbs of Orange County, I didn\u2019t know what fashion was. I didn\u2019t have many clothes at the time because we didn\u2019t have many means. My parents were just normal people. I was a first generation immigrant, and just working to get somewhere and do things. Fast forward to my foray into fashion when I realized that I could actually create something, which provided me with that childhood dream of having the best clothes that were available to me without having the best means. I realized that it was in my power to actually create this.\nAt that time the market was about very expensive designers. It comes back to this idea of big brands dominating the market. This is when I was given the opportunity to create beautiful clothes - clothes without compromise, clothes with integrity, clothes that made me feel good, that made my friends feel good, that made people all around me feel good, and clothes that were accessible - clothes that weren\u2019t behind the ivory tower of fashion. So myself and my business partner pursued this idea and 3.1 Phillip Lim was born.\nThe Pashli bag that I am obsessed with!\nThe everyday inspires me. I say this phrase \u201cyou\u2019ve got to romance your reality.\u201d And what this means for me is that every single day, I see what kind of light it is. I notice the smell of the morning and enjoy the ceremony of getting dressed \u2013 all of this affects my mood. After exiting my house, I let each moment unfold and add up. You know, it\u2019s very inspiring because it is the reality of my own life and I make sure I romance every single day and put it into what I do.\nWhat does the word Pioneer mean to you? What makes someone a pioneer?\nWhat makes me think of a pioneer is someone who doesn\u2019t just accept things for the way they are. They ask that one question, \u201cWhy not?\u201d And not only do they ask that question, but also\nthey pursue that answer. It\u2019s a constant pursuit and having that kind of courage, to push forward, break ground and chart new territories is what makes a pioneer.\nQ&A: Jackie Burger\nThe second pioneer I chose was a local lady, and someone who really has made a mark in the fashion industry locally. The ex-ELLE magazine editor, Jackie Burger has recently started up her very own venture called Salon 58 which seeks to hone a curated space for women and her role as a Salonniere. I actually have this on my must-do list and hope to be able to visit one of her sessions soon where conversations are had around the fashion an lifestyle industry. The idea is based around social gatherings in the 17th and 18th centuries in Paris which were the most influential parties of the time. These were held to refine taste and increase knowledge through conversation.\nI was invited to the launch in Johannesburg in 2012. What stood out for me was the strong values of the brand \u2013 unassuming yet powerful. It was also evident in the quality of the product range.\nI have a deep appreciation for brands that actively engage in the community they trade in as well as initiating platforms of awareness to improve social structures or circumstances.\nKiehl\u2019s is celebrating you as a pioneer in the Lifestyle industry. Tell us about your story as an Editor-at-Large and why you started Salon 58.\nSalon 58 is the culmination of my dreams, ambitions and years of experience and skills honed in the fashion retail and publishing industries. It was an idea that came to fruition recently after spending time with a business coach to articulate possibilities aligned to my vision and abilities. The concept of Salon 58 celebrates many values that I endorse, such as providing a platform for showcasing local talent and design that goes beyond fashion. It encourages the true art of conversation \u2013 exchanging ideas and knowledge and embraces the principle of collaboration \u2013 an innovative sharing economy based on a value exchange of skills, creativity and partnerships.\nLife and conscious living inspires me. If we really take time and pay attention to special moments, we are so much richer in spirit for doing so.\nTo have courage and conviction; to explore new ideologies and possibilities with a sense of creativity and innovation. A pioneer is driven by the adventure of discovery and the exploration of ideas.\nWho do you identify as pioneers in your own life?\nI am inspired by women who challenged the status quo and paved the way for change and empowerment \u2013 from Coco Chanel who liberated the way women dress to Simone de Beauviour\u2019s take on feminism to Iris Apfel for proving that style and age are timeless and all about attitude!\nTo pay attention to my intuition \u2013 it is the power of self-manifestation.\nWhat advice could you pass on to anyone else starting off on their own pioneering journey (not just in the lifestyle industry)?\nKnow your strengths and weaknesses and surround yourself with people you can truly trust. Work hard and smart. Always remember your dream.\nThis campaign is in support of Stop Hunger Now in South Africa. Tell us why this is a cause close to your heart.\nGood nutrition cultivates a general sense of wellness that creates a healthy mind, body and soul \u2013 a basic and fundamental sustainability of society at large. There is an enormous sense of care and giving in the sharing of food. No one should go hungry when there is the abundance available to us to share with others.\nLastly, for those of you who are new to Kiehl's or looking for some inspiration on what products to treat yourself to, you can have a look at my 3 favourite Kiehl's products post and please let me know your favourite products from the brand or what you are dying to try!\nLabels: beauty, fashion, jackie burger, kiehl's, philip lim, pioneers by nature, review, salon 58, south africa", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00240.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 52, + "original_length": 8447, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.97, + "perplexity": 331.1, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "http://www.klienwachter.com/RoyBits/articles/rb182.html", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T04:44:04Z", + "digest": "sha1:XR43BJVHZXD6YJWDCWRTW4H2SJ3QJO4K", + "length": 1977, + "nlines": 8, + "source_domain": "www.klienwachter.com", + "title": "Picture This (Part One)", + "raw_content": "Picture This(Part One)\nPicture this state of existence in your mind by closing your eyes after you have read the lines below.\nYou are totally conscious and aware that you exist. You do not have any perceivable physical features; in fact you have no body at all. You do not know if it is day or night or what time it is because you cannot see, you cannot touch, smell, hear or taste.\nYou are aware of your presence and know that you are all there is, but you do not know what you are, or where you are and you know of no other. In this state you do not have any needs; you do not hunger or thirst, nor are you cold or hot.\nYour emotional state does not exist as you are not happy, angry, sad, joyful, fearful, nor do you love, or hate; none of these emotions have meaning for you. You do not have a name, what would be the purpose of that if there are no others?\nYou are very intelligent and powerful, yet you cannot express intelligence or power because you are all that there is. You cannot communicate with anyone nor compare yourself to another because there is no other and you are not defined physically. You cannot imagine anything because you are all that \u201cis,\u201d therefore there is nothing to imagine.\nLife for you is neither \u201chere\u201d nor \u201cthere\u201d because those places do not exist. Because there is nothing, you are nothing and because you are everything, everything is you, but you cannot relate to yourself in any way.\nThe one and only desire that you have that is so compelling that you are willing to divide yourself up into infinite pieces is your desire to experience yourself as being. To be able to say \u201cI AM,\u201d this or \u201cI AM,\u201d that. How would you do that? How would you go about defining yourself and what would be the very next word that you would add after \u201cI AM\u2026\u201d? How would you answer \u201cWho Am I?\u201d How would it be possible to know self by definition if there were no definitions? How would you solve this dilemma and finally how would you begin to know yourself?", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00240.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 12, + "original_length": 2533, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.98, + "perplexity": 307.8, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "http://www.knowing.net/index.php/2005/07/10/", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T03:20:33Z", + "digest": "sha1:VAM7C7U3XPTKPEK5B26FUYQUZL4LI3SF", + "length": 2546, + "nlines": 9, + "source_domain": "www.knowing.net", + "title": "10 | July | 2005 | Knowing .NET", + "raw_content": "Dontclick.it: Fascinating for Tablet developers\nhttp://www.dontclick.it/ shows how effective a clickless interface can be.\nLiterate Programming in .NET\nDevX has posted an article that I am really pretty proud of: a literate programming tool for .NET using Microsoft\u2019s Visual Studio Tools for Office 2005. By using Word styles and embedding XML tags, you can label your code fragments in a Word document as compilable (including specifying assembly targets, compiler options, etc.). Additionally, the code fragments can have references to other code fragments within them, so that your code fragment can say \u201c<>\u201d and you can fill in those details someplace else in the document (in a separate discussion, an appendix, or even in a hidden \u201cboilerplate\u201c section).\nA SmartTag assembles all of the code fragments for a given \u201ccompilation unit,\u201c (think normal source code file) and all the \u201ccompilation unit\u201cs for a given \u201cassembly target.\u201c They source can be placed on the clipboard as an XML tree of fragments, as an assembled compilation unit (ready for pasting into Visual Studio), or can even be compiled directly from within Word. I support C# and VB.NET \u201cout of the box\u201c but it\u2019s a simple matter to support additional languages for compilation.\nNormally, I\u2019m content to write a tool for an article and leave it for as inspiration for further exploration by others, but I think this tool has such potential that I\u2019m going to continue developing it, possibly on SourceForge or, more likely, hosted locally. In particular, I\u2019d like to add FIT capabilities so that authors would have the ability to confirm that their code behaves as they expect; macros so that adding code blocks was as easy as \u201cCtl-C\u201c (or whatever); and the ability to specify \u201calternate fragments\u201c so that you can say \u201cIf we replace Listing 12 with Listing 13, you can see the behavior do such-and-so\u2026\u201c\nI\u2019m going to reveal a new site on the subject shortly\u2026\nLoren starts showing ink code comments\nLoren Heiny is has begun posting screenshots from his work developing IDE plug-ins allowing inked comments to be made on source code. Personally, I think this is a tremendous use of the Tablet. DevX has just put up my article on literate programming in .NET using Word (in other words, a Word document whose code listings are supported by a \u201ccompile this!\u201d smart tag). I was able to use Word\u2019s ink annotation capabilities in that project, as well (especially when ink comments are set to \u201cfloat in front\u201d of the text), but Loren\u2019s is definitely the more focused effort.", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00240.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 216, + "original_length": 5773, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.92, + "perplexity": 324.5, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "http://www.kookielondon.com/policies", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T04:13:58Z", + "digest": "sha1:AVCTKGVWVXRNBTLOQZEZKSVZ54PQ4FV6", + "length": 1190, + "nlines": 5, + "source_domain": "www.kookielondon.com", + "title": "Policies \u2014 Kookie London", + "raw_content": "Kookie of London is committed to protecting the privacy of our site visitors and customers. Therefore we will not disclose information about you to third parties except where it is part of providing a service to you.\nIf you have made a purchase from our store (thank you!) we may occasionally update you on our latest products, news and special offers via email if you opt-in to receive email marketing communications from us. You can opt-out at any time.\nKookie of London is committed to protecting your privacy. All personal information collected through this website will be held securely in accordance with the UK\u2019s Data Protection Act 1998. For any further queries or comments please contact us using our contact form.\nIf you are not completely satisfied with your purchase (we're sorry to hear that!), you can simply return the item to us in its original unused condition within 28 days of receipt.\nReturned items should be unused and unworn (if applicable) and returned in their original packaging with any enclosed documentation. We will issue a full refund on receipt, excluding the original delivery charge. Alternatively, if preferred, we will also be happy to exchange the item.", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00240.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 62, + "original_length": 3563, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.94, + "perplexity": 305.8, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "http://www.kurtmichaelson.org/2012/01/200-chapters-in-20-days-reading-through.html", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T04:16:00Z", + "digest": "sha1:Q564HUPRAY75GET7PGCWGR5MITGGPI75", + "length": 6377, + "nlines": 25, + "source_domain": "www.kurtmichaelson.org", + "title": "Kurt Michaelson: 200 Chapters in 20 Days: Reading Through the Bible in 2012", + "raw_content": "200 Chapters in 20 Days: Reading Through the Bible in 2012\nSo, yesterday marked a great milestone I'd say, with regard to keeping up with a reading plan for the new year and it has been great. Yesterday was the 20th of the month and I had completed reading the scheduled 10 chapters for that day, which I have done everyday since the 1st of January and this results in my completion of reading 200 chapters in the Bible over the past 20 days!\nEach day I know that I need to spend about an hour quietly sitting somewhere so I can read each chapter and I normally like to read all 10 chapters at one sitting. There was one day however, that I read 8 chapters in the morning and completed the remaining 2 when I returned home from work.\nFor me, there is something about reading a physical copy of the Bible vs. an electronic version like the one that is available on YouVersion. I'm not dismissing the online version as ineffective or inefficient because they are. I guess for myself, I just like seeing where the accounts of people, places and things are taking place in the hardcopy, which I think helps with memory recall. As I discussed this with my wife, I think may utilize the online version and make notes on certain highlighted verses or passages and then transcribe them to my physical Bible.\nAs I read yesterday, catching up on my reading of days 19 & 20, when I read the parable of the rich young man in Matthew 19, I noticed something that I had not seen in the past.\nThis parable (Matthew 19:16-30) is about a rich young man that had asked Jesus about what he needed to do to have, or as some translations use the word inherit, eternal life. The translation that I am using is the English Standard Version.\nThe dialogue Jesus has with this rich young man reveals that the commandments are to be kept, to which the rich young man says he has done so and then asks what is it that he still lacked. Jesus replied and said that if he would be perfect, to go and sell all of his possessions and give it to the poor, then he would have treasure in heaven and then he could follow Christ. But upon hearing this the rich young man went away very saddened and disappointed because he had a lot of stuff.\nVerse 23 is what stood out - And Jesus said to his disciples, \"Truly, I say to you, only with difficulty will a rich person enter the kingdom of heaven.\"\nThose people that have accumulated a lot of great toys in their life become greatly attached to them. For this rich man it was not only his possessions that he could not part with to follow Christ, but it was the status recognition that came along with it too. He was a rich, young man. The difficulty that a rich person is going to face concerning their entrance into the kingdom of heaven will be whether they have loved the atonement of Jesus Christ for their sins more than any material possession they own.\nEcclesiastes 5:15 says, \"As he came from his mother's womb he shall go again, naked as he came, and shall take nothing for his toil that he may carry away in his hand.\"\nNo one brought anything into the world and they won't be able to take anything with them when they die either.\nForbes has a list of the richest 400 people in America, think about these people and pray for them that their massive wealth would not keep them from gaining eternal riches. Pray that they may all come to repentance of their sin of the idolatry of their wealth and that they would place their faith in the atonement of Jesus Christ alone.\nFor the rich, this is the ultimate statistic.\nBut the verse says that only with difficulty with the rich enter the kingdom of heaven. It doesn't say they will not be able to enter, but they will struggle as they separate themselves from loving their possessions less, while growing in God's grace and loving Him more.\nAdam Clarke's commentary concerning this verse says, \"Earthly riches are a great obstacle to salvation; because it is almost impossible to possess them, and not to set the heart upon them; and they who love the world have not the love of the Father in them. 1John 2:15. To be rich, therefore, is in general a great misfortune: but what rich man can be convinced of this? It is only God himself who, by a miracle of mercy, can do this. Christ himself affirms the difficulty of the salvation of a rich man, with an oath, verily; but who of the rich either hears or believes him!\"\nThe good news for a rich person is found in verse 26, which Jesus says, \"With man this is impossible, but wiht God all things are possible.\" As the Gospel is proclaimed in their hearing, the ability to love Christ more than their possessions can be accomplished with the help of God.\nIn Paul's first letter to Timothy, he says that those who are rich in this present age shoud not trust in uncertain riches, but to trust the living God who gives richly all things to enjoy. (1 Timohty 6:17, NKJV) That's true security and peace of mind that money cannot buy, to trust in the living God.\nIt is possible and if you may be someone who is wealthy, maybe not to the degree of Bill Gates, Warren Buffett, Jeff Bezos, or New York City Mayor, Michael Bloomberg, but you have considered that whatever amount of material wealth you do have that has become an idol in your life and realize that it will be a greater ease into hell than a great difficulty to enter God's kingdom, then please, humbly repent of your sin that has caused you to be separated from God and place your complete faith and trust in the atonement Jesus Christ alone for the forgiveness of your sins.\nEach day I look forward to that hour I spend in God's Word, reading, learning and seeing things that I had not seen before that brings a revival to my soul. I hope you do too.\nLastly, I love how Psalm 20:7 speaks so well with regard to the rich young man's wealth that he could not part from compared to those that have.\n\"Some trust in chariots and some in horses, but we trust in the name of the Lord our God.\" Psalm 20:7, ESV\nGod bless you as you remain in His Word each day.\nLabels: 3650 Challenge, bible, bible reading plan, discipline\nGreat insight ! I, too, prefer my actual bible over the electronic way. I highlight and mark in mine( It looks like the Rainbow Bible now ! ) I believe it is more personal.\nYou get to know your Bible better. I have learned so much since starting this system. I am on day 157 now. Thanks !", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00240.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 67, + "original_length": 9953, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.98, + "perplexity": 280.7, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "http://www.labourbulletin.com/2015/02/malaysiasodomy-ii-federal-court-to.html", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T03:58:54Z", + "digest": "sha1:VBZ5C3PQEOOUHVTEY3PDMRT6L54XOP2S", + "length": 3282, + "nlines": 17, + "source_domain": "www.labourbulletin.com", + "title": "LABOUR BULLETIN : MALAYSIA:::Sodomy II: Federal Court to deliver verdict today", + "raw_content": "MALAYSIA:::Sodomy II: Federal Court to deliver verdict today\nA total of 27 prosecution witnesses including star witness, Mohd Saiful, and eight defence witnesses including Anwar testified in the trial that took almost three years at the High Court which received attraction worldwide.\nPUTRAJAYA: The Federal Court is scheduled to deliver its verdict on the final appeal of PKR advisor Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim to set aside his five-year jail sentence forsodomisinghis former aide Mohd Saiful Bukhari Azlan, this morning.\nChief Justice Tun Arifin Zakaria, who is leading a five-member panel comprising Court of Appeal president Tan Sri Md Raus Shariff and Federal Court judges Tan Sri Abdull Hamid Embong, Tan Sri Suriyadi Halim Omar and Datuk Ramly Ali, expected to pronounce the ruling at 9am.\nThe highest court in the country will make its ruling on whether to allow or dismissAnwar's appealto set aside his conviction and jail sentence imposed by the Court of Appeal on March 7 last year, after it had overturned a High Court decision to acquit him.\nIf Anwar loses his appeal, he will be disqualified as the member of parliament (MP) for Permatang Pauh as per Article 48(1)(e) of the Federal Constitution, which states that an MP would be disqualified if he or she is sentenced to a jail term of more than a year, or fined more than RM2,000.\nThe prosecution has also filed a cross-appeal to enhance the jail sentence. However, the matter will only be heard if the Federal Court upholds the decision of the Court of Appeal.\nAnwar is represented by a team of 15 lawyers led by Datuk Seri Gopal Sri Ram, a former Federal Court judge himself.\nThe other 14 lawyers are Ramkarpal Singh Deo, Gobind Singh Deo, Sangeet Kaur Deo, N.Surendran, R.Sivarasa, J.Leela, Latheefa Koya, Lim Choon Khim, Eric Paulsen, Michelle Yesudas, Shahid Adli Kamaruddin, Zaleha Al-Hayat, Jeremy Vinesh Anthony and Mohamed Aliff Bolkin.\nA senior lawyer, Tan Sri Muhammad Shafee Abdullah, is leading the prosecution team in the appeal. He is assisted by deputy public prosecutor Datuk Mohamad Hanafiah Zakaria.\nThe Court of Appeal had found Anwar, 67, guilty of havingsodomisedMohd Saiful, 30, at Unit 11-5-1 ofDesa Damansara Condominiumin Jalan Setiakasih, Bukit Damansara, here, between 3.10pm and 4.30pm on June 26, 2008.\nThe charge, under Section 377B of the Penal Code, carries a jail sentence of up to 20 years and whipping, upon conviction.\nA total of 27 prosecutionwitnesses includingstar witness, Mohd Saiful, and eightdefencewitnesses includingAnwar testified in the trial that took almost three years at the High Court which received attraction worldwide.\nOn Jan 9, 2012, the High Court acquitted and discharged Anwar of the charge on the grounds that the court could not be 100 per cent certainonthe integrity of samples taken for DNA testing from the alleged victim.\nThe court had ruled that the samples could have been compromised before they reached the chemistry department for analysis.\nHowever, the Court of Appeal had overturned the High Court judgment and found Anwar guilty ofsodomisingMohd Saiful and held that the trial judge had erred in his findings about the samples which were based on the evidence of two expert witnesses called by thedefence.\nsiurce:::http://english.astroawani.com", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00240.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 993, + "original_length": 17032, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.97, + "perplexity": 338.5, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "http://www.landlinemag.com/story.aspx?storyid=41479", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T04:50:33Z", + "digest": "sha1:GOH7FE3SNZ3M6DB6246WW2JYIYQ4R3T5", + "length": 943, + "nlines": 4, + "source_domain": "www.landlinemag.com", + "title": "DC votes to erase traffic tickets", + "raw_content": "DC votes to erase traffic tickets\nThe Washington D.C. City Council went against Mayor Anthony A. Williams' wishes last week by voting to excuse $347 million in parking tickets and other penalties incurred before 1997. The council's vote is intended to help cut down on long lines that have jammed the Department of Motor Vehicles.\nThe reprieve is more far-reaching than the program previously announced by Williams, extending not just to penalties caused by late payment but also to the original fines. The council ruled the city lacks the capacity and accurate records necessary to collect any of the outstanding debts.\nComplaints about the DMV have increased sharply since spring, when the city' s computer system began blocking customers with old unpaid fines from renewing their licenses or registrations, creating delays and long lines. 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On Wednesday, September 23, three additional companies that offer on-demand services accessed via an app have been served with complaints in San Francisco Superior Court. The food delivery services GrubHub and DoorDash were both served with class action lawsuits on behalf of employees claiming that they were misclassified and paid as independent contractors, when in fact they were treated like employees. A demand for arbitration on the same basis was filed against Caviar, another service that delivers meals from restaurants to customers. These three new cases are the latest in an increasingly-large group of similarly-structured companies facing litigation for misclassification. In addition to the lawsuits against ride-hailing companies Uber and Lyft, there are lawsuits pending against on-demand service providers Instacart (offering grocery shopping and delivery), Washio (a door-to-door dry cleaning service), and Homejoy (a now-defunct on-demand home cleaning service).\nThe on-demand workers claim that, since these companies control every aspect of the work done by the independent contractors (instructing them where to obtain the meals, where they should be delivered, when to make the delivery, etc.), they are in reality employees. As such, the workers argue, they are entitled to reimbursement for money spent on gas, phone data plans (which the companies use to issue work orders), overtime, health care, and minimum wage payment. A number of recent startups offering similar services, such as Luxe Valet and Shyp, have decided to classify their workers as employees, in order to avoid similar negative attention or litigation.\nIn June of this year, the California Labor Commission ruled that one former Uber driver was, in fact, misclassified when Uber called her an independent contractor, and ordered Uber to reimburse over $4,000 of the driver\u2019s costs and expenses. In August, the plaintiffs pursuing the Uber class action lawsuit received more good news, in the form of a certification of the class pursing a class action lawsuit against the company. The class itself is small, as most Uber employees waived their right to participate in class-based lawsuits when the company updated its worker agreement last year. Nevertheless, the results of this case could have a broad impact on both on-demand services, and on classification of workers state-wide.\nIf you are facing an employment legal issue, contact Tustin employment law firm Coast Employment Law at 714-551-9930.", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00240.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 90, + "original_length": 5978, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.97, + "perplexity": 261.5, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "http://www.lawrencehelm.com/2011/06/relationship-of-church-and-state-in.html", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T04:32:26Z", + "digest": "sha1:RAD3UMCNZMFLKYDKBLQ6EHD3XQTSIVCF", + "length": 5243, + "nlines": 8, + "source_domain": "www.lawrencehelm.com", + "title": "Lawrence Helm's Blog: The Relationship of Church and State in the time of Eusebius and Augustine", + "raw_content": "The Relationship of Church and State in the time of Eusebius and Augustine\nEusebius didn\u2019t believe in the separation of Church and State. He was a prominent member of the \u201clittle circle of court clerics who helped to school Constantine in Christian ways and to shape an image of him for contemporaries and for posterity.\u201d [Fletcher\u2019s The Barbarian Conversion, from Paganism to Christianity, page 22]\nEusebius dates, c. 260 to c. 340, overlap Constantine\u2019s rule, c. 306-337, surely one of the most important times in church history. In our modern times it is anathema to advocate the combination of Church and State, but if we attempt to put ourselves back in Eusebius\u2019 situation we probably would have agreed with him. Christians had been hounded, persecuted and martyred off and on since the time of the apostles, but now the most powerful person in the world had become a convert. If we had an opportunity to mold him, what would we do? It wouldn\u2019t do to tell Constantine that Church and State should be separated. That wouldn\u2019t have meant anything to him. His conversion from all we know was genuine. He wanted to help the Church grow, so why not let him?\n\u201c. . . his adhesion to Christianity from 313 onwards was not to be doubted. Its most enduring manifestation was in open-handed patronage. Constantine did not make Christianity the official religion of the Roman Empire, though this is often said of him. What he did was to make the Christian church the most-favoured recipient of the near-limitless resources of imperial favour. An enormous new church of St. Peter was built in Rome, modeled on the basilican form used for imperial throne halls such as the one which survives at Trier. The see of Rome received extensive landed endowments and one of the imperial residences, the Lateran Palace, to house its bishop and his staff. Constantinople, begun in 325, was to be an exclusively Christian city . . . Legal privileges and immunities rained down upon the Christian church and its clergy. The emperor took an active part in ecclesiastical affairs, summoning and attending church councils, participating in theological debate, attempting to sort out quarrels and controversies.\u201d [Fletcher, 19-22]\nAnd if we somehow had an opportunity to talk to Eusebius during this period, could we talk him into a belief in a separation of Church and State? I doubt it. Eusebius was an historian. He knew how bad the Church had it during earlier times and how good Constantine was making it for the Church during the time in which he lived. We would have no evidence to present him of the evils we would be trying to warn him against.\nIt was Augustine who would make the argument for this separation, but not the argument we moderns might expect. When we read his presuppositions they are hard for a modern Christian to accept. He was influenced by Monasticism. \u201cMonasticism offered, or demanded, a manner of life in which individualism had to be shed. To be \u2018of one heart and of one soul\u2019 within a community, to have \u2018all things common\u2019, was not simply to follow the example of the apostles commended in Acts iv. 32: it was also to be liberated from the insidious temptation of private cares, selfish anxieties. Such liberation offered the possibility to humans of building a heavenly society upon earth. The monastic vocation was a call to a new way of apprehending, even of merging into, the divine.\u201d\nAugustine, if he could be brought forward in time, would be appalled at our definition of the separation of Church and State. Why bother to separate, he might ask us, since he could see so little difference? The Reformers were influenced by many of Augustine\u2019s arguments, but not this one. They found no justification for Monasticism and no reason not to influence the State if they could. Augustine\u2019s arguments can\u2019t easily be set aside, even if we reject Monasticism, but the separation of Church and State that we recognize today began with the Peace of Westphalia in 1648. One might say that we in the West learned how to be tolerant of each other\u2019s religion the hard way. We fought each other for thirty years and got tired of it. That\u2019s not quite the same as saying that we suddenly became enlightened, but it will do.\nThere are Christians today who worry that we in the West have gone too far in the other direction, that is, that whereas in the past the church had power over the State, now the State is assuming an inhibiting power over the Church. Organizations, especially the ACLU, are going through State and Church activities much as Rudolf Bultmann went through the New Testament, rejecting this and that as they see fit. The Western Civilization and the Christian Church grew together as an integral unit, but some now feel they can pull the Church out and cast it aside. Most of the time (at least here in the U.S.) most of us know how to be both Christian and citizen. The two don\u2019t need to be in conflict. Of course most of the Church in the U.S. isn\u2019t resisting ACLU inroads. They may complain a bit, but that are too used to getting along with the State to make a fuss. Would we \u201cmake a fuss\u201d if the State went too far, whatever we might mean by that? I think so. The \u201cSpreading Flame\u201d may have grown dim, but it isn\u2019t out.", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00240.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 199, + "original_length": 8342, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.98, + "perplexity": 192.3, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "http://www.lecafedujour.com/2013/04/photograph-yourself.html", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T04:08:43Z", + "digest": "sha1:ORUIQ555CLQFP3MOQWTAGD7HA4YN4LEU", + "length": 1254, + "nlines": 6, + "source_domain": "www.lecafedujour.com", + "title": "Le Cafe Du Jour: Photograph Yourself", + "raw_content": "Excellent point! I don't have a lot of luck with cameras, but I miss not having one. Our pictures can be so expressive, whether it says something about the subject of the picture or the person that took it.\nWow, you are (and were always) really beautiful. I didn't take photos of myself for years. I was told I was overweight and I believed it. I think it's definitely time to work on photographing both myself and my husband. I definitely do not take enough photos of him.\nCathe311 12:11 pm\nI'm totally the opposite! I loved being in pictures even as a child...I remember always asking my family to take photos of me. And in my early 20's...I was too obsessed that I literally took pics of everything, what I ate, I what I saw during the day, what I was doing...so it was an extreme documenting. Now that I'm older, I don't do that much anymore except maybe for special occasions. Thanks for reminding me why I need to do it again!\nI am totally in that phase right now where I don't want any pictures taken of me. But this is a good post to make me reconsider my stance.\nSuch a healthy attitude now and one which G will be glad you adopted as she gets older and wants to see what Mommy looked like when she was young. 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Dream. Do.\nA favorite client endorsed me as \"strategic, creative and tactical - a rare and winning combination.\" It is a description that carries across my work in marketing, art and hospitality.\nI believe in building relationships and trust by providing candid advice to clients on the strategies that best align with business objectives, and by being hands-on in the creative process that delivers results.\nMy work in marketing and corporate communications and reputation management includes developing and implementing programs for organizations at important moments of change: launches, marketplace shifts, executive transition, crisis, IPOs, divestures, mergers and acquisition.\nI worked in New York and Washington DC for several years in consumer media before moving to San Francisco as a corporate communications counsel in a broad range of industries from telecom, home furnishings, education, finance, law, and wine. For 10 years, I was strategic counselor and ultimately, Executive Vice President for top global PR firm Edelman.\n\u200bMy current focus is with small to mid-size business, non-profit organizations and artists, to develop websites, blogs, email marketing campaigns and maintain social media communities that increase the audience for their products, causes and work.\nContact Me About Marketing\nMy latest adventure involves creating vacation experiences at Sonoma Rosso - a home away from home with luxurious comfort and attention to detail that is garnering 5-star reviews by guests from around the world. The California wine country compound in the heart of the Sonoma Valley has two cottages, an art studio and an old stone ranch house with a colorful history.\nVisit Sonoma Rosso\nMaking art ignites different parts of my brain and feeds my soul. I create luminous oil paintings in a modern impressionist style and my work is represented in the collections of wonderful people across the country. Paintings are available directly through my studio and at various shows and exhibits.", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00240.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 14, + "original_length": 2094, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.95, + "perplexity": 327.8, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "http://www.livewellpgh.com/active-release-technique", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T03:39:31Z", + "digest": "sha1:FXQ6B4VNHSO3SV54UOOU7BZUG5KPEMZU", + "length": 3528, + "nlines": 17, + "source_domain": "www.livewellpgh.com", + "title": "Active Release Technique - Live Well Chiropractic", + "raw_content": "Essentially ART is a means of manipulating soft tissue to restore its integrity after muscles have been shortened or weakened (or where there\u2019s a build up of scar tissue) due to overuse. By doing this it can free up nerves that have been compressed, relieve pain and increase mobility, sometimes almost immediately, as well as improve poor biomechanics in the long term.\nHow exactly does ART work?\nOne thing you do need to know: you\u2019ll be pulled about a bit! Fibrous adhesions (let\u2019s just call them knotted bits of muscle) don\u2019t go away without a little force and movement.\nTo treat a muscle with ART, the muscle is shortened and a manual tension is applied to the muscle by a therapist\u2019s fingers. The muscle is then actively lengthened by the person being treated, while the tension on the muscle is held in place. The treatment hurts a bit, although most patients describe it as a \u2018good hurt\u2019. It feels like a stretch that you need, but can\u2019t do yourself. When a muscle is tight, the technique works by increasing the nervous system\u2019s tolerance to stretch the muscle.\nOne of the best bits of ART is that there seems to be a specific \u2018protocol\u2019 for every piece of anatomy, whether it\u2019s muscle, nerve or ligament. It can also be used very effectively in conjunction with other various nerve, muscle and fascial-related techniques. Just because you\u2019re seeking ART treatment, doesn\u2019t mean you can\u2019t have chiropractic treatment for example. It\u2019s just that it might help reduce symptoms faster.\nWhen was ART invented / developed?\nThis isn\u2019t some kind of ancient teaching that has been passed down through generations - Active Release Techniques were developed in the 1980s by a chiropractor in Colorado called Mike Leahy. In fact, it\u2019s mostly chiropractors who advocate it, adding it to their repertoire of skills, many insisting that it\u2019s one of the quickest ways to get things moving smoothly again. Though there are some doubters who suggest the evidence of ART\u2019s magic is slim, the increased recognition speaks volumes. Almost every professional sports team in North America uses ART before and after competitions. Training in ART only became available in Europe in 2009, though it\u2019s now routinely used by medical staff at Everton and Tottenham Hotspur football clubs, and professional cycling and athletics teams in the UK.\nWhat can you expect during an ART session?\nDoes it hurt? Well, that obviously depends on your pain threshold. The general consensus with ART is that it is a similar level of discomfort, at points, to that of a deep tissue massage. CrossFitters tend to be fairly tough about enduring short periods of soreness for long-term gain though, so we think you\u2019ll survive. What\u2019s more, you can always tell the practitioner to reduce or increase the pressure and they can react immediately.\nInjuries that respond well to ART\nThere are some issues for which ART is particularly effective. These include, but aren\u2019t confined to:\nChronic muscle tightness: ART can quickly loosen most muscle tightness. It is the equivalent of stretching every day for two months\nSpinal problems: ART provides a quick relief for a stiff neck or back.\nTightness in the extremities: tight hip muscles or ankle ligaments can be helped by treating with ART.\nOvertrained muscles/ tendons: shoulder impingements or rotator cuff injuries, hamstring pulls, Achilles\u2019 problems and pain under the foot.\nRepetitive strain injuries: tennis elbow, shin splints and De Quervain\u2019s tenosynovitis can improve.\nDr. Stemmler is a certified ART provider.", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00240.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 140, + "original_length": 9010, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.95, + "perplexity": 282.7, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "http://www.lizwalkerart.com/lizart-blog/archives/08-2012", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T03:15:51Z", + "digest": "sha1:OH5ZH5Y35ZTV5KVATVUILIGTNIAVW2X7", + "length": 6083, + "nlines": 12, + "source_domain": "www.lizwalkerart.com", + "title": "LizArt Musings", + "raw_content": "The Art of Self Publishing: Lessons Learned\nClearly there's a lot of things that today's do-it-yourself artist has to learn, and most of this has little to do with the process of making art. Many of us are navigating the twists and turns of the digital age and have learned how to build and maintain our own website, set up a blog, digitally photograph our artwork, and share these images on our website and social networking sites.\nBut what about publishing a full-color book with images of your artwork? It sounds so easy, right? Well...yes and no. It all depends on the software template you choose for the task, and the look & feel you require for your book.\nA few years ago, my art mentor Harold Walkup self-published his art book using software on the website www.blurb.com. I bought a copy of his book and enjoyed seeing his words and images bound together in a professional looking 8 x 11 inch book with a dust jacket. What a great idea! I signed up for a free account on blurb and downloaded their free software. I selected my book format (8x11 seemed a better choice than 12 x 12, which required much larger resolution .jpgs) and thought I'd get right to work on this project. But I found the templates a little hard to use--things didn't seem to allow me to \"drag\" them where I wanted to and the prospect of gathering nearly 200 images together (from various places on my hard drive) was daunting.\nI decided that since I'm a visual person, I needed to stop and do some planning on paper. I created a little paper storyboard with dozens of pages of \"facing page\" layouts and began scribbling in chapter names, and grouping my paintings in to categories by subject matter. My idea was to build a book of images from the past 10 years, so as to narrow it down a bit. I went through my website and jotted down titles of my best/favorite paintings into a notebook, and then counted up the number of images in each category to determine how many pages I'd need in each chapter. I capped the book at 160 pages---because on blurb, the prices for printing a book are determined by the number of pages. Now I had my plan!\nI set up a series of subdirectories on my computer--each bearing the chapter number and name---and began to copy/paste images of my paintings into the appropriate folder. This is where being organized really pays off---thank goodness I've been keeping my .jpgs stored on external drives and had had the presence of mind to sort them by year of completion. I also had to print out a list of all my painting titles (easily done in Microsoft Access) so that I had the title, size, and medium for each painting right in front of me.\nIt was then I got serious about learning how the blurb templates work---it took a bit of trial and error, but at last, I figured out how to drag/drop images, create my own layouts (my paintings don't conform to photography print sizes, so I had to elongate some picture boxes so that my images weren't cropped) and tweak the font size as needed. Blurb's BookSmart templates are pretty amazing--it's like having Adobe InDesign software at your fingertips without the hefty pricetag: you can designate \"full bleed\" images, and overlay words on top of images. Plus, their templates provide all front and back matter (even columned space for the dust jacket text!).\nIn the course of a week (several hours a day--this stuff can be addicting), I'd uploaded, resized, captioned, and rearranged all 179 images in this 154 page book. I ran spellcheck, made corrections, print previewed, typed in the pages for the table of contents (they didn't seem to have a program that automatically lets you tag items for inclusion), and then \"published\" this to their \"bookstore\". You can make your book private (or share with some individuals), or public (available for viewing and/or purchasing by anyone). You can also set your own pricing for this book (once they calculate the base price for your book, you can add whatever amount you want, and they \"recalculate\" the retail price for you. You can also elect to be paid via paypal, which I did.\nI held my breath, and place an order for a hard copy dust jacketed book---about $70, since their shipping tends to be about $11 (for one book!), and I'd opted for heavy, matte coated paper. A week later, the book arrived and it's simply stunning. I shared the link to the book on my website, on my Facebook page, and sent out an email to family and close friends.\nAfter getting my email, an art friend/writer asked me why I didn't put my book on amazon.com. Now, here's where things get complicated. As you'd expect, blurb.com only makes money when people ORDER books--so their software doesn't allow you to print to .pdf which would allow you to get your book printed elsewhere (and/or sell it from other vendors). So those \"free\" templates have a cost after all. At amazon, your book has to have a ISBN number (which you can buy through another site) but most of all, your book has to be able to be uploaded in .pdf format to amazon's CreateSpace (its self publishing software site). This would all be simple if I was writing a novel with no pictures or graphics in it, but of course, a carefully laid out art book like the one I created in blurb cannot be created in MSWord. And so I remain tethered to www.blurb.com--at least for this book. Still, the experience of holding a finished book in my hands might be its own reward after all.\nThe TV series \"Portlandia\" coined the phrase \"put a bird on it\", and though it may be true that many artists use birds in their paintings, the trick is to make it your own. After all, it's just a shape--and a very useful design element around which you can build a painting.\nMy \"Birdland\" series consists of almost 30 paintings I've done over the past year or so. I decided to package a few favorites into a set of cards which I'll be selling via my website sometime in September/October. The large 5x7 size makes them suitable for framing. 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They live in social groups made up of many males and many females, and the females are the dominate gender. Groups vary in size from two to 16 members, and these members can frequently change groups. They live primarily in trees and are excellent climbers and jumpers. They make sounds frequently, some to keep the group together, while others keep other groups away.\nRuffed lemurs are the largest of the lemurs \u2014 about the size of a large house cat. The body is nearly two feet long from head to rump, with a tail equally as long. The black and white ruffed lemur\u2019s fur is thick, soft and fairly long. There is a lot of variation in the amount of black and white fur from lemurl to lemur. But in general, the tail, hands, feet, shoulder, face, and top of the head are black; the back, rump, hind legs, and ears are white.\nThe ruffed lemurs favorite food is fruit but they also have a taste for other food, including nectar, leaves, flowers, buds, fungi and soil. To find their food they forage in the treetops. If the food they want is out of reach from a standing position, they\u2019ll dangle from their arms and legs in order to reach their snack.\nRuffed lemur females give birth to litters of up to six infants (two or three is more typical) in well-concealed, well-constructed nests 10 to 20 meters up a tree. 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The firm's successor was Stephenson Bell, whose International Convention Centre on Windmill Street is crisp, expressive and carefully related to its site, where it forms part of a striking group with the arched shed of former Central Station (now the G-mex exhibition centre) and the glazed prow of the Bridgewater Hall (RHWL Partnership, 1993-6) in Barbirolli Square.\nElsewhere the uplifting Trinity Bridge by Santiago Calatrava of 1996 was actually a City of Salford initiative. Some of the best recent architecture has been commissioned by, or is associated with, the higher education sector, of which Mills Beaumont Leavey Channon's Aytoun Library on Chorlton Street for Manchester Metropolitan University, Hodder Associates' Career Services Unit (1995) deserve mention.\t\"Since the terrorist bomb of June 1996 the town centre and area to the north around the cathedral are undergoing a transformation, with new pedestrian streets and squares, a city park, new buildings and refurbishments. Here the huge new Marks & Spencer store by Building Design Partnership (completed 2000) is linked to the Arndale Centre by Hodder Associates' spiralling glass bridge. The most ambitious of the new buildings in this area is Ian Simpson Associates' Urbis, under construction at the time of writing.\nVisitors to Manchester in 2001-2 can look forward to seeing this and other projects as they approach completion, including Michael Hopkins' extension to the City Art GalleryGlossary Term, the Commonwealth Games Stadium in east Manchester (Ove Arup & Partners)and Daniel Libeskind's sculptural Imperial War Museum in the North, on the Ship Canal in Trafford, which will form a foilGlossary Term to Michael Wilford's Lowry Centre (completed 2000) on the Salford side of the Canal\n(lit. leaf): Lobe formed by the cusping of a circular or other shape in tracery. Trefoil (three), quatrefoil (four), cinquefoil (five), sexfoil (six) and multifoil express the number of lobes in a shape.", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00240.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 85, + "original_length": 3691, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.93, + "perplexity": 331.3, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "http://www.lugwrenchbrewing.com/2010/06/nanobrewery-interviews-wolf-hills.html", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T04:49:12Z", + "digest": "sha1:QUK3CCMOXGRCZXTKFNDPHBKK67ME2YZA", + "length": 5721, + "nlines": 14, + "source_domain": "www.lugwrenchbrewing.com", + "title": "Nanobrewery Interviews: Wolf Hills Brewing Company (Part 1)", + "raw_content": "For the fourth brewery in our Nanobrewery Interviews, we had the opportunity to speak with Chris Burcher, the \"Captain of Concoctions\" and founder of Wolf Hills Brewing Company, located in Abingdon, Virginia. Wolf Hills was founded in late August 2009 and operates a 1 bbl. brewhouse that distributes draft beer to a local hotel (The Martha Washington Hotel and Spa) and through growler sales at the brewery.\nChris began homebrewing in 2002 with a Mr. Beer kit that his wife gave him. He was brewing all-grain by 2006 and ramped up quickly after that when the brewing bug put him on a path to open his own nanobrewery. Wolf Hills has been successful in their market and is currently building a larger brewery expansion (more on that later).\nBelow is the first part of our three-part interview with Chris.\nLug Wrench (LW): What inspired you to start-up a nanobrewery?\nChris Burcher (CB): I retired from my job as a college professor/scientist to stay at home with my three little girls. We simplified our lives (my wife is a pharmacist) and moved closer to family and so one of us could be with the kids. I channeled my scientific and other energies into learning more about making beer. Like many homebrewers, I toyed with the idea of trying to make a go of it. I came up with a business plan to start very very small and pitched it to anyone who would listen. As my kids get older (they are 4, 6, and 8) it is getting a little easier and I have a bit more time to do something for myself.\nWhen we first moved to Abingdon, we rented a house on Stonewall Heights where my 3 current partners lived. They welcomed us with open arms into the community and encouraged my brewing. When I pitched them the nanobrewery 'experiment' they bought in hook, line and sinker. And you have to understand, I was giving everyone the real hard sell: it won't make any money, it will be a ton of work, we won't be able to drink free beer, it probably will fail and we will all have to accept the loss of a bunch of money. They still wanted to do it. They also had the abilities and connections to convince the town it was a good idea. So, in short, my wife and her willingness to accept my 'hobby' and 'experiment' and my partners equivalent enthusiasm for just wanting to do it inspired me.\nLW: How did you gather the required capital to start the nanobrewery?\nCB: We started all of this for less than $25,000, which got us through the first six months of operations (plus revenues generated during that time). That was the whole plan. Start as cheaply as humanly possible and see if the demand was there, and if we could do it. Then, by necessity, we would have to expand if we did find we had the market.\nWhat we were doing was not really sustainable without some further investment. I can't stress that enough. There was so much sweat equity, and still will be for a time, that I simply could not keep producing beer of consistent quality using that system. The plastic fermenters alone are hard to clean, scratch easily, and probably have a limited number of ferments. Anyway, we got a small business loan from our local bank - who, like the rest of the community, have been very encouraging and happy for us to try this here.\nCB: Funny, I didn't mean to lead into this question but our community has literally embraced us with open arms. From the town council and the planning commission who had to approve microbrewery as a legitimate use for commercially zoned properties (the critical first step for any brewery), to our new landlord who simply wanted us in his building and helped us out with rent. Our fans/customers who don't mind a slightly undercarbonated growler fill (even though we replace/refund when something happens) due to us carbonating in kegs and being unable to sample each one. It is just unbelievable. I am starting to interact with local homebrewers. The nearest organized club is over an hour away so there is talk of starting one closer to home.\nThis is a good spot for my spin/take on all this. First, we are a very rural community. Washington county has about 40,000 people and Abingdon has about 8,000. The closest 'big' city is over two hours away and is still small by the nation's standards. The closest other brewery is over an hour away. We are in a below-average sophistication level area with respect to craft beer awareness. I see this as just being a function of the rural 'delay', where trends take longer to arrive. I often refer to our area as being in the early 90s stage of craft beer awareness. We, of course, see this as an opportunity. But, going back to the sophistication level, I am not saying our population is not sophisticated; in fact, we've found much greater interest than we ever imagined.\nThe problem is with distribution. We are in a 3-tier state and, in my mind, it simply isn't as worth it for distributors and breweries to send their beer here. We have largely been underestimated by the industry as to what beers we'll buy. I, personally, am offended that the perceived lack of potential sales limits the availability of beers we can purchase. It isn't fair. We deserve choices and so Wolf Hills, in some part, was established to provide this choice.\nAn example is the double IPA. It was on my radar as a homebrewer and the legendary status of these big California beers like Pliny the Elder. I simply could not easily purchase one locally. It was unavailable to me and my craft beer loving friends. So, like any good homebrewer, I made one. It was outstanding and fresh. Other people deserved access to this beer style in the condition it was meant to be consumed.\nPart 2 and Part 3 of our interview with Chris Burcher and Wolf Hills Brewing Company have also been posted.", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00240.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 138, + "original_length": 9314, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.98, + "perplexity": 292.8, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "http://www.madamegilflurt.com/2013/07/on-this-day-death-of-john-v-of-portugal.html", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T04:27:03Z", + "digest": "sha1:BMQUV2MHBUAXCHPTAKFTTKP2CT6ZSOVU", + "length": 4125, + "nlines": 13, + "source_domain": "www.madamegilflurt.com", + "title": "A Covent Garden Gilflurt's Guide to Life: Art, Antiquity and Absolutism: John V of Portugal", + "raw_content": "John V (Lisbon, Portugal, 22nd October 1689 \u2013 Lisbon, Portugal, 31st July 1750)\nJo\u00e3o Francisco Ant\u00f3nio Jos\u00e9 Bento Bernardo, affectionately known as, \"The Magnanimous\"\nJohn V of Portugal by Pompeo Batoni\nWe have spent a fair few days on the continent of late with stories of revolutionary France and Austria; let's continue our tour with a trip to Portugal, for an audience with John V, the Magnanimous, King of Portugal and the Algarves.\nWhen John was born to Peter II and Maria Sofia of Neuburg, the house of Braganza was already in crisis, with no male heirs to succeed to the throne. In fact John's birth would mark the start of a period of new fecundity for the king and queen, with seven children following after this newborn son, styled as Prince of York and 11th Duke of Braganza.\nJohn was 16 when his father died in 1706 and was proclaimed king on 1st January 1707; just one year later he married Archduchess and Princess Imperial Maria Anna of Austria, Princess Royal of Hungary and Bohemia, daughter of Leopold I, Holy Roman Emperor and his third wife, Eleonore Magdalena of the Palatinate-Neuburg. This was a shrewd tactical move, ensuring a strong alliance with Austria and flourishing connections in Europe including France and Spain.\nQueen Maria Anna of Portugal by Pompeo Batoni\nJohn was a gifted business strategist and achieved what so many of his contemporaries sought for, an absolute monarchy. Portuguese prospectors were growing rich on gold and diamonds mined in Brazil, a Portuguese colony, and John recognised the invaluable source of revenue this could provide. Taking a fifth of the spoils from the mines, the crown grew immensely wealthy and with that money came power, the monarch now absolute ruler of his domains and what rich domains they were!\nPortugal was raking in the sort of wealth that other kingdoms could only dream of and John set about spending the spoils of colonisation. He constructed enormous ornate palaces as grandiose proof of his financial clout and set about filling them with works of art, literature and antiquities. In addition to indulging his own love of the arts, John established Portugal as a strong and growing centre of manufacturing. Not content with this, he created seats of learning and education where, he hoped, his own love of art and antiquity would be passed to subsequent generation. A passionate follower of the art, literature and music, John amassed an enormous and priceless collection in Lisbon and, like so much of that same city, much of this was lost in 1755 when an earthquake struck, bring floods and fires that raged unchecked for days. It was a devastating blow to the cultural heritage of Portugal and one that would no doubt have broken the heart of the man who cared so much for the collection he had gathered from across the world, had he been alive to see it.\nWhen many other countries were actively pursuing aggressive expansion, John instead remained neutral in European conflicts and focussed his energies and his bribery skills on building a relationship with the Vatican. More than anything he was determined to win the recognition and support of the Pope for his absolutist policies, an ambition that was realised in 1748. After years of lobbying and negotiation, John was awarded the title of Most Faithful Majesty of Portugal by Pope Benedict XIV, a successful triumph at the end of a long campaign.\nJohn V of Portugal by Carlos Antonio Leoni\nHowever, all the wealth and privilege were of no help when John suffered a serious and debilitating stroke in 1742. Unable to return to his political duties he devoted himself to religion as the country, so dependent on his guidance, began to stumble. An absolute monarch is never popular amongst the ruling classes and with the King indisposed, the people of the nation became pawns in a game played by those who now jostled for influence. When he died in 1750, his son, Joseph, inherited a country in turmoil and passed the day to day running of it to Sebasti\u00e3o Jos\u00e9 de Carvalho e Melo, the Marquis of Pombal, a man we'll meet on another day.\nLabels: Batoni (artist), Portugal, Royalty", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00240.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 175, + "original_length": 8901, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.98, + "perplexity": 196.9, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "http://www.madebymikal.com/tag/combat/", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T03:55:51Z", + "digest": "sha1:RBP6PZVAGOW7S6YE3E5BN2SBKRI6Z4KN", + "length": 7278, + "nlines": 29, + "source_domain": "www.madebymikal.com", + "title": "combat \u2013 Made by Mikal", + "raw_content": "Monty: His Part in My Victory\nThis is the third book in Spike Milligan\u2019s war memoirs (volume 1; volume 2). Combat has now died down in Africa, and no one is ready to be shipped to a new field of combat yet. The troops are therefore getting bored. Suddenly the establishment recalls that Milligan can play the trumpet and the band reforms. Most of this book is spent being shuffled between army staging areas, and performing music. Regardless of little \u201chappening\u201d, still an engaging read.\nTitle: Monty: His Part in My Victory\nSeries: The War -- And Peace -- Memoirs\nPosted on March 17, 2016 April 16, 2018 Categories BookTags biography, combat, Spike_Milligan, ww2\nAt the end of the previous Spike Milligan war memoir, Spike and his comrades had just been packed up into a ship to start travelling to Africa to engage the Nazis. This book picks up straight from there are follows them from first arrival in Africa to their first experiences of combat. Spike fought in the Battle of Longstop Hill, where his artillery unit played a part in victory. Along the way Spike loses his first close friend to enemy fire.\nSpike has an amazing talent for taking a tough subject and making it interesting and light hearted. Its not disrespectful, but shows that there were moments of levity in difficult times. Much like the previous book this one was very readable and I enjoyed it.\nTitle: \"Rommel?\" \"Gunner Who?\"\nGenre: Authors, English\n'Keep talking, Milligan. I think I can get you out on Mental Grounds.''That's how I got in, sir.''Didn't we all.' The second volume of Spike Milligan's legendary recollections of life as a gunner in World War Two sees our hero into battle in North Africa - eventually. First, there is important preparation to be done: extensive periods of loitering ('We had been standing by vehicles for an hour and nothing had happened, but it happened frequently'), psychological toughening ('If a man dies when you hang him, keep hanging him until he gets used to it') and living dangerously ('no underwear!'). At last the battle for Tunis is upon them . . .\nAdolf Hitler: My Part in His Downfall\nThis is another book I read as a teenager and decided to re-read. Frankly, its great. Confused teenager signs up for the British Army (or is conscripted, its not totally clear) and ends up as an artillery gunner. Has hilarious adventures while managing to still be a scrawny nerd. I loved it. A light hearted look at a difficult topic.\nTitle: Adolf Hitler: My Part in his Downfall\nPosted on February 9, 2016 April 16, 2018 Categories BookTags biography, combat, Spike_Milligan, ww21 Comment on Adolf Hitler: My Part in His Downfall\nThe Chronicles of Old Guy\nI found this e-book on Amazon while randomly poking around and read it on a recent set of flights. It was of interest because if looked like another bolo tank book, of which I have read many over the years. That said, its not in strictly the same universe as the other bolo books, and seems more like unofficial fan fiction than something which maps into the universe seamlessly.\nThe book is competently written and readable. However, it regularly strays into what I would consider fantasy fiction (medieval warfare, vampires, battling Godzilla) in a way I found jarring and annoying. Overall I don\u2019t think I\u2019ll read the other books in this series.\nPosted on December 4, 2015 April 15, 2018 Categories BookTags ai, bolo, combat, Timothy_J_Gawne\nWritten by a Victoria Cross recipient, this is the true story of a messed up kid who made something of himself. Mark\u2019s dad died of cancer when he was young, and his mum was murdered. Mark then went through a period of being a burden on society, breaking windows for fun and generally being a pain in the butt. But then one day he decided to join the army\u2026\nThis book is very well written, and super readable. I enjoyed it a lot, and I think its an important lesson about how troubled teenagers are sometimes that way because of pain in their past, and can often still end up being a valued contributor to society. I have been recommending this book to pretty much everyone I meet since I started reading it.\nTitle: The Crossroad\nAuthor: Mark Donaldson\nGenre: Afghan War, 2001-\nOn 2 September 2008, in eastern Afghanistan, Trooper Mark Donaldson made a split-second decision that would change his life. His display of extraordinary courage saw him awarded the Victoria Cross for Australia, making him the first Australian to receive our highest award for bravery since 1969. Yet Mark's journey to those crucial moments was almost as exceptional as the acts that led to his VC. He was rebellious even before the death of his father in his mid-teens. A few years later, his mother disappeared, presumed murdered. Mark's lifestyle could have easily led him further down the path of self-destructiveness and petty crime. But he took a different road: the army. It proved to be his salvation. He found himself a natural soldier, progressing to the SAS, the peak of the Australian military.'One of the most impressive memoirs published by a serving member of the Australian military'WEEKEND AUSTRALIAN 'This is not some public relations puff piece, this is a heartfelt work by a substantial man' HERALD SUN'A mature and generous account, revealing of himself and Australia's longest war, still poorly understood at home' Chris Masters, SYDNEY MORNING HERALD'The transformation from zero to hero that Donaldson describes... is testament to what can be achieved through sheer determination' WEEKEND AUSTRALIAN\nPosted on August 8, 2015 April 17, 2018 Categories BookTags afghanistan, army, australia, biography, combat, Mark_Donaldson, sas\nI loved this book. The way the language works takes a little while to work out, but then blends into the background. The ideas here are new and interesting and I look forward to other work of Ann\u2019s. Very impressed with this book.\nTitle: Ancillary Justice\nThe record-breaking debut novel that won every major science fiction award in 2014, Ancillary Justice is the story of a warship trapped in a human body and her search for revenge. Ann Leckie is the first author to win the Arthur C. Clarke, the Nebula and the Hugo Award for Best Novel in the same year. They made me kill thousands, but I only have one target now. The Radch are conquerors to be feared - resist and they'll turn you into a 'corpse soldier' - one of an army of dead prisoners animated by a warship's AI mind. Whole planets are conquered by their own people. The colossal warship called The Justice of Toren has been destroyed - but one ship-possessed soldier has escaped the devastation. Used to controlling thousands of hands, thousands of mouths, The Justice now has only two hands, and one mouth with which to tell her tale. But one fragile, human body might just be enough to take revenge against those who destroyed her. 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Of greater concern are the 1,796,000 people in Arizona estimated to have prediabetes; without weight loss and moderate physical activity, 15-30% of this group will develop T2DM within the next five years. The medical cost of people with diabetes is approximately 2.3 times higher than those who do not have diabetes. Statistics from 2017 show that direct medical expenses for diagnosed diabetes in Arizona were estimated at $5.1 billion.\nThe proven benefits of lifestyle changes through diet, exercise, physical activity, and behavior modification are well documented yet critically underutilized for the management of T2DM and obesity. While implementation and patient compliance are primary barriers, behavioral interventions can minimize cost, improve quality of care, and enhance patient outcomes. Obesity, or being overweight, remains the number one risk factor for T2DM. In addition to lifestyle changes, there are now five FDA-approved anti-obesity drug classes and clinical practice guidelines that present evidence for their use, although barriers continue to exist in the prescription of these pharmacotherapies.\nCardiovascular disease is the leading cause of death in Arizona and the US. The link between cardiovascular, renal, and metabolic diseases in patients with T2DM is common, with an estimated 51% having \u22653 related cardio-renal-metabolic conditions. New approaches to the management of T2DM that address both glycemia and overlapping comorbidities can protect patients against heart and renal failure.\nThere is now a vast selection of drug classes, pharmacotherapies, and devices from which to choose when developing individualized treatment plans for patients with T2DM. Added to this armamentarium are new formulations and combinations of existing drugs. To continually improve T2DM management in practice, it is imperative that clinicians remain current on newly released clinical practice guidelines, recent treatment advances, updated indications, and the mechanisms of action for newer pharmacotherapies that offer innovative options to fine-tune treatment regimens, improve glucose control, and help patients meet their treatment goals.\nClinicians often lack knowledge of proper risk adjustment factor (RAF) scoring and which diabetes-related services, such as medical nutrition therapy and self-management education, are reimbursable through Medicare and private insurance. Recent changes in reimbursement policies stand to increase access to these services. In addition to office visits, diabetes supplies and medications, adjunct diabetes-related services are highly beneficial and should be considered as part of the care plan.\nThe 8th Annual Southwest Diabetes Symposium will present current information and evidence-based strategies on these topics. Clinicians will assess case studies using an interactive audience response system to increase knowledge, improve competence, and help facilitate change in performance and professional practice.\nCME Accreditation and Designation\nThis activity has been planned and implemented in accordance with the accreditation requirements and policies of the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) through the joint providership of St. Joseph\u2019s Hospital and Medical Center, and MandatoryCE. St. Joseph\u2019s Hospital and Medical Center is accredited by the ACCME to provide continuing medical education for physicians.\nSt. Joseph\u2019s Hospital and Medical Center designates this live activity for a maximum of 5.0 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits\u2122. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.\nAAFP CME Credit\nThis Live activity, 8th Annual Southwest Diabetes Symposium, from 03/16/2019 - 10/05/2019, has been reviewed and is acceptable for up to 5.00 Prescribed credit(s) by the American Academy of Family Physicians. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.\nThis continuing nursing education activity was approved by the Continuing Nursing Education Group, an accredited approver by the American Nurses Credentialing Center's Commission on Accreditation. (5.0 Contact Hours)\nCDR Credit\nThis activity has been approved by the Commission on Dietetic Registration for 5.0 CPEUs.\nACPE CPE Credit\nThe Arizona Pharmacy Association is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education as a provider of continuing pharmacy education. This program has been approved for up to 5.0 contact hours (0.50 CEUs) of continuing pharmacy education credit by the Arizona Pharmacy Association, an ACPE-approved provider.\nFaculty Bios and Disclosures\nRoberto Ruiz, MD, FACP\nDr. Ruiz is a Doctor of Internal Medicine, as well as a Board Certified Internal Medicine Specialist. He is Diplomat of the American Board of Internal Medicine and also a Fellow of the American College of Physicians. He operates his own practice; the Southwest Internal Medicine Group in Phoenix, Arizona. Dr. Ruiz has been awarded recognition the past three years by the National Committee for Quality Assurance NCQA, Diabetes Physician Recognition Program DPRP. He has also been awarded for the past three years by the National Committee for Quality Assurance NCQA, and the American Heart Association/American Stroke Association by the Heart/Stroke Recognition Program HSRP. Since July 2008 his practice has been awarded recognition as an accredited Echocardiography Laboratory by the Intersocietal Accreditation Commission (IAC).\nHe received his Doctor of Medicine at the Autonomous University of Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico 1975 to 1979 and did his Internship and Residency at Catholic Medical Center of Brooklyn, affiliated with Cornell Medical School. He has over 30 years professional experience as a Physician and is Executive Director of the Arizona Diabetes Foundation, DBA Southwest Diabetes and Obesity Consortium since 2007. He is presently an Adjunct Assistant Professor, Clinical Division, Midwestern University Arizona College of Osteopathic Medicine and serves on the Advisory Board of the College of Nursing, Grand Canyon University since 2005. In 2010 Dr. Ruiz accepted the position of Assistant Clinical Professor of Medicine for University of Arizona, College of Medicine-Phoenix Campus. In 2012, Dr. Ruiz accepted the position of Assistant Clinical Professor of Medicine at University of Creighton College of Medicine, Phoenix Campus.\nDisclosure: Roberto Ruiz, MD, FACP\nSpeakers Bureau: Janssen, Kowa, Merck\nConsultant: Novo Nordisk, AstraZeneca\nPhilip Levy, MD, MACE\nDr. Levy is a Clinical Professor of Medicine at the University of Arizona College of Medicine, and was past Chairman of the Section of Endocrinology and Metabolism at Banner University Medical Center in Phoenix, Arizona, as well as past Chief of Staff and past Chairman of Medicine. He is a practicing Endocrinologist with the Banner University Medical Group. He had practiced Clinical Endocrinology at Phoenix Endocrinology Clinic, LTD in Phoenix for more than 40 years. Dr. Levy graduated from the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine in Pittsburgh, PA. He completed his Internship, Internal Medicine Residency, and Fellowship in Metabolism and Endocrinology at Michael Reese Hospital and Medical Center in Chicago, Illinois. Dr. Levy was a Research Fellow in Endocrinology at Guy\u2019s Hospital Medical Center in London, England.\nDr. Levy served on the American Association of Clinical Endocrinologists (AACE) Board of Directors for six years, is past President of the American College of Endocrinology and was Editor-in-Chief of The First Messenger. He is past President and Founding Member of the Board of Directors of the Arizona Diabetes Association (ADA). Dr. Levy is an active member of AACE, American Medical Association and ADA in numerous capacities. He is a past member of The American Diabetes Association Board of Directors. He was also an Arizona Division of Motor Vehicles Medical Advisory Board Member, member of the Arizona Blue Shield, The Endocrine Society, American College of Physicians, Society of Nuclear Medicine, Arizona Medical Association, Clinical Endocrinology Editorial Board, and Endocrine Today Editorial Board. Dr. Levy is former Diabetes Forecast Editor-in-Chief and Clinical Diabetes Editorial Board Member. He is a past Editorial Board Member of Endocrine Practice. He is also a life member of the National Registry of Who\u2019s Who. He is a Senior Editor of Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism Case Reports.\nDr. Levy was presented the AACE Yank D. Coble, Jr., M.D., Distinguished Service Award in 2000 and the Master of the American College of Endocrinology Award in 2008. He recently was honored by the Arizona Chapter of AACE for his outstanding contributions to Endocrinology.\nDisclosure: Philip Levy, MD, MACE\nHonorarium and Speaker's Bureau: Janssen\nConsultant: Sanofi, Novo Nordisk\nW. Timothy Garvey, MD, FACE\nDr. Garvey is the Butterworth Professor of Medicine in the Department of Nutrition Sciences at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. He obtained his MD degree from St. Louis University, completed residency training in Internal Medicine at Barnes Hospital, Washington University, and was a clinical fellow in Endocrinology and Metabolism at the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center and University of California, San Diego School of Medicine. He subsequently held faculty posts at UAB, University of California San Diego School of Medicine, Indiana University School of Medicine, and Medical University of South Carolina where he directed the Endocrinology Division.\nDr. Garvey has achieved international recognition for his research in the metabolic, molecular, and genetic pathogenesis of insulin resistance, Type 2 Diabetes, and obesity. His studies have involved the cellular and molecular biology of cell and animal models, metabolic investigations of human subjects on metabolic research wards, and the genetic basis of diseases in Gullah-speaking African Americans. The Garvey laboratory has made important observations regarding the pathogenesis of human insulin resistance and has been a principle contributor to our understanding of the role of the glucose transport system and glucose transporter proteins. He has identified gene families that contribute to insulin resistance in human muscle insulin using cDNA microarray, e.g., NR4A orphan nuclear receptors and the tribbles gene family, and has elucidated the role of adiponectin in cardiometabolic disease. He has contributed to the training of clinicians, basic scientists, and physician scientists. Since 1987, his laboratory has been supported by the NIH, Department of Veterans Affairs, AHA, JDFI, ADA, and other agencies.\nDr. Garvey\u2019s career has been distinguished by a second impactful sphere of activity involving our understanding of obesity as a disease, and in advancing medical models to improve the care of patients with obesity. Dr. Garvey was the chief architect of the Complications-Centric Model for Care of the Overweight/Obese Patient. Much of his work in this area has occurred as a board member in the American Association of Clinical Endocrinologists and chair of the AACE Obesity Committee. Dr. Garvey was a lead author in the AACE Position Statement designating Obesity as a disease (Endocrine Practice 18:642, 2012); chair of the AACE Obesity Consensus Conference held in Washington DC in 2014; lead author on the evidence-based AACE obesity management guidelines (Endocr Pract. 22(7):842, 2016); and co-author of the new medical diagnostic term for obesity \u2013 Adiposity-Based Chronic Disease. This obesity treatment algorithm emphasizes the use of weight loss therapy to treat obesity-related complications as the primary goal of treatment, as opposed to reductions in BMI per se. Further, Dr. Garvey developed Cardiometabolic Disease Staging (Obesity 22:110, 2014) that allows clinicians to quantify risk for Type 2 Diabetes and cardiovascular disease mortality, when deciding upon the intensity of weight loss therapy for their patients. Thus, Dr. Garvey is a national leader in medical models for the management of obesity and diabetes prevention.\nDisclosure: W. Timothy Garvey, MD, FACE\nConsultant: BOYDSense, American Medical Group Association, Novo Nordisk, Merck, Gilead, AMGEN, Sanofi, Elevian\nGrant/Research Support: Merck, Sanofi, Pfizer, Novo Nordisk\nMajor Stockholder: ISIS, Pfizer, Lilly, Novartis, Bristol-Myers Squibb, Merck\nPablo Mora, MD, MSc, FACE, CDE\nDr. Mora completed his undergraduate and graduate medical education at the University of Costa Rica School of Medicine. He completed postgraduate studies in internal medicine at the University of Costa Rica and University Hospitals in San Jose, Costa Rica where he also completed a critical care fellowship. He then went on to complete a fellowship in endocrinology and metabolism at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas, Texas.\nAfter graduation, Dr. Mora worked as Internal Medicine Staff at Parkland Memorial Hospital in Dallas and in 2001, joined the University of Texas Southwestern Medical School faculty, where he remained until 2012 with the rank of Associate Professor of Medicine. He accepted a position as staff Endocrinologist with the Department of Endocrinology of the Cleveland Clinic in Weston, Florida until June 2013.\nCurrently, he is a practicing Endocrinologist with Dallas Diabetes Research Center at Medical City Dallas and holds an appointment as Clinical Professor of Medicine at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas, Texas.\nDr. Mora is a Certified Diabetes Educator and a fellow of the American College of Clinical Endocrinologists. His clinical interests include diabetes in special populations, post-transplantation diabetes, and modern insulin therapy.\nDisclosure: Pablo Mora, MD, MSc, FACE, CDE\nHonorarium/Expenses: Novo Nordisk\nConsultant: Novo Nordisk, Merck\nSpeaker\u2019s Bureau: Novo Nordisk, Merck, AstraZeneca, Janssen\nKrishnaswami Vijayaraghavan, MD, MS, FACC, FACP, FNLA, FHFSA\nDr. Vijay is the Medical Director of the Institute of Congestive Heart Failure at Abrazo Arizona Heart Institute and Hospital in Phoenix. He is a Non-invasive Cardiologist, a trained endocrinologist, clinical lipidologist, an ardent researcher and a Heart Failure specialist. He also holds a Master of Science degree in Clinical Research Design and Statistical Analysis from the University of Michigan.\nHe has been in clinical practice in Arizona for more than 27 years. Dr. Vijay is a past Governor of the American College of Cardiology, Arizona Chapter, Past President of the National Lipid Association, South West Chapter, current Executive Council Chair of National Lipid Association, a founding member and past President of the Cardio Renal Society of America and current President of the TWINEPIDEMIC, Inc., a nonprofit organization addressing Diabetes and Heart disease among Ethnic Communities all over the world. He is a Fellow of the American College of Cardiology, the American College of Physicians, National Lipid association and Heart Failure Society of America. He is a member of the clinical cardiology council as well as council for Atherosclerosis, Thrombosis and Vascular Biology at American Heart Association, a member of Prevention and Cardio-metabolic committee at American College of Cardiology and an Executive Board member of the National Lipid Association.\nDr. Vijay has participated in more than 180 clinical trials and his research is focused on such disorders as congestive heart failure, hypercholesterolemia, hypertension, coronary artery disease, plaque regression, Atrial Fibrillation, peripheral vascular disease and diabetes/metabolic syndrome. He has published numerous articles in peer reviewed journals. Dr. Vijay serves as a Clinical Professor of Medicine at University of Arizona, Phoenix and as an adjunct Professor of Medicine at Midwestern University Arizona College of Osteopathic Medicine (AZCOM).\nDr. Vijay is a founding member of the Arizona Managed Care Quality Enhancement Program (AMCQEP), 1992, and received the Governor\u2019s award from Health Services Advisory Group (HSAG), October 2002, an innovation award through the Center for Health Innovation and Clinical Trial (CHI&CT) at Arizona State University from the President of Arizona State University in 2010 and the Jerome Markowitz award for a distinguished career from South Asian Society of Atherosclerosis and Thrombosis in 2013. He was one of the three nominees of Healthcare Heroes award for Phoenix Business Journal towards Life time achievement in 2017.He received a Lifetime achievement award from American College of Cardiology, Arizona Chapter in 2018.\nHe has presented at numerous national and International meetings on diabetes and heart disease. His professional activities also include serving on Editorial Boards of medical journals, reviewing and contributing towards landmark guidelines and policy statements as well as serving on many important advisory boards dealing with Quality initiatives of national organizations.\nDisclosure: Krishnaswami Vijayaraghavan, MD, MS, FACC, FACP, FNLA, FHFSA\nHonorarium/Expenses: Novartis, Amgen, AstraZeneca, Novo Nordisk, Boehringer Ingelheim\nAdvisory Board: Boehringer Ingelheim, Amgen, AstraZeneca\nVirginia Valentine, APRN-CNS, BC-ADM, CDE, FAADE\nVirginia Valentine practices as a Diabetes Specialist with Clinica La Esperanza in Albuquerque managing a wide variety of clinical challenges in diabetes in a primary care group. She is also a volunteer clinician with Endo Echo with University of New Mexico. Project ECHO (Extension for Community Healthcare Outcomes) is a collaborative model of medical education and care management that empowers clinicians across New Mexico to provide better care to more people, right where they live. Ms. Valentine received her Master of Science in Nursing degree from the University of Oklahoma College of Nursing in Oklahoma City. She is board-certified in Advanced Diabetes Management and is a Certified Diabetes Educator.\nIn 2006, the American Association of Diabetes Educators recognized Ms. Valentine with its Distinguished Service Award and awarded her Fellow status in 2010. In addition to providing clinical management in a primary care practice, Ms. Valentine is a member of the Advanced Practice Advisory Board for the New Mexico Board of Nursing, served on editorial board for Clinical Diabetes, an American Diabetes Association Journal and is a member of international advisory editorial board for Canadian Diabetes Journal. She is on the Advisory Board for Diatribe and US Endocrine. She serves as an advisor to many pharmaceutical and diabetes product companies. Ms. Valentine is the author of the book Diabetes, the New Type 2, a contributor to The Art and Science of Diabetes Self-Management Education Desk Reference 4th edition 2017, as well as articles in various journals including Clinical Diabetes, Diabetes Spectrum, Disease Management, and The Diabetes Educator and Clinical Endocrinology News. She has been living well with type 2 diabetes for over 35 years.\nDisclosure: Virginia Valentine, APRN, BC-ADM, CDE, FAADE\nConsultant: Abbott, Adocia, AstraZeneca, CapBio, CeQur, Intarcia, Janssen, Lexicon, Lilly, Novo Nordisk, Sanofi, Xeris\nSpeakers Bureau: AstraZeneca, Lilly, Janssen, Novo Nordisk\nMary Ann Hodorowicz, RD, MBA, CDE\nMary Ann Hodorowicz is a nationally recognized registered dietitian/nutritionist, certified diabetes educator and certified endocrinology coder with a MBA degree. She applies nearly forty years of experience in her work as a consultant, writer, speaker and trainer within her business Mary Ann Hodorowicz Consulting, LLC. Mary Ann is known for her expertise in diabetes care, medical nutrition therapy (MNT), diabetes self-management education and support (DSMES), diabetes prevention and related diabetes services. She is especially known for her knowledge on insurance reimbursement, coding and coverage guidelines for these interventions, including remote patient monitoring, chronic care management, continuous glucose management, shared medical appointments and obesity therapy. Her clients are in the health, food, pharmaceutical and insurance industries, and include CMS, the CDC, AADE, and multiple state and local departments of public health. Mary Ann has given over 600 presentations, webinars and live training engagements, at which she generously shares her wide array of practice resources. She has written numerous articles in peer-reviewed journals, authored continuing education online modules for AADE, and is a contributing or lead author for multiple toolkits, fact sheets and \u2018how-to\u2019 guides for nutrition and diabetes care professionals on the subjects of insurance reimbursement and creating effective business plans for the sustainability of their services.\nDisclosure: Mary Ann Hodorowicz, RD, MBA, CDE\nThe following Planning Committee Members have stated they have nothing to disclose:\nRichard Vanderpool, CHCP\nVeronica Baez\nChristine Crowder, MD\nKatherine Jorgensen, MSN/MBA, RN-BC, RNC-NIC, Hon.D\nSpecial Needs and ADA Compliance\nPersons with special needs or a disability may request a reasonable accommodation, such as a dietary choices, sign language interpreter, etc., by contacting Richard Vanderpool at 888-YourCE1 (888-968-7231) or richard@mandatoryce.com. Requests should be made as early as possible to allow time to arrange the accommodation.", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00240.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 147, + "original_length": 26566, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.93, + "perplexity": 191.7, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "http://www.mangaloretoday.com/gulfnews/Thumbay-Hospital-Hyderabad-Organizes-Organ-Donation-Awareness-Campaign-.html", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T03:39:18Z", + "digest": "sha1:P5HFECGKNEPBIZ2GC7HI7MIG55N3FIAO", + "length": 2501, + "nlines": 8, + "source_domain": "www.mangaloretoday.com", + "title": "Thumbay Hospital Hyderabad Organizes \u2018Organ Donation Awareness Campaign\u2019", + "raw_content": "Thumbay Hospital Hyderabad Organizes \u2018Organ Donation Awareness Campaign\u2019\nThumbay, Aug 15, 2016: Thumbay Hospital New Life \u2013 Hyderabad, part of the Thumbay Hospital network owned and operated by the Healthcare Division of Thumbay Group UAE, organized an \u2018Organ Donation Awareness Campaign\u2019 at the hospital on Saturday, 13th August 2016.\nThe program was organized as part of the nationwide\u2018Organ Donation Day\u2019, with the aim of spreading awareness about organ donation and associated topics. The highlight of the event was an informative presentation on organ donation by Dr. G. Swarnalatha, in-charge and organ transplantation coordinator of Telengana State. The presentation touched upon the basic aspects of organ donation, the importance and need for it, the procedureetc.\nAround 200 people, including prospective recipients and their attendants attended the program.\nAttendees also learned about the \u2018green corridor\u2019 with regard to organ transplant as well as the other important issues related to transplantation, such as the need for the organ to reach the transplant center safely, the low shelf-life of the organ etc.\nIn addition to Thumbay Hospital \u2013 Hyderabad, the healthcare division of Thumbay Group operates four teaching hospitals in the UAE (in the Emirates of Ajman, Dubai, Fujairah and Sharjah). These hospitals offer medical care to patients from around 175 different nationalities. Services are offered in over 50 languages, by well-qualified and experienced doctors, nurses and staff. Thumbay Hospitals have world-class infrastructure, and incorporate the latest technologies in healthcare.\nAccording to Mr. ThumbayMoideen, founder president of Thumbay Group, the group would be investing to the tune of 1500 crore rupees as part of the expansion plans in India. \u201cWe have plans to open Thumbay Hospitals in all major metros in India. This is in addition to our upcoming projects in the GCC region and Africa. 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Announces Resignation from the Board of Directors\nBRAMPTON, ONTARIO--(Marketwire - May 30, 2012) - Atlantis Systems Corp. (NEX:AIQ.H) (the \"Corporation\"), a globally recognized training integrator in the military and commercial aviation markets, today announced that Aidan Kehoe has resigned as a director of the Corporation.\nIn his letter to the Corporation's Board of Directors (the \"Board\"), Mr. Kehoe said that the responsibilities of his other ventures have become extremely demanding, and it has become very difficult to commit the necessary time and attention to the Board.\n\"We would like to thank Aidan for his service to the Corporation's Board\", said David Williams, Chairman of the Board.\nAbout Atlantis Systems Corp.\nAtlantis Systems (NEX:AIQ.H) uses its core capabilities in simulation-aided design and engineering and e-learning, combined with various technology tools, to help customers in military aviation and civil aviation ensure the feasibility, capability, and effective utilization of their complex assets. In more than 30 years of operation, Atlantis has developed a solid reputation for its creative workforce and innovative solutions in supporting global OEM customers and defence organizations. 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The front of the bus was destroyed, but the semi didn\u2019t have as much damage. The photos from just a few days ago show how the top of the bus had been ripped off, mostly likely to extract victims, and the trailer had been removed from the truck while debris littered the area. The destruction was truly devastating.\nOn Wednesday, the death toll reached 16 with an initial survivor dying. Those victims include 10 players, two coaches, the team statistician, the play-by-play radio announcer, an athletic therapist and the team bus driver. About a dozen others were injured and one for sure is paralyzed.\nTragedies happen in sports frequently, but it\u2019s hard to find one that can surpass this. The plane crash involving the Marshall football team back in the 1970s is the only one that immediately comes to mind.\nFamilies of the deceased along with the town itself are hurting badly now, and it will take years for the pain to lessen, but the hockey world is doing to what it can to assist them.\nA GoFundMe online campaign for the team had 81,000 people contribute and raised almost $5.8 million ($7.3 million Canadian) as of Tuesday.\nMajor hockey-related businesses like Bauer, along with NHL franchises and players, have also contributed thousands of dollars to the page. Other Canadian junior hockey teams gave money, while a PeeWee team gave its leftover fundraising efforts, which was more than $3,000 Canadian.\nOthers have decided to donate an even more precious product, their organs. One of the players who died in the crash, Logan Boulet, was an organ donor and his donation will help six people extend their lives.\nThis has helped lead to a massive increase in organ donation across Canada with many saying that Boulet\u2019s choice to donate was the reason they decided to do the same.\nMost of the hockey world in North America has decided to do something simpler, but perhaps more symbolic, to show their support. Teams, players, coaches, parents or just regular fans of the sport have been leaving their porch lights on and placing hockey sticks outside their front door as a way to show solidarity with the city of Humboldt and to help out the players in case they \u201cneed it.\u201d\nSome people place one or two sticks out front and others four or five. Big programs like the Northern Michigan University hockey team have placed 15 in its locker room in honor of the (at the time) 15 who died, including a whistle and board for head coach Darcy Haugan, a former Wildcat skater.\nSome of the sticks on the porches are brand new, while some are dinged up and showing their age. Goalie sticks also stand proudly outside houses in addition to normal ones, and it\u2019s not just sticks either.\nSome people have placed headsets or microphones in honor of broadcaster Tyler Bieber or pens and paper for statistician Brody Hinz or athletic tape and bandage scissors for athletic therapist Dayna Brons. The light then glistens off the sticks or items as a way of penetrating the darkness created by the tragedy.\nThe pain of the Humboldt crash is still fresh and the victims of the crash will probably be remembered throughout the Stanley Cup playoffs as they were at the Frozen Four last weekend.\nIt\u2019s hard to imagine anything that could help turn things around for the people most affected by the tragedy, but sometimes the smallest gesture can help, even when you don\u2019t think it will have an effect.\nThe hockey world has come together after this horrible event and its solidarity is not only impressive, but beautiful.\nHopefully the Broncos will not be forgotten and the brotherhood that this tragedy helped enhance will not diminish any time soon.\nSo keep leaving your sticks on the porch. 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Available at the Valentino boutiques in Rome, Milan and Florence.\nIn addition to this day of celebrations, concerts of the Bresstheme band composted by brass and percussions - will be held on the 9th, 15th, 22nd and 29th of December at 5.30pm in Piazza Mignanelli, next to the Christmas Tree.\n#ValentinoPerRoma: is the hashtag that identifies this event and has been conceived in order to create by word of mouth, inviting all to meet, play and sing and to share the joy of this festive period.", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00240.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 313, + "original_length": 10677, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.92, + "perplexity": 323.7, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "http://www.mydailyrecord.com/stories/mcdonalds-opens-with-a-fresh-look,36835", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T04:26:07Z", + "digest": "sha1:SOLZXRWR444MJOIXEU73ZAB3NA4JH4NE", + "length": 3423, + "nlines": 22, + "source_domain": "www.mydailyrecord.com", + "title": "McDonald\u2019s opens with a fresh look | The Daily Record", + "raw_content": "McDonald\u2019s opens with a fresh look\nCan order at kiosk and food will be brought to you\nMcDonald's of Dunn owner Tom Haynie shows how to use a new ordering kiosk at this West Cumberland Street store. The kiosk is part of renovations that have taken place at the store. Customers who use the kiosks will receive on order tent like the ones shown at left that will help employees locate customers.\nVisitors to Dunn\u2019s westside McDonald\u2019s have noticed major changes inside the store following a complete renovation of the interior.\nThe lobby of the McDonald\u2019s on West Cumberland Street re-opened last week after a period where it was closed to accommodate crews working inside the building. The drive-thru remained open during that time.\nThose coming back to the store noticed major changes, mostly to the lobby area. Much of the flooring, walls and other interior decor in the building are now different.\nThe biggest difference is the new playground equipment which will welcome young children to the store when it opens. The lobby is open, but the playground was not at the time of this report.\nThe store\u2019s owner, Tom Haynie, said the renovations follow the recommendation of the McDonald\u2019s national corporation.\n\u201cThey suggest stores renovate every 10 years,\u201d Mr. Haynie said. \u201cThe last time we changed this store was in 2007. It became decision-making time and we decided it was time to do something.\u201d\nThe new renovation is part of McDonald\u2019s \u201cBigger, Bolder 2020\u201d movement taking place at stores across the country.\nThe playground will be a big draw, according to Mr. Haynie.\n\u201cIt will be a traffic generator for young parents,\u201d Mr. Haynie said.\nA unique feature of the playground is that it is large enough for adults to get inside.\n\u201cIf a child gets scared or gets stuck, the parents will be able to reach them,\u201d Mr. Haynie said.\nAnother main feature of the store will be what company leaders call order-and-pay kiosks. Customers can personally order at the kiosks and pay with their debit or credit card. They can then pick up their food at the counter. They can also order at the kiosks and pay with cash at the registers. Mr. Haynie said the new kiosks aren\u2019t installed to replace employees. Customers do not have to order at the kiosks.\n\u201cThis is not about getting rid of employees,\u201d Mr. Haynie said. \u201cIt is about better service for our customers.\u201d\nThere will be no major employee changes at the Dunn store as a result of the renovations.\nMr. Haynie said research has proven that customers spend approximately $1.03 more on items when they order from kiosks as compared to traditional ordering at cash registers.\nCustomers who order at the kiosks will receive an order tent featuring a small GPS device inside it that they can place on their table. That will allow employees to easily find them when their orders are complete. The new store is divided into zones which will quicken the process.\nThe store is a total of 5,900 square feet. The work completed includes new floors, ceilings, walls and new tinted windows. There are more than 100 seats in the new store.\nThe store is designed for what Mr. Haynie described as \u201cease of walking.\u201d That includes adequate space for handicapped customers. That space will be compliant with all Americans with Disabilities Act standards.\nCustomers will also notice three new 55-inch televisions inside the store. 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All opinions are 100% mine.\nBeing a new college student is a wild ride. For those of us that decide to go away for school, that can be even wilder. We\u2019re thrown into a quasi adulthood where we have to be mindful of how we manage our time all the while remaining carefree. Add to that the emotions of being homesick, trying to find the right major and stressing out about grades and it can be a recipe for disaster. Especially when someone may just not be ready for the pressures of college life but doesn\u2019t wan to jump into the workforce just yet. Or who knows that trying that isn\u2019t a good idea.\nWhen I went away to school for my freshman year I had no idea what I was in for. I had never been without a single member of my family for 18 years and it was scarier than I thought it would be. I was also brought up with education at the forefront of everything so it was only natural that I would go to college but I wasn\u2019t emotionally ready for it. In high school I didn\u2019t have tons of friends, I wasn\u2019t able to hang out late, if at all, and I was pretty much sheltered from all the \u2018bad things\u2019. Imagine what my first weekend in college was like! It was like lord of the flies and parties became my #1 priority. Thankfully my first semester grades gave me a wakeup call and I cleaned up my act after that.\nBut there are a lot of people that don\u2019t and end up dropping out after one semester, or even a year of college, because they weren\u2019t ready for it. And if they\u2019re like a lot the people that I went to school with, including myself, the only way school was paid for was by taking out loans. Imagine going to college for one, two or even three semesters and finding out that it just isn\u2019t for you right now. You\u2019re stuck not only having to support yourself in the \u2018real world\u2019 but you also have to pay back loans for tuition and room and board that wasn\u2019t beneficial.\nI\u2019ve never heard of this before, but there\u2019s actually something called Allianz Tuition Insurance where you can be reimbursed for non-refundable tuition expenses-- with a few caveats of course. Allianz has three different plans with coverages that range from having to leave or take a semester off of school due to an illness to complete withdrawal for any unforeseen reason. It\u2019s pretty cool considering the fact that we\u2019re used to paying insurance premiums for those what-if moments in life that would be detrimental to our finances if they happened.\nI think it's worth checking out for parents sending their kids to college, or someone paying for it themselves. It's nice to have piece of mind and have one less thing to worry about if things don't go according to plan as someone starts a new and exciting chapter of their lives.", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00240.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 28, + "original_length": 5969, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.98, + "perplexity": 226.3, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "http://www.myndstory.com/storiesblog/2016/6/3/an-east-coast-account", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T03:43:02Z", + "digest": "sha1:F3Q7ACSINIGQWMFCRA52KCAIKNJRWWDX", + "length": 2569, + "nlines": 9, + "source_domain": "www.myndstory.com", + "title": "An East Coast Account \u2014 My North Dakota Story", + "raw_content": "By Karen M. Cunningham-Anderson\nI have never lived in North Dakota. However, your state plays a prominent part of my very being.\nMy paternal grandmother Juleen's (Hanson) family settled in Steele, ND back in the early 1900s. My father, Michael grew up in Steele, ND and did a brief stint in Washburn where some of my paternal Grandfather's (Cunningham) family lived. Land owners, dairy farmers, linemen, merchants, newspaper magnates, and sheriffs are just some of the jobs my Hanson and Cunningham family members have held over the decades from Kidder County to LaMoure County and several places in-between.\nMy dad left ND as a teenager and after a tour overseas with the Army, he eventually made his way to Cambridge, Massachusetts, where my mother hails from. Although my parents decided to settle in Massachusetts, I am so thankfully that my father's family members stayed in ND, otherwise I would have never been able to experience all that is North Dakota, or fall in love with its beauty and grandeur.\nAs a child of the 70's growing up on the east coast, each time I came back from visiting my ND family my schoolmates would just be in awe. \"Its soooo far away\", they'd say...'tell us about the wind that never stops, tell us how many trees you saw, and how many buffalo!'. My parents has no qualms about pulling me and my brother out of school on a random, non-school-vacation week to go visit Grandpa and Grandma Cunningham in Bismarck. In fact they did that every year. Sometimes twice.\nEach time I came back to class, my teacher would have me give a little 'impromptu' symposium on what I did, what I saw and what it was like out there; from meeting Indian Chiefs at the the Indian Mounds in Mandan and exploring Ft. Lincoln to what was on display at the Bismarck Heritage Museum, and the history of the Garrison Dam. I distinctly remember actually writing a report upon my return to the third grade that included my day at the Bismarck Zoo with Clyde the Bear. Pictures and all.\nFrom pitchfork fondues and musicals in Medora, hiking in the Theodore Roosevelt National Park, to camping at Devil's Lake, socializing at the Steele/Dawson All Class Reunions and picnicking out on the Missouri River sandbars in Bismarck with my Uncles and cousins, I have as much pride and affinity for the state of North Dakota as any native North Dakotan.\nI am extremely proud to know it. 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In 2001 he began his martial arts career with Grandmaster Don Madden (founder of the American Karate and Jujitsu Union \u2013 AKJU and former TeamUSA head coach). At only 14 Alan began teaching and competing. Under the banner of the AKJU, Alan has traveled, fought and taught in over four countries, representing Team America. His successes even earned him induction into the Eastern USA Martial Arts Hall of Fame.\nAlan has dedicated his life to the pursuits and studies of yoga and the martial arts. Studying in over six styles of martial art and numerous yogic styles, he is known for his unique understanding, compassion, and deep philosophic connection to the roots and traditions he has studied.\nIn 2011 Alan Burgess first began teaching internationally, working with instructors and trainers in Thailand, China and the Philippines. Since then his studies have broadened to include personal training, weight lifting and an integrated style of total body fitness. By including internal martial arts and yogic practices with the functional strength of resistance training Alan has a broad spectrum of knowledge.\nSince joining PTI in August of 2013 Alan has been hard at work helping clients achieve weight loss goals, while improving the strength, flexibility and, balance of his clients. Alan is certified through the NSCA and TPI.\n\u201cWe are where we are today. Our goal is to go just a little bit farther and achieve our growth.\u201d\nCredentials: NSCA\nLocation: Performance Training, INC\nAddress: 6616 Deane Hill Drive, Knoxville, TN 37919, United States\nWebsite: http://performancetraininginc.com/tpi-certified-golf-fitness/", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00240.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 91, + "original_length": 3033, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.97, + "perplexity": 338.6, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "http://www.naba.org.uk/Content/articles/Views/606_McRoy_Legacy_of_Zarqawi.htm", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T04:16:43Z", + "digest": "sha1:FHPYOMSU25AV4UKAFLYIHGZHO5YFFBXW", + "length": 9551, + "nlines": 13, + "source_domain": "www.naba.org.uk", + "title": "The legacy of Zarqawi by Dr Anthony McRoy", + "raw_content": "The legacy of Zarqawi\nIf there is a name that inspired as much fear and loathing among Americans as that of Usama bin Laden, it was that of the Jordanian jihadi Abu Musab al-Zarqawi. Among radicals \u2013 and one supposes, many others - Zarqawi became an icon equivalent to that of Che Guevara among Leftists in the 1960s and \u201970s. Just as Che\u2019s death paradoxically escalated this adoration, so it is likely that Zarqawi\u2019s standing now that he has been \u2018martyred\u2019 will reach new heights.\nThis is a major difference with Che \u2013 an atheist \u2018martyr\u2019 could never invoke the same eagerness to emulation as a religious figure whose abiding personal aim in life was in fact martyrdom itself. Although some movements fold after the imprisonment or assassination of their leader, other historical examples present a different picture; the French capture of Ben Bella during the Algerian freedom struggle did not decapitate the FLN, nor has Israeli assassination of Hezbollah and Hamas leaders dented their groups. Since Zarqawi\u2019s \u2018martyrdom\u2019, Al-Qaida have effected new attacks against both \u2018collaborators and US soldiers. Continued, ruthless resistance is likely to be part of Zarqawi\u2019s legacy. We know that America did not adequately plan for the problems of post-war Iraq; they certainly didn\u2019t anticipate coping with Zarqawi! As he and his network played such a major role in the Iraq debacle, it is appropriate to examine his legacy.\nIn regard to his aims, they followed much the same as other radicals \u2013 the expulsion of Western forces, the overthrow of \u2018puppet\u2019 rulers, the restoration of the caliphate. Zarqawi, unlike bin Laden, historically placed the stress on first overthrowing Muslim governments, and then addressing US dominance. This put him at odds with bin Laden\u2019s emphasis, which first targets the US before addressing internal Middle East issues. At any rate, the immediate goal \u2013 driving \u2013away the US and its allies from Iraq, which will make it difficult for America to invade other countries, fitted into both agendas. Zarqawi showed great flexibility and even humility in being willing to submit himself to work in tandem, and even under, others, whether it be bin Laden or in conjunction with other Sunni Iraqi resistance groups. This greatly aided his jihad. His abiding legacy will be the laboratory demonstration of Sunni resistance against America which, ironically, parallels that of the Shia resistance movement Hezbollah in Lebanon, although the latter tended to be less gruesome.\nThis leads us on to a major facet of Zarqawi\u2019s strategy - ruthlessness. There were no half-measures with him. He played for keeps and did whatever it took to win. Whether it be decapitating Westerners and \u2018collaborators\u2019, bombing churches, attacking Shia, he showed no compunction in using the most extreme and shocking measures. One has to go back to the FLN campaign in 1950s colonial Algeria (or possibly to the GIA campaign there in the 1990s) to find something analogous. All non-Muslims were seen as legitimate targets. Of course, in Zarqawi\u2019s view, the Shia qualified as non-Muslims, and anyone collaborating with the Occupation and what he saw as its puppet government was viewed as apostate, and thus worthy of execution \u2013 and Zarqawi showed himself to be more than willing to effect this sentence.\nAs we have seen from Abu Ghraib the Haditha massacre and the razing of Fallujah, the Occupation forces are not short on ruthlessness themselves, but public opinion is at least some restraint on them. No such checks existed on Zarqawi. He demonstrated himself to be impervious to condemnation. This being the case, he had an edge on the Occupation Army \u2013 his ruthlessness surpassed even that of the Abu Ghraib abusers. His attacks on \u2018apostates\u2019, especially in the police force, were not only theologically-motivated; they destabilised the Iraqi government, since the authorities relied on native security forces, but the attacks on the police discouraged recruitment and encouraged defection - at least running away \u2013 if the situation got too hot. The legacy of ruthlessness continues with reports that two US soldiers have been slaughtered by Al-Qaida \u2013 apparently tortured, and according to Iraqi army sources, \u2018killed in a barbaric way\u2019. Al-Qaida claimed that their new leader in Iraq, Al-Muhajir, had cut the throats of the US soldiers.\nZarqawi\u2019s legacy will also be sectarian warfare \u2013the targeting of Christians and Shia. His communiqu\u00e9s referred to Christians in derogatory fashion as \u2018Cross-worshippers\u2019. Al-Qaida usually referred to \u2018Crusaders\u2019, placing the emphasis on the actions of certain Westerners, and demonstrated an understanding that most Westerners are at best nominal Christians. Zarqawi, however, placed the emphasis on the beliefs of professing Christians, and saw their faith as sufficient reason to attack them. Equally, he used the derogatory terms \u2018Rafidis\u2019 and \u2018Batinis\u2019 for Shia. Of course, Zarqawi probably over-estimated the response from Westerners. Attacking Arab churches did not and would not lead to America quitting Iraq; since Western leaders never expressed any concern for the plight of Palestinian Christians, why should they care about Iraqi believers either? All it accomplished was to speed the Christian exodus from Iraq.\nThis sectarian animosity had a practical role in his strategy. America succumbed to playing the communal card in order to divide the insurgency. By empowering the Kurds and Shia, the Sunnis lost their traditional dominance. This was a godsend for Zarqawi, who was able to use his anti-Shia message to provoke sectarian conflict. By targeting Shia the aim would appeared to be to cause instability and civil war, making the country ungovernable, and provoking such disgust and despair in America that the US electorate would demand withdrawal. This strategy eventually bore fruit as Shi\u2019ites retaliated against Sunnis. Similarly, recent polls indicate that most Americans now oppose the Iraq misadventure. American popular disenchantment with Iraq will be one aspect of Zarqawi\u2019s legacy.\nAs with Al-Qaida, Zarqawi employed \u2018shock and awe\u2019 tactics to demoralise the foe. This involved dressing hostages in orange suits like the Guantanamo captives, filming them begging for mercy, which pulled the heart-strings of loved ones, and then \u2013 perhaps Zarqawi\u2019s most terrifying innovation \u2013 beheading them on video. Moreover, his timing was brilliant: the first decapitation occurred immediately after the Abu Ghraib scandal broke. Again, this showed that his ruthlessness could surpass that of the Occupiers. It also taunted the Occupiers by demonstrating their impotence \u2013 to use an ironic analogy, the words of Ayatollah Khomeini after the Iranian Revolution \u2013 \u2018America can\u2019t do a d*** thing!\u2019 After all, one US justification for invading Iraq was that it would make Americans and Westerners safer; Zarqawi\u2019s tactics proved that the opposite was true. Another aspect of Zarqawi\u2019s legacy is likely to increase Western popular opposition to any further invasions and occupations of Muslim countries (though this does not rule out air strikes).\nPR, paradoxically, was one of Zarqawi\u2019s strengths. Perhaps the greatest example of this is when he changed the name of his guerrilla group from \u2018Tawhid wal Jihad\u2019 (\u2018Monotheism and Sacred Struggle\u2019) to \u2018Al-Qaida in the Land of the Two Rivers\u2019, and swore allegiance to bin Laden. Immediately this capitalised on the respect Al-Qaida held as the only force ever to have bloodied America on its home soil. It also immediately linked Zarqawi\u2019s group with an international network. Further, it neatly humiliated American government claims that by overthrowing Saddam they were eradicating Al-Qaida; the reverse is the case \u2013 the US invasion gave Al-Qaida its greatest ever boost.\nAl-Qaida is not simply an organisation, it is a strategy, an idea. It is a diffuse network, aiming at encouraging others to follow its example. Post-Saddam Iraq is the greatest stage where this example has been imitated. Just as the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan created a jihadi international out of which Al-Qaida emerged, so Iraq is doing the same for the next generation of jihadis. Afghanistan may have had a few Al-Qaida training camps, but Iraq has something greater \u2013 battle training in urban insurgency against American security forces. Compared to Afghanistan, Iraq is relatively urbanised. Unlike Afghanistan, Iraq has the presence of the enemy \u2013 the US military. Zarqawi\u2019s group gained first-hand familiarity with how US forces operate, what their tactics are, what are their strengths and weaknesses, how they respond to \u2018martyrdom operations\u2019, how they defend a secure area like the Green Zone and how this can be breached \u2013 as Zarqawi accomplished.\nPerhaps that is the greatest condemnation of the invasion of Iraq \u2013 it created the very thing it was supposed to eradicate. The next time \u2018martyrs\u2019 attack London, or even New York, the people to blame will not only be the mujahideen themselves, nor even just Al-Qaida, but the Neo-Cons and their British lackeys whose deceit and aggression in Iraq allowed Al-Qaida to regroup, win new members and supporters, and gain immediate experience of fighting US security forces in order to both recruit and train the next wave of would-be martyrs to penetrate America and carry-out the next 9/11 or 7/7. Indeed, 10/11 and 8/7 when they happen may well be the greatest legacy of Zarqawi.\nhttp://www.themuslimweekly.com/fullstoryview.aspx?NewsID=40336F9421B392F054915210&MENUID=REFLECTION&DESCRIPTION=Reflections", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00240.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 16, + "original_length": 9780, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.96, + "perplexity": 300.7, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "http://www.naifarbman.com/agents/david-farbman", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T04:24:23Z", + "digest": "sha1:4SN5FU5QNSJYEQ2IN4UK3NWJ3DQOQEWQ", + "length": 747, + "nlines": 3, + "source_domain": "www.naifarbman.com", + "title": "NAI Farbman Headquarters - David Farbman", + "raw_content": "dfarbman@farbman.com\nDavid S. Farbman has sparked some of the companies' most successful projects to date. David initiated the first condominium conversion in the city of Detroit in the past twenty-five years and has been active in the restoration of several historic buildings in the City of Detroit, including but not limited to that of the Garden Court Apartments, 200 River Place, The Healy, Beck and Ferguson buildings and Gramont Manor. 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He has pledged to get rid of corruption and other social vices. He has also warned Nigerians that they too must change their attitudes. 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Most recently, the Knights went on a run of five consecutive state championships from 2009-2013, but after a scarce turnout during this past off-season, the school considered a major change.\nEight-man football was seen as a strong possibility for the program, due to the low participation number. It\u2019s a move that a handful of private schools in Virginia have already made. When this idea was pitched to the players, many objected and hoped for a way to avoid the change.\nThat\u2019s where new head coach Shawn Pickett came in. Pickett, who has also been an assistant coach at King William, went to work. The new head Knight focused on building relationships with his players, and then tried to recruit other seniors at the school to play football. With a little help from his team, it worked, and eleven-man traditional football remained on campus.\n\u201cOf the 14 seniors, I think eight or nine have never even played before,\u201d said Pickett.\nHe and his staff immediately went to work cramming a lifetime of football knowledge into a few short weeks and got everybody as up to speed as possible.\nIt\u2019s working, as the Knights are not just playing-- they\u2019re playing well. Blessed Sacrament is out to a 4-1 start and has its eyes on a possible VISAA state championship next month. The seniors, now affectionately known as the \u201cGroup of 14,\u201d have done their part to save football as it was known at the school.\nPickett says that the numbers now suggest that making a change to football is something the school will not have to worry about for quite some time. As for this year\u2019s seniors, they will leave the field at the end of the season realizing that they made an impact on the program\u2019s long-term future.\nBlessed Sacrament is back home this Friday, hosting Chincoteague at 7:00.", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00240.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 124, + "original_length": 4333, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.98, + "perplexity": 231.2, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "http://www.nebraskastatesoccer.org/programs/alliance_4_all__sportsmanship/", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T03:44:56Z", + "digest": "sha1:XNG7ZTOLXG5T7FQ2RUD7IR4HPEYGLSLL", + "length": 1177, + "nlines": 7, + "source_domain": "www.nebraskastatesoccer.org", + "title": "Alliance 4 All - Sportsmanship | Nebraska State Soccer", + "raw_content": "Brought to you by the Iowa Soccer Association, Kansas Youth Soccer and Nebraska State Soccer\nAlliance 4 All is a program designed to bring coaches, players, parents and referees together to practice better sportsmanship. Each of the four educational modules includes an\noverview of what contributes to poor sportsmanship, and provides strategies for improving it. The modules will be reinforced by tools such as referee and coach training, required viewing\nby parents and players, a commitment to one\u2019s respective code of conduct and most importantly, the expectation that the \u201c4\u201d groups will work together to practice better sportsmanship.\nWe encourage you to be engaged with the other participants in practicing better sportsmanship. A great way to start is to view the other three modules and take a look at their Codes of Conduct, which should help you gain insight into how you can support their efforts.\nPlease watch the following short presentations. At the end of the presentation you will be redirected to the Code of Conduct forms to be signed.\nThank you for your pledge to practice better sportsmanship and, in turn, improve the atmosphere around the game of soccer.", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00240.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 131, + "original_length": 3690, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.95, + "perplexity": 270.2, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "http://www.nesa-center.org/positive-trends-in-the-relationship-between-africa-and-the-arab-world/", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T04:23:02Z", + "digest": "sha1:CAXQSMM4M5MSJTRWYWCO4ARP5UUGYFKT", + "length": 395, + "nlines": 2, + "source_domain": "www.nesa-center.org", + "title": "Positive Trends in the Relationship between Africa and the Arab World | Near East South Asia | CENTER FOR STRATEGIC STUDIES", + "raw_content": "Undoubtedly, Arab countries and those in the Gulf in particular have cast a long and malevolent shadow over the African continent \u2013 from the Arab slave trade of Africans to the spread of extremist Islam amongst Africans. However, there are signs that this may be changing for the better on account of positive changes occurring inside these Arab countries.\nRead more here: https://bit.ly/2JIDsiY", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00240.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 80, + "original_length": 2967, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.91, + "perplexity": 338.0, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/05743c.htm", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T04:48:23Z", + "digest": "sha1:VH2PW35IMUEKXMSFYHK33SUNH4OCR2P2", + "length": 3104, + "nlines": 8, + "source_domain": "www.newadvent.org", + "title": "CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Honore Fabri", + "raw_content": "Home > Catholic Encyclopedia > F > Honor\u00e9 Fabri\nHonor\u00e9 Fabri\n(Lef\u00e8vre.)\nJesuit, theologian, b. about 1607 in the Department of Ain, France; d. at Rome, 8 March, 1688. He entered the Society of Jesus at Avignon, in 1626, and distinguished himself by a life of continuous mental work. He excelled especially in mathematics and physics, but he was also a formidable controversialist. For eight years he taught philosophy and for six years mathematics at the Jesuit college at Lyons, attracting many pupils by the fame of his learning. Called to Rome, he became the theologian of the court of the papal penitentiary in the Vatican basilica, a position he held for thirty years. His duties did not prevent him from writing a number of learned works on various subjects in keeping with the needs of his time. Sommervogel mentions thirty-one titles of published works in connection with Fabri's name; besides, there are fourteen of his productions in manuscript, now kept in the Library of Lyons.\nThe following are the more important of his publications: \"Pithanophilus, seu dialogus vel opusculum de opinione probabili,\" etc. (Rome, 1659). This work was attacked by Stephanus Gradius, Prefect of the Vatican Library, in his \"Disputatio de opinione probabili\" (Rome, 1678; Mechlin, 1679). \"Honorati Fabri, Societatis Jesu, apologeticus doctrin\u00e6 moralis ejusdem Societatis (Lyons, 1670; Cologne, 1672). This treats, in eleven dialogues, of probabilism, explaining its true nature, and refuting the charges of its opponents. The Cologne edition was considerably enlarged but did not meet with ecclesiastical approbation; it was placed on the Index of forbidden books soon after its appearance. \"Una fides unius Ecclesi\u00e6 Roman\u00e6 contra indifferentes hujus s\u00e6culi tribus librus facili methodo asserto\" (Dillingen, 1657). \"Summula theologica in qu\u00e2 qu\u00e6stiones omnes alicujus momenti, qu\u00e6 a Scholasticus agitari solent, breviter discutiuntur ac definiuntur\" (Lyons, 1669). The principles on which this work constructs its theological conclusions are far different from those of Aristotle. \"Euphiander seu vir ingeniosus\", a little book, which may be useful to the student of literature (Lyons, 1669; Vienna, 1731; Budapest, 1749; Ofen, 1763). Most of Fabri's other works deal with philosophy, mathematics, physics, astronomy, and even zoology, In his treatise on man he claims to have discovered the circulation of the blood, prior to Harvey, but after having investigated this question, Father Bellynk arrives at the conclusion that, at best, Father Fabri may have made the discovery independently of Harvey (cf. Bellynk, Cours de Zoologie, 1864, p. 23).\nSommervogel, Bibl. de la C. de J. (Brussels and Paris, 1892), III, 511-521; Hurter, Nomenclator Literarius (Innsbruck 1893), tom. II, 598-600.\nAPA citation. Maas, A. (1909). Honor\u00e9 Fabri. In The Catholic Encyclopedia. New York: Robert Appleton Company. http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/05743c.htm\nMLA citation. Maas, Anthony. \"Honor\u00e9 Fabri.\" The Catholic Encyclopedia. Vol. 5. New York: Robert Appleton Company, 1909. .", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00240.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 17, + "original_length": 3982, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.9, + "perplexity": 260.2, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "http://www.newbedfordhistory.com/2017/09/18/brethren-paul-cuffes-atlantic-world-lamont-d-thomas/", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T03:32:59Z", + "digest": "sha1:IASOKHVCDLKUHMFVZPGU3IOZDTSK6TPV", + "length": 3401, + "nlines": 12, + "source_domain": "www.newbedfordhistory.com", + "title": "Brethren: Paul Cuffe\u2019s Atlantic World \u2013 Lamont D. Thomas \u2013 History Spoken Here", + "raw_content": "Published by nbhistory on September 18, 2017 September 18, 2017\nSpinner Publications is proud to announce the 2018 spring release of Brethren: Paul Cuffe\u2019s Atlantic World by award winning author Lamont D. Thomas.\nBrethren, a 200th anniversary edition commemorating the life of Cuffe (1759-1817), is a revised edition of Rise to Be a People that draws upon the extensive research of the original plus insightful recent findings. In a creative non-fiction style, Thomas sheds new light on Cuffe\u2019s life and times for 21st century readers.\nBorn to an African Ashanti father who was enslaved, kidnapped from his homeland and later freed in New England and to a local Native American Wampanoag mother whose culture and people were displaced by European colonialists, Cuffe was raised amidst Quaker traditions and later became a member of the Society of Friends. 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The Cuffe story explores slaveholders\u2019 twisted rhetoric upon this movement and the complicated issues Africans and African Americans faced in declaring a homeland. Some unequivocally claimed America as home. Others chose Africa, leading to the founding of the West African nation of Liberia. Torn between the two, Cuffe finally died among family and friends in Westport, Massachusetts.\n\u201cMany of us spend our lives looking for a final home, some in our dying breath begging to go \u2018home,\u2019\u201d writes Thomas. The Cuffe story reflects this universal journey.\nLamont D. Thomas is a retired professor and leading authority on Cuffe. He earned his bachelor\u2019s and master\u2019s degrees in history from Trinity College in Connecticut, where he lives with his wife Marge. Lamont\u2019s original book, Rise to Be a People: A Biography of Paul Cuffe, (Illinois University Press, 1986), was followed by a retitled paperback, Paul Cuffe, Black Entrepreneur and Pan-Africanist. 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Display of Plates, Tabs, and Stickers [5200. - 5206.] / Section 5205.5.\nSection 5205.5. (Amended by Stats. 2008, Ch. 429, Sec. 1.)\nCite as: Cal. Veh. Code \u00a75205.5.\n(a)For the purposes of implementing Section 21655.9, the department shall make available for issuance, for a fee determined by the department to be sufficient to reimburse the department for the actual costs incurred pursuant to this section, distinctive decals, labels, and other identifiers that clearly distinguish the following vehicles from other vehicles:\n(1)A vehicle that meets California\u2019s super ultra-low emission vehicle (SULEV) standard for exhaust emissions and the federal inherently low-emission vehicle (ILEV) evaporative emission standard, as defined in Part 88 (commencing with Section 88.101-94) of Title 40 of the Code of Federal Regulations.\n(2)A vehicle that was produced during the 2004 model-year or earlier and meets California ultra-low emission vehicle (ULEV) standard for exhaust emissions and the federal ILEV standard.\n(3)A hybrid vehicle or an alternative fuel vehicle that meets California\u2019s advanced technology partial zero-emission vehicle (AT PZEV) standard for criteria pollutant emissions and has a 45 miles per gallon or greater fuel economy highway rating.\n(4)A hybrid vehicle that was produced during the 2004 model-year or earlier and has a 45 miles per gallon or greater fuel economy highway rating, and meets California\u2019s ULEV, SULEV, or partial zero-emission vehicle (PZEV) standards.\n(b)Neither an owner of a hybrid vehicle that meets the AT PZEV standard, with the exception of a vehicle that meets the federal ILEV standard, nor an owner of a hybrid vehicle described in paragraph (4) of subdivision (a), is entitled to a decal, label, or other identifier pursuant to this section unless, and until, the federal government acts to approve the use of high-occupancy vehicle (HOV) lanes by vehicles of the types identified in paragraph (3) or (4) of subdivision (a), regardless of the number of occupants.\n(c)The department shall include a summary of the provisions of this section on each motor vehicle registration renewal notice, or on a separate insert, if space is available and the summary can be included without incurring additional printing or postage costs.\n(d)The Department of Transportation shall remove individual HOV lanes, or portions of those lanes, during periods of peak congestion from the access provisions provided in subdivision (a), following a finding by the Department of Transportation as follows:\n(1)The lane, or portion thereof, exceeds a level of service C, as discussed in subdivision (b) of Section 65089 of the Government Code.\n(2)The operation or projected operation of the vehicles described in subdivision (a) in these lanes, or portions thereof, will significantly increase congestion.\nThe finding also shall demonstrate the infeasibility of alleviating the congestion by other means, including, but not limited to, reducing the use of the lane by noneligible vehicles, or further increasing vehicle occupancy.\n(e)The State Air Resources Board shall publish and maintain a listing of all vehicles eligible for participation in the programs described in this section. The board shall provide that listing to the department.\n(f)For purposes of subdivision (a), the Department of the California Highway Patrol and the department, in consultation with the Department of Transportation, shall design and specify the placement of the decal, label, or other identifier on the vehicle. Each decal, label, or other identifier issued for a vehicle shall display a unique number, which number shall be printed on, or affixed to, the vehicle registration.\n(g)(1)(A)Except as provided in subparagraph (B), for purposes of subdivision (a), the department shall issue no more than 85,000 distinctive decals, labels, or other identifiers that clearly distinguish the vehicles specified in paragraphs (3) and (4) of subdivision (a).\n(B)The department may issue a decal, label, or other identifier for a vehicle that satisfies all of the following conditions:\n(i)The vehicle is of a type identified in paragraph (3) or (4) of subdivision (a).\n(ii)The owner of the vehicle is the owner of a vehicle for which a decal, label, or identifier described in subparagraph (A) was previously issued and that vehicle for which the decal, label, or identifier was previously issued is determined by the department, on the basis of satisfactory proof submitted by the owner to the department, to be a nonrepairable vehicle or a total loss salvage vehicle.\n(iii)The owner of the vehicle applied for a decal, label, or other identifier pursuant to this subparagraph on or before March 31, 2009, or within six months of the date on which the vehicle for which a decal, label, or identifier was previously issued is declared to be a nonrepairable vehicle or a total loss salvage vehicle, whichever date is later.\n(2)The department shall notify the Department of Transportation immediately after the date on which the department has issued 50,000 decals, labels, and other identifiers under this section for the vehicles described in paragraphs (3) and (4) of subdivision (a).\n(3)The Department of Transportation shall determine whether significant HOV lane breakdown has occurred throughout the state, in accordance with the following timeline:\n(A)For lanes that are nearing capacity, the Department of Transportation shall make the determination not later than 90 days after the date provided by the department under paragraph (2).\n(B)For lanes that are not nearing capacity, the Department of Transportation shall make the determination not later than 180 days after the date provided by the department under paragraph (2).\n(4)In making the determination that significant HOV lane breakdown has occurred, the Department of Transportation shall consider the following factors in the HOV lane:\n(A)Reduction in level of service.\n(B)Sustained stop-and-go conditions.\n(C)Slower than average speed than the adjacent mixed-flow lanes.\n(D)Consistent increase in travel time.\n(5)After making the determinations pursuant to subparagraphs (A) and (B) of paragraph (3), if the Department of Transportation determines that significant HOV lane breakdown has occurred throughout the state, the Department of Transportation shall immediately notify the department of that determination, and the department, on the date of receiving that notification, shall discontinue issuing the decals, labels, or other identifiers for the vehicles described in paragraphs (3) and (4) of subdivision (a).\n(h)If the Metropolitan Transportation Commission, serving as the Bay Area Toll Authority, grants toll-free and reduced-rate passage on toll bridges under its jurisdiction to any vehicle pursuant to Section 30102.5 of the Streets and Highways Code, it shall also grant the same toll-free and reduced-rate passage to a vehicle displaying an identifier issued by the department pursuant to paragraph (1) or (2) of subdivision (a) and to a vehicle displaying a valid identifier issued by the department pursuant to paragraph (3) or (4) of subdivision (a) if the vehicle is registered to an address outside of the region identified in Section 66502 of the Government Code.\n(i)An owner of a vehicle specified in paragraph (3) or (4) of subdivision (a) whose vehicle is registered to an address in the region identified in Section 66502 of the Government Code and who seeks a vehicle identifier under subdivision (a) in 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Why shouldn't we believe an outfit called the \"Americans for the Arts?\"\nIn its website, Americans for the Arts outlines its mission:\nWith offices in Washington, DC and New York, and more than 5,000 organizational and individual members and stakeholders across the country, we are focused on three primary goals:\nFoster an environment in which the arts can thrive and contribute to the creation of more livable communities.\nGenerate more public- and private-sector resources for the arts and arts ducation.\nBuild individual appreciation of the value of the arts.\nTo achieve our goals, we partner with local, state, and national arts organizations; government agencies; business leaders; individual philanthropists; educators; and funders throughout the country. We provide extensive arts industry research, and information and professional development opportunities for community arts leaders via specialized programs and services, including a content-rich website and an annual national convention.\nLocal arts agencies throughout the United States comprise our core constituency. A variety of unique stakeholder groups with particular interests like public art, united arts fundraising, rural and small communities, state arts agencies, and emerging arts leaders are also supported.\nThrough national visibility and local outreach, we strive to motivate and mobilize opinion leaders and decision-makers who can make the arts thrive in America.\nAh, Americans for the Arts...yet another philanthropic group out there just trying to promote starving artists nationwide, right? Uh, no. Let's take a look at the salaries of the organization's executives.\nRobert Lynch, President and CEO, $654,848\nMara Walker, Chief Planning Officer, $174,760\nNina Ozlu, Chief Counsel, $191,998\nGary Steuer, V.P. Private Sector Affairs, $180,530\nRobert B. Stanley, V.P. Finance, $152,319\nMarrc Ian Tobias, V.P. Operations, $145,653\nRandy Cohen, V.P. Res & Info, $165,926\nAccording to its 2007 tax return, Americans for the Arts total revenue in 2007 was $7,927,309. That year they spent almost $6 million of its income on salaries and benefits for its officers and employees. How much of that revenue did its \"constituent\" arts groups including the Arts Council of Indianapolis receive? In 2007, Americans for the Arts spent $1,155,755 on its \"constituents,\" which is not even a 1/4 of what the organization spent on its own salaries and benefits.\nOther interesting figures from the 2007 return include that the Americans for the Arts has over $160 million in accumulated assets, including over $24 million invested in stocks and securities.\nSupporters of the arts might want to think twice before giving money to an organization that is obviously more interested in enriching themselves financially than helping out starving artists.\nNice new look, Paul. Arts administrators get more money than the artists they serve. Figures.\nAre they getting federal tax dollars? 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So having established the point that controversial is a subjective word, the question arises as to what exactly is a controversial subject.\nAnd one easy criterion for determining whether or not a topic is controversial is whether or not it engenders debate. It is very easy to watch a television current affairs program in which people are discussing a particular subject. If there is a debate about that topic, even a heated debate, then there is a fair chance that we could describe that topic as controversial. Here are some research paper topics which could be deemed to be controversial.\nusing animals for medical experiments\nplagiarism and a social media\nobesity and junk food\ntreatment of the elderly\nwar crimes and human rights\nrefugees and their rights to enter another country\nNow as you can see this is a broad list of so-called controversial research paper topics. But it is by no means exhaustive. So finding controversial topics is not difficult. What could be helpful to you though is to find a controversial topic which has not been written about a vast number of times.\nImagine the person having to correct your paper. \u2018Oh not that topic again,\u2019 they exclaim and as yet another take on your chosen topic lands on an academic\u2019s desk. Either try and find an unusual or little written about topic or, better still, find an unusual and obscure angle on a well-known topic. Something out of the ordinary is often a good way to set your research paper apart from the others.\nThe topic is everything\nWriting a research paper, as the name implies, requires research. Otherwise, you can always buy papers online and lighten your workload. The problem you, as a student will face is how much research is enough research? If you choose controversial research paper topics which by nature are vast, you're making a rod for your own back. By all means choose a contemporary topic such as obesity or climate change or refugees. But find a single aspect of it otherwise you\u2019ll drown in a sea of information. The expression \u2018too much information\u2019 springs to mind in this case.\nThese research paper topics dominate today's headlines. You could be writing a research paper about a contemporary topic. But the problem you may face is that it is a massive topic, it covers a vast amount of information. Therefore it is in your own interest to select a section of that controversial topic and write only about that small section. Unless you make your topic narrow, you will find it easy to produce a lot of shallow information. That will not be good for your grade.\nThat sort of research paper writing is not going to endear you to the person reading your research paper. What you need to produce in your research paper is an in-depth study of the chosen topic. You can't do that if your topic is too broad. Be specific.\nThere are more than enough research paper topics. 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I've just caught up with a long interview from Saturday's Guardian, in which Andria Zafirakou talks about her work as an art teacher in a Brent community secondary school. the kids are diverse and challenging - speak 35 languages, and many of them come from seriously deprived homes. But that's part of the attraction - she likes learning bits of their languages, trying to get them motivated, helping them overcome the obstacles they face. Great stuff, and familiar - I knew lots of teachers like that. She's not into lecturing them about their deficiencies - build up their confidence, make them feel some pride and enthusiasm, and then they'll be ready to learn.\nAnd why is she in the news? Oh yes. She's just won an international award for Teacher of the Year. These are the attitudes, the approaches, that people all over the world value in their teachers. Theresa May and government ministers have of course but running to congratulate her, despite the fact that she's the direct opposite of the kind of teaching that they encourage. It would be nice to think that her example might change their minds, but don't hold your breath.\nStewart on Lawrence\nA real TV treat. To accompany the TV showing of Gertrude Bell's Letters from Baghdad, BBC4 have put out two one-hour episodes of Rory Stewart talking about the legacy of T.E.Lawrence. It's been gorgeous - some fabulous photography of landscape and architecture, but also a detailed, clear analysis of what was going on in Lawrence's mind, and why that might matter now. And it's all done by a guy who idolised Lawrence as a kid, and then explored vast stretches of the middle East on foot, staying in bedouin tents. But also by someone who at a ridiculously young age was a governor in Afghanistan and Iraq, and who saw the idioocy of occupation in heartbeaking detail. as his conclusion spells out, it's tragic that the American military are encouraging their officers to study Lawrence - because he's a winner at fighting in the Middle East - whereas Lawrence himself would actually be telling them \"don't do it better; don't do it at all.\"\nThis series is from some time back - it shows Stewart walking thoughtfully through a Damascus souk - but I can't think how or why I missed it. Yet again, thank God for catch-up.\nTV, Education\nI have to confess, I smiled. I shouldn't, because it's a sad story for a number of pupils, and tragic for the guy at the centre of it, but there is still a strange symmetry about the story of Mo Tanweer, the deputy head at Eton who's just lost his job for handing over exam secrets to his pupils. Go on, guess what he used to do before he went into teaching. that's right. He actually was an investment banker.\nMaybe he thought he was going into public service, paying something back for the riches he'd acquired. But you can be sure they were rubbing their hands. Just the kind of hot property they wanted to acquire, a guy at the cutting edge, who'd give them an edge, let them mark out their place at the front of the field. It was always one of the drawbacks of league tables, that they fired up the guys who like to be on top, to whom it's more important to bewinners than to educate the kids in their charge.\nDo you really need more warnings about climate change? asks Bill McKibben, as he calmly details the various weather events taking place in North America this week. And yes, of course, if you widen it to the whole planet it's far. far worse. As he knows. He's been warning about this for thirty years. But he manages to stay calm and focused, to mount yet again the unanswerable argument:\n\"Global warming is the first crisis that comes with a limit - solve it soon or don't solve it. Winning slowly is just a different way of losing. Winning fast enough to matter would mean, above all, standing up to the fossil fuel industry...\" But that's enough. Don't take my work for it. In my paper version, it's on p.25 of the Guardian on Monday, 11 Sept. I'm sure you can find it online.\nThe fantasy world of SATs\nAre you ready? Try this:\n\u201cThe comma element of the semicolon should be correct in relation to the point of origin, height, depth and orientation. Where the separation of the semicolon is excessive, neither element of the semicolon should start higher than the letter \u2018I\u2019. The dot of the semi colon must not be lower than the letter \u2018w\u2019 in the word \u2018tomorrow\u2019.\u201d ( Guardian 11.7.17)\nNot a far-fetched satire, but actual advice offered to markers of SATs for ten-year olds. Gove, in his infinite wisdom, decides it's crucial to get ten-year olds to spot where the semi-colon should go in an artifically constructed sentence. But just pinning the tail on the donkey isn't enough; the tail has to fit in with tight requirements, and must definitely face the right way. So tons of students who actually know where the semi-colon should go will end up not getting the mark, because their semi-colon doesn't match the examiner's ideal. if we were talking about monks illuminating manuscripts it would almost make sense, but every ten-year old in the country?\nI'm gobsmacked. I had Theresa May down as realistic, a tad dull but basically intelligent. Her handling of the Boris Johnson problem looks quite shrewd to me, while her instant dismissal of the whole austerity thing (by totally ditching George Osborne) was positively refreshing. So what's she doing seeking to revive grammar schools? OK, so she has nostalgic memories of what they did for her, but does she not understand that a new grammar school means three new secondary moderns? Are there lots of parents and voters lined up who want to send their kids to secondary moderns? Last time we tried it, that didn't go down well.\nOn the other hand, the advice she's getting may not be the best. The leaked memo from her top civil servant says they're going to make sure it's OK, because they'll check with grammar schools heads on how to make sure that those rejected from grammar schools don't suffer as a result. I can hardly wait.\nAt last. I've been waiting fo r this for more than twenty years. Labour actually has proposals for education which aim at a comprehensive service - for all children (and adults), at all ages. It starts from child care and goes on to adult education, taking in restored maintenance grants on the way. It's not about opting out or choice or free schools; it's about provision for everybody's kids. Just amazing.\nI'm one of Tony Blair's few critics who don't think that the Iraq War was the worst thing he did. Of course, it was bad enough and it comes close. But for me the big mistake was to lose the chance - optimism massive majority, obvious damage from the previous regime - of establishing education for all as a basic principle. But Tony wasn't running a service. He was offering choice, to upwardly mobile metropolitan parents like himself, so let's invent endless new options which make headlines and further disrupt the system. Thanks, Tone.\nSo Corbyn's announcement is a real breath of fresh air. whether he can sell it to his MPs, let alone the country as a whole, may well be something else again. Watch this space.\nArrogance in Education\nToby Young got it wrong. He swanned about the media, claiming that improving schools was a simple job, but he was arrogant because he underestimated the complexity of the task. That's not me talking. It's Toby Young, having the honesty to admit that his confident generalisations about raising standards weren't actually justified. It's good that he can admit this, but it hardly makes any difference, because the arena is packed with similar windbags who are sure they have the answers, but don't actually have much experience in how schools work.\nIf you said to a visiting Martian \"Yes, we have experts who know about education, and have carried out extensive research, but they're not the people who are actually in charge of it\" I think they'd say the Martian equivalent of \"Huh?\" and assume we were crazy. And we must be, to trust our educational system to the care of confident dogmatists with no first-hand experience.\nWhen he was in charge of education, Michael Gove used to go on about \"the blob\" - big amorphous system, with no character or distinction. How much better to have a range of shiny new academies, bright and thrusting,competing with each other to achieve excellence.\nThere's two news stories this week spelling out exactly what that costs us. First of all, we're short of teachers. nobody's actually minding the store, making sure there's enough teachers to go round. Schools are scrapping with each other, pinching staff, but no-ones actually in charge of the system as a whole.\nAnd now today, reports that \"thousands\" of kids are being shunted out of schools, deliberately lost, because if they stay on the books they'll muck up the exam statistics. This was always the down side of the triumphant cries of \"All our students get 5 A-Cs or more.\" The old O levels were never meant to be for every students in the country, but now schools feel free to just forget about the ones who won't do well in exams. Yet again, we used to have a system, but that was yesterday.\nI like Michael Rosen, but I'm not always delirious about his regular \"Dear Ms. Morgan\" article in The Guardian. Producing one a week, he's sometimes going to be scarping the barrel, or sounding off about something which is true but unlikely to have any effect on the powers that be.\nThis week's, though, is different. He attackes the stahndard Tory notuion of a good school as one that blows local competition out of the water. Instead he offers the London Challenge, a communal programme of sustained mutual support which succeeded in raising the standards of all the schools in a locality. It's not rocket science. It's what m,any of us working in comprehensive schools in the 70s and 80s was the point of the exercise. But now, it's made to seem like the eccentric proposal of dreamers who couldn't possibly be allowed to influence policy. Will Ms. Morgan be listening? Probably not, because her chances of doing anything about it are thin, but I hope someone out there latches on, and starts to wonder if that might possibly be a more fruitful approach.\nFascinating article by Kate Pickett in today's Education section of The Guardian, making the case for comprehensive education. Remember that? Everyone's kids get a decent education, and it isn't all about competition or selection. Treated in the UK as a kind of wild dream, there are places which actually manage this quite efficiently (Finland, for instance) and the long-term gains are substantial - some can even be measured in test scores, though they don't go in for the luidicrous kind of testing we currently inflict on our kids. Pcikett's point is that there's good evidence for this substantial change. But she's only raising the possibility because Jeremy Corbyn sees this as a crucial part of social justice - and that hasn't been true of any Labour leader for more than 20 years. I remember. I saw it happen. And this is so exciting, even as a remote possibility. (No, I don't underestimate the massive forces of privilege and self-interest standing in the way, but it's still good to see the case made.)\nEducation, Writing\nFinally, another Woodhead headline, which we all knew was coming. Having fought motor neurone disease with the defiant, individualist ferocity he brought to his other battles, Chris Woodhead has died. I briefly knew him, went out for drinks occasionally, when we were both much younger. And then as he rose in prominence, he became an intellectual enemy, potent figurehead of a campaign to slander teachers and distort the nature of education. Nobody now wants to know the details of all that, but he was an early rare example of a phenomenon we shan't see often, the celebrity inspector, and he encouraged people to believe in crude solutions to complex problems. I can't see a positive legacy in shining example, thoughtful publications or actual progress in schools, but he certainly knew how to woo the media. And on top of that there's the whole business of \"the affair\", which was important because it become the centre of a political campaign to protect his position and muzzle the press, but that's another, much longer story (which, as it happens, you can follow elsewhere on this website).\nNot a good thing to be. In the US, Obama recognised that they were really important and needed protection \u2013 but then he became President. Here, i doubt if our lot know that they exist. they\u2019re had a rough time in the NHS, and now it\u2019s Education\u2019s turn. Today\u2019s Guardian has an article about teachers who\u2019ve seen bad practice in their schools, coursework being fudged or overmarked, so as to boost the school\u2019s results. they\u2019re reported it to the boards, but heard nothing. If there\u2019s been punitive action, it\u2019s been quiet, low key, tactful. As in, under the carpet. The appetite for challenging those in power is shrinking all the time.\nRunaway Gove\nIt was clear to many people in education that Michael Gove was on an ego trip, unable to produce lasting reforms which depended on co-operation, and with a highly inflated sense of his own intellectual power. This has now been confirmed by Nicky Morgan, his successor, who\u2019s understandably irritated by Gove\u2019s inability to back off from his former patch. You start to wonder about Cameron, who only got rid of Gove because Lynton Crosby said he was an electoral liability. How on earth could he have allowed Gove to run free for so long? Doesn\u2019t Cameron have any obligation to people working in education, let alone the actual kids?\nOr at least, that was the headline. At last, I thought. the Labour movement finally has the guts to take on the entrenchment of privilege and cash which forever divided this country and ensured that we\u2019re peculiarly obsessed with social class, and the right to choose a school. Twenty years ago, when Labour seriously looked as though it might finally be forming a government, Blunkett wanted to tackle the massive tax concessions given to public schools, but Blair (the great prophet of parental choice) override him and kept things as they were.\nBut as it happens, this week\u2019s revolution is far less radical than the headline makes it sound. Tristram Hunt is grovelling around the public schools, spellbound by their clear superiority, and wants to set up a few deals whereby public schools help out their less fortunate brethren by sharing a few resources. Back to square one, again. There was, briefly, a time when some of us thought that we might have a fair education system which gave every child a decent deal, but that was long ago.\nNarrowboat Poetry\nThis was the first event we went to at this year\u2019s Birmingham Literary Festival, and it was great. Two hours on a narrowboat, exploring the world of Birmingham\u2019s canals, with Jo Bell, who\u2019s worked on the canals as an industrial archaeologist, and lives on a narrowboat. She\u2019s also a talented and entertaining poet, which made for a great morning, and rendered the surrounding gloom and drizzle totally irrelevant. We learnt a lot, and had a great time \u2013 exactly the kind iof pleasant surprise that festivals ought to provide.\nTrojan Horse Terrorism\nI don\u2019t live in Birmingham and i don\u2019t know what\u2019s been going on its schools. But i\u2019m sure that Gove\u2019s heavy-handed approach, calling in a terrorism expert to investigate school governance, has raised the headline stakes and distorted sensitive relationships. This\u2019ll be yet another part of his legacy we\u2019re going to regret at leisure. It\u2019s also a reminder of tony Blair, and his cheery insistence that faith schools were part of parents\u2019 freedom to choose how their kids should be educated. What a writhing can of worms that\u2019s turned out to be. 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The original post was at \u201cSlopeSitter\u2019s\u201d new blog.\nHey, nice to find this blog!\nYes. VERY important concerns here, SlopeSitter.\nYou say the \u201cworldview\u201d approach\n1) can easily be subverted to the support of one political position (quite consistently \u201cconservative\u201d Republican, as it turns out).\n2) And it can produce an aggressive, intellectual \u201cevangelism\u201d that often seems and perhaps is devoid of love.\nYup! Have to agree.\nAfter studying Dobson\u2019s Christian Worldview series a bit, and the Barna Group\u2019s 8 worldview questions, it really distressed me to realize that, according to a remark in the book of James, the demons have a \u201cBiblical worldview\u201d. Well, THAT\u2019s not very helpful!\nBut they have not love, nor joy, nor peace, nor kindness, nor humility, nor integrity \u2026 And those are the things we need. Apparently a Biblical Worldview does not actually cultivate those mighty fruits of the Holy and Eternal Spirit. That is decidedly not good news.\nHow can a Biblical worldview be abstract and intellectual? Life sure isn\u2019t!! We are on a variety of slippery slopes all day every day, and it\u2019s kinda hard to be carefully logical and objective under these circumstances.\nHow can one possibly be credited with having a Biblical worldview if their \u201cfaith\u201d is primarily abstraction and concept? A Biblical worldview is a matter of spirit MUCH more than of abstract metaphysics. I should say it is totally a matter of spirit and not at all one of abstract metaphysical conceptualizations.\nBecause it is by our spirits that we view the world. An unholy human cannot have a holy worldview. We both know people whose intellectual grasp of their faith is pretty limited (by our own very limited standards!), but whose spirit is of the highest excellence. That says a lot!\nCan we imagine Jesus saying their spirit doesn\u2019t matter, because their presuppositions (or politics) are a bit out of line? Can we imagine Jesus approving of a gigantic American church effort to tweak people\u2019s presuppositional theology while we prove ourselves so profoundly ineffective in benevolently undermining this cultural / political / economic / religious system \u2013 a system that is so all-encompassing and deadly? And we \u2013 the churches \u2013 really have been proving ourselves ineffective, when not blatantly co-opted.\nWe have to change our SPIRITS much more than our minds. Of course, that does affect our minds. But we focus on the (abstracted) result rather than the cause and wonder why we are unsuccessful.\nTo change topics slightly: Actually I\u2019m a little uncomfortable with thinking of seeing the world through the lens of the Bible. It\u2019s a true illustration to an extent \u2013 can\u2019t say it isn\u2019t. But the Bible is a very difficult lens to hold. It can turn on a guy!\nI prefer to think of the Bible as looking through (throughout) me. I sit down with it to get studied more than to study. It doesn\u2019t always start out that way but it often ends that way. \u201cBe still before the LORD and wait patiently for him \u2026\u201d And that, I suspect, is much more likely to produce a Biblical worldview, whether in the pulpit, on the air, in the pew, or out in people\u2019s daily lives.\nWell, I\u2019ve been thinking about this and you got me going again! Thanks for your serious thinking and writing. We\u2019re going to need a lot of that.\nI preached on this topic a few weeks ago so was kind of wound up on it.\nPreviousObama at Ebenezer Baptist \u2013 Crucial Moral Values for America (as in: Love Your Neighbor)\nNextAbortion and Social Justice \u2013 Douglas W Kmiec\nI\u2019ve been reading a book called \u201cThe Family\u201d about these issues. I was leary of it at first because I have heard of various organizations with their own \u2018new world order\u2019 \u2013 the most popular non-Christian organization being the freemasons \u2013 and you always need to be careful of conspiracy theories because it really is nothing more than bearing false witness. However, the book is very well documented, unlike the freemason theories, which thrive exactly because there is little documentation.\nThat being said, the book does describe some of the underlying belief systems that many of us question and would relate to. There are things I have read that I have heard myself say. Several years ago I commented to someone that in the extreme, some people on the religious right act is if we are the new city on the hill, so when I read that is exactly what they believe, I realize now that he probably thinks I am as crazy as I thought they were.\nE. A. Harvey\ton April 13, 2009 at 9:47 pm\nThanks for the link to my blog! I really appreciate your comment and insights.\nYou know, I\u2019ve often joked that Metallica\u2019s music displays a better understanding of the nature of God and the problem of evil than most Contemporary Christian Music. Now whenever I hear someone say that we need to have a \u201cBiblical Worldview,\u201d I\u2019m going to have to bring up your point about the demons having a Biblical worldview. Just because I\u2019m ornery like that. \ud83d\ude42\nwyoming\ton April 13, 2009 at 9:21 am\nOne more faith-builder for those whose heads and ears are ringing with confusion (\u201cconfusion\u201d is the interpretation of the name \u201cBabylon\u201d) as to what to expect in these difficult days:\n\u201cAnd the nations were enraged, and Your wrath came, and the time came for the dead to be judged, and the time to reward Your bond-servants the prophets and the saints and those who fear Your name, the small and the great, and to destroy those who destroy the earth.\u201d\nLarry, good question\nHere\u2019s where I think people lose faith: I think it\u2019s fair to say that people simply do not believe the prophets, nor Jesus, about kingdom come on earth.\nI mean, without believing in PHYSICAL resurrection amid the end of the age of desire and the beginning of the age of reward, what\u2019s the point?\nIn the states, the seminaries have been packaging a theology of dominion to one degree or another forever. They are basically sitting in the cheering section for Babylon, and have reduced Christian expression to the same (e.g., petty wars over elections that in fact are next to meaningless in the face of true power structure (think International Monetary Fund, World Bank, Trilateral Commission, Council on Foreign Relations and all those other true leaders of the US towards whose power we have no vote, if we even know they exist)).\nThey have reduced Heaven to a state of blowing up the earth to become an intelligent gas. Where is the salt and the light in that? Who is to want that?\nThere is a vast difference between \u201cworld\u201d (kosmos, also an early Christian reference to Rome and world government) which was to be destroyed, and \u201cearth (\u201cge\u201d in aramaic), which was the blessing given to the meek. If we don\u2019t believe this will be achieved one day, what is the point in accepting Jesus\u2019 name as savior? If we don\u2019t really believe there will be a PHYSICAL resurrection, which belief the Jews still hold to and from whom the gentile world was to be instructed, then how can justice ever be brought about for all men? And Jesus does liberally promise the same.\nThey have also put aside repentance (e.g., a life of sharing one\u2019s possessions with others as advised by John the Baptist and Jesus). I maintain that repentance is a lifestyle, not a singular moment of shame as is commonly understood. Jesus said some things that people like to forget, such as Luke 14:33: \u201cSo then, none of you can be My disciple who does not give up all his own possessions. \u201d I take this to mean that we are to live, as Christians, as the Essenes and other groups did, sharing all we have.\nThen there\u2019 s the \u201clittle\u201d issue of the prophets, whom I believe wrote of these very times, the end of the age (not the end of the earth), otherwise their words are those of historians, not prophets. Few people realize that the words of destruction of Babylon have not been tangibly realized for the most part. The ancient city of Babylon, while compromised away to various powers by her fading governmental powers, never actually were ransacked and killed off to a man as written. The river meandered away and left her dry, and the power of the great city petered out.\nThis is why I maintain that the great things written such as by Isaiah (will insert elements of his vision below) were to be physically realized. How many times have I heard that \u201cthe prophets were fulfilled in Jesus\u201d to the effect that they had nothing more to say! I say the church at large does NOT believe either Jesus or the prophets when they give up the vision for a resurrection and a kingdom. \u201cThy kingdom come, thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven.\u201d We know that\u2019s not happening now, right? So why destroy that expectation by making everything Jesus said figurative? But so the teaching goes for many seminarians.\nThe Lord will make an END to war and evil on earth. It is written. Believe it not at the expense of one\u2019s faith.\nThanks for the provocative post. Let me butt out and post Isaiah:\nIsaiah 2:2-4: Now it will come about that In the last days The mountain of the house of the LORD Will be established as the chief of the mountains, And will be raised above the hills; And all the nations will stream to it. 3 And many peoples will come and say, \u201cCome, let us go up to the mountain of the LORD, To the house of the God of Jacob; That He may teach us concerning His ways And that we may walk in His paths.\u201d For the law will go forth from Zion And the word of the LORD from Jerusalem. 4 And He will judge between the nations, And will render decisions for many peoples; And they will hammer their swords into plowshares and their spears into pruning hooks. Nation will not lift up sword against nation, And never again will they learn war.\nIsaiah 66:24 \u201cThen they will go forth and look On the corpses of the men Who have transgressed against Me. 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Eisenhower System of Interstate & Defense Highways\nFull Text Version with All Illustrations & Tables (PDF)\nWendell Cox & Jean Love\n(All sections are in this file)\nIntroduction: The Interstate Highway System in Context\nImpact of The Interstate Highway System in Context\nImpact on the Quality of Life\nImpact on National Defense\nThe Interstate Highway System: 40 Years of Serving America\nThe Future of the Interstates\n4OTH ANNIVERSARY POSTER\nWithout a first class system of interstate highways, life in America would be far different --- it would be more risky, less prosperous, and lacking in the efficiency and comfort that Americans now enjoy and take for granted. People would be crowded into more densely packed inner cities, intercity travel would occur less often and be more cumbersome; freight charges would be higher and, as a consequence, so would prices. Vacation travel would be more restricted.\nThe Dwight D. Eisenhower System of Interstate and Defense Highways is in place and celebrating its 40th anniversary, must surely be the best investment a nation ever made. Consider this:\nIt has enriched the quality of life for virtually every American.\nIt has saved the lives of at least 187,000 people.\nIt has prevented injuries to nearly 12 million people.\nIt has returned more than $6 in economic productivity for each $1 it cost.\nIt has positioned the nation for improved international competitiveness.\nIt has permitted the cherished freedom of personal mobility to flourish.\nIt has enhanced international security.\nIt is not an exaggeration, but a simple statement of fact, that the interstate highway system is an engine that has driven 40 years of unprecedented prosperity and positioned the United States to remain the world's pre-eminent power into the 21st century.\nWhile it is not typically thought of in this way, the system is in reality a gift from one group of people --- highway users --- to the nation as a whole, which has reaped a gain of at least $6 in benefit for each $1 spent in construction. And that's just the beginning --- there are additional benefits such as higher employment rates and greater economic opportunity that are simply beyond quantification. Fortunately, the group of people who paid for the interstate highway system is sufficiently large that it's difference from the nation as a whole is virtually without distinction. But it is a worthy difference to keep in mind as a backdrop for public policy deliberations over future funding of highways.\nThis report provides an assessment of the manifold benefits of the interstate highway system. Research by leading transportation authorities and standard statistical methods have been used to estimate the impacts of the interstate highway system. The imperative for upgrading the interstate highway system and other super-highways is described and shown to be readily affordable within the capability of present highway user fee revenue.\nThe interstate highway system has contributed mightily to the economic growth and quality of life in America. The interstates and other super-highways will continue to contribute to economic growth and improved quality of life if necessary investments are made. In large measure, the interstate highway system has democratized mobility in the United States, providing virtually all Americans with the ability to move quickly to any destination within their communities and to travel throughout the nation, inexpensively, and at whatever time or date they desire.\nAmerica is a nation on wheels --- they benefit from a freedom of mobility that is unrivaled anywhere in the world. A substantial portion of that mobility is attributable to the Dwight D. Eisenhower System of Interstate and Defense Highways, which celebrates its 40th anniversary in 1996. The interstate highway system, the largest public works program in history, has had an enormous impact on the nation. The interstate highway system has positively influenced economic growth, reduced traffic deaths and injuries, provided substantial benefits to users, and been a crucial factor in the nation's defense.\nEarly Planning: As automobiles began to democratize mobility in America in the 1920s and 1930s, it became increasingly clear that greatly improved highways would be needed to accommodate the demand. \"Super-highways,\"\nNOTE: The term \"super-highway\" is used to denote a controlled access (grade separated) roadway with at least four lanes of traffic separated by direction. Super-highways may be toll roads or free (freeways). In most nations, including the United States, \"free\" super-highways are not really free, in that their construction, maintenance and patrolling costs are paid by highway user fees. grade separated roadways with four lanes of direction-separated traffic, first appeared in the New York City area parkways that opened in the 1920s.\nBy the early 1940s, the success of early super-highways, especially the Pennsylvania Turnpike, sparked considerable interest in developing a national toll road system. But, the advent of World War II and the policy priorities of the immediate post war years prevented substantial progress until much later.\nThe interstate highway system was first approved by Congress in 1944, but it was not until 1956 that a comprehensive program was enacted to build the system. By this time, it had become apparent that post-war affluence had produced a huge increase in highway demand and that rapidly expanding highway freight movements required a much improved system. Further, in the volatile Cold War era, national defense provided a primary justification for developing a super-highway system to accommodate the quick and efficient movement of military equipment and personnel.\nAuthorization of the Interstate Highway System: On June 29, 1956, President Eisenhower signed the Federal Aid-Highway Act of 1956, which authorized the interstate highway system (later formally named the Dwight D. Eisenhower System of Interstate and Defense Highways). The Act authorized 41,000 miles of high quality highways that were to tie the nation together. Later, congressional action increased the length to 42,500 miles and required super-highway standards for all interstate highways.\nThe system was to be completed by 1975. It was conceived as a \"pay as you go\" system that would rely primarily on federally imposed user fees on motor fuels --- the federal user fee per gallon of gasoline was increased by one cent. The federal user fees would provide 90 percent of the cost of construction with the balance provided primarily by state user fees. The interstate highway system would incorporate approximately 2,000 miles of already completed toll roads.\nHigh standards were adopted for the interstate highway system. Access to all interstates was to be fully controlled. There would be no intersections or traffic signals. All traffic and railroad crossings would be grade separated, requiring the construction of more than 55,000 bridges. Interstates were to be divided and have at least four wide traffic lanes (two in each direction) and adequate shoulders. Curves were to be engineered for safe negotiation at high speed, while grades were to be moderated, eliminating blind hills. Rest areas were to be conveniently spaced. Each interstate was to be designed to handle traffic loads expected 20 years after completion.\nThe states were soon underway with construction. As time passed, it became clear that the goal of system completion by 1975 would not be achieved. But by 1960, more than 10,000 miles were opened. By 1965, 20,000 miles were opened, and by 1970, 30,000 miles were open to traffic. And by 1980, 40,000 miles were complete. While some segments remain to be completed, more than 42,700 miles of interstate highways are now opened to traffic. The interstate highway system serves virtually all of the nation's large urban areas and serves 49 states (all but Alaska). Despite this broad expanse, the interstate highway system represents just over one percent of the nation's road network.\nNOTE: Much of the information in this section (\"Background\") is from Richard F. Weingroff, \"A Partnership that Makes a Difference,\" Public Roads (Washington DC: United States Department of Transportation, Federal Highway Administration, Summer 1996) and \"Development of the Interstate Program,\" in America's Highways: 1776-1976 (Washington, DC: United States Department of Transportation, Federal Highway Administration, 1976).\nNOTE: There have been additions to the system beyond the 42,500 authorization.\nNOTE: Some highways in Alaska have been eligible for receipt of federal interstate funding, but Alaska contains no highways that are formally designated as a part of the interstate standard system.).\nPerformance of the Interstate Highway System\nThere have been tremendous changes in America since authorization of the interstate highway system in 1956. Population has increased by 70 percent, but employment has increased by more than 100 percent. The percentage of the nation's population that is employed has increased by nearly one-third in 40 years, reflecting a far higher rate of female participation in the work force. Household size has declined significantly. These factors combined to increase travel demand at a far greater rate than had been expected. And much of this increased travel has been on the interstate highway system.\nThe interstate highway system is the \"work horse\" of the nation's highway system. Representing just over one percent of the nation's highway system mileage, the interstate highway system carries nearly one quarter (23 percent) of all roadway traffic, --- more than 20 times its one percent share measured in mileage (1),\tand more than 60 times as many person miles as all passenger rail services (Amtrak and urban rail) (2).\nNOTE: Unless otherwise noted, \"highway system\" refers to the system of all urban roadways in the United States (urban, intercity, and rural).\nNOTE: A person mile is one person traveling a mile. For example, a car with a driver and no passengers produces one person mile per each vehicle mile traveled. A car with a driver and two passengers produces three person miles for each vehicle mile traveled.\nNOTE 1: Calculated from data in 1994 Highway Statistics (Washington, DC: United States Department of Transportation, Federal Highway Administration, 1995).\nNOTE 2: Calculated from data in National Transportation Statistics 1996 (Washington, DC: United States Department of Transportation, Bureau of Transportation Statistics, 1996), 1994 Highway Statistics and National Transit Database 1994 (Washington, DC: United States Department of Transportation, Federal Transit Administration, 1996)..\nSurface Transport Share: 1994\nIn Person Miles and Route Mileage\nTransport System Market Share Mileage Share\nInterstate 23.0% 1.1%\nAll Other Roads 76.4% 98.2%\nPassenger Rail 0.6% 0.7%\nThe interstate highway system has a much higher density of use than other components of the nation's surface transportation system. The interstate highway system carries nearly 60,000 daily person miles per route mile, 26 times as many person miles per route mile as all other roads (including low usage rural roads), and 22 times as many person miles per route mile as intercity rail (Amtrak) and urban rail combined.\nEach year, nearly one trillion person miles are carried on the interstate highway system --- a figure equal to providing trips around the world for 37 million people --- more people than live in Pennsylvania, Illinois, and Ohio combined. In its 40 years, more than 17 trillion person miles have been traveled over the interstate highway system.\nNOTE: Assumes vehicle occupancy on the interstates equals that of the entire highway system. This is the equivalent of:\nNearly three trips around the world for each American.\nA trip to the moon for all of the people living in California, New York, Texas, and New Jersey --- nearly 75 million people.\nThree light years of travel through space --- nearly three-quarters of the distance to the nearest star outside the solar system (Alpha Centauri).\nThe interstates highway system in intercity and rural travel: The value of the interstate highway system may be most obvious in rural and intercity travel. For the most part, rural and intercity interstate travel is uncongested, permitting highly efficient traffic movement. Rural and intercity interstates provide a large measure of mobility, representing nearly 24 percent of all surface rural and intercity transportation --- 60 times that of passenger rail (Amtrak).\nNOTE: Calculated from data in National Transportation Statistics 1996 (Washington, DC: United States Department of Transportation, Bureau of Transportation Statistics, 1996) and 1994 Highway Statistics.\nIntercity & Rural Market Share: 1994\nIn Person Miles\nInterstate 23.7%\nOther Highway 75.9%\nPassenger Rail 0.4%\nRural and intercity interstates also play a crucial role in freight transportation. It has been estimated that 45 percent of the nation's large truck (tractor-trailer) operations are on the interstate highway system.\nNOTE: Benefits of Interstate Highways (Washington, DC: United States Department of Transportation, Federal Highway Administration, 1983).\nInterstate highways have generally reduced travel times by 20 percent or more between cities. For example:\nNOTE: Travel time comparisons from analysis of \"United States Mileage Chart\" and \"Driving Distances and Driving Times\" in American Automobile Association maps of the United States (Heathrow, FL: American Automobile Association: 1954, 1955 and 1996).\nTravel time between Seattle and Portland, Oregon has declined by nearly 25 percent.\nTravel time between Cleveland and New York City has declined by a third.\nTravel time between Atlanta and Birmingham has declined by nearly 40 percent.\nTravel time between Chicago and Minneapolis has declined by nearly 25 percent.\nThe time advantage of the interstates remains clear even today, when interstate and non-interstate corridors are compared.\nThe average speed from Harrisburg to Albany, which is served by interstates, is more than 20 percent greater than from Harrisburg to Buffalo, which is not served by an interstate highway.\nNOTE: Travel time comparisons from analysis of \"Highway and Driving Times Map,\" Rand McNally 1996 Road Atlas (Skokie, IL: Rand McNally Company, 1996).\nTravel time from Sacramento to Salt Lake City, served by an interstate, is 1.5 hours less than virtually the same distance from Phoenix to Salt Lake City, which includes a major gap without an interstate.\nAverage travel time from Springfield, Missouri to Alexandria, Louisiana, which is not served by an interstate, is more than 40 percent longer than Springfield to Dallas, which is served by an interstate.\nThe interstate highway system in urban travel: The positive role of the interstates in the nation's urban areas is often overlooked or even discounted. In the early stages of interstate planning (1940s and early 1950s), proposed programs omitted cities from the system, limiting the role of the interstates to intercity transportation. The urban interstates were added to the system at the insistence of urban interests.\nThe interstate highway system provides crucial mobility in urban areas. The interstate highways provide a backbone transportation system that expedites urban trips for automobiles, buses, and trucks, while reducing traffic congestion on non-interstate arterials.\nEven in New York City, which relies on non-highway (urban rail) transportation to a far greater extent than any other U.S. metropolitan area, the interstate highway market share (measured in person trips) is nearly double that of the region's sprawling rail system. In other urban areas, the interstate highway system is even more important, with interstate market share exceeding that of rail transit by more than thirty times.\nNOTE: Estimated from data in 1995 Highway Statistics and National Transit Database 1994. Average urban interstate vehicle occupancy is estimated at 1.65, based upon analysis of data in the 1990 National Personal Transportation Survey and 1994 Highway Statistics.\nAmong the 30 largest urbanized areas outside New York City, interstate highways carry from seven to 10 times the person miles of non-highway modes (primarily urban rail) in three urban areas (Boston, Chicago and Philadelphia); from 10 to 50 times as many person miles in four (San Francisco-San Jose, Washington-Baltimore, Atlanta and Miami-Fort Lauderdale); and from 50 to 150 times in eight urban areas (Buffalo, Cleveland, Pittsburgh, Portland St. Louis, San Diego, New Orleans and Sacramento). In the remaining urban areas, non-highway market share is negligible in comparison with that of the urban interstate highways (Table A-1).\nNOTE: Estimated from data in 1994 Highway Statistics and National Transit Database 1994.\nUrban Market Share: 1994\nUrban Areas New York City\nInterstate 21.7% 13.6%\nOther Highway 77.6% 78.7%\nRail Transit 0.7% 7.7%\nEach lane of urban interstate is capable of moving between 2,500 and 4,000 persons per hour. This huge volume of traffic qualifies interstates as among the most effective urban mass transportation systems. The average urban interstate lane carries more people on a daily basis than the most successful of the nation's new light rail systems (1), and many interstate lanes carry more people than rail lines during their peak travel hours (2).\nNOTE 1: The average interstate lane carries 12,888 vehicles daily (1994 Highway Statistics) and an estimated 42,500 people (estimated using average vehicle occupancy rates). New light rail systems with the highest daily ridership are Los Angeles (nearly 40,000), Buffalo, Portland and St. Louis (each between 25,000 and 30,000) (National Transit Database 1994).\nNOTE 2: Based upon peak hour light rail ridership data as reported in Dennis L. Christiansen, High Occupancy Vehicle System Development in the United States (Washington, DC: United States Department of Transportation, 1990).\nInterstates are capable of carrying far more people where they include high-occupancy vehicle lanes that expedite trips for buses and car pools. The most successful high occupancy vehicle lane carries up to seven times the volume of general purpose lanes, and more people during peak hour than any of the nation's urban rail lines outside New York City. Interstate high occupancy vehicle lanes provide a form of mass transportation that cannot be provided by conventional mass transit services, providing commuters with door-to-door convenience, and faster and more efficient access to the entire metropolitan region, not just the downtown markets to which efficient mass transit services are necessarily limited. This vastly increases potential destinations in the mass transportation market beyond the downtown areas, which comprise, on average, only one-tenth to one-thirtieth of employment in urban areas.\nUrban residents use the interstates primarily because of the time that they save. In urban corridors, time savings of up to 60 percent have been observed.\nNOTE: Benefits of Interstate Highways, 1970.\nAnd while traffic congestion is increasing, the urban interstate highway system has continued to perform effectively, despite the fact that the 20 year capacity growth for which they were designed has long since passed in most cases. As employment and residences have spread, and as the number of work trips has increased, work trip travel times have declined, and average work trip distances have increased.\nNOTE: Calculated from data in Nationwide Personal Transportation Survey (Washington, DC: United States Department of Transportation, Federal Highway Administration, 1977 and 1990).\nWhile automobile commuting has increased more than 60 percent since 1970, the average automobile driver spends 10 percent less time traveling 20 percent further to work. Part of this is due to the impact of the interstates. The highway commuting system with its interstate backbone provides quicker commutes. Even in cities with urban rail systems, highway commuting speeds are 30 percent greater than rail commuting speeds.\nNOTE: Calculated from data in Nationwide Personal Transportation Survey: Urban Travel Patterns (Washington, DC: United States Department of Transportation, Federal Highway Administration, 1994).\nThe urban interstates are the high capacity component of what has developed as the world's most democratic, extensive, highly used, inexpensive, and flexible system of urban mass transportation --- the urban highway system.\nCost of the Interstate Highway System\nIn 1958, the United States Department of Commerce estimated that the interstate highway system would cost $41 billion to construct. Through the years, Congress required periodic reports from the Federal Highway Administration on system progress and the cost to complete the system. In the forty years that have passed, legal, regulatory and political changes have greatly expanded the scope of the interstate highway system. Through 1989, total interstate costs were 37 percent above the original estimate. Most of the difference between the original estimate and the actual cost is attributable to elements that were not anticipated in the original estimate, such as unit cost inflation (more than half of the increase, or 13.8 percent of total costs), and system revisions, such as system additions, and new environmental, safety, relocation and other requirements (40 percent of the increase, or 10.7 percent of total costs). Other cost increases --- the extent by which the original estimate underestimated the cost of the system as anticipated at the time --- accounted for less 10 percent of the increased costs (2.2 percent of total costs). It is estimated that the total construction cost of the interstate highway system, through 1995, is $329 billion in 1996 dollars ($58.5 billion in 1957 dollars).\nNOTE: The last analysis of interstate cost changes was completed by the Federal Highway Administration in 1991 and covered expenditures through 1989.\nNOTE: Methodology: Classification of diversion from original projection estimated based upon an analysis of data in Interstate Cost Estimate reports from 1958 through 1991 (produced by the United States Department of Commerce and the United States Department of Transportation). Total construction cost estimated using annual federally funded construction costs (including preliminary engineering, right of way acquisition and construction) supplied by the Federal Highway Administration (unpublished), adding a factor to account for non-local costs (based upon the ratio of costs from 1957 to 1990 in the 1991 Interstate Cost Estimate. Inflation adjustment based upon gross domestic product implicit price deflator.\nIn view of the complexity of projecting costs for such a large program over so long a period of time, the original cost was amazingly accurate.\nIMPACT OF THE INTERSTATE HIGHWAY SYSTEM\nThe interstate highway system has had a profound effect upon the American economy and contributed significantly to improved economic efficiency and productivity.\nBy increasing speed and expanding access, freight costs have been reduced substantially. Tractor-trailer operating costs have been estimated at 17 percent lower on interstate highways than other highways.\nThe interstate highway system made less expensive land more accessible to the nation's transportation system and encouraged development.\nThe travel time reliability of shipment by interstate highway has made \"just in time\" delivery more feasible, reducing warehousing costs and adding to manufacturing efficiency.\nBy broadening the geographical range and options of shoppers, the interstate highway system has increased retail competition, resulting in larger selections and lower consumer prices.\nBy improving inter-regional access, the interstate highway system has helped to create a genuinely national domestic market with companies able to supply their products to much larger geographical areas, and less expensively.\nEach of these cost reducing impacts have made both labor and capital more efficient and this has encouraged business expansion, new investment, and job creation.\nThrough the years, various estimates have been made of the contribution of the interstate highway system to the economy, generally finding that the interstate highway system has more than paid for itself in improved commercial productivity.\nNOTE: See for example, Benefits of Interstate Highways (Washington, DC: United States Department of Transportation, Federal Highway Administration, 1970) and Benefits of Interstate Highways (Washington, DC: United States Department of Transportation, Federal Highway Administration, 1983).\nA recent study indicated that with respect to non-local roads (arterial highways, especially the National Highway System, which includes the interstate highway system), each dollar of investment in highways produces an annual reduction in product costs of 23.4 cents, with larger cost reductions in the early years and smaller reductions in more recent years.\nNOTE: M. Ishaq Nadiri and Theofanis P. Mamuneas, Contribution of Highway Capital to Industry and National Productivity Growth (Washington, DC: United States Department of Transportation, Federal Highway Administration, 1996).\nWhile an interstate specific estimate is not available, it is likely that this most productive sector of non-local roads contributes even more per invested dollar than the non-local road system.\nUsing the results of this research, it is estimated that the interstate highway system is now producing approximately $14 billion.\nNOTE: In 1996 dollars, based upon year of construction expenditure. Throughout the balance of the report all financial data is in 1996 dollars, unless otherwise noted. in annual producer cost reductions.\nThis annual economic benefit is estimated to have peaked in 1970 at approximately $38 billion. Over the 40 year period, it is estimated that gross producer cost reductions have exceeded $1 trillion (1) --- more than three times the gross original investment in the interstate highway system (2This represents a substantial economic benefit, which is likely to have created employment and reduced consumer prices ) --- permitting the financial resources of consumers to be stretched to purchase more than would be otherwise possible.\nNOTE 1: Estimated based upon data in Nadiri and Mamuneas. A production cost decrease factor was estimated for each year from 1957 to 1996 by using their time series rates of change for the social rate of return for the non-local highway system (the 1970s to 1980s rate of change was used for years after 1989). Yearly interstate construction costs developed above are used, and a 60 year depreciation schedule is assumed (consistent with the assumptions in Fixed Reproducible Tangible Wealth in the United States, 1925-89 [Washington, DC: United States Department of Commerce, Economics and Statistics Administration, Bureau of Economic Analysis: 1993]). The resulting figure should be considered a general approximation, since additional research is underway to more reliably isolate the benefits of the highway contribution from other potential contributing factors (such as other infrastructure). Moreover, the Nadiri and Mamuneas data on which this estimate is based are aggregate figures for the economy. The production cost impacts vary substantially by industry.\nNOTE 2: $1 trillion divided by $329 billion.\nNOTE: Based upon the competitiveness of the U.S. economy, it is assumed that virtually all of the lower product costs resulted in consumer benefit through lower consumer prices and higher profits that, in turn, increased business investment and thereby created new jobs.\nThe same report also found that highways have contributed substantially to national productivity growth. From 1950 to 1989, approximately one-quarter of the nation's productivity increase is attributable to increased investment in the highway system.\nNOTE: Nadiri and Mamuneas.\nAgain, while a separate estimate for the interstate highway system is not available, the superiority and efficiency of the interstate highway system leads to a reasonable presumption of substantial contribution.\nShare of the economy: The interstate highway system is also a direct generator of jobs. As it was being built, it provided thousands of construction and related jobs. It has spawned a large number of new roadside businesses. While the direct impact of the interstates is not known, employment in dining establishments has increased more than seven times the rate of population growth, and employment in lodging establishments has increased at twice the national population growth rate (1958-199).\nNOTE: Calculated from data in Statistical Abstract of the United States (multiple annual editions).\nHighway transportation, and directly related industries is 7.5 million, more than one-sixth of total employment, while personal expenditures on highway transport represent one-ninth of total personal expenditures.\nNOTE: Calculated from data in National Transportation Statistics 1996.This figure does not include employment in related businesses outside the transport sector, such as road side business.\nNOTE: Calculated from National Income and Product Accounts, 1994, Survey of Current Business (Washington, DC: United States Department of Commerce, Economics and Statistics Administration, Bureau of Economic Analysis, January-February 1996).\nInterstate highways, which carry nearly one-quarter of the nation's surface passenger transport and 45 percent of motor freight transport, accounts for a considerable portion of this employment and economic activity.\nInternational Competitiveness and the Interstates: Super-highways got their start with the construction of German autobahns in the 1930s. Indeed, General Dwight D. Eisenhower's fascination with the German system provided major impetus to the vision of the interstates in the United States. Following the Second World War, super-highway construction resumed. When it was completed in the 1950s, Canada's MacDonald-Cartier Freeway from Montreal through Toronto and toward Windsor was the longest super-highway in North America at more than 500 miles. Since then, Canada has built less than 1,500 miles, while the United States has built more than 50,000 miles (including super-highways that are not a part of the interstate highway system). It was not long before the U.S. took unprecedented leadership in developing super-highways through the interstate highway program.\nThe United States now leads the world by a considerable margin in super-highways. U.S. mileage is nearly 10 times that of the former West Germany, 12 times that of France, 20 times that of Japan and nearly 30 times that of the United Kingdom. In fact, seven states have more at least as much mileage as the entire United Kingdom (California, Florida, Illinois, New York, Pennsylvania and Texas).\nNOTE: Calculated from Book of Vital Statistics (London, UK: The Economist Books, 1990).\nEven when adjusted to account for geographic size and population, the United States has a far more extensive network of super-highways than other developed nations --- 2.4 times the former west Germany, 2.9 times France, 6.5 times the United Kingdom and 9.7 times Japan.\nNOTE: Based upon a ratio of super-highway mileage per 1,000 square miles to population per square mile. Calculated from data in Book of Vital Statistics.\nVirtually all major urban areas in the United States are connected to one another by the interstate highway network. This is not so in many developed nations. Super-highway networks contain major gaps or have barely been developed at all. For example:\nFour of the United Kingdom's largest urban areas ---Glasgow, Edinburgh, Aberdeen and Newcastle-on-Tyne --- remain unconnected to the rest of the nation by super-highways.\nFive western European national capitals --- Lisbon, Madrid, Oslo, Stockholm and Helsinki --- are not connected to the European network.\nNOTE: This will remain the case even after completion of the Oresund link across the strait between Denmark and Sweden. A major gap remains between Paris and the closest large urban area in Italy, Turin.\nThere is no direct connection between Canada's largest urban area --- Toronto --- and the federal capital of Ottawa despite a distance that is little more than from America's largest urban area (New York) to the federal capital (Washington, DC). The major ports of Vancouver and Halifax, together with Winnipeg, are connected to no other major Canadian urban areas.\nNOTE: Vancouver is, however, connected to the U.S. interstate highway system.\nGaps remain in the link between Australia's largest urban area, Sydney, its federal capital, Canberra, and its second largest urban area, Melbourne --- a distance similar to the Denver to El Paso Interstate 25 corridor, which is considerably less densely populated. No major urban area in either Australia or New Zealand is connected to any other major urban area by super-highways.\nWhile traffic congestion in urban areas is not unusual in the United States, rural traffic congestion is rare. By contrast, rural traffic delays are far more frequent and serious in Europe.\nBut the U.S. advantage in super-highways could be challenged by planned improvements. The European Union will spend nearly $100 billion over the next decade to build 9,000 miles of new super-highways and is upgrading an additional 3,000 miles.\nNOTE: Commission of the European Communities, Trans-European Networks: Towards a Master Plan for the Road Network (Brussels, Belgium: Commission of the European Communities, Director-General for Transport, December 1992).\nThis investment is likely to improve the competitiveness of this already formidable trading block. And there is a rush to build super-highways in a number of nations, especially in the emerging economies of Asia.\nThe U.S. advantage in super-highways and the significance of the estimated 25 percent highway contribution to productivity is illustrated by the fact that U.S. gross domestic product per capita leads the next most affluent nation,\tSwitzerland, by only 5 percent, Japan by 17 percent and Canada by 20 percent.\nNOTE: Only Luxembourg, a highly specialized nation, slightly larger in area than the city of Jacksonville, Florida, with 40 percent fewer people (400,000, compares to Jacksonville's 640,000) has a higher gross domestic product per capita than the United States (based upon purchasing power parities). Purchasing Power Parities and Real Expenditures: EKS Results, Volume I 1993 (Paris, France: Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development, 1995).\nA nation's international competitiveness depends on a variety of factors such as its labor force, capital investment, natural resources, and infrastructure. With respect to infrastructure, and in particular, the comprehensive and efficient interstate highway system, the United States holds considerable comparative advantage over its international competitors. The interstate highway system reduces manufacturing and distribution costs in the large domestic market, which, in turn, makes U.S. products more competitive in world markets. This increases employment and, by making the U.S. a lower cost economy, allows its citizens to purchase more with their earnings.\nNOTE: For a discussion of comparative advantage in international economics, see Michael E. Porter, The Comparative Advantage of Nations (New York, NY: The Free Press, 1990).\nNOTE: U.S. unemployment rates have been considerably below that of European nations for a decade.\nThe highway system has been very important in maintaining the superiority of U.S. productivity. While estimates for the interstate highway system alone are not available, the efficiency and substantial role of the interstates leads to a reasonable presumption of their important contribution to international competitiveness.\nThe interstate highway system is by far the safest component of the nation's highway system, and its use has reduced traffic accidents, saved lives, and reduced injuries.\nThe fatality rate for interstate highways is nearly 60 percent lower that of the rest of the system.\nNOTE: 1994, measured in fatalities per 100 million person miles.\nIt is estimated that use of the interstate highway system in 1994 saved 6,100 lives, compared to the fatalities that would have occurred if there had been no interstates. Over 40 years, an estimated 187,000 lives have been spared by use of the interstates --- more people than live in either Dayton, Ohio or Salt Lake City.\nNOTE: Methodology: It is assumed that interstate traffic would be on the non-interstate highway portions of the federal aid-primary (FAP) system if there were no interstate highways. This estimate of lives lost is calculated using the differential in interstate and FAP fatality rates per 100 million passenger miles for the available years (1966 through 1991). Data for unavailable years is estimated based upon a trend analysis. 1995 and 1996 data projected based upon 1994 actual data.\nThe injury rate for interstate highways is more than 70 percent lower that of the rest of the system. It is estimated that use of the interstates reduced traffic related injuries by 440,000 in 1994 --- as many people as live in Portland, Oregon or Kansas City, Missouri. Over 40 years, the reduction in injuries is estimated at 11.8 million --- equal to the population of New York City, Chicago and Philadelphia combined --- as many people as live in the nation's fifth largest state, Pennsylvania.\nNOTE: Methodology: Assumes that interstate traffic would be on the non-interstate highway portions of the federal aid-primary (FAP) system if there were no interstate highways, estimating injuries avoided based upon the differential injury rates for the interstate and FAP systems. Uses available data, and models injury rates for unavailable years based upon trends in fatality rates. 1995 and 1996 data projected based upon 1994 actual data.\nUse of the interstates is estimated to have reduced traffic accidents by more than 400,000 in 1994.\nNOTE: Estimated from comparing interstate accident rates with rates for the balance of the National Highway System. Data from 1994 National Highway Statistics.\nEstimate of Reduced Fatalities & Injuries Attributable to\nUse of the Interstate Highway System\nFatalities Avoided 6,100 187,000\nInjuries Avoided 440,000 11,800,000\nIn urban areas, interstates provide the safest travel.\nNOTE: Calculated from data in Highway Statistics 1994 and National Transit Database 1994.\nUrban interstate fatality rates are more than 50 percent lower than that of other roads, while the injury rate is more than 70 percent lower.\nUrban interstate fatality rates are 65 percent lower than urban rail, while injury rates are 50 percent lower.\nUrban Fatality & Injury Rates\nPer 100 Million Person Miles: 1994\nType of Transport Fatalities Injuries\nInterstates 0.386 38.1\nOther Highways 0.806 134.7\nUrban Rail 1.113 80.7\nFor each mile of urban interstate highway constructed, more than four lives have been saved and more than 250 injuries have been avoided.\nEconomic gains from improved safety: There is a significant economic benefit to improved safety. Using National Safety Council estimates of the direct economic cost of traffic accidents, it is estimated that the lower interstate accident rate in 1994 will produce $17.2 billion in direct economic savings.\nNOTE: 1994 calculation uses National Safety Council rates as follows: Economic cost: $920,000 per fatality, $34,200 per disabling injury (disabling injuries from the National Safety Council), property and other per accident: $6,600. Quality of life cost: $2,890,000 per fatality, $129,200 per disabling injury (estimated based upon category costs provided, scaled using economic cost categories), $8,600 per accident property and other 40 year estimate based upon National Safety Council rates. Source: Accident Facts: 1995 Edition, (Itasca, IL: National Safety Council, 1995).\nThis is nearly as much as the federal government spends on highways annually. Gross losses in terms of quality of life are even higher --- estimated at $57.1 billion using National Safety Council estimates, more than three times annual federal government expenditure on highways.\nEstimate of Reduced Economic Loss Attributable to\nUse of the Interstate Highway System: 1994\nEconomic Quality of Life\nFatalities $5.8 $18.3\nDisabling Injuries $9.6 $36.2\nProperty & Other $1.8 $2.6\nTotal $17.2 $57.1\nBased on National Safety Council Accident Costs\nFrom 1957 to 1996, the safety related direct economic losses avoided due to the use of the interstate highway system are estimated at $368 billion (1996$).\nNOTE: Based upon National Safety Council costs deflated each year before 1994 in proportion to the size of that year's gross domestic product relative to 1994. Property and other costs are estimated based upon their 1994 relationship to fatality and injury costs.\nUsing this figure, the interstate highway system has produced $1.12 in safety related economic benefit alone for each dollar spent on construction.\nNOTE: $368 billion divided by $329 billion.\nUse of the Interstate Highway System: 1957-1996\nFatalities $136\nInjuries $194\nProperty & Other $38\nSafety in the States: The safety impacts of the interstates has been considerable in the states. In 1994, use of the interstates is estimated to have saved more than 250 lives in California (695), Texas (670), Florida (320) and Illinois (290) (Table A-2). Over 40 years, three states exceeded 10,000 in estimated fatalities avoided: California (19,500), Texas (18,900) and Illinois (10,300).\nNOTE: Annual state by state fatalities estimated based upon the ratio of state interstate fatalities to total interstate fatalities in 1994 scaled to reflect annual population changes from 1957 to 1996.\nIn terms of population, the greatest reduction in estimated fatalities occurred in Wyoming (4.72 per 1,000 population\tNew Mexico (3.17), Montana (2.27), Nevada (2.13), and Utah (2.10). Each of these states were more than double the national rate of 0.86.\nNOTE: Calculated using average population 1957-1996.\nNOTE: Western states with smaller populations and transcontinental interstate highways tend to have less favorable per capita safety indicator because travel that originates in other states is disproportionately high. For example, Wyoming has the nation's smallest population, yet contains nearly one-seventh of the one of the busiest transcontinental interstate (I-80, which extends from New York City to San Francisco).\nIn 1995, interstate usage averted more than an estimated 20,000 injuries in Texas (68,200), California (46,100), Ohio (24,800) and Illinois (20,900). Large numbers of injuries have been avoided over the last forty years (Table A-3).\nNOTE: Annual state by state injuries estimated based upon the ratio of state interstate injuries to total interstate injuries in 1994, scaled to reflect annual population changes from 1957 to 1996. Where 1994 state injury data was unavailable, 1994 figure was estimated based upon 1992 ratio.\nMore than half a million injuries are estimated to have been avoided in Texas (1,665,000), California (1,122,000), Ohio (752,000), Illinois (634,000) and New York (607,000)\nIn two states, estimated injuries exceeded the population of cities ranked among the largest six in the nation (Texas averted more injuries than the population of Houston [1,665,000], while California averted more injuries than the population of San Diego [1,122,000]).\nNOTE: Population analysis based upon 1990 United States Census.\nIn seven states, the estimated number of injuries avoided exceeds the population of the largest city: Connecticut (Bridgeport), Georgia (Atlanta), New Jersey (Newark), Ohio (Columbus), South Carolina (Columbia), Texas (Houston) and West Virginia (Charleston).\nOther large cities are similar in size or smaller than the number of injuries avoided in their respective states, such as San Francisco, San Jose, Oakland, Sacramento, Fresno, and Long Beach, California; Hartford, Connecticut, Miami, Tampa, St. Petersburg and Orlando, Florida; St. Louis, Missouri; Jersey City, New Jersey, Buffalo and Rochester, New York; Cleveland, Cincinnati and Toledo, Ohio; Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; Dallas, San Antonio and Fort Worth, Texas and Norfolk, Virginia.\nCompared to population, the greatest reduction in estimated injuries occurred in Texas (12.4 percent of average population\t,Wyoming (12.2 percent), Washington (9.6), Georgia, Utah, and Nevada (all 9.6 percent).\nNOTE: Western states with smaller populations and transcontinental interstate highways tend to have less favorable per capita safety indicators, because travel that originates in other states is disproportionately high. The reduction of injuries in each of these states was nearly twice the national rate of 5.4 percent.\nThe fatalities and injuries averted produced an estimated economic savings of more than half a billion dollars in 1994 alone in Texas, California, Illinois, Florida, Ohio, New York and Virginia (Table A-4). Quality of life gains exceeded one billion dollars in 17 states.\nOver 40 years, the estimated economic gains (Table A-5) from the use of interstate highways were highest in Texas ($45.7 billion), California ($36.3 billion), Illinois ($19.9 billion), Ohio ($18.8 billion) and New York ($16.0 billion). Estimated economic gains exceeded $5 billion in 25 states.\nThe greatest economic gains per capita\tCalculated using average population 1957-1996. were in Wyoming ($6,000), New Mexico ($4,200), Nevada ($3,500), Texas ($3,400), Utah ($3,300) and Colorado ($3,000), all nearly double or more than national average of $1,700.\nQuantifiable Economic Benefits: The primary benefits of the interstate highway system have been experienced by the people who have used and paid for them.\nBenefits to users are of two related varieties:\nTime savings made possible by higher speeds on interstate highways.\nExpanded mobility --- the expanded geographical area in which users can operate also due to the higher speeds on interstate highways.\nThe direct user benefits have been at least equal to the $329 billion user fee investment. But direct user benefits may have been even greater. If it is conservatively assumed that the interstates provide a time savings of 20 to 30 percent, then total time savings for non-commercial interstate use have been between 75 billion and 125 billion hours --- the equivalent of seven to 12 weeks for all 260 million Americans. The value of time saved for non-commercial users was between $45 billion and $77 billion in 1994 and $650 billion and $1.1 trillion over 40 years.\nNOTE: The discussion estimates interstate highway system intercity time savings relative to other roadways at 20 percent and urban time savings at up to 60 percent.\nNOTE: Based upon Texas Transportation Institute 1992 valuation of time at $10.50 per hour, with the value of time discounted based upon real gross domestic product size for other years as contained in Texas Transportation Institute, Urban Roadway Congestion-1982 to 1992, Volume 1: Annual Report (College Station, TX: Texas A&M University, 1995).\nUsers have also benefitted from lower vehicles operating costs, through reduced maintenance requirements, improved tire wear, lower oil consumption, and lower depreciation costs, which have more than offset the higher fuel costs attributable to higher speeds. Operating cost savings are estimated at $2 billion in 1996 and $41 billion over 40 years.\nNOTE: Operating cost savings for automobiles, light trucks, and vans of 3.14 percent. Calculated from data in Benefits of Interstate Highways (Washington, DC: United States Department of Transportation, Federal Highway Administration, 1983). Actual operating costs from consumer operating expenditures for user operated transportation from the gross domestic product accounts. Interstate operating expenditures estimated based upon annual 1957 to 1996 percentage of total consumer vehicle operation on the interstates.\nOther Benefits: The interstate highway system has improved the quality of life for Americans in a number of dimensions that are not readily quantifiable. Nonetheless, each of these benefits has contributed in a material way to maintaining and improving the standard of living.\nTime savings translate into additional time for preferred activities. Travel, especially day to day travel, is generally not an end in itself, it is a means to an end. People travel to get to work, to reach shopping locations, or to keep medical, dental or social appointments, which are primary activities. If people are able to spend less time traveling, they are able to spend more time pursuing preferred activities.\nExpanded mobility allows people to choose from a wider range of options and activities. Faster travel on an interstate can bring more jobs within reach of employees and make it possible for shoppers to take advantage of lower prices or larger selections that may be available at more remote locations.\nAdditional time and expanded mobility are both products of the interstate highway system. Where mobility improves, opportunity is expanded. Greater employment mobility serves not only the employee, but also the employer and the economy. With a broader geographical range of jobs to choose from, employees are better matched to their employment, improving labor efficiency and productivity. All of this increases economic activity, and translates into a higher quality of life. This is so not only for Americans, but also people in other developed nations, where a close relationship has developed between expanded personal mobility and increasing affluence (1). Personal mobility is both an economic and social asset.\nNOTE 1: Especially western European nations..\nDemocratization of mobility: The interstate highway system has facilitated an unprecedented expansion of mobility and in a democratic manner --- no nation on earth can equal the mobility that is available to the overwhelming majority of Americans. More than 90 percent of the nation's households have access to automobiles, and by extension to the nations' highway system. More than any component of that system, the interstate highway system has expanded the options of people to travel within and between their communities. The interstate highway system provides the crucial express links that make it possible for people to reach virtually any point in their communities for employment or shopping, at whatever time they desire.\nExpanded employment freedom: The interstate highway system has made it possible for people to pursue employment across far larger areas than before. People in previously isolated rural areas are now able to use the interstates to reach employment centers. Within urban areas, where interstate highways have reduced travel times up to 60 percent, the interstates make it possible for workers to travel relatively quickly to virtually any location for employment.\nExpanded residential freedom: The interstate highway system has played a significant role in producing the American dream of the single family house in the suburbs. As the interstate highway system reduced travel time, people had broader options in residential location. At the same time, lower land prices and increasing affluence made larger dwellings possible, and the size of the average new house has increased by 40 percent over the last quarter century.\nNOTE: Statistical Abstract of the United States: 1995 (Washington, DC: United States Department of Commerce, Economics and Statistics Administration, Bureau of the Census, 1995).\nMulti-purpose trips: The improved mobility provided by the interstates has supported a significant increase in multi-purpose trips, especially with respect to work trips. People regularly combine child care, shopping, and other trips with work trips, making valuable time available for preferred activities. Indeed, without the interstate highway system, the barriers to mobility would prevent some people from earning a living, and require others to accept less lucrative employment.\nEmpowerment of the poor: The combination of market priced (lower priced) gasoline and the interstate highway system have truly democratized mobility in the United States. The large majority of households, including households below the poverty line, have automobiles available and are thus able to access a broader range of employment, shopping, and other opportunities. Indeed, the poor in America generally have greater personal mobility by virtue of the automobile and the interstate highway system than many middle income households in developed nations where quality roadways are less extensive.\nNOTE: Among developed nations, gasoline prices are closest to market prices in the United States. Most developed nations impose heavy taxes on gasoline, raising prices per gallon to double, triple or more the price of production.\nLower retail prices: America's democratized mobility has lowered retail prices, thus benefitting consumers. As freedom of movement has expanded, people have been able to travel further to shop. At the same time, large discount retailers have been established, placing further competitive pressure on prices. To compete, smaller local retailers have had to become more efficient. One of the most important reasons that people get more for their retail dollar today is that they have more options --- they are able to travel wherever they like for bargains or larger selections that would not be available if they were restricted to shopping opportunities in their own immediate areas. And, because they rely on their own personal transportation, they are able to shop at whatever time they desire. This has encouraged longer store hours, more efficient utilization of retail facilities, and created additional jobs. The interstate highway system has been a major contributor to this advance.\nImproved access to health care: The interstate highway system has improved the quality of health care. By making it possible to transport those in need of acute care to hospitals much more quickly and over greater distances, the interstates have reduced mortality. The interstate highway system also improves access to specialists and specialized medical equipment for chronic care patients.\nImproved Air Quality: Interstate highways contribute materially to the reduction of air pollution and, thereby, to improved health by permitting more consistent speeds and smoother traffic flows.\nNOTE: Committee for the Study of Impacts of Highway Capacity Improvements on Air Quality and Energy Consumption, Transportation Research Board, National Research Council (Washington: National Academy Press, 1995).\nThe \"stop and go\" traffic typical of non-interstate roadways, increases air pollution by up to three times that of smoothly operating traffic, which is typical of most interstate highways.\nNOTE: Steve Nadis and James J. MacKenzie, Car Trouble (Boston, MA: Beacon Press, 1993).\nSecurity: There is considerable concern about personal security in the United States. During the period that the interstate highway system was constructed, violent crime rates increased by more than five times. People tend to feel safe from crime in their automobiles, and the interstate highway system has permitted people, especially women, to confidently travel longer distances at virtually any time of the day.\nLeisure activities and vacations: The broadened mobility provided by the interstate highway system has made it possible for people to take longer trips on weekends and during vacations. This, in turn, has generated a significant increase in highway related businesses, such as lodging establishments, restaurants, service stations, etc.\nOne of the principal reasons for building the interstate highway system was to support national defense. When the system was approved --- during one of the most instable periods of the Cold War, national security dictated development of an efficient national highway system that could move large numbers of military personnel and huge quantities of military equipment and supplies. The interstate highway system effectively performs that function, but perhaps more importantly, its availability provides the nation with a potential resource that could have been reliably called upon if greater military conflict had arisen. Throughout the Cold War (and even to today), America's strategic advantage in effective surface transportation was unchallenged. Even today, no constituent nation of the late Soviet Union has begun to develop such a comprehensive surface transportation system.\nIn the post-communist world, it may be tempting to underestimate the role of the interstate highway system in national defense. But the interstate highway system continues to play a critical role. The U.S. military's Strategic Highway Corridor Network (STAHNET) relies primarily on the interstate highway network, which represents 75 percent of network mileage. The U.S. Army cited the that system as being critical to the success of the 1990-1991 \"Desert Shield-Desert Storm operation (the U.S. led operation to free Kuwait from Iraq):\nMuch of the success of the operation was due to our logistical ability to rapidly move troops to the theater. The capacity of the U.S. highway system to support the mobilization of troops and to move equipment and forces to U.S. ports of embarkation was key to successful deployment.\nNOTE: \"Statement of Lieutenant General Kenneth R. Wykle, United States Army, Deputy Commander in Chief, United States Transportation Command before the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, Surface Transportation Committee, United States House of Representatives, on the U.S. Department of Transportation's Recommended National Highway System\" (Washington, DC: March 2, 1995).\nThe Army also noted the \"modal redundancy\" of the highway system, which provided rapid and effective movements of a military division when difficulties with a rail line precluded the planned transport by rail.\nNOTE: \"Statement of Lieutenant General Kenneth R. Wykle.\"\nThis illustrates the fact that the interstate highway system continues to play an important role in national defense, even in the post-Cold War era.\nOver the last 40 years, the Dwight D. Eisenhower Interstate System of Interstate and Defense Highways has served the nation well.\nIt has benefitted users by increasing mobility, reducing travel time, reducing operating costs, and generally expanding options for a higher quality of life.\nIt has benefitted the community by reducing the costs of motor vehicle accidents.\nIt has contributed substantially to economic growth.\nThe 40-year benefits quantified above are estimated at between $2.1 trillion and $2.5 trillion (1996$) --- between 6 and 7.5 times the gross original investment in the interstate highway system. Benefits in 1996 alone are estimated at from $78 billion to $110 billion --- more than the gross state product of Oregon.\nQuantified 40 Year Benefits of the\nInterstate Highway System: 1995$\nBenefits 1996\n(Billions) 1957-1996\n(Trillions)\nLower Product Prices $14 $1.0\nUser Benefits (Time Savings & Operating Costs) $47-$79 $0.7-$1.1\nReduced Fatalities, Injuries and Accidents $17 $0.4\nTotal Quantified Benefits $78-$110 $2.1-$2.5\nBut the quantified benefits fall short of the actual benefits that have been produced by the interstate highway system, such as:\nIncreased business investment.\nIncreased employment opportunities.\nGreater employment mobility.\nExpanded housing opportunities\nGreater economic freedom due to multi-purpose trips\nGreater mobility for low income citizens\nImproved access to health care\nGreater leisure time and broadened vacation options\nEach of these benefits do not lend themselves easily to economic analysis, but their impact has clearly been profound. The interstate highway system has improved and enriched the quality of life of Americans.\nWhile the economic and social benefits of the first 40 years of the interstate highway system are clear, the gargantuan load of automobiles, light trucks, buses, and commercial vehicles has taken a toll on the interstates.\nCondition of the Interstates: Despite the important role played by the interstates in the nation's economy and quality of life, the system requires renewed investment. Many portions of the interstate highway system are strained to capacity, increasing delays and air pollution and dampening economic activity. This is not surprising. The interstate highways were built to accommodate 20 years of traffic growth. By 1985, half of the system had reached its design life, and, by 1995, 90 percent of the system was 20 years or older. The original interstate highway system, authorized when the nation's population was less than 170 million, is not much more extensive today when the nation's population approaches 270 million. Including non-interstate super-highways, expressways and toll roads now total 55,000 miles, 30 percent more than the interstate highway system as conceived in the late 1950s, but the nation's population has increased by 70 percent over the same period.\nFrom 1982 to 1992, urban traffic congestion increased by more than 15 percent.\nNOTE: Urban Roadway Congestion-1982 to 1992.\nThe percentage of urban interstate lane miles operating at above 80 percent of capacity at peak hour has nearly doubled since 1975.\nNOTE: 1994 Highway Statistics.\nAnd, rural interstate congestion, though minimal compared to that of urban areas, continues to grow.\nAt the same time, the physical structure of the system is in need of attention.\nApproximately 60 percent of interstate pavements are rated from fair to poor.\nNOTE: Clifford M. Comeau, \"Condition and Performance of the Interstate System - After 40 Years,\" Public Roads (Washington, United States Department of Transportation, Federal Highway Administration, Summer 1996).\nSix percent of interstate bridges are structurally deficient.\nNOTE: Calculated from 1995 Status of the Nation's Surface Transportation System: Conditions and Performance (Washington, DC: United States Department of Transportation, 1995),\nStructural deficiency can result in catastrophic bridge failure and loss of life (within the past 15 years, there have been two well publicized bridge collapses claiming 13 lives.\nNOTE: Mianus River Bridge on I-95 in Connecticut (1983) and Schoharie Creek Bridge on I-95 in New York (1987).).\nThe Imperative for Interstate Investment: Expensive as they might appear, improvements are necessary. According to reports prepared for the Federal Highway Administration, the pace of super-highway lane construction in urban areas over one million would have to be increased substantially to stop the growth of traffic congestion. Yet, the annual cost of such would be only $3 billion --- a fraction of the peak annual construction costs incurred during the 1960s and 1970s, and a 2.5 percent increase in the nation's annual surface transportation budget.\nNOTE: Lane mile data from Texas Transportation Institute, 1995. Per lane mile cost calculated from data in 1995 Status of the Nation's Surface Transportation System: Conditions and Performance adjusted to reflect 1996 prices.\nNOTE: 1994 surface transportation expenditures were approximately $120 billion (1996$), $95 billion for highways and $25 billion for transit.\nThe safety impacts alone would justify such expenditures. Each new ten mile segment of urban interstate could be expected to save, on average, two lives and 250 injuries annually. Over a ten year period, this urban interstate improvement rate could save 1,950 lives and avert 240,000 injuries.\nNOTE: Based upon improved lower fatality and injury rate of the interstate highway system relative to the balance of the federal aid primary system. Average urban interstate assumed to be six lanes. 10 year projection assumes that 1,104 lane miles of urban interstates would be built per year over the period.\nThe economic impacts of improved safety would exceed the cost of the new roadway in less than 15 years.\nNOTE: Conversion from lane miles to roadway assumes an average of six traffic lanes. Lives and injuries avoided based upon comparison of rates between interstates and the federal aid-primary system. Construction costs based on data in 1995 Status of the Nation's Surface Transportation System: Conditions and Performance converted to 1996$.\nEach new 10 mile segment of rural interstate could be expected to save one life and 40 injuries per year.\nThe increase in traffic congestion takes an additional economic toll in terms of excess fuel consumption and the costs of delay. In 1992, these urban \"congestion costs\" were $34 billion and were increasing at an annual rate of approximately $2.1 billion.\n--- nearly two thirds of the annual cost of required capacity expansion ($3.0 billion, above). Urban super-highway (largely interstate) congestion increases motor vehicle related pollution by consuming more than 14 billion excess gallons of fuel annually --- 58 gallons of fuel per household. This is enough fuel to transport the average household 1,250 miles by automobile (equal to trips from New York to Minneapolis, Seattle to San Diego, Milwaukee to Orlando or Denver to New Orleans).\nNOTE: In 1996 dollars. Super-highway congestion costs estimated using relationship of freeway delay hours to total system delay hours. Calculated using data for 50 large urban areas in Urban Roadway Congestion - 1982 to 1992.\nA report on 1989 conditions indicated that free traffic flow could be achieved through super-highway (largely interstate) expansions in even the most congested urban areas.\nNOTE: 1989 Roadway Congestion Estimate and Trends (College Station, Texas: Texas Transportation Institute, July 1992).\nBy far the highest cost --- $8 billion --- would be required in Los Angeles --- considerably less than that urban area is spending to build urban rail systems that are unlikely to significantly improve traffic flow.\nNOTE: In 1996$, based upon costs calculated from 1995 Status of the Nation's Surface Transportation System: Conditions and Performance.\n$1 billion would be required in Washington, D.C. Again, while this is a considerable figure, it represents a relatively small investment compared to other non-highway transportation investments that have failed to reduce the area's traffic congestion.\nThere has been considerable opposition to expansion of urban interstates, much of it based upon the presumption that expanded interstate capacity is quickly consumed by new traffic. Yet, traffic congestion has declined in two of the nation's fastest growing urban areas (between 1982 and 1992).\nNOTE: Urban Roadway Congestion - 1982 to 1992.\nIn Phoenix, traffic congestion declined by six percent from 1982 to 1992, while population increased by 40 percent (1980-1990).\nIn Houston, traffic congestion declined by four percent from 1982 to 1992, while population increased by 20 percent (1980-1990).\nA major component of the improved traffic conditions in these two urban areas has been a substantial program to build and expand super-highways. By contrast, the average large urban area experienced a 20 percent increase in traffic congestion, while population increased by approximately 10 percent.\nNationally, improvement of interstate highways and other super-highways to support anticipated rates of economic growth would require an annual increase in capital expenditures of approximately $3.5 to $4.5 billion --- $24 billion from 1997 through 2002.\nNOTE: Calculated from data for the \"Economic Efficiency\" scenario in 1995 Status of the Nation's Surface Transportation System: Conditions and Performance.\nRecent analysis by the Congressional Budget Office indicated that federal highway expenditures could be increased by nearly $28 billion from 1997 through 2002 --- more than enough to pay for the required investment, through use of existing and anticipated Highway Trust Fund resources.\nNOTE: Calculated from data in Statement of Robert A. Sunshine, Deputy Assistant Director for Budget Analysis, Congressional Budget Office, on The Highway Trust Fund, before the Subcommittee on Surface Transportation, Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, United States House of Representatives, May 16, 1996.\nFurther, even after 2002, highway user fees will continue to produce more revenue than is spent on building, maintaining, and patrolling the nation's highways --- considerably more than would be required to fund the investments required to preserve the positive economic contribution of the interstate highway system to the national economy.\nThe economic imperative: The nation's continued economic growth depends, in part, on an interstate highway system that grows along with the nation. Population growth will continue. All demographic trends indicate overwhelmingly that people will continue to pursue the \"American Dream\" of the house in the suburbs and a high degree of personal mobility. But the challenges to U.S. economic growth are substantial. International competitors are becoming stronger, while total compensation per U.S. employee is increasing at lower rates that before. If traffic congestion is permitted to worsen, then American consumers will pay a heavy toll, in higher prices due to higher shipping costs, jobs lost due to foreign competition, reduced employment opportunities, and less leisure time.\nAmerica's Future Depends on the Interstates\nIt has been a momentous 40 years. Interstate highways have contributed to the economic growth and quality of life in America. Indeed, the interstate highway system has been a major factor in making the United States the homogeneous nation that it has become.\nThe interstate highway system, and other super-highways, will continue to make a positive contribution to the nation's economy and quality of life. This requires that investments be made to preserve and expand the mobility that has helped to make Americans the world's most prosperous people, America the world's premier economic power, and provided an international model for expanding freedom of mobility for virtually everyone. In important dimensions, the future of the nation depends upon the interstate highway system.\nThe American Highway Users Alliance\nThe American Highway Users Alliance traces its roots to 1932, when it was chartered by General Motors President Alfred Sloan to \"get the farmers out of the mud.\" The Highway Users (knows as the Highway Users Federation from 1970 to 1995) serves the long-term interests of business and industry in transportation. Many industries are dependent on highways to be successful, including automotive, travel and shipping. Almost 80 percent of all U.S. Expenditures for passenger and freight transportation --- $800 billion annually --- are highway related. Highway passengers spend over $350 billion per year on their travel --- about 12 percent of the nation's GDP. And freight movement over highways counts for 80 percent of all shipping.\nThe Highway Users works for better, safer highway transportation through public policy analysis, public information and education, and legislative and regulatory advocacy. It believes that good highways are essential to a strong economy and the costs of improving highway transportation should be borne by the users.\nLed by President William D. Fay, the Highway Users has over 500 individual and 100 corporate/association members and affiliates in 18 states.\nWendell Cox and Jean Love are public policy consultants with the Wendell Cox Consultancy.\nBoth have worked on projects in the United States, Canada, Australia, Africa, Europe, and New Zealand. They have recently established an Internet public policy journal, The Public Purpose.\nMr. Cox was appointed to three terms (1977-85) on the Los Angeles County Transportation Commission by Mayor Tom Bradley and has chaired national committees on energy conservation and urban transit planning. He also serves on the steering committee of the bi-ennial International Conference on Competition and Ownership in Surface Passenger Transport. He holds an MBA from Pepperdine University in Los Angeles.\nMs. Love has performed research in a variety of fields, and edited three editions of a comprehensive public policy manual (Legislative Issue Briefs). She organized the Third International Conference on Competition and Ownership in Surface Passenger Transport, held in Toronto in 1993. She earned a Masters degree from Southern Illinois University in Edwardsville.\nThey are co-authors of many books and papers, including Moving America Competitively, The Livable American City and People, Markets, and Government: A State Legislator's Guide to Economics. Their practice is based in the St. Louis area.\nUrban Travel Market Share (Person Miles): 1994: Largest Urban Areas\nUrban Area Interstate Other Highway Non-Highway (Primarily Rail) Interstate Times\nAtlanta 26.5% 72.8% 0.7% 39\nBoston 22.8% 74.2% 3.0% 8\nBuffalo 17.0% 82.8% 0.2% 98\nChicago-Northwestern Indiana 20.9% 76.6% 2.5% 8\nCincinnati 30.2% 69.8% 0.0% **\nCleveland 27.6% 72.1% 0.3% 84\nColumbus 27.6% 72.4% 0.0% **\nDenver 19.9% 80.1% 0.0% 1,659\nDetroit 21.2% 78.8% 0.0% **\nDallas-Ft. Worth 20.7% 79.3% 0.0% **\nHouston 19.7% 80.3% 0.0% **\nKansas City 24.9% 75.1% 0.0% **\nLos Angeles 21.5% 78.4% 0.1% 172\nMiami-Fort Lauderdale 14.3% 85.1% 0.6% 25\nMilwaukee 17.4% 82.6% 0.0% **\nMinneapolis-St. Paul 24.1% 75.9% 0.0% **\nNew Orleans 22.8% 77.1% 0.2% 133\nNorfolk-Va. Beach-Newport News 18.7% 81.3% 0.0% **\nNew York-Northeastern New Jersey 13.6% 78.7% 7.7% 2\nPittsburgh 16.4% 83.4% 0.2% 93\nPhiladelphia 15.3% 82.6% 2.1% 7\nPhoenix 12.4% 87.6% 0.0% **\nPortland 23.0% 76.7% 0.3% 85\nSacramento 16.9% 82.9% 0.2% 77\nSan Antonio 25.0% 75.0% 0.0% **\nSan Diego 27.7% 72.1% 0.2% 135\nSeattle 25.2% 74.8% 0.0% **\nSan Francisco-San Jose 21.6% 76.8% 1.6% 14\nSt. Louis 27.3% 72.5% 0.1% 235\nTampa-St. Petersburg 14.7% 85.3% 0.0% **\nWashington-Baltimore 23.5% 74.7% 1.7% 14\n**Non-highway person miles zero or negligible.\nEstimate of Reduced Fatalities Attributable to Use of the Interstate Highway System: By State\nState 1994 40 Years Fatalities Avoided per 1,000 Population*\nAlabama 135 4,400 1.19\nAlaska 0 0 ---\nArizona 170 4,200 1.70\nArkansas 60 1,900 0.90\nCalifornia 695 19,500 0.85\nColorado 170 4,700 1.79\nConnecticut 70 2,300 0.77\nDelaware 5 100 0.17\nDistrict of Columbia 10 300 0.44\nFlorida 320 8,100 0.91\nGeorgia 175 5,000 0.95\nHawaii 10 300 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That was the beginning phase of the NRMNC project, which has had ongoing support and funding from the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS), the Agency for Toxic Substance and Disease Registry (ATSDR), and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), all in partnership and collaboration with the Ely Shoshone Tribe, technical researchers from Clark University, and community-based researchers from the Western Shoshone and Southern Paiute communities.\nThrough this special project the NCAC requires community control and empowerment for all funded health research activities due to the under-representation of Native Communities in previous studies on the effects of nuclear fallout. We have trained our Native people to strengthen our capacity for community-based environmental health activities. Community-based researchers have conducted, transcribed, and organized all of the interviews for the project and have been trained in Geographic Information Systems (GIS), a computer mapping technology. Community information has been compiled in a Community Exposure Profile, a \u201cliving document\u201d written by and for the communities. Community staff have also created and distributed pamphlets and newsletters, and held workshops and presentations on our findings in over 15 communities, and at local, regional and national gatherings.\nCommunity Knowledge and Research\nThe NRNMC\u2019s local knowledge program has allowed us to gather extensive information from elders of the Western Shoshone and Southern Paiute communities about the lifestyle, culture and socio-demographic characteristics of our recent history. We have collected firsthand observations of the above-ground nuclear test era (1951-62), including observations of environmental abnormalities (such as sick and dying livestock and wildlife), observations of health problems, and descriptions of tests. Some elders remembered visible radiation exposure effects, such as reddening of the skin or hair loss, while living and working outdoors in the late 1950s and early 1960s. Many elders reported hearing and feeling abrupt vibrations \u201clike a sonic boom\u201d or seeing \u201cbeautifullycolored clouds\u201d and \u201cwhite dust clouds\u201d traveling through the mountains and valleys from the test site after seeing flashes in the south.\nWe have also collected critical information about our housing, mobility, diet, and subsistence activities to give a more accurate description of potential radiation exposures. Our findings demonstrate additional and significant exposures that were experienced with Native lifestyles. The most alarming evidence generated so far is based on the fact that Western Shoshone and Southern Paiute families would often eat contaminated wildlife. One particular exposure pathway, the consumption of wild rabbits, was closely analyzed. It became apparent that the thyroid glands of rabbits accumulated radioactive iodine after nuclear weapons tests. Western Shoshone and Southern Paiute families almost always ate several rabbits each week, including the thyroids. Technical researchers at Clark University have used this knowledge to estimate significant doses of radioactive iodine, doses which were not counted by the DOE or the National Cancer Institute. Young children in Duckwater, Nevada, for example, are estimated to have received thyroid doses roughly a few 1,000 times greater than the average daily dose from natural sources of radiation from each of several test events depositing fallout on the community.\nThese doses are in addition to the doses from contaminated milk that both Native and non-Native residents received. Cows eating contaminated grass passed on the contamination in their milk; Native communities in the 1950s typically consumed fresh local milk and experienced higher exposures than people drinking store-bought milk. We concluded that residents of Duckwater, Shivwits, and other Western Shoshone and Southern Paiute communities received thyroid doses several-fold higher than non-Native residents in the area.\nStudies of thyroid cancer in southwest Utah, around Chernobyl, and in children treated medically with radiation lead us to the further conclusion that Native community residents exposed to fallout as young children experienced roughly twice the thyroid cancer risk of non-Native people. While these results are based on the consumption of wild rabbits, other exposure pathways, including consumption of other small wild game that were routinely eaten at different times of the year, should also be kept in mind.\nAbove-ground nuclear weapons testing ended in 1962 and our communities have become less dependent on local game for food as local game has become more scarce. However, underground testing was carried out at the test site until 1992 and may resume; these tests have sometimes leaked radioactive fallout outside of the test site at lower levels. More importantly, traditional lifestyles have not been forgotten\u2014although wildlife have suffered since the invasion of Euro-Americans, we hope that we will be able to reestablish our customary diet in a healthier future.\nA Model for Managing Hazards\nThe NRMNC project has served as a national model for conducting health research and education in Native American communities for the purpose of environmental justice. Our work has demonstrated the need for us to take responsibility and control of our own community health issues. Our people must gain an understanding of these complex issues and determine our needs so that we can protect and preserve the health of our people.\nThe following are being considered for a community-based nuclear hazards management plan: environmental monitoring, a local knowledge program, legal recourse, medical surveillance, health and ecological research, implementation of a geographical information system, and a community education program. Health records, for example, have been poorly maintained over the years and we will have to take responsibility for linking exposures and health effects according to our experience. We are also currently expanding our focus; although the Yucca Mountain waste site has until recently been outside the scope of our project, we are now beginning to work on issues of nuclear waste transportation through our lands.\nThe Board of Directors of the NCAC maintains oversight of the NRMNC project and has helped to reinforce cultural history and to communicate to our communities that as Western Shoshone and Southern Paiute people, we have existed here for countless generations. This perspective must be maintained as we learn about the impacts of the Nevada Test Site.\nPatricia George is project coordinator at the Nuclear Risk Management for Native Communities project in Ely, Nevada (nvnrmnc@mwpower.net). Abel Russ is a research associate at the George Perkins Marsh Institute at Clark University in Worcester, Massachusetts (abelruss@riseup.net).\nThe following individuals have brought cultural, historical and spiritual presence to this work that will guide us in our future efforts for healing the Western Shoshone and Southern Paiute communities from physical pain, cultural exploitation and spiritual degradation from nuclear contamination: Ian Zabarte, Corrina Bow, Virginia Sanchez (president), Margene Bullcreek (vice-president), Pauline Estevez (secretary), Grace Goad (treasurer), Maurice Frank-Churchill, Dolly BigSoldier, Corbin Harney, Calvin Meyers, Bennie Reilley Sr., Laura Saunders, Eleanor Tom, and special advisors Nilak Butler and Peter Ford.\nIn Nevada, Yomba Shoshone, Duckwater Shoshone, Ely Shoshone, Timbisha Shoshone, and Moapa Paiute; in Utah, Shivwits Paiute, Kanosh Paiute, Koosharem Paiute, Cedar City Paiute, Indian Peaks Paiute, and Skull Valley Goshute.\nChurch, BW et al. 1990. Overview of the Department of Energy\u2019s Off-Site Radiation Exposure Review Project. Health Physics 59:503-10.\nOur initial analysis was published in 2000 (Frohmberg, E et al. 2000. The assessment of radiation exposures in Native American communities from nuclear weapons testing in Nevada. Risk Analysis 20(1):101-11) and a new analysis is being prepared for publication. The National Cancer Institute failed to consider the possibility of unique Native exposures (NCI 1997. Estimated exposures and thyroid doses received by the American people from Iodine-131 in fallout following the Nevada atmospheric nuclear bomb tests. National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services) and continues to ignore this unique exposure pathway.\nJacob, P et al. 1999. Childhood exposure due to the Chernobyl accident and thyroid cancer risk in contaminated areas of Belarus and Russia. Br. J. Cancer 80(9), 1461-9.; Kerber, RA, et al. 1993. A cohort study of thyroid disease in relation to fallout from nuclear weapons testing. JAMA 270:2076-82; Ron, E et al. 1995. Thyroid cancer after exposure to external radiation: a pooled analysis of seven studies. Radiation Research 141:259-277.\n\u2039 Hogging the Land up Clearing the Air in Chinatown \u203a\nDitching Diesel\nHogging the Land\nClearing the Air in Chinatown\nYouth Participation in Research", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00240.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 146, + "original_length": 15135, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.94, + "perplexity": 290.1, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "http://www.restassuredhymns.com/for-fun/", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T03:39:24Z", + "digest": "sha1:2FQIJWKIMF3WOMHD2222QQLJUO25GO22", + "length": 215, + "nlines": 4, + "source_domain": "www.restassuredhymns.com", + "title": "For Fun \u2014 Rest Assured Hymns", + "raw_content": "Because we have a sense of humor...\n\"I used an old photo to try and figure out how to edit out red eye.\nThings went from bad to worse. 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Cargile was open to the idea, and they agreed to meet in New York City when Cargile would be up there with his girlfriend.\nHere are a few paragraphs for a very fascinating article:\nIt is common knowledge in Nashville, especially among the social set of Belle Meade, the lush residential preserve of old Nashville, that Neil Cargile -- twice married, the father of three, and decidedly heterosexual -- likes to \"dress up.\" The first time he ever wore women's clothes in public was at a Halloween party at the Palm Bay Club, in Miami, in the mid-nineteen-seventies; four women had talked him into going to the party as Dolly Parton. They'd dressed him in a blond wig, a red dress, and a pair of Charles Jourdan shoes with four-inch chrome heels. Cargile won first prize that night, and a photograph of him in all his glory was posted on the club's bulletin board, where George and Em Crook, of Nashville, happened to see it some months later. \"My God, that's Neil Cargile!\" Mrs. Crook exclaimed.\nThe Crooks assumed that the episode was nothing more than a party prank, and they held to this view for the next couple of years, even when rumors of other cross-dressing episodes began to circulate in Nashville. The other occasions were costume parties, too, and they were always out of town.\nBut then Cargile began to dress up in Nashville. At first, he did it at private parties and with a degree of subtlety. He'd wear a blazer, a shirt and tie -- and a kilt. Instead of the traditional knee-length woolen socks, however, he'd put on black stockings and high heels; or he'd wear the kilt and the heels with a formal dinner jacket. Eventually, he held what he called a Vice-Versa party at his home: guests were required to come dressed as a member of the opposite sex. Cargile was between marriages at the time, and his date that night came as Sir Lancelot; she rode into the house on a pony.\nThe Vice-Versa party and other sightings of Neil Cargile in drag caused a great deal of talk around town, but it was not until the 1979 Cumberland Caper that Nashville got a good look at Neil Cargile as a cross-dresser. The Caper is an annual costume party that benefits the Cumberland Science Museum. It has a different theme every year, and in 1979 Nashville's moneyed elite were asked to come as their favorite character in history. They arrived that evening in an assortment of decorous disguises -- as George and Martha Washington, for example, and Marie Antoinette and Louis XVI. Neil Cargile showed up in a blue dress and a long blond wig. Given the theme of the evening, his choice was strangely inappropriate.\n\"And what historic character have you come as?\" someone asked. \"As Neil Cargile in a dress,\" he replied.\u201d\nI asked him what his father would have done if he had seen him in a dress.\n\"He'd have killed me,\" he said.\n\"And your mother?\"\n\"She heard about it and she confronted me. She said, You're the best-looking man in Nashville, Neil. Why on earth would you want to dress up in women's clothes?' \"\nAnd what did you say?\"\n\"I told her, 'It's fun, Mom.'\"\nThe whole wonderful and positive article is a 13 page look into a fascinating person like us. Some of the article can be found at http://georpin.chez.com/neil.html and the complete article is at The New Yorker site.\nSo, how do you want to be remembered?\nThank you so much for posting this wonderful story about SheNeil Cargile. What a very interesting person and a person whose approach to life, politics, fun, and living on the edge is not all that far from my own personality. I too like to dress because it is fun. I was surprised that I had not known of Neil Cargile before reading the attached story. I think it is almost required reading for CDs. He was such an interesting person with such an interesting life that I think someone should make a move of his life.\nI really like that the author uses the 3-4% of men being crossdressers. 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I am very proud to have worked with our entire Senate delegation to secure this grant and I look forward to our local economy benefiting as a result.\"\nThe building will expand on both the University's and the city's world-class optics research, and encourage the growth of the University's newest discipline, biomedical engineering.\nWith the estimated 400 to 700 jobs created by this project, the Goergen Hall will provide an important component for economic development in the Rochester area and serve as a model for partnering industry with academia. Housed alongside the scientists will be the new Center for Institute Ventures, which is designed specifically to help bring University knowledge to the marketplace.\n\"Not only has Joe Robach's support been so critical in helping bring us closer to the completion of this new, state-of-the-art structure, but he has been instrumental in leveraging private philanthropy\ufffdmost notably through the generosity of individuals like Robert Goergen and Charles Munnerlyn and foundations like the Whitaker Foundation,\" says Joel Seligman, president of the University. \"With the creation of the Robert B. 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The research being done at this new facility will establish the University of Rochester as one of the premier research centers in the nation in the field of biomedical optics. This announcement is also great news for the developing high-tech sector in the Rochester area and will create high-paying new jobs for the local economy. Securing this state funding required teamwork and I am proud of the efforts of the Rochester state legislative delegation.\"\n\"I am proud to stand with my legislative colleagues to announce good news that will strengthen one of Rochester's most valued resources\ufffdthe University of Rochester\ufffdand keep it on the cutting edge of technology in the 21st century,\" said Maziarz. \"The new Robert B. Goergen Hall for Biomedical Engineering and Optics will result not only in advances in academics and research, but also in our efforts to grow our tech-driven economy and create jobs.\"\nRobert B. 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He in fact quite enjoys the ice times and the on ice drills/coaches that he has had.\nI have been impressed with Mike (my sons) attitude now with school and especially time management with homework and hockey. The late Midget A practice and game times where at least twice per week he is up until well after Midnight has certainly taken its toll on his performance in the earlier months, but I can see an improvement in his competitiveness and skill of late as he gets a bit more accustomed to the routine. His strength and shot still needs work, but that will come as he continues to develop in your program.\nThe program has certainly been worth the money from my perspective. Thanks all who are involved. Stu Anderson (Head Coach Port Coquitlam MHA)\nMy son Chris is enjoying RPM. He was a little hesitant at first given that it was 5 days per week, plus P.E. and of course he plays for a hockey team. He has gone down 2 pant sizes in 2 months, he is stronger, faster, and enjoying the program. He told me this week that he would like to sign up again for next year.\nThere are days when he has a hockey game the night before, a early ice time with RPM, then P.E., and then another game at night. It would seem to me that given the RPM program is 4 course credits, he should be excused from the physical portion of PE. I am sure that every kid that is taking the RPM program is also playing hockey outside of school for a community team as well with 3 or more ice times a week. That is our only criticism. Keep it going!!! Kevin Cahoon\nHello, my son is enjoying the academy although I get the feeling it could be more challenging but realize it is hard to work with all the different levels. He is in the later class and feel if he was in the earlier it would not work out for us as the regular hockey goes to late during the week and this could be a problem for next year going into Midget. It is a lot of hockey when you combine the two. Ideally it would be better to have the academy in the off season -2nd semester but understand ice is a problem. The flu has not helped -getting them back to normal has taken sometime. Overall we feel it is a great opportunity for kids that are keen and hope it will be an option in the following years. Laura Genovese\nHi, from my son has said it is good. Heather Hemphill\nHi there - just wanted to let you know that I think you are doing a terrific job, and my son Chris Mah, has really enjoyed everything so far. He is in Grade 12, and I wish this had been offered last year too. He has no complaints, nor do I. He is really looking forward to the next few months Thanks a lot! Sandra Mah\nHello Sir. Madam, I would like to thank you for the hard and professional work of River side hockey academy team and coaches. It was a great opportunity for my son to build up some more skills and knowledge and good habit of early morning workout. Best regards, Nasrin Khanmohamady\nHello, My son, Erik Rasche was thrilled when he first heard the hockey academy was coming Riverside Secondary. It actually made him look forward to the start of school. The academy is meeting both his and our (parents) expectations. Erik talks highly of the on and off ice training with everything seeming to be balanced and well rounded. The instructors are knowledgeable and to push the player to become better, not compared to others, but against themselves. Sincerely, Mitch Rasche\nMy son, Justin Togno, is participating in the Hockey program at Riverside Secondary. Although he has only had one year of hockey when he was much younger, I feel it is great that the academy has given him the chance to still participate in this program. Justin loves the program and wants to continue in it next year. He has been able to improve his skills and looks forward to going to school and to hockey. His coach Darren Straumford has been very good and positive with Justin's progress.\nOverall I'm very happy with the program and I hope that it will continue at Riverside. I think it is a great way to get kids to come to school and participate in a team orientated course that promotes responsibility, exercise, and good life skills, doing something they enjoy. Nina Heller\nTo whom it may concern, I am writing this email in support of the Riverside Hockey Academy run by RPM. I have a long and diverse background in hockey having played up to Junior in my younger years. In addition I instructed power skating for years in the 70\u2019s & early 80\u2019s and I have trained at the High Performance 1 coaching certification level. I have coached in AAA programs at all levels of minor hockey, was Coaching Coordinator for Port Coquitlam Minor Hockey for the past two seasons and now scout for junior and college teams.\nHe has been very satisfied to date in his participation in the Hockey Academy despite the high physical demands of the schedule (ice 3 times per week and 2 intense dry land sessions) coupled with Physical Education every other day and his schedule playing for the Bantam A Rep team. The RPM instructors and Mr. Luongo have been very positive and the drill variety is very good along with the progression incorporated into each skill development. In this group there are several grades 9-12 (male & female) and the teachers have done a very good job at creating a positive and yet challenging environment for each participant. I have coached several of the participants in the program in addition to my son and from speaking to them and their parents they all are very satisfied with the program in all aspects.\nI have been advised that the dry land aspect of the hockey academy is very challenging and a great amount of variety in activities is incorporated. My son is in fine condition largely because of the academy and its program (on & off-ice). There appears to be a positive group \u201cculture\u201d amongst the participants and the players appear to be enjoying the opportunity despite their various ages. Overall I have seen the Hockey Academy improve my son\u2019s hockey skills, fitness and he has really enjoyed this privileged experience. J. A. Michie, Chairman\nMy son, Riley Schmidt is thoroughly enjoying the hockey academy at Riverside. I have to be honest, it took a couple of weeks for him to adjust to the early mornings but now that he has he is glad he stuck it out and is looking forward to the four extra credits. The separation of the stronger and weaker players in this session was a smart move on your part and will be beneficial to both parties. It is unfortunate you were not able to secure the gym at Riverside for their dry land sessions. Other than that you get two thumbs way up from our family for a job well done. Looking forward to participating in the academy for the next three years. Laurie Schmidt\nTo: RPM hockey Management, Just a quick note to let you know that my daughter (grade 9) has enjoyed this class. She has been on the ice since she was six years old playing Ringette and just starting playing Hockey one year ago. She has always been a great skater, but she definitely needed the puck handling and control practice. Watching her play her games now, not only has her puck handling improved, but I also see her skating has improved. She is hoping to be able to take this class again in grade 10. Thank-you, Diane Harris\nHi, My son, Carson Robinson, is enrolled in the RPM Hockey Academy out of Centennial Secondary School. I think it's a great program! A very good mix of on ice and off ice activities. Best of all, he loves it! I would not hesitate to enroll him in it for his next two years left at high school. I would definitely recommend the program to anyone. Thank you. Darcy Robinson\nI would like to take this opportunity to show my support for the RPM hockey program which my son, David, attends as one of his courses at Centennial High School. Not only does my son love the on ice time, he is, also, very engaged in the dry land training. David had broken his leg last December during a hockey game and was out of all sports for the following six months. I have not only noticed David\u2019s leg regaining its muscles but also his overall conditioning has greatly improved. David\u2019s has never been one to do exercises such as push-up and sit-ups but is now found doing them at home as well. Another benefit is that the program is helping our son to work through his fear and anxiety of being hurt in hockey. And we have also noticed a steady improvement in David\u2019s hockey skills.David has many times commented that he doesn\u2019t have time to wander off school ground during lunch breaks because he doesn\u2019t have time since the hockey class is linked to his lunch break. As a parent, this is another benefit to the program. Another benefit is that he is spending some of his spare time volunteering down at the rink helping younger kids in their skating program. Mary Wycherley\nMy son Tony is involved in the hockey academy this year at Centennial. His involvement in hockey stems from a deep abiding love and respect for the game. Outside the city hockey association, Tony has never had an opportunity to develop his skills in an atmosphere where stick handling, power skating, shooting and development of hockey instinct is encompassed in one setting. The academy offers a quality program which enables each student to develop into a more confident and skilled player. I believe the instructors and teachers involved in the academy are instrumental in providing quality on-ice and off-ice programs that will help the students become better players and well-rounded individuals. Lily Vukasovic\nPacific Rim Hockey Academy Coaches,Just a note to thank you for developing the hockey academy at Centennial High School. Our son Adam thoroughly enjoys it, and looks forward to it each day. He goes to school with a positive attitude towards school and genuinely looks forward to the day. The benefits to our son of proper instruction in hockey skills, dry land development and nutrition, performance motivation, team play and sports psychology has significantly improved his performance and attitude in his sport pursuits as well as life and other relationships. The volunteer component of the program is very important to developing good community citizens, and we appreciate this being included. Attending the academy also has the benefit of introducing Adam to older kids that look out for him and support him around the school. He has mentioned this several times that the kids at the school in the academy are like a team, have bonded and stick up for each around school. This is a significant benefit to us as Adam is a first year student at Centennial and had some anxiety about integrating into a new school \u2013 the academy has made this transition much easier \u2013 thanks for that as well! We would give our support to continuing this program, and would actually like to see the program extend into an all-year program (two semesters) or at least until the ice comes out in March. Not sure what you would do for the balance of the semester \u2013 perhaps dryland or another sport (ball hockey, roller hockey). There is also Planet Ice - not sure if you have given any thought to starting the program first thing in the morning in the second semester. That way parents could drop their kids at Planet Ice and the academy would only have to bus them back. I know other academies use bussing. Just a suggestion! I have heard that you are contemplating having two groups next year \u2013 I might suggest you break them up into two levels of skills, especially if there is quite a discrepancy between skill levels. It hasn\u2019t been a problem as kids work at their own speed in the drills but if there are two groups it might be more challenging to each kid to have peers closer to their own skill level. In summary, we feel the program should be continued to give kids a chance to pursue a sport they enjoy, so they maximize their physical education opportunities. It also improves their outlook towards school which, especially for boys, can sometimes be a challenge to hold their attention! It also broadens the opportunities our local schools can provide and utilizes under used municipal facilities. Thanks for providing this opportunity for our son!Paul & Jo-Anne Rockwood (parents of Adam Rockwood)\nFrom Natasha Panahi - Grade 10 Centennial Hockey Academy Student: The Hockey Academy provides a high level of development. The trainers are very good. The program itself is better than what I was expecting it to be. It's been great! Natasha Panahi\nHi, The academy is fun and seems to be improving the players. I like how on the ice sessions, every time they do something different, and focus on different things. Also, that since they only have one class, they look at everyone\u2019s abilities as well, and help everyone improve on things they might lack on. The dry land is great, it seems to be really helping and strengthening everyone. One thing that I would improve on and change is the ice time. It seems to be difficult splitting up two blocks and doing the academy in between, having time to shower and get back to class on time. Maybe you could change the time of the ice time to later on in the day, perhaps last block. Katherine Kovacs Centennial Secondary\nDear Craig and your wonderful staff at PRM Hockey, My son Connor Brickwood attended the Junior Hockey Academy in Pitt Meadows for his grade 6 and grade 7 year. He absolutely loved the program. My husband and I were most impressed with the attention to detail. The care given to make sure each instruction given was understood and executed correctly. The lesson \u201cwhat you put into something is what you get out of it\u201d was reinforced over and over. By the second year I defiantly noticed Connor being able to concentrate and focus a lot better, not just in hockey, but in his school work and home life. He went from a \u201cC\u201d average kid to \u201cA\u2019s and B\u2019s kid in his grade 7 year. Connor most defiantly wanted to continue with the High School Academy in Pitt Meadows. We had to put a lot of thought into it as we live near 232nd street and this would be a great commitment not only to Connor but also to us; getting him to school and home. With his marks improving and his ability to focus and understand instruction we decided as a family we would continue with the Pitt Meadows Academy. I have to say he loves it even more. Recently we had our first high school parent teacher interviews and I really couldn\u2019t believe the remarks from the teachers. \u201cConnor chooses seating conducive to learning\u201d. \u201cConnor is a delight to have in my class\u201d. \u201cConnor has all his assignments handed in on time\u201d. \u201cConnor is receiving an \u201cA\u201d. \u201cConnor\u2019s best asset is his attitude\u201d. I thought they had the wrong kid. Many wonderful hockey lessons are taught in the Academy and even more importantly many life lessons are taught. Discipline, respect, giving back, hard work and personal achievement are just to name a few. We feel we have made the right choice for our son. There is a definite sense of pride and belonging in Connor. Thank you RPM for really changing Connor\u2019s outlook on school and life\u2026\u2026\u2026and of course; hockey too. Sincerely Lorae and Brad Brickwood\nHi there I would like to thank all your staff as this is the first year our son Chris Beaubien has been in the academy in Pitt Meadows, although he has been in a couple sessions in the summer to get ready for the tryouts we wish we had put him in the academy in the previous years as he is having a great time and getting allot out it. We feel he is getting good quality teaching that he has not gotten before and learning good techniques that will help him now and in the future Thank you Andy Beaubien\nMatthew is in the Pacific Rim Hockey Academy in Grade 11 at Pitt Meadows secondary School. He loves the program and we intend to continue with it next year as well. I believe that the Academy is a great program and excellent value. Matthew's goal is to play hockey at university while pursuing a post-secondary degree.\nI further believe that the Minor Hockey associations that have students in these programs enjoy the benefits of this tremendous development. I only wish that more students would take these programs. I hope that others appreciate the value of having programs such as these in our community. Michael Carter\nI am the father of 2 High School Academy students. One is in her third year at the Academy (grade 10) and the other is in her first year at the High School Academy (grade 8) , was in the Elementary Academy last year. Both girls love the Academy and is the highlight of their High School days. Their Elementary School friends went off to a different High School, as Pitt Meadows Secondary was not their catchment area. However, both made new friends and are happy going to Pitt Meadows Secondary. As for the Academy itself, I have witnessed it first hand and being a longtime player/coach I really can appreciate it. At the girls regular practices we just don't have time to focus on the little things to make a well rounded complete hockey player. This is something the Academy has the time to focus on, with their very talented instructors. I feel very fortunate to be in a location that offers this great opportunity for the kids to become the best players that they can be. Todd Langston\nTo all the Coaches and Staff at Pacific Rim Hockey Academy.\nThis will be Chris's 3rd year with the Academy and he just loves it. The Academy has taught him respect for himself and others and the camaraderie of being part of a Great Hockey System. The Staff, Coaches and Owners are all extremely professional. All of the young women and men are all treated equally, whether they are a super star or just someone dreaming of being one. Every one at the academy are always the first ones to volunteer to help out at tournaments for the younger kids. It is an extremely healthy environment at the Academy and Pitt Meadows High School. Again, if I can ever help out with the Academy please do not hesitate to call\nMy Hat is of to everyone, Great Job Thanks You. Luke.\nHi Holly, Craig & Co. My son Ryan Salvesen, has found the hockey Academy to be a very enjoyable experience for him. As you know, he had never played hockey prior to joining the Academy as it was never financially feasible as well as the time involved.Having this program offered through the school and during those hrs has make it possible for him to have had this experience. The cost involved is very little considering the amount of time they get with you and on ice training etc. Ryan has found it to be a very positive experience and will continue through grade 12. Thank you for all that you do for our community. Cheers - Kim Salvesen\nHello, Our son Joe is in the Grade 8 hockey academy at P.M.S.S. He really enjoys it. The breakdown of certain skills is excellent and as a parent watching his league games, I can see more confidence in his game. neil Sheridan\nThis is the second year that my son Jack has been enrolled at the RPM Elementary Hockey Academy. We are extremely satisfied and pleased with the entire program as it not only offers ice time and dry land training but also other benefits such as ways of staying healthy and motivation speakers. Jack speaks highly of all the trainers on and off the ice. The trainers are friendly, helpful and very knowledgeable. We, as parents, have no expectations of Jack playing professional hockey as some parents do in this highly competitive game but wanted Jack to have more confidence and knowledge of the game for his participation in minor hockey. Last year he did become more confident and had a particularly great season all because of RPM Hockey Academy. We also like the fact that he can attend or make up ice time or dry land if he needs to miss his particular scheduled day. You get your money's worth that is for sure. We will be signing up again next year for sure. We are happy to see him sweating it out on the ice or dry land and NOT sitting at home playing video games like so many other kids I know! Yours truly, Dawn Hartford\nWe are very pleased with the academy, my son, Andrew is a goalie and the time spent with Ryan has improved him tremendously, he has gained more confidence, his positioning is now accomplished with ease. It is actually great to watch his smooth movement in the net. He has extended his knowledge of knowing where he should be and when. The entire staff is great and very encouraging. You really couldn\u2019t have a better program! My son is very excited to attend each and every session. Veronica and Todd Henderson\nTo whom it might concern,I write this letter to acknowledge the excellence of the elementary hockey academy located in Pitt Meadows. In 2008 my oldest son started in the elementary academy and my son\u2019s hockey skills increased significantly At the end of the season he was the best player in his hockey team and due to his dedication he received an award. The emphasises at the elementary is that hockey skills are learned at the level the hockey player is. My son plays Rep Hockey, I think there is a lot to learn, and the players at the elementary academy learn it well. Last but not least if you count all the hours on ice and all the off ice It is a great deal!!!!!. My youngest son started in the hockey academy in September and he loves it Philip Oosterman\nDear RPM, So far we have been happy and impressed with the Hockey Academy. We started in the middle of September and Trevor has enjoyed going to this each week on Monday\u2019s and Wednesday\u2019s. We would certainly put him in the Tues / Thurs program as we know this is more suited to his age group (and has fewer participants) however, we have another family that takes him on Mondays and we help their family on Wednesdays. We fully support the hockey academy and feel that it is a great supplement for kids and youth who play in the Ridge Meadows Minor Hockey Association. Sincerely, Catherine and Nis Schmidt\nI would like to give a few words of support for the Pacific Rim Hockey Academy. This is my daughter's second year with the Elementary program of the Hockey Academy and it has helped her hockey skills tremendously. She plans on attending the High School program next year as well. The top quality instruction and the one-on-one attention to the student's individual needs is second to none. Regards, Jennifer Shaw\nTo whom it may concern: My name is Marv Magnison Jr. I would like to write a few words regarding my son second year attending the P.C.H.A in Pitt Meadows. My son loves it, the academy is much more than I expected. The skilled and knowledgeable staff have a great way of communicating with the kids, creating an environment that strives for a high level of skill development, and fitness. The education the kids get from the guest speakers adds it own value, and with the activities away from the rink, the kids bond, and make friends that will last a life time. I am very grateful for the opportunity that my son has to have such a fantastic and worthwhile program in our community for him to attend. Regards, Marv Magnison Jr.\nDear RPM I'm not quite sure where to begin. I have two children in hockey. My kids couldn't be more different in their personality, hockey style and abilities. I wasn't sure how you would be able to accommodate both styles, but you have. The staff is excellent at meeting the needs of both players and challenging each skill. Both my children are an asset to their teams. They both strive to improve. They respect the staff and value the skills being taught. My son has been passed over for the last two years of \"rep\" try outs. This year he is being called up to the A team to fill in for sick or injured players. The confidence and skills that your talented teaching team has given him is starting to shine through, and coaches are taking notice. I understand that I don't have an NHL hockey player in my house, but I do have a boy who loves the sport and is eager to play hard and work hard for his coaches and team mates. The secondary hockey program has given him a home to feel comfortable, safe, and confident. I couldn't be more pleased. I hope you have noticed the changes in him this year. He seems to be more outgoing and confident around his peers. I look forward to him attending again next year. My daughter, well, she's a different story! I don't know where to begin for her. I would like her to push herself to another level. She has to do this on her own. I can't wait for her to attend the secondary program next year. Thanks for all the hard work, energy, time and knowledge. Shayla Richards\nHi Craig, The Dawson Creek Hockey Academy is a resounding success. The program is being enjoyed by 49 grade 8 - 12 students this year, who are working hard in the program and in school in general. We are getting lots of positive feedback from teachers in the schools about the positive influence the program is having on the students as well. Attendance, academic success, and behavior have all shown an improvement this year, as a result of the students being engaged in such a positive experience. The overall success has us optimistic that we may be able to have 3 classes enrolled next year. Mike Readman - Dawson Creek Secondary School\nThanks to everyone involved in helping to make the first season of the DCSS Hockey Academy a success. It has proved to be a positive influence in both performance and motivation. It\u2019s a welcomed option, change and addition for the student/athlete living in Dawson Creek. The students that decide to participate in the hockey academy now have something more they can look forward to, learn and grow in, and all the while, doing something they love. My son summed it up in four words...hard, challenging, fun and exciting!!! We look forward to the future years of the PRHA operating at DCSS. Thanks for bridging the gap between academics and hockey! Laurel Buck (Ethan Buck)\nMy daughter Paige loves the RPM at DCSS, Central Campus. As a Grade 9 student she is learning a lot about the technical aspects of the game and how to break down plays into a drill session. Paige is also enjoying learning about the health benefits, like eating properly before and after games and workouts, as well as how to keep you in shape. Paige is really happy that she joined the RPM Program and is looking forward to an exciting second half. The coaching has been very helpful and the coaches have time for one on one time with each student to help them improve in their problem area. Christina Wards 250-784-3219\nHi Craig, We would love to tell you how much we like the academy. The RPM Academy pushes me to strive to work harder. My shooting and fitness levels have improved a lot. I enjoy, and am thankful for the opportunity to have this as an option. The experiences I am exposed to are great. Megan Ward (student)\nAs not only a parent, but the coach of the Dawson Creek Girls team, I have seen a great improvement in my daughter and my other player attending the academy. It has increased their ability, but more importantly their confidence on and off the ice. Thank you to RPM Hockey for this wonderful program. Lisa Ward (Parent)\nGood Morning, My son \u2018Brayden is in your Dawson Creek academy and after 3 months \u2018Brayden is very happy with the program and enjoys going every day. \u2018Brayden enjoys the new attitude towards hockey and the fresh new on ice drills. His Academy coach is very knowledgeable, positive, strict at the right times and the kids look up to him as a positive role model. Myself I can see Brayden\u2019s confidence building daily, his ice strategy has developed so well that his DCMHA coach has noticed and complimented him. I do hope to see this academy going again next year and my son will definitely be first in line. Thanks Mike Girouard 250-219-9295\nHello Craig, I just wanted to let you know that Brad is really enjoying the academy. He tells us all the time new things he has learned and what he has improved on. He also tells us about the fun times he has on and off the ice with the staff. The off ice training has been great as well. Many days he comes home soar but always has to show us just how many burpee\u2019s or push up etc... that he can do. Brad has been asked this year to help with the girls hockey team and is using what he is learning at the academy and using these skills to help run the practices for the girls team. A great boost for him. Lol We feel the academy was a great addition to the school and we look forward to participating again next year. We are always passing along good reviews to our friends. Thank you to all the staff for doing a great job! Paul & Cindy Thorpe ph: 250-782-5759\nHi Craig, I have a son in the hockey school this year and he seems to be really enjoying it. His hockey skills seem to be improving and the conditioning is amazing. He does not have too much to say one way or the other about the school, but he never complains and is ready each morning to go to school. I am finding that it is good that he is so active it helps his overall health and well-being. It is nice to have him look forward to school each day not fight with him whether or not he is going to attend.\nHi there, my name is Colton Gies, I am enjoying the hockey academy and have nothing but good things to say about it. I like how the coaches interact with the kids, and join in the scrimmages. I wish that I had this program when I was in the younger grades, because I feel that it would have helped me develop better as a player, as it has already this year. It also would have helped keep me in shape for the hockey season as I don\u2019t go to the gym, I just play hockey on my team. This program helps put things in perspective for kids with the goal settings and the motivational speeches. If we don\u2019t have these goals we would never have the motivation to get better as players and that is why we are in this academy is to help us achieve the growth that we would like to see in ourselves. (Student)\nAs a parent, I am very happy to see the Hockey Academy being offered in our district. How fortunate for our students to be given the opportunity to learn and improve on their hockey skills. Our son has been playing and involved with hockey since he was five years old. It is his passion. He loves the sport. Years ago the school offered a football gym program and its was a great way for the participating students to learn and improve their football skills to be used during the football season. Same with the academy, our children are working towards being the best they can be with the aid of the instructors and information that is being provided, be it nutrition facts, dry land/conditional training or on ice skills. Thank you School District 59, Hockey Academy and all those involved in getting the academy here and hopefully keeping it here for the future hockey players in years to come. With programs like these, if it keeps our children interested and working towards staying in school, doing well and graduating it is well worth the effort. Thank you to all involved. Keep up the good work Yours Truly Linda & Rick Gies 250-784-5173 (Parent)\nHe likes being part of the group and wears his sweat suit with pride. You might want to look into getting them 2 suits so we can have a better chance that one is clean each day. Ha Ha. I have found that it has been fortunate that one of the parents of a friend has been able to pick up his gear, as I am at work at this time and would have difficulty picking up the gear in the allotted time frame. I think it would be good if there was a web page or spot on a web page to look for upcoming events and schedules so that it would be easier to find info when the brainless teenage boys don\u2019t bring home the information. Sometimes it is good for them to be responsible for themselves I completely agree with this but it still would be nice if the parents had the inside scoop, even if they were not aware that we had it. 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In this period, we have made great progress into researching and developing the tools that will assist policy-makers in their difficult task. The Sense4us toolbox that is being developed (Theme Analysis, Sentiment Analysis, Linked Open Data Search and Policy Impact Analysis) is being presented by project partners in meetings and interviews with policy-makers. At the same time, the Consortium has a steady presence in many scientific conferences both in Europe and at international level. An overwhelming number of papers have been published by the Consortium partners over the last few months, the quality of which doesn\u2019t go unnoticed, as they get high acceptance and \u201cbest paper award\u201d by the scientific community!\nWe will continue to work with the same zest and enthusiasm in the future as well!\nDemonstrating Sense4us to policy makers\nGesis partner Dr. Timo Wandhoefer (left) with MP Hans Feu\u00df from the State Parliament North Rhine-Westphalia (right)\nSense4us partner Gesis has participated in the \u201cLeibniz meets Parliament\u201d event in early December. In the event, Gesis presented the project and did live demonstration of the Sense4us tools to the MPs that were participating. The reactions of the MPs were very positive. MP Hans Feu\u00df was very interested in what was presented; he mentioned that \"its an important tool for the daily work of politicians\". 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Appointments are scheduled Monday through Friday 8:30 to 11:30 a.m. and 1 to 4:30 p.m.\nFaculty and staff members should contact their personal physicians for self-care advice or an appointment.\nPeople at a higher risk for flu complications, including those who are pregnant, or suffer from chronic medical conditions such as asthma, diabetes, heart disease and suppressed immune systems should seek immediate medical attention if they develop influenza-like-illness (ILI).\nFlu vaccines are available at the University Health Services clinic, as well as numerous locations in Nacogdoches.\nU.S Department of Health and Human Services\nSFA Graduation Ceremony Information\nSFA Holiday Extravaganza\nJackText\nThe PARTNER Program\nPhoto Shoot Guidelines", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00240.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 58, + "original_length": 2383, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.94, + "perplexity": 285.7, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "http://www.shankerstudy.com/2012/07/planets-signs-and-houses-planets_395.html", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T04:39:31Z", + "digest": "sha1:Y6MYCK3BCP2CMETZRBOBQU6FBVOCRJQA", + "length": 5650, + "nlines": 16, + "source_domain": "www.shankerstudy.com", + "title": "Planets, Signs and Houses: The Planets, Chapter II, Part - 34 ~ Bhrigu Nadi Vedic Astrology, India, shankerstudy.com", + "raw_content": "Saturn in the Signs \u2013 General\nSaturn in Aries produces an ignoble and ill-dressed person who is afflicted by anxiety, pain, and toil; an imposter whose words are harsh and depraved; a reviled and penniless man who hates the good; a jealous, dishonest, cruel, and irascible person who delights in evil gossip; one who obtains treasure from the vilest act; a man who destroys his allies and relatives.\nSaturn in Taurus produces a poor man who is engaged in many activities; one whose actions are false and speech improper; a lover of aged women; a man agitated by miseries caused by sinful women; a much-wounded person who is a source of tricks; one who serves the wives of others and is not self-possessed.\nSaturn in Gemini produces a weary man oppressed by many debts and bondages; one whose manner is roguish and whose advice is deceitful and false; a man of depraved actions and hypocritical counsel; a bad artisan who is useless in his qualities of roguishness; a man without shame; one attached to diverting himself with evil friends and comrades; one who is forever fond of homosexual acts.\nSaturn in Cancer produces a pauper proud of his beauty; one who is always sickly and is separated from his mother; a soft and unwell man who likes delicacies; one whose actions are adverse to his relatives and to old men; a man clever in his own dharma; one who annoys others; a person who before was satisfied by the enjoyment of other men\u2019s wives, but afterwards is lucky with his own; one whose money is stolen.\nSaturn in Leo produces an uncouth man whose behaviour and qualities are despicable; one whose faults are immense in writing, reading, and speaking; a man who takes pleasure in vile deeds; a person overcome by desires who does not attain his objectives; one whose wife is divorced (or, an outcast) and who lives on wages; a man who, rejecting his allies, is bereft of joy; one whose body is aged by ever travelling, toting, and toiling.\nSaturn in the sixth sign (Virgo) produces a man whose body is like a eunuch\u2019s; one who enjoys the food and concubines of others and is without independence; a rogue who corrupts students and women; a man lazy in the performance of his duty who doesn\u2019t understand the sacred tradition (sruti); [one who is not a rogue in actions which benefit others; a man who has studied the crafts and arts;] one who acts without deciding or looking.\nSaturn in Libra produces an outstanding man who desires money; one who obtains honour by wandering in foreign countries for wealth and money; one whose position is enhanced by strength and power (?); a nobly speaking leader of assembly (sabha) and tribe (gana); a lord of rich territory, protecting his lands and cattle; one whose treasure is firm in the protection of his allies; [one who is pleased by actresses, sinful women, and whores].\nSaturn in the eighth sign (Scorpio) produces a man who delights in enmity and harshness; one who deviates from righteousness (dharma) and is burnt by poisoned swords; a man whose anger is fierce and who has an abundance of miseries.\nSaturn in Sagittarius produces a soft man, who speaks little and rejoice in acting according to his own dharma; one who knows the meaning of sacred tradition (sruti), the intelligible (?), judicial procedure, learning, and how to speak about affairs, and who has great fame; a man renowned on earth and obtaining honour because of the various noble qualities of the sons of others (whom he has taught); one who, at first abandoning his property because of his saintly, (sadhu) qualities, acquires wealth at the end of his life and is very prosperous.\nSaturn in Capricorn produces an outstanding man who is to be honoured as the originator of his family-line; one who teaches how to speak about affairs and has many crafts; a traveler honoured by multitudes; the lord of other men\u2019s fields, homes, and wives; one who takes pleasure in sexual intercourse, bathing, and ornaments; a man endowed with the qualities of generosity, courage, ancestry, politeness, sacred tradition (sruti), wealth, and position.\nSaturn in Aquarius produces a great man who tells many lies; one who is always attached to drink, women, and vice; a man whose friendship is bad and who is a cheat and a rogue; one skilful in starting many businesses whose money is secure; a man who takes pleasure in possessing other men\u2019s wives and money; one who is outside of sruti, smrti, the sciences, and stories; a man who speaks roughly.\nSaturn in Pisces produces a man who is the best among his relatives, kinfolk, and friends; a peaceful and revered person who sacrifices well; one whose effort is noble in the sciences and in the crafts; one who has good conduct, righteousness (dharma), occupation, and truth; an examiner of such things as all sorts of jewels; a well mannered person possessing endless good qualities; one whose wealth is immense, but who suffers misfortune later on.\nNote: Thus, because of the positions, qualities, and natures of the planets, and because of (the signs) which have the temporal and other strengths of their lords, (the planets) produces men of various qualities, characteristic marks, and forms, who have diverse orders, conducts, and fortunes.\nAs this arranging by the planets is realized when they enter into the signs, so is to be established as arising naturally when they are in dvadash amsha (bhagas) and navamsa (of the signs).\nIf a planet in its own varga, navamsa, or sign is in an angle, it gives a result such as that which has been described; 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At today's presentation ceremony of The Shaw Prize at the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre,the Honourable Donald Tsang Yam-Kuen, Chief Executive of the HKSAR, People's Republic of China accompanied by Mr Run Run Shaw, Patron of the Prize, presented the awards to the six Laureates. 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Elizabeth started her company seven years ago - she was studying her Graduate degree in broadcasting when she fell in love with the filming process and the creative storytelling.\nOur favorite part of the job (although it doesn\u2019t really feel like a job) is becoming close friends with the people we get to work alongside. You often don\u2019t realize but the photographer and videographer are two of the people you spend a lot of time with on your wedding day. You want to make sure we are on the same page. We will laugh with you, cry with you, dance with you, and just generally freak out about how great it is that YOU JUST GOT MARRIED!! HECK!\nWhen your sole job is to be present on the day and discover ways to tell people\u2019s stories you kind of give up little bits of yourself to them also. 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Mr. Saman Herath, the Managing Director of Siyapatha Finance PLC presided over the ceremonial opening of the branch. The relocated branch is one of two branches in the city of Kurunegala, the second being located same at No. 254C along the Colombo road.\n\u201cAs the branch in Kurunegala is one of the key locations in our network we believed that it was important to ensure that the branch was situated in an area that would be most convenient to our customers\u201d, stated Mr. Herath. \u201cOur customers in Kurunegala can now enjoy all the benefits and products Siyapath Finance has to offer. We at Siyapatha Finance firmly believe that the success of our organization is rooted in our customers\u201d.\nAs one of the most prominent financial companies with a network of branches throughout the country, Siyapatha Finance PLC has designed their financial services to ensure that their customers are provided with the best in service delivery standards. All of the network\u2019s branches continuously offer the best service to its customers Leasing , Business Loans, Personal Loans, Property Mortgage Loans, Gold Loans, Factoring and Fixed Deposits.\nOver the past twelve years, the company has contributed vastly to the development of small and medium entrepreneurial efforts and to the fulfillment of individual financial needs across the island. Their dedication towards the continuous expansion of their financial services is fuelled by the drive to help communities achieve their business objectives.\nDetails of the new Siyapatha Finance branch in Kurunegala Metro are as follows,\nNo. 36, Negombo Road, Kurunegala \u2013 Contact No: 0377 605 625", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00240.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 62, + "original_length": 3253, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.97, + "perplexity": 320.4, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "http://www.smashhits.fm/community-calendar/event/harford-county-senior-softball-open-registration/", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T05:06:51Z", + "digest": "sha1:NTKF437GANRNQ5YVGPLYCHGXZALVQO6F", + "length": 370, + "nlines": 2, + "source_domain": "www.smashhits.fm", + "title": "Harford County Senior Softball Open Registration - Smash Hits - WHGM", + "raw_content": "Registration ends February 28th.\nThe Harford County Senior Softball league is now welcoming players from ages [45-70+] for the upcoming 2019 season. 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This enzyme deficiency means that glucosylceramide cannot be broken down but accumulates in the body leading to the enlargement of, and damage to, the spleen, liver and other organs. The disease can be divided into three main clinical types with severity ranging from severe symptoms presenting from birth, to a mild form of the disease presenting first in adulthood.\nGaucher disease is a lysosomal storage disorder. Lysosomes are small units found in all the cells of the body, with the exception of red blood cells. The role of lysosomes is to deal with and break down different substances. They do this with the help of enzymes, types of protein which contribute to chemical processes without themselves being broken down. The breaking-down process frees the component parts of certain substances. In this way proteins, for example, are broken down into amino acids. A recycling system is created as, after they have been freed, these components are transported out of the lysosomes and can act as building bricks in the production of new substances.\nIn all lysosomal storage disorders, the normal function of lysosomes is impaired. This is caused by impaired activity of the enzymes of the lysosomes, or in the transport proteins which carry substances into or out of lysosomes.\nCurrently we know of approximately seventy different lysosomal diseases. Some other examples are: aspartylglykosaminuria, cystinosis, Danon disease, Fabry disease, GM2 gangliosidosis, Krabbe disease, mannosidosis, metachromatic leukodystrophy, mucopolysaccharidoses I, II, III, IV, VI and VII, Pompe disease and Salla disease. Separate information on these diseases is available in the Swedish Rare Disease Database.\nThe disease is named after French physician Philippe Gaucher, who described the disease for the first time in 1882.\nIn Sweden, the disease is most common in the areas of Norrbotten and V\u00e4sterbotten. Previously one child in every 10,000 there was born with the disease, but during recent years prevalence has fallen. In the rest of Sweden, fewer than one child in every 100,000 is born with the disease. In Sweden, approximately five people in every million are affected and there are between 50 and 60 people with the disease in the country. Approximately 40 per cent have type 3 (the Norrbottnian type) and the others have type 1. (See under heading \u201cSymptoms\u201d.)\nSince the early 1990s, enzyme replacement therapy has been offered to children and young people with the disease, resulting in more people with the condition attaining adulthood in relatively good health.\nThe disease is caused by deficient activity of the glucosylceramidase enzyme. This enzyme deficiency interferes with the normal process by which glucosylceramide, a fatty acid, is broken down. Instead it accumulates in one particular type of white blood cells, the macrophages. Macrophages filled with glucosylceramide are called Gaucher cells and they accumulate in various organs.\nGene GBA (1q21) codes for the enzyme and is located on the long arm of chromosome 1. More than 300 mutations in the gene causing Gaucher disease have been identified, but most occur within individual families (private mutations). In most mutations, a nucleobase in a portion of DNA has been changed, resulting in the formation of a different amino acid. One or more of the following five mutations, N370S (c.1226A>G), L444P (c.1448T>C), 84GG (c.84dupG), IVS2+1 (c.27+1G>A) and D409H (c.1342G>C) occur in 95 percent of all people with Gaucher disease. Two of them, N370S (c.1226A>G) and L444P (c.1448T>C) are most common, and are found over the whole world. Of all those with the disease, slightly more than half have this mutation.\nGaucher disease develops if a person inherits one copy of the mutated GBA gene from each parent. If the person inherits only one copy of the mutated gene, he or she becomes a healthy carrier. If an individual inherits two copies of gene N370S (c.1226A>G), or this mutation is in combination with another mutation, it is likely that he or she will develop Gaucher disease type 1, without neurological symtoms (non-neuropathic form). If an analysis shows instead that the individual has two copies of gene L444P (c.1448T>C) he or she will usually have a neuropathic form of the disease, affecting the central nervous system.\nIn rare cases the enzyme is normal but a protein known as saposin C, which is needed to activate glucosylceramide, is absent. This is extremely rare, with only five cases being described globally as yet, and as yet nobody in Sweden has been diagnosed with a deficiency of this activator protein.\nIn Gaucher disease the pattern of inheritance is autosomal recessive. This means that a person must inherit one mutated gene from each parent to develop Gaucher disease. If both parents are healthy carriers of the mutated GBA gene there is a 25 per cent risk that their child will receive two copies of the mutated gene (one from each parent). In that case, the child has the disease. (See figure below.) In 50 per cent of cases the child inherits only one mutated gene (from one parent only) and like both parents, will be a healthy carrier of the mutated gene. In 25 per cent of cases the child will not have the disease and will not be a carrier of the mutated gene.\nA person with an inherited autosomal recessive disease has two mutated genes. If this person has a child with a person who is not a carrier of the mutated gene, all the children will inherit the mutated gene but they will not have the disorder. If a person with an inherited autosomal recessive disease has children with a healthy carrier of the mutated gene (who has one single copy of the mutated gene) there is a 50 per cent risk of the child having the disorder, and a 50 per cent risk of the child being a healthy carrier of the mutated gene.\nGaucher disease is a lifelong condition. Degrees of severity vary, from a disease with serious symptoms presenting already at birth, to relatively mild symptoms first manifesting in adulthood. The disease is divided into three main clinical types depending on whether the patient has neurological symptoms or not, and how quickly such symptoms develop. Boundaries between different types are not firm and variation in severity may be described as a scale running from the mildest to the most severe forms. There is a wide degree of variation in symptoms between different individuals with the same mutation.\nThe degree of enlargement of liver and spleen, the extent of red blood cell and platelet deficiencies (anaemia and thrombocytopenia) and the development of bone disease all vary between individuals.\nPeople with severe enlargement of the liver and spleen may not have bone disease. The reverse is also possible. For example, symptoms of bone disease manifest as frequent fractures, which eventually damage the joints.\nGaucher disease type 1 is the most common form of the disease, and primarily affects young people and adults. The accumulation of glucosylceramide in liver and spleen leads to their enlargement (hepatomegaly and splenomegaly). The spleen can swell enormously and cause secondary changes in the blood, including low levels of red blood cells (anaemia), blood platelets (thrombocytopenia) and white blood cells (leukopenia). Splenic infarctions may also occur. Cirrhosis of the liver, leading to dilated veins in the windpipe (oesophageal varices) may also develop. In type 1 of the disease there are no neurological symptoms. However, there have been reports of an increased rate of Parkinson disease and peripheral nerve disease among some people with Gaucher disease type 1.\nGaucher disease in the skeleton results in bone deformities, fractures and the destruction of some bone tissue (aseptic necrosis).\nWithout treatment, progression varies greatly, from severe blood abnormalities and bone disease manifesting in childhood, to asymptomatic enlargement of the spleen presenting first when individuals are in their 70s or 80s. Bone disease can result in severely limited mobility.\nIn Gaucher disease types 2 and 3 the nervous system is affected prior to birth. These two types have different symptoms and different progression patterns, depending on how rapidly glucosylceramide accumulates. Accumulation occurs more rapidly in type 2.\nNo Gaucher cells accumulate in the central nervous system. Nevertheless, nerve cells are destroyed, causing people with Gaucher disease to develop progressive, neurodegenerative diseases including epilepsy. Their memories might also deteriorate. One hypothesis is that a toxic substance (glucosylsphingosine) forms, destroying brain cells. Another theory is that Gaucher cells accumulate around the blood vessels of the brain, cutting off the blood supply and damaging brain cells.\nType 2, or the acute infantile neuropathic (damaging nerve cells) type, is rare but found over the whole world. It is a severe, rapidly progressive disease causing liver and spleen enlargement during the first months of life. At five to six months abnormalities in the cranial nerve nuclei and the basal ganglia cause neurological symptoms. Symptoms include: difficulties opening the mouth (trismus), a squint (strabismus), severe hyperextension and arching of the head, neck and spine and other symptoms and abnormal reflexes associated with the brain stem. These symptoms sometimes lead to problems swallowing. Food may find its way into the airways (aspiration) leading to pneumonia. Involuntary muscular contractions of the laryngeal cords (laryngospasms) may occur. The appearance and distribution of brain damage indicates that injury has occurred, at least partially, prior to birth. Most children die before the age of one. A few children may live to two or three years of age.\nType 3, or the juvenile neuropathic type, is extremely rare apart from in the north of Sweden. Most of those with type 3 come from the Norrbotten and V\u00e4sterbotten areas of Sweden (Norrbottnian type). Several different mutations can cause type 3, but the Norrbottnian type is caused by the inheritance of two copies of the L444P (c.1448T>C) mutation. Skeletal and blood symptoms are the same as in type 1, and progression patterns may also vary greatly.\nNeurological symptoms include: difficulties moving the gaze quickly to the side (ocular motor apraxia), squinting, increasingly severe dementia, certain problems with balance (ataxia), mild spastic stiffness in the leg muscles, and epilepsy. If the spleen is removed at an early stage it appears to accelerate the progression of the disease and to affect the prognosis negatively.\nIn order to prevent complications and improve the prognosis, it is important to make the diagnosis early. The initial diagnosis is made on the basis of symptoms, particularly on the presence of an enlarged liver and spleen, but it must be confirmed by establishing low levels of the glucosylceramidase enzyme. The standard method is to measure enzyme activity in a particular sort of white cell (lymphocytes). When the enzyme deficiency is confirmed, a DNA analysis is made to establish which mutation has caused the disease. In extremely rare cases, where glycosylceramidase activity is normal but the clinical picture indicates Gaucher disease, a deficiency in the activator protein saposin C may be suspected.\nBoth pre-natal and embryo diagnoses are possible. Carrier diagnosis for relatives is possible if the mutation/mutations are known.\nThere is currently no cure for this disease. Treatment focuses on alleviating symptoms and compensating for loss of function, and is adapted to the individual\u2019s age and lifestyle.\nEnzyme replacement therapy (ERT) is first-line treatment. This form of treatment has been used since 1992 and involves a modified form of the deficient enzyme being administered intravenously as an infustion over one to two hours, usually once every two weeks. Small children may receive this treatment once or twice per week, at least at the start of the treatment programme. Enzyme replacement should be initiated at an early stage of the disease, before complications arise.\nIn type 1 (moderate to severe), ERT has a very positive effect on all symptoms. Enzyme treatment has been tried on some individuals with type 2, without improving the prognosis. In type 3, ERT has a positive effect on the symptoms it shares with type 1. Although ERT is thought to delay neurological deterioration in type 3, long-term follow up examinations are required before definite conclusions can be reached. ERT can be safely used by pregnant women and nursing mothers.\nThe effects of treatment are measured using biomarkers, such as chitotriosidase and CCL18. The level of glucosylceramide, which has accumulated as the result of enzyme deficiency, can also be measured.\nSubstrate reduction therapy (SRT) is another treatment option in Gaucher disease. Miglustat is a chemical compound which inhibits the synethesis of the glucosylceramidase enzyme and so reduces the production of glucosylceramide. Treatment with miglustat has been shown to have a positive effect on patients with mild to moderate Gaucher disease type 1. The little residual degradative activity which people with Gaucher disease type 1 have, is sufficient to deal with the glucosylceramide the body produces and to prevent its accumulation. However, miglustat takes longer to act than ERT. Miglustat is taken three times a day, in capsule form. This form of treatment has been approved for treatment of adults with mild to moderate Gaucher disease type 1, where enzyme treatment for some reason is not appropriate. Pregnant women and nursing mothers should not be treated with miglustat as the effects of the treatment have not been fully established in these particular groups of patients. Studies are under way into the effects of combined enzyme and miglustat treatment on the more severe forms of Gaucher disease.\nHaematopoietic stem cell transplantation (bone marrow transplantation), was the only effective method of treatment prior to enzyme replacement therapy. It had some success in treating type 3, and the severe form of type 1. As enzyme treatment has been shown to be very safe and effective in Gaucher disease, and bone marrow transplantation is associated with possible risk of early death and serious, chronic complications (for example, graft-versus-host disease) this form of treatment is no longer recommended for Gaucher disease.\nThere are no reports of bone marrow transplantation being used to treat type 2. As damage to the nervous system is believed to take place at the foetal stage, and the children who receive a diagnosis already show severe neurological symptoms, improvement cannot be expected from this form of treatment.\nSurgical procedures to correct abnormalities of the hips and back (kyphosis and scoliosis) may be appropriate.\nRemoval of the spleen (splenectomy) should be avoided. If essential, only part of the spleen should be removed.\nCertain forms of medication to counteract osteoporosis are being tried in attempts to prevent skeletal complications.\nMild chewing and swallowing problems can sometimes occur in type 3, and children with type 2 often have difficulties in sucking and swallowing. Feeding and swallowing difficulties can be so serious that it becomes necessary to make an opening in the abdominal wall, with a feeding tube opening directly into the stomach (percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy - PEG) through which all essential nutrients can be given in the form of solutions.\nIn severe forms presenting in childhood, early habilitation is necessary. A habilitation team includes professionals with special expertise in how disability affects everyday life, health and development. Support and treatment are offered within the medical, educational, psychological, social and technical fields. Measures may include assessments, treatment, assistance with choice of aids, information about disabilities and counselling. Habilitation services may also provide information on support offered by the local authority, and advice on adapting accommodation and other environments. The family may also need help in coordinating different forms of assistance.\nHabilitation focuses on existing needs, may vary over time and should occur in collaboration with individuals close to the child.\nParents may require psychological support when the diagnosis is made, and afterwards. Children and young people should also be offered continuous support according to their age and maturity.\nThere should be close contact with the local authority, which can offer different kinds of help including personal assistance, a contact family or short-term accommodation, to make daily life easier.\nBefore treatment was developed lifespans were short, but if enzyme treatment is started in time many adults with mild to moderate type 1, or mild type 3, live a relatively normal life. Adults with severe type 3, even with treatment, develop increased neurological disabilites and require continued habilitation.\nGaucher Centre North is a clinic for children and young people at Ume\u00e5 University Hospital in Norrland, Sweden.\nAt the Stockholm Gaucher Center at Karolinska University Hospital in Stockholm there is a network of specialists working with children and adults with the disease. www.gauchercenter.org. Contact Senior Physician Maciej Machaczka. See under \u201cResource personnel.\u201d\nAnother network of specialists for children and adults with Gaucher disease is located at Sk\u00e5ne University Hospital in Lund, Sweden. Contact Associate Professor Johan Richter. See under \u201cResource personnel.\u201d\nThe Laboratory for Clinical Chemisty and Neurochemistry, Department of Neurochemistry, Sahlgrenska University Hospital/M\u00f6lndal, and the Centre for Inherited Metabolic Diseases, (CMMS), Karolinska University Hospital, Solna in Stockholm, Sweden, carry out enzyme diagnosis and glucosylceramide analysis of plasma and red blood cells (to follow up enzyme replacement treatment). They also investigate the most common types of mutations using DNA analysis.\nThe Department of Clinical Genetics, Ume\u00e5 University Hospital in Norrland, Sweden, has expertise in the Norrbottnian mutation, L444P (c.1448T>C).\nSenior Physician Isa Lundstr\u00f6m, Paediatric Clinic, Ume\u00e5 University Hospital, SE- 901 85 Ume\u00e5, Sweden. Tel: +46 90 785 00 00, fax: +46 90 785 17 17, email: isa.lundstrom@vll.se.\nSenior Physician Maciej Machaczka, Stockholm Gaucher Center and Haematology Centre Karolinska, Karolinska University Hospital, Huddinge, SE-141 86 Stockholm, Sweden. Tel: +46 8 585 826 63, fax: +46 8 585 825 25, email: maciej.machaczka@karolinska.se.\nProfessor Jan-Eric M\u00e5nsson, The Laboratory for Clinical Chemistryand Neurochemistry, Sahlgrenska University Hospital/M\u00f6lndal, SE-431 80 M\u00f6lndal, Sweden. Tel: +46 31 343 24 07, fax: +46 31 343 24 26, email: jan-eric.mansson@vgregion.se.\nActing Senior Physician Domniki Papadopoulou, Paediatric Clinic, Sk\u00e5ne University Hospital, SE-221 85 Lund, Sweden. Tel: +46 46 17 10 00, email: domniki.papadopoulou@skane.se.\nAssociate Professor Johan Richter, Haematology Clinic, Sk\u00e5ne University Hospital, SE-221 85 Lund, Sweden. Tel: +46 046 17 10 00.\nMorbus Gaucher Association in Sweden, Chairperson Lars Magnusson, Akvilejag\u00e5ngen 29, SE-507 52 Bor\u00e5s, Sweden. Tel: +46 705 15 84 33, email: lars.em.magnusson@tele2.se.\nVice chairperson Bo Johansson, email: bo.johansson@ltu.se, www.morbusgaucher.se. The association sends out information to members four or five times a year, and holds an annual meeting. The association coordinates direct contacts between members.\nRare Diseases Sweden, Box 1386, SE-172 27, Sundbyberg, Sweden. Tel: +46 8 764 49 99, email: info@sallsyntadiagnoser.se, www.sallsyntadiagnoser.se. Rare Diseases Sweden is a federation of rare disease organizations, serving the interests of people with rare disorders and various disabilities.\nThere is a British Gaucher Association, www.gaucher.org.uk.\nHere information is available on diagnosis and treatment, as well as news and links to patient associations in other countries.\nIn several places in the world, work is under way to develop small molecules to act as pharmacological chaperones. These small molecules bind to the defective enzyme glucosylceramidase, and help transport it to the lysosomes. It is hoped that these small molecules will facilitate treatment of neurological symptoms.\nMany studies are under way to find suitable substances which can relate to the mutations causing Gaucher disease.\nSk\u00e5ne University Hospital/Lund is working on the development of an appropriate form of gene therapy. Experiments are under way on mice.\nAerts JM, Hollak CE, Boot RG, Groener JE, Maas M. Subtrate reduction therapy of glucosphingolipid storage disorders. J Inherit Metab Dis 2006; 29: 449-456.\nAerts JM, Kallemeijn WW, Wegdam W, Joao Ferraz M, van Bremen MJ, Dekker N et al. Biomarkers in the diagnosis of lysosomal storage disorders: proteins, lipids, and inhibodies. J Inherit Metab Dis 2011; 34: 605-619.\nBarton NW, Brady RO, Dambrosia JM, Di Bisceglie AM, Doppelt SH, Hill SC et al. Replacement therapy for inherited enzyme deficiency-macrophage targeted glucocerebrosidase for Gaucher\u2019s disease. N Engl J Med 1991; 324: 1464-1470.\nBenito JM, Garc\u00eda Fern\u00e1ndez JM, Mellet CO. Pharmacological chaperone therapy for Gaucher disease: a patent review. Expert Opin Ther Pat 2011; 21: 885-903.\nBodamer OA, Hung C. Laboratory and genetic evaluation of Gaucher disease. Wien Med Wochenschr 2010; 160: 600-604.\nCox TM. Eliglustat tartrate, an orally active glucocerebroside synthase inhibitor for the potential treatment of Gaucher disease and other lysosomal storage diseases. Curr Opin Investig Drugs 2010; 11: 1169-1181.\nEnqvist IB, Nilsson E, M\u00e5nsson JE, Ehinger M, Richter J, Karlsson S. Successful low-risk hematopoietic cell theraphy in a mouse model of a type 1 Gaucher disease. Stem Cells 2009; 27: 744-752.\nErikson A. Gaucher disease - Norrbottnian type, neuropaediatric and neurobiological aspects of clinical patterns and treatment. Acta Paediatr Scand suppl 1986; 326: 1-42.\nErikson A, Forsberg H, Nilsson M, Astrom M, Mansson JE. Ten years\u2019 experience of enzyme infusion therapy of Norbottnian (type 3) Gaucher disease. Acta Paediatr 2006; 95: 312-317.\nErikson A, Johansson K, M\u00e5nsson JE, Svennerholm L. Enzyme replacement therapy of infantile Gaucher disease. Neuropediatrics 1993; 24: 237-238.\nGrabowski GA. Phenotype, diagnosis, and treatment of Gaucher\u2019s disease. Lancet 2008; 372: 1263-1271.\nGranovsky-Grisaru S, Belmatoug N, Vom Dahl S, Mengel E, Morris E, Zimran A.The management of pregnancy in Gaucher disease. Eur J Obstet Gynecol Reprod Biol 2011; 156: 3-8.\nHughes DA, Pastores GM. The pathophysiology of GD - current understanding and rationale for existing and emerging therapeutic approaches. Wien Med Wochenschr 2010; 160: 594-599.\nLo SM, Stein P, Mullaly S, Bar M, Jain D, Pastores GM et al. Expanding spectrum of the association between type 1 Gaucher disease and cancers: a series of patients with up to 3 sequential cancers of multiple types - correlation with genotype and phenotype. Am J Hematol 2010; 85: 340-345.\nMikosch P, Hughes D. An overview on bone manifestations in Gaucher disease. Wien Med Wochenschr 2010; 160: 609-624.\nParenti G. Treating lysosomal storage disease with pharmacological chaperones: from concept to clinics. EMBO Mol Med 2009; 1: 268-279.\nPastores GM. Neuropathic Gaucher disease. Wien Med Wochenschr 2010; 160: 605-608.\nRosenbloom B, Balwani M, Bronstein JM, Kolodny E, Sathe S, Gwosdow AR et al. The incidence of Parkinsonism in patients with type 1 Gaucher disease: data from the ICGG Gaucher registry. Blood Cells Mol Dis 2011; 46: 95-102.\nSearch: gaucher disease, type I, gaucher disease, type II, gaucher disease, type III.\nwww.genetests.org (find GeneReviews, then Titles)\nSearch: gaucher disease\nThe Swedish Information Centre for Rare Diseases produced and edited this information material.\nThe medical expert who wrote the draft of this information material is Associate Professor Anders Eriksson, Norrland University Hospital, Ume\u00e5, Sweden.\nThe material has been revised by Senior Physician Isa Lundstr\u00f6m, Norrland University Hospital, Ume\u00e5, Senior Physician Maciej Machaczka, Karolinska University Hospital, Huddinge in Stockholm, and Acting Senior Physician Domniki Papadopoulou, Sk\u00e5ne University Hospital in Lund.\nThe relevant organisations for the disabled/patient associations have been given the opportunity to comment on the content of the text.\nAn expert group on rare diseases, affiliated with the University of Gothenburg, approved the material prior to publication.\nPublication date of the Swedish version: 2012-03-07\nFor enquiries contact The Swedish Information Centre for Rare Diseases, The Sahlgrenska Academy at the University of Gothenburg, Box 422, SE-405 30 Gothenburg, Sweden. Tel: +46 31 786 55 90, email: ovanligadiagnoser@gu.se.\nGaucher disease in Swedish", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00240.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 221, + "original_length": 27459, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.91, + "perplexity": 322.1, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "http://www.sockheaven.net/press/articles/cornerstone_1994/", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T03:54:47Z", + "digest": "sha1:IPQD4IS4D2TUTIE7VOVPMLGCD56YPUWA", + "length": 14840, + "nlines": 55, + "source_domain": "www.sockheaven.net", + "title": "Interviews: Steve Taylor - Cornerstone Magazine, Q1(?) 1994 (Sock Heaven)", + "raw_content": "Interviews: Steve Taylor\nQ1(?) 1994, Volume 22, Issues 102/103\n\u00a9 1994 Cornerstone Communications, Inc.\nPages 73, 75-76, 91\nby Dave Canfield\nWe really got a kick out of your \"Trekker Of The Month\" picture.\nGood, glad to hear it. That was taken in Pamukkale, Turkey, at a limestone cliff. Over the years, stalactites have formed around all these hot springs. It's like nothing you've ever seen. It's so soft you have to walk around barefoot. If you wear shoes it'll make permanent imprints, and they don't want that.\nHow did the Vietnamese react to the presence of an American filming crew?\nThey were really friendly. It amazed me, but nobody seemed to be carrying grudges. Our guide spoke quite matter-of-factly about having to send her children out of the city when the Americans were bombing Hanoi. So on one hand it was real intense, but not tense. Once, we went out on these little fishing boats into the China Beach area to do some filming, and it turned out only two people could fit in the boat, myself and the oarsman. And this guy was a former Vietcong who'd had his leg blown off by an American mine. He even bailed water out of the boat with an old GI helmet. It was wild. You'd have thought he'd have been a little uptight, but he wasn't.\nWhat kind of personal reaction did that engender for you filming in and around cultures so much more in touch with various kinds of poverty? It had to be an incredibly surreal kind of experience filming a rock video around all that.\nIt was. When we were shooting in Hong Kong hardly anyone even noticed. In fact, I climbed up on this bamboo scaffolding while a worker was putting it up and he didn't even notice. In Hong Kong our biggest worry was that someone would come up and want to see our filming permit while we were guerrilla shooting.\nBut in places like Kathmandu or Hanoi or Turkey, people don't even know what a music video is. When we were setting up in Kathmandu, this huge crowd gathered on the street. The music started blaring out of the loudspeakers and I was moving and I'm sure they had never seen anything like it before.\nIn Vietnam we were getting ready to do a shot, and this guy snuck up behind me and felt my legs because he thought I must be standing on stilts. It wasn't necessarily culture shock, but because so many things like that happened, our eyes were always open. In many ways it's going to be hard to take a vacation again, because even though the filming was really tiring--getting up early to get dawn's light and staying up late to get the light of dusk--you still can't find a better way to see a country. That's because when you're filming you really have to look at everything to decide where to set up the next shot.\nDid you wife, Debby, participate in the shooting for this project?\nNo, actually she could have and she decided not to. Once I'm directing a video, especially if I'm in it, my mind is on that and nothing else. When we were shooting \"Jim Morrison's Grave\" in Paris, we were supposed to be meeting friends in the middle of the countryside three hours away. The trouble was we were supposed to be meeting them in two hours, and here we were in this graveyard dancing around Jim Morrison's tomb. She's thinking, if we miss this rendezvous point we'll never find them. You know, we don't even speak French.\nAt the same time she notices some particularly nasty looking German punk rockers who don't like the fact that I am filming around this hallowed place even though everybody else is drinking and writing on the cemetery walls. So she sees these guys getting mad and starting to get threatening, and of course the whole time I'm oblivious to everything except getting the next shot. She decided that the idea of doing that for three weeks in countries where who knows what we're going to find wasn't really going to be such a good time.\nLet's talk about the new single \"Bannerman.\" Steve Taylor comes along and notices the little guy out in the crowd with the \"John 3:16\" sign and decides there might be something worth saying about it that isn't just cynical or jaded. As someone who's so concerned with the state of the arts in Christendom, why write a song about that guy?\nWell, I have to be careful how I say this. Chagall Guevara ended up playing in a lot of dark places, and in retrospect I wonder if there is a tendency to think you get a lot more accomplished than you actually do in those situations. I would probably be lying to myself if I said I really believed that now.\nFrankly, when I was doing straight Gospel music, if I had seen a guy holding up a banner that said \"John 3:16\" in the middle of a football game, that might have seemed a little stupid, but because of Chagall I saw it in a new light. It's not very artful, and who knows ultimately what kind of fruit it produces, but I think the idea of a guy standing up and holding this banner that lets the Bible speak for itself is kind of cool.\nIt reminded me, most of us that come to Christ often come because of very unartistic methods. I don't really have the nerve that these guys do. I don't think I'd have written \"Bannerman\" five years ago, but it was actually the first song I wrote for this album. In fact, it was the first song I had written on my own in five years.\nBut what about bands currently on secular labels who have succeeded in what Chagall Guevara set out to do? That is, they seem to have found the difference between being a band and actually preaching the gospel.\nYeah, that's exactly it. You get the sense with some bands on secular labels that they wouldn't hesitate to talk about their faith. And with others you equally get the sense that that is one of the last things they would ever want to do. In the course of what Chagall did, we seemed to have defined well what we weren't, but what exactly were we? The definition wasn't quite as clear there.\nDo you think there was a specific moment when you knew Chagall Guevara was over?\nI don't know. It was probably a combination of events over six months. We did a tour with Squeeze in England that went really well. But the financial pressures kept increasing, particularly for the guys who had families and children. One member quit for a brief time, and that seemed to be the first irrevocable tear in the fabric--when everybody started thinking, Wow, maybe this isn't going to last as long as we had hoped.\nI remember talking to Dave Perkins, and at that time his perspective was that so many bands try for home runs, and that was a good thing. But it was also a good thing if you only made it to first base or second base, the important thing being to take your turn at the bat. He didn't feel those swings were wasted.\nThere was strong vision and unity for most of the time the band was together. I still think about it, and, thankfully, everybody is still friends. And I feel like we made a good record, but it was one of those stories where everybody put it on the line and went for it, and it didn't really work the way we all hoped it would.\nThese frustrations seem to have crept in lyrically on your new record. \"Sock Heaven\" is a good example.\nI wrote \"Sock Heaven\" because I needed to figure out what was going on. \"One little band spinning round together / couldn't cling forever / God, I think I'm losing my mates.\" At points it felt that God was sovereignly watching us dangle. I was even a little afraid that the song might sound a little whiny. Maybe if people know it's about the band they'll understand.\nOne thing that's always stuck out about you as an artist is your love for the misfits, the people who don't know where they fit in. After watching you go through the experience of the band it was extremely encouraging to see those kinds of lyrics just pouring out of you.\nThe band was, in many ways, five years of learning about my own sinfulness and ego--you know, all the nasty stuff I never had to deal with when I was my own boss. All of a sudden I was having to make decisions with other people. It was probably the equivalent of living in a community. The bottom line was finding out I'm not such a great guy after all.\nEven before I got into music, I decided I'd never want to be a pastor 'cause I could never sit through committee meetings. So what do I do? I join a band and we have to do conference calls to decide who's gonna take a shower next. All of a sudden, I found myself fighting for my turf, trying to make other people see I was right.\nIt's that moment when you say what you wish with all your heart you hadn't said, and then you look across the table and all those people are looking back and you know you're exposed.\nYeah, wow! You really nailed it. I'm sure people read interviews and think, Oh, temptations in the band--women on the road, booze, drugs. But that wasn't it at all for us. It was working together. I mean, my wife and I never have arguments like we were having in the band. I just didn't know all that flesh was there.\nWere there any other hard parts about making the switch to band member from solo artist?\nWell, I think being in the band made me long for the days when I could stand around after the concert talking to a bunch of people. One of the tough things about playing clubs was that the typical reaction you'd get was people coming weaving up afterwards with their eyes glazed, saying, \"Man, y'all were good.\" And we'd say \"Ya know, thanks,\" and they'd say, \"No, man, y'all are good!\" I hope I don't sound disrespectful... it's not that I didn't appreciate those people. It was just so difference than what I was used to. Before, I was really making contact with people, talking about the songs after the show and having deeper conversations.\nThose connections can be hard to make. I remember when you decided to cancel your whole North American tour for 1990. Besides protest over the song, \"I Blew Up The Clinic Real Good,\" there was a lot of unfounded criticism over the album cover. Having had more than a few of those experiences in the Christian marketplace, why put out an album that makes a lot of the statements you made on previous records seem pretty tame in comparison?\nI suppose the I Predict 1990 record was difficult for some people to get into. A few of the songs were probably too clever for my own good. But I'd always assumed criticism came with the territory. I suppose around that time I just got a little impatient with it. I'd always been ready for confrontation. Not in an aggressive or angry sense--\nYou mean, \"come let us reason together\"?\nYes, I was ready for controversy for the right reasons. But I think with that record a lot of the controversy was for all the wrong reasons. People, many of whom had never read the lyrics to the song \"I Blew up the Clinic Real Good,\" assumed it encouraged folks to go out and blow up abortion clinics.\nYou seem to have come through all these hard experiences without becoming bitter.\nI think it had to do with growing up in church and seeing the full scope of humanity. Our church had four or five hundred members. I'd see them during the week. We'd sit in meetings together and I'd see some lose their temper and get real irrational at certain points. But they were still part of my church, part of my family. Not to sound preachy, but how can a Christian really get bitter when you not only realize your own sinfulness but also Christ's perfection and His love for all of humanity. Where would we possibly get the idea that we have a right to become bitter about anything?\nSpeaking of church family, I was wondering what it's been like between you and your parents through all these ups and downs?\nPrivately, I think my mom and dad weren't particularly thrilled with the idea of the band even though they never really mentioned it. I know they were very happy when I decided to do another Gospel record, but there's never been any sort of tear in the fabric of our relationship. Love was never something given conditionally at all. They taught me to see God's blessing in all kinds of different circumstances. And they've never based their theology on pragmatic things. You know, the kind that say, If things are going well then God likes me, and if they aren't then God doesn't. Their faith is balanced and they're very committed to it. I suppose that's why our relationship has been so stable over the years.\nDo you see the dichotomy between the active faith of your parents and the laissez-faire approach to family in the nineties?\nOh, yeah. For those in this generation that were raised this way, Jesus is just something you grab a little bit of with your smorgasbord.\nBetween the Swedish meatballs and the lasagna, between the materialism and the self-fulfillment or counseling or whatever?\nYeah, right, exactly. I touched on all that in \"The Moshing Floor\" when I said, \"Malls and religion / build the new forts.\" Really, it's sort of amusing to see parents wringing their hands over \"Beavis and Butthead\" or moshing. The line \"All you baby boomers / feigning dismay / you hired the nanny / you faked her resume,\" was a way of saying, Hey, you guys made this, so why are you asking psychiatrists what's going on? These are the very fruits of your labor.\nOr lack of labor--letting culture raise your kids.\nRight, and I don't take the whole thing too seriously. There's always different expressions going; stage diving is just the latest one. I don't think it's evil or anything. There's all kinds of metaphors when you look at whatever new craze there is. As far as moshing, I sorta liked the thought of people bouncing off of each other and reacting instead of acting.\nDo you feel better able to explain your sense of vision now?\nYes, I think so. If I'm fortunate enough and if Jesus doesn't come back before I'm seventy or eighty, what would I hope to have accomplished with all those years? The people I really admire for what they've accomplished with their lives are people that, if they did art, their point of view got through very clearly. Christian thinkers and writers and even evangelists like Billy Graham or C. S. Lewis or Francis Schaeffer were people that, number one, had done a good job of communicating Christianity to their culture. And hopefully the totality of their lives backs up what they talked about.\nIt kind of comes down to character, I guess.\nYeah, it does, doesn't it? And something like that is so ongoing. I mean, every day you just try to keep doing what God wants. I hope when it's all over I'll be able to look my wife in the eye and say, I was true to you for all of these fifty years. As far as the larger picture of my music, I just hope by God's grace that when it's all over it will have helped people to understand better what Christianity is all about.\nThanks, Steve, for your time.\nThanks, Dave. You are the greatest interviewer in the history of Western civilization. All should bow before thy feet.", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00240.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 100, + "original_length": 17999, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.99, + "perplexity": 256.5, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "http://www.sockheaven.net/press/articles/lancasteronline_20140505/", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T03:18:56Z", + "digest": "sha1:MTOA3MPL7LLSAZXIXAI2QJVLOXOCVEJN", + "length": 5205, + "nlines": 33, + "source_domain": "www.sockheaven.net", + "title": "Steve Taylor and Peter Furler: Veteran Christian Artists Deliver Well-Rounded, Excellent Show Here - Lancaster Online, May 5th, 2014 (Sock Heaven)", + "raw_content": "Steve Taylor and Peter Furler: Veteran Christian Artists Deliver Well-Rounded, Excellent Show Here\n\u00a9 2014 LancasterOnline\nBy DAVID O'CONNOR | Staff Writer\nSteve Taylor and the Perfect Foil\nImage: Randy Hess\nA husband and wife from Lebanon were walking into Sunday night's concert by two of Christian music's best-known artists ever, Steve Taylor and Peter Furler.\nThe man took a quick look around the concert venue, and smiled.\n\"It's amazing how many bald heads are here tonight!\" he chortled.\nMany of those heads probably weren't bald back when Taylor, the iconoclastic, energetic, authority-provoking (and prolific) singer-songwriter, and Furler, long-time frontman for the chart-topping band the Newsboys, were staples on Christian radio in the 1980s, 1990s and (in Furler's case) the 2000s.\nThere were indeed some \"seasoned\" adults among the 450 or so who nearly packed the Junction Center tent, at Christian radio station WJTL-FM, Sunday along Junction Road in East Hempfield Township.\nBut the older guys up on stage, Furler and then headliner Taylor, made them feel young again by rocking the tent with a great, powerful three-hour concert that was a mix of the nostalgic and the new.\nTaylor, now 56, dressed in a sharp suit and tie (made me, at least, think of Robert Palmer's '80s video for \"Addicted to Love\") had the energy of a man half his age as he tore through such classic, ground-breaking songs of his as New Wave-era \"Meltdown,\" \"We Don't Need No Colour Code\" and \"Easy Listening,\" with most of the crowd answering Taylor's \"Easy\" with \"Listening\" and \"Barry\" with \"Manilow.\"\nThe Peter Furler Band primed the crowd at the\nJunction Center Sunday night in Manheim.\nThe younger (47) Furler played a rousing hour-long opening set of Newsboys and solo material, then, after a 15-minute intermission, continued his long musical relationship with his friend Taylor by playing the drums for Taylor's own energy-packed 90-minute show.\nFurler, on guitar for his own set, only had two others in his band, but they were tremendous: Dave Ghazarian (formerly of Superchick and Audio Adrenaline) brought an extremely active, high-treble bass and Jeff Irizarry was Keith Moon-like on drums.\n\"There's only three of us, so we're trying to make as much noise as possible ... none of that pre-recorded-track rubbish,\" Aussie Furler said with a smile at the start of his show.\n\"We're giving you 100 percent live music, because Pennsylvania deserves it!\"\nFurler's set: \"Something Beautiful\"; \"Million Pieces (Kissin' Your Cares Goodbye)\"; early-'90s Newsboys smash \"Not Ashamed\"; new radio single \"Sun and Shield\"; a surprise, excellent, number, \"Spirits in the Material World\" by the Police; \"Dare I Say,\" also from the new \"Sun and Shield\"; \"Reach\"; mid-90s Newsboys number \"Lost the Plot\"; the new \"It's All Right\" (For Lazarus)\"; huge early-90s Newsboys' hit \"Shine\"; early 2000s hit \"He Reigns\": and the catchy singalong \"I Am Free\" ended it in excellent fashion.\nFurler, always playful in his stage comments, said a young guy told Furler he hadn't even been born when the singer wrote \"Not Ashamed\" 20-plus years ago.\n\"Shut up, kid, I was 4 when I wrote it, OK?\" Furler said he told him, and everyone laughed.\nTaylor has had a long association with Furler, having written a slew of Newsboys' songs, from the early \"I'm Not Ashamed\" to the catchy singalong \"Breakfast,\" which many consider to be one of the best songs ever in Christian music.\nTaylor also has been an active filmmaker and songwriter for other artists, from the harder-edged Christian band Guardian to the Continentals.\n\"His fingerprints are all over the best of Christian music\" through the years, John DiBiase, founder of jesusfreakhideout.com, the influential Christian music website, explained before Sunday's show.\n\"He's been an icon of Christian music for a lot of years. He was on the cutting edge back then, and I'm interested in seeing where he is going to go\" with his new music, DiBiase added.\nIt's been more than 20 years since Taylor released his last new album, \"Squint,\" but now he has re-emerged musically with a popular new radio single, \"A Life Preserved,\" and promised his fans Sunday that there will soon be a new album.\n\"We're going to play some new songs for you just to prove that we do have a new album,\" he joked.\nAlong with Furler on drums, Taylor, who looked a little Steven Tyler-ish with the mike stand, was backed by a top-notch band of his own (Jimmy Abegg on guitar and John Mark Painter on bass).\nHighlights of Taylor's stint Sunday included a lighter version of \"A Life Preserved\" than the one on the radio, and Taylor's first concert version of \"Meltdown\" in, according to the artist, decades.\n\"So if it's a train wreck, I can't think of a nicer place to have a train wreck than in Lancaster,\" he declared, but the roar of the crowd when \"Meltdown\" ended told him, this was no train wreck.\nThe crowd Sunday was the largest so far on the Taylor-Furler tour, some on hand said.\nDavid O'Connor is a Lancaster Newspapers reporter who covers suburban government, off-the-field news for the Lancaster Barnstormers and general-assignment issues.\nhttp://www.sockheaven.net/press/articles/lancasteronline_20140505/", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00240.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 70, + "original_length": 6272, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.97, + "perplexity": 240.6, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "http://www.somnambulant-gamer.com/2016/05/i-pledge-allegiance-to-this-game-and.html", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T04:43:26Z", + "digest": "sha1:DPCVRNNRTDG24HDOJB7H6R6234RLTX7T", + "length": 4143, + "nlines": 11, + "source_domain": "www.somnambulant-gamer.com", + "title": "Somnambulant Gamer: I Pledge Allegiance To This Game And Forsake All Others Before it", + "raw_content": "I Pledge Allegiance To This Game And Forsake All Others Before it\nSuperfans have regularly ruined my experience in games like Destony and The Division. Image Source: Forbes.com\nWhile perusing the Destiny subreddit the other day I came upon a post asking how many in the community had come back to Bungie's Space Loot Opera after playing The Division. Post after post went on about how disappointed people were in The Division and how terrible a game it is and how awesome Destiny is and always has been. Sure, The Division has had some problems, not the least of which have cropped up in the latest update, but the overall quality of the game is still pretty good. As I read through the comments, I started wondering when all this play one and only one game mentality came from.\nI understand that there will always be fanboys for any given game/platform out there. I remember them focusing mainly on the consoles in the past, but recently they seem to have laser focused their zealous ways on specific games. I can't for the life of me understand where this compulsion to tear down every other game that isn't the one you play.\nI don't have a ton of cash to throw at games, nor do I have a lot of time to commit to them, but I know what I like in a game. I don't share this delusion that there is only one particular game for me at any given time. My gameplay is guided by my mood. I have a host of games one any given console and a healthy Steam library (with far too many games I've yet to complete) to keep me entertained no matter what I'm in the mood for. I can't imagine shackling myself to a single title unless it were for a particularly in depth article.\nEven playing the chosen game with these faith militant can be difficult. I've been in groups of them in both The Division and Destiny. In both cases, they are overly critical, inflexible windbags who want nothing more than to show you how superior their method of defeating enemy A or boss B is. If their plan goes awry in any way (and it usually does) then it is immediately the fault of whoever the pickup player happens to be.\nIn person, these players are often no less insufferable. When they aren't accusing the new player of screwing up their moves, they are complaining about every single little issue they have ever encountered or heard another player gripe about as though it is a sign of how doomed the game is or how terrible a job the developers did and how much better a job they would do if only Bungie/Massive would hire them, despite their complete lack of any experience in the industry. It's a staggering bit of dichotomous thinking that\nFor all some people would like to try and point out, neither of these games is terrible. Image Source: Xbox.com\nI know I probably come off as terribly bitter towards these folks. You're right, I am bitter. I'm bitter because players like this have soured the experience for myself and other players like me who just want to have a good time and don't take the game so terribly seriously. They are the shitty coworker that ruins an otherwise ideal workplace.\nThe bright side of this misanthropic rant is that these people are not the majority in any of the games they have pledged themselves to. For every spewing, malcontent sociopath, there are ten people who just want to play a game for a few hours and don't care so much about \"getting good.\" We'll play the raids in Destiny a few times at best and not worry about how much of the loot we have or how close we are to the maximum gear level in The Division. Unfortunately, when it comes to having an active voice in the community we are not the first to the mic. The loud, obnoxious faithful are always first on the scene to deride our questions and remind us how much better they are at this game. We need to be more active in these communities and provide a voice of reason if we want this bullshit to stop. 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Of those who seek healthcare treatment, 90 percent are women between 30 and 50 years old.\nAs the causes and symptoms of TMJD are not fully understood, and because the symptoms of TMJD are also present in a number of conditions including toothache, ear infection and headaches, TMJD is often difficult to diagnose.\nTreatment options for TMJD include: cold and hot compress; stretching and exercise; eating soft, small-bite-sized foods; relaxation techniques; over-the-counter and prescription pain management medications; and nightime dental appliances. Surgery and other irreversible solutions meant to alter the bite should be carefully considered, as they have not been shown to be effective in the treatment of TMJD.\nTMJD symptoms may vary from mild to severe, and mild cases frequently become better in a matter of weeks or months with common-sense care such as applying ice and preventing additional strain on the jaw and surrounding muscles.\nWhen cases of TMJD are severe and persistent, there may be no cure for the condition. Instead, ongoing management of symptoms is required. 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A woman called and asked, \"Do airlines put your physical description on your bag so they know whose luggage belongs to who?\" I said, \"No, why do you ask?\" She replied, \"Well, when I checked in with the airline, they put a tag on my luggage that said FAT, and I'm overweight, is there any connection?\" After putting her on hold for a minute while \"I looked into it,\" (I was actually laughing) I came back and explained that the city code for Fresno is FAT, and that the airline was just putting a destination tag on her luggage.\n9. I just got off the phone with a man who asked, \"How do I know which plane to get on?\" I asked him what exactly he meant, to which he replied, \"I was told my flight number is 823, but none of these darn planes have numbers on them.\n10. \"A woman called and said, \"I need to fly to Pepsi-cola on one of those computer planes.\" I asked if she meant to fly to Pensacola on a commuter plane. She said, \"Yeah, whatever.\"\n11. 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Check your map!\" The agent scoured a map of the state of New York and finally offered, \"You don't mean Buffalo, do you?\" \"That's it! I knew it was a big animal!\"\nLearn Chinese in 5 minutes...\n1) That's not right ........................ ....Sum Ting Wong\n2) Are you harboring a fugitive?.......... Hu Yu Hai Ding\n3) See me ASAP...............................Kum Hia Nao\n4) Stupid Man.................................. .Dum Fuk\n5) Small Horse................................. Tai Ni Po Ni\n6) Did you go to the beach? ...............Wai Yu So Tan\n7) I bumped into a coffee table ......... ..Ai Bang Mai Fa Kin Ni\n8) I think you need a face lift .............. Chin Tu Fat\n9) It's very dark in here .................... ..Wao So Dim\n10) I thought you were on a diet ........ ..Wai Yu Mun Ching?\n11) This is a tow away zone ............... No Pah King\n12) Our meeting is scheduled for next week ... Wai Yu Kum Nao?\n13) Staying out of sight .......................Lei Ying Lo\n14) He's cleaning his automobile .........Wa Shing Ka\n15) Your body odor is offensive ........... Yu Stin Ki Pu\n16) Great .......................................... Fa Kin Su Pah\nA man is visiting the city of Vancouver and goes down to the shore. There he see's an old salt sitting on a log. He has a peg leg, hook for a hand and a patch over his eye. The visitor thinks this guy might have an interesting story to tell, so asks him how he got the peg leg. The old salt answers that one-day at sea in the Caribbean he fell overboard and a shark came and bite part of his leg off. The visitor then asks about his hook and the salt says that on another trip to the Caribbean when the yardarm came down and knocked him overboard. Another shark came along and bit his hand off. 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We located and spoke with Acting Station Commander Marlo Iggulden yesterday, and I have been up most of the night trying to work out what to make of the things he told us.\nThe challenge is picking the useful information out of his ramblings, theories, and random soliloquies. He has been alone with his ghosts for some time and while he seems to have adjusted to it fairly successfully, the adjustment has given him some\u2026 quirks.\nThe first thing we asked was about other people on the station. Iggulden says that he hasn\u2019t seen anyone directly for some time (he refused to be more specific than \u2018some time\u2019), but he believes there are a few people still alive somewhere. He was surprised to hear that Sara was all right, so I\u2019m not sure how much faith to put in his opinion about this.\nI think he shut himself away from the station\u2019s population some months ago and wasn\u2019t witness to their fates.\nThat was as much help as he was able to give about the rest of the station\u2019s personnel. Starry is still trying to locate the life signs on the station\u2019s sensors; there are two left she has yet to identify. So far, Iggulden and Sara are the only two people she has found; the rest have turned out to be animals. I don\u2019t know what to hope for from the last two life signs. Is there anyone who will be able to help us?\nAccording to what he told us, the station\u2019s personnel never tracked down the source of the delusions. They came to the same conclusions that we did: that they are all linked to people on the station, that a strong emotional connection is required, and that the hallucinations are shared. They investigated many of the same avenues we thought about: some kind of signal or projection; a virus that might infect cerebral implants; or substances in the food, air, and water. They monitored everything in the environment and came up with nothing. The implant idea was scrapped once it was clear that even those without them were affected, which we\u2019ve confirmed with young Sara. She sees and interacts with ghosts freely, including one we believe was her mother, and scans reveal that she doesn\u2019t have a single implant in her.\nThere were many theories held by those on board the station, but the key fact was this: the information about the ghosts (and indeed the food and other parts of the hallucinations) was all gleaned from the minds of those affected. These are not only the ghosts of the people we remember; they are the people as we remember them. The few times when people remembered the same person led to some strange clashes that resulted in instabilities in the ghost. They apparently tried to satisfy all of the information at once, and when they couldn\u2019t, they would flicker between remembered realities.\nWe haven\u2019t seen that ourselves, but I suppose that none of the crew has been deeply attached to the same person. With so few people left on board the station, it hasn\u2019t happened in a long time, either. But Iggulden swears that it did. Children remembering a lost parent; lovers remembering the same ex. They found the easiest way to deal with it was to avoid all being in the same room at the same time.\nSo whatever is doing this is taking the memories right out of our brains and monitoring our reactions to the ghosts. Potentially, the hallucinations are being projected directly into our brains as well; this would explain why there don\u2019t seem to be any detectable changes in the environment. A purely psionic effect would seem to make sense. We don\u2019t have the sensors to detect transmissions on whatever wavelength or medium that would be, so it\u2019s hard to confirm, though Starry is still trying to track down something we could detect or trace.\nThis information eliminates some potential causes of the phenomenon, but it doesn\u2019t bring us much closer to what the real cause is. What could possibly interact with our brains in this way? It\u2019s outside of anything that we know is currently possible.\nHowever, it\u2019s not beyond the realm of feasibility that there was an experiment going on here that would redefine what we currently think of as possible. That was, after all, what we were doing with the Starwalker and the Star Step drive.\nStarry\u2019s investigations of the station\u2019s systems haven\u2019t revealed any hidden or locked sections that might hold orders, information, or protocols for an experiment like that. We haven\u2019t found any traces of monitoring equipment that would be part of something like that, on or off the station.\nAdd to that the data Starry gleaned from her conversation with the Celestial Strider, and an experiment becomes less likely. The source of the phenomenon seems to be in the vicinity of the black hole, and our scans have not detected any equipment out there. We can pick up the Celestial Strider on our sensors just fine, and if there was anything else hovering in that area, we\u2019d see it, too. Anything closer to the event horizon of the singularity would be sucked in.\nThere\u2019s also Sara and her whale, though Dr Valdimir doesn\u2019t know what to make of that. I asked Starry to go over logs of Sara\u2019s habits since she has been staying in the visitor\u2019s section with us, and it seems that she often goes to look out of the window when the black hole is in view. I don\u2019t think it\u2019s a coincidence.\nDr Valdimir wants to get Sara down to Med Bay for tests, to investigate the possible impacts of the psionic phenomenon on her brain. She was born here and has grown up with ghosts. It saddens me to think about what that might have done to a developing brain, to a child. Dr Valdimir said he\u2019d look into that today.\nThe black hole. Every time we look into this phenomenon, the data leads us there. There\u2019s a word that no-one has said but I think it\u2019s on many minds right now: avatar. If Cerces was once a star, what happened to its consciousness when it collapsed in on itself? Did it ever have an avatar? Where might it be now? Could it be Sara\u2019s whale? Is it dead?\nI wish that Kess was here right now; it would be useful to have someone to ask about how it all works. We should have asked her so many more questions while she was on board, but even then, would we have known to ask about this?\nThere\u2019s no benefit in wishing. Kess isn\u2019t here and we have to do the best with what we\u2019ve got. We know that stars have a consciousness, and that sometimes they have avatars that we can detect and interact with. We know that, once upon a time, Cerces was a star. An avatar may be involved.\nSo perhaps it is time for a different question. Rather than what is causing the ghosts, we should be asking: what are the ghosts for? Is there some purpose to all of this? What might an ex-star want with us?\nWe asked Iggulden about it, and he didn\u2019t have any idea about a purpose behind the illusory people that clutter up his cave. He accepted them, used them where it suited him, and thought no more deeply about it. He continues to keep the station in good repair and lives a fairly comfortable life. He doesn\u2019t seem to want anything more.\nWe\u2019re not the first to ask why these ghosts are here. We\u2019re not the first to ask the ghosts themselves why they\u2019re here. They don\u2019t know. I tried to talk to\u2013 the illusion of my wife. She smiled and shook her head, as if she didn\u2019t understand the question. She\u2019s here because I remember her, she said. She\u2019s here so I can talk to her.\nI even tried asking Sara why the ghosts were here, but she didn\u2019t understand the question either. She just stared at me until I changed the subject.\nWe\u2019re refocussing our efforts onto answering this question now. I think if we can figure out the why, we\u2019ll know the who and how. Of course, then we have to figure out how to stop it, or what to do from there, but that\u2019s something we\u2019ll worry about once we have this part answered.\nIt feels close. It\u2019s like we almost understand it; we just haven\u2019t phrased the question in the right words.\nIn the meantime, Starry is doing a good job of keeping us in touch with reality. She\u2019s helping us to eat properly and know the ghosts when we see them. Now that Monaghan is repairing her core systems, she\u2019s able to help us more with the station\u2019s resources as well.\nAll the same, I\u2019m concerned about my crew. They\u2019re all working hard at their jobs but the ghosts are taking their toll. So far, I\u2019ve seen several illusions belonging to each of my people, in addition to my own apparitions. I don\u2019t think they were particularly welcome visitations. I am torn between respecting my crew\u2019s privacy and my desire to understand who these ghosts are and what they mean to my crew.\nI asked Dr Valdimir to keep an eye on everyone, as he\u2019s our psychological expert. However, I am worried about him most of all. He has two women and a man in near constant ghostly attendance, and he seems deeply unhappy around them. He is the one who ignores the ghosts most strenuously.\nWho watches the watchmen? I guess that\u2019s my job. And Starry\u2019s, though it\u2019s more difficult for her because she can\u2019t see the ghosts.\nSo that\u2019s where we are right now. Trying to work out why we\u2019re surrounded by ghosts, while we get our ship repaired. And then maybe, just maybe, we can leave this place and move on.\nExternal ship comms\nDR SOCKS: (voice only) Excuse me, captain?\nCAPTAIN: Yes, doctor?\nDR SOCKS: You should get over to the station\u2019s Med Bay right away.\nCAPT: You found something?\nDR SOCKS: No. Lang Lang Cartier just woke up.\nCAPT: I\u2019m on my way.\nNow that\u2019s the sort of news we need more of.\nThis entry was posted on Thursday, November 14th, 2213 at 10:31 am\tby Captain. It is filed under 4.1: Ghost Station. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. Both comments and pings are currently closed.\n7 Responses to \u201cQuestioning ghosts\u201d\nLooks like the comments were broken here for a couple of days. I\u2019ve disabled the plugin that was causing the issue and tested the comment system, and it should be all fine now.\nPlease feel free to email me if you have problems again! Thanks to everyone who gave me the heads-up. Appreciate it!\nYayy, Lang Lang is back. \ud83d\ude00\nI believe she might be able to help with the ghost situation \u2014 maybe she even was in contact with the whale while being down\u2026\nabout time they had some good news for a change.\nI like Lang Lang, hope she recovers quickly.\nStrange, and I really hope I am wrong, but I thought Cartier was essentially brain-dead. If she just woke up, does that mean she is really officially dead, or really better? Very confusing! Dang it, sometimes reality is too confusing.\nGreat chapter Melanie. It\u2019s nice to see you bringing Kess back into the picture. Now that the Captain has subconsciously summoned her from her pseudo-death, I hope she will start helping solve the ghost problem. I had not thought about Ceres\u2019 avatar being the whale but that does make sense.\nI wonder if being turned into a black hole means that the star can only communicate on an imaginary level?\nI wonder what Lang Lang\u2019s take on the situation would be.\n:O Lang Lang returns! Hooray!\nI went through and reread Starwalker about a month or so ago, and one thing that really stuck out at my by the time of Sarabande Station was just how small Starry\u2019s crew had become. Most of the original SecOffs are gone, Captain and Elliot are the only ones left from her original civillian crew, plus one replacement doctor, and until now, Starry was missing all of her scientific crew. She doesn\u2019t have much crew left to lose! Since pretty much all of the missing originals aren\u2019t coming back, she desperately needs some new blood\u2026because I shudder to imagine what might happen with Starry if she were to lose -everyone-, and have to become completely self-determining.\nAnd until proven otherwise, like I said on the last page, I\u2019m going to believe that there\u2019s a Suul\u2019Ka hiding behind the black hole and screwing with everyone\u2019s heads, and little Sara is latently psychic and can sense it. :U\nmjkj \u2013 Good question!\nZjoske \u2013 she\u2019s definitely on the mend. \ud83d\ude42\nthomas \u2013 no, Cameron was the one who was near brain-death. Lang Lang was badly hurt from being stuck out in the vacuum in a torn suit.\nGlad you liked the post! \ud83d\ude42\nFrancisco \u2013 also a good question. \ud83d\ude09\nGlitch(TMG) \u2013 yeah, her crew is very small at the moment. 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EC officials also said that criteria for disqualification of presidential nominees were listed in the constitution and not in the Presidential Elections Act\nThe parliamentary debate on the Delimitation Report and the corresponding fate of the provincial council elections was overshadowed by a more intense debate in political circles on whether former President Mahinda Rajapaksa could contest a future presidential election. The debate was heated up last week with the SLPP leader Prof.G.L.Peiris\u2019s claims of plans to move court to interpret the law brought in by the 19th amendment to the Constitution.\nThe Election Commission however, seemed less excited and shot down speculation saying the whole drama was unwarranted.\nA senior polls officer who wished to remain anonymous said, the big hullabaloo about the provisions in Article 31 of the 19th Amendment which says, \u201cNo person who has been twice elected to the office of President by the People, shall be qualified thereafter to be elected to such office by the People,\u201d was pointless as the law is quite unambiguous.\nThe Sunday Observer spoke to a number of experts on the subject, to get a clearer idea about what the law dictated.\nThe SLPP last week argued that since the law under the constitution had no retrospective effect, the 19-A would apply to the future, to a new office of President hence they have been advised that President Rajapaksa could run for Presidency again. The SLPP is expected to seek an interpretation from the Supreme Court on the new law through a proxy or some other means by September.\nLegal Director, Election Commission Attorney-at-law Nimal Punchihewa said during nominations of the Presidential election, the Election Commission can only either accept or reject the nomination papers of a candidate. There was no precedence to refer the matter to a Court for an interpretation of the law at that point, he said.\n\u201cAn interpretation can be sought from the Attorney General or the Supreme Court before or after nominations but not during nominations. It can be done by the President or any citizen in a fundamental rights application to the Supreme Court,\u201d he said.\nAn ordinary citizen can also move the district court, which in turn will refer it to the SC to get an interpretation but that would be quite a cumbersome process given the heavy workload of the DCs.\nPunchihewa said if an interpretation is sought while during an election time, it might unnecessarily delay the polls and affect the franchise rights of the people, \u201cTherefore if there are concerns, the best option is to clarify the law before calling for a Presidential election,\u201d he opined.\nAsked if anyone can go to courts against the decision of the Elections Commission over a rejection or an acceptance of a nomination, the Legal Secretary responded in the affirmative. He said there were provisions for an individual to file a writ mandamus and seek a stay order if they want to challenge the ECs decision.\n\u201cThis was the case with the Elpitiya Pradeshiya Sabha election in February 2018. The election to the Elpitiya PS was suspended until a ruling was given by the Supreme Court,\u201d he said.\nThe Democratic United National Front (DUNF) filed a writ application in the Supreme Court against the Election Commission Chairman and two others for rejecting their nomination paper for Elpitiya PS by the Galle district returning officer, on the grounds that it was handed over by an unauthorised person.\nThe Local Authorities Elections (amendment) Act, like all other election acts, spells out the individuals who are authorised to hand over nominations, one of such would be the Secretary of a political party.\nPunchihewa said the Presidential Elections Act provides for holding the Presidential election. It contains laws on how an election is legally held, how nominations are accepted and rules on ballot papers.\nBut the qualifications and disqualifications for candidates are explained in the Constitution.\n\u201cHence, there was no need to amend the Presidential Elections Act after the 19th amendment to the constitution was passed,\u201d he clarified. But a change was made to the Act after the 19A, to say that the term of the President had been reduced from six years to five years.\nElection Commission Member Prof. Ratnajeevan Hoole, referring to the argument that the past presidents can contest a future presidential election, said that since the constitution did not provide for retroactive effect said, there was no question of backward application of the law here.\n\u201cThe ongoing discussion is about whether a person who has been President for two terms may contest again. There is nothing retroactive about it.\nIt is a forward application of the law,\u201d he stressed adding that no one who has served two terms is eligible to be a candidate in the future. Prof. Hoole said retroactive is to apply the law to the past. Etymologically, retro - and active are the roots.\nTo apply the law retroactively would be to say that if there had been a three term president, his third term was invalid and all he did as president was invalid. He said that there was no argument that the law will apply only to the future in all law-abiding societies.\nMeanwhile, a constitutional expert with knowledge of the 19th Amendment drafting process, told Sunday Observer that the question of the two term limit and its application to former presidents and the transitional provisions that determined the term of office of the incumbent were iron clad and repeatedly checked and double-checked by drafting experts before the amendment was presented to Parliament.\n\u201cLawyers are not necessarily drafters, so the 19th Amendment had to be very carefully drafted by experts in legal draftsmanship who understood phrasing nuance and the need for clarity and unambiguity.\nSunday Observer learns that two retired legal draftsmen prepared the framework for the 19th amendment draft, before it was sent to the Legal Draftsman\u2019s Department.\nThe expert told the that the argument being put forward by Sunday Observer Prof. G.L. Peiris and other legal experts that a new presidency was created by the 19A was seriously flawed, because the 19th Amendment transitional provisions itself alluded to the Office being one and the same.\n\u201cThe persons holding office as President and Prime Minister on the day preceding April 22, 2015, shall continue to hold such office after such date subject to amendments introduced by the Act \u2013 it does not say \u2018new office\u2019,\u201d the expert explained.\n\u201cIf it was a new office, President Sirisena would have been compelled to take oaths again once the 19A was enacted,\u201d the expert added.\nThe expert went on to elaborate how the Supreme Court had rejected sections of the 19A as it was originally presented \u2013 with regard to the President being unable to remove ministers \u2013 claiming that it violated the President\u2019s powers under the constitution. The 19A did not tamper with Article 3 and 4 of the constitution, which deals with the people\u2019s sovereignty and executive power of the people in the office of the President.\n\u201cTo create a new presidency, these Articles would have to be altered \u2013 and if that was done, the Supreme Court would have demanded a referendum by the people before it could be enacted,\u201d the expert explained.\nRepealing Article 30 abolished office of the president - Dr. Nihal Jayawickrema\nEminent jurist claims repealing and replacing Article 30 which sets up the office of the president, through the 19th Amendement, constituted a \u2018break in continuity\u2019 of the office\nJurist, constitutional expert and former Secretary to the Ministry of Justice, Dr. Nihal Jayawickrema made waves last week with his analysis that the 19th Amendment did not preclude persons who had held presidential office for two terms from contesting again \u2013 an argument latched on to by followers of former President Mahinda Rajapaksa.\nIn an interview with the Sunday Observer, Dr. Jayawickrema doubled down on his published analysis, saying that the decision of the drafters to repeal and replace Article 30 of the constitution which sets up the office of the President had constituted \u201ca break in the continuity of the office of the President.\u201d\n\u201cIf Parliament intended merely to change the term of office, all it had to do was to substitute the words \u2018six years\u2019 for the words \u2018five years\u2019. It was not necessary to repeal Article 30 and substitute a new Article in its place,\u201d Dr. Jayawickrema argued. He added that the effect of repealing was to abolish the office of President, even though it was necessary to replace it immediately and this had been done in almost identical terms.\nDr. Jayawickrema countered that it was not merely Article 30 that was repealed and replaced, but also Article 33 which significantly altered the duties, powers and functions of the President; Chapter VIII which transferred almost all the powers of the President relating to the Cabinet of Ministers to the Prime Minister; and a host of other Articles which restricted significantly the President\u2019s powers of appointment, dissolution of Parliament, and the immunity that was attached to the previous office.\n\u201cTherefore, the reason why the normal form of drafting was not followed was because a new essentially non-executive, primarily symbolic and ceremonial office was being created to replace the previous office of Executive President,\u201d the jurist argued.\nHaving said that, Dr. Jayawickrema acknowledges that there was no doubt that the intention of Parliament when it enacted 19A was to restore the two-term limit that had been abolished by the 18th Amendment. \u201cBut the intention had to be expressed in appropriate language in the law. That was not done,\u201d he claimed.\nThe Government had options, the Jurist said, it could seriously consider supporting the 20th Amendment to abolish the presidency brought by the JVP. \u201cThat will resolve all these issues\u201d.\nHe said a voter could seek clarification if a twice elected president could hold office again, by seeking an appropriate declaration in a District Court, which could then refer the constitutional issue to the Supreme Court which is required by Article 125 to hear and determine the constitutional question within two months.\nProf. Peiris who is the Chairman of the SLPP that wants to field former President Rajapaksa as the 2019 presidential candidate, has already indicated the party may follow such a course.\nDr. Jayawickrema, in spite of his arguments, insists that he does not believe any elected head of state should be permitted more than two terms. \u201cThat is the norm in every democratic country,\u201d he said adding, \u201cOf course, there are exceptions, especially on the African continent and in Latin America. 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Here are a few of the renewable energy initiatives you can see on-Island today.\nOur Clean Energy Sectors\nHaida Gwaii Clean Energy Map\nThere are many renewable energy projects on Haida Gwaii. Click on an icon in the map below to see more information about these projects.\nOur Clean Energy Stories\nMeredith Adams\nWind & Solar System\nLaird Bateham & Maude Island Farms\nOff Grid Farming\nEnergy Reduction and Solar Solutions\nDorothy & Mike's Guest House\nSolar Powered Guest House\nGidGalang Kuuyas Naay Secondary\nSolar Powered Schooling\nSk'aadGaa Naay Elementary\nA School's Solar Solution\nSolar Panels at the Village Office\nPaul and Debra Powers\nOld Massett Youth Centre\nSolar Powered Youth Centre\nHiit'aGan.iina Kuuyas Naay\nNorman McGregor\nSolar Solutions in Sandspit\nIn her efforts to become energy-independent, in 2006 Meredith Adams made a choice to install an off-grid hybrid 1KW wind/solar power system with battery storage to generate electricity for her three cabins and workshop. The system meets current demands, including household lights, small appliances, water pump, and frequently operates a 13\u201d planer and other tools.\nMeredith heats her home with wood and has a hot-water-on-demand system powered by propane. A back up generator is necessary from mid-October to mid-February, but her fuel bill is only $320 per year. Excluding the cost of labour to install and maintain the system, Meredith figures it took five years to pay off based on BC Hydro's residential rate for Haida Gwaii.\nThe next steps for her include a solar pump for rainwater filtration. The success of Meredith\u2019s investment led to the creation of her thriving business in 2007, Spark! Sustainable Energy Solutions. She is the only local renewable energy provider on Island.\nLaird Bateham and his family are faithful stewards of the environment, they live simply and operate an organic farm on Maude Island. Their off-grid lifestyle required innovation to produce energy for their home and business.\nTo generate electricity for the majority of the year, Mr. Bateham installed a 10 kW run-of-the-river micro-hydropower system on Maude Island. The system does not require large storage reservoirs, although it is turned off in the summer due to low stream flow. The system has generated 112.5 MW hours of power since installation and offsets 60 kW hours per day.\nMaude Island Farms is looking for affordable options to generate power and save water in the summer months for irrigation. They are considering passive solar hot water and have added electric heat so they can continue to live and operate their farm entirely off-grid.\nDorothy & Mike Garrett are known for their cozy accommodations in the Village of Queen Charlotte. With their commitment to the community through their business and the local SPCA, it is no surprise they\u2019re also devoted to the environment.\nFor 10 years, an evacuated tube solar collector positioned on the Guest House roof has converted sunlight into usable heat. Energy from the sun is used to preheat the hot water for their domestic hot water and boiler system. Reducing their dependency on hydroelectric power and oil has been both eco-friendly and cost-effective \u2013 the system paid itself off within six years.\nThey\u2019ve further reduced their energy consumption through investments into a hot water heating system, purchasing energy star appliances, and installing low-flow showerheads and low-flush toilets. Dorothy and Mike are now looking to upgrade the solar-hot-water system to increase its efficiency.\nCurrently one of the largest solar installations on Haida Gwaii, the GidGalang Kuuyas Naay Secondary (formerly the Queen Charlotte Secondary) has 84 solar panels. Installed in the spring of 2016, the 24 kW solar array has been offsetting some 20% of the school\u2019s electricity. The lifespan for solar installations like this is approximately 30 years, and these panels are expected to pay themselves off within six years. The maintenance supervisor, Steve Goffic, who initiated the project did so because it is one way that the school can reduce its impacts on the planet. \u201cWe have obligations to the province to lower our carbon footprint. We can be as creative as we want with that responsibility.\u201d Mr. Goffic aims to have another 80+ panels installed by 2020. Visit the school\u2019s website to view solar productivity of this array.\nSk\u2019aadgaa Naay Elementary school in Skidegate has an installation of 24 solar panels. These panels were put up out of necessity because of the sump pumps that must be running at all times. Because the Islands experience frequent power bumps, the maintenance supervisor, Steve Goffic, had to find a solution and so he turned to solar. \u201cEvery school within the district has to pay into a carbon tax fund based on our carbon footprint, we pay based on the carbon we use in the year. If you have a good enough project, you can get some of the money back.\u201d Not only does solar provide the electricity necessary to run the sump pumps at the elementary school, according to Mr. Goffic, it was cost effective and is low maintenance.\nVillage of Queen Charlotte Municipal Office\nIn 2013, Spark! Sustainable Energy Solutions installed two photovoltaics solar panels at the Village of Queen Charlotte's municipal office. The solar panels located near the building feed directly into the Village Office and help to offset their daily electricity use. On dark and cloudy days, the system produces very little electricity, but on bright and sunny days, the panels can help offset some of the office\u2019s needs. In March 2015, for example, the solar panels produced a total of 230 kWh of electricity. On average, the 12 panels produce around 300 kWh per month in the summer.\nPaul and Debra Powers have lived in Masset for over 20 years. In 2010, Paul had an opportunity to invest in 14 solar panels at wholesale cost, and so he went for it. With experience working for an electrical company in Vancouver, he was able to install the array himself. After a few successful years producing solar energy, the Powers decided to increase their solar production. Today, the house has a total of 47 panels (8.2 kW) located on the house, garage, greenhouse, and one on their camper. The installation will take 15+ years to pay itself off, but they produce about 30% of the house\u2019s annual electricity and the Powers are saving about $700 per year on their hydro bill.\nAlong with the solar installation, Debra and Paul use LED lights in their home and have helped to offset their heating costs by installing a wall-mounted, ceramic heat panel. This winter, they are also planning to install an air-source heat pump that will further reduce their reliance on oil and diesel.\nWind power is well developed and used around the world today. Turbines vary in design and size, and small-scale wind projects can operate with low environmental impacts. Reliability of wind energy varies by season so a secondary energy source is required, and wind turbines need maintenance, such as greasing and regular safety inspections.\nSolar panels are a tried and tested product that convert sunlight into electricity. As the technology develops, it\u2019s becoming more affordable and one of the most widely used renewable energy sources worldwide. Even with the temperate climate on Haida Gwaii, solar is a great option with little to no environmental impacts.\nGeothermal power is a renewable energy that utilizes the hot water or steam beneath the earth\u2019s surface. In areas of volcanic activity, the earth\u2019s molten core naturally travels outward towards the planet\u2019s cooler surface. Residential and commercial buildings can be heated and cooled by installation heat pump systems that utilize low temperature geothermal sources. Compared to fossil fuel sources, this is considered to be environmentally sustainable and has economic advantages with great potential in this part of the planet.\nTidal power is energy generated from the force in the ocean tidal currents and height differences between tides. Movement as the ocean rises and falls create tidal streams in the ocean water column. Power from tidal currents is strongest where the water is accelerated around narrows, shoals, or headlands. Although tidal energy is still considered a new technology, Haida Gwaii could be an ideal place to harness electricity from the power of the sea.\nA local, privately owned company was founded in 2010 with a vision of creating clean, economical, and reliable energy from tidal power here on Haida Gwaii. See YourBrookEnergy.com for more information, or watch the video below.\nSmall hydroelectricity units are a well-developed technology usually located on steep creeks. The amount of energy produced varies by season, so it requires a backup energy source. Compared to other renewable options, small hydro projects can have low environmental impacts but they have to be sited correctly. Sites must consider: impacts to fisheries, accessibility, and location to the distribution system.\nWind power is well developed and used around the world today. Turbines vary in design and size, and small-scale wind projects can operate with low environmental impacts. Like hydroelectric, reliability of wind energy varies by season so a secondary energy source is required, and wind turbines need maintenance, such as greasing and regular safety inspections.\nSeeing a need to save money and decrease the community\u2019s reliance on diesel, the Skidegate Band Council (SBC) has been working to making local homes more energy efficient. The Band Council is committed to introducing small-scale renewable energy projects in the village.\nIn 2012, SBC had solar hot water installed in two homes and one commercial building in Skidegate. In 2015 - 2016, FUJITSU heat pumps were installed in 350 homes in the village. As many Islanders will have noticed, a 50 kW photovoltaic solar panel system has also been installed on the roof of the George Brown Recreation Centre, a joint venture between SBC and the Island municipalities. Soon, the rec center will also have heat pumps installed to further offset the building\u2019s electricity needs. SBC is installing heat pumps on all band-owned buildings, including the community hall, Daycare and rental apartments, fire hall, Ngystle office, Nursery school, and water treatment plant.\nSBC is now in final negotiations with BC Hydro\u2019s Energy Conservation Assistance Program for insulation upgrades, sealing and draft proofing of residences, and energy monitors for homes in Skidegate. They are also in the final stages of confirming funding to put solar panels on the south-facing roofs at the Haida Heritage Centre.\nThe SBC is devoted to forming partnerships to fund and improve the presence of renewable energy in their community.\nNorman McGregor moved from Calgary to Sandspit in 2013. Once settled on Haida Gwaii, he installed a 1.4kW solar array with battery and back-up system, and in 2015, he installed a 400w wind turbine. That, along with a woodstove helps this household keep energy costs extremely low over the course of the year. In total, up to 75% compared to previous years, and the added bonus: He have power during the Islands\u2019 frequent power outages.\nSeeing great success with the solar installation, Norman recently added an additional eight solar panels bringing the household installation up to 3kW! The message he would like to share: Solar and wind power work on Haida Gwaii!\nWant to see this exciting off-grid house? Check out Norman's YouTube Channel.\nCreating spaces for youth to see and experience solar energy was an important vision that came to life through a partnership between the Hiit'aGan.iina Kuuyas Naay and Swiilawiid. In November 2017, this 5.3kW solar array came online. With stunning ocean views from a traditionally structured Haida building, this array is expected to produce a significant portion of the youth center\u2019s energy needs.\nWatch real time data on solar production at Hiit'aGan.iina Kuuyas Naay!\nCreating spaces for youth to see and experience solar energy was an important vision that came to life through a partnership between the Old Massett Youth Center and Swiilawiid. In November 2017, this 5.3kW solar array came online. 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(NYSE:DDR)", + "raw_content": "Stock Runners: Repligen (NASDAQ:RGEN), Durata Therapeutics (NASDAQ:DRTX), Acadia Realty Trust (NYSE:AKR), International Game Technology (NYSE:IGT), DDR Corp. (NYSE:DDR)\nRepligen Corp. (NASDAQ:RGEN) released its earnings data on Monday, 11 Aug 2014. The company reported $0.09 EPS for the quarter, beating the Thomson Reuters consensus estimate of $0.06 by $0.03. The company had revenue of $15.60 million for the quarter, compared to the consensus estimate of $14.90 million. During the same quarter in the prior year, the company posted $0.14 earnings per share. The company\u2019s quarterly revenue was down 10.9% on a year-over-year basis. Repligen Corporation (NASDAQ:RGEN) belongs to Healthcare sector. Its net profit margin is 24.70% and weekly performance is -1.36%. On last trading day company shares ended up $20.38. Repligen Corporation (NASDAQ:RGEN) distance from 50-day simple moving average (SMA50) is -6.67%.\nDurata Therapeutics Inc. 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Acadia Realty Trust (NYSE:AKR) year to date (YTD) performance is 18.07%.\nThe International Game Technology (NYSE:IGT) had announced that it was paying out a cash dividend of $0.11 per share on its common stock on October 3, 2014 to shareholders. This is a 10% jump when compared to what the company paid last year during the same quarter. International Game Technology (NYSE:IGT) ended the last trading day at $16.76. Company weekly volatility is calculated as 0.91%and price to cash ratio as 14.30. International Game Technology (NYSE:IGT) showed a weekly performance of -0.42%.\nDDR Corp (NYSE:DDR) last released its earnings data on Wednesday, July 30th. The company reported $0.28 earnings per share for the quarter, meeting the analysts\u2019 consensus estimate of $0.28. The company had revenue of $245.78 million for the quarter, compared to the consensus estimate of $246.16 million. During the same quarter last year, the company posted $0.27 earnings per share. 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They\u2019re an authorized dealer for product X, and a certified partner for service Y, and will tell you X and Y are perfect for you, even though you\u2019ve never heard of them. The truth is X and Y aren\u2019t a good fit for you, but once you\u2019ve implemented them you become a victim of vendor lock-in, virtually chained to the consultant, enslaved to their substandard products and services.\nTechnology Solutions For You\nIt\u2019s in our name, and we mean it. We realize that our products and services are meant to serve you, the customer, and your interests, not ours. We certainly have preferred product lines and will recommend certain brands, and of course we need to make a profit to keep the lights on. But at the end of the day, if you\u2019re not satisfied it\u2019s bad for both of us, and we haven\u2019t done our job. Our approach is to work with you, not for you, in resolving your technology issues with innovative, affordable solutions, combining cutting edge technology with our vast industry expertise to truly deliver on our promise of Technology Solutions For You.\nContact us today for a no obligation consultation, and you too will discover that not all technology companies are equal.", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00240.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 16, + "original_length": 1773, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.95, + "perplexity": 226.4, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "http://www.terumo.com/about/pressrelease/2018/20180412.html", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T03:13:27Z", + "digest": "sha1:DYNLOX5J2CE55VPKVWJFTY3WTWUIIJZD", + "length": 4781, + "nlines": 12, + "source_domain": "www.terumo.com", + "title": "2018 | Newsroom | TERUMO GLOBAL", + "raw_content": "Terumo and Quirem Welcome the Positive Reimbursement Decision for QuiremSpheres\u00ae in the Netherlands\nLeuven, Belgium \u2013 April 12, 2018 \u2013 \u200bTerumo and Quirem welcome an important milestone for QuiremSpheres\u00ae in the Netherlands and in Europe. QuiremSpheres\u00ae is now reimbursed for liver-dominant, non-resectable, colorectal liver metastases in the salvage setting1, as concluded by the Dutch National Healthcare Institute ('Zorginstituut'). The treatment consists of the injection of holmium-microspheres in the main liver artery with the purpose of destroying the cancer cells and is referred to as radioembolization or selective internal radiation therapy (SIRT). The National Healthcare Institute concludes that this innovative treatment with holmium-166 microspheres, which has been developed in the Netherlands, meets \"established medical science and medical practice\"2 for this indication.\nQuiremSpheres\u00ae, the next generation of SIRT microspheres, are the only commercially available microspheres that contain the radioactive isotope holmium-166. 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It is rewarding to see that, after 20 years of clinical research at our hospital, it is now confirmed that QuiremSpheres\u00ae are part of the standard care for the treatment of non-resectable liver metastases\", said Prof. Marnix Lam, Head of Nuclear Medicine at the University Medical Center Utrecht.\n\"The decision of the National Healthcare Institute to make QuiremSpheres\u00ae available for doctors and their patients is a positive development for SIRT in the Netherlands\", said Peter Coenen, President of Interventional Systems Terumo EMEA. \"We strongly believe that the unique imaging capabilities of QuiremSpheres\u00ae have the potential to create a paradigm shift in the further development of this therapy. 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But it was my turn to bring snacks to Sunday School and I just had a craving for them. I found this recipe a while back Cinnabon Cinnamon Rolls Clone Recipe and its the only one I use.\n~~I braided my baby girl's hair for the first time.\nIt looked so cute but I didn't know if I liked it. I finished it, looked at her, and said \"Oh my goodness! Where did my baby girl go?\" Both the girls are getting too big too fast. Savannah is starting to say sentences and she cracks me up all the time. The other day she ran in to me with her arms out for a hug. Of course I hugged her right back. I had only just wrapped my arms around her when I heard this serious little baby voice say \"Let go me.\" She can be a hoot.\n~~This is our last week before school starts. I have a feeling that it's going to fly by. This week we'll all try to start getting into more of a school-time routine with bedtimes and such. But I do want to fit in some fun activities. Dustin called just a bit ago and he went to Wal-Mart on his lunch break. He found a slip-and-slide on clearance so I think we'll play around with that this evening. I'm so curious to see what the girls think of it. I haven't played on one of those since I was a little girl so I'm excited.\n~~I haven't given up on the Storytime piece. I'm actually hoping to get some work in on it this week. We'll see. I've got a lot to try and fit in. I know that once we all get into a routine, it will be easier for me to get artwork done, so I'm not going to be too hard on myself this week.\n~~Well, Monday is half over, so I've got to get moving. Make it a great one everybody!!\nI am sorry that I missed the cinnamon rolls, they look so yummy!\nHave fun on the slip-n-slide.\nOh the cinnamon rolls. Yummy!", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00240.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 30, + "original_length": 3787, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.98, + "perplexity": 323.8, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "http://www.theashleighsmith.com/news", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T03:17:27Z", + "digest": "sha1:HFIGLJYEV6ARBNCQ524VSPHA2I5QHFD2", + "length": 1481, + "nlines": 5, + "source_domain": "www.theashleighsmith.com", + "title": "News \u2014 THE ASHLEIGH SMITH", + "raw_content": "Singer/songwriter Ashleigh Smith has become a fast favorite at SoulBounce since we gave her our Bounce-Worthy stamp of approval. She won us over with a unique cover of Hall & Oates' \"Sara Smile,\" and she continues to impress with another remake that has us entirely enamored. This time, Smith takes on Chrisette Michele's 2007 single \"Love Is You\" and once again puts her own spin on this modern soul classic.\nWhen you think of soul sistas from Dallas, Texas, the usual suspects come to mind: Erykah Badu, N'dambi, Carmen Rodgers. Now there's a new name to add to that illustrious list with the debut of Ashleigh Smith.\nThe former backup singer for Chrisette Michele releases her first album for Concord Records.\nSunkissed, the title of Ashleigh Smith\u2019s August 19, 2016 debut on Concord Records, describes her singing perfectly. The 27-year-old Dallas-based winner of the 2014 Sarah Vaughan International Jazz Vocals Competition possesses an iridescent alto that radiates a spectrum of poised emotions. While clearly she\u2019s capable of tackling material underscored by darker themes such as heartache and sobering social commentary, optimistic rays of light always shine through her voice.\n\u201cI wanted people who have already been an integral part of my musical development,\u201d explained Smith in a press release. \u201cThey all played a big part into the making of who I am as a musician. That\u2019s something you figure out not necessarily in the classroom but when you\u2019re performing on stage.\u201d", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00240.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 32, + "original_length": 2246, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.95, + "perplexity": 260.6, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "http://www.theblueliner.com/2011/05/pats-trade-first-round-pick.html", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T04:52:09Z", + "digest": "sha1:3LIZVVMS5OUDN6BKUEZ6E4TIRCG3NAXA", + "length": 815, + "nlines": 8, + "source_domain": "www.theblueliner.com", + "title": "The Blueliner: Pats trade first round pick", + "raw_content": "Pats trade first round pick\nRegina gets: 36th, 44th, and 106th overall picks\nMoose Jaw gets: 16th and 80th overall picks\nHere is the Press Release from reginapats.com:\nPats Swap Picks\nCalgary, Alberta \u2013 The Regina Pats have sent their 1st round pick, 16th overall and their 4th round pick, 80th overall to the Moose Jaw Warriors in exchange for a pair of 2nd round picks (36th and 44th) as well as a 5th round pick, 106th overall.\nThe Pats originally acquired the 16th overall pick along with Nils Moser, Tanner Olstad a 2nd and 5th round picks in the 2012 WHL Bantam Draft from the Tri-City Americans on December 10th, 2010 in exchange for Carter Ashton and a 3rd round pick in 2012.\nThe Pats will now pick 25th, 36th and 44th overall in the 2nd round and have 4 of the first 47 picks in the 2011 WHL Bantam Draft.", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00240.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 133, + "original_length": 5696, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.97, + "perplexity": 144.0, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "http://www.theborneopost.com/2018/03/01/astronomers-detect-signal-of-universes-first-stars/amp/", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T04:12:20Z", + "digest": "sha1:WLOWSX33PXGRZPR3CUCRZAPUIESNLJI2", + "length": 4521, + "nlines": 33, + "source_domain": "www.theborneopost.com", + "title": "Astronomers detect signal of Universe\u2019s first stars \u2013 BorneoPost Online | Borneo , Malaysia, Sarawak Daily News | Largest English Daily In Borneo Astronomers detect signal of Universe\u2019s first stars \u2013 BorneoPost Online | Borneo , Malaysia, Sarawak Daily News", + "raw_content": "Astronomers detect signal of Universe\u2019s first stars\nMarch 1, 2018, Thursday at 9:09 AM\nA handout photo released by the journal Nature shows an artist\u2019s impression of how the first stars in the universe may have looked. AFP photo\nPARIS: A signal from the Universe\u2019s first stars, born a cosmic heartbeat after the Big Bang, has been detected for the first time, astronomers said Wednesday, setting the science world aflutter.\nThe observation came after a decade-long quest, years earlier than expected, and was described by one excited observer as the biggest astronomical breakthrough since the Nobel-capped detection of gravitational waves in 2015.\nThe findings have to be confirmed by other experiments.\nCrucially, it is hoped the discovery will shed light on dark matter \u2014 an invisible, mysterious substance thought to make up a large share of the Universe.\n\u201cFinding this miniscule signal has opened a new window on the early Universe,\u201d said Arizona State University astronomer Judd Bowman, the project\u2019s lead investigator.\n\u201cTelescopes cannot see far enough to directly image such ancient stars, but we\u2019ve seen when they turned on\u201d \u2014 that is, sparked to life \u2014 \u201cin radio waves arriving from space.\u201d\nFingerprints of the stars, already active 13.6 billion years ago \u2014 a mere 180 million years after the Big Bang gave rise to the Universe \u2014 were picked up by a dining table-sized radio spectrometer in the Australian desert.\nSuch evidence had been expected, but not for years to come.\nTo everyone\u2019s surprise, and delight, the signal contained something curious.\nThe early Universe, the data showed, appears to have been twice as cold as previously estimated, at minus 270 degrees Celsius (-454 degrees Fahrenheit), according to the study in Nature.\nSome suggested a role for dark matter \u2014 the theme of an accompanying science paper published by the same journal.\n\u2013 \u2018Wow!\u2019 \u2013\nThe author of that study, Rennan Barkana of Tel Aviv University, said the freeze might be explained by ordinary matter interacting with, and losing energy to, dark matter.\n\u201cIf Barkana\u2019s idea is confirmed then we\u2019ve learnt something new and fundamental about the mysterious dark matter that makes up 85 percent of the matter in the Universe, providing the first glimpse of physics beyond the Standard Model,\u201d said Bowman.\nData from the Planck satellite showed in 2013 that ordinary matter \u2014 which makes up everything we can touch and see \u2014 comprises a mere 4.9 precent of the Universe, and dark matter 26.8 percent.\nThe other 68.3 percent is dark energy.\nInvisible to telescopes, dark matter is perceived through its gravitational pull on other objects in the cosmos.\nBut its existence is not explained by the Standard Model of physics \u2014 the mainstream theory of the fundamental particles that make up matter and the forces that govern them.\nFinding dark matter particles could require updating the Standard Model with futuristic theories such as \u201csupersymmetry\u201d, which postulates the existence of a heavier sibling for every particle in the Universe, or extra dimensions.\nExpert observers\u2019 reactions ranged from \u201ca truly amazing result\u201d, and \u201cwow!\u201d, to advising caution.\n\u201cThe apparent detection of the signature of the first stars in the Universe will be a revolutionary discovery if it stands the tests of time,\u201d said Nobel Prize-awarded astrophysicist Brian Schmidt of The Australian National University.\n\u2013 Window on the Universe \u2013\n\u201cAstronomers worldwide will be holding their breath until the result is confirmed by an independent experiment,\u201d added Karl Glazebrook of the Swinburne University of Technology in comments via the Science Media Centre in Australia.\nIf it is, it would open \u201ca new window on the early Universe and potentially a new understanding of the nature of dark matter.\u201d\nDescribed as technically robust by expert commentators, the findings must nevertheless be confirmed by independent experiments.\nScientists believe that for about 400,000 years after the Big Bang, the Universe was 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"sha1:BIINBJRKMVGBOVL2MAKKUWUPTQNOV6MC", + "length": 2515, + "nlines": 8, + "source_domain": "www.thebuckychannel.com", + "title": "Good News About Bogut ~ The Bucky Channel - The World of Sports from Wisconsin's Perspective.", + "raw_content": "Home \u00bb Al Horford , Andrew Bogut , Brandon Roy , Dwight Howard , Joe Johnson , Milwaukee Bucks , Pau Gasol , Tim Duncan \u00bb Good News About Bogut\n10:48 PM Al Horford, Andrew Bogut, Brandon Roy, Dwight Howard, Joe Johnson, Milwaukee Bucks, Pau Gasol, Tim Duncan No comments\nI just had to post this picture, as it really did hurt the Bucks and there chances in the playoffs. The last time Andrew Bogut was in the news, it was bad news about his tough break. But now we have good news, as he is being rewarded for what he did before his season ending injury. Bogut was named to the all-NBA third team Thursday. He is the first Bucks player since Redd to be named to the team when Redd was also named to the third team following the 2003-04 season. Andrew received 149 points, and he had the highest point total of all the players on the third team. Also getting recognized on the third team was Tim Duncan, Pau Gasol, Joe Johnson, and Brandon Roy. Not a bad list of names to be joined with.\nBogut had an awesome season, and he really deserves to be on this list. He took this team and put them on his shoulders this year, which was something he really needed to do as a former number one pick. When he played the Bucks were 40-29 as a team. He didn't make it to the all-star game this year, because he was not on a great teaming coming into the season. Both Duncan and Gasol were all-stars, but Bogut still received more points then them. Al Horford stole Bogut's spot in the all-star game, but I would much rather get this award. This puts you in the top 15 players in the NBA this season, not a bad thing to be part of.\nBogut finished the season averaging a double double with 15.9 points, 10.2 rebounds, and 2.5 blocks a game. Only Dwight Howard averaged more blocks per game then Bogut. I think getting him a pass first point guard really helped him out this season. He finally got to work in the post, and really showed off his left handed hook shot that most players couldn't stop. All we can hope is that the injury heals, and he comes back strong again next season. Again congratulations to Bogut for being named to the third team. 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Is it a plane? \u2026 Wait, it\u2019s a bishop!\u201d They made no reference to the insect that flies and shares the bishop\u2019s name.\nWith a goal of 3,000 pounds (just under $4,000), the bishop raised more than 5,160 pounds on an online crowdfunding website.\nIn a press release from the diocese, Bishop Moth said: \u201cIt requires you to trust in the person you are in tandem with and in the equipment. The staff, however, are very professional and looked after us really well.\u201d Both the bishop and Barnes jumped in tandem with \u2014 and harnessed to \u2014 an instructor.\nBarnes said, \u201cIt was very cold at 15,000 feet and the one minute of freefall made my head spin, but then the gently drifting down with the parachute open was fantastic as you could see everything around you.\u201d\nWhen asked if they would do it again, Bishop Moth gave a hesitant \u201cI might,\u201d according to the diocese, but Barnes said, \u201cI would not go up again and am glad to be back on earth, and feeling so much better after fish and chips, and gin and tonic!\u201d\nWhile Bishop Moth spent six years as the \u201cbishops of the forces,\u201d or military ordinary of Great Britain, it was not until he was far away from the professional paratroopers that he decided to wing it in an attempt to raise enough money to send two assisted pilgrims to Lourdes.\n\u201cEach year, the Diocese of Arundel and Brighton organizes a pilgrimage to Lourdes for one week in late July,\u201d the diocese said. \u201cOver 700 pilgrims travel with us, and 120 of those are sick, frail, elderly or disabled. 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The film, from female director and female screenwriter, takes on the searing current issue of sexual violence on campus. Raven Banner will release this fall alongside Dark Sky Films in the U.S.\nM.F.A. was directed by Natalia Leite (Bare) from a debut screenplay by actress Leah McKendrick (Bad Moms). McKendrick also co-stars in the film along with Clifton Collins Jr. (Westworld, Knight of Cups).\nThe deal was negotiated by Raven Banner\u2019s Managing Partners, Michael Paszt and James Fler, and Ryan Kampe and Lydia Rodman of New York-based worldwide film sales company Visit Films.\nM.F.A., which was nominated for the Grand Jury Award at the 2017 SXSW festival, tells a gripping story of a young woman forced to take action to protect herself in \u201cperhaps the bravest, rawest rape-revenge thriller yet\u201d (No Film School). Noelle (Francesca Eastwood, Final Girl, Outlaws and Angels), an art student struggling to find her voice, is sexually assaulted by a fellow classmate. 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As much as I want to deny the understanding that emotions can be biologically led, there are days when I feel physical pain that there is no child of my own in the house. As much as I know that my life will have many other fulfilments, there are days when I feel such a deep sense of solitary that I want to curl up in bed and never get up.\nTalking to other women who have experienced child loss, the overwhelming emotion is loneliness.\nWe all have an understanding of how we think our lives will be, even if we don\u2019t make plans or set expectations (I certainly haven\u2019t) we still build a world around ourselves that has so many intertwining parts, when one goes a bit tits, it can take years to work out how all the other bits work. How the other people in your life fit into it all. What you see your future being, or not being.\nWhen I first talked about child loss and mental health on this site, I made a bit of a pact to myself to talk about ALL of it. 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K____-W.\nMy name is E, K.-W. and I am a survivor of the Family Foundation School. I attended FFS from July 27th 2006 - June 28th 2008. My stay at FFS was nothing short of horrible and degrading.\nI was escorted by 2 large strangers threatening the use of hand cuffs and ankle shackles at 3 A.M. from a different school in California. Immediately I am brought into the locker room of the school building. I was forced to strip down naked and all of my personal items were searched for drugs and other items on their black list. All of my clothing and music was sent home only being told that they were \"negative.\" As far as I was concerned my music was what kept me going through the day. My one joy in life was ripped away from me in what seemed to be a blink of an eye. This was just the beginning of FFS attempting to strip me of my individuality, my very being. I soon found out that there were mandatory religious services every morning and that students were forced to participate. I didn't want to participate in something that should have been a matter of choice. My sponsor Thomas Wood didn't feel the same way. I was forced to sit in a chair facing the corner of a wall. This corner is where i would eat my meals, do my work, and spend my free time. I sat in the corner for 2 days until I gave in and participated.\nYou learn quickly at FFS that if you want to get along you have to go along. Some of the staff were genuinely good people but these good people were scarce. I was appalled to find out my first day that students would be yelled at, cursed at, and made to sit in a chair facing a corner for days on end for reasons as small as waking up late, or not obeying 'simple' staff orders. One night I had to spend the night in the isolation room, a small cold room that had a door with 3 deadbolt locks and camera to monitor you with, because I was a larger individual and I had a disagreement with one of my peers. I was told that you go to the isolation room when your being aggressive and or violent towards others. I was also told the door wouldn't be locked unless you were violent with the staff. When they closed the door and locked me inside isolation for the night I was cool calm and collected and had not been aggressive or violent towards any students or staff. They still locked me in. I learned quickly how to speak the language of FFS for fear of getting punished the way I had seen my friends get punished so many times. I remember being told at one point early in my stay by several staff members, \"FFS is a student run school.\" I later found out the school ran on the fear. I had what Family School students called an \"easy stay.\" By no means was it easy but I stayed out of corner (for the most part) and rarely got into any kind of trouble. My issue is the staff that feel it necessary to break a person down emotionally and mentally by the use of profanities and name calling. Those staff members were the people that were supposed to have their heads on straight before hand so that they, in return, could help us get our heads on straight. You would expect profanities and name calling from the students who have been literally pulled from his/her life, not from the people employed to help us.\nNo human being on this earth deserves the verbal abuse that I and all of my peers have experienced. The amazing thing is that rarely were there verbal altercations between students. 90 percent of the verbal abuse came from staff members. How can a person expect another person to respond positively to a staff member, someone the students were supposed to rely on and have trust in, who is yelling and cursing at you. I told my parents how Jim Trego, a staff member was yelling, cursing, and even pushed me over a call made in a pick up basketball game. I told them how when I tried to remove myself from a bad situation, something I learned at home, that he only followed me and got in my face to instigate me to hit him. They just assumed that I was overreacting because that is what the Family School told them. FFS brainwashed my entire family to believe that I was a lying criminal and my only hope for salvation was to follow what ever version of AA the Family School taught. By no means was I was an easy teenager to manage but the methods that Family School continued to follow through out my entire stay was cruel and unusual. I had been hearing stories straight from the staffs mouths dating 30 years back, when the school first opened, about wrapping 'out of control' students in rugs and duct tape. On more times than once a student has been 'out of control' and staff would have to alleviate the situation. On the occasions that I have seen students been restrained it has been with force that is DEFINITELY not necessary. You do not need four 200 pound men to subdue one 150 pound teenager. I was in Spanish class one day and saw a student get tackled by Thomas 'Woody' Wood, Tommy Cummings, and Dick Sesh. After the student was on the floor telling the staff on top of him that they were hurting him I saw Tommy Cummings get his last knee in while he was on the floor.\nOne of the other many frightening things about FFS was their policy on food. Failing grades meant no extra food even if you were still hungry. There were to many times I remember laying awake in my bed because my stomach was eating itself. It was school policy that you had finish everything on your plate. I have seen students literally throw up from eating the food and forced to finish the rest of their plate. If they refused they would be served it later.\nSchool was never my strong suit. I have been in special education schools since I was in the second grade. Every single doctor, therapist, and psychologist I have ever seen has told me that I have learning disabilities that only a special education school could help me with. When I arrived at the Family School I quickly found out that the passing grade was no longer 65 but 75. When I was younger I was embarrassed that I had to be in a special education school but learned that was the best thing for me as far as my education went. When speaking to my academic adviser Millie Triff about what should be done about my situation she tells me that my special education record has been expunged and was no longer necessary. I was told that the only reason that I was in special education was because I refused to do the work to be in a mainstream school. I was told I was taking the easy way out my entire life. I failed almost every single course that I took at the Family School, repeating many of them. Only in the last 6 months of my stay did I start to get my grades up with constant work and private tutors.\nThere was extremely little contact between me and my family. I got one phone call a week with mother and father. I spoke to my sister even less. The Family School made claims to help fix relationships between the student and their families. Upon Leaving the Family School the relationship between me and my parents was worse ever. The Family Foundation School has robbed me of my experience to experience life. The Family Schools claims to be a drug free college preparatory school. I left the school having no idea what I was supposed to do next. They did not prepare me for any real life situations. I left the school with a fear that drug addicts would be at every corner trying to shoot me up with a needle. This is all difficult for me to write and re-live. I try to talk to my friends, my family, and my wife about my experience at FFS in hopes that by talking about it I will be able to move on. The Family Foundation School needs to take responsibility for their actions and right the many wrongs that they have made over the past 3 decades.\nSubmitted by: E. 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He holds a Master's degree in Visual and Media Arts from UQAM and is involved with several artist-run centers and research groups. Frequently developed during artist residencies, Fran\u00e7ois Qu\u00e9villon's work has been presented at many exhibitions and events around the world dedicated to contemporary art, cinema and digital creation. You can find more on his work at: http://www.francois-quevillon.com\nWhat initially drew you to Iceland?\nThe symbolic and poetic dimensions of natural phenomena are recurring elements in my artistic practice: weather fluctuations, geological events, thermal contrasts, changes of states in matter and variations of daylight are some of them. Atmospheres in my works often evoke Iceland's landscapes, climate, meteorological and geological phenomena. The aesthetic experiences that they propose also question how technologies transform our perception of the world, as well as the relations between physical and digital spaces in our increasingly mediated lives. Iceland\u2019s territory is monitored for its volcanic activity, earthquakes, changing glaciers, drifting icebergs and several other phenomena. Its constant geological transformations, extreme environmental conditions and isolated areas present some mapping, monitoring, simulation modeling and telecommunications challenges that are linked to fields I investigate.\nThe Making of Variations for Strings and Winds. Photo credit : Nancy Lombart.\nI worked on several projects during my stay. I was based at S\u00cdM Residency in Reykjav\u00edk with a group of artists from different nationalities\u2014we had a great dynamic. I started experimenting in the studio with geomatic data but it\u2019s when I hit the road that my work took off and became a journey with improvised, playful but rigorous work, guided by environmental encounters.\nVariations for Strings and Winds started as an allusion to drone imagery, selfie sticks and, by extension, dronies. Installing a camera on my daughter\u2019s kite was a tongue-in-cheek reference to these types of images that were gaining in popularity in 2014. Countless selfies at Iceland\u2019s tourist attractions and many drone videos of its landscapes have been shot since then. I also wanted to evoke one of the ancestors of satellite and UAV imagery, kite aerial photography which dates from the 19th century. Since it involved flying a shark kite in Iceland\u2019s windy scenery while watching on a phone live video of myself being recorded, the making of Variations for Strings and Winds almost took the form of a series of performances. I put in place an amusingly threatening low-tech device to survey and track myself. While my first interest was the visual content, the reverberation of the kite\u2019s line and the sound of its wings were surprisingly interesting and reoriented the project. The process of capturing hundreds of sequences led to a collection of short videos and to a touchscreen-based audiovisual piece that transports the users to spaces where the elements determine the points of view on the scenes. In the beginning, the user has the impression that the instrument can be mastered as he or she discovers its content. Turbulence grows while interacting with the device, the videos gets more and more unstable and the system reaches a point where the kite constantly crashes.\nDuring that road trip, alerts about the imminent eruption of B\u00e1r\u00f0arbunga begun. In parallel to Variations for Strings and Winds, I made recordings of monitoring systems, remote stations, of the territory's transformation due to volcanic activity, as well as geothermal phenomena and power plants. I was consulting webcams and seismic data to check how the situation was evolving while some of the media covered the event in an almost apocalyptic way. The Holuhraun fissure eruption began the day that I left Iceland. This experience lead to Waiting for B\u00e1r\u00f0arbunga, a generative video installation that consists of a database of audiovisual loops which are presented according to the fluctuation of data displayed on a monitor that evokes instruments used in volcanology. In fact, these graphs represent the activity of the computer that runs the installation. The work has an unpredictable unfolding and its conclusion remains uncertain as the system's monitoring influences the course of events it presents, and the other way around. I see B\u00e1r\u00f0arbunga as a metaphor of different types of potentially catastrophic events that we apprehend and monitor and on which we have little or absolutely no control.\nI guess that my work was informed by the \u00feetta reddast philosophy. In both cases, my work was more spontaneous and I approached the unknown unfolding of events with confidence and a touch of humor.", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00240.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 31, + "original_length": 5783, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.96, + "perplexity": 285.4, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "http://www.thejournal.co.uk/business/business-news/david-cameron-dismisses-housing-bubble-6464116", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T04:23:25Z", + "digest": "sha1:4YDDEICRIISYCHNSUPAFJKGT6N4DKSUR", + "length": 3621, + "nlines": 27, + "source_domain": "www.thejournal.co.uk", + "title": "David Cameron dismisses housing bubble fears - The Journal", + "raw_content": "David Cameron dismisses housing bubble fears\nDavid Cameron has dismissed fears that the Government is pumping up a housing bubble as he hailed the success of the Help to Buy scheme\nDavid Cameron has dismissed fears that the Government is pumping up a housing bubble as he hailed the success of the Help to Buy scheme.\nThe Prime Minister branded sceptics of the mortgage guarantees - such as Liberal Democrat business secretary Vince Cable - \u201cLondon-centric\u201d.\nIn many parts of the country prices were \u201cbarely moving at all\u201d, he insisted.\nMore than 6,000 people have put offers in on homes and applied for mortgages using Help to Buy since it was launched about three months ago.\nNearly 750 homeowners have completed their purchases and hundreds were able to spend Christmas in their new homes, according to the Government.\nMr Cameron said the initiative meant people without wealthy parents and a big deposit could \u201crealise their dream\u201d of owning a home, and he rejected concerns that high demand was already overheating the market.\n\u201cWhere we are today, house prices are still way below the peak they reached in 2007,\u201d he said.\n\u201cForecasters do not think they will get back to the level before the crash even in 2019. So there is no evidence of a problem.\n\u201cThis is about helping people to achieve the security and stability they want of owning a flat or a home of their own.\n\u201cWe are not helping people to buy flats or homes they cannot afford.\n\u201cWe are helping people who do not have wealthy parents, who cannot get a big deposit together, and helping them to realise their dreams.\u201d\nHe added: \u201cI think if you look across the country, there are many parts of the country where house prices are barely moving at all.\n\u201cNationally, excluding London and the South East, house prices are up just 3% over the last year.\n\u201cI think there are some people who are rather London-centric about this.\u201d\nIn November, ministers published figures showing that in the first month after being launched more than 2,000 people had put in offers on homes and applied for a Help to Buy mortgage. That number has now trebled.\nThe mortgages, once approved, would represent nearly \u00a31 billion of new lending to aspiring home owners who may have previously found the property market out-of-reach because of the size of deposit required.\nBarclays and Santander will introduce their own Help to Buy products on to the market this month, joining Lloyds Banking Group, RBS, HSBC, Virgin Money and Aldermore who have all launched products over the last three months. The expansion will mean two thirds of the entire UK mortgage market will offer products under the Help to Buy scheme, bringing home ownership to a growing number of people.\nNew figures also show that an additional 20,000 households have also been supported by the Help to Buy Equity Loan scheme, a separate scheme where the Government provides an interest-free loan to support the purchase of the newly built home. House building is now growing at its fastest rate since 2008, and is seen as a critical part of the country\u2019s economic recovery.\nPlans for extra controls over high stakes gambling machines is knocked back\nThe Labour Party attempt to limit the number of 'crack cocaine' gambling machines is rejected in the House of Commons\nMinimum wage rise is welcomed by all in the North East\nTata Steel warns Government on looming skills crisis\nCabinet ministers told to stop ignoring the North East\nSenior cabinet ministers are reluctant to visit the region after signing off millions of pounds of cuts in the North East\nGovernment needs to do more to help apprentices, say business leaders", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00240.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 275, + "original_length": 9952, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.97, + "perplexity": 317.1, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "http://www.theliteracystore.com/SPD/arnie-the-doughnut--1130121306117669121.jsp", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T04:24:58Z", + "digest": "sha1:Y4NTOXPO7RY7VMZBJHZDTGUNMPPQ3ACN", + "length": 274, + "nlines": 1, + "source_domain": "www.theliteracystore.com", + "title": "Arnie the Doughnut Arnie the Doughnut Detail Page", + "raw_content": "WRONG! Not if Arnie has anything to say about it. And, for a doughnut, he sure seems to have an awful lot to say. Can Arnie change the fate of all doughnuts\u2014or at least have a hand in his own future? Well, you'll just have to read this funny story and find out for yourself.", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00240.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 91, + "original_length": 2561, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.99, + "perplexity": 269.8, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "http://www.themysterioustravelersetsout.com/2007/08/few-notes-about-death.html", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T04:23:37Z", + "digest": "sha1:Z4BAGVTOGUORFZZBSW5HZ7VRJ6GQU47G", + "length": 4310, + "nlines": 14, + "source_domain": "www.themysterioustravelersetsout.com", + "title": "The Mysterious Traveler Sets Out: A few notes about death", + "raw_content": "Many year ago, at the Northwest Folklife Festival, I had my palm read by a woman from the Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh community in Oregon (remember them?). She said that I \"dance with death,\" not in the sense of inviting it, but in the sense of being comfortable around it.\nIn the past few days, I've certainly been around it too much.\nOur ancient Himalayan-Abyssinian cat is slowly running out of steam, but determined to hang in there, eating and drinking and demanding attention. She has some sort of tumor that is affecting her ability to breathe, and may have some other issues as well. The vet prescribed pills to stimulate her appetite and help her lungs. So twice a day I get to wrestle with a skeletal but still quite feisty cat.\nThis makes life at home intense and tiring, although we love Betaille very much and are grateful for all the companionship and pleasure she has provided over the past 17 years.\nThree weeks ago, one of my yoga-group friends found out that her husband had a very advanced cancer. It progressed rapidly, and he died at home Wednesday night. She had barely gotten her head around the idea he was sick! I can't imagine a more horrifying experience.\nThis morning (after I'd had a trying night with Betaille) my mother called with news of a death -- and a completely different perspective on the subject.\nMy mom lives in a four-unit condo, and for the past few years, she and two other unit owners have been trying to deal with a weird situation in the fourth unit. That unit has been occupied for many years by a reclusive elderly woman who never leaves (unless by ambulance), and who has breathing and mobility problems. She sits all day in her livingroom with an oxygen tank, watching TV, and refuses to consider moving to a retirement community or nursing home. A few years ago, her middle-aged son, who is a schizophrenic, came to live with her. He takes care of her shopping and cooking. Unfortunately, he also brings drunk friends over to stay in the condo's storage unit, and last year urinated repeatedly in the foyer, to the point that the Post Office refused to enter the building to deliver the mail. (He also urinates off the front balcony, to the consternation of the woman in the condo building next door.) The son is a heavy smoker, and often the building reeks of smoke (my mom had her unit sealed off with special paint and caulk) and the ventilation system for the building has had to be re-done a few times to prevent the smoke from getting into other units. A couple of years ago, this guy set the balcony on fire, resulting in so much damage to the stucco that the entire building had to be re-stuccoed. According to workmen and fire inspectors who have been in the unit, it's filthy.\nThe police have been called again and again, letters have been sent, but the condominium association has been unable to do much of anything about the situation; once they address one problem, another one appears. My mother, who is planning to move to a retirement community next year, has begun to worry that it will be very difficult for her to find a buyer for her unit with such a weird and possibly hazardous situation in the building.\nSo my mom wasn't exactly mournful when she called me this morning with the news that the elderly neighbor (let's call her Margo) had died during the neight. It seems that the retired gentleman who is the head of the condo association had just gotten a call from Margo's son, wanting to know what to do with the body.\n\"Did anyone call 911?\" I asked.\n\"No, they don't want to cause a fuss,\" my mother explained.\nI tried to point out that the death has to be reported and checked out by a medical examiner, so a death certificate can be issued. Since everyone was so resistant to the idea of bothering the folks at 911, I suggested as casually as possible that they just call over and ask 911 what they should do.\nNow I am trying to let go of the vision of all of them wrapping Margo up in a tarp, putting her in a car, and driving over to the local funeral home...\nOh my goodness. I had a similar experience about 9 years ago. My mother passed after a short illness, then we lost a cat we had for only 13 years, I still miss him, then an aunt got sick. It is too much. My grandmother used to say if it rains it pours and that's how I felt.", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00240.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 194, + "original_length": 7256, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.99, + "perplexity": 241.1, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "http://www.thenaira.com/muhammadu-buhari/", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T04:51:56Z", + "digest": "sha1:3FUJHYQ56QDAQGVJQTUJR7HVG2HSNZXV", + "length": 1010, + "nlines": 3, + "source_domain": "www.thenaira.com", + "title": "Muhammadu Buhari - NAIRA", + "raw_content": "Muhammadu Buhari GCFR (born 17 December 1942) is the President of Nigeria, in office since 29 May 2015. He is a retiredNigerian Army major general and was Head of State of Nigeria from 31 December 1983 to 27 August 1985, after taking power in amilitary coup d\u2019\u00e9tat.[6][7] The term Buharism is ascribed to the Buhari military government.[8][9]\nHe unsuccessfully ran for the office of President in the 2003, 2007 and 2011 general elections. In December 2014, he emerged as the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress for the March 2015 general elections. Buhari won the election, defeating the incumbent President Goodluck Jonathan. This marked the first time in the history of Nigeria that an incumbent president lost to an opposition candidate in a general election. He was sworn in on 29 May 2015.\nBuhari has stated that he takes responsibility for anything over which he presided during his military rule, and that he cannot change the past. He has described himself as a \u201cconverted democrat\u201d", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00240.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 109, + "original_length": 2664, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.99, + "perplexity": 42.0, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "http://www.thenewmentality.ca/2015/03/", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T04:32:48Z", + "digest": "sha1:MRRY63HNJ6563FCPY2P2PEEZFZIMT2DH", + "length": 12546, + "nlines": 25, + "source_domain": "www.thenewmentality.ca", + "title": "March 2015 \u2013 The New Mentality", + "raw_content": "Amahla\u2019s Reflections on the Visioning Retreat\nBy Amahla Johnson\nRecently I was invited to attend a visioning retreat for the New Mentality because I did some leadership consulting with them over the summer. I had many thoughts and feelings throughout the weekend and wanted to put some of them down as I continue to process about the experience.\nThe visioning retreat\u2019s purpose was, in part, to begin to examine how the New Mentality can extend its reach, as there is more demand for their local groups than they can meet with the capped funding they currently have. The retreat participants were adult allies of the youth that participate in the New Mentality groups. They were a diverse group of smart, deep and compassionate helpers \u2013 a lovely bunch of people to spend time with.\nGerard, a First Nations elder who helped open the retreat, grounded the group in the spiritual reality of our connectedness to each other and the natural world. I felt grateful to be able to hear his deep words. He set the tone by making it okay to talk in terms of spirit, which in turn made it easier for me to acknowledge how much that is the foundation that I come from.\nAs we began to discuss familiar issues around youth engagement, I began to think about how challenging it is to change social fields. Because I knew we were going to be using the Process Work/Deep Democracy model later on the in retreat, I was reminded of a book by Arnold Mindell (founder of Process Work) I\u2019d read a long time ago which used the idea that people diagnosed with mental illness are unconscious communicators of shadow awarenesses that the community needs to integrate. I also thought about the concept of the \u201cidentified patient\u201d \u2013 where a group or family issue lands on one person, often a vulnerable member such as a child, who gets identified as \u201cthe problem\u201d and taken to the therapist to get \u201cfixed\u201d. I wondered to what degree are our youth and children are suffering from a lack of emotional sustainability in our society, but are given only frames that say it\u2019s an individual problem.\nThere is a collective aspect to the issue of mental health \u2013 for instance, suicide rates for trans youth are high, but the highest for youth who are both trans and of colour. The lack of physical and emotional safe space for marginalized people is clearly an impediment to mental well-being. We need to look at our feelings around vulnerability and power in order to create safer spaces and equitable dynamics. I think often about the concept of neurodiversity as it\u2019s discussed with reference to people on the autism spectrum, and felt there was a connection here \u2013 the need to set up social and physical environments to encourage a diversity of ways of being. Safety and accessibility within groups are a big part of individual wellness.\nA strong theme that was repeated by many people at different times, was the need to keep the youth voice at the centre of the organizing for the New Mentality, and any endeavor that seeks to serve or involve youth. It\u2019s too easy for adult voices to take youth off their own track, even through approval or giving greater positive attention to things that coincide with an adult agenda. Here I found myself feeling that the Reggio Emilia approach (which is a philosophy of learning informed by Paulo Freire\u2019s popular education among other influences), and its ground breaking practices for safeguarding the young child\u2019s voice within a system constructed by adults, would help organizations not have to reinvent the wheel when it comes to child and youth engagement. At some point I need to write or do workshops on using those concepts and practices within the social services realm.\nDuring one of the activities, I had a talk with Cathy where we discussed the early experiences that caused us to go into the kind of work we do, how she has always worked within the system while I have always worked outside of it, but now the inner and outer ways are meeting.\nAfter that activity, I was motivated to share with the group a story of a short energy-reading I did for a homeschooling mom who was feeling that she was low in resources and maybe should be putting her 9 year old in school. I saw something that I didn\u2019t expect, which was that the mom\u2019s energy was waning partially because her daughter\u2019s energy was rising up to move outwards into the society. Even though 9 seems so young, I saw that children that age are already shaping the world that they will be moving into \u2013 shaping it with their imagination and their presence. So although we think of 9 year olds as not having much power because they don\u2019t have access to things like the right to vote, money or public channels of expression, they do have powerful vibrational and creational power. We don\u2019t have to give them all the answers, we just need to enshrine their right to remain true to who they are, then from that place they will build a world that comes out of that true place.\nCathy said something profound to me just after that, something like \u2013 between the discipline of offering guidance and the discipline of allowing, the allowing is the deeper discipline. I said that too much doing makes us think we don\u2019t have enough resources. By doing less, we can move into abundance. Cathy worded it beautifully: the question is, how do we build systems of allowing?\nThe second day of the retreat, we did a personal check-in. During my check-in I talked about people who have gone through what is sometimes called a \u201cspiritual emergency\u201d. Sometimes triggered by meditation or other types of spiritual practice, people can have their ego structure disintegrate. I had something life-changing like this happen to me when I was 19 and I used to call it my breakdown/breakthrough. I know people who actively hid their abilities to experience states outside of consensus reality because they didn\u2019t want that to be be misinterpreted or put them in danger from other people who didn\u2019t understand. It has only been in the last several years that I have met other people who have gone through this spiritual breakdown phenomenon, but were hospitalized and put on medication. I didn\u2019t realize how fortunate I was, in many ways, to have been left alone to go through my own \u201ccraziness\u201d and to deal with my sensitivity on my own terms. I had to isolate myself to complete my process away from others, but I came out the other side with a more expanded model of reality \u2013 one that I now am able to share with my energy-reading work.\nIn order to be truly whole we need to be in connection and in community, and I see this is the layer of healing I am working on now. We all need a place to be heard and to have our gifts received. Community that can provide this is a powerful force for health. I notice how much environment affects the kind of interaction and community that can arise. By Lake Couchiching, I felt the peaceful vibe of the land made possible a lowering of people\u2019s guard and a letting go of stress that interferes with intra & interpersonal connection.\nDuring another activity on day two, we broke into two groups. The group I was in explored and used the Process Work/Deep Democracy approach. Since I have some understanding of it and use a related model in my energy healing work, I was able to give some concrete examples of role fluidity. I told a story about a private school that would eject one person out of the community each year, but each year it would be a different person that would get scapegoated and booted out. So using a Process Work lens, we as the community, would ask what does this have to do with us and what archetypal voice or role are we projecting onto these people? An example I gave of polarity was that I could hear a head-heart opposition in the group\u2019s discussion of whether we needed to buckle down and be accomplishing more in the short time we had available or whether we just needed to build relationships and community because that is what brings about the real results we are looking for. Probably most people there are connected to both their head and their heart and try to honor both if they can \u2013 which is why they would be present for a dynamic where both are trying to be heard.\nAfter that we did an exercise where we brainstormed a list of all the stakeholders and participants who are involved with the New Mentality. We then chose roles to roleplay and answered questions about the New Mentality from their perspective. My small group chose the role of teacher, which was interesting for me because I have little contact with the educational system and forget about the worldviews and tensions teachers and administrators in the school system have to hold.\nLater on in the day, I was given the opportunity to do some work with the group, using the sound healing I do to shift energy. Caralyn, the new program manager and I decided that what I should work on is helping each person to calibrate and internalize the originating energy behind the creation of the New Mentality. I did toning (voice-based sound healing) for about 12 minutes and shared a bit of intuitive information I received.\nThe energy I felt had such a clear stamp of youthfulness on it \u2013 I felt it came from a generation of youth who were at their limit in terms of coping on earth and did not want to be here anymore. They were asking on a spiritual level for some assistance in being here. The universe wanted them to know that they matter and their being here matters, and so that was part of the generating power behind the New Mentality, and I\u2019m sure other innovative projects in different places. It gave them a place to be with others and the message that they were alright as they were, allowed to be accepted and in connection just as they were. I felt they also were being told that all they needed to do was to tell the truth about their experience. They did not have to only exist within the isolation of their own mind.\nIn terms of what the adult allies are able to offer, besides the creation of a safe inclusive space for the young people to be themselves, is language and ideas that help broaden their perspective, and see patterns. The most ideal way for them to go about providing these things for the youth in their groups, is to give this safe space and postive broadening messages to themselves first \u2013 eg I matter, me being here matters. Then they are able to naturally extend this to the youth they work with.\nI had the chance to have some wonderful interactions with people during the weekend. Certain ideas kept coming up for me, mainly the need to be able to remain oneself while simultaneously being in connection to others and in community. I was left mulling over the questions: in what ways can we create the conditions for sovereignty, autonomy and self-love for all people within the context of community, and how do we create \u201csystems of allowing\u201d?\nWelcome to The New Mentality, Jasmine Ali!\nThe New Mentality is super excited to announce that we have added a new staff member to our team: Jasmine Ali is our new Engagement Coordinator!\nJasmine has been with The New Mentality for some time and has had a number of different roles \u2013 recently and memorably, as one of our Lead Hosts at Disable the Label 2014, and as a speaker and spoken word performer at the last CMHO Conference.\nJasmine will be working on our Social Innovation project, supporting our communications and coordinating the Fellowship Program (more info on that coming soon!). Her bio is below, and you can reach her at jasmine@thenewmentality.ca. Please join us in welcoming Jasmine to the team!\nJasmine Ali is a Spoken Word and Theatre artist who loves working with young people andcommunities moving towards change. Jasmine uses her artfulness to allow for conversations and collective learning to take place. Jasmine works to create equity within spaces by dismantling systemic barriers that prevent people from accessing opportunity.\nJasmine has put continuous effort into improving the opportunities available to young people in Ontario. She currently sits on the Premier\u2019s Council for Youth Opportunities and previously sat on the Mental Health Commission of Canada\u2019s Youth Council. Jasmine is heavily rooted in her local community through organizations such as the Grassroots Youth Collaborative (GYC) and SKETCH Working Arts. She is also a graduate of the Community Worker program at George Brown College. 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With less than a hundred days until Christmas, the climate seems to be listening in on our wishes for a snowy winter and is fast approaching. Winter has a lot of unique and peculiar activities that can only be done for a limited time of the year. If you\u2019re looking to find some adventure, then you might want to try out some of these snow-filled activities to give you snowy thrills.\nOne of the fast-paced activities that you can look forward to is snowboarding, a fun activity that\u2019s a mix of a rush of scenery and a healthy workout to boot. Immerse yourself in boarding in powdered snow as you glide through tracks depending on your speed and mastery of the sport.\nIf you\u2019re looking for a more significant challenge; you can do more than just boarding casually by registering for snowboard instructor courses that will make you eligible to be a teacher depending on the level of mastery that you have.\nYes, you heard it right. Instead of burning rubber on concrete, you\u2019ll be gliding through the snow in buggies. Have you ever thought of combining what it would be like to be behind the wheel while enjoying a safe and secure track of snow to drive on? Then maybe ice driving is for you. It\u2019s an experience that will speak for itself once you try it.\nFor those who want to try something adventurous and peculiar at the same time, ice diving could be the activity for you. Ice diving is an exciting take on diving in the traditional sense as you won\u2019t be underwater with fish and corals, but you\u2019ll instead be greeted by a mesmerizing new world of marine ice. It\u2019s an experience that will give you a different perspective not just by seeing the inner workings of ice structures, but you\u2019ll also face the unique environment of the glacial underwater that requires a compressed dry suit and diving mask to keep you from hypothermia.\nInstead of staying in the snow, why not take yourself to the skies? Paragliding in winter time is the best combination of scenic imagery and the exhilaration of a snowy breeze. Take flight by launching yourself off high summits while slowly descending to glide back to a snowy embrace. Enjoy a rush of adrenaline while enjoying the sights of the winter snow.\nIf you\u2019ve got over the thrill of the fast-paced and blood-pumping activities that winter has to offer you, then you can look forward to taking a breather by hiking. 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Literally. Okay, it was a coffee bar but same premise. And for several hours over several cups of coffee, the three of us talked about the changes in science and healthcare delivery that have resulted in the breaking down of many taboos in the health profession.\nWe each brought our own perspective but there was considerable consensus. Most notable (or top of mind) was the change in the relationship between doctors and their patients.\nFor generations, it was unthinkable to question the expertise of our healthcare professionals. After all, didn\u2019t they spend years of toil to become specialists in their field? All of this is rapidly changing. Whether described as a \u201ccommoditization\u201d or \u201cStarbucks-ification\u201d of medicine, the doctor-patient relationship has become less hierarchical (it\u2019s not \u201cDr. Smith\u201d to patients, it\u2019s \u201cEd\u201d or \u201cAmanda\u201d), less deferential (patients want to own their own health data, even if they don\u2019t fully understand what they\u2019re seeing) and more transactional (patients rate doctors and hospitals on consumer websites just as they rate restaurants or artisanal beer).\nIT WAS UNTHINKABLE TO QUESTION THE EXPERTISE\nOF OUR HEALTHCARE PROFESSIONALS.\nBreaking down barriers and improving transparency is all to the good, but what\u2019s the impact on care? When patients are willing to switch doctors because the office isn\u2019t within two blocks of their home or work (\u00e0 la Starbucks), then the entire relationship becomes more fragile, often resulting in less continuity of care. It also takes on the tenor of a more convenient yet somewhat more distanced relationship\u2014with 24/7 messages left via a health portal and lab results \u201cposted\u201d for patient review. Broader, but less deep.\nAt the same time as patients (now consumers) want more control over the way healthcare is delivered, traditional medicine itself is under pressure to change. This has led to an increasing dialogue around integrating Eastern and \u201cfringe\u201d medicine into today\u2019s Western clinical practices, with herbal remedies and acupuncture more frequently discussed openly and taking their place alongside traditional medical approaches. Doctors are increasingly accepting of this approach and appreciate its value, helping patients to understand how to include traditional medicine \u201cin the mix\u201d alongside the alternative therapies.\nYet this newly empowered patient movement, and questioning of the status quo, has also led to bad results when popular beliefs clash with sound, scientifically based practice. One alarming example is the persistence of the anti-vaccination movement despite the lack of empirical support for its dogmas. This would have been impossible years ago. The demystification of the medical profession and the pervasive suspicion of authority throughout contemporary society have made it immensely difficult for doctors and scientists to push back against the nonscience nonsense of the anti-vax movement.\nThese trends\u2014both positive and less so\u2014in the doctor-patient relationship and the nature of medicine are, of course, amplified and abetted by the \u201cvolumizing\u201d effect of the internet. In many cases, this constant sharing of information has helped to advance and elevate the discussion of topics that had previously been considered taboo for open dialogue. Mental health, for example, is now much more openly discussed and explored by physicians and patients, and doctors now have \u201ca million different ways\u201d to ask a new mother about postpartum depression. With recent data from the World Health Organization indicating that the US is now \u201cone of the most depressed countries in the world,\u201d ranking third just behind China and India, this newfound openness and candor offers an enormous opportunity to improve these dismal statistics. So the internet provides a way to make positive change and tap into the \u201cwisdom of crowds.\u201d\nAt the same time, we need to remind ourselves that medicine is science, and science is not a popularity contest.\nWell-caffeinated, we packed up and left the coffee bar. Taboos are for breaking, and scientific progress is often made by the outliers. The web intensifies the pace of change, but can we anticipate and manage change in a way that improves outcomes? That\u2019s the challenge for doctors, patients and marketers. At a minimum, it behooves all of us\u2014especially marketers\u2014to be cognizant of the forces that question and challenge the status quo. 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I speak to groups of people inside. I go to a gym and workout inside. Why do we even call them workouts? They're typically work-ins. I normally eat, drink, and sleep inside. Then, there's the television. It's inside. And it often keeps me in when I could be out contemplating the heavens, gazing at the stars and feeling our smallness in the grand scheme of things.\nAnd we wonder why the greatest life wisdom often comes down the centuries to us from long ago. People spent much more time outside then. And it made a difference. In fact, many wise voices from the past advise us now to get out more.\n\u201cNever a day passes but that I do myself the honor to commune with some of nature\u2019s varied forms.\u201d - George Washington Carver\nI'm think I'm going to make it a practice to get out more, to feel a few minutes of sunshine on my face, to enjoy some communion with sky and grass and trees, to sit and watch the birds fly by, and listen to the geese honk as they often pass over my backyard. Whenever I do it, it reconnects me to the fundamental things, and the real rhythms of life.\nI did that recently, for hours. I sat outside and communed with nature. Nature communed back. I felt refreshed, rejuvenated, renewed.\nOn a beautiful day, it can be an energizing experience, even for a few minutes. And then, even after a rain, there can be a special something in the air, and on the ground.\n\u201cThe world is mud-luscious and puddle-wonderful.\u201d - E.E. 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I would get asked over and over, \"What do you do when bad things happen, or disappointing things, unexpected and difficult things?\" People wanted strategies for handling challenges in their lives.\nI had grown up hearing the old adage, \"When life hands you lemons, make lemonade,\" which pretty much sums up the attitude of the ancient stoic philosophers toward the problem, but in my childhood no one who repeated these words also explained how to do it. How do you turn lemons into lemonade? So I got to work, reading all the great thinkers on the topic, and writing my own book of advice. It was called \"Lemonade!\" Then I changed the name to \"Lemons to Lemonade\" and after 24 total re-writes, it became \"Plato's Lemonade Stand: Stirring Change into Something Great.\" Previous versions have been turned down by publishers 45 times, because they're not convinced that a practical book about the personal alchemy needed to turn something sour into something sweet will sell. I'm convinced they're wrong. And whenever I've done the ideas on retreats, people have insisted on having the book available. No one has seen the newest version yet. And I really, really like it. But I'm prepared for more lemonade making before someone in the world of publishing says, \"Wait. People need this.\"\nIn the Sunday Business Section of the New York Times, Adam Bryant had a very interesting interview with the fashion designer and design mogul Diane von Furstenberg. Let me give you one Q&A:\nQ. You\u2019ve said many times that your mother was your biggest influence. What are the most important lessons you learned from her?\nA. My mother was a Holocaust survivor and, having survived 13 months in the concentration camps, she taught me that fear is not an option. And no matter what happens, never be a victim. Life is a journey, and when you face obstacles the only thing you can do is accept them and embrace the reality. 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GET TO KNOW US.\nDR.TYRONE SMITH, D.D.S., M.S.\nTyrone Smith, D.D.S., M.S.\nDoctor Smith is a native of Indiana. He graduated from East Noble High School in 1982. Dr.Smith was a practicing mechanical engineer for 14 years prior to the dental profession, for which he holds patents and trademarks in various fields. Doctor Smith also taught for approximately 5 years at the University level. He received his Bachelor of Science from Tri-State University, Angola Indiana. Master of Science from Purdue University and Doctorates from Indiana University School of Dentistry. Doctor Smith is a local resident and enjoys his free time with his wife and family relaxing at the lake.\nDoctor Smith's focus is simple: Take care of the patient first! Here at Trinity Dental, we strive to make you feel like you are the only patient in the building. We want our patient's to experience a family atmosphere and know they are not just a number. Our patient's comfort and concerns are met by our Office Manager, Business Associate, Hygienist (s), and Expanded Functions Dental Assistant (s).\nYou\u2019re invited to experience the difference at Trinity Dental! We welcome the opportunity to treat families and individuals of All Ages. Experience the confidence and assurance that comes with a complete, bright and healthy smile.", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00240.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 18, + "original_length": 1687, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.96, + "perplexity": 157.3, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "http://www.tristanvick.com/blog/an-excerpt-from-bitten-resurrection", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T04:33:01Z", + "digest": "sha1:DVSX7RZHW2V5LZD6CVNKX5BKN4VW3ELM", + "length": 577, + "nlines": 4, + "source_domain": "www.tristanvick.com", + "title": "An Excerpt from BITTEN: RESURRECTION - Tristan Vick", + "raw_content": "An Excerpt from BITTEN: RESURRECTION\nNearly three years after having written this book, of re-writing this book, and then re-writing it again for a publishing company, along with buckets of sweat and tears, it is finally being released as the story I always intended it to be.\nI must give a heart-felt thanks for all those who worked hard in making my vision of a post-apocalyptic future with zombies a reality. This has been a dream come true.\nAnd now, with the 3rd edition of the book ready to go to print, be on the lookout for the paperback edition of BITTEN: RESURRECTION.", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00240.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 98, + "original_length": 2098, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.97, + "perplexity": 174.7, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "http://www.tristanvick.com/blog/movie-nostalgia-vicks-top-picks", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T04:39:29Z", + "digest": "sha1:73ZZEAD3Y5PD5CRFZ42UAEFKUQAQX55O", + "length": 17367, + "nlines": 47, + "source_domain": "www.tristanvick.com", + "title": "Movie Nostalgia: Vick's TOP picks - Tristan Vick", + "raw_content": "Movie Nostalgia: Vick's TOP picks\nIn this new series, Movie Nostalgia: Vick's TOP picks, I will review my personal favorite films past and present.\nFor the first installment, I am going to talk about V for Vendetta, one of my absolute favorite superhero films based on a comic book / graphic novel of the same name by Alan Moore and David Lloyd.\nThe story follows two characters set in a Dystopia of an Orwellian London in the not so distant future.\nFirst, we have the story of V (played by Hugo Weaving), a vigilante anti-hero in a Guy Fawkes mask, manifests at England's darkest hour, one unsuspecting November 5th, to start a revolution.\nSecond, we have Evey (played by Natalie Portman), an unassuming factotum working in London's premiere media television station BTN (Britain Television Network).\nIn the movie, we are never told Evey's position, but it's high enough to have security clearance and also be invited to the network's highest rated showrunner, her boss, Deitrich's (played by Stephen Fry) home for a private supper.\nThe film opens with Evey on her way to Deitrich's for a fanciful evening. On the way to his house, she deliberately ignores the strict curfew of the State Controlled society, and gets cornered by three \"Fingermen,\" or secret police of High Chancellor Adam Sutler (played by John Hurt), who corner Evey in a dark alley.\nAs the Fingermen threaten to make Evey if not the sorriest ass in London then the sorest, a vaudevillian voice rings out down the dark alley and out steps a dark figure in a cloak and a Guy Fawkes mask, quoting Shakespeare's Macbeth. His name, which we discover momentarily, is simply V. His opening line is from Macbeth, Act I Scene 2, and V says:\n\"The multiplying villainies of nature do swarm upon him... disdaining fortune/with his brandish'd steel, which smoked with bloody execution...\"\nV saves Evey, and then introduces himself. He invites her to listen to his concerto and takes her up onto the roof of a nearby building. She begins to get worried when he whips out a conductor's wand and begins conducting the thin air. Thinking he's a crazy person she is about to flee when, low and behold, over the government speaker system comes a bit of classical music.\nV conducts the track with gusto and then, without warning, at the crescendo the instruments swell and with a boom, the Old Bailey across the street explodes and Lady Justice is brought tumbling down as V laughs and giggles with uncontrolled laughter.\nFrom here, we begin to learn more about both V and Evey. We learn what is driving V to enact his particular brand of vigilante terrorism, and we watch Evey transform from a terrified young woman living under the fearful domination of an authoritarian police state into an independent and fearless heroine willing to stand up to the powers that be, and who is no longer afraid of her own shadow.\nThe story that unfolds is both epic and scope but also has a timeless quality, that speaks to you regardless of your age and where you were born. The characters are so well written that you'd have a hard time believing the source material, which was excellent to begin with, was a mere comic book (or rather, graphic novel for the aficionados). It's my opinion, however, the the story was much improved by the Wachowski sibling's most excellent script, who streamlined the narrative, pulled out the important characters, and did away with needless story tangents that bogged down the plot in the original graphic novel. I can honestly say, this is one of the rare cases where the film surpasses its source material in terms of quality and enjoyability.\nIn fact, the Wachowski's improved upon the script in all the ways that matter. They made the themes in the graphic novel pertinent to a new generation of audience, and they made the characters more enduring. Evey is no longer the cliche downtrodden prostitute that she is in the comic book, she is now a vibrant young career woman making it on her own in a hard city during hard times. Further, V is no longer just a simple-minded anarchist, but rather, he uses anarchy as a means to his own ends in a sophisticated manner lacking in the comic book.\nIndeed, Alan Moore, who can be a bit pretentious and who seems to always want verbatim renditions of his graphic novels put onto the silver screen -- never mind that he doesn't seem to understand what an adaptation is or get the fact that the mediums are entirely different, or that stories as convoluted as his V for Vendetta only truly work when you trim the fat -- boycotted the film since it veered from his oh-so sacred source material. It fact, the very idea of it bothered him so much he demanded his name be omitted from the credits of the film.\nI suppose I cannot blame him too much. He did have to endure both the horrendous film renditions of his The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen and the abominable Johnny Depp vehicle To Hell, which were both stunning box-office flops. But I can blame him for underestimating the genius of the Wachowski's and the prime talent assembled under their careful watch as Executive Producers of the film.\nBut apparently, after all the rave reviews, Alan Moore did see it, as he seems to offer commentary on it in numerous interviews, although he remained unimpressed.\nIn the original graphic novel, V's cause was to instill anarchy, not freedom. Moore was critical of the movie for changing what he called the \"anarchy vs. fascism\" structure of his graphic novel into what he saw as an exploration of \"American neo-liberalism vs. American neo-conservatism\" and said that should have been set in the U.S. instead of Britain.\nBut Moore should watch the film again more closely. V never claims to be fighting for freedom. Rather, like the comic, he is merely seeking revenge. In his vendetta against those fascists who enslaved England and who had created him in the process, and who had killed nearly a 100,000 innocent lives and covered it up, V uses anarchy as a tool to destabilize Sutler's government and turn everything on its head. He uses the people's desire for freedom to motivate them to his cause to disrupt the government via a state wide insurrection.\nBy throwing everything into chaos, pitting the people against their government (something that gets highlighted when V mentions that \"People shouldn't be afraid of their governments. Governments should be afraid of their people...\"), V gets everyone distrusting everyone else, and is able to play their fears against them as he systematically proceeds to assassinate all those who were behind the atrocities inflicted. This, however, doesn't necessarily mean he wants complete, unchecked, freedom to replace the cold cruel fascism that he deliberately attempts to foil. In fact, besides his lust for vengeance, it doesn't appear V has any other motives (he falls in love with Evey, but even then he cannot change himself into anything other than he is -- not even for her).\nRallying the people against Sutler's regime was simply a means to an end for V. Whether that ends in a Free Democracy replacing a tyrannical regime or something else entirely really doesn't seem to be a concern of V's. In fact, given his exchanges with Evey, it is pretty clear that V doesn't have any aspirations beyond seeking revenge and the total destruction of Sutler's criminal empire.\nNow, it is no surprise that Sutler, who took control of the country in its time of great weakness for dubious reasons, is made to resemble a real world Adolf Hitler, both in fascist political ideology and in look and tone. Even his speeches are given with the same Hitlerian inflection and fanatical intensity.\nBut contrary to what Alan Moore might say, It's not at all clear to me that V is fighting for freedom, certainly not for democracy, since V isn't fighting for the people. He's fighting for himself -- for vengeance. He wants to rally the people to HIS cause. He's not there, like the Dark Knight, to fight for their cause -- he wants them to fight for him -- as a means to an end in his plot of vengeance, a vendetta, not in vain, but held as a votive (i.e., the fulfillment of a vow -- he even says as much in his initial introductory speech to Evey) .\n\u200bAt one point he even admits to Evey that he is incapable of changing himself and thus must carry out his task to the very end, even if it means his death. When she asks him if he is going to kill more people, he says yes.\nFor V, it is simply about destroying those that wronged him and harmed so many innocents, regardless of the consequences -- regardless of the rules -- and this is what makes him a true anarchist.\nAdmittedly, I enjoyed nearly everything about this film. It really is a what we would call a sleeper hit. Nobody was expecting a comic book adaptation in 2005 that wasn't pushing a flagship title or series. Christopher Nolan's Batman Begins shattered records and kicked off one of the most successful comic book to movie reboots of all time. In this same year we saw two complete comic book to movie duds, the god awful Fantastic Four movie and the stylized and fun, yet beleaguered by stiff competition and poor word of mouth, Sin City directed by Frank Miller and Robert Rodriquez.\nWhile it seems Batman Begins was designed for mainstream audiences, Sin City was meant as a love letter to fans, and as for the Fantastic Four, this inadvertent comedic insult was probably just a bad mistake. Meanwhile, between the releases of these comic book film adaptations came the little known V for Vendetta, but like a magician pulling a rabbit out of his hat, it upset the box office and surprised critics and audiences alike who all gave V for Vendetta high praise and rave reviews.\nV for Vendetta currently holds onto an 8.2 rating on IMDB and an audience score of 90% on Rotten Tomatoes. Pretty good considering that Batman Begins, a much bigger film reaching an even wider audience, currently has a 8.3 IMDB rating and a 94% audience rating. This means that V for Vendetta, a virtually unknown comic book adaptation and avant garde political-science-fiction-thriller, is practically on par with what is considered to be one of the greatest comic book movie adaptations of all time, the Christopher Nolan Dark Knight films. But online metrics shouldn't determine whether or not the film is a success with you, just with the public in general.\nLike Nolan's Bat-verse, V for Vendetta strives for hyper-realism. It creates a believable world and moves as far away from comic book camp as possible. Whereas one might say Nolan's films move so far away from comic book camp that by the third film they come full circle again, V for Vendetta stays comfortably in that realistic world it constructs for itself.\nAnother thing I absolutely loved was Hugo Weaving's performance as V. Needless to say, the entire film V stays behind the Guy Fawkes mask, yet his operatic over acting and his vaudevillesque voice all add to an extremely charismatic character expertly acted by Weaving. In fact, the very vaudevillian nature of V, and his constant quoting from film, literature, and even non-fiction, make for a fascinating character that seems almost too good to be true. In fact, throughout the whole film, up to the reveal of who V really is, you get the keen sense that we are dealing with someone that is more than just a mere mortal, we are dealing with Friedrich Nietzsche's Ubermensch.\nBesides his mysterious identity and his super-intelligence, V also has super-speed and super-strength. But rather than relying on his physical element, V utilizes his whit and his brains making him an extremely compelling cinematic figure. In fact, there are very few movie performances which leave me speechless and awestruck, but this is definitely one of them. And even though V wreaks havoc on the guilty, and murders people in cold blood, and creates chaos and mayhem while feeding the police clues which reveal the dark sins of the government, and even after he tortures his best friend, Evey, you still can't help but find him charming and be drawn to him.\nV is the epitome of the anti-hero, and it is to the Wachowski's credit that they understood the character better than the own character's creators.\nHonestly, I'd have to get extremely nitpicky to find much wrong with this film. It is a stunningly beautiful film. It has two unexpected love stories interwoven with a gripping distopian drama that is both frightening as it is engaging. It never really comments on the politics except only to say that wrong must be vanquished and that right must prevail, and it lets you decide if you agree with V or not in how he goes about doing that.\nThe film writes Evey as V's polar opposite. While she is afraid, he is brave. While she is weak, he is strong. Eventually, he uses questionable tactics to make her into him. After she has a panic attack, he takes her to the roof, and she stands out in the rain. There is a timely scene flashback as V ruminates on his own creation out of fire, a stark contrast to Evey's new form, emerging anew in the cleansing rain.\nBut even then, Evey informs V that she cannot stay with him. V's way is not Evey's way, and although they become equals in terms of their power -- they still remain opposites. For she keeps to the light of goodness while he will put one foot into the darkness so that he might use evil to fight evil, or, fire to fight fire as the symbolism would seem to suggest.\nUpon fulfilling a promise to return one year later on the eve of his revolution to share a dance, Evey kisses V, the ultimate form of forgiveness. Here we realize she has become stronger than V. She can change, but he cannot. She can forgive, but he cannot. Indeed, she is willing to accept him even after all he has done to her -- even after torturing her -- she still finds room in her heart to love the person beneath the mask.\nLater, upon trying to take his mask of to behold this visage of this ole vaudevillian veteran, V stops her, and tells her that although there is flesh and bone beneath, it is the idea that is more important.\nLater, it seems Evey internalizes this advice, when asked by Inspector Finch who he was she informs him that he was her deceased parents, her brother, herself, even Inspector Finch -- he was everyone. We assume this is because the ideals that V represented are universal and, in her own way, Evey has come to terms with the fact that the man behind the mask was the mask--or at least what that mask symbolized.\nAt the same time, the film makes let the audience decide what ideals V embodied and allow the viewer to glean whatever they like from their own personal revelations. This works extremely well for a film like this, with its heavy distopian themes and counter-cultural ethos in which people simply go along with a Fascist regime because they are too fearful to do anything else. The film allows us to conclude what we want about V, and whether he was a hero, an anarchist, or a terrorist, if not all of these things, is left for us to decide.\nIf you haven't seen the film, this is going to be somewhat of a spoiler.\nBut Adam Sutler seemed, in the end, to come off as a pansy ass and a coward. I can only guess that they were trying to emulate Hitler's kind of cowardice when, in his last moments, Hitler chose to commit suicide rather than face being put on trial for his crimes.\nIf Hitler's evading justice wasn't cowardly enough, the filmmakers wrote Adam Sutler as a sniveling weakling shaking in his boots once he was stripped of his authority and was brought before V. Personally, I felt this simplified the character into a bad pastiche, a mere cliche of the super-villain. But on the other hand, it seems to work in the plot's favor. The almost comical level of quivering of Sutler seems to reflect V's own vaudeville spirit, and this leaves only Creedy, the true evil in this film, for V to contend with.\nIn the end, Sutler was just a power mad fanatic, but the real power was in the hands of the scheming sociopath who was without conscience and who had an unending blood thirst -- since it was Creedy's own diabolic suggestion that the government use biological weapons on its own people to instill mass panic and fear so that Sutler could seize power and then, conveniently enough, turn around and provide the cure and secure the public's loyalty and trust (not to mention dependency) once and for all. Consequently, Creedy's plan to infect everyone and search for a naturally resistant donor just also happened to be the catalyst that lead to the creation of prisoner, code-named, V. And subsequently sealed Creedy's fate.\nOne might even wonder if what seemed like V's plot to assassinate the High Chancellor may have just been a ploy to get his hands around Creedy's throat. In the end, however, the way Sutler was portrayed really doesn't matter so much since it becomes clear to us that he was just another pawn in V's scheme, another domino to be toppled in V's intricate plot for revenge.\nI HIGHLY recommend the film V for Vendetta for anyone interested in excellent characters, a dark distopian story with a great anti-hero, a brilliant cast of actors, and an excellent script. 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Photo: AP\nTwo Turkish police vehicles suddenly turn left and right to block a highway that connects to the Governor\u2019s Office in Izmir, a western Turkish province. The plan is to create a traffic congestion to stop a military convoy from advancing.\nThe police officers, A.G. and K.Y., whose only initials will be used to protect their identity, did not act based on a directive from their superiors. Their noble endeavor to confront the military convoy was a duty to the country they had been serving. They could intercept radio dialogues between putschist army officers, who were bound to occupy the Governor\u2019s Office in Izmir.\nAccording to their account, nearly 200 plotting soldiers mobilized 400 cadets and left Mente\u015f military base. As they approached Urla\u2019s Iskele neighborhood, the military convoy was stuck in the traffic jam for hours until the coup plot was over. Some of the plotting officers even came to talk to the police. But both A.G. and K.Y. were uncompromising. The police officers\u2019 small yet smart tactical move halted the advance of a large military convoy. One of the police officers, K.Y., was suspended this week in connection to the coup.\nHe is among 12,801 police officers who were put on an indefinite leave this week in connection with the failed coup attempt on July 15. The police are believed to play a vital role in thwarting the military coup attempt on that night. But their ranks, already badly bruised over a massive purge in the past two years, are not immune to the post-coup crackdown.\nWhen M.S., a police officer, took over the duty in Vatan, headquarters of the Istanbul police, it was an ordinary July night. Shortly after his shift started, he heard rumors of tanks occupying the Istanbul bridge. While the carnage started in the Bosphorus Bridge, a tank approached the police headquarters he was guarding. The outer gate of the building is at least 100 yards away, heavily secured with three-layer inner gates. In front of the outdoor entrance, M.S. was guarding behind a police barricade while the tank parked on the roadside.\nIt was an infuriating moment for the officer, a development he has not witnessed during his entire life. But he knew that whatever was up with the military activity, their place was behind the barracks. While people flocked to the streets to confront the military, M.S. asked civilians to build a barricade in front of the tank. He handed out small Turkish flags to the protesting people, some of whom climbed onto the tank. Inside the tank was a former police chief who was accused of being part of the coup plot on July 15. Officer M.S. quickly pulled the police chief out of the tank and handcuffed him.\nM.S. was suspended from duty as part of the massive purge on Oct. 3, 2016, accused of being part of the coup. A hero cast aside as a villain.\nOfficer F.Z. had been watching the coup plot unfolding that night with an extra unease. His colleagues were key in thwarting the putsch across the country, especially in metropolitan areas. As the coup plot fell apart and darkness of the night gave way to dawn, his unit was radioed in for duty. He was called to the Bosphorus Bridge, an area where most of the blood was shed.\nThe bridge was the first place to be occupied by the putschist soldiers. As the people walked against the tanks, the army officers showered them with bullets. The carnage continued until early in the morning when it was somewhat clear that the coup attempt was a failure.\nF.Z. and his colleagues surrounded the military unit. In a small skirmish, one of the bullets hit his police car. While he was trying to convince the army officers to surrender, there was a sudden roar behind the police lines. Hundreds of civilians stormed a group of privates, who later said had no idea why they were ordered to show up there. F.Z. and his colleagues knew that the confrontation could end with more bloodshed. While he handcuffed the soldiers, he also pushed back angry civilians.\nF.Z. was a hero. An officer on duty who fought to save Turkey\u2019s civilian politics. But also someone who prevented a dangerous escalation between privates and civilians.\nAs Turkey\u2019s tremendous purge widens, he was among the police officers suspended on Oct. 3.\nThey were seven brothers in arms. They ate together. They joked together. They served their country together. And they were going to die together. Their heroic actions on July 15 perhaps were one of the essential efforts in halting the military dominance in Istanbul\u2019s heart.\nPlotting soldiers first fixed their gaze on a police post in Istanbul\u2019s Cengelkoy. A police chief on duty on that night called the Anti-Terrorism Unit to report about an incoming group of soldiers and asked for directions. In turn, police officials in the Anti-Terrorism Unit called Istanbul police chief Mustafa Caliskan, who ordered them to resist.\nAnti-Terrorism Unit officials opened the gates of the storage at the station, doling out vests and automatic rifles. The units were dispatched Istanbul Police Headquarters in Vatan. As they neared the police headquarters, they asked drivers of several trucks to park on the road to prevent additional military convoy from coming.\nThese seven police officers asked any civilian they could find to gather outside the police headquarters. They quickly mobilized enough number of people to adequately confront the military.\nY.N., who was among these seven brothers, was suspended on Oct. 3 as part of the post-coup crackdown. He is accused of being part of the July 15 coup.\nWhooshing bullets that passed over their heads were something they never expected to come from their compatriot soldiers. Police officers G.D. and H.S., who are usually patrolling Batikent in Ankara, were dispatched to observe the military activity in the Army Aviation School on that night of the coup plot.\nIt was an unusual night for the capital. Low-flying F-16s caused sonic booms that sounded like air strikes. In some places, they did drop their bombs. They pounded Ankara Police Headquarters as well as Golbasi Special Forces.\nThe police officers who were tasked with observing the school were now a target of the putschist soldiers. Thankfully, they survived the shooting spree.\nBut H.S. was not that lucky. He was suspended on Oct. 4 in connection to the failed coup.\nThese are stories of only a few police officers who fought against the military encroachment over the civilian politics. 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However I was still working harder trying to find work than I was actually doing it. Something needed to change.\nI brushed the dust off the box marked \u2018Do Not Disturb\u2019 and opened a bottle of Johnnie Walker Black Label. I always think better with a drop of JWBL in me. Tom Cruise had his bat in \u2018A Few Good Men\u2018 \u2013 I have my bottle of JWBL. By now I\u2019d already heard of Alex Tew\u2019s Million Dollar Homepage and had seen the explosion of pixel based advertising sites. Whilst I had no desire to replicate what he\u2019d done, I liked the idea. It was simple.\nI can\u2019t remember if he called me or I called him but I had a chat with Bill and it seems that we were both having similar ideas about how to generate a residual income on the internet. Over the next few weeks we started working on a couple of ideas but the simplicity of the Million Dollar Homepage kept coming back to me until one night, after a couple of glasses of JWBL, I sat down with a pencil and a piece of paper and worked out that you only have to double a dollar twenty times to make a million.\nNow if it had been something like thirty five times then I would have dismissed it but twenty doesn\u2019t sound a lot, does it? It sounds almost achievable. My initial idea was to create a site where I sold advertising at an ever increasing amount to $1M but that would have been a poor imitation of the Million Dollar Homepage. Besides, it would take too much time, effort and money to get the necessary publicity. It had to be something which would grow organically. Something which people could actively participate in. Something which I could start immediately with whatever I had in my wallet. A quick check revealed that I had just over three pounds ($6), the phone number of a local taxi company and a condom with a use by date of September 2003.\nMy head was spinning with ideas. Sure, I could come up with a dozen or so scenarios where I could potentially double my money but the chances were that I would crash and burn at some point and have to start again. There are only so many ideas I would be able to come up with before I had exhausted every avenue. I drained my JWBL and headed off to bed. I couldn\u2019t sleep so picked up the book I was reading. It was The Dice Man by Luke Rhinehart.\nAnd there, dear reader, is where the Twenty Steps Challenge began. I don\u2019t know whether you are familiar with the book but, in essence, it is the story of a respectable psychiatrist who chooses to change the pattern of his life by making decisions based on the roll of a dice. 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Designed for practitioners, business people, academics and anyone who has to deal with IP issues on a daily basis or is just curious about the role Intellectual Property plays in the modern commercial world, the Caf\u00e9 is a series of afternoon engagements focussed around a specific topic with input from a recognised expert in the field. It is then followed by lively discussion among all the participants providing for networking, peer learning and development in the crucial area of Intellectual Property. This month the discussion will explore international taxation of intellectual property and in particular income shifting in an international context.\nProfessor Jeffrey A. Maine\nJeffrey Maine, an expert on tax law, has authored or co-authored six books and more than a dozen articles in the field. 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The air was hot, thick and heavy with humidity, and even the small current of it leaking in through the barely-open sunroof was enough to make me sweat despite the air-conditioning.\nI\u2019m no stranger to heat and humidity. I spent my childhood in New Orleans \u2013 birth to age five, Las Vegas \u2013 five to seven, Austin seven to ten, Los Angeles ten to twelve, Atlanta twelve to fifteen, Las Vegas fifteen to the present, and was currently looking at a final move back to The City Of Angels where I\u2019d attend \u2013 probably \u2013 college.\nMy dad\u2019s a nautical engineer for the military, which is why I can couch my descriptions of my childhood homes in prison jargon. Ten to twelve.\nI should resent him for it. I\u2019ve lost count of the number of schools I\u2019ve attended; I\u2019ve stopped trying to make long-term friends; everything I own fits in exactly ten cardboard boxes; and the rest of the Calloway family tree has gotten used to us never making a family reunion three years in a row, much less making it back for family events like births, confirmations, graduations, and funerals.\nI can\u2019t resent having seen more of the United States in eighteen years than most people see in a lifetime though. I can\u2019t resent a life of upper middle class privilege, the great \u2013 if unconventional \u2013 education I\u2019ve received, or the connection with my parents and brother that a lifetime of having nobody but each other had forged. We had nobody but ourselves and each other. We were a family in a way that people who have a permanent home and an expectation of having a permanent home in three years can\u2019t appreciate.\nThese days though\u2026the wheels were falling off. It started five years ago when my oldest brother got in some trouble that my dad solved by sending him off to live with my grandparents in New Orleans. And not that long ago, my mom made the unilateral decision that my brother Brett was no longer part of the family, and he\u2019d agreed, packing up his stuff in a panel van and moved to LA ahead of us to put himself through college.\nThinking about him paying the price for my mistake \u2013 the one and only time the high school gossip machine had ever gotten a detail wrong \u2013 made me feel ill. He\u2019d gone without complaint though. It\u2019s the family way to sacrifice for other people. Dad was a Rescue Diver before he hurt his back and became an engineer \u2013 \u201cSo That Others May Live\u201d is in our blood.\n\u201cYou all right?\u201d Dad asked from the passenger seat.\n\u201cJust fine,\u201d I said, pulling myself back to the present.\n\u201cYou\u2019re kinda quiet.\u201d\n\u201cThinking about the money burning a hole in my pocket,\u201d I lied. I had a check for seventeen thousand dollars folded in quarters in tucked in the back pocket of my black jeans. More money than I\u2019ve ever had before. More money than I\u2019ve ever seen in one place. A good chunk of it was mom and dad\u2019s \u2013 a graduation gift.\n\u201cYou earned it,\u201d he said. \u201cAnd your mom and I figured you\u2019d probably need a car once we got back to LA and you went to college. I\u2019m just glad you could combine it with your money and get something you really wanted, otherwise you would\u2019ve gotten an old Geo Metro.\u201d\nI chuckled at the thought. \u201cPeople still drive those?\u201d\n\u201cMaybe? I guess\u2026?\u201d\nThe house I was looking for was downtown-ish, in a schizophrenic area on the coal side of the Fox River. Nicer neighborhoods gave way to slums, gave way to bars and machine shops and train yards and docks, gave way to clubs and cafes and upscale furniture stores and administrative buildings, all of which were situated between the coal piles that dotted the river\u2019s edge and the old-money mansions that sat two or three blocks in from the water\u2019s edge. Even the expensive old homes couldn\u2019t make up their minds: some were peeling paint, sagging towards the ground with appliances and dirty, broken children\u2019s toys scattered in the overgrown weed lots that passed as front yards, while others \u2013 sometimes just next door \u2013 were immaculately clean and well trimmed, the gold house numbers and door handles and doorbell fixtures catching the sun like mirrors.\nGreen Bay \u2013 the biggest little town in the state. Sort of like Mercy, Florida was. I\u2019d only been there once to visit my older brother after he got bounced from New Orleans due to getting in trouble again, but the similarities were undeniable. This city would be absolutely unmemorable, forgotten by all except its inhabitants if it weren\u2019t for the Packers.\nAnd even they weren\u2019t that exciting these past few years.\nI took a left at the big gothic sandstone building with the \u201cPublic School System\u201d sign, and nearly immediately hung another left. More shady streets. I started scanning street signs.\nA few short blocks later I turned right, and almost immediately parked the car in front of one of those massive homes that seemed to be par for the course around here. This one was moderately well kept up. The one to its right was beautifully maintained, the one to its left was a dump. I think it was splitting the difference.\nDad looked out the window at the house. \u201cYou want me to go with you?\u201d\n\u201cI\u2019m out here if you need me.\u201d\n\u201cI\u2019ll be back,\u201d I told him, and stepped out of the car. The heat was intense, and the humidity stifling. Sweat gathered along my upper arms and legs and at the back of my neck, seconds out of the car.\nA tall, thin woman with frizzy hair and leathery skin answered the door after three knocks and a pause. \u201cMrs. Stewart?\u201d I asked. \u201cWe talked via email about the car?\u201d\nShe shook my hand as she stepped out onto the porch. \u201cNice to meet you. No offense, but you don\u2019t look anything like I\u2019d expected.\u201d\n\u201cThe car\u2019s around the side of the house, if you\u2019ll follow me.\u201d\nThe driveway ran past the side of the house, to a garage the same dark brick as the main building. The garage itself was actually attached; an attachment I assumed had come later in its life. It looked like some sort of tumor on the side of the house.\nInside the cool shade of the garage I couldn\u2019t help but notice the order. Gardening implements, tools, even the rags were organized; a place for everything and everything in its place.\nMrs. Stewart pulled back the floral print bed sheets covering the car, and the highly organized qualities of the shovels and spades receded to the back of my mind. The Mazda RX-7 in front of me looked like crap, there was no denying it, but lack of paint aside; there was nothing else wrong with it. I\u2019d seen numerous pictures of the interior and mechanical parts, and while it had lost the gleam and shine of a new car, it had the muscular, worn-in look of a familiar tool; sort of like Dad\u2019s power saws that way.\nI got into the driver\u2019s seat and took in the feeling of power the car emanated. This thing was built for speed. It knew its role in life well, and took pride in meeting and exceeding the expectations laid out for it. The cabin of the car was austere, almost like a fighter jet\u2019s cockpit. I popped the hood release, got out, and took a look at the heart of the animal. Clean, well-cared-for. I checked a few of the parts, and they matched the description Mrs. Stewart had put on eBay.\nI still could not believe I was getting this car for seventeen grand. There was at least that much just in parts. I put the hood down. \u201cI\u2019ve gotta ask, what\u2019s the catch? You obviously know what you have on your hands here, and that you could get a LOT more for it. Why so cheap?\u201d\nMrs. Stewart snorted. \u201cThere is no catch. It was my ex-husband\u2019s. We got divorced. I want it gone.\u201d\n\u201cAh.\u201d I understood completely. Stupidly giddy with excitement, and that feeling of animosity, I understood. I took the check out of my pocket and unfolded it before handing it to Mrs. Stewart. \u201cAgreed upon amount, look it over and then I\u2019ll sign it.\u201d\nShe inspected it like she was examining a bomb, and then handed it back. \u201cLooks real enough.\u201d Her voice said she was joking, so I didn\u2019t say anything snarky.\nI set the check on the hood, pulled a pen out of my vest pocket, and signed it. \u201cI\u2019m not gonna complain about the lack of a test drive,\u201d I told her. \u201cIf I don\u2019t like it, I can double my investment.\u201d\nMrs. Stewart pocketed the check and handed me three sets of keys, two of which I put in my satchel. \u201cI hope you do like it. Lotta time and money put into this car.\u201d\nI got into the car, turned the key in the ignition. It started right up with a high-pitched growl. To me, it sounded like a purr. A loud purr. I waved goodbye, and drove down the driveway, out into the street, pulled up along the far curb opposite the Acura I\u2019d been driving earlier. Turning the car off, I just sat. It was MINE. How long had I dreamed of owning a street racer? Now I had one, and one of the best and cheapest I\u2019d ever even read about.\nI was so absorbed in amazement idiotic giddiness and self-congratulations that I didn\u2019t see Dad at the window until he knocked.\n\u201cTell me you\u2019re going to paint it,\u201d he said. \u201cPlease, for the love of all that is automotive, tell me you\u2019re going to paint it.\u201d\nI laughed. \u201cOh yeah.\u201d I was already running through various designs in my mind. Black with \u201cLike A Rose\u201d in thorny, vine-y print on the sides. Or, considering where I was going, \u201cLos Angeloser\u201d on the hood in pink. Maybe both. Car didn\u2019t have to have a tasteful paintjob in order to be fast.\nWe wandered around the car a few times, me pointing out various details, Dad taking in the fact that his teenager now had a racecar. He probably wasn\u2019t comfortable with that fact.\nThe tour ended after he looked under the hood. \u201cKiddo, I gotta get going. I\u2019ve gotta be in Marinette in just a couple of hours.\u201d\nDad was consulting for a few days on one of the new Littoral Combat Ships at the shipyard up north. Besides picking up the Mazda, it was the reason he was up here.\n\u201cBefore I go\u2026\u201d he walked around to the passenger side and got in, then motioned through the window for me to join him. I got in. \u201cYou can\u2019t take it,\u201d I said jokingly.\nHe smiled. \u201cI know. Two things though.\u201d He reached down to fumble at his ankle, there was a tearing noise of Velcro, and then he handed me a hard, black bundle of fabric. \u201cCan\u2019t take it on base. Take it back to the hotel and lock it up in the safe, or keep it with you. I\u2019d prefer that.\u201d\n\u201cDad, that\u2019s kinda illegal\u2026\u201d\n\u201cI don\u2019t want you wandering around the city \u2013 like I know you\u2019re gonna do \u2013 without it.\nI made a face. Not that I wasn\u2019t comfortable with it\u2026it was just that a car like this occasionally attracted official attention. \u201cFine. I tucked it into an inside pocket of my satchel.\n\u201cAlso,\u201d Dad said, pulling out his wallet. \u201cI eat on base, so I don\u2019t need this.\u201d He handed me his Visa. \u201cDon\u2019t skimp on eating out, but don\u2019t make me regret it, ok?\u201d\n\u201cThanks dad. Right now though, I don\u2019t think I COULD eat. I\u2019ll probably still be driving around by the time you get back\u201d\nHe smiled then leaned back in his seat and sighed. \u201cYou know something, one of the reasons I wanted to do this with you was to get you away from the house. That situation with your brother in April\u2026I want you to know you don\u2019t have to try to make up for what he did. You\u2019re your own person, and just because your mom and I are on edge right now with each other and your brother, don\u2019t think we don\u2019t love you any less.\u201d\nMy stupid giddiness evaporated as fast as water would on the street outside. Well, there went my whole damn day. I let the grin that I\u2019d had turn somber-ish at an appropriate speed instead of the crash I wanted.\n\u201cYour mom and I are so proud of you. Never forget that.\u201d\nI thought: \u201cYou shouldn\u2019t be.\u201d\nI said \u201cThanks dad.\u201d\n\u201cSee you in a couple of days.\u201d He leaned over to put an arm around me and then got out of the car.\nI stared at the Acura with hot eyes until it was out of sight. Four days by myself. Four days with nothing but my new car and the self-recrimination bouncing around inside my skull to keep me company, stuck in Hicktown, Wisconsin where the three biggest activities were drinking beer, eating cheese, and wearing yellow Styrofoam wedges on your head.\nUsually all at the same time.\nThe beer was probably out \u2013 I\u2019d have to try it with my fake ID, but I had a feeling I\u2019d get busted. I don\u2019t eat raw cheese. And I\u2019d be damned if I\u2019d wear one of those dumb hats.\nI swallowed hard and looked around the interior of the car. I should be happy. I WOULD be happy. I pulled my wallet out of my satchel and tucked Dad\u2019s Visa into it, then pulled out my driver\u2019s license and tucked it into one of the card slots on the my visor. I looked at my face staring back at me for a minute. If only you knew then what you know now.\nMisery was no way to spend the next four days. I\u2019d go back to the hotel \u2013 just a short drive from here \u2013 and plan my next move. I had a feeling it would involve driving down to Chicago. \u201cSamantha Calloway, you have a car, a credit card, and a Pea-Two-Thirty-Eight. What are you gonna do next?\u201d", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00240.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 113, + "original_length": 14542, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.98, + "perplexity": 303.0, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "http://www.utoledo.edu/business/faculty/management/JenellWittmer.html", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T03:41:57Z", + "digest": "sha1:3VOQWVKHI5QGXMGIRW2QOK7HMRZ7KI65", + "length": 6511, + "nlines": 40, + "source_domain": "www.utoledo.edu", + "title": "Jenell Lynn-Senter Wittmer, Ph.D.", + "raw_content": "Jenell Lynn-Senter Wittmer, Ph.D.\nOffice: Stranahan Hall - 2013\nJenell L. S. Wittmer, Ph.D. is an Industrial/Organizational Psychologist holding degrees from Wayne State University and the College of Charleston, SC. She is an Associate Professor of Management in the College of Business and Innovation at the University of Toledo, having received multiple awards in the areas of teaching, research, and community service. Her areas of teaching include Human Resources, with a special focus on Training and Development, Leadership Development, Organizational Behavior, and Results Based Management.\nDr. Wittmer\u2019s program of research focuses on nonstandard employment (including part-time work, shift work, and nonstandard schedules), work-life conflict, the successful employment of people with disabilities, leadership and managerial development, applied statistics and measurement. She has recently published in Organizational Research Methods, Journal of Organizational Behavior, Journal of Occupational and Organizational Psychology, Journal of Vocational Behavior, Human Relations, Human Resource Management, Training and Development, and Journal of Business and Psychology.\nDr. Wittmer is a certified as an assessor for Managerial Assessment Centers, having coordinated and led assessments with the American Society of Employees. She is an expert in mid-level managerial coaching and development, with numerous clients in multiple industries, such as public schools, auto, retail, banking, manufacturing, and third-party distribution. She regularly serves as a consultant and speaker on such topics as leadership development, team leadership, disabilities awareness and strategic advantage, training and development for small businesses, and personal communication styles. Dr. Wittmer has also held several board of directors positions and currently sits on the board of the Ohio Business Leadership Network.\nPh.D. in Industrial Organizational Psychology, 2008\nDissertation Title: Partial Inclusion Theory: An Application and Extension to Part-Time Groups\nM.A. in Industrial Organizational Psychology, 2005\nThesis Title: Factors Affecting Turnover in Different Groups of Part-Time Workers\nCollege of Charleston Honor\u2019s Program, 2003, Charleston, SC\nNonstandard Employment/Schedules\nWork-Life Conflict\nSuccessful Employment of People with Disabilities\nWittmer, J. L. S., Shepard, A., & Martin, J. E. (In Press) Congruence with Work Schedule Preferences on Scheduling Attitudes and Retention Indicators in Shift Workers. American Journal of Business.\nWittmer, J. L. S., Shepard, A., Martin, J. E. (2014). An Application of Mobley's Intermediate Linkages Turnover Model to a Full-time Employee Group Typology. Journal of Occupational and Organizational Psychology, 87(4),806-812.\nWittmer, J. L. S., & Rudolph, C. W. (2014). The Impact of Diversity on Career Transitions over the Life Course. In Hughes, C. (Ed.) Impact of Diversity on Organization and Career Development, IGI Global, pp. (151-185).\nWittmer, J. L. S., Martin, J. E. (2013). Lessons Learned From a Part-Time Worker Typology Applied to Full-Timers. American Journal of Business, 28(2), 210-232.\nWittmer, J. L. S., Sinclair, R. R., Martin, J. E., Tucker, J. S., Lang, J. (2012). Shared Safety Concerns and Organizational Effectiveness: Moderating Role of Resource Constraints. Journal of Organizational Behavior, 34(3), 370-388, DOI: 10.1002/job.1807.\nMartin, J. E., Sinclair, R., Lelchook, A. M., Wittmer, J. L. S., Charles, K. (2012). Nonstandard Work Schedules and Retention in the Entry-Level Hourly Workforce. Journal of Occupational and Organizational Psychology, 85(1), 1-22.\nWittmer, J. L.S. (November, 2011). Taking a Walk in Our Shoes: Disabilities Awareness Training, Training & Development, 56-59.\nMartin, J. E., & Wittmer, J. L. S., Lelchook, A. M. (2011). Satisfaction with Days Worked Where Sundays are Scheduled. Human Relations, 64(7), 901-926.\nWittmer, J. L. S., & Martin, J. E. (2011a). Effects of Scheduling Perceptions on Attitudes and Mobility in Different Part-time Employee Types. Journal of Vocational Behavior, 78(1), 149-158.\nWittmer, J. L. S., & Martin, J. E. (2011b). Work and Personal Role Involvement of Part-time Employees: Implications for Attitudes and Turnover Intentions. Journal of Organizational Behavior, 32(5), 767-787.\nWittmer, J. L. S., Martin, J. E., Tekelab, A. G. (2010). Procedural Justice and Work Outcomes in a Unionized Setting: The Mediating Role of Leader-Member Exchange. American Journal of Business, 25(2), 55-69.\nWittmer, J. L. S., & Martin, J. E. (2010).Emotional Exhaustion among Employees Without Social or Client Contact: The Key Role of Nonstandard Work Schedules. Journal of Business and Psychology, 25(4), 607-623.\nYan, J., Hopkins, M. M., & Wittmer, J. L. S. (2010). Linking Human Capital to Competitive Advantages through Flexibility in a Manufacturing Firm\u2019s Supply Chain. Human Resource Management, 49(5), 1-25.\nWittmer, J. L. S., & Wilson, L. (2010, February). Turning Diversity into Dollars: A Business Case for Hiring People with Disabilities. Training & Development, 58-61.\nLeBreton, J. M., & Senter, J. L. (2008). Answers to questions about interrater reliability & agreement. Organizational Research Methods, 11, 815-852.\n*Awarded Best Article of the Year Award 2008 by Sage Publications. Currently third most cited article in the history of Organizational Research Methods.\n*Awarded 2014 Sage Publications/Robert McDonald Advancement of Organizational Research Methodology Award\nSenter, J. L., & Martin, J.E. (2007). Factors affecting turnover in different groups of part-time workers. Journal of Vocational Behavior, 71, 45-68.\n2014 Sage Publications/Robert McDonald Advancement of Organizational Research Methodology Award\n2014 College of Business and Innovation Simonette Graduate Teaching Award Winner\n2013 College of Business and Innovation DeJute Undergraduate Teaching Award Winner\n2012 College of Business and Innovation James A. 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Well, it is famous for so many things but most especially in bringing unforgettable experiences to those who come and visit it. Now, if you are planning to go to Alberta anytime soon or you are looking for a nice place to spend your vacations at in Edmonton, you have got to look for Fantasyland Hotel Deals and here are four reasons why you should do so.\nIt is perfect for families.\nGetting Fantasyland Hotel Deals will really make your entire family happy and exceedingly satisfied. It is one of those places that are complete with all the facilities that you could possibly be looking for. Spending a night or two in a beach house can make your family feel good and rejuvenated. However, being in Fantasyland Hotel will make them feel like they are living in a place where all of the best things in life are just a few steps away from their bedrooms. From fun-filled water parks to their Europa Boulevard below \u2013 each member of the family will love every single thing about Fantasyland.\nLargest indoor amusement park in the world, you say?\nAnother reason why one can say that Fantasyland has the best hotel deals is because they have Galaxyland which is the second largest indoor amusement park in the entire world. They have most thrilling rides and your kids will definitely have an amazing time in this place. They will surely hate having to go back home after having the Fantasyland Hotel experience.\nIt offers a unique nightlife experience.\nFor people who are just trying to get last minute hotel deals to have an awesome night life experience in Alberta, you will never regret booking for a room in Fantasyland Hotel. The Empire Ballroom, the Red Piano and the Edmonton Event Centre are just some of the places in this hotel that are deserving of your time and money. Whether you want a wild and fun party experience or you just want to listen to jazz music while you enjoy a glass of wine, getting Fantasyland Hotel Deals can be one of the best decisions you will ever make.\nIt is just the best place to spend your vacations at.\nLooking for cheap hotel deals might not be something that you will be able to get from Fantasyland Hotel. On the other hand, what it can give you is an experience that will make you feel like you made the most out of the huge amount that you spent. As a hotel, it has the most posh facilities and furnishings. It is a five-star hotel that will make you feel like royalty. As an entertainment hub, Fantasyland Hotel, too, can give you a one-of-a-kind experience. 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Author Interview with Dwayne Fry", + "raw_content": "Thanks to social media and the growing globalization of every aspect of our lives, it seems that every day, week, and month is designed to honor everything from waffles to presidents. May is no different. May the fourth holds a special place for fans of Star Wars and puns, likewise the eighth of May gets a gritty giggle from fans of Mot\u00f6rhead and puns. But the entire month of May is dedicated to short stories and I can\u2019t think of a medium more deserving of its own month of celebration.\nAccording to the website for the organization that started Short Story Month, we are at the dawn of a new golden era for short storytelling and I agree. As such, I sat down with Dwayne Fry to get inside the mind of a short story master. Dwayne is an indie author with more than thirty short works and collections published in a wide variety of genres ranging from lighthearted comedy to serious literary fiction that tackles tough issues. He is also fellow Vonnegut fan and a super fantastic guy, so read on to see what he has to say!\nChristina McMullen: So Dwayne, to get started, it's May and May is short story month. You may as well accept the title of Indie Author Short Story King. Are you comfortable becoming royalty?\nDwayne Fry: Well, I'll have to dust off my throne and clean out the dungeon, but I guess I could do all that. Or force some serf to do it for me. Let the reign begin.\nCM: I understand kings wear robes. Wizards also wear robes and I've heard rumors that you are a wizard. Would you like to take us immediately off topic and officially make a statement regarding said rumors? Don't worry, the fact that you are a cannibal is our secret.\nDF: I do wear a robe, too. A bathrobe. But, you know, wizards are kind of like magicians and magicians never reveal their secrets. So, I guess by not revealing my secret I'm admitting to being a wizard. Or I could just say the bathrobe is a tribute to Arthur Dent and leave it at that.\nCM: Fair enough, we'll stick to the title of King for now. And speaking of Kings, in the introduction to his 2002 short story collection, Everything's Eventual, Stephen King claimed that short stories were an \u201calmost dying\u201d art. He cited that literary magazines and anthologies were on their way out. That was fourteen years ago. Obviously, the internet and ebooks were a huge game changer. What's your take on shorts? You've written so many and in so many genres, clearly you must see value in concise language. Tell us about that.\nDF: Well, to be honest, the short story works better for me than the novel, due to my weird work schedule at my better paying job. Also, thanks to Sesame Street and MTV, I have a very short attention span. I have thousands of stories I want to tell. In order to get as many of them out as possible in whatever years I have left of life, I tend to focus more on the shorter ones for now. I like working with the smaller cast and focusing on one or two plots, going for one or two ideas rather than a large collection of ideas. With novels it's a bit harder to balance the numerous plots and subplots, not to mention keeping all the characters and minor details of the story straight.\nI love reading short stories, too. I've been studying a lot of them the last couple of years, by Indie authors like Charles Hash, K.B. Goddard and Ray Holloway Jr. as well as traditionally published authors like John Updike and Rudyard Kipling. I carry my copy of Welcome to the Monkey House everywhere these days.\nIt's not uncommon for people to make predictions like King did and find that it falls flat on its face. We can't really predict what will be popular in literature or any other medium in five, ten years from now. There's way too many variables. Change in the political and social climates of the world change people's reading habits. People today seem to have shorter attention spans and so I think that may be contributing to a new interest in short stories.\nThe short story is a real challenge to write in some ways. It's like with a circus, if you have this huge tent to work with you can have many acts going on at once. With a short story, you're working in a smaller tent and can only show one act at a time, so you get to chose how you present the characters, the plot, etc. and you don't have the room to work with like you do in a novel.\nCM: I love the circus analogy. It's fitting as well because in the circus, you've got a little bit of everything; daredevils, clowns, acrobats, animals, all shiny and primped for the audience, yet if you take a closer look, there's a myriad of complex and sometimes uncomfortable issues below the surface. This seems to be the takeaway for a vast majority of your works as well.\nMost recently, I found myself thinking a lot harder on some deep subjects than I ever thought possible while reading what should be a light comedy. I'm talking, of course, about the fan favorite, Happy Clown Burger. Let's start with the light and move into the deep. First, what on Earth possessed you to write a series of rigidly structured flash fiction around the theme of fast food?\nDF: I had purchased a book of flash fiction for my Kindle. There were only five stories in it and when I was finished I sort of shrugged and said, \"I could do this. But, I'm going to make it more challenging.\" And that's where a lot of my writing comes from, myself challenging myself to do something different.\nSo, I took a very OCD approach and came up with a few rules. Instead of five, I would do one hundred. Instead of them being between x and y words long, I would make them all exactly one thousand words. I would also have them strongly connected by having a recurring cast of characters and one main setting, yet each story would stand on its own. I chose the setting as a work place because there's so much potential for stories in any work place. I narrowed it to fast food because most everyone has either worked in fast food or at least eaten in a fast food restaurant.\nI have not gotten my one hundred stories, yet, but I do have sixty-seven published and about ten more that are not published. I am confident I will make it. Originally I thought about doing them all in one book, but then decided to split it into six books with sixteen or seventeen stories each. I'm hoping to have all six volumes out by the end of this year.\nCM: And those stories certainly run the gamut of emotions! There's definitely something that everyone can relate to. Do you have a particular favorite set of one thousand words?\nDF: I do, in fact. There's one story in Volume Four I called \"Men's Room / Ladies' Room\". It's pure absurdity but it was so much fun to write.\nCM: I have not made it to volume four yet, but I'm looking forward to it! Fun writing keeps us sane. At least, I'd like to think so. Though I suspect there are plenty of folks who would argue my sanity and yours. Especially if they were to read some of your darker and dare I say weirder works.\nLet's move on to horror for just a moment. Personally, I think horror is one of the better suited genres for short stories, but I've noticed they can get pretty formulaic. Your horror stories are definitely unique. Pretty Eyes is quite interesting because I can't say that I particularly cared much for the main character and yet, the story was better for it. Care to talk about your characters? Give us a little insight into how you can flesh out (pun related to Pretty Eyes intended) such detailed characters without the advantage of novel lengths.\nDF: First, I would like to state that sanity is greatly overrated.\nFor the characters in my horror tales, I try to get into their heads and learn what they are afraid of or what makes them terrifying, depending if I\u2019m looking at the protagonist or the antagonist. I'm glad you mentioned Pretty Eyes. Karl is one of my favorite characters. I can't really fully go into him here without spoiling the story, but it's one character where what he feared and what was fearful about him was fascinating to me -- and it a way ended up being pretty much the same thing. The thing that Karl feared most was himself - or someone like him. I liked Karl, too, in that on the surface he seems like an average Joe, but the more time we spend with him, the more we see something just isn't right about him. And I started seeing things about myself in him, too, which frightened me a little. I'm hoping he has the same effect on the readers.\nCM: Very interesting. It's always fascinating to hear about how an author puts some of themselves into their characters. That your characters would show you something about yourself isn't too surprising. Now, speaking as a reader, I find I definitely love a story more when I can relate to it. And with your stories, there are a lot of relatable characters. I'd love to be able to talk about all of them, but we'd be here all night, so I'm going to bring up one of my favorites, which is Old Pops' Last Beer.\nYou subtitle this as a \u2018maudlin redneck fairytale\u2019 and I have to say, it is fitting. Again, your characters are nuanced and there's a whole history in just a few words. This book is part of a series of lightly connected stories centered around a small town and of what I've read so far, this might be my favorite group. I understand you're working on a longer work within this microcosm. Can you give us some of the background and inspiration for Noah City?\nDF: I lived in a small Iowa town for about two years, from 1986 to 1988. It's a redneck town. I fit in, to a point, being a bit of a redneck myself. But, many in the town were more of the negative type of redneck one hears about. Racist, sexist, drinking all the time and so on. Not everyone there was like that, of course. But, that is the town I use as the model for Noah City.\nNot all the Noah City stories are about the rednecks. Lazarus Wept certainly is not. I have three or four other shorts that I will be putting out soon in that series, one features Ample Mabel as the main character. She's only been a minor character up to now, in Old Pops' Last Beer and Austism.\nThe novel will be called The Arteest and it is the story of a middle-aged man who left Noah City years ago and made a name for himself as an artist in California. He's come back to town on some business. I can't say why right now or it would spoil things, but it is strongly connected to one of the short stories. Several characters from the shorts make appearances in the novel. The Worth family lives right across the road from the artist, so we get to see more of Dallas and Austin from Austism as well as learning more about the rest of their family. Wesley Darin from Bonny Truman plays a big role in the novel as do several other characters from the shorts.\nJust to be clear, it is not necessary to read the shorts in order to follow the novel, nor is the novel required reading to understand the shorts. They all stand on their own.\nCM: And now I'm going to turn the tables and ask you which of your stories is your favorite? Which one is the most underrated? And lastly, given all things being equal, if I could only read one of your stories, which should it be?\nDF: The first and third questions are easy. Austism. Hands down. Austin, the main character, is probably my favorite of all the characters I write about. I love the rest of the cast of that one,too. And I think the underlying message in it is important. As for your second question, that's much tougher since I have had some pretty good feedback on all of my work. I don't know that any of it is underrated. There are some that haven't gotten any attention yet and I guess that's kind of like being underrated, so I'll pick one of those. Since the Noah City stories are, I think, my best published work, I'll pick George Stew as the most underrated. As far as I know my wife is the only one who has read it and she bawled her eyes out at the end. So, yes, it's one of those stories.\nCM: Thank you for lending me your time, Dwayne.\nHopefully this wasn't too painful.\nDF: No, it was actually fun and an honor. Thank you so much for giving me this opportunity!\nAs I mentioned above, Dwayne is a prolific author of dozens of stories. 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However, ALL adoptions must go through WSAL.\nIf there is donated pet food, WSAL will provide it to you. 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These include:\nThe ADEAR Center features an Alzheimer's Clinical Disease database which can be searched by individuals considering volunteering for clinical trials.", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00240.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 45, + "original_length": 1909, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.83, + "perplexity": 226.9, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "http://www.wichiaricenter.org/oth/Page.asp?PageID=OTH101136", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T03:39:54Z", + "digest": "sha1:OPJXSGWR75VEHSMPUMBPZO6HAGRYP7QU", + "length": 1998, + "nlines": 8, + "source_domain": "www.wichiaricenter.org", + "title": "The Chiari Center - Virtual Visit", + "raw_content": "The Wisconsin Chiari Center: Virtual Visit\nThe Wisconsin Chiari Center at Columbia St. Mary\u2019s Hospital Milwaukee is one of only a handful of such centers in the country to focus on the diagnosis and treatment of the Chiari malformation and related disorders.\nOur strength lies in the collaboration of our outstanding team of neurologists, neurosurgeons and radiologists. The center builds on the unique experience of Dr. Dan Heffez who, for the past 16 years, has dedicated much energy and thought towards understanding the Chiari malformation and improving its treatment. He has a world-wide reputation and has consulted with patients from every state in the union, from Canada and from countries as far away as South Africa, South Korea and Australia.\nThe unique nature of our approach, developed by Dr. Heffez, lies in the fact that we first determine the neurological basis for your symptoms. We don\u2019t just look at an MRI scan. The nervous system is designed in such a way that your symptoms and neurological examination can tell an attentive doctor exactly where to look for the explanation. In the case of Chiari malformation, the findings always clearly point to the cervical spinal cord and brain stem.\nThe difficulty in diagnosing Chiari arises because it is just one disorder that can disturb the function of the brain stem and spinal cord. An important part of our job is to exclude those conditions that do not require surgery but, instead, are better treated by medication.\nIf a surgical problem is discovered, our job is determine which surgery is most appropriate for your case. This is not a \u201cone size fits all\u201d problem. Our goal is to improve the quality of your life and not to perform unnecessary surgery. We understand the frustration of living with constant pain and our team will work together to find the answers for your specific condition.\nWhat will a visit to The Wisconsin Chiari Center entail? 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It is used for demographic data and helps allocate funding based on needs. Those conducting the survey will visit areas around the County, such as under bridges and overpasses, talking with those who are currently homeless to get to know their situation. They say their primary goal is let them know about resources available.\nOfficials add that while they have seen a decrease in the sheltered homeless population, the PIT count has shown an increase in the unsheltered homeless population over recent years.\n\u201cWe\u2019ve also seen an increase in not only families as a whole that are experiencing homelessness, but unsheltered families. So that\u2019s our job. The data doesn\u2019t just stay put somewhere. We take a look at it. We compare it to previous years, and we get to work trying to figure out how we can remedy those issues,\u201d said Rebecca Rathmell of the Southern Tier Homeless Coalition.\nRathmell says the group will bring along supply bags. 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They will also be bringing hot chocolate along with them.\nIn addition to this canvas, there will be a survey report on the number of those homeless at shelters, community meals, and other area locations throughout the week.\nResults from the survey will not be officially released until later in the year.", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00240.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 65, + "original_length": 2920, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.97, + "perplexity": 247.9, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "http://www.wildpackband.com/2013/04/john-sixx-benjamin-pack.html", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T04:26:52Z", + "digest": "sha1:MR2OMJBKIZKFEYY2AMX6GCSEYSRALDW5", + "length": 4822, + "nlines": 8, + "source_domain": "www.wildpackband.com", + "title": "The Wild Pack Band: John Sixx Benjamin Pack", + "raw_content": "John Sixx Benjamin Pack\nJohn Sixx Benjamin Pack was always creative and enjoyed chasing his passions, especially music. He promoted his first multiple band festival in 1985 when he was only 19 years old. During his early 20\u2019s he worked with several promoters on concerts for bands such as WASP, Night Ranger and Scorpions and other popular rock bands of the time. At the time, John also managed a handful of bands, securing opening positions in regional concerts, and produced a compilation album.\nIn 1986, he moved to Seattle working as a guitar technician, club DJ and eventually regional club manager for local nightclub chain, during which time, he made a move to publishing, publishing SLAM (Seattle Local Area Music), a music magazine that later became Face-to-Face magazine, a popular music, art and lifestyle magazine of Seattle. Also, publishing Scandalous, a trade magazine for the regional nightclub industry. During this time, he worked with some of the biggest names in the advertising industry including Absolut Vodka, Kenneth Cole, and Ray-Ban.\nAfter eight years, John relocating to Fresno, California with his new daughter to be closer to his family. He became heavily involved in the field of networking and Internet, specifically related to publishing. 1998 he created and hosted IMG2, a media group with a focus on Internet radio and marketing. One of John\u2019s first clients was a local Fox affiliate that owned both the top radio station and television station in the market. During a presentation, John impressed a radio exec so much, he was asked to host a radio program of technology. John accepted, and The Webmaster Show with John Pack was created. In 2000, after surviving Y2K on the air, The Webmaster Show was syndicated nationally, however by the end of 2001 the NASDAQ technology bubble burst, and the Webmaster Show and most of the show's Dot Com and high-tech companies went with it.\nFortunately, during the time John was hosting the Webmaster Show, he had begun publishing a local newspaper, The Fresno Weekly, which was in partnership with the same Fox affiliate, a relationship that was started with the radio. At the same time, he began publishing Ultimate Athlete, a magazine on the yet to be sanctioned Mixed Martial Arts industry, at the time called Ultimate Fighting. Ultimate Athlete magazine became John\u2019s focus with an expansion into series of live Ultimate Athlete sporting event promotions in venues across the United States, which were produced and sold to national rental video distributors.\nIn 2001, John met Rachel at a restaurant and popular bar that was adjacent to a live music venue, where John was promoting a concert series for the Fresno Weekly. It was chemistry from the start. In 2003, John and Rachel were married, not weeks after John had decided to leave Ultimate Athlete magazine and instead travel the United States and produce \u201cBad Breed TV\u201d, a DVD magazine on Mixed Martial Arts. The DVD series, which was sold to national retailers was produced by the two of them over the next two years. The DVD series took the two of them to gyms, arenas, swamps, and bars in 43 states and some of their exclusive footage on \u201cEntertainment Tonight\u201d. At the end of two years, they landed in Las Vegas.\nAfter a year, they deciding to move back to the coast. So, they packed up and moved to Ventura California, a short distance from John\u2019s hometown of Santa Barbara. For the following two years, John and Rachel became American Sailing Association certified so that they could charter sailboats. They enjoyed sailing so much, that they combined John\u2019s childhood passion for surfing and their new sailing passion, and began Channel Island Adventures; a surfing charter business. During John\u2019s mid-twenties he worked as a commercial diver, spending a lot of time around and between the Santa Barbara Channel Islands and as far south as Catalina. Their new business took surfers from around the world on multi-day trips to various surf breaks on these islands.\nIn 2005, John raced in the Annual Newport to Ensenada Yacht Race, which is a 125-nautical-mile International Yacht Race that is billed as the largest yacht race in the world. The experience was moving for John, but it also confirmed that he didn\u2019t want to experience anything as grand as that again without Rachel by his side. They decided they wanted to sail around the world, so the planning began. The plan was to sail the world for 5 years, then return to Mexico to build a place a retire early, Rachel would be 36 and John would be 47. On a trip to Baja California that same year, they discovered that not only was real estate in the US booming, but Mexico was also, and that they should consider moving to Mexico sooner than later. 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Marries Madeleine Chapelle.\n1815 The fall of the Napoleonic regime in Italy sharply reduces commissions.\n1819 Further submissions to the Paris Salon are greeted with little interest.\n1820 Moves to Florence.\n1824 Entry into Paris of the Future Charles V and the Vow of Louis XIII are exhibited at the Salon and are received favourably.\n1825 Ingres is awarded the Cross of the L\u00e9gion d\u2019Honneur. Opens a studio in Paris taking in students.\n1834 Again disappointed by the reception of a painting at the Salon, Ingres leaves Paris to become director of the Acad\u00e9mie de France in Rome.\n1840 Antiochus and Stratonice, started in 1807 is delivered to the Duc d\u2019Orl\u00e9ans in Paris. When exhibited, the picture is greeted with acclaim.\n1841 Returns to Paris.\n1849 Ingres becomes vice-president of the \u00c9cole des Beaux-Arts. In July his wife Madeleine dies. Ingres is devastated and ceases to work for some time.\n1852 His spirits are raised by his second marriage to Delphine Ramel.\nJean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres - Selected Works\n1805 Mademoiselle Caroline Rivi\u00e8re, Paris, Mus\u00e9e du Louvre\n1806 Napoleon on His Imperial Throne, Paris, Mus\u00e9e de l\u2019Arm\u00e9e\n1807 Portrait of Fran\u00e7ois Granet, Aix-en-Provence, Mus\u00e9e Granet\n1808 Oedipus and the Sphinx, Paris, Mus\u00e9e du Louvre\n1808 Woman Bathing (\u2019La Baigneuse de Valpin\u00e7on), Paris, Mus\u00e9e du Louvre\n1811 Jupiter and Thetis, Aix-en-Provence, Mus\u00e9e Granet\n1812 Monsieur de Norvins, London, National Gallery\n1813 The Dream of Ossian, Montauban, Mus\u00e9e Ingres\n1814 Joseph-Antoine Moltedo, New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art\n1814 La Grande Odalisque, Paris, Mus\u00e9e du Louvre\n1819 Ruggiero Rescuing Angelica, Paris, Mus\u00e9e du Louvre\n1826 Portrait of the Marquis de Pastoret, Chicago, Art Institute\n1826 Madame Marcotte de Sainte-Marie, Paris, Mus\u00e9e du Louvre\n1832 Portrait of Louis-Francois Bertin, Paris, Mus\u00e9e du Louvre\n1840 Odalisque with Slave, Cambridge MA, Fogg Art Museum\n1840 Antiochus and Stratonice, Chantilly, Mus\u00e9e Cond\u00e9\n1845 Comtesse d\u2019Haussonville, New York, Frick Collection\n1848 Venus Anadyom\u00e8ne, Chantilly, Mus\u00e9e Cond\u00e9\n1851\u201353 Princesse de Broglie, New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art\n1856 Mme Moitessier, London, National Gallery\n1856 The Source, Paris, Mus\u00e9e du Louvre\n1862 The Turkish Bath, Paris, Mus\u00e9e du Louvre\nJean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres - Featured Paintings\nComtesse d\u2019Haussonville\nLa Grand Odalisque", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00240.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 62, + "original_length": 3235, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.78, + "perplexity": 296.7, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "http://www.yourememberthat.com/search/Stanford/", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T03:38:42Z", + "digest": "sha1:JWVMEA24D5QGWQWECKONQ3SOSSRWLBEN", + "length": 5831, + "nlines": 15, + "source_domain": "www.yourememberthat.com", + "title": "YouRememberThat.Com - Taking You Back In Time... - Search", + "raw_content": "1980sCalifornia Stanford 1982\nIt was the wildest play in the history of college football. (Okay, it was the wildest play in the history of sports!) On November 20, 1982, on the final play of the Cal-Stanford game, the Golden Bears improvise their way to a touchdown through the Stanford defense--and the school's marching band!\nTags: California Stanford football\n2000sPatrick Swayze Says His Goodbyes\nActor Patrick Swayze has reportedly started saying goodbye to family and friends after learning his cancer has spread to his liver. The Dirty Dancing and Ghost star, who in January was told he had pancreatic cancer, has started preparing himself for death, reports say \"Patrick recently got word that the cancer had spread to his liver and that is what his doctors said would begin the countdown to the end,\" a source told National Enquirer magazine. \"Patrick knew it was coming because he was suffering increased weakness. \"At times, he was so weak that he could barely walk without feeling faint. Sometimes he feels out of breath and has to sit down.\" Swayze, 56, told Lisa, his wife of 33 years, and his brother Donny that he doesn't have long to live. \"Lisa phoned Donny in Los Angeles and told him he need to come to Chicago, where Patrick has been filming TV show The Beast. She was crying and scared Donny to death,\" the source told National Enquirer. \"Donny got the impression his brother was already on his deathbed because Lisa was saying Patrick wanted to say goodbye. She couldn't stop crying.\" Swayze has been undergoing pioneering Cyberknife radiotherapy at California's Stanford University Medical Centre, and had been making a steady recovery from the illness. He has finished filming The Beast in Chicago, where he has been putting in 12-hour days. He went to a party earlier this week to celebrate with Lisa and Donny. He stayed for one-and-a-quarter hours sitting on a couch the entire time, happily talking to people. Swayze's wife \"mingled a little more than Patrick did, leaving the couch to grab a drink or talk to people, but mostly she remained at his side\" a source told the US magazine. \"Patrick let the party-goers come to him, never circulating around the room and rarely even standing up, but when others did come to him, he chatted at length with many of them.\" In October, his production team reported Swayze had missed only a day and a half of work. \"I'm still fine to work, I haven't changed - oh, I have changed, what am I saying? It's a battle zone I go through. Chemo, no matter how you cut it, is hell on wheels,\" he told The New York Times.\nTags: patrick swayze says his goodbyes\n2000sJesse Jackson Paternity Scandal 2001\nThere's nothing more satisfying than seeing a prominent man of the cloth get caught with his pants down. In 2001, the Reverend Jesse Jackson was the latest in a long line of notable preachers to be caught doing some unholy business with thy rod and thy staff. Jackson, a father of five who had been married since 1962, admitted to fathering a daughter with Karin Stanford in 1999. He was 58 years old at the time. Stanford was the head of Jackson's Rainbow/PUSH office in Washington, D.C. The Rainbow/PUSH Coalition had paid several thousand dollars in hush money disguised as 'moving and contracting expenses' to Stanford. When the story broke, another $40,000 in hush money intended for Stanford was stopped. The scandal drove the omnipresent Jackson out of the public eye for several months, but, as this doctored photo shows, it didn't stop people from cackling.\nTags: Jesse Jackson paternity scandal\n1930s & Earlier1924 Olympic Rugby Final\nYou may have to watch this clip through the appropriate link. Nevertheless, here are a few minutes of the gold-medal rugby match from the 1924 Paris Olympics. It was the fourth time rugby had been part of the Summer Olympics. In 1924 only three countries entered teams: the United States, Romania, and France. In the round-robin event, France crushed Romania 61-3. The Americans blasted the Romanians 37-0 to set up a championship encounter against the French. The host French showed great animosity against the American team (that was mostly made up of students from Stanford University). The French refused to allow the Americans to have anything resembling a practice field, so they ended up working out in a local park. The Americans were kicked out of their hotel and also lost about $4,000 in valuables when their supposedly secure locker room was broken into by thieves. Undeterred, the Americans, despite being 5:1 underdogs in wagering, thumped the French 17-3 to take the gold medals. They needed a police escort to leave the stadium safely. One American substitute was knocked cold when he was struck over the head with a spectator's walking stick! 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A company also promotes its brand image. An entrepreneur can reach out to the international market through Internet. This form of promotion enables a businessman to explore newer and more business opportunities across seas and in far flung places. In this way, one can create a number of opportunities to expand the business of the corporation. The World Wide Web offers an interactive medium for the business owners to get in touch with their customers. It is also a means of advertising through which a merchant can build the relationship with the customers.\nWhat is Internet promotion?\nIt is also called online marketing, e-marketing or web marketing. This form of advertising involves e-commerce or banner advertising, affiliate promotion, websites and much more. A harmonious amalgam of all these forms of promotion enables a marketer to successfully promote the online business. You can also use e-commerce which is a platform where goods or products are directly sold either consumers or other businesses. The placement of orders and payment of transaction is operated through the Internet. The online banners are the advertisements displayed on this medium. You can effectively advertise the goods and services. It helps you to establish the online presence of the company. Website also establishes the presence of the company over the Internet. In other words, you can establish the position of your credibility through this medium.\nThere are many benefits accompanied with the online promotion. It enables a merchant to establish a position of credibility and authenticity through company website. You can easily get in touch with the customers and convert the leads into sales through email marketing. You can explore new markets and enlarge the market share. Tapping the potential of Internet medium bears fruitful results.\nThe Internet medium can draw only those customers who use this medium. The connection problems or complicated company sites are a few of the barriers. The buyers are unable to touch or try the product as a result of which they can be discouraged from purchasing. 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Loysville is operated by PA\u2019s Bureau of Juvenile Justice Services.A Philadelphia native, T has been in residential placement off and on since he was 11. \u201cI was the oldest of four and we lived in the projects,\u201d he said. \u201cMy mother had gotten laid off and I didn\u2019t want to see her struggle. 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The strategy of the firm is to analyze the different methods that are used by the different credit bureaus that determine a person\u2019s credit score.\nSome of the factors that the Credit People look over include credit type ratios, debt to income ratios, scoring models from the credit bureaus, as well as your credit history.\nThe Credit People focuses their repair services on improving these models and ratios. The analytic approach that the company uses is what they believe to be the reason for their success.\nLongevity in Credit Repair Bussiness\nAfter through review process we didn't find any major cons.\nGet Free Consultations at Credit People\nWhile most credit repair service companies require you to provide your credit reports to them, the Credit People will obtain the reports for you. This makes working with them a bit easier. The Credit People provide a number of credit services including interventions.\nThis means that the company works with the credit bureaus, but also directly with the creditors. There is also a client portal available that allows clients to watch the work that is being performed on their accounts and any progress that is being made.\nWhile it is possible to fix your own credit, trying to do so can be complicated. Credit bureaus typically will only respond to a dispute letter that is phrased correctly. The letters also need to raise the exact problems that will require the bureau to take action on.\nThe Credit People point out on their website that if you are not familiar with the right words to use, you may not get the results that you desire. One of the benefits of working with this company is that you get to work with a veteran in the credit repair industry.\nIt is also mentioned on the company website that almost 80 percent of credit reports contain an error or errors that are bad enough to cause credit to be denied. Over half of the reports also contain incorrect personal information, which can be a basis for getting a negative item removed.\nReports Have Errors\nThese errors often result in credit scores being unfairly lowered. Using a credit repair service such as the Credit People will allow you to get these mistakes corrected, have negative items removed, and enjoy an increase in your credit score.\nThe client portal maintained by the company is available all day every day. There is also customer service line that is always available. This means that clients of the Credit People can access information about their accounts at any time and can also see the progress that the firm is making in repairing their accounts.\nThe company offers a membership trial period of seven days for the price of $19. After the initial trial period there are 2 payment options available. The first plan requires that the clients pay $59 a month. There is no premium service available, which means that all of the features are provided for the basic price. This also means that all clients receive the same level of services.\nThe Credit People also offer the option of signing up for six months of service for the price of $299, which is equal to around $50 a month.\nThe Credit People offer a guarantee to their customers. This guarantee states that if a customer is not satisfied with the service for any reason, they can cancel their service and not be charged the current month\u2019s fees. The prior month's fees will also be refunded.\nThis credit repair firm currently has an A- rating from the BBB. The reason for this rating is because Credit People is rather new credit repair company and don`t have many reviews and complaints yet.\nAccording to the company, most clients will begin to see results from the services within the first month and a half to two months. However, it is important to note that this does not take into account how long it takes for optimal results to be delivered.\nThe Credit People take an analytic approach to correcting their clients credit scores. This approach can be extremely beneficial. Using the credit service to approach the credit bureaus and creditors can be the best way for a person to get the results they need in order to improve their credit scores.\nThe flat payment plan offered by the company is quite convenient as well. You know exactly what you are going to pay each month in order to receive these services.\nCustomer service is available at all times and clients also have access to a portal that will show the exactly what progress is being made on their accounts. Another positive to consider is that the company has been in business for more than fourteen years.\nWith that being said, there are some reservations about using the Credit People for your credit repair services. The A- rating given to the company by the Better Business Bureau is something that definitely needs to be considered.\nOverall, it appears that the company has successfully improved credit scores for many of their clients. 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[Read More\u2026]\nLymphocytes are white blood cells that are also one of the body's main types of immune cells. They are made in the bone marrow and found in the blood and lymph tissue.\nThe immune system is a complex network of cells known as immune cells that include lymphocytes. These cells work together to defend the body against foreign substances, such as bacteria, viruses, and cancer cells that can threaten its functioning.\nIn this article, we look at different types of lymphocytes, what normal levels to have in the blood are, and what happens if levels get too low or too high.\nTypes of lymphocytes\nLymphocytes are white blood cells that are part of the immune system.\nThere are two categories of lymphocytes known as B lymphocytes and T lymphocytes. These are commonly referred to as B cells and T cells.\nBoth types originate from stem cells in the bone marrow. From there, some cells travel to the thymus, where they become T cells. Others remain in the bone marrow, where they become B cells.\nThe job of B cells is to make antibodies, which are proteins produced by the immune system to fight foreign substances known as antigens.\nEach B cell is set to make one specific antibody. Each antibody matches an antigen in the same way that a key matches a lock, and when this happens, the antigen is marked for destruction.\nThe job of T cells is to help the body kill cancer cells and control the immune response to foreign substances. They do this by destroying cells in the body that have been taken over by viruses or become cancerous.\nA third type of lymphocyte, known as a natural killer or NK cell, comes from the same place as B and T cells. NK cells respond quickly to several foreign substances and are specialized in killing cancer cells and virus-infected cells.\nThere are many reasons why someone might have a high white blood cell count. Learn more about 10 of them with this article.\nThere are different types of B cells and T cells that have specific roles in the body and the immune system.\nMemory B cells circulate in the body to start a fast antibody response when they find a foreign substance. They remain in the body for decades and become memory cells, which remember previously found antigens and help the immune system respond faster to future attacks.\nRegulatory B cells or Bregs make up around 0.5 percent of all B cells in healthy people. Although few in number, they have a vital role to play.\nBregs have protective anti-inflammatory effects in the body and stop lymphocytes that cause inflammation. They also interact with several other immune cells and promote the production of regulatory T cells or Tregs.\nKiller or cytotoxic T cells scan the surface of cells in the body to see if they have become infected with germs, or if they have turned cancerous. If so, they kill these cells.\nHelper T cells \"help\" other cells in the immune system to start and control the immune response against foreign substances.\nThere are different types of helper T cells, and some are more effective than others against different types of germs.\nFor instance, a Th1 cell is more effective against germs that cause infection inside other cells, such as bacteria and viruses, while a Th2 cell is more effective against germs that cause infection outside of cells, such as certain bacteria and parasites.\nRegulatory T cells or Tregs\nTregs control or suppress other cells in the immune system. They have both helpful and harmful effects.\nThey maintain tolerance to germs, prevent autoimmune diseases, and limit inflammatory diseases. But they can also suppress the immune system from doing its job against certain antigens and tumors.\nMemory T cells protect the body against previously found antigens. They live for a long time after an infection is over, helping the immune system to remember previous infections.\nIf the same germ enters the body a second time, memory T cells remember it and quickly multiply, helping the body to fight it more quickly.\nNatural killer T cells are a mixed group of T cells that share characteristics of both T cells and natural killer cells. They can influence other immune cells and control immune responses against substances in the body that trigger an immune response.\nNormal ranges and levels\nLymphocyte levels can change according to a person's race, gender, location, and lifestyle habits.\nThe normal lymphocyte range in adults is between 1,000 and 4,800 lymphocytes in 1 microliter (\u00b5L) of blood. In children, the normal range is between 3,000 and 9,500 lymphocytes in 1 \u00b5L of blood.\nUnusually high or low lymphocyte counts can be a sign of disease.\nWhat does it mean if levels are high?\nA high level of lymphocytes may be an indication of lymphocytosis, which is associated with inflammatory bowel disease.\nLymphocyte counts above the normal range can be a harmless and temporary situation due to the body's normal response to an infection or inflammatory condition.\nBut a high level of lymphocytes can also be a sign of lymphocytosis, which is a more serious condition.\nLymphocytosis is frequently associated with chronic infections, some blood cancers, and with autoimmune diseases, such as inflammatory bowel disease.\nIn adults, lymphocytosis usually corresponds to a lymphocyte count higher than 3,000 lymphocytes in 1 \u00b5L of blood. In children, the lymphocyte count would be around 9,000 lymphocytes in 1 \u00b5L of blood, although this value can change with age.\nWhat does it mean if levels are low?\nLymphocyte counts below the normal range can also be temporary. They can occur after a cold or another infection, or be caused by intense physical exercise, severe stress, or malnutrition.\nA low level can also be a sign of a condition known as lymphocytopenia or lymphopenia.\nLymphocytopenia can be inherited, or it can be acquired alongside certain diseases, including:\nrare inherited diseases, such as ataxia-telangiectasia\nnerve diseases, such as multiple sclerosis\nAIDS, or other infectious diseases\nLymphocytopenia can also be a side effect of medications or some other medical treatments.\nLymphocyte counts that signal lymphocytopenia vary for adults and children. They are usually less than 1,000 lymphocytes in 1 \u00b5L of blood for adults and less than 3,000 lymphocytes in 1 \u00b5L of blood for children.\nWhat is a B and T cell screen?\nA blood test that counts how many lymphocytes are in a person's blood is called a B and T cell screen. In this test, the levels of the main types of white blood cells in the body are measured.\nLymphocyte count is one part of a larger whole blood test called a complete blood count (CBC). A CBC can be requested by doctors if they suspect that a disease or infection is present.\nA sample of the bone marrow can also be used instead of blood in some cases.\nHaving a cold can result in a low lymphocyte count.\nThe B and T cell screen will give an estimate of the amount of T and B cells in the blood.\nResults can indicate a normal cell count or an abnormal cell count, the latter pointing to the possible presence of a disease. In this case, the doctor will likely ask for other tests to confirm a diagnosis.\nT cell counts above the normal range can indicate any of the following conditions:\nsexually transmitted disease, such as syphilis\nviral infection, such as infectious mononucleosis\ninfection caused by a parasite, such as toxoplasmosis\ntuberculosis, a disease that affects the lungs and other organs\ncancer of the white blood cells\ncancer of the blood, starting in the bone marrow\nB cell counts above the normal range can indicate:\na genetic disease known as DiGeorge syndrome\na type of cancer called Waldenstrom macroglobulinemia\nT cell counts below the normal range can indicate:\na disease present from birth\nan acquired T cell deficiency disease, such as HIV, which can progress to AIDS or HTLV-1\nB cell counts below the normal range can indicate:\nHIV or another disease that weakens the immune system\nUnusually high or low lymphocyte counts may cause no signs, symptoms, or serious problems on their own. They can be the body's normal response to an infection, inflammatory condition, or other unusual condition, and will return to normal levels after some time.\nIf lymphocyte counts remain high or low over time, they could be a sign of a health condition and may be diagnosed as lymphocytopenia or lymphocytosis. 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A thoroughly modern city with a long and famous past, Athens is now a cosmopolitan capital of some 4 million people. Although reminders of its glorious history are everywhere, Athens is a city facing very modern issues including major political and economic crises that have shaken the entire nation of Greece and affected the EU as well. Greece is staunchly Orthodox, with deeply ingrained values and traditions. As is the case in many countries in this region, religion and nationality are very intertwined. Greeks are proud of their country and their heritage. YWAM has a long history of Read More\nThis gracious and beautiful city is the second largest in Poland and an important hub of cultural and artistic expression. Considered the unofficial cultural capital of Poland, it is a city filled with gorgeous architecture, parks, museums and theaters. It is a major economic hub and hosts many universities and about 170,000 students. 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She is lamenting the fact that she has to retake the test the next day when she walks past retired paleontologist Miss Lernin\u2019s house. Miss Lernin pops her head out of her recycling bin and offers to teach Ronnie about dinosaurs. All Ronnie has to do is climb into the recycling bin with her for an \u201cimmersive\u201d lesson.\nBecause it\u2019s a graphic novel, Ronnie jumps into the recycling bin without hesitation (yuck!). She discovers that the recycling bin is actually a Time Tunnel that will transport her and Miss Lernin back to dinosaur times. They travel using \u201cScience Magic\u201d (this magic also protects them from harm and lets them breathe underwater \u2013 I knew I should have studied science in university instead of music!).\nAnd so begins their travels through the three main periods of the Mesozoic Era, with a few stops at Miss Lernin\u2019s Learning Center along the way. They meet all of the dinosaurs I can name, and many, many I\u2019ve never heard of!\nMiss Lernin separates the dinosaurs they meet into sauropods and theropods, in addition to telling Ronnie their names. By the time Ronnie and Miss Lernin reach the \u201cEarly-ish, Almost Middle Cretaceous\u201d Period, Ronnie is also pointing out which dinosaurs are sauropods and which are theropods.\nI have to say, I LOVE Miss Lernin! If we all had the same passion for our chosen careers as she does, the world would be a happy and enthusiastic place. When she successfully teaches Ronnie the concept of phylogenetic trees, excitement screams from her fist-pump to her announcement that phylogenetic trees are awesome!\nMiss Lernin doesn\u2019t only show dinosaurs to Ronnie. At each stop in their journey, Miss Lernin also shows Ronnie the insects and mammals that exist at that time.\nRonnie\u2019s reaction to insects is a lot like mine: When they hit the insects of the Late Jurassic period, Ronnie remarks, \u201cOh . . . sigh. Insects again.\u201d Ever enthusiastic, Miss Lernin responds, \u201cI think you mean \u2018Hooray! Insects again!\u2019 . . .\u201d Just wonderful!\nEvery once in a while, the insects and mammals in Dinosaur Empire! jump in with a comment about what is happening. These little comments often made me laugh out loud as I was reading the book!\nI received an advanced reader copy of this book in exchange for my unbiased review. We\u2019ll be watching for the next book in the Earth Before Us series. What a great way to learn science! Dinosaur Empire! was a fabulous start to the series.\nAbby Howard writes two online comics: Junior Scientist Power Hour and The Last Halloween. Monthly subscribers can follow her on Patreon.\nDinosaur Empire! will be released on August 1, 2017.\nJune 27, 2017 2cookscraftingbooks1 Comment\nI was delighted to be one of the recipients of Todd Burleson\u2019s $500 gifts this year! Warner Enhanced Elementary School is a community school located in the center of historic East Nashville. It is a wonderful asset to the area. It serves children Pre-K through 4th Grade and gives them a solid foundation for middle school.\nWith Todd\u2019s gift, Warner\u2019s Kindergarten classes were able to boost up their classroom libraries so that they will be full of new books when students return in August.\nThank-you, Todd!\nSource: Sharing the Love!\nThe Librarian Giveaway\nIt\u2019s time for another giveaway! The Librarian, by Christy Sloat, was published on June 17, 2017, and it sounds amazing! Here\u2019s the description of the story:\nHe\u2019s from 1892 England, she\u2019s in a small library in 2017. And that\u2019s just the start of their troubles.\nEmme never meant to stay in Maine. She\u2019d come only to find a librarian for her Gram\u2019s library, a custodian for the collection of mysterious books she\u2019d promised to protect. On a dark, wintery night, alone in the library, she takes her first glance into one of the antique novels and finds herself transported to 1892 England staring into the eyes of handsome and dashing hero Jack Ridgewell. As each chapter passes she learns you can truly fall in love with a character in a book, that book boyfriends are real and Emme must choose between the real world, and his.\nWhen the last page is read he\u2019s gone and Emme feels the cold loneliness of lost love. Will she find Jack again, or will their love be forever lost? The answer lies within the pages\u2026\nCheck out her blog or find her on Instagram, Facebook or Twitter.\nI spent the rest of the day filing paperwork for the funding process and preparing to open the library doors on Monday morning. I told Rose and Becca to spread the word. Tarryn had decided to move her smaller items in already, and she was asleep by nine the same night. It didn\u2019t seem strange to me that I had a roommate; instead it made me feel comfortable. I never lived alone before, and I would feel lonely otherwise. Tarryn was quiet, but I knew in time she\u2019d get used to me and I\u2019d get used to her. We just needed to get to know each other first.\nOnce I was done with the paperwork, I filed the books that were left on the shelf from when Gram was still here. As I placed the classic books on the correct shelves, I felt a longing to finish reading my mysterious book in my nook.\nSo, instead of going to bed at a decent hour, I climbed into my cozy space and picked the book back up. I didn\u2019t open it right away. Instead I inspected the outside for any sort of title. I found nothing of the sort. I flipped to the title page once more, trying to find my place, and that\u2019s when I saw the word on the page. It was just a simple \u201cThe\u201d typed out on the once blank title page. I ran my finger across it and realized it was printed in ink as if the press had done it. I was sure the night before it was blank, but then again, I was sure my dream about being with a man was real. So I wasn\u2019t really a reliable source at the moment.\nI found the spot where I ended with a dog-eared page. I absolutely hated doing this to the book and didn\u2019t remember it at all. I usually had a nice bookmark, but this seemed to be the only thing to mark the page before I had fallen asleep. Running my fingers across the crease at the corner of the page, I settled back and started reading.\nI woke up once again face down, this time I was in grass. I blinked my eyes and felt the blades of grass tickling my nose and lips. I pulled myself up and took a deep breath. I looked around and saw the fields upon which I had dreamt of the night before. I was back in England. I was dreaming the same dream. How odd.\nThere were times when I had thought I had the same dream over and over again, to only find out that it was my mind playing tricks on me. This was no mistake. I was, once again, in the same place.\n\u201cEmmeline, are you all right?\u201d I looked up and blocked the sun from my eyes. The man from before was standing in front of me. \u201cYou \u2026 you disappeared. It happened so fast that I fear I cannot explain to you how it happened. Now you\u2019re here once again.\u201d He sounded really confused and, to put it lightly, so was I.\nThis dream felt way too real. It was exactly like before. So real and tangible that I couldn\u2019t explain it even if I tried.\n\u201cI \u2026 I don\u2019t know how I\u2019m here again,\u201d I mumbled.\nHe reached out to steady me as I swayed to the side. \u201cYou\u2019ve been gone for days. I worried I was going mad, that your presence was one of my imaginings. I dared not to speak a word to anyone about it. I have to admit, Emmeline, I\u2019ve been going slightly crazed since I saw you last.\u201d\nHis hair was disheveled and he had grown a slight beard that only enhanced the sexiness of his strong jawline. His deep set blue-green eyes looked weary, and for that I felt awful.\nMy sudden disappearance had made him fall apart, that was apparent.\n\u201cI\u2019ll tell you, I feel like I\u2019m going crazy too. Trust me,\u201d I admitted. \u201cCan we sit somewhere? Out of the sun?\u201d\nHe held my arm and led me to a tree in the center of the field. Once underneath the large tree, I felt instantly better. I looked down at my clothes and saw that I was, once again, in my own clothes. This time a little better than before. I was wearing yoga pants and an old T-shirt.\n\u201cI can\u2019t explain how or why I\u2019m here. Hell, I don\u2019t even know your name, but I\u2019m here again and I\u2019m beginning to think that this isn\u2019t a dream. That I\u2019m really here, with you,\u201d I said as I touched his arm. \u201cI\u2019m not from \u2026 here.\u201d\nI didn\u2019t know how to explain it to him, but I did the best any girl who was somehow traveling through time could. I didn\u2019t have answers or explanations, but I had a gut feeling.\n\u201cI\u2019m from a different time as you. As you can tell by my lovely clothing, I\u2019m not from 1893.\u201d\nHe placed his fingers on my lips, stopping me, while shaking his head.\n\u201cThis isn\u2019t right, Emmeline. Trickery at a time like this isn\u2019t fair,\u201d he said as he stood up fast. \u201cI am leaving soon. I shall not have you doing this to me.\u201d\nMy mouth fell open in shock and I stood. \u201cDo something to you? Listen here, buddy, I didn\u2019t ask for this. I sat down to read a book and then boom, I\u2019m stuck in England with a stranger.\u201d\nI pointed at myself. \u201cLook at me. Do I really look like I belong here?\u201d\nHe looked at my clothing and up to my hair, and I could see his cheeks redden.\n\u201cYou are dressed very indecent, I suppose. No woman I\u2019ve ever met wears trousers. Nor do they wear clothing that fitting.\u201d\nI laughed. He thought this was indecent, he should see some of the dresses I had worn to parties. They were nothing like the dresses he was used to seeing on a woman. We absolutely didn\u2019t dress ladylike anymore. My sexy little black dress that currently hung in my closet would definitely shock some of the people of this era for sure.\n\u201cI don\u2019t know why I\u2019m here. I\u2019m absolutely not trying to, I don\u2019t know, hurt you or anything. I don\u2019t know how to go home.\u201d I slumped back against the tree. \u201cI wish that I could prove to you that I\u2019m not lying to you, but I cannot. You\u2019ll have to just believe me, I guess.\u201d It was as simple as that. He could either believe this bat-shit crazy explanation or not. One way or another, I didn\u2019t care. I just wanted to go home.\n\u201cI don\u2019t know why, Emmeline, but I feel as if I should say that I do believe you.\u201d He ran a hand through his thick hair, mussing it up. \u201cI just don\u2019t know how else to explain your abrupt presence. One minute you are here and the next you\u2019re disappearing into thin air. I read many books on fiction, so I suppose it could be true.\u201d\n\u201cWell, I may know someone who knows something. She works for the lucky bastard that owns that house,\u201d I told him pointing to the house where Nancy was the last time I saw her. She was probably cooking something again for her master.\nHe smiled. \u201cThat house?\u201d\n\u201cYes. Her name is Nancy.\u201d\n\u201cAh. Nancy. And who is this Nancy woman you speak of?\u201d He continued to smile as if this was a joke, but I ignored it.\n\u201cShe\u2019s a cook. I met her on my last visit here,\u201d I explained. \u201cShe\u2019s not the nicest person I\u2019ve ever met, but I think she has some answers.\u201d\n\u201cI must argue that Miss Nancy is more than a cook. She\u2019s also the lady upon with which I trust my household while I\u2019m gone. She\u2019s more of an aunt than a housekeeper,\u201d he said as he took my hand in his. \u201cIt\u2019s very nice to finally introduce myself to you, Emmeline Bailey. I\u2019m Jack Ridgewell or you may just call me the lucky bastard.\u201d\nIntrigued yet? You can get your own copy of The Librarian ebook by entering the giveaway here.\nThe Librarian is also available at Amazon.com and Barnes & Noble.\nThe World\u2019s Greatest Chocolate-Covered Pork Chops\nWhen I started reading a book about a child culinary prodigy who wanted to open a restaurant, I didn\u2019t know what to expect. Little did I know that I was about to receive life lessons for my own workaholic life! Ryan K. Sager\u2019s The World\u2019s Greatest Chocolate-Covered Pork Chops tells the tale of Zoey Kate, child chef extraordinaire. Twelve year-old Zoey Kate creates culinary masterpieces that you can\u2019t get anywhere else, such as Lobster Eggs Benedict, Cinnamon Bacon Octopus Pho, and, of course, Chocolate-Covered Pork Chops.\nZoey\u2019s greatest wish is to share her cooking with all seven billion people in the world. But she\u2019ll settle for opening the greatest restaurant in San Francisco\u2014for now.\nOpening a restaurant is harder than Zoey expected. She has to convince a bank to loan her start-up money, find the perfect location, navigate the world of business ownership, and get her parents\u2019 permission! To make matters even more challenging, Zoey is first threatened, then sabotaged, by one of the great chefs in the city.\nFortunately, Zoey has great friends who she can lean on, including Dallin Caraway. Dallin is the biggest kid on his football team, but his coach doesn\u2019t let him play during games.\nAnd here is where the life lessons come in. As Zoey builds Zoeylicious, her fabulous restaurant on wheels, she has to make choices between her friends and her career. Boy, that really hit home for me! I didn\u2019t expect to learn anything from Zoey Kate (except maybe how to make some interesting food), but I recognized those difficult family/friends versus work conflicts in my own life. Just like Zoey, I wonder if I\u2019ve always made the right choice . . .\nThe World\u2019s Greatest Chocolate-Covered Pork Chops goes on sale tomorrow, so you can pick up a copy to see if anyone goes to Zoey\u2019s trolley-restaurant, if the sabotage succeeds, and if Zoey chooses friendship over fame. I received an advanced reader copy of this book in exchange for my unbiased review.\nLearn more about Ryan K. Sager at his website: www.ryanksager.com.\nMr. Sager admits on his website that he is not a good cook, and that he finds cooking overwhelming and scary. But he has included a recipe for Chocolate-Covered Pork Chops in the back of his book. Should you try it? Yes! A chef from New York City created the recipe just for this book! How cool is that???\n10 Great Books About Dads\nJune 18, 2017 2cookscraftingbooksLeave a comment\nIt\u2019s Father\u2019s Day! The link below has some great books about dads that you can read with your kids today:\nSource: 10 Great Books About Dads", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00240.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 162, + "original_length": 23083, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.97, + "perplexity": 325.0, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "https://a43design.com/cache-creek-redmond/", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T03:48:39Z", + "digest": "sha1:BBX7NIQ44JBDX5OQYNAM2GSQM3AZ7PVZ", + "length": 934, + "nlines": 4, + "source_domain": "a43design.com", + "title": "Cache Creek & Redmond \u2013 A43 Architecture", + "raw_content": "Posted on October 1, 2018 October 16, 2018 by gliffen\nThis project began with a small single family home on a corner lot in East Jackson. The clients were considering a remodel of the existing structure but ultimately decided that new construction was the best route. (The existing house was fortunately put on a trailer and hauled to Idaho to continue serving our housing shortage.)\nThe clients were drawn to the \u201cmountain modern\u201d homes that have become so popular in ski towns, especially Jackson. The approach was to simplify the detailing and let the forms and textures govern the aesthetic. In an effort to maximize access to Grand Teton views, the home was situated as far south and up the slope as possible. This allowed the upstairs living space to look over the homes below. 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Young Research Library Department of Special Collections\nBy Warren Liu\nJune 19, 2012 | Karen Tei Yamashita, L.A. Riots, Rodney King, Tropic of Orange\nAs Mike Davis notes in Ecology of Fear (2000), Los Angeles is a city with a \u201cpropensity for spectacular disaster,\u201d both real and imagined. Even during those rare periods when the city is actually disaster free, it nonetheless faces constant destruction in movies, on television, and in books; in the collective imagination, the city burns and burns. As Davis suggests, the \u201cLos Angeles\u201d of popular culture is a symbolic stand-in for persistent and unresolved national unease about issues of race and class. To see the city repeatedly destroyed is thus an act of exorcism, the imagined disasters providing momentary respite from our anxieties and the truth they hide: we\u2019ve already seen\u2014again and again\u2014the inevitable results of our refusal to enact serious and systematic challenges to the exploitation and inequality that underwrite those anxieties in the first place.\nThis helps explain why those inevitable results are always both shocking and predictable. This past April, which marked the twentieth anniversary of the L.A. Riots, I tuned in to KCRW 89.9\u2019s hive-mind act of remembrance, experiencing it all over again in the disembodied voices coming over the airwaves (what \u201cit\u201d is, or was, depends on who you ask, but take your pick: the Rodney King riots, an uprising, civil unrest, Sa-I-Gu...). Behind each memory is a nagging set of questions, sometimes voiced, sometimes not: Should I still be afraid? Have we figured out the problem yet? Will we ever figure out the problem? Will it happen again? Given the patterns and precedents\u2014think Watts, think Sleepy Lagoon\u2014one can\u2019t help but answer, even if unwillingly: of course. Of course it\u2019s going to happen again. Why isn\u2019t it happening all the time?\nKaren Tei Yamashita\u2019s 1997 novel Tropic of Orange proposes one possible answer to this last question, and it seems fitting, as we remember the riots, to review that work\u2019s fascinating re-scripting of our recurrent narratives of Los Angeles Armageddon. If, following Davis, most filmic and novelistic representations of Los Angeles\u2019s destruction are essentially futile acts of collective navel-gazing, then Yamashita\u2019s novel directs our gaze to navels of a different sort. The navels in question are oranges, and the novel features two, both of them rather unusual.\nFor, although there are seven main characters in Yamashita\u2019s novel, the real stars are the oranges. As the novel opens, the first orange has grown in such a way as to embed within it\u2014like a tree-limb around an electric wire\u2014the Tropic of Cancer, which has somehow become physically solid and eerily elastic. As the orange moves north, so too does the Tropic, bringing along with it all the various peoples, products, and even histories of the global south. The second orange, also originating from South America, is laced with a concentrated form of liquefied cocaine (\u201cconcentrated\u201d o.j. of an entirely different order) with the capacity to produce an ecstatic high, of which the only downside is sudden death. This second orange, it turns out, is merely one of an unspecified number of citric containers\u2014a brilliantly innovative vessel for the storage and transport of narcotics never intended for distribution in their raw form.\nFollowing the movement of these oranges, Yamashita\u2019s novel makes tangible the tangled, unseen connections between geography and (drug) traffic, politics and palm trees\u2014that for most of us remain largely invisible. The tangling is both literal and figurative. The Tropic moves north, but as it does, it also stretches northward the ostensible border between the United States and Mexico, figuratively snarling the boundaries of both geopolitical states and economic territories. Also tangled is the novel\u2019s web of sub-plots, which includes a city-wide aural hallucination, climaxing in the synchronized inflation of countless air-bags; an epic, fiery pileup jamming one of the freeway system\u2019s main arteries; and, perhaps strangest of all, a surreal lucha libre match between \u201cEl Gran Mojado\u201d (\u201cThe Big Wetback\u201d) and \u201cSUPERNAFTA.\u201d Yamashita asks us to decide which of these are truly disasters, and which ones are simply spectacular distractions.\nIt\u2019s not an easy judgment to make, and one of the novel\u2019s strengths is its uneasy and ambiguous conclusion or conclusions (there\u2019s more than one way to read this book, as it provides both a traditional table of contents and an alternate \u201chypercontexts\u201d page). While much of the pleasure in reading Tropic of Orange lies in seeing how skillfully Yamashita plots its disparate storylines into a cohesive whole, the meaning behind such careful \u201cplotting\u201d is ultimately left unexplained. Although the \u201chypercontexts\u201d page lays bare almost every element of the novel\u2019s formal structure, exposing the intricacies of its plot (without being a part of the plot itself), it\u2019s not entirely clear why Yamashita grants this holistic overview to the reader. As is often the case with magical realism, however, it\u2019s the inversion of terms that provides some clue to the novel\u2019s underlying message. Indeed, without giving too much away, what seems at first the most magical plotline becomes, by its conclusion, the novel\u2019s most depressingly real (though not realistic) disaster. And in contrast, what appears to be the more realistic disaster turns out to be simply another instance of magical, wishful thinking.\nOn the face of it, it doesn\u2019t seem entirely delusional to ask a question like, \u201cCan we all get along?\u201d Most memorably posed by Rodney King after the 1992 riots, the question demonstrates a startling na\u00efvete; its idealistic hopefulness almost masks the underlying anxiety of its correlate questions: \u201cWhen will it happen again? Why isn\u2019t it happening all the time?\u201d Karen Tei Yamashita\u2019s Tropic of Orange asks us to consider these questions from an oddly structural perspective. Indeed, we see what her characters simply cannot: their own reproduction as subjects caught in an exploitative economic system. In so doing, the novel both illuminates the mechanisms that prevent us from getting along, and dramatizes how deeply dependent capitalism\u2019s survival remains upon our continuing to not get along (even if that leads to the occasional riot here and there). Read in the context of post-1992 Los Angeles, Yamashita\u2019s novel almost seems like science fiction, for what it really gives us is a momentary utopia: a week in which the entirety of the world system becomes chaotically entangled, unveiled, and yes, even vulnerable. Wishful thinking, you might call it. I\u2019d call it magic, of the best kind.\nWarren Liu is an Assistant Professor of English at Scripps College in Claremont, California.\nTags: Karen Tei Yamashita, L.A. 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Photo courtesy Manan Ahmed.\nBy Kavi K.\nAugust 14, 2013 | Kavi K, Soman Chainani, South Asian, The School for Good and Evil, children's book, children's literature, fairytale, fantasy\nOver in our Interviews section, Soman Chainani, author of The School for Good and Evil, shared some advice for kid writers in his conversation with V.V. Ganeshananthan:\n\u201cKids are always told to write a lot and just keep writing, but I think that\u2019s silly. I\u2019d much rather them write one thing over and over until it\u2019s perfect. What I tell kids is, when you finish a story, read it to your friends, read it to your parents, read it to your dog. And get suggestions, feedback, emotional reaction, and keep rewriting it. That\u2019s the only way to get better. No one gets better by writing endless first drafts.\u201d\n10-year-old writer Kavi K offers his take on Chainani\u2019s bestselling fairy-tale adventure:\nIn The School for Good and Evil, Agatha and Sophie live in Gavaldon, a town that believes in fairy tales. They believe that someone entitled \u201cThe School Master\u201d has been kidnapping two children\u2014one beautiful and good, the other an outcast at birth\u2014each year for 200 years to take to the School for Good and Evil, where kids are trained to be either a villain or a hero in a fairy tale. Sophie, a young girl that cares mostly about beauty, wishes to be whisked away so that she can live out her \u201cHappily Ever After;\u201d whereas Agatha, a grouchy, \u201cugly\u201d girl, does not believe in the school, nor wants to be taken there. Yet, they are both kidnapped. Sophie expects herself to be in the school for Good, and anticipates Agatha to be put in Evil. The two end up getting switched: Agatha is dropped in Good and Sophie in Evil. While both think in the beginning that it was a mistake, they slowly start to question their original prediction.\nBy the end of The School for Good and Evil, it becomes more recognizable why the two were placed in schools they didn\u2019t expect to be in. They meet Tedros, King Arthur\u2019s son, and while they both want him to kiss Sophie so the two can go home, he finds himself attracted to Agatha instead. He then asks Agatha to the Snow Ball, the school\u2019s most awaited event of the year. Driven by jealousy and the need for vengeance, Sophie finds that her fairy tale\u2019s nemesis is not Tedros, but Agatha. Teamed up with Hester, Anadil, and Dot, her roommates, Sophie goes rogue, and crashes the Circus of Talents, where every student, both Good and Evil, displays his or her best talents. After casting a \u2018Petrification Spell\u2019 on the teachers that makes them stay in whatever position they\u2019re in until the caster takes it off, Sophie destroys Good, trying to kill Agatha. The conflict gets so tense that even the School Master gets involved and there are many exciting and shocking things, until the end.\nI highly enjoyed this book, though it is directed mainly toward female readers. It is a book that has you turning to the next page constantly once you start reading. One of my favorite parts of the book was the way both Agatha and Sophie changed, and how the other characters developed in the story. 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An ambitious project of Montgomery County, Maryland, and the American Film Institute, the AFI Silver Theatre and Cultural Center is the anchor of an unprecedented redevelopment effort.\nTaking maximum advantage of its location \u2014 in an extraordinarily diverse corner of the world, just a few blocks from the nation's capital \u2014 the AFI Silver will grace its stages with policy makers, elected officials, civic and military leaders, and, of course, a wide variety of artists from film and other artistic disciplines. Furthering AFI's mission of advancing and preserving the art of the moving image, all of the AFI Silver's screenings will be of the highest artistic quality. 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His team,The Birding Ecotours Youth Africa Birders, raised the most money from sponsors. Well done guys, magnificent effort. See their story here.\nVultures need you\nBirdLife International is promoting a public consultation on a new draft Multi-Species Action Plan to conserve African-Eurasian Vultures, launched by the Coordinating Unit of the Convention on Migratory Species (CMS) Raptors MOU, in collaboration with BirdLife International, Vulture Conservation Foundation and the IUCN Vulture Specialist Group. (The CMS Raptors MoU is the Memorandum of Understanding on the Conservation of Migratory Birds of Prey in Africa and Eurasia\u2014an international, legally non-binding agreement to protect migratory birds of prey.).\n\u2018New\u2019 species of tern discovered\nThe Royal Tern, Thalasseus maximus, previously thought to have two subspecies \u2013 \u2018maximus\u2019 (found in the Americas) and the \u2018albididorsalis\u2019 (found in parts of West Africa).\nBut wildlife conservation teams in The Gambia long-suspected that the West African birds were distinct, and now scientists at the University of Aberdeen have used DNA analysis to show they are not subspecies of the same bird but two distinct species.\nFrom Rutland UK to the world\nBirdfair, the annual British celebration of birdwatching, raised an incredible \u00a3350,000 last year at its 2016 event, and now this special funding is now going to the protection of IBAs in danger in Africa. This money will not only go towards the immediate protection of Tsitongambarika, through supporting national BirdLife Partner, Asity Madagascar, and local communities; but the future of other threatened sites in Africa will be bettered thanks to capacity building of other BirdLife Partners to advocate their protection, and to a new awards scheme.\nNew hope for critically endangered Tanzanian tailorbird\nOne of the world\u2019s rarest birds appears to occur in slightly higher numbers than previously thought. The bird is also responding positively to conservation efforts that involve working with farmers to allow re-growth of vegetation necessary for the birds. This has offered the opportunity for the bird to recolonise some areas, in what bird conservation experts say provides new hope for the species\u2019 small population found only in Tanzania, East Africa.\nMapping the world's most threatened bird habitats\nSince the 1970s, BirdLife International and its Partners has worked to identify and protect the areas on our planet - over both land and sea - that are of great significance to the conservation of the world's threatened birds.\nDisentangling the cause of seabird deaths in South Africa\nDespite huge success in reducing the incidental catch of seabirds in fishing nets, there\u2019s been reports that an old type of vessel used in South Africa is still posing serious threats to seabirds.\nSaving Lake Oursi with phones and Facebook\nVolunteer conservationists in rural Burkina Faso are turning to social media in order to save their local wetland. 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It is in fact one of the most endangered bird species on the planet, and was not sighted for over 100 years between 1890 and 1991, when it was rediscovered in the forests bordering Rio Xufexufe in the south-west of S\u00e3o Tom\u00e9.\nABC Annual General Meeting, Saturday 1st April, 2017\n11.00 The search for the Liberian Greenbul: lost and found? \u2013 Dr. Lincoln Fishpool", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00240.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 192, + "original_length": 7913, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.92, + "perplexity": 327.9, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "https://ahvalnews.com/2018-elections/turkish-opposition-has-narrow-real-chance-winning-elections", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T04:48:03Z", + "digest": "sha1:TOHE635LJ4YGCJ6J7EMXAJ74OZ376VZD", + "length": 7668, + "nlines": 21, + "source_domain": "ahvalnews.com", + "title": "Turkish opposition has narrow but real chance of winning elections | Ahval", + "raw_content": "Turkish opposition has narrow but real chance of winning elections\nIt has been a surprisingly engaging campaign period since snap elections were announced in Turkey six weeks ago.\nFirst, the extremely short timeline for staging elections on June 24 drew attention to the possibility that Turkey\u2019s well-documented economic troubles might be even severe than publicly understood. That suspicion seemed confirmed when a disastrous trip by President Recep Tayyip Erdo\u011fan to London, including an interview with Bloomberg where he scoffed at the independence of the central bank, led to a run on the lira.\nDecisive action by the bank after days of waffling has stemmed the tide for now, but the panic cost Erdo\u011fan a week\u2019s worth of news cycles, and forced him to retreat from his rants against international speculators lest he spark another run.\nSecond, \u201cthe opposition\u201d - meaning the extremely diverse parties opposed to Erdo\u011fan\u2019s consolidation of power - have finally shown some imagination and ingenuity in strategy and in tactics. The CHP selected a candidate who can actually campaign in Muharrem \u0130nce, giving a public hungry for new voices a witty, aggressive speaker who is challenging Erdo\u011fan on his own terms.\nThe varied voices of other party leaders have contributed their own attack lines against the president. The secularist CHP also allowed several of its members to switch parties in parliament in order to permit the Good Party, a splinter of Erdo\u011fan\u2019s far-right Nationalist Movement Party (MHP) allies, to run for parliament. The CHP then formed an unlikely coalition with the nationalist Good Party, the Islamist Saadet Party, and the centre-right Democrat Party.\nWhile the latter two parties gather few votes, the coalition takes advantage of an electoral change the AKP created to benefit itself and its parliamentary partner the MHP, which allows for electoral coalitions to pull smaller parties across the 10 percent threshold. Forming a broad coalition allows the opposition to harvest as many seats as possible rather than having them wasted below the threshold.\nThird and just as importantly, the coalition has shown that opposition forces are willing to set aside their differences and focus on Erdo\u011fan and the AKP. Unifying forces has simplified the opposition message, focusing voter attention on the simple question of change or no change. Erdo\u011fan is finally in the uncomfortable position of being forced to defend the status quo he is more responsible for than any other person in Turkey, instead of claiming the mantle of the underdog.\nAll of this has led to a fevered sense that maybe this time is different, and the long winning streak of Erdo\u011fan and the AKP is finally going to come to an end, ushering in a chance to end the state of emergency and begin rolling back the party\u2019s flagrant state capture.\nThe excitement is premature, but it is not unreasonable. \u201cThe opposition\u201d - meaning the extremely diverse parties opposed to Erdo\u011fan\u2019s consolidation of power - can win, but only by treading a very narrow path to success that requires skill, luck, daring, and probably some restraint from the authorities.\nErdo\u011fan and the AKP, on the other hand, still have a wide path to success that is largely within their own power to control. The legal, political, and media system that Erdo\u011fan has been building provide enormous in-built advantages that he can use to ensure a favourable outcome, especially in the presidential election, where the advantages of incumbency are even stronger.\nThe brute fact of the new system is that the presidency matters far more than the parliament. The president forms the government under the new constitution, not the parliament. There will be no prime minister in the new system; the president will choose his ministers and vice presidents, will chair the National Security Council, will have increased judicial appointment powers, and will be able to issue decrees with the force of law.\nIf push came to shove, I believe the president could even run the country without an AKP-MHP majority in parliament, but more likely is that the president\u2019s powers would allow him to pick off opposition members by offering them government positions or similar incentives.\nNonetheless, there is a good chance that the opposition can take Erdo\u011fan to a second round, considering available polling data and an intelligent opposition strategy focusing on maximizing the number of candidates eligible to run. Anyone can vote for any opposition candidate in the first round if the goal is to keep Erdo\u011fan under 50 percent.\nIn the second round, then, the opposition must be ready to form a united democratic front. This will mean not just a tactical truce like we have seen so far, but also a willingness to unite behind a single candidate on an anyone-but-Erdo\u011fan basis. It is hard to imagine anyone other than Muharrem \u0130nce coming in second in the first round and representing the opposition. Everyone will need to vote their heart in the first round, and their head in the second.\nEven a majority in parliament would be a major success for the opposition. For one, it would give momentum to the necessary united democratic front in the second round, signalling to other voters that they should rally around the winning side. But even if the opposition cannot win the presidency, a parliamentary majority would provide a chance to challenge the government and escalate the confrontation with Erdo\u011fan from a position of democratic, institutional, and international legitimacy. Moreover, it would send an important signal to the rest of the world not to give up on Turkey.\nThe only way this can happen is if the HDP clears the 10 percent threshold to enter parliament. Leaving the HDP out of the opposition electoral coalition was presumably necessary to ensure the participation of the Good Party and of nationalist elements in the CHP, but it has made winning parliament enormously more difficult. The HDP has won more than 10 percent of the vote in the last two elections (three if you count the August 2014 presidential vote), but the situation is markedly different than it was then.\nThe HDP and its sister party the DBP have been relentlessly persecuted for the last three years, with thousands of members and around a dozen MPs arrested, and its charismatic leader held in pre-trial detention and unable to campaign. The after-effects of the fighting in the southeast in 2015 and 2016, including the displacement of large numbers of HDP voters and a continued heavy security presence, as well as state of emergency and new electoral provisions allowing the relocation of ballot boxes, will make it harder to turn out the vote.\nTurkey\u2019s threshold remains offensively high by any standard of a functioning democracy, and ensures that the seats of any parties unable to take 10 percent nationally are redistributed in favour of the leading vote getter. With the AKP-MHP coalition sure to win a plurality of votes, if the HDP fails to clear the threshold, the biggest gains will go to them. If the HDP does clear it, on the other hand, opposition parties could have a numeric majority, and the opposition would have a chance to form a parliamentary united democratic front that includes the HDP.\nThe coming elections are more interesting than they have any business being, proving again how pluralistic Turkey is, and how resilient its people are in demanding democracy. For the opposition to win, the first priority should be getting the HDP into parliament, and the second should be uniting behind a single candidate in the second round of the presidential election.\nErdo\u011fan\u2019s approval rating dropped in August - pollster", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00240.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 77, + "original_length": 8369, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.96, + "perplexity": 256.8, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "https://akhbarnama.com/fixed-quota-medical-colleges-overseas-pakistanis-694.html", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T04:06:24Z", + "digest": "sha1:FFNHUYLNDZGOJNKPOWVHM7PSOMXSE5LP", + "length": 1439, + "nlines": 5, + "source_domain": "akhbarnama.com", + "title": "Fixed Quota In Medical Colleges For Overseas Pakistanis", + "raw_content": "Fixed Quota In Medical Colleges For Overseas Pakistanis\nLahore: The Punjab Government of Pakistan has decided to allocate a fix number of seats for the overseas Pakistanis in the government medical colleges of Pakistan. The Punjab Government has devised a seven member committee that will overlook the matter. This committee will be led by Special Assistant to Chief Minister: Health, Khawja Salman Rafique.\nThe elected committee will take 10 days to give its suggestions to the Punjab Government. According to sources, there was no fixed quota of seats for the overseas Pakistanis in the government colleges overlooked by the department of health. This means that majority of the students were deprived of the admissions in the medical colleges. The people settled in the Middle East specifically suffered losses as they were unable to secure admissions in the medical colleges of Pakistan.\nThe Punjab Government has hence decided to fix a quota of seats for the overseas Pakistanis. According to the notification circulated in this instance, the committee members also included MPA Rana Arif, MPA Dr Nadia Aziz, Secretary Treasury, Secretary of Health Punjab, Vice Chancellor of King Edward Medical University and Vive Chancellor of University of Health Sciences. The seats will be fixed in the various government medical colleges and the students will be able to secure seats on the basis of self finance.\nHow To Annotate And Paraphrase", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00240.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 55, + "original_length": 2789, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.97, + "perplexity": 245.7, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "https://alicjamann.wordpress.com/2011/10/", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T03:51:26Z", + "digest": "sha1:IZ5WJHJN7YBLO2SSXWBWS6IE3ZK3GGAA", + "length": 8499, + "nlines": 43, + "source_domain": "alicjamann.wordpress.com", + "title": "October | 2011 | Alicja Mann Waves", + "raw_content": "When I made my small writing \u201cwave\u201d in July about the beautiful flag of Kiribati, the Pacific island nation slowly disappearing because of global climate change, I did not expect to see that flag in \u201creal\u201d reality so soon, or to have an opportunity for a conversation with \u201creal\u201d people of Kiribati. Well, I did last Friday, October 21st, right here in Tucson when the Water is Rising project performers made a big \u201cwave\u201d at the University of Arizona Centennial Hall, which was filled with people of all ages. This unique artistic event was sponsored by UA Presents.\nFragment of UA Presents flyer\nAnd what is the Water is Rising project? It is a project of the UCLA Center for Intercultural Performance in collaboration with the Foundation for World Arts. Water is Rising is produced and directed by Judy Mitoma, Director of the UCLA Center, who has worked with Pacific Island cultures for over thirty years and has a deep understanding of them. The goal of the project is to educate and to increase the sensitivity of the American public about global climate change and how it is affecting the Pacific atolls of Kiribati, Tokelau, Tuvalu and other Pacific Island nations.\nProfessor Mitoma conceived the Water is Rising project after the emotional plea made by officials from Tuvalu at the 2009 United Nations Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen. Those officials asked world leaders to acknowledge the effect global warming was having on their islands.\nIndeed, there is scientific evidence that the Pacific atolls are at risk of becoming the first cultures on our planet to be submerged in ocean waters and\u2026 disappear. The irony is that powerful industrial countries like the USA have been contributing greatly to global warming (causing to the ocean waters to rise), but the highest price will be paid by the smallest countries like Tuvalu.\nFragment from \u201cThe World of Ours\u201d\nComposed by Kelemene (2011)\nThe world of ours\nIt is not steady, it keeps\nWe worry about climate\nOi! My Tuvalu, what will\nWill we float into the\nListen to my tiny voice\nHear our plea from\nOur low and small\nThrough Water is Rising the voices of Kiribati (population 100,000), Tuvalu (12,000) and Tokelau (1,500) can be heard. After three years of preparation, 36 selected artists from these countries are touring the USA \u2014 performing and conducting educational programs for all ages.\nPlease visit www.waterisrising.com to learn more about the project and global climate change. The schedule of the tour is posted on that website and if you have a chance, see a performance of Water is Rising.\nFirst photo from UA Presents. Second and third photos from the website of Water is Rising. Text other than poem of Kelemene copyright \u00a9 2011 by Alicja Mann.\nCategories: Arizona, Celebrations, Essays, Events, Opinions, Places, Thoughts\nTags: global climate change, global warming, Judy Mitoma, Kelemene, Kiribati, Pacific atolls, Pacific Islands, the UCLA Center, the Water is Rising project, Tokelau, Tuvalu, UN Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen\nColumbus Day Darkly\nHow did you celebrate Columbus Day last Monday?\nColumbus Day has been observed by most states of this country since 1937 when Congress and President Franklin Delano Roosevelt proclaimed October 12 a federal holiday as a result of lobbying by the Knights of Columbus.\nMany Italian-Americans view Columbus Day as a day to celebrate their Italian heritage. Most of us, however, do not know how to celebrate that day, except enjoying a day off from work or going shopping. So on Monday I was wondering what was happening on Columbus Day besides special sales? Nothing or almost nothing, I discovered \u2014 nothing in Tucson, anyway, and most likely in the rest of Arizona. Sorry! Casa Grande held a 3-day event, the Arizona Soccer Tournament for the Columbus Cup.\nHaving had some issues about this holiday for some time, I decided to \u201cobserve it\u201d by taking a long walk on Columbus Boulevard here in Tucson and thinking about Christopher Columbus. It was a nice and easy celebration \u2014 Columbus Boulevard is only a few steps away from our home and is a pleasant street for walking or jogging, especially the northern part of it that leads to the Rillito River.\nMonday morning was sunny and warm and I truly enjoyed being reacquainted with the desert plants and houses along the boulevard. I had not walked it for a while, having been away from Tucson.\nColumbus Blvd in Tucson\nMcCormick Park on Columbus Blvd\nA charming spot along Columbus Blvd\nWaterless Rillito River\nMy walk, in truth, was a nice procrastination from writing this post. I procrastinated the next day as well, since I found the issue of Columbus Day a difficult one to write about. Finally, I am writing today, on the \u201creal\u201d Columbus Day, October 12, so please bear with me!\nQuite a few years ago I wrote (in one of my op-ed columns) about the dark side of Columbus Day but did not question the celebration of it. Today I do!\nFive hundred nineteen years ago on October 12, 1492, Christopher Columbus and his sailors arrived in the Bahamas. When they stepped ashore, for the first time since the voyages of the Vikings, a small piece of the New World felt the presence of Europeans. That event changed the history of the world much more significantly than any other geographical exploration.\nWhy was there such a strong response in Europe to discovery of America? The author of \u201cAmerica in Europe: A History of the New World in Reverse\u201d, German Arciniegas, addresses that question. \u201cThe fervor, the passion, the spontaneity that had been restrained for centuries broke their barriers and a new era was opened. Man began to declare his own rights, at the risk of anarchy. When one reflects with sufficient perspective on this deep, radical change, one finds the words that define this new course: Independence, Freedom.\u201d\nWhat was freedom and independence for newcomers became oppression, displacement, and loss of freedom for the indigenous people of this continent.\nSo why are we still celebrating the man who in truth was not a visionary about the existence of the New World, but stumbled upon it by mistake? At the time of his first voyage Columbus\u2019 intention was not discovery of the New World but travel to India. Assuming that he had reached the \u201cIndies,\u201d Columbus named the native people of San Salvador \u201cIndians\u201d and since then \u201cIndians\u201d has become the name of the natives on both American continents.\nColumbus\u2019 attitude towards natives of the New World was less than admirable. It is not fair to judge that man of the 15th century by the standards of our thinking in the 21st century; still, it is impossible to like him while reading the well known excerpts from his logbook regarding the natives: \u201cThey do not bear arms, and do not know them, for I showed them a sword, they took it by the edge and cut themselves out of ignorance\u2026. They would make fine servants\u2026. With 50 men we could subjugate them all and make them to whatever we want.\u201d\nA quote from his second Voyage of 1495, when many Indians were taken as slaves and died on the way to Spain, is also telling, \u201cLet us in the name of the Holy Trinity go on sending all the slaves that can be sold.\u201d\nI have to admit that I was oblivious to the dark side of the New World discovery for quite a few years of my living in this country and while living in Poland. Writing a book with a Chief of the Wampanoags of Mashpee (an American Indian tribe on Cape Cod) \u2014 Son of Mashpee \u2014 opened my eyes widely. At that time I read a lot of history of the Wampanoags and other tribes of American Indians. While reading, one could only cry\u2026.\nColumbus Day has been a controversial holiday for a long time. Some feel ashamed of it. Some feel angry about it. Some wonder what to do about it.\nIt is obvious that we cannot change history, but I think we can and should stop celebrating Columbus Day. It would be very appropriate, in my opinion, to keep the holiday, rename it and dedicate it to those who were present in the New World when \u201cdiscovered\u201d by Christopher Columbus. Let\u2019s follow the example of South Dakota that already celebrates Native American Day in place of Columbus Day.\nCategories: Arizona, Celebrations, Essays, Events, Feelings, Opinions, Photo stories, Photography, Places, Thoughts\nTags: American Indians, celebrations, Christopher Columbus, Columbus Boulevard, Columbus Day, discoveries, German Arciniegas, holidays, Native Americans, New World, procrastination, Rillito River, Son of Mashpee book, South Dakota, Tucson, Wampanoags", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00240.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 173, + "original_length": 10631, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.96, + "perplexity": 257.7, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "https://alternative-read.com/2011/11/11/giveaway-cleanse-fire-in-honor-of-veteransremembrance-day/", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T04:49:52Z", + "digest": "sha1:ZMXKRWZOB6545YPQJQZP7YLXZR53XW66", + "length": 5023, + "nlines": 22, + "source_domain": "alternative-read.com", + "title": "#GIVEAWAY : Cleanse Fire | In honor of Veterans/Remembrance Day \u2013 Alternative-Read.com", + "raw_content": "#GIVEAWAY Anastasia V. Pergakis Closed competitions and winners\n#GIVEAWAY : Cleanse Fire | In honor of Veterans/Remembrance Day\nLeave a Comment on #GIVEAWAY : Cleanse Fire | In honor of Veterans/Remembrance Day\nThis contest is now closed and the winner announced.\n\u06de\u06de\u06de\u06deFantasy Book GIVEAWAY \u06de\u06de\u06de\u06de\nCloses December 20th \u2013 just leave a comment with your email address for a chance to win (Details below).\nThank you Sassy Brit for having me on your blog to talk about my debut novel, Cleanse Fire.\nCaptain Derac Vidor has served Kinir for nearly twenty years. It\u2019s his life, his blood, his soul. And then his Commander betrays everything Derac holds dear. Now he has to focus on his own life and his team instead of saving the citizens of Kinir.\nNow, today is Remembrance Day or Veterans Day depending on where in the world you live. So going with that theme, I\u2019m going to tell you the story behind my book. I\u2019m sure you\u2019re wondering what a fantasy author \u2013 or a fantasy book \u2013 has to do with honoring soldiers. Simply put, I\u2019m a proud Army Brat. My Dad served 20 years, 1982 \u2013 2002, in the U.S. Army, retiring with the rank of Sergeant First Class. He was as a Drill Sergeant for a few years, training fellow infantrymen where he earned the nickname \u201cThe Hurricane.\u201d His service took him around the world to places like Korea, Panama, Egypt, Israel, Germany, and more. I asked him once what he felt like serving and he told me \u201cprivileged.\u201d\n\u201cWho shall we send for us?\u201d \u2026 \u201cHere I am. Send me.\u201d \u2014 Airborne quote\nNow, the thing about my Dad, as you can see in the picture here, he looks very serious \u2013 and almost scary really. But the thing is, he would get down on the floor with me and my sister when we were little girls, and play Barbies with us! I\u2019m definitely a Daddy\u2019s girl and I wanted to honor him with my writing. Even though I\u2019m a fantasy writer, I had the idea a few years ago to write a story about his career and his life. He was great and answered all the questions I had, even though I\u2019m sure some of them were hard to answer. I began writing the story and got about a page into it when I realized there was no way I could do it. I didn\u2019t think I could capture the feelings, the emotions, he felt during that time in an accurate way. I would hate to write a story to honor him \u2013 and all soldiers \u2013 but only end up ruining it completely. So, I put the story down for a few years. When NaNoWriMo came around in 2009, the story resurfaced in my brain again and the urge to write a story to honor soldiers was still strong. But this time, the story came to me in a different way \u2013 as a fantasy novel. The story as it exists now, is completely fictional. The characters in the book are soldiers, granted they\u2019re elves, but soldiers just the same. And they are dedicated to their country, just as soldiers in our world are dedicated to theirs.I want to honor my Dad \u2013 and all soldiers.\nBecause of that, I\u2019m donating a portion of the royalties from Cleanse Fire, and the books to follow in the series, to the Wounded Warrior Project. This organization helps wounded soldiers and their families heal after they return home. You can learn more about them and read stories from soldiers they helped at their website, www.WoundedWarriorProject.org. It is an American organization, but it is my hope that my book honors soldiers across the sea as well. The Wounded Warrior Project is merely the beginning!\nThis is just my way of saying thank you to the sacrifice and dedication our armed forces give for our freedoms. I was lucky that my Dad was not killed during his service (and he still lives to this day). But there are so many that come home severely wounded, or not at all. I want my book, even though it its fantasy, to tell soldiers that their sacrifice means something, that we know how important it is, and that we are eternally grateful.\n\u201cThe true soldier fights not because he hates what\u2019s in front of him, but because he loves what is behind him.\u201d \u2014 G. K. Chesterton\nPre-Order in Print: Paperback or Hardcover\nJoin the Kinir Brigade by signing up for our newsletter! Get exclusive deals, access to special giveaways, and inside information about the series! Join the Kinir Brigade now and receive the first five chapters in your email! And don\u2019t forget to visit our Facebook Page and Website too!\nIn honor of Veterans/Remembrance Day, I\u2019m giving away an e-copy of Cleanse Fire! Leave a comment on this post to enter into the random drawing BY December 20th. You MUST leave your email address IN the comment so I can contact you when you win!\nAll commenters will also be added to the drawing for a chance to win a signed hard cover version of the book when it releases December 21. (My Dad\u2019s birthday by the way\u2026.).\nI\u2019m having more giveaways throughout the months of November and December! \u201cLike\u201d the series\u2019 facebook page to keep up to date on all the events!\nEnable screen reader ###\nPrevious Entry Book Cover Award Poll Now Up!\nNext Entry (Nov 14) Monday \"Movie\" Book Trailer Swap! Share your trailer links here!", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00240.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 234, + "original_length": 14039, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.98, + "perplexity": 278.9, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "https://ambotv.com/2018/08/27/gospel-singer-tasha-page-working-to-empower-women-weeks-after-announcing-divorce/", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T04:27:43Z", + "digest": "sha1:HJOK4BTVEXHWRTEZAXYRREECJAGKYRYC", + "length": 1916, + "nlines": 10, + "source_domain": "ambotv.com", + "title": "Gospel Singer Tasha Page Working To Empower Women Weeks After Announcing Divorce | Ambo TV", + "raw_content": "Gospel Singer Tasha Page Working To Empower Women Weeks After Announcing Divorce\nGospel singer Tasha Page recently announced her divorce, now she wants to help other people transitioning past tough times.\nThe 35-year-old who also happens to be the daughter of veteran gospel singer Lisa Page Brooks is teaming up with fellow songstress Coko Clemons for an empowerment call. The Christian women are opening up a conference line for people who want to move forward after tragic events like divorce, incarceration, sexual abuse, domestic violence and rape.\nThe experience called \u201cLife After\u201d will take place on August 29 at 9 p.m. ET and aims to enable women to move past difficult circumstances.\n\u201cLet\u2019s skip past the details of the relationship and focus on what\u2019s ahead of us,\u201d Tasha wrote on Instagram Thursday. \u201cLife After tragedy, Life After disappointment, Life After being humiliated publicly doesn\u2019t have to look so bad. Let us help you!\u201d\nEarlier this month, Tasha shared her own difficult circumstances by announcing her divorce. Instead of hiding the news from her fans that her marriage of over 10 years had come to an end, the singer decided to take control of her own narrative.\n\u201cFamily, please remember to stay in control of your own narrative,\u201d she wrote. \u201cIt\u2019s truly not \u2018breaking news\u2019 if I\u2019ve said it first!\u201d\nTasha is known to share both her tragedies and triumphs with supporters. This week, she was transparent in revealing that she is now dating Bishop Dr. Thomas Vernon House who is the founder of House Global Ministries, Inc. and author of Learning To Be Better Before I Become Bigger.\n\u201cI never knew what it felt like to be swept off my feet until now. I\u2019ve shown you all of my flaws and you still want me,\u201d she wrote on Instagram. \u201cThe man of my dreams is no longer a figment of my imagination but I\u2019ve been blessed to actually have you in my life.\u201d\ndivorce, gospel singer, marriage, tasha page", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00240.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 65, + "original_length": 3159, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.97, + "perplexity": 268.5, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "https://americana-uk.com/dirty-dozen-whitney-rose", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T04:26:11Z", + "digest": "sha1:H6LTH2BWVPQRD4NMHE76TJ6JWGZ33WMP", + "length": 4362, + "nlines": 17, + "source_domain": "americana-uk.com", + "title": "Dirty Dozen: Whitney Rose \u2013 Americana UK", + "raw_content": "Dirty Dozen: Whitney Rose\nAward-winning Canadian singer-songwriter Whitney Rose has announced the release of new EP South Texas Suite. The six song EP follows Rose\u2019s 2015 critically acclaimed record \u201cHeartbreaker of the Year\u201d, produced by Raul Malo of the Mavericks; which was awarded Country Recording Of The Year in 2016 at the East Coast Music Awards in Canada. The breakout album presented Rose\u2019s vintage country-pop influences, converting critics with its beguiling blend of then and now.\nI was born on Prince Edward Island in Canada and moved to Austin, Texas in 2015 after releasing \u201cHeartbreaker of the Year\u201d, my second LP. I play a weekly residency at the Continental Club here in Austin when I am not touring with my band and recently signed with Six Shooter Records. I recorded an EP called \u201cSouth Texas Suite\u201d in Austin this past summer to be released in early 2017 and will be touring that record extensively in the US, Canada, Europe, Scandinavia and the UK upon its release.\nI guess the best way to describe it stylistically would be to call it a love child of early country sounds and early pop rock sounds.\nI grew up with my mother and my grandparents and my grandparents are huge country bumpkins so there was always a lot of country music around the house. Older country music, specifically\u2026George Jones, Hank Williams, Kitty Wells, Johnny Cash, etc. I was drawn to it from a very young age and preferred it to anything I heard on the radio. When I got a little older I discovered pop and rock music from the same eras of country music I liked such as the Ronettes, Chiffons, Elvis, Del Shannon etc and fell in love with that, too! That music is still what I\u2019m drawn to most today and are absolutely my influences when I\u2019m writing my own songs.\nSouth Texas Suite! A six song EP I recorded at Ameripolitan Studios in Austin this past summer. It\u2019s released January 27th and I\u2019ll be touring it for almost four months straight starting February 15th. We\u2019ll be hitting the US, Canada, Europe, Scandinavia and last but not least, the UK.\nNot really. The record that I am probably most proud of is Heartbreaker of the Year. But I\u2019m proud of everything I\u2019ve done- you have to be. I used to cringe when I heard recordings I hadn\u2019t heard in a while but now I embrace them and use them as a learning tool to keep moving forward and improving, hopefully.\nI\u2019ve been listening to a lot of Merle Haggard this past year. I always listen to a lot of Merle but it really hit me when he passed away and as a result I\u2019ve been listening to him even more. I actually had tickets to see a show with him and Willie but he died about a week before that show happened. So I never got to see him live but his writing just blows my mind. I\u2019ve also been listening to a lot of Doug Sahm, Dolly\u2019s earliest offerings (from the late 60s), Linda Ronstadt and Gram Parsons. More contemporarily I\u2019ve been digging the Cactus Blossoms, Margo Price, Jim Lauderdale\u2019s latest album, the Mavericks and Shovels and Rope.\nJudy at Carnegie Hall.\nThat I\u2019ll still have one.\nMaybe I\u2019d bail Phil Spector out of jail, keep him in isolation in a straightjacket in a recording studio and force him to produce a record for me. I wonder how much that would be.\nCreating every day- whether it\u2019s onstage creating a show, in the studio creating an album or home on my couch working out a new concept for a song. Having people tell me that something I created touches them makes my day every time. It keeps me sane\u2026kinda. Oh, and the travel. Seeing so many new places by doing what I love makes me feel like I have hit some sort of life jackpot. It\u2019s not always glamorous, mind you, but it\u2019s always an adventure.\nHorror film-like, middle of the night in the middle of nowhere, run down gas station pees. I\u2019m still not convinced I won\u2019t take my last breath in one of those someday. Oh, and not being able to please everyone. But you\u2019re forced to get over that one pretty quickly or else you\u2019ll perish.\nI\u2019m looking forward to finally getting to the UK in May! I\u2019m anticipating some laughs as I\u2019ve always maintained that y\u2019all are the world masters of comedy. 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North Korea claims that the United States is conducting joint military drills to prepare for an attack on North Korea.\nThis Day In History: The Battle Of Bloody Ridge Begins In Korean War\nNewtown, CT Teacher Exercising Second Amendment Rights Now At Mercy Of Stupid Law", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00240.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 108, + "original_length": 3022, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.9, + "perplexity": 235.5, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "https://americanmilitarynews.com/2018/11/black-rifle-coffee-puts-m61-vulcan-f-16-cannon-on-a-prius-yes-you-read-that-right/", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T03:21:13Z", + "digest": "sha1:INNE6XM5JTWYKJF6NWD4QCXJ6DVKM5YL", + "length": 2989, + "nlines": 18, + "source_domain": "americanmilitarynews.com", + "title": "Black Rifle Coffee puts M61 Vulcan F-16 cannon on a Prius \u2013 Yes, you read that right", + "raw_content": "Black Rifle Coffee puts M61 Vulcan F-16 cannon on a Prius \u2013 Yes, you read that right\nAn unmounted M61 Vulcan. (Thomas Fedor/Wikimedia Commons)\nThe veteran-owned Black Rifle Coffee Company (BRCC) team took their marketing efforts to another level by releasing a new video this week that features an M61 Vulcan Cannon mounted atop a Toyota Prius. Yes, you read that right.\nThe project was the brainchild of BRCC\u2019s executive producer, Richard Ryan, who is the mastermind behind the YouTube channel FullMag, with more than 2.3 million subscribers,\nRyan has wanted to mount an M61 Vulcan to a Prius for more than a decade, according to an exclusive Coffee or Die Magazine feature published this month.\nHe teamed up with weapons restoration experts Hamilton & Sons, as well as shooting and rare equipment curators Battlefield Vegas, to make his vision a reality.\nThe Gatling-style M61 Vulcan was previously mounted to a demilitarized F-16 fighter jet, though it is also found in F-18 and F-22 jets. It fires 20mm rounds out of six barrels at a rate of approximately 6,600 rounds per minute.\nWith each round costing some $27, firing the Vulcan for just one minute costs approximately $180,000. The rounds were acquired directly from General Dynamics, who manufactures the Vulcan.\nRyan found a $2,000 Prius on Craigslist, but it needed a significant amount of work to prepare it for the Vulcan.\nThe Prius was completely gutted, and a roll cage built inside to strengthen its structure against the Vulcan\u2019s energy output, along with a mounting system on the roof to support the gun\u2019s heavy weight.\nThe gun was also modified from a hydraulic system to an electrical system, requiring new motors and electrical primers.\nWatch Ryan explain more about the project here:\nAlong with more than 160 man-hours to complete the project over six months, the project also entailed extensive costs to acquire and manufacture the parts used, and Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) licensing.\nThe first test-firing of the gun resulted in significant overpressure blowing out the windshield. Ryan used leftover gym mats to protect the windshield for subsequent firing, allowing the windshield to be protected while the car remained street-legal.\nThe video fits in line with the rest of BRCC\u2019s outlandish and often viral marketing campaign videos, each featuring a brief advertisement for BRCC and an accompanying coupon code. The videos often depict veteran life or otherwise resonate with the veteran community. Guns and heavy weaponry are no exception.\nRyan has amassed more than 334 million total views on his FullMag YouTube channel alone, while BRCC Vice President Mat Best has another 115 million on his YouTube channel.\nRyan is a digital media and marketing powerhouse, having worked previously with Google, YouTube, 20th Century Fox and Paramount, among others. 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The Steel family has a serious case of Blue Jays fever, and the only cure is more Blue Jays.\nAll decked out in our Blue Jays swag\nBlue Jays fever is not just limited to our family. The entire city is positively buzzing over the success of our team. For me, the love of the Blue Jays goes far beyond just this season. I have been a fan for as long as I can remember. My grandparents went to the SkyDome on opening day and got my sister and I \u201cDomer\u201d stuffies- mine is still kicking around somewhere. I can remember watching playoff games over Thanksgiving, and everyone in the family would bet on the outcome (I mean, they were like fifty cent bets, it\u2019s not like we were hanging out with a group of bookies). I would come home from school in those days and my mom would have the game on while she was baking cookies or getting dinner ready. And when Joe Carter hit that walk-off home run in \u201993\u2013 well, it was one of the best moments of my childhood (seriously, click on that link and watch the video. Even if you aren\u2019t a Jays fan; even if you aren\u2019t a baseball fan, this video will give you chills. If it doesn\u2019t, well, then, I recommend heading to your nearest ER because you may not have a pulse). My mom was shouting at the TV, \u201cHe did it! He did it! I can\u2019t believe it!\u201d And then that Coke commercial came on after the game, and I think it was the first time I cried tears of happiness.\nThere was such a feeling of unity among Jays fans back then, and that feeling is here again. When I wear a Blue Jays shirt to work, patients, parents, co-workers, and complete strangers will stop so we can talk about last night\u2019s game. On the first day of school, I estimated that at least a third of the kids on the playground were sporting Blue Jays gear. Charlotte has been swept up in the fever, too. She chants, \u201cGo, Hobay Bautista!\u201d whenever Jose Bautista steps up to the plate. She comments frequently on how the Yankees are bad guys (total parenting win). Or, when she wants to tease me, she will say that she is going to start cheering for the Yankees because she knows that will get me riled up. Even Penelope gets in on the fun- she will hold up her finger when we say \u201cNumber one Blue Jays!\u201d\nThat\u2019s right, Penelope, Blue Jays are number one!\nI honestly cannot choose a favourite player right now. It seems like every game, someone is stepping up with an amazing catch (Kevin Pillar), a clutch homerun (Josh Donaldson, Jose Bautista, Russell Martin, Dioner Navarro, Ben Revere\u2026I could go on and on), some stellar pitching (R.A. Dickey, Marcus Stroman, David Price, Marco Estrada, Mark Buerhle) or three home runs in one game, including a grand slam (Edwin Encarnacion\u2026and seriously, who does that?!). They are like the very definition of a team- all players working together; no one player or position getting all the credit for their success.\nI would really like to say thank you to our Toronto Blue Jays for the spectacular ball they have played this season; for bringing our city together; and for bringing back memories of my childhood Blue Jays and cheering with my mom and now forming new memories of cheering with my family. Good luck in the post-season, boys- bring that World Series trophy home this year. Let\u2019s go, Blue Jays!\n#baseball, #bluejays, #cometogether, #letsgobluejays, #toronto\t2 Comments\nWe are now several days into the official start of fall, and I suppose it is time to say farewell to summer. This summer was a good one- one of the best in recent memory. We spent a lot of time outside, the weather was sunny and warm, and we even got in a little cottage getaway at the end of August. It was very nearly perfect, and I am sure that as time goes on, the memory of hearing, \u201cWhat are we going to do now, Mama?\u201d fifty times a day will fade and I will remember this summer only as a happy, blissful time in our lives.\nAnd now here we are, nearing the end of September. We have entered into a new season. Charlotte is in French Immersion now; in a class that doesn\u2019t include her nearly lifelong partner in crime, Vera. These two changes combined made me very nervous about the new school year. Unsurprisingly though, these changes were probably harder on me than on Charlotte. She is now spouting French phrases around the house (\u201cRegardez moi!\u201d) and she still plays with Vera every day before school and during their outdoor play times.\nThis is a new season for Penelope, too. She is now attending a home daycare with the most lovely caregiver I could have ever hoped for. She has adjusted to this change beautifully. Penelope has two new playmates in the toddlers that attend this daycare, and she adores it. I love the fact that she is out in the world, with her peers, and enjoying herself. She has made so much progress recently- she seems to be understanding phrases and directions and she is pointing and communicating more. She still doesn\u2019t have any words yet, but she makes herself known. She pulls to stand easily now, and will cruise for a few steps along furniture. And speaking of steps- she can now crawl up stairs by herself! There is no doubt in my mind that she will walk one day- she is one determined girl.\nHaving fun at her caregiver\u2019s house\nAnyone who knows me well knows that I do not enjoy change. AT ALL. So all of these changes occurring simultaneously made September a bit of a difficult month to navigate. In addition to the changes, I have been working a lot more- nearly twice as much as I was before- and trying to balance the shift work with family life is exhausting at times. Things are more settled now, though, and I am breathing a bit easier. I would be lying if I said I wasn\u2019t still wary of what the future has in store, but I am trying to focus on the present. Right now, life is good. Everyone is happy and healthy. This new season is a good one so far.\n# kids, #parenting, anxiety, change, september, summer\t2 Comments", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00240.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 94, + "original_length": 10877, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.98, + "perplexity": 332.0, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "https://aniwatcher.com/series/aiura", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T04:35:59Z", + "digest": "sha1:37XALICDAO35XBZ3TKKQEJAI7JWTAZDG", + "length": 274, + "nlines": 3, + "source_domain": "aniwatcher.com", + "title": "Aiura Episodes", + "raw_content": "Aiura Episodes\nGenres: Comedy, School Life, Shounen, Slice of Life\nThe story centers around Amaya, Iwasawa, and Uehara\u2014three \"annoying, spirited high school girls with zero motivation\"\u2014and their classmates. 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After a bit of analysis, the only reasonable conclusion that I could come up with is \u2013 sea-level.\nSee I\u2019ve lived my life in two sea level cities, Mumbai and Chicago, the lack of rarified mountain air must be the reason for my lack of athletic ability. So now that I\u2019m in Salt Lake City, I have to make up for lost time.\nNow you must be wondering that sea level can\u2019t just be the only reason and I thought about it as well. Using shoes to run might also be a contributing factor. The Tarahumara Indians (no not from India but from Mexico) are famous for their long distance barefoot running, so maybe I should try that as well.\nTo ease my transition to barefoot running, I decided to purchase Five Finger\u2019s vibram soles.\nNow that I have everything planned out, I started for my first run from my base at the base of Wasatch mountain. A few minutes into the run, I\u2019m completely out of breath and the blisters on my foot are getting increasingly painful.\nWell my order of two large pizzas must be going cold, so I guess I can wait a few days and try again.\nPrevious Previous post: Is reasonableness too much to expect\nNext Next post: moab", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00240.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 158, + "original_length": 3159, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.96, + "perplexity": 300.2, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "https://anydayguide.com/calendar/2045", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T03:51:34Z", + "digest": "sha1:VLXKZC5VLG2S35I6MDO5DBFSVZOVM3DJ", + "length": 1261, + "nlines": 6, + "source_domain": "anydayguide.com", + "title": "Anguilla Day / May 30, 2019", + "raw_content": "Anguilla Day Date in the current year: May 30, 2019\nCelebrations in Anguilla mostly have religious character, but there are some secular holidays, that are observed nationwide. Anguilla Day, celebrated on May 30, is one of these holidays.\nColonization of Anguilla by English settlers began in 1650 from the island of Saint Kitts. In 1824 the British gave Saint Kitts and Nevis full internal autonomy, but Anguilla was incorporated into a new unified dependency, called Saint Christopher-Nevis-Anguilla.\nThe inhabitants of Anguilla were not satisfied with the British policy. They rose a rebellion on May 30, 1967 and marched on the Police Headquarters on Saint Kitts demanding disassociation of Anguilla from the union. The second rebellion began in 1969 and followed by a brief period of a self-declared independent republic. British authority was totally restored in 1971 and in 1980 Anguilla gained independence from Saint Kitts and Nevis. Anguilla got status of a separate British colony and later became a British overseas territory.\nAnguilla Day is a day of joyful celebration. The most interesting event is boat race around the island. Traditional parade also attracts public attention.\nanguilla day, holidays in anguilla, public holiday, holidays in may", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00240.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 43, + "original_length": 1856, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.96, + "perplexity": 212.5, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "https://anydayguide.com/calendar/3332", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T03:48:10Z", + "digest": "sha1:QNGO46RV4A2LILHMKCC6M34VWBQTLTD2", + "length": 1681, + "nlines": 6, + "source_domain": "anydayguide.com", + "title": "Volunteer Day in Spain / September 8, 2019", + "raw_content": "Volunteer Day in Spain Date in the current year: September 8, 2019\nVolunteer Day (D\u00eda del Cooperante) is an annual observance celebrated in Spain on September 8. It was initiated by the Spanish Agency for International Development Cooperation (Agencia Espa\u00f1ola de Cooperaci\u00f3n Internacional para el Desarrollo, AECID).\nThe Spanish Agency for International Development Cooperation was founded in 1988 under the auspices of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Cooperation of Spain. Its main tasks are to design and implement development cooperation projects and programs, as well as to coordinate humanitarian work abroad. The agency largely relies on volunteers who apply their professional skills in the world\u2019s most deprived regions.\nVolunteer Day is celebrated on September 8 because on this day in 2000 the United Nations Millennium Declaration was adopted at the Millennium Summit held at the UN Headquarters in New York City. The declaration included the Millennium Development Goals: eradication of hunger and extreme poverty; universal primary education; gender equality and women\u2019s empowerment; reduction of child mortality; improvement of maternal health; combat against HIV/AIDS, malaria, and other diseases; environmental sustainability; global partnership for development.\nVolunteer Day in Spain is dedicated to Spanish volunteers who make an immense contribution to sustainable development and eradication of poverty in the most vulnerable regions of the planet. 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Though non-binding, the formality gives a window of opportunity for a judge to reverse an initial sentence.\nThe sentences are subject to appeal.\nSentencing for more than 660 others involved in the case was scheduled for Sept. 8, the Al-Ahram news website reported. Those sentences, too, are subject to appeal.\nThe case involves a total 739 defendants, including the Muslim Brotherhood\u2019s Supreme Guide Mohammed Badie and photojournalist Mahmoud Abu Zeid. The charges range from murder to damaging public property. Neither Badie nor Abu Zeid were sentenced to death in this case.\nThe 2013 sit-in, in Rabaa al-Adawiya Square in Cairo, supported former Islamist President Mohammed Morsi who was militarily ousted following mass protests against his divisive one-year rule. Morsi hailed from the Brotherhood.\nThe sit-in was violently dispersed on Aug. 14, 2013. More than 600 people were killed. Months later, Egypt designated the Brotherhood a terrorist organization.\nEgyptian authorities have since launched a severe crackdown on Brotherhood members and supporters, arresting many and trying them on terror-related charges.\nIn 2014, an Egyptian judge sentenced 529 of Morsi\u2019s supporters to death. A retrial was later ordered after several proceedings.\nRights groups have repeatedly criticized such mass sentencings in Egypt and called on authorities to ensure fair trials.\nInternational rights groups also denounced the mass trial of the 2013 sit-in. Amnesty International described it in a statement last month as a \u201cgrotesque parody of justice\u201d and called on authorities to drop all charges against those arrested for protesting peacefully.", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00240.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 57, + "original_length": 3120, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.96, + "perplexity": 263.5, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "https://apnews.com/eeebf667026a420c9893220215e542cb?utm_source=Twitter&utm_campaign=SocialFlow&utm_medium=AP", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T03:31:14Z", + "digest": "sha1:SH566ON2FGWSJTEWJRVCYC4NZUVTTCFB", + "length": 9256, + "nlines": 35, + "source_domain": "apnews.com", + "title": "AP Exclusive: Gov't questions unfair student loan practices", + "raw_content": "Click to copyhttps://apnews.com/eeebf667026a420c9893220215e542cb\nAP Exclusive: Gov\u2019t questions unfair student loan practices\nBy KEN SWEETNovember 20, 2018\nFILE- This April 2, 2014, file photo, shows the headquarters of student loan debt collector Navient Corporation, in Wilmington, Del. One of the nation\u2019s largest student loan servicing companies may have driven tens of thousands of borrowers struggling with their debts into high-cost repayment plans. That\u2019s the finding of a Department of Education audit of practices at Navient Corp., the nation\u2019s third-largest student loan servicing company. (William Bretzger/The News Journal via AP, File)\nNEW YORK (AP) \u2014 One of the nation\u2019s largest student loan servicing companies may have driven tens of thousands of borrowers struggling with their debts into higher-cost repayment plans.\nThat\u2019s the finding of a Department of Education audit of practices at Navient Corp., the nation\u2019s third-largest student loan servicing company.\nThe conclusions of the 2017 audit, which until now have been kept from the public and were obtained by The Associated Press, appear to support federal and state lawsuits that accuse Navient of boosting its profits by steering some borrowers into the high-cost plans without discussing options that would have been less costly in the long run.\nThe education department has not shared the audit\u2019s findings with the plaintiffs in the lawsuits. In fact, even while knowing of its conclusions, the department repeatedly argued that state and other federal authorities do not have jurisdiction over Navient\u2019s business practices.\n\u201cThe existence of this audit makes the Department of Education\u2019s position all the more disturbing,\u201d said Aaron Ament, president of the National Student Legal Defense Network, who worked for the Department of Education under President Barack Obama.\nThe AP received a copy of the audit and other documents from the office of Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Massachusetts, who has been a vocal critic of Navient and has publicly supported the lawsuits against the company as well as questioning the policies of the Department of Education, currently run by President Trump\u2019s Secretary of Education, Betsy DeVos. Warren is considered a potential presidential candidate in 2020.\nNavient disputed the audit\u2019s conclusions in its response to the Department of Education and has denied the allegations in the lawsuits. One point the company makes in its defense is that its contract with the education department doesn\u2019t require its customer service representatives to mention all options available to the borrower.\n\u201cThis (audit), when viewed as a whole, as well as dozens of other audits and reviews, show that Navient overwhelmingly performs in accordance with program rules while consistently helping borrowers choose the right options for their circumstances,\u201d said Paul Hartwick, a company spokesman.\nHowever, the five states suing Navient \u2014 Illinois, Pennsylvania, Washington, California and Mississippi \u2014 say the behavior breaks their laws regarding consumer protection. The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau says in its own lawsuit the practices are unfair, deceptive and abusive and break federal consumer protection laws.\nOf the five states that filed lawsuits against Navient, Washington, Illinois and Pennsylvania said they were aware that an audit existed, but did not receive copies from the Department of Education. The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau declined to comment on whether it had a copy of the report.\nThe Department of Education said withholding the report was intentional, repeating the argument it has made in court and in public that only it has jurisdiction over student loan servicing issues, through its Federal Student Aid division, or FSA, which oversees student loans.\n\u201cFSA performed the review as part of its own contract oversight, not for the benefit of other agencies,\u201d said Liz Hill, a Department of Education spokeswoman.\nWhen student borrowers run into difficulties making payments, they can be offered forbearance, which allows them to delay payments for a set period of time. But under a forbearance plan, in most instances, the loan continues to accumulate interest and becomes a more expensive option in the long run.\nThe Consumer Financial Protection Bureau alleges in its lawsuit against Navient that between 2010 and 2015 Navient\u2019s behavior added nearly $4 billion in interest to student borrowers\u2019 loans through the overuse of forbearance. It is a figure that Navient disputes.\nA 2017 study by the Government Accountability Office estimates that a typical borrower of a $30,000 student loan who places their loan into forbearance for three years \u2014 the maximum allowed for economic-hardship forbearance \u2014 would pay an additional $6,742 in interest on that loan.\n\u201cThis finding is both tragic and infuriating, and the findings appear to validate the allegations that Navient boosted its profits by unfairly steering student borrowers into forbearance when that was often the worst financial option for them,\u201d Warren said in a letter to Navient last week.\nAs part of their inquiry, DoE auditors listened in on about 2,400 randomly selected calls to borrowers from 2014 to 2017 out of a batch of 219,000. On nearly one out of 10 of the calls examined, the Navient representative did not mention other options, including one type of plan that estimates the size of a monthly payment the borrower can afford based on their income. Auditors wrote that many customer service representatives failed to ask questions to determine if such a plan, known as an income-driven repayment plan, might be more beneficial to the borrower.\nThere is no public record of how many struggling borrowers serviced by Navient may have been impacted by these practices. In its most recent annual report, Navient says it services 6 million student loan borrowers, of which 12.7 percent are more than 30 days past due. That would be roughly 762,000 customers who are struggling in some fashion to pay their student loans.\nIf one out of every 10 of those customers were pushed into forbearance instead of an income-driven repayment plan, as the department\u2019s audit found, that would be 76,200 of Navient\u2019s borrowers.\nThe DoE report contains recommendations for how Navient could fix its practices but makes no mention of firm requirements or sanctions.\nThe education department\u2019s Federal Student Aid division decided to do a review of Navient\u2019s forbearance practices after the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau filed its lawsuit against the company in January 2017, department spokeswoman Hill said, to see if there were any compliance issues.\nShe said DoE officials came to the conclusion that Navient was not improperly steering borrowers. \u201cNothing in the report indicates forbearances were applied inappropriately \u2014 the observations noted focused on suggested improvements regarding how to best counsel\u201d a small minority of borrowers, she said.\nIn response to questions over the 2017 audit, Navient pointed to the fact that nine out of every 10 borrowers on the calls were offered all their options and that this audit is just one piece of a broader story. The company noted that the number of its borrowers who are enrolled in income-driven repayment plans is in line with or above the track records of other student loan servicing companies. In addition, it said the company is paid less by the Department of Education for putting students in forbearance.\nNavient, which split off from Sallie Mae, is a publicly traded company. Shares of Navient fell sharply after the AP published its report, closing down $1.26, or 10.5 percent, to $10.74.\nIn calls and presentations with investors, Navient has said a company priority is to lower its operational costs.\nAs a student loan servicing company, Navient has one primary operating cost: its employees, including the hundreds of customer-service agents who man Navient\u2019s telephones every day. The fewer customer-service agents Navient employs, the more money Navient puts in its pocket. Doing calls to determine whether a borrower should be in an income-driven repayment plan takes longer, student loan industry experts say.\nIn fact, that is exactly what Navient said in its response to the Department of Education\u2019s audit.\n\u201cWe (are not) aware of any requirement that borrowers receive all of their repayment options ... on each and every call,\u201d the company said, adding that if the Department of Education chose to require all servicers to discuss income-driven repayment plans with all borrowers, the Department of Education needs to redo its contract with Navient.\nSeth Frotman, who was the highest-ranking government official in charge of student loans until he quit in August in protest over how the Trump-controlled Department of Education and Consumer Financial Protection Bureau were handling the issue of student loans, said Navient\u2019s response was outrageous.\n\u201cIn short, Navient, when confronted with evidence of its bad practices, is telling the government, \u2018Pay us more money or take a hike.\u2019 And It looks like the Department of Education took a hike,\u201d Frotman said.\nKen Sweet covers banks and consumer financial issues for The Associated Press. 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Dave Lieb, CEO and co-founder of Bump talked more about the acquisition on the company\u2019s blog:\nWe\u2019re excited to announce that the Bump team is joining Google! Our mission at Bump has always been to build the simplest tools for sharing the information you care about with other people and devices. We strive to create experiences that feel like magic, enabled behind the scene with innovations in math, data processing, and algorithms. So we couldn\u2019t be more thrilled to join Google, a company that shares our belief that the application of computing to difficult problems can fundamentally change the way that we interact with one another and the world.\nGoogle also indicated that it plans to keep the app running, for now. While Bump was all the rage in the early days of the App Store, its popularity had waned. With an update in Feburary, users could even transfer files between iOS devices and computers, but that apparently wasn\u2019t enough. Apple, with the introduction of iOS 7, added the native AirDrop feature that lets users also share files wirelessly. Earlier this summer, our own Bryan Wolfe said Bump\u2019s future was uncertain because of AirDrop. If you\u2019re still interested in seeing what Bump can do, it can be downloaded in the App Store now for free. 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Treatment of such B cell malignancies with covalent BTK inhibitors that target the cysteine residue in the active site of BTK can lead to drug resistance via mutation of the cysteine amino acid residue to a serine residue (BTK-C481S mutant). CG\u2019806 targets the ATP-binding pocket of BTK through a reversible, non-covalent mechanism, thereby allowing CG\u2019806 to retain low nM potency against the BTK-C481S mutant enzyme. Thus, CG\u2019806 may serve as a novel therapeutic agent to treat B cell malignancy patients that are refractory, resistant or intolerant to covalent BTK inhibitors.\nAPTO-253, the Company\u2019s second program, is a small molecule therapeutic agent that inhibits expression of the c-Myc oncogene without causing general myelosuppression of the bone marrow. The c-Myc oncogene is overexpressed in hematologic cancers, including AML. 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The three Members of Congress are co-sponsors of H. Res. 428, which calls on President Obama to release the 28 pages, and they have called on all Members of the House and Senate to read the hidden chapter. (There will be full coverage in our next issue.)\nEIRNS/Alicia Cerritani\nRep. Walter Jones tells a reporter at the press conference: There is NO EXCUSE for Senators to ignore the issue of the suppressed 28 pages of the 9/11 report. Joining him, left to right, members of the 9/11 families: Ellen Saracini; Terry, Justin, and Kaitlin Strada; and Abraham Scott.\nJones opened the press conference referring to the previous day's CNN coverage (see below), revealing the fight to get President Obama to release the 28 pages, and detailing evidence of Saudi involvement in the attacks. Jones castigated members of the Senate, especially those from New England, New York, and Northern Virginia, saying that they owe this to their constituents, noting ironically that even members of the Saudi government have, in the past, supported the release of the pages.\nLynch commended the strength of the 9/11 families, and rejected the claim that the pages are classified as a matter of national security, while Massie called for a full discussion of foreign policy, noting that the U.S. has fought two wars in Iraq, and now is about to fight a third. We must look at who is behind terrorism in the long term, Massie added, in Iraq, in Syria, and the Sunni militant groups.\n9/11 Families Speak\nThe strength and pivotal role of the 9/11 families couldn't have been better demonstrated, when each member spoke, including Terry Strada, co-chair of 9/11 Families United for Justice Against Terrorism (JASTA), and her two children, Kaitlyn and Justin, along with Matthew Sellitto, Abraham Scott, Emanuel Lipscomb, and Ellen Saracini. The courage of the Strada children was especially compelling. The Kaitlin Strada said, \"At 17 years old, why should I live in a world without answers?\"\nTerry Strada said, \"We live in fear every day, not knowing when it will come again,\" referring specifically to the current threat of ISIS and other terrorist groups. She added, \"Not releasing the 28 pages is a threat to national security.\"\nThere was also severe harsh of Obama. Matthew Sellitto reiterated several times that Obama is a liar, that he broke his promise. They all urged everyone to call Congress, and demand that the game-playing be stopped, saying we must do the right thing, for the sake of our nation.\nBreakout Coverage of 28 Pages\nIn the period leading up to the Sept. 9 press conference, an unprecedented level of public coverage of the 28-pages fight emerged, including a story on CNN focusing on Obama's role, and a story on theNew Yorker website, reporting, for the first time, the hysterical arguments against declassification coming from the Bush-Cheney gang.\nOn Aug. 15, former Sen. Bob Graham (D-Fla.) was interviewed on public television in Miami by Helen Ferre, who then wrote about the interview in a column in the Aug. 30 Miami Herald.\nIn the interview, Graham said that it is easier to understand the coverup by the Bush Administration, because of its close personal relations with the Saudi ruling family, but why the Obama Administration has continued this, Graham declared, \"is an enigma.\" Graham went on to say that \"there doesn't seem to be any compelling reason\u2014national security or otherwise\u2014to keep this information from the American people.\"\n\"It isn't credible that 19 people\u2014most that could not speak English well and did not have experience in the United States\u2014could carry out such a complicated task without external assistance,\" Graham told Ferre.\nFerre wrote that Graham \"is befuddled\" as to why the Obama Administration won't release the 28 pages that may expose how members of the Saudi royal family aided and abetted the terrorists who were living in Florida prior to the September 2001 attacks. She added, \"Graham believes that there was a deliberate effort to cover up Saudi involvement in the tragedy of 9/11 by the Bush Administration, one, he says, that the Obama administration appears to support.\"\nFerre wrote about the foreigners, including a couple of Americans, who have joined terrorist groups fighting in Syria and Iraq; one of those had lived in Florida, as had Mohammed Atta and other 9/11 terrorists. She noted that Americans have tremendous capacity to turn the page on events and forget what they have seen, but Graham has been fighting both the Bush and Obama administrations to declassify the 28 pages \"that may detail and expose the efforts of members of the Saudi Arabian royal family in aiding and abetting these terrorists in Florida, many who were themselves Saudi.\" She noted that the U.S.-Saudi relationship, which Graham calls \"perfidious,\" is now shifting, and she asked: \"Given the suspicious Saudi link with 9/11 terrorists, why the United States did not rethink this alliance before? The American public needs to know. The families of those who were lost to the 9/11 attacks or those who fought in Afghanistan and Iraq deserve an answer as well.\"[1]\nOn Sept. 5, the Boston Globe, in an article entitled, \"U.S. Wants More from Saudis in Fight against Extremists,\" cited Congressman Lynch's role in the fight to declassify the 28 pages, quoting him as saying: \"I think the Saudis\u2014and there are different elements within the Saudi leadership\u2014have been promoting some of the Sunni factions that have been challenging Assad up in Syria.... I think the Saudis in some capacity have been supporting the Al Nusra Front financially.... There are probably a fair amount of Saudi citizens fighting for that group. Some of them went over to the Islamic State when they had success.\"\nObama Stonewalls\nThe pressure on President Obama dramatically increased in the days before the press conference. On Sept. 7, a statement entitled \"Letters from 9/11 Family Group to Obama Go Unanswered\" was posted on the recently established 28pages.com website. It began: \"On three separate occasions, 9/11 Families United for Justice Against Terrorism has sent letters to President Obama, asking him to declassify the 28-page finding on foreign government support of the 9/11 hijackers. Each letter takes a slightly different approach to pleading for the release of the redacted section of a joint House/Senate intelligence study, but one thing they share in common is the response from the President and the White House: complete silence.\n\"One would think an organized group of 9/11 family members would at least merit the courtesy of a presidential reply\u2014if only to say he had received their letter and would give due consideration to their request. Instead, Obama has opted to ignore them, despite the fact that he has reportedly twice promised 9/11 families he would declassify the 28 pages.\"\nAfter outlining the details of how each letter was delivered to the White House\u2014they weren't just dropped in a mailbox\u2014the statement concluded:\n\"The Obama White House seems to hope that, by ignoring 9/11 families, demands for 9/11 transparency will fall silent. However, as the group says in the closing of its latest unanswered letter, 'There is a gathering storm in pursuit of the truth.' The strength of that gathering storm lies in the growing number of everyday Americans who are contacting Congress and the White House to demand the release of the 28 pages.\"\nWhite House Responds to CNN\nOn Sept. 8, the issue of the 28 pages and President Obama's failure to keep his promise to release them, was featured on CNN's \"The Lead\" program, hosted by Jake Tapper\u2014the first time in many years, if ever, that CNN has covered this story.\nTapper interviewed Bill Doyle, whose son was killed in the World Trade Center on Sept. 11. Doyle described his meeting with Obama in 2011, and then how, after Obama promised to release the 28 pages, Doyle told Obama: \"You know something? I'm going to hold you to your word. And I'm not going away.\" Later, Doyle declared flat-out, that Obama \"broke his promise.\"\nThe CNN story referenced Omar al-Bayoumi, who provided financial assistance to two of the 9/11 hijackers in San Diego, and noted that the 9/11 Commission believed him to be a Saudi intelligence agent.\nAlso quoted in the CNN report were Bob Graham, who co-chaired the Congressional Joint Inquiry, Tom Kean, who co-chaired the 9/11 Commission, and Rep. Walter Jones.\nTapper noted that the Saudis, 11 years ago, had said they did not object to release of the 28 pages, and the segment concluded with Tapper declaring: \"Why the 28 pages remain hidden from the public, remains a mystery.\"\nIndicating that the Obama White House is feeling the pressure, shortly after the program aired, CNN reported that it had received a statement from National Security Council spokesperson Caitlin Hayden, which said: \"Earlier this summer the White House requested that ODNI [Office of the Director of National Intelligence] review the 28 pages from the joint inquiry for declassification. ODNI is currently coordinating the required interagency review and it is ongoing.\"\nThe Cheneyacs React\nOn the morning of the press conference, the New Yorker website carried a feature on the Saudis and the 28 pages, in its \"Daily Comment\" section. The story was written by Lawrence Wright, author of a definitive book on al-Qaeda, The Looming Tower. Not only did Wright have quotes from Reps. Jones and Lynch identifying the Saudis as the subject of the 28 pages, and calling for their declassification, and from 9/11 Commissioners Tom Kean and Tim Roemer urging that the report be made public, but he also quoted 9/11 Commission staff director Philip Zelikow, the mole for the Bush-Cheney White House who sabotaged the Saudi investigation.[2]\nAccording to the New Yorker story, both Zelikow and an unnamed staff assistant vociferously argued against release of the 28 pages. Zelikow said that the Commission's findings did not substantiate the arguments made by the Congressional Joint Inquiry about Saudi involvement, or the arguments of the 9/11 families in their lawsuit against the Saudis. Zelikow\u2014who went to extraordinary efforts to prevent the Commission members or staff from reviewing the 28 pages, even those who had written them for the Congressional Inquiry (!)\u2014labelled the 28 pages \"an agglomeration of preliminary, unvetted reports,\" concerning Saudi involvement, and added: \"They were wild accusations that needed to be checked out.\" Zelikow says he and his staff were unable to prove any official Saudi complicity in the 9/11 attacks, and an unnamed staffer was quoted recommending against declassifying the 28 pages, on the grounds, wrote Wright, that \"the release of inflammatory and speculative information could 'ramp up passions' and damage U.S. Saudi relations.\"\nWright then reviewed the San Diego story, including the payments from then-Saudi Ambassador to the United States Prince Bandar's wife to the wife of Osama Basnan, who had befriended two future hijackers in San Diego. Wright concluded with statements from Massie and Roemer, arguing that public release of the 28 pages is very relevant, in light of the need for an open debate on the rise of ISIS in Iraq and Syria, and on what the nation's response ought to be.\nThe pressure is building.\n[1] A video of the interview is available at:http://video.wpbt2.org/video/2365310648/\n[2]For an account of Zelikow's sordid role in the 9/11 Commission, seeEIR, Aug. 16, 2013.\n\u2018Silk Road Lady\u2019 Brings LaRouche Perspective to China\nTerry Strada: The Truth About 9/11 Must Be Told Now (presentation to Schiller Institute 30th Anniversary Conference, June 2014)\nThe Muslim Brotherhood: The Many Faces of Their Majesty's Service August 2013\nBoston Bombing: Anglo-Saudi Terror Machine Strikes U.S. May 2013\nThe Blair Doctrine Redux: Obama Claims WMD in Syria May 2013\nSeptember 11, 2001: The One and One Half Hours That Gripped the World", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00240.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 277, + "original_length": 17578, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.96, + "perplexity": 218.9, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "https://artofcontrol.com/tag/workout/", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T03:52:13Z", + "digest": "sha1:72QFGXTFKKB7GZQEWUBDBOOP2LRBWLFD", + "length": 72, + "nlines": 1, + "source_domain": "artofcontrol.com", + "title": "workout | Art of Control", + "raw_content": "Below you'll find a list of all posts that have been tagged as \u201cworkout\u201d", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00240.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 49, + "original_length": 1328, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 1.0, + "perplexity": 140.7, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "https://artsforafrica.nl/bosejaeng2", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T04:57:56Z", + "digest": "sha1:TUJEYNJOCNOYTH6HS7CFEPLYF5LESVZD", + "length": 180, + "nlines": 1, + "source_domain": "artsforafrica.nl", + "title": "bosejaeng2 \u2013 Arts for Africa", + "raw_content": "The Boseja woman are highly skilled in weaving and have been making baskets for many years. 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How does one go about it? My question arises because in a recent meeting of the stake priesthood (I attend a University student stake) the president advised those who had committed any form of fornicative sin to see his bishop. Also I am taking a celestial marriage course in institute and in the last lesson the teacher mentioned that many people have marriage problems and it comes out that when interviewing with the bishop they were not truthful about the intimate relations within their relationship. Could these people have realized the problems on their own and gone before the Lord in prayer and confessed there sins and be repentant?\nMalik, from Utah\nRegardless of feelings of remorse, there are certain sins of sufficient gravity that they must be confessed to the bishop. Sexual sin is among these. Repentance is not an easy process, and in the case of serious violations of God\u2019s commandments, often needs the counsel and guidance of the servant of the Lord who represents the Lord to the members of his Ward.\nIt\u2019s true, and indeed necessary, that people who have sinned realize the problem on their own, confess their sins to the Lord and appeal to him for his forgiveness. But this is not repentance; it is only the beginning step. The process of repentance is not complicated, but, again, it is not easy. The Lord has said,\nBehold, he who has repented of his sins, the same is forgiven, and I, the Lord, remember them no more. By this ye may know if a man repenteth of his sins\u2013behold, he will confess them and forsake them (D&C 58:42-43).\nYou have addressed the confessing part. Let\u2019s discuss the forsaking part. To forsake a sin does not mean just to not do it anymore. The sin is in character of the person, which gives expression to the physical act. An incarcerated bank robber may be sorry that he robbed a bank, and may not be robbing more banks because he does not have the opportunity, but he would not have repented of his crime until he became an honest person. The test of his honesty would be, for example, that after he was released from prison and again incorporated into society, he met with a bank president in his office in dire need of a loan. On the desk in the office would be a pile of money that the person had understood from the bank president had not yet been counted. At this moment the president is called out of the office and remarks to the applicant the he will be gone for fifteen minutes. If this former bank robber sits in the presence of all that money for fifteen minutes and make no move to take any of it, he has repented from being a bank robber.\nRepentance requires change in the inner man-a change of character, not just a change of routine. 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BET\u2019s Being Mary Jane star has been in the public eye for quite some time, and being married to Miami Heat shooting guard, Dwayne Wade, only makes her more interesting.\nFor the May issue of Ocean Drive the 43-year-old stunner poses in Altuzarra, Norma Kamali, Emilio Pucci, and Dolce & Gabbana. Looking flawless as ever, she talks about her most challenging role yet, playing Mary Jane Paul, and her oh-so-sexy hubby.\nRead some of the gems from the interview.\nOn her The Birth of a Nation role: \u201cHe [white plantation owner] sees her and feels entitled to her body. What happens to her is one of the things that sets in motion one of the most successful slave liberations in the history of our country. I definitely didn\u2019t want to be the chick from Bring It On to screw up this incredibly important, powerful film. I just really wanted to\u2014not only as an actor, but as a sexual-assault victim myself\u2014convey the powerlessness that one feels, the voicelessness, the terror, the heartbreak, the physical, emotional, spiritual devastation. This experience was extremely powerful and moving, and it happened at the right time in my life, when I needed to find more purpose in my work. And I found it.\u201d\nOn the lack of diversity in Hollywood: \u201cHalf the time, [African Americans] don\u2019t even get the opportunity to fail. At least let me audition, so you can say I just wasn\u2019t good enough, but most times black actors can\u2019t even get in the door. The idea that the playing field has ever been equal is a farce. With leaps and bounds of advances, it\u2019s still grossly unequal\u2014and that goes for the Latino, Asian, Middle Eastern, and LGBT communities as well. We\u2019ve made strides, but if Hollywood is really going to mirror the world that it\u2019s catering to, we have a long, long way to go.\u201d\nOn getting married: \u201cD and I could have gone on for a long time as boyfriend and girlfriend but the kids were the driving force in wanting us to be a legitimate, like, real\u2014and I\u2019m using my finger quotes\u2014family in their eyes. We got on board with it, and it\u2019s the best decision we could have made\u2014not just for us as a couple, but for our family.\u201d\nOn fun family activities: \u201cOne of D\u2019s favorite things to do as a family is go to Walmart. We really enjoy Walmart, Target, going to the grocery store. He loves to take the dogs to the car wash. He\u2019s the guy with the Maltese at the car wash! But in Miami, it\u2019s more challenging. He\u2019d never make it through Walgreens. Although I have attempted to send him for tampons, he won\u2019t do it! 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It is very quick to take offence, and its fragility means that it has to rely on threats of violence or death in order to keep its adherents in line.\nMuch of the criticism of Pamela Geller\u2019s recent Mohammed cartoon exhibition was that it was \u2018provocative\u2019 to Muslims. 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Even when those faiths impinge on the rights of others, our leaders are completely hamstrung by the fear of being labelled [insert name of religion]-ophobic, and will do almost anything to avoid laying the blame at the feet of that particular religion.\nIn reality, there is only one religion that crosses this line, and we all know which one it is. Victimhood and grievance mongering by Muslims living in the West has been raised to the level of an art form. Whenever Western culture fails to comply with Islamic demands, usually for special treatment in preference to the native population, it is an opportunity for the professionally aggrieved to cry \u2018racism\u2019 and \u2018Islamophobia\u2019.\nThis is because Islamic political ideology teaches its adherents to believe that they are superior to the filthy kuffar (non-Muslims) in every conceivable way, which goes a long way towards explaining why Muslims are so perpetually offended by anything and everything. How dare the infidels refuse us our requests!\nThe Mohammed cartoons are the thin end of a very fat wedge \u2013 Western society is so abhorrent to Islam in so many ways that eventually we will self-censor our way of life out of existence, which makes the response of the liberal left and the Western mainstream media so dangerous and frightening.\n\u00ab Pope says Abbas is \u2018angel of peace\u2019\nExtracting jizya from the infidels \u00bb\nInterestingly, the article, although provocative, does make use of the word \u201cIslamists\u201d to describe the vicious, murderous thugs who gunned down the 12 at Charlie Hebdo. Usually, they are referred to as \u201cextremists\u201d, meaning that \u201cnormal\u201d muslims don\u2019t do this \u2013 now we know that they are really just plain, old-fashioned, normal muslims, although just maybe more islamisty, but getting muslimy, nonetheless.\nIt seems the media is changing its lexicon. 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(2015). \"Preparation of CMC/HEC crosslinked hydrogels for drug delivery,\" BioRes. 10(4), 8339-8351.\nA novel crosslinked hydrogel was prepared from sodium carboxymethyl cellulose (CMC) and hydroxyethyl cellulose (HEC) using ammonium persulfate as an initiator and methylenebisacrylamide as a crosslinker for drug delivery. The chemical structure of the copolymer was characterized by Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy and X-ray diffraction, and the morphology was observed under scanning electron microscopy. The swelling behavior of the hydrogels confirmed the pH- and ionic strength-sensitivity. The reversibility of the hydrogels and the on-off switching behavior were also investigated, providing the potential for drug delivery. The release of bovine serum albumin (BSA) from drug-loaded hydrogels was studied at different pH conditions to simulate gastrointestinal conditions. The amount of BSA released from the hydrogels at pH 1.2 was relatively low (17.8%), while 85.2% was released at pH 7.4. According to the results, the CMC/HEC hydrogel has the potential for use in the controlled release of oral medication.\nXiaoxiang Wen,a Dengshan Bao,a Mingjie Chen,a,b Aiping Zhang,b Chuanfu Liu,a,* and Runcang Sun a,c\nKeywords: Hydrogel; Carboxymethyl cellulose; Hydroxyethyl cellulose; Controlled release; pH sensitivity; Bovine serum albumin\nContact information: a: State Key Laboratory of Pulp and Paper Engineering, South China University of Technology, Guangzhou 510640, China; b: Institute of New Energy and New Material, Guangdong Key Laboratory for Innovative Development and Utilization of Forest Plant Germplasm, South China Agricultural University, Guangzhou 510642, China; c: Beijing Key Laboratory of Lignocellulosic Chemistry, Beijing Forestry University, Beijing 100083, China;\n* Corresponding author: chfliu@scut.edu.cn\nHydrogels are three-dimensional, water-swollen, polymeric networks containing chemical or physical crosslinks such as ionic interaction, hydrogen bonding, or hydrophobic interaction (Peppas et al. 2000; Bakass et al. 2002; Jao et al. 2009). Hydrogels made from synthetic polymers such as polymethacrylates, polyacrylates, and polyacrylamides have been extensively reported (Chen and Zhao 2000; Krul et al. 2000). However, the toxicity and carcinogenicity of the residual monomers in these hydrogels might pose problems for their use in drug delivery, tissue engineering, and personal hygiene products (Anbergen and Oppermann 1990; Pourjavadi et al. 2006).\nDue to a number of exceptional properties including biocompatibility, biodegradability, renewability, and non-toxicity, polysaccharides have received a lot of attention regarding the preparation of hydrogels, especially smart hydrogels sensitive to pH, temperature, ionic strength, electricity, etc. (Chen et al. 2004b; Liang et al. 2004; Sannino et al. 2005; Coviello et al. 2007). These responsive hydrogels have become an important area of research and development in the fields of medicine, pharmaceuticals, and biotechnology (Hoffman 2002).\nCellulose is one of the most important polysaccharides due to its economic advantages and versatility (Tom\u0161i\u010d et al. 2007). Sodium carboxymethyl cellulose (CMC), the only anionic polyelectrolyte among most water-soluble cellulose derivatives, contains many hydrophilic hydroxyl and carboxyl groups, which give it the potential for use in preparing pH-responsive hydrogels (Huang et al. 2003; Sannino et al. 2009; Akar et al. 2012). Hydroxyethyl cellulose (HEC), another cellulose ether with advantageous properties similar to CMC (Wang et al. 2011), possesses abundant reactive hydroxyl groups for the production of hydrogels. Moreover, HEC can effectively improve the swelling capability of hydrogels because of its excellent water retention ability (Gorgieva and Kokol 2011). In recent decades, the preparation of hydrogels has been focused on grafting and copolymerization (Madsen and Peppas 1999; Marsano et al. 2000). In the present study, a novel crosslinked pH-responsive hydrogel with high water-retention ability was prepared from CMC and HEC. The properties of the prepared CMC/HEC crosslinked hydrogel were characterized using Fourier transform infrared (FT-IR) spectroscopy, X-ray diffraction (XRD), and scanning electron microscopy (SEM). The swelling capacity of the hydrogels was measured in various solutions with a wide range of pH values. The pH- and ionic strength-sensitivity and reversibility were also investigated. The release of bovine serum albumin (BSA) from drug-loaded hydrogels was examined in simulated gastric fluid (pH 1.2) and intestinal fluid (pH 7.4).\nCMC with different molecular weights (expressed with viscosity 2500 to 4500, 800 to 1200, and 300 to 800 mPa\u2022s, denoted as CMC-1, CMC-2, and CMC-3, respectively) and HEC with a viscosity of 80 to 125 mPa\u2022s were obtained from Aladdin Reagent Co. (Shanghai, China). BSA was obtained from Boao Biological Technology Co., Ltd. (Shanghai, China). Ammonium persulfate (APS) and methylenebisacrylamide (MBA) were purchased from Lingfeng Chemical Reagent Co., Ltd. (Shanghai, China). Na2HPO4, NaH2PO4, and all other chemicals were obtained from Guangzhou Chemical Reagent Factory (Guangdong, China). CMC and HEC were of USP grade, and all other chemicals were of analytical grade. All chemicals were used as received without any purification.\nPreparation of CMC/HEC Hydrogel\nCrosslinking polymerization of CMC and HEC was carried out using APS as a free radical initiator and MBA as a hydrophilic crosslinker, according to the following procedure:\nHEC was dispersed into distilled water in a 100 mL three-neck flask in an oil bath with magnetic agitation for 5 min at 70 \u00b0C. CMC was introduced into the clear HEC dispersion. The mass ratio of CMC to HEC was 3:1, and the total concentration of CMC and HEC was 2 wt%. The resulting mixture was stirred overnight to obtain a clear and highly viscous solution. Then, the initiator APS (0.5% based on the total polymer CMC and HEC), previously dissolved in 5 mL distilled water, was added dropwise into the CMC/HEC solution. Crosslinker MBA (5%), also previously dissolved in 5 mL distilled water, was added 10 to 15 min later, and the reaction was carried out at 85 \u00b0C under N2atmosphere for 30 min. After the required time, the mixture was cooled to ambient temperature. The resultant gel was immersed in 300 mL ethanol for 24 h, which was repeated twice to completely remove water. The product was dried to a constant weight at 50 \u00b0C, cut into small pieces, and stored away from moisture, heat, and light before use. The hydrogels prepared from CMC-1, CMC-2, and CMC-3 were denoted as Gel-1, Gel-2, and Gel-3, respectively.\nSwelling and Sensitivity Measurements\nA certain amount of dry sample was put in a nylon bag (400 mesh size) and immersed in ultrapure water or phosphate-buffered saline (PBS) at 20 \u00b0C. The bags were removed from water or PBS buffer at regular intervals and surface water was carefully blotted with filter paper without applying pressure. The swollen hydrogels were weighed and the degree of swelling was measured by the following equation (Kumar et al. 2010),\nDegree of swelling = (Wt \u2013 Wo)/Wo \u00d7 100% (1)\nwhere Wt and Wo are the weight of the swollen hydrogel at time t and the weight of dry samples, respectively.\nThe swelling capacity of the crosslinked hydrogels was investigated at different pHs (pH 1.2 to 8.8). The maximum degree of swelling was determined as swelling capacity at the corresponding pH values.\nThe pH sensitivity and reversibility was investigated by alternately immersing in buffer solutions with pH 1.2 and 5.5. The pH values were precisely monitored by a pH meter and 0.1 \u00b10.0001 g of the dry sample was used for the swelling measurements according to above-mentioned method.\nThe ionic strength sensitivity and reversibility were investigated by alternately immersing in ultrapure water and 0.1 M PBS buffer. The dry sample (0.1 \u00b10.0001 g) was used for the swelling measurements according to above-mentioned method.\nCharacterization of the Crosslinked Hydrogels\nThe physico-chemical properties of the crosslinked hydrogels were characterized with FT-IR, XRD, and SEM, according to previous publications (Lan et al. 2011; Chen et al. 2013).\nBSA Loading and Release\nDrug loading was carried out according to the published method (Chen et al. 2004a) at 4 \u00b0C by swelling the crosslinked hydrogels in BSA/purified water solution until an equilibrium swelling state was achieved. The samples were then taken out, dried, and weighed. To confirm the percentage of drug loading in hydrogels, the amount of BSA solution left in the loading medium was detected at a wavelength of 280 nm using a UV spectrophotometer.\nThe release of BSA from drug-loaded hydrogels was performed at 37 \u00b0C by suspension in 50 mL PBS buffer (pH 7.4, simulated intestinal fluid) and HCl (pH 1.2, simulated gastric fluid) at room temperature in a shaking water bath. Samples were removed from the release media at regular intervals and the release of BSA was estimated using a UV spectrophotometer. The same volume of fresh PBS buffer or HCl was added to the release media after each sampling to keep the total release media constant.\nPreparation of Crosslinked CMC/HEC Hydrogel and FT-IR Characterization\nThis work presents the optimized synthesis of a novel hydrogel through crosslinking of CMC and HEC in a homogeneous medium using APS as a free radical initiator and MBA as a crosslinker. The possible mechanism of the crosslinking reaction is illustrated in Fig. 1. The sulfate anion-radicals generated from thermal decomposition of APS extracted hydrogen from the hydroxyl groups of the polysaccharide substrate to form the corresponding alkoxy radicals (1 and 2 from CMC; 3 and 4 from HEC) on the substrates. Then, the hydrogel formation could be carried out by the free radical reactions with MBA by crosslinking between CMC and HEC or by self-crosslinking of the free radicals on HEC or CMC. A similar crosslinking mechanism has been reported between CMC and sodium alginate (Chen and Zhao 2000).\nFig. 1. Crosslinking mechanism of CMC and HEC in the presence of APS and MBA\nFig. 2. FT-IR spectra of CMC-1 and the CMC/HEC crosslinked hydrogel samples Gel-1 and Gel-2\nFig. 3. Second derivative FT-IR spectra of CMC-1 and the CMC/HEC crosslinked hydrogel samples Gel-1 and Gel-2\nFigure 2 shows the FT-IR spectra of CMC-1 and the hydrogel samples Gel-1 and Gel-2. In the spectrum of CMC-1, the characteristic absorbance at 3438 cm-1 originated from O-H stretching. The absorbance at 2930 cm-1 is related to C-H stretching. The strong signal at 1601 cm-1 is due to C=O stretching. The bands at 1417 and 1384 cm-1 are attributed to O-H bending, and the band at 1325 cm-1is assigned to C-H bending. The prominent band at 1063 cm-1 corresponds to the C-O-C pyranose ring vibration. A new shoulder appeared at 1750 cm-1 from the amide group in the spectra of Gel-1 and Gel-2, indicating the successful attachment of amide onto CMC after crosslinking CMC and HEC with MBA as a crosslinker. To further confirm the detailed position of absorption bands and their changes, second derivative transformations of the FT-IR spectra of CMC-1 and the crosslinked hydrogels were studied, as illustrated in Fig. 3. In the C-H stretching region, the bands at 2930, 2877, and 2853 cm-1were observed in the spectra of CMC and hydrogels. In addition, a new absorption at 2950 cm-1appeared in Gel-1 and Gel-2, which was probably due to crosslinking with MBA and HEC. In the C=O stretching region, more detailed absorption information was observed in the second derivative FT-IR spectra than in the FT-IR spectra. The overlapped band at 1601 cm-1 in Fig. 2 was derived from the bands at 1668 cm-1 from the stretching of carbonyl groups, 1629 cm-1 from the bending of absorbed water, and 1586 cm-1 from the stretching of carboxylates, as shown in Fig. 3. Compared with the spectrum of CMC-1, the presence of the absorption band at 1750 cm-1 from the amide group in the spectra of Gel-1 and Gel-2 clearly indicated the occurrence of crosslinking.\nThe X-ray diffraction curves of the CMC and the crosslinked hydrogels are shown in Fig. 4. A strong broad crystalline peak in the range 20.3\u00b0 to 21.1\u00b0 present in all the curves was assigned to the (110) plane of cellulose II crystals, indicating the typical cellulose II structure in CMC and the crosslinked hydrogels. Noticeably, this crystalline peak shifted towards a higher 2\u03b8 direction at 21.1\u00b0 in Gel-1 compared with that at 20.3\u00b0 in CMC-1. Similar results were also reported in the preparation of hydrogels from CMC crosslinked with fumaric acid (Akar et al. 2012).\nFig. 4. X-ray diffraction curves of CMC-1 (a), Gel-1 (b), Gel-2 (c), and Gel-3 (d)\nThe SEM micrographs of the freeze-dried samples are shown in Fig. 5. These micrographs confirmed the macroporous structure of the crosslinked hydrogels (Fig. 5A-C). It is supposed that these macropores are regions of water permeation and interaction sites. The inner interwoven structure of the pores is shown in Fig. 5D. These macroporous architectures provided large specific surface area, resulting in better matrix-water interaction and easier water absorption. The average pore size of crosslinked CMC/HEC hydrogels was about 20 to 100 \u00b5m. It was also noted that the higher molecular weight of CMC caused more orderly three-dimensional structures of crosslinked hydrogels with relatively large and uniform pores (Fig. 5A-C). It was inferred that the degree of swelling of the crosslinked hydrogels should be enhanced with the improved molecular weight of the CMC used.\nFig. 5. SEM images of the crosslinked hydrogels\nSwelling Studies\nThe swelling capacity of crosslinked CMC/HEC hydrogels was investigated in different solutions with a wide range of pH values. Figure 6 reveals the effect of pH on the swelling capacity of Gel-1 at various pH solutions ranging from 1.2 to 8.8. The maximum swelling capacity was observed at about pH 5. The pKa of carboxylic groups was reported to be approximately 4.6 (Taleb et al. 2009). Under very acidic conditions (pH 1.2), most of carboxylate anions were protonated, eliminating the main anion-anion repulsion (Kabiri et al. 2010) and leading to a remarkable decrease in swelling capacity. At higher pH (pH > 5), some of the carboxylate groups were ionized, and the enhanced electrostatic anion-anion repulsion caused a dramatically improved swelling capacity. However, the swelling ratio began to decrease at pH > 5, which was probably due to the \u201ccharge screening effect\u201d of Na+, preventing effective anion-anion repulsion by shielding carboxylate anions. Similar pH-dependent swelling was reported in hydrogels prepared by grafting copolymerization from acrylic acid and acrylamide onto chitosan in the presence of potassium persulfate (KPS) and MBA (Mahdavinia et al.2004).\nSince the CMC/HEC crosslinked hydrogels showed different swelling behavior in various pH solutions, the reversible swelling-deswelling behavior of the hydrogels was explored in buffer solutions with pH 1.2 and 5.5. Figure 7 illustrates the pH-responsive on-off switching behavior of Gel-1. At pH 5.5, Gel-1 swelled due to the high electrostatic anion-anion repulsion, while it shrank at pH 1.2 within several minutes due to the protonation of carboxylate anions, indicating that the pH-responsive swelling-deswelling behavior of the hydrogels occurs quickly and reversibly. This on-off switching behavior makes them suitable candidates for potential drug delivery systems.\nFig. 6. Swelling capacity of the crosslinked Gel-1 in various pH solutions\nFig. 7. On-off switching behavior as reversible swelling (pH 5.5) and deswelling (pH 1.2) of Gel-1\nMoreover, the ionic strength-responsive swelling-deswelling behavior of the hydrogels was examined in ultrapure water and 0.1 M PBS buffer. Figure 8 shows the on-off switching behavior of Gel-1. The swelling capacity of Gel-1 in 0.1 M PBS buffer (about 60 g/g) was expectedly lower than in ultrapure water (about 90 g/g), probably due to the \u201ccharge screening effect\u201d of cations in PBS buffer, which led to the reduction of osmotic pressure and subsequent loss of swelling. In ultrapure water, Gel-1 easily swelled with increased time. As expected, the swollen Gel-1 deswelled slowly when immersed in 0.1 M PBS buffer. More importantly, the PBS loaded in Gel-1 was slowly replaced by water when the shrunken Gel-1 was immersed again in ultrapure water, resulting in slow enhancement of swelling. This ionic strength-responsive on-off switching behavior of hydrogels with the alternative treatment with ultrapure water and 0.1 M PBS buffer is a result of the ion exchange ability of the carboxylate group.\nFig. 8. On-off switching behavior as reversible swelling (ultrapure water) and deswelling (0.1 M PBS buffer) of Gel-1\nDue to the pH sensitivity and reversibility of the crosslinked hydrogels, the incorporation of BSA as a model drug was performed, and the subsequent release of BSA was investigated in simulated gastric fluid (pH 1.2, HCl) and intestinal fluid (pH 7.4, PBS buffer). Figure 9 illustrates the cumulative release of BSA from Gel-1 in PBS buffer (pH 7.4, a) and HCl (pH 1.2, b) at room temperature. As shown in Fig. 9, the initial burst release of BSA was followed by a slow release and another increased release. About 16.8% of the loaded BSA was released within the first hour during the burst release stage from Gel-1 at pH 7.4. The slow release of BSA over 27 h cumulatively released 50% of the loaded BSA. The subsequent increased release, probably due to the partial dissolution of hydrogels, lasted for another 23 h. The total release of the loaded BSA from Gel-1 at pH 7.4 was 85.2% within 50 h of the entire release stage. However, the release of BSA at pH 1.2 was much simpler than that at pH 7.4. The BSA release only lasted for 6 h, including the initial burst release within the first 2 h and a slow release in the following 4 h. The cumulative BSA release in the initial burst release stage was 10.5% within 0.5 h and 15.7% within 2 h. Only 2% BSA was released during the 4 h of the following slow release stage and almost no BSA was released at pH 1.2 after 6 h. The total release of the loaded BSA was only 17.8%, which was much lower than the 85.2% BSA released at pH 7.4. This decreased release behavior of BSA at pH 1.2 was consistent with the results from swelling studies in different pH solutions.\nAs shown in the lower right corner inset of Fig. 9, the cumulative BSA release at the initial burst release stage is proportional to the square root of time, indicating that the size of the pores in hydrogels was larger than the hydrodynamic radius of BSA and that the release of the unbound BSA followed Fickian diffusion (Ritger and Peppas 1987; Cad\u00e9e et al. 2002; Chen et al. 2004a). At this stage, the crosslinked hydrogels served as diffusion barriers, and BSA was released mainly by a diffusion mechanism (Cad\u00e9e et al. 2002). More than 85% of the loaded BSA was still trapped in hydrogels after the initial burst release, suggesting that most of the BSA loaded in hydrogels was bound to the hydrogel network due to the intermolecular interactions between BSA and the crosslinked hydrogel network.\nThe total release of the loaded BSA was 17.8% and 85.2% in simulated gastric fluid (pH 1.2) and intestinal fluid (pH 7.4), respectively, as shown in Fig. 9. The higher release of BSA in simulated intestinal fluid was attributed to pH sensitivity of the prepared CMC/HEC hydrogels. The significant differences in BSA release between simulated gastric fluid and intestinal fluid implied a potential for controlled release of oral medication and a desirable protection for delivery in the stomach before being transferred to the intestines.\nFig. 9. Cumulative release profiles of BSA from a) Gel-1 in PBS buffer (pH 7.4) and b) HCl (pH 1.2)\nA novel hydrogel was successfully prepared from two cellulose derivatives, CMC and HEC, using APS as an initiator and MBA as a crosslinking agent. 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Enjoy!\n- With facial recognition software becoming more popular, it raises a question as to who owns the copyright to your face.\n- TVs may soon be transparent. Samsung recently applied for a trademark in the EU for \"The Window.\"\n- The U.S. Copyright Office revised the Digital Millennium Copyright Act to make it easier for people to repair their devices.\n- The United States Supreme Court granted certiorari in two intellectual property cases. The first addresses the definition of \"full cost\" in the Copyright Act, and the second considers whether or not the United States government can challenge the validity of a USPTO patent.\n- USPTO director Andrei Iancu recently gave a speech highlighting some of the major changes he wants to make as director of the patent office. This includes changing the structure and procedures of the PTAB. Read his speech here.\n- Did our founding fathers predict the outcome of a major patent case over two hundred years ago?\nKings and Queens of Pop\n- Prince's estate filed a trademark application for the late singer's favorite shade of purple.\n- Michael Jackson's estate recently filed to renew his logo, causing speculation that new songs might be released.\n- Nicki Minaj is being sued for copyright infringement by Tracy Chapman for sampling a song without Chapman's permission.\n- There is a windowless bunker at Disney that houses about 65 million items related to Disney intellectual property.\n- Some apple varieties have their own trademark management companies.\n- A long time ago the value of pi was almost changed to 3.2 and copyrighted by the Indiana General Assembly.\n- Just in time for Halloween, here are some interesting pop-culture knockoff costumes!\nJustin from Alt Legal", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00240.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 94, + "original_length": 3550, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.92, + "perplexity": 327.6, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "https://blog.credit.com/2016/09/a-few-extra-pounds-can-hurt-your-job-chances-study-says-especially-for-women-158535/", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T04:22:50Z", + "digest": "sha1:VLBLGR6TNV4JSNGVQH2ED6P6NTE2KTVE", + "length": 3279, + "nlines": 12, + "source_domain": "blog.credit.com", + "title": "A Few Extra Pounds Can Hurt Your Job Chances, Study Says, Especially for Women | Credit.com", + "raw_content": "Home > Uncategorized > A Few Extra Pounds Can Hurt Your Job Chances, Study Says, Especially for Women\nA Few Extra Pounds Can Hurt Your Job Chances, Study Says, Especially for Women\nSeptember 22, 2016 \u2022 min read by Jill Krasny 0 Comments\nGetting soft around the middle may not just trigger a bout of self-consciousnesses \u2014 it could throw a wrench into your chances of landing a job. At least that\u2019s according to a study recently published in the journal Plos One, which found weight gain can hamper a job applicant\u2019s prospects, particularly if that applicant is female.\nThe team of Scottish and U.K. researchers, Dennis Nickson, Andrew R. Timming, Daniel Re and David I. Perrett, decided to explore whether a slight change in weight could turn employers off. What they found wasn\u2019t pretty: \u201cEmploying a unique simulation of altering individuals\u2019 BMIs (body mass index) and the literature on \u2018aesthetic labour,\u2019 the study suggests that, especially for women, being heavier, but still within a healthy BMI, deleteriously impacts on hireability ratings,\u201d they concluded. Here\u2019s how.\nIn 2013, a group of 60 men and 60 women were asked to imagine themselves as company recruiters reviewing snapshots of applicants. Each photo showed four men and four women, all white and lacking expression, and at various, digitally enhanced weights. Though the various weights fell within healthy BMI ranges, the changes were apparent to the untrained eye. Still, participants were assured that the candidates all had ideal resumes.\nImage courtesy PLOS One\nWhen asked to hire each, on a scale of 1 (extremely unlikely) to 7 (extremely likely), for customer-facing roles or more independent jobs, the \u201crecruiters\u2019 \u201d responses were striking. (Keep in mind, they were asked to go on their gut, unlike what most human managers would be advised, given legal precautions.)\nThinner faces were deemed more employable than fuller ones, especially for the customer-facing roles. What\u2019s more, the \u2018original\u2019 versions received an average score of 4.84, while the corresponding heavier ones averaged 4.61.\nLarger women received even more of a knock, being rated 0.66 lower on average, compared to 0.26 lower for men. \u201cFor women, it seems, even seemingly minute changes to the shape, size and weight of the body are important,\u201d the researchers said.\nSo what\u2019s a woman to do? Countering societal expectations is hard enough, and women currently earn less than men, dollar for dollar. The gender pay gap for women of color and mothers is even worse, according to The American Association of University Women, a think tank focused on promoting equality and education for all women and girls.\nFortunately, you can research employers ahead of time to find ones that will judge you based on work and not on appearance. And you should always do your best to prove yourself on the merits of your work. Because some employers check a version of your credit reports during the application process, particularly for roles that require government security clearance, it wouldn\u2019t hurt to get your finances in order. 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He walks to reception and introduces himself as a consultant working for a well-known global company. He explains that he\u2019s late for a very important meeting.\nThe consultant doesn\u2019t have an ID badge. But he mentions two employees of the company that he agreed to meet. The man emphasizes that he\u2019s already late for the meeting, and begs the receptionist to let him in.\nThe receptionist tries to call the employees that the consultant mentioned, but neither of them answers the phone. That\u2019s no surprise \u2013 both are on a business trip on the other side of the globe. The consultant explains that there\u2019s a large sum of money at stake. This explanation, and the implied consequences of delaying the meeting, intimidates the receptionist into letting the consultant in the building.\nIn reality, the man in a suit isn\u2019t a business consultant. He\u2019s a cyber security professional trying to break into the company\u2019s information systems using any means necessary. It\u2019s what\u2019s called a Red Team \u2013 an exercise where cyber security professionals test customer organizations by trying to find vulnerabilities that can lead to data breaches.\nEven though the example above is fictional, our security experts use similar tactics in real Red Team drills. Made-up stories and disguises are useful tools to access buildings that would otherwise be restricted to the public.\n\u201cTo date, our cyber security professionals have a 100% success rate in Red Team drills,\u201d says Janne Kauhanen from our Cyber Security Services unit.\nThis story is based on an article by the Finnish broadcasting company, YLE, published online on March 5, 2017.\nConsidering a Red Team exercise? 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After all, do you really know what to do to keep your bank information safe when using it online?\nA recent Bank of America survey found that 62 percent of Americans now use digital services (such as online portals or mobile apps) as their primary means of banking. That\u2019s up from 51 percent in 2015, and 47 percent in 2014. Two years in a row might be a coincidence, but three years in a row make this a trend.\nAnd unlike some online trends, it\u2019s pretty easy to see the appeal of digital banking services. It saves customers the trouble of visiting a physical branch or machine, and cuts down on wait times that come with telephone banking.\nBut there\u2019s a catch. Digital banking services don\u2019t provide the same kind of security people get when they actually visit a bank, or even an automatic bank/teller machine (known as an ATM in many parts of the world).\n\u201cOnline banking basically puts a bank machine on the internet. But the World Wide Web, Wi-Fi networks, and devices don\u2019t offer people the level of security they expect from banks,\u201d says F-Secure Security Advisor Sean Sullivan. \u201cBanks aren\u2019t ignoring these risks, but basic man-in-the-middle attacks are more than enough to compromise the security of an online banking session.\u201d\nMan-in-the-middle (MITM) attacks are when an attacker is able to place themselves in between two parties exchanging information, allowing attackers to monitor or even change the information being communicated. So when you\u2019re doing banking over the internet, you\u2019re sending/receiving information like passwords, financial details, and other data that MITM hackers can steal and use to break into your bank account.\nBut this doesn\u2019t mean you should shy away from using these services. Here\u2019s a few pieces of expert advice you can keep in mind when exchanging bank account details, or really any type of sensitive information over the internet.\nDevices are the Weakest Link\nYour PC isn\u2019t an ATM. It doesn\u2019t have the same security features. It\u2019s not in a location monitored by the bank. Taking care of it is up to you.\nIf you do online banking with your PC, make sure you secure your computer with reliable security software that includes anti-phishing and banking protection features.\nMobile Apps might be safer than other Digital Banking Services\nIt may surprise you to learn that mobile banking apps can be better options than banking services offered through web browsers. \u201cOfficial banking apps are better protected against MITM attacks than most web-based services,\u201d says Sean. \u201cAs long as you stick to the official apps endorsed by your bank.\u201d\nSo if your bank has a mobile app available for your device, it\u2019s probably safer to use than a website. But remember to use a VPN when sending data with your device\u2019s Wi-Fi connection, as this is often the least secure way to connect to the internet.\nYou\u2019re Responsible for Managing your Money, so be Proactive with Security\nAccording to Sean, banks aren\u2019t completely hands-off when it comes to securing internet banking services. \u201cBanks use anti-fraud algorithms to protect their customers from criminals using hacked accounts,\u201d he said. \u201cBut this system is hardly perfect.\u201d\nBut proactively protecting your money is just good security advice. 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With idu-Concept, financial managers of SMEs can improve turnaround times, increase business unit ownership of budgets, enable integrated and inclusive planning to build transparency and accountability, reduce administrative overload, and improve reporting. Previously only available as an on-site installation, idu-Concept wasn\u2019t feasible for SMEs from a cost point of view, despite the benefits of shifting budgeting and reporting from spreadsheets to the IDU financial management environment.\nNow, thanks to cloud-based delivery of the software via AWS Marketplace, SMEs can self-provision the software in a fraction of the time and cost, transforming their budgeting process from a manual and inefficient process to an automated, speedy and accurate one. Self-service installation, supported by video tutorials, can be as quick as a couple of hours with no installation charges. SMEs also get the typical benefits of a cloud-based service: they only pay for what they need; can ramp the service up and down depending on requirements; and there is no need for capital expenditure in on-site hardware.\nIdu-Concept fixes the inefficiencies in financial budgeting and reporting by replacing spreadsheets with easy-to-use, intuitive control panels to capture and report on budgets. By providing reliable access to defined and disclosed budgets, idu-Concept allows financial and non-financial managers to be in control of their accounts at all times. Plus, the financial reporting module allows users to keep track of their actuals in real time along with the tools analyse this data against the existing budget.\nWith 71% of companies using spreadsheets for large financial decisions, and a third saying they have made poor decisions thanks to spreadsheet issues, idu-Concept directly impacts a business\u2019s bottom-line by ensuring accuracy, accountability, transparency and speed to the financial budgeting and reporting process.\n\"Thanks to the extension of the AWS Marketplace, small and medium businesses around the world can now also revolutionise how they manage their financial budgeting and reporting,\" said Kevin Phillips, IDU CEO. \"No more spreadsheets, errors, lack of accountability and poor decisions thanks to lack of visibility. It is as important for SMEs to avoid these costly inefficiencies as it is for bigger companies. 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But if you\u2019re someone who is a little more relaxed in your approach, and that\u2019s no longer working for you, my top recommendation is to invest in a quality planner. There are a TON out there, but it\u2019s important to choose one that\u2019s a fit for your personality, as well as your workflow. It\u2019s not going to do you any good if you don\u2019t actually enjoy using it, so take some time to be sure you\u2019re selecting the right one.\nThere are certain planners which are geared specifically towards musicians and music industry professionals. They have a place to track your monthly and weekly goals, write out daily tasks, and reflect on the progress you\u2019ve made each week. They even include a place to map out your social media content, keep track of your newsletter themes and track opens, and space to reflect on some of the bigger questions that guide progress like \u201cwhere do I want to be a year from now?\u201d and \u201cwhat do I need to budget for?\u201d\nOnce you know what it is you\u2019re going after, make sure you\u2019re scheduling regular check-ins with yourself. My suggestion is monthly, but do what works for you. By making the time to assess where it is you\u2019re at and measure that against where you want to be, you can be sure that you\u2019re always moving forward.\nFor instance, if you knew that in January you wanted to have the routing for your next tour all set, but when you do your check-in at the end of January you realize you haven\u2019t quite completed all the cities, it allows you to A) make finishing that a priority before the end of the month or B) adjust future goals/expected outcomes to accommodate the extra time you need.\nThis leads me perfectly into our next point\u2014don\u2019t be afraid to change it up and play around with your schedule. While you don\u2019t want to be constantly changing your goals, especially if it\u2019s because you find you\u2019re just not making time for them, there\u2019s no shame in deciding that you want to pursue a different path or go in a new direction.\nRemember, you want to have a plan and an outline of what you\u2019re going for in the long-term, but how you get there is up to you. If something is working then great! Stick with it. But if it\u2019s not, there\u2019s no harm in trying something new. Have a plan, but be flexible.\nRe-evaluate at the 6-month mark\nIf you\u2019ve been doing the above check-ins, then you\u2019re probably already on track for a successful year of achieving your goals\u2014so this 6-month check-in won\u2019t be too different. However, what makes the half-year mark a little more significant, is that it shows an undeniable history of how you\u2019ve spent the first half of your year. By taking in the full 6-months (rather than just the last month or so as you\u2019ve been doing), you get a sense of the larger picture.\nHave you been in hustle mode and as a result you\u2019ve met most or all of your monthly goals? Or have you had some trouble sticking to a plan and you\u2019ve only met one or two of your goals? The idea here isn\u2019t to shame yourself or feel guilty\u2014it\u2019s simply to assess where you\u2019re at and what\u2019s been working well or not working at all so that you can adjust and make sure you\u2019re giving it all you\u2019ve got for those remaining 6 months.\nEveryone needs a support system, and most of us would do well to have some kind of accountability buddy or regular group check-in like a mastermind. Depending on your schedule and the type of person you are, you can find your support system through a Facebook community, an in-person industry meetup, or a weekly or monthly mastermind with 2-3 other musicians or industry professionals who are in the same situation as you, and who you can find encouragement and inspiration in (that last part is especially important).\nThe goal is to have some accountability while also having a support system you can turn to in times of frustration and confusion, as well as joy and celebration. Find the people that make you want to be better, and make them an integral part of your life.\nLane Barrett - January 30, 2019 reply\nOur growth has been exponentially exploded. Our fan base, followers and likes have surpassed our expectations and it\u2019s only Jan. 2019 \u2013 This year is definitely a win win situation with record producers, musicians and fans coming to us for support, advise, innovative technical and networking opportunities and commitments. For years, we\u2019ve maintain an \u201cunder-the- radar\u201d status as we\u2019ve built up our reputation, knowledge, connections and talent. Our Mark on the industry promises to be an indelible contribution to the future of our brand, continuum and success across the intergalactic community. \u2013 Thanks to All Of You, We\u2019re on track for the Arrival\u2026.. Stay Tuned.", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00240.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 95, + "original_length": 7878, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.95, + "perplexity": 230.7, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "https://blog.sanebox.com/tag/social-impact/", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T03:20:38Z", + "digest": "sha1:S2PLE5FLUTFZ3EJ7UQM4UXMDE52VTM6X", + "length": 992, + "nlines": 5, + "source_domain": "blog.sanebox.com", + "title": "social impact \u2013 SaneBox Blog", + "raw_content": "Tag: social impact\nThe Productivity Giants Series with Adam Braun, Co-Founder of MissionU\nThis week on the #ProductivityGiants series we\u2019re featuring Adam Braun \u2013 a New York Times best-selling author and CEO and Co-Founder of MissionU, a 21st century college alternative that allows students to graduate debt-free. MissionU also prepares them with the skills needed for today\u2019s most in-demand jobs, partnering with top companies such as Spotify, Lyft, Uber, Warby Parker and more. The first cohort received nearly 5,000 applicants for the first 25 spots and they\u2019ll be expanding significantly to meet demand in 2018. Prior to MissionU, Adam founded and led Pencils of Promise, an award-winning global nonprofit that has built 400+ schools across the world and raised more than $45M.\nContinue reading \u201cThe Productivity Giants Series with Adam Braun, Co-Founder of MissionU\u201d\nPosted in ProductivityTagged entrepreneurship, productivity giants, productivity giants series, social impact, startups", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00240.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 78, + "original_length": 2579, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.91, + "perplexity": 256.3, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "https://blogs.cul.columbia.edu/burke/staff-contributors/", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T04:09:15Z", + "digest": "sha1:LLZRM67BNNOWSNH55IMGVG3EWRE4NXUJ", + "length": 1792, + "nlines": 5, + "source_domain": "blogs.cul.columbia.edu", + "title": "Staff Contributors | The Burke Library Blog", + "raw_content": "Matthew Baker is the Head of the Burke Library. He also develops and manages the print and electronic collections, from the rare and unique to the newly published, and provides research support for religion and theology.\nCarolyn Bratnober is the Public Services Librarian at the Burke Library. She develops programming and library instruction, provides reference and research assistance, curates exhibits, and manages social media for the library. She earned an MA from Union Theological Seminary and earned her Master of Information & Library Science degree from the Pratt Institute.\nMyongyee Patricia Jin is the Collection Services Assistant at the Burke Library. She helps to maintain Burke\u2019s special collections and general collections, including serials/periodicals. Myong received a BA in Interdisciplinary Studies in the Humanities from the University of Chicago. She has studied Library & Information Science at LIU\u2019s Palmer School, and Interdisciplinary Humanities & Social Thought at NYU\u2019s Draper Program.\nDeanna Roberts is the Circulation and Reserves Assistant. She recently finished coursework for the Master of Divinity program at Union Theological Seminary-NYC with a concentration in Interreligious Engagement. She holds a BA in Comparative Religion from Miami University, as well as a MA from Louisville Presbyterian Theological Seminary with a focus in Judeo-Christian interactions in Late Antiquity. In her spare time Deanna enjoys taking her 7 year old dog Bella for walks, cooking, and ice skating.\nJeffrey Michael Wayno is the Collection Services Librarian. He works to build and maintain the Burke\u2019s collection of books, journals, electronic resources, and rare materials, while also providing research support in the fields of ancient, medieval, and religious studies.", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00240.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 160, + "original_length": 4367, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.94, + "perplexity": 189.6, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "https://blogs.fangraphs.com/why-mlb-postseason-tv-ratings-could-likely-to-be-down/", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T03:46:25Z", + "digest": "sha1:GWS43TVFRVUSZ37DIZLLCFWHO42MB5E6", + "length": 6409, + "nlines": 22, + "source_domain": "blogs.fangraphs.com", + "title": "Could MLB\u2019s Postseason TV Ratings Be Down? | FanGraphs Baseball", + "raw_content": "Could MLB\u2019s Postseason TV Ratings Be Down?\nTelevision ratings are a fickle thing. Not the easiest for the average fan to glean info from (Is share better than total household numbers, or\u2026?), the numbers are a source of saying that a sporting event was popular or not (for the record last year was a hit, due to the return of the Yankees to the postseason. Plus, ratings internationally were very high)\nWith the 2010 postseason nearly upon us, the question will once again be, \u201cIs baseball drifting from the collective conscious of America?\u201d Media \u2013 often of the radio ilk \u2013 has had a field day talking of how the Super Bowl, a ratings juggernaut, is \u201cx amount\u201d better than the World Series.\nThere\u2019s little discounting that the Super Bowl is far more popular than anything that a sport that offers a best of seven series can offer. The drama of a single game for all the marbles creates a massive event-driven atmosphere.\nSo, for MLB, the best form of competition is with itself. How ratings fare from one year to another dictates how much interest diehard, as well as fringe fans, have interest.\nAt its simplest level, MLB\u2019s postseason ratings game boils down to two things: market size, and brand power. More often than not, the two are intertwined, with some exceptions (this would be you, St. Louis).\nWith the regular season about to end, the \u201cbad thing\u201d, if you want to call it that, is one of likely lower ratings than in recent years. Only the future knows how the level of play is, but we could witness some of the greatest baseball played and not have it resonate with a national viewing audience from sea-to-shining-sea. In that sense, Bud Selig, and fans of parity, gets what we\u2019ve been asking for: variety. Television execs may not be so happy.\nHere\u2019s why\u2026 Based upon the standings today, these are the teams that will, or could make the postseason:\nFor the likes of FOX and TBS the ratings game hinges almost exclusively on the Yankees. With no Cubs, Dodgers, or Red Sox in play, the biggest brands from large markets are absent from this year\u2019s crop of teams. To make lemonade out of \u201cratings lemons\u201d, the networks are looking at the Braves and the Phillies to be the National League storyline to pin their best hopes for the most viewers in the World Series. The choice between them is somewhat of a coin flip. Both come from large markets, with postseason history. If the Phillies were to make the World Series, it would mark the third time in as many years that they had done as much, something that hasn\u2019t happened since Yankees did so from 1999-2001 (technically, they had 4 straight years in the WS starting in 1998). If they were to win the Series, the \u201cdynasty discussion\u201d would start making the rounds. On the flip side, some fans might be turned off by a repeat of last year\u2019s Series match-up.\nIf the Braves were to go deep into the postseason and make the World Series, it would mark the first time back since 1999, and mark the return to the postseason since 2005. The advantage of the Braves from a ratings perspective lies in their market location (the South) and broad natural appeal that still lingers from TBS having them as their flagship before reaching their deal with MLB to become a national broadcast outlet (now, the Braves are treated equally with their other MLB brothers).\nAll this isn\u2019t to say that the networks wouldn\u2019t have storylines to work from with the other teams. The story for the Reds would be the first trip to the postseason since 1995, and who knows how many Big Red Machine references there\u2019d be? If the Rockies were to make the postseason, it would be a near mirror image of the white-hot run they made in 2007. For the Rays, there will be talk of their run in 2008.\nFor the Twins, it marks the first time the club has gone back-to-back to the postseason since 2002-04 and a return after meeting the Yankees last year in the ALDS. The Twins will also get to play postseason ball in Target Field, which was unveiled this season.\nFor the Giants it would mark the first time back to the postseason since 2003, and for the Padres, it would mean returning to the postseason for the first time since going back-to-back to the NLDS in 2005-06.\nFinally, there are the Rangers, who out of Tom Hicks\u2019 bumbled bankruptcy, are returning to the postseason for the first time in over a decade. The \u201cClaw and Antlers\u201d marketing, and the feel good story of Chuck Greenberg and Nolan Ryan winning at auction just a few short months ago, would give the playoffs a Texas-sized market hungry for a return to the playoffs.\nBut, back to the ratings machine\u2026 Maybe\u2026 Just maybe, what\u2019s needed is a shock to the system. Maybe what\u2019s needed is a Rockies vs. Rays World Series. In it, we get two expansion clubs that have shown recent brilliance, and yet, have no storied history upon which to lean. It would prove that the runs by the clubs (Rockies in 2007 and Rays in 2008) give the small-to-mid-markets a real chance, and make for compelling and competitive baseball. It would cause the networks (and fringe fans) to rethink baseball beyond the Pablum diet of Red Sox and Yankee tilts that ESPN and FOX jam down fans\u2019 throats, giving baseball a near brainwashed state; as if there were no other compelling storylines. And, in the end, if runs of this nature were to continue season after season, networks would actually gain some cover. After all, as this season shows, there\u2019s more than one flavor of teams cycling up and down in the standings, and therefore, instead of living with all their eggs in one basket, fans (and networks) might be more apt to follow all of MLB\u2019s clubs, not just a handful of large market teams.\nStill, chances are good that another trip to the World Series is in store for the Yankees this year. FOX and TBS are hoping so. But if not, let\u2019s look past the markets and the brands and get on bended knee\u2026 pray for great, great games. Pray that what we get from teams that haven\u2019t had regular postseason runs is incredibly compelling baseball. In that, the networks grow ratings for the future\u2026. 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While at the same time presented new challenges for artists and institutions alike in terms of considering how to create, present, archive, and conserve artistic works that exist in the digital space.\nChristiane Paul has written extensively on new media arts and lectured internationally on art and technology. Her recent books are Context Providers \u2018 Conditions of Meaning in Media Arts (Intellect, 2011), co-edited with Margot Lovejoy and Victoria Vesna; New Media in the White Cube and Beyond (UC Press, 2008); and Digital Art (Thames and Hudson 2003; expanded new edition 2008). 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Reid, a 2013 graduate of the BAFA program at Lang and Integrated Design at Parsons, had written and directed a play called One Day in the Life of Henri Shnuffle, a painstakingly personal portrait of an elderly New Yorker, which had just begun its run at a below-street-level space on Bond street. She knew that a reviewer from The New York Times had come to the show not long after opening. As the days wore on, however, there was no review. What had happened? Had the reviewer hated the show? Had his editors hated the review? Or would it simply languish, approved but unpublished, until the show finished its run? Reid began to give up hope.\nReid had begun work on the play through her time at Parsons, observing New York City\u2019s elderly population as part of her design thinking classes. This led her to start composing short stories in her writing classes at Lang about the \u201cvery strange and sad life\u201d of an old person, living in the city alone and without family. She called this man \u201cHenri Shnuffle.\u201d Then, Reid\u2019s grandfather was diagnosed with Alzheimer\u2019s, and she wanted to do something larger with this character. A play seemed like a natural step.\nWriting the play was relatively simple. But, given how personal the subject matter was, Reid also felt like she should direct. This posed something of a problem. Reid, who also plays the accordion and designs jewelry, admits that she is \u201can introvert, and more happy doing my little projects\u201d than interacting with big groups of people. The first day of rehearsal, when she first stood in front of her crew of professional theater people, in a room with more years of combined experience than she is years old, she says she \u201cwas more nervous than I\u2019ve ever been. Figuring out how to still be myself and use the fact that I\u2019m a designer to my advantage when I\u2019m directing, I found out is very helpful.\u201d\nThis interplay between design, art, and practical work is what drew her to the BAFA program in the first place. \u201cI like intellectual pursuits, but I also like working with my hands and collaborating with other artists,\u201d she says. \u201cBeing a BAFA student let me do all of those things, and balance the two sides of myself.\u201d\nSo, here she was, right in the middle of the run of an extremely personal play, developed across her flexible education tailored to her personality. Would the Times ever print their review? The answer came almost a week after the reviewer saw the show, on the night after graduation as Reid was out to dinner with her parents. Her phone buzzed. 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Sometimes it\u2019s easier to not deal and just pretend.\nAnother thing I may do is make it a point to show up to work on time, leave on time, don\u2019t complain and more or less keep a low profile. I don\u2019t want anyone knowing the truth so I do the exact opposite of how I truly feel. It\u2019s not like I make up stories about my \u201cfabulous\u201d weekend (when in fact I spent it isolating) I just don\u2019t divulge details of my life. I\u2019m vague. A conversation may go like this:\n\u201cYou do anything fun?\u201d\n\u201cYeah, I did some stuff. It was chill.\u201d\nI basically keep it short and sweet when inside it is not so chill. Inside it is chaotic, or sad, or confusing. Inside is the exact opposite of what you see on the outside.\nHaving said that, those are the ones to watch. Today I am having a bad hair day, and don\u2019t have that much make-up on so, I guess I\u2019m not a smiling depressed person.\nLoberg, E. (2018). 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We are all about public records. We love Florida because law makers in our state saw it fit to apply sunshine not just to the beaches, but to everything that goes on in government. But sadly, law makers didn\u2019t ban aging Microsoft products from making their way into systems that the public uses.\nCase in point: the upgrade of the Palm Beach County Clerk\u2019s computer system. It is based on Microsoft\u2019s \u201cSilverlight\u201d system which \u2014 quite simply \u2014 means you have to download something to make it work. It is not fast. It is also cumbersome. While booking photos now appear next to the court records of everyone charged with a criminal offense in the county, trying to read or isolate the information that you\u2019re looking for went from very fast to extraordinarily slow.\nWe are very tech savvy at BocaNewsNow.com, so it\u2019s not a matter of not understanding how it works. It\u2019s quite simply trying to understand why every element of information has been given its own hiding place.\nThis is not a slam against Sharon Bock or any of her employees who tirelessly work to please the masses. It is, however, a suggestion that perhaps Microsoft wasn\u2019t the way to go \u2014 and perhaps streamlining data so the general public can find it quickly and easily should be under consideration.\nWe welcome opposing points of view.\nNine Year Old Boy Honored By Boca Raton Fire Rescue", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00240.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 38, + "original_length": 3194, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.96, + "perplexity": 321.3, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "https://bodytomy.com/organs-in-thoracic-cavity", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T03:14:35Z", + "digest": "sha1:RFNVHI5URSU4H3DTANHYIWD2ALAEO3UC", + "length": 3653, + "nlines": 13, + "source_domain": "bodytomy.com", + "title": "Organs in the Thoracic Cavity", + "raw_content": "The rib cage protects the organs in the thoracic cavity. An injury to any of these organs can prove to be life-threatening. This Bodytomy article presents a list of the organs that need protection.\nThere are many cavities in the human body, for example, the cranial cavity in the head, the thoracic cavity, the abdominopelvic body cavity below the thoracic cavity, and the dorsal cavity that covers the backside of the body, etc. Thoracic cavity or the chest cavity is an important chamber in the human body. It is the second largest cavity in the body. The ribs, vertebral column, muscles, connective tissues, and the sternum (breast bone) enclose this cavity.\nThe thoracic cavity is lined by a serous membrane that exudes a thin fluid (serum). The chest membrane, also known as parietal pleura, extends further to cover the lungs. This part of the membrane is known as the visceral pleura. The part of the membrane that covers the heart, esophagus, and the great vessels is known as mediastinal pleura. Mediastinum refers to the middle space, the space between the lungs that extends from the sternum, back to the vertebral column. Friction between the two adjacent membranes during the process of respiration (as various organs expand and contract) is lowered by the fluid secreted by the serous membrane. The fluid acts as a lubricant.\nWhat are the Thoracic Cavity Organs?\nThe thoracic wall or rib cage is sometimes called thoracic cage. The thoracic cavity protects many organs that are vital to the functioning of the body and even life. The organs found in the thoracic cavity can be classified according to the systems to which they belong.\nOne of the most important part of the human body system is the cardiovascular system. The system consists of the heart and all the great vessels of the heart (the aorta, the pulmonary artery, the pulmonary vein, the superior vena cava, and the inferior vena cava), and the veins in the azygos system.\nThe diaphragm, lungs, trachea, and the bronchi are the main respiratory system organs in the thoracic cavity.\nMost of the digestive system organs are located in the abdominal cavity. However, the esophagus, the tube that carries food to the stomach is located in the thoracic cavity.\nThe thymus gland (it is more associated with the immune system than the endocrine system), and the thyroid gland are also important organs in the pectoral cavity.\nThe paired vagus nerves and the paired sympathetic chains are the major nervous system organs present in the chest cavity.\nThe thoracic duct, a part of lymphatic system, is also an important organ. Parietal lymph nodes located in the thoracic wall and visceral lymph nodes that are associated with the internal organs comprise thoracic lymph nodes.\nThere are empty spaces (cavities) in the thoracic cavity that are lined with mesothelium. These cavities include the two pleural cavities, one pericardial cavity, and the mediastinum. The space between the two pleurae (visceral and parietal) of the lungs is called pleural cavity. The double-walled sac called pericardium contains the heart and the roots of the great vessels. The space between the two layers of pericardium is called the pericardial cavity. As it is filled with a fluid, it protects the heart from external shocks. Thus, even the cavities play an important role in the functioning of the systems and organs.\nVarious bones such as the ribs, the clavicles, the vertebrae, and sternum help protect the organs in the thoracic cavity, and also support the body. 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Anthony Burgess takes us on a journey to a nightmarish future where sociopathic criminals rule the night. Brilliantly told in harsh invented slang by the novel\u2019s main character and merciless droog, fifteen-year-old Alex, this influential novel is now available in a student edition. The Norton Critical Edition of A Clockwork Orange is based on the first British edition and includes Burgess\u2019s original final chapter. It is accompanied by Mark Rawlinson\u2019s preface, explanatory annotations, and textual notes. A glossary of the Russian-origin terms that inspired Alex\u2019s dialect is provided to illustrate the process by which Burgess arrived at the distinctive style of this novel. \u201cBackgrounds and Contexts\u201d presents a wealth of materials chosen by the editor to enrich the reader\u2019s understanding of this unforgettable work, many of them by Burgess himself. Burgess\u2019s views on writing A Clockwork Orange, its philosophical issues, and the debates over the British edition versus the American edition and the novel versus the film adaptation are all included. Related writings that speak to some of the novel\u2019s central issues\u2014youthful style, behavior modification, and art versus morality\u2014are provided by Paul Rock and Stanley Cohen, B. F. Skinner, John R. Platt, Joost A. M. Meerloo, William Sargent, and George Steiner. \u201cCriticism\u201d is divided into two sections, one addressing the novel and the other Stanley Kubrick\u2019s film version. Five major reviews of the novel are reprinted along with a wide range of scholarly commentary, including, among others, David Lodge on the American reader; Julie Carson on linguistic invention; Zinovy Zinik on Burgess and the Russian language; Geoffrey Sharpless on education, masculinity, and violence; Shirley Chew on circularity; Patrick Parrinder on dystopias; Robbie B. H. 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In a series of reflections which combine elegy and joyful nostalgia, defined by honesty and humour, Ratzlaff recounts his personal and spiritual journey from youth to philosophical maturity. He details his experiences from careers as a minister, a counsellor, and a university instructor. These are episodes from a life spent seeking an ideal spirituality, conveying the difficulty of coming to terms with the death of a terminally-ill best friend.\nBindy's Moon is the third book in Lloyd Ratzlaff's series of literary essays. Ratzlaff is the editor of an anthology of seniors' writings published by READ Saskatoon and a columnist for the Prairie Messenger Catholic Journal. He has served on the boards of several writing organizations and taught writing classes for the University of Saskatchewan Certificate of Art & Design program and the Western Development Museum. 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Evil rising up, unleashed upon the innocent. The prophecies were there...but no one listened. Until now. The time has come for those who can either usher in Doomsday...or prevent it. They are here. They ride. The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse.\nArik Wagner, a soldier with the U.S. Army's paranormal unit, the R-XR, kissed a girl and liked it. And then he went to hell as punishment. Where he's spent weeks being tortured...and plotting revenge.\nLimos, Horsewoman of the Apocalypse, isn't your average girl. She's immortal, dangerous, and her fianc\u00e9 is Satan himself. In a moment of weakness, she gave in to her desire and kissed Arik, triggering her fianc\u00e9's wrath - and his claim on her. In order to save Arik, and the world, Limos must make a dangerous pact with her recently turned evil brother, Pestilence. A deal that might just cost her her soul...and her heart.\nI do not how many times I\u2019m going to type this\u2026but I love Larissa Ione\u2019s writing style. I love the stories that she creates. =) She\u2019s one of the FAVES that has taken over my bookshelves and my Kindle. Here\u2019s the deal on \u201cImmortal Rider.\u201d This is the book about Limos and Arik. The first chapter you read, you are in Arik\u2019s head. He\u2019s fascinated with Limos and can not stop thinking about her. Limos approach Arik and want to fight with him. Instead, Arik kisses her\u2026what happen next. He\u2019s taken to Hell because\u2026ummm\u2026well, Limos is supposed to hook up with Satan himself. Whoever kisses Limos\u2026is faced with being tortured until the guy cracks with saying Limos name. Arik is put through Hell (literally), while down in Hell, he refuses to break through. Limos is trying to get him back somehow. Arik manages to get himself out of Hell. He\u2019s not the same. Limos take it upon herself to try to get Arik back to his original self. It\u2019s not easy for her because he still thinks he\u2019s down in Hell and the demons are messing with him. She even sends for Runa (who is Arik\u2019s sister who I remember from the Demonica Series). I even got a taste of Shade again. *sigh* I miss my UG guys/gals. Larissa, takes you back and forth to Limos, Arik, Thanatos, Regan (if you want to know who she is\u2026you\u2019ll have to read this book), Ares (get to read about him again..Yay!!) and of course Reseph (or rather Pestilence) who still is a ASS! (but I love him\u2026looking forward to his book). You learn a lot about Arik in this book and what he went through as a kid and what his sister went through. You also get a glimpse of how Limos is and what made her and her brothers become the horsemen. Yup\u2026that is an interesting one. She also goes through hell in this book because of Pestilence. (what a friggin\u2019 jerk Grrr!) I loved how everything is coming together so far for the Lords of Deliverance. I understand a better on what is going on and the history of why the horsemen came to be. I love how Larissa makes everything flow in her stories. She also prepares you a little on what is going to happen next. I recommend this book for the paranormal romance lovers out there, the die-hard Larissa Ione fans (like myself), and everyone who has been thinking about trying out this series\u2026but has not gotten a chance yet. (What are you waiting for?) I\u2019m not giving anything else away in this book\u2026because I hate spoiling a book that someone wants to read or is thinking about reading. I\u2019m on to reading \u201cLethal Rider\u201d now on my Kindle. 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From Saturday, December 1st to Wednesday, January 2nd, all parking meters in the City will be free of charge. I encourage everyone to consider Everett\u2019s businesses and restaurants first when choosing holiday destinations. Small businesses help to drive our economy, and I hope that providing free parking in our community, people will shop local. 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We are excited and proud to have them aboard.\nOSAZEE ULAMEN\nAARON SCHERNIG\nELIAS SCHERNIG\nLEADING BSF INTO\nMADE HISTORY IN THE 2018 WINTER OLYMPICS. THE JOURNEY CONTINUES...\nThe first ever African Bobsled Federation!\nEmpowering all to Athletic Excellence globally.\nHelp with raising money for ``Our Bobsled Team``\nContact us for public appearances and sponsorship.\n2018 Olympic Gallery\nBSFN Calendar\nCONNECT WITH BSFN\nThe success of this bobsled team will positively affect millions of people all over the world and will represent\u2026\nThe success of this bobsled team will positively affect millions of people and will represent monumental international advancements in social, athletic, and economic statuses. We will need to fund things such as: A bobsled for practice and competition; Sled Runners (blades on the base); Tools for the sled Ice time; Cost of shipping the sled to different tracks; Transportation, lodging, travel expenses for the team; Winter gear for the team; Team Competition gear; Athlete; Misc. (registration and membership fees).\nJoin the BSFN movement today\nHelp empower the historic event. Support the ladies representing the second largest continent in the world!\nBSFN, in collaboration with iWear messages and launched an official clothing line as of fall 2017. It was a very successful launch and sponsorship by the iWear management team and the clothing line has gained much traction from all over the United States and all over the WORLD! Special thank you to those who sponsored and contributed to an epic launch of multiple festivities! Together, we can demonstrate that nothing is impossible with a little faith, support and willingness to persevere. Visit the online store to purchase.\nGet to meet the\nwomen behind the mission & vision.\nOur aim is to set the mark as the first representation in the sport for the country as well as the continent of Africa. For us, this is more than just about one Olympic goal or personal successes, \u201cIt\u2019s about trying to bring about a level of pride for everybody and expand on positive awareness for the country and the continent.\u201d\nSIMIDELE ADEAGBO / Skeleton\nI\u2019m from Ekiti State, Nigeria and I represent a new generation of African leaders with a responsibility to shatter ceilings, open doors and pave the way for future generations. I\u2019ve been a lifelong athlete and dominant force, gracefully leaping my way into record books and now blazing trails in winter sports. While competing at the University of Kentucky, I was a four time All-American and school record holder in the triple jump. I was consistently nationally ranked and was a two- time U.S. Olympic Trials finalists in the triple jump, narrowly missing a spot on the 2008 Olympic Team. I\u2019ve made the successful transition from sand to ice as Nigeria\u2019s first female Skeleton athlete. When I\u2019m not sliding down ice tracks, I\u2019m a creative force, visionary, business leader, world traveler and Africa Aficionado. As the first female Nigerian Skeleton athlete, I want to be an example and inspire others by showing them what\u2019s possible. I want to change the conversation and the narrative on African women and believe it\u2019s time for the world to see strong, smart, vivacious, courageous, beautiful and ambitious African women unapologetically blazing a trail in sports.\nAKUOMA OMEOGA / Brake Woman\nMy name is Akuoma Omeoga representing Umuahia, Abia State, NIGERIA. I am a former collegiate Track and Field athlete for the University of Minnesota. The day finally came where I had to strip myself of the \u201cM\u201d and turn in my track uniform when I graduated from college \u2013 but I did not feel like I was finished. After college I told myself I would pick up a new sport, you know, something Nigerians do, like play soccer. I never thought it would be Bobsled. I am challenging myself to take risks and experience something new. \u201cSomething new\u201d can be scary, but the moment you do something you fear, you automatically build strength. That is what this journey is about for me.\nNGOZI ONWUMERE / Brake Woman\nGod\u2019s blessing is the meaning of my name in my Igbo culture, but I am simply addressed as Ngozi Onwumere. I was born and raised in Dallas, TX, but Umuchima in Imo state is the village that I am representing back home in Nigeria. I competed for Nigeria in the 2015 All African games in Track & Field and outside of competition I enjoy dancing, singing and outdoors activities. When the opportunity was presented to be a member of Nigeria\u2019s first ever bobsled team, there was no question at all. I would love to bring honor to the land we love with my fellow Naija women of much integrity. This opportunity is so much bigger than me.\nSEUN ADIGUN / Meet the Driver\nI am not a believer of \u201ccoincidence\u201d \u2013 rather a God-fearing woman who understands the existence of a Higher Power and the blessings that are bestowed upon us when we maximize opportunities and operate with a selfless heart. Born and raised on the north side of Chicago, IL I represent Surulere in Lagos State, Nigeria so I\u2019m a city girl in every sense of the word. My first love in sports is basketball but my high school track coach broke it to me that my \u201clegs were born to run\u201d. I ended up competing in the sport of track & field for University of Houston and went on to become a three-time national champion and 2012 Olympian for the country of Nigeria. To this day I cannot explain why I could not bring myself to make the announcement of my retirement from track and field in 2012, but in 2015 the professional athlete in me was revived. I became a rookie brakeman for the USA Women\u2019s Bobsled team and in 2016 went on to pioneer what has become the first ever African Bobsled Team with Nigeria. This has grown to truly be something special and my goal is to empower as many people to greatness as possible. I love being an athlete, but even more, I love the arts. I enjoy dancing (everywhere and all the time!), singing, listening to music, writing, and studying to complete my Doctorate of Chiropractic/Masters of Science dual degree in December of 2017. Yep, I\u2019m the coolest nerd you\u2019ll ever meet!\nSIMIDELE ADEAGBOSkeleton\nAKUOMA OMEOGABrake Woman\nNGOZI ONWUMEREBrake Woman\nSEUN ADIGUNMeet the Driver\nBobsled & Skeleton Federation of Nigeria.\nHave you seen statistics\nFor us, this is more than just about one Olympic goal or personal successes, \u201cIt\u2019s about bringing a level of pride for Africa.\u201d We strive to empower the men and women of the world to tackle the \u201cfear of the unknown\u201d and realize their gift of innovation. We plan to do this by allowing members to join the Bobsled & Skeleton Federation of Nigeria and be a part of the organization that created a platform for three special women to make history as Nigeria, and Africa\u2019s, first bobsled team. Our story has positively affected millions of people all over the world and continues to represent monumental international advancements in social, athletic, and economic statuses. Together, we can demonstrate that nothing is impossible with a little faith, support and willingness to persevere.\nThousand Fans & Supporters", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00240.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 146, + "original_length": 9905, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.94, + "perplexity": 284.8, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "https://buildersontario.com/what-is-green-building", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T03:29:47Z", + "digest": "sha1:DGTYXAFS7TDZGWV5JJFWASK7NEUGHGPB", + "length": 9436, + "nlines": 62, + "source_domain": "buildersontario.com", + "title": "What Is Green Building", + "raw_content": "\u201cBuilderBooks\u201d recently released \u201cWhat Green Means to Home Buyers: Perceptions and Preferences\u201d, a new study of home buyer\u2019s choices focusing exclusively on green-performance innovations in the new home building industry. The study explores buyers\u2019 attitudes towards various green building features, ideas or concepts, and the possibility that the home buying decision may be affected by any of these features.\nIt concludes that there is a notable growth in green and sustainable homes over the last several years. The results of this study further solidify the continued buyer interest in green building. They also points to increased building of efficient homes and home remodeling work in the future.\nThe 5 key outcomes regarding top influencers in a home purchase decision include:\n#1. Safe Community \u2013 90% of all respondents\n#2. Energy Efficiency \u2013 88% of all respondents\n#3. Low maintenance \u2013 85% of all respondents\n#4. Lower operating costs \u2013 85% of all respondents\n#5. Durable/Resilient \u2013 84% of all respondents\nCommon Words New Home Buyers Use to Describe Green Homes Are:\n32%: Efficient, Water Efficient, Energy Efficient, High Efficiency\n15%: Eco-friendly, Environmentally-friendly, Environmentally-safe, Environmentally-conscious\n8%: Solar, Solar Energy, Solar Power, Solar Panels\n4%: Lower Utility Bills, Lower Costs, Saves Money\nOne fascinating conclusion of the new study is that the largest stimulus for green homes comes, not from millennials, as a lot of people may suspect, but from buyers age 55 and older.\nSo, what is a green building?\nGreen building, also known as sustainable building, or green construction, is best defined as a set of principles in home construction, which reduce the environmental impact the home has throughout construction and during the life span of the home.\nIt usually commences with the design of the home and it\u2019s position on the lot. It resumes with the use of construction materials that reduce waste, have a small environmental impact, and are manufactured from recycled material and renewable recourses. It ends with highly efficient mechanical systems and energy efficient appliances and lighting.\nIt also includes planning operation, maintenance, renovation, and demolition.\nWhat\u2019s the Problem \u2013 Why Green Building?\nThe home environment is a crucial part of our lives. Our homes provide us with spaces to live, work, play, and learn.\nNonetheless, the design, construction, maintenance and operation of our home environment have an enormous impact on the natural environment and resource base. Conventional building methods frequently ignore the relationships between home construction and the environment.\nA conventional 2300 sq.ft. wood-framed home devours over one acre of forest, and the building industry is responsible for nearly one-half of Canada\u2019s demand for wood.\nEnergy use in heating, cooling and providing electricity to houses adds notably to air pollution and accounts for more than one-third of Canada\u2019s energy consumption.\nThe conventional wood-framed house creates an average of three to seven tons of waste created during construction.\nBuildings and houses account for 40% of our use of raw materials like copper, steel and plastics.\n\u201cGreen Building\u201d as a Solution.\nIt is essential to understand that there is no general formula for building a green home. What can be deemed as \u201cgreen\u201d depends on many different factors like climate, vegetation, availability of local materials, relative costs and a host of additional details.\nThere is a constant debate regarding which building methods are in fact \u201cgreener\u201d. Is it more ecologically safe to use a recycled synthetic carpet, which is recycled from waste but will eventually find it\u2019s way into a landfill, or to use wood floors, that can be expected to last much longer and come from a renewable resource, but demand cutting down trees? The solution is not always clear.\nAlthough methods may vary, there is a general understanding regarding the goals of building green homes.\nThe goals of green building are to improve the energy efficiency, of buildings, cut down on the waste of raw materials, use land, soil and water resources moderately and efficiently and lessen the construction waste. All of these factors combine to decrease the ecological footprint that our living spaces create.\nWhile the methods of green building and design may vary, five primary principles persist:\n1. You Should Optimize Your Site\u2019s Potential\nUse a design and construction process that minimize site disturbance, preserve, restore or regenerates native habitat, green space and associated ecosystems that are vital to sustaining life.\nYou should evaluate each building lot regarding the home location and orientation to optimize the implementation of solar energy, natural daylight, and natural breezes and ventilation.\nYou should Identify and protect valuable greenfield and wetland sites from development.\nYou should optimize the use of on-site stormwater treatment and ground water recharge.\nYou should minimize the edges of the construction area, avoid excessive compaction of existing topsoil, and provide effective sedimentation and silt control during all phases of site development and construction.\nUse landscape design to preserve and restore the region\u2019s natural habitat and heritage while emphasizing the use of indigenous, hardy, drought-resistant trees, shrubs, plants and turf.\nHelp reduce night-time light pollution by avoiding over-illumination of the site and use low cut-off exterior lighting fixtures which direct light downward, not upward and outward.\n2. You Should Optimize For Energy Efficiency:\nChoosing home heating and conditioning equipment with the lowest initial cost, may prove to be a poor long-term choice, when energy costs over the lifetime of the system are taken into the equation.\nHomes can incorporate many green features, but if they do not use energy efficiently, it is challenging to show that they are actually green.\nFortunately, there are numerous ways to improve a building\u2019s energy efficiency, from insulating walls to installing automatic shutoff switches for lights.\n3. You Should Protect and Conserve Water\nIn many parts of the world, fresh water is becoming an increasingly limited resource. In the western world, sales of bottled water are at the record high as is the use of potable water for showering, dishwashing and grass watering.\nFrequently toxic chemicals like fluoride are used to make water drinkable. The financial and environmental costs of the sewage treatment plant are significant.\nThe effort to bring drinkable water to our household faucets consumes enormous energy resources in pumping, transport, and treatment.\nA green home should use water efficiently, and reuse or recycle water for on-site use, when feasible.\n4. Optimize Building Space and Material Use\nWhile the world population continues to grow (to over 9 billion by 2050), natural resource use will continue to increase, and the demand for additional goods and services will continue to stress available resources.\nIt is critical to achieving an integrated and intelligent use of materials that maximizes their value, prevents upstream pollution, and conserves resources.\nA sustainable building is designed and operated to use and reuse materials in the most productive and sustainable way across its entire life cycle and is adaptable for reuse during its life cycle. The materials used in a sustainable building minimize life-cycle environmental impacts such as global warming, resource depletion, and human toxicity.\nEnvironmentally preferable materials have a reduced effect on human health and the environment and contribute to improved worker safety and health, reduced liabilities, reduced disposal costs, and achievement of environmental goals.\n5. You Should Optimize Indoor Environmental Quality\nThe indoor environmental quality of a home has a notable impact on occupant health, comfort, and productivity. Between other attributes, a sustainable building maximizes lighting, has appropriate ventilation and moisture control, optimizes acoustic performance, and avoids the use of materials with high-VOC emissions.\nA green home is one that\u2019s healthy, more comfortable, efficient, durable and low maintenance, all the things that most people expect from the quality building. A green home provides you with all these benefits in a way that\u2019s also easier on the environment.\nSix Benefits To Building a New Home Solar Water Heating It\u2019s Easy Being Green: Products that Will Save Energy, Water and Money Who is Who in Ontario Home Building?\nGreen buildings are increasing in popularity and we should definitely care. Rightly pointed out in this article the word population will be 9 billion (7.5 billion now) and the resources will continue to deplete. Natural resources should be used more often to maintain sustainability and green building is the need of the hour. Well written article \ud83d\ude42\nI don\u2019t understand why all builders don\u2019t offer highly efficient, low draw building options to their clients.\nIf every new home incorporated as many energy efficient features, including solar power, wind power, etc than the entire country would be in a much better position as we move forward.\nGenerations to come would have more resources and fewer problems as far as environmental issues go.\nIf I had the option to buy a home with solar/wind power generation instead of one without, I would jump at it.", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00240.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 153, + "original_length": 12756, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.93, + "perplexity": 315.2, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "https://business.nycgo.com/listing/new-york-red-bulls/45117/", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T03:31:14Z", + "digest": "sha1:KN7VADQZRMBMNEEHTV5KX7HU56OZXHE3", + "length": 620, + "nlines": 2, + "source_domain": "business.nycgo.com", + "title": "New York Red Bulls", + "raw_content": "Red Bull Arena, 600 Cape May St. (Pete Higgins Blvd.)\nThe New York Red Bulls are one of 23 teams comprising the top professional soccer league in the United States: Major League Soccer. On the pitch, the squad is led by head coach Jesse Marsch; Red Bulls all-time goals scored record holder Bradley Wright-Phillips; and homegrown young midfielder Tyler Adams. Their home, Red Bull Arena\u2014a 25,000-seat soccer-specific stadium in Harrison, NJ\u2014is widely considered to be among the top venues of its kind in the country. 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For all my girlfriends growing up, it was one of our greatest fears and a late period was the cause of plenty of angst. No one wanted a pregnancy at such a young age. It was unfathomable to imagine ourselves as mothers. Several months after the event below, I went on the pill and I was on it for the next 15 years.\nExtract from my diary dated 24 January 1999:\nYesterday would have had to have been one of the most scary days of my entire life. And I\u2019m still scared. One of my worse fears now to deal with.\nI went to R\u2019s. We got straight into it. He went down on me the night before for ages. I tried to give him a headjob but he\u2019s so big or my mouth\u2019s too small. I felt like I was choking.\nAnyway, he went down on me, I sucked a little, basically licking everywhere. He put on a condom, rolled me over and entered me. There wasn\u2019t a lot of foreplay. He came. I didn\u2019t, everything was fine, until R pulled out and looked down at the condom. It had a hole in it! All I could say was \u201cOh my god!\u201d and all he could say was \u201cfuck\u201d.\nWe both panicked. He got up and dressed really quick. Talking. He just kept talking. He said something about spermicide. Then he said, we have to tell someone. I snapped out of my shock and said \u201cmy sister\u201d. I got off the bed and started to dress. He went and got a drink. He couldn\u2019t stop swearing. His eyes looked wet. He tried to hug me and kept apologising. I started bawling. I couldn\u2019t help it. I cried and cried. He couldn\u2019t comfort me. We left his house to find my sister.\nIn the car, he kept apologising and saying fuck. Eventually I told him to shut up. The closer we got to home, the harder I cried.\nI walked straight into my sister\u2019s room and blurted it out. She said \u201cYou dickhead\u201d. That was it. She asked me a lot of questions.\nThis is what she thinks: because it\u2019s right before my period is due, it\u2019s a really good time. Because the hole was small, that decreases the chance the sperm got out. To get the morning after pill I\u2019d have to see a doctor, which I didn\u2019t want to do. So, she thinks, most likely, I\u2019m not going to get pregnant. But I might be. Oh my gawd!\nWe won\u2019t know until my period\u2019s due which isn\u2019t for three days. Oh my goddess, please let it come. Please let me get my period. I\u2019ve never wanted it so much!\nExtract from my diary dated 15 February 1999:\nI got my period when I was in Hong Kong, thank Goddess. I don\u2019t know what I would have done if I were pregnant. Probably try to kill myself.\nDating, fucking, Infertility, IVF, love, marriage, relationships, sex", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00240.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 104, + "original_length": 5648, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.99, + "perplexity": 217.7, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "https://ca.reuters.com/article/lifestyleMolt/idCABRE85802420120609", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T04:30:17Z", + "digest": "sha1:Z2QKVDIBKTIKBSZZR4YIRIBZNVFBSFDM", + "length": 5062, + "nlines": 26, + "source_domain": "ca.reuters.com", + "title": "Ebooks, digital publishing in focus at New York book expo | Reuters", + "raw_content": "Ebooks, digital publishing in focus at New York book expo\nNEW YORK (Reuters) - The mood at this week\u2019s giant Book Expo America was upbeat as publishers\u2019 excitement over the growth of electronic books - or ebooks - and the future of digital publishing offset concern over sluggish sales of traditional books.\nBook publishing is undergoing a sea change that parallels the transformation of music publishing over the past decade, and book sellers are starting to feel their way forward.\nBorders Group, once the second largest U.S. book retailer, which helped pioneer brick-and-mortar book superstores, liquidated its 40-year-old business in September of last year after failing to overcome competition from larger rival Barnes & Noble Inc. and online book seller Amazon.com Inc.\nReflecting that change at the annual three-day gathering of writers, booksellers and publishing house executives, ebook publishers and technology companies were given more prominent space in the heart of the showroom.\nStar authors, including Zadie Smith, Jo Nesbo and Michael Chabon, also took the spotlight, and there were plenty of jokes about erotic fiction hit, \u201cFifty Shades of Grey.\u201d\nBut the future of the industry was the focus, and the general feeling was that writers and publishers are coming to a better understanding of electronic publishing and marketing.\n\u201cThis year it felt like there was high energy,\u201d said Todd Humphrey of Canadian digital book company Kobo, one of the ebook companies that was moved from the Expo\u2019s corner, where most of them were previously placed, to the middle of the floor next to major publishers like Random House.\nRandom House, the world\u2019s largest general interest book publisher, is owned by Bertelsmann AG of Germany.\n\u201cLast year, the publishing industry as a whole felt like it was a bit on its heels. This year there were a lot more smiles,\u201d he added. \u201cPeople are realizing, things are moving to digital, people need to adjust.\u201d\nThings are not all sweetness and light on the ebook publishing front, though.\nThe Justice Department sued Apple Inc. and several publishers over ebook prices in April, accusing publishers of conspiring to exert price controls over digital book downloads.\nHachette Book Group, HarperCollins and Simon & Schuster reached a settlement with Justice that requires them to allow retailers including Amazon and Barnes & Noble to reduce the prices of ebooks they sell.\nApple, The Macmillan Group and Penguin Group did not agree to a settlement, and the Justice Department has promised to pursue the case against them vigorously.\nDigital publishing companies, many of which produce ebooks for traditional publishers to meet demand for Apple\u2019s iPad, Amazon\u2019s Kindle or Barnes & Noble\u2019s Nook, said they had noticed differences in attitude from big publishing houses.\nMajor publishers have been criticized in the past for being slow to embrace digital formats. Now they are reducing the number of printed books as ebook sales increase.\nEbook net sales revenue for 2011 was $21.5 million, a gain of 332.6 percent over 2010. Print sales in 2011 were $335.9 million, compared to $328.3 million in 2010, a paltry 2 percent increase, according to a May report from the Association of American Publishers.\n\u201cI don\u2019t think any of the publishers have their head in the sand anymore,\u201d said Mark Gaff, director of operations at My Tablet Books, which specializes in illustrated book printing conversions. \u201cLast year, there were still some ... saying, \u2018It\u2019s not going to happen\u2019.\u201d\nHe added that many publishers had shifted their concerns to how to improve the visual quality of e-books.\nThe growing use of digital self-publishing, as well as newer methods of promoting books on the Web, were also key topics owing, at least in part, to the huge success of E.L. James \u201cFifty Shades of Grey,\u201d which was originally self-released.\nThis week, Kobo expanded its ereader business with a new self-publishing platform but, like others, Humphrey said direct marketing by authors was still evolving.\nDavid Shanks, chief executive of Penguin Group USA, said marketing was the biggest change on people\u2019s minds this year, with the \u201cdiscoverability\u201d of books from traditional print media becoming \u201cfewer and fewer.\u201d\n\u201cIt feels like there is a momentum building online,\u201d said Shanks. \u201cMore than ever, if you can get a digital buzz going, starting with this show, then we think we can replace some of the exposure that we are losing.\u201d\nIn addition, he said, any \u201cmomentum\u201d of self-published books was viewed as \u201can opportunity\u201d for major publishers looking for authors who had already built their own buzz, as did James with \u201cFifty Shades.\u201d\nStill, some attendees saw reason to joke about the future of digital books, as well as the popularity of James\u2019 erotic novel, with its central character Christian Grey. Actress Kirstie Alley told one audience she was neither an ebook reader nor an ebook writer while promoting her new memoir \u201cThe Art of Men.\u201d\nBut there was a guy in her new book, she said, \u201cwho sort of made Christian Grey look like Justin Bieber.\u201d", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00240.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 65, + "original_length": 6135, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.97, + "perplexity": 229.4, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "https://ca.reuters.com/article/lifestyleMolt/idCATRE69T19320101030", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T03:19:19Z", + "digest": "sha1:XCROND6JEQAIWLRFB6S5MHNGWTZG2VFT", + "length": 4362, + "nlines": 24, + "source_domain": "ca.reuters.com", + "title": "Disappointed gays unlikely to shun Democrats at polls | Reuters", + "raw_content": "Disappointed gays unlikely to shun Democrats at polls\nWEST HOLLYWOOD, California (Reuters Life!) - Gay voters, disappointed with President Barack Obama\u2019s failure to do away with a ban on gays in the military, have pared back funding for Democrats in the midterm elections but are unlikely to abandon them at the polls on Tuesday.\nLieutenant Dan Choi, dismissed from the U.S. Army for admitting he was gay, chants during a rally outside the Beverly Hilton hotel where U.S. President Barack Obama was attending a Democratic party fundraiser in Beverly Hills, California in this May 27, 2009 file photo. REUTERS/Mario Anzuoni/Files\nOne of the most vocal and affluent groups of the Democratic base, gay voters say they have received nothing in return for decades of loyalty to the party, even after two years of Democratic leadership in both the White House and Congress.\n\u201cWe voted for Democrats. We gave them the House and the Senate, and what did we get?\u201d said John Aravosis, editor of the left-leaning blog AMERICAblog.\nDisillusionment in the gay community with both Obama and his party is palpable. Obama, who received strong support from gays in his 2008 election, says he supports ending the ban on gays openly serving in the military. But his administration is now challenging attempts by a federal judge to impose an end to the ban, saying it is up to Congress, not the courts.\nIn addition to scrapping the \u201cDon\u2019t Ask Don\u2019t Tell\u201d ban, gay voters had hoped Democrats would use their power to pass a law that would make it illegal to discriminate against employees on the basis of sexual orientation and to repeal a 1996 law that defines marriage as between a man and a woman.\nWith none of those goals accomplished, gay rights group GetEQUAL last month began urging gays to withhold donations to the Democratic National Committee and other party groups. AMERICAblog has a similar initiative.\nThose activists hope to send a message to Democrats who depend on gay voters\u2019 wallets even more than their votes.\n\u201cAt the national level, there are just not enough gays and lesbians to be politically powerful\u201d except in very close races, Stanford University Professor Gary Segura said.\n\u201cThe role that gays and lesbians have played is more of a financial one,\u201d he added.\nPolls show public discontent with Obama and the ailing U.S. economy is likely to help Republicans win back control of the House of Representatives and cut into Democrats\u2019 Senate majority in Tuesday\u2019s elections.\nRESENTMENT OVER \u201cGAY ATM\u201d\nDonations to federal candidates from gay interest groups have taken a hit this year, according to the Center for Responsive Politics. Gay groups have donated $849,410 to federal candidates during the 2010 election cycle, down from $1.8 million in 2008 and $2 million in 2006.\nDespite that decline, however, gay Democratic groups said gay voters are engaged and mobilized this year.\nThis week, for instance, Stonewall Democratic Club in Los Angeles said that with just 24 hours notice, it attracted 90 volunteers to a Wednesday afternoon phone bank for incumbent Democratic Senator Barbara Boxer.\n\u201cThere has been some despondency, but folks have really come around,\u201d Stonewall president John Cleary said.\nAs for the drop in donations, it is the economy, rather than voter disappointment, that is mostly to blame, said Andy Szekeres, a political consultant who specializes in gay rights ballot measures. Nevertheless, he said, political donors in the gay community feel they have been treated like a \u201cgay ATM\u201d by the Democratic party.\nMany gay activists worry that telling gays to stop donating to Democrats is akin to asking them to sit out the election.\n\u201cThe message that people deliver when they say that we shouldn\u2019t contribute to Democrats in particular is a little bit dangerous,\u201d said Rick Jacobs, founder of community organizing group the Courage Campaign.\n\u201cThere is no way\u201d that a Congress dominated by Republicans will be better for gays than a Democratic-led one, he said.\nAt a coffee shop in the gay-friendly city of West Hollywood, attorney Ricardo Gomez, 55, echoed that sentiment, saying he voted absentee for Boxer, whom he does not care for, because he thinks her rival, Republican Carly Fiorina, would be worse on gay issues.\n\u201cI\u2019m a pragmatic voter,\u201d Gomez said. \u201cI hold my nose, but I always vote.\u201d\nEditing by Mary Milliken and Mohammad Zargham", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00240.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 62, + "original_length": 5380, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.96, + "perplexity": 294.9, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "https://ca.reuters.com/article/oddlyEnoughNews/idCAL2355233720071213", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T04:43:03Z", + "digest": "sha1:UD3RYNSFCTXF7E5XXAQALDSFBFYSZZDF", + "length": 6511, + "nlines": 35, + "source_domain": "ca.reuters.com", + "title": "Young girls learn ABC of Cairo street life | Reuters", + "raw_content": "Young girls learn ABC of Cairo street life\nCAIRO (Reuters) - Nora, a mother at just 14, jingled keys above her infant daughter\u2019s head, drawing smiles from the baby she conceived while living on the streets of Cairo.\nInstisar (L) and Elhaim (C) do an arts project with their teacher at the shelter that they live at in Cairo November 14, 2007. The shelter takes in unmarried girls from the street that are not already pregnant. The girls that are taken in are often children of Egypt's rural poor or from families living in shantytowns on the outskirts of Cairo. REUTERS/Tara Todras-Whitehill\nShe was one of hundreds of thousands of children who the United Nations says may be living on Egypt\u2019s streets, including a growing number of girls arriving as young as four or five years old fleeing poverty, abuse or broken homes.\nWhile baby Shaimaa played with slippers at Nora\u2019s feet, the young mother described how she traded beatings by her brothers at the age of six or seven for a life of early forced sexuality on streets where she became pregnant soon after puberty.\n\u201cThe guys don\u2019t differentiate. They don\u2019t care if you are big or small. I got snatched,\u201d Nora said, using a word that in the parlance of Egypt\u2019s street girls means being taken by men and raped.\nCoupled with the lure of a city of fancy cars and luxury shops, economic hardship that has left one-fifth of Egyptians in absolute poverty has driven many like her out of their homes, as traditional family structures are strained.\nIn Egypt\u2019s socially conservative Muslim community, a life on the street can do lasting damage to young girls.\n\u201cSexual abuse is ABC in the phenomenon. Not only for street girls but for the boys also,\u201d said Seham Ibrahim, whose Tofoulty organization runs a shelter for street girls.\nNora lives in one such shelter with Shaimaa, her baby\u2019s ears pierced with tiny gold studs. But not all girls manage to find a safe way out.\nTwo leaders of a children\u2019s gang were sentenced to death in May for raping and killing at least three and possibly up to 26 street children in Cairo and northern Egypt.\nIn a separate case last month, Egyptian police arrested a man accused of imprisoning six youths, sexually assaulting them and forcing them to beg in the streets.\nSELLING TISSUES\nCairo\u2019s street girls \u2014 often children of Egypt\u2019s rural poor or from urban shanty towns \u2014 may sleep on the pavement or in public gardens, face a constant threat of rape, and sniff glue to dull the pain and numb the cold.\nSome beg or sell packets of tissues, weaving between cars at intersections. Ilham, a quiet 11-year old, said she had spent a week sleeping outside a police station, getting food handouts from officers after her parents split up and an aunt burned her with hot metal.\nA few turn to prostitution.\n\u201cThe sexuality of their existence on the streets starts very early on, when they are raped. So naturally when she is with someone they do have a sexual relationship,\u201d said Alia Mossallam, who works in child protection at UNICEF.\nNora said at one point as a young girl, she had an unofficial \u201cmarriage\u201d to a street guy: \u201cHe had a room, and I didn\u2019t want to be on the street.\u201d\nPeople who work with Cairo street children say they began to see girls living on the streets in the mid-1990s who would cut their hair to pass as boys and stay safe.\nTheir number has since swollen and Mossallam said an estimated 20 to 30 percent of street children are now girls. They are largely scorned in Egypt, where girls are expected to be virgins at marriage and rape victims may be seen as tainted.\nFor Magda, a chatty 11-year-old with a chipped front tooth and a ponytail who wants to learn karate, it was her parents\u2019 separation \u2014 followed by beatings by her grandmother \u2014 that led her to the streets more than three years ago.\n\u201cIt was easy. I slept on the pavement at night, normally,\u201d she said as she sipped a juice box. \u201cThere were things we were afraid of. We were afraid of boys coming at night.\u201d\nShe managed to leave the streets fairly quickly, finding her way to a shelter where she attends school and plans for the future. She hopes to go to university.\nAnother girl, Amani, facing beatings over her school performance, ran away from home with a friend in the port of Alexandria, but her friend left when she ran out of money.\n\u201cA guy came and attacked me and left me not a girl,\u201d the 15-year old said. She later discovered she was pregnant and, although she lost the baby, she still fears going home.\nA 2006 government survey showed roughly half of street girls had had sex and about 45 percent of those had been raped. People involved with the girls say the real numbers may be much higher.\nOften, they say, rape is one of the very first experiences a girl has once she arrives on the street. Once that happens, as it did to Yasmine, it becomes very difficult to go home.\n\u201cI was snatched. They kept me for four days,\u201d said Yasmine, now 20. \u201cThere were eight of them. They put dogs around us so we couldn\u2019t escape. When they had new girls coming they let us go,\u201d she said, her fingers twirling the ends of her pink headscarf.\nShe said she tried to return to a children\u2019s home after the rape, but although she had stayed there previously they would not admit her. Years later, she is pregnant with a baby boy she says was fathered by a man in jail for theft.\nTofoulty\u2019s Ibrahim said experienced girls often take birth control pills, which are easily accessible at Egyptian pharmacies \u2014 and many do not carry their babies to term.\nThey miscarry either intentionally or because of the toll of street life, Mossallam said: \u201cThey do glue and ... some normal types of medicine that could result in hallucinations in large dosages. They have names for them. One is called Sarasir (cockroaches) because when they have it they imagine they have cockroaches all over them.\u201d\nPregnant girls can get help giving birth if they go to a shelter. Otherwise, conditions are grim.\n\u201cThey get pregnant and deliver in the street. It\u2019s very unclean and very uncivilized,\u201d said Tarek Ali, an administrator at Hope Village Society, which runs a street mothers\u2019 shelter.\nMany of the young mothers cannot secure birth certificates for their children because the babies\u2019 fathers are unknown or deny paternity. With babies in arms, they find it nearly impossible to re-integrate in society.\n\u201cPeople always look at us with a look of hatred. I want to tell people to change their ideas about us,\u201d said Yasmine, patting her pregnant belly in the shelter where she is staying.", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00240.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 74, + "original_length": 7582, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.98, + "perplexity": 319.2, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "https://ca.reuters.com/article/oddlyEnoughNews/idCAT20005520080211", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T03:59:55Z", + "digest": "sha1:UXFJIF7ENND5PYKA3FC2GNH45FJPO5KI", + "length": 7169, + "nlines": 38, + "source_domain": "ca.reuters.com", + "title": "Toyota finds success is a bitter-sweet pill | Reuters", + "raw_content": "Toyota finds success is a bitter-sweet pill\nThis is the first in a series of business features by Reuters focusing on some of the world\u2019s biggest brands and most innovative companies. Toyota has risen to the top ranks of the world\u2019s car makers through its revolutionary production process, cost controls and attention to quality. But as Toyota President Katsuaki Watanabe told Reuters Asia auto correspondent Chang-Ran Kim: \u201cThe moment we let down our guard, the fall could come very fast.\u201d\nBy Chang-Ran Kim, Asia auto correspondent\nTOKYO (Reuters) - General Motors Corp CEO Rick Wagoner boasts about the number of markets where the U.S. automaker is number one. Toyota Motor Corp President Katsuaki Watanabe emphasizes where his company trails.\nListening to the leaders of the world\u2019s biggest automakers, you might think Toyota was the one playing catch-up.\nYet, though GM begs to differ, Toyota has been ahead for the past two years. In 2007, the Japanese group sold about half a million more vehicles than GM, excluding cars from a Chinese company in which the American firm holds only a minority stake.\nThe gap may very well widen this year as Toyota seeks growth in emerging markets. So why does Toyota\u2019s 65-year-old chief sound so worried?\n\u201cI\u2019m constantly trying to drive home the message that long-lasting success is elusive,\u201d Watanabe, a music lover and chorister, told Reuters recently. \u201cOur corporate DNA is about always challenging ourselves to do better. The moment we let down our guard, the fall could come very fast.\u201d\nFailure is not normally a word associated with an auto company that\u2019s in a league of its own. For years, Toyota has led the industry by nearly every corporate yardstick: profits, market value and cash reserves. Outselling GM, which held the No.1 spot for the previous 75 years, was largely a symbolic milestone.\nBut as Toyota began adding roughly half a million cars a year to its output and extended its reach, it has faced new problems. Vehicle recalls have hit record levels in recent years and Toyota has slipped in quality rankings.\nThat has not helped the company\u2019s share price, which has fallen by around 20 percent in the past six months due to fears of a slowdown in the key U.S. auto market, in line with its Japanese peers.\nThe snags have yet to slow Toyota\u2019s sales. It expects to sell almost twice as many cars this year as it did a decade ago.\nTo keep up with soaring sales, Toyota has doubled its work force to 310,000 over the same period, and that\u2019s where Watanabe\u2019s quality headaches have come from.\nA visit to a Toyota plant in Japan shows how difficult it is for Toyota to maintain its high standards as it moves production offshore to booming markets and engages new workers.\nAt the Tsutsumi factory, the home of Toyota\u2019s Prius hybrid car, elderly workers move components around at a speed that encapsulates Japan\u2019s unique work-centric culture.\nThe pace of work picks up across the factory floor every time overhead displays are updated with the day\u2019s vehicle quota, reflecting in real time new orders received at dealerships.\nIn Japan, death from overwork is not uncommon \u2014 Toyota itself was blamed for one in a lawsuit last year \u2014 but expecting that level of dedication elsewhere is far from realistic.\n\u201cWith the population declining and ageing in Japan, Toyota has no choice but to expand its workforce abroad,\u201d said Tsuyoshi Mochimaru, auto analyst at Lehman Brothers. \u201cThis is a major challenge for management: it\u2019s not easy to translate the \u2018Toyota Way\u2019 outside of Japan.\u201d\nInstilling a sense of urgency is also tough when new hires have never known a Toyota that wasn\u2019t a cash-generating machine.\nUnlike Watanabe. He joined Toyota straight out of university in 1965 and has been with the company through some of its toughest years \u2014 the U.S.-Japan trade rows of the 1980s and the crippling effects on Japanese exporters as the dollar fell to 79 yen in the mid-90s. Even with Toyota\u2019s recent quality problems, conveying to the rank and file the dangers of complacency is a tall order.\nThat\u2019s why, from the moment he took the helm in 2005, Watanabe has made it his mission to discourage employees from measuring Toyota against rivals but rather against a lofty goal: developing a dream car that \u201ccleans the air, doesn\u2019t cause accidents, makes drivers healthier and can go around the world on one tank of fuel.\u201d\n\u201cWe have a long way to go,\u201d he said.\nCONSTANT CHALLENGE\nIt sounds like a corporate fantasy, but the culture of striving is ingrained in Toyota\u2019s origin, which can be traced back to the Great Kanto Earthquake of 1923. The quake leveled Tokyo and destroyed trains and streetcars, the city\u2019s primary means of transport in a country that was still an industrial backwater.\nSakichi Toyoda, an inventor of textile looms, lamented Japan\u2019s need to import Ford trucks to bus people around after the quake and instructed his son, Kiichiro, to build automobiles to serve the country.\nTaking apart Chevys and Fords, Kiichiro and his small team knocked together their first passenger car, the Model AA, in 1936. A year later, Kiichiro spun off the automobile business from his father\u2019s loom company to establish Toyota Motor.\nIt was another crisis, the 1970s oil shocks, that propelled Toyota\u2019s fuel-efficient cars onto the global stage, as U.S. consumers sought an alternative to big home-grown cars.\nJames D. Power III, founder of leading research firm J.D. Power, has written that GM scoffed then at his warnings about losing touch with the customer. But Tatsuro Toyoda \u2014 a son of Kiichiro\u2019s who later headed the company \u2014 listened and learned.\nToyota is now the No.2 seller in the United States, the world\u2019s biggest car market, ahead of Ford and Chrysler and not far behind GM\u2019s Chevrolet.\nLately, though, Watanabe has been busy fixing the cracks in Toyota\u2019s vaunted reputation for quality.\nIn J.D. Power\u2019s closely watched survey on new-car quality last year, Toyota\u2019s luxury Lexus brand ceded its long-held top spot to Porsche, and Honda Motor Co topped Toyota among mass-market brands. Toyota vehicle recalls have exceeded a million cars in the past few years.\nTo reverse the tide, Watanabe in 2006 assigned two executive vice presidents to oversee quality improvements, one specifically to work closely with suppliers to catch design defects early.\nToyota also set up a \u201ccustomer first\u201d committee that made quality checks more visible at the four stages of design, manufacturing, procurement and sales.\nWatanabe, who chairs the committee, says the measures are bearing fruit and recall numbers are falling.\nToyota teaches staff at every step of their job, even down to the correct way to grasp a bolt, to try to ensure consistent quality. Foreign managers attend a Toyota Institute in Japan to be schooled in the \u201cToyota Way.\u201d\nWatanabe also introduced a mentor system to encourage staff to be more inquisitive and suggest improvements, harking back to Toyota\u2019s tradition of getting to the root of problems through \u201ckaizen,\u201d or continuous improvement.\n\u201cWe need to go back to the basics, even if it takes more time and people, and even if labor costs go up,\u201d he said.\nEditing by Megan Goldin and John Chalmers", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00240.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 76, + "original_length": 8239, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.96, + "perplexity": 298.5, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "https://cal.streetsblog.org/2018/03/28/how-to-decide-fairly-which-transportation-investments-are-the-best-ones/", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T03:43:59Z", + "digest": "sha1:XFY5RAPHIVDWXMBBWUD2PQMDALNZDIQY", + "length": 11719, + "nlines": 37, + "source_domain": "cal.streetsblog.org", + "title": "How to Decide, Fairly, Which Transportation Investments Are the Best Ones \u2013 Streetsblog California", + "raw_content": "How to Decide, Fairly, Which Transportation Investments Are the Best Ones\nThe Greenlining Institute's Mobility Equity Framework offers this tool for analyzing the true impacts of transportation investment decisions.\nThe Greenlining Institute, an Oakland-based nonprofit, released a report today describing a three-step framework that can be used to help communities figure out which transportation investments best serve their needs.\nThe Mobility Equity Framework outlines a three-step process that involves, first, bringing a community together to identify its mobility needs; then conducting an equity analysis to identify the transportation modes that bring the most benefits and minimize burdens; and, last, having the community itself make the final decisions about which modes to invest in, preferably via democratic vote.\nThe report\u2019s authors focus on the creation of a tool to help people work through the second step: thoroughly analyzing the benefits and drawbacks of transportation investments. The focus is not on solving a single problem or even two, but on exploring and comparing all the benefits and drawbacks of potential investments to allow the community to make an informed decision on how to provide for their needs as identified in the first step of the process.\nThis is not just a pie-in-the-sky idea. \u201cThere is no need to reinvent the wheel,\u201d said Hana Creger, Environmental Equity Coordinator for Greenlining and one of the authors of the report. \u201cThere are existing methods that encapsulate the goals of our framework.\u201d\nShe gave the example of \u201cparticipatory budgeting,\u201d which she said is \u201cnot a radical, untested idea.\u201d Participatory budgeting, which aims to create a democratic process for deciding how to spend public money, has been used in New York, Chicago, San Francisco, and Oakland, and the city of Vallejo is conducting the first citywide participatory budgeting process.\nThe key, said Creger, is that a \u201ccommunity should decide what their needs are and THEN figure out the transportation options.\u201d The Mobility Equity Framework, she said, \u201cshould be prioritized in low-income areas where community needs have been marginalized for decades.\u201d But the method can be applied in any community.\nTransportation investment decisions are usually made in a political context that involves trade-offs between major players who garner support by offering a little bit of something for everybody. A thorough analysis of which investments bring the most benefits, including economic and environmental ones, is not the way transportation planning usually works, and the result, says the report, is that \u201ctoo often, walking, biking, and public transit are afterthoughts in transportation planning and investments.\u201d\nClean transportation options offer benefits that may not show up in a basic cost-benefit analysis conducted without input from community members. Not only can they reduce health and safety impacts and costs, but they can bring job benefits, reduce income inequality, and greatly increase access to services.\nBut people need to be able to see and understand the advantages and disadvantages of all transportation modes. \u201cThis is particularly important in low-income communities of color,\u201d says the report, \u201cbecause many physical, logistical, financial, technological, and cultural barriers may reduce access to shared mobility\u201d such as that available with bike-share, car-share, and ride-hailing services.\nThe framework provides three overarching equity goals: to increase access to mobility, to reduce air pollution, and to enhance economic opportunity. For each of those goals, the report provides a list of \u201cequity indicators\u201d that can be measured and applied to potential investments. For example, under the first goal of increasing access to mobility, transportation modes can be analyzed according to affordability (How much do households spend on transportation?); accessibility (Do services connect homes, jobs, and other destinations? Do people need smartphones or credit cards to use them? Can disabled people use them?); efficiency (How frequent are services, and how long is travel time?); reliability; and safety (collision risk as well as personal safety from harassment or profiling).\nIt\u2019s important that all three steps of the process be completed for the best outcomes, the report emphasizes. And the outcomes will vary with each community. \u201cWhile some communities may prefer to compare the equity outcomes of all modes, others may only focus on those most relevant to their needs,\u201d says the report, depending on, for example, residential demographics or the most common trip type.\nWhile each community may end up making different decisions, having a complete analysis of benefits and drawbacks will likely change local outcomes. \u201cFor way too many years, the needs of cars have been prioritized over people,\u201d said Creger. \u201cThis is one of the reasons The Greenlining Institute, which has been advocating for racial and economic justice for 25 years, got involved in transportation advocacy\u2014because of a lack of healthy commute options. Commute time is the biggest indicator of economic opportunities. But our public transit systems are inadequate and insufficient for low-income folks, and our cities are choked with traffic and pollution from cars.\u201d\n\u201cThis is not just an inconvenience, either. There are also major health impacts for people living in these communities.\u201d\nShe offered as an example of how the process might work for a discussion of solutions for traveling across the San Francisco Bay. Proposals have been floated for years to study adding another crossing, which some say should be a bridge to allow drivers to get around traffic on the Oakland Bay Bridge. But, said Creger, under the equity framework, the first question would be about the needs of the community most impacted by a new bridge. Using the framework and its tools for analysis, a solution that involves a second BART tube could be found to provide just as many regional benefits in terms of congestion relief without destroying any community in the path of a bridge.\nThe authors see their framework as benefiting low-income communities of color that have been left out of transportation decisions for years, and who bear the brunt of negative impacts from the decision that have been made. While local decision-making processes can adopt the framework, they will need support from state and regional entities like the California Transportation Commission\u2014a decision-making body not exactly known for its democratic approach.\nCaltrans recently provided a grant to the Metropolitan Transportation Commission, the Bay Area\u2019s transportation decision-making body, to conduct a pilot participatory budgeting process.\nApplying The Greenlining Institute\u2019s Mobility Equity Framework to suburban areas, as defined by Caltrans\u2019 Smart Mobility Framework, would likely produce a priority list that looks like this.\nCreger said that a pot of funding about which to make decisions is a first step. \u201cThe more funding that can be allocated for these community-involved decision making processes, the more they can build capacity,\u201d she said. Completing the entire three-step process, including the final democratic vote, ensures that the community is the source of funding decisions that affect them. \u201cParticipatory budgeting not only increases voter participation, it helps to build trust between communities and local government,\u201d said Creger. \u201cThat includes engagement with youth, with immigrants, and with incarcerated people\u201d\u2013the entire community.\n\u201cWe definitely want to ensure that there is an educational component throughout the process,\u201d she said. \u201cNot just on how transportation planning works, but what options there are, how they work, how to use them\u2014the basic landscape of what\u2019s out there. Also what are the cost savings and health benefits of each.\u201d\n\u201cHow you make transportation work for people is by listening to their ideas and allowing them to make decisions,\u201d she added, \u201cand in no place is that more important than in low-income communities of color that have traditionally been shut out from such forms of engagement.\u201d\nThe Mobility Equity Framework can be found here.\nFiled Under: Advocacy, Transportation Funding, GJEL3, promoted\nIt seems like a lot of the mobility rhetoric is focused on reducing the usability of vehicles on current streets or roads.\nThis is a pretty elitist view of how to use our roads and streets. The idea that \u201cI can ride a bicycle so everyone else should too\u201d forgets the fact that much of the vehicle traffic is related to business, or reducing travel time to and from jobs. Getting people and goods to the right place at the right time, allowing people from one economic area to work, shop or be educated in a different economic area seems like a noble cause, and the best way to reduce economic disparity. Using technology to reduce the time / cost of delivery of goods and matereials is also a nobel cause. The best economic output should be part of this conversation.\nWhen the transportation solutions suggested are the slowest, and/or most costly, it points out the cost and time are not truely considered in the solutions offered.\nWe do need to make it as close to 100% safe as possible for all, and environmentally\nsustainable, without reverting to moving people and goods at the speed of cave men.\nThis sort of values based prioritization is smart and fair. The problem is that not everyone cares to be smart and fair, it is more gratifying to just react emotionally . Take a look at how the modes of travel shake out from this prioritization: personal gas vehicles are at the bottom of the list as they should be. Then compare that to the reality of our cities. Clearly there\u2019s an illogical affinity to driving gas powered cars. Part of that is due to the built environment of sprawling suburbs which is difficult to change quickly. When densification is suggested you get NIMBY\u2019s upset that their bucolic environment of personal lawns will be converted into a hellhole resembling the 1970s South Bronx.\nFor an even starker example look at how gun control is handled in the USA. If you look at the pros and cons of allowing 19 year olds to own rapid fire military grade assault weapons it is clear that the value is low and the risk is high. But even people who solidly agree on the base values will vehemently and dogmatically defend the right to everyone to own tools for mass murder. They will even contrive specious arguments to support that emotional response.\nWe need to realize that we do not have a problem with building frameworks to make good decisions, we have a problem with heeding our own advice.\n+1 for providing a framework for participatory prioritization\nI was initially concerned that I didn\u2019t find safety (hello VisionZero) as a goal area and upon reading more was surprised to find it lumped under Goal #1. It seems to me that Goal #2 should be broadened to include safety and be named something like \u201cHealth\u201d\nI share this concern. I believe the answer lies deeper in the text on p14. It looks like they are assuming a truly shared (thus cheaper) ride-hailing mode. Of course the devil is always in the details and broadly speaking it is not always useful to rank modes like this anyways.\n\u201cThe nature of ride-hailing has also been evolving, and it may be more accurate to distinguish solo ride-hailing from pooled ride-hailing to allow for a more accurate comparison of the modes\u2019 performance on the equity indicators\u201d\nA framework that puts Uber and Lyft 4 slots ahead of taxis? So basically if you can bust an industry and recreate it using workers who don\u2019t earn a living wage, that\u2019s a net gain for communities? No thanks.", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00240.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 139, + "original_length": 15482, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.96, + "perplexity": 254.6, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "https://callaboyer.com/2017/04/21/why-we-need-to-ditch-iq-testing/", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T04:49:55Z", + "digest": "sha1:ICZ3FGZT4RKAYLDWCJLVEQCGXCLZBBQH", + "length": 5440, + "nlines": 14, + "source_domain": "callaboyer.com", + "title": "Why we need to ditch IQ testing \u2013 Calla Boyer", + "raw_content": "People put so much weight on IQs. I think the IQ is probably one of the only numbers where it\u2019s split between those who waive their number around like it\u2019s a grand prize and others who don\u2019t really care about it.\nNow, I don\u2019t want to seem like I\u2019m this bitter soul who didn\u2019t score what I wanted to on the test, so now I\u2019m out to defame it altogether. I\u2019ve never taken an IQ test; sure, I took elementary school standardized tests and the SATs, but never anything that told me my intelligence in a three digit number. (Granted, I\u2019ll admit, I\u2019ve also taken some of those knock off IQ tests; the ones that ask you things like, based on a president\u2019s approval rating, what are the chances of him being elected for a third term, or whether brown sugar is considered a dry or wet ingredient when you\u2019re baking a pie (the really important stuff). But once they started asking for your email, I backed out\u2014so, I guess that doesn\u2019t count.) However, I have done some research on IQ testing, including the methods, history, and reasoning of it, so I\u2019ve gained a bit of an understanding on how and why it is what it is.\nI remember in high school, the IQ score you got in middle school decided whether you got into certain classes and field trips. There\u2019s also the Mensa program, an international high IQ society. I think these programs are great, because they bring some of the world\u2019s most intelligent people together, a lot of the times for the greater purpose of benefitting humanity. I\u2019ve talked about it here before, but bringing intelligent people together who come from different backgrounds, I believe, fosters the greatest potential for change.\nIQ tests are good because they\u2019re a quick way to test\u2014and by quick, I mean it takes half an hour. It also makes it easy to set cut offs; instead of doing holistic measurements that give a bunch of intelligence levels and other data, this gives you one number for each person, and it makes it easier to categorize.\nBut, here\u2019s my problem with IQs, and thus, I suppose, a fundamental problem with defining intelligence for these programs: IQ tests, by nature, are flawed. Just the idea of thinking that you can measure a person\u2019s entire mental capacity based on a few questions about puzzles and spatial orientations is irrational. How can a test determine an intelligence if it only takes 30 minutes to complete? But, aside from this, I have a few particular issues with IQ testing.\nThere\u2019s an art to taking a test. I took a class for GRE prep, and our instructor basically said that the GRE doesn\u2019t tell you how intelligent you are, but rather how well you can answer the questions. What if you misinterpret the question, but you would\u2019ve gotten it right if you didn\u2019t? What if you take a little longer to complete tests? What if you have testing anxiety?\nThose are all testing related issues, but let\u2019s even go over some of the non-testing ones: what if your pet goldfish died before you took the test, and you can\u2019t focus? What if you fell down the stairs when you were walking to the room to take the test? Your emotional state while you\u2019re taking a test can affect how you do on it, too; the ability to concentrate is key.\nNow, let\u2019s talk about the actual test itself. It\u2019s split into four indexes that measure your total IQ: verbal comprehension (i.e. vocab and reading), working memory (i.e. arithmetic and sequencing), perceptual organization (i.e. picture completion and block design), and processing speed (i.e. patterns and sequences). Ok, cool\u2014sounds like we got our basic, standardized testing subjects down.\nBut, here\u2019s the thing: there\u2019re nine types of intelligence: spatial (i.e. seeing the world in 3D), naturalistic (i.e. nature and the environment), musical (i.e. pitch recognition), logical (i.e. the scientific method), existential (i.e. what is the meaning of life), interpersonal (i.e. reading people\u2019s emotions), kinesthetic (i.e. hand-eye coordination), linguistic (i.e. your way with words), and intrapersonal (i.e. self awareness).\nThey don\u2019t ask questions that would measure things like emotional maturity or interaction with others; this is a pencil and paper test, so it\u2019s probably a good bet that it doesn\u2019t measure any physical coordination skills either. IQ tests don\u2019t test for half the intelligences there are, so how is it supposed to give you and accurate estimation and account for what you excel in? Not to mention, it doesn\u2019t even test for creativity or work ethic, which are often regarded to as two of the most important factors in personal success.\nNow, let\u2019s cover this. What if you didn\u2019t try on the test, and you didn\u2019t care about answering the questions wrong? That doesn\u2019t mean you aren\u2019t intelligent or incapable of answering the questions\u2014you just don\u2019t care. The IQ test doesn\u2019t take that into account (granted, that\u2019s a difficult thing for any test to correct). And, going solely off the number you get once or twice when you\u2019re 12 may not apply when you\u2019re 40.\nSo, how do you fix it? How do you accurately measure someone\u2019s intelligence?\nOne of the best ways I can see is to test each of the nine types of intelligences individually. This would involve a variety of testing; i.e, you might want a discussion to test interpersonal or existential intelligences, get up and moving around for the kinesthetic intelligences.\nSo, even though the IQ test is an easy testing method, there are a bunch of areas where it can fail you in terms of accuracy.", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00240.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 61, + "original_length": 6640, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.94, + "perplexity": 233.1, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "https://canadiangamedevs.com/blog/shadow-of-the-tomb-raider-launches-on-playstation-4-xbox-one-and-pc", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T04:02:20Z", + "digest": "sha1:YZ5F4OGXCQDZNTUV6ADZE5F5EXQBVIZB", + "length": 690, + "nlines": 6, + "source_domain": "canadiangamedevs.com", + "title": "Shadow of the Tomb Raider Launches On PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and PC - Canadian GameDevs", + "raw_content": "Shadow of the Tomb Raider Launches On PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and PC\nEdios Montreal have released the latest instalment in the rebooted Tomb Raider franchise, Shadow of the Tomb Raider on PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and PC. The first two games in the trilogy (Tomb Raider, and Rise of the Tomb Raider) were developed by Crystal Dynamics but the series was shifted to Edios Montreal for this game.\nYou can check out the launch trailer below, but the game is reviewing well currently sitting at a 78 metacritic.\nGaming, Montreal, PlayStation 4, Quebec, Steam, Trailer, Xbox One\nMontreal Games, Edios Montreal, Tomb Raider, Shadow of the Tomb Raider, Recent Releases\nFossil Hunters Coming To ...", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00240.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 210, + "original_length": 6999, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.89, + "perplexity": 286.6, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "https://canadiangis.com/business-geomatics-the-power-of-location-economics.php", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T03:13:54Z", + "digest": "sha1:2V2SQMJKN5TV2FE27R4EEHQJLRUMF2AI", + "length": 2556, + "nlines": 7, + "source_domain": "canadiangis.com", + "title": "Business Geomatics and the Power of Location Economics - Canadian GIS & Geomatics", + "raw_content": "Business Geomatics and the Power of Location Economics\nHow you ever wondered how Canadian Businesses decide where to locate?\nMany of us do not realize but a number of factors are involved when businesses establish new locations, quite often it is dependent on what product or services they offer or produce, however these days more and more are taking advantage of the \u2018Power of Location Economics\u2019. Location economics, unlike product differentiation strategies (where products or services are created different in order to attract more customers), addresses economic activities such as where people are located in order to produce or sell similar products in an existing market while maximizing their accessibility and profits.\nOver the past decade or so the GIS and Geomatics industry has been rapidly evolving and has crossed over into virtually almost every other industry and market, to the point where most people quite often do not even realize that they are using some aspect of geomatics. A common trend happening everywhere these days is \u2018data mining\u2018 where more and more information is being requested by users. When you stop and think about it \u2026 almost every time you apply or signup for something, you are always asked to provide some personal information, which almost always includes your address ( \u2026 the key to connecting any information spatially).\nThe majority of the time, the amount of data collected is not really required for the actual task but needed to take advantage of the \u2018Address\u2019 component, not a new concept but one that is certainly monopolized more these days. Over the past few years address data, has become the basis of almost all data sets and many organizations collect this data but never know how to utilize its full potential. Think about it for a second, almost every time you fill out a form, you are asked to include your address information, but have you ever wondered why?\nOver the next few weeks Canadian GIS & Geomatics will be looking more into the \u2018Power of Location Economics\u2019 with several featured stories related to how enterprise leverages geographic data for the purpose of obtaining customers, managing assets, evaluating competitors, and identifying new opportunities. We will be examining some location based geospatial products, talking with some Industry Leaders, recommending some related education programs and identifying ways that you can benefit more from something that you probably already have.\nDMTI Spatial Acquired by Neopost Using Location Hub to Unlock the Power of Location Economics", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00240.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 162, + "original_length": 6579, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.96, + "perplexity": 317.4, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "https://canonlaw.ninja/?nums=166", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T03:13:11Z", + "digest": "sha1:NA2VRUVK2CWKGM6MCL2WKWGW3PMBCT3N", + "length": 281, + "nlines": 1, + "source_domain": "canonlaw.ninja", + "title": "CanonLaw.Ninja - Search Results", + "raw_content": "Previous Next \u00a71. The person presiding offer a college or group is to convoke all those belonging to the college or group; the notice of convocation, however, when it must be personal, is valid if it is given in the place of domicile or quasi-domicile or in the place of residence.", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00240.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 316, + "original_length": 11130, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.89, + "perplexity": 275.1, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "https://capitolfile-magazine.com/blogs/tag/ellen-barkin", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T03:47:47Z", + "digest": "sha1:ZZ43DUFGEJDMA6IARNDCWHQCVW53SADZ", + "length": 66, + "nlines": 1, + "source_domain": "capitolfile-magazine.com", + "title": "blogs", + "raw_content": "Ellen Barkin on Why 'The Cobbler' Was Like 'It's a Wonderful Life'", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00240.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 183, + "original_length": 3798, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.63, + "perplexity": 294.2, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "https://captureplanning.com/articles/using-the-wrong-lists-for-proposal-management.cfm", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T03:22:21Z", + "digest": "sha1:5LT3TXJSWIGQ7YCJF4ITQ4V3LFHUAEKH", + "length": 3497, + "nlines": 7, + "source_domain": "captureplanning.com", + "title": "Are You Using The Wrong Lists to Manage Your Proposals? - Proposal Management - captureplanning.com", + "raw_content": "As quickly as possible, proposal managers try to turn the chaos in which most proposals start into a finite process, with all the parts known and tracked. The goal is to move from total chaos to an itemized \u201cto do\u201d list that you can work through, item by item, to completion. Some people are more organized than others, and as a result, some are more formal in their approach than others. The problem with this approach isn\u2019t that people manage by making lists, it\u2019s that this approach is totally dependent on the subjective decisions and skills of the list maker. If you want to improve the management of your proposals, a good place to start is by formalizing the way you go about making your lists.\nMost people manage the content by using the outline as their list. They check off each item as it\u2019s written. At this stage, they don\u2019t know whether what was written is useful or not. That\u2019s why they have proposal reviews. They set up another list of action items for implementing reviews, and then another list of action items to correct any issues the reviews discover.\nFrom the very first list, they are on the wrong track.\nOr maybe it\u2019s that they are tracking the wrong things. If you are tracking section by section you are not tracking what you want. What you want is to win. In order to win you need to achieve certain things in writing. Those are the things that you need to track on your list.\nInstead of asking people to complete a draft of the sections assigned to them, the first thing you should do is identify the items you need the authors to achieve in each section in order to win. In the CapturePlanning.com MustWin Process, we call this creating a Content Plan. A Content Plan acts like a recipe for the proposal. It facilitates the review process by providing a baseline to measure the proposal against. It enables you to verify whether the proposal achieves the goals it was supposed to. It also provides a list that both the authors and the proposal manager can use during writing to measure progress. No more waiting for a draft from the author, then waiting for it to be reviewed, only to find out that it totally missed the mark. With a Content Plan you can check off each goal as it is achieved. In fact, you can validate the fulfillment of each goal in real time, rather than waiting until all the sections are complete and sent off for review.\nInstead of thinking in terms of proposal reviews that occur at certain milestones, it is better to think in terms of identifying the things you need to validate. When you do this, in addition to providing better scope definitions for the reviews, you can approach your reviews as a list of items to be completed. You have a list of specific proposal attributes to check. Some may happen at sit-around-a-table reviews, and some may not. Instead of trying to orchestrate meetings with unreliable results, your reviews target the items on your list to validate. When you\u2019ve worked through your list, you have a fully validated proposal that you know is ready for submission.\nThe key to using lists to manage a proposal lies in making your lists relate to your goals rather than being simply a random collection of action items. The first step is to identify what it will take to win. Next turn them into instructions for writers, and then validate that that they where carried out in the document. The proposal effort then becomes finite, measurable and, most importantly, focused on achieving everything needed for you to win.", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00240.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 70, + "original_length": 5048, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.96, + "perplexity": 248.6, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "https://carecorpsclinics.com/privacy-policy", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T04:08:11Z", + "digest": "sha1:2LJ5V74G7O4ABZMFEETWPHLZ2S7BYQAB", + "length": 1416, + "nlines": 6, + "source_domain": "carecorpsclinics.com", + "title": "Privacy policy - CareCorps\u00ae Clinics", + "raw_content": "CareCorps (R) On-Site clinics and its parent company, Clinical Resources Group, takes its responsibility to safeguard your data seriously.\nPrivacy is very important to CareCorps (R) On-Site clinics. The information you provide to us will be kept private and secure.\nOur site's registration form requires users to give us contact information (name, address, telephone number and email address). We use contact information from the registration form to send the user information about our company and the services we offer. The browser contact information is also used to contact web site users when necessary. Users may opt out of receiving future mailings.\nThis site may contain links to other sites. CareCorps (R) On-Site clinics is not responsible for the privacy practices or the content of such web sites.\nUnder no circumstances will CareCorps (R) On-Site clinics ever sell, rent, or otherwise distribute any information gained through this web site without the prior express written consent of the parties involved.\nThis privacy policy sets forth CareCorps (R) On-Site clinics' current practices and procedures with respect to privacy. 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WELCOME!", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00240.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 31, + "original_length": 2124, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.96, + "perplexity": 297.0, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "https://cbinsideout.com/community-spotlight-paradise-valley/", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T04:02:02Z", + "digest": "sha1:6RX3GWBHPAE2CXGDQCMJKI7W6S2LI7YS", + "length": 2805, + "nlines": 7, + "source_domain": "cbinsideout.com", + "title": "Community Spotlight: Paradise Valley | Coldwell Banker Inside Out", + "raw_content": "Paradise Valley certainly lives up to its name. A charming enclave of luxury in the heart of Phoenix, Paradise Valley offers so much within its 16-mile span. Remarkably, it is home to 11 luxurious resorts that attract even the most discerning of world-travelers. 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It is home to the densest populations of orangutans anywhere in the world, and plays an important role in mitigating climate change through carbon sequestration.\nGiven its designation as a National Strategic Area, the Leuser Ecosystem should be protected from development.\nThe entire TRSH site covers 2.5 million hectares and comprises three national parks: Gunung Leuser, Kerinci Seblat, and Bukit Barisan Selatan.\nUNESCO says the site \u201cholds the greatest potential for long-term conservation of the distinctive and diverse biota of Sumatra, including many endangered species\u201d.\nThe area is home to some 10,000 plant species, including 17 endemic genera; more than 200 mammal species; and about 580 bird species, of which 465 are resident and 21 are endemic, UNESCO states.\nThe consortium of NGOs this week submitted a report to the UNESCO World Heritage Centre (WHC) pointing out the threats to the TRHS site.\n\u201cA wave of major new industrial projects being fast tracked for development within the Leuser Ecosystem threaten to destroy the integrity of the site,\u201d said Farwiza Farhan, who is the chairwoman of one of the NGOs \u2013 Forest, Nature and Environment Aceh (HAkA).\n\u201cAnd this is despite the fact that they will violate Indonesian laws and make a mockery of the World Heritage Site listing.\u201d\nFarwiza Farhan. Photo by Paul Hilton.\nThe other NGOs are the Sumatran Orangutan Society (SOS), the Orangutan Information Centre (OIC), and Yayasan Ekosistem Lestari (the Foundation for Sustainable Ecosystems, or YEL).\nIn their submission, the NGOs are critical of the 2017 report that Indonesia submitted to the WHC about the state of conservation of the TRHS.\nThe NGOs say Indonesia\u2019s report contains serious omissions and contradictions.\nIn its January 2017 report to the WHC, the Indonesian government reiterates its commitment \u201cto ensure the sustainability of the TRHS and restore it to such a state that the property may be removed from the List of World Heritage in Danger\u201d.\nIt lists the measures it has taken, which include establishing a programme to increase the population of Sumatran tigers, elephants, rhino, and orangutans; conducting training in wildlife monitoring; improving monitoring equipment; identifying and mapping human-wildlife conflict areas; developing a rhino sanctuary; and conducting Spatial Monitoring and Reporting Tool (SMART) patrols.\nIt also said it was committed to not granting any concessions or permits for geothermal exploration or the construction of new roads within the TRHS site.\nHowever, the NGOs\u2019 report to the WHC highlights numerous immediate and serious threats to Leuser\u2019s forests.\nThe director of the Medan-based OIC, Panut Hadisiswoyo, (pictured below) said: \u201cThey include several new hydropower dams and geothermal energy plants being proposed in critical areas, a continued lack of law enforcement throughout the region, and the devastating construction of new roads that carve up and fragment forests and wildlife populations rendering them increasingly vulnerable to extinction.\u201d\nThe threats to Leuser have never been so severe, Hadisiswoyo says. \u201cWe implore the World Heritage Centre to take urgent steps to prevent all these plans being implemented in Leuser.\u201d\nA Turkish-owned company, PT Hitay Panas Energi, has been lobbying the Indonesian government to remove protection from a core zone of the World Heritage Site to allow a geothermal power plant to be built in the heart of the Leuser Ecosystem. Their request was supported by the outgoing governor of Aceh, Zaini Abdullah.\nThere were elections last month, however, and the new governor-elect of Aceh, Irwandi Yusuf, has stated publicly that he will cancel the Hitay project.\n\u201cWe strongly welcome the governor-elect\u2019s move,\u201d said Farwiza Farhan. \u201cBut, at the same time, we are alarmed to know that the company is still pushing the national government to overrule this decision by Aceh\u2019s incoming governor.\u201d\nFarwiza Farhan says Hitay is holding closed-door meetings with the Ministry of Environment and Forestry and its various departments \u201cin an attempt to manipulate Indonesia\u2019s laws and enable the project to go ahead\u201d. There have been several public protests, she says.\n\u201cWe will not sit by and watch as our forests are sold off to foreign-owned companies and we urge the Ministry of Environment and Forestry to reject any requests to destroy the legally protected Leuser Ecosystem.\u201d\nThe NGOs say there are also proposals for several large hydroelectric dams inside and around the World Heritage Site \u201cthat would considerably undermine its Outstanding Universal Value\u201d.\nThese include plans for mega hydropower projects in the Kluet, Tampur, and Jambo Aye water catchment areas that would severely threaten the integrity of the Leuser Ecosystem.\n\u201cThese projects would destroy crucially important areas of habitat for the Sumatran orangutan, which is listed by the IUCN as critically endangered and is on its Red List of Threatened Species,\u201d Hadisiswoyo said.\n\u201cMega power projects like these, in and around the Leuser Ecosystem, are not in the best interests of Aceh\u2019s people either. Such projects lead to dependence on just a few large power plants and devastate entire forested regions.\u201d\nThe projects require roads and infrastructure, Hadisiswoyo says, and all the construction and industrialisation will lead to more frequent and more intense environmental disasters.\n\u201cIn contrast, micro hydropower generation schemes have been shown to be far more effective, ecologically sensitive, and sustainable solutions to northern Sumatra\u2019s energy issues.\u201d\nHadisiswoyo says it is insane to even consider building giant hydroelectric plants that store millions of tons of water behind concrete walls in one of the world\u2019s most active earthquake zones, with communities living downstream in the floodplain. \u201cIt\u2019s a recipe for even more disasters,\u201d he said.\nThe director of the Sumatran Orangutan Conservation Programme (SOCP), Ian Singleton, said: \u201cThe Leuser Ecosystem is almost certainly the largest remaining contiguous rainforest ecosystem in the whole of Southeast Asia.\n\u201cIt\u2019s also the last real hope for the survival of some of the world\u2019s most iconic large mammal species, like the Sumatran tiger, elephant, rhino and orangutan, and many other rare and threatened species, many of which, like these, are endemic to the region and are found nowhere else on the planet.\u201d\nIt\u2019s ironic, Singleton says, that a precious ecosystem like Leuser, with all its biodiversity, could be obliterated in the name of renewable energy.\n\u201cWhilst we genuinely applaud the government\u2019s current move towards renewable energy and away from traditional non-renewable sources, clearly not all renewable energy is sustainable if it means destroying a protected landscape and a UNESCO World Heritage Site.\u201d\nThe proposed site for the geothermal plant is in the Kappi Plateau region, which is the core of the only remaining major habitat corridor connecting the eastern and western forest areas in the Gunung Leuser National Park.\nThe area is currently designated as a Core Area (Zona Inti) of the national park. In order for the geothermal project to be legally permissible, the Ministry of Environment and Forestry would have to downgrade the area\u2019s status and designate it a Utilisation Zone (Zona Pemanfataan).\nSeveral critically endangered species depend on the habitat corridor for movement and reproduction.\nFarwiza Farhan says Kappi is the very heart of an ecosystem that is providing vast benefits to Aceh\u2019s people every year, absolutely free, and destroying its heart means beginning to unravel the rest of the ecosystem.\n\u201cWhy would we needlessly throw away billions of dollars\u2019 worth of services for the sake of a small amount of power for which far better alternatives already exist elsewhere?\u201d\nAccording to a recent European Union study, if Aceh\u2019s forests are fully conserved, their total economic value, in the form of ecosystem services such as water supply and the mitigation of disasters and pests, is more than US$1 billion per year.\nThe report submitted to the WHC by the NGOs also highlights the ongoing failure of law enforcement in the TRHS site. The NGOs say there has been a failure to prosecute and sentence the perpetrators of poaching, illegal logging, encroachment, and other forest crimes. They say that, although Indonesia\u2019s report to the WHC documents an increase in the number of patrols, the arrest rate is three percent and the prosecution rate is unknown.\nThe Gunung Leuser National Park\nSpatial plan for Aceh\nThe NGOs also point to threats posed to the Leuser Ecosystem by the proposed spatial plan for Aceh, which seeks to remove the ecosystem\u2019s protected status.\nEnvironmentalist suffered a severe disappointment last November when a panel of judges in Jakarta ruled against a group of nine Aceh citizens who brought a civil lawsuit against Indonesia\u2019s minister of home affairs.\nThe lawsuit is part of a two-year battle by an alliance of concerned citizens \u2013 Gerakan Rakyat Aceh Menggugat (GeRAM) \u2013 against the spatial plan.\nThe plaintiffs say the home affairs minister has \u201cfailed to act on his jurisdiction to cancel the Aceh spatial plan\u201d as required under the ministry\u2019s decree N\u00ba 650-441 of 2014.\nThey say the Aceh governor and the Aceh parliament wrongfully excluded the Leuser Ecosystem from the plan.\nGeRAM is appealing against the Jakarta judgement and the high court will review the case.\nFarwiza Farhan say the spatial plan will \u201cwhitewash crimes of the past and pave the way for a new wave of catastrophic ecological destruction\u201d.\nThe class action plaintiffs are demanding a cancellation of the plan and \u201ca thorough and comprehensive revision\u201d of its proposals, which they say must include the recognition of the Leuser Ecosytem\u2019s special status.\nThe new spatial plan would open up swathes of the ecosystem for roads, mining, and palm oil and timber concessions. It threatens to destroy the area\u2019s biodiversity and increase the risk of flooding and landslides.\nThe spatial plan makes no mention of the existence of the Leuser Ecosystem as a National Strategic Area and no reference to its role in environmental protection.\nEarth-moving operations within the Leuser Ecosystem.\nOne public figure who has been very active in his defence of Leuser is the actor and environmentalist Leonardo DiCaprio, who visited the ecosystem in March last year, and went to the SOCP quarantine centre north of Medan.\nLeonardo DiCaprio (right) with Farwiza Farhan and award-winning environmentalist Rudi Putra. Photo by Paul Hilton for HAkA.\nIn their report to the WHC, the NGOs urge the UNESCO body to directly question the Indonesian government about the extensive infrastructure development plans in the TRHS along with \u201cits failure to act against the continued threat of the Aceh spatial plan; its lack of a serious species conservation strategy; the continuing lapse of effective conservation law enforcement; and its failure to clarify the size of the Gunung Leuser National Park\u201d.\nAll of this, the NGOs say, threatens the Outstanding Universal Value and biodiversity of the Gunung Leuser National Park and the TRHS as a whole.\nThe NGOs urge the Indonesian government not to grant any energy or mining permits, plantation concessions, or permission for any road development or expansion within the heritage site.\nThey also call on the government and the incoming governor of Aceh to overrule the outgoing Aceh government\u2019s proposed spatial plan and implement a management plan that protects and preserves the Leuser Ecosystem for future generations.\nThey want the government to publish and implement a proper species conservation strategy \u201cthat addresses the future of each of the key species within the TRHS\u201d and enact effective law enforcement measures against all those who threaten the TRHS, sanctioning those found guilty and dissuading further illegal actions.\nThe NGOs are also calling on the government to maintain its national moratorium on permits for, and the expansion of, oil palm cultivation and mining ventures, to officially apply this moratorium to the entire Leuser Ecosystem, and to prioritise an urgent review of the permits currently in existence within it.\nThe also urge the government to work with the WHC towards extending the TRHS World Heritage site to encompass the entire Leuser Ecosystem.\nThey are also calling on the WHC to keep the TRHS on the World Heritage in Danger List until all the issues raised have been resolved across the entire heritage area.\nThe Leuser Ecosystem. Photo by Paul Hilton.\nHeadline photo: clearing in the Leuser Ecosystem by the palm oil company PT Indo Sawit Perkasa.\nTagged as: Aceh, biodiversity, deforestation, Ecosystem, elephants, endangered, environment, Farwiza, forest, geothermal, Gunung, HAkA, heritage, IUCN, Leuser, logging, mining, NGO, OIC, orangutan, poaching, rainforest, rhino, Sumatra, tigers, TRHS, UNESCO, World Heritage in Danger List\nCanada is a \u2018safe haven\u2019 for Malaysian money launderers, says Bruno Manser Fund", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00240.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 217, + "original_length": 19579, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.92, + "perplexity": 283.9, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "https://chapterscapistrano.com/top-10-reasons-why-people-smoke-weed-marijuana/", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T04:01:39Z", + "digest": "sha1:2IKD2EJVJI6MJTGHEGBEZLQTQWKXOLRQ", + "length": 3455, + "nlines": 18, + "source_domain": "chapterscapistrano.com", + "title": "Top 10 Reasons Why People Smoke Weed (Marijuana) | Learn Why Here!", + "raw_content": "As of this date, there are already numerous states in the US which legalized the use of marijuana. Those who approved its medicinal use argue that legalizing cannabis is the way to go because the marijuana plant has substances that may aid treatment of a range of diseases and symptoms. On the other side of the coin, there are proponents who propose legalization of marijuana because they believe that this can curb the opioid crisis.\nIn a study, it was shown that more than 200,000 people had already died because of overdose from a prescription opioid in the United States from 1999 to 2016. Due to this fact, both medical marijuana researches and liberal cannabis laws were explored to come up with sound insights on how to find a feasible solution to the opioid crisis.\nOn the other hand, there are still a lot of people, institutions, and groups who are against this idea. For them, instead of curbing opioid addiction, the legalization of weed is just a mere gateway to more cases of addiction, abuse, and overdose deaths.\nThen again, despite all these arguments for and against marijuana, fewer studies have been devoted to finding out the reason why people smoke weed.\nIn this piece, we attempt to list down the reasons why marijuana users smoke weed, and in the process, help you form an opinion whether marijuana can give medicinal benefits or just pure illegal high.\nMarijuana offers medicinal effects. It is backed by researches that marijuana contains certain chemicals that can treat a wide range of illnesses and symptoms.\nMarijuana is taken because of the THC\u2019s (delta-9-tetrahydrocannabinol), the chief potent chemical in marijuana, effects. THCs are cannabinoid receptors which are centered and focus on such areas of the brain that are linked to sensory perceptions, time perceptions, coordination, concentration, thinking, movements, pleasure, and memory. THC allows cells in the body to release dopamine, thereby creating euphoria.\nMarijuana users smoke it to be relieved from anger, pain, fear, anxiety, and stress. People who are undergoing huge stress smoke weed to numb their negative feelings and retreat into a euphoric state, free from worries and pain.\nSome smoke weed because it is positively endorsed by pop culture.\nUsers of marijuana have the low perception to harm, thus, making the person feel braver and invincible.\nThere are also users who use marijuana simply because it is available and accessible. When they go to parties or when they hang out with their friends, marijuana is readily available.\nUsers also use marijuana because they can\u2019t ignore the pressure from their families and peers. Sometimes, the people that they look up to are using it. Hence, they end up being influenced.\nThere are also people who were born with or who had developed a certain dimension of personality, like being unconventional, which makes them believe that the use of marijuana is not a taboo.\nSome also use marijuana because they were curious.\nThere are those who use it to relax.\nWith all the reasons gathered from actual marijuana users, it\u2019s up to you to decide which proposition you will take \u2014 marijuana\u2019s use is limited to an illicit high or marijuana actually has some medicinal value.\nCategory : Addiction Support , Chapters Blog , Dual Diagnosis , Mental health\nTags: Reasons for smoking marijuana, Top 10 reasons why, why do people smoke marijuana, why do people use marijuana, Why people get high, why people smoke weed", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00240.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 116, + "original_length": 6253, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.96, + "perplexity": 311.9, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "https://charleswolfe.weebly.com/blog/special-thanksgiving-treat", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T04:20:05Z", + "digest": "sha1:FVY3YX5LRM4OTERLTQV3E4QGOIIBOLPQ", + "length": 818, + "nlines": 7, + "source_domain": "charleswolfe.weebly.com", + "title": "Special Thanksgiving treat. - Fine Woodcarvings", + "raw_content": "Special Thanksgiving treat.\nHere is another of my favorite sites, Granger McKoy. Be sure and take the time to watch the 25 minute video description of the making of the wing.\nHere is the description from Granger's web site.\n\"12ft Recovery Sculpture This is an enlarged version of the 8ft wing of a Pintail duck in the recovery position (which itself was an enlarged version of a life-sized sculpture, which we use as the background image of our website). This is the second stainless steel version and was cast in October, 2012 in Pennsylvania. It will be installed outdoors at a museum near the Breakers hotel in Palm Beach, Florida.\"\nSee a 25 minute video of the making of Recovery here.\nhttp://www.graingermckoy.com/studio_main.html\nHis wooden sculptures of birds in flight are enough to take your breath away, too.", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00240.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 138, + "original_length": 3070, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.94, + "perplexity": 251.6, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "https://chicago.suntimes.com/news/reynaldo-guevara-police-misconduct/", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T03:29:38Z", + "digest": "sha1:UBALLUS3OYHANK5IO24BQTHSQ5SWA2NJ", + "length": 3168, + "nlines": 20, + "source_domain": "chicago.suntimes.com", + "title": "Controversial retired detective will likely take the Fifth again \u2014 at a cost | Chicago Sun-Times", + "raw_content": "Controversial retired detective will likely take the Fifth again \u2014 at a cost\nFormer Chicago Police Detective Reynaldo Guevara | Sun-Times file photo\nOnce again, claims of misconduct swirling around retired Chicago police Det. Reynaldo Guevara have led him into a courtroom.\nAnd once again, Guevara is expected to maintain his Fifth Amendment right not to testify during a civil trial now underway at the Dirksen Federal Courthouse. At issue is the wrongful conviction of Jacques Rivera for the murder of Felix Valentin in 1988.\nBut unlike in a criminal case, this jury will be allowed to hold Guevara\u2019s refusal to testify against him. That\u2019s why, in a trial that could lead to an eight-figure verdict, Rivera\u2019s lawyer seized during opening statements Wednesday on what jurors will likely not hear.\n\u201cHe\u2019s not going to deny it,\u201d Jonathan Loevy said of Guevara. \u201cHe\u2019s not going to say anything.\u201d\nAnd, Loevy said, \u201cyou can infer that if he told the truth, it would be bad for him.\u201d\nThe trial is expected to last weeks.\nRivera is suing the city and a group of Chicago police officers over the more than 20 years he spent in prison for Valentin\u2019s murder. U.S. District Judge Joan B. Gottschall, who is presiding over the case, has said in rulings that Rivera\u2019s innocence is not in dispute.\nRather, lawyers for the officers and the city maintain a key witness lied when he fingered Rivera for the murder, causing a breakdown in the criminal justice system.\nGuevara is key among the officer defendants. Last fall, after years of claiming his Fifth Amendment right not to testify, he finally answered questions in state court under a rare grant of immunity. Ultimately, a Cook County judge found Guevara told a \u201cbold-faced lie\u201d and couldn\u2019t be considered credible.\nCriminal cases based on Guevara\u2019s testimony promptly began to collapse.\nRivera\u2019s exoneration began in 2011, after a key witness in his case recanted his original trial testimony, prompting prosecutors to drop the charges against him. The state court gave Rivera a certificate of innocence in 2012.\nThe key witness was Orlando Lopez, who saw Valentin\u2019s shooting when he was 12. Loevy told jurors Wednesday that Lopez\u2019s testimony was the sole piece of evidence used to convict Rivera.\nHowever, Lopez at one point allegedly tried to tell police Rivera wasn\u2019t the shooter. Even the victim pointed the finger at someone else before he died, Loevy told the jury.\nLopez testified during Rivera\u2019s criminal trial decades ago that the shooter\u2019s hair was dyed brown or gold. During the same trial, Guevara said Rivera had a gold ponytail at the time of his arrest.\nLopez told Northwestern University\u2019s Center for Wrongful Convictions in 2010 he knew Rivera was not the shooter. He also said he \u201cdid try to tell [the police] it was not the real guy,\u201d records show.\nThomas Leinenweber, who represents Guevara, told jurors the Fifth Amendment is a constitutional right that protects the guilty \u2014 and the innocent.\nBut he also said it was Lopez who \u201cinserted a lie into the system,\u201d leading to Rivera\u2019s incarceration for a crime he didn\u2019t commit.\n\u201cThat\u2019s what this case is about,\u201d Leinenweber said. \u201cThe lies of Orlando Lopez.\u201d", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00240.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 248, + "original_length": 6846, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.96, + "perplexity": 316.4, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "https://chilternlibdems.org.uk/en/article/2018/1265263/scott-raven-wins-district-council-by-election-for-lib-dems-in-quainton", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T03:37:03Z", + "digest": "sha1:V4JHKQ6GMSJUD5QE6RYEPFPQWRPSETN3", + "length": 2068, + "nlines": 15, + "source_domain": "chilternlibdems.org.uk", + "title": "Scott Raven wins District Council by-election for Lib Dems in Quainton (Chiltern Liberal Democrats)", + "raw_content": "Scott Raven wins District Council by-election for Lib Dems in Quainton\nCongratulations to Scott Raven on winning the District Council by-election for Lib Dems from the Tories in Quainton.\nScott Raven, LDM: 564 46.4%\nConservative 492 (40.5%)\nLabour 113 (9.3%)\nGreen 47 (4%)\nSpoilt 3\n@PolitiStatsUK helpfully added this: there was no Ind (-23.1), as last ttime; and no UKIP (-22.3) as previous.\nThis was one of the first results to be declared on the night of May 3rd, when many other places, including London, had all out-elections (covering the entire council.)\nIt was a hard-fought contest, made that much harder for the LibDems as we had not contested this seat for some years. We had no data to draw on, and had to conduct our canvassing, gathering support by going door to door, rather than drawing on information drawn from past elections, as the better-resourced Tories could do.\nIt meant a small team of activists from the Buckingham constituency, together with a team from the adjoining Aylesbury party, delivering leaflets and knocking on doors for three weeks. Then standing outside polling stations on election day and reminding supporters to vote, if they hadn't already done so. The Tories did as much. It is the only way to win, or lose, close elections such as this, however good your candidate is. Remember, in local elections usually fewer than one in three of those eligible to vote actually do so. In this election the figure was 47%.\nThis by-election does not affect the running of the council.\nThe Conservatives now hold 41 seats. The LibDems have 12 councillors. The Independents hold 4 seats. Labour has 2.\nSo that is still an impregnable majority, which allows the Tories still to do pretty well as they please.\nBut we urgently needed more opposition voices in the council chamber, to hold the ruling Conservative group to account, to challenge them, to ask difficult questions and to scrutinise their proposals, which ultimately are funded by you, the council taxpayer. We now have one more councillor, to fulfil that vital role in opposition.", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00240.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 100, + "original_length": 4897, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.98, + "perplexity": 315.2, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "https://chimes.media/2018/05/04/a-star-grazed-our-solar-system-70000-years-ago-and-early-humans-likely-saw-it/", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T04:11:33Z", + "digest": "sha1:LZ2WFYPKKGUJCHN447WVDM3BD4QPYM7N", + "length": 3094, + "nlines": 13, + "source_domain": "chimes.media", + "title": "A Star Grazed Our Solar System 70,000 Years Ago, and Early Humans Likely Saw It \u2013 CHIMES MEDIA", + "raw_content": "A Star Grazed Our Solar System 70,000 Years Ago, and Early Humans Likely Saw It\nSome distant objects in our solar system bear the gravitational imprint of a small star\u2019s close flyby 70,000 years ago, when modern humans were already walking the Earth, a new study suggests.\nIn 2015, a team of researchers announced that a red dwarf called Scholz\u2019s star apparently grazed the solar system 70,000 years ago, coming closer than 1 light-year to the sun. For perspective, the sun\u2019s nearest stellar neighbor these days, Proxima Centauri, lies about 4.2 light-years away. The astronomers came to this conclusion by measuring the motion and velocity of Scholz\u2019s star \u2014 which zooms through space with a smaller companion, a brown dwarf or \u201cfailed star\u201d \u2014 and extrapolating backward in time.\nScholz\u2019s star passed by the solar system at a time when early humans and Neanderthals shared the Earth. The star likely appeared as a faint reddish light to anyone looking up at the time, researchers with the new study said. [Top 10 Star Mysteries]\nThe new study bolsters the 2015 analysis with a different type of evidence. A research team led by Carlos de la Fuente Marcos, of the Complutense University of Madrid, analyzed 339 known solar system bodies with hyperbolic orbits \u2014 paths through space that are V-shaped, rather than circular or elliptical.\nObjects on hyperbolic orbits could theoretically have come from interstellar space, just like \u2018Oumuamua, the first known solar system visitor born around another star. But they could also be natives nudged onto weird tracks by gravitational interactions with the sun or some of its planets. And denizens of the Oort Cloud \u2014 a frigid ring far from the sun that\u2019s home to trillions of comets \u2014 could even be \u201cperturbed\u201d by the Milky Way\u2019s disk, or wandering stars that get too close.\n\u201cUsing numerical simulations, we have calculated the radiants or positions in the sky from which all these hyperbolic objects seem to come,\u201d de la Fuente Marcos said in a statement.\n\u201cIn principle, one would expect those positions to be evenly distributed in the sky, particularly if these objects come from the Oort Cloud,\u201d he added. \u201cHowever, what we find is very different: a statistically significant accumulation of radiants. The pronounced over-density appears projected in the direction of the constellation of Gemini, which fits the close encounter with Scholz\u2019s star.\u201d\n\u2018Oumuamua is not among the Gemini group, so that bizarre, needle-shaped object really does seem to have come from another star system, the researchers added. They also flagged eight other bodies that may be interstellar interlopers, including Comet ISON, which broke apart during a highly anticipated close pass by the sun in November 2013.\nThe new study was published online last month in the journal Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society: Letters. You can read it for free at the online preprint site arXiv.org.\nPlease support this site.\nTagged: 70000 years, Failed Star, Grazed, Oumuamua, Red Dwarf, Scholz\n\u00ab Fall of the May Feminists TORONTO HORROR VAN ATTACK KILLS 10, INJURES 15 \u00bb", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00240.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 74, + "original_length": 4287, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.93, + "perplexity": 336.2, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "https://christergundersen.com/2015/10/14/how-does-openly-licensed-content-stack-up-against-traditional-textbooks/", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T03:42:30Z", + "digest": "sha1:PIWEFGVREYMJ7NYRNHL5NB257HSA47WE", + "length": 4083, + "nlines": 17, + "source_domain": "christergundersen.com", + "title": "How does openly-licensed content stack up against traditional textbooks? | Christer Gundersen", + "raw_content": "How does openly-licensed content stack up against traditional textbooks?\nThere are still teachers and politicians leaning towards the old school textbook when choosing resources to use in the classroom. This is based on what I would call the \u00abGutenberg paradigm\u00bb where publishers control the decimation of knowledge together with an elite group of authors. The assumption is that \u00abyou get what you pay for\u00bb.\nAt the same time there are constant discussions on whether open educational resources and EdTech in the classroom has any documented effect. One relevant question in this context is of course: how does traditional textbooks stack up against open educational resources and free, openly-licensed textbooks. Is the frase, \u00abyou get what you pay for\u00bb still true when it comes to textbooks?\nIn fact, researchers at Brigham Young University have found that this is not the case anymore.\nA new multi-institutional study the researchers have been looking at the academic outcomes of students assigned free, openly-licensed textbooks versus those assigned traditionally-published textbooks. What the study finds is the opposite of what folk wisdom tells us: expensive textbooks are notsuperior to free ones. In fact, the results show a striking trend that students assigned free, open textbooks do as well or better than their peers in terms of grades, course completion, and other measures of academic success.\nIf traditional textbooks are not producing better outcomes, then what exactly arestudents paying for?\nHere\u2019s a breakdown of the results:\nCourse completion: In all of the courses studied, students who were assigned open textbooks were as likely or more likely to complete their course than those assigned traditional textbooks. In one course, the completion rate was remarkably 15 percentage points higher for students using open textbooks.\nGrades: Students who were assigned open textbooks tended to have final grades equivalent to or better than those assigned traditional textbooks. In more than a quarter of the courses, students using open textbooks achieved higher grades, and only one course using open textbooks showed lower grades (which is at least partially explained by the course\u2019s significantly higher completion rate, which includes the grades of students who would have otherwise dropped out).\nCredit load: Students who were assigned open textbooks took approximately 2 credits more both in the semester of the study and in the following semester. This is a sign that students are reinvesting money saved on textbooks into more courses, which can accelerate graduation times and potentially reduce debt.\nOverall success: Overall, students in more than half of the courses that used open textbooks did better according to at least one academic measure used in the study, and students in 93% of these courses did at least as well by all of the measures.\nThe study is based on more than 16,000 students across 10 institutions, and is the largest and most rigorous study of its kind. Naturally, there are some limitations, most notably that the researchers cannot conclusively claim that textbooks are the sole cause of differences in student outcomes, since uncontrolled factors such as variation in teaching methods may have played a role. However, more than a dozen other studies have been published over the last five years that find a similar correlation between open textbooks and as-good-or-better student outcomes, which shows a definitive trend.\nIn addition to results in these studies it is important to take in account other aspects of the open license like the possible translation into new languages and the the fact that it is possible to adapt an change books to meet local needs.\nBased on work of Nicole Allen available at http://www.huffingtonpost.com/nicole-allen/college-textbooks-do-you_b_8261086.html.\nYou are free to re-blog, adapt and share the content with attribution to the author and a link back to the original version.\n\u2190 The \u201cO\u201d in OER and MOOC is crucial for the future of global education\nTechnological roadmap for developing OER \u2192", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00240.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 56, + "original_length": 5180, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.96, + "perplexity": 328.8, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "https://cinema-fanatic.com/tag/2015/", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T04:17:43Z", + "digest": "sha1:MRUMWTK7RTQLXW5VFQPDC5KO3WDN4IYX", + "length": 4648, + "nlines": 43, + "source_domain": "cinema-fanatic.com", + "title": "2015 | the diary of a film history fanatic", + "raw_content": "Tags: 2015, Alan Wenkus, Andrea Berloff, F. Gary Gray, Jason Mitchell, Jonathan Herman, O'Shea Jackson Jr., S. Leigh Savidge, Straight Outta Compton\nMovie Quote of the Day \u2013 Dope, 2015 (dir. Rick Famuyiwa)\nDom: Yo man, I be seein\u2019 you and your little friends with y\u2019all flattops and MC Hammer pants, riding around in this shit, looking like y\u2019all came out of a DeLorean or some shit. Fuck is up with that shit anyway?\nMalcolm: You know, the \u201990s was like the golden age of hip-hop. Everything from It Takes a Nation of Millions to The Blueprint was killing it. I guess me and my friends just wish we grew up back then.\nDom: It Takes a Nation came out in \u201988. Blueprint came out 2001. What the fuck are you talkin\u2019 \u2019bout right now?\nMalcolm: Technically, um. . .but, you know, the spirit of the music was definitely still \u201990s. I mean, It Takes a Nation, Straight Outta Compton, Paid in Full was ahead of their time. And then you got Snoop, Biggie, Wu-Tang. They took the game to the next level. 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She is a famous upcoming Indian actress and also she is a playback singer she has predominantly worked in Malayalam film industry.\nAparna Balamurali biography\nReal Name: Aparna Balamurali\nNickname: Aparna\nProfession: Film Actress, Singer, Model, Dancer\nHeight (approximate): 168 cm\nAge (as in 2018): 23Years\nBirth Place: Thrissur, Kerala\nEthnicity: Brown(South-Asian)\nDebut: Yathra Thudarunnu\nAddress: Thrissur, Kerala\nFamous: Appearing in Alu Ramendran Malayalam flim\nFather: KP Balamurali\nMother: Shobha Balamurali\nQualification: Graduatred in Architecture from Global Institute of Architecture, Palakad.\nSchool: Devamatha CMI Public School.\nCollege: Global Institute of Architecture, Palakkad.\nActor: Mohanlal\nActress: Revathy\nFood: Kerala Foods\nColour: White,Red\nFilm: Spadikam\nPlace: Thrissur,Bangalore\nNet Asset: Rs.75 Lakh Indian Rupees\nSalary: Will update.\nAparna Balamurali was born on 11th September 1996 in Thrissur, Kerala, and India. She was born to the couple K P Balamurali and Sobha Balamurali. She did her schoolings in Devamatha CMI Public School which is situated in Kerala and she was graduated in Architecture Field from Global Institute of Architecture College in Palakkad.\nAparna Balamurali is also known as Aparna basically her profession is acting, dancing and she is also a playback singer her height is 167 cm and weight is 55 kg.\nHer hobbies are dancing, singing, shopping and traveling. Aparna\u2019s favorite actor is Salman Khan and actress is Katrina Kaif. Her dream holiday destination is London. Her favorite color is pink and her favorite food where she always loves to eat is pizza and burger.\nAparna Balamurali was born and brought up in Thrissur, Kerala. She was born to a musical family where her father K P Balamurali and her mother who is an advocate both of them are well-known singers in Mollywood industry. Aparna she has chosen her career as acting even though when she was born in a musical family since she is more passionate towards an acting field.\nBefore entering into the film industry world she initially started her modeling career and then later she entered into film industry to act and she started as a playback singer.\nShe chose her career after completing her school days after then she started doing her graduate degree in architecture while when she was doing her college days she got films side-by-side and she started working in the movies and as well as she worked as a playback singer also.\nAparna Balamurali is a famous multi-specialist person in the Malayalam industry, her father Balamurali is the music director and he has composed various several musical albums and her mother she works as a lawyer and she has also done many playback songs in Malayalam movies. Her uncle is K P Udaya Bhanu who is also a music composer in Malayalam industry.\nAparna Balamurali is more interested in dancing field when she was studying in her school days she used to actively participate in dances by noticing that, her mother joined her in a dance class and now she is a well trained Indian classical dancer and she is expert in different forms of dance such as Bharathanatyam, Mohiniattam, and Kuchipudi. She is also a well trained in Indian classical music.\nAparna Balamurali is very fond of her parents after completing the shooting she used to spend her leisure time with her family and friends. Still, now she is unmarried and she is not in dating to anyone currently she is focused only on her career.\nIn 2015 her first movie was a Malayalam comedy thriller movie Oru Second Class Yathra which was written and directed by Jackson Antony, leading stars in this movie are Vineeth Sreenivasan, Nikki Galrani and Aparna Balamurali played as a special appearance role as Amrita Unnikrishnan. Music was composed by Gopi Sunder and Vinod Illampally is the cinematographer and this movie was released on 8th may 2015.\nIn 2016 next Indian Malayalam movie is Maheshinte Prathikaram which was directed by Dileesh Pothan and leading starts in this movie are Fahad Fazil and Aparna Balamurali. Music composer of this movie is Bijibal and Shyju Khalid is the cinematographer this movie was released on 5th February 2016 in Kerala.\nIn 2016 her next project is a Malayalam comedy drama movie Oru Muthassi Gadha which was written and directed by Jude Anthany Joseph. Leading starts in this movie are Rajini Chandy Bhagyalakshmi and Aparna Balamurali. Music composer for this movie is Shaan Rahman. Vinod Illampally is the cinematographer. This movie was released on 14th September 2016 by A V A production company.\nIn 2017 she got an opportunity in Tamil industry it 8 Thottakkal which is the crime thriller movie written and directed by Shree Ganesh. Leading stars in this movie are Vetri and Aparna Balamurali. Sundaramoorthy is the music composer and Dinesh k Babu is this cinematographer this movie was released on 7th April 2017.\nIn 2017 she acted in a Malayalam movie Sunday holiday which was written and directed by Jis joy. Leading stars in this movie are Asif Ali, Sreenivasan, Lal Jose, and Aparna Balamurali. Music composer of this movie is Deepak Dev and this movie was released on 14th July 2017.\nBy the year 2017, her next project was a Malayalam movie Sarvopari Palakkaran directed by Venugopal and leading stars in this movie are Anoop Menon and Aparna Balamurali. Bijibal is the music composer and Alby is the cinematographer, this movie was released on 4th August 2017.\nHer next project in Malayalam industries Thrissivaperoor Kliptham which was directed by Satish Kumar, and lead roles played in this movie are Asif Ali and Aparna Balamurali. Bijibal is the music director and Swaroop Philip is the cinematographer and this movie was released on 11th August 2017.\nHer next Malayalam project in 2017 is Mayanadhi which is the romantic thriller movie directed by Aashiq Abu and lead stars in this movie are Tovino Thomas, Aishwarya Lakshmi, and Aparna Balamurali. Rex Vijayan is the music composer. Jayesh Mohan is the cinematographer. This movie was released on 22nd December 2017 by Dream Mill Cinemas Production Company.\nIn 2018 Malayalam romantic movie is Kamuki directed by Binu Sadanandan and lead roles played are Aparna Balamurali and Askar Ali. Gopi sunder is the music composer and Robin Basker is the cinematographer.\nIn 2018 she acted in Malayalam drama thriller movie B. Tech which was written and directed by Mridul Nair and lead stars in this movie are Asif Ali and Aparna Balamurali. Rahul Raj is the music composer. Manoj Kumar Khatoi is the cinematographer this movie was released on 5th May 2018.\nUpcoming movie in 2018 is Tamil project Sarvam Thaala Mayam this movie which is written and directed by Rajiv Menon and lead stars in this movie are G V Prakash Kumar and Aparna Balamurali. Music composer of this movie is A R Rahman and Ravi Yadav is the cinematographer this movie is scheduled to be released on 28 December 2018.\nHer next upcoming project in 2019 is Aadujeevitham which is a Malayalam project written and directed by Blessy. Lead stars in this movie are Prithviraj Sukumaran and Amala Paul. Music composer is A R Rahman and for this movie, the release date is yet to be scheduled.\nNext project in 2019 Allu Ramendran which is the Malayalam movie, the pre-production process is going on for this movie and the release date is yet to be scheduled.\nHer next Tamil project in 2019 is Theethum Nandrum where a filming process is going on for this project.\nIn 2016 in AsiaVision Awards for New sensation of acting female and Upcoming Singer Malayalam in Mirchi Music\nAwards South.\nVanitha Film Awards and Asianet film awards for Best Debut Actress and by NAFA new sensation heroine in 2017.\nIn 2018 in Vanitha film awards for Best star pair.\nShe was nominated in Filmfare award for Best Supporting Actress for a Malayalam movie Maheshinte Prathikaram and Sarvopari Palakkaran in 2017 & 2018.\nactress Aparna Balamurali", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00240.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 152, + "original_length": 10391, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.98, + "perplexity": 289.8, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "https://cintas82.com/hasilnomor/MT", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T04:37:31Z", + "digest": "sha1:XRDS4FILNTZQEWL4THFE4SPBEBQQAXID", + "length": 1320, + "nlines": 35, + "source_domain": "cintas82.com", + "title": "S8TOTO | Bandar Togel Online Indonesia Terpercaya", + "raw_content": "Thursday, 10 May 2018 MT:99 3 1 2 5\nWednesday, 09 May 2018 MT:98 1 7 2 7\nTuesday, 08 May 2018 MT:97 6 4 1 1\nMonday, 07 May 2018 MT:96 5 0 4 0\nSunday, 06 May 2018 MT:95 4 7 2 6\nSaturday, 05 May 2018 MT:94 6 3 0 2\nFriday, 04 May 2018 MT:93 2 0 8 3\nMonday, 30 April 2018 MT:89 5 6 3 0\nSunday, 29 April 2018 MT:88 2 5 3 3\nSaturday, 28 April 2018 MT:87 1 4 9 2\nFriday, 27 April 2018 MT:86 4 4 8 9\nThursday, 26 April 2018 MT:85 9 1 8 5\nWednesday, 25 April 2018 MT:84 3 9 7 6\nTuesday, 24 April 2018 MT:83 7 3 5 8\nSaturday, 31 March 2018 MT:59 2 6 9 1\nFriday, 30 March 2018 MT:58 0 2 5 0\nThursday, 29 March 2018 MT:57 7 3 1 3\nWednesday, 28 March 2018 MT:56 8 5 9 0\nTuesday, 27 March 2018 MT:55 9 5 7 4\nMonday, 26 March 2018 MT:54 1 3 5 5\nSunday, 25 March 2018 MT:53 1 6 8 7\nWednesday, 28 February 2018 MT:28 3 1 5 9\nTuesday, 27 February 2018 MT:27 5 9 6 6\nMonday, 26 February 2018 MT:26 8 9 4 2\nSunday, 25 February 2018 MT:25 9 2 7 3\nSaturday, 24 February 2018 MT:24 0 9 9 7\nFriday, 23 February 2018 MT:23 1 4 9 5\nThursday, 22 February 2018 MT:22 7 1 5 3\nFriday, 09 February 2018 MT:9 4 6 5 3\nThursday, 08 February 2018 MT:8 0 7 4 5\nWednesday, 07 February 2018 MT:7 3 5 5 9\nTuesday, 06 February 2018 MT:6 0 8 4 9\nMonday, 05 February 2018 MT:5 5 4 1 3\nSunday, 04 February 2018 MT:4 1 9 4 7\nSaturday, 03 February 2018 MT:3 5 7 9 8", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00240.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 397, + "original_length": 15306, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.92, + "perplexity": 263.5, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "https://circusdistrict.com/2018/04/27/homebodies/", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T03:35:48Z", + "digest": "sha1:K4JLOACTRQKUZMGGAFXWRUF43MKQGVLG", + "length": 554, + "nlines": 7, + "source_domain": "circusdistrict.com", + "title": "Homebodies \u2013 The Circus District", + "raw_content": "Published on April 27, 2018 by christiankloc\nApril 27th @ 8 p.m., April 28th @ 3 p.m. and 8 p.m. and April 29th @ 3 p.m.\nPartners Alex and Olmsted create a world of slapstick humor and imaginative puppetry in the debut of Homebodies, a show that explores the concepts of house and home through a 30-cubic-inch puzzle box full of trick doors and odd amenities.\nBaltimore Theater Project\nCategories clowning, comedy, performance, theater, Uncategorized\u2022Tags April 2018\nPrevious University of Maryland Gymkana Home Show\nNext Workshops with Anna Thomas-Henry", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00240.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 46, + "original_length": 2801, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.9, + "perplexity": 301.3, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "https://circusgardener.com/tag/roundup/", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T04:07:06Z", + "digest": "sha1:B4MYNUXBD7NIZBSOUD3TQXEKOIV27G7V", + "length": 469, + "nlines": 2, + "source_domain": "circusgardener.com", + "title": "Roundup Archives - The Circus Gardener's Kitchen", + "raw_content": "Tag Archive for \u2018Roundup\u2019\nThis week the Soil association launched \u201cNot in Our Bread\u201d, a campaign to highlight the use of wheat sprayed with glyphosate as an ingredient in the manufacture of one of the UK\u2019s principal staple foods. Glyphosate, the key component of the weedkiller Roundup, manufactured by global chemicals company Monsanto, was declared to be \u201cprobably carcinogenic\u201d by the World Health Organisation earlier this year. The principal reason why up to a [\u2026]", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00240.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 60, + "original_length": 4510, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.95, + "perplexity": 174.4, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "https://clarisseatakhaniandds.com/about/find-best-dentist/", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T04:08:02Z", + "digest": "sha1:I3I7Z2NIVYK74GQZFBW4KOSO73433YVM", + "length": 5803, + "nlines": 10, + "source_domain": "clarisseatakhaniandds.com", + "title": "Find the Best Dentist in Glendale, CA | Quality Dentistry | Local Dentist", + "raw_content": "Find the Best Dentist in Glendale, CA\nIf you are looking for the best dentist in Glendale to treat you and your family, we invite you to schedule an exam with our dental office by calling (818) 483-9071. At Clarisse Atakhanian DDS Inc., we offer high-quality patient care and would be delighted to assist you. If you prefer to do research in order to determine which dentist is right one for you, it is important to start by understanding what specific character traits or services you are looking for. As an example, not all dentists in the Glendale area treat children. If you have any little ones, you may want to seek out the best family dentist that can provide comprehensive care for your entire family. On the other hand, if you need to replace damaged teeth with permanent, natural looking ones, you may be interested in locating the best cosmetic dentist in Glendale. Given the number of dentists in CA this may seem like a daunting task, however, it is easier than you may think. Here's how -\nWe recommend conducting a search for the best dentist in Glendale. If you are interested in a particular service or need them to treat a specific age group, add those keywords to your search; keywords such as \"best dentist in Glendale for children.\" After the paid ads and local business listings, a variety of review sites will typically pop up. Yelp tends to be at the top along with Angie's List. By clicking through to those sites, you can read other patient reviews. Yelp uses a star rating system, so it is easy to identify whether or not a dentist office is beloved by patients or is in need of improvement. You can even look at the profile of the person writing the review to see how many reviews they have written. This can be helpful in determining the quality of reviews.\nAnother way to read reviews is to look on Google+. When you conduct a search for the best dentist in Glendale, the local listings will appear next to the map, directly underneath the paid ads. Under each listing is both a star and numerical rating based on reviews that patients have written on the dentist's Google+ profile. As a local dentist, we encourage patients to write them so that those who haven't visited our office can get a better feel for our office environment and the high-quality patient care that we provide. Other practices do the same, and this allows you to glance quickly at the dental offices listed to see who is truly the best in the area based on patient experiences.\nCheck out what others are saying about our dental services on Yelp: Best Dentist in Glendale\np>Understandably, one of the easiest ways to find the best dentist in Glendale is to hear what other patients have to say then schedule an appointment to see for yourself. But how do you determine which dentist to call in the first place? Social media is an excellent place to start. If you have friends in the area that share a similar perspective or lifestyle with you, it stands to reason that they will also have similar needs when selecting a dentist. For example, if you are retired and concerned about aging teeth, your friends may be in a similar situation. Check out their Facebook profile to see if they are a fan of any local dental practices. You can then click to visit the profile page for that dentist and read information about their practice as a whole. Often, you will see reviews posted on social media profiles so this is a helpful resource for reading what local patients have to say.\nIf you are looking for the best cosmetic dentist in Glendale, best family dentist in Glendale or even the best provider of dentures, you can also receive helpful information by asking a question on Facebook or Google+ and seeing what referrals you get. This provides you with a quick and easy way to get recommendations so that you can then proceed to read reviews about the dental office.\nStill, one of the easiest ways to find the best dentist in Glendale is to ask friends who they take their family to visit. In our dental office, we are proud to treat generations of families, working with grandparents, parents and children. This enables us to know more about our patient's oral health, anticipate challenges, and implement solutions before our patients experience discomfort. If you find a dentist that can treat the entire family, like ours, it can make having teeth cleaned and various procedures far more convenient. If you believe that you are in need of a specialist, a general dentist can refer you to one.You can also ask around to see if any of your friends visit the best dentist in Glendale for treating gum disease, placing dental implants, or restoring damaged teeth. Very often, you will find that your friends are happy to brag about a positive experience that they had when getting their teeth cleaned, having dental veneers placed, or even getting a cavity treated. When you receive a referral from a friend, look up the dentist's website to get more information and to make sure that they offer the services your family needs.\nAnother way to find the best dentist in Glendale is to conduct research. Similar to when you were looking for reviews, conduct a search for the \"best dentist in Glendale\" for the service that you are looking for. Next, visit the website for the dental offices that come up and read through the information on their site along with the services that they offer. This will give you a good idea of whether the dental office you are looking at is the best cosmetic dentist in Glendale, the best emergency dentist in Glendale or none of the above. Compare the information they present with the information provided on the websites of other dental practices until you find one that you feel will best fit the needs of your family.\nBack to top of Find the Best Dentist in Glendale", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00240.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 206, + "original_length": 13893, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.95, + "perplexity": 295.5, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "https://claystorm.livejournal.com/219507.html", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T04:18:17Z", + "digest": "sha1:I2V2Z7YZ3HOWW7P4HDQ4NIUE5YA7O7EK", + "length": 1699, + "nlines": 8, + "source_domain": "claystorm.livejournal.com", + "title": "Are You Smarter Than a 5th Grader? - I reject your reality & substitute my own", + "raw_content": "So right now I am watching FOX's newest reality show called \"Are You Smarter Than a 5th Grader\". I am not sure about this show. Part me loves this show but another part of me says I don\u2019t like it. It\u2019s a toss up.\nBut there is something I know for sure, and that is that the 5th grade textbooks they are using sure as hell did not come from Albuquerque Public Schools. There have been some questions that I am going, which 5th grade text book did that come out of? LOL.\nNow Jeff Foxworthy as a host was the best choice they could make for this show. Now granted, I love Jeff Foxworthy period, but I do think he makes a very good host. I like that he has the freedom to roam around the stage.\nNow what makes this show different from others is that they have real 5th graders in there answering the same questions as the contestants. Now I must say these are some smart kids, or I am just not that smart.\nNow only in America can you have a show where you try and prove that you are smarter then a 5th grader. But after watching the 3 day premier of the show, I almost feel like I need to drop out of college and go enroll my self in elementary school.\nRE: Are you smarter than a 5th grader\nAs a current APS sub and awaiting hire as an APS teacher, this is what fifth graders are being taught today. When I was in fifth grade in APS this was not what I was taught. NCLB has changed what fifth graders have to know. In my practicum (student teaching) I had to teach circumference and another student teacher had to teach about atomic structure. 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I hated the bureaucracy and wanted to be my own boss. While I was in college, I had cleaned houses to make money. At that time, it was mostly wealthy people who hired housecleaners. But with two-career couples becoming common, I saw a market for a cleaning service that was affordable to middle-class clients, people like me.\nI decided to quite commuting and start my own business in 1991. I didn\u2019t even own a computer then. I bought a book called \u201cEverything You Need to Know About Starting a Housecleaning Service\u201d by May Johnson. I was off and running!\nAs I dreamed up my idea and formulated a plan, Johnson\u2019s book, with its cartoon-like illustrations, was my business bible. It took about a year to get things going. I bought a computer, devised a budget and got licensed and insured. I created a logo\u2014a lady wearing an apron and wielding a mop \u2014and a slogan: \u201cYour time is precious. Our time is affordable.\u201d\nThe next few years were spent cleaning, hiring crew and developing systems. By the end of the 1990s, I had two babies and a growing business with two computers and an \u201coffice helper.\u201d By 2005, I was a single parent, raising those two children and running the business alone.\nAt the same time, I\u2019d also taken on a partnership role in the Olympic Ski School ( www.olyski.com ), which our family had been involved with for many years. As if that didn\u2019t keep me busy enough, my kids were playing select sports, skiing, snowboarding and riding horses.\nThe business continued to grow and our office staff now includes a full-time operations manager, a scheduler/quality manager and a customer service/estimator. At times we could use many more hands to help. 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This involves a 2.4 mile swim, a 112-mile bike ride and a full 26.2 mile marathon\u2014140.6 total miles that must be completed in 17 hours or less! In my first Ironman Canada race in 2013, my time was 14:30. Since then I\u2019ve done two more full Ironman Triathlons and several half Ironman events (70.3 total miles).\nIn 2015, after 12 years of being single, I met a very nice gentleman through an online dating service. Nine months later we were married and this year he completed his first Ironman Triathlon. It won\u2019t be his last. We are officially an \u201cIron Couple. \u201d Heading into 2018, we plan to do a full 140.6 Ironman together.\nAt Clean and Simple Cleaning we are always \u201cin training\u201d for our next event. We are committed to excellence. 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Leo Woodberry\nApril 13th, 2018 by Carolyn Fortuna\nOn Thursday, April 12, 2018, a broad coalition of nonprofits launched a major new effort to promote climate and energy justice throughout the South by kicking off the ten-state \u201cJustice First Tour.\u201d Rev. Leo Woodberry, one of the tour\u2019s lead organizers and executive director of the Florence, South Carolina-based New Alpha Community Development Corporation and advisor to Sierra Club\u2019s \u201cReady for 100\u201d Campaign, agreed to an exclusive interview with CleanTechnica to talk about the Justice First Tour.\nJustice First by Celeste Byers for Amplifier.org and Dogwood Alliance\nRev. Woodberry, you have spent your life, according to Netroots Nation, \u201cuniting people of color across America, and in influencing the Ford Foundation and other philanthropic entities to support people of color communities disproportionately impacted by environmental hazards.\u201d How have you persuaded people of color to speak out against environmental oppression?\nThat isn\u2019t hard to do when you look at the fact that environmental injustice impacts the lives of people of color and low-income people disproportionately. They appreciate learning that living near coal ash ponds that have leached chemicals into the ground can cause learning disabilities in their children and give people cancer. They understand when their children are suffering from asthma aggravated by the emissions that come from automobiles.\nIf you look along the I-95 highway corridor in my state of South Carolina, you see mostly African Americans and other people of color. You can look at the fact that over 75% of African Americans and people of color live within a 30-mile radius of a polluting facility. And you can look at the fact that polluting facilities located near our communities dissuade other businesses from moving into our neighborhoods. They have cost our communities engines of economic development, and there is a direct correlation between that lack of opportunity and crime, and imprisonment, and the violence that occurs in our community when people try to come up with other means of generating revenue and end up on the wrong side of the legal system.\nOnce we explain all of that to people, they are more readily persuaded to take action because they are protecting the lives of their loved ones and the communities that they live in.\nWhat climate action issues are most pressing to communities of color?\nThe most pressing issues right now is moving away from fossil fuels \u2014 and doing that in a just and equitable manner that doesn\u2019t replicate models of injustice.\nConnecting an energy-inefficient, leaky old home to a solar farm doesn\u2019t work, because you still have people heating and cooling the outdoors, spending a disproportionate amount of their income on energy costs and still having their electricity disconnected because they can\u2019t pay the bill. A situation like this just benefits the utility or the electric co-op that wants to secure a share of the new renewable energy industry and keep up its market share. But for the people, it just replicates the same model of injustice that exists with fossil-fueled energy.\nWhile we are moving toward clean energy, we have to make sure that our communities aren\u2019t left behind \u2014 that they share in the benefits of the emerging clean energy economy.\nHow does the partnership with the Dogwood Alliance and the Sierra Club bring environmental issues that matter to people of color to the forefront?\nThese organizations are pivoting toward a new way of doing their work. They realize that communities should lead themselves and communities should speak for themselves. In order for these organizations to be effective, the communities that are impacted most must be involved in the implementation of their programs.\nThe Dogwood Alliance recognizes that poor, rural communities are among the most impacted by climate change. For example, flooding can be particularly bad in these areas, because in many cases the local forests have been depleted that could have served as a natural defense against these types of extreme weather events. This has sparked a new conversation about the connections between a long history of land exploitation and its disproportionate negative impacts on low-income people and people of color living in rural areas across the region.\nThe Sierra Club Ready for 100 campaign realizes that they must partner with the environmental justice communities in order to not have those communities left out as cities move toward being more sustainable. Because if those communities and environmental justice organizations aren\u2019t involved, then there is no one there on the ground to hold the policymakers accountable when they decide that they want to do solar downtown in municipal buildings, hospitals, universities and then later on claim that they have no more resources to help the least among us.\nIn what ways have you advocated for mass media to share the stories of communities of color who are deeply affected by climate change?\nLocally we have a very good relationship with the print media where we can generally get our op-eds and articles printed by them. Social media has been a great tool for us. When we talk about media, that has probably been our best way of connecting with people.\nRecently we had very good coverage for our coalition legislative day in the state capitol of Columbia. Reporters were interested in our efforts to put pressure on our legislators for a just transition to a clean energy economy. Our efforts were covered by several print, online, TV and radio stations.\nIn what advocacy have you engaged that attempts to dissuade evangelicals from denying the effects of climate change?\nWe are working with faith-based partners, like GreenFaith and Interfaith Power & Light, and we have begun to have greater dialogue with the evangelical church. One point of commonality that we have found is that spiritually and scripturally, we have been called to be stewards of the Earth and caregivers for the poor and those in need. By lifting up those issues rather than taking political positions, we hope to help them gain a greater awareness of and commitment to supporting energy policy and projects that are beneficial both to our planet and the people who live on it.\nHow can white progressives join in with communities of color toward legislation for healthier cities and towns?\nThe first thing is to acknowledge the fact that communities should lead themselves to speak in their own voices because they know the needs of their communities and the best solutions for their community. We also want to take a page from what we put forth as meaningful involvement during President Obama\u2019s Clean Power Plan in terms of what is defined as meaningful engagement.\nTo us that means five things: ensuring that people of color are involved in 1) planning, 2) decision-making, 3) allocation of resources, 4) implementation and 5) evaluation. Any time one of these components is not engaging people of color, we do not have a true partnership. We will have more success influencing policymakers to implement forward-thinking clean energy policies when we work together rather in silos. This is the philosophy that guides the Justice First Tour.\nWant to Know More about the Justice First Tour?\nThe tour started in North Carolina and will continue through nine other states over the spring and summer.\nThe goal of the tour is to unite different factions within the justice movement to work together for justice throughout the South. All groups involved \u2014 whether they\u2019re focused on racial justice, economic justice, environmental justice, or gender equality \u2014 commit to forming a united front going forward. This effort is modeled after other big-tent movements from America\u2019s history, including the civil rights movement and the women\u2019s rights movement.\nThe Justice First Tour is calling for climate justice, forest protection, and 100% clean energy for all people. 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Fred & Friends has recalled its \u201cBuff Baby\u201d baby rattles due to a choking hazard. If you have one of these rattles, you should stop using it immediately and contact the company for a refund (details below).\nThe CSPC is reporting that the rattle\u2019s end cap can separate, releasing small parts, posing a choking hazard to small children. About 47,000 of these rattles were sold in the U.S. and 9,300 in Canada from October, 2011 through June, 2013 for between $7 and $10.\nHere\u2019s what the rattle looks like: The gray plastic rattle is shaped like a dumbbell and has plastic pellets inside. It measures about 5.5-inches long and 2-inches wide and \u201c0.2\u201d is embossed on both pentagon-shaped ends of the rattle. The rattles were sold in clear cylindrical packages featuring a picture of a young girl lifting the rattle. UPC code 728987019098 can be found on the bottom of the package.\nFor a refund, contact Fred & Friends toll-free at (877) 647-8644 from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. ET Monday through Friday or online at www.fredandfriends.com and click on Product Recall Information at the bottom of the page for more information. Consumers can also send an email to Buffbabyrattle@fredandfriends.com.\nThe rattles were sold at specialty toy and baby stores nationwide, in Canada, and online at www.amazon.com and various other websites.\nPlease spread the word about this recall. Thank you and be safe. 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The answer is that few people will sincerely try to practice the A.A. program unless they have hit bottom. For practicing A.A.\u2019s remaining eleven Steps means the adoption of attitudes and actions that almost no alcoholic who is still drinking can dream of taking.\n\u2014 TWELVE STEPS AND TWELVE TRADITIONS, p, 24\nHitting bottom opened my mind and I became willing to try something different. What I tried was A.A. My new life in the Fellowship was a little like learning how to ride a bike for the first time: A.A. became my training wheels and my supporting hand. It\u2019s not that I wanted the help so much at the time; I simply did not want to hurt like that again. My desire to avoid hitting bottom again was more powerful than my desire to drink. In the beginning that was what kept me sober. But after a while I found myself working the Steps to the best of my ability. I soon realized that my attitudes and actions were changing\u2014if ever so slightly. 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Roger was aware of the good work of the CO-OP Education Department and went to the CO-OP to ask if it would become a willing partner.\nWith its long-standing record of choral and musical work the committee had no hesitation in embarking upon what was then an exciting innovation. The music school got off to a phenomenal start with every type of instrument being taught to a huge membership of students.\nIn 2004 it was decided to move the Music School to the CO-OP Education Centre. This was a very successful move with the Music School being very much \"at home\" in the Centre, a natural environment for learning and Co-Operation through music.\nThe Ensembles grew on Saturday mornings and averaged 80 young people involved in the various groups and individual music tuition. 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It is driven by a passion for education and quality living. Here, globalization and internationalization are the buzzwords. It provides courses from the level of diploma to doctoral level. GD Goenka Gurgaon has well maintained and Wi-Fi enabled campus. Also, libraries and high tech labs are present on the campus. Moreover, the Institute supports an ideal and conducive environment to provide education.\nMoreover, GD Goenka is built with the most advanced tech. And it spreads 60 acres at the foothills of Aravalli Range. Furthermore, over the years, the university has become finest in India. However, this university is the trendsetter in providing best education using the latest educational aids and amenities. The vision of the university is to become recognizable internationally. It is trying to achieve this through inclusive, innovative, and value-based education. Furthermore, the mission of this university is to prepare globally competent graduates. The university intends to achieve this by inter-disciplinary projects which focuses on innovation and research. The efficient system and processes of the university enable all the students and faculty to realize their potential.\nGD Goenka Gurgaon Admissions\nThe university reviews the application for basic eligibility. Through this application, the university reviews academic performance and also other evidence to check the suitability of the candidate to the programme. After 12 working days, the GD Goenka Gurgaon admissions committee responds by confirming the admission by an offer letter. In case, they feel that any additional information is needed than, they request for written/ an interview. Unfortunately, if the applicant is not suitable then, they send a note of regret. All these decisions are communicated via email. For the admission offer, both the email and courier are sent.\nWritten test/ Interview\nThis is not mandatory for all the students. 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The National Vaccine Information Center is tracking this mandate as well as other proposed vaccine legislation in New York, which includes a proposed law to mandate the Gardasil HPV vaccine. Stay in touch through the NVIC Advocacy Portal on the progress of these bills, or other bills in your home state.\n\"Yehuda Shoenfeld, the Israeli clinician has spent more than three decades studying the human immune system and is at the pinnacle of his profession.\nYou might say he is more foundation than fringe in his specialty; he wrote the textbooks: The Mosaic of Autoimmunity, Autoantibodies, Diagnostic Criteria in Autoimmune Diseases, Infection and Autoimmunity, Cancer and Autoimmunity\u2014the list is 25 titles long and some of them are cornerstones of clinical practice.\nHardly surprising that Shoenfeld has been called the \"Godfather of Autoimmunology\"\u2014the study of the immune system turned on itself in a wide array of diseases from type 1 diabetes to ulcerative colitis and multiple sclerosis.\nBut something strange is happening in the world of immunology lately and a small evidence of it is that the Godfather of Autoimmunology is pointing to vaccines \u2013 specifically, some of their ingredients including the toxic metal aluminum \u2013 as a significant contributor to the growing global epidemic of autoimmune diseases.\"\nhttp://www.greenmedinfo.com/blog/attacking-ourselves-top-doctors-reveal-vaccines-turn-our-immune-system-against-us\nGOT KIDS? 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On the contrary, we found a threefold increased risk of hospitalization in subjects who did get the TIV vaccine.\"\nJos\u00e9 Peralta, First Dominican-American Elected to New York State Senate, Dies ...from Flu Shot Received at His Own Flu Shot Clinic!\nPeralta's wife said he was complaining that it felt like his head was about to explode\u2014that's encephalitis, the brain swelling inside the skull with no place to go.\nNow imagine that happening to an infant, with no ability to communicate. That's why infants cry for entire days after vaccination\u2014encephalitis.\nhttps://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/22/nyregion/jose-peralta-dominican-american-senator-dead.html\nChildren Are Experiencing Deadly Side Effects From Flu Medicine (TAMIFLU)\n\"Confusion, speech problems, shaky movements, and hallucinations are some of the side effects your child could have while taking Tamiflu. The Wallens say their 2-year-old son, Steven, was twitching, hallucinating, and slamming his head in pain after taking the medicine after being diagnosed with the flu.\"\nhttp://www.fox5krbk.com/story/37398557/children-experiencing-deadly-side-effects-from-flu-medicine\nIf the flu shot doesn't kill you\u2014it'll really mess you up.\nhttps://www.collective-evolution.com/2018/12/06/las-vegas-man-unable-to-speak-walk-see-or-breathe-just-days-after-getting-flu-shot/\nA Call for a Separation of Pharma and State\nhttps://healthfreedomidaho.org/acip\nI don't live in New York. Each time I have sent letters to my representatives in Illinois, I receive a typical response informing me that vaccines are safe and necessary for community immunity. The majority of members of Congress and our governors don't even take the time to look into this issue, as the pharmaceutical companies give them so much support, they won't go against what they say. We need to fight this issue in a different way. 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The debentures are exchangeable, at the holder's option and subject to certain conditions, into a cash amount that is based on the market value of a share of Sprint Corporation PCS tracking stock. Interest on the debentures will be payable quarterly, beginning January 15, 2000 at an initial rate of 2.0%. Both the interest rate and the amount payable at maturity are subject to adjustment based on changes in future Sprint PCS dividend policy. Proceeds from the offering will be used for general corporate purposes.\nSalomon Smith Barney, Inc. acted as underwriter in connection with the offering.\nThis press release appears as a matter of record only. 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Among these changes were steep slopes that retreated as fast as 5.4 metres per day, a boulder the size of an office building that was dislodged and rolled 140 metres downhill, and dune-like ripples created by wind from erupting gases blowing across the comet\u2019s surface at speeds up to 500 metres per second.\nThe scientists also spotted a large crack in the \u201cneck\u201d of the duck-shaped comet. When initially observed, this crack (which may eventually spit the comet in two) was about 500 metres long. By the time the comet had completed its dive into the inner solar system, it had lengthened by another 30.\nMost of these changes, the scientists believe, are due to solar heating that raised 67P/Churyumov\u2013Gerasimenko\u2019s daytime side above freezing, causing dust and vapor to jet out into space and into its tail. But the growth in the neck fracture probably came from a change in the comet\u2019s spin, El-Maarry says. That occurred, he adds, because much of the vapor and dust lost by the comet came from its higher elevations, causing its rate of spin to speed up. It wasn\u2019t a huge change, but it was measurable, shortening the comet\u2019s 12.4-hour \u201cday\u201d by about seven minutes.\n\u201cIn essence it\u2019s what a ballerina would do when she puts her hands together so she will spin faster,\u201d he says. \u201cWhen it spins up, it generates more stress in the neck region.\u201d\nBut the most dramatic find may have been a giant landslide that occurred simultaneously with a big outburst of the dust. The landslide did more than blast dust into the comet\u2019s tail.\nHigh-resolution images revealed that when the slab of material, 12 metres thick, 70 metres wide and 65 high, peeled off the top of a 134-metre cliff and fell onto the talus slope below, it exposed a patch of underlying material that was extremely bright. It was so bright, says Maurizio Pajola, a planetary scientist at NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, California, that the glare from it saturated Rosetta\u2019s cameras, meaning it was reflecting at least 40 percent of the sunlight that fell on it.\nThe only thing that could possibly be that bright, Pajola reported in another presentation at the LPSC and in a paper in this week\u2019s issue of Nature Astronomy is water ice. And to be that bright, the ice has to be nearly pure.\nIt\u2019s a remarkable finding, says Humberto Campins, a planetary scientist at the University of Central Florida, Orlando, because scientists hadn\u2019t expected to find high-purity ice on the comet. Campins, who was not part of either study team, adds that the presumption was that the comet\u2019s ice would be so thoroughly mixed with dust that none of it could possibly appear that bright.\nThe question now becomes how it could have such pure ice. Perhaps it\u2019s primordial, Campins suggests. Or perhaps it\u2019s the result of internal processes that somehow cause clean ice to condense into underground cavities or other areas, one of which was exposed by the landslide.\n\u201cI don\u2019t know,\u201d he says, \u201cbut it opens up some interesting questions.\u201d\nAll told, he notes, the nature and diversity of the changes seen by Rosetta are revealing a lot about how comets evolve as they make their brief passages into the inner solar system. 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Cookies are small, electronic data files which are sent by the website to your browser and are stored in your system\u2019s hard drive, and are used to determine your preferences when connecting to the services of our websites, as well as tracking determined behaviors or activities carried out by yourself inside our websites.\nIn some sections of our website, we require the client to have the cookies enabled given that some of the featured require them to work, but under no circumstances collect personal information (identification, contact, work related, or in any other way).\nThe information obtained shall not be communicated to third parties, with the exception of cases where possible fraudulent activities are being investigated.\nIf the user wants to disable the cookies, he/she must do it directly from the web browser.", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00240.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 87, + "original_length": 2260, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.94, + "perplexity": 270.6, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "https://coyhuffman.com/sermon/know-what-to-do/", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T03:15:03Z", + "digest": "sha1:JHFZNK3ISTUB7MG7TWFTQD4WWSFOJ4IV", + "length": 61, + "nlines": 1, + "source_domain": "coyhuffman.com", + "title": "KNOW WHAT TO DO \u2013 Coy Huffman Ministries", + "raw_content": "This video is about What To Do When You Don\u2019t Know What To Do", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00240.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 45, + "original_length": 644, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.74, + "perplexity": 42.2, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "https://cpcissaquah.org/2017/01/09/pastors-note-the-shack/", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T04:40:45Z", + "digest": "sha1:G2VK5QZA4EUF3YGEPX7PVEEBMSLTYWI5", + "length": 6616, + "nlines": 12, + "source_domain": "cpcissaquah.org", + "title": "Pastor\u2019s Note: The Shack \u2013 Covenant Presbyterian Church", + "raw_content": "Pastor\u2019s Note: The Shack\n[Following is a note I wrote a few years ago. At the end of next month a film version of The Shack will come out. Jumping to conclusions, I suspect the film version will be more theologically confused than the book. I encourage you to read this note and pass it on to friends who may have liked the book. It will challenge them, but it also has the potential to set them free from the bitterness that imprisons the wounded.]\n\u2022 I finally got around to reading *The Shack,* William Young\u2019s phenomenally popular novel about a man (Mack) meeting God face-to-face after the tragic death of his daughter. The meeting takes place in a shack in the woods where a grim piece of evidence, his daughter\u2019s bloody dress, was found four years prior. Mack\u2019s return to the shack symbolizes his facing things from which he had been running, and his working them out in God\u2019s presence. Because this book touches on themes that are very powerful to this generation of Christians, I\u2019d like to offer comments in the weeks to come, beginning with an overview.\n\u2022 First of all, I\u2019m sympathetic with Young\u2019s overall intention: to astound his readers with the actual breadth and power of the love of God. If \u201cno eye has seen, nor ear heard, nor mind conceived what God has prepared for those who love him\u201d (1 Cor 2:9), then we can all stand to contemplate with imagination and boldness God\u2019s graciousness to his children. And this isn\u2019t just emotional self-indulgence. To serve Christ in health and wisdom we need a more glorious grasp of his love.\n\u2022 I\u2019m also receptive to the dichotomy Young begins to develop early in the book, the division between Christianity as \u201cthe data\u201d or \u201cthe regulations\u201d vs. Christianity as relationship, the union of God and man in Christ by the Spirit, divine-human perichoresis and so on. In recent years I\u2019ve been critical of Calvinists who have stronger relationships to ideas than they have to other persons, the Lord included, and I believe this is an important criticism of Calvinist believers and thinkers that ought to be repeated within our own camp for the sake of our own spiritual vitality and faithfulness to God. Christianity isn\u2019t an algorithm we memorize, it is, in Paul\u2019s language, a walk with Christ in which we are growing to maturity until the day he glorifies us.\n\u2022 That said, Young turns out to be a prisoner of his age, and is making the mistake that will eventually come, I\u2019m afraid, to be the hallmark of current generations. The mistake is this: he hopes to say something profound about the love of God without building a story around the great essence of God\u2019s love: the dark reality of sin (even in the lives of those who feel they have been victimized) and God\u2019s willingness to forgive that sin. This is a book that presents the great dilemma of life as human suffering, not human sin; the great story as people overcoming suffering, not a suffering Savior overcoming sin on behalf of his people. The hero of this book is not God. It\u2019s Mack.\n\u2022 Young presents Mack not as an offender, but as a victim. This twists everything. In a key moment when Mack first arrives in the shack and meets the God-figure (a large, beaming African American woman), she says of his sadness and anger over the loss of his daughter, \u201cI know what a great gulf this has put between us.\u201d This brought me to a full stop. If the only gulf between God and man is sin, and in grace and love Christ has bridged that gulf, what exactly is Mack\u2019s problem? The gulf \u2014 this is perfectly upside-down \u2014 is God\u2019s offense against Mack.\n\u2022 C.S. Lewis saw this a long time ago when giving talks to British soldiers during WWII. He described it as \u201cGod in the dock\u201d (\u201cdock\u201d being the seat of the accused in a courtroom). \u201cThe ancient man approached God, or even the gods, as the accused person approaches his judge. For the modern man the roles are reversed. He is the judge; God is in the dock. Man is quite a kindly judge: if God should have a reasonable defense for being a God who permits war, poverty and disease, he is ready to listen to it. The trial may even end in God\u2019s acquittal. But the important thing is that man is on the bench, and God in the dock.\u201d This is Young\u2019s program. He builds the shack not so he may run to it and repent of the foolishness of accusing God, but to give God a chance to explain himself. This is not a small error; this is a full-blown theological train-wreck.\n\u2022 Within the Church, my generation\u2019s preoccupation with personal pain, and the effort to build a new kind of \u201cChristianity\u201d in answer to it, will be a legacy of the erosion of orthodoxy. Over Christmas I read Laura Hillenbrand\u2019s *Unbroken,* a true story of the almost inconceivable suffering of Louis Zamperini in a Japanese POW camp, and the eventual repentance, conversion and restoration of the man. If ever there was a man who might demand answers from God, Zamperini is that man. If he had been a baby-boomer, he might well have died an angry drunk (which is where he was when the Lord called him). Also, as I read *The Shack* I thought continually of Thomas Boston, the tender, brilliant Scottish minister who lost several children in their youth. Boston understood that no matter how difficult life became, God was still faithful and good, and there were more important questions and answers in the world \u2014 more glorious, more satisfying, more compelling \u2014 than those pertaining to the self. It\u2019s only in finding these in Christ that life is worth living. One of Boston\u2019s earliest memories was visiting his father who had been imprisoned for preaching the gospel. You have to imagine the foundational principles of faith that memories of that kind established in Boston\u2019s heart. By the time tragedy hit him, his life was already committed to purposes of God that transcended the sometimes miserable circumstances of his own life. Consequently, the man\u2019s life was immensely fruitful, sweetened by the humility of a sinner resting beneath God\u2019s wings.\n\u2022 Young\u2019s grasp of the faith is, relatively, so narrow and suffocating: something like, \u201cGod is invalidated if he cannot prove his love for me.\u201d The problem is (the death of a daughter notwithstanding) God has already given full and surpassingly magnificent proof of his love in Christ. God never had a need, and never will have a need, to validate himself, least of all in the eyes of his own creatures. 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I\u2019m in love with them, we might get married, who knows.\nClick here to get the sci-fi romance people are raving about. Or don\u2019t, you know, up to you. It\u2019s all cool.\nWhat else, hmm, I went on vacation, got myself a nice little tan (and a to-do list the size of Nebraska). Totally worth it though.\nOh, and my birthday is on August, so I\u2019ll send a bunch of awesome stuff to my Kick-ass team, including a SOUNDTRACK, EXCLUSIVE CHAPTERS, AND MORE. Awesome. You can click here to check it out.\nAnd I guess that\u2019s it for me. 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Gaya Street is closed off to traffic every Sunday morning to make way for the fair. You can buy almost everything here. There are stalls which sell arts, craft, food, fruits, antiques and so much more. 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Many aspiring auteurs have compared it to having your first child \u2014 no amount of books or talking about the subject really makes you feel more confident about what lies ahead.\nLuckily though, making your first feature film can be one of the most rewarding experiences of your life. You\u2019ll have the honour to guide a crew of hundreds into realising your particular vision for a story. You\u2019ll make decisions on everything \u2014 from the sound the monster makes to the look and feel of your heroine\u2019s stylish khaki pants. Yes, mistakes will be made \u2014 but you\u2019ll make them countless times again. However, the good news is you\u2019re not going at it alone. Countless directors have made \u2014 and survived \u2014 this journey before you. Take a cue from their experiences, learn from their mistakes and be inspired to realise your vision.\nHere are five established lessons from the industry every first-timer should know.\n1. Pay careful attention to your (crowd)funding campaign\nWhen considering investors, they\u2019re a necessary evil for all independent film projects. In struggling to make their first major project come to life, the now-famous Coen brothers, Joel and Ethan, rounded up more than 65 private investors (entrepreneurs, doctors and small business owners) to fund the relatively small budget of $750,000 needed to make Blood Simple (1984).\nAnyone who has ever produced an independent film will tell you this is nothing strange. It\u2019s almost impossible to raise all the money you\u2019ll need from only friends and family. Fortunately, we\u2019ve entered a new age of independent film financing: crowdfunding. While raising money this way is advantageous, it also has some major drawbacks. You might be getting money from people all over the world, but major investments from specific companies or individuals do come with specific legal ramifications. For example, how much ownership does the individual receive for their investment and how will it be recouped?\nSomething else to remember when taking the crowdfunding route is that you\u2019ll be competing with other filmmakers for support. It\u2019s imperative that you must believe in the value of your project to set yourself apart. It\u2019s also imperative that you put as much work and effort into your crowdfunding pitch as you would have to a hedge fund manager or private investor.\nRemember to offer your donors some perks to show your gratitude. Part of designing your crowdfunding campaign will be to factor in perks based on the amount a donor pledges to your cause. For example, for a $50 donation, they\u2019ll receive a DVD and a T-Shirt signed by all the actors.\nLuckily for aspiring filmmakers, a whole raft of crowdfunding sites \u2014 from Indiegogo and Kickstarter to Juntobox and Seedrs \u2014 have sprung up in recent years specifically to address this new trend. Many successful projects have been realised this way, including the film version (2014) of the cult noir crime series Veronica Mars (2004\u20132007) that raised a record amount of almost $6 million this way. Be attentive. Know the worth of your project and convey that to the crowd and you\u2019ll be surprised how willing people are to help.\n2. Always storyboard your entire film beforehand\nOnce you have your funding in place and a story worth telling, it\u2019s important to pre-visualize it. Even if you can\u2019t draw to save your life, storyboarding your film before you start filming not only helps you organise shots, it also makes you intimately familiar with every detail and clue hidden in the script.\n\u201cDon\u2019t be afraid to do this even if you\u2019re not a good illustrator,\u201d writes Rod Blackhurst, the director of Here Alone and the award-winning Netflix documentary on Amanda Knox. He decided to get the help of a proper illustrator to realise his rudimentary drawings. \u201cThe information and process are more important than whether or not your drawings look like a graphic novel or stick figures drawn by a 4th grader.\u201d\nFor Rod, the true value of the storyboards came to fruition on set when each day\u2019s scenes were printed out and taped onto large foam-core boards for all crew members to see. \u201cThese storyboard boards helped everyone quickly visualise exactly what we needed to accomplish that day.\u201d\nEven during the pre-production stage storyboards also offer a fantastic way for a director to show potential investors exactly what they have in mind for the project. You can have loads of conversations trying to explain your vision to a willing investor, but nothing conveys your vision quite as well as being able to show them proposed frames of your movie in sequential order.\n3. Surround yourself with great collaborators\nSpeaking of people willing to help, first-time directors should always remember that they\u2019re not making a film on their own. The craft of filmmaking requires many specific talents and trying to do everything yourself will only lead to a product of poor quality. Surrounding yourself with a team of people where everyone has their strengths is a much more advantageous approach. This also allows for a constant exchange of ideas and opportunities for mentoring from the industry veterans you chose to collaborate with.\n\u201cDon\u2019t be afraid not to know everything,\u201d explains Hossein Amini, the director of The Two Faces Of January (2014), his directorial debut. \u201cDon\u2019t be afraid to ask for help from your cast and crew. Confidence in listening to people makes you come across as collaborative, not clueless.\u201d Hossein, a prolific screenwriter for many years before he decided to tackle his first project as director, says the greatest thing about being a first time director is the fact that people will do everything they can to help you if you\u2019ll only let them.\nThat being said, remember to always show your appreciation for the people you surround yourself with on a set. Create an environment where cast and crew would enjoy what they\u2019re doing and collaborating towards. This will go a long way to creating a set that everyone wants to be a part of.\nAs a director, you\u2019ll be wearing many hats, solving problems constantly. It\u2019s important that you do not become complacent in your thinking and not be open to trying new ideas or different approaches to the ones you usually make. It\u2019s an easy trap to surround yourself with \u2018yes\u2019 men \u2014 crew and cast that will merely accept your word as final. However, working with people that challenge your choices might make you uncomfortable, but it\u2019s far less painful than sitting through an abysmal screening of your movie. You should be open to hearing other people\u2019s ideas and sometimes admit that their approach is, in fact, better for the story you want to tell. Learn to accept constructive criticism and how to deal with negative opinions.\nIn filmmaking nothing is sacred; every aspect of the film \u2014 from the script to the set design and the editing \u2014 can be changed or discarded at a moment\u2019s notice. Young directors should learn early on in their career not to place too much value in particular scenes or particular takes. Everything can still change in a heartbeat if a better end-result can be achieved. Remember why you want to make a movie, be it to make money or to tell a particular story. But having that thought in mind will help you stay clear of your comfort zone in order to achieve it.\n5. Protect your hard work from the greedy hands of pirates\nWe live in an age where piracy is rampant. Movies, music, merchant ships off the coast of Somalia\u2026Both the entertainment and shipping industries need to constantly fight off their marauders to protect the integrity of their content.\nMovie piracy is prevalent all over the world. And since record-keeping began, copyright owners have asked Google to remove more than 3 billion allegedly infringing links from its search engine results. In recent years, online piracy has shifted from peer-to-peer downloads to illegal video-streaming sites where consumers have access to film and TV content for free, but without actually downloading anything.\nThese type of sites generated \u201cover 141 billion visits across 200 million measured devices,\u201d according to a study from piracy tracking company Muso. These figures prove yet again why it is so important for content owners and creators to use anti-piracy technology to protect their work from unlawful sharing. According to Muso, streaming websites make up 73,7% of 78,5 billion visits to websites hosting pirated film and TV content globally last year. These are websites that illegally host streams to full movies or television shows, generating revenue from ads.\nOn the other hand, torrent-based sites represent a mere 17,2% of total visits to piracy sites. Direct-downloads make up the remaining 0,01%. Visits to torrent sites declined 19% in the second half of 2015, the study shows.\nBut what does all of this mean to you, the filmmaker? Basically that you should be careful who you share your completed film with. Many first-time filmmakers struggle to find an audience for their films after it\u2019s made. They send it to various distributors or possible influencers in the hope that somebody, somewhere, will be willing to pay for it.\nBut during this laborious process of sending their film around, the same terrible thing happens over and over again: the movie gets uploaded to an illegal piracy site and is downloaded or watched\u2014 for free \u2014 by thousands across the globe.\nThe solution lies in a platform that indie filmmakers and distributors can use to securely distribute their creative works to anyone, be it prospective buyers or investors, without the fear of it being leaked to piracy sites.\nA platform like Screener Copy offers such a solution. 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Jo has a degree in the History of Art and Design, but really his eyes are firmly on the future.\u201d\n\u201cWhen not huddled behind his computer screen, exercising his computer wizardry, web-designer Steve is Transmission\u2019s in-house action man. While his team-mates would weep at such activity, Steve likes nothing more than a throwing himself down some gushing rapids in his kayak. His love of the white water aside, he also enjoys thunderstorm hikes followed by a bottle of red. He is also the creative force behind Ivyparkmedia, a web-design company with extra ones and zeroes\u2026\u201d\n\u201cTransmission is a sturdy skiff on the turbulent waters of independent literature, packed with a cargo of the best short fiction. It features exclusive interviews, articles, writing guidance from industry professionals and reviews.\u201d\n\u201cTransmission is designed to appeal to literature lovers from writers and academics, to bibliophiles and bookworms. Published tri-annually on a not-for-profit basis, Transmission continues to explore the choppy waters for the best and most original literary voices.\u201d\n\u201cWe publish only the best short fiction and with every piece illustrated with original artwork, we hope to stand out from the crowd. We are amongst a very small number of UK printed magazines solely dedicated to the short story. While we don\u2019t pay for submissions, if your work is published you can be sure it will find itself in a well-respected literary magazine (that\u2019s us!), alongside interviews and writing guidance from established authors and industry professionals.\u201d\n\u201cA magazine showcasing some of the finest writing talent.\u201d \u2013 BBC Online\nThis entry was posted in Uncategorized and tagged Fiction, magazine, short_story, Writing. 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Perhaps I said that already, but it's been my pleasure to do this to some extent past my retirement age, which was from, you know, this music program, which I participated in for, also, a large number of years.\nDoug: And.. I retired after 36 years from teaching at University of Nevada in Las Vegas. I came there and accepted a position in 1967, and there were three of us that began a music program there. The program grew though, and it was then called Nevada Southern University, and now, of course, the university is huge- 22 thousand and I suspect they have 37 or more faculty full time there.\nDoug: But, my retirement came in 2003, and... but I've kept- basically because I always had a community course orchestra outlet going alongside my regular program at the University, and once I had retired, I maintained a schedule of concerts, and this year is my 45th year as Music Director of the Southern Nevada Musical Art Society, which concentrates on performing of choral orchestra masterworks, and yet, we mix it up with some popular concerts, lighter stuff, lighter fare.\nDoug: We're nonprofit, and... imagine a nonprofit being in a... city location like Las Vegas, especially during the recent downturn- not so recent, it\u2019s been going on for quite a while- and, I must tell you that things are beginning to look up, because there\u2019s a line about more housing starts now, and hopefully this will change.\nDoug: But for a nonprofit, it means that our contributions have been below par what they were for a number of years. A tough time, especially now, the past year we did our usual six concerts, six or seven concerts, but I think we\u2019re in the hole this time\u2014this particular season. I\u2019ll find out when I go back home.\nBen Doehr & Doug Peterson\nBen: So did you do Music at Grinnell when you were here?Doug: Oh, yes. I sang in David Scoular\u2019s Men\u2019s Glee Club and Choir a great deal. And that was six times a week for four years. It was a great pleasure, and became quite a formidable influence.\nDoug: But, I never majored in Music at Grinnell. I began to take, seriously, some music classes my senior year. I got into Northwestern, Good- Norma Goodbook suggested I go there, get some summer training, and... eventually followed up with a Bachelor\u2019s in Music Ed. from Florida State University, so I have two undergraduate degrees. 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Everyone, practically everyone, is smoking, and you don\u2019t see that today.Ben: Yeah, especially among singers.Doug: Yeah, and it just\u2026 Every time I\u2019ve seen those videos I took, or movies at that time- movies to become videos- that\u2019s still amazing, but times have changed, you know?Ben: Yeah.Doug: And that\u2019s the way that goes.\nDoug: The first memory of the campus- Well, it was always very beautiful here--Ben: Mhm.Doug: --the lush green, and.... But, I was a newcomer to the state, and.. I picked the right school, because professors have been- that I had, were wonderful teachers, particularly Neal Klausner. I took Philosophy class. You\u2019ve heard the name, I\u2019m sure.Ben: Mhm.Doug: And... a bit terrifying, because if you went into his class, you\u2019d better be prepared for a drop quiz. You never knew when it was gonna happen.Ben: Mhm.\nDoug: And... we had blue books in those days and you had to be able to write, but I took all kinds of courses here. History of Christian Thought and I ended up in a Zoology class, believe it or not. Why? I don\u2019t know. \"Why am I here? I know why: I couldn\u2019t get into the Biology class I wanted to get into!\" But- dissecting a fetal pig was not my first choice, but those were... just a few alterations.\nDoug: Had a wonderful Economics professor, the name is almost on the tip of my tongue... but you had to write in long hand and put sentences together, and actually, all the English classes that I took here\u2014Henry Alden was my advisor\u2014he always advised me to take another English class, but they have stood me in good stead, because... as a music director, I obviously have prepared for that, but, thank heavens, I can fall back on the English construction that I got from these classes, and... 'Cause I had 24 hours of English. That\u2019s a bunch!Ben: Mhm.\nDoug: And I\u2019ve always felt that when I\u2019ve picked up a Time magazine, that I had a better understanding of the world, simply because I'd been to a liberal arts college where... you got the best of all the world\u2019s point of view, a perspective that was based on some kind of knowledge you gained in a liberal arts setting, and a better understanding, without which- some people don\u2019t have, and they fall into certain prejudices \u2018cause they don\u2019t know any differently.Ben: Mhm.Doug: Well, Grinnell College gives you that best advantage in that respect, huh?Ben: Yeah.\nBen: Were there any books here that you read that were particularly influential in your life? You were a Philosophy major, so there was probably something.Doug: No, not- I... No, not books. American Literature... There were American authors, Mark Twain, I think, for example, and Chaucer English.Ben: Mhm.\nDoug: Literature.... and in the English category, one had to get up and give, occasionally, though fairly regularly, a speech before the class, to gain confidence in facing the public...Ben: Mhm.Doug: --and they called it \u201cBasic Communication\u201d and something like that.. well, the class can have a very positive effect, I think, in overcoming inhibitions, as I've done, hmm? It\u2019s valuable, because you get out in the world.... I mean, absolutely, you\u2019re going to have to get up, stand up, and talk before the folks.\nBen: So whe- when you were here at Grinnell, did you have a favorite place to hang out or study on campus? Was there some part- place away from your dorm that was your home away from home?Doug: Yeah, there was a place down the street here... I don\u2019t know, that served drinks and things, but... I don\u2019t remember that off-hand now. I can\u2019t be more specific. I can remember though, dressing up in a coat, shirt, tie.. to go eat supper at Cowles.Ben: Really?Doug: Yeah...\nDoug: That.... And that- I still remember that, because it\u2019s a very precious, esteemed kind of thing, you know? And now, over the years, dressing down has become the fashion to such an extent and.. even young people, the guys wear caps when they go indoors to a restaurants--Ben: Mhm.Doug: --and my mother would have a fit about that!Ben: Mhm.Doug: But...\nBen: Yeah, the campuses were separated when you were here?Doug: Oh, yeah. Cowles, and I worked over at Mears. I think that was it- or the Quad- the ladies, where they had breakfast in the morning.Ben: The Quad?Doug: Yeah, the Quad. I got it right. You had to be up there early, and.... that was an interesting experience. Gals don\u2019t have makeup on at that hour, and... a different perspective, but..Ben: So you worked at the dining hall for the opposite gender?Doug: Yeah, yeah. Yeah, it was one way to pick up some extra change, and...\nDoug: ....Has Grinnell changed much since I was a student? The campus has enormously changed.Ben: So, what was here when you were here? Was it Goodnow, Steiner...?Doug: Goodnow.Ben: The dorms were the same, right?Doug: Yeah, the dorms are Smith, I was at Smith, all the way to Cowles.Ben: Mhm.\nDoug: But Cowles was added... It was the last one to go up there, the new one, I remember. But in my trips back here, reunions, I remember at our 50th I did a tour of Noyce and I had a group of singers that performed outside, and they are part of a ceremony on behalf of Noyce and a tree was planted. I should see what the tree looks like now. I don' t know- that's thirteen years ago.Ben: Mhm.Doug: And... sort of a favorite son of Grinnell College, and.... others have given you their memory bank about Bob Noyce, but he was sort of contemporary of my time.\nBen: Did you meet your spouse here, or..?Doug: But my sister was here- No, my spouse... I met her.... She was a school teacher in Columbus, Indiana. I was teaching music in Columbus High School in Indiana and she was well-schooled in music. She was out of Northwestern University as an undergraduate and Master\u2019s degree from Ball State, and... That was not the case, see.\nBen: So if you knew then what you know now, would you have done anything differently during your time at Grinnell..? Knowing- on your- reflecting on your experiences in life, is there anything that you would have changed?Doug: Hmm\u2026 I'd- Say it again, because- Let me--Ben: If you had to go back in time--Doug: Yeah.Ben: --and you knew all that you know right now- on what life has taught you and everything- would you- is there anything you would have done differently? Taking different classes, met different people?Doug: Yeah, I probably would have begun a Music degree right off. But, you try this, you try that.Ben: Mhm.\nDoug: And, the thing is you keep propelling yourself, and that\u2019s.... that's been the magic of Grinnell, because the inspiration I received from performing in the choral groups here has combined with a certain amount of the Grinnell spirit, and carr- and propelled me forward all through the years, and... I suspect that that focus has always been there as a result of my Grinnell College days, and.... but I would have started just sooner.Ben: Yeah.Doug: To give a better answer, a complete answer.\nBen: Unfortunately, we\u2019re almost out of time, but is there any parting words you\u2019d like to say to future generations of Grinnellians, based on what you learned here?Doug: Well, they should consider themselves very lucky to be here, be part of a liberal arts tradition second to none. In my experience, I\u2019ve taught at a state university- this is the best! Big is not always the best.Ben: Mhm.Doug: And that\u2019s not my final word, but that comes to my lips right now.\nDoug: And the chance to take a variety of subjects, whether it\u2019s Zoology or... Economics, Statistics, which I had to take at one time, keep the base very broad and that\u2019s what you get at Grinnell College. And because of the level of excellence here, anyone who gets into the school should consider themself very lucky.Ben: Thank you.\nDoug: Well, thank you very much for doing this!Doug: I hope so-- I got going a little bit better.\nAlumni oral history interview with Douglas Peterson '50. Recorded May 31, 2013.\nTitle Douglas Peterson '50\ncreator Peterson, Douglas '50", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00240.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 128, + "original_length": 14606, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.98, + "perplexity": 311.1, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "https://digitalscholarship.unlv.edu/hotel_fac_articles/98/", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T03:44:03Z", + "digest": "sha1:UUJJDGTQFVCK544CBBRWBIA7GTQE24FF", + "length": 1629, + "nlines": 4, + "source_domain": "digitalscholarship.unlv.edu", + "title": "\"Concentrations of oligomers and polymers of proanthocyanidins in red a\" by M H. 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That said, Turkish manufacturers do alot of reverse engineering where they basically do what they can to reinforce certain areas and make the design more suitable for their needs. If we look at the Girsan Regard, you will notice a heavy resemblance to the Beretta 92FS I have, but with a few important differences like the grip size, locking block design, and even the finish of the pistol. So yes, they do clone alot of designs, but they seem to do a good job in upgrading them and making them more user friendly in some ways. Also, this means that alot of the parts like springs and some trigger components are interchangeable.\nLet us next look at the SAR9 from Sarsilmaz. The company was given the task of making a pistol that could beat out the Glock and all other pistols in NATO trials. Supposedly the pistol was successful, but there is no literature on the pistol to prove it. The design is really good on the pistol. It uses a chassis system for the frame internals, and they are quite beefed up and well designed for a long service life. The recoil spring is pretty tight on the pistol, which is a good indicator that it is made to last a long time. The only regrettable feature is the manual safety. I think it prevents this pistol from being my overall favorite. The problem is that the Turkish manufacturer thought it would be a good idea to make a different pistol for civilians than what they provide their own military and police. This is an asinine ideology I will not stand behind or excuse. They breed the HK VP9 and the Glock17 together, but screw it up with a manual safety.\nNow let me move on to the SAR CM9 Gen2, which is also from Sarsilmaz. This pistol is like a clone of the Sphinx and the CZ P07, in my judgement. The action is really smooth, the trigger is crude, and the grip is basic. The pistol itself screams that it is designed to be a work horse instead of Americas sweetheart design. I can appreciate that kind of design for sure. The main problem with this type of pistol is that you will struggle to find an IWB holster. I would gladly carry this pistol, but I could not find a pre-made holster for it except the OWB GLS from Safariland. Also, good luck on finding sights for this design as well. This pistol is good for hard use out of the box, but it definitely is going to be a duty pistol or even a home/vehicle gun at this rate. Though, I think more accessories are coming out due to growing popularity. We can only cross our fingers and hope. This ridiculously reliable pistol is easy to shoot well, recoils very little, and takes cheap CZ75 mags. Why wouldn't I want to use this pistol alot?\nI am not going to dramatize how reliable or durable these pistols are, but I will say that the Turkish manufacturers did do alot of work to make very high quality and long lasting pistols based around the 9mm NATO cartridge, which is a pretty hot load. The reason that their standards for durability is so high is because they have a reputation to uphold. They take pride in the fact that their pistols are often used by civilians throughout the world and even in small security forces. They wanna make sure that their pistols are mentioned often as being worthy for serious use. For this reason, you can expect little to no reliability issues with Turkish pistols.\nWhen it comes to price, it is common for a product of any kind to be judged by how much you are charged for it. Though, it seems that there is a threshold where pistols like these are considered a good value. But if they come in at a lower price like $250 or less, they are seen as low quality or CHEAP quality pistols. The problem is that people are not very good critical thinkers these days. People don't understand exchange rates and the value of the American Dollar around the world. Some places may not value our currency as much, but we still hold alot of weight in the middle east. For that reason, importers are generally able to get these pistols for very little money if charged fairly. I say IF because it is common for manufacturers to want to make lots of money on their product while trying to be fair at the same time. Anyways, the point is that for $250-$400, these Turkish pistols can go a long way and give you many years of reliable service.\nPersonally, I am having a hard time justifying using other pistols from more expensive manufacturers, unless I can't get away with carrying these Turkish pistols. Their low price means that I will not be sacrificing too much if I have it confiscated for using it in self defense. Also, they have been so reliable and are so easy to shoot that I am embarrassed to admit that they perform better than my more expensive Sig and Beretta pistols. I will not assume that the Turkish pistols are going to last longer than the big brand named pistols, but I do think that the argument on that basis is largely irrelevant. Since they use relatively the same springs and small parts, it is reasonable to expect that they will last nearly a lifetime for us in the US, if we maintain them properly. Let's also realize that most people never even shoot enough to change a single spring.\nNow, the last subject I wanna bring up is the political aspect of buying Turkish products. Many people are suggesting that Turkey is a sponsor of ISIS. This could not be further from the truth. Sure, they have little respect for us in America, but it is because they have been left to fend for themselves in the war against ISIS. They have had more engagements against ISIS than many know, and they have been attacked in their major cities with great frequency. I personally feel that they have done a great job in the war on terrorism. 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As recently as 2001, the percentage of the population with high-speed access in Japan and Germany was only half that in the United States. In France it was less than a quarter. By the end of 2006, however, all three countries had more broadband subscribers per 100 people than we did.\nEven more striking is the fact that our \u201chigh speed\u201d connections are painfully slow by other countries\u2019 standards. ... Oh, and access is much cheaper...\nWhat happened to America\u2019s Internet lead? Bad policy. Specifically, the United States ... forgot \u2014 or was persuaded by special interests to ignore \u2014 ...that sometimes you can\u2019t have effective market competition without effective regulation.\nYou see, ... to get [to the internet] you need to go through a narrow passageway, down your phone line or down your TV cable. 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The price is high and the service is poor, but there\u2019s nowhere else to go.\nMeanwhile, as ... Business Week explains, the real French bureaucrats used judicious regulation to promote competition. As a result, French consumers get to choose from a variety of service providers who offer reasonably priced Internet access that\u2019s much faster than anything I can get, and comes with free voice calls, TV and Wi-Fi.\nIt\u2019s too early to say how much harm the broadband lag will do to the U.S. economy as a whole. But it\u2019s interesting to learn that health care isn\u2019t the only area in which the French, who can take a pragmatic approach because they aren\u2019t prisoners of free-market ideology, simply do things better.\nPrevious (7/20) column: Paul Krugman: All the President\u2019s Enablers\nNext (7/27) column: Paul Krugman: The Sum of Some Fears\nUpdate: Paul Krugman emails:\nI wrote a piece on this, \"Digital Robber Barons?\", back in 2002 - unfortunately, it looks my worries were justified. Also, Matthew Yglesias had a piece 2 years ago (which I somehow missed).\nThe broadband penetration statistics are at http://www.oecd.org/document/7/0,3343,en\n_2649_34223_38446855_1_1_1_1,00.html\nConnection speeds are at http://www.websiteoptimization.com/bw/0705/\nAnd he adds his personal experience:\nWhen Robin and I moved into our current house, which is in Princeton Township a few minutes' drive from the university, we had NO broadband available. We actually got a satellite dish - which provided lousy access, but better than dialup. Eventually Verizon offered DSL - pretty slow DSL. And last year Patriot Media, our cable monopoly, finally came up with its own offering. 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(\u201cNed\u201d) Perry, a former corporate counsel now practicing elder law from a home office in Anthem, Arizona. Ned\u2019s career began in 1979 with a judicial clerkship at the Pennsylvania Superior Court (Judge Robert Van der Voort). He then took a position with a Tokyo-based international law firm. After 4 years in private practice he went in-house and spent 6 years with Banque Indosuez and 6 years with Lehman Brothers, where he was General Counsel with responsibility for all legal matters in the Asia Pacific region. After leaving Lehman in 1996 he took a detour from the law to launch a small digital printing business in Santa Rosa, CA which he then sold in 1999 to return to the corporate world. 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I, and many others, will find it to be a valuable resource for keeping ourselves updated and educated on elder & disability law issues.\nI have greatly appreciated the legal documents you have prepared for me, in insuring that the welfare of my disabled adult daughter have been met. Executing these documents has given me a sense of peace I did not realize was attainable.\nA. Nelson, AZ\nHey Ned, great comments. We in New Mexico faced something similar. Threats of legal recourse slowed things down.\nWe are now in a struggle with the state over the use of a tool called the Supports Intensity Scale (SIS) to allocate resources to individuals. 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Most of the posts tend to be centred around a use-case, and tend to be quite involved - which is good for getting your hands on something you\u2019ve not worked with before.\nData is Plural is a little unique in this list, covering a weekly selection of open datasets. From the useful to the unusual, there\u2019s plenty here to play with if you\u2019re wanting to try out some new ideas. Quite often but not always US-focused.\nData Science Weekly as the name suggests is very specifically for data scientists. As a big data engineer it\u2019s something to skim read, as a data scientist there\u2019s lots of interesting topics.\nArtificial Intelligence Weekly is a weekly collection of news and resources on AI and Machine Learning. It\u2019s mostly good for seeing what other companies are doing in this cutting edge area of technology, but there\u2019s also some useful software and hardware mentions.\nHigh Scalability comes out on a Friday afternoon, and reading this on the train home from work has become something of a tradition. From interesting projects to play around with over the weekend to inspiring thoughts around operating at scale, there\u2019s always hidden gems in this rather large weekly blog. Whilst the other selections in this list sometimes have duplicate articles, this one is usually a very different collection of content.\nIf podcasts are more your thing then start with this list\nFinally there are some great people on Twitter posting shorter thoughts on all areas of big data. 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We\u2019re calling for all new cars and trucks to be electric by 2035. We know our leaders in Washington, D.C., are going the wrong way on this issue. That\u2019s why our Clean Car Communities campaign is urging local and state officials to pave the way.\nWe can\u2019t keep burning gas\nToday, 99 percent of the cars and trucks on the road in the U.S. still burn gasoline, each year adding another 1 billion metric tons of carbon pollution to our planet\u2019s thin, fragile atmosphere.\nWe can\u2019t go on like this. Carbon dioxide emissions are the primary cause of global warming, and transportation is the #1 source of America\u2019s carbon pollution. To slow global warming, we need to shift to electric cars. We\u2019re calling for 100 percent of new cars and trucks to be electric by 2035.\nHow do we get from less than 1 percent electric vehicles to 100 percent?\nThe good news is that electric vehicle technology is already advancing rapidly. 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In 1960\u2019s steel industry used capital-intensive basic oxygen blast furnace technologies together with hearth furnace technologies to produce steel. The appearance of electric arc furnace technologies became a new start up for companies entering the steel making business. There has been the use of new technologies that led Nucor to have increased production and cost saving. The introduction of arc furnace allowed reducing the cost of production. It has been cost effective strategy employed among major steel industries. Nucor Corporation that was the first to introduce this technology had competed with the mini-mills in the US. This was in the late 1980\u2019s when many steel companies were going out of business because the demand for steel had reduced drastically. The economies were also falling. The use of arc furnace became a cheaper route instead of building new plants.\nAnother trend in the steel industry in the late 1990\u2019s was large companies acquiring already failing funds to increase their production. Partnerships and mergers dominated in the steel industry. With acquisition of small firms Nucor managed to become the largest steel producer among all steel industries in the US. Before the introduction of arc furnace of electric refining used by many companies, they relied on iron bearing scraps. It became easy to dominate the market when Nucor took advantage over China which was the leading in steel making. Nucor has become aware that the legislation that is passed will affect their business. This includes laws on green house emissions that have a direct impact on their production of steel. Another regulation that had been passed to cater for mileage requirement for Nucor\u2019s will mean reduction in steel content and other substitute materials.\nOver the years Nucor has been leading in the world steel arena. Another common phenomenon in the steel industry has been a downsizing. This has been brought about by companies shifting from earlier stance of being labor-intensive to a capital-intensive. Nucor has become concerned about the overcapacity of China, which has taken over as the world\u2019s leading producer and consumer of steel.\nThe organization structure and management philosophy of Nucor\nThe management structure of Nucor is laid in a way different from the lay out of other steel firms in the USA. An organization structure always consists of all the activities of the human resource management that include tax allocation, coordination and supervision. All these are directed towards achieving the organization\u2019s aims; organization\u2019s structure enables firms to allocate responsibilities to be performed by different entities such as departments, work groups, branches and individuals. Nucor Corporation has employed and decentralized the organizational structure. To increase employees\u2019 innovation, Nucor\u2019s structure is streamlined. It has a well defined management philosophy. In contrast to other companies, Nucor has not laid off employees for such reasons as lack of enough work. These decentralized structures have allowed the general managers and staff to make day-to-day decisions. The layers of its managerial hierarchy are composed of shop floor workers, supervisors, general managers and the executive vice president at the top. The CEO is at the top.\nHuman Resource Management Issues and Recommendations\nGeneral Managers at Nucor are supposed to make a 25% return. Therefore it means that they must decide on how to execute strategies for them not to be weeded out. This leaves managers to their own devices to decide how to make production policies. This is a problem for them since if they fail to meet their performance quarters they are at the risk of being fired or being prevented from advancing in the company. Workers have also become accustomed to high payment as a bonus. They are always money-driven, and if their returns in the company are down, they may become motivated. The Nucor corporation\u2019s human resource department is not effective due to its few managers. Comparing these with the large number of employees appears unreasonable. The recommendation to the managerial philosophy would be that they examine the value of their compensatory skills and if possible readjust them accordingly. This will help the company to retain the large number of employees and remain competitive. The current market conditions at Nucor seem to have an upper hand. The existence of a well articulated managerial philosophy with a better pay structure appears hard to replicate or even initiate. Nucor appears to have the best employees. However, the market condition does not favor their performance in case of a decline.\nIt appears that profit margins for Nucor Company are going down. Therefore, the management must find a way to stabilize this downfall. They should also get strategies that will make the company remain more competitive in the steel industry. It is paramount for Nucor\u2019 human resource management to contain losses the company is incurring as a result of uncertainties prevailing in the market place. Its future employment prospect largely depends on the human resource management members. It would be better if the team is increased.\nDiversification and Rationale Recommendation\nFrom the analysis, it appears that Nucor Corporation has already diversified in the steel industry because of its acquisition of smaller firms. However, the already mentioned legislations will require the company to consider acquiring companies that are not even related to steel production. On the other hand, such a company must be within the metallurgical family. Another diversification possible for Nucor would be to engage in production of metals such as aluminum, which competes with steel. The company can use aluminum to manufacture some lightweight motor vehicles.\nRecommendations on how to Implement Diversification\nNucor has shown some strides towards approaching globalization. However, it remains an all-American company. The analysis also shows that the company holds exclusive rights for strip casting technology in Brazil as well as in Trinidad. In addition, the company has a joint venture with steel mill in Italy. Until 2008, another joint venture with some multinational companies in Australia enabled Nucor to diversify its operation even with a Chinese company. It is, therefore, recommendable that Nucor should develop and register its presence in China. However, this will require selection of sites with plentiful sources of electricity.\nNucor has to be aware of the challenges ahead. It appears that the company has recorded good economies of scale and is the leading top recycler and steel producer. However the company must bear in mind that the future of steel production is uncertain. That is, it heavily relies upon natural resources and infrastructure, which must be reinvented.\nFinally, the human resource management of Nucor will have to come up with plans that will align the employees\u2019 efforts to their mission. 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If you have any questions, please call F5 Networks at (206) 272-5555.\nReplay Via Phone: Available January 20 (from 4:30 p.m. PT) through January 21, 2016 (until 11:59 p.m. PT)\nPhone: 888-562-6109 (US & Canada)\nReplay Via Webcast: https://f5.com/about-us/investor-relations\nAvailable until April 20, 2016\nF5 (NASDAQ: FFIV) provides solutions for an application world. F5 helps organizations seamlessly scale cloud, data center, telecommunications, and software defined networking (SDN) deployments to successfully deliver applications and services to anyone, anywhere, at any time. F5 solutions broaden the reach of IT through an open, extensible framework and a rich partner ecosystem of leading technology and orchestration vendors. This approach lets customers pursue the infrastructure model that best fits their needs over time. 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For more information, go to f5.com.\nYou can also follow @f5networks on Twitter or visit us on LinkedIn and Facebook for more information about F5, its partners, and technologies.", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00240.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 89, + "original_length": 7081, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.91, + "perplexity": 195.5, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "https://faithandform.com/feature/page/3/", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T03:17:16Z", + "digest": "sha1:Y2CGKZ4IQJ62IHTEV5WRVRAFMBFCNX7R", + "length": 3000, + "nlines": 21, + "source_domain": "faithandform.com", + "title": "Featured Articles Archive - Page 3 of 14 - Faith & Form", + "raw_content": "Ceramics\u2019 Sacred Power\nLike many historic sacred places around the world, the sanctuary of St. James Episcopal Church in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, inspires awe in visitors upon stepping inside and being surrounded by its soft lighting, warm earthy brick walls, luminous stained glass, \u2026 [continue]\nKathy Kranias\nStained-glass artist Sarah Hall talks about the next generation of an ancient sacred material. Kathy Kranias: Can you share your thoughts on stained glass innovations of the past 40 years? Sarah Hall: The entire past century has seen incredible \u2026 [continue]\nRoberto Chiotti and Michael Nicholas-Schmidt\nHow materials pave the way for sustainable sacred space. Despite the many advances in design technology, from orthographic representation to BIM software, the creation of space is still the act of a maker selecting and organizing materials. And while \u2026 [continue]\nA total of 27 projects representing the best in religious art and architecture were selected from a field of approximately 120 submissions. This year saw nine submissions in the category of \u201cAdaptive Re-Use/Re-Purpose,\u201d which was instituted two years ago to \u2026 [continue]\nWhat are the TOP 5?\nThe results are in, and we have the winners! Or at least we have some idea of what the most popular works or sacred art and architecture are. A few months ago, in preparation of the journal\u2019s 50th anniversary issue, we invited our followers to vote on their \u2026 [continue]\nDouglas Hoffman, AIA\n50 Years of History \u201cFaith & Form, journal of The Guild for Religious Architecture, represents the collaborative efforts of architects, clergy, artists, craftsmen \u2013 of all faiths \u2013 to develop a forum wherein the inter-relationships of theology, \u2026 [continue]\nA God\u2019s-Eye-View of Sacred Space\nBy Michael J. Crosbie / Photographs by Thomas R. Schiff\nPhotographer Thomas R. Schiff got interested in panoramic photography about 25 years ago, and has produced amazing images of architecture, documented through books and exhibits. His first impulse was to capture iconic works of architecture throughout the U.S. \u2026 [continue]\nIn the immediate aftermath of World War II, the Dominican fathers Marie-Alain Couturier and Pie-Raymond R\u00e9gamey embarked on a pioneering work to eradicate from sacred art \u2013 signifying nothing more than simply the preponderance of \u201cart in churches\u201d \u2013 all that \u2026 [continue]\nAn Architecture of Pardon and Consolation\nMichael E. DeSanctis\nEmbodying the meaning of Pope Francis\u2019s recent \u201cYear of Mercy\u201d in the language of brick and mortar. At the outset of 2016, as part of a comprehensive plan to revive and reform the Church for which he serves as universal leader, Pope Francis declared the Roman \u2026 [continue]\n[RE]BUILDING POSITIVE\nBy Erik Heitman, AIA\nFor more than a century, the stonewalls of the Westport Presbyterian Church loomed large over Westport Road, the main thoroughfare in one of Kansas City, Missouri\u2019s oldest and most historic neighborhoods. 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Wheat rebounded on its down sessions last week by finding some help in short covering and U.S. exports, who\u2019s inspections are up 28% compared to this time a year ago. Comparably, U.S. corn exports are running about 30% above last year (U.S.D.A. is forecasting a 17% jump YoY) while U.S. soybean shipments are up 11% YoY (a 4.5% jump is forecasted by the U.S.D.A.). Soyoil dropped for the 4th time in the last 5 sessions, on subdued palm oil trade and news that O.P.E.C. production may not in fact be curtailed. Also on the macroeconomics front is U.S. Federal Reserve buzz as the market is looking for clues in tomorrow\u2019s F.O.M.C. committee report as to whether they\u2019ll raise interest rates in December. Currently, odds of a rate increase happening are pegged at 70% but just like we\u2019ve seen in the past few weeks of U.S. Presidential Election trail, a curveball can come out of nowhere.\nSpeculative money (hedge funds) continue to get a little longer in grain and oilseeds, namely soybeans, corn, and Kansas City hard red winter wheat, while bringing back on some shorts in Chicago soft red winter wheat. The divide in the winter wheat market is due to some concerns over drought concerns affecting planted acres, notably in South Dakota (32% of area in drought) and Oklahoma (25% in drought). On that note, the U.S.D.A.\u2019s crop progress report tells us that 86% of the U.S. winter wheat crop has been seeded with 58% of rated good-to-excellent (49% a year ago). While drills roll in some parts of America, combines are busy in others as 75% of US corn crop and 87% of the U.S. soybean crop has been taken off thus far, in line with long term averages.\nKeeping in harvest mode, 87% of the Ukrainian harvest is in the books with 53.7M tonnes taken off so far as only spring crops are left to combine, although 14.7M tonnes of corn are off (94 bu/ac average) and 3.4M tonnes of soybeans have been harvested (32.5 bu/ac average). In nearby Kazakhstan, a 23.6M-tonne total grain harvest is a 29% increase year-over-year thanks to total acreage expanding 10% YoY but yields also jumping 18% year-over-year. In Western Canada, about 20% of all acres left to combine in Saskatchewan (well behind 5-year average of 99%) and 25% left to go in Alberta. In my opinion, the market is either assuming that the crop will get taken off eventually or it\u2019s already accounting for worst-case scenarios (otherwise, we\u2019d much higher).\nWhile soybean futures continue to lead this current rally (up nearly $1/bushel on the Chicago board in the past month), cash basis across the U.S. has been widening as a result of farmer selling / harvest pressure. We\u2019ve started to see some similar dynamics in the canola market but me telling you to wait for a specific number for your next 10,000 bushel block sale is like putting a $110,000 bet on one number on the roulette wheel and hoping it hits. There\u2019s been many comparisons to 2014 this fall as similar harvest problems helped soybeans rally $1.30/bushel in the last quarter of the calendar year, durum prices were in double digits, and canola sprang up $50/MT on the Winnipeg ICE board. This in mind, we\u2019ve already jumped more than $50 / MT in Winnipeg. Add in that there is a record soybean crop in the US and Brazilian soybean acres seeded is over 40% (above the average pace), the curve to the upside is getting tougher to navigate. Hitting the brakes and managing risk is never an ignorant play (especially considering how many times you\u2019ve waited for prices to get close to the \u201cnumber that you need\u201d and it didn\u2019t happen).", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00240.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 126, + "original_length": 8226, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.95, + "perplexity": 287.7, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "https://fbcmud151.com/blog/2018-09-21-important-tax-rate-notice/", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T04:03:47Z", + "digest": "sha1:HC5JSEXBZ5M43JGDKRJXAGAAP7HXF5QP", + "length": 480, + "nlines": 3, + "source_domain": "fbcmud151.com", + "title": "Important Tax Rate Notice | Blog", + "raw_content": "Board announces reduction in tax rate\nThe Board of Directors is pleased to announce that at its September 19, 2018, regular meeting, the Board voted unanimously to reduce the 2018 ad valorem tax rate to $0.95 per $100 of taxable property. 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Simply put, a chargeback is a requirement to refund any credit card charge that is deemed fraudulent or disputed.\nAs your online business grows, chargebacks can be a significant drain on resources, and often involve a costly and time consuming resolution process \u2013 especially if they fall into the murky waters of pre-arbitration.\nIn recent years we\u2019ve seen the inception of a small number of highly effective products that help you to minimize chargebacks. Signifyd is a leader in the rapidly growing eCommerce fraud protection industry, and now FlowLink offers seamless automated workflow between your online store and Signifyd.\nHave you taken a trip down the chargeback rabbit hole? Are you looking for ways to minimize unexpected losses? 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However, getting that dream body is never easy because you will first have to undergo a lot of exercise as take some supplements to help you speed up your bodybuilding.\nAt first, you may think that workout supplements are just harmless but if you come to think of it, not all workout supplements work for all various body types so as much as possible, you have to check first whether that certain workout supplement is safe for you to take. In this article, we will give you a quick guide in looking for the best workout supplements for you to take to make sure that you will never compromise your health and safety.\nBefore starting to take a workout supplement, you might want to ask a few questions to yourself first and one of them is whether such supplement is safe for you to take. One of the things that you need to consider when taking workout supplements is the safety of the supplement you are taking because not all supplements work best for all people so if you want to make sure that you are not harming yourself with such supplement, see to it that it is safe for you to take. To help you with this step, it might be a good idea for you to seek medical advice from a healthcare professional because they know what is best for your health. Click to learn more.\nAnother thing that you may want to check is whether such workout supplement may have a tendency to react to your current medications because that is the only way to make sure that you are taking it safely. Checking the workout supplement prior to taking it is a great way to make sure that you will have a safer intake and that you are not going to get any negative effect in doing so.\nAsking recommendations from your friends, family members and gym buddies can also help you get a few good option when it comes to workout supplements because they are more likely to recommend to you workout supplements that are proven and tested to be effective and safe. What's good about asking from your connections is that they are less likely to recommend workout supplements that are of low quality to you so you can really make sure that asking them can give you a few great options to choose from. Read more now.\nIf you are left with no other choice, you can also go directly go to a supplement superstore near you and check out their products if they are suitable for you because these shops usually have an in house workout adviser who is knowledgeable enough of the things that you need to consider when looking for a workout supplement.\nFor more information about workout supplements, discover more in this page now: https://www.britannica.com/science/dietary-supplement.\nChoosing The Right Workout Supplements - Things That You Need To Be Aware Of\nFor those of you who may have already encountered the term modern sports nutrition, we are sure that you know how this kind of thing has the ability of taking the regular exercise routine you may have and bringing it to the next level. As for the best workout supplement, one thing is for sure and that is the fact that they are created specifically for the purpose of increasing the fitness level of a persona and helping the build muscles as well. There are so many of us here who have this tendency of pushing themselves to the limit when doing some training and this will often result from their body to require more energy than what they can produce themselves. When you work hard, the results that you will be getting will get better as well, but of course, there is no way for you to work harder if you do not have the right support.\nThere are so many benefits that you are bound to get with the best workout supplements and one of them is the extra boost of energy that you need to complete the workout session you have designed for yourself. Through them, you will be able to propel through the training sessions that you have by means of providing your body the much needed vitamins and minerals. What usually happens when you exercise too hard without using the right and proper tools is that your are leaving your body deprived and when this happen, you are not only hurting the growth of your muscles, but also your overall fitness level. Get the best hardcore supplements now from the supplements superstore here.\nRight after you have decided to take the training session you have to the next level, you better start choosing the best workout supplement that works best for your goals and the needs of your body as well. By choosing the best workout supplements, you body will be toned and shaped properly and also, it will have a direct effect which will be visible on the results. But then again, this will only be possible if you are going to choose the right products to use.\nThere is no denying of the fact that there are lots of workout supplements that you can choose from and this may end up getting your confused and overwhelmed, especially on what you should choose, yet worry no more since you can already narrow down your options by identifying the goals you have and at the same time, searching for ingredients that will help support you in this journey you have. We also want you to take note about the four categories of supplements that you can choose which is the Pre-workout supplements, the Creatine, the Glutamine and the Protein as well.\nHere is more info: https://www.huffingtonpost.com.au/2015/11/22/preworkout_n_8624276.html.", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00240.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 56, + "original_length": 14061, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.97, + "perplexity": 258.2, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "https://foragewildfood.com/about/", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T04:27:34Z", + "digest": "sha1:5VDCW727HUJBD5FHYJILTFGVFVYMYPM7", + "length": 464, + "nlines": 1, + "source_domain": "foragewildfood.com", + "title": "About | Forage Wild Food", + "raw_content": "My name is Jason Irving, and I am a forager, herbalist and ethnobotanist. 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Strong interaction and collaboration between these two sectors can result in optimal use of resources since properly implemented ORV and complementary vaccination of domestic animals can lead to large savings to the public health sector due to reduced demand for costly human vaccines and biologicals.\nTherefore, inter-ministerial financing mechanisms, that integrate both veterinary and public health sectors, could provide a sustainable mechanism for rabies control. Because rabies outbreaks can affect tourism and animal welfare, additional funding could be sought from Ministries of Tourism and Natural Resources. Many governments provide emergency funds in the event of an unexpected outbreak.\nIf rabies is a notifiable disease, and therefore is subject to particular laws and controls, the government accepts responsibility, and government funding should be given priority. See also sections 3.2.4 and 3.2.5 describing which factors are important in deciding whether a disease should be notifiable.\n\u2022\tLocal government funding may be available.\n\u2022\tLocal businesses and trusts may be available.\n\u2022\tExternal organisations (e.g. international and regional development organisations, international grant-making bodies, etc.) may provide funding for specific project costs or workshops, although they are unlikely to support long-term running costs.\n\u2022\tNGOs [1] working in animal welfare, human and animal health, wildlife conservation (only where appropriate).\n\u2022\tUniversities may provide funding or non-financial resources, such as infrastructure, manpower and expertise.\n\u2022\tEmergency funding (outbreak situation or introduction into free areas). The EU [2] and UK [3], for example, have emergency plans/financial packages to deal with disease outbreaks, which could potentially be supported by a farmers\u2019 tax.\n\u2022\tPrivate donors\n\u2022\tPrivate industries \u2013 (pharmaceutical, pet food and pet insurance) may be willing to support the programme either financially or by providing resources (e.g. food, vaccines, equipment) and know-how.\n\u2022\tEU funding (co-financing of ORV campaigns in non-EU countries). To eliminate fox rabies in Member States, the EU provides solutions for start-up financing of ORV programmes in certain areas or countries neighbouring the EU. It also provides enlargement funds for potential candidate countries (example IPA-funds Western Balkans).\n\u2022 Emergency funding (outbreak situation or introduction into free areas). The EU and UK, for example, have emergency plans/financial packages to deal with disease outbreaks, which could potentially be supported by a farmers\u2019 tax.\n\u2022 EU funding (co-financing of ORV campaigns in non-EU countries). To eliminate fox rabies in Member States, the EU provides solutions for start-up financing of ORV programmes in certain areas or countries neighbouring the EU. 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(You have to remember; I started writing in my early to mid-twenties)\nI found out real fast that that isn\u2019t the case.\nSome look upon the genres as porn, which I have said repeatedly, and emphatically, they are not.\nWhy am I mentioning this, you ask?\nBecause I think it\u2019s important for all readers to know that you should never be ashamed of the books you choose to read.\nFor example, my sister is a die-hard twi-hard, and I can\u2019t stand the series. BUT I never put down her choice.\nI have several friends who are obsessed with the Fifty Shades Trilogy, and again, I ABHOR those books, yet, as I always say, as long as people are reading, that\u2019s all that matters.\nAs an author it\u2019s our job to make people want to read, to encourage reading no matter what genre the reader chooses, even if it isn\u2019t the genre we ourselves choose to write.\nIf we encourage the adults, the adults will in turn encourage the children and our profession will continue to thrive, and that\u2019s what we all want, right?\nBecause really, what\u2019s a world without books? J\nKiller Kisses\nBy Chastity Bush\nLiquid Silver Book\nThe man straddling the Harley was, in one word\u2026juicy.\nAdult novelty store owner Tina James loves a good adventure, and the man peering at her through onyx black eyes is the closest thing to adventure she\u2019s ever come across. Unless of course, you count the mugging at gunpoint she experienced only hours earlier.\nLeather clad Alex Monroe and his big bike just moved to number one on Tina\u2019s sexiest man alive list, and with every searing kiss, every white hot caress, Tina finds herself living out her wildest fantasies with the man of her dreams.\nBut is it all too good to be true?\nThere\u2019s something about Alex, from his unusual habit of only leaving the house at night, to his amazing speed and strength that has Tina wondering what exactly the man she\u2019s falling head over heels for is hiding?\nMeeting Tina James is the best thing that\u2019s happened to Alex in the last five hundred years. She\u2019s spunky, sassy, and beyond sexy.\nBut there\u2019s a problem\u2026or three.\nAlex is a vampire, Tina\u2019s a mortal, and he\u2019s searching for a rogue vampire who just so happens to have his sights set on her as his next victim.\nNow, not only does Alex have to find a way to tell the woman he loves what he is, he has to catch the killer before he loses her forever.\nChastity Bush is the author of the several published novels known for their spice romance, suspense, and humorous edge. When not working on her next novel, you can find her spending time with her husband and two daughters. Chastity loves to hear from her readers and answers all email/mail received. You can contact Chastity at: chastitybush@yahoo.com\nThe cold, night air swirled around Alex as he rode down the desolate streets. The motorcycle beneath him rumbled, sending a wave of comfort throughout his tired body.\nHe was a long way from home and for Alex Monroe the old saying was true; there\u2019s no place like home.\nHe\u2019d spent the entire night in his hotel room searching through cold case files, going back years and years, looking deeper at unsolved murders, trying his hardest to find something, anything that would lead him in the right direction. He needed to find this murderer and fast. It was only a matter of time before he slipped up and exposed their kind to the entire world, spelling disaster for them all.\nOnly sparkly, vegetarian vampires appealed to most people nowadays, and he was neither sparkly, nor vegetarian.\nRounding the corner, Alex wondered if his contact inside the precinct would have any new leads to share with him. He doubted it; the local authorities didn\u2019t have a single shred of evidence to help lead them toward who the killer might be. He\u2019d hoped to find some connection between the recent murders and some of the unsolved ones from the past. But so far, he\u2019d hit a dead-end.\nThe sooner he got this mystery solved, the sooner the women of this city would be safe\u2026from this killer anyway, there would always be others wreaking havoc somewhere.\nAnd he would be there to hunt them down.\nIt was his job. As an Immortal Detective he would do whatever it took to end the terror rogues caused with their senseless killing.\nPulling next to the curb in front of the police station, a flash of gold caught his attention.\nTaking a closer look through the dim streetlight, he frowned.\nA lone woman walked along the desolate sidewalk. Her long, sandy-blonde hair whipped in the breeze as she pulled her lightweight jacket tighter around her small frame.\n\u201cWhat the hell is she doing?\u201d he asked himself aloud.\nDidn\u2019t she know there was a killer on the loose? Why would she be walking the streets alone at three o\u2019clock in the morning?\nSometimes Alex couldn\u2019t help but wonder how humans had lived so long without being overrun by his- or any other- species.\nBefore he knew what he was doing, Alex pulled away from the curb, and rolled his bike along the street beside the woman.\nAlex wasn\u2019t your typical knight in shining armor. He wasn\u2019t even what someone would consider valiant, it just wasn\u2019t in his nature, but something inside him wouldn\u2019t let him turn his back on this woman.\n\u201cAre you all right?\u201d he called loudly over the rumble of the motorcycle.\nStopping, she turned to face him, and all thought fled his mind at the beauty revealed before him.\nLarge, sea green eyes bore into him as her gaze widened cautiously.\nDespite her petite stature, her legs, encased in tight, distressed jeans, were long and shapely.\nLetting his eyes sweep over her boldly, he took in every inch of her lithe body, as though admiring every brushstroke of a masterpiece.\nHer skin was a flawless, creamy ivory with a pinch of rose color staining her cheeks and nose from the bite of the crisp night air.\n\u201cListen,\u201d she said wearily, \u201cif you\u2019re looking to rob me, you\u2019re too late. Someone beat you to it about three hours ago.\u201d\nSmiling, Alex shut off his bike.\n\u201cActually, I was just wondering why a beautiful woman such as yourself would be walking alone in the dark when there\u2019s a killer on the loose.\u201d\nAnd she is beautiful, he mused.\nStunning even. He\u2019d lived a long time and faced countless women, but could remember none who matched her in beauty.\nThe impulse to reach out and grab her, to pull her against his chest and explore every delectable inch of her, rocketed through him like a bolt of lightening.\nTaking a deep breath, Alex struggled to rein in his fast rising desire.\nWhat had gotten into him? There was one rule he refused to break; never get involved with a mortal. Once they found out his secret, it was all over. But something about this sarcastic little bundle pushed him, urging him to learn more about her.\nJust the sight of her held him on a razors edge. The silky glide of her voice only added to his desire.\nCocking a brow, she tilted her head. \u201cI didn\u2019t have much say in the matter. Some skuzz-bucket robbed me after I left work. He took my purse, which had everything in it, and the creepy cop who took my statement didn\u2019t offer to give me a ride home or let me call anyone to come pick me up. So, here I am.\u201d She finished, waving her hand in the air with exasperation.\nShe was feisty and, much to his surprise, he found he liked it. Alex never cared much for loud sarcastic women, but something was different about this one, and he couldn\u2019t fight the feeling that he was supposed to know her. If he\u2019d learned one thing in all of his years, it was to follow his instincts and at the moment, his instincts were screaming for him to grab hold of this woman and not let go.\nHe couldn\u2019t let her continue on her way. Not only was it dangerous for her to be out alone this time of night, the knee-high, black leather boots on her feet looked like they would cripple her before she reached the end of the block.\nHow the hell do women wear those things?\n\u201cWhat was the cops\u2019 name?\u201d\n\u201cBriggs.\u201d She grimaced, \u201cHe even tried to give me his number.\u201d She shuddered as though the though disgusted her, and he chuckled.\nHe would have a little talk with his contact about Officer Briggs\u2019 unacceptable behavior. But for now, he needed to get her on the back of his bike and her thighs pressed firmly against his hips.\n\u201cLet me give you a ride.\u201d\n\u201cI\u2019m sorry, but I don\u2019t think so.\u201d She laughed cynically.\nSuppressing a groan, Alex watched as she propped her hands on her wonderfully curved hips.\n\u201cBecause, I\u2019ve already been mugged tonight and I don\u2019t wish to add raped and murdered to the list.\u201d\nAlex couldn\u2019t contain the laughter that burst from his lips.\nWow thanks for stopping in today Chastity. I love the excerpt!!!\nFind out more About Chastity at the following links\nWebsite: www.chastitybush.com\nwww.AnnaSnow.info\nFacebook: www.facebook.com/chastitybush\nwww.facebook.com/authorannasnow\nTwitter@chastitybush\nTwitter@AnnaSnow_Author\nWelcome Laci Paige!!\nToday I am welcoming Laci Paige to my blog. I just read her great book titled Silken Edge. I asked her what was involved in the research for the story and here is her reponse. Thanks Laci!!!\nResearch For The Silken Edge Novels\nWhen I started writing the first of the Silken Edge novels I didn\u2019t plan on BDSM being a part of the stories. I wanted to focus more on the cougar theme in the first book, second book was going to be about an \u201cangsty\u201d couple, and the third a gay couple, and more traditional stories with each book thereafter. But none were to include any kind of kink, just obstacles in the way of romance and eventually a HEA/HFN ending.\nI\u2019d been reading various BDSM stories and enjoyed the heck out of them. The thought of people living and/or playing like that intrigued me, and I wanted to know more. First thing I did was familiarize myself with the acronyms and lingo of the lifestyle. From there I read articles, personal blogs, and joined groups. Each thing I read led to more questions. Being curious I dove into research on the different categories and types of play; Physical and/or mental to the different degrees of light, heavy, or edge play. I read up on the types of bondage furniture and implements used during scenes.\nI didn\u2019t stop there; the safety and consent were paramount for me in understanding why? Why do people play like this and/or live like this? Then it became apparent that everyone who plays this way wants to, or they wouldn\u2019t be there. Except the posers, but they show up in every aspect of life so it\u2019s to be expected. But in the end SSC is key in the community. SSC = Safe, Sane, Consensual. And the use of safewords also allowed me to be more open minded to the idea of such a lifestyle.\nNext, I wanted to know where these people played. I found that people who like to play outside of their homes go to private play parties or clubs. Yes, there are real clubs you can visit. Most have strict rules, and some are \u201cplay at your own risk\u201d. There\u2019s quite the variety out there. Hey, there\u2019s even a Harvard College BDSM club, and they\u2019re not the only ones, a handful of colleges across the nation have BDSM organizations.\nI have yet to visit a club, but I\u2019d like to one day. I found out there\u2019s a monthly munch just ten miles from my house! They also have demos and instruction at the same place. Sure I\u2019d be embarrassed to attend, but the thing that holds me back is that I might know someone there. I\u2019m not worried about what they\u2019d think of me being there, but I\u2019d never be able to look at those people in the eye again. I\u2019d be having visuals of them. So perhaps when I\u2019m on vacation far away from anyone I might know, I\u2019ll have to check one out.\nMoving on from parties and clubs I researched etiquette, relationships and roles, prejudices, and currently I\u2019m reading up on the psychology of it. It\u2019s all very fascinating. And yes, I know you can\u2019t believe everything you read on the internet, but I research the topics in a number of places. If I read it on five different sites and it\u2019s pretty much on target between the five, I\u2019m gonna guess it\u2019s close to the truth.\nI\u2019ve learned so many things from all of this research. I can\u2019t possibly list it all, but I know that no two people have the same kink, or the same tolerance, and that bottoms/submissives are truly the stronger of the partnerships. And lastly, in the top/bottom dynamic there needs to be trust above all else.\nAfter reading up on the topic with such interest, my characters were screaming at me that they wanted to play. So I eased into it with Jake and Kristy in The Silken Edge, and in the untitled book I\u2019m currently writing, my characters are a little more into the kink than the first story, and it\u2019s not as light.\n*As a general disclaimer I\u2019d like to say that any type of BDSM play needs to be investigated by both parties before jumping in. There are many things that need to be addressed to ensure this type of play is SSC. The best thing would be to research, learn, and observe before partaking.\nMy current WIP is the next Silken Edge novel. This one is centered on a couple we were introduced to in the first book, Jonathan and Roxi. The two of them have known each other since they were children. They were best buds and eventually boyfriend/girlfriend in their teens, and then lovers as adults. They became interested in the BDSM scene and that\u2019s where things went wrong, they both loved the lifestyle, but they each had different needs. And what Roxi needed scared her so much she left town for a year. Upon returning she decided to steer clear of Jonathan but with their past it\u2019s not possible.\nAnd that\u2019s all I\u2019m saying for now. I don\u2019t have a title yet, and I hope to release it in about two months or so.\nWhere do you come up with the ideas for your stories and the character names?\nThe story ideas come from anywhere and everywhere. The Silken Edge popped into my head while working out in a gym. I was using the hip adductor machine and had very naughty thoughts, that\u2019s when my muse kicked in. I had that story bouncing around in my head for a year before I wrote it.\nAs far as naming my characters, well, I have to \u201csee\u201d them in my mind first, and I name them based on looks, or sometimes it\u2019s based on their personality and/or characteristics. Occasionally in the past I\u2019ve used baby name books.\nDo you have a favorite author that has inspired you?\nI don\u2019t know that any one particular author inspires me. I have so many I enjoy reading. I just love books in general, I love to be transported to another place and become someone else and if a book can do that for me, then I\u2019m a fan!\nI owe my start in writing to Stephenie Meyer though; it was \u201cthe\u201d headboard scene in Breaking Dawn when Edward was banging Bella that kicked my muse into gear.\nI have to ask the cougar question. Is there a younger guy you would love to go on a dream date with?\nI don\u2019t know how much of an age difference were talking here, but Jessie Pavelka is 12 yrs my junior and I would LOVE to go on a date with him!\nGreat choice!!! Thanks for answering all my questions and I loved your book!! Here is an excerpt from Laci\u2019s book and be sure to check out her links below.\nThe Silken Edge, by Laci Paige\nBDSM(light)/May-December/EroticRomance \u2013 Heat Level 4\nAfter her longtime boyfriend dumps her, Kristy craves a change in her life. Her best friend, Sherry, is into the BDSM scene, and on a whim and a bet, Kristy finds herself in the playroom at an exclusive club. A disguised Dom named Master Jay uses sensation play and a piece of silk to help her discover the world of kink. She finds it enjoyable and addictive, but what she doesn\u2019t know is that Master Jay is really Jake, a much younger man to whom she\u2019s strongly attracted.\nKristy jumped at the sound of Steven\u2019s bedroom door slamming shut, and she took a deep relaxing breath.\n\u201cAre you frightened?\u201d Sherry\u2019s green eyes were wide peeking out from her auburn bangs.\n\u201cNo. That was fuckin\u2019 hot.\u201d She fanned herself with her hand. \u201cI\u2019ve never seen that side of him before. So in charge. So demanding.\u201d Her insides clenched in need. Must be the wine.\nSherry narrowed her eyes at her long time friend, and then they popped open. \u201cI knew it. You\u2019re submissive!\u201d\n\u201cOh, cut it with that crap. I don\u2019t want to hear any more about how you and your Dom are forever happy with your arrangement. It\u2019s too weird for me.\u201d She averted her gaze and focused on her wine glass, swirling the liquid around inside. \u201cNice collar by the way.\u201d\nShe looked up just in time to see Sherry flinch at the mention and reach up and stroke the petite choker around her neck. \u201cH-how did you know?\u201d\n\u201cI\u2019m not stupid. When you and Dan got serious in all this BDSM crap, I went online and read about the lifestyle. So that\u2019s how I know it\u2019s not for me.\u201d She offered her friend a warm smile. \u201cBut if you\u2019re happy, then I\u2019m happy for the both of you.\u201d\nSherry reached out and hugged her. \u201cThank you. I\u2019m glad. Your blessing means everything to me.\u201d\n\u201cHe\u2019s a good man for you or I wouldn\u2019t have stood up for you at your wedding.\u201d\nSherry tapped her fingers against her choker. \u201cI\u2019m sorry I forgot I was wearing it when I rushed out with you. You know this lifestyle is only for the bedroom, and the club, right? That\u2019s our arrangement, and we\u2019re both content with it. Aside from being his submissive during those times, I\u2019m in charge of everyday life.\u201d\nShe shook her head. \u201cI know, but let\u2019s stop talking about this before I get too many visuals of you in ropes, nipple clamps, and butt plugs.\u201d She clenched her eyes tight and faked a shiver.\n\u201cOkay, moving on\u2026So how about the gym?\u201d Sherry asked, with a glint in her eye.\n\u201cWhat about it? I\u2019ll be going every night after work to avoid Steven.\u201d Kristy didn\u2019t like where the conversation was heading.\n\u201cAnd for no other reason?\u201d Sherry waggled her eyebrows.\n\u201cOh come on. Jake\u2019s a baby. 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For information, visit here.\nThe Bulletin for the Study of Religion, a print and online publication affiliated with the North American Association for the Study of Religion (NAASR) and published by Equinox, is proud to announce its new online/print book review portal, Bulletin Book Reviews (BBR). BBR is interested in titles treating a wide range of content from a wide range of social-scientific or naturalistic perspectives, particularly titles which themselves foreground issues of method and theory in the study of religion. Contributions are welcome from doctoral students and faculty alike. Please direct inquiries, suggestions, and potentially interested parties to bulletinreviews@equinoxpub.com.\nThe University of Virginia Department of Religious Studies\u2019 Forum on Democracy and Religion invites paper proposals for a graduate student conference to be held on April 12, 2019. Graduate students at any level and in any disciplinary field are welcome to apply. 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As an avid hiker, outdoor enthusiast, and long time Appalachian Trail (AT) thru-hiker wanna-be, I bought the book and read it cover to cover in two nights just after it was published in late 1998.\nTo say I was disappointed in Bill\u2019s account of his AT hike would be an understatement. His story was funny, as you\u2019ve probably heard, but I just couldn\u2019t get over him skipping major sections of the trail, yet telling people he \u2018hiked\u2019 the AT. I think about some of our hiking t-shirt designs like Conquer, Just a Hill and Impossible, and how a person\u2019s state of mind directly impacts their reality. At the time I felt like Bill was missing out on the real AT experience by skipping around and leaving huge chunks of the AT un-hiked. How could he really push his mind and body when he wasn\u2019t putting in the grueling miles day after day?\nFast forward 17 years and I have to admit my judgments around his hike have changed. 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I noticed them all the time. It\u2019s the location that has a business for a few months\u2026maybe even a year or two, and then, gone. The \u2018for lease\u2019 sign is up the next day and soap covers the windows so you can\u2019t see in (what\u2019s the deal with that?). A couple of months later, a new store selling something different steps in. And the saga continues.\nFinding a good location is more than a trick, it\u2019s a science. Many times I\u2019ve seen locations with thousands of cars passing each day but to no good end. Of course, that\u2019s what the landlords are selling\u2026the traffic. \u201cLook at all that traffic that passes by this location each day!\u201d, they\u2019ll say. They may even have some recent traffic studies that back their claims up. Good for them. Not necessarily good for you. If one of the pillars of retail success is \u2018location, location, location\u2019, it\u2019s one you have to get right the first time.\nWhy is it that a location with lots of real traffic can\u2019t seem to work for anyone for any length of time? After studying this for years, I\u2019ve got a couple of reasons for you. First, the location may not have good access from the high traffic road it\u2019s on. This is especially true if the location is on a road that has a legal speed limit that\u2019s higher than 45 mph. Nobody stops unless they have to. Or there may be very limited parking on this high traffic site. Secondly, it may be on a what I call a \u2018commuter\u2019 road. This is a road that has high traffic volume in the morning and evening rush hours. Here\u2019s the challenge though: lots of traffic but commuters have one thing on their mind and that\u2019s getting to work (whether they want to or not!). I\u2019ve seen plenty of come and go bagel & coffee shops fall for this one. It would seem logical to put such a store on a high traffic commuter route and it is logical. However, the key is where you put your bagel store along the commuter route that is critical. Now, I don\u2019t have scientific evidence but I do have some experienced insight here. Commuters like to get their morning bagel or coffee at a location not far from their home or at a location that is just a few minutes before they arrive at work. If you open one in the middle, you\u2019re stuck. Don\u2019t believe me? Just study it. Observe what bagel/coffee shops seem to do well and which ones are rotating through that location like every couple of months. Enough on commuter locations.\nAnother reason that locations can fail is that people can get sold on \u2018cheaper is better\u2019. When given a choice of locations and not a whole lot of funding, many business owners will opt for the cheaper lease payment and take a less desirable location. It happens all the time. Just because someone decided to build retail space at a particular location doesn\u2019t mean they knew what they were doing. Or they were \u2018on to something\u2019 about that location. There are plenty of retail spaces that have been built or being built in locations that are just plain awful. Sure, the numbers on the surface might look good, but traffic numbers are not the big picture or the only thing.\nOf course, if you don\u2019t have a good business model with a compelling reason for people to visit your store or you\u2019re operating from a shoe string, it doesn\u2019t matter how great the location is. I\u2019m certain a great many of the business that go in and out of business fast are in that category.\nHere are some basic questions that I\u2019d ask any landlord right from the get go:\nWhat kinds of businesses were in this location before? How long were they here? Why did they go out of business?\nHow long has this location been vacant?\nDo you have traffic studies that I can see?\nHow many tenants have you had in this location in the last 24 months?\nWho are my customers and where do they come from? How does that relate to this location?\nHave I asked any of the other tenants that are in the area how the location is working for them?\nDoes the traffic seem to visit this location? Is it easy for a traffic to get on and off this location? Is there enough parking available?\nAre there any planned construction projects (check with the local municipality) near this location in the next 12-18 months? 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But for three strangers it\u2019s impossible to ignore.\nFor one woman, it\u2019s a reminder of the worst thing that ever happened to her.\nFor another, it reveals the dangerous possibility that her darkest secret is about to be discovered.\nAnd for the third, a journalist, it\u2019s the first clue in a hunt to uncover the truth.\nThe Child\u2019s story will be told.\nIt's my pleasure to be hosting the blog tour for The Child by Fiona Barton today, many thanks to the author, publishers and Anne Cater for inviting me and for my advance copy of the novel.\nFiona Barton's second book, The Child is a standalone novel but one of the characters - journalist Kate Waters - also featured in her debut, The Widow. Told from the alternating points of view of Kate, Emma, Angela and Jude, it's the secrets of the latter three women that will eventually lead to the truth about the tragic 'building site baby'.\nWhen a baby's skeleton is discovered on a building site, Kate hopes it may provide her with a touching human interest story. In the days of clickbait online stories, old school journalists like Kate have to prove that there is still a place in the newsroom for proper investigations where the story is gradually revealed. Fiona Barton's previous experience as a a journalist herself pays dividends here as Kate is far removed from the caricatured hacks that appear so often in books. She is driven and focused but is often moved by her discoveries and is a caring, thoughtful woman. Meanwhile, Emma is terrified her dark secret will come to light, Angela is desperate for the truth to be revealed and Jude struggles to maintain a relationship with her daughter as both are still deeply affected by events from the past.\nThe Child may take its title from the baby at the heart of the mystery but it's the women whose stories must be told who give the book its heart. It's always a pleasure to read a book with believable and complex women in it, so to have a novel with four such women is a real treat. These are flawed, not always likeable people but they are devastatingly authentic.\nI feel The Child is better described as domestic noir than as a psychological thriller; I personally didn't find it a tense read but it is an absorbing, provocative story. As its cleverly plotted storylines are eventually woven together the conclusion is really quite touching. The Child is an enthralling and very moving read that I'm sure will please those who loved The Widow and also gain Fiona Barton many more fans.\nThe Child will be published in the UK by Transworld on 14th December 2017. Don't miss the rest of the stops on the blog tour, details are below.\nFiona Barton's debut, The Widow, was a Sunday Times and New York Times bestseller and has been published in thirty-five countries and optioned for television. Her second novel, The Child, was a Sunday Times bestseller. Born in Cambridge, Fiona currently lives in south-west France.\nPreviously, she was a senior writer at the Daily Mail, news editor at the Daily Telegraph, and chief reporter at the Mail on Sunday, where she won Reporter of the Year at the British Press Awards.\nWhile working as a journalist, Fiona reported on many high-profile criminal cases and she developed a fascination with watching those involved, their body language and verbal tics. Fiona interviewed people at the heart of these crimes, from the guilty to their families, as well as those on the periphery, and found it was those just outside the spotlight who interested her most . . .\nWebsite - www.fionabartonauthor.com\nFacebook - www.facebook.com/figbarton\nTwitter - @figbarton", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00240.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 140, + "original_length": 11665, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.97, + "perplexity": 249.6, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "https://hairpastafreckle72.blogspot.com/2018/09/what-was-lost-by-jean-levy-bookreview.html", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T04:31:52Z", + "digest": "sha1:VVIMEDRLW3KZUUH3V2A3EBMMQAU5THWR", + "length": 6183, + "nlines": 23, + "source_domain": "hairpastafreckle72.blogspot.com", + "title": "What Was Lost by Jean Levy #BookReview #Giveaway #BlogTour - Hair Past A Freckle", + "raw_content": "What Was Lost by Jean Levy #BookReview #Giveaway #BlogTour\nSarah has no memories. She just knows she was found, near death, on a beach miles from her London home. Now she is part of a medical experiment to see whether her past can be retrieved. But bad things seem to have happened before she disappeared. The police are interested in her hidden memories too.\nA nice man she meets in the supermarket seems to have her best interests at heart. He seems to understand her \u2013 almost as if he knows her...\nAs she fights to regain her memories and her sense of self, it is clear that people are hiding things from her. Who are they protecting? Does Sarah really want the truth?\nIt's such a pleasure to be closing the blog tour for What Was Lost by Jean Levy today and I'm thrilled to be able to feature a giveaway as well as my review. Many thanks to the author and Emily Glenister from The Dome Press for inviting me and for my advance copy of the novel.\nLosing your memories must be something that most people dread happening but for Sarah it's become a reality. She can't remember why she was found, near death, on a Dorset beach and to make matters worse, she has no recollection of any of her life after she was a child. Her mind seems to want to protect her but what devastating incident could have triggered such an extreme self preservation response? With the police also keen to discover just what she has forgotten, could knowing what happened be worse than the memory loss? Most of the novel is told in the first person from Sarah's perspective and it meant readers can share her frustration as she struggles to make decisions or becomes upset by what seems to be the smallest things. Her condition means that it's not only memory loss that she is suffering from; she is also unable to process and retain any new information relating to the unknown traumatic incident in her recent past. Her daily life has become tightly controlled by her medical team but while some undoubtedly have her best interests at heart, it would also seem that to others she is valued as a fascinating research case above anything else. Sarah's feelings of loss as to the sense of who she is have therefore become intensified by her lack of agency over her recovery. She feels little more than a pawn with the truth about both the events of her recent past and her prognosis withheld from her.\nAs the book progresses the current storyline is interspersed with scenes from her past and we are given glimpses into the child and woman she once was. Although her condition is undoubtedly very upsetting there is much humour here too, both from her natural wit and from her childlike lack of a social filter which means she often says whatever is in her head and there were several moments that had me laughing out loud, For all Sarah's problems she is an immensely likeable woman but the wonderful characterisation in What Was Lost extends beyond her and meant I had strong feelings about several of the characters in the novel, although admittedly these weren't always positive; some of the people in Sarah's life are really quite unpleasant, to say the least. However, although it was very easy to dislike some of the characters, there are others who I had more conflicted feelings about - I wanted to like them but wasn't sure if they could really be trusted. Indeed, Sarah herself is the epitome of an unreliable narrator and the police even question whether her memory loss is a convenient ploy to avoid facing difficult questions about the events last December.\nEventually she becomes more involved in her treatment as her clinicians accept that her recovery needs to be more proactive. This risky strategy makes for gripping reading as it turns out there are a number of shocks in store for Sarah before the emotive truth about what really happened is finally revealed. I have no idea whether the medical discussions are accurate but they seem plausible and I was able to believe them. Though the book is quite long I really didn't notice the time passing, so immersed had I become in this cleverly crafted, engaging novel. This isn't perhaps the book for somebody looking for fast-paced thrills but what it offers instead is a thoughtful exploration of memory alongside a compelling, intense mystery. I absolutely loved What Was Lost; it is an intriguing and intelligent psychological drama and I wholeheartedly recommend it.\nWhat Was Lost Giveaway (UK only)\nWhat Was Lost is published by The Dome Press and can be purchased here. Don't forget to check out some of the previous stops on the blog tour, details can be found below.\nJean spent several years in genetics research before abandoning the laboratory to pursue a career in academic publishing both in Holland the UK. She has been a database trouble- shooter, an editor, and a writer for publishing houses, pharmaceutical companies and the EU. She has degrees in Botany, Pathology, Philosophy, English, Law and Creative Writing and is currently completing a doctorate in Linguistics.\nIn her spare time she has campaigned for the environment and read a lot of books, the most memorable being Alice in Wonderland, Pride and Prejudice, everything by Margaret Atwood and Jeanette Winterson, and a few things by Sebastian Faulks, Calvino, Ian McEwan, David Mitchell and Shakespeare.\nShe currently lives in a converted barn in the South Downs with her husband and a Heritage Plant Collection, accumulates Christmas tree decorations and aspires to writing multi-genre fiction, travelling on the Orient Express and seeing the Northern Lights.\nLinda Hill 27 September 2018 at 08:39\nThis looks great. Loved your review!\nKaren Cole - Hair Past A Freckle Book Reviews 27 September 2018 at 20:26\nThanks Linda! I've been thinking about it ever since I finished it which is always the sign of a great book!\nJean Levy 27 September 2018 at 12:44\nA really fantastic review! Many Thanks.\nThank you for giving me such a wonderful book to review! X\nShort Book and Scribes 27 September 2018 at 13:29\nI love the sound of this book. Great review!\nThanks Nicola! 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Co-written and directed by Del Toro himself, the pilot episode effectively introduced the world of the series and the characters who will inhabit it, leaving me thirsty for \u2026\nThoughts on \u2018The Strain\u2019 Series Premiere\nRight about now, us horror fans are in the midst of an absolute golden age of television, with the quality of shows on networks like AMC, HBO, A&E, FX and even NBC far surpassing most of the genre films that have been released into theaters in the past few years. 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For those of you who haven\u2019t yet made a note, the dates are 11/12/13th October 2019.\nOur Annual de-brief will be held on 24th November attended by all the committee, where we discuss how the Festival went, what problems there were and future direction. Rest assured that if you have provided feedback, positive or negative, we take note of all comments and discuss improvements if needed.\nMeanwhile there is much to concentrate on this year. We had hoped to be able to order some more of our popular 2018 T-Shirts, but regretfully decided that the minimum order required was too large for us to be able to guarantee sales and so anyone who was unable to purchase will have to wait until 2019. Design for this is already underway but will be kept under wraps for a while yet.\nHowever we have just produced some of our popular calendars and these are now on sale. Priced at \u00a310 plus \u00a32 p&p they are a step up from previous home produced efforts and have been professionally produced to a high standard. They may be purchased via our website: www.harwichshantyfestival.co.uk or by post from 6, Golden Lion Lane, Harwich, Essex CO12 3NG. Please include postage of \u00a32.00 and a return address! Thanks to our official photographer Paul Turvey for the photos, all taken at this year\u2019s Festival. We also have a few badges and compilation CDs left. Badges are \u00a31 and CDs are \u00a310, but we have a special offer of a CD, badge and calendar for the combined price of \u00a315 plus \u00a32 p&p. And with Christmas coming, what better way to solve all your Christmas present dilemmas.\nAnd talking of Christmas (sorry!) our popular Annual Treasure Hunt is coming up on Friday 28th December starting as usual at mid-day in the Alma. 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It\u2019s been awhile since they\u2019ve seen their one and only granddaughter, and they are loving it. We are catching up on some much-needed rest this week (after all, there\u2019s not really much to do around here other than rest).\nAs all Michiganders know, Thanksgiving means family, turkey and a Lions football game. My Michigan sports fanhood has been put to the test over the last couple of years. It\u2019s great and all that the Red Wings and Pistons have compiled impressive regular season stats, but when it comes to the post-season, both teams find new ways each season to crush our collective hopes & dreams. Don\u2019t even get me started on U of M. After tanking it early and then mounting a faux-comeback this season, at least they had the decency to put themselves out of contention before bowl season. Usually, they string us along until some New Year\u2019s Day bowl game and then flop.\n\u2026which brings us to Thanksgiving. Usually reliable in their wretchedness, the Lions started the first half of this season with a roar. But, after back-to-back losses to the Cardinals (ugh) and the Giants (double ugh) it looks like the typical cycle of denial, anger, bargaining, depression and acceptance has begun all over again. With the resurgent 9-1 Packers\u2019 defense offering bounties on the most-sacked QB in the league (and the Goo Goo Dolls playing the halftime show), things are not looking good for the Lions.\nIn case all of this bad news has cast a pall over your Thanksgiving weekend, I offer to you this video of Frank Caliendo. I\u2019m no fan of Mad TV, of which Caliendo is an alum, but this series of sports impressions is amazing stuff. It\u2019s not just that he mimics the voices of such notable announcers as John Madden, Jim Rome, Bill Walton and Charles Barkley with such accuracy, but he captures the eccentricity and quirks of each personality. 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She had an older sister and a little brother would come along soon. She grew up in a lot of different places \u2013 we relocated for her dad\u2019s job quite often but everywhere we went, Zo quickly made friends and her vibrant, enthusiastic personality brought a smile to everyone\u2019s face. She was \u201cthe boss\u201d and could be challenging and exhausting but at the same time completely adorable. Nothing ever made me happier that to see her with a look of joy and contentment on her face or to hear her say, \u201clove you, momma.\u201d She loved the beach and her dachshund puppies, tater tots, Caesar salad and shopping.For the most part, Zoey was a healthy, active child. The only thing we ever brought up at her yearly checkups were her \u201cpicky\u201d eating habits. In her teens, Zo started to develop what we referred to as a sensitive stomach. She would start to feel nauseous and within a couple of hours would vomit once or twice and then feel almost completely normal right away. This would happen sometimes once a week and then not happen again for 6 months or longer. We always tried to figure out what had made her sick. We thought she overate some things that she really liked. We considered food allergies or sensitivities but things never seemed serious enough to actually eliminate any foods from her diet to try to narrow the cause down. She continued to grow normally, and live a busy, active life. She even swam on the varsity swim team in high school and maintained excellent grades throughout. She never gave us any reason to worry, she didn\u2019t stay out all night, didn\u2019t drink or try drugs.In the fall of 2014, Zoey moved to Arizona to study nursing at the University of Arizona at Tucson. Her busy life got even busier as she juggled her school work and various sorority activities. She adored being in Sigma Kappa \u2013 it was a built in family for her away from home. They truly were like sisters to her. She continued to have bouts of nausea and vomiting and seemed unusually tired and anxious at times. Freshman year went by quickly and she went back to Tucson for her sophomore year in August of 2015. She had been back for less than a month when she had a serious incident where her friends had to take her to the local emergency room. She had gone to sleep one Friday at 5 pm and didn\u2019t wake up until 9 the next morning. She phoned me and was very upset, crying and talking about missing an important assignment. She seemed very confused and half-asleep still so I told her to call me back in a few hours so we could talk about it. Later that evening, her friends called, saying that there was something really wrong and they were taking her to the hospital. She was completely disoriented, wasn\u2019t making sense when she talked and her texts were all jumbled. At the hospital, they ran a lot of tests and nothing showed up on the results. Her alcohol and drug screen were negative. They said she was dehydrated and they gave her I.V. fluids and released her. The only small sign that anything was wrong was an elevated liver enzyme result on her blood test. They advised her to follow up with her doctor in 2 weeks to have the test re-done. She had her blood tested twice and finally a month after the incident, the results came back normal. We were excited and hoped this meant that whatever was wrong has cleared itself up.In the following weeks, she remained \u201cnot quite right\u201d. Her stomach was still bothering her \u2013 she vomited frequently and could not seem to keep much of anything down for days at a time and then she would be better for a week or so. She was also very tired and when she came home to visit in October and again at Thanksgiving, she seemed irritable and just wanted to sleep.On December 13, Zoey called and was upset and crying. She didn\u2019t feel well again. She couldn\u2019t keep any food down and had a pain in her upper abdomen that made it hard for her to sit up for any length of time. She also thought that some of her classmates had been looking at her strangely when she talked to them earlier. It was kind of like she wasn\u2019t making sense again. She would be flying home on December 15 for the Christmas break. I told her that I would get her a doctor\u2019s appointment for the next morning and that she had to go and try to find out what was wrong. I said to try to eat a plain peanut butter sandwich and see if she could keep it down and not to worry about studying too much. All of her roommates had already left for the break. She told me she loved me. I should have sent her to the emergency room. I texted her a few hours later to see if she had kept the food down but there was no answer. I hoped that she was getting some sleep.In the morning, at 9 am Tucson time, I phoned the doctor and made an appointment for her at 11 am. I texted and called her several times to tell her what time the appointment was at but there was no answer. I was very worried and sent her older sister who was also living on campus over to check on her. There was no answer at the door and when she had the manager let her in, they found Zo unconscious in her bathroom with vomit on her. They immediately suspected alcohol poisoning and rushed her to Banner University Hospital.Zoey never woke up. We spent 10 days in the hospital with her and her condition continued to deteriorate. They had neurologists, cardiologists, pulmonologists \u2013 every kind of team tried to determine what was causing this. They screened her for meningitis and infectious diseases, she had MRI\u2019s, ultrasounds, x-rays and so many blood and urine tests. Every needle that went into her made me cry. Zoey had always hated needles. I held her and did her fingernails and toenails. We talked to her and sang to her and I played her music and favorite T.V. shows for her. I washed and dried her hair and put her favorite t-shirts on \u2013 I knew she would hate the hospital gowns. She had another MRI on December 19 which showed irreversible brain damage and they told us that our sweet girl would never be the same, would never even wake up. We made the decision to donate her organs and on December 24, 2015, we said good-bye. Christmas was always Zo\u2019s favorite holiday.A few weeks later, we received a call from the Arizona donor network. The recipient of one of Zoey\u2019s kidneys had died soon after the transplant. They had done some more testing and discovered that Zoey had actually had a very rare genetic disorder which had unknowingly been passed on with her kidney. Instantly, the thought came to me that if we hadn\u2019t made the decision to donate her organs, we would never have discovered this!\njeff roberts On May 9, 2017 4:43 AM\nshe was indeed a wonderfull person thanks for shareing the story about her medicine turtle cherokee tribe\nHealgrief has a memorial to share with you. https://healgrief.org/zoey-zalusky/ We invite you to express condolences, share special memories and photos and light virtual candles to honor and celebrate the life of our loved one. We also invite you to share this with others who may want to be notified as well. 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He is one of the five children born to his parents \u2013 Luis Quintana and Eloisa Rojas. He has two sisters Nelly and Lady, and two brothers Willington and Dayer who is also a professional cyclist and he is on the same team as his brother Nairo.\nDespite the family\u2019s small and limited income, Quintana\u2019s parents saved up some money to buy him a fairly used mountain bike to convey him to school which is 16 km (9.9 mi) away from home. The bike also served as a means to transport the family\u2019s farm produce (fruit and vegetables) from one location to another to sell to consumers.\nAt the age of 16, Nairo Quintana, with his father\u2019s car, began working as a taxi-driver to make extra income for the family, shuttling between his native home C\u00f3mbita, and Pamplona in Navarre. His father saw his skills and potentials and saved up about 300,000 Colombian pesos (around $140) to get him a racing bike to see if he could make a career in the sport.\nNairo Quintana began his cycling career with \u201cBoyac\u00e1 es para Vivirla\u201d. In 2010, he was named one of the greatest prospects in the future of Colombian cycling after winning the Tour de l\u2019Avenir as part of the team \u201cCaf\u00e9 de Colombia.\nHe moved to Europe in 2012 to join Spanish professional road bicycle racing team \u2013 Movistar Team. After his debut with the team, he won the overall classification in a road bicycle race Vuelta a Murcia, which held in and around Murcia, a city in south-eastern Spain. This was followed by a victory at Crit\u00e9rium du Dauphin\u00e9 \u2013 a cycling stage race which is rated as a World Tour event on the UCI calendar.\nAfter winning Crit\u00e9rium du Dauphin\u00e9, that same year, he won the Route du Sud and then would go ahead to make his grand debut at the Vuelta a Espa\u00f1a, finishing second overall and 36th overall. In October, of the same year, he won the Giro dell\u2019Emilia and from then on, he has soared so high in his career.\nThe next season (2013), he won three stages of the Volta a Catalunya, the following month, right before a group of six fellow overall contenders, Quintana made a final climb in Eibar\u2013Arrate in two seconds and emerged winner of the queen stage of the Tour of the Basque Country.\nHe later would emerge the overall winner, in the final time trial by finishing second behind Tony Martin and gaining enough time over Sergio Henao from Sky\u2019s team to own the leader\u2019s jersey. In 2014, Nairo Quintana won the white jersey for being the best young rider.\nIn 2016, he beat Sky\u2019s team Chris Froome to win the Vuelta a Espa\u00f1a, Colombian Esteban Chaves finished third. Quintana began the 2017 season with the hopes of winning the Giro d\u2019Italia and the Tour de France. Unfortunately, his hopes came crashing down when he finished second overall in the Giro-Tour and 12th overall as Chris Froome took the stage as the winner of Tour de France.\nAlso Read About: Richie Porte: Here Is Everything To Know About The Pro Cyclist\nSalary, Net Worth\nThe annual salary of the pro cyclist is currently put at $161,520 and his net worth is an estimated $4 million (this figure has, however, not been confirmed).\nNairo Quintana\u2019s Height, Weight And Other Facts\nThe racing cyclist stands at a height of 5\u20335 that is 1.67 meters, weighing 58 kg (128 lb).\nQuintana said he almost didn\u2019t survive infancy as he was sickly, malnourished, and underweight, thus, he is involved with an NGO that promotes infant health.\nHe is also collaborating with an NGO involved in combating violence against women and equally works with a group involved with cyclist development.\nAside from cycling, Quintana is an entrepreneur, who is seriously building his name and image into a brand across Colombia and the rest of Latin America.", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00240.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 103, + "original_length": 7961, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.98, + "perplexity": 133.4, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "https://hellodoktor.com/disease/evans-syndrome/", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T04:58:25Z", + "digest": "sha1:JWS6T7M2YA2LPPA5ZHTJISSGT4E6TTB7", + "length": 2513, + "nlines": 19, + "source_domain": "hellodoktor.com", + "title": "Evans Syndrome - Hello Doktor", + "raw_content": "Hello Doktor > Health Conditions > Health A-Z > Evans Syndrome\nWhat is Evans Syndrome?\nEvans syndrome is a disorder in which the body\u2019s immune system produces antibodies that mistakenly destroy red blood cells, platelets and sometimes certain white blood cell known as neutrophils. This leads to abnormally low levels of these blood cells in the body (cytopenia). The premature destruction of red blood cells (hemolysis) is known as autoimmune hemolytic anemia or AIHA.\nHow common is Evans Syndrome?\nEvans syndrome is rare. The disorder can affect children or adults. Please discuss with your doctor for further information.\nWhat are the symptoms of Evans Syndrome?\nThe common symptoms of Evans Syndrome are:\nLow platelet counts (thrombocytopenia):\nWhat causes Evans Syndrome?\nThe exact cause of Evans syndrome is not known; however, it is known that Evans syndrome is a disorder of the immune system. The immune system is a network of cells, tissues, and organs that work together to defend the body against germs (foreign substances). The immune system normally responds to foreign substances by producing specialized proteins, called antibodies, that target foreign invaders for eventual destruction by white blood cells. Disorders of the immune system like Evans syndrome occur when the immune system produces antibodies that mistakenly attack healthy tissue, specifically red blood cells, platelets, and white blood cells.\nEvans syndrome may occur in combination with another disorder as a secondary condition. Disorders that can be associated with Evans syndrome include but are not limited to: autoimmune lymphoproliferative syndrome (ALPS), lupus, antiphospholipid syndrome, Sjogren syndrome, common variable immunodeficiency, IgA deficiency, certain lymphomas, and chronic lymphocytic leukemia.\nWhat increases my risk for Evans Syndrome?\nHow is Evans Syndrome diagnosed?\nHow is Evans Syndrome treated?\nImmunosuppressive medications: These medications inhibit the immune system. These would include medications like mycophenolate motel (MMF), azathioprine (Immuran), tacrolimus (Prograf). \u200b\nWhat are some lifestyle changes or home remedies that can help me manage Evans Syndrome?\nEvans syndrome. https://rarediseases.info.nih.gov/diseases/6389/evans-syndrome. Accessed May 21, 2018.\nEvans Syndrome. https://rarediseases.org/rare-diseases/evans-syndrome/. Accessed May 21, 2018.\nEvans Syndrome Symptoms, Diagnosis and Treatment. https://www.verywellhealth.com/evans-syndrome-4011862. Accessed May 21, 2018.", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00240.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 278, + "original_length": 10094, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.9, + "perplexity": 302.8, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "https://hellskitchen.fandom.com/wiki/Jean-Philippe_Susilovic", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T03:34:52Z", + "digest": "sha1:C3H4QLBHYB4WLCQY7GITKIDT4S4MM6Z3", + "length": 9071, + "nlines": 45, + "source_domain": "hellskitchen.fandom.com", + "title": "Jean-Philippe Susilovic | Hells Kitchen Wiki | FANDOM powered by Wikia", + "raw_content": "Ma\u00eetre d'h\u00f4tel, Restaurant Director\nJean-Philippe Susilovic was the first Ma\u00eetre d'h\u00f4tel for Hell's Kitchen. He served as the Ma\u00eetre d'h\u00f4tel for the first seven seasons of the show, along with seasons 11 and 12.\nJean-Philippe joined Ramsay in 1995 in Ramsay's restaurant Aubergine. His experience in Michelin-starred restaurants broadened when he moved to the United States to work in restaurants such as New York's La Panetiere, Danube and Daniel's. In October 2001, he moved to the Middle East to work with Ramsay as the manager of Verre at the Hilton Dubai Creek.\nAs the Ma\u00eetre d'h\u00f4tel, Jean-Philippe serves as the front of the house of Hell's Kitchen and would be the person handing out tickets to Ramsay more than often. Given that he has worked with Ramsay for many years, he knows exactly how high Ramsay's standards are, and often shows exasperation at the contestant's constant mistakes. Ramsay even described him as the best Ma\u00eetre d' in the world.\nWhile he is milder than Ramsay is, he does have his own limits, best known in Season 6, when an argument with contestant Van almost resulted in a physical brawl in the restaurant. Despite it, he cares about the contestants' well being and even urged a few of them to fight harder to stay in the competition.\nOn episode 2, a table of customers ordered pizza because they were tired of the long wait, but when Jean-Philippe told that they were not allowed to, that led to an argument between him and a very rude customer. This customer told him he had a Doctorate in Music from the USC, and he was assaulted by him with his pointer finger.\nOn episode 10, when Jean-Philippe was talking with Ralph about his restaurant, Ralph kept calling him \"Jean-Pierre\", much to his extreme annoyance.\nOn episode 7, Jean-Philippe visited a twelve-top table that had a bachelorette party, and was a little bit embarrassed when he saw women's underwear being given out as gifts. Ramsay wondered where he was, and later, he was asked by the latter if he was trying to lose his virginity.\nOn episode 5, Jean-Philippe was told by Francisco the Party Planner that the newlywed's parents were not served, but he did not want Francisco to bug him, so he told him to go talk about it with Ramsay himself.\nOn episode 8, he showed Bonnie, Rock, and Josh what needed to be cleaned in the dining room as part of their punishment. When Josh struggled with getting one of the cleaning machines to work, he snarkily told him that it did not run on solar energy and it needed to be plugged in.\nOn episode 1, Jean-Philippe greeted the contestants and told them he was good for doing an imitation of Ramsay. He started to do his imitation, and asked for some contestants to do some themselves, before Ramsay revealed himself as an undercover contestant on the bus.\nOn episode 2, Jean-Philippe berated Craig after the latter took a chair and accidentally hit a woman in the head with it, demanding that he apologised.\nOn episode 4, when Jean-Philippe was asked to open Hell's Kitchen for Family Night, he was told by Ramsay to open his shirt and take his tie off. He was reluctant to do it, and when he went to open the doors, he almost missed the step, and Ramsay told him to walk straight, calling him a donut.\nOn episode 5, Jean-Philippe drove the Hell's Kitchen three-wheeled delivery cart to the contestants, and almost lost balance when one of the back wheels hit the step, making everybody laugh in disbelief.\nOn episode 6, Jean-Philippe reunited with Francisco the Party Planner, although he was not excited by it. During dinner service, before the first tickets came in, he and Francisco were joking about the latter's non-matching blue sky outfit and being \"sparklelicious\". When he noticed that Francisco was enjoying the chocolate fountain, he pulled him to the side, asked him to focus on his job and stop doing it, otherwise he would be kicked out of the restaurant.\nOn episode 8, Jean-Philippe supervised the blue team's punishment, and when he saw Jen being grumpy, he asked her if she could give him a smile, but she refused to. Later, he brought a crab to the back store to try and entertain Jen, without more success. Then, he asked her once again if she could smile, but she answered no, and when he asked her if she would be bitchy all day long, she answered she would.\nOn episode 9, Jean-Philippe was at the beach where the red team was having their reward, and at the end of the day, Ramsay grabbed him, threw him in the water and fought with him. At one point, he threw a completely soaked towel towards Ramsay.\nOn episode 11, Jean-Philippe was asked for some tickets, but he did not realize the glass door was just in front of him. Because of that, he head-butted the door, and Ramsay jokingly told to get a sign on the door saying \"Open your eyes, you Belgian twat\".\nOne episode 3, Jean-Philippe told Lacey that she forgot to send one of her tables tickets, and mocked her whining when she argued that she never waited tables before. Later, when Charlie accidentally dropped bacon bits on a table, he chewed the latter out for his embarrassing performance.\nOn episode 5, Jean-Philippe was shown at the karate dojo for the red team's reward, dressed up in sumo attire and fighting against Ramsay, where he lost. According to Andrea, he did not look happy in the outfit.\nOn episode 6, Jean-Philippe worked for the third time with Francisco the Party Planner for the special Bar Mitzvah service. When Francisco dropped the birthday cake to the floor, he was furious and told Francisco to stay away from him.\nOn episode 10, after Andrea was about to leave Hell's Kitchen after being kicked out, Jean-Philippe stopped her and told her to fight back, which she did.\nOn episode 12, Jean-Philippe was approached by a diner who wanted to propose to his girlfriend, which he found very sweet, and he helped the diner by giving Ramsay the engagement ring to put in the woman's dessert.\nOn episode 1, before the contestants were introduced, Jean-Philippe was seen nervously waiting in the entrance of the restaurant for the bus to arrive, as it was late. When it finally arrived, he exclaimed \"Finally, the bus is there\" in French. When the contestants regrouped in front of him, he declared that he would give them some tips on how to perform well as he was tired of being pushed around by everybody.\nOn episode 2, when Van refused to listen to him and ran in the restaurant, Jean-Philippe lost his temper, yelled at him, and both of them were pulled aside by Ramsay in the pantry room, where Ramsay told them to do their own jobs instead of interfering with the others. When they got out of the room, he sarcastically told Van \"Ladies first!\".\nOn episode 9, Jean-Philippe helped to judge the Crepe Challenge with Ramsay, even though Ramsay jokingly called him the second best palate, which was Belgian, as he could not afford a French one.\nOn episode 2, when Andrew was about to walk out of the competition, Jean-Philippe tried to convince him to stay and fight back. He said to Andrew that a lot of people would like to be in his shoes at that moment, but despite his efforts, Andrew took his shoes off and walked out of Hell's Kitchen for good.\nOn episode 3, when Salvatore, who was working with him as an assistant ma\u00eetre d', was about to walk out of the competition, Jean-Philippe managed to stop and convince him to fight back, with success.\nOn episode 11, during the punishment, Jean-Philippe was asked by Ed if he should lay the forks sideways or straight, which he answered straight, before understanding the innuendo.\nOn episode 2, Jean-Philippe made his return by entering by the front door with his luggage, before tripping on a chair. Ramsay told him that he was supposed to arrive the previous day, which he answered that he got delayed and really tried to be there in time, and Ramsay asked him to get changed quickly, while adding that he was not happy about that.\nOn episode 2, Jean-Philippe informed Mike that he was serving the red kitchen's table even though he was in the blue team.\nHe had a strong dislike for Francisco the Party Planner.\nAfter his appearance on the show, he worked as a Restaurant Director at P\u00e9trus, owned by Ramsay.\nHe is the first staff member to leave the show and come back for an eventual season.\nHe holds the record for the most seasons as the ma\u00eetre d', with 9.\nBoth Ramsay and Susilovic appeared in UK (only Season 1) and US versions.\n(To Van) \"I'm going to explode here, I'm going to explode my friend, Listen to me. Listen, listen, listen LISTEN TO ME!!!!!!\"\n(To Van) \"Ladies first.\"\nRamsay: \"Hey! What's the matter between you two?\"\nJP: \"There's a language barrier there.\"\nRamsay: \"What do you mean there's a language barrier? He's [Van's] speaking English, you dick.\"\nJP: \"Yes, but he is from Texas.\"\n(To Andrew) \"There are I don't know how many people which would be willing to be in your shoes now.\"\n(To Jessica) \"Keep your smile because you might need it. It's the only weapon you have.\"\nRetrieved from \"https://hellskitchen.fandom.com/wiki/Jean-Philippe_Susilovic?oldid=22818\"", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00240.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 182, + "original_length": 11083, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.99, + "perplexity": 243.1, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "https://hernandezfishecologylab.com/2018/05/31/1207/", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T03:34:33Z", + "digest": "sha1:7VY6XIF7KYCMZATWTUCS2L56LQRZZRU2", + "length": 3278, + "nlines": 11, + "source_domain": "hernandezfishecologylab.com", + "title": "Weedlines: A Sargassum Research Blog \u2013 Fisheries Oceanography and Ecology Lab", + "raw_content": "The Fisheries Oceanography and Ecology Lab is excited to be back out on the Gulf of Mexico. From L to R: C. Stachowiak, O. Lestrade, C. Culpepper, V. Wang, V. Nunez, E. Haffey (Photo: B. Jones)\nWe made it offshore!\nThankfully Subtropical Storm Alberto moved quickly through the northern Gulf of Mexico, so we were able to load the vessel yesterday and depart at 0120 this morning. We set a course for offshore waters south of Louisiana to start our search for Sargassum. Conditions were close to ideal; relatively calm seas, clear skies, and an eager science team. While steaming towards our hopeful sampling location, everyone busied themselves with sampling preparations, and started to acquaint themselves with life at sea.\nToday was relatively uneventful; however, it was a great opportunity to test equipment and shake off the rust. Here is a short synopsis of some of the day\u2019s activities.\nM. Wang (USF) collects reflectance data from oil sheen. (Photo: F. Hernandez)\nDuring our transit, we encountered an oil sheen on the water\u2019s surface. We stopped at a location within the slick to collect reflectance data for Dr. Hu\u2019s lab; these data can help determine whether there is an elevated SWIR (short-wave infrared) signal for the detection of oil emulsions. The source of the sheen is unknown. It could have been from natural seeps, of which there are many in the Gulf of Mexico. Another possibility is leakage from unplugged wells of a platform toppled by Hurricane Ivan in 2004, which was in the vicinity of our sampling area. After a brief stop to collect reflectance data, we resumed our course.\nMuch of the day was spent heading south and west in search of \u201cblue\u201d water, which we encountered at approximately 1600, along with a few sea turtles and whales, and finally\u2013Sargassum! While happy to find Sargassum at last, there were no large mats or weedlines, but rather scattered clumps and pieces spread throughout convergence \u201cslicks\u201d. We decided to not collect Sargassum here, as there were no features large enough to sample, and continued further south to approximately 28\u00b0 N, 89\u00b0 W where we decided to sample an \u201copen water\u201d station. Reflectance measures were taken, as well as water samples and a CTD cast. We were admittedly a bit rusty, having not sampled in a year, so our first neuston attempt had to be repeated. The second attempt went very well.\nThe science team looks on during the deployment of the frame trawl sampler. (Photo: B. Jones)\nThen came the big test, trying out the frame trawl sampler for the first time. The net and frame went in the water smoothly, and we trawled just under the surface of the water at approximately 3.5 knots for about 20 minutes. Some clumps of Sargassum were collected, along with a large juvenile Jack (Carangid species), along with a number of eel leptocephalus larvae, and other larval fishes and invertebrates. This was a great first attempt, and we\u2019re excited to use this gear for the remainder of the trip.\nAll in all, not a bad day on the water. We did not sample a full day and large Sargassum mats, but we are confident we are in the Sargassum neighborhood, and hope for better success tomorrow.\nPictured here is a larval eel, also called a leptocephalus, collected in the frame trawl sampler. (Photo: B. Jones)", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00240.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 78, + "original_length": 5233, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.97, + "perplexity": 300.6, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "https://highvelocitysportsnews.com/2018/02/15/is-this-john-caliparis-most-disappointing-kentucky-team-ever/", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T03:14:11Z", + "digest": "sha1:CND4HJ53T7C7ORLAYTXH3HQCQFPRSWKM", + "length": 5609, + "nlines": 25, + "source_domain": "highvelocitysportsnews.com", + "title": "Is this John Calipari\u2019s most disappointing Kentucky team ever? | High Velocity Sport", + "raw_content": "Is this John Calipari\u2019s most disappointing Kentucky team ever?\nhttp://ift.tt/2Bv0hFv\nAUBURN, Ala. \u2014 There\u2019s no built-in excuse in Lexington this time.\nIn 2013, the lone season in which John Calipari was left out of the NCAA tournament, lottery pick Nerlens Noel went down because of a torn ACL in mid-February. The Wildcats were hardly a lock to go dancing at the time, but Noel\u2019s season-ending injury was the common refrain among Big Blue Nation for why the team lost five of its last nine games and earned a spot in the NIT.\nThis team is full strength now that Jarred Vanderbilt returned about a month ago, but the Wildcats are free-falling following Wednesday night\u2019s 10-point loss at Auburn \u2014 giving them their first four-game losing streak since Calipari was hired in 2009.\nAnd if not for a gift foul with two seconds left by Vanderbilt, the SEC\u2019s last-place team, it would be five consecutive setbacks. And before Vandy was that miracle second half in which Kentucky came back from a 17-point deficit to beat West Virginia in Morgantown.\nNow it\u2019s time to start wondering if the Wildcats will make another NIT appearance, because it\u2019s fair to question who this team can beat on its remaining slate.\n\u201cI\u2019ve got one thought. Let\u2019s just try and win the next game, win a game,\u201d Calipari said when asked if he was concerned about missing out on the NCAA tourney. \u201cI feel like if we win a game, we can get going. I\u2019ve had teams in these kind of mode we\u2019re in, but the league was different.\u201d\nJohn Calipari has looked for ways to reach his young Kentucky team but hasn\u2019t found one yet. John Reed/USA TODAY Sports\nThe good news for Calipari & Co. is that the bubble is incredibly soft. Want proof? Nebraska, Maryland and Mississippi State are still alive and kicking despite unimpressive r\u00e9sum\u00e9s.\nBut this is a Kentucky team that barely beat Vandy twice, and lost on the road against Texas A&M, Missouri and South Carolina. Kentucky (17-9 overall) is currently 6-7 in an SEC that might be deep, but doesn\u2019t boast much in terms of star power.\nNext up is a talented, erratic Alabama team Saturday at home. Then comes Arkansas in Fayetteville \u2014 which is no easy task \u2014 followed by Missouri and Ole Miss at home before closing out the regular season in Gainesville against Florida.\nCalipari always says his team is young, but he has a valid point this season. This group is the least experienced team in the country, but I\u2019m not sure that this same group would fare much better a year from now. The Wildcats still wouldn\u2019t boast a point guard who makes life easier for his teammates, wouldn\u2019t feature any legitimate perimeter shooters beyond Kevin Knox, and they still might not look or play like a team.\n\u201cI\u2019ve got a bunch of young kids that at times don\u2019t listen, they don\u2019t trust,\u201d Calipari said. \u201cI told them last night [that] I failed them. I haven\u2019t built enough trust that when I talk to them, they\u2019re going to do what this man says. \u2026 But they\u2019ve also failed each other. They don\u2019t play for each other.\u201d\nIt wasn\u2019t as if Auburn played lights out, either. The Tigers made one of their first 16 shots, wound up shooting 37 percent from the field and made only 8-of-27 shots from beyond the arc; this from a team that shoots 46 percent for the season and 39 percent from deep. Auburn\u2019s top player, leading scorer Bryce Brown, was playing at far less than 100 percent and wasn\u2019t even sure he\u2019d be able to go when he woke up Wednesday morning because of a shoulder injury that kept him out of Saturday\u2019s win at Georgia.\nBut this Kentucky team is missing something. No, it\u2019s missing more than just one thing. There\u2019s a litany of reasons why the Wildcats have struggled. The Dec. 29 shellacking of rival Louisville seems like an eternity ago, and this team no longer brings an intimidation factor that has been associated with those who have \u201cKENTUCKY\u201d on their jerseys.\nThe freshman class was still a heralded one that included a handful of McDonald\u2019s All-Americans: Knox, Vanderbilt, Nick Richards, PJ Washington and Quade Green.\nBut those guys \u2014 in addition to highly touted recruits Hamidou Diallo, Shai Gilgeous-Alexander, and Sacha Killeya-Jones \u2014 just lost to a bunch of lunch-pail guys, players such as Brown, who chose Auburn over FIU and Georgia Southern coming out of high school.\n\u201cWe got the bottom, most underrated guys,\u201d Brown said. \u201cThey have the guys rated high, but we\u2019re playing with that chip on our shoulder.\u201d\nThere\u2019s no chip with these guys in Lexington. Maybe they\u2019re too nice, too soft or too focused on making a brief pit stop before jumping to the next level. Whatever the case, Calipari hasn\u2019t been able to get this group to play with the same fire and intensity as has been his trademark over the years.\nYet Calipari has managed to remain even-keel through this losing skid. It could be because he prepared for the mediocrity after getting a close look at this group in the preseason, or he understands better than most that March is all anyone truly remembers, anyway.\n\u201cI\u2019m old. I\u2019m not fazed by it, not cracking,\u201d he said. \u201cThis isn\u2019t about me. This season is not going to change anything about me.\u201d\nCalipari\u2019s right. He has proven plenty in his tenure in Lexington. He has a national title and three other Final Four appearances. For anyone who is disenchanted with Cal, might I remind you of the two-year Billy Clyde Gillispie debacle in 2008 and 2009?\nThe good news: A few of these guys will bolt after this season, and he\u2019ll replace them with a new batch of shiny, young recruits.\nBut will this team go down as the most disappointing in the Calipari era? It\u2019s certainly headed that way.", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00240.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 112, + "original_length": 8523, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.97, + "perplexity": 305.7, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "https://hispanickitchen.com/2018/04/03/visiting-the-birthplace-of-tacos-al-pastor/", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T04:14:33Z", + "digest": "sha1:MYJOKJ2IW2YGHLYQWR2SDT7RA2FQA5OE", + "length": 1935, + "nlines": 10, + "source_domain": "hispanickitchen.com", + "title": "Visiting the Birthplace of Tacos al Pastor", + "raw_content": "Tacos al pastor (literally translated as \u201cshepherd\u2019s tacos\u201d) is without question one of our favorite taco creations. And we know there are hordes of tacoficionados who agree that al pastor is the king of tacos, so we thought we\u2019d take a trip to Mexico City and visit the place that calls itself \u201cThe Birthplace of Tacos al Pastor.\u201d We asked our crack reporter, Andrea Eraso, to undertake the thankless task of checking the place out.\nD.F. \u2013 Destination Foodie\nThere\u2019s Mexican food, and there\u2019s Mexican food in Mexico City. Trust us, those two aren\u2019t always the same thing. The D.F., as Mexico City is known, is a culinary wonderland of exotic flavors, ingredients and dishes. Many recipes have been handed down from the Aztecs, while others incorporate cultures and peoples who settled in the country at one time or another.\nTacos al Pastor is a perfect example of the latter. It\u2019s a bit of a mongrel that owes its deliciousness to the Spanish Conquistadores, Lebanese immigrants to Mexico and, of course, the locals who welcomed (or were forced to welcome) them both. Let\u2019s break that down.\nThe Spanish: The pork in Tacos al Pastor is thanks to the conquistadores, who bought pigs with them when they invaded the New World. Pigs didn\u2019t exist in these lands before Columbus and his friends arrived.\nThe Lebanese: Lebanese immigrants moved to Mexico City in the 1900s and introduced their technique of spit-roasting meat. Of course, they used this method to make lamb, which they wrapped in pita bread. (From this came another classic taco recipe: tacos \u00e1rabes).\nThe locals: The tortilla, chile, pineapple and other toppings and spices that are used to marinate the pork come from Mexico.\nThe end result is one of the most iconic and popular tacos in the world. It\u2019s a unique dish that\u2019s sweet, spicy, tart and juicy all in one. And it\u2019s spectacular. 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At the time of European contact, a Muskogean-speaking tribe known to the Spanish as the Pensacola lived in the region. This name is not recorded until 1677, but the tribe appear to be the source of the name \u201cPensacola\u201d for the bay and thence the city. The area\u2019s recorded history begins in the 16th century, when the first European explorers arrived. Pensacola Bay was visited by the expeditions of P\u00e1nfilo de Narv\u00e1ez in 1528 and Hernando de Soto in 1539, at which time it was known as the Bay of Ochuse.\nThe Spanish Navy training ship Juan Sebastian de Elcano fires a 21-gun salute in honor of Pensacola\u2019s 450th anniversary in 2009.\nIn 1559, Trist\u00e1n de Luna y Arellano landed with over 1,400 people on 11 ships from VeraCruz, Mexico. 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January 31, 2019, 5:25am\nWant to stay abreast of the Oscars race, or just in the market for high-caliber entertainment? Don't miss this week's lineup of acclaimed movies showing on the big screen in and around Cincinnati.\nBoasting a 98 percent critical approval rating and an audience score of 95 percent on Rotten Tomatoes, \"Free Solo\" has gotten stellar reviews since its release on Sept. 28.\nAn Oscar nomination for Best Documentary agrees with a consensus that, \"'Free Solo' depicts athletic feats that many viewers will find beyond reason \u2014 and grounds the attempts in passions that are all but universal.\"\nWant to see for yourself? It's playing at Esquire 6 Theatre (320 Ludlow Ave.) through Thursday, Feb. 7. 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Mycorrhizal Systems grows a type of fungus called truffles, so we set up plantations across the world to grow this fungus.\n00:16 Truffles are very expensive and they don\u2019t, in fact they don\u2019t look too glamorous despite the expense which is attributed to them. This is a dried sample here, so it looks probably even worse than a fresh one but they\u2019re worth typically the European species around about a thousand pounds per kilogram, our native one to the UK is worth about 280 pounds a kilo and there\u2019s a white truffle species in Italy which is worth about 3 to 4 thousand a kilo, so it\u2019s a high value crop.\n00:40 My whole life I\u2019ve gone out and collected foods from the wild and that included mushrooms and through going out and collecting mushrooms and reading about identifying them and cooking them, I read that truffles grew in England but I couldn\u2019t find any, and I set about working quite hard looking for them and I couldn\u2019t find any at all. Around about the same time I was doing a PhD and I looked at ways of growing them, so, because I was doing a PhD I had access to web of knowledge and you know all the online resources and I started to look a bit deeper into the science and then over a series, period of about 4 years developed a way to grow them.\n01:16 In the media, the harvesting of truffles you see a gentleman walking out into a forest with a pig on a lead, it\u2019s not really done like that because you\u2019ve got to get in between the pig and the truffle, which can be quite dangerous, people lose fingers doing this, so we use trained dog. So you\u2019re sending the dog out into the plantation, you\u2019re letting him off the leash and he or she will run along pick up the scent line and run straight in and mark where the truffle is.\n01:40 When I was at school I guess, I didn\u2019t really know what I wanted to be, I knew I wanted to be outdoors and I wanted to do stuff with science and biology and I\u2019ve always been fascinated by that. I can\u2019t really pin any one person as a mentor like I\u2019d say, definitely my parents have been strong role models in my life.\n01:56 My father is an artist, so he\u2019s always been involved in the art world lecturing, and, and producing his own art and my mother she actually did a PhD in neuro-science, but then she went into business and she set up day care nurseries, so what I actually saw from my parents from a very young age was I saw them working incredibly hard. They were structuring their business for long term gains in terms of paying off property value and such so I think that\u2019s pretty fundamental in what I do now, cos truffles are a long term crop, once you\u2019ve planted the tree you\u2019ve still got 4 to 7 years before you even get your first harvest.\n02:29 I\u2019ve always been interested in plants, which again is a bit geeky for a, for a kid. I always grew plants on my window ledge and in my garden and. I didn\u2019t bring it to the play ground, it\u2019s not something that I\u2019m gonna be like telling all my mates about when I\u2019m a teenager, showing them all my plants.\n02:45 In fact my grandparents had a small holding, I used to love it there and there used to be rangers who would come and do moth experiments and things at their site and I loved all that kind of stuff, so I was always fascinated by the natural world.\n02:57 Biology was always just, just what I wanted to do. I\u2019m always quite fascinated by farming, I always grow my own, lots of fruit and veg I\u2019ve just put up a 33 foot poly tunnel which I\u2019m filling full of all kinds of tropical fruits and very into farming and yeah, so I\u2019d, it\u2019s all linked to food and biology.\n03:17 I find running a business is an incredibly free position to be in, you can go off and pursue goals in various different areas and basically do what you want to do, so I think I would have always done that, I\u2019ve kind of got that in my. We\u2019re running an event for example in America in November, truffle conference, we\u2019re aiming to get 5 Michelin star chefs as another half to the conference, the culinary side, so we do work with chefs and I think that\u2019s quite important.\n03:41 We\u2019ve got recipes from the Roman times. I was reading one just yesterday for dormouse and truffle soup, Roman recipe. People have been eating them for a very long time, but I don\u2019t know who the first person was or, or why they would have found this warty golf ball thing and picked it up and eaten it. Maybe because of the scent I don\u2019t know.\n03:58 Yep, truffle mad, yeah I think that\u2019s probably fair enough. I think that\u2019s a fair representation.\nPaul T is Managing Director for Mycorrhizal Systems Ltd. He says, \"Mycorrhizal Systems grows a type of fungus called truffles, so we set up plantations across the world to grow this fungus... (I'm) truffle mad, I think that's a fair representation!\".\nMore information about Managers and proprietors in agriculture and horticulture\nManagers and proprietors in this unit group plan, organise and co-ordinate the activities and resources of farming establishments cultivating arable crops, fruits, trees and shrubs, and/or raising cattle, sheep, pigs and poultry. Managers and proprietors in horticulture oversee the production of plants for wholesale and/or retail.\nWhilst no formal academic qualifications are required by proprietors in this area, most farm and horticultural managers have a vocational agricultural qualification (such as a BTEC/SQA award) and prior practical farming experience. Many farm and horticultural management jobs require a degree or equivalent qualification in a relevant subject. A small number of large farm and farm consultancy companies run graduate management training schemes. NVQs/SVQs in Agriculture are available at Level 4.\nDetermines financial, staffing and other short and long-term needs;\nProduces and maintains records of production, finance and breeding;\nDecides or advises on the types of crops and/or produce to be grown or livestock raised;\nPlans intensity and sequence of farm or horticultural operations and orders seed, fertiliser, equipment and other supplies;\nMarkets and arranges for the sale of crops, livestock and other farm or horticultural produce.", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00240.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 219, + "original_length": 10969, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.96, + "perplexity": 298.8, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "https://ilnaclub.info/making-money-home/", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T04:02:47Z", + "digest": "sha1:2U3ZC5RSSEDCKFNDM3AWDERLY5ZR3M7D", + "length": 3009, + "nlines": 9, + "source_domain": "ilnaclub.info", + "title": "Working At Home \u2013 How To Start A Career From Your Home| IlnaClub", + "raw_content": "Creating a Career At Home\nWe\u2019ve all dreamed about it while waiting for the clock to hit 5 at work so that we can leave the office: being able to work at home. Waking up whenever we want to, working the hours that we want, and not having to be stuck in traffic every day is an appealing concept for all manner of people, and while it can take some dedication, there are some legitimate ways of building a career from home.\nWe\u2019ve often seen or heard of these get-rich schemes that can be done at home. Sometimes it\u2019s about making investments into a dodgy companies, other times it might be having to watch endless videos to make a few cents at a time. Whatever the case, none of these methods actually allow a person to maintain a decent salary. Fortunately, there are a couple of ways that it can be done, so instead of investing money into pokies online in the hope of winning big, try out these other types of home-based work.\nThis is a method that requires you to be have a particular set of skills, but can lead to a good salary in the long run, while also allowing you to work at home. It revolves around making videos on a subject that you know a lot about. Whether it\u2019s Do It Yourself videos, or videos that teach people other skills like finance or business, there\u2019s a big market for online learning.\nIt also means being able to create professional videos that people can learn from easily, but this can be done with a simple video editor and a little bit of experience.\nThis is a little bit more niche, but with enough time and dedication, can quickly become a solid career path. The first choice to make is to what to write about. While there is some general freelance writing that is available, it\u2019s much more advisable to go into a specific field, especially something that you have some knowledge about.\nWhether it\u2019s science, technology, or simply translation work, writing is in high demand, and will continue to remain high for as long as the Internet is still around. This is also highly competitive work, so finding the right niche is key to laying down a solid foundation for future work.\nNo matter what changes in the world, for the foreseeable future, English will remain as the main language of the world. This poses a problem for people from countries where English isn\u2019t taught in schools or at home, which is why many of these people turn to the Internet for English lessons. This also makes it a great opportunity to start teaching online, often through the use of webinars, where students can sign up, pay for classes, and learn the basics of English, and even the more advanced forms of the language, if you have the skill and knowledge. It doesn\u2019t even always have to be English, as there are people all across the globe looking to learn new languages through online video formats.\nWhile there are a lot of different ways to make money from home, at the moment, the three previously mentioned methods are the most in-demand, and some of the best ways to getting started out at home.", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00240.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 50, + "original_length": 4141, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.97, + "perplexity": 136.4, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "https://impactrecruitment.ca/prince-george-british-columbia/", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T04:40:03Z", + "digest": "sha1:R7XXY25PZE7VMFA62BOGLNQAWKWSHKWA", + "length": 2119, + "nlines": 12, + "source_domain": "impactrecruitment.ca", + "title": "PRINCE GEORGE, BRITISH COLUMBIA - Impact Recruitment", + "raw_content": "Prince George is currently the largest city in northern British Columbia, and also the official host city of the 2015 Canada Winter Games. For the Canucks fans out there, the Vancouver Canucks will be starting their training camp at Prince George this fall. Prince George offers outdoor activities such as hiking, camping, fishing, golfing, mountain biking, skiing, and snowboarding. There is also an aquatic centre for swimming, a skate park, and museum with interactive displays where you can spend some quality time with the family. Moreover, Prince George offers a number of nightclubs and bars to wind down the day.\nThe University of Northern British Columbia, also known as Canada\u2019s Green University, is the primary post-secondary institute in Prince George. The institution offers 55 undergraduate programs, 15 masters programs, 2 PhD programs, and a newly introduced medical program. Furthermore, Prince George has a top-notch healthcare system, and is home of the largest teaching hospital in northern BC, and the headquarters for Northern Health, providing services to approximately 336,000 citizens.\nContrary to popular belief, Prince George is fairly centralized as it is only an hour away from Vancouver or Calgary by plane. Residents will enjoy traffic-free days as it is a 15 minute drive to almost anywhere in Prince George. There is also a great public transportation system, and bike lanes for cyclists.\n184 kilometres south of Mackenzie, British Columbia\n526 kilometres north of Kamloops, B.C.\nEducation: 40 Elementary Schools, 8 Secondary School, and 3 Post Secondary Institutes\nTop Industries: Construction, Education, Forestry and Pulp & Paper, Healthcare, Manufacturing, Mining, Tourism, and Transportation\nMajor Local Events: Farmer\u2019s Markets, The Northern Lights Festival, Winter Lights Celebration, Annual Traditional Pow Wow, and the West of the Rockies Pro Rodeo event\nClosest Airport: Prince George Airport (YXS)\nCost of Living: Low- Average, Affordable\nSearch for current opportunities in Prince George on our jobs page.\nRelocating to Prince George? Learn about the benefits of relocation.", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00240.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 68, + "original_length": 3256, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.94, + "perplexity": 164.6, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "https://improvfrombelow.wordpress.com/2015/02/24/riding-a-bike/", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T04:27:08Z", + "digest": "sha1:HWR5RQBBTNQ476HRXLVEDVBKMUHJKYXG", + "length": 1760, + "nlines": 7, + "source_domain": "improvfrombelow.wordpress.com", + "title": "Riding a Bike? | Improv from Below", + "raw_content": "\u2190 Augmented Pattern Game\nCop Confessions \u2192\nRiding a Bike?\nA discussion came up over the weekend about the nature of improv. Is it like riding a bike, where one always remembers how to do it, or is it more like working out, where one needs to rebuild strength after returning to it from a hiatus? After some reflection, I think I would answer the question, \u201cYes.\u201d\nWhen I return to biking after a hiatus, I have found that I remember the mechanics and basic balance; on the other hand, if I were to ride up a steep hill, my technique, form, and general strength would not be up to par, for which working out, either by cycling or going to the gym, helps. Likewise, when I return to improv after a break from improvising with others, I feel like certain elements still feel natural, but on the other hand, I find it more difficult to navigate entropy. That is to say, a scene with a high entropy rate is like a steep hill, and I need to work harder to make connections and justify.\nI\u2019ve had a similar question about the relative value of practices versus shows. The frequency of shows that I am doing has increased over the past month, but the frequency of practices I\u2019ve been to between my two teams has actually decreased. I think the problem with relying too heavily on shows is that without regular feedback from coaches, which is more likely to happen with regular practices, one is effectively improvising open loop, which is subject to problems similar to what one might experience in an open-loop control system.\nI started this post trying to make a fitness analogy and have ended up making analogies to information theory and control theory, but somehow the latter analogies feel apropos. I suppose that\u2019s something I should reflect on for a future post.", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00240.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 217, + "original_length": 5845, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.97, + "perplexity": 264.6, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "https://in.reuters.com/article/awards-oscars-host/kevin-hart-re-considering-oscars-hosting-role-after-degeneres-backing-idINKCN1OY1QG", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T05:00:05Z", + "digest": "sha1:OIYSSWMQJEDC2QDXT3JL4J7CSJWYUZGD", + "length": 2857, + "nlines": 19, + "source_domain": "in.reuters.com", + "title": "Kevin Hart re-considering Oscars hosting role after DeGeneres backing | Reuters", + "raw_content": "LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Kevin Hart, who stepped down as host of the Oscars following criticism over past anti-gay tweets, said he is evaluating his decision after popular comedian Ellen DeGeneres revealed she supported him in the role.\nFILE PHOTO: 2018 MTV Video Music Awards - Arrivals - Radio City Music Hall, New York, U.S., August 20, 2018. Actor and comedian Kevin Hart. REUTERS/Andrew Kelly/File Photo\nIn an interview on \u201cThe Ellen DeGeneres Show,\u201d released on Friday, DeGeneres said she recently called the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to advocate for Hart.\nDeGeneres, who is openly gay and hosted the Oscars in 2007 and 2014, said the Academy, which organises the ceremony, had responded that they would be \u201cthrilled\u201d to have him host the Feb. 24 awards.\n\u201cWe want him to host, whatever we can do, we\u2019d be thrilled,\u201d she quoted Academy officials as telling her.\nThe Academy on Friday did not return a request for comment.\n\u201cWhen I leave here I promise you I\u2019m evaluating this conversation,\u201d Hart, known for \u201cRide Along\u201d and other films, told DeGeneres in the interview, which was taped on Thursday.\nJust hours earlier, Hart had told Hollywood trade publication Variety that he would not reconsider. \u201cWould I ever do it? No, it\u2019s done,\u201d Hart said.\nIn December, Hart said he was stepping down from hosting the Oscars and wanted to \u201csincerely apologise to the LGBT community for my insensitive words from my past.\u201d\nWith less than two months before the ceremony, the most prestigious awards in the movie business, the Academy has not announced a replacement.\nIn one of his previous tweets, Hart had described an actor\u2019s picture as a \u201cgay billboard for AIDS.\u201d In another he said if his son were to play with a doll\u2019s house, he would break it over his head and tell him to stop being gay.\nHart told DeGeneres on Friday \u201cI know I don\u2019t have a homophobic bone in my body.\u201d\nDeGeneres called Hart \u201cone of the smartest people I know, one of the funniest people I know,\u201d and told him to ignore the backlash from what she called \u201chaters\u201d who highlighted the decade-old tweets.\n\u201cThat\u2019s a small group of people being very, very loud,\u201d she said. \u201cWe are a huge group of people who love you and want to see you host the Oscars.\u201d\nDeGeneres\u2019 defence of Hart sparked a backlash from some Twitter users.\n\u201cIt\u2019s depressing that Ellen\u2019s enthusiasm for Hart hosting the Oscars ... led her to contribute to a narrative that Hart is the victim of \u2018haters\u2019,\u201d wrote Buzzfeed senior film reporter Adam B. Vary.\nHosting the Oscars is one of the most prestigious and difficult jobs in show business, navigating the expectations of the A-list audience in the theatre and millions watching on television.\nHart, who is African-American, would have been one of just a handful of black Oscar hosts over the past 90 years.\nReporting by Lisa Richwine; Editing by Sandra Maler", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00240.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 62, + "original_length": 4078, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.97, + "perplexity": 234.5, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "https://in.reuters.com/finance/stocks/company-officers/CNA.N", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T05:18:25Z", + "digest": "sha1:NYW5SYMJCXAZHVDYG3DBPWRUZJZNTLJX", + "length": 13220, + "nlines": 53, + "source_domain": "in.reuters.com", + "title": "Stock Quote News - Stock Market Quotes, Online Stock Quotes, India", + "raw_content": "Dino Robusto\n53 2017 President and Chief Operating Officer for Specialty, CNA insurance companies\n55 2014 Chief Executive, CNA Europe and Hardy\nKevin Leidwinger\n54 2015 President, Chief Operating Officer - CNA Commercial\nMichael Costonis\n2018 Chief Operations Officer\nElizabeth Aguinaga\nDouglas Worman\n50 2017 Executive Vice President and Chief Underwriting Officer\nBahr Omidfar\n2018 Senior Vice President, Chief Technology Officer\nLarry Haefner\n61 2008 Executive Vice President & Chief Actuary of CNA Insurance Companies\nAndrew Pinkes\n55 2015 Executive Vice President - Worldwide Property & Casualty Claim of the CNA insurance companies\nJose Montemayor\nBenjamin Tisch\nDon Randel\nRobert Tardella\nMr. Dino E. Robusto is the Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer of the CNA Financial Corporation. Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer since November 2016. Prior to officially assuming the roles of Chairman and CEO of the Company, Mr. Robusto served in various senior management capacities at Chubb Limited, most recently as President of Commercial and Specialty Lines of the Chubb Group of Insurance Companies and Executive Vice President of Chubb Limited from 2013 until his retirement from Chubb in November 2015. Prior to that, he was President of Personal Lines and Claims from 2011 through 2013. Mr. Robusto joined Chubb in 1986. He serves on the Board of Directors of Junior Achievement of New Jersey and formerly served on the Boards of Directors of Applied Systems Inc. and RAND Corporation's Institute for Civil Justice, and on the Board of Advisors of Catalyst, Inc. Mr. Robusto's extensive insurance experience enables him to provide deep insight and knowledge regarding all aspects of the commercial insurance industry. Mr. Robusto serves on the Executive and Finance Committees. He has been Chairman of the Board since November 2016.\nMr. Kevin G. Smith is President and Chief Operating Officer for Specialty of the CNA Financial Corporation. He is President and Chief Operating Officer for Specialty of CNA insurance companies since May 2017. Executive Vice President, Chubb from May 2016 through May 2017. Senior Vice President, Chicago Regional Branch Manager, Chubb from July 2008 through May 2016.\nMr. James M. Anderson is Chief Financial Officer, Executive Vice President of the Company. Anderson joined CNA in 2012 and has been a key member of the Finance leadership team since that time. He has proven himself an astute financial leader with a strong drive for results. Before joining CNA, Anderson spent nearly a decade in investment banking focused on the insurance industry, ultimately as a Managing Director at Macquarie Capital. That experience followed five years of consulting at Accenture.\nMr. David John Brosnan is Chief Executive of CNA Europe and Hardy of the Company. He is Chief Executive of CNA Europe since August 2014 and Chief Executive of Hardy since February 2014. Senior Vice President, Commercial from May 2013 through February 2014. President and CEO, ACE INA Insurance Canada and ACE INA Life Insurance, Canada from 2008 through May 2013.\nMr. Kevin James Leidwinger is President, Chief Operating Officer - CNA Commercial of the Company. he is a President and Chief Operating Officer, Commercial of the CNA insurance companies since June 2015. Global Casualty Manager for Chubb Commercial Insurance from April 2013 to June 2015. Global Liability Product Line Manager for Chubb Commercial Insurance from 2002 to 2013.\nMr. Michael Costonis is Chief Operations Officer of the Company. Costonis joins CNA after a 26-year career at Accenture, where he was the Global Insurance Industry Practice Leader. Costonis has spent nearly three decades at the heart of driving insurance companies to achieve the next level of performance. He has worked with more than 50 leading carriers in 21 countries, across all major segments of Property & Casualty (P&C) and Life. Costonis has led major initiatives to launch digital programs designed utilizing Service Design techniques, incorporating modern API architecture, which were largely deployed in the cloud. As well, he has pioneered a patented analytical method for optimizing claim outcomes, which became the basis for several large claims transformations.\nMs. Elizabeth A. Aguinaga is Executive Vice President and Chief Human Resource Officer of CNA Financial Corp. She is Executive Vice President and Chief Human Resources Officer of CNA insurance companies since February 2018. Senior Vice President, Chief Human Resources Officer of CNA insurance companies from September 2015 through October 2017. Vice President, Human Resources of CNA insurance companies from September 2010 through September 2015.\nMr. Scott Weber is Executive Vice President, General Counsel of the company. He is a Executive Vice President and General Counsel of CNA Financial Corporation since June 2017. Senior Vice President for Worldwide P&C Claim of CNA insurance companies from February 2017 through June 2017. Managing Director for Stroz Friedberg March 2014 through February 2017. Director for Opera Solutions March 2011 through July 2014.\nMr. Douglas M. Worman is appointed as Executive Vice President and Chief Underwriting Officer of the CNA Financial Corp. He is Executive Vice President and Chief Underwriting Officer of CNA insurance companies since March 2017. Chief Executive Officer, U.S. Insurance, ENH Insurance Company from November 2013 through July 2016. President and Chief Executive Officer, Alterra US Insurance, and Executive Vice President, Alterra Capital Holdings Ltd. from June 2010 through June 2013.\nMr. Bahr Omidfar is Senior Vice President, Chief Technology Officer of the Company. Omidfar brings more than 28 years of deep expertise in technology optimization with a proven track record of transforming organizations focused on speed, efficiency, and risk reduction, alongside completing over 30 organizational patents. Omidfar joined CNA from Fidelity Investments, most recently serving as Senior Vice President, Technology and Software Security. Omidfar holds a Bachelor's of Science in Electrical Engineering from the University of Iowa and a Master's of Science in Computer Information Systems from the University of Phoenix.\nMr. Albert J. Miralles is President - Long Term Care of the CNA insurance companies, He is President, Long Term Care of the CNA insurance companies since March 2014. Senior Vice President and Treasurer of the CNA insurance companies from 2011 to March 2014.\nMr. Larry A. Haefner is Executive Vice President & Chief Actuary of CNA Insurance Companies, He is Executive Vice President & Chief Actuary of the CNA insurance companies.\nMr. Andrew J. Pinkes is Executive Vice President - Worldwide Property & Casualty Claim of the CNA insurance companies, a subsidiary of the company. He is Executive Vice President, Worldwide Property & Casualty Claim of the CNA insurance companies since May 2015. Executive Vice President, Global Head of Claims for the XL Group from May 2013 to May 2015. Executive Vice President, Claims for The Hartford Financial Services Group, Inc. and President, Heritage Holdings, Inc. for Hartford from 2008 to 2013.\nMr. Jose O. Montemayor is the Presiding Independent Director of the CNA Financial Corporation. He is principal of Black Diamond Capital Partners I, LP since 2005. From 1999 to 2005, Mr. Montemayor was Insurance Commissioner for the State of Texas. He is a certified public accountant and a member of the Society of Financial Examiners, the Texas Society of Certified Public Accountants and the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants. Mr. Montemayor's extensive knowledge and experience of the insurance industry, including 12 years as a senior insurance regulator, is valuable to our Board. He serves on the Compensation and Finance Committees and is the Chairman of the Audit Committee. Mr. Montemayor has been a director since 2007.\nMr. Michael A. Bless serves as Director of the CNA Financial Corporation. He is a President and Chief Executive Officer of Century Aluminum Company (\"Century\") since 2011 and a director of Century since 2012. He joined Century in 2006 as Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer. Mr. Bless serves on the Board of Directors for Simpson Manufacturing Company Inc., a publicly traded company, and is a National Trustee for the Midwest Region for Boys & Girls Club of America. His expansive financial knowledge, experience leading a public company and technical expertise is valuable to our Board. He serves on Audit, Compensation and Finance Committees. Mr. Bless was appointed to the Company's Board of Directors on October 13, 2017.\nMr. Andrew H. Tisch serves as Director of the CNA Financial Corporation. He is Co-Chairman of the Board of Loews since 2006. Mr. Tisch also serves as Chairman of the Executive Committee and a member of the Office of the President of Loews. He is a Director of the general partner of Boardwalk Pipeline Partners LP., a 66% owned subsidiary of Loews and serves on the Board of Directors of Diamond Offshore Drilling, Inc., a 51% owned subsidiary of Loews. Mr. Tisch's positions with Loews, the majority stockholder of the Company, allow him to provide valuable perspective and advice to our Board. He serves on the Finance Committee and is the Chairman of the Executive Committee. Mr. Tisch has served as a director since 2006.\nMr. Benjamin J. Tisch is Director of CNA Financial Corporation. He is a Vice President of Loews. Before joining Loews in 2012, Mr. Tisch was a managing director at Fortress Investment Group Global Macro Fund, where he specialized in developed market interest rates and FX strategies. His position with Loews, the majority stockholder of the Company, along with his investment expertise, will allow him to provide valuable perspective and advice to our Board.\nMr. James S. Tisch serves as Director of the CNA Financial Corporation. He is President and Chief Executive Officer and a member of the Office of the President of Loews. Mr. Tisch also serves as Director of Loews and Chairman of the Board of Directors of Diamond Offshore Drilling, Inc. Mr. Tisch served as Chief Executive Officer of Diamond. Offshore Drilling, Inc. until May, 2008. He currently serves on the Board of Directors of General Electric Company, a publicly traded company. Mr. Tisch's positions with Loews, as the majority stockholder of the Company, allow him to provide valuable perspective and advice to our Board. He serves on the Executive Committee and is the Chairman of the Finance Committee. Mr. Tisch has served as a director since 1985.\nMs. Jane Wang has been appointed as Director of the Company effective January 1, 2019. Ms. Wang is Vice President of Loews Corporation, Registrant\u2019s majority stockholder. She is responsible for monitoring the performance of Loews\u2019s subsidiaries and also focuses on strategic planning, corporate development and financing. Ms. Wang joined Loews in 2006 as an associate in the Corporate Development group.\nMr. Don M. Randel is an Independent Director of CNA Financial Corporation. He Retired President of the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, a position Mr. Randel held from July 2006 to March 2013. Prior to that, Mr. Randel served as President of the University of Chicago from 2000-2006. Mr. Randel's experience as a senior leader of a large institution is of great value to our Board. He serves on the Audit, Compensation and Finance Committees. Mr. Randel has been a director since 2002.\nMr. Andre Rice is Independent Director of CNA Financial Corporation. Founder and President of Muller & Monroe Asset Management, LLC since 1999. Prior to that, Mr. Rice founded in 1986 Rice Group Ltd., an investment services company. He is a member of the National Association of Securities Professionals and the National Association of Investment Companies, and also serves on the Chicago Cook Workforce Investment Board. Mr. Rice's extensive investment knowledge and experience is valuable to our Board. He serves on the Audit, Compensation and Finance Committees. Mr. Rice has been a director since April 2017.\nMr. Marvin Zonis is an Independent Director of CNA Financial Corporation. He is Professor Emeritus of International Political Economy, Leadership and E-Commerce at the Booth School of Business of the University of Chicago since 1989. Mr. Zonis has been a principal of Marvin Zonis & Associates, Inc., an international consulting firm, since its incorporation in 1978. He provides advice to various businesses and professional asset management firms all over the world, helping them to identify, assess and manage their risks in the changing global political environment. He has written extensively on globalization, digital technologies and emerging markets. Mr. Zonis brings to our Board broad experience in international economic and monetary affairs. 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I think I\u2019m beautiful, funny, creative, and intelligent. Some days this is part of a healthy balance of recognizing my value and appreciating my positive qualities. Other days, this is a symptom of my mood disorder. They can probably come off interchangeably, but I can tell the subtle difference. On my manic days, I feel undeniably sexy, confident, and virtually unstoppable. I quite frankly believe that everyone wants me.\nThen there are the days when I my heart sinks at the thought that I\u2019m completely unloveable. I think everyone has days when they feel unloveable, whether it be because they are having a rough hair day, or they realize they\u2019ve said something they didn\u2019t mean to a friend. For me, days like today are more heart breaking\u2026 far more gut-wrenching. It can be painful to hear a love song, and feel personally affected by the adamant belief that no one could ever feel that way about me. It can often be agitated by blemishes or physical imperfections, but the reality of what I face day-to-day with mental illness make love seem so distant, partly because I have a lot of work to do before I can get there, and partly because of the ways I can lose control of my mood when I am out of whack.\nNeither the enticing confidence of mania, nor the crippling distance of love during depression are often issues for me. I admit that so much time had gone by since I had felt this way, that I had come to question my diagnosis of bipolar disorder. The past few weeks have been quite an obstacle in these aspects, though.\nIt isn\u2019t completely uncommon for the things you do during mania to come back to weigh on your insecurity during depression. All of these symptoms have been absent for so long, that they almost feel new this time around, and yet, at the same time, they feel naggingly mundane. It all starts to feel as if any effort previously put forth was just a method of buying time, or delaying the inevitable. When I was well, the fear that these symptoms would resurface would haunt me. Now that they are back, it feels as though they never really went away.\nI cannot pretend that life seems like the most viable of options in times such as these. All of my senses mislead me. Every single thing that happens is riddled with a slight paranoid urge to question. \u201cDid that thing just happen, or was it orchestrated by someone with ulterior motives?\u201d Everyone\u2019s words are the opposite of what they really mean, and their actions are digs at my sanity. I cannot honestly approach the question of whether treatment is a viable option, because in my head, there are cheaper, easier, and more immediate solutions.\nAnd then, all of my effort toward recovery is always riddled with side notes of the times I tried before, and relapsed. And relapse in my head is really just failure. And failure is really just a waste.\nConsidering recovery isn\u2019t easy. Recovery takes time, money, and effort, and beyond that, it takes an initial desire to be better, to move forward\u2026 which in this state, really just feels exhausting. The times I\u2019ve written here, I\u2019ve been feeling hopeful, but I figured that my transparency might help people understand my journey better.\nI cannot say that considering suicide is easier, though. Suicide, when done in a conscious state, requires effort. It requires motivation, and calculation. You have to consider what methods will work most effectively, and weigh the risk of survival after an attempt. You have to consider your loved ones, and funeral arrangements. I can\u2019t speak for others, but I cannot fathom that most who take their own lives, don\u2019t (no matter how irrationally) weigh the affect that it will have on loved ones, and decide it is still the better option. It is difficult in the thick of despair to look at your situation and know if it would be more practical and efficient to die, or if it would make more of a mess than already exists\u2026 more of a mess than one can even fathom. And the irony is, that those who haven\u2019t faced that situation, can\u2019t even fathom honestly believing that there is some clean efficiency to suicide. In my head, it sounds logical, but when I see it typed out, it reads as completely absurd and thoroughly insane.\nIn either situation, you have to think about the things you\u2019ll miss. For instance, if I go into treatment now, I\u2019ll miss my birthday and my trip to visit my sister and my nephew. But if I die, I\u2019ll miss the rest of my birthdays and my nephew growing up. I\u2019ve spent birthdays in treatment before. Once, I missed a concert of my favorite musician for treatment. Also, if I go into treatment now, I\u2019ll miss graduate application deadlines for the upcoming school year. If I die, I\u2019ll never know if that could\u2019ve gone anywhere anyway. The fear the perpetuates thoughts of suicide is that you will go forth and continue to face the same failures of the past\u2026 that you will live and it still won\u2019t be worth it in the end anyway.\nI suppose the logic driving madness is to consider the affect that my life has had on the lives of others, and what does any of our lives come down to, if not that? I cannot say, in my current state, that my life has contributed anything of value to this world. From where I stand, all my effort has been in vain; and all my lack of effort has be cruel and spiteful. If you asked my loved ones, it is probable that they would argue that my life was of great value; but possible that none of them could back that up with evidence or specific instances in which I contributed something valuable.\nI realize that relationships are fluid. People come and go. The time we have to connect with one another ebbs and flows. Our moods shift. Our locations change. We take up new hobbies, and grow tired of old ones. We become different people.\nOver the past few weeks, I heard a song on XM radio that made me laugh. It is called \u201cHigh School Never Ends\u201d (by Bowling for Soup). It is an amusing song about the ways that the so-called \u201creal world\u201d functions very similarly to the way high school did. There\u2019s a line in the song that stings a little for me, though. The chorus says: The whole damn world is just as obsessed with who\u2019s the best dressed and who\u2019s having sex, who\u2019s got the money, who gets the honey\u2019s, who\u2019s kinda cute, and who\u2019s just a mess. But the end of the song adds: And I\u2019m pretty much the same as I was back then\u2026 HIGH SCHOOL NEVER ENDS. And I get this, its not uncommon for people to feel as awkward as they did in high school and maintain similar behaviors. But that last line gets me. When I look around at the people I knew back in the day, the truth is that, for better or worse, most have changed. They\u2019ve gotten married, had kids, are managing careers or going to school. What I see all around me are people working toward their potential. And yet, I feel completely stagnant. I have a BA that I somehow achieved since high school, and little else to show for the nearly 11 years that have passed since then. I\u2019m single, unemployed, depending on my parents, and struggling on a daily basis with emotional stability. I do have to say that I\u2019ve made achievements in conquering disordered eating. I no longer use self-injury as a method of coping. I\u2019ve overcome addictions, and learned a lot. I\u2019ve met tons of people with a wealth of stories and backgrounds. When I face myself at the end of each day, though, I feel empty-handed. I feel as though I have little to show for the time that has passed. Everything I do feels like existing in a constant state of planning for the things that I could one day accomplish, but never actually accomplishing them. There are days when I consider having a kid just to muster some sense of accomplishment, but I know that in the end, my failure at that endeavor would just pour salt on the wound of my lack of accomplishment. I\u2019m not suggesting that reproducing automatically equals accomplishment. I wouldn\u2019t even say that of a career. These things do, however, suggest some sort of movement forward. I don\u2019t feel like my life has lacked in experience, I simply feel as though I\u2019ve done nothing with all the experience and wisdom that I have acquired.\nI have to stop, I know this all sounds like a pity party. I can hear the hard-asses out there groaning and mumbling some bullshit line referring to my boot straps\u2026 yadda yadda.\nI want to add that the burden of disappointment in myself doesn\u2019t extend solely to what I have or haven\u2019t accomplished as a result of challenges I have or haven\u2019t had to face. Being faced with moments when suicide seems viable isn\u2019t my biggest obstacle. What is worse, and what feeds those very flames, is the way I am to those I love when times are hard. I can\u2019t even explain it. I become absolutely beside myself with not only rage, but disdain for the people who care for me the most. Maybe it is bitterness. I suppose it is possible that I am resentful for their efforts, whether I feel unworthy of them, or because I just want permission to leave this God-forsaken life behind and move on. There are times when I suspect that the only way to move forward is to succumb to this illness. There are points when I want to surrender myself to God, and moments still, when I fear the only way to surrender is to quit trying altogether.\nIn a day, I can change from being genuinely convinced that, despite all my failings, I have a good heart; into a monster, who can\u2019t control her actions, or the fiery words spewing forth from her tongue. No matter what I do or say, the resentments that I feel for others, consistently translate into self-loathing after the storm clouds have broken.\nI guess I just needed to get that off my chest. It certainly does help to have a chance to articulate what I am struggling with, but also to offer that insight for those who don\u2019t understand or who suspect that they are alone in such struggles.\nAll that aside, I want to end with the fact that I am currently making an effort to seek residential treatment. I have been hospitalized a total of 6 times, 3 of which were involuntary after suicide attempts. These hospitalizations have lasted the length of 2 days to 2 months. The kind of treatment that I am seeking now is not emergency care for my safety, but an effort for a consistent, lengthy, ongoing treatment. Residential treatment can last between 20 days to 9 months, and is sometimes followed by intensive out-patient treatment.\nThe ultimate goal of such treatment is to get an oft derailed train back on the tracks, and to maintain it there for the purpose of transitioning into independent daily living. It is often necessary for people whose trauma, illnesses, or addictions are such that daily living is interrupted on a continuing basis, and weekly therapy can do little to offer the stability needed to move forward.\nA close friend sent me several links to different residential facilities, and of the choices, I picked one. I have already emailed them, and will speak with them further today to make plans for admission and discuss cost options. The facility that I am looking into is an all women\u2019s center in Illinois. The length of treatment in this facility varies from client to client, based on individual need. It is possible that I will be gone for several months. It is also very possible that the cost of treatment will be overwhelming, with or without insurance assistance, though I am hoping my insurance will assist in a substantial way. I do feel very blessed to have this as an option, and it irritates me that such treatment is so expensive, and as such, is out of the realm of possibility for many who face mental illness.\nI suppose that this has become the critical moment at which I must decide between facing the uncertainty of both the future and the end, and deciding which is a safer bet. Neither decision is ever easy, straight forward, or without its costs; but I suppose we act despite that, no matter which road we choose to take.\nI do not feel it just to ask anything of anyone, especially with the responsibility that I feel placed upon my own shoulders in the effort of recovery, but I am graciously accepting prayers by any who read this and feel inspired to lift me up in that way. I also want to ask for any encouragement that anyone out there has to offer. Obviously, you can comment here. If you wish to send me a private message, you can reach me at incurablehope@gmail.com \u2013Beyond that, I don\u2019t know what else will help at this time. I myself am praying that one of these days, I will know success, and feel myself consistently moving forward. In this moment, I want to shake the feeling of stagnancy that plagues me, and to reach a point where I know that I am loved and supported, even in the depth and silence of the night.\nI suppose that it eventually comes down to seeing my purpose playing out, rather than simply suspecting that it exists.\nSeptember 29th, 2011 Leave a comment\tFear, Help, Perspectives, Purpose, Recovery, Relapse, Self-Respect, Success, Suicide, Survival, The Journey, Treatment\tIncurable Hope\nI swear that death typically doesn\u2019t consume my thoughts most of the time. The past week has just been a really tough one in that aspect. Last week, with the suicide of my sister\u2019s old friend, Amanda. This week, with the suicide of teen blogger, Jamey Rodemeyer. Tonight I learned that my friend Joda, who I worked with at TGIFriday\u2019s in Asheville several years ago, passed away yesterday. I guess it was only about a year or less ago, when my friend and I went to visit him at Friday\u2019s. He was complaining of a strange pain, and we both urged him to see a doctor. I was moving out of town, but my friend assured me that she\u2019d stay on top of him to get it checked out. Not long after, he was diagnosed with lymphoma. Then tonight, Troy Davis, a man convicted of the 1989 murder of an off duty police officer was put to death, after many desperate attempts to save his life since new evidence and witness recants seemed to disprove his guilt. I\u2019ve been sitting alone tonight, frustrated and in tears. I almost feel like the world is losing its angels in rapid succession. I clicked on a friend\u2019s link, that led me to a site about tribute tattoos. Then I started reading about the woman they are a tribute to\u2026 Her name is Sara, and she is a fellow blogger. Her blog inspired hope in many people, and the tattoo tributes said simply \u201cchoose joy.\u201d I read about the tributes, and a little about Sara. I don\u2019t know much, but I\u2019m certainly interested from what I\u2019ve seen, in reading more of her blog. The past few entries have been written by someone named Shannon, who is updating on Sara\u2019s worsening physical condition, with the theme of \u201cchoose joy\u201d remaining throughout. I\u2019m leaving early in the morning to head to the mountains, so that I may attend Joda\u2019s memorial service. I even considered leaving tonight and going to watch the sun rise on the parkway alone. It is so still, so calm up there, that it feels like the world just stops and you can finally get a chance to breathe. I definitely need a chance to breathe right now.\nTonight, I\u2019ve felt a consistent twinge of heartache for the losses of the past week, but when I really thought of Joda, and I could hear his voice, it made me smile every time. Tonight, I\u2019m praying for everyone and their losses, that Amanda has found peace and her family starts to heal\u2026 That Jamey\u2019s life and death, can open our eyes, and drastically change the way we deal with bullying\u2026 That Troy\u2019s family and friends can find solace in the hope that he has gone somewhere far more just than this world, somewhere in which truth is pursued and upheld. I pray Joda is in heaven, clad in white, dancing and singing\u2026 happy as can be. I hope Sara transitions smoothly, and that her message spreads far, like ripples atop oceans, reaching from from distant shore to distant shore.\n\u201cThe golden moments in the stream of life rush past us and we see nothing but sand;\nthe angels come to visit us, and we only know them when they are gone.\u201d\nSeptember 22nd, 2011 1 Comment\tAngels, Joy\tIncurable Hope\nThe Awakening: August 2nd and the Days Since\n(Finding a Balance Between Jesus Christ and King of the Hill)\nI was initially hesitant to post too soon after my last entry, but after really evaluating, I decided to try to catch my audience before they disperse.\nI\u2019m not even sure where to begin. My last two posts were about people we lost too soon to tragic circumstances, though my perspective in each instant contrasted starkly. One was written 5 days before my most recent suicide attempt. The last post was written a month and a half after that attempt. My thoughts seem transparently similar, but there\u2019s a mystery smeared between those two posts, like something spilled on the few pages of a book that contain the climax. The pages are stuck together, and everything between \u201cbefore\u201d and \u201cafter\u201d is almost inconsequential; or at least, that\u2019s how it seems.\nLet me plead that this is not so. I realize the posts are eerily similar, both addressing people I only knew at a distance, after their lives were lost in tragic circumstances. Both even pose my conflict about why some lost the battle, and others like myself, have a chance at survival.\nIt seems as though, since my post about Amy Winehouse, her parents have suggested that she lost her life from complications attributed to alcohol withdrawal. In my opinion, these circumstances make the story that much more tragic. She was making an effort, but the addiction consumed her in the end. I was almost astonished at how long it took most media outlets to come out with these details. When I got out of the hospital, I googled the story and found this explanation, and yet it was 2 or 3 weeks later before the media spoke about it.\nFriday, my sister and I discussed the multi-faceted nature of mental illness, and the mystery that is our brains. We talked for a moment about how various mental issues seem to have similar characteristics. Though it may stir controversy, I\u2019ll give an example. My dad recently saw the HBO film \u201cTemple Grandin\u201d about a woman born in 1947 with autism. It was very enlightening. I didn\u2019t realize that autism was even acknowledged back then, but it also irked me to realize how much more misunderstood it was. I thought it was bad now, but it was far more misunderstood then. The doctor\u2019s initially blamed Temple\u2019s mother for her condition, but she refused to accept the accusation. With diligent attention from her mother and aunt, Temple excelled in life, and even more so in academics.\nMy dad was moved by the film, and sent a copy to my sister and myself. As I watched it, I identified things about Temple that I related to myself, and that I had observed in others. For instance, as is an issue with autism, Temple was overwhelmed and anxious in situations that offered an excess of audio, visual, and tactile stimulation. I completely understand this. I was recently started on a medication for ADHD because I had been withdrawing, and increasingly irritable in social situations for the very same reason. I ended my day on Saturday with a grocery store panic attack due to this issue. So many people, noises, products, and the agitation of my shirt shifting, and my purse strap rubbing against my neck.\nSimilarly, one of my former boyfriends was diagnosed with schizophrenia toward the end of our relationship. The illness didn\u2019t present itself blatantly as hallucinations and paranoia, like most assume. It started progressing in his speech, which was disorganized, and indirect. It got the point where I just couldn\u2019t understand him. Also, he started to become hyperaware of details. If in a room full of people, he would notice the way a dust bunny in the corner of the room was dancing atop the hardwood floor. When sitting with his mom in a diner one day, he started talking about a rabbit, as if his mom should know exactly what he was referring to. It wasn\u2019t until she turned around and saw the painting of a farm with a rabbit in it, that she understood the origin of his thoughts. Temple was similarly observant, noticing and understanding things that no one else really had the awareness to note, or the ability to care about.\nThe brain certainly is a mysterious thing. Being as such, I am often frightened by what the brain can do.\nAlzheimer\u2019s is another example. It has been arising in the news more and more. I told my sister that I couldn\u2019t cope with losing a loved one to Alzheimer\u2019s, because it would be so similar to how I lost my ex to schizophrenia. I cannot stand the feeling of having lost someone who is still physically right in front of you. I do realize that they are making many great strides with Alzheimer\u2019s\u2026 I just wish they\u2019d do the same with mental illnesses like bipolar disorder and schizophrenia.\nThere is so much we have yet to understand about our brains. The brain is simply powerful, and being as such, it can either serve as a powerful motivator or a powerful hinderance.\nWhen I look at my post on July 25th and compare it to my post from September 16th, it would seem as though the same person wrote it. And yes, in literal terms the same body sat at the same computer to bang her fingertips against the keys and make words. Perhaps even the same brain was behind what was thought and said. I suppose you could determine though, that the difference was completely spiritual.\nI had gone down to Asheville with my parents for my cousin\u2019s wedding. As I mentioned earlier, social situations are not my fort\u00e9, though I manage surprisingly well most of the time. July 29th was not one of those days. I went to the rehearsal dinner at a local restaurant, greeting old friends and family members whom I have not seen in a while. The room was hot and crowded, and I had already been stuck in a car for 4 hours with my parents, which is quite a feat. The drinks that night were incredible! Freshly squeezed mojitos, margaritas, and sangria with fruit. I\u2019m not sure how many I had, but I remember the food being equally as satisfying. There was so much commotion, that I don\u2019t recall much else besides that and the heat. After eating, and feeling like was about to die through the sentimental slide show, I grabbed the car keys and split. I went to the car and sat with the air conditioning full blast until my parents left and we headed back to the hotel.\nThe next evening was my cousin\u2019s wedding. We had been warned about the heat and mosquitos, so I had already decided that I couldn\u2019t do it after my anxiety the night before. The situation seemed pretty simple to me, sometimes, social situations can just be too much. My sister gave me positive feedback for my boundary-setting, and the rest of the day is a blur. The only thing I remember from that day is getting car sick while my dad explored the wealthy neighborhoods of the city. Besides that, I recall that my dad took me out to a Mexican restaurant after they returned from the wedding.\nI\u2019m uncertain as to why everything else is a blur, but I remained in that state until Tuesday morning, when I woke up completely back to normal in a women\u2019s psych unit.\nApparently, in the wee hours of July 31st I decided to end my life. I say apparently, because that\u2019s how it appears. I do recall being somewhat melancholy, mainly about my future with regards to relationships and my chances of survival with mental illness. Other than that, it really wasn\u2019t much out of the ordinary. A friend of mine was alarmed by what I had said to my ex, and my sister reflected that she should\u2019ve been alarmed by the things I said to her. When I had a chance, I glanced back at those conversations, and if I had been them, I wouldn\u2019t have been alarmed initially either. I\u2019m typically a dark person, with an even darker sense of humor. Despite my recently blossoming spirituality, I have a significant past of depression and suicidal tendencies. It would appear to be a thin line with me.\nThe truth is, though, that I haven\u2019t felt that way since March. I made a significant spiritual commitment to God in March, and dangerous depression hadn\u2019t really been an issue since. I\u2019m uncertain as to why, 4 months later, I would decide to end my life without much of a warning. In the past, the spiral downward for me has been lengthy and gradual. This was sudden.\nMy only medical explanation is that I had started a mood stabilizer a week and a half prior. Many psychiatric medications can have unintended counter-effects; so that is a possibility. I had taken the medication in the past, but only in the context of a complete medication cocktail. I had not been on any psychiatric medications since March.\nAs for spiritual explanations, I have a few. I\u2019m not sure this is the time or the place to delve into that. If anyone has questions, I\u2019ll be willing to answer them, and I\u2019ll probably stick with basics for now.\nSo that Sunday around 3 am, without explanation, I overdosed on 100 dramamine and 40 ativan. My dad and several police officers found me the next morning. Everything until Tuesday morning is a blur, and most of what I know now is what has been told to me by people who were with me. I was taken to the ER in an ambulance, and stayed there until midday on Monday, August 1st, when I was transported via ambulance to another local hospital to be admitted into their psychiatric unit.\nWhen I woke on Tuesday morning, and as the day wore on, I started to realize everything that I had been through. What started to really dawn on me, was the miracle of my survival. I spent the week that followed, bonding with women in similar situations and in prayer. I also spent a good amount of time reading the bible, and was diligent about attending morning devotions. It was unusual to be in the unit at that time, because when I woke up, I went back to being my \u201cnormal\u201d self and otherwise basically \u201csane.\u201d I recognized within a few days that I was good to go home, but it doesn\u2019t really work like that in psych units. I was patient, and participated a lot. At one point, I started to feel so desperate to get out and do stuff, that I thought being there might make me crazier. This is a big contrast to the times I\u2019ve gone in before. My previous experiences in such a setting left me fearful of returning to life, uncertain if I could handle life\u2019s curveballs after being in such a controlled environment for a week or two. As eager as I was to get back to life, I made an effort to utilize and appreciate my time there. I developed friendships with some really incredible women, and learned some new things about myself.\nSpiritually speaking, I will contribute this: prior to this experience, I made a commitment to God, but after doing so, carried on with life as usual. I suppose I expected things to unfold like I\u2019ve heard people promise\u2026 \u201cmake that commitment, and all the baggage you\u2019ve been carrying will dissolve.\u201d I basically spent about a month and a half on my couch, watching \u201cKing of the Hill,\u201d and waiting for my issues to go away.\nIt didn\u2019t quite work like that.\nI had gone to 6 am prayer at my church a few times in the 2 weeks before my suicide attempt, and spent the time praying, but also in meditation, focusing on developing my bond with God. I focused closely on the prayer that the people around me wouldn\u2019t become distractions in my relationship with God.\nSee\u2026 basically, I\u2019m a bit different from the majority at my church. I think outside of the box, and I\u2019m far more liberal than most. No\u2026 like FARRRRR more liberal. As for politics, though, I really don\u2019t see how that should affect spirituality and vice versa. My problem was that, I was capable of putting myself in that setting and being open enough to listen to what had to be said about God, but in casual conversation, I allowed minor opinions to affect how I felt about everything that I had grown to love. I also felt like I was often overlooked and invalidated because I am so liberal. The gist of it is: I could open my mind enough to go there, and they could open their minds enough to welcome me, but it stopped there. If they couldn\u2019t otherwise accept my views, then that wasn\u2019t really my problem, and it was just another opportunity for people to get between my relationship with God. I started to feel like the people around me wanted me to change my ways of thinking to look more like theirs. That\u2019s when I bailed, and turn to \u201cKing of the Hill.\u201d\nI think a lot of people have that sort of reaction. Most of the people I know who cringe at the thought of \u201cChristians,\u201d do so because of people they\u2019ve encountered who use their faith as a weapon of judgment and condemnation. I don\u2019t blame them. Until recently, that had been my main experience of Christians too. I realize now that my experience of \u201cChristians\u201d really has nothing to do with my experience of God, and how I feel about Christ. Nope, those were two TOTALLY DIFFERENT THINGS.\nMy experience of survival after my suicide attempt, however, made me realize that my relationship with God was far more important than any judgment I had previously faced from people who claim Him, as well as any judgment I had previously put upon people who claim Him.\nI realized a lot, actually. In the days after my literal reawakening, I had an increasing spiritual reawakening.\nI had always heard the quotation that said \u201cIt is not fair to ask of others what you are not willing to do yourself.\u201d (Eleanor Roosevelt) I came to understand that giving up on people because of the ways they judged me was hypocritical. If I expected them to not give up on me, I had to offer the same. My experience was sort of like God whispering in my ear to add, \u201cpeople aren\u2019t the point of spirituality anyway.\u201d I do appreciate fellowship, but I also realize that I\u2019m never going to fit into the mold of what people associate with followers of Christ. That\u2019s fine by me. I had previously grasped onto all my bad habits, addictions, and toxic patterns because I assumed they held my identity. I didn\u2019t want to lose my empathy, my creativity, and my quirkiness for the sake of dropping the negative. My experience made me realize that wasn\u2019t an issue anyway. I realized that my past wasn\u2019t haunting me anymore, and yet, I was still unique. I was focused and unmoved by things that used to break me, but just as determined to be an advocate for people with mental health issues and survivors of sexual violence.\nI could pretend like it was \u201cjust\u201d a suicide attempt, and nothing more, but it was more for me. When I got out of the hospital, I was surprised by people from my past who reached out to me for support. I also had a new outlook on life, and new thoughts on spirituality and mental health.\nI used to think that suicide was a conscious and calculated decision. In my past experience, that was the case, but this was different. For whatever reason, I was in an altered state that went beyond not thinking rationally and became more dissociated. I realized that there are times in people\u2019s lives when they will be in that state and take that drastic action without ever having made any decision at all, and without having much, if any, control over their actions.\nFor this very reason, I realized that I\u2019m only in control of so much. I can take my meds, stay on schedule, respect my boundaries, and still fall short of taking care of what I need to survive. That\u2019s when I realized that God is far more necessary than I had ever admitted. It is also when I realized that people are too insignificant for me to accept them as obstacles between God and myself. And on top of everything, I finally let go of the baggage I had lugged around for so long, because I knew that there are things that I can\u2019t explain, things that are far bigger than myself. I had enough of a glimpse at the bigger picture to understand the purpose of my suffering for personal growth, and yet, the insignificance of it on a universal scale.\nI would lie, and tell you that everything has been hunky dory since, if I thought compromising my integrity could serve some greater purpose. It won\u2019t. It has been a struggle. I have faced speed bumps in my day-to-day life. I have argued with fellow church members. I\u2019ve gotten in fights with my parents, and had moments when I felt helpless.\nI see those moments as fleeting more than I ever have before, though.\nI used to think that upheaval was a constant state of being. I used to feel resigned to my plight. These days, I\u2019m more of a fighter. When conflict or turmoil arise, I reach out. I talk to loved ones and I pray constantly. When I\u2019m being completely honest with myself, I see the obstacles as insignificant, and I\u2019m overwhelmed by gratitude. When the past starts to creep back in to haunt me, I simply acknowledge that allowing it to haunt me will serve no greater purpose in this world, especially if I aspire to help those who have been through the struggles that I have been through.\nI\u2019m nowhere near perfect, which is fine. If we were perfect, humility would be difficult. I tried to keep that in mind when I felt the twinge of humiliation when reflecting upon being found naked in a hotel room, incoherent and surrounded by vomit. We all have our moments, and none of them look the same. It isn\u2019t important to dwell, but it is important to acknowledge what we\u2019ve faced and allow it to be an opportunity for learning and growth.\nI feel more capable than ever. I don\u2019t feel limited by my circumstances, because I realize that all things really are possible now. I\u2019ve started pursuing new paths that I\u2019ve known were in my future, but have consistently put off due to a nagging fear of failure.\nAre there days when I\u2019m fearful? Not really\u2026 but moments? Yes. I do sometimes fear that my past will creep up, like a gaining wave, and overpower me. Do I let that cripple me? No. Well, yes, but not for long. I\u2019m human. I make mistakes and bad judgments, but I\u2019m learning, not only about life, but about what I am capable of as a new person. I\u2019m learning about myself in a spiritual context, and considering more and more who I am to God and who God is to me.\nIt is an odd thing to carry the possibility of hindrance in your brain, while everything else you feel is completely new. I suppose, in the end, it all comes down to being motivated by your newness, and always keeping your brain in check.\nIn closing, I want to share some important scripture with you. I focused on Psalm 91:11 while in the hospital, for the sake of reminding myself that God is watching over me. The only translation I had in the hospital was the King James Version, which isn\u2019t my favorite. When I got out, I read each translation of it, and I settled on The Message\u2019s version of the passage. It is awesome, and motivating. Whenever I have doubts, these words help me feel safe.\nPsalm 91:1-14 (The Message)\nYou who sit down in the High God\u2019s presence\u2026\nHis outstretched arms protect you\u2014\nnot disaster that erupts at high noon\u2026\nYou\u2019ll stand untouched, watch it all from a distance\u2026\nYes, because God is your refuge,\nYou\u2019ll walk unharmed among lions and snakes\np.s. I also want to add that my month and a half with the Hill family of Arlen, Texas wasn\u2019t completely useless. I did learn this:\n\u201cKing of the Hill: Born Again on the Fourth of July (#13.14)\u201d (2009)\nLucky: You took the wrong message from what that preacher was screaming at you. You can\u2019t go throwing stones at others until you\u2019ve thrown a bunch of stones at yourself.\nBobby Hill: I guess you\u2019re right.\nLucky: Besides, saving souls is not your job. That position is taken, in Heaven by the Big Man, and on screen by Morgan Freeman.\nSeptember 19th, 2011 Leave a comment\tChurch, Death, Faith, Fear, God, Healing, Help, Honesty, Joy, Judgment, Purpose, Suicide, Survival, The Journey\tIncurable Hope\nTo Those We\u2019ve Lost To The Current That Swept Them Away In The Silence Of The Night\nOne of my sister\u2019s best friends from childhood was lost to suicide this past week. You can find this story at this link. I was going to post this comment on her blog, but I do understand that suicide is a more taboo subject than I sometimes realize. (As Sinead O\u2019connor recently pointed out on twitter.) I\u2019ve been meaning to post for sometime, about my own experience over the past couple of months, since I nearly lost my own life, but I\u2019ve had a hard time forcing myself to do it. Hopefully, I can muster up the strength to do it soon.\nHer most recent post was titled \u201cWill She Remember?\u201d and contained a poem she wrote about her daughter, posing the question of whether she would remember these days of her youth. The post is prefaced by this quotation: \u201cIn the happiest of our childhood memories, our parents were happy, too.\u201d ~Robert Brault \u2026and a photo of her daughter.\nThis is a very haunting question to have as a final post. Amanda, my dear, I wish that I had words for these moments, but there simply aren\u2019t any. I have had many friends of friends who have been lost to this battle, but I felt pretty distant from each of those instances. You were one of my sister\u2019s best friends in middle school, and I remember that. I also recall seeing you on the park and ride at UNCG, and pretending not to notice, because I\u2019m sure you understand how awkward it can be to talk to people from your past whom you were somehow distantly connected to. Now, I feel a slight twinge for not saying a simple \u201chello.\u201d It makes me wonder if we could\u2019ve hit it off. I almost died this past July 30th from a similar incident. I was grateful and humbled by surviving, but now I\u2019m left recognizing that some don\u2019t survive, which makes me wonder why. I know you are already missed terribly, I can see that from the memorial page they made for you on Facebook. I also know that few will really understand. I wish I could offer you that understanding, but I suppose it\u2019d be of little value now. My heart breaks for your daughter. I want her to have the understanding of how much you loved her, and the understanding of why things happen as they do, without the pain of personal struggle. I\u2019ll pray for her. My heart breaks for you too. I know what it is like in those final moments, when the world becomes a dream, and you decide to slip away. Sometimes you feel a stirring beneath your feet, as if the ground is about to open up. Sometimes you feel nothing at all. Every time I learn that someone has taken their own life, I pray for them. I pray for them, just as I did for myself in the moments when the fear set in, the final seconds before you hear the door shut behind you. I pray for their souls, though I can\u2019t honestly justify the idea that a loving God could punish people so desperate, so consumed by the darkness\u2026 for caving under the pressure. I pray they find peace, love, protection\u2026 and strength. I prayed for you today, Amanda. I heard the news at lunch, though my parents were afraid to say the words in front of me, my own past being so fresh behind me. I had a moment alone to go to PetSmart for rabbit food, and I prayed as I walked into the store. I almost felt as if I was floating, and I could almost feel your presence there. I understand the loneliness. I understand being overwhelmed. I\u2019m one of the few who can comprehend a moment of crisis, when you are certain you have no other options. I don\u2019t know why I\u2019m here, and you aren\u2019t. I am torn between feeling blessed and feeling guilty. I\u2019m also left with a nagging fear that I could still lose the battle one day too. I pray you are lifted gently to God without judgment or bitterness. Most people don\u2019t understand the desperation, mainly because they\u2019ve never felt it. I wish they could understand it without having to feel it. I know a lot of people make promises to themselves, though, a promise that they would never do such a thing, but who is to say where life will take us? How can any of us rest assured in what our future holds? I wish I could stop it. I wish, for everyone out there at this moment with a gun in their hand, a bottle of pills, a razorblade, on a bridge, or with something wrapped around their necks\u2026 I wish it would stop. And for their sakes, as for my own, I wish it would stay stopped. The truth is, it ebbs and flows, and we never know when the current may take us under, even when our feet seem planted, and steady. I wish, when people heard of suicide, they didn\u2019t place judgment. I wish it allowed them an opportunity to stop and consider with gratitude, how blessed it is to live a life so distant from dismay that you can\u2019t even comprehend such actions. My heart goes out to you, that you are safe now, wherever you are\u2026 I pray you are finding respite. My heart goes out to your family, friends, and students; that your life and their loss fills them with gratitude and allows them to realize the responsibility of support that is placed upon the stable who dwell amongst the troubled. I know I never said hello, but I hope my prayers find you now, and you are warmed by my understanding and reassured by the numbers of hearts going out to you and yours tonight.\nIf you, or someone you know is struggling with mental illness & contemplating suicide, there are options:\nIf you NEED HELP NOW\u2026 Call the NATIONAL SUICIDE PREVENTION LIFELINE: 1-800-273-TALK (8255)\nIf you are a survivor or have survived an attempt, you can find resources from NAMI (National Alliance on Mental Illness).\nTo take a stand against the stigma associated with mental illness, you can find out more from BRING CHANGE 2 MIND.\nYou can find out about suicide prevention from the AMERICAN FOUNDATION FOR SUICIDE PREVENTION.\nPlease don\u2019t wait until suicide affects you personally, find out how you can help. The AFSP does a walk to raise funds for suicide prevention research called: OUT OF THE DARKNESS. It is an 18 mile walk that ends at sunrise. In 2012, the walk will be in San Francisco. Sign up, raise money, train, and do something to not only save lives, but improve them as well. I\u2019m hoping to start a team, and do the walk in 2012.\nDo what you can to start the conversation, and take the first steps on the road toward healing.\n(this video was made to raise funds for the overnight walk that happened in NYC this past June)\nSeptember 16th, 2011 2 Comments\tHelp, Judgment, Love, Perspectives, Resources, Suicide, Survival\tIncurable Hope", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00240.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 182, + "original_length": 44824, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.98, + "perplexity": 267.3, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "https://independentmusicpromotions.com/exclusive-interview-moksha-sommer-hudost/", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T03:37:07Z", + "digest": "sha1:GUHVXML2FSAAYWQBTSESALYWG5TSVKXJ", + "length": 6858, + "nlines": 19, + "source_domain": "independentmusicpromotions.com", + "title": "Exclusive Interview with Moksha Sommer of HuDost | Independent Music Promotions", + "raw_content": "Today\u2019s exclusive interview is a special one. Moksha Sommer, the vocalist and multi-instrumentalist behind the absolutely brilliant neo-folk/world/rock project HuDost, where she teams up with guitarist/multi-instrumentalist Jemal Wade Hines and a host of other stellar musicians, is here to answer some of my questions. After listening to some of her music I was instantly a fan, and just hope I didn\u2019t come across as too much of a fanboy in the interview. My personal favourite artist is a bit of an unusual choice \u2013 Dead Can Dance. I\u2019ve always admired the rare artists who completely ignore mainstream expectations and actually let spirit do the work, taking themselves out of the way. Listening to HuDost\u2019s new album \u201cTrapeze\u201d, I immediately got the sense that this was one of those rare projects.\nWelcome to Independent Music Promotions, Moksha. It\u2019s obvious to me since my first listen to your music that you speak from the soul. Most artists tend to confuse their soul\u2019s song and end up trying to sound like someone else, or possibly too commercial. Your music, however, is both accessible and deeply moving and artistic, with a spiritual feeling to it. I\u2019m harping the point, but most artists really miss this critical mark. How important is it for artists to \u201cspeak from the right place\u201d?\nMS: Thank you!! Ironically, I think one of the most important aspects of song-writing is to \u201cspeak from the right place\u201d but can be one of the hardest things to attain. There have always been such intense associations between excellent song writers and huge egos. For me, I find it necessary to have some form of ego-negation in order for my best songs to be written. I have to efface my critical mind and the annalytical parts of me that can fuel my sense of self. When I am able to do so, I tap into \u201cthe right place\u201d.\nHow has the response been to \u201cTrapeze\u201d so far? From what I\u2019ve heard it\u2019s quite stunning.\nMS: There has been a very positive response. Interestingly, it has been the songs that we considered leaving off the album that have had the strongest response and people have expressed having been very moved by.\nYou\u2019ve played at Alex Grey\u2019s CoSM in New York and there is some amazing footage on Youtube of the performance. What a perfect setting for you! How did you cross paths with Alex Grey?\nAlex is an absolute delight to work with\u2026as is his wife, Allyson Grey. Jemal, my partner, first crossed paths with him ages ago when Alex was doing a project at the University of Florida. Since then, we have performed at his gallery a number of times and been delighted to do several joint performances with him and Allyson as they do live painting. It is wonderful to see what develops creatively when two art forms are being created simultaneously and act as sounding boards for one another.\nI think that a lot of people really look for a deep, spiritual experience from music, and doors have certainly been opened by artists like Peter Gabriel, Dead Can Dance and Azam Ali in this regard. Is world/fusion music bigger than it\u2019s ever been?\nHonestly, there are a lot of musicians who are creatively driven in the arena but there seems to continue to be a fear on the part of marketing and the music business end of things. You have no idea the number of booking agents who have said to us, we would be delighted to take you on if you choose one musical genre to stick with. We have always said no in order to retain creative freedom. I have observed the same thing with other musicians. With that said, the music industry is starting to see that there is a strong response from the \u201cconsumers\u201d to this type of music so are more inclined to jump on board. Oy. The politics of art.\nCongrats on playing the upcoming Bonnaroo Festival. That\u2019s fantastic news! What else is coming up for you on the live circuit?\nA ton! We are booked pretty intensely all summer doing festivals on both the West Coast and the East Coast (in Canada and the US). We are also booked for a good number of lovely outdoor performing arts Centers\u2026which are wonderful to play in the summer months (as long as it is not bug season!). We are also booked into the fall doing more festivals in the South East US and are also booked for Hawaii in January (terrible timing, no??) and are planning to tour Australia and New Zealand in March and April of 2013.\nMany artists are easily overwhelmed when looking at the mountain of things that may need to be done in order to achieve \u201csuccess\u201d. What advice would you give to independent musicians?\nThe main thing I have learned is that it is very easy to become overwhelmed and to get caught up in a wild wind of small tasks. The best thing is to not lose sight of the larger vision of what you want and to focus energy on the tasks that will aide that larger vision. Set up the PR and marketing structures that you need and aim high! Yes, do the shows that keep you fed and do adequate marketing behind them, but go for the gold. If you get one out of 200 high end shows that you apply for it will open doors and make it easier for more to come through. Also, make sure that your creative practice does not take the back seat. The joy of creation must be regarded as the true goal\u2026which means it can be obtained daily no matter what phase of professional development you are in. Enjoy the now it will open the doors of the future.\nWho are the artists that inspire you most; past and present?\nToo many to list! Some of these are rather obscure and some are uber famous. They cross all genres. Right now I am listening to newer music such as Feist and the Fleet Foxes\u2026I am also listening to early Chopin, Lhasa, the full Beach Boys repertoire, and a slew of other things\u2026my ideal is not drawing lines in terms of what I hear and absorb. The greater the auditory palette the more colourful the canvas is apt to be.\nWhat\u2019s next for HuDost?\nA lot is in the works. We are currently prepping to tour and are also in the studio working on a few projects. This last week I have been laying down vocals tracks for the next Jon Anderson (from the band YES) project. We are also working on an album that is entirely comprised of Eastern European and Arabic musical material\u2026most of which are our own compositions. AND, we are doing an album that has the sonic texture of traditional folk music with an experimental edge as well as an album of our songs that have been being crafted for the last year or so. Not too much on the plate, eh??\nPosted in Most RecentTagged alex grey, allyson grey, azam ali, beach boys, bonnaroo festival, chopin, cosm, dead can dance, featured, feist, fleet foxes, hudost, independent musicians, jemal wade hines, jon anderson, lhasa, moksha sommer, multi-instrumentalist, music industry, neo-folk, new album, peter gabriel, spiritual music, success, trapeze, world music\nIndustry Interview with Crystal Lee from Vandala Concepts", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00240.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 52, + "original_length": 7583, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.97, + "perplexity": 287.9, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "https://innovationinfo.org/Scholar-Journal-of-Applied-Sciences-and-Research/article/Unigranrio-Athletics-The-Experience-of-Construction-and-Development-of-a-Student-Organization-for-The-Medical-Student-Health-Promotion", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T03:31:12Z", + "digest": "sha1:FFR2MYEHNZLFNBE33KGSB5DH7FVYQFPV", + "length": 18591, + "nlines": 47, + "source_domain": "innovationinfo.org", + "title": "Unigranrio Athletics: The Experience of Construction and Development of a Student Organization for The Medical Student Health Promotion", + "raw_content": "Unigranrio Athletics: The Experience of Construction and Development of a Student Organization for The Medical Student Health Promotion\nName: Dr. Cely Carolyne Pontes Morcerf\nEmail: cely_carol@hotmail.com\nDesignation: Department of Mental Health, University Unigranrio.\nList of Author(s): Coutinho M, Pezzini MR, Morcerf CCP.\nReceived date: 06 March, 2018\nCitation: Coutinho M, Pezzini MR, Morcerf CCP (2018) Unigranrio Athletics: The Experience of Construction and Development of a Student Organization for The Medical Student Health Promotion. Sch J Appl Sci Res. Vol: 1, Issu: 6 (46-49).\nCopyright: \u00a9 2018 Coutinho M. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.\nCreated by groups of medical students with the purpose of moving sports practice, encouraging and instituting integration and leisure events between all university periods, Unigranrio\u2019s athleticism gains regional space and visibility by widening its fronts of action and to affirm its relevance within the medical training for the promotion of health and the guarantee of the quality of life of the medical student. However, the constant challenges point to the need for greater investment by athletic education institutions to actively support and participate in the construction and evolution of major events, partnerships and projects that have the general objective of welcoming, strengthening student ties and the commitment to the physical and mental health of the students.\nQuality of life, Health promotion, Sport, Medicine.\nCreated by a group of medical students committed to the accomplishment of constant sports practices inside the university and engaged in the insertion of the student of medicine in the sports and other linked activities like way of promotion of health of the academic, the athletic Unigranrio Bar gains prominence and visibility in academia within the university.\nAthletic has representation and partnership through an academic center through the athletic pillar, in addition to promoting integrations and actively participate in decisions and projects of the University, such as the support given to the Hemoria Blood Donation Campaign in Barra da Tijuca, Blood University Good. Each pillar in its structure would be responsible for erecting a new management idea, trying to evolve, learn from mistakes and rebuild starting from internal problems.\nThe athletic pillar aims to show that the potentialities are within each academic, as well as the confusions and anguishes that must be exposed and worked individually and, in a group, through sports and events with the participation of musical fronts and fans, while at the same time becoming independent, self-cooperative (to add visions and positive points) and questioning (to collect the rights of medical students).\nWe seek a humanistic, reflexive, active and ethical education, with the insertion of the academic in the most diverse scenarios that enable the learning and maturation of the future health professional engaged and socially competent, in direct contact and committed to the well-being of the medical student through sports practice and teamwork. In order to guarantee this holistic and quality-of-life training for the medical student, athletics, which despite being representative of the pillar of the academic center, is independent in relation to the organization of\nevents and fundraising, since its growth has led to the need of a greater distribution of activities and internal positions, brings together a group of goals and strategies encompassing extension projects that add positive aspects to the changes already achieved in previous administrations and consolidate the improvements established for Unigranrio\u2019s medical school, contributing to changes in medical training, aimed at health promotion of the academic [1-3].\nTo discuss with the scientific community and responsible for medical education the need for creation, encouragement for the development of athletics as a way of promoting the health of the medical student, integration of students inside and outside the university, serving as an interchange between ideas and artistic activities and sports students with various educational institutions, in addition to ensuring the quality of life of the medical student, who constantly receives a great deal of pressure and emotional de-structuring throughout the course.\nQualitative study, type of experience report.\nIn 1993 the OREM (Regional Olympiad of the Medical Student) was created, in which all the more than 20 medical schools of Rio de Janeiro and Esp\u00edrito Santo participated. By 2010, the OREM organization was divided between the participating universities, but from that date on, it was held by the regional organization through an organizing committee, backed by the colleges. However, once this committee was constituted by academic centers, there were differences of opinions and decisions regarding various factors related to the organization of the event, together with the respective sports representations in some colleges, debates began to solve the problem.\nIn 2016, the athletics of the universities participating in the OREM met and after a series of meetings announced the creation of LIRE (League Intermed of Rio de Janeiro and Espirito Santo) an independent, nonpartisan league that would take responsibility for the construction of the events by members who are actually organizing sports within the university.\nSports competitions are widely beneficial to everyone who participates in them, be it the polyathlete who plays 3 sports or the student who does not play any sport, but uses all his or her individual abilities and qualities to help his college, collaborating with the team and involving the team feeling that permeates the pride of being part and competing on behalf of your university, outside the court. For those who play, the feeling of being in a game with all your friends and college colleagues in the crowd is something indescribable, that only those who have gone through this can scale.\nTo those who do not play, to have on your shirt the print of your college, to sing a hymn in the middle of a huge crowd with people who are part of your daily life inside medical school, but who are there for a purpose union and vibration, something that goes beyond and differs from the routine of works and tests of several disciplines, is in fact an experience that is worth living and appreciated as a positive point for the maintenance of the quality of life of the medical student, acting on fronts such as the integration of students from a university with other educational institutions, thus disclosing the name and actions of the college, and mainly working with interpersonal relationships within the university by creating links between new students (freshmen) and their veterans. In addition, the university itself benefits in this type of competition, since a sportily respected faculty draws attention and promotes the name of the same to the public, thus increasing the demand of college students and the university\u2019s personal marketing towards the university. community.\nFrom the vision of athleticism, the projection for the future is very positive, since with the creation of LIRE, the resources collected in the sporting events will be reinvested in the sport within each university, so that the sport is increasingly encouraged and the student does not must pay for any training or sports competition in which the college participates, thus increasing the participation and adherence of students, as well as the resources invested in the area of sports activity, ensuring the quality of life of the student and the promotion of health of the same via practice of sports, organized by athletics within the university.\nRelationship between students\nWhen a student moves on to a medical school, he prepares for a passing ritual that provides anxieties and anxieties, chiefly related to the much-feared course of medicine. The initial student imaginary that the trot is a den of cruelties and that is a space for physical, verbal and humiliation is one of the points that generates great distrust and fear when entering university. The practice of efforts and struggle for a reality different from this imaginary is a work strengthened by the athletic of the institution, which holds a series of meetings with trotting committees and students before and during the trot to outline the best ways to make the trot a space of union, integration, healthy diversion and acceptance of the student, initiating the academic life in a responsible and organized way [1,2,4,5].\nJogging is a unique opportunity in student life in which the freshman creates a large part of his or her personal relationships, either with the other students in the same room or with their veterans. This is made possible by the spirit of integration to solve problems and exacerbate the spirit of leadership that exists in each one, through gymnastics and activities aimed at making freshmen better known and promoting integration among students [1,4].\nWith the help of the CAMU (Unigranrio Academic Medicine Center) of the Barra da Tijuca unit, athletics has helped to organize the trot in a humane, supportive and, above all, peaceful way. There are ways to control the violence in the trot, having the supervision of the Academic Center next to a trotting commission. Athletics and Academic Center help students in the second period of medical school to organize and form such a committee, sharing ideas and\npassing on experiences that have worked right or wrong in previous years, with the goal of always evolving and achieving positive and more effective results. In addition, the Academic Center organizes solidarity trot with athletic support, with the accomplishment of the University Blood Good, in partnership with Hemorio, with a campaign of blood donation and visits to hospitals and homes for special children [3].\nAs far as athleticism is concerned, when freshmen arrive in college, they receive a fee that must be paid at the end of the trot to participate in the celebration that is called Choppada. In order to make this collection possible, athletics enables materials such as raffles to sell in or out of college, class shirts that will be sold to students, or any other idea given by the class. This enables the creation of the spirit of unity so that everyone can participate in this milestone of the academic life of the freshman.\nThe Choppada party is the time when the freshman has the first casual contact out of college with other veterans who are not so close. This close contact with integration events promoted by athletics creates a fairly broad social network in which advanced-season veterans pass their summaries and experiences materials to early-season freshmen, making this freshman not as difficulty in studying a particular subject, since it becomes an alternative form of support for the student of medicine via transfer and exchange of abstracts and academic study schemes. This integration also creates links that will be established later in the union of students for the foundation of academic leagues and other organizations with student interests of specific groups.\nIn addition, all income collected at parties is reverted to the students themselves, either in improving the party as an attraction or a better place, investing furniture or improvements to the Academic Center room, buying refrigerators, sofas and microwaves, and incentive to the sport, in the purchase of sports materials, giving mainly aid of cost to the faculty teams.\nSports, besides being a form of health promotion and disease prevention, also have a function of inclusion and social interaction, unfortunately Brazil, a country diversified in all ways does not use or exploit the full potential that this activity allows practitioners and all those involved. The sport in the university scope leaves much to be desired if we compare to some developed countries, where the sport is a very important means of entrance for the Universities giving to the student and athlete innumerable possibilities and incentives for its professional life, be it with a diploma or athlete professional.\nThe reality of Unigranrio medical students, especially in the tijuca bar unit is very characteristic. Dealing every day with stressful traffic, ineffective public transportation, violence, before even arriving at your drive. The course, with all its peculiarities and responsibilities, seeks to train a responsible, resolute professional who has a holistic approach to the patient, considering all the spheres of complexity. The need to search for and absorb all the knowledge needed to become a good professional in a full-time course tends to be quite stressful, adding up to the external and individual factors mentioned above as a large part of the students who left different cities of the Brazil, many of the interior cities of countless states, away from their relatives and friends, making this stage even more difficult and difficult to adapt, as well as harming the academic health of the student.\nCurrent Athletics since the beginning of its management in August 2014, has always understood the importance of sport in the life of medical students as a moment of leisure, interaction and identification with their university, a very important moment to improve the quality of life of the students. Initially we assumed the disorganized management without regular training, incentive to few sports modalities, without materials necessary to carry out the trainings, without qualified professionals to apply the trainings. The main objective of athletics is to fully finance the costs of these activities, such as payment of coaches, equipment, among others, so that students have only the pleasure of enjoying this without additional worries, since the cost of attending Medicine is already quite high more in the city of Rio de Janeiro in which the cost of living is absurdly high.\nThese trainings include various modalities, in addition to the more traditional sports such as soccer, futsal, handball, volleyball, basketball and swimming (except soccer, all apply the masculine and feminine modalities), also was created last year the Cheersleader`s Unigranrio with purpose of including women and men who do not practice other sports in an artistic modality, united arts and sports and involving these components in partnerships and integrations with projects of extension of Unigranrio for fronts of community action, as well as the Sinusal Battery a musical modality which has a very significant factor in strengthening the Unigranrio identity, since medical students gather to play instruments and music directed to the representation of the University in major sporting and student leisure events, also acting through music as a form of health promotion [6-8].\nUnfortunately, the Barra da Tijuca campus does not yet have an infrastructure that allows these activities to be carried out inside, making it a very difficult task to get blocks and environments to carry them out, renting these spaces in the tijuca bar is very costly, students have to look for condominium spaces away from college, which also do not provide an ideal infrastructure and are hostage to their bureaucracy.\nA very important factor in a higher education course is to make the student fully identify with it, this goes far beyond the academic concepts learned in the classroom and the professional application of them. Pass through a personal identification and have the pleasure to integrate your class, your course, your profession, your Universe. It is the social character in integrating into Unigranrio\u2019s medical course society and being proud to be a part of it.\nThe Athletic seeks to promote this identification mainly through the sporting events, where the name of the course and the University is taken in the Hymns played by the Sinusal Drum and exalted in choir by the students participating in the Athletic the pride of being part of the Medicine Unigran, dressed in the shirts of the university and swinging their flags supporting the other students who are on playing court or on stage performing.\nThe Athletic has the shop, where students themselves use creativity to build Arts and products with this identity to be sold to students, teachers and employees of Unigranrio. This money is always reimbursed for the costs of training, payment of coaches, purchase of equipment, rental of spaces and registration in tournaments, although it is not fully enough for the costs of all the production and mobilization of Athletic.\nThe phenomenon of creation and expansion of athletics in universities, especially in medical schools, is a positive aspect, with broad acceptance and essential to maintain the medical student\u2019s quality of life, showing as a way of insertion, valorization, integration and development of individual skills and abilities in a collective way, thus being a protective factor for physical and mental pathologies, helping mainly to maintain healthy habits of medical students.\nAlves JGB, Ten\u00f3rio M, Anjos AG, Figueroa JN (2010) Quality of life in medical students at the beginning and end of the course: evaluation by Whoqol-bref. Rio de Janeiro 34: 91-96. [ Ref ]\nTrindade LMDF, Vieira MJ (2009) Course of Medicine: motivations and expectations of beginner students. Rio de Janeiro 33: 542-554. [ Ref ]\nAlbanes P, Bardagi MP, Luca GG, Girelli S (2014) From trot to mentoring: survey of the possibilities of reception for university students. S\u00e3o Paulo 15: 143-152. [ Ref ]\nMarin JC, Araujo DCS, Espin Neto J (2008) The trot in a medical school: an analysis of its excesses and socioeconomic influences. Rio de Janeiro 32: 474-481. [ Ref ]\nWarth MPTN, Lisboa LF (1999) Tradition, Trot and Violence. Interface (Botucatu). 3: 111-118. [ Ref ]\nMeyer C, Guimar\u00e3es ACA, Machado Z, Parcias SR (2012) Quality of life and occupational stress in medical students. Rio de Janeiro 36: 489-498. [ Ref ]\nRaddi LLO, Silva J\u00fanior JP, Ferrari GLM, Oliveira LC, Matsudo VKR (2014) Level of physical activity and accumulation of time sitting in medical students. S\u00e3o Paulo 20: 101-104. 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Spiegelman to serve on the Company's Board. Mr. Spiegelman has also been appointed to serve as Chairman of the Audit Committee.\n\"We are very pleased to welcome Dan to our Board and look forward to working with him,\" stated Gregory Demopulos, M.D., Chairman and CEO of Omeros. \"Dan brings a substantial depth and breadth of financial experience in public biotech companies. He will be a valuable asset to Omeros as we prepare to bring our products to market.\"\n\"I am excited to be joining Omeros' Board,\" stated Daniel Spiegelman. \"The strength of the Company's management team and pipeline provide significant and multiple opportunities to advance science and improve the lives of patients. I look forward to contributing to the Company's success.\"\nMr. Spiegelman has over 25 years of executive management, finance and operations experience. He was senior vice president and chief financial officer at CV Therapeutics prior to and during its acquisition by Gilead earlier this year. Prior to that, he was employed by Genentech, where he served as Treasurer and held a number of other senior financial positions. Mr. Spiegelman also serves on the boards of directors and chairs the audit committees of Affymax, Cyclacel Pharmaceuticals and Oncothyreon, all publicly traded biopharmaceutical companies. He earned his M.B.A. from the Stanford Graduate School of Business and his B.A. in economics from Stanford University.\nFor more information on Omeros, visit the Company's website at www.omeros.com\nThis press release contains forward-looking statements as defined within the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995, which are subject to the \"safe harbor\" created by those sections. These statements include, but are not limited to, statements regarding ability of the Company's management team and pipeline to advance science and improve the lives of patients. Forward-looking statements are based on management's beliefs and assumptions and on information available to management only as of the date of this press release. Omeros' actual results could differ materially from those anticipated in these forward-looking statements for many reasons, including, without limitation, the risks, uncertainties and other factors described under the heading \"Risk Factors\" in the Company's Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on November 19, 2009. 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The fair value of the interest rate swap was determined using the market standard methodology of netting the discounted future fixed cash payments and the discounted expected variable cash receipts. The variable cash receipt was based on an expectation of future interest rates (forward curves) derived from observable market interest rate curves. To comply with U.S. GAAP, credit valuation adjustments were incorporated to appropriately reflect both the Company\u2019s nonperformance risk and the respective counterparty\u2019s nonperformance risk in the fair value measurements. The majority of the inputs used to value the interest rate swap were within Level 2 of the fair value hierarchy. As of June 30, 2016 and December 31, 2015, the interest rate swap was a Level 2 derivative and was classified as other long-term liabilities on the Company\u2019s condensed consolidated balance sheets.\nIn June 2016, the Financial Accounting Standards Board (\u201cFASB\u201d) issued Accounting Standards Update (\u201cASU\u201d) No. 2016-13, \u201cFinancial Instruments-Credit Losses (Topic 326): Measurement of Credit Losses on Financial Instruments,\u201d (\u201cASU 2016-13\u201d) which requires measurement and recognition of expected versus incurred credit losses for financial assets held. ASU 2016-13 is effective for the Company\u2019s annual and interim reporting periods beginning January 1, 2020, with early adoption permitted on January 1, 2019. The Company is currently evaluating the impact of this ASU on its consolidated financial statements; however at the current time the Company does not know what impact the adoption will have on its consolidated financial statements, financial condition or results of operations.\nIn March 2016, the FASB issued ASU No. 2016-09, \u201cCompensation-Stock Compensation (Topic 718): Improvements to Employee Share-Based Payment Accounting\u201d (\u201cASU 2016-09\u201d). The updated guidance changes how companies account for certain aspects of share-based payment awards to employees, including the accounting for income taxes, forfeitures, and statutory tax withholding requirements, as well as classification in the statement of cash flows. The update to the standard is effective for the Company\u2019s annual and interim reporting periods beginning January 1, 2017, with early adoption permitted. The Company is currently evaluating the impact of ASU 2016-09 on its consolidated financial statements; however at the current time the Company does not know what impact the adoption of ASU 2016-09 will have on its consolidated financial statements, financial condition or results of operations.\nIn March 2016, the FASB issued ASU No. 2016-08, \u201cRevenue from Contracts with Customers (Topic 606): Principal versus Agent Considerations (Reporting Revenue Gross versus Net).\u201d This update provides clarifying guidance regarding the application of ASU 2014-09 when another party, along with the reporting entity, is involved in providing a good or a service to a customer. In these circumstances, an entity is required to determine whether the nature of its promise is to provide that good or service to the customer (that is, the entity is a principal) or to arrange for the good or service to be provided to the customer by the other party (that is, the entity is an agent). In April 2016, the FASB issued ASU No. 2016-10, \u201cRevenue from Contracts with Customers: Identifying Performance Obligations and Licensing,\u201d which clarifies the identification of performance obligations and the licensing implementation guidance. In May 2016, the FASB issued ASU No. 2016-11, \u201cRevenue Recognition and Derivatives and Hedging: Rescission of SEC Guidance Because of Accounting Standards Updates 2014-09 and 2014-16 Pursuant to Staff Announcements at the March 3, 2016 Emerging Issues Task Force Meeting (\u201cEITF\u201d),\u201d which rescinds SEC paragraphs pursuant to SEC staff announcements. These rescissions include changes to topics pertaining to accounting for shipping and handling fees and costs and accounting for consideration given by a vendor to a customer. 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The Credit Agreement matures on June 30, 2020. The Credit Agreement replaces the credit agreement dated June 30, 2009, which expired on June 30, 2015. The Credit Agreement permits the Company and certain of its subsidiaries to borrow based on a percentage of eligible accounts receivable plus the sum of (a) the lesser of (i) a percentage of eligible inventory to be sold at wholesale and (ii) a percentage of net orderly liquidation value of eligible inventory to be sold at wholesale, plus (b) the lesser of (i) a percentage of the value of eligible inventory to be sold at retail and (ii) a percentage of net orderly liquidation value of eligible inventory to be sold at retail, plus (c) the lesser of (i) a percentage of the value of eligible in-transit inventory and (ii) a percentage of the net orderly liquidation value of eligible in-transit inventory. Borrowings bear interest at the Company\u2019s election\nbased on (a) LIBOR or (b) the greater of (i) the Prime Rate, (ii) the Federal Funds Rate plus 0.5% and (iii) LIBOR for a 30-day period plus 1.0%, in each case, plus an applicable margin based on the average daily principal balance of revolving loans available under the Credit Agreement. The Company pays a monthly unused line of credit fee of 0.25%, payable on the first day of each month in arrears, which is based on the average daily principal balance of outstanding revolving loans and undrawn amounts of letters of credit outstanding during such month. The Credit Agreement further provides for a limit on the issuance of letters of credit to a maximum of $100.0 million. The Credit Agreement contains customary affirmative and negative covenants for secured credit facilities of this type, including covenants that will limit the ability of the Company and its subsidiaries to, among other things, incur debt, grant liens, make certain acquisitions, dispose of assets, effect a change of control of the Company, make certain restricted payments including certain dividends and stock redemptions, make certain investments or loans, enter into certain transactions with affiliates and certain prohibited uses of proceeds. The Credit Agreement also requires compliance with a minimum fixed-charge coverage ratio if Availability drops below 10% of the Revolver Commitments (as such terms are defined in the Credit Agreement) until the date when no event of default has existed and Availability has been over 10% for 30 consecutive days. The Company paid closing and arrangement fees of $1.1 million on this facility which are included in Other assets in the condensed consolidated balance sheets, and are being amortized to interest expense over the five-year life of the facility.\nAs of the date of the Amended Loan Agreement, the outstanding principal balance of the Original Loan was $77.3 million. In connection with this refinancing of the Original Loan, the JV, the Company and its joint-venture partner HF Logistics (\u201cHF\u201d) agreed that the Company would make an additional capital contribution of $38.7 million to the JV, through HF-T1, to make a prepayment on the Original Loan based on the Company\u2019s 50% equity interest in the JV. The prepayment equaled the Company\u2019s 50% share of the outstanding principal balance of the Original Loan. Under the Amended Loan Agreement, the parties agreed that the lenders would loan $70.0 million to HF-T1 (the \"New Loan\"). The New Loan was used by the JV, through HF-T1, to (i) refinance all amounts owed on the Original Loan after taking into account the prepayment described above, (ii) pay $0.9 million in accrued interest, loan fees and other closing costs associated with the New Loan and (iii) make a distribution of $31.3 million less the amounts described in clause (ii) to HF. Pursuant to the Amended Loan Agreement, the interest rate on the New Loan is the LIBOR Daily Floating Rate (as defined in the Amended Loan Agreement) plus a margin of 2%. The maturity date of the New Loan is August 12, 2020, which HF-T1 has one option to extend by an additional 24 months, or until August 12, 2022, upon payment of a fee and satisfaction of certain customary conditions. On August 11, 2015, HF-T1 and Bank of America, N.A. entered into an ISDA Master Agreement (together with the schedule related thereto, the \"Swap Agreement\") to govern derivative and/or hedging transactions that HF-T1 concurrently entered into with Bank of America, N.A. Pursuant to the Swap Agreement, on August 14, 2015, HF-T1 entered into a confirmation of swap transactions (the \"Interest Rate Swap\") with Bank of America, N.A. The Interest Rate Swap has an effective date of August 12, 2015 and a maturity date of August 12, 2022, subject to early termination at the option of HF-T1, commencing on August 1, 2020. The Interest Rate Swap effectively modifies interest rate risk exposure by converting the Company\u2019s floating-rate debt to a fixed-rate of 4.08% for the term of the New Loan, thus reducing the impact of interest-rate changes on future interest payments. Pursuant to the terms of the JV, HF is responsible for the related interest expense payments on the New Loan, and any amounts related to the Swap Agreement. The full amount of interest expense paid related to the New Loan has been included in the Company\u2019s condensed consolidated statements of equity within non-controlling interests. The Company\u2019s objectives in using an interest rate derivative are to add stability to interest payments and to manage exposure to interest rate movements. The Amended Loan Agreement and the Swap Agreement are subject to customary covenants and events of default. Bank of America, N.A. also acts as a lender and syndication agent under the Credit Agreement dated June 30, 2015.\nBy utilizing an interest rate swap, the Company is exposed to credit-related losses in the event that the counterparty fails to perform under the terms of the derivative contract. To mitigate this risk, the Company entered into derivative contracts with major financial institutions based upon credit ratings and other factors. The Company continually assesses the creditworthiness of its counterparties. As of June 30, 2016, all counterparties to the interest rate swap had performed in accordance with their contractual obligations.\nOn December 29, 2010, the Company entered into a Master Loan and Security Agreement (the \u201cMaster Agreement\u201d), by and between the Company and Banc of America Leasing & Capital, LLC, and an Equipment Security Note (together with the Master Agreement, the \u201cLoan Documents\u201d), by and among the Company, Banc of America Leasing & Capital, LLC, and Bank of Utah, as\nagent (\u201cAgent\u201d). The Company used the proceeds to refinance certain equipment already purchased and to purchase new equipment for use in the Rancho Belago distribution facility. Borrowings made pursuant to the Master Agreement may be in the form of one or more equipment security notes (each a \u201cNote,\u201d and, collectively, the \u201cNotes\u201d) up to a maximum limit of $80.0 million and each for a term of 60 months. The First Note entered into on the same date as the Master Agreement represented a borrowing of approximately $39.3 million (\u201cthe First Note\u201d). Interest accrued at a fixed rate of 3.54% per annum on the First Note. The Company made the final payment on the First Note on December 29, 2015. On June 30, 2011, the Company entered into another Note agreement for approximately $36.3 million (\u201cthe Second Note\u201d). Interest accrued at a fixed rate of 3.19% per annum on the Second Note. The Company made the final payment on the Second Note on June 29, 2016.\nDuring the three months ended June 30, 2016, 682,408 shares of Class B common stock were converted into shares of Class A common stock. During the three months ended June 30, 2015, 2,456,730 shares of Class B common stock were converted into shares of Class A common stock. During the six months ended June 30, 2016, 1,733,270 shares of Class B common stock were converted into shares of Class A common stock. During the six months ended June 30, 2015, 3,223,296 shares of Class B common stock were converted into shares of Class A common stock.\nFor stock-based awards, the Company recognized compensation expense based on the grant date fair value. Share-based compensation expense was $6.2 million and $4.5 million for the three months ended June 30, 2016 and 2015, respectively. Share-based compensation expense was $10.9 million and $8.9 million for the six months ended June 30, 2016 and 2015, respectively.\nA summary of the status and changes of the Company\u2019s nonvested shares related to the 2007 Incentive Award Plan (the \u201c2007 Plan\u201d), as of and for the six months ended June 30, 2016 is presented below:\nThe tax provision for the three and six months ended June 30, 2016 and 2015 was computed using the estimated effective tax rates applicable to each of the domestic and international taxable jurisdictions for the full year. The Company estimates its ongoing effective annual tax rate for the remainder of 2016 to be between 17% and 22%, which is subject to management\u2019s quarterly review and revision, as necessary.\nThe Company\u2019s provision for income tax expense and effective income tax rate are significantly impacted by the mix of the Company\u2019s domestic and foreign earnings (loss) before income taxes. In the foreign jurisdictions in which the Company has operations, the applicable statutory rates range from 0% to 34%, which is generally significantly lower than the U.S. federal and state combined statutory rate of approximately 39%. For the three and six months ended June 30, 2016, the decrease in the effective tax rate was primarily due to an increase in the amount of projected foreign earnings for our China operations relative to projected domestic earnings as compared to the same period in the prior year.\nAs of June 30, 2016, the Company had approximately $628.8 million in cash and cash equivalents, of which $332.0 million, or 52.8%, was held outside the U.S. Of the $332.0 million held by the Company\u2019s foreign subsidiaries, approximately $70.3 million is available for repatriation to the U.S. without incurring U.S. income taxes and applicable foreign income and withholding taxes in excess of the amounts accrued in the Company\u2019s condensed consolidated financial statements. Under current applicable tax laws, if the Company chooses to repatriate some or all of the funds designated as indefinitely reinvested outside the U.S., the amount repatriated would be subject to U.S. income taxes and applicable foreign income and withholding taxes. The Company does not expect to repatriate any of the funds presently designated as indefinitely reinvested outside the U.S. As such, the Company did not provide for deferred income taxes on its accumulated undistributed earnings of the Company\u2019s foreign subsidiaries.\nThe Company generates the majority of its sales in the United States; however, several of its products are sold into various foreign countries, which subjects the Company to the risks of doing business abroad. In addition, the Company operates in the footwear industry, and its business depends on the general economic environment and levels of consumer spending. Changes in the marketplace may significantly affect management\u2019s estimates and the Company\u2019s performance. Management performs regular evaluations concerning the ability of customers to satisfy their obligations and provides for estimated doubtful accounts. Domestic accounts receivable, which generally do not require collateral from customers, were $258.2 million and $180.2 million before allowances for bad debts, sales returns and chargebacks at June 30, 2016 and December 31, 2015, respectively. Foreign accounts receivable, which in some cases are collateralized by letters of credit, were equal to $237.0 million and $188.0 million before allowance for bad debts, sales returns and chargebacks at June 30, 2016 and December 31, 2015, respectively. The Company\u2019s credit losses attributable to write-offs (recoveries) for the three months ended June 30, 2016 and 2015 were $1.5 million and $(0.4) million, respectively. The Company\u2019s credit losses attributable to write-offs for the six months ended June 30, 2016 and 2015 were $4.0 million and $0.7 million, respectively.\nThe Company\u2019s net sales to its five largest customers accounted for approximately 11.8% and 15.9% of total net sales for the three months ended June 30, 2016 and 2015, respectively. The Company\u2019s net sales to its five largest customers accounted for approximately 12.7% and 16.3% of total net sales for the six months ended June 30, 2016 and 2015, respectively. No customer accounted for more than 10.0% of the Company\u2019s net sales during the three and six months ended June 30, 2016 and 2015. No customer accounted for more than 10.0% of trade receivables at June 30, 2016. As of December 31, 2015, one customer accounted for 10.6% of trade receivables.", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00240.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 1016, + "original_length": 49368, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.96, + "perplexity": 167.4, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "https://ipfs.io/ipfs/QmXoypizjW3WknFiJnKLwHCnL72vedxjQkDDP1mXWo6uco/wiki/Benjam%C3%ADn_Noval.html", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T03:20:49Z", + "digest": "sha1:DEQIMTDIPPE3DLLERZ3UAEDHCHTVCY74", + "length": 1539, + "nlines": 18, + "source_domain": "ipfs.io", + "title": "Benjam\u00edn Noval", + "raw_content": "Benjam\u00edn Noval\nNoval at the 2007 Tour de Romandie.\nTegui-Galibier\nRelax-Gam\nSaxo Bank\u2013SunGard[1]\nThis name uses Spanish naming customs: the first or paternal family name is Noval.\nBenjam\u00edn Noval Gonz\u00e1lez (born 23 January 1979) is a former Spanish professional road bicycle racer, who competed as a professional between 2001 and 2013.[2]\nBorn in Mieres, Asturias, Noval turned professional in 2001, riding for Relax-Gam for three years before switching to U.S. Postal Service (later Discovery Channel), where he stayed for four years. Noval switched to Astana for 2008, and for the 2011 season joined compatriots and team-mates Alberto Contador, Jes\u00fas Hern\u00e1ndez and Daniel Navarro in signing for Saxo Bank\u2013SunGard.[3] At the end of the 2013 racing season Noval announced his retirement from professional road racing, despite being offered a contract by Tinkoff\u2013Saxo for the following season.[2]\n9th Overall Vuelta a Navarra\n6th Overall Vuelta a La Rioja\n9th Overall Volta a Catalunya\n1st Stage 4Tour de France\n3rd Clasica de Almeria\n\u2191 \"Team Saxo-Tinkoff (TST) \u2013 DEN\". UCI World Tour. Union Cycliste Internationale. Retrieved 11 January 2013.\n1 2 Hood, Andrew (15 October 2013). \"Benjamin Noval, Contador's longtime lieutenant, retires from the peloton\". VeloNews. Competitor Group, Inc. Retrieved 15 October 2013.\n\u2191 http://www.cyclingnews.com/news/saxo-bank-sungard-signs-contadors-top-spaniards\nMedia related to Benjamin Noval at Wikimedia Commons\nBenjam\u00edn Noval at Trap-Friis.dk. Archive copy at the Wayback Machine (archived 24 May 2011)", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00240.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 62, + "original_length": 2333, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.87, + "perplexity": 131.9, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "https://ipfs.io/ipfs/QmXoypizjW3WknFiJnKLwHCnL72vedxjQkDDP1mXWo6uco/wiki/House_of_Welf.html", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T04:26:45Z", + "digest": "sha1:5QZXZOCWLAEX4OZQQCT5L7YI5IDBRFD2", + "length": 12286, + "nlines": 75, + "source_domain": "ipfs.io", + "title": "House of Welf", + "raw_content": "House of Welf (Guelf or Guelph)\nGermany, Italy, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland\nDuke of Spoleto\nMargrave of Tuscany\nCount Palatine of the Rhine\nPrince of L\u00fcneburg\nPrince of Brunswick-Wolfenb\u00fcttel\nElector of Hanover\nKing of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland\nWelf I, Duke of Bavaria\nErnest Augustus, Duke of Brunswick\nErnst August V, Prince of Hanover\n1918 (in Germany);\n1901 (in UK and India)\nThe possessions of the Guelfs in the days of Henry the Lion\nThe House of Welf (also Guelf or Guelph[1]) was a European dynasty that has included many German and British monarchs from the 11th to 20th century and Emperor Ivan VI of Russia in the 18th century.\nSee also: Guelphs and Ghibellines and Hundings\nThe House of Welf is the older branch of the House of Este, a dynasty whose earliest known members lived in Lombardy in the late 9th/early 10th century, sometimes called Welf-Este. The first member was Welf IV; he inherited the property of the Elder House of Welf when his maternal uncle Welf III, Duke of Carinthia and Verona, the last male Welf of the Elder House, died in 1055. Welf IV was the son of Welf III's sister Kunigunde of Altdorf and her husband Albert Azzo II of Este, Margrave of Milan. In 1070, Welf IV became duke of Bavaria.\nWelf V married Countess Matilda of Tuscany, who died childless and left him her possessions, including Tuscany, Ferrara, Modena, Mantua, and Reggio, which played a role in the Investiture controversy. Since the Welf dynasty sided with the Pope in this controversy, partisans of the Pope came to be known in Italy as Guelphs.\nKunigunde of Altdorf, sister of Welf III, wife of Albert Azzo II of Este, Margrave of Milan, parents of Welf IV\nWelf IV, Duke of Bavaria (* 1030/1040; \u2020 1101)\nWelf V, Duke of Bavaria (1073\u20131120)\nBavaria and Saxony\nHenry the Black, duke of Bavaria from 1120\u20131126, was the first of the three dukes of the Welf dynasty called Henry. His wife Wulfhild was the heiress of the house of Billung, possessing the territory around L\u00fcneburg in Lower Saxony. Their son, Henry the Proud was the son-in-law and heir of Emperor Lothair of Supplinburg and became also duke of Saxony on Lothair's death. Lothair left his territory around Brunswick, inherited from his mother of the Brunonen family, to his daughter Gertrud. Her husband Henry the Proud became then the favoured candidate in the imperial election against Conrad III of the Hohenstaufen. But Henry lost the election, as the other princes feared his power and temperament, and was dispossessed of his duchies by Conrad III. Henry's brother Welf VI (1115\u20131191), Margrave of Tuscany, later left his Swabian territories around Ravensburg, the original possessions of the Elder House of Welf, to his nephew Emperor Frederick I and thus to the House of Hohenstaufen.\nHenry the Black, duke of Bavaria (1075\u20131126) and his wife Wulfhild of Billung\nHenry the Proud (1102\u20131139), Duke of Bavaria and Saxony, and his wife Gertrud of Saxony, daughter of Emperor Lothair III, Duke of Saxony\nWelf VI (1115\u20131191), Margrave of Tuscany\nSteingaden Abbey, Swabia, place of burial of its founder Welf VI (\u2020 1191)\nHenry the Lion recovered his father's two duchies, Saxony in 1142, Bavaria in 1156 and thus ruled vast parts of Germany. In 1168 he married Matilda (1156\u20131189), the daughter of Henry II of England and Eleanor of Aquitaine, and sister of Richard Lionheart, gaining ever more influence. His first cousin, Emperor Frederick I of the Hohenstaufen dynasty, tried to get along with him, but when Henry refused to assist him once more in an Italian war campaign, conflict became inevitable. Dispossessed of his duchies after the Battle of Legnano in 1176 by Emperor Frederick I and the other princes of the German Empire eager to claim parts of his vast territories, he was exiled to the court of his father-in-law Henry II in Normandy in 1180, but returned to Germany three years later. Henry made his peace with the Hohenstaufen Emperor in 1185, and returned to his much diminished lands around Brunswick without recovering his two duchies. Bavaria had been given to Otto I Wittelsbach, Duke of Bavaria, and the Duchy of Saxony was divided between the Archbishop of Cologne, the House of Ascania and others. Henry died at Brunswick in 1195.\nHenry the Lion (1130\u20131195), Duke of Bavaria and Saxony\nMatilda Plantagenet (1156\u20131189), wife of Henry the Lion, sister of Richard Lionheart\nHenry's Dankwarderode Castle in Brunswick\nHenry's Brunswick Lion\nOtto IV, Holy Roman Emperor, son of Henry the Lion and Matilda of England\nBrunswick and Hanover\nHenry's son Otto of Brunswick was elected King of the Romans and crowned Holy Roman Emperor Otto IV after years of further conflicts with the Hohenstaufen emperors. He incurred the wrath of Pope Innocent III and was excommunicated in 1215. Otto was forced to abdicate the imperial throne by the Hohenstaufen Frederick II.[2] He was the only Welf to become emperor of the Holy Roman Empire.\nHenry the Lion's grandson Otto the Child became duke of a part of Saxony in 1235, the new Duchy of Brunswick-L\u00fcneburg, and died there in 1252. The duchy was divided several times during the High Middle Ages amongst various lines of the House of Welf, but the rulers all continued to be styled as the \"Duke of Brunswick-L\u00fcneburg\" in addition to \"Prince of L\u00fcneburg\", \"Prince of Wolfenb\u00fcttel\", \"Prince of Calenberg-Gottingen\" or \"Prince of Grubenhagen\" etc. The subsequent history of the dukedom and its subordinate principalities was characterized by numerous divisions and reunifications. The subordinate states that were repeatedly created, and which had the legal status of principalities within the duchy (officially remaining an undivided imperial fief) were generally named after the residences of their rulers. The estates of the different dynastic lines could be inherited by a side line when a family died out. The individual subordinate principalities continued to exist until the end of the Holy Roman Empire in 1806. Following the Congress of Vienna in 1814/15, the territories became part of the Kingdom of Hanover and the Duchy of Brunswick.\nIn 1269 the Principality of Brunswick was formed following the first division of the Duchy of Brunswick-L\u00fcneburg. In 1432, as a result of increasing tensions with the townsfolk of Brunswick, the Brunswick Line moved their residence to Wolfenb\u00fcttel Castle, thus the name Wolfenb\u00fcttel became the unofficial name of this principality. With Ivan VI of Russia the Brunswick line even had a short intermezzo on the Russian imperial throne in 1740. Not until 1754 was the residence moved back to Brunswick, into the new Brunswick Palace. In 1814 the principality became the Duchy of Brunswick, ruled by the senior branch of the House of Welf.\nPrincipality of Calenberg \u2013 later Electorate of Brunswick-L\u00fcneburg\nCoat of Arms of the Electorate of Brunswick-L\u00fcneburg (1708)\nIn 1432 the estates gained by the Principality of Brunswick-Wolfenb\u00fcttel between the Deister and Leine split away as the Principality of Calenberg. In 1495 it was expanded around G\u00f6ttingen and in 1584 went back to the Wolfenb\u00fcttel Line. In 1634, as a result of inheritance distributions, it went to the House of Luneburg residing at Celle Castle. In 1635 it was given to George, younger brother of Prince Ernest II of L\u00fcneburg, who chose Hanover as his residence. New territory was added in 1665, and in 1705 the Principality of Luneburg was taken over by the Hanoverians. In 1692 Duke Ernest Augustus from the Calenberg-Hanover Line acquired the right to be a prince-elector of the Holy Roman Empire as the Prince-Elector of Brunswick-L\u00fcneburg. Colloquially the Electorate was known as the Electorate of Hanover. In 1814 it was succeeded by the Kingdom of Hanover.\nBritish succession\nReligion-driven politics brought about Ernest Augustus' wife Sophia of Hanover being in the line of succession to the British crown by the Settlement Act of 1701, written to ensure a Protestant succession to the thrones of Scotland and England at a time when anti-Catholic sentiment ran high in much of Northern Europe and Great Britain. But Sophia died shortly before her first cousin once removed, Anne, Queen of Great Britain, the last sovereign of the House of Stuart. Sophia's son George I succeeded queen Anne and formed a personal union from 1714 between the British crown and the Electorate of Hanover, which lasted until well after the end of the Napoleonic Wars more than a century later, through the dissolution of the Holy Roman Empire and the rise of a new successor kingdom. The British royal family became known as the House of Hanover.\nCoat of arms of the Hanoverian Kings of Great Britain (1714\u20131801)\nFrederick, Prince of Wales (b. 1707 d. 1751)\nThe \"Electorate of Hanover\" (the core duchy) was enlarged with the addition of other lands and became the Kingdom of Hanover in 1814 at the Congress of Vienna. During the first half of the nineteenth century, the Kingdom was ruled as personal union by the British crown from its creation under George III of the United Kingdom, the last elector of Hanover until the death of William IV in 1837. At that point, the crown of Hanover went to William's younger brother, Ernest Augustus, Duke of Cumberland and Teviotdale under the Salic law requiring the next male heir to inherit, whereas the British throne was inherited by an elder brother's only daughter, Queen Victoria. Her offspring belong to the House of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha: in 1917 the name was changed to the House of Windsor.\nThe Kingdom of Hanover was lost in 1866 by Ernest Augustus' son George V of Hanover, Austria's ally during the Austro-Prussian War, when it was annexed by Prussia after Austria's defeat, and became the Prussian province of Hanover. The Welfs went into exile at Gmunden, Austria, where they built Cumberland Castle.\nKing Ernest Augustus I of Hanover (1771\u20131851)\nBrunswick succession\nThe senior line of the dynasty had ruled the much smaller principality of Brunswick-Wolfenb\u00fcttel, created the sovereign Duchy of Brunswick in 1814. This line became extinct in 1884. Although the Duchy should have been inherited by the Duke of Cumberland, son of the last king of Hanover, Prussian suspicions of his loyalty led the duchy's throne to remain vacant until 1913, when the Duke of Cumberland's son, Ernst August, married the daughter of Kaiser Wilhelm II and was allowed to inherit it. His rule there was short-lived, as the monarchy came to an end following the First World War in 1918.\nThe Welf dynasty continues to exist. The last member sitting on a European throne was Frederica of Hanover, Queen of Greece (\u2020 1981), mother of Queen Sofia of Spain and King Constantine II of Greece. Frederica's brother Prince George William of Hanover married Princess Sophie of Greece and Denmark, sister of Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh. The House's head is Queen Frederica's nephew Ernst August, the third and present husband of Princess Caroline of Monaco.\nThe Leine Palace in Hanover\nHerrenhausen Gardens and palace in Hanover\nEarly Welf princes (1070\u20131269)\nDukes of Bavaria and Saxony\nWelf I, Duke of Bavaria (1070\u20131077, 1096\u20131101)\nWelf II, son of Welf I; Duke of Bavaria (1101\u20131120)\nHenry IX, the Black, son of Welf I; Duke of Bavaria (1120\u20131126)\nHenry X, the Proud, son of Henry the Black; Duke of Bavaria (1126\u20131138), Duke of Saxony (1137\u20131139)\nHenry XI, the Lion, son of Henry the Proud; Duke of Saxony (1142\u20131180), Duke of Bavaria (1156\u20131180)\nHenry V, son of Henry the Lion; Count Palatine of the Rhine (1195\u20131213)\nHenry VI, son of Henry V; Count Palatine of the Rhine (1213\u20131214)\nOtto IV, son of Henry the Lion; Holy Roman Emperor (1198\u20131215)\nDukes of Brunswick-L\u00fcneburg\nOtto I, grandson of Henry the Lion; Duke of Brunswick-L\u00fcneburg (1235\u20131252)\nAlbert I, son of Otto I; Duke of Brunswick-L\u00fcneburg (1252\u20131269); ancestor of the House of Hanover\nJohn, son of Otto I; Duke of Brunswick-L\u00fcneburg (1252\u20131269)\nGuelph Treasure\nKings of Germany family tree.\nWelf family tree 12th century\nWelf family tree 11th century to present\n\u2191 Jones, B. (2013). Dictionary of World Biography. Canberra, Australia: Australian National University. p. 356. ISBN 9781922144492.\n\u2191 Canduci, pg. 294\nWikisource has the text of the 1911 Encyclop\u00e6dia Britannica article Welf.\nDie Welfen. Official site (German)", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00240.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 571, + "original_length": 18634, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.96, + "perplexity": 125.8, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "https://ipfs.io/ipfs/QmXoypizjW3WknFiJnKLwHCnL72vedxjQkDDP1mXWo6uco/wiki/Metamorphosis.html", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T03:26:48Z", + "digest": "sha1:BLVW6KPVBABIE7TRIFODJHHAYGCW3NHX", + "length": 14062, + "nlines": 59, + "source_domain": "ipfs.io", + "title": "Metamorphosis", + "raw_content": "This article is about the biological process. For other uses, see Metamorphosis (disambiguation).\nA dragonfly in its final moult, undergoing metamorphosis from its nymph form to an adult\nMetamorphosis is a biological process by which an animal physically develops after birth or hatching, involving a conspicuous and relatively abrupt change in the animal's body structure through cell growth and differentiation. Some insects, fishes, amphibians, mollusks, crustaceans, cnidarians, echinoderms and tunicates undergo metamorphosis, which is often accompanied by a change of nutrition source or behavior. Animals can be divided into species that undergo complete metamorphosis (\"holometaboly\"), incomplete metamorphosis (\"hemimetaboly\"), or no metamorphosis (\"ametaboly\").\nScientific usage of the term is technically precise, and is not applied to general aspects of cell growth, including rapid growth spurts. References to \"metamorphosis\" in mammals are imprecise and only colloquial, but historically idealist ideas of transformation and monadology, as in Goethe's Metamorphosis of Plants, have influenced the development of ideas of evolution\nThe word metamorphosis derives from Greek \u03bc\u03b5\u03c4\u03b1\u03bc\u03cc\u03c1\u03c6\u03c9\u03c3\u03b9\u03c2, \"transformation, transforming\",[1] from \u03bc\u03b5\u03c4\u03b1- (meta-), \"change\" and \u03bc\u03bf\u03c1\u03c6\u03ae (morphe), \"form\".[2]\nIncomplete metamorphosis in the grasshopper with different instar nymphs\nAll three categories can be found in the diversity of insects, including no metamorphosis (\"ametaboly\"), incomplete or partial metamorphosis (\"hemimetaboly\"), and complete metamorphosis (\"holometaboly\"). While ametabolous insects show very little difference between larval and adult forms (also known as \"direct development\"), both hemimetabolous and holometabolous insects have significant morphological and behavioral differences between larval and adult forms, the most significant being the inclusion, in holometabolus organisms, of a pupal or resting stage between the larval and adult forms.\nDevelopment and terminology\nTwo types of metamorphosis are shown. In a complete metamorphosis (holometabolous) the insect passes through four distinct phases which produce an adult that does not resemble the larvae. In an incomplete metamorphosis (hemimetabolous) an insect does not go through a full transformation, but instead transitions from a nymph to an adult by molting its exoskeleton as it grows.\nIn hemimetabolous insects, immature stages are called nymphs. Development proceeds in repeated stages of growth and ecdysis (moulting); these stages are called instars. The juvenile forms closely resemble adults, but are smaller and lack adult features such as wings and genitalia. The size and morphological differences between nymphs in different instars are small, often just differences in body proportions and the number of segments; in later instars, external wing buds form.\nIn holometabolous insects, immature stages are called larvae, and differ markedly from adults. Insects which undergo holometabolism pass through a larval stage, then enter an inactive state called pupa (called a \"chrysalis\" in butterfly species), and finally emerge as adults.[3]\nThe earliest insect forms showed direct development (ametabolism), and the evolution of metamorphosis in insects is thought to have fuelled their dramatic radiation (1,2). Some early ametabolous \"true insects\" are still present today, such as bristletails and silverfish. Hemimetabolous insects include cockroaches, grasshoppers, dragonflies, and true bugs. Phylogenetically, all insects in the Pterygota undergo a marked change in form, texture and physical appearance from immature stage to adult. These insects either have hemimetabolous development, and undergo an incomplete or partial metamorphosis, or holometabolous development, which undergo a complete metamorphosis, including a pupal or resting stage between the larval and adult forms.[4]\nA number of hypotheses have been proposed to explain the evolution of holometaboly from hemimetaboly, mostly centering on whether or not the intermediate hemimetabolous forms are homologous to pupal form of holometabolous forms.\nMore recently, scientific attention has turned to characterizing the mechanistic basis of metamorphosis in terms of its hormonal control, by characterizing spatial and temporal patterns of hormone expression relative to metamorphosis in a wide range of insects.\nAccording to research from 2008, adult Manduca sexta is able to retain behavior learned as a caterpillar.[5] Another caterpillar, the ornate moth caterpillar, is able to carry toxins that it acquires from its diet through metamorphosis and into adulthood, where the toxins still serve for protection against predators.[6]\nMany observations have indicated that programmed cell death plays a considerable role during physiological processes of multicellular organisms, particularly during embryogenesis and metamorphosis.\nSequence illustrating complete metamorphosis in the cabbage white butterfly, Pieris rapae\npupa ready to hatch\nInsect growth and metamorphosis are controlled by hormones synthesized by endocrine glands near the front of the body (anterior). Neurosecretory cells in an insect's brain secrete a hormone, the prothoracicotropic hormone (PTTH) that activates prothoracic glands, which secrete a second hormone, usually ecdysone (an ecdysteroid), that induces ecdysis.[7]\nPTTH also stimulates the corpora allata, a retrocerebral organ, to produce juvenile hormone (JH), which prevents the development of adult characteristics during ecdysis. In holometabolous insects, molts between larval instars have a high level of JH, the moult to the pupal stage has a low level of JH, and the final, or imaginal, molt has no JH present at all.[8] Experiments on firebugs have also shown how JH can affect the number of nymph instar stages in hemimetabolous insects.[9][10]\nJust before metamorphosis, only 24 hours are needed to reach the stage in the next picture.\nAlmost functional common frog with some remains of the gill sac and a not fully developed jaw\nIn typical amphibian development, eggs are laid in water and larvae are adapted to an aquatic lifestyle. Frogs, toads, and newts all hatch from the eggs as larvae with external gills but it will take some time for the amphibians to interact outside with pulmonary respiration. Afterwards, newt larvae start a predatory lifestyle, while tadpoles mostly scrape food off surfaces with their horny tooth ridges.\nMetamorphosis in amphibians is regulated by thyroxin concentration in the blood, which stimulates metamorphosis, and prolactin, which counteracts its effect. Specific events are dependent on threshold values for different tissues. Because most embryonic development is outside the parental body, development is subject to many adaptations due to specific ecological circumstances. For this reason tadpoles can have horny ridges for teeth, whiskers, and fins. They also make use of the lateral line organ. After metamorphosis, these organs become redundant and will be resorbed by controlled cell death, called apoptosis. The amount of adaptation to specific ecological circumstances is remarkable, with many discoveries still being made.\nWith frogs and toads, the external gills of the newly hatched tadpole are covered with a gill sac after a few days, and lungs are quickly formed. Front legs are formed under the gill sac, and hindlegs are visible a few days later. Following that there is usually a longer stage during which the tadpole lives off a vegetarian diet. Tadpoles use a relatively long, spiral\u2010shaped gut to digest that diet.\nRapid changes in the body can then be observed as the lifestyle of the frog changes completely. The spiral\u2010shaped mouth with horny tooth ridges is resorbed together with the spiral gut. The animal develops a big jaw, and its gills disappear along with its gill sac. Eyes and legs grow quickly, a tongue is formed, and all this is accompanied by associated changes in the neural networks (development of stereoscopic vision, loss of the lateral line system, etc.) All this can happen in about a day, so it is truly a metamorphosis. It is not until a few days later that the tail is reabsorbed, due to the higher thyroxin concentrations required for tail resorption.\nSalamander development is highly diverse; some species go through a dramatic reorganization when transitioning from aquatic larvae to terrestrial adults, while others, such as the Axolotl, display paedomorphosis and never develop into terrestrial adults. Within the genus Ambystoma, species have evolved to be paedomorphic several times, and paedomorphosis and complete development can both occur in some species.[11]\nThe large external gills of the crested newt\nIn newts, there is no true metamorphosis because newt larvae already feed as predators and continue doing so as adults. Newts' gills are never covered by a gill sac and will be resorbed only just before the animal leaves the water. Just as in tadpoles, their lungs are functional early, but newts use them less frequently than tadpoles. Newts often have an aquatic phase in spring and summer, and a land phase in winter. For adaptation to a water phase, prolactin is the required hormone, and for adaptation to the land phase, thyroxin. External gills do not return in subsequent aquatic phases because these are completely absorbed upon leaving the water for the first time.\nBasal caecilians such as Ichthyophis go through a metamorphosis in which aquatic larva transition into fossorial adults, which involves a loss of the lateral line.[12] More recently diverged caecilians (the Teresomata) do not undergo an ontogenetic niche shift of this sort and are in general fossorial throughout their lives. Thus, most caecilians do not undergo an anuran-like metamorphosis.[13]\nSome fish, both bony fish (Osteichthyes) and jawless fish (Agnatha), undergo metamorphosis. Fish metamorphosis is typically under strong control by the thyroid hormone.[11]\nExamples among the non-bony fish include the lamprey. Among the bony fish, mechanisms are varied.\nThe salmon is diadromous, meaning that it changes from a freshwater to a saltwater lifestyle.\nMany species of flatfish begin their life bilaterally symmetrical, with an eye on either side of the body; but one eye moves to join the other side of the fish \u2013 which becomes the upper side \u2013 in the adult form.\nThe European eel has a number of metamorphoses, from the larval stage to the leptocephalus stage, then a quick metamorphosis to glass eel at the edge of the continental shelf (eight days for the Japanese eel), two months at the border of fresh and salt water where the glass eel undergoes a quick metamorphosis into elver, then a long stage of growth followed by a more gradual metamorphosis to the migrating phase. In the pre-adult freshwater stage, the eel also has phenotypic plasticity because fish-eating eels develop very wide mandibles, making the head look blunt. Leptocephali are common, occurring in all Elopomorpha (tarpon- and eel-like fish).\nMost other bony fish undergo metamorphosis from embryo to larva (fry) and then to the juvenile stage during absorption of the yolk sac, because after that phase the individual needs to be able to feed for itself.[14][15]\nHypermetamorphosis\n\u2191 \"Metamorphosis, Henry George Liddell, Robert Scott, ''A, at Perseus\". Perseus.tufts.edu. Retrieved 2012-08-26.\n\u2191 Lowe, Tristan; Garwood, Russell P.; Simonsen, Thomas; Bradley, Robert S.; Withers, Philip J. (2013). \"Metamorphosis revealed: three dimensional imaging inside a living chrysalis\". Metamorphosis revealed: three dimensional imaging inside a living chrysalis. 10 (84). 20130304. doi:10.1098/rsif.2013.0304. Retrieved June 11, 2015.\n\u2191 Gullan, P. J. & Cranston, P. S. 6.2 Life History Patterns and Phases in The Insects: An Outline of Entomology. pp. 143\u2013153. 2005 by Blackwell Publishing\n\u2191 Douglas J. Blackiston, Elena Silva Casey & Martha R. Weiss (2008). \"Retention of memory through metamorphosis: can a moth remember what it learned as a caterpillar?\". PLoS ONE. 3 (3): e1736. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0001736. PMC 2248710 . PMID 18320055.\n\u2191 Conner, W.E. (2009). Tiger Moths and Woolly Bears\u2014behaviour, ecology, and evolution of the Arctiidae. New York: Oxford University Press. pp. 1\u201310.\n\u2191 Davies, 1998. Chapter 3.\n\u2191 Gullan, P.J. & Cranston, P.S. 6.3 Process and Control of Moulting in The Insects: An Outline of Entomology. Blackwell Publishing, 2005. pp. 153-156.\n\u2191 Slama; Williams (1965). \"Juvenile hormone activity for the bug Pyrrhocoris apterus\" (PDF). Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 54 (2): 411\u2013414. doi:10.1073/pnas.54.2.411.\n\u2191 Singh, Amit; Konopova, Barbora; Smykal, Vlastimil; Jindra, Marek (2011). \"Common and Distinct Roles of Juvenile Hormone Signaling Genes in Metamorphosis of Holometabolous and Hemimetabolous Insects\". PLoS ONE. 6 (12): e28728. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0028728. ISSN 1932-6203.\n1 2 Laudet, Vincent. 2011. \u201cThe Origins and Evolution of Vertebrate Metamorphosis\u201d. Current Biology 21: R726-R737\n\u2191 Dunker, Nicole, Marvalee H. Wake, Wendy M. Olson. 2000. \u201cEmbryonic and Larval Development in the Caecilian Ichthyophis kohtaoensis (Amphibia, Gymnophiona): A Staging Table\u201d Journal of Morphology 243: 3-34\n\u2191 San Mauro, D., Gower, D. J., Oommen, O. V., Wilkinson, M. & Zardoya, R. 2004. \"Phylogeny of caecilian amphibians (Gymnophiona) based on complete mitochondrial genomes and nuclear RAG1\". Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 33: 413\u2013427.\n\u2191 Mader, Sylvia, Biology 9th ed. Ch. 31\n\u2191 Peter B. Moyle and Joseph J. Cech Jr, Fishes: an introduction to ichthyology 5th ed. 9.3: \"Development\" pp 148ff\nDavies, R.G. (1998). Outlines of Entomology. Chapman and Hall. Second Edition. Chapter 3.\nWilliamson D.I. (2003). The Origins of Larvae. Kluwer.\nWikimedia Commons has media related to Biological life cycles.\nLook up metamorphosis in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.\nDescription of metamorphosis and its different forms\nInfo on butterflies and butterfly metamorphosis\nInfo on insect hormones\nVideo with Caterpillar-Butterfly Metamorphosis", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00240.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 100, + "original_length": 14858, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.89, + "perplexity": 306.6, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "https://ipfs.io/ipfs/QmXoypizjW3WknFiJnKLwHCnL72vedxjQkDDP1mXWo6uco/wiki/Military_logistics.html", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T03:29:20Z", + "digest": "sha1:YL73CY47VXOYHMCGUXWK56Y2DNFKFJHQ", + "length": 21003, + "nlines": 84, + "source_domain": "ipfs.io", + "title": "Military logistics", + "raw_content": "A USMC cook prepares corn for an evening meal\nThe word \"logistics\" is derived from the Greek adjective logistikos meaning \"skilled in calculating\". The first administrative use of the word was in Roman and Byzantine times when there was a military administrative official with the title Logista. At that time, the word apparently implied a skill involved in numerical computations.\nHistorically supplies for an army were first acquired by foraging or looting, especially in the case of food and fodder, although if traveling through a desolated region or staying in one place for too long resources could quickly be exhausted. A second method was for the army to bring along what was needed, whether by ships, pack animals, wagons or carried on the backs of the soldiers themselves. This allowed the army some measure of self-sufficiency, and up through to the 19th century most of the ammunition a soldier needed for an entire campaign could be carried on their person. However this method led to an extensive baggage train which could slow down the army's advance and the development of faster-firing weapons soon outpaced an army's ability to supply itself. Starting with the Industrial Revolution new technological, technical and administrative advances led to a third method, that of maintaining supplies in a rear area and transporting them to the front. This led to a \"logistical revolution\" which began in the 20th century and drastically improved the capabilities of modern armies while making them highly dependent on this new system.[2]\nStarting in the late sixteenth century armies in Europe greatly increased in size, upwards of 100,000 or more in some cases. This increase in size came not just in the number of actual soldiers but also camp followers - anywhere from half to one and a half the size of the army itself - and the size of the baggage train - averaging one wagon for every fifteen men.[3] However, very little state support was provided to these massive armies, the vast majority of which consisted of mercenaries. Beyond being paid for their service by the state - an act which bankrupted even the Spanish Empire on several occasions - these soldiers and their commanders were forced to provide everything for themselves. If permanently assigned to a town or city with a working marketplace, or traveling along a well-established military route, supplies could be easily bought locally with intendants overseeing the exchanges. In other cases an army traveling in friendly territory could expect to be followed by sutlers - although their supply stocks were small and subject to price gouging - or a commissioner could be sent ahead to a town to make arraignments, including quartering if necessary.[4]\nWhen operating in enemy territory an army was forced to plunder the local countryside for supplies, a historical tradition meant to allow war to be conducted at the enemy's expense. However, with the increase in army sizes this reliance on plunder became a major problem, as many decisions regarding where an army could move or fight were made based not on strategic objectives but whether a given area was capable of supporting the soldiers' needs. Sieges in particular were affected by this, both for any army attempting to lay siege to a location or coming to its relief. Unless a military commander was able to implement some sort of regular resupply, a fortress or town with a devastated countryside could be effectively immune to either operation.[4]\nConversely, armies of this time had little need to maintain lines of communication while on the move, except insofar as it was necessary to recruit more soldiers, and thus could not be cut off from non-existent supply bases. Although this theoretically granted armies freedom of movement, the need for plunder prevented any sort of sustained, purposeful advance. Many armies were further restricted to following waterways due to the fact that what supplies they were forced to carry could be more easily transported by boat. Artillery in particular was reliant of this method of travel, since even a modest number of cannons of the period required hundreds of horses to pull overland and traveled at half the speed of the rest of the army.[5]\nBy the seventeenth century, the French under Secretary of State for War Michel Le Tellier began a series of military reforms to address some of the issues which had plagued armies in the previous century. Besides ensuring that soldiers were more regularly paid and combating the corruption and inefficiencies of private contractors, Le Tellier devised formulas to calculate the exact amount of supplies necessary for a given campaign, created standardized contracts for dealing with commercial suppliers, and formed a permanent vehicle-park manned by army specialists whose job was to carry a few days' worth of supplies while accompanying the army during campaigns. With these arrangements there was a gradual increase in the use of magazines which could provide a more regular flow of supply via convoys. While the concepts of magazines and convoys was not new at this time, prior to the increase in army sizes there had rarely been cause to implement them.[6]\nDespite these changes, French armies still relied on plunder for a majority of their needs while on the move. Magazines were created for specific campaigns and any surplus was immediately sold for both monetary gain and to lessen the tax burden. The vehicles used to form convoys were contracted out from commercial interests or requisitioned from local stockpiles. In addition, given warfare of this era's focus on fortified towns and an inability to establish front lines or exert a stabilizing control over large areas, these convoys often needed armies of their own to provide escort. The primary benefits of these reforms was to supply an army during a siege. This was borne out in the successful campaign of 1658 when the French army at no point was forced to end a siege on account of supplies, including the Siege of Dunkirk.[6]\nLe Tellier's son Louvois would continue his father's reforms after assuming his position. The most important of these was to guarantee free daily rations for the soldiers, amounting to two pounds of bread or hardtack a day. These rations were supplemented as circumstances allowed by a source of protein such as meat or beans; soldiers were still responsible for purchasing these items out-of-pocket but they were often available at below-market prices or even free at the expense of the state. He also made permanent a system of magazines which were overseen by local governors to ensure they were fully stocked. Some of these magazines were dedicated to providing frontier towns and fortresses several months' worth of supplies in the event of a siege, while the rest were dedicated to supporting French armies operating in the field.[7]\nWith these reforms French armies enjoyed one of the best logistical systems in Europe, however there were still severe restrictions on its capabilities. Only a fraction of an army's supply needs could be met by the magazines, requiring that it continue to use plunder. In particular this was true for perishable goods or those too bulky to store and transport such as fodder. The administration and transportation of supplies remained inadequate and subject to the deprivations of private contractors. The primary aim of this system was still to keep an army supplied while conducting a siege, a task for which it succeeded, rather than increase its freedom of movement.[8]\nThe British were seriously handicapped in the American Revolutionary War by the need to ship all supplies across the Atlantic, since the Patriots prevented most local purchases. The British found a solution after the war by creating the infrastructure and the experience needed to manage an empire. London reorganized the management of the supply of military food and transport that was completed in 1793\u201394 when the naval Victualling and Transport Boards undertook those responsibilities. It built upon experience learned from the supply of the very-long-distance Falklands garrison (1767\u201372) to systematize needed shipments to distant places such as Australia, Nova Scotia, and Sierra Leone. This new infrastructure allowed Britain to launch large expeditions to the Continent during the French Revolutionary War and to develop a global network of colonial garrisons.[9]\nUntil the Napoleonic wars, the military supply was ensured by looting, requisition or private companies. In 1807, Napoleon created the first Train regiments, entirely dedicated to the supply and the transport of the equipment. However Napoleon typically tried to live off the country\u2014he called it \"war feeding war.\" However it made his army vulnerable to the scorched earth policy conducted by the Russians in 1812, which burned the food supplies Napoleon (and the Russian peasants) had counted upon. The French system failed as well in Spain, in the Peninsular wars, where the supplies found in the occupied territory were insufficient for French needs. The French scrambled to find alternative sources in the face of a guerrilla war that targeted supplies, and the British blockade of Spanish ports. Logistical operations largely took center stage in French strategy. The need to supply a besieged Barcelona made it impossible to control the province and ended French plans to incorporate Catalonia into Napoleon's Empire.[10]\nThe first theoretical analysis was by the Swiss writer, Antoine-Henri Jomini, who studied the Napoleonic wars. In 1838, he devised a theory of war on the trinity of strategy, ground tactics, and logistics.\nRailways and steamboats revolutionized logistics by the mid-19th century.\nIn the American Civil War (1861\u201365), both armies used railways extensively, for transport of personnel, supplies, horses and mules, and heavy field pieces. Both tried to disrupt the enemy's logistics by destroying trackage and bridges.[11]\nDuring the Seven Weeks War of 1866, railways enabled the swift mobilization of the Prussian Army, but the problem of moving supplies from the end of rail lines to units at the front resulted in nearly 18,000 tons trapped on trains unable to be unloaded to ground transport.[12] The Prussian use of railways during the Franco-Prussian War is often cited as a prime example of logistic modernizations, but the advantages of maneuver were often gained by abandoning supply lines that became hopelessly congested with rear-area traffic.[13]\nDuring World War I, unrestricted submarine warfare had a significant impact on the ability of Britain's allies to keep shipping lanes open, while the great size of the German Army proved too much for its railways to support except while immobilized in trench warfare.[14]\nSee also: airlift and sealift\nIraqi Army Explosive Ordnance Disposal (EOD) specialist.\nMobile workshop of the French Army.\nRoll-on/roll-off ship USNS Pililaau during Joint Logistics Over-the-Shore (JLOTS) exercise.\nLogistics, occasionally referred to as \"combat service support\", must address highly uncertain conditions. While perfect forecasts are rarely possible, forecast models can reduce uncertainty about what supplies or services will be needed, where and when they will be needed, or the best way to provide them.\nUltimately, responsible officials must make judgments on these matters, sometimes using intuition and scientifically weighing alternatives as the situation requires and permits. Their judgments must be based not only upon professional knowledge of the numerous aspects of logistics itself but also upon an understanding of the interplay of closely related military considerations such as strategy, tactics, intelligence, training, personnel, and finance.\nHowever, case studies have shown that more quantitative, statistical analysis are often a significant improvement on human judgment. One such recent example is the use of Applied Information Economics by the Office of Naval Research and the Marine Corps for forecasting bulk fuel requirements for the battlefield.[15]\nIn major military conflicts, logistics matters are often crucial in deciding the overall outcome of wars. For instance, tonnage war - the bulk sinking of cargo ships - was a crucial factor in World War II. The successful Allied anti-submarine campaign and the failure of the German Navy to sink enough cargo in the Battle of the Atlantic allowed Britain to stay in the war and establish the second front against the Nazis; by contrast, the successful U.S. submarine campaign against Japanese maritime shipping across Asian waters effectively crippled its economy and its military production capabilities. In a tactical scale, in the Battle of Ilomantsi, the Soviets had an overwhelming numerical superiority in guns and men, but managed to fire only 10,000 shells against the Finnish 36,000 shells, eventually being forced to abandon their heavy equipment and flee the battlefield, resulting in a Finnish victory. One reason for this was the successful Finnish harassment of Soviet supply lines.\nMore generally, protecting one's own supply lines and attacking those of an enemy is a fundamental military strategy; an example of this as a purely logistical campaign for the military means of implementing strategic policy was the Berlin Airlift.\nMilitary logistics has pioneered a number of techniques that have since become widely deployed in the commercial world. Operations research grew out of WWII military logistics efforts. Likewise, military logistics borrows from methods first introduced to the commercial world.\nThe Kargil Conflict in 1999 between India and Pakistan also referred to as Operation Vijay (Victory in Hindi) is one of the most recent examples of high altitude warfare in mountainous terrain that posed significant logistical problems for the combating sides. The Stallion which forms the bulk of the Indian Army's logistical vehicles proved its reliability and serviceability with 95% operational availability during the operation.\nMain article: Loss of Strength Gradient\nGeographic distance is a key factor in military affairs. The shorter the distance, the greater the ease with which force can be brought to bear upon an opponent. This is because it is easier to undertake the supply of logistics to a force on the ground as well as engage in bombardment. The importance of distance is demonstrated by the Loss of Strength Gradient devised by Kenneth Boulding. This shows the advantage of supply that is forward based.[16]\nU.S. Armed Forces classes of supply\nMain article: Classes of supply\nThe United States Military logistics support is grouped into 10 classes of supply:[17]\nClass I Subsistence (food), gratuitous (free) health and comfort items. Troops\nClass II Clothing, individual equipment, tent-age, organizational tool sets and kits, hand tools, unclassified maps, administrative and housekeeping supplies and equipment. Troops\nClass III Petroleum, Oil and Lubricants (POL) (package and bulk): Petroleum, fuels, lubricants, hydraulic and insulating oils, preservatives, liquids and gases, bulk chemical products, coolants, deicer and antifreeze compounds, components, and additives of petroleum and chemical products, and coal. Equipment\nClass IV Construction materials, including installed equipment and all fortification and barrier materials. Troops\nClass V Ammunition of all types, bombs, explosives, mines, fuzes, detonators, pyrotechnics, missiles, rockets, propellants, and associated items. Equipment\nClass VI Personal demand items (such as health and hygiene products, soaps and toothpaste, writing material, snack food, beverages, cigarettes, batteries, alcohol, and cameras\u2014nonmilitary sales items) and paperclips. Troops\nClass VII Major end items such as launchers, tanks, mobile machine shops, and vehicles. Equipment\nClass VIII Medical material (equipment and consumables) including repair parts peculiar to medical equipment. (Class VIIIa \u2013 Medical consumable supplies not including blood & blood products; Class VIIIb \u2013 Blood & blood components (whole blood, platelets, plasma, packed red cells, etc.). Troops\nClass IX Repair parts and components to include kits, assemblies, and sub-assemblies (repairable or non-repairable) required for maintenance support of all equipment. Equipment\nClass X Material to support nonmilitary programs such as agriculture and economic development (not included in Classes I through IX). Civilians\nMiscellaneous Water, salvage, and captured material. Troops\nSupply chain management in military logistics often deals with a number of variables in predicting cost, deterioration, consumption, and future demand. The US Military's categorical supply classification was developed in such a way that categories of supply with similar consumption variables are grouped together for planning purposes. For instance peacetime consumption of ammunition and fuel will be considerably less than wartime consumption of these items, whereas other classes of supply such as subsistence and clothing have a relatively consistent consumption rate regardless of war or peace. Troops will always require uniform and food. More troops will require equally more uniforms and food.\nIn the table above, each class of supply has a consumer. Some classes of supply have a linear demand relationship - as more troops are added more supply items are needed - as more equipment is used more fuel and ammo is consumed. Other classes of supply must consider a third variable besides usage and quantity: time. As equipment ages more and more repair parts are needed over time, even when usage and quantity stays consistent. By recording and analyzing these trends over time and applying to future scenarios, the US Military can accurately supply troops with the items necessary at the precise moment they are needed.[18] History has shown that good logistical planning creates a lean and efficient fighting force. Lack thereof can lead to a clunky, slow, and ill-equipped force with too much or too little supply.\nExpeditionary maneuver warfare\nLine of communication or communications (LOC)\nLogistician (see): Logistics Officer\nSeabasing\nTrain (military)\nTooth-to-tail ratio\nSpecific logistics operations\nBattle of Pusan Perimeter logistics\nBritish logistics in the Second Boer War\n\u2191 AAP-6 2009, NATO Glossary of Terms and Definitions.\n\u2191 Kress, pp.10-11\n\u2191 Creveld, pp. 5-7\n1 2 Creveld, p. 8-10\n\u2191 Creveld, pp.10-12\n1 2 Creveld, pp. 17\u201320\n\u2191 Creveld, pp. 21-22\n\u2191 Morriss, Roger. \"Colonization, Conquest, and the Supply of Food and Transport: The Reorganization of Logistics Management, 1780\u20131795,\" War in History, (July 2007), 14#3 pp 310\u2013324,\n\u2191 Morgan, John. \"War Feeding War? The Impact of Logistics on the Napoleonic Occupation of Catalonia,\" Journal of Military History, (Jan 2009), 73#1 pp 83\u2013116\n\u2191 Huston, James A. online The Sinews of War: Army Logistics, 1775\u20131953 U.S. Army, 1966\n\u2191 Creveld, p.84\n\u2191 Creveld, pp. 92\u2013108.\n\u2191 Creveld, pp. 138\u2013141.\n\u2191 Hubbard, Douglas. How to Measure Anything: Finding the Value of Intangibles in Business, John Wiley & Sons, 2007\n\u2191 Boulding, Kenneth E. Conflict and Defence: A General Theory, Harper & Bros., 1962, p.262\n\u2191 U.S. Army Field Manual 4-0 Combat Service Support\n\u2191 Joint Logistics Analysis Tool)\nCreveld, Martin van (1977). Supplying War: Logistics from Wallenstein to Patton. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0-521-21730-X. online\nDupuy, R. Ernest; Trevor N. Dupuy (1970). The Encyclopedia of Military History (revised ed.). New York: Harper & Row. ISBN 0-06-011139-9.\nEccles, Henry E. (1959). Logistics in the National Defense. Harrisburg, Penn.: Stackpole Company. ISBN 0-313-22716-0.\nKress, Moshe (2002). Operational Logistics: The Art and Science of Sustaining Military Operations. Kluwer Academic Publishers. ISBN 1-4020-7084-5.\nOhl, John Kennedy (1994). Supplying the Troops: General Somervell and American Logistics in World War II. DeKalb, Illinois: Northern Illinois Press. ISBN 0-87580-185-4. Biography of Brehon B. Somervell, head of the United States Army's Army Service Forces during World War II.\nPrebili\u010d, Vladimir. \"Theoretical aspects of military logistics\" Defense and Security Analysis, June 2006, Vol. 22 Issue 2, pp 159\u2013177\nThorpe, George C. (1917). Pure Logistics: The Science of War Preparation. Kansas City, Mo.: Franklin Hudson Pub. Co. OCLC 6109722.\nThorpe, George C. (1986) [1917]. George C. Thorpe's Pure Logistics: The Science of War Preparation. Stanley L. Falk (introduction). Washington, D.C.: National Defense University Press.\nThorpe, George C. (1997) [1917]. George C. Thorpe's Pure Logistics: The Science of War Preparation. Newport, R.I.: Naval War College Press.\nThorpe, George C. (2002) [1917]. Pure Logistics: The Science of War Preparation. Honolulu, Hawaii: University Press of the Pacific. ISBN 0-89875-732-0.\nHuston, James A. (1966). The Sinews of War: Army Logistics, 1775\u20131953. United States Army. 755 pages. online.\nMedia related to Military logistics at Wikimedia Commons", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00240.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 237, + "original_length": 23698, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.95, + "perplexity": 253.1, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "https://ipfs.io/ipfs/QmXoypizjW3WknFiJnKLwHCnL72vedxjQkDDP1mXWo6uco/wiki/Stoating.html", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T03:49:17Z", + "digest": "sha1:MA7KETNF7JA7ZCLRJFIQDL4NB5A5KSB3", + "length": 1961, + "nlines": 8, + "source_domain": "ipfs.io", + "title": "Stoating", + "raw_content": "Stoating, sometimes written stoting or stotting,[1] is a type of stitching made to join two pieces of woven material, with raw edges placed together, such that the resulting stitches are not visible from the right side of the cloth. Stoating is accomplished by passing the needle only halfway through the pieces of material to be stoated, using a very fine needle and thread, such as silk,[2] or even hair.[3] Stitches would be drawn from side to side across the opening to be sewn closed, in a pattern resembling a zig-zag or the rungs of a ladder.[2] Stoating may be used on heavier fabrics, such as felt and some types of tweed,[4] or fabrics that will not fray easily.[5] Stoating would also be used in place of seaming on heavy furs.[6] When completed, the join should lie flat and not be visible from the right side of the fabric.[7]\n\u2191 The Boy's Book of Trades and the Tools Used in Them. London: Routledge. 1866. pp. 218\u2013220. Retrieved February 6, 2016 \u2013 via HathiTrust.\n1 2 Waisman, Abraham (1953). Clever Weave: The Modern method of French Reweaving. Chicago: CleverWeave Publishers. pp. 36\u201338. Retrieved February 6, 2016 \u2013 via HathiTrust.\n\u2191 The New Dressmaker (3rd ed.). New York: Butterick Publishing Co. 1921. p. 148. Retrieved February 6, 2016 \u2013 via HathiTrust.\n\u2191 Ryan, Mildred Graves (1954). Thrift with a Needle: The Complete Book of Mending. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons. p. 66. Retrieved February 6, 2016 \u2013 via HathiTrust.\n\u2191 Blackmore, Betsy L. (1906). The A-B-C of Needlework. London: Ralph, Holland & Co. pp. 119\u2013120. Retrieved February 6, 2016 \u2013 via Google Books.\n\u2191 Rathvon, S. S. (June 1902). \"Technical Terms of Tailoring\". The American Tailor and Cutter. New York: Jno. J. Mitchell Co. 23 (12): 343. Retrieved February 6, 2016 \u2013 via Google Books.\n\u2191 Scott, Clarice L. (October 1946). Make-Overs from Leather, Fur and Felt. Washington, D.C.: United States Department of Agriculture. p. 5. 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A number of professional climbers and skiers with these organizations had a number of meetings with lawmakers, lobbying in support of public land conservation among other important issues. Access Fund posted information about the event online and I had the awesome chance to attend the reception.\nThe issues as outlined on www.climbthehill.org\nThe Importance of Public Lands to Climbers\nThe Antiquities Act and Bears Ears National Monument\nA Strong Recreation Economy\nFunding for Land Management Agencies\nSmart Energy Policy on Public Lands\nImproved Facilitated Access to Public Lands\nIt was incredible that these amazing athletes could take time out of their busy schedule to come to DC and fight for what they believe in.\nThis is the crowd of people I belong with! Speaking about your passion while also making a difference!\nI was so happy to be there, to be in the same room as these athletes, and to here about the work they are doing to support public land access.\nAlex Honnold, Caroline Gleich, Sasha Diguilian, Tommy Caldwell, Majka Burhardt in order from left to right.\nAlex Honnold talking about his love and support for the Yosemite Valley.\nOne of my biggest role models in the outdoor industry wasn\u2019t up on the stage for the reception, but in fact he was sitting just a few seats away from me.\nBrody Leven is a professional skier and climber who also spends much of his time supporting \u201cenvironmental stewardship, public lands advocacy, and avalanche education.\u201d\nBrody is sponsored by a number of outdoor companies from Black Diamond, Garmin, GoPro, as well as many others.\nI met Brody at the Climate March last spring while he was in D.C. marching with Protect Our Winters.\nBrody Leven is a role-model to me. He\u2019s extremely reflective about his outdoor pursuits, and connects them to important issues in our society. Although he is getting sponsored to climb or ski, he\u2019s really doing so much more for the sport. He has met with the Outdoor Industry Association, met with lawmakers in DC, met with lawmakers in Utah, and has spoken at public events in support of curbing climate change, and to keep our public lands public.\nWell this kind of made my week\u2026\nSo while everyone else was trying to get a selfie with Alex Honnold, I asked Brody if he had a moment to talk. I told him how much of a fan I was, and how important I think his work is. I very much think he isn\u2019t getting enough credit for his environmental activism. But Brody is a very humble person, and told me he was happy not to be the center of attention all the time.\nI was expecting Brody to chat with me for 5 minutes or so. But no, he spoke with me for nearly 45 minutes.\nI told him all about my trip to South America and some of the climbs I had done. Let\u2019s just say being called a badass by one of your role models is a pretty incredible feeling.\nWe talked a lot about what we can do to support environmental activism. As skiers, climbers, and hikers, how can we protect the lands we care so much about.\nBrody talked about the important analogies of climbing.\n\u201cIf climbing was just going up a rock, than I wouldn\u2019t do it.\u201d\nAnd that was when Brody and I really connected.\nClimbing is:\nBrody is making a difference using his passion and outdoor experience, why can\u2019t I?\nI already know why I should make i difference.\nI have a passion, and I\u2019d like to share it with others.\nI can\u2019t explained how thankful and happy I am for Brody to sit down and chat with me. He gave me plenty of ideas and tons of inspiration. He told me to keep writing and sharing my outdoor experiences with others.\nI also had the opportunity to talk with others supporting public lands conversation. It definitely was empowering for me to speak with others much older with me that have been working on these issues for a number of years.\nBrody encouraged me to keep writing and keep sharing. So that\u2019s why I\u2019m writing this now.\nAs many of you know, I\u2019m heading to the University of Colorado in Boulder, CO to study environmental sciences with a focus in climate and policy. As I continue to advance my outdoor pursuits I will also continue to advance my pursuits to support public lands, curb climate change, and bring awareness to the incredible world around of us.\nAnd from one public land owner to another, here\u2019s what YOU can do.\n-Urge your representative to renew the Land and Water Conservation Fund. Here is some information about the impact the LWCF has had on Maryland.\n(From the Climb the hill website.)\n\u201cThe Land and Water Conservation Fund (LWCF) is one of our nation\u2019s most successful conservation tools, but\u2014without action from Congress\u2014this popular, bipartisan program will expire in September. The LWCF was created in 1965 with $900 million authorized per year for the acquisition of land and water to protect natural treasures, with an emphasis on recreation. Funds can be used to acquire federal land, as well as land for state or local governments through the State Matching Grants program. LWCF funds have been used to purchase or improve well over a dozen climbing areas, and the program has proven to be a critical way to improve our public lands system.\u201d\n-Call your congressional representative to oppose the National Monument and Creation and Protection Act. The title is misleading, this bill would demolish the Antiquities Act.\n\u2013VOTE!!! 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They may have experienced the same loss and that gives them a \u201cgeneral\u201d idea of what you are going through. However, they are not you so they are \u201cclueless\u201d as to the thoughts and feelings you are experiencing.\nThe length of time it takes to work through grief also varies from person to person. Some might be 110% in 6 weeks, 6 months, a year or even 18 months. It is just going to depend upon who you lost, the type of relationship you had with the deceased, and the circumstances of the person\u2019s death.\nIn my opinion, if you truly loved the person you will never be 100% healed. 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But I'm pretty sure we're getting at least one more season, because Steve Carrel is signed through 7 seasons. But I've heard no news as of yet. So, hopefully we'll know soon.\nYeah, life isn't that interesting right now. 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Over 300 pages and 800 pictures give a comprehensive, honest, and professional overview of this teenager\u2019s life and culture.\nTopics include fast food, teen pregnancy, a virtual tour of a Thai city, a Thai wedding, Nattawud becoming a novice monk, plus a secret diary, to name but a few. Put simply, his website rocks! Before reading on, I urge you to take a moment to see for yourself what Nattawud has accomplished.\nNattawud and I decided to meet up so that we could learn more about each other by swapping interviews. Waiting for me was a slightly shy and very earnest young man.\nHis website started in 1997 with a humble three page beginning. The goal of his website is: \u201cTo show my life in Thailand and that it is not different from other teenagers\u2019 lives. To let people know that we all don\u2019t live in the jungle, or ride elephants to school, and that we have TV. I got the idea for it during summer vacation. My friend and I were bored. We started to play on the computer. I designed my own homepage.\u201d\nHe gets his inspiration from\u2026\u201call of the email I receive and the reporters that visit me.\u201d I am definitely not the first person to have their eyebrows raised by Nattawud\u2019s abilities and personality.\nAccording to Nattawud, the biggest problem facing Thai teenagers is boyfriend-girlfriend issues. He says that his generation \u201c\u2026has more freedom and more technology. In the past girls and boys could not go out together.\u201d His secret diary has many insights into dating rituals although it is in fact a secret to most. He does not want his parents or teachers to read it. The fact that it is written in English does help keep it confidential in a way, and his open discussions on dating have received criticism. When questioned about all the tourists that visit his country he stated, \u201cMost of them do not know about Thailand. They think only of jungle. Then they go back home saying Thailand is great and beautiful. I feel strange when I see backpackers. We don\u2019t have backpackers in our own country. Sometimes they are acting the wrong way. They should wear more polite clothing.\u201d\nWhen asked his opinion on \u2018Kat\u2019s Window on Thailand,\u2019 he stated, \u201cIt is interesting. I read about the bed. I think it is a good story because it can teach other foreigners to be calm.\u201d\nThe majority of his Internet traffic comes from America. When he hears the word \u2018America\u2019, Nattawud thinks of: \u201cFreedom. American teenagers can do what they want. And snow. I would like to become an exchange student there. I am interested in western cultures but they all seem the same to me for now.\u201d\nNattawud hopes to be a diplomat or an ambassador someday. When asked if corruption and vote buying within the Thai government was O.K. he said, \u201cOf course not!\u201d His solution to the problem would be for all people to take the money from the candidates but not vote for them. \u201cI think if the government cannot fix its own problems, then it can not fix the problems of the people.\u201d\nWhen asked whom he admires the most, Nattawud stated, \u201cRichard. Without him I could not do it.\u201d Richard is the head of the computer department at the private Sriwittayapaknam School (http://www.sriwittayapaknam.ac.th/), which Nattawud formerly attended. This school has the largest Internet presence in Thailand and hosts 29 dot com websites.\nThe future seems intensely bright for this clever young man. Despite his talents, at the end of the day he is just an average teenager like the rest of his friends. He enjoys watching football and his favourite team is England\u2019s Liverpool, not Manchester United like most Thai football fans.\nAs written on his homepage: \u201cI want you to know about the real Thailand. This project is never-ending. I will continue to update over the next 10, 20, 30 years or so. Keep coming back as in the future you will be able to see my graduation from school, first day at work, my marriage, birth of my children, their first day at school\u2026\u201d Welcome to the new wired generation of Thailand!\nI know I will continue checking in on Nattawud. Being only one of 290,183 visitors to his website, I am certain not to be the only one waiting to see what the future holds for this talented young man. 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Jackie readily admits that her journey with cancer has made her more aware of the magnitude of her blessings, more aware that there are those who are far worse off\u2014but still, 80% failed to seem soothing.\nIt can be hard for people to connect to something as abstract as cancer research. Maybe it seems like something that lives in a lab. Maybe it seems like the sort of thing that doesn\u2019t help \u201creal\u201d people.\nBut on the day you are diagnosed, cancer research suddenly becomes very personal. On that day, every decision about your health for every day moving forward is directly connected to cancer research. Directly connected to the research that has determined your course of treatment, a course of treatment that could save or extend a life\u2014your life.\nIn Jackie\u2019s case, cancer always seemed far removed. Of course, she knew people who had it. She knew some people who had battled and overcome. She knew others who, despite their equal measure of will, had not been so fortunate. She knew Coach Yow.\nJackie actually played for Coach Yow at Elon and even was a teammate of hers on the Rubi-Otts softball team. She loved Coach Yow and admired how she \u201cfought the fight\u201d.\nEven at that, cancer wasn\u2019t personal. How could it ever be truly personal until it is you?\nBut that is the thing about cancer. It is personal. It is very personal. It affects each of us. Our families, our friends. On the day we come face to face with a cancer diagnosis, no stats or figures can give us true hope.\nHope comes from the thought that the future will exist, and not only exist, but that the future will contain a day better than today.\nThat is where cancer research comes in\u2014the search for a day better than today. 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The standard sets out the criteria for a quality management certification.\nThe CDM allows emission-reduction (or emission removal) projects in developing countries to earn certified emission reduction\nThe CE marking is a key indicator (but not proof) of a product\u2019s compliance with European Union (EU) health, safety and environmental protection directives and regulations.\nBS is having a pool of well trained technical experts having wide range of experience in Quality Assurance & Implementation in\nThere is a Chinese saying that \u2018if you want your people to eat fish then train them how to catch rather than supplying\u2019.\nSolar energy is a resource that is not only sustainable for energy consumption; it is indefinitely renewable", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00240.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 69, + "original_length": 2064, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.94, + "perplexity": 260.5, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "https://kids.britannica.com/kids/article/forest/390614", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T04:43:55Z", + "digest": "sha1:QC5HWMLEKEZQMBIT7GYBPTEHR7QWXEX4", + "length": 3384, + "nlines": 14, + "source_domain": "kids.britannica.com", + "title": "forest - Kids | Britannica Kids | Homework Help", + "raw_content": "A large area filled with many trees is called a forest. Forests grow in almost every part of the world. The only places bare of forests are deserts, some prairies and mountaintops, and the North and South poles.\nTwo basic types of trees make up most forests: hardwoods and softwoods. Many forests contain either hardwoods or softwoods, but some forests have both types.\nMaples and oaks are examples of hardwood trees. Hardwoods have wide leaves and grow fruits. They are often deciduous, meaning they drop their leaves every fall. However, some hardwoods, such as mahogany trees, keep their leaves all year. Hardwood forests grow in places with temperate (mild) or tropical (hot) weather.\nPines and redwoods are examples of softwood trees. Softwoods have cones and needles rather than fruits and wide leaves. Softwoods do not lose their needles each year. Many softwoods are known as evergreens because their needles remain green year-round. Softwood forests often grow near mountains and in cool regions.\nThick forests that grow in wet parts of the world are called rainforests. Rainforests may contain hardwoods, softwoods, or both.\nEvery forest is a complex living system made up of thickly growing trees, bushes, vines, fungi, and other plants. Forests are also the homes of mammals, birds, insects, and many other animals. These living things all depend on each other to survive.\nAs a forest ages or changes, it affects all the living things in it. Diseases or insect attacks may weaken the trees and plants in a forest. A big fire can destroy the food and shelter that animals need to survive. Humans can also endanger forest plants and animals by chopping down too many trees.\nMany important natural resources come from the world\u2019s forests. Forests provide food, wood, fuel, natural fibers, and other materials. 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A study of non-obese diabetic mice showed that it prevented further development of the disease.\nCBD acts with extreme efficiency in the prevention of acne, working as an anti-inflammatory agent and sebostatic by inhibiting underlying mechanisms of the ailment.\nA study at the Cajal Institute has displayed remarkable results from CBD treatment of animals with multiple sclerosis, noting improved motor function and a general progression of health. Cell research shows that this stems from a reduction of inflammatory responses and a long-term protective effect on the cells.\nDue to the unique interactions of THC and CBD with the neurological system that controls the gut, and its anti-inflammatory properties, CBD is considered a strong candidate for treating Crohn\u2019s and other bowel diseases.\n8. Cigarette addiction\nA study of participants trying to stop smoking showed that people who responded to the urge to smoke by using an inhaler with CBD showed a 40% drop in cigarette consumption compared to no drop in people using a placebo inhaler.\nOne of the few consistently-noted side effects of CBD is tiredness, but this can be quite beneficial for sufferers of insomnia \u2013 especially in combination with the anti-anxiety traits.\nCBD vs THC Facts vs Fiction\nMrbeast225\ton May 8, 2017 at 11:49 pm\nGreat article, I didn\u2019t know about CBD helping to inhibit prions. 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Ash Island is accessible by turning right and crossing the narrow bridge. It\u2019s the location of the Kooragang Wetlands, a nature reserve which is part of Hunter Wetlands National Park.\u201d\n\u201cWith over 780 hectares of reserve, there\u2019s plenty of area to explore as well as kilometres of walking and cycling tracks.\nStop by the Welcome Boardwalk to pick up a brochure which includes a map of the wetlands.\u201d\n\u201cThis is the 131 Radar Station Ash Island built in 1942 to protect Newcastle during World War II. It was a station linked up with two others, one in Nelson Bay and the other in Catherine Hill Bay as part of a system to detect enemy aircraft.\u201d\nRadar Station Information Board\n\u201cIf your kids are into nature, this is the place to take them. Since 1993, the Kooragang Wetlands Rehabilitation Project has worked to rehabilitate the reserve into a habitat for fish, shorebirds, frogs and other wildlife in the Hunter estuary. There\u2019s fields of pasture and saltmarsh all around.\u201d\nCows at City Farm\n\u201cThis is my favourite part of Ash Island and is the most suitable for walking with children as it\u2019s flat and easy to navigate especially if you have a stroller. For those with curious toddlers, hold on to them or else you might be fishing them out of the mud.\u201d\nWalk through the mangroves\n\u201cAt the end of the track is the restored 1890s Schoolhouse. 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Wellington and Nelson were painted in full military uniform as mighty victors, irrespective of losses of men and defeats. Napoleon was often painted on horseback cutting a swathe through the enemy. The horrors and suffering of the battlefield and the effect on the regular soldier were never shown. Impressionism and Post-Impressionism changed all that. Critic Roger Fry declared the 1910Londonn exhibition of Manet and the Post-Impressionists an \u2018art quake\u2019. The seeds of modern art had been sown and the first World War was the perfect catalyst for art to reflect the emotions of the common person and the effect the fighting had on them. After the war, more radical movements such as Abstraction, Dadaism and Surrealism sprang up.\nThis show is far-reaching and includes artists from France and Germany alongside British ones. It also has a great scope of subject matter with a well-explained narrative. Passing through the exhibition the visitor starts with images of battlefields and ruins, then is shown trench ephemera such as objects made out of shell casings, miniature inscribed scimitars and images of war memorials. At the same time, harrowingly poignant portraits by surgeon and artist Henry Tonks show the disfigured faces of veterans. Tonks recorded before- and after-surgery images which helped to advance plastic surgery and change perceptions towards the wounded. In Germany, George Grosz and Otto Dix brought their government\u2019s attention to the blind and disabled veterans unable to work but often not given enough support.\nIn interpreting the post-conflict world of the 1920s and 1930s, artists fall into two camps. First there is the dehumanised world where machines rule. Christopher Nevinson's Spooky Soul of the Soulless City (a New York landscape), Oskar Nerlinger\u2019s Radio Tower and Fernand Leger\u2019s Two Discs in the City are examples. All of these works are devoid of people. Then there are images of decadent party types by William Roberts and Glyn Philpot. German artist Georg Shrimpf longs for the innocent world before the cataclysm and paints a swineherd, while French painter Roger de la Fresnaye illustrates a herdsman.\nThese artists\u2019 predictions for the new society came partly true: machines became more a part of daily life and social lives and the old order began to break down. What is fascinating about this exhibition is the diverse range of styles the artists used to make their point. There is so much to see and absorb. I will return.\nUntil 24 September at Tate Britain, London SW1: 020-7887 8888, www.tate.org.uk\nhttps://lady.co.uk/sites/default/files/styles/facebook_teaser/public/featured-images/c.r.w_nevinson_-_paths_of_glory_1917.jpg?itok=QRJA2goE&c=f1b4396a68c3ab0e687361257f199202", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00240.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 185, + "original_length": 6032, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.94, + "perplexity": 291.0, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "https://larrycarlat.com/2012/10/02/ive-just-seen-a-face/", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T04:09:41Z", + "digest": "sha1:TOH6VEMORQXD3DU7PW36YRZJASCXEIOT", + "length": 1831, + "nlines": 8, + "source_domain": "larrycarlat.com", + "title": "I\u2019ve Just Seen a Face \u00ab The Road to Nowhere", + "raw_content": "October 2, 2012 By lcarlat in Women Tags: dating, Faces\tLeave a comment\nMLPC.\nI\u2019ve gone out with hundreds of women recently. Really it\u2019s only been two, but over the course of dinner and brunch, it seemed like I was with every woman who I\u2019ve ever known.\nThis happens pretty much all of the time. When I gaze across the table at a new face, it\u2019s like looking at a group portrait. Sometimes it\u2019s the way she tilts her head or a trick of the light. Sometimes it\u2019s just a recognizable expression or the easy way she laughs at one of my stupid jokes. Her eyes may shine or narrow into soft slits, it doesn\u2019t matter, because it\u2019s in these moments where she shape shifts into a completely different person.\nOne who I\u2019ve found especially attractive in the past. My heart tends to see what it wants to see, working it big time like a fashion photographer shooting a model. \u201cOkay, angle your head a little to the right and try to look like my ex-wife\u2019s hot friend, Julie.\u201d\nI\u2019ll imagine what these women looked like as young girls and what they\u2019ll look like as elderly ladies. For a moment, they may resemble my mom or my fourth-grade teacher, Miss Toback, and then transform into Caryn or my most recent girlfriend. Sometimes they\u2019ll morph into a celebrity; oftentimes Mary-Louise Parker.\nI envision what it might be like to be with them and even what it might be like to be with them forever. It\u2019s such a strange phenomenon, and will make a great montage sequence (cue the Beatles\u2019 \u201cI\u2019ve Just Seen a Face\u201d) when filming begins on the story of my life. And most of the time, this is all going on before arriving at the main course.\nWhich, of course, is love. 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Although we try to run price reports that are attainable by our readers, there are a number of reasons why a vendor will not meet or beat our prices. Here are some of them:\nVendors/dealers don\u2019t feel any competitive pressure from another dealer. They feel that they are the only game in town. This may be because they are literally the only outlet in the market area, or they have a reputation far better than that of other dealers.\nThe machine you want is very popular and is selling well, so the dealer feels no particular pressure to offer a lower price.\nEach dealer is an independent businessperson and is free to set his or her own prices. They are free to refuse to go below a certain pricing level. At that point you need to check with other dealers (if there are others in your area) or perhaps consider other manufacturers\u2019 offerings.\nThe dealer may not be offering the lowest machine price, but the total deal offered may actually be better. You need to take a close look at service pricing, service minimums, free clicks, manufacturer rebate offers, discounted financing options, lease rates, professional-services charges and other factors in order to determine the total cost of ownership.\nPrices can vary greatly during the year, depending on factors such as the end of the quarter or the end of the year. The best prices often come during the year-end push to put as much business as possible on the books.\nThe situation with your individual sales rep can also make a difference. If the rep is one sale away from making President\u2019s Club or winning a trip to Hawaii, he or she may push a little harder with the sales manager to get your deal to work.\nAlthough we will do our best to help you get the best price possible, there are a number of reasons why it is sometimes difficult to attain the pricing level we publish in the newsletters. 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You can find some great advice concerning the safety of your home in this article.\nDo not give the key to your home to your cleaning person unless you are certain they are worthy of your trust. Make sure they are honest, reputable and hardworking. Go over their references and do some background research on the company they work for. If they work for a firm, call the local Better Business Bureau to find out that firm\u2019s reputation.\nComparison shopping is essential when seeking a security system for the home. Wild variations in pricing can exist for similar security products. Get quotes from several companies before making a decision.\nBuy fire resistant flooring, roofing and ceiling. This ensures your home won\u2019t be a tinderbox. Because of the amount of damage fires can cause, it is important to protect your home from them.\nGet advice from your friends before selecting a provider for home security. They have likely had interactions with home security providers that they can tell you about, saving you time and stress. Sometimes, you may get great advice from the people you know.\nIf you\u2019re in a rural place, you might not be as worried about break-ins as those that are in the city. However, there is the belief that rural dwellers are more susceptible to break ins simply because there are no nearby neighbors. That said, stranger things have happened.\nHide any valuables in wall spaces. You don\u2019t have to cut out pieces of the wall to do this. Most homes are pre-equipped with these handy spaces. Remove the wires from an electric socket you do not use so you can hide your valuable jewelry.\nMake sure that none of your valuables can be seen from the outside. Though it is nice to have big windows to get a great view of the outdoors, it is also easier for burglars to look into your home. Keep your curtains drawn to keep your valuable items safe.\nYou want all wires of an installed security system to be hidden. Burglars can easily cut the wires if they are visible. Never make things easy for them. Ask the person installing it to bury the wires or hide them inside the walls. You will be much safer.\nIn term of solid advice, you have just read a large amount of it. How do you plan to use this advice in your house? 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But it\u2019s their [the White House\u2019s] call.\u201d h/t HotAir\nNY Times\u2019 Dowd: admin\u2019s behavior before and during Benghazi \u201cunworthy of the greatest power on earth\u201d\nIn a Sunday Op-Ed in the NY Times entitled When Myths Collide in the Capital, Maureen Dowd opines on Benghazi and it includes some harsh criticism for the White House:\nThe administration\u2019s behavior before and during the attack in Benghazi, in which four Americans died, was unworthy of the greatest power on earth.\nShe describes the competing narratives as D\u00e9j\u00e0 Vu reminiscent of the Clinton years. h/t Breitbart\nTHE capital is in the throes of d\u00e9j\u00e0 vu and preview as it plunges back into Clinton Rules, defined by a presidential aide on the hit ABC show \u201cScandal\u201d as damage control that goes like this: \u201cIt\u2019s not true, it\u2019s not true, it\u2019s not true, it\u2019s old news.\u201d\nNBC\u2019s David Gregory: Carney\u2019s explanation on revised Benghazi talking points \u201cnot accurate\u201d\nIn an earlier post here at Legal Insurrection, we also noted that NBC\u2019s David Gregory Called Carney\u2019s Explanation on Revised Benghazi Talking Points \u201cNot Accurate\u201d. Gregory asks Ambassador Thomas Pickering, who has led the state department\u2019s review of Benghazi, \u201cis the administration guilty of playing politics with terrorism?\u201d Watch the video.\nRep. Mike Rogers: \u201cI do think we\u2019re going to see more whistle-blowers\u201d\nCongressional Republicans called Sunday for depositions of high-ranking officials and more testimony from whistle-blowers, indicating that additional whistle-blowers have contacted congressional committees since three others testified last week. From FOX News:\nRep. Mike Rogers, chairman of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, told \u201cFox News Sunday\u201d that more potential and self-proclaimed \u201cwhistle-blowers\u201d might come forward after three of them \u2013 career State Department foreign service employees \u2013 testified last week before the House Oversight and Government Affairs Committee.\n\u201cWe have had people come forward because of the (hearing) and say we would also like to talk,\u201d the Michigan Republican told \u201cFox News Sunday.\u201d \u201cI do think we\u2019re going to see more whistle-blowers. Certainly my committee has been contacted; I think other committees as well.\u201d\nRogers\u2019 remarks came as Thomas Pickering, the former U.S. ambassador who helped write a report on security at a U.S. outpost in Benghazi, Libya, defended his assessment but absolved Clinton.\nRobert Gates: some Benghazi critics have \u201ccartoonish\u201d view of military capability\nMeanwhile, former Secretary of Defense Robert Gates described some critics of Benghazi as having a \u201ccartoonish\u201d view of military capability. He scoffed at critics\u2019 suggestions that the presence of an aircraft overhead might have served as a deterrent or that a small number of special forces could have been sent in to assist during the 2012 attack.\n\u201cIt\u2019s sort of a cartoonish impression of military capabilities and military forces,\u201d he said. \u201cThe one thing that our forces are noted for is planning and preparation before we send people in harm\u2019s way, and there just wasn\u2019t time to do that.\u201d\nHenry Hawkins | May 12, 2013 at 6:17 pm\n\u201cHe [Gates] scoffed at critics\u2019 suggestions\u2026.that a small number of special forces could have been sent in to assist during the 2012 attack.\u201d\nAnd how long did just two men hold off 150+ attackers before finally getting killed?\nIs there anything more despicable than placing politics before American lives?\nGates is full to the brim with horseshet.\nA lot of those \u201ccartoonish\u201d evaluations come from the guys who have done this their whole career. This is what they train for constantly.\nThat was one of the things\u2026Pinata\u2019s lies about the military not having enough prep time\u2026that made me certain they left those guys twisting in the wind.\nThe idea that we only go when we\u2019ve sand-boarded the deal for a few weeks is asinine.\nWithin limits, I can forgive honest screw-ups, but this is a whole new level of ugly.\nDiggs | May 13, 2013 at 5:33 pm\nNeoConScum | May 12, 2013 at 6:29 pm\nDavid Petraeus has the ammunition to Blow the Whole Squalid Cowardly Lying Bunch outta the water. I believed it in mid-September and I believe it now. Time to step up to the Congressional Hearing plate, General.\nThis stuff from the utterly tepid Mo\u2019Dowd is snicker provoking. Repeatedly in her May 11th vapid piece she sneers and disses Fox News. You know, B\u2019yotch, the ones that have doggedly followed the story while your NY Times chorused rationalizations, excuses and LIES for His Infantile Majesty and his hideous Sec\u2019y of State.\nNeo | May 13, 2013 at 11:52 am\nYou really have to wonder if Petraeus was looking to a way to head for the door.\nNeoConScum | May 14, 2013 at 10:24 am\nNeo..Yep, what a(GASP!!)well timed outing that whole Paula what\u2019sername thing was. I\u2019m hoping Issa will bring the great warrior in for some unvarnished plain truth telling.\nThe Infantile Majesty looked just like Pinocchio at his Lie Fest yesterday.\nAarradin | May 12, 2013 at 6:54 pm\nThat\u2019s why there are emergency response teams that train, year after year, for scenarios similar to what happened in Benghazi. They exist to be sent in at a moments notice.\nWhat we\u2019re finding out now is that these units were ready to go, and were specifically ordered to stand down. Repeatedly.\nCan\u2019t very well talk about the demise of al Qaeda and the end of the war on terrorism in the last month of a campaign and then send a special forces team to stop an al Qaeda terrorist attack, can we? Good God, man, where are your priorities?\nMARGARET CARLSON, BLOOMBERG NEWS: The other thing, back to your point, is that because the right wing went so far on this story, \u201cit\u2019s Watergate, it\u2019s impeachable,\u201d we couldn\u2019t hear Stephen Hayes in the Weekly Standard. It did take somebody who is just a meat and potatoes reporter.\nWhat\u2019s the term again\u2026???\nOh, yeah. \u201cEpistemic closure\u201d.\nOr\u2026\u201dUnless it comes from my tribe, I can\u2019t hear it.\u201d\nHelluva admission from a \u201creporter\u201d.\nCouldn\u2019t \u2018hear\u2019 Hayes over the din of right wing screeching? Hayes\u2019 seminal article was written, not broadcast, and her premise is as specious as they come.\nChange that to epistemic seizure.\nPapaB | May 12, 2013 at 8:16 pm\nhttp://rightreactions.blogspot.com/2013/05/out-damned-spot.html\nwindbag | May 12, 2013 at 8:22 pm\nThe willingness of and number of whistleblowers is directly proportional to the willingness of the media to investigate and report.\n\u201c\u2026 it is now generally acknowledged \u2014 was utilized as a flimsy excuse by the State Department in an attempt to distract from its embarrassing failures in the September attack on the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi, Libya.\u201d\nThis has got to be the worst conspiracy of politicians and bureaucrats in at least this century. The goals were vague at best, and there wasn\u2019t even any real \u201ccommon good\u201d that they were trying to protect, just a few sorry ass politicians. The odds were that if they merely mentioned that the security was \u201cbelow par\u201d and that they were now beefing up security worldwide\u201d that this would have passed with their minions in the press.\nEven the Watergate break-in had better intentions. Mark this down as \u201cthey did it because they could.\u201d\nTheFineReport.com | May 12, 2013 at 8:37 pm\nIt\u2019s going quite well, actually.\njanitor | May 12, 2013 at 9:16 pm\nObama is Commander in Chief. He had a fiduciary obligation to act. Instead he went to bed to rest up like some child who had a school test the next day. I consider him and Hillary to be tantamount to murderers. I am certain they tried to blackmail Petraeus. They also threatened numerous military and state department employees.\nMeanwhile, the leftwing media keeps watering down their language, spinning, and making noise, even as they pretend to be reporting. E.g., nonsense being circulated among unthinking ideologues \u2014 \u201cBenghazi \u2018debate\u2019 sparks little formal lobbying\u201d (WTF?).\nI can\u2019t comment further. I am having a very difficult time containing my anger and language.\nP.S. A must-read to recognize and call bullshit on watered down \u201capology\u201d and excuse-making language: Ken Pope\u2019s Ethics, Critical Thinking, & Language: Using Words to Deceive (8 Bogus Apologies). \u201cMistakes were made\u201d (but not by me)\u2026\nwalls | May 12, 2013 at 9:44 pm\nRight \u2013 because they found the others and they have been coerced \u201cJudge Roberts-style\u201d!\nTheFineReport.com | May 12, 2013 at 10:01 pm\njanitor: Who cares what the left says about anything? Are you doing to next get pissed off at rats for being dirty?\nDON\u2019T temper your rage \u2014 use it. If you have to curse, use @#$% language. But whatever you do, this is the chance we\u2019ve been waiting for. POUNCE on it.\nI said it many times: \u2018Barack Obama\u2019 is a house of cards. So is Hillary Clinton. Both are outrageous contrivances who in reality couldn\u2019t run the proverbial hot dog stand.\nLet\u2019s keep yanking those bottom cards, and never let up.\nSteveT | May 12, 2013 at 10:15 pm\nWe have the ABC News report on the 12 versions of the Talking Points posted now on CC\u2026\nhttp://commoncts.blogspot.com/2013/05/abc-news-benghazi-attack-talking-points.html\nRagspierre | May 12, 2013 at 10:17 pm\nI was struck today by a small insight.\nIt came from the synthesis of something Victor Davis Hanson wrote about the absolute social repudiation of terrorists\u2026or not.\nBarack H. Obama is a morally depraved person.\nImagine a political career started in the salon of the surviving Boston bomber and his wife.\nYou can take it from there. Your next stop might be opposing a law that would protect born-alive infants.\nThis should lead you inexorably to a night when an ambassador of the United States was missing, following a transparent terrorist attack on the anniversary of the worst act of terrorism in our history, and the first attack on our homeland since the British invaded.\nI have never gone past Grandma being killed off the evening before the election.\nNeoConScum | May 13, 2013 at 8:06 am\nThere you go AGGAAAIIIIN, Rags. Next\u2026What\u2026 You\u2019ll be thinking(in that pesky, paranoid Righty Mind)that The Bama would use the IRS on conservative organizations and..WHAT.. A corpulent, lying Sec\u2019y of State with a bottomless appetite for power weaving absolute falsehoods face-to-face with grieving families of Benghazi victims..?? Naw..They\u2019d NEVER be dishonorable,\u2019Yo.\nwayne | May 12, 2013 at 11:02 pm\nLet\u2019s explain this so even a Detroit public school student can understand it. This is the equivalent of getting hit by a bus when crossing the street and when they call 911, it\u2019s decided that you\u2019ll probably be dead before the ambulance gets there so why bother sending it at all. If that seems preposterous, you\u2019re 100% correct. So why wouldn\u2019t we send help no matter how far away they were? Good question. Maybe they checked with the IRS and found some Tea Party connection. Thugs.\njanitor | May 12, 2013 at 11:47 pm\nWe could have stopped it rapidly. We had Africom assets within easy reach of the area and more in the Middle East and Europe. Far more than is being reported. This is insane. It makes me sick. Obama didn\u2019t want to draw attention to the mess He\u2019s made in the Middle East before the election. No new information is now coming out. Just more confirmation. Anyone with half a brain should have seen what was going on. The media refused to cover it. Instead they stalked titillating irrelevancies about Petraus to divert attention and made dingbat women at McDill AFB the news, remember? Why don\u2019t they cover Barry\u2019s gay liaisons with the same damn fervor.\nYou left out an important point that is emerging. Loosely, it\u2019s this: it is emerging that the reason Hillary Clinton did not want to send in troops to the Benghazi victims is that she wanted to be seen in a MacArthur-like fashion being the first high official coming ashore to Libya after she helped yank Ghadaffi out.\nSo to continue your analogy: the victim would be lying in the street and help was never sent because the Mayor wanted to be photographed stepping in as the hero that saved the day, and 911 responders would have usurped her moment \u2014 and she was out of town at the moment.\nTHAT\u2019s what\u2019s going on.\nEstragon | May 13, 2013 at 12:40 am\nOne possibility raised soon after the scandal concerns the reason Stevens was in Benghazi on 9/11 when he knew there wasn\u2019t sufficient security. It had nothing to do with promoting the idea that Libya was a safer place than it was, he could have gone the next day and left before dark.\nHe did meet with the Turkish envoy, which is odd since most diplomats work in and out of Tripoli. Were they trying to figure out how to get back all the MANPAD hand-fired surface-to-air missiles we gave the rebels and get them to the Syrian rebels?\nIf this was the reason, it also might explain why no rescue chopper or F-16 overflight: they were afraid our aircraft might be shot down with our own weapons, and that would look very bad seven weeks before an election.\nLook, guys, our president is black with a Muslim name and upbringing. None of this talk about Benghazi and the IRS matters. Our president is always talking about Lincoln and Reagan. We have a centrist president. We have more change, great new jobs, a new attitude to people from other parts of the Americas who want to live in our part of America, the world respects us and likes us.So, Benghazi and the IRS really doesn\u2019t matter. I mean, let\u2019s focus on the wonderfulness of The One We\u2019ve Been Waiting for \u2026 our president is black with a Muslim name and upbringing.\nMidwest Rhino | May 13, 2013 at 6:56 am\nDidn\u2019t Hillary also promise the Afghan women she/we would never leave them vulnerable to the Taliban \u2026 so they could feel free to come \u201cout of the closet\u201d?\nClinton, who has made women\u2019s rights one of the hallmarks of her political career, promised a group of distinguished Afghan women that she had a \u201cpersonal commitment\u201d to ensuring that their rights must be fully guaranteed in any future Afghan political system.\nKABUL | Tue Jul 20, 2010 9:09am BST (Reuters)\nHillary has a bad habit of leaving others behind, making idle promises.\nMoe Lane \u00bb Barack Obama is almost on the verge of losing his MoDo. | May 13, 2013 at 12:42 pm\n[\u2026] (H/T: Legal Insurrection) [\u2026]\nI used to sit on the steps of my CHU in the evening and watch the Navy/Marine F18s come out of the sky, dive down towards Sadr City (my last tour was during the violence from the Golden Mosque bombing), pull up while hitting the afterburners, and leave a powerful sonic shockwave as they flew out of sight. It was effective on the ground, or so I was told. Apparently no one told Gates.\nHow cool would it be to have a SecDef that knew something about the military. I guess we\u2019ll never know how cool it would be as long as we have a Democrat CinC.\nManchester Times - Bonnaroo, News, Newspaper, Sports, Business, Entertainment, Engagement, Obituary, Births, Government, Football, Basketball, Baseball, Soccer in Manchester Tennessee, TN | May 14, 2013 at 12:26 pm\n[\u2026] Benghazi scandal. For more links on recent events in the scandal, see Legal Insurrection\u2018s Weekend Wrap-up of Benghazi Coverage. 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After graduating from Ferndale High in 1963, John went to work with his father at Fassett and Barr Motors. He joined the Army and served a tour in Vietnam.\nIn 1969, he married Linda Calvery of Ferndale and they welcomed daughter Lindi in 1978.\nJohn worked at the ARCO Cherry Point Refinery for 25 years. After retiring from ARCO, he was hired by Snelson Companies, Inc., where he traveled across the US as a consultant and safety trainer on various pipeline projects. No matter what kind of job he did, John was always known and respected for his knowledge and work ethic.\nIf you knew John, you knew he had a heart of gold. John would always be there for a person in need and no request was too large or too small. He was always ready to lend a hand or make an anonymous donation. He wasn\u2019t the sort of person who expected anything in return. John loved serving his community. He had volunteered as a firefighter for the City of Ferndale and had been a member of the local Lions Club. He also served as Worshipful Master of Ferndale Masonic Lodge #264 and volunteered with the Old Settler\u2019s Association and the Ferndale Heritage Society. He built many sets for school plays at Central Elementary School. For many Christmases, John played Santa at local nursing and retirement homes and took the residents to see the Christmas lights around the area.\nJohn was active in the Bellingham American Legion Post #7. He enjoyed riding motorcycles his whole life and attended Trinity Biker Church in Ferndale. He especially loved his Harley, which he and Linda often rode together.\nJohn was preceded in death by his parents, Irving and Agnes; sister Joan; and daughter Lana. He is survived by his wife Linda of Ferndale; daughter Lindi of Bellingham; sister Jeanne Epp of Federal Way, WA; sister-in-law and brother-in-law Janel and Jerry Ernster of Birch Bay; cousin Warner Fosberg of Blaine; and several nieces and nephews.\nIn lieu of flowers, donations may be made to the American Legion Riders, In memory of John Fassett, Att: Erika, 1688 W. 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Her condition has been diagnosed as Complex Regional Pain Syndrome and Internal Adhesions. When she came to live with me two years ago she weighed 97 pounds. We improved her diet and her weight peaked at 115 pounds. But she has gotten worse and now she shakes so badly that she can barely eat even though she is hungry. She weighs 93 pounds. No one has been able to help her, and I\u2019m afraid that she is going to die.\nJanavi has no pain relief because she gets dangerous reactions to most pain meds. She is still looking for a solution. She\u2019s never given up. She wants so badly to just have a normal life and do things for herself. She hasn\u2019t been outside for over a year, except for two ambulance rides to the hospital.\nThe main purpose of this fundraiser is to find ways to substantially reduce Janavi\u2019s pain. Most of the things we have to try are not covered by Medicaid. But we need to move forward because her symptoms are getting worse. She needs to see a practitioner who does not take her insurance. She wants to rent a Bemer machine to see if it will help (this technology was highly recommend by a close friend who is a doctor). And if it really helps, I want to actually buy one for her. I\u2019d like to connect her with a group that tries to solve medical mysteries. And I\u2019d also like her to get genetic testing.\nA secondary purpose is help with her ongoing expenses. She is disabled and can\u2019t cook for herself at all. She needs home care but Medicaid will not pay for it because she is not completely helpless. Janavi tries very hard to do things for herself even though it is very painful for her so I don\u2019t know if Medicaid will ever pay for her home care.\nThis is a photo I took of her two years ago\nThis is Janavi currently, weighing 93 pounds.\nI love my beautiful little sister. I want her to get her life back so badly. Please help me save her.\n===https://www.gofundme.com/saving-janavi\nOur God-mother wrote this for Janavi last month:\nA graduate of Goddard College where she studied poetry, photography and media, Janavi Held was an up-and-coming writer and photographer when she was stricken at age 46 with an illness that now, six years later, is still debilitating her so that she cannot walk up or down stairs without help, she can only walk short distances around the house, and can only stand up for less than a minute at a time, sit in a car, or cook. She made the usual traditional medical rounds, tests, consultations and treatments, plus sessions with a myriad of healers and herbal remedies, but to no avail. Her condition has been labeled Complex Regional Pain Syndrome and Internal Adhesions, but nothing has been able to ease her constant pain or progressive weakness.\nPlease give what you can share the link widely.\nLast fall her condition worsened, the pain increased and her weight plummeted to 95 pounds. After an ambulance ride to the hospital, a forty-eight hour stay and a whole battery of tests, she left the hospital in worse pain; they could do nothing for her.\nTwenty-six months ago her sister Sue took Janavi her into her home in Colorado and set up a bedroom for her. Sue works full time but devotes much of her time to Janavi\u2019s care. Because of Janavi\u2019s worsening condition (she can barely walk at all, is in constant pain, and using her arms has become very painful as well), they have been forced to pay a home care agency to take care of Janavi and support Sue with other household tasks. In order to pay for home care and cover incidental expenses, as well as uncovered medical expenses, they need at least $15,000 a year. Sue\u2019s salary cannot cover this additional cost. The only coverage Janavi has is Medicaid.\nJanavi is such a talented, spiritual soul. During these years of her illness, Janavi took refuge in her practice of Bhakti yoga which she had embarked on when she was nineteen. Her faith and persistence enabled her to write Letters to My Oldest Friend, a book of poetry and photography. This book of poems and photography that she produced in the years since her disease struck are so beautiful. In 2017, two of her poems were shortlisted for the prestigious Hamilton House International Poetry Prize and where included in a book entitled Eternity.\nNow, she can barely type or read because of the persistent pain. 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The series is a comparison of literary and religious ideas in the hopes of finding shared values and conflicting concepts. Samul writes in his introduction to the series, \u201cFiction and religion have commonalities that are based in their structure and philosophical concepts. And it is here that I\u2019ve started my understanding of faith \u2013 shaping my view of nature, values, and the image of humanity that is created in art and faith. My purpose isn\u2019t to find truth in art or a religious compass to guide my way. It is merely to connect the two ideas as exploration. The results are debatable and often doubtful. And for that conversation \u2013 I am thankful.\u201d\nby Ron Samul Jr.\nTo have faith is to believe something that has no tangible proof. Why would we believe in something we couldn\u2019t prove? Is it a leap of faith? Is it a deferment of what we know to be fact in the hope that a spiritual influence will intervene? If faith comes from within the literature of religion \u2013 the Koran, the Bible, the Torah \u2014 is there a particular mechanism that can define a document of faith? Great novels are similar to the great religious documents in the stories and connections they make with the human condition. If I can believe that Adam and Eve were cast out of the Garden of Eden or visualize the enormity of the Tower of Babel, I can imagine Kafka\u2019s bug and Ahab\u2019s white whale. Does the concept of \u201cwilling suspension of disbelief\u201d play as great a part in faith as it does in reading and analyzing literature?\nI began to think about the concept in writing that we refer to as willing suspension of disbelief. Crafted by Samuel Taylor Coleridge, \u201cwilling suspension of disbelief\u201d refers to the readiness of a person to accept as true the premises of a work of fiction, even if they are fantastic or impossible. It also refers to the willingness of the audience to overlook the limitations of a medium, so that these do not interfere with the acceptance of a literary construct. According to Coleridge, this definition is to \u201ctransfer from our inward nature a human interest and a semblance of truth sufficient to procure for these shadows of imagination that willing suspension of disbelief for the moment, which constitutes poetic faith.\u201d It isn\u2019t difficult to connect faith in the stories of the Bible, the Koran, the Torah, or Buddhist scriptures to that of \u201cpoetic faith\u201d described by Coleridge.\nAt no time was religion and art so closely bound as when Coleridge was writing Rhime of the Ancient Mariner and Christabel. In fact, later in his life, Coleridge studied his religious context and how it shaped his artistic visions. As writers, we use the concept of willing suspension of disbelief as a working tool. When does a reader pull away from the narrative and realize that the writer is manipulating him? At what point in the novel or story does the writer distract us and pull us away from our poetic devotion and faith in the authorial vision? These questions are discussed in workshops in writing programs and English departments all over the world. This concept is critical to writers because readers who commit to reading a novel length story are willing to suspend disbelief for a good story, but are only willing to accept it if it is properly and perhaps masterfully executed. We are willing to follow the allegory of the Animal Farm to discover the writer\u2019s meaning and intent. We are willing to put our faith and time in a duffel bag aboard the Peqod and hunt down a white whale. We even find it easy to follow a madman tilting at windmills with a sarcastic sidekick. We are willing to witness evil in the hope that people will understand something new about human nature and in turn \u2013 ourselves.\nEliza Galgut explains that \u201c\u2026fictional characters help shape the way we think of ourselves, and hence help us articulate more clearly what it means to be human\u201d (Galgut 191). Stories in scripture are meant to provoke a sense of values and commonality in faith and religious understanding. Is it to be seen as merely a myth? Does it reveal more than the emotional response one gleans from art and literature? When I read the scripture, I feel that I am reading stories and ideas that are far removed from my own context, my own understanding. I always feel that I am too far away from the source, that I am reading something disconnected to my beliefs. I feel like I understand the dynamic and dramatic irony of Oedipus the King more than that of the weak conflict between Adam, Eve, and the Garden of Eden. I need to find a clear, immediate plug into the moral and values of contemporary people and their views. If we carry all our stories and our plots forward, then we can derive biblical and mythological parallels to everything we read. Northrop Frye felt as if all literature studies should start in a working understanding of the Bible and mythology. And as a foundation for studying the history of literature, I agree. So much of the literary canon has been shaped through these two significant influences of world literature. But is all literature wrought from Adam\u2019s rib? Or can we redefine our present state of literature to fit different paradigms of understanding like that of Coleridge and the willing suspension of disbelief?\nWilling suspension of disbelief involves putting art before probability; it is finding faith \u2013 something you cannot verify. Masterful writers can fathom the complexity of how readers interpret words, symbols, and concepts into an experience that is removed from authorial control and understanding. That is why we read literature: to read and understand something new and compare it to our lives and our vision of the world. We then can discuss and analyze this experience. And we can place an aesthetic value to that experience. This is what book clubs, MFA students, and critics are working on all the time. Sharing their view, their understanding of the literature and how it relates to a specific segment of study. Therefore, I believe we are putting faith in a higher order. \u201cPhilosophers and poets alike have pondered the seemingly mysterious nature of the arts. From Plato to Hume, the ways in which poetry moves us has been a source of both puzzlement and wonder; in Ion, Socrates even reaches the conclusion that our engagement with poetry is a kind of madness\u201d (Galgut 190). Every book I open, every word I read, every experience I have, every dream I dream, feeds into the higher order of words. It isn\u2019t sitting in church and having a priest tell me what is right and wrong, nor is it the literature professor or critic \u2013 but reading words, putting them into the collective ideas and thoughts, and creating something new. This collective is a river of ideas, characters, faith, and understanding. This can be fluid and constant in its change. It is vital to fall into the stream and contribute to it at the same time. It is like starting a novel; all must be vested before you begin.\nJane Simley, in her book 13 Ways of Looking at the Novel, takes the concept of willing suspension of disbelief and speaks to the \u201cwillingness\u201d part of the equation first. Her observation of her teaching experience is apt here. She says, \u201cIn teaching this story [The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka] twenty-two times to undergraduate students, I found that out of every thirty students, one or two were simply unwilling to believe that Gregor could turn into a bug, and for those students, the story offers no charms at all. It was not that the other students believed that a man in Prague in 1915 turned into a bug; it was that they enjoyed the idea and suspended disbelief, and once they imagined Gregor\u2019s bugness, they were open to every other idea that Kafka had to offer\u201d (Smiley 88). Considering Kafka this way is one thing, but does this apply to religious texts? Does it apply to philosophy and poetry? Can it change the way we think of reading poetry like novels, and novels like poetry? Can we read Leaves of Grass like a novel and define its narrative style and novelistic elements? Can we follow the human truths inherent in narrative story telling? When you read books by Milorad Pavi\u0107, you begin to open yourself to his vision before you read the words. Dictionary of the Khazars can be read by cross referencing each entry \u2013 giving a different impression each time you read the novel. You can also choose the male or female version of the novel (and yes there is an important difference.) In The Inner Side of the Wind, the reader starts the book traditionally from the beginning. But when Hero\u2019s story ends, the reader must flip the book over and begin reading from the back cover to begin Leander\u2019s story. The two brilliantly cross and weave together before you find yourself back in the middle of the book. Pavi\u0107 engages the reader on a physical level \u2013 where not only does the text foster a willingness in the reader to follow, but it is further reinforced by the physical aspects of the book itself. Getting back to Jane Smiley and her view of \u201cwilling suspension of disbelief\u201d is to understand that a \u201cliterary education not only enlarges a reader\u2019s willingness to suspend disbelief by extending her range of pleasures, it also strengthens her ability to enter the meditative state, and to be receptive to the influence of another human mind, because it is a state of contemplation that is essential to the true appreciation of the novel\u201d (Simley 88). It is here that I begin to see patterns of faith and prayer in the contemplative reflection of our lives in religion to that of other people\u2019s lives and ideas in literature. It is with this kind of language that I begin to understand the connection between the terms \u2013 poetic faith, meditative states, willingness to believe, and perhaps one that hasn\u2019t been discussed yet \u2013 belief.\nWilling suspension of disbelief is important in that it is a psychological or mental process that readers and writers use to shift between the words on the page and the reality. Eliza Galgut writes in her paper titled Poetic Faith and Prosaic Concerns: A defense of \u2018suspension of disbelief\u2019 that we learn this concept of partitioning make believe and reality at an early age. As a society we allow the blurring of these partitions in very young children so the make believe and the real are interconnected. As they get older, make believe and play turn inward. Self talk is internalized with comprehension and reading skills \u2013 and the world of make believe goes into hiding. However, Galgut\u2019s suggestion is that it manifests itself in the concept of suspension of disbelief. People take to reading because it is like childhood play, which is comforting, safe, and imaginative. In turn, reading and being taken to a new place is similar to taking out your old toy trains and setting them up again to construct an imaginary world. Galgut accurately examines the flexibility of this concept of suspension of disbelief. The reader doesn\u2019t lose his mind or disappear from his reality (completely) when reading. In fact, it is a very versatile and useful mode of thinking and seeing the world. She explains that readers create separate \u201cdossiers\u201d or partitions for each application. While I have never set eyes on a Hobbit, I can visualize and understand its importance in a novel. But there is more mental flexibility. \u201cSuspension of disbelief is an active state of mind, if you will. It is a willing decision to put aside a certain set, or sets, of beliefs in order to adopt for a certain time the set of beliefs generated by the work of fiction before one\u201d (Galgut 197). And if we take that a step further (particular with new media, interactive video games, and interactive web spaces), the concept of interaction is important in shaping the intensity of that experience.\nWhile this is a comparison between religious and literary constructs, it is relevant to discuss video games and how suspension of disbelief is a shifting element in understanding reality and story based interaction. When I was a kid, it was assumed that kids wasted time in arcades which were construed as school skipping, hi-tech pool halls where kids smoked and played the latest version of Dig-Dug. As game systems evolved into hi-tech super computers, (one of which has more power than all of NORAD had in 1975) we have created interactive stories that are being played out all the time. And, it is the willing suspension of disbelief that shifts the player between walking in the mall and not shooting everyone, to an artificial world of make-believe where the code of conduct changes. It would seem to be a good asset in workers, soldiers, or explorers to adapt to different rules and standards as situations change. Unlike fiction which is static and can\u2019t be changed by the reader, the video game is interactive and can be shaped by the player\u2019s ability and scope of ingenuity. In Janet Murray\u2019s book Hamlet on the Holodeck: The Future of Narrative in Cyberspace, she explains, \u201cWhen we enter a fictional world, we do not merely \u201csuspend\u201d a critical faculty; we also exercise a creative faculty. We do not suspend disbelief so much as we actively create belief. Because of our desire to experience immersion, we focus our attention on the enveloping world, and we use our intelligence to reinforce rather than to question the reality of the experience.\u201d Galgut explains how readers\u2013or in this case, players\u2013have different belief partition or \u201cdossiers\u201d in our mental process that we use when interacting with text or a story-based media. The flexibility of creativity and artistic understanding, in her understanding of suspension of disbelief is that we can easily shift from one dossier to another. The point is that a caffeine-chugging seventeen year-old girl who just made it through the last level of Halo has no interest in taking to the streets to kill. In fact, she wants to finish the story. She wants to get closer. The ability to switch from reality to the interactive story line is a skill that is complex and very adaptable.\nThe same thrill that people get playing video games (not just the young, but people of all ages) is based the completion of the storyline. I\u2019ve never been a die hard video game player, but I like the story lines. And like a good novel, I always want to know \u2013 what\u2019s next? For writers \u2013 this is story. And the second thing I want to know is how will it connect to everything I know so far? That is plot. While video games are complex and interactive, the same goals and thirst to finish a good novel are what is feeding the desire to finish or continue playing a video game.\nNot only can we visualize how effective Murray\u2019s \u201ccreating belief\u201d can be for a video game, but how it might enhance the way we consider our relationship to higher order and religion? The importance here is two significant points. One, that we are vastly creative based on our referential experiences to have multiple sets of belief and ideals at any given time for different applications. Second, that it is so easy for us to shift, that we can believe that chemistry, convection, weather patterns, and upper wind velocity can generate a tornado \u2013 but still believe that it is the finger of God punishing us. Our different partitions or (as Galgut refers to them) dossiers can and do conflict. When they do, some interesting ideas come into play. \u201cEvidence for multiple and mutually exclusive belief dossiers can be found in an internal conflict between faith and reason, for instance; a scientist does not believe that transubstantiation is possible in the universe in which we live, but when she participates in the ritual of a Catholic mass, she does believe that what she is being offered are the body and the blood of Christ\u201d (Galgut 194). This example pinpoints the duplicity that is both inspiring and a bit disturbing in our method of understanding fiction, reality, religion, and our moral standards.\nThe suspension of disbelief in fiction is a powerful psychological development that is creative and interactive. Unlike a painting, we can apply our own working mental references and understanding to a text. This makes writing highly subjective. It is why book clubs are so appealing to some people. They are a forum to discuss how other people approach a text and what they have gleaned from it. Those comparative views shape the overall. And people are looking for those same groups in religion to shape their understanding of religious texts. Isn\u2019t the Catholic Church the ultimate book club? Some want a passive religious experience and some want the interactive. It is just like the person who reads The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison at the beach. She might finish it and contemplate over it for awhile and move on. The literature professor might be sitting next to her reading the same book, preparing for the fall course in African American Literature. She wants to understand all the elements in the novel and how to explain that to thirty students reading the novel. It is merely a reflection of how the reader wants to interact with the text and why. This conflict (in my case, the writing of these essays) can be a useful exploration of the self. It can also be a haunting method of fanaticism that leads to violence and religious fundamentalism. Elisa Galgut\u2019s ideas reveal to writers and people of faith that we can partition our ideas and moral codes based on fiction, religion, and other segments of our lives. But when the partitions \u201cconflict,\u201d then we have a shift in view that needs to be realized. We have all read books that have changed our lives, but when our ability to believe is a detriment to critical thinking, we move from a willing suspension of disbelief to a fundamental hard line that is so literal, it can\u2019t be considered in terms of ideas but in pure action and method. When we believe that killing something in a video game has the same emotional intensity as doing it in a school cafeteria, then something is wrong. When we believe every phrase in a religious text should be literal \u2013 that marginalizes the scope and the flexibility our ideas and imagination.\nReligious texts are difficult (if not impossible) to read like a novel. They aren\u2019t built to be read cover to cover. I tried to read the Bible like a novel and was quickly stifled. I read Bullfinch\u2019s Mythology and felt a bit better about the story segments, but still felt out of touch with the reason and context of the tales. We can\u2019t expect strong characters, plotting, and continuous story arcs. The willing suspension of disbelief in terms of religious scripture isn\u2019t about the form of the texts, but how we are willing to view and interact with the spiritual scripture. It is our willingness to accept the human values, the moral and spiritual offerings of blind faith. Applying willing suspension of disbelief to religious values isn\u2019t about form and art, but our own ability to apply our own lives and understanding of the world to a common text. As a writer, I find more truth and human understanding in literature. In the end, blind faith might not be blind at all; it might be the willing suspension of disbelief that aligns and measures the depth of our spiritual understanding.\nColeridge, S. T. 1982. Biographia Literaria. Chapter XIV London: J. M. Dent and Sons.\nGalgut, Elisa. Poetic faith and prosaic concerns. A defense of \u2018suspension of disbelief\u2019. South African Journal of Philosophy. 2002, Vol. 21 Issue 3, p190, 10p.\nMurray, Janet H. Hamlet on the Holodeck: The future of narrative in cyberspace. Cambridge: MIT Press, 1997.\nSmiley, Jane. 13 Ways of Looking at the Novel. New York: Anchor Books, 2005. New York: Anchor Books, 2005.\nRon Samul is a graduate writing mentor and college instructor. He holds a BA in English and an MFA in Professional Writing. He is the publisher of Skinny Toe Press and Miranda Literary Magazine. He has been a professional journalist and educator for over ten years.\n5 Responses to \u201cFaith & Art: Willing suspension of disbelief\u201d\nRon Samul Says:\nhttp://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/04/books/review/Meacham-t.html\nThis book review in the NY Times Book Review suggests the concept discussed in this article. It seems like an interesting source for people interested in the concepts in pragmatic religious history.\nThank you so much for this essay, i\u2019m currently writing a docu movie about among other things, syncretism, legends and believes in North Argentina. I wish to question the cohabitation of so called rational thinking of the world and the magic thought that leads people there to hunting treasures and fear ghosts. Anything else i could read besides the references you give?\nThe only somewhat related book I can think of is \u201cThe Idea of the Holy\u201d by Rudolph Otto. Let me ask Ron Samul, the author of the post. I will share with you his reply.\nHi Elise. I will paste Ron\u2019s comments below (he also includes his email address for further questions or discussion). Here begins Ron:\nFaith and Art is an interesting idea when placed together and I have done a lot of thinking about what we believe in pursuit of religion and faith, and what we believe in fiction and art in pursuit of truth and meaning of life. I know, it is all probably interchangeable and that just makes it all a beautiful mess to talk about.\nI hope this helps in terms of finding some pathways to investigate. I\u2019ve always been interested in the fine lines between the seen and unseen. One book I admire that really falls into biblical studies is Folklore and the Old Testament by Johnathan Frazer. It is an old book and it seems I have volume one of maybe three. The link is provided below. I am sure there is a comparable updated type of book \u2013 but it traces how ideas in the Bible can be traced to all cultures and places to explore (for example, all cultures have \u201ccreation\u201d stories). The inspiration to me isn\u2019t where did bible stories come from but what are common archetypes to these stories in different human experiences. So, this book is older, but it is interesting to consider.\nAnother interesting place to look is the Native American Experience. Nietzsche said \u201cThere are two types of people in this world. Those who want to know and those who want to believe.\u201d And I think we are constantly weaving across those lines all the time as writers, thinkers, and people who see the world in multiple points of view. N. Scott Momaday is a fascinating study into the world of myth, storytelling, and ideas. His collections of essays like The Man Made of Words and some of his other essays are brilliant in terms of his tribal stories, real connections, and faith in his people. It is amazing. His essay or writing about his grandmother is beautiful. His fiction is also very good, particularly The Ancient Child (novel) which plays with time, space, and the understanding of perception in place. It is very compelling.\nOne more interesting artifact to consider would be the older but very inquisitive book The Tao of Physics which plays with the idea of spiritual being in context to science. Some of the conversations are bit dated, but the comparison and the ideas there are fascinating. A lot of these sources are not really built for answers they are built for depth of thinking. I suppose that is part of the issue that you are looking into here \u2014 how do we justify reality to myth, fiction, ghosts, and the connections to the things we cannot connect to without faith in them. It is fascinating. Links below point to some of sources as they are commonly available. N. 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I made signs in the colors of France for my birds to hold, saying, \u201cMerry Christmas.\u201d\nOn the fourth day of Christmas, my pal Sophie and I will head to Living Coast Discovery Center to hear three or more calling birds (thelivingcoast.org; 619-409-5900). The center has eagles, owls, falcons, and more in captivity, and it features a network of trails through the bayside marshes where egrets, ospreys, herons, egrets, and gulls can be seen and heard calling in the wild (admission for adults, $14; children, $9).\nOn the fifth day of Christmas, for the five rings, Patrick will take work associate Dan for a tour of the Olympic Training Center in east Chula Vista. Maybe the free, one-hour tour of the 155-acre site will inspire our budding athlete friend (teamusa.org; 619-656-1500).\nOn the sixth day of Christmas, it\u2019s geese a layin\u2019, so we ordered up a shipment from San Diego\u2019s Seabreeze Organic Farms for health-conscious friend Haylie. The local organic farm delivers fresh vegetables, fruits, flowers, and eggs. They\u2019re chicken eggs, of course, but that\u2019s okay ($64 a week for a regular share option of goods \u2014 seabreezeorganicfarm.org; 858-481-0209).\nA rubber ducky will take the place of the seven swans of the seventh day. It will be sent, along with my all-time favorite bubble bath, to my high-school friend Sue (Sleep Lavender Chamomile, $16.50 at Bath and Body Works).\nOn the eighth day of Christmas, new mama friend Nicole will get a gift certificate to New Beginnings Boutique to set her up for nursing her newborn (sharp.com/mary-birch/new-beginnings-boutique.cfm).\nOn the ninth day of Christmas, it\u2019s tickets for the ballet for Laurie. The ladies will be dancing Sleeping Beauty, by the California Ballet at the Civic Theatre; shows on May 17 and 18 (tickets from $40 to $90).\nOn the tenth day of Christmas, the ten lords will be leaping on the basketball court. 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But also because of the Black girls and women who will see themselves in the portrayals of these women and be subsequently inspired to reach for their own goals.\nBut the makers of the film, including producer Pharrell, Pepsico and 21st Century Fox, are taking it beyond just representation. They\u2019re offering scholarships to young women who are pursuing passions and careers in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM).\nThe scholarship website, lists the requirements.\nIf you\u2019re a female with talent in STEM who hasn\u2019t yet been recognized for her great work or potential, this is your chance: Tell us how you\u2019ll use STEM to change the world, and you could win $50,000 in scholarship money, plus exciting opportunities that will help you pursue the work you love. We have two opportunities\u2014junior and professional\u2014so choose the age group that\u2019s right for you and apply by Dec. 10!\nThe competition is open to both high school students as well as professional women. The committee is accepting applications from November 14 to December 10. Semifinalists will be announced between Dec. 17 -30. 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Let's find out what happened during the third and last stopover of his trip.\nI land on September 1, ready for another two months of interesting research (and some more exploration). Pennsylvania is definitely not like Colorado, and Pittsburgh is not in a mountainous area. The city is much bigger than Boulder. From a population of a few hundred thousands to a few million, a factor 10 that one can see for sure.\nI had been to Pittsburgh a decade ago for a post-doc, but at that time I worked in an \u201cout of town \u201cFederal laboratory (about an hour\u2019s drive, which for an American is considered a normal commuting distance), and I had rented an apartment in a residential area nearby. I rarely went \u201cdowntown\u201d, so I can\u2019t say I had gotten to know the metropolitan area well. This time I will be working directly with the University of Pittsburgh (one of the three or four universities in the area) and the apartment I rented is in the city center.\nKarl picks me up at the airport and updates on the latest news as we drive towards the place I will be staying. Almost nine months have passed since we last talked, and this \u201cgestation\u201d has produced news. After thinking it over, he had decided that the method we had discussed, and that more or less I had in mind to organize during the next few months, is not ideal for the kind of calculation they want to do. In the meantime, I think, a collaboration with another American laboratory has come up, and the issue I need to work on is much more accurate than it was before: radioactive decontamination.\nThe interest in this issue derives from what happened in Fukushima: the water that flooded the reactor became weakly radioactive. Some hydrogen nuclei in H 2 O were transformed into tritium (T), which is a radioactive isotope of hydrogen. Now, the problem is that the amount of radioactive water we are talking about is about one million tons, while the amount of radioactive molecules is (relatively) negligible. If I understand correctly, it comes to a few tens of grams, which means that one molecule of water every about 20 billion is radioactive. They should be separated in some way. [Note: My most attentive readers might be asking themselves at this point: which tons? American tons, British imperial tons or International System tons? Congratulations for your curiosity and precision. At that time, though, I didn\u2019t ask.\nIf the problem seems to be that of the needle in the haystack, it is actually so. My first question, however, is the following: \u201cwouldn\u2019t it be easier to throw everything into the sea?\u201d\nMy colleague, Karl, gives me a somewhat weird look, and at that time I don\u2019t quite understand what he\u2019s trying to tell me. Then he shrugs and says: \u201cNo, environmentalists do not allow it and it is not a politically acceptable solution.\u201d Before environmentalists come looking for me to hang me from the highest flagpole, let me explain what I meant. There\u2019s an amount of radioactivity that is naturally present in the environment and can\u2019t be removed. In a human body there are about 10,000 disintegrations per second due mainly to the fact that a (small) fraction of potassium present in the ecosystem \u2013 that is absolutely necessary for our health \u2013 is radioactive. [Note: No, it\u2019s not a consequence of the nuclear tests of the \u201950s or \u201960s. The radioactive potassium has been here since our solar system was created]\nStandards for drinking water alow 1,000 disintegrations per second per liter. How much more radioactive is the Fukushima water? According to a quick calculation, assuming 50 grams of radioactive water in a million tons, it would add up to about 4 million disintegrations per second per liter. It would be enough to have that water diluted 4000 times to make it drinkable; I think it\u2019s technologically feasible.\nThen Karl assumes a little more sly expression and he adds: \u201cBut the idea isn\u2019t bad. And, at least once, they have already done it! \u201c. At this point, it\u2019s me now that looks a little puzzled. I find out that in a nuclear power plant right in Pennsylvania, there had been an accident where water came into contact with the reactor core, becoming weakly radioactive. Even back then environmentalists were particularly concerned about the destination of this water and they didn\u2019t want it to be taken out of the plant. To solve the problem, it was evaporated.\nHowever, the scientific challenge remained: is it possible to effectively extract that part of 20 billion water that is radioactive? The idea that had been discussed nine months earlier was for a method that could be applied if the water had been gas, and probably not too good even in that case (although it was still necessary to try and make a precise calculation before being sure). In the meantime, Karl had been wondering whether it would be better to work directly with liquid water, using a method similar (but not the same) to the one they had discussed. Six months before, he had put to work a guy who was starting to have some results. The idea was to try and determine which material, between a certain class of polymers, would be the most promising for this purpose. I would still be welcome to cooperate with them. In the following days, I meet the guy who had been entrusted with this project. He explains to me what progress they have made, what they want to do, and so on. There are still several issues where they could definitely use my help. It looks like a good challenge to me, and also an excellent opportunity to learn something new. I decide to devote myself to it, without neglecting what was my original plan, though.\nMeanwhile, the great metropolis intrigues me. I remembered from my previous stay there that there was an off limits neighborhood (The exact words they had used to describe it were: \u201cdon\u2019t even think of going there!\u201d) but the whole south-eastern part of the city is terra incognita for me, and I explore it freely by taking long walks on weekends. In the end I didn\u2019t see even half of what I had set out to see: Pittsburgh is a huge city. There are plenty of city parks, even very large ones, that I like to go visit again and again. And big residential districts with their typical American \u201csmall houses\u201d that stretch for kilometers, each with its own particular style and I do not mind visiting: there\u2019s no traffic, and there\u2019s a lot of green space. I sometimes I plan my itineraties so badly that I end up walking along one of those big American roads, with 4 lanes in each direction, very busy, noisy and definitely smelly.\nAfter a while, I developed a certain sensitivity to Pittsburgh\u2019s urban design. At first I do not pay much attention, and only after I\u2019ve been walking for a while I realize that \u201csomething\u201d has changed: I see that maybe the sidewalk is kept worse than \u201cten minutes ago\u201d, I notice a higher concentration of waste here and there, and the houses around me show a little more clearly the signs of aging. After three or four \u201cexplorations\u201d my spirit of observation gets finer, and I start to notice these disruptions in the moment they happen. Sometimes you literally just cross the street and find yourself in another world, from the \u201cAmerican dream\u201d style houses to big rundown buildings, the transition often accompanied by a significant change in the \u201caverage\u201d ethnicity of its inhabitants. Let\u2019s say that my impression is that poverty is much more \u201ccolorful\u201d than wealth.\nMeanwhile, work goes on\u2026 more or less. In early September, signs of life from Italy start coming in. PhD students are back from vacation, and we need to help three students graduate. Luckily for me (and to their honor) I must say that the material they start sending me shows very clearly that they not only went to the beach and had fun this summer. Colleagues are back from vacation as well, and two time zones closer to Italy shield me much less from those \u201csmall\u201d (but many) tasks that I was already starting to forget. By mid-September I find myself making a series of videocalls about everything except what in theory I should be doing. One in particular is quite interesting: it seems the various research institutions of Trento are moving towards a common project, anticipating a major financial commitment from the European Union. This project is of course something that has nothing to do with my Mobility project, but the message that arrives (including from the high places) is clear: we want you to be familiar with the subject we you come back, and be sure that, in a year or two, you will be dedicating most of your time to it.\nActually, I don\u2019t mind it. In fact the topic proposed is modern and very attractive. It\u2019s not exactly what I usually do, but one of my \u201cspecialties\u201d is precisely being interdisciplinary. Rather than dealing with a specific subject, I\u2019m mostly engaged in how to use computers to answer Physics questions, and these questions can come from many different fields. So I start gathering material and studying (omniscience is not yet one of my competencies, but I\u2019m working on it\u2026).\nMy schedule is quite full, and I slowly begin to notice that its getting colder (especially in the morning) and leaves are starting to change. Fall is coming and I remember it particularly colorful in Pennsylvania, thanks to the big number of maples. It\u2019s true I have a project to complete and also a new topic to study on, but sometimes a walk is good for your health (and help you think). The perfect excuse comes up when one of my colleagues, I would call her a friend since I had met her 10 years before, invites me for dinner on a Sunday. She and her husband, an American of Italian descent, live in an area of \u200b\u200bthe city located a bit far from where I live. She kindly offers to pick me up, but I tell her that I\u2019d rather take advantage of the invitation to take a \u201cwalk\u201d (a couple of hours long) and visit a beautiful park which is located near her home; I told her I gladly accepted a ride back home in the evening. Although it\u2019s now mid-October, foliage color change is a bit behind compared to what I expected, but little changes can be noticed, and certain trees wore red leaves in the bottom, then yellow, and a variety of shades of green in their tops. I let myself be carried away by this wonder\u2026 and I\u2019m a bit late when I get there (luckily they were late too!). For the record, dinner \u2013 as the company \u2013 was great!\nMid-October comes, and I realize my mind is already home a bit. And in the colorful autumn of Pennsylvania, you can start feeling the first faint hints of the terrible winter. The American weather forecast informs me that snow has started falling in New England, and a cold air low-pressure system is rapidly apporaching from Canada. Time to go home!\nBut, before I go, I want to see one more thing: the Cathedral of Learning. The building with this pompous name is one of the main features of the University of Pittsburgh central campus. According to Karl, it is one of the tallest buildings in the world dedicated to education. Legend has it that it was built by one of the chancellors of the University of Pittsburgh who, struggling to find their way around the campus in the early days of his appointment, had envisioned a high and visible building which could be a guide to him and to whoever visited the University. To get the funds to build it, the Chancellor came up with the idea of asking the various ethnic groups in the Pittsburgh area to pitch in. In exchange for their financial contribution, he would devote to each contributor a classroom decorated in accordance with the ethnicity features of their home country.\nKarl tells me that he has had the chance to visit the classrooms several times and are very beautiful. It is literally a stone\u2019s throw from the Department of Chemical Engineering where I am being hosted. I\u2019ve always noticed it and photographed it for its beautiful gothic architecture, but for some reason I had never found the opportunity to visit it. During one of my last days in Pittsburgh I drop all hesitation, I get off from work a little earlier and I go visit the inside of the building. In fact it is very nice. Much of the ground floor is occupied by a huge common room in a Gothic style that I find of great effect. The architecture looks like that of a church, with large pointed arches, but instead of being occupied by priests, nuns and Japanese visitors, the room is literally filled with students who study in silence. The Cathedral of Learning in name and in fact.\nI decide to go and see the various rooms dedicated to the nationality groups. They are beautiful and peculiar indeed, especially those where they aren\u2019t having lessons and I can go in. Curiosity of course drives me to look for the Italian room, but as soon as I step in, I notice that there is an ongoing lesson and I dare not disturb. I had read that it had been decorated to look like a medieval monastery, and I must say that the impression I get quite matches the description I experience another \u201chomey\u201d touch when I step into the Austrian room, which definitely resembles certain parlors that I visited in South Tyrol.\nGiovanni Garberoglio\nECT*- LISC Senior Researcher\nLa mia pagina su Linkedin\nMobility Story: Giovanni Garberoglio #1 My 1st mobility", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00240.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 96, + "original_length": 15121, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.98, + "perplexity": 219.5, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "https://magazine.promomarketing.com/post/whats-your-excuse/", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T04:18:38Z", + "digest": "sha1:2RAWPCSVORDRRVRJGXR63JGTQ72LQOTO", + "length": 2049, + "nlines": 5, + "source_domain": "magazine.promomarketing.com", + "title": "What\u2019s Your Excuse? - Promo Marketing", + "raw_content": "In sales, one of the biggest challenges in converting a prospect to a customer, or a customer to a client is getting more \u201cface time\u201d to continuously explain our value proposition. This is where most sales folks fail. Most sales folks, even seasoned professionals, don\u2019t appreciate the importance of creating \u201cexcuses\u201d to get back in front of prospects and new customers.\nProspective customers are busy and tend to forget who we are a few minutes after a sales call. Sometimes, our newer customers tend to put us in a \u201csmaller box\u201d than the broad array of products and services we offer. For example, if our first order with a new customer is branded hats, then many times this newer customer may peg us as \u201cthe hat people.\u201d\nOur job in the sales process of turning prospects into customers and customers into clients is to continually educate them on the broad array of products and solutions we are able to offer. I recommend that when you are on a new sales call you get permission from the prospect to call them from time to time when you see new ideas in which they may be interested. Then, from time to time, reach out and let them know that you\u2019re keeping your promise to inform them of great new ideas that may help them, and that you\u2019d like to stop by and show them some samples.\nAt Proforma, we have an overall capabilities brochure that is the next-best thing to a suitcase full of samples. We share this brochure along with new products, white papers and more on all of our sales calls. The No. 1 thing our people hear when they review the full capabilities brochure is, \u201cI didn\u2019t know you did that!\u201d Truth is, there are many things your prospects and customers do not know you do, even if you already told them. They key is to continue to find \u201cexcuses\u201d for getting back in touch, getting face time and re-telling your story.\nUsually, my blog is about creating wealth, and I would say that there are \u201cno excuses\u201d for not getting wealthy in our business. For this article, however, I will say, \u201cit takes some good excuses\u201d to get wealthy!", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00240.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 129, + "original_length": 5262, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.97, + "perplexity": 300.8, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "https://maiarainwood.com/2008/04/23/shes-not-heavy-shes-my-knitter/", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T04:26:31Z", + "digest": "sha1:UK4K5PGIG4OLCKEL3GXKQQ6BHG7LLHUO", + "length": 10465, + "nlines": 41, + "source_domain": "maiarainwood.com", + "title": "She\u2019s not heavy, she\u2019s my knitter | Maia Rainwood Design", + "raw_content": "She\u2019s not heavy, she\u2019s my knitter\nAt first I wasn\u2019t angry when I read this post. I thought, \u201cdude, bad idea. Way to go with the stupid.\u201d The more I think about it the more it really bothers me. I dislike it when the space around me gets sexualized without my consent \u2013 ie, someone leading someone else around on a leash, in collar and cuffs, at Faire. Am I sex negative? No. I just don\u2019t want your peanut butter in my chocolate in a venue that peanut butter is not what I consented to. If I want peanut butter, I\u2019ll go to the peanut butter club and consent by walking in the door, mmkay? It wouldn\u2019t bug me at, say, Pride or the Folsom Faire while we\u2019re talking \u201cpublic\u201d either, because I am giving consent just by showing up and participating.\nIt bothers me that the writer seems to think that people \u201cputting their assets on display\u201d or \u201cwearing skimpy costumes\u201d are somehow implying consent to be approached or touched. And I\u2019m sorry but that\u2019s just craaaaap.\nIf I wear a short skirt? It\u2019s not an invitation.\nIf I wear a low cut shirt? It\u2019s not an invitation.\nIf I wear anime cat ears and duct tape, it\u2019s NOT AN INVITATION.\nI hate it when perfectly well meaning men say to me that they don\u2019t understand why women get all het up when they\u2019re cat called for wearing a short skirt. Here\u2019s why.\nBecause women are not objects put here for the delectation of others. Wearing a short skirt does not make them culpable for someone else\u2019s lack of respect for boundaries.\nA friend of mine asked this question in response to the brouhaha about whether or not this Open Source Boobs Project was okay. \u201cWhen was the last time you were afraid you were going to be raped?\u201d\nI don\u2019t sit around, obsessing about \u201cOmg, I might be raped!\u201d and it is not something I spend a lot of time thinking about, but the plain truth is, I have been sexually assaulted in my life. The sense of unsafety, of potential danger and of the possibility of it happening again is never NOT in my lizard brain.\nThis fear is why I walk with a fistful of keys clenched between my fingers when I walk through the dark parking lot after work. Why I will wait and get onto another elevator if there is a man who feels threatening getting onto the first elevator, as that would put me into a small space alone with him and I am afraid.\nThis is why I don\u2019t walk my dog after dark.\nThis is why I am afraid that my daughters might one day drink too much at a party and maybe go to lie down in a back room to sleep it off \u2013 because they might wake up to someone who thinks that \u201cunconscious female\u201d implies \u201cconsent to have sex.\u201d\nIt could happen. It has happened to other women.\nI *hate* the idea of privilege. I hate that it exists. I hate it. I resist the idea and I don\u2019t know what to do with it or about it and it makes me feel powerless and frustrated that it is even there. So I don\u2019t throw it around in arguments or debates as a rule. Kind of like bringing the Nazis into an argument. Argument is automatically over when privilege comes into the discussion because you can\u2019t really argue with it. For all that, I gotta say that it\u2019s some kind of fucked up straight male privilege that makes an otherwise seemingly intelligent person think that a woman in a skimpy Princess outfit is somehow inviting him to walk up and ask if he can fondle her tits. That people \u201cputting their assets on display\u201d are somehow safe to assault.\n\u201cThey can say no.\u201d he says. But the damage is already done when he asks the question. I do give him kudos, also, for actually editing his post and saying some of the things he\u2019s said in retrospect. I don\u2019t think that he meant any harm with the OSBP, but good intentions make great cobblestones. Damage done.\nHow many of the women at this con really weren\u2019t okay with it but felt pressured into participating or simply felt pressured to be silent about it while it was happening around them? How many of them really felt empowered by the experience? I wonder.\nI like the idea of the Open Source Swift Kick In The Balls Project. Except not really, but, the way she writes is brilliant.\n11 Responses to She\u2019s not heavy, she\u2019s my knitter\nWow. I read the first bit and just sat here while my mind boggled.. I\u2019m honestly curious at how this sounded like a good idea to ANYONE. I\u2019d have definitely been on the \u201cno\u201d side with the option of using the \u2018kick in the balls\u2019 project as retaliation.\nThe whole thing disturbs me for basically the same reasons as you stated. Hell, I don\u2019t even wear SHORTS or short (knee length or above) in public because of the unwanted \u2018attention\u2019 that it sometimes causes. All falling under the \u201cshe *was asking for it* b/c she wore a skirt, wore a halter top, showed skin besides wrists & ankles\u201d. I live in the South and its hotter than Hades down here starting at the end of April and here I am practically having to resort to wearing a snowmobile suit because some men think that by showing some leg I\u2019m ASKING to be assaulted with comments.. or worse.\nExcellent post, my friend.\nI completely respect what you are saying. And I have the same sort of background as you and have that always in my mind, no matter what. The whole idea has a spectacular chance of going very, very wrong. But in principle, I like the idea. I like the idea of a world where you could ask and where there is no backlash for it. And I will say that while I agree forcing your kink on someone else is of the bad, there really is such a thing as no meaning no. If I say yes, you can touch my boobs, that is NOT tacit permission to anything else. But I do agree that it\u2019s just too dangerous for most people to do something like that at a con. Among friends, I don\u2019t see the problem. It\u2019s a fine line between expecting men (and women) to be more than their sexual urges and finding that it is sadly not always so.\nJessi M says:\nWow. That\u2019s not right at all, no matter how much feminist verbiage he throws in there about empowerment, etc. Here\u2019s my theory: Cons can be really scary places where that feeling of belonging, or at least not being persecuted for being a geek, can morph into some fairly disturbing public groping. I\u2019ve seen it, and I never really knew how to verbalize why it bothered me so much, but your peanut butter analogy makes SO much sense. I go to Dragon*Con to attend the panels, learn stuff, and admire the costumes. Not to watch people I thought I knew pretty well exercise the bounds of their unbeknownst-to-me \u201copen\u201d relationships. Whiskey Tango Foxtrot, Batman? Maybe this year I\u2019ll go to bed early\u2026\nMouse \u2013 see, I get enraged when people whistle. They do it to me, they do it to my daughters and it makes me feel reduced down to this object. I don\u2019t feel empowered or appreciated. It makes me want to put on a burplap sack and also eat a lot of brownies.\nPhoe \u2013 I think one thing that worries me about this idea is \u2013 how many women really felt uncomfortable, but were sort of forced into it by wanting to belong to the \u201cCool Kids\u201d OR because they were feeling that they\u2019d be ridiculed or subjected to public pressure for saying no? I had a commenter in another blog tell me my anger and disgust at the idea was me acting \u201cvictimish\u201d and suppressing something \u201cbeautiful and pure.\u201d\nJessi \u2013 open relationships don\u2019t bug me \u2013 I\u2019m poly. But I don\u2019t rub that in people\u2019s faces, I just am it. Lots of folks never figure that part out about me. And I\u2019d never walk around asking random strange people (who might be \u2018asking for it\u2019 by their attire) politely if I could smooch on or fondle their spouses \u2013 poly or not \u2013 in the name of sexual liberation and freedom and other lofty ideals, because it simply is bad manners and would make people feel uncomfortable, threatened and violated.\nI kind of try to draw the line there. At what makes people feel uncomfortable. And that includes the random strangers around me at a Con or a faire or the mall. I try to be a safety minded person in that regard.\nOn the open subject \u2013 I have a lot of respect for you, because you are poly, and you make it work for you. The people around me, who I am gently disentangling myself from, are very reckless and sometimes downright rude. I don\u2019t mind if people have understandings between themselves and their partners, but sometimes I don\u2019t understand, and sometimes I can see a partner hurting. I don\u2019t think I\u2019m supposed to see that.\nThis is such a tough subject to discuss, since some people\u2019s kinks do tend toward pain, but if I\u2019m at a superbowl party and one partner looks terrible and the other is off in another room with someone else, it sets off big red flags for me.\nThank you so much for being so considerate of other people. I really try to live and let live, but it\u2019s hard when other people forget that. I may make a shirt that says \u201cThank You for Not Fondling Me.\u201d\nWow. That\u2019s really all I can say. I too wonder how many women said ok because they felt they had to/should. There\u2019s a difference between the woman who offered and the women who were asked.\nYours is the second response to that column I have read. I was horrified by the whole idea, and when you add in the idea that some young girls look much older than they are (and these same girls DO like to go to cons!), it is just a situation which could become very very bad (and possibly break laws) very quickly.\nAnd quickly rethinking what I just said \u2013 it\u2019s not just young girls\u2026 EVERYONE deserves respect and should never feel pressured about any aspect of their sexuality.\nI admit I underestimated the problem with \u201cno\u201d. And I completely forgot (thanks to therapy) that I used to be one of those people. Lots of Bad Stuff happened because I couldn\u2019t say no but now I can and I didn\u2019t even think that there would be that issue. So from that point of view, you are completely right. If someone doesn\u2019t feel they can say no it is a dangerous, dangerous thing.\nwondermachine says:\nHow f\u2019d up is that post?!? I\u2019d completely missed this. I\u2019ve been abit out of it the last few weeks. But seriously?!?!\nI guess I\u2019m trying to figure out how much we\u2019ve lost to be back three decades when this sort of shit was acceptable. It\u2019s almost as if straight men (and as a Gay man I have to make the distinction) think this kind of behavior or posing is acceptable. It\u2019s almost as if most things have not changed.\nAnd no, it\u2019s not about sex negativity. Because it\u2019s this kind of behavior that negativizes sex, that cheapens it, that makes it a activity of violation.\nI\u2019m sorry to be stammering, but the whole thing is boggling.", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00240.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 230, + "original_length": 16500, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.97, + "perplexity": 323.7, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "https://maketheroadny.org/ny-immigrants-rally-take-part-in-national-boycott/", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T04:09:19Z", + "digest": "sha1:5YQYCKB3QZOHMOXQPMSRJD5LFV53DNEQ", + "length": 2362, + "nlines": 17, + "source_domain": "maketheroadny.org", + "title": "NY Immigrants Rally, Take Part in National Boycott | Make the Road New York", + "raw_content": "NY Immigrants Rally, Take Part in National Boycott\nSome small businesses were closed in the city Monday and day laborers shunned the suburban shape-up sites where they usually gather as New Yorkers took part in a national day of protest by illegal immigrants and their allies.\nProtesters formed human chains throughout New York City\u2019s five boroughs to protest a bill that would make it a felony to be in the country illegally.\nSeveral thousand people rallied in Jackson Heights, Queens, with the crowd meandering down 37th Avenue from 72nd Street up past 80th.\nAt one point, police closed parts of 37th Avenue to traffic to accommodate the protesters.\nLuperio Naranjo, 26, said his boss wasn\u2019t happy that he took the day off from his construction job to participate.\n\"He is not happy,\" said Naranjo, an illegal immigrant who came from Ecuador when he was 14. \"We\u2019re going tomorrow, not today. We have to be together today.\"\nNaranjo said about 30 workers from his company attended rallies around the city, however, he was not concerned about being fired.\n\"No matter what the bosses say, they need us.\"\nKarla Dillatoro, a legal resident alien, wore a white cloth sign emblazoned with a quarter, rosary beads and a message: \"In God We Trust, Can We Trust You Now?\"\n\"We are happy to have the green card, but the other people have to work and work and work and now they\u2019re criminals,\" said Dillatoro, who came from El Salvador and lives in East Elmhurst.\nPoliticians also took part in the rally. Congressman Joseph Crowley (D-Queens) made his way through the crowd, shaking hands and waving.\n\"I think it was important to show simpatico with immigrants and non-immigrants alike who want to see true comprehensive immigration reform passed in Washington and not just a security bill,\" said Crowley.\nIn Manhattan, A few shops were shuttered along bustling 14th Street, including a Spanish-language bookstore and a tiny restaurant selling Cuban sandwiches and other Latin American fare.\nMiriam Chaikin pulled on the door several times before noticing the sign that said \"Closed Monday May 1\" in English and Spanish.\n\"I was hoping to get beans and rice and plantains,\" she said.\n\"The country needs immigrants,\" Chaikin added. \"I think I would like them all to speak English and sing the national anthem in English the way my parents did, but we\u2019re a nation of immigrants.\"", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00240.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 131, + "original_length": 4281, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.98, + "perplexity": 258.4, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "https://malawi24.com/2017/02/21/ati-law-brings-malawis-mining-communities-hope-hrw/", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T04:17:33Z", + "digest": "sha1:LJFTGF4IHUPGUIKSKZ7YFT2U5TFPGXGV", + "length": 3643, + "nlines": 23, + "source_domain": "malawi24.com", + "title": "ATI law brings Malawi's mining communities hope \u2013 HRW | Malawi 24 - Malawi news", + "raw_content": "You are at: Home \u00bb Politics \u00bb ATI law brings Malawi\u2019s mining communities hope \u2013 HRW\nATI law brings Malawi\u2019s mining communities hope \u2013 HRW\nThe Human Rights Watch (HRW) has said that the signing of Access to Information (ATI) Bill into law by President Peter Mutharika can bring hope to mining communities in the country who were failing to access needed information about the mining activities in their respective areas.\nKatharina Rall, a researcher at Human Rights Watch, said Malawi government promotes investment in mining and resource extraction but ordinary Malawians have been struggling to access information on the impact of mining operations on their lives such as effects on water and fields.\nRall : ATI Law very vital.\nLast week, Malawi\u2019s Mutharika took a positive step by signing into law a bill that enables people to request and obtain vital information such as water-quality testing results.\nHuman Rights Watch through its researcher Katharina Rall hailed Mutharika for signing the bill into law but warned that more awareness is needed for ordinary Malawians to use it.\n\u201cFor the new law to make a meaningful difference, Malawians need to know how they can use it. Accessing information under the law should be a simple process for everyone \u2013 including for people who cannot read or write,\u201d Rall said.\nShe said that training sessions for\ncommunities and government officials will also be important.\n\u201cCivil society organizations and journalists can play an important role by raising awareness about the right to information and holding the government and mining companies to account. The new law, if carried out effectively, could be a boon to mining communities that have long sought answers to questions literally of life and death,\u201d she said.\nLast September, Human Rights Watch released a report showing how Malawians have been left in the dark about the risks mining activities pose to their daily lives\nFor example in the report released by HRW last year, Rosbelle, a mother of seven children, revealed that a couple of years ago, the Eland Coal Mining company started mining coal near her village in rural northern Malawi.\nThe company promised villagers a new school and jobs, and Rosbelle had high hopes for her children\u2019s future. But in 2015, Eland Coal Mining \u2013 a subsidiary of a Norwegian- owned company \u2013 ended its operations and abandoned the mine.\nThe report revealed that that there was no rehabilitation of the mine site, and left behind were piles of coal and open mining pits filled with water. Since then, Rosbelle has worried that the water that she and her children drink might be polluted by toxic substances often found at improperly cleaned-up mining sites.\n\u201cMalawi\u2019s government has failed to protect the rights and livelihoods of people living in nascent mining\ncommunities. Families living near coal and uranium mining operations face serious problems with water, food, and housing, and are left in the dark about health and other risks from mining,\u201d said the report.\nRall said that when she spoke with Rosbelle last year, she said that, at a minimum, the \u201cgovernment should come and talk to the community about mining\u201d and \u201ceducate them including about the risks.\u201d\nBut the authorities have never told the community about the dangers of mining and whether the water from the local river and boreholes is safe to drink.\n\u201cHer village and other mining communities, as well as local organizations, have repeatedly asked the government to release the results of water testing, without avail,\u201d said Rall.\nJoe Mwale on Feb 21, 2017 10:10\nhttps://www.facebook.com/drchaponda/\nWallace G Ndovi on Feb 21, 2017 08:59", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00240.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 98, + "original_length": 6818, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.97, + "perplexity": 301.8, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "https://mandelman.ml-implode.com/2009/10/how-to-talk-to-people-who-don%E2%80%99t-understand-the-foreclosure-crisis%E2%80%A6-if-you-absolutely-have-to/", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T03:44:56Z", + "digest": "sha1:5D3CKZJFPHRTCIHQPTLSKOYFQOZWJ2Y2", + "length": 13748, + "nlines": 83, + "source_domain": "mandelman.ml-implode.com", + "title": "How to Talk to People Who Don't Understand the Foreclosure Crisis\u2026 if You Absolutely Have to. | Mandelman Matters", + "raw_content": "Home \u00bb How to Talk to People Who Don\u2019t Understand the Foreclosure Crisis\u2026 if You Absolutely Have to.\nHow to Talk to People Who Don\u2019t Understand the Foreclosure Crisis\u2026 if You Absolutely Have to.\nAnd you do\u2026 absolutely have to, I mean. It\u2019s important because until more Americans come to understand what\u2019s really going on in this country today, we\u2019re not going to be able to stop it. And until we stop it, we\u2019re going to continue our race to the bottom. And it\u2019s going to be increasingly painful\u2026 for everyone. Eventually, everyone will understand what\u2019s happened, but sooner would be better than later.\nSo\u2026 it falls to we that do understand the gravity of the situation to bring the others along.\nWith that in mind, and because I spend a couple of hours each day in some form of this chess game, I thought I could possibly help by identifying the types of people that are out there.\nThe Brainless\nThis is the guy who\u2019s well meaning enough, and he\u2019s tried to understand some of what\u2019s going on, but he\u2019s just not bright enough to wrap his head around the many moving parts. Every time you talk with him, and think you\u2019re making progress, he opens his mouth and shows you that when you mentioned \u201cBonds,\u201d he was thinking \u201cBarry\u201d.\nHow to Deal With Him: What this guy knows about accounting wouldn\u2019t allow him to balance a Christmas Club account, so you want to give information slowly to a guy like this. Make sure he\u2019s making connections before you try to introduce anything new. He\u2019s got no formal educational background specific to economics or accounting, so he\u2019s going to struggle with even the most basic concepts. Plus, he\u2019s not entirely sure that a committee of rich Jews doesn\u2019t actually run the world.\nQ. Why are people losing their homes? A. Who?\nThe Liar\u2019s Liar\nThis guy lies. All the time. He doesn\u2019t know whether he believes what he says, and really doesn\u2019t care one way or the other. He\u2019s going to say whatever he\u2019s paid to say\u2026 or feels like saying\u2026 that\u2019s it and that\u2019s all. Did I mislead you? Oh well. I never said that. He\u2019ll lie about anything too. Make up numbers\u2026 whatever it takes. Almost nothing he says has value, and he can poison a well in a nanosecond.\nHow to Deal With Him: Listen to see what he\u2019s telling others, but that\u2019s about it. He\u2019s not someone you\u2019re going to change\u2026 he\u2019ll come around once everyone else has, and then claim to have been on board the whole time. In fact, he may end up saying that he was on board before you were\u2026 and that his uncle invented Credit Default Swaps.\nQ. What\u2019s the cause of the current crisis? A. Greed.\nThe Hopelessly Misled\nThis guy has allowed his mind to absorb too much information from too many sources, without adequate filtering or without verifying whether any new thinking was accurate and true. The result is that he\u2019s trying to follow the story of what\u2019s happening today, but he\u2019s got some positively goofy misperceptions that continually derail him from getting it right once and for all.\nHow to Deal With Him: Try pressing this guys re-set button. You\u2019re going to have to shock him up front in order to get his attention, but after that he\u2019ll at least try to act like he\u2019s picking up kernels of truth. The problem is, the next time you run into him, he\u2019ll be reciting whatever he heard on talk radio that morning.\nQ. When will the economy turn around?\nA. They were saying on the news that it already has.\nThe Just Doing My Job\nThis guy may or may not believe what he says, but he says things convincingly. He sounds like he knows what he\u2019s talking about, but truth be told, he\u2019s just reciting and recycling the lines he\u2019s written in his head. Get to know him a bit, and you\u2019ll see a much broader individual.\nHow to Deal With Him: He may want to know the truth of the situation, so give him a chance. It\u2019s unlikely that he reads much; it\u2019s just too much work. But, send him a YouTube link and he\u2019ll memorize it word for word. Stay on him and he just might get it someday.\nQ. How\u2019s the economy doing? A. Hyper-inflation is right around the corner.\nThe No Choice But to Believe\nThis guy has a lot of money in the market, or rather he used to, and he never sold out of his positions. He\u2019s got shares that are down by 50% or more, but he\u2019s holding on and waiting for them to \u201ccome back\u201d. He simply has no choice but to adopt his chosen point of view\u2026 if he\u2019s wrong, he\u2019s totally screwed\u2026 and who wants to think that?\nHow to Deal With Him: This guy watches CNBC way too much. He buys stocks based on what Jim Cramer has to say, so he\u2019s still not sure whether to unload Bear Stearns warrants. He\u2019s seven payments behind on the triplex he bought at the peak of the housing market, but he\u2019ll talk about it\u2026 because it\u2019s going to come back\u2026 soon.\nQ. Are you worried about markets going forward?\nA. Heck no. This is just an opportunity to buy.\nThis is the guy who, while maintaining a straight face, sees the crisis as being largely exaggerated and mostly over. Yeah, some people are still losing homes, but that\u2019s only because they should be. This guy doesn\u2019t see the problem, which means he doesn\u2019t want to. If you want to move him, you better make it personal, because if it\u2019s not affecting him directly, he\u2019s not paying attention.\nHow to Deal With Him: Start bringing up the companies that are laying off professionals, and then bring up an example of how low home prices have already dropped in a neighborhood just like his\u2026 better yet, in his neighborhood.\nQ. Is this a recession or a depression?\nA. Neither\u2026 it\u2019s just a normal market correction.\nThe Politics Only\nThis guy knows a reasonable amount the subject matter, but he only cares about the political implications. He knows how many people are losing their homes and how much that number has grown\u2026 but only because he sees a direct link to a future political success. Will it help Obama win or lose in the future is all he\u2019s interested in, so nothing is ever happening now.\nHow to Deal With Him: If this guy is pro-Obama, and he is, start talking about how bad things will be getting next year\u2026 then bring up the commercial real estate numbers\u2026 and finally throw in the devaluation of the dollar that will soon push gas prices over the $5 mark.\nQ. Aren\u2019t you worried about the foreclosure crisis?\nA. Once Obama fixes health care, it\u2019ll be fine.\nThe Willing Student\nIn some situations, the guy who\u2019s ready and willing to go to school is always someone you can work with, but there\u2019s a lot of catch up to do at this point, so he\u2019d better get on with it. The situation related to this country\u2019s meltdown is bizarre at best, so it\u2019s not like reading an article or two will do it.\nHow to Deal With Him: Don\u2019t give this guy any slack. Hit him with both barrels every time you interact. Email him links to article after article\u2026 although nothing too long or complicated. Just don\u2019t expect him to be afraid of anything in the future, because he\u2019s so busy trying to understand the past that he\u2019s never going to catch up.\nQ. What are you doing to plan for the future? A. I\u2019m not sure what to do.\nThe Completely Uninformed\nThis guy, one would have thought, has largely become extinct by now, but no. Once in a while, maybe one out of 20 or something like that, there\u2019s a guy who\u2019s new to our national meltdown. He\u2019s been busy and doesn\u2019t watch much television or use a computer regularly, unless he\u2019s booking your ticket at the JetBlue counter. If you hook his interest, he\u2019ll learn quickly and perhaps become a real asset.\nHow to Deal With Him: Give this guy something to grab onto and he\u2019ll ride it all the way to the beach. One thing at a time though, and make the early tidbits unforgettable and easy to digest. Layoffs are a good place to start, especially if they\u2019ve occurred in his industry. Then remind him of what happened the last time things went wrong.\nQ. Can you believe 3.6 million foreclosures this year?\nA. No, really? How many in this country?\nThis is the guy who\u2019s got a handle on the technical aspects of the crisis, a really solid handle. He uses the numbers and the textbook rules to come on strong, like there\u2019s nothing he doesn\u2019t know\u2026 but he\u2019s missing many of the behavioral components that so often rounds things out. Regardless, technicians are always useful to have around.\nHow to Deal With Him: Start talking about the numbers and you\u2019re dead so hit him with the personal tragedies first. He\u2019s comfortable with numbers, but he\u2019ll tear up over the 76 year-old grandmother who was given two days to move out of her house.\nQ. How does next year look?\nA. Not that bad. The fundamentals are solid.\nThe Perspective Challenged\nThis is the guy with the decent understanding of the situation, but only from a single perspective. He doesn\u2019t realize it, but he\u2019s close to really getting it, but in order to get there he has open his mind to how the same set of facts can lead to different conclusions when seen by different people. He\u2019s got his own perspective down pat, but he\u2019s missing the rest of the 360-degree view. Open his mind, however, and he\u2019ll soon see.\nHow to Deal With Him: Draw out examples of people who did nothing wrong, but were devastated by the meltdown. Then cover the amounts shoveled into banks to keep them afloat. Round it all out with the story of a rich guy who\u2019s now parking cars at the Anaheim Marriott.\nQ. What should government do to stop foreclosures?\nA. There\u2019s nothing they can do.\nThe Practical to a Fault\nThis guy wants to know the actionable information so he can make use of it immediately. This is a guy with nothing in his in-box most of the time, because he gets things done. You want to keep this guy up to speed at all times, or at least when there\u2019s important information that\u2019s come out recently.\nHow to Deal With Him: Whenever you give this guy a fact to chew on, make it unsolvable\u2026 he hates unsolvable things. Talk about Japan, or the Bear Market that lasted from 1966 to 1982.\nQ. What should we do about the banks?\nA. Take them over, well\u2026 I guess we can\u2019t\u2026 um\nThe Arrogance of Certainty\nThis guy has known what\u2019s up as related to our economic meltdown all along. In fact, anything he has bothered to listen to to-date has only confirmed what he already knew. He saw the visual evidence of the big homes and jet skis in the garages and he knew all he needed to know. All you can hope here is that you like this guy for other reasons. Try to talk about other subjects.\nHow to Deal With Him: Ask this guy questions about complex subjects and don\u2019t talk\u2026 give him plenty of time to answer. And when he does, ask him to drill down further, and further still. When he tries to hand the ball to you, ask him another question he has to struggle to answer.\nQ. What should we do about the economy?\nA. Let the failures fail. We\u2019re prolonging it now.\nThe Conspiracy Theorist\nWe all know this guy, right? He\u2019s got it all figured out, the only problem is that when you put it all together not only does it make no sense, but it would require that cats and mice learn to love each other and every member of the media agrees to keep things quiet. Other than that, this guy\u2019s ideas are solid.\nHow to Deal With Him: Whatever you do, if you have to engage this kind of person, at least make sure it\u2019s not over drinks stronger than ice tea. And have an exit plan. You know\u2026 like maybe you left your full-grown Rottweiler, Magnum, locked in your bedroom with a five-pound box of chocolates on the dresser. The kind of thing that\u2019s hard to argue with, if you know what I mean.\nQ. What\u2019s going on in this country today?\nA. It\u2019s all part of the master plan, you know that.\nThe Paranoid Prognosticator\nWe\u2019re doomed no matter what. Even if things get better economically, there will probably be nuclear war in the Middle East\u2026 and if that doesn\u2019t happen, then Global Warming will melt the icebergs thus turning Tennessee into the eastern seaboard. Absent any of that\u2026 there\u2019s always cancer. For this guy, things are never looking up.\nHow to Deal With Him: Okay, so people like this are sometimes good for a laugh, I\u2019ll admit. They watch espionage on television and wonder if a satellite is watching them whenever they use their cell phones. Always remember though\u2026 just because you\u2019re paranoid doesn\u2019t mean everyone\u2019s NOT after you.\nQ. How do you feel about people losing their homes?\nA. Probably the best thing that could happen.\nThe Monetarily Myopic\nThis guy is expert in all things money. Everything is money. Money is everything. He also assumes that everyone in the world also thinks pretty much like he does. When he sees a nice car he says, \u201cNice, I wonder what that baby cost?\u201d The Lakers won the championship game? \u201cWow, I wonder how much Kobi Bryant makes per second?\u201d\nHow to Deal With Him: The problem with telling this guy anything is that he makes all of his decisions based on the dollars today or next week. Work towards something is working for free, and then you\u2019ll probably get screwed for your money\u2026 then you\u2019ll have to hire a lawyer and that\u2019ll cost a pretty penny. It can get pretty boring after a while.\nQ. What should we do about foreclosures?\nA. Sell them. Short sale. Cash-for-Keys.\nWell then\u2026 I hope that helps. It\u2019s an important job we all have to do. And time is of the essence. Next year we\u2019ll hold the most important mid-term election in my lifetime. Everyone in the House of Representatives is at risk of NOT being reelected next year. We have to send a message. And it\u2019s going to take everyone\u2019s help.\nPerhaps you\u2019ve bumped into other types of people out there, and if so\u2026 please write in and I\u2019ll add them to the list under your name.\nTagged with: economy foreclosures loan modifications mandelman martin andelman meltdown ml-implode\nThis post was written by Mandelman on Thursday, October 22, 2009, 1:19. 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Even so, that didn\u2019t curb Robin\u2019s ambition when we met to discuss his goals for the project. 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I met them for their engagement session in Manchester, on one of the hottest day this summer. Looking at the crazy weather outside just now it seems like ages ago. Emma and Carl are getting married on one of my favourite wedding venues in UK, Chateau Rhianfa in Wales. I photographed a wedding there just recently, and I\u2019m really looking forward to go back there soon. We met in Heaton Park, and had a great time together. Emma and Carl did fantastic, and were super natural in front of the camera. 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Right? \u2013 MarkStCyr.com", + "raw_content": "\u2190 Let\u2019s call it\u2026.\u201dProblems Solved\u201d\nWhat\u2019s worse than a house of cards?\u2026\u2026 \u2192", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00240.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 187, + "original_length": 6070, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.56, + "perplexity": 188.0, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "https://maysmindbody.com/the-importance-of-multiple-pairs/", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T04:27:19Z", + "digest": "sha1:VKGTPCOB6XZYOWPIKJOKZOE5A42V444L", + "length": 3728, + "nlines": 10, + "source_domain": "maysmindbody.com", + "title": "The Importance of Multiple Pairs \u2014", + "raw_content": "Blog The Importance of Multiple Pairs\nBy Dr. Tim Maggs\nThe feet are the foundation of the body. Just like a house, when the foundation is not level everything that sits atop is not supported and is crooked. This means that normal foot mechanics can adversely influence the normal functions of the ankle, knee, hip, back, and neck. If left untreated, many foot conditions eventually contribute to health concerns up the kinetic chain.\nThis foot-spine-body connection is one of the most important and most common ones we see in our patients that walk into our office every day. After 40 years of practice and 17 years of digitally scanning every patient\u2019s feet, my simple conclusion is that every human has some degree of arch collapse in their feet. No one is immune to plastic deformation, and the arches of the feet continue to collapse with age.\nGenetics plays a significant role in the collapse of the arches in the feet. However, factors like shoe types, activity levels, and injuries can play a role. The shoes that people buy, whether they are athletic or dress, tend to provide minimal support for the feet. It is more fashion than function. If one looks at the bottom of most shoes, there is minimal arch support present. In most cases, the body goes years with imbalances and learns to compensate for the collapsed arches. This leads to pain in the ankles, knees, hips, back, and neck.\nAs an architectural structure, the feet are the foundation, and all work must begin thereby addressing the imbalances in the feet and the impact they are having up the kinetic chain. Using the Structural Fingerprint\u00ae Exam, we assess the biomechanical imbalances with every test. We do-leg length, muscle tenderness, joint mobility, digital foot scan and then the biomechanical x-rays. These assessments help demonstrate imbalances, fixations, distortion patterns and in many cases, dysfunction.\nIn most cases, the body has gone years with imbalances and has learned to compensate for the collapsed arches and the abnormal biomechanics. Re-educating the body is critically important, and that starts with Foot Levelers custom orthotics. Once Foot Levelers custom orthotics are introduced to the foot and shoe, the body will go through a re-education period. Just by wearing the custom orthotics, the feet are forced to exercise different muscle groups to align the body and provide full body support.\nRe-educating the body is critically important and can only be truly successful when the patient has continuity of support in all their shoes. A study in Time Magazine found that the average person has 27 pairs of shoes. Due to the multiple shoe types we all wear, it is critically important to equip each shoe type with a custom orthotic. Without the continuity of proper support across shoe types, the body will revert to and compensate for the imbalances and diminish your patient\u2019s outcomes.\nThis means that we as providers need to address that issue at our report of findings. Take the time to understand how many different shoe types the patient wears, walk slowly through the explanation of cost, and stand firm on the importance of wearing them continually. The continuity of wearing these supports cannot be over-emphasized. The result will be a win-win for you and your patient.\nFor all my patients, I start out by recommending two pairs. A recent survey found that 61% of respondents said they wore two or three pairs of shoes in a week. A great start is recommending one pair for their athletic shoes and one for their work or dress shoes. These two pairs of custom orthotics alone will cover a majority of their week and ensure that they have the consistent support their body needs no matter what shoes they are wearing.", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00240.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 60, + "original_length": 4715, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.95, + "perplexity": 315.1, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "https://mccordalliance.wordpress.com/2011/07/11/welcome-luke-harrison/", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T04:46:58Z", + "digest": "sha1:FJM5ENBVJEFOVMJKYUYWLFQV6WTNEP7Q", + "length": 3978, + "nlines": 17, + "source_domain": "mccordalliance.wordpress.com", + "title": "Welcome Luke Harrison | The McCord Alliance...a growing family.", + "raw_content": "Welcome Luke Harrison\nLuke Harrison McCord arrived Wednesday, June 29, 2011. He was 8 lbs, 10 oz, 21.5\u2033 long- a big boy! He has a full head of dark hair, chubby cheeks, and he is just gorgeous!\nWhen you\u2019re pregnant, the first question you get is \u201cwhat are you having?\u201d Then comes, what are you going to name him. We didn\u2019t know. We talked about names a lot, but couldn\u2019t decide on one. Luke and Harrison were both on our list, and a couple of days before he was born, we discussed and narrowed it down to 3 names- Luke Jameson, Harrison James and Maxwell John. The next day, Chris said, how about Luke Harrison, we both loved it and decided that would be his name. I really liked Luke- I think it pairs well with Jack- they both have four letters, they both have a K in them. Chris really liked Luke so he can say \u201cLuke, I am your father.\u201d Harrison is also a name that we both liked, and I think Luke Harrison McCord is a great, strong name.\nOn Sunday night, I started having mild contractions that lasted through the night and into the next day. They didn\u2019t hurt and were about 30 minutes apart, but by lunch time, they weren\u2019t going away, so I called my doctor\u2019s office and they sent me to the hospital for observation. I think I was a little scared I would have another fast and furious delivery, so I was being extra cautious. Plus, at 35 weeks, I was already dilated to a 3, and my doctor was pretty confident I would deliver within 2 weeks.\nSo, at the hospital, I was dilated to a 5, but the contractions weren\u2019t strong and I wasn\u2019t in active labor. The nurse wasn\u2019t sure what to do with me, since I was progressing but not in active labor. After consulting with my doctor, they sent me home, with instructions to come back ASAP if contractions increased, and to go to the doctor first thing the next morning.\nChris and I went to see Dr. Hager first thing Tuesday morning, anticipating it was baby day. I\u2019d increased to a 6 overnight, but still not in active labor. Due to my past delivery, and remembering that I didn\u2019t feel contractions until late-stage labor, plus the size of the baby, she recommended an induction for a more controlled delivery. We weighed the pros/cons, scenarios, etc and decided to go ahead and induce. Unfortunately for us, the hospital was full, so we had to wait one more day. It was so weird for me to go home knowing we were having a baby the next day! We just spent the rest of the day at home relaxing and making sure we had everything ready.\nLast belly shot before getting started\nWednesday morning, we arrived at the hospital at 7 a.m., started checking in then waited over an hour for the room to be ready. We finally got settled in, and Dr. Hager came in around 9 to check me and break my water. I was afraid that would be painful, but it wasn\u2019t. I got my epidural after that and it was amazing when it started working! I just couldn\u2019t get my mind around the fact that I was contracting and couldn\u2019t feel a thing. It was even crazier when the nurse told me it was time to push! Dr. Hager came in around 12:30 or so, and it was time.\nLuke arrived at 12:49 p.m. The nurses all said \u201clook at that hair.\u201d Then they said \u201coh, he\u2019s a big boy!\u201d He scored a 9 and 9 on his Apgar. He got cleaned up and I got to hold him. He was precious, of course!\nWelcoming Luke!\nHe\u2019s 12 days old now. So far, he\u2019s a great baby. He sleeps a lot- I have to wake him to eat most of the time during the day. He started off waking up twice at night, but lately he wants to wake up every couple of hours. I\u2019m hoping that works itself out soon. He\u2019s already up to 9 lbs, 8 oz and 22\u2033 long, so he\u2019s definitely growing! We love him and are enjoying our family of four!\nPosted in Family & Friends, Luke\n\u00ab New Baby- Fears\nYay for Luke!! Beautiful name and I\u2019m so happy for you guys!!\nBy: Teresa Smith on July 12, 2011\nYAY! He\u2019s adorable! Carissa called me after his pics and told me how much fun it was to see you!! 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I thought it would be good to start off with a little money quiz. What is a credit score? What does APR stand for? How much cash savings should you keep in reserve? How many credit cards should you have? What is the age at which you receive full benefits from social security?\nA credit score is a number that represents the risk a lender takes when you borrow money. APR is annual percentage rate. How much cash savings you should keep on hand\u20143 to 6 months. How many credit cards should you have\u2013two at minimum, and as many as makes sense to you, so long as you keep a zero balance on all of them. You can receive a full Social Security benefit between ages 66 and 67, depending on when you were born (1955-1960). If you delay retirement until age 70, you can gain 124% of your Social Security benefit. How did you do?\nLet me comfort you\u2013you can handle your money biblically without knowing the answer to any of these. You do not need specialized financial knowledge to honor God with your money, which makes it all the more sad that there are so many professing Christians who ignore what God\u2019s Word says about money. Money is something we all think about all the time. Little kids find money fascinating. You can trade coins and paper for food. You can stick a piece of plastic in a slot and then walk out of Costco with a cart full of stuff.\nEvery day you have to deal with money. Your phone notifies you of charges. Emails tell you of direct deposits. Text messages check to see if you really made the purchase. Every day you do something which costs money\u2013even if you didn\u2019t shop, you spent gas in your car and ate food you bought somewhere. And we\u2019re coming up to Christmas! Black Friday launches the year-end shopping spree of our nation. According to surveys, this year the average American family plans to spend about $1,000 on gifts for Christmas\u2013which means that most people are thinking, \u201cHow can I pay for what I want to buy?\u201d\nWe think about money a lot. Would you look at the scale on the screen and consider how often you think about money? Studies have revealed that most people spend the majority of their time thinking about wealth. We think about how to acquire it, how to get more of it, how to spend it/save it/invest it. We borrow it, we count it, we loan it, we give it away. In fact, it\u2019s said that if you hit 85, you will have spent almost 50 years of your waking life thinking about money and possessions. So it seems fitting to look tonight at what the Bible says about money.\nThis is not everything that the Bible says about money. Jesus taught a lot on money. Paul taught on money. The Proverbs teach a lot about money. This is just one part, but it\u2019s a very important part. We\u2019re going to hear from a master storyteller about how to make your money really count.\nSo often people get anxious as they think about managing money. People get depressed thinking about the past and mistakes they\u2019re now living with. Today I want to help you think about money with joy. Forget the anxiety. Forget the acquisition. Forget the spending. Forget the saving. Forget the debts you have for a bit.\nHow do you view money with joy? Jesus answers that question in Luke 16 with a story that\u2019s far better than The Christmas Carol or any other holiday moral. Luke 16 is smack in the middle of a bunch of parables that Jesus tells. If you\u2019re unfamiliar with parables, they are essentially fictional stories that were made up to teach one main point (a bit like Aesop\u2019s Fables). And Luke 16:1 to 13 is one of the most discussed parables in all the gospels. And the reason is that Jesus commends a guy who seems to be totally wicked. Let\u2019s read Luke 16:1 to 13.\nNow the rich man is very rich\u2013the loans he was making were huge! This is not the local businessman we\u2019re talking about. This man is the Bill Gates of ancient times. He\u2019s so rich that he has to hear from other people that his manager is wasting his money. Back in Jesus\u2019 day, it was not uncommon for wealthy men to hire managers/stewards. These were either slaves or freemen who oversaw all the business operations. This was a good job, even envied by others. It was so good that people would even sell themselves into slavery to get this job.\nHe had the right and power to act on behalf of this super-rich guy. He was living well and used to being around other people with lots of money. But it\u2019s not just that he\u2019s living well. He is squandering the wealthy man\u2019s money. This is the same word used of the young prodigal son in Luke 15, who took his inheritance early and then moved away from home and squandered his father\u2019s money on wine and women. He just wastes it and throws it away. And it\u2019s not even his!\nSo when the steward hears, \u201cYou\u2019re fired!\u201d\u2013he gets worried. He\u2019s told to clean out his desk and bring a final accounting to the rich man. And the steward knows he\u2019s guilty. There\u2019s no argument, no debate, no defense on his part. In verses 2 to 3, Jesus tells us what the guy is thinking\u2013he is in crisis mode. He\u2019s seeing his whole life and lifestyle going down the toilet. He\u2019s been living really well\u2013the finest foods, the best entertainment, the nicest clothes. And it\u2019s all going away.\nIn fact, he knows that he can\u2019t get a job like this again. Nobody hires a money manager who\u2019s fired for incompetence. Nobody\u2019s gonna hire this guy again, except for manual labor\u2013and he knows it. He\u2019s in crisis and the only two options he sees are manual labor and begging. He\u2019s too lazy to dig. He\u2019s too proud to beg. What\u2019s he gonna do? And as his mind whirls, he has an \u201caha\u201d moment. He calls in the people who owe his master money and starts writing off part of their debt. Verse 5 says that he called in each one of his master\u2019s debtors.\nAnd then Jesus gives us two examples of what happened. A guy who owed 100 measures of oil gets his debt reduced in half. Now this is not a small amount\u2013100 measures of oil equals 875 gallons, or 150 olive trees, which is 1000 denarii or 3+ years\u2019 wages. So he\u2019s knocking off about a year and a half\u2019s income from this debt!\nThe next guy owed 100 measures of wheat and it\u2019s reduced to 80. Again, this is not a small reduction\u2013100 measures of wheat is 1100 bushels or 100 acres. This is 2,500 to 3,000 denarii, or roughly nine years\u2019 wages. And he knocks off around two years\u2019 income from the debt! This is not a guy who\u2019s buying lunch\u2013this is a guy who\u2019s offering to knock five years off your home loan. The fact that his master made this sort of loans show that he was a very rich man. These were not loans to tenant farmers, but to other well-to-do businessmen. And the steward is making friends left and right.\nThere\u2019s no indication in the story that the debtors knew this was wrong. They didn\u2019t know that he had gone rogue. Back then, debt would sometimes be written off due to bad weather, drought, etc. It\u2019s somewhat similar to how our government subsidizes farmers in bad years and provides relief during disasters. So the steward has turned from wasting the master\u2019s money to embezzling it. He\u2019s now using the master\u2019s money to pave the way for his future. He\u2019s out of a job and he\u2019s making friends who are going to receive him with joy when he leaves.\nAnd this is where the story seems to go wrong. What we expect is for this guy to be punished. We expect him to be beaten publicly or cast in jail. We do not expect the story to turn out this way. Because when the master finds out, he praises the unrighteous steward for acting shrewdly. What? If you have any sort of justice quotient, this just seems wrong. He is praised by the rich man? Why? Well, some people have tried to make him not-so-bad and argued that he was giving away his own commission. Others have said that he was reducing ridiculous interest rates to something manageable, saving his master from usury.\nBut there\u2019s nothing in the story that would\u2019ve helped the original hearers to know that. In fact, the description of the steward gets worse over time. At the beginning of the story, he\u2019s merely incompetent. But by verse 8, he\u2019s unrighteous.\nThere\u2019s really no denying that this unrighteous man is getting praise from his past employer. Why?Because he was shrewd/sharp/clever. He took careful advantage of his opportunity. He worked the situation to his advantage. He made others indebted to him by doing them a great help. He did it to a variety of wealthy people so that his future options were fairly unlimited.\nThe debtors are praising the steward and the master for their generosity. And the master is stuck\u2013he looks like a really bad guy if he goes and tries to tack on additional interest again. So he\u2019s stuck. And he applauds the steward\u2019s cunning. He\u2019s not praised for being dishonest, but for how cleverly he acted.\nAnd this is where Jesus makes his point. This is the central point of the whole story. We say, \u201cThe story seems wrong.\u201d Jesus says, \u201cMy people think wrongly.\u201d Look at how Jesus concludes in the second half of verse 8. \u201cThe sons of this age are more shrewd in dealing with their own kind than the sons of light.\u201d In other words, if a crooked non-Christian knows enough to invest in the future, how much more should a Christian? This is God\u2019s lesson for us about money.\nChildren of the world understand how the world works and use it to their benefit. Why do children of light (Christians) not understand the ways of the kingdom of God? He\u2019s arguing from the lesser to the greater. This is like when Jesus says in Luke 18 that an unrighteous judge will give in to a bothersome widow, so how much more will God answer the cries of those He loves. Or in Matthew 7, when He says that sinful parents won\u2019t give their kids live snakes when they ask for cooked fish, so how much more will God give what is good to those who ask Him.\nHere Jesus is saying, \u201cTake this unrighteous man whom everybody thinks is wicked. He knows enough to plan ahead for the future.\u201d He\u2019s using somebody else\u2019s money to win friends who will joyfully receive him later. Now if this self-seeking, lazy, proud man knows enough to plan for his future, how is it that children of God don\u2019t plan for their future in Heaven? If this crooked non-Christian knows enough to invest in the future, how much more should a Christian?\nNow if He were speaking to the Pharisees, He might let them sit in condemnation. But He\u2019s not. Verse 1 says that He\u2019s talking to the disciples. And to them, He gives three applications of this principle so that they would plan ahead. Those three applications are fleshed out in verses 9 to 12, and marked out by the words, \u201cAnd I say to you\u2026\u201d That\u2019s a saying that He uses to stress the importance of the application. Jesus is saying, \u201cLet me tell you how to use your money in a way that will pay off in the future.\u201d Every day on television, there are ads that promise a happy future if you buy their product.\nBuy this car and you\u2019ll never want to leave it. Drink this beer and you\u2019ll be surrounded by beautiful people. Take this drug and all your medical problems will disappear. Wear our clothes and you\u2019ll get noticed. Ads pop up on websites telling you how to invest your money. Earn enough so that you\u2019re a millionaire before you\u2019re 50. Save and invest wisely and you\u2019ll vacation in Europe once you\u2019re 70. The point is to take care of your future. Save it all up so that you can spend during the last 5 or 10 or 15 years you\u2019re alive.\nGreat car? They don\u2019t mention how your reaction speed decreases and motion sickness increases. Long vacations? They don\u2019t talk about how inconvenient walkers are on planes and in Europe. Pricey dining? They don\u2019t tell you that your taste buds and eye sight will begin to fail so that you can\u2019t enjoy what you were saving for.\nThe world has plenty of advice on how to spend your money and how to save your money. And Jesus uses this parable to challenge His disciples to do better than the world. How wise are you in using your wealth for your future? Jesus says, \u201cYou don\u2019t want \u2018Your Best Life Now\u2019\u2013you should want it later.\u201d So how do you that? That is what verses 9 to 13 tell us. Jesus gives us three lessons on money from this parable. Three applications. One relates to others, one toward ourselves, and one toward God.\n1. Be Generous to Others Luke 16:9\n\u201cMake friends for yourselves by means of the mammon of unrighteousness; that when it fails, they may receive you into the eternal dwellings.\u201d In other words, use your money to make friends\u2013not earthly friends though, but heavenly ones. Mammon is an Aramaic term for wealth and possessions. Jesus is not talking about your tithing. He\u2019s talking about all your wealth. He says, \u201cBe generous with it.\u201d It is easy to become attached to what you own. It is easy to love your stuff and want to acquire more stuff.\nMoney ensures comfort. It can make us feel self-sufficient. It can keep you focused on this life and how to get a little bit more. As Zig Ziglar once said, \u201cMoney isn\u2019t the most important thing in life, but it\u2019s reasonably close to oxygen on the \u2018gotta have it\u2019 scale.\u201d Because of that common feeling and the fact that wealth only lasts during this life, Jesus labels it \u201cunrighteous\u201d\u2013it won\u2019t go into eternity with you. The Egyptian pharaohs would bury stuff with them for the afterlife. We know that doesn\u2019t work, because we dug it all up. And because it will fail, it will not last\u2013it will burn up. Jesus exhorts us to use our wealth now to make friends for eternity.\nDo you want to know what this means? It means, \u201cBuy a welcome committee!\u201d Don\u2019t save it all for retirement. Don\u2019t build bigger barns and rent storage units to keep your stuff. Yes, keep enough so that you won\u2019t be a drain on others. But once you\u2019re out of debt, don\u2019t spend it all on yourself. Instead, invest the rest into eternity. Spend it in such a way that a great big team of people are standing at the gates of heaven to meet and welcome you there.\nSomehow, in the last hundred plus years, we\u2019ve lost the truth of rewards. Most Christians think that we\u2019ll enter into Heaven all on equal footing. But that\u2019s not biblically accurate. We\u2019re all going to Heaven if you know the Lord, but we\u2019re not all going to have the same welcome. Will you read the verses in your notes out loud with me? Matthew 6:19 to 20, \u201cDo not lay up for yourselves treasures on earth\u2026, but lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven where neither moss nor rust destroys and where thieves do not break in and steal.\u201d\nLuke 12:33, \u201cSell your possessions, and give to the needy. Provide yourselves with moneybags that do not grow old, with a treasure in the heavens that does not fail.\u201d First Thessalonians 2:19 to 20, \u201cFor who is our hope or joy or crown of exultation? Is it not even you, in the presence of our Lord Jesus at His coming? 20 For you are our glory and joy.\u201d\nFirst Corinthians 3:13 to 15, \u201cFor each one\u2019s work will become manifest, for the Day will disclose it, because it will be revealed by fire, and the fire will test what sort of work each one has done. 14 If the work that anyone has built on the foundation survives, he will receive a reward. 15 If anyone\u2019s work is burned up, he will suffer loss, though he himself will be saved, but only as through fire.\u201d\nRevelation 11:18, \u201cThe time came for the dead to be judged, and the time to give their reward to your bond-servants, the prophets, and to the saints and to those who fear your name, the small and the great.\u201d In Christ, the salvation of every Christian is secure and locked. But the eternal rewards that each Christian will receive do vary according to how you\u2019ve invested. And here in Luke 16, Jesus is calling you to use all your available resources to have the best possible future you can.\nIn 2010, Bill Gates and Warren Buffett started a campaign called, \u201cThe Giving Pledge.\u201d It calls on wealthy people (mainly billionaires) to give at least half of their wealth towards the public good. They are not saved and they know enough to recognize that their money is not just for them to hoard and spend on themselves.\nThat is Jesus\u2019 point. If even the unrighteous steward knew enough to do that, how much more should you and I be shrewd and savvy in our eternal investments? Now let\u2019s be clear on this\u2013Jesus is not saying, \u201cGive more to FBC. Stick a little more in the offering basket and then don\u2019t feel so guilty.\u201d That is not what\u2019s in view here. Jesus is talking about using all the resources you have access to so that the largest possible number of people will welcome you into Heaven. Don\u2019t buy earthly friends, but invest into Gospel ministries that create heavenly friends! Don\u2019t buy heirlooms for your family, but buy things that you can give away to others in need.\nJesus is not just challenging us to save our money. It\u2019s really not that hard to skip Starbucks as you\u2019re driving by. The hard part is to keep that $4 from just going back to your savings account. Let me challenge you\u2013if you choose to not spend money on yourself, then tuck that money somewhere separate so it doesn\u2019t go back into the main account. When you choose to skip Starbucks and save the $4, pull the money out of your wallet anyway and stick it in the glove box or transfer it to a separate bank account. Then designate it to some greater cause than your savings account.\nUse your money for eternal purposes. Give it to people who you\u2019re reaching out to, churches you trust, ministries and missionaries who are making an eternal impact. You have a way better filter than Bill Gates and Warren Buffett on what to give towards. Invest your money into others. Don\u2019t be an adult version of the 3-year-old who says, \u201cMine!\u201d If you hear that little voice in your head and have learned to hide it on the outside, Jesus exhorts you\u2014be generous to others. Create some eternal friends!\n2. Be Faithful in the Little Things Luke 16:10 to 12\n\u201cHe who is faithful in a very little thing is faithful also in much; and he who is unrighteous in a very little thing is unrighteous also in much. 11 If therefore you have not been faithful in the use of unrighteous mammon, who will entrust the true riches to you? 12 And if you have not been faithful in the use of that which is another\u2019s, who will give you that which is your own?\u201d\nWhat Jesus says here is fairly self-evident\u2013if you are faithful with something little, you will be faithful with bigger things. If you are prone to stealing or lying or cheating on little things, you will do it with greater issues. All the activities of life matter, because they reveal your character. Somebody who doesn\u2019t follow through on small things is not going to be entrusted with great things.\nMany of us think that we are servants. We care for others. We give up our time and energy for those we love. But are you only a servant when you want to be? Do you say, \u201cI\u2019ll let somebody else clean up the mess on the floor\u2013I\u2019ve got more important things to do than to help with that.\u201d And in the Church, we spiritualize it and say, \u201cThat\u2019s not really my gift.\u201d Jesus asks, \u201cDo you want to be trusted with great things? Then be faithful in a very little thing\u2013not just something small, but a very little thing.\u201d\nDo you show up on time? Do you always keep your word? Do you go back to the store when you weren\u2019t charged enough? Are you trustworthy? Are you reliable? Are you faithful? Your faithfulness is connected to your money. If you are unfaithful in other areas, it is very likely that you will struggle with how you handle God\u2019s money. That\u2019s the principle here\u2013and Jesus\u2019 specific point is that eternal reward comes to those who are faithful.\nVerses 11 to 12 ask, \u201cDo you think God is going to give you great eternal rewards if you have squandered your tiny little stewardship on earth?\u201d And verse 12 highlights that we are in the same position as the steward. \u201cIf you have not been faithful in that which is another\u2019s, who will give you that which is your own?\u201d It\u2019s not that 10% of what you have is God\u2019s. I used to have the mindset that I gave God His money and the rest was mine to spend. The reality is that everything you own, from the cash in your wallet to the socks on your feet, is God\u2019s.\nHaggai 2:8, \u201c\u2019The silver [of the nations] is Mine, and the gold is Mine,\u2019 declares the Lord of hosts.\u201d Psalm 50:6, \u201cEvery beast of the forest is Mine, the cattle on a thousand hills. I know every bird of the mountains, and everything that moves in the field is Mine. If I were hungry, I would not tell you; for the world is Mine and all it contains.\u201d\nPsalm 104:24, \u201cThe earth is full of your possessions.\u201d Deuteronomy 10:14, \u201cTo the Lord your God belong heaven and the highest heavens, the earth and all that is in it.\u201d Jesus wants us to understand that we are simply stewards of everything we have. It\u2019s not your money, your house, your bank account, your cars, or your food\u2013it\u2019s all His!\nSo we should not squander it. Culturally, it\u2019s tempting to be like the unrighteous steward here. We serve a very rich master. He has entrusted a great deal to every one of you. What kind of steward are you? Many professing Christians view God\u2019s money as their own. They spend His money on themselves, because it seems like the Master is away. But you have daily opportunity to invest His money into things that are going to pay off later. What kind of steward are you?\nFor a friend of mine, this meant that he needed to change his priorities at home. There was marital tension and bouts of conflict. The root issue was that he was not being faithful in little things. There was a car in the driveway that needed to be hauled off. There was stuff in the yard that was being neglected. He wasn\u2019t dialed in on where they were financially.\nNow he was busy doing ministry\u2013teaching the Bible, shepherding people. But he was not stewarding the funds God had entrusted to Him. He was thinking about the future with people, but not with possessions. A good steward thinks about both. Because just like the unrighteous steward, the time will come upon us suddenly when we\u2019ll be called to give an account.\nNebuchadnezzar learned this lesson the hard way. Daniel 4:30, \u201cIs this Babylon not great, which I built myself by my power and for my glory?\u201d He was driven to eat grass and live in the wild until he repented and acknowledged God\u2019s ownership and authority of all things. And today may be a warning from your Creator. Are you being faithful with what He has entrusted to you? Are you managing his stuff in a way that He\u2019ll be pleased? It\u2019s all to be used for His glory. And if you\u2019re failing in that area, who is going to entrust you with true riches? That\u2019s the question Jesus asks.\nIt\u2019s kinda tragic. The more you spend on pleasure now, the less you have later. Think of it\u2013you can drop $25 just for you and your spouse to go see a movie. Throw in dinner and coffee and you\u2019ve hit at least $60. And it may be that it\u2019s a wise investment for your marriage at times. But other times, it\u2019s a good chunk of money you just spent to entertain yourself for two hours.\nMaybe you make a decision to put in a pool for $40,000 or you spend $10,000 a year to upgrade your car. Maybe you\u2019re thinking about stepping up from the 55\u201d TV to the 82\u201d $4,000 TV. Let me appeal to your reason. If eternity is real and this life is only eighty years or so, why would you want to spend it in such a way that you have less for longer?\nWhen you\u2019re having dinner, do you ever save room for dessert? The less you eat now, the better the dessert later. I do this all\u2026the\u2026time. We were at the Levises\u2019 having pizza and it was delicious. But as soon as Natalie said that there was homemade ice cream for dessert, I determined to be done with pizza. In a very simple way, I chose to live for the future.\nJesus is calling you to examine your faithfulness with God\u2019s money. And He\u2019s appealing to you in a practical way. He says, \u201cIf you are not faithful with what you have now, you\u2019ll forfeit what could really be great in eternity.\u201d What you really want to own is the treasure God gives to those who are His faithful stewards.\nIt feels like some full-color brochures would be helpful. Maybe an online catalog you can browse to see what awaits. But that\u2019s what Revelation 21 to 22 is. That\u2019s what Matthew 24 to 25 is. That\u2019s what all those reward passages are\u2013be faithful. Examine how you\u2019re using your money. Be generous. Use His money to buy some friends for eternity. And last, Jesus exhorts us . . .\n3. Trust God\u2019s Promises Luke 16:13\nJesus makes a promise here that we need to believe, but it\u2019s even bigger than that. Let\u2019s start with His promise, \u201cNo servant can serve two masters; for either he will hate the one, and love the other, or else he will hold to one, and despise the other. You cannot serve God and mammon.\u201d\nMost of you remember Bob Dylan, \u201cThey may call you doctor or they may call you chief, but you\u2019re gonna have to serve somebody.\u201d He\u2019s stealing from Jesus here. Nobody can serve two masters. The pursuit of one will eventually require denying the other.\nThere will be a time when a choice for God becomes a decision to not have quite so much money. Maybe it means you choose to skip the promotion, because the job would begin to consume your life. Maybe it means that you choose not to move to the higher paying job, because there\u2019s no church there. Maybe it means that you choose to buy less for your family so that you can give away more.\nI know people in our church who have done each of these things. How this looks in every family is different, but Jesus encourages us to prioritize God as first. The implication of verse 13 is to be sure to serve God rather than money. Many of the Pharisees of Jesus\u2019 day taught that God and money could coexist perfectly. Many people today think the same thing. But here, Jesus is saying something completely different. It\u2019s kinda radical\u2013you ready for it?\nWealth can own you. You can become its slave. It can make you do things that you don\u2019t want to do. There is nothing wrong with being rich, or poor, or middle class. The love of money is a danger for all of them equally. If you\u2019ve got $100 in the bank, or $100,000, the danger is still there for you. So often we think, \u201cIf I only made another $10,000/year. If only we made $60,000 or $200,000, then it\u2019d be so much easier. If only my lotto numbers would hit, I\u2019d love to help other people.\u201d When you say things like that, you\u2019re flirting with the god of wealth. You\u2019re saying that what God gave you is inadequate and that He is unwise.\nWhen our hearts crave more stuff, you are saying that the god of prosperity is more able to satisfy your wants and needs than the God of the Bible. And this is the greater promise you need to trust. God has promised to provide you with all that you need in life (Matthew 6:31 to 33, Philippians 4:19, 2 Corinthians 9:8). Do you believe that? Can you spend your master\u2019s money on His desires and trust that He will still take care of you? If all that you own is a stewardship, then you\u2019re gonna live in a way that shows God is your master.\nPaul describes what that looks like really well. He answers the question of what it means to serve God when you are rich. First Timothy 6:17 to 19, \u201cInstruct those who are rich in this present world not to be conceited or to fix their hope on the uncertainty of riches, but on God, who richly supplies us with all things to enjoy. 18 Instruct them to do good, to be rich in good works, to be generous and ready to share, 19 storing up for themselves the treasure of a good foundation for the future, so that they may take hold of that which is life indeed.\u201d\nSo who will you serve? You gotta serve somebody. Nobody can serve two masters. It\u2019s almost a question of payoff\u2013do you want a little reward now or a big payoff later? The parable of the unrighteous steward shows us that this life is brief and that we are foolish if we choose to live for money now and take no thought of our future.\nDo you trust God\u2019s promises? If the crooked steward knows enough to invest in the future, how much more should we as Christians be investing in eternity? How do we do that? You trust God\u2019s promises, you prove yourself faithful and you be generous to others. You don\u2019t have to understand Roth IRAs and 529 plans. You don\u2019t need to pick up a bunch of finance books. Just make decisions based on the reality that God owns what the world says is yours. Now most people, when they hear this, react like the Pharisees.\nVerse 14 and 15, \u201cNow the Pharisees, who were lovers of money, were listening to all these things, and they were scoffing at Him. 15 And He said to them, \u2018You are those who justify yourselves in the sight of men, but God knows your hearts; for that which is highly esteemed among men is detestable in the sight of God.\u2019\u201d\nThe great danger is that you respond like them. The worst thing you could do is think you can have both. The Pharisees were people who tried to serve God outwardly and money inwardly. Jesus says that such people justify themselves to others, but that God knows your heart. Please don\u2019t rationalize why you\u2019re okay and God will accept you despite your spending habits. Don\u2019t be a Pharisee. Don\u2019t justify yourself. Don\u2019t be a lover of money. Don\u2019t love and think about your stuff more than the God you claim to serve.\nOne day, not too far from now, all your money will be gone. All your stuff will be gone. The boat, the TV, the bank account, the iPhone, the books, the car, the bike, the cash\u2013all gone. And you\u2019ll stand before God and then enter into eternity. What will eternity be like for you? In the next parable (verses 19 to 31), Jesus shows the end of such men. Rich men who live for this world will experience great pain in the next one. But men who\u2019ve hoped for the future will find great joy awaiting them. That\u2019s for another day. Let\u2019s pray.\nPosted in Luke, Sunday Nights and tagged finances, money\nPractical Financial Freedom\nGiving what God has Given (2 Cor 8-9, 1 Cor 16)", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00240.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 284, + "original_length": 34042, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.97, + "perplexity": 287.2, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "https://medialifecrisis.com/topics/popgap.html?limit=20&start=40", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T04:33:14Z", + "digest": "sha1:VXOOYETHJSWG2GNJ46OYEXKVTSPA553I", + "length": 919, + "nlines": 17, + "source_domain": "medialifecrisis.com", + "title": "PopGap", + "raw_content": "PopGap #02: The Battle of Algiers (1966)\t 23 February 2015\nPopGap #02: The Best Years of Our Lives (1946)\t 25 February 2015\nPopGap #02: The Green Mile (1999)\t 22 February 2015\nPopGap #02: The Maltese Falcon (1941)\t 23 February 2015\nPopGap #02: The Philadelphia Story (1940)\t 22 February 2015\nPopGap #02: The Virgin Spring (1960)\t 09 February 2015\nPopGap #02: To Kill a Mockingbird (1962)\t 28 February 2015\nPopGap #02: Witness for the Prosecution (1957)\t 23 February 2015\nPopGap #03 Recap: Punk Movies Month\t 31 March 2015\nPopGap #03: Blade Runner (1982)\t 08 March 2015\nPopGap #03: Blank Generation (1980)\t 17 March 2015\nPopGap #03: Bonus! 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However, countries still vary widely, and differences persist in their populations and the maternity care provided.\nThis is according to a new report, co-authored by Professor Alison Macfarlane from City, University of London as part of the Euro-Peristat collaboration of over 100 contributors from all over Europe, including the four countries of the UK.\nThe report examined data about births and their context in all 28 current EU member states plus Norway, Iceland and Switzerland in 2015. It also examined changes between 2010 and 2015.\nThe report differs from other international comparisons of stillbirth and infant death (infant mortality) rates by taking account of differences in the ways that statistics are compiled to make 'like for like' comparisons. Data about births before 22 weeks of pregnancy were excluded to improve consistency of reporting, as recommended by the World Health Organisation (WHO).\nStillbirth rates at or after 28 weeks of pregnancy ranged from below 2.3 per thousand total births (in Cyprus, Iceland, Denmark, Finland, and the Netherlands) to 3.4 or more (in Latvia, Ireland, Slovakia, Romania, Hungary, and Bulgaria). The rates for the countries of the United Kingdom came between these at 3.1 per 1,000 in England and Wales, 2.8 in Scotland and 2.6 in Northern Ireland.\nNeonatal and infant death rates\nNeonatal deaths are deaths in the first month after live birth and infant deaths are deaths in the first year.\nNeonatal death rates ranged from 0.7 per 1,000 live births in Slovenia to 4.4 in Bulgaria. The Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Spain, Cyprus, Luxembourg, Austria, Slovenia, Finland, Sweden, Norway, Scotland and Iceland had rates below 2.0 per 1000 live births. In contrast, rates were over 3.0 per 1,000 in Bulgaria, Croatia, Malta, Romania and Northern Ireland.\nThe rate for England and Wales fell in between, at 2.2 per 1,000. Infant death rates showed similar patterns, ranging from 1.5 per 1,000 live births in Iceland to 7.4 in Romania and 7.6 in Bulgaria. Within the UK, Northern Ireland had the highest rate at 5.1 per 1,000 live births, while the rate was 3.2 in England and Wales and 2.9 in Scotland.\nBabies from multiple births, mainly twins and triplets, are far more likely than singletons (single births) to be born early and so have higher rates of neonatal and infant death. Scotland and Northern Ireland were among the nine countries with fewer than 15 multiple births per thousand pregnancies. Five countries had rates of over 19 per thousand. England and Wales came in between with a rate of 16.1 per thousand pregnancies.\nAge at childbirth\nSince 2004, the average ages of women giving birth in Europe have risen. The countries of the UK are unusual in having relatively high proportions of both older and younger mothers. The percentage of mothers aged under 20 ranged from 0.8 per cent in Switzerland to 10.2 per cent in Bulgaria. Most countries, including the countries of the UK had under four per cent. The percentage of mothers aged 35 and over ranged from around 14 per cent in in Bulgaria, Poland and Romania to 36.3 per cent in Italy and 37.3 per cent in Spain. In each of the countries of the UK, just over a fifth of mothers were aged 35 or older.\nRising rates of caesarean birth (c-section) are a matter of concern internationally, and in six countries, rates reached over 35 per cent of all births in 2015. In contrast, not all rates rose and a quarter of countries had rates below 21 per cent. Iceland, Finland, Norway, and the Netherlands had the lowest rates, under 18 per cent.\nThe rates for the countries of the UK, although not the highest, were at the higher end of the range. Rates for Wales and Northern Ireland remained at 26.1 per cent and 29.9 per cent respectively, while the rate for England rose from 24.6 per cent in 2010 to 27.0 per cent in 2015, and the rate for Scotland rose from 27.8 per cent to 32.5 per cent.\nThe report also identifies important gaps in data about two important subjects, smoking and obesity. In most countries with data, between five and eight per cent of women smoked during pregnancy, but in the countries of the UK, from 12 to 17 per cent did so. Only 12 countries had data about body mass index (BMI). These included the UK, where over a fifth of the women who gave birth in 2015 in each of England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland were obese.\nProfessor Macfarlane, member of the Executive Board of Euro-Peristat and of its writing group and Professor of Perinatal Health at City, University of London, said:\n\"This new report confirms the findings of its predecessors, that when like is compared with like, the countries of the UK do not have the highest stillbirth and infant mortality rates in Europe. All the same they show that despite welcome decreases between 2010 and 2015, rates remain substantially above the low rates seen in the Nordic countries.\n\"The worrying increases in the already high caesarean rates for Scotland and England may well arise from initiatives to reduce stillbirth and infant mortality rates. However, the very much lower rates of caesarean section in the Nordic countries suggests that while good clinical care is important, a wider approach which also includes social and public health policies to improve the health of childbearing women is needed.\"\nLack of consensus over best obstetric practice in EU, says report\nCitation: Stillbirth and infant death rates are decreasing, but still vary widely across Europe (2018, November 28) retrieved 16 February 2019 from https://medicalxpress.com/news/2018-11-stillbirth-infant-death-decreasing-vary.html\nCDC: infant mortality rate varies greatly among states\nUK: More than eight out of ten newborn babies 'now start to breastfeed'\nFrance leads EU fertility rates: agency\nReport on stillbirth and neonatal death rates across the UK", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00240.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 240, + "original_length": 12238, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.95, + "perplexity": 174.7, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "https://megadoctornews.com/valleys-hostile-environment-constantly-attacks-the-populations-health-dr-darryl-l-stinson-family-physician/", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T04:24:10Z", + "digest": "sha1:LOKGFKTJDF5OS4W3G6UUFHWHARM7OU4H", + "length": 8703, + "nlines": 40, + "source_domain": "megadoctornews.com", + "title": "\u201cValley\u2019s Hostile Environment Constantly Attacks the Population\u2019s Health,\u201d - Dr. Darryl L. Stinson, Family Physician - Mega Doctor News", + "raw_content": "Home News Mega Doctor \u201cValley\u2019s Hostile Environment Constantly Attacks the Population\u2019s Health,\u201d \u2013 Dr. Darryl L....\nThe Valley is a tropical desert with hot, and both humid and dry weather\nDr. Darryl L. Stinson is a board-certified family physician who has been serving Valley residents for the last twenty-five years. Originally from Brownsville, Texas, he attended college for one year in that city and left for Monterrey, Nuevo Leon in Mexico. He did his pre-med and then medical school training from 1982 to 1988.\nUp until now, Monterrey has been a magnet for students wanting to study medicine from many parts of the world. The city has been equipped with fine schools to educate and train the most excellent physicians, many of them from the United States.\nUpon graduation, he moved to Beaumont, Texas for a year to satisfy his social service. In 1991, he started his residency in McAllen. Once he finished in 1994, he began his practice in Mission; it remained open until 2007. That year is what he calls a \u201cwindow of opportunity\u201d opened. PCI (preventive care institution)is a McAllen practice clinic where he works today; he was offered a job with compensation difficult to refuse. Dr. Stinson said, \u201cI went and spoke to my office manager and asked, \u2018can you pay me this amount of money?\u201d The answer was no, so he decided to give PCI a try, and has been practicing medicine there ever since.\nWhen Dr. Stinson ran his practice, Claudia, his beautiful wife, was also very involved in managing it, kind of a \u2018mom and pop\u2019 operation. He said that to let go of the control he had as a solo practitioner was not easy for him. At PCI, he tried to do it his way, however, in the end, he understood that he had to be a physician dedicated to his patients and leave the administration to the PCI professionals.\nIn reality, in today\u2019s world, it\u2019s even harder for solo practitioners to operate a clinic. According to many of the physicians that Mega Doctor News has interviewed, the changes in the law and additional regulations applied to the world of medicine, plus the difficulty to get paid, make this profession more than just a day of work.\nDr. Stinson said, \u201cWorking here, it became so much easier. There is no need to worry about anything else, just attend to my patients with the support of the personnel of the clinic.\u201d\n\u201cIn my era, from the 80s to 90s it became more difficult for us because medical care became too expensive for our country.\u201d He said that it was a time where physicians learned how to fight against insurance providers and the government because they would find ways to get out of paying physicians. \u201cInsurance companies are very, very, very ruthless. Their business models are designed to save money by not paying doctors,\u201d he said.\nHe said that in the last decade it has gotten worse. \u201cI\u2019ve been buffered here, away from all the turmoil that\u2019s going on with the Medicare and Medicaid. The changes that are affected by the Affordable Care Act have not really affected this clinic, because we make a direct contract. We don\u2019t have to worry about all those things,\u201d he said.\nWhat concerns you more about your patients and what kind of diseases are more prevalent here?\nA: \u201cIt is a much more severe problem for us than all over the country. I saw this epidemic unfold before my eyes. I am talking obesity and diabetes,\u201d he said.\nDr. Stinson said this has been a challenge since his early practice when as a young doctor in the 90s. He noted that the whole population started to gain weight to levels that he had not seen before.\nHe attributes the problem to genetics and the choice of lifestyle. \u201cWe don\u2019t eat often enough. We are too stressed to eat right; we don\u2019t eat like we used to,\u201d he said.\nDr. Stinson says that today when people eat lunch and dinner, their meals have gotten bigger and bigger. Their desire for high-calorie food has increased, plus there is not enough physical activity, consequently their body just stores everything.\nOne of the challenges for physicians is that they haven\u2019t figured out how to make people change their lifestyle.\n\u201cWe already understand what we need to do, and that is to eat more often, eat smaller portions, and eat less calories. Exercise is so important for everyone,\u201d he said.\nAside from diabetes and the obesity epidemic, he also noticed as far back as 2008 that there is an abnormal amount of mental stress among the Valley\u2019s population.\n\u201cI typically see patients with depression all the time, and we are very experienced in treating it. I saw it change, now my patients where didn\u2019t have the common stressor and their life was going smoothly, they also were coming in depressed.\u201d\nDr. Stinson said that among the millennials, it\u2019s getting even worse. \u201cEven at a younger age they\u2019re much more affected by this than my generation was.\u201d His opinion is that what is causing depression is the technology. \u201cWe\u2019re more productive because of technology, and we don\u2019t give our brain rest.\u201d If we are not talking on our smartphones, we are searching using google. \u201cWe can talk to somebody on live video chatting in China if we want to right now, and we are not relaxing our brains.\u201d\nAccording to him that we should not tolerate more than two or three dozen decisions a day, but in today\u2019s world that amount is done in 30 minutes. That includes answering your phone, texting, emailing, and much more.\n\u201cI definitely recommend to people to change their behavior and put a stop to technology at a certain time of the day.\u201d He is not saying to change technology, technology is good, but it is essential to counteract and to avoid overusing our system. Rest your brain.\nWhat diseases affect this population?\nDr. Stinson told Mega Doctor News that we have a lot of allergy problems, it\u2019s endemic. \u201cI\u2019m not an infectious disease doctor, but fungi and allergies are prevalent.\u201d\nHe says that the Rio Grande Valley has a hostile environment that he calls \u2018tropical desert.\u2019 \u201cIt\u2019s very dry, doesn\u2019t rain often, but it\u2019s humid.\u201d He adds, \u201cAlso there\u2019s a lot of dust and wind and funguses and different bacteria that are common here that you don\u2019t see much in other places. I was telling you about tuberculosis; that is here.\u201d\nTuberculosis! Yes, the disease is here in the Valley. He said, \u201cWe can\u2019t get rid of it. It\u2019s endemic in our environment. Our body is always having to fight against it. The Valley is a hostile environment to live in.\u201d\nHe pointed out that that\u2019s why the Aztec and the Mayans didn\u2019t plant themselves here. They chose the lush green valleys of Mexico. \u201cTo live in the Valley, you have to be tough to survive.\u201d\nDr. Stinson used to be an Army brat, his dad is from East Texas and his mother is from Cameron County. \u201cSo, I\u2019m mixed, Anglo Hispanic,\u201d he said. He is fluent in Spanish, he interacts very well with the population of the Rio Grande Valley.\nWhen he went to study in Monterrey, he met Claudia, his wife.\n\u201cFor me, yes,\u201d he said. They have three children, the youngest is Eric, he is 29 and lives in San Antonio and just got married.\n\u201cNo, no doctors in the family. They were discouraged by watching me. I guess they weren\u2019t impressed with my lifestyle. But now Eric is a lawyer.\nThe middle child, Darryl, is 30; he lives in Fort Worth and works for an exciting company doing set designs to make those panic rooms or escape rooms. Our daughter, Michelle is 32, and she\u2019s getting married this year.\u201d\nNo grandchildren yet?\n\u201cI do; I have a four-year-old grandchild. Her name is Quinn.\u201d\nHow do you juggle your profession and family?\n\u201cI always tell everybody, especially when I talk to young people, that your profession is very important. I remember how it when I was that age. You can have the best career ever at whatever you\u2019ve become. But it\u2019s not going to matter as much as your family.\u201d He continued, \u201cNow I would say, you can ask Barack Obama, would he give up that career or give up his family, his daughters. I\u2019m pretty sure he would choose to give up the profession and keep his daughters.\u201d\nDr. Stinson admitted that Obama had an incredible political career, the most fabulous job of our lifetime. \u201cHis face is to be on the money in different countries not only America. I didn\u2019t like his politics but as far as what he accomplished, yes,\u201d he said.\n\u201cIn medicine, it\u2019s a jealous profession.\u201d He continues, \u201cIt wants to keep you away from your family and wants to keep you away from other things. It doesn\u2019t like to share, if you want to be a good doctor. So that\u2019s one of the tough things about being a physician, it\u2019s that we have to learn how to juggle it,\u201d he finalized.\nPrevious articleDHR Health celebrated its 13th Annual Community Health Fair on January 19, 2019\nNext articleRotavirus Causes Severe Diarrhea in Kids", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00240.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 165, + "original_length": 13412, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.98, + "perplexity": 192.5, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "https://merryjane.com/amp/anti-pothead-of-the-week-jeff-sessions-king-narc-of-the-trump-administration", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T03:30:11Z", + "digest": "sha1:TAI24UZ4OCUYAIGT7RU3MOT5WWBOUKL5", + "length": 7401, + "nlines": 11, + "source_domain": "merryjane.com", + "title": "Anti-Pothead of the Week: Jeff Sessions, Top Narc of the Trump Administration | MERRY JANE", + "raw_content": "Anti-Pothead of the Week: Jeff Sessions, Top Narc of the Trump Administration\nThe AG wrote an op-ed that tried to justify why he\u2019s \u201cempowering\u201d federal prosecutors to apply mandatory minimum sentences to drug offenders. In reality, it\u2019s more proof that the man is a racist fool.\nLead image by Sara Wass\nLast weekend, Attorney General Jefferson Beauregard Sessions III (or, more likely, one of his aides) penned a bullshitty op-ed in The Washington Post with the title, \u201cBeing Soft on Sentencing Means More Violent Crime. It\u2019s Time to Get Tough Again.\u201d How the piece managed to run in The Washington Post \u2013\u2013 whose reporters have done more to expose the chicanery of the Donald Trump\u2019s administration than perhaps any other major newspaper \u2013\u2013 is a miracle unto itself, and I\u2019m not going to do the piece the dignity of actually linking to it, because I assume the paper ran it because they knew it would piss people off and they would shower in a storm of hate-clicks. Instead, I\u2019ll say that even the Post itself seemed to understand that Sessions\u2019s op-ed was bullshitty, because they ran a rebuttal that all but obliterated his argument. Still, if you want to read it, I won\u2019t stop you\u2013\u2013as my friend Trey likes to say, you\u2019ve got the same Google that I got. Besides, the point of this article is for me to tell you why Jeff Sessions is a racist idiot who wrote a bad article, so I have to tell you what\u2019s in it anyways.\nSessions\u2019s op-ed is, by and large, his way of publicly justifying why he\u2019s \u201cempowering\u201d (his word) federal prosecutors to apply mandatory minimum sentences to drug offenders \u2013\u2013 a reversal of the policy of Barack Obama\u2019s AG Eric Holder established in 2013. Though in effect, Holder\u2019s directive had little practical impact, it was indicative of a potential sea change in how America views the so-called War on Drugs: as one that oppresses minority communities, rather than liberates them.\nPointing to an 11 percent climb in murders from 2014 to 2015, Sessions declares his predecessor\u2019s ideas a failure and asserts that he wishes to target \u201cmajor drug traffickers, gang members, importers, manufacturers and international drug cartel members.\u201d Within the context of Holder\u2019s policies before him, Sessions\u2019 directive, regardless of the language in which it is rendered, gives prosecutors throughout the country license to both prosecute and persecute members of black and brown communities with a renewed zeal.\nAs the constitutional scholar David Cole has written, Jeff Sessions \u201cseems like a throwback to [the Civil Rights] era\u2013\u2013and not on the side of the heroes.\u201d In addition to favoring harsher sentences for drug offenders, Sessions is also an opponent of allowing felons the right to vote, a policy that given our nation\u2019s pattern of mass incarceration minorities on drug charges, creates a pattern that threatens to disenfranchise entire races. (It would be folly for me to not mention, at some point in this rebuttal, that a pair of Sessions\u2019 former aides now lobby on behalf of the private prison industry. Here seems as good a place as any.)\nTo hear Sessions tell it, drug trafficking is a cause of societal ill rather than an effect, as if those in the drug game gravitate towards it because of some greater sociopathy rather than financial desperation. By and large, those who deal drugs would just as rather be doing something else \u2013\u2013 it\u2019s a dangerous gig, the hours are long (you can never take naps), the pay is rarely what it\u2019s chalked up to be, and dealers are constantly faced with the mental stress of reconciling their wish to escape from impoverished neighborhoods with the knowledge that their chosen profession perpetuates the conditions they\u2019re trying to leave behind. It\u2019s arguable that those in black and brown communities turn to the black market drug trade because they\u2019ve been shut out of traditional career opportunities. If members of these communities are denied access to the infrastructural necessities to help them escape poverty \u2013\u2013 good schools, affordable healthcare and nutritional food, extracurricular activities designed to build real-world skills \u2013\u2013 then they will continue to face a catch-22. By withholding these resources, governments create the pressure within individuals to make decisions they don\u2019t want to make, such as joining gangs or selling drugs, and then punishes them for making those choices.\nAnd then there\u2019s the pharmaceutical industry, whose not insignificant contributions to the opioid epidemic Sessions\u2019 op-ed ignores almost entirely. Last year, a Los Angeles Times investigation revealed that Purdue Pharma, the manufacturer of the blockbuster prescription opioid Oxycontin, knowingly marketed their product as providing twelve hours of pain relief, when in fact it was effective for only eight hours. Given that it\u2019s basically heroin in a pill, Oxycontin can cause intense withdrawal, which, given the four-hour differential between the pill\u2019s stated effectiveness and its actual duration, can lead to people popping pills more frequently than their doctor has told them to. And when a person\u2019s prescription dries up, but their pain remains, the drug trade steps in to satisfy consumer demand. (As the libertarian publication Reason points out, states that have legalized medical marijuana generally see a downturn in opioid use. In a move that flies in the face of this data, after Sessions became Attorney General, he requested congressional approval to prosecute purveyors of legal marijuana.)\nIn his call to incarcerate minorities in the name of the War on Drugs, Sessions also disregards the effects of the dark web, which enables drug organizations to set up unlisted, Amazon-style e-commerce platforms and mail their wares directly to customers. It\u2019s certainly reasonable to say that this is a problem of the U.S. government\u2019s own making \u2013\u2013 after all, the popular dark web browser Tor was originally developed by the Naval Research Laboratory, and despite its capability to serve as a portal into an online open-air drug market, the government still continues to fund it due to its utility for law enforcement agencies, intelligence assets transmitting information in dangerous locations, dissidents in nations with strict internet censorship, as well as those who have serious and legitimate privacy concerns. If Sessions were seriously concerned about combatting the opioid crisis, he might start by cracking down on pharmaceutical companies who use misleading claims to convince doctors to put dangerous drugs in the hands of consumers (which he won\u2019t, but should), and monitor dark web activity in the hopes of catching those who operate darknet drug bazaars (which he shouldn\u2019t, but might). To do otherwise is to further penalize those who hail from communities who need the government\u2019s assistance \u2013\u2013 not its wrath \u2013\u2013 the most.\nStill, it\u2019s important to remember that like Donald Trump himself, Jeff Sessions does not represent a problem that will magically disappear on its own. Days after Sessions\u2019 op-ed ran, a bipartisan Congressional coalition introduced a bill that, if passed, would increase penalties for manufacturers of synthetic drugs, with the intention of targeting the synthetic opiate Fentanyl. It\u2019s an indication that even if Sessions were to magically disappear down whatever dumb-ass hole he popped out of, America is still unwilling to treat the drug trade as a symptom and not the disease.", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00240.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 36, + "original_length": 8652, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.95, + "perplexity": 296.9, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "https://merryjane.com/amp/health/wisconsin-governor-scott-walker-signs-cannabidiol-bill-into-law", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T03:12:18Z", + "digest": "sha1:ESOUYJ4CRWN3K3YAFV4BWPHKK7JOUTNA", + "length": 1505, + "nlines": 7, + "source_domain": "merryjane.com", + "title": "Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker Signs Cannabidiol Bill Into Law | MERRY JANE", + "raw_content": "Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker Signs Cannabidiol Bill Into Law\nFamilies will now be able to treat epileptic children with CBD.\nWisconsin Governor Scott Walker signed Senate Bill 10 into law this week, making it easier for families to get access to cannabidiol as a medical treatment. The legislation passed the state Assembly unanimously last month, and passed the Senate in February with only one state Senator voting against it.\n\"Today, we\u2019re making it easier for people in our state to obtain CBD oil without a psychoactive effect to treat a medical condition as advised by their doctor,\" Walker said in a statement.\nState lawmakers actually approved a law allowing the use of CBD in 2014. The law, named Lydia's Law after a young girl suffering from seizures, proved so restrictive that families and physicians found it exceptionally difficult to actually get the medication to children in need. Lydia Schaeffer, the namesake of the bill, died at age 6 before she was able to get access to CBD treatment.\nThe new legislation relaxes the extreme limitations of the former law, allowing families to possess CBD oil for any physician-approved medical condition. A similar law was proposed last year, but was voted down by the state Senate.\nOn the back of the successful CBD legislation, Wisconsin Democrats are pushing for a bill that would legalize all forms of medical marijuana in the state. However, the Republican majority in the state legislature does not currently support medical marijuana.", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00240.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 27, + "original_length": 2456, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.97, + "perplexity": 232.1, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "https://metsmerizedonline.com/2018/07/mets-put-blevins-on-bereavement-list-recall-sewald.html/", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T04:26:26Z", + "digest": "sha1:YBFPF77VQO2OERWZY75HDLYJWKWST426", + "length": 781, + "nlines": 5, + "source_domain": "metsmerizedonline.com", + "title": "Mets Put Blevins on Bereavement List, Recall Sewald | Mets Merized Online", + "raw_content": "Mets Put Blevins on Bereavement List, Recall Sewald\nThe New York Mets recalled RHP Paul Sewald from Las Vegas (AAA) of the Pacific Coast League and placed LHP Jerry Blevins on the Bereavement List. The listed reason was for his grandmother.\nSewald will wear #51 and will be available for tonight\u2019s game. He is 0-4 with a 4.85 ERA (21 earned runs/39.0 innings) in 26 games with the Mets this season.\nSewald went 3-0 with a 1.80 ERA (one earned run/5.0 innings) in four games with the 51s after he was optioned for the first time on June 22.\nBlevins, free agent after the season, is 1-1 this season with a 4.95 ERA, 1.50 WHIP and has walked 12 batters and struck out only 18 in 20.2 innings. He has been better of late with a 3.24 ERA in his last 8.1 innings since the start of June.", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00240.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 42, + "original_length": 1683, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.98, + "perplexity": 253.3, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "https://mexika.org/tag/mexican-american-studies/", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T03:53:25Z", + "digest": "sha1:732YHYVYKMVOZQUVVHGEHLLGTN756K2V", + "length": 1551, + "nlines": 12, + "source_domain": "mexika.org", + "title": "Mexican American Studies \u2013 [ mexika.org ]", + "raw_content": "Acu\u00f1a on the defense of Chicana/o Studies in Arizona | mexmigration: History and Politics of Mexican Immigration\nEver since I read Stuart Chase\u2019s \u201cThe Tyranny of Words\u201d as an undergraduate I have been obsessed with the meaning of words, although I must admit that S.I. 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Educators [...]\nThe Death of a Team \u00bb Counterpunch: Tells the Facts, Names the Names\nThe Death of a Team Society pays more attention to its sports teams than to its children. Today in L.A. the world shattering concern is whether to keep the Lakers\u2019 roster [...]\nDr Cintli: Tucson\u2019s Historic Freedom Summer & The Popol Vuh\nOn the way to Tucson\u2019s Freedom Summer, I\u2019m driving with a few friends. We speak of several topics and at one point, someone laments that over the past several years, [...]", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00240.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 96, + "original_length": 6099, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.93, + "perplexity": 305.6, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "https://mg.co.za/article/2006-05-16-nigerian-senate-rejects-third-term-for-obasanjo", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T04:39:04Z", + "digest": "sha1:G2O4QOV3XY3RFRLV36JIKEFABAAZEDBH", + "length": 1901, + "nlines": 14, + "source_domain": "mg.co.za", + "title": "Nigerian Senate rejects third term for Obasanjo | News | Africa | M&G", + "raw_content": "Nigerian Senate rejects third term for Obasanjo\nThe Nigerian Senate on Tuesday rejected a constitutional amendment that would have allowed President Olusegun Obasanjo to run for a third term in office in 2007.\n\u201cBy this result, the Senate has said clearly and eloquently that we discontinue further proceedings on this amendment Bill,\u201d Senate President Ken Nnamani said after the vote.\nThe Bill was rejected in a Senate voice-vote after a debate transmitted live on AIT television.\nThe \u201cnoes have it\u201d, the Senate chief had declared, triggering wild jubilation and back-patting among opponents.\nDebate continued in the lower House of Representatives, but the procedure was considered a mere formality.\n\u201cToday, Nigerians have spoken and have defeated resoundingly the monster called \u2018third term\u2019. It is a victory for Nigeria, it is a victory for democracy,\u201d Yari Gandi, a senator from north-west Sokoto State, said as he stepped out of the hall.\nThe Parliamentary debate on amendments proposed by Obasanjo\u2019s loyalists had lasted several weeks.\nThe scheme was opposed by some politicians, rights groups, organised labour and a large section of local and international opinion.\nObasanjo, a former military head of state who was elected in 1999 and re-elected in 2003 in polls allegedly marred by widespread fraud, has not publicly endorsed a successor or stated any intention to run beyond 2007.\nUnder the 1999 Constitution, Obasanjo must step down in May 2007 after serving a constitutional limit of two four-year terms, but his supporters had been pushing for the amendment to let him run a third time.\nTuesday\u2019s vote in the Senate technically put an end to that plan.\n\u201cAs a representative of the president, I am disappointed in the sense that they have allowed the issue of tenure elongation to cloud the debate,\u201d said Florence Ita-Giwa, Obasanjo\u2019s adviser on National Assembly matters.\u2014AFP\nAbujaNigeria", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00240.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 136, + "original_length": 6593, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.97, + "perplexity": 293.8, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "https://mg.co.za/article/2019-01-25-00-womens-league-in-safa-limbo", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T03:47:10Z", + "digest": "sha1:KKKTWCTR7SQPKFVN5WAX4Q6WR7WCTAS2", + "length": 6776, + "nlines": 41, + "source_domain": "mg.co.za", + "title": "Women\u2019s league in Safa limbo | News | Sport | M&G", + "raw_content": "Women\u2019s league in Safa limbo\nLuke Feltham, Busisiwe Mokwena 25 Jan 2019 00:00\nLittle is known about the format the league will adopt when it does eventually kick off. (Maddie Meyer/Fifa/Getty Images)\nDespite the launch of the professional women\u2019s football league being potentially only a matter of months away, precious little is known about it \u2014 even among the teams scheduled to compete.\nSeveral coaches and senior club officials said the South African Football Association (Safa) had communicated very few details to them, leaving them in the dark.\nSafa announced its intention to launch a national women\u2019s league in April, but now may once again backtrack on its promise. During a meeting with editors last week, Safa president Danny Jordaan said the start date might be pushed back to August to allow Banyana Banyana to focus on preparing for the Fifa Women\u2019s World Cup.\n\u201cAlready we have an issue as to whether we should launch the national league in May, and they [clubs] release players to go to the World Cup,\u201d Jordaan said. \u201cThat won\u2019t give a good competitive impression of the league.\nWe are considering that, shouldn\u2019t we wait for the World Cup to be over and then launch the league? So that we can have all the star players back.\u201d\nThe announcement has seemingly taken many of the aspirant players by surprise, and some have questioned why they have not been kept informed so they can better prepare for the season.\nTshwane University of Technology coach Tebogo Mokae, whose side won the Sasol League National Championship in December, said the 12 clubs that have qualified for the league were to have had a meeting with Safa to discuss how the league would be run, but they have not heard from the association.\n\u201cI don\u2019t have a problem with the league starting in August, but we haven\u2019t received any communication from Safa about it,\u201d he said. \u201cIt makes sense for me to have the league start after the Fifa World Cup, because some of the teams will have up to four players in Banyana Banyana\u2019s preparation camps, [so] how would those teams catch up to the others?\u201d\nMokae\u2019s concern is that his players will become rusty while waiting for the league to kick off in August.\n\u201cThey must give us an idea of what we must do in the meantime. We can\u2019t be sitting idle until then. Maybe we can send some of the players on loan to the Sasol teams for them to keep active until the league starts. It\u2019s important that they let us know, because this hampers our preparations for the league.\u201d\nThe meeting with Safa is expected to take place soon now that Banyana have concluded their start-of-year friendlies.\nConcerns about the lack of a women\u2019s professional league were brought to the forefront of the national conversation last week after the Mail & Guardian published an article revealing that members of the Banyana squad had not been paid the bonuses they were promised for their second-place finish at the Africa Women\u2019s Cup of Nations. The players said they relied on such monies because they have no other source of income.\nREAD MORE: Banyana paid \u2014 Now it\u2019s on to the football\nThe players were eventually paid on the Friday that the article was published.\nAlthough some have maintained a cautious optimism that this could be the year the league finally launches, others are fed up with being left in the dark.\n\u201cWe haven\u2019t heard anything from the [Safa] president yet,\u201d a senior official at one of the clubs told the M&G on condition of anonymity. \u201cHow can he [Jordaan] inform the journalists, but the people who are supposed to be aware of this are not aware? That\u2019s the problem with Safa.\u201d\nDoubts that the league will kick off this year persist and have left the immediate future of women\u2019s club football in doubt.\n\u201cMy concern is we\u2019ve been waiting for how long for this league; now it\u2019s been moved,\u201d the official continued. \u201cWhat are we going to do from now until August?\n\u201cEven the players are asking us: \u2018What\u2019s happening? What\u2019s going on?\u2019 We don\u2019t know. If you want to negotiate a salary for players, you don\u2019t know what the stipend will be.\u201d\nLittle is known about the format the league will adopt when it does eventually kick off. Twelve teams have qualified through recent tournaments and their service to the sport. Safa vice-president Ria Ledwaba has hinted that up to four other teams could be added in the inaugural competition, or over time.\nOne of the teams guaranteed a spot is the University of Johannesburg. The institution has invested greatly in women\u2019s football in recent times and will hold trials at the beginning of February to usher new talent into the team.\nCoach Jabulile Baloyi said that, although she is aware that the league may be pushed back, her team\u2019s plans have been affected by the start date still being up in the air.\n\u201cWe\u2019ve been scouting [for] players that we\u2019d like to bring on board but now we haven\u2019t brought them in because we\u2019re not sure whether the league is going to be officially played this year or not. It\u2019s hard to plan properly,\u201d she says.\n\u201cIt\u2019s not clear while waiting for the league if there will be any competition in between. Yes, the minister has given Safa a R5-million contribution towards the national league for three years, but I haven\u2019t heard of any more sponsorship coming on board.\u201d\nLast week Sports Minister Tokozile Xasa pledged R5-million over three years towards the league, which amounts to R1.7-million a year.\nPoor sponsorship is a universal concern.\nPremier Soccer League spokesperson Luxolo September reckons it takes way more than that to run a club, let alone a league for three seasons.\n\u201cFootball is expensive. There\u2019s travelling, accommodation, players\u2019 contracts, office staff and other things that need to be considered. Everyone oversimplifies things. The R1.5-million is not even a budget for one team in the MDC [Multichoice Diski Challenge],\u201d said September.\nSafa was unable to comment by the time of going to print.\nWith the women\u2019s game growing exponentially in the country, everyone involved is increasingly eager for the full-time competition to kick off. Until it does, however, setbacks and failed promises will continue to eliminate young aspirants.\n\u201cIt means I should tell these players, \u2018don\u2019t raise your hopes\u2019,\u201d the official said of the increased delay. \u201cGo and look for jobs. Concentrate on your school. They [Safa] are not taking us seriously, so what can we do?\u201d\nThis report is a collaboration between Kaya FM and the Mail & Guardian\nLuke Feltham runs the Mail & Guardian's sports desk. 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Recently, Kelly appeared in a recurring role on Showtime\u2019s acclaimed The L Word, Ti West\u2019s THE INNKEEPERS and Jim Mickle\u2019s STAKE LAND\nWYATT RUSSELL (Deputy Anders)\nIn WE ARE WHAT WE ARE, Wyatt plays Deputy Anders, a young and naive police officer smitten with one of the Parker daughters yet may be in over his head as his first investigation takes him to new depths. Wyatt pursued a hockey career before getting into acting, playing professionally for three years in Germany and Holland. After an injury, Wyatt pursued acting, he can be seen in Jon Favreau\u2019s COWBOYS & ALIENS, the Netflix revival of \"Arrested Development\" and Judd Apatow\u2019s THIS IS 40. Wyatt is also a partner in Hail Mary Productions with his brother Oliver Hudson and sister Kate Hudson.\nNICK DAMICI (Sheriff Meeks)\nIn WE ARE WHAT WE ARE, Nick plays Sheriff Meeks, a local veteran sheriff who the skeptic, refusing to believe there are connections in the crimes being committed in town. 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Michael, an iconic actor in his own right, got his big break on the 1969 show \"Then Came Bronson\", and went on to portraying characters in many other television shows such as \"Twin Peaks\" before crossing over to the silver screen. Quentin Tarantino and Robert Rodriguez have used his character Earl McGraw in numerous features such as FROM DUSK TILL DAWN, KILL BILL VOL. 1, KILL BILL VOL. 2, DEATH PROOF and PLANET TERROR. He can also be seen in Andrew Dominik\u2019s THE ASSASSINATION OF JESSE JAMES BY THE COWARD ROBERT FORD, Kevin Smith\u2019s RED STATE, Ben Affleck\u2019s ARGO and teamed up again with Quentin Tarantino in DJANGO UNCHAINED.\nJACK GORE (Rory Parker)\nIn WE ARE WHAT WE ARE, Jack plays Rory Parker, the youngest of the Parker siblings. Too young to understand the nature of what\u2019s going on, Rory relies on his sisters to take care of him. WE ARE WHAT WE ARE is Jack\u2019s first role. 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I raise the ethical here because McBride makes no bones about the moral position and challenge that he throws out to both scholars and a more general intellectual community. By the ethical I mean to signal a range of political concerns for which there are no set answers but for which serious and sustained political and intellectual engagement might allow us to work toward contingent and meaningful strategies of settlement outside a discourse of religious moral terms. One of the book's opening epigraphs is taken from Ephesians 6:10\u201313 in which God is put on as armor to wrestle with worldly evils. 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I am still in a state of shock after reading the news about the petrol bomb attack at the residence of the Editor of the Shillong Times, Patricia Mukhim.\nFreedom of the Press is now in great danger. Journalists like Gouri Lankesh, Shantanu Bhowmik and K.J. Singh have been murdered in different parts of our country a few months ago. It tells a very sad tale of the present status of press freedom.\nAlready, India has slipped three places in just one year from 133rd in 2016 to 136th in 2017 as per the World Press Freedom Ranking Index. It will be a bad day for democracy if the Press has to work in a reign of terror.\nIt is a shame that we could not save rationalists like Narendra Davolkar, Govind Pansare, Malleshappa Kalburgi, Gouri Lankesh and others.\nThis underscores the need for speedy criminal justice delivery system for the survival of our democracy. We must remember that democracy cannot survive without free press.\nAll of us must condemn dastardly attack on the Press and demand immediate arrest of the culprits. 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And the silence that follows this relegation and hush-up of women and gender issues, in fact the devaluation of the threats to women\u2019s lives and limbs doesn\u2019t even reverberate in our collective and personal psyches. After publication of news of rapes, murders and abductions of women and children in our newspapers you could almost miss any \u201ccondemnations\u201d of the same. Once again, this not only validates the patriarchal attitudes and mindset against women and children in Naga society but seeing as even women organizations fail to take notice of such aberrations, as they used to about a couple of years ago, this indifference indicates how deeper our women have submerged in the patriarchal value-system. And equally frightening, the impression is also created that some political forces are trying to downplay crimes against women and children in Nagaland. Local media reports that a 5-year-old was murdered this month in Dimapur district; a family of four, consisting of the mother and two minor children besides the father were found dead in Dimapur ~ while the cause of death is yet to be ascertained, even if it is suicide, it could possibly be poverty-related, indicating violation of the Right to Food. Moreover, the death of a woman and her minor children must attract attention and deprecation but we aren\u2019t bothered ~ probably because they aren\u2019t Nagas, which actually underscores the racism in us; then there are a good number of \u201cmissing\u201d children and for most of us it is just another piece of news; the decomposed body of a murdered woman is found near a well at Medziphema after she was missing for eleven days; a 51-year-old woman was reportedly raped and murdered in Khonoma on March 26. Early this month, a 12-year-old girl was found with her throat slit at Dimapur, and before that a minor was raped at Mokokchung. These are reported cases and made public but we don\u2019t know how many crimes particularly rapes have been committed and have remained unreported. No, by no standards is Nagaland the safest state for women in India because even one rape is one too many. In the past few years, when such cases occurred women organizations would condemn them and take to the streets in protest, speaking out without mincing our words. Today, say in the past year or so, our women have gone into a silent mode vis-\u00e0-vis crimes against women and children. This is quite strange seeing that women and even men have started being very vocal against such crimes, especially after the horrific rape and murder of a young medical student at Delhi in 2012 and thereafter the increasing number of rapes and murders of children and women across the country. It is bad enough that our tribal, church and sundry women\u2019s organizations have reacted with silence against the above cited crimes but even the Nagaland State Women Commission (NSWC) appears to have taken a holiday from addressing and redressing crimes against women and children, noticeable particularly since this year. Till the time of writing this Editorial, we haven\u2019t heard a word from the NSWC about the aforesaid cases. We don\u2019t expect our male-centric tribal organizations or the Church to condemn these crimes ~ or even to focus on women and gender issues ~ but surely the NSWC has been constituted and mandated to focus on these issues? Yes, as compared to other states, Nagaland doesn\u2019t have a very high rate of crimes against women and children but then we also don\u2019t have the same population as other states. Besides, nobody can jump to any conclusion in the absence of any data on unreported cases of such crimes. So, to say that rate of such crimes is minimal in Nagaland as compared to other states is an insult to injury for women of Nagaland. And, why should there be any comparisons in the first place? True, rapes and murders occur everywhere across the globe but that is no consolation to victims and survivors. In fact, the lethal combination of societal and institutional silence is an encouragement to rapes, murders and other crimes against women and children. 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Dr. Nina S. Naidu is a female plastic surgeon in New York City (NYC) who is dedicated to providing women with breast augmentation results that closely resemble the look and the feel of their natural breasts.\nThe art of breast augmentation involves much more than simply increasing the size of the breast; it is a creative endeavor that improves a woman\u2019s physical beauty, positively affecting her self-confidence. Dr. Nina S. Naidu and her entire staff are dedicated to providing women in and around NYC with the highest quality of care possible. If you are interested in learning more about the various cosmetic, plastic and reconstructive procedures available, please contact our NYC office today.\nVideo: Vectra 3D Breast Augmentation Imaging Simulation\nVideo: Round VS Anatomic Silicone Breast Implants\nVideo: Tuberous Breast Deformity\nFor more visit our page on Tuberous Breast Surgery.\nBreast Augmentation Before & After Photo \u2013 Nina S. Naidu, MD FACS\nDissatisfaction with the shape or size of your breasts can have a negative impact on your confidence and self-esteem. Breast augmentation is a way to enhance your existing breast tissue. Many of Dr. Nina Naidu\u2019s breast augmentation patients are professional, independent women whose breasts have changed secondary to aging, pregnancy or weight loss. Their goal is to have natural-looking, feminine breasts that make them feel more attractive.\nBreast augmentation is a surgical procedure that uses implants to enhance the size and shape of the breasts. Breast augmentation is particularly popular among women whose breasts have diminished in size due to pregnancy and breastfeeding. Breast implants are also used to enhance body proportion and correct breast asymmetry caused by genetics, injury or illness.\nDeciding To Have Breast Augmentation\nMany of Dr. Nina Naidu\u2019s patients who choose to have breast augmentation surgery have already completed their families, although there is no contraindication to having breast augmentation if you are planning to become pregnant in the future. A large number of her patients decide to have a breast augmentation to improve their self-esteem, increase their confidence level and enhance their femininity. As an experienced, board-certified plastic and reconstructive surgeon in New York City, Dr. Naidu is dedicated to helping each of her patients attain the feminine breasts that they desire.\nBreast Augmentation: Your 1st Consultation\nAn initial consultation is the first step towards determining if a breast augmentation in NYC will provide a patient with the results she desires. During this comprehensive consultation at our office in NYC, patients meet the medical staff and get to know Dr. Nina S. Naidu. Patients should be prepared to explain what they would like to achieve with a breast enhancement procedure. The results the patient desires determine which breast enhancement procedure Dr. Naidu recommends. For example, a patient may want Dr. Naidu to decrease the size of her areola and add volume to her breasts. These goals can be accomplished through a breast augmentation with areolar reduction surgery.\nYour 1st Consultation: Medical Information Is Gathered\nDuring this consultation, Dr. Naidu will request information about the patient\u2019s medical history. Necessary information includes specifics related to previous surgical procedures, health conditions, mammograms, breast biopsies, current medications, herbal supplements and vitamins. If applicable, she also needs to know about the patient\u2019s alcohol consumption, nicotine, and/or recreational drug use.\nYour 1st Consultation: A Physical Examination Of The Breasts Is Performed\nAfter collecting this information, Dr. Naidu will conduct a physical examination of the patient\u2019s breasts. She will determine the health of the skin and the soft tissue of each breast. Dr. Naidu will measure the base width of the breast and note the quality of the breast skin. This information is collected to help her determine the patient\u2019s optimum breast implant size and the ideal location for the pocket in which the implants will rest. Photographs are taken at this visit to assist with planning. They will not be shown to other patients without your written consent.\nOnce the consultation is complete, Dr. Nina S. Naidu will know if the patient is a good candidate for a breast augmentation in NYC. At this time, if a patient has yet to complete her family, Dr. Naidu will explain how becoming pregnant and breastfeeding may affect the results achieved during a breast augmentation in NYC.\nNYC Breast Augmentation \u2013 Nina S. Naidu, MD FACS\nBreast Augmentation: Your 2nd Consultation\nBreast implant characteristics vary in shape, size, volume, type and consistency. Therefore, during the second consultation, Dr. Naidu helps the patient choose the breast implant that will create the feminine silhouette that she desires. To determine the optimal breast implant for a given patient, both the patient\u2019s existing measurements and goals are taken into account. Vectra three-dimensional imaging as well as sizers suited to a patient\u2019s measurements are used to assist in selecting the optimal implant size.\nDr. Naidu will also explain her plan for your surgery. She will let you know the length of your surgery, the location of your incisions, and what to expect during your recovery. You will also complete the necessary paperwork for the surgery.\nDepending on your medical history, Dr. Naidu may advise you to discontinue certain medications prior to surgery. If you are a smoker, you must not smoke for eight weeks before or after the surgery. If you are over the age of 35 or have a family history of breast cancer, you will need to have a screening mammogram prior to your breast augmentation surgery. For your safety, Dr. Naidu may also order additional screening tests or request preoperative clearance from your regular medical doctor\nChoosing the Right Breast Implant for Your Breast Augmentation\nThe success of your breast augmentation surgery depends on choosing the best implant type, style, size and location for your body. Dr. Naidu will help make these crucial decisions based on the measurements of your breasts, the amount of existing breast tissue, your aesthetic goals, and your body frame.\nSaline breast implants are structured like a balloon that is filled with sterile salt water. Saline implants are less expensive than other types of implants and require a smaller incision. One of the major benefits of saline breast implants is that, if the implant leaks or is damaged, your body easily absorbs the saline solution. Some people feel that saline breast implants do not look or feel as natural as other types of implants. They are also prone to rippling and wrinkling. Saline breast implants are approved for patients who at least 18 years old.\nSilicone breast implants are filled with silicone gel and feel and look much more like natural breast tissue. They are now available in both round and anatomic shapes. The term \u201cgummy bear\u201d refers to anatomic (teardrop) shaped silicone gel implants which when cut have a cohesive gel which does not leak. Although silicone implants have a long history of safety, patients must be monitored regularly by their physician to assess for rupture. Silicone breast implants require a slightly larger incision and are approved for patients who are at least 22 years old.\nThe Ideal Implant\u00ae\nThe Ideal Implant\u00ae has a series of silicone implant shells nested together and two separate chambers that hold saline. This simple internal structure is designed to control the movement of the saline and support the implant edges to reduce folding and wrinkling. In addition, the edges have been lowered to better fit the natural curve of the chest wall. Unlike silicone implants, leaks can be easily detected just by looking in the mirror. It is FDA-approved for cosmetic use in women aged 18 years or older.\nBreast Augmentation: Position of Breast Implants\nAll breast implant devices can be placed submuscularly or subglandularly. If placed submuscularly, the device will rest in a pocket beneath the pectoralis muscle. If the implant is placed subglandularly, the device will lie in a pocket above the pectoralis muscle, but beneath the breast tissue itself. An implant may be placed underneath the muscle in the upper pole of the breast and beneath the tissue in the lower pole of the breast; this placement is referred to as the \u201cdual-plane\u201d.\nDr. Naidu\u2019s preference is to use a dual plane placement, which creates a pocket for the implant beneath the muscle and the breast tissue. This dual plane placement provides optimal coverage of the implant. It also avoids visible implant edges and rippling.\nPlacing implants under the breast tissue is not advised for women with thin breast tissue. This lack of breast tissue means that the implant edges may become more visible, the implant may show rippling, and/or the implant edges can be felt. Subglandular placement can result in a higher risk of capsular contracture (scar tissue formation). Finally, mammograms are more difficult to perform with implant placement beneath the breast tissue.\nAlthough the submuscular or dual-plane placement of breast implants involves a slightly longer recovery, the advantages of this placement are significant. The edges of the implant will be well-concealed and not as easily felt. Mammograms are simpler to perform because the breast tissue is easier to compress when the implant is placed behind the muscle. Finally, there is a significantly lower risk of capsular contracture when the implant is located behind the pectoralis muscle. For these reasons, Dr. Naidu will likely select this placement for your implants.\nDr. Naidu will help you determine the best shape for your implants. Both saline and silicone breast implants are made in round shapes. Silicone implants also come in a teardrop (anatomic) shape. Dr. Naidu prefers to use round implants for most cosmetic breast augmentation cases unless the patient has a specific preference.\nTeardrop implants provide additional volume to the upper portion of the breast. They are most commonly used for reconstruction patients who have lost much of this tissue due to surgery, injury or congenital conditions. Dr. Naidu will advise you which shape is best for you.\nThe surface of the implant can be smooth or textured. Smooth implants move easily and feel soft, while textured implants have a slightly bumpy surface. Dr. Naidu most frequently uses smooth, round implants for her breast augmentation patients.\nThe benefit of texture is that the implant will not move as much within the breast pocket, which is especially important for tear-drop implants. The downside of textured implants is a higher risk of visible wrinkling. Also, in the rare instance that teardrop implants shift in position, a secondary surgery may be required.\nSurgical Options for a Breast Augmentation\nWhen determining which incision will provide the patient with the best results, Dr. Nina S. Naidu takes into consideration the patient\u2019s preferences, and the patient\u2019s anatomy. The infra-mammary incision has been shown in several studies to be associated with a lower risk of capsular contracture, or scarring around the breast implant. The type of implant being placed can also affect the location of the incisio\u200b\u200bn.\n\u200b\u200bBreast Augmentation: Pre-Surgical Appointment\nDuring this appointment, patients have the opportunity to envision how they will look after their procedure by trying on a limited number of sizers which have been selected based upon the patient\u2019s measurements and goals. Dr. Naidu will assist the patient in determining the implant type, volume, shape and position that will provide her with the best results possible. Specifics related to the procedure itself will be discussed and the patient will complete her pre-surgical pap\u200b\u200berwork as well. Patients should feel free to ask any questions they have about preparing for surgery, the surgical procedure itself and/or the recovery process.\nBreast Augmentation: Preparing for Surgery\nStrong, independent women are frequently reluctant to ask for help; however, following breast enhancement surgery, post-surgical assistance is necessary. For this reason, we recommend that patients create a recovery plan designed to make caring for themselves and their families easier. This will allow the patient to focus solely on her recovery.\nPatients who are 35 years of age or older, or those with a family history of breast cancer, must have a mammogram prior to their breast augmentation procedure. Patients who smoke must discontinue smoking for at least eight weeks before and eight weeks after their breast augmentation in NYC. Abiding by this recommendation is extremely important because the chemicals in cigarette\u200b\u200bs inhibit the body\u2019s ability to heal itself.\nSince certain medications and diet aids must be discontinued prior to surgery, patients should speak with Dr. Naidu about their use of daily medications, vitamins and herbal supplements. As a precautionary measure, Dr. Naidu may order additional tests and/or request preoperative clearance from the patient\u2019s general practitioner.\nBecause many of Dr. Naidu\u2019s breast augmentation patients in NYC are very independent women who would rather not ask for assistance, it is important to reiterate that, although these procedures are elective, breast augmentation is a true surgical procedure. Therefore, some level of post-surgical care is required. One of the best ways to prepare for surgery is to create a care plan prior to her breast enhancement procedure. A care plan may include creating or stocking up on pre-cooked meals for the family, making a recovery area that has everything she may need for the first few days of her recovery, and finding someone to take care of her small children and/or pets immediately after her breast augmentation in NYC. By preparing ahead of time, the patient can focus on her recovery.\nBreast Augmentation: The Day of Surgery\nBreast augmentation is an outpatient procedure that is performed while the patient is under general anesthesia. Since patients are anesthetized, they will need a responsible adult to escort them home once their surgery is complete. Breast implant surgery usually lasts 45-60 minutes, and the patient will be observed for an additional 1-2 hours after surgery prior to being released. If multiple procedures are being performed during the same surgical session, the length of the procedure increases. \u200b\u200b\nBreast Augmentation: Incision Placement Options\nTypically, one of three incisions are used during a breast augmentation procedure. Incision placement is determined by a variety of factors. During the breast augmentation procedure, Dr. Naidu takes great care to camouflage any incisions she creates within the natural folds of the armpit and breast or around the areola.\nBreast Augmentation: The 3 Incisions Commonly Used\nIncision options for a breast augmentation include the:\nPeri-areolar Incision \u2013 placed between the pigmented skin of the nipple-areolar complex and the breast skin.\nInfra-mammary Incision \u2013 created within the crease that is located at the base of the breast.\nAxillary Incision \u2013 placed within the armpit.\nDr. Naidu takes great care to conceal the incisions within the natural folds of the armpit or breast, or within the border of the areola. While the incisions will be quite visible following surgery, they will fade with time.\n\u200b\u200bBreast Augmentation: What to Expect Immediately Following Your Surgery\nPrior to leaving the recovery area, detailed instructions about recovery will be provided. Dr. Naidu recommends that patients take a 2-3 hour nap after returning home, and then have something to eat with their pain medication. They may shower the same day to remove any markings left on the skin. Patients should then begin to perform gentle arm exercises which will be described in detail. By returning to gentle, controlled activity quickly, patients will note a shorter and less uncomfortable recovery time.\u200b\nAbout Breast Augmentation Surgery in NYC with Dr. Naidu\nDuring your consultation, Dr. Naidu will explain her surgical plan. You will know the location of your incisions, the type of implant, and how your implants will be positioned.\nDr. Naidu commonly uses one of three incision placements. Her choice is largely dependent on patient goals (including whether you will be breastfeeding in the future). These incisions are the infra-mammary incision (located at the crease beneath the breast), the peri-areolar incision (located at the border between the breast skin and the pigmented skin of the nipple-areolar complex) and the axillary incision (located within the armpit).\nAs much as possible, incisions are hidden in the natural folds of the breasts or armpit, or around the areola. Dr. Naidu provides patients with silicone scar cream to be used on the incisions for four to six weeks following surgery. In addition, using vitamin E oil can help scars to remain soft and flat. Incisions will fade over time.\nBreast Augmentation: Recovery\nRecovering from a breast augmentation in NYC\nOnce the surgery is complete, patients will remain in the recovery area for 1-2 hours. Prior to leaving the recovery area, detailed instructions will be provided. Dr. Naidu recommends that patients take a 2-3 hour nap after returning home, and then have something to eat with their pain medication. They may shower the same day to remove any markings left on the skin. Patients should then begin to perform gentle arm exercises which will be described in detail. By returning to gentle, controlled activity quickly, patients will note a shorter and less uncomfortable recovery time.\nPatients will be seen in the office 2-3 days following surgery. This is a brief visit to ensure that recovery is progressing well. Patients will be provided with silicone gel strips or a cream to reduce scarring.\nAny tenderness should resolve a few days after the breast augmentation procedure.\nPatients should avoid strenuous activity, heavy lifting, and sexual activity for at least two weeks after their breast augmentation with Dr. Naidu.\nTo learn more about the breast enhancement procedures available, call (212) 452-1230 and make an appointment with board-certified plastic and reconstructive surgeon Dr. Nina S. Naidu. Dr. Naidu\u2019s NYC office is located at 1021 Park Avenue. We are open from 9 am to 5 pm on Monday-Thursday and from 9 am to 3 pm on Fridays.\n\u200bBreast Augmentation: Potential Risks\nThe risks associated with breast enhancement procedures will be discussed during the consultation. Some of these risks include infection, bleeding, and scarring. Risks that are specific to a breast augmentation include rippling, rupture, and capsular contracture.\n\u200bBreast Augmentation: Reducing the Risk of Complications\nChoosing an experienced, skilled, board-certified plastic and reconstructive surgeon can reduce the likelihood of a complication. Furthermore, following Dr. Naidu\u2019s recommendations, providing her with a thorough medical history and following the pre-operative and post-operative instructions will also decrease the likelihood of complications.\nBreast Augmentation: Costs\nThe costs associated with a breast augmentation vary, however, following the initial consultation, Dr. Naidu will be able to determine the exact cost of a patient\u2019s procedure. Since breast augmentation procedures are considered cosmetic, they are not covered by health insurance companies.\nUltimately, the decision to move forward with any procedure is made by the patient, and Dr. Nina S. Naidu and her medical staff will never pressure a patient into scheduling a procedure. If the patient decides to have a breast augmentation, a pre-surgical consultation will be scheduled.\u200b\u200b\n\u200bBreast Augmentation: A Custom-Tailored Procedure\nDr. Nina S. Naidu creates a surgical plan for each of her breast augmentation patients which is specifically designed to meet the patient\u2019s needs. Once the physical examination has been completed, Dr. Naidu will be able to describe in detail what the patient\u2019s breast enhancement procedure will entail. If the patient is a good candidate for a breast augmentation, she will discuss the type of implant, incision location and implant position that she believes will provide the patient with the beautiful breasts that she desires. Furthermore, if Dr. Nina S. Naidu \u200b\u200bbelieves that a combination of procedures or a different procedure will provide the patient with optimal results, she will discuss these options as well.\nChoosing Dr. Naidu for Breast Augmentation in NYC\nAesthetic and reconstructive surgery of the breast comprise a large part of Dr. Naidu\u2019s NYC surgical practice. She has a special interest in breast augmentation and in reconstruction of the tuberous breast. Since 2006, Dr. Naidu has served as a clinical investigator in the Breast Implant Follow-Up Studies (BIFS) trials. She offers her patients the full range of breast implants.\nSchedule a Breast Augmentation Consultation in NYC\nOur office is located at 1021 Park Avenue in NYC. If you\u2019d like to learn more about breast augmentation \u2013 and whether it is right for you \u2013 please call our office at 212-452-1230 and schedule an appointment.\nBreast augmentation is performed to enhance the size of the breasts. A woman\u2019s breasts may be congenitally small or asymmetric, or they may have changed following pregnancy or weight loss. Breast augmentation can produce a more feminine size and shape to the breasts while maintaining a natural look and feel. Most women report an improved self-image following breast augmentation surgery.\nBreast Augmentation Consultation in NYC with Dr. Naidu\nDuring your initial consultation with Dr. Naidu in her New York City office, she will discuss with you your desires and expectations from surgery. Dr. Naidu will perform a complete medical history and an examination of the skin and soft tissue of the breasts. The most important measurements are the base width of your breasts and the amount of existing breast tissue, as these factors will determine the optimal size and location for your implants. The risks and benefits of surgery will be discussed with you, and Dr. Naidu\u2019s assistant will provide you with scheduling and financial information.\nA second consultation is scheduled once a patient has decided to undergo surgery. At this time the implant size is selected based upon the measurements taken. The patient is offered sizers to try on which correspond to these measurements. Dr. Naidu will spend as much time with you as you need to determine the best shape and size for your body frame while respecting your desires as to your cosmetic results. At this visit the necessary paperwork for surgery is also completed, and preoperative photographs are taken. These photographs are an important part of your surgical planning, and are considered a part of your medical record. They are never shown to other patients without your written permission. Women over the age of 35 years or with a family history of breast cancer will be scheduled for a screening mammogram prior to breast augmentation surgery.\nSilicone and Saline Breast Implants in NYC with Dr. Nina Naidu\nAs of November 17, 2006, both silicone and saline implants are approved by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for use in cosmetic and reconstructive surgery of the breasts. Silicone implants are made of a thick cohesive gel, and are filled by the manufacturer prior to implantation in the operating room. Although silicone implants received a significant amount of negative press in the early 1990\u2019s, numerous well-designed studies since that time have failed to show any increased risk of breast cancer or connective tissue disease. Saline implants consist of a silicone shell and are filled with a salt-water solution. These are not filled until after they have been placed in the breast during surgery. Although Dr. Naidu offers both types of implants in her practice, the overwhelming majority of her patients have opted for silicone implants since their re-approval in 2006. In March 2012, shaped silicone implants from Sientra became available, and in February 2013, highly-cohesive (\u201cgummy bear\u201d) implants were introduced by Allergan into the US market. The Ideal Implant, a saline implant with multiple silicone shells, was approved for clinical use in 2014. Dr. Naidu is an investigator in the Breast Implant Follow-up Study (BIFS), a large-scale, post-approval study which supplements the data already accumulated on silicone breast implants. For more information on this study, please visit www.bifs.us.\nBoth silicone and saline implants come in different sizes, shapes, and textures. Dr. Naidu typically uses smooth round implants for cosmetic breast augmentation in order to produce a natural shape. For some patients, textured teardrop-shaped, or anatomic, implants are a better fit. Size is determined by your tissue characteristics and the measurements of your chest wall. In general, a specific range of sizes fits best into each patient. The implant profile refers to how much projection from the breast wall the implant will give you. All three of the major manufacturers of breast implants in the United States make implants which have low, medium, and high projection. The choice of implant projection is determined by both your wishes as a patient and your anatomy. For example, implants with a high profile have a smaller diameter, and therefore these are well-suited for a woman with a small breast width who desires large breasts with fullness at the superior aspect of the breast.\nBreast Augmentation Procedure in NYC with Dr. Nina Naidu\nDuring surgery, the incision for placement of the implant may be made at the edge of the nipple-areolar complex on the breast (peri-areolar), within the armpit (transaxillary), or beneath the breast at the crease (inframammary). Dr. Naidu most frequently uses the inframammary incision as this incision provides excellent access to the breast tissue and tends to heal very well. The implants are placed either behind the pectoralis muscle on the chest (subpectoral), or behind the breast tissue (subglandular). Patients with very little native breast tissue generally will have their implants placed in the subpectoral position to provide a natural shape with camouflage of the implant edges. The procedure takes 45 minutes to 1 hour to perform and is done on an outpatient basis at an ambulatory surgery center.\nImmediately following surgery small pieces of tape are placed over the incisions. Drains, pumps, and support bras are not used. A soft bra without an underwire may be worn the following day if desired. Most swelling will resolve within one month, and the breasts will achieve their final shape and size within six months. You should expect to remain out of work for 3-4 days. Light activity including walking is permitted and encouraged immediately following surgery. Heavy exercise, lifting, and sexual activity should be avoided for two weeks following surgery. You may return to chest exercises six weeks after surgery.\nConsultations in NYC with Dr. Naidu\nTo request a consultation, please call Dr. Naidu 212-452-1230 or visit her office at 1021 Park Avenue, New York, NY 10028\nDr. Nina Naidu \u2013 NYC Breast Augmentation Surgeon\nDr. Nina S. Naidu is a NYC breast augmentation surgeon who is known for her kindness, integrity and commitment to patient safety. Her office is conveniently located at 1021 Park Avenue in NYC. Dr. Naidu performs breast augmentation surgery on women from NYC and around the world who seek breast augmentation for both aesthetic and reconstructive purposes.\nBecause breasts are such an important part of a woman\u2019s femininity, breast augmentation can transform a woman\u2019s body and her self-confidence. However it is important to remember that breast augmentation is also a surgical procedure. Dr. Naidu\u2019s goal is to safely perform breast augmentation and to help patients look and feel their very best.\nTo do this, NYC breast augmentation surgeon Dr. Nina Naidu spends a great deal of time with her patients during their consultations. Patients are treated with kindness and respect, whether they are undergoing a reconstructive or a cosmetic procedure. It is Dr. Naidu\u2019s goal for each consultation to be as educational as possible, without pressure to schedule a procedure. Her recommendations will help you reach your aesthetic goals, without compromising your safety.\nDr. Naidu offers her patients NYC breast augmentation surgery patients the full range of breast implants that are available. These implants include saline implants; silicone gel implants; and anatomic, highly-cohesive gel implants. Dr. Naidu is also one of only nine NYC breast augmentation surgeons to offer the Ideal\u00ae Implant. The structure of the Ideal\u00ae Implant \u2014 a series of nested silicone shells that contain saline chambers \u2013\u2013 provides a more natural feel.\nAesthetic and reconstructive surgery of the breast comprise a large part of NYC breast augmentation surgeon Dr. Naidu\u2019s surgical practice. She has a special interest in breast augmentation, and in reconstruction of the tuberous breast. Since 2006, Dr. Naidu has served as a clinical investigator in the Breast Implant Follow-Up Studies (BIFS) trials.\nDr. Naidu completed her undergraduate studies at The Johns Hopkins University and obtained her medical degree from Cornell University Medical College. After completing her general surgery and plastic surgery training at New York Presbyterian \u2013 Weill Cornell Medical Center, she performed an additional year of fellowship training at the University of Pennsylvania. Dr. Naidu is Board Certified by the American Board of Plastic Surgery and is a Clinical Assistant Professor of Surgery at Weill Cornell Medical College. In 2008, she launched her own skin care line, Anokha, a natural line formulated from botanicals and actives native to South Asia. 10% of proceeds from sales of Anokha are donated to M\u00e9decins Sans Fronti\u00e8res/Doctors Without Borders.\nNYC breast augmentation surgeon Dr. Naidu is an active member of the American Society of Plastic Surgeons, the International Society of Aesthetic Plastic Surgeons, and is a Fellow of the American College of Surgeons. She is a member of the Associate Editorial Boardreviewer for the international aesthetic journal, Aesthetic Plastic Surgery. Dr. Naidu maintains privileges at several prominent New York hospitals including New York Presbyterian Hospital \u2013 Weill Cornell Medical Center; Manhattan Eye, Ear, & Throat Hospital; and Lenox Hill Hospital.\nDr. Nina S. 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H&I Contact Information\nMaine Narcotics Anonymous is a fellowship of recovering drug addicts who have come together to solve their common problem of addiction. We apply a program of recovery with a single and profound promise: freedom from active addiction.\nThis website serves the Maine Area of Narcotics Anonymous (MASCNA) and the Eastern Maine Area of Narcotics Anonymous (EMASCNA)\nThink you might have a drug problem?\nIf you think you might have a problem with drugs we encourage you to attend an NA meeting. You can view times and locations of meetings here or by clicking on \u201cmeetings\u201d at the top of the page. Although some meetings are listed as closed to non-addicts, if you are wondering if you are an addict you are invited to attend ANY meeting whether it is closed or not. You don\u2019t have to be a member, but if there is a part of you that wants to stop using drugs then you already meet the requirements for membership in NA. 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The group atmosphere provides help from peers and offers an ongoing support network for addicts who wish to pursue and maintain a drug-free lifestyle.\nOur name, Narcotics Anonymous, is not meant to imply a focus on any particular drug; NA\u2019s approach makes no distinction among drugs including alcohol. Membership is free, and we have no affiliation with any organizations outside of NA including governments, religions, law enforcement groups, or medical and psychiatric associations. Through all of our service efforts and our cooperation with others seeking to help addicts, we strive to reach a day when every addict in the world has an opportunity to experience our message of recovery in his or her own language and culture.\nFor more information about NA please visit other NA websites. 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The 32-year-old striker is expected to make his debut for the Red Bulls in a home friendly on July 22 against English Premier League club Tottenham Hotspur. It is without question that Thierry Henry is one of the most successful and recognisable soccer players over the past 15 years, said Dietmar Beiersdorfer, head of Red Bull global soccer. We are thrilled that Thierry has decided to come to New York to help the Red Bulls compete for championships this year and for years to come. His international pedigree is second to none and he is a proven winner. Henry, who signed the multi-year contract after leaving Spanish champions Barcelona, added: This marks an exciting new chapter in my career and life. It is an honour to play for the New York Red Bulls. I am fully aware of the teams history and my sole goal during my time here is to help win the club its first championship. Knowing Red Bulls significant commitment to soccer locally and internationally, I am confident that my teammates and I will succeed. Henry, a World Cup winner with France in 1998 and European champion in 2000, joined Barcelona in 2007 from Premier League club Arsenal, where he had established himself as one of the top strikers in the world. But he lost his first-team place with Barca last season, scoring just three goals in 20 matches. He also played only a cameo role in his countrys disastrous World Cup campaign in South Africa, where they failed to get past the group stages amid bitter in-fighting. Henry, who previously also played club football for Juventus and Monaco, has scored a national-record 51 goals and earned 123 caps for his country. Thierry is not only a world class player who will undoubtedly improve our squad, but he has shown most importantly throughout his career that he is a winner, said Red Bulls sporting director Erik Soler. He has made it clear to us that he is committed in the short and long term to help in our vision of making our organisation the premium franchise in Major League Soccer. Henrys trophy cabinet boasts medals from six competitions won with Barca the Champions League, La Liga (twice), the Kings Cup, Spanish Supercup, UEFA Supercup and the FIFA Club World Cup. The French marksman was the top scorer in the English top flight a record four times (2002, 2004-06) and helped his club win the Premier League in 2002 and 2004. 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If you can get scalp care and health right, you can be about 90% assured that you will get optimal and healthy hair growth.* Let\u2019s get into it- Drink a lot of water \u2013 I can\u2019t say\u2026", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00240.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 82, + "original_length": 2135, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.95, + "perplexity": 246.1, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "https://nearthespeedoflight.com/article/2016_12_02_fake_news_on_social_networks", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T04:19:10Z", + "digest": "sha1:VL7Y5VEZXFDO53UFCSMLMVYL6S2K3LTQ", + "length": 3991, + "nlines": 24, + "source_domain": "nearthespeedoflight.com", + "title": "Fake News on Social Networks - Speed of Light by Jason Brennan", + "raw_content": "Fake News on Social Networks\nManton Reece wrote a nice post last week about Fake news on Instagram:\nTwitter has retweets. Facebook has sharing. But Instagram has no built-in reposting. On Instagram, there\u2019s no instantaneous way to share someone else\u2019s post to all of your followers. [\u2026]\nWhen you have to put a little work into posting, you take it more seriously. I wonder if fake news would have spread so quickly on Facebook if it was a little more difficult to share an article before you\u2019ve read more than the headline. [\u2026]\nI don\u2019t think it\u2019s unique to photos, thankfully! As Manton describes, conscious decisions by Instagram encouraged certain behaviours above others, and I think you can do that no matter what your social network\u2019s primary content is. Let\u2019s look at this in a bit more detail.\nFirst, it\u2019s important to get to the real meat of what\u2019s going on when we talk about \u201cfake news.\u201d This is distinct from just inaccurate information (although that\u2019s a part of it). What\u2019s going on is really disinformation, better known as propaganda.\nAside from the normal reasons propaganda exists, it exists on social networks like Facebook and Twitter because it can exist on those networks. It\u2019s profitable and useful for the parties manufacturing and disseminating it. To Facebook and Twitter, upon whose networks it propagates, it doesn\u2019t really matter what the information is so long as it engages users. Facebook\u2019s apathy to propaganda is regularly exploited.\nDesign Around It\nSo how could Facebook, Twitter, or a microblog network prevent it? The obvious first step is to use the tools which already work.\nFacebook prohibits nudity on its platform and seems to have tools to defend against it (some combination of user flagging and automated tools). It should do the same for propaganda. Yes, it\u2019s harder to recognize than nudity, but that\u2019s not an excuse for not doing it. This is a starting point.\nThe next step is to design the interface to prevent it.\nMaybe don\u2019t let users retweet / share something with a link in it if they haven\u2019t actually, you know, clicked the link. I bet this would be an easy win at curbing the spread of propaganda.\nFor anything that gets past that, give users tools to help them reason about the content they\u2019re seeing. Do people routinely report this content as fake / propaganda? Show it. Who is sharing this and how often do they share propaganda? Show it.\nGet readers to evaluate what they\u2019re seeing and sharing. You read it, what did you think about it? Why? Let other readers evaluate those answers.\nYour user interface can encourage thoughtfulness or it can encourage mindlessness. But that is choice you make when designing your interface.\nEric Meyer\u2019s fantastic xoxo talk about media and their lack of neutrality. He\u2019s also co-written (along with Sara Watcher-Boettcher) a book on the subject.\nI\u2019ve yet to read the book, but he\u2019s published a great essay about the same topic, and Sara has posted essays about it here and here.\nBret Victor\u2019s Inventing on Principle describes an approach to creating software according to principles, not innovation.\nPretty much all of Joe Edelman\u2019s work. And what the hell, the Time Well Spent movement has some good starting points, too.\nJason Brennan Dec 2, 2016 at 11:33 AM \u2691 \u221e\nHey look at that, some people are taking matters into their own hands, a context-providing BS detector.\nB.S. Detector is a rejoinder to Mark Zuckerberg's dubious claims that Facebook is unable to substantively address the proliferation of fake news on its platform. A browser extension for both Chrome and Mozilla-based browsers, B.S. Detector searches all links on a given webpage for references to unreliable sources, checking against a manually compiled list of domains. It then provides visual warnings about the presence of questionable links or the browsing of questionable websites\nNow imagine amplifying that with a network the size of Facebook.\nSee also Neil Postman\u2019s Crap Detector (from his fantastic book on education).", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00240.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 39, + "original_length": 4562, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.94, + "perplexity": 337.9, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "https://neilpatel.com/blog/5-awful-landing-pages/", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T03:12:54Z", + "digest": "sha1:U3YEKC7R4EY6TFGKX66L2PIMXJYO7HBP", + "length": 8689, + "nlines": 75, + "source_domain": "neilpatel.com", + "title": "5 Truly Awful Landing Pages You Won\u2019t Believe are from Well-Known Companies", + "raw_content": "5 Truly Awful Landing Pages You Won\u2019t Believe are from Well-Known Companies\nHome \u00bb Blog \u00bb Conversion Rate Optimization \u00bb 5 Truly Awful Landing Pages You Won\u2019t Believe are from Well-Known Companies\nThe biggest companies in the world should have the budget for a great landing page, right?\nWell, if you thought that, you\u2019d be wrong.\nOftentimes, the biggest conglomerates struggle to create compelling landing pages. Their conversion rates are far from perfect.\nAnd despite multi-million-dollar budgets, they can\u2019t seem to create a simple, easy-to-use website.\nInstead of clear calls to action and a high opt-in rate, what you ultimately get is a lot of customers shrugging and giving up in sheer frustration\nHere are some puzzling and unusual landing pages you won\u2019t believe are built and run by the world\u2019s largest companies.\n1. Delta SkyMiles\nIf you Google \u201cSkyMiles,\u201d this is the first page that shows up.\nOf course, I\u2019d assume someone searching for Delta\u2019s signature loyalty program is interested in becoming a member, but this landing page doesn\u2019t make that easy.\nFirst off, there is no signup button above the fold. You have to scroll down to find the \u201cApply Now\u201d link. The large photo is beautiful, but it\u2019s not worth over half the screen real estate.\nTo make matters worse, there\u2019s a confusing sidebar menu that takes up almost a third of the page. It\u2019s confusing\u2014it\u2019s almost a combination of a landing and FAQ page.\nOf course, that\u2019s just an odd and puzzling combination. It combines marketing information about the product, along with technical details for current members.\nThe lesson to learn here? If you\u2019re going to create a page for people interested in your product or service, explain the benefits clearly and quickly, and put a call to action up top.\nOkay, perhaps I\u2019m cheating a little bit with this one because it\u2019s not really a landing page.\nBut still, if you click on the ad on Google for \u201cXfinity Mobile,\u201d it goes straight to\u2026 an error page?\nA little research on the ad in Ahrefs shows that this is indeed the URL.\nIncredibly, Xfinity is showing this ad to about one-third of a million people each month, and paying $2 per click.\nI guess when your parent company spends over $5 billion a year on advertising, you can afford to throw away money.\nAnd when you\u2019re running over 12,000 Google Ads as Ahrefs says, a few can slip through the cracks.\nBut it still brings up so many questions. How long has this been an error page? Was the ad directed here intentionally, or did someone just take down the page?\nAnd if someone took down the page, do the advertising team and landing page teams not talk to each other before deleting pages?\nNeedless to say, the lesson to learn here is to make sure that your landing page actually works. Otherwise, you\u2019re just wasting time and money.\n3. Cruise.com\nHere\u2019s the homepage for Cruise.com, which is one of the first results for the Google search \u201ccruise.\u201d\nWith so many people looking to learn more about cruises, why doesn\u2019t Cruise.com make this easy? Instead, the homepage is cluttered with a thousand things to see and do.\nIf you\u2019ve just come here, there\u2019s no single action to take. For example, most airline homepages have a form to help you choose a flight.\nHere, the equivalent search is squeezed into a corner.\nPlus, there isn\u2019t a consistent call to action.\nIn addition to booking a cruise online, they want me to call them, sign up for their email list, and visit their Facebook, Twitter, Google Plus, Pinterest, and YouTube pages.\nPlus, there\u2019s an ad for an unrelated product in the sidebar.\nThe lesson here\u2014keep your homepage simple. Decide what the single most important user action is, and focus everything on that.\nOh, and if you sell a product and you\u2019re tempted to put an ad on your landing page, ask yourself: would you sell a potential buyer for a dollar?\nBecause that\u2019s essentially what an ad is doing\u2014paying you to divert traffic away from your site.\nNow, usually, I love Apple\u2019s landing pages. They\u2019re sleek, professional, and well-designed. But this is really inexcusable.\nIf you Google \u201citunes movie,\u201d this is the top ad result.\nIt\u2019s a simple ad that explains what you\u2019ll get. But if you click on the link, it takes you to a landing page that can hardly be called a landing page.\nInstead, it\u2019s a list of dozens of movie genres, everything from \u201cMusicals\u201d to \u201cConcert Films\u201d to \u201cTurkish.\u201d\nIt\u2019s exactly what I\u2019d expect if I clicked on \u201cbrowse movies\u201d in iTunes, but straight from Google, it\u2019s downright confusing.\nHow do I start playing a movie? Does this connect to iTunes somehow? Where is the explanation of what\u2019s going on?\nBut let\u2019s play along and select \u201cAction & Adventure.\u201d\nNow, we get a list of what appears to be every single title in the genre on iTunes. There are no pictures, no ratings, and again no explanation.\nLet\u2019s click \u201cMission Impossible: Fallout\u201d just to see where this ends up.\nThere we go\u2014some information about the movie, a description, and ratings from different sources.\nBut the call to action? \u201cView in iTunes.\u201d Clicking that link asks if I want to open iTunes on my computer, then pulls up a similar preview page in the app.\nPerhaps I\u2019m missing the point, but if I already know how to browse films in the app, wouldn\u2019t I have just gone there first?\nIf I\u2019m searching, doesn\u2019t that mean I\u2019m looking for an explanation, promotion, or details\u2014not just an online version of the app?\nWhen designing your landing pages, make it clear what the user gets in the end. Don\u2019t force a visitor to keep clicking, all the time wondering where things are leading.\nThey probably won\u2019t stick around that long.\nI\u2019ll give Chase a little bit of slack here. To be fair, they don\u2019t know what someone coming to their homepage is really looking for.\nBut couldn\u2019t they take a few guesses, and simplify the options?\nRight now, there are no fewer than eight different calls to action, with everything from signing in as an existing user to applying for a car loan.\nA better version of this page might be to focus on one call to action, like opening an account and have a smaller \u201cSign In\u201d link in the menu.\nRight now, Chase is trying to help everyone do everything, and as a result, it doesn\u2019t really accomplish much.\nThe takeaway? Choose a single user action\u2014even on your homepage\u2014and optimize for that.\nSure, you can include links to other features. But if you\u2019re promoting everything, you\u2019re promoting nothing.\nHow to create a landing page that stands out and converts\nStudying the landing pages of some of the world\u2019s biggest companies can be fun, but it\u2019s only a valuable exercise if you take something away from it and use it to improve your work.\nSo, what lessons can we learn from these pages?\nFirst, have a clear goal in mind. A landing page that isn\u2019t directed toward a single, specific action isn\u2019t a landing page, and it won\u2019t convert like one.\nIf you\u2019re not sure what this would look like, imagine the one action you\u2019d want the user to take. Perhaps this is downloading a report, entering their contact info, or calling you.\nSecond, implement the basic principles of design. This means using research on user behavior to improve conversions.\nFor example, make your call-to-action buttons prominent and make them visible soon after the user visits the page. Put important buttons and benefits near the top of the page.\nUse appealing images with people\u2019s faces, attractive product photography, and design elements that fit together.\nNext, understand the visitor\u2019s frame of mind. Tie the landing page into the ad you\u2019re promoting, and make sure it makes sense.\nThe last thing you want to do is confuse a possible lead or customer.\nConfusion usually means a poor conversion rate, so ensure your ad and landing page are as clear as possible and directly tied together.\nFinally, make sure your landing page works! This should seem like common sense, but if you\u2019ve included a dead link or are sending visitors to a 404 page, you\u2019re wasting money.\nCheck, double-check, and check again to make sure that your page is working. Keep testing to refine and tweak your landing page for better conversions and sales.\nStudying internet marketing, and want to learn from the best?\nWell, sometimes \u201cthe best\u201d doesn\u2019t mean the biggest or most impressive. Oftentimes, the bigger the company, the less attention they give to every single landing page.\nBut of course, those small details do matter\u2014especially for those of us spending less than a few million a year on advertising.\nThankfully, there\u2019s a lot we can learn from these giant companies. 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The class meet the student to talk about what it is like to study languages at University, why they chose languages, and about their year abroad. While abroad, the student keeps in regular contact with the class, which brings the language alive for the pupils and shows them the relevance of studying a language. After their year abroad, the student gives another presentation to the class about their experiences.", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00240.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 71, + "original_length": 2453, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.97, + "perplexity": 305.7, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "https://neoreach.com/top-athlete-influencers/", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T04:13:04Z", + "digest": "sha1:ZG6ACNQ7LVX347TI34TX5N33M7WRSMYG", + "length": 7159, + "nlines": 25, + "source_domain": "neoreach.com", + "title": "Top Athlete Influencers | NeoReach | Influencer Marketing Platform Top Athlete Influencers | NeoReach | Influencer Marketing Platform", + "raw_content": "By Avery HallJanuary 24, 2018 No Comments\nYour favorite athlete may not be featured on ESPN\u2019s standardized television schedule. NeoReach\u2019s carefully selected the top 10 list of today\u2019s buzzing athlete influencers on the Internet.\nThis list has ultimate frisbee enthusiasts and skillful cheerleaders and ambitious basketball players and trickshot specialists.\nMeet Angel Rice: a talented young adult who is undoubtedly one of the world\u2019s best gymnasts. She successfully represented the U.S. in several national and international competitions.\nAngel appeared on the Steve Harvey Show, The Today Show, and broken the Guinness World Record for the most double-twists in one minute. Angel stays on top of her Instagram account with daily posts of her tumbling skills, selfies, and life updates. Her audience mainly consisting of 17 to 19-years-old females. Most of her followers live in Georgia, Texas, California, and Florida. They associate with popular brands such as Victoria\u2019s Secret, Starbucks, and Instagram.\nKelsey works as an avid Dallas Cowboys cheerleader. She creates spunky Youtube videos with her glowing personality. Currently, she is dating Brodie Smith (who is also on our list). Holding her own, she has 1.5 million followers total.\nTogether, the two make a great pair and attract a variety of viewers with a majority of their followers being single females and 48% of their overall followers being aged 20-24 years old. Likely to assume her followers will grow up with her. A majority of Kelsey\u2019s followers reside in her home-state, Texas. Then the rest living in California and Florida coming up close behind. Her followers affiliate with top brands including Starbucks, Victoria\u2019s Secret, and ESPN.\nLarry Williams a.k.a. Bone Collector holds 1.1M followers over all platforms. The Bone Collector recognized as the most dangerous streetball player because of his gruesome ability to break his opponent\u2019s ankles. Larry\u2019s unusual skills but mastery attracts a variety of viewers. Most of whom reside in California and New York. YouTube has many audience tracking abilities compared to other platforms so creators can know their audience.\nHis Youtube channel mainly contains videos of his best basketball performances, especially his 3-on-3 games and his trademark: ankle-breaking. NeoReach\u2019s found nearly half of Larry\u2019s followers are 20-24 years old. His followers affiliate with top brands such as Nike, ESPN, Foot Locker, Adidas, and Under Armour.\nConsidering their videos\u2019 appearances on Sportscenter, ESPN, Fox Sports, Times Square, and NBA arenas, the Legendary Shots team definitely deserves a spot on our list. Carson, Christian, Jeff, Chase, Bryan, Barret, Jeffrey, Alex, and Phil are the creators behind the channel\u2019s trick shot videos, which obtain from 100,000 to 7.7 million views per post.\nLegendary Shots\u2019 most viewed video is called \u201cThe World\u2019s Farthest Basketball Shot\u201d. This video captures the boys throwing a basketball from the top of the Vulcan monument in Alabama and perfectly landing the ball in a hoop placed at the bottom. NeoReach identified 53% of Legendary Shots or 1 million followers are aged 17-19 years old.\nKalani Ahmad is his name and basketball is his game. Kalani\u2019s skills blow minds, especially his juggling and dribbling videos. Kalani racked up 1.5 million overall followers. This influence landed him an appearance on \u201cAmerica\u2019s Got Talent\u201d.\nKalani preaches his \u201cSPIN\u201d acronym, standing for Strive, Positive, Imagine, and Never Give Up. He uses his platform to influence positivity and to motivate kids to achieve their dreams. Kalani\u2019s audience consists of single males who live in California and Texas. 70% of his followers are 17-24 years old and associated with top brands such as Nike, ESPN, and Adidas.\nIf you are looking for a truly daring and adventurous soul, look up Jack Tenney. Jack is a professional skimboarder & longboarder. His videos range from 100,000 views to several million views. His most popular upload is a prank compilation called \u201cGhillie Suit Golf Course Air Horn Best Moments\u201d \u2013 peaking at 2.2 million views.\nJack\u2019s spunky, humorous, and spontaneous personality is highlighted across his Youtube and Instagram profiles. Dominating big states such as Florida, California, and Texas, Jack\u2019s reach extends from east to west coast and comprises of mostly 17 to 19-year-old males.\nThanks to Gabi\u2019s cheerleading tutorials and team performance videos. She landed relationship with the world-renowned \u201cCheer Athletics Wildcats\u201d association.\nUsing NeoReach, we identified she attracts an audience of 17 to 19-year-olds. Looking at all her followers, 92% of them are female. Gabi and her team have won many National Championship titles which boosted her popularity in the cheerleading realm. Her reach extends outside of the United States with a large audience pool residing in the United Kingdom.\nBecause of her influence, Gabi travels across the United States. She teaches cheer clinics alongside other well-known cheerleaders. Most of Gabi\u2019s followers live in California, Texas, and New York.\nBrodie Smith is an avid ultimate frisbee specialist. He uploads frisbee trick shots in abstract places, encompassing videos taken in the desert, ocean, and international places he traveled to. His videos feature other recognized YouTubers and athletes, including Tom Brodie and Vernon Davis.\nBrodie\u2019s athletic girlfriend, Kelsey Lowrance (#9), is also highlighted on Brodie\u2019s channel in challenge-and-vlog-style videos. Brodie accumulated over 4 million followers across all social media handles with Youtube being his most prevailing platform. Most of his followers reside in the United States, with a majority of those followers living in Texas, California, and New York.\nGrayson Boucher \u2013 Professor Live is an American streetball player. Grayson accumulated quite the following across all social media platforms, specifically on Youtube he creates content for 61, 000 plus followers. Grayson lives and breathes basketball since he was 3 years old. His never-ending passion for the game is evidently expressed in every post he uploads.\nHis channel features basketball tutorials, motivational Q&As, one-on-one basketball games, and a comedic youtube series called Spiderman Basketball. A majority of Grayson\u2019s audience includes 20 to 24-year-old males. They associate with top brands like Nike, ESPN, and Foot Locker.\nAthlete Influencer #1:\nMeet Dude Perfect: a tight-knit group of friends who entertain their 47.5 million followers with a variety of trick shots and sports challenges. Dude Perfect\u2019s youtube channel features videos of them performing crazy challenges, like their \u201cFlip Edition\u201d video. This video features the boys flipping a multitude of objects and peaks approximately 62 million views.\nTheir videos attract an audience of single males with 43% of all followers aging between 17-19 years old. The boys have broken many Guinness World Records. They are proudly named the most subscribed sports channel on Youtube. 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He, his wife, Carolita, and I all had matching Fjallraven kanken backpacks in different colors. His was bright blue, and I can't remember what mine was at the time\u2014I've had a few. Mind you, this was before the Fjallraven craze, before the Soho store(s!), before you could buy these backpacks at J Crew. You had to get them in Europe! So the three of us were instantly bonded by our ahead-of-the-trend fashion choices. Anyway, Michael and Carolita were my first friends on the team, and brought much warmth and cheer to the games. Two years ago, they had me over to their beautiful apartment in Inwood, which you can see in pictures from this New York Times article, for spaghetti, and I got to see Michael's bright, beautiful, joyful paintings. I'm gonna miss this guy a lot.\nMichael Crawford. I'm heartbroken to learn that one of my favorite New Yorker cartoonists is losing the battle to cancer. He was the first person to be nice to me when I joined the new yorker softball team as an intern back in 2009, and when he learned that I was going to be spending the summer in cape cod, he gave me a watercolor set and told me I had to paint while I was there. He's raising money in order to live out his last days at home. If you can help, help.\n\"It's amazing what you can see once you get away from all that light pollution.\"\n\"It's amazing what you can see once you get away from all that light pollution.\". The night sky is full of all kind of wonders!\nIf you're willing to wait, the soup is always better on the second day.\nIf you're willing to wait, the soup is always better on the second day. Another ace in the hole from @Drew Dernavich. It's so true about soup! Check out the *THE MILQ Q+A: DREW DERNAVICH\n\"It says the cost of the flight went up because we acknowledged its existence.\"\n\"It says the cost of the flight went up because we acknowledged its existence.\". From this week's issue. Ha, yes, buying flights are the worst! Also, \"who farted?\" totally works here in a simple and sweet domestic way, like they're so close they don't even know if they farted or if it was their partner, just a casual convo while surfing the web.\nRap Wizard\nRap Wizard. I think \"deciphering rap lyrics\" is a euphemism for farting.\nMy favorite New Yorker cartoon\nMy favorite New Yorker cartoon. From August 3, 1998. \"Who farted?\" doesn't work because Piggy St. Peter always knows who farted.\n\"Go ahead, finish your beer.\"\n\"Go ahead, finish your beer.\". From August 3, 1998. \"Who farted?\" doesn't work because Piggy St. Peter always knows who farted.\n\"I feel like my best passwords are already behind me.\". This one's funny cuz it's true. \"Who farted?\" doesn't make sense here, but I'm still laughing anyway. It does always work!", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00240.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 65, + "original_length": 3483, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.98, + "perplexity": 324.6, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "https://newpercussionist.com/types-of-percussion-instruments/", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T03:58:56Z", + "digest": "sha1:QMJFNMVGT27VZKWN6ZIFWDPWUIDKPG6R", + "length": 6979, + "nlines": 35, + "source_domain": "newpercussionist.com", + "title": "Types of Percussion Instruments | New Percussionist", + "raw_content": "Percussion instruments refer to musical instruments sounded by striking, scraping, or shaking against another similar instrument. The materials used to make percussion instruments include metal, wood, or plastic, and they come in different sizes and shapes. There are two common classifications of percussion instruments:\nPitched percussion instruments, and unpitched percussion instruments. The later produce sounds and notes with an unidentifiable pitch, whereas the former produce notes with an identifiable pitch.\nWhen it comes to percussion instruments, most people tend to think of the drum. However, there are different types of percussion instruments from different parts of the world. Examples of percussion instruments include sticks, shakers, tambourines, maracas, xylophones, blocks, and bells.\nPercussion instruments add excitement and color by making special sounds and keeping the rhythm.\nThe following are the known types of percussion instruments:\nUntuned/Auxiliary Percussion\nPersian Percussion\nLatin/Afro-Caribbean Percussion\nAlso known as pitched percussion, tuned percussion instruments produce notes when struck. Instruments under tuned percussion are capable of producing a specific pitch and notated with normal music notation. Tuned percussion instruments find application in performing harmonic or melodic sections of a composition.\nThe most commonly used tuned percussion instruments include the glockenspiel, marimba, xylophone, tubular bells, and vibraphone. The form part of the percussion idiophones. These form part of the orchestral percussion.\nOther types of tuned percussion instruments include the timpani (struck membranophone), bell lyre, celeste, chimes, crotales, steel drums (percussion idiophone), and the antique cymbals (concussion idiophone).\nSome of the top tuned percussion instruments are:\nThe only difference between a xylophone instrument and the glockenspiel is that it has wooden keys. Tuned to a specific musical scale like diatonic, pentatonic, and diatonic, you can play it using either two or four-mallets in each hand. They help children understand musical terms, therefore, used mainly in classrooms.\nAlso known as orchestra bells, they are piano-based percussion instruments that often play over two octaves. You strike them using soft-ended mallets and stop the unwanted overtones using a pedal. They are the main instrument in the Futurama theme tune.\nMade from wooden keys and resonators that amplify the sound when struck by mallets. The aluminum tubes hanging below are the resonators that create a rich tone known for the marimba.\nHas a similar arrangement to the piano. It has metallic keys/plates. You can find them in orchestral percussions and marching percussion. They also come in different sizes.\nUntuned Percussion (Auxiliary Percussion)\nUntuned percussion instruments, also known as auxiliary percussion within the orchestra un-pitched percussion, are instruments that are incapable of producing a specific pitch. They have a normal rhythmic notation, but each instrument is on a separate line. Untuned percussion instruments find application in performing rhythmic foundations of a composition.\nThese instruments maintain a rhythm and have unrelated sounds to the harmony and melody of the music. Examples of untuned percussion instruments include the bass drum, claves, snare drum, claves, gong, suspended cymbal, tam-tam, tenor drum, wood block, triangle, tom-toms, agogo bells, flexaton, and tambourines among others.\nHowever, it is quite easy to mistake folk instruments and other world instruments as un-pitched. The failure to recognize the harmonic relationship of such instruments often leads to these instruments sounding bad at the hands of beginners.\nSuch instruments like the tabla and the dhol\u2019s bass head require tuning to match the pitch of a particular music. Furthermore, there are instruments that find use as both pitched and unpitched percussion in varying music pieces and styles.\nThese include the different types of bells. The user tunes (not to achieve any perceived pitch) most untuned percussion instruments, for instance, the snare drum.\nLatin/Afro-Caribbean and Persian Percussion\nIn addition to the two major types of percussion instruments, you can classify percussion instruments depending on the region of origin. Latin/Afro-Caribbean percussion instruments have their origins from Latin and Caribbean nations. Persian percussion instruments have their origin from Persian countries such as Iran.\nPercussion instruments from Persia often numerous and popular within the Persian nations. The rhythmic expression of these percussion instruments always laid emphasis on hand clapping, the earliest form of rhythmic accompaniment.\nThe Persian dulcimer and drum are some of the percussion instruments echoing the musical style of an age that instrumental sounds well capture. Persian percussion instruments include the following among others:\nAlso known by many other different names, this is a Persian goblet drum. You diagonally position this percussion instrument across the torso as you use a finger or more and the palm of your hands to play it.\nThis is a large drum from the Middle East used in classical and popular music. It has a hardwood frame with numerous metal ringlets and a goatskin membrane. It is common in the Middle East, Pakistan, India, and Afghanistan. It accompanies other Middle Eastern instruments such as the violin, oud, saz, and tanbur.\nThis is a medium-sized frame drum with jingles. The Dayereh is a popular and classical musical instrument used by the Iranians, Azerbaijan, the Balkans, and other Central Asian countries such as Tajikistan and Uzbekistan.\nOn the other hand, Latin percussion is any musical instrument in the percussion, lamellophone, idiophone, or membranophone family used in Latin music. The musical style used is mainly from the Latin American region, which has its influence from African tribal music.\nSome of the Latin/Afro-Caribbean percussion instruments include the bongo drums, cabasa, cowbell, conga, maracas, pandeiro, tamborim, zabumba, repique, djembe, dunun, and surdo among others.\nThe classification of percussion instrument bases itself on the ability of the instrument to produce a pitch. Thus, the two major types of percussion instruments are the tuned (pitched) and untuned (unpitched) percussion instruments.\nHowever, a few instruments fall into both categories. Instruments within the tuned and untuned percussion instruments can get their classification from their region of origin.\nTherefore, we have Persian (from Persia/Iran and the Middle East) percussion and Latin/Afro-Caribbean (from Latin American countries with their origin in African tribal music) among other regional instruments. 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The presentations, panel discussions and workshops are intended to give teachers new tools for the classroom.\n\u201cEngaging Our Students: Technology and Active Learning\u201d will be held 8:30 a.m. \u2013 4:30 p.m. July 24 and 8:30 a.m. \u2013 3 p.m. July 25. Breakfast and lunch are provided both days. The event will be held on both the UAMS Little Rock campus and the UAMS Northwest campus in Fayetteville via teleconference.\nOnline registration fees for the Little Rock conference on Thursday and Friday are $95. For students, the price is $45. One day\u2019s registration is $75 or $35 for students. For those who wait to pay on site, the cost is $100 per day or $130 for both days. For students, the cost on site is $50 per day or $65 for Thursday and Friday.\nFor Fayetteville, single-day registration is not available; registration for both days is $75 (students $45).\nThe online registration deadline is Wednesday, July 16 at 12:00 midnight.\nThe program and registration information are available at www.twtsymposium.com. For more information on the Little Rock location call Jan Hart at (501) 686-6751. For more information on the UAMS Northwest location, contact Victoria Miller at (479) 713-5121.\nKeynote speaker will be Mark Milliron, Ph.D., chief learning officer and director at Civitas Learning. Milliron will present \u201cChallenging Students to Step Up on the Pathway to Possibility through Education.\u201d\nTom Kuhlmann, vice president of Community at Articulate and host to more than 107,000 followers on his Rapid eLearning Blog, will lead off the second day with a presentation on how to re-think PowerPoint for use in e-learning.\nAttendees can choose from several different breakout sessions, including social media, active learning, interactive e-learning, learning styles, e-mentoring relationships and building online communities. Some sessions are designed to help with software and tools for teaching, while others will help educators apply different teaching styles and techniques. 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The event attracted nearly 2,000 participants, 250 volunteers and 50 booths of science- and math-based exhibits.\nExplorationWorks Science Center\nhttp://www.explorationworks.org/\nThe ExWorks Science Center in Helena is an interactive museum with exhibits, activities for young students, and partnerships with some of the coolest science centers on the planet; the website features information for teachers, adults, children, and volunteers.\nhttp://gsmw.org/\nThe Girl Scouts of Montana and Wyoming website features information about how to get involved in girl-led leadership activities in the great outdoors and your local community.\nMontana Girls STEM Collaborative Facebook page:\nhttp://www.facebook.com/MontanaGirlsSTEM\nMSU Extended University\nhttp://eu.montana.edu\nExtended University supports the land-grant mission of Montana State University by reaching beyond the traditional campus, classrooms, and academic programs to create unique learning environments and provide educational opportunities for individuals to meet their academic, professional, and lifelong learning goals.\nSpectrUM Discovery Area\nhttp://spectrum.umt.edu/\nThe spectrUM Discovery Area is an interactive science center, located at the University of Montana; the website links to information about summer programs, science podcasts, and events at the discovery center.\nStarbase Montana\nhttp://www.starbasedod.com/forkids\nThe Department of Defense sponsored Starbase Montana has awesome science links, news, and videos for young adults where you can learn about everything from humanoid robots to women aviators and ship design.", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00240.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 45, + "original_length": 2543, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.88, + "perplexity": 294.9, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "https://nickyforlife.com/blog/", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T04:05:13Z", + "digest": "sha1:4RK4H2WUUOLMKDRIM53VBAVICURCSYD2", + "length": 2175, + "nlines": 13, + "source_domain": "nickyforlife.com", + "title": "Blog | Nicky For Life", + "raw_content": "by Nicky | Jun 18, 2018 | Health and Lifestyle, Nicky For Life | 0 Comments\n\u201cTo be beautiful means to be yourself. You don\u2019t need to be accepted by others. You need to accept yourself.\u201d Thich Nhat Hanh The saying goes \"be yourself, everyone else is taken\" by Oscar Wilde. But why is it so hard sometimes to show up as we...\nby Nicky | Apr 17, 2018 | Family Life, Health and Lifestyle | 0 Comments\nWhen my Mum died I felt like I was the only person in the world who had lost her Mum and going through grief - even though I knew that wasn\u2019t true, not only was my sister going through this but one of my friends had lost her Mum a few years before too. ...\nby Nicky | Mar 14, 2018 | Strong Women | 0 Comments\nFor this feature strong women and nutrition have collided! Earlier this year one of my nutrition friends posted about a brand called Bare Biology. I\u2019m always on the hunt for good quality supplements (with supplements you really do pay for what you get) and...\nby Nicky | Mar 9, 2018 | Family Life | 3 Comments\nIt\u2019s that time of year, it\u2019s Mother\u2019s Day. And I always find the run up to Mother's Day a bit tricky. My Mum died nearly 11 years ago now, at a time when I wasn\u2019t sure if becoming a Mum would ever happen to me. And I\u2019m so grateful it did. But it also changed my...\nby Nicky | Jan 21, 2018 | Family Life, Health and Lifestyle | 0 Comments\nI\u2019ve finally succumbed to the winter cold. I\u2019ve been really proud of my immune system this winter, keeping me well whilst everyone around was ill. But finally it got me! I try and give in to it when I\u2019m not well but I find being ill and a Mum of two little...\nBreakfast has to be my favourite meals of the day. I love starting the day well with a good breakfast. But I know it can take some thinking about, especially first thing in the morning when perhaps you\u2019re getting the kids ready or trying to get out the...\nby Nicky | Jan 9, 2018 | Family Life | 4 Comments\nHello, it\u2019s me, Nicky. Remember me? I\u2019m the one you used to hang around with, the one that used to answer texts and respond to phone calls \u2026 I think I may have actually made phone calls too! The one that used to pop round at the drop of hat just to say...", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00240.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 104, + "original_length": 5995, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.97, + "perplexity": 333.1, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "https://nliworship.com/tag/babylon/", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T03:29:39Z", + "digest": "sha1:I2NLSGPKEJOWREIUAJAQSW5V4BNVKWNT", + "length": 5360, + "nlines": 11, + "source_domain": "nliworship.com", + "title": "babylon \u2013 NLI Ministries", + "raw_content": "Being A Christian In Babylon: Rebellion\nPosted on November 6, 2014 October 13, 2016 by Kyle Fuller\nIt is Submission, not rebellion that illustrates to the world the beauty of our Lord.\nBabylon. That place, that world system which the Bible portrays as being, at its very core, in opposition to God. How do you make sense of the inevitable suffering that comes with living in a culture that is diametrically opposed to everything you believe in? When you are without political influence, misunderstood, falsely accused, slandered, shunned, reviled, assaulted and even physically abused, how do you make sense of it all? How ought Christians to respond to this type of environment? Is the answer to be found in some form of assimilation (Being A Christian In Babylon: Assimilation )? Maybe isolation is the key (Being A Christian In Babylon: Isolation ). I think it\u2019s safe to say that we decided against those two responses. But we still have a third to consider before we go on to what I believe is the answer to being a Christian in Babylon. So, let\u2019s take a look at rebellion. Should we simply overthrow Babylon and take over the whole shebang?\nAs with assimilation and isolation, you have to agree that rebellion had to possibly be one of the things that crossed the minds of the Christian communities to whom Peter had written back in the mid-60s AD. The suffering we are just now beginning to suspect may come our way was their everyday reality. Surely the thought of rebellion had to enter some of their minds. After all: \u201cPeter, we are Christians. We know the truth and walk in the light. We could take over, infiltrate every facet of Babylonian culture, and use their own system to bring about righteousness and justice. How could we go wrong with Jesus as our King?\u201d I\u2019ll be that line of reasoning sounds eerily familiar to a lot of you. Hey, it doesn\u2019t sound that far fetched, really. And it definitely would put an end to suffering. But Peter advised them and us against rebellion, and even counsels for a totally opposite response- submission.\nNow, I realize that I just lost half of my American readers, but it is a disposition of submission (not rebellion) that Peter, that the Holy Spirit desires for Christians living in Babylon. Remember, Peter was writing to people living under the tyranny of Rome (Babylon). They had no say so whatsoever as to how things worked. Also, the culture in which these Christians lived had religiocultural activities in which they as disciples of Jesus could not participate. This made them outcasts of mainstream society. And in the midst of such tension, Peter says, \u201cSubmit.\u201d Say it aint so. Peter, you can\u2019t possibly mean that we are just supposed to take this abuse. Submit? You have to be out of your mind. Maybe they/we need to know what true submission is, and what it accomplishes.\nThough Peter uses governments, slaves, wives, husbands, and the Church itself as examples of submission, it is Jesus he portrays as the ultimate example of submission:\n\u201cFor to this you have been called, because Christ also suffered for you, leaving you an example, so that you might follow in his steps. He committed no sin, neither was deceit found in his mouth. When he was reviled, he did not revile in return; when he suffered, he did not threaten, but continued entrusting himself to him who judges justly. He himself bore our sins in his body on the tree, that we might die to sin and live to righteousness. By his wounds you have been healed. For you were straying like sheep, but have now returned to the Shepherd and Overseer of your souls.\u201d\nDo you see it? I know it goes contrary to everything we (especially we Americans) have had ingrained in us, but this is the holiness of true submission, with all of its glorious consequences. If anyone has ever been \u201crailroaded,\u201d lied about, and falsely accused, it was Jesus. If anyone ever deserved to rebel, get a good lawyer, and stand up for himself, it was Jesus. If anyone ever had the right to organize protests, and bring to light the injustice that was being perpetuated against him, it was Jesus. But it was his submission that resulted in our very salvation. And this is how we are to respond to the injustice and suffering that we encounter being Christians in Babylon. We must view our suffering as reconciliatory, just like Jesus\u2019 suffering. Like Jesus, wholly submitted to the Father, we stand for righteousness, truth and justice. And like him, we must also know that living such lives may cost us greatly. It cost Jesus his life. To the government that tells us that we can\u2019t do such and such or that we must do such and such, and we know these actions to be contrary to what Jesus tells us, we say, \u201cI must obey God rather than man, and I submit to whatever it is you feel that you must do.\u201d It is submission, not rebellion that illustrates to the world the beauty of our Lord. And just as by his beautiful stripes we have been healed, our own suffering can be that which God uses to bring salvation to those around us.\nBeing a Christian in Babylon is not about assimilation, isolation, or rebellion; there\u2019s another way. We\u2019ve touched on it today, and next time we\u2019ll see that it challenges our very concept of reality and identity.\nTagged american christians, babylon, christians and culture, christians and government, submission, suffering2 Comments", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00240.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 105, + "original_length": 32498, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.98, + "perplexity": 329.3, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "https://noisenarcs.com/best-of/top-albums-of-2013/voters/katherineh/", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T04:02:32Z", + "digest": "sha1:TWIGBON55H7OP7D33EUWDCTV3GJJXZ35", + "length": 2516, + "nlines": 16, + "source_domain": "noisenarcs.com", + "title": "Katherine H: Top Albums of 2013 | Noise Narcs: A Philadelphia-Based Music Blog", + "raw_content": "Katherine H: Top Albums of 2013\n08Major Lazer: Free the Universe\nIt turns out that many of the songs I have enjoyed this year are by this same collective and on this one album: Santigold, Dirty Projectors girl, Bubble Butt, etc. Still not sure if I ever heard it all the way through but whatever, no one\u2019s perfect.\nShe is young and beautiful and preternaturally talented and I don\u2019t even hate her. I just want to be in her a cappella group.\nI think this is only album I consciously listened to all the way through this year, and I listened to it not once or twice, but five or six times on a long, trafficky drive from Sonoma to Palo Alto, because it was the only CD in Katie Marshall\u2019s Honda, which I was borrowing for the day. At some point, I could\u2019ve switched to NPR, sure. But I chose JT on repeat instead. No regrets.\nI bopped around to this a lot this year, like everyone. I liked it. And I liked the way it made me remember listening to \u201cAround the World\u201d at midnight every night in the Herald office in college.\nThis pale blond British folk musician recorded \u201cUnder the Greenwood Tree\u201d for the RSC\u2019s 2013 production of As You Like It \u2014 I mean, seriously, what more do I need to say?\nAccording to iTunes, this is a breakup album. I guess I don\u2019t pay much attention to lyrics, because to me, it was the most romantic album of the year. Blue Valentine, anyone?\nOn reflection, this is the album I sang along to most energetically whenever some nice person put it on. I am grateful to Noise Narcs for forcing me to learn what the album and band are called.\nIn 1998, I went to France with my parents. On our return, we devoted a lot of time to tracking down the DC-area croissant most comparable to the mind-blowing pastries we had consumed so carelessly each morning in Paris. Nothing really compared, and my life was never really the same after that, which is ludicrous, of course, but so is desire and so are most of the other things that truly electrify us, including Kanye West.\nHonorable Mention Songs: \u201cWork Bitch,\u201d Britney Spears; \u201cDrunk in Love,\u201d Beyonce Knowles; \u201cSwimming Pools,\u201d Kendrick Lamar; \u201cSong for Zula,\u201d Phosphorescent; \u201cRoyals,\u201d Lorde; \u201cNew Slaves,\u201d Kanye West\n01Justin Timberlake, \u201cMirrors\u201dMy rule of thumb for 2013: when \u201cMirrors\u201d is not playing on the car radio, it\u2019s important to change the station, on the off-chance it\u2019s playing somewhere else. In 2013, it often was\nRyan M (13.58%, 1 match)\nGreg W (9.58%, 1 match)\nHaim: Days Are Gone (Matt K)\nHead & the Heart: Let\u2019s Be Still (Matt K)", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00240.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 105, + "original_length": 4271, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.95, + "perplexity": 265.5, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "https://noisey.vice.com/en_ca/article/59kgd8/visigoth-is-leading-a-new-wave-of-american-traditional-metal", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T04:21:29Z", + "digest": "sha1:VAIMCPIDLDYP4FN76GHEXZUYPVJ55BCU", + "length": 10495, + "nlines": 28, + "source_domain": "noisey.vice.com", + "title": "Visigoth Is Leading a New Wave of American Traditional Metal - Noisey", + "raw_content": "Visigoth / Photo courtesy of Metal Blade Records\nVisigoth Is Leading a New Wave of American Traditional Metal\nStream the SLC hellraisers' new LP, 'Conqueror\u2019s Oath' and explore how it fits into a greater wave of leather-clad heavy metal warriors keeping the old ways alive in 2018.\nOpening with the pounding, guitar-lead laden \u201cSteel and Silver,\u201d Visigoth\u2019s second album Conqueror\u2019s Oath is a perfect encapsulation of traditional heavy metal. Aided by big choruses, vocalist Jake Rogers\u2019 commanding wail soars above the instrumentation as dual guitars weave throughout. Unlike their debut The Revenant King [2015] , where songs regularly cross over the six-minute mark, this album is full of quicker, more bombastic punches. \u201cOutlive Them All,\u201d \u201cHammerforged,\u201d and \u201cBlades in the Night\u201d all hover around four minutes; each contains a wicked verse and chorus.\n\u201cIt seems like a lot of metal bands are embarrassed to admit that we are writing pop songs at their fundamental core,\u201d says guitarist Jamison Palmer, who formed Visigoth in 2010 alongside Rogers and second guitarist Leeland Campana. \u201cIt started with rock 'n roll and blues; this is not a classical structure. Some metal does fit that classical structure\u2014but not Judas Priest! If you don\u2019t have hooks in pop, what do you have? You shouldn\u2019t be ashamed of a good chorus.\u201d\n\u201cHooks\u201d damn near encapsulate traditional metal, the genre Visigoth resides so neatly within. Once one starts splitting hairs and becoming immersed in genre history, you\u2019ll notice a lengthy (and often ramshackle) musical lineage dubbed \"United States power metal\" (known to fans as USPM). Despite its rich history, the movement has been largely overlooked in the written history of metal, overshadowed by glitzier and more straightforward movements in thrash metal and then hair metal. Even online, little information exists beyond active Reddit threads where fans enthusiastically share bands that fall under the ill-defined umbrella.\n\u201cWe are ourselves, deeply in debt to U.S. power metal and U.S. epic metal,\u201d says Rogers.\nAlthough it\u2019s still obscure, there is a massive American power metal resurgence currently underway in the United States. Seen as a new wave of American traditional metal, by fans, bands, and metal media alike, the scene and its adherents draw from multiple musical lineages, and seek to emulate a certain feel, rather than adhering strict genre demarcations.\nIt\u2019s not just Visigoth who is indebted to this lineage; other current American bands like Eternal Champion, Night Demon, Substratum, Crypt Sermon, High Spirits, Savage Master, and Sumerlands are all cut from a similar cloth. Relatively new American festivals like Ventura, CA\u2019s Frost and Fire, Chicago\u2019s Legions of Metal Festival, and Portland, OR\u2019s Northwest Metalfest have emerged as champions of the scene, and more underground prospects Demon Bitch, Haunt, Ice Sword, Legendry, Seax, Lady Beast, Chalice, Professor Emeritus, Leath\u00fcrbitch, and Hessian are also making their mark.\nDistilling this massive, largely underground musical movement into a decipherable primer is a complex task. To contextualize, one must acknowledge its historical precedent.\nBack in the formative days of heavy metal, acts like Arthur Brown, Grand Funk Railroad, Blue \u00d6yster Cult, KISS, Aerosmith, Blue Cheer, and Sir Lord Baltimore emerged, helping pave the way for a uniquely American version of the genre. As the mid- to late 70s produced guitar hero acts like Van Halen, a massive surge of bands from the Sunset Strip, including M\u00f6tley Cr\u00fce, Ratt, and Quiet Riot, created a genre eventually known as hair metal. While the West Coast scene often revealed in sky-high hair and make-up coated excess, a new sound was emerging in direct contrast to its sticky veneer.\nIts influences included the stentorian wails of emerging American legend Ronnie James Dio and his band Rainbow, combined with the hard rock that paved the way for new wave of British heavy metal (NWOBHM), with its epic choruses and fist pumping bravado. Armed with these sounds, bands like Manilla Road and Riot became the impetus for the nascent USPM movement.\n\u201cI would have to say Riot would be our biggest U.S influence,\u201d says Jarvis Leatherby, the vocalist and bassist for Ventura based trad metal band Night Demon. Leatherby is also the creator of the Frost and Fire festival, and manages Cirith Ungol (their 1981 debut album is the festival namesake) as well as serving as their current bassist. \u201c[Riot] were once known as an honorary NWOBHM band back in their early days. It can also be said that they were pioneers of the USPM movement.\"\nOn the heels of that late 70s bubble came an early 80s tidal wave of both USPM and traditional metal: Jag Panzer, Fates Warning, Manowar, Queensr\u00ffche, Omen, Chastain, Savatage, Fifth Angel, Helstar, Metal Church, Crimson Glory, Virgin Steele, Savage Grace, Liege Lord, Agent Steel, Warlord, and Brocas Helm emerged. Nearly simultaneously, the sister genre of thrash metal (which took NWOBM influences and merged them with punk rather than guitar and vocal histrionics) was also exploding.\nIn contrast, UPSM featured powerful, soaring vocals, driving guitar leads, and muscular riffs alongside clean production, and added hundreds of classic albums to the American metal lexicon. Today, these classics are enjoying a much-deserved moment in the sun as backwards-looking fans dig into antiquity.\n\u201cWhen I think of power metal, and USPM in general, Queensr\u00ffche stands out to me solely because they are from Seattle, and I have to celebrate my hometown heroes,\u201d says Amy Lee Carlson, the vocalist and lyricist of the infectiously fun Substratum. She joined in 2015; they\u2019ve since released a demo, two splits, and two albums, including a recently-released full-length, Permission to Rock.\nLike her colleague Leatherby, Carlson is also a festival organizer who works on Northwest Metalfest, whose inaugural edition takes place from March 9-11, 2019 at El Corazon in Portland, OR. Those gracing the stage include cult names like Coven, Cruella, Glacier, Gatekeeper, Skelator and more.\n\u201cWe want to celebrate the rich history of heavy metal and thrash metal that still persists here,\u201d she says.\u201cI absolutely think we are a part of a much larger revival in the metal scene, with the reunions and reissues of many classic 80s bands and albums there's a lot of inspiration to take advantage of, even down to aesthetics and production style.\u201d\nAlthough classic 80s bands provided plenty of inspiration for future band mining, the genre still existed in the 90s, albeit with much lower visibility. According to Leatherby, \"Twisted Tower Dire and Slough Feg are two of the best American metal bands to come after the 80s.\" Both bands continue to operate to this day, and are amongst the few acts that formed and operated in the decade alongside Cauldron Born, Skullview, Unholy Cadaver [later Hammers of Misfortune], and Solitude Aeternus.\nInterest began picking up again throughout the 2000s as bands began shape shifting the USPM and classic metal genres, adding doom, thrash and speed metal into the melting pot. Bolstered by the bevy of musical riches found on the Internet, in the extremely cyclical world of heavy metal, a resurgence of classic genres began.\n\u201cAs far as newer bands, I think we can look back to the resurgence of thrash metal on the West Coast which came in really strong around 2008,\u201d Leatherby adds. Shortly on the heels of (and even overlapping) the thrash resurgence came a renewed interest in doom metal and speed metal, genres with a lot of historical and sonic overlap. Although dates are difficult to define due to the cyclical nature of music trends, the resurgence of these genres roughly lasted from 2005 until 2015; some pockets continue to enjoy renewed visibility to this date. The resurgence of traditional metal owes its roots to these similarly related genres, and began breaking through the American popular consciousness around 2016.\n\u201cA lot of these new traditional wave bands sounds like U.S. power metal, they just aren\u2019t using that phrase,\u201d Rogers says.\u201cOur sound is very indebted to that style, even if it doesn\u2019t always sound like it, it\u2019s in the subtext of the sound. But it\u2019s always there. In the words of Grand Funk Railroad, 'We\u2019re An American Band.' We\u2019re going to have traces of that sound. We\u2019re not reaching for the Euro power metal band, that\u2019s not where our strength lies. USPM is more direct, a little heavier, it\u2019s more rooted in the roots of heavy metal.\u201d\nPerhaps that's why many of these new bands are so hesitant to identify as straight up power metal. They aren\u2019t all power metal bands, to be sure, but they are traditional metal-leaning and are helping to sustain a unique and triumphant metal lineage that deserves more glory.\n\u201cI'm careful not adopt \u2018movement\u2019 because it seems like movements have a shared direction or goal, maybe a philosophy, but I don't think we can say that for Eternal Champion and the modern traditional heavy metal scene, and I'm glad for that,\u201d says Jason Tarpey, vocalist and lyricist for Texas act Eternal Champion, as well as Graven Rite and Iron Age. When he isn\u2019t crafting rich thematic concepts based around Michael Moorcock\u2019s eternal warrior Elric of Melnibon\u00e9 or writing his first novella, he works as a blacksmith in \u201ca small town in Texas Hill Country.\u201d\nEternal Champion put out 2016\u2019s hugely celebrated The Armor of Ire, and has been cited as figureheads in this new wave of metal, despite not necessarily identifying with the terminology. \u201cWe say 'epic heavy metal' so it gives people an idea what they're in for,\u201d clarifies Tarpey. \u201cI can't say we play power metal because I simply do not have the chops [and] 'traditional heavy metal' is not precise enough because I don't want people thinking we sing about staying up all night, rocking or whatever.\u201d\nRegardless of how band\u2019s self-identify, there is no denying that this new wave is deeply rooted in the broader history of American metal, and that it's only going to get stronger, thanks to its numerous promising bands, festival and industry support, and most importantly, a rabid fanbase eagerly gulping it down.\n\u201cI think whatever specific sub-genre a band is in, we can safely say that they should all fall under the umbrella of American traditional heavy metal,\u201d says Leatherby. \u201cThrash, doom, power metal, it\u2019s all an American tradition.\u201d\nSarah Kitteringham is screaming along to her massive collection of the weirder side of USPM on Instagram.", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00240.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 88, + "original_length": 11443, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.95, + "perplexity": 321.2, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "https://noncredit.temple.edu/search/publicCourseSearchDetails.do?method=load&courseId=11166610", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T04:14:53Z", + "digest": "sha1:W3ZX7VLM5E6IUUQPOINDZC4NK3ULPNUZ", + "length": 3762, + "nlines": 20, + "source_domain": "noncredit.temple.edu", + "title": "PASCEP0900 Mental Health First Aid | Temple University", + "raw_content": "PASCEP0900 - Mental Health First Aid\nFree Mental Health First Aid\u2014PASCEP0900 Course\nMental Health First Aid (MHFA) is an eight-hour course that teaches the skills needed to identify, understand, and respond to signs of behavioral health challenges or crises. 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Like my Mother\u2019s Day post, this one will be a little personal, and also potentially sentimental. If you are not in the mood for that, please skip this post and read something more hilarious, like Feng Shui for nonprofits, or 12 tips for not sucking as a panel moderator. (If you LOVE sentimentality, though, read this \u201cLetter to my newborn son in case I die early,\u201d which I wrote on my first Father\u2019s Day.)\nFor the past few months, I\u2019ve been taking my dad to see violent action movies. Kingman was awesome, and Mad Max: Fury Road was so awesome, it was like someone figured out how to distill awesomeness into its purest form and then allowed us to mainline it for two hours. My father doesn\u2019t talk much about the movies after we watch them, but I think he likes our father/son excursions, and this is one of the few activities we can bond over. During the drives, we can talk.\n\u201cWhat was it like in the reeducation camp?\u201d I asked during one of our drives from a movie. Dad is a great story teller with a sharp sense of humor. Charismatic and brilliant, he was born into a time of War. He fought against the Communists, and for that, he was put into reeducation camp when they won. Luckily, he was young and low-ranking enough that they let him go after a couple of years.\n\u201cThey didn\u2019t feed us much,\u201d he said, \u201cworms, grasshoppers\u2014we ate those. If we caught a mouse, it was a rare treat. They made us set off unexploded mines. Two guys would hold a long tree trunk, one at either end. They set the middle part of the trunk down on the mine to make it explode. One time, a piece of tree trunk flew up and took off half of my friend\u2019s ear. He found his ear, put it into his pocket, and continued working. Can you imagine wooden shrapnel just shooting into your face? I\u2019d be extremely ticklish.\u201d\n\u201cOf course,\u201d he added, \u201cwe were the ones they didn\u2019t shoot. If they found out you had been a high-ranking officer, they just dragged you off and shot you right away. You wouldn\u2019t get to do fun things like explode mines and eat worms.\u201d\nWhile my mother peddled bags of grains for miles on her bicycle to sell, my father would go into the pine trees up in the mountains with a shoulder pole that had a wooden bucket on either end. He carved grooves into the pine trunks and collected the sap, also to sell at the market. When the buckets were full at the end of the day, he set them on his shoulder pole and took them home, walking slowly down the winding path that was surrounded by red earth and the occasional blanket of damp, stinging evening mist. He probably sang. No matter what life threw at him, my father always sang.\nWhen we came to the US, my parents washed dishes and delivered newspaper. We wore clothing we got donated or bought for cheap at thrift stores, and I distinctly remember being embarrassed at my father\u2019s wearing bell-bottom jeans. In 1999 my parents had this idea to move us from Seattle to Memphis to take advantage of an opportunity to own a convenience store and gas station. Dad was a hit with the customers. Even with his limited English, he learned to joke around from behind the counter. He learned the word \u201cillegal\u201d for some reason and started using it all the time in humorous exchanges with people filling up their tanks and buying ice cream: \u201cHey guy,\u201d he said to a customer who almost walked out without his credit card, \u201cyou leave your credit card. Uh-uh. You keep it. If I keep, it is\u2026illegal!\u201d The customers loved him, became regulars, and gradually \u201cillegal\u201d became their inside joke.\nDespite his sunny disposition, my father has a fiery side, and it is often triggered by memories of the things he\u2019s endured. One day, as part of a homework assignment, I had to draw the flag of Vietnam. I drew the red flag with the yellow star. Dad came home late at night as usual, saw my flag on the table, and got as red as my drawing. I pulled out the encyclopedia and told him this was the official flag. He demanded I draw the right flag, the yellow one with the three red stripes. I refused; he tore my homework into pieces. The next morning, I woke up early. He had already left to open up the store, so I was able to redraw my flag, but I was pissed and didn\u2019t understand what the hell this guy\u2019s problem was.\nThings settled down. I went off to college. My parents moved back to Seattle. My older brother took care of them, and they didn\u2019t have to work so hard any more. They started to enjoy life. One day my little brother Bao called me. \u201cDude, Vu, guess what? Mom bought a teeth whitening kit!\u201d A teeth whitening kit! We were astonished. Our parents were some of the most frustratingly cheap people ever. One time we were at Target, and I asked for two dollars to buy some pens, and Dad said, \u201cHm\u2026do you really need pens?\u201d He went to Vietnam one summer and brought back 15 brooms because they were inexpensive. Now my mother was whitening her teeth and using name-brand makeup, and we had lifetime supply of brooms. We were living the American Dream.\nMy parents were in love, having been together for 25 harrowing years, working to protect us kids and made sure we did well in a land where they knew they themselves would never belong. It was nice to see them going on walks together and watching Chinese martial arts soap operas. With their savings, they remodeled our house back in our village, and when my little sister got into college, they would retired and live in the house, and we kids would just send back a few bucks a month, and they could just travel and sing karaoke with their friends.\nBut four years before that could happen, my mother died, and it devastated my father. Our dreams for a simple life for my parents after they endured decades of war and struggle evaporated. On occasion, a glint of my father\u2019s warmth and quick wit would come through, but it is often tinged with sadness. \u201cThis lady, your Mom,\u201d he says from time to time, \u201cI can\u2019t believe she just went and died on all of us. Very insensitive.\u201d\nStories have become a big thing in the sector, a powerful tool we can use to advance our organizations\u2019 work. But I feel that too often, storytelling is used mainly as a marketing tool, e.g., \u201cHow to use stories to get more donations.\u201d Yes, it is effective for that. But to use stories only for fundraising vastly shortchanges the power of storytelling. Through my father\u2019s stories, I learn about his life, my mother\u2019s life, the lives of my grandparents and other relatives. I understand now the terrible things my family and others have faced, and why my father was so angry that I drew the wrong flag. By extension, I understand why so many elders in the Vietnamese community have organized protests against the red-background/yellow-star symbol. Without understanding people\u2019s histories and motivations, it is easy to dismiss them.\nStories can also, when done right, be healing and cathartic. Parents of students in our program would tell me stories of how they came over to the US. Sometimes these stories are terribly sad. A janitor I met recounted escaping from Vietnam by boat only to face horrifying brutality from pirates after starving for weeks at sea. He barely knew me\u2014we were at a school function at the buffet line\u2014and it was painful and sad to hear all the awful details, but I knew he just wanted someone to listen, and maybe to empathize.\nWe tell a lot of stories about our clients. We don\u2019t ask them enough to tell stories about themselves. We don\u2019t have that much time to spend hours listening to people. Or to tell them our own stories. But this is one of the most important things we can do for the people we serve: To hear their stories, to share our own, to find commonalities. It helps all of us feel less alone. We build community by sharing stories. We need to make the time.\nThe years that followed mother\u2019s death were exhausting. In one of the less fun chapters of my life, my father and I had a falling out, and I left home. Maybe I\u2019ll go into that story some other day, because it yields some good lessons about loss and family and community. These past five years though, things have calmed down, my father slowly becoming his old self. He sings and jokes again. Through his stories I have started appreciating the weight of my parents\u2019 sacrifices, heavy like gallons of pine sap. They weren\u2019t cheap like my siblings and I always thought; they were saving money and sending it back to the relatives we left behind. Sometimes I wonder what my dad, with all his intelligence and talents and determination, could have been, could have accomplished, if life had not thrown a war into his path, if his story had started differently. I wonder this about many of the people we serve.\nFor Father\u2019s Day, I\u2019ll probably take him to see \u201cJurassic World.\u201d He still has no clue what I do for a living, and sometimes it feels like our stories are so different that we barely exist in the same world. But we both appreciate a good tale about dinosaurs wreaking havoc on a theme park, and during the drive to or from the movie, we can talk, and I get to know my father a little bit more. After all he\u2019s done and lived through, all he\u2019s given, all the humor and strength I\u2019ve inherited from him, it would be a missed opportunity to not get to know him. Borderline illegal, really.\nThis entry was posted in Community Engagement, nonprofit field, Personal and tagged father's day, Mad Max, nonprofit, nonprofit humor, Vietnam on June 15, 2015 by Vu.\n\u2190 12 pieces of advice for folks graduating from school and entering the nonprofit sector Cuddle parties, and other tips for cross-sector collaborations \u2192", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00240.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 85, + "original_length": 11670, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.98, + "perplexity": 294.7, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "https://obamacarewatch.org/category/implementation/page/80/", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T03:30:04Z", + "digest": "sha1:QSAXPD6Y2TRC7P6WGX44FGWW6COPYIBU", + "length": 6150, + "nlines": 26, + "source_domain": "obamacarewatch.org", + "title": "ObamaCare Watch | Implementation Archives - Page 80 of 142 - ObamaCare Watch", + "raw_content": "How to Replace Obamacare\nIn the 2014 midterm elections, opposition to the Affordable Care Act \u2014 i.e., Obamacare \u2014 was a clear political winner. That\u2019s obvious from the election results themselves but also from polling that consistently finds that far more of the electorate disapproves of the law than approves of it.\nComing Soon to a Mall Near You: Obamacare\n\u201cThe holiday shopping season kicks off tomorrow with Black Friday, the annual mad-dash for good deals and early-morning sales. This year, shoppers in a few states will see something new this year at shopping malls\u2013and its not exactly a hot new store. It\u2019s\u2026Obamacare.\nIn an effort to boost floundering enrollment numbers, the Department of Health and Human Services has taken to partnering with retail stores, pharmacies and websites to promote the open enrollment period, which lasts until Feb. 15. Enrollment workers will be present on Black Friday, Small Business Saturday, and Cyber Monday to tell shoppers about how to sign up for a plan on the exchange.\u201d\nObamacare's Three-Legged Stool Of Deception Regarding Employer Health Plans\n\u201cAnyone who has listened to the Gruber tapes has heard Prof. Gruber\u2019s repeated references to the \u201cthree-legged stool\u201d that forms the core of Obamacare.[1] However, those who pay close attention to his remarks\u2013variously characterized as \u201carrogant\u201d (Charles Krauthammer), \u201c careless\u201d (New York Times), \u201cdumb\u201d (Ezra Klein) \u201c ill-advised and indefensible\u201d (Times Argus), \u201coffensive\u201d (New York Times), and \u201cstupid\u201d (David Axelrod)\u2013may have detected that Gruber enthusiastically endorses (and Obamacare contains) a more sinister three-legged stool of deception regarding employer health plans.\u201d\nSen. Chuck Schumer: Obamacare Focused 'On The Wrong Problem,' Ignores The Middle Class\n\u201cDespite the enduring unpopularity of Obamacare, Congressional Democrats have up to now stood by their health care law, allowing that \u201cit\u2019s not perfect\u201d but that they are proud of their votes to pass it. That all changed on Tuesday, when the Senate\u2019s third-highest-ranking Democrat\u2014New York\u2019s Chuck Schumer\u2014declared that \u201cwe took [the public\u2019s] mandate and put all our focus on the wrong problem\u2014health care reform\u2026When Democrats focused on health care, the average middle-class person thought, \u2018The Democrats aren\u2019t paying enough attention to me.\u2019\u201d\u201d\nLatest Official Figures Show The Obamacare Exchange Performance Was Worse Than We Thought\n\u201cThe Obama administration has admitted to erroneously inflating the count of Exchange enrollees by incorrectly including 380,000 dental subscribers. Instead of 7.1 paid enrollments in the Exchanges as of mid-October, the correct figure should have been only 6.7 million. For the same reason, the reported number of paid enrollments in August should have been only 6.9 million rather than the 7.3 million figure originally reported. It\u2019s a bit disappointing that this goof might never have been discovered but for the investigative efforts of Republican staffers for the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, using data that took weeks of negotiations to secure from the U.S. Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. That said, it\u2019s encouraging to see DHHS Secretary Burwell take the position \u201cThe mistake we made is unacceptable. I will be communicating that clearly throughout the department.\u201d\u201d\nObamaCare architect Gruber set to testify at December House hearing\n\u201cJonathan Gruber, the controversial MIT professor and ObamaCare architect caught on video calling the American people stupid multiple times, has agreed to testify before the House Oversight Committee next month on the lack of transparency surrounding the Affordable Care Act.\nIn a letter to Gruber, Rep. Darrell Issa, R-Calif., chairman of the House committee, asked him and Marilyn Tavenner, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Service administrator, to appear and answer questions on repeated transparency failures and outright deceptions involving the Affordable Care Act. The hearing will be held Dec. 9 at 9:30 a.m.\u201d\nAdministration Warns Employers: Don\u2019t Dump Sick Workers From Plans\n\u201cAs employers try to minimize expenses under the health law, the Obama administration has warned them against paying high-cost workers to leave the company medical plan and buy coverage elsewhere.\nSuch a move would unlawfully discriminate against employees based on their health status, three federal agencies said in a bulletin issued this month.\u201d\nA Quarter Of Uninsured Say They Can\u2019t Afford To Buy Coverage\n\u201cJust days before the health law\u2019s marketplaces reopened, nearly a quarter of uninsured said they expect to remain without coverage because they did not think it would be affordable, according to a poll released Friday.\nThat was by far the most common reason given by people who expect to stay uninsured next year, according to the latest tracking poll by the Kaiser Family Foundation. (KHN is an editorially independent program of the foundation.) Forty-one percent of individuals without health insurance said they expected they would remain uninsured, while about half said they plan to get coverage in the coming months.\u201d\nObama Officials Seek To Clarify Abortion Coverage Rules\n\u201cThe Obama administration is seeking to clarify rules for the coverage of elective abortion in health insurance exchanges. That is the issue that almost scuttled the Affordable Care Act before it became law.\nA complicated compromise that got the final few anti-abortion Democrats to agree to vote for the measure in 2010 required every exchange to include health plans that do not cover abortions except in the cases of rape, incest or a threat to the life of the pregnant woman. Plans that do offer abortion other than in those cases are required to segregate funds and bill for that abortion coverage separately.\u201d\nObamaCare Twice As Likely To Hurt Americans Than Help Them\n\u201cA rising number of Americans are claiming that Obamacare has negatively impacted their health insurance policies.\nOnly 14 percent claim they have been helped by Obamacare, while more than twice as many (35 percent) say they have been hurt by it, according to a Rasmussen Reports poll release Monday.\u201d", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00240.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 96, + "original_length": 7790, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.95, + "perplexity": 308.8, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "https://ocsdfoundation.com/2013/04/03/foundation-inducts-napolione-johnson-preston-to-academic-wall-of-fame/", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T04:07:29Z", + "digest": "sha1:APWXWFB3TPWRDFUL2EYV2LMOXDCYNQFN", + "length": 3032, + "nlines": 7, + "source_domain": "ocsdfoundation.com", + "title": "Foundation Inducts Napolione, Preston to Academic Wall of Fame | Olean City School District Foundation", + "raw_content": "Sign up for 2013 Red and Gold Scramble \u2192\nFoundation Inducts Napolione, Preston to Academic Wall of Fame\nThe Olean City School District (OCSD) Foundation announced the induction of two graduates to the district\u2019s Academic Wall of Fame. Lisa Napolione and Paul Preston make up the 2013 class of inductees, and will be honored at the 130th Annual Olean High School Alumni Banquet at Premier Banquet Center on Saturday, June 15.\nMs. Napolione, a 1983 Olean High graduate and class valedictorian, is a successful research and development executive who has worked with some of our nation\u2019s most valued products and corporations. She began her career as a scientist and engineer at Procter & Gamble, and progressed through a series of positions of increasing responsibility, up until being named research and development global general manager for the corporation. She then transitioned to senior vice president and global head of research and development at Novartis, a world leader in the research and development of products to protect and improve health and well-being. Ms. Napolione is a team leader with United Way and committee member with the Every Child Succeeds Program, and works with several organizations to increase students\u2019 interest and exposure to math, science and engineering. She graduated from Clarkson University as a biochemical engineer, served two terms on Clarkson\u2019s Board of Trustees, and was honored with the university\u2019s Most Prestigious Alumni Award in 2012.\nMr. Preston, a 1978 graduate of Olean High, is a non-profit executive who has spent the duration of his career assisting those in need. During his tenure at DePaul, Inc. \u2014 which provides assisted living services for seniors; residential, rehabilitation and treatment services to individuals with developmental disabilities; and addiction prevention and support services \u2014 the company grew from a small mental health clinic serving the needs of children and adults in Rochester, New York to a multi-faceted agency providing care to more than 5,000 people annually in 19 counties in both New York and North Carolina. Mr. Preston began his tenure there as a live-in counselor in 1984, and his hard work and dedication later earned him a position as executive director and vice president. Mr. Preston received his Bachelor of Arts in Psychology and Masters in Counseling from St. Bonaventure University, and has served as a member of the Board of Directors for the North Carolina Association of Long-Term Care Facilities.\nThe Olean City School District Foundation is a not-for-profit organization committed to enhancing the overall educational experience for students in the district. The foundation encourages extra effort and creativity to enhance all aspects of the district, including academic programs, athletics and the arts.\nThe foundation is currently accepting nominations for future inductees to the Olean City School District Academic Wall of Fame. 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They give the plant its characteristic taste and smell, are highly concentrated and more potent than dried herbs. Through careful distillation techniques, low pressure and low temperature, the fragile components are retained. 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Magazine", + "raw_content": "'Entourage' Cast Recalls Bono Birthday Shout Out\nWhat could be more magical than Bono from U2 giving a shout out on stage in concert (in Spanish, no less) to one of the characters of Entourage? Prior to their highly anticipated final season premiere on Sunday night, the cast chatted at The Paley Center for Media in NYC and recalled that special moment from season two.\nOK! NEWS: THE ENTOURAGE BOYS ARE BACK FOR SEASON 8\nWith the approach of the last hoorah, it\u2019s time to look back. On Wednesday night Adrian Grenier, Jerry Ferrara, Kevin Connolly, Kevin Dillon and Jeremy Piven, along with the creator Doug Ellin, talked about acting as actors and called each other brothers for life.\nAccording to the Huffington Post, one of their most memorable moments while shooting came during the ninth episode of the second season when Jeremy asked Bono to say, \u201cHappy Birthday\u201d on stage to Johnny Drama on the mike. \u201cI know what it\u2019s like to be a really really creepy person,\u201d said Jeremy. He had to sit there, stare at Bono backstage until that one magical moment to ask him the question! Jeremy recalled, \u201cHe was so sweet. His response was, \u2018I don\u2019t see why not.'\u201d\nOK! GALLERY: ENTOURAGE THROUGH THE YEARS \u2014 GEAR UP FOR SEVENTH SEASON DVD RELEASE & SERIES FINALE\nAdding even more drama and intrique, the cast had no idea when it was coming and then the lights went out, all of the sudden Bono said it! Not only that, he said it in espagnol! Doug added, \u201cI\u2019m yelling, \u201cKevin, hug Adrian!\u201d The lights go down and if you watch it, we had no idea whether or not it would be on film. It really is one of the most magical moments. One of the many breaks that we caught.\u201d\nWant to stay on top of Adrian Grenier news? Sign up for OK INSIDER!", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00240.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 94, + "original_length": 4491, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.95, + "perplexity": 321.9, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "https://orienteering.org/world-trail-orienteering-championships-day-1/", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T03:47:34Z", + "digest": "sha1:OMMWP6ZKEUHQPJJTGBKX4UAA5YS5AR2M", + "length": 573, + "nlines": 3, + "source_domain": "orienteering.org", + "title": "World Trail Orienteering Championships: Day 1 : International Orienteering Federation", + "raw_content": "World Trail Orienteering Championships: Day 1\nThe World Trail Orienteering Championships kicked off yesterday in Miskolc, Hungary. After day 1, Lennart Wahlgren from Sweden has the lead in the paralympic class, and Masayuki Tashiro (JPN) in the open class. The competitions continue tomorrow. This year for the first time both open and paralympic class have a two-day event. In addition, the results of the second day count as a team event, where a team is made up of two paralympic and two open class competitors.\nFor further results, please visit the organisers homepage.", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00240.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 224, + "original_length": 8225, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.93, + "perplexity": 264.5, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "https://ormuco.com/blog/what-is-edge-computing-how-could-save-business", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T04:41:57Z", + "digest": "sha1:C2PJAYVUXQCJKXR4M46ZMR6FIK2QMKTX", + "length": 7124, + "nlines": 46, + "source_domain": "ormuco.com", + "title": "What Is Edge Computing and Why You Should Care About It - Ormuco", + "raw_content": "We are now solidly in the world of cloud computing. Just about every company makes heavy use of both SaaS (Software as a Service) and IaaS (Infrastructure as a Service) . However, the future of computing might be slightly different and we\u2019ve started witnessing one of the greatest change of the decade. We\u2019re speaking of \u2018edge computing\u2019. In this article, we\u2019ll take a detailed look at it.\nDefinition of Edge Computing\nEdge computing refers to the process of computing data \u2018at the edge\u2019 of the network.\nAn edge computing infrastructure literally consists of computers and small-scale data centers at the \u2018edge\u2019 of a certain network or geographic location. Computing is done directly at \u2013 or near \u2013 the source of data, as opposed to relying on a cloud-based data center that may be thousands of miles away.\nThe small-scale data centers that process this data are usually called \u2018cloudlets\u2019. As the diminutive name implies, they are smaller versions of their \u2018big brothers\u2019 \u2013 the enormous, enterprise-scale data centers that could handle cloud data from tens of thousands of companies.\nInstead of focusing on raw power and long-term storage capacity, edge computing cloudlets focus on:\nFast response rates\nStreamlined processing of basic data\nThis allows them to provide a much faster response, and minimize delays, because they\u2019re closer to the source of data.\nSpeaking of the source of data, it could be:\nCommon end-user devices such as smartphones or tablets\nWearables such as fitness watches or virtual reality headsets\nSensors such as temperature sensors, motion sensors or smoke sensors\nHealthcare applications using real-time data for patients\nConnected cars, including self-driving vehicles\nOffshore drilling rigs used in the oil industry\nAccess control devices using voice command for authentication\nAnd of course, this list is not exhaustive. These connected devices can be referred to as IoT devices or edge devices. Most of them require real-time data processing that they can\u2019t do by themselves.\nBenefits of Edge Computing\nReduced Network Latency\nOne of the biggest reasons that edge computing has become more popular in the recent years is that cloud-based systems have high latency. The truth is, even giant cloud companies like Amazon and Google have failed to find ways to reduce that latency.\nSo, why are cloud platforms slower than edge computing platforms? It\u2019s because no matter how fast a cloud server farm is, data transfers are still bound by the speed of light. While cloud data centers are deployed in a few cities, real-time data processing demand is everywhere the users or devices are \u2013 at the edge of the network. Data transfers remain relatively slow across long distances because data cannot go faster than light speed.\nSimple test, sending a \u2018ping\u2019 request from Auckland, New Zealand to a server farm in Amsterdam that\u2019s more than 11,000 miles away could take 300 milliseconds \u2013 each way. Now say, an application in one location has to interact with a database in the other location. Combine the transfer time with the time it takes to process the data, and you\u2019re faced with multiple-second delays. This means slower responses \u2013 which can be crippling when critical and urgent decisions have to be taken based on the calculations.\nThe solution then is a system that uses both centralized infrastructure and smaller cloudlet environments.\nDistributed Processing Power and Increased Security\nEdge computing is, by design, a distributed architecture, rather than a centralized one. It responds to the processing need for one application or set of applications, connecting smart devices in one regional area to processing power locally.\nIn other words, edge computing tends to have an overall lower processing load, compared to centralized cloud computing architectures. However, this is not a bad thing \u2013 because systems in cloudlets are used to:\nQuickly analyze data they receive from client devices\nSend back the results of the computation to these devices\nIncrease application security as the data is not transferred over multiple routers\nAlso, because they act as \u2018gateways\u2019, they\u2019ll send the processed information to a central cloud system for long-term storage or further treatment. Thus, the name \u2018edge server gateways\u2019 or \u2018IoT gateways\u2019.\nCloudlets can take many forms. Any computer that analyzes data from an edge device before sending it to another cloud server farm is a \u2018cloudlet\u2019. This could even include a desktop! In fact, most IoT server gateways run on x86 architecture.\nHow to Build Your Infrastructure for Edge Computing\nAs a developer or a service provider, you might be working on your next application or service with a local, regional or global outreach. Or, maybe you\u2019re struggling to deliver fast and reliable services using a public cloud infrastructure and you\u2019re looking for an alternative. An edge computing deployment is exactly what you need.\nSo, how do you get started? The answer is Ormuco Stack. Ormuco Stack has everything you need to deploy processing at the edge of the network.\n1. It will deploy quickly and easily on x86 commodity hardware, not just enterprise systems. This means that even a desktop can run it \u2013 so you can quickly begin experimenting with edge computing.\n2. Ormuco Stack allows easy management of multiple clouds, including both edge computing \u2018cloudlets\u2019 and full-scale enterprise cloud systems. Workloads can be deployed on bare metal, virtual machines, and containers such as Kubernetes. So you get to manage your edge and cloud deployments within the same tool.\n3. Ormuco Stack automates your infrastructure. It combines artificial intelligence and machine learning to provide you with an infrastructure that self-installs, self-operates and self-heals. You can deploy thousands of cloudlets in different regions of the world with only one person overseeing all. Nothing can stop your growth.\n4. Ormuco Stack gives you all the tools to build applications. Do you need a database? The platform offers popular data stores such as MySQL, MongoDB or Redis. Need WordPress, RabbitMQ, Joomla or Jenkins? It\u2019s all there.\nWith just a few pieces of basic IT equipment, such as edge sensors, gateways, and networking equipment, you can start implementing edge computing for yourself. Offer your company benefits from a more widely-distributed approach to computing.\nEdge Computing Vs. Cloud Computing: Which One Should You Choose?\nThe question of edge computing vs. cloud computing is not a question of which one is better. It\u2019s rather a question of how you can integrate both services into your service options, as a service provider.\nCloud computing and edge computing work the most effectively when they are used together \u2013 and in an intelligent edge cloud full stack platform, such as Ormuco\u2019s software.\nStart Your Edge Computing Project with Ormuco!\nIf you need to know more about computing at the edge, we\u2019re the best resource in the business \u2013 and we\u2019d love to talk to you. Ask for your custom demo now so we can help you with your project. 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The first institution of its scope and scale devoted to the past, present, and future of cinema, the Academy Museum will open with a long-term exhibition that explores the evolution of film from its beginnings to its possible futures. Where Dreams Are Made: A Journey Inside the Movies (WORKING TITLE) will occupy two floors of the Museum\u2019s iconic Saban Building\u2014formerly known as the May Company building\u2014and looks at the development of the art and science of motion pictures. Brougher also announced the institution\u2019s first temporary exhibitions. The Museum will open with Hayao Miyazaki (WORKING TITLE), presented in collaboration with the filmmaker\u2019s Studio Ghibli\u2014the first major exhibition of his work presented in the United States. This exhibition will be followed by Regeneration: Black Cinema 1900\u20131970 (Fall 2020), a groundbreaking exhibition that reveals the important and under-recognized history of African-American filmmakers in the development of American cinema. It will explore African-American representation in the motion picture from its advent to just beyond the Civil Rights era. The Museum\u2019s 34-foot-high project space will open with a major work by the Tokyo-based interdisciplinary art collective teamLab. Additional exhibitions will include Making of: The Wizard of Oz, featuring elements that contributed to the creation of this iconic film, a history of the Academy Awards, and an Oscars\u00ae experience.\nKerry Brougher said, \u201cWe want the Academy Museum to add to the public\u2019s understanding of the evolution of the art and science of filmmaking around the world\u2014to increase appreciation for this great art form and encourage people to examine the role of movies in society. At the same time, we want to bring to life the most important reason of all for caring about the movies\u2014because they\u2019re magic. That\u2019s why we intend to transport our visitors into a world that exists somewhere between reality and illusion. Like the experience of watching a movie, a trip to the Museum will be a kind of waking dream in which visitors feel as if they\u2019ve slipped through the screen to see how the magic is created.\u201d\nRon Meyer, Chairman of the Board of the Academy Museum and Vice Chairman of NBCUniversal, said, \u201cThe Trustees and I are tremendously proud to see how the exhibitions of the Academy Museum are coming together. Thanks to the extraordinary creative team that Kerry has assembled, these experiences are going to be beautiful and engaging, thoughtful and surprising. The art of film, and our new Academy Museum, deserve nothing less.\u201d\nDawn Hudson, CEO of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, said, \u201cIt\u2019s been 90 years since the founders of the Academy proposed creating a museum of film in Los Angeles. How thrilling to be able to deliver on that dream. The Museum\u2019s exhibitions are as expansive and imaginative as the movies we love. With its piazza and open spaces, the Museum will be a gathering place for film lovers and will invite people from all over the world to re-experience and deepen our collective love of this art form, accessible to all.\u201d\nJohn Bailey, President of the Academy\u2019s Board of Governors, said, \u201cThe Academy Museum is the realization of a long-held Academy dream to preserve movie history and to bring it into the lives of filmmakers, scholars, young people, and the worldwide public. The great resources and dedicated work of the Margaret Herrick Library and the Academy Film Archive provide a foundation for the Museum\u2019s extraordinary installations and changing exhibitions. This Museum, created and supported by working filmmakers, will present the story of the movies in ways beyond what a traditional historical film museum can offer.\u201d\nWHERE DREAMS ARE MADE: A JOURNEY INSIDE THE MOVIES\nThe Museum has set several interpretative goals for its exhibitions and programs: to convey the emotional and imaginative power of film, to offer visitors a look behind the screen into how movies evolved and are made, to explore the impact of cinema on our society and the culture at large, and to ensure film\u2019s legacy as the great art form of our time.\nWhere Dreams Are Made will unfold over 30,000 square feet on two floors of the Museum. It brings together evocative settings, key objects from the Academy\u2019s unparalleled collections and the growing collection of the Museum itself, and an array of film installations.\nThe journey begins in the Spielberg Family Gallery, located in the Grand Lobby, with the installation Making of: The Wizard of Oz. This classic 1939 film is notable for its engaging story, groundbreaking effects, glorious Technicolor world, original musical score\u2014in particular the exquisite voice of Judy Garland\u2014and a cast of unforgettable characters. Visitors will experience the magic of the movie and explore the process of its creation, from the script to production design drawings and sketches, costumes, and hair and makeup tests to the final versions of the characters themselves. It is here that Dorothy\u2019s famed ruby slippers from the Museum\u2019s collection will be found. Finally, evidence of this film\u2019s everlasting impact illustrates the impressive legacy of The Wizard of Oz in popular culture.\nVisitors will then ascend to the Wanda Gallery on the second floor, where they will enter a corridor that acts as a transition from the real world into the dream-space of cinema. They will emerge into the dramatic Magic and Motion gallery, which evokes the age of innovation and wonder in the 19th century during which inventors created optical illusions and animations with devices that delighted audiences by making still images move and light up, bringing scenes and tales to life.\nThe Lumi\u00e8re and M\u00e9li\u00e8s gallery introduces a central theme of the exhibition\u2014the interplay in cinema between realism and fantasy\u2014as seen in the work of the brothers Louis and Auguste Lumi\u00e8re on one hand, and Georges M\u00e9li\u00e8s on the other. Visitors will experience some of the earliest films ever projected, brief glimpses of daily life that were the forerunners of today\u2019s documentaries and travelogues with which the Lumi\u00e8re brothers astonished audiences all over the world. The delightful \u201ctrick\u201d films and dazzling moving image fantasies of stage-magician-turned-filmmaker M\u00e9li\u00e8s prefigured the limitless potential of cinematic imagination even as the medium was still in its infancy.\nThe Story Films gallery inside the restored iconic golden cylinder of the Saban Building will demonstrate how filmmakers around the world quickly developed camera and editing techniques that unleashed this new medium\u2019s potential to tell stories. Visitors will see examples of the first dramas, comedies, adventures, and other genres created for the screen, as well as the first animated short films. Women played significant roles both in front of and behind the camera during this period, and this gallery\u2019s focus on early pioneers such as Alice Guy-Blach\u00e9 and Lois Weber will not only explore their stories but also survey an industry in the process of being born.\nVisitors will then enter a maze of monumental screens in the Light and Shadow gallery, which features sequences from the heyday of international silent film, revealing how inventive production design, acting styles, cinematographic effects, and lighting techniques brought mood, atmosphere, and emotion to cinema, elevating it to an art form and entrancing audiences around the world.\nIn the Modern Times section, visitors will encounter three simultaneous moments in cinema history that demonstrate moviemakers\u2019 ability to respond to and impact society. The first was the rise of Hollywood and powerful stars like Mary Pickford and Charlie Chaplin, larger-than-life figures who often created identifiable, sympathetic representations of the \u201ceveryman.\u201d The second was the artistic and political eruption of Soviet cinema, particularly advances in editing and montage pioneered by Sergei Eisenstein and Dziga Vertov, who used innovative approaches to capture the drama of daily life. The third was the development of independent filmmaking in America, which sought to counter the stereotypes often created by Hollywood, including films starring all-Black casts, predominantly distributed to Black audiences\u2014otherwise known as \u201crace films\u201d\u2014and production companies formed by notable filmmakers like Oscar Micheaux, Sessue Hayakawa, and Beatriz Michelena.\nModern Times leads visitors to the largest of the second-floor galleries, The Studio System, which follows the bustle of the Hollywood assembly line from the advent of synchronized talking pictures in 1927 to the decline of the studio system in the 1960s. This gallery explores the fascinating dichotomy of the era: the \u201cdream\u201d of Hollywood spectacle and the \u201cfactory\u201d that made it possible. Here, objects from the Academy\u2019s collection, such as a backdrop from Singin\u2019 in the Rain (1952), the doors to Rick\u2019s Caf\u00e9 Am\u00e9ricain from Casablanca (1942), and the typewriter used to write Alfred Hitchcock\u2019s Psycho (1960), as well as familiar faces and scenes from the movies themselves will bring to life the myriad people and departments that came together to create studio movies of the time. Visitors will journey through the studio to explore the artistry and also the challenges of Hollywood during its \u201cgolden age.\u201d This gallery also highlights many of the era\u2019s most unforgettable stars, from the dancing talents of Fred Astaire, the Nicholas Brothers, and Rita Moreno to the dramatic presence of Humphrey Bogart, Gregory Peck, and Sidney Poitier, and icons of the screen like Greta Garbo, Dolores del Rio, and Marilyn Monroe.\nAs visitors move to the Museum\u2019s third floor Rolex Gallery, they will enter into the Real World. This space will reveal how filmmakers responded to the tensions and challenges of a world changed by World War II. As filmmaking techniques became more and more adaptable, with lighter-weight and more widely available equipment, filmmakers everywhere took to the streets to capture their version of reality and share slices of life on screen. Whether creating fiction films or documentaries, they helped record and shape our history. Visitors will also encounter the rapid growth of independent cinema and the individual expression that characterized movements from Italian Neorealism and French New Wave to Indian Parallel Cinema and Brazilian Cinema Novo. But this is not only a story of the past: such approaches to impact and influence filmmaking to the present day.\nAn homage to the Stargate Corridor sequence from Stanley Kubrick\u2019s 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)\u2014a sequence that brought together experimental film techniques and mainstream cinema\u2014creates a mind-bending passageway to the final section of the exhibition: Imaginary World. With the advent of new tools and technologies, cinematic visions are now limited only by the filmmaker\u2019s imagination. Visitors will be transported to unfamiliar worlds of the past, present, and future to encounter many of the most memorable and beloved movie characters, creatures, and destinations and to hear from the filmmakers themselves how they have pushed the boundaries of filmmaking to make the impossible possible. These films, despite their imagined lands and inhabitants, often provide a mirror that urges us look at ourselves and our own world in new ways.\nAn endeavor of this scope requires a multi-disciplinary creative team, such as the one assembled under the curatorial leadership of Kerry Brougher and Deborah Horowitz, Deputy Director of Creative Content and Programming. Intrinsic to the development of the vision for Where Dreams Are Made is Rick Carter, Oscar-winning production designer for Avatar (2009) and Lincoln (2012). The creative team for the exhibition includes the Museum\u2019s curatorial staff\u2014Doris Berger, Acting Head of Curatorial Affairs; Jessica Niebel, Exhibitions Curator; Bernardo Rondeau, Associate Curator and Head of Film Programs; J. Raul Guzman, Assistant Curator; Dara Jaffe, Assistant Curator; Robert Reneau, Film Program Coordinator; and Ana Santiago, Assistant Curator\u2014as well as producer Brooke Breton, Avatar; sound designer Ben Burtt, Star Wars: Episode IV (1977), E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial (1982); staff from the Academy\u2019s Margaret Herrick Library and Academy Film Archive, Academy governors and members, the Museum\u2019s advisory committee on inclusion, and a range of film scholars and filmmakers. Gallagher & Associates, specialists in interpretive and experience design, are bringing their expertise to the project in order to realize the design and installations.\nACADEMY AWARDS HISTORY AND OSCARS EXPERIENCE\nSince 1929, the Academy Awards have been the ultimate recognition of moviemaking excellence. Originally a dinner for industry insiders only, the ceremony has gradually become a global phenomenon watched by millions around the world. Visitors can trace the rich history of the Academy Awards and the story of the Oscar in an exhibition that includes favorite highlights, memorable winners\u2019 speeches, private backstage moments, and rarely seen materials from the Academy\u2019s collection. The exhibition will look back at the show, its glamour as well as its controversies, and the ways in which the Academy Awards ceremony has evolved and been a mirror of our culture. Visitors will then enter a gallery offering an Oscars experience only the Academy can provide, allowing visitors their own photo opportunity and Oscar moment.\nThe Academy Museum will also feature a robust schedule of rotating temporary exhibitions in the fourth floor\u2019s Marilyn and Jeffrey Katzenberg Gallery. These exhibitions will include retrospectives of major filmmakers, focused studies on aspects of filmmaking, artists\u2019 projects, and explorations of the way movies reflect and influence society.\nThe Academy Museum\u2019s opening temporary exhibition will be an unprecedented U.S. retrospective of famed Japanese filmmaker Hayao Miyazaki, curated by Jessica Niebel in collaboration with Studio Ghibli. Celebrated and admired around the world for his imagination, authorial vision, craftsmanship, and deeply humanistic values, Miyazaki continues to influence generations of filmmakers and film lovers. The exhibition will take visitors on a thematic journey through his cinematic worlds using original production materials from Studio Ghibli\u2019s archives and features such films as My Neighbor Totoro (1988) and Spirited Away (2001). The exhibition will present more than 200 concept sketches, character designs, storyboards, layouts, cels, backgrounds, film clips, and immersive environments. A catalogue, film series, and public events will accompany the presentation, and unique Studio Ghibli merchandise will be sold at the Museum\u2019s shop.\nIn the Museum\u2019s Hurd Gallery\u2014a 34-foot-high project space dedicated to the work of contemporary artists and filmmakers pushing the boundaries of moving image media\u2014will be a dramatic interactive installation by teamLab, curated by Kerry Brougher and Deborah Horowitz. teamLab is an interdisciplinary art collective based in Tokyo comprising more than 500 artists, programmers, engineers, CG animators, mathematicians, and architects. Transcending Boundaries presents a site-specific, real-time, ever-changing environment that allows the viewer to engage directly with the artwork itself. teamLab\u2019s work looks toward the expanded possibilities of moving image and digital technology.\nFollowing Hayao Miyazaki, the Academy Museum will present Regeneration: Black Cinema 1900-1970 in Fall 2020. 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As a consequence of this and of a long and ongoing process of political debate and recognition, ever more indigenous peoples are practicing their own laws, following their own cultural traditions and customs. In doing so, they often draw on history, recreating their identities and reconstructing their distinct legal pasts. At the same time, historical research has increasingly pointed out the intense interaction between indigenous peoples and European invaders during colonial period. It has become clear that it is difficult to draw a clear line between purely \u2018indigenous\u2019 and \u2018colonial\u2019 legal traditions due to the hybridisation of indigenous and colonial laws and legal practices. 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Berube and Ruth argue that while majors and enrollment in the humanities peaked in 1970 and declined sharply afterward, most of that decline had leveled off by ca. 1980 so that the last 40 years or so have seen continued and consistent interest in the humanities from undergraduates.\nThe real problem, Berube and Ruth say, is the weakening of tenure and universities\u2019 increasing reliance on contingent faculty. For the last 20 or 30 years, universities and tenure-track professors have hired short-term adjuncts and contingent full-timers, in order to meet teaching needs without devoting the hard work and resources necessary to do national searches and without making the necessary sacrifices to earn new tenure lines for their departments. The result in most humanities departments is a large number, usually a majority, of faculty who are hired outside the open, competitive process used to hire tenure track professors and who can be fired just as easily.\nThose developments lead to less dedication to universities and to less academic freedom all around. Contingent employees have few incentives to remain loyal to their institution, which might non-hire them whenever it\u2019s convenient to do so. The smaller number of tenured professors now feel cowed by what they perceive as administrators\u2019 cost-consciousness and neo-liberal prerogatives. The contingent faculty have less (or no) academic freedom, and their lack of academic freedom means they cannot participate in university governance in any meaningful way. True shared governance and true academic freedom can exist only among peers. True peer status comes only with the security of tenure, which is won only after a \u201cthrough the eye of a needle\u201d vetting process that ensures the tenured will be professional and committed.\nSo far, you and I have heard this story before. We\u2019ve also heard some version of Berube and Ruth\u2019s end-solution before, too. They want to create more tenure lines and create incentives for teaching.\nBut Berube and Ruth offer something new, too. The new tenure lines they propose are teaching-only, with no research or publication requirements. Their appendix explains one model to achieve their goal. Quickly\u2013within a year\u2013convert all full-time contingent jobs to tenure-track, teaching-only positions. People who are already full-time contingents will have to apply in competition with others in regional or national searches. The authors would make some exceptions and allowances for contingents who have been employed for a long time.\nSomething else that is new, or that I don\u2019t see very often, is Berube and Ruth\u2019s refusal to blame it all on \u201cthe administrators.\u201d They acknowledge that someone needs to ensure that budgets are balanced and that laws and regulations are complied with. The authors instead place more responsibility on those who now enjoy the privileges of tenure. Those on the tenure track could do more. They could choose the less easy path of teaching more courses, instead of hiring adjuncts, when there is a shortage of instructors. They could request and expect fewer exemptions from teaching. They could expect and demand fewer accommodations for spousal adjunct hires.\nFinally, Berube and Ruth are honest. They acknowledge that their plan will hurt many adjuncts and full-time contingents, especially in the short-term. They want to re-professionalize academia, which means preferring PhD\u2019s and other terminal degrees, such as MFA\u2019s, to MA\u2019s. That preference means competent MA-holding instructors won\u2019t be rehired. The authors apologetically but frankly admit their plan means some of the most vulnerable people in academia stand to lose out.\nTwo small missteps\nAs pleased as I am with what Berube and Ruth have to offer, I feel compelled to state where I think they fall short. I make these points because they distract from the authors\u2019 argument and because correcting these missteps (or addressing my reservations about them) might gain more public support for their teaching-only tenure lines proposal.\nMisstep one: the \u201cwe\u2019re not as bad as they say\u201d defense\nOne chapter, written primarily by Berube, purports to defend the humanities. That chapter doesn\u2019t quite seem to fit in with the rest of the book, which despite its title seems more about university governance and job opportunities and not so much about how the humanities are supposedly under attack.\nAt any rate, the defense this chapter offers is against the complaint that the humanities are too theory-laden and too concerned with race, class, gender, etc., and not concerned enough with universal values. Instead, Berube refutes that claim. He demonstrates that the questions the humanities asks are good ones. He does a good job here.\nBut on some level, that defense misses the point. While there truly are philistines and anti-humanities ideologues among us, not all people who question the degree of humanities funding are seeking to defund it wholesale. Berube\u2019s argument doesn\u2019t tell us how far we should want to go or how much we should expend in supporting the humanities. In a world of tight budgets, pension crises, and politicians unwilling or unable to raise taxes, we sometimes have to decide whether to spend that extra dollar on the humanities or some other worthy candidate, like medicaid, infrastructure, or mass transit . False dichotomies? Maybe. There are certainly candidates for that extra dollar that are more obviously less worthy than humanities education (sports stadiums come to mind). But sometimes good things that deserve funding can\u2019t be funded as much as we\u2019d like.\nI suppose Berube (and Ruth) would answer that\u2019s besides the point. They\u2019d like to see more funding, but their main argument isn\u2019t about money. It\u2019s that the humanities as an enterprise is worth defending. The key to defending it is healthy universities. The key to healthy universities is academic freedom, which permits professors to offer controversial opinions, to maintain high academic standards for students, and to engage as equals in university self-governance. The key to academic freedom is tenure.\nMisstep two: the \u201cwe don\u2019t want to be like McDonald\u2019s employees\u201d trope\nBerube and Ruth sometimes succumb to making flip and condescending tropes about service workers when describing the precarious conditions facing contingent faculty. For instance, at one point [page 11], they say\n\u2026the profession of college teaching has been hollowed out as full-time, tenure-track positions have been converted to highly precarious positions (both full-time and part-time) that offer no possibility of tenure\u2013which means, basically, all the job security of Wal-Mart or McDonald\u2019s.\nNot quite. Even semester-only adjunct jobs\u2013with their low pay, with the possibility the course may be cancelled the day before class, and without a guarantee of future assignments\u2013even those jobs are contract jobs for which termination, during the time of service, must be for some cause or reason. Even more so with full-time contingent jobs, in which I understand the contract usually lasts at least for one academic year or calendar year. That\u2019s not quite the \u201cat whim\u201d situation McDonald\u2019s and Walmart employees face.\nI don\u2019t know exactly how often the \u201cappeal to McDonald\u2019s\u201d trope is used on behalf of academic workers, but I\u2019d like to see a study on it. That trope suggests a grievance that someone with such an undeserving job might be worth as much as or more than someone with an advanced degree. I believe that most\u2013perhaps in some cases all\u2013people who use that trope sincerely care about the well-being of such workers. No one at any rate would probably cop to having contemptuous feelings even if they do. But I believe that the language conveys a message of contempt for such workers even though that\u2019s not the intention.\nMaybe you interpret such language differently. And there are more important, and more pervasive, reasons that populist appeals against \u201ctenured professors\u201d gain the traction they do. But this \u201cMcDonald\u2019s\u201d-style trope doesn\u2019t help. It\u2019s an unforced error that advocates for tenure and the humanities make too often.\nGuild tripping and patronage baiting\nThe \u201cMcDonald\u2019s appeal\u201d is an exception, though. The gist of Berube and Ruth\u2019s argument is to eschew the \u201cworkers of the (academic) world unite\u201d framing. They want to save academicians as professionals and not as workers. While the authors support (some) faculty unions and are sympathetic to adjuncts and full-time contingents, they nevertheless argue that as far as academia is concerned, salvation comes primarily from strengthening the profession and not from labor organizing.\nBerube and Ruth want a guild, in which members of the profession limit entry to those whom they deem qualified. They equivocate on the point. They don\u2019t use the word \u201cguild.\u201d They eschew the term \u201celitism,\u201d saying their proposal \u201cis not elitism; it is professionalism\u201d [page 134, italics in original]. But it\u2019s clear they want to guard the special privileges that tenure offers and retain their prerogative to decide who gets those privileges.\nTrue, they wish to expand the number of tenure lines. They want to rejigger those lines to promote teaching priorities and therefore be available to a larger number of scholars. And they are willing to grandmother and grandfather actually existing full-time contingents into the system. All that suggests that the guild, for now, is taking applications. But what will happen if\u2013contrary to the authors\u2019 claims\u2013it turns out there really is an oversupply of PhD\u2019s?\n\u201cGuild,\u201d like \u201celitism,\u201d is a loaded word. So is \u201cpatronage system,\u201d the term they use to describe the emergent contingent \u201ctier\u201d in academia. However, there\u2019s a similarity among what those three terms suggest. Becoming a member of the academic guild requires\u2013or at least is made much easier by\u2013getting admitted to the right schools, securing the better advisors, and tapping into the professional networks that can eventually help you land the interview for that tenure track job. It\u2019s not the same as patronage, but it\u2019s not so wholly different.\nThe \u201cpatronage system,\u201d meanwhile, can be considered an alternate route for the opportunities that the standard tenure-track vetting process forecloses to those with fewer connections. I say this with a little taste of crow in my mouth because I have in the past criticized political patronage systems and yet the rationale for those is similar to what I\u2019m positing here.\nMore to the point, one defense we can bring to the \u201cpatronage system\u201d is similar to a defense that tenured professors bring to the tenure system. That defense is, the participants still have a devotion to the goals of the profession. Anti-tenure people like to talk about lazy professors who abuse their privileges, and the counterpoint is, \u201cyou don\u2019t understand\u2013these people are dedicated to scholarship and teaching, and they work hard, much more than the ten hours or so you\u2019d think from their teaching schedule.\u201d\nNow, Berube and Ruth, with their use of the word \u201cpatronage system,\u201d suggest (to put it less than charitably to them but consistent with their overall point) that what\u2019s being created with the contingent tier of academia is a bunch of yes-persons who profess loyalty to the lords (chairs, assistant chairs, and well-connected faculty) of the local academic department/fiefdom. And my counterpoint is that the employers care less about building patronage empires and the contingents care less about pleasing sponsors than they all do about delivering quality education and maintaining standards, they should all read multiple reviews on education.\nThere are exceptions, to be sure, just like there are tenured professors who abuse tenure. And in both cases those exceptions are predicted and made possible by the incentives in the system. In the case of tenured faculty, the incentive is the supposed job security that tenure offers. In the case of contingent labor, the incentive is indeed the lack of freedom and the quasi-patronage relationships Berube and Ruth identify.\nBerube and Ruth\u2019s argument is at its strongest, in my opinion, when they talk about instructors\u2019 commitment to their institutions. Full-time contingents and, especially, semester-by-semester adjuncts have few incentives to be loyal and committed to the university that might non-hire them next semester or next year. Their proposal to strengthen and expand their guild is one way, and to my mind an arguably good one, to re-instill a sense of commitment. It\u2019s at least a discussion worth having. It\u00b4s very good to have an open mind, there are many techniques to learn how to use your subconscious mind. Many people have used them and they have achieved great things.\nAlternate visions still possible?\nI\u2019m not on board yet. The guild just seems too closed off to people without the right connections, and I fear Berube and Ruth\u2019s proposal won\u2019t liberalize access enough.\nI also wonder, without knowing, how the authors\u2019 arguments might scale among the different types of colleges and universities. R1 schools, teaching colleges, small liberal arts colleges, and private universities might all have different constraints. This objection Berube and Ruth anticipate, allowing that each institution needs to decide how and in what way to adopt their proposal. I just suspect that sometimes contingent labor is a more justified way to go, and I\u2019m not quite as dedicated to the humanities as a profession.\nI see professionalization as an (imperfect) tool, not as an end goal. If humanistic inquiry is something that must be fostered and strengthening the professions tends to that end, then we should consider strengthening the professions. But we should keep our eyes on the prize. We\u2013or I\u2013don\u2019t want to limit or overly privilege access to that inquiry to the professions. If the humanities mean anything, it\u2019s that they represent something we all could, theoretically, engage. There are probably many explanations for the continued interest in humanities courses that Berube and Ruth document, and one of them surely is that you don\u2019t have to be a professor to participate.\nI\u2019m more inclined to flirt with alternative visions. I\u2019d consider multi-year contracts or \u201cclinical faculty\u201d tracks. The latter don\u2019t offer tenure, but do offer a bit more job security than contingent jobs. One advantage to multi-year contracts and clinical tracks is that they open up more opportunities for those who might not otherwise be eligible for tenure track jobs. That outcome, as Berube and Ruth argues, threatens to \u201cde-professionalize\u201d academia. But I\u2019m not convinced that the extra hurdle of a 6-year or longer PhD program necessarily makes one a \u201cmore professional\u201d instructor. Another advantage is that without having to commit to tenure, departments no longer have to make that ONE MOMENTOUS CHOICE between granting someone a job for life or firing that person and prejudicing his or her chances against getting a like job elsewhere.\nNeedless to say, there are disadvantages, too. My alternate vision would undoubtedly lead to less job security and less academic freedom than tenure-lines would. \u201cClinical\u201d faculty can still be let go, and if a university decides to violate the terms of a multi-year contract, the contractee will probably have few resources to challenge the violation.\nContracts and \u201cclinical\u201d positions would also tilt university governance to the prerogatives of administrators. While I, along with Berube and Ruth, refuse to caricature administrators as evil, narrow-minded, and venal bureaucrats, administrators do have different incentives and priorities from those of instructors. Those priorities, while not bad in themselves, need a counterbalance.\nTo be clear, I\u2019m not fully decided for these alternate visions. Berube and Ruth give me a lot to think about, and their argument about tenure lines creating loyalty to an institution particularly resonates with me.\nAs with all reviews, mine distorts the authors\u2019 argument. Berube and Ruth spend more time than I did above distinguishing between semester-by-semester adjuncts and full-time contingents. They express much more sympathy for the plight of contingents than I acknowledge above. They acknowledge contingents\u2019 professionalism more than you might think by reading my review. And despite their criticism of the choices made by academic departments, the authors say that one reason departments keep adjunct positions open is because they sympathize with adjuncts\u2019 difficulties. No one really likes to see people they work with get canned.\nI should acknowledge where I\u2019m coming from. I\u2019m a full-time contingent who wasn\u2019t hired by an open competitive process, and my university is facing some pretty severe budget cuts and layoffs. While I have a terminal degree, it\u2019s not the same degree generally required in the profession where I\u2019ve landed. All of that means I have an economic and personal interest in opposing Berube and Ruth\u2019s proposal.\nI find my workplace much more professional than the stereotypical \u201cpatronage system.\u201d While I don\u2019t believe I have meaningful academic freedom, I find that my employers and supervisors treat me more than fairly and expect honest, competent work, not obsequious loyalty. (For what it\u2019s worth, my department is not centered primarily on teaching or research. Its job is to support students and scholars and sometimes cultivate relationships with members of the public. It\u2019s legitimately debatable whether and in what ways my position even should require academic freedom.)\nFinally, I\u2019m skeptical that tenure is a good thing. While I have good reasons for my skepticism, some of it is visceral rather than rational. As an undergrad and grad student, I saw too many examples of the professorial swagger, contempt for students, and outright abuse of tenure privileges. It\u2019s true that those examples can be explained either as simply the fleeting displays of human weakness we all show from time to time, or or as the actions and attitudes of only a small handful of persons such as you\u2019d see in any workplace. But those examples\u2013along with the \u201cprofession\u2019s\u201d and the home departments\u2019 apparent refusal or inability to correct or address the even most egregious cases\u2013make me reluctant to man the front lines in defense of tenure.\nEven so, I find my current tenured coworkers to be especially hard-working and dedicated professionals, and they all deserve the privileges that come with their positions. My unequivocally positive view of them suggests that if I had worked more closely with some of the bad examples I mentioned in my last paragraph, I might very well have found more to praise and less to fault.\nWith those admissions out of the way, I\u2019d like to say I appreciate an honest look at alternatives from academia\u2019s current problems, and that\u2019s what Berube and Ruth offer. Their argument certainly needs to be at the table. And I suggest you read their book.\nPhoto credit: \u201cUniversity Day, 1911,\u201d by Jeff Osvold.Creative Commons license: Attribution 2.0 Generic (CC BY 2.0).\nHow I Became That Parent\n\u2190 Linky Friday: Planet Justice\nWhat Does Western Civilization Mean? \u2192\n226 thoughts on \u201cTenure reviewed\u201d\nWhat would be the point of tenure for dedicated lecturers? Isn\u2019t the point of tenure to protect academics researching or developing controversial ideas from political persecution? For lecturers not doing research, it seems like it would just be job security as a perquisite.\nI have to speed away to work, but according to Ruth and Berube, the purpose for instructors would be to protect them in two circumstances: 1. when they have to enforce academic standards (i.e., give students poor grades for doing poor work, even though they or their parents might complain); and 2. enable instructors to criticize the university/college or to offer ideas for instruction that may not be popular with administrators and still not have to fear for their jobs.\nI\u2019m not sure I believe those reasons are enough to say tenure for instructors is a good thing. But I think they are good-ish reasons and at least deserve discussion. Again, though, maybe at the end of the discussion, we (or you and I) can decide that those reasons still don\u2019t justify tenure.\n(Finally, one thing the authors aren\u2019t clear on is what should constitute tenure. Should it be only a \u201cfor cause\u201d employment condition, or should it be what it is in many (most?) higher ed institutions: an almost iron-clad guarantee of job security unless the professor REALLY messes up or the university must close. There\u2019s probably some points in between, too.)\nI\u2019m in STEM, so my experience may be slightly different, and my attitudes may be slightly different.\nI generally support the concept of tenure. However, I do not support the popular vision of tenure-as-sinecure (which it may have used to have been, I don\u2019t know). Where I am, we have an every-three-years \u201cpost-tenure review\u201d where we make up a packet demonstrating our various productivity (have we taught new courses/updated existing ones, what publications/grants you\u2019ve had, what service you\u2019ve done). A group of your peers evaluates it and passes a recommendation to the chair. You get an official letter that indicates what you\u2019ve done well and what needs improvement. Previous to this process, we had an annual review with our chairs where we were told if we were doing OK or not, and the presumption was, if the answer ever was \u201cnot,\u201d you had to pull up your socks or risk revocation of tenure.Some people don\u2019t have as good a chair as my department does, which is why we now do the \u201cjury of our peers\u201d thing.\nPresumably, someone who consistently needs improvement in more than one area, and who does not take steps to improve, could be let go. This is a fairly new process so I have not heard of anyone actually being let go.\nIt\u2019s a pain in the butt (and it hurt, a lot, to learn that the service I had been doing outside the university apparently didn\u2019t \u201ccount\u201d so I have to scale that back to make time for more on-campus committeework), but it seems important.\nHowever, I am not sure, given our budgetary constraints, how likely it would be that an underperforming person would be let go: I know it\u2019s been VERY hard to get permission to initiate searches for full-time positions, even to replace retiring faculty. The trend now, even here, is \u201ccan\u2019t we get an adjunct to do that.\u201d\nThere are problems on both ends with adjuncting. It\u2019s cheap for the university because here, adjuncts don\u2019t really make a wage that they could live on \u2013 it really is a \u201csecond career for someone in retirement\u201d or \u201cway for someone with a well-employed spouse to use their skills.\u201d They also don\u2019t offer benefits \u2013 we have to keep people just below that 29 hour a week cap, which feels kind of devious (the ACA was to try to GET health coverage for lower-employed people).\n(I was paid adjunct wages for teaching last summer because of a variety of clusterfish events. It was eye opening. And no, I could not live on adjunct wages, not without some other source of income)\nOn the other hand, at least in my field, if you have some level of expertise, you\u2019re NOT gonna adjunct, because you can find better-compensated work elsewhere. Yeah, maybe if your spouse earns a good salary and you just want to teach one or two classes for the fun of teaching instead of the pay\u2026.but there aren\u2019t that many people like that here. (We had one adjunct who just stopped showing up; in fact, there was some concern that they might not enter final grades).\nAnd yes, what Gabriel said about academic standards: if my job was contingent on always getting high student evaluations, I would be less willing to take risks, or put \u201chard\u201d stuff in my classes (a regular complaint I get in Ecology is \u201cthere\u2019s too much math\u201d), or teach classes that historically have lower evaluations (a lot of the non-majors service classes). It also protects against that one really angry student with big donor parents making your job go poof \u2013 that\u2019s unlikely, true, but I\u2019ve seen all kinds of crazy stuff go down on college campuses.\nI admit I\u2019m already kinda chicken livered about standing up to administrators who are in the wrong because I\u2019ve seen cases where if you tick off an admin enough, they can make your life Hell.\nThere\u2019s also the thought, in some circles, that having tenured faculty allows for more balance of specialty; I know of at least one individual, highly-placed in a university (not the one I am at) who questioned, \u201cWhy do we even keep on the botanists and zoologists? The future of biology is cells! If we could just clean house and hire a dozen more people doing cellular work\u2026.\u201d I don\u2019t know if that ever would have flown, but with tenure in place it COULDN\u2019T.\nI think the system at my university, though imperfect, is maybe a decent compromise: tenure so you don\u2019t have to fret about being fired after one bad semester, but regular reviews so you don\u2019t get Dr. Mumblepants teaching off of crumbling 25-year-old notes or that guy who refuses to hold office hours or advise students\u2026\nThe other thing: in some fields, at least, we\u2019re giving up some income in return for job security. Most geneticists and the like can make much better money in pharma companies\u2026we had difficulty for a while keeping geneticists until we got someone who really wanted to teach. That\u2019s not so true of me (not a big market for ecologists in the private sector). But if my job became contingent, where I didn\u2019t know from year to year if I\u2019d have a job? I\u2019d probably look into some other way of earning my bread.\nYour situation sounds a lot like a version of Gabriel\u2019s multi-year contract scenario, and less like Tenure.\nI could see meaningful reform that moves to a 3-, 5-, 10-yr program where everyone is on a multi-year contract with incentives to perform well and secure better contracts that in turn grant greater security to take on longer term projects and invest in the institution. It would end the Tenure lottery system, but it would still allow for top performers to secure strong contracts and would likely add more liquidity to the hiring system.\nYou could even make all \u201cadjunct\u201d positions a minimum of 3-yrs, with a formula to allow for backfill adjuncts on temp contracts to account for illness, leave, spikes in students, etc. Ideally those folks are auditioning for the next 3-yr contract or burnishing their resume for a 3-yr gig at another University.\nI doubt you kill Tenure with one blow, I expect you\u2019d have to grandfather a certain number of folks\u2026 but you could let it die of age, and implement a hybrid system that is better than at will employment, but something less than a lifetime hire.\nI think the difference is, when I hear \u201c5 or 10 year contracts\u201d it feels to me like the onus is on the professor to \u201cprove\u201d they are \u201cgood enough\u201d to be kept on, whereas with tenure, it feels like the onus is on the university to \u201cprove\u201d they need to let the person go.\nI think tenure probably is dying of age. I think my generation (hired 1999) is the last one that had a lot of tenure positions still available. Oh, there probably always WILL be tenure for the \u201csuperstars\u201d \u2013 and maybe I have some problems with that, that there may be no middle ground between the Big Famous Somebodies who have tenure and teach one class a year, and then the remaining rabble who teach eight classes and have to buy their own health insurance and are essentially one paycheck away from destitution. But I guess that\u2019s the trend in the US now, so maybe why should colleges be any different?\nI dunno. More and more I feel like the days of the average person in the US being able to have a decent career that doesn\u2019t work them to death and allows them some security is over.\nI understand the concern; it is valid.\nBut what you say about tenure fading makes me think that replacing it with a hybrid system would be better than replacing it with an at-will system. The University admins prefer at-will. I\u2019d think long and hard about getting in front of this a collectively bargaining for a better \u201cnew\u201d system than where colleges are trending.\nI guess there\u2019s something curious to my eyes that Universities with a strong Left/Liberal constituency of workers and administrators can\u2019t or won\u2019t put in place a new collective agreement (maybe even like a sports contract) that provides a model that is more egalitarian and more distributively fair than the current system\u2026 which, as you note, is slowly eating its own on a march to a free-market at-will labor model.\nI\u2019d like to see Leftist institutions experiment with better (or at least different) labor practices rather than follow the open market into labor arbitrage. Maybe Privilege is what the game is all about though.\n{the comment is not leveled at you or your comment directly, more of a jumping off elaboration on my previous comment}\nit feels like the onus is on the university to \u201cprove\u201d they need to let the person go.\nThat all depends on how the contract is structured, which is something collective bargaining could have a hand in. A contract can have an automatic renewal clause that stands unless the administration can satisfy the conditions to void it out.\nTBH, from what I\u2019ve seen of \u201ccollective bargaining\u201d or \u201cshared governance\u201d on uni campuses, I would not trust it to come up with a contract like that that actually had teeth in it.\nMaybe I\u2019m a cynic, I don\u2019t know. There\u2019s a reason I\u2019ve never gone out for Faculty Senate, and it\u2019s not just that I perpetually have labs the afternoon that it meets.\nDear goodness\u2026 no one is suggesting the faculty senate negotiate with the administration. That would be a bloodbath. We\u2019re talking professionals and labor lawyers.\nyeah, we\u2019re not unionized and I don\u2019t see that happening any time soon.\nThe faculty senate could still employ professional labor negotiators.\nFor what it\u2019s worth, mine is a unionized workplace (and I\u2019m in the bargaining unit) and I have very mixed feelings about it. I have personally benefited enormously. My (in my opinion) already generous salary has increased by about 30% and I have the intangible benefit of (slightly) more job security than I otherwise would have.\nHowever, I\u2019m very concerned that the union is overpricing us, and making it hard for the university to keep people on, so that if budget troubles get severe enough, people would have to be let go. Maybe it\u2019s naive to think that in an alternate world, where people\u2019s labor cost less, that we\u2019d have fewer layoffs. But I still am inclined to believe that. At any rate, I fear that I\u2019ll become too expensive to keep on. (My position is a weird one that\u2019s more subject to discontinuation than other positions.)\nI also worry about access to work at my institution. I believe our contract closes off opportunities to people who can\u2019t get in on the front door, so to speak. I suppose that\u2019s part of the \u201cpatronage system\u201d Ruth and Berube talk about. But it\u2019s vexing to know that the opportunities available to me won\u2019t be available to others.\n(I also have some the ideological concerns that people who question public employee unions have. But that\u2019s another issue.)\nI get the point about shifting the burden of proof. But what about a multi-year contract with 1) a presumption of rehiring and 2) a strong incentive to rehire? By \u201cstrong incentive\u201d I mean something like a guaranteed year\u2019s salary if the person is not rehired.\nMaybe that defeats whatever purpose a multiyear contract is supposed to serve.\nETA: ETA: If I had read Oscar\u2019s comment, I\u2019d have seen he beat me to the punch.\nWell, this is the problem. Who\u2019s definition of preforming well are we using here?\nThe administrations, obviously. However, this language is not as problematic as you suggest it is, given that such systems exist in the corporate world (and the military, believe it or not) and operate relatively well, to the point that unless you are an idiot, it is quite easy to game such systems to the employee\u2019s benefit. They key is to make sure that what constitutes retention worthy performance is clearly documented and spelled out prior to the beginning of the contract, so the employee is fully aware of what is expected, and management can\u2019t slip in extra expectations, or weasel word the requirements.\nTo take Oscar\u2019s point in another direction, we could say that peers (fellow tenured\u2019s) also believe the language isn\u2019t as problematic as you find it to be\u2026.as long as the peers get the final say so. As Berube and Ruth argue peers are more likely to have professionalism and the purposes of their jobs in mind. But it\u2019s hard to avoid the notion that \u201cI should protect this guy/gal because if I set a precedent, my own performance might be questioned.\u201d\nThat\u2019s probably unfair of me. But I think the incentive, at least is there. Whether it\u2019s worse, better, or \u201cneutral, but in a different way\u201d from what administrators can come up with\u2026.I\u2019m not sure.\nFillyjonk:\nThanks so much for this comment. I was curious to know your thoughts while I was writing this review. The one place where I think STEM fields are potentially very different from humanities fields is because, as you mention, at least some specialties can command a good salary in the pro-profit sector.\nWhile I\u2019d heard of post-tenure review (some of that from other comments you had made elsewhere), I\u2019ve never had a clear idea of how it would work in practice. Thanks for relating your experience. And for the record, I believe Berube and Ruth are open to a system of post-tenure review. To my knowledge, the institutions I\u2019ve been at had no such process, unless you count the \u201creview\u201d necessary for promotion from associate to full professor a \u201cpost-tenure\u201d review. I\u2019d like the idea of meaningful peer review. It seems to me that from your description, where you work probably approaches that idea more than the peer review processes I\u2019ve seen, where one professor sits in on one session of another professor\u2019s class, and then writes a review of that person\u2019s teaching. It seems to be rather pro forma to me. (Perhaps that peer congeniality, along with budget pressures in your own situation, can be one factor keeping post-tenure review from being as much of a check as some hope it would be.)\nAll that said\u2026.I should note that I\u2019ve never been on the inside of the process. I don\u2019t know what kinds of internal pressures are brought to bear on people who to my view (as a student) seemed to drop the ball. Maybe there were real consequences those people faced and I simply wasn\u2019t privy to them.\nBerube and Ruth seem to agree with your observations about adjuncts. They devote a lot of sentences to professors\u2019 spouses securing adjunct jobs as favors to those professors and thereby unnecessarily swelling the number of adjuncts. They don\u2019t, however, mention a phenomenon I\u2019ve seen (and I would have written about it except my review was too long already) where a high-powered professor is hired and his or her spouse is, \u2018lo and behold, hired on the tenure track as well. In every case I can think of, the spouse worked just as hard and contributed just as much as the superstar spouse/partner. But it\u2019s hard for me to believe that their partner\u2019s status didn\u2019t give them an edge in the hiring process.\nThanks, again, for your comment on this.\nWell, I tend to get prickly when I hear people say stuff like \u201cWe need to just get rid of tenure. The people who are Good Enough will keep their jobs, and we\u2019ll cut out the deadwood, and we need to do it without grandfathering in the originally-tenured\u201d because they often say it speaking as someone whose experience with academia is limited.\n(I also hate to say it, but I suspect we\u2019re headed for a Big Sort where a certain percentage of schools will close \u2013 probably mostly smaller schools like mine. I hope and pray I can make it to retirement age before that happens)\nOne of the things about academia is that it really can chew you up. I\u2019ve had times when I considered quitting, because there was such a clusterfish of bad things (a difficult student, an admin who seemed to enjoy making the profs\u2019 lives miserable, budget cuts) but I stay on because at the good times, I do enjoy the work (And I\u2019m not sure what else I\u2019d be qualified to do). And having tenure is a big part of staying my hand when I want to just say \u201cscrew it, I\u2019ll take the Civil Service exam instead.\u201d I think for people who are dedicated to the work \u2013 and not to brag, but I think I am, sometimes to my detriment \u2013 tenure is maybe a reward for giving as much of your life to it as you do.\nI do think \u201cdeadwood\u201d is a problem \u2013 perhaps less now than it once was, but it still can be a problem. Post-tenure review does address this; if a person has consistently lousy student and peer evaluations here, they would be gone \u2013 though there\u2019s a pretty strong mechanism for encouraging them to shape up (We get that letter, and then have the next 3-year period to change whatever.) But yeah, I\u2019ve heard some hair-curling stories about people in other departments. (I am part of a remarkably good department, which is a big reason why I stay on, despite the budget problems and the occasional problematic admin)\nThe following-spouse issue is a consistent problem in academia, so much so that lots of folks call it \u201cthe Two-Body Problem.\u201d I\u2019ve long said academics should probably have a spouse who isn\u2019t an academic, both for practical reasons (if you are in a career where taking a day off is easier, it\u2019s a lot simpler, for example, to arrange to get a plumber in) and for emotional reasons (I feel much better after talking with friends in other fields; it is very, very easy to get my head stuck in the one-inch picture frame of my work, and when things are difficult at work, it feels like my whole life is bad).\nI don\u2019t know what the solution to the problems of academia are. I think the problems there have been problems for a while and I think we need to be careful not to come up with quick-fixes that lead to worse problems. (Academia lately seems beset by fads \u2013 most of them technological in nature, like clickers or flipped classrooms where students watch videos of lectures on their own time. I tend to be a Luddite about these because I know what I\u2019m good at and I\u2019m good at it, and also, I\u2019ve seen enough things that were sold as being great, but were poorly-applied 85% of the time, and so wound up not being a solution at all).\nDespite some of the things I said in my OP, \u201cdeadwood\u201d professors (a category in which I\u2019d include perfectly high performing professors who are contemptuous of students) aren\u2019t my primary concern. My main concern is liberalizing access to jobs in academia. I think my \u201calternate visions\u201d *might* do that. But there would be bad consequences.\nThe \u201ctwo-body\u201d problem is a real one. I suspect it\u2019s more universalizable than academia, although perhaps academia is the most serious and conspicuous example. Each spouse is a member of a profession when the supply of jobs in that profession is very low and competition is high. When those situations obtain, they\u2019re always going find difficulty finding work comparable to their professional training in the same market, and one spouse\u2019s job will usually have to be given priority. While it\u2019s a problem, I\u2019m not sure exactly what universities can or should do to resolve it, or if they should do anything.\nI too get a little prickly, but probably less than you do, when I hear some anti-tenure diatribes such as you describe. I do think that people who already have tenure should be able to keep it on whatever terms under which they were granted it, so that any reforms should affect future tenured workers, and not current ones.\nA datum regarding the benefits of tenure: My brother was an academic chemist working in a specialty where he could have doubled his salary with a phone call. He fended off various bids to recruit him. One of the executives trying to hire him asked what it would take to get him. His answer was \u201ctenure.\u201d He was more than willing to trade income for tenure. to his school\u2019s benefit.\nIf your brother is really that employable, why does he need tenure?\nHe doesn\u2019t\u2026 the open market offer didn\u2019t clear the economic value of tenure. 2x Salary was just one offer. 3x? 4x? 3x with a 5-yr contract? 2x with Equity? Presumably at some point the offer would have exceeded the value of Tenure.\nThis. In his case, the value of tenure was the freedom to follow his interests rather than someone else\u2019s economic agenda. That and the absence of some random idiot with the power to fire him. How much money would it take to be worth more than this? I have no idea. Given that his salary as a professor was sufficient for his material needs and desires, I\u2019m not sure that there would have been a price. Not everyone is motivated by money, at least once a baseline is met. Your shit smells the same whether the toilet is porcelain or gold.\nthis is similar to why I am at a small teaching-oriented university rather than an R1. Constantly chasing grants and having to tailor my research to fit the \u201cflavor of the month\u201d \u2013 no thanks.\nSupposedly our full-prof salaries are in the 6th percentile for comparable institutions, which is bad, but there are intangibles that compensate for that\u2026most of my colleagues are pretty sane (that\u2019s unusual in a department these days), I genuinely like most of my students, and the cost of living here is low enough that I can own a small, older house without having to have roommates.\nI\u2019m not rich, at least not in a US East or West Coast sense, but I\u2019m comfortable. (And in a global sense, I\u2019m incredibly wealthy \u2013 the mere fact that I have indoor plumbing and a washer AND dryer in my house\u2026) And I can afford everything I need, and many of the things I want. (I think it is perhaps not good for a person to have EVERYTHING they want)\nAnd going on the job market now, based on all I\u2019ve read? Oh hells to the no.\nThey got new toilets now, out of Japan\u2026 Your shit smells way nicer with one of them new toilets.\nyeah, or you can also change your diet or invest in probiotic supplements, that seems to help too :P\nTo add on fillyjonk\u2019s comment above, that\u2019s one example of job security sometimes trumping salary. I\u2019d probably take the same bargain your brother did.\ninteresting review. i dunno if it\u2019s good for my blood pressure to read it (wife is a year and change away from tenure).\nmost of the defenses of the humanities tend to rest on a presumption of \u201cof course it\u2019s valuable\u201d, which is not very persuasive. (even though i share this view)\nthat said, \u201c\u2026most of that decline had leveled off by ca. 1980 so that the last 40 years or so have seen continued and consistent interest in the humanities from undergraduates.\u201d is not accurate, at least since 2008.\nhttps://www.insidehighered.com/news/2016/03/14/study-shows-87-decline-humanities-bachelors-degrees-2-years\nenglish and comp in particular have been fairly hard hit, despite the flexibility the former can allow. not a lot of parents hugely interested in paying for \u201cflexibility\u201d. an error, perhaps, but an understandable one.\nI didn\u2019t read the link, but I\u2019ll stipulate to it. One part of the book that raised my suspicion, but that I didn\u2019t go over in the review, was the way they used numbers to prove that interest in the humanities hasn\u2019t declined. They would cite one study that says (I paraphrase) \u201cthe number humanities majors has increased\u201d and another study that says (I paraphrase) \u201cthe percentage of humanities majors has stayed the same.\u201d Those types of statements are theoretically consistent with each other, but I do really wonder whether there\u2019s some unacknowledged apples/oranges comparisons going on.\nFor the record, I do kind of believe humanities are self-justifying. I also believe that that\u2019s a poor defense for skeptics. I also really hate it when people fail to get tenure, even when their performance probably suggest that they supposedly \u201cdeserved\u201d not to get it (although they created value for their institutions). I don\u2019t like to see careers ruined or stalled. That\u2019s one reason I like the \u201calternate visions\u201d I mentioned above. Maybe we can loosen the stakes and thereby open opportunities for those who can contribute but who might not be tenurable.\nFinally, I really do wish good luck for you and your wife!\ni like the vision of the alt-ac prophets like lenny cassuto (he\u2019s a good dude with good intentions) but i am not sure how applicable very cloistered approaches \u2013 like english lit \u2013 are going to somehow de-cloister and change their cultures in any way that approaches marketable (which itself will be seen as an indictment of the culture, due to the entrenched political beliefs held by most and parrotted by all)\nhttps://www.theatlantic.com/education/archive/2015/09/whats-the-point-of-a-phd/405964/\nThe complaints I hear from adjuncts (online; I don\u2019t know any personally) are\n1.That the pay sucks\n2.That an adjunct contract is for a single class, which is a very part-time job. Earning a living means getting 3 or 4 contracts at different colleges and thus having to commute between them.\nThe notion of full-time tenure-track teaching-only positions seems designed to address these. Sort of like taxi medallions, it\u2019s intended to result in fewer, better-off workers.\nLecturer positions. We have a level here called \u201ctemporary full-time\u201d (which is more often than not, permanent) \u2013 it is less-well-paid than a professorship but does carry some benefits, which would make it far more attractive than adjuncting would be. (I still do not think you could support a family on it very comfortably; our one TFT person has a spouse who does reasonably well in his work)\nbut yes. I have too many friends who are \u201cfreeway flyers\u201d or \u201cacademic Gypsies\u201d and it seems like a rough way to make a living.\nThat\u2019s a good way of looking at it. I was briefly an adjunct and yes, the pay is almost always very poor, though one institution I adjuncted at paid about $5,000 per class. That was VERY far from the norm.\nPart of the issue is the distinction between kinds of contingents. Some\u2013probably the large majority\u2013are adjuncts such as you describe. A smaller number a luckier full-time contingent positions, such as fillyjonk describes. Ruth and Berube call this a \u201c3-tier system\u201d (with tenured track faculty being the 3d tier).\nThat\u2019s not really a comment on your comment. Just a riff on it.\nI\u2019ll add that one point that bothers me about teaching-only tenure lines is that if that proposal is widely adopted, it would decrease the number of adjunct positions, which would as a result make it difficult for younger would-be instructors to get the experience necessary to qualify for those lines.\nWe\u2019re nowhere near there yet, and probably never will be, even if more and more institutions adopt Berube and Ruth\u2019s proposal.\nIn my experience the problem with adjuncts isn\u2019t a lack of \u201ctenure\u201d. Being fired is part of the real word experience and that\u2019s going to happen if the boss is unhappy with you.\nThe problem is a lack of hours (meaning they\u2019re not allowed to teach full time) and a lack of pay.\nSimilarly the idea that high level Professors should be teaching low level college courses seems weird. If you\u2019re trying to rewrite the law of gravity then teaching the basics of Physics to students is a waste of your time.\nSome adjuncts and many, many who oppose the \u201cadjunctifiation of higher ed\u201d would say that it\u2019s not just a question of firing, but of incentives to fire for the wrong reasons. The complaint is that low student evaluations mean an adjunct has to play to the crowd/students instead of holding them to rigorous academic standards.\nIn my own (albeit VERY limited) observation, that complaint hasn\u2019t much merit. The evaluations, with their \u201cstrongly agree, agree, neutral, disagree, strongly disagree\u201d type questions seem almost primed to guarantee adequate or high evaluations. And the department chairs seemed really concerned about enforcing standards and standing by their adjuncts. Again, those are only my observations and opinions\u2013from only two institutions\u2013so maybe the complaint has more merit than my experience suggests.\nFor the problems you identify\u2013paucity of hours and low pay\u2013supposedly teaching only tenure lines would resolve that, if only because the new lines would hire people full-time, with the benefits and teaching hours pertaining thereto. I think there are other ways to resolve that particular problem, and agree with what I think (correct me if I\u2019m wrong) is your view that teaching-only tenure lines wouldn\u2019t be the best idea.\nTo me that depends. If there is a high-level professor who really is rewriting the law of gravity and who stands a chance to get that law enacted by whatever professional congress declares things to be laws\u2013then she or he would probably be able to demand and receive a \u201cI\u2019ll teach only 1 course a year of my choosing and it will be limited to 10 students\u201d position, or a \u201cI won\u2019t have to teach\u201d position.\nMost researchers aren\u2019t that guy or gal. At least I presume, not being in STEM. For the humanities, there are superstars who one would think would want to get out of teaching the freshman-level surveys because they\u2019re reinventing whatever paradigm or reinvigorating a heretofore neglected field of study (or whatever). Some of them can demand laxer positions. But I have less of a problem compelling them to do more yeoman\u2019s work than I might for the physics person who\u2019s reinventing the law of gravity. (Perhaps this is because not being STEM, I\u2019m more sympathetic than I am to my fellow humanists about STEM\u2019ers needing to get out doing their work.)\nFor the record, Ruth and Berube\u2019s proposal would still compel such professors to teach, although they\u2019d teach fewer classes (and perhaps fewer introductory classes).\nI tend to think there\u2019s value in teaching the lower-level classes in one\u2019s discipline. I know I\u2019ve been forced to keep up with some of the recent innovations in genetic understanding so I can teach the intro-levels major class I teach. Also, in our department, we try to put the people who are good at teaching (who may or may not be very active researchers \u2013 I am fairly active but nothing I research is world-shaking) into the classes that prospective majors may take.\nYou do NOT want an arrogant jerk in an intro class, especially not someone who is resistant to being there, if you want to keep growing your major. And in this day and age: if you don\u2019t hold numbers of students majoring/graduating at least steady, kiss your department goodbye, it will be attritioned out or will be merged with another department. (NO ONE wants to merge with another department, in my experience)\nAgain, my perspective may be different because I\u2019m at a teaching-heavy school where you HAVE to want to interact with undergrads to stay here. (And I take a little pride in, as one of my intro students told me, \u201cyou explain stuff good.\u201d)\nThere\u2019s a big difference between R1s and the like where there might be someone with a research-only appointment (or who only works with post-docs) and a more-teaching-oriented school.\nIn fact: it\u2019s probably still easier to break into academia in a teaching-heavy school. I got hired in 1999 without a post-doc\u2026.even back then it was kind of expected you did one if you wanted to go to a high-powered research school. I was ready to be done with the grad student life so I jumped at this position when I was offered it\u2026.\nThe fact that my grad experience and (now) current employment experience have been at R1 schools probably colors my perspective quite a bit. (My undergrad school was probably whatever is just below R1. It was a state state school, but not the flagship. More devoted to agriculture and engineering than to whatever flagships are devoted to.)\nWhy is anyone still teaching the humanities? They change quite slowly, so all that\u2019s needed is some Youtube videos of great lecture programs, (such as MIT\u2019s open course ware). I took the whole course on the Jewish Intellectual History, 16th to 20th century, twice. My conclusion? It\u2019s just as boring the second time as the first.\nBut anyway, just record the greatest lecturers and let the students watch on their iPhones, use automated, multiple choice tests entirely graded by computer, and outsource the grading of actual written papers to India.\nThe whole program should only cost a couple hundred dollars per undergraduate degree, not the 50 to 150K of the current system.\nUnsurprisingly perhaps, I see it differently. I\u2019m not in principle against expanding access to the \u201cgreatest lecturers\u201d and while I prefer the traditional classroom, if some people learn better through the cheaper, non-traditional online formats, the more power to them. I suspect also that those of us who prefer the more traditional approaches could learn a thing or two by watching such lectures or experimenting with online classes.\nI do think it\u2019s harder to outsource certain things learned in college, though. Learning to write, at least in my experience, is a lifelong process and speaking for myself, it would have been very hard to learn it from distant, anonymous graders. (My writing may not be great as it is, but believe me, it\u2019s a big improvement over what it was before I went to college.) And while I\u2019ve indeed experimented with autodidaction (is that a word?) I find that interacting with an expert has challenged me and educated me in ways that simply reading on my own or watching lectures would have.\nIs that worth the 50k to 150k per instructor that we currently see (when we\u2019re discussing full-timers and not adjuncts)? I\u2019m not sure. I\u2019m more inclined to think it\u2019s worth paying someone closer to 50k than I am to think it\u2019s worth paying someone closer to 150k.\nYou could of course legitimately say that large lecture classes or classes taught primarily by TA\u2019s and adjuncts don\u2019t match up well with the type of experiences I\u2019m claiming have done so much to help me. I suppose you could, from that, legitimately put into play the type of online courses and remote grading you mention in your comment with little loss to the students. Maybe after all it\u2019s not a question of whether it\u2019s worth paying 50k to 150k per instructor, but whether a given department of large-ish size needs to have 20 such instructors, or only 19, or only 10.\n\u2026it would have been very hard to learn it from distant, anonymous graders.\nA large chunk of my professional technical career was concerned in various ways with trying to make distant graders/tutors/etc as non-anonymous as possible. Even now, 25 years after I got started in that line of study, the limiting factor IMO is still the missing I/O device that lets a computer be a smart replacement for a pad of paper. Displays that allow pen-and-paper style writing including the visual feedback loop at reasonable resolutions exist but are ridiculously expensive. We can do multi-way low-latency audio and video, and we can display fine details, but for writing out a calculus problem or marking up a paper we\u2019re stuck at the crayon stage.\nI don\u2019t understand most of the technical words you use (I blame my humanities\u2019 degrees), but I think I agree with what you\u2019re saying. If we\u2019re talking just about grading papers and marking them up, I suppose written essays are more amendable to distant grading than, say, grading math problems. (I do believe, however, that face to face interaction is very important for learning how to write.)\nIf I completely misunderstood the point you were trying to make, my apologies!\nI don\u2019t understand most of the technical words you use (I blame my humanities\u2019 degrees)\u2026\nI blame my old habits and dropping into jargon whenever certain subjects come up.\nI do believe, however, that face to face interaction is very important for learning how to write.\nThe goal was to see how close we could come to face-to-face using a standard computer and the internet. For audio, the most important thing was the delay: if the delays were too long, you couldn\u2019t carry on a conversation [1]. For video, the important things were a frame rate high enough that users could tell if the audio and video were in sync, and maintaining synchronization [2]. In situations where there was some sort of \u201csmart paper\u201d medium in use, video could be pretty crappy other than the factors I mentioned because people used it only for body language [3]. Having the smart paper up on the screen was important while you were listening; writing with a mouse, or even a graphics tablet, is miserable. What was needed was a pad on the table in front of you where you could see the smart paper and write on it at very high resolution with a stylus. That tech still isn\u2019t readily available.\n[1] Back in the day, before cell phones had trained people to accept really crappy audio, a quarter-second delay in each direction was a problem. People, and business people in particular, gave emotional meanings to the perceived pause before the person on the other end answered a question. \u201cWhy are they pausing? What are they trying to hide from me?\u201d Bell Labs hired psychologists to study stuff like that.\n[2] Once upon a time there was a thing called MikeVision, whose video images consisted of black and white dots. No color, not even shades of gray. It\u2019s only claim to fame was that it took almost no processing power to handle, and the frame rate was high enough to recognize lip-sync (13 frames per second is a critical value). For a while there was a cheap MIkeVision demo in our building\u2019s lobby along side a demo of a very expensive video-conferencing service that marketing was pushing. I got an amusing phone call from the CEO one day who said that he loved the home-grown MikeVision demo, but would I please take it away because the marketing folks were pissed off that everyone preferred MikeVision to the expensive service.\n[3] MikeVision might or might not have been the world\u2019s ugliest video, but at least it was video instead a sequence of snapshots. It demonstrated that just how bad the video could be and still have everyone \u201cget\u201d the human signaling in facial expressions and body language. The user experience folks were astounded at how quickly test subjects got used to MikeVision. Vision processing in the human brain is quite flexible, and people learn to see what they want to see.\nIn my experience, many high-school graduates either don\u2019t have the self-education skills, or the ability to work without the accountability of regular testing/being present for discussion that online education requires. I wouldn\u2019t have had, at 18.\nOnline education is probably good for some things, like CEUs (for a few years, my dad evaluated proposed CEU courses for professional geologists, to make sure they were sufficiently rigorous), but for a student who, say, needs expertise in lab technique or writing or research\u2026.you need person-to-person contact.\nAnd doing remote grading is hard \u2013 at least, if you\u2019re doing anything more complex than multiple choice or other highly-objective things. I had a TA one semester whose duty was to grade my lab reports in ecology and I found it took almost more time to come up with a complete key that would cover all the bases than it would to grade the 25 reports myself. (Granted, our class size is small)\nIn my experience, many high-school graduates either don\u2019t have the self-education skills, or the ability to work without the accountability of regular testing/being present for discussion that online education requires.\nI agree. I used to teach frosh/soph courses at the college level as I think you also currently do, and the intellectual capacities of those kids \u2013 or lack \u2013 was shocking. I think this is primarily a function of either a) false expectations or b) the education system which kids (you and I included!) were acculturated to. If a), then lots of kids going to college simply shouldn\u2019t be and it\u2019s a failure of us \u2013 as a society \u2013 to hold those expectations. If b), then I think we (again, as a society) really need to figure out why our K-12 system encourages kids to be so intellectually incurious that they don\u2019t want to read with comprehension; don\u2019t want to write coherently and intelligibly; have no desire to figure things out on their own; etc. It strikes me as a complicated issue.\nthe intellectual capacities of those kids \u2013 or lack \u2013 was shocking\nI presume this was before comment section made them all look like budding geniuses by comparison .\nIt may be more important to fix K-12 than to worry about what humanities classes they\u2019re talking in college if the college classes have to be so watered down that they\u2019re little more than babysitting.\nThis example is maybe relevant, maybe not. When I took a constitutional law class (this was an undergraduate class, not a *real* law class), I had already developed a lot of misconceptions about the constitution and what lessons to take from important cases like M\u2019Cullough v. Maryland. It was only by taking that class that I learned what the (as my professor called it) the McCollough test was. Before that, my only knowledge of the case was the \u201cpower to tax is the power to destroy\u201d statement.\nI don\u2019t think I therefore know all that is to be known about that case. But I did learn\u2013at the very least\u2013that what I thought I knew wasn\u2019t the whole of what I would have learned sans class experience.\nIt is far harder to teach someone who \u201cknows\u201d something but knows it wrong, than to teach someone who simply does not know. It says something good about you that you were flexible enough not to dig in your heels. (I have had my share of \u201cI know what I know and I think you\u2019re wrong despite all the evidence\u201d people down through the years)\nWhy is anyone still teaching the humanities?\nPrecisely. It\u2019s not unimportant stuff, of course. It just doesn\u2019t require taking classes from \u201cexperts\u201d to learn.\ngood luck teaching composition from a lecture, bro. :)\nI think Berube\u2019s got the cause and effect reversed here. The crisis of the humanities didn\u2019t emerge from dismantling intra-institutional power structures like tenure, but \u2013 largely \u2013 from the utility and content certain sub-disciplines convey. I agree with him that the humanities, broadly speaking, is worth defending, but not all sub-disciplines are, and issues about tenure are tangential at best. As the content of a degree materially matters then tenure will matter too. As one goes, so goes the other. And the humanities are on the outside looking in on that score.\nOr for a shorter, Berube\u2019s argument is no different than, or worse a glorification of, the Institutional Art thesis: art is whatever people employed in Art positions say it is. Which is cocked up.\nIt\u2019s possible I misconstrued Berube and Ruth\u2019s argument. Or perhaps I related it poorly? I *think* Berube and Ruth mean that the worth of the defensibility of the humanities is besides the point.\nAs I hinted in my review, I\u2019m not sure their defense oft he humanities really meshes with the rest of their book, which is about tenure.\nSomeone who can get a degree in a subject that has multiple weed-out courses will benefit hugely from the humanities.\nSomeone who is only capable of getting a degree in a subject that does not have weed-out courses will benefit less from the humanities.\nThe humanities are *HUGELY* important. Vital. Degrees in humanities seem to be less so. I suppose they\u2019re important as a class signal\u2026\nYeah, that seems to be the problem. It\u2019s easy to imagine a situation where kids went to college for specialty training *because* they were well read in natural science and philosophy and anthropology and political history. Nowadays, we think they should get their highly prized specialty degree despite not having any understanding of those things. We\u2019ve managed to not only dummy down what a degree means, we\u2019ve dummied down what being intelligent* means. For example, it doesn\u2019t mean \u201chaving a degree\u201d.\n*I\u2019m continually amazed at how stoopid the average US citizen is about anything with intellectual content. They\u2019re not dumb people, of course. Just incredibly ignorant and incurious. Why? (Not an easy Q to answer, seems to me.)\nI\u2019m not sure if this is the direction you\u2019re going, Jaybird, but I think that one function of the humanities, as a major, is to serve as a major of second-resort. The person who went to college intending to major in engineering or intending to go to med school finds they can\u2019t cut it in the harder science or math classes\u2013they find that the humanities majors are easier, at least in the sense that it\u2019s easier for a non-humanities person to get a B in an upper-level history class than it is for a history major to get a C in an upper-level math or science class.\ni don\u2019t say that to denigrate the humanities. I believe that the humanities can require serious, hand-wringingly-difficult engagement. I\u2019m just saying that it\u2019s easier to get a B in an actual humanities class and easier to get a BA in a humanities curriculum than it is in other fields. Perhaps some of the continued interest that Berube and Ruth find in the humanities has at least something to do with \u201cthey\u2019re an easy(ier) A than the harder courses.\u201d\nI wouldn\u2019t have used \u201chistory\u201d as my example as much as \u201ccritical theory\u201d.\nIt seems trivially obvious that it\u2019d be a lot easier for a physics major to get an \u201cB\u201d in a Humanities course explaining that Mercutio was gay and Tybalt was trans than\u2026 I can\u2019t even come up with the equivalent of an example.\nA literature major proving that the square root of two is irrational? That the Weierstrass function is continuous everywhere and differentiable nowhere? The physics major lives the same sort of human condition that the fictional Mercutio and Tybalt are assumed to inhabit. Math is an abstract thing you build in your head, not something that everyone experiences.\nA transformative hermeneutics of quantum gravity?\nI bear as much responsibility as anyone here for bringing up the topic, but I\u2019ll say I believe that the question shouldn\u2019t be \u201cwhat\u2019s more difficult.\u201d\nIt\u2019s not, or shouldn\u2019t be, a contest. Some subjects and areas of study are more difficult to tackle than others are, just as some jobs are more difficult and more taxing than others.\nAgain, I was mostly the one to take the discussion in this direction, so I\u2019m not blaming anyone. I\u2019m not even saying the points made in this subthread are bad (they\u2019re not even for the most part actually focusing on which is harder). I\u2019ll also concede that sometimes relative difficulty can be relevant to certain discussions, although I won\u2019t venture here to suggest when that might be.\nIt\u2019s not, or shouldn\u2019t be, a contest.\nNo, you\u2019re right about that. It\u2019s not a contest. It\u2019s about justification, and the fact that a bunch of people think \u201cthe quantumm theory of love as a force of attraction\u201d is a legitimate area of inquiry says all you need to now about why it\u2019s actually not a real competition.\nI guess I should have directed the comment more at myself. There\u2019s a tendency on my part to frame the justification in a zero-sum way, as a claim of relative difficulty. To the extent I do that, I\u2019m wrong. Even so, I think STEM fields are harder, generally speaking, than humanities, especially if we\u2019re talking about how relatively easier it is to get a good grade.\nThere is also a lot of foundational work that math & science require that some humanities classes do not, or at least do not to the same degree.\nIf I\u2019m taking an upper level examination of literature, I can largely get up to speed with some Cliff\u2019s Notes and by being a good student.\nUpper level philosophy classes would probably be tough to squeak through, since they too often assume knowledge on the part of the student. If the class is going to examine the work of philosophers J, K, & L, who were heavily influenced by earlier philosophers E, F, & G, and you don\u2019t know who E, F, & G are, you got a lot of groundwork to cover.\nI do know someone who\u2019s faked math well enough to write peer-reviewed journal articles. (it should come as no surprise that this was Applied Math, and thus the ideas were solid, even if the set theory was\u2026 rather hand-waved).\nthey find that the humanities majors are easier, at least in the sense that it\u2019s easier for a non-humanities person to get a B in an upper-level history class than it is for a history major to get a C in an upper-level math or science class.\nThat\u2019s a heck of a admission from someone on Humanities side \u2013 that Humanties courses are in fact easier than STEM courses.\nI had thought it was more common knowledge than an \u201cadmission.\u201d I will say that I believe many, many people underestimate how difficult it can be to do humanities, for lack of a better term, \u201cwell.\u201d The ideas involved and conveying those ideas can be harder than people think. That\u2019s a little different from getting passing (or better than passing, or A\u2019s) in a humanities course. (That\u2019s not different from what you said or what I said originally. I just wanted to reiterate my point.)\nI suspect humanities people tend to underestimate the difficulty of some non-humanities courses, too. I don\u2019t know what business classes are like, but to hear some humanities people, those classes are simple brain candy. (Maybe they are, or some are and some aren\u2019t. But I just don\u2019t know, and I don\u2019t believe a lot of them know, either.)\nI\u2019ve been thinking about this all weekend and I think that the problem with Tenure is that it\u2019s a problem that solves a problem that has nothing to do with what a University is *FOR*.\nI mean, if we ask the question \u201cwhat is a University *FOR*?\u201d, we can come up with a list of answers. Rattle some of these off in your head right now.\nYoung Adult Day Care To Help Them Transition From Living At Home To Living On Their Own\nMake Students Employable At Big Companies Right Out Of The Gate\nExciting Amateur Football and Basketball (and, to a lesser extent, other sports\u2026 but mostly those two)\nMaintaining An Endowment\nMight want to add something like \u201cMake Students Well-Rounded Adults\u201d in there but those things seem to be what University (in 2017, anyway) is mostly for.\nWhich of those are things that would be enhanced by offering professors tenure?\nIf tenure doesn\u2019t help with what a University is *FOR*, it\u2019ll look vestigial.\nI can see tenure being important at one of the remaining Universities that actually does research but\u2026 how many of those are left?\nHuh??? Your last sentence\u2026i mean huh??? American uni\u2019s are world wide leaders in research. There is a reason researcher/scientists from all over the world come to study here or try to attend grad school here. Advanced research is like one of the shining stars of the American uni system.\nWhy, there\u2019s *THIS* non-representative example! There\u2019s this other non-representative example! And here\u2019s a third!\nTherefore, the University of Missouri should have tenure.\nI get the comfort you feel by saying \u201cpeople disagree about this!\u201dJaybird. Cynically speaking, it\u2019s a nice perch to view the squabbling from. All those losers expressing views which aren\u2019t going to be realized in policy and all. But what\u2019s your view on this topic other than \u201cOMG!, losers have a view with which people can disagree with!\u201d\nHow\u2019s this? Research Universities probably have research that benefits from tenure.\nUniversities that do not do any appreciable research (or primarily do research in the Humanities) does not have research that benefits from tenure and their answers to the question \u201cWhat is a University *FOR*?\u201d has answers that involves a consumer relationship with students/advertisers rather than one that involves research.\nAnd the number of Universities that do research? Like, *FOR REAL* research? Is significantly smaller than the number of Universities.\nAs such, \u201ctenure\u201d is a solution to a problem that a lot (most?) Universities don\u2019t have in the first place.\nIt\u2019s cargo cultism that worships the Universities that exist for more reasons than just those that involve customer relationships.\nAnd arguing against this position by pointing out that there are some Universities that do a *LOT* of research (even to the point where our research is the best research, the greatest, you\u2019re not going to believe it) is to argue against a position that no one has made.\nI think the problem I\u2019m identifying (insofar as it\u2019s real) is that you argue against people on an ideoligical line even tho you don\u2019t have a real solution to the putative \u2013 the Important! \u2013 topic. Which is fine, of course. People gonna rebel and all. It\u2019s just that you object to people objecting on exactly the same lines that the people you object to expressing their objections.\nIt\u2019s all meta for you. And therefore useless.\nOh, we\u2019re just talking about me. Pity. Okay. Yeah, I\u2019m bad.\nAnyway, the problem with tenure is the number of universities in which tenure is cargo cultism trying to capture the magic of what the Universities that actually benefit from tenure are capturing with tenure.\nBut since these Cargo Cult Universities have a different thing that they\u2019re doing or trying to do, trying to fix tenure will not really fix anything but add job security to a handful of Upper Middle Class jobs.\n(Oh, maybe that should also go on the list of things that Universities are for: Upper Middle Class Jobs.)\nOh, we\u2019re just talking about me.\nYes, we are. Why is that a surprise to you? When I make a comment on this board I fully expect any challenges or agreements to be about the view I\u2019m advancing. Why should it be any different for you?\nWell, thinking about that, one reason is that you don\u2019t think you\u2019re offering you\u2019re own view. Just a, well, view from nowhere, so to speak. An above the fray analyis, detached from outcome, purely academic, and so on.\nSay what you mean, own it, and move on to discussion, Jaybird. Rise above your cynical cowardice.\nWhen I make a comment on this board I fully expect any challenges or agreements to be about the view I\u2019m advancing. Why should it be any different for you?\nBecause I wasn\u2019t complaining about someone challenging or agreeing with my view but complaining about someone talking about me personally?\nOkay, so I\u2019m now offering my own view. Tah-dah! There it is. I wrote about it.\nCan we talk about it now and \u201cmove on to discussion\u201d?\nYou\u2019re begging the question about whether or not tenure benefits those other goals.\nI\u2019d love to see how tenure impacts the following:\nI guess I can see how tenure might send a signal that would help with stuff like the Endowment.\nBut tenure strikes me as orthogonal to the rest.\nNope. You staked a claim. All on your own\u2026 you weren\u2019t responding to anyone but rather putting forth your own argument.\nNow defend it. Just because it \u201cstrikes\u201d you a certain way doesn\u2019t mean its true. Demonstrate the role of tenure on universities meeting those goals.\nFor the sake of ease, we\u2019ll use the definition of tenure found on the wiki:\nA tenured appointment is an indefinite appointment that can be terminated only for cause or under extraordinary circumstances such as financial exigency or program discontinuation. Tenure defends the principle of academic freedom, which holds that it is beneficial for society in the long run if scholars are free to hold and examine a variety of views.\nSo the basic question is whether tenure benefits the goals of a University.\nWhether indefinite appointments that can be terminated only for cause or under extraordinary circumstances such as financial exigency or program discontinuation benefit the goals of a University.\n(Already I see \u201cfor cause\u201d as being a weasel term in there. But given that it was possible to pull an Al Capone on Ward Churchill and get him for the equivalent of tax evasion when they couldn\u2019t get him for the equivalent of bootlegging, I figure we\u2019ll just put a lampshade on \u201cfor cause\u201d and not lean on that one too much.)\nSo we have our four goals. Let\u2019s go through them one at a time, shall we?\nGoal the First:\nThis is a goal that does not require academic freedom on the part of the day care workers. If my college days are any indication, the day care workers would be better served by receiving training on how to deal with alcohol poisoning. On top of that, I don\u2019t know if you\u2019re familiar with the debate on whether professors should be allowed to date students but, seriously, there is a debate on whether professors should be allowed to date students. (Assuming the students are 18, of course. Let\u2019s just assume that everybody is 18 or older and avoid any unpleasantness.) A policy that says that these indefinite appointments can be terminated only for cause or under extraordinary circumstances such as financial exigency or program discontinuation seems to completely miss the point of what a young adult day care transition trainer would need to most effectively do zher job which would be a rule that says \u201cdon\u2019t date your wards\u201d.\nI do not see how tenure benefits this goal of the University.\nGoal the Second:\nIf anything, the idea that such a thing could possibly be taught by people who have an indefinite appointment that can be terminated only for cause or under extraordinary circumstances such as financial exigency or program discontinuation is downright *MALPRACTICE*.\nHey, kids: when you get out into the real world, they expect results and you will not have an indefinite appointment that can be terminated only for cause or under extraordinary circumstances such as financial exigency or program discontinuation and, as such, you will be taught by people who can be fired for doing their job poorly, shepherd students poorly, or otherwise teach crazy nutty things that, if repeated in a \u201cfor real\u201d workplace would result in the worker being reprimanded or fired.\nGoal the Third:\nTenure for Coaches? Let\u2019s say you bring in a new coach and you want him to turn a program around, you tell him that you don\u2019t care about his first season, you don\u2019t care about his second season so long as he wins more than 25% of his games, but you want a 50-50 third season or s/he is outta there.\nThat can be addressed by a three year contract with a sweet contract extension possibility rather than by an indefinite appointment that can be terminated only for cause or under extraordinary circumstances such as financial exigency or program discontinuation.\nGoal the Fourth:\nI concede: I can see how bragging how their University has tenure would help a University get people to donate, donate more, and maybe do the \u201cleave them a little something in the will\u201d kinda thing because people like the idea of philanthropy to a Real University and Real Universities have Tenure.\nIndefinite appointments that blah blah blah are incidental to that, though.\nAs such, it seems clear to me that Tenure does not benefit the goals of a University outside of a University\u2019s ability to maintain an endowment.\n\u2018s point, in that there is an ideal University, and the University as it exists today. Or perhaps we can think of it as the University of faculty, and the University of adminstration.\nTenure benefits the University of faculty, it doesn\u2019t benefit the University of adminstration, and as it stands, the administration has their hands firmly on the levers of power (thanks to the desires of parents, donors, and faculty abdication of control, etc.).\nI\u2019ll admit i\u2019d tend to side with the faculty over the admin. I also tend to side with players of pro sports over the owners and leagues. In fact in most cases i\u2019d side with labor over admin. Not in every case but that is my bias. The laborers ( prof\u2019s, ditch diggers, starting NFL center, telephone sanitizer, etc) are the more valuable peeps, they are the ones you go to a place for, not the admin even though admin is necessary.\nNothing wrong with standing with the labor, but labor doesn\u2019t have any power right now. So short of labor getting off their collective asses and taking power back, can you make an argument for tenure that would appeal to the administration?\nYou kind of started one, that faculty is one of the draws to a University, but the who\u2019s who only really appeals to thesis masters & PhD candidates. Undergrads don\u2019t give a hoot in most cases.\njaybird\u2019s incoherencies aside, ya know tenured faculty is one of those areas where \u201clabor\u201d actually does have power (depending on a number of factors, mind you) and much of the staff (referred to as \u201cadmins\u201d here) often has much less. or none at all. i\u2019ve watched tenured faculty yank staff and admins around because, well, they\u2019re unkillable, and giving someone tenure doesn\u2019t act as a moral improvement factor, anymore than giving someone lots of money or power does in any other situation.\nthat said, if you want to be concerned about how power works in many institutions, it\u2019s the boards at middle and smaller schools who are ultimately pulling every lever. (it happens at big schools too, but they tend to be so large it\u2019s hard for a single body to exert too much power in any one direction very quickly) and most of them have no higher ed experience and understanding. and they often lead with that most deadly of questions \u2013 \u201chow hard could it be?\u201d\ndhex\u2019s law of mistake-making: if you don\u2019t fully and personally know the answer to the question \u201chow hard could it be?\u201d, you will invariably find out.\nI know they have power in theory, but from the outside, it doesn\u2019t look like the faculty are exercising that power to secure tenure. The appearance, for all intents & purposes, is that tenured faculty are content with their benefit, and not terribly interested in making certain up & coming faculty are provided the same benefit.\nA nasty case of FYIGM, as it were.\nAnd of course administration has no interest in perpetuating tenure, because it can be expensive and it chips away at their power.\nIn a sense, that\u2019s partly Ruth and Berube\u2019s argument, too, although appropriately caveated and sugared to appeal to tenureds\u2019 sensibilities.\nMy biases shift when it comes to academia. To me, the admins are also the laborers. Moreso the people who are sometimes lumped in with the admin\u2019s because they perform \u201cadministrative\u201d duties. I\u2019m referring to staff who run the offices, to admissions and financial aid staffers, and to advisors.\nThese people do hard work and perform functions tenured professors often wouldn\u2019t want to do.* That\u2019s not to say tenured professors aren\u2019t hard workers. They are.\nYou\u2019re not saying any different. But I wanted to point that out.\n*At Cibolia State University, faculty did the formal advising for undergrads when I went.there (1992-1996). I don\u2019t know how it is now, but I\u2019d be surprised if they haven\u2019t been replaced by people dedicated to \u201cadvising.\u201d I don\u2019t think it\u2019s necessarily bad to have people dedicated to advising, but they cost money for work that a faculty member might be able to do.\nAdmin and bueracracy is a necessary function. I certainly don\u2019t\u2019 have a problem with the people down the food chain doing the work. One thing noted by many over the last couple decades is the growth of upper level admin as one reason for the rising costs of Uni. While some of those positions might be useful i\u2019m sort of skeptical when org charts gets a lot thicker at the top with worse treatment for those down the chart. That is a bad sign.\nI hear that a lot, too, as a cause for increasing costs. For all I know there\u2019s some, or even much, truth to it.\nI\u2019m skeptical that it\u2019s as true as some say, but I confess that I haven\u2019t done even the most basic research to see if it\u2019s true.\nI\u2019m also skeptical of the more tenuous claim (which, to be clear, I know is NOT the claim you\u2019re making) that all we need to do is end the employment of some of those high-level people and lower the others\u2019 salaries, and all will be well in time to give faculty a raise. But here I\u2019m probably guilty of reading that attitude into casual snippets I hear from others. I can\u2019t think of anyone offhand who makes that argument as more seriously than just water-cooler talk. And we all need to vent.\nSO\u2026 buncha feelz? Cool.\nSo after your explanation my \u201chuh\u201d response is same. That US uni\u2019s are leaders in research in many areas doesn\u2019t seem to be controversial but if you have an actual argument against feel free to make it. Well other than Missouri.\nBut, for what it\u2019s worth, I would cheerfully concede that the University of Michigan should keep its tenure. Most of the Ivy League too.\nYou\u2019re getting there. The large land grant Uni\u2019s around the country usually have a lot of research. Plus lots of others in fact. The medical innovation that people love occurs very often in big uni\u2019s and affiliated teaching hospitals. The facts, assuming in some world they actually exist, don\u2019t really support your contention. But please go on.\nThis. I\u2019d add that\u2019s also the case of flagship U\u2019s [sometimes, but not always the same as the land grant U in a given state], and even a lot of the so-called teaching U\u2019s require enough research to make the professors sweat a little before they can finally earn tenure.\nMaybe my \u201ca lot\u201d is too vague. I really don\u2019t know how the number of so-called \u201cR1\u201d U\u2019s and U\u2019s that require a lot of research even though they\u2019re not R1\u2019s compare with the number of U\u2019s that require almost no research.\nPublish or perish isn\u2019t exactly some unknown phenomenon. To get the precious tenure prof\u2019s have to churn out papers. If anything it should be possible to have a teaching track tenure line for peeps who are talented teachers but not that invested in research. That might cut down on less important or uninspired research. But the system as it is now is very invested in cranking out papers. The basic science that Big Pharma relies on to create all their wonder drugs and cutting edge tv commercials comes from Uni\u2019s.\nSo we can have parts of the University with Tenure.\nNo problem. The parts that do medical innovation as part of an affiliated teaching hospital. The parts that do research.\nBut teaching English Lit? Why in the hell would you need tenure for English Lit?\nAnd colleges (let alone community colleges) that don\u2019t do research won\u2019t require tenure at all.\nHere\u2019s a list of colleges in Michigan alone. (I counted 99.) There are a lot more that aren\u2019t large land grant Uni\u2019s than that are. We can sweep away half of those by saying that Bible colleges aren\u2019t really colleges and community colleges aren\u2019t really colleges and we\u2019re left with 50 colleges.\nHow many of those do enough research to require tenure, do you think?\nU of M, fine. We already conceded that we can keep that one.\nBut when we\u2019re defending tenure in the University, we\u2019re not just defending it for the U of M. We\u2019re also defending it for Baccalaureate Colleges. Are we defending the concept for Associates Colleges and arguing that, hey, we need Tenure for Associates Colleges because there are a lot of Large Land Grant Research Universities in this country?\nBecause if you\u2019re saying \u201chey, only Tenure for Large Land Grant Research Universities\u201d, maybe we have more common ground than I thought we had.\nI\u2019m assuming all the Good hard sciences would be fine to have tenure also. It\u2019s those Bad disciplines that don\u2019t deserve it are screwed. Ok, it\u2019s just your value judgment that some disciplines are more worthwhile. At least we are getting somewhere.\nOf course, as noted, tenure doesn\u2019t mean prof\u2019s can\u2019t be fired but whatever. But what this comes down to is you are fine with administrators, maybe even technocrats ( shudder), to fire anyone for expressing non-PC view. I\u2019m not really seeing the upside of that. And i\u2019m not really going to get into that i dont\u2019 really see your 4 reasons for uni as the complete and only reasons.\nI\u2019m assuming all the Good hard sciences would be fine to have tenure also.\nIf they do research as part of the University, of course.\nIt\u2019s those Bad disciplines that don\u2019t deserve it are screwed.\n\u201cDeserve\u201d has nothing to do with it.\nI\u2019m talking about giving it to the discipline due to how it will benefit the mission of the University.\nIf you want to argue that the mission of the University is served by giving a researcher tenure, I\u2019d be down with that. Okay, researchers with tenure benefit the mission of the University.\ncan you think of a department that, on average, attracts more outside attention and controversy? i can think of a few, but as a general umbrella lit tends to attract quite a bit of heat and light.\ni mean, you can start with f them and all that, but in terms of having job protections, starting with a discipline understood to be useless and inflammatory by outsiders seems to be a good candidate for said protections.\n\u201c(adjective) Studies\u201d courses.\nBut \u201cEnglish Lit\u201d seems to me to be one of the core courses without which an American College Graduate cannot truly consider him or herself educated.\ni mean, you can start with f them and all that\nI\u2019m not starting with \u201cf them\u201d. I\u2019m starting with \u201cwhat is the Mission of the University\u201d and asking how Tenure helps the University accomplish its Mission.\nstarting with a discipline understood to be useless and inflammatory by outsiders seems to be a good candidate for said protections.\nI don\u2019t see it as useless and inflammatory. I see it as essential to a modern college education.\nI just don\u2019t see how Tenure makes English Lit better.\nwithout tenure you have several issues:\na) hot controversial authors ain\u2019t gonna teach at your school. some overlap with various critical studies components, same concepts tho. they tend to be big student draws, particularly for MA programs.\nb) who is going to pursue 10+ years of schooling with very, very, very little portability (in and of itself) to any professional fields (it\u2019s actually quite damaging to your professional outlook in other fields, if not fully deadly) without the promise of tenure? very few people want to be adjuncts forever. and there\u2019d be very little to offer beyond \u201chey get paid less than a HS teacher\u201d. that is not a very compelling offer.\nc) less protection from local yokels. those yokels can be on or off campus, but there\u2019s very few great works of literary art that don\u2019t offend someone, somewhere. especially with those people who haven\u2019t actually read the work (which in most cases is probably the vast majority of the yokels)\nd) longer-term instructors have greater experience, and while that doesn\u2019t mean they\u2019ll be better instructors, in most cases it should damn well should make them better. there\u2019s a certain amount of nuance from years of teaching undergrads that helps one teach, for example, \u201cdifficult\u201d works to the broadest group of people. and on the composition side, one would hope even more that experience would help create the most effective learning environments.\ne) the protections of tenure and the benefits that apply to stem or business apply to the humanities equally. if it makes stem instruction better, as you say above, it would generally make any level of instruction better. i know your presumption is that research happens in a lab rather than a library, but that\u2019s about as asinine as presuming that research doesn\u2019t happen at universities and colleges across america. and yes, your presumption is asinine and seemingly random.\nalong these lines, even at small private colleges professors engaged in research \u2013 even in the humanities \u2013 are going to be able to (potentially, individual results may vary because people, etc etc and so forth standard disclaimer) engage undergraduate students in that research. at a small college that is a huge draw for the undergraduate prospectives and their families, as well as being a big benefit for them. even if your research was reading every wingnut extreme critical theory text until you deleuzoguattarian out yer eyeballs, there is still value in teaching both research methods and synthesis in a way that someone who cannot do research (because they gotta hustle) will be unable to provide.\ndhex,\n\u201cExcuse me, I\u2019d like some skin samples, and an IQ Test\u2026\u201d\n(I would totally pay to watch Doumei teaching a college course or two\u2026 Yes, inarguably qualified. but Such A Troll!)\nhot controversial authors ain\u2019t gonna teach at your school\nThis argument makes sense, I guess, for the Harvards and the Princetons and the Large Land Grant Universities. It makes less sense for the Baccalaureate Colleges and Associates Colleges.\nwho is going to pursue 10+ years of schooling with very, very, very little portability (in and of itself) to any professional fields (it\u2019s actually quite damaging to your professional outlook in other fields, if not fully deadly) without the promise of tenure?\nDo we currently have a problem with not enough applicants for empty offices?\nI was under the impression that there were hundreds, not dozens, of resumes submitted for every full professor position.\nless protection from local yokels. those yokels can be on or off campus, but there\u2019s very few great works of literary art that don\u2019t offend someone, somewhere. especially with those people who haven\u2019t actually read the work (which in most cases is probably the vast majority of the yokels)\nI agree wholeheartedly that \u201cPeople Get Offended\u201d is not a reason to fire someone\u2026 but neither is it a reason to create a protected class that prevents people from being fired for anything but \u201cfor cause\u201d.\nlonger-term instructors have greater experience, and while that doesn\u2019t mean they\u2019ll be better instructors, in most cases it should damn well should make them better\nI honestly have no idea why we would need to prevent experienced, skilled, and qualified instructors who do the best job of teaching students from being fired.\nThose aren\u2019t the instructors who need to be protected from being fired.\nThose are the ones who get raises.\nthe protections of tenure and the benefits that apply to stem or business apply to the humanities equally. if it makes stem instruction better, as you say above, it would generally make any level of instruction better.\nI didn\u2019t argue that it makes stem instruction better.\nI would argue that it makes research better.\nAnd, from what I understand, most stem instruction is done by adjuncts and TAs anyway until you get to the upper level stuff.\na few points i\u2019ll make, as we\u2019re on different things.\nso this is objectively wrong for a number of reasons, but first and foremost is that big name schools can attract dozens of big name folk; for a smaller school, being able to do so is a competitive advantage. it\u2019s obviously valuable to them on very many levels.\nit\u2019s not a we question, but a they question, however\u2026how many hundreds of resumes do you think they\u2019d get for permanent adjunctcy? same as now, which is not a ton, particularly in rural and suburban areas (for rural schools, vaps are easier to hire, and often more economical in the mid-term).\ntenure/job security is the main reason these positions are so sought after. the MAIN REASON yo. i mean, c\u2019mon.\nwhat you\u2019re describing is almost exactly akin to an advocate for single payer systems saying that there will absolutely not be any changes in physician reimbursements/accommodations/amenities and certainly r+d on the pharma side will not be affected. the trade-offs may be worth it, but to say a radical reimagining of the landscape will not change the results of said landscape is absurd.\nyou could have written \u201ci have no experience with the academic culture, process, or bureaucracy\u201d and saved a few hundred words.\npardon my mis-typing.\nbut if it makes research better, why wouldn\u2019t it make research better for the humanities?\nBut he\u2019s got FEELZ!\nfirst and foremost is that big name schools can attract dozens of big name folk; for a smaller school, being able to do so is a competitive advantage. it\u2019s obviously valuable to them on very many levels\nIf this is the case, then why are so very many schools culling tenured professor jobs and having classes taught by adjuncts and TAs?\nThis is something happening *RIGHT NOW*, by the way. Well, it\u2019s summer. But you know what I mean.\nit\u2019s not a we question, but a they question, however\u2026how many hundreds of resumes do you think they\u2019d get for permanent adjunctcy?\nFrom what I understand, it\u2019s in the dozens rather than in the hundreds.\nThe professorships? Of course. And adjuncthood is seen as a stepping stone to professorships, I suppose. The brass ring that you have to be riding the adjunct horse to be in a position to grab.\nwhat you\u2019re describing is almost exactly akin to an advocate for single payer systems saying that there will absolutely not be any changes in physician reimbursements/accommodations/amenities and certainly r+d on the pharma side will not be affected.\nWhat I\u2019m describing is what is happening.\nPerhaps the academic culture, process, or bureaucracy is an essay in itself. We could explore why experienced, skilled, and qualified instructors who do the best job of teaching students are not protected by the system.\nBut, to be honest, if they\u2019re not protected by the system, they\u2019ll never make it through the tenure track in the first place.\nbut if it makes research better, why wouldn\u2019t it make research better for the humanities\nWhat notable humanities research has been accomplished in the last decade or so? What great advancements in Art History? Philosophy of Religion? English Lit?\nWithout what would we be languishing today had we not tenured professors in the Humanities Research Universities providing their work and giving an umbrella to the Humanities profs in Baccalaureate Colleges and Associates Colleges?\nSo now you are an expert on the research in all the humanities so that you can say nothing of note has been done??? I know i don\u2019t know if important things have been done in those bad bad subjects, but i\u2019m pretty damn sure you have no clue either.\nYeah admin is culling prof\u2019s. So good for you. More money to the admin and fewer tenured profs. That seems like more power/money to admin/bueracrats and less for labor. I can see why this appeals to you.\nI know i don\u2019t know if important things have been done in those bad bad subjects, but i\u2019m pretty damn sure you have no clue either.\nJust because we don\u2019t know about it, doesn\u2019t mean that they haven\u2019t been done. Sure.\nI\u2019m not sure that the burden of proof ought to be on the skeptic in this case, though.\nWell of course the burden isn\u2019t on you. It shouldn\u2019t take any more then a few tens of thousands of words and a comprehensive lit search of all the humanities to answer the question. So i guess unless i do that your unproven assertion must stand. Fair enough.\nWe\u2019re debating the importance of Tenure when it comes to Humanities Research.\nIf we\u2019re going to count all of the towering achievements that Humanities Research has unearthed as a reason to keep Tenure in the Humanities, it shouldn\u2019t be *THAT* difficult to rely on examples rather than on the argument that nobody knows that there haven\u2019t been any.\nBut it has already been decided, apparently, that the humanities aren\u2019t worth much. So any \u201cgood\u201d research doesn\u2019t matter. And even if it is good it\u2019s not good enough because it is in a non PC field or on something not really important to enough people.\nMan, people like that don\u2019t deserve even the opportunity to say \u201cthat\u2019s not a good example\u201d in response to the examples given.\nWell, I googled \u201cbreakthrough in humanities research\u201d and got bupkis. Some hits have \u201chumanities research\u201d and some have \u201cbreakthrough\u201d. Typical is \u201cBreakthrough in Inflammatory Bowel Disease Research\u201d\nApparently it\u2019s not a field that generates what people term a \u201cbreakthrough\u201d.\nso that i understand the argument being made:\nno worthwhile research? ever? i mean, dang, dude, that\u2019s an awful lot of the human experience not worth researching, studying, or writing about.\nlike, most of it.\nhey i\u2019ll throw you a bone: was bloodlands by timothy snyder worthwhile research? i mean, it\u2019s fairly anti communist to putit mildly so, like, that should be good, right?\ni\u2019d point to a bunch of anthro and archaeology stuff but like, you\u2019d just say nah not worthwhile. except maybe the saving stuff from isis?\na whole ton of literary research and studies are produced every year, but none of that will past muster. obviously. people who do primary research in the field, meaning digging through libraries and manuscripts, birth and death records, tax records, other legal documents\u2026but not worthwhile.\nanyway, this has been fun.\nWell some people want to preserve Western Civilization. If only any of those subjects you listed had anything to do with that.\nWell let\u2019s look at your list.\nanthropology \u2013 it got lost in the weeds with cultural relativism and multiculturalism. .\narchaeology \u2013 They seem to have finally recovered from the post WW-II nonsense that primitive peoples were peaceful, leading them to go to elaborate lengths to say things like stone and bronze age Europeans used all those weapons as ceremonial objects, and that German kings were selected based on their skill at woodcutting because they were all buried with big axes. Lawrence Keeley played a major role in the field\u2019s turn-around. War Before Civilization \u2013 15 years on (PDF). Sometimes academia has to be hit over the head so they regain their sanity.\nhistory \u2013 Keith Windshuttle The Killing of History (pdf) \u2013 How a Discipline is Being Murdered by Literary Theorists and Social Critics.\nIt\u2019s a great book about how history went from things that can be proved with primary source material to a liberal narrative where facts don\u2019t matter. See Cosmos for an example.\nsociology \u2013 A field where only 2.5% of professors are right of center, and far left (1 on a scale of 1 to 11) outnumbers the moderate leftists, centrists, and right wing (who score 5 to 11).\nart and art history The biggest news there is the invention of a new blue color, the first in 200 years, based on yttrium, indium, and manganese oxides. It\u2019s now a Crayola crayon. And it was discovered by chemists, who work in a STEM field, not anyone in the humanities.\nphilosophy Are you kidding? A philosophical breakthrough?\nliterature \u2013 That field has been nonsense since the 60\u2019s, and now mainly serves as a platform for physicists to mock literary journals with hoax articles. The language of literary theory diverged so far from clearly written English that authors can\u2019t understand each other\u2019s papers, instead pretending insider knowledge that doesn\u2019t even exist.\ncomposition All the advances in composition are coming from 14 year-olds on the Internet.\npoetry A field still waiting for someone to beat Homer or Shakespeare.\nmusic Steve Reich is probably the only academic musician of any relevance and influence, and the serious musical advances are left to Katy Perry, Beyonce, and Tokio Myers.\nlanguages It\u2019s been a while since they discovered a new one. Mostly such departments just teach Spanish to people who will never get a good job by speaking Spanish because a Guatemalan can speak Spanish cheaper than they can.\nlinguistics A field still recovering from Noam Chomsky\u2019s natural language BS, which stifled progress for many decades because he was so far to the left politically that nobody dared to seriously question him until Steven Pinker came along.\n(misstatement of argument)\nI am saying that the argument is about whether Tenure serves the Mission of the University. When it comes to Science! and whatnot, I\u2019m willing to agree that Tenure is a direct benefit when it comes to Large Land Grant Research Universities but I\u2019m not sure that the Humanities can make similar claims.\n\u201cOf course they can!\u201d, comes the counter-argument.\n\u201cCan you point to the a breakthrough won by Humanities Research from the last 10 years or so?\u201d is my question.\nAt which point the argument seems to be \u201cI know i don\u2019t know if important things have been done in those bad bad subjects, but i\u2019m pretty damn sure you have no clue either\u201d. (And that\u2019s a direct quote. Not a paraphrase.)\nSo if we are arguing that we need Tenure to protect the Research being done in the Humanities, I\u2019m asking for an example of the benefits given us, as a society, by Research being done in the Humanities.\nThat\u2019s the argument.\nAnd you\u2019ve provided an example of research in response!\nBloodlands! By Yale Historian Timothy Snyder!\nAn excellent example of recent research in the Humanities!\nSo we have an example of how research in the Humanities has created something good, which means that Tenure in the Humanities protected something good.\nAt Yale. So if I concede that Tenure at Large Land Grant Research Universities has demonstrated to be a good thing, do I need to then come to the same conclusion about Tenure at Baccalaureate Colleges and Associates Colleges?\nyeah, this has been an delightfully pointless exercise.\nlet me restate you and george more clearly.\n\u201cwhat have the humanities done to impress me lately?\u201d\nthat\u2019s a much, much shorter conversation.\nFlowcharts for the flowcharts, and an automated Personal Assistant to explain the simplified flowchart.\n*Yes, this level of complexity in storytelling impresses me. (The PA was for explaining to the rest of the writers).\nI understand why you want to argue against that particular position.\nBut look at the academy as it exists right now. Look at the Adjunctification. Look at what\u2019s going on with Tenure *RIGHT FREAKING NOW*.\nYou really think that demonizing the people who ask questions about what benefits Tenure provides to the Mission of the University will be an effective defense of Tenure in the Humanities?\nTenure will go away via attrition at most institutions, held by a handful of greybeards at the not-particularly prestigious colleges and offered to no one but rockstars at the prestigious ones.\nAnd your grandkids will have more college professors without tenure than with it.\nAnd the ones with tenure? Probably won\u2019t be in the humanities.\nThere are times when you might want to be much more obvious about the fact that you are playing at being some manner of devils advocate.\nIt\u2019s more that I think that Tenure is vestigial. Its usefulness is related to the way the University used to be. It\u2019s not related to the way the University is now.\nMe talking about how much more awesome the University used to be would just turn into an argument about Oberlin or something.\nI understand that, but that argument is getting lost in the furball.\nI\u2019m not sure if devil advocate is the thing here. Is the budget going to tolerate tenure dollars/positions for fields that are possibly stagnant?\nNot that I agree all the above listed are marketable or have gone stagnant. I think cases can be made in several that they rise to the level of being useful and innovating in our time.\nI\u2019m not informed of all the ins and outs of tenure, but would predict that the application of value will probably begin to fit a model in what Jay is describing.(assuming it hasn\u2019t already been established) Tenure will have a lot included for the \u2018Rockstars\u2019 but the acoustic barista singers will have a different package.\nNot that I\u2019m saying it is right or wrong, just a observation of value modeling and budget pressure.\ndemonizing?\nthere are approximately 2,500 4 year degree granting institutions in the us. bls says there were 157,540 professors of the humanities (as of 2015) at all colleges.\nyour starting position was to assume that none of these people were doing research that was worth any kinds of protections that would be extended to stem fields, because\u2026you wanted me to tell you why. i gave you an example and for some reason now tenure at yale is good but everyone else has to show you the money.\nif you have ever read any of my previous comments on this topic, i am deeply aware of the future of tenure. and quite dubious on it in general, frankly. i want it for my wife, obviously, because i destroyed my old life to make this possible.\ni\u2019ve also spent many a \u2018graf talking about the lousy job people in certain fields have done in defending their work in public. and in a way that suggests (i hope!) some familiarity with the subject.\ni don\u2019t remember you being this obtuse. perhaps i\u2019ve not paid much attention. regardless, it will not happen again.\nyour starting position was to assume that none of these people were doing research that was worth any kinds of protections that would be extended to stem fields, because\u2026you wanted me to tell you why.\n\u201cany kinds of protections\u201d\nNo. My assumption was that Tenure protection didn\u2019t serve the Mission of the University.\nGreg made a similar misstatement of my argument. \u201cYou\u2019re saying these people don\u2019t *DESERVE* Tenure!\u201d\nAs if \u201cdeserve\u201d has anything to do with the topic.\nAs for the research being worth protections, if we want to argue what a thing is worth, we should be able to quantify it. We should be able to point and say \u201clook! See!\u201d\nIt\u2019s easy, even trivially easy, to do this with STEM. We can even assign a dollar amount.\nWhat\u2019s the dollar amount for a black hole again?\n\u2026 and how many people need to split the money?\nRight neither of us know what may be going on in the varied humanities or what might be good stuff. Neither you nor i nor George know. You guys are just using your tastes as factual assertions.\nGreginak and Dhex:\nI\u2019ve mostly stayed away from this subthread. But I just wanted to say I agree with both of you.\nsorry for messing with the thread. every six months or so i find some higher ed stuff and can\u2019t let it go. usually it\u2019s \u201cadmins caused 9/11\u201d stuff, but diversity nazis was novel enough to fruitlessly engage with.\nBut if I wanted to talk about breakthroughs in STEM in the last decade, I could.\nHere: A breakthrough in engineered arteries. This will help with heart disease. Golly! That\u2019s a big deal!\nAnd digging in gives me information on advancements in biofuels, cancer research, and photosynthesis.\nIf someone asked me \u201cWhat STEM breakthroughs have been provided by large research Universities?\u201d, I\u2019d have about 50 examples in less than 30 seconds and I\u2019d feel my point would have been made after giving a mere four examples.\nI know that in my day-to-day life, I hear about a breakthrough of one kind or another in STEM every other week or so (with exceptions made for the Christmas break). I mean, without even having to look for it.\nBut, as you say, \u201cneither of us know what may be going on in the varied humanities or what might be good stuff\u201d.\nWhat notable humanities research has been accomplished in the last decade or so?\nIf there has not been considerable important research at least informed by religious, philosophical, and historical aspects of Islam and its relationships to the contemporary world, I am sorely disappointed.\nAt what point do you stop talking out of your ass and actually listen to people who really do know what they\u2019re talking about?\nWhen they make arguments rather than telling me that, no, the onus is on me to make the arguments.\nBut let\u2019s restate this and perhaps you can tell me how things *REALLY* work.\nMy assumption is this (let me cut and paste it):\nThe counter-argument is, paraphrased, \u201cyou have no idea how the system works, it is toxic and perverse and does not reward being experienced, skilled, or qualified\u201d.\nSo if experienced, skilled, and qualified instructors who do the best job of teaching students require Tenure to be protected from being fired because the system is toxic and perverse, I\u2019d like to ask \u201cis the system toxic and perverse to the point where experienced, skilled, and qualified instructors who do the best job of teaching students can make it through the Tenure process in the first place?\u201d\nBecause that\u2019d be a hell of a thing.\nMaybe that isn\u2019t the only counterargument.\nOh, this will be hopelessly muddled.\nHere are some links for the qualitative arguments:\nand here\u2019s the link you\u2019ll be needing for the quantitative argument.\n\u201cit\u2019s clear they want to guard the special privileges that tenure offers and retain their prerogative to decide who gets those privileges.\u201d That\u2019s the truth for sure. Michael Berube is a stooge for the status quo. The argument in this book serves people like just him. He\u2019s an elitist but can\u2019t seem to see that in the mirror. Don\u2019t know much about Ruth, but at least she wasn\u2019t a jerk to people who criticized the book, like he was. In the comments of the Inside Higher Ed article about this book, he comes off as a real ass.\nTmesisQuote Link\nto Tmesis\nI haven\u2019t read those comments (or the article). Do you by chance have a link? (I\u2019ll try looking it up, but my Google-fu isn\u2019t what it should be.)\nI should stress that whatever feelings I may or may not have for the author(s) I\u2019m going to keep to myself.\nI do agree that what they advocate for is a form of elitism and they should own that. Despite their denials, they almost do. But they don\u2019t quite get there.\nThere are two articles in IHE and one in Chronicle of Higher Ed. The comments have a similar take as you do. It\u2019s hard to take the two tracks seriously, given that it would involve cutting research out of the professional vocation of the majority of college teachers. As Berube et. al. who are on the upper end were blessed with charmed genes and a natural status above all others that endows them with \u201cresearch\u201d abilities. They seem to believe this \u2013 or argue for it at any rate. Meanwhile Berube comes off as a snotty professor caricature until he starts trolling people who aren\u2019t his peers. Then he\u2019s just an ass and a bully.\nhttps://www.insidehighered.com/news/2015/05/15/new-book-proposes-teaching-intensive-tenure-track-model-address-real-crisis\nhttps://www.insidehighered.com/views/2015/03/10/essay-calling-new-teaching-oriented-model-tenure\nhttp://www.chronicle.com/article/Time-for-a-Teaching-Intensive/230605\nI\u2019ve briefly (very briefly) skimmed the comments from the first quoted article. I didn\u2019t find Berube\u2019s engagement as bullyish or trollish as you did, at least from the cursory glance I gave. So I guess we\u2019ll have to agree to disagree on that.\nI do agree with this, though, from your comment here:\nIt\u2019s hard to take the two tracks seriously, given that it would involve cutting research out of the professional vocation of the majority of college teachers.\nIt\u2019s not so much that I don\u2019t take their two-tracks option seriously. But it\u2019s that adopting that option seems to countermand their \u201cdefense\u201d of the humanities, or at least the part of that defense that depends on more people engaging in research. To me, though, that undermines their \u201cdefense\u201d and not so much their two-track proposal.\nAgain, thanks for offering these links. I might look more closely at them later.\nIt\u2019s hard to see in the way the comments are listed, but Berube stopped responding to Jemina. But then he answers the exact same questions when posed by someone else. That\u2019s on purpose, and the purpose is to demean Jemina. And he will discuss working conditions for adjuncts but can clam up when asked about his own labor status? Nope. He doesn\u2019t get that much privilege allotment from me. openinhibiscus says,\n\u201cIt\u2019s ok to discuss working conditions of some but not all scholars. Some questions may be asked, others cannot. Some may opine, but questions from others go unanswered, or are answered partially.\nJemina is so obviously right to ask questions, in any tone she wants. The dismissive and condescending way her questions are being treated is downright ugly.\u201d\nAside that, comparing people\u2019s serious concerns about their profession to Nigerian email scams is asshole territory, especially from endowed super prof man status. He trolls anonymous commenters, dismissing them as \u201crandom people on the internet\u201d who are \u201chostile and accusatory\u201d which is clearly untrue. Because a commenter is anonymous, or critical of one\u2019s work, their questions don\u2019t matter? People post anonymously precisely because of the professional structural exclusion that his book was supposed to address. Berube should be angry that such a situation could exist, instead of pompous, dismissive, and inflammatory (troll-y) toward the concerns of others.\nThe Wages of Campus Revolts\nAmong Republicans, 58% say colleges have a negative effect on society, while only 36% say they have a positive effect. In 2015 those views were largely the reverse.\nAs the problem gets worse, expect universities to get defunded, dismantled, and shut down. They are not fit for purpose.\nWell at least you aren\u2019t calling for places that don\u2019t agree with you to be shuttered for the crime of having the wrong views. Oh wait\u2026..\nParents are doing that all by themselves. Mizzou enrollment is down 35%. They\u2019ve shut down seven dorms and fired 400 staff.\nRepublican state legislatures are going to be reluctant to continue supporting liberal indoctrination centers.\nRelated: Are the Social Sciences Undergoing a Purity Spiral?\nThe answer is yes, and the spiral will likely produce a whole lot of casualties in academia.\nmizzou has been dropping enrollment for a number of years and has made some bad choices with debt. they\u2019re also ranked fairly bleh-ly \u2013 111 at last count.\nagain, be serious.\nThe also convinced white parents to avoid them at all costs.\nuhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh what bro\nhttps://www.collegefactual.com/colleges/university-of-missouri-columbia/student-life/diversity/\neta: if 78% white student body is avoiding that college then uh most colleges have white students avoiding them, some at even higher rates.\n\u201cUniversity of Missouri \u2013 Columbia is ranked #1,825 in ethnic diversity nationwide with a composition that is similar to the national average.\u201d\nAnd ethnic diversity matter because? Well, obviously because different races must think differently, because worldview and intellectual capacity is a function of race \u2013 or something.\nNow a smart, non-racist person might think that the only diversity that mattered in academia was diversity of thought, of viewpoint, of experience and worldview. That would be wrong. It\u2019s all about race and gender. Everything is about race and gender, and anyone who disagrees with the group on any point is cast out. There must be no free thought. There must be no other views.\nAnd that\u2019s why academia is rotting from the inside.\njesus christmas brah what? you said the protests \u201cconvinced white parents to avoid them at all costs\u201d and i posted some stuff proving that what you said was incorrect, and you\u2019re all talking about whatever the fridge it is you\u2019re talking about.\nit\u2019s a place where the acceptance rate has been in the high 70s for a while\u2026it\u2019s a safety school.\nseriously, this is exactly like the 300 drips in a hotel room pretending to be nazis being two steps away from killing every minority because something something everyone loves having a boogeyman.\n\u201cSee, white students aren\u2019t fleeing! We\u2019re more diverse than ever!\u201d\nMizzou closed seven dorms and laid off 400 staff. That\u2019s because their freshmen enrollment plummeted by 30%. Since blacks only made up 8% of Mizzou\u2019s enrollment, their absence couldn\u2019t explain the decline. Only whites eschewing the school could explain it.\nThe school did this to itself.\nMeanwhile, San Jose state decided to fleece incoming freshman by charging them $250 a head for mandatory diversity and inclusion training, including videos on micro-aggressions and other absolute nonsense. The \u201cdiversity\u201d Nazis will rake in about $1.6 million for brow beating kids into submission and teaching them to fear stepping out of line or having an unapproved thought.\nSomeone\u2019s got to keep those fires of racial resentment stoked because the grievance industry needs a constant influx of money. Liberal jobs depend on it!\nGOOODWINN!\nhttp://www.stltoday.com/news/local/education/enrollment-is-in-fact-down-at-mizzou/article_e7e46947-b8f1-5d78-a166-39ca0446ccea.html\nPreliminary data show a 12 percent decline in out-of-state undergraduate students, and a 6 percent decline of in-state undergraduate students compared to fall 2015.\nGraduate student enrollment also took a hit of about 7 percent.\nmeanwhile, in the same state:\nMissouri State gains\nMissouri State University showed only a slightly smaller incoming freshman group at the start of classes Monday.\nThe university, which is in the middle of a $123 million construction boom on its Springfield campus, had 35 fewer incoming freshmen from fall 2015.\nTotal enrollment, however, is up by 773 students. The university identified transfer students and incoming freshmen as the largest areas of success.\nyou are likely not familiar with graduation demographics in high schools across the country, so enjoy this link:\nhttp://knocking.wiche.edu/nation-region-profile/\nthis is the single most important factor for college admissions for the next twenty years. the most important. period. it\u2019s changing the game on so many levels.\nthis stuff pays my mortgage, brah. i gotta play the game wit the data that exists. i would suggest, very gently, that perhaps you don\u2019t have access to the entire picture?\nmeanwhile, berzerkley continues to thrive even within the crowded CA marketplace. maaaaybe there\u2019s more at play here than what your slice of the grievance industry is telling you?\nhttp://www.middlebury.edu/newsroom/archive/2017-news/node/547587\nand that involved an actual violent mob! its almost like a #4 ranking in usnews is more compelling than #111, even at a sticker price of 61k.\nSee, that\u2019s the problem with colleges. They don\u2019t look at the numbers if they don\u2019t support the narrative. The key part is this:\nAs of the first day of classes, Mizzou enrolled 4,799 freshmen \u2014 the smallest class in almost a decade. That number is down more than 1,600 incoming freshmen from fall 2015.\nThere\u2019s the freshman numbers, uncontaminated by all the sophomores, juniors and seniors. The incoming 2016 incoming class was only 75% the size of the 2015 incoming class.\nAnd why would Missouri State enrollment be gaining? Because white parents were avoiding Mizzou like the plague. One campus wins, one campus loses.\nIt shows that enrollment at Mizzou shouldn\u2019t have plummeted. And in 20 years everybody who doesn\u2019t need a lab will just use the Internet for higher education, which will go the way of the buggy whip.\nAnd I see they continue to refuse to classify Hispanics as white, even if they\u2019re full blooded German or French. That\u2019s because universities are the last bastion of unabashed racism, where segregation is even becoming mandatory. And why don\u2019t they have a racial category for Brazilians if they\u2019ve got one for Hispanics? Someone call the diversity police.\nAnd Middlebury College is bragging that 28% of their incoming class is non-white, in a state that\u2019s 95% white. I imagine they\u2019re getting a new army of race-baiting social justice warriors because the ethnic students probably aren\u2019t from Vermont.\n[having reply issues \u2013 apologies for weird formatting]\nGeorge Turner: And Middlebury College is bragging that 28% of their incoming class is non-white, in a state that\u2019s 95% white. I imagine they\u2019re getting a new army of race-baiting social justice warriors because the ethnic students probably aren\u2019t from Vermont.\nuhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh ok. i\u2019ll take that as \u201cpoint conceded\u201d and back away.\nwhat i\u2019m saying is antifa < rankings. literally. as in it literally doesn't matter as much. riots don't matter as much as rankings and location. which i guess seems insane but people make choices.\nread the times piece from yesterday (if it is not too offensive) because this graf is instructive:\nhttps://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/09/us/university-of-missouri-enrollment-protests-fallout.html\nStudents of all races have shunned Missouri, but the drop in freshman enrollment last fall was strikingly higher among blacks, at 42 percent, than among whites, at 21 percent. (A racial breakdown was not yet available for this fall\u2019s freshman class.)\nBlack students were already a small minority. They made up 10 percent of the freshman class in 2012, a proportion that fell to just 6 percent last fall.\nwhy would mizzou be losing students? because they\u2019re a safety school with an acceptance rate nearing 80%. and who have scared off in and out of state students due to a poorly managed crisis.\nevergreen state college \u2013 big losses, right? must be the marxists and diversity or whatever.\nor it\u2019s because they\u2019re state safety schools with lousy reps who don\u2019t have the ability to bounce back from (quite frankly) poorly managed pr crises. if a school gets into serious financial trouble due to a down year or two, it\u2019s because they\u2019re already in trouble and were papering over the issue with tuition revenue.\nevergreen has been suffering since the beginning of the decade. too many better in-state options, not enough resources and skills to recruit harder with out of state and international populations.\nagain, if it\u2019s really about the antifa and diversity nazis and whatever else, why doesn\u2019t middlebury or berzerkley see these kinds of losses?\nand remember this the next time someone else on this board of the admins = death persuasion tries to say that chasing rankings is stupid. it may not be great (and i dislike usnews tremendously) compared to some kind of idealized university of the mind, but, like\u2026how can you not? rankings = life.\njust ask mizzou.\nAnd in 20 years everybody who doesn\u2019t need a lab will just use the Internet for higher education, which will go the way of the buggy whip.\ni\u2019ll take that bet! besides, why can\u2019t the labs just be 3d printed as part of the online/vr/arg course package? i mean, c\u2019mon. if you\u2019re going to think inside the apocalyptic box, then like\u2026really do so. don\u2019t just do so according to your cultural preferences!\neta: as with many private schools, the vast majority of middlebury\u2019s students are not from vermont. admittedly, it\u2019s like a lot of them (96%) which is atypical for a small lib arts college, but they are very well ranked and have an acceptance rate under 20%.\nhttp://www.middlebury.edu/admissions/start/profile\nAnd why would so many minority students choose to go to Vermont? Because they love being surrounded by white people! It\u2019s like going to Iceland or Norway.\nBut one of the primary reasons enrollment at Middlebury hasn\u2019t fallen off is that they know what\u2019s important. They beat Bowdoin and Amherst in football, finishing with a 6-2 season, and went 27-4 in basketball.\nIn contrast, Mizzou is ranked 95 in football and went 4-8 last year, while their basketball program went 8-24. So why would anyone go there?\ni hope you learned something throughout all of this.\nThe liberal unis learned from the Sharpton/Jackson race hustle.\nno, the CONSERVATIVE unis learned from that (we have one around here: Carnegie Mellon. They do a lot of robots. You may have heard of them).\nWho the FUCK do you think pays Sharpton?\nA person might think that having a different ethnicity or gender might lead to having different experiences and effect a world view.\nBut, if you were looking for a proxy for diversity of thought, would you choose diversity of race? Does the son of black doctors from Massachusetts really shake up the Ivy League with his diverse experience?\nActually yeah a middle/upper class black college student would likely bring some diversity of thought to largely white school. Not the same as a black kid from a poor/WC neighborhood but people of different ethnicities often have very different takes on things.\n\u201cNot the same as a black kid from a poor/WC neighborhood\u201d pretty much concedes my point that diversity of race isn\u2019t a good proxy for diversity of viewpoint. But let me take it further: given that the average Ivy Leaguer has gone to expensive schools in wealthy zip codes, don\u2019t you think he would have already been exposed to the diversity of opinion that comes from proximity to elite black students? They were in the same Chem lab in high school.\nNo. Different races will often have different view points based on their experience due to their race. Middle class or not, race will lead to different views. I\u2019m all for class diversity as well but all middle/upper class people do not have the same experiences and race cannot just be ignored. Class and race both matter.\nThat doesn\u2019t answer my question. Don\u2019t you think that the upper-class white kid would have already been exposed to the upper-class black kid\u2019s perspective? Moreso than to that of the lower-class kid?\nIf the upper class white kid knew other upper class black kids then yeah they might have that experience. Of course diversity is not just there to help white kids. Not every white kid will have black kids in their classes though. Like i said class and race both matter.\nReligion: yeah i think that is a valid area to include re: diversity.\nNext question: what about religiosity? Doesn\u2019t diversity in religion contribute to diversity of experience/perspective? Would you favor religious quotas in university enrollment? And does that idea offend the concept of America more than racial quotas?\nI\u2019m not calling for quotas of certain groups. I think affirmative action is just fine though and think it should aimed by more at class at this point. We still do need to attend to biases that might keep certain groups out and having a diverse student body is a good think as far as i\u2019m concerned.\nLet\u2019s remember that the point of AA in college admissions is not diversity of viewpoint, but diversity of opportunity. Diversity of viewpoint is a nice second or third order effect, but if you hang your hat on it, you weaken the argument for AA.\nOh i was just answering Pinky\u2019s question. Diversity of viewpoint is a good thing but not the reason for AfAm. Opening up opportunities and knocking down various biases is the reason for AfAm.\nActually I think the reason AA is there is to provide employment for the graduates of the _____ studies department, who otherwise couldn\u2019t find jobs.\nIn arguments before the Supreme Court, Justice Scalia said \u201cThere are those who contend that it does not benefit African Americans to get them into the University of Texas, where they do not do well, as opposed to having them go to a less-advanced school, a slower-track school where they do well. One of the briefs pointed out that most of the black scientists in this country don\u2019t come from schools like the University of Texas. They come from lesser schools where they do not feel that they\u2019re being pushed ahead in classes that are too fast for them.\u201d\nHarvard reaches down and grabs black applicants who aren\u2019t really Harvard material, who then fail out of Harvard. Universities lower down the tier do the same, pulling in students who would succeed somewhere else, and having them fail. Who does this benefit? Certainly not all the bright black college students who have their dreams destroyed, leaving them isolated and bitter.\nBut it does benefit the graduates of the _______ studies department who work in the admissions office, because they can brag about how they\u2019re bringing diversity to the inherently racist whites \u2013 by destroying the lives of 19-year old black men.\nOh, and they also make sure Asians stay in their rice paddies, or whatever it is Asians do when they\u2019re not applying to college. Asians don\u2019t deserve to be part of the college\u2019s racial makeup, having no real use to the white-guilt narrative we care about, and they\u2019re not good at football or basketball.\nThe difference between affirmative action and quotas is like the difference between the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Edition and Playboy. Yeah, technically they\u2019re not the same thing, but the intention is the same. One\u2019s just slightly more covered-up but you can still see all the outlines.\nI think there is more of a difference than that. There were many old barriers that prevented POC\u2019s and women from even getting into uni\u2019s among other places. AfAm was aimed at breaking down those barriers. It\u2019s worked pretty well to allow people who would never have gotten into college at all or into an elite institution to gain entrance. People talk about black doc\u2019s in upper class neighborhoods whose kids go on to elite schools. Well most of that is due to AfAm breaking down the old barriers.\nWell most of that is due to AfAm breaking down the old barriers.\nTrue, but if these \u201cold barriers\u201d have been \u201cbroken down\u201d, do we still need AfAm?\nAren\u2019t the benefits of Affirmative action now captured by the black middle class and elites? In the 1970\u2019s, Obama could never have been President and his kids would have needed AA, but what \u201cbarriers\u201d do Obama\u2019s children face now?\nO\u2019s children don\u2019t need it. Lot\u2019s of people, including me above, have said maybe AfAm should focus more on class at this point. That would leave children of presidents out but include poor white kids who wouldn\u2019t get in Uni w/o it. It shouldn\u2019t be there to help rich kids.\nBut they got it anway bc they are black. Get back to me when a significant number of liberals finally get a clue about changing AA. They won\u2019t bc otherwise they\u2019d lose the minority voters they bought with AA.\nWho got in what because they were black? O\u2019s kids???\nOs kids can take advantage of AA b/c they are black and I doubt any lefty politician would deny that they should be able to do so. Being female they would be a AA twofer.\nLot\u2019s of people, including me above, have said maybe AfAm should focus more on class at this point.\nYour \u201clots\u201d is deeply in the minority on this. I can\u2019t think of any Leftish politician who suggest this and any attempt to implement it and the forces of Left-dom organize scorched earth attempts to stop it.\nExactly, I doubt greg could really find these \u201clots of people\u201d that he claims exist on the left.\nnotme:\nThe weird part is the number of true believers.\nIn 2003 Sandra Day O\u2019connor suggested AA should/could only be constitutional for another 25 years.\nThat\u2019s 2028, and the way we\u2019re going nothing much will have changed, and recent statements from Sandra suggest she\u2019d really really look for reasons to keep it even then.\nAs far as I can tell the problem is \u201cpeople want to do something\u201c.\nContinuing my previous comment.\nPolitically AA is roughly equiv to the Mortgage Interest Tax Deduction (MITD).\nIt\u2019s untouchable. It\u2019s currently there because the voters give themselves benefits, not because the policy makes any sense. It\u2019s about power in politics.\nI\u2019d say AA (unlike MITD) has true believers backing it, perhaps including Supreme Court Justices. I\u2019d also say AA is ethically worse because it hurts people, maybe much more than it helps, and because the idea that the gov is allowed (forced) to discriminate based on skin color is heinous.\nUmm AA has been touched and modified. It isn\u2019t\u2019 one thing in every place. I guess this is where the discussion will end. It isn\u2019t\u2019 discrimination and the purpose of AA from the start was clear. It was to break down the doors of racism and sexism that kept many people out of schools and jobs. If the purpose wasn\u2019t clear after all the history that led to it, then\u2026.well\u2026.that is stunning.\nand the purpose of AA from the start was clear. It was to break down the doors of racism and sexism that kept many people out of schools and jobs. If the purpose wasn\u2019t clear after all the history that led to it, then\u2026.well\u2026.that is stunning.\nAA in the 1960\u2019s and the 70\u2019s was government action in response to gov discrimination and could reasonably be argued to benefit the people directly hurt by that discrimination.\nHowever society has changed so much that being Black is a net positive for things like running for President and it\u2019s absurd to give his children AA based on what happened to their (great?)grandparents generation. Obama\u2019s influence (for good or ill) on his children FAR outweighs the influence of gov policy 50 years gone.\n[AA] isn\u2019t\u2019 discrimination\u2026\nTaking scarce college slots away from Asians so they can be given to Blacks is very much \u201cdiscrimination\u201d.\nAnd that discrimination hurts real people based on the color of their skin. That discrimination damages their life plans, and those people are totally innocent of any crimes committed by the gov 50 years ago.\nFor that matter (and it\u2019s insane to need to point this out) those people\u2019s grandparents were also totally innocent of any crimes committed 50 years ago, and if anything they were the subject of discrimination themselves back then.\nThe government has no business checking the color of someone\u2019s skin before deciding how they\u2019re going to treat them. That\u2019s true for the police pulling people over and it\u2019s equally true for college admissions.\nAre you reading anything i wrote? O\u2019s kids don\u2019t need AA.\nIt\u2019s not just about grandparents though. I\u2019d say there is still discrimination against POC to correct but also that we should focus more on class. That would include POC\u201ds who are poor, as many are, but also give a leg up to poor white kids.\nMaybe O\u2019s kids don\u2019t but they still get it and that\u2019s a fact. Get back to us when liberals change AA, lol. We both know liberals never will, though.\nProvide citations for what O\u2019s kids get.\nBut i do believe some people will never learn.\nThey get to take advantage of AA b/c they are black. They are black right? Or are you color blind?\nWhat have they received that they haven\u2019t earned through their own work? Show your evidence.\nI didn\u2019t say they had received anything that they haven\u2019t earned. I said, \u201cThey get to take advantage of AA b/c they are black.\u201d That\u2019s a fact however you try to change the only question that we are discussing.\nIf they didn\u2019t get anything they hadn\u2019t earned then what is the issue. How is being black an advantage if they earned whatever they have gotten? The advantages they have benefited from are from having highly educated, accomplished, successful and famous parents.\nDo you have any proof they earned everything they got? You are assuming they earned it. Show your evidence.\nThe fact remains that they get AA bc they are black.\ngreginak,\nTake the Obama name off the table and notme has a real point. It\u2019s a bad thing when society forces people to wonder if the color of someone\u2019s skin is why he went to Harvard, and whether he actually earned those accomplishments.\nGrades are private, we simply can\u2019t tell if someone \u201cearned\u201d it, and with the way things are structured, it\u2019s not racist to wonder.\nI know it was a trick question since he, and you, can\u2019t answer it. You are just slandering them. You very very much have a choice to wonder how they got in. You don\u2019t have to disparage them or think they didn\u2019t earn it. You are responsible. Society isn\u2019t forcing you to behave. That \u201csociety made me do it\u201d is weak sauce when dished out by you or other conservatives or SJW\u2019s.\nWhat\u2019s even sillier is that it isn\u2019t even new or odd for kids of rich and/or famous folk to get in elite schools but only some have this question about them. It\u2019s like they have to work harder to get the same respect or treated like lesser people.\nAnd yes it is.\nWhat is this trick question? All I can see is you assuming that the Obama kids earned everything they got and didn\u2019t benefit from AA since they are black. You can\u2019t even be honest and admit that they could have benefited from AA even though they don\u2019t need it. That\u2019s really sad.\nObjection: assuming facts not in evidence.\nCounsel hasn\u2019t presented nothing to back up their claim.\nI\u2019m not assuming anything. It\u2019s your claim that you can\u2019t support. Can you present any evidence that the Obama kids earned everything they\u2019ve gotten based solely on their own merit? Just try to be honest.\nFor all we know the Obama kids got where they are b/c are black and their schools needed minority females.\nHow does any student at an elite school prove they got in? If they got in, they got in. You have no reason to doubt them other then your suspicion of Obama and AA. Both of which are under your control and don\u2019t need to be put on young people who have done nothing to you.\nYes, I\u2019m the bad person as usual. And you won\u2019t answer the question as usual. Your statement is even more ridiculous considering how liberals ridiculed Bush for getting supposedly only getting into Yale based on his family name and not his own merit. I guess to liberals, if you are black you get into schools on your own merit and if you are white you don\u2019t.\nYes, that. Focus on this for a moment.\nWBush had to face claims that his daddy\u2019s money purchased him an Ivy league seat. That he didn\u2019t earn his seat, that the school bent over backwards to help him\u2026 that his degree didn\u2019t mean what it should. That it was a lie.\nBecause of AA, every Black who goes to an Ivy, no matter how deserving, has to face the same thing for much the same reason. That\u2019s abhorrent, but trying to pretend this isn\u2019t the direct result of AA is just silly.\nIf we had race-blind admissions Asia enrollment would shoot up and Black enrollment would massively fall but these questions would be eliminated. Further everyone who currently goes to Harvard would absolutely go somewhere, but they\u2019d be well matched academically and we\u2019d eliminate the problem with Blacks failing out of colleges at rates their entrance scores suggest are appropriate (and also eliminate the problem with Blacks changing from hard majors to soft majors).\nIf we had totally blind admission (i.e. no names so no benefit from parent\u2019s name) as well as race-blind then WBush certainly goes to college but probably not Harvard. As for Obama\u2019s kids, ask me in a decade or two, their test scores and class rankings are apparently secret so we\u2019ve got no info at all other than Harvard\u2019s acceptance.\nYou completely have the choice to have abhorrent (your word) views about people. No one is making you do that. You are free to have your own thoughts and beliefs. If you have those abhorrent views, it\u2019s on you.\nSo Bush bought it but AA minorities earned? Nice to know your double standard.\nI build my life around math, logic, and not flinching away from what they show. If the world is \u201cabhorrent\u201d, then that\u2019s what I want to see. Show me that I\u2019m wrong in the facts and I\u2019ll change my mind & world view.\nSo what about my world view do you claim is \u201cwrong\u201d? For example if you\u2019re going to claim Asians wouldn\u2019t go to college in higher numbers and Blacks less in a race-blind process, I\u2019ll point out that this has been tested by a State or two.\nMalia Obama hasn\u2019t ended up in the news for being drunk, high or arrested (unlike other Presents offspring). She was raised by two functional parents with effectively unlimited resources. Those parents apparently care deeply about their children, their children\u2019s education, and they put her into the best schools they could manage (which is to say, the best schools). Malia went to school with the children of other high level, absurdly rich, important people.\nIt is very normal for people like that to go to Harvard.\nNone of that changes that when Malia applied to Harvard, because of AA, she was only evaluated against other Black applicants.\nAll of that is, as you put it, \u201cfacts in evidence\u201d.\n\u201cunlike other Presents offspring\u201d\nThat should be: \u201cunlike other Presidents\u2019 offspring\u201d\nO\u2019s kids don\u2019t need AA.\nFirst, they\u2019re the ones that have it. When we start talking about \u201ccritical mass\u201d of minorities, they count, because the only thing that counts is skin color and these are \u201ccollectivist\u201d rights. So Obama\u2019s kids, by the logic of AA, fully deserve special treatment. And yeah, that\u2019s nuts on the face of it which is why they\u2019re a good example of AA in action.\nWhich brings us back to my accusation that the Black middle and upper classes benefit strongly from AA (even if they don\u2019t need it) and capture the benefits. What Affirmative Action officer is going to let into Harvard some poor Black kid from the inner city when he can have someone like Malia Obama?\n\u2026we should focus more on class. That would include POC\u201ds who are poor, as many are, but also give a leg up to poor white kids.\nThis would at least be Constitutional (and sane).\nMy expectation is that the middle/upper Black class would be opposed, label the idea \u201cracist\u201d, and find all sorts of reasons why it\u2019s a bad idea.\nMy other expectation is focusing on class leads to \u201cwhy do certain class values make that class more successful\u201d which is something else the Left probably doesn\u2019t want to have happen because it\u2019d be divisive.\nHaving Protestant exorcisms on campus is child abuse. Endorsing child abuse in the name of diversity is bad.\n*Yes, I\u2019m aware that Catholics also have exorcisms. They have rules, and aren\u2019t as batshit about the whole thing (even when you have genuine crazy Catholic priests, which have been documented in books)\nThis is another time when you take a bizarre and rare scenario and treat it like it\u2019s the heart of the conversation. If the mention of religion on campus immediately makes you talk about increased exorcisms, either you\u2019re trolling or your frame of reference is way off.\nAlright, I\u2019ll give a serious answer.\nReligion is one of the few things that Colleges really do seem to discriminate about.\nCarlow\u2019s a catholic uni, others are protestant of various denominations. I\u2019m not sure how much this has to do with the day to day, but there\u2019s certainly something there.\nPossibly mostly a historical artifact, but there\u2019s BYU, and if they wanted to say \u201cMormons only\u201d well, we\u2019d probably be okay with it.\nDoes that mean you realized that your first answer was batty? This is the question I always have with you. Is this all performance art or just incredibly odd thinking?\nSometimes it\u2019s one, sometimes it\u2019s another.\nSometimes I\u2019m just being plain obstreperous.\nIn response to your \u201cthat\u2019s not anywhere near the main thrust of my argument\u201d, yes, I can acknowledge that I had sailed cheerfully away on a tangent, and will actually return to the main argument. Eventually.\nKindly remember not to believe anything I say. It\u2019s better that way.\nIt\u2019s uninteresting whether I believe anything you say; it\u2019s interesting whether you do.\nI always believe what I say.\nThe bit about exorcisms has to do with a series of pranks pulled on someone who was a Christian (including Satanic writing with lipstick on mirrors), which eventually led to some horrors perpetrated on her by her parents [The Pranks were not that bad, really. No houses or small dogs were harmed in the pranking.]\nThe Fyre festival was performance art.\nNothing, absolutely nothing, I can do would ever come close, so I generally don\u2019t try.\nYeah, Missouri can still burn, right?\nThe funny thing about liberal indoctrination centers \u2014 science doesn\u2019t lie.\nI believe in American cow colleges, and I believe that a state like Missouri needs farm research just as much as Pennsylvania does.\nOr it\u2019ll burn, and that\u2019ll solve a bunch of problems at once.\nThey\u2019re liberal indoctrination centers because they don\u2019t do science, they ignore science to support the liberal progress narrative.\nCheck the \u201cPurity Spiral\u201d article I linked above. It goes into detail. It even has graphs.\nMichael Mann doesn\u2019t do science now?\nDo I REALLY need to explain to you massively multivariate analysis???\nSeriously, when people say social SCIENCE, they do goddamn mean it.\nhttps://afni.nimh.nih.gov/\nEnjoy your math problems for the day!\nMann only did a malignant form of science where what matters is shocking and unique results that can get the attention of journals and grab headlines. He unwitting explained that in his Congressional testimony. Judith Curry was there.\nHe\u2019s also been savaged by statisticians for not knowing how to use statistics.\nAnd he was just found to be in contempt of court for refusing access to his materials to the defendants in his lawsuits. My friend Rand Simberg is one of the defendants. Mann\u2019s contempt citation now opens him up to massive and expensive repercussions.\nOh, you think Mann is looking for shocking and unique results?\nJesus, man.\nHis results are humdrum and ordinary. Basic science.\nYou can find people out there willing to be a touch \u2026 \u201calarmist\u201d.\nThose are the people who work for the US Military, believe it or not.\nMann\u2019s just someone who works at a cow college trying to get the crops into the ground on time.\nUnless you really think that our growing zones haven\u2019t shifted north a good half-zone in the past fifty years??\nSo glad you believe that the paucity of your melanin makes you dumb.\nhahahahah what\nlet\u2019s be serious for just a minute. (george, this is more addressed to the writer of that piece than you, but i\u2019ll include you as well)\njesus guys i mean, there are literally professors (i know personally) i would pay money to fight \u2013 i\u2019d find a way to raise 10k for some of them and donate the proceeds to charity \u2013 but articles and ideas like these are the totally bonkers mirror image of the incredible panic you\u2019d see within said universities about how they\u2019re all going to have to teach intelligent design and white protestant american because something something trump.\nfunding tinkering at the margins, sure, especially for state schools with direct ties to their legislatures in terms of budgeting or weird rules being introduced by kulturkampfers who don\u2019t want someone teaching about queer latino writers because something something something marxism or whatever idiocy gets blasted from the state house.\nbut let\u2019s be serious: does the pull of a better life matter? does having a college degree still matter?\nthen guess what. not much gonna change (that\u2019s not already in play), because the amount of people actually upset about no platforming at berkeley are both miniscule and \u2013 THIS IS VERY IMPORTANT \u2013 are not going to apply to berkeley:\nhttp://news.berkeley.edu/2016/12/19/85000-students-seek-admission-to-berkeleys-2017-18-freshman-class/\ni mean, that\u2019s staggering (finger on the scale caveats) and it went up 3%.\nall the antifa wankers in the world can descend to no platform jesus and it\u2019ll hold steady or go up again next year. and trump\u2019s off the cuff twitterings about cutting funding are just as fantastical as anything else that comes out of that dingdong\u2019s fingertips.\nMale enrollment is in decline. Those that can do math aren\u2019t seeing a return on investment, and young kids I know don\u2019t see the point of going $50,000 in debt to get a job as a receptionist or as a clerk at Best Buy.\nThe Atlantic: Where are all the high school grads going?\nThe Atlantic\u2019s Gillian White has pointed out that the types of institutions seeing the most significant declines in enrollment tend to offer degrees that provide only marginal improvements in job prospects compared to high-school diplomas. Today, the popularity of a given degree and its return on investment are often \u201calmost inversely related,\u201d said Anthony Carnevale, who directs Georgetown University\u2019s Center on Education and the Workforce. The high-school graduates who tend to forgo college and make it in the economy, Carnevale added, are also the ones who can land jobs that aren\u2019t traditionally associated with higher-education degrees\u2014blue-collar fields such as manufacturing, mining, and agriculture. Carnevale said there are only a few ways to beat the college wage premium\u2014the income advantage of having a college degree\u2014\u201cand generally the only people who beat this game are boys.\u201d\nThe Denver Post: Men saying \u201cno thanks\u201d to college\nIt goes on to reinforce the Atlantic article.\nAlthough more people than ever are attending college, the ratio of male to female students is nearly 1:2. Compare that to 1960, when there were 1.6 males for every female graduating from a U.S. four-year college and 1.55 males for every female undergraduate, according to the National Bureau of Economic Research.\nThe trend will continue, because a lot of people are learning on the Internet. Nolan Bushnell talks about such things all the time. He says our higher education model is completely obsolete, and basically stuck in the early 1900\u2019s.\nok, so i\u2019m calling most of your positions absurdities because i work in the industry and these are absurdities.\nthe gender imbalance is going to continue, and it\u2019s something we see as early as the first year in high school. there\u2019s a number of reasons why, but for the most part it\u2019s effect is culturally overstated in some areas (e.g. the type of media you consume) and understated in others. (e.g. the type of media i consume) it raises some issues both on and off campus, but isn\u2019t nearly as debilitating as anyone (including myself) thought it would be 15 years ago.\ni get that \u201cyoung kids I know don\u2019t see the point of going $50,000 in debt to get a job as a receptionist or as a clerk at Best Buy\u201d is true. i would probably give a lot of them the same advice \u2013 go to a cc for two years, and transfer into a 4 year if you have a plan. if you don\u2019t have a plan, see what shakes down. finishing a BA at 25 is less of an issue than they might think.\n(i\u2019d tell them to avoid the debt as much as possible in the first place in any capacity, including buying a big honking truck, but that\u2019s a different topic)\nhowever, the young kids you don\u2019t know are the ones who are fighting to apply to berkeley. and a bunch of other places. most of them will be mostly ok. it\u2019s the expensive middle/middling ranked private schools \u2013 the ones that are still largely white and in rural areas in particular \u2013 that are going to have to struggle even harder to keep baseline going. and that has a lot more to do with location and cost than any other factor, particularly the cultural and gender stuff you\u2019re focusing on.\nthe only people who care about antifa are the fox news ad sales guys. it\u2019s a meaningless distraction, like the all consuming boogeyman that is the alt-right for their counterparts.\nRoughly 3.75 Billion dollars in worker pay, a year, with a multiplier effect of 4 is 15 Billion dollars added to the NY economy every", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00240.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 2973, + "original_length": 193448, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.96, + "perplexity": 334.6, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "https://patconwell.com/getperson.php?personID=I1323&tree=1", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T04:37:43Z", + "digest": "sha1:MXMDFLO6KCTAU5DTJWCNPKTYR7354OPS", + "length": 350, + "nlines": 4, + "source_domain": "patconwell.com", + "title": "Rachel Schenck b. 19 Feb 1708/09", + "raw_content": "Name Rachel Schenck\nFather Jan Schenck, b. 10 Feb 1669/70, Flatlands, Kings, Long Island, New York , d. 30 Jan 1753, Pleasant Valley, Monmouth, New Jersey (Age 82 years)\nMother Sarah Couwenhoven, b. 6 Jan 1674/75, Flatlands, Kings, Long Island, New York , d. 31 Jan 1761, Plasant Valley, Monmouth County, N.J. 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The senior Kemp gets so nervous, reports Jeff\u2019s wife, Stacy, \u201che\u2019s always rubbing his palms over his knees. I keep thinking he\u2019s going to wear his pants out.\u201d Since Jeff, 25, stepped in at quarterback for injured Los Angeles Rams starter Vince Ferragamo in the third game of this season\u2014after spending three years on the sidelines\u2014Jack\u2019s jitters have worsened. But he swears there will be no repeat of an incident at a 1980 Harvard-Dartmouth game, when Jeff was Dartmouth\u2019s starting quarterback. After a tough first half, the elder Kemp could no longer control his fatherly urges. \u201cThrow a quick out to Shula!\u201d he yelled down to his son at half-time. (David Shula, son of Miami Dolphins head coach Don Shula, was Jeff\u2019s favorite college receiver.) Jeff looked up at his father and screamed, \u201cDad, get out of here!\u201d Recalls the elder Kemp, 49, \u201cI admired him for doing that.\u201d\nYou can\u2019t be too hard on the old man. After all, he knows a thing or two about the game himself. An intense competitor, he spent 13 years as a pro quarterback and led the AFL\u2019s Buffalo Bills to league championships in 1964 and 1965. Now in his seventh term in Congress as a representative from upstate New York, the conservative Kemp is chairman of the House Republican Conference and touted as a presidential contender in 1988. But these days he seems more intent on watching his son guide the Rams into contention for a play-off spot than discussing his political future. \u201cDeep in his heart I know Jeff wants to be first-string quarterback,\u201d says Jack. \u201cI want to see him do well.\u201d\nThrough the Nov. 18 game with Green Bay, the Rams are 6-3 since Jeff replaced Ferragamo as starter. Kemp spends much of his time handing off to Eric Dickerson, the leading rusher in the NFL. But when he does pass, he seldom lets the ball fall into the wrong hands. His five interceptions are tied for fewest in the league. Prior to this season he had appeared in only one game, and his reported salary, a modest $125,000 (average for an NFL quarterback: $300,000), reflects that inexperience. \u201cI\u2019m a late bloomer,\u201d says Jeff, \u201cbut I always knew I\u2019d get my chance.\u201d His success has been a surprise to the Rams. \u201cHe has a strong arm and good quickness,\u201d says head coach John Robinson. \u201cJeff thrives on competition. I believe it is genuinely fun for him.\u201d\nLike his father, Jeff is handsome, square-jawed and a conservative thinker. Homespun values of hard work and preparation were drilled into him from childhood: \u201cMy father would always say, \u2018You\u2019re a Kemp. Be a leader.\u2019 \u201d The eldest of four, Jeff was born in Santa Ana, Calif. \u201cMy father was playing in Canada and didn\u2019t see me until six weeks after I was born,\u201d Jeff says. The Kemps lived in Buffalo when Jack was playing for the Bills and moved to Bethesda, Md. after he was elected to Congress in 1970.\nA starting quarterback in high school (\u201cI could always throw a football better than any kid on the block\u201d), Jeff majored in economics at Dartmouth and was a respectable, if hardly spectacular, starter for two of his four years there. His dad admits: \u201cI spent more money going to football games at Dartmouth than I did going to college [at L.A.\u2019s Occidental] in the first place.\u201d\nJeff\u2019s college statistics did not attract many pro scouts. \u201cThe Rams were the only team that wanted me,\u201d he says. \u201cThe advantage of being my father\u2019s son was that I wasn\u2019t in awe of the NFL.\u201d He and Stacy, 24, live in a town house in Laguna Hills. In the off-season Kemp is studying for an M.B.A. at near-by Pepperdine University and is a jock of all trades\u2014he skis, golfs and plays tennis. And like his father, he gives motivational speeches to business, civic and church groups. \u201cI guess that\u2019s the politician in me,\u201d says Jeff, who has no plans to enter politics. Both Jeff and Stacy, who are nondenominational Christians, are deeply religious. \u201cGod obviously wanted us together,\u201d says Stacy. \u201cWe feel He had a plan for us.\u201d\nThe Lord may be their shepherd away from the Rams\u2019 Anaheim Stadium, but it\u2019s coach Robinson who will call the signals for Kemp\u2019s immediate future. Robinson is coy about revealing what will happen when Ferragamo, who broke his hand, is ready to play again this month. Kemp is characteristically philosophical. \u201cIf Vince comes back, I will understand that and accept it,\u201d he says. \u201cI\u2019ve done the best that I can.\u201d The indecision over Jeff\u2019s future may be more agonizing to Jack than any election night he has sweated out. \u201cIt\u2019s tough being the father of a quarterback,\u201d he says. 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New drugs are developed weekly, and your brands need support from doctors, insurers, community pharmacies, and other medical practitioners to get them prescribed. The pharmaceutical consultancy is there to advise companies and updates them on the recent laws and regulations in the pharmaceutical industry. When getting involved in your company, they work with you from developing the product to making sure they last in the market. Pharmaceutical consultant companies specialize in licensing, brand management, clinical development, business developing, medical affairs, trade, and sales. They guide their clients and help them make money while still within the law. They assess your clinical operations and design new procedures that are more cost-effective and efficient.\nIt is crucial to understand that there are various forms of pharmaceutical consulting at https://smartpharmaconsulting.com/. Some of the manufacturers hire firms to assist them with minor compliance issues while others hire them based on a comprehensive pharmaceutical training program for the entire staff. That is why you need to choose a consultancy firm based on your needs. You need to select a team of experts who will match your type of medical devices or pharmaceutical drugs that you manufacture. These consultancy firms have a broad knowledge of issues like good manufacturing practice, quality assurance, and FDA compliance. It might be difficult to find the right consultant since there are many consulting firms available in the market today.\nBefore you choose lean laboratory firm for your pharmaceutical business, you first need to define your needs and set your company\u2019s goals. It is crucial that you identify specific issues that you need to solve or the particular areas that you must emphasize. There are new consulting firms that emerge every day. Make finding the right firm that will provide the best results your primary concern. You can choose a company that has been in operation for a long time but, that does not necessarily mean they are the best.\nHowever, you can find a new pharmaceutical consulting firm that has been founded by a specialist who has been in business for long periods. Instead of choosing standard services to look for customized services. A good firm is the one offering tailored services and products to meet their client\u2019s unique needs. It will be easier for them to solve your business issues if they offer customized services. When looking for long-term solutions, you need additional training for your employees. For that reason, it is crucial to look for other training services. 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Would love pointers to other references relating to hype and the human genome project (including references that think it was not overhyped). I note - see some of my previous posts about this issue including: Human genome project oversold? sure but lets not undersell basic science and various Overselling Genomics awards.\nHere are some things I have found:\nWhite House press conference on announcing completetion of the human genome\nGenome science will have a real impact on all our lives -- and even more, on the lives of our children. It will revolutionize the diagnosis, prevention and treatment of most, if not all, human diseases. In coming years, doctors increasingly will be able to cure diseases like Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, diabetes and cancer by attacking their genetic roots. In fact, it is now conceivable that our children's children will know the term cancer only as a constellation of stars.\nCollins et al. New Goals for the U.S. Human Genome Project: 1998\u20132003\nThe Human Genome Project (HGP) is fulfilling its promise as the single most important project in biology and the biomedical sciences\u2014 one that will permanently change biology and medicine.\nHuman Genome -The Biggest Sellout in Human History\nNOVA: Nature vs. Nurture Revisited\nAfter a decade of hype surrounding the Human Genome Project, punctuated at regular intervals by gaudy headlines proclaiming the discovery of genes for killer diseases and complex traits, this unexpected result led some journalists to a stunning conclusion. The seesaw struggle between our genes (nature) and the environment (nurture) had swung sharply in favor of nurture.\nThe human genome project, 10 years in: Did they oversell the revolution? in the Globa and Mail by Paul Taylor referring to: \"Deflating the Genomic Bubble\"\nAlso see Genomic Medicine: Too Great Expectations? by PP O Rourke\nAlso Has the Genomic Revolution Failed?\nAnd Human genome 10th anniversary. Waiting for the revolution.\nThe Medical Revolution in Slate.\nA Decade Later, Genetic Map Yields Few New Cures in the New York Times.\nIn announcing on June 26, 2000, that the first draft of the human genome had been achieved, Mr. Clinton said it would \u201crevolutionize the diagnosis, prevention and treatment of most, if not all, human diseases.\u201d\nAt a news conference, Francis Collins, then the director of the genome agency at the National Institutes of Health, said that genetic diagnosis of diseases would be accomplished in 10 years and that treatments would start to roll out perhaps five years after that.\nBursting the genomics bubble - Nature 2010\nHas decoding the genome lived up to hype? BBC - 2010\nThe ethics of expectations: biobanks and the promise of personalised medicine.\nNNB report: Ten years later, Harvard assesses the genome map where regarding Eric Lander:\nAt the same time, , he said genomic research has \u201cgone so much faster than I would have imagined.\u201d He cited \" an explosion of work that will culminate, I think in the next five years, in a pretty comprehensive list of all the target that lead to different kinds of cancers and give us a kind of roadmap for finding the Achilles heel of cancers for therapeutics and diagnostics.\"\nwhile at the same time he blamed the press for the hype\nFrom Great 15-Year Project To Decipher Genes Stirs Opposition in the Times June 1990\n'Our project is something that we can do now, and it's something that we should do now,'' said Dr. James D. Watson, a Nobel laureate who heads the National Center for Human Genome Research at the National Institutes of Health. ''It's essentially immoral not to get it done as fast as possible.''\nNote the article has many complaining about the hype in the genome project even then ..\nFrom SCIENTIST AT WORK: Francis S. Collins; Unlocking the Secrets of the Genome\nAnd, Dr. Collins adds, there is nothing more important in science and medicine than the project he heads\nDr. Collins predicts that within 10 years everyone will have the opportunity to find out his or her own genetic risks, to know if cancer or heart attacks or diabetes or Alzheimer's disease, for example, lies in the future.\nFrom READING THE BOOK OF LIFE: THE DOCTOR'S WORLD; Genomic Chief Has High Hopes, and Great Fears, for Genetic Testing June 2000 in the NY Times\nThe story goes through some predictions Francis Collins made for the future in a talk. These included:\nBY 2010, the genome will help identify people at highest risk of particular diseases, so monitoring efforts can focus on them.\nIn cancer, genetic tests will identify those at highest risk for lung cancer from smoking. Genetic tests for colon cancer will narrow colonoscopy screening to people who need it most. A genetic test for prostate cancer could lead to more precise use of the prostate specific antigen, or P.S.A., test by identifying those men in whom the cancer is most likely to progress fastest. Additional genetic tests would guide treatment of breast and ovarian cancer.\nThree or four genetic tests will help predict an individual's risk for developing coronary artery disease, thus helping to determine when to start drugs and other measures to reduce need for bypass operations.\nTests predicting a high risk for diabetes should help encourage susceptible individuals to exercise and control their weight. Those at higher risk might start taking drugs before they develop symptoms.\nBY 2020, doctors will rely on individual genetic variations in prescribing new and old drugs and choosing the dose. Pharmaceutical companies will take a second look at some drugs that were never marketed, or were taken off the market, because some people who took them suffered adverse reactions. It will take many years to develop such drugs and tests.\nCancer doctors will use drugs that precisely target a tumor's molecular fingerprint. One such gene-based designer drug, Herceptin, is already marketed for treating advanced breast cancer.\nThe genome project holds promise for the mental health field. ''One of the greatest benefits of genomic medicine will be to unravel some biological contributions to major mental illnesses like schizophrenia and manic depressive disease'' and produce new therapies, Dr. Collins said.\nLabels: microbiomania, Overselling genomics, Overselling genomics award, overselling the microbiome\nSri Kosuri 12/06/2014 8:04 PM\nCollins 2001, Congressional Testimony, http://www.hhs.gov/asl/testify/t010725b.html : \"... The rapid advances in the Human Genome Project and the study of the role genes play in health and disease are providing powerful tools for us to understand the instructions in our genetic material. We are daily gaining insights into the mysteries of the human cell, how it works, and why sometimes ... it doesn't. Initially these discoveries about genetic diseases related to relatively rare conditions, but increasingly now the same powerful approaches are uncovering hereditary factors in heart disease, diabetes, Parkinson's disease, bipolar illness, asthma and other common illnesses of our society. These revelations hold within them the promise of a true transformation of medical practice. Quite possibly before the end of the first decade of this new millennium, each of us may be able to learn our individual susceptibilities to common disorders, in some cases allowing the design of a program of effective individualized preventive medicine focused on lifestyle changes, diet and medical surveillance to keep us healthy. This will also enable us to focus our precious health care resources on maintaining wellness, instead of relying on expensive and often imperfect treatments for advanced disease.\nThese same discoveries about genetics likely will lead us to predict who will respond most effectively to a particular drug therapy, and who may suffer a side effect and ought to avoid that particular drug. Furthermore, these remarkable advances are expected to lead us to the next generation of designer drugs, focused in a much more precise way on the molecular basis of common illnesses, giving us a much more powerful set of targeted interventions to treat disease.\"\nThe coverage outraged Eric Lander, who was one of the leaders of the Human Genome Project and now directs the Broad Institute, a leading biomedical-\u00adresearch center that is a collaboration of Harvard University and MIT. \u201cI\u2019d like to see a quote where I ever hyped it,\u201d says Lander. \u201cI\u2019m on record saying this is going to take a long time, and that the next step is to find the basis of disease, and then you have to make drugs. I said this is going to help our children\u2019s children. Going from the germ theory of disease to antibiotics that saved people\u2019s lives took 60 years. We might beat that. But anybody who thought in the year 2000 that we\u2019d see cures in 2010 was smoking something.\u201d Forgot to add link: http://www.technologyreview.com/featuredstory/422140/the-human-genome-a-decade-later/\nFrom: http://www.achievement.org/autodoc/printmember/lan0int-1\nEric Lander: It will. That's not to trivialize in any sense the work that has to come. In some sense, the description of genomes is just the start. All it does is it lays out the 100,000 components on the surface of the table. It doesn't tell us how they act. It doesn't tell us their roles. It doesn't tell us the circuits they build. It doesn't tell us the variation in the population. In some sense, it will be seen not as the culmination that the media today wants to associate with the Genome Project, but as barely the start. Indeed, I don't view the sequencing of the human genome as itself a goal. I view it as the starting line, not the finish line in any particular race.\nSri Kosuri 12/06/2014 11:07 PM\nThis was '99 for context.\nfrom bbc 1999: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/297166.stm\n\"Identifying the three-billion-long sequence of chemical markers which make up the human genome will be an astonishing achievement. But in a sense, it is only the beginning.\nThe \"post-genome\" science will be to work out what each of the mapped genes actually does in the body. Scientists only understand the function of a relatively tiny fraction of our genes at present.\"\nNYTimes coverage on rough draft http://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/featured_articles/000627tuesday.html:\nUnderstanding the human genome is expected to revolutionize the practice of medicine. Biologists expect in time to develop an array of genomic-based diagnostics and treatments tailored to individual patients, some of which will exploit the body's own mechanisms of self-repair. The knowledge in the genome can also be used in harmful ways, particularly in revealing patients' disposition to disease if their privacy is not safeguarded, and in provoking discrimination.\nOnly 14.4% of british coverage of the hgp used therapeutic implications as the dominant theme: http://www.nuff.ox.ac.uk/users/donovan/hgmp.pdf\nGreat find with this article --\nWhether it was the dominant theme or not, it was a major theme in more than 14% and look at some of those quotes from the section on therapeutic implications\n\u201cScientists have finally cracked the human body\u2019s genetic code \u2013 and believe it could lead to cures for EVERY disease\u201d, in \u2018GENE CODE COULD BEAT ALL DISEASE\u2019 (The Sun, 26/06/00, p.12, emphasis in original).\n\u201cMedicine in the 21st Century will be revolutionised by the decoding of the human genome \u2013 the 3 billion letters in the \u2018Book of Life\u2019\u201d, in \u2018DISCOVERIES BRING IN AGE OF DESIGNER MEDICINES: HEALTH\u2019 (The Independent, 27/06/00, p.4).\n\u201cCancer is one disease that has already undergone a minor revolution in the dawn of the new genetics\u201d, in \u2018WE NOW HAVE THE KEY TO UNLOCK THE CAUSES OF CANCER: TREATMENTS\u2019 (The Independent, 27/06/00, p.4)\n\u2018THREE OTHER ILLNESSES THAT COULD BE DEFEATED: MUSCULAR DYSTROPHY - CYSTIC FIBROSIS - HEART DISEASE\u2019 (The Independent, 27/06/00, p.4)\n\u2018HOW DNA CODEBREAKERS WILL CHANGE ALL OUR LIVES: WE ANSWER BIG QUESTIONS ON GENETICS BREAKTHROUGH\u2019 (The Sun, 27/06/00, p.8, emphasis in original).\nAnd also look at the quotes in other parts of that article\n\u201cIt has been called the scientific project of the millennium \u2013 biology\u2019s equivalent of landing a man on Mars\u201d, in \u2018CRACKING THE SECRET CODE THAT MAKES US WHAT WE ARE: GENETIC BREAKTHROUGH HERALDS CURE FOR HUNDREDS OF DISEASES\u2019 (Daily Express, 26/06/00, pp.18-19).\n\u201cIt is a staggering achievement. For the first time in history, we are able to read our own draft of genetic instructions\u201d, in 'A DISCOVERY THAT WILL TOUCH THE LIFE OF EVERY PERSON ON THE PLANET' (The Independent, 27/06/00, p.1)\n\u2018THE BREAKTHROUGH THAT CHANGES EVERYTHING: INTRODUCTION\u2019 (The Guardian, 26/06/00, Tabloid Supplement, p.3)\n(though some were tempered .. \u2018\nBENEFITS \u2018SOME DISTANCE IN THE FUTURE\u2019\u2019 (The Times, 27/06/00, p.4))\n\u2018I HATE TO BE A SPOILSPORT, BUT DON'T GET SO EXCITED OVER THE HUMAN GENOME PROJECT\u2019 (The Independent, 29/06/00, Review: p.4, emphasis in original)\nAlthough also see Mapping the human genome: An assessment of media coverage and public reaction which has some useful additional information.\n\"In the discussions of medical implications, 82% of television and newspaper/wire reports referred to the ability to predict disease, 74% talked about disease prevention, and 78% discussed the potential for developing new treatments for disease as a result of mapping the human genome.\"\n\"Overall, 71% (n = 163) of respondents said that the impact of the genome mapping on people will be the prevention and treatment of diseases. Of these 163 participants, 33% believed such medical advances are already occurring or will occur within the next 5 years, 23% said advances will occur within 5 to 10 years, and 24% said it will be 10 or more years before such advances take place. \"\nQuick post: Viruses - don't forget about the virus...\nPaper of possible interest: Exploring interactions...\nDo preprints count for anything? Not according to ...\nBuzzfeed includes microbiomes in \"77 facts\" but al...\nCrosspost - papers for sale\nGreat idea from Nicole King - Lists of Women Speak...\nNew lab paper: The microbes we eat: abundance and ...\nSome history of hype regarding the human genome pr...\nSome notes on \"Citations for Sale\" about King Abdu...", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00240.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 375, + "original_length": 20912, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.92, + "perplexity": 289.6, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "https://pinterestmom.wordpress.com/2012/10/", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T03:43:10Z", + "digest": "sha1:GCPWEUB5XFCDD633L4PN2FQW4ZI4PZOH", + "length": 23392, + "nlines": 103, + "source_domain": "pinterestmom.wordpress.com", + "title": "October | 2012 | Mommy Matters", + "raw_content": "Rain, Wind and Hurricanes, Oh My!!!\nEvening everyone! I am sitting in my toasty home, riding out the remains of hurricane Sandy. Luckily, the storm tracked more north than originally thought, and our lovely Blue Ridge Mountains blocked the brunt of the storm. Winds and a rainy night are what we are dealing with right now. Not sure what the morning will bring\u2026but I am armed with flashlights & candles :).\nIt\u2019s been a while since my last post and I apologize. Like I said earlier, I\u2019ve been busy working on Christmas gifts and most of them I can\u2019t post yet, because some of my readers are receiving said gifts. All I can say is I\u2019m super excited and they\u2019re really cute!!! And yes, I got them off of Pinterest. Never fear! I will be giving them to my family members at Thanksgiving and not Christmas, so I will post about them and you can make them for your loved ones in time for Christmas.\nThe good news is I\u2019m about 85% done with getting my gifts together\u2026and I think I\u2019m done making the gifts\u2026unless I find some cute ones on Pinterest.\nSo, other than prepping for and going through a hurricane, and sewing my heart out, what have I been up to? Sadly, not too much!! School is out tomorrow, so my main plan is to stay home and clean (I have neglected my house\u2026sewing is more fun than cleaning, in case you didn\u2019t know).\nI found this on Pinterest and love it!!! My, how times have changed! I\u2019ve discussed this with my mother-in-law, and neither of us follow the Singer Sewing Manual when it comes to sewing. I have to admit, there have been times when I have sewn in my pj\u2019s!!\nOur life has taken an interesting turn recently, which has made things a little more hectic. My hubby, who has been the Involvement Minister at or congregation for a little over 4 1/2 years is now the pulpit minister. Our pulpit minister who has been here for 19 years, retired in June. The leaders approached my hubby a few weeks ago and asked if he would step into this new role. He agreed and they announced it a week ago to the congregation! It becomes official in January.\nWe\u2019ve had an onslaught of congrats and encouraging words, which we deeply appreciate. It\u2019s funny to us how some people view ministry. You start out as a youth minister, then go into an associate minister role, and then eventually, you get promoted to pulpit minister. A step ladder approach. Nothing wrong with that, but we choose to look at it a little differently.\nWe have prayed for the past several years that God would lead us to a place where we could be used and do His Will. Almost 5 years ago, He led us to Virginia. That move was hard, but I think it has been good for us. We\u2019ve gotten out of our comfort zones and have grown as a couple and a family. Now, we face a new adventure.\nIf you are willing, I would love to ask for your prayers. This is new territory for both of us. We both grew up with fathers who are ministers (I know\u2026a preacher\u2019s kid marrying a preacher\u2019s kid\u2026scary!). My hubby has been a minister is one role or another for 14 or so years, but this new role\u2026new responsibility weighs heavy on our minds and hearts. Please pray that most of all, we keep God and His Will in the forefront of our thoughts and actions. Please pray that we are strong enough to handle the responsibilities that will come our way. Pray that I can be a supportive wife who helps and not hinders her husband :). And pray that this arrangement blesses our congregation and brings glory to God!\nHurricane SandyPinterestsewing\nOctober 24, 2012 pinterestmom\t1 Comment\nI have another Christmas gift craft blog!! Yay! Two more gifts down, many to go. I\u2019m feeling pretty good about the situation. In my family, between the middle of November and right before Christmas, there are 8 birthdays!! All of my nieces and nephews, my mother, my mother-in-law, hubby and grandmother. I\u2019m not sure who planned this, but we should have spaced them out!! Oh well \ud83d\ude42\nOf course, I got this idea off of Pinterest. Here\u2019s the link:\nhttp://justanotherhangup.blogspot.com/2010/11/lil-kid-crayon-caddy-tutorial.html\nI made two of these crayon caddy\u2019s for my niece and nephew (almost 1 year old & almost 3 years old). I thought they would be nice for them to take on trips or to church\u2026nice & quiet toys. No batteries required!!\nThis is the outside of my niece\u2019s crayon caddy. They fold up and will fit nicely into a diaper bag\u2026or if you\u2019re me\u2026a purse.\nThe top will house crayons (about 8-9) and the bottom will hold a small coloring book and some stickers or other papers.\nHere\u2019s the nephew\u2019s crayon caddy \ud83d\ude42\nOf course, I will be replacing the markers for crayons. The only crayons I could find were my daughter\u2019s and they were the fatter crayons and won\u2019t fit into the pockets.\nI love, love, love this tutorial!!!! I was well written and the pictures corresponded very nicely with the directions. I cut out material for both of the crayon caddy\u2019s one day\u2026which took me about 1 1/2 hours (I\u2019m a slow cutter!). I sewed on caddy last night and it took me about 1 1/2 hours. I sewed the second one this afternoon and it took me less time than the first!\nThe cost for me was minimal (my sister-in-law should skip this part\u2026I don\u2019t want her to know how cheap I am!!). I used scrap material from other projects and only had to buy the fusible interfacing, which ran me less than $1/caddy. I will pick up crayons and coloring books to fill them and they\u2019ll be ready to go!\nI love finishing a project like this. It was so much fun to make and super easy. I would say that it would be a great project for a novice sewer and could be done for a last minute gift.\nI believe this is my last Christmas gift post until after I give them \ud83d\ude26 The rest of the gifts are for people who can actually read\u2026\nChristmas giftCraftPinterest\nIt\u2019s Like a Yard Sale\u2026But Everything Is Free\nWe have a lot of stuff. It\u2019s amazing how one family of four can collect/generate the amount of \u201cstuff\u201d that we do. I think if most Americans look around their house, they have a lot of stuff too. The question then is raised \u201cWhat should we do with all of this stuff???\u201d\nWell, you could hang on to it for years\u2026just in case you might need, you never know. You could just toss it in the trash\u2026sometimes seems like the easy thing to do.\nWell, about 4 years ago, one of our church\u2019s Agape groups brought some of their \u201cstuff\u201d and put it on a table in our foyer. They said it was for anyone in the congregation who wanted it or needed it. When we saw that, we thought \u201cWow! Great idea! We have some stuff that could go on that table too!\u201d Then, we had another thought\u2026\u201dWhy not have everyone in the congregation donate their stuff & we\u2019ll offer it to the community\u201d. Thus, the Free Sale was born.\nFree Sale\u2026Like a yard sale, but everything is free!! That\u2019s our slogan. Today was our 4th annual Free Sale. For about one month or so, our members have been collecting, donating and sorting clothes, furniture, household items, toys\u2026the list goes on and on and on. We then put it all on tables and cart it out to our parking lot & invite the neighbors!\nIn the beginning, people were shocked. Really? This doesn\u2019t cost us anything?? In this day and age, it\u2019s hard to think you can get something for nothing, but we are serious\u2026don\u2019t give us a thing. We want to help you out. Come visit us sometime though! We would love to worship with you!!\nThroughout the years, we\u2019ve met a lot of people from our town. Many are so grateful for what we are doing. The stories we hear are amazing. Last year, one family shared with us that they weren\u2019t able to get their children back to school clothes but, because of the Free Sale, they were able to get some much needed clothes.\nSomewhere along the way, we started serving hot dogs. I always get tickled because they start handing them out early. Today\u2026they were cooking them when I arrived\u2026around 9:30 & by 10, people were shopping with one hand and eating a hotdog with the other :). Maybe a little too early for me\u2026but whatever works for you!!\nFree Sale is a lot of hard work & we couldn\u2019t do it without everyone pitching in. There are times to sit back & relax though!!\nWe do manage to have a lot of fun!! It\u2019s great to get together with a lot of other Christians and work to share God\u2019s blessings with those around us.\nNow, I don\u2019t want to give you the impression that I\u2019m bragging\u2026look how good we are\u2026look at what we\u2019re doing. I\u2019m sharing to give the glory to God & hope that maybe this will inspire you to do something similar.\nI heard a phrase a long time ago & it stuck with me. I\u2019m not sure who the author is, but it goes something like this: \u201cPeople don\u2019t care how much you know, until they know how much you care\u201d. When I think of this, I think of Jesus.\nJesus only had a 3 year ministry, but look at all he did during that time. He healed the sick, gave sight to blind, raised the dead, fed thousands with hardly any food at all. John says this:\n\u201cJesus did many other things as well. If everyone one of them were written down, I suppose that even the whole world would not have room for the books that would be written.\u201d John 21:25.\nThree years. Jesus made it very clear how much he cared for the people he came in contact with. He met them where they were and made that connection. As we strive to be more like him, we need to remember that.\nSo, our Free Sale is over. The Goodwill truck has come and picked up the things that didn\u2019t get taken. Tables have been put back and our houses are a little bit emptier than they were before. Now what?? My hope is that we will follow up with those who came to our Free Sale\u2026to show that we\u2019re truly interested in them\u2026that we\u2019re not just interested in getting rid of a bunch of our \u201cstuff\u201d. We want to give them something even more valuable than clothes or toys or a couch. We want to teach them about what God has done for them. That Gift is truly free.\nAside October 20, 2012 pinterestmom\tLeave a comment\nFree SaleJesus\nA Tutu For You\nPolitical season is in full swing. The radio and television stations are buzzing. I see bumper stickers and yard signs all over the place. Fear not\u2026in about 3 weeks, it will all be behind us.\nSo, while watching the 2nd Presidential debate, I decided to be productive. For Halloween, Sophie is going to be Rapunzel. It was really a no brainer\u2026Tangled is one of her favorite movies. Her hair is really long and she has a stuffed Pascal (the chameleon) toy. She even has a crown. All she needed was a pink and purple tutu.\nA while ago\u2026.about the time I started looking on getting hooked on Pinterest, I pinned a tutorial on how to make a tutu. Here\u2019s the link:\nhttp://asmallsnippet.blogspot.com/2010/10/quick-and-simple-tutu.html\nI actually started following this blog soon after I pinned the instructions. The lady writing it has 2 kids\u2026a boy and a girl. It appears she lives in Florida\u2026and if her pictures are correct\u2026right on the beach! Jealous much?? Anyway, she has some really neat ideas and projects.\nI found pink & purple tulle at my local Wally World (yay!) and started cutting. In the tutorial, there are instructions for cutting the strips of tulle so that they\u2019re all the same length. It\u2019s very handy!\nI had measured Sophie\u2019s waist last night and followed the directions in the tutorial. I don\u2019t know if I measured her wrong or if maybe I stretched the elastic out too much and add length to the tutu, but when it was all said and done, the tutu was about 3 inches too big around.\nHere\u2019s how it turned out last night, before Sophie tried it on. To make it smaller around, all I did was remove the tulle strips, pinch the elastic together and sewed it together (does that make sense?). I figured this way she can wear it a little longer. I can always go in later and let it out. I kept the tulle strips that I took off, so I can add them later (how smart of me!).\nThis will not be the shirt she will wear with the tutu. As soon as she got the tutu on, Sophie immediately asked for her crown, or trown, as she pronounces it. She has this princess thing down!!\nThe title of the project is quick & simple tutu, and I have to agree!! I started the project at the beginning of the Presidential debate and finished it as the debate was wrapping up. Keep in mind, I had to cut the tulle, which took up a lot of my time. The tulle I got from Wal-Mart was on the bolt. You can buy narrower pieces on a spool at other craft stores, but they didn\u2019t have any in the colors I wanted\u2026and I have to do things the hard way. I had to put in a little extra work\u2026.all worth it though \ud83d\ude42\nFor this particular tutu, I got 3 yards of each color and I had just enough. I would estimate the cost to be about $6.50. I already had the elastic from another project, so I didn\u2019t have to buy that. When you compare this to other tutu\u2019s out there, it\u2019s really a bargain!!! Plus, this is something she can use while playing dress up later on.\nSo, channel your inner \u201cPrincess\u201d and give this simple and easy tutu a try!!! Happy Haunting \ud83d\ude42\nHalloweenPrincessTutu\nSay \u201cCheeesssseeee!!!\u201d\nI love Starbucks. Sometimes, though, I have a hard time ordering\u2026too many choices. Tall, Grande, add syrup, shots of espresso, whip cream vs. no whip cream\u2026my indecisive mind spins! I have found a favorite drink there which, unfortunately, is seasonal (go figure). For a few months out of the year though, I know exactly what I\u2019m going to get. It taste really good, but I think part of the appeal is how I sound when I order it\u2026\n\u201cTall, salted carmel mocha frappuccino, non-fat, no-whip\u201d.\nSay that out loud\u2026kind of fast. You really sound like you know what you\u2019re talking about \ud83d\ude42 I\u2019m sure the people standing behind you are very impressed\u2026there\u2019s someone who knows what they want!\nThe atmosphere at Starbucks is nice too. My hubby goes there often & he has discovered there are a few \u201cregulars\u201d who go there\u2026everyday. One man in particular, goes there twice!! Once in the morning, once in the afternoon. Where does he go in between visits?? Chick-fil-a\u2026yep\u2026everyday!\nI do not frequent the establishment as often, but when I do, I like to look for free stuff. Many may not know that about once a week, Starbucks offers a free app to their patrons. You can usually find the cards on the little table with the napkins, straws, etc.\nThis week\u2019s free app is pretty cool. It\u2019s called Pocketbooth\nThe app is set up to be like those old timey photobooths. It takes 4 shots, back to back. You just have to push one button and it starts up. There are a few seconds between each shot, so you can pose yourself.\nYou can save it to your camera roll, e-mail the pic, post it to Facebook or Twitter. If that doesn\u2019t work for you, you can send them to a wireless printer, via AirPrint or even order and ship them to a friend or family member. To order, it is $1.99 (in the US). That covers your printing and shipping costs. I haven\u2019t tried that function out yet.\nYou can purchase other filters through the app for about $0.99, but I like the black and white look of the pics. It goes along with the retro feel of the app.\nAs you can see, fun for all ages!! This is just a silly app to have, but hey, it\u2019s free!!! A lot of the reviewers were talking saying how they got the app to have for parties. I think that would be a lot of fun for adults or kiddos!\nSo, go visit your local Starbucks store, get ya a tall salted carmel mocha frappuccino, non-fat, no whip, grab this free app & say \u201ccheeesssseeee!\u201d\nHere\u2019s Pink In Your Eye\nI\u2019ve been pondering for the past few days about what to write next. My last article was pretty heavy, so I thought something light hearted was in order. Problem is, I\u2019ve been swamped the last few days weeks and really had no idea what to talk about. Leave it to my kids to provide a topic.\nThis article comes courtesy of my daughter, Sophie. Tuesday, she woke up with a puffy eye. The other one looked normal, but the right eyelid was irritated, red and swollen. As the day went on, the swelling went down and it just remained red. Two thoughts went through my mind. #1, she may have scratched it during the night, or maybe she and her Bubba were playing a little too roughly on Monday and it got bumped then. #2, the farmers in our area have been cutting down their dry corn plants to harvest the seeds. This causes a lot of dust to be in the air. Plus, we\u2019ve had a cold snap, so I thought she possibly had some allergy problems.\nWell, today, the eye was still red and swollen, so I decided to call the doctors office & I got her an appointment after my Weight Watchers meetings. In the meantime, a dear friend (with 2 little boys age 3 & under) babysat for me.\nTaking Sophie to the doctor is trying not fun torture. Even if she is just getting a check up\u2026with no shots\u2026she starts screaming the moment the nurse calls us back\u2026no joke. I barely got her to stand on the scales to get her weight (but hey, what woman likes to stand on scales????). Then, the temperature had to be taken. They don\u2019t even stick anything in her ear or mouth\u2026they run a thing across her forehead. When the doctor came in, the fun REALLY started. He tried to listen to her lungs with the stethoscope, but he could tell by the screaming that her lungs were just fine. I had to hold her down while he looked in her eyes and ears. You would be amazed at the raw strength that came from my petite daughter!\nThankfully, the doc was very fast in his exam. Once he pulled her eyelids down, he saw that they were irritated a bit\u2026the verdict?? Pink eye. Oy! Somehow, this was a childhood illness Brayden had escaped. Not Sophie though. The good news?? She was in the beginning stages. The best news?? The antibiotic eye drops that we have to use to treat it was free!!!\nSo, after I got home, my hubby and I administered the first eye drops. Think the episode of Friends where Monica had to put the eye drops in Rachel\u2019s eyes\u2026only a 3 year old\u2026with Incredible Hulk strength and an almost Houdini-like ability to get out of a hold.\nWhile dinner was cooking, I decided to peruse Pinterest. I have decided I need a new board titled \u201cWhere were you 5 minutes ago?\u201d because I found this pin:\nhttp://www.thehealthyhomeeconomist.com/pinkeye-fast-and-easy-home-remedy/\nSeriously\u2026pinned by a friend of mine from Oklahoma\u2026probably not 2 or 3 hours earlier. So, I checked it out. Pink eye is very contagious, so chances of myself, hubby or son getting it are pretty high. While I am not a doctor, and neither is the lady writing the blog (like my disclaimer??) she does have some interesting remedies.\nRemember my friend with the two boys who babysat today?? Yeah\u2026called her to notify her of our \u201cpredicament\u201d and then realized that the one toy Sophie took to their house\u2026her binoculars\u2026yep\u2026of all her toys to take\u2026she took the one that goes right up to your eye.\nSo, the Princess and I are staying home tonight\u2026washing our hands a lot, which is great because that\u2019s one of her most favorite things to do right now. I\u2019m sure this too shall pass, but until then, I bet I\u2019ll get really good at giving eye drops to a wiggly 3 year old :)href=\u201dhttps://pinterestmom.files.wordpress.com/2012/10/20121010-212714.jpg\u201d>;;<;img src=\"https://pinterestmom.files.wordpress.com/\nHere\u2019s a little pre-eye drop pose\u2026the calm before the storm!!\nPink EyePinterest\nThere\u2019s No Debating That!\nWe are about one month out from what could possibly be one of the most talked about, controversial, well attended election in U.S. history. The 2012 Presidential is upon us, and unless you live under a rock, you can\u2019t miss it. I have been getting flyers in the mail, everyday for about 2 weeks now. Radio and TV are plastered with advertisements. Debates, rallies, yard signs fill neighbors yards. Bumper stickers, t-shirts, etc\u2026all touting one candidate over the other.\nI have some strong political opinions, but I\u2019m not going to talk about them. I believe to do so would be virtual suicide. I\u2019ve seen too many of my friends put comments on Facebook or Twitter\u2026innocent, little comments about their views, only to see them torn apart by their \u201cfriends\u201d. I\u2019ve been shocked to watch verbal punches being thrown. Friends get \u201cun-friended\u201d, blocked. Feelings get hurt. I have to ask\u2026\u201dWhy can\u2019t we just all get along???\u201d\nMy hubby and I have been talking about our responsibilities to research the candidates, their stances, their beliefs and what we should do with that information. How involved should a Christian become in politics?\nMany would say that we need more Christians in politics. Some might even believe that standards and morals have been kicked out of Washington and we need good men and women to represent. Others may say that religion has no place in politics. So, with so many opinions floating around, I have to turn to the one source that has no political bias\u2026the Bible.\nJesus actually had a lot to say about politics. Think about the time he was in the height of his ministry. Rome had taken over Jerusalem. The Jews had to sit while they were being taxed. Even some of their own had defected and started collecting taxes for \u201cthe enemy\u201d.\nSo, of course, Jesus was asked how they should respond to the Romans\u2026to Caesar. Sometimes, his answers weren\u2019t popular. The answers weren\u2019t what people were wanting to hear\u2026it wasn\u2019t how they thought Jesus would/should respond.\nIn Luke, the story goes that the teachers of the law were keeping a close eye on Jesus\u2026trying to catch him in a trap. Any little slip up meant they could hand him over to the government. So, they asked him a question:\n\u201cTeacher, we know that you speak and teach what is right, an that you do not show partiality but teach the way of God in accordance with the truth. Is it right for us to pay taxes to Caesar or not?\u201d Luke 20:21-22.\nSounds like an innocent question. Never mind the fact that they\u2019re pouring out the compliments\u2026to butter him up. But Jesus knew what was up.\n\u201cHe saw through their duplicity and said to them, \u2018Show me a denarius. Whose image and inscription are on it?\u2019 \u2018Caesar\u2019s,\u2019 they replied. He said to then, \u2018Then give back to Caesar what is Caesar\u2019s, and to God what is God\u2019s.'\u201d Luke 20:23-25.\nNot a popular answer. Later on in the Bible, this is said:\n\u201cLet everyone be subject to the governing authorities, for there is no authority except that which God has established. The authorities that exist have been established by God. Consequently, whoever rebels against the authority is rebelling against what God has instituted, and those who do so will bring judgment on themselves.\u201d Romans 13:1-2.\nHmmmm\u2026.stepping on anyone\u2019s toes?? If God has instituted all authorities, what does that mean to us?? Do we actually elect the leaders of our country? Maybe God is working through all of us to choose the governing authorities? Those are questions I have no answers for, but it is interesting to think about.\nThinking about the election coming up, there is one scripture that comes to mind and brings me peace\u2026\n\u201cTherefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own.\u201d Matthew 6:34.\nI especially like that last sentence. Each day has enough trouble of its own\u2026isn\u2019t that the truth!! So, where does that put us? The author of Ecclesiastes had this thought:\n\u201cNow all has been heard; here is the conclusion of the matter: Fear God and keep His commandments, for this is the duty of every human being.\u201d Ecclesiastes 12:13.\nDon\u2019t worry. Fear God. Follow Him. The rest will all fall into place.\nBiblePresidential electiontaxes", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00240.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 230, + "original_length": 27542, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.97, + "perplexity": 311.4, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "https://placester.com/real-estate-marketing-academy/real-estate-technology-tools/", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T04:44:59Z", + "digest": "sha1:DFE7NMVFEYAPERRSLHKDKMYI6DHNZ2NH", + "length": 7003, + "nlines": 51, + "source_domain": "placester.com", + "title": "Selecting the Right Real Estate Technology }", + "raw_content": "Putting the right real estate technology in place at your agency isn\u2019t something that will happen overnight.\nIn fact, most agents spend weeks analyzing their REALTOR\u00ae tech options to ensure they buy the right tools.\nTop producers don\u2019t settle for just any marketing and sales software solutions. They use only the resources that will help grow their business efficiently.\nTo provide some guidance for your real estate tech tools search, Placester\u2019s Seth Price offers his expert advice.\nWatch his video for exclusive tech tricks of the trade, or read the transcript below to get his detailed insights.\nJust getting started as a real estate agent? Learn about your must-have real estate technology options first.\nSeth says \u2026\nIt starts by taking an assessment of your business. I don\u2019t want to get too in the weeds of creating a business plan, but you need a business plan to start:\nWhere do you want to be in the year to come?\nHow many more transactions do you want?\nIf you want to double your business, what does that actually look like?\nHow many showings do you need to do?\nHow many people do you need to speak to on a daily basis?\nWhat type of marketing do you need to implement to make that happen?\nThat\u2019s the beginning: figuring out what your goals are. Because without goals and some accountability, you can have lots of ideas of implementing technology, but it may not be aligned with the outcomes that you\u2019re looking for.\nOnce you have a plan, what\u2019s great is you can think about mentors to model: folks that are doing things in a way that resonates with you.\nThe next step is follow some technology blogs that are focused on real estate that understand the pain points that you\u2019re going through. Follow REALTOR Magazine, which does some great writing. Inman News also does some great writing.\nThese are some resources for you to see what\u2019s happening in the industry with technology and new companies that can help you transform your business.\nAnd then thirdly, social media is a great place for listening to see what\u2019s going on with other agents. There are great groups on Facebook where you can be with like-minded folks, and have discussions and listen in on what people are using and what\u2019s working for them.\nAlready a top producer? Focus on finding some next-level real estate tech tools.\nTop producers have a unique opportunity. One, if you\u2019re a top producer, you\u2019re already running from a PnL (profit and loss analysis).\nWhat that means is you understand the cost of acquiring a new customer, retaining that customer, and creating some repeatability to the process that you have for sales.\nThat\u2019s number one: really focusing in on your business process:\nGetting someone from not knowing who you are to deciding to work with you \u2014 whether that\u2019s buyers or sellers\nGetting them through the transaction, having a great experience with you\nFollowing up so you can stay in touch with that person.\nNow, once you have a handle on that process, then what you\u2019re looking for are real estate tech tools to make the process of staying in touch and converting customers that much easier.\nA good place to look sometimes, if you\u2019re a top producer, is outside of the industry. Following any sort of tech blog that\u2019s outside real estate can sometimes give you perspective on what things are working.\nToday, we\u2019re seeing a lot of AI that helps you respond to customers in a meaningful way, that can take away some of the heavy lifting of staying in touch with everyone in your database.\nReal estate technology constantly changes, but here\u2019s what Seth has to say about where it\u2019s headed next.\nMany things will change in technology, but one thing that won\u2019t change is your need to organize all of the information you have about an individual contact, such as:\nTheir likes, their dislikes\nThe ways in which they communicate\nAnd then the tool to communicate with them.\nRight now, email is probably the easiest real estate tech tool; SMS is the next-easiest. Technology has made CRMs (customer relationship management systems) new again, meaning they\u2019re smarter, they\u2019re more responsive, they\u2019re more agile, allowing you to use the tool on the run, because we\u2019re mostly using our mobile devices, and allowing us to have the tool not get in our way but be something that can help us communicate one to many.\nThat will be the key to transforming our businesses in the years to come: being really diligent about working with technology to still stay human, but allow us to communicate with others and solve their problems when they need it in real-time.\nThe key to staying ahead of other agents\u2019 marketing is to test different technologies.\nPart of being a business owner is figuring out how to disrupt yourself. One of the biggest challenges is, once we get comfortable in our position, we tend to rely on the same processes and the same tools over and over again.\nBut there are always competitors at the door. There are always new agents, new brokerages, new teams, and new models that are coming out that are trying to rethink the business.\nOur job, as business leaders \u2014 whether you\u2019re an agent, a team lead, or a broker \u2014 is to take an outside look at the business and ask:\n\u201cWhat can I do different in the months to come that our competitors are thinking about? What can I do different to improve the experience for the customer, to improve the experience for the other agents in the organization, so we can act like a startup, we can be agile, and adopt new technologies and processes to make our business better?\u2019\nIf we just wait until the end of the year to do our business planning for the next year, we\u2019re missing an opportunity to disrupt our own business and stay ahead of the curve.\nRemember the fundamental real estate tech tools that continue to help agents.\nThe challenge today is not necessarily having all of the right tools. 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Photo by T. Charles Erickson.\nMcCarter Theatre Center\u2019s production of \u201cA Christmas Carol\u201d by Charles Dickens has become a welcome holiday treat for families across the region.\nEbenezer Scrooge is not a fan of Christmas, not one bit. He relentlessly \u201cBah, Humbugs\u201d every glimmer of holiday happiness. Cheer is costly and good-will is bad for business. This Christmas, however, things are going to be a little different. Ebenezer experiences a change of heart while traveling through his past, present and future on Christmas Eve. Scrooge\u2019s miraculous transformation opens his eyes and his heart to the things that are truly important.\nA McCarter Theatre Center tradition, \u201cA Christmas Carol\u201d is a perfect excuse for families to unplug from the usual hustle and bustle and enjoy a production called \u201ca must-see\u201d by The New York Times.\nThe adaptation of Dickens\u2019 classic novel runs through Dec. 28 in the Matthews Theatre at McCarter Theatre Center, 91 University Place, Princeton. Tickets on sale online at mccarter.org, by phone at (609) 258-2787, or in person at the McCarter Theatre Ticket Office\nThis weekend\u2019s performance times are: Friday 7:30 p.m., Saturday 2 p.m. and 7:30 p.m., Sunday 1:30 p.m. and 5:30 p.m.\nThis coming Tuesday night you can join Planet Princeton, actor Jimmy Ludwig and some of the other cast members from \u201cA Christmas Carol\u201d for a holiday pub crawl to benefit HomeFront. Ludwig plays Fred and the undertaker in \u201cA Christmas Carol.\u201d He is also the co-host of The Happy Hour Guys.\u201d Sign up here.\nThe Princeton Folk Music Society Presents Bill Staines \u2013 Singer and songwriter Bill Staines sings mostly his own songs, combining music and story telling in his performance. He weaves gentle wit and humor into songs that represent a slice of Americana describing the lives of Midwest prairie people, Yukon adventurers, on-the-road truckers, and everyday workers. Nanci Griffith says, \u201cBill Staines has been my hero since 1977. He carries on where Woody left off \u2013 carrying on the tradition of stories and characters you wish you knew.\u201d Christ Congregation Church, 50 Walnut Lane, Princeton. Tickets at the door; doors open at 7:30 p.m.. Free parking. Concert begins at 8:15 p.m. Tickets $20 ($15 members, $10 students, $5 children).\nCoalition for Peace Action Holiday Gathering \u2013 Potluck and program to honor Coalition for Peace Action Chair Irene Etkin Goldman. Featuring children\u2019s musician Jonathan Sprout. 6:30 to 8:30 .m. 61 Nassau Street, Princeton.\nDance, Dance, Dance! \u2013 Big Band Dance hosted by the Princeton High School Studio Band. Performances by the Jazz Ensemble and Studio Band. Princeton High, 151 Moore Street, Princeton. 7 p.m. to 10 p.m. Admission $6 (all ages welcome \u2013 family-friendly dance).\nBuilding a Beautiful Trenton Film Premiere \u2013 A Better Way is hosting a film premiere in collaboration with S.A.G.E. Coalition. The two documentaries are titled \u201cThe Trenessaince: A Better Way for the Capital\u201d and \u201cHigh Grade Artistry\u201d. The premiere will be held from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m. at 446 Bellevue Avenue in Trenton, the home of the old Mercer Hospital campus. The films both focus on the resilience of Trenton and Trentonians and highlight the endless possibilities Trenton has within its reach. City Council representatives and Mayor Jackson will be speaking at the event. Live painting and an art auction will highlight the Trenton\u2019s flourishing art scene and support the work of local artists. Donations to the event will go to support the efforts of A Better Way and S.A.G.E. Coalition in continuing to uplift the community.\nClint Holmes Performs at McCarter Theatre \u2013 New York cabaret star Clint Holmes performs \u201cStop This Train.\u201d The show was awarded the 2013 Broadway.com Cabaret Award for best celebrity male vocalist. Dancers and minimal sets have been added to enhance this production. 8 p.m. Berlind Theatre, 91 University Place, Princeton. Tickets $50 and up.\nAn Evening of Readings and Carols \u2013 The Westminster Chapel Choir, Westminster Concert Bell Choir, Westminster Choir, Symphonic Choir, Westminster Schola Cantorum, and New Jersey Youth Orchestra perform holiday music for choir, organ, and brass at the Princeton University Chapel. 8 p.m. Friday and Saturday. Admission $40 and up.\nPrinceton Profile 2014: A Statistical Survey of the Princeton Region \u2013 Join Princeton Future at the Princeton Public Library\nas the group reviews results of a statistical survey of the Princeton region for the purpose of creating a master plan. 9:30 a.m. Community Room. Free.\nWinter Farmers Market with Slow Food Central New Jersey \u2013 Locally grown cheeses, breads, baked goods, produce, jams, wine, mushrooms, and more. Wineries and live music. 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. D&R Greenway, Princeton. $3 admission.\nCentral Jersey Chess Tournament \u2013 Join New Jersey Chess at the Princeton Academy. Open to students from kindergarten to grade 12, all levels. All players receive a medal or trophy. 1:30 p.m. to 6 p.m. 1128 Great Road, Princeton. On-site registration $45.\nA Child\u2019s Christmas in Wales \u2013 Dylan Thomas\u2019s classic story for ages 10 and older with the Princeton Singers, Trinity Church, 33 Mercer Street, Princeton. 6 p.m. Admission $25.\nLadies Sing the Blues \u2013 Vocalists Catherine Russell and Charenee Wade will channel 1920s blues divas Bessie Smith, Mamie Smith, Ma Rainey and Ethel Waters. Pianist Mark Shane will lead a six-piece band featuring arrangements of this era. 8 p.m. Berlind Theatre at McCarter Theater, 91 University Place, Princeton. Tickets $60 and up.\nHoliday Open House at Drumthwacket \u2013 Self-guided tours of the official residence of the Governor of New Jersey. \u201cFantasy Through the Arts\u201d is the theme this year. Free event, but registration required. Visit www.drumthwacket.org to register. 11 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. 354 Stockton Street, Princeton.\nGreater Princeton Youth Orchestra Winter Concert \u2013 Orchestras and ensembles will perform works by Tchaikovsky, Smetana, Edward Elgar, Richard Meyer and more. 3 p.m. Montgomery High School Performing Arts Center, Skillman.\nEric Mintel Quartet: A Charlie Brown Christmas \u2013 Join the Eric Mintel Quartet and catch the Christmas spirit in a special afternoon performance featuring perennial holiday classics and original versions of songs by famed composer Vince Guaraldi, the man behind the classic score of \u201cA Charlie Brown Christmas\u201d. This interactive concert will include classic scenes from \u201cA Charlie Brown Christmas\u201d in addition to classic holiday standards like \u201cSilent Night,\u201d \u201cChristmas Tree,\u201d and \u201cThe Christmas Song\u201d. This Sunday afternoon concert is not only entertaining, but will also introduce children to jazz in a live concert setting. Celebrate the Christmas season with a band that has played for two presidents, the United Nations, and alongside the late Dave Brubeck. Tickets are available at the door half an hour before showtime on a first-come, first-serve basis. Children under 12 get in free with the purchase of an adult\u2019s ticket (one per person). 3 p.m. $10/$8 Arts Council members, students & seniors.\nHome for the Holidays with the American Boychoir \u2013 Family friendly afternoon features holiday classics, traditional carols, and seasonal offerings from a diverse range of countries. 4 p.m. Richardson Auditorium, Princeton University. Tickets $20 and up.\nHopewell Valley Chorus Holiday Concert \u2013 \u201cHeaven and Earth\u201d features Ola Gjeilo\u2019s \u201cSunrise Mass,\u201d traditional songs and carols and audience singalong. Unitarian Universalist Church at Washington Crossing, 268 Washington Crossing-Pennington Rd., Titusville. Admission is $15, $10 seniors and students.\nTraditional Lessons and Carols \u2013 Join the Princeton United Methodist Church for an evening of lessons and carols. Performances by the chancel, youth, and handbell choirs with instrumentalists. 7:30 p.m. Nassau at Vandeventer in downtown Princeton. 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It was also an era of big V-8 engines, further refined designs, and technological innovations.\nDuring the 1950s, car design was fueled by wild optimism and relief from the end of World War II. But in the 1960s, things started to change. The Korean War was a tragedy, Vietnam wasn't pretty, hippies were parading through the streets, and people began questioning plenty of social norms. These values can be seen reflected in the cars of the time period, especially in 1969. At the close of the decade, any hints at the massive amounts of chrome, huge tail fins, etc. that dominated in the previous decade were completely gone.\nIt was a year of divergence in the auto industry. On one hand was the quickly escalating muscle cars war, where horsepower was pushed to extreme heights and fuel efficiency wasn't even a thought. There was also an emerging group of fuel sippers, most from Japan and Europe, that would prove invaluable when the oil crisis struck. 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After the winds dropped and the snow settled, the tracking conditions were wonderful. We could easily pick up tracks and follow them to the bears.\nGiven that we were targeting mothers with young, good tracking snow makes it easy to be sure you're on the right set of tracks. Being able to follow a polar bear for a few days gives us lots of data on their movements and allows them to lay a long snaking path for us to follow.\nThe downside of all the good weather came when we could no longer assess how fresh the tracks were: is the bear one day or seven days away? The difference is huge with major ramifications for those prone to airsickness. Twisting and spinning to follow a trail above sea ice can churn the stomachs of many.\nFollowing tracks for an hour is hard but a good return on the helicopter time. If we have to follow a seven-day trail, there's a good chance that we'll run out of fuel and have to abandon the tracks.\nAfter almost two weeks without any wind or snow, the Beaufort Sea was like a polar bear barnyard, criss-crossed by trails in the snow. Nonetheless, we were able to find the bears we needed and deploy the collars. These collars provide six GPS locations per day and relay this information to a satellite, which sends the data to us by e-mail. After two years, an automated drop-off opens and the collar slips off.\nLearning to Coexist with Polar Bears\nPolar Bear Research: Motion Detection Cameras", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00240.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 61, + "original_length": 2681, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.97, + "perplexity": 317.5, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "https://poliswaterproject.org/polis-event-webinar/discussion-series-water-governance-columbia-great-lakes/", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T03:47:33Z", + "digest": "sha1:BFLY35RMEZG6IRAVVYX67J5UXP5DSKDY", + "length": 505, + "nlines": 2, + "source_domain": "poliswaterproject.org", + "title": "Discussion Series\u2014Water Governance in the Columbia & Great Lakes - POLIS Water Sustainability Project", + "raw_content": "The \u201cCoffee & Co-Creation Discussion Series\u201d is an initiative of the WSP and the Water, Innovation, and Global Governance (WIGG) Lab, based at the University of Victoria. 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The reason that it is so difficult to quit smoking is that the addiction is multifaceted: not only is there a physical addiction to the nicotine, but there is also a strong psychological component to the addiction as cigarettes are both legal and in many situations socially acceptable.\nOne of the greatest indicators as to weather your attempt to quit smoking will be successful is how mentally prepared you are. You have to truly want to quit in order to be successful, and if you try to quit without this mindset it is unlikely that it will work. A good way to motivate yourself \u2013 to get yourself to a point where you really and truly want to quit smoking \u2013 is to think of the health risks involved, and the many benefits of quitting.\nThe health risks associated with smoking are well known, but if you are trying to quit it is a good idea to revisit them. By smoking, you greatly increase your chances of lung cancer and heart disease. As well as the increased risk of a premature death, you will also, as a smoker, be plagued with breathing difficulties. Another thing you should consider is that as a smoker you are putting others at risk through second hand smoke. It is a well known fact that second hand smoke can be very detrimental to the health of your loved ones, especially over the long term.\nNow, if you smoke there a good chance you\u2019re aware of these factors, and the knowledge can be fairly sobering. All is not lost, however, and in order to motive yourself to quit your should think about the immediate benefits involved if you stop. Almost instantly you\u2019ll notice that your sense of smell will improve. Smell plays a crucial role in the taste of food, and therefore your taste sensation will improve considerably, and you will find yourself enjoying food more.\nAlso consider the money that you will save. Depending on where you live, cigarettes can be very expensive, and the general trend is that the price will continue to increase in the future. Even a fairly generous assumption of $5 a pack means that if you quit a pack a day habit you will save almost $2000 in the first year. A great technique to motive yourself when you first stop smoking is to put the money you would spend every day on cigarettes into a jar, where you can see it steadily accumulate: even after the first week you\u2019ll have $35 \u2013 enough to treat yourself to a nice meal.\nBy constantly reminding yourself of the benefits of quitting smoking you give yourself an important mental motivator: think of not only your own health benefits, but those of the people around you who suffer from second hand smoke. Add to this the amount of money you\u2019ll be saving, and it becomes hard to justify a smoking habit. 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Hosting a three-day event in Grand Rapids in March, registration is open now, and ending on February 22. Further details at:https://www.marvinsapp-popupshop.com/record. In addition to his preaching and upcoming performance engagements, Bishop Marvin Sapp\u2019s ministry continues to thrive at home in Michigan, where he leads Lighthouse Full Life Center Church in Grand Rapids. He is also Metropolitan Bishop within the Global United Fellowship where he oversees more than 100 churches in 19 states.\nNEW MUSIC MONDAY!! 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It was the Lake Junaluska Singers that first introduced me to the gorgeous William Dawson arrangement of \u201cEvery Time I Feel the Spirit\u201d\nMusic is a powerful gift in our lives. It offers us a way to express ourselves. It brings us together, often around a cause or a celebration. It is calming to us or cheering to us. It encourages us or sets a mood for us. It is part of ritual for us and so much more. Lately, I have been reminded again of this powerful gift from God in our lives.\nWhen I was a little girl, Sunday mornings had a certain rhythm to them. As a pastor\u2019s family there was a certain feel to the morning\u2013a gentle urgency about getting up, eating breakfast together, morning prayers, and getting ready to go to church. My mother always wanted us to be in a proper mood for going to church, so she put on one certain record and made certain that we could hear it all through the house. The recording was of the Lake Junaluska singers and the music was beautiful anthems of choral music.\nBy the time I had reached Jr. High age, I knew the words of all the anthems and so Sunday mornings would find me getting ready for church and singing at the top of my lungs, which probably irritated my brothers. My favorite anthem was the very last song on the record. It was the William Dawson arrangement of the great African American spiritual \u201cEvery Time I Feel the Spirit.\u201d What a resounding, glorious setting of this spiritual! I loved it!\nEven as this choral work has meant so much to me over the years I had never sung this arrangement until several years ago when I sang it with the Blue and Grey Choir during one of the Blue and Grey Reunions. The performance was powerful for me, but what surprised me even more is the amount of time I spent pondering the words and the people who sang this song first. This week I found myself thinking about this song again, especially as we observe Pentecost and think about the presence of the Spirit coming upon those gathered like the rush of a mighty wind and the presence of a descending dove! And also, as United Methodist delegates from every Annual Conference throughout the world are meeting in Portland, Oregon.\nWho wrote this spiritual? Who were the first people who sang this spiritual? What did these words mean to them? What can they mean for us? These are the questions that have come to my mind as I have pondered this spiritual.\nWe will never know the name of the individual or individuals who first sang the words and sang the tune. This is an African American spiritual, which means that we know that the song came from the slaves, but we do not know who wrote them. Maybe the strains of this song first came from the tobacco fields in NC or maybe the words were first heard in the cotton fields of Georgia or maybe the song was sung in the rice fields on the coast of SC. Wherever they came from they expressed something very powerful about faith in God and the presence of the Holy Spirit in life: \u201cEvery time I feel the spirit moving in my heart I will pray.\u201d\nFor a group of people who were enslaved and had very little to encourage their days the presence of the Holy Spirit and the presence of each other became the encouragement needed each day. Not only did this spiritual help remind them that they were not alone, it also helped them to speak of the deepest desire\u2014freedom.\nNot only was the song about praying when the spirit moved in their hearts, it was a prayer that they prayed together in loud voices ringing through the fields or alone when they felt the most desperate: \u201cOh I have sorrows and I have woe/And I have heartache here below. But while God leads me I\u2019ll never fear/For I am sheltered by his care.\u201d\nThis spiritual is also an expression of freedom; a prayer for God to hear them and lead them to safety. Clearly, these words speak of the Underground Railroad and that hope: \u201cThere ain\u2019t but one train upon this track/It runs to heaven and right back.\u201d\nSo what does this spiritual say to us in the 21st century? Do you and I pray when we feel the Spirit moving in our hearts? Do we even feel the Spirit moving in our hearts?\nOur lives are so noisy, there is sound everywhere. We have all kinds of gadgets that are supposed to help make our lives so much easier. So many of us have so many commitments that there is little time to pay attention to the movement of the Spirit in our hearts and yet we are people of faith and the presence of the Spirit in our hearts is there to remind us of the core of lives\u2013the most important part of who we are. We are people of God, redeemed by Jesus Christ, and guided by the presence of the Holy Spirit.\nWhat do we need to give up in our lives in order to feel the movement of the Spirit in our hearts? What noise do we need to silence? What distractions do we need to give up in order feel the Spirit move in our hearts? What anger do we need to let go of? What do we need to forgive in order to feel the Spirit moving? What holds us captive that we need to be free of in order for the Spirit to move in our hearts?\nIt feels difficult to silence all of the noise at the moment. We are in the middle of an election year where there is much noise and shouting and negative voices all vying for our attention and our votes. There is much going on in our world that grips our souls and cries out for attention\u2014violence, dangers, disasters, pain, fear, agony, financial difficulty, addictions of all kinds, racism, consumerism, and all sorts of desperation that lead to irrational actions. The presence of all this \u201cnoise\u201d in our lives is the very reason why we need to seek silence in order to feel the Spirit moving in our hearts, calling us to prayer and teaching us to pray.\nFor several years I have studied the writings of St. John of the Cross, particularly his poem and commentary \u201cDark Night of the Soul.\u201d Living in the sixteenth century, St. John understood the movement of the Spirit deep within our souls, calling us to prayer, although he would have described it as a call to be in union with God\u2019s Spirit. He also understood the need to quiet all the distractions and \u201cvoices\u201d that demand our attention. He said, \u201cWhat we need most in order to make progress is to be silent before this great God with our appetite and with our tongue, for the language God best hears is silent love.\u201d\nThere is so much in this world and in our lives that need the constant faithful prayer that we are called to when the Spirit moves. The Spirit calls us to deep prayer, the kind of prayer that listens for God\u2019s loving, silent language of love and the kind of prayer where we respond with that same love. It is the kind of prayer that brings all of our concerns and concerns for the world to God. It is the kind of prayer where we recognize that we do not always have the answers and that sometimes the answers that God gives us are not what we are expecting. It is the kind of prayer that loves and listens, listens and loves and then responds in a way that reflects the Gospel.\nThe Spirit moves and we are called to deep prayer. It is not a \u201cwish list\u201d kind of prayer, but deep prayer where the hurts and fears of the world can reside along with the powerful, life-giving, grace-filled love of God. May it be so in our lives.\nPrevious Previous post: Confessions of a New Mother\nNext Next post: The Stack is Growing!", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00240.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 68, + "original_length": 9090, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.97, + "perplexity": 278.5, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "https://premier-therapy.com/mark-ortmann.html", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T03:49:58Z", + "digest": "sha1:GJDI37OHERNW4EMUG53C2SL3Q2UTGT6Q", + "length": 903, + "nlines": 7, + "source_domain": "premier-therapy.com", + "title": "Mark Ortmann - MS, PT, OCS | Premier Physical Therapy", + "raw_content": "Email Mark Ortmann\nMark Ortmann\nMS, PT, OCS\nMark is originally from the Bronx, New York. He graduated from Long Island University with a Masters degree in Physical Therapy and Bachelors degree in Exercise Science. 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From community organizing to economic development, these activities take place in diverse public, nonprofit, and private enterprise. Information on how to apply is forthcoming.\nHealthcare Administration Graduate Certificate\nThe Healthcare Administration (HCA) graduate certificate program is for students who are interested in a career in a variety of healthcare settings, including hospitals, health departments, nursing homes, mental health services, home health services, nonprofit voluntary agencies, health research foundations, public and private insurance, and a variety of governmental agencies.\nThere are two options in obtaining the Healthcare Certificate:\nStudents may decide to take a concentration in healthcare administration. These arrangements have been made for both Masters degree and Doctoral degree students. Students will apply as a Non-Degree Student under the Eberly College of Arts and Sciences for the Healthcare Administration Certificate. 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You\u2019re Overweight! | Pushing Thirtyy", + "raw_content": "2 months ago I went to the doctors and weighed in at 150, which is my normal weight and hasn\u2019t changed in like three years now. The nurse was shocked. She didn\u2019t expect that weight to go with how I look. She was the same height as me, but weighed less, but looked heavier, so she thought she had an objective view of the number. And I was thinking, \u201c\u2026well, it\u2019s muscle and it\u2019s a perfectly healthy weight, so bugger off.\u201d Weight is just a number, when it comes down to it.\nComment by gem\u2014 March 8, 2011 #\nTruer words rarely spoken!\nIt\u2019s better to consider the government standards as guidelines. I\u2019ve been underweight my whole life, and I am quite healthy. I eat five small meals a day and exercise several times a week. I\u2019m definitely not anorexic. My body just wasn\u2019t built to weight much. Some people\u2019s bodies are built to weigh more, some are built to weigh less. You know if you re getting the right food and exercise. If you are, don\u2019t sweat it.\nComment by Erin\u2014 March 8, 2011 #\nthis is all very true. Such a true day today!\nI have to agree with Erin. I\u2019m also classified as underweight, but if I gained more I genuinely would be fat. It\u2019s all in your build, how much muscle you have, and what\u2019s healthy for you.\nComment by A.M. 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But as this series continues you will read the great practical insights over time. Throughout the series he will highlight some real life examples of churches applying a similar idea. For now, enjoy the background thinking Dan has done for us. \"Repositioning Paul's Missionary Band in a Postmodern World: A Case for Culture-bridging, Missional Teams as the Heart and Soul of the 21st Century Church.\" Part One (of a four part series) Paul's Missionary Band serves as an excellent biblical metaphor for 21st century ministry. When combined with leading edge postmodern congregational laboratories, its radical themes provide the potential to: + Eliminate institutionalism + Avoid burnout among staff and lay leaders + Drop the casualty rate among missional teams from 95% to 0 + Ignore the bell curve statistics and entropic principles (which insist upon the inevitability of a cooling pattern), create sustainability in health and growth patterns and perpetuate congregational life + Double or triple the amount of real front line ministry for the same cost (the stewardship advantage) Here are some immediate reasons we can depend upon the PMB approach as an appropriate framework for postmodern, multicultural ministry. + Paul's missionary team thrived on the kind of culture shifting turbulence that we are experiencing in this new millennium. + Paul's missionary band was cross-cultural from day one. + The spread of the first century church was more missional than institutional. + The band employed teams and leadership principles appropriate to our postmodern setting. + Their characteristics have been present in all the great historical movements of Christian revival and growth from Paul to McGavran. I believe that in the study of Paul's missionary journeys, several important points are often overlooked. These points center on the crucial issues of selection, training and strategy. a. Paul's selection. In Acts 11 we see that it was Barnabas who recruited Paul to join the missionary team ministering to the new Gentile churches in Antioch of Syria. As the initiating team leader, Barnabas was the one who spiritually discerned the potential of Paul and recognized his aptitude to reach those outside the Jerusalem world. Because of this talent for sensing and releasing gifts, Barnabas was able to link Paul to a highly appropriate pioneer mission. The role of Barnabas has been undervalued in most commentaries. His leadership was critical in the team's development and outcomes. Without the spirit-filled discernment of Barnabas, there would not have been the rapid multiplication of churches through Paul's leadership. The tendency of most leadership development studies is to focus on the second or third generation leader, without recognizing the importance of the one who initially saw the potential and then acted upon those instincts. Notice the progression. A naturally gifted man, Paul was selected by an astute and committed leader, Barnabas. The foresight and the trust modeled by Barnabas are two critical selection requirements that leadership demands. Paul then adopted this same pattern that he observed in the ministry of Barnabas. He learned quickly to discern and trust leaders, and to let go of them early. I see a quite different pattern in churches where I minister. Repeatedly I hear pastors tell me that none of their new converts, and very few of their volunteers are ready to assume leadership. This results in both lack of growth and internal tension. The underlying cause is the resistance of most pastors to give over their position to those who appear to them to be backward and untutored. b. Paul's training. The way in which Paul's training was conducted is also overlooked. As Dean Gilliland points out, Paul did not train anyone for ministry. He trained them in ministry. Paul's apprenticing style was learning by doing. He believed that Christians could best learn while serving. Matriculation took place at baptism, with appointment to ministry following almost immediately, even while engaged in the first courses of study. They were not only to be instructed, but were to teach as well, beginning with the first day after their conversion (Rom.15: 14, Phil 1:5, Col. 3:16). Our tendency is to insist upon a sequence which delays participation in ministry until there has been what we perceive to be, sufficient, supervised learning. We over prepare and under empower. The greatest gift we can give newly formed missional teams is the right to think out and act out the Christian life for them. c. Paul's strategy. Most studies of Paul's missionary journeys do not emphasize the structural pattern that was established by this pioneer team. In Acts 13:2 we read, \"As they ministered to the Lord and fasted, the Holy Spirit said, \"Now separate to Me Barnabas and Saul for the work to which I have called them.\" This pioneer team, engaged in what Wagner describes as the Cyprus and Cyrene Mission, was called to separate itself from the rest of the church for a special mission. Ralph Winter uses the term sodality to describe these legitimate specialized teams. The other, more \"normal\" redemptive structure in Paul's day was the local synagogue. As Barnabas and Paul were sent out they built upon the familiar structure of the Jewish proselytizing bands Jesus referred to in Mt. 23:15, which functioned apart from the local synagogues. According to Winter the very fabric of the Christian movement will be torn apart if either the warp or the woof does not play its essential purpose. The warps are the longitudinal, vertical or modality structures, whereas the woofs are the lateral, horizontal or sodalic structures. Groups with membership restrictions such as age, gender, or disciplinary standards are sodalities; those that are non-restrictive and that in principle desire to include everyone, are modalities. There are several characteristics of Paul's missionary strategy which illustrate the advantages of sodalities: + Their ability to attract the unchurched and to incorporate new Christians is undeniably superior to the ability of modal structures. + Although their existence has created tension for churches throughout the ages, they are not an aberration, but a complementary, biblical vehicle for reaching non-Christians. + Missional teams should be allowed as much autonomy to design and complete their calling as church polity will permit. Bureaucratic restrictions and effective mission are incompatible. The strategy of Paul and Barnabas was quite different from the normal, modality strategy at the Church of Jerusalem. The intricate relationship between Barnabas and Paul proved itself not only in their rapid formation of reproducing Christian communities, but also in the delicate communication with Jerusalem. Barnabas was the encourager. Whenever Barnabas found a person or a cause needing to be encouraged, he supplied all that he could. Paul on the other hand, consistently created a stir wherever he went. According to F.F. Bruce, when Paul left for Tarsus after his 15 days in Jerusalem, they probably breathed a sigh of relief. He had been a thorn in their flesh in his persecuting days. They were to learn that Paul the Christian could also be a disturbing presence. Trouble was liable to break out every time he visited Jerusalem. This is what missional team leaders typically do. They make things happen, and they create tensions. They also need someone like Barnabas to go before and after them. Another example of this divine partnership in action was the critical selection of Barnabas during the investigation of the rapid growth of the churches at Antioch, recorded in Acts 11:21-23. Since the leaders of the Jerusalem church exercised supervision and control over the spread of the gospel into adjacent territories, had someone other than Barnabas been selected a quite different outcome might have occurred. There were probably some who suspected wild syncretism, since the forward movement at Antioch presented features which some members of the church of Jerusalem would have found deeply disturbing. But through the lens of Barnabas they accepted these strange developments. Barnabas, the encourager, found much cause for satisfaction. And now for the footnotes for those that love to see the sources. 1. For a technical profile of Barnabas, see Laura Raab and Bobby Clinton, Barnabas, Encouraging Exhorter: A Study in Mentoring (Barnabas Resources, Pasadena, 1985). 2. Dean S. Gilliland, Pauline Theology and Mission Practice, (Wipf and Stock, Eugene, 1998), 91, 214-216. 3. Peter Wagner, Lighting the World: A New Look at Acts - Bringing the Gospel to Every Nation and Every People, (Regal, Ventura, 1995), 96-98. 4. Ralph Winter, Warp and the Woof (William Carey, Pasadena, 1970), 3-4, 55. 5. F. F. Bruce, Paul: Apostle of the Heart Set Free (Eerdmans, Grand Rapids, 1978), 94. 6. Bruce, 167-8. Our friend Dan Reeves is back for a second installment of his analysis of Paul's Missionary Band and how it can be applied to our context. He wrote to me saying: \"Got some great responses from part one.\" I know that this helps Dan improve his work. Dan is primarily a church consultant now but has served as a missionary, teacher as well as other roles in the past. He is one of the founding members of our Church Champions Editors Board. Now this is a rather long article but the first time I saw it, it was 44 pages. So this is the condensed version. Repositioning Paul's Missionary Band in a Postmodern World: A Case for Culture-bridging, Missional Teams as the Heart and Soul of the 21st Century Church. Part Two (of a four part series) In section one of this series I introduced some of the radical themes of Paul's selection, training and strategy that are appropriate for postmodern, multicultural ministry. In this second section I will describe additional features of Paul's initial missionary band, and then cite examples of other \"sodalities\" in the redemptive history of Christianity. Paul's Missionary Band serves as an excellent biblical metaphor for 21st century ministry because the playing fields in America have changed from mono-cultural to cross-cultural and there are thousands of new tribes that are spiritually hungry. Unfortunately, these new barbarians are finding answers elsewhere because the church is often seen as an irrelevant farce, confused, dysfunctional, divided, bogged down in introspection and institutionalism. The PMB framework provides a solution that is rooted in the beginnings of Christianity, that builds on the ancient foundations of the church, but provides both message and metaphor for the future church. As we look at Paul's missionary band we see the first example of practical missiology and cross cultural team ministry in the New Testament, and the missionary means of implementing the Great Commission. I believe we need to develop a whole new skill set for the next generation of church leaders, because in a rapidly changing world where cultural shifts are taking place seamlessly, there is enormous confusion and ignorance about both church and mission in this new setting. We are relying on training and programs designed for a modern setting. We don't realize that in this postmodern world we need to be cross-cultural rather than mono-cultural and more missional than institutional. Paul and Barnabas model the corrective skill sets in Scripture. Their approach relied upon practical missiology and relational teamwork to reach the Gentiles. The skills and patterns of the original missionary band are also observed in the various waves of missionary bands throughout history. I believe it is time to reinforce our ecclesiological foundations by introducing practical missiology and by learning from our biblical and historical origins to become a catalytic force once again. Only by understanding practical missiology, that is how we contextualize ministry, form effective cross-cultural teams and address issues as a team in a particular context, can we effectively reach 21st century postmoderns. Consider these additional features of Paul's initial missionary band: + Barnabas and Paul both had cross-cultural experience, and were able to form an indigenous ministry to the Hellenistic world. They provide the first manual in practical missiology. They formed a particular team to reach persons in a particular context. + They complemented and completed each other as the key persons within a team-sized entourage. They recognized what the other person brought and valued the other person. They modeled giftedness, trust, healthy relationships, and Christian community. + They were led by and in tune with the Holy Spirit. They believed in God's sufficiency no matter what the circumstances. + Barnabas was willing to allow Paul to lead the team. He was a model of how leadership succession is supposed to work in the church. + Barnabas went on to mentor others on teams, notably Mark. Paul, because of his own giftedness, did not perceive Mark the same way. Barnabas again saw what Paul could not see, and served as a strategic link and mentor. Every team needs these strategic links and mentors if they are to reproduce. + Paul covered a great deal of territory. He and his team did not stay so long in one place as to become institutionalized. + Paul learned from Barnabas to empower people early, and he continued this practice. They planted churches that became quickly autonomous and that continued to reproduce other Christian communities. + They developed new leaders by taking them into real ministry settings. They expected people to rise to the challenge. Leaders were developed in the midst of challenging circumstances. Not all of their young disciples survived. But the best leaders emerged. + They were able to secure authority from Jerusalem when it was necessary, by presenting their church planting approach in ways that were perceived as favorable and appropriate. They modeled how sodalities can be highly autonomous; yet work in effective partnership with modalities for a greater purpose. + They developed an overall effective strategy, which drew upon the history and credibility of Barnabas. When the discerning gifts of Barnabas were creatively blended to the catalytic gifts of Paul, an explosive, cross-cultural movement was launched. Summary of original team: Paul's missionary band was formed as a cross-cultural team. The story is as much about Barnabas as Paul. Together, they interacted with the more institutional, established church, in a creative and healthy manner. Because their team was both mobile and frontline, it avoided the inevitable tendency to lapse into institutionalism. Examples of later sodality teams: The practical characteristics of Paul's missionary team have been present in all the great historical movements of Christian revival and growth from Paul to McGavran. Additional strategic clues for reaching postmodern barbarians can be discovered in the unfolding interplay of sodalities and modalities following the first century. a. Celtic Christianity. Perhaps the most impressive example is seen in Celtic Christianity from the fifth to the eighth centuries. Here we can observe repeatedly the same kind of misunderstandings that Paul and Barnabas faced at the Council of Jerusalem, based upon the difference in perspectives between sodalities and modalities. Latourette, for example, cites the irritation by the local bishops in Ireland and all throughout the Alpine valley when encountering one of Patrick's missionary bands, referred to as the Irish peregrini. Their faith and lifestyle simply did not fit into the bishop's diocesan pattern. Patrick's centers of learning were unique in that their monks migrated to distant countries. They formed missionary groups both to reach pagan populations and to elevate the morals of the nominal Christian populations near whom they settled. The apostolic teams sent out by Patrick, beginning in the fifth century, closely resembled Paul's missionary band in the manner in which they engaged barbarians in both conversation and in ministry. The Celtic achievements as a movement were astonishing. As Hunter's study substantiates, Patrick's bands multiplied mission-sending monastic communities, which continued to send teams into settlements to multiply churches so that within two or three generations all of Ireland had become substantially Christian. Celtic monastic communities became the strategic \"mission stations\" from which apostolic bands reached the \"barbarians\" of Scotland, and much of England, and much of Western Europe. Ultimately, what caused their disappearance in the two centuries following the Synod of Witby in 664 was the control of the Roman way over the Celtic way. The Romans were more conservative. They insisted upon cultural uniformity rather than allow for shifts in methodology. Celtic Christianity adapted to the people's culture. The Romans wanted Roman cultural forms imposed upon all churches and people. b. Waldo through Wesley. A few examples of missionary teams can be observed after the 9th century, such as the Frenchman Peter Waldo. The Poor Men of Lyon, initiated by Waldo multiplied discipleship communities rapidly through Spain, Italy, Germany and Bohemia at the end of the 12th century. John Wesley further developed the Pauline pattern of reproducing Christian communities during the mid-18th century Evangelical Revival in England and the United States. c. Carey. It was not until 1793, when William Carey and a colleague sailed for India to initiate the first undertaking of the Baptist Missionary Society, that rapid cross cultural missionary activity returned to the level of the Celtic teams of the fifth and six centuries, or to Paul's first century missionary band. Carey, after the greatest of effort and patience in persuading the non-conformist Baptist that a new structure was necessary for mission, settled in Serampore, a Danish possession near Calcutta. His \"Serampore Trio\" translated and printed the Bible into several languages and founded a school for the training of Indian Christians. As Winter points out, Carey was not the only pioneer who encountered resistance in launching a structure for mission. Indeed all down through history, structures for mission have, by and large been greeted with great reluctance by church governments, and have generally required the additional impulse of Pietism, Wesleyanism or revivalism. Somehow the older and more settled a denomination, the more likely the church government itself is going to be fully occupied merely with the task of staying on top of things. d. McGavran. If William Carey can be credited with rediscovering the advantages of Paul's missionary band, Donald McGavran must be recognized for taking the strategic insights to the next logical level. As early as the 1950's, McGavran's investigation of indigenous strategies and people movements clearly confirmed the upside of sodalities. In the tradition of Paul and Barnabas, McGavran also made things happen, and at the same time created tensions. He rocked the boat in India as field secretary; questioning whether schools and hospitals had taken up so much energy and money that evangelism had been forgotten. And he later rocked the boat in numerous speeches and articles challenging both the priorities and the structures of the conciliar movement. In part three, I will cite contemporary examples and describe how Paul's missionary team approach can be adapted to effectively reach the emerging barbarian tribes. (Notes 1. Ralph Winter, Warp and the Woof (William Carey, Pasadena, 1970), 32-33 2. Kenneth Scott Latourette, History of the Christian Movement (Eyre and Spottiswoode, London, 1954), 332-333, 1033 3. George Hunter, The Celtic Way of Evangelism: How Christianity Can Reach The West Again, (Abingdon, Nashville, 2000), 35, 41. 4. 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For other uses of \"Van der Vaart\", see Van der Vaart (surname).\nIn this Dutch name, the family name is Van der Vaart, not Vaart.\nVan der Vaart at practice with HSV in 2014\nRafael Ferdinand van der Vaart[1]\nTottenham Hotspur 63 (24)\nBetis 7 (0)\nMidtjylland 17 (2)\nEsbjerg fB 3 (0)\nNetherlands U17 13 (5)\nNetherlands U19 8 (2)\nNetherlands 109 (25)\n2010 South Africa Team\n* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 7 October 2018 (UTC)\nRafael Ferdinand van der Vaart (Dutch pronunciation: [\u02c8ra\u02d0fa\u02d0\u025bl v\u0251n d\u025br \u02c8va\u02d0rt] ( listen); born 11 February 1983) is a Dutch former professional footballer who played as an attacking midfielder.[4]\nVan der Vaart began his career at Ajax's youth academy and worked his way into the first team, debuting as a 17-year-old. Known for his playmaking skills, he drew comparisons to Johan Cruyff. He was named Dutch Football Talent of the Year and became the first recipient of the Golden Boy Award while at the club. He moved to Bundesliga club Hamburger SV, then to Real Madrid, then on to Tottenham Hotspur before returning to Hamburg in 2012. In the latter stages of his career, Van der Vaart had brief spells playing in Spain and Denmark before announcing his retirement in 2018.\nVan der Vaart earned 109 caps for the Netherlands between 2001 and 2013. He represented the nation at three UEFA European Championships and two FIFA World Cups, reaching the final in 2010.\nVan der Vaart was born in Heemskerk to a Dutch father and a Spanish mother from Chiclana de la Frontera, C\u00e1diz.[5] Before joining Ajax, he played for a local club called De Kennemers based in Beverwijk. He grew up on a trailer park, living a \"gypsy life\", and often pretended to be Rom\u00e1rio while playing football.[6][7] It was at the trailer park that he learned how to play football and, at the age of ten, he joined the AFC Ajax Academy.[7] Van der Vaart has said of his upbringing, \"That was the way my family lived. My father was born there and it is a lifestyle. Maybe it is not a normal lifestyle but I always liked it. I always played football on the street. It was an easy life, then I was 10 years old and went to Ajax and played there for almost 12 years.\"[8]\nVan der Vaart came through the ranks at Ajax with national teammates John Heitinga and Wesley Sneijder. Initially, he signed for Ajax on a trial basis as a ten-year-old, but was eventually enrolled permanently after impressing the coaches. At the age of 17, Van der Vaart made his debut for the Ajax senior side in a 1\u20131 draw with FC Den Bosch on 19 April 2000 in the 1999\u201300 season. After he broke into the Ajax first team, Van der Vaart was \"hailed as the new Johan Cruyff\".[9][10]\nVan der Vaart was with Ajax from 1993 to 2005.\nIn the 2000\u201301 season, Ajax manager Co Adriaanse increased Van der Vaart's playing time by moving him to the attacking midfielder position. He was voted European Talent of the Year by Italian football website CalcioManager.[11]\nThe next season, Van der Vaart suffered a serious knee injury and was out for several months. Shortly after returning to action, he re-injured the same knee on 2 April 2002, requiring an operation that involved the removal of his entire meniscus This injury forced him to miss the run-in to Ajax\u2019s successful Eredivisie campaign and their Dutch Cup triumph against Utrecht in the 2001\u201302 season, but it did not stop him being named the Netherlands' Talent of the Year.\nIn 2002\u201303, Ajax won the Amsterdam Tournament, though injury limited Van der Vaart to 21 league appearances, in which he scored 18 goals. After his return to fitness, he scored a vital goal in the UEFA Champions League away to Lyon, which propelled Ajax into the knockout stages.\nIn the first half of 2003\u201304, his performances were poor. Van der Vaart admitted he was overweight, and the media criticized his celebrity lifestyle with his then-fianc\u00e9e, The Music Factory VJ Sylvie Meis.[12] He became an influential figure once again as Ajax claimed another league title. By that stage, Van der Vaart had firmly established himself as one of the stars of the Ajax team, as well as one of the most popular players in the Netherlands.\nVan der Vaart was named team captain by coach Ronald Koeman for the 2004\u201305 season. During an international match against Sweden on 18 August 2004, he was injured by then-Ajax teammate Zlatan Ibrahimovi\u0107, which led to the sale of Ibrahimovi\u0107 to Juventus two weeks later, following controversial accusations that the Swede had intentionally tried to hurt Van der Vaart. As a result, Van der Vaart took Ibrahimovi\u0107's spot as striker.[13] He was unhappy at being played out of position, and following his refusal to play on the wing in a Champions League match in December, he was stripped of the team captaincy by Koeman.[14]\nIn September, a league match against ADO Den Haag was temporarily halted by the officials due to incessant chants by opposing fans directed at Meis.[15] The incident, coupled with his ongoing injury problems that resulted in an average of only 23 league appearances in five seasons with Ajax, led him to announce that he was leaving the club at the end of the year.\nAt this point, Van der Vaart's performances were attracting interest from some of Europe\u2019s top clubs. He had previously been strongly linked to Milan, but in the summer of 2005, he signed for Bundesliga outfit Hamburger SV in Germany. Van der Vaart's \u20ac5.5 million transfer to Hamburg, on 1 June 2005,[16] raised many eyebrows. Many other top-flight clubs had shown interest in the midfielder but he chose Hamburg. Ajax legend Johan Cruyff himself commented in his De Telegraaf column, \"I don't know what to say about it or what Rafael van der Vaart is doing in Hamburg.\"[15] He played a massive part in Hamburg\u2019s impressive away form that season, scoring in each of their first four games on the road; in fact, in the course of his first one and a half seasons with the German club, they did not lose a single match away from home while he was on the pitch. Van der Vaart finished his first season as the team's top scorer as Hamburg finished third in the league and won the 2005 UEFA Intertoto Cup.\nHe assumed the team captaincy for the 2006\u201307 season. This season proved to be a difficult one for his club, and despite Van der Vaart's three goals in the Champions League group stages, they made an early exit from the competition, while languishing for several months in the bottom half of the Bundesliga table as Van der Vaart was troubled by injuries throughout the season. The arrival of Van der Vaart's countryman Huub Stevens as head coach, however, saw Hamburg march up the standings and they finished the season in a respectable seventh place, qualifying for, and also winning, the Intertoto Cup.\nAfter garnering interest from Real Madrid from Spain, Van der Vaart responded by saying, \"I am set to spend another season in Hamburg,\" of which he told Welt am Sonntag. He further added, \"Now we have the team to achieve something.\" In the 2007\u201308 season, Van der Vaart scored 12 league goals as Hamburg finished fourth in the league, while reaching the round of 16 in the UEFA Cup. During the UEFA Cup away win at FC Z\u00fcrich, he tore ankle ligaments and was out of action for several weeks. Despite interest from other clubs such as Chelsea[17] and Valencia,[18] he stated that he would stay at Hamburg until the end of the season, but opted out of signing a contract extension.[19]\n\"Rafael van der Vaart is a player of great quality, vision and talent. We are certain that he will be a player who will help us complement the already very strong squad we have.\"\n\u2013 Ram\u00f3n Calder\u00f3n on Van der Vaart following his arrival at Real Madrid in August 2008.[20]\nVan der Vaart in action for Real Madrid\nTowards the end of the 2007\u201308 season, Van der Vaart was linked to a move to several clubs including Atl\u00e9tico Madrid and Juventus. Atl\u00e9tico made a \u20ac15 million bid for the Dutchman,[21] which Hamburg rejected, and in the end, it was their cross-town rivals who got Van der Vaart's signature instead.\nOn 4 August 2008, Real Madrid and Hamburg reached a \u20ac13 million agreement for Van der Vaart's transfer, Real Madrid's only summer signing.[22] He signed a five-year contract for an undisclosed amount.[23] Van der Vaart debuted in a 2\u20131 pre-season win four days later, against Colombian side Independiente Santa F\u00e9, where he scored the equalising goal and provided an assist for the winner.[24]\nHe changed his squad number from 19 to his favored number 23 after teammate Wesley Sneijder took number 10 following Robinho's departure to Manchester City on 31 August.[25] He marked his league debut for Real Madrid with a strike against Numancia in a 4\u20133 victory. On 24 September, he scored his first career hat-trick in a 7\u20131 thrashing of Sporting de Gij\u00f3n.[26] In October 2008, Van der Vaart was one of the many La Liga players to be nominated for the Ballon d'Or, but the award eventually went to Manchester United forward and future teammate Cristiano Ronaldo.[27] For the latter part of the 2008\u201309 season, Van der Vaart was mostly utilized as an impact substitute by coach Juande Ramos, which led to speculations of a fall-out between coach and player. Despite transfer rumors linking him with Arsenal, Chelsea and Liverpool, he denied having any links with the English clubs.[28]\nDuring the summer of 2009, it was speculated that van der Vaart would leave Real Madrid after being told he was not going to be part of the team's plans by coach Manuel Pellegrini. His number 23 jersey was even handed to Esteban Granero in preseason, leaving him without a squad number. Towards the end of the summer transfer window, however, he eventually came to an agreement with Real Madrid to stay with the club after the squad size had been reduced to 25 players as Dutch compatriots Wesley Sneijder, Arjen Robben and Klaas-Jan Huntelaar were forced to leave the club. Van der Vaart was handed his original number 23 jersey while Granero was given number 24. After a wait of four games, Van der Vaart was finally included in Pellegrini's squad list to face Villarreal on 23 September.[29] An injury to Kak\u00e1 gave Van der Vaart a chance to establish himself as a key player for Los Blancos again. On 20 December, he scored two goals in a 6\u20130 win against Real Zaragoza. He scored his last goal for Real Madrid against M\u00e1laga on 16 May 2010. Van der Vaart stated his desire to stay at Real Madrid, at least until the end of his contract.[30]\nOn 31 August 2010, two hours before the transfer window closed, Tottenham Hotspur made an offer of \u00a38 million for Van der Vaart. According to Spurs manager Harry Redknapp, an \u00a318 million transfer to Bayern Munich had collapsed the day before and Van der Vaart had suddenly become much cheaper, although such a price reduction was later denied by Real Madrid.[31][32][33] Due to problems with computer servers used in the transaction between Tottenham and Real Madrid, preventing the necessary paperwork from being completed, Spurs requested special dispensation from the Premier League to allow the transfer to proceed.[32][34][35] The Premier League confirmed on 1 September that the transfer had been permitted after they gave Tottenham special dispensation due to \"technical problems\". He signed a four-year contract at White Hart Lane.[36][37][38] It was announced that Van der Vaart would wear the number 11 shirt for Spurs.[39] Van der Vaart later denied speculation that he had been a failure at Real Madrid, claiming that he always gave his best over the last few years for both club and country, and that he wanted to show his quality for his new club.[40][41]\nVan der Vaart with Tottenham Hotspur\nVan der Vaart made his Premier League debut for Spurs in a 1\u20131 draw against West Bromwich Albion on 11 September 2010,[42][43] and his Champions League bow for the club three days later against Werder Bremen, providing an assist for Peter Crouch in a 2\u20132 draw.[44][45] Van der Vaart scored his first Premier League goal from the penalty spot in a 3\u20131 win against Wolverhampton Wanderers on 18 September 2010.[46][47] After starting his Spurs career by scoring three goals in four Premier League matches, and with a goal and an assist in two Champions League matches, Van der Vaart was named Goal.com World Player of the Week on 4 October 2010.[48] He was later named Premier League Player of the Month for October.[49] A hamstring injury kept Van der Vaart out of action for much of December,[50] but he returned to the Tottenham side on Boxing Day, scoring both goals in a 2\u20131 away win over Aston Villa.[51] On 20 April, Van der Vaart revived Tottenham's Champions League ambitions by scoring twice to hold North London rivals Arsenal to a 3\u20133 draw at White Hart Lane. From then onwards, Van der Vaart became a fan favourite at White Hart Lane. After losing to Manchester City and being knocked out of the Champions League race, Spurs traveled to Anfield. Van der Vaart scored from 25 yards out in a 2\u20130 win that put Tottenham in position to secure qualification for the Europa League. He ended the season as Spurs' top scorer in the Premier League, scoring 13 goals \u2013 nearly a quarter of Tottenham's total \u2013 while also providing the most assists, with nine.[52]\nVan der Vaart scored his first two Premier League goals of the following season against Wigan Athletic[53] and Arsenal.[54] Van der Vaart scored a penalty away against Newcastle United on 16 October to keep up a good run of goal scoring form and also scored twice in the 2\u20131 win over Blackburn Rovers.[55] On 30 October, he continued this brilliant run of scoring form with his side's second in a 3\u20131 win over Queens Park Rangers, making it six goals in five games for the Dutchman and equalling a Tottenham record by scoring in five consecutive Premier League matches, a record he shares with Teddy Sheringham and Robbie Keane.[56] On 31 December, he scored away to Swansea City, converting a Beno\u00eet Assou-Ekotto cross.[57] Van der Vaart scored a long-range effort against Watford in the FA Cup to send Tottenham through to the next round of the competition with a 1\u20130 victory. He was on the pitch at White Hart Lane on 17 March 2012 when Bolton Wanderers midfielder Fabrice Muamba went into cardiac arrest; Van der Vaart later described it as \"horrible to witness ... the absolute low in my football career\".[58] He scored his tenth goal of the season against Blackburn Rovers on 29 April, and scored again in his next match, a 4\u20131 win over Bolton. He also assisted the opening goal for Luka Modri\u0107 with a corner.\nDespite talk of a summer transfer back to the Bundesliga with Hamburger SV and Schalke 04 touted as possible destinations Van der Vaart reaffirmed his desire to stay with Tottenham. However, with the transfers on the last couple of days of the window of Mousa Demb\u00e9l\u00e9 and Clint Dempsey from Fulham and the earlier addition of Gylfi Sigur\u00f0sson, it became clear that Spurs had a glut of new midfield talent which would have reduced any game time for Van der Vaart.\nVan der Vaart with Hamburg in 2013\nOn 31 August 2012, Van der Vaart returned to his former club, Hamburger SV.[59] He would wear his favourite 23 number on the shirt and was announced as club's vice-captain. On 16 September, he made his second debut with HSV in a match against Eintracht Frankfurt. On 22 September, Van der Vaart provided two assists against Borussia Dortmund, contributing to two crucial goals in HSV's narrow 3\u20132 win. He scored his first goal of the season with a screamer in a 2\u20132 away draw against Borussia M\u00f6nchengladbach, later suffering a serious injury that left him out of action for several months.\nVan der Vaart made his return to action on 20 January 2013 against 1. FC N\u00fcrnberg in a 1\u20131 draw. On 9 April, he was named the club's captain, succeeding Heiko Westermann. Not having scored for almost two months, Van der Vaart scored a brace on 20 April 2013 against Fortuna D\u00fcsseldorf in a 2\u20131 home win. Hamburg later decided not to give van der Vaart a contract extension.[60]\nVan der Vaart joined newly promoted Spanish club Real Betis on a free transfer in June 2015.[61] He made his debut for the club on 24 September in a 2\u20131 La Liga defeat to Deportivo de La Coru\u00f1a.[62]\nOn 31 July 2016, Van der Vaart was spotted in a skybox at MCH Arena just outside Herning alongside agents Alan Hvedehave and Mikkel Beckmann, both before and during the league game between Danish Superliga clubs FC Midtjylland and Silkeborg IF.[63] Following the match, in a live interview with Danish Eurosport 2, Midtjylland sporting director Claus Steinlein denied any ongoing negotiations, stating that Midtjylland would not be able to live up to Van der Vaart's economic demands.[64] Just four days later, however, ahead of the 2016\u201317 UEFA Europa League third round qualifying match against Videoton, Steinlein confirmed that the club was in fact trying to work out a deal to bring in Van der Vaart.[65]\nOn 10 August, Van der Vaart joined Midtjylland on a two-year deal.[66] On 28 August, Van der Vaart made his Superliga debut, coming on as a substitute for Nigerian striker Paul Onuachu in a 0\u20130 draw away to local rivals Viborg FF.[67] Less than a month later, in his fourth appearance for his new side, Van der Vaart scored the first Superliga goal of his career in a 5\u20132 win at home against promoted team Horsens.[68] On 11 December 2016, Van der Vaart scored his second goal in a 1-2 defeat against Br\u00f8ndby IF.[69] After coming in as a substitute in a match against Lyngby BK on 28 May 2017 he was selected for only one of the first teams matches until 9 February 2018 where he was on the bench in a 2-0 win against AC Horsens.[70] On 18 February 2018 Van der Vaart made his first appearance for the first team in the 2017-18 season coming in as a substitute in the 90th minute.[71] Van der Vaart told NOS, \"I wasn't selected for half a year. That's why this is a celebration for me. Not playing is awful.\"[72]\nOn 4 August 2018 it was made public that Van der Vaart had signed a one-year contract with Danish Superliga club Esbjerg fB.[4] He had been rumoured to join the club after his contract with FC Midtjylland ended in the summer of 2018 and he started training at Esbjerg fB during the weeks prior to the announcement.[73] He was presented to the fans at the Esbjerg Stadium before a league game against Randers FC on 4 August 2018, which ended in a 3\u20133 draw.[74] On 4 November 2018, having been struggling with recurring injuries, Van der Vaart announced he would retire from professional football with immediate effect.[75]\nVan der Vaart with Oranje.\nVan der Vaart gained the notice of the youth team coaches and was called up for the youth squads. He played in the 2001 FIFA World Youth Championship with present senior teammates Maarten Stekelenburg and John Heitinga and former Real Madrid teammates Klaas-Jan Huntelaar and Arjen Robben.\nThe 18-year-old Van der Vaart then made his senior international debut against Andorra on 6 October 2001.[76] He was a member of the squads that participated in Euro 2004, Euro 2008, Euro 2012, the 2006 World Cup and the 2010 World Cup. Despite figuring prominently in a number of qualifying stage matches, Van der Vaart has had a lack of luck when it came to the final tournament. He was however, vice-captain during the 2010 World Cup and Euro 2012 behind Giovanni van Bronckhorst and Mark van Bommel respectively. On 15 August 2012, Van der Vaart earned his 100th cap for the Netherlands in the 2\u20134 loss against Belgium in a friendly match.\nVan der Vaart usually wears the number 23 or 10 jersey while playing for his country.\nA sub-par performance by the Dutch during their opening game of Euro 2004 persuaded then manager Dick Advocaat to change the side's formation into one which he felt the talented Van der Vaart did not fit into. With Advocaat's new system seemingly working, Van der Vaart would be reduced to play a bit-part role at Euro 2004, as the Oranje reached the semi-finals.\nDespite that setback, Van der Vaart produced some superlative performances in the Bundesliga the following season, and it seemed that Van der Vaart's turn to shine on the big stage was to finally come \u2013 at the 2006 World Cup. However, niggling injury problems resurfaced, and Van der Vaart was not risked by Dutch coach Marco van Basten for the opening World Cup encounter against Serbia and Montenegro. With victory in that opening game, the national team coach would once again decide to continue fielding a \"Van der Vaart-less\" lineup. And once again, Van der Vaart was reduced to a bit-part role in the squad although since then he has become a more regular fixture in the starting XI.\nVan der Vaart playing for the Netherlands\nVan der Vaart was called up for Euro 2008 despite missing several qualification matches due to an ankle injury. As Van Basten had decided to change their formation to 4\u20132\u20133\u20131, Van der Vaart was deployed in the midfield along with Wesley Sneijder and either Dirk Kuyt or Robin van Persie, behind lone striker Ruud van Nistelrooy to great effect. In the opening game of the competition, the Dutch team won 3\u20130 against the world champions Italy with Van der Vaart playing a role in the build-ups. Van Basten decided to field him again in the starting line-up in the next match against France; the Oranje later went on to win 4\u20131.\nDespite enduring a tough time at club level,[77] Van der Vaart remained a first-choice player for Van Basten's successor Bert van Marwijk in the 2010 World Cup qualifiers. On 10 September 2008, he ended a ten-month goal drought with a vital strike against Macedonia in a 2\u20131 win.[78] He ended the campaign with 2 goals and several important assists.\nOn 12 August 2009, Van der Vaart captained the Dutch in the absence of Giovanni van Bronckhorst in a friendly against England. He scored the second goal off a Gareth Barry mistake to put the Netherlands two goals up in the first half but Jermain Defoe netted a brace to seal a 2\u20132 draw.[79]\nVan der Vaart (right) with Wesley Sneijder.\nVan der Vaart was in the starting line-up for the three group matches in the 2010 World Cup, against Denmark,[80][81][82] Japan[83] and Cameroon,[84] but eventually lost his spot in the starting line-up to his recently recovered fellow midfielder Arjen Robben after being substituted in the match against Cameroon.[85] He was brought off the pitch after giving away a penalty to Cameroon by blocking the ball with his arm from a free-kick.[86] However, he made another appearance in the semi-final against Uruguay, after coming on for the injured Demy de Zeeuw.[87] He helped Oranje win the match with 3\u20132, thus sending them to the final.[88] He also played in the final against Spain, substituting Nigel de Jong just before injury time. Netherlands lost the game 1\u20130 to a goal from Andr\u00e9s Iniesta.[89] He was handed the captain's armband during the match, after Giovanni van Bronckhorst was substituted off.[90]\nVan der Vaart made his Euro 2012 debut as a sub in the first match against Denmark \u2013 a match they went on to lose. In the second match against Germany, again he was a substitute, but came on for Dutch captain Mark van Bommel and took the captain's armband. In the second half he created more attacking chances, which led to a goal, but they again lost the match. In the final group match against Portugal, Van der Vaart started as captain, and scored a goal that gave the Netherlands a glimmer of hope to get out of the group. However, two goals from Cristiano Ronaldo gave Portugal a 2\u20131 win and knocked out the Netherlands.\nVan der Vaart was named in Louis van Gaal's provisional 30-man squad for the 2014 World Cup, but withdrew on 28 May, three days before the final squad was named, due to a calf injury that he suffered in training.[91]\nVan der Vaart married Sylvie Meis in 2005\nOn 10 June 2005, Van der Vaart married Sylvie Meis and on 28 May 2006, their son Dami\u00e1n Rafael was born. Some of the media have described the couple as the \"new Beckhams\" but both of them denied the claims saying that they prefer to just live a normal life.[92]\nIn the summer of 2009, Real Madrid wanted to sell Van der Vaart, but the player decided to stay in Madrid because his wife was undergoing cancer treatment there.[93] A year later, upon his move to England, Van der Vaart stated, \"She had a very serious illness and it is true that she had to be treated at the Clinica Quiron. Last season, they wanted me to leave but I couldn't leave for that reason. Now she is well and the only thing that happened was that Madrid wanted to sell and I wanted to get back to enjoying playing football, and Tottenham are a great team that are going to give me the football opportunities that I need.\"[93]\nIn 2010, Van der Vaart found out through emails that his wife was having an affair with a KLM airline pilot.[94] On New Year's Eve 2012, Van der Vaart and his wife separated after he committed domestic abuse, though Van der Vaart had publicly denied those accusations. He has since admitted and apologised for his actions and the former couple publicly appeared to be on good terms, despite them splitting.[95]\nAs of August 2016, Van der Vaart is in a relationship with Dutch handball player Estavana Polman[96] who plays for Danish club Team Esbjerg. This was the main reason he moved to Denmark and chose to play for Midtjylland. On 27 December 2016, they announced that they are expecting a child.[97] Their daughter Jesslynn was born in June 2017.[98]\nAs of 1 November 2018.[99][100][101]\nOther[102]\nAjax 1999\u20132000 1 0 0 0 \u2014 0 0 \u2014 1 0\n2000\u201301 27 7 1 0 \u2014 4 2 \u2014 32 9\n2001\u201302 20 14 2 2 \u2014 5 1 \u2014 27 17\n2002\u201303 21 18 2 0 \u2014 6 2 1 2 30 22\n2004\u201305 22 6 2 0 \u2014 7 1 1 0 32 7\nHamburger SV 2005\u201306 19 9 2 0 \u2014 8 5 7 2 36 16\n2006\u201307 26 8 0 0 2 0 5 3 \u2014 33 11\nReal Madrid 2008\u201309 32 5 1 0 \u2014 7 0 2 0 42 5\nTottenham Hotspur 2010\u201311 28 13 1 0 0 0 7 2 \u2014 36 15\n2011\u201312 33 11 4 1 1 0 1 1 \u2014 39 13\n2012\u201313 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 \u2014 2 0\nHamburger SV 2012\u201313 27 5 0 0 \u2014 \u2014 \u2014 27 5\n2013\u201314 27 7 3 1 \u2014 \u2014 2 0 32 8\nReal Betis 2015\u201316 7 0 2 0 \u2014 \u2014 \u2014 9 0\nMidtjylland 2016\u201317 15 2 2 0 \u2014 1 0 \u2014 18 2\n2017\u201318 2 0 0 0 \u2014 0 0 \u2014 2 0\nEsbjerg fB 2018\u201319 3 0 0 0 \u2014 \u2014 \u2014 3 0\nAs of 19 November 2013.[103]\nScores and results list the Netherlands's goal tally first. Score column indicates score after each van der Vaart goal.[104]\nRafael van der Vaart \u2013 goals for the Netherlands\n1. 6 September 2003 De Kuip, Rotterdam, Netherlands Austria 1\u20130 3\u20131 UEFA Euro 2004 qualification\n2. 10 September 2003 Toyota Arena, Prague, Czech Republic Czech Republic 1\u20132 1\u20133 UEFA Euro 2004 qualification\n3. 11 October 2003 Philips Stadion, Eindhoven, Netherlands Moldova 4\u20130 5\u20130 UEFA Euro 2004 qualification\n4. 1 June 2004 Olympique de la Pontaise, Lausanne, Switzerland Faroe Islands 1\u20130 3\u20130 Friendly\n5. 7 September 2005 Philips Stadion, Eindhoven, Netherlands Andorra 1\u20130 4\u20130 2006 FIFA World Cup qualification\n6. 8 October 2005 Toyota Arena, Prague, Czech Republic Czech Republic 1\u20130 2\u20130 2006 FIFA World Cup qualification\n7. 15 November 2006 Amsterdam Arena, Amsterdam, Netherlands England 1\u20131 1\u20131 Friendly\n8. 7 February 2007 Amsterdam Arena, Amsterdam, Netherlands Russia 4\u20131 4\u20131 Friendly\n9. 2 June 2007 Seoul World Cup Stadium, Seoul, South Korea South Korea 1\u20130 2\u20130 Friendly\n10. 2 June 2007 Seoul World Cup Stadium, Seoul, South Korea South Korea 2\u20130 2\u20130 Friendly\n11. 6 June 2007 Rajamangala Stadium, Bangkok, Thailand Thailand 1\u20130 3\u20131 Friendly\n12. 21 November 2007 Dinamo Stadium, Minsk, Belarus Belarus 1\u20132 1\u20132 UEFA Euro 2008 qualification\n13. 10 September 2008 Philip II Arena, Skopje, Republic of Macedonia Macedonia 2\u20130 2\u20131 2010 FIFA World Cup qualification\n14. 1 April 2009 Amsterdam Arena, Amsterdam, Netherlands Macedonia 4\u20130 4\u20130 2010 FIFA World Cup qualification\n15. 12 August 2009 Amsterdam Arena, Amsterdam, Netherlands England 2\u20130 2\u20132 Friendly\n16. 1 June 2010 De Kuip, Rotterdam, Netherlands Ghana 2\u20130 4\u20131 Friendly\n17. 25 March 2011 Ferenc Pusk\u00e1s Stadium, Budapest, Hungary Hungary 1\u20130 4\u20130 UEFA Euro 2012 qualification\n18. 30 May 2012 De Kuip, Rotterdam, Netherlands Slovakia 1\u20130 2\u20130 Friendly\n19. 17 June 2012 Metalist Stadium, Kharkiv, Ukraine Portugal 1\u20130 1\u20132 UEFA Euro 2012\n20. 12 October 2012 De Kuip, Rotterdam, Netherlands Andorra 1\u20130 3\u20130 2014 FIFA World Cup qualification\n21. 16 October 2012 Arena Na\u021bional\u0103, Bucharest, Romania Romania 3\u20131 4\u20131 2014 FIFA World Cup qualification\n22. 22 March 2013 Amsterdam Arena, Amsterdam, Netherlands Estonia 1\u20130 3\u20130 2014 FIFA World Cup qualification\n23. 26 March 2013 Amsterdam Arena, Amsterdam, Netherlands Romania 1\u20130 4\u20130 2014 FIFA World Cup qualification\n24. 11 October 2013 Amsterdam Arena, Amsterdam, Netherlands Hungary 7\u20131 8\u20131 2014 FIFA World Cup qualification\n25. 16 November 2013 Cristal Arena, Genk, Belgium Japan 1\u20130 2\u20132 Friendly\nVan der Vaart won the Spanish Super Cup while at Real Madrid\nAjax[105]\nEredivisie: 2001\u201302, 2003\u201304\nJohan Cruyff Shield: 2002\nHamburger SV[105]\nUEFA Intertoto Cup: 2005, 2007\nReal Madrid[105]\nAFC Ajax Talent of the Future: 1999\nAFC Ajax Talent of the Year: 2000\nAFC Ajax Player of the Year: 2001\nAmsterdam Talent of the Year: 2000\nAmsterdam Sportsman of the year: 2001\nAmsterdam Tournament Most Valuable Player: 2001\nJohan Cruyff Award: 2001\nEuropean Talent of the Year: 2002\nGolden Boy Award: 2003\nBundesliga Player of the Month: September 2005\nPremier League Player of the Month: October 2010[106]\n^ \"R. van der Vaart\" (in Dutch). 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Once put into operation, this luxury resort will feature boutique hotels, hotel cottages, private home sites and villas. With restaurants, bars, beach clubs, pools and more at your ngertips, you can relax and enjoy time with friends and family.\nLevera is an approved project for the Grenada Citizenship by Investment Programme.\nLevera National Park holds a strong reputation as Grenada\u2019s most scenic and spectacular coastal area. Its picturesque beach is quite popular on weekends, and its lagoon is one of the most important wildlife habitats providing shelter to over 150 species of birds.\nLevera is a 375-acre site with sweeping views of the Eastern Caribbean Sea and southern Grenadine Islands. e site contains a spectacular white-sand beach fringed by palm trees, a dramatic natural topography that reaches elevations of 800 feet, and access to 2 private islands. 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But this seems to be a modern construct, most likely adopted from Platonism where the material world and physical forms were part of corruption. It was \u201ctranscendence from the physical world\u201d that Platonism set as the goal, to escape the body. But this is not the Christian hope. Paul writes that the Christian hope is in a future body:\n1Co 15:42 So also is the resurrection of the dead. The body is sown in corruption, it is raised in incorruption.\n1Co 15:43 It is sown in dishonor, it is raised in glory. It is sown in weakness, it is raised in power.\n1Co 15:44 It is sown a natural body, it is raised a spiritual body. There is a natural body, and there is a spiritual body.\nWhat is very interesting is the way which Paul words what particular type of body we will have. It will be a \u201cspiritual\u201d body. Not only that, but Paul states that just as we now have a earthly body in the image of God that we will have a spiritual body in the image of God:\n1Co 15:48 As was the man of dust, so also are those who are made of dust; and as is the heavenly Man, so also are those who are heavenly.\n1Co 15:49 And as we have borne the image of the man of dust, we shall also bear the image of the heavenly Man.\nPaul is stating that our substance will change to spirit, that spirit will have a body, and that spirit will bear the image of God. But what differentiates a spiritual body from a earthly body? Paul points to one key difference: immortality.\n1Co 15:51 Behold, I tell you a mystery: We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed\u2014\n1Co 15:52 in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet. For the trumpet will sound, and the dead will be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed.\n1Co 15:54 So when this corruptible has put on incorruption, and this mortal has put on immortality, then shall be brought to pass the saying that is written: \u201cDEATH IS SWALLOWED UP IN VICTORY.\u201d\nLike everyone else in the time of Paul, Paul was expecting God to usher in an Earthly Kingdom under which everyone would live. Outsiders would bring tribute. And God (or a delegate) would reign from inside the kingdom. This was to be the Kingdom of God. Even if the spiritual bodies that Paul talks about in 1 Corinthians do not have \u201cflesh and blood\u201d (Luk 24:39), everyone understood spirits to have bodies.\nThere is another very interesting passage on spirits in the Bible. In Luke, Jesus appears to the 12 disciples. They are shocked. They think Jesus is a spirit. They had seen Jesus die and now they see Jesus standing in front of them. The 12 were not under the impression that spirits do not have bodies. Just like everyone today, they assumed that ghosts were spatially located and looked like people. In order to convince the 12 that he was not a spirit, Jesus shows them the holes in his hands. Jesus then states:\nLuk 24:39 Behold My hands and My feet, that it is I Myself. Handle Me and see, for a spirit does not have flesh and bones as you see I have.\u201d\nAssuming that Luke is using \u201cspirit\u201d in the same way as Paul, it is safe to say that spiritual bodies do not have flesh and blood.\nBut I believe that Luke is speaking of a different type of \u201cspirit\u201d (in language, words have several uses) than Paul. The disciples were thinking that Jesus was a ghost. The disciples were not thinking that Jesus had a spiritual body as defined by Paul. Paul states that his spiritual body will be in the image of God. But the disciples were afraid of Jesus\u2019 body, suggesting they were thinking about phantoms.\nIn any case, the Luke passage does not support the conclusion that spirits do not have bodies. It is evidence that spirits do have bodies. Every time the Bible talks about spirits, they have spatial location. From the Spirit of God hovering over the face of the earth (Gen 1:2) to Samuel being conjured (1Sa 28:14). The claim that because God is spirit that God has no body is a baseless claim. If anything, the default assumption should be that because God is spirit that He has a body.\nOne place which attributes a body to God that is not adequately answered by Classical theology is in Exodus 33. Moses asks to see God\u2019s glory. God says no one can see His \u201cface\u201d and live (God does not say that He does not have a \u201cface\u201d). God compromises by showing Moses His backside. God places Moses in a cleft of a rock, covers Moses with God\u2019s own hand, passes by the rock, and then lifts His hand to show Moses His backside. There is no possible way to misinterpret what happens in the text:\nExo 33:18 And he said, \u201cPlease, show me Your glory.\u201d\nExo 33:19 Then He said, \u201cI will make all My goodness pass before you, and I will proclaim the name of the LORD before you. 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He seemed unusually worried and asked us, \"Are you guys okay?\" Slightly baffled, I replied in the affirmative and asked him what had triggered his frenzied call. \"I saw on CNN that there was rioting in Washington Heights and I was concerned about you.\" Rioting in Washington Heights was news to me. Such are the joys of our globalized communications galaxy.\nI tell this story for what it says about the neighborhood I've called home for 34 years. The rioting, such as it was, was about 3/8 of a mile from my door, but I never heard it. If our Japanese friend hadn't phoned I wouldn't have known it happened until I saw the next day's newspaper. The class and ethnic lines in the Heights were that strong.\nSeeing the documentary \"Sosua: Make a Better World\" reminded me of the incident. Directed by Peter Miller and Rene Silverman, this hour-long film follows the creation of a musical play about the almost forgotten historical event in which the Dominican Republic accepted Jewish refugees from Nazi Germany in the wake of the Evian conference on the fate of Europe's Jews. The dividing line I referred to splits working-class Dominicans and middle-class Jews, while also separating progressive and unaffiliated Jews from their more Orthodox (and poorer) neighbors. The divisions are real, tacitly understood and for the most part observed with little obvious friction. Yet the tensions are there, particularly where the Dominican and Orthodox communities rub up against one another.\nGiven that context, which the film sketches out in quick, deft strokes, it is laudable that the local YMHA chose to bring musical theater legend Elizabeth Swados to the Heights to create a show for children and young adults that would use the story of Sosua as a vehicle for putting Dominican and Jewish kids together on stage. Victoria Neznansky, the Y's program director and originator of the project, puts it nicely at the beginning of the film, \"This community needs music, needs things that will bring it together. . . The people who saved each other are here in this community.\"\nMiller and Silverman are a bit hamstrung by the brief running time of their film. They introduce individual members of the company and begin to trace their backgrounds only to abandon them midway through the film as the problems bred by impending deadlines begin to take precedence. Using an almost hilariously optimistic newsreel from the '30s, they trace the actual history of the Jewish-Dominican colony. They are momentarily distracted by the problems of rehearsals and tech, Swados's overwhelming schedule and the sheer difficulty of unifying a group of kids among whom the most important disparities are neither ethnic nor economic but, quite simply, experiential. The range of theater experience in the group apparently runs from the old-timers (at 17) to the enthusiastic tyros.\nGiven these competing imperatives, it's hardly surprising that the filmmakers seem in a quandary over how to get everything into the film. They wisely choose to let chronology dominate, giving \"Sosua: Make a Better World\" a governing structure that keeps the film moving brightly.\nDespite the subject matter of the stage play, this is not a documentary about the Shoah. At its best, it is a small testimony to the power of working towards a shared goal to bring together people who otherwise might cross the street to avoid one another. To its lasting credit, the film doesn't duck the real tensions, acknowledging that one of the Jewish kids was mugged in a subway station on the way home from a rehearsal, and noting that the Dominican dictator Trujillo wanted the Jewish refugees as a way of \"whitening\" the island, a process that began with the murder of thousands of Haitians.\n\"Sosua: Make a Better World\" never sugar-coats the reality. As Swados says toward the end of the production, \"I think [the kids] appreciate each other more. It's not Disney, you can't expect it to happen in a day or to happen completely.\"\nJust so long as something happens.\n\"Sosua: Make a Better World,\" directed by Peter Miller and Rene Silverman, is available from http://www.sosuafilm.com.\nGeorge Robinson is the author of Essential Judaism and Essential Torah, and is the film and music critic for The Jewish Week. A frequent speaker at Jewish film festivals, JCCs and synagogues, he can be reached at george.robinson.communications@gmail.com . 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In the past, we had to repay our IOUs in the form of cash or a check, but digital payment services like Paypal, Venmo, Square Cash, Apple Pay, Facebook and even Snapchat strive to simplify that exchange and offer more convenient ways to make sure everyone is paid what they are due as soon as possible.\nNow, Paypal is likely a name that everyone is familiar with. It is a money transferring website that also allows people to pay online through a single, secure profile with the included convenience of freeing people from inputting their card information for every purchase they wish to make. Paypal also aims to assist the digital entrepreneur by offering payment handling services to small businesses ranging from online payment all the way to including in-store payment options like a mobile card reader or other point of sale solutions.\nVenmo is a more mobile and feature-focused service currently owned by Paypal that strives to bring peer-to-peer transfers to the palm of people's hands. It is hailed as the premier mobile app for convenience and speed. It allows many of the same payment methods as Paypal, debit/credit cards and many bank accounts and brings that access to iOS and Android phones to enable users to transfer funds as soon as the need arises.\nEven Facebook has begun reaching into the peer-to-peer market when refining their standalone Messenger app to include Facebook Payments. It allows for simple transfers from one debit account to another for either Visa or Mastercard cardholders, thus trying to keep users on one site where most of Facebook\u2019s revenue is generated.\nAn informal poll of 10 students at RIT showed that they all knew about Paypal regardless of whether they used it frequently or not, but many people had either forgotten or never heard about Facebook Payments as an option. Also, most people who used Venmo used it frequently and had been doing so for longer than six months. Venmo has been recognized by Paypal as a gateway for millennials to access Paypal services and generate revenue for the company at the same rate as the full feature Paypal site. That line of thinking was reflected among the RIT students polled, since most of them had Venmo installed on their phones either for frequent access or just a convenient option to pay a friend back for gas or meals. Paypal seems to be commonly used for more business transactions than either Facebook or Venmo and most people polled had a Paypal account along with using either of the other services. Paypal seems to hold the broadest reach in the student population because of its digital integration across the web.\nAll of these services come with their pros and cons. Many students wonder whether they come with hefty security risks, especially those who do not necessarily know the ins and outs of digital security. According to Chaim Sanders, a lecturer from the Department of Computing Security, security isn't generally an issue.\n\u201cIt\u2019s much easier for students and faculty, literally everyone in the world, to just pick their favorite,\u201d he said. He then clarified that people should choose \u201cknown services,\u201d as those services generally hold sufficient encryption and normally would require a nation or state level of computing power to crack.\nOne of the largest factors in the comparison of security levels is from where a service is generally accessed. Venmo is a largely mobile service where phone-to-phone transfers are actually the norm. This can easily lead to serious concerns if your phone is lost and your Venmo or Facebook account is signed in. That is why phone producers always suggest passcodes or other locks in order to help avoid these issues. In general there are some key things that users should be looking for if they decide to try out a new vendor. One of the largest is two-factor authentication, which is an option or even required for most of the larger banks and services that store your banking information.\nTwo-factor authentication covers two of the three factors of \u201csomething you know, something you have or something you are,\u201d that Sanders says most security professionals aim to include. These factors can range from knowing a password and having a separate email, to having a thumb print scanner on your phone and knowing the password to your account.\nMost apps will not require two step authentication, but will likely have an option for it in their security or privacy settings.\n\u201cThe be-all end-all advice right now would be to go with well established vendors. Don\u2019t go with someone that you\u2019ve never heard of, be extremely cautious of who you\u2019re entering personalized information about your bank account and your lives to in terms of money, especially,\u201d Sanders emphasized. This will ensure that people do not fall into bad situations where they lose control of sensitive information.\nThese questions of technological security will likely continue to grow as more and more pieces of our life are connected in the digital age, but it seems that when people exercise good internet security practices, they rest assured knowing that sending money for groceries or nights out through Paypal, Venmo and Facebook Payments will not expose them, or their bank account, to any additional risk.\nIan M. 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Mustapha, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals\nH. Brunner, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Memorial University of NewfoundlandFollow\nH. Mustapha, Department of Mining and Materials Engineering, McGill University\nD. Schotzau, Mathematics Department, University of British Columbia\nAn hp-version discontinuous galerkin method for integro-differential equations of parabolic type\nWe study the numerical solution of a class of pa rabolic integro-differential equations with weakly singular kernels. We use an hp-version discontinuous Galerkin (DG) method for the discretization in time. We derive optimal hp-version error estimates and show that exponential rates of convergence can be achieved for solutions with singular (temporal) behavior near t = 0 caused by the weakly singular kernel. Moreover, we prove that by using nonuniformly refined time steps, optimal algebraic convergence rates can be achieved for the h-version DG method. We then combine the DG time-stepping method with a standard finite element discretization in space, and present an optimal error analysis of the resulting fully discrete scheme. Our theoretical results are numerically validated in a series of test problems. \u00a9 2011 Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics.\nExponential convergence, Finite element method, Fully discrete scheme, Hp-version DG time-stepping, Parabolic volterra integro-differential equation, Weakly singular kernel\nMustapha, K., Brunner, H., Mustapha, H., & Schotzau, D. (2011). An hp-version discontinuous galerkin method for integro-differential equations of parabolic type. 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It has been 100% worth it,\u201d said Strasz, an Italian studies and Greek and Roman civilizations major.\nThe Rome International Scholars Program, coordinated through Notre Dame International\u2019s Rome Global Gateway, is offered during the spring semester and for up to six weeks into the summer. A scholarship is provided to help cover the cost of the summer portion.\nAfter completing the spring 2016 semester at the University of Roma Tre, Strasz spent the summer taking an additional course on Dante while interning at the American Academy in Rome. During his internship, he created a finding aid for the institution\u2019s archaeological materials and had access to the Academy\u2019s library, which Strasz said was an \u201cabsolutely phenomenal\u201d resource for completing research on medieval Italian poetry.\n\u201cMy research project is looking into the poetry of the Scuola Siciliana in the late 1200s and how their poetry then influenced the later work of Dante,\u201d said Strasz, who plans to use the project as the basis of his senior thesis.\nThe highlight of Strasz\u2019s time in Italy was his homestay, another component of the program.\n\u201cIt\u2019s great practice for my Italian but also a wonderful way of getting to know some of the locals and really integrating into the culture,\u201d he said.\nStudents interested in the Rome International Scholars Program can apply at international.nd.edu.\nOriginally published by Todd Boruff at al.nd.edu on December 16, 2016.", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00240.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 38, + "original_length": 2603, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.96, + "perplexity": 238.4, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "https://research.udel.edu/forms-policies-procedures/?type=Policy&category=Effort%20Certification", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T03:47:59Z", + "digest": "sha1:7HITJRUG6ZW7U5IS2R4OLPJ6JRCYXT5K", + "length": 12260, + "nlines": 47, + "source_domain": "research.udel.edu", + "title": "Forms, Policies & Procedures | University of Delaware Research", + "raw_content": "Policy: Effort Certification\nEffort Certification Reporting\nThis policy addresses the University of Delaware (\u201cUD\u201d or \u201cUniversity\u201d) obligation to ensure compliance with the applicable federal regulations, Office of Management and Budget (OMB) Circular A-21 requirements or Uniform Guidance 2 CFR 200, for effort reporting and applies to all University departments, units, faculty, staff and students.\n\u201cDepartmental Research\u201d is non-sponsored research performed by researchers as part of their appointment commitments to their academic department at UD.\nThe \u201cEffort Reporting System\u201d is an electronic web-based application, which gathers data from Human Resources personnel data, People Soft grants data, and the University\u2019s financial reporting system to produce and route electronic reporting forms after each reporting period, or as needed.\nThe Institutional Base Salary (\u201cIBS\u201d) is an individual\u2019s total contractual compensation from the University as is defined in a standard offer letter. Payments for work outside of the duties for which one was hired are not part of the IBS. The following table illustrates types of University employee activities which are or are not included in the IBS.\nActivities included in the IBS Activities outside of the IBS\n* Instruction/University supported academic effort \u2013 including student training and advisement\n* Externally sponsored research \u2013 including reporting, participating in related seminars, meetings and conferences, and consultations with colleagues, graduate students or other staff supporting the research\n* Departmental Research \u2013 includes unfunded research effort, peer review of manuscripts, proposal preparation for competitive awards\n* Administrative or University service \u2013 administrative assignments such as Dept. Chair, institutional committees, advisory boards\n* Public service on behalf of the University\n* Unpaid service to professional organizations or societies related to one\u2019s field of work\n* Activities over and above the individual\u2019s job requirements, such as overtime or faculty overload.\n* Compensation for external consulting, serving on external boards, and other types of professional work\n* Volunteering as an individual for public service\n* One-time, extra payments for special activities\n* Other activities unrelated to responsibilities for the individual\u2019s primary job\n\u201cSuitable\u201d Suitable means of verification is an employee evaluating effort on behalf of a terminated or otherwise unavailable employee. The person verifying must be knowledgeable of the subject employee\u2019s work such that validation of time spent on reported projects is appropriate. The verifying person must be the employee\u2019s superior.\nCertifications of Effort on Sponsored Projects are required for every University employee whose salary or wages are directly charged to a Sponsored Project account or whose salary or wages are used as cost sharing for a Sponsored Project. Individuals must account for 100 percent of activities which are part of their IBS.\nAs a condition to receive federal funding, institutions must maintain records that are supported by a system of internal control, which provides reasonable assurance that the charges are accurate, allowable, and properly allocated. The University\u2019s Effort Reporting system assures external sponsors that funds are properly expended for the salaries and wages of those individuals working on the project they sponsor. It provides the principal means for certifying that the salaries and wages charged to Sponsored Projects are consistent with the effort contributed.\nEmployees required to certify under this policy are:\nEvery employee whose salary or wage is directly charged to a Sponsored Project account (i.e. contracts or grants).\nEvery employee whose salary or wage is used as match/cost sharing for Sponsored Project account.\nFederal regulations (OMB A-21 and Uniform Guidance, 2 CFR 200) outline different reporting requirements for salaried employees than for hourly wage earners.\nSalaried employees include, but are not limited to, faculty, professional & salaried staff, graduate and postdoctoral fellows, graduate and postdoctoral researchers, and all exempt employees.\nHourly Wage Earners\nHourly wage earners include, but are not limited to, miscellaneous wage and bi-weekly employees.\nHourly wage earners who receive pay from Sponsored Projects shall complete a time sheet recording their hours of work according to the terms of the Sponsored Project, but at least on a monthly basis. This reporting must include purpose or project codes and requires supervisory signature for approval. To monitor compliance of this requirement, the Research Office will perform semi-annual audits on a sample of charges allocated to Sponsored Projects.\nThe University divides each year into three (3) effort reporting periods: two (2) apply to all salaried employees who are required to report effort and one (1) applies only to faculty on academic appointments of less than 12 months.\nThe fall reporting period covers activities occurring during the fall semester for employees on nine (9), ten (10), or eleven (11) month contracts, or during the six (6) month period from September through February for all other employees.\nThe spring reporting period covers activities occurring in the spring semester for nine (9), ten (10), or eleven (11) month employees, or during the six (6) month period from March to August for all other employees.\nThe third effort reporting period captures sponsored effort performed outside of a faculty member\u2019s contract requirements. This would typically consist of sponsored research performed in the summer months of June, July or August.\nFollowing the end of each reporting period, the Research Office shall use the Effort Reporting System to produce web reports for review. The reports shall list effort commitments made by the individual to individual projects and shall provide data to show how the individual\u2019s salary charges were allocated for the reporting period. Salary allocations are not dictated by effort commitments. The distribution of salary payments as shown on the effort report, may or may not coincide with the amount of effort actually performed. Upon review of the record, if salary allocations are not representative of actual effort performed, the allocations shall be adjusted to be accurate. While it is expected that changes in work distribution will lead to timely redistributions of salary as a result of regular account monitoring, in the event that the reported salary allocations are not in line with the actual effort provided by the individual, a cost transfer shall be processed according to the University\u2019s policy regarding cost transfers. A journal voucher must be submitted to correct the allocation of salary and to reflect true percentages of effort.\nThe effort reported shall total 100 percent, even if the individual was employed for less than the six-month period, and regardless of the number of hours worked, because the denominator/base is the total effort provided by the individual as a University of Delaware employee. The report must cover all effort compensated for by the University as part of the individual\u2019s IBS, including sponsored research, cost share to sponsored research, Departmental Research, instruction, administration/university service, and public service by purpose and project codes. IBS inclusions and exclusions are listed in the Definitions section of this Policy. Effort reports are not guided by the planned allocation of salaries, which may not reflect actual effort performance.\nA five (5) percent deviation from allocated to reported effort actuals is acceptable. For example, it is acceptable for an employee to certify a range from 45% to 55% effort for the period for which 50% of salary is allocated to a project.\nCompleted Effort Certification Revisions\nRarely, a revised effort report may be created to allow for an updated/revised version of an individual report which had already been certified and completed. Only the Research Office may create revised effort reports, and doing so requires a written request including a justification. Reports created for approved revisions must be completed within 30 days following approval. Revisions requested to remove unallowable charges from Sponsored Projects shall always be approved. If a revision is needed in order to remove a salary cost over-run from a Sponsored Project, then the charges shall be required to be transferred to a non-sponsored account as cost-share.\nThe Research Office, Manager of Effort Certification, shall be responsible for ensuring that the University\u2019s effort reporting system is compliant with federal government requirements and University policies. The Research Office has ten (10) days following the posting of a reporting period\u2019s ending salary transactions to produce and release the reports to Departmental Effort Administrators. Electronic copies shall be retained by the Research Office, as required by sponsored agreements, usually three (3) years after the closeout or final payment of the project.\nDepartmental Effort Administrator\nEach academic department or unit which has employees paid from sponsored funding sources shall have one staff member assigned as the Departmental/Unit Effort Administrator. The Effort Administrator\u2019s role is to facilitate the timely and accurate completion of their department\u2019s effort reports. They shall be responsible for reviewing reports for errors in funding amounts and sources, distributing the reports to each individual for certification, making any necessary adjustments to salary allocations, and completing the reporting process prior to the deadline, which is ninety (90) days following the end of the reporting period. They shall also be responsible for requesting omitted reports when needed so that required reporting is accomplished for all employees.\nPIs who are involved in the allocation of salaries and wages to Sponsored Projects must understand the importance of effort reporting compliance as it relates to proper grant management. PIs shall be aware of their own levels of effort committed to Sponsored Projects and ensure that they have the ability to meet those commitments while simultaneously meeting their obligations to the University, to avoid over-committing themselves. They shall also communicate any substantial changes in effort to their department or college administrators in a timely manner. This includes effort changes for themselves as well as any other employees working on their Sponsored Projects.\nUD Internal Audit shall conduct independent evaluations of the Effort Reporting System as prescribed by OMB circular A-21 or Uniform Guidance.\nMany activities included in the IBS may not be charged to sponsored awards. Non-sponsored funding must be used to support the following effort unless the award documentation clearly allows them: instruction, course development, and advisement of students if not for a specific research award, administrative assignments such as department chair or dean, writing of grant proposals unless for a non-competitive renewal, service on committees or review boards or as a primary journal editor, review of peer manuscripts, fundraising, and lobbying. Since most faculty members participate in activities such as these, it is not typical for a faculty member to be 100% grant-funded.\nKnowingly certifying a false effort report is a violation of University policy and may result in civil or criminal penalties for fraud. An Effort Administrator\u2019s certification of another employee\u2019s effort report is an affirmation that he or she believes that the salary allocations are accurately reflected on the report.\nDocumentation of suitable means of verification must be retained in the department as backup to support the certification by anyone other than the employees themselves. 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Mexico - resource.wageningenur.nl", + "raw_content": "Meanwhile in... Mexico\nEven though president Trump has ended the family separation resulting from his zero tolerance policy at the border with Mexico, most families are still to be reunited. Alan Encinas Zazueta from Mexico is upset by how far the US government will go to protect its own interests.\n\u00a9 Karl Sonnenberg / Shutterstock\nThe trauma will impact their whole lives\n\u2018From a Mexican point of view, the situation regarding the border and immigration to the US is degrading. In my view, the \u201czero-tolerance\u201d policy has resulted in a humanitarian crisis. More than 2000 children were separated from their parents for months and \u201cstored\u201d at inappropriate facilities where they were treated as prisoners. This is unacceptable: they are children and not criminals. They were experiencing stress and trauma during that time which will impact their whole lives.\nAlan Encinas Zazueta from Mexico is an MSc student of Environmental Sciences. He talks about the situation in his home country.\nThe policy demonstrates once more that the current US regime does not hesitate to cross the limits of the historical values of the United Nations in order to defend its own interests. The United States have a long history of human rights promotion and leadership. However, the Trump government has pulled back from international agreements as it does not believe in multilateralism and the creation of common ground. This currently limits the scope for international organizations to act. Recently, Melania Trump and the former First Lady Laura Bush announced their concerns about the family separation. 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From 4 to 9 p.m., concert-poster and screen-print artists from around the country will showcase and sell their works while Cherry Bomb, Richmond's all-female DJ collective, spins pop, rock, soul and funk. The event is free, but a $5 donation is suggested. \"This year we're going to have a larger-scale collection of art and brews,\" says organizer Brian Gearing, owner of The Gig Gallery. Proceeds will benefit the National Multiple Sclerosis Society and Hospice of Virginia. Afterward, Marco Benevento will perform in the restaurant's Downtown Music Hall (tickets may be purchased at Plan 9 Music or via capitalale house.com). For more information, visit screensnsuds.com .\nExplore four of the region's wineries during a Harvest Passport Weekend on Nov. 6 and 7. Tastings will be offered at Grayhaven Winery, in Gum Spring; Lake Anna Winery, in Spotsylvania County; Cooper Vineyards, in Louisa County; and James River Cellars, in Glen Allen. A $10 ticket can be used from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. both days; each winery will stamp the ticket and provide guests with a complimentary wineglass and a small gift, as well as snacks and music. For more information, visit hovawinetrail.com .\nStew City\nLegend has it that the first Brunswick stew was made with stale bread, squirrel meat and onions. Today, it usually contains chicken and vegetables such as tomatoes, potatoes, corn and butter beans. Traditionally, stews are thick enough to hold a paddle in place in the middle of the pot. \"Everybody's got a little secret ingredient they put in,\" says Brunswick County resident George Daniel, who claimed the championship at Richmond's Brunswick Stew Festival in 2002 and 2006. This year's event is set for Nov. 6 from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. at the 17th Street Farmers' Market. More than a dozen stew masters are expected to compete for a cash prize and trophy. 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His death is being reported as a suicide.\nJoEllen Smith, spokesperson for the Ohio Department of Corrections, released the following statement:\nInmate Ariel Castro was found hanging in his cell this evening at 9:20 pm at the Correctional Reception Center in Orient. He was housed in protective custody which means he was in a cell by himself and rounds are required every 30 minutes at staggered intervals. Upon finding inmate Castro, prison medical staff began performing life saving measures. Shortly after he was transported to OSUMC where he was pronounced dead at 10:52 pm. A thorough review of this incident is underway and more information can be provided as it becomes available pending the status of the investigation.\nAs previously reported by NewsOne, Berry disappeared at the age of 16 on April, 21, 2003; DeJesus disappeared almost one year later at the age of 14 while walking home from school. Initial reports claimed that Knight disappeared in 1990, but later reports confirmed that she went missing in 2002 at the age of 20.\nAriel Castro along with brothers Pedro Castro, 54, Onil Castro, 50, were initially arrested, but it was later determined that Ariel acted alone. The degradation that these women have been subjected to over the years was, by all accounts, horrific.\nCharles Ramsey, Castro\u2019s neighbor who heard screaming from the house, was catapulted to stardom when he saved the 3 women on May 6 in a daring and heroic rescue. Though fame knocked on his door, he said that he was just doing what anyone would do and doesn\u2019t want recognition for his actions.\n\u201cI don\u2019t even want it,\u201d Ramsey said of the attention. \u201cThey keep saying I\u2019m a hero. Let me tell you something, I\u2019m an American, and I\u2019m a human being. I\u2019m just like you. I work for a living. There was a woman in distress, so why turn your back on that?\u201d\nCastro pleaded guilty to 937 counts, including kidnapping, rape, assault and aggravated murder. He was also accused of aggravated murder of a fetus for forcibly causing one of the women to abort a baby he allegedly fathered and avoided the death penalty with the plea.\nCastro, who also fathered a 6-year-old girl, Jocelyn, with Amanda Berry while she was held in captivity, was sentenced on August 1 to life in prison plus 1000 years for his heinous crimes.\nListen to Castro speak in his defense during his sentencing hearing:\nThis story is developing. Check in with NewsOne for updates\u2026\nCleveland Kidnapper, Rapist Ariel Castro Found Dead In Prison Cell [VIDEO] was originally published on newsone.com\nAmanda Berry\t, Ariel Castro\t, charles ramsey\t, Cleveland kidnapping\t, Gina DeJesus\t, Michelle Knight", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00240.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 204, + "original_length": 6201, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.98, + "perplexity": 257.0, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "https://riotimesonline.com/brazil-news/rio-real-estate/city-pioneer-jaime-lerner-celebrated/", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T04:56:17Z", + "digest": "sha1:L6F76SEF5BF3WTTVQTLI5F7A5AFPDTCY", + "length": 3786, + "nlines": 17, + "source_domain": "riotimesonline.com", + "title": "City Pioneer Jaime Lerner Celebrated | The Rio Times", + "raw_content": "Home Real Estate City Pioneer Jaime Lerner Celebrated\nCity Pioneer Jaime Lerner Celebrated\nBy Christine Wipfli, Contributing Reporter\nCURITIBA \u2013 As the only Brazilian to make this year\u2019s list of the top 25 most influential thinkers in TIME Magazine, Jaime Lerner is a renowned architect and urban planner whose theories and ideas have been implemented all around the world. Indeed it was his policies that helped turn the Brazilian city of Curitiba into one of the world\u2019s greenest.\nJaime Lerner, former mayor of Curitiba and creator of one of the world's greenest cities, photo by Victor Soares/ABr.\nLerner was born and raised in Curitiba, and as the city\u2019s three-time former Mayor his passion and dedication to social reformation has made a significant impact on millions, and set a great and important precedent for other cities to follow.\nLerner was appointed mayor of Curitiba, the capital city of Paran\u00e1, in 1971\u201375, 1979\u201384 and 1989\u201392, but already in his first term he was keenly implementing social, ecological, and urban reforms.\nFacing a number of obstacles from the outset including the city\u2019s geographical challenge of being surrounded by floodplains, Lerner converted much of this useless terrain into parks which gave the city a top ranking in per-capita park area in the world. When Lerner ran into the dilemma of not having sufficient money to afford the tractors and petroleum to mow these parks, he came up with the innovative idea of \u201cmunicipal sheep\u201d, who keep the parks\u2019 vegetation under control and whose wool funds children\u2019s programs.\nAnother obstacle was the city\u2019s waste problem; Curitiba had several neighborhoods impossible to service by municipal waste removal due to narrow roads. Rather than forsake these people, Lerner created a program that traded bags of groceries and transit passes for bags of trash, cleaning up these areas substantially.\nWhen he wanted cleaner waterways he began another program that paid fishermen by the pound for any garbage they retrieved. This satisfied the fishermen because when it wasn\u2019t fishing season they were still able to supplement their income, and the city saved millions in costs with these two \u201cwin-win\u201d initiatives in place.\nThe Rapid Transit Bus, or Speedybus, helped revolutionize traffic congestion in Curitiba, photo by Luan Lenon/GNU Free Documentation License.\nHowever, his focus was not solely on the development of the architecture and environment of the city, he was equally concerned with the well-being of the citizens. Lerner implemented several innovative social and educational programs. Children who were not going to school had the opportunity to apprentice as city employees, and although his theories and practices were not without their controversies, Curitiba has no problems with gangs, such as more populous cities like Rio de Janeiro.\nOne of Lerner\u2019s most significant contributions to the city was creating an extremely quick and efficient transportation system. When given the option of starting a costly mass subway development, Lerner opted to create the \u201cSpeedybus\u201d line, using Swedish-made, articulated buses (fitting close to 300 people).\nThe city then built transit stops, more closely resembling train stations, which are completely equipped to handle large numbers of passenger traffic including handicap accessibility. The system is run and operated by private firms, yet the city still controls the routes and fares. His integrated bus system transports 2.4 million Curitibans every day.\nThe ideas and theories of Jaime Lerner should make Brazil proud and should inspire all of us to think about how we can improve the quality of life in our big cities for us and for future generations.\nPrevious articleBrazilian Racing\u2019s Big Day Out\nNext articleGrande Pr\u00eamio 4, by Doug Gray", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00240.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 262, + "original_length": 10235, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.97, + "perplexity": 270.3, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "https://rockingquotes.com/author/alec_waugh/waugh_9550_1.html", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T03:46:52Z", + "digest": "sha1:ELE2KREUGIMYDTCXOCMRS4XMZGYXIEM3", + "length": 157, + "nlines": 1, + "source_domain": "rockingquotes.com", + "title": "Alec Waugh Famous Quotes - RockingQuotes", + "raw_content": "A man desires praise that he may be reassured, that he may be quit of his doubting of himself; he is indifferent to applause when he is confident of success.", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00240.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 13, + "original_length": 545, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.99, + "perplexity": 301.2, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "https://rockymountainhospitalforchildren.com/testimonials/jose-sarah-sala-guth", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T04:51:31Z", + "digest": "sha1:ECCL675Z6N3SNLPCRYOYG2SDR5ERNSHS", + "length": 2767, + "nlines": 16, + "source_domain": "rockymountainhospitalforchildren.com", + "title": "Patient Stories | Rocky Mountain Hospital for Children", + "raw_content": "The Sala Family: Joseph\u2019s Story\nJose and Sarah Sala-Guth found out their son, Joseph, was born with a series of unexpected conditions that would require multiple surgeries, and he was transferred to the NICU immediately after birth. In recovery from his third surgery, doctors discovered an unknown heart condition and informed Jose and Sarah that Joseph would need to undergo open-heart surgery. He was transferred immediately to Rocky Mountain Hospital for Children (RMHC), leaving Jose and Sarah concerned about Joseph\u2019s now uncertain medical future.\nSettling in to a New Reality\nDuring Joseph\u2019s extended stay in the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) and multiple surgeries, his parents came to be like family with the RMHC staff. The doctors, nurses and staff greeted them by name and created a personal atmosphere where they felt empowered to make decisions for their son\u2019s health.\n\u201cThe team here at Rocky Mountain Hospital for Children made us a part of the decision-making process, every step of the way. They worked hard to make sure that our needs as parents were met, in addition to taking excellent care of our son.\nThe surgeons, doctors and nurses are invested in our son in a way that you just don\u2019t expect from a large organization. The doctors call on their days off and ask how Joseph is doing. We feel like people are truly invested in the health of our child.\u201d\nSuccessful Open-Heart Surgery\nOn the morning of Joseph\u2019s open-heart surgery, the team at RMHC arrived with a personal touch.\n\u201cIt was a very powerful moment for us, and Dr. Steven Leonard, Joseph\u2019s surgeon, was the face of confidence. He was thoughtful enough to give us a small gift, a figurine of a young boy with a heart. And we knew from that moment that Joseph was in the best possible hands for this surgery.\u201d\nJoseph\u2019s surgery went off without a hitch, exceeding the expectations of the doctors and the family. The family recalls the moment they heard the news that surgery was successful.\n\u201cIt was a miracle. It was the most amazing news we\u2019ve received.\u201d\nJoseph\u2019s Recovery\nAfter Joseph\u2019s multiple surgeries and months spent in the NICU and pediatric intensive care unit, he\u2019s made a full recovery. The Sala family left RMHC in June, and since then, Joseph has been living a happy, healthy life.\nHis family recently vacationed to Estes Park, where Joseph\u2019s heart had no problems with the higher altitude. He\u2019s a playful child with a big support system and a lot of people invested in his health.\n\u201cWe recently went back to Rocky Mountain Hospital for Children for a follow-up appointment, and Joseph\u2019s doctors and nurses were so excited to see him and hold him again. We really could not be more grateful for the care that our son received.\u201d\nWatch Jose and Sarah\u2019s video testimonial:", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00240.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 338, + "original_length": 20422, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.98, + "perplexity": 259.4, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "https://roj.as/blog/155", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T03:48:32Z", + "digest": "sha1:JF2QF76P6UUTLPA2BQYDLL73F45URXSA", + "length": 715, + "nlines": 1, + "source_domain": "roj.as", + "title": "Not quite an update... \u2014 peter rojas", + "raw_content": "I've been meaning to post something here, but it's been tough to know where to start. The past two weeks have probably been some of the most tumultuous of my entire life. Two weeks ago I was full of optimism and excitement over my new startup (RCRD LBL), my new role at Engadget (editorial director), and my upcoming trip to the West Coast to visit friends and family, do some wedding planning, and go to FOO Camp. Obviously things took a drastic turn for the worse, but I'm doing my best to deal with everything and just wanted to say thank you to everyone who has called or emailed with their support and condolences. It's been amazing to hear from so many people, and it's made getting through this a lot easier.", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00240.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 21, + "original_length": 945, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.99, + "perplexity": 243.7, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "https://romanticnovelistsassociation.org/rna_author/john-jackson/", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T03:53:00Z", + "digest": "sha1:MRMRC3OVFQ3EF5AV7LUAAX3SL6WFQL2O", + "length": 985, + "nlines": 11, + "source_domain": "romanticnovelistsassociation.org", + "title": "John Jackson - RNA", + "raw_content": "Home RNA Authors John Jackson\nWebsite: www.johnjacksonauthor.com\nFacebook: johnjacksonauthor\nTwitter: @jjackson42\nInstagram: @john5642\nJohn was born and brought up in south Manchester, before taking to a life at sea. He has since lived all over the world, from the Solomon Islands to the Falklands, Cyprus, Holland and the Isle of Man.\nNow he and his long-suffering wife have dropped anchor in York. Retirement has meant he has turned his hand to writing historical fiction, with, in his own words, a strong romantic thread.\nJohn has spent a long time researching his family tree and found a lively lot of ruffians, rogues and chancers, all of whom are conveniently dead, so they can\u2019t sue, and who make great subjects to write about.\nHis first novel, Heart of Stone, was published in October 2017 by Crooked Cat Books, and was short-listed for the 2018 Joan Hessayon prize.\nHe is now working on another historical romance, with the next generation of ancestors.\nJane HollandKate Ryder", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00240.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 33, + "original_length": 1440, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.98, + "perplexity": 277.9, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "https://ronsview.org/2012/04/01/north-carolina-preview/", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T03:23:25Z", + "digest": "sha1:CPYMAY2LWO6LGJ4FUTQITLCUJXRF4BQN", + "length": 4311, + "nlines": 20, + "source_domain": "ronsview.org", + "title": "North Carolina Preview | Ron's View", + "raw_content": "Home > Architecture, Art, History, Museums, Travel\t> North Carolina Preview\nSix weeks ago, I described a day trip we might take when visiting Joel in Chapel Hill this month. We would drive 50 miles west to Greensboro to visit the International Civil Rights Center & Museum, which opened two years ago on the site of the Woolworth\u2019s where four college students began their 1960 lunch counter sit-in. And along the way, we would stop at the Saxapahaw General Store, featured in the NYT Sunday travel section in January, for a meal. That\u2019s still the plan. The civil rights museum provides hour-long guided tours and we have made our reservations.\nThat leaves two more days to plan, not counting our arrival and departure days. Here\u2019s what I\u2019m thinking (though Gail has yet to weigh in). We\u2019ll go down to Raleigh one day, hang out in Durham and Chapel Hill the other, and see still more museums.\nRaleigh has three state museums, the North Carolina Museum of Art, the North Carolina Museum of History, and the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences. I can\u2019t imagine going to all three. The good news is, we can\u2019t. The natural sciences museum will be closed for two weeks in preparation for the opening of a new wing. This is bad news too, of course. It would have been fun to see the wing. But it simplifies our decision.\nWhat most interests me at the history museum is an exhibit called The Story of North Carolina:\nMore than 14,000 years of the state\u2019s history unfold through fascinating artifacts, multimedia presentations, dioramas, and hands-on interactive components. Additionally, two full-size historic houses and several re-created environments immerse museum visitors in places where North Carolinians have lived and worked.\nHighlights in the first part of The Story of North Carolina include American Indian life, European settlement, piracy, the American Revolution and early 1800s farm life. The exhibit continues through the antebellum era, the Civil War, the rise of industry, the Great Depression, the two World Wars, and the Civil Rights movement.\nThe art museum has a park that is \u201chome to more than a dozen monumental works of art, with artists actively involved in the restoration of the Park\u2019s landscape and the integration of art into its natural systems.\u201d One is pictured below.\nGyre, Thomas Sayre, 1999\nThe museum also has a notable collection of Judaica, such as the Torah finials below from the treasury of the Great Synagogue of Amsterdam.\nTorah finials, circa 1765, attributed to Willem Hendrik Rosier, Dutch, Amsterdam, 1707-1775. Medium: Silver and brass; cast, repouss\u00e9, chased, partly gilded.\nWe could also try to fit in a tour of the State Capitol, completed in 1840 and pictured at the top.\nOn the day we go to Durham, we can visit the Duke Homestead State Historic Site.\nAt Duke Homestead, visitors can tour the early home, factories, and farm where Washington Duke first grew and processed tobacco. Duke\u2019s sons later founded The American Tobacco Company, the largest tobacco company in the world. The Dukes became one of the wealthiest families in the country at the turn of the 20th century and now lend their name to Duke University, Duke Energy, and the Duke Endowment.\nDuke Homestead offers an orientation film twice an hour, an extensive tobacco museum, and guided tours of the surviving historical structures on the grounds. Among these structures are early Bright Leaf tobacco barns, Washington Duke\u2019s first and third factories, and his 1852 homestead.\nAnd on the Duke campus, there\u2019s The Nasher Museum of Art, which \u201copened in 2005 with a building designed by Rafael Vi\u00f1oly as the center for the visual arts on campus.\u201d We\u2019re talking Nasher as in Ray and Patsy Nasher of Dallas, the Nashers of downtown Dallas\u2019s Nasher Sculpture Center , and of the NorthPark Center mall, which displays more art from the Nasher collection. (I wrote about our visit to the Nasher Sculpture Center two years ago.)\nThe Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University\nWe may not have time to do all this. After all, we also want to enjoy the local restaurant offerings, walk around Raleigh, Durham, and Chapel Hill to get a sense of what they\u2019re like, and drive around as well. We\u2019ll have to return soon.\nCategories: Architecture, Art, History, Museums, Travel\nQuote of the Day Changes in the Land", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00240.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 128, + "original_length": 8900, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.94, + "perplexity": 206.8, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "https://rtc.wa.gov/press/release.asp?id=6", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T03:18:56Z", + "digest": "sha1:ATJTCTIE2XIYZYAQ6AQMG5KQ3DHIQMHI", + "length": 754, + "nlines": 3, + "source_domain": "rtc.wa.gov", + "title": "RTC: Press Release: Citizens Stakeholders Committee Meeting for HOV Study", + "raw_content": "Vancouver, Washington -- The second meeting of the Citizens Stakeholders Committee Meeting for the Clark County High Occupancy Transportation Study is Wednesday October 29th from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. at the Clark Public Utilities Electric Center meeting room. The Citizens Stakeholders Committee is made of 15 members and consists of 12 neighborhood and 3 business representatives.\nThe October 29th meeting will consist of a presentation of Clark County travel characteristics and a discussion of factors for successful high occupancy vehicle facilities. There will also be opportunity at the meeting for public comment.\nAt the first meeting, the committee received an overview of the study and background information about high occupancy vehicle facilities.", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00240.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 86, + "original_length": 2676, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.96, + "perplexity": 258.4, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "https://ru.coursera.org/lecture/henry/retirement-children-education-and-land-bU6Db", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T03:20:05Z", + "digest": "sha1:JFVSPJD7BN6N3KECNQB45IMIF2ZJZV4K", + "length": 6718, + "nlines": 115, + "source_domain": "ru.coursera.org", + "title": "Retirement: Children, Education, and Land - Patrick Henry Legacy | Coursera", + "raw_content": "Retirement: Children, Education, and Land\nPatrick Henry finally leaves the Virgina House of Delegates in 1791, and\nsays he won't be re-elected again.\nIt's not because he's unpopular.\nHe continues to be one of the most popular politicians in Virgina.\nBut he's decided he's at an age, and at a point in his life\nwhere he needs to provide for his family and his children.\nI've mentioned that he continues to be raising a large family with his\nsecond wife, Dorothea.\nHe has children born in 1790, 1792, 1794,\n1796, 1798, 17 children in all when done, 11 with Dorothea.\nWhen he dies in 1799, 11 of his children are still alive.\nNow that's a very large number by 18th century standards.\nHe thought 12 were alive.\nHis daughter Annie, whom he loved dearly, died shortly before he does,\nand they wouldn't tell Henry because he was very ill, essentially on his deathbed.\nNow, when he enters retirement, initially he's living at Pleasant Grove\nin Prince Edward County; it's a 1,700 acre plantation.\nHenry always loves his role as a plantation owner, a farmer.\nIn 1792, he moves to Long Island in Campbell County,\neventually over 3,500 acres there.\nIn 1794, he moves to Red Hill,\nin Charlotte County; it's a 700 acre plantation.\nIt's on the Roanoke River.\nWhile he's there, he's adding territory, he's adding land,\nexpanding to almost 3,000 acres by his death.\nHe refers to Red Hill as the \"Garden Spot of Virginia.\"\nBy the time Henry dies, he has almost 50,000 acres of land.\nHe's living happily as a plantation manager.\nOne son-in-law says, \"I am positive I never saw him at a passion, nor\napparently out of temper.\nCircumstances which would have highly irritated other men had no\nvisible effect on him.\"\nSo Patrick Henry's enjoying his retirement.\nIn this period, his love for fiddling and playing flute, for\nmusic, and poetry is renewed.\nIt's said that he often writes little short poems or little short songs for\nhis young children and grandchildren, he has many grandchildren already,\nfor his children and grandchildren.\nHe's often found wrestling on the ground at Red Hill with his children and\nHe, however, is conscious that maybe the \"great Patrick Henry\"\nmight be thought less of in writing these little ditties.\nAnd so when he's done singing these songs or playing these tunes for\nhis children and grandchildren, he'll roll them up and throw them in the fires.\nWe don't have any of them preserved.\nHe burns them, saying that he's afraid it will \"injure his reputation.\"\nPatrick Henry's also engaged with many sons and grandsons in their formal\neducation, sending many of them to Hampden-Sydney College.\nThis is an era where, unfortunately, his daughters and\ngranddaughters are not going for that kind of a formal education.\nHe is very interested in seeing to it that they get the formal education which he did\nnot, even though as we discussed, his education was excellent.\nHe prizes the ability to send his children and\ngrandchildren to Hampden-Sydney College.\nOne of his grandchildren reports that he would check up on their work, and\nin particular, he would check on their Latin.\nAnd they far more feared Henry's review of their Latin work\nthan their Latin professor's.\nHenry is also continuing to maintain his legal office at Red Hill.\nAnd if you go visit Red Hill today, the legal office that Henry used\nin the 1790s is still standing there, pretty much as it was.\nHe taught several of his sons and his grandsons law In that law office.\nRemember, in the 18th century, the primary way to learn law is as an apprentice under\na young lawyer, or under a lawyer, Henry's no longer young.\nHenry had read the law, he had pursued a different course.\nBut he's very happy to have the chance to teach some of his progeny the law.\nHe also continues to practice some law himself.\nIn this period, in addition to playing with his children and grandchildren, and\npracticing law, and\nbeing concerned about education, he becomes a great land speculator.\nHe obviously loves land.\nHe's talking in this period about if the federal government does become to powerful\nand dangerous, he wants to be able to escape to some of his western lands.\nAnd so this is one of the reasons he's buying lands,\nas well as having plantations for each one of his sons when he dies.\nOne of his acquaintances says, \"As for boasting, he was an entire stranger to it;\nunless it be that in his latter days he seemed proud of the goodness of his lands.\"\nAs I mentioned, when Patrick Henry dies, he has almost 50,000 acres of land,\nwhich he's going to bequest to his children.\nNow, we might pause on one particular land deal that fell through.\nIt doesn't happen, but it's been wrongly used to cast aspersions on\nPatrick Henry's integrity, both in various histories, as well as at the time.\nThomas Jefferson, again, being one of the culprits.\nA very complicated land transaction,\nwe don't need to understand all of its details.\nBut Georgia, which still owned the territory that we know of as Alabama and\nMississippi, was selling off some of the lands in the far west.\nNow, by the way, there was serious questions as to whether Georgia or\nthe Native Americans owned those lands,\nbut Georgia sells a very large tract of what's referred to as the Yazoo lands,\non the Mississippi and the Yazoo River,\nto a consortium of buyers in which Patrick Henry is a member.\nSo Patrick Henry is joined with a number of other people to buy these very\nspeculative lands out on the Mississippi, in what is now Mississippi.\nWell, that land deal falls through.\nAnd we don't need to get into all the details of why it falls through.\nThere are going to be lawsuits; Patrick Henry and his partners bring lawsuits\nagainst Georgia saying that Georgia reneged on the contract.\nBut the key thing is that deal falls through.\nWell, since that land didn't sell to this consortium,\nGeorgia sells that land to a different group.\nAnd in the second sale, as it turns out,\nvirtually every member of the Georgia legislature was bribed.\nThis becomes the great Yazoo Land Fraud.\nIt's a case that goes on for many years; it ends up at the Supreme Court.\nAnd it was clearly a fraudulent transaction in which these\nland speculators are bribing the members of the Georgia legislature.\nBut it's completely different and unrelated to Patrick Henry's effort to\nbuy the Yazoo lands; it was a different period.\nAnd as I said, in history, including Thomas Jefferson's recollection\nof some of the Yazoo land controversies, these two are confused.\nAnd Henry never really, there's no real serious accusation\nthat he ever uses his government position or engages in bribery or\ninappropriate activity to try to aggrandize his own wealth.\nSo he doesn't get the Yazoo lands, but he's not a part of the Yazoo land frauds.", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00240.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 208, + "original_length": 12568, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.99, + "perplexity": 287.3, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "https://runt-of-the-web.com/alternate-universe-photos", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T03:50:39Z", + "digest": "sha1:J3IKXPZCPCGRNTJWUD5VLXOO2XBKH266", + "length": 1023, + "nlines": 6, + "source_domain": "runt-of-the-web.com", + "title": "41 Doppelg\u00e4nger Photos That Prove The Matrix Is Real, And It's Been Compromised", + "raw_content": "41 Doppelg\u00e4nger Photos That Prove The Matrix Is Real, And It\u2019s Been Compromised\nSomewhere on this planet, there is somebody who looks exactly like you, and because the germans have to make everything fun and silly sound severe and aggressive, they coined the term \u201cDoppelg\u00e4nger.\u201d They could be on the other side of the world, but chances are they\u2019re much, much closer. In fact, it\u2019s probably only a matter of time until your paths cross, a photo is snapped, and you end up in an internet gallery like THIS. Either that, or there\u2019s a serious flaw in the matrix:\n55 Funny Photoshops So Dumb They Could Only Be From The Internet\nThanks to Metro, Smosh and r/funny for some of the images used in this kinda creepy gallery. If you weren't weirded out enough by this gallery, then click on over to Nopetown or check out our collection of photos that are a definite hard pass.\n33 Depressing But Hilarious 5-Word Tweets About How Sad Online Dating Really Is\n27 Christie At The Beach Memes That Are Just What The Taxpayers Asked For", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00240.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 78, + "original_length": 2226, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.9, + "perplexity": 338.4, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "https://ryankdavidson.com/events", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T03:17:09Z", + "digest": "sha1:AVGIWNYEOJ5RO75JKBDVF3SSI5MUVF6W", + "length": 290, + "nlines": 5, + "source_domain": "ryankdavidson.com", + "title": "Ryan K. Davidson - Magician", + "raw_content": "Tue, Oct 2, 2018 7:00 PM 19:00 Thu, Oct 4, 2018 10:00 PM 22:00\nWebsters Theatre (map)\nRyan presents his new one-man show DEVILRY live from The Websters Theatre in Glasgow's West End.\nThe Tall Ship (map)\nRyan will be performing in The Secret Room on The Tall Ship as part of the Makers Fair.", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00240.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 42, + "original_length": 988, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.9, + "perplexity": 264.4, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "https://sarahsdogs.com/breeds/american-foxhound/", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T03:57:03Z", + "digest": "sha1:CSAIHPYNVGAUBX5OWQMFGLUPACFNFFSU", + "length": 6846, + "nlines": 26, + "source_domain": "sarahsdogs.com", + "title": "American Foxhound - Sarah's Dogs", + "raw_content": "You may not see many American Foxhounds in dog shows across the country but you will see a few. The dogs you see at the shows are normally larger than the regular American Foxhound you will see out chasing game.\nThere are a variety of strains of the American Foxhound around today, which include the Goodman, July, Trigg, Penn-Marydel, and the Walker. All the breeds look very different, but are considered to be members of the same breed. The majority of show dogs are Walkers while the hunting dogs are usually Penn-Marydel or any of the strains to the preference of the hunter.\nYou may not find many American Foxhounds registered with the American Kennel Club just as you do not see many in dog shows. Many breeders do not register the dogs, as they are mainly concerned in the reproduction of working hunting dogs. You will find many American Foxhounds listed in the stud books that are published by the Foxhound publications Chase and the Hunter\u2019s Horn. If you visit the southern United States, you are sure to see more than one American Foxhound, as this is one of the most popular breeds used for hunting.\nThe American Foxhound is what is considered a pack hound and prefers to hunt, hang with other dogs, and stay active. This breed is quite a busy one with such activities as running around a large farm from the break of day until evening and still shows enthusiasm for hunting or playing.\nThe most common American Foxhound is around 21 to 25 inches tall and weigh around 65 to 75 pounds, however, show dogs tend to be larger in height and weight with females around 25 to 28 inches tall and males around 26 to 29 inches tall. It is believed the improved diet is the reason for larger show dogs.\nWhen you first see an American Foxhound, you may think you are looking at a Beagle, as they do resemble one another except in taller and larger. The coat is short and harsh and can be in a variety of colors from white, tan, black, cream, and is usually not one solid color. However, you can see a solid white coat with black, tan, or cream on the head, back, and tail.\nThe American Foxhound has long and straight boned legs, with a chest that is a bit narrow. He has a long muzzle with large wide set eyes that are either brown or hazel. The ears are set low, long and when stretched can just about reach the tip of their nose. Their ears are close to the head with a slight forward slant and round at the tips.\nThe body of the American Foxhound is strong and muscular without being loaded, the same goes for the back. The loins are wide and slightly arched. The feet are similar to that of a fox with a full and hard pad with arched toes and strong nails.\nTheir tail is set fairly high and carried casually. It is not turned forward over their back, but does have a small curve.\nThe American Foxhound is a very sweet, loving, affectionate, and kind breed. However, when it comes to the hunt they are brave and daring.\nThey get along very well with children and love their human families dearly. However, they do tend not to like any other animals besides dogs, the pact instinct. The American Foxhound will be perfectly content with all kinds of other dogs but may be a bit aggressive with other pets you may have.\nThe American Foxhound is normally very friendly even with strangers however, some may also be very protective over family members.\nThe American Foxhound is not recommended to live indoors especially in apartments. He is an outdoor breed that loves hunting anything when he gets a whiff of their scent. Even outdoors, he can be quite hard to handle if he smells a deer, a squirrel, or in some cases a cat. He will do everything in his power to find the prey. They are not dumb, a matter of fact they are very intelligent and can jump over high fences and even unlock gates when on a hunt. Leaving an American Foxhound indoors can be a huge mistake as they become bored quickly and then will become very mischievous. He will need a large area to romp and play.\nHunting is in their breed and they love all kinds of attention and playful activity. Happy and carefree is the best way to describe the American Foxhound. They tend to be a bit hard to housebreak and will need careful training and regular socialization.\nThe American Foxhound needs a rigorous exercise program or he can become bored which can lead to misbehavior. Along with exercise, he will need firm training.\nHe will need to have his short coat brushed and bathed as needed.\nAmerican Foxhounds do have a tendency to overeat if the food is accessible, be sure not to overeat, as they will become overweight.\nThe American Foxhound is a descendent of the English Foxhound, however, it was really the crossbreeding of the English Foxhound and French hound that brought the American Foxhound into existence.\nRobert Brooke brought the first English Foxhound to Crown Colony in the United States in the 1650s. The first English Foxhounds that came to America and their descendants remained in the family for close to three hundred years.\nMarquis de Lafayette gave President George Washington French Foxhounds as a gift. Many of the dogs that President Washington owned were descended from Brooke\u2019s. When they were crossed with the French hounds, they resulted in the American Foxhound that we know today. President Washington loved these dogs so much that he kept his own pack at Mount Vernon.\nIn the beginning, these dogs were first used to chase coyote, deer, and fox. It has been speculation that during the 17th century this breed was used for hunting Indians. However, this fact has not been proven. The main reason the breed was developed was for hunting foxes. The red fox arrived to the United States by either importation or migration, which brought Irish Foxhounds to be bred with the English Foxhound and the American Foxhound, which added more speed and stamina to the line. This characteristic is still prevalent today.\nThe most popular American Foxhound strains are the Walker, July, Trigg, Calhoun, Hudspeth, and Goodman.\nThe Walker known by Mauphin at first were the development of Wash Mauphin in Kentucky. The Walker brothers played a role in perfecting the method of breeding and record keeping for Mr. Mauphin. They sent some of these hounds to Texas and thus the dog became known as the Walkers.\nThe Trigg strain originated from the breeding of Col. Haiden Trigg of Kentucky. He crossbred Walkers, July, Birdsong and other strains to arrive at his foxhound.\nThe July strain was born in Georgia. It all began when Mr. Nimrod Gosnell shipped a male hound to Colonel Miles G. Harris in July of 1858 in Sparta, Georgia. The name arrived for the month he arrived in Georgia.\nFirst known as the Mauphin-Maryland strain, the Goodman strain beginnings was attributed to Willis Goodman even though all he really did was send the dog throughout the country.", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00240.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 57, + "original_length": 7590, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.98, + "perplexity": 326.3, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "https://saromancewriters.blogspot.com/2016/10/reflecting-world-we-live-in-diversity.html", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T04:15:45Z", + "digest": "sha1:IFHERBNNPO3DEURYUX5S7OXU2RYAI4IO", + "length": 2547, + "nlines": 14, + "source_domain": "saromancewriters.blogspot.com", + "title": "ROSA: Reflecting the world we live in \u2014 Diversity in romance writing", + "raw_content": "Reflecting the world we live in \u2014 Diversity in romance writing\nThoughts by Anthony Ehlers...\nAt RosaCon16, we wrapped up the weekend with a panel discussion on Diversity in Romance, with panelists Fiona Khan, Elaine Pillay, and myself, Anthony Ehlers. The session, moderated by Rebecca Crowley, was to be a brutally honest analysis of this often overlooked issue in the romance genre.\nIn the US, for example, we see a growing market and readership, one that reflects a multicultural demographic. Gay marriage and equality has also brought a new focus on same-sex relationships. In India, we see a massively growing readership, and Fiona gave the popular Shiva Trilogy by Amish Tripathi as just one example.\nHere in South Africa, our democracy has brought about an exciting melting pot of race, culture, and is seen by many as a cosmopolitan and international setting by many. We have an opportunity as South Africans, and those that have made South Africa their home, to write our unique and fascinating love stories \u2013 whether they\u2019re historical, contemporary, or futuristic.\nSo where are the stories \u2013 and authors \u2013 that showcase this diversity?\nThere are barriers to crossing the diversity divide, from a lack of empowering writers and fostering new talent to not enough platforms for emerging writers. Often cost is a barrier to entry \u2013 as emerging or new markets don\u2019t have the same income as established demographics.\nHowever, editors, agents, and publishers are waking up to the need for a more diverse romance genre. It has become a commercial imperative to change the way they look at love stories in a rapidly changing world \u2013 otherwise their books won\u2019t keep pace with their readership. Readers want to see themselves reflected in the stories they read \u2013 whether it\u2019s a reflection of race, sexuality, culture or even just a setting they know as home.\nAs writers who are passionate about writing love stories, we must look beyond the entrenched archetypes of the past and find ways to show the world we live in right now \u2013 and reflect the diversity we see in our communities, our families, the workplace, and our friends. Be aware and open to the possibilities of characters and stories that shake up the status quo and rattle our complacency. Write about what excites us, yes, but also what challenges us.\nHere are some useful links to other sites on diversity\nAudra North\u2019s report into diversity in romance\nInside the push for a more diverse romance genre\nRomy Sommer October 28, 2016 at 12:14 PM\nI agree: also write what challenges us.", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00240.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 238, + "original_length": 7198, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.95, + "perplexity": 301.5, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "https://saw-grass.com/the-rear-view-mirror-is-broken/", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T03:34:23Z", + "digest": "sha1:NHGMHIXXSVVDSIGVB5MB6R2TMQCWOMSA", + "length": 5114, + "nlines": 12, + "source_domain": "saw-grass.com", + "title": "The Rear View Mirror is Broken: The Past 8 Years are Not Indicative of the Future | Sawgrass Asset Management", + "raw_content": "Home \u203a News and Whitepapers \u203a Education \u203a The Rear View Mirror is Broken: The Past 8 Years are Not Indicative of the Future\nAs I sit in the passenger seat teaching my 15-year-old how to drive, I always tell him to look where he is going and keep both hands on the wheel. Those basic instructions also apply to the investing world; however, it seems that many institutional investors are staring at the rear view mirror instead of looking forward 20 years down the road. The main problem is that they are using a mirror that provides a limited view of the past eight years, to help them drive forward. While it is important to learn from history, we need to put the events of recent years in perspective and understand how unlikely past events are to repeat themselves. If we want to find any meaningful information, we should use a mirror that views long-time periods to capture past market cycles so we can understand what may lie ahead of us 20 years from now. The equity markets have only moved in one direction since 2009, with very few bumps along the way.\nThis extreme bull market is not likely to repeat itself over the next few years and this perspective must be understood if we are to even glance in the rearview mirror. What do we see in our rearview mirror anyway? The Federal Reserve has flooded the market with over $3 Trillion in cash through its quantitative easing programs since 2009. Additionally, it has been more than a year since there has been as much as a 5% pullback in the S&P 5001. We have not seen a normal occurrence of negative periods since the bottom fell out of the market in 2009. In fact, recently we have matched an all-time low in the percentage of negative quarters for the last five years.\nSEC rule 156 requires the disclosure: Past performance is not indicative of future returns. This is a phrase most investors know, yet few actually adhere to the sentiment. Psychologist Karen Franklin, Ph.D., has found that it is only useful to measure past human behavior if the following occurs2:\nThe situation is essentially the same as the past;\nThe behavior remains unchanged;\nPredictions work over short time intervals.\nOur past market conditions don\u2019t satisfy any of these criteria because the central banks have removed any semblance of a normal market cycle. Quantitate Easing 1, 2 and 3 have come to an end, and the market impact generated by these monetary policies during the past eight years in not likely to repeat itself. That is the primary reason the rear view mirror is broken. As James Montier, noted portfolio manager at GMO, says, \u201cWe have a bubble of complacency and people are acting as if they have no risk.\u201d Investors are not driving with both hands on the wheel!\nInstitutional investors and active portfolio managers should build a portfolio that can survive a variety of challenges over the long run. This sounds simple; however, in reality, institutions are reacting to what has worked over the past eight years that don\u2019t include a true market cycle. Investors are now doubling up this bet after the fact and, when they see what has worked best in the PAST, they find index funds. Unfortunately, for most investors who recently switched to index funds, the timing of this means they have most likely missed the best relative run for index funds and their return stream will not include the strong returns since the market bottom of 2009. You cannot buy the past performance and it is worth noting that $500 billion flowed out of active portfolios and into index funds over the past six months3. James Montier has also said \u201cGoing passive now is classic returns chasing behavior,\u201d and \u201cThe light at the end of the tunnel is that the more people buy on the basis of market cap (indexing), the greater the opportunity for active managers.\u201d\nThe current low volatility market environment is hiding a great amount of risk. With so many dollars chasing an index fund without regard to fundamentals, there is too much comfort in the market. Investors are investing as if market cycles are a thing of the past, just like a cassette player in your car. This complacency adds risk to portfolios, and the role of an active manager should finally be rewarded. Active investors have a sell discipline that has not been rewarded during this recent bull market. This past abnormal market has blurred our vision and judgement.\nIn conclusion, most institutional investors have a long-term investing focus, yet they measure returns over short three or five year periods. If investors want a truly good look in the rearview mirror, they should use historical data over the past 20 or even 50 years to frame their asset allocation and investment decisions. The market conditions that fueled index funds over the past eight years are less likely to repeat themselves over the next eight years. Investors need to look forward and identify what they think will work best over a true market cycle. Look where you are going and keep both hands on the wheel, active investors are preparing for the road ahead.\nSources: 1 Barron\u2019s 7/17/17, 2 Psychology Today 1/3/13, 3 Bloomberg 7/7/17", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00240.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 123, + "original_length": 7776, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.97, + "perplexity": 273.5, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "https://scentsofbalance.com/tag/chickpeas/", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T03:33:31Z", + "digest": "sha1:GYADVD5ACBZXAIKZTOYVIWXRAM3RLUQL", + "length": 4729, + "nlines": 11, + "source_domain": "scentsofbalance.com", + "title": "chickpeas Archives | Kate's Garden | Organic Produce | Billings, MT chickpeas Archives | Kate's Garden | Organic Produce | Billings, MT", + "raw_content": "Kate\u2019s Ponderings & CSA Registration\nIt\u2019s spring again! Or, is it! By this time last year we had experienced lots of winter snow and heavy spring rains. Not so this year\u2026.and the wind! Oh my! It blew down part of the north fence a couple of weeks ago and the willow trees self pruned like crazy. I have had to resort to using city water to keep the trees happy and transplants watered. The winter mulch of straw was removed from the the strawberry and garlic beds as it was so warm there for awhile and with the winds they dryed out quickly. We have been asking for rain, and we have finally been blessed with it. The much needed moisture these last two days has greened up the lawn and brought sweet fragrance to the air from all all of the flowering trees. The robins are so happy with the big fat worms that are now at the surface of the ground for easy picking.\nI transplanted the scallions, bulb onions and green and red cabbages into the garden this past week. Barbara came for her first day of work on Thursday and direct seeded radishes and beets. The greenhouse is full of seed flats. The tomatoes and peppers are looking fine! I started more seeds yesterday.\nThe greenhouse is full of seedlings; peppers, tomatoes, parsley, basil and broccoli, and I started more seeds yesterday. There is always so much to do this time of year! My son, Greg, has been coming over to help when he can, and that has been such a blessing. I may just turn him into a farmer yet! I am always looking for more help in the gardens and a computer person would be great, too, to help with the on-line marketing/social media stuff. Sitting in front of a computer is definitely not my thing! If you or someone you know would be interested please give me a call, or send an email. This would probably amount to just a few hours a week.\nSo you can see that things are on course for season 2015 here at Kate\u2019s Garden. Now, I only need more subscribers to my CSA and other outlets to sell the produce. I thought that by lowering the subscription price and offering half shares this season that I would be encouraging more subscribers\u2026.but so far, that has not been the case. I know that it is early yet, but the purpose of the CSA is for the producer to bring in early funds in order to pay for start up costs like seed, labor and supplies. I am trusting that things will turn around as soon as the warmth of the sun and longer days return for good!\nDid you know that once upon a time, Montana produced 80 to 90% of the food consumed in the state. The remaining percentage was shipped out of state and that was mostly grain. More, now than ever, it is important to have access to local, sustainably grown food. Farming cannot be sustainable without the support of their local communities. It is time to really think about how we, as individuals and as a community, can start to build sustainability and a vibrant healthy food system right here in Billings and the surrounding area. I encourage you to spend your dollar with local food producers and shop keepers so that they can continue creating jobs, paying their taxes and raising their families. That\u2019s what community is all about. Farmers and local businesses are not asking for charity or demanding your support. That is, after all, not the idea. Most are just going about doing what we love while providing you a service that you may need. I can only speak for myself, but for me, it\u2019s also not about getting rich, although that would certainly be great. It\u2019s about doing something that makes sense, while assisting us all in being able to eat well and stay healthy! We are really supporting each other!\nThere is a worldwide movement happening, based on this concept. All of the elements are in place and they are valid. Now, it is the cost, the extent and the organization of this movement that will decide if it succeeds or not. Won\u2019t you join me in strengthening this movement?\nIf you have been on the fence deciding on whether to join Kate\u2019s Garden CSA, now is a good time to do so, as I will be starting an advertising campaign soon to bring in new subscribers. I have a passion for growing healthy food, education and being in service to my community. I would love to hear your comments and suggestions, so if you are so inclined, add a comment to this post or send an email. I look forward to hearing from you.\nThe broccoli raab that I have growing in the greenhouse was the idea behind this quick and easy curry recipe, but the recipe calls for regular broccoli. Both will certainly work. 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And they\u2019ve been able to use the extra space for professional services (that aren\u2019t covered by Healthcare).\nBut if even that\u2019s too long a wait for you, try calling 8-1-1, consulting your pharmacist, or going to a CLSC.\nJust don\u2019t whine about lack of government funding and then whine about all the taxes we pay! 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Angels are almost the only beings found here, and their society is divided into strict castes, called the Choirs. The lowest choir, of servants and followers, is the Cherubim. The second, usually occupied by the warriors and artisans, is the class of the Seraphim. Nobles and leaders are called Archangels and rarely seen even by their own kind.\nHeaven is also the place where, through rigorous training and disciplined teaching, the souls of the worthy are turned into angels themselves. In the Great Game, those who are guided to the light by Apollion or his angels and choose a life of asceticism and meek servitude are taken to Heaven after their death. 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Xueqiang said that CMEC is very interested in the project for the construction of gas-fired thermal power plants in Serbian cities which have problems with high air pollution, adding that the company will closely approach all necessary analyses in the coming weeks in order to define further steps in the implementation of this project.\nIn 2014, Serbian state-owned power utility EPS and CMEC signed the 715 million dollars contract for construction of unit 3 at TPP Kostolac B and the enlargement of nearby Drmno coalmine. 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I wont fly United ever again.\"\nBut another felt the video raised some unanswered questions.\n\"There has to be more to this story,\" he said.\n\"Usually when a flight is overbooked they offer free flight vouchers to those willing to change flights or go on standby and a couple of people will jump at those as their travel plans may be flexible.\"\n\"I feel like this specific incident HAS to be deeper than what we are seeing in this video,\" he added.\nIn a statement United airlines told the BBC: \"Flight 3411 from Chicago to Louisville was overbooked.\"\n\"After our team looked for volunteers, one customer refused to leave the aircraft voluntarily and law enforcement was asked to come to the gate,\" the airline added.\nThe chief executive of United, Oscar Munoz, has since made a statement on Twitter: \"This is an upsetting event to all of us here at United. 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He served on the national steering committee of US Labor Against the War (USLAW), of which District 1199 was a founding member in 2003.\nSteve has spent his adult life as an activist and organizer. In high school and college he organized against racism and the Vietnam War and published in the underground press.\nIn Hartford, Connecticut, where he has lived since 1973, Steve began as a housing rights activist, organizing tenants being displaced by corporate redevelopment, and homeless men into a direct action group. From 1987 to 1993 he helped create and played a key role in People For Change, a third-party that successfully elected City Council members around a pro-union, LGBT-friendly, populist platform.\nSteve previously worked with the International Ladies Garment Workers Union (now UNITE HERE), organizing and leading strikes primarily with people of color in small manufacturing and the textile industry. His union work began as an elected steward while employed as a day care teacher, where he ran for and won the position of Executive Vice President of AFSCME Local 1716.\nHe was later hired as an organizer for the 4Cs, the union of community college faculty and professionals, where he built a statewide lobbying effort that increased funding for working people, and where he organized mass student rallies.\nHe is currently a member of the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) and the National Writers Union (NWU/UAW).\nSteve has continued to work with various groups for social, economic, racial, and environmental justice, including the Clamshell Alliance, Anti-Racism Coalition of Connecticut, Irish Northern Aid and the War Resisters League.\nOver the past forty years he has trained hundreds of activists in nonviolent direct action in New England, Washington D.C. and Georgia, and more than 2,000 healthcare workers as rank-and-file union leaders. He has helped build solidarity connections with working peoples\u2019 struggles in Havana, Belfast, Managua, Vicenza, and Oslo.\nHe has researched and written extensively on current political issues and local people\u2019s history, particularly the forgotten stories of workers, for a variety of publications, including Connecticut Explored, the Hartford Courant, the Industrial Worker, Labor Notes, Justice (ILGWU), Hartford Business Journal, Hartford News, The Guardian (U.S.), Z Magazine, CT Mirror, ConnecticutHistory.org, Havana Times, People\u2019s World, LAWCHA On Line, and other publications.\nSteve conducts city walking tours, workshops, and lectures in classrooms, churches, bars, union halls, and picket lines.\nHe is the author of A Shoeleather History of the Wobblies: Stories of the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) in Connecticut (Red Sun Press, 2013) and Wicked Hartford (The History Press, 2017).\nSteve\u2019s work as a local activist is featured in Social Movements and Activists in the USA by Stephen Valocchi. He maintains the website The Shoeleather History Project (www.shoeleatherhistoryproject.com) which documents and explores progressive organizing from Hartford\u2019s grassroots. He appears in three documentary films: America: From Hitler to MX (1983) about the intersection of nuclear weapons and U.S. foreign and domestic policy, Crossing the American Crises (2011) exploring the 2008 economic collapse and workers\u2019 response, and Bloodletting (2004), about the disparities between the U.S. and Cuban healthcare systems, and in a loud cameo in the feature film The Conventioneers (2005). 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It was directed by Rod Hardy and written by Marc Rosenberg. It was taken from the 1963 novel of the same name by Michael Noonan. It was released on 14 September 2007 in the UK and US and 20 September 2007 in Australia.[1] December Boys is Daniel Radcliffe's first non-Harry Potter movie role since 2001's The Tailor of Panama.\n\u2191 \"Production notes\" (PDF). December Boys. warnerbros.com. 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He reigned from 1483 until 1485, as the last king from the House of Plantagenet.\nRichard was the youngest son of Richard, Duke of York. He had three elder brothers, Edward, Edmund and George. Richard, Duke of York, and his second son, Edmund, were both killed in battle during the Wars of the Roses. The eldest son, Edward, was a very good soldier, and won the throne of England in battle against the reigning king, King Henry VI. Edward then became King Edward IV of England and his two brothers, George and Richard, became very powerful men.\nRichard married Anne Neville, whose father had once been a friend of the family. Richard and Anne had known each other since they were children, but Anne had been taken to France, where she had married the Prince of Wales, the son of Henry VI. When the Prince of Wales was killed in battle, Anne became a widow, and soon she was married to Richard, even though he had been her husband's enemy. Richard and Anne lived at Middleham Castle in North Yorkshire. They had one son, who was named Edward after Richard's brother, King Edward. Richard quarrelled frequently with his brother George, who was married to Anne's sister, Isabel. King Edward became so angry that he put George in prison, where he died.\nKing Edward married a woman called Elizabeth Woodville, who had been married before and had many relatives. Soon her relatiives became very rich and powerful, causing bad feeling among those who had been in the king's favour before the marriage. Edward and Elizabeth had several children, including two sons, who were named Edward and Richard.\nWhen King Edward died, his elder son Edward should have been the next king, but he was still a boy. Richard had been asked by his brother the king to look after the two boys. He was worried that the new young king would not be able to rule the country properly. He was also worried that the Woodville family would soon be telling the king what to do and ruling the country for themselves.\nRichard the King[change | change source]\nRichard took the throne from his nephew, Edward V, and sent Edward and his brother to the Tower of London. They were both probably murdered. At the time, many people believed that King Richard had ordered them killed, but there is no evidence about what happened to them.\nThere has been discussion for many years about whether Richard III was a good king or a bad king. During his reign, which lasted only two years, he was very popular in parts of the country, especially the north of England. However, there were enough people who hated him to make sure that his enemies were able to raise a big army against him and defeat him in battle. Shakespeare's Richard III (play) depicts him as totally evil.\nRichard's skeleton was discovered in 2012\nRichard was killed at the Battle of Bosworth Field in 1485. He was the last English king to die in battle.[2] He suffered two head wounds that would have killed him almost immediately. After the battle, his body was stripped of clothing and carried naked on the back of a horse to Leicester. His skeleton shows that the body was further damaged after his death.[2] He was buried in Greyfriars church, but this was demolished later. His body was rediscovered in 2012 by archaeologists digging in what is now a carpark.[2]\nHenry Tudor, who led the army that defeated him, became the next King of England.\n\u2191 Richard was originally buried in the Church of the Greyfriars, but the church was demolished during the Dissolution of the Monasteries. The church and Richard's body were relocated in 2012.\n\u2191 2.0 2.1 2.2 Kennedy, Maeve (6 February 2013). \"A long winter of discontent\". The Age. 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If you\u2019re interested in launching (or re-launching) your online business the right way, make sure you\u2019re on the waiting list at https://sixfiguregrind.com/bootcamp/\nNeed to find a niche? 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But his experience in digital signage goes back a lot longer, to his days with the Israeli video wall software company Cnario.\nThose two jobs, and a bunch of others, have made Ran a very busy guy these days, working on and pitching projects built around video wall content and solutions. I managed to slow him down recently and ask about his company and the thinking and execution on really big digital canvases.\nJames Fine, Telecine\nJames Fine has been around the digital signage ecosystem since the earliest days. He founded Telecine in the mid-80s to do high-end video production for the corporate sector. By the mid-90s, he was getting into signage, putting networked screens in Quebec casinos.\nWe talk about the early days of the business - like spending $25,000 for 62-inch plasma displays for a retail job. That\u2019s $25K PER display.\nThings have changed, and both the industry and his business have grown. Telecine now does a turnkey solutions service for a variety of clients, and the work has won awards - notably for the great data-driven signage you\u2019ll see if you visit a Bloomberg office.\nFine and Telecine are from Montreal, and one of the things we get into in this chat is why there are so many great creative shops coming out of that city.\nWe spoke last week at InfoComm.\nRick Mills, Creative Realities (CRI)\nIf you have followed the digital signage business for a few years, you have probably seen stories about the financial tailspins of a set of companies that eventually got blended together as Creative Realities, or CRI for short. Sitting in the cheap seats watching it all go down, I\u2019m sure I wasn\u2019t the only one thinking, Well, this won\u2019t end well.\nThen the company merged with another company, ConeXus World. Which had me thinking, Who? And then, Why???\nTurns out there was a master plan here, started years earlier. 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That\u2019s a 3.5% decrease from the $280.9 million in senior living revenue it saw during the same period last year. The company\u2019s troubled skilled nursing segment was to blame for some of the recent revenue decline, according to Five Star President and CEO Bruce Mackey.\n\u201cTogether, our comparable standalone SNFs and CCRCs were down $6.4 million, or 8.1%, in skilled nursing revenue, compared with the same quarter last year,\u201d Mackey said during the company\u2019s second-quarter earnings call Thursday. \u201cOccupancy at our leased SNFs was down 500 basis points from the second quarter of 2017, to 74.7%, and we are seeing a similar trend in the skilled units at our CCRCs.\u201d\nEfforts by accountable care organizations (ACOs) and managed Medicare programs have generally resulted in decreased lengths of stay, and have forced some older adults to bypass skilled nursing settings in favor of cheaper home-based care, Mackey said. In turn, this has caused a decrease in Five Star\u2019s skilled nursing occupancy, and has tipped the company\u2019s payer mix from high-reimbursement Medicare to lower-reimbursement Medicaid.\nIn light of those challenges, the senior living provider will decide on a market-by-market basis whether its CCRCs\u2019 skilled nursing units make sense as they currently exist.\n\u201cWe are in the process of evaluating all of our skilled nursing units within our CCRCs and examining the feasibility and profitability of repurposing some or all of these units,\u201d Mackey said. \u201cWe will determine if skilled units will be [as] profitable as other types of senior living operations where the demand is evident.\u201d\nElsewhere, Five Star is already lightening its skilled nursing load. In June, Five Star and Senior Housing Properties Trust (NYSE: SNH) sold a skilled nursing facility in California to a third party for about $6.5 million. The provider is also working on converting a former skilled nursing facility in Sun City, Arizona, into a memory care community.\nOn the senior housing side of the business, assisted and independent living revenues remained flat in the second quarter of 2018, while memory care revenues fell $1.8 million, representing a 6.3% decline from the same quarter in 2017.\n\u201cObviously, this was a difficult quarter for Five Star and the senior living industry, as new units flood the market as a result of record new construction starts over the past year or two,\u201d Mackey said. \u201cThat, combined with the decline in the growth rate of the 85-and-above age demographic, has created an operating environment that has not been seen in the industry for quite some time.\u201d\nDespite those headwinds, Five Star did highlight some bright spots in its operations.\nAgeility Physical Therapy Solutions, the provider\u2019s rehab and wellness division, saw second-quarter revenues of $8.7 million, representing a 17.1% increase over the previous year\u2019s quarterly totals. 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Whereas a reader 20 years ago would loyally patronize three or four established newspaper and magazine titles (what we now call old media or legacy media), today\u2019s reader eagerly jumps from news source to news source, usually with the aid of social media, sometimes without a full understanding of what each outlet is delivering. BuzzFeed, for all its impressive strides toward journalistic integrity, is still no Washington Post.\nWhat colleges need is a course in news media literacy that gives students the know-how to navigate the news deftly. (This is not to be confused with existing offerings in \u201cmedia literacy,\u201d a broader, more theoretical subject concerned with analysis of any kind of message.) This course would provide a practical understanding of what news outlets should be trusted as part of a balanced media diet and what outlets can be seen as something less than factual: opinion, storytelling, satire, or pure fiction masquerading as journalism. People who major in journalism and communications get these lessons across their entire curriculum, so this class would be aimed at the general student body.\nSuch a course would start by explaining the concept of journalistic objectivity and trustworthiness and would look at how those values have rapidly evolved in online media. I believe the best way to know which news sources to trust is to understand their original medium.\nDaily metropolitan newspapers, despite their diminished role in the online world, remain the best source for objective reporting, with a long tradition of carefully researched facts presented with minimal bias. Naturally some newspapers, as is the case for all categories of news media, are more trustworthy than others. The New York Post has a terrible record for trustworthiness compared with the New York Times; in the U.K., a similar contrast could be made between the Daily Mail and the Telegraph.* (Students would also be reminded of the existence of news services, previously called newswires, like the AP and Bloomberg, which can be placed safely into this category.)\nThe class\u2019s \u201cnewspaper lecture\u201d would also guide students through the anatomy of a newspaper\u2014the areas where they can expect to find straight reporting vs. the areas where they will find commentary, such as the editorial page, op-ed page, columns, reviews, and feature sections like arts, books, or food. (The New York Times suggests a marvelous lesson plan that brings these distinctions to its own content.) Much of this may seem elementary to many\u2014but not all\u2014longtime news readers, but I\u2019ve found that to the average 18-year-old it\u2019s not obvious at all. News institutions have long debated whether and how to distinguish their commentary from factual reporting, with some even arguing that opinion pieces should be labeled with the word opinion.\nNews magazines are traditionally reliable sources as well, as long as the reader understands the practice and tradition of magazine writing, which emphasizes stylish prose, blurs the line between reporting and commentary, and often gives the writer a license to take creative liberties. (Assigned reading would include the illuminating book The Lifespan of a Fact, which documents the running battle between a fact-checker and a self-proclaimed magazine essayist.) More so than with newspapers, there is a wide spectrum of integrity and reliability. Some magazines such as the Economist and the New Yorker are carefully edited and fact-checked and have better records than others (celebrity gossip magazines and supermarket tabloids being the starkest example). So another function of the class is merely to introduce young people to the prestigious titles they may not already be reading.\nBroadcast news, by being a much faster-paced medium, obviously creates its own problems with trustworthiness. While many stations aim for objectivity, they are more prone to mistakes than print media. This class would treat as case studies some of the more egregious examples in recent history. (It\u2019s worth mentioning that radio news, though far smaller in scale, is generally considered much more trustworthy, largely thanks to such leaders as NPR and the BBC.) Again, in broadcasting as in newspapers, it\u2019s important to teach students the difference between news and commentary, especially since those segments comingle within the same continuous broadcast. There\u2019s a big difference between CNN Newsroom\u2019s straight news reporting and Don Lemon\u2019s or Erin Burnett\u2019s opinion-laden segments. Same goes for personality-based talk-radio shows airing on news stations up and down the dial.\nSo far, this material is relatively straightforward and students could plow through it in the first few lectures. Next we would move on to the hard stuff: grasping the unwieldy nature of online news sources. No longer is a news diet easily categorized among newspapers, magazines, and broadcast news and their complementary websites. Today a tour through your social media news feed might take you to Mental Floss, Dadaviz, Colossal, Cracked, Dangerous Minds, Uproxx. How is a reader to know what from this assortment of blogs and webzines can be trusted? What about a site like Inquisitr? (Approach with caution.) What about Before It\u2019s News? (Trick question: That one is definitely not to be trusted.) While it might seem easy to distinguish real news from fake news, many people, including experienced journalists, get suckered more often than you would think. Students, as heavy users of social media, where fake news and hoaxes proliferate, should think about their own responsibility to share reliable information and not perpetuate misinformation.\nThe course would guide students through the critical thinking necessary to determine how reliable a site is: How long has it existed? Has it won major awards or the favor of journalistic bodies like Poynter? What are the potential conflicts with its corporate parent? What are the backgrounds of its writers and editors? How much original reporting is the site doing? How often are its basic facts in agreement with similar coverage elsewhere? Students each would be randomly assigned a web-only publication to study and determine its level of trustworthiness on a 20-point scale based on these criteria.\nWhile these rough categories are meant to provide a baseline understanding for what kinds of publications to trust, there are still reasons a reader should be skeptical about any piece of content, because no publication is immune to journalistic failures such as hidden bias, fabrication, plagiarism, and errors. At least one lecture of the class would be spent reviewing the high-profile scandals generated by journalists Janet Cooke (the Washington Post), Stephen Glass (the New Republic), Jayson Blair (the New York Times), Jack Kelley (USA Today), and Sabrina Rubin Erdely (Rolling Stone). In addition to those cases of fabrication, students would learn about key instances of bias and conflict of interest. A few good places to start: the Bush-era media-manipulation efforts, Judith Miller\u2019s Iraq WMD reporting, and CBS News\u2019 flawed \u201cRathergate\u201d investigation of President Bush\u2019s National Guard record.\nStudents would then learn just how much bias has become a hot-button issue in journalism lately, as the number and variety of news outlets has exploded to serve political views have become more polarized. In one assignment, students would be asked to analyze a print article and a news segment and identify potential signs of bias.\nNear the end of the semester, students would finally get into the nitty-gritty of examining individual articles and media reports for signs of shoddy journalism. They would learn how to size up sourcing; evaluate attribution; look for objectivity and balance; identify unsupported assertions; read through euphemisms and jargon (\u201cto be sure\u201d); and judge whether statistics, data, polling, and infographics are sound. The class would introduce students to the most common pitfalls that lead journalists astray. Part of a lecture would look at the problems with anonymous sources and when they can ever be trusted. It would examine the practice of paying for sources, distinguishing the outlets that do so from the ones that have a policy against it. Another lecture would explore where television talking heads come from and how to look for the hidden motivations behind their insights. There\u2019d be a short unit on celebrity journalism, puff pieces, and the intricacies of \u201caccess,\u201d as well as a primer on spin and how PR machines to attempt manipulate the media. And no course in news media literacy would be complete without teaching pupils how to spot fake trend stories.\nWhile these lessons and assignments are not exhaustive, they might sound exhausting. To prevent students from feeling that consuming media is just a discouraging exercise in keeping your guard up, the passionate instructor would feed them, as required and optional reading, a stream of fascinating, entertaining high-quality journalism (via Twitter, of course) and demonstrate the exhilaration of finding such treasures. Because, while it\u2019s never been a more confusing time to be a news reader, it\u2019s also never been a better time. The skills students acquire in their news media literacy course will enable them to continue educating themselves even after graduation and make themselves smarter, better informed, and able to sort out fact from fiction.\nCorrection, Aug. 31, 2015: This article originally misidentified the Telegraph as the London Telegraph.\nRead more of Slate\u2019s collection of classes you should take.\nWhat classes did we miss? 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It was launched in 2000 having taken three years to create by a group of leading experts in children\u2019s learning from around the world.\nThe goal of the IPC is for children to focus on a combination of academic, personal and international learning. We want children to enjoy their learning; develop enquiring minds, develop the personal qualities they need to be good citizens of the world, and develop a sense of their own nationality and culture, at the same time developing a profound respect for the nationalities and cultures of others. Most of all, we want children to develop all the skills they will need in order to confidently face the world of tomorrow.\nThe curriculum focusses on Geography, Art, Science, History, Music and Technology. Children learn through a series of IPC units of work. Each unit of work has a theme that today\u2019s children find interesting and relevant. Themes studied in each year group can be seen in the table below. Each unit of work lasts on average between four and eight weeks and children learn many of their subjects through this one common theme so that their learning has meaning to them.\nLinking subjects means that children can make lots of connections with their learning. We now know that the more connections that the brain can make, the better a child can learn.\nThe development of skills is a very big part of the IPC and learning activities have been designed so that children can develop these skills. This development of skills even applies to the personal learning goals which emphasise adaptability, resilience, thoughtfulness, cooperation and respect and which, as a result of progressive skill development, help children to become able and inspired learners.\nThe IPC focuses children\u2019s learning on a combination of knowledge, skills and understanding. No one can properly predict the nature of work and life opportunities that will be available for today\u2019s primary age children by the time they are adults. Many of the jobs they will have don\u2019t yet exist; especially in the fields of ICT, technology and science. So the IPC focuses on a skills-based approach, developing adaptable and resilient globally-minded learners, prepared for the fast-changing world that they\u2019ll be living and working in.\nThe IPC has been designed for children of all abilities and all learning styles, and encourages learning in groups as well as individual learning and contributes to our goal of improving leaning for all students.\nThe continued development of the IPC today ensures that children are learning a current and highly relevant curriculum based on the very latest research into the brain and children\u2019s learning.\nInternational Primary Curriculum Topics\nScience - Super Humans\nScience - Push Me, Pull You\nScience - Greenfingers\nHooray\u2026 Let\u2019s Go On Holiday!\nFrom A to B (Transport)\nScience - It\u2019s Shocking!\nScience - Freeze it!\nScience- The Nature of Life\n(Nativity)\nFootprints From The Past\nScience - Shake it!!\nScience - Turn it up\nPaintings, Pictures and Photographs\nScience - Feel the Force\nScience - Bright Sparks\nDo Your Live Around Here?\nScience - Look Hear!\nScience - Roots, Shoots and Fruits\nHistory AD 900\nScience - Existing...Endangered...Extinct?\nScience - Full Power\nScience - Growing Up", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00240.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 94, + "original_length": 4389, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.94, + "perplexity": 275.0, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "https://socialistworker.org/2018/03/26/courthouses-need-to-be-an-ice-free-zone", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T03:26:54Z", + "digest": "sha1:KYJNVE5CBY4RZNADS4DGZ6K2NCEA42CB", + "length": 5508, + "nlines": 27, + "source_domain": "socialistworker.org", + "title": "Courthouses need to be an ICE-free zone | SocialistWorker.org", + "raw_content": "Lea Ramirez\nCourthouses need to be an ICE-free zone\nLea Ramirez reports from New York City as immigrant rights supporters and legal workers continue their campaign to defend undocumented clients from ICE.\nSOME 200 attorneys, legal workers and community allies held a rally at New York City's Foley Square on March 15 to demand that Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) stay out of the courthouse--so that due process for New York's immigrant communities can remain in it.\nIn January, ICE made official what immigrant rights advocates have learned over the past year--the agency has changed its policy and is sending agents to federal, state and local courthouses to arrest people without legal status.\nThe policy will obviously have a chilling effect on immigrants believing that they can participate in the legal system--even women seeking protection from domestic abuse or women and men who have been exploited by employers or victims of crimes--without the fear that they could be abducted and put into the process of deportation.\nICE is also using its courtroom operations to target cities that have sanctuary laws that commit local law enforcement to an official policy of non-cooperation with immigration enforcement.\nAttorneys and legal workers rally to get ICE out of New York City's courthouses (Working Families Party | flickr)\nIn February, Aboubacar Dembele became another victim of ICE's new policy.\nA client of the Legal Aid Society, Dembele was detained by ICE during a regular court appearance in the Bronx. He is the sole provider of his four children, had no prior criminal record and had a green card application pending through his wife who is a U.S. citizen.\nClearly, Dembele wouldn't be considered a priority for deportation if the Trump administration's real purpose wasn't to instill fear in immigrant communities.\nTHE NEW York City rally follows on several protests late last year against ICE using New York City courtrooms for its deportation machine.\nThe first demonstration was a spontaneous walkout by public defenders in Brooklyn after one immigrant man was snatched by ICE agents after he showed up to the court building to defend himself in a criminal case.\nThe Association of Legal Aid Attorneys (ALAA), a part of UAW Local 2325, organized a larger action a week later that brought out dozens of unions, community organizations and left groups.\nFor the rally this month, the ALAA worked together with 1199SEIU (the union representing legal workers for the Legal Aid Society), Northern Manhattan Coalition for Immigrant Rights, Faith in New York, NYC Democratic Socialists, New York Legal Assistance Group, Make the Road NY, Arab American Association of New York, Rise and Resist, National Lawyers Guild NYC, and LatinoJustice PRLDEF.\nAt the rally, Jill Waldman, an immigration attorney at the Legal Aid Society, talked about the impact of the U.S. Supreme Court decision last month in Jennings v. Rodriguez that immigrant detainees can be held indefinitely, without access to periodic bond hearings. Waldman told the crowd:\nWe have been speaking out against ICE's predatory practices for the past year. But now the stakes have never been higher. This means when our clients are disappeared from the courts, they can be held for months or years in ICE custody without possibility of bond. They will be faced with the horrible choice of staying in jail for years or facing exile from the family and lives they have built in this country.\nOther speakers talked about the need for solidarity and mobilization by working-class people. Athena Bernkopf, a paralegal and 1199SEIU member, said that immigrant communities need attention to their real needs for affordable housing, living-wage jobs, access to food and health care, not more raids:\nWe must call on each other, knowing that we are our greatest asset. Those here today and those who couldn't make it must do more to call out violence against our clients, our families and coworkers...\nWe must call on our own institutions. We must call them out for speaking empty words and doing nothing to protect their own constituents. We must rise when our most vulnerable community members call on us to defend them.\nThe rally also focused on New York City's status as a sanctuary city. Bernkopt called on Mayor Bill de Blasio, Gov. Andrew Cuomo and New York state Chief Judge Janet Difiore to \"implement policies that put this commitment to practice and not only words.\"\nThe rally ended with a march to the Office of Court Administration headquarters.\nMEAGAN HU, a public defender who came to the rally in the hopes of adding to the pressure on Chief Judge DiFiore, said she was encouraged by the activism.\n\"A client of mine was arrested earlier,\" Hu said. \"ICE is clearly terrorizing my clients who are immigrants. This rally is really cathartic, and I hope that things are going to start to change.\"\nOthers at the demonstration were thinking about the importance of organized labor's role in defending immigrants from ICE.\nAt the Legal Aid Society, union members in both ALAA and 1999 who have some protections under the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) or Temporary Protected Status (TPS) programs are seeking contract language that would defend them if the Trump administration succeeds in killing these programs.\nAt a national meeting earlier this year, the National Organization of Legal Services Workers/UAW Local 2320 passed a resolution in support DACA, TPS and a \"clean\" vote in Congress on the DREAM Act.", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00240.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 272, + "original_length": 12983, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.96, + "perplexity": 304.4, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "https://sola.ai/sweet-life/eight-treasure-rice-pudding-doesnt-involve-any-treasure-the-OTVmZjk4", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T04:41:53Z", + "digest": "sha1:GXBWBPJJKIVA4H7RL5TROW5LXEGWB3G4", + "length": 1784, + "nlines": 11, + "source_domain": "sola.ai", + "title": "Eight treasure rice pudding doesn\u2019t involve any treasure. Instead,", + "raw_content": "Eight treasure rice pudding doesn\u2019t involve any treasure. Instead, the treasures in this dessert are eight different types of dried fruit and nuts, arranged like jewels atop steamed, sweet rice.\nThe dessert is part of a long tradition of dishes centered around the number 8 (eight, or ba, sounds a lot like fa, the Chinese word for prosperity). Some stories say the rice was created in ancient times as a sweet way to honor eight valiant warriors. Other tales claim the pudding has a shorter history, and that it gained fame in the Qing Dynasty when it was presented to the Dowager Empress.\nTo make the treasured treat, chefs cook glutinous rice with sugar, and butter or lard to add richness. Then, they spoon it into a bowl or mold, lined with the eight treasures. The treasures can be healthy, or sugary-sweet. They can even be savory. Jujubes, winter melon, lychees, almonds, walnuts, and maraschino cherries are just a handful of the treasures that make the pudding as beautiful as it is delicious. When it is steamed and released from the mold, it\u2019s a lovely sight, making it particularly popular at festivities such as Chinese New Year.\nRikshan\nYummy...\ud83d\ude0d\ud83d\ude0d\ud83d\ude18\nWe have a dessert kind of like this we call it \u201dS\u00fctla\u00e7\u201d. Jews also have a similar one https://www.jweekly.com/2018/01/12/turkish-milk-pudding-rice-flour-right-fairy-tale/ And post-soviet countries eat this dessert for breakfast.\nWould eat also\nFood fusion \ud83e\udd58\ud83e\udd58\ud83e\udd58\nFood is important for our body to function properly. It has carbohydrates, fats, proteins, vitamins and minerals that helps your body to stay fit and healthy. ... As it has been said for any success in your life all you need is a healthy mind and body! So eat well and stay fit!\nEmotional 'welcome home' for Magdalene survivors in Dublin - BBC News\nr.k.kashyap", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00240.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 55, + "original_length": 2794, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.94, + "perplexity": 300.9, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "https://solgamsu.wordpress.com/category/higher-education/", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T03:46:49Z", + "digest": "sha1:KRMSAINL2XN63T5H7PD5ZIB3UC5YTY7U", + "length": 6203, + "nlines": 9, + "source_domain": "solgamsu.wordpress.com", + "title": "Higher Education \u2013 Sol Gamsu", + "raw_content": "\u00a39k fees, social class and arguments for the left\nAs a student activist who was involved in fees protests back in 2011 (and earlier) one of the arguments we put forward then was the debt aversity amongst students from working class backgrounds would mean those students simply wouldn\u2019t apply. This was, and to some extent, remains, a naive argument. Not because debt doesn\u2019t matter or because it is not disproportionately a fear for working class students. Both those things are still true. What we underestimated is that university was and still is the only and best game in town for young people. Immediately after \u201ctop-up\u201d fees of \u00a33,000 were introduced in 2006, there was a dip in applicants the following year but after that year applicant numbers continued to rise (UCAS, 2012: 15). The same thing happened after 2012-13. Whilst the gaps between rich and poor in acceptance to elite universities remain huge, the evidence also shows that things seem to be going in the right direction, i.e. the proportion of students from disadvantaged backgrounds is increasing more quickly than for those from advantaged backgrounds (UCAS, 2014: 79). This leads to the usual crowing celebration on the right that the class-segmented and increasingly neo-liberal university system works and in particular that the palliative widening participation (WP) measures are working.\nOn the latter point, I would agree that certain forms of WP work are effective and at best, quite brilliant. There are broader issues with WP work which, whilst necessary and, even, emancipatory at an individual level, sometimes inadvertently provide a social alibi for a university system which remains heavily segregated by class and race. However, what matters here is that student activists on the left have a response to the fees issue. When asked, but why are working class young people still applying to university with \u00a39k fees \u2013 what do you say? There is some data which provides at least a partial response to this.\nAfter the 2012-13 fee increase, UCAS (2012) produced a report looking at the effect of the fee increase. The take home finding is arguably that there is little difference in the types of choices about courses 18 year-old students were making before and after the fee rise. But what it did show is that disadvantaged students (whether you look at postcode-based measures, income or social class) on average apply to courses with a lower cost, which is what the graph below shows (Source: UCAS, 2012: 13).\nWhat you can\u2019t say from that is that the fee rise has meant people from working class backgrounds are choosing cheaper courses. The data only refers to one year when the system was operating with the new fees (the previous years\u2019 of data in the graph come from linking courses to their new 2012 fee). Higher fees may now be part of the reason people choose courses this data strongly suggests that there is something to debt aversity in affecting the choices people make about going to university. In my interviews with young people this is often combined with a decision to stay at home and attend the local, often \u201cpost-1992\u201d university.\nWhat the data really shows is the deep rooted inequality which remains, i.e. working class students apply for cheaper, often \u2018less prestigious\u2019 courses at the, so-called, \u2018new\u2019 universities. Under the new graduated fee system, which isn\u2019t very graduated, there is some reflection of \u2018prestige\u2019 in fee cost. What is probably happening is some savvy realpolitik in certain universities, who set their fees with some awareness that cost is an issue for their less priviliged intake of students. Fee-levels are thus a reflection of how our universities are differentiated by intake and arguably are acting to reinforce institutional hierarchies.\nWhere does this leave the student activist in the argument with the right-wing hack? To answer the part of the argument about fees which relates to social class background on entry to university, we can say that debt aversity matters. The fee increase might not have changed behaviour, but by reinforcing the differentiation between different universities, it seems likely to have reinforced differences in where and to what course people are applying to in a way which varies by class. Yes disadvantaged students are still applying to university, but we have to respond that the blunt inequality in the proportions of students applying and in particular where students off different backgrounds apply and are accepted is still horrific. The fee system also provides yet another marker which reinforces the institutional hierarchy of different universities. This is an incredibly backward step. If greater fee flexibility were introduced it is highly likely that this would in absolute terms, continue to exacerbate differences between universities.\nWhere I think the rot sets in and a left-position becomes harder to defend when talking about fees, and education more generally, is if we slip into a discourse which accepts, even implicitly, that individual aspiration and social mobility are what matter. Of course people still want to go to university, no matter what the fees are, and of course it is a good thing that disadvantaged students are continuing to apply in greater numbers. But this only works on an individual level. The logic of fees and individualizing how we pay for education pushes us further and further away from the argument that education is a collective good. The real dilemma for a left-position on schooling and education is how to turn people\u2019s individual hopes and, especially for the middle classes, anxieties about education into a collective push for a more egalitarian system. If there is a reason for optimism about the current fee system, it lies in the levels of debt and the strong likelihood future generations will not pay it off. The free education demo just before Christmas provides hope that the \u00a39k generation will find a collective voice over this. Finding the (party) political will to change the system will be harder still, but I for one still believe.\nBy Sol Gamsuin Higher Education, Student politics, Tuition Fees January 22, 2015 January 22, 2015 978 WordsLeave a comment", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00240.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 124, + "original_length": 21743, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.97, + "perplexity": 327.0, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "https://solwaygroup.com/2017/05/29/regarding-the-incident-that-took-place-on-may-27-in-el-estor-izabal-guatemala/", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T03:46:34Z", + "digest": "sha1:3IYFFR5ET5VFR2ZM4LUYIX7MIGHF4TUH", + "length": 8528, + "nlines": 18, + "source_domain": "solwaygroup.com", + "title": "Regarding the incident that took place on May 27 in El Estor, Izabal, Guatemala \u2013 Solway Investment Group, GmbH", + "raw_content": "Regarding the incident that took place on May 27 in El Estor, Izabal, Guatemala\nCGN/Pronico would like to express their regrets about the series of events in El Estor that took a tragic development on May 27. CGN/Pronico hereby clarifies that the Company was not a part of the armed conflict between the police forces and a group of protestors and therefore cannot by any means be held responsible for the consequences of criminal acts that took place.\nAs a responsible employer and neighbor CGN/Pronico complies with the local and international legal environmental requirements and respects law and order established by the Government of Guatemala. The Company possesses all the necessary operational licenses and environmental certificates. CGN/Pronico has been mediating negotiations with the protestors, representing themselves as the \u201cmembers of artisanal fishing community of El Estor,\u201d and supporting respected officials responsible for the matter since the fishing artisans requested an investigation on the Izabal Lake water pollution. The Company followed all legal rules and procedures imposed in the discussed case.\nDuring the press conference held on May 28, the Minister of Environment and Natural Resources, Sydney Samuel, stated that his Ministry, together with a number of governmental institutions, had been represented at the roundtable at R\u00edo Dulce a day earlier. The meeting was a part of the previous settlement with the \u201cmembers of artisanal fishing community of El Estor,\u201d set up in attempts to come to an agreement with its members and stop road blockage initiated by the group of criminals that joined the fishermen in their protests. The fishermen never came to the meeting and therefore the negotiations were impossible to continue.\nAfter considering the documents provided by CGN/Pronico, officials present at the roundtable agreed that CGN/Pronico operates within legal grounds and is in possession of all the licenses necessary for continuing its operations (EIA permits included).\nAs per the further statement of the Ministry of Environment and Natural Resources, the water quality analysis showed that 90% of the water pollution is generated not by the Company\u2019s operations but by the local communities residing along the Polochic River. The Company\u2019s contribution to the water pollution is minimal. The problem of brown water plants increases during rainy seasons when polluted waters streaming down from the Polochic River enter the waters of Lake Izabal. This causes growth of the population of damaging microorganisms \u201cmalicious algae\u201d. If nothing is done in the long run, the Lake will be badly affected. The authorities are willing to help local communities resolve this challenge by developing a plan of operations for cleaning and providing payment to the locals engaged in cleaning the waters from the affected plants.\nAfter analysing evidence presented by the research the ministerial committee concluded that CGN/Pronico cannot be held responsible for water quality change.\nCGN/Pronico regrets the negotiations with fishermen were paused by the tragic events. The Company is willing to continue the dialogue with the local communities and cooperate on the projects aimed at saving and restoring the region\u2019s natural biodiversity and is willing to support the governmental initiatives in cleaning and monitoring waters of Lake Izabal. These include but are not limited to regular reforestation, fire prevention strips, water canal maintenance, and other programs to monitor air, water and soil quality, noise level, and local flora and fauna. CGN/Pronico employees and the community of Las Nubes supported the Company by organizing a peaceful march.\nAt the moment the roads are unblocked, the Company has fully restored its operations and currently performs as per the schedule planned. Local communities have returned to their routine.\nIn the first week of May \u201cmembers of artisanal fishing community of El Estor\u201d, organized a peaceful protest. They claimed that La Compa\u00f1\u00eda Guatemalteca de N\u00edquel (CGN) was responsible for polluting the waters of Lake Izabal. As per the \u201cmembers of artisanal fishing community of El Estor,\u201d the Company\u2019s operations caused a change of the watercolor and damage to the water plants. The Fishermen requested the Government of Guatemala to initiate an official investigation of the incident and conduct independent environmental research. Other requests included providing jobs to the community members, auditing the Company\u2019s financial operations and shutting the Company down.\nIn response to the request of the \u201cmembers of artisanal fishing community of El Estor\u201d to investigate the cause of water changes in Lake Izabal, La Compa\u00f1\u00eda Guatemalteca de N\u00edquel (CGN) had presented the Guatemalan Ministry of Environment and natural resources (MARN) with an environmental study. The study later proved allegations of the artisians had no grounds.\nLooking for immediate actions from the governmental authorities a group of Fishermen organized piquet in close proximity to the entrance into the Company\u2019s facilities. They were joined by a number of criminals who turned the peaceful protest into armed riots.Their involvement in the piquet resulted in a series of violent acts, including kidnapping of 4 CGN employees, violation of human rights on the freedom of movement, seizure of employee\u2019s families and road blockage. The Company requested that the authorities investigate the legality of the protesters actions and if qualified issue arrest orders for the group of aggressors, charging them with kidnapping, restricting freedom to move and violating women\u2019s rights. The Company\u2019s operations were partially stopped because the blocked roads prevented the delivery of goods and entry of the workforce.\nOn May 13 the first roundtable with participation of the Deputy Minister of the Environment, Vice-President Commission of the Environment, Governor of Izabal and Mayor of El Estor took place. After short negotiations the meeting turned into another riot with protesters claiming to lynch the Mayor.\nRoundtable participants appealed to the Minister of Defence, requesting interference in order to prevent further violence in the area. After a few rounds of further negotiations with the \u201cmembers of artisanal fishing community of El Estor\u201d an agreement was reached on a number of the Fishermen\u2019s requirements, the roads were unblocked and the call for a further meeting was announced.\nIn his official statement made on May 15, 2017 after CGN environmental reports were processed, the Deputy Minister of the Environment Alfonso Alonzo confirmed that the changes of water \u2013 excessive presence of browned water plants \u2013 were not linked to the operational activities of CNG/Pronico. He also suggested making the CGN report public and discussing the matter during the roundtable dialogue with the fishermen and other representatives of local communities that was scheduled to be held in Livingston on May 27.\nThe roundtable took place as scheduled on May 27 with the participation of Izabal prefect Tomas Cordoba, the Chairman Committee on the Interior, Cristian Gabriel, Vice-President Commission of the Environment, Rudy Ramirez, Mayor of El Estor, Rony Mendez, delegates of the Ministry of Agriculture, livestock and food (MAGA), representatives of the Presidential Commission for Coordinating Executive policy of human rights (COPREDEH), and local communities supporting the Mayor of El Estor and CGN/Pronico. Unlike governmental representatives, the fishermen never came to the meeting and therefore the negotiations were sadly impossible to continue.\nInstead of coming to the roundtable the respected fishermen led by the group of troublemakers went back to El Estor in attempt to restore the road blockage. There they faced police forces called in by the state government to restore the order and guard the law in El Estor, While initiating negotiations the police were ambushed by bullets coming from unidentified sources.\nCGN/Pronico are subsidiaries of the Swiss based Solway Investment Group currently managed by the team of metal and mining experts from SIG countries. Solway operates mines and smelting plants in Guatemala, Ukraine, Indonesia, and Macedonia, with a focus on nickel production, and has a strong portfolio of mineral projects in various stages of development. 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I combine techniques from a few different modalities and combine them into a treatment that is custom made for you. No cookie cutter massages here!\nBefore each session we will discuss what you would like to accomplish during that session, and that will not cut in to your massage time. An hour long session is really 60 minutes long! I set aside well over 60 minutes for each session to make sure that we have enough time to discuss your goals before every treatment.\nThat said, I do have a lateness and cancellation policy:\nIf I start a session late (hasn\u2019t happened yet, but you never know), I will add the time to the end of the session if possible, or will reduce my fee accordingly. If you, the client, arrives late, your session will end at the originally scheduled time so that the client following you is not penalized.\nPlease let me know at least 24 hours in advance if you need to reschedule or cancel your appointment. 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Get in touch if you have any other questions (or check out my FAQ page), and I\u2019ll see you at your appointment!", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00240.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 44, + "original_length": 3540, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.96, + "perplexity": 318.2, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "https://soundsynergies.net/preston-smith/", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T03:30:59Z", + "digest": "sha1:GVDWGWCEZR32NFKAOPNMFVAXXXPIVXB5", + "length": 1798, + "nlines": 10, + "source_domain": "soundsynergies.net", + "title": "Preston Smith | Sound Synergies", + "raw_content": "Based in Houston, TX\nLabel: Innervision Records\nPreston is available for clinics, masterclasses and demo presentations at schools and local music stores. Visit his web site for his performance calendar and to schedule a clinic, masterclass or presentation.\nWebsite \u2013 prestonsmithjazz.com\nLive performances near you \u2013 prestonsmithjazz.com/schedule\nEPK: prestonsmithepk.com\n\u201cI\u2019ve been using SoundSynergies BRITETone\u00ae to clean and pre-condition my horn. I\u2019m blown away by the difference it\u2019s made in key action and slide movement. It\u2019s as if I play easier and the valves are effortless. I love it and strongly encourage any musician to give this stuff a try.\u201d\n~ Preston Smith\nInnervision recording artist, Preston Smith, is rocking the world of smooth jazz! His latest album release, On the Surface, was on the 2018 Grammy ballot for Contemporary Instrumental Album of the Year. Smith also won awards at the 2017 Indie Music Channel Awards in Hollywood, California for Album of the Year, Artist of the Year, and six other major awards. His single Endless Melodies was a finalist in The Great American Song Contest and his song Meatballin was a finalist in the USA Song Writing Competition. He also won Best Jazz Recording at the 2nd Annual Radio Music Awards in 2016 for his single \u201cI Funked It Up\u201d, while \u201cMeatballin\u2019\u201d spent two weeks at #1 on the charts at FM96.9 The Oasis and was the #1 most added single on groovejazzmusic.com. Both \u201cMeatballin\u2019\u201d and \u201cWondering\u201d were the #3 most added singles for smooth jazz on the Nielsen Billboard.\nWhen Preston is not performing or recording music he teaches elementary and middle music and coaches High School and Club Volleyball in the Houston area. 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After graduating in 2006, he turned professional.\nKisner played on the mini-tours (NGA Hooters Tour and Tarheel Tour) from 2007 to 2009, winning three times. He also played in six Nationwide Tour events in 2009. He played the Nationwide Tour full-time in 2010, winning once at the Mylan Classic. He finished the year 11th on the money list and earned his 2011 PGA Tour card.\nKisner failed to earn enough money on the PGA Tour in 2011 to retain his card (181st on money list), but finished T-11 at qualifying school to earn his card for 2012. He again failed to retain his card, finishing 167th on the money list, and missed earning a card in qualifying school by one stroke. He returned to (the now renamed) Web.com Tour in 2013 and won the Chile Classic in March. He finished 13th on the 2013 Web.com Tour regular season money list to earn his 2014 PGA Tour card.\nIn 2014, Kisner finished sixth at the Wells Fargo Championship, eighth at the Wyndham Championship and ninth at the RBC Canadian Open.\nDuring the 2015 PGA Tour, Kisner finished runner-up three times, losing all three in sudden-death playoffs. He was defeated at the 2015 RBC Heritage after losing on the second hole of the playoff to Jim Furyk.Kisner would go on to finish tied with Sergio Garc\u00eda and Rickie Fowler at The Players Championship event in May after 72 holes, losing to Fowler on the first hole of sudden-death after the two remained tied following a three-hole aggregate playoff. At the Greenbrier Classic he again tied for second after losing a sudden-death playoff, which was eventually won by Danny Lee. Kisner was eliminated on the first extra hole with birdie. Other notable results were finishes for fourth at the McGladrey Classic, fifth at the Crowne Plaza Invitational at Colonial, and eighth at the Memorial Tournament.\nKisner finished as runner-up at the WGC-HSBC Champions event in Shanghai in November 2015, two strokes behind Russell Knox despite holding the 36-hole lead. This was Kisner's fourth runner-up finish of the 2015 calendar year.\nOn November 22, 2015, after a number of near misses, Kisner earned his first PGA Tour victory by winning the RSM Classic, in his 109th PGA Tour start. He won by six strokes over Kevin Chappell as he dominated the tournament over the weekend. He began the final round with a three stroke advantage and shot a final round of 64 to storm to his first victory. The win moved him into the Top 20 in the world rankings and put him at the top of the early FedEx Cup standings moving into 2016. On May 28, 2017, Kisner won his second PGA Tour title at the Dean & DeLuca Invitational with a one-stroke victory over three other players.\nIn March 2018, Kisner finished runner-up in the WGC-Match Play in Austin, Texas. 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The festival\u2019s 15th year takes place between July 1 and August 3 in Brno, Ostrava, Ko\u0161ice and Wroclaw. Of the participating authors, 31 are Czech and Slovak, with the same number coming from Scotland \u2013 which is the honorary guest country this year. The reading starts with an evening in Brno before moving on to the other cities.\nTHE LITERARY festival Mesiac Autorsk\u00e9ho \u010c\u00edtania (Month of Authors Reading) brings writers closer to readers in four cities across three neighbouring countries (the Czech Republic, Slovakia and Poland), all sharing the same 62 authors in a total of 248 book readings.\nThe festival\u2019s 15th year takes place between July 1 and August 3 in Brno, Ostrava, Ko\u0161ice and Wroclaw. Of the participating authors, 31 are Czech and Slovak, with the same number coming from Scotland \u2013 which is the honorary guest country this year. The reading starts with an evening in Brno before moving on to the other cities.\n\u201cThe project was first organised 14 years ago in Brno, by the guys from V\u011btrn\u00e9 Ml\u00fdny, and in 2010 it expanded to Ostrava, with Ko\u0161ice and Wroclaw following in 2011,\u201d head of the Library for Youth of the City of Ko\u0161ice Iveta Hurn\u00e1 informed The Slovak Spectator.\n\u201cIn Ko\u0161ice, the local author starts at 18:00,\u201d Hurn\u00e1 told the TASR newswire, \u201cand an hour later, the one from the guest country follows. During this reading, a professional artistic translation of the text is screened. We have very positive reactions and the number of visitors is growing. We even have fans who are looking forward to the festival and change their holiday \u2026 [to coincide with] it,\u201d she added. This year, the festival takes place in the former barracks of the Kas\u00e1rne Kulturpark.\n\u201cScotland has not participated in the festival yet, and this year \u2013 their year of referendum \u2013 it seemed interesting to us, and the more we get to know the country through the eyes of its people of letters, the more we become aware of how similar it is to Slovakia in many aspects,\u201d Hurn\u00e1 told The Slovak Spectator, adding \u201cat least with the same number of inhabitants, but also with the sincerity and openness of its authors; although we highly appreciate, on the other hand, the \u2018performance skills\u2019 of the Scots.\u201d\nWriters are selected based on various literary awards, which also goes for the Czech and Slovak participants, which include several finalists of the Anasoft Litera and Magnesia Litera prizes. Czechs writers include, among others, Kate\u0159ina Rud\u010denkov\u00e1, Ji\u0159\u00ed Padev\u011bt, Jan N\u011bmec, Petr Hru\u0161ka, Milo\u0161 Urban, Petra H\u00falov\u00e1 and Vr\u00e1\u0165a Brabenec. Slovaks include Monika Kompan\u00edkov\u00e1, Stanislav Rak\u00fas and Silvester Lavr\u00edk.\nThe Scottish authors presented are, among others, detective story novelist Peter May, dramatist Sue Glover, author of horrors Graham Masterton, author and playwright Alan Bissett and poet and holder of the Order of the British Empire Douglas Dunn.\n\u201cDue to the fact that we in Ko\u0161ice have organised this for the fourth consecutive time and it lasts the whole month of July \u2026 we already have regular visitors and, of course, debaters,\u201d Hurn\u00e1 explained. \u201cOn average, 40 to 50 people come, but we also had attendance of more than 100. Due to the intimate presentation of culture as literature, we are happy about the interest of the public.\u201d\nAs for the authors, Hurn\u00e1 said that Czech and Slovak authors already know the festival and are happy to be invited. Foreign writers are usually famous, established authors with considerable experience, and they do not turn down the invitations. It is slightly physically demanding, as the first day of reading takes place in Brno, the next in Ko\u0161ice, the third in Ostrava and the fourth in Wroclaw, but surprisingly, the older authors sometimes handle it better than the younger ones.\nThe project has three partners (V\u011btrn\u00e9 Ml\u00fdny Brno, Library for Youth of the City of Ko\u0161ice and the City Library in Wroclaw) which plan to continue in 2015, with Hungary being considered for the guest country. More information can be found at autorskecteni.cz and autorskecitanie.sk.\n\u201cI know of nothing similar where so many authors read their works during a whole month,\u201d Hurn\u00e1 told TASR. \u201cThis is an extraordinary literature festival,\u201d she concluded.", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00240.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 154, + "original_length": 10217, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.95, + "perplexity": 329.4, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "https://spectralpress.com/2011/10/17/spectral-chapbooks-the-options/", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T04:23:47Z", + "digest": "sha1:AXEV6XASMDFOR263Y53WN7C57BIPDB6I", + "length": 2966, + "nlines": 11, + "source_domain": "spectralpress.com", + "title": "Spectral chapbooks: the options | Spectral Press", + "raw_content": "\u2190 Spectral\u2019s first podcast interview\u2026\nAnother Spectral chapbook option\u2026 \u2192\nSpectral chapbooks: the options\nA week ago, I ruminated on the dilemma I face as a result of the chapbooks that Spectral publishes taking off in a way I hadn\u2019t expected ( which is a good thing!). The problem I face is simply stated: given that I sell out of each chapbook fairly quickly, should I up the print run or should I keep it as it is? I asked for feedback from readers and other interested parties, and I did indeed get quite a bit, all of which was useful. My thanks to all those who took the time to do so.\nMy options are these:\n1) To keep the numbers limited to 100 \u2013 as was pointed out, there is something quite nice about that number and, certainly from my point of view, it\u2019s a comfortable number of copies for me to sell. Plus, I have to consider the authors themselves \u2013 slaving away over a hot pen signing all 100 signature sheets!! This was a popular option when it came to feedback.\n2) Increasing the print run slightly, to something like 125. Which means more money coming in, for future projects perhaps, but concomitantly lessens the \u2018exclusivity\u2019 factor of the chapbooks themselves. Somehow I\u2019m not all that keen on pursuing this one.\n3) Keep the physical signed and numbered copies to 100, but release an e-book version roughly a month later, with perhaps an added extra to make it worthwhile (or perhaps, the added extra printed in the physical copy instead, as that is, in essence, premium content). This is the option I particularly favour, as it allows people to \u2018collect\u2019 the chapbooks if they wish to do so whilst ensuring that others, who just want to read the story for instance, can also do that. Of course, this means that it won\u2019t be signed or numbered, ie be unlimited. The e-book version might have some other distinguishing characteristic to mark it out with. Of course, I would have to discuss it with the authors in question as to whether they would be willing to go down this route.\n4) A variant of #3 would be to go the audiobook route \u2013 release the physical chapbook and then follow it at some point with an audio version, perhaps read by the author him/herself. The one factor that could mitigate against this option is simply cost \u2013 recording audiobooks is expensive and Spectral doesn\u2019t possess those kind of resources just yet. However, having said that, it\u2019s something I would definitely like to keep in mind as a future possibility.\nSo those are the current ideas floating about \u2013 as with last week, I would very much appreciate any feedback as to what readers and others think of them, and whether there are still other options I haven\u2019t considered. You can either leave a comment here, or on Facebook, or send directly to me at spectralpress[AT]gmail[DOT]com. 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The name was changed to the Gallatin Valley Railway on 8 September 1910, and the line opened on 1 November 1910. In 1911 the entire stock of the company was purchased by the Chicago, Milwaukee and Puget Sound Railway, and the line was thereafter run as a branch of the Milwaukee Road. The engineer of the line was John S. McKenna of Spokane. The line extended 27 miles south from Three Forks Junction on the Milwaukee Road's main line to Bozeman Hot Springs, thence about 11 miles east to Bozeman and another 25 miles more or less due north to Menard, bringing it to a point 17 miles east and 6 miles south of the other end of the line at Three Forks. There were two branches, one 5 miles long from Belgrade Junction to Belgrade, and another which ran 15 miles south from Bozeman to Salesville, now known as Gallatin Gateway, where there was access to the Yellowstone National Park and a large railway hotel, which still exists, called the Gallatin Gateway Inn. 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Promoted across iHeartRadio, the tour will feature Dodge \"road-tripper\" street-team bloggers and Clear Channel radio station on-air personalities at each stop, where every test-drive provides a chance to win a VIP trip to the iHeartRadio Music Festival.\n\"Our goal in working with Dodge on this unique campaign is to help make the 2013 Dodge Dart the automotive conversation of the summer,\" said Tim Castelli, President of Sales, Marketing and Partnerships for Clear Channel Media and Entertainment. \"This campaign showcases Clear Channel's strengths: our ability to execute creative, integrated and multiplatform campaigns that connect major brands with consumers and today's top artists.\"\nThe partnership strategy, which is being executed by a new integrated marketing team led by Castelli, is \"helping gain real traction with our major national advertisers, a key objective of our strategy,\" Clear Channel CFO and EVP Tom Casey says.\nWhile currently, the company isn't selling ads on iHeartRadio's custom digital channels, events give it the opportunity to talk to marketers and cross-sell integrated solutions to other parts of the business.\n\"The iHeartRadio Festival coming up in Las Vegas in September is another example where we leverage our assets to drive additional sponsorships and national advertisers to the media,\" Casey says.\nThe numbers don't lie. The company's Media and Entertainment operations division grew revenue 3% to $793 million in the second quarter of this year, thanks to growth in national, local advertising sales and digital revenues.\n#strategytag", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00240.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 60, + "original_length": 3738, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.94, + "perplexity": 305.6, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "https://sports.bwin1719.com/en/news/other-sports/f1/belgian-grand-prix-betting-tips", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T03:17:57Z", + "digest": "sha1:2KMTASB5EKTXJE6P62J5PFMKMGRR4P4P", + "length": 3830, + "nlines": 33, + "source_domain": "sports.bwin1719.com", + "title": "Belgian Grand Prix Betting Tips, Predictions & Odds | 26/08/2018 | bwin", + "raw_content": "Home \u00bb Other Sports \u00bb F1 \u00bb Belgian Grand Prix: Red-hot Hamilton holding all the aces\nRecommended bet: Hamilton to win @ -1/1\nVenue: Spa-Francorchamps\nLewis Hamilton went into the summer break buoyed by a commanding win in the Hungarian Grand Prix and is fancied to pick up where he left off in our Belgian Grand Prix betting tips.\nThe Briton could relax on his holidays after storming 24 points clear of Sebastian Vettel as he bids for a fifth Formula One drivers\u2019 championship.\nFresh updates are expected during the month-long lay-off, but Mercedes have a great record at Spa-Francorchamps and 3/2 for Hamilton to return with a bang is hard to resist.\nHamilton has five victories to Vettel\u2019s four this year, winning from 14th in the rain at Hockenheim and then putting his Mercedes on pole in Budapest before taking his second success in eight days.\nThe twisty Hungaroring circuit should have been the venue for a slam-dunk Vettel triumph for Ferrari, given the track is not suited to Hamilton\u2019s Mercedes machinery.\nHowever, the Briton was always in control and declared: \u201cWe could have only dreamt to be in the position that we are in now.\n\u201cI am really, really happy to be going into the break with back-to-back wins, and that boost will last a long time for our team, and that is encouraging for everyone.\u201d\nHow the Hungarian Grand Prix finished:\n1 Hamilton (Mercedes), 2 Vettel (Ferrari), 3 Raikkonen (Ferrari), 4 Ricciardo (Red Bull), 5 Bottas (Mercedes), 6 Gasly (Toro Rosso), 7 Magnussen (Haas), 8 Alonso (McLaren), 9 Sainz (Renault), 10 Grosjean (Haas), 11 Hartley (Toro Rosso), 12 Hulkenberg (Renault), 13 Ocon (Force India), 14 Perez (Force India), 15 Ericsson (Sauber), 16 Sirotkin (Williams), 17 Stroll (Williams), DNF Vandoorne (McLaren), Verstappen (Red Bull), Leclerc (Sauber)\nVettel improved from fourth on the grid to finish second in Hungary and vowed: \u201cWe have more to unleash.\u201d\nThe German insisted: \u201cLast year we lost the championship in the second half of the year because our car wasn\u2019t quick enough, but I am quite confident that we can improve.\u201d\nHamilton appears to be holding all the aces, though, having picked up two of his team\u2019s three straight wins at the next venue.\nHe commented: \u201cI don\u2019t believe there is ever a time when you think you have got your hand on the title. We still have a long way to go.\n\u201cA lot can happen moving forward, but what is important is that we continue to keep the pressure on and work as we have done until now.\u201d\nMercedes team-mate Valtteri Bottas will be keen to put a patchy run of results behind him when the action resumes, having only made the podium once in the past five races.\nThe Finn was briefly put out at being labelled \u201ca sensational wingman\u201d to Hamilton in Hungary by Toto Wolff but calmed down after that comment was cleared up.\n\u201cWe are on equal terms and I trust the team 100 per cent on that,\u201d stated Bottas, who appeals at 6/5 to make the first three in Belgium.\nOne final bet worth considering from the Belgian Grand Prix odds is 3/5 for highly-rated rookie Charles Leclerc to beat Sauber team-mate Marcus Ericsson.\nThe Monaco-born driver has lived up to his billing as the next big thing by getting the very best, and more, out of his modest machinery.\nLeclerc has embarrassed his experienced team-mate Ericsson with a number of over-achieving qualifying and race displays and is being touted as a future Ferrari driver.\nPast Belgian Grand Prix results:\n2017 Hamilton (Mercedes), Vettel (Ferrari), Ricciardo (Red Bull)\n2016 Rosberg (Mercedes), Ricciardo (Red Bull), Hamilton (Mercedes)\n2015 Hamilton (Mercedes), Rosberg (Mercedes), Grosjean (Lotus)\n2014 Ricciardo (Red Bull), Rosberg (Mercedes), Bottas (Williams)\n2013 Vettel (Red Bull), Alonso (Ferrari), Hamilton (Mercedes)\nBelgian Grand Prix tips\nHamilton to win\nBottas in top 3\nLeclerc to bt Ericsson", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00240.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 129, + "original_length": 6832, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.93, + "perplexity": 298.5, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "https://sportsday.dallasnews.com/texas-rangers/rangers/2018/07/05/choo-will-limited-participant-rangers-star-break", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T03:47:07Z", + "digest": "sha1:7PIWHSQXHOU4UHRPH33CY7FHYV5SF3OV", + "length": 1457, + "nlines": 9, + "source_domain": "sportsday.dallasnews.com", + "title": "Texas Rangers: Streak or no streak, Shin-Soo Choo will be limited participant for Rangers until All-Star break | SportsDay", + "raw_content": "Streak or no streak, Shin-Soo Choo will be limited participant for Rangers until All-Star break\nTexas Rangers' Shin-Soo Choo swings for a single during the fourth inning of the team's baseball game against the Houston Astros, Wednesday, July 4, 2018, in Arlington, Texas. Houston won 5-4 in t10 innings. (AP Photo/Brandon Wade)\nDETROIT -- Shin-Soo Choo, the Texas Rangers' hottest hitter, expects to be limited to designated hitter duty until the All-Star break because of discomfort in the right quadriceps.\nManager Jeff Banister went with Adrian Beltre, back less than 24 hours after a root canal, at designated hitter for Thursday's game against Detroit at Comerica Park. That kept Choo, who had reached base in 44 consecutive games, out of the lineup.\n\"I don't want to push it,\" Choo said. \"Do this until the All-Star break, and the rest will help.\"\nThis likely will not affect Choo's chances of making the All-Star team for the first time. The DH is used in the game.\nThe four-day All-Star break begins July 16. Banister said Beltre, Choo and several other players will benefit from the time away from the game.\n\"It's been a grind,\" Banister said. \"But they continue to show up and play hard. It'll be refreshing to get these guys some time off, when we get there.\"\nChoo also repeated his previous statement that winning takes precedence over the streak. He would not object if Banister wanted to use him late in a game, putting the streak in jeopardy.", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00240.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 114, + "original_length": 3917, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.96, + "perplexity": 255.8, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "https://spotterup.com/best-and-worst-war-movies-about-basic-training/", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T03:56:44Z", + "digest": "sha1:H7RLKR6YPKFFYU62UXRORUDV2YOZRTAW", + "length": 22505, + "nlines": 101, + "source_domain": "spotterup.com", + "title": "Best and Worst War Movies About Basic Training \u2022 Spotter Up", + "raw_content": "5.11\u00ae Geo7\u2122 Camouflage\nConcealment, Mission Critical, MISSION GEAR, Prepping & Survival, Product Reviews, Tactics\nBest and Worst War Movies About Basic Training\nI\u2019ve compiled a list of movies where there is some form of training, whether it be basic training or advanced training, and there is a marked change in someone or something. Training programs are meant to challenge individuals, physically and mentally, and are required in order for the individual to be fully immersed in military culture.\nSome of these movies have what you want: Good script, great acting, realistic story or perhaps it is the opposite. Kubrick\u2019s Full Metal Jacket is one of those movies that stands out nearly 30 years later for being good. Pauly Shore\u2019s in the Army Now stands out 30 years later and is still just as bad.\nMaybe you\u2019ve seen a few of these movies but take a look again and see if one of these films stirs up some memories. If you have some time go ahead and watch a few. If there are some that you haven\u2019t seen, and if you lack the time for a full-length movie, take a look at the YouTube trailers I inserted below.\nThe story of Easy Company of the US Army 101st Airborne Division and their mission in WWII Europe from Operation Overlord through V-J Day. Stars: Scott Grimes, Damian Lewis, Ron Livingston\nBand of Brothers was equal parts heroism and equal parts horror. It\u2019s a war drama based on historian Stephen E. Ambrose\u2019s 1992 book of the same name. The executive producers were Steven Spielberg and Tom Hanks. The series follows the history of \u201cEasy\u201d Company (part of the 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 101st Airborne Division) from jump training and into war. The acting and action is very good. The characters are developed enough that you care about each person. Actor David Schwimmer plays the cruel and spiteful Capt. Herbert Sobel, a leader who shouldn\u2019t be leading anyone into combat. Likely will be one of the best WW II series for a very long time. The interviews given by the surviving soldiers who were part of Easy company is powerful. In one true recounted tale, when a hopeful man who desires to enlist in the Army finds out he cannot serve in the military due to a medical rating, he goes home and commits suicide.\nBand of Brothers / The Pacific Special Edition Gift Set\nHumans in a fascistic, militaristic future do battle with giant alien bugs in a fight for survival. Based on the book of the same name. The action in the movie is very good and the acting is wooden. There are no tactics in this film. Special effects weren\u2019t bad considering this was the 1990\u2019s and CGI really isn\u2019t at the level of today\u2019s cinema effects. They were advanced for the time. The movie\u2019s director took a satiric take on Heinlein\u2019s book of the same name. Verhoven also directed the interesting The Soldier\u2019s of Orange with actor Rutger Hauer. Many critics didn\u2019t understand the material and that director Verhoven made a self-aware satire. The basic training scenes are pretty hilarious. Actor Clancy Brown of the Highlander movie is great here in the role of an instructor. It\u2019s too bad that the novel Starship Troopers didn\u2019t get the respect it deserved and use someone who appreciated the material.\nStarship Troopers / Starship Troopers 2: Hero of the Federation / Starship Troopers 3: Marauder - Set\nBOYS IN COMPANY C\nThere are some very good acting scenes in this movie although the movie is disjointed. Former Marine D.I. and actor Lee Ermey, who originally signed on as a technical advisor was so good he was cast in the film. The Boys in Company C follows the lives of five Marine inductees from their training in boot camp through a tour of duty in Vietnam. The movie\u2019s boot scenes are no where as good as Full Metal Jacket. It doesn\u2019t push political exposition as hard as Apocalypse Now and it was eclipsed by the movie Deer Hunter which happened to come out the same year. Nevertheless, the movie does an adequate job of showing how the Vietnam War fractured lives and the resilience of our nation\u2019s young men who are thrown into a situation they have no control over. Follows a group of men as they prepare for the Vietnam war and their eventual tour of Vietnam. (125 mins.) Director: Sidney J. Furie Stars: Stan Shaw, Andrew Stevens, James Canning, Michael Lembeck\nThe Boys of \u201967: Charlie Company\u2019s War in Vietnam (General Military)\nA young man must complete his work at a Navy Flight school to become an aviator, with the help of a tough gunnery sergeant and his new girlfriend. (124 mins.) Excellent take on pilot/officer training. At the beginning of the movie he is neither of those things but by the end of the story\u2026well, go see it for yourself. Great job by Lou Gossett Jr. as the Drill Instructor. Beautifully acted, great romance, good buddy film and some chop sockey thrown in for action. Director: Taylor Hackford Stars: Richard Gere, Debra Winger, David Keith, Robert Loggia\nA young man joins the Marines during WWII but fails to meet qualifications so is washed out and sent\u2026 (90 mins.) Jan Michael Vincent was a star in the 1970\u2019s and went on to do the Airwolf TV Series. He was great in Big Wednesday. I thought the movie Tribes stunk. He\u2019s not bad in this movie and the story is interesting. Director: John Hancock Stars: Jan-Michael Vincent, Glynnis O\u2019Connor, Katherine Helmond, Dana Elcar\nA group of young recruits go through boot camp during the Second World War in Biloxi Mississippi. From the play by Neil Simon. (106 mins.) Director: Mike Nichols Stars: Matthew Broderick, Christopher Walken, Matt Mulhern, Corey Parker I saw this with my brother when it came out. Brought back some memories of being in a company with a diverse group of people. Some you liked and some you hated. Christoper Walken is very good in this movie. What movie isn\u2019t he good in? Some people thought Simon\u2019s retelling of his time in the service was quite good while others hated it. See for yourself.Sergeant Toomey: Hey, Fred Astaire, you tryin\u2019 to tell me something?\nArnold Epstein: I have to go to the bathroom, sergeant.\nSergeant Toomey: You can\u2019t do that. We don\u2019t have \u201cbathrooms\u201d in the Army.\nArnold Epstein: They had them at Fort Dix.\nSergeant Toomey: Not bathrooms, they didn\u2019t\nArnold Epstein: Yes, they did. I went in them a lot.\nSergeant Toomey: I\u2019m tellin\u2019 you, we don\u2019t have any \u201cbathrooms\u201d on this base. Do you doubt my veracity?\nArnold Epstein: No, sergeant.\nSergeant Toomey: Then you\u2019ve got a problem, don\u2019t you Epstein?\nArnold Epstein: Ho ho.\nSergeant Toomey: You bet your ass ho ho. You know why you\u2019ve got a problem?\nArnold Epstein: Because I\u2019ve got to go real bad.\nSergeant Toomey: No, son. You\u2019ve got a problem because you don\u2019t know Army terminology. The place where a U.S. soldier goes to defecate, relieve himself, open his bowel, shit, fart, dump, crap, and unload, is called the latrine. The la-trine, from the French.\nA pragmatic U.S. Marine observes the dehumanizing effects the Vietnam War has on his fellow recruits from their brutal boot camp training to the bloody street fighting in Hue. (116 mins.) Director: Stanley Kubrick Stars: Matthew Modine, R. Lee Ermey, Vincent D\u2019Onofrio, Adam Baldwin Excellent. Thankfully Kubrick and the writers listened to the technical advisers. The movie is a masterpiece and there are some amazing break out moments by the actors in this film. Actor Vincent D\u2019onofrio shines. Moviefone noted:\nR. Lee Ermey had been a real-life Parris Island Marine drill sergeant during the war. He\u2019d acted in other Vietnam films, including \u201cThe Boys in Company C\u201d (where he played his first drill sergeant role) and \u201cApocalypse Now.\u201d Kubrick had hired him as a technical adviser, but Ermey wanted to play Hartman, the Parris Island drill sergeant who dominates the first half of the movie. So he made an audition reel in which he generated a sponataneous stream of foul-mouthed insults directed at a group of extras \u2014 all while having oranges and tennis balls thrown at him \u2014 that ran for 15 minutes. That got him the job.\nModine also wrote that he and the other actors playing Marines underwent realistic boot camp training, which included being yelled at by Ermey for up to 10 hours a day. They also had to have their heads shaved once a week.\nFull Metal Jacket Diary\nGI JANE (1997)\nA female Senator succeeds in enrolling a woman into Combined Reconnaissance Team training where everyone expects her to fail. Director: Ridley Scott. I liked the premise but hated the movie. The idea was interesting. Here is my perspective on part of it. To get in shape for the scenes Demi Moore worked out under the guidance of a real Navy SEAL and took some SEAL training. She combined a lot of strength, cardio, and martial arts to get fit and skillful.\nC.O Salem:\nWelcome to SEAL/C.R.T. selection program. You have volunteered for the most intensive military training known to man. You are all proven operators within the SpecOps communtiy: SEALs, EOD, Army Delta, Marine Force Recon, Naval Intel community, and so on. In spite of your expertise, many of you will not successfully negotiate this program. Those that do, will experience an operational tempo that exceeds that of any other unit within the US arsenal. That is all that is to be said about the special nature of the CRT training program. I now turn you over to my Command Master Chief, John James Urgayle.\nA hard-nosed, hard-living Marine gunnery sergeant clashes with his superiors and his ex-wife as he takes command of a spoiled recon platoon with a bad attitude. Director: Clint Eastwood Writer: James Carabatsos Stars: Clint Eastwood, Marsha Mason, Everett McGill. Some good funny moments in this movie. Good script, some silliness in it and more light-hearted than most of Eastwood\u2019s films outside of his comedies like the film Any Which Way but Loose. His acting as a serious Marine next to the band of goofballs and the character Stitch holds the movie together.\nStitch Jones: You see, it\u2019s all a question of mind over matter. We no longer mind, \u2019cause, you don\u2019t matter. You\u2019ve been voted out of office, baby.\nHighway: Mister Jones, you fall out in that street or I\u2019m gonna kick your ass right off this fuckin\u2019 planet.\nStitch Jones: Oh, I don\u2019t think so, babe. Swede!\nRecon Platoon: [Chanting loudly] Swede, Swede, Swede, Swede, Swede![A tall and powerfully-built Marine comes into view, standing in front of Highway]\nStitch Jones: Uh, Gunny, I\u2019d like you to meet my big friend, Swede Johanson. Swede, say something charming to the man.\nSwede Johanson: I\u2019m gonna rip your head off and shit down your neck.[Swede throws the first punch; Highway dodges it and grabs Swede\u2019s arm in a joint lock, forcing him down]\nHighway: Stick your chin up. [Swede does] Higher. [punches Swede, knocking him to the floor] Now get your ass out in that street, ladies. Right this second.\nStitch Jones: [hastily] Uh, I\u2019ll catch you later, Swede![the platoon rushes outside; Swede gets up and faces Highway]\nSwede Johanson: Sir, I\u2019ll wait outside for the MPs to come.\nThomas Highway: Negative, Johanson. You\u2019re going to become a Marine, right now. [Swede gives him a questioning look as he realizes he won\u2019t go to the brig] Fall out.\nSwede Johanson: Yes, sir.\nHeartbreak Ridge : Korea, 1951\nTwo misguided youths join the reserves to make some money for their entrepreneurial dreams. No sooner than they finish basic training are they called up to do their part to save the free world. Actors Pauly Shore, Lori Petty, Andy Dick. Not my cup of tea. Enjoy.\nA psychological study of operations desert shield and desert storm during the gulf war; through the eyes of a U.S marine sniper who struggles to cope with the possibility his girlfriend may be cheating on him back home. Director: Sam Mendes Writers: William Broyles Jr. (screenplay) (as William D. Broyles Jr.), Anthony Swofford (book) Stars: Jake Gyllenhaal, Jamie Foxx, Lucas Black. I hated the story yet there were some really good moments in it.\nJarhead: A Marine's Chronicle of the Gulf War and Other Battles\nThe story of Carl Brashear, the first African-American, then also the first amputee, U.S. Navy Diver, and the man who trained him. Stars: Cuba Gooding Jr., Robert De Niro, Charlize Theron\nExcellent movie. Yes it is predictable but still very good!\nLeslie William \u2018Billy\u2019 Sunday: You see this pipe? General MacArthur himself smoked this pipe. I served with him in Leyte Gulf. Biggest naval battle in history. Kamikaze ripped into this escort carrier, name of Saint Lo. She went down on a shallow reef, trapping me and six boys in the fire room. Only one way out. Flood the compartment and swim up. Five decks, cookie. Five fuckin\u2019 decks. Locked bulkheads, dead bodies everywhere. You got to have your balls screwed on tight for that swim. We still had intercom. Old MacArthur himself came over that squawk box, \u201cSunday, you cocky son of a bitch, I bet you can\u2019t hold your breath for four minutes and swim out ofthere.\u201d Know what I said back ? \u201cNo, Mac, I can\u2019t, but I\u2019ll bet you your cob pipe I can hold it for five, \u2019cause that\u2019s what it\u2019s gonna take, motherfucker.\u201d\nJust a Sailor: A Navy Diver's Story of Photography, Salvage, and Combat\nHome Comforts Laminated Poster White Target Illustrations Poster Print 24x 36\nWill Stockdale is a country bumpkin drafted into the Air Force and too dumb to realize he\u2019s driving everyone around him crazy \u2014 no one more than Sgt. King. (119 mins.) Director: Mervyn LeRoy Stars: Andy Griffith, Myron McCormick, Nick Adams, Murray Hamilton. Hilarious movie. The hick is smarter than he looks. One of the best scenes is the drinking scene. I saw this with my father and we laughed a lot. Here are some highlights I gleaned from Wikipedia:\nUnlike Jim Nabors\u2018 Gomer Pyle (of the Andy Griffith Show spin off of the same name, inspired by No Time for Sergeants), Jackson\u2019s Stockdale was no idiot; rather he had an unlimited amount of common sense, which was displayed in various episodes.\nHis knowledge of farming leads him to give a better image interpretation analysis of an aerial photograph than Air Force Intelligence.\nThe Air Force attempts to demonstrate the efficiency of its survival training by pitting an Air Force survival trained group against an untrained group including Stockdale in the wilderness. Stockdale, with his backwoods knowledge, takes charge and gives his party a comfortable time similar to being in a resort, while the trained group barely survives.\nStockdale accepts latrine details as challenges rather than punishments and impresses the drill sergeant by how well he cleans the latrine.\nStockdale demonstrates another more appealing quality over Gomer Pyle when he unflinchingly takes punches to his stomach from a karate expert with a smile and a good natured lecture to his assailant until Stockdale ends his lecture by knocking the karate expert through a window.\nStockdale has no reservations about drinking alcohol. However, the drill sergeant\u2019s attempts at getting Will drunk fail, impliedly because Will has built up a resistance to intoxication from a lifetime of drinking moonshine whiskey.\nA sheltered young high society woman joins the United States Army on a whim and finds herself in a more difficult situation than she ever expected. (109 mins.) Director: Howard Zieff Stars: Goldie Hawn, Eileen Brennan, Armand Assante, Robert Webber. I don\u2019t recall seeing this one when it came out.\nPvt. Benjamin: I think they sent me to the wrong place.\nCapt. Lewis: Uh-huh.\nPvt. Benjamin: See, I did join the army, but I joined a different army. I joined the one with the condos and the private rooms.\nCpt. Lewis: I got news for you, Princess. THERE IS NO OTHER ARMY!\nA failed businessman is hired by the army to teach a group of underachieving recruits in order to help them pass basic training. (128 mins.) Director: Penny Marshall Stars: Danny DeVito, Gregory Hines, James Remar, Ed Begley Jr I avoided this like the plague. Maybe you\u2019ll feel the same.\nTHE DI (1957)\nGunnery Sergeant Jim Moore is one of the toughest Drill Instructors on Parris Island. But he\u2019s got a thorn in his side: Pvt\u2026 (106 mins.) Director: Jack Webb Stars: Jack Webb, Don Dubbins, Jackie Loughery, Lin McCarthy. Very good.\nA Marine Corps drill instructor who is disgusted by the fact that the Corps now accepts draftees finds himself pitted against a hippie who has been drafted but refuses to accept the military\u2019s way of doing things. Stars:Darren McGavin, Earl Holliman, Jan-Michael Vincent. I did not enjoy this movie and still recall seeing it when I was a child. The clash between the two main characters is so distinct. I still recall the scene where Jan Michael Vincent is using meditation to help him handle carrying the two buckets. Some good scenes but it didn\u2019t sit with my point of view.\nTwo friends who are dissatisfied with their jobs decide to join the army for a bit of fun. (106 mins.) Director: Ivan Reitman Stars: Bill Murray, John Candy, Harold Ramis, Warren Oates\nToo many funny scenes here to list. The basic training scenes are excellent. Marching and singing in formation is hilarious. Stripes was well received by critics and audiences. Per Box Office Mojo Stripes was released on June 26, 1981 and grossed $1,892,000 in 1,074 screens on opening day. It placed fifth overall for the weekend with $6,152,166. It eventually grossed $85,297,000 in North America, making it the fifth most popular 1981 film at the U.S.A. and Canada box office.\nJohn Winger: [breaking up a fight] Cut it out! Cut it out! Cut it out! The hell\u2019s the matter with you?! Stupid! We\u2019re all very different people. We\u2019re not Watusi. We\u2019re not Spartans. We\u2019re Americans, with a capital \u2018A\u2019, huh? You know what that means? Do ya? That means that our forefathers were kicked out of every decent country in the world. We are the wretched refuse. We\u2019re the underdog. We\u2019re mutts! Here\u2019s proof: his nose is cold! But there\u2019s no animal that\u2019s more faithful, that\u2019s more loyal, more loveable than the mutt. Who saw Old Yeller? Who cried when Old Yeller got shot at the end? [raises his hand] Nobody cried when Old Yeller got shot? I\u2019m sure. [hands are reluctantly raised] I cried my eyes out. [even more hands go up] So we\u2019re all dogfaces. We\u2019re all very, very different, but there is one thing that we all have in common: we were all stupid enough to enlist in the Army. We\u2019re mutants. There\u2019s something wrong with us, something very, very wrong with us. Something seriously wrong with us! We\u2019re soldiers, but we\u2019re American soldiers! We\u2019ve been kickin\u2019 ass for 200 years! We\u2019re 10 and 1! Now we don\u2019t have to worry about whether or not we practiced. We don\u2019t have to worry about whether Captain Stillman wants to have us hung. All we have to do is to be the great American fighting soldier that is inside each one of us. Now do what I do, and say what I say. And make me proud. Fall in!\nStripes (Extended Cut)\nA group of recruits go through Advanced Infantry Training at Fort Polk, Louisiana\u2019s infamous Tigerland, last stop before Vietnam for tens of thousands of young men in 1971. (101 mins.) Director: Joel Schumacher Stars: Colin Farrell, Matthew Davis, Clifton Collins Jr., Tom Guiry\nI frankly don\u2019t recall much about this movie other than Colin Farrell smoking cigarettes. Colin Farrell plays a draftee who is opposed to the war. He has no respect for authority and talks back to his superiors. Gritty drama with good acting.\nAs students at the United States Navy\u2019s elite fighter weapons school compete to be best in the class, one daring young pilot learns a few things from a civilian instructor that are not taught in the classroom. Director: Tony Scott Stars: Tom Cruise, Tim Robbins, Kelly McGillis\nGood stuff. Audiences liked it and were definitely intrigued by the training scenes. Nothing like Top Gun had ever been done before. It became a success and was the highest-grossing film of 1986. Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun-Times gave the film 2.5 out of 4 stars, pointing out that \u201cMovies like Top Gun are hard to review because the good parts are so good and the bad parts are so relentless. The show was so successful that Top Gun Part 2 is coming out in 2018.\n[Maverick visits Viper at his house]Viper: I flew with your old man. VF-51, the Oriskany. You\u2019re a lot like he was. Only better\u2026and worse. He was a natural heroic son of a bitch, that one.\nMaverick: So he did do it right.\nViper: Yeah, he did right. Is that why you fly the way you do? Trying to prove something? Yeah, your old man did it right. [Maverick and Viper take a walk.] What I\u2019m about to tell you is classified and it could end my career. We were in the worst dogfight I could\u2019ve dreamed of. There were bogeys like fireflies all over the sky. His F-4 was hit; he was wounded, but he could\u2019ve made it back. He stayed in it; saved three planes before he bought it.\nMaverick: How come I never heard that before?\nViper: Well that\u2019s not something the State Department tells its dependents when the battle occurred over the wrong line on some map.Maverick: So you were there?\nViper: I was there. What\u2019s on your mind?\nMaverick: My options, sir.\nViper: Simple. First, you\u2019ve acquired enough points to show up and graduate with your Top Gun class, or you can quit. There\u2019ll be no disgrace. That spin was hell; it would\u2019ve shook me up.\nMaverick: So you think I should quit?\nViper: I didn\u2019t say that. The simple fact is you feel responsible for Goose and you have a confidence problem. Now I\u2019m not gonna sit here and blow sunshine up your ass, Lieutenant. A good pilot is compelled to always evaluate what\u2019s happened, so he can apply what he\u2019s learned. Up there, we gotta push it. That\u2019s our job. It\u2019s your option, Lieutenant. All yours.\nMaverick: Sorry to bother you on a Sunday, sir, but thank you very much for your time.\nViper: No problem. Good luck.\nTop Gun Air Power (4-pack)\nThe Ultimate Strike Force: The Real Top Guns\nA routine military exercise turns into a nightmare in the Scotland wilderness. Director: Neil Marshall Writer: Neil Marshall Stars: Sean Pertwee, Kevin McKidd, Emma Cleasby\nThe training is ridiculous but hey its a sci-fi horror movie. On the film critic aggregate site Rotten Tomatoes, Dog Soldiers holds 78% based on 32 reviews with an average rating of 6.9 out of 10.\nYou know what this reminds me of? Rorke\u2019s Drift. A hundred men of Harlech making a desperate stand against ten thousand Zulu warriors. Outnumbered, surrounded, staring death in the face, not flinching for a moment. Balls of British steel. You\u2019re bloody loving this, aren\u2019t you?\nfilmsmovies\nWar Movies to See, Kajaki: A True Story", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00240.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 558, + "original_length": 31194, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.95, + "perplexity": 306.1, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "https://ssarherps.org/publications/books-pamphlets/facsimile-reprints/", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T04:14:10Z", + "digest": "sha1:YSHIANPEIFPGVN52RUNYSH3WMGEZZL6U", + "length": 7690, + "nlines": 35, + "source_domain": "ssarherps.org", + "title": "Facsimile Reprints \u2013 Society for the Study of Amphibians and Reptiles", + "raw_content": "Home \u2192 Publications \u2192 Books & Pamphlets \u2192 Facsimile Reprints\nExact reprints of classic and important books and papers. Most titles have extensive new introductions by leading authorities. Prepublication discount to Society members. Missing titles are out-of-print and no longer available from the Society.\nAnderson, J. 1896. Contribution to the Herpetology of Arabia. Introduction and new checklist of Arabian amphibians and reptiles by Alan E. Leviton and Michele L. Aldrich. 160 p., illus. (one plate in color), map. Clothbound $25.00.\nBarbour, T. and C. T. Ramsden. 1919. The Herpetology of Cuba. The first comprehensive review of Cuban amphibians and reptiles with a complete descriptions of all species. Foreword by Rodolfo Ruibal. 200 p., 15 plates, measuring 8 x 11 inches. Clothbound $55.00.\nBourret, R. 1941. Les Tortues de l\u2019Indochine. The definitive review of the turtles and tortoises of Indochina, covering an area from Northeast India and the Malay Peninsula to Vietnam. Introduction by Indraneil Das. 264 p., 48 uncolored and 6 colored plates. Clothbound $65.00.\nCope, E. D. 1864. Papers on the Higher Classification of Frogs. Reprinted from Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia and Natural History Review. 32 p. $3.00.\n\u2014. 1871. Catalogue of Batrachia and Reptilia Obtained by McNiel in Nicaragua; Catalogue of Reptilia and Batrachia Obtained by Maynard in Florida. 8 p. $1.00.\nCowles, R. B., and C. M. Bogert. 1944. A Preliminary Study of the Thermal Requirements of Desert Reptiles. With extensive review of recent studies by F. Harvey Pough. Reprinted from Bulletin of American Museum of Natural History. 52 p., 11 plates. $5.00.\nEspada, M. Jim\u00e9nez de la. 1875. Vertebrados del Viaje al Pacifico: Batracios. A major taxonomic work on South American frogs. Introduction by Jay M. Savage. 208 p., 6 plates, maps. Clothbound $20.00.\nFauvel, A.-A. 1879. Alligators in China. Original description of Alligator sinensis, including classical and natural history. 42 p., 3 plates. $5.00.\nFerguson, W. 1877. Reptile Fauna of Ceylon. First comprehensive summary of the herpetofauna of Sri Lanka. Introduction by Kraig Adler. 48 p. $8.00.\nFitzinger, L. 1826 & 1835. Neue Classification der Reptilien and Systematische Anordnung der Schildkr\u00f6ten. Important nomenclatural landmarks for herpetology, including Amphibia as well as reptiles; world-wide in scope. Introduction by Robert Mertens. 110 p., folding chart. Clothbound $30.00.\nFrancis, E. T. B. 1934. The Anatomy of the Salamander. Standard text of salamander anatomy, including osteology, myology, nervous system, and internal organs. Introductions by F. J. Cole and James Hanken. 465 p., 25 highly detailed plates, color frontispiece. Clothbound $60.00.\nGray, J. E. 1825. A Synopsis of the Genera of Reptiles and Amphibia. Reprinted from Annals of Philosophy. 32 p. $3.00.\nGray, J. E., and A. G\u00fcnther. 1845\u20141875. Lizards of Australia and New Zealand. The reptile section from \u201cVoyage of H.M.S. Erebus and Terror,\u201d together with Gray\u2019s 1867 related book on Australian lizards. Introduction by Glenn M. Shea. 82 p., 20 plates (measuring 8 x 11 inches). Clothbound $20.00. (Also: set of the 20 plates, in protective wrapper $12.00.)\nG\u00fcnther, A. 1885\u20141902. Biologia Centrali-Americana. Reptilia and Batrachia. The standard work on Middle American herpetology with 76 full-page plates measuring8 x 11 inches (12 in color). Introductions by Hobart M. Smith, A. E. Gunther, and Kraig Adler. 575 p., photographs, maps. Clothbound $50.00. (Also: separate set of the 12 color plates, in protective wrapper $18.00.)\nG\u00fcnther, and Meghan Klipfel. 714 p., 114 plates, 9 photographs, maps, index. Clothbound $75.00.\nHolbrook, J. E. 1842. North American Herpetology. Five volumes bound in one. The classic work by the father of North American herpetology. Exact facsimile of the definitive second edition, including all 147 plates, measuring 8 x 11 inches (20 reproduced in full color). Introduction and checklists by Richard and Patricia Worthington and by Kraig Adler. 1032 p. Clothbound $60.00.\nKirtland, J. P. 1838. Zoology of Ohio (herpetological portion). 8 p. $1.00.\nLeConte, J. E. 1824\u20141828. Three Papers on Amphibians, from the Annals of the Lyceum of Natural History, New York. 16 p. $2.00.\nMcLain, R. B. 1899. Contributions to North American Herpetology (three parts). 28 p., index. $2.00.\nOrbigny, A. d\u2019 [and G. Bibron]. 1847. Voyage dans l\u2019Am\u00e9rique M\u00e9ridionale. This extract comprises the complete section on reptiles and amphibians from this voyage to South America. 14 p., 9 plates measuring 8 x 11 inches. $3.00.\nPeracca, M. G. 1882\u20141917. The Life and Herpetological Contributions of Mario Giacinto Peracca (1861\u20141923). A collection of 64 herpetological titles, with descriptions of 22 new species of amphibians and 52 of reptiles. Introduction, annotated bibliography, and synopsis of taxa by Franco Andreone and Elena Gavetti. 550 p. Clothbound $55.00.\nPeters, W. 1838\u20141883. The Herpetological Contributionsof Wilhelm C. H. Peters (1815\u20141883). A collection of 174 titles, world-wide in scope, and including the herpetological volume in Peters\u2019 series, \u201cReise nach Mossambique.\u201d Biography, annotated bibliography, and synopsis of species by Aaron M. Bauer, Rainer\nSchmidt, K. P., and G. K. Noble. 1919\u20141923. Contributions to the Herpetology of the Belgian Congo. Essential reference for the Congo rain forest and Sudanese savanna. Introductions by Donald G. Broadley and John C. Poynton. 780 pages, 141 photographs, maps, indices. Clothbound $65.00.\nSchweigger, A. F. 1812\u20141814. Prodromus Monographiae Cheloniorum. The first scientific review of the world\u2019s turtles, covering 78 species (24 of them new plus the new genus Chelydra). Introduction by Roger Bour. 390 p., 8 figures. Clothbound $30.00.\nShaw, G. 1802. General Zoology, vol. 3: Amphibia. Herpetological section from the first world summary of amphibians and reptiles in English. Introduction by Hobart M. Smith and Patrick David. 1014 p., 140 plates. Clothbound $75.00.\nSmith, A. 1826\u20141838. The Herpetological Contributions of Sir Andrew Smith. A collection of 10 shorter papers, including many descriptions of new South African amphibians and reptiles. Biography, concordance of names, and annotated bibliography by William R. Branch and Aaron M. Bauer. 83 p. $10.00.\nSowerby, J. DeC., E. LEAR, and J. E. GRAY. 1872. Tortoises, Terrapins, and Turtles Drawn From Life. The finest atlas of turtle illustrations ever produced. Introduction by Ernest E. Williams. 26 p., 61 full-page plates (measuring 8 x 11 inches). Clothbound $40.00.\nStejneger, L. 1907. Herpetology of Japan and Adjacent Territory. Introduction by Masafumi Matsui. Also covers Taiwan, Korea, and adjacent China and Siberia. 684 pages, 35 plates, 409 text figures, keys, index. Clothbound $58.00.\nTschudi, J. J. von. 1838. Classification der Batrachier. A major work in systematic herpetology, with introduction by Robert Mertens. 118 p., 6 plates. $18.00.\n\u2014. 1845. Reptilium Conspectus. New reptiles and amphibians from Peru. 24 p. $2.00.\nVanDenburgh, J. 1914. The Gigantic Land Tortoises of the Galapagos Archipelago. The most extensive review of Galapagos tortoises. Foreword by Peter C. H. Pritchard. 290 pages, 205 photographs, maps, index. Clothbound $55.00.\nWaite, E. R. 1929. The Reptiles and Amphibians of South Australia. Introduction by Michael J. Tyler and Mark Hutchinson. 282 p., color plate, portrait, 192 text figures including numerous photographs. Clothbound $35.00.\nWright, A. H., and A. A. Wright. 1962. 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At the beginning of this year, the PHW Group entered into a strategic partnership with the Israeli start-up SuperMeat, which specialises in the production of meat from cell cultures. This was followed by the announcement, which was made several weeks ago, that the family-run company from Lower Saxony has entered into a distribution partnership with the California-based company, Beyond Meat. Today the PHW Group has announced that it is joining into a corporate partnership with StartLife and will continue its trend of promoting start-ups and innovative ideas, as well as providing strategic and cooperative support to young entrepreneurs. StartLife is the leading Food & Agtech incubator in Europe, supporting start-ups with its programmes, wide network, and early stage support. The company was co-founded by Wageningen University & Research and has sponsored and signed up more than 200 start-ups over the past five years alone. \u201cThe high level and sheer excellence of the ideas that talented young people want to bring to market has made a great impression on me personally. Which is why we have deliberately decided to financially support StartLife. Furthermore, we will use our experience and network to advise young entrepreneurs and act as mentors in the poultry sector. At the same time, we as a family business will benefit from the innovative power of the start-ups by gaining an early insight into what business ideas are becoming more relevant,\u201d explains Peter Wesjohann, CEO of the PHW Group.\nThe StartLife community consists of high-potential start-ups that bring innovative ideas to life in the food and agriculture sector. A good example of food technology is the development and cultivation of potato varieties that require fewer pesticides. 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The food was very good, although we had to wait for a time as the restaurant was very busy. This atmosphere in this place was certainly buzzing. The plan was to move around the table intermittently so we could engage in conversation with other members in the group. A good plan, but not feasible. You see, a solo singer appeared and began to croon his way through a selection of songs. His microphone and speaker amplified his voice and the music so loudly, that it became difficult to engage in meaningful conversation around the table. Not to worry though chums, our Christmas meal at The Sun Inn could be the place whereby we can freely move around the table chatting to one another. We can check out beforehand if they\u2019d hired a Xmas singer and maybe someone can invite him ( or her ) outside and hit them on the head with a bottle? Just stun them of course, we don\u2019t want to destroy their Christmas after all\u2026\u2026.\nAnyway, apart from my rant about Karaoke singers spoiling the ambience of the evening, it was a good night. Once again it was well supported by members. Thank you to Nicola and Grace who experienced their first night out with the gang. We hope it hasn\u2019t put you off?\nSomewhere, or somehow in the evening, it was suggested I hold a Hallowe\u2019en party at my house in Prudhoe. A mini bus was mentioned amongst other things! 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Later in the morning, His All Holiness hosted Bishop Daniel and the student body of St. Sophia Seminary for a session of \u201cCoffee with the Patriarch\u201d at which seminarians: Fr. Andriy Matlak, Fr. Vasyl Pasakas, Fr. Vasyl Dovgan, Deacon Philip Harendza, Fr. Victor and Pani-matka Ivanna Wronsky had an opportunity to learn from patriarch Bartholomew about his predecessors on the patriarchal throne, who served the Great Church of Christ with much love and self-sacrifice. While the Patriarch was attending a conference, Vladyka Daniel and the seminarians received a tour of the Theological School, which was founded on 1 October 1844 on the island of Halki, the second-largest of the Princes' Islands in the Sea of Marmara. It was the main school of theology of the Eastern Orthodox Church's Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople until the Turkish parliament enacted a law banning private higher education institutions in 1971. The theological school is located at the top of the island's Hill of Hope, on the site of the Byzantine-era Monastery of the Holy Trinity. The premises of the school continue to be maintained by the monastery and are used to host conferences. It is possible to visit the island where it is located via boat in approximately one hour from the shore of Istanbul.\nThe seminary is located on the site of the Monastery of the Holy Trinity, founded by Patriarch Photius I almost a thousand years before the foundation of the theological school. During Ottoman rule the monastery fell in to disrepair. In 1844, Patriarch Germanos IV converted the monastery into a school of theology, which was inaugurated on 1 October 1844. All the buildings, except for the 17th-century chapel, were destroyed by an earthquake in June 1894, but were rebuilt by architect Periklis Fotiadis and inaugurated on 6 October 1896. These buildings were also renovated in the 1950s.\nWhen established in 1844, the school had seven grades, four high school level and three higher level (theological grades). In 1899, the high school division was dissolved and the school functioned as an academy with five grades. In 1923, on the establishment of the Turkish Republic, the seven-grade system was restored (4 high school + 3 higher level). In 1951, it was changed to 3 high school + 4 higher level.\nThe facilities include the Chapel of the Holy Trinity, sports and recreational institutions, dormitories, an infirmary, a hospice, offices, and the school's library with its historic collection of books, journals, and manuscripts. The library contains over 120,000 books.\nThere have been 990 graduates of the theological school and many have become priests, bishops, archbishops, scholars, and patriarchs. Many former students are buried in the grounds of the school. Orthodox Christians from around the world have attended and graduated from the theological school and the alumni are distributed around the world.\nIn the evening, with the blessing of His All-Holiness Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew, His Grace Bishop Daniel presided over the Vespers service at the monastery\u2019s Holy Trinity Church. The entire service was chanted in Ukrainian and English languages by the students of St. Sophia Seminary, while Metropolitan Elpidoforos was in attendance. Rev. Fr. Vasyl Pasakas, who marked his one week anniversary of Holy Priesthood, along with Deacon Philip Harendza served the Vespers service. In conclusion, Bishop Daniel addressed His Eminence Metropolitan Elpidoforos, offering words of profound gratitude for his personal hospitality. The bishop reflected upon the rich history of Halki Seminary, mentioning that one of his consecrators, Metropolitan Nicholas of blessed memory (Carpatho-Rusyn American Orthodox Diocese) was a student and a graduate of Halki Seminary. In addition, Bishop Daniel stressed the importance of the contribution of Halki Seminary in the development and education of generations of Orthodox hierarchs and clergy. Responding to Bishop Daniels\u2019 remarks, Metropolitan Elpidoforos greeted the bishop and the seminarians of the UOC of the USA, mentioning the upcoming historic celebration of 1025 anniversary of baptism of Ukraine, and the spread of Christianity over the Slavic lands following the baptism of Ukrainian lands. 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Mcgregor, D.A. Costall, and P.G. Peterson. 2000. Biological control of ragwort: Does sheep grazing affect ragwort flea beetle? New Zealand Plant Protection 53:54-58. Available at: http://www.hortnet.co.nz/publications/nzpps/journal/53/nzpp53_054.pdf Accessed 03 September 2006.\nIntegrated Pest Management Practitioners Association (IPMPA). 2000. Tansy ragwort. IVM Technical Bulletin. Available at: http://www.efn.org/~ipmpa/Noxtansy.html. Accessed 03 September 2006.\nSharrow, S. T. and W. D. Mosher. 1982. Sheep as a biological control agent for tansy ragwort. Journal of Range Management 35:480-482.\nSutherland, R.D., K. Betteridge, R.A. Fordham, K.J. Stafford, and D.A. Costall. 2000. Rearing conditions for lambs may increase tansy ragwort grazing. 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Mrs. Leviton served as a member of the Board of Directors.\nThe many employees and people in the industry who came in contact with her sensed her compassion, elegance, and intellect. An accomplished woman, she served numerous local and national organizations. She was President of the National Council of Jewish Women, recipient of an Honorary Doctorate from Acadia University, and was also a Board Member of North Shore University Hospital.\nHer greatest loves were her family; daughter\u2019s Patricia, Adrienne and Elizabeth, her sons-in-law, Stephen Sokolow, Donald Hendler, and Andrew Kriegman, her 11 grandchildren and 22 great-grandchildren. She also showed great love and devotion to the Leviton Company and all of its employees. The family greatly appreciates the sympathies and condolences of the entire organization for their loss. 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Biradar has been owning bookstores in Colaba and Andheri. The bookstores called Book Lovers. That\u2019s his only identity. The relationship with publishers were his strength. Few days back the Colaba bookstore was sold off. But sitting in the Lokhandwala store he still smiles, in celebration of a beautiful journey, fantastic memories and great books.\nTranscripted by Insha Faridoon\nHow did you enter the business of books or how did you decide to open a bookstore?\nI come from a small village called Gulbarga. There was an aunt of mine who had a small business of books. When she visited our village she brought me to Mumbai and introduced me to this business around 1969. I had just finished with my class 10th exams. My father had left his mortal form then. I was the eldest and decided to explore life and livelihood in the city. I stayed with her for a couple of years, working with her. After that I worked here and there for some more years. After ten years I managed to rent a shop and start my own bookstore.\nHow did Mumbai treat you, having stepped into a big city for the first time?\nLet me tell you, at that point of time the life was very simple and good. Now the thinking of people has changed. There is no satisfaction in spite of all the material gains. In the older times, people were easily satisfied. If someone had one house he would not yearn for a second one. My uncle used to stay in a house in Colaba on the fourth floor. This was around 1964-65. The building did not have apartment system, rather it was chawl system. A room of around 350 square feet was up for sale. A Sindhi brother was selling it. It was right next to my uncle\u2019s rooms. Up for sale for 1800 Rupees. But my uncle simply said that he already had two rooms, what will he do with a third one? Not that he couldn\u2019t afford. He just didn\u2019t feel the need to accumulate wealth. The room laid vacant for around two years after which it was finally occupied.\nAt that point of time in our village, a tenth or twelfth pass person could land with a government job. The salaries were around 300-500 Rupees.\nHave you always been interested in books? Or you got interested because there was business?\nThe later, to be honest. I observed that this bookstore business is good and you get to meet nice people. I found it interesting. I just thought that it would be lucrative because the profits were around 25 percent. I wondered what future I would have in the village! It took me ten years to finally find a shop for selling books by my own. It was from there that I started with a lot of hard work. All was fine till finally the time for closure has come now.\nDon\u2019t say that. We would want your store to stay.\nNo, it won\u2019t stay. All the stores are closing one by one. Oxford has closed down. Crossword is also reducing their shop space and are introducing other stuff in the shop. You cannot escape the truth. The expenses are increasing. Bookshops will not survive more than five years. Look around, all the bookshops have closed. There were so many in the same lane. Now you can see none. Till the time these online retailing goes on, our businesses cannot thrive. Every few years there are changes in business, but this one is wiping out masses. Shutting down our Colaba bookstore was really heart breaking. We had made it beautifully with good interiors. It was a lovely shop. But then, it happens.\nWould you please explain how the bookstores went loggerheads with the online model for book-sales?\nMy bookstore is not very huge but still the monthly expenses of maintaining a bookstore mount to a sizeable sum. I have to pay for electricity, to the salesmen, to the cleaners and sweepers. We cannot afford these expenses when day-by-day the business is weakening. The question is why should I take this much of pain when I am can\u2019t even make a lac of rupees after all my hard work. It is better that I rent out my shop. It will give me much more money without any efforts. I can easily rent it for 2 lac rupees. All we shopkeepers wanted was, control the policies. I am not saying that close the online ventures. Just regulate them. The discounts should be managed uniformly. The readers of books are not poor people, they are all well off. They can afford to buy books. 10-15 rupees will not make much of a difference to anyone. Then why spoil the market? Nobody has thought about us \u2013 neither the authors, nor publishers, not the distributors, not even the government.\nWhy can\u2019t bookstores survive in the presence of online retail? Why couldn\u2019t they come out with an alternative business strategy?\nI had opened this store in Andheri in 1993. It has been 23 years. I had invested so much in my shop and its interiors. All bookstore owners have just one demand and it is to control the online prices of books. It is a wrong precedent. Why do they print a certain MRP on the book? It is to sell it at a certain price. And while I am getting the commission, I am investing in the shop, its maintenance, electricity, shop workers, travelling etc. I end up making a profit of no more than 10-15 percent and through this I get my bread and butter. A book of 200 Rupees MRP, I get it for 150, but online it is being sold for 100 rupees. Now you tell me how I am going to beat this competition? How will I run my business? We have no option but to close our stores. We will look for other options, maybe I will go back to my village and do farming. I have known many distributers and publishers for 49 years. They did not have proper chairs to sit, forget about plush offices. For years they have earned through the Indian retailers. Today the same publishers and distributers do not want the retailers. I promote their books and I sell their products but they do not value me.\nWhen book retail chains were set up, did it impact your business adversely?\nWhen crossword entered the market, people were skeptical that they will close down small shop owners. It did not happen. The small shop owners rather thrived with Crossword because the awareness about books was increasing. More and more people were interested in books because of this big store Crossword. We all should salute Crossword. If people needed a book or magazine, they would not travel all the way to Crossword to buy that book. They would go to nearest store and this way small bookstore owners were benefitted. But now the situation has reached such a low point that huge stores like Crossword and Landmark had to close down. There is no growth in retail right now.\nThis shop that you have established and furnished, did you do it entirely from your own pocket?\nEvery shopkeeper purchases or hires the place for store from his own pocket, establishes it on his own. Nobody has helped us here.\nDid you take any loans?\nNo, we did not. Even if the loans were available, we did not fall for it because nobody gives you loan for free. It is always chargeable. One has to pay interest on it. I earn only for those ten hours when my shop is open but if I take a loan, I have to pay for it 24 hours of the day. The interest keeps on increasing even when you are sleeping. If you can manage to do business on your own do it, else don\u2019t do. But loans are a strict no!\nBe it the government or local moneylender, their intentions are always bad. They want to extract your savings completely. For middle-class people like us, the demands of life are very simple. I don\u2019t need anything more than my simple meal of pulses and rice. If I remove the expenses of my shop, my personal expense on daily basis is not more than fifty rupees. I walk to and from my home. It is some ten minutes away from here. My age is around 70 years, I firmly believe that you do not need a lot of money for a good life. This is my personal experience. Eat good food, live well, think well and maintain relationships with good people and you will not need much more. This can make you happy. When we become greedy, we become unhappy. We did not bring anything with us in this world so we needn\u2019t leave a lot of things behind as well. Then why should I remain worried?\nAny particular book you remember which owes you special credit for its run in the market?\nI was very close to the owners of Rupa Publication. That was another generation. Mr. S. K. Mehra and Mr. R. K. Mehra used to call me Mani bhai. R. K. Mehra once approached me with some books saying that they are not selling. He had imported 500 copies and only some 40-50 copies had sold. I won\u2019t name the book.\nI asked him to send all the copies promising that I will sell them all. He wondered how I will achieve that when in the whole of Mumbai only 50 copies were sold! It was not that I bargained with him to lower the price since they were not selling. I just had my relationships in the market. With many readers my recommendations were a rule. I just pushed a little to create the demand! So many people later complained to the Mehra\u2019s later, that I did not give a copy of the book to them. (laughs)\nThe book was in the market for six months, nobody bought it and now everyone wanted a copy.\nHow did you achieve this?\nThe customers. I work here promoting the books, I manage a one to one equation with all my customers, I understand their likes and dislikes. Accordingly I recommend the books to them. As a shopkeeper you need to understand and believe in your book and promote it with passion. Just putting a book in the shelf will not make it sell. For selling a book you need to know it and know your customer as well. When the customer comes to our shop, we need to be nice to them and pay attention to their needs. More so with new customers so that they can be free and frank with us. The customer should have a feeling of acquaintance with the shop, some kind of affiliation. I have not furnished this shop for myself. It is for my customers. If I am coming to the shop each day, I am coming for my customers. If I don\u2019t respect and welcome them, there is no point in my coming and sitting in the store. If the customer is comfortable, he/she will trust you and there lies the business.\nYou have been into this business for so long. You must be having very strong attachments with your customers?\nWe bond strongly with the customers but as a shopkeeper we maintain a professional distance with them. I would not want to transgress these boundaries.\nI believed that if I have to increase my business, I have to increase the footfall in my shop. The more the number of visitors, the more my business will expand. I always believed that if the customers are fully satisfied they will visit again and again. If the customers want to bargain a bit, we let them do it, so that they feel empowered. Sometimes, there are regular customers who don\u2019t make the full payment and at times even forget to pay the remaining amount, but we don\u2019t mind. We want to retain them as customers.\nBut sometimes the customers may take books and come to return them after a few days saying they didn\u2019t like it. There have been some customers who would pretend that they don\u2019t have the time to skim the books in the store and would take 5-6 books home saying that they will go through them and decide which one to buy. The customer will then keep the books for around a week and return after reading, but they\u2019ll tell us that the books didn\u2019t excite them. When the other customers look at those books, they do not find them fresh. These are some of the reasons we don\u2019t want to get too close and personal with customers because at times the familiarity leads to unwarranted demands.\nOn a personal note, I do not want to refuse anything to my customers. After a lot of observation I have realized that all customers should be treated only as customers. Not as friends. The relationship should be strictly professional; else the problems arise.\nSince you are in the book business for so long, you must have developed deep relationships with some authors as well?\nWhen I entered the book trade there were not too many English authors. There was only one publisher, Orient Paperback, and a very few authors. Manohar Malgaonkar used to write and Raja Rao was being published with Orient. And there was Khushwant Singh. He was an editor with Illustrated Weekly. He used to come to my shop frequently and give me free editions of Illustrated Weekly. I still remember those days. He was a very nice man. I have seen him very closely. He had written an article about the beggars and to prepare for that, he himself had acted as a beggar from Times of India Office to Fountain circle. He wanted to relate to their feelings.\nDid your bookstores sell magazines as well, like you do now?\nAt that time there were not too many magazines. There were only 3-4 magazines that belonged to Times of India. Another one belonged to Baburao Patel called Mother India. Picture Post was a film magazine and Readers Digest. I guess there were hardly ten magazines in English. The most expensive magazine was Mother India, costing around 3 Rupees.\nAfter the computer system came, the number of magazines went on increasing. Now there are countless magazines.\nWhat is the difference in bookshelves according to you, if we must compare them with the times when you started?\nOnce upon a time there were no management books in India except Peterson. Even the Tata\u2019s used to buy 25-50 copies of those Management books to gift in conferences. We used to get a lot of imported books and comics then, but India\u2019s publication is growing and now we get lots of Indian publications in comparison to imported ones. This is my observation of the three generations I have witnessed. Initially there were very few students studying in English Medium schools and therefore very few English writers. But as the focus on English education increased, we also witnessed the growth in the number of writers writing in English.\nHow do your children react to books? Did they have a natural affection or you had to induct them into it?\nI will tell you an incident about my children. I used to put a tape in the recorder to tell stories to my son. He got into the habit of listening to stories. I am not very highly educated, but I tried reading the classics, so that I can educate my children. I realized it later that I had committed a mistake by introducing my son to gadgets. Soon I made it a rule for him to come to the store and read for a few hours.\nWhen my second child was born I decided to do away with all the gadgets and gave books. Since he was two and a half year old, he started reading stories. He has read all the classics put here in the racks. He is now in twelfth standard, but still keeps reading the books.\nI will tell that reading books is a very good habit; it\u2019s a great habit. It opens your mind and broadens your horizon. Books are like miracles. Uneducated people can be maneuvered in many ways. Books give you the information in the form of stories which shape your ethics and imagination, both.\nHow do you find your life when you look back?\nI am happy with my choice of profession. I have spent my life on this. I believe that nothing is permanent in life. Businesses change every 10-15 years. Even this online boom is not permanent. It too will change with time. Something else would take over. That\u2019s a common rule. It\u2019s for greater good.\nAnurag Batra\tMayur Puri", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00240.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 351, + "original_length": 20287, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.99, + "perplexity": 332.9, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "https://telsoc.org/event/national/2015-11-26/charles_todd_oration_2015_-_andrew_penn", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T04:58:39Z", + "digest": "sha1:QGI5D6PNWA3KUMVG7NX6Q67C4EH42NKO", + "length": 1723, + "nlines": 15, + "source_domain": "telsoc.org", + "title": "Charles Todd Oration 2015 - Andrew Penn | TelSoc", + "raw_content": "\u00bb Charles Todd Oration 2015 - Andrew Penn\nCharles Todd Oration 2015 - Andrew Penn\nConnecting with the Future Global Digital Economy\nThe mobile internet revolution has become the most powerful innovation engine on earth, transforming every industry, every business and every society it touches.\nAnd it is really just beginning.\nBy 2030 as many as 50 billion devices are expected to be connected to the internet of things and the fact that connected ?things? (as opposed to connected people) is today the fastest growing part of the mobiles business is a clear indication of the rapid changes underway in the telecommunications sector, and in Telstra itself, as it builds world class capabilities for the future.\nIn the face of dramatic change Telstra CEO Andrew Penn is a self-proclaimed technology optimist. He sees great opportunity for those who embrace technology innovation.\nThe Sydney venue for this event is now fully booked. The event is being live streamed to venues in Melbourne, Brisbane and Adelaide.\nRECORDED VIDEO NOW AVAILABLE\nA video of Andy Penn's presentation can now be viewed online via Telstra's Exchange website:\nhttps://exchange.telstra.com.au/2015/11/25/live-stream-charles-todd-oration\nAndrew Penn, CEO Telstra\nAndrew Penn became Chief Executive Officer of Telstra on 1 May, 2015 after serving as Telstra's Chief Financial Officer and Group Executive International. Prior to joining Telstra, Andrew was with AXA Asia Pacific for 20 years where he held a number of positions including Group Chief Executive (2006-2011). He has an MBA from Kingston University and is a Fellow of the Institute of Charted Accountants.\nThu, 26 Nov 2015 - 12:00pm to 02:30pm AEDT\ncharles_todd_oration_speech_26_nov_v1.pdf", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00240.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 378, + "original_length": 8225, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.94, + "perplexity": 257.0, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "https://text.medjugorje.ws/en/messages/060425m/", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T03:55:33Z", + "digest": "sha1:3MTDA5DL7EABENBGQYWUD4K3EWE6FHAT", + "length": 3784, + "nlines": 12, + "source_domain": "text.medjugorje.ws", + "title": "I invite you to have more trust - The reflection of Medjugorje Message, April 25, 2006 - Our Lady of Medjugorje - text.medjugorje.ws", + "raw_content": "www.medjugorje.ws \u00bb Text version \u00bb Our Lady of Medjugorje Messages \u00bb The reflection of Medjugorje Message, April 25, 2006\nThe reflection of Medjugorje Message, April 25, 2006\nI invite you to have more trust\n\u201cDear children! Also today I call you to have more trust in me and my Son. He has conquered by His death and resurrection and, through me, calls you to be a part of His joy. You do not see God, little children, but if you pray you will feel His nearness. I am with you and intercede before God for each of you. Thank you for having responded to my call. \u201d\nIn this message the Queen of Peace invites us to have more trust in Her and Her Son, our Saviour Jesus Christ. We know how important trust is in life. Life on earth is unimaginable without trusting other people. We can only imagine what it would be like if we went through life doubting everyone and everything. Lack of trust closes us off from other people. Without trust we are defensive towards everyone. Without faith life is endangered. The opposite of faith and trust is not faithlessness and atheism but fear. When fearful a man feels endangered, as if he is being attacked by everyone. When fearful he feels he must defend himself, attack and insult others to preserve his own life. In this way he endangers not only interpersonal relationships with others but also destroys himself.\nFear paralyses man, while faith sets him free and brings with it security, peace and freedom. A child cannot live without trusting its parents. A child has trust in its parents and therefore can count on them and so grow and remain living. Jesus sets before us a picture of a child saying: \u201cVerily I say unto you, Except ye be converted, and become as little children, ye shall not enter into the kingdom of heaven.\u201d (Matthew 18, 3). Many times Jesus said: \u201cYour faith has saved you\u201d (Mark 5, 34); \u201cjust believe, do not fear\u201d (Luke 8, 50); \u201call things are possible to him that believeth\u201d (Mark 9, 23).\nIt is our lack of childlike faith in God which gives rise to our tenseness, frustration, anxiety, nervousness. There are fewer and fewer moments in our lives in which we feel the true and intensive presence of God. We feel torn apart and tired, while God waits. Jesus through the intercession of his Mother calls us even today and throughout these 25 years of apparitions of the Virgin Mary.\nAnd Mary as our Mother, in this her message, places Jesus before us, crucified and resurrected, Jesus the victor over all that destroys human life.\nJesus Christ is alive, he is not a deceased Jesus but alive. Even today through his mother He would like to tell us: \u201cBelieve my mother, love her as I have loved her, do all that she tells you so that you may be part of my Resurrected joy and victory.\u201d A mother cannot be parted from her child. So too Mary cannot be separated from Jesus.\nMary tells us - \u201cYou do not see God but if you pray you will feel His closeness\u201d. God is the Spirit and we have a spirit and spiritual capabilities with which we can feel, experience and come together. We have the capability to believe, love and hope. The path to an encounter with God is prayer. No other path or means exists. If anyone should tell you there is another way, do not believe them. God is waiting for us through Mary. He is waiting for us to finally trust and begin living.\nMary is our intercessor, mediator and defender before God. She is tireless with us and does not let us fall asleep. She does not count her apparitions, Her messages. She does not live in mathematics but in love. It is not numbers but us that are important to Her. True love does not know numbers but is infinite.\nLet us begin believing and loving so that we may get to know and encounter God and in doing so get to know and encounter ourselves and each other.", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00240.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 21, + "original_length": 5013, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.96, + "perplexity": 305.4, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "https://the-orbit.net/entequilaesverdad/2016/11/13/dear-liberals-feminists-assorted-allies-stop-slut-shaming-melania-trump/", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T04:03:18Z", + "digest": "sha1:SHK5LLHRZIWXH2QII6CX3KV4YAJQUDGT", + "length": 2526, + "nlines": 14, + "source_domain": "the-orbit.net", + "title": "Dear Liberals, Feminists, and Assorted Allies: Stop Slut-Shaming Melania Trump - En Tequila Es Verdad Dear Liberals, Feminists, and Assorted Allies: Stop Slut-Shaming Melania Trump - En Tequila Es Verdad", + "raw_content": "Dear Liberals, Feminists, and Assorted Allies: Stop Slut-Shaming Melania Trump\nToo many supposed good progressive feminist-friendly people lately have been gleefully sharing memes that slut-shame Melania Trump. See, she posed for nude photos! She doesn\u2019t have class, like all the other First Ladies!\nCN: slut-shaming, Trump, mentions of marital rape\nThere\u2019s plenty to criticize her about: things like her plagiarism, for instance, or things she says in support of her husband. I\u2019m sure you can find something to criticize her for without digging out her nude photos and bleating that other first ladies were too classy for that.\nWhen you pull that shit, you\u2019re telling my womanly self that you are not a safe person. That you will enable rape culture when it gives you a fun way to attack a woman you don\u2019t like. That you\u2019re down with shitting on sex workers if they rise above what you consider to be their station. That the only real problem you have with the right-wing attacks on immodest women is that they\u2019re attacking the wrong women in your opinion. That you\u2019re fine with using gendered attacks as long as you\u2019re sniping at women on the other side.\nYou\u2019re telling me you\u2019re fine with attacking women who are married to men who probably only value them for their looks and their submissive behavior. You\u2019re telling me you have no problem shaming someone who could very well be a victim of marital rape. You\u2019re telling me that the thing that matters most to you is not who a woman is, but whether she\u2019s ever posed unclothed. You\u2019re telling me you believe women who decide to be photographed nude are rendered worthless by that decision, no matter why they made it.\nYou\u2019re telling me you\u2019re not safe. You\u2019re saying I can\u2019t trust you to have our backs.\nYou may not mean to say that. But you know that intent isn\u2019t magic.\nIf you can\u2019t be better than that, you\u2019re not the champion of women\u2019s rights to equality and dignity that you think you are. It doesn\u2019t matter whether you\u2019re a man or a woman doing it: you\u2019re hurting women, and you need to stop.\nAnd before you start whining about bu-bu-but REPUBLICAN HYPOCRISY, read this. Because that\u2019s what you\u2019re doing: splash damage. When you snipe at Melania for the choices she\u2019s made about her body, even if you think you\u2019re just taking a swipe at family values hypocrites, you\u2019re hurting us all.\nStop. It. Now.\n\u201cDemocracy Didn\u2019t Stop When the Polls Closed\u201d \u2192\nOne thought on \u201cDear Liberals, Feminists, and Assorted Allies: Stop Slut-Shaming Melania Trump\u201d\nYes. Truth. Seconded.", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00240.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 451, + "original_length": 9923, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.93, + "perplexity": 296.5, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "https://thecarolinasequestrian.com/special-features/inside-the-magazine?start=3", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T03:44:06Z", + "digest": "sha1:LH4J7EXMNWKGSXN5FCTAHYLQUA6TWS62", + "length": 815, + "nlines": 3, + "source_domain": "thecarolinasequestrian.com", + "title": "Inside The Magazine - The Carolinas Equestrian", + "raw_content": "Whether it is art or horses, Jane Gaston loves turning the blank canvas into something extraordinary and beautiful.\nGaston, a Sanford, NC native, believes art has always been a part of her, as much as the horse is. \u201cHorses are a passion of mine, as much as art has been a passion of mine,\u201d she said. \u201cI am very lucky to have to things to be passionate about, and that it\u2019s always been a 50/50 thing.\u201d\nPassion is the right word for the creatures Gaston captures on canvas. The horses and dogs exude personality and charm; the rich colors bringing them alive. The English Proverb \u201cThe eyes are the window to the soul\u201d is never more true than in Gaston\u2019s works. Each animal, whether equine, canine or exotic, has eyes that speak to the viewer. It is this detail, as well as the ears, she finds so important to portray.", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00240.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 112, + "original_length": 3935, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.97, + "perplexity": 333.5, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "https://thediplomat.com/2018/03/8-reasons-why-mongolias-capital-ulaanbaatar-might-be-the-place-for-a-trump-kim-summit/", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T04:46:09Z", + "digest": "sha1:PGROLGFEY4XH3KF5LDJDX6W2CDL3FU4C", + "length": 5399, + "nlines": 20, + "source_domain": "thediplomat.com", + "title": "8 Reasons Why Mongolia\u2019s Capital Ulaanbaatar Might Be The Place for a Trump-Kim Summit | The Diplomat", + "raw_content": "Image Credit: Flickr / nickfarnhill\nBy Julian Dierkes and Mendee Jargalsaikhan for The Diplomat\nIn his recent article \u201c8 Questions the Trump Administration Must Answer Before the Summit With Kim Jong-un,\u201d The Diplomat\u2019s Ankit Panda included the location of the meeting. \u201cTrump should not be willing to sweeten the already-sweet concession of a summit by traveling to North Korean soil to see Kim Jong-un.\u201d The most likely solution to that challenge is Panmunjom, as Panda notes, but should the Trump administration look elsewhere, Mongolia\u2019s capital of Ulaanbaatar emerges as the obvious choice for a meeting location.\nIn his book \u201cArt of the Deal\u201d Donald Trump included a focus on \u201cEnhance your Location\u201d as one of the 11 pathways to successful negotiations. As it now is emerging that a Trump-Kim meeting may still be tied to conditions, it is not unlikely that the location for the meeting is among those conditions.\nLess than twelve hours after news about a Trump-Kim meeting before May emerged the former president of Mongolia, Ts Elbegdorj tweeted, \u201cHere is an offer: U.S. President Trump and NK leader Kim meet in UB. Mongolia is the most suitable, neutral territory. We facilitated important meetings, including between Japan and NK. Mongolia\u2019s continuing legacy \u2013 UB dialogue on NEA.\u201d\nHere are eight reasons why Ulaanbaatar would be the right location:\nNeutrality. Mongolia has pursued a position of political neutrality or of friendly relations with all its regional neighbors since its democratic revolution in 1990. In 2015, there were even discussions about pursuing a formally neutral status for the country.\nFriendly relations with the United States. From 1990 on, Mongolia has built friendly relations with the U.S. that have seen many high-level exchanges of official visits, U.S. aid investments, building on the U.S. perception of Mongolia as a scrappy democracy in a tough neighborhood.\nFriendly relations with the DPRK. Mongolia\u2019s foreign minister D Tsogtbaatar was just in Pyongyang in early February, and North Korea has contracted thousands of workers out to labor in Mongolia over many years. Perhaps most significantly from the DPRK\u2019s perspective, hundreds of children were evacuated to Mongolia during the Korean War and that emotional connection continues.\nThe meeting will take place in Asia. Ulaanbaatar is easily reached by a North Korean delegation, requiring only a flight over Chinese territory or railroad travel via China or Russia. For a U.S. delegation, Ulaanbaatar is almost as equally easily reached from Japan or South Korea, requiring, again, only a flight over Chinese territory.\nPast interactions. DPRK officials have interacted with third-party governments in the recent past and Mongolia has frequently included North Korea in events that its government has hosted. There have thus been meetings between the Japanese and DPRK governments in Ulaanbaatar in 2007 and 2012. In 2017, the Mongolian government hosted the Ulaanbaatar Dialogue on Northeast Asia. North Korean Deputy Foreign Minister Ri Yong-Ho participated in the meeting and in several quiet bilateral meetings with officials from participating countries. These meetings have been successful because of the level of comfort with Mongolian hosts that DPRK officials have felt.\nSubstantive credibility. Nuclear non-proliferation is among the main issues surrounding a Trump-Kim meeting. Mongolia\u2019s status as a nuclear-free zone was formally recognized in 2012.\nUlaanbaatar would be acceptable to U.S. and DPRK allies. Surely, the South Korean government prefers a location that would see them involved more directly, but Mongolia is likely an acceptable compromise. Japan has appreciated Mongolia\u2019s offers to act as a go-between in the past and a relocation of the meeting away from the Korean peninsula may offer more opportunities for the abductee issue to remain on the agenda. It seems unclear whether Presidents Xi or Putin would have a preference for any particular location, but Ulaanbaatar is likely acceptable to both.\nCapacity. While Ulaanbaatar would be challenged by the hundreds of officials that would be required for the of a meeting, similar meetings have been held there in the past, most recently the Asia Europe Meeting in summer 2016. Note that tourism flows to Ulaanbaatar at the end of an extremely cold winter there in May are limited, so hotels and airplanes would likely be able to accommodate the visiting press corps as well.\nBarring any intervention from Dennis Rodman, it would seem that any search for a meeting location beyond Panmunjom points to Ulaanbaatar.\nDr. Julian Dierkes is an associate professor at the Institute of Asian Research of the University of British Columbia (UBC) in Vancouver, Canada where he teaches in the Master of Public Policy and Global Affairs. He and Mendee blog at http://blogs.ubc.ca.mongolia. Follow him on Twitter @jdierkes. Mendee Jargalsaikhan is a PhD candidate in Political Science at the University of British Columbia. His dissertation examines the development of Mongolia\u2019s democracy. Follow him @MendeeJ.\nMongolia-North Korea relations\nMongolia-U.S. relations\nMongolian neutrality\nMongolian Empire 2.0? A World Conquered by Online FreedomChina's Flashpoint on the Land: Southwest YunnanASEM 2016: Mongolia in the SpotlightXi Jinping, Vladimir Putin Meet Ahead of SCO SummitJapan, Mongolia Exchange Views on Regional Issues", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00240.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 152, + "original_length": 9018, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.95, + "perplexity": 325.1, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "https://thediplomat.com/2018/04/why-did-nehru-want-the-peoples-republic-of-china-in-the-united-nations/", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T04:52:46Z", + "digest": "sha1:WF6JPKKVCDO42UCXPSTF7XH5N6MX7KYJ", + "length": 10476, + "nlines": 27, + "source_domain": "thediplomat.com", + "title": "Why Did Nehru Want the People\u2019s Republic of China in the United Nations? | The Diplomat", + "raw_content": "Why Did Nehru Want the People\u2019s Republic of China in the United Nations?\nWhat history tells us about India\u2019s support for the PRC in the 1950s.\nBy Nabarun Roy for The Diplomat\nA basic insight from international relations theory is that as the power of a country increases, so does its ambition. India is no different in this regard. As its military and economic power has increased in recent times, so has its desire to gain recognition and play an important role in world politics.\nA key aspect has been India\u2019s demand that it be accorded a seat as a permanent member at the UN Security Council. Indian leaders have used various platforms including the UN General Assembly to remind the international community of India\u2019s suitability as a permanent member. The results have not been entirely disappointing. Prominent powers like the United States, the United Kingdom, France, and Russia have shown enthusiasm toward India\u2019s call for membership to different degrees at various points.\nHowever, a notable opponent has been the People\u2019s Republic of China (PRC). In the contemporary context, this is not surprising given that India and PRC do not enjoy the smoothest of relationships. The two have a long, disputed border running along the Himalayas that has given rise to considerable tension and war-mongering, most recently during the face-off in the Doklam region in 2017. India and China are also engaged in seeking influence and strategic toeholds in the South Asian region and the Indian Ocean region. With both countries being led by nationalist leaders, the competition has become very keen.\nHowever, the PRC\u2019s unwillingness to back India\u2019s bid at the UN is surprising when viewed over a longer time horizon. For, in the 1950s, India was a strong advocate that PRC be admitted to the UN and that it take China\u2019s seat as permanent member at the Security Council, which was at that time occupied by the Republic of China (Taiwan). Since the emergence of PRC in 1949, China had been represented by the ROC\u2019s Chiang Kai-shek regime and not by Mao\u2019s PRC. The United States was instrumental in denying the PRC the seat at the UN owing to Cold War calculations. It was Jawaharlal Nehru who advocated PRC\u2019s case as regards the UN.\nWhy did Nehru back the PRC\u2019s case for UN membership? Some believe that this was Nehru\u2019s ploy to appease Mao in light of increasing acrimony between India and PRC in the 1950s. Unwilling to ramp up military expenditure, the theory goes, Nehru found it prudent to humor Mao and stave off any showdown. Others argue that Nehru\u2019s misplaced enthusiasm for Asian solidarity, where he saw India and the PRC as being fellow travelers in the broader historical journey, led to him supporting the PRC. Broadly, most ascribe Nehru\u2019s stand to his idealism and lack of appreciation about the \u201ctruth\u201d of international relations \u2013 that power matters and needs to be engaged wisely.\nThere is no doubt that Nehru did loathe the amoral politics of his times and the zero-sum rivalry that world politics was caught in. However, what many have totally missed is that Nehru\u2019s reasons for supporting the PRC at the UN had a lot to do with his reading of history and his views of the salience of power among nations.\nTo understand Nehru\u2019s stand, one needs to set the clock back to the early years of the 20th century. A reading of the great power politics of that time had convinced Nehru that great powers ought not to be shunned by their peers. Instead they had to be accommodated in global organizations commensurate to their standing and power. Not doing so led them to become dissatisfied and difficult entities that constituted a threat to stability. Nehru believed that the shoddy treatment meted out to Germany after World War I and its sense of humiliation saw it drawing closer to another dissatisfied and ostracized country \u2013 the USSR. In April 1922 Germany signed the Treaty of Rapallo with Russia, which heightened tensions in Europe. Timely action by the British allowed for Germany\u2019s rehabilitation and it became a League of Nations member in 1926. The Great Depression, however, let loose forces within Germany that saw it again become a threat to stability.\nMeanwhile, the USSR was a perpetual outcast and persona non grata in international relations in the interwar years. In 1927 Nehru underlined that the Soviet Union \u201csuffers from a fear complex and the efforts of her many enemies to form combinations against her, haunt her and sometimes drive her to cruel excesses.\u201d Towards the end of World War I, the USSR \u201chad to meet attacks from the East, the South and the West\u2026they were outcasts from the human family and all the world seemed to be against them.\u201d\nTo Nehru, it was clear that great powers had to be accommodated and not vilified since the latter action could make them unpredictable and dangerous. It is this logic that guided his behavior toward the PRC as regards its place in the UN.\nNehru was clear that the PRC was not an ordinary power. In 1950, he had stated in the Indian parliament: \u201cCan anyone deny China at the present moment the right of a Great Power from the point of view of strength and power?\u2026she is a Great Power, regardless of whether you like or dislike it.\u201d He underlined that the PRC was a \u201cwell-established fact\u201d and that excluding the PRC from Security Council was an \u201cunrealistic state of affairs.\u201d\nIn 1960, Nehru argued that it was \u201cabsurd\u201d to have the ROC represent China at the UN. He believed that \u201cthe whole balance of power has changed not only in the Far East but in the world because of this new China.\u201d Not accommodating the PRC in world politics was not only foolish but dangerous. Prudence dictated that the PRC be provided a status commensurate with its power and that it not be shunned.\nWhat made it imperative to engage with the PRC and accommodate it in global power structures was the fact that it was a strong country but with an \u201cabnormal state of mind\u201d which was \u201cvery, very far from normality\u2026\u201d Nehru pointed out to Gamel Abdel Nasser in New Delhi in March 1960 that \u201cChina\u2026constantly talks of losing millions of people. Very casually Mao himself told me five years ago that they could afford to lose a few hundred million people.\u201d Furthermore, the PRC was the product of a revolution and all revolutions are \u201ca departure from normal behavior\u2026\u201d The PRC\u2019s posture and radicalism, Nehru believed, stemmed from its isolation and it being denied great power status. China had been at the receiving end of \u201cinsolent treatment\u201d from imperialist powers. This had made China a very prickly state. Nehru also observed that China had demonstrated aggression in the past. A historical tendency toward aggression combined with a contemporary sense of grievance would be very dangerous.\nThe rehabilitation of the PRC would depend on its larger environment. The need of the hour was to bring the PRC into the UN and have it enmeshed in international norms and regulations. Keeping the PRC out of the UN meant that UN resolutions would have no impact on Mao\u2019s China. Nehru observed, \u201cYou cannot have it both ways: ignore China, keep China outside the pale of international society and then issue orders to China.\u201d In a telegram, K.M Panikkar (India\u2019s ambassador to the PRC at the time) wrote to G.S. Bajpai (the secretary-general at the Ministry of External Affairs) that in a meeting with Zhou Enlai, the Chinese premier told Panikkar, \u201cThe United Nations claims to have no obligation towards us [the PRC]; we also have none to them.\u201d\nThe need to accommodate the PRC at the UN led Nehru to send a cable to the Egyptian prime minister in June 1950 asking the latter to back the PRC for Security Council membership. He made similar appeals to British leader Ernest Bevin, Thakin Nu of Burma, and Dean Acheson of the United States, among others. Nehru underlined that backing the PRC\u2019s membership for the Security Council was not an endorsement of its policies but a \u201crealistic and wise recognition of established and indisputable fact as to who effectively controls China.\u201d\nIn her book Jawaharlal Nehru: Civilizing a Savage World, Nayantara Sahgal observes that \u201cin shutting out the established government because it was communist [with regard to the PRC], the West, in Nehru\u2019s opinion, was repeating the fatal mistake it had made in treating the Soviet Union as a pariah, with its unending confrontational consequences.\u201d She adds, \u201cBeing isolated and outlawed by the world community, China began acting in a predictable manner.\u201d\nFor Nehru, the cost of having a neighbor that was extremely dissatisfied and on whom international strictures and resolutions seemed to have limited effect was a clear and present danger. Even though the PRC was not an immediate danger to India in the early 1950s, the fallout for India, should the PRC come to blows with the United States in the region, would be cataclysmic. The Korean War showed Nehru that this danger was very real. In an age when military alliances were weaving countries ever closer in webs of suspicion and with the presence of nuclear weapons, the chance of India getting engulfed in great power competition was quite real.\nFaced with the different kinds of challenges posed by the emergence of the PRC in 1949, Nehru deemed it wise to get the PRC accommodated at the UN, take the sting out of its tail, and helping to lower tensions. At the heart of Nehru\u2019s action and advocacy were not pious thoughts but the realization that great powers could not be excommunicated from the comity of nations. The price of doing so could be disastrous.\nThe piece is a shorter version of the article \u201cIn the Shadow of Great Power Politics: Why Nehru Supported PRC\u2019s Admission to the Security Council\u201d published by the author in the journal The International History Review. The article is available here.\nDr. Nabarun Roy is Assistant Professor in the Department of International Relations, Faculty of Social Sciences, at the South Asian University, New Delhi. He has a Ph.D. in Political Science from Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada.\nChina in the United Nations\nIndia UN Security Council Bid\nIndia's Growing Afghanistan Challenge\nAs the security situation in Afghanistan deteriorates, what are the stakes for New Delhi?\nEastern India's Embrace of ChinaHow to Fix India-China TradeChina on India\u2019s UNSC Bid: Neither Yes Nor NoChina Should Back India for a Permanent UN Security Council SeatWill India\u2019s Trump Fears Ease With the New US Asia Reassurance Initiative Act?", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00240.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 156, + "original_length": 13997, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.97, + "perplexity": 219.1, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "https://thegrandseikoguy.com/product/grand-seiko-5646-8000-18k-gold-on-bracelet-linen-dial/", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T04:06:57Z", + "digest": "sha1:HT6EVRNAZEWVAEEOPSOFOTTKJPVJJ7WA", + "length": 5365, + "nlines": 26, + "source_domain": "thegrandseikoguy.com", + "title": "Grand Seiko 5646-8000 (18K gold on bracelet \u2013 linen dial) \u2013 The Grand Seiko Guy", + "raw_content": "Home / Grand Seiko / 56GS / Grand Seiko 5646-8000 (18K gold on bracelet \u2013 linen dial)\nGrand Seiko 5646-8000 (18K gold on bracelet \u2013 linen dial)\n18K gold on bracelet.\nPlease use the inquiry form if you would like us to attempt to source this watch for you.\nSKU: 1136-1 Categories: Grand Seiko, 56GS\nThe 56GS series of vintage Grand Seiko is second only to the 61GS with regards to the diversity of the watches produced. Whilst utilising only three different movements (there are no \u201cspecial\u201d or \u201cVFA\u201d examples in this series), there are 35 different models in the series.\nWith production at Suwa Seikosha starting in 1970 and running through until 1974, the 56GS series marks the end of the line for the vintage Grand Seikos.\nThe three movements that were used in this series were the 5641A (no-date), 5645A (date) and 5646A (day-date), making this the only series with all three complication versions. For the first time, an element of automation was introduced into the production line, and the beat of the movement set at 28,800bph to increase reliability.\nWhilst there is a large variety of case designs utilised in this range, unlike with the 61GS series, there is consistency in the design and associated numbering of the cases as used across the different movements.\nFirst up is the -5000 case, which was available with both 5641 and 5645 movements. It is a solid gold 18K tonneau shaped case, with the dial also made from gold, and featuring a \u201csnowflake\u201d textured finish that was the inspiration for one of the most popular of the current Seiko models.\nThe -5010 case is square in shape, coming in both 5645 and 5646 options, and with each option having both a plain dial with regular indices (white in the instance of the 5645-5010, and blue for the 5646-5010), and a textured graduated dial with roman numeral indices (retaining the same 5645-5010 and 5646-5010 references, a charcoal colour for the date version, and an earthy brown colour for the day-date version).\nAvailable with all three calibres, the -7000 case is very similar, though not identical, to the 45GS -7010 case, being a \u201cturtle-shaped\u201d oval case finished in brushed stainless steel.\nThe -7005 case is similar to the -7000, but made from 18K gold. Once again, it was available across all three calibres, and uniquely on the 5646-7005, also available with a simply stunning 18K gold bracelet. This watch was the most expensive vintage Grand Seiko ever offered to the public, with a staggering for then retail price of 500,000 Yen (without the bracelet and on a leather strap, the price was a \u201cmere\u201d 181,000 Yen).\nThis particular watch, with its 18K bracelet, was only marketed from the second half of 1974, and its price almost certainly significantly impacted by the huge increase in the price of gold, which in 1970 when the Astronomical Observatory Chronometer was selling for 180,000 Yen was around $35 an ounce, but by 1974 when the 5646-7005 was sold on an 18K bracelet had risen to $180 an ounce.\nAdhering strongly to the \u201cGrammar of Design\u201d rules, the -7010 and -7011 watches are almost certainly the most common vintage Grand Seikos that you see on the market today, and relatively easy to find. The author believes that the difference between the two cases is simply a move from marking the cases as being \u201cwaterproof\u201d, to \u201cwater resistant\u201d, but this remains to be confirmed.\nSold with both day and day-date calibres, and in both stainless steel and cap gold case variants, white dialed examples of all versions are relatively easy to come across even today \u2013 they must have been made in very significant numbers. They were marketed with both leather straps, and for a 3,000 Yen premium, also available on a bracelet. In addition to the white dialed versions, there was also a blue dial available in both calibres with the stainless steel case on a leather band.\nThere are then three cases that were only ever available with the 5646 movement. These are the 5646-7020, a striking watch featuring a case similar to that found on the 61GS VFA\u2019s, a deeply faceted crystal, and a graduated green dial (note \u2013 this watch only exists with a green dial \u2013 there are no legitimate white dial variants). The 5646-7030, with its wonderful sand-textured dial (very possibly the inspiration for similarly textured dials in the modern era), is unique amongst all vintage pieces in having a lug width of just 17mm. And rounding out the set of cases only available with the 5646 day-date movement is the 5646-7040. The -7040 is unique amongst all vintage Grand Seikos in using applied, Breguet-type Arabic numerals on the dial, and was possibly the inspiration for the modern-day Wako limited editions.\nFinally, the -8000 case was available with both 5645- and 5646- movements. There are multiple different dials available for the stainless steel version, with white, blue and grey colours all existing, and some models coming on a bracelet. 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Her parents withdrew both she and her sister from the school after the incident. The parents were never notified about their daughter\u2019s role in the play, they argued, and had no idea about the play\u2019s theme until they were sitting in the audience.\nIn a video of the play, Anastasia as the segregationist, yells at her all black classmates to \u201cgo away, you don\u2019t belong here!\u201d She also held a sign that read, \u201cGo home,\u201d on one side and \u201cCursed is the man who integrates\u201d on the other.\nThe local ABC-affiliate, WSB-TV reported on the incident and posted a video of the play on Twitter:\nThe video that infuriated the parents of a 7-year-old after her teacher had her portray a school segregationist during a school play without their knowledge or consent. \u201cGo away, you don\u2019t belong here.\u201d Then she held up a sign that read: \u201cGo Home.\u201d Details @wsbtv pic.twitter.com/OwTXFy3mPu\n\u2014 Wendy Halloran (@wendy_halloran) March 15, 2018\n\u201cShe\u2019s 7!\u201d Anastasia\u2019s mother told WSB-TV. \u201cAnd you put her onstage and made her think what she was doing was OK? That\u2019s not OK.\u201d\nHer father told the Daily Mail that other parents started looking at him during the play. He said, \u201cShe is the only white girl in her class, and one of the very few in the whole school. Giving her the position of a white supremacist at the age of 7 was unacceptable.\u201d\nThe Bertrams pulled both their daughters from the school. Their father said, \u201cWe did not feel they could stay in an environment like that.\u201d\nThe girls were transferred to another school approved by the district.\nPrevious Article The Louisiana Legislative Black Caucus Is Into Gun-Grabbing In This Year\u2019s Legislative Session\nNext Article The Hagiographic Piece On Mitch Landrieu Yesterday Is The Worst Thing Ever To Appear At POLITICO", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00240.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 92, + "original_length": 4359, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.98, + "perplexity": 257.8, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "https://thekharkivtimes.com/2015/10/13/new-youth-project-was-presented-in-kharkiv/", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T04:11:11Z", + "digest": "sha1:POSMFVDOCNCF5EOZUOEBNPSY7KPWK7G7", + "length": 1776, + "nlines": 9, + "source_domain": "thekharkivtimes.com", + "title": "New youth project was presented in Kharkiv | The Kharkiv Times", + "raw_content": "Home Business New youth project was presented in Kharkiv\nNew youth project was presented in Kharkiv\nOn October 10th, the \u201cYouth in Action\u201d project was launched at the presentation and exhibition center \u201cRadmir-Expohall\u201d. The goal of this project is to attract the active youth and students to embody their ideas on the development of the city. The students of Kharkiv universities, businessmen and politicians participated in the event.\nIt is an open platform for self-realization of students, improvement of their skills through non-formal educational tools, meeting with experts in different fields who will share their experience with the participants.\n\u201cThis is a completely new, unique project, designed for students and people who have recently graduated from college,\u201d said the coordinator of the \u201cYouth in Action\u201d project, the candidate for deputy of the City Council from \u201cObiednannya\u201d Samopomich\u201d Nikita Andreev. According to him, the project covers six directions: business, politics, student government, sports, IT, multimedia.\nThe project will last until the end of the year and will consist of three stages. The first one is the meeting of students with the people who succeeded in their field of work. The second stage is drawing up ideas and projects. The third one is the realization of these ideas. The best-acting participants will be offered jobs at the leading enterprises of Kharkiv.\n\u201cOur goal is to prove that young people can change Kharkiv. Future belongs to youth. Authorities say they will support the young people, but that\u2019s only words. We need to form our own team,\u201d said Nikita Andreev.\nPrevious articleInternational agroforum \u201cAgroport-2015\u201d will be held in Kharkiv\nNext articleDebtor-companies still owe people in the region millions of hryvnas", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00240.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 92, + "original_length": 4671, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.96, + "perplexity": 226.4, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "https://themonroetimes.com/community/st-peters-ladies-annual-thanksgiving-dinner-is-nov-9/", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T03:34:37Z", + "digest": "sha1:XZBVP6ECPSDO3WQ37BTDXAYOMDHM2RNK", + "length": 303, + "nlines": 2, + "source_domain": "themonroetimes.com", + "title": "St. Peter's Ladies annual Thanksgiving dinner is Nov. 9 - Monroe Times", + "raw_content": "St. Peter's Ladies annual Thanksgiving dinner is Nov. 9\nBRODHEAD - St. Peter's Ladies 35th annual Thanksgiving dinner of ham and turkey is planned for Nov. 9 at St. Peter Evangelical Lutheran Church in Brodhead. 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After months of speculation, President [\u2026]\nTrump\u2019s withdrawal of the United States from the Paris Climate Agreement on 1st of June 2017 has lowered America into an enormous chasm of moral [\u2026]", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00240.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 110, + "original_length": 3185, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.98, + "perplexity": 157.9, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "https://thenewspaces.com/2018/05/10/innovation-in-rnd-awais-nemat-founder-and-ceo-at-plumgrid/", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T03:53:36Z", + "digest": "sha1:4ZY4ONG2663WSXGAOB57DN62Z2MGQQOA", + "length": 17728, + "nlines": 35, + "source_domain": "thenewspaces.com", + "title": "Innovation in RnD: Awais Nemat, Founder and CEO at PLUMgrid \u2013 The New Spaces", + "raw_content": "The plan from the beginning was to establish a startup in the Valley. Every job, task and modicum of experience Awais Nemat got, took him one step closer to realizing that plan. Whether it was getting his foot in the door to design engineering at Mentor Graphics or learning the ropes in the seven years he spend at Cisco Systems, in the back of his mind, Awais was always engineering his company.\nLike many who end up in Silicon Valley, Awais also had a desire to build things from scratch and work in Research and Development to use his engineering talents and skill to push technology in areas that simply didn\u2019t exist. \u201cI have always been interested in determining how things will be in the future, create something and then move on to figuring out what the next big thing would be. I worked on the chips that enabled USB devices to be created. By the time they were created and commercialized, some 13 years later, I wasn\u2019t working on them.\u201d\nAccording to Awais in order to create true innovation, you need to have a thesis on what the future will be like. \u201cYou then have to distinguish between knowledge creation and business products. Knowledge creation is being two steps ahead of the market while businesses can only afford to be one step ahead. If a business becomes two steps ahead of the market, you are too early and nobody around understands your product, which will probably make you fail.\u201d\nFounder and CEO of PlumGrid\nTiming had a lot to do with the success or life Awais has had. The fact that there is \u2018a time for ideas to emerge\u2019 was a key lesson he learned when his first startup attempt in 2000 didn\u2019t go anywhere. Perhaps it was just a sign that he didn\u2019t know enough because his next startup developed a product that nobody else had, got acquired by one of the world\u2019s largest storage, communications and consumer semiconductor product companies. His present company, PLUMgrid is a venture-backed startup that has already raised more than $26 million and is one of the first to be in the network virtualization space.\nAwais completed his Matriculation from KulsoomBaiValika School, continued his studies at Government Degree College MalirCantt and graduated from NED University in 1995. It wasn\u2019t until 1997 that he ventured out to Silicon Valley to see firsthand what all the excitement was about. \u201cA lot of my friends had already gone to the Valley for work and since my father worked at an airline, I traveled there on one of the free tickets he would get.\u201d He interviewed with companies including Mentor Graphics, where he was offered a job and he converted his visit visa to a work visa.\n\u201cWhen you come from a middle class family, you don\u2019t have a lot of options to spend money to go abroad. If you\u2019re interested in making something of yourself, you attend the best schools available to you. If you\u2019re passionate about engineering, NED is it. Awais has been interested in engineering since he was a child. \u201cMy father is an engineer and I spent a lot of time opening up car engines with him and building Lego projects. I got my first computer when I was 10 years old, in 1983, so I was already programming in BASIC very early. Engineering was the only thing that made sense for me to pursue.\u201d\nAwais studied hard and got good grades, but what helped him more was his uncanny ability to be surrounded by people of diverse backgrounds. \u201cI would find myself sitting next to or being with people who were interested in being actors, doctors and other professions and that, I think, was great exposure to what else was out there.\u201d In case you haven\u2019t figured it out, the NED alumni is quite a close-knit one and tend to look out for one another. When Awais was coming to the Valley, there was someone from the network to pick him up, an apartment of another he could crash at and others he could take advice from and get the introductions to companies he could meet. \u201cTo this day, the network still exists where someone in the network opens the door so that one of us can make something of the opportunity.\u201d\nAwais always wanted to be in Silicon Valley and it wasn\u2019t an accident that he landed there. As class Valedictorian, he had a lot of offers from companies coupled with a fair amount of societal pressure. \u201cI really wanted to stay in the field of Research and Development within Engineering rather than just follow some mundane blueprint that was supposed to be my life. I wanted to build things from scratch and challenge the norm.\u201d His Final Year Project was a real time Operating System which caught the attention of a very small, startup-like company called Data Communications and Control (DCC).\nSameer Hoodbhoy founded DCC and ran an interesting setup of about 20 people doing hardcore RnD. They were designing PCB circuit boards with Motorola 68000 processors and writing code, and had a project where they needed somebody to do exactly what Awais and his group had built as their university project. The three worked at DCC for the next two years. \u201cIt was so different than the normal jobs everyone else was doing. We were inventing things and innovating and improving. It was like a little Silicon Valley culture smack in the middle of Karachi. \u201cBut two years of working there, I felt it was time to move on and do something in core RnD, a decision that was enthusiastically encouraged by Sameer. I mean, what kind of a boss says things like \u2018go make your mark\u2019 and \u2018 don\u2019t settle for anything less\u2019?\u201d\nBut getting into RnD was not as easy as Awais thought. \u201cYou need to come from a brand name school. If you are from Stanford or Berkeley, it\u2019s much easier to get into company as a junior software engineer. If you are from any other school, you always start as where in tech support or another business functions in a large organization. It was almost a counter-cultural because I had too much experience to join into a junior position, and didn\u2019t have experience to join anything senior. This made the interview experiences pretty horrible!\u201d\nFayyaz Hassan Gillani saw a great deal of potential in Awais and suggested he interview with him at Mentor Graphics. \u201cI wanted to design silicon and this looked like it fit well on my path.\u201d Awais studied for 15 days, passed the interview and joined Mentor Graphics as a Design Engineer. He joined the group that had actually designed the silicon to make USBs possible. \u201cFor me, that was really cool!\u201d Initially he started off just helping with design verification and gradually moved to designing chips until he got to the point where he would enhance functionality in the PCI cards. He finally had a starting point to his track record, had enrolled in Stanford for a few courses and moved onto Cisco Systems.\n\u201cThe person who interviewed me at Cisco was also a Stanford graduate and we had the same professor, so that helped.\u201d He joined Cisco without realizing how large the company was and or how extensive the scope of networking was. Unbeknownst to him, he was joining Cisco\u2019s flagship group, the Catalyst 6000 group. In 1998 and things were still in the design phase when Awais joined but it turned out to be a $4 billion product line for the corporation. Awais contributed to some of the products during the design phase and that\u2019s where his career development took its shape. \u201cThe 7 years I was part of an organization that was rapidly growing and we all grew with it.\u201d\nAwais\u2019s approach has always been to identify a goal and then figure out how to get there. \u201cI think that approach has always helped. I realize that there is a common as an \u2018entrepreneurial trait\u2019 which makes people resign from good jobs to go and identify a problem and figure it out, without necessarily having a plan. I have always been driven by my passion to do things differently.\u201d\nAwais may have been the second Pakistani to be part of that group. \u201cThere were actually a lot of Pakistanis in Cisco at the time but very few in RnD and lots more in tech support, network design or other functions. Over time I brought in multiple Pakistani friends who could contribute to what we were trying to build and there were probably more than a hundred or so by the time I left. \u201cYet another thing that was really great about Cisco was the number of people who could be mentors \u2013 if you wanted to learn something, there is always someone willing to talk to you and guide you through it, as long as you have the eagerness to learn and willingness to put in the time for it.\u201d\nSo Awais started off in RnD and ended up in a group that essentially took care of a lot of the acquisitions that Cisco Systems was making. The exposure and learning here was immense. He got the opportunity to look at technology from business perspective, learned how to manage people, interact with teams, picked up conversational dynamics, vendor relationship management, corporate development and how to manage and even build a business from ground up. A lot of the street smarts that NED had taught him, also helped.\nOnce his maturing interest in business had taught him what he needed to know, he left Cisco to be an entrepreneur.\nLiving on Hope\nAnd so, D5 Networks was established as a Startup. By this time, Awais also wanted to take advantage of the labor arbitrage that exists between Silicon Valley and Pakistan along with the sense of giving back to his roots. \u201cUnfortunately with the cost differential comes the talent arbitrage. The Pakistan office eventually didn\u2019t work out.\u201d More importantly, it was just not possible for such a young team of 5 guys to keep a remote office running. \u201cIn order to do so, you need a leader to manage the team and we were just unable to keep the team motivated enough to keep working.\u201d\nAnd there was no middle management to coordinate between Pakistan and the US work ethic. \u201cIt was 2005 and we were funding everything out of our own pockets so we didn\u2019t have enough to hire the right kind of people. We were trying to live on hope as opposed to living on dollars. It just wasn\u2019t done right.\u201d\nMeanwhile back in the US, the team devoted their time to developing a leading edge security technology that many of the large vendors needed and D5 Networks were the first ones who had it. Awais had been working on an IT Security standard for about 4 years while he was at Cisco when. \u201cAfter 9/11, IT Security and Cryptography were extremely hot topics. It was just a matter of time before the implementation of the standard on the silicon would happen.\u201d\nAwais had a professional relationship with a world-renowned cryptographer named David McGrew while at Cisco. McGrew would frequently come up with cryptography algorithms and give them to Awais to design, and many times Awais would reject the algorithm on the basis of the limitations of the hardware. \u201cI couldn\u2019t understand the mathematics behind his cryptography and he couldn\u2019t understand the technology constraints behind the implementation, but we had great respect for one another.\u201d And that diversity, exposure and mutual respect is what makes teams work.\nThe challenge McGrew had was coming up with an algorithm that had a multiplier that Awais could implement into the silicon without slowing it down. The back and forth yielded the discovery that you can use a Galois Field Multiplier, or a GF Multiplier, which is very easy to implement in hardware and mathematically has the same properties. \u201cThat was the breakthrough and David actually invented a mode called AES GCM, Advanced Encryption Standard Galois Counter Mode.\u201d\nBecause of the discovery of the methodology, it was possible now to encrypt traffic at hundreds of gigabits. Even though David McGrew invented the methodology, he was gracious enough to name Awais as a reviewer in the NIST Spec, a National Institute Standard Technology Specifications. That has led to the creation of 802.1AE Standard in Ethernet. Now that the discovery had been made and David\u2019s work was done, it was Awais\u2019s turn to figure out how to commercialize this for D5 Networks. \u201cWe ended up designing a custom chip and showed it to the market.\u201d\nMarvel made an acquisition offer to buy out D5 Networks along with the intellectual property rights to manufacture that chip a year after it was founded. Awais continued to develop the chip at Marvell Semiconductors as Vice President of Enterprise Business Unit in Communications and Consumer Business Group. Together, they grew their business from zero dollars to $70 million.\nTwo of the largest silicon providers for Networking are Broadcom and Marvell. Open up the Networking boxes of the large equipment providers like Cisco and you\u2019ll find chips from one of these two companies. Awais grew Marvell\u2019s business from $60 million to $300 million over the course of 4 years. Though details of the acquisition were never shared publicly, it was a win-win for both. \u201cMarvell added a business that eventually earned them $70M a year, and I learned to build a start up along with understanding how to grow a business.\u201d\nHe already knew what he wanted to do next and with the benefit of experience and hindsight, he went on to setup another company. \u201cThis time, I wanted to do it the right way from the beginning.\u201d\nYour people network is probably the most valuable network you will ever have, shares Awais. \u201cI have always stayed in touch with people from I have worked or studied with.\u201d Because an entrepreneur will often dabble into spaces that need a specific kind of profile, having a diverse network of people you can readily tap into, is essential. The four years at Marvell gave Awais a better understanding of what the future trends would be. \u201cI could already see a shift in the infrastructure where people don\u2019t want to buy hardware boxes from large companies anymore. They want to buy commodity servers and switches and run Open Source software on top of it. I saw the same trend in networking as well. These trends were just starting and I saw an opportunity to set up a business around the Cloud.\u201d\nAwais left Marvell in 2011 and shared the idea with an old friend and distinguished engineer at Cisco, Pere Monclus. \u201cPere is probably one of the most brilliant guys I have ever known. I told him I had an architecture in mind, and he agreed to meet up to see if they could figure it out.\u201d Awais and Pere started a company called PLUMgrid.\nWhat we are building is what is referred to as a virtual network Infrastructure As A Software. It\u2019s a new platform that allows the creation of these networks, routers, switches, load balancers and all those appliances and components that are needed in any data center as pieces of software. \u201cTraditionally if you need to install a router or any component, you have to buy a piece of hardware, a physical box, then go and install it in the data center. With us, you don\u2019t need to buy the hardware; you just buy our software and create the functionality entirely from the software. It is high performance, fully scalable, fully distributed and an entirely new way of doing networking. It\u2019s a new category. It just doesn\u2019t exist so we are inventing a new category of new products as we go along.\u201d\nThe biggest problem when you invent things is trying to figure out who your buyer is. \u201cIn our case, our customers are the people who are building cloud, who are in need of automation because their infrastructure cannot run or scale up without it. Companies Comcast who want to offer video-on-demand as a service. Can you imagine managing the millions of subscribers, millions of movies, moving content assets across and managing the contracts and licenses? All of this activity determines how the underlying network will be impacted. If the design and redesign is done manually, that will take a lot of time. If this network is automated, life can become simpler and services can be deployed much faster. Service providers need to provide the service and not worry about the technology. We provide the infrastructure.\u201d\nAwais is helping to determine what the next generation of things will look like, how enterprises will operate and perhaps even what the competitive landscape is going to look like. \u201cWhen we started virtual networking was at least 5 years ahead of its time. We just happen to one of the early ones to begin building in this space.\u201d A PhD professor runs their Pakistan operations from NUST, Ali Khayyam, and manages a team of more than thirty people. \u201cWe have been fortunate to have some brilliant people but we\u2019re always looking for more. There is a lot of work to be done.\u201d PLUMgrid\u2019s turning point was when AT&T tested and deployed PLUMgrid\u2019s solution. \u201cThe telecom service providers are mammoths and make changes very slowly. For them to be onboard with us was a huge testament to what we are trying to do.\u201d\nAt 41, Awais Nemat still has a long way to go and much more to achieve in what shape he wants the future to be, but it\u2019s a pretty good start. \u201cEducation is the fuel for innovation,\u201d he says. \u201cThe curiosity and the desire to question things is so incredibly important for the country to create scientists and engineers who can build things. And we desperately need more RnD coming out of the universities across the country. Without RnD, there will be no future.\u201d\nThese sentiments have been shared time and again by many entrepreneurs, but because of his expertise and experience in RnD and innovation, perhaps Awais sees what the lack of it will mean for an entire nation. This was a guy who started taking apart car engines with his father before he could write. He\u2019d definitely know.\nRelated Items:awais nemat, D5 Networks, featured, government degree college Malir Cantt, Kulsoom Bai Valika school, NED Alumni, NED grads in Silicon Valley, plumgrid, profiles, sameer hoodbhoy, Semiconductor companies in silicon valley, VC funded startups in silicon valley", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00240.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 127, + "original_length": 20530, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.98, + "perplexity": 226.0, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "https://theprogressivedemocrat.blog/about/", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T03:16:37Z", + "digest": "sha1:73N5JFFW2IBM7QODWHQM5IGT22TLVGMA", + "length": 3810, + "nlines": 5, + "source_domain": "theprogressivedemocrat.blog", + "title": "About \u2013 The Progressive Democrat", + "raw_content": "Contrary to the popular opinion of the country\u2019s political pundits, the Democrat Party is not dead nor hopelessly adrift. I have spent nearly 35 years of active involvement within many levels of the party. To be sure these are not the best of times for Democrats. However, it is not like we haven\u2019t been here before. The Democrat Party is still the best hope for those common, everyday Americans who go to work, raise families, coach Little League baseball teams, are Brownie Scout leaders, volunteer for their church potluck dinners, send their sons and daughters off to the military and into harm\u2019s way and provide a whole host of community involvements with rare acknowledgment or public recognition for most. These are the people. These are the people of this great nation. These are the people who have made this country what it is. These are the people, regardless of race, color, creed, culture or religion that make up this wonderful tapestry we call America. And these are the people public officials were elected to serve.\nIn a sense both Democrat and Republican leaders and public officials have lost their way. They have confused public service with an opportunity for personal gain. They see the act of governing as a polarized game of \u201cgotcha.\u201d They appear to cater more to the funders of their campaigns; the corporations, the special interest lobbyists and the financial secrecy of political action committees who provide the money for their election, re-election, self-preservation and political longevity. Which leaves many Americans just fed up with the whole business, which probably explains the low approval rate of members of Congress and public servants in general and at the low percentage of eligible voters who participate in our elections. It is my intent on the pages of this site to provide something much more than another diatribe of what\u2019s wrong with America. Preferably it is my purpose to provide possible solutions to the problems facing our great country.\nThat being said, there are certain realities that can\u2019t be glossed over with rhetoric. The nation has lost its credibility with our allies and foreign nations. The old demons of bigotry, discrimination and white supremacy have raised there ugly heads once again. A president who occupies the White House seems incapable of leadership and lacks a sense of moral clarity. Congressional members of the president\u2019s own party are reluctant to criticize him for fear of being rebuked by President Trump With some exceptions, most remain silent, especially those who are up for re-election in red states in 2018. To be fair, the major news outlets are drawn to the president\u2019s unpredictable antics and pronouncements. Gone are the days of Walter Cronkite, Barbara Walters and Tom Brokaw. Today\u2019s media establishment is all about viewer ratings and readership which ultimately effects the bottom line and the careers of these news persons. For all the president\u2019s belligerence towards the \u201cmainstream media\u201d, he should thank them every night for creating him in the first place! The country I fear is going to pay a great price for the election of the current administration.\nFinally, I would like to paraphrase Edmund Burke, the renowned Irish political theorist and philosopher, \u201cAll that is necessary for the triumph of evil is for good persons to do nothing.\u201d For me doing nothing is no longer an option. Again to quote Burke, \u201cNobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.\u201d This is my small attempt to offer solutions to our nation\u2019s problems and call out those who threaten to diminish our country and its people. I look forward to sharing my ideas and thoughts with those who visit this site and I will appreciate your comments.\nRespectfully submitted by C.F Scott \u2013 8/5/2017", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00240.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 27, + "original_length": 4898, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.97, + "perplexity": 204.8, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "https://thepublisheronline.com/defend-democracy-macron-urges-eu/", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T03:37:54Z", + "digest": "sha1:BMS2IQGFIOMVJ3QYVH7ZZ5KB2UJ6XQOL", + "length": 2120, + "nlines": 15, + "source_domain": "thepublisheronline.com", + "title": "Defend Democracy, Macron Urges EU \u2013 The Publisher Online", + "raw_content": "Defend Democracy, Macron Urges EU\nFrench President Emmanuel Macron has warned that \u201cthere seems to be a European civil war\u201d between liberal democracy and rising authoritarianism.\nHe urged the EU to renew its commitment to democracy, in a passionate speech to the European Parliament in Strasbourg.\n\u201cI don\u2019t want to belong to a generation of sleepwalkers that has forgotten its own past\u201d, he said, recalling how the EU arose after World War Two.\nHe is launching debates with voters, aimed at re-engaging them with the EU.\nIn his speech he condemned what he called \u201ca fascination with the illiberal\u201d in Europe.\nLast year Mr Macron and his new liberal party, La R\u00e9publique en Marche (LREM), triumphed in French elections with a strongly pro-EU platform.\nHis second-round rival in the presidential election was National Front (FN) leader Marine Le Pen, a nationalist and fierce critic of the EU.\nMr Macron was also hitting back at the Eurosceptics who drove the vote for Brexit in the UK.\nAs Brexit will leave a big hole in the EU budget he said there should no longer be budget rebates for some member states. He added that France was prepared to increase its contribution.\nPresident Macron used some memorable phrases as he sought to reinvigorate European democracy.\nThe divisions in Europe were like a \u201ccivil war\u2026 where there is an increasing fascination with illiberalism\u201d.\nAnd was he referring to Brexit when he said that, in response to problems, some proposed a yellow brick road, to take their people off on an adventure somewhere else?\nThere was some policy amongst the poetry \u2013 support for a temporary digital tax that could become permanent, a new fund for communities that take in migrants, copyright laws to protect European culture, and a call for a roadmap for eurozone reforms, which are controversial in Germany and northern Europe.\nMost striking was his heralding of a new generation that didn\u2019t experience World War Two and saw Europe in a different way. But will next year\u2019s elections for the European Parliament usher in a wave of MEPs who want to strengthen the EU, or to rip it apart? That\u2019s the test.", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00240.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 151, + "original_length": 5224, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.97, + "perplexity": 274.9, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "https://theravenbran.wordpress.com/category/equipment/page/2/", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T04:02:15Z", + "digest": "sha1:3FIV3QCC4I666GEKBP6IQXVBDKBDAODW", + "length": 3708, + "nlines": 10, + "source_domain": "theravenbran.wordpress.com", + "title": "Equipment \u00ab Adventures of Raven", + "raw_content": "So, with doing some extra work on Wednesday and staying after hours, I was able to garner Friday off! This turned into a near perfect riding day. I started off around 9:30 AM after not setting an alarm (so nice) and head across the river to get Raven\u2019s instrument panel replaced (recall). I showed up, and apparently the part was never ordered, even though I had set the appointment to bring it in that day to have it swapped. No biggie, the only thing wrong is the trip meter resets every time the bike is turned off and on.\nThis entry was posted in Day Trip, Equipment.\nGear Brake Smart Module \u2013 First Test w/ video\nA couple weeks ago I saw a post from a friend of mine who is working with a company that makes various after-market safety equipment for motorcycles. One of these is a smart braking module that plugs in to the wiring at the brake light. It is a small box that attaches to a flat, level surface on the motorcycle. It then plugs into the wiring at the brake light. What it does, in short, is the accelerometer detects when the throttle is released on the motorcycle (a distinct drop in speed) and turns on the brake light, flashing it for 2 seconds (6 flashes). Then, when you pull the brake lever, it again flashes for 2 seconds and then stays solid. This gives a nice early warning to any cars behind you that you are slowing down. There is also a non-flashing module as well.\nOn Raven, not me. Today, I received my top-case mounting rack. This marks the first real add-on I have gotten for the bike itself. So far, it has only been little things. It is an SW-Motech Aluminum Top Rack. As I need something anyway for attaching a rear carrier or bags. It also allows me to tie down other bags and such.\nAs it was my first major add-on, I was a little nervous taking the seat and pannier off along with the handles. Took me about an hour, but everything that came off, went back on, and in the right order. Everything is stable and tight. Can\u2019t wait to get to try it out!\nBelow are some photos!\nNo other way to put it. This case is massive. I tried the LifeProof Fre case, however it had nothing to protect the screen. Yes, it was water proof, but that screen hanging out alone while the phone is strapped onto a motorcycle just didn\u2019t have me feeling good. I needed something else. I looked for a while, and then, via a spam post on FaceBook, I found what I wanted, but was not willing to pay full price for. Lunatik Taktik Extreme. This thing is massive. Great shock protection and it is water resistant (good for rain, not meant to be submerged.) And it has Gorilla Glass screen protector built into the case. With an original price of $125, it is an expensive case. Even on their website, marked down to $75, it is still expensive. However, I got it for $16 +$5 for shipping from a website of overstock and such. Please contact me for the site.\nYesterday I completed the process of getting the license plate and registration sticker for Raven. She\u2019s now legal, and man, the plates look good. Kentucky is not really known to be very creative when it comes to license plate design. Neither for cars/trucks/vans or motorcycles. This one, however, is an exception. Besides, it is for a good cause. On my car, I have the plates for the \u201cFallen Officer\u2019s Fund.\u201d\nThese are some of the add ons I have either ordered or put on the bike. Each one has its own purpose. From the iPhone holder to the saddlebags. I am getting her geared for longer travels, which will require a few add ons, but not too many. Below is the list of items I feel are needed in order for me to make longer weekend and week+ trips. For an overnight, I have a nice backpack and dry bag already. Read the rest of this entry \u00bb", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00240.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 149, + "original_length": 6769, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.97, + "perplexity": 330.3, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "https://therealsouthkorea.wordpress.com/category/real-estate/", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T04:58:22Z", + "digest": "sha1:P5HSUJZX67BVMZ3U7ICG7OHM25TYUTPY", + "length": 1621, + "nlines": 13, + "source_domain": "therealsouthkorea.wordpress.com", + "title": "Real Estate | Korea Blog | Life in in Seoul Busan Hanguk", + "raw_content": "\u2018Korean real estate worth picking up\u2019\noriginally published here: http://www.koreaherald.co.kr/\nKorea is a good option for investors who are interested in the Asian real estate market, an executive from LaSalle Investment Management said yesterday. Continue reading \u2192\nFiled under Korea life, News, Opinions, Real Estate\nTagged as asian real estate market, korea office space, Korean real estate\nTop 10 Series from the Korea Times: Top Consumer Hits in Korea over the past 1/2 century\n10 Consumer Hits 1950-2007\nThe Korea Times, the nation\u2019s first English daily, turns 57 on Nov. 1. The TOP 10 Series will feature the biggest news stories, scandals, events, figures, surprises and memorable moments in the coming weeks, in celebration of the anniversary. The series will allow our readers to revisit these moments of the past. Current and former staff members of the oldest English daily selected the Top 10s through internal meetings, online surveys and advice from outside experts. If you have differing opinions, let us know by email (jhan@koreatimes.co.kr).\nFiled under Business, Food, Interesting..., Korea life, Lists, News, Real Estate, Statistics\nPeople loving the 10 worst cities post\u2026\nTypically, I have about 5 or so clicks to the top posts in my blog each for the top 3 or so\u2026without much of a difference between #1 through 5, but today, it seems people are really interested in the following post. It got 17 views vs. #2 at 2 views. Interesting\u2026.\nhttps://therealsouthkorea.wordpress.com/2007/11/06/i-love-these-lists-10-worst-cities-for-in-the-us/\nFiled under Interesting..., Lists, Random thoughts, Real Estate", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00240.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 533, + "original_length": 21779, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.91, + "perplexity": 319.5, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "https://therumpus.net/topics/for-marsha-p-johnson/", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T04:11:55Z", + "digest": "sha1:MUBQV6GAI7ZY4SLQJPBG6R7OFMWPDEZR", + "length": 497, + "nlines": 4, + "source_domain": "therumpus.net", + "title": "For Marsha P. Johnson - The Rumpus.net", + "raw_content": "Posts Tagged: For Marsha P. Johnson\nSupport the 7-inches for Planned Parenthood Project Today\nDon\u2019t miss this new series of 7-inch records and digital downloads to benefit Planned Parenthood!\nTags: 7-inches for Planned Parenthood, Allyson McCabe, Angela Pilgrim, bon iver, Bryce Dessner, For Marsha P. Johnson, Mitski, Planned Parenthood, reproductive rights, sarah silverman, sleater-kinney, The Death and Life of Marsha P. Johnson, the national, Tig Notaro, William Villalongo, Zach Galifianakis", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00240.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 70, + "original_length": 2047, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.68, + "perplexity": 259.3, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "https://thestillmanexchange.com/2017/03/26/father-of-ucla-star-causes-controversy-with-comments/", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T03:52:14Z", + "digest": "sha1:HV7JDK6HH6ZCUCGFP4ICPA35G6N7CE2W", + "length": 2683, + "nlines": 11, + "source_domain": "thestillmanexchange.com", + "title": "Father of UCLA Star Causes Controversy with Comments | The Stillman Exchange", + "raw_content": "Father of UCLA Star Causes Controversy with Comments\nMarch 26, 2017 \u00b7 by The Stillman Exchange\t\u00b7 in Sports.\t\u00b7\nThe father of UCLA men\u2019s basketball star Lonzo Ball, Lavar Ball is embroiled in multiple controversies stemming from comments he has made regarding his sons. He has three sons: Lonzo, a star freshman at ULCA, LaMelo and LiAngelo, who both play basketball at Chino Highs High School in California. Simply put, he does not think any basketball player is better than his sons are, and wants the best for them.\nRecently, talking to USA Today Sports, Ball said of a possible shoe deal, \u201cA billion dollars, it has to be there. That\u2019s our number, a billion, straight out the gate. And you don\u2019t even have to give it to me all up front. Give us $100 mil over 10 years.\u201d\nNot only has his comments lit up the basketball world, but also some media figures agreed with Ball sentiments. In addition, one of his supporters, Colin Cowherd, the host of the Fox Sports show, \u201cThe Herd\u201d explained why he likes Lonzo Ball\u2019s strategy.\nHe said, \u201cEverybody\u2019s laughing at him. But he created a brand called the \u2018Big Baller Brand.\u2019 And the motto of that company is, \u2018Built for this.\u2019 So I\u2019m going to give you the mottos of all the other four big brands in that space. Under Armour is, \u2018Protect this house.\u2019 Nike is, \u2018Just do it.\u2019 Adidas is, \u2018Impossible is nothing.\u2019 And Big Baller Brand is, \u2018Built for this.\u2019 Fits right in.\u201d\nOn the other hand, Ball\u2019s opponents says he is inserting unnecessary media attention on his sons, which can lead to negative effects later. Also, they warned that if Lonzo does not succeed in the NBA, he would take the responsibility for it.\nNot to mention, Tigers Woods\u2019 father, Earl faced similar issues as Ball when he promoted his son\u2019s prodigious golf skills. However, Woods became an all-time great racking up many championships and awards. Therefore, there might be a method to Ball madness, since if either of his sons became stars in the NBA he benefits. And, his Big Baller Brand (BBB) increases whenever he makes an appearance on television shows.\nUltimately, one has to question what sort of effect Ball\u2019s comments has on Lonzo as he looks to finish his freshman year strong, so he can make the jump to the NBA. He is projected to be a potential top-three draft pick in the year\u2019s upcoming draft, that several basketball analysts say it is the finest in years. Whether Ball is right or wrong, only time will tell. Regardless of his father\u2019s actions, Lonzo Ball is entertaining to watch as he seeks to lead the ULCA Bruins men\u2019s basketball team to NCAA tournament glory.\n\u2190 Yankees, Mets Make Improvements in Spring Training\nBusiness Culture: On a Lighter Note \u2192", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00240.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 110, + "original_length": 4775, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.97, + "perplexity": 302.1, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "https://theteam.xyz/peek-of-the-week-border/", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T03:41:01Z", + "digest": "sha1:OGPNAKWKU6FMOWXYEBRKZ6PYKJB6ZWA2", + "length": 1205, + "nlines": 9, + "source_domain": "theteam.xyz", + "title": "Peek of the Week: Border | The Team - Multi-gaming E-Sports", + "raw_content": "Welcome to our latest mini-series, Peek of the Week, where we show you walls and floors worth breaking. This week\u2019s peek is on Border and allows simple defense of the east stairs from the Valley spawn point.\nAs you can see, from the exterior, it\u2019s very difficult to see that anything is amiss. In fact, if you\u2019ve gotten this far, you\u2019re already in the enemy\u2019s sight line.\nThe defender sits on the stairs, peeking from under the railing. Depending on where you sit on the stairs, you can peek all heights a player can manage at that corner, with almost no exposure.\nThe peek is made by breaking the material under the railing on the stairs, and can be enhanced further by breaking the corresponding floor next to the railing from the other side.\nThe resulting peek lets you safely target any attackers on the corner as indicated above. It\u2019s worth noting that this particular peek spot may be patched in the future. Unfortunately it relies heavily on a slight modelling error on the bottom of the railing. As such, we\u2019re classing it as \u201cfilthy\u201d to use, but the more you know\u2026\nPrevious1v1 Tournament 17-12-2016 WINNER\nNextZip it\nzoKotel\ton 20th January 2017 at 16:22\nNice peek, what\u2019s in store for next week?", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00240.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 94, + "original_length": 2677, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.93, + "perplexity": 302.2, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "https://thewaterproject.org/community/projects/uganda/new-school-well-in-uganda-6022", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T03:23:31Z", + "digest": "sha1:7HAKBPEG53UA5RHQHY4PXY4WQDBPPIGL", + "length": 3951, + "nlines": 22, + "source_domain": "thewaterproject.org", + "title": "The Water Project: Uganda - Rushere Senior Secondary School", + "raw_content": "Rushere Senior Secondary School\nProgram: Wells for Schools - Uganda\nWells for Schools - Uganda\nEvery day, thousands of students head for class with no clean water. It simply can't be found.\nWithout access to water, education is almost impossible. Dirty water leads to a cycle of disease, missed school days, and high drop-out rates - especially for girls.\nBy helping build wells at schools, all of that changes. A simple investment in these wells can unlock the potential of every student by helping them stay healthy and freeing them to remain in class.\nProject Phase: Installed - Apr 2013\nFunctionality Status: Partner Monitoring Unavailable\nWell Depth: 157.00M\nThis project was to construct a new well for a school and surrounding community in Uganda. We did this through our partner, Living Water International, and in cooperation with another group called Attack Poverty. Upon completion of the project, our partner in the field reports\u2026\nA LWI Uganda team member stated, \u201cThere was a lot of controversy regarding the drill site location. The community members strongly disagreed with their elected chairman which ended by community members signing a vote of no confidence in their leader and getting their way. This was a great sign of democracy working in this community as the chairman was working purely in his own selfish interests.\u201d When the team arrived, community members were utilizing an unprotected spring located .045 of a kilometer away from the community to meet all of their water needs. Because of this, families were suffering from dysentery and typhoid. The LWI Uganda team was pleased to learn of the community\u2019s use of a covered pit latrine as this will help prevent further spread of disease in the area. During the team\u2019s stay, community members assembled a water committee consisting of five men and five women who assisted the team with the water project whenever possible and provided meals for the team. This water committee is also responsible for collecting 100 shillings ($0.04 USD) per student per term. Most residents are of Catholic or Protestant faith and earn a living by subsistence farming mainly beef and dairy cattle. There are a few who teach at the local secondary school. Before leaving the community, the team provided community member, Nuwagira Yosam, with a LWI Uganda contact number in case their well were to fall into disrepair, become subject to vandalism or theft.\nThe LWI Uganda team had an opportunity to meet with thirty-six year old community member and head teacher, John,Kaitare, who stated, \u201cIn Nyabushozi we have almost everything apart from water; water is the big problem and I don\u2019t know how you knew about this need but I believe God led you here. We have struggled to get teachers from different areas because they know that we don\u2019t have water and so many have come and eventually left because of water scarcity. People who did not grow up here cannot take this dam water, but we thank God who has brought LWI to come and rescue us. In life it\u2019s good to walk the talk. But for us as teachers we have not been walking our talk because we have been searching that stagnant water is not safe for human consumption and yet we tell the students to go to fetch stagnant water for use. My hope is, now that I have water I know for sure that we are going to get more students.\u201d\n04/29/2013: Rushere Senior Secondary School Project Complete\nWe are excited to report that the students of Rushere Senior Secondary School and their families in the surrounding community now have access to safe, clean water! We just posted a report from our partner in the field detailing the well that we just constructed. The report includes information about the community, GPS coordinates, and pictures of the project.\nProject Underwriter - G2 Foundation/Scott Bonnema\nPaul and Caryn Koenig\nTwincrest Inc.\nMrs. Scifres 6th Grade Class\nThe Super Turners\nFriendsPack\nThe Bare Essentials...\n92 individual donor(s)", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00240.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 218, + "original_length": 12505, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.98, + "perplexity": 331.2, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "https://thewaysofmyheart.com/2015/09/08/seeking-affirmation/", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T03:17:03Z", + "digest": "sha1:5Q6N44DF7PT7CNK5BFHCYZLAKV3SWXXF", + "length": 3759, + "nlines": 12, + "source_domain": "thewaysofmyheart.com", + "title": "Seeking Affirmation | The Ways of My Heart", + "raw_content": "Seeking Affirmation\nSeptember 8, 2015 September 8, 2015 ~ Keisha J.\nIt is always nice to hear someone you know complimenting you on your beauty, intelligence, and overall, someone who is supportive about the decisions you make in your life, but that is just the thing\u2026it is your life. Why must you always need to hear from someone else how well you are doing or just how special you are? Is it because you do not know how special you are or maybe it is because you think of yourself as less than and need someone else or other people to affirm your actions? After all, affirmations and compliments are not the same thing.\nReceiving compliments are, at times, just what you need to get through your day or put a smile on your face, especially when they are unexpected. However when you seek for affirmation, it is as if you live a life of uncertainty about yourself. If you ever feel as if you are hunting for any and every praise and accolade from someone else for what you do or how you present yourself, then I am writing to assure you, you are looking in the wrong place. No one on this earth can give you the confidence, reassurance, or a feeling of happiness like you can give yourself.\nAs a young woman, I had the experience of looking for all of those things from other people. I needed others to validate that I was making the right decisions or that my appearance was deemed acceptable. Sometimes, I believe we are often caught up in what others think and value their opinions more than our very own, which is a trap that we often fall victim to. However, I had to realize that there was a difference between simply asking for an opinion and seeking validation. If you think about it, people can only offer their opinions about you. How can their opinions be what defines you? We are already aware that all people are not honest, trustworthy, and to be quite frank, have issues of their own. People cannot always assess what you are doing clearly because of their convoluted lives. Instead of always trusting others\u2019 opinions, you may have to do some self-reflecting and ask yourself if you want to base your life and your perception of yourself solely on others\u2019 perspective.\nNonetheless, it is nothing wrong with asking for advice or accepting compliments. Sometimes you need that second opinion or you need to hear something positive about yourself every now and again, but basing your decisions about how you operate in your own life on someone else\u2019s perspective negates the fact that you are a unique individual and that you have been equipped with everything you need to be confident, intelligent, and successful. Even if you currently do not believe this about yourself, give yourself your own compliments, write down what makes you unique, and repeat those to yourself. Think of something about you that you love and something that you want to work on so you will be able to love in the future and continue from there.\nYou will notice that it is a process, but you end up learning more about yourself and seeking less affirmations from others. Once you are able to seek what you need within yourself, you will not always feel reassured when someone compliments you or seems to be supportive with your decisions because you already know, that you are fearfully and wonderfully made.\n< Previous Accepting Your Truth\nNext > Draw the Circle: The 40 Day Prayer Challenge by Mark Patterson\n2 thoughts on \u201cSeeking Affirmation\u201d\nThis is just what I needed to read. I randomly found your page and I think I will visit regularly. This was very well written and has a lot of truth.\nThank you! I really would appreciate your support and thank you for commenting. I hope you will continue to read and share and more importantly, feel inspired in some way.", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00240.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 114, + "original_length": 6238, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.98, + "perplexity": 301.2, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "https://thewildwood.wordpress.com/2009/12/06/rip-jack-rose/", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T03:12:24Z", + "digest": "sha1:KWYN4BRGCSE5QSLWV5WKZ632YOYP3JUU", + "length": 801, + "nlines": 7, + "source_domain": "thewildwood.wordpress.com", + "title": "RIP Jack Rose | Wildwood", + "raw_content": "This is a real sad. Sad the write up in NYTimes.\nI just spent half an hour following youtube clips of him and then moved on to Fahey. Beautiful music. And makes me want to grow my beard out longer.\nComment by Josh December 11, 2009 @ 2:11 am\n[\u2026] Do The Things That We Used to Do is a live recording of the two American Primitive guitar artists, Jack Rose and Glenn Jones. The film which was released last year captures the pair playing several duets and [\u2026]\nPingback by The Things that We Used to Do \u00ab Wildwood November 14, 2010 @ 8:32 pm\n[\u2026] the spirit of John Fahey and carrying the recently dimmed torch of Jack Rose comes Daniel Bachman, an acoustic guitar player from the from our home state (the great [\u2026]\nPingback by Daniel Bachman\u2019s Psychedelic Appalachia \u00ab Wildwood November 7, 2012 @ 7:43 pm", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00240.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 174, + "original_length": 3919, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.95, + "perplexity": 278.1, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "https://thideology.wordpress.com/2013/03/", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T03:20:59Z", + "digest": "sha1:5GJFE3BXLUPXZU5LCJM2J4DTYKKVF4FC", + "length": 11012, + "nlines": 54, + "source_domain": "thideology.wordpress.com", + "title": "March | 2013 | Thideology\u2122", + "raw_content": "A prisoner of\u2026\nDuring the reign of King Louis XIV in France, Marie Durand was imprisoned. She remained in prison for 38 years \u2014 and died there.\nA steadfast faith in the Lord Jesus Christ.\nAll of which begs a few questions:\nOf whom was Marie Durand really a prisoner? King Louis XIV or King Jesus?\nTherefore do not be ashamed of the testimony about our Lord, nor of me HIS prisoner, but share in suffering for the gospel by the power of God, who saved us and called us to a holy calling, not because of our works but because of his own purpose and grace, which he gave us in Christ Jesus before the ages began, and which now has been manifested through the appearing of our Savior Christ Jesus, who abolished death and brought life and immortality to light through the gospel, for which I was appointed a preacher and apostle and teacher, which is why I suffer as I do. \u2014 2 Timothy 1:8-12\nDo you have her kind of faith?\nFiled under Calvinism, Christianity, evangelism, Higher Law, Law, libertarian, libertarianism, liberty, politics, Reformed theology, religion, State worship, statism, theology\nNote: I haven\u2019t yet read David Platt\u2019s new book, \u201cFollow Me,\u201d but, based on what I\u2019ve seen of Platt through his Secret Church videos and his previous books, I suspect it will be a convicting read. One thing I DO know, the theology in this promotional video is convicting enough \u2014 and absolutely accurate\u2026\nIs Jeremiah 29:11 a promise for us?\nWhether or not homosexual marriage should be legalized in the United States is one issue that just will not go away. It continues to be an epic fight with battle lines (apparently) clearly drawn\u2026\nIn this corner, representing \u201cfairness,\u201d \u201cprogressive ideas,\u201d and the \u201cfull rights of citizenship for all,\u201d the ADVOCATES OF LEGALIZING HOMOSEXUAL MARRIAGE!\nAnd in the other corner, standing tall for \u201ctraditional values,\u201d \u201cthe sanctity of marriage,\u201d and a \u201cbiblical worldview,\u201d the CHAMPIONS OF TRADITIONAL MARRIAGE!\nThe first side is working tirelessly for the legalization of homosexual marriage everywhere. The other side is fighting hard to make sure that the only legally recognized marriage in the United States remains the marriage between one man and one woman.\nAnd, if you happen to find yourself in a discussion on the topic, you should be prepared for a couple of things:\nIf there are people in the discussion who have opposing views on the matter, the discussion will likely digress into an argument.\nYou may be asked which side of the issue you are on \u2014 and the choices offered to you will likely be one of the two outlined above.\nBut, I would like to offer a third alternative. You see, I am standing firmly in a neutral corner. Don\u2019t misunderstand me, now. I stand firmly with the Scriptural teaching concerning the sinfulness of homosexuality and the definition of marriage. But, if you look closely at this bout, you will see the sinfulness of homosexuality and the biblical definition of marriage are really not the issues. What is at issue is how the state will ultimately rule on the matter \u2014 as if their decree will decide anything.\nI think Christians who are engaged in this fight are making a terrible mistake. Not for standing up for what the Bible clearly says about homosexuality or marriage, but for arguing theological points with politicians. To argue theology with them is to miss a much larger point. It\u2019s also an implied acceptance of a premise we ought to reject outright.\nFighting this battle in its current context assumes that the state has the authority to define what is and is not marriage \u2014 and it does not.\nMarriage was instituted by God. He created it. He defines it. The state has no more authority to define marriage than it does to define salvation. The matters are just not open to debate. God has spoken. It is settled.\nDon\u2019t fall prey to the erroneous notion that something is morally or ethically right merely because it has been passed into law. All sorts of morally repugnant things are laws:\nAbortion is legal is many parts of the world.\nIn China married couples are legally prohibited from having more than one child.\nLikewise, many legitimate activities have been criminalized:\nIn many parts of the United States, if you own a milk cow it is illegal for you to consume the raw milk it produces.\nYou can even be fined for cutting someone\u2019s hair without a license.\nSo whether or not something is legal is a very poor indicator of its inherent rightness. Never forget, God is Lord of the Law, too. And, with that in mind, I really could not care less whether or not any state recognizes my marriage to my wife. It\u2019s not open to their scrutiny. What matters is whether or not God recognizes our marriage. Do our brothers and sisters in Christ see our marriage as consistent with Scripture? Did our church authorize our union? These are the things that matter. I\u2019ve always wondered why marriage licenses even exist. Marriage does not belong to the state so why does the state need to issue permission in the form of a license to anyone? It\u2019s ridiculous.\nMost Christians would agree that the issue of salvation is a more important theological issue than same-sex marriages. We don\u2019t have state licenses for salvation. The state does not recognize anyone\u2019s conversion. Why not? Because, it\u2019s none of their business.\nFiled under Apologetics, biblical marriage, Calvinism, Christianity, Higher Law, ideology, Law, libertarian, libertarianism, liberty, marriage, politics, Reformed theology, religion, theology\nAccording to His purpose (updated)\nNOTE: Last month I posted an essay entitled \u201cAccording to His purpose.\u201d In it I outlined how God has orchestrated world events (even bad ones) in ways that have opened doors to the spread of the Gospel. I provided as my example how God has given the vast majority of the world at least one shared cultural experience that can be used to bridge the political, national, ethnic and language barriers that divide us. That shared cultural experience is soccer. I concluded the essay with a challenge to believers to find where God is working and join him there.\nOne organization was WAY ahead of me on this. The people who produce The Mission Ball have already been \u201cusing the world\u2019s most popular sport to share the world\u2019s most important message\u201d by producing a soccer ball with the Gospel printed on it (in 21 different languages so far). I am reposting my essay in it\u2019s entirety. Only this time, I\u2019m including a video about The Mission Ball and some links to their organization. So, once again, here is my essay entitled, \u201cAccording to His purpose\u201d\u2026\nAnd, if you want to join with other believers who have already joined God in utilizing the avenues He has provided, you might want to consider joining the folks who produce The Mission Ball\u2026\nTo learn more about the ball go here.\nTo read the text printed on The Mission Ball go here.\nTo support this ministry or purchase a Mission Ball go here.\nThings that divide us (and unite us)\nImmediately before Jesus ascended into heaven he spoke with his apostles. Remember, they had witnessed his death, burial and resurrection. They had sat under his teaching and watched him perform miracles. They knew who Jesus was. And so, they had an opportunity here, right before he returned to heaven, to ask him pretty much anything. According to Acts 1:6 this is what they asked\u2026\n\u201cLord, will you at this time restore the kingdom to Israel?\u201d \u2014 Acts 1:6b\nYou may recall that prior to Christ\u2019s coming many Jews expected the Messiah to be a military and political leader who would throw off Roman rule in Israel. They were looking for someone to restore the kingdom of Israel to the status it had enjoyed under kings David and Solomon. But, of course, this was never God\u2019s plan. One would think the apostles, above all others, would get this by now. But they don\u2019t. Even after everything that has happened they are still wondering if the moment has finally come when Jesus will restore Israel.\nBefore we get too frustrated with the apostles, perhaps a little perspective is in order. Here goes\u2026\nOur world is divided. This fact should be clearly evident. Just pay attention to the news every once in a while \u2014 or just step outside and look \u2014 the evidence is everywhere. We have different nationalities, ethnicities, and languages. And, because man is fallen and hopelessly corrupted by sin, it inevitably follows that our pride converts these differences into deep divisions\u2026\n\u201cMy (country, language, culture, philosophy, race) is the greatest one in the world.\u201d\nOur hubris takes this notion a step further\u2026\n\u201cSurely God is more concerned with my (country, language, culture, philosophy, race) than he is with others, because he has clearly blessed my (country, language, culture, philosophy, race) more than others.\nThis sad, sin-corrupted, way of thinking has always plagued man. That is why the apostles were still thinking about their earthly kingdom of Israel, when Jesus was teaching them about the Kingdom of God. Note Jesus\u2019 response to their question\u2026\nHe said to them, \u201cIt is not for you to know times or seasons that the Father has fixed by his own authority. But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you, and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the end of the earth.\u201d \u2014 Acts 1:7-8\nTheir mission was not to defeat the Romans and reestablish the kingdom of Israel. It was to spread the only message that has the power to cure men from their perverted thinking \u2014 to free them from their bondage to a sin-corrupted worldview. Their message was to spread the Gospel \u2014 not only to their own countrymen, but to every single nation, ethnic group and language group in the entire world.\nThe apostles were still thinking in terms of earthly kingdoms and all the divisions they imply. They wanted their kingdom restored. Yet, God was (and is) in the process of establishing quite a different Kingdom \u2014 one that bridges the chasms between nations, ethnic groups, and languages. His Kingdom transcends all of these things. God\u2019s Word even provides us with a glimpse of how this works out. The apostle John, writing under the inspiration of the Holy Spirit, recorded a vision he was granted of heaven.\n\u201cWorthy is the Lamb who was slain, to receive power and wealth and wisdom and might and honor and glory and blessing!\u201d\nAnd the four living creatures said, \u201cAmen!\u201d and the elders fell down and worshiped. \u2014 Revelation 5\nThe apostles did not yet have this kind of Kingdom perspective. You can almost understand how they kept missing the point. We, on the other hand, have the benefit of John\u2019s vision. We\u2019ve been granted a Kingdom perspective. And, if we end up focusing on our own little worldly kingdom and spending all of our time asking God when he is finally going to restore our earthly kingdom to its former glory, then aren\u2019t we more to blame than the apostles?\nFiled under Apologetics, Calvinism, Christianity, evangelism, Higher Law, Missions, politics, religion, State worship, statism, theology", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00240.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 451, + "original_length": 29225, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.97, + "perplexity": 280.7, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "https://thinkinggirl.wordpress.com/2006/01/09/10-million-missing-girls-in-india-and-the-medicalization-of-pregnancy/", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T03:37:41Z", + "digest": "sha1:X3ROM2YUQBUVDEND2RFTK6RTYAUTUF74", + "length": 7890, + "nlines": 16, + "source_domain": "thinkinggirl.wordpress.com", + "title": "10 million missing girls in India, and the medicalization of pregnancy | Thinking Girl", + "raw_content": "tales out of school \u00bb\nIn Calgary, you can\u2019t find out the sex of the baby\u2026.can only make guesses on what you observe from the Ultrasound\u2026.\non January 9, 2006 at 2:29 pm Angel\nYou can\u2019t find out the sex of the foetus in Halifax either. The killing of female and disabled foetuses/babies has long gone on prior to the invention of the ultrasound. The China of Mao\u2019s time established the one child per family law that is still in effect today to ensure, in theory, the ability of the state to adequately provide goods and services to a population that wasn\u2019t growing exponentially, or at least growing so quickly exponentially. Similar to India, preference is placed on the male and the fully abled bodied and thus, prior to the technology of the ultrasound, girl babies and disabled babies were killed shortly after they were born to allow families to have just one healthy golden boy baby. I have read feminist, biological and religious literature discussing when a foetus actually is a person and one argument is that a foetus is not a person when it lives inside a women. A person is that which is born of the woman and is (usually) able to exist outside of her body. Personally, having the same sorts of options my female ancestors would have had in rural India, I would prefer knowing the sex of the foetus and if it were \u201chealthy\u201d before it was born. Given that I probably wouldn\u2019t have had the option to freely decide what I did with that knowledge at least I can reduce the \u201cstressors\u201d of pregnancy sooner rather than later, and also possibly reduce pain and suffering to a foetus/baby depending on its stage of development.\nIt\u2019s very unfortunate that both the gender able to gestate and thus, continue future generations of our species has been historically treated like crap by the other gender, and that it is in part due to the unique differences that make two \u201cbiological\u201d genders that women have and continue to be oppressed worldwide, with few exceptions. However, the desire to reproduce is an innate characteristic to our species whether or not it is exhibited in every individual regardless of gender. Up until advances in reproductive medicine women, not men, are afforded the ability to allow for a species to continue. Even at the genetic level, it is the ova that carries a plethora of information, alleles and proteins that are necessary for a viable foetus while the sperm, carries only the genes for maleness and little else crucial for growth and development. Some women\u2019s bodies, and not society alone, may compel them to want to reproduce including the willingness to put themselves (and in some cases their female partners) through a number of invasive procedures in order to conceive. It is something inherent in many of us, and in all life that has allowed species to persist through the process of natural selection. I am hearing that you identify with what you might consider the minority of women who do not have this inherent drive to have children or be mothers. While of course, fertility and reproductive issues are not entirely biological I am suggesting that the reason why women reproduce and want to, even if it means only reproducing males, is at least in part due to our genetic make up and necessary for humanity\u2019s continued existence. In fact, that there are fewer women who do not have this inherent drive to become mothers could be evidence of natural selection. For if these women were a majority perhaps it would mean the near end of our species.\nnor can you find out the sex of a fetus in BC.\nThere are basically three philosophical views regarding when personhood takes hold. The conservative view (held by many religious groups, including Catholicism) is that a person is a person from the moment of conception, and is deserving of human rights to life and protection of life. This means no abortion. The liberal/libertarian view is that a person is a person from the moment of birth, and has no rights up until birth (in fact, some radical libertarians hold that even infants and small children should not be afforded moral rights, because they are still dependent on a caregiver for sustenance and cannot make moral decisions). This means abortion at any stage of pregnancy is permitted. The third position is more moderate: according to biology, a fetus becomes sentient (able to experience pain and pleasure) at roughly 17-20 weeks. This is the point where the fetus should be accorded moral consideration, and that consideration develops as the fetus develops. Therefore, a fetus at 28 weeks would be given more consideration morally than a fetus at 20 weeks. However, the developing rights of the fetus are never given more weight than those of the pregnant woman; because she is a full moral agent, if her choice is to terminate the pregnancy, she may do so, but moral consideration should be given to the fetus; usually this means late-term abortion is supported only in cases where the woman\u2019s life is in jeopardy (self-defense) or if the fetus is found to be \u201cdefective\u201d (euthanasia). This permits abortion up until the time of sentience \u2013 around 17 weeks \u2013 except in the cases mentioned. (A variation on the moderate view does not allow personhood until the fetus is viable \u2013 likely to survive \u201con its own\u201d outside the womb.) I personally support the moderate third position, and it is the common practice for providing abortion in Canada.\nyes, it\u2019s certainly true that I do not have a desire to propogate the species. It\u2019s good that some people do, whatever their reasons and influences. Otherwise, as Angel points out, it could very well spell trouble for the human race. (it\u2019s a dirty job, but somebody\u2019s gotta do it!) I think there is a biological drive in place that propels people into propogation, but there is no denying there is also a huge amount of societal pressure to do so. I would even argue (tentatively, as I am no biologist) that the societal pressures are more explicit and numerous than those presented by biology. If it is so natural for women to want to have children and raise them, why does society hit us over the head with it so often and in so many different ways, from maternity leave to tax credits to lower pay for women to the overt disrespect society shows women who do choose not to have children?\nIn any case, I think the two drives, biological and social, are inextricably woven, and so much of societal pressure for women to have babies has been naturalized, it\u2019s difficult to tell which is more persuasive. I wish that women who do feel a strong desire to become mothers didn\u2019t have to go through so much when they have fertility problems. I betcha if infirtile men had to have sperm extracted from their penises with a long syringe in order to have a baby, there wouldn\u2019t be too many willing to do it.\non January 22, 2006 at 2:51 pm uglygirl\nin india too in the light of what technology can do to female foetus, finding out the sex of the unborn baby has been made illegal.\noh! and there are villages where there are no young girls\u2026.at all, so brides for the sons have to be kidnapped from neighbouring villages\u2014-1\nor one wife serves as a wife for all the brothers\u2014\u20132\nor of course, fathers with daughters sell the girl to the highest bider\u2014\u20143\nthese are not hypothetical situations\u2026.they are for real.\nyikes!!!! thanks for pointing out these situations that are occurring in India as a result of what seems like a technology that gives women \u201cchoice\u201d regarding the type of child they want to bring into the world. Reproductive freedom is meant to allow women the chance to avoid or delay childbearing, and the burden of raising a child who is disabled in some way. It isn\u2019t meant to sweep a whole generation of girls under the rug and into situations that further compromise their personal freedom and autonomy. It isn\u2019t meant to contribute to an overarching situation of oppression! How sad.", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00240.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 133, + "original_length": 16285, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.97, + "perplexity": 239.9, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "https://thinmanpress.com/news-blog/a-futurist-christmas-party/", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T04:28:48Z", + "digest": "sha1:WCRNU77KMVKSUAT4XKCFE5JNKJBT2FDV", + "length": 1052, + "nlines": 2, + "source_domain": "thinmanpress.com", + "title": "A Futurist Christmas Party | Thin Man Press", + "raw_content": "This is an extract from Susan de Muth\u2019s translation of Elsa Triolet\u2019s Mayakovsky: Russian Poet which you can order, in the first edition, for just \u00a38 here\nI went to Lili\u2019s nearly every holiday. In 1915 there was a Christmas Eve party and she had a Futurist Christmas tree. They\u2019d covered the walls of their apartment with bed sheets for the occasion and the tree was hanging upside down from the ceiling. When the candles on it were lit, it looked like a beautiful green candelabrum, twinkling with angel hair and glass trinkets\u2026 the whole idea was that nothing would be everyday. The guests wore costumes and lots of make-up so that they wouldn\u2019t look how they usually did\u2026 the Futurist poet Vassili Kamesnki, Mayakovsky\u2019s companion since the very first Futurist battles, was there \u2013 an extremely blond boy with the blue eyes of a sea-captain and the flabby moth of a liar. He had his eyebrows a magnificent blue and drawings on his face to match \u2013 a little bird adorned his cheek. 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Little did the Stratham, N.H., couple know that this moment at their breakfast table would lead them to adopt a 6-year-old boy from Ethiopia whose desperately poor parents could not support all their children. Neither could they predict that, seven years later, their adopted son would develop a life-threatening blood disorder connecting his adopted family and birth family for a stem cell transplant to offer him the best chance of cure.\nBehaylu Barry has severe aplastic anemia, a bone marrow failure syndrome that prevents his marrow from producing the red blood cells that carry oxygen, the white blood cells that fight infection and the platelets that promote clotting. He was diagnosed in February after suddenly suffering nosebleeds and extreme fatigue, never making it to the first practice of the competitive soccer team that had just selected him.\nHad Behaylu developed the condition in his Ethiopian village, odds are he would not have survived\u2014 either because he would have succumbed to infection or bleeding before being diagnosed or because treatment was unavailable. Instead, in April, two of his five African siblings left their village for the first time, boarded their first airplane, and traveled to New England, where one would donate bone marrow and both would excitedly take their first hot showers.\nBehaylu\u2019s physicians at Dana-Farber/Boston Children\u2019s Cancer and Blood Disorders Center \u2013 Leslie Lehmann, MD, clinical director of the Stem Cell Transplant Center, and Colin Sieff, MB, BCh, director of the Bone Marrow Failure Program \u2013 initially assumed it would be impossible to connect with the family of a boy adopted from an African orphanage. However, Barry and Kobayashi, who also have three adult biological children, maintain a relationship with their adopted son\u2019s biological family. They\u2019ve been paying for the education and health care of Behaylu\u2019s siblings in Ethiopia. Two years ago, they took Behaylu to visit his family there. So when doctors said a matched sibling donor would offer Behaylu the best treatment option, his parents sent DNA swabs to his family in Africa via a representative of an Ethiopian charity they support.\n\u201cWe thought Behaylu\u2019s family needed our support,\u201d says Kobayashi. \u201cWho knew we\u2019d end up needing them? It\u2019s a miracle.\u201d\nHealthy bone marrow (left) and bone marrow failure (right)\nWhen a matched sibling donor is available, Lehmann says, transplant is the first line of treatment for severe aplastic anemia because the chances of success top 90 percent. \u201cThis family moved heaven and earth to get the siblings here quickly,\u201d she says.\nAfter determining that Behaylu\u2019s 9-year-old sister, Eden, and 16-year-old brother, Rediat, were equally healthy, clinicians decided that Rediat, being the larger sibling, would make the best donor. On May 12, doctors took Rediat to the operating room where some of his bone marrow was aspirated from his hip bones. Later that day, Behaylu, who had undergone five days of chemotherapy to prepare his bone marrow to receive Rediat\u2019s stem cells, had his brother\u2019s cells transfused into his bloodstream via a bag hung on his IV pole.\nIf a matched sibling donor had not been available, doctors would have treated Behaylu with transfusions and a combination of medications, which, Sieff says, lead to a remission in 70 percent of cases but cannot cure the disease. If this treatment fails, the next step would have been to find an unrelated donor, which is less successful than a matched sibling donor transplant, although results continue to improve. For patients like Behaylu, finding an unrelated donor is daunting because the bone marrow registry overwhelmingly contains samples from people of European descent.\nMeanwhile, Behaylu will remain hospitalized until mid-June, then return home for six months of relative isolation to allow his new cells to take hold. \u201cWe should be able to offer him a true cure,\u201d Lehmann says.\n\u201cI\u2019ll be able to do stuff again, like sports,\u201d says Behaylu.\nThe soccer team is holding his place.\nA look back: Our most popular stories of 2018\nAs 2018 comes to a close, we\u2019re taking a look back at some of our most popular stories from the ...", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00240.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 83, + "original_length": 6623, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.97, + "perplexity": 311.3, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "https://thriving.childrenshospital.org/warning-signs-for-identifying-teen-dating-violence/", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T04:20:19Z", + "digest": "sha1:BSPH72VW7U4CHHJGBPEGGN67AKPTCDDZ", + "length": 4566, + "nlines": 34, + "source_domain": "thriving.childrenshospital.org", + "title": "Warning signs for identifying teen dating violence - Thriving Blog", + "raw_content": "Warning signs for identifying teen dating violence\nPosted in Kids' Safety, Parenting, Teen Health\nMore On: bullying, dating violence and teenagers, healthy vs. unhealthy relationships, Media & marketing, Self esteem & body image, Sexuality, Societal Issues, Teen dating violence, Teen health, Texting & cellphones, warning signs your teen may be in an abusive relationship\nThe suburb of Wayland, MA, was stripped of its quiet, small town image this week when an 18-year-old resident was found violently murdered in a local marsh. The suspected killer is another 18-year-old Wayland resident, and the victim\u2019s former boyfriend.\n\u201cI did know [the victim] and the alleged assailant, and people are very, very sad and confused,\u201d Wayland High Principal Pat Tutwiler told the Boston Herald. \u201cI would say that there\u2019s no such thing as a community where things like this don\u2019t happen.\u201d\nUnfortunately, Principal Tutwiler\u2019s quote is frighteningly accurate. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, one out of every ten teenagers has experienced some form of dating violence.\nWith such high incidence of dating violence among young people, it\u2019s very possible your child or someone they know is in an unhealthy relationship. To help keep teens safe, here are some important dating violence safety tips and facts for parents and teenagers from the Massachusetts Medical Society and Children\u2019s Hospital Boston\u2019s Center for Young Women\u2019s Health.\nDoes your teenager seem anxious, or dangerously preoccupied with the person she is dating? It could be the signs of an unhealthy relationship.\nWarning signs for parents that your teen may be a victim of dating violence\nTeenagers can be a moody bunch. Sudden changes in attitude or behavior could be a normal part of development, or could indicate an unhealthy relationship. If you suspect the latter, here are some behaviors to be on the look out for:\nFailing grades or dropping out of school activities.\nAvoiding friends.\nDifficulty making decisions.\nSudden changes in mood or personality, becoming anxious or depressed, acting out, being secretive.\nBruises, scratches, or other injuries.\nChanges in eating or sleeping habits, avoiding eye contact, having \u2018crying jags\u2019 or getting \u2018hysterical.\u2019\nConstantly thinking about dating partner.\nUsing alcohol or drugs.\nPregnancy \u2013 some teenagers believe that having a baby will help make things better; some girls are forced to have sex.\nWarning signs for teens that they may be in an unhealthy relationship. Unwanted physical contact, in any form, is abuse. But hitting and shoving aren\u2019t the only forms of abuse; there are many ways in which a relationship can go from healthy to unhealthy. Here are a few warning signs to be aware of.\nYour friend or the person you are dating:\nIs jealous or possessive of you\u2014he or she gets angry when you talk or hang out with other friends, or people of the opposite sex.\nBosses you around, makes all the decisions, tells you what to do\nAside from the dangers of physical abuse, unhealthy relationships can take an emotional toll as well\nTells you what or what not to wear, who you can or can\u2019t talk to, where you can or can\u2019t go\nIs violent with other people, gets in fights a lot, loses his/her temper a lot\nPressures you to do something sexual that you don\u2019t want to do\nSwears at you, or uses mean, degrading language when talking to you\nBlames you for his or her problems, or tells you that it\u2019s your fault that he or she hurt you\nInsults you or tries to embarrass you in front of other people\nMakes you feel scared of their reactions to things, feeling like you are \u201cwalking on eggshells\u201d and worrying that anything could set them off\nCalls or texts to check up on you all the time and always wants to know where you\u2019re going and who you\u2019re with\nEveryone has the right to feel safe and loved, without emotional anguish or the threat of violence. 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For OMEGA, the Official Timekeeper of the PyeongChang 2018 Olympic Winter Games, every sport requires its own unique technology and innovation. Today, the Swiss brand unveiled its many pieces of equipment required in Speed Skating, where the difference between gold and silver can be measured in thousandths of a second.\nThe first job for OMEGA begins on the start line, where timekeepers use the modern electronic starting pistol to launch the action. In comparison to traditional pistols, the e-gun now uses light and sound to generate a precise and equal start for all competitors.\nAs the athletes race around the track, OMEGA continues its job with a lap counter positioned near the finish line, as well as a traditional last lap bell that rings on the definitive loop. The racers are also fitted with OMEGA\u2019s transponders, which capture a range of live information, such as speeds and comparisons. 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President Barack Obama, who had already assigned Vice President Joe Biden as the chair of the anti-gun violence task force, introduced 23 executive actions, which are part of a federal gun control plan to counter this harrowing epidemic.\nRELATED: President To Outline Plans For Curbing Gun Violence\nPresident Obama began his anti-gun violence speech with the following:\nIn the month since 20 precious children and six brave adults were violently taken from us at Sandy Hook Elementary, more than 900 of our fellow Americans have reportedly died at the end of a gun, 900 in the past month.\nSo I\u2019m putting forward a specific set of proposals based on the work of Joe\u2019s task force. And in the days ahead I intend to use whatever weight this office holds to make them a reality.\nBecause while there is no law or set of laws that can prevent every senseless act of violence completely, no piece of legislation that will prevent every tragedy, every act of evil, if there\u2019s even one thing we can do to reduce this violence, if there\u2019s even one life that can be saved, then we\u2019ve got an obligation to try.\nChief among the President\u2019s plans are improving upon background check loopholes to make certain guns don\u2019t reach the hands of violent persons. Also introduced is the banning of military-style assault weapons and high-capacity magazines, which hold several rounds of bullets. There is also a push to make schools safer by boosting security and other measures. Obama\u2019s plan also calls for increasing access to mental health services.\nObama was not shy in calling out Congress to act in accordance with the policy directives, flanked by Biden and children from around the country who wrote in about what happened at Newtown, Conn.\nEmotions were high during the press conference, with Obama speaking sternly at times while employing his typical bits of humor, and cameras swept the crowd and caught some obvious venerable moments.\nAt the conclusion of the event, President Obama sat at a desk bearing the presidential seal and signed in to order the executive directives to help jump start the development of programs and other supporting measures to curb gun violence.\nBelow is a sampling of the President\u2019s gun violence reduction executive actions and their impact:\n1. Issue a Presidential Memorandum to require federal agencies to make relevant data available to the federal background check system.(As it stands, several federal agencies currently do not collaborate with one another automatically. This move would make the sharing of data mandatory.)2. Address unnecessary legal barriers, particularly relating to the Health Insurance Portability (HIPAA) and the Accountability Act, which may prevent states from making information available to the background check system.\n(HIPAA\u2019s \u201cprivacy rule\u201d prevents state agencies certain access to information that could be instrumental in determining the background of a gun buyer. This directive makes the process of obtaining records easier.)\n(This directive serves to uncover if an individual received their firearm illegally and if they have a history of gun violence.)\n(During the conference, President Obama remarked that a study should be conducted to discover a possible connection between violent video games and entertainment in connection with gun violence.)\nWith stronger emphasis on gun safety, it will be interesting to see if President Obama and Joe Biden will be able to withstand the expected push-back from gun owners who feel the plan is far too intrusive. 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For to me to live is Christ, and to die is gain.\nEver hear the story told about the preacher who decided to skip church one Sunday morning to play a round of golf? Every Sunday on his way to the church building he\u2019d drive by a golf course----and during warm weather he\u2019d often see church members playing golf.\nIt wouldn\u2019t have bothered him so much if they\u2019d both play golf and come to church. But that not what happened. No, they\u2019d go golfing and skip worship. One Saturday evening he decided he\u2019d show those church skipping golfers....if they could do it, so could he. So he called in sick and said they\u2019d have to find a fill in person for the morning service. Then the next morning before dawn he threw his golf clubs in his car and he headed for a remote golf course more than an hour away. He figured no one there would no him.\nBy the time he arrived, the sun was up and it looked as if it was going to be a beautiful morning. He paid to play and alone he went to the first tee. Now an angel had been watching this preacher and was asking God what he was going to do with this man who had lied about being sick and was now preparing to hit his first shot. God said just watch. The angel was thinking \"oh man this guy\u2019s gonna get it. I can just picture God zapping him with a bolt of lightning at the peak of his backswing.\" But there was no bolt of lightning, no earthquake, no rain---just a perfect shot---a hole in one in fact! The angel couldn\u2019t believe it---what? How? But, but God the angel blurted out----how could you let him hit a hole in one---I thought you were going to punish this man? God said I am---who\u2019s he gonna tell?\nWhen we experience something wonderful or when we learn of something exciting we can hardly contain ourselves---we feel like we just have to tell someone or we\u2019re going to burst! That\u2019s how Jesus wants us to share our faith in Him. If we\u2019re excited about Him, if our faith and trust in Christ is the most important relationship in our lives, we will tell it in the way we live and the things we say.\nA church member asked her pastor, \u201cWe have some neighbors who believe a false gospel. What literature would you recommend that I give them?\u201d The pastor thought and then answered, \u201cHow about the gospel according to you. Let them read the gospel of Jesus Christ by reading your life.\u201d\nPastors Pen 2/13/2019\nLove The Least Of These\nTed Stallard undoubtedly qualifies as the one of \"the least.\" Turned off by school. Very sloppy in appearance. Expressionless. Unattractive. Even his teacher, Miss Thompson, enjoyed bearing down her red pen -- as she placed Xs beside his many wrong answers.\nIf only she had studied his records more carefully. They read:\n1st grade: Ted shows promise with his work and attitude, but (has) poor home situation.\n2nd grade: Ted could do better. Mother seriously ill. Receives little help from home.\n3rd grade: Ted is good boy but too serious. He is a slow learner. His mother died this year.\n4th grade: Ted is very slow, but well-behaved. His father shows no interest whatsoever.\nChristmas arrived. The children piled elaborately wrapped gifts on their teacher's desk. Ted brought one too. It was wrapped in brown paper and held together with Scotch Tape. Miss Thompson opened each gift, as the children crowded around to watch. Out of Ted's package fell a gaudy rhinestone bracelet, with half of the stones missing, and a bottle of cheap perfume. The children began to snicker. But she silenced them by splashing some of the perfume on her wrist, and letting them smell it. She put the bracelet on too.\nAt day's end, after the other children had left, Ted came by the teacher's desk and said, \"Miss Thompson, you smell just like my mother. And the bracelet looks real pretty on you. I'm glad you like my presents.\" He left. Miss Thompson got down on her knees and asked God to forgive her and to change her attitude.\nThe next day, the children were greeted by a reformed teacher -- one committed to loving each of them. Especially the slow ones. Especially Ted. Surprisingly -- or maybe, not surprisingly, Ted began to show great improvement. He actually caught up with most of the students and even passed a few.\nTime came and went. Miss Thompson heard nothing from Ted for a long time. Then, one day, she received this note:\nDear Miss Thompson: I wanted you to be the first to know. I will be graduating second in my class. Love, Ted\nFour years later, another note arrived: Dear Miss Thompson: They just told me I will be graduating first in my class. I wanted you to be first to know. The university has not been easy, but I liked it. Love, Ted\nAnd four years later: Dear Miss Thompson: As of today, I am Theodore Stallard, M.D. How about that? I wanted you to be the first to know. I am getting married next month, the 27th to be exact. I want you to come and sit where my mother would sit if she were alive. You are the only family I have now; Dad died last year.\nMiss Thompson attended that wedding, and sat where Ted's mother would have sat. The compassion she had shown that young man entitled her to that privilege.\nLet's have some real courage, and start giving to \"one of the least.\" He may become a Ted Stallard. Even if that doesn't happen, we will have been faithful to the One who has always treated us -- as unworthy as we are -- like very special people. Jon Johnston, Courage - You Can Stand Strong in the Face of Fear, 1990, SP Publications, pp. 111-113.\nDuring the 17th century, Oliver Cromwell, Lord Protector of England, sentenced a soldier to be shot for his crimes. The execution was to take place at the ringing of the evening curfew bell. However, the bell did not sound. The soldier's fianc\u00e9 had climbed into the belfry and clung to the great clapper of the bell to prevent it from striking. When she was summoned by Cromwell to account for her actions, she wept as she showed him her bruised and bleeding hands. Cromwell's heart was touched and he said, \"Your lover shall live because of your sacrifice. Curfew shall not ring tonight!\"\nThe bell of condemnation will not ring for those who have put their faith in trust in Jesus because of His sacrifice of love for us.\nThe Pastors Pen 2/6/2019\nOnce a man died & went to the gates of heaven. AS he was about to enter in to heaven, Peter stands by the gates and refuses to let him in. Peter says\u2026 tell me why I should let you into heaven. You list out your reasons. I will score you. And If you score 100 points, then I will let you in.\nSo the man begins to think and tell his points.\n1. \u201cI regularly came to church every Sunday\u201d \u2013 Peter announced\u2026\u201d2 points.\u201d\nSo many years, coming regularly to church fetched him only two points. He was thoroughly disappointed.\n2. \u201cI gave my offerings and tithes\u201d \u2013 Peter said\u2026\u201d3 points\u201d\n3.\u201d I participated in ministry\u201d \u2013 Peter replied\u2026.\u201d2 more points\u201d\nHe thought hard and then remembered this.\n4. \u201cI shared about Jesus to two of my friends\u201d \u2013 Peter answered \u201cOk I\u2019ll give you 5 points for that.\u201d\n\u201cOops.. still I only have 12 points.\u201d\nHe naturally is very concerned and says, \u201cif it goes at this rate, I can only enter by the grace of God!\u201d Immediately, the gates of heaven were opened!\nIt is by grace alone that we have access to God. We do nothing and did nothing to earn the entry to heaven.\nThere is a movie call \u201cAI\u201d. It is set in the future, where a company has created a human robot child with the ability to love unconditionally. In many ways it was a disturbing movie, posing a number of difficult questions about what it means to be human and what the limits of our dependence on technology should be. But probably the most poignant question if you watch the movie is, to what extent will we go to find love? The thread that runs through this movie from start to finish is capsulated by a question this robot-boy asks repeatedly: \"Then will mommy love me?\"\nMankind is like the robot in AI. We strive to do good deeds and works but like the Robot instead of asking \u201cthen will Mommy love me?\u201d we ask \u201cThen will God love me?\u201d\nMankind yearns for love and purpose from someone and that someone is really God. We can do nothing to earn the right enter into heaven, we can do nothing to earn the love of God. He has loved us, is loving us and will always will love us. John 3:16 \u201cfor God SO loved the world, He gave His only begotten Son that whosoever believeth in Him should not perish but have everlasting life.\u201d He has already reserved a place in heaven for those who trust in the grace of our Savior who loves us\u2026\u2026. and died for us\u2026\u2026. to purchase for us\u2026\u2026 a place where He is with us\u2026..forever and ever!\nPastor Jack Ward is on facebook under the name \u201cJack Ward\u201d and iTunes under \u201cTomahawk Missionary Baptist.\u201d Hear Pastor Jack each Sunday Morning at 10:30 Am on WSIP FM 98.9. Check out the website tomahawkmbc.com\nThe Japanese Sword\nIt is the Japanese who have created the best swords in the world. To create these fine weapons, ancient Japanese sword makers had to create a sword that was hard enough to retain a sharp edge, but at the same time soft enough not to be brittle. Sword makers who made swords by making the steel hard found they could preserve a sharp edge. Such swords, however, were often so brittle that they would often break when they clashed in battle. Soft steel, however, was found to be not as brittle, but would easily dull and be unable to slice through armor. Japanese sword makers therefore had to forge a sword with steel hard enough to retain a sharp edge, but at the same time pliable enough not to break in battle.\nWhat Japanese sword makers learned to do was to create a sword made of hard and soft steel. Multiple sheets of hard and soft steel are heated, folded and pummeled together over and over again. Japanese swords go through a lengthy forging process until they have up to 33,000 paper-thin laminations of hard and soft metal. Each of these layers is one hundred thousandth of an inch thick. This is all done to a very precise recipe of temperature treatment. The end result is a finely crafted weapon with extreme pliability and a blade that will retain a finely honed edge.\nJust as Japanese sword makers repeatedly hammer together layers of metal to produce a sword that will be strong enough to withstand breaking, so God allows trials to hammer metal into the lives of His children. Just a sword made of hard metal will easily break in battle, so the believer filled with pride will also break in adversity.\nIt is in the forging hand of God that humility and dependence on Him are developed into our lives to create character that will triumph in adversity. The hard steel in our lives is the word of God. The soft steel in our lives is humility and a dependence on God. These are forged together in our lives through fiery trials and prayer to produce vessels that will give Him glory. We need the hard steel confidence of what we believe\u2026.. together with the soft steel of humility\u2014Steve Rutherford.\nI am weak outwardly so that He may be strong in me. 2 Corinthians 12:9 \u201cAnd he said unto me, My grace is sufficient for thee: for my strength is made perfect in weakness. Most gladly therefore will I rather glory in my infirmities, that the power of Christ may rest upon me.\u201d\nThe old mountaineer had lived a full but not exactly saintly life and now was on his deathbed. He summoned his weeping wife. \"Sara,\" he said, \"go to the fireplace and take out the third stone from the top.\" She did as instructed.\n\"Reach in there,\" said her husband, \"and bring out what you find.\" Her fingers touched a large Mason jar, and with some effort she pulled it up. The jar was full of cash. \"Sara,\" said the old man, \"when I go, I'm going to take all that money with me. I want you to put that jar up in the attic by the window. I'll get it as I go by on my way to heaven.\"\nHis wife followed his instructions. That night the old mountaineer died. After the funeral his wife remembered the Mason jar and went to the attic. There was the jar still full of money and by the window. \"Oh,\" the widow sighed. \"I knew I should have put it in the basement.\"\nWe make a lot of assumptions about our eternal destination. We assume that we are going to heaven. But on what basis? According to Jesus heaven is a very exclusive place. John 3:3 \u201cJesus answered and said unto him, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God.\u201d Only those born again can see the kingdom of God. Jesus explained what that meant in John 3:15-16 \u201cAnd as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the Son of man be lifted up: That whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have eternal life.\u201d\nWe must believe in Jesus. Not believe intellectually but trusting in Him with the heart. Admitting our sin and giving all of our sin to Him and in turn we receive His righteousness and eternal life with Him.\nA certain courthouse in Ohio stands in a unique location. Raindrops that fall on the north side of the building go into Lake Ontario and the Gulf of St. Lawrence, while those falling on the south side go into the Mississippi River and Gulf of Mexico. At precisely the point of the peak of the roof, just a gentle puff of wind can determine the destiny of many raindrops. It will make a difference of more than 2,000 miles as to their final destination.\nThe spiritual application is clear. We are already separated from God. We are born as sinners. You don\u2019t have to do anything to go to hell. The simple act of faith in Christ will completely and dramatically change your destination for all eternity. How far is heaven from hell? As far as believing is from unbelief. As far as light is from darkness. As far as death from life.\nIf I were you\u2026.. I would choose life, I would choose Jesus Christ the only way to eternal life. I would be born again as soon as right now!\nA man tells the story of training to run a 5K run. In order to train properly he decided to get on the hard path full of rough terrain and hills. Each he would walk a little faster, and with a little more gusto. One day, a half mile in a young lady came at them sprinting towards Him. He jumped out of the way so she could pass, and she blew by him so fast, all he saw was Nike shoes and a pony tail. He thought to himself, \u201cMan, she must be late for something. No sane person would run that fast for no reason.\u201d But, when she ran by him, it engaged his competitive spirit.\nSo, he said, \u201cAll right, it\u2019s time to pick up the pace a little.\u201d So, he started walking a little faster down this road, and he got about a half hour into this trail, and here she comes again! He couldn\u2019t believe it. He thought, \u201cYou\u2019ve got to be kidding me! Not only has she lapped me once, she\u2019s lapped me twice now! Well that was it. \"It\u2019s on now.\u201d He was almost toward the end, and he\u2019s feeling really good about himself when all of a sudden this lady passes him a third time!\nThis time he was just mad. He threw his water bottle on the ground and screamed, \u201cThis is ridiculous.\u201d And then he writes, \u201cWhat she was showing me was that being on the hard path requires a whole other level of commitment. Up to that point, I hadn\u2019t been willing to give that level of commitment.\u201d I decided instead of treating the path as a burden I will treat it as a commitment.\nJesus said \u201cmy yoke is easy and my burden is light.\u201d The longer I stayed on the hard path the burden became easier and my feet felt lighter as I was strengthened and empowered each day.\nTo really serve Jesus requires another level of commitment. Many of are content to just stroll through life with Jesus. Taking our time. Resting often. Not stressing out. When it gets too hard just get off the path and stay away for a while. But Jesus wants us to be strong. He wants us to be the best we can be! But it requires staying on the hard path. It\u2019s not a stroll it\u2019s a race. You always will win when you stay on the hard path. Jesus gives us the strength to make the hard paths smooth and the rough roads level.\nRevelation 2:10 Fear none of those things which thou shalt suffer: behold, the devil shall cast some of you into prison, that ye may be tried; and ye shall have tribulation ten days: be thou faithful unto death, and I will give thee a crown of life. It\u2019s easy to quit when it gets too hard. The problem is there is no reward. It\u2019s not easy to keep going when the going is rough. But the reward is worth it! Don\u2019t fear the suffering, the pain, the trials, the tribulations from the hard paths of life\u2026\u2026 they are only temporary. Jesus will turn your pain to progress, your suffering to joy, your trials and tribulations to triumphs!\nPastors Pen 1/9/2019\nGlobalism is coming and being touted by the United Nations and their cohorts in America. They want a global banking system, education, energy interdependence, world Climate change regulations, equality and socialism for all. The Average American has no idea what is happening to them and don\u2019t really believe any of us who continue to warn about these things.\nGlobalism is the reason that God scattered the people just after Noah\u2019s flood who were trying to build a tower to heaven in the land of Shinar (Babylon) in Genesis chapter 11. Nimrod was trying to become the king of the world with his corrupt government. But God made this world for Jesus Christ to be king with a righteous government. No man can or will be the king of the world except Jesus!! God came down and saw what they were doing. God knew that the idea of everybody working together under the leadership of one mortal man would not work. Mankind is sinful and evil in his godless heart. God knew then and knows today that anything man does without Him will eventually lead to the vast majority of people being subject to suffering and poverty and the elite controlling everybody and everything. Under this type of government no one would worship God again. His judgment on mankind with the flood was barely a century old and here they are doing it again.\nSo God in His goodness and mercy confounded their language and scattered them throughout the earth so that they might become nation states each with their own languages, dialects, rulers and their own land and economic infrastructure with borders and yes even walls to protect them from invaders. (Yes, God is for walls\u2026.God encouraged and even made Nehemiah rebuild the walls of Jerusalem as his first priority!)\nGod\u2019s knows that sinful fallen man cannot work together. God knew that even this nation state plan would not be perfect because that there will be wars between nations due to Satan\u2019s desire to tempt men with the lust for power so that they might control and rule over others. But at least the independent nations of the world could fight the tyranny that would be imposed upon them.\nGod\u2019s nation state plan has resulted in many in the world living in relative freedom and liberty instead of no one at all living in freedom and liberty under a one world government lead by a power mad despot. And many can worship God, love Him and follow Him under religious freedom in many nation state governments. This would never happen under a one world government godless leader. As a matter of fact, would Israel have become a nation under Nimrod\u2019s one world government? Would Abraham and Moses been hero\u2019s of the faith? I seriously doubt it!\nBut mankind always has this idea that globalism is the way to go. And here it has reared its ugly head again especially in these days. The world is a global system already when we have things like global communication, global transportation, global markets and financing, global standards in education, the internet, and social media. But nations can still work together economically and socially still maintaining their distinctive nationalism and borders and reject the ideas that we must all think alike and act alike. Today we have the United Nations which was founded one hundred years ago with the sole purpose of preventing another world war, now its agenda has evolved into bringing the world together and under the control of an elite group of people who think they know best for everyone.\nSoon there will be a leader arise who will use the system for his advantage. And today the world cries for such a man\u2026the world is looking for a man to lead us to the great utopian godless society of man\u2019s making.\nPeople surely we must know that it is the last days\u2026..Satan has his man ready to lead the world into a godless utopia that is founded on the lie that man can make himself good. It is doomed from the start because it is simply rebellion against God!!\nBut people know this also that Jesus Christ stands ready to come for His beloved bride the church and then seven years later will take his rightful place as the king of the earth and truly lead it into truth, joy, righteousness, and glory!\nJames 4:13-14 \u201cCome now, ye that say, today or tomorrow we will go into such and such a city, and continue there a year, and buy and sell, and get gain; whereas ye know not what shall be on the next day. For what is your life? It is even a vapor that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away.\u201d\nLondon businessman Lindsay Clegg told the story of a warehouse property he was selling. The building had been empty for months and needed repairs. Vandals had damaged the doors, smashed the windows, and strewn trash around the interior.\nAs he showed a prospective buyer the property, Clegg took pains to say that he would replace the broken windows, bring in a crew to correct any structural damage, and clean out the garbage.\n\"Forget about the repairs,\" the buyer said. \"When I buy this place, I'm going to build something completely different. I don't want the building; I want the site.\"\nCompared with the renovation God has in mind, our efforts to improve our own lives are as trivial as sweeping a warehouse slated for the wrecking ball. When we become God's, the old life is over (2 Cor. 5:17). He makes all things new. All he wants is the site and the permission to build.\nSo it is for this new year. Learn from the past but don\u2019t dwell on it. Live for today but don\u2019t put all your hope in today. Look forward to the future so that you might prepare for it by what you learned from the past and your preparations for today.\nBen Franklin said \u201cBe always at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let each year find you a better man.\u201d\nAnne Frank said \u201cWhat a wonderful thought it is that some of the best days of our lives haven't even happened yet.\u201d\nCS Lewis said \u201cThere are far better things ahead than any we leave behind.\" Amen to that! For the Christian we have a past to leave behind and future to look forward to that has endless today\u2019s!\nHave a happy 2019 in the Lord!\nThe Pastors Pen 12/26/2018\nDisappointments Transformed\nThe year was 1920. The scene was the examining board for selecting missionaries. Standing before the board was a young man named Oswald Smith.\nOne dream dominated his heart. He wanted to be a missionary. Over and over again, he prayed, \"Lord, I want to go as a missionary for you. Open a door of service for me.\" Now, at last, his prayer would be answered. When the examination was over, the board turned Oswald Smith down. He did not meet their qualifications. He failed the test. Oswald Smith had set his direction, but now life gave him a detour. What would he do? As Oswald Smith prayed, God planted another idea in his heart. If he could not go as a missionary, he would build a church which could send out missionaries. And that is what he did. Oswald Smith pastored The People's Church in Toronto, Canada, which sent out more missionaries than any other church at that time.\nOswald Smith brought God into the situation, and God transformed his detour into a main thoroughfare of service.\nThe disciples expected Jesus to be the King of Israel and in that they were sorely disappointed. But what they could not see brought them so much more; he turned out to be the savior of the world and they became the ambassadors of the Great King!\nThe key in finding God\u2019s will for you life is not in finding the plan, but knowing the one who has the plan!\nThere was a rich man who came to Jesus seeking to follow God and find the way to eternal life. Jesus told the young man to follow God\u2019s laws, which, by the way no man can do. Jesus did this to show the man that we cannot save ourselves. Then Jesus made this remarkable statement in Matthew 19: 21 Jesus said unto him, If thou wilt be perfect, go and sell that thou hast, and give to the poor, and thou shalt have treasure in heaven: and come and follow me.\nThe Bible says the young man went away disappointed. This wasn\u2019t what he wanted to hear. The Lord simply was saying to the young man that in order to follow God\u2019s plan for his life he had to forsake his dreams, his desires and his wants, and \u2026.just follow me!\nYou see, God\u2019s will for your life is not a roadmap to be discovered but a person to know and a person to follow\u2026..and this person is Jesus Christ! I pray that in this new year that you will forsake your dreams, your desires, your wants and simply follow Jesus. Read the Bible every morning, make time for prayer each morning. Attend a Bible teaching and preaching church faithfully and join with them as they share His word with others. Your disappointments will be transformed into glorious delight!\nHas God Revealed Himself in Other Religions?\nKarl Barth was lecturing to a group of students at Princeton. One student asked the German theologian \"Sir, don't you think that God has revealed himself in other religions and not only in Christianity?\" Barth's answer stunned the crowd. With a modest thunder he answered, \"No, God has not revealed himself in any religion, including Christianity. He has revealed himself in his Son.\"\nHebrews 1:2 \u201cIn these last days, He has spoken to us by His Son, whom He has appointed heir of all things and through whom He made the universe. \u201c\nGod has done all that He is going to do through Christ. He has said all that He is going to say through Christ. He has left us with the greatest message of all. He has given us the greatest gift of all\u2026.His Son! There WILL never be another like Jesus. There COULD never be another like Jesus. He is God\u2019s unique, one and only Son. The manifestation of God Himself.\nThere is a new religion I was reading about the other day. It is called the religion of \u201cDoubters.\u201d They have over 3,000 people who come to internet meetings each week. Their message is\u2026 \u201cwe don\u2019t know?\u201d Why do we look for religion? Why are so many drawn to a religion? Why have we invented so many religions? Why has every tribe that has ever been discovered had a religion?\nLet me say very simply that man has an empty space in his heart that only God can fill. Man was meant to walk in fellowship and personal relationship with God. But we have sinned and spoiled the relationship. Now we need someone to restore that relationship for us because we can\u2019t do it ourselves. So then every religion is man trying to reach up to God, but Christianity is God coming down to man.\nThere is no religion in all the world that tells us that God loves us. There is no religion in the world that has the message of grace. Grace is God saving us based on what Jesus has done. It requires no good work or any work of any man. It does not require fulfillment of religious duty. It does not require ritual or impersonal prayer. It does not require your good outweighing your bad.\nWhat does it require? It requires us to believe in the death, burial and resurrection of Jesus Christ. It requires admitting that we have sinned against God. It requires us to receive the forgiveness that Jesus provided for us. It requires us to trust in Christ as our Savior. No religion in the world has this message. What about Christianity? Christianity is not a religion but a RELATIONSHIP with the living God through Jesus Christ our Lord.\nLook unto Jesus, \u201cthe author and finisher of our faith.\u201d He was born so that we could be born again and know the amazing reality of Christmas, that He has come and that we can know Him!\nPastors Pen 12/12/2018\nMatthew 6:25 Therefore I say unto you, Take no thought for your life, what ye shall eat, or what ye shall drink; nor yet for your body, what ye shall put on. Is not the life more than meat, and the body than raiment?\nJesus is saying, \u201cif you have faith in me you will overcome your worry.\u201d It seems almost impossible doesn't it? Getting rid of worry. But let me tell you it is absolutely essential that we be free of worry. Worry distorts reality. Worry often times leads us to false conclusions.\nThere was a plane ride where the pilot came over the intercom: We have lost one of our engines. No need to worry, we will be arriving 1 hour later than anticipated. Pilot 30 minutes later: We have lost another engine; we will be arriving 2 hours later at our destination. Pilot one hour later: We have lost our third engine. We will be arriving 4 hours late at our destination. Passenger to her husband: I'm starting to get worried, if that last engine goes we will be up here all night.\nIf you want to be distracted from reality, work yourself up into a good state of anxiety. If Jesus had any concerns it was that his disciples would do exactly that. Let's look at the story. Jesus has just finished having dinner with his disciples. It's early Thursday evening. Jesus has approximately 24 more hours to be with his disciples. He will be crucified the next day after an exhausting evening of arrest, interrogation, and torture. If anyone had reason to worry it was he. But what does he do? He introduces peace. He brings calm to the situation.\nHe looks at his disciples, who have just watched Judas leave the dinner table on a mission of betrayal, and he says, \"Where I am going, you cannot come. but don't let your hearts be troubled.\" He tells them don't be afraid. At this moment when the tension was so thick you could cut it with a knife, he says there is a haven for troubled hearts within my Father's home. And there is a room for you there.\n\u201cWorry is the interest we pay on tomorrow's troubles\u201d said E. Stanley Jones.\nArthur Somers Roche said, \u201cWorry is a thin stream of fear trickling through the mind. If encouraged, it cuts a channel into which all other thoughts are drained.\u201d\nJohn Wesley said \u201cI could no more worry than I could curse or swear.\u201d\nPastors Pen 12/5/2018\nAlways Alongside Us\nA student named Steve Winger from Lubbock, TX was taking a challenging class in Logic. The course and teacher were known for exacting and demanding exams. The final exam was looming, and the professor mercifully told the class that each student would be permitted to bring in a single 8 x 11 \u00bd inch sheet with as much information as they could put on that one sheet for help during the test. On exam day, each student came to class clutching their precious pieces of paper with as much information as possible. Some students had crammed lines and lines of font so tiny and so numerous onto that single sheet that you had to wonder how they could read it. But Steve walked in with a single blank sheet and a friend who was a senior student and who had an 'A' in logic. Steve bent down and placed that single, blank sheet of paper on the floor next to his desk. His expert friend stood on the paper.\nThe professor noticed the extra body in the room and asked what he was doing. Steve piped up, \"You said we could bring in what ever we could fit on a single piece of paper for help on this test, well, this is my help and he can fit on the paper!\" He had followed the instructions to the letter and was the only student in that class to score an 'A' since he had his expert friend standing along side him. The Holy Spirit is like that friend, standing along side us, supporting us, and guiding us.\nWouldn\u2019t you love to have a friend who has all the answers? John 15:15\n\u201cHenceforth I call you not servants; for the servant knoweth not what his lord doeth: but I have called you friends; for all things that I have heard of my\nFather I have made known unto you.\u201d If Jesus Christ is your Savior then you have that kind of friend! He knows everything and He makes known the Father\u2019s will to us.\nThe apostle Paul called himself a servant of the Lord Jesus Christ. But according to Jesus we are more than just servants. We are intimate friends with Jesus Christ. Paul knew Jesus Christ intimately and served Him joyfully. That\u2019s how we are to serve. Jesus has called us to a friendship with Himself.\n1 John 2:1 \u201cMy little children, these things write I unto you, that ye sin not. And if any man sin, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous.\u201d In this text Jesus is called our advocate. In sports players have an \u201cagent\u201d to represent them to the owners. The agent is always making his client look good. That\u2019s what Jesus Christ does for us. He always makes us look good to the Father. He is always looking out for our best interests. He does not excuse our sin, but He forgives our sin and then before God our righteousness becomes His.\nAnyone who knows Jesus Christ as their Savior has the most wonderful friend in the universe. He guides us, He loves us, He stands with us, He will never lie to us and He is going to take us where He is when we leave this world.\nPatrick Henry\u2026.\u201dGive me liberty or give me death!\u201d We know the world is divided like never before. You know what they are really divided over? Liberty or equality. Liberty is the right of people to be what they want to be, live where they want to live and be as successful as they can be. Individual liberty! Be what I want to be. Take myself as far as my abilities, hard work and success will take me. Sounds like capitalism to me.\nEquality is the right of people to be what everyone else is\u2026\u2026. no more or no less. No individual liberty. Sounds like Socialism and Marxism to me.\nLet me put it this way. If I have the ability to earn twenty dollars\u2026. and everyone else has the ability to earn just ten dollars\u2026. liberty allows me, because of hard work and good management to earn that twenty dollars. Liberty also allows me the freedom to only get as much as I want to get by with. If I only want five dollars then that\u2019s okay. But I will have to accept the consequences of that. That\u2019s individual liberty.\nBut if I have the ability to earn twenty dollars and everyone else can only earn ten dollars\u2026. equality says I can only get ten dollars\u2026.. so that I don\u2019t get ahead of the next guy. But\u2026.If I only want to earn five dollars, equality says I will still get ten dollars. No reward for hard work, sacrifice and individualism.\nThe Puritan\u2019s tried equality. After they arrived in America they divided everything equally among them all. Well, after a while the result was the lazy didn\u2019t work and those who worked hard quit because they weren\u2019t being rewarded. Result, the Puritans almost starved. They went back to individual liberty and capitalism and they thrived.\nPeople say\u2026in capitalism the poor are taken advantage of by the rich capitalists. That is a lie of Marxism and Socialists. The poor do better under individual liberty and capitalism than socialism! Look at the United States! The poorest in America are the richest five percent in the world! The rich have incentive to take care of the poor out of their abundance and the poor always have hope of through hard work, initiative and help from those escaping their poverty! That\u2019s the way it is in America!\nLook at it another way. Liberty says if I can walk twenty miles and everyone else can only walk ten miles, I get ahead of you because I\u2019ve worked harder and shown more initiative. That good capitalism. But under equality I am not allowed to walk twenty miles. I can only walk ten miles. What if I can\u2019t or won\u2019t walk ten miles? Then everyone else will help me get the extra five miles. Sounds like Marxism to me. Now you see what equality really is. It\u2019s dressed up Marxism, socialism and communism.\nIn the United States everyone is treated equal under the law. But the United States Constitution says each individual may pursue life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. 2 Corinthians 3:17 \u201cNow the Lord is that Spirit: and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty.\u201d Christians have individual liberty from the constraints of sin and we are free from the requirements of the law.\nI am not a libertarian. I believe in Individual liberty and capitalism as the Bible teaches us. Christians are all saved by grace and in that we are equal. But we have the liberty to serve the Lord in whatever capacity we feel He has called us. We are not all going to be treated equally in heaven. There are rewards given for those who have been faithful to the Lord Jesus. We can earn as many rewards for our Lord as we can. The more faithful, the more rewards.\nYou know that there is no socialism or equality in the Lake of Fire either. The Bible says that some will be beaten with many stripes and some with few. It will be worse for the really wicked.\nThe world is divided between those who believe in liberty and those who believe in equality. Jesus warned about being deceived four times in Matthew 24. But be not deceived\u2026\u2026the world will finally unite one day soon. Jesus will remove all the lovers of true Liberty in the rapture and then there will be equality for all\u2026...Marxism\u2026\u2026 under the reign of their guy\u2026..the beast, the anti-christ! Everything will seem great.\u2026.until God unleashes His wrath upon the world. And It will be a terrible time like none other in the history of man and the world!\nThe first American Thanksgiving didn't occur in 1621 when a group of Pilgrims shared a feast with a group of friendly Indians. The first recorded thanksgiving took place in Virginia more than 11 years earlier, and it wasn't a feast. The winter of 1610 at Jamestown had reduced a group of 409 settlers to 60. The survivors prayed for help, without knowing when or how it might come. When help arrived, in the form of a ship filled with food and supplies from England, a prayer meeting was held to give thanks to God.\nFirst National Thanksgiving Proclamation\u2026. George Washington, 1779\nWhereas, it is the duty of all nations to acknowledge the providence of Almighty God, to obey His will, to be grateful for His benefits, and humbly to implore His protection and favor; Whereas, both the houses of Congress have, by their joint committee, requested me\n\"to recommend to the people of the United States a day of public thanksgiving and prayer, to be observed by acknowledging with grateful hearts the many and signal favors of Almighty God, especially by affording them an opportunity peaceably to establish a form of government for their safety and happiness!\"\nIn his book FOLK PSALMS OF FAITH, Ray Stedman tells of an experience H.A. Ironside had in a crowded restaurant. Just as Ironside was about to begin his meal, a man approached and asked if he could join him. Ironside invited his to have a seat. Then, as was his custom, Ironside bowed his head in prayer. When he opened his eyes, the other man asked, \"Do you have a headache?\" Ironside replied, \"No, I don't.\" The other man asked, \"Well, is there something wrong with your food?\" Ironside replied, \"No, I was simply thanking God as I always do before I eat.\"\nThe man said, \"Oh, you're one of those, are you? Well, I want you to know I never give thanks. I earn my money by the sweat of my brow and I don't have to give thanks to anybody when I eat. I just start right in!\"\nIronside said, \"Yes, you're just like my dog. That's what he does too!\"\nThe Folly Of Fame And Fortune\nHis initials were W.W., and in the 1930s and 1940s they were enough to identify him to most of America. He was widely considered the creator of modern gossip writing, and in his heyday this rude, abrasive, egotistical and witty man was the country's best known and most widely read journalist and one of its most influential. In 1943, when there were 140 million people in the United States, more than 50 million of them read his gossip column every day in more than 1000 newspapers, including his flagship, The New York Daily Mirror. Even more people listened to his weekly radio broadcast. Hated, feared and revered, he presided over Table 50 of the Stork Club in New York, creating and destroying celebrities at the drop of his trademark gray snap-brim fedora. Yet when he died in 1972, at age 74, he was practically forgotten. Only two people attended his funeral; his daughter, Walda, and the rabbi who officiated at his services. Today, not many people under 40 even know the name of Walter Winchell.\nRecognize any of these names: Owen D. Young, Pierre Laval, Hugh S. Johnson, James F. Byrnes, Mohammed Mossadegh, Harlow Curtis? You should; according to Time magazine, these are all people who have been designated as \"Man of the Year\" by Time, indicating they had the greatest impact in that year of all persons living on Earth. The celebrity of today is all but forgotten tomorrow.\nMatthew 26:16. \u201cWhat is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his soul? Or what shall a man give in exchange for his soul?\u201d\nCharles T. Studd born in 1860 was a famous British cricket player in the 1880\u2019s. Charles accepted Christ in 1928 after his father was saved at a DL Moody revival in England. When Charles\u2019 brother George was taken ill Charles asked the question \u201cWhat is all the fame and flattery worth\u2026.when a man comes to face with eternity?\u201d \u201cI know Cricket will not last, honor will not last, nothing in this world will last. But it is worthwhile living for the world to come.\u201d Charles gave up his fame as a Cricketeer and soon went to China working with Hudson Taylor as a missionary.\nHe then became a missionary to India and then would up in Africa in the Sudan and set up the Heart of Africa mission. He visited the Belgian Congo in 1913 and established four mission stations there. His wife of forty years died in 1928. Under the sickness of gallstones Charles T. Studd died in 1931. He spent fifteen years in China, six in India and the rest of his life to spreading the gospel in Africa founding the Worldwide Evangelism Crusade. (Now WEC international) To this day his name is honored in the Congo basin. Charles, who wrote several books is most famous for this quote\u2026\u2026.\u201dOnly one life, \u2018twill soon be past. Only what\u2019s done for Christ will last.\u201d\nThe folly of fame and fortune will lead to one thing you of which you can be certain\u2026\u2026fame and fortune will come to an end and so also the pleasures to its followers that it gives. Followers of Jesus can be also be certain of one thing\u2026.that He will not come to an end! And neither will the pleasures of joy, peace and love that He gives!\nThis story deals with a rather old fashioned lady, who was planning a couple of weeks vacation in Florida. She also was quite delicate and elegant with her language. She wrote a letter to a particular campground and asked for reservations. She wanted to make sure the campground was fully equipped but didn't know quite how to ask about the \"toilet\" facilities. She just couldn't bring herself to write the word \"toilet\" in her letter.\nAfter much deliberation, she finally came up with the old fashioned term \"Bathroom Commode,\" but when she wrote that down, she still thought she was being too forward. So she started all over again; rewrote the entire letter and referred to the Bathroom Commode\" simply as the \"B.C.\". Does the campground have its own \"B.C.?\" is what she actually wrote.\nWell, the campground owner wasn't old fashioned at all, and when he got the letter, he couldn't figure out what the lady was talking about. That \"B.C.\" really stumped him. After worrying about it for several days, he showed the letter to other campers, but they couldn't figure out what the lady meant either.\nThe campground owner finally came to the conclusion that the lady was and must be asking about the location of the local Baptist Church. So, he sat down and wrote the following reply: \"Dear Madam: I regret very much the delay in answering your letter, but I now take pleasure of informing you that the \"B.C.\" is located nine miles north of the camp site and is capable of seating 250 people at one time.\nI admit it is quite a distance away if you are in the habit of going regularly but no doubt you will be pleased to know that a great number of people take their lunches along, and make a day of it..... They usually arrive early and stay late. The last time my wife and I went was six years ago, and it was so crowded we had to stand up the whole time we were there.\nIt may interest you to know that right now, there is a supper planned to raise money to buy more seats.....They plan to hold the supper in the middle of the B.C., so everyone can watch and talk about this great event.....I would like to say it pains me very much, not to be able to go more regularly, but it is surely not for lack of desire on my part....As we grow older, it seems to be more and more of an effort, particularly in cold weather..... If you decide to come down to the campground, perhaps I could go with you the first time you go...sit with you...and introduce you to all the other folks..... This is really a very friendly community.....\nI hope that your B.C. is just as acommodating. But seriously, many misunderstand the purpose of the church and what church is. The church is not the building but the church is the people who follow, live for and serve the Lord Jesus Christ. The church meets to worship, edify, encourage and to equip the church. And to glorify, follow and serve the Lord Jesus as a group and in their personal lives. All that they might accomplish God\u2019s will on this earth. If we keep that focus there will be no confusion as to what the church is and its purpose.\nIf You Want to Kill the Church\u2026.\nNever go to your church or meetings held there,\nIf you do go, be late, it's no one's affair.\nIf the weather is bad, either too hot or snowing,\nJust stay home and rest, for there'll be others going.\nBut should you attend, be sure and remember\nTo find fault with the work, each official and member.\nBe sure to hold back on your offerings and tithes,\nThe bills will be paid by the rest of the guys.\nAnd never take office if offered the post,\nBut eagerly criticize work of the host.\nIf not on a committee you're placed, be sore!\nIf you find that you are, don't attend any more.\nWhen asked your opinion on this thing or that,\nHave nothing to say, just turn 'em down flat.\nThen after the meeting, shine out like the sun\nBy telling the folks how it should have been done.\nDon't do any more than you possibly can,\nLeave the work for some other woman or man.\nAnd when you see faithful ones work themselves sick,\nThen stand up and holler, \"It's run by a clique!\"\nFootball in the fall. Basketball in the winter. Baseball in the spring and summer. This pastor had been an avid sports fan all his life. But I\u2019ve had it! I quit this sports business once and for all. You can't get me near one of those places again. Want to know why...\nEvery time I went, they asked me for money.\nThe people with whom I had to sit didn't seem very friendly.\nThe seats were too hard and not at all comfortable.\nI went to many games, but the coach never came to call on me.\nThe referee made a decision with which I could not agree.\nI suspected that I was sitting with some hypocrites -- they came\nto see their friends and what others were wearing rather than to see the game.\nSome games went into overtime, and I was late getting home.\nThe band played some numbers that I had never heard before.\nIt seems that the games are scheduled when I want to do other things.\nI was taken to too many games by my parents when I was growing up.\nI don't want to take my children to any games, because I want\nthem to choose for themselves what sport they like best.\nHmmm\u2026...sounds so familiar.\nHebrews 10:25 \u201cForsake not the assembling together of yourselves as the manner of some is\u2026..\u201d\ufeff\nRelevant Churches.\nIf people would have been asked in 1968 which nation would dominate the world in watch making during the 1990s and into the twenty-first century the answer would have been uniform: Switzerland. Why? Because Switzerland had dominated the world of watchmaking for the previous sixty years.\nThe Swiss made the best watches in the world and were committed to constant refinement of their expertise. It was the Swiss who came forward with the minute hand and the second hand. They led the world in discovering better ways to manufacture the gears, hearings, and mainsprings of watches. They even led the way in waterproofing techniques and self-winding models. By 1968, the Swiss made 65 percent of all watches sold in the world and laid claim to as much as 90 percent of the profits.\nBy 1980, however, they had laid off thousands of watch-makers and controlled less than 10 percent of the world market. Their profit domination dropped to less than 20 percent. Between 1979 and 1981, fifty thousand of the sixty-two thou-sand Swiss watchmakers lost their jobs. Why? The Swiss had refused to consider a new development\u2014the\u2014the Quartz movement\u2014ironically, invented by a Swiss. Because it had no main-spring or knob, it was rejected. It was too much of a paradigm shift for them to embrace. Seiko, on the other hand, accepted it and, along with a few other companies, became the leader in the watch industry.\nThe lesson of the Swiss watchmakers Is profound. A past that was so secure, so profitable, so dominant was destroyed by an unwillingness to consider the future. It was more than not being able to make predictions\u2014it was an inability to re-think how they did business. Past success had blinded them to the importance of seeing the implications of the changing world and to admit that past accomplishment was no guarantee of future success.\nHow do we change our churches? Not by starting a new program. Not by starting a new outreach. It begins when pastors and teachers engage the culture\u2026.. not compromising to the culture. We need to challenge the belief\u2019s and morals of today. Preach the truth of the word of God fearlessly and you will be relevant in today\u2019s society. The church is not a watch maker but we are watchmen! We are called to warn and to prepare. If you do that you will always be relevant.\nDon\u2019t be ashamed to look at today\u2019s culture through the lens of the eternally relevant word of God. Your church will come right along with you and the community will be attracted to your church. People want to hear the word of God. They don\u2019t want some watered down, milk sop version. They want the truth! Give it to them\u2026.now!\nAnother thing\u2026.not every sermon has to be evangelistic! Preach to the church! Edify the saints! Of course, we give the gospel every message. But we give 45 minute invitations and twenty minute sermons. No wonder our churches are floundering in the faith.\nThink about this pastors\u2026\u2026.Your church will be more effective being EQUIPPED by the preacher than being INSPIRED by the preacher! 90 percent of people come to church because someone in the church invited them and shared their faith with them. Only six percent come to a church because of the preacher. Sorry preachers, you thought it was all about you. NO\u2026It\u2019s about you being relevant to your church, edifying your church, equipping your church with Biblically uncompromising preaching. A church that does that will never be out of business, God\u2019s business will flourish.\nIt is like the beggar in the movie \"Monty Python's Life of Brian.\" Brian and his mother are walking through town and get hit up by a beggar. \"Alms for an ex-leper. Alms for an ex-leper, please.\" And Brian says: \"What do you mean an ex-leper?\" And the leper says: \"Well I was cured\" \"Who cured you?\" Brian says. And the leper says: \"That Jesus fellow.\" He says: \"Now I have a hard time making a living, all I've ever known how to do is beg.\" And Brian says: \"Well why don't you go back and ask him to make you a leper again?\" And the leper says: \"Well, I might not like that. Maybe he could just make me a leper during working hours or something.\"\nSo Brian just sighs, drops a coin into his cup and walks away. And the ex-leper looks into his cup and says: \"A half a dinari! Look at this - he only gives me a half a dinari!\" And Brian says: \"Some people are never satisfied.\" To which the leper replies: \"That's just what Jesus said!\"\nThe secret to satisfaction is no secret at all. We think that satisfaction is something out there always seems just beyond our grasp. If we could just make more money, if we could just get a better job, if we just lived in a bigger house, etc, etc.\nIf you are to be satisfied in life it depends on making the right choice. There are only two choices\u2026pursue our own path to satisfaction or pursue God\u2019s path. To follow our own course is a path of uncertainty and is full of pitfalls and danger. You may reach temporary satisfaction but it will never last. Like grains of sand, satisfaction slips through your fingers. And off we go again reaching for that elusive goal of satisfaction that we can never fully reach on our own. Proverbs 27:20 says \u201cHell and destruction are never full; so the eyes of man are never satisfied. \u201c Ecc 5:10 says \u201cHe that loveth silver shall not be satisfied with silver; nor he that loveth abundance with increase: this is also vanity.\u201d\nThe Bible tells us plainly that we can find complete satisfaction and contentment in this life. Joel 2:26 \u201cAnd ye shall eat in plenty, and be satisfied, and praise the name of the LORD your God, that hath dealt wondrously with you: and my people shall never be ashamed.\u201d Psalms 6:35 \u201cMy soul shall be satisfied as with marrow and fatness; and my mouth shall praise thee with joyful lips.\u201d\nThe scripture says \"Whoever believes in him will not be Ashamed.\u201d That word for ashamed is \u201cdisappointed.\" Romans 10:11. You make look to the highest mountain and down to the lowest valley but you will never find another like Jesus!\nI can say this by my own experiences in life; satisfaction, joy and contentment are only found through faith in Jesus Christ. I have been up and I have been down in life, but one thing I can say for sure, when I think of Jesus Christ as my Lord and Savior, though I have disappointed Him, He has never, ever disappointed me! And there is nothing else in this old world that could satisfy my thirsty soul but Jesus!\nSome people are never satisfied, but I have never met one person who truly follows Jesus who is not satisfied with Him. Forever He is faithful, Amen!\nDo you rush, cuss, shout and become generally unpleasant on Sunday mornings? Do you complain about church? Are you irregular in your attendance? Are you overly-conscientious about matters that are not really important? Do you always criticize the pastor, the choir, the length of services and the songs? Then don't be surprised if your children grow up to look at Sundays as the worst day of the week.\nConcerning the importance of taking one day a week to worship I found this story. One man challenged another to an all-day wood chopping contest. The challenger worked very hard, stopping only for a brief lunch break. The other man had a leisurely lunch and took several breaks during the day. At the end of the day, the challenger was surprised and annoyed to find that the other fellow had chopped substantially more wood than he had. \"I don't get it,\" he said. \"Every time I checked, you were taking a rest, yet you chopped more wood than I did.\" \"But you didn't notice,\" said the winning woodsman, \"that I was sharpening my ax while I was resting.\"\nThe citizens of Feldkirch, Austria, didn't know what to do. Napoleon's massive army was preparing to attack. Soldiers had been spotted on the heights above the little town, which was situated on the Austrian border. A council of citizens was hastily summoned to decide whether they should try to defend themselves or display the white flag of surrender. It happened to be Easter Sunday, and the people had gathered in the local church. The pastor rose and said, \"Friends, we have been counting on our own strength, and apparently that has failed. As this is the day of our Lord's resurrection, let us just ring the bells, have our services as usual, and leave the matter in His hands. We know only our weakness, and not the power of God to defend us.\" The council accepted his plan and the church bells rang. The enemy, hearing the ringing, concluded that the Austrian army had arrived during the night to defend the town. Before the service ended, the enemy broke camp and left.\nWe worship God as creator, Lord, Savior and Sustainer of all things. Hebrews 10:25 \u201cNot forsaking the assembling of ourselves together, as the manner of some is; but exhorting one another: and so much the more, as ye see the day approaching.\u201d The Bible encourages us to gather to worship for the day of the Lord is approaching. We need His power and His wisdom for these days.\nSo why do you not worship? What possible excuse for not worshiping could you give to Jesus Christ when you meet Him face to face? I know in many areas of our world they do not have Biblical preaching and teaching churches. In Martin County of course not all churches teach the truth but we have many that do. 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Liverpool\u2019s football hasn\u2019t always been as fluent and full-throttle as last season, but the results have been better, and perhaps that\u2019s no accident.\nIt continues to be a case of J\u00fcrgen Klopp improving the players he inherited and having an insanely good hit-rate with transfers.\nI had few genuine worries about Fabinho after his delayed introduction to this Liverpool side, although it\u2019s always a little unsettling when a new player doesn\u2019t even make the bench. Of course, there\u2019s not room for everyone in the starting XI, which some people seem to forget when listing 15 players who \u201cshould be starting\u201d. (Basically, Salah, Man\u00e9, Firmino, Sturridge and Shaqiri should all be starting every game, from what I sometimes see online.)\nIn large part my calmness over the new Brazilian was down to how Klopp introduced players last season. If you weren\u2019t paying attention then, then why be baffled now?", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00240.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 263, + "original_length": 8336, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.97, + "perplexity": 314.7, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "https://touristsinisrael.com/2016/09/22/lydda-or-lod/", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T04:17:14Z", + "digest": "sha1:BOOP42NXVCQBT2JYAT6SUN6SXPG34IGY", + "length": 3605, + "nlines": 20, + "source_domain": "touristsinisrael.com", + "title": "Lydda or Lod \u2013 Tourists in Israel", + "raw_content": "Lydda, on the Plain of Sharon where Peter healed Aeneas, was home to one of the earliest Christian communities in the Holy Land (Acts 9:32). The name is derived from the Biblical city of Lod, and it was a significant Judean town from the Maccabean Period to the early Christian period. Map.\nLod church of saint george and mosque\nThe initial settlement of the city is at 5600\u20135250 BC, and was a Canaan city. In 43 BC, Cassius, the Roman governor of Syria, sold the inhabitants of Lod into slavery, but they were set free two years later by Mark Antony. During the First Jewish\u2013Roman War, the Roman proconsul of Syria, Cestius Gallus, razed the town on his way to Jerusalem in 66 CE. It was occupied by Emperor Vespasian in 68 CE.\nIn 200 CE, emperor Septimius Severus elevated the town to the status of a city, calling it Colonia Lucia Septimia Severa Diospolis. The name Diospolis (\u201cCity of Zeus\u201d) may have been bestowed earlier, possibly by Hadrian. At that point, most of its inhabitants were Christian. The earliest known bishop is A\u00ebtius, a friend of Arius. In December 415, the Council of Diospolis was held here to try Pelagius; he was acquitted.\nTomb of Saint George\nIn the sixth century, the city was renamed Georgiopolis after St. George, a soldier in the guard of the emperor Diocletian, who was born there between 256 and 285 CE. The Church of St. George is named for him.\nMadaba Map, 6th century CE., showing Lod(at left)\nThe Madaba map shows Lydda as an unwalled city under a black inscription with a cluster of buildings. An isolated building with a columnated plaza in front of it might represent the St. George shrine.\nIn 1869 (during the Ottoman era) , the population of Lydda (or Ludd as it was called then) was given as: 55 Catholics, 1,940 \u201cGreeks\u201d, 5 Protestants and 4,850 Muslims. In 1870, the Church of Saint George was rebuilt. In 1892, the first railway station in the entire region was established in the city. In the second half of the 19th century, Jewish merchants migrated to the city, but left after the 1921 Jaffa riots.\nLydda, 1903\nAt the time of the 1922 census of Palestine, Lydda had a population of 8,103; 7,166 Muslims, 11 Jews and 926 Christians, the Christians were 921 Orthodox, 4 Roman Catholics and 1 Melkite. This had increased by the 1931 census to 11,250; 10,002 Muslims, 28 Jews, 1,210 Christians and 10 Bahai, in a total of 2,475 houses.\nDuring the 1948 Arab\u2013Israeli War most of the city\u2019s Arab inhabitants were expelled in the 1948 Palestinian exodus from Lydda and Ramle. The town was resettled by Jewish immigrants, most of them from Arab countries, alongside 1,056 Arabs who remained.\nIsrael\u2019s main international airport, Ben Gurion International Airport (previously known as Lydda Airport, RAF Lydda, and Lod Airport) is located on the outskirts of the city.\nSaint Georges de Lydda en Turc\nLydda is now a modern city between Jerusalem and Tel Aviv, but it still bears the ancient Hebrew name of Lod. It was founded by a Benjaminite family (1 Chron. 8:12) and later reestablished by Jews returning from Babylonian captivity (Ezra 2:33). St. George the dragon-slayer, a Roman soldier who became a Christian, and a symbol of Christianity\u2019s victory over paganism, is said to have been born here.\nTomb of St. George in Lydda\nThe beautiful St. George\u2019s church in Lydda\u2019s Old City, rebuilt in 1871 on medieval ruins, is an interesting place to visit. Tradition has it that St. George was chained here by captors who tried unsuccessfully to dissuade him from his faith.\nPhone St. George\u2019s church: +972-8-922-2023\nPrevious Hill of Evil Counsel\nNext Maps of Tzfat", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00240.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 348, + "original_length": 23846, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.97, + "perplexity": 140.3, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "https://tradebraggervideos.com/market-traders-institute-6/", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T04:04:03Z", + "digest": "sha1:X5GDVH72Z2FTREZZVFL7NPABYCX7KXN7", + "length": 113, + "nlines": 2, + "source_domain": "tradebraggervideos.com", + "title": "Market Traders Institute", + "raw_content": "Uploaded by Ashley Ponce on October 3, 2016 at 6:12 am\nDo not go here for education, it is appalling to education", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00240.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 118, + "original_length": 3277, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.97, + "perplexity": 131.0, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "https://transfercar.desk.com/customer/portal/questions/16683085-ferry-cancelled-due-to-weather-inability-to-drive-to-final-location?b_id=2761", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T04:24:11Z", + "digest": "sha1:KLLJOBPH6UMV6QRMHVTQHHEBU4TL2IAI", + "length": 214, + "nlines": 4, + "source_domain": "transfercar.desk.com", + "title": "Transfercar | Ferry Cancelled Due to Weather - Inabili...", + "raw_content": "Ferry Cancelled Due to Weather...\nLiz \u2014 Sep 14, 2016 12:34PM NZST\nBonnie - Sep 14, 2016 at 12:38PM NZST\nThis is a variable that is discussed between you and the rental operator as there will be a number of options.", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00240.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 71, + "original_length": 1535, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.94, + "perplexity": 225.0, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "https://travel-trends.co.uk/features/industry-trends/", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T03:29:54Z", + "digest": "sha1:R7HBPT3GBN2EOFDTSXRRCN6UCXUSPA4Y", + "length": 814, + "nlines": 9, + "source_domain": "travel-trends.co.uk", + "title": "Industry Trends Archives | Travel Trends", + "raw_content": "Home/Industry Trends\nFive not-so-obvious travel trends\nJo Fletcher-Cross, editor of our Travel Trends publications, and our editorial manager at APL Media Limited, takes a look at [...]\nJo Jo Fletcher-Cross\t2018-06-22T14:17:29+00:00\tJune 22nd, 2018|\nBritish Museum tops most-visited attraction list despite drop in visitors\nThe British Museum has been named the number-one tourist attraction in the UK once again, with 5.9 million visits in 2017. However, even though the musuem retained the top spot, visits actually fell by 8% from 2016.\nJohn Fitzsimons\t2018-08-21T12:26:11+00:00\tMay 25th, 2018|\nIt\u2019s about time\u2026 Ditching plastics\nThe issue of single-use plastics is a hot topic, thanks in no small part to last year\u2019s eye-opening BBC series Blue Planet 2, which seemed to bring public opinion to a tipping point", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00240.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 43, + "original_length": 1875, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.9, + "perplexity": 310.2, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "https://travel-trotter.com/2017/03/08/cerro-fitz-roy-and-el-calafate/", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T04:53:24Z", + "digest": "sha1:CKWO7X2BXYQ7KV62MAGDHJOFQQSAJA4U", + "length": 5153, + "nlines": 8, + "source_domain": "travel-trotter.com", + "title": "Cerro Fitz Roy and El Calafate \u2013 Travel-Trotter", + "raw_content": "The next day was sunny from the time we woke up, we ate our continental breakfast at the hotel whick included poppyseed cake, dulce de leche and other treats, I think we finally realized the kids are probably getting too much sugar in the morning. We set off for a hike to the Mirador Cerro Fitz Roy trail. Our most difficult trail yet with the kids, 8 kilometers, the first half all up hill. The hike started out with Julie having a huge fit over who got to wear mittens that were brought on the hike. The rest of the girls took turns whining the rest of the way up the hill and we busted out bars and other food well before we thought necessary but it got us through. We brought our lunch with us and the ranger suggested a loop at the top to a lake but we were lucky to get to the lookout point. There were incredible views all the way up the trail of the Rio de las Vueltas and it\u2019s respective river valley.\nThen at the top the view of Cerro Fitz Roy was something to behold, worth all the whining and dragging the kids up the hill. The way back down it was a bit easier but the sun went behinds some high clouds so the temperature dropped a few degrees.\nAs a reward for finishing the hike we all went and got some ice cream and got some well deserved ipad time. We packed up our stuff and headed out for El Calafate the next day.\nThe drive to El Calafate was very easy, all paved roads, we picked up hitch-hikers as this seems to be our default these days. We entered town and dropped our passengers off and headed off to our hosteria, which turned out to be a good deal for the town, the folks at the place were trying to get us to pay the VAT tax that Argentineans pay but foreigner are exempt from. They finally relented and we got into our place. We had a kitchen and living room with beds upstairs but the stairs tread would not meet standards in the U.S. and are a bit scary in the morning.\nWe ate lunch out in the town and it cost us nearly $100 for a basic lunch ouch, guess we will be eating in. We grabbed some food at the grocery store and ate dinner at home after walking through town. Although the El Calafate is very spread out and much larger than El Chalten the down town seemed more condensed into one area. After dinner we identified a playground out near the shores of Lago Argentino, so we grabbed the kids and walked out with glass of wine in hand. On our way out we ran into some folks that were staying in our previous hotel lodging. They of course couldn\u2019t have been nicer, they were drinking wine too and we chatted for a while before being dragged off by the kids to a very nice playground with one of the best that we seen. The kids played for a while, Maddy chased them for a while and then I took over; we were having a great time until another kid punched Julie in the face, the boy apologized but we decided to leave. I did go back out for groceries and caught an incredible sunset, just reminded me that we should be doing a better job of watching the orbital bodies in our sky.\nThe next day was clear-ish so we ventured out to the Puerto Moreno Glacier, the biggest attraction in this area, the glacier is pushing out of the mountains into a system of lakes. We were able to approach the glacier from the opposite lake shore and got very close to the edge of the glacier. The glacier was very active and you could routinely see calving of the of ice off the glacier. When we were there many small bits came off which made spectacularly loud noises when they hit the water. Overall the glacier was awesome and probably the largest and most active I have seen.\nThe glacier is also unique that it extends and retracts pinching off the lake from time to time, this can cause an icebridge to form and eventually when the water breaks through a flood of water comes racing between the two lakes but this only happens every 5-10 years.\nThe next day was a work and school day, the kids and I went to the glacier museum and learned lots about the history and formation of glacier in the area including a 3D movie. The museum had a good warning about global warming and its effects on glaciers and other issues caused by warming temperatures. It turned sunny in the afternoon and Maddy watched the kids after she was done with work so I got some time to wander the town after putting the kids to bed I met up with our friend Pejman from Casa Ludwig that night for a drink. The next day it rained nearly from morning to night, another good day for working and schooling, we did manage to get out to the local natural history museum (museo \u2013 centro de interpretacion historica calafate; http://www.museocalafate.com.ar). We braved the rain and had fun looking at the dinosaurs that inhabited this area of the world hundreds of millions of years ago, they also had a great exhibit on pre-historical man in the area, much of it was in Spanish so I had to continually remind the kids that humans and dinosaurs didn\u2019t live at the same time. The kids then reminded me that birds were descended from dinosaurs, they are too smart for their own good sometimes. We packed up our apartment and set off for Torres del Paine the next day.", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00240.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 58, + "original_length": 6649, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.98, + "perplexity": 320.7, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "https://trends.cmf-fmc.ca/fr/women-reap-greater-crowdfunding-success-than-men/", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T04:03:19Z", + "digest": "sha1:TAJZJXQBRBLQKXWVZY4TJ7DZCXRYXLQS", + "length": 4832, + "nlines": 23, + "source_domain": "trends.cmf-fmc.ca", + "title": "Women reap greater crowdfunding success than men - FMC Veille", + "raw_content": "Accueil Pratiques d\u2019affaires Diversit\u00e9/Parit\u00e9 Women reap greater crowdfunding success than men\nIt may be difficult for women to enter the world of business, a world in which male entrepreneurs often have easier access to traditional funding sources. Several studies have demonstrated it. However, crowdfunding seems to be changing that completely. At least, that is what emerges from the Women unbound: Unleashing female entrepreneurial potential global report by PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC). The report\u2019s main findings are presented below\n\u201cWomen are better at crowdfunding than men.\u201d That is how the Women unbound report begins. The report was produced by PwC in collaboration with The Crowdfunding Center research firm.\nIndeed, the study, which analyzed 450,000 crowdfunding campaigns conducted throughout the world in 2015 and 2016, demonstrates that women are 32% more successful than men when it comes to organizing a campaign. Interestingly, the gap is observed everywhere on the planet and in all sectors of activity, including male-dominated ones such as technology. In Canada, women achieve a rate of success of 20% compared to 17% for men.\nThis statistic is in stark contrast with observations regarding traditional funding. For example, in the United Kingdom, male entrepreneurs are 86% more likely than their female counterparts to obtain venture capital financing and 59% more likely to obtain funding from angel investors.\nWhat explains this dichotomy? \u201cCrowdfunding is subject to rules that differ from those that apply to the traditional sales and marketing sectors. A story needs to be told and a relationship must be built. Simply meeting a need does not cut it. Seeing as women tend to be better than men when it comes to relationships, it\u2019s something that comes to them more naturally than men,\u201d claims Kay Klug, cofounder of The Crowdfunding Center.\nTraditional funding is also dominated by men, who make up 93% of the partners of the 100 largest venture capital firms in the world. In a crowdfunding scenario, it is the general population that is solicited.\nWomen raise more money on average from each and every donor (but not everywhere)\nIn 2015 and 2016, on a global scale, the average amount donated to a crowdfunding campaign led by a woman was US$87 versus US$83 in the case of a campaign led by a man.\nHowever, these figures are strongly influenced by American and British data. In Italy (US$133 vs. US$98), Asia (US$105 vs. US$80) and Australia (US$116 vs. US$75), the trend is completely opposite. The same applies to Canada, where men collect an average of US$82.95 per donation compared to US$66.98 for women.\nThe amounts donated and the gap between men and women also vary substantially with respect to the field in which a campaign is led. For example, women raise a lot more money than men for educational projects (US$188 vs. US$72), but do much worse when it comes to business projects (US$92 vs. US$118).\nThe largest campaigns have been organized by men\nEven though women raise more money per donor on average than men in crowdfunding campaigns, male entrepreneurs are generally at the head of the largest campaigns.\nOf all the campaigns having raised over US$1 million in the world in 2015 and 2016, only 11% were led by women. In the list of the most lucrative campaigns, the first one led by a woman ranks only 18th.\nHowever, the gap between men and women recedes when it comes to more modest campaigns.\nThe authors of the Women unbound report nevertheless observe a certain level of progress: after all, in 2014, a mere 7% of all campaigns having raised over US$1 million were led by women.\nMen organize a greater number of campaigns\nUnfortunately, women also lag behind when it comes to the total sums raised. On a global scale, in 2015 and 2016, women collected a total of US$196 million through crowdfunding, compared to US$654 million in the case of men. The reason for this is simple: there are twice as many men than there are women who launch crowdfunding campaigns.\nThe same applies to Canada, where 3,109 campaigns were launched by women (for a total of US$6.9 million) compared to 7,157 by men (for a total of US$28 million).\nObviously, the gap is attributable to the fact that there are generally more men than women in business. In Canada in 2011, only 15.5% of SMEs were majority owned by women according to Statistics Canada.\nIn short, parity is still far from becoming a reality but crowdfunding nevertheless shows encouraging signs for women. To quote PwC\u2019s report: \u201cThanks to crowdfunding, female entrepreneurs can now access the market directly \u2013 and this makes a huge difference.\u201d\nArticle pr\u00e9c\u00e9dentRapport de surveillance des communications 2017 du CRTC : la mont\u00e9e de la t\u00e9l\u00e9 sur Internet\nArticle suivantShot Lister: zoom sur le d\u00e9veloppement d\u2019une appli \u00e0 grand succ\u00e8s", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00240.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 142, + "original_length": 8847, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.95, + "perplexity": 200.4, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "https://trialsjournal.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s13063-018-2547-1", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T03:55:49Z", + "digest": "sha1:VHCSGDFSEPH4THVTMR5DO7H7OXLKMJOC", + "length": 49053, + "nlines": 129, + "source_domain": "trialsjournal.biomedcentral.com", + "title": "Evaluation of mindfulness-based cognitive therapy for life and a cognitive behavioural therapy stress-management workshop to improve healthcare staff stress: study protocol for two randomised controlled trials | Trials | Full Text", + "raw_content": "Evaluation of mindfulness-based cognitive therapy for life and a cognitive behavioural therapy stress-management workshop to improve healthcare staff stress: study protocol for two randomised controlled trials\nClara Strauss1, 2Email authorView ORCID ID profile,\nJenny Gu1, 2,\nNikki Pitman2,\nCavita Chapman2, 3,\nWillem Kuyken4 and\nAdrian Whittington2, 3\nHealthcare workers experience higher levels of work-related stress and higher rates of sickness absence than workers in other sectors. Psychological approaches have potential in providing healthcare workers with the knowledge and skills to recognise stress and to manage stress effectively. The strongest evidence for effectiveness in reducing stress in the workplace is for stress-management courses based on cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) principles and mindfulness-based interventions (MBIs). However, research examining effects of these interventions on sickness absence (an objective indicator of stress) and compassion for others (an indicator of patient care) is limited, as is research on brief CBT stress-management courses (which may be more widely accessible) and on MBIs adapted for workplace settings.\nThis protocol is for two randomised controlled trials with participant preference between the two trials and 1:1 allocation to intervention or wait-list within the preferred choice. The first trial is examining a one-day CBT stress-management workshop and the second trial an 8-session Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy for Life (MBCT-L) course, with both trials comparing intervention to wait-list. The primary outcome for both trials is stress post-intervention with secondary outcomes being sickness absence, compassion for others, depression symptoms, anxiety symptoms, wellbeing, work-related burnout, self-compassion, presenteeism, and mindfulness (MBCT-L only). Both trials aim to recruit 234 staff working in the National Health Service in the UK.\nThis trial will examine whether a one-day CBT stress-management workshop and an 8-session MBCT-L course are effective at reducing healthcare staff stress and other mental health outcomes compared to wait-list, and, whether these interventions are effective at reducing sickness absence and presenteeism and at enhancing wellbeing, self-compassion, mindfulness and compassion for others. Findings will help inform approaches offered to reduce healthcare staff stress and other key variables. A note of caution is that individual-level approaches should only be part of the solution to reducing healthcare staff stress within a broader focus on organisational-level interventions and support.\nISRCTN Registry, ISRCTN11723441. Registered on 16 June 2017.\nProtocol Version 1: 24 April 2017.\nTrial Sponsor: Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust (ResearchGovernance@sussexpartnership.nhs.uk).\nMBCT-L\nHealthcare workers experience disproportionately high levels of work-related stress. A recent survey in the USA found that stress was higher in healthcare workers than in any other industry, with 69% of staff reporting feeling stressed and 17% reporting high levels of stress [1]. The picture is similar elsewhere. In the UK, for example, 37% of staff working in the National Health Service (NHS) report feeling unwell due to work-related stress [30] and NHS staff are more likely to experience work-related stress compared to staff from any other public sector profession, with 61% feeling stressed all or most of the time [20]. Sickness absence is also highest in the NHS out of all the large public sector organisations [31]. In addition to the serious personal and economic consequences, high levels of stress in healthcare staff may negatively impact on patient care and safety [18]. There is therefore a need to find effective ways of reducing healthcare staff stress and interventions based on psychological theory and related psychological therapeutic interventions provide one potential solution.\nIt is first helpful to clarify what we mean by stress. The transactional theory of stress has arguably been most influential in recent decades [25, 26]. This suggests that stress is neither a property of situations and nor is it a property of the person. Rather, stress occurs as a transaction, or interaction between the situation and the person and arises as a consequence of the person\u2019s appraisal of the situation. The primary appraisal concerns whether the situation is perceived as a threat to the person, and the secondary appraisal concerns whether the person perceives they have the resources (including personal resources) to cope with the threat [26]. This theory has been applied to a wide variety of contexts, including the workplace [24]. The transactional theory of stress is potentially helpful in empowering people to identify stress-related appraisals and choosing how best to respond, even in the context of highly demanding workplace situations. Cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) and Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy (MBCT) are two psychological approaches that could facilitate increased awareness of stress-related (and other) appraisals, re-evaluation or non-judgmental acceptance of these appraisals and greater awareness of choices available of how best to respond.\nA meta-review found that stress-management interventions based on CBT have the strongest evidence for effectiveness in reducing work-related stress [21]. CBT stress-management involves identifying how thoughts (including appraisals), feelings, behaviours and physical sensations interact to contribute to stress, and using this information to identify strategies for preventing or reducing stress. Strategies may include identifying and re-evaluating the accuracy of stress-related thoughts (appraisals), identifying behaviours that contribute to stress and choosing alternative, more helpful behaviours, and identifying strategies to reduce physiological arousal associated with stress. By intervening in this way, the stress-related maintenance cycle between thoughts, feelings, behaviours and physical sensations can be broken and replaced with a stress-relieving maintenance cycle.\nThere is also growing evidence that mindfulness-based interventions (MBIs) improve stress in healthcare staff [9, 12, 14, 37, 41], including in NHS settings [28]. Mindfulness is characterised by non-judgemental awareness and acceptance of present-moment experiences (thoughts, feelings, sensations etc.), and greater awareness of helpful behavioural choices available. Mindfulness-based cognitive therapy (MBCT) [35] integrates aspects of CBT within an MBI and was originally developed to prevent depressive relapse, for which it has well-established benefits [23]. A recent adaptation for non-clinical populations that draws on the same structure and techniques as MBCT is MBCT for life (MBCT-L) [5]. Adaptations within MBCT-L include a greater focus on wellbeing, appreciation and gratitude, making this better suited in workplace settings.\nIn summary, there is good evidence that CBT stress-management interventions and MBIs are effective at reducing work-related stress. However, there some important gaps in the current literature.\nOne gap is establishing if benefits extend to reduced sickness absence. Sickness absence is estimated to cost the NHS 2.5% of its entire budget [33]. This reduces the budget available for patient care whilst placing an additional strain on staff to cover the duties of the absent member of staff, which in turn may lead to increased levels of stress and greater risk of sickness absence for staff remaining at work. Randomised controlled trial (RCT) evidence is lacking examining the potential of CBT stress-management and MBIs to reduce sickness absence.\nA second gap is in investigating if the benefits of these interventions on healthcare staff stress extend to variables associated with improved patient care. There is evidence from cross-sectional studies that healthcare staff stress is associated with compromised patient safety [18], but evidence is limited as to whether interventions such as CBT stress-management and MBIs might have a causal effect on indicators of patient care such as the capacity for compassion for others. Compassion has been defined as a multi-faceted capacity involving the ability to recognise suffering, understand the universality of human suffering, feel for the person suffering, tolerate uncomfortable feelings, and the motivation to act/acting to alleviate suffering [39]. Both CBT stress-management and MBCT-L might have an effect on compassion for others (including patients) by increasing awareness of present-moment thoughts, feelings and physical reactions, cultivating understanding of human suffering as universal (as both approaches conceptualise distress using universal psychological frameworks) and increasing awareness of choices available to act to alleviate suffering.\nA third gap is evidence for brief CBT stress-management interventions [21] that may be more readily accessible to healthcare staff in increasingly demanding healthcare settings. Whilst we would advocate giving sufficient time for staff to attend to their own wellbeing, we also acknowledge that many healthcare staff would struggle to attend interventions over several sessions. However, brief CBT stress-management may not be effective in comparison to their longer counterpart interventions [21] and research is needed to assess effectiveness.\nFinally, a fourth gap concerns the evidence for MBCT-L. This is a newly developed intervention, designed for non-clinical settings, but we cannot assume that the benefits of MBCT for preventing depressive relapse [23] will extend to MBCT-L reducing stress in healthcare staff.\nThis protocol is for two RCTs examining the effectiveness of two interventions for staff working in the NHS: (1) MBCT-L and (2) CBT-based stress management. Staff will select one of these two interventions and then will be randomly assigned to either the intervention arm or to the wait-list arm within their preferred choice. Our intention in offering staff a choice between these two interventions is to increase accessibility and choice, acknowledging that no one intervention is likely to meet the needs of all staff.\nGiven the existing evidence for these interventions is predominantly in stress-reduction, the primary hypothesis is that both interventions will be more effective than the wait-list at reducing stress post-intervention. Secondary hypotheses are that both interventions will be more effective than the wait-list post-intervention in: (1) reducing sickness absence; (2) improving compassion for others; (3) reducing anxiety symptoms; (4) reducing depression symptoms; (5) reducing work-related burnout; (6) improving compassion for self; (7) improving wellbeing; (8) reducing presenteeism and (9) improving mindfulness (in MBCT-L participants only). We also plan to explore participants\u2019 experiences of their chosen intervention using thematic analysis of semi-structured interviews.\nThis protocol is for a study of two superiority RCTs with participant preference between the two interventions with 1:1 allocation to either intervention or wait-list within the preferred choice. The randomisation procedure will be web-based and automated; the allocation sequence will be generated and participants randomised using block randomisation by Qualtrics (www.qualtrics.com), the online survey software. Members of the research team involved in the day-to-day management of the study will be blind to block size. Assessments will be completed online by participants at baseline and post-intervention, independent from members of the research team, to reduce risk of bias associated with researcher-administered assessments.\nSample size calculations were conducted using G*Power [13]. The study aims to have 140 participants giving complete data sets at baseline and post-intervention within each part of the study (i.e. aiming for 140 MBCT-L and 140 CBT study completers). Given the pressures on staff time and the online data collection method, it is conservatively assumed that 40% of participants will fail to complete measures post-intervention. This means that we aim to recruit 234 participants into each part of the study.\nSample size calculations are based on an estimated medium between-group effect on post-intervention stress outcomes (Cohen\u2019s d = .50) between the intervention and wait-list arms with 90% power and p = .05. For MBCT-L, the estimated medium effect size is based on between-group post-intervention effects on stress reported in previous trials of MBIs for healthcare staff [9, 12, 14]. For the CBT stress-management workshop it was not possible to estimate the effect directly based on published trials as previous research has evaluated CBT stress-management interventions running over several sessions. We therefore assume that the effect size will be smaller in the current study than the large effect reported in a meta-analysis of multiple-session CBT stress-management interventions in the workplace [34] and therefore estimate a medium effect size.\nTen participants from the intervention arm of each RCT, who provide complete data sets at baseline and post-intervention and who complete their allocated intervention, will be interviewed about their experiences of their intervention. The sample size for the qualitative interviews is based on recommendations for thematic analysis from Braun and Clarke [7].\nParticipants will be members of staff working in one of four NHS Trusts in the South of England (three mental health Trusts and one community Trust) with each Trust employing between 2500 and 5000 members of staff. Inclusion criteria are that participants (1) are employed by (or working in an honorary/voluntary capacity for) one of the four NHS trusts, (2) are currently in work (i.e. not currently on sickness absence), (3) have sufficient English language ability to understand intervention information and questionnaire content and (4) are adults (aged 18 years or older). There are no exclusion criteria.\nRecruitment is planned to take place between July and December 2017. The Consolidated Standards of Reporting Trials (CONSORT) diagram showing participant flow through the study is shown in Fig. 1. The study will be advertised to all Trust staff through adverts placed on intranets and staff bulletins. In addition, information about the study will be emailed to all staff. Participants consenting to take part in the study will first choose their preferred intervention. Staff can take part in one of the two studies, but not both. This will be checked to ensure that all consenting participants are enrolled in one of the two studies only. Following consent, participants will be sent a standardised e-mail by the research team containing a link to the baseline assessment measures hosted on Qualtrics based on their selected intervention (Time 0). Upon completion of baseline measures, participants will be randomised to their preferred intervention or to the wait-list for their preferred intervention. They will be sent a standardised e-mail informing them of their allocation and details of their intervention. After participants have completed their intervention or wait-list time period, they will be sent a standardised e-mail asking them to complete post-intervention measures online (Time 1). MBCT-L participants will be sent the link to post-intervention measures immediately after completion of the intervention. CBT participants will be invited to complete post-intervention measures one month after workshop completion. The research team will not be present for any of the online assessments (at baseline and post-intervention); measures will be completed by participants online and in their own time. To promote study retention, where necessary participants will be emailed at weekly intervals for up to 4 weeks with a reminder to complete their post-intervention assessment. Potential errors with data entry will be minimised as data will be entered by participants online.\nCONSORT flow diagram showing participant flow through the study. NHS, National Health Service; CBT, cognitive behavioural therapy; MBCT-L, mindfulness-based cognitive therapy for life\nTen participants from each intervention arm, who complete both baseline and post-intervention measures, will be invited to take part in an optional phone interview about their experiences of their preferred intervention.\nMindfulness-based cognitive therapy for life\nMBCT-L [5] is an adaptation of MBCT originally developed by Segal, Williams and Teasdale [35, 36]. MBCT was originally developed for people with a history of recurrent depression at risk of depressive relapse and integrates CBT strategies with mindfulness practice and inquiry about practice. MBCT-L was developed to be applicable to the general population across the spectrum of wellbeing and draws on the same structure and techniques as MBCT. MBCT-L is an 8-week group intervention (with a pre-course orientation session) where participants are guided in mindfulness practice and engage with a range of CBT strategies. In this study, each group will be led by one or two MBCT teachers and will consist of up to 15 participants. Each session will take 2 h and participants will be invited to complete approximately 40 min per day of mindfulness practice and other home tasks. Content in the sessions will include guided mindfulness practices, inquiry into experiences following practices, weekly homework review, and teaching/discussion of CBT skills. The teachers leading the groups will have completed MBCT teacher training and will meet MBCT teacher criteria set out by the UK Network of Mindfulness-Based Teacher Training Organisations. Teachers will have completed additional MBCT-L training. Supervision will be provided on at least three occasions per group by a teacher who meets the supervisor criteria set out by the UK Network of Mindfulness-Based Teacher Training Organisations and who has attended 2-day MBCT-L training. Intervention completion is defined as attending at least four of the eight sessions.\nThis 1-day (6 h) workshop will teach participants CBT approaches to managing work-related stress. The workshop is divided into three broad sections. The first part of the workshop introduces a CBT formulation of work-related stress, drawing on the transactional theory of stress [25, 26] and the CBT maintenance cycle highlighting the inter-relationships between thoughts, feelings, physical sensations and behaviours, within work (and other) contexts. Participants will have the opportunity to formulate their own work-related stress experiences within these frameworks. The second part of the workshop overviews strategies to intervene in the maintenance cycle, with a particular focus on cognitive and behavioural strategies. The third part of the workshop encourages participants to identify specific, measurable, attainable, relevant and timely (SMART) goals, drawing on learning from the workshop and making a commitment between participants to progress towards these goals. Each workshop will consist of up to 20 participants and will be facilitated by two mental health practitioners, who demonstrate the following skills and experience between them: (1) a qualified CBT therapist or practitioner psychologist who works with CBT as their primary therapeutic model; (2) experience of facilitating therapeutic workshops or groups and (3) a senior grade within their NHS trust or a registered mental health professional with significant experience working in their NHS trust. All facilitators will attend a 1-day training event led by a clinical psychologist and CBT therapist who developed the workshop materials and will receive at least one telephone consultation session. Intervention completion is defined as attending the whole of the 1-day workshop.\nThe primary outcome measure will be the 7-item stress subscale from the 21-item short version of the Depression, Anxiety, and Stress Scales (DASS-21) [27]. The stress subscale of the DASS-21 measures the severity of core symptoms associated with stress. Participants are asked to indicate the presence of each symptom over the past week. Responses are given on a 4-point Likert scale, ranging from 0 (never) to 3 (almost always). The DASS-21 stress subscale has been found to have good internal consistency and convergent and discriminant validity [2, 19].\nSickness absence data will be obtained from Human Resources departments in the NHS trusts. This will be recorded as the number of sickness absence days taken in the month following the end of the intervention period. Equivalent data from the same 1-month period in the previous calendar year will be obtained as a baseline measure for each participant. Reasons for sickness absence will not be recorded. This is to respect participant confidentiality.\nThis will be measured using the Compassion for Others Scale (Gu, Baer, Kuyken, Cavanagh & Strauss: Developing and Validating New Self-Report Measures of Compassion: Compassion for the Self Scale (CSS) and Compassion for Others Scale (COS), in preparation), developed based on the empirically supported five-element definition of compassion as consisting of the ability to recognise suffering, understand the universality of human suffering, feel for the person suffering, tolerate uncomfortable feeling and the motivation to act/acting to alleviate suffering [16, 39]. Participants are instructed to indicate how true each statement is of them using a 5-point Likert scale, ranging from 1 (not at all true of me) to 5 (always true of me).\nThis will be measured using the depression subscale from the short version of the DASS-21 [27]. The depression subscale of the DASS-21 measures the severity of core symptoms associated with depression. Participants are asked to indicate the presence of each symptom over the past week. Responses are given on a 4-point Likert scale, ranging from 0 (never) to 3 (almost always). The DASS-21 depression subscale has been found to have good internal consistency and convergent and discriminant validity [2, 19].\nThis will be measured using the anxiety subscale from the short version of the DASS-21 [27]. The anxiety subscale of the DASS-21 measures the severity of core anxiety symptoms. Participants are asked to indicate the presence of each symptom over the past week. Responses are given on a 4-point Likert scale, ranging from 0 (never) to 3 (almost always). The DASS-21 anxiety subscale has been found to have good internal consistency and convergent and discriminant validity [2, 19].\nThis will be measured using the Compassion for Self Scale (Gu, Baer, Kuyken, Cavanagh & Strauss: Developing and Validating New Self-Report Measures of Compassion: Compassion for the Self Scale (CSS) and Compassion for Others Scale (COS), in preparation), developed based on the empirically supported five-element definition of compassion as consisting of the ability to recognise suffering, understand the universality of human suffering, feel for the person suffering (in the case of self-compassion this would be the self), tolerate uncomfortable feelings and the motivation to act/acting to alleviate suffering [39]. Participants are instructed to indicate how true each statement is of them using a 5-point Likert scale, ranging from 1 (not at all true of me) to 5 (always true of me).\nPositive mental wellbeing will be measured using the 7-item Short Warwick Edinburgh Mental Wellbeing Scale (SWEMWBS) [38]. The SWEMWBS involves rating items on a 5-point Likert scale ranging from 1 (none of the time) to 5 (all of the time). Participants are asked to rate items based on their experience over the past 2 weeks. The SWEMWBS has been found to be highly correlated with the long version of the scale and good construct validity [38].\nThis will be measured using the 22-item Maslach Burnout Inventory \u2013 Human Services Survey (MBI-HSS) [29]. The MBI-HSS was designed for professionals working in human services such as healthcare and consists of three distinct subscales, emotional exhaustion, depersonalisation, and personal accomplishment. Participants are asked about the frequency with which they have experiences related to the three subscales and items are answered on a 7-point Likert scale, ranging from 0 (never) to 6 (every day). The three subscales of the MBI-HSS has been found to have adequate internal consistency, test-retest reliability and convergent and discriminant validity.\nThis will be measured using the 3 questions that assess presenteeism, from the Institute for Medical Technology Assessment Productivity Cost Questionnaire (iMTA PCQ) [6]. The overall iMTA PCQ is designed to assess and value productivity losses. The 3 presenteeism questions ask participants (1) if over the past 4 weeks, they worked whilst experiencing physical or psychological problems (yes/no) and if so, (2) how many days at work they were bothered by these problems and (3) how their performance on these days compared to their performance on normal working days. The third question is measured on a 10-point rating scale, ranging from 0 (on these days I could not do anything) to 10 (I was able to do just as much as I normally do). The first 2 questions originate from the short form of the Health and Labour Questionnaire (SF-HLQ) [40] and the third question from the Productivity and Disease Questionnaire (PRODISQ) [22]. The 3 questions have been found to have good test-retest reliability [6].\nThis will be measured using the 15-item Five Facet Mindfulness Questionnaire (FFMQ-15) [4, 8, 17]. The FFMQ-15 is a short form of the 39-item FFMQ (FFMQ-39) and measures the general tendency to be mindful in everyday life. It includes the same five facets as the long form: observing, describing, acting with awareness, non-judging of inner experience and non-reactivity to inner experience. The factor structure of the FFMQ-15 is consistent with that of the FFMQ-39, there is strong correlation between the total facet scores of the short and long forms, and the two FFMQ versions do not differ significantly from each other in terms of convergent validity [17]. Previous research [3, 17, 42] found that in non-meditator samples, a four-factor hierarchical structure without the \u201cobserving\u201d facet provided a superior fit compared to a five-factor hierarchical structure. As it is likely that our current sample has little or no previous meditation experience, \u201cobserving\u201d items will be excluded from the total FFMQ-15 score. FFMQ-15 items are rated on a 5-point Likert scale, ranging from 1 (never or very rarely true) to 5 (very often or always true) and will be completed by participants randomised to MBCT-L or wait-list for MBCT-L only.\nIntervention engagement \u2013 MBCT-L participants\nMBCT-L participants will be asked to report the following post-intervention: (1) number of MBCT-L sessions attended, not including the orientation session (0\u20138); (2) average number of days per week engaged in a guided mindfulness practice, not including practice during the group session (0\u20137); (3) on days when practised, average number of minutes per day of mindfulness practice, not including practice during the group session; (4) ability to bring mindfulness principles into daily life (0\u20135); (5) ability to actively participate in MBCT-L sessions (0\u20135); (6) belief in effectiveness of mindfulness in helping to manage stressful situations (0\u20135); (7) difficulty in finding time to engage in between-session mindfulness practices; (8) satisfaction with the mindfulness teacher leading the course (0\u20135) and (9) levels of comfort with other group members (0\u20135). The 0\u20135 rating scales are all anchored by \u201cnot at all\u201d (0) and \u201cextremely\u201d (5).\nIntervention engagement \u2013 CBT participants\nCBT workshop participants will be asked to report the following post-intervention: (1) attendance at CBT workshop (no, yes (part of the day), yes (whole day)); (2) satisfaction with the workshop facilitators (0\u20135) and (3) levels of comfort with other workshop members (0\u20135). The 0\u20135 rating scales are all anchored by \u201cnot at all\u201d (0) and \u201cextremely\u201d (5).\nAll outcome measures, with the exception of sickness absence data, which will be requested from HR departments at the end of the study, will be administered at baseline and post-intervention. Demographic data (e.g., gender, age, ethnicity, marital status, education level) will be recorded at baseline only and engagement measures will be administered post-intervention only.\nTen participants from the intervention arm of each RCT, who provide complete data sets at baseline and post-intervention, will be interviewed about their experiences of their intervention by telephone, using an adapted version of the Change Interview [11]. A copy of the Change Interview published by Elliott and Rodgers can be found online [10]. This is a semi-structured interview designed to explore people\u2019s experiences of psychological interventions, focusing on perceived helpful, unhelpful and missing aspects of the intervention. Each interview will take approximately 30 min, will take place over the phone, and will be audio recorded to aid transcription and data analysis.\nPlanned data analysis\nThe intention in providing two interventions is to increase choice and accessibility. The intention is not to compare the effectiveness of the CBT intervention directly with the MBCT-L intervention and any such comparison would be problematic given the potential for selection bias (i.e. participants preferring MBCT-L may differ in a number of ways from participants preferring the CBT workshop). Intervention preference will be reported as the number and percentage of participants choosing each intervention type; however we would urge caution when interpreting these data as participant preferences may be driven by practicalities (e.g. location and dates of available courses) as much as by intervention preference.\nBetween-group differences at baseline on key demographic variables (age, gender, ethnicity, NHS trust, pay band and years working in the trust) and all outcome measures will be reported for each study. Findings will be reported for both intention-to-treat and per-protocol analyses. Hypotheses will be tested using mixed analysis of variance (ANOVA) for each intervention separately, with time (baseline, post-intervention) as the within-group variable and intervention arm (intervention, wait-list) as the between-group variable. Post-intervention between-group effect sizes (Cohen\u2019s d) and 95% confidence intervals will be reported. Interaction effects will be followed up with within-group t tests, with Cohen\u2019s d effect sizes and accompanying 95% confidence intervals for within-group change.\nQualitative data will be transcribed and thematic analysis will be performed in accordance with the Braun and Clarke [7] protocol. This will involve the researcher leading on the qualitative aspect of the study reading and re-reading transcripts, allocating codes to single units of meaning within each transcript, identifying sub-themes representing lower-order categories of meaning across participants (within CBT/MBCT-L separately) and finally identifying higher-order themes and the relationship between themes and sub-themes (for CBT/MBCT-L separately). This will be conducted under supervision from the lead author. Credibility will be checked through supervision and will be indicated through providing comprehensive extracts from participants to illustrate each theme and sub-theme.\nFindings will be written up for submission for publication in a peer-reviewed journal as 4 papers: (1) reporting on the quantitative findings from the RCT comparing MBCT-L with wait-list; (2) reporting on the quantitative findings from the RCT comparing the CBT-based stress management intervention with wait-list; (3) reporting on the qualitative findings of participating in MBCT-L and (4) reporting on the qualitative findings of participating in the CBT-based stress management intervention. A lay report of findings will be produced for dissemination to participants and other NHS Trust staff.\nWhen compared to other professions, healthcare staff experience particularly high levels of work-related stress and sickness absence [1, 30, 31], with higher levels of stress associated with compromised patient care and safety [18]. Psychological approaches based on psychological theory of stress [25, 26] provide one solution. Evidence for reducing work-related stress is strongest for CBT stress-management [21] and mindfulness-based interventions [41]. However, effects on objective indicators of stress (such as sickness absence) and on factors associated with patient care (such as compassion for others) is largely unexplored. In addition, potential benefits of brief CBT-based stress management courses and of MBCT-L on healthcare staff levels of staff are unknown.\nThis is a protocol for two separate RCTs with participant preference examining the effects of two interventions, each compared to wait-list, for NHS staff. The first of these is a 1-day CBT stress-management workshop and the second is an 8-session MBCT for Life (MBCT-L) course. The primary outcome is stress, as this is the outcome with the greatest evidence of effects. Secondary outcomes include sickness absence, compassion for others, depressive symptoms, anxiety symptoms, compassion for self, work-related burnout, presenteeism and mindfulness (in MBCT-L participants). Effects on sickness absence would be of particular interest to healthcare employers and would provide an economic incentive to widen access to these interventions. Effects on compassion for others would suggest that benefits to staff might extend to improved patient care and this would lead to further research examining the effects of these interventions for staff on outcomes for their patients. Effects on wellbeing are also important to measure. Whilst the primary outcome in this study is stress, we are interested not only in the potential of the interventions to reduce stress and mental health symptoms, but also of the potential to enhance wellbeing and compassion for self and others. This focus is particularly highlighted in MBIs in the workplace [15] and in MBCT-L, with its emphasis on cultivating appreciation and gratitude [5].\nA limitation of the design is that it will not be possible to directly compare outcomes between the two interventions as participants are not randomised between intervention types. A direct comparison of the two interventions could be explored in future trials, depending on the outcomes of the current study. Another limitation is that reasons for sickness absence will not be recorded in order to respect participants\u2019 confidentiality. It is also possible that staff may be reluctant to disclose mental health reasons for sickness absence due to concerns about stigma, and that a physical health reason may be given instead. If the interventions have a beneficial effect on sickness absence due to poor mental health this should be reflected in an overall effect on sickness absence. There is also an important note of caution in relation to the interventions being evaluated. Providing psychologically informed interventions to healthcare staff as a means of reducing work-related stress could contribute to a culture whereby staff members are seen as solely responsible for managing their stress, absolving healthcare organisations from responsibility to provide supportive workplaces that do not place excessive demands on their staff. Individually targeted interventions such as CBT stress-management workshops and MBCT-L can be part of a solution to reducing work-related stress in the healthcare workplace. However, we suggest that this should occur in the context of organisational-level interventions to minimise stress, as these may play an additional important role in reducing stress in healthcare workplaces [32]. Within supportive healthcare organisations, our CBT stress-management workshop and MBCT-L have potential to provide staff with the skills to recognise signs of stress in themselves and the skills to act early to prevent stress from escalating, and thereby empowering staff to make choices about how they respond in stressful healthcare workplace settings.\nAt the time of manuscript submission, recruitment for this study was ongoing.\nPlease see Fig. 2 for a copy of the Standard Protocol Items: Recommendations for Interventional Trials (SPIRIT) figure. The SPIRIT checklist can be found as Additional file 1.\nSchedule of enrolment, interventions, and assessments\nDepression, Anxiety, and Stress Scales (short version)\nFFMQ-15:\nFive Facet Mindfulness Questionnaire (15 item version)\niMTA PCQ:\nInstitute for Medical Technology Assessment Productivity Cost Questionnaire\nMBCT-L:\nMindfulness-based intervention\nMBI-HSS:\nMaslach Burnout Inventory \u2013 Human Services Survey\nSpecific measurable achievable relevant time-limited\nSWEMWBS:\nShort Warwick Edinburgh Mental Wellbeing Scale\nWe would like to thank Health Education England (Kent, Surrey and Sussex) for funding this study.\nThis study was funded by Health Education England Kent, Surrey and Sussex (HEE KSS) and Jenny Gu is supported by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) through a doctoral studentship (ES/J500173/1).\nThe HEE KSS funders have contributed to the design of the study. Data collection, data storage, data analysis, interpretation of findings and the decision to publish findings will be conducted independently of the funders.\nThe datasets created for the current study will be available from the corresponding author on reasonable request.\nParticipants will be assigned a unique identification code which will be used to complete assessments and will be used for data files.\nCS designed the study and drafted the manuscript. JG contributed to study design and to drafting the manuscript. NP contributed to drafting the manuscript. CC contributed to study design. WK contributed to study design. AW contributed to study design. All authors read and approved the final manuscript.\nThis study has been granted ethical approval by the Health Research Authority (HRA) in the UK (IRAS ID 224584). Informed consent will be obtained from all participants through completion of an online consent form. Important modifications to the trial protocol will be submitted for approval from the trial sponsor and HRA.\nParticipants will be asked to consent to their anonymised data to be used in research publications.\nCS has developed the 1-day CBT workshop and WK has co-authored the MBCT-L course. WK is Director of the Oxford Mindfulness Centre and Principal Investigator of several Wellcome Trust and NIHR funded grants examining mindfulness-based programmes. Any remuneration for public engagement or consultancy is donated in full to the not-for-profit charity the Oxford Mindfulness Foundation. CS is the Research Lead for the Sussex Mindfulness Centre and has received NIHR funding for research trials evaluating mindfulness-based interventions. CC and AW are employed by Health Education England (Kent, Surrey and Sussex) who have funded this study. 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You could be very excited and in anticipation of having the best time of your life hinting, but end up with everything the opposite. It is an activity that requires excellent skill and if you have minimal or no skills yet, the ideal thing to do to ensure that you have a good time on your trip is to follow a guide.\nA guided hunt is an organized trip that usually involves a group of hunters who travel to a destination and bunk or camp together. Depending on your guide, you will get some or all of the following while on a guided hunting expedition; ground transportation, equipment, meals, schedules for your hunt, and lodging. The guides will also ensure that you are physically and legally protected during your hunt by enlightening you on safety practices and local hunting regulations, and providing first aid in case it is required. 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In 1818 he and his brother left New England for Charleston, South Carolina. After his brother died of yellow fever, Richardson remained in Charleston. His zeal for self-improvement soon attracted the financial assistance of a local judge who helped him attend the state college at Columbia, South Carolina. After graduation in 1828 and difficulties with a wealthy Charleston woman, Louisa Blanche Murrell, who became his wife in 1849, Richardson moved to Tuscaloosa, Alabama, where he hoped to repay his college debts by teaching school. The couple had one child. In 1837 Richardson moved to Texas to work as a surveyor. After 1841 he established a school for young men in Houston. During his nine-year tenure as a teacher, he met the editor of the Telegraph and Texas Register, Francis Mooreqv. In 1844, during the last presidential campaign of the republic, Moore traveled to Washington, D.C., leaving Richardson as pro tem editor. Richardson's editorial competence and aggressive style prompted the interest of the owners of the Galveston News, Wilbur H. Cherry and Benjamin F. Neal, who offered him the post of editor in late 1844.\nOnce in Galveston, Richardson made a reputation as \"prudent, persevering, cool and indomitable,\" with a propensity for dramatic combativeness that earned him the nickname of \"the Napoleon of the Texas Press.\" This financially unstable, forty-two-year-old bachelor was an anomaly among editors, but despite his rough image Richardson always secured support from the upper echelon of society. Mirabeau B. Lamar, for example, was a close friend who shared Richardson's appreciation of the states' rights philosophy of John C. Calhoun. While feigning nonpartisanship, Richardson diverted attention from his Whig affiliations by urging readers to vote according to issues. Like his mentor, Lamar, Richardson was a critic of Sam Houston, a proponent of annexation, and a defender of slavery. Richardson claimed that his work as an editor \"was mainly for the purpose of using our efforts to prevent the success of this abolition policy of England\" in North America. In the 1850s his militant opposition to abolition escalated from advocating the reopening of the slave trade to appeals for secession. In the election of 1860 Richardson issued a special campaign sheet called \"The Crisis!\" which defended states' rights. After learning of Lincoln's election, he declared that \"the time of waiting is past\" and clamored for secession. His devotion to the South in general, and Galveston in particular, prompted him to devise the \"Galveston Plan,\" a proposed confluence of transportation networks stemming from his hometown. Richardson built the first modern building in Galveston, as well as an opera house, and acted as mayor in 1853. But he is best remembered for establishing one of the preeminent Texas journalism empires. In 1857 Richardson and his staff began publication of the Texas Almanac.\nIn less than four decades Richardson guided the Galveston News from an insignificant local paper with a circulation of fewer than 200 to the wealthiest, most important newspaper of antebellum Texas. By 1845 Richardson owned as well as edited the paper. The News, commonly referred to as \"the Old Lady by the Sea,\" was one of only four papers founded during the republic era that survived the Civil War. Richardson contributed occasional articles until his death at home in Galveston on July 26, 1875, a decade before his newspaper was reborn as the powerful Dallas News (see DALLAS MORNING NEWS).\nBIBLIOGRAPHY; Sam Hanna Acheson, 35,000 Days in Texas: A History of the Dallas \"News\" and Its Forbears (New York: Macmillan, 1938). George L. Crocket, Two Centuries in East Texas (Dallas: Southwest, 1932; facsimile reprod., 1962). Osie Blackwell Leifeste, \"Willard Richardson, Editor of the Texas Frontier,\" Newberry County Historical Society Bulletin, December 1978. Jane Lynn Scarborough, George W. Paschal: Texas Unionist and Scalawag Jurisprudent (Ph.D. dissertation, Rice University, 1972). Marilyn M. Sibley, Lone Stars and State Gazettes: Texas Newspapers before the Civil War (College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 1983). A. Ray Stephens, ed., \"Letter from the Texas Secession Convention,\" Southwestern Historical Quarterly 65 (January 1962). 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Armstrong is a small rural community located about six miles south of Belton and west of Farm Road 1123 in central Bell County. Settlement in the area had taken place by the late 1800s, and inventor and merchant John T. Dulaney operated a well-known complex there that consisted of a gristmill, general store, blacksmith shop, and cotton gin until the early 1900s. By 1915, when the neighborhood schools of Elm Grove and Summers Mill (or Sommer's Mill) voted to consolidate, school trustee C. I. Armstrong donated the land for a school for a newly created district to be called Armstrong School District 115, from which the community took its name. Local citizens completed the construction of a new school building on May 25, 1916, and classes began later that year. County highway maps in the 1930s identified the region as Armstrong School, which served area children for several decades. By 1960 the communities of Belton, Holland, and Salado had absorbed the entire Armstrong district, and the school closed. By the mid-1960s the brick structure was being used as a community center. Armstrong reported twenty-five residents in 1970, the first year for which population statistics were available for the community. From 1980 through 2000 the population was reported as twenty-two. In 2005, though the only visible vestige of the community was the Armstrong Community Center, the facility remained an active site for group meetings, holiday celebrations, and a homecoming every October.\nBell County Historical Commission, Story of Bell County, Texas (2 vols., Austin: Eakin Press, 1988). Bell County History (Fort Worth: University Supply and Equipment Company, 1958). Bicentennial Committee of the Temple-Bell Retired Teachers Association, History of Bell County Public Schools, 1854\u20131976 (Bell County, Texas: Bicentennial Committee of the Temple-Bell Retired Teachers Association, 1976).\nHandbook of Texas Online, Laurie E. 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In the spring of 2009, a group of thought leaders in the urgent care field met to discuss many of the challenges facing the urgent care industry. The group decided that a separate entity was needed to address two of the most serious issues\nSupport for training the next generation of physicians and physician leaders in urgent care medicine.\nSupport for research activities in the field of urgent care medicine.\nThe Urgent Care Foundation was created to accomplish this and incorporated in 2011. Trustees were recruited based on their credentials and expertise in the field, as well as their vision for the future success of the role of Urgent Care Medicine as an essential part of the healthcare landscape. 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The taxonomy is built using qualitative data from Young Lives, a long-term study of childhood poverty , with the specific purpose of analysing the context of children\u2019s life trajectories. The approach aims to yield insights into changes over time as well as to reflect multiple dimensions and consider issues of current well-being and future \u2018well-becoming\u2019 (Uprichard, 2008). It potentially allows for the identification of underlying mechanisms that influence and determine life trajectories. Until recently, quantitative and qualitative approaches towards the analysis of chronic and transient poverty have developed in isolation with little cross-disciplinary interaction. In this paper, we add to this body of research by using a mixed-method approach to develop a hybrid taxonomy of child poverty and well-being that can be used for a dynamic analysis (see Camfield and Roelen, 2011). 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Everything you need to know about new EU data protection policy coming into effect\nThe biggest overhaul of data privacy regulation in the history of the internet comes into force on May 25: PA Wire/PA Images\nEurope's General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) comes into force on Friday.\nIt has been billed as the biggest shake-up of data privacy laws since the birth of the web.\nThe new EU law aims to give EU citizens more rights to control over their online information. It has a list of technically demanding requirements, and threatens fines of up to 4 percent of a company's annual revenue for serious infringements.\nThe law covers companies that collect large amounts of customer data including Facebook and Google. It won't be overseen by a single authority but instead by a patchwork of national and regional watchdogs across the 28-nation bloc.\nThe UK will have to comply even after it leaves the EU.\nGDPR stands for General Data Protection Regulation, Europe's new framework for data protection laws \u2013 it replaces the previous 1995 data protection directive, upon which current UK law is based.\nThe Data Protection Act 1998 wasn't written with the contemporary uses of data enabled by the internet and services - such as Facebook and Google - in mind.\nAccording to the EU's GDPR website, the legislation is designed to \"harmonise\" data privacy laws across Europe as well as give greater protection and rights to individuals.\nIt includes new rights for people to access the information companies hold about them, obligations for better data management for businesses, and a new regime of fines.\nWhat do businesses need to do differently?\nMany of the GDPR\u2019s main concepts and principles are much the same as those in the current Data Protection Act (DPA).\nIf you are complying properly with the current law then most of your approach to compliance will remain valid under the GDPR and can be the starting point to build from.\nHowever, there are new elements and significant enhancements, so you will have to do some things for the first time and some things differently.\nWhat is 'consent' under the GDPR?\nYou may have recently received emails from firms asking if you'd be happy to \"stay connected\" or apps asking that you \"review your terms\".\nThat's because, under GDPR, consent must be an active, affirmative action by the data subject, rather than the passive acceptance under some current models that allow for pre-ticked boxes or opt-outs.\nControllers must keep a record of how and when an individual gave consent, and that individual may withdraw their consent whenever they want.\nIf your current model for obtaining consent doesn't meet these new rules, you'll have to bring it up to scratch or stop collecting data under that model when the GDPR applies in 2018.\nWhat happens if a business breaks GDPR rules?\nThe GDPR grants regulators the power to fine businesses that do not comply with it.\nIn the UK, the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) would be able to levy fines of up to \u00a38.8m (\u20ac10m) or two per cent of a firm's global turnover (whichever is greater).\nThose guilty of more serious breaches could face larger fines of up to \u00a317m (\u20ac20m) or four per cent of global turnover.\nThese penalties are significantly higher than the \u00a3500,000 charges the ICO is currently able to dole out.", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00240.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 114, + "original_length": 6448, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.95, + "perplexity": 240.3, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "https://uk.news.yahoo.com/twitter-reveals-49-russian-apos-221457556.html", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T03:42:19Z", + "digest": "sha1:AXH3SWIOGCXVLYRT56WG2IZAJPUY6UFX", + "length": 4635, + "nlines": 26, + "source_domain": "uk.news.yahoo.com", + "title": "Twitter Reveals 49 Russian 'Troll Factory' Accounts Tried To Sway Brexit Vote", + "raw_content": "Twitter Reveals 49 Russian 'Troll Factory' Accounts Tried To Sway Brexit Vote\nTwitter has found 49 accounts linked to a notorious Russian \u201ctroll factory\u201d which were sending out messages about the EU referendum during the 2016 campaign.\nThe company\u2019s UK head of public policy, Nick Pickles, told a House of Commons committee that the accounts linked to the St Petersburg-based Internet Research Agency amounted to less than 0.005% of those tweeting about the referendum, and received \u201cvery low levels of engagement\u201d from other users.\nThe announcement came in a hearing of the Commons Digital, Culture, Media and Sport Committee\u2019s inquiry into fake news \u2013 taking evidence from internet companies YouTube, Facebook, Google and Twitter in Washington DC.\nJuniper Downs, YouTube\u2019s global head of public policy, said that the company would be ready to help further investigations into possible Russian attempts to influence votes in Britain.\nMeanwhile, Facebook said it had taken down \u201cthousands\u201d of fake accounts in the run-up to 2017 elections in the UK, France and Germany \u2013 although they were not necessarily aimed at spreading false information.\nPickles told the committee that Twitter had identified \u201ca very small number of suspected Internet Research Agency-linked accounts\u201d.\n\u201cForty-nine such accounts were active during the referendum campaign, which represents less than 0.005% of the total number of accounts that tweeted about the referendum,\u201d he said.\n\u201cThose accounts collectively posted 942 tweets, representing less than 0.02% of the total tweets posted about the referendum during the campaign. Those tweets collectively were retweeted 461 times and liked 637 times.\u201d\nThis amounted to fewer than 10 likes and 13 retweets per account, which was \u201ca very low level of engagement\u201d, he said.\nYouTube has previously informed a US Senate committee of 18 channels it discovered which were linked to the Internet Research Agency \u201ccontent farm\u201d.\nAsked whether any similar searches could be undertaken in relation to UK elections, Ms Downs told the committee: \u201cAbsolutely, we are happy to co-operate with the UK Government\u2019s investigations into whether there was any interference in elections in the UK.\n\u201cWe have conducted a thorough investigation around the Brexit referendum and found no evidence of interference.\n\u201cWe looked at all advertisements with any connection to Russia and we found no evidence of our services being used to interfere in the Brexit referendum and we are happy to co-operate with any further efforts.\u201d\nFacebook\u2019s head of global policy management, Monika Bickert, told the MPs that it had a strict policy of people signing up using their real names and took action to tackle fake profiles.\n\u201cIn the run-up to the French election, the German election, the UK election we were using our technical tools to remove thousands of fake accounts,\u201d she said.\n\u201cNot that those were necessarily related to spreading disinformation or to spreading information about the election, but they were fake accounts and we are using those technical tools to reduce the chance that they might be used to spread disinformation.\u201d\nChairman of the Culture, Media and Sport Committee, Damian Collins. 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If so, see your doctor ASAP! \u2013 University of Glasgow Library Blog", + "raw_content": "Home \u203a Archives and Special Collections \u203a Is your sign Aries? If so, see your doctor ASAP!\nA guest blog post by Irene Diego-Rodr\u00edguez, University of Alcal\u00e1 [1]\nDuring the Middle Ages, it was assumed that man was a microcosm of the universe and, as a result, medieval society merged the art of Astrology with a wide variety of practices and sciences such as Alchemy, Medicine or Natural Philosophy, in order to provide valuable and reliable explanations for different phenomena. However, it was in the medical field that Astrology reached its greatest development, and it resolved into a highly esteemed practice whose foremost aim was to diagnose a sickness, administer the appropriate treatment and determine its outcome.\nThe main idea that lies at the core of astrological Medicine is the widespread credence that the planets, together with the Sun and the Moon and the signs of the Zodiac, exerted thorough power and governed the different organs and parts of human anatomy. The body was divided into twelve houses, and since there are twelve zodiac signs, each one together with the influence of the seven planets played a crucial role ruling the different parts of human body.\nZodiac man (MS Hunter 251, folio 47v)\nThe connection of each sign with particular organs and limbs is closely related to the animals associated to them, and constructed upon the idea of shared virtues or characteristics. That is why Scorpio is linked to the \u201csecret parts\u201d, because the power and strength of scorpions is located in their tail. Leo is represented by a lion whose vigour is to be found in the heart and as a result, it is connected to the chest.\nConsequently, it is possible to find a large number of medieval manuscripts containing prognostic treatises where this material relating to astrological Medicine was gathered. A wide range of these texts were translations from Greek, Hebrew and Arab scholars that reached the Latin West in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries. As a result, physicians won access to a great variety of medical astrological writings that circulated in England in the late Middle English period, both in Latin and in vernacular translations, until the end of the fifteenth century. [2]\nOne of these late Middle English prognostic treatises can be found in the University of Glasgow Library\u2019s MS Hunter 513: Pseudo-Hippocrates\u2019 Treatise on Zodiacal Influence (ff. 98r \u2013 104r). The treatise opens with its attribution to Hippocrates, which is followed by an explanation of its main purpose: to indoctrinate about the influence of the planets as far sicknesses and their outcome \u2013 life or death \u2013 are concerned, as well as to offer a training regarding prescriptions.\nMS Hunter 513 (folio 98r)\nThe manuscript tells us that there are three main points that ought to be taken into account prior to a treatment. First of all, to observe the moon thoroughly; secondly, to be aware of the time when the disease was contracted; and finally, to know in which sign of the Zodiac it falls. After that, the structure of the treatise is provided, explaining that it provides an overview of each of the twelve signs of the Zodiac from this medical astrological perspective.\nThe sign of Aries (from the Hunterian Psalter: MS Hunter 229, folio 2r)\nEach discussion of the twelve signs of the Zodiac is structured in a similar way. They are addressed in the following order: Aries, Taurus, Gemini, Cancer, Leo, Virgo, Libra, Scorpio, Sagittarius, Capricorn, Aquarius and Pisces. First of all, the sign is defined according to its prime qualities and anthropomorphic characteristic. They are then associated with the planets which share the same qualities and also to the specific part of the body where the disease is likely to appear. After that, the ailments the patient is likely to suffer from are mentioned, as well as his life expectancy. Finally, the right moment to apply a treatment is elucidated with an explanation of the remedy.\nThis pattern is repeated with little variation among all the signs, and therefore it is possible to acquire a general overview of the whole treatise from a single example: Aries. This is a hot and dry sign related to fire. As a result, when Mars or the Sun which have its same qualities are present, the sickness will appear in the head, leading to fevers and delirium. If Saturn is close to the Moon, the patient will die in eight days. However, if Saturn and Mars are not next to the Moon at that point, it is the right moment to administer a treatment, thirteen days after the disease was contracted. The remedy consists of letting the pattient bleed from the vein of the heart and of taking cold medicines with food and drinks.\nTherefore, it is essential to know one\u2019s horoscope in order to be able to carry out a proper diagnosis and establish an efficient treatment. So please, do not hesitate to read Hunter MS 513 (f. 98r-104r) for further information on your medieval horoscope!\n[1] Irene Diego-Rodr\u00edguez (i.diego@edu.uah.es) wrote her master thesis on Hunter MS 513 at Glasgow University and is currently working on her Ph.D. which aims to identify all the Zodiacal Lunaries entitled \u00dee Booke of Ypocras in late Middle English manuscripts in order to carry out a linguistic and paleographic study: https://uah-es.academia.edu/IreneDiegoRodr%C3%ADguez\n[2] For further information on the translation of this kind of prognositc treatises see De la Cruz-Cabanillas, Isabel and Irene Diego-Rodr\u00edguez \u201d Astrological Medicine in Middle English: The Case of \u00dee Booke of Ypocras \u201c. Textual Reception and Cultural Debate in Medieval English Studies. Cambridge Scholars, 2018, pp. 79-99.\n\u2039 Film remakes, Frederick Douglass and Fokker-Planck equations : new books in the Library, 4th June 2018\nCreativity, cryptography and clinical skills : new books in the Library, 11th June 2018 \u203a\nTags: manuscripts, medical manuscripts, student blog, William Hunter's Library", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00240.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 68, + "original_length": 7495, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.95, + "perplexity": 219.1, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "https://uproxx.com/tv/american-horror-story-chapter-four-recap/", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T04:04:42Z", + "digest": "sha1:JUTWUY4HKOMX7JYHMSFOAWONAIO63UHB", + "length": 2206, + "nlines": 8, + "source_domain": "uproxx.com", + "title": "Ranking The Dumbest Characters On Last Night\u2019s \u2018American Horror Story\u2019", + "raw_content": "Ranking The Dumbest Characters On Last Night\u2019s \u2018American Horror Story: Roanoke\u2019\nThis week\u2019s \u201cChapter Four\u201d of American Horror Story: My Roanoke Nightmare was a curious episode. A lot technically happened, yet the plot is still moving at a snail\u2019s pace. When does this big twist happen again? Episode six? Good gravy. On the plus side, lead characters Shelby and Matt no longer insist that hillbillies are terrorizing them and are finally willing to admit that their property is haunted, but they still, stupidly, refuse to leave the house because their niece Flora is still hanging out in the woods somewhere. This, in itself, is annoying because Flora is a character nobody was ever invested in who was only introduced as a device for keeping our intrepid heroes from leaving harm\u2019s way. But in good news, Shelby and Matt were finally reunited with Flora at the end of this episode! Bad news, they\u2019re all about to be horribly murdered by dead colonists who now have the power to do so thanks to some weird moon.\nWe also learned more about the mythology of the woods and the Roanoke colonists, as well as the backstory of Lady Gaga\u2019s character, which is a plus because we got to bask in her awesome weirdness for part of the episode. As it turns out, her character is a descendant of druids who was a stowaway to America on a ship from England, and later blamed for deaths aboard the ship. She was sentenced to being burned at the stake, but managed to murder the entire camp before that happened, so they weren\u2019t entirely wrong about her after all.\nBut aside from Lady Gaga \u2014 and I\u2019m just going to use her name since her character doesn\u2019t yet have one of her own \u2014 just about every other single character in this episode continued to do really dumb things, leading up to the aforementioned imminent slaughter. Here\u2019s a ranking of the characters from least to most dumb.\n8. Pig-Headed Man\nOther than getting an axe to the back from that Dr. Cunningham guy, the pig-headed man wasn\u2019t really in the episode enough to do anything too stupid, but it\u2019s just nice to be mentioned. 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Featuring work from both emerging and established African-American filmmakers, this program presents 8 fiction and documentary films.\n\u201cThe level of films we were able to incorporate into the program last year as well as the incredible response we received from the community really solidified Black Lens program as an essential part of the Milwaukee Film Festival,\u201d explains Geraud Blanks, programmer of Black Lens, also a batterer\u2019s intervention specialist for Sojourner Family Peace Center, music promoter, and former Milwaukee Journal Sentinel contributor.\nCelebrated documentary filmmaker, MacArthur Fellow, and National Humanities Medal winner Stanley Nelson Jr. will attend in person and receive a Tribute Award from the film festival prior to a screening of his latest film, Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution. Stanley Nelson\u2019s films are very familiar to Milwaukee Film Festival audiences, as the 2014 festival featured Freedom Summer and the 2010 festival featured Freedom Riders. In addition to receiving the Tribute Award and presenting his latest film, Stanley Nelson will also conduct a Masterclass with local filmmakers.\nThree of the program\u2019s featured documentaries cover topics that have garnered national attention in the past year. \u201cIn fact, the storylines behind A Ballerina\u2019s Tale, Cincinnati Goddamn and Little White Lie are so timely, it gives new meaning to the phrase \u2018art imitates life,\u2019\u201d explains Blanks.\nA Ballerina\u2019s Tale profiles ballet dancer Misty Copeland who, in June, became the first African-American woman to be promoted to principal dancer in the American Ballet Theater\u2019s 75-year history. Tackling issues of race and identity, Cincinnati Goddamn spotlights several police shootings of black men in Cincinnati over a 6 year period in the 1990s, while Little White Lie tells the story of a young African-American woman who passes for white as a child until a family secret forces her to question her identity.\nThe second year of the Black Lens Program, also brings expanded partnerships within the community. In cooperation with Sojourner Family Peace Center\u2019s Beyond Abuse program, the Festival will host a workshop on \u201chealthy relationships,\u201d following a screening of In a Perfect World. The workshop will focus on intimate partner related issues like conflict resolution, co-parenting, and maintaining a healthy relationship with your partner.\n\u201cI wanted to present films that not only expose viewers to black filmmakers they might not already know but also films that explore issues and raise questions that are often not addressed by other filmmakers,\u201d explains Blanks.\nThe Johnson Controls Foundation has provided a grant to help underwrite the Black Lens program, providing $20,000 in cash support.\nIn cooperation with Program Sponsor WJMR Jammin 98.3, a Black Lens launch event will take place on Thursday, September 17. This is the first time Milwaukee Film will host a pre-festival reception for a film series. The event is intended to provide a sneak peek at trailers as well as an opportunity to engage with the program\u2019s sponsors and community partners. The event is open to the public; details to be available at mkefilm.org. This event will also launch a Black Lens specific twitter handle run by Series Programmer Geraud Blanks.\nTwitter account: @BlackLensMKE\nhashtag: #BlackLensMKE\nPresenting Sponsor: The Johnson Controls Foundation\nProgram Sponsor: WJMR Jammin 98.3 & NAACP \u2013 Milwaukee Branch\nWe are proud to present this program featuring work solely from African-American filmmakers. Fiction and documentary stories from both emerging and established voices put the focus squarely on the black community.\n(USA / 2015 / Director: Nelson George)\nMisty Copeland, the first African-American female soloist at New York\u2019s American Ballet Theatre, would be the first to tell you that, based on body type, pedigree and background, she shouldn\u2019t be a part of one of the world\u2019s most prestigious ballet companies. But her inspirational story of dogged determination (overcoming a debilitating shin injury, eating disorders and racial issues), filmed here in a raw, cin\u00e9ma v\u00e9rit\u00e9 documentary, will leave no doubt as to how this trailblazer shot her way up the ranks and overcame all obstacles to turn in breathtaking performances in Firebird and Swan Lake.\nBlack Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution\n(USA / 2015 / Director: Stanley Nelson Jr.)\nTrailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F56O3kZ9qr0\nInto today\u2019s era still struggling with police brutality, racial discrimination and extreme poverty comes master documentarian Stanley Nelson\u2019s stirring portrait of the Black Panther Party. Following the party from its inception in the early \u201960s to its bitter dissolution a decade later, MFF alumnus Nelson captures the essential history of the movement, elegantly mixing archival footage alongside interviews with FBI informants, journalists, supporters, detractors and lower-level members of the party. This is a profoundly resonant portrait of a period of time when impatience bred revolution and a vibrant group rose up to bring civil rights issues to the forefront.\nCincinnati Goddamn\n(USA / 2014 / Director: Paul Hill and April Martin)\nIt\u2019s a story that has become all too familiar \u2014 young, unarmed black men killed by law enforcement agents who have sworn to protect them, followed by protests-turned-riots sparked by the men\u2019s untimely demise. But before Michael Brown and Ferguson, there was Timothy Thomas, Roger Owensby and Cincinnati. A powerful examination of a moment preceding the #BlackLivesMatter movement, the documentary Cincinnati Goddamn presents a chilling and revealing look into what one academic calls \u201curban genocide\u201d \u2014 a volatile cocktail of systemic racism, widespread poverty and unchecked police brutality \u2014 and the grassroots activism that took to the streets to challenge it.\n(USA / 2015 / Director: Ty Hodges)\nTrailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tcmUzkC5WNI\nSeventeen-year-old Haitian-American Grace (newcomer Ryan Destiny, in a spirited breakout performance) finds her dysfunctional existence thrown further into upheaval following the suicide of her best friend, Andrea. Grace is already a social pariah tormented by a clique of bullies (led by Raven-Symon\u00e9), and her desire to understand her friend\u2019s decision leads to Andrea\u2019s older sister Share (Meagan Good), who encourages Grace to embrace her sexuality, leading her down a rocky road of discovery. This sensitive coming-of-age story anchored by a stunning lead performance captures the social hardship inherent in a young woman coming to terms with herself.\nA redemption tale anchored by an amazing lead performance from John Boyega (star of the upcoming Star Wars film), Imperial Dreams is a family drama with an astonishingly realized father/son relationship at its core. Bambi (Boyega) is coming home to Watts; recently released from prison, he has designs on earning a living as a writer (having been published while incarcerated) to provide for his young son Day. But he quickly realizes the deck is stacked against him and it\u2019s going to take everything he has to achieve his dreams in this stunning, multiple award-winning drama.\n(USA / 2015 / Director: Daphne McWilliams)\nTrailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NthftfkGsBs\nDocumentarian Daphne McWilliams was looking to craft a film about young men raised by single mothers, so she turned to the strongest source she knows \u2014 her son. This courageous examination into modern family life, with McWilliams grounding her sociological study through extraordinarily intimate interviews with her son, Chase, as well as other men raised without a father figure, is revelatory. A story of boys becoming men despite the absence of a male presence and the utterly unique relationships they forge with their mothers, In a Perfect World is stirring, relevant filmmaking.\n(USA / 2015 / Director: Harold Jackson III)\nTrailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I8WOvlx9hKc\nA whirlwind romantic encounter perfect for fans of the Before Sunrise trilogy, Last Night pairs its mismatched strangers on a night of soul-baring disclosures and verbal sparring on the streets of Washington, D.C. Gorgeous fashion model Sky is escorted on an unexpected evening-long adventure with impulsive businessman Jon \u2014 the only catch being that this is Sky\u2019s final night in D.C. before moving to North Carolina to live with her boyfriend. The film is a warmly shot, exquisitely performed look at romantic longing between two people who realize they may only ever have this extended moment between one another.\n(USA / 2014 / Directors: Lacey Schwartz and James Adolphus)\nTrailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?list=UUr9TEsXlmcmorp8XHCj7Wtg&v=nHq3DevkXqA\nA documentary released at a perfect point in our culture when knotty intersections of race and identity are making headlines, Little White Lie tells one woman\u2019s remarkably intimate story of a life spent between two worlds. Raised white with her dark skin color and curly hair explained away as an inheritance from her Sicilian grandfather, the director Lacey Schwartz can\u2019t fight the nagging feeling that her upper-middle-class Jewish upbringing is hiding something, only to find she was the product of her mother\u2019s affair with a black man. After her biological father\u2019s passing, she cannot hold back this family secret any longer.\nThe 2015 Milwaukee Film Festival runs September 24 \u2013 October 8, 2015at the Landmark Oriental Theatre, Landmark Downer Theatre, Fox-Bay Cinema Grill, Times Cinema, and Avalon Theater. Passes and ticket 6-Packs for the 2015 Milwaukee Film Festival are currently available at discounted rates exclusively online at mkefilm.org/tickets.\nAbout Geraud Blanks\nDating back to his time as a student programmer at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee (UWM), Geraud Blanks has produced and promoted a number of large-scale cultural and media related events throughout the state of Wisconsin. A veteran of the local music scene as a band manager, music producer and contributing music writer to the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel\u2019s CUE section and Tapmilwaukee.com, Blanks has been a contributor to the local arts community both in music and film for the past 15 years. 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My husband didn't get his coupon for this month so we went up to ask why. We told them we understood that he was not able to get the gift that was being given away for this month, May 2015, but we wanted to know why he all the sudden get his card for this month. We were told \"you have to have your coupon\" We stated we understood that but would like to know why he didn't get it. He said probably not enough play for this month, but we lost over 1500 dollars this month so he should have at least received the card. They said he had free play on his card, the same as every month, but wouldn't that mean he had enough to get his free gift card. I asked that man who later said he was the G.M., that we just wanted to know if there was a problem with his players club account. But the G.M. kept saying you have to have a coupon. The casino is always dirty the machines are always broke down, the food is terrible and the only good thing is the drink lady and the casino slot tech. 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We look forward to being your choice for installation and offer you many benefits including our expertise and services.\nWe are solar panel installers certified by the most respected solar organization around. We will also help you with the paperwork you need to prepare for submission to your utility. After the installation in Coahoma, Mississippi is complete, you can be sure we will monitor it to make sure it is working perfectly. We are as invested in this as you are and will make sure your system provides you with the power and energy your whole house or company needs. 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I later became a partner and when the senior partner John Taylor became a District Judge I continued the firm as a sole practitioner for a number of years. Due to family commitments I closed the practice and for the next nine years I worked for Grants Solicitors in Croydon becoming head of the family department.\nI specialise in family law and I am a member of the Law Society Advanced Family Law Panel with specialist areas of ancillary relief and domestic abuse. I undertake all aspects of family law.\nOn leaving school I worked as a secretary and after a couple of years became a legal secretary in a London firm. I found law fascinating and whilst bringing up my children I studied for my law degree and continued through College of Law. I was fortunate to be trained by John Taylor who introduced me to many aspects of law and encouraged me to specialise in family law. 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MONDO ARGENTO\nAs Told To Simon Drax\nSimon Drax caught up with Ultra-Cult Auteur Dario Argento at Fangoria's Weekend of Horrors in January 1999. Let's listen...\nSIMON DRAX Tell me about your new project, The Phantom of the Opera.\nDARIO ARGENTO I just finished it! I wanted to make a faithful adaptation of the original novel by Gaston Leroux. I didn't change anything! Well, maybe a few things. Obscure things, which was unavoidable. It's a story seen through my eyes, after all. But it's Leroux's story, not a remake of earlier film versions. Those films made enormous changes to the character of the Phantom and Christine, they were almost puritan in their thinking. My version is more romantic. I tried for more of a balance, because it's not a simple story, it's complex, it's long, it's a very interesting story. In many ways, it's a portrait of an era, the end of one century and the beginning of another.\nSD Sounds great. When's it coming out?\nDA In the States, you mean? It should be in theaters in a few months.\nSD Is this new Phantom in any way revisiting themes you first touched upon in The Opera?\nDA No. They are entirely different films, different feelings. The Opera was a very cold film, a hopeless and dark film, no hope, no love. Love is finished, no? That was the mood I was in when I shot The Opera.\nSD While we're on the subject, let me ask you a quick question about The Opera. I just watched it again recently, and...\nDA Aha! But which version did you see? The original or the Orion version? Because there were many changes made, many, many changes!\nSD That happens a lot to your films, doesn't it?\nDA It's incredible! They change the editing, they change the sequence of the scenes! And they cut a lot of things! It's unacceptable. They're mutilating my films!\nSD At least more of your films are becoming available in their original forms.\nDA Yes, yes. But no one should have the right to manipulate my films in the first place. If you don't like my movies, don't watch them. But if you're going to buy [the rights], don't change anything, not even the titles!\nSD There is a certain amount of literal mentality when it comes to the distribution of foreign films. The Opera has to become Terror at the Opera so that the idiot filmgoer knows it's a horror movie. Phenomena becomes Creepers.\nDA Yes! Yes! And do you know what they called Tenebrae? The First Aged Woman! And it was heavily edited, of course, and after two years they changed it again, and it's garbage. They cut 25 minutes! It's incredible! I saw a version [of Tenebrae] years ago in France France, France and it was an entirely different film. It wasn't mine anymore, it belonged to somebody else. But you know, as you say, the original versions of my films are getting out there, slowly. It's true. France? Now they have some good copies of my movies. Japan? Excellent. Even in the former Soviet Union, they have good copies of my movies. Do you know what the critics say? Do you know what the critics say about me? They say, \"Dario, you are the most censored auteur in the history of cinema.\" None of my films have escaped with less than 15 minutes of cuts! Not one.\nSD But Dario, you should wear it as a badge of honor! You can say, \"Hey, I've been censored more than anybody!\"\nDA No, no, really, it's not right. It's incredible that they censor films. It's sad.\nSD It's weird that films are perceived as products of commerce, that they're subject to be cut and repackaged any way the money men see fit. I mean, they wouldn't cut up a Picasso if they didn't like a part of it.\nDA Yes, exactly. If you don't like it, don't look at it. But don't cut!\nSD What was it like making Two Evil Eyes with George Romero?\nDA I remember, we talked about the project a lot. George is a good friend of mine. I remember when we met in Florida. It was beautiful. The sky was so blue. We talked about what we wanted to do, and it was so obvious. We both knew.\nSD How is shooting a film in the States different from shooting in Italy?\nDA It's the same.\nSD The same?\nDA The same. If you shoot an independent film, no matter the size of the crew, it's still simple, no? You still have control. No matter where it is: Italy, Paris, Budapest. You know, Soavi's The Church? We shot The Church in Budapest. Small crew, small budget. No different. It's a matter of control. Vision.\nSD Can I ask you about your earliest cinematic influences? Was there an image, a moment in any movie that spoke to you, that made you say, \"Aha, I can do that, I can be free.\"\nDA Be free? When I was five. That's when I started to love film. The Phantom of the Opera. The German films, the impressionistic movement. Murnau. Nosferatu. Hitchcock. Poe. The Cask of Amontillado. Some dark films from the United States. Noir...\nSD Was there anything violent or murderous in a movie that unleashed something inside you?\nDA No. When I was a teenager, I read a lot of Poe. Poe opened a door inside me. It was a landscape, a new world, a new perspective.\nSD When you encounter negative criticism, how do you respond?\nDA I'm used to it. I'm used to it. Why? It's always the same. It doesn't bother me. Not because I'm proud, but because there's a new generation of critics, an international level of critics. What's shocking to one generation or country may become acceptable, even commonplace. So I haven't thought about the critics for a long time.\nSD You must get upset sometimes, though.\nDA Oh, sure. But it's only for a moment. Next week, they're nothing. Sure. Who cares?\nSD Okay, but let me push this for a second: Was there ever a moment, a scene in a film you made where you thought afterwards, \"Oh God, I shouldn't have done that, I shouldn't have gone that far ...\"\nDA Never. I'm loyal to the dream, the fantasy. It's like a painting, no?\nSD Is there a connection between desire and fear? Is there a difference?\nDA Of course. It's something better described by Freud than me. I've never gone into analysis. But Freud opened a door, I know. Like Poe. A landscape different than people see every day. I've tried to explore that.\nSD You once said that viewers of your films know more about you than you know about yourself. Have you come any closer to walking into yourself and seeing what's inside?\nDA No. No. When I see a film I've finished, it's like another person made it. Like another mind. I've tried to honor that. Look, I'm Dario Argento, okay? At the same time, I'm also another person who looks like Dario Argento, walking, speaking, but another person, no? He looks like Dario, but he's another person. Maybe when I stop making movies, I'll understand my work better. Until then ... you look sad, my friend. What's the matter?\nSD I had a question about The Opera.\nDA Ask it. I'll answer anything!\nSD At the end of The Opera, your heroine is confronted by the killer. They're in Switzerland. It's beautiful. Like heaven. Weren't you tempted to have your hero/villain walk off into the sunset with the heroine in love with him?\nDA No. No! Paradise is too perfect for humanity. Our dark side would never be allowed inside. Like contamination. Disease. We can never do away with our dark side. It is part of us.\nSD Can I take your picture?\nDA Sure.\n[Special thanks to Tony Timpone and Reel Life Video, 209 Bedford Ave., Brooklyn, NY 11211, 718 302-9747.]\nARGENTO UPDATE\nAnchor Bay accords the (blood)-red carpet treatment to two vintage Argento gems, presented for the first time Stateside in all their uncut, uncensored, widescreen gory glory, compete with Dolby Surround Sound to heighten the films' hard-rock-and-screams-driven soundtracks. The gripping 1982 nail-biter Tenebrae, formerly out in truncated form as Unsane (Fox Hills, n.i.d.), stars Anthony Franciosa as a mystery novelist whose fictional crimes are being replicated in real life. The cassette includes the original theatrical trailer and two behind-the-scenes segments. Reportedly the director's own fave among his eerie ouevre, 1985's Phenomena, first seen here in a butchered edition called Creepers (Media, n.i.d.), chronicles the terrifying traumas of schoolgirl Jennifer Connelly as she battles a serial killer with the help of insect-specialist Donald Pleasence. Among the extras are two music videos, a \"making-of\" short and an interview with Argento conducted by legendary talk-show host Joe Franklin (now that's scary!). Anchor Bay lavishes the same care on Lamberto Bava's 1985 bijou-set terror tale Demons and the 1988 sequel Demons 2, both produced and co-written by Argento. The handsomely packaged tapes (2/99) are $14.98 each. The DVDs, with audio commentary by the directors, sell for $29.98 each. Dario's Rome-set serial-killer thriller The Stendhal Syndrome, starring daughter Asia Argento, is slated for a select Stateside theatrical release this Spring, followed by a late June video debut via Troma ($59.98). No word as we go to press when The Phantom of the Opera may appear theatrically here. 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Calls the attention of the Security Council to the Definition of Aggression, as set out below, and recommends that it should, as appropriate, take account of that Definition as guidance in determination, in accordance with the Charter, the existence of an act of aggression.\n2319th plenary meeting\nDefinition of Aggression\nBasing itself on the fact that one of the fundamental purposes of the United Nations is to maintain international peace and security and to take effective collective measures for the prevention and removal of threats to the peace, and for the suppression of acts of aggression or other breaches of the peace,\nRecalling that the Security Council, in accordance with Article 39 of the Charter of the United Nations, shall determine the existence of any threat to the peace, breach of the peace or act of aggression and shall make recommendations, or decide what measures shall be taken in accordance with Articles 41 and 42, to maintain or restore international peace and security,\nRecalling also the duty of States under the Charter to settle their international disputes by peaceful means in order not to endanger international peace, security and justice,\nBearing in mind that nothing in this Definition shall be interpreted as in any way affecting the scope of the provisions of the Charter with respect to the functions and powers of the organs of the United Nations,\nConsidering also that, since aggression is the most serious and dangerous form of the illegal use of force, being fraught, in the conditions created by the existence of all types of weapons of mass destruction, with the possible threat of a world conflict and all its catastrophic consequences, aggression should be defined at the present stage,\nReaffirming the duty of States not to use armed force to deprive peoples of their right to self-determination, freedom and independence, or to disrupt territorial Integrity,\nReaffirming also that the territory of a State shall not be violated by 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the acts concerned or their consequences are not of sufficient gravity.\nAny of the following acts, regardless of a declaration of war, shall, subject to and in accordance with the provisions of article 2, qualify as an act of aggression:\n(a) The invasion or attack by the armed forces of a State of the territory of another State, or any military occupation, however temporary, resulting from such invasion or attack, or any annexation by the use of force of the territory of another State or part thereof,\n(b) Bombardment by the armed forces of a State against the territory of another State or the use of any weapons by a State against the territory of another State;\n(c) The blockade of the ports or coasts of a State by the armed forces of another State;\n(d) An attack by the armed forces of a State on the land, sea or air forces, or marine and air fleets of another State;\n(e) The use of armed forces of one State which are within the territory of another State with the agreement of the receiving State, in contravention of the conditions provided for in the agreement or any extension of their presence in such territory beyond the termination of the agreement;\n(f) The action of a State in allowing its temtory, which it has placed at the disposal of another State, to be used by that other State for perpetrating an act of aggression against a third State;\n(g) The sending by or on behalf of a State of armed bands, groups, irregulars or mercenaries, which carry out acts of armed force against another State of such gravity as to amount to the acts listed above, or its substantial involvement therein.\nThe acts enumerated above are not exhaustive and the Security Council may determine that other acts constitute aggression under the provisions of the Charter.\n1. No consideration of whatever nature, whether political, economic, military or otherwise, may serve as a justification for aggression.\n2. A war of aggression is a crime against international peace. Aggression gives rise to international responsibility.\n3. No territorial acquisition or special advantage resulting from aggression is or shall be recognized as lawful.\nNothing in this Definition shall be construed as in any way enlarging or diminishing the scope of the Charter, including its provisions concerning cases in which the use of force is lawful.\nNothing in this Definition, and in particular article 3, could in any way prejudice the right to self-determination, freedom and independence, as derived from the Charter, of peoples forcibly deprived of that right and referred to in the Declaration on Principles of International Law concerning Friendly Relations and Cooperation among States in accordance with the Charter of the United Nations, particularly peoples under colonial and racist regimes or other forms of alien domination: nor the right of these peoples to struggle to that end and to seek and receive support, in accordance with the principles of the Charter and in conformity with the above-mentioned Declaration.\nIn their interpretation and application the above provisions are interrelated and each provision should be construed in the context of the other provisions.", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00240.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 142, + "original_length": 9370, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.94, + "perplexity": 140.4, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "https://virtual.keystonesymposia.org/ks/articles/7016/view", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T03:46:04Z", + "digest": "sha1:OOYQWUNC3UOWGBRORMGEHEAGQ3UBQVDN", + "length": 2241, + "nlines": 5, + "source_domain": "virtual.keystonesymposia.org", + "title": "Keystone Symposia", + "raw_content": "Translational Challenges in Neuroscience Drug Development\nIdentification: Balice-Gordon, Rita\nRita Balice-Gordon\nNeuroscience Therapeutic Area, Sanofi, Inc., Boston, MA\nNeurodegenerative diseases are underpinned by complex, multi-cellular, progressive and in some cases poorly understood pathophysiology, including chronic neuroinflammation, presenting significant challenges for the discovery and development of disease modifying therapeutics. Preclinical and clinical evidence supports the view that chronic neuroinflammation exacerbates neuron and glia dysfunction and ultimately disease progression. Many questions and challenges remain to be addressed, including whether acute neuroinflammation is beneficial or detrimental, dynamics and biomarkers of chronic neuroinflammation, timing of therapeutic interventions to abrogate neuroinflammation, and monitoring neuroinflammation in the clinic. Some of these challenges are tractable by individual labs and biopharma companies, others require long term commitments or pre-competitive consortia efforts. We have been working on neuroinflammation and neurodegeneration in Multiple Sclerosis (MS), a chronic, inflammatory, demyelinating disease of the CNS. Activated microglia and macrophages, among other cell types, play significant roles in mediating disease pathophysiology and progression. Sanofi teams are evaluating the therapeutic hypothesis that inhibition of a class III receptor tyrosine kinase, colony stimulating factor-1 receptor (CSF1R), modulates microglia and infiltrating macrophages, attenuates deleterious CNS inflammation, and reduces demyelination and neurodegeneration in MS. The CSF1R signaling pathway is altered in CNS tissue from MS patients and in preclinical models of neuroinflammation and neurodegeneration. In vitro assays utilizing primary microglia and macrophages demonstrated that CSF1R inhibition blocks receptor phosphorylation and downstream signaling, and alters cytokine production and microglial and macrophage activation. In vivo, CSF1R inhibition significantly improved neurological impairments in experimental autoimmune encephalomyelitis models of MS. 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Every element in the museum is designed to empower children to incorporate peacemaking skills into their everyday lives.\nThe museum houses more that 25 interactive exhibits that engage visitors in learning a variety of life skills such as self - acceptance and appreciation, communication, cooperation, conflict resolution, cultural appreciation, and planetary stewardship.\nFrom the West: Take I-70 East to the 23rd Street exit, #4C. Turn left onto 23rd Street and continue for approximately 6 miles. Turn left onto Crysler Avenue, and drive 1 mile to the Community of Christ Auditorium. The Children's Peace Pavilion is located inside the Community of Christ Auditorium.\nCommunity of Christ International Headquarters (0.04 miles) Mormon Visitors Center, The Church of Jesus Christ/L.D.S. 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Which type is right for you?\nTraditional Gyms/Fitness Centers. Many gyms offer a variety of exercise options in one facility, including cardio equipment, strength and weight training equipment, fitness classes, personal training, and even pools.\nFacilities like the YMCA are diverse, accessible, and offer fitness options for the entire family, including children and teens.\nSome gyms, like Equinox and Life Time offer luxury amenities such as saunas, massage, steam rooms, juice bars, cafes, childcare, and even beauty services, at a premium.\n24 Hour Gyms. With busy schedules or non-traditional schedules, finding time to go to the gym can be difficult. But gyms like 24 Hour Fitness, Planet Fitness, and Anytime Fitness offer flexibility by being open at all hours. They generally offer all the amenities of the traditional gym.\nWomen-Only Gyms. Single-gender gyms catering to the ladies are gaining in popularity, as they offer a less intimidating and more supportive environment for self-conscious exercisers. While many are smaller than traditional gyms, they may offer equipment and programming designed to appeal to women, and staff are usually all women as well. Some of the more well-known facilities include Curves and Total Woman.\nSpecialty Gyms. Some workout facilities specialize in a specific type of workout, like yoga, Pilates, kickboxing, cycling, dance, and CrossFit. They tend to be smaller and class-based, with varying levels of intensity and fitness levels. Many are high-energy, set to uptempo music. The cost is often higher than traditional gym memberships, but many offer single-class or membership/package deals.\nWhatever your preference, it\u2019s never too late to start working on your health, especially your heart health. Membership in a fitness facility can help you find motivation, accountability, and success.\nPosted in Exercising, WELLNESS.Tagged cardio, fitness, healths benefits of exercising, heart health, strength training, weight training.By Yvette La-Garde\nPrevious Article Think This Way to Be Healthier and Live Longer\nNext Article Salmon with Mango Salsa", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00240.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 123, + "original_length": 6457, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.95, + "perplexity": 328.6, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "https://vivikawidow.com/2018/12/13/the-city-thanks-you-for-your-service-a-knock-knock-extract/?shared=email&msg=fail", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T04:24:24Z", + "digest": "sha1:7VPWFYXH3KPCGO3ZBYDXUOMZNA6K3TPP", + "length": 4848, + "nlines": 24, + "source_domain": "vivikawidow.com", + "title": "The City Thanks you for Your Service (A Knock, Knock extract) \u2013 Welcome to Vivika Widow Online", + "raw_content": "The City Thanks you for Your Service (A Knock, Knock extract)\nMayor of Coldford, Jim Feltz, had given a lot to the city. The city was a demanding mistress though. It had earned its name as Shady City not just because of the gloomy weather but because everything was there for the taking by anyone not burdened by a moral compass. The mayor was such a man. Whilst the cities funds depleted he squirrelled away as much as he could. Things were going to implode soon. It was only a matter of time. The regeneration projects he had promised during his last campaign were halted. The poorest area of the city, known as The Shanties were now worse than when they started. People in high positions \u2013 people he considered friends \u2013 had pilfered the money away, leaving none for those lower on the ladder. There were no funds for expecting mothers he swore he would help and school budgets had been cut to the very brink. Only the exclusive school \u2013 Pettiwick \u2013 was managing to weather the storm but that was only because it\u2019s rich students were willing to pay the cost in private donations but not many could afford to send their children there. What did it matter? When campaign time came again he could blame the opposition. After all he was just doing what he could with the mess his predecessors left behind. Half of the city would believe that and the other half wouldn\u2019t care either way. He was done with all that. He checked his flight tickets again and stored them safely back in his pocket.\n\u201cWill you be home on time?\u201d Sylvia Feltz asked her husband as he pulled on a black coat and prepared to leave. \u201cWe have the Winstons coming to dinner,\u201d she added. \u201cI need you here.\u201d\nThe plan to leave everything behind had been in the works for some time. The day had finally come. He had enough money to start fresh. When the finances of the city finally tumbled like a house of cards he would be well out of the blast zone. His family would have to face the music at first but they would get out of it cleanly for the most part.\nHis eldest daughter, Lacey, kissed him.\n\u201cI\u2019ll be in the office this afternoon,\u201d she said. \u201cWe need to start a new campaign plan.\u201d\nLacey was her father\u2019s daughter. She was so like him in many respects. She had the same dark eyes and hair. She had the same permanent stern expression. She had gotten involved as his campaign manager the moment he announced he was running for City Office. She had aspirations of becoming mayor herself one day. She had a na\u00efve view of politics though. A certain lack of compassion was required despite what many may argue. She would learn that soon enough.\nHe stepped outside the building. People were becoming irate so he kept his security close. His silver town car wasn\u2019t waiting for him. He trusted his driver, Shane. He had arranged to be taken to the airport rather than the office that morning and it wasn\u2019t like Shane to be late. The mayor couldn\u2019t help but worry something had gone wrong. He looked up at his security guard. He was expressionless. He stared straight ahead. He was much larger than the mayor in both height and girth. He had never bothered to learn the man\u2019s name who\u2019s duty it was to protect him. It didn\u2019t seem important.\nHis heart rate increased the tempo of its beat. It was really happening. The car approached the kerb. He couldn\u2019t see Shane in the driver\u2019s seat through the tinted windows. The security guard leaned forward and opened the door. The mayor made to climb in but he hesitated. A woman was sat waiting for him. She shifted over and patted the seat beside her.\n\u201cDon\u2019t be shy,\u201d she said.\nHer ruby lips curled into a pretty smile. There was a gap in her front teeth that gave her a girlish quality. The collar of her grey coat had been pulled up around her neck. Jim took the seat. The door was closed and the car began to roll into movement.\n\u201cIsn\u2019t this cosy,\u201d the woman remarked.\nHe tried to control his breathing. He called upon every political stoicism he had in the hope he didn\u2019t look worried.\nThe woman looked out of the window, watching the city pass at greater and greater speed.\n\u201cJust giving a proper farewell,\u201d she said. \u201cSurely you wouldn\u2019t leave without saying goodbye to little old me?\u201d\nFear erupted inside him. He didn\u2019t care he would be leaping from a moving vehicle. He clutched the door handle and pulled but it was locked.\n\u201cLet me out!\u201d he cried.\nThe woman laughed. \u201cDon\u2019t worry,\u201d she said. \u201cWe have a little party prepared for you at the club.\u201d\nJim fell back onto his seat. Tears were in his eyes. His hands trembled.\n\u201cThe city thanks you for your service.\u201d\nThe entire Volume 1 of the Knock, Knock graphic novel is available to read HERE on Vivika Widow Online.\nKindle Unlimited subscribers can also down load to kindle for free! Click HERE to download your copy.\nPrevious Character Profile: David Finn\nNext Character Profile: Tabitha", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00240.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 142, + "original_length": 8448, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.99, + "perplexity": 291.1, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "https://voiceoflouisianaagriculture.org/news/2016/11/16/nominations-for-ag-hall-of-distinction-due-monday", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T04:34:01Z", + "digest": "sha1:MZVF5AU6JMB2J7IWL3QWUAXYG57AUMJT", + "length": 365, + "nlines": 3, + "source_domain": "voiceoflouisianaagriculture.org", + "title": "Nominations for Ag Hall of Distinction Due Monday \u2014 The Voice of Louisiana Agriculture", + "raw_content": "Nominations for Ag Hall of Distinction Due Monday\nMonday, November 21st is the deadline for submitting nominations for the 2017 class of the Louisiana Agriculture Hall of Distinction. The Hall of Distinction was created in 2013 to recognize those who have made an extraordinary contribution to Agri-business in the state of Louisiana.\nState Ag Officials Discuss ...", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00240.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 101, + "original_length": 4884, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.94, + "perplexity": 270.6, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "https://wallaseyvillageurc.org.uk/community-payback-thank-you/", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T04:17:48Z", + "digest": "sha1:SXCZYBEQTG3ONIY3ILHGF73MOOTBV5W4", + "length": 262, + "nlines": 2, + "source_domain": "wallaseyvillageurc.org.uk", + "title": "Community Payback \u2013 thank you! \u2013 Wallasey Village URC", + "raw_content": "From this \u2026 To this! \u2026\nWe are so pleased to acknowledge the work done recently as part of the Community Payback project which has transformed part of our gardens, and has renewed and renovated other external parts of our premises. See below for more information!", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00240.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 55, + "original_length": 1432, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.96, + "perplexity": 255.8, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "https://warfarehistorynetwork.com/tag/regular-army/", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T04:52:34Z", + "digest": "sha1:E3HRVQ2IM2VGLJQ7ZNLJ3PQF546QH5LR", + "length": 1438, + "nlines": 17, + "source_domain": "warfarehistorynetwork.com", + "title": "Warfare History Network \u00bb Regular Army", + "raw_content": "The Battle of Tupelo, June \u2013 July 1864\nIn the Battle of Tupelo, Mississippi, The Union won a critical victory over the Rebels, ensuring the safety of William T. Sherman\u2019s supply lines. More \u00bb\nConfederate General Joseph Wheeler\nGeneral Wheeler used his cavalry effectively against the Union army in the western theater. More \u00bb\nLeon Tulper, a Jewish American soldier in the 65th Infantry, recalls the final days of the war in Europe and the liberation of concentration camps. More \u00bb\nBaptism of Fire: The SS in Poland\nHitler\u2019s elite bodyguard and other SS units were transformed during the Polish campaign into real fighting men and became responsible for atrocities. More \u00bb\nThe M-60 Machine Gun in the Vietnam War\nThe versatile, quick-firing M60 machine gun became one of the iconic weapons of the Vietnam War. More \u00bb\nExpanding the Size of the U.S. Military in World War II\nThe size of the U.S. military exploded in World War II, as army numbers alone soared from 174,000 to over 11 million. More \u00bb\nWaffen SS General Felix Steiner\nWaffen SS General Felix Steiner was an able commander who refused to sacrifice his troops needlessly. More \u00bb\nGrant Takes D.C.\nPolitics and intrigue surrounded the appointment of the new Lieutenant General. More \u00bb\nCity Under Siege: The New York Draft Riots\nAfter the Lincoln administration began drafting for the war effort, mobs of New Yorkers savagely attacked police, soldiers, and African Americans. More \u00bb", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00240.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 176, + "original_length": 4828, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.91, + "perplexity": 200.3, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "https://washingtonmonthly.com/2009/10/06/improved-international-standing-2/", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T03:13:51Z", + "digest": "sha1:77KU6UHDAFE6KTBAKO26R7THJK3L2Y5I", + "length": 2530, + "nlines": 12, + "source_domain": "washingtonmonthly.com", + "title": "Washington Monthly | Improved international standing", + "raw_content": "Improved international standing\nIMPROVED INTERNATIONAL STANDING\u2026. We heard quite a bit during last year\u2019s presidential campaign about the United States losing some of its international standing during the Bush/Cheney era, and the ways in which Barack Obama could improve our reputation around the world.\nThe president has only been in office for nine months, but at this point, the shifts in global attitudes are encouraging. (via Zaid Jilani)\nThe United States is the most admired country globally thanks largely to the star power of President Barack Obama and his administration, according to a new poll.\nIt climbed from seventh place last year, ahead of France, Germany, the United Kingdom and Japan which completed the top five nations in the Nation Brand Index (NBI).\n\u201cWhat\u2019s really remarkable is that in all my years studying national reputation, I have never seen any country experience such a dramatic change in its standing as we see for the United States for 2009,\u201d said Simon Anholt, the founder of NBI, which measured the global image of 50 countries each year.\nHe believes that during the previous administration of George W. Bush the United States suffered in the world ranking with its unpopular foreign policies but since Obama was elected, and despite the recent economic turmoil, the country\u2019s status has risen globally.\n\u201cThere is no other explanation,\u201d Anholt said in an interview, referring to the impact of Obama.\nIn candor, I\u2019m not especially familiar with the Nation Brand Index survey, which has apparently been around since 2005, so I can\u2019t speak to its methodology or reliability. According to the Reuters report, the survey was conducted with GFK Roper Public Affairs & Media, which frequently works with the Associated Press, and polled \u201c20,000 people in 20 rich and developing countries around the globe\u201d who were asked to \u201crate 50 nations in categories such as culture, governance, people, exports, tourism, landscape and education.\u201d\nThat said, these results are very much in line with the survey released in July by the Pew Global Attitudes Project, which found a vast improvement in views of the United States since the election of President Obama.\nObviously, international support can change, sometimes rapidly, and the White House may very well pursue a policy in Afghanistan that undermines some of the goodwill that\u2019s reflected in the data.\nThat said, for those who hoped to see America\u2019s standing improve with the change in administrations, we appear to be taking steps in the right direction.", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00240.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 162, + "original_length": 6418, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.97, + "perplexity": 200.9, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "https://watchmepaint.bangordailynews.com/about-carol/", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T03:57:19Z", + "digest": "sha1:QXLGNHFLFYKGDRAWWW6CX755AAV4XHWO", + "length": 716, + "nlines": 5, + "source_domain": "watchmepaint.bangordailynews.com", + "title": "About Carol | Watch Me Paint", + "raw_content": "Carol L. Douglas is a plein air, landscape and figure painter. She teaches out of her Rockport studio. She has taught in Maine, New Mexico and New York and shown in galleries across the United States.\nShe is represented in Maine by Camden Falls Gallery in Camden and the Kelpie Gallery in South Thomaston. For more information about her work, click here.\nLike most plein air painters, her office is the landscape. She travels for events, to teach, or just to paint in great places. She writes about these trips, art history, and how to paint.\nDouglas teaches an annual plein air workshop. 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Selected with the 25th overall pick in the 1998 NBA draft, Harrington played 16 seasons in the National Basketball Association (NBA) for the Indiana Pacers, Atlanta Hawks, Golden State Warriors, New York Knicks, Denver Nuggets, Orlando Magic and Washington Wizards. He also spent a short stint with the Fujian Sturgeons of the Chinese Basketball Association (CBA).\nSince retiring from the NBA, Harrington has become an entrepreneur in the cannabis industry.[1] Harrington is a cousin of NBA player Dahntay Jones.[2]\n2.1 Indiana Pacers (1998\u20132004)\n2.3 Second run with Pacers (2006\u20132007)\n2.4 Golden State Warriors (2007\u20132008)\n2.7 Orlando Magic (2012\u20132013)\n2.8 Washington Wizards (2013\u20132014)\n2.9 Fujian Sturgeons (2014)\n2.10 Sydney Kings (2015)\n2.11 Big3 (2017)\nBorn in Orange, New Jersey, Harrington grew up in Roselle, New Jersey and played high school basketball at St. Patrick High School in Elizabeth, New Jersey. He was named both Gatorade and USA Today's National Player of the Year, as well as a 1998 McDonald's High School All-American after his senior season.[3]\nIndiana Pacers (1998\u20132004)[edit]\nAt only 18 years of age, Harrington was selected by the Indiana Pacers with the 25th overall pick in the 1998 NBA draft, and spent six seasons with them, primarily coming off the bench. Harrington really began to come into his own in the 2001\u201302 season, in which he averaged 13.1 points and 6.3 rebounds per game, but his season came to an end in a game against the Boston Celtics when he suffered a knee injury that forced him to miss the final 38 games of the season.\nHe made a comeback in the 2002\u201303 season, becoming the only Pacer to play in all 82 games that year. He averaged 12.2 points and 6.0 rebounds per game while starting in 37 games. The following season, he boosted his averages slightly to 13.3 points and 6.4 rebounds per game, and finished second in voting for the NBA Sixth Man of the Year Award. He was an integral part of the Pacers' first run to the Eastern Conference Finals since 2000.\nOn July 15, 2004, Harrington was traded to the Atlanta Hawks in exchange for Stephen Jackson.[4] Harrington finally became a nightly starter, but the Hawks did not fare as successfully as the Pacers did after his departure.\nSecond run with Pacers (2006\u20132007)[edit]\nOn August 22, 2006, Harrington and John Edwards were acquired by the Indiana Pacers from the Atlanta Hawks in a sign-and-trade deal that also sent the Hawks a 2007 first round draft pick.[5] In 2006\u201307, Harrington wore jersey #32 because his first choice #3 was worn by teammate \u0160ar\u016bnas Jasikevi\u010dius (saying it stands for \"number three, and it's my second time around\").[6]\nGolden State Warriors (2007\u20132008)[edit]\nHarrington warming up before a Warriors/Lakers game on March 23, 2008.\nOn January 17, 2007, Harrington was dealt to the Golden State Warriors along with teammates Stephen Jackson, \u0160ar\u016bnas Jasikevi\u010dius, and Josh Powell for Troy Murphy, Mike Dunleavy, Ike Diogu, and Keith McLeod.[7]\nNew York Knicks (2008\u20132010)[edit]\nOn November 21, 2008, Harrington was traded to the New York Knicks in exchange for Jamal Crawford.[8] In his two seasons with the Knicks, he played the best basketball of his career, but did not reach the playoffs in either season. In 140 games (66 starts), he averaged 19.2 points, 5.9 rebounds, 1.4 assists and 1.0 steals in 32.7 minutes per game.[9]\nDenver Nuggets (2010\u20132012)[edit]\nOn July 15, 2010, Harrington signed a multi-year deal with the Denver Nuggets.[10] During the 2010\u201311 season, he averaged 10.5 points, 4.5 rebounds, and 1.4 assists in 22.8 minutes per game. The Nuggets finished 50\u201332, fifth best in the Western Conference and second in the Northwest Division. The Oklahoma City Thunder defeated the Nuggets in five games in the first round of the 2011 playoffs.\nOrlando Magic (2012\u20132013)[edit]\nOn August 10, 2012, Harrington was traded to the Orlando Magic in a four-team trade which sent Dwight Howard to the Los Angeles Lakers.[11] He only played 10 games for the Magic in 2012\u201313, averaging 5.1 points, 2.7 rebounds, and 1.0 assists in 11.7 minutes per game. The Magic finished with a 20-62 record, the worst record in the NBA. On August 2, 2013, Harrington was waived by the Magic.[12]\nWashington Wizards (2013\u20132014)[edit]\nOn August 14, 2013, Harrington signed with the Washington Wizards.[13] He came off the bench in all 37 games he played for Washington, averaging 6.6 points and 2.4 rebounds per contest. The Wizards made their first playoff appearance since 2008, and Harrington played in 7 of the team's 11 postseason games.[14]\nFujian Sturgeons (2014)[edit]\nOn August 11, 2014, Harrington signed with the Fujian Sturgeons of the Chinese Basketball Association.[15][16] On November 25, 2014, he parted ways with Fujian amidst NBA interest.[17]\nAfter returning to the United States and not receiving any NBA offers, Harrington announced his retirement from professional basketball on March 18, 2015, after averaging 13.5 points and 5.6 rebounds in a 16-year career that included stints with seven teams.[18]\nSydney Kings (2015)[edit]\nHarrington later came out of retirement and signed with the Sydney Kings of the National Basketball League on October 28, 2015 as an injury replacement for Josh Childress.[19] He made his debut for the Kings two days later, scoring 12 points off the bench in an 87\u201378 win over the Townsville Crocodiles.[20] With Childress set to return from injury, Harrington played his last game with Sydney on November 19, recording 18 points and 6 rebounds in a loss to the New Zealand Breakers.[21] In six games for the Kings, he averaged 17.7 points, 6.8 rebounds, and 2.7 assists per game.\nBig3 (2017)[edit]\nIn the summer of 2017, Harrington competed in the inaugural season of the Big3 basketball league. He played for Trilogy and served as co-captain with former teammate Kenyon Martin.[22] The team went an undefeated 10-0 that season, winning the first-ever Big3 Championship.[23]\n1998\u201399 Indiana 21 0 7.6 .321 .000 .600 1.9 .2 .2 .1 2.1\n1999\u201300 Indiana 50 0 17.1 .458 .235 .703 3.2 .8 .5 .2 6.6\n2000\u201301 Indiana 78 38 24.3 .444 .143 .656 4.9 1.7 .8 .2 7.5\n2001\u201302 Indiana 44 1 29.8 .475 .333 .799 6.3 1.2 .9 .5 13.1\n2002\u201303 Indiana 82 37 30.1 .434 .283 .770 6.2 1.5 .9 .4 12.2\n2003\u201304 Indiana 79 15 30.9 .463 .273 .734 6.4 1.7 1.0 .3 13.3\n2004\u201305 Atlanta 66 66 38.6 .459 .216 .672 7.0 3.2 1.3 .2 17.5\n2006\u201307 Golden State 42 42 32.3 .456 .417 .681 6.4 2.3 1.0 .3 17.0\n2007\u201308 Golden State 81 59 27.0 .434 .375 .774 5.4 1.6 .9 .2 13.6\n2008\u201309 Golden State 5 5 33.2 .329 .393 .500 5.6 2.0 1.4 .0 12.4\n2009\u201310 New York 72 15 30.5 .435 .342 .757 5.6 1.5 .9 .4 17.7\n2010\u201311 Denver 73 3 22.8 .416 .357 .735 4.5 1.4 .5 .1 10.5\n2012\u201313 Orlando 10 0 11.9 .351 .267 .750 2.7 1.0 .4 .1 5.1\n2013\u201314 Washington 34 0 15.0 .396 .340 .771 2.4 .8 .4 .0 6.6\n2001 Indiana 3 0 13.3 .154 .000 .500 1.3 1.0 .0 .0 1.7\n2003 Indiana 6 0 17.2 .212 .000 .667 3.7 .8 1.0 .5 3.0\n2004 Indiana 16 2 26.7 .429 .400 .545 6.4 .8 1.4 .6 9.5\n2007 Golden State 11 5 23.8 .398 .395 .633 4.6 .5 .5 .6 10.2\n2011 Denver 5 0 14.0 .455 .500 .750 1.4 1.0 .6 .0 5.6\n2012 Denver 7 0 23.3 .320 .286 .667 4.3 .9 .4 .1 9.7\n2014 Washington 7 0 8.4 .400 .000 .714 2.3 .0 .6 .0 2.4\nAfter retiring from the NBA, Harrington started a business that produces cannabis extracts. The company, Viola Extracts, is named after Harrington's grandmother. Suffering from glaucoma and diabetes, she tried cannabis at the urging of Harrington and found significant relief.[24] The company cultivates cannabis in-house and has facilities in several states.[1][25]\nIn February 2018 Harrington announced the launch of Harrington Wellness, a company that manufactures non-psychoactive cannabinoid products.[26] Also announced was his investment in a third company Butter Baby, which makes cannabis edibles.[26] All three companies together comprise The Harrington Group.[27]\nHarrington is a proponent for the legalization of cannabis. In October 2016, he appeared in an online ad endorsing the passage of California's Proposition 64.[28] He has also written an essay for The Players' Tribune titled \"9 Reasons to End the War on Marijuana\".[29]\nIn October 2017, Harrington interviewed former NBA commissioner David Stern regarding cannabis use by players.[30] Stern told Harrington during the interview: \"I'm now at the point where personally I think [cannabis] probably should be removed from the banned list. You've persuaded me.\"[31]\n^ a b Aldridge, David (October 30, 2017). \"Al Harrington wants to help NBA see benefits of medical marijuana\". nba.com. Retrieved February 20, 2018.\n^ Chat with Al Harrington\n^ \"Al Harrington traded for Stephen Jackson\". InsideHoops.com. July 15, 2004. Retrieved July 13, 2014.\n^ HAWKS OBTAIN AL HARRINGTON FROM INDIANA FOR STEPHEN JACKSON\n^ Pacers get Harrington from Hawks for first-round pick\n^ PACERS: Harrington All Smiles Upon Return To Pacers Archived February 17, 2009, at the Wayback Machine\n^ \"Pacers, Warriors announce 8-player deal\". MOPSquad.com. January 17, 2007. Archived from the original on February 3, 2008. Retrieved December 23, 2007.\n^ \"Knicks Acquire Al Harrington\". NBA.com. November 21, 2008. Archived from the original on December 16, 2009.\n^ Al Harrington NBA & ABA Stats\n^ Denver Nuggets sign Al Harrington\n^ \"It's official: Howard dealt to Lakers in four-team trade\". NBA.com. August 10, 2012. Archived from the original on August 11, 2012. Retrieved August 10, 2012.\n^ Magic Request Waivers on Al Harrington\n^ \"Wizards Sign Al Harrington\". NBA.com. Turner Sports Interactive, Inc. August 14, 2013. Retrieved August 14, 2013.\n^ \"Washington Wizards 2014 Statistics - Team and Player Stats - ESPN\". ESPN.com. Retrieved August 27, 2017.\n^ \"Fujian officially signs Al Harrington\". Sportando.com. August 11, 2014. Retrieved August 11, 2014.\n^ \"Former New York Knicks' Forward Al Harrington China Bound\". SportsMedia101.com. August 10, 2014. Archived from the original on August 14, 2014. Retrieved August 11, 2014.\n^ \"Fujian signs DJ White, parts ways with Al Harrington\". Sportando.com. November 25, 2014. Retrieved November 25, 2014.\n^ Al Harrington retires after 16 seasons\n^ \"KINGS SIGN NBA REPLACEMENT\". SydneyKings.com. October 28, 2015. Archived from the original on November 1, 2015. Retrieved October 28, 2015.\n^ \"KINGS OVERPOWER CROCS AT KINGDOME\". SydneyKings.com. October 30, 2015. Archived from the original on November 2, 2015. Retrieved October 30, 2015.\n^ \"KINGS FALL TO BREAKERS IN HARRINGTON FAREWELL\". SydneyKings.com. November 19, 2015. Archived from the original on November 21, 2015. Retrieved November 19, 2015.\n^ Conway, Tyler. \"BIG3 Basketball League 2017 Draft Results and Full Team Rosters\". Bleacher Report. Retrieved August 27, 2017.\n^ Rapp, Timothy. \"Trilogy Defeat 3 Headed Monsters to Win Inaugural BIG3 League Championship\". Bleacher Report. Retrieved August 27, 2017.\n^ Schube, Sam (February 19, 2018). \"Al Harrington Wants to Be the NBA's First Pot Mogul\". GQ. Retrieved February 19, 2018.\n^ Mano, Daniel (October 25, 2017). \"Ex-Warriors' talk with David Stern signals sea change on marijuana in the NBA\". The Mercury News. Retrieved February 20, 2018.\n^ a b \"Basketball Legend Al Harrington Premiers \"Harrington Wellness\" Upscale and Professional Brand of CBD-Based Wellness Products\" (Press release). PR Newswire. February 16, 2018. Retrieved March 9, 2018.\n^ Green, Johnny (February 17, 2018). \"Cleveland Cavaliers Coach And NBA Players Attend CBD Product Launch\". Weed News. Retrieved March 9, 2018.\n^ Tinsley, Justin (October 31, 2016). \"Retired NBA Vets Are Making Legal Marijuana The New Pick And Roll\". The Undefeated. Retrieved February 20, 2018.\n^ Harrington, Al (January 17, 2018). \"9 Reasons to End the War on Marijuana\". The Players' Tribune. Retrieved February 20, 2018.\n^ \"Former Commissioner David Stern: Medical marijuana should be removed from banned list\". nba.com. October 25, 2017. Retrieved February 20, 2018.\n^ \"David Stern thinks medical marijuana shouldn't be on banned list\". ESPN. October 26, 2017. Retrieved February 20, 2018.\nWikimedia Commons has media related to Al Harrington.\nNBA biography\nNaismith Prep Player of the Year Award\n2017: Michael Porter\n2018: R. J. 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He played college basketball for the University of Colorado Boulder from 2002 until 2006.\nJustin Alaric Holiday is an American professional basketball player for the Memphis Grizzlies of the National Basketball Association (NBA). He played college basketball for the Washington Huskies. He won an NBA championship with the Golden State Warriors in 2015.\nLangston Galloway is an American professional basketball player for the Detroit Pistons of the National Basketball Association (NBA). 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WindowsASPNETHosting.in has everything you need and more when it comes to Windows & ASP.NET hosting\nWhy Do You Choose WindowsASPNETHosting.in for DotNetNuke Hosting?", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00240.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 248, + "original_length": 7469, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.93, + "perplexity": 291.4, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "https://wisconsintechnologycouncil.com/milwaukee-business-journal-wisconsin-execs-must-work-with-evers/", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T03:53:09Z", + "digest": "sha1:X7PF4BKXDG6HPBAOT7DRXY7UJ66WSWA3", + "length": 1001, + "nlines": 5, + "source_domain": "wisconsintechnologycouncil.com", + "title": "Milwaukee Business Journal: Wisconsin execs must work with Evers | Wisconsin Technology Council", + "raw_content": "Milwaukee Business Journal: Wisconsin execs must work with Evers\nThe race to be Wisconsin\u2019s next governor is over and it is time to focus on the next four years.\nThat is the view many business executives and groups, who have been longtime supporters of Gov. Scott Walker, must have as they prepare to work with Gov.-elect Tony Evers. In today\u2019s hyper-partisan environment, it is imperative that business executives give the Democrat Evers a chance and work with him on major issues to ensure the state\u2019s economy continues at its current pace.\nCompromise must be the theme in Madison as the state Legislature remains in Republican control. In order to get anything accomplished, both sides are going to have to sit down and find common ground on issues important to the business community.\nJohn Miller of Arenberg Holdings, a Milwaukee private investment fund, advised business executives to \u201ctake a collective deep breath and understand that Tony Evers is not anti-business.\u201d Read the full story here.", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00240.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 115, + "original_length": 3787, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.97, + "perplexity": 308.7, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "https://wolfsreign.com/", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T04:34:06Z", + "digest": "sha1:GYNJFYXOLVDRJRFZKQYMXFGGL7Q2C6YK", + "length": 2431, + "nlines": 22, + "source_domain": "wolfsreign.com", + "title": "wolfsreign", + "raw_content": "wolfsreign\nSteven Ametjan is a frontend developer in Los Angeles.\nCurrently I am accepting freelance work, and have begun working on the redesign of Signature Tax Services, focusing their design, and bringing clarity to their product.\nPreviously, I worked for Antics Digital Marketing, from 2013 to 2105, and helped them develop campaigns for Allergan, Plc, PayPal, and ebay. This work included iact4women, Lo Loestrin, HerCompass, and ebay valet, as well as a plethora of HTML emails.\nPrior to Antics, I worked on a variety of projects for different companies including Famous Interactive Group, Sabertooth, and Demand Media.\nIn 2007 I accepted a position with Fox Interactive Media to join a team working on a new content management system for the local networks.\nMutasia is a children's entertainment brand, founded in 2007. In 2010, while working at Fox Interactive Media, I was tasked with developing a website for the brand, to showcase the features of the CMS we developed, outside the context of television networks.\nhttp://www.mutasia.com (No longer reflective of my work)\nhttp://web.archive.org/web/20110206203325/http://www.mutasia.com/\nWhile under a contract with Famous Interactive Media, I worked on developing Every Beat Matters for the Save The Children Federation. The decision was made to use Drupal for the CMS due to its extensibility, while I developed the HTML, CSS, and Javascript.\nhttp://www.everybeatmatters.org (No longer reflective of my work)\nhttp://web.archive.org/web/20121001123148/http://www.everybeatmatters.org/#\nWhile at Antics Digital Marketing, I was tasked with creating and editing several sites, for multiple clients, as well as developing the updated version of Antics' own site.\nhttp://www.antics.com\nHitting the Bottle was originally intended to be a social network, centered around drinking. I developed the concept for the application, and began development of the project, using Python and Django, but ceased development after the launch of Untappd.\nSignature Tax Services\nSignature Tax Services is a company that specializes in assisting individuals settle outstanding debts and liens with the IRS. Their current website is busy and outdated. I was brought on to organize the information, and to update the design to better resemble the focus of the company.\nhttp://signaturetaxservice.com\nExpected Launch:\nWIP Build:\nhttps://nameless-beyond-63732.herokuapp.com\n\u00a9 2017, Steven Ametjan", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00240.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 43, + "original_length": 2637, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.94, + "perplexity": 178.3, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "https://women-now.org/stop-instrumentalising-womens-rights/", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T04:22:00Z", + "digest": "sha1:S74N6ZZ4VS4FU2XMUCZ6VFK7JKB6JCQO", + "length": 8106, + "nlines": 15, + "source_domain": "women-now.org", + "title": "Conflict in Syria: stop instrumentalising women\u2019s rights - Women Now for Development", + "raw_content": "MARIA AL ABDEH 19 April 2017\nThe international community is not listening to us. It must depoliticise the fight against sexual violence and humanise the countering violent extremism strategy.\nWomen Now vigil in remembrance of Jo Cox MP. Women Now. All rights reserved.From the outset of the crisis, women have played a significant role in challenging violent and extremist agendas inside Syria. However, the difference between Syrian women\u2019s definition of extremism and that of the international community is deep: for Syrian women, every act of violence committed in the war is \u2018ideological and terrorist\u2019 in nature, constructed upon the logic of the extermination of the \u2018other\u2019. Based on this approach, female activists have led protests against all kinds of dictatorship and terrorism, from the Assad regime to ISIS, while also risking their lives to protest and lead campaigns for the liberation of detained prisoners, and against child recruitment. Some of these stories have been heard; some were documented in a 2015 Badael report. Many other stories have not made the headlines.\nYet the last thing that those of us working in the field of women\u2019s empowerment inside Syria want is to be instrumentalised by foreign agendas or to be perceived or portrayed as such. There are factions on many sides of the conflict that will seek to delegitimise and slander our activities. Regime representatives may accuse us of being fronts for extremist opposition factions. Conservative elements within the opposition are opposed to our vision of women\u2019s rights and human rights, and the interdependence of the two. Yet international actors have also wittingly or unwittingly contributed to this politicisation of women\u2019s rights in Syria.\n\u2018Women countering violent extremism\u2019\nWhile writing this article I have witnessed the rollout of a new trend in the international community: \u2018women on the front line of countering violent extremism\u2019. I know very well the role of women in countering terrorism and extremist thought through children\u2019s education in authentic religious texts on peace and coexistence and I highly recommend the support for those efforts. I have even criticised the international community\u2019s confusion of religion and extremism and the ignorance of the role of religion in community resilience.\nHowever, I\u2019m completely astonished at the expectations of the international community, which pushes women to the frontline of countering terrorism, but then ignores them as they call to stop the bombing, stop arming, break the siege; when they cry that fighting extremism cannot be done by arms and airstrikes: an ideology of hate can only be defeated by one of solidarity and justice for all; when they demand justice and accountably; when they request support for the education of children and youth. The international community that disregards all these calls \u2013 and then expects women to have a solution to the mire created by militarisation, the lack of accountability and the decline in education, which only put women in more danger.\nIt is important to note that the only impact visible to Syrian civil society organisations (including women\u2019s organisations) of counter terrorism law has been to slow down financial transactions. Vital funding is being stalled for months before reaching Syrian organisations; women activists are left in acute financial need while some projects are left to completely fall down because of this. Another impact is the vetting process, which prevents any individual from being paid without being thoroughly vetted beforehand. What kind of impact can this have? When one of our women\u2019s group recently lost a colleague, killed by an airstrike, the donors refused to compensate her family or pay her salary to her family under the rationale that neither the husband nor any other family member who might benefit from the $200 were vetted. It is possible for women and men activists to die, to suffer from severe trauma without any health insurance, working as heroes under terrible living conditions without any protection or compensation due to counter-terrorism measures.\nInstrumentalising the fight against sexual violence\nConcerning the instrumentalisation of the fight against sexual violence, an example would be the visit of the UN Special Representative of the Secretary General (SRSG) on Sexual Violence in Armed Conflict in March 2015. Women Now For Development, along with other Syrian women\u2019s civil society groups, organized for the SRSG to meet with survivors of sexual violence in Lebanon and Turkey, alongside her visit to Damascus. The vast majority of the women that the SRSG met had endured horrific forms of sexual violence, and other forms of torture, at the hands of the Syrian regime. (The number of women killed during the conflict between 2011 and 2015 is 18,457 by the Syrian regime (96%), 427 by opposition groups (2.2%), 211 by ISIS and other extremist groups (1%), and 31 by Kurdish Forces (less than 0,5%). In terms of arbitrary detention, the regime is also way ahead with 6,500 women arrested, or 83% of women arrested by all parties in the conflict. With regard to the documentation of sexual abuse, the only documentation we have is of 7,500 women abused by the Syrian regime forces. We don\u2019t have reliable data about abuse by other parties, but observation suggests the same pattern seen for killing and arrests, with a very high majority attributed to the Syrian regime. Yet, for political reasons, the public statements made by the SRSG during her visit and media coverage of these focused entirely on the abuses perpetrated by ISIS.\nThe effects of this misrepresentation of what the women survivors of sexual violence had shared were terrible both for the women themselves and for the civil society groups supporting them. The women themselves felt betrayed. Both they and the organisations that had facilitated the meetings with the SRSG faced significant criticism within their community as the visit had been clearly used to serve an external political agenda that wrongly portrayed the regime in a positive light in contrast to criticisms of ISIS. Moreover, in its report in April 2016, the SRSG is calling to build on her visit to Damascus, ignoring a lettersigned by 400 women\u2019s and human rights organizations and activists expressing their concern about the visit and ignoring the fact that no change has been observed to the level of Syrian regime brutality against female detainees.\nIf we are not able to protect both women and men survivors of sexual violence, the very least we can do is not to harm them or use them to support political agendas.\nThe successful alternative to these cases of instrumentalisation has been the amazing solidarity of some international women\u2019s organisations and individuals. An example of one person\u2019s initiative that produced a magical impact was the support provided by Jo Cox, a British Member of Parliament, until her tragic death last year. Cox\u2019s advocacy within the British parliament and media on the situation of both Syrian women and the wider Syrian conflict exemplified a serious and sustained engagement and commitment to bringing the recommendations of grassroots activists to the attention of decision-makers, the media and the public. She was the first parliamentarian to answer the Daraya women\u2019s letter and led ISSG\u2019s effort to break the siege of besieged areas.\nThe solidarity, activism and championing efforts that Jo Cox MP provided became a transformative experience for the women in our centres and others active across Syria. Women in our centres were traumatised by her tragic death: some wrote a letter to the late Jo Cox, some organized a silent gathering, some prepared a video about her entitled \u2018Jo Cox, Syrian women will never forget you\u2019, others sent a letter of support to her family. Despite the devastating conditions they are facing, Syrian women took the time to remember someone who stood in solidarity with them on a humanitarian basis.\nThis article is the second of a three part series on women activists in Syria by Maria Al Abdeh. Read the first.", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00240.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 76, + "original_length": 10558, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.96, + "perplexity": 239.2, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "https://wonklifebalance.wordpress.com/2014/07/", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T04:03:55Z", + "digest": "sha1:QQV2UZWG4NYVLYF3UDR2FCHEESITRL4I", + "length": 5468, + "nlines": 13, + "source_domain": "wonklifebalance.wordpress.com", + "title": "July | 2014 | wonklifebalance", + "raw_content": "Why we need outspoken women\nLast night I was in the audience at a New Statesman event where Mary Beard and Laurie Penny discussed why we are so afraid of outspoken women. Chaired by Helen Lewis, it was great to see a platform filled with articulate women.\nMuch of the discussion concerned misogyny online \u2013 not surprising given that both of these writers have been attacked on social media, and have spoken out about it. It was interesting to hear examples where they had called out abusers and ended up getting them onside. This seemed to have been done most effectively by reminding abusers of women in their own lives and how they would feel if someone spoke to those women, in the way they had commented online about a public figure.\nAn interesting theme emerged around women having a sense of belonging in the public sphere. Mary Beard has written and spoken about how the classical world effectively silenced women perceived of as \u2018intruding\u2019 into that sphere. The authoritative public voice remains a deep, male one, with women still often portrayed as shrill or whining. Professional women are often advised (a la Margaret Thatcher) to lower their speaking voice and modulate their tone in order to operate effectively. To lose authenticity in this process is the killer: finding your own voice \u2013 literally and metaphorically \u2013 is what matters. Laurie Penny talked about how women\u2019s appearance is brought into the mix, with women who express opinions often derided as \u2018ugly\u2019 and thus not deserving to be heard. On the flipside, if \u2018pretty\u2019 there is often the assumption that a woman is not there to be heard, rather just to be looked at \u2013 not worth hearing for a different set of reasons. She speculated that there may be \u2018one day\u2019 that a woman is heard \u2013 when she hits a magic period where not too old, not too young, not too distracting looking, etc.. We should not hold our breath though.\nAnd we certainly should not be silent. We all carry with us images of people in public life which are essentially male: even for this panel of successful women writers, the image of a political commentator or essayist, remains that of a man. This observation struck a chord with the audience and made me think about how I\u2019d recently been in a gallery and asked for more information about an artist whose name I didn\u2019t recognise \u2013 I unthinkingly enquired about who \u2018he\u2019 was. We all do do it, because that is how things have mostly been. But by taking part in the public conversation women change this.\nCategories politics, women\nA token re-shuffle?\nThe arrival of more women in the Cabinet in this week\u2019s re-shuffle has hardly resulted in unalloyed celebration amongst commentators, let alone the voting public. And no wonder. So late in the parliamentary cycle it is unlikely that new ministers will make major changes to departmental or government policy direction in the run-up to the 2015 election.\nInevitably, the promotion of Nicky Morgan, Liz Truss and Esther McVey has raised accusations of \u2018tokenism\u2019 \u2013 women being brought on board because of gender alone, not due to merit or skill on their part. Opponents might say this is not so much a re-shuffle as a shuffling of the deckchairs before election defeat \u2013 but all-out election victory for either of our two main parties is not yet certain by any means. And much of the electorate remains apathetic at best, often not registered to vote to boot.\nThe tokenism argument addressed to women does make me raise an eyebrow \u2013 of course it\u2019s true that being seen to support more women into office must have been a factor in the Prime Minister\u2019s thinking. But all Cabinets contain members who are tokens of something \u2013 that\u2019s kind of the point. No-one seems to be calling Philip Hammond a \u2018token\u2019 Eurosceptic \u2013 but there he is, a signalling device put in place to address sectional concerns. It is, as the Today programme put it, arguably all about the \u2018optics\u2019 \u2013 i.e. a re-shuffle to address perceptions, not policy content. You could also say that by replacing Michael Gove with Nicky Morgan, rather than Liz Truss who has some background that portfolio, David Cameron is making a \u2018token\u2019 gesture to show that Gove\u2019s policies will remain essentially unchanged. I\u2019m sure the teaching profession will see no irony in his new appointment as Chief Whip.\nBut the fact that more women have been brought to the top table does matter. The perception of a mono-cultural Cabinet with too few women had grown too important to ignore. The cynical would say that this is just window-dressing; but the window had to be dressed because the impression of sidelining women had grown too dominant and too damaging to ignore. It was necessary for David Cameron to address this issue, and that indicates the impact of those who have drawn attention to women\u2019s poor representation in parliament and at the top of government.\nThe interesting thing about politics is that, in the words attributed to Macmillan \u2013 a PM with his own famous \u2018night of the long knives\u2019 \u2013 all the neat policy directions do get stirred up by \u2018events, dear boy, events\u2019. Perhaps for the new Cabinet this should be re-phrased as \u2018events, dear person, events\u2019 \u2013 they will get in the way, and at least we now know that some more diverse perspectives might influence responses to them. That is a small piece of progress. Let\u2019s hope that politics can move on beyond the window-dressing and break down the doors of perception.\nCategories gender quality, politics, women", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00240.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 113, + "original_length": 7349, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.97, + "perplexity": 314.2, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "https://woodonfire.wordpress.com/2013/04/30/pragcap-shiller-home-prices-will-remain-flat-for-10-years/", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T03:22:44Z", + "digest": "sha1:QRKWXOCX5OVO3A7LEPGYAG6SBLIXYIXB", + "length": 1474, + "nlines": 11, + "source_domain": "woodonfire.wordpress.com", + "title": "PragCap: Shiller: Home Prices Will Remain Flat For 10 Years | Wood on Fire - Topics of Lumber Industry", + "raw_content": "\u2190 CR: HVS: Q1 2013 Homeownership and Vacancy Rates\nWyden-Merkley pressed on forest bill \u2192\nPragCap: Shiller: Home Prices Will Remain Flat For 10 Years\nShiller: Home Prices Will Remain Flat For 10 Years\nInteresting commentary here from Robert Shiller following this morning\u2019s housing data which showed a 9.3% increase in year over year house prices. I think Shiller and I are on the same page here with regards to future home prices \u2013 we\u2019re not super bullish, but we\u2019re no longer bearish. In other words, we see house prices matching the rate of inflation in the years to come. Shiller says house prices are likely to be flat after inflation 10 years from now. I\u2019ve explained my broader view in more detail here.\nHere\u2019s more from Dr. Shiller:\nStill, Robert Shiller, co-creator of the index, is cautious. \u201cThere\u2019s a lot of excitement in the housing market now but it might be just short term,\u201d he tells The Daily Ticker.\nShiller says people don\u2019t want to commute long distances because of relatively high gasoline prices and in the current \u201cideas economy,\u201d many want to live in close proximity to others.\nThere are also demographic shifts: aging baby boomers who no longer enjoy working on the upkeep of their homes and the increase in single-person households.\nWhen asked where this all leaves the housing market 10 years from now, Shiller says home prices will be \u201cabout where they are now\u201d after adjusting for inflation.\nTagged as Case-Shiller index, Robert Shiller, Shiller", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00240.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 113, + "original_length": 5766, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.92, + "perplexity": 327.0, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "https://workinmontana.jobs/deer-lodge-mt/chst-nursing-aide/5DA14F4C1A994CD1A6610EC02CDD078B/job/?vs=28", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T04:11:55Z", + "digest": "sha1:HJ5Y6KCP5ZLXLJIISS3QXP6QS3G6MOR5", + "length": 1538, + "nlines": 9, + "source_domain": "workinmontana.jobs", + "title": "Montana Jobs - CHST - Nursing Aide in Deer Lodge, Montana, United States", + "raw_content": "State of Montana CHST - Nursing Aide in Deer Lodge, Montana\nCHST- Infirmary Aide (64122706) *\nThe Infirmary Unit provides inpatient care with 24-hour nursing coverage in a 13-bed unit and provides medical management for 1400 inmates. Medical management includes: initial screening/assessment, triage and appropriate referral, daily sick call, medication administration, med-surg, psych, urgent/emergent, quality improvement, chronic care program, and infection control.\nThe purpose of this position is to provide direct care and medical case management to the inmates housed in the Infirmary and in the prison general population. To provide treatment services, counseling, and teaching in the performance of daily living activities. Provides security and safety within the confines of the institution with the focus of security responsibilities in the Infirmary. To help reduce the effects of medical illness on the inmate's overall functional status so that they may be reintegrated into the prison population and/or the community.\nMINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS: *\nKnowledge and skill typically obtained by a Bachelor in human services field (i.e. psychology, social work human services or counseling). 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He filmed at the Hadassah Neurim Youth Village, where he found a diverse group of at-risk young people reinventing themselves through their studies.\nMossad blamed for killing Hamas military leader in Dubai\nLast month, a Hamas military leader was assassinated in a Dubai hotel. Dubai police claim that at least 11 suspects were involved in killing Mahmoud al-Mabhouh, many of whom allegedly used identities stolen from dual U.K.-Israeli citizens. Israel's Mossad is suspected of being behind the crime. 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I don't usually just come up with stories and go with them.\nMy most recent story just came to me and I wrote it up, thinking that I would just try and sell it to a magazine or something. It was while I was around my second or third draft of editing that I came across a contest that I had never entered before.\nThe deadlines was coming up on October 31 and it was a general horror contest with no special instruction. It had an entry fee and I had to cut my words down by a few hundred to make it fit the word count limit, but I did it and now I anxiously await the end of the year when the winners are announced. Will I win? I doubt it, but at least I tried.\nThe funny thing is I almost shrugged it off. The 31st was here and there was only a few hours left and I almost didn't do it. I was a little on the fearful side and I was disappointed that another anthology I was wanting to get into was going to pass without me having my story done in time.\nI mustered up my courage and took the plunge. It wasn't easy, but as I spent that $20 entry fee and put my story on the roster of entries, I felt a sense of accomplishment. Who knows, I just might win. You never know.", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00240.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 83, + "original_length": 4325, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 1.0, + "perplexity": 278.2, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "https://wwd.com/fashion-news/fashion-scoops/helena-bordon-eyewear-new-york-balmain-1202607694/", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T03:28:17Z", + "digest": "sha1:OB7AHEPOADIY4MDBBW22UMYKBGAZDXRQ", + "length": 1751, + "nlines": 11, + "source_domain": "wwd.com", + "title": "Helena Bourdon Talks Eyewear and Living in New York at Balmain \u2013 WWD", + "raw_content": "Helena Bordon Talks Eyewear, Life in New York at Balmain\nThe Brazilian socialite and businesswoman joined guests including Olga Kurylenko and Farida Khelfa at the Balmain show Friday morning.\nBy Alex Wynne on March 2, 2018\nYOU\u2019RE INVITED: \u201cI think I am the invitation,\u201d quipped Helena Bordon as she walked into the Balmain show Friday morning, sporting a T-shirt featuring the same motif as the round invitation card to the show under her patent leather jacket.\nThe Brazilian style blogger and businesswoman recently moved to New York, and is still getting used to the culture shock, she said.\n\u201cI\u2019m getting into the New Yorker routine, which is a little bit intense,\u201d she said. \u201cIn New York, it\u2019s very straight to the point.\u201d\nFor her eyewear label By Helena Bordon, she will open a store in S\u00e3o Paulo\u2019s airport shortly. 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Rene Descartes, introduced the Dream Argument, where he believed that we cannot trust our senses because at some point in an individual\u2019s life they might be dreaming and believe that what was occurring during that dream was reality. This argument, was opposed to by G.E Moore where used evidence and knowledge to flip over the dream argument. He finds that Descartes, argument was very inconsistent. In \u201ccertainty\u201d G.E Moore, proves that the Descartes belief about the dream argument are false. He uses multiple examples as to why the \u201cdream argument\u201d has multiple holes in its saying.\nThe Dream argument was started by Rene Descartes, where he proposes the method of doubt, which permits him to consistently question the configurations of knowledge. The dream argument allows Descartes to completely doubt the certainty of the external world. With the argument, Descartes says you cannot trust what your sense are experiencing because there have been times where you thought you were awake but in reality dreaming, eventually coming to a realization that what was occurring was strictly in the mind. Descartes believes that, we cannot differentiate, the difference between a dreaming and waking experience. Since this happens sometime, you must admit that this could possibly be the state of all time. You can 't know that what you think is happening is really happening. You can only say that your mind thinks that it is happening because that is what is going through your mind. Descartes argues that although he remembers, sometimes that he is indeed dreaming, he falsely believes that he\u2019s awake, and since he can...\n...ow he is sure that he is doing the seven proclamations included above, which led to mistrust to his evidence.\nMoore\u2019s attempt to prove that\u2019s Descartes is wrong ultimately succeds because of the following reasons. First, because Moore states that because believing in the external world, creates an inaugural argument, he believes that the premises doesn\u2019t need to provide evidence in order for conclusion to be true, where in comparison to Descartes, whom firmly believes that in order for the conclusion to be true, there must be concrete evidence that the principle is true. He believes that the only way to increase familiarity on the external world is by being unconditionally indisputable that the external world subsists. In my opinion, I agree with Moore, because the proof that he uses, is more than enough evidence to prove that the external world does really exist.\nEssay about The Dream Argument by Rene Descartes\n- One of Rene Descartes\u2019s most famous arguments, from his not only from his first meditation but all of the meditations, is his Dream Argument. Descartes believes that there is no way to be able to distinguish being in awake from being in a state of dreaming. In fact you could actually be in a dream right now. Rene Descartes\u2019s theory that one is unable distinguish being awake from dreaming, as interesting as it is, can be at times a little farfetched, along with a few contradictions to himself, Descartes\u2019s dream argument does not entitle himself to any sort of claim.... [tags: Descartes Theory, Dreaming, Awake]\nEssay on Meditations on First Philosophy, by Rene Descartes\n- In Rene Descartes, Meditations on First Philosophy, he talks about the distinction between God and existence. This paper is going to argue that in Rene Descartes, Meditations on First Philosophy, Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan, both are contrasting how we know that God really exists and how we know what we perceive in this world actually exists as well. This essay will start by talking all about Rene Descartes and his ideas around the existence of God and life itself with everything living in it. Rene Descartes is putting forward an argument that everything we perceive in life is true when he says; \u201cAnd thus I now seem able to posit as a general rule that everything I very clearly and distinctly p... [tags: literary analysis, rene descartes]\nBeliefs Beyond Doubt, What All Other Respond To: Rene Descartes' \"Meditations on First Philosophy\"\n- Rene Descartes' Meditations on First Philosophy is considered to be one of the most important works in modern philosophy. John Locke, Immanuel Kant, and countless other philosophers wrote largely in response to Descartes. Yet there are serious doubts related to the treatise's major argument. In the Objections and Replies, a collection of objections to the work along with Descartes personal and often very detailed replies to said objections, the philosopher Antoine Arnauld raises the question of whether or not Descartes was guilty of circular reasoning.... [tags: Rene Descartes, Meditations on First Philosophy,]\nJohn Locke And Rene Descartes ' Views On Personal Identity Essay\n- ... We still have the same memories as before our appearance changed. That being said, memories give us our identity. Locke believes that a human is a collection of matter but a person is one\u2019s self. He suggests that memories and consciousness is the definition of a person. It is the relational existence of memory that defines a person. An example being a student before college (A) and a student after college (B). Student A is without years of knowledge and experience and student B has gained years of experience.... [tags: Consciousness, Mind, Ren\u00e9 Descartes]\nThe Rationalist Camp By Rene Descartes Essay\n- n Stuart Dr. Dadlez Modern Philosophy (Date) Uncertainty In the rationalist camp, philosopher Rene Descartes sought to refute skepticism by doubting all of which he had formerly believed to be true. While this methodology might strike some as counterintuitive it appears to work for Descartes. Descartes\u2019 six meditations provide a compelling account of what lengths a person can go to in questioning everything, including one\u2019s existence. In his quest for knowledge Descartes begins in a secluded place, presumably to contemplate and begin writing.... [tags: Ontology, Metaphysics, Mind, Epistemology]\nEssay on Biography f Rene Descartes\n- ... In 1628, Rene moved to the Dutch Republic where he lived for over 20 years. During this time period, he learned more about mathematics, utilizing his spare time. Rene Descartes published many works on philosophy and mathematics at this time. He also came in contact with the school of Dordrecht's principal, Isaac Beeckman. However, in 1630, the two parted ways as Rene Descartes charged Beeckham with plagiarizing his original ideas. Descartes decided not to publish his work \u201cTreatise On The World\u201d because he had heard of the censorship of Galileo's writings in 1633 by the Catholic Church.... [tags: cartesian philosophy, meditation]\nAnalysis Of Descartes 's Meditations, By Rene Descartes Essay\n- In \u201cMeditations,\u201d Rene Descartes presents the idea on whether we can be certain we know what we think we know. To demonstrate this, Descartes presents three stages of doubt. The first stage of doubt he presents is the senses argument, followed by the dream argument and finally the voluntarist argument. Each stage of doubt is compelling since it shows that many of the information can easily be dubitable. After Descartes is finished analyzing what is dubitable and indubitable he begins to construct the proof of God\u2019s existence.... [tags: Mind, Epistemology, Ontology, Existence]\nRene Descartes: The Concept of Dualism Essay examples\n- Rene Descartes' Argument from Divisibility is the argument in which he claims that the mind and the body are two completely different things and thus cannot be identical. His argument is that the body is divisible because it can be physically altered like being cut in half. His belief is that the mind is indivisible because it is not a physical thing. Descartes believed that if two things do not have identical properties then they couldn't be the same. What Descartes was suggesting was that human beings' bodies are separate from their thoughts and that when the body dies the mind still lives, which had undertones of suggesting that there is an afterlife.... [tags: Dualism Essays]\nCartesian Skepticism, By Rene Descartes Essay example\n- ... Following this ideology, Descartes was forced to object to many of his beliefs, based on his previous experiences, as truthful due to the fact of the events and truths being experienced and built off of the way they were built through the use of his senses. So if we reject all experiences we have encountered through our senses as Descartes did, one may ask \u201chow do we then experience the external world\u201d. While many believe that the senses are required in order for the world to be fully experienced, this way of thinking is simply not the truth.... [tags: Truth, Mind, Epistemology, Thought]\nChristopher Grau's Bad Dreams, Evil Demons, and the Experience Machine: Philosophy and the Matrix\n- In \u201cBad Dreams, Evil Demons, and the Experience Machine: Philosophy and the Matrix\u201d, Christopher Grau explains Rene Descartes argument in Meditation. What one may interpret as reality may not be more than a figment of one\u2019s imagination. One argument that Grau points out in Descartes essay is how one knows that what one think is an everyday experience awake is not all a part of a hallucination. He uses the example of dreams to draw a conclusion about is claim based on experiences one would experience with dreaming.... 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There are 4,339 street trees per square mile.\nOverall, expenses in Ollinville are 19% higher than the National Average. Most people in the neighborhood rent their home, with 76% of households being occupied by renters.\nThe overall risk of crime in Ollinville is 22% higher than the National Average. 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This is an edited version of her address.\nI love Australia. I love it for its youth, its energy, its humour, its cosmopolitan vibe and irreverence, its fair-go mentality and, by and large, its tolerance. Tolerance of new people and of new ideas. But, I regret to say, there is also tolerance for weird and plethoric government structures, and structurally short-term political vision.\nNot least amongst the paradoxes is this one: Australia is a country where farmers are perceived as national heroes for growing the food and meat necessary to feed future mouths but where teachers, whose fields are our young and whose crop is human capital, are awarded very little respect. A country where mining companies have more influence on government policy than universities where knowledge is invested into young minds in order to yield years of innovation, better decision-making, and more articulate social debate.\nSome may argue that recent government action demonstrates that, in fact, Australia values education highly. After two years of consultation and analysis the country is set to spend millions on what is now known as the Gonski reforms. But beyond the symbolism, the corollary to this investment has been a cut to the funding of universities.\nA year ago I reported that funding per capita was already greater in state schools than it was in universities. And in low socio-economic status areas, funding per student was almost double that of universities. Since then, Bradley and Lomax-Smith both advocated a necessary lift in university funding, their advice falling on deaf ears.\nGonski advocates, quite rightly in my view, that more should be done for school students. His voice has not only been heard but also taken up with gusto by our government. But what Gonski never said was that in order to achieve this, a reduction in per capita funding for each university student was an acceptable price to pay.\nHe did not say it because, quite frankly, no one in their right mind would say this. This is like encouraging farmers to grow more and better products on their farms, and then cutting the road and the infrastructure that would allow them to go to market in order to reap their full potential value.\nResearch has conclusively demonstrated time and time again the positive spill over of a more educated population, from greater individual income and consumption, to higher national levels of productivity and innovation.\nGonski tells us to invest more into schools and if this does indeed deliver better literacy, numeracy and analytical skills in all 17 years old citizens, then what a great investment. But will these young articulate minds want to stop there and why exactly would we want them to do so?\nSo the greatest paradox of the Australian education system is this: stepping out of year 12 is, in this country, like falling on the other side of the mirror. No longer a nation building purpose, education becomes a service sector and a source of foreign income.\nWhat was, up to year 12, a worthy cause for taxpayer investments becomes, clearly and very suddenly, an unacceptable burden on the public purse, so much so that those lucky enough to get it will have to pay it back, and in full.\nIf universities can't afford to support their costs, then perhaps governments of neighbouring countries, including some so poor they can't afford a university system themselves, should be made to cough up to support young Australians who want a degree.\nAnd when universities dutifully comply and recruit more international students, then a huge compliance framework is imposed by government, along with expensive quality assurance systems. As a result teams of 40 to 50 people are commonly employed by universities just to document processes and reply to surveys designed in Canberra to 'monitor' the system.\nBut wait, there is more! As well as wanting higher education to be a profitable export sector, Australia also wants more, not fewer, of its own young people to go to universities. In fact it has set the ambitious target that 40 per cent of its citizens aged 25 to 34 will have a bachelor degree by 2025.\nThe education system in Australia will thrive if all of its parts work together. That means improved schools should lead to improved universities. More resources in one can't make sense without more resources in the other. They both serve the same purpose: to future-proof the country by growing and adding value to what is fundamentally any country's most precious asset: its human capital.\nPerhaps more importantly, it will thrive if it operates in the right environment. And this must surely be an environment where education is treated with the full respect it deserves.\nWhy is it that in Australia, when you introduce yourself as a university lecturer, you almost have to apologise? I have been in this country for over 20 years now but every time I visit my native France, I am struck by just how much status and respect the mention of a university position earns you there.\nWhat sort of country are we to show so much disrespect for intelligence? What is it in the culture of this place, one that is proud of its fair dinkum stance on most things that you can pick on universities without creating a popular backlash? As a nation, we have much to be proud of, but our approach to education, and our treatment of universities, is certainly not one of them.\nThe University of Adelaide will probably have to cope with shortfalls stepping up to $20 million per annum by 2015. If this nation wants world ranking universities, if it wants to educate the citizens it needs for a brighter future, if it wants the innovation and progress that comes with university-led research and development, then it must be prepared to invest more, not less, in universities.", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00240.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 35, + "original_length": 6752, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.97, + "perplexity": 313.5, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "https://www.adelaide.edu.au/course-outlines/104519/1/sem-1/2018/", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T03:23:11Z", + "digest": "sha1:D64OURHSIQEMO7HWEEUKPRGRK7KSZ2K7", + "length": 7924, + "nlines": 36, + "source_domain": "www.adelaide.edu.au", + "title": "FREN 2211 - French IISA: Language | Course Outlines", + "raw_content": "FREN 2211 - French IISA: Language\nLanguage training in spoken and written French builds on the skills and knowledge acquired in first year. The course will include grammar exercises, written expression, oral expression, reading comprehension, audio-visual tasks and translation.\nFrench IISA: Language\nThis course will enable students to:\nLO 1 Know and understand the structures of the French language and aspects of French culture\nLO 6 Become a self-reflective and self-directed learner who sustains the effort of learning French over time\n\u00b7 For paper dictionaries, the bilingual Collins-Robert French-English English-French Dictionary is suitable because of the large number of explanations and examples it provides.\n\u00b7 For on-line dictionaries, the Lexilogos webpage contains conventional French-French and French-English dictionaries, as well as a dictionary of slang, synonyms and antonyms, figurative expressions, spelling, conjugations and varieties of French throughout the Francophone world. The urls are\nFrench-French: http://www.lexilogos.com/francais_langue_dictionnaires.htm\nFrench-English: http://www.lexilogos.com/anglais_langue_dictionnaires.htm\nGrammar Reference books (available for loan/consultation in the Barr Smith Library)\n\u00b7 Students at this level sometimes need to revise basic structures such as verb conjugations. You are advised to do this as early in the year as possible. A well-known revision book is Mary Coffman Crocker, Schaum\u2019s Outlines: French Grammar, New York, McGraw Hill, 1999.\nThe course requires students to consult the MyUni webpage on a regular basis. All of the course materials are grouped in weekly folders. Students are expected to download the grammar notes, read them and complete the exercises in advance of the grammar class. Students will find the oral worksheets in the weekly folders, as well as the vocabulary lists, which must be learned. Students will submit their group lab projects electronically using the Group Blog facility.\nThe course is designed to bring students, when they reach the end of IISB Language, to the levels of competency of B2 in the DELF programme. At this level, language learners become independent, are able to maintain interaction, can develop arguments to defend a point of view, are at ease with different levels of social discourse, and are capable of correcting their errors. For more information on levels of competency defined by this framework, see the website http://www.calosa.com/delfdalf/b2/b2.htm\nThe key to success in language courses is energy, efficiency and creativity. Students are encouraged to put these essential language learning attributes into practice right from the beginning of the year.\nThere are three contact hours per week. Written class, usually on Tuesdays or Wednesdays. Students learn a complete grammar syllabus using the grammar notes posted on MyUni. The documents can be found in the Weekly folders. Because of the large amount of grammar covered in this course, it will not be possible to explain the rules systematically, point by point, in the limited time we have in the grammar class. Rather, students are expected to learn the grammar notes and attempt the exercises prior to attending class, leaving valuable class time for reviewing some of the more difficult points or discussing questions raised by students. For this reason it is vital that students quickly acquire the habit of printing or downloading the notes and bringing them to the grammar class. In the Weekly folders, students will also find vocabulary lists that must be learned.\nOral class, usually on Thursdays or Fridays. The focus is on student participation in discussion. Discussion topics are drawn principally from newspaper and magazine websites. Students will be expected to participate actively in group and class discussion. In semester 1, students will do a 5 minute oral presentation on the topic: \u201cparlez \u00e0 la classe d\u2019une activit\u00e9 ou d\u2019un sujet qui vous passionne\u201d. Students can sign up for their presentation at the start of the semester. In semester 2, there will be an oral exam in week 13. The participation mark for the oral class is based on attendance, preparation, preparedness to listen to others and contribute to class discussion on the topics set for the class.\nLanguage laboratory class. Students listen to recorded dialogues, video reports and French radio podcasts in order to improve their listening skills. For speaking practice in the lab, students record short speeches in French using the Blackboard Collaborate Voice Tools software. Work done in the Language Laboratory will be checked by the tutor. Please note that the Faculty does not provide headsets -- students must bring along their own headsets with microphones to the Language Laboratory. From weeks 5 to 8 in both semesters, students will prepare and present a group project on a theme related to French Culture, Society or Politics, and will submit their work electronically using the Group Blog facility.\n6 hours preparation of grammar notes/oral expression per week 72 hours per semester\n3 hours revision and assignment preparation per week 36hours per semester\nHurdle Requirement: students who do not meet the following requirements will be awarded a grade of Fail for the course:\n\u00b7 A minimum of 40% result in the end of semester written exam\nFrom weeks 5 to 8 in both semesters, students will prepare and present a group project on a theme related to French Culture, Society or Politics, and will submit their work electronically during the Lab class in week 8.\nOral presentation Formative 5% 1, 2, 4\nParticipation Summative 5% 1, 2, 4\n2 x language lab tests Summative 10% 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 7\nLanguage Lab Group project. Written and oral electronic submission (wks 5-8) Summative 10% 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 7\n350 word composition assignment Formative 5% 1, 2, 3, 4, 7\nComposition test Summative 10% 1, 2, 4, 7\n2 x grammar tests Summative 20% 1, 3, 6\nWritten exam Summative 35% 1, 2, 4, 6\nThe composition assignment is due by midday on the Friday of week 6. It must be submitted via the Homework box adjacent to the office of the School of Humanities (level 7 Napier). The Composition TEST will be held in the Language Laboratory in Week 12. For Grammar test weeks (5 & 9), the normal grammar class will be devoted to revision, and the TEST will be done during the oral class later in the week. The participation mark will reflect attendance, preparation for class and active participation in general discussion in oral class.\nThe composition assignment is to be submitted in paper copy via the Assignment Box, School of Humanities office, level 7, Napier Building. For this assignment, attach a signed cover sheet, and indicate the name of the staff member for whom it is intended. It should be written on alternate lines (double spaced, if typed, and in a font size no less than 12), for greater clarity and to allow room for correction.\nAssignments handed in after the due date will be penalized at the rate of 2% of the total mark per day, up to a maximum of 7 days, after which they will not be accepted at all. These penalties will not apply, however, if an extension has been granted before the due date. Extensions will only be granted on medical grounds (medical certificate required) or in documented cases of hardship. 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This can also cause them to get behind, rather than move on to the next set of exercises and devoting their energies to mastering them.", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00240.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 258, + "original_length": 18348, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.92, + "perplexity": 338.1, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "https://www.adhdmarriage.com/content/spouse-doesnt-want-me-see-therapist", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T03:54:23Z", + "digest": "sha1:IC44UIGIM7YMI7OW6WRSFAD24S3NDNXX", + "length": 12234, + "nlines": 45, + "source_domain": "www.adhdmarriage.com", + "title": "Spouse doesn't want me to see a therapist - UPDATED | ADHD and Marriage", + "raw_content": "Spouse doesn't want me to see a therapist - UPDATED\nSubmitted by respoke on 04/30/2010.\nORIGINAL POST - April 2010\nI was diagnosed with ADHD at 16 and I'm now almost 28 and married last year. I think that I'm pretty high functioning but my ADHD symptoms have caused major problems in our relationship and I've tried really hard to explain how ADHD affects my ability to focus, keep track of time and communicate. I've also done a lot to make it easier on my wife. I got an iPhone and keep my schedule organized, I set alarms on it to remind me when I need to do things or be somewhere, I keep a daily journal on it to try and keep track of basic things that happened during the day, I try to make sure I'm not on the computer when we are hanging out together or talking, I reset my sleep schedule to go to bed earlier with her instead of staying up late on my own, I ask her about her day almost everyday (sometimes I still forget), I have a chore routine, we aren't rich but I hold down a steady job, I schedule band practices and other 'me time' while she is at work and I try really hard to do everything I can to make her happy.\nOne of the major problems is that when there is a problem I get easily frustrated and defensive. She doesn't understand what I'm trying to say and I don't understand her. It can go on for up to 4 hours and I can't keep track of what was said and sometimes get distracted. Sometimes it goes on really late into the night when I have to wake up early for work. I get really tired and it actually makes me feel physically ill. She says its not okay to talk about it later and we have to resolve the issue right then and there. She also gets really emotional and worked up, which I don't blame her for because I obviously do and say stupid things sometimes. We can't seem to work out how to communicate better. I tried making a lot of suggestions that have worked for me in the past, like postponing the conversation to a time that isn't the middle of the night or when we aren't as emotional. I've also tried to tell her what it's like to be ADHD and used some suggestions off this site.\nIt seems to me that she thinks I'm using it as an excuse and is so fed up that unwilling to learn more about it or use any of the suggestions that I've found online for better communication. I really want to do something to make things better and finally have a little extra money, so I decided it would be good for me to see a therapist who specializes in ADHD and try some behavorial therapy and get some help with communication. She said that I was just doing it for myself to make me feel better, that the therapist would probably say she was in the wrong because they would only be hearing my side of the story, that they would tell me I should get out of the relationship and that it's not worth the money. I don't want to see a therapist for myself, I want to see one to improve our marriage. I can't seem to explain myself well enough to my wife and I need more tools than I can find online to make things better.\nSo my questions are, how do I improve communication with my wife who seems unwilling to learn more about ADHD and try any of my suggestions? How do I convince her it's would be good for both of us if I saw a therapist? and how can I help her understand better what it's like to be me?\nEDIT - UPDATED almost 2 years later\nWhat I wrote about was a really tricky situation which isn't totally resolved but has improved a little bit. I never made it to a therapist but at a certain point last year I put my foot down and refused, as kindly as I could, to talk about problems when she brought them up in the middle of the night. At first I would listen to what she had to say and then excuse myself to go take a walk and smoke a cigarette so I could do some breathing and calm myself down, so that my first words were a reaction but instead a reflection. That helped a lot in not having that initial defensive aggression. I just got in the habit of recognizing when I was about to overflow and then I'd take a quick break to bring myself back down.\nThat helped shorten the long talks a little bit and helped me focus a little more but I was still really upset that we could potentially end up talking until 2am and then I'd have to wake up at 8am for work. So eventually I reached my limit and stood firm, telling her that I would not have those discussions late in the evening and they would have to wait until the next day. For several months things sucked pretty bad, anytime she wanted to talk and I refused, I would end up sleeping on the couch and she would stomp around the house all angry and then go to sleep in the bed. The next day though, our conversations were significantly shorter and calmer.\nIt took a long time but now, most of the time at least, she just tells me there is a problem and we agree to talk the next day. Sometimes she just apologizes the next morning and says that it was nothing and other times we have a 30 minute to hour long conversation and everything is all good. We get in less fights and they are rarely bad enough that one of us chooses to sleep on the couch. I think our last big fight was over 4 months ago and she apologized the next morning and told me she over-reacted because of an experience she had in a past relationship.\nWithout my flight/fight defensive response taking over and her nervous anxiety ramping up her emotional state, communication became much easier. I don't know that any of this will be helpful or work for your relationship but it was helpful for mine. My mother, who has been married to my father for 40+ years actually gave me the advice to postpone the argument and I am very grateful I followed her advice, even though it took a while to see the positive results.\nSounds like panic\nOne guess is she is fearing the unknown, so she needs to educate herself. She can read about ADHD privately. She can accompany you to a counselor and hopefully start trusting the process won't necessarily cause you to abandon her. She can seek counseling for her fear of abandonment, the need to stay up late to \"solve\" the problem (panic/anxiety) and communication problems. (Do you know WHY she doesn't? Does she?)\nAnd you need to self-advocate for counseling/medical attention if you feel that would help you.\nBTW, sounds like you've already done an awesome amount of work. Great job!\ncopy/paste this for your wife\nYou explained your motives very well in this post and maybe you can have better communication if you write things to her. Maybe even copy/paste the I statements you have made in this post. Take her with you to see the therapist so that she can hear the advice. I think it would be good for both of you to see a therapist--she needs input to understand you and to understand how her filters are causing her to react rather than respond. We all do this.\nIf you do write something to her, maybe have someone else read it before you give it to her. Take responsibility for the weak areas you recognize and tell her how much you want to make changes. Reassure her and maybe ask her to tell you if you act in a way that is reassuring to her, then repeat that action consistently. I read a book called Love and Respect. one of the most important needs a woman has is reassurance. This is especially important when the woman feels vulnerable and perceives that a man's actions are unloving towards her.\nWhy people underestimate ADHD\nSubmitted by shore on Thu, 08/05/2010 - 14:11\nCongratulations for you for trying, and finding so many helpful techniques.\nI'm starting to think that two of the big reasons that people who don't understand or have direct experience with ADHD are so dismissive of it, is that they don't understand the challenges of some basic issues, and the huge consequences they have.\nFor example - with listening and remembering -\n1) If someone doesn't listen and remember, well why can't they just work harder and learn to do that? The best analogy I've heard for that is -- if someone is nearsighted, do you tell them to just buck up and try a little harder to see, or tell them to go to the eye doctor?\n2) Casual observers also don't understand that if someone only hears or sees and remembers some (or none!) of what happens - it affects their perceptions and decision making. They live in a different reality and make choices based on that other reality. That's a huge implication that most people don't get.\nMaybe at some point you can try to get her to understand how important and far reaching this is.\nAnyway, to your question - in any therapy it's useful to focus on your own issues and avoid blame and criticism. Maybe if you make it clear that's what you're trying to do, and that you love her, she'll start to hear more of what you are saying.\nNo, but if they have glasses I expect them to use them\nMy husband takes his ADD meds carefully (that's the analogy of the glasses). Do I not then expect to see improvement? It's like he has glasses (his meds) and he won't put them on. I see no difference between him with his meds and without. You have to try too, and he doeesn't. He expects me just to take whatever crap he dishes out because he takes his meds.\nMy analogy for ADD is that\nSubmitted by Eric on Thu, 08/05/2010 - 20:41\nMy analogy for ADD is that it's like holding my breath. I can do it for a short while, but I can't do it for long, no matter how hard I try. Unfortunately, those of us with ADD are like people living in a school of non-ADD fish. The fish stay underwater for their whole lives effortlessly. They also look at the people swimming with them, see that we can stay underwater briefly, and then insist that this proves we're capable, if only we'd try. Occasionally, they'll see a hyper-focused person in scuba equipment, which seems like even more compelling proof that we're capable. Maintaining attention isn't about effort any more than holding your breath is.\nNot surprised you're discouraged from seeing therapist\nSubmitted by ioni23 on Mon, 08/09/2010 - 13:57\nReading over your letter, like everyone else, I applaud your efforts to combat a difficult situation.\nYou're right, she doesn't want you to see therapy. The reason why should be obvious. I'd say forget sharing that letter with your wife. She will interpret it as you blaming her.\nShe doesn't want you to see a therapist because she doesn't want you to get better. As long as you are unwell she gets a free pass to act as she pleases. The old 'you're the one with the problem' argument. it does not matter what actions she takes. If she gets angry about something it has to be in response to something you've already done or failed to do.\nThis is what they call an unwinnable situation.\nDear god, I dread to think what condition your self-esteem is in. I'd almost want to ask you when the last time you were truly happy was but I think you'd burst into tears if you thought about it for more than a few seconds.\nLet me guess, you spend most of your time trying to not enjoy things that are personal because you never know when you'll have to stop. If you do something besides work or sleep it is you doing something SHE wants to do. One cannot wear a true poker face forever, but I bet you've gotten very good at it. You're so used to being told how wrong you are that you probably believe it. No wonder you get so defensive. Most people drowning do.\nTherapy should not be about saving your relationship. That's marriage counseling. It's about saving you. If you take care of yourself everything else will take care of itself, that is fact. Will it save your marriage? That is for the future to decide, not now.\nSee your therapist. You already know what to expect from your wife. Now is a good time to spend more time with those who believe in and support you, and less time with those who drag you down. She's either going to wise up and be a little more helpful, or she'll decide it's 'too hard' and move on. Either outcome is better than what you're getting now.\nSubmitted by notavictim on Wed, 09/08/2010 - 19:17\nIt really sounds like you married someone who wants to be in a co dependent relationship as opposed to someone who wants you to be responsible. 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(Grandiose Parlor[1]) (AfricanLoft[2])\nWhen I first read the topic, I was caught in great revulsion but I refused to allow my emotions becloud my judgment, despite the presumed research the news columnist appeared to have made regarding the marriage.\nSo easily, one can be taken by the sensational stuff and depart from objective scrutiny when one hears of what was paid as dowry that some have made appear as a wife purchase.\nBetween religion and homeliness\nIndeed, because the man is Muslim, it is also easy to make Sharia the whipping boy, castigating religion whilst thinking the worst of the situation.\nCategorically, it is morally reprehensible that a married man who already has three wives would take on a fourth that is only 13 \u2013 now, there is nothing wrong with a Muslim man marrying four wives \u2013 Islam allows for that \u201cluxury\u201d.\nHaving taken this 13 year old as a wife, I doubt she would be put to bed immediately, she would probably enter the family and adapt to the way of doing things within that polygamous family being groomed by the matriarch first wife \u2013 consummation may not take place for years - a need for cultural studies over preconceived personal prejudices would do us all a world of good.\nThat is not to put a gloss on the matter but to disabuse the tendency to think of every uncommon relationship through the myopic prism of sex \u2013 I find it amusing when the thought of homosexual relationships automatically creates revolting pictures in the minds of people who have no clue of what is going on between the persons involved.\nAnyway, the first thing I did was to determine the age of consent [3] in Nigeria.\nThat being the age at which a person can be considered legally competent of consenting to sexual acts.\nApparently, Nigeria has one of the youngest ages of 13 [4], which means a 13 year old is considered legally able to engage in sexual activity [5] and adults need not suffer any legal consequence as a result of the sexual liaison.\nIn the Northern African countries the ages range from 16 to 18, whilst the Arabian Peninsula allows for sex with 9 year olds, Saudi Arabian sets no minimum age at all \u2013 the mind boggles with apoplectic moral rage \u2013 but the law in those lands allow for it.\nThe ambiguity of the Marriage Act\nNow, there is the conflict of laws that allow for sloppy judgment to lead to the witch-hunting of the senator \u2013 the Marriage Act [6] of the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria expects for marriages to be contracted between persons above 21 years old (Section 11), however, it also grants exceptions for marriages below that age if consent is granted by the father, the guardian or some legally constituted authority (Section 18 & 19).\nIn essence, the Senator most probably has broken no laws, whilst he might have excited our moral outrage, there is no reason to sanction him for marrying a girl \u2013 a lapse in judgment should not metamorphose into a criminal act just because we find that contract reprehensible.\nThere is definitely a case for changing the law to deal with the matter of making the \u201cAge of consent\u201d explicit and then merge that into the Marriage Act, if not, the loophole exists for children to be contracted into unhealthy relationships without the ability of self-determination or resistance. {Added 21/04/2010 - In addition the Child's Rights Act of 2003 needs to be adopted by more than the 4 to 6 states that have given it credence, because a child is defined as a person under 16 or 18 years of age, depending on the document reviewed.}\nThe law of in need of adjustment\nThe religious dimension to this matter however must not be left insignificant because a Nigerian mother lost the bid to annul the marriage [7] of her 18-year old son to a 55 year-old woman \u2013 whilst this interesting reversal of sexes might not excite passions \u2013 the matter of maturity and religious laws sided with the man against what would have been expected of a woman of a similar age.\nIn the end, the marriage of the Senator to the girl which would not have been allowed in Egypt is perfectly legal in Nigeria without resorting to the religious allowances of Sharia \u2013 however, if it gets reinforced by Sharia legal opinion, it is left to our legislature to argue to case for what should be legally acceptable and make the necessary changes to the law for that purpose.\nBaying for the head of the senator is mob rule fuelled by mass hysteria \u2013 we should have avoid the inclination to formulate laws to accommodate our feeble sensibilities.\n[1] Senator marries 13yr old | Grandiose Parlor\n[2] Should the Nigerian Senator Who Married A 13-Year Old Girl Be Expelled? 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We just pray that we're not the next.\"\nSince a Saudi-led coalition went to war against Houthi fighters and their allies in 2015, air strikes have become a recurring feature of life in Yemen's rebel-held capital. Attacks have resulted in mass civilian casualties; even weddings, medical facilities and funerals have not been spared.\nThis, combined with the possibility of armed clashes breaking out at any time, has instilled a pervasive fear of death among residents, even as they carry out their simplest errands.\n\"The people who travelled [to areas of relative safety], the people who stayed - they just want to know [whether] this war is going to end,\" Shahari says. \"Or is it basically going to continue [until it] kills everyone?\"\nHiding indoors\nAn aid worker for Save the Children by day, Shahari has a one-year-old daughter who wants and needs open places to play, but parks are out of the question.\nOf the two public parks Shahari is familiar with, one is near military positions that are likely high up on the list of air raid targets. The other was recently hit by an explosion.\n\"Staying home is very boring for children,\" he laments. \"My daughter wants to go out, [but] I cannot take her out because her safety comes first.\"\nSince 2015, air raids have dictated the pace of life for Yemenis. Routine tasks must factor in the areas expected to be targeted, and the likely times the missiles will fall.\nThis means avoiding roads next to military installations or other possible targets, and only venturing out at times when the coalition is less likely to launch raids.\nSaudi-led coalition air strikes have decimated Yemen's capital, Sanaa [Courtesy of Al Masirah]\nFor lunch, Shahari reaches an area previously targeted by strikes that is filled with restaurant-goers.\n\"Markets are busy, restaurants are busy; you can see that business is going [on],\" he says. \"It's unfortunate that after a few hours, these streets will be dead again.\"\nLife under the threat of bombardment is about much more than avoiding explosions and death. A coalition blockade of rebel-held territory makes essentials, such as fuel and food, harder and harder to come by.\nSince 2015, the Saudi-led coalition has restricted the entry of commercial products into the country through the two main rebel-held ports of entry: Sanaa airport and Hodeidah port.\nShahari says the resulting shortages have driven prices up, forcing Yemenis to come up with creative ways to make sure the essentials last.\n\"I see people riding bicycles instead of cars ... sometimes motorcycles because they're more economic. I don't drive fast to save fuel.\"\nWe have no heaters. It is so cold. It's not even funny. I honestly wear double socks, two pants and many, many layers.\nSukaina Sharafuddin, Save the Children\nDespite the difficult circumstances, normal life - or at least some semblance of it - continues for many.\nSukaina Sharafuddin, a 27-year-old colleague of Shahari at Save the Children, plans for a friend's wedding, takes trips to the bank to withdraw money for her mother and thinks of ways to keep her two-year-old son entertained.\nAs she scrambles to find dresses for the big wedding, she realises that her clothes are scattered across the many houses she has had to move from to avoid strikes.\n\"I've [relocated] my family to the third house,\" she says. \"We've been evacuated, one house to another, searching for a better and safer place - but unfortunately, here in Yemen, no place is safe. Everywhere you go, there's a street that's been targeted. Everywhere you go, you find the destruction in the streets.\"\nWhile trying to run a quick errand to the bank on the weekend to withdraw some much-needed cash for her mother, she confronts unexpected early closing times.\n\"The bank is closed, so basically I just wasted fuel for no reason,\" she laments. \"My god, I cannot believe I drove all the way here for nothing.\"\nYemen's capital, Sanaa, has been held by the Houthis and their allies since 2014 [Khaled Abdullah/Reuters]\nOn top of that, she is ridden with guilt for not being able to allow her child to play outside. Her two-year-old son spends days at a time cooped up in a basement to avoid the dangers above, and Sharafuddin often comes home from work to witness his frustration.\nBut the young mother is also facing her own frustrations over how the simplest comforts, taken for granted before the war, now seem so distant.\nCoalition bombardment and the blockade have left the country's electricity grid unable to provide energy to Sanaa's residents, and generators run dry because of the lack of fuel.\nThat leaves millions at the mercy of Yemen's winter, which can cause temperatures to drop to close to freezing at night. Many do not have access to clean water, and for those who do, hot water is a scarcity.\nShowering and washing her face in the morning has become a mental challenge, Sharafuddin says.\n\"We have no heaters. It is so cold. It's not even funny,\" she says. \"I honestly wear double socks, two pants and many, many layers.\"\nIt has been almost three years since they last had access to regular power and electricity, but both Sharafuddin and Shahari have found a way to deal with the lack of power.\nThey are two of the few who have a solar power system that grants them electricity for six hours maximum each day. Shahari is aware of his own privilege.\n\"The weather is cold, and I have a solar system. I can use it to light up the room ... I can only charge my phone and use it for lighting. I cannot turn on the heater. I cannot turn on the refrigerator. Nothing at all,\" he says, adding with a sarcastic note: \"Well, sometimes we can charge our phones. That's lucky, right?\"\nBoth aid workers tend to suppress many of their complaints, knowing that many in the country live in far worse conditions - and by the standards of Yemen's war, they consider themselves the lucky ones.\n\"I am a lucky person,\" Sharafuddin says. \"I'm considered one of the minority groups here who are very, very lucky. I mean, I have a salary, I have a fixed income, thank god ... At least I have a house that's very [well] sheltered ... I'm not sleeping outside like many families are now doing, unfortunately.\"\nYou've got the Saudi coalition air strikes, you've got the poor sanitation systems ... People don't have access to clean water, including more than eight million children.\nNadine Drummond, Save the Children\nShahari and Sharafuddin are also confronted with the human cost of war on a daily basis. Sharafuddin has seen children who have lost limbs or been blinded by the fighting and air raids, but she remains optimistic that better days are ahead.\n\"They have nothing to do with this [war],\" she says. \"Their future is taken away from them, and they have nothing to do with politics. I pray that Yemen becomes safe, and I'm very optimistic about that. I really feel that things will just get better.\"\nAccording to Save the Children, around 77 percent of Yemen's population needs humanitarian aid, with the United Nations warning that the country is at risk of famine.\nMore than 2.5 million children are not being educated because of the war, while damage to sanitation infrastructure has allowed cholera to affect more than a million people.\n\"The UN and NGOs in Yemen actually keep a significant portion of the population alive,\" says Save the Children's Yemen spokesperson, Nadine Drummond. \"You've got the Saudi coalition air strikes, you've got the poor sanitation systems ... 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The disappearance of MH370 has been described as the \u201cgreatest mystery in the history of aviation\u201c. Despite the efforts of an international investigation team, and millions of dollars spent searching the ocean bottom for the wreckage site, no one has been able to determine what really happened. Until now...\nFor this book, three professional accident investigators, each with decades of real-world experience in crash dynamics, examined the available evidence. The results of their work reveal the actual sequence of events, and what really happened to MH370. This book uses plain language, easy to understand schematics, and clear photos of the actual wreckage to bring the evidence to life. Even those with little or no aviation connection will be able to understand and appreciate the validity of this eye-opening analysis.\nYou will see that the official investigation was deficient. They missed, or misinterpreted, crucial evidence that was available on the recovered wreckage pieces. Therefore, they used incorrect assumptions about what was happening onboard MH370 when they calculated the boundaries for their search zones. This book will reveal why the multi-million dollar ocean bottom search efforts had almost no chance of success.\nYou will be guided through a basic investigation and analysis process to show what caused MH370 to disappear from radar, and to fly on an unexplained and mysterious track that led to the southern Indian Ocean.\nMany people have presented theories to try to explain the MH370 disappearance. This book shows you a basic investigation framework where theories that are based on speculation and guesswork can be invalidated. You are left with only one scenario that is totally based on confirmed facts. The known and indisputable evidence fits with only one chain of events, and that is the chain of events presented by the author.\nWith this book, the mystery of MH370 has been solved.\nTHE CRASH OF MH370\nMalaysia Airlines Flight 370: Why It Disappeared?and Why It?s Only a Matter of Time Before This Happens Again\nThe Crash Detectives: Investigating the World\u2019s Most Mysterious Air Disasters\nGod is Good for You: A defence of Christianity in troubled times\nThe Looming Tower: Al Qaeda's Road to 9/11\nPublisher: Group of Three Publishing (23 May 2018)\nASIN: B07CW5F4BN\n#40 in Kindle Store > Kindle eBooks > Professional & Technical > Transportation > Aviation\n#170 in Kindle Store > Kindle eBooks > Travel > Asia\nSomeone Is Hiding Something: What Happened to Flight MH370?\nFlight MH370 - The Mystery\nCycling Writer\n5.0 out of 5 starsA Service to All\nWith his book, Mr. Vance has done a service to all the constituencies who care about the fate of MH370: the aviation industry, professional accident investigators, and most of all, the families of passengers on board the flight. One assumes, as you or I would, all of these communities want the truth.\nThe author\u2019s careful marshaling of evidence for an approach/landing speed ocean ditching, flaps down, is a reasonable conclusion to me as a pilot (not ATP, but multi-engine instrument rated) given the physical evidence presented in the book. No pilot-in-command is EVER unmindful of the souls on board for whom he or she is responsible. So the most unsatisfying aspect of the book is the author\u2019s inability to address the motivation or psychological reasons that one or both of the pilots would do what the evidence suggests at least one of them did.\nNevertheless, it is to the author\u2019s credit he says, paraphrasing him, \u201cI\u2019m a competent professional aviation accident investigator with decades of experience. I am not competent to assess the psychological state of the pilots or ascertain a motivation.\u201d This prudence argues for paying attention to the definitive conclusions he reaches with respect to the physical evidence.\nOne hopes, as the author does, that this book will prompt revisiting the findings of the accident investigation for the sake of the science and the profession, as well as (and most all) for the families.\n4.0 out of 5 starsInteresting Read About the Mystery of MH370.\nThe premise of this book is that the loss of MH370 can be explained as a deliberate act by the pilot to plan and execute the controlled ditching and disappearance of MH370 into the deep dark hostile southern Indian Ocean. If the evidence presented in this book are valid, then the conclusion of the author could be true. A quick read and worth checking out if you are interested in the mystery of MH370.\n5.0 out of 5 starsSolid Analysis Leaving Little Doubt\nThe book goes into great depth regarding the various items found from MH370 and what the undeniable conclusions mean regarding the fate of the missing aircraft. My only disappointment was the lack of a proposed resting site based on these answers. Anyone interested in the MH370 investigation should definitely read this book.\n5.0 out of 5 starsAs a retired airline pilot I always believed this is ...\nAs a retired airline pilot I always believed this is what happened. Looking at the picture of the recovered flaparon I can understand fully that the aircraft was soft landed in the water, Thank you Larry Vance. Tom V\n5.0 out of 5 starsExcellent logic\nHe uses excellent logic to piece together the truth based on evidence (actual pieces of the plane!). 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Unfortunately, it\u2019s not always easy to find exciting birds in your backyard, but fear not \u2014 this list of the top forest spots to go birding will help you score some amazing finds!\nChiricahua Mountains, Coronado National Forest, Arizona\nCredit: Alan Shmierer\nDon\u2019t be deceived by the miles of seemingly barren lands. These mountains rise up from the Arizona desert, providing a cool and wet climate perfect for a rare tropical bird: the elegant trogon. This metallic green and bright-red bird is the only trogon found regularly in North American forests. Thankfully, Coronado National Forest offers 13 trails, so pick one, grab your binoculars and get searching!\nSequoia & Kings Canyon National Parks, California\nCredit: U.S. Forest Service\nThis pair of parks is special because it attracts species that thrive in riparian habitats. You\u2019re likely to see the beautiful and unique California spotted owl. It lives in elevation ranges between 1,000 and 8,000 feet, but it can only be found in the Sierra Nevada and southern mountains along the coast of California. If you\u2019re lucky, you\u2019ll catch it spreading its wings. Its wingspan can be as wide as 5 feet! The park recommends visiting in the spring through the fall to see this treasure of a bird.\nWhile you\u2019re there, you might also run into the mountain quail, band-tailed pigeon, white-headed woodpecker, hermit warbler, yellow-billed Cuckoo, great gray owl, flammulated owl and the willow flycatcher, just a few more of the park\u2019s wide range of resident birds.\nAccompanied by the scenic views from Maine\u2019s cliff-lined coast, this is the perfect site for spotting a ruby-throated hummingbird along a forested trail. The park offers guided bird-watching and walking tours, but even if you venture on your own, you have a great chance of seeing not only the ruby-throated hummingbird, but also a peregrine falcon.\nParadise area & Sunrise area, Mount Rainier National Park, Washington\nCredit: Ron Knight\nThis 14,410-foot, active volcano is home to plenty of birds that are sure to keep you amazed with every step. In the Paradise area, you\u2019ll find the sooty grouse, band-tailed pigeon, red-breasted sapsucker, mountain bluebird and more. Along streams, look out for the American dipper, and in more open areas, check out the American pipit.\nThe Sunrise area can be found at an altitude of 6,400 feet \u2014 the highest point accessible by paved roads. Here you\u2019ll find the boreal owl, gray-crowned rosy-finch, and a small, round-bodied bird called the white-tailed ptarmigan. The neat thing about this bird is that it changes color between seasons, going from completely white in the winter to white with gray and brown spots in the summer.\nMountain Bluebird Trails, Montana\nCredit: Tom Koerner/U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service\nThe birdhouses set up along these trails provide inviting homes for bluebirds and are bound to have you seeing lots along your way. The birdhouse entrances are just small enough to let in bluebirds, but too small for predators like magpies and raccoons to get in. Prepare to be amazed by the streaks of blue in the sky as the bluebirds fly past, or appreciate them up close as they take breaks along these trails constructed purely to preserve their habitat.\nSandia Mountain Wilderness, Cibola National Forest, New Mexico\nAlong the 117 miles of trail, you can find many open clearings to look up and catch the raptors \u2014 another name for birds of prey \u2014 soaring above you. There\u2019s a tram that can take you to the top of the ridge, or you can hike it and catch some views along the way. Whatever you choose, you\u2019re bound to see at least one of the 18 species of raptors that fly over this land.\nMagee Marsh Wildlife Area, Ohio\nCredit: Joel Trick/U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service\nMore than 300 migratory bird species pass through this 2,000-acre stopover. It\u2019s one of the only beach ridges left on the southern shore of Lake Erie and one of the few remnants of the Great Black Swamp. But what makes this area even more unique and valuable are the several components that make it a vital marsh system. Here, you\u2019ll see orioles, vireos, flycatchers and raptors, but what the area is most known for is its warblers. Look out for the Kirtland\u2019s warbler, a Wildlands for Wildlife focal species and a rare bird found almost only in jack pine forests and identified by its bright yellow belly and blue-feathered head.\nCredit: Bill Thompson/U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service\nThis is the perfect place to enjoy nature\u2019s changing autumn colors or perch yourself atop one of the many hills, but as you make your way through the 500 miles of scenic trails, take your time and look out for the wide variety of local birds.\nThe black-and-white warbler\u2019s thin, squeaky song represents the beginning of spring. You can spot it by looking for a small bird striped with black and white feathers, nimbly creeping along tree trunks and branches, searching for insects or building a nest in a pile of leaf litter.\nThe white-breasted nuthatch might also be searching for insects and meaty seeds. It gets its name from its technique of jamming large nuts and acorns into tree bark and then poking at them with its sharp beak until they \u201chatch\u201d open to release a seed. Check out its strokes of black, gray and white feathers. It\u2019s small, but not hard to track down with its loud and nasal call.\nHanging out in the shrubs of the forest understory, you might find a hooded warbler \u2014 look out for its bright yellow body, black neck and head, and the thick stripe of yellow across its face.\nAnother bright yellow bird you\u2019re likely to find here is the cedar waxwing. Its silky feathers fade from brown to cobalt blue to yellow at the tail, with red-tipped wings and a black mask. When searching, listen for a high-pitched and thin whistle call. In the fall, hundreds group together to gather berries. Don\u2019t be surprised by its impressive aeronautic skills if you see one in the sky!\nIf you hear a loud rummaging from the undergrowth of the forest, don\u2019t worry \u2014 it\u2019s most likely a eastern towhee. Its movement is loud for its size, but it\u2019s a very common bird identified by its deep black back and reddish-brown belly. They like to hang out in hidden spots, so you might only be able to catch a glimpse through the branches.\nCredit: PIXNIO\nThis park is full of a variety of species from birds of prey and woodpeckers to hummingbirds and water fowl. The park provides such a diverse habitat that it\u2019s a designated Global Important Bird Area. Along with the white-tailed ptarmigan and the three-toed woodpecker, you can find the exotically colored western tanager and the rare but energetic and social pygmy nuthatch.\nHawk Mountain Sanctuary, Appalachian Trail, Pennsylvania\nCredit: Darren and Brad/Flickr\nOf course there are some notable birding sites along the entire trail, but Hawk Mountain never fails to impress. The crosswinds create the perfect situation for the raptors to soar on the updrafts. The best time to see a variety of hawks, eagles, falcons and vultures is from September to November, when they make their journey south from Canada, New England and New York. The trail is a great place to camp out for a few days or even just spend an afternoon on one of the many tours and birding events the trail has to offer.\nAll of these beautiful wildernesses and birds are waiting for you. And these spots are only a few of the amazing areas across the country where rare and exotic birds can be found. 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When this school was made, it did not think of people like me. I wasn\u2019t even a thought; I wasn\u2019t even an idea. Some of the first black students that came to Amherst College had to go to school with other white students whose families still owned slaves. Why were we the last school to support the anti-apartheid effort? Why did it take black students to chain themselves to Converse Hall to get a black studies department? This is in our history, and we can\u2019t act like it\u2019s not happening now.\nI have definitely become one of those jaded older students on campus because of what I\u2019ve seen here and what I\u2019ve experienced. We have a very statistically diverse set of students, but we don\u2019t have systems in place to make those students feel like they belong on campus.\nThis idea of belonging\u2014I want to know who it benefits. Because there are some spaces where students don\u2019t belong and they don\u2019t need to belong. 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You shouldn\u2019t second-guess my grades because of my ethnicity. I shouldn\u2019t be seen as a delinquent or a criminal sometimes because of my background. I can name a story for each of those things.\nI definitely have found a family here at Amherst with students of color. Having been part of the MRC for a while, I feel like I have cultivated a community of people who support me, and who love me, and who are genuinely here for my well-being. When students of color are together, there\u2019s a shared experience there, so we just click. It\u2019s like a family.\nI\u2019m very proud of being a woman of color, being Latina and being Puerto Rican, especially with the strong Puerto Rican community outside of the Amherst College. Holyoke has the largest percent of Puerto Ricans in a community in the U.S., so I have found solace there. There\u2019s a very strong activist community in Holyoke, so I have mentors and activist friends there who I can consult with.\nI\u2019m going to Puerto Rico over the summer to do my thesis paper, \u201cAtlas Was a Puerto Rican.\u201d I\u2019m writing about Puerto Rican embodiment and identity through virtual reality by filming 360 videos of PR and The Bronx, and putting my audio poetry over that, so you have a 360 virtual experience of these places that I call home. It also touches on space, and what is real, and what is not real, and what it means to exist. Because to be Puerto Rican is really complicated, because of all of the histories that are attached to it. It\u2019s also kind of like a film performance art piece too, so I\u2019m in the film.\nMy own blood family has been amazing too. It\u2019s me, my mom, my sister, my grandparents and my uncle. We live together. Well, we live right next door to each other. They\u2019re my lifeline. I don\u2019t think I would have come this far if it wasn\u2019t for them.\nI also feel like I have a theater family at UMass as well. I haven\u2019t felt that at Amherst, so I have gone to UMass to pursue theater, and that has been one of the best decisions I\u2019ve made.\nJonathan Jackson, one of my best friends, has been helping Maria [on the project]. I was joking, asking him, \u201cWhen are you going to do a photo shoot of me?\u201dHe texted me and said, \u201cCome to Seeley Mudd at one o\u2019clock.\u201d I come in, and it\u2019s Maria and Jonathan, and they have this whole thing set up. They just made me sit on a paper for 45 minutes to an hour, posing and stuff. I\u2019m a ham, so I like being photographed. I was doing different poses, different angles, putting my hair up and down. Whatever they wanted me to do, I was doing.\nEven though I like being photographed, that doesn\u2019t necessarily mean that I like the product. 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While this certainly isn't the year that VR headsets will launch for the first time by any means, it is the year that plenty of commercially available VR headsets will be released. The short list includes the final version of the Oculus Rift, the latest version of Samsung's Gear VR, the HTC Vive and of course the OSVR to name a few. OSVR is the subject of interest today and for those that aren't aware OSVR stands for Open Source Virtual Reality and has been designed from the ground up to bring the community and key members of the gaming community under one roof.\nThe entire platform is open source including the hardware, software plugins and software APIs, and the development kit is modeled after the same design structure as Google's Project Ara Module Development Kit. 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The transferability of UK services within the EU, and the recognition of EU architectural qualifications within the UK must be maintained.\nSustaining affordable EU product supply and ability to specify product standards - The UK must continue to be party to the European Committee for Standardisation\u2019s (CEN) and European Committee for Electrotechnical Standardisation (CENELEC) discussions on the specific needs of the EU in relation to a given standard, and on mandates and decisions about harmonised standards. 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This procedure is performed in an outpatient setting, generally in the catheterization, or \u201ccath\u201d laboratory, by a trained vascular surgeon or interventional radiologist.\nWhat Are the Benefits of An Atherectomy?\nAtherectomy carries the same minimal risks as other minimally invasive procedures; however, it is the only technique that actually removes plaque from the vessel.\nStudies have shown no major difference in patient outcomes when atherectomy and angioplasty are compared.\nPatients are at no greater risk of reoccurrence of blockage, amputations, or death following either procedure.[i] This holds true even for patients with pre-existing conditions, such as diabetes, who have shown no increased risk of complications or blockage reoccurrence when atherectomy is used in place of, or in addition to, angioplasty and stenting.[ii]\nAtherectomies are useful at removing highly calcified plaques, which are too hardened to be crushed into the wall with either the angioplasty balloons or stenting devices.\nAre There Any Disadvantages To An Atherectomy?\nThere is a risk of an embolus (blockage) forming from the dislodged debris following atherectomy. Care is taken to remove all debris during the procedure, and careful monitoring occurs afterwards to ensure that this does not occur.\nRarely, perforation of the blood vessels with the atherectomy device during the procedure may require emergency bypass to repair.\nAtherectomy is not a guaranteed life-long repair. Lifestyle modifications and medication may be required, as blockages can return\nAfter pre-procedure testing confirms that you are a good candidate for an atherectomy, a procedure will be scheduled.\nLike most interventional procedures, your physician will generally recommend fasting beforehand. A light, early dinner, followed by a fast after midnight is the typical protocol.\nWhen you arrive at the outpatient center, consent forms will need to be signed to allow for emergency interventions if needed.\nThe area where the catheter will be inserted (the groin, the foot, or the arm) will be washed and shaved to prevent infection.\nAs the Procedure Begins\u2026\nA mild sedative will be given through an IV. The area selected for catheter insertion will be numbed with a local anesthetic. Some patients report feeling pressure or pushing sensations while the procedure is conducted, but typically no pain is reported.\nThen, the catheter will be inserted into the blood vessel and guided to the blockage. A contrast medication (a special type of dye) may be injected to assist with visualization of the area to be treated. Depending on the type of catheter, a sharpened tip, grinding bit, or laser will remove the plaque by scraping, grinding, or vaporizing. Either a chamber underneath the catheter or a suction device will remove the blockage from the body.\nMultiple insertions may be required to completely remove the blockage.\nUltrasounds are used to see the blockage site and ensure that as much plaque as possible is removed.\nMost atherectomy devices are set up to automatically capture any dislodged debris that may occur during the procedure.\nTo Conclude the Procedure\u2026\nOnce blood flow is restored, angioplasty and/or stenting might be performed to protect against future blockages.\nDuring angioplasty, a balloon is inflated at the area of blockage, flattening any remaining plaque against the blood vessel wall.\nStents are mesh-like metal tubes that are inserted in a collapsed form, and spring open once inserted into the area of the previous blockage, holding the vessel open.\nAfter stent insertion, the catheter is removed and the insertion site may be closed with stitches.\nThe procedure itself will generally take 1 \u2013 3 hours.\nRELATED: What is Angioplasty?\nPatients will have to gradually increase mobility, initially lying flat for a few hours, then sitting up, then walking between 6 \u2013 24 hours after the procedure.\nNormal activity can typically be resumed within 24 \u2013 48 hours.\nWhy Would Your Physician Recommend An Atherectomy?\nThere are many benefits to choosing an atherectomy as treatment for peripheral artery disease. 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Henning\u2019s extraordinary reach as an artist is a result of his versatility and passion for music, as well as the genuine quality to his playing and the beauty of his performances. His teaching and educational writings provide fascinating insights into his multi-faceted approach to music-making, while his composing, arranging and improvising \u2013 frequently bringing his own works into the concert hall \u2013 recall the spirit of the old masters such as Fritz Kreisler and Eug\u00e8ne Ysa\u00ffe.\nNorwegian violinist Henning Kraggerud is Artistic Director of the Arctic Philharmonic Chamber Orchestra, with a tenure extending to 2020. Henning\u2019s extraordinary reach as an artist is a result of his versatility and passion for music, as well as the genuine quality to his playing and the beauty of his performances. 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Customer Reviews, Frequently Asked Questions, Rates, Branches, Related Articles, and Financial Summary - 2019", + "raw_content": "State Farm Bank, F.S.B. is an FDIC insured institution located in Bloomington, IL. It was founded in 1999 and has approximately $17.1 billion in assets.\nFor a more detailed analysis of State Farm Bank, F.S.B.'s financial condition and a description of what these numbers mean, please visit the Financial Details section.\nThe top three loan types in State Farm Bank, F.S.B.\u2019s loan portfolio are Consumer Auto Loans, 1-4 Family Residential Loans, and Credit Card Loans.\nCompared to other banks in Illinois, State Farm Bank, F.S.B. has a significantly higher percent of Credit Card Loans, Consumer Auto Loans on its balance sheet, potentially indicating a specialty in that lending area.\nCredit Card Loans 14.14 \u2713\nFree Checking Account\t 0.00% $0 $0.00 Learn MoreShow Less\nInterest Checking Account\t 0.00% $500 $0.00 Learn MoreShow Less\nCompare with 5.125% APR and 5.125% 30-Year Fixed RATE from Quicken Loans NMLS #3030\nState Farm Bank, F.S.B. branches and locations in your neighborhood. Input a different zip code to find branches and locations for any neighborhood in the United States.\nState Farm Bank, F.S.B. Locations\nState Farm Bank, F.S.B. Ratio Analysis\nThe following ratios and data are available to help you better understand the financial condition of State Farm Bank, F.S.B.. The data is provided by the FDIC. All banks listed on BestCashCow.com are FDIC-insured. No depositor has ever lost deposits that have been within the FDIC insurance limits.\nAs of September 30, 2018, State Farm Bank, F.S.B. had $121,783,000 in non-current loans and $3,773,000 in owned real estate. To cover these potential losses it had $1,824,165,000 in equity and $157,500,000 in loans loss reserves. That gives it a Texas Ratio of 6.34%.\nState Farm Bank, F.S.B. has a Return on Equity of 1.61% versus the BestCashCow average of 9.95%. Return on equity measures how efficiently a bank is making money from its capital. A bank with a consistently high ROE can be considered well run. A bank with a consistently low ROE can be considered poorly run.\nState Farm Bank, F.S.B. has a Capitalization of 10.67% versus the BestCashCow average of 12.19. Capitalization measures how much equity capital a bank has to underpin loans and other assets on its balance sheet. The higher the capitalization number the more secure a bank is considered.\nState Farm Bank, F.S.B. Balance Sheet Analysis\nAs of September 30, 2018, State Farm Bank, F.S.B. had assets of $17,102,908,000, loans of $10,791,100,000, and deposits of $10,503,164,000. Long-term increases in deposits shows a bank's ability to raise funds to grow its loans and assets. Loan and asset growth may rise or fall depending on a bank's strategy for growth. Sharp rises and falls in assets, deposits, and loans can be problematic, indicating a loosening of lending standards, or financial distress leading to reduced lending. A big change in these figured can also be from a bank acquisition or merger.\nFrequently Asked Questions About State Farm Bank, F.s.b.\nIs State Farm Bank, F.s.b. FDIC insured?\nWhy does State Farm Bank, F.s.b. pay such low interest on savings accounts?\nWhy are State Farm Bank, F.s.b. CD rates not competitive?\nIs State Farm Bank, F.s.b. a commercial bank?\nWhere are State Farm Bank, F.s.b. locations?\nIs State Farm Bank, F.s.b. open on Saturdays?\nIs State Farm Bank, F.s.b. open on Sundays?\nWhat time does State Farm Bank, F.s.b. open?\nWhat time does State Farm Bank, F.s.b. close?\nAre State Farm Bank, F.s.b. ATMs Open 24/7?\nDo State Farm Bank, F.s.b. 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Several of the recommendations addressed areas of strength in the Fort Meade region, including cybersecurity. Many of the recommendations were bundled into a package of five bills that passed during the 2015 legislative session.\nSpeakers at the event will be Michael Gill, secretary of the state Department of Business and Economic Development; and Norm Augustine, chairman of the Maryland Economic Development and Business Climate Commission. For more information, call 410-850-4940 or visit www.ftmeadealliance.org.\nRoyal Australian Air Force Wedgetail Aircraft Visits NGC\nNorthrop Grumman Corp. (NGC) recently hosted the Royal Australian Air Force as its Wedgetail advanced early warning and control aircraft landed at BWI Thurgood Marshall Airport. In the U.S. for a joint military exercise, the Wedgetail\u2019s first-ever visit to the facility provided employees the rare opportunity to view the signature Multi-Role Electronically Scanned Array (MESA) radar on a fully operational aircraft.\nNGC designed and builds the MESA radar at its Baltimore campus. Easily recognized by its \u201ctop hat\u201d configuration on the aircraft, MESA enables coalition warfighting at the next level by providing 360 degrees of air-to-air and maritime tracking capability. NGC also supplies electronic warfare and infrared countermeasure systems for the aircraft.\n\u201cThe heart of Wedgetail is the Northrop Grumman MESA radar, and the system is performing to the highest standard,\u201d said Group Captain Antony Martin, the officer commanding the No. 42 Wing. \u201cFor example, we have flown 1,500 combat hours in Iraq, and we are achieving greater than 95% system availability. So, the purpose of our visit is really to say \u2018thank you\u2019 to the team for their hard work and dedication.\u201d\nDirect Energy Solar Opens New Headquarters\nDirect Energy Solar recently unveiled its new corporate headquarters in Columbia. The new, 42,000-square-foot facility is almost triple the size of its previous location in Annapolis Junction and can accommodate more than 200 employees.\n\u201cWe have plans to create 800 new jobs across North America for our solar operations by the end of this year. As we expand and open in new markets, we need one central site where our team can work together to support this growth. We are pleased we were able to remain in Howard County, which has been home to our solar business since 2008,\u201d said Scott Boose, president.\nDirect Energy Solar acquired Annapolis Junction-based Astrum Solar in 2014 and renamed the company. The new facility includes a 10,000-square-foot operations warehouse. Teams of project managers, engineers, designers, sales and service agents all will work in a bright, open and collaborative environment.\nMaryland Relay Introduces Maryland Relay Partner for Local Businesses\nMaryland Relay, the free public service that allows people who are unable to use a standard telephone to both make and receive calls, has introduced a new program for local businesses. Maryland Relay Partner is a free program that is designed to connect Maryland businesses and Maryland Relay users through free training and promotion.\nEach day, nearly 700 calls are placed through Maryland Relay by individuals who are deaf, hard of hearing, deaf-blind (or have difficulty speaking), have limited mobility or have cognitive difficulty. If businesses are unfamiliar with Maryland Relay, they often accidentally hang up on Relay callers, so Maryland Relay Partner was created to educate businesses on how to identify, receive and place Relay calls.\nBusinesses that enroll in Maryland Relay Partner receive free training with an outreach coordinator on how to place and receive Relay calls, and free access to a digital library of training materials, among other support. To enroll, visit www.MDRelay.org to complete an online inquiry form or call 800-552-7724 or 410-767-6960 (voice/TTY) or 443-453-5970 (video phone).\nCertis USA, Saul Borbolla Ibarra Address Mexico Agriculture Market Columbia-based Certis USA, the biopesticide company, has signed an agreement with Saul Borbolla Ibarra, a veteran of Mexico\u2019s agrochemical companies, to manage the introduction and commercial development of Double Nickel 55 WG fungicide/bactericide in Mexico to control diseases in peppers, chiles, tomatoes, potatoes and cucurbits.\nBorbolla also will focus on extending markets for the copper fungicide Kocide 2000, Certis USA\u2019s newest product recently acquired by its parent company, Mitsui & Co.\nBorbolla will oversee business development in Mexico for all other Certis USA insecticides, IGR, fungicides, bactericides and acaricides used in vegetable crops in Mexico. Borbolla, who has more than 10 years of experience with biocontrols, will work closely with Summit Agro Mexico S.A. de C.V. (SAM), a distributor of Certis USA products in Mexico.\nAACC\u2019s HCAT Institute Programs Earn Accreditation\nTwo hotel/restaurant management programs offered by the Hotel, Culinary Arts and Tourism Institute at Anne Arundel Community College have been accredited by the Accrediting Commission of American Culinary Federation Education Foundation (ACFEF).\nThe Culinary Arts Option Associate of Applied Science degree has been identified as \u201cExemplary\u201d by the ACFEF Accrediting Commission. The team determined that the degree met the required nine standards and received a grant of accreditation and the Exemplary status for seven years, from 2014\u201321.\nAlso, the Baking and Pastry Arts Option Associate of Applied Science degree received an initial accreditation by the ACFEF for the maximum five-year accreditation, from 2015\u20132020.\nTranswestern Brokers Three-Building Portfolio at Troy Hill for $34M\nTranswestern represented ASB Real Estate Investments in the sale of three properties at Troy Hill Tech Center, in Elkridge. Totaling 175,003 square feet, the portfolio was acquired by two separate investors in two transactions totaling $34.15 million. Managing Director Mark Glagola and Senior Vice President Tom Gentner of Transwestern\u2019s Mid-Atlantic Investment Services Group brokered the deals.\nBoyd Watterson Asset Management LLC purchased 7145 and 7175 Troy Hill Drive, consisting of 51,361and 80,369 square feet, respectively. Merritt Properties acquired the 43,273-square-foot building at 7195 Troy Hill Drive. \u201cWith Comcast as a strong anchor tenant on a long-term lease, these properties were an attractive investment opportunity for Boyd Watterson and Merritt Properties,\u201d said Glagola.\nTCR Selects Ciena to Support Brazil\u2019s \u2018Porto Maravilha\u2019 Telecom Project\nTCR Telecom, of Rio de Janeiro, has deployed a new municipal network with packet networking platforms from Hanover-based Ciena. The network supports the revitalization of Rio\u2019s port region, which seeks to reintegrate into the city by revitalizing more than 1,200 acres in the downtown neighborhoods of Gamboa, Santo Cristo and Sa\u00fade by providing high-speed connectivity that increases the attractiveness of commercial space and supports residential growth and the opening of new tourist attractions.\nIt will provide greater access to a high-capacity network that is capable of delivering carrier-grade services, such as premium Gigabit Ethernet services, to businesses and data centers in \u201cPorto Maravilha.\u201d\nFinmarc Management Acquires Columbia Office Portfolio\nFinmarc Management, of Bethesda, has acquired a four-building flex/office portfolio in Columbia comprising approximately 135,000 square feet of space for $15.75 million. Located at Rumsey Road and formerly owned by First Potomac Realty Trust, the project is nearly 100% leased.\nConstructed in 1980 with an all-brick exterior, the single-story buildings consist of 9150 to 9180 Rumsey Road. The current tenant roster is primarily composed of \u201cservice flex/office\u201d uses that are attracted to the proximity of a mature highway network, strong labor market and flexible, open floor plans. With the purchase of this asset, over the past two years, Finmarc, along with its partners, has acquired or disposed of more than $400 million worth of properties.\nAnnapolis Makes It Easier to Track Permits\nAnnapolis Mayor Michael Pantelides announced that the city has launched an updated version of its online permitting system called ETrakIt. The new version, made available by the Department of Environmental and Neighborhood Programs, offers a fresh look to the old system by offering new options on the city\u2019s web site. It also offers a more user-friendly iPhone version.\nETrakIt also will help individuals find information about construction projects and licensed rental housing, along with contractor and property management enforcement cases. Contractors also may schedule inspections through the ETrakIt system. Individuals can find ETrakIt at etrakit.annapolis.gov.\nChaney Enterprises Opens Sand, Gravel Plant in Loveville\nGambrills-based Chaney Enterprises has opened its newest sand and gravel plant in Loveville, Md., in St. Mary\u2019s County. The state-of-the-art facility produces five grades of high quality material for spec work and can produce more than a half-million tons of aggregate per year.\nThe plant, Chaney\u2019s fourth aggregates facility, produces pea and other size gravel, as well as concrete and masonry sands. \u201cWith our brand new plant, we now have increased production capabilities and improved controls on quality, so that our customers get the right material the first time and every time,\u201d said Steven Tripp, marketing manager.\nHoward Atop Maryland\u2019s List for Mortgage Approval\nHoward County sits atop of the list when it comes to mortgage approval rating in Maryland, according to a new survey by Smart Asset. Howard\u2019s ranking of 67.68% was ahead of second place Frederick County at 67.20%, with Carroll County third at 67.10%. Anne Arundel County ranked sixth, at 65.35%.\nThe rankings were part of SmartAsset\u2019s study on the best mortgage markets in the U.S. For an overview of the methodology and an interactive map showing the top mortgage markets in the country, go to https://smartasset.com/mortgage/mortgage-rates#us.\nHCCC Joins U.S. Chamber of Commerce\nThe U.S. Chamber of Commerce has welcomed members of the Howard County Chamber of Commerce (HCCC) through a new partnership that allows HCCC members to enjoy the benefits of membership in both organizations at no additional cost. The U.S. Chamber is the world\u2019s largest business federation, with 96% of its members consisting of small businesses.\nFor HCCC members, the U.S. Chamber membership number is 2619855. It can be used to create a new account and sign into www.uschamber.com for members to start taking advantage of tools, resources, news updates and service discounts, including small business tool kits; discounts to affinity partners, such as FedEx and Sam\u2019s Club; and access to the Action Center.\nAnnapolis Will Host 2017 Young Republicans National Convention\nThe City of Annapolis has been chosen to host the 2017 Young Republicans National Convention. \u201cThe convention will not only highlight our many attributes on the national stage, but it will also create a boost to our economy, due to the hundreds of people expected to travel here to participate,\u201d said Annapolis Mayor Mike Pantelides.\n\u201cWe are delighted to bring the 2017 Young Republican National Convention to Annapolis,\u201d said Connie Del Signore, president and CEO of the Annapolis and Anne Arundel County Conference and Visitors Bureau. \u201cWe have a mayor who is well respected in the Young Republican community, and we will do everything we can to ensure a stellar experience in 2017.\u201d\nTEDCO 2015 Entrepreneur Expo Registration Open\nThe Maryland Technology Development Corp. 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HC DrugFree is contracted by the Howard County Health Dept. to provide substance misuse prevention services in Howard County.\nThe Howard County campaign, \u201cIn the Know \u2026 The Face of Prescription Medication Misuse,\u201d will include a campaign web site, original videos, pharmacy and medical facility posters, social and print media and video press releases, among other messaging formats.\nBHC, a full-service marketing communications firm that specializes in health care marketing, will use original billboard, radio, cable and movie theater advertising, fliers and posters, social media and media editorial to present campaign messages. BHC was selected by the Calvert County Health Department\u2019s Division of Behavioral Health.\nThe Maryland Department of Health and Mental Hygiene provided funding for the effort for both campaigns.\nHoward County NAACP to Hold 2nd Annual Job Fair\nThe Howard County Maryland Branch of the NAACP has announced its 2nd Annual Job Fair on Tuesday, Sept. 22, from 10 a.m.\u2013 2 p.m., at the Savage Volunteer Fire Station Community Room, at 8521 Corridor Road, Savage.\nThis event is free and open to the public. Registration cost for employer exhibitors is $100. To register, contact Tryphenia Ellis-Johnson at 410-533-0523 or tryphenia1023@comcast.net. Registration deadline is Sept. 15.\nHomewood Suites by Hilton Opens New Hotel in Laurel\nHomewood Suites by Hilton, Hilton Worldwide\u2019s international brand of upscale, all-suite, extended-stay hotels, has announced its newest property, Homewood Suites by Hilton Columbia/Laurel, at 7531 Montpelier Road.\nDeveloped and owned by Star Global Ventures, Homewood Suites Columbia/Laurel is helping to meet traveler demand in the D.C. metro area, as visitor volume is expected to increase by 2%\u20133% per year through 2017. The new hotel will feature 114 rooms, which will be a combination of studio, and one- and two-bedroom suites.\nSmyth Jewelers to Relocate Within Annapolis Towne Centre\nGreenberg Gibbons has announced that Smyth Jewelers will relocate to a new, more prominent location on the main circle of Annapolis Towne Centre. The regional jewelry store, which is currently located on the second floor of the mixed-use development, will move to the prime 8,541-square-foot, street-level location on the corner of Towne Centre Boulevard and Harker Place.\nSmyth is a family-owned, Baltimore-based jeweler that carries a variety of fine jewelry and giftware, including the largest selection of bridal sets, engagement rings and loose diamonds on the East Coast. The relocation of Smyth allows for the conversion of its former, second level location into Class A office space, meeting the high demand from office and professional tenants.\nKBE to Build Fourth Harris Teeter\nBethesda residents will enjoy a new Harris Teeter store in summer 2016, thanks to Columbia-based general contractor KBE Building Corp., which has been chosen to lead its fourth project with the national grocery chain.\nHighlights of the $5.7 million, 52,963-square-foot construction project at 4805 Battery Lane, designed by Bondurant Associates, will include a basement parking garage and below residential units. Construction is scheduled to start in fall 2015 and commence in late spring 2016.\nNGC Receives Maryland Green Registry Leadership Award\nNorthrop Grumman Corp.\u2019s (NGC) Electronic Systems sector\u2019s ongoing commitment to environmental performance and sustainability has earned the company the Maryland Green Registry award from the Maryland Department of the Environment.\nNGC was one of five Maryland organizations to receive the honor based on its commitment to continuous improvement and the environmental results achieved this past year. The free program offers tips and resources to help organizations set and meet their own goals on the path to sustainability.\nHeneson Recognized for Health Care Marketing\nBonnie Heneson Communications (BHC), a marketing communications firm in Baltimore and Columbia, received gold and bronze Aster Awards and a Superior Award recognizing publications the agency created for Howard County General Hospital (HCGH).\nWellness Matters, a community magazine BHC writes and designs that is distributed to more than 200,000 residents of Howard County and surrounding areas, was recognized with two of the three awards. The publication earned the Bronze Aster Award and the Superior Award from the Mid-Atlantic Society of Healthcare Strategy and Market Development; BHC also produces HCGH\u2019s physicians\u2019 directory, which was recognized with the gold Aster Award.\nBWI Marshall Airport Sets All-Time Fiscal Year Passenger Record\nBWI Thurgood Marshall Airport has announced that passenger traffic continues to climb with 22,761,893 passengers recorded in fiscal 2015. That figure, an increase of 2.4% from the previous fiscal year, represents an all-time record for passenger traffic at BWI Marshall.\nInternational passenger traffic for BWI Marshall rose 55.4% in June 2015 to 116,155 \u2014 the highest total for any one month in airport history. International passengers have grown steadily in recent years at BWI Marshall. So far in 2015, airlines have started service to or announced seven new international destinations for BWI Marshall.\nFor June, a total of 2,181,039 passengers flew through BWI Marshall, an increase of 5.2% from June 2014. It was the second busiest June in the airport\u2019s history. Passenger traffic grew for a number of BWI Marshall airlines, including American, Delta, Southwest, United, Air Canada and Condor airlines.\nBTS Software Solutions Among BBJ\u2019s Top Veteran-Owned Businesses\nColumbia-based BTS Software Solutions has been recognized as a top performer by its inclusion in the Baltimore Business Journal\u2019s (BBJ) top Veteran-Owned Businesses list, ranking 17th out of the top 49 Veteran Owned Businesses in the region (based on number of employees) for 2015-16. The list was released in the BBJ\u2019s July 31\u2013Aug. 6 weekly edition.\nThe Veteran-Owned Businesses list will be included in the BBJ\u2019s 2015\u201316 Book of Lists, which is slated for release at the end of the year. The publication is a compilation of all the lists individually released throughout the year.\nSeven Straight: HCC Again Wins \u2018Great College to Work For\u2019\nHoward Community College (HCC) has won the 2015 \u201cGreat College to Work For\u201d award for the seventh consecutive year from the Chronicle of Higher Education, a national higher education publication. The honor makes HCC one of only four community colleges in the country to have achieved this record status.\nThe recognition program is based on the results of a survey completed by employees at 281 colleges and universities nationwide, including a sample of HCC faculty and staff.\nColleges and universities that stand out in comparison to their peers are selected for the Honor Roll, and HCC is the only Maryland community college to have earned a spot on the list for 2015.\nAllergy Free Child Care Center Opens in Dayton\nOlesya Rudin, owner of Allergy Free Family Child Care, in Dayton, has launched a specialized child care service for children up to five years of age. \u201cWe\u2019re prepared to accept children with food and environmental allergies, asthma, environmental and chemical sensitivities or any child that could benefit from my program,\u201d said Rudin.\nAs the mother of two children with food allergies, Rudin said she began the business to provide a better option for families with food allergy concerns. The home-based, full-day program provides nutritious meals designed to accommodate each child\u2019s needs. \u201cYoung children have been alienated from many things for too long,\u201d Rudin said. \u201cI just want to see if I can make a difference for them and their parents.\u201d\nDocument Essentials Acquires Columbia\u2019s Laserscript\nBaltimore County-based Document Essentials, an office equipment and repair center for copiers, faxes and laser printers, has acquired Laserscript, which is located on Dobbin Road in Columbia. Founded in 1988, Laserscript services all brands of laser printers and copiers, along with marketing new compatible and refurbished toner and ink cartridges.\n\u201cWe believe that Laserscript\u2019s strong customer base will fortify Document Essentials\u2019 long-term growth strategy. The infusion of Laserscript\u2019s contracts, technicians and administrative staff also expands our business footprint in the mid-Atlantic,\u201d said Brian McMearty, founder and president of Document Essentials.\nRuth\u2019s Chris to Open at The Village at Odenton Station\nKlein Enterprises has announced that Ruth\u2019s Chris Steak House is coming to The Village at Odenton Station, the transit-oriented development located opposite the Odenton MARC Rail Station. Ruth\u2019s Chris, ranked first among the nation\u2019s fine dining concepts for three consecutive years by Nation\u2019s Restaurant News magazine, plans to open in spring 2016.\nThe Village at Odenton Station was selected for the new Ruth\u2019s Chris Steak House location for its opportunity to capture a fast-growing, professional population, with strong income levels due to ongoing growth at Fort Meade, the National Security Agency and The National Business Park, and the expansion of health-related services. It will be situated to welcome more than 2,600 daily MARC commuters every weekday.\nHCEDA Gears Up for Second Ignite Event\nThe Howard County Economic Development Authority (HCEDA) has announced the second Ignite Howard County scheduled for Sept. 11. The event will take place at the Horowitz Visual & Performing Arts Center at Howard Community College, in Columbia.\nIgnite Howard County is a high-energy evening where the community comes together to share their passions. The goal is to create conversations and collaborations between people in the artistic, entrepreneurial, creative, technical and innovative communities. Ignite events are currently held in more than 100 cities worldwide. Ignite presenters share their personal and professional passions, using 20 slides that auto-advance every 15 seconds for a total of five minutes.\nTee It Up for The Arc on Oct. 12\nWegmans will present the \u201cTee It Up for The Arc\u201d annual golf tournament on Monday, Oct. 12. Golfer registration and lunch open at 11 a.m. followed by a 12:30 p.m. shotgun start, at Cattail Creek Golf Course in Glenwood. The tournament honors the memory of the late Gary J. Arthur, who was Howard County Director of Recreation and Parks.\nSponsorships, from $1,000 to $5,000, are available with recognition and other benefits. Tee signs are $250. Individuals can register to pay for $250; foursomes are $800. Breakfast, lunch, beverages, green fees and cart are included. Prizes will be awarded after the lunch buffet. Registration is available at www.archoward.org/events/golf. 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The sub-title is 'What If God Designed Marriage to Make Us Holy More than to Make Us Happy?' 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Your children become more independent, including learning how to drive. It is an important step for everyone, parents and the teenager. It is scary for the parents because it is another step that takes away control. You cannot control what happens once they head out onto the road. However, what you can control is what course they take in order to learn how to drive properly. Your teen\u2019s driving success is the goal of any parent.\nThe way to achieve your goal is to be sure that your teen is able to drive safely. When looking for a driver\u2019s education course it is important to find a program that will fit your child\u2019s learning needs. The course must also be state approved so that it will count for the written portion of the driver\u2019s education course requirement.\nWhen looking for a good driver\u2019s education course you will want to make sure it has the following:\nAs mentioned before, it must be state approved course in order to satisfy the written course requirement necessary to apply for their driver\u2019s.\nYou will want to be sure that the course covers not only the basic rules of the road but also goes over how to be a defensive driver.\nThe course should cover all state specific traffic laws, as some laws can vary from state to state.\nIn order to be sure that your child is understanding the material there should be quizzes at the end of each chapter, sample test questions, from previous DMV exams and the ability to review any part of the course your child may be struggling with.\nThe course you choose should also be not only informative but also interactive. Most children do not respond well to lecture-based courses. If you want your child to retain the information the course needs to be memorable.\nThe goal of any driver\u2019s education course should be your teen\u2019s driving success. Researching your course options to find which style your child would best learn is essential. Depending upon your child\u2019s specific learning needs there are courses available in traditional school settings and also online.\nThe traditional school settings are instructor led and usually have a workbook that must be completed before the end of the course. The instructor will go through the course work at the pace that suits them. They may also show a video or two, however the bulk of the course will be lecture.\nA good online driver\u2019s education course will be interactive and very informative. The coursework can be taken at the pace of the child and he or she can go back over any sections that are confusing. There will be short quizzes at the end to make certain the child is understand the material. Once the child has passed the written exam at the end with 80% or better they will be able to print off a completion certificate. That can be taken to the DMV to show the course has been completed successfully.\nParents cannot control what happens once their child leaves the driveway, but they can control the driver\u2019s education course their child takes to prepare them properly.\nCalifornia online traffic school, DMV, driver safety, driver's license, drivers education course, driving safety tips, driving tips, new driver, teen driver", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00240.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 79, + "original_length": 5437, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.96, + "perplexity": 281.6, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "https://www.bonhams.com/auctions/24248/lot/114/", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T03:53:26Z", + "digest": "sha1:N67QCYS5ZNC7FFCLP223TQEZOFGBDPDK", + "length": 11661, + "nlines": 42, + "source_domain": "www.bonhams.com", + "title": "Bonhams : Sir George Clausen, RA, RWS (British, 1852-1944) Noon in the Hayfield", + "raw_content": "Sir George Clausen, RA, RWS\nNoon in the Hayfield\n19th Century European, Victorian and British Impressionist Art\nSir George Clausen, RA, RWS (British, 1852-1944)\nsigned and dated 'G CLAUSEN. 1897-8' (lower left); signed and titled (on the reverse)\n116.8 x 83.8cm (46 x 33in).\nAnon. sale, Sotheby's, New York, 28 February 1990, lot 122.\nAnon. sale, Sotheby's, London, 23 May 2013, lot 27.\nRichard Green Gallery, London.\nPrivate collection, UK (acquired from the above).\nKenneth McConkey, George Clausen and the Picture of English Rural Life, Edinburgh, 2012, pp. 122-3 (illustrated in colour).\nKenneth McConkey, George Clausen: The Rustic Image, exhibition catalogue, The Fine Art Society, London, 2012, p. 36.\nIn 1897 Clausen gave a small oil sketch to his friend, the sculptor, William Goscombe John (fig 1).1 Painted around seven years earlier, the sketch was part of the elaborate planning procedure for a major work abandoned at the time, but now being revisited. The circumstances surrounding this act of generosity remain obscure, but the little picture itself is not insignificant. It shows a girl with red hair, sitting under a tree. The full sunlight strikes her white dress. Swift, slashing strokes of paint indicate that this figure study was blocked in very quickly \u2013 but then, the artist knew exactly what he was doing as he worked towards the realization of Noon in the Hayfield, the major canvas he had temporarily put aside back in 1891.\nSome of Clausen's earliest preoccupations are reflected in the work. These stretch back to 1880 when, in his late twenties, he stood in front of Bastien-Lepage's Les Foins, (Mus\u00e9e d'Orsay, Paris), the great picture of resting haymakers, then on show at the Grosvenor Gallery.2 It, as much as anything, prompted his move to the country the following year, and by 1883 his own version of the subject, Day Dreams (private collection), was exhibited at the Institute for Painters in Oil Colours in London.3 Here, two women, young and old, are resting in the shade, while nearby, a young mower pauses and realizes that it is time to lay down his rake. By 1886, when he painted A Midsummer Day (fig 2), Clausen had witnessed such moments of reverie on many occasions.\nBy 1890, sketchbook studies in pencil, at least one pastel and the Goscombe John oil, indicate that he was reworking the same pose using a younger model, Rose Grimsdale.4 But what did this mean? Was the content \u2013 a haymaker's rest - a given, and technical advance the true priority? Was this innocent idleness, a moment's respite from relentless toil, or an experiment in new techniques? As Clausen returned to apply the finishing touches to Noon in the Hayfield, in 1897, the work that had been in gestation for over a decade, would all become clear?\nClausen initially left the city at a time of great unrest in the countryside. Labouring families had been drifting to the burgeoning industrial centres for several generations and a crisis was fast approaching. For many landowners, it was exacerbated by tighter regulation that affected the employment of children at key points in the year. While the Education Act of 1880 demanded compulsory school attendance for all children up to the age of ten, it was not unusual for classrooms to be empty during the months between June and September.5 The hay harvest \u2013 'haysel' \u2013 in which boys and girls were required to follow the mowers, started the work cycle. Their job was simply to rake the fallen grass into 'haywakes' to aid the drying process. Many farmers preferred this labour-intensive method to that of the horse-drawn mowing machines and swathe-turners, then in development.6 Machines were unwieldy in smaller fields, prone to breakdown over uneven ground and thought to tear the grass, where a sharp scythe would cut cleanly. Beginning at dawn when the grass was wet with dew and could be cut more easily with scythes, labouring gangs worked across a large field in unison, as Clausen's paintings of the period show.7 All hands were necessary \u2013 even those of farmers' daughters who were often compelled to leave the land for domestic service as they grew older. The hay was then turned by women and children, before the serious rick building commenced. Henry Williamson, writing in the 1920s, recalled that, 'they raked the harvest of the meadow into mound-like wakes, while the master haymaker, ever watching the clouds and the wind, urged them to greater endeavour, for rain meant a second rate crop ...'8 By noon, the time for rest, labourers and their families may well have been at work for seven hours.\nThe artist also had been working up to this point. Around 1890 his sketchbooks record men scything, rick-building and tending livestock. Implied narratives of youth and age or secret trysts are excluded as his young fieldworker is placed at the edge of the meadow. Sketchbook studies of Rose are drawn and redrawn in reverse (fig 3). And while we can vouch for the accuracy of Clausen's observation, by the late nineties it had become clear that he and his French and British contemporaries were not so much recording an occupation as bolstering a threatened way of life. It was this powerful sense of a stable society under threat that kept the image of the country girl in focus as plein air painting moved ever closer to Impressionism. The planning for what would become Noon in the Hayfield had started in earnest and the resting fieldworker was redrawn in outline on a larger scale with trees and haywakes in the background, almost as a cartoon (fig 4).9\nBy 1891 an exhibition-piece watercolour was nearing completion, when Clausen's circumstances changed. Early in the year it became apparent that his lease on Grove House, Cookham Dean was coming to an end and he would have to move. With a growing reputation, he also required a larger studio, and the stimulus of a new working environment.10 The early summer of 1891 was spent house-hunting in the northern reaches of Essex until he hit upon 'Bishops' at the village of Widdington, where he moved just before harvest time.11 At the last minute, the watercolour, Idleness, (fig 5) was submitted, ex-catalogue, to the Royal Society of Painters in Watercolours as he set to work exploring the fields and farms of a new landscape.12 The large painting, later to be known as Noon in the Hayfield, was put on hold.\nNew subjects \u2013 harvesting, ploughing and barn interiors followed - but the contact with his Cookham Dean models, Rose Grimsdale and the Baldwin sisters, was severed. It was only when he started to look again at head studies of Rose in 1896 and had found new girls and boys in Widdington who were willing to pose for him, that the thought of finally finishing the picture returned.13 He looked again at all the planning he had done and made some changes. The hat, which in Idleness lies behind the girl, was brought into the foreground. The windfalls that lie on the grass in the watercolour, suggesting an orchard in autumn, are removed, and the rake, essential in midsummer mowing is added, as in the outline drawing.14 Having begun to modify the mechanical 'square' brushwork of his early naturalist pictures, Clausen was thinking more about colour. Sundry references in letters indicate that he had been looking critically at the work of Manet, Monet and Degas.15 Questions of m\u00e9tier, of how to represent, overtake those connected with what to represent. His previous reference to Rose at this point was the half-length, Brown Eyes (Tate Britain), held over from Cookham days to be shown in 1892 and when Noon in the Hayfield was finally resumed five years later, Clausen had been elected Associate of the Royal Academy by a popular vote.16\nOther attempts to regain the heights of Noon in the Hayfield were less successful. Summer in the Fields (Private Collection), begun in 1898, remained unresolved and a similar setting, revisited in In the Apple Orchard (private collection), was designed as a companion-piece showing a boy with a basket of windfalls.17 However, Clausen's long gestation of the resting haymaker had, for all its suave naturalism, resulted in one of his most rigorously taut and deeply pondered compositions and rest, reverie and the sunlit glow of field and wild flowers combine to produce one of the most satisfying visions of the English countryside at the end of the nineteenth century.18\nWe are grateful to Professor Kenneth McConkey for his assistance in cataloguing this lot.\n1 Kenneth McConkey, Sir George Clausen RA, 1852-1944, 1980 (exhibition catalogue, Bradford, Bristol, Royal Academy and Newcastle Museums), p. 67, no. 76; Kenneth McConkey, George Clausen and the Picture of English Rural Life, Edinburgh, 2012, pp.121-2.\n2 See Kenneth McConkey, 'Un petit cercle de thurif\u00e9raires \u2013 Bastine-Lepage et la Grande Bretagne', 48/14 La Revue du Mus\u00e9e d'Orsay, Printemps, 2017, pp. 20-33.\n4 A pastel, Study of a young girl leaning against a tree, clearly dated 1891, and closely related to this work, was sold Christie's, 13 December 2012. Throughout this fertile period, Clausen's sketchbooks were filled with studies. A figure ranged to the left on one page would be turned to the right on another. He obtained brown paper sketchbooks in which to work directly in chalk and his handling of paint becomes more urgent.\n5 Pamela Horn, The Victorian Country Child, 1985, AlanSutton, pp. 86-91.\n6 Arthur O Cooke, The Farmer's Fields, n.d., c. 1905, pp. 49-57.\n7 See for instance The Mowers, 1891, Usher Gallery, Lincoln.\n8 Henry Williamson, The Lone Swallows and Other Essays of Boyhood and Youth, 1933, quoted in Eileen Buckle and Derek Lord, In the Country, 250 years of country life in paintings, prose and poetry, 1979, p. 84. This account, originally written in 1920, is one of many contemporary descriptions of a process that had remained unchanged for centuries. If rain was expected, hay-wakes would be placed under trees, as in the outline drawing.\n9 This may have been intended as a cartoon since it differs markedly in style to Clausen's other drawings of the period.\n10 A bigger house was also required, as he and his wife, Agnes Mary Clausen, now had five children.\n11 McConkey, 2012, p. 101.\n12 McConkey, 2012, p. 108; McConkey (catalogue), 1980, p. 36.\n13 We know that Clausen was reviewing these earlier studies because in 1896 he gave A Village Girl (Rose Grimsdale), c. 1889-90, to his friend R Crafton Green; See McConkey catalogue 2012, p. 28, no 11.\n14 The high colour key derived from pastel, reveals the degree to which new attitudes were informing Clausen's technique in all media. It is however impossible today to know precisely when these changes were made, but in every case, they clearly strengthen the composition.\n15 McConkey 2012, p. 91, note 106.\n16 McConkey 2012, pp. 111-2, At this point Clausen was hosting the painter-prince, Eugen of Sweden. He had also terminated his contract with the Goupil Gallery and a gap occurs in his accounts. The early provenance of Noon in the Hayfield thus remains obscure, although it has long been assumed that it travelled soon after completion to a collection in the United States.\n17 McConkey, 2012, p. 122, fig 198; In the Orchard, although treated more summarily than that in the present picture, was perhaps designed as a companion piece.\n18 Little is known of the picture's early provenance. Clausen's contract with Goupil and Co, his dealer up to this point, had come to an end and a gap in his accounts at this point may suggest that the painting was sent abroad for exhibition and sale.\nGo to 19th Century Paintings\nSpecialist - 19th Century Paintings\nWorkTel: + +44 207 468 8232\nEmma.Gordon@bonhams.com", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00240.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 142, + "original_length": 14997, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.97, + "perplexity": 315.7, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "https://www.bonhams.com/auctions/24634/lot/124/", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T03:34:20Z", + "digest": "sha1:QWHLFPYXLXKQTMGNJRV5MMY4T45ZM6EK", + "length": 1723, + "nlines": 7, + "source_domain": "www.bonhams.com", + "title": "Bonhams : POPPLE (HENRY) A Map of the British Empire in America, with the French and Spanish Settlements Adjacent Thereto, 1733 [but c.1735]", + "raw_content": "POPPLE (HENRY)\nA Map of the British Empire in America, with the French and Spanish Settlements Adjacent Thereto, 1733 [but c.1735]\nFine Books, Manuscripts, Atlases & Historical Photographs\nA Map of the British Empire in America, with the French and Spanish Settlements Adjacent Thereto, 20 engraved sheets (15 double-page, 5 single) engraved by William Henry Toms, 22 inset views and plans, sheets numbered (1-20) in upper right margin, with letterpress index sheet, but without keymap, all on stubs, some light spotting, contemporary marbled boards, rebacked and recornered [Babinski Henry Popple's 1733 Map; Cumming, The Southeast in Early Maps 216, 217; Degrees of Latitude 24], folio (525 x 370mm.), 1733 [but c.1735]\nThe first large scale map of North America to show the thirteen colonies, depicting the extent of the British, French, and Spanish colonial possessions. The map was produced by Popple under the auspices of the Lord Commissioners of Trade and Plantations to help settle boundary disputes arising from the claims of the rival colonial powers.\nThis copy is in Babinski's state 6: the imprint on sheet 20 reads \"London Engrav'd by Willm. Henry Toms 1733\" (i.e. without R. W. Searle's name), sheet one includes the engraved figure \"l\" in the upper left corner just above the intersection of the two neat lines and engraved sheet numbers have been added to the upper right corners of each sheet.\nProvenance: Anonymous early armorial bookplate, Barnston with Owen in pretence for Trafford Barnston (1708-1771) who married in 1735 Laetitia Owen of Condover; by family tradition by descent to the present owner, from her great-great-grandfather Samuel Lord, of New York's Lord and Taylor department store fame.", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00240.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 107, + "original_length": 5250, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.91, + "perplexity": 337.3, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "https://www.bookseriesinorder.com/baby-for-the-billionaire/", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T03:43:42Z", + "digest": "sha1:LCKPTVMP3AOGHAR5TA4GICCE3IHTIWQT", + "length": 6970, + "nlines": 13, + "source_domain": "www.bookseriesinorder.com", + "title": "Baby for the Billionaire - Book Series In Order", + "raw_content": "Baby for the Billionaire Books In Order\nPublication Order of Baby For The Billionaire Books\nThe Tycoon's Revenge (2012) Hardcover Paperback Kindle\nThe Tycoon's Vacation (2012) Hardcover Paperback Kindle\nThe Tycoon's Proposal (2012) Hardcover Paperback Kindle\nThe Tycoon's Secret (2013) Hardcover Paperback Kindle\nThe Lost Tycoon (2014) Hardcover Paperback Kindle\nThe Baby for the Billionaire series is a well known book series of contemporary and romance novels. It is penned by a NY Times bestselling American novelist named Melody Anne. Altogether there are 5 books in this series, which were released between the years 2011 and 2014. Each book of the series depicts a different set of main characters, who portray the roles of romantic couples. Author Melody Anne is highly popular for her romance books. She has written a number of successful books based on this genre. In addition to this, she has also tried her hand at young adult books and has penned a complete series on this. Melody has seen her share of struggle while trying to make it big in the writing field. Her aspiration to make a published author enabled her to continue writing for many years before she became successful in publishing her debut novel in 2011. Author Melody is highly attached to the world of corporate and businessmen as she is the holder of a business management bachelor degree. She says that she likes to write about powerful and strong businessmen. When she is not busy with her writing works, Melody likes to spend her time with her friends and family. She also spends an ample amount of time in the company of her pets. Melody considers herself to be a country girl with a big heart.\nShe has a liking for strong communities and small towns. In fact, she loves her own town very much. Author Melody keeps herself busy with numerous community projects. As of this day, Melody has to her name more than 7 million sales of books. Her excellency is describing romance stories has helped her to earn a place on multiple bestseller lists. Some of the most popular literary journals in which she has been listed as a top writer include WSJ, USA Today, New York Times. Meldoy has remained among the top 100 best authors on amazon continuously for three years. She is even a bestseller in iBooks and Kobo. Melody Anne loves to get the chance of doing whatever makes her happy. She believes that she remains in her own fantasy world for most of the time. Melody has developed a personal website where she keeps posting about the latest happenings in her life and career. Also, she gives updates about the upcoming releases of her books to her readers. The debut book of the Baby for the Billionaire book series written by Melody Anne is entitled \u2018The Tycoon\u2019s Revenge\u2019. It was released by the Gossamer Publishing in the year 2013, after its first release in 2011. Author Melody has mentioned the chief characters in this book as Amy, Ryan Titan, Chuck, Derek Titan, Drew Titan, Daniel, Tital, Jacob Freeman, Jasmine Freeman, etc. At the start of the book\u2019s story, it is shown that the world of Jasmine Freeman is about to experience a fall. She blames the person responsible for this situation of hers is no other person than Derek Titan, who was the first love of her life.\nThe two have not met each other for the last 10 years, but they are about cross paths and learn what had actually happened a decade ago that had forced them to part ways. Jasmine Freeman always lived her life as a rich girl, who did not have to worry about anything. She even remained oblivious to all the destruction that her father brought to himself. Derek Titan, on the other hand, could barely earn his livelihood. He belonged to a poor background and was very modest and humble in whatever he did. After years of living separately, the lives of these two get reversed. Derek Titan worked very hard and turned himself into a multi-millionaire. Jasmine too worked hard in life, but she was not able to achieve anything because of the ill business practices of her dad. Derek Titan enters into the life of Jasmine Freeman again and wishes to take revenge from her for the way she treated him because of his poor status. But, he discovers that he is the father of 10 year old son. His anger for Jasmine vanishes immediately and thinks what a fool he was to have ill feelings for the woman brought up their son single-handedly. Once again, they indulge in a fight, but this time it is for the passion that they still have for one another. They both realize that they cannot stay away for any longer. So, they decide to patch up and give a new beginning to their lives. The journey of Jasmine and Derek seems very sad and inspiring as their love did not die in the 10 years of staying far from each other. Another very inspiring book written in this series is called \u2018The Tycoon\u2019s Vacation\u2019. This book was published by the Createspace Independent publication in 2012. The lead characters of this novel include Drew Titan, Trinity Mathews, Ryan Titan, Derek Titan, and a few others as well. At the beginning of the story of the book, it is depicted that Drew Titan is a wealthy man. He has a vast business empire and many exotic resorts to his one. On one fine day, he decides to go on a vacation at his an exotic resort of his own. There, he comes across Trinity Mathews during a surfing event and develops strong feelings for her. She too finds him handsome and sexy. They indulge in a hot and steamy romance throughout the seven-day vacation.\nLater, Trinity Mathews learns that Drew is the owner of the resort and has lied to get close to her. She had promised herself that she is not going to indulge in any kind of a relationship with businessmen because she believed that they don\u2019t know how to remain faithful to a woman. Trinity wanted to get over her previous relationship\u2019s fallout with a businessman and had come to the resort to have some peaceful time alone. So, she becomes very angry with Drew for lying to her and heads back home. After some time, Trinity Mathews discovers she has become pregnant with Drew\u2019s child and thinks that she has committed a huge mistake. When Drew Titan is informed about this, she comes rushing to Trinity and promises to support her in such tough times. He even promises to marry her and becomes adamant to not leave until she agrees.\nAnd when Trinity finally accepts Drew\u2019s proposal, they end up having a good time together. They spend the rest of their lives full of passion, love, and care for the other. This novel seems to have all the elements of a good romance story. There are also humorous elements in the form of Drew Titan\u2019s cousins named Ryan and Derek. The readers found the story very interesting and remained indulged in its excitement until the climax. Author Melody is requested to come up with many more such stories in the future and the readers are waiting eagerly for her next project.\nBook Series In Order \u00bb Characters \u00bb Baby for the Billionaire", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00240.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 68, + "original_length": 9768, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.98, + "perplexity": 236.7, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "https://www.bowlandmaths.org.uk/projects/my_music.html", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T03:47:53Z", + "digest": "sha1:PMD7GQ2ADVMGLFLUOSU673PR4VOVBYCS", + "length": 3218, + "nlines": 15, + "source_domain": "www.bowlandmaths.org.uk", + "title": "Classroom projects", + "raw_content": "The Case Study uses the interest that pupils have in music as a basis for mathematical investigations, using their own favourite music tracks as the raw data. Working in small groups, pupils listen to different tracks and analyse the similarities and differences between types of track and genres of music. They measure the tempos of the tracks and then consider other variables such as track length, album sales and the highest position or number of weeks in the charts. Pupils then interpret and present their results. They can also investigate trends in music over the years.\nThe work can be used as an introduction to statistical work, including: the collection of numerical data, performing basic statistical calculations, forming and testing hypotheses, making inferences about a population, and identifying potential sources of error in data collection and calculations. Although not essential, this project would work well as a cross-curricular project with the music department.\nDescribe the characteristics of different genres of music. Use the tempo of music and other variables to illustrate compound measures, eg beats per minute.\nKey processes - identify the mathematical aspects of a situation; simplify a situation in order to represent it mathematically, using appropriate variables; identify and classify patterns; interpret and analyse results, reflect on and communicate them.\nNumber and algebra - calculate and manipulate rational numbers; use and apply ratio and proportion.\nStatistics - apply the handling data cycle; measures of central tendency and spread.\nThe Case Study supports four hour-long lessons of classroom activity for Part 1. Computers or external audio devices (CD players, iPods, etc) with headphones are needed, at least one set between two pupils. An optional Part 2 requires one period of two hours and a greater use of ICT - pupils need to use audio editing software. A mixture of class, group and individual work is involved with some homework tasks. In the first lesson, teachers play music tracks to the class; in subsequent lessons, pupils listen to music in groups.\nThe Case Study includes:\nTeacher's Guide (PDF): A 31 page document that gives a detailed overview, lesson plans and worksheets. There are seven Student Sheets that can be printed in black and white to support pupil activities.\nStarter rhythm tracks (MP3).\nBPM data for various music tracks in Excel and OpenDorument formats.\nAudacity software: free software to play and edit audio files- versions for PC, Apple Mac (Intel) and Apple Mac (PPC) are included.\nThe documents and data files are supplied in both Microsoft Office (.doc, .xls) and OpenDocument (.odt, .ods) formats - the latter can be used with free office software such as OpenOffice, available from http://www.openoffice.org.\nFor Part 1 of the Case Study, pupils will need headphones and the means to play music CDs and/or mp3 music files. The teacher will also need a loudspeaker. Computers may be the easiest solution - but personal audio players could also be used.\nFor Part 2 of the Case Study (optional), each pair or small group will need a computer with sound output and headphones, loaded with audio playing software such as Audacity.", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00240.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 76, + "original_length": 4799, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.91, + "perplexity": 327.7, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "https://www.briantimoneyacting.co.uk/build-acting-confidence/", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T04:39:30Z", + "digest": "sha1:TIQCPZ5G355A7XQP5ZGT6PJCHAUYA6U5", + "length": 4789, + "nlines": 17, + "source_domain": "www.briantimoneyacting.co.uk", + "title": "How to Build Acting Confidence | Brian Timoney Method Actors\u2019 Studio", + "raw_content": "How to Build Acting Confidence\nConfidence is hugely important for an actor. You need to have a lot of self-belief if you\u2019re going to put yourself out there and find work, but even more fundamentally you need it when acting if you are going to convince others with your performance.\nWhile it\u2019s certainly true that some people seem more naturally confident than others, it\u2019s not just down to a mix of genetics and having the right upbringing! Whoever you are, no matter how naturally confident you feel, you can learn to believe in yourself as an actor if you take the right steps.\nPeople often say you have to \u201cfake it \u2018til you make it\u201d, but wouldn\u2019t you rather not have to fake it? This is very much the philosophy behind method acting \u2013 we don\u2019t want you to fake anything, we want you to learn how to unlock your potential and harness what\u2019s already inside you to create something real.\nThis is how you increase your confidence as an actor too. The goal is not to learn how to mimic what you imagine confidence looks like! We want you to put the work in to gain the skills and experience so you will feel genuinely confident in your abilities. After all, if you know you\u2019ve got the chops, why wouldn\u2019t you feel confident about it?\nFaking confidence (if you can pull it off) might well open a lot of doors for you, but when you\u2019re up on stage or in front of a camera, if that confidence isn\u2019t based on something real, it will soon show. Being exposed for a fraud won\u2019t do anything for your long term confidence, so make sure you really know what you\u2019re doing and your confidence will continue to grow with each success.\nThere\u2019s a reason the Scouts have \u201cbe prepared\u201d as their motto. They believe that if you always know \u201cthe right thing to do at the right moment\u201d you will be able to cope with any situation. This is the root of confidence \u2013 believing you can handle any situation you find yourself in. So how do you do that as an actor?\nPreparing for an audition or performance includes the obvious things, like learning your lines, researching your role and looking the part, but there\u2019s more to it than that. Method acting means learning how to produce genuine emotion on demand, so that whatever feelings you are required to portray as an actor, you know you can call them up when needed.\nHaving a repeatable process for doing this means you can deliver the goods every time and you\u2019re not leaving anything to chance. Method acting training teaches you how to develop that repeatable process so you can always be prepared for whatever is required of you as an actor.\nAll the training in the world will\u2026help you a lot, actually! But it\u2019s also important to get out there and get experience. Building confidence means having the courage to go outside your comfort zone and show yourself that you can not only survive out there, but thrive.\nFor an actor, this means getting out there and actually acting in front of people over and over until it no longer seems so scary. However nervous you might be before a performance, getting through it and to the applause at the end is guaranteed to help build your acting confidence.\nWhether you have to start small in local theatre productions or amateur short films or are lucky enough to get professional work right away it all helps. Putting yourself out there and doing it, succeeding and then doing it again is the way to build genuine self-belief that will help propel you to each next step in your career.\nCopy successful people and you\u2019ll have the confidence of knowing that what you\u2019re doing works. After all, if something works for Robert De Niro or Christian Bale, why wouldn\u2019t it work for you? Knowing you are using a winning formula is one of the surest ways to boost your self-confidence as an actor. And what is that winning formula? Why, method acting, of course!\n80% of Oscar winning actors this century have been method actors, which really ought to tell you something. And if they can do it, so can you! These Academy Award winners have provided a blueprint for acting success that you can learn to emulate. Do that and you\u2019ll be absolutely justified in believing you have the necessary skills to give a great performance. And once you know that, then guess what? Everyone else will be able to see it too!\nGaining confidence in yourself and your acting abilities certainly isn\u2019t an overnight job, but with the right help and the willingness to learn and apply yourself you can become as confident as anyone.\nLooking for a way to really build acting confidence? Why not apply for our 2016-17 Ultimate Acting Programme starting in October? The deadline for applications is 8th June and auctions are taking place on 15th June. Need to know more? Please feel free to get in touch with your questions.\nTags: acting, acting confidence", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00240.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 62, + "original_length": 6046, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.96, + "perplexity": 321.7, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "https://www.briantimoneyacting.co.uk/learning-take-direction/", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T04:09:22Z", + "digest": "sha1:7QBQJRZR43U5NUUHPFHOIYNXTRWZWCCQ", + "length": 7401, + "nlines": 22, + "source_domain": "www.briantimoneyacting.co.uk", + "title": "Learning to Take Direction: An Actor's Guide", + "raw_content": "It\u2019s one of the most important qualities you should have as an actor. No, not talent or a busy acting CV. It\u2019s the ability to listen, and take direction. All the talent in the world cannot save you once you\u2019ve built up a reputation for being difficult on set and argumentative with directors. So as someone new to the industry, it\u2019s important that you start your career on the right foot, which means, learning to take direction, and how to make yourself the sort of person a director wants to work with.\nLearning To Take Direction In The Audition Room\nThe audition room is your first chance to show just what kind of an actor you are. Having prepared your lines and decided on your character portrayal, you will be fully prepared to demonstrate your skills and ability to perform the role. However, at the end of your reading, the casting director will probably ask you to do something differently. Whether it\u2019s a different style of reading or movement, they will request that you try it again a slightly different way.\nYour first response may be to panic, but don\u2019t worry, they aren\u2019t asking you to read again because you\u2019ve made a mistake or you aren\u2019t right, (that feedback would be to show you the door). And their note may even sound like a bad idea, totally at odds with the way you perceive the character and how they would act. Don\u2019t let it throw you off, it is all in fact, a way of ascertaining if learning to take direction is something you can do, and how professionally you can deal with it.\nListen carefully to what they have to say, and take some time to think about it if you need to. Make sure you understand fully, and if you don\u2019t, gently enquire as to their meaning. Thank them for the note and then apply it to your performance. Once you\u2019ve finished the reading they may ask you to go, or ask you to try it again, but they are unlikely to tell you how well you\u2019ve done so don\u2019t expect it. Be grateful, graceful and leave the room confidently.\nBehaving in a calm and cooperative manner is the only way to succeed in an audition, since casting directors are looking for actors who understand the importance of learning to take direction and are able to apply it to a performance. A production is a collaboration between industry professionals- you need to show how great of a team-player you would be, and how well you would listen to the boss: the director.\nLearning To Take Direction In Rehearsals\nAs I discussed in my podcast \u2018How to Take Direction from a Director\u2019, you as actors are there for one reason: to fulfil the brief and create the director\u2019s vision. It can be easy to forget, since it may seem like you are at the centre of the production, but everything that happens on stage or set is down to the director, and they are the person in charge.\nAs part of being in control of everything and everyone, the director is usually kept pretty busy, dealing with everything related to the project, from set design to performance. As a result, a director needs their actors to be professional and easy to work with. This means, if they give you a note, you need to accept it and change your performance without argument. You may have viewed the character differently, and the note may seem like a terrible idea to you, but arguing will only cause more stress to the director, and potential harm to your career. The director is the one with the bigger picture in mind- you must trust in their vision and work with their direction.\nWhen it comes to notes, the director will often do a \u2018notes session\u2019 at the end of the rehearsal day. This is a quick way for the director to summarise their thoughts and voice any concerns to the cast as a whole. However it is important to remember that you DO NOT want to be included in this list of notes. Being left out doesn\u2019t mean you\u2019ve been forgotten, it means you\u2019re doing a good job! It also means you shouldn\u2019t pester the director for feedback or advice. Keep doing what you\u2019re doing- they will tell you if there\u2019s a problem.\nOften one of the most irritating problems the director has to deal with is the one or two actors who are intent on arguing and bringing down the energy of a production. They disagree with notes, pick holes in the story and criticise the director to their cast mates. They don\u2019t take direction well and cause trouble in rehearsals. This behaviour is not only unprofessional, but it has the power to really damage a project. These actors are the ones that don\u2019t get rehired, and often wonder why. If you want to survive in the industry, you need to bring positivity into every project you collaborate on. It will make people want to work with you time and time again.\nLearning To Take Direction When Meeting Managers Or Agents\nA manager or agent, particularly one that is seriously considering representing you, will probably give you some critique when you meet them. This is not because they want to put you down, but because they have experience in the industry, and therefore have a pretty good idea of how you can improve as an actor. Much like the importance of learning to take and work with direction in an audition or rehearsal room, dealing well with criticism as an actor is an incredibly important and useful skill to have. You should:\nListen to the Criticism: Don\u2019t argue or justify yourself, just take it in and stay quiet\nEvaluate what they\u2019ve said: Ask yourself, is it true? Perhaps ask a friend what they think\nAccept and learn from it: If it does ring true, be grateful that you are aware of it and understand you need to work on it\nMake changes: Act on what has been said. Whatever it is, headshots or a reason you won\u2019t be suitable for representation, work on it knowing you will become a better and more successful actor as a result\nDon\u2019t Forget: Everybody Talks\nDirectors, casting directors, agents and managers talk to each other, some might even be friends. If you fall foul of one you can bet you won\u2019t be hired or represented by the other. Everyone in the industry talks and many do their best to help out productions by recommending or condemning actors to their colleagues and friends. And since the very nature of the performance industry means getting to know a lot of different people over a relatively short space of time, news about a particularly difficult actor travels fast.\nFor this reason it is vitally important that, as someone new to the business, you do all you can to forge yourself a sterling reputation. Critical to this is your ability to listen well and learning take direction without question or difficulty. That\u2019s not to say that it\u2019s always inappropriate to voice your opinion about something, in a workshop, for example, where you are collaborating on a project and developing it, you would be expected to give your view. But generally, in audition or formal rehearsal, the director expects to have the last word.\nGreat Performers start with Great Education\nEntering the acting profession is tough, with so much to learn and so much etiquette to follow. When casting the first thing a casting director will look at is where you trained, and then look to see if they know any of the directors you\u2019ve worked with in the past. My Ultimate Acting Programme with it\u2019s directed Showcase at the end is the perfect start for anyone\u2019s career. We are a trusted name in the industry, and one constantly approached for information on actors we\u2019ve worked with in the past.", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00240.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 64, + "original_length": 8612, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.97, + "perplexity": 253.8, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "https://www.brit.co/dakota-johnson-addresses-pregnancy-rumors/", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T03:44:55Z", + "digest": "sha1:GL4AZFOLOWEPW7F7IK26SYRLQMNOGTZV", + "length": 2132, + "nlines": 10, + "source_domain": "www.brit.co", + "title": "Dakota Johnson Shuts Down Rumors That She's Pregnant and Expecting a Baby with Chris Martin | Brit + Co", + "raw_content": "Dakota Johnson Shuts Down Rumors That She\u2019s Pregnant and Expecting a Baby With Chris Martin\nDakota Johnson has a busy fall lined up on the big screen, with starring roles in both Suspiria and Bad Times at the El Royale, but the actress made headlines for a totally different reason earlier this week. It was reported that she was pregnant and expecting her first child with boyfriend Chris Martin, and on Thursday, October 11, the actress addressed the rumors on The Ellen DeGeneres Show.\nWelcoming Johnson to the stage, DeGeneres joked, \u201cThat is a mighty tight outfit for someone who\u2019s pregnant. \u2026 Monday it came out that you were pregnant, so, I\u2019m just saying. How\u2019s that going?\u201d\n\u201cWell, the only thing I\u2019m pregnant with is a lot of really good ideas,\u201d Johnson replied dryly. \u201cBut not any babies.\u201d\nThe pregnancy speculation stemmed from what Johnson and her rep said was a birthday party held for the actress at Martin\u2019s home. TMZ first reported the gathering as a star-studded gender reveal party, noting that pink and blue balloons were tied to archways, and that the string of blue balloons was released into the air, indicating that the couple were having a boy.\n\u201cI didn\u2019t know that the balloons were going to be released; they were just in an arch,\u201d Johnson told DeGeneres. \u201cBut I guess that accidentally happened \u2014 one of the ends got let go. But a lot of people congratulated me,\u201d she said of the false news.\nJohnson also joked that the baby rumor made for some awkward times in a totally unexpected way. \u201cI had to be like, \u2018It was just my birthday.\u2019 Then all the people I didn\u2019t invite to my birthday knew that I had a birthday party.\u201d\nJohnson and Martin were first linked in late 2017 when they were spotted together on several occasions. In December, it was reported that the pair were indeed dating. Neither has spoken publicly about their reported romance, including during Johnson\u2019s appearance on Ellen, during which the actress was careful to address the Coldplay frontman only indirectly.\nDid you follow the whirlwind Dakota Johnson pregnancy rumors? 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Other concessions also are held by Japanese companies.", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00240.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 63, + "original_length": 1433, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.96, + "perplexity": 209.8, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "https://www.brixworthfarming.co.uk/about-us/people/", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T04:26:42Z", + "digest": "sha1:4RDJ4EOCHUEZRRSESHP3ZKLYKZRGT54B", + "length": 7961, + "nlines": 31, + "source_domain": "www.brixworthfarming.co.uk", + "title": "Our People - Brixworth Farming", + "raw_content": "Brixworth Farming is led by an experienced board of directors who work part time in the business, and the company is headed by an independent chairman. We have a small operations team who are supported by an agronomist and our finance and administration team.\nBrixworth Farming Board of Directors\nLindsay Hargreaves\nLindsay is our Independent Chairman. His role is to challenge Management and to ensure good governance of the business. He graduated from Wye College, University of London and has over 30 years experience of practical farming, working with a wide range of crops and livestock and has always taken an innovative approach to business structure and development. He has recently taken on the role of Managing Director for Frederick Hiam Ltd., a family farming business in East Anglia. He received an Award in Business and Leadership, from the School of Management, Cranfield University, in 2010. He was awarded Fellowship of the Institute of Agricultural Management in 2008 and made a Fellow of the Royal Agricultural Societies in 2013.\nNon-Executive Shareholder Director\nHugh Lowther is the third generation of the Lowther family to own and manage the 1250-acre farm in Guilsborough. Hugh learnt to farm at the Northamptonshire and Leicestershire College of Agriculture and has diversified the farm to include arable and sheep farming, as well as a pet crematorium, point to point course, fishing pond, rented cottages and a solar farm. He joined Brixworth Farming in 2001.\nAlastair Macdonald-Buchanan\nAlastair Macdonald-Buchanan owns the Cottesbrooke Estate in Northamptonshire. A traditional estate, which not only has a significant property portfolio, but also around 1000 hectares of arable land, as well as grassland and woodland. At its heart is Cottesbrooke Hall, a grade 1 listed Queen Anne house. Alastair is a founder shareholder of Agrivert, a leading renewables business focussing on anaerobic digestion. Founded in 1995, Agrivert now has digesters throughout the South of England and Wales. He is a director of The Jockey Club Estates, The Jockey Club\u2019s property and land management arm based in Newmarket, responsible for more than 5000 acres of land including the training grounds at Newmarket and Lambourn and a substantial property portfolio. He lives at Cottesbrooke with his wife Sheran and his four children.\nCharles Matts\nCharles gained a BSc in agriculture at Reading University before returning to the family farm at Creaton, where he now farms in partnership with his brother John, son Ian and nephew George. He is a founding Director of Brixworth Farming and is responsible for managing the business and its relationship with clients. He is BASIS and FACTS qualified, a former member of AHDB Cereals and Oilseeds Board (formerly HGCA) and was founding chairman of the Joint Venture Farming Group aimed at helping others by benchmarking labour and machinery costs. He is a founding trustee of the Farm Safety Foundation and also of the National Land Based College. He is a keen gardener and runner. He was a finalist in the 2015 Farmers Weekly Arable Farmer of the Year Award.\nTom Saunders is a third generation tenant farmer, who farms at Manor Farm, Hanging Houghton and was a founder director of Brixworth Farming in 2000. He grew up with livestock farming, but now farms entirely arable. He\u2019s always had an interest in mechanisation and mechanics, and was until 2015 Operations Manager for Brixworth Farming. Tom has stepped back from day-to-day management to persue other interests but still provides strategic support.\nRichard Turney was educated at Shuttleworth College of agriculture and was a founder director of Brixworth Farming in 2000. He farms at Park Farm in Brixworth in partnership with his wife Mo and son Mark, who is now the fourth generation tenant. Farming 620 acres tenanted and share farming, mostly arable, Richard also has a 200-head dairy heifer rearing unit and various diversification enterprises, including a pre-school nursery school. Richard provides valuable support to the operations team at busy times.\nArable Director\nAfter graduating with a BSc in Agriculture from Newcastle University, Ian joined Yara (UK) in 2005, where he held the post of Company Agronomist until June 2016. Ian was appointed to the Board as Arable Director in May 2016 and is responsible for delivering the arable farming. He is BASIS and FACTS certified and is keen to see best use of precision farming, combined with careful variety selection and input use to deliver optimum sustainable economic yields.\nBrixworth Farming Operations Team\nArable Foreman\nRichard (Nobby) gained a diploma in agriculture at Moulton College. He joined Brixworth Farming from founding shareholder W F Saunders & Partners in 2000 and has been an integral part of Brixworth Farming ever since. Promoted to Arable Foreman in 2017, Nobby is responsible for ensuring all operations take place in a timely way. He is married to Jennifer and has two young sons.\nTim Cleaver\nArable Operator\nTim joined us last year for seasonal work whilst he was studying, as a mature student, at Moulton College, after a period of employment with Farmcare. He joined the team on a full-time basis in May 2017 as head sprayer operator, driving one of our two Bateman RB35 self propelled sprayers and managing the workload of both.\nBarnaby Esse\nBarnaby joined us for the harvest in summer 2017 after graduating from Harper Adams University. After harvest he was taken on on a full time basis as Arable Operator to cover the spraying and drilling operations. He is from a farming background in Norfolk and has a very keen interest in precision farming. In his spare time Barnaby enjoys playing hockey, shooting and skiing (during the quieter months\u2026)\nJonathan joined Brixworth Farming in spring 2018 from JAJ Sawbridge where he worked for 6 years. Jonathan\u2019s role will be to lead the harvest team in the summer and fertiliser operations in the spring. Jonathan\u2019s background is in gamekeeping and as a result his knowledge will useful for the ever increasing stewardship and game requirements of our customers. In his spare time he enjoys fishing (Game and Course), cycling, skiing & photography.\nOperator (Part-Time)\nMark Turney farms at Park Farm, Brixworth in partnership with his father, Richard. After graduating from Harper Adams University, Mark worked in the construction industry and gained an additional qualification in carpentry before returning to the family farm. As well as providing hands-on operations support, Mark is second sprayer operator for Brixworth Farming. He is married with four children.\nJulie Blason\nJulie Blason joined Brixworth Farming in 2001 and is responsible for the company\u2019s financial management, including sales/purchase ledger, payroll, VAT, monitoring of cash flow and budget. Julie prepares the annual accounts and finance reports for monthly meetings and is responsible for inputting and reconciliation of all crop records. In her free time, Julie enjoys socialising with friends and is a season ticket holder at Northampton Saints Rugby Football Club.\nAccounts Administrator (Part-Time)\nSarah Harris is a self employed bookkeeper providing part time assistance to Julie in managing the day-to-day book keeping and accounts administration, inputting data for The Joint Venture Farming group and AHDB\u2019s CropBench plus benchmarking programs, and general office duties. 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The exhibition is a precursor to a series of shows to celebrate the artist\u2019s 80th birthday in 2018.\nProviding a unique opportunity to consider the breadth and range of Tillyer\u2019s oeuvre, the exhibition will focus on the last forty years of his practice with over 40 works painted between 1977 and 2016. He has worked primarily in acrylic and watercolour, besides making constructions, prints and drawings.\nThroughout his sixty year career, writers and critics have paid attention to William Tillyer\u2019s powerful interpretations of the landscape, yet no single category can convey the multiplicity of his work and ideas. 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Or do you have a question for us?\nSimply complete the contact form and we will respond to your message as soon as possible.", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00240.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 72, + "original_length": 1282, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.97, + "perplexity": 316.4, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "https://www.bsp.lu/publications/newsletters-legal-alerts/vat-letting-building-qualifies-involvment-management", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T05:08:01Z", + "digest": "sha1:H7EBUMSRYLNE26BKGQRVYJW5PV4UAYAC", + "length": 3261, + "nlines": 5, + "source_domain": "www.bsp.lu", + "title": "Vat Letting of a Building Qualifies as Involvment in management of Subsidiary | BSP", + "raw_content": "Vat Letting of a Building Qualifies as Involvment in management of Subsidiary\nOn July 5th 2018, the Court of Justice of the European Union (the \u201cECJ\u201d) handed down an important ruling, clarifying that the letting of a building, by a holding company to its subsidiary, amounts to \u2018involvement in the management\u2019 of that subsidiary, which must be considered to be an economic activity, within the meaning of the Council Directive 2006/112/EC of November 28th 2006 on the common system of value added tax (the \u201cVAT Directive\u201d).\nIn the case at hand, a French limited liability company, Marle Participations S.\u00e0 r.l., acquired and sold shares in the context of a group restructuring and deducted in full the VAT charged on various expenditures relating to said operations. The French tax authorities however denied the deduction on the ground that the expenditures contributed to the implementation of capital transactions which fall outside the scope of the right of input VAT deduction.\nThe ECJ recalled that, while the mere acquisition and holding of shares in a subsidiary is not to be regarded as an economic activity conferring on the holder the status of a taxable person, and potentially entitling it to deduct input VAT, the position will be otherwise where the holding is accompanied by direct or indirect involvement in the management of the subsidiary, through the carrying out of transactions subject to VAT, such as the supply to those companies of administrative, accounting, financial, commercial, information technology and technical services.\nAccording to the ECJ, there is no exhaustive list of services qualifying as \u2018involvement of a holding company in the management of its subsidiary\u2019. 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Well, you are not alone. There are many out there suffering from this condition. It can often make you socially awkward and can be of great concern if it is due to an underlying medical condition. If you have been on the lookout for some natural ways to treat this issue, you are in the right place. Continue reading to know more about hand tremors and how to treat them.\nWhat Are Hand Tremors?\nSigns And Symptoms Of Shaky Hands\nCauses Of And Risk Factors For Hand Tremors\nDiagnosis For Hand Tremors\nHow To Get Rid Of Shaky Hands Naturally\nBest Foods For Hand Tremors\nAn unintentional rhythmic movement of any of your body parts is referred to as a tremor. Hand tremors are when your hands keep shaking or trembling continuously. They can occur due to problems with the functioning of the parts of your brain that control movement.\nShaky hands can occur alone or be accompanied by tremors or neurological disturbances in other body parts. Let\u2019s look at the symptoms of this condition.\nThe most common signs and symptoms of shaky hands include:\nRhythmic shaking of your hands\nShaky voice\nProblem in holding or controlling objects (especially utensils)\nAlthough many believe that the root cause of hand tremors is Parkinson\u2019s disease, the most common cause is an essential tremor. The following section speaks about the causes of and risk factors for hand tremors.\nEssential tremor is one of the most common causes of neurological disorders like hand tremors. It is thought to be caused by a disruption in the normal functioning of the cerebellum.\nOther causes of shaky hands include:\nFactors that increase your risk of developing shaky hands are:\nOverdose of caffeine\nA family history of essential tremor\nExtremely hot or cold climate\nIt is best to get yourself diagnosed to rule out other possibilities. Given below are some of the basic tests used to diagnose shaky hands.\nMost often, doctors diagnose shaky hands by observing the tremors to rule out other causes. Another test includes\nan imaging test (CT or MRI scan) to determine if any underlying medical condition is causing the condition.\nOnce you are diagnosed with hand tremors, your doctor may prescribe medications, such as beta blockers and anti-seizure and anti-anxiety drugs, to treat your condition.\nIndividuals with an advanced tremor may be suggested to opt for surgeries such as:\nDeep Brain Stimulation:\nIt involves placing an electrode in your brain to interfere with the activity of your brain that is responsible for causing tremors.\nThalamotomy:\nThis procedure involves making a small lesion in the thalamus of your brain to reduce the tremor.\nIf you do not want to go through a medical procedure for treating your condition, we have something that might interest you. Listed below are some excellent home remedies that can help you achieve relief from hand tremors in the most natural way possible.\nHome Remedies To Stop Hand Tremors\na. Lavender Oil\nAdd three drops of lavender oil to a diffuser filled with water.\nInhale the diffused aromatic air.\nAlternatively, you can add about 10 to 15 drops of lavender oil to your bath and soak in it for 20 to 30 minutes.\nAromatherapy helps a lot when it comes to treating nervous disorders, such as shaky hands. Lavender oil exhibits powerful properties that relieve stress and anxiety, which can also help treat hand tremors (1), (2).\nb. Chamomile Oil\nAdd three drops of chamomile oil to a diffuser filled with water.\nInhale the diffused chamomile aroma.\nLike lavender oil, chamomile essential oil is also capable of relieving issues like shaky hands, which are related to stress and anxiety. The oil can also alleviate depression (3), (4).\nIn some cases, deficiencies in certain vitamins can also cause tremors.\nVitamin B12, also called cobalamin, is needed to maintain healthy nerves, and a deficiency in it can lead to a breakdown of the protective cell coating required for proper nerve functioning (5).\nAnother vitamin that helps treat shaky hands is vitamin B1, whose deficiency can lead to nerve damage and a condition called beriberi, which, in turn, puts you at a higher risk of developing shaky hands (6).\nThe antioxidant vitamin E can also help in the treatment of Parkinson\u2019s disease, a major cause of hand tremors (7).\nYou can consume foods like cheese, milk, eggs, lentils, sprouts, sunflower seeds, and hazelnuts to get the required amounts of these vitamins via your diet.\n1-2 teaspoons of virgin coconut oil\nBegin by consuming a teaspoon of coconut oil per day.\nGradually, start consuming two teaspoons of it daily.\nThe medium-chain fatty acids present in coconut oil exhibit antidepressant and anti-stress activities (8). The oil also helps with tremors and other symptoms associated with Parkinson\u2019s disease, which is one of the leading causes of hand tremors (9).\nAdd two teaspoons of apple cider vinegar to a glass of warm water and stir well.\nYou must drink this at least once daily.\nAlthough there is no direct scientific evidence that supports the use of apple cider vinegar (ACV) for treating hand tremors, many individuals swear by it. It is believed that a compound called pectin in ACV alleviates the tremor symptoms.\nLemon balm (as required)\nYou can add lemon balm to your favorite salads, teas, and other dishes.\nYou can also replace lemon peel with lemon balm for enhanced flavoring as well as benefits.\nLemon balm is another wonderful remedy to treat shaky hands. It can help soothe your brain cells and reduce anxiety and depression, which may be responsible for hand tremors (10).\n1 teaspoon of chamomile tea\nAdd a teaspoon of chamomile tea to a cup of water.\nBring this to a boil in a saucepan and simmer.\nStrain and wait for the tea to cool a little before adding a little honey.\nChamomile tea has a calming effect on the nerves and can help relieve stress, anxiety, and depression. This, in turn, can help in treating shaky hands (11).\n1-2 teaspoons of passionflower tea\nAdd one to two teaspoons of passionflower tea to a cup of water.\nBring it to a boil in a saucepan and strain.\nWhen the tea cools down a little, add honey to it.\nYou must drink this at least twice daily.\nPassionflower (Passiflora) is an excellent remedy for treating hand tremors. It can help relieve stress and anxiety in the body, which, in turn, can soothe your nervous system (12).\n2 tablespoons of kava powder\n1 glass of juice, water, or milk\nAdd two tablespoons of kava powder to a glass of water.\nMix well and consume.\nYou must take this once daily for a few weeks to notice the difference.\nKava is a popular herbal remedy that calms your nerves, relieves anxiety, and promotes sleep (13). It can also help relieve hand tremors.\n9. Corydalis\n2-3 teaspoons of dried corydalis root\nBring two to three teaspoons of corydalis root to a boil in a saucepan.\nWhen it cools down a bit, add honey to it and consume.\nA corydalis compound was observed to exhibit anxiolytic activities and decrease motor movements (14). Both these properties are beneficial for individuals suffering from shaky hands.\nYou must also consider making some basic changes to your diet while following these remedies for better effectiveness.\nFollowing a Mediterranean diet is one of the best ways to deal with hand tremors.\nA Mediterranean diet consists of foods like:\nFresh and unprocessed foods like fruits and vegetables\nWhile you can consume all these foods in moderation, you must avoid foods like butter, red meat, and salt.\nYou must also follow these tips to prevent the recurrence of this condition.\nStop intake of caffeine.\nGive up smoking.\nReduce or avoid alcohol intake.\nCheck the medications you are taking to find out if they are causing the tremors.\nKeep a check on your blood sugar levels.\nPractice yoga and meditation to relieve stress and anxiety.\nSince hand tremors can interfere with your day to day life, it is best to try and gain control over them at the earliest. The remedies and tips provided in this post can help you do just that. However, if the tremors are getting out of control, it is best to seek medical attention.\nDo share your thoughts about this article in the comments section below.\nThe post Hand Tremors \u2013 Symptoms, Causes, And Natural Treatments appeared first on STYLECRAZE.\nPosted by: admin // Articles, Home Remedies // 1000, 500, awesome, Burn, burn 1000 calories in 30 minutes, burn 500 calories a day, burn 500 calories at the gym, burn 500 calories in 30 minutes at home, burn 500 calories running, burn 500 calories walking, burn calories at home // July 10, 2018\n\u2190 burn 500+ calories yoga routine\u2026 Top 10 Exercises for women with rheumatoid arthritis\u2026 \u2192", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00240.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 258, + "original_length": 109817, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.92, + "perplexity": 328.3, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "https://www.businessinsider.com.au/david-davis-says-the-uk-will-stay-aligned-to-eu-trade-rules-after-brexit-2017-12", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T03:54:25Z", + "digest": "sha1:KGWKOMGOY4R257G35MH3BV4E4Z2HFHMF", + "length": 3219, + "nlines": 23, + "source_domain": "www.businessinsider.com.au", + "title": "David Davis says the UK will stay 'aligned' to EU trade rules after Brexit | Business Insider", + "raw_content": "David Davis says the UK will stay 'aligned' to EU trade rules after Brexit\nJack Taylor/Getty ImagesBrexit Secretary David Davis\nBrexit Secretary David Davis told MPs that the government is aiming for \u201calignment\u201d with the EU after Brexit.\nIt follows talks over the Irish border failing after the DUP vetoed proposals for Northern Ireland to have \u201cregulatory alignment\u201d with the EU.\nIrish Taoiseach Leo Varadkar says \u201cthe ball is in London\u2019s court.\u201d\nLONDON \u2013 The Brexit secretary has said that the government is aiming for the UK to still have \u201calignment\u201d with the European Union after Brexit.\nSpeaking in the House of Commons, David Davis told MPs: \u201cAlignment isn\u2019t harmonisation, it isn\u2019t having exactly the same rules, it\u2019s sometimes having mutually recognised rules, mutually recognised inspections, that sort of thing. 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With that said, bwfc.co.uk have produced five things to take into this midweek evening clash.\nDuring Monday\u2019s press conference in preview on the Sheffield Wednesday away clash, manager Phil Parkinson spoke to bwfc.co.uk and gave an update on the squad.\nParkinson said: \u201cWe have picked up a few bumps and bruises from the last game.\u201d\n\u201cWill Buckley and Josh Magennis in particular picked up knocks but fortunately we took them off at the right times.\n\u201cWe will take a big squad with us tomorrow afternoon and pick the team accordingly.\u201d\nIn March 2018, Wanderers visited Hillsborough as Phil Parkinson\u2019s men took on Wednesday and on 78 minutes, George Boyd looked to have won it for Jos Luhukay\u2019s side.\nHowever in stoppage time, step forward Aaron Wilbraham to earn a point for the Whites!\nJos Luhukay took over the role as Wednesday boss in January 2018, replacing Carlos Carvalhal and becoming the Owls\u2019 33rd manager in the entire club\u2019s history.\nFollowing a ten-year playing career in Germany and his native Holland, Luhukay took over as SV Straelen boss just a month after retiring.\nIt wasn\u2019t until 2007, when he was managing Borussia Monchengladbach, that he earned his first managerial honour by with the 2. 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He performed duties as graduate assistant athletic trainer at University of the Pacific in Stockton, Calif., and was awarded his master's degree in Sports Medicine at U.O.P. in 1989. Thornton was then hired as assistant athletic trainer in the fall of 1989 and remained in that position until accepting a job as head athletic trainer/director of athletic training services at Clarion University of Pennsylvania in June 1990.\nMr. Thornton's responsibilities at Clarion University also include being adjunct faculty in the first distance education based athletic training education curriculum in conjunction with California University of Pennsylvania's CAATE accredited program. This program utilizes distance education technology and Internet based learning to accomplish educational criteria. Thornton also performs duties as adjunct instructor for California's Online Exercise Science and Health Promotion Master's Degree program.\nMr. Thornton is a certified athletic trainer by the Athletic Training Board of Certification, and is licensed the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. He is a certified Performance Enhancement Specialist and Corrective Exercise Specialist by the National Academy of Sports Medicine.\nThornton has been active in the issues that surround the sport of wrestling since his days at Utah State. He has served as the athletic training liaison to the NCAA Wrestling Rules Committee for 16 years. When the unfortunate deaths of three wrestlers occurred in 1997, Thornton served as chair of the Athletic Training Task Force charged with making recommendations for permanent rules changes in weight class management and certification. This weight class certification procedure is now the standard of care for wrestlers at high schools and universities nation wide. 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George returned with prize of \u00a31,000 and the college was awarded a further \u00a3500.\nAfter a trip to Milan, George plans on using the rest of his winnings to support his studies of Business Management at Bath University and his entrepreneurial talents alongside.\nGeorge was recently named Coleg Cambria\u2019s Enterprise Student of the year 2018. As well as leading the college\u2019s Enterprise Committee and developing various enrichment activities for fellow students, he has brought home several awards over the past 16 months, both solo and as part of a team, including winning Best Business Skills Award 2018; Gold in the Welsh Skills Finals 2017; Money Matters Award in Big Ideas Wales Celebrated; Silver in the Making Business Happen Awards 2017; Runner up in Big Ideas Celebrated 2017 and runner up in Wrexham\u2019s Social Enterprise Awards 2017.\nColeg Cambria Deputy Director Learner Experience & Enterprise, Rona Griffiths is very proud of George and his achievements said:\n\u201cGeorge is a force of nature. He possesses a truly enviable rate of energy, intelligence and intuition, coupled with great focus, persistence and good humour. He has used his entrepreneurial drive to develop student-led enrichment activities through the Enterprise Committee. Students, staff and our chosen charity have all benefited from his hard work.\n\u201cHe loves a challenge and I would like to wish him all the best, he has a bright future ahead. It\u2019s been a pleasure to support him and other talented students during their time at the college.\u201d\nYale 6th Lecturer in A Level Business, Mel Henry said:\n\u201cIt has been a pleasure to welcome George at Yale 6th over the last two years. He has been an ambitious and self-driven student who chose to make the most of his 2 years at our College. Not only has he excelled in his A levels he has also grabbed every opportunity presented to him. For example, entering and succeeding in Business competitions, founding our college enterprise committee and supporting our Principal Sue Price in giving a talk to parents during our advice nights. 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I will certainly miss him in class.\u201d", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00240.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 181, + "original_length": 5297, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.97, + "perplexity": 325.0, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/science-of-qualitative-research/social-science-as-participant-objectification/BA1A361A61912C6B0F1AA0122FD9FFC4", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T03:50:15Z", + "digest": "sha1:YSNYMXJ3MX5RR2YAQKOPZZNIGQGOYRAU", + "length": 2731, + "nlines": 10, + "source_domain": "www.cambridge.org", + "title": "Social Science as Participant Objectification (Chapter 13) - The Science of Qualitative Research", + "raw_content": "Social Science as Participant Objectification\n13 - Social Science as Participant Objectification\nfrom Part III - Inquiry With An Emancipatory Interest\nMartin J. Packer, Universidad de San Buenaventura, Colombia\nBourdieu's theory of practice is a systematic attempt to move beyond a series of oppositions and antinomies which have plagued the social sciences since their inception. For anyone involved in the social sciences today, these oppositions have a familiar ring: the individual versus society, action versus structure, freedom versus necessity, etc. Bourdieu's theoretical approach is intended to bypass or dissolve a plethora of such oppositions.\nThompson, 1991, p. 11\nA second perspective on the kind of investigation that attends to the \u201cobjective framework\u201d in which people live can be found in the work of French sociologist Pierre Bourdieu (1930\u20132002). For Bourdieu, we are always \u201cplaying a game\u201d but are necessarily unaware of its arbitrary character. Everyday activity is the product of an interaction between what he called \u201chabitus\u201d and \u201csocial field,\u201d a situated encounter between agents who are endowed with socially structured resources and competencies, and it is frequently the occasion for \u201csymbolic violence\u201d that critical inquiry must expose.\nBourdieu emphasized that the presuppositions that Habermas insists we must examine are not matters of individual tacit knowledge. Like Kuhn, Bourdieu argues that the presuppositions are embedded in social practices and embodied in bodily habitus. Reflection will not expose them. We need to study material practices, and because scientific practices themselves are techniques of \u201cobjectification,\u201d we need to objectify these techniques, turning them on themselves as instruments of reflexivity. Critical inquiry needs to be reflexive rather than reflective, and it achieves this by \u201cobjectifying objectification.\u201d Reflexivity is also a matter of turning our instruments of objectification on ourselves. This means studying one's own habitus together with the field in which one acquired it (where one grew up) and the field in which one applies it (the academy).\nBy being reflexive, critical inquiry can avoid objectivism, the error of claiming that one's system of categorization and classification is neutral and uniquely appropriate. It also can avoid subjectivism, the error of merely cataloging the diverse perspectives among the players of a game. The result is a viewpoint that \u201ctranscends\u201d the \u201cpartial and partisan\u201d point of view of a player but is not the gaze of a \u201cdivine spectator.\u201d It becomes possible to describe the field of play so as to show how the players have different perspectives because they occupy different positions.\nMartin J. Packer", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00240.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 94, + "original_length": 4800, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.93, + "perplexity": 305.0, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/european-political-science-review/article/media-accountability-of-independent-regulatory-agencies/DF8416832F2BD5197D6C723BE55DB5DF", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T03:52:36Z", + "digest": "sha1:BSUSATAWYEIIF32OI5AQMZE5P2NSEZIT", + "length": 27839, + "nlines": 178, + "source_domain": "www.cambridge.org", + "title": "The media accountability of independent regulatory agencies | European Political Science Review | Cambridge Core", + "raw_content": "The media accountability of ind...\nLanneau, R\u00e9gis 2018. Encyclopedia of Law and Economics. p. 1.\nGarland, Ruth Tambini, Damian and Couldry, Nick 2018. Has government been mediatized? A UK perspective. Media, Culture & Society, Vol. 40, Issue. 4, p. 496.\nSbalchiero, Stefano and Righettini, Maria Stella 2017. Rhetorical manifestation of institutional transformation. Quality & Quantity, Vol. 51, Issue. 3, p. 1279.\nK\u00fcbler, Daniel and Kriesi, Hanspeter 2017. How Globalisation and Mediatisation Challenge our Democracies. Swiss Political Science Review, Vol. 23, Issue. 3, p. 231.\nRighettini, Maria Stella and Sbalchiero, Stefano 2017. Institutional entrepreneurship and change in consumer protection policy in the telecommunications sector: innovations in the text-based analysis approach. Policy and Society, Vol. 36, Issue. 4, p. 611.\nGarc\u00eda-Juanatey, Ana Jordana, Jacint and Sancho, David 2017. Administrative Innovations and Accountability Failures: The Termination of the Spanish Telecommunications Agency. South European Society and Politics, Vol. 22, Issue. 3, p. 385.\nP\u00e9rez Dur\u00e1n, Ixchel and Rodr\u00edguez Men\u00e9s, Jorge 2017. 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DETERMINANTS OF ORGANIZATIONAL MEDIATIZATION: AN ANALYSIS OF THE ADAPTATION OF SWEDISH GOVERNMENT AGENCIES TO NEWS MEDIA. Public Administration, Vol. 93, Issue. 4, p. 1049.\nMaggetti, Martino 2014. The rewards of cooperation: The effects of membership in European regulatory networks. European Journal of Political Research, Vol. 53, Issue. 3, p. 480.\nMaggetti, Martino 2014. Institutional change and the evolution of the regulatory state: evidence from the Swiss case. International Review of Administrative Sciences, Vol. 80, Issue. 2, p. 276.\nPuppis, Manuel Maggetti, Martino Gilardi, Fabrizio Biela, Jan and Papadopoulos, Yannis 2014. The Political Communication of Independent Regulatory Agencies. Swiss Political Science Review, Vol. 20, Issue. 3, p. 388.\nThe media accountability of independent regulatory agencies\nMartino Maggetti (a1)\nLecturer, Department of Political Science, Affolternstrasse 56, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland\nIndependent regulatory agencies (IRAs) are increasingly attracting academic and societal attention, as they represent the institutional cornerstone of the regulatory state and play a key role in policy-making. Besides the expected benefits in terms of credibility and efficiency, these regulators are said to bring about a \u2018democratic deficit\u2019, following their statutory separation from democratic institutions. Consequently, a \u2018multi-pronged system of control\u2019 is required. This article focuses on a specific component of this system, that is, the media. The goal is to determine whether media coverage of IRAs meets the necessary prerequisites to be considered a potential \u2018accountability forum\u2019 for regulators. 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(1992), The Nature and Origins of Mass Opinion, Cambridge, New York: Cambridge University Press.\nURL: /core/journals/european-political-science-review", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00240.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 327, + "original_length": 31950, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.74, + "perplexity": 291.7, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "https://www.campbellrivermirror.com/obituaries/william-barber-barber/", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T03:15:16Z", + "digest": "sha1:BLQ33I2J4YVU6XWVGD7GFMCVVU7BMC4C", + "length": 1250, + "nlines": 10, + "source_domain": "www.campbellrivermirror.com", + "title": "William Barber BARBER \u2013 Campbell River Mirror", + "raw_content": "William Barber BARBER\nWilliam Francis Barber\nBill passed away after a long and very courageous battle with cancer. Bill was predeceased by his father, mother, sister and one brother, as well as his only son, William Jr. (May 2010).\nBill is survived by his wife of 56 years, Myrna; three daughters: Sandra (Joe) Short, Karen (Steve) Holmes and Ann (Vance) Brown; eleven grandchildren and nine great grandchildren; two brothers and many nieces and nephews.\nBill had a 22 year career in the Armed Forces. After retiring he became a Marine Mechanic and eventually opened his own business (Barbers Marine).\nBill will be forever missed by his family and friends. We send our heartfelt thanks and appreciation to Dr. Val Veerapen, the homecare nurses: Barb and Marlene, the respite caregivers and to the wonderful caring nursing staff of 3 north and 2 north at the Campbell River Hospital.\nThose wishing to, may make a donation in Bill\u2019s memory to the Canadian Cancer Society, 55 St. Clair Avenue West. Suite 300, Toronto, Ontario M4V 2Y7.\nA Celebration of Bill\u2019s life will be held on January 9th, 2012 at 2:00 pm at the upper Comox Legion, 1825 Comox Ave, Comox, BC.\nMessages of condolence for the family may be left at\nSutton\u2019s Campbell River Funeral Home", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00240.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 221, + "original_length": 4241, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.96, + "perplexity": 282.6, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "https://www.canada.ca/en/innovation-science-economic-development/news/2018/03/new-canadian-partnership-in-next-generation-wireless-technology.html", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T03:35:31Z", + "digest": "sha1:LUF4DSTIDHAW6DYOPIUQXEJXHRZQNSS6", + "length": 5451, + "nlines": 28, + "source_domain": "www.canada.ca", + "title": "New Canadian partnership in next-generation wireless technology - Canada.ca", + "raw_content": "New Canadian partnership in next-generation wireless technology\nIndustry-led partnership with the governments of Canada, Ontario and Quebec to develop 5G-enabled technologies\nMarch 19, 2018 \u2013 Ottawa ON\nImagine a world where you start off the day right because your refrigerator has tracked how much food you have and ordered replacement items for you. Your commute is safer and more productive because you are in a self-driving car. You can easily navigate traffic in a smart city, tolls are automatically collected and it\u2019s easier to find a good parking spot.\nAs demand for all things connected increases, our wireless technology infrastructure needs to keep pace. That\u2019s why we are about to see a shift from fourth-generation to fifth-generation (5G) wireless technology\u2014a leap that will unlock massive innovation potential and create thousands of well-paying jobs across Canada.\nThe Government of Canada, along with the provinces of Ontario and Quebec, today announced the first public-private partnership aimed at increasing economic growth driven by 5G technology. This $400-million project will secure over 4,000 good middle-class jobs, including 1,800 specialized 5G jobs, over the next five years, leading to new innovations in wireless telecommunications. In addition, the project is expected to create jobs at SMEs across Ontario and Quebec.\nThe ENCQOR project will be led by five global digital technology heavyweights (Ericsson, Ciena Canada, Thales Canada, IBM Canada and CGI).\nThe governments, small and medium-sized businesses, and academics will collaborate on 5G technology development through linked research facilities and laboratories located in Ontario and Quebec. This network will provide access to advanced technologies such as programmable broadband networks, the Internet of Things, silicon photonics, big-data analysis and cloud computing.\n5G has download speeds up to 100 times faster than current 4G technology. ENCQOR will provide Canadians with the ability to innovate by testing their products and services on 5G equipment. The capabilities developed through ENCQOR will enable businesses to compete in the global marketplace. An estimated 1,000 small and medium-sized businesses will be able to plug into the 5G platform to access the research and technology that will help them innovate and create jobs.\n\u201cTechnology is changing the way we live, work and engage with one another, and we are in a global innovation race. To prepare for the future, we must be bold, visionary and decisive. That\u2019s why our government is investing in 5G technology. This investment in next-generation wireless technology will help make Canada a global innovation leader and secure 4,000 jobs.\u201d\n\u201cThis exciting 5G initiative will help our businesses here in Ontario\u2014and across Canada\u2014capitalize on the vast potential of high-speed communications technology to expand their horizons, accelerate their innovation, and transform the way we all live and do business.\u201d\n\u2013 The Honourable Reza Moridi, Ontario Minister of Research, Innovation and Science\n\u201cThe Government of Quebec is proud to contribute to the success of the ENCQOR project, which will create an important synergy between businesses\u2014particularly businesses in the information and communications technologies sector\u2014and the research and innovation community. We are banking on such collaborations, like those also made possible by the Quebec Digital Strategy and the 2017\u20132022 Quebec Research and Innovation Strategy, to make Quebec a leader in innovation and the development of cutting-edge digital technologies. Boldness, creativity and an innovative spirit are the hallmarks of Quebec, and it will now have a strong presence in the new reality brought on by 5G.\u201d\n\u2013 Dominique Anglade, Quebec Deputy Premier, Minister of Economy, Science and Innovation, and Minister responsible for the Digital Strategy\nMobile data traffic is expected to increase seven-fold between 2016 and 2021, and 5G will enable widespread adoption of new technologies such as autonomous vehicles and smart applications based on the Internet of Things.\nThe information and communications technologies (ICT) sector is an important part of Canada\u2019s economy, contributing $76 billion to the GDP in 2017.\nEricsson, Ciena Canada, Thales Canada, IBM Canada and CGI employ about 40,000 Canadians and spend more than $1 billion annually on R&D in Canada.\nENCQOR stands for Evolution of Networked Services through a Corridor in Quebec and Ontario for Research and Innovation.\nThe governments of Canada, Ontario and Quebec will each contribute $66.7 million to ENCQOR for a combined investment of $200 million. This will be matched dollar for dollar by the private sector, for a total of $400 million.\nENCQOR is one of the first projects to be funded under the Government of Canada\u2019s $1.26-billion Strategic Innovation Fund.\nBackgrounder: ENCQOR Partner Quotes\nPress Secretar\nLauren Souch\nOffice of the Minister of Research, Innovation and Science\nMinistry of Research, Innovation and Science\nGabrielle Fallu\nOffice of the Deputy Premier, Minister of Economy, Science and Innovation, and Minister responsible for the Digital Strategy\nSearch for related information by keyword: Communications industry | Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada | Canada | Maintain, grow and improve your business | Environment and natural resources | Travel and tourism | business | general public | travellers | news releases", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00240.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 121, + "original_length": 7873, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.92, + "perplexity": 247.9, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "https://www.cancer.org/cancer/cancer-causes/teflon-and-perfluorooctanoic-acid-pfoa.html", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T03:12:15Z", + "digest": "sha1:BOJXBQP5MU4SUAWFJ33VUR4FGUBLX5CW", + "length": 10702, + "nlines": 48, + "source_domain": "www.cancer.org", + "title": "Teflon and Perfluorooctanoic Acid (PFOA)", + "raw_content": "Teflon and Perfluorooctanoic Acid (PFOA)\nWhat are Teflon and PFOA? Where are they found?\nTeflon\u00ae is a brand name for a man-made chemical known as polytetrafluoroethylene (PTFE). It has been in commercial use since the 1940s. It has a wide variety of uses because it is extremely stable (it doesn\u2019t react with other chemicals) and can provide an almost frictionless surface. Most people are familiar with it as a non-stick coating surface for pans and other cookware. It is also used in many other products, such as fabric protectors.\nPerfluorooctanoic acid (PFOA), also known as C8, is another man-made chemical. It is used in the process of making Teflon and similar chemicals (known as fluorotelomers), although it is burned off during the process and is not present in significant amounts in the final products.\nPFOA has the potential to be a health concern because it can stay in the environment and in the human body for long periods of time. Studies have found that it is present worldwide at very low levels in just about everyone\u2019s blood. Higher blood levels have been found in community residents where local water supplies have been contaminated by PFOA. People exposed to PFOA in the workplace can have levels many times higher.\nPFOA and some similar compounds can be found at low levels in some foods, drinking water, and in household dust. Although PFOA levels in drinking water are usually low, they can be higher in certain areas, such as near chemical plants that use PFOA.\nPeople can also be exposed to PFOA from ski wax or from fabrics and carpeting that have been treated to be stain resistant. Non-stick cookware is not a significant source of PFOA exposure.\nDo Teflon and PFOA cause cancer?\nTeflon itself is not suspected of causing cancer.\nMany studies in recent years have looked at the possibility of PFOA causing cancer. Researchers use 2 main types of studies to try to figure out if such a substance might cause cancer.\nIn studies done in the lab, animals are exposed to a substance (often in very large doses) to see if it causes tumors or other health problems. Researchers might also expose human cells in a lab dish to the substance to see if it causes the types of changes that are seen in cancer cells.\nStudies in lab animals have found exposure to PFOA increases the risk of certain tumors of the liver, testicles, mammary glands (breasts), and pancreas in these animals. In general, well-conducted studies in animals do a good job of predicting which exposures cause cancer in people. But it isn\u2019t clear if the way this chemical affects cancer risk in animals would be the same in humans.\nSome types of studies look at cancer rates in different groups of people. These studies might compare the cancer rate in a group exposed to a substance to the cancer rate in a group not exposed to it, or compare it to the cancer rate in the general population. But sometimes it can be hard to know what the results of these types of studies mean, because many other factors might affect the results.\nStudies have looked at people exposed to PFOA from living near or working in chemical plants. Some of these studies have suggested an increased risk of testicular cancer with increased PFOA exposure. Studies have also suggested possible links to kidney cancer and thyroid cancer, but the increases in risk have been small and could have been due to chance.\nOther studies have suggested possible links to other cancers, including prostate, bladder, and ovarian cancer. But not all studies have found such links, and more research is needed to clarify these findings.\nSeveral national and international agencies study different substances in the environment to determine if they can cause cancer. (A substance that causes cancer or helps cancer grow is called a carcinogen.) The American Cancer Society looks to these organizations to evaluate the risks based on evidence from laboratory, animal, and human research studies.\nThe International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) is part of the World Health Organization (WHO). One of its goals is to identify causes of cancer. IARC has classified PFOA as \u201cpossibly carcinogenic to humans\u201d (Group 2B), based on limited evidence in humans that it can cause testicular and kidney cancer, and limited evidence in lab animals.\n(For more information on the classification system IARC uses, see Known and Probable Human Carcinogens.)\nThe US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) maintains the Integrated Risk Information System (IRIS), an electronic database that contains information on human health effects from exposure to various substances in the environment. The EPA has not officially classified PFOA as to its carcinogenicity.\nIn a draft (not final) report, the EPA\u2019s Scientific Advisory Board examined the evidence on PFOA, mainly from studies in lab animals, and stated that there is \u201csuggestive evidence of carcinogenicity, but not sufficient to assess human carcinogenic potential.\u201d The board agreed that new evidence would be considered as it becomes available.\nOther agencies have not yet formally evaluated whether PFOA can cause cancer.\nWhat is being done about PFOA?\nThe long-term effects of PFOA and similar chemicals are largely unknown, but there has been enough concern to prompt an attempt to phase out industrial emissions of them. Only a handful of companies have used these chemicals in manufacturing in recent years.\nWhile the possible long-term health effects of PFOA are not known, the issue is currently under study by the EPA and other agencies. In addition, in 2006, the EPA and the 8 manufacturers who used PFOA at the time agreed to a \u201cstewardship program.\u201d The goals were for the companies to reduce factory emissions and product content levels of PFOA by 95% by the year 2010, and to eliminate PFOA from emissions and product contents by the end of 2015. The companies have submitted annual reports on their progress to the EPA, and the latest reports indicated a large reduction in use of these chemicals. The decreasing demand for PFOA has also led to many companies phasing out production.\nThe EPA does not regulate the levels of PFOA or related chemicals (such as perfluorooctane sulfonate, or PFOS) in drinking water at this time. However, in 2009, the EPA released provisional health advisories (PHAs) for PFOA and PFOS in drinking water. These advisories recommend that actions should be taken to reduce exposure when contaminants go above a certain level in the drinking water \u2013 0.4 \u00b5g/L (micrograms per liter) for PFOA and 0.2 \u00b5g/L for PFOS. These advisories are not legally enforceable federal standards and are subject to change as new information becomes available.\nShould I take measures to protect myself, such as not using my Teflon-coated pans?\nOther than the possible risk of flu-like symptoms from breathing in fumes from an overheated Teflon-coated pan, there are no known risks to humans from using Teflon-coated cookware. While PFOA is used in making Teflon, it is not present (or is present in extremely small amounts) in Teflon-coated products.\nBecause the routes by which people may be exposed to PFOA are not known, it is unclear what steps people might take to reduce their exposure. According to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), people whose regular source of drinking water is found to have higher than normal levels of PFOA or similar chemicals might consider using bottled water or installing activated carbon water filters.\nFor people who are concerned they might have been exposed to high levels of PFOA, blood levels can be measured, but this is not a routine test that can be done in a doctor\u2019s office. Even if the test is done, it\u2019s not clear what the results might mean in terms of possible health effects.\nToll-free number: 1-888-422-8737 (1-888-42-ATSDR)\nWebsite: www.atsdr.cdc.gov\nToxFAQs for perfluoroalkyls: www.atsdr.cdc.gov/toxfaqs/tf.asp?id=1116&tid=237\nToll-free number (Safe Drinking Water Hotline): 1-800-426-4791\nAgency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry. ToxFAQs for perfluoroalkyls. 2015. Accessed at www.atsdr.cdc.gov/toxfaqs/tf.asp?id=1116&tid=237 October 13, 2015.\nBarry V, Winquist A, Steenland K. Perfluorooctanoic acid (PFOA) exposures and incident cancers among adults living near a chemical plant. Environ Health Perspect. 2013;121:1313\u22121318.\nBenbrahim-Tallaa L, Lauby-Secretan B, Loomis D, et al on behalf of the International Agency for Research on Cancer Monograph Working Group. Carcinogenicity of perfluorooctanoic acid, tetrafluoroethylene, dichloromethane, 1,2-dichloropropane, and 1,3-propane sultone. Lancet Oncol. 2014:15:924-925.\nEnvironmental Protection Agency. Emerging Contaminants \u2013 Perfluorooctane Sulfonate (PFOS) and Perfluorooctanoic Acid (PFOA). 2014. Accessed at www2.epa.gov/sites/production/files/2014-04/documents/factsheet_contaminant_pfos_pfoa_march2014.pdf on October 12, 2015.\nEnvironmental Protection Agency. SAB Review of EPA\u2019s Draft Risk Assessment of Potential Human Health Effects Associated with PFOA and Its Salts. 2006. Accessed at http://yosemite.epa.gov/sab%5Csabproduct.nsf/A3C83648E77252828525717F004B9099/$File/sab_06_006.pdf on October 12, 2015.\nFei C, McLaughlin JK, Lipworth L, Olsen J. Maternal levels of perfluorinated chemicals and subfecundity. Hum Reprod. 2009;24:1200\u22121205.\nMelzer D, Rice N, Depledge MH, et al. Association between serum perfluoroctanoic acid (PFOA) and thyroid disease in the NHANES study. Environ Health Perspect. 2010;118:686\u2212692.\nPost GB, Cohn PD, Cooper KR. Perfluorooctanoic acid (PFOA), an emerging drinking water contaminant: A critical review of recent literature. Environ Res. 2012;116:93\u2212117.\nSteenland K, Fletcher T, Savitz DA. Epidemiologic evidence on the health effects of perfluorooctanoic acid (PFOA). Environ Health Perspect. 2010;118:1100\u22121108.\nSteenland K, Tinker S, Frisbee S, et al. Association of perfluorooctanoic acid and perfluorooctane sulfonate with serum lipids among adults living near a chemical plant. Am J Epidemiol. 2009;170:1268\u22121278.\nSteenland K, Woskie S. Cohort mortality study of workers exposed to perfluorooctanoic acid. Am J Epidemiol. 2012;176:909\u2013917.\nSteenland K, Zhao L, Winquist A. A cohort incidence study of workers exposed to perfluorooctanoic acid (PFOA). Occup Environ Med. 2015;72:373\u2212380.\nTrudel D, Horowitz L, Wormuth M, et al. Estimating consumer exposure to PFOS and PFOA. Risk Anal. 2008;28:251-269. Erratum in: Risk Anal. 2008;28:807.\nVieira VM, Hoffman K, Shin HM, et al. Perfluorooctanoic acid exposure and cancer outcomes in a contaminated community: A geographic analysis. Environ Health Perspect. 2013;121:318\u2013323.\nLast Medical Review: January 5, 2016 Last Revised: January 5, 2016", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00240.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 177, + "original_length": 13828, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.93, + "perplexity": 263.2, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "https://www.candis.co.uk/all-Extra-Features/remembrance-day-events/", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T04:24:32Z", + "digest": "sha1:YA7WPSHFKCLWYLSQK2E3BCE662YV6WPA", + "length": 2688, + "nlines": 18, + "source_domain": "www.candis.co.uk", + "title": "Remembrance Day events - Candis", + "raw_content": "Back to previous page | Home Remembrance Day events\nThis year\u2019s Remembrance Day, or Armistice Day, on 11 November is more poignant than ever, as it falls in the centenary year of the outbreak of First World War. To help commemorate those who gave their lives to fight in the war, why not get involved with one of the following events\u2026\nFields of Battle Lands of Peace exhibition\nThe exhibition in St James\u2019s Park, London, features contemporary landscapes of former battlefields. The free exhibition, which has been open to the public from 4 August, will be on display until 11 November. Visit fieldsofbattle1418.org for details.\nVisit a Field of Remembrance\nThe British Legion have several Fields of Remembrance across the UK, which will be open to the public in the lead up to Remembrance Day. Visit the north of England Field of Remembrance in Saltwell Park, Gateshead, 14 November; the Belfast Field of Remembrance at Belfast City Hall between 7am-7pm until 17 November; the Cardiff Field of Remembrance at Cardiff Castle from 9am-4pm until 15 November; or the Field of Remembrance at Westminster Abbey from 9am-4pm until 16 November. Visit www.britishlegion.org.uk for more information.\nRun2Remember\nJoin in the annual fun run at Lydiard Park, Swindon, at 11am on 8 November to remember a loved one or show your respect for all those who fought in the World Wars, as well as raising money to support The Royal British Legion\u2019s work. Choose from 1.1km, 5km or 11km courses. Head to www.britishlegion.org.uk/get-involved/run2remember to register.\nSilence in the Square, London\nThe Royal British Legion will host a \u2018Silence in the Square\u2019 event in Trafalgar Square, London, on 11 November, from 9.30am. Following the two-minute silence at 11am, visitors can scatter poppy petals in the fountains as a symbol of remembrance. The event, which is hosted by Ben Shepherd, will also include musical performances and readings. www.britishlegion.org.uk\nNational Memorial Arboretum Remembrance Sunday Service\nOn 9 November, a service will be held for Remembrance Sunday at the National Memorial Arboretum, the UK\u2019s year-round Centre of Remembrance, in Staffordshire. The service, which is free to attend, will start at 10.15am and will include a musical welcome from the West Midlands Police Brass Band, with the Royal Regiment of Fusiliers Warwickshire Band, and a parade. thenma.org.uk\nCoronation celebration\nTest your knowledge now about one of our longest serving monarchs\nHow would you fare if you had to survive on wartime rations?\nWorld War memories\nJoe Comerford shares his memories of growing up as an evacuee.\nMargaret Thatcher became Britain\u2019s first woman Prime Minister on 4 May 1979.", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00240.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 114, + "original_length": 4871, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.93, + "perplexity": 232.1, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "https://www.candis.co.uk/all-Extra-Features/speed-freaks/", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T04:39:42Z", + "digest": "sha1:SFNGCPBERNEL3FHLWQWA7BUAYO256BVF", + "length": 2658, + "nlines": 21, + "source_domain": "www.candis.co.uk", + "title": "Speed freaks - Candis", + "raw_content": "Back to previous page | Home Speed freaks\nThis week marks 60 years since Roger Bannister broke the 4-minute mile. Here we look at some of the fastest records on our planet today\nThe fastest member of the animal kingdom, the highflying Peregrine Falcon, can exceed speeds of 200 mph (325km/h) when diving to catch its prey.\nSailfish have been clocked at speeds of up to 68mph (110km/h). Although they are known for the gigantic \u201csail\u201d spanning the length of their backs, they usually keep these folded down while speeding through the water.\nThe fastest roller coaster on the planet reaches an astonishing top speed of 149.1mph (240 kmh). Formula Rossa, which can be found in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, accelerates from 0 to 100km (62miles) in 2 seconds.\nIn 2009 Jamaican sprinter Usain Bolt broke the world record for the 100m with a time of 9.58 seconds. Born in 1986, he\u2019s the first man to win six Olympic Gold Medals in sprinting and is an eight-time World champion.\nFastest woman\nIn 1988 American Florence Griffith-Joyner ran the 100m in 10.49 seconds, a record that is yet to be broken. Granted, there has been some controversy over the measurement, but the Association of Track and Field Statisticians has let the record stand.\nIn December 2003 the Japanese JR-Maglev reached 361mph (581km/h) on a magnetic levitation track with three cars. This is widely held to be the fastest speed recorded for a railed vehicle (not counting military rocket sleds that are used to test missiles).\nFastest lift\nTwo high-speed lifts in Taipei 101, the world\u2019s tallest building situated in Taipei, Taiwan, have a maximum speed of 1,010m/min (3,313ft/min), equivalent to 60.6km/h (37.6mph). The lifts take just 40 seconds from ground level to the 89th floor, situated at 382m (1,253ft), and have atmospheric pressure regulatory systems to avoid ears \u2018popping\u2019 for the occupants.\nFastest eater\nJoey \u201cJaws\u201d Chestnut is the current World Champion of Competitive Eating. In 2007 he broke a world record when he inhaled 66 hotdogs (along with their buns) in 12 minutes.\nFastest wind speed\nThe fastest wind speed on record was measured in an F5 tornado near Oklahoma City in 1999. The speeds exceeded 300mph (484 km/h).\nFastest time to escape from a pair of handcuffs (double locked)\nThe fastest handcuff escape is 1.59 sec and was achieved by Chad Netherland (USA) in Las Vegas, Nevada, USA, on 8 January 2011.\nTreat your feet to a D.I.Y pedicure and step out proudly this summer.\nHere\u2019s our guide to some of the most noteworthy events that will take place in 2014.\nThe ultimate home manicure\nBeauty editor Justine shows you how to give your hands some much-needed TLC.", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00240.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 130, + "original_length": 5225, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.93, + "perplexity": 169.8, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "https://www.canterbury.ac.nz/science/schools-and-departments/biological-sciences/research/", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T03:57:31Z", + "digest": "sha1:YWKAWIE7TPH6TSS57LK3UFA236TEWRXI", + "length": 1138, + "nlines": 12, + "source_domain": "www.canterbury.ac.nz", + "title": "Research | University of Canterbury", + "raw_content": "Canterbury Distinguished Professor David Schiel is one of New Zealand's leading marine scientists and was awarded the University of Canterbury Research Medal for his work.\nThe School of Biological Sciences is a vibrant research environment, with more than $3 million of external research income received every year.\nResearch underpins our teaching and is conducted across three main fields: Biotechnology, Biodiversity and Biosecurity.\nYou can also view a summary of all Biological Sciences research on UC Spark .\nThe application of biological understanding to provide products that benefit society and support sustainable economic development.\nDefining, sustaining and rehabilitating the diversity of life contained in New Zealand\u2019s natural and managed ecosystems.\nProtecting our native biota from threats imposed by invasive organisms and understanding the potential impacts of genetic technologies on our environment.\nCentre for Integrated Research in Biosafety\nCentre of Excellence in Aquaculture and Marine Ecology\nFreshwater Ecology Research Group\nFor more information on fields of research in our department\nview our staff profiles", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00240.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 433, + "original_length": 8453, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.92, + "perplexity": 326.5, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "https://www.carabinshaw.com/eagle-ford-shale-accident-attorney.html", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T04:02:17Z", + "digest": "sha1:ST5OFJQFMUJZN4SADBTCUUX4I74HAP2W", + "length": 3804, + "nlines": 14, + "source_domain": "www.carabinshaw.com", + "title": "Eagle Ford Shale Accident Attorney | San Antonio Injury Lawyers", + "raw_content": "The discovery of rich oil and gas deposits at the Eagle Ford Shale formation brought to South Texas hundreds of thousands of jobs, with many of those opportunities for residents of San Antonio. With billions of barrels of oil and trillions of cubic feet of natural gas estimated untapped, production around Eagle Ford Shale Play is possibly the largest single economic development in the history of the state of Texas.\nWhile Texans may be grateful for the $60 billion impact this industry has had for San Antonio and South Texas, many are extremely concerned with the number of oilfield deaths and injuries that occur each year. With over 200 rigs in operation, accidents associated with the Eagle Ford Shale account for a large part of oil field injuries.\nIf you have been injured while working in the Eagle Ford oil region, you need a good lawyer. Call Carabin & Shaw today for a free consultation. Your rights need to be protected, so don\u2019t trust your legal representation and well-being to anyone but the best. Read on to find out what one of our expert Eagle Ford Shale accident attorneys in San Antonio can do for you.\nThe Dangers of Eagle Ford Shale\nExperience has taught us that oilfields are dangerous, and oilfield workers put themselves at risk to an oil field injury every day. A risky job means that everyone must be exceptionally careful and equipment must be working properly. Unfortunately this is not always the case, and our Eagle Ford Shale accident attorneys know this all too well.\nEvery oilfield worker, no matter their job description, is susceptible to a wide variety of injuries. The most common are falling from high elevations on equipment, drilling accidents, truck accidents, operating faulty equipment, contamination, and fire and explosions.\nThose working Eagle Ford run the risk of additional dangers associated with fracking, such as exposure to toxic hydraulic fluids and hydrogen sulfide gas, as well as increased vehicle accidents from increased traffic associated with production.\nOilfield ownership and management know these risks, and they are responsible for maintaining safety standards and ensuring their workers have the best possible working environment. When this doesn\u2019t happen, those responsible are legally liable for any accidents that ensue, and victims of these incidents need to contact an experienced lawyer immediately.\nFile Your Claim With an Attorney Today\nIf you have sustained injuries from any of these examples, you may be eligible for compensation. Eagle Ford Shale sites can be especially dangerous environments for workers because of the equipment and materials being used. It is important to understand that if you are injured on the job, you have rights and may be entitled to compensation. You need a lawyer that knows the ropes and won\u2019t give up.\nFiling a claim can be difficult; don\u2019t do it alone. Since the 2015\u2019s downturn in Eagle Ford production, oil companies have more reason than ever before to play hardball with on-the-job accident claims. Don\u2019t let them bully you into dropping your case, or convince you that their workman\u2019s compensation will be enough to cover your accident expenses. Know your rights, stand your ground, and seek help from one of Carabin & Shaw\u2019s expert Eagle Ford Shale accident attorneys in San Antonio today.\nIf you need a San Antonio oil rig accident lawyer or legal representation in any other Eagle Ford Shale region, call Carabin & Shaw today. Our specialized attorneys are familiar with the unique challenges victims face when injured in an oilfield accident.\nFor more information and to schedule your free consultation with the law offices of Carabin & Shaw in San Antonio, call us today at 210-222-2288, or toll-free at 800-862-1260.\nEagle Ford Shale Accident Attorney | San Antonio Injury Lawyers", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00240.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 172, + "original_length": 9165, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.95, + "perplexity": 317.7, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "https://www.caracolsilver.com/robin-hood-ring-no-3-caracol/", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T04:19:11Z", + "digest": "sha1:TA6GPJCRLHUG26II77TBTRTEP443XSTO", + "length": 18, + "nlines": 1, + "source_domain": "www.caracolsilver.com", + "title": "Robin Hood Ring | No. 3 | Caracol", + "raw_content": "Sizes are 6 and 7.", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00240.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 187, + "original_length": 3395, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.99, + "perplexity": 74.0, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "https://www.caremark.co.uk/caremark-today/caremark-news/diwali-festival-of-light-celebrated-at-head-office", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T03:18:34Z", + "digest": "sha1:N53DGQJ2333XHDOIDOAYX5XWLJA2OLNX", + "length": 1077, + "nlines": 7, + "source_domain": "www.caremark.co.uk", + "title": "Diwali Festival of Light celebrated at head office!", + "raw_content": "Diwali, which means \u2018row of lamps\u2019, takes place every October or November each year.\nIt is actually a five day festival with the main day this year being the 7th, with two days of celebration either side.\nHowever, with most of the team being present on the 10th, it was the ideal day for everyone to join Shweta Mahendru in her celebration of this special Festival.\nShweta prepared and brought in a selection of traditional foods which are enjoyed during this celebration and explained to her colleagues the meaning and traditions behind the Festival.\nLike other religious events, e.g. Easter and Lent for Christians and Eid for Muslims, the date changes each year.\nFor Hindus, Diwali occurs around a particular phase of the moon. 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Youll laugh out loud at the outrageous antics of dads of all shapes and sizes in this ball game to beat them all! 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Up until now, though, to gain access to what these dancers know, we have had to spend years in their troupes and studios. Even though they\u2019ve done their best to teach us during workshops, they can only say and share so much in less than ten hours of instruction!\nNow, though, we have access to a repository that ranges from history to social (and situational) psychology; from costumes to customs, and from technique to training. In one volume, Morocco (C. Varga Dinicu) has brought together much of what she\u2019s taught \u02c6 over the years \u02c6 via an internet chatlist. After over ten years of providing \u2018answers [to posted questions], comments, stories, information and [correcting] misinformation about Middle\nEastern dances and cultures,\u201d Morocco had created a compendium of material unmatched within the dance community. After extensive editing, augmenting, and selecting, she\u2019s winnowed the material down to a mere 414 pages, scaled to a generous 8 1/2 by 11-inch two-column page size.\nThis is not a \u201ccoffee-table\u2019 book, although it contains some excellent (and historically significant and rare) reproductions of photographs. Nor is it an encyclopedia, although its scope is similar in both breadth and depth.\nRather, it is *without question* the single most authoritative ethnographic sourcebook on Mid-Eastern dance and related arts, together with a collection of valuable technique pointers, specifics on dance and rhythm patterns, and a wide range of other information. At the end, there is a glossary (including dance terms from multiple languages), an excellent bibliography, and \u2013 perhaps most important (given the nature of this book) \u2013 a detailed index.\nIf this book were simply a compendium of Morocco\u2019s personal experience, as part of the New York dance Oriental dance community from the 1960\u2019s to the present, this would be a valuable book. However, it is much, much more.\nMorocco is truly a scholar, as much as she is a dancer and a teacher. She is widely regarded for having gained fluency in several foreign languages, and for her frequent travels abroad to observe and study the dance in its indigenous locales. What is not as commonly known is the depth of her research, creating the solid foundation for her expertise. Over the years,\nMorocco devoured relevant books from the New York public library, and searched out rare and valuable manuscripts. This has resulted in a private library that is by now probably unequaled in the world.\nMorocco\u2019s informal style (some might call it \u2018breezy\u201d) belies the years of work, and the incredible lengths to which she has gone, to gain the knowledge that she so readily shares in \u201cYou Asked Aunt Rocky.\u201d While not written in a \u201cscholarly\u201d style, this is clearly the work of a field ethnologist, someone who has taken the time (and the trouble, and the money, and the risks) to travel alone to foreign countries. Morocco\u2019s range of observations span the gamut, from shows in the most exclusive clubs to family and tribal gatherings in remote villages. She buttresses this with extensive knowledge gained through observing, studying, and performing in\nNew York, along with national and international appearances.\nMorocco\u2019s simple, direct, and practical advice \u2013 her \u201creal-world knowledge\u201d \u2013 should in no way discourage someone who is looking for depth in cultural awareness. Rather, Morocco brings her understanding of foreign cultures \u2013 and of how the dance is both regarded and experienced \u2013 into practical and down-to-earth terms.\nThis book is valuable to both academics and practitioners. For all of us who \u201cgrew up\u201d with dance teachers who themselves had only limited training; for all of us who have had to travel to workshops to study with truly great teachers; this is a superb enrichment. And for those of us who engage in serious scholarship, it is an invaluable reference. And for every practitioner of Oriental dance who considers herself to be a \u201cserious student\u201d (if not a full-fledged professional), it is an essential read. \u201cYou Asked Aunt Rocky\u201d belongs on every Oriental dancer\u2019s bookshelf.\nAlay\u201anya (Alianna J. 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Bush, better known as Miss Lassie, was cleaned and stabilised for posterity by Toronto-based conservator Mary Peever.\nThe conservator, called in by the Cayman National Cultural Foundation, worked on 25 paintings over the course of last week.\nMuch of the damage to the visionary intuitive painter\u2019s work was identified as having been caused by sea water, Ms Peever explained.\nMany in the collection were badly warped, where the canvas had become damp. Two pieces created with mixed media on glass were initially thought to be in danger of peeling away.\nOver the course of the week, Ms Peever, working out of the Harquail foyer, used a variety of techniques to make each picture stable.\n\u2018As a conservator, what I found (most) interesting were the paintings on glass. Those items are usually hard for us. For some reason they didn\u2019t suffer that much damage. They were dirty but stable,\u2019 she added.\nMs Peever came well qualified for the delicate task of saving the works, none of which is currently owned by the CNCF. She has extensive experience in disaster response and recovery work in Canada for both federal and private art institutions.\n\u2018The worst affected (pictures) were those on artists\u2019 canvas on Fredricks board (cotton canvas stretched over cardboard backing). They got wet and the backing and the canvas buckled and warped,\u2019 she said.\nCNCF artistic director Henry Muttoo said that the foundation was pleased with the conservatory work done so far. He said, though, that there might still be further work done to several of the paintings.\n\u2018I think she\u2019s done a creditable job. Six need more (cleaning) work. We\u2019ll have to do more scientific conservatory work on some of them and may have to contact an institution like the American Museum of Visionary Art for further work if necessary,\u2019 he added.\nMr. Muttoo went on to say that it wasn\u2019t the CNCF\u2019s intention to repaint any works to bring them up to their original state, adding that the fact that they were damaged during such a significant storm also added to the historical background of the pieces.\n\u2018If we are advised that any retouching is necessary for the preservation of the works, though, it will be considered by the CNCF board,\u2019 he said.\nConserved for all\nThough not owned by the CNCF, Mr. Muttoo, said that the foundation is in the process of acquiring the 25 conserved paintings from Miss Lassie\u2019s son, Richard, through funds provided by government.\n\u2018We made a verbal agreement with her son to purchase the pictures\u2026 but before the deal was finalised the storm came,\u2019 Mr. Muttoo explained.\nMr. Muttoo said that the CNCF would have asked to help conserve the paintings for the nation even if there hadn\u2019t been a prior understanding.\nThe CNCF\u2019s artistic director said that friends of the artist took the paintings from Miss Lassie\u2019s fronthouse on South Sound Road shortly before the storm. While stacked in her backhouse, sea water had come in and sand had also collected on some of the paintings.\n\u2018Just after the storm we went in with Richard who allowed us to take them into safekeeping,\u2019 Mr. Muttoo commented.\nCNCF collection\nHe said that CNCF\u2019s 102-strong collection of Miss Lassie paintings had survived the storm in excellent condition apart from one which had suffered from a few drops of water.\nThe collection is currently being stored free of charge in the vault of Deloitte\u2019s Citrus Grove premises, he added.\nMs Peever was formerly conservator at the Cayman Islands National Museum and was more recently employed at Pedro St. James as exhibits manager.\nShe was last in Grand Cayman in December 2004 assisting the national museum in its recovery efforts.\nMiss Lassie passed away in November 2003 at age 89. Her last exhibition was the Gladwyn K. 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While its damage was real, films have for decades been bringing asteroid paranoia to the big and small screen.\nFilms have brought asteroid paranoia to the big and small screen for decades\nDeep Impact hit the big screen in 1998, giving seekers of disaster cinema what New York Times reviewer Janet Maslin called a 'costly comet thriller.' (Paramount)\nThe meteor that shot through the Siberian sky at hypersonic speed Friday created images that seemed like something out of a high-tech special effects department.\nThe damage Friday from the meteor was, of course, very real. More than 1,000 people were injured as the sonic blasts shattered glass, and the psyches of Russians were understandably unsettled by the shocking glow overhead.\nStill, the video from Russia seems movie-like in its depiction of what happened when a meteor the size of a bus made its way into the Earth's atmosphere.\nHere's a look at some of the films that have put large pieces of space rock and the threat of global annihilation front and centre.\nDeep Impact hit the big screen in 1998, giving seekers of disaster cinema what New York Times reviewer Janet Maslin called a \"costly comet thriller.\"\nIn the film, Earth seemed doomed by a large hunk of space rock heading straight for it, and some big-name actors were on hand to try to save the day, including Robert Duvall, Vanessa Redgrave and Morgan Freeman in the role of U.S. president.\nFilmgoers looking for a lot of bang and boom might not have found everything they were seeking. \"The special effects are elaborate but relatively brief, featuring gaseous comet close-ups and an impressive tidal wave,\" Maslin noted in her review.\nThe movie found favour at the box office, however, grossing more than $349 million US, according to movie revenue website Box Office Mojo.\nTwo and a half months after Deep Impact hit theatres, Armageddon brought more asteroid paranoia to the big screen, with even greater box-office success.\nWith Armageddon, the mortal threat was ratcheted up several notches. Now, Earth seemed doomed by an asteroid \"the size of Texas.\"\nCritics were less than enamoured of the Bruce Willis vehicle, which became the biggest-grossing picture of 1998 (ahead of Steven Spielberg's acclaimed Saving Private Ryan and the Oscar-winning Shakespeare in Love).\nRoger Ebert gave one star to Armageddon, a film he said was \"an assault on the eyes, the ears, the brain, common sense and the human desire to be entertained.\"\nScientists were also somewhat lukewarm to the film \u2014 they thought Deep Impact had, relatively speaking, more astronomical cred.\nA year before Deep Impact and Armageddon hit movie screens, a U.S. made-for-TV movie filled the small screen with similar deep-space doom.\nAsteroid had nothing close to the marketing budget of Armageddon, but it trod similar ground and was apocalyptic in its promotion: \"The end of the world is just beginning,\" its poster promised. There was also a Texan twist, though: the presumed target for the incoming asteroid was Dallas.\nSean Connery and Natalie Wood starred in this 1979 disaster flick, which was something of a disaster itself. The movie poster promised doom from outer space, warning that a meteor five miles wide was \"coming at 30,000 m.p.h. \u2026 and there's no place on Earth to hide.\"\nA movie very much of its time, the plot brought the Cold War enemies of the United States and the U.S.S.R. together to try to fight the threat posed by a chunk of rock with the rather imposing name of Orpheus. Henry Fonda was on hand as the U.S. president.\nThe musical score is suitably soaring, and the less-than-award-winning special effects are full of bangs, booms and big balls of exploding light. The movie is one of several disaster films with scenes that would now be viewed quite differenty from when they came out. In this case, the streaking asteroid targets New York City, striking the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center, which fell 22 years later in the Sept. 11 attacks.\nWhile North American cinema has seen its fair share of asteroid-inspired fare in recent decades, such films haven't been restricted to screens here.\nA 1958 Italian film, The Day the Sky Exploded, focused on scientists who find out Earth lies in the path of meteors.\nThe U.S. poster promoting the flick was not subtle: \"TERROR FROM THE SKY,\" it screamed, before noting \"Earth Attacked From Outer Space.\"\nA history of massive celestial strikes\nRussian meteor footage highlights dash cam culture\nAsteroid DA14's close flyby with Earth: How bad would an impact be?\nYouTube video of meteor", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00240.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 220, + "original_length": 7531, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.96, + "perplexity": 336.2, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "https://www.cbsnews.com/live-news/john-kelly-will-leave-chief-of-staff-job-at-end-of-year-trump-says-today-2018-12-08-live-updates/", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T03:56:36Z", + "digest": "sha1:F4274CKNP5QEBRP4XI7F4AHJE5UAGK63", + "length": 8208, + "nlines": 38, + "source_domain": "www.cbsnews.com", + "title": "Trump: John Kelly, chief of staff, will leave job at the end of the year - live updates - CBS News", + "raw_content": "Trump says chief of staff John Kelly will leave his job at end of year\nTrump says chief of staff John Kelly will leave White House at end of year\nPresident Trump announced Saturday that John Kelly will be leaving his post as White House chief of staff at the end of the year, marking the end of a tenuous, sometimes tumultuous tenure that many believed would conclude months ago.\nMr. Trump announced Kelly's imminent departure on the White House South Lawn Saturday afternoon before departing to attend the Army vs. Navy football game in Philadelphia.\n\"John Kelly will be leaving, I don't know if I can say retiring but, he's a great guy,\" the president told reporters. \"John Kelly will be leaving at the end of the year. We'll be announcing who will be taking John's place, it might be on an interim basis. I'll be announcing that over the next day or two.\"\nThe president added, \"I appreciate his service very much.\"\nA senior White House official told CBS News that the president didn't bring up Kelly's impending departure at a dinner with White House senior staff Saturday night, as some had expected him to do. It is unclear who will replace Kelly, although Vice President Mike Pence's chief of staff, Nick Ayers, has been listed as a possible successor. Mr. Trump didn't respond to shouted questions as to whether Ayers would be the replacement.\nKelly, who joined the White House as chief of staff in July 2017 after the departure of predecessor Reince Priebus, spent months fighting to establish and maintain control of a White House marked by competing factions and complicated by a president who thrives on keeping everyone guessing.\nFor months, Kelly's departure appeared to be looming, as CBS News chief White House correspondent Major Garrett reported in March, and in November. In July, The Wall Street Journal first reported Kelly had agreed to stay on as chief of staff through the 2020 election cycle, although whether he would actually last that long in the role -- a long time for any chief of staff but particularly for senior staff in Trump world -- was in question.\nKelly's departure comes at a pivotal time for Mr. Trump's administration, as special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation continues to hand down legal developments concerning people close to the president, and as Democrats prepare to take control of the House -- and the investigative powers that come with it -- in January.\nKelly, a retired four-star Marine general -- a qualification that made him attractive for the job to Mr. Trump -- strove to bring some order to a White House with relatively little government experience, and to a president who dislikes many of the routine aspects of governing.\nOnetime Secretary of State Rex Tillerson described Mr. Trump's aversion to detail in an interview with \"CBS News This Morning.\"\n\"It was challenging for me, coming from the highly processed Exxon Mobil, to go work for a man who is pretty undisciplined, doesn't like to read, doesn't read briefing reports, doesn't like to get to the details of a lot of things but rather says look this is what I believe,\" Tillerson said.\nIt was to that environment that Kelly attempted to bring order. Upon his arrival, Kelly also looked to ensure fewer people had direct access to the president in the Oval Office -- a move that frustrated some whose access was suddenly restricted.\nWhat Kelly will do next is unclear.\nKelly had moments of his own, however, when he became the focus of attention or controversy. Here are a few of them:\nNick Ayers considered as replacement for Kelly\nReporting by Fin Gomez\nA senior White House official told CBS News that the president is expected to make an announcement Monday about who will replace outgoing chief of staff John Kelly, and that Nick Ayers, the vice president's current chief of staff, remains the top contender.\nCBS News has learned that President Trump and Ayers, have been working out the details under which Ayers could officially elevated to that role, according to senior White House sources. The president wants his next chief of staff to hold the position through the 2020 election.\nThe two year commitment has been an obstacle for Ayers, as he is a 36 year old father of triplets. He had long decided on leaving the administration and moving his family back to Georgia, a senior White House official told CBS News.\n\"Nick is one of the top contenders for the job, although he has long planned to move back to Georgia with his family by end of the year,\" the official said.\nThough Ayers has his detractors in the West Wing, he has a strong backing from Vice President Mike Pence and Mr. Trump's daughter and son-in-law, Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner. Ayers is widely respected for his prowess in political strategy and acumen for running a well oiled operation like he has done in Pence world.\nTrump advisers with an eye on 2020 have also urged the president to change his chief of staff to someone with a respected acumen for politics ahead of the re-election effort.\nTrump and Charlottesville violence\nIn public, Kelly, 68, occasionally let on his discomfort with his job at the White House.\nMr. Trump's response to the deadly violence that ensued from the white nationalist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, in August 2018 became an immediate test for Kelly, who had started as White House chief of staff days earlier. Photographers captured the still-new chief of staff hanging his head and looking down at his shoes as the president, from his perch in Trump Tower, blamed \"many sides\" for the violence that left 32-year-old Heather Heyer dead.\n\"God punished me\" with the White House\nKelly joked to Department of Homeland Security employees in March that leaving DHS and his role as DHS secretary for the White House was because \"God punished me, I guess\" -- humor that didn't go over well with the president.\nMr. Trump, as CBS News' Garrett reported, believed he gave Kelly a considerable amount of power when he arrived, and thought Kelly should remember and appreciate that -- not suggest he was cursed.\nDeath of La David Johnson in Niger\nIn October 2017, Kelly defended the president's call to the widow of Army Sergeant La David Johnson, after Johnson's death in an ambush in Niger. Mr. Trump, according to Florida Rep. Frederica Wilson, told the widow her husband \"knew what he signed up for.\"\nKelly came to the White House briefing room himself to defend the president, criticizing Wilson for listening to the condolence call. But he also walked through with reporters what U.S. government and military officials say to the bereaved, a conversation he knew well, since the man who is now the chairman of the Joint Chiefs, Gen. Joseph Dunford, had appeared at Kelly's own door in 2010 to tell him his son had been killed in Afghanistan. And in recounting what Dunford had said to him, he repeated a version Mr. Trump's words to Johnson's widow, Myeshia Johnson, casting them in a different light.\n\"'Kel,'\" he recalled Dunford said of his son, \"'he was doing exactly what he wanted to do when he was killed. He knew what he was getting into by joining that one percent. He knew what the possibilities were because we were at war. And when he died...he was surrounded by the best men on this earth, his friends.'\"\nRob Porter allegations\nKelly was thrust into the rare spotlight in January 2018, after issuing a statement standing by then-White House staff secretary Rob Porter when Porter was accused of abusing his ex-wives. Porter had worked at the White House on an interim security clearance for a year and had warned the White House counsel and Kelly that there might be problems with his background check.\nIn his initial statement, statement Kelly called Porter a \"man of true integrity and honor.\" Exactly what Kelly knew about the allegations, and when, spurred questions and criticism.\nIn the wake of the Rob Porter fiasco, Kelly cracked down on the clearance process to help ensure White House staff weren't operating on temporary clearances. Porter and other top White House officials, including the president's son-in-law and senior adviser Jared Kushner, had long been operating without long-term clearances while being privy to sensitive information.", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00240.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 232, + "original_length": 16307, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.98, + "perplexity": 257.9, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "https://www.cbsnews.com/news/aerosmith-frontman-asks-trump-campaign-to-stop-using-song/", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T04:35:50Z", + "digest": "sha1:7WD6OHJ4YZLNRLQAFBDTCIHGPQU6WJQ3", + "length": 1513, + "nlines": 11, + "source_domain": "www.cbsnews.com", + "title": "Aerosmith frontman asks Trump campaign to stop using song - CBS News", + "raw_content": "LOS ANGELES -- Aerosmith frontman Steven Tyler is asking Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump to stop using the power ballad \"Dream On\" at campaign events.\nAttorneys for Tyler sent a second cease-and-desist letter to Trump's campaign committee on Saturday.\nThe letter says that Trump does \"not have our client's permission to use 'Dream On'\" or any of Tyler's other songs and that it \"gives the false impression that he is connected with or endorses Mr. Trump's presidential bid.\"\nWhat does Obama think of Trump?\nTyler, who is a registered Republican, attended the GOP contenders' first debate in August.\nAttorney Dina LaPolt said in a statement that the letter is not a \"political\" or \"personal issue with Mr. Trump,\" but it's one of permission and copyright.\nOn Sunday, Trump appeared on CBS News' \"Face the Nation.\" Trump spoke with host John Dickerson about Syria, Russia and gun control. The Republican presidential candidate is one of the more than 12 million Americans who has a concealed weapons permit, of which he said: \"I feel much better being armed.\"\nDonald Trump: \u201cI feel much better being armed\u201d\nTrump called himself \"a big Second Amendment person\" and argued that if someone had been carrying a gun during the shooting at Umpqua Community College in Roseburg, Oregon earlier this month, \" the result would've been better.\"\nTrump would not outright say whether he thinks everyone should get a permit.\n\"That's up to them. But I will tell you, I feel much better being armed,\" he responded.", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00240.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 204, + "original_length": 9925, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.97, + "perplexity": 266.3, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "https://www.cccrockford.org/2017/06/26/are-they-taking-note/", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T04:30:06Z", + "digest": "sha1:4DE3HRHEPX4R6MDXMYFAKDLYAWAFE4YY", + "length": 3413, + "nlines": 9, + "source_domain": "www.cccrockford.org", + "title": "Are they taking note? \u2013 Central Christian Church \u2013 Rockford", + "raw_content": "Home / What Are We Thinking? / Staff Blog / Are they taking\u2026\nWhen they saw the courage of Peter and John and realized that they were unschooled, ordinary men, they were astonished and they took note that these men had been with Jesus. \u2013 Acts 4:13\nYou have been influenced by the people around you. For good or for bad, you can\u2019t avoid that your life is going to be impacted by others. This happens in a variety of places. Arturio Sandoval was a sidekick to and student of Dizzy Gillespie. So, when you listen to him play the trumpet, you can hear the way Dizzy influenced his musical style.\nIt extends itself to a person\u2019s political views, manner of speaking, writing, artistic and designing style. It shows up in cooking, dressing, parenting, sports, methods of leadership, and even the waging of war. We all are some kind of reflection of the influences that shape us \u2013 whether it was to emulate what we want to be, or to avoid some direction we don\u2019t want to go.\nI know that the way I preach, teach, and write, is a combination of influences \u2013 my father, my professors, and others whom I have read and listened to over the years. I have more than once been told \u201cI can see a lot of your dad in you.\u201d And, today, I have heard someone say a similar thing to my son.\nI think that one of the reasons that C. S. Lewis developed such a great mind was his habit of surrounding himself with other great minds. He seemed to understand that discussing and debating his thoughts with others who were also sharp made him a better thinker and writer. So, he met on Thursday evenings with other professors and writers at Oxford to discuss and critique their latest works, and he would often go on day-long walks, taking along someone with him to discuss and debate.\nI have often thought about the notice of Acts 4:13. Luke includes it, along with a few other details. He left out a lot there too, but he included this detail of what was rolling through the minds of the Jewish Council as they, in frustration, attempted to shut down Peter and John from proclaiming Jesus. \u201cThey took note that these men had been with Jesus.\u201d They noticed they were unschooled, ordinary men \u2013 fishermen, actually. Can you hear the conversation they were whispering to each other? \u201cHow do these guys, with no education, Galileans, end up teaching crowds in the temple? And then, they just stand here in front of us with an attitude like they were talking to any other person on the street! What\u2019s going on here?\u201d And then someone points out the thing they didn\u2019t want to accept, \u201cThese were some of the men who were disciples of Jesus.\u201d\nThe only explanation to what was going on was that these men had been with Jesus. You and I know that they were bold because they had not only been taught by Jesus and sent by Jesus, but they had also been witnesses to His death and to the fact that He had risen from the dead. And now, with His Holy Spirit poured out on them, they were doing what Jesus had told them to do.\nJesus Himself said, \u201c\u2026everyone who is fully trained will be like his teacher.\u201d (Luke 6:40). That means, if we\u2019re serious about this, that the people who are around us should be seeing Jesus in us. If we\u2019ve spent time talking to Him, listening to His word, and talking about Him, it will show up in our lives. It may that the greatest compliment anyone can pay us would be to notice that we\u2019ve \u201cbeen with Jesus.\u201d Are they noticing?", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00240.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 102, + "original_length": 5168, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.99, + "perplexity": 193.5, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "https://www.cdrinfo.com/d7/content/north-korea-behind-attacks-cryptocurrency-exchanges-report", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T04:35:23Z", + "digest": "sha1:JYIWUIKHRCESQMARY5MAZLXTZB7MY5DC", + "length": 1349, + "nlines": 8, + "source_domain": "www.cdrinfo.com", + "title": "North Korea Behind attacks on Cryptocurrency Exchanges: report | CdrInfo.com", + "raw_content": "North Korea Behind attacks on Cryptocurrency Exchanges: report\nSouth Korea's spy agency said North Korean hackers were behind attacks on cryptocurrency exchanges this year in which some 7.6 billion won ($6.99 million) worth of cryptocurrencies were stolen.\nCiting, the South Korean National Intelligence Service (NIS), the Chosun Ilbo newspaper reported on Friday that the cyber attacks attributed to North Korean hackers also included the leaking of personal information from 36,000 accounts from the world's busiest cryptocurrency exchange Bitthumb in June.\nAttacks also included the theft of cryptocurrencies from accounts at exchanges Yapizon, now called Youbit, and Coinis in April and September, it said. The paper also cited the NIS as saying North Korean hackers had also demanded 6 billion won ($5.5 million) from Bitthumb in return for deleting the leaked personal information.\nThe NIS found that the malware used in hacking the exchanges was made with the same method as malware used in hacking Sony Pictures and the central bank of Bangladesh in 2014 and 2016 respectively, the Chosun Ilbo reported.\nThe NIS also said emails used in the attacks used North Korean internet addresses, according to the Chosun Ilbo.\nSamsung Galaxy A8, A8 Plus and LG K Series to Appear at CES\nBlackBerry Ends Support for Priv, Talks About the Future of BB10", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00240.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 121, + "original_length": 4498, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.96, + "perplexity": 285.2, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "https://www.cedarville.edu/Academic-Schools-and-Departments/Music-and-Worship/Faculty-Staff/Music/Winteregg-Steven.aspx", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T04:14:08Z", + "digest": "sha1:T3FDE2WNAWRWNMZ6SU3FYEVGU44VAFDF", + "length": 913, + "nlines": 12, + "source_domain": "www.cedarville.edu", + "title": "Steven Winteregg | Cedarville University", + "raw_content": "Steven Winteregg\nAcademic Schools and Departments Department of Music and Worship Meet our Faculty and Staff Music Steven Winteregg\nDr. Winteregg is an award-winning composer and has had many of his compositions performed around the world. He has also served as Principal Tuba in the Dayton Philharmonic Orchestra. He joined the Cedarville University faculty in 2004.\nB.M.E., University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music (1974)\nM.M., Wright State University (1979)\nD.M.A., The Ohio State University (1987)\nDanzas (Steven Winteregg) Music and Worship Faculty Compositions (2016)\nA Time for More (Steven L. Winteregg) Music and Worship Faculty Compositions (2014)\nArgentina (Steven L. Winteregg) Music and Worship Faculty Compositions (2014)\nBrazil (Steven L. Winteregg) Music and Worship Faculty Compositions (2014)\nCuba (Steven L. Winteregg) Music and Worship Faculty Compositions (2014)\nOffice: DMC 116", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00240.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 135, + "original_length": 3551, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.89, + "perplexity": 322.6, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "https://www.celebdirtylaundry.com/2017/love-hip-hop-recap-2617-season-7-episode-13-cancun-pt-2/", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T03:37:24Z", + "digest": "sha1:PJIKPQ3MCT2PF7YFUNOQB3PIDTFFVVSE", + "length": 6880, + "nlines": 17, + "source_domain": "www.celebdirtylaundry.com", + "title": "Love & Hip Hop Recap 2/6/17: Season 7 Episode 13 \"Cancun Pt. 2\" | Celeb Dirty Laundry", + "raw_content": "BY Latrese Garner on February 6, 2017 | Comments: Leave Comments\nTonight on VH1\u2019s hit series Love & Hip Hop airs with an all-new Monday, February 6, 2017, season 7 episode 13 and we have your Love & Hip Hop recap below for you. On tonight\u2019s Love & Hip Hop season 7 episode 12 as per the VH1 synopsis, \u201cConclusion. Yandy Smith-Harris confronts Juliet \u201cJuju\u201d C again; Tara Wallace and Amina Buddafly see each other for the first time in more than one year and Samantha\u2019s reeling from a visit to Mendeecees. Later, Yandy doesn\u2019t show up at Lil Mendeecees\u2019 birthday party.\u201d\nOn this week\u2019s episode of Love and Hip Hop New York the ladies are celebrating their last day in Mexico. Cardi and her sister Hennessy are talking about Hennessy\u2019s plans for when she gets back. Cardi tells her \u201cMom is already proud of me and she wants to be proud of you too. A lot of people have degrees and don\u2019t know what to do with them.\u201d Hennessy says \u201cI already have plans to meet with the manufacturer when I get back so don\u2019t worry. I plan to make you proud. I want to make big money like you.\u201d\nMeanwhile, there is still major drama between Yandy and Juju. Yandy goes to try and talk to Juju about the stories in her book again. Yandy says \u201cYou have to admit that the one story about the flirting-\u201d Juju interrupts her and tells her \u201cIt\u2019s not about you. Please just stop.\u201d Yandy eventually apologizes and the two women hug and make up.\nNow that the Creep Squad has made amends and Cisco has apologized to all of the fellas Rich has decided to surprise everyone with a clothing venture that celebrates the creep squad. Ashley isn\u2019t really feeling the clothing venture. She tells her dad \u201cYou need to leave the creep squad alone. I don\u2019t want a stepmom who is ratchet so I am going to be picking out your dates from now on.\u201d Rich is amused to hear this.\nEricka returns from visiting Mendecees in prison and is shell shocked when she finds out that both Samantha and her mother, pam have been blocked from coming to the jail to see them. She reveals this news when she sits down to dinner with her mother and Ericka. Samantha says \u201cI blame Yandy. She is on this motherly trip about planning little Mendecees birthday party, but she hasn\u2019t contributed one cent nor one idea, but she can has time to go to Mexico. I don\u2019t like how she is doing things at all.\u201d\nWhen Kimbella returns from Mexico Jules has a romantic surprise for her. He has flowers and wine. They talk about the trip and Kim tells him \u201cYandy brought work because she brought Bianca. I had to make sure things were right with my man.\u201d Jules tells her \u201cI see what you go through now. I just wanted to tell you that I have the ultimate respect for what you do holding this family down.\u201d KImbella is so excited. She tells him \u201cThank you.\u201d Remy is still\nRemy is still struggling with the loss of her baby so she decides to go visit her friend Joe to talk to him about what she is going through personally. Joe tells her \u201cFrom this point on you should be working toward slavery.\u201d Remy tells him \u201cFrom this point on I have to put some of my energy into my personal life. I want to have a baby.\u201d Joe tells her \u201cI want you to have a baby and be happy, but does Pap know what kind of baby shower he is going to have to come up with?\u201d Remy laughs.\nYandy and Samantha meet up so that Samantha can invite Samantha can invite Yandy to her son\u2019s birthday party. The meeting quickly goes south. Samantha tells Yandy \u201cIf you want these kids together you need to come down off this high horse.\u201d Yandy tells her \u201cI\u2019m not on a high horse.\u201d Samantha tells her \u201cIf anyone should understand the drama he brings to us it\u2019s you. You should try and build a relationship with Ericka.\u201d Yandy responds \u201cI don\u2019t want to talk about Ericka. I didn\u2019t come here for that. Ericka is just mad because Mendecees loved me more than he loved her.\u201d Samantha asks her \u201d Are you finished?\u201d Yandy tells her \u201cYeah are you?\u201d Samantha says \u201cBye Hollywood.\u201d\nRich is ready for the first blind date set up by Ashley. He is surprised when he is met by Ashley\u2019s mother Miracle. The two of them decide to sit down and have dinner. Miracle asks him \u201cDo you want to have more children?\u201d Rich says \u201cTough question because I haven\u2019t been there from day one for seventeen years, so yes I would love to have another child and do it from day one.\u201d\nPeter has his daughters from Amina in town to visit with Tara and his sons. While they are there Peter and Amina have a heart to heart and Peter tells her \u201cYou know what comes after separation right? Divorce.\u201d Amina is devastated when she hears this because she was hoping that they could work things out. Peter tells her \u201cAt some point you have to look in the mirror and ask yourself How much more can you take?\u201d Amina tells him \u201cThat\u2019s fine. I understand that you don\u2019t want me.\u201d \\\nKimbella and Yandy meet up for the first time since their trip to Mexico to hang out and watch movies. Yandy tells Kimbella about the meeting between her and Samantha. Yandy tells her \u201cSamantha tells me that we will never get along until you accept Ericka.\u201d Kimbella says \u201cI\u2019m tired of hearing this. It\u2019s been a year of you dealing with this.\u201d Yandy says \u201cHonestly Kim I don\u2019t want to deal with this anymore so I don\u2019t even know if I\u2019m going. Either we going to leave in peace or they\u2019re going to leave in pieces.\u201d\nPeter brings all the kids together to celebrate little Bronx. Peter is talking to Amina trying to get her to come back to New York with his daughters. Amina is not having it. She tells him \u201cThere\u2019s nothing here for me except trouble.\u201d Peter says \u201cIt doesn\u2019t have to be that way.\u201d Amina says \u201cDo you really think If I came back here we wouldn\u2019t fall back into our old ways?\u201d Peter says \u201cThe old me would say whatever I had to in order to keep the babies close.\u201d Amina laughs and tells him \u201cSee it\u2019s the babies you want close, not me.\u201d\nWhile they are outside talking the boys and Tara show up and Amina does not seem happy. Everyone seems to be getting along really well. Peter makes a moving speech while the whole family is together. Peter says \u201cI still hope to win Tara back and show Amina that being apart is what\u2019s best for us.\u201d The two women sit down. Tara says \u201cAt the end of the day it\u2019s not about who did what. I want my kids to know their siblings and for us to come together.\u201d Amina agrees and the two women embrace.\nLittle Mendecees birthday party was a huge success and everyone had a great time. Yandy decided not to show up. Kimbella has decided to show up instead. Kimbella says \u201cYandy did not ask me to show up. I did that on my own.\u201d There is a large commotion going on. Samantha says \u201cIf she keeps it up she is going to get beat up again.\u201d Everyone heads outside and the fight is on!\nLove & Hip Hop Premiere Recap 11/21/16: Season 7 Episode 1 \u201cAll the Way Up\u201d\nLove & Hip Hop Recap 1/16/17: Season 7 Episode 10 \u201cDon\u2019t Mess With the Exes\u201d", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00240.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 127, + "original_length": 11655, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.98, + "perplexity": 322.9, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "https://www.celebritynetworth.com/articles/billionaire-news/tilman-fertitta-wealth/", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T04:03:31Z", + "digest": "sha1:C3Y42C4STN3PZJUNOYGNK2IDO7COIMC2", + "length": 4722, + "nlines": 23, + "source_domain": "www.celebritynetworth.com", + "title": "Tilman Fertitta's Journey To Owning An NBA Team | Celebrity Net Worth", + "raw_content": "Tilman Fertitta's Journey To Owning An NBA Team\nBy Amy Lamare on September 16, 2017 in Articles \u203a Billionaire News\nTilman Fertitta is the richest restaurateur in the world. The 60-year-old Texan makes it his business to acquire hospitality businesses \u2013 but not just any hospitality businesses. He specializes in poorly-managed, out-of-date, restaurants, hotels, casinos, and boardwalks that he can buy at bargain basement prices. He is known for swooping in when the businesses are right on the brink of bankruptcy. Tilman Fertitta runs a $2.5 billion company that encompasses 421 restaurants and 56 brands, with a heavy dose of middle class, tourist-driven spots like Chart House and Bubba Gump Shrimp. He is the 100% owner and sole shareholder of Houston-based Landry's Inc. and he likes to do things his way. Oh, and by the way, he is one of those Fertittas. Frank and Lorenzo are his cousins.\nFertitta got his start as a 14-year-old working at his father's Galveston, Texas restaurant peeling shrimp. He studied business administration and hospitality management at Texas Tech and the University of Houston. Fertitta made his first big move at 23. He got a loan and built his first hotel, the 160 room Key Largo right on the water in Galveston. He moved into foodservice in the early 80s as the real estate specialist for Landry's. In 1988 he sold the Key Largo and used the money to buy out the Landry brothers to become the sole owner of the Landry's chain.\nHe also bought a restaurant named Jimmie Walker's that had been nearly destroyed in a hurricane. It was on the boardwalk in Kemah, Texas, 20 miles from Houston. Fertitta turned the spot into a Landry's Seafood, and it became the most popular restaurant on the boardwalk. He went on to buy every restaurant on the 40-acre Kemah boardwalk and transformed it into an entertainment destination with a wooden roller coaster, a Ferris wheel, hotel, stores and plenty of Landry's-owned restaurants. Fertitta took a quiet shrimping town and transformed it into a theme park, which he could not have done without the trusted network he built.\nFertitta took Landry's public in 1993 and used the cash the IPO had infused him with to go on a buying spree. He bought Joe's Crab Shack in 1994, Crab House in 1996, Rainforest Cafe in 2000, and Chart House and Saltgrass Steakhouse in 2002. After acquiring a business, he fires top executives, closes failing locations and revamps existing ones. He also moves management into Landry's Houston headquarters, where he can keep an eye on things.\nOver the years, Fertitta has had an uncanny ability to swoop in when the restaurant chain's valuation hits rock bottom and grab it. He bid on Claim Jumper in 2005 but lost out to a group who paid $220 million for 20 restaurants. In 2010, Fertitta bought the then 38-restaurant chain out of bankruptcy for $48 million.\nNext, Fertitta followed in his Las Vegas cousins' footsteps and got into the casino business. In 2005 he bought the Golden Nugget Hotels and Casinos in Las Vegas and Laughlin. In 2011 he bought the Trump hotel in Atlantic City and rebranded it the Golden Nugget and in 2014 he opened Golden Nuggets in Louisiana and Mississippi.\nThese days, Fertitta claims to be done snapping up restaurant chains. As the economy has improved, there are less rock bottom deals to be made, much to Fertitta's chagrin. Instead, the chairman, CEO and sole shareholder Landry's Inc., has taken his talents to TV. He is the star of the CNBC show \"Billion Dollar Buyer.\" He is also the new owner of the NBA's Houston Rockets.\nIt seems that whatever Tilman Fertitta touches becomes successful.\nTilman Fertitta has a net worth of $3.1 billion.\nTilman Fertitta Articles\nTilman Fertitta Net Worth\nBy Alex Chan on Apr 17, 2014\nTilman Fertitta Net Worth: Tilman Fertitta is an American businessman who has a net worth of $3.1 billion. Mr. Fertitta is best known as the CEO\nBillionaire Tilman Fertitta Not Interested In Giving Pledge, Leaving His Billions To His Kids\nBy Amy Lamare on Feb 3, 2018\nBillionaire Houston Rockets owner Tilman Fertitta has some ideas of what he's going to leave his kids when he dies. Unlike Bill Gates and Warren Buffett who are members of The Giving Pledge, Fertitta has no plans to join them in this philanthropic...\nTilman Fertitta Buys The Houston Rockets For A Record-Setting $2.2 Billion\nBy Joey Held on Sep 6, 2017\nTillman Fertitta just paid more money for an NBA team than any other owner before him. How much did he spend to fulfill his lifelong dream?\nThe 10 Most Expensive Team Purchases In Sports History\nBuying a sports franchise takes a lot of money, but some are more expensive than ever. Here are the highest prices people have paid to own a team.", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00240.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 135, + "original_length": 7191, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.96, + "perplexity": 190.5, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "https://www.chalkbeat.org/posts/co/2017/08/16/colorado-education-commissioner-katy-anthes-joins-education-advocacy-group-chiefs-for-change/", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T04:24:16Z", + "digest": "sha1:KEQGNCV2TB524H66XKM5JZP66RPXP7QK", + "length": 1878, + "nlines": 9, + "source_domain": "www.chalkbeat.org", + "title": "Colorado Education Commissioner Katy Anthes joins education advocacy group Chiefs for Change", + "raw_content": "Colorado Education Commissioner Katy Anthes joins education advocacy group Chiefs for Change\nBy Eric Gorski - August 16, 2017\nColorado Education Commissioner Katy Anthes has joined Chiefs for Change, a group of state- and district-level school chiefs advocating for reforms they believe will boost achievement for all students, the group announced Wednesday.\n\u201cI\u2019m excited to continue working with fellow state and district Chiefs from around the country,\u201d Anthes said in a statement. \u201cChiefs for Change members are courageous, effective, and laser-focused on students. It is a privilege to join their ranks and come together as a community to advocate for excellence and equity for all of our students.\u201d\nFormer Florida Gov. Jeb Bush launched the organization in 2008 to promote his education agenda nationally, and it broke away from Bush\u2019s Foundation for Educational Excellence in 2015 to become an independent nonprofit.\nIt has championed charter schools, the Common Core State Standards and other reforms. Over the last two years, Chiefs for Change has produced position papers on building a more diverse teacher workforce, expanding instructional choices, and school improvement strategies in the era of the Every Student Succeeds Act, the federal education law.\nThe group began as a coalition of state education leaders, then expanded its scope to include heads of school districts. Among its two-dozen members are Denver Public Schools Superintendent Tom Boasberg and Antwan Wilson, a former DPS hand who now leads the Washington, D.C., school district. Both men sit on the board of directors.\nAccording to its most recent tax forms, Chiefs for Changes\u2019 largest funders are Bloomberg Philanthropies and the Walton Family Foundation. 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There is a mention of pre-application consultation with Planners.\nThere is a reference to applicant not complying with pre-app advice given as the result would be \u201cdifficult to build\u201d - this is not a planning criteria. And the applicant says he has had no pre-planning meetings with the Council. A request to Planners for copies of minutes of any such meetings was denied, stating \u201cconfidentiality\u201d, intimating such a meeting was held.\nIn response to a Freedom of Information request the Council again declined to release these minutes - if in fact they exist - claiming an exemption. Such exemptions can normally be sustained only if the information\u2019s release would open the Council to being taken to court. I\u2019m at a loss to think how a conversation about windows and doors could result in that. And why the secrecy? 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Due to the NMSI program and more encouragement from teachers to take harder classes, the number of students taking AP classes and exams has increased in recent years.\nThis article was previously published in the Fall 2017 Periscope magazine.\nKnowing that a student\u2019s test scores are vital to the college admissions process, Carlisle High School\u2019s teachers and administration are devoted to helping students score highly on the exams. This devotion, along with the hard work of the students, has resulted in Carlisle High School becoming a stand-out school when it comes to test scores.\nAP Exams Push Students\nOver the past four years, Carlisle High School has seen an increase in both AP exam test takers and qualifying scorers, something Jay Rauscher, CHS\u2019 head principal, is proud of.\nHe credits the increase in test takers, and thus an increase in higher test scores, with a new policy concerning AP classes that Carlisle adopted two years ago.\n\u201cPart of that is because of the new approach we\u2019ve taken to AP and honors courses, in which we have removed the prerequisites and what I call \u201cbarriers\u201d to getting into those classes,\u201d Rauscher said. \u201cStudents no longer have to fill out applications to get in those courses, and students no longer have to meet a grade requirement. We\u2019re giving greater access to students, and they seem to be taking advantage of that, which we\u2019re really pleased with.\u201d\nCHS students have always been fairly successful when taking AP exams. In 2013, 135 Carlisle students took at least one AP exam, and 75% of those students received a 3 or higher. This was nearly 15% more than the percentage of test takers globally who received a 3 or higher.\nIn 2017, 76% of the 182 test takers received a 3 or higher, compared to 60.3% of all test takers globally.\n\u201cOur students have always performed well on AP exams,\u201d said Rauscher. \u201cStudents who choose to go into AP courses tend to be very serious students who have a higher regard for their academics and want to be very successful and are looking at their post-high school plans and options, and doing well on AP courses and exams are part of that process.\u201d\nDr. Karen Quinn, the Director of Curriculum for Carlisle Area School District, said that she feels the district\u2019s focus on both national and state standards helps students succeed on these tests. \u201cI think we\u2019re always looking at revising our curriculum, and keeping it as current as possible, so these days both state and national standards when we write a curriculum, so that we can get a broader look at what we should be teaching students, rather than just what Pennsylvania says we should be teaching,\u201d she said.\nRauscher said that Carlisle has begun to adopt new, nationally-recommended strategies too.\n\u201cWe are now doing the National Math and Science Initiative program, or NMSI program, which is going to provide what we feel is the academic support for our students to become even more successful in testing,\u201d said Rauscher. \u201cSo what we anticipate is, for the numbers to continue to increase, but now we\u2019re really expecting the number of qualifying exam scores to increase as well.\u201d\nIn order to prepare for the AP exams, CHS and NMSI have teamed up to provide them with extracurricular study sessions for the English, science, and math AP exams.\n\u201cOn October 21, we had our first ever Saturday study session for AP English students. Every student in an AP English course was invited to attend,\u201d said Rauscher. \u201cThe exciting part was, we had over 80 AP [English] students in attendance for that Saturday session, and that\u2019s out of about 104 AP English students. About 80% of our eligible students attended that help session.\u201d\nAccording to the CHS counseling office, approximately 230 students are registered to take AP exams in May 2018. This is a 15% increase from May 2017.\nCarlisle High School has also achieved success with the ACT exam, a highly recognized college entrance exam that evaluates a student\u2019s skills in reading, writing, math, and science.\n\u201cI was extremely pleased with the fact that we have more students taking the ACT, again, students thinking about their post-high school education career,\u201d said Rauscher. \u201cThey\u2019re getting themselves better prepared and, as you can see from the test results, they are outstanding.\u201d\nThe number of students in the school who took the ACT has doubled over the past four years. In 2013, out of the 26,171 students in the state of Pennsylvania who took the ACT exam, 42 of them were CHS students. In 2017, 81 of the 30,987 students in Pennsylvania who took the ACT were from Carlisle.\nThe composite score of CHS students has risen 0.7 points over the past four years: in 2013, the average composite score was 25.0, and in 2017, it was 25.7. This score is also two points higher than the state average composite score, 23.7.\nRauscher believes that these high scores are a result of the hard work put into teaching by CHS\u2019 teachers.\n\u201cI think it has to do with our teachers; they have worked hard in recent years on professional development, and working on using the best methods possible in instruction and planning. I think our teachers are doing a really good job working with our students and instructing them on what they need to be successful in the coursework, and to be prepared for tests and exams.\u201d\nTags: ACTs, AP exams, news, test scores\nOne Response to \u201cCHS bests the tests: Score, participation increases in ACT and AP exams\u201d\nI know that AP exams seem like a \u201crequirement\u201d for students in AP classes, and with CHS\u2019s partnership with NMSI this year, there is more incentive than ever to score well on them, but an alternative opinion is that they are not needed to succeed. If, for example, I take the AP Chem exam (which is a guarantee) and I score a 4 or a 5 (Definitely NOT a guarantee) and receive credit from my college in place of a level one or entry course in chemistry. By receiving such a score in a core science class, I clearly know the content pretty well. But if I skip an entry level class and get thrown straight into a second level class, without any experience in an actual college classroom, I may be unprepared for it and receive a lower grade than had I taken the entry-level course first. Yet if I take the lower level class, and do well in it and get a higher grade, I will have a stronger GPA after my first semester of college, and have gained the experience of a college classroom and established a good relationship with my professor and peers. This isn\u2019t a for sure case, but in some instances may be more beneficial. 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Posted By Rupali\nI once came across a TV show on the houses of famous Hollywood actors. The show featured a handful of actors and their homes, but there is one that stands out clearly in my head, not the actor\u2019s name, but the amazingly decorated home, which as its centerpiece had a fountain in the foyer, surrounded by beautiful plants. It was the perfect image of a tropical oasis. I, of course, immediately, as I often do, told my husband I wanted a home just the same. He was amused, as usual, and we laughed it off since we definitely did not have millions of dollars at our disposal.\nBut with the right interior decorator, you can transform your home into your own little heaven on Earth, on your budget. Take, for instance, the TLC TV show, trading spaces, where they transform a room in the house on a budget of $1000. Interior design colleges in pune offer best interior design courses in pune.\nIf you ever happen to come across an interior decorator, you will find that they love their job. The reasons being:\nYou get to create tiny little paradises on Earth, for your clients. A little oasis to escape to from the maddening and busy world\nSpend other people\u2019s money to shop\nGetting paid for doing what you love (not just the shopping. :) )\nConvenient and flexible working hours\nBut in order to enter into this rewarding career, you must first have the most basic qualification, which is the ability to conceptualize a design for whatever space you walk into. A field that demands a unique creative perspective, so that you can create exclusive designer homes and spaces that speak volumes about its owners. If you have this basic ability, then the rest of it is just icing on the cake. By enrolling in interior design courses in pune, get your certification as an interior designer. Interior design courses in pune, that will teach you about textures, patterns, fabrics, carpentry, etc. This knowledge combined with your natural ability for visualizing beautiful spaces will truly make you a superstar in the world of interior designing. Then perhaps, you can come and transform my home into a paradise on Earth, on my budget. There are good interior design colleges in Mumbai also.", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00240.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 671, + "original_length": 12490, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.96, + "perplexity": 265.0, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "https://www.clearadmit.com/2017/03/real-humans-mba-admissions-carlson-school-managements-linh-gilles/", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T03:27:50Z", + "digest": "sha1:CDKNH73TWAOHDQRS6ZU5MXI5JYFVBC6I", + "length": 7220, + "nlines": 27, + "source_domain": "www.clearadmit.com", + "title": "Real Humans of MBA Admissions: Carlson School of Management's Linh Gilles Real Humans of MBA Admissions: Carlson School of Management's Linh Gilles", + "raw_content": "Home \u00bb Admissions Director Q&A \u00bb Real Humans of MBA Admissions: Carlson School of Management\u2019s Linh Gilles\nReal Humans of MBA Admissions: Carlson School of Management\u2019s Linh Gilles\nLast Updated Mar 23, 2017 by Jeanette Brown | 1 comment\nEarlier this month, we had the pleasure of getting to know Linh Gilles, director of admissions and recruiting at the University of Minnesota\u2019s Carlson School of Management. She\u2019s been in admissions at Carlson for the past decade and in the director\u2019s role since 2012, but she also knows the school from the student\u2019s perspective. That\u2019s because she is currently enrolled in the full-time executive MBA (EMBA) program herself\u2014all while working full time and raising two kids.\n\u201cI suppose at some point working for an MBA program for 10 years, you do just drink the Kool-Aid,\u201d she says with a laugh. But she\u2019s also gathered a decade\u2019s worth of evidence for how transformative the degree can be. \u201cIt\u2019s not only about business but also about leadership and management\u2014which have applications for any industry,\u201d she says, including higher education. \u201cWe need to meet the objectives and mission of our institution, so I want to strengthen my analytical capabilities and really examine how we can propel our organization into the future for longer term sustainability.\u201d\nOf course, being a student in Carlson\u2019s EMBA program has also given her an increased level of empathy for those she recruits and a redoubled commitment to ensuring that the program is truly exceptional, she says. But it is by no means an easy road. \u201cIt\u2019s been hard to balance, absolutely,\u201d she says, confessing that she has resorted to reading her finance homework aloud as a bedtime story to her three-year-old, who doesn\u2019t seem to mind. \u201cOn a daily basis I feel like it is an accomplishment for me be able to get my assignment in, to get my kids out the door and to get to work\u2014I\u2019ve really had to become a master of balancing priorities.\u201d\nAnd then there\u2019s the added pressure of wanting to uphold her reputation with her faculty. \u201cI want to prove to them that I am just as worthy of being a student in the program as I am of protecting the quality of the other students who take part,\u201d she says. \u201cAt the same time, it is amazing for me to be able to say\u2014from personal experience\u2014that we deliver a top-notch business education.\u201d\nDespite the crazy balancing act that is her every day, Gilles nonetheless was generous with her time, taking part in both our Real Humans of MBA Admissions series, which follows, and our Admissions Director Q&A, which we\u2019ll run in this space in the coming days. We hope that in reading them you\u2019ll get to feel as much like you know her as we did in speaking with her.\nBeach or mountains? It depends on my mood\u2026but today I will go with mountains.\nMorning person or night owl? Night owl, for sure. All through high school and college I worked as a server at a restaurant and have been a night owl ever since.\nPet peeve? Oh gosh, just one? I hate it when people don\u2019t use their turn signals.\nGuilty pleasure? This is kind of a weird guilty pleasure, but I really like dipping my french fries in ice cream\u2014something about that combination of super salty with sweet.\nFavorite virtue in others? Empathy. If people can really relate and try to empathize with where people are coming from, that says a lot about them.\nWorst habit? I am a very, very contextual person\u2014and by that I mean that if you ever get into conversation with me, I give you way more context than you need. I can talk a little too much!\nHappy place? 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How does it impact how you will interact with those who you must say no to? I have never been rejected by a school I applied to, but I have certainly faced rejection many ways in my professional life. In undergrad, when I was working as a graduate assistant there was a position I really wanted and I didn\u2019t get. It caused me to try to rethink what types of experiences I needed to have in order to gain what I was hoping to get from that teaching assistantship.\nWhich part of the Carlson admissions process would you most like to skip if you were applying today? I would skip the written statement, only because it\u2019s difficult for me to be confined to a certain word count. I feel like there is so much more background that could be explored. I love getting in front of people to share my experience, but it is hard to do that on paper.\nWhat\u2019s the best thing you read/watched/listened to recently? 10% Happier, by Dan Harris, a former Good Morning America correspondent. 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(AP File Photo)\nThe liberal media seem perplexed that President Obama plans to deviate from his usual State of the Union practice of \"asking\" Congress for a laundry list of policy proposals and \"not talking about himself.\"\nYou heard me right; the narrative is that Obama hasn't talked about himself in previous SOTUs. If that's their perception, can you imagine what an ego-fest \u2014 a virtual orgy of self-congratulation \u2014 this could be? But enough about that for now. I just ask that you sympathize with those of us who feel as if we have to watch it because it promises to be even worse than the preceding ones \u2014 and that's a very high bar.\nThe media just can't help themselves. They are also wrong that Obama has generally asked Congress to embrace his policy agenda, as opposed to browbeating it (or the Supreme Court) to kowtow. After his initial honeymoon expired, Obama never really tried to convince Congress of anything. His SOTU speeches were mostly televised harangues at Congress trying to publicly shame it into supporting his proposals. For him, it's never been about bipartisanship.\nPerhaps what the media should be saying is that Obama has given up any pretense of convincing Congress through popular pressure he generates from his bully pulpit, emphasis on \"bully,\" because he is a lame duck, emphasis on \"lame,\" and because this is a presidential election year.\nEven if Obama did harbor the illusion that he could use his nonexistent magical powers to persuade Congress to assist him in further dividing and destroying the nation, he realizes that can't work this year. Even establishment Republicans are not going to cave on any of Obama's remaining obsessions.\nBut any change from him will be only pro forma. Obama is an ideological zealot, still hellbent on advancing his leftist agenda. Though he probably won't try to cajole Congress into acting on his behalf, don't think for a second that he's abandoned his agenda.\nBeing who he is, Obama will not be deterred. You'll note that congressional opposition has never given him pause \u2014 and certainly not enough to reconsider whether his ideas are in line with a majority of Americans. It has just angered him enough to grow ever more lawless and impose his agenda unilaterally.\nI suppose some people still haven't figured this out yet, but Obama's narcissism doesn't just drive him to establish a presidential legacy. He aims much higher. He doesn't see his transformative potential limited by a mere two terms in office. He seeks to continue laying the groundwork for further radical changes once out of office, both through a Democratic successor and by remaining an active player in the private sector as a \"community organizer.\"\nHe plans on returning to community organizing when he's out of office, but we know that both \"community\" and \"organizing\" are euphemisms. He has no intention of restricting his activities to the community level, and he doubtlessly aims to be more proactive than \"organizing\" implies.\nIronically, Obama has been remarkably unsuccessful at using his \"organizing\" skills inside the system \u2014 by getting Congress to support his legislative proposals \u2014 with the major exception of the budgetary process. 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Consent in the context of human subjects research is based on:\nVoluntariness (the complete freedom of the participant to refuse to participate if they want);\nInformation (about the research, provided on the consent form or in some other way as part of the consent process); and\nComprehension (the consent process, whether a form or not, uses language that the participant can understand fully so that they are completely able to decide whether or not to participate.\nIn most cases, the consent process involves a consent form to which the participant almost always signs their name (again, there are exceptions, more on which below). In some cases, a verbal consent script is more appropriate, as when participants cannot read. It is important to understand that the form is not equivalent to the consent process; instead, it is the way many participants go through that process. Reading and filling out the form should always be supplemented by the opportunity for the participant to ask questions and otherwise make sure they feel comfortable participating.\nThe below refers to the consent process when participants are adults. When participants are children, they can legally only assent to participate in research and a parent or guardian must grant permission for the child to participate. This issue is covered on the subpage about research with children.\nGive a copy of the form to the person signing it.\nFollowing changes in IRB regulations, a legally acceptable consent form must begin with \"a concise and focused presentation of the key information that is most likely to assist a participant in understanding the reasons why one might or might not want to participate in the research. This part of the informed consent must be organized and presented in a way that facilitates comprehension.\"\nMore broadly, the consent form must provide \"the information that a reasonable person would want to have in order to make an informed decision about whether to participate, and an opportunity to discuss that information.\" And: \"Informed consent as a whole must present information in sufficient detail relating to the research, and must be organized and presented in a way that does not merely provide lists of isolated facts, but rather facilitates the participant's understanding of the reasons why one might or might not want to participate.\nA legally acceptable consent form must include ALL of the following elements unless otherwise noted, though they are not always in this order:\nA statement that the study involves research\nAn explanation of the purposes of the research; in plain English, what the research is about\nAn estimate of the expected length of participation\nA complete description of the procedures to be followed or activities to be carried out\nAn identification of any procedures that are experimental [primarily intended in a biomedical context so rarely relevant at CC]\nA description of any reasonably foreseeable risks or discomforts to the participant, whether psychological, physical, or social (e.g., financial, criminal, or academic)\nA description of any reasonably expected benefits to the participant or to others (e.g., contribution to your academic discipline)\nAn explanation of how you will keep participant records confidential and otherwise protect participants\u2019 privacy\nFor research involving more than minimal risk, an explanation as to whether any compensation and/or medical treatments are available if injury occurs, and, if so, what they consist of, or where further information may be obtained\nA description of what will happen to the information collected after the research has concluded\nYour contact information (in case a participant has questions about the research or about their rights, or in the event of a research-related problem for the participant)\nContact information for the Colorado College IRB, including the chair's name, email address, and phone number in case the participant has concerns about whether they have been treated unethically or illegally\nA statement that participation is voluntary\nA statement that refusal to participate does not involve any penalty or loss of benefits to which the participant is otherwise entitled\nA statement that the participant may discontinue participation at any time without penalty or loss of benefits to which the participant is otherwise entitled\nA statement that the participant is not being asked to voluntarily give up any of their legal rights. Note that any research with legal ramifications requires full Board approval and cannot therefore be reviewed on an expedited basis.\n[NEW] One of the following statements about any research that involves the collection of identifiable private information or identifiable biospecimens\nA statement that identifiers might be removed from the identifiable private information or biospecimens and that, after such removal, the information or biospecimens could be used for future research studies or distributed to another investigator for future research studies without additional informed consent from the participant if this might be a possibility, OR\nA statement that the participant's information or biospecimens collected as part of the research, even if identifiers are removed, will not be used or distributed for future research studies\nThe Colorado College IRB has developed consent form templates that cover all legally required components as long as you incorporate all of the template\u2019s components in your finalized consent form. Because the forms use the simplest possible language to cover the legal issues, the IRB recommends that you develop your consent form from the template rather than from this document. These templates have all been updated to reflect the regulatory changes.\nTo make sure that consent is truly informed, the following steps or elements are also required:\nWhen a participant\u2019s first language is not English, translators and/or a translated form must be used so that the form is in the participant\u2019s native or first language, unless the participant and researcher are both fluent in a second language, in which case the form may be in the second language.\nThe writing level of the consent form should match the reading level and background of the participants.\nUse simple language and avoid abstract, academic words and phrases.\nConstruct the consent form using \u201cyou\u201d rather than \u201cI\u201d because it may be unclear whether \u201cI\u201d refers to the investigator or the participant.\nGive the participant or their representative adequate time to read the form before signing it and encourage them to ask any questions they have.\nBe sure to take cultural values into account if you are carrying out research in a setting where the local culture might understand \u201cinformed consent\u201d differently. For example, there might be settings where consent must be given communally rather than by individuals, or must first be received from a political or religious leader.\nIn some situations, you may receive permission from the IRB to carry out research without the use of a standard consent process (\"waiver\" of consent) or with some alteration to the required elements of the process. The following five conditions must all be met for the IRB to approve such a change:\nThe research involves no more than minimal risk to participants.\nThe research could not realistically be carried out without the waiver or alteration.\nIf the research includes identifiable biological specimens or private information, the research could not realistically be carried out without using such specimens or information in an identifiable format. (This condition is a new extension of #2 above.)\nThe waiver or alteration will not adversely affect the rights or welfare of the participants.\nWhenever appropriate, participants or their legally authorized representatives will be provided with additional pertinent information after their participation.\nThe IRB can also waive the requirement for you to obtain signed consent forms for some or all participants if it finds any of the following:\nThe only record linking the participant and the research would be the consent form itself, and the principal risk would be potential harm resulting from a breach of confidentiality [in this instance, each participant decides whether they want documentation linking their name with the research].\nThe research presents no more than minimal risk of harm to participants; and no research procedures would normally require written consent if they took place outside of the research context.\nThe participants or legally authorized representatives are members of a distinct cultural group or community in which signing forms is not the norm and the research presents no more than minimal risk of harm to participants and there is an appropriate alternative mechanism for documenting that informed consent was obtained.\nFinally, the issue of consent is connected to the use of incentives for participation; this topic is discussed on a separate subpage.\nIf you have any questions about consent form requirements or how to modify the consent form template on the IRB website for your personal use, please contact Amanda Udis-Kessler, audiskessler@coloradocollege.edu.", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00240.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 111, + "original_length": 11214, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.92, + "perplexity": 269.2, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "https://www.complex.com/pop-culture/2011/08/is-the-duke-making-a-comeback", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T03:52:51Z", + "digest": "sha1:DU2M5DN4QIJJJV42BE7FRH56RB2EBQZM", + "length": 1257, + "nlines": 5, + "source_domain": "www.complex.com", + "title": "Is the \u201cDuke\u201d Making a Comeback? | Complex", + "raw_content": "Is the \u201cDuke\u201d Making a Comeback?\nDuring the Halo Fest event held out at PAX Prime, Microsoft had a little something special on hand for the die-hard Halo fans. The company commissioned master-modder Ben Heck to create 8 custom, wireless Duke controllers for the Xbox 360. For those who don\u2019t know, the Duke is the nickname that has been given to the massive first generation Xbox controllers that launched alongside the original Halo.\nAlthough the controller has often been criticized for its size, Halo fans seemed to take a liking to the controller as it seemed to for the original Halo game perfectly. With the upcoming release of Halo: Combat Evolved Anniversary for the Xbox 360, could Microsoft potentially be releasing a new version of the Duke for the modern console?\nWhile nothing has been made official, this isn\u2019t something that we would immediately rule out. The demand for Halo is unlike anything many other games have achieved, and anything branded with the Halo license is sure to draw a high demand. It wouldn\u2019t be surprising to see at least a limited run of these new controllers for the 2011 Holiday season. 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He is a member of the Indiana Funeral Directors Association, the National Funeral Directors Association and the Past President of the Madison County Funeral Directors Association. Active in the community, Henry\u2019s civic involvement includes the Elk\u2019s Lodge #209, current member and Past President of the Anderson Country Club, the Anderson Area Chamber of Commerce, current member and Past President of the Anderson Noon Exchange Club, Fellowship Masonic Lodge F&AM #681, Scottish Rite Valley of Indianapolis, Madison County Scottish Rite Club, Murat ...\nHenry is a native of Anderson, IN and received his degree in Mortuary Science from Indiana College of Mortuary Science. He is a member of the Indiana Funeral Directors Association, the National Funeral Directors Association and the Past President of the Madison County Funeral Directors Association.\nActive in the community, Henry\u2019s civic involvement includes the Elk\u2019s Lodge #209, current member and Past President of the Anderson Country Club, the Anderson Area Chamber of Commerce, current member and Past President of the Anderson Noon Exchange Club, Fellowship Masonic Lodge F&AM #681, Scottish Rite Valley of Indianapolis, Madison County Scottish Rite Club, Murat Shrine of Indianapolis, the Madison County Shrine Club and attends St. John\u2019s Lutheran Church. Henry and his wife, Carla, have one daughter, April and a son-in-law, Ryan.\nReinhold Mueller\nLead Funeral Director\nreinhold@bbdfh.com\nReinhold is a native of Anderson, IN. He is a graduate of Ball State as well as Mid-America College of Funeral Service. Reinhold is a member of the Madison County Funeral Directors Association and the Indiana Funeral Directors Association . He attends St. Mary\u2019s Catholic Church in Anderson with his wife, Lora. Active in the community, Reinhold is a current member of the Knights of Columbus Council #563 and the Anderson Noon Optimist Club. He is also a classic car enthusiast.\nReinhold is a native of Anderson, IN. He is a graduate of Ball State as well as Mid-America College of Funeral Service. Reinhold is a member of the Madison County Funeral Directors Association and the Indiana Funeral Directors Association . He attends St. Mary\u2019s Catholic Church in Anderson with his wife, Lora.\nActive in the community, Reinhold is a current member of the Knights of Columbus Council #563 and the Anderson Noon Optimist Club. He is also a classic car enthusiast.\nSally Molden\nSally has been a long-time Wilkinson resident and has been a part of the funeral home for over ten years. 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Lahm\nLarry Bronkema\nChris Kaczmarek\nJackie Bousman\nSusan Lahm\nHeather McMeans\nPrearrangement Director\nPrearrangement Advisor\nKristin St. Pierre", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00240.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 103, + "original_length": 4236, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.94, + "perplexity": 243.8, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "https://www.conejovalleyguide.com/dosomethingblog/farmers-market-in-thousand-oaks.html", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T04:23:25Z", + "digest": "sha1:AQDFISUCZPMG7JOYO4ZIW5XGJGQKF53S", + "length": 654, + "nlines": 6, + "source_domain": "www.conejovalleyguide.com", + "title": "Farmers' Market in Thousand Oaks \u2014 Conejo Valley Guide | Conejo Valley Events", + "raw_content": "The Thousand Oaks Farmers\u2019 Market is located at The Oaks Shopping Center located on the east end parking lot at the corner of Thousand Oaks Boulevard and Wilbur Road. Operating hours are 1:30 pm to 6:30 pm. on THURSDAYS.\nThis long-running farmers' market is a great place to buy fruits, vegetables, plants, eggs, nuts, honey and flowers from local farmers, as well as delicacies such as fresh tamales, baked goods and other goodies from local vendors.\nVisit the VCCFM website at www.vccfarmersmarkets.com for details.\nFOR MORE INFO ABOUT VENTURA COUNTY FARMERS' MARKETS, CLICK HERE\nFree (or Nearly Free), Other Activities, Shopping\n+EV Games in Camarillo", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00240.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 250, + "original_length": 5321, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.93, + "perplexity": 241.9, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "https://www.congress.gov/member/henry-johnson/J000288?pageSize=25&Legislation_Type=Laws+%28Public%2C+Private%29&Subject_of_Legislation=Energy&q=%7B%22subject%22%3A%22Civil+Rights+and+Liberties%2C+Minority+Issues%22%2C%22congress%22%3A%22113%22%7D", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T03:52:12Z", + "digest": "sha1:4M7LRL6VX5S6LEDA74GWNL24HE3UA3PG", + "length": 6848, + "nlines": 17, + "source_domain": "www.congress.gov", + "title": "Henry C. \"Hank\" Johnson, Jr. | Congress.gov | Library of Congress", + "raw_content": "Subject \u2014 Policy Area : Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues 113 (2013-2014)\n1. H.R.4041 \u2014 113th Congress (2013-2014) To award a Congressional Gold Medal to the Freedom Riders, collectively, in recognition of their unique contribution to Civil Rights, which inspired a revolutionary movement for equality in interstate travel. Sponsor: Rep. Johnson, Henry C. \"Hank,\" Jr. [D-GA-4] (Introduced 02/11/2014) Cosponsors: (120) Committees: House - Financial Services, House Administration Latest Action: House - 02/11/2014 Referred to the Committee on Financial Services, and in addition to the Committee on House Administration, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee... (All Actions) Tracker:\n2. H.R.3097 \u2014 113th Congress (2013-2014) Congressional Tribute to Constance Baker Motley Act of 2013 Sponsor: Rep. DeLauro, Rosa L. [D-CT-3] (Introduced 09/12/2013) Cosponsors: (32) Committees: House - Financial Services Latest Action: House - 09/12/2013 Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services. (All Actions) Tracker:\n3. H.R.2479 \u2014 113th Congress (2013-2014) HOME Act of 2013 Sponsor: Rep. Nadler, Jerrold [D-NY-10] (Introduced 06/25/2013) Cosponsors: (27) Committees: House - Judiciary, Financial Services Latest Action: House - 07/15/2013 Referred to the Subcommittee on the Constitution and Civil Justice. (All Actions) Tracker:\n4. H.R.1843 \u2014 113th Congress (2013-2014) Repeal Existing Policies that Encourage and Allow Legal HIV Discrimination Act of 2013 Sponsor: Rep. Lee, Barbara [D-CA-13] (Introduced 05/07/2013) Cosponsors: (45) Committees: House - Judiciary, Energy and Commerce, Armed Services Latest Action: House - 06/20/2013 Referred to the Subcommittee on Military Personnel. (All Actions) Tracker:\n5. H.R.360 \u2014 113th Congress (2013-2014) To award posthumously a Congressional Gold Medal to Addie Mae Collins, Denise McNair, Carole Robertson, and Cynthia Wesley to commemorate the lives they lost 50 years ago in the bombing of the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church, where these 4 little Black girls' ultimate sacrifice served as a catalyst for the Civil Rights Movement. Sponsor: Rep. Sewell, Terri A. [D-AL-7] (Introduced 01/23/2013) Cosponsors: (301) Committees: House - Financial Services Latest Action: 05/24/2013 Became Public Law No: 113-11. (TXT | PDF) (All Actions) Tracker:\n6. H.J.Res.113 \u2014 113th Congress (2013-2014) Removing the deadline for the ratification of the equal rights amendment. Sponsor: Rep. Speier, Jackie [D-CA-14] (Introduced 03/27/2014) Cosponsors: (147) Committees: House - Judiciary Latest Action: House - 04/16/2014 Referred to the Subcommittee on the Constitution and Civil Justice. (All Actions) Tracker:\n7. H.J.Res.56 \u2014 113th Congress (2013-2014) Proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States relative to equal rights for men and women. Sponsor: Rep. Maloney, Carolyn B. [D-NY-12] (Introduced 08/01/2013) Cosponsors: (176) Committees: House - Judiciary Latest Action: House - 09/13/2013 Referred to the Subcommittee on the Constitution and Civil Justice. (All Actions) Tracker:\n8. H.J.Res.44 \u2014 113th Congress (2013-2014) Proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States regarding the right to vote. Sponsor: Rep. Pocan, Mark [D-WI-2] (Introduced 05/14/2013) Cosponsors: (26) Committees: House - Judiciary Latest Action: House - 06/14/2013 Referred to the Subcommittee on the Constitution and Civil Justice. (All Actions) Tracker:\n9. H.J.Res.43 \u2014 113th Congress (2013-2014) Removing the deadline for the ratification of the equal rights amendment. Sponsor: Rep. Andrews, Robert E. [D-NJ-1] (Introduced 05/09/2013) Cosponsors: (105) Committees: House - Judiciary Latest Action: House - 03/12/2014 Ms. Speier asked unanimous consent that she be considered the first sponsor of H.J. Res. 43, removing the deadline for the ratification of the equal rights amendment, a bill originally introduced by Representative Robert Andrews of New Jersey, for the purposes of... (All Actions) Tracker:\n10. H.Con.Res.84 \u2014 113th Congress (2013-2014) Honoring and praising the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People on the occasion of its 105th anniversary. Sponsor: Rep. Green, Al [D-TX-9] (Introduced 02/11/2014) Cosponsors: (37) Committees: House - Judiciary Latest Action: House - 03/20/2014 Referred to the Subcommittee on the Constitution and Civil Justice. (All Actions) Tracker:\n11. H.Con.Res.28 \u2014 113th Congress (2013-2014) Recognizing the significance of Equal Pay Day to illustrate the disparity between wages paid to men and women. Sponsor: Rep. Frankel, Lois [D-FL-22] (Introduced 04/09/2013) Cosponsors: (112) Committees: House - Oversight and Government Reform Latest Action: House - 04/09/2013 Referred to the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform. (All Actions) Tracker:\n13. H.Res.610 \u2014 113th Congress (2013-2014) Recognizing the significance of National Caribbean American Heritage Month. Sponsor: Rep. Lee, Barbara [D-CA-13] (Introduced 05/30/2014) Cosponsors: (32) Committees: House - Oversight and Government Reform Latest Action: House - 05/30/2014 Referred to the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform. (All Actions) Tracker:\n14. H.Res.481 \u2014 113th Congress (2013-2014) Recognizing the significance of Black History Month. Sponsor: Rep. Green, Al [D-TX-9] (Introduced 02/11/2014) Cosponsors: (36) Committees: House - Education and the Workforce Latest Action: House - 02/11/2014 Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce. (All Actions) Tracker:\n15. H.Res.54 \u2014 113th Congress (2013-2014) Observing the 100th birthday of civil rights icon Rosa Parks and commemorating her legacy. Sponsor: Rep. Conyers, John, Jr. [D-MI-13] (Introduced 02/05/2013) Cosponsors: (42) Committees: House - Judiciary Latest Action: House - 02/05/2013 Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary. (All Actions) Tracker:\n16. H.Res.49 \u2014 113th Congress (2013-2014) Recognizing the significance of Black History Month. Sponsor: Rep. Green, Al [D-TX-9] (Introduced 02/04/2013) Cosponsors: (46) Committees: House - Education and the Workforce Latest Action: House - 02/04/2013 Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce. (All Actions) Tracker:\n17. H.Res.38 \u2014 113th Congress (2013-2014) Recognizing National Emancipation Day, marking the 150th anniversary of the end of slavery in areas of rebellion, and the significance of the Emancipation Proclamation in the struggle for the equal rights and freedoms afforded to all United States citizens. Sponsor: Rep. Lee, Barbara [D-CA-13] (Introduced 01/18/2013) Cosponsors: (78) Committees: House - Judiciary Latest Action: House - 02/28/2013 Referred to the Subcommittee on the Constitution And Civil Justice. 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Barges haul sections upriver to Albany and downriver to Perth Amboy, N.J., where ground-up concrete will be sold for highway construction and steel will be melted down and recycled.\nSome pieces of the old bridge will escape the crushers and furnaces and be trucked to upstate towns looking to save thousands of dollars on their own bridge projects. Those parts include some of the 2,000 steel-and-concrete deck panels. New York's Thruway Authority offered 150 to local governments for the bargain price of $1 apiece when the Tappan Zee project began four years ago, but only 135 met specific local requirements were spoken for. The demolition contractor will disassemble and peddle the rest.\n\u201cWe're estimating it will save us about $100,000 per bridge,\u201d said Jim Dougan, deputy public works superintendent in northern New York's Essex County, which may build up to five bridges with the dozen pre-fab panels it requested. \u201cFor a county with about 38,000 residents, that's pretty important.\u201d\nSeven other counties also requested some of the 50-ft. (15-m)-long deck panels, which are still considered to have plenty of life in them since they were part of a major upgrade of the bridge that was done from 2007 to 2011.\nEssex County's plans include using two panels to span a creek along a gravel road in the tiny hamlet of Ironville, a national historic district near Lake Champlain that bills itself as the \u201cBirthplace of the Electric Age.\u201d In 1831, an electromagnet now housed in the Smithsonian was used to pull iron from ore there.\nLivingston County in western New York is stockpiling six of the Tappan Zee panels, just in case.\n\u201cWe don't have specific locations for them,\u201d said that county's highway superintendent, Don Higgins. \u201cWe just want to have them in stock when something comes up.\u201d\nWhile reusing panels from big projects like the Tappan Zee is uncommon, it's not unheard of. Allegany County, along the Pennsylvania border, got 33 panels from Boston's infamous \u201cBig Dig,\u201d a highway and tunnel megaproject completed in 2007. Public Works Superintendent Guy James said the county has put in for six Tappan Zee panels, which will likely be used to replace bridges along dirt or gravel roads.\n\u201cThe Tappan Zee had 140,000 vehicles per day,\u201d James said. \u201cHere, the panels will go on roads that might have 100 cars a day. They should serve the rural population very well.\u201d\nJames was hesitant to take the panels at first because of their weight \u2014 43 tons (39 t).\n\u201cWe'll have to make sure our bridge supports can handle them,\u201d he said.\nBut he foresees no problem trucking the panels to the county's construction stockpile.\nIn most cases, people will never know they're driving over a segment of the famous Tappan Zee Bridge connecting suburban Rockland and Westchester counties 25 mi. north of New York City.\nBut in some places, they will.\nChemung County Supervisor Tom Santulli envisions a sign or plaque identifying panels that may be used to replace several bridges over a meandering trout stream.\n\u201cIt's kind of neat to have pieces of the Tappan Zee,\u201d Santulli said. \u201cIt's a piece of history; when they built it, it was quite a feat.\u201d\nNew YorkTappan Zee\nGrinderCrusherScreen Now Offers Service to Southeast\nLog Cabin Workshop Offers Experience in Colonial History\nNew York Tappan Zee", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00240.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 167, + "original_length": 9332, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.95, + "perplexity": 335.0, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "https://www.contactlenses.co.uk/education/EHC_Left_menu/eyesight_problems/what_causes_blurred_vision.htm", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T03:32:54Z", + "digest": "sha1:D6AXTTZCADA647L6QOBDYDUTGWTYJPNK", + "length": 8755, + "nlines": 25, + "source_domain": "www.contactlenses.co.uk", + "title": "What Causes Blurred Vision? :: Eye Health Central", + "raw_content": "What Causes Blurry Vision?\nHazy, unfocused vision can be caused by a litany of different diseases or conditions. People with blurry vision often have to squint in order to see clearly, and even then it may only make their sight slightly better than it is without squinting. In many cases corrective lenses are needed to fully correct blurry vision, such as contacts or eye glasses. Other times, the cause of the blur may not be refractory in nature, and might require medicine or surgery, or may not be correctable at all. No matter the cause of blurry vision, it may not affect both eyes equally, with one eye being more in focus than the other. In fact, each eye may experience blurred vision for two totally different reasons, and may need to be corrected with different methods.\nFor a large majority of people with blurry vision, the issue is a refractive error, meaning that the lenses in the front of the eye aren't accurately focusing light on the retina in the back of the eye. This is similar to holding a magnifying glass too close or too far away from an object or text. Finding the sweet spot brings everything into focus, which is what happens during squinting. The muscles around the eye squeeze and reshape the eye to bring the lens closer to or farther from the retina. A routine eye exam is the best way of diagnosing these types of vision problems.\nThere are several different kinds of refractive errors, each with similar but distinct symptoms, as well as their own means of correction.\nMyopia \u2013 Commonly called nearsightedness, and occurs when light is focused in front of the retina. With this condition, things near by appear clear and in focus, but become increasingly blurry as distance between the object and the eye increases. Corrective lenses can be used to refract light and move its focal point backwards, placing it directly on the retina.\nHyperopia \u2013 Also known as farsightedness, which is just the opposite of nearsightedness. Vision becomes blurry the closer an object gets to the eyes, as the light's focal point is behind the retina. This is less common, but just as easily solved with corrective lenses.\nAstigmatism \u2013 This issue can be had in conjunction with myopia and hyperopia. It is a condition in which the eye is shaped irregularly, similar to an egg, rather than a sphere. By itself it can cause mild double vision, but this may be hard to notice along side other refractive errors. This can also be corrected with contact or glasses, but they need to be specially designed to treat astigmatism, as regular lenses won't do.\nPresbyopia \u2013 A condition that affects many people as they age, usually starting in the 40s or 50s. Like astigmatism, this can occur on its own or along side other vision problems. However, unlike the issues listed above, this is not caused by an irregular shape of the eye or its lens, but by the weakening of the muscles around the eye that are responsible for focusing light. Simple reading glasses can correct the issue, but when other refractory problems exists simultaneously, multifocal lenses may be needed to correct them all at once.\nOther causes of blurry vision may not be as chronic as refractory errors, and may only last several months, weeks, days, or even moments. Corrective lenses aren't effective as treatment, however that doesn't mean that no treatment is available. Below are some of the varied non-refractive error causes of blurred vision, and the best way of addressing them.\nDry Eyes \u2013 Some people suffer chronically from dry eyes, others only experience it for brief periods. In either scenario, the eyes aren't well lubricated, which can lead to irritation and discomfort, as well as blurred vision. If the surface of the cornea becomes too dry, it may not allow light to pass through cleanly, and might cause a blurring effect. Simple wetting eye drops are usually enough to solve this issue.\nPregnancy \u2013 There are many changes that happen throughout the body during pregnancy, and a change in visual acuity is only one of them, as is double vision. They are both causes by shifts in hormone levels, which then affect the shape of the cornea. While they aren't usually anything to worry about, it's important to bring changes in visual acuity to your doctors attention, as there is a small change they could be signs of gestational diabetes or high blood pressure.\nHeadaches \u2013 Even brief headaches or migraines can affect the muscles that focus the eyes, as well as cause serious and debilitating sensitivity to light. They usually don't last very long, but if they persist or happen frequently, you should see a doctor.\nFloaters \u2013 Caused by microscopic bits of tissue or microbes moving within the gel-like fluid within the eye, floaters momentarily block light from passing through the eye, and cast a very tiny shadow on the retina. They typically only last a few seconds at a time, and can be moved by quickly looking right and left, or up and down. If they begin to happen frequently, or in abundance, they may be early signs of a detached retina, which requires immediate medical treatment to avoid blindness.\nMedications \u2013 Some pills and medicated eye drops can affect the vision, either by weakening the muscles that focus the eye, or by depositing chemicals or substances on the surface of the cornea. This can sometimes be treated with eye drops, but consult with your doctor first to make sure they won't interfere with the medication.\nLaser Eye Surgery \u2013 You may experience blurred vision immediately following any type of eye surgery as the eye begins to heal. This is common and nothing to worry about unless it persists for more than a few days. Consults with your eye doctor if you still have blurred vision longer than that.\nAllergies \u2013 Seasonal or environmental allergies can affect the eyes, making them feel itchy, watery, and appear red. Taking allergy medications can be helpful, or simply removing the allergen from the environment. For pollen that may be difficult to achieve, but allergies to food, animals, or hygiene products are far more manageable.\nForeign Objects \u2013 Simply getting a bit of dust, dirt, or sand in your eye can cause not just blurred vision, but serious discomfort as well. Never rub your eye if it feels like there's something in it, as they may press it into the surface and cause serious scratching, as well as infection. Attempt to flush it out with eye wash, or clean water if none is available. If the feeling persists, seek medical attention quickly.\nContact Lenses \u2013 Under normal circumstances, contact lenses should only make vision clearer, not blurry. However if they aren't seated properly, haven't been cleaned well, or have been worn for too long, they may indeed make it more difficult to see. Either washing the lenses with cleaning solution, or changing them out for new ones should solve the problem, as well as giving your eyes a rest for several hours.\nA Symptom Of A More Serious Issue\nIn rare cases blurry vision may be a symptom of a more serious underlying condition. If you are experiencing any of the symptoms below, you should make an appointment with your doctor quickly, as some of these problems can be very serious, and potentially lead to either blindness, or even death.\nCataracts \u2013 If blurred vision begins to appear cloudy, along with glare or night halos, then you may be developing cataracts. They can be treated, usually with artificial lenses, but can severely limit vision if left unchecked. Cataracts are very common in senior citizens, but can occur as early as birth.\nGlaucoma \u2013 Blurry tunnel vision may indicate the onset of glaucoma. These symptoms may develop slowly over time, or may occur suddenly. Without treatment, glaucoma will only continue to worsen until all vision is lost, but can be alleviated with proper medical treatment.\nMacular Degeneration \u2013 One of the most common causes of blindness in senior citizens around the world, this condition causes not only blurred vision, but distortion of lines and images, and primarily affects the center of the field of view, spreading outward over time.\nDiabetic Retinopathy \u2013 Diabetes can lead to many other problems and conditions, one of which affects the eyes. Any diabetics that begin to have blurred vision should see a doctor immediately in order to avoid complete and total blindness.\nSystemic Issues \u2013 Strokes, heart disease, brain hemorrhages, and even multiple sclerosis all share a common symptom, which is blurred vision. While each of these has many other symptoms that appear along side diminished visual acuity, it's important to seek emergency medical attention should any of them arise. These can be life threatening conditions, where just minutes can make the difference between life and death.", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00240.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 195, + "original_length": 13217, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.96, + "perplexity": 231.1, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "https://www.coresdivorcelawyers.com/wheaton-divorce-lawyer/substance-abuse-affect-parenting-time/", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T03:55:27Z", + "digest": "sha1:Q3OAWGGKC7TNLUTHE2JECCXFW4K5ZYWT", + "length": 3260, + "nlines": 11, + "source_domain": "www.coresdivorcelawyers.com", + "title": "How Substance Abuse Could Affect Your Parenting Time | Wheaton Family Lawyers", + "raw_content": "How Substance Abuse Could Affect Your Parenting Time\nPrior to 2016, the excessive use or abuse of alcohol or illegal drugs by one spouse was a valid grounds for divorce in Illinois. When all fault grounds were eliminated in the state in 2016, irreconcilable differences became the only official reason for which a couple could seek a divorce. The reality, however, is that substance abuse is a real problem in many marriages, especially if the couple has children together. In the wake of a divorce, drug abuse can and may continue to affect parental responsibilities and each parent\u2019s right to parenting time.\nDividing Parental Responsibilities\nWhen you, as a parent, get divorced, you and the other parent are expected by law to come up with a reasonable agreement regarding parenting your child. Before your agreement will be approved, the court will read it over and decide whether the terms reflect the child\u2019s best interests. If the court does not approve the proposal, or if you the parents cannot reach an agreement, the court will determine how parental responsibilities will be allocated. In doing so, the court must consider many different factors and create an arrangement to meet the needs of the child.\nIt is at this point that you should bring up any concerns related to your former partner\u2019s drug or alcohol use. If you can show that the other parent\u2019s drug abuse\u2014including prescription drugs\u2014or excessive alcohol use presents a physical, emotional, or moral danger to the child, the court will take that into consideration. The same is true if alcohol or drugs prevents the other parent from carrying out his or her assigned parental duties. In most cases, this would result in fewer parental responsibilities being given to parent with a substance abuse problem.\nLimiting Parenting Time\nParenting time\u2014formerly known as visitation\u2014can be dramatically affected by one parent\u2019s substance abuse problems. When drug abuse is a known concern, the law gives the court the authority to order the offending parent to abstain from drugs and alcohol during and immediately prior to his or her scheduled parenting time. The court also has the discretion to place other limits on the offending parent\u2019s parenting time, including third-party supervision or restrictions on where the child may go with the parent in question. The court could even order the offending parent to participate in drug or alcohol abuse programs as a condition of restoring parenting time or parental responsibilities.\nCall a Wheaton Family Lawyer\nSharing parental responsibilities with a former partner can be difficult under any circumstances. Sharing them with a former partner who has problems with drugs or alcohol can be even more challenging. Contact an experienced DuPage County parental responsibilities attorney to get the help you need. Call 630-871-1002 for a free consultation at Andrew Cores Family Law Group today\nThis entry was posted in Parenting Time, Visitation and tagged danger to the child, DuPage County family lawyers, parenting plan, parenting time, restricted parenting time, substance abuse on September 4, 2018 by cores_admin.\n\u2190 Emotional Affairs Can Be Deeply Destructive to Marriages Can I Pay Child Support Without Going Through the Court System? \u2192", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00240.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 276, + "original_length": 13931, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.95, + "perplexity": 320.5, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "https://www.corridorbusiness.com/waverly-scores-big-on-mumford-sons-festival-stop/", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T04:08:31Z", + "digest": "sha1:2LFBOHJT6QMH3KKV35JW2R4FPLEA7R2G", + "length": 4543, + "nlines": 28, + "source_domain": "www.corridorbusiness.com", + "title": "Waverly scores big on Mumford & Sons festival stop | Corridor Business Journal", + "raw_content": "News > Headline news > Waverly scores big on Mumford & Sons festival stop\nWaverly scores big on Mumford & Sons festival stop\nBy Angela Holmes\nangela@corridorbusiness.com\nThe stars aligned for Waverly last week, as organizers of Mumford & Son\u2019s Gentleman of the Road festival chose the Bremer County town as one of just four North American stops this summer.\nAn estimated 35,000 people will descend upon the college town of about 10,000 people June 19-20 as the British folk rockers headline the festival, which will also feature My Morning Jacket, The Flaming Lips, Jenny Lewis, Dawes, The Maccabees and The Very Best.\nAfter months of planning, the announcement was made March 2 by representatives of Wartburg College, the city of Waverly and the Waverly Chamber of Commerce.\nOrganizers look for smaller communities that offer a variety of things to do, according to Travis Toliver, executive director of the Waverly Chamber of Commerce.\n\u201cThey were attracted to the unique charm the city offers being on the banks of the Cedar River, and all kinds of recreational opportunities and charming shops and things we offer here,\u201d Mr. Toliver said. \u201cIt was a perfect fit for them.\u201d\nAlso high on the list for festival organizers was a community where all the key players worked together.\n\u201cThey really like the fact that all the entities from the college to the chamber to the city itself had a strong relationship, which doesn\u2019t always happen in small towns,\u201d Mr. Toliver said.\nThe festival will be spread among Wartburg College\u2019s athletic fields. The main stage will be set up on the soccer fields, and camping and parking will be available along the cross country course and other areas, according to Graham Garner, vice president for marketing and communication at Wartburg College.\nAlthough the effect a large festival could have on the college\u2019s grounds was considered, references from other cities that have hosted the festival spoke highly of how the area was maintained and restored, Mr. Garner said.\nMr. Toliver agreed that Woodstock-type debauchery is not a concern.\n\u201cIt\u2019s not that kind of crowd,\u201d he said. \u201cTheir demographic is people in their late 20s into their early 50s \u2013 people that really want to enjoy good music and great shopping experiences. That\u2019s why the band was really adamant that the community was the right fit for the type of experience they wanted to create for their attendees.\u201d\nOther cities similar in size to Waverly that have hosted the festival have reported an economic impact of anywhere between $20 million-$30 million, Mr. Toliver said. The impact should also trickle to the Waterloo/Cedar Falls area, which is just 16 miles away.\nA second stage will be set up in downtown Waverly to draw people to its retail areas in between sets on the main stage.\n\u201cThat\u2019s a really cool aspect of this \u2013 it\u2019s not just going to be at Wartburg, it\u2019s going to be on a second stage featuring local music,\u201d Mr. Toliver said. \u201cIt\u2019s a chance for Iowa music to get out there, too.\u201d\nTickets are $199 for a two-day pass that includes parking and camping, and went on sale March 6. Although tickets for other festival events have sold out within days, Mr. Toliver said there will be plenty of volunteer opportunities.\n\u201cThe production company does a lot of the footwork. All they\u2019ve asked us to do is to gather around 1,000 volunteers spread over the two days,\u201d he said.\nAn email, waverlygotr@gmail.com, has been set up for general inquiries and questions about volunteering and vendor specifications.\nMr. Toliver doesn\u2019t anticipate having more volunteer inquiries than needed.\n\u201cThere\u2019s no cap on the number,\u201d he said. \u201cIt\u2019s an aggressive number, but achievable. If we get more than that, the more the merrier.\u201d\nThe chamber plans to meet with college representatives and service organizations to put together a similar system that was used when Waverly hosted an overnight RAGBRAI stay last summer.\nThe community is anticipating visitors from all over the Midwest region, Mr. Toliver said. He hopes that visitors discover the area is a \u201chidden Iowa gem.\u201d\n\u201cWaverly is a great town full of great people and great places to shop, eat and have fun,\u201d he said. \u201cWe also hope it\u2019s some place that they could come back to and enjoy again when it\u2019s not so crowded.\u201d\nThe long-term plan for the festival is to hold a stopover in all 50 states over the next few years. This will be its only Iowa appearance.\n\u201cIt\u2019s a really exciting event not only for Waverly, but for Iowa in general,\u201d Mr. Toliver said. \u201cThis festival will never be back here again.\u201d", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00240.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 126, + "original_length": 6895, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.96, + "perplexity": 213.8, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "https://www.counter-currents.com/2018/02/neville-and-the-rebel-part-1/", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T04:30:05Z", + "digest": "sha1:IYEVOJSMRHVLGFMLYVGGE7T7UKU7CRIE", + "length": 39176, + "nlines": 150, + "source_domain": "www.counter-currents.com", + "title": "James J. O'Meara, \"Neville and the Rebel: Reflections on Colin Wilson and Neville Goddard\" | Counter-Currents Publishing", + "raw_content": "\u00ab Creating a Place to Be\nOverton Window Warriors \u00bb\nReflections on Colin Wilson & Neville Goddard\n\u201cWhat was needed was not some new religious cult but some simple way of accessing religious or mystical experience, of the sort that must have been known to the monks and cathedral-builders of the Middle Ages.\u201d\u2013Colin Wilson[1]\n\u201cThe serpent said that every dream could be willed into creation by those strong enough to believe in it.\u201d\u2013Eve to Adam, in Shaw\u2019s Back to Methuselah\nColin Wilson spent his life and his career\u2013for him, as an existential philosopher, the two are one\u2013pursuing a method, first in philosophy and literature, then in the occult, that would \u201ccrystallize into a philosophy of life that will bring order out of chaos and unity out of discord.\u201d[2] Can we say that another occult figure taught such a method before Wilson was even born? Most decidedly, we can![3]\nOne of the most irritating tropes of our age\u2013at least among the dominant SJW journalistic class\u2013is the PC (Politically Convenient) Anecdote, in which the journo starts off by narrating some incident that just happened to them, or something they just happened to overhear, which constitutes a total validation of some supposed problem or assumption on their part, thus kicking off the essay or article exploring this continuing abuse crying out for immediate attention.\nIt seems particularly characteristic of the more social commentators, from Barack Obama, always with a handy story of his grandmother\u2019s racial insensitivity, to the likes of Ta-Nehisi Coates, who can write entire books based on what some person (white, of course) supposedly muttered when Coates\u2019 dawdling child backed up the crowd on an escalator.\nWhat\u2019s key is that the damning Anecdote is always Conveniently Private (or CP; like PC, get it?); or, if technically public, no recording or witness is around for later verification, should some hateful fascist demand such. For example, after The Coming of Trump, tormented snowflakes tweeted and YouTubed endless stories like this one:\nSo, I was in line to vote, and these two guys behind me, real frat boy-looking, starting talking real loudly about how they were gonna get some ropes and take care of the immigrants. And I\u2019m like, dudes, don\u2019t you see I\u2019m Hispanic, and everyone around you is too? And they just laughed and said \u201cit\u2019s Trump time, bitch!\u201d I was never so scared in my life, but I voted anyway!\nAnd for my part, I\u2019m like, \u201cBullshit!\u201d Two \u201cfrat boys\u201d not only living in an overwhelmingly Hispanic voting district, but they\u2019re taking the opportunity, while standing in line, no doubt next to some cops and voting overseers, to rant about lynching immigrants. Yeah, that happens.\nAlthough this is obviously rampant in the Current Year tsunami of rape accusations and hate hoaxes, it occurs on smaller scales throughout our sorry culture. And I was reminded of it when Phil Baker, attempting to convey the deep loathing of the British literary establishment (yes, there still is such a thing, or at least something that thinks it is) for the late Colin Wilson, produced this supposed anecdote:\nMeanwhile Iain Sinclair, master of the ambulant put-down, has been less restrained. Walking round a book market in his semi-autobiographical novel White Chappell Scarlet Tracings, he notices a haggler \u201cbeating down some tattered Colin Wilsons from 20p to 5p: unsuccessfully. Overpriced at nothing.\u201d[4]\nYeah, I know, it\u2019s a novel, but it\u2019s \u201chis semi-autobiographical novel,\u201d meaning it has a claim to a footing in reality; he\u2019s not leaping over a tall building, or plotting 9/11. The anecdote is supposed to be actual, or at least leave the reader with the impression, like a Russian novelist, that \u201cthe like of this happens nowadays.\u201d Or as Trollope would say, \u201cThe Way We Live Now.\u201d[5]\nIt\u2019s the purest expression of PC dogma, offered, perversely, as evidence therefor.\nAnd indeed, Baker\u2019s \u201creview\u201d is just another opportunity for an establishment Insider (which is even to use Wilson\u2019s own terms) to put the boot in to the man who, ironically enough, seems to have replaced Aleister Crowley as \u201cThe Most Evil Man in Britain.\u201d[6]\nTowards the end of his non-stop smirk-sneer-and-smug-fest, Baker lets drop a very significant insult (it\u2019s not relevant enough to call a \u2018point\u2019): Lachman\u2019s publisher blurbs that they \u201calso publish Napoleon Hill\u2019s Think and Grow Rich.\u201d My God, the jumped up little pseudes! And proud enough of it to put it on the cover, too![7]\nThis, a more specific version of his querulous complaints about Wilson being popular among those American colonials, establishes a tenuous connection between Wilson and New Thought. And this accusation leaves my withers\u2013whatever they are\u2013unwrung. For as Constant Readers know, I\u2019ve long been thumping the drum for what I call our native-born Neoplatonism, our home-grown Hermeticism, our two-fisted Traditionalism.\nAnd although it would be too much to expect that Baker has any more respect for those traditions\u2013he strikes me as the kind of pretentious parlor pinko who mocks parapsychology but adheres to some kind of \u201cscience\u201d-based progressivism\u2013they are definitely European.[8]\nOn the other hand, it may not matter much, whether we insist on Neville and New Thought in general being colonial outbreaks of the Western (European) Tradition\u2013in Spengler\u2019s terms, a \u201csecond religiosity\u201d characteristic of senescent cultures; or as the birth of the spirituality of a new cultural cycle in the New World.[9] Surely what matters is: it works!\nOr is that oh so American an attitude? Fine; we\u2019ll leave our epicene cousins to their thrilling games of U and Non-U and other One-upmanship,[10] and get on with the task of living. And that, of course, was Colin Wilson\u2019s greatest sin: taking life seriously.\nIt\u2019s a synecdoche of Wilson\u2019s problematic, shall we say, reputation that while The Outsider has been more or less in print since 1956, his second book, Religion and the Rebel, has been out of print for 27 years. However, the end of 2017 brings news that Aristeia Press of London are bringing out a new edition (with an \u201cHistorical Introduction\u201d by ubiquitous Wilsonian Gary Lachman).\nAs famous and as oft-told as the story of Wilson\u2019s overnight fame after The Outsider is, just as famous and oft-told is the second act, the universal hatred, contempt and loathing that greeted its follow-up, Religion and the Rebel. Without rehearsing all that, it\u2019s clear, to me at least, that Wilson\u2019s own account[11] (despite what must be some amount of bias and self-interest) is fundamentally correct. While one might expect his sophomore effort (an all-to appropriate word in his critics\u2019 opinion) to fall below the standard of the first, or to fail in its perhaps overambitious goals, the wholesale revision of Wilson\u2019s reputation from genius to fraud, from earnest if not angry young man to charlatan, often announced by the very same critics, is impossible to justify.\nReligion and the Rebel is clearly the sequel, or continuation, of The Outsider, advancing its concerns and maintaining the same high level. The vociferous negative response, and Wilson\u2019s subsequent banishment from \u201cserious\u201d discourse, can only be explained as one of those all too typical changes in critical fashion, where a book, say, is picked up and relentlessly promoted by Those Who Know, and then the author\u2019s next book is the occasion for an equally relentless thrashing, after which the author is forgotten and a new one selected to repeat the process.[12]\nCounter-Currents readers are well acquainted with the Cathedral and the Megaphone,[13] and if not already fans of Wilson can be assumed ready to give him a fair shot\u2013the enemy of one\u2019s enemy, after all.\nI assume a certain basic familiarity with Wilson and especially his first and most famous book, The Outsider, on the part of any reader of Counter-Currents\u2013because what more of an Outsider type could there be than such a one? If not, I can refer you to John Morgan\u2019s excellent piece on this very website\u2013\u201dA Heroic Vision for Our Time: The Life & Ideas of Colin Wilson\u201d (here), as well as a review by Sir Oswald Mosley (here).\nTom X. Hart provides a nice summary of the arc of Wilson\u2019s thought, which oddly enough seems easier to see by moving backwards, and has the advantage of tying in many of the strands, especially the political:\nWilson\u2019s philosophy can be divided as follows:\nHuman beings have a hidden potential, Faculty X, which once fully realised will allow humans to greatly augment their powers, and possibly transcend death itself;\nAn aspect of Faculty X is manifested in the \u2018peak experience\u2019, a term Wilson borrowed from the psychologist Abraham Maslow. The peak experience is, in essence, the ego destruction that is associated with meditation, sex, and near-death experiences. A person can obtain a peak experience through intense concentration on an object or thought. When the person shifts their attention from concentration an ecstatic moment follows as the person returns from a state where their ego is temporarily suspended;\nThere have been people through history who have attained or understood Faculty X. These include extraordinary figures such as TE Lawrence and Van Gogh\u200a\u2014\u200aas well as more marginal figures, such George Gurdjieff and Rasputin;\nFaculty X and its associated properties may be involved in many \u2018unexplained\u2019, occult, or mysterious events through history. These include UFO sightings, Jack the Ripper, and other elements connected to the supernatural. Phenomenon that are discarded as pseudo-science, such as telepathy and synchronicity, are manifestations of hidden human potential;[14]\nThe existentialists and atheistic philosophers are depressing, and lack optimism in their materialist conception of man without God. There are grounds for optimism, and there is a possibility for human improvement\u200a\u2014\u200aif only we have the will to find it. In this respect, Wilson echoes 19th Century optimism rather than 20th Century despair. The world can\u200a\u2014\u200awill\u200a\u2014\u200aget better. This salvation will be partly scientific. In this he resembles the 19th Century psychical researchers who thought that a scientific method would uncover evidence for the existence of an afterlife, and that communication with that afterlife would be possible.\nWhat this philosophy represents is a hierarchical, optimistic, and occult approach to life that contains an implicit authoritarian politics.\nHis optimism tips the implicitly rightist ideas in his work towards fascism. Far-right ideas are not simply conservative in nature, but revolutionary conservative ideas. This not a glum defence of the old order. And revolutionaries must be optimistic about the world to come, if not their chances of achieving that world.[15]\nQuite an intellectual achievement for one man\u2019s life! For our purposes, I want to concentrate on the earliest part of his thinking, as developed in the newly republished Religion and the Rebel, and draw out some comparisons with our favorite New Thinker, Neville Goddard.\nNeville likes to present his teaching in the mode of commentaries on the famous \u201cI Am\u201d (or as he prefers to put it, \u201cI AM\u201d) sayings of the Bible\u2013\u201dI AM the Way,\u201d \u201cBefore Abraham was I AM,\u201d etc. One might well put together a similar set of Wilson\u2019s pronouncements on the nature of The Outsider:\n\u201cThe Outsider is a symptom of civilization\u2019s decline; Outsiders appear like pimples on a dying civilization.\u201d\n\u201cThe Outsider\u2019s final problem is to become a visionary.\u201d\n\u201cThe Outsider must raise the banner of a new existentialism.\u201d\n\u201cThe Outsider is the man who has faced chaos. The Insider is the man who blinds himself to it.\u201d\n\u201cThe Outsider must find a direction and commit himself to it, not lie moping about the meaninglessness of the world.\u201d\n\u201cThe Outsider cannot help feeling that men do not learn from experience \u2014 not the really important things.\u201d\nInteresting, but what does all this mean? Wilson considers Rebel to be an extension of the ideas discussed in The Outsider,[16] and it is, but in two directions; reading it is rather like watching The Godfather Part II, in that it takes up the story both before and\u2013in this case, speculatively\u2013after the first book.\nRise of civilizations \u2014 Decline of civilizations and appearance of the Outsider[17]\u2013Renewal(?)\nThe middle part is largely covered by The Outsider, while Rebel takes up the before and after. I say largely, because the nature of Wilson\u2019s method, what he calls the existential method, is to develop his ideas by examining\u2013sometimes at great length\u2013the way ideas have come to be worked out in the lives of great men\u2013the Outsiders\u2013and in his own life.[18]\nColin Stanley says Wilson feels\nThe need to demonstrate that his philosophy is not just words on paper but ideas that can and should be proved by living. Personal anecdote becomes an integral part of his message, making it accessible to his audience.[19]\nAnd so there is some overlap as Rebel continues this method; for example, the discussion of possible civilizational renewal takes place largely in terms of another long (overlong, for this reader) discussion of Shaw\u2019s career; adding as well three Wilson-centric introductions, an \u201cAutobiographical\u201d one, a \u201cRetrospective\u201d one from a later printing, and a \u201cHistorical\u201d one by Gary Lachman for this edition.[20]\nAlready we can see a parallel with Neville, who presents his teachings almost exclusively through personal anecdote and, especially as his audiences grew, the stories told or written to him by his (successful, of course) listeners.[21] Like Wilson, as we\u2019ll see, he had no interest in religious dogma or philosophical theory, insisting that everything he said had been proven in his own experience, and simply asking his listeners to go and do likewise.\nPublic opinion will not long endure a theory which does not work in practice. Today, probably more than ever before, man demands proof of the truth of even his highest ideal. For ultimate satisfaction man must find a principle which is for him a way of life, a principle which he can experience as true\u2026.\nHaving laid the foundation that a change of consciousness is essential to bring about any change of expression, this book explains to the reader a dozen different ways to bring about such a change of consciousness.\nThis is a realistic and constructive principle that works. The revelation it contains, if applied, will set you free.[22]\nAt times, the aim to be practical even supersedes the testimonial method:\nWere it possible to carry conviction to another by means of reasoned arguments and detailed instances, this book would be many times its size. It is seldom possible, however, to do so by means of written statements or arguments since to the suspended judgment it always seems plausible to say that the author was dishonest or deluded, and, therefore, his evidence was tainted. Consequently, I have purposely omitted all arguments and testimonials, and simply challenge the open-minded reader to practice the law of consciousness as revealed in this book. Personal success will prove far more convincing than all the books that could be written on the subject.[23]\nFor our purposes, I am going to follow the latter method, and try to pull out what Wilson says on various\u2013related\u2013topics in order to compare them with Neville, especially his \u201csimple method for changing the future.\u201d\nAnd in the spirit of Wilson\u2019s existentialism, perhaps I could begin with some biographical comparisons.\nFirst, Wilson was a product of the pre-War British working class\u2013no doubt the basic root of the animosity directed at him by his \u201cbetters\u201d among the chattering classes.\nNeville, while born into a large, not particularly wealthy family in the British colony of Barbados (he likes to tell a story about the correct way to feel ducks for dinner, as he did as a child, and how it relates to our \u201cmental diets\u201d), they did eventually become\u2013due, Neville insists, on father and brothers making use of his own imaginal methods\u2013the proprietors of a chain of grocery stores which ultimately became, under the name Goddard Enterprises, the largest conglomerate based in the Caribbean.[24]\nNevertheless, Neville, like Wilson, never received much job-related training and struck out early for the big city\u2013New York, in his case\u2013and lived hand to mouth at menial jobs until achieving some success as a dancer, ultimately starring in several Broadway shows.\nDespite his success, he later said that the income of any one year was wiped out in a few months the next, and then the Depression put everyone out of work. However, as Israel Regardie pointed out, Neville\u2019s natural aptitude and professional training as a dancer formed a crucial part in the method he taught; a point to which we shall return.[25]\nIn addition, Neville was tall, handsome, and spoke with the sort of exotic accent Americans just love;[26] he was made for the lecture stage. Wilson, though a fashionable enough Angry Young Man in his turtleneck jumper and RAF-issued hornrims,[27] was never particularly charismatic on stage, at least in my experience.[28]\nWilson the existentialist would agree, I think, that all this has an impact on their ideas; at least, it made it inevitable that Neville flourished on the lecture circuit, Wilson in books. And here again, things conspired against Wilson. Productivity in books is looked down on, again, by the Establishment.[29]\nAlthough Neville lectured constantly, he wrote only a handful of small books\u2013booklets, really\u2013which he never copyrighted; the contents of which, along with recordings of the lectures\u2013again, freely made\u2013fill the internets. And again, Wilson could hardly afford to eschew copyright, as much of his productivity was necessary to support his family.[30]\nAnd the topics! Parapsychology, sure, but Atlantis,[31] pyramids, alien abductions\u2026 for Christ\u2019s sake, Bigfoot? Not that there\u2019s anything wrong with all that\u2013for Feyerabend reasons,[32] I think fringe areas are the most worthy of investigation\u2013but it\u2019s hardly likely to help your reputation.[33]\nAfter this dip into biography, let\u2019s shift our focus back to ideas. The upshot of Wilson\u2019s exploration of his selected Outsiders, against the theoretical background provided in Religion and the Rebel by Spengler and Toynbee, could be put this way:\nReligion is the glue that holds society together; more importantly, from the Outsider\u2019s perspective, it provides a refuge for the world at large, and a method or discipline to provide for the meaning of life missing from the secular world.[34] It does so by providing a means, a method, of disciplining the will and the imagination so that the Outsider can fulfill his destiny and become a visionary.[35]\nAs Wilson proceeds through the \u201cOutsider Cycle\u201d of books, the topic becomes more and more clearly a search for a method, as Sartre might say. While Sartre moved from existentialism to Maoism, Wilson wants to move from Sartre\u2019s pessimistic existentialism to his own, optimistic version, \u201cthe New Existentialism.\u201d Wilson\u2019s optimism arises from the Shavian insight that The Outsider represents an evolutionary advance of consciousness; or rather, it would, if only a method could be found.\nMethod for what? In Religion and the Rebel, Wilson says that the inspiration for The Outsider was William James\u2019 Varieties of Religious Experience, and goes on to combine James with Whitehead\u2019s concept of \u201cprehension,\u201d a primal form of consciousness (or, in Husserl\u2019s language, \u2018intentionality\u2019) that permeates organic life:\n[James\u2019s] argument amounts to this: Man is at his most complete when his imagination is at its most intense. Imagination is the power of prehension; without it, man would be an imbecile, without memory, without forethought, without power of interpreting what he sees and feels. The higher the form of life, the greater its power of prehension; and in man, prehension becomes a conscious faculty, which can be labelled imagination. If life is to advance yet a stage higher, beyond the ape, beyond man the toiler or even man the artist, it will be through a further development of the power of prehension. This craving for greater intensity of imagination is the religious appetite. (Loc. 6636-38)\nThe \u201cconscious faculty\u201d which satisfies the \u201ccraving for greater intensity of imagination\u201d and thus solves the Outsider\u2019s problem, is what Wilson will explore, as \u201cFaculty X,\u201d in his subsequent \u201cOccult Cycle.\u201d[36]\nHaving brought in the notions of conscious control, imagination, and the occult, we can usefully circle back to compare these ideas to the teachings of Neville. Let\u2019s start with a rather long quote from his very first book, At Your Command;[37] patience will be rewarded.\nNow let me instruct you in the art of fishing. It is recorded that the disciples fished all night and caught nothing. Then Jesus came upon the scene and told them to cast their nets in once more, into the same waters that only a moment before were barren\u2013and this time their nets were bursting with the catch.[38]\nThis story is taking place in the world today right within you, the reader. For you have within you all the elements necessary to go fishing. But until you find that Jesus Christ, (your awareness) is Lord, you will fish, as did these disciples, in the night of human darkness.[39] That is, you will fish for THINGS thinking things to be real and will fish with the human bait\u2013which is a struggle and an effort\u2013trying to make contact with this one and that one: trying to coerce this being or the other being; and all such effort will be in vain. But when you discover your awareness of being to be Christ Jesus you will let him direct your fishing. And you will fish in consciousness for the things that you desire. For your desire\u2013will be the fish that you will catch, because your consciousness is the only living reality you will fish in the deep waters of consciousness.\nIf you would catch that which is beyond your present capacity you must launch out into deeper waters, for, within your present consciousness such fish or desires cannot swim. To launch out into deeper waters, you leave behind you all that is now your present problem, or limitation, by taking your ATTENTION AWAY from it. Turn your back completely upon every problem and limitation that you now possess.\nDwell upon just being by saying, \u201cI AM,\u201d \u201cI AM,\u201d \u201cI AM,\u201d to yourself. Continue to declare to yourself that you just are. Do not condition this declaration, just continue to FEEL yourself to be and without warning you will find yourself slipping the anchor that tied you to the shallow of your problems and moving out into the deep.\nThis is usually accompanied with the feeling of expansion. You will FEEL yourself expand as though you were actually growing. Don\u2019t be afraid, for courage is necessary. You are not going to die to anything by your former limitations, but they are going to die as you move away from them, for they live only in your consciousness. In this deep or expanded consciousness you will find yourself to be a power that you had never dreamt of before.\nThe things desired before you shoved off from the shores of limitation are the fish you are going to catch in this deep. Because you have lost all consciousness of your problems and barriers, it is now the easiest thing in the world to FEEL yourself to be one with the things desired.\nBecause I AM (your consciousness) is the resurrection and the life, you must attach this resurrecting power that you are to the thing desired if you would make it appear and live in your world. Now you begin to assume the nature of the thing desired by feeling, \u201cI AM wealthy\u201d; \u201cI AM free\u201d; \u201cI AM strong.\u201d When these \u2018FEELS\u2019 are fixed within yourself, your formless being will take upon itself the forms of the things felt. You become \u2018crucified\u2019 upon the feelings of wealth, freedom, and strength.\u2013Remain buried in the stillness of these convictions. Then, as a thief in the night and when you least expect it, these qualities will be resurrected in your world as living realities.[40]\nI think it\u2019s good to get the flavor of Neville thinking; but more succinctly, his \u201cmechanism of creation\u201d can be outlined thus:\nFormulate a definite desire, an obsession, and then imagine a dramatic scene that would be consequent of your desire being fulfilled, clearly articulated in every detail.\nInduce a state of total relaxation, a \u201cstate akin to sleep.\u201d\nIn this state, rise in consciousness until you are aware of yourself only as pure existence \u2014 \u201cI AM\u201d \u2014 without and before any definite determination, such as \u201cI AM this or that.\u201d\nTurn your attention to the preconceived drama, and hold it in your imagination until you intensely feel the emotion consequent to having attained your desire.\nReading this, one is immediately reminded of the central chapter of The Outsider, where Wilson, having concluded that \u201cthe Outsider problem is essentially a living problem [and] beyond a certain point, the Outsider\u2019s problems will not submit to mere thought, they must be lived,\u201d[41] proceeds to examine the lives of three types of Outsider: the intellectual (T. E. Lawrence), the emotional (Van Gogh) and the physical (Nijinsky).[42]\nAnd, at the conclusion of Religion and the Rebel, Wilson reiterates the Outsider\u2019s problem as:\nOur civilization \u2026 is suffering from \u2026 too much intellect, and the consequent starvation of the emotional and physical factors. Existentialism is a protest on behalf of completeness, of balance [and] clearly plays the same role in the twentieth century that Christianity played in the Roman Empire in the first century \u2026 The solution \u2026 is for the individual Outsider to continue to bring new consciousness to birth.[43]\nNeville\u2019s method is uniquely qualified to do so, as it addresses each of these factors. Schematically:\nDecide on a desired state, in great detail, ideally as a mini drama: intellectual\nInduce a state of relaxation akin to sleep: physical\nFeel the emotion consequent on the realization of this desired state: emotional\nNo wonder Neville lived a more successful life than Lawrence, Van Gogh, or Nijinsky, at least in existential terms. Neville is the ultimate existentialist, as Wilson understands the term. He has discovered and refined a method for rising in consciousness to the I AM (existence) that precedes any determinate form (essence), from which position I can chose any future state I desire.[44] Remember all those \u201cI AM\u201d statements?\nUnconditioned consciousness is God, the one and only reality. By unconditioned consciousness is meant a sense of awareness; a sense of knowing that I AM apart from knowing who I AM; the consciousness of being, divorced from that which I am conscious of being.\nI AM aware of being man, but I need not be man to be aware of being. Before I became aware of being someone, I, unconditioned awareness, was aware of being, and this awareness does not depend upon being someone. I AM self-existent, unconditioned consciousness; I became aware of being someone; and I shall become aware of being someone other than this that I am now aware of being; but I AM eternally aware of being whether I am unconditioned formlessness or I am conditioned form.\nAs the conditioned state, I (man), might forget who I am, or where I am, but I cannot forget that I AM.\nThis knowing that I AM, this awareness of being, is the only reality.\nThis unconditioned consciousness, the I AM, is that knowing reality in whom all conditioned states\u2013conceptions of myself\u2013begin and end, but which ever remains the unknown knowing being when all the known ceases to be.\nAll that I have ever believed myself to be, all that I now believe myself to be, and all that I shall ever believe myself to be, are but attempts to know myself\u2013the unknown, undefined reality.\nThis unknown knowing one, or unconditioned consciousness, is my true being, the one and only reality. I AM the unconditioned reality conditioned as that which I believe myself to be. I AM the believer limited by my beliefs, the knower defined by the known.\nThe world is my conditioned consciousness objectified. That which I feel and believe to be true of myself is now projected in space as my world. The world\u2013my mirrored self\u2013ever bears witness of the state of consciousness in which I live.\nThere is no chance or accident responsible for the things that happen to me or the environment in which I find myself. Nor is predestined fate the author of my fortunes or misfortunes. [45]\nThis rising in consciousness and return also parallels Wilson\u2019s discussion, via Toynbee, of the social role of religion and the Outsider, showing the connection between the social and personal aspects of the problem of the Outsider, which we will develop below.\n[1] The Angry Years: The Rise and Fall of the Angry Young Men (London: Robson Books, 2007; Kindle, 2014), p66.\n[2] Chap calling himself Zeteticus who conducted an online reading of Religion and the Rebel at the Soul Spelunker website; this is from Part Four, here: http://soulspelunker.com/2017/07/religion-rebel-part-4.html.\n[3] Neville, At Your Command (New York: Snellgrove Publications, 1939); see At Your Command: The First Classic Work by the Visionary Mystic Neville (Tarcher Cornerstone Editions, 2016), which includes Mitch Horowitz\u2019s essay on Neville\u2019s life and work, \u201cNeville Goddard: A Cosmic Philosopher;\u201d and see also my review here.\n[4] Phil Baker (TLS, Feb. 15, 2017) \u201cOverpriced at Nothing: The Life and Work of Colin Wilson,\u201d here; reviewing Gary Lachman, Beyond the Robot: The Life and Work of Colin Wilson (New York: TarcherPerigee, 2017) and Colin Wilson, The Outsider (New York: TarcherPerigee, 2017; first published 1956).\n[5] For his part, Wilson himself says that \u201cSecond hand shops told me that certain people were obsessive collectors of my books, and would pay fairly high prices for them.\u201d \u201cThe Outsider, Twenty Years On,\u201d printed as the Introduction to The Outsider (New York: Diversion Books, 2014).\n[6] \u201cFormer home of \u2018most evil man in Britain\u2019 burns down,\u201d The Telegraph, 23 December 2015, here. Crowley is usually called \u201cthe Most Evil Man in the World\u201d; is it not enough that his house should burn down, they have to put the boot in by demoting him? Or did Osama Bin Laden retire the title?\n[7] At least they don\u2019t publish Savitri Devi . . .\n[8] See my \u201cMagick for Housewives\u201d in Aristokratia IV, as well as Mitch Horowitz\u2019 One Simple Idea: How Positive Thinking Reshaped Modern Life (Crown: 2014).\n[9] Watts takes Spengler to task for not perceiving that great spiritual wisdom \u2013 such as Neoplatonism, Stoicism, and Christianity \u2014 not just New Age quackery, is found during these periods; and also speculates that the USA may not be part of the European old age but the birth of a new cycle.\n[10] \u201cA battery of old grey men in club chairs, frozen in stony disapproval of this vulgar drunken American. When will the club steward arrive to eject the bounder so a gentleman can read his Times? \u2026 Old Sarge screams after them \u2026 \u2018You Fabian Socialist vegetable peoples go back to your garden in Hampstead and release a hot-air balloon in defiance of a local ordinance. WE GOT ALL YOUR PANSY PICTURES AT ETON. YOU WANTA JACK OFF IN FRONT OF THE QUEEN WITH A CANDLE UP YOU ASS?\u2019\u201d William S. Burroughs, The Wild Boys (London: Calder, 1972). Wilson famously camped out on Hampstead Heath in his pre-fame youth.\n[11] Both in his \u201cRetrospective Introduction\u201d here and in his more recent The Angry Years.\n[12] Kingsley Amis, no friend of Wilson\u2019s \u2013 he once proposed throwing him off a roof, as Wilson notes with some bemusement in The Angry Years \u2014 wrote much later that \u201cToynbee \u2026 after finding Colin Wilson\u2019s The Outsider worthy of the highest praise \u2026 shiftily backtracked and condemned \u2026. Religion and the Rebel, as a \u2018vulgarizing rubbish bin\u2019 unaware that it was actually part two of the same book\u2026\u201d Memoirs (London: Hutchinson, 1991), p182; quoted in Colin Stanley: Colin Wilson\u2019s Outsider Cycle: a guide for students (Colin Wilson Studies #15); Nottingham (UK): Pauper\u2019s Press, 2009.\n[13] It\u2019s really very simple: \u201cThe media, at all levels, is a racket financed by monied interests in order to promote the policies and programs that are good for rich people.\u201d Z-Man, here. Outsiders \u2013 real ones, not the safe opposition promoted by the media \u2013 need not apply.\n[14] Hart will later note the tie between this and the alt-right, especially Jason Reza Jorjani.\n[15] \u201cOutsider: Fascism and Colin Wilson,\u201d Medium, July 8, 2017, here.\n[16] \u201cThe Outsider was an incomplete book\u201d (p.1). Like Coppola, Wilson says there were other ideas he wanted to deal with in Religion and the Rebel that he did not have the space for in The Outsider. He intends to \u201cprobe deeper into the Outsider himself, while at the same time moving towards the historical problem of the decline of civilizations\u201d (p.2).\n[17] \u201cThe Outsider is a symptom of a civilization\u2019s decline; Outsiders appear like pimples on a dying civilization. An individual tends to be what his environment makes him. If a civilization is spiritually sick, the individual suffers from the same sickness. If he is healthy enough to put up a fight, he becomes an Outsider.\u201d (pp.1-2).\n[18] The essence of Existenzphilosophie, according to Wilson, is \u201csystematising one\u2019s knowledge of how to live by the most rigorous standards \u2013 by the Outsider\u2019s standards. Very few men can serve as examples of this kind of development.\u201d Neville agrees: \u201cFor ultimate satisfaction man must find a principle which is for him a way of life, a principle which he can experience as true.\u201d Freedom for All (1942), Preface.\n[19] Colin Stanley, loc. cit.\n[20] Wilson himself later admitted \u201cthere is simply too much in the book, and it is like an overstuffed pillow.\u201d See \u201cAfterword: Colin Wilson on The Outsider Cycle,\u201d in Stanley, op. cit.\n[21] For example, The Law and the Promise (1961): \u201cThe purpose of the first portion of this book is to show, through actual true stories, how imagining creates reality\u2026 I want to express my sincere appreciation to the hundreds of men and women who have written me, telling me of their use of imagination to create a greater good for others as well as for themselves; that we may be mutually encouraged by each other\u2019s faith. A faith which was loyal to the unseen reality of their imaginal acts. The limitation of space does not allow the publication of all the stories in this one volume.\u201d\n[22] Freedom for All (1942), Preface.\n[23] Feeling is the Secret (1944), Foreword.\n[24] \u201cGoddard Enterprises Ltd has been operating since 1921 and the elements of its success include Vision, Creativity, Expertise, Tenacity and Location.\u201d Website here. There is no apparent connection to The Goddard Group or Gary Goddard, who was accused of pedophilia in 2017.\n[25] See Mitch Horowitz, ed., The Power of Imagination: The Neville Goddard Treasury (New York: Tarcher/Penguin, 2015), which not only collects ten of Neville\u2019s short books, but reprints, as an introduction, the relevant chapter from Israel Regardie\u2019s The Romance of Metaphysics (1946).\n[26] \u201cAmericans always assume a British accent means intelligence, so Sargon\u2019s fans are being told they are right about the world, by a smart British guy, who sounds confident and reasonable. It\u2019s why his clash with Spencer was a disaster for him. He was revealed to be a petulant, argumentative airhead.\u201d Z-Man, \u201cA Pointless Ramble About YouTube Stars,\u201d January 10, 2018.\n[27] Lachman (\u201cHistorical Introduction\u201d) says he \u201clooked the part of the \u2018young genius\u2019.\u201d\n[28] Though admittedly confined to a lecture at the Open Center in New York about twenty years ago, where Wilson put the audience of New Agers on edge by calling one of his Establishment foes \u201ca right cunt.\u201d\n[29] Consider Stephen King. In the MST3k episode \u201cThe Dead Talk Back,\u201d a detective (who rather resembles Neville) contemplates a wall of book shelves, and one of the crew overdubs: \u201cAnd on the shelf behind you every book Joyce Carol Oates released last month.\u201d Oates is or at least was a fan of Wilson and provided an Introduction to a reprint of The Philosopher\u2019s Stone, which was my own introduction to his work. I don\u2019t recall who the publisher was, but a later reprint of Oates\u2019 version is from Tarcher \u2013 the publisher slagged above for printing Napoleon Hill. Pulling it off the shelf to check the date, I see that I had it autographed by Colin Wilson in 1995, presumably at that Open Center lecture.\n[30] Alan Watts had similar motive, although he seemed able to achieve a better balance of lectures to books; on the other hand, it drove him to drink and possible his early death at 57; Neville lasted to 67, Wilson to 82, in line with his speculations in The Philosopher\u2019s Stone on the relation between genius and longevity.\n[31] This is where Hart draws in the work of Jason Reza Jorjani; see Prometheus and Atlas (London: Arktos, 2016).\n[32] Well laid out by Jorjani in Prometheus and Atlas, Chapter Two.\n[33] Weirdly, it was The Occult (1971) that led Philip Toynbee to perform a second 180 turn and proclaim Wilson once more a genius; one might suspect these \u201crespected critics\u201d were simply desperately trying to one-up each other.\n[34] \u201cWhat was needed was not some new religious cult but some simple way of accessing religious or mystical experience, of the sort that must have been known to the monks and cathedral-builders of the Middle Ages.\u201d The Angry Years, loc. cit. Essentially the same as Watts\u2019 tripartite historical scheme (see my review of Behold the Spirit, here), with the Outsiders gradually becoming dominant in the Third Age of the Holy Spirit and demanding a suitable religion for their expanded consciousness; not surprising, since both rely on Spengler.\n[35] \u201cThe Outsider\u2019s final problem is to become a visionary.\u201d\n[36] See Colin Stanley, Colin Wilson\u2019s \u2018Occult Trilogy\u2019: a guide for students (Alresford [UK]: Axis Mundi Books, 2013).\n[37] At Your Command, op. cit.\n[38] As we\u2019ll later point out, Neville typically presents his teaching in the form of esoteric interpretations of Biblical stories; here, Luke 5:5.\n[39] Again, as will be noted, Neville disdains the literal interpretation of the text, and consequently the organized religions built upon it, insisting instead that it is an entirely psychological document meant to be applied to and by ourselves.\n[41] The Outsider, p.70; Wilson\u2019s italics.\n[42] This chapter, \u201cThe Attempt to Gain Control,\u201d is the one Wilson showed to Victor Gollancz, resulting in Gollancz offering to publish the completed manuscript.\n[43] Op. cit., p 321.\n[44] Wilson points out how Sartre had pointlessly sabotaged his philosophy by denying the reality of any such \u201ctranscendental ego.\u201d Wilson, Sartre and Neville all agree, though, that there is no \u201cunconscious\u201d that determines or controls my life.\n[45] Freedom for All, Chapter One.\nTurning Point: Mjolnir Magazine, Issue II\nThe Sad, Sour Spook: Max Stirner & His Proper...\nThe Magical Bottomless Labor Pool\nPublished: February 12, 2018 | This entry was posted in North American New Right and tagged articles, Colin Wilson, existentialism, James J. 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The new ep sees Ford exploring the depths of the Chicago blues sound, taking a sonic cue from giants such as Lightnin\u2019 Hopkins, Howlin\u2019 Wolf and others. Recorded in a little over a day at Sweetwater Studios, the new songs feature sparse instrumentation \u2014 electric bass, drums, saxophone and Ford\u2019s instantly recognizable blues guitar.\n\u201cI was itching to do something that was pared down and very blues oriented, and I was happy to do it at Sweetwater because I had a great time there with the Jing Chi project,\u201d says Ford. \u201cI went looking through my blues records and found two pieces of music that were both Lightnin\u2019 Hopkins inspired: \u2018Automobile Blues\u2019 and \u2018Good Times\u2019. I also did a Little Walter tune called \u201cCrazy for My Baby\u201d which I have played before and was excited to record.\u201d\nWorking once again with Sweetwater Senior Producer / Engineer Mark Hornsby, who also recorded most of Jing Chi\u2019s album Supremo at Sweetwater last year, the whole idea for this record was to keep things sparse and groove oriented. Ford called on bassist Brian Allen, drummer Wes Little, tenor saxophonist Jeff Coffin, and rhythm guitarist Casey Wasner. The closing track of the ep, \u201cThe Champion\u201d, is a trio instrumental featuring Sweetwater Studio\u2019s own Nick D\u2019Virgilio (drums) and Dave Martin (acoustic bass).\nOne instrument that was deliberately omitted on the ep was keyboards. Instead, Ford relied on Casey Wasner\u2019s rhythm guitar: \u201cCasey has been playing in my working band and he is a jack of all trades. He\u2019s been a guitar tech, a stage manager, a monitor man, he even played drums for Keb\u2019 Mo\u2019 for many years. He\u2019s multitalented and a great guy to have around,\u201d Ford explains.\nChicago vibes in Fort Wayne\nWith almost a half-century of stage and studio experience under his belt, Ford knows what he likes: \u201cI like a large room and a high ceiling, and Sweetwater absolutely fits that bill. There\u2019s plenty of room for a grand piano, the bass player, me and my amp,\u201d he says. \u201cThe drums were recorded in the booth, which is also a very good size.\u201d Indeed, the drum booth worked well for the Jing Chi\u2019s Supremo in which drummer Vinnie Colaiuta laid down rhythms for the exploratory, fusion-based recording. \u201cVinnie cut the Jing Chi record at Sweetwater with me, there is no one more finicky than that dude. He was more than happy there!\u201d\nFor Ford, the studio experience is all about comfort and authenticity: \u201cI like to have some room, and I like for the room to be a part of the sound,\u201d he says. \u201cI also like to be able to play my amplifier just as I would play it on a gig. These things are not necessarily readily available, even in great studios.\u201d For the entire Made to Last recording, Ford ran a vintage \u201953 Les Paul and a \u201958 Les Paul reissue through his \u2018go-to\u2019 amp: a Dumbo Overdrive Special. To capture guitar tones \u2014 which Ford played \u2018pedal-free\u2019 save for a Colorsound Octivider he used on \u201cCrazy for My Baby\u201d because it sounded \u2018wild and crazy\u2019 \u2014 Hornsby relied on a Shure SM 57 dynamic and a Royer 121 ribbon microphone.\nWhile his performances are very often close to perfection, Ford is constantly exploring sounds and tones to penetrate new boundaries: \u201cI am at the stage where as soon as something sounds the way it is supposed to sound, I immediately want to change it. So I was working with Mark Hornsby to explore things a little bit. For instance, I might say, \u2018put some distortion on the bass\u2019 or \u2018run the saxophone through an amplifier\u2019. But all those things have been done before. For a lot of musicians like myself, and engineers like Mark, you work to refine your craft, perfect your sound and have it recorded a certain way. So sometimes when it comes to mixing, there you go! You\u2019re kinda done.\u201d\n\u201cIt was very refreshing to work alongside Robben on this project, and also the Jing Chi project.\u201d Hornsby said. \u201cWorking with this level of virtuoso musicians requires both focus and an open mind. We worked very hard to create a relaxing environment where Robben and his bandmates could comfortably explore both the Chicago blues for his Made to Last project, and fusion-based improvisation for Jing Chi.\u201d\nJing Chi and the Art of Recording\nIn contrast to his Made to Last project, Ford\u2019s fusion-based supergroup Jing Chi \u2014 which translates to \u2018essence\u2019 and \u2018energy\u2019 \u2014 was inspired by extended jam sessions among the band\u2019s three highly accomplished members: Jimmy Haslip [Yellowjackets, Allan Holdsworth], on bass drummer Vinnie Colaiuta [Frank Zappa, Jeff Beck] on drums and Robben Ford [Joni Mitchell, Miles Davis] on guitar.\nFor Supremo, Ford drew his inspiration largely from his interest in vintage R&B film music, leaving plenty of room for he and his bandmates to color outside the lines during the sessions. Over the course of those sessions, Ford and company were joined by other top musicians including Coffin and Trumpet player Mike Haynes (Cage The Elephant, Brad Paisley). For the duration of the Supremo project, Ford\u2019s band worked quickly and masterfully with Sweetwater Studio\u2019s Hornsby at the helm.\nJing Chi session Drummer Vinnie Colaiuta echoed Ford\u2019s exuberance on working at Sweetwater Studios for the making of the band\u2019s latest album, Supremo \u2014 the band\u2019s first album since 2004: \u201cThis whole place is like a self-contained ecosystem that\u2019s amazing for musicians. I can show up, I can play my drums, they sound great, the recording sounds great, the people are great, and I\u2019m happy.\u201d\n\u201cThe experience at Sweetwater Studios has been just incredible, five stars on every level,\u201d Ford concludes. \u201cI have never been more comfortable recording anywhere, anytime in my life.\u201d\nFor more information on Made to Last, or to order a copy, please visit Sweetwater\u2019s website at: https://www.sweetwater.com/store/detail/FordMtoLCD", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00240.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 98, + "original_length": 11266, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.97, + "perplexity": 335.6, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "https://www.criminallegalnews.org/cln-news/2018/Criminal-Legal-News-mentioned-in-article-on-criminalization-draconian-laws/", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T04:16:28Z", + "digest": "sha1:KZD5IPO7HHFJFPNKBOQGEEWILKLM65TS", + "length": 4959, + "nlines": 28, + "source_domain": "www.criminallegalnews.org", + "title": "Criminal Legal News mentioned in article on criminalization/draconian laws | Criminal Legal News", + "raw_content": "Criminal Legal News mentioned in article on criminalization/draconian laws\nCourthouse News, Sept. 28, 2018. https://www.courthousenews.com/this-is-legal-th...\nThis Is Legal? This Is the Law?\nSix-year-old children in North Carolina can be referred to the criminal juvenile justice system. I think first grade is a bit young to start sending kids on the path to prison. I asked the North Carolina attorney general why he does that, and for a breakdown, by race, of these children. Haven\u2019t heard back.\nEleven other states refer children to criminal justice when they\u2019re 10: in fifth grade. The other 38 states seem not to have lost their minds.\nMassachusetts this year became the first state to set the age limit at 12, and California is considering such a bill. According to TheAppeal.org, which cited a UCLA analysis of California Department of Justice data, a 5-year-old child in that state was referred to Justice for a \u201ccurfew violation.\u201d\nWell. There are criminals, and then there\u2019s criminalization.\nThese may be among the stupidest and most blatantly abusive examples of the U.S. justice system \u2014 lately \u2014 but there are plenty of others, if you have the stomach to hear them.\nSoon, I presume, after Republican white men in the U.S. Senate confirm Brett Kavanaugh to a lifetime appointment to the U.S. Supreme Court, Justices Kavanaugh, Clarence Thomas, et al., will approve criminal prosecution of 6-year-old boys for fiddling around with their cousins. Allegedly.\nAnd speaking of children, if you had the stomach to sit through Lindsey Graham\u2019s swanning around at Brett Kavanaugh\u2019s Senatte Judiciary Committee hearing Thursday, I suppose you could sit through anything.\nIn June, for instance, a family court judge in Massachusetts ruled that the Judge Rotenberg Educational Center, a special-needs day and residential school, may keep using electric shock to discipline its students.\n\u201cThe facility in question is the only school in the country that still uses electric shock on its students,\u201d according to the September issue of Criminal Legal News. The monthly magazine reported that a former teacher at that alleged school said electric shocks were administered to students \u201cfor infractions as small as standing up or speaking without permission.\u201d\nHmmm. It seems to me that deliberately inflicting electroshock on a child is assault, but what do I know? I\u2019m not a family court judge.\nI wonder what the schools do in Russia.\nReturning to California, the Santa Barbara City Council recently enacted an ordinance, unanimously, making handing out \u201ccontraband [plastic] straws punishable by jail time of up to 6 months, and a fine of $1,000 for each \u201ccontraband straw.\u201d\nThat\u2019ll teach little Kimberly to run her contraband lemonade stand.\nBad as all these laws and putatively legal policies are, we have to hand the soiled palm to Virginia, which announced this week that women visiting inmates at state prisons will not be allowed to wear tampons. The policy will take effect Monday, according to The Independent, an English newspaper that does a better job covering the United States than most U.S. newspapers.\nThe Independent reported: \u201cLisa Kinney, a spokesperson for the DOC said: \u2018If someone chooses to visit a Virginia Department of Corrections inmate, he or she cannot have anything hidden inside a body cavity.\u2019\u201d\nGood heavens, no. They might try to smuggle a soda straw in there.\n(After this column was posted, I received news that Virginia has suspended its no-tampons policy, after \u201ca number of concerns have been raised about the new procedure.\u201d Those damn news media, again.)\nOK, let\u2019s take a deep breath and step back now. And while we\u2019re breathing, let\u2019s get the dogs into it.\nA dog\u2019s olfactory bulb \u2014 his smeller \u2014 is 40 times larger than ours. Having developed his nose to such an extent, the dog \u2014 a generally inoffensive and kindly creature \u2014 uses his nose, every day, all the time, to investigate the world.\nYour average dog can tell, from her nose alone, not only whether a Person In Question has crossed a heavily traveled road in the past 24 hours, but which direction he was going.\nI have asked experts how dogs can determine, from smell, which direction someone was going. I have yet to receive a reasonable answer.\nAll right, then. Granted that dogs have remarkable abilities, far beyond our poor power to add or subtract. Dogs don\u2019t do anything bad with their superpowers. They use their superpowers to amuse themselves, stay alive, and investigate the world.\nNow consider humans: a far more malevolent and dishonest species than the dog.\nGrant a human a superpower \u2014 the ability to indict someone, for example, and send him to prison, or on the path to prison \u2014 the human will use it, particularly if it will increase his power, and prestige, and income, and sexual opportunities.\nCriminal laws grant extraordinary powers. 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Yet, top companies like Guinness, GlaxoSmithKline and Nigerian Bottling Company advertise vacancies for the position of HORECA brand managers.\nBeing in the HORECA market is great, but how? Or rather, what is HORECA? The term HORECA originated in Holland and is commonly used among European and Asian businesses. However as the global market continues to become smaller, the term entered the United States industry jargon, and now Nigeria. This sector is one of the fastest growing in Europe. In 2004, more than 7.8 million people were employed and the sector generated more than 338 billion turnovers.\nThe iconic business term, primarily refers to a sector of the foodservice industry, to establishments, which prepare and serve food and beverages. The term is a syllabic abbreviation to the words Hotel & Restaurant Category but to some, it also may mean Hotel/ Restaurant/ Caf\u00e9 (or Hotel/Restaurant/ Caterer, or Hotel/ Restaurant/ Canteen). Some Distributer companies use this term to define the Food & Beverage Service trade channel or the Hospitality trade channel.\nThe HORECA industry is probably the most dynamic foodservice sector in the world today. Still, navigating all its twists and turns can be tricky. Here, things change fast. What was once the \u201cin thing\u201d can very quickly become yesterday\u2019s news in the world of hospitality, especially in the food and beverage sector.\nHoReCa businesses depend on suppliers, distributors and delivery companies to have the most efficient methods of handling storage, transport and delivery. The distribution company must able to make the right delivery at the right time at the right price to hundreds of restaurants, hotels, caterers and other clients. In addition, the distribution company must be aware of characteristics and trends in the complicated restaurant market in order to assist clients in keeping up to date.\nChallenges of the HORECA Industry in Nigeria\nInnovation and creativity are paramount in the industry, which means that everyone must be on their toes and keep up with the latest dining fad, new materials and new methods of preparing food. Restaurant owners and chefs should be able to easily change the concept of an establishment or reinvent themselves to maintain their relevance in the eyes of diners.\nAnother major challenge in this industry is franchising. Franchising means that all franchise owners must offer consistent food quality and service.\nOperating a food-based business is complex. One common challenge is meeting seasonal demands, which means supplying both items in season and procuring items that are out of season. Often, food establishments count on their marketing & distribution companies to have to supply items on demand.\nMost of the HORECA companies in Nigeria are concentrated in major cities ( Lagos, Abuja, and Port Harcourt). This is as a result of global design and fashion trends that these cities are known for. Model restaurants and hotels also spice up activities here.\nCompanies That Need HORECA Services in Nigeria\nTop companies in Nigeria seek to employ HORECA specialists from time to time, but unfortunately, just a few people understand the term. On search engine results pages, searches for HORECA in Nigeria only reflect job vacancies in top companies without showing a detailed analysis of the term. Some of the companies that need the services of HORECA specialists in Nigeria include:\nCoca Cola - NBC (Nigerian Breweries)\nGuinness - ( Diageo)\nHORECA Distributors\nWho Can Work In The HORECA Industry?\nJob vacancies in the HORECA industry usually require the special skills. Below is a list of requirements for working as a brand activation manager in the Nigerian HORECA industry curated from several job ads. Requirements may be simplified for lower positions.\nSkills Needed In The HORECA Industry\nUnderstanding of the drinks market\nAbility to manage and cultivate good relationships\nAbility to identify emerging trends, and communicate that knowledge to key contacts within the team.\nStrong Personality, Presence, Strong Work Ethic, Style, Persistent, Reliable, Self-Aware, Sociable, Flexible Availability, Self-motivated, ambitious\nAble to manage time and workload to optimize effectiveness and efficiency\nBusiness and scene-savvy committed, and passionate\nStrong Analytical & Planning skills\nOutstanding local market knowledge, contacts and experience in \u201cthe scene\nObservation and reports of competitor activities\nAn active search of new opportunities for the business\nGood experience of executing ATL, BTL, Market Research & Category Management across diverse geographies.\n.Graduate with working experience\nMarketing qualification ideal\nNow you know that there is a place for you in the HORECA market. You can conduct further researches if you will like to join the industry. You can also send your questions to blog@curzonandjones.com for more information.", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00240.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 84, + "original_length": 6602, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.93, + "perplexity": 316.9, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "https://www.cutimes.com/2001/09/11/tapping-the-credit-union-environment/", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T03:25:36Z", + "digest": "sha1:JDOYSMLFSD3KSFO4AEZS33RCHYYN56JB", + "length": 3199, + "nlines": 3, + "source_domain": "www.cutimes.com", + "title": "Tapping the credit union environment | Credit Union Times", + "raw_content": "Tapping the credit union environment\nMADISON, Wis. - At press time, CUNA's Market Research Department released the 2001/2002 Credit Union Environmental Scan. Designed to facilitate strategic planning, the annual report surveys the credit union landscape in terms of demographics, marketing, finance and economics, technology, financial products and services, human resources, and legislative and regulatory issues....\nMADISON, Wis. \u2013 At press time, CUNA\u2019s Market Research Department released the 2001/2002 Credit Union Environmental Scan. Designed to facilitate strategic planning, the annual report surveys the credit union landscape in terms of demographics, marketing, finance and economics, technology, financial products and services, human resources, and legislative and regulatory issues. This year\u2019s E-Scan emphasizes trends and issues resulting from bank modernization, globalization, the U.S. economy, and the Internet. It also looks at issues such as the untapped potential of minority and women small business owners, customer relationship management, the anticipated shortage of peak borrowing-age members, wireless and multi-channel delivery, and the political power wielded by the mature market. Here is just a glimpse at some of the findings: With 18% of the U.S. population ages 12 and under expected to grow over the next 20 years, researchers believe this group will start borrowing money sooner. They also have large sums of annual discretionary income-$28 billion- of which 14% is saved. In addition, the youth market exerts a huge influence on parental spending from vehicles and vacations, to homes. Other E-Scan results find the minority population is expected to surpass the non-minority population by the year 2050. According to the study, a recent Milken Institute report indicates that minority businesses\u2019 contributions to the national economy are large representing approximately 12% of all the nation\u2019s business, and since 1987 the number of minority firms has grown by 17% per year. More than 34% of the nation\u2019s minority-owned firms are based in California, while Florida and Texas contain more than 10% each. While the population becomes more diverse, there has also been a marked change in households. The report finds non-family households are growing faster than family households as marriage decreases while divorce and cohabitation increases. Thirty-two percent of households contain individuals living alone or unrelated people living together. In addition, CUNA estimates that 24% of all credit union member households are singles or unmarried couples without children. According to E-Scan, the Census 2000 results also point to an aging population where the current median age of 35 is expected to be 40 by 2003. As the population ages so do the homes, and a Harvard University Joint Center for Housing Studies finds homeowners spending about $180 billion annually on residential remodeling. Average annual remodeling expenditures reportedly range from $3,840 for trade-up buyers to $2,930 for first time owners. The E-Scan is available in several formats. 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However, since then the monastery had been through a series of misfortune.\nIn 1815 during the Gorkha invasion, the monastery was plundered and completely ravaged.\nIt was rebuilt in the year 1861. But due to many disturbances, it had to be shifted to a new location where the present Bhuitia Busti Monastery was built in the year 1879. As the luck may have it, an earthquake completely destroyed the monastery in 1934.\nIt was rebuilt with the patronage of the Late Chogyal (Dharmaraja) of Sikkim. So if you consider its origin since its first foundation at the Observatory Hill, this is the oldest Buddhist Monastery in Darjeeling having been through changes in its physical appearance and location.\nThe present structure of the monastery is awesome. It has been built in a traditional Tibetan style with Sikkimese influence, and it's a great example of Darjeeling's vibrant Buddhism tradition. The monastery belongs to the Red Sect of Buddhists and has links with the Kagyu and Nyingma orders of Tibetan Buddhism.\nBhutia Busti Monastery, Darjeeling\nI had the privilege of spending a long personal time with the present Head Monk or the Lama of Bhutia Busti Monastery. It was a rainy and also a windy day. There was nobody around.\nHalf drenched in rain, I was standing outside and wondering if the Monastery was open as I looked at the closed doors. Soon the doors opened and a monk came out. He introduced himself as the one in charge of the monastery, the Head Monk or Lama. His name is Aku. When I asked him how should I call him, he proudly said \"AK, and that's enough. All know me by that name\".\nWith his pleasant and friendly personality, I was at home in minutes. He took me inside, narrated the story of his life and showed me the entire prayer room explaining every details. AK was born in Kolkata. At the age of 6 months, in June 1935 he was brought to the monastery in Darjeeling. Since then he has spent his life here and became a monk. He said \"You know, I have been made a monk\".\nAK, The Head Lama posed for me on request\nHe never learned any language and can't read or write even today. But he can speak many languages including Hindi and English. Monks have no possessions in life. He has one though, a beautiful dog. He goes to bed at 8pm and gets up at 2am in the morning everyday. The morning prayer starts at 4:30am. His has a sister and a brother living in Kolkata.\nAs you enter the Monastery's main prayer room, you will see a model of Buddha in a glass case and photographs of Dalai Lama. On one side of the room, there is an image of Tara Devi which is one of the new installations. There is also Lakshmiswari - a large image of a goddess that has thousand eyes and thousand hands.\nIf you want, you can give donations which is used towards running of the monastery. Photography is strictly prohibited inside. Initially I didn't understand why. AK explained me the reason, I'll come to that later. He then looked at me for a while and thought about something, and then allowed me to take a few pictures as an exception.\nOn the other side of the room, there are large wall murals depicting Buddha's life story. They look like wall paintings but AK clarified that they are not paintings. They are original artwork made with powdered stones. Different kinds of stones were converted into powder form by grinding them.\nEach reflected different shades of colors. Those were used in the awesome looking wall murals. And the bangles, ornaments and other decorative items on the mural are made using real gold powder. I realized now why photography is not allowed inside.\nWall Mural inside Bhutia Busti Monastery\nAK took me to a side and asked me to look at the murals from a particular angle. Now some parts of the mural were shining and sparkling like gold, and I knew that there were precious treasures hidden over there. He also pointed towards the places where there have been attempts to scrape some materials out which now look badly damaged.\nJut outside the prayer room and on one side of the front veranda, there is a large drum like hollow cylinder that you can rotate. It has prayers written on it. On the other side where a flight of stairs leads upstairs to the monk's residence, there is a large wall mural, but this one obviously has no gold.\nIn between, the main door of the prayer room has two golden colored circles imprinted, one representing sun and the other one the moon. In AK's picture above, you will see the circles where he has placed his two hands.\nWhen it was finally time for me to leave, AK asked me to wait for a minute. He went inside and came back with a silver robe which he then passionately wrapped it around my neck and blessed me saying this will always protect you. It has been one of my prized possessions of lifetime.\nThe Bhutia Busti Monastery is open daily from early morning until evening (7pm). The morning prayers start at 4:30pm till 6pm, and evening prayer is from 5pm to 6:30pm.\nThe Bhutia Busti Monastery is located about 1.5 kilometers (i.e. about 1 mile) downhill from the Chowrasta Mall . You will need to take the CR Das Road from the Mall next to the CCD, pass the Step Aside and keep walking downhill. The locals might say that the walk is some 15-20 minutes, let me tell you it's about 30-35 minutes walk.\nRoad to Bhutia Busti Monastery\nIn about 15 minutes, the narrow winding road becomes a lovely view road. You will pass by lush green landscapes with small village cottages on both side, and of course enjoying the great views of the mountains. The road is steep at places, so take your steps carefully. As you pass by a little pork meat shop, you know that you are few minutes away from the monastery. Soon you will see the large arch gate on your left.\nGate of Bhutia Busti Monastery\nNow what about the return? One option is to take the same route back. That's going to be really strenuous unless you are used to steep uphill walk for over an hour. There is another option which I came to know from a local on my second visit. Continue on the same road downhill. There will be steep stairs at places that cut through the rocks offering shortcuts. After some 150-200 steps it again meets the same winding road below. If you have time and like to enjoy the walk at a leisure pace, keep to the road. The stairs are really steep.\nAfter about 15-20 minutes, you will see a milestone that says \"Lebong 1km\". Yes you will need to walk for another 20 minutes to reach the Lebong taxi stand. But after all you are walking downhill all the way.\nOnce you reach the stand, you will find shared taxis (actually shared jeeps). It takes only Rs. 15/- per person to reach up to the Chowk Bazaar of Darjeeling which is 7km from here. Although they say that up to 10 persons are taken in a shared jeep, my estimate is lot more. You are likely to be stuffed in like chickens. We were five persons on the front seat plus a child.\nBut it's fun. In about 20 minutes you will reach Chowk Bazaar. From there you can either take another taxi to the Gandhi Road/Nehru Road area, or walk uphill for 10 minutes or so. 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Most migraine sufferers are unable to work, attend to household duties or attend social functions during a migraine attack.\nCurrently, migraine treatment is dominated by pharmaceutical (drug) approaches and these approaches have been associated with poor outcomes and high rates of dissatisfaction in those who have been tried this approach to the treatment of their migraines.\nNOCIRA, LLC, a company I co-founded in 2014 and currently serve on the management team as Chief Scientific Officer and Vice President of Product Development, is conducting an advanced clinical investigation of a new, non-invasive medical device system that is designed to treat migraines by stimulating multiple sensory nerves at the ear to target central pain centers of the brain.\nA recent survey conducted by Nocira indicated that most migraine sufferers would prefer to use a device rather than medication or injections, provided it was safe, had few side effects, and was effective. Nocira hopes that our investigational new platform might provide just such a therapy in the future.\nCAUTION: INVESTIGATIONAL DEVICE. LIMITED BY FEDERAL LAW TO INVESTIGATIONAL USE ONLY.\nNOT CE MARKED. NOT AVAILABLE FOR MEDICAL USE IN THE EU UNTIL CE MARK IS COMPLETED.\nPATENTED AND PATENT PENDING PRODUCTS AND METHODS. NOCIRA\u00ae IS A REGISTERED TRADEMARK OF NOCIRA LLC. COPYRIGHT 2018 \u00a9 NOCIRA LLC. (ALL RIGHTS RESERVED)\nNocira has developed an investigational, non-invasive, non-drug-based device (operated by mobile phone), which we hope will offer an alternative treatment for migraine.", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00240.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 27, + "original_length": 2707, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.95, + "perplexity": 332.6, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "https://www.dawndtottydesigns.com/tag/open-concept-shelving/", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T04:20:39Z", + "digest": "sha1:YFZ3TLQESWDORHJYM7ZBTA6UJY7TA4D2", + "length": 108, + "nlines": 2, + "source_domain": "www.dawndtottydesigns.com", + "title": "open concept shelving Archives - Dawn D Totty", + "raw_content": "open concept shelving\nBelow you'll find a list of all posts that have been tagged as \u201copen concept shelving\u201d", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00240.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 19, + "original_length": 939, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.98, + "perplexity": 335.9, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "https://www.daytoncommunitynews.com/whats-happening/merry-christmas-from-the-dayton-community-news", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T04:13:10Z", + "digest": "sha1:GC5KSZZT7NSMSFRHACB75QXEDXBSDIX4", + "length": 890, + "nlines": 4, + "source_domain": "www.daytoncommunitynews.com", + "title": "Merry Christmas from the Dayton Community News", + "raw_content": "Merry Christmas from the Dayton Community News\n\"Out in the fields, an angel of the Lord appeared to the shepherds who were tending their flocks of sheep by night. The angel announced that the Savior had been born in the town of David. Suddenly a great host of heavenly beings appeared with the angels and began singing praises to God.\nAs the angelic beings departed, the shepherds decided to travel to Bethlehem and see the Christ-child. There they found Mary, Joseph, and the baby, in the stable. After their visit, they began to spread the word about this amazing child and everything the angel had said about him.\nThey went on their way still praising and glorifying God. But Mary kept quiet, treasuring their words and pondering them in her heart. It must have been beyond her ability to grasp, that sleeping in her arms\u2014the tender child she had just borne\u2014was the Savior of the world.\"", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00240.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 65, + "original_length": 1871, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.99, + "perplexity": 240.3, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "https://www.dccae.gov.ie/en-ie/news-and-media/speeches/Pages/Topical-Issue-Debate-'Concern-regarding-depletion-of-fishing-stock-and-pollution-of-the-River-Barrow'.aspx", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T04:05:31Z", + "digest": "sha1:IRZNV4J33P2T5GE3QE5OTBOXKGBBGPIW", + "length": 6633, + "nlines": 16, + "source_domain": "www.dccae.gov.ie", + "title": "Topical Issue Debate 'Concern regarding depletion of fishing stock and pollution of the River Barrow'", + "raw_content": "Topical Issue Debate 'Concern regarding depletion of fishing stock and pollution of the River Barrow'\nInland Fisheries Ireland (IFI) is the State Agency statutorily responsible for the management and conservation of Ireland's Inland fisheries resources including wild Atlantic salmon. IFI manages salmon stocks on an individual river basis as each of Ireland's 141 salmon rivers (including river sections and estuaries) has its own genetically unique stock of salmon.\nEach salmon river in Ireland has an individual conservation limit which can be considered as the number of adult salmon required to maintain a healthy population. Rivers which sufficiently exceed their conservation limit may be opened for harvest fisheries (recreational and/or commercial). Rivers which meet 50% of their conservation limit may be opened for catch and release (C&R) angling; which permits enjoyment of angling and provides information for the stock assessment, while having a negligible impact of vulnerable fish stocks and encouraging the shared responsibility to contribute to conservation and the potential rebuilding of these stocks. For 2018, 78 rivers in Ireland were open to harvest or catch and release fishing.\nMarine survival is considered to have the biggest influence on return, from far North Atlantic feeding grounds, of salmon to all rivers on Atlantic coasts. Climate change in the ocean is considered to be a major factor. There is also evidence that heavy sea-lice infestation from salmon farming has resulted in additional mortality in respect of migratory North Atlantic salmon generally. In freshwater, water quality and a range of pressures such as afforestation, drainage, effluent discharge, siltation and agricultural enrichment can all have an impact on juvenile salmon production.\nThe primary index for evaluation of likely returning numbers is the recorded rod (harvest or catch and release) and commercial catch (if any) averaged over the previous 5 years. The scientific committee applies a range of rod exploitation rates for recreational fishing activity and adds the commercial catch to calculate the total run of salmon. Fish counters are particularly useful in cases where rod or commercial data is not available. In addition, information on juvenile abundance indices derived from electro-fishing surveys carried out annually by IFI is also evaluated as an indicator of stock status.\nFor the 2018 season, based on rod catch and exploitation rates, the Barrow was meeting 17% of its conservation limit (CL). Management advice is that rivers meeting >50% of the CL can be open for catch and release angling.\nWhile the Barrow was deemed not to be meeting >50% of CL based on rod catch, the river is open for catch & release angling in 2018 based on salmon fry densities recorded in electro fishing surveys which were above the scientific committee's established threshold.\nDuring the summer of 2015 IFI undertook a catchment wide fish stock survey in the River Barrow. The study surveyed 35 sites on the River Barrow main channel and canal cuts and 118 sites in 21 sub-catchments. Information collected during the course of this survey provided information (e.g. distribution and abundance) on the different life stages of brown trout, Atlantic salmon, coarse fish species and pike. A total of 14 fish species and one hybrid were recorded in the River Barrow.\nIn general Good fish status, as defined by the Water Framework Directive (WFD) ecological classification tool, was recorded in the upper reaches of the River Barrow main channel above Mountmellick while downstream many ponded sites were assigned a status of moderate or worse (71% of sites). High fish status was only assigned to five (6%) of the 83 sub-catchment sites surveyed, while 36% were assigned Good status. Unfortunately 52% were assigned Moderate status or less across the sub-catchments. The main reasons identified for less than good fish status were poor water quality, poor habitat, the presence of artificial barriers impeding migratory fish passage and possibly competition from the invasive dace.\nThere are angling opportunities on the river Barrow, however the significant challenge is salmon. As I have said a lot of the challenges with salmon is survival at sea which is being dealt with internationally through the North Atlantic Salmon Conservation Organisation (NASCO). Our officials and those of Inland Fisheries Ireland will attend the annual meeting in June and will be sensitive to the negotiations to protect our stock and other stocks in international feeding grounds via cooperation between all Atlantic coastal states, the Faros and Greenland.\nThis issue of salmon management can be complex therefore if the Deputies require more extensive briefing I will be happy to have IFI provide that.\nThe Department of Housing, Planning and Local Government is responsible for the pollution aspect of the Topical Issue and I have been advised of the following:\nPrimary responsibility for the monitoring, management, protection and improvement of water quality is assigned to local authorities under the Local Government (Water Pollution) Acts 1977 and 1990 and related legislation which provide that nobody should discharge or cause or permit the discharge of any effluent or polluting matter to any waters except where licensed by a local authority. Any persons causing or permitting polluting matter to enter waters is liable on conviction on indictment to a fine not exceeding \u20ac15,000,000 or imprisonment for a term not exceeding 5 years, or both.\nWith effect from 1 January 2014, Irish Water has statutory responsibility for all aspects of water services planning, delivery and operation at national, regional and local levels for public water services, including the delivery of water services capital infrastructure, encompassing the management of urban waste water collection and treatment infrastructure. 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Virtually all of us either snore, sleep with someone who snores or knows someone who snores. Every family has a snorer who is often the object of many good-natured jokes. Yet, for many, snoring is a serious problem. It is not only embarrassing but often keeps everyone in the house from getting a good night\u2019s sleep. Daytime problems such as fatigue, headache, and poor concentration can be attributed to poor sleep.\nA thorough history and physical exam will usually indicate whether or not there is part of the more serious medical problem. The exam allows us to determine the cause of snoring. We can tell what role nasal congestion, allergies, and sinusitis play in snoring. The questions that need to be answered at this visit include: Do you have a nasal obstruction? Are your tonsils and adenoids causing the blockage? 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The shot dropped, the red light lit and Billups pumped his smoking right hand into a fist, which surely made a sizzling sound.\nIn Denver\u2019s 132-93 trouncing of Toronto, Billups scored 21 points in the first half alone and finished with 24 points, including 5-for-6 from 3-point range, and also 14 assists, all in 32 minutes.\nAlong with the November win at Boston, this was the Nuggets\u2019 strongest statement of the season \u2014 they annihilated a playoff team with no injured rotation players. The Raptors (8-9) trotted out Chris Bosh (third in the NBA in points), Jose Calderon (second in assists) and Jermaine O\u2019Neal (a former all-star, back Tuesday from an ankle injury), but by the third quarter, when Bosh hit a jumper, a reporter on press row deadpanned, \u201cThey cut it to 30.\u201d\nIn Sunday\u2019s game against Houston, Nuggets forward Carmelo Anthony called it a night in the second quarter, unable to play with a bruised right elbow. The all-star had electronic-stimulus treatment Monday, and by Tuesday he looked like Carmelo Anthony again. He finished with 23 points and six rebounds in 30 minutes and got to rest his elbow in the fourth quarter, while guys like Chucky Atkins and Renaldo Balkman filled in for the final minutes.\nDenver (13-6) is 12-3 since Billups entered the lineup.", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00240.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 298, + "original_length": 7620, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.95, + "perplexity": 330.8, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "https://www.denverpost.com/2015/11/09/gary-kubiak-irked-by-denver-broncos-selfish-penalties/", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T03:58:14Z", + "digest": "sha1:JWDYFEJCKWPVGRAHBOXCAMOOUJXK3ZKH", + "length": 3461, + "nlines": 25, + "source_domain": "www.denverpost.com", + "title": "Gary Kubiak irked by Denver Broncos\u2019 \u201cselfish penalties\u201d \u2013 The Denver Post", + "raw_content": "Gary Kubiak irked by Denver Broncos\u2019 \u201cselfish\u2026\nGary Kubiak irked by Denver Broncos\u2019 \u201cselfish penalties\u201d\nDenver Broncos head coach Gary Kubiak wasn\u2019t happy when the team had to call a timeout on defense in the second quarter of the preseason game against the Arizona Cardinals at Sports Authority Field at Mile High on Thursday, September 3, 2015.\nPUBLISHED: November 9, 2015 at 10:24 am | UPDATED: April 20, 2016 at 12:34 am\nDespite their error-filled loss to the Colts on Sunday, the Broncos still have the NFL\u2019s top defense in yards allowed (averaging 274.1 per game). They also lead the 32-team league in sacks (30) and rank second in takeaways (17).\nBut penalties are a concern. The Broncos committed eight penalties Sunday for a loss of 56 yards, and all were charged to the defense.\nPlaying in coordinator Wade Phillips\u2019 blitz-heavy 3-4 alignment, the defense often has toed the line of being aggressive without being foolish. Coach Gary Kubiak felt the line was crossed Sunday.\n\u201cWe have to find a way in the second half of the season to turn that around,\u201d Kubiak said. \u201cThat starts with me, Wade and the coaches and players\u2019 responsibility.\nWATCH: Will Peyton Manning return to his old form this season?\n\u201cYou\u2019re going to have some penalties at times, but you can\u2019t have selfish penalties that hurt the football team. That has been addressed. We will go to work on getting that taken care of.\u201d\nDenver\u2019s defense is worst in the league with 16 personal fouls, at a cost of 207 yards. Some are expected in Phillips\u2019 aggressive system.\n\u201cWe\u2019re going to maintain our aggression as a team,\u201d Kubiak said. \u201cI don\u2019t ever want to take that away, but we\u2019ve got to make sure that we\u2019re thinking about the team in every situation, in everything we do.\u201d\nWATCH: Aqib Talib suspended one game for eye-poke in Colts\u2019 game\nRunning game.\nAs expected, Kubiak expressed disappointment in the Broncos\u2019 35 yards rushing Sunday at Indianapolis.\nC.J. Anderson ran for 34 yards on seven carries and Ronnie Hillman picked up only 1 yard on the same number of carries.\n\u201cSchematically \u2014 I go back and look at some of the things we were doing \u2014 I didn\u2019t like them,\u201d Kubiak said. \u201cWe didn\u2019t execute the things that we were doing.\n\u201cC.J. had a couple of nice runs in the third quarter where we were pretty balanced with what we were doing in moving the football. 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Most recently is the introduction of mobile dermoscopy for in-home imaging by patients. What can medical experts do to convince patients that this is the next step in receiving affordable, quality skin care?\nUnfortunately, many physicians and dermatologists alike are quickly learning that it isn\u2019t enough to adopt the latest innovations in mobile dermoscopy; they must convince their patients that it is the most cost-effective and convenient solution for their long-term health. Although not always as easy as initially hoped, there are a variety of methods to successfully achieve this milestone:\n1.Education and Awareness\nPerhaps the most popular of the three is to focus on education and awareness. Due to the fact that survival rates of skin cancer are heavily dependent on its early detection (98% versus 16% in later stages) it is easy to convey to patients the importance of identifying any changes to their skin early as soon as possible.1 Combined with the fact that 70% of skin cancer cases are discovered by the patient themselves or their loved ones creates a strong argument in favor of including the patient in the imaging component of their care.2\nIn addition to providing potentially life-saving services, dermoscopy encourages streamlined consultations. With appointment wait times to be seen by a dermatologist vary from four months to a year, typical teledermoscopy services allow patients to receive their report within as little as a few days. Rather than dedicating as much as 50% of their time to desk work, teledermoscopy services via patient portals like the MoleScope app allow medical professionals to reduce unnecessary in-clinic visits and focus on time-sensitive cases for increased efficiency and efficacy.\nSkin cancer is something that affects nearly everyone; with 1 in 5 Americans and 2 in 3 Australians developing skin cancer in their lifetime, there is a high chance that your patients will either be diagnosed themselves or be faced with caring for a loved one.4,5 In many cases, people are invested in the opportunity to take their care into their own hands. Through offering mobile dermoscopy, patients are provided with peace of mind that only reliable access to their healthcare professional and hands-on monitoring can provide.\nAs mobile dermoscopy continues to increase in popularity, it is essential that medical professionals are equipped with the resources to properly convey the value of this new tool to their patients. In addition to its affordability and accessibility, healthcare providers can elect to emphasize the importance of skin cancer early detection, the dermoscope\u2019s obvious convenience, or its ability to empower patients with the opportunity to take skin imaging into their own hands. Whether one or all of these ideas are communicated, it is essential that patients see the value in mobile dermoscopy if they are to become an intrinsic part of their skin care solution.\nhttps://www.cancerresearchuk.org\nhttps://skincancer.net\nhttps://actcancer.org\nTopics: Dermoscopy Telehealth Teledermatology Skin Cancer Imaging Teledermatology Services Mobile Dermoscopes Skin Cancer Analytics Dermoscope Teledermoscopy Dermatoscopy Mobile Dermoscope Early Detection of Skin Cancer Mobile Dermoscopy Skin Cancer Early Detection", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00240.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 88, + "original_length": 5021, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.96, + "perplexity": 274.2, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "https://www.desmoinesregister.com/story/news/2017/07/24/dakota-access-protesters-claim-responsibility-pipeline-sabotage/504136001/", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T03:21:55Z", + "digest": "sha1:4VKI3BPSEDQP7XX2AFB52HRORUFQDBVE", + "length": 13558, + "nlines": 49, + "source_domain": "www.desmoinesregister.com", + "title": "Dakota Access protesters claim responsibility for pipeline sabotage", + "raw_content": "Dakota Access protesters claim responsibility for pipeline sabotage\nThe two women, Jessica Reznicek and Ruby Montoya, are Catholic Worker social justice activists who have a history of arrests for political dissent\nDakota Access protesters claim responsibility for pipeline sabotage The two women, Jessica Reznicek and Ruby Montoya, are Catholic Worker social justice activists who have a history of arrests for political dissent Check out this story on desmoinesregister.com: http://dmreg.co/2v0DBL0\nWilliam Petroski, bpetrosk@dmreg.com Published 11:04 a.m. CT July 24, 2017 | Updated 8:56 p.m. CT July 24, 2017\nJessica Reznicek (purple shirt) and Ruby Montoya (blue shirt) claim responsibility for Dakota Access equipment vandalism on July 24, 2017.\nJessica Reznicek, bottom, is arrested as Ruby Montoya, top, tries to continue pulling letters off the Iowa Utilities Board on Monday, July 24, 2017 in Des Moines. (Photo11: Brian Powers/The Register)Buy Photo\nTwo Iowa activists with a history of arrests for political dissent are claiming responsibility for repeatedly damaging the Dakota Access Pipeline while the four-state, $3.8 billion project was under construction in Iowa.\nJessica Reznicek, 35, and Ruby Montoya, 27, both of Des Moines, held a news conference Monday outside the Iowa Utilities Board\u2019s offices where they provided a detailed description of their deliberate efforts to stop the pipeline's completion. They were taken into custody by state troopers immediately afterward when they abruptly began using a crowbar and a hammer to damage a sign on state property.\nBoth women are involved in Iowa\u2019s Catholic Worker social justice movement and they described their pipeline sabotage as a \"direct action\" campaign that began on Election Day 2016. They said their first incident of destruction involved burning at least five pieces of heavy equipment on the pipeline route in northwest Iowa's Buena Vista County.\nPhotos: Protesters admit to pipeline vandalism before vandalizing IUB\nJessica Reznicek, left, and Ruby Montoya, right, admit to previously vandalizing Dakota Access equipment infront of the Iowa Utilities Board on Monday, July 24, 2017 in Des Moines. The pair finished their statement and then pried off letters from the sign before being arrested by the Iowa State Patrol. Brian Powers/The Register\nJessica Reznicek, bottom, is arrested as Ruby Montoya, top, tries to continue pulling letters off the Iowa Utilities Board on Monday, July 24, 2017 in Des Moines. Brian Powers/The Register\nJessica Reznicek is arrested for vandalism after pulling letters off the Iowa Utilities Board sign on Monday, July 24, 2017 in Des Moines. Brian Powers/The Register\nRuby Montoya is arrested for vandalism after pulling letters off the Iowa Utilities board sign on Monday, July 24, 2017 in Des Moines. Brian Powers/The Register\nJessica Reznicek is arrested for vandalism after prying off letters from the Iowa Utilities Board sign on Monday, July 24, 2017 in Des Moines. Brian Powers/The Register\nRuby Montoya is arrested for vandalism after prying off letters from the Iowa Utilities Board sign on Monday, July 24, 2017 in Des Moines. Brian Powers/The Register\nJessica Reznicek sits in a Iowa State Patrol car after she was arrested for vandalism after prying off letters from the Iowa Utilities Board sign on Monday, July 24, 2017 in Des Moines. Brian Powers/The Register\n\"The Dakota Access Pipeline is an issue that affects this entire nation and the people that are subject to its rule,\" Reznicek said. \"With DAPL, we have seen incredible issues regarding the rule of law, indigenous sovereignty, land seizures, state-sanctioned brutality, as well as corporate protections and pardons for their wrongdoings. To all those that continue to be subjected to the government's injustices, we humbly stand with you, and we ask now that you stand with us.\"\nThe two women said they researched how to pierce the steel pipe used for the pipeline and in March they began using oxyacetylene cutting torches to damage exposed, empty pipeline valves. They said they started deliberately vandalizing the pipeline in southeast Iowa's Mahaska County, delaying completion for weeks.\nReznicek and Montoya said they subsequently used torches to cause damage up and down the pipeline throughout Iowa and into part of South Dakota, moving from valve to valve until running out of supplies. They said their actions were rarely reported in the media. They also contended the federal government and Dallas-based Energy Transfer Partners, the pipeline developer, withheld vital information from the public.\nThe two women said they later returned to arson as a tactic, using tires and gasoline soaked rags to burn multiple valve sites and electric units, as well as heavy equipment located on pipeline easements throughout Iowa. They said they attempted again in May to pierce a valve in southeast Iowa's Wapello County with a cutting torch. But they were disappointed to learn oil was already in the pipe.\nIn Montoya's comments to reporters, she criticized decisions by the courts and public officials that allowed the pipeline project to proceed.\n\"Our conclusion is that the system is broken and it is up to us as individuals to take peaceful action and remedy it, and this we did, out of necessity,\" Montoya said.\nBoth Reznicek and Montoya were transported Monday by law enforcement officers to the Polk County Jail, where they were booked on charges of fourth-degree criminal mischief for damaging metal letters on the sign outside the Iowa Utilities Board building. They were each held on $1,000 bond.\nRonald Humphrey, a special agent in charge of the arson and explosives bureau of the State Fire Marshal's Office, said there is an active, open investigation into arson and damage to the pipeline and construction equipment. Details about the investigation are confidential because it is an ongoing investigation, he added. Meanwhile, an FBI spokesman in Omaha declined to comment and representatives of Energy Transfer Partners didn't respond to a request for comment.\nThe Dakota Access Pipeline, which became operational June 1, transports crude oil from the Bakken/Three Forks production areas in North Dakota to a distribution hub near Patoka, Ill. It has the capacity to ship about 520,000 barrels of oil daily.\nThe pipeline has encountered strong opposition in Iowa, particularly from environmental activists. The project, which cuts diagonally through 18 Iowa counties, has also been fought by farmers who have criticized the use of eminent domain to obtain access to their land for the pipeline. Litigation involving the pipeline is still pending in federal court and before the Iowa Supreme Court.\nVeteran activist Frank Cordaro of Des Moines, a former Catholic priest who has long been involved in the Catholic Worker movement, cheered Reznicek and Montoya as they were taken into custody Monday morning. He shouted, \"Thank you for your witness. Thank you for your courage.\"\nCordaro characterized the actions of the two women as consistent with an American tradition of civil disobedience in the face of wrongdoing and injustice. He said the two women felt an obligation to take personal responsibility to stop the crude oil pipeline project in an effort to prevent environmental damage to soil and water and the eventual destruction of the planet through climate change caused by the world\u2019s reliance on fossil fuels.\nLeaders of anti-pipeline organizations had mixed reactions Monday to the women's arrests and claims of responsiblity for the sabotage.\nSierra Club of Iowa lawyer Wally Taylor of Cedar Rapids deplored the women's actions. \"Certainly, we had absolutely no knowledge about what these women were doing or were going to do, and we condemn any kind of damage or anything like that,\" he said.\nEd Fallon of Des Moines, a former state legislator who helped lead Iowa anti-pipeline protests, said he admired the courage and passion of Reznicek and Montoya.\n\"I think what this does is generate a pretty hearty discussion about violent vs. non-violent action, about effectiveness versus ineffective actions,\" Fallon said. \"I think that is a conversation that we all need to continue. It is not a strategy that I have historically approved or of embraced. But I am willing to keep an open mind on where other people stand on it.\"\nA representative of Iowa Citizens for Community Improvement had no comment, while a spokesman for the Bakken Pipeline Resistance Coalition said the organization was surprised by Reznichek and Montoya's claims of responsibility and had no involvement in their actions.\nCraig Stevens, a spokesman for the Grow America's Infrastructure Now Coalition, a pro-pipeline group which includes business and labor interests, called the two women's statements a \"stunning admission of guilt.\"\n\"Despite their repeated claims, in no way are the use of gasoline, motor oil, fire and welding torches to destroy construction equipment or pierce pipelines acts of 'peaceful' protest,\" Stevens said. \"These are violent criminals hiding beneath the veneer of young women. They are lucky they were not seriously injured or killed.\"\nStevens also said his organization believes improving the nation\u2019s energy infrastructure is critical to ensuring that people have necessary energy. \"One has to wonder what magic juice gets these violent criminals from protest site to protest site and also provides the feedstock to the thousands of everyday products they, their families and all Americans use,\" he added.\nReznicek and Montoya are active in the Des Moines Catholic Worker community, which was founded in 1976 in response to the Gospel call for compassionate action as summarized by the Sermon on the Mount. However, the Catholic Workers are not all Catholics and they are not controlled by the bishop of the Des Moines Roman Catholic Diocese. The Catholic Workers also have no financial ties to the diocese.\nThe Catholic Worker community has four houses in Des Moines that focus on a nonviolent lifestyle while serving the poor. Some members of the community have been critical of the Des Moines Roman Catholic Diocese and have called for changes that include ordination of women as Catholic priests and stances against corporate agriculture and the military-industrial complex.\nOne of the incidents described by the two women appears to match a law enforcement report in March involving an incident in Oskaloosa in southeast Iowa. The Mahaska County sheriff\u2019s office said someone used a blowtorch to damage an above-ground safety valve surrounded by a security fence. There was no oil in the pipeline, although authorities said it was pressurized with nitrogen gas.\nA suspect burned a hole through the Dakota Access Pipeline in Mahaska County, according to the sheriff's office. (Photo11: Special to the Register)\nHowever, both women have reportedly denied involvement in several suspected arson incidents last year along the Dakota Access Pipeline construction project that have never been solved by authorities. These included fires in July 2016 involving heavy equipment such as bulldozer and backhoes in Jasper and Mahaska counties that caused nearly $1 million in damage near Newton, Reasonor and Oskaloosa. In October, an intentionally-set fire caused about $2 million in damage to construction equipment near Reasnor.\nBoth Reznicek, a Des Moines native, and Montoya, who previously lived in Phoenix, Ariz., are experienced political activists. Reznizek became involved in political movements about six years ago with Occupy Wall Street protests. Montoya came to Iowa last year after becoming involved in pipeline protests at the Standing Rock reservation in North Dakota. Both were involved in the \"Mississippi Stand\" protest against the pipeline along the Mississippi River in southeast Iowa.\nReznicek was among four people arrested in 2015 in Bellevue, Neb., for breaking windows at Northrop Grumman, which is a defense contractor for the U.S. Air Force. She was also engaged in a hunger strike outside the Iowa Utilities Board\u2019s office in November, demanding the board take action to stop the pipeline project. She was subsequently arrested for trespassing after she refused police orders to leave the building. Reznicek and Montoya were also among 12 people arrested in January in Memphis, Tenn., during a protest at a Valero oil refinery while protesting the $900 million Diamond Pipeline project.\nProtesters gather at the Iowa Air National Guard Base in Des Moines, Iowa on Satuday, March 15, 2014, to demonstrate their opposition to U.S. Military use of Unmannned Aerial Vehicles. Charlie Litchfield/The Register\nIn addition, Reznicek and Montoya among four people arrested in June who blocked access to the Iowa Air National Guard Base at the Des Moines airport to protest the base's operation of military drones overseas. All four were ordered last week to pay restitution jointly for more than $3,200 to cover the costs of police, firefighters and other city employees who were called to the protest, which blocked McKinley Avenue for more than two hours.\nIn a statement emailed to The Register on Saturday, Montoya said both she and Reznicek deny responsibility for the restitution, alleging they were mistreated by firefighters and police. 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According to comScore, in 2011 Facebook raked in $3.1 billion in ad revenue, with 56 percent of the revenue being accounted for by U.S. businesses. This percentage is projected to decrease to 51 percent in 2012, according to eMarketer.\nIf Facebook pursues an international expansion, it has a long road ahead of it. Competing social networks have already established a foothold in major countries. For example, Cyworld has been the long-time social network of choice in South Korea; RenRen, a former Facebook copy, is the top social network in China; VKontakte is the predominant social network in Russia, and recently delayed its IPO due to Facebook\u2019s poor Nasdaq performance.\nAs of June 11, Facebook stands at $27.55 per share, with a market cap (valuation) of $58.9 billion.\nKnowing the difficulties it faces with international growth, Facebook may focus on its vertical growth by optimizing its advertising services to reach existing users, in lieu of simply acquiring more users. 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Experts predict that two more southern resident killer whales will die by this summer due to starvation. Only 40 of the calves born to the southern resident killer whale population have survived since 1998, and 73 have gone missing or found dead. No newborn whales have survived since 2015.\nWhy are they in such dire straits? The three main stressors for this dwindling population are noise pollution from increased vessel traffic, ocean contaminants and declines in Chinook salmon \u2014 the whales\u2019 main source of food.\nResearch shows that a quieter ocean may help save the southern resident killer whale population, but without regulations yet in place, it may be too little, too late.\nImpacts of ship noise\nThree groups of orcas \u2014 the transient, offshore and resident \u2014 live along the Pacific coast. The resident group is further classified into northern and southern populations that have some distribution overlap but do not interbreed. 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While a human can leave a noisy night club, whales cannot escape these underwater noises.\nAccording to a recent study, the frequency of ship noise overlaps with that of orca communication. It masks noises the orcas make and can interfere with echolocation, which orcas use for navigation and to hunt prey. For the southern resident killer whale population, the limited availability of Chinook salmon combined with vessel noise adds to the challenge of finding food.\nThe Haro Strait, off the coast of Victoria, is the summer feeding habitat of the southern resident killer whale population. It is also one of the loudest areas along the Pacific coast, especially in the frequency range that orcas use for communication. As noise from vessels has increased in loudness and now covers a larger geographic area, killer whales have adjusted their vocal communication by increasing the amplitude of their calls to compensate for the underwater noise. 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Incoming ships would be grouped based on their time of arrival and enter the strait together. Ship noise may increase during the convoy period, but its duration is dramatically reduced. The same study suggested designating B.C.\u2018s Salish Sea as a Marine Protected Area (MPA) during the summer months to help the southern resident killer whale population recover.\nBoth Fisheries and Oceans Canada (DFO) and the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) have implemented regulations to mitigate the stress on the orca population. DFO is working with U.S. agencies to coordinate measures to reduce underwater noise impacts on the southern resident killer whales.\nA southern resident killer whale breaches near Henry Island in Washington state. Shutterstock\nIn 2017, DFO published an action plan to aid in the recovery of the southern resident killer whales, including reduction of underwater noise, limiting disturbance from humans, monitoring whales from a safe distance, ensuring accessible food supply and protecting critical habitat. Recovery plans are legally required for endangered species listed under the Species at Risk Act (SARA), but have been criticized by conservationists for delays in implementation.\nIn 2018, the government of Canada imposed restrictions on Chinook salmon harvesting with the hope of increasing their availability for the southern resident killer whales.\nWashington state Gov. Jay Inslee also launched a task force to create a long-term plan for the recovery and future sustainability of the southern resident killer whales. The recommendations ranged from increasing Chinook salmon availability to a temporary whale-watching moratorium, but they remain a long way from being implemented.\nWhale-watching boats and commercial ships are facing an increased number of regulations on how close they can get to orcas in the Salish Sea. As of July 2018, vessels must stay 200 metres away to help limit disturbance of the whales. And in August, Canada\u2019s Federal Court of Appeal rejected the proposed Trans Mountain pipeline expansion, which could result in a seven-fold increase in tanker traffic in the Salish Sea, to 35 vessels a month.\nWhile addressing noise reductions alone is unlikely to be sufficient, it is a necessary first step. The delay in implementation of measures combined with the uncertainty of the effectiveness of implemented measures can make the prospects seem grim for this declining orca population.\nHowever, it is important not to lose hope. 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With fewer than 50,000 miles on the odometer, this hatchback hits the mark with consumers demanding economical versatility! It features a front-wheel-drive platform, an automatic transmission, and an efficient\u2026", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00240.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 184, + "original_length": 6695, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.84, + "perplexity": 188.8, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "https://www.ecologyandsociety.org/vol23/iss1/art21/", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T03:18:46Z", + "digest": "sha1:SH3TLA3BXESHONZC7QVWPADP6VI6632N", + "length": 68601, + "nlines": 142, + "source_domain": "www.ecologyandsociety.org", + "title": "Ecology and Society: The plurality of values in sustainable agriculture models: diverse lock-in and coevolution patterns", + "raw_content": "Plumecocq, G., T. Debril, M. Duru, M.-B. Magrini, J. Sarthou, and O. Therond. 2018. The plurality of values in sustainable agriculture models: diverse lock-in and coevolution patterns. Ecology and Society 23(1):21.\nInsight, part of a special feature on Ecosystem Services for Agroecological Transitions\nGael Plumecocq 1,2, Thomas Debril 1, Michel Duru 1, Marie-Beno\u00eet Magrini 1,2, Jean Pierre Sarthou 1 and Olivier Therond 3\n1INRA, AGIR, Universit\u00e9 de Toulouse, INRA, INPT, INP-EI PURPAN, Castanet-Tolosan, France, 2LEREPS, Universit\u00e9 de Toulouse, France, 3INRA, LAE, Universit\u00e9 de Lorraine, Colmar, France\nMethod and (Typology) Data\nMethod: an interdisciplinary and feedback study\nThe typology of farming systems and agriculture models\nInstitutional Characterization of Agriculture Models\nThe historical-conventional model based on an industrial/market compromise\nThe technology-intensive model based on an industrial efficiency/market profitability compromise\nThe biotech model based on a domestic proximity/industrial efficiency compromise\nThe circular model based on industrial ecology efficiency compromise\nThe diversified-globalized model based on opinion/industrial elements\nThe relocalized model based on opinion/domestic/market elements\nThe integrated landscape model based on green/domestic/civic elements\nLegitimation and disqualification as processes for change and lock-in\nThe plurality of transition pathways: coevolution and complementarity\nIn Western economies, several agriculture models coexist. For instance, intensive agriculture organization, which has increased yields while causing major pollution and resource depletion, competes with alternative models, which tackle these sustainability issues and lead to lower yields. An agronomical typology of current agriculture models in Western societies is proposed that describes multiple sustainability issues through an agroecological perspective. However, in order to choose between these agroecological pathways, we must understand their social structure and the principles underlying them. Thus, our purpose is to characterize the institutional aspects of the alternative models using socioeconomic convention theory. We conducted a series of workshops with specialists in the natural sciences (agronomy, landscape ecology, and entomology) and social sciences (economics and sociology) to describe sustainable agriculture models. This characterization revealed the values underlying six different sustainable agriculture models, their forms of organization, and the institutions governing them. We discuss the implications of the coexistence of these six models in light of sustainable transition issues. From this coexistence perspective, transition (i) refers to an intertwined process of legitimation and disqualification, and (ii) means seeing pathways as the multiplicity and degree of interconnection between models. Therefore, we (i) identified the elements in each model that legitimize its mode of organization, and (ii) disqualified the elements that are incompatible with the principles underlying the model\u2019s practices. Moreover, we emphasize that multiple transition pathways are possible based on complex, complementary combinations of different models. This revealed the intricate processes of competition and complementarity involving these models. Finally, our study on the coexistence, interdependence, and coevolution of multiple agriculture models led us to advocate a precautionary principle so that marginal innovative models are not prevented from emerging.\nKey words: agroecology; convention theory; ecosystem service; farming system; food system; sustainable agriculture; transition\nThe high-yield, conventional agriculture model based on the use of synthetic inputs (such as pesticides, nitrogen fertilizers, and antibiotics), minerals (potash and phosphates), and water has negative impacts on the natural environment that are well-known today (Rockstr\u00f6m et al. 2009, German et al. 2016). Awareness of these impacts and the ensuing environmental regulations have pushed farmers to change their relationship to nature (Horlings and Marsden 2011, Duru et al. 2015a, b). Many authors have identified distinct pathways that agriculture can take to improve sustainability. In the late 1990s, Hill (1998) contrasted \u201cshallow\u201d with \u201cdeep\u201d sustainability. More recently, Wilson (2008) spoke of \u201cweak versus strong multifunctionality,\u201d Horlings and Marsden (2011) of \u201cweak versus strong ecological modernization of agriculture,\u201d and Levidow et al. (2013) of \u201clife sciences versus an agroecology vision.\u201d These conceptual dichotomies oppose two kinds of agroecological practices (i.e., two kinds of relationships to nature): one that considers technological progress as the way to address environmental issues, and another that targets better protection or restoration of natural capital to increase ecosystem services. Most of the authors of these dichotomies acknowledge that there is some middle ground. Other authors have attempted to identify provisional models. However, the rare typologies that identify more than two models of agriculture tend to either overlook their moral foundations (Therond et al. 2017) or grant moral status only to the \u201cstrongest\u201d or \u201cdeepest\u201d agroecological models (Gliessman 2007).\nThus, while all these studies agree on certain characteristics of agriculture models, they do not question the moral justifications used to legitimize choices, nor do they question the social aspects of individual strategies and practices. Although these sustainable agriculture models are based on different systems of social values, they currently coexist. Multiple sustainability transitions of agriculture are then possible, depending on how the values legitimizing these models coevolve. Therefore, we need to understand in greater depth the variety of farmers\u2019 motivations for choosing a particular pathway. However, choosing one model may lead to the lock-in of the others. Thus, to best adapt public policies for transforming agriculture, we need to examine the underlying principles of these multiple models and their interdependencies. To do so, we build on a fine-grained agronomic typology of Western sustainable agriculture models that was recently developed by some authors of this paper (Therond et al. 2017). This typology identifies coherent sets of agricultural practices and technologies that deal with sustainability issues. We link these practices together with the moral values that legitimize them through an institutional characterization of each model based on \u201cconvention theory\u201d (see Ponte 2016 for a review of the use of the convention theory in English agro-food literature). We draw on Boltanski and Th\u00e9venot (2006), who provide a framework\u2014the \u201ceconomies of worth\u201d model\u2014for qualifying the organizing principles and social values that underlie the institutional features of various legitimate social systems. We explicate how practices are embedded into institutional contexts and refer to greater common good (e.g., the use of petrochemicals in conventional farming practices is justified by the \u201cfeeding the world\u201d argument). When practices are collectively judged as admissible (i.e., when justifications are collectively accepted and draw on conventionally accepted social values), they provide the basis for collective actions and possibly social systems. Boltanski and Th\u00e9venot (2006) identified six types of common good in political philosophy in relation to six forms of social organization (i.e., \u201cpolities\u201d):\nequity as the basis of civic forms of organization in the work of Rousseau\nhonesty as the basis of domestic forms of organization in the work of Bossuet\ngrace as the basis of inspired forms of organization in the work of Augustine\nefficiency as the basis of industrial forms of organization in the work of Saint-Simon\nrichness as the basis of market forms of organization in the work of Adam Smith\nfame as the basis of organizations whose form is based on opinion in the work of Hobbes\nTraces of these political philosophies can be found in the social world (understood as an internally consistent arrangement of objects and persons). Particular material arrangements such as technology, or certain institutional ones such as product quality or rules of organization, then inscribe objects in one of these polities or qualify social functions in regard to one of these common goods. Th\u00e9venot (1984) terms these \u201cinvestments in form\u201d to designate the various instruments listed in a given world (e.g., tools, habits, rules, or diverse material sets of arrangements). These investments in form then frame practices and collective actions. For instance, standards or labels may determine the form of production processes that are organized according to principles of equity or efficiency (Ponte 2016). Yet the complexity of social worlds results from the fact that, very often, forms of organization are established as a compromise between several \u201cpure\u201d polities. The \u201cinvestments\u201d made to put practices in a particular form then borrow elements from various polities (see the text box for a list of selected elements that constitute a polity).\nThis article is organized as follows. In Section 2, we present the methodology and data. We explain the interdisciplinary method used for the institutional characterization of these models, which we built on a typology of sustainable agriculture models. This typology was established on farming systems depending on whether they are based on exogenous input or ecosystem services, and high or low \u201cterritorial embeddedness.\u201d In Section 3, we analyze this sustainable agriculture model typology using the economies of worth model and emphasize their institutional features (e.g., rules of functioning, forms of organization, principles for justifying prevailing practices). This institutional characterization of sustainable agriculture models provides categories for conceptualizing the influence of human\u2013nature\u2013technology relationships on modes of social organization, agricultural practices, and uses of nature, and the institutional and political forms that regulate those practices and uses. Section 4 presents a discussion on the coexistence and coevolution of these models, as well as on how to support agriculture as it changes to meet the challenges of agroecology. Transition, from a coexistence perspective, then (i) refers to an intertwined process of legitimation and disqualification, and (ii) leads to understanding pathways through the multiplicity and degree of interconnection between models.\nThe economies of worth grammar from Boltanski and Th\u00e9venot (2006)\nHigher common principle: \u201cprinciple of coordination that \u2026 is a convention for establishing equivalence among beings.\u201d\nState of worthiness: \u201cWorth beings are guarantors of the higher common principle.\u201d\nList of subjects: type of people \u201cmost often qualified by their state of worth (unworthy beings or worthy beings).\u201d\nList of objects and arrangements: \u201cwhen objects, or their combination in more complicated arrangements, are arrayed with subjects, in situations that hold together, they may be said to help objectify the worth of the person involved.\u201d\nInvestment formula: \u201cworth also presupposes the sacrifice of the private pleasures associated with a state of lesser worthiness.\u201d\nNatural relations among beings: \u201cthese relations \u2026 must be in harmony with the worths of the subjects and objects that they unite according to relations of equivalence and order established by the polity.\u201d\nHarmonious figure of the natural order: \u201cthe relation of equivalence can be known only to the extent that it is revealed by a harmonious distribution of state of worth \u2026 in conformity with the investment formula.\u201d\nModel test: \u201ca situation that holds together \u2026 is prepared for a test \u2026 that entails a pure and particularly consistent arrangement of beings from a single world.\u201d\nMode of expression of judgment: \u201ccharacterizes the form in which the higher common principle is manifested.\u201d\nForm of evidence: \u201cmodality of knowledge appropriate to the world under consideration.\u201d\nThis study expanded on a preliminary version of an agronomical typology of farming systems that addressed sustainability issues (Duru et al. 2016). At the same time, a socioeconomic characterization of that agronomic typology was also developed. This work resulted in a fine-grained typology of six sets of agroecological farming practices embedded in different food systems, which we briefly present in the next subsection (Therond et al. 2017). We then conducted a series of workshops involving the two authors of the typology (one working in agronomy, the other in landscape ecology), an entomologist, a sociologist, an economist, and a socioeconomist.\nDuring these workshops, natural scientists extensively presented how they conceived of each of the sustainable agriculture models in the agronomical typology. After each model was presented, social scientists evaluated the extent to which each model could be described in terms of the economies of worth grammar; e.g., by asking \u201cwho is recognized as dominant in this model?\u201d (i.e., what is the \u201cstate of worthiness\u201d in the economies of worth grammar), or \u201chow can we know that a figure in this model is dominant?\u201d (i.e., what is the \u201cmodel test\u201d prevailing in this sustainable agriculture model?).\nDiscussions between natural and social scientists resulted in three outcomes. First, the agronomical construction of the models was refined (the socioeconomic descriptions given called for further agronomical specifications). Interdisciplinary work then helped the participants reformulate disciplinary questions or issues. Second, discussions led natural scientists to refine the way they described these models to the social scientists (the socioeconomic descriptions dissipated misunderstandings in the descriptions). Third, these exchanges enabled the researchers to settle on the formal descriptions of the agronomic models in socioeconomic terms. The method process is described in Fig. 1.\nThis study is interdisciplinary in nature, meaning that knowledge exchange occurred among researchers from different disciplines. First, social scientists (economics and sociology) acquired a background in natural science that helped them grasp the consistency of the sustainable agriculture models described in agroecological terms, which they needed in order to understand them as social systems. Second, the way in which natural scientists (an agronomist, landscape ecologist, and entomologist) described the agricultural models was challenged by the socioeconomic views.\nIn the typology by Therond et al. (2017), two ways of characterization were used to define six alternative sustainable agriculture models (Fig. 2).\nIconic examples are presented in grey. The number 1 is for conventional farming systems outside less-favored areas (1 being the current, conventional agriculture model). The main alternative agriculture models were grouped into two types of alternatives to reflect the paradigm shift between input-based (type-2) versus biodiversity-based farming systems (type-3). Submodels labeled a, b, and c mainly reflect the relationships between farming systems, globalized food systems, and local dynamics.\nExogenous inputs versus ecosystem services\nThe first criterion used to classify sustainable agriculture models is the input used in farming systems. This dimension concerns the ways in which farmers adapt internal characteristics of their farming system to account for societal demands for natural resource preservation. This criterion reflects a wide range of farming system strategies using combinations of inputs that are different in nature (exogenous versus endogenous):\nSome farmers try to deal with environmental issues by using technologies to increase input use efficiency and limit pollution. One strategy uses agriculture precision technologies to apply the right product, at the right rate, at the right time and right place (Spiertz 2012). A second practice replaces chemical inputs with more \u201cenvironmentally friendly\u201d ones, such as organic fertilizers and exogenous biocontrol technologies (biopesticides, soil and plant health stimulators, industrially developed organisms involved in soil nutrients, and biological regulation). These two strategies are dominant in farming systems 2a and 2b, respectively (Fig. 2).\nOn the other end of the spectrum, farmers develop and manage biodiversity to increase ecosystem services to agriculture or \u201cinput services\u201d (Zhang et al. 2007, Duru et al. 2015a). This practice seeks to replace a large part of synthetic or biological inputs with natural biological regulators in order to enhance soil fertility (soil structure and nutrient cycling), water storage, pollination, and pest regulation. These strategies are dominant in farming systems 3b and 3c (Fig. 2).\nThese farming system strategies are not mutually exclusive. Farming systems that combine endogenous and exogenous inputs must then accurately assess the level of ecosystem services in time and space (e.g., nitrogen and water provisioning) in order to optimize the necessary level of additional anthropogenic inputs required to reach the target production level.\nLow versus high territorial embeddedness\nFarming systems are linked to food systems, which have diverse sets of institutions, technologies, and practices for producing, processing, packaging, distributing, retailing, and consuming food. They are also involved in other territorial dynamics that determine agricultural practices (nature of inputs and outputs, technology used) depending on their level of \u201cterritorial embeddedness\u201d (Sonnino and Marsden 2006). Therond et al. (2017) used the level of farming systems\u2019 territorial embeddedness as the second criterion for their typology.\nFirst, farming systems may be embedded in industrial, globalized, commodity-based food systems that process inputs (e.g., fertilizers, pesticides), animal feed (e.g., soy bean meal), raw/bulk agricultural commodities (e.g., wheat), minimally processed foods (e.g., durum wheat semolina), and, increasingly, fractionated raw products in standardized and often interchangeable components (e.g., sugars, oils) and ultraprocessed foods based on these components (Marsden 2012, Monteiro et al. 2013, Khoury et al. 2014). In these food systems, social relationships are driven mainly by globalized market prices, and territorial embeddedness of farming systems is low. Farming systems 2a, 2b, and 3a are quite embedded in these globalized food systems.\nSecond, some farming systems are involved in place-specific approaches (or initiatives), like circular economies (such as in model 3a, Fig. 2), alternative food systems (such as in model 3b, and possibly 2b, Fig. 2), and integrated landscape approaches (such as in model 3c, Fig. 2). As such, they increasingly meet multiple socioeconomic and environmental objectives at the local or regional level. These forms of farming systems\u2019 territorial embeddedness can relate either to upstream or downstream activities of agro-food chains: a given farming system can be linked to a globalized food system for its supply (e.g., industrial inputs or seeds) but linked to local markets for the distribution of end products. On the contrary, farming systems can also be part of a local production sector, as with the circular economy, but retail their end products on global markets.\nIn this section, we analyze the institutional characteristics of the sustainable agriculture models in the typology using the economies of worth grammar (Boltanski and Th\u00e9venot 2006). We begin by presenting each model, detailing its agronomical and institutional features, and then qualify it according to its underlying compromises. The main elements are summarized in Table 1. We then examine the ways in which some models follow the historical-conventional model fairly closely and merely make adjustments to it, while others were created in opposition to that model as a radical break from it.\nThe historical model of agriculture in Western economies is strongly based on technological innovations (e.g., chemical synthesis of soil nutrients, genomic and genetic modification of seeds and livestock) that increased agricultural production. This type of farming system is traditionally and hereafter called \u201cconventional\u201d (1 in Fig. 2). It refers to a system of practices oriented toward, organized around, and institutionalized through industrial productivity and market-based considerations. These industrial and market principles are based on standardizing infrastructure, production technology (machinery, petrochemical inputs), and end products that can be mass-produced and distributed. Striving for efficiency and profitability comes together in economies of scale and agglomeration, which concentrate production to reduce unit costs. Agricultural practices are oriented mainly toward reducing the unpredictable aspects of farming. In this sense, using more synthetic inputs than needed in a given year to limit risks (such as pests) and to promote plant growth, or antibiotics to ensure animal health, is traditionally done as an \u201cinsurance\u201d practice. This system is widespread in areas without strong soil and climate limitations.\nProduction strategies are conceived in terms of relatively short time frames (short crop rotations). The global standardization of seeds, breeds, production technologies, and products means that the specificities of local ecosystems are not really taken into account. This system is based on an instrumental relationship with nature and the farming system being highly integrated into the socio-agrotechnical system. Consequently, this conventional system is fundamentally underpinned by the principle of productivity, which institutionalizes and legitimizes the industrial and market-based organization of this system. The common good served by this model is national and global food sovereignty; i.e., the idea that no one in the world should starve.\nThe first sustainable agriculture model (2a in Fig. 2) is a chemical input-based farming system (specialized cash crop and livestock farms) embedded in industrial, globalized food systems. To reach its (weak) sustainability objective, the focus is either on developing \u201csmart\u201d agricultural technologies (i.e., genetic engineering and precision farming) or knowledge about landscape features that minimize diffusion of pollutants in aquatic ecosystems (e.g., grassy and riparian buffer strips/zones). Accordingly, we have termed it the technology-intensive model.\nIn this technology-intensive model, changing farming practices is motivated by the idea that technological mastery can meet environmental requirements and reduce production costs and thus improve farmers\u2019 incomes. By integrating the latest scientific knowledge in decision support systems, this sustainable agriculture model indeed has the potential to improve agricultural as well as environmental performance of conventional farming systems (reducing pollution in the soil, in water resources, and in the atmosphere). Strong economic limitations of markets both upstream (increased cost of inputs) and downstream (market price variability) and environmental regulations also encourage farmers of the historical-conventional model to increasingly adopt the technology-intensive one.\nThe economic resilience of this synthetic-input-based farming system to price variability and biophysical risks can be supported, respectively, by contracts and insurance schemes, both provided by globalized food supply chain organizations. These protections may lead farmers to increase the share of riskier cash crops, thereby resulting in an increased share of monocultures (M\u00fcller and Kreuer 2016). Moreover, as farmers adopt these costly new technologies, they often increase their acreage to ensure scale economies. Accordingly, this kind of farming system is often poorly connected with local natural resource management issues and strategies, which can lead to conflicts about water shortages due to irrigation, water quality due to pollution, or erosion due to bare soils (O\u2019Kane 2012).\nThe search for efficiency and profitability justifies using technology by making it part of a compromise between the industrial world and the market world. Thus, as in the conventional model, human\u2013nature relationships are mediated by increasingly sophisticated digital technologies. The common good served by this model is still national and global food sovereignty, but it also involves a techno-optimistic conception of social progress, which can be viewed as an updating of the conventional model. Change with this type of farming system remains driven mainly by the dynamics of globalized food systems in which power is concentrated in large retailers (Marsden 2011). Changes in this model therefore generally require incremental adaptations of the conventional model (Park et al. 2012). As a result, this sustainable agriculture model is the dominant one in Western Europe (M\u00fcller and Kreuer 2016).\nThe second sustainable agriculture model (2b in Fig. 2) corresponds to a biological input-based farming system (which we have termed the biotech model). In this model, farming systems are connected to globalized food systems for purchasing biological inputs and selling raw products to the global composite and bioeconomy markets. Adopting these \u201cnew\u201d biological technologies is motivated by an awareness of the local health (of neighbors and relatives) and environmental effects of conventional farming practices. Productive efficiency remains an important goal of these farming systems since they are embedded in globalized, commodity-based food systems. The common good served in this model is therefore in a state of tension between health care and environmental preservation at the local scale, which makes farmers receptive to environmental ethics, and the common good of food sovereignty and modernizing agriculture at the national or global scale.\nThis tension is a constituent characteristic of this model. Although the efficacy of technologies from the life sciences has been demonstrated for some uses of iconic living inputs, such as inoculating Rhizobia into legume cropping systems (Lemanceau et al. 2015), the actual effects at field level of many ecological inputs such as biostimulants have not been conclusively proven. Using these practices is then based on the belief (in the sense of lack of proof) that they can both improve the productive capacity of soils and plants (by stimulating soil activity and plant health) and limit the environmental and health impacts of agriculture (from the lower ecotoxicity of biological inputs). The health care/environmental value system, therefore, overcomes the lack of proof to strengthen the idea that the farming practices prevailing in this model are good practices.\nYet these biological technologies (e.g., biocontrol) require greater consideration of the ecological timescale (for example, when introducing natural enemies). In this model, there are no overall changes to the production system or broader environmental concerns (e.g., landscape management). These practices, therefore, do not result in a strong noninstrumental relationship with nature. Organic farming, which has a very different set of practices and value systems (see Allaire and Bellon 2014), is compatible with this model since the synthetic inputs used in the historical-conventional model and the technology-intensive model are replaced by biological inputs. However, there is no fundamental change in the farming system (e.g., it still uses specialized crop cultures, intensive practices).\nThese first two models (technology-intensive and biotech) still follow the conventional model in that the farmers\u2019 primary concern is still to ensure the productive capacity of land and animals by technologically controlling the uncertainties of farming. Since the technology-intensive and biotech models do not challenge the governing values (Argyris and Sch\u00f6n 1996) that shape and give meaning to the historical-conventional model, they do not require (technological-intensive), or require only minimally (biotech), rethinking the organizational (market) and institutional forms (standardization) that they are based on. Instead, these two models make incremental adjustments to the historical-conventional system, which are mainly technological. The depth of these modifications depends on the technology used (optimizing synthetic inputs or using biological inputs) and on the scale of production. The legitimate worlds observed (market/industrial compromise in the technology-intensive model 2a and domestic/industrial compromise in the biotech model 2b) result from these changes in practices and technologies, which are not morally neutral.\nThe third sustainable agriculture model (2c in Fig. 2) refers to a biological-input farming system embedded in both globalized food systems and a local circular economy. A circular economy aims at protecting and limiting the use of finite natural resources by the improved closure of material and energy cycles. This is achieved through recycling loops between economic agents (e.g., biogas production, recycling). Circular economies developed in opposition to linear and open management of material and energy flows in industrial supply chains, in which downstream pollution and waste emissions are spatially separated from upstream production systems. We termed this model the circular model.\nDeveloping circular economies may require redesigning production systems, infrastructure, cultural frameworks, or social systems (Ghisellini et al. 2016). Drawing on industrial ecology, the circular model is based mainly on new ways of organizing farmers and other stakeholders into productive clusters. Geographical proximity is important in developing exchanges of materials, even energy. These organizations may also help redefine urban/rural relations. Developing local or regional circular economies enables farming systems to increase their territorial embeddedness by short-circuiting globalized supply chains for certain locally managed inputs and products. For example, this model can enable farming systems to substitute biological inputs (e.g., organic matter) for synthetic ones.\nThis new form of organization is recognized as valid by its proponents based on an industrial ethic of nature; i.e., on the shared idea that the natural organization of ecosystems is inherently efficient in allocating throughput of material and energy to the most useful activities at the ecosystem scale. Yet these organizational forms are only possible if the agents involved in these models conceive of productive efficiency at the local level. In this sense, in the circular model, the relationship with nature is part of the industrial world: waste and scrap are seen as resources to be exploited.\nContrary to the two previous models (technology-intensive and biotech), the adjustments to the historical-conventional system in the circular model are mainly organizational. However, the use of technology in the technological-intensive model and the circular economy in the circular model both seek to address the same criticisms about the conventional model\u2019s inefficiency (environmental and economic) and productivism. In the biotech and circular models, however, using technology responds to a deeper criticism of the harmful effects of the conventional model on nature and humans. Yet with all these type-2 models, the criticisms of the conventional model do not question the value system (productivist principle) on which its legitimacy is based or its relationship to nature (technological mastery of productive capacity and the uncertainties of nature). In other words, they do not question the goal to be reached but rather the means of achieving it by questioning the ability of material and technical equipment and organizational forms to ensure productivity by controlling uncertainty. Implementing new practices thus only marginally disrupts the tests through which individual practices and organizations gain legitimacy.\nThe fourth model (3a in Fig. 2) corresponds to biodiversity-based farming systems developed in socio-technical niches, such as those related to conservation agriculture, agroforestry, integrated crop\u2013livestock systems, and self-sufficient, grassland-based livestock systems. When no other solution exists or prices are attractive, farmers sell agricultural products in globalized commodity-based food supply chains, like the two first sustainable agriculture models (technology-intensive and biotech). We termed this model the diversified-globalized model. Yet diversified crops may be difficult to sell in this type of supply chain. They are then fed to animals (on the same farm or by trading between crop and animal farms), or farmers sell them directly to consumers, which is a form of alternative food system directly managed by the farmer.\nThis diversified-globalized model adopts production principles based on the work of nature, such as ecosystem services, without, however, prohibiting the use of synthetic or biological inputs. As with every biodiversity-based farming system (3a, 3b, and 3c in Fig. 2), farmers in the diversified-globalized model have to integrate adaptive management of uncertainties about nature\u2019s functioning and the effects of practices. New upstream organizational forms of local and generic knowledge exchange are developed by farmers to deal with these uncertainties; e.g., peer groups for sharing experience on nature and farming practices. Such groups reshape the agronomic \u201crules of the game;\u201d that is, they redefine what constitutes good farming practices, a \u201cgood\u201d state of the field/farm, or the acceptable level of production. This way of organizing knowledge circulation takes advantage of concern about what others think, while at the same time it enables more firm judgments to be made about the common good. These peer groups thus establish a test based on opinions, which makes the set of production practices stable and coherent. These practices are supported by the effects of reputation, with a principle of legitimacy resulting from a compromise between the industrial world and the opinion world.\nTwo key features differentiate this model from the previous three: (i) nature is viewed as the main factor of production and as a place for humans to live, and (ii) new social forms of organization and of validating practices are introduced, not to increase productive efficiency but to reshape modes of production. Due to profound value differences, practices in the diversified-globalized model may be incompatible with the informational bases on which farmers justify their choices in type-2 models; i.e. technology-intensive, biotech, and circular models (such as the technical references for agriculture associated with specialized farming systems and varieties/breeds).\nThe fifth model (3b in Fig. 2) is a biodiversity-based farming system integrated into alternative food systems that seeks to meet local consumer and lifestyle demands for food quality, added-value distribution, localization, and environmental and human health issues. We termed this model the relocalized model, where local refers to both farming practices (possibly reinforced by circular economy) and the scale of product distribution.\nThis model may serve local or regional integrated food-energy systems. The objective is then to create synergies between food and energy production with potential positive influence on climate change. Developing integrated food-energy systems requires extending analysis, design, and assessment of agro-industrial ecology approaches. Organizing exchanges between economic agents and local populations raises important governance and social organization issues.\nThe upstream features of this model are the same as those in model 3a, but while production in the latter is targeted to mass distribution markets, which requires a certain product standardization, in model 3b, products are distributed through local food systems. For farmers, this is justified by the desire to sell products of diversified crops that are difficult to sell in globalized food systems (as prices are too low for the farmer) and the desire to participate in the development of local food systems and the local economy. Two organizational forms that reveal two different types of common goods thus coexist: within peer communities, agronomic practices are submitted to the test of what constitutes good practices; and selling products within local food systems confronts farmers with consumers\u2019 judgments as a test of the environmental, organoleptic, and environmental and health quality of the products. This production world thus involves elements from the worlds of opinion, industry, and market in a compromise that is continually being recreated and may lead to conflict, even though the general values are shared (Coq-Huelva et al. 2017). Moreover, this compromise extends the social relationship to nature to a market test that puts producers and consumers face-to-face. This test fosters informal discussions with farmers and provides consumers who are qualified in this model (who want to reconnect with nature via their diet) with the more ecological and local interactions they seek.\nHowever, even in this sustainable agriculture model, some raw products from biodiversity-based farming systems may still be sold through globalized food systems. Local and global markets are then considered to coexist and be complementary. As a result, this model is based on a shaky compromise.\nThe integrated-landscape model based on green/domestic/civic elements\nAn integrated landscape approach (3c in Fig. 2), which combines collective multiservice landscape management and the development of alternative food systems and circular economies, is the sixth sustainable agriculture model, termed the integrated-landscape model. As with the two previous models (diversified-globalized and relocalized), this one involves biodiversity-based farming systems. Strongly diversified organic farming systems based on ecosystem service enhancement and management are characteristic of these three models (contrary to the organic systems in biotech model 2b).\nTo develop this model, local populations seek to address the nexus of food/nonfood/natural resources, which determines the local to global sustainability of agriculture. Integrating the three drivers of diversification (collective, multiservice landscape management and the development of alternative food systems and circular economies) is a major concern for management at both individual (farm) and collective levels. On the one hand, supporting integrated landscape approaches requires that people be able to assess and analyze the trade-offs between objectives (including ecosystem services) and to define the associated compromises (Therond et al. 2017). On the other hand, managing multiservice landscapes requires clarifying the relative effects of landscape configuration and composition and those of cropping systems (field level) for different ecosystem services (e.g., Duru et al. 2015a, Tamburini et al. 2016).\nThe main concerns are natural resource management, ecological integrity, landscape multifunctionality, human welfare, and local social dynamics. This requires acknowledging the environment and humanity as common goods. The integrated landscape model is then characterized by systemic thinking at the local level, with landscape considered as a social-ecological system in which land use allocation, resource management (including ecosystem services), and well-being are key issues. Adopting systemic thought justifies not only choosing production modes based on the work of nature (such as ecosystem services and biodiversity) but also including agriculture in a circular economy and in local food systems.\nThe privileged form of organization for landscape-scale integrated management is the social network. Public projects are often decisive in structuring these sorts of collective initiatives. This form of organization establishes the fair treatment of all members as in the civic world. In this model, socially legitimate agricultural practices are those that contribute to local development. This system borrows elements of legitimacy from the domestic world (reconsidering the local area as a space in which proximity of socioeconomic interactions and the environment are particularly important) and the civic world (fair treatment of the stakeholders in the local network, possibly extended to equity between localized societies and ecosystems). It also opens the way for forms of justification from the ecological world (green polity). In this model, nature is understood as an organized ensemble of living beings whose actors recognize its intrinsic value as well as its productive value.\nThe relocalized (3b) and integrated-landscape (3c) models fundamentally break with the conventional and type-2 models in which principles from the industrial world predominate. These two models (3b and 3c), and to a lesser extent the diversified-globalized model (3a), are based on very different relationships to nature, which can be seen in agricultural products with ambitious Designation of Origin Labels, for example. While in type-2 models nature is viewed as an uncertain production vector (which therefore must be controlled), in biodiversity-based farming systems (type-3 models), agricultural ecosystems are seen as living entities, and putting them to work requires diagnostics, listening, and possibly \u201cdialogue.\u201d While in type-2 models most practices are standardized and removed from the local context, in type-3 models practices are situated locally and based on applying agronomic knowledge and even vernacular or traditional knowledge (such as suitable cover crops, crop rotations). The (re)construction and testing of the effectiveness of this knowledge are done in a pragmatic (in the sense of thinking in action) and experiential way.\nThere are many values used to justify how practices, technologies, and rules, and the ways of organizing and institutionally regulating agriculture come together in a stable and coherent model. By taking this into account, we created a new characterization of the multiple models of agriculture that currently coexist in Western economies. While this characterization is static, it enables us to discuss the various agricultural challenges of agroecological transitions. The literature in sustainable transition studies (Geels and Schot 2007, Smith and Stirling 2010, van den Bergh et al. 2011), in fact, emphasizes \u201ca set of connected changes, which reinforce each other but take place in several different areas, such as technology, the economy, institutions, behavior, culture, ecology and belief systems\u201d (Rotmans et al. 2001:16). Certain authors underline the uniqueness of approaches that \u201cfocus on the socio-cultural context of socio-technical and innovation systems, in contrast to the more economic and market focus of [evolutionary-institutional economists]\u201d (Borr\u00e1s and Edler 2014:7). These socio-cultural aspects have been considered important but have not yet been described in any detail. Thus, studying the value systems that characterize the different registers of action (see Table 1) helps us better understand the drivers of change in socio-technical systems. It also enables us to analyze the coexistence and coevolution of multiple agriculture models. We now turn to examine these issues through two fundamental aspects involved in the dynamics of change: lock-in, which we analyze as a process of legitimacy/disqualification, and the nature of transitions.\nThe institutional analysis of sustainable agriculture models by Therond et al. (2017) revealed the diversity of ways in which the values mobilized in those worlds order social relationships. Classifying and characterizing farming practices in their socioeconomic contexts objectifies the role of social values as principles of justice that organize collective action. This leads to (i) identifying the elements in each model (using convention theory) that legitimize the orders of worth prevailing in that model, and (ii) disqualifying the elements that are incompatible with the principles underlying the practices. The processes of disqualification can then apply to certain kinds of knowledge, involving a certain way of organizing ignorance (Frickel and Vincent 2007). The conventional agriculture model became dominant precisely because its practices and organizational modes were legitimized by referring to principles of justice (the idea that progress benefits the farmer through higher income, the consumer through reduced purchase price, and rural areas by redistributing value) and by referring to certain values (principles of streamlining and production efficiency). Today, it is precisely by calling on these principles that the historical-conventional model disqualifies criticisms from an ecological perspective, namely that the idea of progress embodied in equipment for modernizing agriculture has betrayed a different idea, that of human development (Norgaard 1994). These disqualified criticisms may then become the basis for another agricultural model (for example, the integrated-landscape model 3c).\nThese two symmetrical mechanisms of legitimation and disqualification explain the degree of stability and coherence of various agricultural worlds. Indeed, some models are more stable, while others are more vulnerable to internal or external shocks or criticisms. More importantly, we have identified the element(s) of social systems that are constitutive of a given model\u2019s evolution. For example, models deeply connected to global food systems are qualified by the conventional norms of the historical model (e.g., product standards or commodity markets), which makes them more stable than other models but also more exposed to external market risks (mostly price and cost variability). Models based on chemicals and technology (2a, 2b, 3a, and, to a lesser extent, 2c) are more vulnerable to hazards coming from natural external environments because they do not require extensive knowledge about the functioning of agroecosystems. The relocalized (3b) and integrated-landscape (3c) models are vulnerable because of their internal weakness. In fact, collective actions in these models are downscaled because there is no widely accepted practical test (here, in the sense of the economies of worth; i.e., a setup enabling a social ranking of people and practices from the most to the least valuable regarding a common good) that objectifies the merits of various practices in regard to common goods.\nLegitimation and disqualification also enable us to see how lock-in works. For example, intellectual property rights play a fundamental role in the historical-conventional model, since they encourage private research and development (e.g., bringing to market new seed varieties). Yet regulating farming practices through intellectual property rights (and through the markets that result) may discourage certain initiatives that want to implement practices from the diversified-globalized (3a) and/or relocalized models (3b). For instance, initiatives for exchanging seeds are viewed as social and organizational innovations in diversified-globalized (3a) and relocalized models (3b), in that they address numerous criticisms of the historical-conventional model (Pautasso et al. 2013). Yet in models with technological innovation protected by intellectual property rights, such as the technology-intensive model based on efficiency (2a) and the biotech model based on biocontrol (2b), exchanging seeds is illegitimate.\nThese mechanisms of legitimization and disqualification serve to make agricultural models a logical whole. While legitimizing and disqualifying establish the coherence specific to a given world and ensure efficient forms of coordination, making a set of arrangements coherent also \u201cnaturalizes\u201d conventional practices, in that the actors consider those practices natural or self-evident. Moreover, this reproduces the modes of collective regulation that occur within that given model. In this sense, our characterization provides a richer framework for grasping the resistance to change. First, it avoids reducing resistance to change to mere lock-in that is exclusively technological and disconnected from the social context in which that resistance occurs. Second, it does not assume that resistance to change is caused merely by human nature or social structures that dictate the behaviors of actors from the outside.\nOur analysis of sustainable agriculture models also shows how these models can coevolve in transitioning to a new model such as agroecology. Each model identified is made up of compromises among values, referring to social orders that vary in stability or fragility depending on their institutional, cognitive, and material sets of arrangements. The historical-conventional model (1) is \u201cconventional\u201d in that it results from a historical process of institutions and organizations aligning with the values that underlie the main mode of organization in Western economies: industrial and market capitalism. The ways in which the conventional model responds to criticism from the ecological world may lead to two types of sustainable transition depending on whether the criticisms are addressed to the set of arrangements flowing from the principles of the conventional model (that is, the principle of justice that underpins it), or, more radically, to the principles themselves. Two types of transition pathways can, therefore, be distinguished according to the kind of criticism made of the conventional model. Transition is therefore understood as a matter of intensity of change from incremental to radical. For example, in the diversified-globalized (3a) and relocalized (3b) models, it is the principle of opinion in peer groups that ensures the circulation of experiential knowledge. Yet this type of knowledge circulation fundamentally challenges the principle that it should be industry that organizes knowledge production, diffusion, and even protection through intellectual property rights, as in the technology-intensive model 2a.\nIn the first type of transition (incremental change), the conventional model requalifies the environmental criticisms directed at it by shifting focus to the means (technologies, practices) used to attain the common good, thereby avoiding any discussion of the very foundation or definition of the common good. The idea is thus to implement the appropriate means to ensure that productivist objectives continue to be met while responding to ecological criticisms. This type of transition for the conventional model is proposed by the technology-intensive model based on efficiency (2a), the biotech model (2b), and to a lesser extent, by the circular model (2c). The technological and practical adjustments made to the conventional model thus do not fundamentally call into question the modes of organization on which this model is based (Marsden 2012). The circular model (2c) constitutes a \u201cnew\u201d form of productive organization that is collectively accepted because it is compatible with the underlying values of the conventional model (i.e., the search for productive efficiency). As a result, the ethical difference in the biotech model (2b) or in the circular model (2c) is unlikely to jeopardize the overall organization of the conventional model; at most, it helps create an additional market for biological inputs or upscale the way agricultural production is organized.\nThe second type of possible transition (more radical change) involves a profound challenge to the values underlying the conventional model (as well as type-2 models). While here, producing value remains an important goal for economic actors in agriculture, integrating the ways ecosystems work into production process implies a different relationship with nature and more profound changes in the social values involved. The material, technological, and institutional set of arrangements used in conventional and type-2 models are thus challenged, not because they are not productive or cannot improve profitability, but because they do not support the value system that makes the diversified-globalized (3a), relocalized (3b), and integrated landscape models (3c) coherent. The nature of this second transition is different from the more incremental or reformist one, since it involves a break with the values, the modes of production and organization, and the narrow relationship to nature in the conventional model. Assuming that the drivers of change are coherent with the models they seek to change, which is necessary for them to be effective, this second transition path has the potential to be revolutionary (Holt-Gim\u00e9nez and Altieri 2012).\nFinally, our characterization also reveals a third way for change (hybridization between models) that questions and complements the \u201csocio-technical transition\u201d identified by Geels and Schot (2007), which they conceive of as \u201cpathways.\u201d These authors argue that the distribution of niches\u2014i.e., networks of actors that develop outside the dominant regime\u2014is supposed to help that dominant regime evolve (Geels 2011), yet the conditions for wide diffusion remain unexplained. Geels and Schot (2007:402) state that \u201cboth niche and regime communities share certain rules that coordinate action,\u201d but they do not explain how those rules can be made compatible, nor do they expand on the importance of moral foundations in rules for collective action. Although the hypothesis of their multilevel model is that niches are separate spaces where radical innovation occurs, it cannot occur in the dominant regime because it is too locked-in to routines. On the contrary, our analysis offers new avenues for understanding how a new sustainable agriculture model, based on a principle of legitimacy that differs from the dominant regime, can spread within that dominant regime. For example, growing species that improve diversification (such as grain legumes) and enable rotations to be lengthened are agricultural practices of the diversified-globalized model (3a). Yet this practice finds a certain legitimacy from the principles of the conventional model since it gives rise to new product outlets that may provide better pay for farmers (Magrini et al. 2016). The dominant regime can thus rely on, and even hybridize, niches that are organized around practices and forms that are, in theory, incompatible. This is because niches enable the dominant regime to better meet society\u2019s demands and to maintain its existence (developing a market for biological inputs and the biotech model [2b] are such adjustments to the conventional model).\nThis hybridization between agricultural models based on various registers of action ultimately suggests that the agroecological transition of farming systems can be based on a combination of elements from different models. This complementarity paves the way for a new conceptualization of change in which models coevolve by relying on arrangements of varying stability and duration. This mode of transition does not relate to intensity, as in the distinction between incremental and radical change, but rather to a change in the nature of transition. Thus, we would assert that there is a near infinite complexity of the ways in which these models can be combined.\nWe offer a first attempt at identifying and finely characterizing multiple agriculture models that address sustainability, and do so in both agronomical and institutional terms. We have identified the institutional characteristics of seven agriculture models initially defined in an agroecological perspective. In particular, we have focused on the opposition between the historical-conventional model, based on industrial organization and market principles, and six alternative sustainable agriculture models that seek to address the challenges of environmental sustainability. Moreover, the ways in which these agricultural models use different practices and technologies to organize and regulate agricultural production has been examined, in addition to how each model qualifies ways of doing and acting depending on the value system that justifies how they implement sustainability in the eyes of society. We have also drawn attention to the complexity of the agricultural panorama in which these models coexist and coevolve to varying degrees, and to the fact that multiple transition pathways toward more agroecological agriculture may emerge.\nUltimately, this study has implications for effective public policy-making. First, the ways in which policies are implemented must be coherent with the agriculture models that they seek to modify or sustain: they must take into account the reasons why actors in those models act and how they act. Moreover, to be effective, policies need to address the characteristics of models they seek to change and the multiple ways in which these models may coexist, intertwine, and coevolve over time. For now, we advocate a precautionary principle so that more marginal models are not prevented from emerging or developing. This would have two advantages. First, as we have suggested, there is some porosity between these models. The practical and organizational innovations in the models that differ most radically from the conventional model can contribute to the more established sustainable agriculture models and improve their sustainability. Second, the systemic nature of the agroecological transition requires profound moral and philosophical changes in how we conceive of our relationship to nature. This is a unique characteristic of the more marginal models.\nMore research is needed to understand in greater detail this characterization of agriculture models and their transitioning processes. 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Ecological Economics 64:253\u2013260. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ecolecon.2007.02.024\nGael Plumecocq\n24 Chemin De Borde Rouge\ngael.plumecocq@inra.fr\nTable1 | Figure1 | Figure2", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00240.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 196, + "original_length": 71114, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.91, + "perplexity": 279.9, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "https://www.eddssupplies.com/news/regulations-needed-to-identify-potentially-invasive-biofuel-crops/", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T04:18:52Z", + "digest": "sha1:27USK6H57BBGNQ4Y2CJD57ISTDPXOMYS", + "length": 5936, + "nlines": 17, + "source_domain": "www.eddssupplies.com", + "title": "Edd's Supplies, Inc. Regulations Needed to Identify Potentially Invasive Biofuel Crops - Edd's Supplies, Inc.", + "raw_content": "Regulations Needed to Identify Potentially Invasive Biofuel Crops\nIf the hottest new plant grown as a biofuel crop is approved based solely on its greenhouse gas emission profile, its potential as the next invasive species may not be discovered until it\u2019s too late. In response to this need to prevent such invasions, researchers at the University of Illinois have developed both a set of regulatory definitions and provisions and a list of 49 low-risk biofuel plants from which growers can choose.\nLauren Quinn, an invasive plant ecologist at U of I\u2019s Energy Biosciences Institute, recognized that most of the news about invasive biofuel crops was negative and offered few low-risk alternatives to producers. She and her colleagues set out to create a list of low-risk biofuel crops that can be safely grown for conversion to ethanol but realized in the process that regulations were needed to instill checks and balances in the system.\n\u201cThere are not a lot of existing regulations that would prevent the planting of potentially invasive species at the state or federal levels. For example, there are currently only four states (Florida, Mississippi, Oregon, and Maryland) that have any laws relating to how bioenergy crops can be grown and that include any language about invasive species\u2014and, for the most part, when those words do appear, they are either not defined or poorly defined,\u201d said Quinn.\nIn approving new biofuel products, Quinn said that the EPA doesn\u2019t formally consider invasiveness at all \u2013 just greenhouse gas emissions related to their production. \u201cLast summer, the EPA approved two known invaders, Arundo donax (giant reed) and Pennisetum purpurem (napier grass), despite public criticism,\u201d added U of I professor of agricultural law A. Bryan Endres, who co-authored the research to define legislative language for potentially invasive bioenergy feedstocks.\nPart of the problem is that there is no clear scientific definition of what it means to be invasive. The team of researchers used fundamental biological, ecological, and management principles to develop definitions for terminology commonly used to describe invasive species.\n\u201cOur definition of invasive is \u2018a population exhibiting a net negative impact or harm to the target ecosystem,\u2019 for example,\u201d Quinn said. \u201cWe want to establish guidelines that will be simple for regulators and informed by the ecological literature and our own knowledge. We also need to recognize that some native plants can become weedy or invasive. It\u2019s complicated and requires some understanding of the biology of these plants.\u201d\nQuinn said that ideally the definitions and suggested regulations could become part of a revised Renewable Fuels Standard administered by EPA, which would require Congress to make the changes. The proposed regulations could also be adopted at the state level.\n\u201cSome of the biofeedstocks currently being examined by the EPA for approval, like pennycress, have a high risk for invasion,\u201d Quinn said. \u201cOthers have vague names such as jatropha with no species name, which is problematic. For example, there are three main Miscanthus species but only sterile hybrid Miscanthus \u00d7 giganteus types are considered low risk. However, the EPA has approved \u201cMiscanthus\u201d as a feedstock without specifying a species or genotype\u201d Quinn said. \u201cThat\u2019s fine for the low-risk sterile types but could mean higher-risk fertile types could be approved without additional oversight.\u201d\nAccording to Quinn, the white list, which includes 49 low-risk feedstock plants, will serve to clear up the confusion about plant names. The list was developed using an existing weed risk assessment protocol, which includes 49 questions that must be asked about a particular species based on its biology, ecology, and its history of being invasive in other parts of the world.\n\u201cThose questions are difficult to answer for new taxa, including plants that haven\u2019t been around long or have just recently been developed by breeders,\u201d Quinn said. \u201cThis will be the first time that they are out in the environment so we don\u2019t know what their potential for invasiveness is. But the white list offers plenty of choices of plants that are already commercially available, and the feedstocks on the list have a number of different industrial uses.\u201d\nQuinn stressed that the native plants that are included in the white list are only recommended as the native genotypes grown in their native region, because although a plant may be native to a part of the United States, it could be considered invasive if grown in a different region.\n\u201cFor example, Panicum virgatum is the variety of switchgrass that is low risk everywhere except for the three coastal states of Washington, Oregon, and California, but future genotypes that may be bred with more invasive characteristics, such as rapid growth or prolific seed production, may have higher risk.\u201d\nThe researchers believe that the white list provides producers with clearly identified low-invasion risk options and may reduce conflicts between objectives for increasing renewable fuel production and reducing unintended impacts and costs resulting from the propagation of invasive plants.\n\u201cResolving regulatory uncertainty: legislative language for potentially invasive bioenergy feedstocks\u201d was published in an issue of GCB Bioenergy. Co-authors include Elise Scott and James McCubbins from the Energy Biosciences Institute, A. Bryan Endres and Thomas Voigt from the University of Illinois, and Jacob Barney from Virginia Tech.\n\u201cBioenergy feedstocks at low risk for invasion in the U.S.: A \u2018white list\u2019 approach\u201d was published in Bioenergy Research. 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PIC: Contributed.\nA rare collection of Jacobite propaganda, including a fictionalised account of the 1745 rising published anonymously to avoid charges of treason, has gone on show.\nThe exhibition, Genuine Jacobites? - 100 years of Scottish Propaganda - has been mounted at Innerpeffray Library in Perthshire, the oldest free public lending library in Scotland.\nInnerpeffray Library - Scotland's first free Public Lending Library, by Crieff, Perthshire. 'PIC: Courtesy of Innerpeffray Library.\nThe exhibition was mounted following a bequest from US book collector Janet Saint Germain, who died in 2016.\nMs St Germain was of Scottish ancestry and had a lifelong interest in the country\u2019s history.\nREAD MORE: Poet dubbed the \u2018Bard of Culloden\u2019 to be remembered\nAmong the gifted collection is a copy of Ascanius, or the Young Adventurer, which was published in London in 1746 and sold to raise funds for the rising.\nLara Haggerty, keeper of books at Innerpeffray Library, said: \u201cIt is a wonderful little book about Bonnie Prince Charlie but it doesn\u2019t mention him by name - that would have been treasonous. He is referred to as the Young Hero and the Chevalier.\nREAD MORE: Jacobites and the slave trade: new study underway\n\u201cThe books were published in a slightly surreptitious manner and sold to raise funds for weapons and soldiers.\u201d\nSeveral Jacobite-era broadsides, which were one-page news sheets printed quickly to spread information, are on display.\nOne announces the \u2018Declaration of the Rebels now in Arms in the West of Scotland\u2019.\nTwo letters pleading for mercy of imprisoned Jacobites facing execution are also included.\nOne, written by Agns (Agnes) Ogilvy, of Montrose, on October 4 1746, calls for leniency in the treatment of Reverend Robert Lyon, an Episcopalian priest who was condemned at Carlisle.\nSeparate accounts detail how the assistant priest in Perth became the chaplain to the Forfarshire Regiment, who drew its members from Clan Ogilvy, as it passed through Perth in September 1745.\nThe priest stayed with regiment throughout the campaign but he was arrested in Montrose following Culloden and found guilty of levying war, even though he did not carry arms.\nThe letter from Agns Ogilvy said: \u201cI have now the melancholy accounts of his having been condemned at Carlile the 26 of September, therefore I most earnestly entreat & beseech, that if any thing can be done to Save his life, You will be so good to use Your most pressing endeavours to obtain Mercy for him & that as Soon as possible, which will lay me under greater obligations to you than I am able to express.\u201d\nRev Lyon was executed at Penrith on October 28,1746.\nMs Haggerty said: \u201cThe exhibition brings together lots of special items.\n\u201cWe get visitors from all over the world and we were keen to given them something different.\u201d\nShe added: \u201cThe Jacobite campaign used all methods they could to promote and support the cause \u2013 from street propaganda to fundraising through the sales of controversial literature.\n\u201cOur aim with the exhibition was to show the rebellion through the printed word.\u201d\nInnerpeffray Library was founded by David Drummond 3rd Lord Madertie in around 1680. A descendant, Lord John Drummond, was a key military figure during the 1745 rising and fought on the frontline at Culloden.\nHe survived and escaped to France with his estates in Scotland forfeited as a result.", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00240.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 142, + "original_length": 5388, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.97, + "perplexity": 298.5, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "https://www.educationnews.org/technology/how-will-we-read-the-book-makers/", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T03:37:16Z", + "digest": "sha1:7M6QX2HCOKTI46RAXCAHXQ3WFA7FXQLA", + "length": 10743, + "nlines": 63, + "source_domain": "www.educationnews.org", + "title": "How Will We Read? The Book Makers", + "raw_content": "How Will We Read? The Book Makers\n\u201cWe are at a very early stage in imagining the future of the book.\u201d \u2014 David \u201cSkip\u201d Prichard\nThe publisher delivers a single file. With that file, Ingram Content Group will deliver the content globally in a variety of ways, whether as a printed book or as a digital file which will ultimately create books for every digital platform around the world. They have the industry\u2019s largest active book inventory (access to 7.5 million titles) and the markets they serve include bookstores, libraries, schools, and specialty retailers.\nWhat do the book makers believe about the future of reading? I had the pleasure of speaking with the charismatic President and CEO of Ingram Content Group, David \u201cSkip\u201d Prichard.\nHow do you see the growth prospects for books in all forms over the next five to ten years?\nI\u2019m bullish on the growth prospects for books. First, the demographics are favorable. We have an aging baby boomer population that should fuel reading. Demand for English-language books is also a positive long-term trend. Second, technology is increasing demand for books whether on digital devices or through the ease of buying books online. Enhanced e-books are only in their infancy, allowing authors to add alternative endings or interviews. Down the road, who knows what\u2019s possible? Maybe we will have biometric devices that can sense your pulse and body temperature and change the plot based on your feelings \u2014 and you think Stephen King is scary now. Third, the very definition of a book is evolving. The information in books is fast becoming linked to other content in various forms, blending into articles, research, and other media. As books become part of the larger information landscape, they become both more relevant and more important.\nAre there enhanced books available this holiday season that have already changed the definition of a book?\nYes, for example, a biography can to come to life in many ways. Jacqueline Kennedy: Historic Conversations on Life with John F. Kennedy has all of the interview audios, videos, photographs, text, and transcripts available. Even classics \u2014 Penguin has updated Pride & Prejudice with clips from the movie and even instructions on dancing. For the 75th anniversary of The Hobbit, HarperCollins released an e-version with exclusives including J.R.R Tolkien\u2019s book illustrations and recently discovered Tolkien recordings. Publishers are still learning what added value readers will or won\u2019t pay for. I expect we\u2019ll continue to see lots of experimentation in this arena.\nDoes this mean authors will require different skill sets to create books?\nYes, there is definitely a demand for new and emerging skill sets. Publishing is full of creative types, including talent that is savvy about the new tools becoming available. The challenge is less about talent and more about the need to find the right business model. For example, you don\u2019t want to create a book that\u2019s very cool but too expensive for the average reader. There\u2019s no limit to what can be done, but there is a limit to what consumers will pay for.\n\u201cWe are able to print a book on demand within hours and deliver it the next day.\u201d \u2013 Skip Prichard\nHow do you see the playing field for books evolving in the next five to ten years?\nThree powerful trends in the last few years have been the growth of online retail, the rise of the e-book, and the explosion in the number of titles available. These will continue for some time. It doesn\u2019t mean that all bookstores will close. And it doesn\u2019t mean that the printed book is dead. What it does mean is that traditional bookstores will need to continue to be creative \u2014 change inventory, add more events, and make the local experience unique. Large print runs will diminish as e-book sales increase. Today, many printed books are created through the technology of print-on-demand, arriving in stores, libraries, or at home the day after printing. Finally, authors are finding new ways to reach markets directly. All of these potentially threaten players not adept at staying ahead of the changes. Fortunately, many publishers are ahead of the curve and already anticipating the next phase of growth. We are at a very early stage in imagining the future of the book.\nWhat will be the effect on brick and mortar outlets? What recommendations do you have for these outlets?\nPhysical stores are redefining their role for the future by finding unique and compelling ways to differentiate the experience from online. Just as print and digital will find a balance, so too, will online and physical retail. My recommendation is, \u201cFind your niche, your unique value proposition, and lock in your customer relationship experience.\u201d The challenges ahead for brick and mortar outlets are not unique to bookstores. Almost all physical retailers are confronting these same challenges.\nWhat will be the effect on publishing companies and what opportunities will this provide to authors for self-publishing?\nPublishers are making changes and developing new models for the future. The publishing house of yesterday is being replaced as visionary publishers adapt to new ways to reach readers. Content creation will extend past the current definition of the book. With the explosive growth of books in recent years, the role of the publisher to select, edit and promote content is more valuable than ever. And the prestige of getting published remains for all authors and potential authors.\nThere are also more opportunities than ever for self-published authors as the barriers to publishing are lower than ever. Self-published titles are increasing in both print and digital formats. We\u2019ve seen some self-published authors break into the bestseller lists. Interestingly, these same authors generally end up accepting lucrative publishing deals when they are approached.\n\"Three powerful trends in the last few years have been the growth of online retail, the rise of the e-book, and the explosion in the number of titles available.\" - Skip Prichard\nHow can the book industry protect itself from piracy?\nPiracy isn\u2019t a new issue. In fact, the majority of pirated copies are from print books being photocopied and distributed rather than from the distribution of digital copies. Keep in mind that what separates books from other forms of entertainment: for those who can\u2019t or don\u2019t want to pay for books, they\u2019ve always been available for free from libraries. The key is to continue to make books not only an engaging experience but also an affordable and easy-to-access experience. We need to make it easy for consumers to find and purchase books legally, meaning publishers must package and share e-content with consumers in formats they want to read without unreasonable restrictions.\nWhy should a book be your number one gift purchase this holiday season and what are your recommendations?\nBooks educate, inform and inspire. They cultivate curiosity, nurture the imagination, and promote a sense of wonder. Books are also terrific conversation starters. In addition, books keep on giving well beyond the day they are received whether to the original recipient or to someone else.\nHow is Ingram changing its culture to embrace the digital age?\nWe have been early adopters of a number of different technologies. Our print on demand business, Lightning Source, started fifteen years ago. As more books go digital, publishers will have to cut print runs. We are able to print a book on demand within hours and deliver it the next day. Last year we expanded to France. This year we expanded to Australia.\nIngram was an early investor in digital. We\u2019ve had experience in digital for many years and expanded these services to include things like CoreSource, a digital warehouse for publishers. We can send an e-book to all the sources for digital devices, so a publisher does not have to worry about the logistics of file conversions, the bibliographic data about the book, and the security of delivery to consumer channels.\nIngram also purchased VitalSource, an electronic textbook platform that is our fastest growing business. We now have 2 million students using the platform worldwide. It\u2019s transforming the way students interact with educational material. Textbooks come alive using video, audio, and text, and allow students to share notes. It has technology that allows us to tell a publisher: \u201cNobody is reading Chapter 8.\u201d Or, \u201cPeople like these three chapters best so you might want to expand them.\u201d It helps the students learn better by engaging with the material in the way that they learn best.\nWe are watching the digital space carefully. We\u2019re an active participant behind the scenes in this transformation. We embrace it and will continue to be a central part of it. Ingram sits as the center hub between the publisher and libraries and retailers. We get a wide view of what\u2019s happening in the marketplace.\nC. M. Rubin and David \"Skip\" Prichard\nPhotos courtesy of Ingram Content Group, Inc.\nVisit Skip Prichard\u2019s blog: www.skipprichard.com\nC. M. Rubin is the author of the widely read online series, The Global Search for Education, and is also the author of three bestselling books, including The Real Alice in Wonderland.\nFollow C. M. Rubin on Twitter: www.twitter.com/@cmrubinworld\nC. M. Rubin\nC.M. Rubin has more than two decades of professional experience in development, marketing, and art direction for a diverse range of media businesses. She is also the author of three bestselling books, including The Real Alice In Wonderland.\nLatest posts by C. M. 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It is essentially possible to use the website without providing any personal data. Should a particular person wish to make use of special services of our company online, however, it may be necessary to process personal data. Should the processing of personal data be required, and should no legal basis exist for such processing, we will obtain the prior consent of the person concerned.\nThe processing of personal data, for example the name, address, e-mail address or telephone number of a person concerned, is always carried out in line with the Federal Data Privacy Act (BDSG), the EU General Data Privacy Regulation (GDPR) that comes into force on 25/05/2018, and any laws which likewise apply. With this data privacy statement, our company would like to provide information on the nature, scope and purpose of the personal data processed by us, and explain to persons concerned what rights they are entitled to assert.\nOur company has implemented numerous technical and organisational measures in order to ensure that any personal data processed is protected as comprehensively as possible. Web-based data transmission may, however, possibly contain security gaps, so that absolute protection cannot be guaranteed.\nOur company\u2019s data privacy statement is based on the General Data Privacy Regulation (DS-GVO/GDPR). It is formulated so as to be easy to read and understood. In order to ensure this, we are explaining the terms used in advance:\nPersonal data is \u201cany information which relates to an identified or identifiable natural person (hereinafter referred to as either \u2019affected person\u2018 or \u2019person concerned\u2018). A natural person is considered identifiable if he or she can be directly or indirectly identified, in particular by means of being allocated to an identifier, such as a name, an ID number, site data, an online identifier or one or more special features which are the expression of the physical, physiological, genetic, psychological, economic, cultural or social identity of said natural person\u201d (see Art. 4(1) of the General Data Privacy Regulation (GDPR)).\n1.2 Person concerned/affected person\nA person concerned or affected person is any identified or identifiable natural person whose personal data is processed by the party responsible for the processing.\nProcessing is any procedure carried out with or without the aid of automated methods, or any such sequence of procedures in connection with personal data, such as the gathering, recording, organising, ordering, storage, adaptation or amendment of data, the reading out of it, querying of it, use, disclosure of it by way of transmission, dissemination or any other form of provision, the comparison or linking of it, or the limitation, deletion or destruction of it.\nLimitation of processing means the marking of stored personal data with the aim of limiting its future processing.\nProfiling means any kind of automated processing of personal data where such personal data is used to assess certain personal aspects relating to a natural person, in particular in order to analyse or predict aspects in regard to work performance, economic position, health, personal preferences, interests, reliability, conduct, place of residence or change of location of such natural person.\n1.6 Pseudonymisation\nPseudonymisation means processing personal data in the case where the personal data can no longer be assigned to a specific person concerned without drawing upon additional information. Such additional information that is subject to the technical and organisational measures is stored separately, and it is thus guaranteed that the personal data cannot be allocated to an identified or identifiable natural person.\n1.7 Responsible party or party responsible for the processing\nThe party responsible, or the party responsible for processing the information, is the natural or legal person, authority, institution or other body which decides, either alone or together with others, for the purpose and means of processing personal data.\n1.8 Contract data processor\nA contract data processor is a natural or legal person, authority, institution or other body which processes personal data on behalf of the party responsible.\nThe recipient is a natural or legal person, authority, institution or other body to whom or which personal data is disclosed, irrespective of whether the latter is a third party or not. Authorities which may receive personal data in the context of a particular investigation mandate under EU law or the law of the Member States are not, however, deemed recipients.\n1.10 Third party\nA third party is a natural or legal person, authority, institution or other body other than the person concerned, the responsible party, the contract data processor and the persons who are authorised, under the direct responsibility of the party responsible or the contract data processor, to process the personal data.\n1.11 Consent\nConsent means any expression of intent in the form of a declaration or any other clear confirmatory action voluntarily submitted by the person concerned in regard to the particular case in an informed way and unmistakably, with which the person concerned makes it understood that he or she is in agreement with the processing of the personal data concerning him or her.\n2. Name and address of the party responsible for the processing\nThe party responsible within the meaning of the General Data Privacy Regulation (DS_GVO/GDPR) is:\nMr. Hans-J\u00f6rg Kremser, Mr. Albert Mees\n3. Contact details of our external Data Privacy Officer\nAny person affected may, if he or she has any questions or suggestions on data privacy, contact our Data Privacy Officer directly.\nOur company\u2019s web pages make use of cookies. Cookies are text files that are stored on a computer system via a web browser.\nNumerous websites and servers make use of cookies. Many cookies contain a so-called \u201ccookie ID\u201d. A cookie ID is a unique identifier of the cookie. It consists of a character string, through which web pages and servers can be allocated to the specific web browser in which the cookie is stored. This makes it possible for the web pages and servers visited to distinguish the individual browser of the person concerned from other web browsers containing other cookies. A particular web browser can be recognised again and identified via the unique cookie ID. Through the use of cookies, EFAFLEX Tor- und Sicherheitssysteme GmbH & Co. KG can provide the users of this website with user-friendly services, which would not be possible without placing the cookie.\nThe information and services available on our website can be optimised to the benefit of the user using a cookie. As already mentioned, cookies enable us to recognise the user of our website again. The purpose of such recognition is to facilitate the use of our website for users. The user of a website that uses cookies does, for example, not need to enter his or her access data again every time he or she visits the website, because this is handled by the website and the cookie stored on the user\u2019s computer system. A further example is a cookie administering a shopping cart in the web shop. The web shop notes the items that a customer has placed in the virtual shopping cart via a cookie.\nThe person concerned can at any time prevent cookies from being placed by our website by adjusting the setting of the web browser used accordingly, and thus permanently oppose the placing of cookies. Furthermore, any cookies already placed can be deleted via a web browser or other software program at any time. This is possible in all common web browsers. Should the person concerned disable the placing of cookies in the web browser used, it will be the case that, under certain circumstances, not all functions of our website can be used in full.\n5. Gathering general data and information\nEvery time the website is accessed by a particular person or an automated system, the web server of EFAFLEX Tor- und Sicherheitssysteme GmbH & Co. KG gathers a range of pieces of general data and information. This general data and information is stored in the log files of the server. The browser types and versions used, the operating system used by the accessing system, the website from which an accessing system reaches our website, the sub-pages of the website which are accessed on our website via an accessing system, the date and time of any access to the website, an Internet protocol address (IP address), the Internet Service Provider of the accessing system and any other similar data and information which serves to fend off risk in the event of our IT systems being attacked may be gathered.\nWhen using such general data and information, EFAFLEX Tor- und Sicherheitssysteme GmbH & Co. KG does not draw any conclusions concerning the person concerned. Rather, such information is needed in order to deliver the content of our website correctly, optimise the content of our website, as well as the advertising for it, guarantee the ongoing functionality of our IT systems and the technology of our website, and provide law enforcement agencies with the information necessary for prosecution in the event of a cyber-attack. Such data and information gathered anonymously is therefore evaluated by EFAFLEX Tor- und Sicherheitssysteme GmbH & Co. KG on the one hand statistically, and also with the aim of increasing data privacy and data security at our company, in order to ultimately ensure an optimum level of protection for the personal data processed by us. The anonymous data of the server log files is stored separately from any personal data given by a person concerned.\n6. The option to make contact via the website\nBased on statutory regulations, our company\u2019s website contains details which make it possible to make fast contact with our company electronically, as well as enable direct communication with us, which likewise comprises a general e-mail address. Should a person concerned take up contact with the party responsible for the processing via a contact form, the personal data transmitted by the person concerned will automatically be saved. Such personal data transmitted to the person responsible for the processing by a person concerned on a voluntary basis is saved for the purposes of processing the request or taking up contact with the person concerned. Such personal data is not passed on to third parties.\nThe party responsible for the processing only processes and stores personal data of the person concerned for the period of time which is necessary in order to achieve the purpose of the processing, or in so far as the latter has been stipulated in laws or regulations forming the basis for the processing by the party responsible by the legislative authority. Should the purpose of such storage lapse, or should a storage period prescribed by the legislative authority expire, the personal data is routinely blocked or deleted, in line with the statutory regulations.\n8.1 The right to receive confirmation\nEvery person concerned is entitled to request from the person responsible for the processing a confirmation on whether personal details concerning him or her are processed. Should a person concerned wish to lay claim to this right of confirmation, he or she may contact our Data Privacy Officer or any other employee of the party responsible for the processing for that purpose.\nAny person affected by the processing of personal data is entitled to receive the information on the personal data stored on his or her person from the party responsible for the processing, free of charge, and be given a copy of such information along with the information cited here:\n\u2022\tThe purposes of processing the personal data\n\u2022\tthe categories of personal data that is being processed\n\u2022\tthe recipient or categories of recipients to whom the personal data has been disclosed or is yet to be disclosed, in particular in the case of recipients in non-EU countries or at international organisations\n\u2022\tif possible, the scheduled duration for which the personal data will be saved, or, if this is not possible, the criteria for laying down such duration\n\u2022\tthe existence of a right to correction or deletion of the personal data concerning him or her or to restricting the processing by the party responsible or of a right of opposition against such processing\n\u2022\tthe existence of a right to appeal to a regulatory authority\n\u2022\tif the personal data is not gathered from the person concerned: any information available on the origin of the data\n\u2022\tthe existence of automated decision making, including profiling pursuant to Article 22(1) and (4) General Data Privacy Regulation (GDPR), and \u2014 at least in such cases \u2014 meaningful information on the logic involved, as well as the reach, and the effects of such processing aimed for, for the person concerned.\nThe person concerned moreover has a right to information on whether personal data has been transmitted to a non-EU country or an international organisation. Should this be the case, the person concerned shall also be entitled to receive information on the appropriate warranties in connection with the transmission.\nShould a person concerned wish to lay claim to such a right to information, he or she may contact our Data Privacy Officer for this purpose at any time.\nAny person affected by the processing of personal data has the right to demand immediate correction of any incorrect personal data concerning him or her. The person concerned is, furthermore, entitled, taking into account the purpose of the processing, to demand that incomplete personal data is completed - also by way of a supplementary statement.\n8.4 The right to deletion (the right to be forgotten)\nAny person affected by the processing of personal data has the right to demand of the party responsible that the personal data concerning him or her is deleted immediately, if one of the following grounds applies and if the processing is not necessary:\n\u2022\tThe personal data has been gathered for such purposes, or processed in another way, for which it is no longer needed.\n\u2022\tThe person concerned revokes his or her consent, on which he or she based the processing pursuant to Art. 6(1)(a) General Data Privacy Regulation (GDPR) or Art. 9(2)(a) General Data Privacy Regulation (GDPR), and there is no other legal basis for the processing.\n\u2022\tPursuant to Art. 21(1) General Data Privacy Regulation (GDPR), the person concerned is filing an opposition to the processing, and there are no overriding justified grounds for the processing, or the person concerned is filing an opposition against the processing pursuant to Art. 21(2) General Data Privacy Regulation (GDPR).\n\u2022\tThe personal data has been processed illegitimately.\n\u2022\tThe deletion of the personal data is necessary in order to fulfil a legal obligation in accordance with EU law or the law of the Member States to which the party responsible is subject.\n\u2022\tThe personal data has been gathered in regard to services offered in the information society pursuant to Art. 8(1) General Data Privacy Regulation (GDPR).\nShould one of the above-mentioned grounds apply and an affected person wish to arrange for the deletion of personal data that is stored with our company, he or she may contact our Data Privacy Officer for this purpose at any time. Our Data Privacy Officer will arrange for the request for deletion to be complied with without delay.\nShould the personal data have been published by our company, and should our company, as the party responsible pursuant to Art. 17(1) General Data Privacy Regulation (GDPR), be obliged to delete said personal data, our company shall, taking into account the available technology and the implementation costs, take appropriate steps, also of a technical nature, to inform other parties responsible for the data processing, who process the published personal data, that the person concerned has requested from such other parties responsible for processing the data that all links to said personal data or copies or replications of such personal data be deleted, provided that the processing is not necessary. The Data Privacy Officer will arrange for whatever is necessary in the individual case.\n8.5 Right to limit the processing\nAny person affected by the processing of personal data has the right, granted by the Legislator of the respective European Directives and Regulations, to require the party responsible to limit the processing of the data if one of the following prerequisites exists:\n\u2022\tThe accuracy of the personal data is disputed by the person concerned, and in fact for a period of time which enables the party responsible to check the accuracy of the personal data.\n\u2022\tThe processing is illegitimate, and the person concerned refuses to have the personal data deleted, and instead demands that the use of the personal data be restricted.\n\u2022\tThe party responsible no longer requires the personal data for the purposes of the processing, the person concerned does, however, require it to assert, exercise or defend legal claims.\n\u2022\tThe person affected has filed an opposition against the processing of the data pursuant to Art. 21(1) General Data Privacy Regulation (GDPR), and it has not yet been established whether the justified grounds of the party responsible outweigh those of the affected person.\nShould any of the above-mentioned prerequisites apply and an affected person wish to request that the personal data that is stored with our company be limited, he or she may contact our Data Privacy Officer for this purpose at any time. The Data Privacy Officer will arrange for the processing of the data to be limited.\nAny person affected by the processing of personal data is entitled to receive the personal data concerning him or her, which has been provided to a party responsible by the affected person, in a structured, up-to-date and machine-readable format. He or she additionally has the right to transmit such data to a different party responsible, without being hindered by the party responsible, to which or whom the personal data has been provided, as long as the processing is based on the consent pursuant to Art. 6(1)(a) General Data Privacy Regulation (GDPR) or Art. 9(2)(a) General Data Privacy Regulation (GDPR) or an agreement pursuant to Art. 6(1)(b) General Data Privacy Regulation (GDPR), and the processing is undertaken with the aid of automated procedures, as long as the processing is not necessary in order to complete a task that is in the public interest or completed to exercise official authority that has been conferred upon the party responsible.\nWhen exercising his or her right to data portability pursuant to Art. 20(1) General Data Privacy Regulation (GDPR), the person concerned is, moreover, entitled to cause the personal data to be transmitted directly from one party responsible to another party responsible, if the latter is technically feasible, and as long as the rights and freedoms of other persons are not thereby impaired.\nIn order to assert the right to data portability, the person concerned may contact the Data Privacy Officer appointed by us at any time.\n8.7 Right to file an opposition\nAny person affected by the processing of personal data has the right, for reasons which arise from his or her particular situation, to file an opposition against the processing of personal data concerning him or her that is being undertaken based on Art. 6(1)(e) or (f) General Data Privacy Regulation (GDPR), at any time. This also applies to any profiling based on these provisions.\nIn the event of an opposition, our company no longer processes the personal data, unless we can provide evidence of mandatory grounds for the processing, worthy of protection, which outweigh the interests, rights and freedoms of the person concerned, or the processing serves the purpose of asserting, exercising or defending legal claims.\nShould our company process personal data in order to carry out direct marketing, the person concerned is entitled to file an opposition against the processing of the personal data for the purposes of such marketing, at any time. This also applies to profiling, in so far as it is connected with such direct marketing. Should the person concerned oppose the data being processed for the purposes of direct marketing, vis-\u00e0-vis our company, we will no longer process the personal data for such purposes.\nIn addition, the person concerned is entitled, for reasons arising from his or her particular situation, to file an opposition against the processing of personal data concerning him or her that is performed by our company for scientific or historic research purposes or for statistical purposes pursuant to Art. 89(1) General Data Privacy Regulation (GDPR), unless such processing is necessary in order to complete a task that falls within the scope of the public interest.\nIn order to exercise the right of opposition, the person concerned may contact the Data Privacy Officer directly.\n8.8 Automated decisions in the individual case, including profiling\nAny person affected by the processing of personal data has the right not to be subjected to a decision based exclusively on automated processing - including profiling - which develops legal validity in regard to him or her or affects him or her considerably in a similar way, as long as the decision is not required for concluding or fulfilling an agreement between the person concerned and the party responsible, or admissible based on legislation of the Union or the Member States, to which the party responsible is subject, with such legislation containing appropriate steps to preserve the rights and freedoms, as well as the justified interests of the person concerned, or effected with the express consent of the person concerned.\nShould the decision regarding the conclusion or fulfilment of an agreement between the person concerned and the party responsible be required, or should it be taken with the express consent of the person concerned, our company will take appropriate steps to preserve the rights and freedoms of the person concerned, as well as his or her justified interests, which at least includes the right to arrange for the intervention of a person on the part of the party responsible, the right to explain one\u2019s own position and the right to contest the decision.\nShould the person concerned wish to assert rights in regard to automated decisions, he or she may, for this purpose, contact our Data Privacy Officer at any time.\n8.9 The right to revocation of any consent under data privacy law\nAny person affected by the processing of personal data has the right to revoke any consent given to the processing of personal data at any time. Should the person concerned wish to assert his or her right to revoke any consent granted, he or she may contact our Data Privacy Officer for this purpose at any time.\n9. Data privacy in the case of applications and in the application process\nThe party responsible for the processing gathers and processes the personal data of applicants for the purpose of executing the application procedure. The processing may also be carried out electronically. This is in particular the case if an applicant transmits corresponding application documents to our company electronically, for example by e-mail or via a web form to be found on the website. Should our company conclude an employment contract with an applicant, the data transmitted will be saved for the purpose of handling the employment relationship, adhering to the statutory regulations. Should no employment contract with the applicant be concluded by our company, the application documents will automatically be deleted six months after announcing the decision to turn down the application, unless such deletion is in conflict with any justified interests on the part of the party responsible for the processing. A justified interest, in this sense, may, for example, be an obligation to provide evidence in any proceedings under the German General Equal Treatment Act (AGG).\n10. Data privacy provisions\nThis website uses Google Analytics, a web analytics service provided by Google Inc. (\"Google\"). Use is made based on Art. 6 para. 1 sentence 1 lit. f. DSGVO. Google Analytics uses so-called \"cookies\", text files that are stored on your computer and that allow an analysis of the use of the website by you. The information generated by the cookie about your use of the website such as\n\u2022 used operating system,\nare usually transmitted to a Google server in the US and stored there. The IP address provided by Google Analytics as part of Google Analytics will not be merged with other Google data. We have also extended the code \"anonymizeIP\" on this website to Google Analytics. This guarantees the masking of your IP address so that all data is collected anonymously. Only in exceptional cases, will the full IP address be sent to a Google server in the US and shortened there.\nOn behalf of the operator of this website, Google will use this information to evaluate your use of the website, to compile reports on website activity and to provide other services related to website usage and internet usage to the website operator. You can prevent the storage of cookies by a corresponding setting of your browser software; however, we point out that in this case you may not be able to fully use all the functions of this website.\nIn addition, you may prevent the collection by Google of the data generated by the cookie and related to your use of the website (including your IP address) as well as the processing of this data by Google by downloading the browser plug-in available under the following link and install: tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout.\nWe continue to use Google Analytics to analyze data from Double-Click and AdWords for statistical purposes. If you do not want to do this, you can disable it through the Ads Preferences Manager (http://www.google.com/settings/ads/onweb/?hl=en).\n11. Competent regulatory authority for data privacy\n12. Amendments to the data privacy provisions\nWe reserve the right to alter our security and data privacy provisions, should it be necessary due to technological developments. We will, in such cases, also adapt our data privacy statement accordingly. 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A new study by researchers at Stanford University might be the first step towards such a reality.\nUsing brain-computer interfaces (BCI) to help people with paralysis communicate isn't completely new. But getting people using it to have a complex conversation is. This study's participants were able to output words at a much faster, more accurate rate than ever recorded thanks to the advanced technique.\nThe investigators worked with three people who experience severe limb weakness, either from amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), also called Lou Gehrig's disease, or from a spinal cord injury. They each had a tiny electrode array or two placed in their brains to record the signals from a region in the motor cortex that controls muscle movement. With only a little bit of training, the participants were able to master the typing interface. One participant, Dennis Degray of Menlo Park, California, was able to type eight words per minute with just his brain, a rate approaching texting speeds.\nThe researchers used the newest generation of BCI called the BrainGate Neural Interface System, the first such device to be surgically placed inside a patient's head. The tiny chips have 100 electrodes that penetrate the brain and can tap into individual nerve cells, a massive improvement over the older systems which can only measure brain waves and blood flow subcutaneously or from the outside of the scalp.\nThis is only the first step to creating a much more connected life for those with significant motor issues. The team of investigators looks forward to a day, perhaps just five years from now, when systems like this can be used to help people with paralysis communicate meaningfully with others.\nVia: Medical Xpress\nIn this article: Brain-computerInterface, BrainComputerInterface, medicine, mobile, personal computing, personalcomputing, science, study", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00240.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 158, + "original_length": 4609, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.95, + "perplexity": 277.5, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "https://www.enghouseinteractive.es/en/cpp.html", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T03:12:45Z", + "digest": "sha1:Z6TM74MZJBHI6WYZNRVQUEZ7OFET5R3G", + "length": 710, + "nlines": 3, + "source_domain": "www.enghouseinteractive.es", + "title": "CPP", + "raw_content": "CPP offers assistance and protection for your cards, laptops, internet connections, identity and legal status. In an emergency, CPP provides immediate, direct and simple assistance that allows its customers to continue with their normal lives without worries. It's what they call 'Life Assistance'. 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We have competition for places at every position and I look forward to seeing how much we can improve as individuals and as a team over the months ahead, as ultimately we build towards the 2021 World Cup\u201d.\nKatie Lehovksy\nNational Team Director Phil Collier Coaches Kate Nelson-Lee, Michael Molster Manager Lara Owen Asst. 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Horn | Spring 2017\nInnovation is all the rage.\nCorporations boast chief innovation officers, innovation training, and fancy slogans that appear in TV ads.\nIn the field of education, innovation is quite the fad, too. School heads, edtech vendors, conference attendees, and others proclaim their innovation strategies or fret about the innovation around them \u2014 or do both simultaneously. All too often, educators seem to think they should be innovating for its own sake or out of a sense of obligation.\n\u201cDisruptive innovation\u201d \u2014 a form of innovation that brings significant change to long-held cultural and organizational practices and assumptions \u2014 has its own overexposure problem within the broader innovation meme. As its architect, Harvard Business School Professor Clayton Christensen, points out, the phrase is often misused \u2014 which has the effect of reducing it to a trendy buzzword that loses its practical and predictive meaning. When almost every school initiative is described as \u201cdisruptive,\u201d we have a real problem.\nIn such a landscape, how should educators think about innovation? What does true disruptive innovation look like? More important, why should we care?\nEssentially, anything that introduces something new, is economically sustainable, and allows people to make progress in their lives is an innovation.\nWithin that broad definition, there are different kinds of innovations and different taxonomies to categorize them. Some innovations are derivative, whereas others can be considered a breakthrough innovation or an innovation that introduces a whole new platform. Other types of innovations range from ones that create new markets to those that wring efficiencies out of an existing system.\nThe theory of disruptive innovation offers its own categories of innovation alongside a predictive theory of the impact of these different types of innovation. That predictive theory has had a powerful impact on explaining the success and failure of many organizations \u2014 and has helped many leaders create their strategies with considerably more success, which is why it has grown so popular.\nDisruptive innovation is really a theory of competitive response. The theory helps an upstart player successfully challenge an established one by predicting what action the established player will take \u2014 or be capable of taking \u2014 in response to something the upstart does with a given technology. It is also a theory that helps predict how to bring about a transformation in a given sector \u2014 by replacing the old way of doing things with a new one that initially appears to be quite primitive but improves reliably over time. In either case, disruption is a relative phenomenon. Something can only be disruptive relative to something else. And given their deceptive transformational quality, disruptive innovations don\u2019t occur all that frequently. In education, before the advent of online learning, the last disruptive innovation was arguably the creation of the printing press, which enabled many more people to learn even if they did not have access to one of the best scholars in the world.\nDisruption\u2019s counterpart is \u201csustaining innovation.\u201d Sustaining innovations get a bad rap sometimes, but they are critical to organizational growth. Sustaining innovations help make good services better. Airplanes that fly farther, computers that process faster, cellular phone batteries that last longer, and televisions with clearer images are all sustaining innovations. A sector without sustaining innovations \u2014 whether of the routine or breakthrough variety \u2014 becomes stagnant.\nWhat we\u2019ve found in our research at the Clayton Christensen Institute, a nonprofit think tank dedicated to improving the world through innovation, is that it is almost impossible for an existing organization to disrupt itself. It almost always has to create a separate team with a new business model that allows it to profitably deploy a technology in a new way that serves either a new set of customers or customers who are over-served by the existing offering.\nOn the other hand, organizations engage routinely in sustaining innovation. In fact, most innovations that independent schools attempt fit within the sustaining category. It\u2019s what happens when educators try to improve their programs by introducing new offerings designed to help students make greater progress in their learning and their lives \u2014 from the introduction of coding to new athletic teams, from interdisciplinary projects to new academic facilities that help schools compete with their peer institutions.\nThe First Potential Disruption\nOver the past few decades, challengers to the independent school model have arisen. Of them, the schools that are harnessing the enabling technology of online learning in a blended-learning setting have disruptive potential. Schools that fall into this category range from certain public charter schools to certain low-cost private schools, such as micro-schools. The emergence of micro-schools provides a useful case study.\nA micro-school serves a very small student population typically using some variation on blended learning. I\u2019ve described them elsewhere as the one-room schoolhouse meets blended learning or the homeschool meets private school. Micro-schools are classically disruptive because they offer a new way for children to learn in a lower-cost model than most independent schools. This is a stripped down, no-frills model. Many of them are also proving to be popular and successful.\nWith their enabling technology, micro-schools are able to offer similar or even higher levels of personalization than traditional independent schools. These schools lack the wide expanse of programs and extracurricular activities, reputations, and deep histories that traditional independent schools on the high end have. Instead, they offer greater affordability and accessibility.\nGiven that many students and their families in the independent school world are struggling with ever-rising tuition prices even as their incomes remain stagnant, and that many independent schools are fighting to rein in their expenditures, micro-schools may pose an existential challenge for a broad segment of the independent school world.\nAs a result, independent schools may need to figure out ways to combat this disruptive innovation. One approach is to reframe micro-schools as an opportunity, not a threat \u2014 in which case, schools may innovate by creating separate organizations and launching their own micro-schools. They may also focus on creating more \u00e0 la carte options that can serve populations of students who might otherwise opt for a micro-school. Others may decide they can combat the rise of micro-schools by focusing on what they do uniquely well for students and families and innovating accordingly.\nEither way, the rise of micro-schools is pushing the conversation of innovation in education, not for its own sake, but for concrete reasons: to serve students who couldn\u2019t otherwise be served, or for institutional survival, to better serve existing students, or for other reasons.\nAll innovation should start with the central questions: What are you trying to accomplish by innovating, and why is it important?\nWhat Job Are You Trying to Do?\nSchools often struggle to design offerings that excite their end users (parents and students) such that their end users willingly show up to devour.\nWhat\u2019s notable from our research in innovation is that schools are not alone. Companies struggle desperately to predict whether a customer in a given demographic category will buy a new product. The main reason for this struggle is that companies tend to miss the fact that, from the customer\u2019s perspective, the market is not structured by customer or product category. Surveying along demographic and product categories \u2014 for example, why millennial parents send their children to independent schools on average compared with baby-boomer parents\u2014 tends to mislead.\nInstead, people have jobs to be done in their lives \u2014 the progress that a person is trying to make in a particular circumstance. Understanding the job helps us understand why people do the things they do and what their underlying motivation is. Every job has functional, social, and emotional dimensions to it; oftentimes the social and emotional dimensions of a job are more important to understand than the functional ones.\nA job is critically different from the traditional marketing concept of \u201cneeds.\u201d Needs always exist in someone\u2019s life, but they fail to capture what someone is prioritizing in a particular circumstance and, thus, what will motivate them to take action.\nJust as many people deprioritize the job of \u201cmaintain my physical health\u201d \u2014 even though it is something they should pay attention to and need to do \u2014 many students grow bored in school because education isn\u2019t a job they are trying to do. Education is something they might choose to \u201chire\u201d to do that job \u2014 evidenced in how they use their time \u2014 but it isn\u2019t the job. Teachers can work extraordinarily hard to improve the features of their products in the hope that more engaging lessons, media, and student-response clickers, for example, will improve student motivation. But their efforts are in vain if they are aimed at providing an even better way for students to do something that the students were never trying to do in the first place.\nThis is not to say that a school should not educate the whole child by helping students develop certain core knowledge, skills, and dispositions; rather, that in order to accomplish these objectives, the school must create an experience that is intrinsically motivating for students. Most of the \u201chome runs\u201d in innovation have occurred when people sensed the fundamental job that customers were trying to do\u2014 and then found a way to help more people do it more effectively, conveniently, and affordably. The strikeouts and singles, in contrast, generally have been the result of developing services with better features and functions than other services in the same category, or of attempting to decipher what the average customer in a demographic wants.\nSchool can be a place where students find joy in learning. The key is to crawl into the learners\u2019 skin and see their circumstances \u2014 including their anxieties, immediate problems, and innate motivations \u2014 from their point of view.\nAt a high level, we have observed that there are two core jobs that most students have:\nThey want to feel successful. They want to know they are making progress and accomplishing something, rather than experiencing nothing but repeated failure or running up against walls.\nThey want to have fun with friends. They want positive, rewarding social experiences with others, including with peers, teachers, coaches, advisors, and other potential friends.\nAs a result, schools compete with activities such as playing video games, playing pickup basketball, and any number of other nonacademic options as something that students can hire to experience success and have fun with friends. Too often, schools are not great competitors for these alternatives.\nSimilarly, schools must understand what parents\u2019 and caretakers\u2019 true jobs are and create an experience that helps get those done. Our early research on why students and families hire postsecondary education suggests that the reasons may not be as straightforward as we might imagine.\nStarting with and understanding the job creates the basis for innovating successfully. As Christensen says in his new book, Competing Against Luck, disruption is a theory that helps explain why successful and well-run organizations fail. \u201cJobs to Be Done\u201d is a theory about why and how organizations succeed \u2014 and it\u2019s where we should start when we seek to innovate, not with trying to do something \u201cdisruptive\u201d or trying to innovate for its own sake.\nHow Getting the Job Done Guides Innovation\nThere are three levels in the architecture of a job. At the foundational level is the job itself. The second level is composed of all the experiences that you have to provide to get the job done perfectly. Once you understand all those experiences, you can implement the third level: integrate properly by knitting together the right assets that are required to provide each of the experiences necessary to do the job perfectly.\nThe retail giant IKEA presents a case study in understanding the job and organizing successfully to deliver a solution for that job. The job that IKEA has focused on is to help someone furnish his or her apartment today.\nUnderstanding this, IKEA engages its own designers to create furniture kits that customers can retrieve from the warehouse, take home, and assemble themselves, without having to wait for delivery. IKEA designs furniture that is explicitly meant to be temporary, not to become heirlooms. IKEA offers child care because unfettered concentration on furniture purchases is an important experience; and it positions an affordable cafeteria in the store so customers can refuel.\nWhat\u2019s so interesting is that by understanding the job it does so well, IKEA has remained impervious to disruption. No one has copied it. And it understands acutely what improvements will help it do the job better and what will prove to be distractions.\nAs a result, IKEA still sells low-cost furniture today, a half century after its founding. It has not gone \u201cupmarket,\u201d as most businesses and independent schools seeking to be \u201cbetter\u201d do naturally. Nor has someone come underneath IKEA to push it upmarket, despite all the disruptions in retail, from discount to online to low-cost providers in China (where, incidentally, understanding customers\u2019 particular circumstance has led IKEA to integrate forward to help deliver and assemble the furniture as well).\nIKEA\u2019s story offers a powerful lesson for independent school leaders considering innovating. Figure out why people are hiring you \u2014 what their real job to be done is \u2014 and then move accordingly. This may mean that trying to be all things to all people isn\u2019t necessary. It may mean that playing the prestige game is not what\u2019s required to succeed. On the other hand, a deeper understanding of the job might reveal that both are quite critical. What we know for sure is that focusing on innovation for its own sake isn\u2019t going to help.\nFocusing on the job, in all of its dimensions, is vital. Start there \u2014 and then innovate accordingly.\nMichael B. Horn is cofounder of and a distinguished fellow at the Clayton Christensen Institute and serves as a principal consultant for Entangled Solutions, which offers innovation services to higher education institutions. Horn is the author and coauthor of multiple books, white papers, and articles on education, including the award-winning book Disrupting Class: How Disruptive Innovation Will Change the Way the World Learns and the Amazon best-seller Blended: Using Disruptive Innovation to Improve Schools. 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The anxiety that students and parents have about college is typically limited to the front end of the process: getting into school, figuring out how to pay the tuition bill, and choosing the right major.\nBut today there is a lot of noise around the degree as a recognizable signal of job readiness. As more and more people are earning a bachelor\u2019s degree, employers seem to be trusting it less and less.\nYet every college claims in its admissions materials that its \u201cunique\u201d style of education prepares its students for the job market. Trying to separate the marketing rhetoric from reality is nearly impossible for parents and students. It\u2019s why college rankings play an outsized role in determining the quality of higher education, even though none of them actually evaluate what happens in the classroom or even outside of it during an undergraduate\u2019s career.\n[The coming era of consolidation among colleges and universities]\nRecently, I wrote about efforts by employers to better assess the claims colleges and universities make about their quality. Employers, for instance, are increasingly choosing specific campuses where workers can use tuition benefits instead of giving them a blank check to use anywhere. Meanwhile, federal regulators are weighing rules about whether graduates can get their loans forgiven if they were misled by institutions about their job prospects.\nBut neither solution is very helpful to students and parents at this time of year as they attempt to compare colleges during the application process. That\u2019s why another approach under discussion by higher-education officials might prove helpful to students and parents trying to assess the quality of colleges in the future: an audit of the assertions that colleges make about their quality.\nColleges already have their financial statements audited, of course. But colleges make plenty of other claims to prospective students that no one ever really checks out \u2014 from the percentage of students who land a job after graduation to the quality of classroom instruction.\n\u201cThere are parents and students who are interested in knowing whether the college they\u2019re considering is worth it and they want an independent third party to answer that question,\u201d Brendan LeBlanc, a partner at Ernst & Young in Boston, told me recently.\n[40 percent of U.S. colleges enroll fewer than 1,000 students]\nSuch non-financial audits are now commonplace in the corporate world, especially around cybersecurity and sustainability. LeBlanc said that almost any claim made by an organization can be audited as long as there is some sort of objective, suitable criteria by which to measure it. As an example, he cited McDonald\u2019s, which several years ago promised that its popular Happy Meals would include water, milk and juice, as well as a side salad, fruit, or vegetable in place of fries.\nCritics saw the announcement as little more than a marketing ploy and questioned the sincerity of the promise. After all, how would McDonald\u2019s, with more than 35,000 restaurants around the world, ensure that every Happy Meal included healthy options? It ended up that the auditors couldn\u2019t verify that statement was true in every outlet for every Happy Meal, so McDonald\u2019s had to revise its promise that healthy options would be the \u201cdefault configuration\u201d of the meal.\n\u201cFor an audit to work there has to be trust and confidence that the same rules and standards are being applied so that someone can make a judgment,\u201d LeBlanc said. \u201cIt\u2019s providing some credibility to a process.\u201d\nErnst & Young and other large auditing firms aren\u2019t the only organizations trying to figure out a better way to measure the quality of a college.\nAs Goldie Blumenstyk recently reported in the Chronicle of Higher Education, the Center for American Progress has proposed a new approach to evaluate a college\u2019s financial health and students\u2019 ability to get jobs and pay off their loans, with the Department of Education acting as the auditor under such a system. Entangled Solutions, a higher-education consultancy, is asking for input on creating an independent organization to oversee quality, much the same way that the Financial Accounting Standards Board monitors corporate-accounting standards.\nAll these proposals are aimed at fixing the broken self-regulated accreditation system of higher education that continues to let colleges operate with low graduation rates or that produce graduates deep in debt without any job prospects. Quality control that relies on accreditation doesn\u2019t help students and their families make good choices up front when they are choosing colleges.\nHigher education is an \u201cexperience good,\u201d meaning students don\u2019t know what they are buying until after they experience it. The result is a college search process in which students and their families make important decisions based on haphazard or incomplete information. Any effort to bring better consumer information to the market should be encouraged.", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00240.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 44, + "original_length": 6162, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.97, + "perplexity": 253.9, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "https://www.enternext.biz/en/events/fund-forum-international", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T03:48:30Z", + "digest": "sha1:TEM4DZ6RRR53EKY2P2RJOHQGCID5WMXG", + "length": 870, + "nlines": 6, + "source_domain": "www.enternext.biz", + "title": "Fund Forum International | Euronext", + "raw_content": "Fund Forum International\nMon, 06/12/2017 - 8:00am - Wed, 06/14/2017 - 5:00pm CET\nThe 2017 edition of FundForum International, the world's largest investment management event, will take place on June 12-14 at the Intercontinental Hotel in Berlin.\nFundForum is Europe\u2019s leading gathering for fund buyers, eager to gain the latest insight and engage in top-end networking. With more than 1400 attendees, it is a unique event where global leaders explore and collaborate on new opportunities as the distribution and regulatory landscape evolves.\nEuronext is a proud sponsor of this 3-day event: come meet us at our booth to learn more about Euronext Fund Service Paris, our new funds service and complementary solution to distribute and invest in funds across Europe, launched on 15 May this year.\nhttps://finance.knect365.com/fundforum-international/purchase/select-package", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00240.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 85, + "original_length": 2155, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.89, + "perplexity": 318.5, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "https://www.entrepreneurcampfire.com/business-opportunities-malaysia/", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T03:17:30Z", + "digest": "sha1:ZWU7JOYKDVG4NWIQMJ4B5RE7DFA2QU5P", + "length": 14106, + "nlines": 104, + "source_domain": "www.entrepreneurcampfire.com", + "title": "10 Business Opportunities in Malaysia and How Much it Costs to Get Started", + "raw_content": "As an emerging market, there is an abundance of business opportunities in Malaysia.\nWith the launch of the Digital Free Trade Zone (DFTZ) in November 2017, the most obvious opportunity lies in e-commerce. In fact, the Malaysia Digital Economy Corporation (MDEC) projects e-commerce growth in Malaysia to reach 21% by 2020.\nMalaysians, as well as people around the region, can benefit from the DFTZ by launching their own online businesses and even exploring cross-border e-commerce.\nBut e-commerce isn\u2019t the only opportunity available. Conventional business models like franchising and F&B are thriving in Malaysia as young people spend more of their offline money on experiences rather than buying things.\nRegardless of whether you want to participate in the growing digital economy in Malaysia or take on a more traditional path, I have compiled 10 business opportunities in Malaysia I think you can take part in.\nLet\u2019s take a look at them below:\n(I\u2019ve ordered them according to the amount of capital required, beginning with the most capital-intensive opportunity.)\n#1 Build a Software as a Service (SaaS) Business\nCost: RM200,000 \u2013 RM3,000,000\nHow you make money: You offer a cloud software service to people and they pay you a monthly or yearly fee for access.\nThe biggest benefit of SaaS businesses is that you can often offer them at affordable prices to your customers. For your customers, SaaS is better than standalone because they get updated software and they don\u2019t need to pay a huge upfront sum to use it.\nAn example of a SaaS business in Malaysia is StoreHub which offers iPad POS solutions to SMEs in Malaysia.\nWho this is best for: SaaS businesses are a good fit for programmers who have product design experience and enjoy problem-solving. Although, if you want to grow your SaaS business, having only programming skills isn\u2019t enough. You may need external investors to help you fund your SaaS growth.\nThe best thing about this opportunity: When done properly you have the opportunity to rake in recurring revenues for a long time.\nThe worst thing about this opportunity: It can be challenging to identify problems that enough people have to make your SaaS business a sustainable one. Other than that, you will likely need a lot of resources to grow your SaaS business. Lastly, SaaS businesses can be competitive as your customers are not bound to you in the long term and can change vendors within a short period of time.\nInterested to start a SaaS business? Here are some ideas to help you get started:\n#2 Start an F&B Business\nCost: RM50,000 \u2013 RM500,000\nHow you make money: You sell food at a higher price than the cost to make it. The difference is your profit. (But you already knew this right?)\nEating is one of Malaysians\u2019 favorite past times. If you can create food Malaysians can\u2019t resist, you will be able to make a sustainable income.\nEven if you don\u2019t have the capital to open a restaurant, you can always start small by taking orders from Facebook and delivering them from your home.\nWho this is best for: People who love experimenting with food and seeing people enjoy their food.\nThe best thing about this opportunity: Creating food can be affordable so you don\u2019t have to start with a lot of capital. Other than that, once you have a loyal customer base, it is easy to grow your business.\nThe worst thing about this opportunity: Since anybody can start an F&B business, F&B businesses are competitive. To win, you need to come up with a unique selling proposition (USP) that will differentiate you from your competition.\n#3 Become a Franchise Owner\nCost: RM10,000 \u2013 150,000\nHow you make money: You buy a franchise license from a franchise owner and make money when you use their brand to sell their products.\nSince you won\u2019t need to spend any time building the brand or coming up with the products, franchising can be one of the fastest ways to start a business.\nThe franchise owner will even train you and your employees on how to run the business so you can just plug and play.\nThe downside is that franchising any business is often expensive. To take part in this opportunity, you will need a significant amount of capital set aside.\nWho this is best for: People with a significant amount of capital set aside and don\u2019t want to spend time building a brand from scratch.\nThe best thing about this opportunity: With the franchise\u2019s proven brand and model, you don\u2019t have to waste time and money building up the brand from scratch. You can start up quickly.\nThe worst thing about this opportunity: The biggest drawback of buying a franchise is that you need a lot of money to get started. Also, though franchise brands have proven models, that does not guarantee you will be successful.\nDiscover franchise opportunities in Malaysia by checking out these posts:\n#4 Set Up Your Own E-commerce Website and Start Selling\nCost: RM2,000 \u2013 RM15,000\nHow you make money: You make money by selling products at a higher price than what you bought them at on your own website.\nWith more and more Malaysians buying online, it is a good time to start an e-commerce business. Unlike when you sell on online marketplaces, with your own website, you can design and market according to what you like and you don\u2019t need to pay the marketplace commissions.\nThe only thing you need to do really well is sourcing the right products and marketing them to your audience.\nYou can even design your own products and sell them.\nSome examples of Malaysian e-commerce businesses that have been quite successful are FitGear and Storming Gravity.\nWho this is best for: People who have experience with online marketing or is willing to spend time to learn online marketing.\nThe best thing about this opportunity: With the right products and marketing, you can make a lot of money without too much overhead. There is also a lot of flexibility with your own e-commerce website. You can make it look the way you want and sell anything you want.\nThe worst thing about this opportunity: You will need to spend money on a good website design or get someone to build it for you. Other than that, it can be difficult at first to identify the right products to sell and who best to market to.\nCheck out my guides on setting up your own store using Shopify to get started:\n#5 Sell on Facebook or Instagram\nCost: RM300 \u2013 RM1,500\nHow you make money: You buy and then sell products on Facebook or Instagram for a profit.\nWho this is best for: People who already have a large following on social media or is willing to spend time building the following.\nEven if you don\u2019t sell products directly to customers, you can also help other people promote their products for a fee.\nThe best thing about this opportunity: You can reach a large, engaged audience at a low cost. Social media can be one of the best converting platforms for selling products.\nThe worst thing about this opportunity: More and more people are working to build a large following on social media which can make this opportunity tougher to make money from in the long term. Other than that, social media algorithms can change to disfavor your business. You will need to be constantly agile and make changes to your business model from time to time.\nYou can learn more about selling on Facebook or Instagram (social commerce) here:\n#6 Sell on Online Marketplaces\nCost: RM100 \u2013 RM10,000\nHow you make money: You make money by listing products on online marketplaces such as Lazada, Shopee, Lelong and 11Street. When somebody buys from your listing, you make a profit.\nSelling on online marketplaces can be one of the lowest cost methods of starting a business. Compared to creating your own e-commerce website, you don\u2019t need to invest money in creating your own website to start selling on an online marketplace.\nAll you need to do is create an account on the marketplace of your choice and you can get started.\nAt most, you will need to invest in some inventory for the products you are selling. But even if you don\u2019t have capital, you can always start by dropshipping first. With drop shipping, you don\u2019t keep inventory.\nWho this is best for: This is a good opportunity for people who want to get started selling physical products but don\u2019t want to invest in their own e-commerce website yet.\nThe best thing about this opportunity: Though you may need to invest some money in ads, you can get started without spending a few thousand RM on an e-commerce website. Even if you don\u2019t have money for inventory, you can use the dropshipping method.\nThe worst thing about this opportunity: Many people selling on online marketplaces. In Malaysia, there is increasing competition not only from local sellers but also from sellers from China, South Korea, and Hong Kong. It takes a lot of time, effort and money to stay competitive.\nHere are some guides to help you get started selling on online marketplaces in Malaysia:\n#7 Make Money with Google AdSense\nHow you make money: You make money with Google AdSense by displaying Google\u2019s ads on your website.\nTo make sustainable income with Google AdSense, you will need a lot of traffic to your website. Normally a traffic of more than 100,000 unique visitors a month will give you a sustainable income with Google AdSense.\nWho this is best for: This is a good business opportunity for people who are good at writing as one of the best ways to get traffic is by creating good content that people find useful.\nThe best thing about this opportunity: Google AdSense can give you passive income.\nThe worst thing about this opportunity: It can take a lot of time and effort to get enough traffic to your site to start making money using AdSense. If you don\u2019t know how to set up your own website or blog, you may need to hire someone to do it for you.\nIf you don\u2019t want to hire someone to build a website for you, here\u2019s a guide on to create a website for under RM400 yourself:\nHow to Create a Website for Less Than RM300 in Malaysia Even if You Don\u2019t Know How to Code [No Coding Skills Required]\n#8 Make Money with Affiliate Marketing\nHow you make money: You get paid a commission when you help someone else sell their products.\nAffiliate marketing can be done through many different kinds of channels. For example, YouTube, blog, Instagram. Basically where you have an audience and you can sell to them, then you can make money with affiliate marketing.\nWho this is best for: This is a good business opportunity for people who are good at marketing and sales using different sales channel and content types.\nThe best thing about this opportunity: You don\u2019t have to spend any resources building products since the product is ready. All you need to do is focus on marketing and sales.\nThe worst thing about this opportunity: Affiliate programs can get shut down without prior notice. If you rely on the affiliate income from just one source, you can lose your income overnight.\nIf you are interested in making money with affiliate marketing, do check out my guide to affiliate marketing:\n#9 Let out Spaces on Airbnb\nHow you make money: You make money when someone books your place on Airbnb.\nDepending on your plans and assets, the cost will greatly differ.\nIf you already have existing property, you can easily Airbnb it out to people and the extra money will be yours. But even so, you will need to invest in some renovation and furniture to make your property appealing.\nIf you don\u2019t have one yet, you will need to add cost for property rental, deposit etc.\nWho this is best for: People who have existing properties and want to make more than rental income. A passion for hospitality and service is a bonus.\nThe best thing about this opportunity: Especially if you have already invested in a property, you can make much more sub-letting it out on Airbnb compared to renting it to people on a monthly or yearly basis.\nThe worst thing about this opportunity: Bad things can happen. With Airbnb, you are letting in complete strangers into your property. If you don\u2019t take precautions like not putting items of high value in your home, you may end up with more losses than gains.\n#10 Sell Freelance Services\nCost: RM0 \u2013 RM1,500\nHow you make money: You get paid by providing a service like writing, editing, programming, translating and so on. The payment will be based on an hourly rate or project based.\nOffering freelance services is one of the cheapest ways to make money since you don\u2019t have to invest in anything.\nUnless you spend money on a website to showcase your portfolio.\nWho this is best for: People who are already good at skills that are sellable.\nThe best thing about this opportunity: The best part of being a freelancer is the flexibility it offers. You are paid according to the work done and based on your check in and check out time. If you make enough, you can even take months off.\nThe worst thing about this opportunity: Unstable. Jobs are not always guaranteed. You need to work hard to stay relevant. Income from month to month is not stable.\nHere are some websites you can sign up and sell your services as a freelancer:\nFavser (Malaysian)\nFreelancing.my (Malaysian)\nUpwork (International)\nThere you have it \u2013 ten business opportunities in Malaysia you can explore. Although this is not the most comprehensive list of business opportunities, I believe these are ones that most people can take part in and make money from.\nFor those with more capital laying around, franchising popular brands can give you good returns if you manage to secure the franchise license of a brand that Malaysians love.\nE-commerce is another area where opportunities are growing. With only a small investment, you can start your own e-commerce store, sell on marketplaces or even social media like Facebook and Instagram.\nBut even if you don\u2019t plan to sell products, you can still sell your skills online through freelance websites in Malaysia and overseas.\nRegardless of which opportunity you decide to take part in, the most important thing is that you take action to test and discover for yourself which opportunity suits you best.\nKnow of any more business opportunities? 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I had been very concerned about jet lag and having to present something so important to me only a few hours after getting off a plane. To my surprise, the moment I stepped up in front of the crowd the Group came in and I felt the familiar energy filling my being. Jet lag cannot compete with that.\nAfter a short break I began the channel from the Group. They had decided not to let me in on what we were going to talk about. Normally I would have been very nervous about not knowing the subject of the channel, but on this occasion I was simply too busy to worry about it.\nThe timing of our trip put us in Vienna during the Kosovo crisis, which was only a few hundred miles from our location. Several people asked for answers about why this was happening. They also wanted information about the role of the refugees. There was a real sadness in the air caused by this situation. The Group seemed very anxious and could not wait for me to start the channel.\nAs we began, a lady in the front row had tears in her eyes from the moment the Group said \u201cGreetings from Home.\u201d She had brought her friend to translate, but shortly after the channel commenced the translator stopped speaking. Afterwards, they both approached me. It turns out that this dear Master Healer did not speak a word of English. With tears in both our eyes she made a gesture of putting her hand over her heart. Her friend, the translator, then told me that she understood every word on a much higher level.\nWe have waited a long time to say that. We have waited a very long time to visit with you. We have waited for you to find each other and re-unite. We thank you for reaching out. We thank you for being who you are. We thank you for stepping into your power and finding the expression of the God within each of you. We are so pleased that you have chosen to walk firmly into plan B and what you are calling Ascension.\nFrom our perspective, we see the turmoil, we see what you consider to be difficult times. We ask you to be very careful where you place your focus, for as you observe difficult times, if you linger too long you create them. There are many events on the Gameboard at this time that do not receive the same attention as the ones that trouble you so. But in order to chase out the dark with the Light one must first shine Light into the darkness. This is now in progress and this is what is being seen in the events unfolding on the Gameboard. Many of you have held the Light in your own various ways. We express a deep gratitude to those who are now playing the role of victim, for they do so in the highest possible manner for the good of all that is. These are contracts they have chosen and agreed to play. These are contracts that were scripted a very long time ago. They are not easy contracts and we honor those fulfilling them.\nThe Nature of Contracts\nWe wish to help you understand the events as they are unfolding on the Gameboard. To do this we will first re-mind you about the nature of contracts. Contracts are agreements that you make before you enter the game. You asked this person to come and play the Mother, and this person to come and play Father, and this person to play the part of Uncle Harry. You ask a beloved brother if he will play the part of your business partner. You then ask him if he will love you enough to play the role of the villain. You ask him if he would love you enough to help you learn the lesson and settle the Karma you have chosen for your experience. From a larger perspective, when these contracts are exercised en masse they can easily pull the pendulum of humanity to one side and create possibilities of advancement for the whole. Even so, these contracts are only potential scripts that you have written for yourself. All contracts are contingent upon acceptance. When you come face to face with the contract you are still on the planet of Free Choice and you have choice about whether you wish to carry out that contract. We tell you that there are many on the planet that have chosen to carry out some very important contracts. Our love is so deep for all of you who have chosen this path. The results reach far beyond what you can see in your third-dimensional existence. The new paradigms you are creating through your own evolutionary advances will show in the Universe for a long time to come. The colors that you will wear from being a player on the Gameboard will place you among the highest and you will wear them with pride. You are of this family and we are honored to be here with you.\nWe are here with information to help you live and move more comfortably into the higher vibrations of the new planet Earth, which you have begun creating. We re-mind you that it is only information that we offer and we offer it with a deep respect towards your own power. We offer it with the deepest of love. We ask you to take only that which resonates within your own heart and leave the rest, for this is at the base of your power. We also tell you a little bit more about the perspective from afar. Many sub-routines are playing out on the Gameboard. You see the difficulties. You see the dark spots as the Light is shined upon them for perhaps the first time. Your technological advances are bringing communication in ways that you have never had before. With the help of these advances, you are able to shine Light that has never been able to be shined before. We know this is difficult for you, as your perspective is limited to the tragedy and suffering that you see. We thank you for walking forward into these contracts. Please understand that you are not alone in your experiences and contracts. The same connection that we have with you also unites you with all other things. Strengthening those connections and strengthening those energy strands will bring balance and opportunities as you move forward into your own advancement.\nWe tell you this evening of the reflection as it looks from the Universal energy. For on the planet of Free Choice you not only have choices about which contracts you wish to complete, but you also have choice as to whether you choose to be in the Universal flow of energy or against it. We tell you that from the higher perspective, there is no judgment about your choices. They are simply choices and all choices are honored. There are no good or bad choices. What we tell you is that either you accomplish what you set out to do, or you do not. If you are not accomplishing the creation of your version of Heaven on Earth and experiencing your own passion, then most likely it is simply a basic misdirection of energy. Energy is simply energy, and there is no good or bad energy. It is possible, however, to misdirect energy and to prevent it from completing the natural cycle. This often results in events that you perceive as difficult. We see them simply as misdirected energy that does not emulate the natural flow of Universal Energy.\nErasing the Imaginary Lines\nThese events happen on an individual basis. They also happen on a community-wide, country-wide and even global basis. You have seen entire countries misdirecting energy. The result is the events you see happening now. We will tell you from our perspective how this process relates to the Universal energy flow. We sincerely hope that this is not too simple for you to grasp. To explain Universal Energy we give you the analogy of the water in your oceans. You may see much of your life on the Gameboard reflected in this water. Observe the movement of the waves as they crash upon the shores and the movement of the tides as they flow in and out. For as the water rises and falls it is balancing the Earth\u2019s rotation. View the rising and falling of these tides as simply an act of balance, for the water is balancing the rotation of the Earth. Much the way the waters rise and fall, and the waves come into the shore and retreat, such is the flow of Universal Energy. On the Gameboard of Free Choice you can either place yourself within that flow and ride those waves comfortably, or you can fight that flow and swim against the waves and the tide. Once again, your choices are honored and there is no judgment about these choices. They simply yield different results. Understanding the process can help you make informed choices.\nOn an individual basis, if energy is directed in accordance with the Universal Energy it will flourish and complete the cycle of creation. If the energy is misdirected, then it will build until it is corrected. If it is not corrected, then it builds and attracts similar energies to form similar misdirections on a community wide basis. If this energy continues to be replicated, it will not be long before it finds expression on a country-wide basis. Similar results will continue occurring and spreading until these misdirections of energy are corrected on an individual basis in significant numbers of people in that country. A full global expression in this manner would result in the destruction of the Earth. This is a conclusion to which you were heading. The misdirections of energy are very basic ones, as energy itself is very basic. The Universal energy is always seeking balance. This is done through blending. Make space for a blending of energies in your co-creations and you will place yourself in the natural flow of Universal Energy. Attempt to segregate or restrict the blending of energies and you will create misdirections of this energy.\n(At this point the Group paused in silence. After a few moments they explained why with the following.)\nSomeone in the room has asked for a healing. We pause in this moment and ask that you also reflect your energies towards this person and allow that to be. (Pause)\nThe Universal flow is predominantly reflected in many of the things that you call nature. Placing yourself within the Universal flow allows you to achieve your balance very quickly. Yet many resist this balance. Much like the waves we have spoken of, if you were to take a drop of dye and place it in the water at the ocean\u2019s edge you might be able to look into the water for a moment and see the color of that dye and enjoy the vibration of that color in its purest sense. And yet, it would not be long before the waves would come crashing in and mix the dye with the rest of the colors in the ocean. From your perspective, the beautiful color is now forever lost to the vastness of the ocean. From a higher perspective, we tell you that the color of the ocean, as viewed from other planets, has a rich vibrant hue. This beauty is only possible because of the many drops that make up the whole. We tell you that this blending is appropriate, for it truly is the Universe seeking balance. Understand that your perspective determines the reality.\nBlending Emulates the Universal Energy\nThe blending of energies is the natural order of the Universe. For this reason, you see that people, governments, organizations and businesses that oppose the blending process are destined to experience misdirections of energy. It is these same misdirections of energy that are causing so much turmoil on your Gameboard at this time. There are leaders on the Gameboard now who are choosing to segregate the dye and to keep it within a confined area. To prevent the colored water from blending is against the natural flow of Universal Energy. In truth, all water is energetically connected to itself, just as all of you are connected with each other. Holding these waters apart is only done at great effort and causes great strife on the Gameboard.\nA part of the Game now in progress is only possible because of the choices made by the players. Even though the scripts have been written the players have a choice as to what roles they will accept. To accomplish this lesson of humanity on a global scale many have chosen to accept the role of victim. We tell you that the colors of honor they will wear for accepting those roles will remain with them forever. They will always be known as the Precursors of the Light. For they are able to shine Light in a fashion that very few can. And for this we are thankful.\nWalking in your power is equivalent to placing yourself within the natural flow and ebb of the Universal current. You are beginning to see glimpses of who you are and how to use this power. You have come here and agreed to play the game behind veils that keep you from knowing your true magnificence and it is difficult to see how powerful you are. We deeply honor you for this. For by going within and clearing the paths to Light within yourselves, you also set the energy on a much larger scale. We ask you to keep in mind that you are making headway. Much progress has been made in the last few months. Although headlines speak of turmoil, please understand that in your field of contrast it is necessary to have dark times to truly see the light. For this is when the greatest Lightwork can be done.\nThe Cutting Edge of Change\nThese opportunities lie at your own doorstep now. You have done well, you have chosen, it is in motion. This family that has reunited this evening has been here many times before. We tell you that in this room many have chosen contracts that have been very difficult. Those at the cutting edge always experience the most friction. And we thank you for taking that role. Your choices in this area have facilitated opportunities to change the paradigm of all that is to come. You see yourselves as citizens of an area, citizens of a community, citizens of a country. We tell you that it will not be long before you view yourselves as citizens of the Grand Planet Earth. Beyond that, there will be a time when you see yourselves as Universal citizens, much the way we see you. Right now, you look to your neighbors and you see the differences between you as cause for war. Yet we tell you that your perspective will change once you see that you are not alone in the Universe. As more is known, as some of your own heritage is starting to be revealed, you will understand more about your own nature. You will truly become citizens of the new planet Earth.\nWhy Global War is Impossible\nThis blending has begun in many ways already. We wish to point to some of these, for we tell you that a global war is not possible. You are simply too intertwined and, in many ways, you would be bombing yourselves. Part of the way that this is reflected on your Gameboard is through your own economic structures, even where you have chosen to combine your economic structures in the form of what you call a \u201ceuro-dollar.\u201d And although there is typical resistance to such changes, we tell you that these are the co-creations that are clearly aligned with the Universal Energy. They encourage blending, they encourage moving from a field of polarity, or segregation, into a field of unity. We have spent much time in our writings telling you to please learn how to center your own energy, for it is important to understand that each one of you is the center of your own universe. It is important that you check your own motivations within yourself and that you use your own discernment as it resonates with your own heart, rather than those around you. These actions, together with learning to speak your truth, are important tools that you will be using more and more. Yet this confuses some of you because you appear to have the notion that this is selfish. Let us illustrate the difference between selfish and self-first. Once you place yourself first in the flow of energy, it is then possible to connect with all other things. Upon connecting to these other things within your field you will achieve balance. You will find that you are all one. Much the way you have defined your territories, your governments, your religions, and your belief systems on the planet, we tell you that these are imaginary lines that do not exist. What really exists is the gradual flow of energy emulating the waves crashing upon the shore. We ask you to open the barriers between these imaginary lines. Allow the energy to flow and seek its own balance.\nStrengthening your connection to all that is allows you to be nurtured by the Universal Energy as it passes through you. This can only be accomplished by placing yourself first in line to receive this flow. This takes courage, for you were taught always to put others first. There is an important distinction that we wish to make here. Placing yourself first in the flow of energy and cutting others off is what you would term selfish. Placing yourself first in the flow of energy and then using that energy to feed others is self-first. You have nothing to give from an empty cup. By placing yourself in the Universal Flow you have much more to give other people because you fill your own cup first. As in all actions on the Gameboard, if you can place yourself in the natural flow of Universal Energy your ride through life will be smooth and effortless. Placing yourself in opposition to this energy will attract resistance to your every move.\nThis applies on more levels than you are aware of. It is in your nature to create sub-routines that materialize as your governments and organizations. These sub-routines are a collection of the overall vibration of the individuals that make up the organization. Seek to direct the purpose of these organizations through your own intent and thereby align that intent with the Universal Flow of Energy. Take responsibility for creating your own environment, and if the environment is not to your liking have the courage to choose again. We know this is difficult. We know the veils are firmly in place. We know that you cannot see who you really are. We ask you to look into each other\u2019s eyes, for this is where you will see us. This is how you will most easily re-member who you are. Have the courage to stand firmly in your truth.\nWe are with you always. You are never alone. You have far more guidance than you can perceive. The power of the eyes that watch your every move is far beyond your understanding. We know there are times ahead when you will experience difficulties. If you find yourself losing balance, please remember to reach out and offer a hand to the one next to you, for in doing so you will be strengthening your connection to All That Is. Do this often.\nBecause of the choices you have made your Game has now moved fully into Plan B. We honor you for these choices and we love you beyond your understanding. For eons to come there will be many who visit the planet to see how the Gameboard of Free Choice came to its highest conclusion. We are honored to have you represent us in this fashion. The seeds that you have planted are good seeds. You have done well. You do not always see the fruit of these seeds, for they rarely make the headlines. But we tell you that none of this would have been possible had you not accepted your contracts to play this Game. If you look around you, you will see the evidence. Globally, your crime rates are decreasing. You have becoming a gentler people. You are moving from a motivation of survival to a motivation of unity. As you move toward that Unity your highest purpose will become apparent. Please do not be discouraged as the steps are right in front of you. Know that we love you and are with you always. We respect your choices and we honor your Game.\nAnd now we will take questions.\nLive Questions for the Group II\nAfter the live channel, the Group loves to answer direct questions. Here are just a few from this seminar:\nHow Long will it Take to Re-member?\nQuestion: How long will it take to find out who we are?\nAnswer: You are beginning to see glimpses of this now. You will begin to understand more of your true heritage in the near future. It is very difficult for us to give you time lines, for you are constantly changing these. Your own advances create the future as a moving target. We will tell you that, as it now stands, you will become more comfortable within the next six months. You will be personally visited by spirit. This visitation will bring many answers to the questions that you have. You have done much to earn them.\nWhen are our Contracts Complete?\nQuestion: How do we know that our contracts are fulfilled?\nAnswer: That is a very good question, for you do not always know that your contracts are fulfilled. Contracts are choices. All contracts are simply contingent choices; contingent upon your choosing to accept them. Sometimes contracts are very simple and consist of only a well-placed word. Sometimes they are a simple pat on the back or an encouraging smile. Sometimes they involve a lifetime of support.\nChanges within your DNA have made you extremely sensitive to Universal Energy. Use that sensitivity to discern if your contracts are complete. If there\u2019s more to do, be about it. Also, have the courage to align your energy with the Universal flow, for when you are centered in this manner your contracts will continue to add to your life. If what you are doing is constantly pulling you out of balance, chances are you are hanging on after that contract has been completed. Imagine yourself as a spinning top that is seeking to find its balance. If the weight of your contracts is evenly distributed then your top will spin smoothly and evenly. Too often you refuse to let go and hang on to your contracts long after they have been fulfilled, causing your top to spin out of control. If you check your balance often it will be your best indicator of when to let go.\nWhat about Kosovo?\nQuestion: With regard to the events currently taking place in Kosovo, you say that they are all playing a game. Does this mean we should just stand by and let the game play out?\nAnswer: No, it does not mean that. Your courage has surfaced because you have chosen to not allow the pendulum to be pulled any further. To stand by and let it play out would be to not play the game at all and let it unfold by default. Your purposeful step is to create your own reality and all actions should reflect that.\nYou are moving very quickly into an environment in which the word \u201cfight\u201d will no longer be used. It will simply no longer be necessary. Yet that is very difficult for you to understand at this point. When you are connected completely to your higher self you will also be connected to each other. When each one of you understands that you are all the same, then it will be easier to act as neighbors and support each other, even allowing for your differences.\nWhen you speak of your contracts, your greatest contract is to center your own energy and learn to create your own reality. In the third-dimensional world there may be times when it is important to speak your truth forcefully. This is part of the pendulum that is in motion. It would not be moving if you allowed it to simply be held to one side. We ask you to create your own reality by choice, rather than by default. Center your energy within yourself, for that is when you make the most effective choices. Fear not of making the wrong choice for that is not possible. Consider all feedback, and keep in mind that if you do not like your reality you may choose again. Did that answer your question?\n\u2013 Yes, thank you for clarifying it for us.\nHow can I follow my Heart\u2019s Desire when I have Bills to Pay?\nb If my true work is my heart\u2019s desire, then how do I do it when I still have to pay my bills?\nAnswer: Difficulties arise quite often in the areas that you call work. Our perspective of what your work is, is probably quite a bit different than yours. For the sake of semantics, let us say that what you term is what you do for a living. Quite often, a healer like yourself will take a job or a career to achieve balance and find expression in other areas. This works well for the most part, unless that job consistently drains your energy. On the Gameboard, you have written the rules by which you play the game. In the higher vibrations, we now ask you to find the courage to rewrite the rules. So many people are finding that they are no longer a match for what they do for a living. And it is not the job that has changed, it is them.\nAs you advance to higher vibrations your work must also advance. If it is possible to change the work you do to fulfill your contracts then you have scripted your roles well. If you find that you are no longer a match for your work you have options. One option is to find balance by finding groups of like vibration and connecting with spiritual families. By balancing in these areas it helps the higher vibrational person to balance and find expression in their hours away from work. If your work is not a match for you it will only be a short time before you must part ways. In the higher vibrations to which you are ascending, your success will be directly proportional to the amount of passion and joy you experience on a daily basis. If your job does not provide for that passion and joy, then you would be wise to change to one that does. Your path will never be found in a job that you tolerate just to pay your bills. Find your passion and go after it fearlessly, for that is when you will be able to find your true path.\nFor now, we ask you to keep your balance as best you can. If what you do for a living is a constant drain on your energy then you have only two choices. You may change your job or it will change you. Most of the time this will show in your own biology revolting, causing illness to tell you that it is time to remove that energy drain and move on. If, however, you are still somewhat of a match, or you are still fed by some parts of your job, there may still be contracts to work through here, in which case balance can be attained in other areas of your life. There may be important things still to be accomplished. Ask that these be shown to you. Know that you are the most important person in that environment and that you must receive compensation, you must receive an opportunity to express the God within you at all times, in all relationships. If you are unable to do so at work, find other places to express this until you can find other places to work.\nBecoming Comfortable with Energy Sensitivity\nQuestion: I have a question regarding Reiki. I\u2019m finding it sometimes difficult to manage my energy from turning on or off at certain times.\nAnswer: The energy movements that you are personally experiencing have to do with your own DNA changing. You are extremely sensitive to energy and are what we call an empathic sensitive. You pick up emotional energy and are sometimes not aware that it is not your own. This condition is commonplace as you move into the vibrational advances, as you move into your next evolutionary step.\nThe next thing that we ask you to keep in mind is that so many of you are in the process of re-membering. There are many master healers in this room. A master healer is simply a person who has mastered the art of healing in this or a previous lifetime. The art of healing itself is about creating space for other people to feel comfortable enough to heal themselves. This is the only type of healing that is available Universally. Your expression of it should not be limited to one modality. The cosmic humor here is that you have created modalities of your own that you have not fully re-membered. Allow yourself to stretch. When your teachers say to place your hands in these locations and run the energy between them, and your heart says \u201cno, it\u2019s going to work better if I move my other hand over here,\u201d allow yourself the freedom to speak your own truth. Allow yourself to find what you know to be true and you will find balance.\nAs a sensitive, we ask you to not be alarmed at the seemingly uncontrolled energy. There are many vibrational areas that are moving all at once. Your own vibrational advances, the advances of the planet, the advances of your own community, all make it difficult for you to tell what is your problem and what is theirs. The challenge that each one faces sometimes gets blurred by the challenges of the others. Be patient with yourself. Ask for guidance. You know within your heart. Follow it. Your heart knows the way. Did we answer your question?\n\u2013 Yes thank you very much, and thank you for being here with us.\nSynchronicity Explained\nQuestion: Will you explain synchronicity?\nAnswer: Synchronicity can be explained on many levels. First, let us say that we often speak of it as a lifestyle to which you are learning to become more accustomed. We have described it as walking down the linear hallway of time. You are moving from a linear hallway to a circular hallway, or a \u2018now\u2019 time frame. Part of this is encouraging a synchronistic lifestyle, because to create the type of lifestyle that has worked for you in the past simply no longer works the way it used to. It is simply no longer being supported. It is you that have changed, it is you that has raised your vibration. A synchronistic life style has to do with following your path, pushing gently at the doors and seeing which ones open, and having the courage to walk past the fears and push on them in the first place. Then, once they open, having the courage to walk in. About the synchronistic lifestyles, the best that we can tell you is that it takes practice. Begin at small, comfortable levels. Begin with small easy things instead of trying to adopt all at once. Resist your human urge to change everything in one blink of an eye. Allow us to work with you.\nThere is one anomaly we wish to speak of, for this will affect many in the room. That is what we have termed as side doors. Quite often, you walk down the hallway and push on the doors and the doors don\u2019t open. After you become discouraged at beating on them for a time, you sometimes move on to find other doors. Pushing against another door, it flies open and you look inside and you say, \u201cthis is not where I\u2019m going, this is not the door that I have chosen for myself.\u201d You think about moving on down the hall and pushing on other doors. We ask you that when the synchronicities line up, take these as a sign from your higher self. When you open a door to a room, and say, \u201cthis is not where I\u2019m going,\u201d at least have the courage to step into it, for as you take the singular step into the room you will often look to your right or your left and see doors that lead into other rooms that you would not have been able to see had you not had the courage to take that first step through the door.\nWe often talk about co-incidence and synchronicity as one. When you set about a co-creation, ask spirit to bring you the highest and best, ask spirit to put you in your contract, and then release spirit to work in your life. This is what we call co-creation, for you are working together with spirit to create your environment and your version of heaven on Earth. Once your co-creation is released, spirit then begins to line things up for you. Spirit moves this person over here, they line up this job, these opportunities. They reach a hand into your three- dimensional world and move things around. This quite often appears to you as coincidence. Please keep in mind that there are no coincidences. Synchronicity is a way for your higher self to speak to you directly in your daily life. Have we answered your question?\n\u2013 Yes, and thank you so much for validating my thoughts.\n[/fusion_builder_column][fusion_builder_column type=\u201d1_1\u2033 background_position=\u201dleft top\u201d background_color=\u201d\u201d border_size=\u201d\u201d border_color=\u201d\u201d border_style=\u201dsolid\u201d spacing=\u201dyes\u201d background_image=\u201d\u201d background_repeat=\u201dno-repeat\u201d padding=\u201d\u201d margin_top=\u201d0px\u201d margin_bottom=\u201d0px\u201d class=\u201d\u201d id=\u201d\u201d animation_type=\u201d\u201d animation_speed=\u201d0.3\u2033 animation_direction=\u201dleft\u201d hide_on_mobile=\u201dno\u201d center_content=\u201dno\u201d min_height=\u201dnone\u201d][This next question was asked by a scientist from the Atomic Energy Agency. Most of us in the room did not understand either the question or the answer on a conscious level, but I include it here because the Group feels there are several who will. The illustration referred to can be found in chapter 7 on Co-Creation.]\nQuestion: If you take the illustration of God that you have just shown us, and extrude it three- dimensionally, can you then explain the relation of synchronicity to the three dimensional representation of the illustration?\nAnswer: There is no direct answer to your question as it is not as complicated as your question would make it seem. Understand that you are more than can be contained within your bubble of biology. The remainder is what we call your higher self, and synchronicity is simply the means by which this higher self now speaks to you. We can explain it in terms that you will understand, and yet to do so would not be for the highest good. The easiest way to explain this is to reiterate that, by adopting a synchronistic life style and leaving room for spirit to work in your life, you will most easily create your highest good. That is the way it is. You are honored, we do not mean to demean you in any way, for the scientists are very important. We will say that there are some very basic misunderstandings at the base of your question. To answer the question, let us simply say that there is order in what you call chaos. Soon, the architects of the energy, whom you have called aliens, will be returning to visit this planet. They will have a very important role to play in redesigning the energy to support the higher vibrations on the Gameboard. You will understand our answer more fully as this unfolds.\nScientist: Does that mean that the illustration that you have put on the board does not equate to three dimensions?\nAnswer: That is correct. The illustration is a simple one, and yet, even this is more complicated than the concept it represents. Understand this, for us to reach into your vibration, we must produce something that is easily understood by your minds. However, in order to accomplish this we must complexify the concept enough for you to understand. It is not possible for us to draw in three dimensions on a pad. Please keep in mind also that there are many more than three of what you call dimensions.\nWhat about the Fourth Dimension?\nQuestion: Can you give some information on the fourth dimension?\nAnswer: It is easier for us to explain the fifth dimension to you than it is to explain the fourth. This is because the fourth dimension is not clearly definable in your reality. Let us explain it in this fashion. The third dimension, in which you currently reside, is a resting place wherein you play your Game. The fourth dimension is a place to travel through; It is an interim between the third and the fifth. The sixth and eighth dimensions have similar attributes. These are the dimensional levels that allow you to move from one to another. As you travel through these, they imbue you with impressions, or attributes, which you carry forward into the next resting dimension. Beyond the eighth dimension this pattern changes.\nMuch the way it would be very difficult to teach a high school class in kindergarten, so too is it very difficult for us to use terms that would be easily understood. Let us explain it in this fashion. Your senses are beginning to attune to other dimensions. Your eyes, ears, nose, mouth, and your sense of touch are the manner in which you interact with the third-dimension. You are starting to assimilate energy in ways that you never have before. This growth is now happening at an exponential rate right at this moment. These changes are causing some stress within your emotional bodies. Part of what is happening is that you are beginning to understand and see beyond the ranges of vibration that you have previously been able to perceive. So, much like a dog would be able to smell things that you would not be able to smell and see things in ranges of vibration that you would not be able to see, your own senses also are beginning to expand.\nAs you accept this, you will be able very clearly to see the fourth-dimension as a place to simply travel through. The illustration that we have used prior is that of the bridge. The fourth dimension is a bridge that you are building with your own vibrations between the third and the fifth dimensions. The interesting part is that there are some that will be skipping ahead. There are many that are coming to the planet very soon that will be working in multiple dimensions at one time. Although this is possible, there are very few that are doing this at this time. The children of crystal vibration will be bringing the seeds of a new humanity that will make it possible to walk every step. For even now, you often walk in the first dimension, totally unaware that there are tools in that first dimension that you can be using to affect your third. Please be patient with yourselves, and we ask you not to reach too far for the answers, for they are closer than you think. They are simpler than you think. Allow them to find you naturally and experience them, and do not be afraid to reach out and explore those other dimensions. The rules of your game will appear differently in each one, yet you will adapt very quickly. Did that answer your question?\n\u2013 Yes, and I wish to thank you all for this talk, it has answered a lot of questions for me.\nSpeeding up the Process of Re-membering\nQuestion: What can we do to speed up the process of taking our power and re-membering?\nAnswer: The best way to speed up the process of re-membering is to reach out and connect with spiritual family. Connect with others of like vibration. Look through their eyes. Experience who they are, and re-member parts of yourself. In doing so, they will reflect ways that will help you to re-member and accept your own heritage. The ego has been an important part of the biological process. As the Earth cooled you had to take on denser bodies so that you were able to interact with the Mother as she gained density. At that point, it was necessary to incorporate the ego as a survival mechanism. You are now at the point of releasing the need for the ego. And although you are certainly not there yet, you are moving in that direction for the first time. As the ego releases more, you will be seeing more, you will be seeing more of yourself. If we were to show you exactly who you are, and what you had done in previous times to set up these contracts, and how many lives you had moved towards the Light, your ego would not let you accept that information. We are working in an area where the ego is beginning to release. It is difficult for you to accept your own magnificence, yet if you will look through the eyes of your spiritual family you will have no choice, for the truth can easily be found there. And as you look through the eyes of your spiritual family you will see your magnificence, not as a singular event within you, but as part of the whole and part of the connection that connects all. So for now, seek them out. Find groups of like vibration and similar beliefs and discuss and interact. Stay with these people and reach out to them. In this fashion you will clear your own emotional restrictions to carry more light through your own biology. This is what we call Lightwork.\nWe honor your process on the Gameboard. You have no idea what it looks like from our perspective. If you could only see yourself for a moment as we see you, you would never again doubt yourself. You would move into joy and stay there. You would move fully into your own passion and enjoy every moment of the Game. We tell you that this passion is the same passion that we experience all the time on this side of the veil. When you find your passion and allow it to be a part of daily existence, you are, in fact, creating Home on your side of the veil. When you create Home on your side of the veil, like vibrations attract and the separation between the worlds diminishes.\nInteraction is beginning to be possible in more ways than you have ever thought. Stretch your limits. Find your power. Open your own channels. Ask, and it shall be given. Speak your truth. There are times when we do not know how you stand it. We see the dichotomies that you face on a daily basis, the things that you have to view, the atrocities that you have to endure. Yet we tell you that it is only possible to move energy from this position and you are loved beyond your imagination for having the courage to walk within these bubbles of biology. 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Congratulations For ETU Passing The Application Of National High Technology Expertise", + "raw_content": "After the three \"utility model patents\", ETU-Link once again ushered in a major good news!\nOn October 16, 2018, ETU-Link Technology co., LTD., passed the national High Technology Expertise organized by Shenzhen Science and Technology Innovation Committee, Shenzhen Finance Committee, Shenzhen Municipal State Taxation Bureau and Shenzhen Local Taxation Bureau, and won the title of \u201cHigh Technology Expertise\u201d and officially entered the ranks of national high-tech enterprises.\nCan check on this link, we are at No. 1456.\nhttp://www.innocom.gov.cn/gxjsqyrdw/2018s/201810/c8d9a2eecbd84cc398036459356a4483/files/d3780b6844154de9804b250d1135fc31.pdf\nWinning the National High Technology Expertise Certificate is the proof of our strong market competitiveness. At the same time, it fully demonstrates that the relevant departments of the state highly affirm the scientific and technological innovation achievements of ETU-Link. It also becomes an important symbol of our technical level and product technical content.\nHigh-tech enterprises refer to those who engage in research and development, production and marketing, consulting services and other activities in the field of high-tech, with strong technological innovation ability and certain forms of intellectual property rights, are important carriers for the development of high-tech and industrialization, and are the leading force for the rapid and stable growth of the national economy. Won the title of national High Technology Expertise is a milestone in the progress of technology level and product technology content for ETU-Link.\nWith the rapid development of the company, the company's technology research and development and independent innovation work has never stopped. 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As an homage to Eugene Ballet's 40 years of dance, Suzanne Haag will present on all new vision of this iconic ballet. Life will be raised from the ashes to the power of Igor Stravinsky's score in this futuristic retelling of the the classic Russian fairytale.", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00240.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 1362, + "original_length": 25824, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.91, + "perplexity": 234.1, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2009-05/eaft-svp050709.php", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T04:46:32Z", + "digest": "sha1:E4MZVADGC6PRY42AX427FUL6QII6OX36", + "length": 5724, + "nlines": 19, + "source_domain": "www.eurekalert.org", + "title": "Study: Vibration plate machines may aid weight loss and trim abdominal fat | EurekAlert! 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It looks like these machines could be a useful addition to a weight control package,\" said the study's leader, Dirk Vissers, a physiotherapist at the Artesis University College and the University of Antwerp in Belgium.\nVissers and his colleagues studied the effects of the Power Plate in 61 overweight or obese people - mostly women - for a year. The intervention lasted six months, after which the scientists advised all the volunteers to do the best they could with a healthy diet and exercise regime on their own for another six months. Body measurements, including CT scans of abdominal fat, were taken at the beginning of the study and after three, six and 12 months.\nThe researchers divided the volunteers into four groups. One group was prescribed an individually calculated calorie restricted diet. Dietician visits were scheduled every fortnight for the first three months and every month for the second three months. The dieters were asked not to engage in any exercise for the duration of the six-month intervention.\nA second group received the same diet intervention, with the addition of a conventional fitness regime. They attended supervised exercise classes twice a week for an hour and were urged to exercise on their own a third time each week. The sessions included group cycling, swimming, running, step aerobics and some general muscle strengthening exercises.\nA third group got the diet intervention plus supervised vibration plate training instead of conventional exercise. They were asked not to do any aerobic exercise during the six-month intervention phase. The physiotherapists gradually increased the speed and intensity of the machine each week, as well as the variety and duration of the exercises from 30 seconds for each of 10 exercises to 60 seconds for each of 22 exercises, such as squats, lunges, calf raises, push-ups and abdominal crunches. The average time spent on the machine was 11.9 minutes per session in the first three months and 14.2 minutes in the second three months.\nA fourth group got no intervention. There were no significant differences between the groups in obesity and abdominal, or visceral, fat at the start of the study.\n\"Over the year, only the conventional fitness and vibration groups managed to maintain a 5% weight loss, which is what is considered enough to improve health,\" Vissers said.\nDuring the first six months, the diet only group lost about 6% of their initial body weight, but could not maintain a 5% weight loss in the subsequent six months. The group that got diet plus conventional fitness lost about 7% of their initial body weight in the first six months, but they didn't put much of it back on and by the end of the study, they had managed to keep off a 6.9% loss. The vibration group lost 11% of their body weight during the intervention phase and by the end of the follow-up period they had maintained a 10.5% loss. The control group gained about 1.5% of their original body weight.\nThe vibration group lost 47.8 square centimetres of visceral fat during the first six months and still had a loss of 47.7 square centimetres at 12 months. Visceral fat shrank by 17.6 square centimetres in the conventional fitness group in the first six months, but by the end of the year, it was only 1.6 square centimetres less than at the beginning. The diet group had a visceral fat loss of 24.3 square centimetres after six months and 7.5 square centimetres after a year.\n\"These are very encouraging results, but it doesn't mean people trying to lose weight can ditch aerobic exercise and jump on the vibration plate instead. They still need a healthy diet and aerobic exercise, but this could be a viable alternative to weight lifting,\" Vissers said, explaining that the plate works by making muscles rapidly contract, which builds lean muscle mass.\n\"People say vibration machines are fitness for lazy people. It may feel like a short cut, but if it's easy, you are not doing it properly,\" he added. \"Supervision in the beginning is imperative and the longer the better. What we see in gyms very often - people just standing on the machine holding the handles - is not going to do anything.\"\nVissers said further research on a larger group of obese patients is needed to confirm how beneficial the machines are. His team is also planning to study why vibration seems to be more effective than aerobic exercise in trimming visceral fat, including whether increased blood flow to the abdomen and hormonal response to vibration might play a role in more efficient fat breakdown. His study was funded by the Artesis University College of Antwerp.\nReference no: T1:RS3.4, oral presentation, Elicium 1, 15.00 hrs CET Friday 8 May\nrosswrite@mac.com\nhttp://www.easo.org\nEuropean Congress on Obesity 2009", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00240.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 192, + "original_length": 9940, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.97, + "perplexity": 294.4, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "https://www.europan-europe.eu/en/exchanges/FROM-BACKYARDS-TO-COURTYARDS", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T03:34:44Z", + "digest": "sha1:UF46TCFUGDGDGQY6ACJVX25RLMSH737A", + "length": 4646, + "nlines": 17, + "source_domain": "www.europan-europe.eu", + "title": "Europan-Europe Exchanges", + "raw_content": "Sep 2018 FROM BACKYARDS TO COURTYARDS Narvik (NO) - Special Mention\nTeam Representative: M\u00e1rton T\u00f6vissi (RO) \u2013 architect\nAssociates: Mihai Buse (FR), Em\u0151ke Forr\u00f3 (RO), Boris Girin (FR) \u2013 architects; Elinor Scarth (GB), Etienne Haller (FR) \u2013 landscape architects\n8/b/9 strada Cintarului, 530150 Miercurea Ciuc (RO)\n+40 74 25 12 346 - info@a-platz.com - a-platz.com\nM T\u00f6vissi, E. Forr\u00f3 , M. Buse, B. Girin, E. Haller & E. Scarth\nBased between Edinburgh (Scotland), Paris (France) and Miercurea Ciuc (Romania), our collective is made of various profiles showing different interests and sensibilities about the question of the urban fabric. At the same time, we consider new urban forms through a set of common values that reemerge on all our propositions. The collective formed by A-Platz Architecture, MEMO Architecture and INLANDSIS Landscape Architects is activated on specific occasions from research projects to architectural competitions. Our team was noticed on different international competitions including the Blueprint Competition (2016) about the transformation of the Genoa Port Area. Our proposal has been awarded a first prize ex aequo and still remains a key project in the larger reflexion we try to develop about the essence of the city. Our collective is structured by different members acting with complete autonomy and perpetually sharing with others to rise new perspectives and solutions, to take initiatives in a non-hierarchical, dynamic and flexible manner.\nThe site of the future 'Technical Quarter' in Narvik suffers from a lack of a clear urban definition, we detect a backyard effect despite its central position within the town. This is symptomatic of an urban fabric situated close to intrusive infrastructures such as the highway and the railway. Apparently characterized by spontaneous successive development, the site appears to have developed organically and constitutes an urban fragment of its own. A mix of different architectural type buildings were erected on the site, and despite the obsolete image of some of them, they have tectonic qualities and they are starting to define a valuable three square-courtyard morphology, a possible stage in a further evolution. In the context of a relatively small city with limited means, we propose punctual interventions on existing buildings to improve instead of removing them. At the same time, we propose additional buildings completing the existing sites configuration. Through this pragmatic approach we see a realistic way to turn the site in a short period of time to an effective place of production in the city. We understand different expectations about the program and propose to affect each part of it to the different buildings of the site according to their intrinsic qualities.\nView from the Main Public Courtyard\nspace to Fagemesfjeller Mountain\nView of the Bromsgards Park to the\nWe used the courtyards as tools to turn outdoor spaces into a new spot completely dedicated to production in the city. The three newly defined courtyards work together as a link between both immediate and large-scale context. Between existing streets network and the sites buildings, the courtyards play an important role of reconnection and make possible the opening of the site on a larger urban surrounding. Connected to the buildings, the courtyards are not only public spaces but also direct extension of indoor spaces where an infinity of production processes can be invented. At a larger scale we used courtyards to frame the landscape and reveal what makes Narvik's identity.\nWe often use analogous references supported by theoretical ones, but here the main inspiration was the site itself and its surroundings. The morphology of the Piazza San Marco in Venice and a drawing by Hans Kollhoff for 'Collage city' of Colin Rowe helped us formalizing and theorizing our approach. The analyses of Aldo Rossi in 'The Architecture of the city' influenced us as well.\nMorphology of Piazza San Marco, Venice (IT)\nThe Architecture of the City, Aldo Rossi\nWe are very sensitive to clear and responsible choices in the conception process leading to an architectural solution that is buildable. We try as soon as possible to be pragmatic and efficient in our choices during the entire phase of conception. The project seeks to reveal the potential of the site with minimal means in an attempt to create a situation in which all the actors involved could collaborate, and share the same vision of the project.\nThis is the second time that we are awarded at Europan. 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I don\u2019t understand it. Can you explain?\nA: Pentecost is a church holiday that comes after Easter. It recognizes the moment when the Holy Spirit was released on the earth. Many Christ followers, including myself, feel that Pentecost marks a moment in human history equally as important as the birth of Christ, the Crucifixion and the Resurrection. This is because it is the culmination of those earth-changing events. Let\u2019s start at the beginning:\nJesus Christ was crucified in Jerusalem around 2,000 years ago. The religious people and the Roman government were threatened by him because he demonstrated the power of God by working miracles and destroying every demonic kingdom he encountered. Ultra-religious people were in control of the Jewish world at that time and wanted to keep it that way. But Jesus was setting people free of their religious shackles, ailments and sins, so the power-mongers decided to kill him. Over time, our Savior allowed himself to be captured, tortured and crucified, even though he was God\u2019s son and could\u2019ve easily avoided his fate. He took our punishment and became the ultimate sacrifice for all humanity. Jesus\u2019 death saved us from hell. Then, because he was God, he came back to life and walked around for 40 days, showing himself to over 500 people and confirming the miracle of resurrection (1 Corinthians 15:6.) Finally, in the presence of many witnesses, he lifted off the earth and ascended up through the clouds and into heaven where he now prays for every human being night and day. But before Jesus left, he instructed his followers to gather in Jerusalem and wait for a special gift from him.\nThat gift was the Holy Spirit. The Spirit fell upon the group 50 days after Jesus\u2019 resurrection, hence the name \u201cPentecost\u201d which means \u201cfifty.\u201d The Holy Spirit arrived in the form of what the Bible calls \u201ctongues of fire\u201d (Acts 2:3.) These flames were seen by witnesses, flickering off of the heads of 120 people who had gathered to wait and pray as Jesus had instructed. Three-thousand street people, milling around outside the building, heard a loud noise and were drawn to that strange event as well. They encountered a supernatural phenomenon as they watched those flaming believers speaking in languages which were unknown to them before that moment. Through the Holy Spirit\u2019s gift of tongues they proclaimed Jesus as the Savior of the world. All 3,000 people who encountered the fiery believers became followers of Christ that day as they heard the gospel story in their native language for the first time.\nWhen the Holy Spirit showed up, he came bearing gifts of his own. The Bible tells us that there are nine specific, spiritual gifts made available to all mankind \u2014 gifts to help us experience the miraculous side of God. Anyone and everyone can ask for these gifts. And when they are given to you they are permanently yours (Romans 11:29.) The new believers in Jerusalem at Pentecost began ministering with these new spiritual abilities as soon as they arrived that day during Pentecost. The world was forever changed.\nHere\u2019s the list of the Holy Spirit\u2019s gifts available to every believer according to 1 Corinthians 12:4-11:\n1) Word of Wisdom, 2) Word of Knowledge, 3) Faith, 4) Healing, 5) Effecting of Miracles, 6) Prophecy, 7) Distinguishing Spirits, 8) Tongues and 9) Interpretation of Tongues.\nI could write endless books on what these gifts are and what they do \u2014 indeed, libraries are full of them. They are not spiritual weirdness, nor are they forced upon us by God without our ability to control them, as some fearful religious people have ignorantly suggested. Anyone who asks for the gifts of the Holy Spirit may receive them. A carpenter\u2019s son in the natural, Jesus left us the supernatural ability to continue building his kingdom on earth: by sending the Holy Spirit on Pentecost.\nAdrienne Greene pastors the Rockdale United Methodist Church near Harrison, OH. Do you have a question or comment for Pastor Adrienne? Please send your inquiries to: heavenchasepub@gmail.com or write to P.O. 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The surf coming in turns into quite large waves, maybe 6-8 feet, which is significant for any surf spot.\nHowever, that's just the beginning of the wave, and it often grows to 12 to 15 feet. That's when you'll need a jetski to tow you out far enough to catch the waves. 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For anyone who has been following this issue, there is nothing really new or groundbreaking with this article. It is, rather, a basic summarization of the work of John Sorenson, Ugo Perego, Michael Whiting, Matthew Roper, John Butler, and other scholars who have written on this subject.\n2. The article explicitly acknowledges the existence of non-Book of Mormon populations in the Americas.\nThe evidence assembled to date suggests that the majority of Native Americans carry largely Asian DNA. Scientists theorize that in an era that predated Book of Mormon accounts, a relatively small group of people migrated from northeast Asia to the Americas by way of a land bridge that connected Siberia to Alaska. These people, scientists say, spread rapidly to fill North and South America and were likely the primary ancestors of modern American Indians. (Internal citations removed)\nThe article also acknowledges the possibility of the presence of \u201cothers\u201d besides the peoples described in the Book of Mormon.\nThe Book of Mormon itself . . . does not claim that the peoples it describes were either the predominant or the exclusive inhabitants of the lands they occupied. In fact, cultural and demographic clues in its text hint at the presence of other groups. . . . Joseph Smith appears to have been open to the idea of migrations other than those described in the Book of Mormon, and many Latter-day Saint leaders and scholars over the past century have found the Book of Mormon account to be fully consistent with the presence of other established populations. (Internal citations removed)\nThis, incidentally, converges with one of the changes that the Church made to the introduction of the 2013 edition of the Book of Mormon. Whereas the introduction use to identify the Lamanites as the \u201cprinciple ancestors\u201d of modern Native Americans, it now reads that the Lamanites are \u201camong the ancestors of the American Indians.\u201d\nGiven this recent trend, it seems evident that the Church is very much open to the possibility of a so-called \u201cLimited Geography\u201d for the setting of the Book of Mormon, although one must be careful not to assume the Church takes any official position on any single proposed geography.\n3. The article approvingly cites the work of scholars and apologists associated with what was formerly known as the Foundation for Ancient Research and Mormon Studies (FARMS). This includes a volume edited by Daniel C. Peterson, former editor of the FARMS Review (now the Mormon Studies Review) and a prominent Mormon apologist. This should be clear indication that, contrary to the recently claims of some, the Church has not backed away from what is sometimes derisively called \u201cclassic FARMS\u201d apologetics. To the contrary, the Church has appealed to \u201cclassic FARMS\u201d scholarship in its own apologetic for the Book of Mormon.\n4. The article urges caution in attempting to use DNA evidence to bolster the historical authenticity of the Book of Mormon. \u201cMuch as critics and defenders of the Book of Mormon would like to use DNA studies to support their views, the evidence is simply inconclusive\u201d (emphasis added). Misguided attempts by Latter-day Saints to use DNA to \u201cprove\u201d that the Book of Mormon is true should be very carefully reconsidered.\nFinally, it can be reasonably inferred from this article that the Church is not backing away from Book of Mormon historicity. In fact, just the opposite appears to be the case. The Church is attempting, with this article, to demonstrate the plausibility of the historicity of the Book of Mormon in the face of criticism. I would therefore recommend this article to anyone who thinks that the Church is bowing to its critics or otherwise loosening its stance on the Book of Mormon\u2019s historicity.\nI would also recommend this article to anyone who is troubled by any arguments that attempt to use DNA evidence to disprove the Book of Mormon. One can also find more resources on issues relating to DNA and the Book of Mormon by accessing the FairMormon Answers website (link here).\nFiled Under: Apologetics, Book of Mormon, DNA, Geography\nAs stated in the artiocle, the points presented are not new to those in the apologetics arena. As with other areas of controversy, the Church is clarifying, as much to its members, as to the public, its official stance, this in the light of modern scholarship. 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Lohr, 78, passed away peacefully in her sleep surrounded by her loving family on Thursday, November 29th, 2018 after a long fight with lung cancer. Born on July 3rd, 1940 in Englewood, NJ, she was the daughter of Arthur Sr. and Margaret Lamme and the wife of David E. Lohr. Joan worked as a real estate broker for over 20 years, and afterwards worked in the retail industry at companies such as Wal-Mart, Walgreens and most recently Dollar Tree. She was a member of the Order of the Eastern Star in New Jersey where she held the position of Worthy Matron.\nRaised in Palisades Park, New Jersey and a graduate of Leonia High School. She met her love on a blind date on New Years Eve. She often bragged about marrying her sailor to travel the world only to stay in Virginia Beach almost their entire lives and making deep roots. Dave did take her on a trip to get her passport stamped just to run into neighbors was one of her many stories she loved to tell.\nJoan was known by everyone as a kind and giving woman. She had a big heart and loved everyone. Everyone she met was a friend, and all her friends became family to her. She loved playing bingo and could be found playing at the Centerville bingo hall. Joan was also fond of cooking for her grandchildren and each one had a certain dish that they loved for her to make. Her greatest joy in life was her grandchildren. Her greatest accomplishments, however, were being a wife, mother, grandmother, and ombudsman.\nShe is survived by: her loving husband of 54 years, David Lohr; sons, Jefferey Lohr and Michael Lohr; daughter, Susan McFarland; favorite son-in-law, Michael McFarland; brother, Arthur Lamme, Jr.; sister, Linda Lamme; sisters-in-law: Gail VanWart, Ruth Perry and Sharon Howard; her 4 grandchildren: Tyler Lohr, Jacob McFarland, Joshua McFarland, and Joseph McFarland, as well as several nieces and nephews that she loved as if they were her own.\nShe was preceded in death by her beloved mother, her father, and brothers-in-law James Perry and James Lohr.\nA memorial service will be held on Saturday, January 12, 2019 at 11:00 am at the Christian Embassy located at 1208 N. Centerville Turnpike, Chesapeake, Virginia 23320.\nTo send flowers to the family of Joan M. Lohr, please visit our Heartfelt Sympathies Store.\n1208 N. 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If a trucking company suffers a loss of cargo during transport, it can cost that company dearly or even put it out of business. That is why it is of ultimate importance to make sure that the cargo entrusted to you is properly insured. In my experience, the three most common causes of cargo loss during transport are collision, theft and spoilage. The insurance which covers cargo during transport is typically called an inland marine policy. Inland marine insurance policies can vary greatly in both what they cover and what they do not cover. This is why it is so important that you not only obtain an inland marine policy, but that you also make sure the policy is appropriate for your business and will cover you before you undertake a duty to make sure someone's cargo gets to its destination safely, so that, if something does go wrong, you will be covered.\nWhen obtaining coverage to indemnify you for cargo loss, it is absolutely crucial to ensure the application is filled out properly. If the application is incorrect, even if just an apparently minor mistake on your part or on the part of the agent, the error can cause your coverage to be voided or your claim to be excluded from coverage. Many applications for inland marine policies require a description of the type or kind of cargo you intend to transport. To protect yourself, make sure you include each and every type and kind of cargo you might be transporting. Your policy may cover only what you include. For example, if you represented in your insurance application that the only cargo you move is fresh produce, and your reefer engine fails while you are carrying a load of ice cream, your insurance company may deny the claim and refuse to pay for the spoiled ice cream. If, during the policy period, you have an opportunity to carry something new, it is important that you contact your agent and get written assurance that you are covered for the new type of cargo. 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Class Action Settlement", + "raw_content": "ELAYNE FIGUEROA v BAYCARE HEALTH SYSTEM, INC. Class Action Settlement\nCase No. 8:17-cv-01780-JSM-AEP in the UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT for the MIDDLE DISTRICT OF FLORIDA \u2013 TAMPA DIVISION\nCase Home Important Court Documents Key Dates\nNOTICE OF PROPOSED CLASS ACTION SETTLEMENT AND HEARING\nThis notice relates to a proposed settlement in a class action lawsuit which alleges that Defendant BAYCARE HEALTH SYSTEM, INC. (\u201cDefendant\u201d or \u201cBayCare\u201d) violated the Fair Credit Reporting Act (\u201cFCRA\u201d). Plaintiff ELAYNE FIGUEROA (\u201cPlaintiff\u201d) alleged that Defendant violated the FCRA by inserting extraneous information into forms purporting to grant Defendant authority to obtain and use consumer report information in background checks it performed for employment purposes. Defendant denies that it violated the law in any way whatsoever. Defendant has at all times maintained that its Consumer Disclosure and Authorization forms comply with the FCRA. Specifically, the Disclosure Regarding Background Investigation form provided to the Plaintiff and Settlement Class Members complied with the FCRA\u2019s disclosure mandate, and by executing the Authorization of Background Investigation form the Plaintiff and Settlement Class Members expressly provided Defendant the requisite written FCRA authorization to have HireRight, Inc. procure a consumer report for employment purposes. The two sides disagree as to whether Defendant\u2019s conduct was permitted under the FCRA, whether Defendant would be liable under the FCRA with respect to that conduct and, if so, the extent of any such liability. The parties have, however, agreed to resolve the lawsuit through a Court-supervised settlement.\nThe proposed settlement class includes: \u201cAll BayCare employees and job applicants who applied for or worked in a position at BayCare in the United States and who were the subject of a consumer report that was procured by BayCare within two years of the filing of this complaint through the date of final judgment as to whom BayCare used the \u201cConsumer Disclosure and Authorization form,\u201d \u201cAuthorization of Background Investigation,\u201d provided by HireRight, Inc., to satisfy its stand-alone disclosure requirements under the FCRA.\u201d.\nYou are receiving this notice because Defendant\u2019s records indicate that you may be eligible to receive benefits from this class action settlement.\nDo Nothing If you do nothing and the Court approves this settlement, you will receive a settlement payment. You will not be able to sue Defendant for the same issues as in this lawsuit again.\nAsk to be Excluded by\nIf you do not want to be included in the case and the settlement, you must exclude yourself. This is called \u201copting out.\u201d This is the only option that allows you to sue Defendant for these same issues again.\nObject by\nOctober 15, 2018 You may write to the Court about why you don\u2019t like the settlement. You cannot object if you opt out.\nGo to a Hearing on November 14, 2018 Ask to speak in Court about the fairness of the settlement.\nYour rights and options \u2013 and the deadlines to exercise them \u2013 are explained in this Notice; The Court still has to decide whether to approve this settlement, which may take some time.\nThis notice has been sent for the benefit of potential members of the following Settlement Class:\nAll BayCare employees and job applicants who applied for or worked in a position at BayCare in the United States and who were the subject of a consumer report that was procured by BayCare within two years of the filing of this complaint through the date of final judgment as to whom BayCare used the \u201cConsumer Disclosure and Authorization form,\u201d \u201cAuthorization of Background Investigation,\u201d provided by HireRight, Inc., to satisfy its stand-alone disclosure requirements under the FCRA.\nComposition of the Settlement Class is based upon Defendant\u2019s records. This Notice has been sent because members of the Settlement Class have a right to know about a proposed settlement of a class action lawsuit in which they are class members, and about all of their options, before the Court decides whether to approve the settlement. If the Court approves the settlement, and after objections or appeals relating to that settlement are resolved, the benefits provided for by the settlement will be available to members of the Settlement Class.\nThis Notice explains the lawsuit, the settlement, your legal rights, what benefits are available, who is eligible for them, and how to get them. A full copy of the Settlement Agreement is available to Class Members upon written request to Claims Administrator at Figueroa v BayCare Health System Inc., PO Box 23648, Jacksonville, Florida 32241-3648. This Notice contains only a summary of the Settlement Agreement.\nThe Court in charge of this case is the United States District Court for the Middle District of Florida, Tampa Division, and the case is known as Figueroa v. BayCare Health System, Inc., 8:17-cv-01780-JSM-AEP. The person who filed this lawsuit, ELAYNE FIGUEROA, is called the Plaintiff, and BAYCARE HEALTH SYSTEM, INC. is the Defendant.\nPlaintiff alleges that Defendant\u2019s pre-employment Consumer Disclosure and Authorization Forms, and Defendant\u2019s alleged procurement of consumer reports on the basis of those forms, violates the Fair Credit Reporting Act (\u201cFCRA\u201d). Based on this allegation, Plaintiff seeks statutory damages.\nDefendant disputes the Plaintiff\u2019s allegations and denies all liability to Plaintiff and the Settlement Class. In the lawsuit, Defendant has denied Plaintiff\u2019s allegations and has raised a number of defenses to the claims asserted. Defendant has at all times maintained that its Consumer Disclosure and Authorization forms comply with the FCRA. Specifically, the Disclosure Regarding Background Investigation form provided to the Plaintiff and Settlement Class Members complied with the FCRA\u2019s disclosure mandate, and by executing the Authorization of Background Investigation form the Plaintiff and Settlement Class Members expressly provided Defendant the requisite written FCRA authorization to have HireRight, Inc. procure a consumer report for employment purposes. No court has found Defendant violated the law in any way. No Court has found that the Plaintiff could recover any certain amount in this litigation. Although the Court has authorized Notice to be given of the proposed Settlement, this Notice does not express the opinion of the Court on the merits of the claims or defenses asserted by either side in the lawsuit.\nWhy is this case a class action?\nClass actions are lawsuits in which the claims and rights of many people are decided in a single proceeding. In a class action, Representative Plaintiffs (\u201cClass Representatives\u201d) seek to assert claims on behalf of all members of a class or Class of similarly situated people. In a class action, people with similar claims are treated alike. The court is guardian of the class\u2019s interests and supervises the prosecution of the class claims by Counsel for the Settlement Class to assure that the representation is adequate. Class members are not individually responsible for the costs or fees of counsel, which are subject to court award.\nThe Court did not decide this case in favor of the Class Representative or in favor of Defendant. Instead, Counsel for the Settlement Class investigated the facts and applicable law regarding the Class Representative\u2019s claims and Defendant\u2019s defenses. The parties engaged in lengthy and arm\u2019s-length negotiations to reach this settlement. The Class Representative and Counsel for the Settlement Class believe that the proposed settlement is fair, reasonable, and adequate and in the best interests of the class.\nBoth sides agree that, by settling, Defendant is not admitting any liability or that it did anything wrong. Both sides want to avoid the uncertainties and expense of further litigation.\nHow do I know if I am part of the settlement?\nYou are a part of the settlement if between May 12, 2015 and May 12, 2017 you applied for employment or were employed by Defendant and Defendant procured or caused to be procured your consumer report on the basis of a consent form provided by HireRight, Inc. to you containing alleged extraneous information.\nIf you received a postcard notice, Defendant\u2019s records indicate you are a member of the Settlement Class. If you are not certain as to whether you are a member of the Settlement Class, you may contact the Claims Administrator to find out. In all cases, the question of class membership will be determined based on Defendant\u2019s records.\nIf you are a member of the Settlement Class, you will receive benefits under the settlement.\nIf you are a member of the Settlement Class, you are eligible to receive a benefit under the settlement. Defendant has agreed to pay $85,000.00 into a settlement fund. The fund will be divided pro rata among all Settlement Class members who do not opt out. The gross recovery for each class member who does not opt-out is approximately $42.30. If the expected requests for attorneys\u2019 fees and expenses and the Plaintiff\u2019s award are granted by the Court, you should receive approximately $20.41.\nIf any settlement funds remain after all checks have been distributed, and after all attorneys\u2019 fees, expenses and administrative costs have been paid, subject to Court approval, any unclaimed portion of the Settlement Fund after distributing the Net Settlement Fund proceeds and after the 60-day period for negotiating checks will constitute a \u201ccy pres\u201d fund and, subject to the Court\u2019s approval, will be donated to BayCare Emergency Assistance Program, Inc.\nHow can I get a benefit?\nTo receive your settlement payment, you do not have to do anything. Your interest as a member of the Settlement Class will be represented by the Plaintiff and Counsel for the Class. You will be bound by any judgment arising from the settlement. If the settlement is approved, you will receive a check for your share of the settlement fund.\nWhen would I get my benefit?\nThe Court will hold a Fairness Hearing at 10:30 a.m. on November 14, 2018, in the United States District Court for the Middle District of Florida, Tampa Division, 801 North Florida Avenue, Tampa, Florida 33602, in Courtroom 17 to decide whether to approve the settlement. If the settlement is approved, there may be appeals. Payments to members of the Settlement Class will be made only if the settlement is finally approved. This may take some time, so please be patient.\nWhat am I giving up to get a benefit or stay in the class?\nUpon the Court\u2019s approval of the settlement, all members of the Settlement Class who do not exclude themselves (as well as spouses, heirs, and others who may possess rights on their behalf) will fully release Defendant (and its affiliates, subsidiaries, employees, and others who may be subject to claims with respect to Defendant as specified in the Settlement Agreement) for all claims, including claims for statutory damages and actual damages, arising out of or relating directly or indirectly in any manner whatsoever to the facts alleged or which could have been alleged or asserted in this case, including but not limited to any and all claims under the FCRA. This release may affect your rights, and may carry obligations, in the future. To view the full terms of this release, which are contained in the Settlement Agreement, please send a written request to Claims Administrator at Figueroa v BayCare Health System, Inc., c/o Claims Administrator, PO Box 23648, Jacksonville, Florida, 32241-3648.\nIf you choose to be excluded from the Settlement, you will not be bound by any judgment or other final disposition of the lawsuit. You will retain any claims against Defendant you might have. To request exclusion, you must state in writing your desire to be excluded from the Settlement Class. Your request for exclusion must be sent by first class mail, postmarked on or before October 15, 2018, addressed to:\nFigueroa v. BayCare Health System, Inc.\nc/o Claims Administrator\nIf the request is not postmarked on or before October 15, 2018, your request for exclusion will be invalid, and you will be bound by the terms of the settlement approved by the Court, including without limitation, the judgment ultimately rendered in the case, and you will be barred from bringing any claims which arise out of or relate in any way to the claims in the case as specified in the Release referenced in FAQ number 9.\nIf I don't exclude myself, can I sue Defendant for the same thing later?\nNo. Unless you exclude yourself, you give up any right to sue Defendant for the claims that this settlement resolves regarding background check-related claims\nIf I exclude myself, can I get benefits from this settlement?\nNo. If you exclude yourself, you are not part of the settlement.\nThe Court has appointed ELAYNE FIGUEROA as Class Representative. The Court has appointed Wenzel Fenton Cabassa, P.A. as Counsel for the Settlement Class:\nLuis A. Cabassa, Esq.\nBrandon J. Hill, Esq.\n1110 North Florida Ave., Suite 300\nCounsel for the Settlement Class represent the interests of the Settlement Class. You may hire your own attorney to advise you, but if you hire your own attorney, you will be responsible for paying that attorney\u2019s fees.\nClass Counsel intend to apply to the Court for an award of attorneys\u2019 fees, in an amount not to exceed one-third of the settlement fund. The Court may award less. Class Counsel also will seek compensation for their out-of-pocket expenses and compensation for Plaintiff ELAYNE FIGUEROA in an amount not to exceed $5,000.00. These amounts will be paid from the settlement fund, not by you.\nHow do I tell the Court that I don't like the settlement?\nYou can object to any aspect of the proposed settlement by filing and serving a written objection. Your written objection must include: (1) your name, address, telephone number, email address and signature; (2) a detailed statement of the specific factual and legal basis for the objection(s) being asserted; (3) a notice of your intent to appear at the final Fairness Hearing at 10:30 a.m. on November 14, 2018, if you intend to appear; and (4) a detailed description of any and all evidence, including copies of any exhibits, which you may offer at the Fairness Hearing.\nYou must file any objection with the Clerk of the Court at the address below within 60 days of the postmark on this Notice.\nYou must also send your objection by first class mail, postmarked on or before October 15, 2018, to counsel for the Settlement Class and counsel for Defendant. These documents should be mailed to Settlement Class Counsel at:\nAnd to counsel for BayCare Health System, Inc. at:\nThomas M. Gonzalez\nAny member of the Settlement Class who does not file and serve an objection in the time and manner described above will not be permitted to raise that objection later.\nWhat's the different between objecting and excluding?\nObjecting is simply telling the Court that you don\u2019t like something about the Settlement. You can object only if you stay in the Settlement. Excluding yourself is telling the Court that you don\u2019t want to be part of the Settlement. If you exclude yourself, you have no basis to object because the lawsuit no longer affects you.\nWhere and when will the Court decide whether to approve the settlement?\nThere will be a Fairness Hearing to consider approval of the proposed settlement at 10:30 a.m. on November 14, 2018, at the United States District Court for the Middle District of Florida, Tampa Division, 801 North Florida Avenue, Tampa, Florida 33602 in Courtroom 17. The hearing may be postponed to a later date without further notice. The purpose of the hearing is to determine the fairness, reasonableness, and adequacy of the terms of settlement; whether the Settlement Class is adequately represented by the Class Representative and Counsel for the Settlement Class; and whether an order and final judgment should be entered approving the proposed settlement. The Court also will consider Settlement Class Counsel\u2019s application on an award of attorneys\u2019 fees and expenses and Class Representative\u2019s compensation.\nYou will be represented at the Fairness Hearing by Counsel for the Settlement Class, unless you choose to enter an appearance in person or through your own counsel. The appearance of your own attorney is not necessary to participate in the Fairness Hearing.\nNo. Counsel for the Settlement Class will represent the Settlement Class at the Fairness Hearing, but you are welcome to come at your own expense. If you send any objection, you do not have to come to Court to talk about it. As long as you filed and mailed your written objection on time, the Court will consider it. You may also pay your own lawyer to attend, if you wish.\nYou may ask the Court for permission to speak at the Fairness Hearing.\nThis Notice is only a summary. For a more detailed statement of the matters involved in the lawsuit or the settlement, you may refer to the papers filed in this case during regular business hours at the office of the Clerk of the Court, United States District Court for the Middle District of Florida, Tampa Division, 801 North Florida Avenue, Tampa, Florida 33602, File: Figueroa v. BayCare Health System, Inc., 8:17-cv-01780-JSM-AEP. The full Settlement Agreement and certain pleadings filed in this case can also be requested, in writing, from the Claims Administrator, identified in FAQ number 10.\nYou can contact the Claims Administrator, identified in FAQ number 10. 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The goal is to have the new CEO appointed by June 2006 and to become as comprehensively as possible acquainted with the duties at Fingrid well prior to the end of the year.\nAdditional information: The Chairman of the Board of Directors, Mr. Timo Rajala,", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00240.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 190, + "original_length": 4530, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.99, + "perplexity": 183.6, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "https://www.firstmotherforum.com/2008/08/both-parties-reach-for-center-on.html", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T04:45:32Z", + "digest": "sha1:N7V52IGTV3YWXRIBBVXOXMSOAD7EML7W", + "length": 3308, + "nlines": 11, + "source_domain": "www.firstmotherforum.com", + "title": "' [Birth Mother] First Mother Forum: Both Parties Reach for Center on Abortion Debate", + "raw_content": "Both Parties Reach for Center on Abortion Debate\nI'm sure you've been following this issue throughout the primary season and beyond. I've said many times that in an ideal world, any woman with a desire to bear and raise a child who has the financial and emotional means to do so should be able to do so as Mother Nature intended. In the 21st century, unplanned/unwanted pregnancies should be as extinct as the dodo bird, making the issue of abotion moot.\nBut we don't live in an ideal world; sometimes abortion may be the best alternative for a woman facing a crisis pregnancy. And yet in the first decade of the 21st century, when single celebrity moms have made out of wedlock births fashionable, we're at risk of losing that choice. I'm particularly confused about this paragraph from the following AP article I found on Yahoo this morning:\nDemocrats, meanwhile, had it both ways in revising their party platform ahead of this month's nominating convention in Denver. Platform-writers said the party \"unequivocally\" supports legalized abortion, a stronger phrase than the 2004 platform contained. But they also bolstered the section on reducing the need for abortions. The version awaiting approval in Denver says the party \"strongly supports access to comprehensive affordable family planning services and age-appropriate sex education.\" It says the party \"strongly supports a woman's decision to have a child by ensuring access to and availability of programs for pre- and postnatal health care, parenting skills, income support and caring adoption programs.\"\nI'm in 95% agreement with this statement, but will someone please define \"caring adoption programs\"? Have any of us had the good fortune to experience a caring adoption program?! We've said throughout the ages that if men were the ones bearing children, the rules would be different. Would they ever.\nWhew Linda...Lorraine here...you got that right when you point out the careful phrasing \"caring adoption program.\" Caring for whom? Let's see, I assume they want to imply for the birth mother, but gee..exactly what are they talking about? An open adoption that has no teeth of law behind it to force the openness?\nWhen I relinquished I argued at length with my social worker once I found out the insane policy, ie, the real mother will now drop dead and never return...of course, open adoptions changed all that (up to a point, as we unhappily all know), but at the time, my \"caring\" adoption counselor told me that if I insisted that I someday be able to meet my daughter, or find out what happened, she could not help me...so she passed me the Kleenex and that was that.\nAbortion itself is such a tricky issue for adoptees, because ... many of them are aware that they were almost or might have been aborted. My daughter was pro-choice but this was not an issue we discussed at great length. And of course having read Birthmark she was well aware that she might have been aborted. I'd love to hear how adoptees who read this post feel about abortion. It always has to be a \"what if\" issue...right?\nLabels: abortion , pro-choice , right to choose\nSure, I had a caring adoption program. They were very caring about their pocket books.\nIt looks like Democrats are going to dip into the family values debates and into adoption agency cash flow.", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00240.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 72, + "original_length": 6521, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.97, + "perplexity": 326.4, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "https://www.firstmotherforum.com/2016/02/how-binding-are-open-adoption-contracts.html", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T04:42:08Z", + "digest": "sha1:IX3GB2B36PVTUXUB63IVKDOC6UM2C6J6", + "length": 73287, + "nlines": 185, + "source_domain": "www.firstmotherforum.com", + "title": "' [Birth Mother] First Mother Forum: How binding are open-adoption contracts?", + "raw_content": "How binding are open-adoption contracts?\nOpen adoption is the adoption industry's answer to all the woes that beset adoptees and natural mothers by their forced separation. The more we know, however, the less we like about it. Let us be clear: Open adoption agreements (continuing contact agreements in legal parlance) aren't enforceable. They do not lessen the angst of loss suffered by mothers and children, and they may even make it more intense.\nFMF has just learned of a new pitfall. Mom has an agreement with her child's adoptive parents allowing her periodic visits, (\"designated parenting time\" in social work speak). The adoptive parents decide they don't want the kid and plan to pass him on to another adoptive family. Does the mom still get to see her kid?\nIn the law of property, if I sell you my front 40 acres, and you give me an easement so I can get to my back 40, the easement is valid even if you sell the property. But children are not property--although they are treated as such when it comes to birth certificates, pieces of paper which have become certificates of title reflecting to whom the child belongs to--rather than the child's genetic parentage, or an real and accurate certificate of birth.\nThe question of whether an open-adoption agreement follows the child was asked recently on a legal forum, because the situation described above happened. A mother gave up a child through the state child welfare agency with an agreement for continuing contact; the adoptive parents decided they could not handle the child and are trying to arrange an adoption with another couple. If the child is adopted by another couple is the agreement with the mother still valid?\nProbably not, unless this was expressly included in the agreement. It's unlikely that it was since adoption, according to advocates, promises a child a \"forever family\" it would be a contradiction to include a provision for what happens if the adoptive parents dump the child. The mother in this case could ask a judge to order visits--but there's nothing in the law that covers this. In addition, the mother may not even know where the child will go. These \"re-homing\" arrangements may take place in a Starbucks--or a parking lot.\nThe new adoptive parents may not know about the designated parenting time that the original adoptive parents agreed to, or even who the natural mother is. Unlike the law of property, open adoption agreements are not recorded on county deed records available to the public, but contained in sealed court files.\nOpen adoption agreements, while used by the industry to induce mothers to give up their children, were originally created primarily for the child. As adults tussle over these agreements, however, the child is soon forgotten. We know that the vast majority of open adoptions are not truly \"open,\" and that most, for all intents and purposes, actually close up within five years.\nOpen adoptions can be a vast improvement over the closed-adoption system of yore, but they are not the panacea that they appear to be on first impression. If a woman is considering keeping her child, and the option of \"openness\" is seen as a viable alternative, she should stop and seriously consider how it will feel to have her child raised by someone else, and leave her with no say-so if something bothers her. And she needs to be mindful that if a \"forever family\" does not hold, and there is a subsequent adoption, the child may be in the same position of those adoptees of yore who are forced to beg and plead to learn their origins, and she will be left out in the cold.--jane\nRELATED POSTS FROM FMF:\nOpen adoption--does it really solve all the problems?\nWhat is an 'open' adoption?\nIs it a 'Birth Certificate or a Certificate of Title?\nRe-homing: Dumping unwanted adopted kids\nThe Open-Hearted Way to Open Adoption: Helping Your Child Grow Up Whole\nBy Lori Holden\n\"The Open-Hearted Way to Open Adoption, is a welcome addition to the adoption \"bookshelf\" for pre- and post-adoptive parents as well as adoption professionals. Written with her daughter's birthmother, the author uses her personal experience with open adoption to offer a new way to look at openness in adoption. This is not just about letters, photos, and/or visits with birthfamily - this book suggests an approach to emotional openness, even in families for whom contact with birthparents may be neither possible nor advisable.The book is well-written, personable, and filled with illustrative stories from bio- and adoptive parents that bring to life the various strategies as well as potential pitfalls to the process\"--Jeff at Amazon\nLabels: enforcability of open adoption agreements , open adoption , re-homing\nHow horrible to hear that this actually happened, people in an open adoption tried to re-home the child to other adoptive parents! That is just ugly. Was the natural mother in this case still not in a position to raise her child? Did anyone ask her? If it was CPS adoption, where was the state agency in this deal?\nI know of a couple of cases of closed adoptions that had failed where the natural parents actually got the child back, because they had searched and knew where the child was. The default in these cases, especially with the state involved, was that the child went into the foster care system. A very famous case where the mother got her child back was Travis, the boy in the Steinberg murder case, where the adoptive parents abused, neglected, and eventually murdered their illegally adopted daughter Lisa. Mirah Riben heroically was able to find the boy's mother and eventually get him returned to his mother and grandmother rather than being put into foster care. Another child was returned to his mother at age 12 because the adoptive father and stepmother no longer wanted him. When the mother searched to see if he was ok, they just said \"you can have him.\"\nI do not see the major issue here as the open adoption contract which is not really enforceable anyway in real life, but the idea of re-homing and any adoptive parent in a closed or open adoption just being able to hand the child over to another family with no real oversight or supervision.\nIn general, I have questions about extended visitation in open adoptions sometimes being more for the natural parents and sometimes the adoptive parents, to assuage everyone's guilt, than an actual benefit to the child who is put in the middle and is made to feel responsible for the happiness of both sets of parents while still a child. It is hard enough in reunion when both sides are in competition and tugging on the adoptee from opposite ends. Like divorce split custody, sometimes it can really work and be good for the child if all the adults involved are mature and always put the kid first, but it can also go terribly wrong. It is not only open adoptions closing that is problematic, but how they are conducted and if what the child really wants and needs is taken into consideration.\nI think you are absolutely right to warn that open adoption is not a panacea, it is not having someone babysit your child, that it may be more painful to see your child raised in ways you do not approve, and that such contracts are not really enforceable and that attempts at enforcement can mean extended time in court with no good outcome.\nAlso when an adoption fails and a child is going back into the system, the first thing done should be to contact the natural parents and see if they are now in a position to raise their child. Most of all, open adoption is not a substitute for raising your child if you are able to nor does it guarantee anything in the long run.\n\"A very famous case where the mother got her child back was Travis, the boy in the Steinberg murder case, where the adoptive parents abused, neglected, and eventually murdered their illegally adopted daughter Lisa.\"\nOne correction: From my reading on this case, Elisabeth \"Lisa\" Lauders, better known as Lisa Steinberg, was never adopted at all. That's why her natural mother, Michele Launders, and Lisa's biological father were able to make the arrangements after she was murdered. Michele and the unnamed father were still Lisa's legal parents.\nMs. Launders wrote a book about her experience titled \"I wish you didn't know my name: The story of Michele Launders and her daughter Lisa.\nThe was a Child Protective Services case. My understanding is that CPS is no longer involved. I do not know if under the arrangement brokered by DPS, the mother could take the child. The mother is aware that the adoptive parents are talking to others about taking the child.\nI had no idea Mirah Riben was instrumental in reuniting Travis with his mother. That is noble, indeed. Last time I read about him, he was doing very well in college.\nOn a slightly tangential note, the widely acclaimed children's show, Doc McStuffins, is adding the \"adoption\" element to it's story line. I am disappointed that it will be a brand new baby adoption (prospective parents rushing off to the hospital when \"their\" baby is being born), although I will withhold judgment until the episodes have aired. Here is the link:\nhttp://www.laughingplace.com/w/news/2016/02/11/doc-mcstuffins-family-adopt-new-baby/\nI hope the story plays out in a way that doesn't convey adoption as something that should take place casually.\nAmina February 16, 2016 at 4:29 AM\nMaryanne: There's a blog written by an adult adoptee raised in an OA (sister wish). Out of her bmom's children, she was the only one placed. She talks about the tug-of-war and the happy face she had to put on to please both sides.It's really sad, to me, because its seems like the very same thing you wrote about. The child put in the middle to please and assuage the guilt of both the aparents & bparents,which I don't think is emotionally healthy for a child.\nI highly recommend reading the Sister Wish blog. I have read every entry, and as an AP in an open adoption, it gives me much to consider. I would never, ever want my daughter feeling that tug of war, but it's stupid to think that any child can so easily process all these feelings and challenging situations... somewhere, somehow, it has to give. She shares a really eye-opening perspective, I think.\nI really like this post. I'm glad to see FMF isn't having a love affair with open adoption. It would have been a horror for me. My insecure adoptive mother would have tried to manipulate me to show I loved her best. Since she was the one who was there for me and providing my security, I'm sure I would have complied. My natural mother would have been so devastated at seeing me in another family, and not being able to raise me, she probably would have stopped contact a la Heidi Russo. And that would have been a devastating (second) rejection for me.\nMaryanne mentioned something about assuaging the parents' guilt. I'm not sure if it's guilt that's operating here, but I agree that open adoption could place too heavy of a burden on the child by putting her in the middle and making her feel responsible for the parents' happiness (which she would).\nWhile I can hardly support a totally closed adoption where the adoptive parents get to think they are the child's only parents, I'm glad open adoption didn't exist in my day. With few exceptions, I think open adoption is more suitable for kinship adoptions.\nI appreciate that FMF is continuing to highlight the pitfalls of the open adoption arrangement and the fact that it is mainly a new tool in the adoption industry's armor to get more mothers to surrender their babies.\n\"Also when an adoption fails and a child is going back into the system, the first thing done should be to contact the natural parents and see if they are now in a position to raise their child.\"\nCommon sense that is all too uncommon, I'm afraid. It would not work out in every single case but it should definitely be proposed. Also agree that the central problem in this case is APs taking it upon themselves to transfer their children to other people without oversight.\nYes, you are right Robin, in the case of Lisa Launders and Travis there was no legal adoption because the coked-up lawyer adoptive father neglected to file adoption papers and just kept the two children that the birthparents had trusted him to place with decent families. He also beat his partner Hedda Nussbaum and both of them beat and neglected the children. Our NJ Origins group and especially Mirah Riben were very involved in that case once it broke and Mirah was in touch with Michelle as well as with Travis' grandmother.The first thing we did was to organize a candlelight vigil outside the Steinberg apartment that got lots of media coverage. I am just sorry that Nussbaum got no jail time and Steinberg did not spend the rest of his life in jail for the brutal murder of an innocent child\nCertainly in some cases where the original parents had serious ongoing problems that led to surrender, they would not be able to take back the child, but it seems to me that option should be eliminated before seeking others to take him.\nAnother thing I wonder about though, can open adoption really work or be to the child's advantage with seriously dysfunctional birthparents, and in cases where the mother is healthy enough to participate fully in an open adoption, why is she not able to keep her child and getting help to overcome temporary obstacles to taking her baby home? I do fear open adoption is being oversold as a panacea when it only works well in some cases where all the conditions are perfect, which is seldom the case.\nYes, Maryanne there is a paradox. How can a mother be healthy enough to participate in a fully open adoption but unable to keep her child? Once a child gets into CPS's clutches it can be very difficult if not impossible for a mother to get her child back. Promised services are not provided, social workers manipulate the mother, particularly if the child is \"adoptable.\" States get bonuses from the federal government for every adoption they do. A mother, not wanting a drawn out court battle where her legal representation may be marginal at best, gives up and gets what she can, i.e. \"designated parenting time.\" In the case I described in my post, the mother is in danger of losing that.\nThere's an excellent article in the February 1 issue of the New Yorker on the failing of CPS agencies to provide preventive services which would enable children to stay in safely in their own homes. Instead child welfare agencies take the kid and run or ignore horrible abuse. States go through cycles of foster care, family preservation, foster care, family preservation, etc.\nNo matter which way CPS leans, too soon to remove children from biological parents and into abusive foster homes, or too eager to preserve families at all cost where children are in danger from bio relatives, it is the children who lose and in some cases die, due to abusive foster or adoptive parents, or abusive natural parents. At either extreme the system is self-perpetuating and blind; it does not really see people as individuals, just as pawns of whatever policy is politically correct at the moment. It is all quite depressing. The cycle goes on but nothing really gets better.\nEverything you wrote about CPS, and the re-homing story Jane described in this blog post, are two of the best reasons for encouraging every mother who is able to keep her child. This is the best way to ensure that the child will be safe.\nThe more I know about adoption the less I think it is a good idea except in the most extreme cases of need, and then--leave that birth certificate alone! Another piece of paper can be substituted for legal custody and responsibility. If you are going to have a baby, choose to raise that baby.\nRobin, yes, agree that if the birthfamily are normal decent people, even with some problems, the best way to keep the child safe is to keep the child with the mother, or in the family. There should be far fewer infant adoptions then there are today at the hands of high pressure coercive adoption providers.\nThe one tragic exception, the extreme case, is when the natural parents have serious mental illness, chronic addictions, are abusive,or the whole natural family has multi-generational dysfunction, then the child is not safe with them and some kind of other secure arrangements to raise that child needs to be made. Keeping a child with biological relatives does not always guarantee the child's safety. That is where adoption is actually necessary. Like taking kids out of a home for trivial reasons, family preservation and giving natural parents too many chances to reform can also go too far with awful consequences.I agree with Lorraine that the birth certificate should stay the same, and a certificate of adoption be issued for legal custody and as legal ID.\nFamily preservation is much maligned but when done right, it is the best thing. Critics of family preservation often come from the adoption and substitute care industries. They point to a celebrated case in the media as a rational for \"getting tough with mothers\"; presuring decision makers to cut back on family preservation.\nThe problem often is not giving the natural parents too many chances, it's child welfare workers who do not do their job. In some states these workers have no formal training; they're hired out of the clerical pool.\nIn several recent scandals in Oregon involving both foster care and natural parents, the workers did not visit the home as often as they were supposed to. When they did visit, they didn't ask to see the children, taking the foster mother's word for it that the kids were doing well in a recent case. In fact, the kids were starving. Workers also ignored complaints from neighbors and teachers.\nKaisa Gwendolyn February 14, 2016 at 5:16 PM\nWithout a doubt there are cases in which a child's original family environment is so toxic that it is in that child's best interest to be permanently removed from original family. In cases such as these, it is my opinion that foster care is rarely -- if ever -- the best option. In foster care, social services has legal custody of the child, and assumes ultimate responsibility for the child. Social services, as an adjunct of the state, is by definition impersonal and bureaucratic. With adoption, custody and responsibility for the child belong to the adoptive family. Foster families in the whole do not make the same kind of long term emotional commitment to the child's wellbeing as do well-chosen, informed and properly prepared adoptive families. Assured permanency within a healthily functional family environment is always the best option for children who need homes.\nIt is surely possible to put emphasis on the importance of \u2018family preservation\u2019 while at the same time balancing it properly against what might -- with good reason -- be called \u2018child rescue\u2019 on the basis that it is the right and proper thing to do, rather than as a knee-jerk reaction against the (all too common) tragic cases reported in the media.\nFoster care is appropriate in some circumstances, such as where the family situation is not dire and likely to be be only temporary. In such cases, all being well, a child should be able to return to his or her original home after not too long a period -- undoubtedly the best and most desirable outcome. Children deserve to grow up within their natural families if at all possible.\nHowever extended foster care is not appropriate to situations where there has been serious physical, psychological and/or sexual abuse - the kind of cases which in my previous comment I called toxic. Parents or carers of any description who wilfully abuse or seriously neglect children forfeit any legal rights (to those children) they may have had. Traumatized children have the best possibility for recovery when they are entirely removed from their original abusive environment and given a safe place in which to grow up. Following a life of chaos and abuse, security and permanence become increasingly important. This is not to say that adoption should deprive children of their original birth certificates and knowledge of their natural family, because, no question about it, those are civil and human rights. Nor is it to say that in every case where children have been removed for their own safety they should be denied contact with (or at least updates from or about) one or the other of their original parents. That's something that would depend on the reason why they'd been removed in the first place.\nOf course adoption is not a reproductive right. Adoption has nothing to do with reproduction. It is, or should be, the last recourse for a child who otherwise would not have a safe and secure home in which to grow up. Guardianship, like foster care, is appropriate to some situations. It is not to all.\nI have a friend who was in foster care from infancy until he was eighteen years old. He had six placements. He turned out great -- but in spite of, not because of, foster care. Resiliency, luck, talent all played a part. I also know of someone who endured thirteen placements. He said he was always the new kid in the school, and it left him in a constant state of mourning. The state does not make a good parent in the long term.\nJane, certainly untrained, incompetent social workers overburdened with too many cases and cutting corners in their work are a big part of the problem. What they are missing is abuse and neglect in foster homes,which is all too common, and in the homes of biological family who are under the scrutiny of CPS. It happens in all kinds of homes, and when children are left there, they are abused, neglected, and die. Family preservation done right includes knowing which families cannot be preserved without putting children in danger, as well as providing support and resources to those families who can be safely preserved. Neither foster, adoptive, nor biological parents should be given more chances if they are hurting children. Safety of children under care should always be the first priority, but often it is not, given whatever the current social work model is, rapid termination and adoption or family preservation at all costs.\nMaryanne, no state does or has done \"family preservation at all costs.\" That's a myth perpetuated by the adoption and substitute care industries to get kids into care and adopted. These industries toss around that phrase to scare people equating family preservation with condoning child abuse. These industries also emphasize the unimportance of blood ties, in fact suggesting these ties are a per se negative influence.\nAgain I encourage our reader to read the material on the National Coalition for Child Protection Reform's website, nccpr.org.\nAnd yes, Kaisa, I agree with you. Adoption is rarely necessary. This is the guiding principle in western Europe and Australia which is why these countries have far fewer domestic adoptions than the US.\nthis just hurts February 15, 2016 at 2:31 AM\nMaryanne, social workers are not only \"missing abuse and neglect in foster homes and in the homes of biological families\". Adoptive homes are just as likely to have issues of abuse and neglect. Please, let's not continue to give adoptive homes a \"free pass\" once adoptions are finalized. There needs to be some sort of assessment set up for adoptive homes as well. Adoptive homes are labeled \"best interest of the child\". If there is to be an adoption, then there needs to be a follow-up through the years. If that is offensive, how offensive it is to read of adoptees being abused and neglected, rehomed, discarded in boarding schools or juvenal facilities, or killed? How many of these tragic stories of children dying, or being abused, or rehomed sometimes into abusive homes could be prevented or avoided? Once again it seems to be the story of the sinners and the saints. How often are biological families vilified as the offensive abusive parent and no good in television programs? They seem to often come up short. The person or persons wanting to adopt are portrayed as almost as perfect as someone can get. Come on. How many, at reunion, found out their children had suffered abuse or severe neglect at the hands of the adoptive families? How many adoptees recount stories of abuse and neglect? and no one listens, no one hears. Why? What about the mental anguish and suffering of adoptees through the years? Is that not a form of abuse? I sure think so.\nI agree with Lorraine, Kaisa and Jane in this Feb. 14th thread.\nWestern Europe and Australia have lower adoption rate BUT more children in foster-care that age-out because their parents couldn't/wouldn't get it together. It's fact that \"family preservation\" comes at the cost of the child. Who is forced to grow-up/age-out of the system because their\"parents\" don't do enough to get them back.Also, adoption is necessary. Lot how many children are born exposed to drugs/alcohol, do you think their safe with parents that are junkies? Also, as Maryanne said, some families are just plain dysfunctional and NO member can take-care of the child. People will always have children but just because they can, doesn't mean their the right people to raise them.\nTo \"this just hurts\", see my further comment below: I do not give adoptive parents a free pass and am well aware of abuse in adoptive homes by cruel and/or mentally ill adoptive parents. My son had a mother like that. He did not call it abuse, but I do.\nAdoption is no guarantee that a child will not be abused, and adoptive parents should not be glorified. I suspect abuse is as common in adoptive homes as in biological families, and the present methods of screening prospective adopters do not really prevent abuse in the long run. Adoption is sometimes a better option for children already in dangerous situations with abusive biological families, but it is no guarantee abuse will not happen in the future in the adoptive home. Adoptive parents are prone to all the ills that other parents suffer, including substance abuse, mental illness, personality disorders, death, divorce, etc etc. I absolutely believe that unwed moms and other moms in situations that are truly temporary distress should be helped to keep their children. Adoption placements, especially of older kids from foster care, should continue to be monitored. Unnecessary adoptions should cease, but some will always be a lesser evil when children are in danger where they are, and where there are long-term serious problems, adoption is still a better option than long-term foster care.\nAccording to an article forwarded o me by Evelyn Robinson of Australia, natural mother and author of several excellent books on adoption, officials in the UK are taking children from families under pretenses in order to feed the adoption trade.\nThe number of kids in foster care doesn't tell you anything about whether adoption rates are too high or too low. Foster care placements depend as much on arbitrary policies as on the needs of children. The Adoption and Safe Families Act of 1997 has resulted in more kids adopted but also more kids in foster care, and more kids awaiting adoption from foster care.\nMaryanne wrote:\"Unnecessary adoptions should cease, but some will always be a lesser evil when children are in danger where they are, and where there are long-term serious problems, adoption is still a better option than long-term foster care.\"\nIs it a myth perpetuated by the adoption industry that some children are abused and killed by biological relatives even when CPS has been called in and either returned or refused to remove the children? Are stories of such events as reported in the media all fictional \"to scare people\"? In an earlier comment you said \"States go through cycles of foster care, family preservation, foster care, family preservation, etc. \" That implies they go from one extreme to the other, not that family preservation at all costs has never been tried. Some adoptions are necessary, although many are not.\nOf course kids are killed in their own homes. It's not \"family preservation at all costs\" to blame -- it's the incompetence and in some cases down right fraud on part of the adoption workers. The workers are leaving the kids in their dangerous homes or returning them to their dangerous homes because not because of some doctrinaire belief about family preservation but because they are understaffed or too lazy or too dishonest to take the appropriate steps to protect the children.\nYes, state agencies go through cycles of family preservation and take the kids and run but the family preservation cycles never include family preservation at all costs.\nOK, it is just \"family preservation\" as one end of the cycle that returns children to homes that are sometimes unfit and dangerous. We can drop the overly general \"at all costs\" and we are still left with a flawed policy implemented by incompetent social workers that endangers some children, and helps others where the biological relatives they are returned to are competent and non-violent. That is one end of the cycle. Mistakes are made, children suffer as much with a one size fits all family preservation policy as with a policy of rapid termination of parental rights for less serious issues that could have been resolved with help.But where there has been long term addiction and substance abuse, serious recurrent mental illness, previous physical and sexual abuse of children, at some point enough has to be enough. Childhood is short, children can not wait years for seriously impaired parents to get their shit together. Bouncing them back and forth between unfit natural parents and questionable foster care is not the answer.\nThe other end of the cycle is placing children who should have been left with biological family in unsafe and abusive foster homes, with little or no supervision, all too common, also driven by a policy of rapid placement and termination, and implemented by the same incompetent, dishonest, and in most cases grossly overworked and underpaid social workers.\nThe issues are compounded by willingness to let virtually anyone adopt hard to place bargain basement kids out of foster care, with no oversight at all once the adoption is final, another policy that leads to gross abuse and in some cases death of kids at the hands of their \"forever family.\"\nThere is no easy answer to any of this without a complete overhaul of our child welfare agencies and policies, and putting some real expertise and real government money towards keeping kids safe and in healthy families, however that is best accomplished in each individual case, whether family preservation, temporary safe foster care, or adoption with open records when the adoptee is an adult. Underlying the abuses of CPS are race and class issues and a lack of caring about children who are not a prime product for the adoption market like healthy white newborns, but are, as the children of the poor have always been, disposable.\nThe industry does dangle the open-adoption carrot and purposely fails to explain the details that the adoption is a contract that can be legally enforced in a court of law, but that the openness is only an AGREEMENT. Agreements are NOT enforceable in a court of law. They mean nothing except in the states that they are recognized (maybe a handful recognize them at this time). Then, even if the natural mother decides she wants to enforce the agreement.....she needs to a) find an adoption attorney who will take the case (seen by his/her peers as biting the hand that feeds them) b) need to have deep pockets as said attorney makes way more money doing adoptions rather than supporting natural families c) truly cosine how thesee actions will be detrimental to the future relationship from the adoptive parents side since they are the ones with all the power and who can continually force her back to court and render her penniless - if she wasn't already\nBasically, the point I'm trying to make is that.....it isn't good. It isn't better. It isn't a carrot to be dangled, but all of this never gets explained. Also, in most cases open is described in what is actually a 'semi-closed' state. You get pictures, maybe a visit, but you go through the agency....you don't know their last name, where they live, or their phone number.\nDeceit. Withheld information and even outright lies are used to persuasively coerce mothers today.\nI agree with everything wsbirthmom has said here. This is how unscrupulous adoption providers use open adoption to lure in mothers with crisis pregnancies, making it sound like there are legal guarantees in open adoption agreements when there are none, and downplaying the fact that the mother loses all legal rights to the child when she signs a surrender, open adoption or closed. She is literally at the mercy of \"the kindness of strangers\" who are often not very kind nor very honest and pretend to be her friend to get the baby, then cut it all off shortly thereafter. There are some open adoptions that continue to work, but they may be the exception rather than the rule, and any mother entering into an open adoption needs to know the hard cruel facts before signing anything. This is where Saving Our Sisters is providing a service for mothers considering surrender and dealing with agencies that are not being straight with them.\nAmina February 15, 2016 at 11:42 PM\nWs & Maryanne: I don't know? Adoption is adoption be it open or close, so how can a woman think other wise ( as OA's being cohesive)? When you (general) are giving up the responsibility of raising your child to someone else, when you sign the TPR, you know you will no longer be responsible for the welfare of the child and have no rights. There's no difference in an OA except you get to pick the parents. I never understood how a woman could say that she was deceived when she knew she was signing away her parental rights? Yes, I get the fact that aparents closed adoptions after promising visits ( which is wrong if there were no other factors in them closing it), but adoption is adoption and women who sign those papers know what it means. Coincidentally, I am against enforceable OA's with visits because the aparents are the parents and it's they're parental right to decide who comes in contact with their child. I have read some stories about boundaries being overstepped and what not, and how the aparents are torn when deciding if they should scale back or discontinue visits because of boundaries. It's a tough call, but as the parents, they do have the right to make that call and no court in America would rule against that.\nAmina, some of the younger birthmoms this has actually happened to can can answer better than I can about being deceived about what open adoption meant, and I hope they will also answer you. The fact is that many adoption agencies and entrepreneurs today DO NOT tell mothers that when they sign a TPR they lose all parental rights, and many ignorant young girls expecting adoption agencies to act in their best interest do not know that. It may not be explicitly stated, but moms are led to believe that open adoption means extensive contact with their child and a place in his life as beloved birthmom. Pictures speak louder than words. I invite you to look at some agency websites offering open adoptions and see what you think. Even the best of them are full of pictures of happy adoptive couples with their baby AND \"their\" birthmother, in the hospital, at birthday parties and picnics, just one big happy extended family forever. Mothers are led to believe that since they are signing a legal-sounding agreement, that it is legally binding from both sides. They do not find out until after the fact it is not worth the paper it is written on.\nAdd to this the problem of pre-birth matching of prospective adopters and pregnant moms, and you have love bombing and in some cases financial support of the desperate mom, leaving her emotionally indebted to give her child to that \"wonderful couple\" who have been so good to her and so want a child. And of course they will continue to want her in their lives. Until they do not. And as legal parents, they do have that right. Some mothers also cut contact, finding it too painful to see their child grow up with other parents, sometimes with a lifestyle they do not like but cannot say anything about. None of the downside of open adoption is presented to pregnant mother by many agencies, just the supposed benefits to all, with a few sappy words about grief, but how brave and noble birthmoms work through that.\nI would be all for the brutal facts of what surrendering a child really means be presented to every mother considering surrender, open or closed. You are giving up ALL parental rights. You are legally NOTHING to that child. All else is conjecture and all too often lies. I also think the idea of enforced visits is problematic, agree with you on that piece. What cannot be guaranteed should not be promised to anyone. It also has the potential of putting young children under pressure to please ALL the parents, too much for a kid to handle in many cases. Before you assume that all surrendering mothers know what they are getting into with an open adoption, pretend you are young pregnant mom who does not know what to do and go visit lots of open adoption agency websites. I think you may be surprised.\nAmina February 16, 2016 at 3:30 PM\nMaryanne: I've read the website and also have read websites of surrendering mothers, and for the life of me, I still can't see how a woman doesn't know that adoption, be it open or close, means the severing of parental rights, which means you have no rights? I've also read that many of today's bmoms are aparenting children already when they place, so how can they not know what adoption means,and that you have no rights to the child ( promises or not) once you ( general) sign those papers. I think there's a lot of regret and misplaced anger once reality hits home and they realize OA isn't co-parenting or shared joint-custody.\nAmina, if you do not understand how mothers in a crisis pregnancy can be conned and coerced by an adoption agency, I guess you have never been in that position. It is a position of weakness and desperation, not of strength and confidence in one's own abilities and resources. It is a situation where the distressed pregnant mother does not think of herself as the expert,fully in command of her own life, but turns to others who are supposed to help her, trusts and believes what they tell her. All to often, what they tell her is that adoption is the loving option, and that keeping the child is selfish. They are given impossibly perfect profiles of couples wishing to adopt, and told to compare themselves and their resources to these affluent, older, professional people with a big beautiful house, lots of money, lovable pets, who only need a baby to complete the perfect picture. Yes, in some cases there is \"regret and misplaced anger\". But there is also a lot of totally justified anger at being coerced, used, and cast aside by those who were supposed to care and provide real options, not a one-way trip to surrender.\nMy own experience with an agency, over 40 years ago when there were only closed adoptions, is that they were clear that once you signed a surrender, that was the end, even though legally in those days mothers supposedly had 6 months to change their minds. I do not know any mother from that era who was ever told that. In my case, since I would not even discuss adoption before my son was born, I was persuaded to place my child in foster care, but the legal ramifications of this were never explained to me, and I swear I did not know what trying to get my baby our of foster care would involve. I was a young college student unwed mother, my child was not taken by the state, he was never in any danger, but once I signed papers before he was born that he was to go straight into foster care, we were doomed as a family. Eventually I did literally give up and surrender. To put it simply, I did not know my rights and nobody explained them to me from that agency that was supposed to have my interests and those of my child at heart.\nToday things are even worse for naive young moms, and even for slightly older moms where the child is not their first and poverty and lack of services are the main issue.It is not just sour grapes on the part of mothers who were told that open adoption agreements were legally binding, and that open adoption was the next best thing to raising their child, and not like the \"bad old days\" of closed adoption. It is not just imaginations that agencies promised services to open adoption moms that they never delivered once the adoption was final, and they no longer wanted to hear about the surrendering mom's problems or that the adoption had closed. You have said some good things here, Amina, but do not presume to speak about what you do not really know.\nCall me Leslie February 20, 2016 at 10:18 AM\n\"Amina\" must be an infertile adopter vulture who lied to a vulnerable pregnant woman to coerce her out of her child. That fake piece of paper birth certificate you hold doesn't mean anything. Also, that child you covet does not see a mother when he/ she looks in your face (because you look nothing like them and because you AREN'T really their mother!)\nPiss off, witch.\nI totally disagree with Robin concerning open adoption. Yes, that system still has many problems but as an adoptee I would of rather been raised in open vs. closed because at least there would of been some hope of knowing who my real parents were. Granted it hurts, to see your mom when she gave you up for adoption but I would rather of dealt with that than the madness caused by not knowing who my parents are. My adoptive mother abused me so much though that if there had been open adoption back then she never would of agreed with it. I think she loved having all the control over me and getting away with the hell she inflicted on me, which she has. Child abusers LOVE closed adoption so no one can interfere with their sinister agenda.\nYou misunderstood what I wrote. I never advocated for a totally closed adoption where the adoptee has no idea who his or her natural parents are. As a matter of fact, I wrote: \"While I can hardly support a totally closed adoption where the adoptive parents get to think they are the child's only parents....\"\nIn my case, knowing the personalities of both of my mothers, it would not have worked. I would not have wanted to be put in the middle, as I would have been, and it would have been too painful for me to have my natural mother occasionally visit (or not) while seeing my siblings (all bio-kids) get to live with their natural parents. I believe I would have wanted to leave and go live with my bio-family but that would not have been possible.\nAlso, very sad to say, but as this post demonstrates, and others had found out, it is a simple matter for adoptive parents to close a previously agreed upon open adoption. And, tragically, in such a case, abuse can still happen.\nI am so sorry for what you went through. Yes, the premise that adoptive parents are always wonderful because they want a child so badly and have to wait so long is a crock of sh*t.\nAnonymous, please choose a name. Please read the instructions for comments.\nI also wanted to say that I can't believe and I am furious that rehoming is not illegal but on the opposite note I think both fostering and adoption should be illegal. We need Guardianship as the only option if a woman and her whole entire family and the father of the baby and his whole entire family (eyeroll) could not care for the child. Guardianship should always include the names of the child's parents given to the child however, with visitation.\nThere actually are children who have no one on either side of the family who is capable or willing to raise them. I can't agree with these comments that talk about fostering or guardianship. I wanted a family and a home, not foster parents or guardians. It is unnecessary adoption and expectant mothers in crisis being fed a load of crap that denies so much of the reality about adoption that I object to.\nThat's right Robin, some whole families are unable or uwilling to raise a child, and foster parenting and guardianship are not replacements for adoption; they are different methods of providing care for children in need, as are institutions like group homes, not suitable for all cases. Adoption provides permanence and legal stability of belonging to a family. If guardianship has all the legal protections of adoption, then it IS adoption by another name. If surrendering parents retain parental rights, then it is something else, and often less secure for the child. Most mothers healthy enough to be is some kind of open arrangement with frequent visits are probably healthy enough to keep their babies, given proper temporary help to get over temporary obstacles.\nWhat needs to change in adoption is what you said, none that are not truly necessary, no lying and coercion to expectant mothers, and fully open records for adoptees, in some cases with some form of open adoption, in others, exchange of information only, but full access to records and identity to every adopted adult who requests them.\nNothing will change until advocates for change become involved in the political process. Learn the laws of your state, work with like-minded reformists to develop legislation, ask your legislator to introduce a bill, and lobby for its passage.\nkaye February 17, 2016 at 8:13 PM\nmaryanne said: \"Adoption provides permanence and legal stability of belonging to a family.\"\nExcept when it doesn't. Adoptees are re-homed (legally or not), sent away to schools for \"troubled children\" or, in some cases, simply abandoned/kicked out by a-parents when the kids reach the age of majority. Sometimes before -- remember the boy whose \"mother\" decided she couldn't handle him anymore and put him on a plane, alone, back to Russia?\nI can cite numerous instances when adoptees were deliberately disinherited, while bio kids were not.\nIf an adoptee is lucky enough to end up in a good family, it can be wonderful. But for far too many of us, adoption is simply hell.\nKaye, no argument with what you say here. The reality of adoptee lives sometimes does not match the legal theory of permanence. My son inherited nothing from the adoptive parents, their bio daughter had ripped off most of it before the mother finally died and got whatever was left. He has nothing to do with her. He did not want anything from them either. He is in my will and my husband's who is not his bio father but we are both grandpa and grandma to his kids. His adoptive mother can rot in hell in my opinion, but at least his father was decent but died when my son was 21 and everything went to his wife.\nRe-homing should be outlawed, as well as those awful ranches for \"troubled\" kids that are often full of discarded adoptees. Adoption is only better than foster care or guardianship in terms of stability for the child in the bare legal sense, but if the home is not a good one and the adoptive parents are crazy or uncaring, it can be hell. Calling it guardianship would not make it better if the guardians were the same lousy people. I do not think anyone would want the kind of life that kids who age out of foster care get, nor the kind of life that abused and neglected kids get in some crappy adoptive homes. There needs to be much more stringent screening of prospective adopters, and many fewer adoptions by people with unrealistic expectations who should never be parents.\nLol,@ what Amina said:\n\"Coincidentally, I am against enforceable OA's with visits because the aparents are the parents and it's they're parental right to decide who comes in contact with their child. I have read some stories about boundaries being overstepped and what not, and how the aparents are torn when deciding if they should scale back or discontinue visits because of boundaries. It's a tough call, but as the parents, they do have the right to make that call and no court in America would rule against that\"\nI would like to know why no one ever thinks what would the child want? Why don't adoptive parents or the court system ever feel that in their hearts? As an adoptee I find it repulsive how selfish these adults are. The child SHOULD BE ASKED. This should be done according to what the child wants, after all isn't THAT in the best interest of the child? Adoption is so selfish to us, so immature, so emotionally unhealthy it goes beyond words. And yours didn't help much either Amina.\nAnon: What if the child doesn't want it? Or what if it's too painful to see the kept children your bmom had before you when she come's to visit? I'm all for semi-open because it allows the child to decide if they want a relationship with the bio-family and it keeps the lines of communication open.\nYou know Amina, you and your boundaries crap. Most \"birthmothers\" have been coerced into and broken down to give their babies away. They didn't want to, even in this day and age of open adoption rainbows and unicorn happy wappy bullshit. What if? what if? what if the child wants to see her parents when she is older when maybe once she said no (possibly due to psycho stares and boo-hooing from her control freak adoptive mother). Should the deal been written in stone that she couldn't see them now that she wants to? Again, adoption is a disadvantage for adoptees. We are the little match girls and the adoptive parents are the tyrannical spoiled brat kings and queens. Some life. You and Tiffany really piss me off you know that? Eh.\nAnon@ 2/17@10:33am:\nYou sound like a birth mom who thought OA meant co-parenting or, better yet, free babysitting? OA is just that-adoption and you ( general) have NO rights after you sign those papers( and rightfully so. What did you think? That you could have your cake and ice cream too when it comes to parenting?\nAmina, see below.\nThere's a lot here in the comments... it's interesting to read through and see so many different perspectives. I will only comment on the guardianship angle- I've only encountered adoptees online who want that to be the option instead of adoption. My friends who are adoptees are horrified by the concept, and feel that that means belonging to no family instead of belonging to two families. I personally think that it is evidence of the caution we all need to have that people, especially adoptees, have their own personal takes on this that is heavily influenced by their experiences. It's easy to make blanket statements, but blanket statements don't take into account individual needs.\nMy other comment in regards to your post, Jane, is that another thing that parents do not think about is the deaths of the APs and what happens to the adopted child in that circumstance, and the open adoption agreement. This isn't something I have read talked about anywhere. We have in our will/trust that our open adoption agreement will continue in the event of our deaths. Our guardians are aware of the importance of this to us and our daughter, and contact info has been shared all around (including sent to my daughter's other parents) and put in the will. No one likes to think about these things, but they happen, and then it's too late.\nThis whole rehoming thing should be illegal, also. I don't understand how adoption has to go through official channels, but this can just happen in the dark of night. It's really quite disturbing to me.\nSo you and the rest of you actually think being adopted means you are in or part of a family? Rotflmao. Adoptive families are FAKE families. They are not real, and no adoptee is a part of anything but lies, control, manipulation and deception at our disadvantage. It is better not to have to endure all that BS because with guardianship at least the adoptee is in REALITY, knowing their real mother and father, are their only parents and not forced into insane role playing which makes us feel like a monkey in a cage or a dog on a leash. With guardianship an adoptee gets the control we deserve. So many adoptees and first mothers talk about the phoniness of adoption, so these comments blow my mind, due to the hypocrisy of them. They contradict everything bloggers have written for years on this maddening subject. Adoption was designed for infertile couples and greedy entrepreneurs, not for children. Family preservation only has a shot if it lies outside the bounds of closed and open adoption, and guardianship is the only way that could happen. It kind of makes my stomach hurt that none of you see that, especially when all of you do see all the pain and trauma adoption has caused for decades.\nBeing adopted would not be \"fake\" if the original OBCs weren't amended to say that the adopters were the actual parents, and the \"real\" parents (barring those who were proven to have been severely abusive) were able to have some variant of openness in the arrangement.\nAnon@2/17:7:54 am:\nIf the aparents are \"fake\" then why aren't the bparents raising the child? Think about it, if the bmom wasn't force ( like during the BSE when her parents were behind forced adoptions), then why aren't today's bparents raising their children? Because many don't want to!\nAmina, It sounds like you are here to be angry and just argue with everyone. Perhaps another venue would suit you better.\nAmina, I think you are an AP? If that is true, I am going to give some unsolicited advice: adoption isn't about you. So don't take it all so personally when first moms and adoptees vent about their frustrations with the system, especially those who had a horrible experience. They are the ones who have to live with it. My daughter has to live with it. My daughter's parents have to live with it. I have to understand and support their feelings because I am the least impacted.\nMost especially don't take it all so personally when you are visiting a blog specifically created by and for first mothers to \"share news and opinions. And vent.\" Just step back and take the opportunity to listen to those who represent people most impacted by adoption. Just my two cents.\nWhy is there an assumption that adoption has to mean sealed records and the adoptee never knowing their heritage or having the chance to meet biological relatives? That is what most adoptees today have grown up with, but who has decreed that this is the only way it can be and still be adoption, not foster care or guardianship? Why can't we have adoption that respects both the adoptee's biological heritage and their adoptive family's contribution to their life? Many have suggested replacing the amended birth certificate, which is the big lie in adoption,with retaining the OBC with the original name as certificate of birth, and adding a certificate of adoption as legal ID.\nAlso, why must adoptions be construed as either fully open with frequent visitation, or sealed and closed? I do not believe that mandate that all adoptions be fully open with contact is a realistic goal. Why not envision adoptions with varying degrees of contact and exchange of information, depending on individual situations, with open records for adult adoptees always guaranteed as a civil and human right? I think that in a world where there were no adoptions that were not necessary, there would be very few fully open adoptions with visitation, because the moms who could fully participate in a healthy way would be keeping their babies and never get involved in adoption at all.\nAdoption should be a last resort for parents that are truly unfit and will remain that way long-term, and for those few who, after being offered real options, really do not want to raise a child. Those who feel that way and those who are unfit need to understand that all their rights to that child are gone with termination, and not be offered pie in the sky hopes of visits and continued contact, unless the child, when he or she is old enough to understand the situation, really wants it.\nVery few women actually do not want children--I think it holds steady from generation to generation at something like 6%. After accounting for all those who would have successfully prevented pregnancy, the number of women who do not want to raise a child would be very, very small, and the number who should not, perhaps slightly larger. I agree that with such a small but defined group, the need for open adoption would probably be pretty minimal too. This should not prevent any child from having all of his or her information or legal adults from calling whomever they wish \"family.\"\nWhile we're on the subject of abuse in adoptive families, here is another tragic and very current story of a boy who did not survive being adopted. Anyone who gives a child up for adoption cannot be assured of where s/he will go or what will happen to him.\nTexas shooting called double murder, attempted suicide\nWell, I think you are overstating the case somewhat. In reality, no one ever knows what the future will hold but adults are still entitled to make decisions that are the best ones for them, whether or not other people like it.\nCoincidentally, a Canadian researcher recently looked into the subject of filicide (killing of a child under the age of 18) by poring over Statistics Canada data from 1961 to 2011 and concluded that most of the accused were the biological parents. This in no way diminishes the awfulness of the case or the fact that several adopted children have been killed by their a-parents.\nI do wonder about this adoption. It doesn't seem typical as the mother was old enough to be the child's grandmother, which vaguely made me wonder if it was a kinship adoption. In any case, by all accounts, their relationship was a good one and the husband was the cause of the tragedy.\nJess, this bald statement \"most of the accused were the biological parents\" does not indicate that if this was the statistical conclusion. Since way more children are not adopted, but raised by their biological parents, this makes sense in terms of gross numbers. Clarify?\nYes, I was quoting from a summary, Lorraine. I too paused at the word but I am not sure that in this case it is disguising or distorting anything. I would have to get hold of the study itself.\nWhat it does suggest is that children may be at risk in different kinds of circumstances. For example, when step-children were killed, nine out of ten accused were step-fathers. (Again, the summary used the word \"accused.\") So there you have within a certain parenting situation a risk associated with gender, it seems, with respect to filicide.\nThe purpose of adoption as marketed by its practitioners, social workers, attorneys, adoption agencies, is to ensure the child of a better life. The crapshoot of who a child is born to is not in the same category as a purposeful, volitional act to place a child in a family other than the one s/he was born into in order to improve his life. For that reason, I find arguments that bio-parents also abuse or murder their offspring to be a red herring.\nActually, Amina, you sound as if you are an angry adoptive parent who is upset/pissed off with open adoption for your own reasons, perhaps children you have adopted with one of those \"semi-open\" agreements that you wish to slam shut. This is not the forum for you.\nLisa-adoption will always be fake. A mother was always what a mother meant BEFORE adoption ever existed. A mother means the woman who carries for 9 months and gives birth to the baby inside her. NO other woman was ever called that word pertaining to the baby because only one woman could be that and every person alive only has one mother. A mother also meant raising that baby, no matter how much money was available to her, no matter if she was a widow. Female strangers off the street who have nothing to do with conceiving and birthing an infant were only called mothers after adoption started and they paid the fee for that tittle. Adoptees are supposed to feel these strangers are as important as our mothers (which they are not) because we were bought by them. That is called NOT being in reality. Yup, adoption is fake and always will be but the resentment, frustration and pain adoptive mothers cause us will always be real. Incidentally mental health professionals and others are conducted many studies that concluded that many infertile women develop a schizophrenic type condition due to infertility and a ton of them have drinking problems. That makes most of them unfit to be around kids anyway and why they so easily can delude themselves with all the adoption agenda crap.\nhttp://psychcentral.com/news/2012/07/03/fertility-problems-increase-risk-for-mental-disorders/41093.html\nActually, it's the other way around. Schizophrenia is associated with impaired fertility. It is unlikely that the infertile \"develop\" schizophrenia because of infertility--more likely that the woman is going to develop schizophrenia anyway, since there is a genetic factor. The study simply identified more hospitalizations for psychiatric disorders such as schizophrenia, in other words, the disease manifested itself. By the way, schizophrenia does not automatically make anyone unfit to be around children. There are plenty of people with schizophrenia who take medication and are good parents. Some of the other things you said are just plain offensive.\nAnother study says women with schizophrenia are now having more children because the second-generation antipsychotic drugs don't interfere with conception as much as older medications.\n@AnonymousFebruary 18, 2016 at 1:35 PM\nThe OBC is a factual document which states the truth about a person's natural parentage, insofar as it is known. When an adopted person retains their OBC and grows up in the knowledge of, and with access to, their family of origin, adoption is not fake. It is a legally binding custodial arrangement. No deceit. No fakery. The OBC is the ultimate reality check in adoption. As Maryanne said, there is no good reason for adoption to include secrets and sealed records. The identity can be known to the adoptive parents and to the adoptee, and in most cases the original parents can have contact.\nFor your interest -- and you may already know this, but just in case you don't, French law includes two types of adoption; one is \"adoption simple\" which is closer to what North Americans call guardianship, but not the same. A child retains some legal connection with its family of birth, and the birth family continue to have certain obligations towards the child (Such as, as far as I can remember, should the adoptive parent cease to be able to care for the child, the birth parents have some legal responsibility. Also, the child may inherit from both families). The other type of adoption under French law is \"plenary adoption\" which is more like the North American model in that all links to the original family are severed, I think some South American countries have similar laws to the French.\nIncidentally, in the late Victorian era, my husband's grandmother was adopted into a family called Scrivener. We don't have the documents so it may have been closer to a wardship, although she did use their surname throughout her life and is recorded on the parish register (marriage certificate) under that name. She considered the Scriveners as her mother and father and loved them accordingly. In the absence of her natural parents they filled that role, but she always knew they were not her biological family. Nothing fake about that. So certainly there are alternate legal arrangements that can be made for children who would otherwise not have families. Some are more flexible, some more secure and permanent, depending on the particular nature and the need.\nYour comments about schizophrenia and mental illness are clearly intended to hurt and offend. As Kaisa rightly says, it is untrue that many studies have concluded that many women develop schizophrenia as a result of infertility. There is a strong genetic component to schizophrenia and as somone else commented, women who develop the illness after being diagnosed as infertile might have done so anyway. Also, a recent study indicates that fertility rates are on the rise among women with schizophrenia,\nhttp://www.womenshealthmatters.ca/feature-articles/feature-articles/fertility-rates-are-rising-in-women-with-schizophrenia\nto the point that they are hardly less fertile than women in the general population. It also gives reasons why this seems to be the case. The same study concludes by saying women with schizophrenia can, with proper care and the treatment they deserve, be good mothers.\nExcuse me now while I go and get another glass of wine ;-)\nRe the study about infertility: \"Danish researchers have found women who remained childless after their first work-up for infertility...\nThey went for a workup--which is rather a big deal physically, as I understand it, because they wanted children...so they were disappointed. They were not women who simply did not have children.\nKaisa Gwendolyn, why are you laughing at me? All adoptees are the little match girl when it comes to rights. And all adoptive parents are the kings and queens. They get to buy all the power(which they don't deserve). (The following is a general statement and not said just to KG). I am over 40 and still do not know the truth about my real parents and it is to the point now I want to punch someone in the nose, I am so pissed off and so sick of this crap. Maybe that is the problem,, none of us give them what they deserve, arrogant ap's, social workers, adoption agency employees and so on. Maybe if we beat the hell out of them like they deserve they'd finally take us seriously. Sitting around bitching and blogging doesn't seem to do a lot of good.\nAnon--I agree that the slowness of the legislatures to change the laws is inexcusable, reprehensible, and I have always thought that a really dramatic action that most would condemn would make people take notice and effect change. Sit-ins, marches, Black Panthers--they moved the Civil Rights Movement forward. I have often thought that a break-in to some state's records files --to steal original birth certificates--would get a lot of attention and maybe make some legislators move.\nI am not adopted so I have always had no questions about my heritage. But I have been working for unsealing the damn OBC's for more than half my life--and I am in the Seventies! Along with other women, I have been advocating for this since the mid-Seventies! So many of us share your frustration. Blogging does turn people on, as well as provide validation for those hurt by adoption, so it does good.\nBut how many are writing, lobbying their legislatures, educating others, talking about this more critical facet of their lives? Too many are afraid to speak up--mothers are in the closet, adoptees don't want to rock the boat--so we get situations like the adoptive mother in Texas who seemingly single-handedly was able to block a bill. In New York we have same situation--Helene Weinstein, who has done the same. After the death of a recent friend who turned out to be a natural mother in hiding--she would go bananas over unsealing the records, we had epic battles, etc.--I now believe that Weinstein herself had a child and is in deep denial of what that did to the individual, or she is protecting someone who is close to her.\nStates are beginning to change their laws, but lord how long must we wait?\nMaybe it is time for some sort of attention -grabbing action!!\nOn another note: PLEASE USE THE NAME/URL FUNCTION WHEN YOU POST. You do not need to enter a URL.\nLets punch them in the nose February 19, 2016 at 10:04 AM\nHow about that for a name Lorraine? (lol). I have tried talking to elected officials and they say they will look into it, consider it, etc and then nothing ever happens. It is a proven historical fact that violence is the ONLY effective way to end oppression. The blacks got violent, the indians fought also for a long time. I agree with you. I think it is time to overtake a vital stats office, or walk into an adoption agency and just start taking our info, and if the case workers get in the way, then kick them, hit them, who cares. The hell with them. There are those who say violence is the wrong way, but THEY are violent to us, sealing records is a barbaric act and so is grabbing someone's baby from them. So many adoptive parents are violent against us as many adoptees have been horribly abused, sexually many times too which is the most violent act against a child there is. Social workers are also violent, the way they grab children kicking and screaming away from their parents and shove them into a car. The list goes on and on. I have heard of single mothers tied to beds in maternity homes and given thorizine so they can't fight back. Also violent. All of us have to stop being doormats and victims because they started this war against us first I think it is way beyond time to change the way we protest and I would happy to throw the first punch. Damn it would feel so good! Beating them up would be the best therapy for all of us! It would show all of them they can't push us around anymore the shitheads. Anybody else with me?\nNo, am not with you if you are advocating violence. Against whom? Random adoptive parents? Social workers? This is not funny, it is frightening. I hope you are not armed, whomever you are.\nI doubt she is taking up arms but just expressing her anger. Which is justified.\nLet's punch, I've been admiring your candor, and your rage is justified - although you now have more venom than rage. Rage is a positive thing, venom is calculated and destructive. That's you.\nYou are spinning your wheels in attacking another FMF member personally. Your arguments are hollow. I won't even get started on Maryanne's history of being out there, in organizations, legislative houses and even the street, working to help adoptees and change the laws - for literally years. You are ignorant of all that. Yikes!\nTo quote you above, \"Sitting around bitching and blogging doesn't seem to do a lot of good,\" as you said to Kaisa. I also laughed at the same post by the way, as it was direct, candid and you said what you think. That's pure honesty, and it provokes a laugh as it is so rare to encounter.\nI think it's OK to express fantasies about beating and killing. There are several people in my life (my family and the father of my children) who I have wanted to stab, shoot, or kick, and I came very close to doing so on a few occasions. In my view they deserve it. The only thing that has stopped me is the reality of jail. I would remind you that you could make more progress on this issue, if you do not land yourself in jail.\nWhy don't you lay off the \"hypocrite honey\" argument? It won't help you be heard, it does not clarify your points.\nLet's punch, you have a good sense of humor and I hope some of it will come through, and we can know you a little better. Perhaps there is more to you than a mad dog. Perhaps not. Up till now you've said some interesting things.\nLisa, you think as an adoptee I don't know what an OBC is? Lmao. You obviously don't get that we adoptees can't HAVE our OBC's even when we are adults. All we see is that FAKE amended birth certificate. And you are wrong about those studies, Infertility DOES cause women not only neurotic behavior but legitimate mental illness, mainly because they refuse to accept it. MY AP was NUTS and a drunk so I know all about this. Don't speak for we adoptees, you have no idea what we have been through and have to go through everyday, especially without knowing the truth about our own heritage. In my life it is about ME now, not immature self absorbed infertile women and if any truth I say hurts them, well, tough shit. They sure as hell don't care about hurting us (and natural moms).\nYou seem to be lumping schizophrenia with all\nneurotic behavior\" and \"legitimate mental illness.\" There are hundreds of specific diagnoses of mental illness. They have many different causes. Schizophrenia, referred to specifically above is not caused by infertility. I do believe that infertility can contribute to depression and anxiety, which is a completely different diagnosis than depression. An infertile woman would have to have several risk factors concurrently to develop any mental illness diagnosis.\nLets punch them in the nose. 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He died in St. Elizabeth Hospital Youngstown on Oct. 8 after a brief illness. He entered the Society of St. Paul training program in Staten Island NY in 1955. He took his first vows in 1958 and Blessed James Alberione the founder of the Society of St Paul received his perpetual vows in 1963. In his life time of service to the Society of St. Paul and the Church, Br. Scalise was stationed at one time or another in all four United States locations, Staten Island NY, Derby NY, Canfield OH, and Dearborn MI. He also spent three years serving in the Society of St. Paul\u2019s community in Sydney, Australia. He worked in the Society\u2019s book publishing, audio visual and bookstore ministries. In Canfield he became very well known by the customers of the Southern Park and Eastwood Mall stores. He also served the community in a variety of administrative capacities such as bursar and Provincial Councilor. He particularly enjoyed being a cameraman for the televised weekly Mass of the Society of St. Paul that reaches hundreds of thousands of homes in Northeast Ohio. Over the years he generously helped the ailing members of the community. He drove them to doctor\u2019s appointments, visited them when hospitalized. This was greatly appreciated by the community that he served. Laity and religious alike appreciated him as a consecrated religious in the service of the Church He is survived by his sister Jean Fragiorgi and his nephews Jason, Adam and Stephen.\nFriends may call from 4 to 9 p.m. Friday October 12, 2018 with a Vigil service at 7:30 p.m., at Society of St. Paul, 9531 Akron Canfield Rd. 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Paulk\nWomen's access to education over the centuries has been determined by many factors, including class, race, religion, and nationality. Although women's experiences are marked by a rich diversity, women are in many ways united by their struggle to gain access to education. While previous essay collections that study this topic have tended to be more limited in scope, Dominant Culture and the Education of Women addresses the educational experiences of women from the fourth to the twenty-first century in Europe and the Americas. Because of its inclusive nature, this collection demonstrates not only that women have made great strides in education but also that certain challenges have yet to be overcome. While medieval women faced cloistering and severe restrictions, modern women have gained entry into previously all-male universities and male dominated professions. However, women under totalitarian regimes or from marginalized communities continue to struggle against patriarchal conceptions of women's roles and use of the tools of literacy.\nThis volume will appeal to all who seek new insights into the many subjects related to female education, including women's studies, education, comparative cultural and literary studies, and history.\nEducationHistory & Politics History: specific events & topics Slavery & abolition of slaveryHistory & Politics History: specific events & topics Social & cultural historyLGBT & Gender Studies Gender studies Gender studies: womenPhilosophy, Psychology & Social Sciences Social groups Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing Publication Date: 01/06/2008 ISBN-13: 9781847185730 Details: Type: Hardback Format: Books\nJulia C. Paulk is an Assistant Professor of Spanish at Marquette University in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, where she teaches Spanish American literature, culture, and language classes. She earned her doctorate at Indiana University, Bloomington, with a dual specialization in Spanish American and Comparative Literature. Dr. Paulk's areas of research interest are nineteenth-century antislavery literature, Inter-American literary studies, and women's studies. Her scholarly articles include \"A New Look at the Strains of Allegory in Gertrudis Gomez de Avellaneda's Sab,\" published in Revista Hispanica Moderna, and \"(Re)Writing Patriarchy and Motherhood in Jose de Alencar's Allegorical Antislavery Plays, O Demonio Familiar and Mae,\" which appeared in The Luso-Brazilian Review. Dr. Paulk is currently working on a book-length study of antislavery literature entitled, Mixed Messages: Antislavery Allegories of the Americas.\nMore books by Julia C. 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Some may be merely kicking the tires, whereas others are bona fide entrepreneurs who could be the next great addition to your growing brand. After receiving an inquiry to purchase a franchise, usually through the franchisor\u2019s website or brokers, the franchisor will often schedule an initial telephone conference with the prospective franchisee so that both the franchisor and the franchisee can gauge their interests in selling and purchasing a franchise. If there is mutual interest, the franchisor will send a franchise disclosure document, a legal document that a franchisor must provide to the prospective franchisee.\nFor the franchisor, this initial conference will be an important tool to determine whether the prospective franchisee is a bona fide franchisee who can be a profitable addition to the franchise system. Franchisors need to determine the business experience of the prospective franchisee, the financial strength to support the startup or build-out costs, and the long-term goals of the prospective franchisee vis-\u00e0-vis the franchise system and brand. Some of the common questions franchisors ask, or should ask, include:\nWithin every industry, from quick-service restaurants, to hospitality, to fitness and health, there are a multitude of franchises that a prospective franchisee can pick from. There are several thousand franchised brands currently offered in the United States. Franchisors will ask why the prospective franchisee is choosing this industry, and within that industry, why this brand. Sometimes answers like \u201cI tried your cupcakes and they were so good, I just had to open a cupcake shop next to my house\u201d may be enough, but not always. Franchisors will want to see that the prospective franchisee is gung-ho about the brand and industry.\nHow much capital do you have to invest and what is the source of funding?\nPurchasing a franchise will require the franchisee to spend thousands of dollars on initial franchise fees (payable to the franchisor) and on build-out costs and the purchase of inventory or equipment. These initial investments, which are summarized in Items 5 and 7 of the franchise disclosure document, can often be $100,000 to $1,000,000, depending on the business. Franchisors will want to know that the prospective franchisee has liquid cash to purchase the franchise and to fund its opening. Just as important as determining the net worth and liquidity of the prospective franchisee is determining the source of the funds. Like non-franchised businesses, franchised businesses may not turn a profit in the first year or so of operation. Therefore, franchisors will want to know whether the prospective franchisee has sufficient liquid net worth, or whether it has or will obtain financing from lenders.\nDo you have experience in this industry?\nIn theory, experience is not necessary to purchase a franchise if the franchisor provides sufficient training and support to teach its franchises the system of operation. Some franchisors, however, favor franchisees who have business experience in the same industry. Others prefer hardworking and adaptable franchisees who can learn the franchisor\u2019s way of operation. Either way, franchisors should determine the prospective franchisee\u2019s previous business. Likewise, franchisors may ask whether the prospective franchisee has prior franchise experience (even in another industry) to determine whether he or she understands the franchise relationship.\nWhen do you want to open?\nFranchisors need to make sure the expectations of franchisees line up with their schedules. Before an entrepreneur can open a franchised outlet, he or she must be given a franchise disclosure document (which must be registered in at least 14 states). He or she must also be allowed the applicable waiting period to review the documents, complete an initial training program while, obtain a location for the franchised outlet and build it out per the franchisor\u2019s specifications. This process can often take a few months. Further, from a strategic standpoint, a franchisor may have goals on how many outlets it wants to sell in a particular geographic market within a certain timeframe \u2013 therefore the franchisor will need to understand whether the prospective franchisee\u2019s expectations line up with the franchisor\u2019s goals.\nSome prospective franchisees may be passive, whereas others will actually be working the business from behind the cash register. Most franchisors are looking for the latter. Franchisors will ask whether the prospective franchisee has or intends to operate other businesses or work another job simultaneously with ownership and operation of the franchised business. Opening a franchised business requires hard work, long hours (well above a 40-hour work week), and little to no profits initially, so franchisors will want to see whether the prospective franchisee is ready to get his or her hands dirty.\nAre the franchisor\u2019s goals (often, growing the brand) consistent with the prospective franchisee\u2019s goals? Or is the prospective franchisee merely looking to \u201cbuy a job\u201d after being out of work? This question will help franchisors determine whether a prospective franchisee is a cultural fit within the franchisor\u2019s system. Some franchisees may be looking to purchase one franchise at the moment, with the long-term goal of acquiring additional units, and passing these businesses down to heirs.\nFor startup franchisors looking to sell their first, second, or third franchises, finding the right franchisees is critical because the franchise system may not yet have the size or weight to weather poor fits or poor performers. 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It\u2019s important to have an approach that\u2019s infused with a greater understanding of the customer and really start to understand what steps they take before they decide to buy. Today\u2019s sales people need to look outside the box and ahead to solutions for problems that the marketplace doesn\u2019t know exist.\nInstead of the typical sales approach that is something like this: salesperson digs for pain, presents a solution, handles objections, proposes a purchase, wrestles with terms, handles more objections and then goes in for the close\u2026or the adaptive approach which is controlling the buying process itself and how a decision is made\u2014what about the alternative to either of those approaches? How about the organization or individual who defines the problem to begin with? Instead of winning the fight for \u201cwhy choose us?\u201d let\u2019s control the fight for \u201cwhy choose anything?\u201d You must personalize your organization\u2019s value proposition with your client\u2019s on a case-by-case basis.\nMake solutions easy\nWe\u2019ve probably all been there; you think you are about to close the deal and the buyer walks away without a real explanation for why they chose not to buy. They don\u2019t go with a cheaper price or another company, they just don\u2019t do anything at all. The bigger the deal, the bigger this issue becomes. And it\u2019s frustrating.\nBut I want you to think of your own personal buying experience. What stops you from making a purchase if you set out to do so but changed your mind? I would bet it\u2019s one of these 3 common deal busters: you\u2019re either not convinced something will work, you fear the risk of change is too high, or the solution proposed seems complicated. It\u2019s the same issue even when dealing with large companies and organizations. The more they\u2019ve been proven right on these fears, the harder it will be to get them to change their habits.\nHelp buyers release these fears and be open to committing to buying. They will do this if you make the problems visible and quantifiable and work to build solutions with them.\nTeaching sells\nI\u2019ve said it before and have no problem saying it again. I urge you to write, speak, and educate as an expert in your field. Using these practices will make you more equipped to help find and address problems your client might not even know exist.\nAlso, people like to be warned of problems and issues with something they were considering purchasing or have already purchased but are now frustrated that something isn\u2019t working as they were promised. When you present your findings and teach your clients and others in the industry what solutions you came up with, you will see a higher level of ongoing feedback.\nDefining it\nThink of the Sales Hourglass as your individual prospect playbook, the tool that will help you tailor your sales method for each client. It works to help the prospect or customer engage in the specific process of buying. But it is also about a mutual understanding between yourself and the prospect that there might not be a deal closure in the end at all, and that\u2019s okay.\nYour sales manager might be having a fit hearing that, but it\u2019s true. Not every prospect is a good fit. Sometimes getting a no quickly can be quite beneficial because it saves you time and wasted effort.\nMerely introducing the Sales Hourglass road map to a prospect will allow you to stand out as it introduces valuable steps not often taken by traditional sales professionals. I believe that your prospects will value and appreciate this approach. I also believe that these steps actually demonstrate not only a better way to sell, but also a better way to buy.\nFind out how to motivate a prospect who won\u2019t commit.\nDiscover a great way to turn a negative prospect into a positive one.\nCheck out why you should go Hollywood to grow your small business.", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00240.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 97, + "original_length": 9341, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.96, + "perplexity": 323.7, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "https://www.friedmanlaw.com/Practice-Areas/Child-Sexual-Abuse.shtml", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T04:55:27Z", + "digest": "sha1:KRDT7TYKT7QIN6DZUWSUXZJ6UAGM5OWL", + "length": 1545, + "nlines": 6, + "source_domain": "www.friedmanlaw.com", + "title": "Child Sexual Abuse | Friedman Law Offices, P.C., L.L.O.", + "raw_content": "Lincoln Child Sexual Abuse Attorneys\nNebraska Child Sex Abuse Claims and Litigation\nOne of the most disturbing revelations in the news and modern life is the fact that many children have been sexually abused by older children or adults. Often times this abuse was not disclosed to anyone for fear of the embarrassment or repercussions by the abuser. The trauma from sexually abused often times has long-term consequences for the child. Many children repress memories of sexual abuse only to have it come out later in life. This is known as Repressed Memory Syndrome. Some of the symptoms that sexually abused children experience either as children or as adults include dysfunctional relationships with friends and spouses, becoming abusers themselves, the inability to perform in school or a job, or abuse of alcohol or drugs.\nFriedman Law Offices, P.C., L.L.O. is greatly experienced in child sex abuse cases involving clergy, family members, foster children, foster parents, and healthcare professionals.\nIn May 2007, Friedman Law Offices, P.C., L.L.O. obtained a 1.75 million dollar verdict on behalf of a woman who was sexually abused as a child by her father, a former preacher.\nIf you have been the victim of sexual abuse, contact Friedman Law Offices, P.C., L.L.O., Nebraska sexual abuse lawyers. Our office is located in Lincoln, but we successfully advocate for clients throughout the state of Nebraska. You can contact us online or at 888.419.6876 for an immediate evaluation of your case. There is no cost for an initial consultation.", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00240.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 58, + "original_length": 3087, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.96, + "perplexity": 159.8, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "https://www.friedmanlaw.com/blog/2010/09/herb-friedman-statute-of-limitations-on-a-medical-negligence-case.shtml", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T04:53:44Z", + "digest": "sha1:OJ6VPC4ILAUYSN76VCIWTRMQAI6XBX3B", + "length": 566, + "nlines": 4, + "source_domain": "www.friedmanlaw.com", + "title": "Herb Friedman Statute of Limitations on a Medical Negligence Case | Friedman Law Offices, P.C., L.L.O.", + "raw_content": "Herb Friedman Statute of Limitations on a Medical Negligence Case\nOn behalf of Friedman Law Offices, P.C., L.L.O. posted in Medical Malpractice on Thursday, September 2, 2010.\nNebraska attorney, Herb Friedman of Friedman Law Offices, explains what the statute of limitations is on a lawsuit if you've suffered from medical malpractice.\nRelated Posts: 4 Largest Drug Recalls in FDA History, What is Considered Medical Malpractice?, Nebraska Injury Lawyer Talks About Medical Negligence, Herb Friedman What is the Statute of Limitations in a Medical Malpractice Claim?", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00240.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 97, + "original_length": 3004, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.86, + "perplexity": 314.8, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "https://www.ft.com/content/084268d4-fa2f-11de-beed-00144feab49a", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T04:13:13Z", + "digest": "sha1:XGEDE5DXK7NBOMHCCYZUCYI2KY7SPYNT", + "length": 58, + "nlines": 1, + "source_domain": "www.ft.com", + "title": "Subscribe to read | Financial Times", + "raw_content": "Subscribe to the FT to read: Financial Times Pick-your-own", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00240.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 312, + "original_length": 7401, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.86, + "perplexity": 310.6, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "https://www.futurelearn.com/courses/biology-basic-concepts/0/steps/47556", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T04:34:49Z", + "digest": "sha1:TCR55RF2GBJHNEWGAKJODHIRMP7ULE4I", + "length": 15149, + "nlines": 41, + "source_domain": "www.futurelearn.com", + "title": "Conversation with Toni Gabald\u00f3n", + "raw_content": "Why Biology Matters: Basic Concepts\n0:26Skip to 0 minutes and 26 secondsToday we are going to talk on how evolution works and understand the process and the reconstruction of evolution. And we have with us Toni Gabald\u00f3n. Toni Gabald\u00f3n is an ICREA research professor at the CRG, Center for Genome Regulation, in Barcelona. He\u2019s very interested in reconstructing evolution, and he\u2019s doing much of comparative genomics and reconstruction of many processes in evolution through genomic information. He\u2019s interested in the study of the origin, evolution, and function of complex biological systems. He has done a lot of interesting work trying to reconstruct the evolutionary process in several clades of life. Toni, why comparing genomes is a key to reconstruct the evolutionary processes?\n1:25Skip to 1 minute and 25 secondsOkay, you have to think that the genomes are molecules that are passed over generations. So every time a cell divides, this material is copied. But in this copying process, there are sometimes errors that are accumulated. And some of these errors can be selected against, or selected for, but some just stay lying around. So as time passes, the number of these changes increases. So when you compare genomes from different individuals, or from different species, you will see differences that are proportional to the separation of these two organisms. So in fact, you can use this to reverse, to try to reconstruct, what has been the process of creation of these differences.\n2:17Skip to 2 minutes and 17 secondsSo at the very end, you see the diversity of life looking at the diversity of the genomes. Exactly. All living forms have this genetic material, they have these genomes, and they have accumulated these differences over time. So that\u2019s a way of assessing the diversity of life and reconstructing the relationships between the different species and organisms. You see the diversity of life, but you also see the commonality, the fact that all life shares lots of things. And you can see that in the genomes. Exactly. So the very fact that we can compare genomes from one species and another species is because they have a common origin. So they all use the same material to store their genetic information, the DNA.\n3:08Skip to 3 minutes and 8 secondsThey have many genes in common, so genes of the same family that you find across the diversity of life\u2026 so we have some proteins encoded by genes which are of the same families of proteins that are encoded by bacteria, even if they live in diverse environments. And this is because all life on Earth is related through a common origin. So you could eventually trace all back to a single ancestor that is related to the whole diversity of life. So maybe we should not be surprised if, when people sequence a new genome, they say we share a very high percentage of genes. Exactly. Because we share an ancestry. So therefore, we share some of the genetic information.\n4:01Skip to 4 minutes and 1 secondSo we should not be surprised to find that we share some genes like are similar to those that are in bacteria or other forms of life. Even if we think we are enormously different. And of course we are, but our basic mechanisms are pretty conserved. When you begin one of your projects, say, the diversity of birds, or fungi, how do you proceed? How do you begin, and what is the process you follow? So the first step is to\u2026you have a group of organisms, like a clade, a group of related organisms that you want to reconstruct the evolution; which species is closest to which one, and so on.\n4:46Skip to 4 minutes and 46 secondsSo you want, in a way, to reconstruct the tree of life of that clade. And the first step is always to find the genes that are common to all these species. So you have to set which regions of the genome are homologous to which other regions in the other species. So in a way, in simple words, this is to know which gene is what gene in each of the species. And once you have gathered this information, you try to find as many of these genes as possible, because these are genes that are shared by all the species you are studying, and in principle, you could reconstruct from these genes the underlying evolution of a species.\n5:32Skip to 5 minutes and 32 secondsThe more genes you can gather, the more information you have. Because a single gene is limited in their ability to reconstruct the evolution of other species. But the more you approach the whole genome, the more information you can gather together. So that\u2019s the first step. Then you align these sequences with each other to find these mutations - or changes in the sequence - that should be proportional to the evolutionary relationship. So you count these differences, and you assess where are these differences, and using some mathematical models that implement what we know about how sequences evolve, you can use those models to reconstruct back the evolution of a species.\n6:21Skip to 6 minutes and 21 secondsSo you end up with a tree representing the common ancestry of all these species. This tree is what you call a phylogeny then? Yes, this is what we call a species phylogeny. Because you can also have a tree which represents the evolution of a gene family. This will be a gene phylogeny. But when you combine several of these gene phylogenies into one single phylogeny, this is a close approximation of what has been the evolution of this species, and this is what we call the species phylogeny. And here you reconstruct not only how the evolution of the group went, let\u2019s say the mode, the clades, but you also reconstruct the time. Is it possible to talk about an evolutionary clock?\n7:10Skip to 7 minutes and 10 secondsI mean, the molecular clock was a very interesting, inspiring idea that if these mutations, or if these changes accumulate in a way that is proportional to time, then we could time using these trees past events and know when they happened. So the reality is not as simple. There is not a single molecular clock. But there is a relationship between the number of differences and time. This relationship is not direct, so we cannot just go from counting the number of changes to counting the number of years, or millions of years. Because there are different factors, like we have seen now that different parts of the genome evolve at different speeds.\n7:57Skip to 7 minutes and 57 secondsSo you can have some proteins that evolve much faster than others in the same gene. So they tend to accumulate mutations more rapidly. We have also seen that this clock is not ticking at the same speed in different parts of the tree of life. Because, you can imagine that the generation time, for instance, of the different species is different. So you copy more times the genome in one species that have short generation times and reproduce every year than in a species that reproduces every 20 years. And also the correction mechanisms and the mutation rates in each species may be different. However, considering all these factors, the number of mutations is telling us, in part, about the time.\n8:47Skip to 8 minutes and 47 secondsSo there are ways in which we can approximate this time. We can use fossil records that we can calibrate in different groups of species and we can understand these factors. So in a way, we can assess, at least in relative timing, what things happened before or after others. So could you say that we are in the process of the full reconstruction of the tree of life? I mean, to me, I see the full reconstruction of the tree of life as utopia, you know? It is our goal, we have to go there, however it is not as easy. So the first problem I see is that the diversity we know is still a minor fraction of true diversity.\n9:33Skip to 9 minutes and 33 secondsAnd we are now realizing with these projects that just go to the deep sea and get cells and sequence the genomes\u2026 We are understanding now that the diversity we know of is just a tiny fraction of true diversity. So if the tree has to be the tree of life, not just the tree of the species we know the best, like vertebrates or plants, I think this will take time just to gather the genetic information we need. Then I also think there is a limitation to how far we can go in the reconstruction of the tree of life, because some of the events are very ancestral.\n10:09Skip to 10 minutes and 9 secondsSo life originated on Earth 3 billion years ago, and you can accumulate mutations, but then you have the effect that some mutations will accumulate over some preexisting mutations, and there is an effect that is called \u201csaturation of signal\u201d. So for the very ancient events, the saturation of signal can blur this relationship. So I think there\u2019s a limit, and we may reach the limit at some point, and we have to be happy that, okay, maybe we don\u2019t know the exact relationship between these very ancestral groups. Which is a more difficult part? Bacteria, maybe? Or protozoans? I think the basal radiation of some groups is going to be very problematic. Like, I\u2019m thinking now about the origin of eukaryotes.\n11:07Skip to 11 minutes and 7 secondsSo eukaryotes quickly - from the first eukaryotes we can recognize \u2013 apparently they quickly diversified into several distinct groups. So I think clarifying the order in which these groups separated from each other is going to be very challenging.\n11:25Skip to 11 minutes and 25 secondsBut I also want to say something: sometimes you have these problems in very recent variations; and you mentioned our work on the birds. So theirs is a more recent event, much more recent than the origin of eukaryotes. But it was also very fast radiation. And we participated in this study in which we had the full genomes of 50 different species samples from the different bird lineages, and indeed there it was not very simple to reconstruct the tree of life. And the problem was that it was a very fast radiation because we think it coincided with the extinction of the dinosaurs. So this group could diversify very fast and occupy different niches.\n12:09Skip to 12 minutes and 9 secondsSo when you have a lot of speciations in very short time, you don\u2019t have much time to accumulate differences between one group and the other. So we think that that can be a complication also in some recent variations. So when things happen very fast, and you don\u2019t have time to accumulate a lot of mutations, even the whole genome may not be enough to solve all the questions. So we have seen how the genome has evolved and how now we use the diversity of the genomes to reconstruct evolution; something extremely interesting and powerful, but, as we have seen, with lots of future challenges.\nConversation with Toni Gabald\u00f3n\nToni Gabald\u00f3n is an ICREA research professor at the CRG, the Center for Genome Regulation in Barcelona.\nWe are going to talk about how evolution works and explore the process and the reconstruction of evolution.\nImportant concepts from the video\n1. Clade (4.37 and many other times)\nA clade is a group of organisms that consists of a common ancestor and all its lineal descendants, and represents a single \u201cbranch\u201d on the tree of life. It may refer to a narrow clade of, say, all Drosophila species or to a wide one, like animals. By definition it is monophyletic, that it contains one ancestor (which can be an organism, a population, or a species) and all its descendants. The ancestor can be known or unknown; any and all members of a clade can be extant or extinct.\n2. Gene family (3.10)\nA gene family is a set of several similar genes, formed by duplication of a single original gene, and generally with similar biochemical functions. One such family are the genes for human hemoglobin (Hb) subunits; the ten genes are in two clusters on different chromosomes, called the \u03b1-globin and \u03b2-globin loci. These two gene clusters are thought to have arisen as a result of a precursor gene being duplicated approximately 500 million years ago.\n3. Tree of life (4.48)\nMetaphor to indicate the evolutionary relationships among all living beings. It may be explored in an interesting web site: the Tree of Life Web Project http://tolweb.org/tree/\n4. Homologous genes (5.00)\nGenes that have a common ancestor; they have shared ancestry and usually they have similar function. Two segments of DNA can have shared ancestry because of either a speciation event (orthologs; in the genome of different species) or a duplication event (paralogs; in the same genome). Homology among DNA is inferred from their sequence similarity.\n5. Phylogeny (6.24)\nA phylogeny, phylogenetic tree or evolutionary tree is a branching diagram or \u201ctree\u201d showing the inferred evolutionary relationships among various biological species based upon similarities and differences in their physical or genetic characteristics. The taxa joined together in the tree are implied to have descended from a common ancestor.\n6. Molecular clock (7.06)\nIt is a technique that uses the mutation rate of DNA to deduce time in past evolutionary events. It may be used for gene trees or, more interesting, to species trees. In many cases it is necessary to calibrate the clock with external evidence, like the fossil record. In this case it may be possible to have an estimation of the molecular clock of a given number of mutations per time unit (a million of years, for example).\n7. Saturation of the signal (10.25)\nSaturation of the number of substitutions observed when comparing two DNA sequences occurs when a single site experiments multiple mutations. Then, with time, the observed differences increases less than the amount of produced differences. In next figure, two different types of substitutions are shown, transitions (high mutation rate) and transversions (low).\n8. Radiation (10.50)\nAn evolutionary radiation is a sudden increase in taxonomic diversity in a given clade. Radiations may affect one clade or many, and be rapid or gradual; where they are rapid, and driven by a single lineage\u2019s adaptation to their environment, they are termed adaptive radiations. Perhaps the most familiar example of an evolutionary radiation is that of placental mammals immediately after the extinction of the dinosaurs at the end of the Cretaceous, about 66 million years ago. At that time, the placental mammals were mostly small, insect-eating animals similar in size and shape to modern shrews. By the Eocene (58\u201337 million years ago), they had evolved into such diverse forms as bats, whales, and horses.\n9. Ecological niche (11.02)\nIn ecology, a niche is the fit of a species living under specific environmental conditions. The ecological niche describes how an organism or population responds to the distribution of resources and competitors and how it in turn alters those same factors. Sometimes it may be seen as a multidimensional space in an ecological system, with the environmental conditions and resources.\n10. Speciation (12.08)\nSpeciation is the evolutionary process by which biological populations evolve to become distinct species. 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Whether or not that\u2019s still the story for this newest version with Hart is unclear.\nWhen the movie was officially announced in 2015, Lionsgate released a synopsis that is either the best or the worst depending on your attitude. Here it is:\n\u201cThe story centers on a boy from Baltic Avenue who uses both Chance and Community in a quest to make his fortune, taking him on a fun, adventure-filled journey. It\u2019s about making your own luck, what makes you truly rich and, of course, avoiding Jail time!\u201d\nIt was previously announced that Andrew Niccol, who picked up an Academy Award nomination for The Truman Show, would write the screenplay for the Monopoly movie, but it\u2019s not clear if he remains attached. According to a press release, the movie will be a \u201cbig, crowd-pleasing event film.\u201d\nLionsgate goes on to say that the Monopoly movie will be \u201ca film for all ages, visually sumptuous, heartwarming, and full of action and adventure.\u201d\nMonopoly is just the latest board game to be spun into a movie. The Peter Berg-directed Battleship movie starring Alexander Skarsgard, Rihanna, Liam Neeson, and Taylor Kitsch, was released in 2012. Before that, there were films based on Dungeons & Dragons, Ouija, and Clue. 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Though the two subsequent games in the series were more action-influenced, they were certainly created in the same vein, weaving the familiar characters and story into new adventures. Although Jak X: Combat Racing is the fourth installment in the Jak and Daxter franchise, it, as the name implies, leaves its platforming roots completely in the dust and favors a number of different modes that centralize around...well, combat and racing. Though a turn from all of the series' games to date, Jak X still manages to infuse the same style of exposition and tale telling into between-race cinematics and in-game banter. Naughty Dog does a good job of tying all the pieces together, especially across two completely different genres; however, a few elements of gameplay aren't as strong as they were in the platform iterations. Jak X is a fun combat-racing game; the story will appeal to fans of the franchise, and there are a lot of cool secrets and unlockables. But there are some functional drawbacks--especially noticeable in the later levels--that prevent this game from being truly excellent.\nJak and Daxter trade in their legs for a nice set of wheels.\nDespite the complete genre change, the story in Jak X picks up shortly after the previous game in the series. This time, Jak and Daxter have been summoned to Kras City for the reading of Krew's will. You might remember Krew as the thug lord who doled out a number of missions in Jak II, and who had to be defeated toward the end of the game. As is evidenced by the opening premise, you will spend a lot of time dealing with story that picks up from the three previous games in the franchise. You won't need to have played any of the games to be able to appreciate what's going on, but you will probably miss a ton of innuendo and self-references if you haven't. Gathering to hear the will's reading are a number of familiar faces, including Sig and Ashelin, as well as new ones, such as Krew's daughter, Rayn. At the will reading, everyone toasts and drinks a vintage wine that is, unsurprisingly, poisoned at Krew's request. The hologram of Krew that serves as the will then lays down the challenge. If one of the people present can win the upcoming Kras City Grand Championship race in his name, they'll all be presented with the antidote, and he will have fulfilled his dying wish. Of course, what doesn't quite make sense is that you will all be racing against each other and hurting each other, instead of working together to ensure that at least one of the team wins. Other than this small detail, the story is consistent and surprisingly deep for a racing game. After many of the races and all of the major ones, you'll be treated to a cinematic, whether it's a group meeting to discuss the race events, a challenge from one of the competitive teams, or an interview with the championship's annoying TV representative, G.T. Blitz.\nThough the story plays a fundamental role both in making the game cohesive in and of itself and in tying the rest of the games together, the crux of the gameplay is in the races. The main single-player mode is the adventure mode, which allows you to compete in four different cups, consisting of 20 different competitions each. Limited races are available at the start, but as you win medals and earn one, two, or three points, respectively, for bronze, silver, and gold finishes, additional tracks and challenges unlock. Aside from earning medals, you also accumulate points based on the different accomplishments of your race, such as the number of enemies taken down or the length of your longest drift, which can be used to purchase car upgrades, new vehicles, and a number of different goodies from the secret shop.\nIn a standard race, you'll come across the threat of other racers and various obstacles within the environment. Most of the environmental challenges are simply the twists and turns of the track, although a few levels have more immediate threats, such as giant rolling snowballs or lava. There are four types of eco that can be collected from the track. Green and blue eco are used to replenish your car's health and to give you turbo boosts, respectively. Red eco is responsible for the weapons that you shoot out of the back of the car, and yellow for the forward projectiles. Weapons that you drop behind you include oil slicks, mines, stationary turrets, and attack drones. One of the best tactical maneuvers is to drop your rear weapon once you've been targeted; if timed correctly, generally it will deflect all incoming attacks. Forward projectiles include homing missiles, grenades, and the all-encompassing and destroying supernova.\nSince you can hold on to the boosts and both of the weapons to fire at your own discretion, there is a fair amount of strategy to employ during any given race. In the earlier levels, the races feel a bit like a lesser version of Burnout, and as you cause crashes, the camera will cut away to a slow-motion view of the crash. You can get away without braking and simply power-slide around corners, turboing out of the power slide to ensure that you're coming away with the most speed. However--and this is what's most noticeable in the races--the competitors are all always extremely close by. No matter how well you've played the race, it's pretty much a guarantee that at your first crash or flip-over, you'll be passed by at least three or four racers. This is sure to keep you on your toes, and once you're familiar with the game, you'll typically be able to gain that lead back again soon. But this shows that many races depend on the timing of your last crash. So if you run a perfect race, but take a dive right before the finish line, chances are that you're not going to win. As the levels get more difficult, this just becomes worse, and in the final cup, you'll feel like some of those wins had more to do with chance than with the skill you've earned by racing through the three previous cups.\nThough the game is extremely smooth, the automatic respawn of the car always flashes to a pitch black screen for a moment, which is so jarring, it looks like it's a bug of some sort. To further agitate the situation, cars that are deemed better by the game aren't, necessarily. Winning the first two cups will let you unlock level-two and three cars, which have better statistics regarding the engine, gearbox, armor, and turbo capacity. They'll also have more empty slots, which you can fill by purchasing additional points in these categories. But having a more fully upgraded vehicle does not make it necessarily better, and you'll find that not only are the higher level cars more rickety, they aren't noticeably much faster than the lower classes. Once you figure this out, you'll probably race all the final cup races with a level-two car, wondering why you bothered to purchase all the upgrades and additional vehicles in the first place.\nThe story is still hilarious, and a little cheesy.\nOf course, one of the best things about Jak X's adventure mode is that not all of the races are, in fact, races. The variety and uniqueness of the game's different challenges are one of its greatest strengths. There are more than 10 different modes in total, and most of them can be played in either the single-player or multiplayer events. Throughout the story, you'll come across many instances of Turbo Dash, a challenge that tasks you to collect and use up more turbo pickups than your opponents within a time limit. In Death Race, there are no competitive racers on the track, but merely a bunch of yellow dummy cars, and your objective is to take down as many as possible by either running into them or shooting them with your weapons. Most of the races that require you to tally scores like this give you a bonus, depending on what lap of the track you're on. As you complete laps, the lap counter acts like a multiplier; on the third lap, one kill counts for three. This encourages you to keep moving forward, quickly, and it works extremely well in the context of the game. There are also a few different challenges that must be performed on the circular arena levels, including capture, a capture-the-flag mode, and sport hunt, a race to kill more game than any of your competitors.\nThere are 24 different tracks and seven arenas, with the potential to unlock mirrored races through the secret shop. Despite the variety, many of the straight races feel familiar, and since almost all of them are available during all four cups, you don't get the sense that you're progressing forward to new levels--merely different areas in the same environment. That being said, the tracks are very well designed, and some of them are extremely long, which makes the races interesting, even if they are often familiar.\nYou'll encounter old, familiar characters, and meet new ones.\nThough vehicle customization isn't necessary, you will unlock a fair number of accessories over the course of the single-player game, and it's fun to see how drastically your vehicle changes as you put new parts on. The racers are all essentially different-shaped buggies--some sleeker and closer to the ground, while others are bulkier and more fierce looking. The parts unlock automatically as you win races, and you can go into the garage to switch around the side panels, trunk, hood, rear panels, and wheels on your car. Unlike in tuning the car's performance, these accessories are merely for appearance, which means, among other things, that they damage and fall off your car as you crash on the track. The car's main color and stripe color can also be adjusted using a full color wheel. As you get more points from racing, you'll find helmets and accessories (like pink fuzzy dice) in the secret shop, which you can add to your car as well, giving you the opportunity to create a unique-looking vehicle. Overall, the game looks stellar. The cinematics are filled with the same rich, animated expressions that classically adorn Jak and Daxter's faces, and the races have a fair amount of detail. Aside from the aforementioned pieces falling off the car as you race, you'll be treated to particle effects of all sorts, including the lava that sends flames up your wheels, and the way in which the game's numerous weapons affect the vehicles. And even when the action gets hectic, the game still maintains a smooth frame rate.\nThe music and sound effects are equally well done. The many different racers make comments as they inflict damage or get hit by other competitors, and on occasion it's too much, but for the most part, there's a nice balance of the roaring sounds of the vehicles, the pops and whizzes of the weapons, and the character voice-overs. Actor Max Casella still does the voice of Daxter, and he pulls off Daxter's silly lines with ease and humor. Aside from some generic rock music that plays during the races and menu screens, there are two tracks from Queens of the Stone Age in the game's intro movie.\nOnce you've acquired 100-percent completion in the adventure mode by winning a gold medal on every race, a new difficulty called hero mode unlocks. You can then play through the game again, under this new challenge, but unless you're a Jak completist, there's little reason to go through it all again. The better alternative is to continue racing on tracks you've already beaten, acquiring further points so that you can raid the secret shop. There are many different things to get in the secret shop, from additional cars and characters to movies that show bloopers, the making of, and one involving a particularly hot beverage, Jak-and-Daxter-style. You'll also be able to unlock additional racers if you have saves of Jak 1-3, Ratchet Deadlocked, or an attached PSP with the upcoming game Daxter in it.\nThe multiplayer and customization options are extremely rich.\nThe single-player is fairly long if you're going for the gold, but it has the tendency to get repetitive if you're in for extended sessions of gameplay. The way to get a little variety is to hop into the offline two-player split-screen multiplayer or the online up-to-six-player multiplayer. Not all of the races can be done by split-screen, but for an added bonus, you can take two players online with the same PS2 and play together if the race type allows. The multiplayer is merely an extension of the single-player modes, letting you play each of them against any number of CPU or human opponents. The action is nice and smooth, and you can communicate with other players via headsett, or text chat when in the game lobbies. The online also tracks your overall stats and lets you have buddy lists and clans of your own design. Depending on the setting chosen by the host, you can either all use the same-level cars or bring one of your customized cars into the arena. The online really adds a lot to the overall package, giving it some replay value long after you've completed the solo races.\nJak X: Combat Racing does a good job of moving an existing franchise into an entirely new genre. Though there are some problems with the single-player artificial intelligence in the later levels, there is an overwhelming amount of value from the multiplayer modes and unlockable options. Fans of the series will be treated to a continuation of the story, including memorable sound bites like Daxter's \"Dude that was sooo last adventure (in stores now)!\" Chances are that you'll get more out of the combat modes than the racing ones, but there is enough variety to keep you appeased for quite some time. Though it may have once seemed like an unlikely pairing to move such a strong platforming duo into the racing genre, for the most part, it has turned out to be a memorable compilation.\nJak X: Combat Racing / PlayStation 2\nGreat-looking graphics and effects\nContinues a deep and interesting story\nA number of unique modes\nOnline multiplayer is fun and works well\nLater cars aren't worth unlocking\nRubber-band AI gets a little out of control in later races\nCarrie Gouskos\nPlease Sign In to rate Jak X: Combat Racing\nSCEE, SCEA, SCE Australia, Sony Interactive Entertainment, Limited Run Games\nCrude Humor, Fantasy Violence, Language, Use of Tobacco", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00240.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 168, + "original_length": 16695, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.96, + "perplexity": 237.3, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "https://www.gameyum.com/gamecube-games/", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T04:43:21Z", + "digest": "sha1:PHMTW2YDULCRUDUD6IPCWEMMLVAYPEXX", + "length": 2164, + "nlines": 17, + "source_domain": "www.gameyum.com", + "title": "Gamecube Games Archives - Game Yum", + "raw_content": "Boss Guide: Luigi\u2019s Mansion\nGamecube Games / GC, Other Platforms\nIn Luigi\u2019s Mansion, it\u2019s Luigi\u2019s turn to save the day when his brother goes missing. 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Why, Spongebob Squarepants, of course! Check out our list of the best games starring the popular Nickelodeon cartoon character.\nFire Emblem: Path of Radiance Review \u2013 Why You Should Check Out This Old Favorite\nLost in the success of Nintendo\u2019s flagship franchises such as Mario and Zelda is the fact that they also produce one of the finest strategy RPG series on the planet, Fire Emblem. Here\u2019s a look at the underrated GameCube entry in the series, Path of Radiance, which is playable on the Wii.", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00240.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 66, + "original_length": 3018, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.9, + "perplexity": 315.2, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "https://www.gamezebo.com/2011/09/10/slingo-quest-amazon-review/", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T04:56:45Z", + "digest": "sha1:PDPAAOQZNRNC6H5HZ36SNLDPQWC4MZJM", + "length": 4430, + "nlines": 16, + "source_domain": "www.gamezebo.com", + "title": "Slingo Quest Amazon Review", + "raw_content": "Slingo Quest Egypt that now has us traversing the jungles and rivers of the Amazon Rainforest to save the Joker from the evil Devil. This is, of course, achieved by way of the level based slot-machine-meets-Bingo gameplay that Slingo is famous for, all in a\">\nSlingo Quest Amazon Review\nhttps://www.gamezebo.com/2011/09/10/slingo-quest-amazon-review/\nBrandy Shaul\nhttps://www.gamezebo.com/author/brandy-shaul/\nBrandy Shaul on Sep 10, 2011 at 2:52pm\nPower-ups and different boards add gameplay variety. Ten different locations to complete, each with multiple levels.\nSome levels are entirely dependent on luck. Lack of widescreen graphical setting causes a strain on the eyes.\nSlingo Quest Amazon continues your search for the Joker with just as much dependence on luck.\nWith Slingo Quest Amazon, we see a continuation of the storyline set up in Slingo Quest Egypt that now has us traversing the jungles and rivers of the Amazon Rainforest to save the Joker from the evil Devil. This is, of course, achieved by way of the level based slot-machine-meets-Bingo gameplay that Slingo is famous for, all in a complex package that\u2019s perfect for those who enjoy game of chance.\nIn this installment of the Slingo Quest series, you\u2019re asked to make your way through ten different areas of the Amazon, meeting new friends (and enemies), and all the while gathering clues as to the Joker\u2019s location. Each level you play sees power-ups and other challenges thrown your way, as you work through 20 spins to try and cover as much of your Bingo card as possible.\nFor Slingo novices, the basic gameplay is simple: each level has a board filled with random numbers across five columns. Each time you take a spin, five numbers or symbols appear slot machine style, and you can click on the numbers on your Bingo card if they match those that you\u2019ve spun. Each \u201cBingo\u201d \u2013 or Slingo \u2013 you create earns you points, and if you create special shapes, you\u2019ll earn bonuses. Spinning any number of bonus items affects your gameplay as well, with coins giving you bonus points, Jokers (or Shamans, in this game) allowing you to mark off any number in the column or card, and the Devil triggering mini-games that either rely on skill or pure dumb luck.\nIn these Devil mini-games, you\u2019re challenged to things like coin flips, the \u201cshell game\u201d (three cups, with one a Cherub, the other with Devils that move rapidly to test your observational skills), or to memorize a series of cards only to determine if the next card matches any that you\u2019ve been shown. When added to the other random mini-games, you\u2019re left with a selection of games (sometimes frustrating, when you have seemingly no control as to the outcome) that can either boost your score dramatically, or reduce it by just as much.\nThe game\u2019s complexity is only increased by the wide variety of power-ups available. Most of these are added to the game at random, by clicking on the numbered square they were \u201chiding\u201d under. You\u2019ll earn score multipliers, bombs that instantly cover other numbers, or birds that highlight the squares you can click on so you\u2019re not left searching the entire board.\nIn this is where a real issue comes to light with Slingo Quest Amazon. The graphics, while bright and colorful, almost take these adjectives too far. There is unfortunately no in-game option for a widescreen monitor, so the graphics are stretched when playing in full screen (that is, if you\u2019re playing on most any monitor purchased within the last five years) and (when added to the incredibly bright colors) are very straining on the eyes. This issue is mostly eliminated when playing in a windowed mode, but that shouldn\u2019t have to be the case.\nOtherwise, the gameplay here is as you\u2019d expect from previous Slingo Quest games. There are plenty of levels to complete, with ten different locations to travel to in all, some of which introduce new hexagonal or other oddly-shaped boards. Butterflies and frogs make a return from previous games, offering more bonus points, and there\u2019s overall so much going on in the game that you\u2019re unlikely to get bored anytime soon. Still, the gameplay is incredibly luck-based, no matter how much you try and outwit the Devil on those mini-games, which is unfortunate to say the least. As with other games in the franchise, your best bet here is to try the game before you buy to see if there\u2019s enough new content to warrant a purchase\u2026 and another spin of the wheels.", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00240.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 110, + "original_length": 6994, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.94, + "perplexity": 339.8, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "https://www.gaminginstincts.com/three-new-trailers-detroid-become-human/", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T03:19:26Z", + "digest": "sha1:DIQGCV3RQYSH4WFXD3DFCLHD7DQXPWMG", + "length": 6583, + "nlines": 35, + "source_domain": "www.gaminginstincts.com", + "title": "Three New Trailers for Detroid: Become Human | Gaming Instincts", + "raw_content": "Three New Trailers Released for Detroid: Become Human\nPosted by Pa\u00fal Ord\u00f3\u00f1ez | Mar 22, 2018 | News | 0 |\nQuantic Dream released today three new trailers for their upcoming game Detroit: Become Human, featuring the three different main characters and stories that the players will be able to play and make the decisions that will shape the games\u2019 endings.\nCheck out the three character trailers of Detroit: Become Human, featuring the story of each main character:\nDavid Cage Director, Quantic Dream stated in a Playstation blog post:\nMany extraordinary stories have already been told about androids, whether it be in literature, film or television. But after having worked on Kara\u2019s short video, I knew that the story I wanted to tell was different.\nMy first decision was to take the androids\u2019, rather than the humans\u2019, point of view. Instead of the wicked AI who wants to destroy good humanity, I preferred a different angle: my story would talk about humanity on the decline: selfish, dependent on technology, concerned only with comfort. Opposed to this: a new, intelligent species that we created, which discovers the world, feels emotions and asks only to live.\nI wrote this story with the personal conviction that it was not only a story, but a vision of the future: how will we react when machines we\u2019ve created become more intelligent than us and show signs of consciousness? Moreover, is consciousness only a question of computing power or is it something else?\nRather than a single, grand narrative, I chose to tell the story of three androids, three characters who discover their emotions and must choose their destiny.\nI have been working on \u201cmulti-character\u201d storytelling for several years (since Fahrenheit in 2005, even though Nomad Soul in 1999 already allowed control of dozens of different characters). It is a complex and exciting form of writing: it allows the player to stand in the shoes of several protagonists at the same time, to tell independent stories that meet, collide, intermingle, and above all tell the central narrative in a unique way.\nThis approach, originating in literature (Geoffrey Chaucer\u2019s The Canterbury Tales, for example), popularized nowadays by many TV series, works in my opinion particularly well in an interactive experience: the player passes quickly from character to character, between different contexts and scenes, discovering the story from several points of view, enriching his experience.\nWe pushed this idea as far as we could, having three different composers (one per character) with radically different musical styles, three different moods, three different cinematographies, so that the player has a sense of playing three different games as they move from one character to another.\nThrough the player\u2019s decisions and the intersecting destinies of these three characters, the player tells their own story. Every decision is important because it may impact not only the fate of one character, but also that of the other two, or even change the course of events for the wider world.\nThe destinies of Connor, Kara and Markus will be in your hands on May 25th. It will be up to you to tell their story.\nCONNOR \u2013 RK800\nConnor is a prototype, named the RK800, created by CyberLife. His initial goal is to assist human detectives in their investigations by offering them technological assistance. He is also equipped with a social module specially developed to create the \u201cideal partner\u201d, capable of integrating into any team. He is also equipped with special features, such as a real-time molecular analyzer and a sophisticated simulator that can reconstruct past events. He is exceptionally intelligent, cold and determined, ready to do anything to succeed in his mission.\nWhen the first cases of androids with abnormal behavior are reported, CyberLife offers to send this prototype to assist Detroit police. Connor has already undergone field tests involving androids, but this is his first investigation.\nConnor is sent to join Lieutenant Hank Anderson, a grizzled, alcoholic detective who hates androids. Connor will need to make use of his \u201cpsychology\u201d module to earn the respect of his partner and discover the truth about deviants.\nMARKUS \u2013 RK200\nMarkus is an android who belongs to celebrated painter Carl Manfred, an old man who has lost the use of his legs. If at first Markus was only a machine in Carl\u2019s eyes, a paternal affection has gradually developed. Carl treats Markus as if he were human, teaches him to paint, exposes him to literature and music; develops the android\u2019s spirit a little each day.\nEventually Carl comes to think of Markus like a son, much to the dissatisfaction of Carl\u2019s biological son, Leo.\nMarkus\u2019 journey will take him from caregiver in the service of an old man to leading the historic android revolution. But to lead a revolution will be much more difficult than anything Markus can imagine: he must contend with the factitious disagreements of his people, face insoluble dilemmas, moral choices and sacrifice.\nHe must choose a path between violence and pacifism, between a closed fist and an outstretched hand. Through his choices, Markus will write the history of his people and lead them to freedom\u2026 or destruction.\nKARA \u2013 AX400\nKara is an AX400 domestic assistant model created by CyberLife. The AX400 is a common model, designed to take care of the housework and look after young children. They can speak 300 different languages, cook more than 9000 dishes, help children with their homework and play with them.\nKara is owned by a former unemployed taxi driver, called Todd Williams, a strange and unpredictable character. He is the father of a little girl named Alice, with whom Kara is tasked with taking care of.\nUnder harsh circumstances, they quickly learn that they are not safe with Todd. Both will run away and struggle to find a path to freedom.\nBecoming fugitives, they will discover a disjointed world falling apart and understand the strange feeling that unites them. They will journey from encounter to encounter, confronting violence and hatred but also the empathy of those who keep hope.\nFor more information on Detroit: Become Human, visit its official Playstation page.\nPreviousBatman: The Enemy Within ~ The Joker Villain or Vigilante Trailers\nNextSea of Thieves Review \u2013 Is This the Return of Classic Rare?\nOvercooked to be Released Next Month\nOsiris: New Dawn Update \u201cThe Architect\u201d is Available Now on Steam\nWreck Tangle Games has released his new story driven game, Alaska\nStory and Characters of Tokyo Twilight Ghost Hunters: Daybreak Special Gigs Revealed", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00240.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 75, + "original_length": 8121, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.96, + "perplexity": 331.4, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "https://www.gatewaytosouthamerica-newsblog.com/latin-america-the-next-frontier-for-nz-exports/", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T04:45:49Z", + "digest": "sha1:WOF7JY7XPP5MK232YTPHZXFTFWJZQOVE", + "length": 5235, + "nlines": 20, + "source_domain": "www.gatewaytosouthamerica-newsblog.com", + "title": "Menu", + "raw_content": "/ All categories of countries are / Latin America the next frontier for New Zealand Exports\nLatin America the next frontier for New Zealand Exports\nGateway to South America on 29/04/2018 - 22:21 in All categories of countries are, Argentina-General, Argentine farms\nThe world is taking notice of under the radar New Zealand companies making inroads in Latin America, writes Victoria University\u2019s Dr Eldrede Kahiya\nLast month, the Minister of Economic Development, Environment, and Trade and Export Growth, David Parker, attended a meeting of the Mercosur Latin American trading bloc, before holding talks with Ministers of Agriculture and Livestock, and Foreign Affairs.\nThe significance of this event was lost in the shuffle of a frenetic business news cycle dominated by the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership (CPTPP) and trade wars. Not only did the trip help allay initial concern about the direction the trade agenda would take under the Labour-led government, it signals that New Zealand\u2019s aggressive pursuit of market access is continuing in earnest. It comes at a time when New Zealand is already involved in trade negotiations with another Latin American bloc, the Pacific Alliance, consisting of Chile, Columbia, Mexico and Peru.\nEstablishing a foothold in Latin America is imperative considering growth in Asia will eventually taper off.\nMercosur (also known as the Common Market of the South) was formed in 1991 and the four permanent members \u2014 Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay and Uruguay \u2014 were the original signatories. Bolivia is set to join, while Venezuela is currently suspended. The bloc\u2019s combined Gross Domestic Product exceeds NZD$4 trillion, making it larger than the Pacific Alliance. (Together, Mercosur and the Pacific Alliance represent more than 90 percent of GDP in the region.)\nNotwithstanding the \u2018growing pains\u2019 endemic to most emerging markets, Mercosur is relatively stable and lucrative. For instance, government deficits are within single digits of GDP, suggesting these countries are \u2018living within their means\u2019.\nArgentina\u2019s economy, which had shrunk by two percent per annum in recent years, should expand at three percent over the next five years. The International Monetary Fund forecasts Brazil\u2019s economy to grow at a slower pace of just over one percent, a projection Brazil\u2019s Finance Minister, Henrique Meirelles, questioned as too conservative in an interview at the World Economic Forum. He anticipates growth of at least three percent. Meanwhile, Paraguay and Uruguay should tick along at three-four percent per annum.\nBrazil ($259 million in imports from New Zealand; $450 million in two-way trade) and Argentina ($140 million in imports; $380 million in two-way trade) account for most of the trade between Mercosur and New Zealand. Trade with the Pacific Alliance is larger (for example, Mexico \u2014$400 million in imports; $742 million in two-way trade; Chile \u2014 $146 million in imports; $369 million in two-way trade).\nYet this pales in comparison with the value of trade between New Zealand and Asian economies (for example, Malaysia \u2014 $1.3 billion in imports from New Zealand; $3.1 billion in two-way trade; Indonesia \u2014 $1.1 billion in imports; $2.0 billion in two-way trade).\nSome see this as anecdotal evidence that free-trade agreements make a difference, while others credit New Zealand exporters\u2019 increased prowess in serving Asian markets.\nBecause they are predominantly agro-based, economies in Latin America do not have a voracious appetite for New Zealand\u2019s food and beverages. Opportunities will most likely arise from the tech and service industries that support agro-based economies. Compac (fruit sorting technology) and Wellington Refrigeration and Control Solutions (thermostats) are examples of \u2018under the radar\u2019 New Zealand companies making inroads in Latin America.\nThe world is taking notice. Over the past six months, the European Union and Canada have sought to cement closer trading ties with Mercosur. While New Zealand is not close to sealing trade deals with Mercosur, the ongoing interest in Latin America holds her in good stead.\nDiplomatic ties between New Zealand and Latin America continue to strengthen, as epitomised by the recent opening of an embassy in Colombia. The Latin America New Zealand Business Council and Latin America Centre of Asia Pacific Excellence (the latter led by Victoria University of Wellington) facilitate stronger economic and cultural engagement using multiple touch points such as trade missions, events, research projects, scholarships and tours. An increase in the number of flights to Latin America should make travel easier.\nThese initiatives foster cultural exchanges and create familiarity regarding doing business in Latin America, positioning New Zealand companies for future success.\nArgentina is the worlds 5th largest exporter of Olive Oil\nWhen do I have to Pay Taxes in Argentina as an Foreigner?\nAs a New Zealander living in Chile more than 20 years , I\u00b4m confused as to the term Latin America . I always believed Latin America was from the Panama Canal north and SOUTH AMERICA was to the south . Tell someone from Argentina he is from Latin America and he may over salt your steak .", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00240.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 200, + "original_length": 15272, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.93, + "perplexity": 213.4, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "https://www.gendereconomy.org/does-diversity-training-work/", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T03:50:44Z", + "digest": "sha1:GGTRA7SMYQGQQZW4R5UIT3ADDGNXXJOG", + "length": 23191, + "nlines": 70, + "source_domain": "www.gendereconomy.org", + "title": "Debate: Does diversity training work? | Gender and the Economy", + "raw_content": "Home/Featured, Research Briefs/Debate: Does diversity training work?\nWhat do we know about diversity training?\nIn our increasingly diverse society, organizations are constantly challenged to create environments for every employee to feel included and valued. Unfortunately, despite a company\u2019s best efforts, many employees end up feeling excluded \u00ad\u2013 be it due to implicit bias or explicit prejudice. In response to this challenge, many organizations look to diversity training programs to help employees understand their own biases, increase employee engagement and satisfaction, and create an environment that fosters diversity and inclusion. Indeed, as many as 67% of U.S. organizations report some use of diversity training[1], and 15% of organizations have staff dedicated to diversity and inclusion.\nThere are strong motivations for the adoption of diversity training. Making advances in diversity can lend organizations visibility and status, improve talent recruitment, customer orientation, employee satisfaction, and innovation, and, more cynically, can shield organizations from expensive lawsuits. As a result, many organizations have invested heavily in this kind of training. However, recent research has suggested that diversity training may not be effective, and can, in some cases, do more harm than good. So, what does the evidence say? Should companies invest in diversity training or not?\nRecent research has suggested that diversity training may not be effective, and can, in some cases, do more harm than good.\nTo answer this question, leading scholars gathered to debate the pros and cons of diversity training at a Research Roundtable on Gender and the Economy held at the Rotman School of Management at the University of Toronto. In the format of an Oxford-style debate, Professors Rafael Gomez (University of Toronto, Centre for Industrial Relations and Human Resources), Sonia Kang (University of Toronto, Rotman School), Eden King (Dept. of Psychology, Rice University) and Winny Shen (Dept. of Psychology, University of Waterloo) presented their research-based arguments for and against diversity training as a useful and effective tool for reducing bias and improving organizational life. The points below are a summary of the main arguments made in the debate.\nWhat is diversity training? Who implements diversity training?\nDiversity training is a distinct set of programs or interventions intended to reduce prejudice and bias, improve communications and inter-group relations, and increase the knowledge, skills, and motivation of employees so that they can perform more effectively in a diverse working environment. Diversity training seeks to produce a more successful organization with higher-performing employees, generate compliance to legal and ethical standards, increase employee satisfaction and retention, and support the development of a diversity of ideas.[2]\nDiversity training activities can include disseminating information on the organization\u2019s policies and expectations, building awareness, teaching skills, motivating behavioural change, and providing employees with new experiences.[3] There are many versions of diversity training, and companies often use a combination of practices.\nProbably the most common form of diversity training these days is Implicit Bias Training. The goal is to make participants aware of bias and prejudices that may not be conscious, but nonetheless shape decisions and behavior. Implicit bias testing, such as the Implicit Association Tests provided by Project Implicit at Harvard University, reveal the gaps between our explicitly-stated and internally-held attitudes toward a variety of social groups. Training can encourage participants to develop an awareness of attitudes and beliefs that support prejudice so that alternative perspectives can be adopted.\nOver the years, many other types of diversity training programs have been developed by consultants and academics alike. Anti-Bias Training presents value-based principles and methodologies to cultivate a respect of differences that will lead to the elimination of bias. Classical Conditioning pairs images or representations of stigmatized groups with positive images and words to eliminate implicit biases held by participants. Sensitivity Training raises awareness of attitudes and behaviours that may cause harm to others. This type of training can also involve developing empathy. An example would be asking participants to write an essay from the perspective of someone different from them. Cross-Cultural Training educates participants on differences across cultures to engender an understanding of diverse motivations and perspectives. Also referred to as cultural competence or multicultural education, programs may utilize the Multicultural Awareness-Knowledge Skill Survey (MAKSS) or the Multicultural Counselling Awareness Scale (MCAS). Contact Interventions utilise direct contact between members of different groups. Also called cooperative contact, these diversity training programs can include peer-led discussion groups or guided communication training where participants from different groups interact with each other.\nWhat are the worries about diversity training?\nAlthough many firms have invested in these diversity programs, recent evidence suggests that they may not always be effective.\nAre the results reliable? Many diversity training programs evaluate success with a self-administered survey on bias or prejudice. Changes in participants\u2019 evaluations over time may be the result of participants learning the evaluation goals, or becoming more familiar with the questionnaire, and may not reflect actual change in prejudiced attitudes or beliefs. Research also shows that employees with more positive attitudes toward diversity are more likely to participate in non-mandatory diversity initiatives, suggesting that training programs may not reach the employees who have the most severe biases.[4]\nReduced diversity. Mandatory diversity training can result in strong backlash. Studies show that diversity interventions like training, testing, and grievance systems can make firms less diverse as managers resist threats to their autonomy to make decisions.[5] For example, in one study, organizations that implemented mandatory diversity training had 6% fewer black women in management positions after five years.[6]\nWorse behaviour. Diversity training can lead to worse behaviours. A study found that ethnic minority employees stated that the behaviour of their coworkers worsened after they participated in a diversity training program. Backlash effects can occur if trainees resent being selected for diversity training and view training as punishment for prior insensitive behaviour.[7]\nBacklash effects can occur if trainees resent being selected for diversity training and view training as punishment for prior insensitive behaviour.\nIllusion of fairness. Even the presence of diversity training alone can create the illusion that an organization is fair, and inequality is not a problem. A study found that white male participants who were told that diversity training had occurred felt women were treated more fairly, even when faced with evidence of the contrary.[8]\nStereotype rebound. In some cases, attempts to increase awareness reinforce stereotype norms, and participants who are instructed to avoid stereotypes enact more stereotypical behaviours and discrimination.[9] A study found that business students who participated in a diversity training where they watched a video that instructed them to supress negative stereotypes about the elderly, evaluated older job applicants more negatively.[10]\nThis research suggests that diversity training may have unintended consequences for the participants, for the potential beneficiaries of the programs, and for the organizations that sponsor them. Does this mean that companies should stop doing diversity training?\nWhat are the possible benefits of diversity training?\nProponents of diversity training argue that its overall impacts are positive despite the limitations to current diversity training models. A meta-analysis of hundreds of diversity training studies shows that although outliers exist, diversity training has had real and significant positive effects overall.[11]\nReal outcomes in skills, knowledge and learning: The average or typical diversity-training program produces significant positive effects on knowledge (learning), acquisition of diversity skills, and improvements to diversity-related motivation and attitudes. For example, people attending a typical training program would be 64% more likely to experience an increase in their knowledge or skills around diversity than someone who does not attend that program.[12]\nEffects on behaviour. Research indicates that diversity training may have only a small direct influence on attitudes, both implicit and explicit; however, changes in knowledge and behaviour may lead to larger changes in attitudes over time. For example, someone might learn how to communicate more effectively with people different from them, and after many interactions with others, may develop an improved attitude toward diverse groups.[13]\nCreate a culture of change. Another significant value of diversity training is that it can help to cultivate a growth mindset regarding the malleability of diversity-related behaviours. Goal-setting theory tells us that building awareness through diversity training can signal that diversity is an important issue to an organization and set expectations for employees. Research shows that those who set positive behavioural goals immediately after attending training sessions exhibit more diversity-supportive behaviours post-training.[14]\nGoal-setting theory tells us that building awareness through diversity training can signal that diversity is an important issue to an organization and set expectations for employees.\nUnlock the creative potential of teams. People have long argued that diverse teams can be a source of creativity and innovation. However, we know that diversity can also lead to conflict or difficulties in communicating. Research shows that for teams to benefit from diversity, team members need to take the perspectives of those who are different from them. Diversity training can be the intervention that enhances perspective-taking and helps teams reach their creative potential.[15]\nProponents of diversity training point out that these benefits have been realized even when many of the programs have been poorly implemented. Further, the research evidence to date is largely in direct contrast to the prevalent \u201cmyth\u201d that diversity training is ineffective, which may be largely the result of a vocal, but small, minority of individuals who do not like such training programs. One might anticipate that these benefits would further increase if companies were using research-informed best practices.\nIf you are going to do diversity training, how to do it right.\nThere is a tremendous upside for organizations if they can get diversity \u2013 and more importantly \u2013 inclusion right. But, inclusion requires more than just putting diverse people together. Research shows that the key to high performing diverse groups is intervention to help people overcome diversity challenges. Here are some guidelines to avoid pitfalls and ensure maximum impact:\nTake a behavioural approach. We know from research on dieting, exercise, work addiction, and other issues, that it is very hard to turn attitudes into behaviours. For diversity training to be successful, it needs to make a connection to behaviour. Research shows that the overall effect of behaviour-based training has a significantly higher impact than diversity training that focuses only on awareness.[16] Effective diversity training needs to supply behavioural alternatives so participants have a repertoire of potential actions in place when confronted with difficult scenarios, such as a colleague making sexist or racist jokes in the workplace.\nUse data. Organizations must think like scientists: collecting, analyzing, and disseminating data to inform how they structure and deliver diversity initiatives. Having clear measurements of the organizations\u2019 progress towards goals can help them avoid pitfalls like the illusion of fairness, which happens when people assume an organization is fair simply because it signals that it is fair. Letting the data tell the story can motivate change.\nHost your training in an educational setting. Research shows that participants are more likely to enjoy diversity training that takes place in an educational setting than within their organization. It signals that there is something new to be learned and opens up people\u2019s minds to thinking differently.[17]\nMake it voluntary. Research shows that mandatory diversity programs have negative or no effects. Individuals have strong negative reactions to threats to personal autonomy and may resent being selected for training. In contrast to mandatory training, voluntary training, and other voluntary approaches such as mentoring and assigning diversity managers have strong, positive effects. Creating a sense of ownership, autonomy, and pride can lead to better outcomes and less backlash.[18] [19]\nCreate new norms. The backlash to diversity training shows us that imposing values on people in a mandatory setting is ineffective. Instead, stakeholders should decide together what the norms should be. Once in place, those in positions of authority need to set the example through their own behaviour. If new behavioural norms are established, organizations can capitalize on the human desire to fit in.[20]\nKeep the focus on inequality. In the service of making training more palatable, there may be a temptation to use diversity as a blanket term for difference. The risk is that the training does not help intervene on the real sources of inequality in organizations. Calling attention to inequality and privilege is more effective than a broad-brush treatment of diversity. Research shows that diversity training that focuses on specific aspects of diversity and their intersections (e.g., gender, race, sexual orientation, etc.) is more effective than those that use a broad approach.[21]\nCalling attention to inequality and privilege is more effective than a broad-brush treatment of diversity.\nTake the long view. Most diversity training programs are not very long, taking place over only a day or two. Numerous studies show positive effects when training sessions are spread out over multiple weeks. In addition, each training session should be substantial in length so that people have time to mull over the issues, move beyond surface impressions, and have the opportunity to practice new skills. Research supports a time-frame of 4.5-6 hours as having the greatest impact on changing attitudes towards diversity.[22]\nIntegrate with other policies and programs. Integrated diversity training programs (when there are other diversity initiatives in the environment \u2013 like mentoring programs) are more effective than standalone diversity training programs. Presence of diversity training, in concert with other diversity practices and policies, may help demonstrate an organization\u2019s sincerity and commitment to diversity.\nWhat are the alternatives to training?\nOf course, diversity training is not the be-all-and-end-all of enhancing inclusiveness in organizations. It is tempting to think that a specific intervention such as training would be able to fix the challenges of inequality in organizations, but, even at its most effective, there are other types of interventions that can serve as important complements to training or perhaps more practical substitutes for training in certain contexts.\nReview hiring practices. Organizations can look at how job postings are framed or worded. Is the language and positioning used attracting a diverse audience? Is the organization getting a diverse slate of candidates? How is the organization making hiring decisions? For example, research shows that determining hiring criteria in advance of seeing the hiring slate can reduce gender discrimination in the hiring process.[23]\nSkills-based assessments. When it comes to recruiting and promotion, some organizations are turning to skills-based assessments to counteract bias. For example, applicants for a coding position may be asked to code a program and submit it, rather than submitting their traditional application package. Employees want to know who can actually do the job, not whose credentials suggest that they should be able to. However, research suggests that the application of skill tests needs to be uniform to be effective. Currently, when it comes to race, white candidates are more likely to be exempted from testing, while minority candidates are more likely to have skill test results used as a reason for not being hired or promoted.[24]\nMentoring and sponsorship programs. Organizations can investigate if diverse employees are supported in the talent pipeline. Is key talent from diverse populations being lost because the culture is not supportive or inclusive? Are diverse candidates promoted? Organizations can add mentoring and sponsorship elements to talent management practices to ensure diverse employees are receiving visibility and support. Research shows that structuring accountability into these programs makes them significantly more effective.[25]\nDiversity committees or task forces. A task force or committee comprised of employees from multiple departments and managerial levels can be charged with overseeing diversity initiatives and monitoring progress. While more than 60% of large organizations collect measurements and metrics on diversity-related practices, only 34% have a method in place for measuring the impact of those practices. Only 7% of organizations conduct analysis to determine a return on investment for diversity initiatives.[26] An important role of leadership is to measure, monitor, and hold people accountable for progress.\nWhile more than 60% of large organizations collect measurements and metrics on diversity-related practices, only 34% have a method in place for measuring the impact of those practices.\nIn conclusion, people are right to raise alarms about the potential unintended consequences of diversity training. The press today is filled with stories of backlash in organizations to an increased attention to diversity and inclusion. On the other hand, it is clear that there is no turning back: the workforce is only becoming more diverse and companies that want to attract and retain excellent talent will want to create the most inclusive environment possible. So, where does that leave us? Our Oxford-style debate highlighted best practices for training programs and complementary activities that any organization could adopt as they move forward. The key to understanding the usefulness of diversity training is to see how it creates an environment in which the benefits of diversity can be cultivated.\nDobbin, F., & Kalev, A. (2016, July & Aug.). Why Diversity Programs Fail. Harvard Business Review, 52-60.\nLindsey, A., King, E., Membere, A. & Cheung, H. K. (2017, July). Two Types of Diversity Training That Really Work. Harvard Business Review.\nEmerson, J. (2018). Don\u2019t Give Up on Unconscious Bias Training \u2013 Make it Better. Harvard Business Review.\nWilliams, M. (2018). Diversity Isn\u2019t a Numbers Game. Harvard Business Review.\n[1] Kulik, C.T., & Roberson, L. (2008). Common Goals and Golden Opportunities: Evaluations of Diversity Education in Academic and Organizational Settings. Academy Of Management Learning & Education, 7(3), 309-331.\n[2] Phillips, B.N., Deiches, J., Morrison, B. et al. (2016). Disability Diversity Training in the Workplace: Systematic Review and Future Directions. Journal of Occupational Rehabilitation, 26, 264-275.\n[4] Paluck, E.L., & Green, D. (2009). Prejudice Reduction: What Works? A Review and Assessment of Research and Practice. Annual Review of Psychology, 60, 339-367.\n[5] Dobbin, F., & Kalev, A. (2016, July & Aug.). Why Diversity Programs Fail. Harvard Business Review, 52-60.\n[6] Kalev, A., Kelly, E., & Dobbin, F. (2006). Best Practices or Best Guesses? Assessing the Efficacy of Corporate Affirmative Action and Diversity Policies. American Sociological Review, 71(4), 589-617.\n[7] Sanchez, J., & Medkik, N. (2004). The Effects of Diversity Awareness Training on Differential Treatment. Group & Organization Management, 29(4), 517\u2013536.\n[8] Kaiser, C. R., Major, B., Jurcevic, I., Dover, T. L., Brady, L. M., & Shapiro, J. R. (2013). Presumed fair: Ironic effects of organizational diversity structures. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 104(3), 504-519.\n[9] Macrae, C. N., Bodenhausen, G. V., Milne, A. B., & Jetten, J. (1994). Out of mind but back in sight: Stereotypes on the rebound. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 67(5), 808-817.\n[10] Kulik CT, Perry EL, & Bourhis AC. (2000). Ironic evaluation processes: effects of thought suppression on evaluations of older job applicants. Journal of Organizational Behaviour. 21, 689\u201371.\n[11] Bezrukova, K., Spell, C.S., Perry, J., & Jehn, K. (2016). A meta-analytical integration of over 40 years of research on diversity training evaluation. Psychological Bulletin, 142(11), 1227\u20131274.\n[13] Kalinoski, Z.T., Steele-Johnson, D., Peyton, E.J., Leas, K.A., Steinke, J., & Bowing, N.A. (2013). A meta-analytic evaluation of diversity training outcomes. Journal of Organizational Behaviour, 34(8), 1076-104.\n[14] Madera, J.M., King, EB, & Hebl, M.R. (2013). Enhancing the effects of sexual orientation diversity training: the effects of setting goals and training mentors on attitudes and behaviours. Journal of Business Psychology, 28 (1), 79-91.\n[15] Hoever, I., van Knippenberg, D., van Ginkel, W., & Barkema, H. (2012). Fostering team creativity: perspective taking as key to unlocking diversity\u2019s potential. The Journal of Applied Psychology, 97(5), 982\u2013996.\n[19] Legault, L., Gutsell, J. and Inzlicht, M. (2011). Ironic Effects of Antiprejudice Messages. Psychological Science, 22(12), pp. 1472-1477.\n[20] Dobbin, F., & Kalev, A. (2016, July & Aug.). Why Diversity Programs Fail. Harvard Business Review, 52-60.\n[22] Phillips, B.N., Deiches, J., Morrison, B. et al. (2016). Disability Diversity Training in the Workplace: Systematic Review and Future Directions. Journal of Occupational Rehabilitation, 26, 264-275. Bezrukova, K., Spell, C.S., Perry, J., & Jehn, K. (2016). A meta-analytical integration of over 40 years of research on diversity training evaluation. Psychological Bulletin, 142(11), 1227\u20131274.\n[23] Uhlmann, E. L., & Cohen, G. L. (2005). Constructed Criteria: Redefining Merit to Justify Discrimination. Psychological Science, 16(6), 474-480.\n[25] Kalev, A., Kelly, E., & Dobbin, F. (2006). Best Practices or Best Guesses? Assessing the Efficacy of Corporate Affirmative Action and Diversity Policies. American Sociological Review, 71(4), 589-617.\n[26] Scanlan, S. (2013). SHRM Survey Findings: Diversity and Inclusion. 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It causes their breathing to be broken so that it interrupts their normal sleeping cycle. Although it is considered a common disorder, this condition can be very serious as the breathing of those suffering from it will stop or get very shallow during their sleep. These pauses can last in excess of 10 or 20 seconds, and can occur a few hundred times per night. Many individuals suffering from sleep apnea are unaware that they actually have a disease as it is simply regarded as a \u2018difficulty sleeping well at nights\u2019. Here are some common signs that can help you determine if you are at risk.\nLet us first of all note that the only way to diagnose sleep apnea is by getting a sleep study done. These signs are simply common indicators, and by no means should they be used for self-diagnosis.\n1. A Need to Sleep During the Day\nIf you find yourself constantly wanting to sleep during the days because you are just so tired and can barely keep your eyes open, you may want to consider the possibility of sleep apnea. Excessive sleepiness during waking hours is one of the main signs of sleep apnea. This results from either your brain forgetting to tell you to breath while you sleep, you have an obstruction to your airway or possibly both. You may have even awaken many times throughout the night trying to restart the breathing process without being aware you were doing it. This leaves you feeling tired and drained at a particular point of the day.\nThe condition causes the body to take in less oxygen which hampers its ability to push out carbon dioxide. This can lead to a decay of the brain cells which means the individual will not be able to focus or have full mental concentration. The effects can place others in danger as this individual could fall asleep while driving.\n2. Snoring that is Loud and Persistent\nIf your loved ones begin to complain about how loudly you snore then sleep apnea may be the cause. Snoring may be an indication that something is interfering with your breathing while you sleep, and this may lead to apnea (pause in breathing). If you are told you snore loudly you should consider seeing a doctor.\n3. Feeling Tired and Drained After Waking Up in the Mornings\nWaking up in the morning and feeling tired may indicate that you did not sleep well during the night. When this happens, your oxygen level drops causing your brain to function less efficiently, and the body cells are unable to dispose of the carbon dioxide waste as it should.\n4. Excessive Sweating While You Sleep\nThe imbalance between oxygen and carbon dioxide causes the body to work harder which resuults in excessive sweating.\n5. Waking Up Suddenly\nMany people who suffer from sleep apnea wake up suddenly to breathe in some air. Even though some are not aware of what is happening, they can feel their lungs starving for air and will make a big gasp as they try to get that air. For some, it may even seem to be a part of their dream.\nSleep apnea is a very serious condition which should be given urgent attention. If you find that you display any of these symptoms it is best to have it checked out right away. Sufferers should seek information about therapies such as using CPAP respirators. Treatment is available for the condition.\nMatilda Wilson is an independent health researcher. 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Mormons believe these scriptures restored the church and left the rest of Christianity in apostasy. The Book of Mormon has a compelling narrative about a tribe of Jews who sailed from Jerusalem to the Americas before the time of Christ and split into two factions. The Nephites were the good guys. In 1981, the word for them was officially changed from \"white\" to \"pure.\" The Lamanites received the \"curse of blackness.\" The Los Angeles Times provides the background:\nAccording to the Book of Mormon, by 385 AD the dark-skinned Lamanites had wiped out other Hebrews. The Mormon church called the victors \"the principal ancestors of the American Indians.\" If the Lamanites returned to the church, their skin could once again become white.\nThis is not just a 19th-century teaching. Current Mormon president Gordon Hinckley has told Native Americans they are descended from one of the factions. The Times ran a story yesterday on DNA evidence that puts the story about the lost tribe of Israel in question.\nFrom the time he was a child in Peru, the Mormon Church instilled in Jose A. Loayza the conviction that he and millions of other Native Americans were descended from a lost tribe of Israel that reached the New World more than 2,000 years ago.\n\"We were taught all the blessings of that Hebrew lineage belonged to us and that we were special people,\" said Loayza, now a Salt Lake City attorney. \"It not only made me feel special, but it gave me a sense of transcendental identity, an identity with God.\"\nA few years ago, Loayza said, his faith was shaken and his identity stripped away by DNA evidence showing that the ancestors of American natives came from Asia, not the Middle East.\n\"I've gone through stages,\" he said. \"Absolutely denial. Utter amazement and surprise. Anger and bitterness.\"\nMy wonderful future in-laws are Mormon, and I have Mormon ancestors myself, so I'm always fascinated by tales of the Latter-day Saints. And this story is no exception. But it also provides fodder for thinking about how to treat the meeting of faith and science.\nThe headline of this piece is \"Bedrock of a Faith is Jolted.\" But as Slate's William Saletan quickly summarizes (with a bit of attitude), the Latter-day Saints have worked around the problem with ease:\nDNA evidence is rattling Mormonism. The church converted millions of Latin Americans and Polynesians with its scriptural story that they came from a lost tribe of Israel. DNA says they came from Asia instead. Old Mormon argument: The scripture is literally true. New arguments: 1) DNA evidence is being twisted by enemies of the church. 2) Maybe the folks who came from the lost tribe were few, and their DNA was \"swamped\" by immigrants from Asia. Try falsifying that! 3) \"The Book of Mormon will never be proved or disproved by science.\" 4) We're \"willing to live in ambiguity.\"\nThis DNA kerfuffle has been going on for years, long enough that I was wondering why the Times was covering it yesterday. The Latter-day Saints even put up a site for media specifically dealing with DNA and the Book of Mormon. I got the image above from a Mormon magazine article about the issue. One of the Mormon critics quoted in the Times piece published a book last year about the topic.\nAnyway, Mormonism is a large and growing religion and the DNA evidence problem isn't the only issue being dealt with from its scriptures:\nFor instance, the Mormon scriptures contain references to a seven-day week, domesticated horses, cows and sheep, silk, chariots and steel. None had been introduced in the Americas at the time of Christ.\nBut these issues have been discussed by Mormons for a very long time. Go to the Foundation for Ancient Research and Mormon Studies, a Mormon apologetic group, today and you can get the answer to this (declarative) question of the week:\nThe mention of windows that could be \"dashed in pieces\" in Ether 2:23 seems to be anachronistic, since glass windows were not invented until the late Middle Ages.\nI really do think this is a fascinating story, but the notion that this is jolting the bedrock of the Mormon faith might be overstating it. I couldn't find any recent coverage in Utah papers, for instance. However, Peggy Fletcher Stack, the Salt Lake Tribune's religion reporter, likely covered it years ago. It would have also been helpful if reporter William Lobdell interviewed outside critics of Mormonism instead of just Mormons and ex-Mormons (and Mormon scholar Jan Shipps). It would also be great to see a follow-up that explores specifically how the DNA story relates to Mormonism's concern with geneology and lineage. Let us know if you see any coverage.\nNewer PostA win for the left in Great Britain?\nOlder PostThe many paths to truth", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00240.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 209, + "original_length": 11412, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.97, + "perplexity": 228.5, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "https://www.getreligion.org/getreligion/2018/11/30/thinking-about-missionaries-stupid-fools-or-believers-obeying-core-christian-beliefs", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T03:45:56Z", + "digest": "sha1:JLE4XPU3VWQT6AAVYMNT5M7BMN7TMIRU", + "length": 7586, + "nlines": 39, + "source_domain": "www.getreligion.org", + "title": "Thinking about missionaries: Arrogant fools or believers obeying core Christian doctrines? \u2014 GetReligion format to add hyperlinks: [linked text here](url here)", + "raw_content": "International News, Godbeat, Islam-Muslims, Scriptures, Catholicism, World Religions, Terry Mattingly, Missionaries, Religious Liberty, Evangelicals, People, India\nThinking about missionaries: Arrogant fools or believers obeying core Christian doctrines?\nIt didn\u2019t take long for the John Allen Chau affair (see previous Julia Duin post) to make the leap from hard-news coverage to newspaper op-ed pages and other \u201cCulture War\u201d venues.\nBefore looking at two examples, from the cultural left and then the right, let\u2019s pause for a second for a bit of background.\nFaithful GetReligion readers may remember the \u201ctmatt trio,\u201d a set of doctrinal questions that I have, for several decades now, found useful when exploring debates inside Christian flocks or cultural conflicts about the Christian faith. I am convinced that the Chau affair is linked to one of these hot-button questions.\nPlease remember that the purpose of these questions is journalistic. I have learned that asking them always leads to answers that contain all kinds of interesting information. Here is the \u201ctmatt trio\u201d once again:\n(1) Are biblical accounts of the resurrection of Jesus accurate? Did this event really happen?\n(3) Is sex outside of marriage a sin?\nNow, the Chau story is, in my opinion, linked to question No. 2.\nTo illustrate this point, let\u2019s look at a Boston Globe piece that ran with this killer headline: \u201cMissionary didn\u2019t die from tribesmen\u2019s arrows. He was killed by his own arrogance.\u201d The author is Globe associate editor and columnist Renee Graham. Here is a crucial early thesis statement:\nIn the Old Testament, Proverbs 16:18 warns, \u201cPride goes before destruction, a haughty spirit before a fall.\u201d Haughty pride caused John Allen Chau\u2019s destruction and fall.\nHe\u2019s the young man from Washington state who decided that what a small tribe on a remote island needed was his personally delivered taste of that ol\u2019 time religion. What he found was an early grave.\nChau didn\u2019t die from the tribesmen\u2019s arrows. He was killed by his own arrogance. A self-styled Christian missionary, Chau tried to foist his presence and beliefs on the Sentinelese tribe.\nNow, read this next passage carefully and think about question No. 2:\nIn his zealotry, Chau viewed himself as a righteous man eager \u201cto declare Jesus to these people.\u201d \u2026\nLike centuries of self-aggrandizing missionaries before him, Chau saw himself as a humble servant of God. He sought to use his waterproof Bible to compel those he viewed as savages from their perceived godlessness. Their worth extended only as far as his ability to coerce them into accepting his beliefs. This is piety weaponized into a tool of domination and supremacy, meant to crush nonconforming cultures.\nYou would think, reading this, that Chau was a lone ranger with little or no training and no links to a missionary organization or supervision by anyone else.\nNote that phrase \u201cself-styled Christian missionary.\u201d Then again, note the wider reference to \u201ccenturies of self-aggrandizing missionaries\u201d and the coercion and the crushing of \u201cnonconforming cultures.\u201d\nIt\u2019s hard to imagine any kind of evangelistic missionary work (read question No. 2 again) that would be acceptable to Graham and similar critics.\nNow, over at the Washington Post, Ed Stetzer \u2014 executive director of the Billy Graham Center at Wheaton College \u2014 was offered a chance to fill in some Chau details, while defending the actions of believers who give an affirmative answer to \u201ctmatt trio\u201d question No. 2.\nThe headline on this piece, which can be viewed as a partial response to critics of centuries of missionary work: \u201cSlain missionary John Chau prepared much more than we thought, but are missionaries still fools?\u201d\nFirst, here is some Stetzer material digging into the preparation that Chau received before his ill-fated mission:\nWhile both Christians and non-Christians have raised profound questions about the biblical and ethical appropriateness of pushing into places where you\u2019re not wanted, much criticism of Chau has focused on what appeared to be his lack of preparation.\nIn his journal, Chau used the word \u201choller\u201d to describe what he did after sneaking onto the beach of the remote North Sentinel Island in a kayak. The scene of the young American yelling, in English, \u201cMy name is John. I love you, and Jesus loves you,\u201d before being killed by a bow and arrow isn\u2019t the most sophisticated image of missionary outreach in 2018.\nBut new information \u2026 paints a more complicated picture of Chau, including an interview with Christianity Today. In the interview, Mary Ho, who leads All Nations (the agency that sent Chau on missions), indicated that he was heavily vaccinated and even quarantined before going on the mission.\nLet\u2019s keep reading:\nThere are still medical and legal questions, but this new information does focus the debate more on the question of the central goal of evangelizing and less on the preparation for doing so.\nChau\u2019s intent -- according to others I\u2019ve spoken with who knew him, went to school with him and helped him prepare -- was to live among the North Sentinelese, learn their language, attend to their physical needs and then seek to share his faith with them. Obviously, the long-term strategy did not work, and Chau will become not only a topic of debate but of study for missiologists, people who train missionaries.\nThat\u2019s my field. I have a PhD in the subject and have trained missionaries to go to many places, including India. I am also the dean of the mission school at Wheaton College, where we unapologetically and enthusiastically train missionaries to engage their own cultures, as well as cross-culturally, from their culture to another. And even for me, even with the new details, Chau\u2019s case is complex. It reveals more than anything the quandaries for those of us seeking to understand what it means in 2018 to share the gospel with all nations.\nUltimately, the big question appears to be whether believers can share their beliefs with other people. The right to convert to another faith is a right protected in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, Article 18.\nWhy is there a picture of St. Patrick of Ireland linked to this post? Stetzer adds:\nPropagating one\u2019s religious beliefs through missionary activity is practiced by segments of the world\u2019s largest religious groups, including Islam, Buddhism and Christianity. \u2026\nA missionary named Saint Patrick came to the tribal people of ancient Ireland and converted my ancestors from Celtic polytheism. This is not a new idea. Christianity has been a missionary movement since its beginning. \u2026 In his final address to his followers, commanded them to \u201cgo and make disciples of all nations\u201d (Matthew 28:19-20). And, speaking to Christians everywhere and in all eras, the apostle Paul said, \u201cWoe to me if I do not preach the gospel!\u201d (1 Corinthians 9:16).\nMany Christians would say we deny the missionary call if we neglect the hard and difficult places in the world. 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Customers can come from virtually any industry\u2014consumer electronics, automotive, healthcare, or any other where only the very best is good enough. And each benefits from our 80+ years\u2019 of experience pioneering the techniques and technologies that have redefined the industry. It means that every customer receives insight and expertise that adds value at every stage of the design and manufacturing process. It\u2019s why today, across multiple industries and multiple geographies, Dynacast is the name synonymous with precision metal components.\nNo project is too large or too geographically dispersed. We operate 25 plants across 16 countries with each site dedicated to the same uncompromising levels of quality, precision, and performance.", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00240.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 88, + "original_length": 2185, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.91, + "perplexity": 304.0, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "https://www.gilbarco.com/us/blog/market-toward-2017-resolution-more-profits", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T03:26:37Z", + "digest": "sha1:ZUNYB6RNLIRHNEFNGZK6DQHGEF42CSA3", + "length": 3006, + "nlines": 8, + "source_domain": "www.gilbarco.com", + "title": "Market Toward the 2017 Resolution for More Profits | Gilbarco Veeder-Root", + "raw_content": "When reviewing the history, it is evident that convenience stores have always adapted and changed to what the consumer needs. Over time, from only providing ice cream, c-stores have expanded to provide necessary supplies (e.g., bread, eggs, milk) after grocery stores closed to appeal to the last minute shopper. Ultimately, c-stores gained the upper-hand in being known for its convenience (NACS\u2019s Fresh Produce Distribution) and availability.\nEventually, convenience stores have bypassed issues surrounding maintaining fresh produce by investing in processed and well-preserved products. This direction hit two birds with one stone. Not only did c-stores save costs on preserving products, but they also recognized the consumer demand of offering products that would save time and were delicious. However, despite the profitable niche, c-stores have also gained the perception of being \u201cunhealthy\u201d and thus a place to avoid if trying to maintain health.\nIt\u2019s now a new year and society packs on the burden of upholding New Year resolutions. Whether it is spending more time with family, reading more books or visiting more places, there is always a goal to achieve. In fact, according to Statistic Brain, the number one New Year\u2019s resolution is to lose weight, followed by a self-improvement goal.\nThe desire to be more fit and healthy is an opportunity for all c-stores, especially around this time of year. By offering products that cater to the health-conscience and perhaps even creating a food - service option, your brand will evolve as a place of \u201cdestination\u201d rather than a place of desperation.\nSince 20% of consumers already notice c-stores offering healthy options, it is only a matter of time before this trend becomes an expectation. Therefore, it would be an effective tactic to cater to these types of customers, so you gain favor over your competitors.\nPutting aside the fact that it is the beginning of a new year, the trend to adapt healthier products and services has been growing for quite some time. King Casey, a retail consultant for the c-store industry, believes as c-stores start to revamp their business by creating a modern, fresh, and healthy food- service atmosphere, these c-stores will start to have the competitive edge over quick-service restaurants for 2017 (Convenience Store News).\nBecause it is now a new year, this is your chance to upsell in your c-store and refresh your brand image. Let customers know you are there for them in their weight-loss needs by providing products that will lead them to success. Educate them in your fresh produce and healthy choice options. You will be the convenient option that customers will prefer and potentially can gain preference over even grocery store if you play your cards right.\nTo take advantage of other rebranding incentives, click here. 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A universal symbol of freedom, democracy, and friendship (a gift from the people of France), the Statue of Liberty is visited by thousands of people daily and has become one of the most famous monuments in world history.\nBartholdi learned of his passion for large sculptural pieces on a trip to Europe and the Middle East. Already a student of art, sculpture, and architecture Bartholdi jumped at the chance to design a lighthouse for the Suez Canal in Egypt in 1869. His vision was a colossal robed woman holding a torch and he named it \u201cEgypt Brings Light to Asia.\u201d It was at the canal\u2019s inauguration, however, that he was told he could no longer continue the project.\nHis efforts were not lost, though, as a second chance came in 1870, after Edouard de Laboulaye proposed a monument for the United States representing freedom and democracy. Bartholdi was recruited and the design and construction of the Statue of \u201cLiberty Enlightening the World\u201d began.\nSeveral trips to the U.S. later, Bartholdi decided that New York was the gateway to America and new that the statue had to be erected at Bedloe\u2019s Island. The first piece of Lady Liberty to reach full construction was her arm and torch which was put on display at the Centennial Exposition in Philadelphia in 1876.\nIn 1884, the statue reached full construction in Paris and was presented to the United States Ambassador to France. Afterwards, it is disassembled and shipped to New York. With the completion of the pedestal in 1886, the statue is then reconstructed. One million New Yorkers were present for the official unveiling of the Statue of Liberty in October of 1886. During the ceremony, Bartholdi receives the key to the city and climbs the Statue in order to release the French Flag. Celebration follows.\nIf you\u2019ve never been to see Lady Liberty in person, you should. 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He was reportedly held and beaten for three days by unknown assailants and interrogated about his work on corruption issues in the country.\n\u201cWhen civil society\u2019s freedom to operate is threatened, all efforts to fight corruption and impunity are threatened,\u201d said Global Witness campaigner Dana Wilkins. \u201cThe South Sudanese government has promised its citizens an open and democratic society. It must now make good on that promise by bringing Deng Athuai\u2019s attackers to justice.\u201d\nSouth Sudan\u2019s government has repeatedly recognised corruption as a major obstacle to stability and development. In a letter published earlier this year, President Salva Kiir Mayardit accused government officials of stealing US$4 billion from government coffers. According to recent budget figures, these stolen funds equate to more than 30% of all oil revenues received by the government since it became semi-autonomous in 2005. This is particularly concerning given that the oil sector alone made up approximately 98% of the national income last year (3).\nNatural resource contracts and foreign borrowing primarily backed by future oil revenues are expected to make up more than 57% of the next year\u2019s budget. Contract allocation and oil-backed loans pose corruption risks the world over, making South Sudan\u2019s efforts to be transparent and accountable all the more important (4).\nLocal civil society groups play a pivotal role in this fight against corruption. They expose wrongdoings, advocate for change, and provide a voice for affected communities and the wider public. But to be effective they must be able to conduct research, publish reports, and campaign on their issues freely and without fear of intimidation. The recent attack on Mr. Athuai undermines that freedom.\n\u201cNo South Sudanese citizen should live in fear of speaking out,\u201d said Wilkins. \u201cThe government must take robust action in response to this attack it so that civil society groups can operate safely and under the full protection of the law.\u201d\nContact: For more information contact Dana Wilkins in the UK on +44 (0)7808 761 570, [email protected] or Andrea Pattison on +44 (0)7970 103 083, [email protected].\n(1) Global Witness is an international, non-governmental organization which focuses on how the trade in natural resources can fuel corruption and conflict in developing countries. For the last four years in Sudan and the last two years in South Sudan, we have been working with government officials, civil society and donor advisors to improve oil sector governance. This work is informed by international best practice, consultations with industry and academic experts, our past work in Sudan, and our experience working on these issues in countries including Angola, Liberia, Kazakhstan, East Timor, and elsewhere. Our focus in South Sudan has been primarily on ensuring robust reporting, accounting, and auditing mechanisms are included in the new oil legislation, and on advocating for greater political and technical support for oversight institutions.\n(2) The South Sudan Civil Society Alliance is a coalition of South Sudanese civil society groups whose stated mission is \u201cto promote peace, stable development, human rights, democracy and good governance through influencing desirable change in policies of the government, donors, civil society and private sector through advocacy, lobby and networking.\u201d\n(3) According to the Republic of South Sudan\u2019s Draft Budget 2012/13.\n(4) See the Global Witness 17/5/12 press release \u2018South Sudan faces test of transparency commitments in pursuing oil-backed financing\u2019 and the 8/2/12 report \u2018Rigged: The Scramble for Africa's Oil, Gas and Minerals.\u2019", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00240.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 134, + "original_length": 6771, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.94, + "perplexity": 236.0, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "https://www.go2-holidays.com/cottages-lets/scotland/argyll,-bute-and-stirling/lochgilphead", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T03:37:39Z", + "digest": "sha1:X2EKXP3W5AEJUUVGSMBD53VGDAGIKUH3", + "length": 2697, + "nlines": 22, + "source_domain": "www.go2-holidays.com", + "title": "Go2 Lochgilphead - Holiday lets & cottages in Lochgilphead", + "raw_content": "Found 5 holiday lets and cottages in Lochgilphead, Argyll, Bute And Stirling, Scotland\nThese results include self catering holiday cottages, lodges, apartments and other accommodation in and around Lochgilphead, Argyll, Bute And Stirling, offering comparison between holiday lets from both top providers and private owners. Use the checkboxes below to filter the results by features or read our Guide to Lochgilphead, Argyll, Bute And Stirling.\n(Need a hotel instead? Find hotels in Lochgilphead here.)\nFrom the Cottages Online selection of holiday cottages in Lochgilphead, Argyll, Bute And Stirling - Sleeps up to 3. View details about 'The Stables' or Read reviews.\nL\u200b\u200bo\u200b\u200bc\u200b\u200bh\u200b\u200bg\u200b\u200bi\u200b\u200bl\u200b\u200bp\u200b\u200bh\u200b\u200be\u200b\u200ba\u200b\u200bd\u200b\u200b\nhttp://www.cottagesonline.co.uk/348607-the-bungalow-thumb.jpg\nFrom the Cottages Online selection of holiday cottages in Lochgilphead, Argyll, Bute And Stirling - Sleeps up to 6. View details about 'The Bungalow' or Read reviews.\nhttp://www.cottagesonline.co.uk/219715-the-lodge-thumb.jpg\nFrom the Cottages Online selection of holiday cottages in Lochgilphead, Argyll, Bute And Stirling - Sleeps up to 6. View details about 'The Lodge' or Read reviews.\nKaribu Cottage\nFrom Hoseasons' range of cottages and holiday lets in Cairnbaan, Lochgilphead, Argyll, Bute And Stirling - Sleeps up to 3. View details about 'Karibu Cottage' or Read reviews.\nC\u200b\u200ba\u200b\u200bi\u200b\u200br\u200b\u200bn\u200b\u200bb\u200b\u200ba\u200b\u200ba\u200b\u200bn\u200b\u200b,\nCairnbaan, Lochgilphead\nTigh A Vullin\nFrom Hoseasons' range of cottages and holiday lets in Ardfern, Nr. Lochgilphead, Argyll, Bute And Stirling - Sleeps up to 5. View details about 'Tigh A Vullin' or Read reviews.\nA\u200b\u200br\u200b\u200bd\u200b\u200bf\u200b\u200be\u200b\u200br\u200b\u200bn\u200b\u200b,\nNr. Lochgilphead\nArdfern, Nr. Lochgilphead\nNarrow down your search of holiday lets in Lochgilphead, Argyll, Bute And Stirling by ticking the items which are important to you.\nAbout Lochgilphead, Argyll, Bute And Stirling\nLochgilphead is a town in Argyll, Bute And Stirling, Scotland. It is located within a few miles of Achnamara, By Lochgilphead, Kilmartin, Lochgair, Loch Fyne, and Tarbert Loch Fyne and is one of 40 towns or villages in Argyll, Bute And Stirling in which Go2 has cottages or holidays lets available. The nearest official cities are Glasgow (population 629,501), Stirling (population 32,673), and Edinburgh (which has a population of 430,082 according to the 2001 Census).\nLooking for a short winter break or somewhere to visit during half term or the Christmas holidays? Read more in our Travel Guide to Lochgilphead, Argyll, Bute And Stirling which in addition to holiday lets in Lochgilphead also provides hotel, B&B and campsite search, as well as the weather in Lochgilphead, things to do in Lochgilphead, cycling and walking in Lochgilphead, and much more!", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00240.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 235, + "original_length": 8801, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.79, + "perplexity": 324.1, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "https://www.godswordistruth.co.uk/who-we-are", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T04:39:16Z", + "digest": "sha1:55KHUX26QHFTZDITZVQD2XRFMYK7ZCQV", + "length": 1357, + "nlines": 12, + "source_domain": "www.godswordistruth.co.uk", + "title": "Our Beliefs \u2014 Wardley Christadelphians", + "raw_content": "There is one all-powerful, all-knowing, all-seeing God who is the creator of the whole universe.\nThe Bible is God's word \u2013 it is God\u2019s way of speaking to us!\nThe Holy Spirit is God's power to create and save.\nGod gave men & women free-will to choose whether or not to honour Him, but from the very beginning we chose to ignore or break God's ways (sin).\nJesus lived in complete harmony with his Father and did not sin, but he gave up his life on the cross as a sacrifice so that believers in him could have their sins forgiven. .\nGod raised Jesus from the dead, and now Jesus is with God in heaven.\nWe can communicate by prayer to God, through Jesus Christ.\nGod is working in the world today to fulfil His ultimate purpose. He will judge mankind and eventually fill the earth with His Kingdom.\nJesus Christ will return to the earth to bring judgement and establish God\u2019s Kingdom.\nThrough faith in the gospel, repentance and baptism we have the hope of eternal life and a share in God's Kingdom. God has made important and sure promises to those who develop that faith.\nThe gospel is the Bible teaching about the Kingdom of God AND the life, death and resurrection of Jesus Christ.\nLearning from the Bible. Waiting for God's Kingdom on Earth. Watching for Christ's return (it could be any day now!). 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One of our favorites of Monday\u2019s first battle nights was Moriah Formica vs. Shilo Gold for Team Miley Cyrus. They both took on The Guess Who classic rock song \u201cAmerican Woman,\u201d with Moriah moving on to the knockouts in a few weeks. Team Miley has all female artists, a first in the history of \u201cThe Voice\u201d for its 13 seasons on NBC.\nOur contributing writer John Benutty had the following commentary about Moriah and ranked her first in his overall power rankings: \u201cAfter a stunning blind audition, Moriah was my frontrunner pick to win the season and far and away Miley\u2019s best artist. That Miley chose her over Shilo, who I actually think performed better in the battle, suggests that Miley supports and understands her as an artist. Where Moriah is most impressive is behind her guitar because she\u2019s still engaging to watch and the quality of her voice doesn\u2019t suffer so I think that\u2019s where she has a leg up on the rest of the competition.\u201d\nOf the 12 singers on Monday\u2019s show, Benutty thought Shilo was the fifth best performance even though she is now eliminated: \u201cShilo\u2019s performance was legit star status for me and I still can\u2019t believe she wasn\u2019t picked up by one of the other coaches. What she achieved with her vocals was awesome, but her ability to move across the stage like she owned it and Moriah was just part of her band is what sold me.\u201d\nAccording to the NBC official bio for Moriah: \u201cMoriah was raised on rock music. Her dad played a lot of \u201980s hair metal around the house, which led her to pick up a guitar and teach herself how to play. Moriah started to sing when she was nine years old and her first performance was at a graduation party that shocked her whole family. At 11, she joined the Modern Day Music Program, a music school that allows kids to join bands and play rock music together. Through the program she was able to meet Michael Sweet, who is the lead singer of \u201980s metal band Stryper. She opened for him at a local show and later sang on his most recent album, which reached No. 1 on the Billboard Hard Rock chart.\u201d\nAnd the NBC official bio for Shilo says: \u201cShilo\u2019s dad is a seventh generation cantor and has been grooming her to become an eighth generation cantor, but Shilo has always dreamed of a career in secular music. After attending a performing high school in Denver, Shilo was accepted into Berklee College of Music. However, she left Berklee to see the world through music, booking a three-month tour all on her own. She has played more than 80 shows in seven countries, which led her to The Voice stage.\u201d", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00240.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 578, + "original_length": 17294, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.99, + "perplexity": 267.3, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "https://www.gotquestions.org/climate-change.html", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T04:43:42Z", + "digest": "sha1:AUO3RDXICPQFG4TENYQM2RJPN2F6MNTN", + "length": 4156, + "nlines": 8, + "source_domain": "www.gotquestions.org", + "title": "How should a Christian view climate change?", + "raw_content": "Question: \"How should a Christian view climate change? What does the Bible say about climate change?\"\nAnswer: It is interesting to note how the phrase \"climate change\" is replacing \"global warming\" as the catch phrase of environmentalism. Some scientists/climatologists are certain that human activity, primarily greenhouse gas emissions, is impacting the environment. What they are not certain about is precisely what the impact will be. A couple of decades ago, \"global cooling\" was the fear, with warnings of a new ice age being the primary scare tactic. While most scientists/climatologists today believe that global warming is the primary risk, uncertainty has led to \"climate change\" being used as a less specific warning. Essentially, the climate change message is this: greenhouse gas emissions are damaging the environment, and, while we are not certain what the effect will be, we know it will be bad.\nClimatologists, ecologists, geologists, etc., are unanimous in recognizing that the earth has gone through significant temperature/climate changes in the past. Despite the fact that these climate changes were obviously not caused by human activity, many of these same scientists are convinced that human activity is the primary cause of climate change today. Why? There seem to be three primary motivations.\nFirst, some truly and fully believe the greenhouse gas emissions are causing climate change. They honestly examine the data and come to that conclusion. Second, some hold to the climate change mindset with an almost religious fervor. Many within the environmentalist movement are so obsessed with protecting \"Mother Earth\" that they will use any argument to accomplish that goal, no matter how biased and unbalanced it is. Third, some promote the climate change mentality for financial gain. Some of the strongest proponents of climate change legislation are those who stand to have the greatest financial gain from \"green\" laws and technologies. Before the climate change mindset is accepted, it should be recognized that not everyone who promotes climate change is doing so from an informed foundation and pure motives.\nHow, then, should a Christian view climate change? We should view it skeptically and critically, but at the same time honestly and respectfully. Most importantly, though, Christians should look at climate change biblically. What does the Bible say about climate change? Not much. Likely the closest biblical examples of what could be considered climate change would be the end times disasters prophesied in Revelation 6\u201318. Yet these prophecies have nothing to do with greenhouse gas emissions; rather, they are the result of the wrath of God, pouring out justice on an increasingly wicked world. Also, a Christian must remember that God is in control and that this world is not our home. God will one day erase this current universe (2 Peter 3:7-12) and replace it with the New Heavens and New Earth (Revelation 21\u201322). How much effort should be made \"saving\" a planet that God is eventually going to obliterate and replace with a planet so amazing and wonderful that the current earth pales in comparison?\nIs there anything wrong with going green? No, of course not. Is trying to reduce your carbon footprint a good thing? Probably so. Are solar panels, wind mills, and other renewable energy sources worth pursuing? Of course. Are any of these things to be the primary focus of followers of Jesus Christ? Absolutely not! As Christians, our focus should be proclaiming the truth of the gospel, the message that has the power to save souls. Saving the planet is not within our power or responsibility. Climate change may or may not be real, and may or may not be human-caused. What we can know for certain is that God is good and sovereign, and that Planet Earth will be our habitat for as long as God desires it to be. Psalm 46:2-3, \"Therefore we will not fear, though the earth give way and the mountains fall into the heart of the sea, though its waters roar and foam and the mountains quake with their surging.\"\nShould a Christian observe Earth Day?\nHow should Christians respond to global poverty and hunger?", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00240.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 55, + "original_length": 5605, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.95, + "perplexity": 263.5, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "https://www.greatamericancountry.com/shows/my-lottery-dream-home/episodes/200/utah-mountain-dream-home", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T04:46:15Z", + "digest": "sha1:2H6CNYPDEZPQVD44A7HMNX3VGX2YW27J", + "length": 599, + "nlines": 4, + "source_domain": "www.greatamericancountry.com", + "title": "Utah Mountain Dream Home | My Lottery Dream Home | GAC", + "raw_content": "Utah Mountain Dream Home\nNelly and Pablo were married for just a few months when they won $1 million in the Wyoming Powerball. Now they can afford their dream home in the mountains of Utah, and they're looking for a place that's big enough for their whole extended family. Interior designer David Bromstad joins the couple in their house hunt, along with their teenaged niece, Shania, who has some ideas about what kind of house is suitable for her millionaire relatives. But how far into the mountains are they willing to go?\nMusic City Dream Home for Kansas Lottery Winners\nParadise in Puerto Rico", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00240.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 201, + "original_length": 3325, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.98, + "perplexity": 252.7, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "https://www.grimmstories.com/language.php?grimm=162&l=en&r=es", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T04:30:18Z", + "digest": "sha1:YSQEX5PWDPXUUBQLP4XNLPFKMRGHLN2F", + "length": 1325, + "nlines": 3, + "source_domain": "www.grimmstories.com", + "title": "\ufeff The wise servant (ENGLISH) - El listo Juan (SPANISH)", + "raw_content": "The wise servant\nHow fortunate is the master, and how well all goes in his house, when he has a wise servant who listens to his orders and does not obey them, but prefers following his own wisdom. A clever John of this kind was once sent out by his master to seek a lost cow. He stayed away a long time, and the master thought, \"Faithful John does not spare any pains over his work!\" As, however, he did not come back at all, the master was afraid lest some misfortune had befallen him, and set out himself to look for him. He had to search a long time, but at last he perceived the boy who was running up and down a large field. \"Now, dear John,\" said the master when he had got up to him, \"hast thou found the cow which I sent thee to seek?\" - \"No, master,\" he answered, \"I have not found the cow, but then I have not looked for it.\" - \"Then what hast thou looked for, John?\" - \"Something better, and that luckily I have found.\" - \"What is that, John?\" - \"Three blackbirds,\" answered the boy. \"And where are they?\" asked the master. \"I see one of them, I hear the other, and I am running after the third,\" answered the wise boy.\nTake example by this, do not trouble yourselves about your masters or their orders, but rather do what comes into your head and pleases you, and then you will act just as wisely as prudent John.", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00240.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 69, + "original_length": 3761, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.99, + "perplexity": 277.9, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "https://www.grit.com/farm-and-garden/do-it-yourself/the-equipment-needed-for-soap-making", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T04:30:02Z", + "digest": "sha1:B6S2N3IR4HQARAMTQT7A54R5ZVLBZRI2", + "length": 6545, + "nlines": 19, + "source_domain": "www.grit.com", + "title": "The Equipment Needed For Soap Making - One Ash Farm and Dairy Homestead Blog - GRIT Magazine", + "raw_content": "The Equipment Needed For Soap Making\nTags: Soap, Lye, Homemade Soap, Equipment, Frugal Living, Lee Ann Perez,\nIn this second part of a three-part series (check out the first part), I have outlined the equipment you need to make your homemade soap. While it seems like a bit of an investment up front, you will soon recoup the costs from the soap you make for your family, gifts or for sale. As with many homesteaders, you will find many of these items already in your kitchen.\nMaking your own soap at home is one of the best ways you can work toward living a more frugal life. It is not only rewarding financially, once you are all set up for homemade soap making, you will also find that it is a fun and very enjoyable hobby. You can make soap at home to use for yourself and your family, you can make soap to sell at local farmers' markets, craft shows, or on one of the several online craft retailers, or you can make soap to give away as unique, desirable gifts.\nNo matter what you are planning as the end use for your soap, the first step is to gather all of the necessary equipment. There are several items that you will need for soap making, and you will want to use some of them for only soap making. Here we will go through the list of needed equipment, talk about the purpose of each item in soap making, and offer options, where available, for each of the equipment items. You may have some of these items in your kitchen already, but they are all easy to find at either local or online shopping establishments.\nPossibly the most important tool that you will need for your homemade soap making is the scale. This should be digital, and should read ounces, preferably to the 1/10th ounce. The scale will be used to ensure that the chemical balance of your soap is accurate. You will use it to measure everything including your lye, liquids, oils, and additives. You can get a digital scale here .\nThe Lye Container\nWhen measuring the lye, you will need to have either a clear plastic measuring cup, or bowl, that is used only for the lye, and is clearly marked \"lye only.\" Since lye is a toxic substance in the dry form that you will be measuring, it is imperative that this container is used for nothing else. A large measuring cup that will hold at least 12 ounces, depending on the size of the batches you will be making, or a clear plastic bowl, or container, can be found at most any local store. If you are working toward frugality, a check at your local dollar store would be a great place to start looking for this piece of equipment.\nThe Mixing Vessel\nMixing your lye and oils together to create your soap requires a stainless steel pot to avoid the chemical reaction that could happen with other metals. One of the best things to use is a stock pot, generally of about an 8-quart size, depending on the size of the batch you are making. Using a stock pot allows you to work down inside the pot to help avoid splashing of the caustic lye substance, prior to saponification. Stainless steel stock pots can be expensive to purchase, but they can be found at a reasonable price at your local mass merchandiser or low price retailer. You can also find them here.\nMake sure that you have a pair of safety goggles that cover all around your eyes in case of accidental splashes. The solution is very dangerous prior to saponification and contact with the eyes must be avoided. Safety goggles can be found readily, and inexpensively, at most dollar stores, home improvement stores, or mass merchandisers.\nSpoon and Ladle\nMixing, measuring and pouring, can require either a stainless steel spoon, or a stainless steel ladle. Again, you want these items to be stainless steel to avoid any chemical reaction with the metal. Both of these items are easily found at local dollar or mass merchandise stores.\nThis one item, along with the digital scale, is perhaps the most important piece of equipment for making homemade soap. While the mixture of liquids, lye, and oils, can be stirred by hand, the end product will be smoother, harder, and more professional if a stick blender is used. When mixing the ingredients together the stick blender is used to ensure complete integration of all of the parts to result in a timely trace, and ultimately proper saponification, and beautiful bars, of soap. Stick blenders range in price from fairly inexpensive to unnecessarily pricey. For the purpose of soap making, an inexpensive stick blender, which can be found here, is sufficient.\nWhat you use for a mold for your soap can vary greatly. Everything from dish washing tubs, to plastic storage boxes, to silicone muffin cups, to candy molds can be used. You can also purchase specifically designed soap molds either online or at your local craft store. This is completely up to you, but the recommendation is that you find something that is squared off on the corners rather than rounded to avoid wasting and trimming of your bars. It is also recommended that you find a mold that can either be taken apart to expose the free standing soap, or a mold that is flexible enough to \"pop\" the soap out upside down. Metal containers should be avoided for this step, with soft plastic, or silicone, being preferable. I have recently had the opportunity to try out some wonderful farm animal molds (my favorite is the sheep mold) from Milky Way Molds. The detail in these molds is wonderful, and I have had fantastic results using their products! If you have never tried detailed molds before I recommend you visit Milky Way Molds and look at their expansive selection. (A huge thank you to Milky Way Molds for providing me products to include in this post.)\nThe only other things you may need for your homemade soap making project will include paper towels, stainless steel measuring spoons for measuring scents and other additives, and a few small measuring cups or bowls to hold ingredients prior to adding them to the soap mixture. These items may already be in your kitchen, or can be found at any dollar or mass merchandise store.\nWhile it may seem like a long list of items that you need to make soap, remember that these are one time purchases that will allow you to make a life time of unique and creative soap. As with any craft or hobby, the tools you use will determine the quality of the end product. 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The new car was three inches shorter and much squarer than the preceding model, looking like the rest of the Chrysler family. The cars now had a unibody construction, the model name was spelled out across the grille, and there were two full-length ribs protecting the side panels, with a chrome strip in between. Rear fenders were integrated into the bumpers, and the full-width taillights featured an Imperial eagle in the center. The engine was a 350-hp 440-cid V-8.\nSales rebounded from 13,742 in 1966 to 17,614 in 1967. It wasn\u2019t much by Cadillac standards, but Imperials always appealed to a discriminating buyer. There were three Imperial models in 1967: the Imperial four-door sedan and convertible, the two- and four-door hardtop Imperial Crowns, and the Imperial LeBaron\u2014a one-model series of four-door hardtop with a formal roofline. The Crown four-door hardtop was a top seller with 9,415 examples, while the convertible was rarest with 577 sold.\nThe base Imperial line was dropped for 1968, but the sedan and convertible were included in the Crown Imperial series. Changes were minor. The grille had an eagle in the center and was redesigned into two huge castings; and the trim across the side panels was now carried on the lower ribs. Side marker lights were added. Most cars had vinyl tops and all power accessories.\nTotal sales for 1968 were 15,361, with the Crown four-door hardtop leading the way with 8,492 examples. The convertible found only 474 buyers, making it one of the rarest convertible models\u2014this would be the last year for an Imperial convertible. The formal Imperial LeBaron four-door hardtop registered 1,852 sales, slightly fewer than the year before.\nThe boxy 1967 and 1968 Imperial was replaced by the \u201cfuselage\u201d design for 1969, which was made through 1973. These cars are recognized as excellent highway cruisers and a fair number still survive. Almost all have every power option, with 97.2 percent having air conditioning. Original owners also tended to hold on to these cars for long stretches of time, pampering them in the process, so good examples are relatively easy to locate today. Trim pieces, on the other hand, are difficult to source and the 1968 grille in particular is both fragile and complicated. 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Registration is requested, please register here.\nThis program is sponsored by Delaware Humanities and the Hagley Museum and Library.\nAbout Dr. Lantry\nDoug Lantry is a curator at the National Museum of the U.S. Air Force, Wright-Patterson AFB, Ohio, and serves as the museum\u2019s historian. He is lead curator for the museum\u2019s Space, Korean War, and World War I galleries, and co-curator for Southeast Asia. Recent projects include exhibits on spacesuits, Cold War strategic reconnaissance, and World War I topics with the US Mint and the US World War I Centennial Commission.\nDr. Lantry received his Ph.D. in History with a certificate in Museum Studies from the University of Delaware, where he was a fellow in the UD-Hagley Program in the History of Technology and Industrialization. He received his M.A. in Public History from Kent State University and a B.A. in journalism from The Ohio State University. 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In bawdy, moving prose, Rita Mae Brown tells the story of Molly Bolt, the adoptive daughter of a dirt-poor Southern couple who boldly forges her own path in America. With her startling beauty and crackling wit, Molly finds that women are drawn to her wherever she goes--and she refuses to apologize for loving them back. This literary milestone continues to resonate with its message about being true to yourself and, against the odds, living happily ever after.\nPraise for \"Rubyfruit Jungle\"\n\"Groundbreaking.\"--\"The New York Times\"\n\"Powerful . . . a truly incredible book . . . 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But for the majority of us, crime is not something that sits top of mind and we don\u2019t necessarily see how \u2018crime is changing\u2019.\nWe tend to think of crime in transitional terms \u2013 a spate of burglaries along a street or in more rural areas, criminals going farm to farm stealing quad bikes.\nOf course unfortunately these things do happen, but make no mistake, crime is changing.\nLast month, for the first time ever, the Government included fraud in the official crime statistics and we saw the sheer scale of that change. The numbers revealed four million \u2018additional\u2019 crimes in one year alone, and they are just the ones the police know about.\nOften hidden in plain sight, fraud has very quickly become one of the biggest and most common threats to each of us.\nSadly, the story gets worse. Home Office research shows that here in North Yorkshire we are particularly vulnerable.\nIt will be no surprise to learn North Yorkshire has a higher than average older population, and those older people are, relatively speaking, wealthy. What\u2019s more, given that the average age for a victim of fraud is 75, it is no wonder that criminals see North Yorkshire as potentially lucrative.\nAnd whilst by no means are all older people vulnerable, many are in one form or another.\nFor example, they may have a medical condition, or be very trusting or feel isolated and alone. But in truth, age is only one factor. As soon as you think \u2018it couldn\u2019t happen to me\u2019 you become vulnerable.\nLower your guard at your peril.\nI tell you this not as a means to scare you (North Yorkshire is thankfully the safest county in England), but to make sure you are aware of the threats around us.\nTo make sure you know how to keep yourself safe, and importantly, how we can better look out for each other.\nScam, racket, swindle, con. Fraud comes in all shapes and sizes: committed by post, telephone, via the internet and in person.\nBut all have the same hallmarks, and armed with the right information, we can take action. For example, if it seems too good to be true, it probably is.\nIf your elderly loved ones have told you they have won a prize or lottery, ask for more detail.\nIf someone has formed a new long-distance relationship, ask them about it.\nIf there has been a big uplift in the amount of post your mum receives, check they\u2019re not scams. And never, ever give out personal or security information via emails or phone calls you have not yourself made, even if they look or sound genuine.\nTop tips to keep safe?\nDon\u2019t rush into anything, if in doubt say no, if unsure don\u2019t open the door, never give your personal information to anyone who you don\u2019t know and always ask for a second opinion.\nAwareness is key, which is the reason for this column. But I want to do more, which is why I am supporting the fantastic Friends Against Scams initiative being run by Trading Standards, and is something everyone can get involved in.\nThere are two Friends Against Scams awareness sessions taking place in Harrogate in the first week of February.\nEach session will provide an overall awareness of scams as well as the skills and resources allowing you to become champions and run your own awareness sessions for the people you care for, colleagues, friends and neighbours.\nThe latter is what I am particularly excited about.\nSharing the means to protect each other is crucial, and please do take this opportunity to learn to keep yourself and your loved ones safe.\nIf you want to know more about the Friends Against Scams initiative, or attend one of their workshops, go onto my website and all the information will be on my homepage - http://www.northyorkshire-pcc.gov.uk/\nMy final thought, please look out for your friends, family and neighbours, especially if they are elderly or vulnerable. But don\u2019t forgot about yourself.\nWe are all potential victims, so keep on your guard.", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00240.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 136, + "original_length": 5744, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.96, + "perplexity": 302.6, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "https://www.harrogateadvertiser.co.uk/news/opinion/transport-talk-with-don-mackenzie-parking-costs-on-cards-it-s-easier-to-pay-at-machines-1-7967624", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T03:45:28Z", + "digest": "sha1:GUD5M73UCZ3P5QAS7BEB5S7U2OJQI3JJ", + "length": 4916, + "nlines": 24, + "source_domain": "www.harrogateadvertiser.co.uk", + "title": "Transport Talk with Don Mackenzie: Parking costs on cards - it\u2019s easier to pay at machines - Harrogate Advertiser", + "raw_content": "Transport Talk with Don Mackenzie: Parking costs on cards - it\u2019s easier to pay at machines\nOne of the new ticket machines which will accept cards as well as coins.\nI am devoting this column to on-street parking in Harrogate town centre. It is a timely subject in view of a report coming to NYCC executive members later this summer. The report is likely to recommend an extension to on-street parking charges to include Sundays and possibly evenings.\nFirst some background to this subject.\nPay and display charging started in Harrogate in 1994/5. Before that, display discs were used to limit the time vehicles could be parked on town centre streets.\nFree disc parking still exists over a wide area of the town and there are no plans to change that.\nLong before pay and display was introduced by NYCC, Harrogate Borough Council charged drivers to park in its car parks seven days a week, although the incentive to use these specially built car parks was low when there was free parking on the streets.\nThe car parks had one major advantage over disc parking \u2013 drivers could pay to park for as long as they wished, whilst disc parking was time-restricted.\nNevertheless, for traffic management reasons, the decision was taken over 20 years ago to introduce pay and display parking controls, which had the effect of encouraging drivers to use off-street car parks built specially for them.\nAt the same time it discouraged the growing practice of drivers circling the town looking for a free disc space, adding to the congestion which was getting worse and worse as car ownership increased, visitor numbers rose, and the population of the town grew larger.\nThe introduction of on-street charging also brought with it another major advantage \u2013 it encouraged the regular turnover of premium town centre parking spaces so that those who wished to drive into town to visit shops or restaurants or any other business reliant upon visitors\u2019 spending could find a parking space easily.\nAdditionally, it created surpluses each year to be used to pay for improvements in bus and rail services, highways safety schemes, other measures designed to ease congestion and manage traffic, and to encourage cycling, walking and the use of public transport.\nBack then, very few town centre shops would open on a Sunday. Today many do and Sundays in Harrogate town centre look like any other day of the week. Some would say that it is even busier. Indeed trying to find a free on-street parking space on a Sunday after 10am is very difficult and there are more and more cars driving round looking for a space on a day when the car parks have lots of room.\nHarrogate\u2019s recently adopted Town Centre Strategy and Masterplan stresses that the street scene could be greatly improved by getting vehicles off the roads into its underused car parks. It also recommends the use of park and ride facilities, which the town lacks.\nIt is against this background that the county\u2019s highways officers will report to me and my fellow executive members on proposals to extend on-street charging.\nThe Under the Hammer column with Harrogate estate agent FSS\nI stress that no decisions have been taken and that, before doing so, my colleagues and I will wish to see evidence to back up the report\u2019s recommendations.\nI am fully aware that there are concerns about introducing additional parking charges, including on the part of this newspaper, and these will, of course, be taken into consideration.\nThere are suggestions that free disc parking on Sundays and evenings would be the solution to managing the traffic. Apart from taking us back to the unsatisfactory arrangements of 20 years ago, the costs of new signage and of rigorous enforcement would have to be met by the council taxpayer.\nEarlier this month, we endorsed the allocation of \u00a33.5m from on-street parking surpluses to help pay for twin-tracking the Harrogate-York railway line east of Knaresborough by 2019. \u00a31m a year is also being given towards the county\u2019s \u00a38m bill for the concessionary fares scheme for bus pass holders. \u00a30.5m a year will fund the preparation of bids for major schemes like a Harrogate relief road or a park and ride facility as the town\u2019s masterplan suggests.\nThe surpluses have paid for new user-friendly parking ticket machines which will accept credit cards \u2013 a major advantage for our visitors who hitherto had to use coins only.\nFor the first time, we have allocated \u00a3100k every year to schemes to promote cycling and walking, and a further \u00a3100k a year to measures to combat air pollution in problem areas like Woodlands Corner and Bond End in Knaresborough.\nThe results of the traffic surveys taken in April will be published on the NYCC website later this month. The report to the executive is due to be finalised in July and published well in advance of the likely date of the executive meeting on August 16.\nThe process will be transparent, the meeting public.", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00240.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 129, + "original_length": 6527, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.97, + "perplexity": 295.9, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "https://www.health-kick.com.au/why-do-so-many-professionals-suffer-from-an-addiction/", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T03:15:15Z", + "digest": "sha1:KALAUTNZSR5UT2SVAKYLU7LCH33LK5IF", + "length": 2943, + "nlines": 7, + "source_domain": "www.health-kick.com.au", + "title": "Why Do So Many Professionals Suffer From An Addiction? - Health Kick", + "raw_content": "The rates of addiction all around the world are increasing and it is not just school children or the ones that come from troubled homes who are at risk for this situation. In fact high functioning addiction is very commonly observed among professionals who are doing exceedingly well for themselves every day. It is important therefore for you to understand why this happens and it could be because you are somebody who is battling addiction yourself or it could be because you know somebody who is and you want to help them overcome this. Here are some of the most common reasons why professionals are common victims of addiction too.\nThey Work In High Stress Situations Every Day\nOne of the most common reasons why this could possibly be happening with professionals is because they work in high stress environments every day. Trying to cope with all that stress and failing to do so in a healthy manner is why this happens for the most part. At first it would begin as something that they or you would try out just once in a while to relax and unwind from all the stress that you need to handle regularly and you would most probably really like the feeling that it gives you. Before you know it you would be increasing the frequency of the intake and also you will be taking more and more in terms of dosage. This is how an addiction builds. Today there are options like executive drug rehab programs that can really help you remove yourself from this situation. Understand that escaping stress with the se of toxic chemicals that are also addictive is not the way to handle stress.\nThey Do Not Wish To Speak About Their Issues\nThe possible invasion of privacy that could happen and people misunderstanding their situation which could really harm their professional reputation is one of the reasons that addiction in professionals really grow until they reach dangerous levels. They wish to maintain appearances which are fair enough given that they do not want anybody to spread tales about what they are going through and portray them in a negative light. That said the more that you keep quiet and think that this will go away after a while is one of the most common ways in which your addiction could actually get out of control. You cannot be your own boss when it comes to something like addiction; you need somebody to show you the way in which to overcome this.\nThey Think It Can Be Controlled Like Their Work\nProfessionals who work in really high stress environments, who are in high management levels and are used to being in control all of the time will think that in addiction they can still be in control too. This will never happen because once the substance that you are using takes control of your mind and your body you will only feel the incredibly overpowering need to somehow fill that need. 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Medications that include pills and creams, home remedies, changes in lifestyle and habits, and as\nHemorrhoid Treatment During Pregnancy When they are pregnant for the first time, some women will form hemorrhoids because of the increased pressure. The hemorrhoids could form in the beginning or during childbirth because of straining. They may heal after giving birth. As the uterus grows according to the baby\u2019s progress, this can put pressure on the\nFinding Relief For Hemorrhoids Hemorrhoids are uncomfortable and often cause pain, which is why so many people are in search of some type of relief. The condition can really get in the way of leading a productive and pain-free life. Fortunately, there are many hemorrhoid treatments that have been proven effective at reducing the symptoms\nHow to Get Rid of Hemorrhoid (Natural Medication) Well, actually, hemorrhoid is not a disease, it is only a condition where some veins in anus or rectum get swollen and inflamed by some causes. There are also actually many causes of this pain including unhealthy and wrong habits, consuming unhealthy foods, push our body too\nHow To Get Rid Of Hemorrhoids If you or a loved one gets hemorrhoids, also known as piles, all you can think about is getting rid of the condition and keeping it gone. Spare yourself the embarrassment and extreme discomfort caused by hemorrhoids with these useful tips. Overexertion during bowel movements causes straining, and this\nGet Your Hemorrhoids Home Remedy Having hemorrhoids is such a painful sickness and that you should know the cheapest hemorrhoids remedy, that is hemorrhoids Home Remedy. hemorrhoids are when you have your veins swollen in your anal system. It is because there is too much pressure in your blood veins in the area of pelvic\nHow to Cure Hemorrhoids Hemorrhoids affect a large percentage of the population at one time or another, and can become quite painful and uncomfortable when left untreated. It is very important to visit your doctor if you suspect that you have hemorrhoids, so that he can give you a definite diagnosis and recommend the best\nHow To Help Severe Hemorrhoids Enlarged veins that occur in the anal canal are known as hemorrhoids. While hemorrhoids are uncomfortable; they are rarely a serious health problem until they become severe hemorrhoids. To help control bowel movements the tissue surrounding the anus known as the anal cushions will fill with blood. When the veins\nStop Piles Hemorrhoid And Be Informed According to clinical studies, piles hemorrhoid has affected almost half percent of people in their mid years. This kind of condition is described as the swelling of the veins in the anal region caused by too much pressure put on the bottom part of the body. Here are the", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00240.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 72, + "original_length": 4529, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.96, + "perplexity": 228.1, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "https://www.henfieldhub.com/search/directory/?q=community", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T04:22:52Z", + "digest": "sha1:MC4EV3SI7IQNWZHENSSOOMJBBOWMKGZ7", + "length": 2077, + "nlines": 7, + "source_domain": "www.henfieldhub.com", + "title": "Henfield Hub - Search results for 'community'", + "raw_content": "Results for 'community'\nThe Henfield Community Partnership, set up in 2005, is all about doing things that enhance the well-being of the village and its surroundings. A lot has been achieved since then, including the skateboard park for youngsters, a minibus service for older people, the signposts and maps that you see around the village and helping to bring about this website!! Read More\nAims to keep the spirit of Scouting at the heart of Henfield whose values are Service to Self and to Others. 1st Henfield Scout Group founded in 1907 is in need to have a home for the next 100 years. Updates on events and fundraising activities please see:http://www.henfield-scout-cc.org/news-events/\nResidents (and visitors to residents) of Ashurst, Blackstone, Bramber, Cowfold, Edburton, Fulking, Henfield, Partridge Green, Poynings, Shermanbury, Small Dole, Steyning, Upper Beeding, Wineham, and Woodmancote, no matter what your age, whether you are 9 or 90, disabled or otherwise, you are welcome to use our minibus. The Community Minibus offers a number of advantages over other public transport. Our service will: \u2022\tCollect you from your home - no standing out in the cold or rain! - and deliver you right to your destination \u2022\tReturn you from your destination and deliver you to your home. \u2022\tCarry your bags to your door if you need help. \u2022\tHelp you to board and dismount if you use a wheelchair or have difficulty with stairs. You will be guaranteed a friendly helpful service run by local people. All passengers must register with Bluebird Community Partnership. To register, call Bluebird on 01444 471919.\nThe Community and Infrastructure Focus Group will be assisting the Henfield Parish Neighbourhood Plan Steering Group in its work by tackling issues facing people within Henfield Parish such as: - Existing Facilities (Community Assets) - New Facilities (for young and old) - Village Centres\nHenfield Women's Discussion Group\nDiscussion of a range of topics chosen by members, held in each others houses by arrangement. New members always welcome. 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Photocopies will not be allowed.\nThe game promises to be an exciting one with Altrincham flying high in fourth place in the table and boasting the league\u2019s top-scorer, Damian Reeves, who has netted 35 times this season.\nPaul Moss, one of the directors at Hinckley United, said: \u201cIt has been a long, hard season and now in conjunction with The Hinckley Times we want to show our appreciation of what the supporters have gone through.\n\u201cSo people can simply cut out the coupon and bring it along or get tickets in advance from the club and we will be able to give them free entry to the Altrincham game. We have got St Mary\u2019s band coming along on the day to help make an event of it and they will be playing on the pitch before the game and then again at half-time as well.\n\u201cAll of the club\u2019s development squad will be at the game as well and we are sure that it will be a great day for everyone.\u201d\nFor more information can call the Greene King Stadium on Hinckley 840088.", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00240.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 155, + "original_length": 7949, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.96, + "perplexity": 223.5, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/gavin-smith-missing-20th-century-fox-executive-home-search-335591", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T03:28:25Z", + "digest": "sha1:Y3XGAYBXUFAWJBEC3PEPTGLSRIWRA2H2", + "length": 3307, + "nlines": 16, + "source_domain": "www.hollywoodreporter.com", + "title": "Authorities Search Home in Hunt for Missing Fox Exec Gavin Smith | Hollywood Reporter", + "raw_content": "Authorities Search Home in Hunt for Missing Fox Exec Gavin Smith\nHomicide detectives remove boxes, a computer and an Audi SUV from a home belonging to John and Chandrika Creech in the investigation into the disappearance of Gavin Smith, who vanished May 1.\nSheriff's investigators searched a home in the San Fernando Valley on Friday in connection with the case of missing 20th Century Fox movie executive Gavin Smith, who disappeared more than a month ago.\nA SWAT team and county homicide investigators descended on a cul-de-sac home in the 8600 block of Santa Susana Place in West Hills in the early morning hours June 8, using a loudspeaker to tell residents to come out, according to neighbors who spoke to the LA Times.\nAccording to property records and neighbors, the house belongs to John and Chandrika Creech. Investigators remained at the home for more than five hours before leaving the home with boxes and a computer. They also towed away a black Audi SUV.\nAuthorities refused to provide details about the search, but said no arrests had been made.\nA lawyer who came to the home, Daniel Teola, told the LA Times this was the second time in a month that deputies had searched the house. He refused to discuss the case or identify his clients.\nSheriff's Lt. Dave Dolson emphasized that the investigation remains a missing person case and not a homicide investigation.\n\"We don't have anything indicating there was foul play involved,\" Dolson said. \"We are not ruling it out, of course.\u2026 Everything's still on the table.\"\nA law enforcement source said that serving a search warrant in a missing persons case is highly unusual.\nThe search comes days after a $20,000 reward was offered as officials appealed to the public for information that could help solve the case.\nSmith, a former UCLA basketball player who worked on distributing films such as Titanic and Avatar, left a friend's home between 9 p.m. and 10 p.m. on May 1 without telling anyone where he was going. He wore a pair of purple athletic pants belonging to one of his sons and left his cellphone charger, shaving kit and other items.\nHis family and authorities have been unable to locate him either through cellphone records or credit card billings.\nSmith, 57, an 18-year veteran of Fox's distribution department and former UCLA basketball player, was last seen on the night of May 1 at a friend's residence in Oak Park, an affluent Ventura County community. He left the property in his black Mercedes-Benz E420 sedan between 9 and 10 p.m.\nSmith is Fox's branch manager for theaters in Dallas and Oklahoma City. In his post, he serves as a liaison between the studio and theaters, making sure films get to their destination. He works out of the company's Calabasas office in the southwestern San Fernando Valley, not far from his residence in West Hills. Smith was a sophomore forward on the 1974-75 UCLA men's basketball team that won a national championship in legendary coach John Wooden's final year at the helm. Smith did not play in the 1975 championship game, but he logged minutes in two Final Four games the following season.\nThe family has offered a $20,000 reward for any information about the missing executive. 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In other words, women who work in Greenville-Washington, NC generally make around 7083% of what men do. Much of that difference is likely due to the number of hours worked (see the Full Time vs Part Time Work chart), occupations chosen (see the Employed by Occupation chart), education, and job experience. Adjusting for each of those factors to see what women with similar qualifications and jobs make compared to men is difficult, but the adjusted pay gap would be more likely to show the difference due to discrimination, difference in ability, or willingness to negotiate pay. For these reasons, differences in the gender pay shown here may be more likely to show the gender ideals in an area than the discriminatory practices. It is also worth noting that the 31% of men and 37% of women ages 16+ that did not have earnings were not included in the calculation.\nTo classify as unemployed, people must not be in the military and must be actively looking for work (also known as the U3 measure of unemployment which is the official unemployment rate). In Greenville-Washington, NC, 36% of the population ages 16+ are not employed, but are also not looking for work so they are not considered in the unemployment rate. See the Labor Force Participation Rate for more information.\nPeople in the labor force include those in the armed forces as well as civilians who are employed or classified as unemployed. To classify as unemployed, people must be actively looking for work. Common people that are not considered in the labor force are students, homemakers, retired workers, seasonal workers not currently looking for work, and institutionalized people. In Greenville-Washington, NC, 36% of people are neither employed or looking for work.\nNot being enrolled in school does not necessarily mean that the student dropped out. Only schools that lead to a high school diploma or college degree are included. Home schoolers were instructed to select private school. Ages 3-4 are not included because preschool programs are not usually mandated by law and only 40% of children in this age range were enrolled in Greenville-Washington, NC.\nThe historical population of Greenville-Washington, NC in each census year since 1790 is derived from census records. Historical populations are based on the present-day geographic area of Greenville-Washington, NC and do not account for boundary changes over time. Learn more about the US population migrations and historical populations.\nThe racial and ethnic diversity index measures the probability that any two people chose at random from Greenville-Washington, NC are of different races or ethnicities where higher numbers represent more diversity. It was developed by the University of North Carolina and USA Today in 1991 and adapted in 2000 to account for differences in Census questions. It uses the same calculation methods as the Gini Index used by the Census Bureau to determine household income inequality.\nName 2010 Census Gulfport-Biloxi-Pascagoula, MS CSA\nName 2013 ACS Greenville-Washington, NC CSA", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00240.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 1249, + "original_length": 26114, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.97, + "perplexity": 213.8, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "https://www.homearea.com/csa/ithaca-cortland-ny-csa/296/", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T04:42:47Z", + "digest": "sha1:JVUMTNI6GADUP2LRFXDJZI26QFWU4VJE", + "length": 3324, + "nlines": 16, + "source_domain": "www.homearea.com", + "title": "Ithaca-Cortland, NY CSA - Housing, Employment, Education, More", + "raw_content": "Ithaca-Cortland, NY CSA\nIthaca-Cortland, NY is a CSA:\nIthaca-Cortland, NY is a combined statistical area of the following core based statistical areas.\nCayuga Heights, NY\nCortland West, NY\nEast Ithaca, NY\nMunsons Corners, NY\nNewfield Hamlet, NY\nNortheast Ithaca, NY\nThe unadjusted gender pay gap is the median indvidiual female earnings as a percentage of male earnings. In other words, women who work in Ithaca-Cortland, NY generally make around 7552% of what men do. Much of that difference is likely due to the number of hours worked (see the Full Time vs Part Time Work chart), occupations chosen (see the Employed by Occupation chart), education, and job experience. Adjusting for each of those factors to see what women with similar qualifications and jobs make compared to men is difficult, but the adjusted pay gap would be more likely to show the difference due to discrimination, difference in ability, or willingness to negotiate pay. For these reasons, differences in the gender pay shown here may be more likely to show the gender ideals in an area than the discriminatory practices. It is also worth noting that the 27% of men and 33% of women ages 16+ that did not have earnings were not included in the calculation.\nTo classify as unemployed, people must not be in the military and must be actively looking for work (also known as the U3 measure of unemployment which is the official unemployment rate). In Ithaca-Cortland, NY, 40% of the population ages 16+ are not employed, but are also not looking for work so they are not considered in the unemployment rate. See the Labor Force Participation Rate for more information.\nPeople in the labor force include those in the armed forces as well as civilians who are employed or classified as unemployed. To classify as unemployed, people must be actively looking for work. Common people that are not considered in the labor force are students, homemakers, retired workers, seasonal workers not currently looking for work, and institutionalized people. In Ithaca-Cortland, NY, 40% of people are neither employed or looking for work.\nNot being enrolled in school does not necessarily mean that the student dropped out. Only schools that lead to a high school diploma or college degree are included. Home schoolers were instructed to select private school. Ages 3-4 are not included because preschool programs are not usually mandated by law and only 58% of children in this age range were enrolled in Ithaca-Cortland, NY.\nThe historical population of Ithaca-Cortland, NY in each census year since 1790 is derived from census records. Historical populations are based on the present-day geographic area of Ithaca-Cortland, NY and do not account for boundary changes over time. Learn more about the US population migrations and historical populations.\nThe racial and ethnic diversity index measures the probability that any two people chose at random from Ithaca-Cortland, NY are of different races or ethnicities where higher numbers represent more diversity. It was developed by the University of North Carolina and USA Today in 1991 and adapted in 2000 to account for differences in Census questions. It uses the same calculation methods as the Gini Index used by the Census Bureau to determine household income inequality.\nName 2013 ACS Ithaca-Cortland, NY CSA", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00240.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 1244, + "original_length": 24902, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.97, + "perplexity": 249.5, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "https://www.homearea.com/csa/wausau-stevens-point-wisconsin-rapids-wi-csa/554/", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T04:35:42Z", + "digest": "sha1:E2EFNMBW6SG6WQWEF3OHAW7ZKRBHU7GJ", + "length": 3640, + "nlines": 16, + "source_domain": "www.homearea.com", + "title": "Wausau-Stevens Point-Wisconsin Rapids, WI CSA - Housing, Employment, Education, More", + "raw_content": "Wausau-Stevens Point-Wisconsin Rapids, WI\nWausau-Stevens Point-Wisconsin Rapids, WI CSA\nWausau-Stevens Point-Wisconsin Rapids, WI is a CSA:\nWausau-Stevens Point-Wisconsin Rapids, WI is a combined statistical area of the following core based statistical areas.\nMerrill, WI Micro Area\nStevens Point, WI Micro Area\nWisconsin Rapids, WI Micro Area\nGreen Bay-Shawano, WI\nThe unadjusted gender pay gap is the median indvidiual female earnings as a percentage of male earnings. In other words, women who work in Wausau-Stevens Point-Wisconsin Rapids, WI generally make around 6903% of what men do. Much of that difference is likely due to the number of hours worked (see the Full Time vs Part Time Work chart), occupations chosen (see the Employed by Occupation chart), education, and job experience. Adjusting for each of those factors to see what women with similar qualifications and jobs make compared to men is difficult, but the adjusted pay gap would be more likely to show the difference due to discrimination, difference in ability, or willingness to negotiate pay. For these reasons, differences in the gender pay shown here may be more likely to show the gender ideals in an area than the discriminatory practices. It is also worth noting that the 25% of men and 32% of women ages 16+ that did not have earnings were not included in the calculation.\nTo classify as unemployed, people must not be in the military and must be actively looking for work (also known as the U3 measure of unemployment which is the official unemployment rate). In Wausau-Stevens Point-Wisconsin Rapids, WI, 32% of the population ages 16+ are not employed, but are also not looking for work so they are not considered in the unemployment rate. See the Labor Force Participation Rate for more information.\nPeople in the labor force include those in the armed forces as well as civilians who are employed or classified as unemployed. To classify as unemployed, people must be actively looking for work. Common people that are not considered in the labor force are students, homemakers, retired workers, seasonal workers not currently looking for work, and institutionalized people. In Wausau-Stevens Point-Wisconsin Rapids, WI, 32% of people are neither employed or looking for work.\nNot being enrolled in school does not necessarily mean that the student dropped out. Only schools that lead to a high school diploma or college degree are included. Home schoolers were instructed to select private school. Ages 3-4 are not included because preschool programs are not usually mandated by law and only 41% of children in this age range were enrolled in Wausau-Stevens Point-Wisconsin Rapids, WI.\nThe historical population of Wausau-Stevens Point-Wisconsin Rapids, WI in each census year since 1790 is derived from census records. Historical populations are based on the present-day geographic area of Wausau-Stevens Point-Wisconsin Rapids, WI and do not account for boundary changes over time. Learn more about the US population migrations and historical populations.\nThe racial and ethnic diversity index measures the probability that any two people chose at random from Wausau-Stevens Point-Wisconsin Rapids, WI are of different races or ethnicities where higher numbers represent more diversity. It was developed by the University of North Carolina and USA Today in 1991 and adapted in 2000 to account for differences in Census questions. 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It doesn't need to be a light bright area.\u201d\n\"Never forget, something like a dark charcoal is the ultimate, ultimate neutral. It's an amazing colour.\"\n\u201cFeature walls have to have a relationship to the other walls. It can\u2019t just be a collision. And actually, it's often better with a flat colour. In Australia, there's often too much light, so actually, a colour like dark charcoal is a great way of doing stuff about that.\u201d\n\"I want to see a reinterpretation of traditional shapes. These are the sort of things people are really enjoying in Europe at the moment.\"\nLaurence is a big fan of design icon and wallpaper innovator Florence Broadhurst, and feels that she has been often overlooked by her fellow Australians. 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As a result, Mike stayed late when the cable man came to ensure that Jane wasn't uncomfortable.\nThe county reimburses us to sit with Jane and take her to appointments, but our staff does so much more than that. Mike and Rejeanna have formed a true bond with Jane, and she has become good friends with both of them. She trusts them as if they were her own family. And most importantly, Mike and Rejeanna have included Jane in their lives and have enriched hers in the process. We don't provide \"sitters\" or \"nurse aides\"; we become people's families. Jane is now safely living on her own, and she has more self-confidence and lives a more fulfilling life than she has in the past. 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A fixture in the arts community of Jersey City for over 10 years, Sirena and Chelo, affectionately referred to as Sirelo, a name they adopted for their entertainment company, exude love and openness, in their relationship, their artistic endeavors, and their community events.\nTheir story begins like this: Almost 20 years ago, at County College of Morris, in Randolph, New Jersey, Sirena was two days late, but just in time to meet the love of her life.\nChelo, a young man who was ready to get serious about his life, enrolled in an Equal Opportunity Funding program at the County College of Morris, encourage by a mentor, Eddie Lopez. When Sirena showed up, at noon on the third day, ready to be disappointed by everything and everyone, she was greeted by her friends who, in addition to being thrilled she was there, kept prodding her, \u201cWait till you meet Chelo! Wait till you meet Chelo!\u201d speaking with their eyes as much as their voice. \u201cChelo,\u201d Sirena thought, \u201cWhatever about this Chelo.\u201d\nWith his romanesque good looks and long curly hair, Chelo walked, (strutted? rode in on a white stallion? it\u2019s still not clear) into the classroom, through the door and directly to Sirena. \u201cHello,\u201d he said. \u201cI\u2019m Chelo. Nice to meet you,\u201d he took her hand. \u201cAh,\u201d she thought to herself. \u201cThis is Chelo.\u201d\n\u201cI was bold,\u201d he reflected. \u201cShe was beautiful, and I walked in and I saw her and I went over to say hello, and that was it.\u201d\nAnd so began a beautiful romance, one, that like planets and galaxies expand and contract, with each contraction creating the conditions for the subsequent expansion to occur, a romance pushing to find really, how far it can go.\nThroughout their college experience, they were lab partners, study buddies and best friends.\n\u201cWe were not shy,\u201d says Sirena. \u201cWe fed off each other really well, we would laugh and laugh. It wasn\u2019t boring.\u201d\nEarly in their romance! Photo provided by Sirelo Entertainment.\nThe evolution of their relationship progressed naturally and before they knew it, they were living together.\n\u201cI think we kept growing into love,\u201d explained Chelo. \u201cFirst we became friends. I had things going on in my life, she had things going on in her life, and we were sharing and going through these things together. So we just kept getting closer and closer and I was her best friend and she was my best friend.\u201d\nLiving together in Dover, New Jersey, Sirena and Chelo were both working 9 to 5 jobs. It\u2019s hard not to imagine them in their feather costumes, drumming together after dinner on a Tuesday. \u201cThat wasn\u2019t even on our radar,\u201d Chelo explains, \u201cWe had no idea that was going to happen.\u201d\nPressured by family, Chelo proposed to Sirena for the first time in 2003.\n\u201cIt didn\u2019t feel right,\u201d explained Sirena. \u201cWe were playing house and resenting each other. We hadn\u2019t blossomed ourselves, individually.\u201d\nIn 2004, after being together for 8 years, Sirena and Chelo broke up.\n\u201cI came to Jersey City to cure my heart break and forget about him because I want to be an artist, I want to be a singer, I want to be in Manhattan all the time,\u201d she explains. \u201cSo I get here, and I go through my battle of depression.\u201d\nSirena spent a lot of time in her new \u201cbachelorette pad\u201d on Montgomery and West Side until a friend came over to visit, and convinced her to go out in her new home town.\n\u201cHe said, \u2018Girl, you have to get out of this house! Do you know that you have one of the coolest open mics in all of NJ down the street from your house?\u2019\u201d It happened to be a Thursday and he took her to the upstairs of Rolon\u2019s Bar, also known as The Keyhole.\nSirena performing at The Waterbug Hotel in Jersey City.\nSirena smiles at this part of the story. \u201cI walk into a cloud of smoke, and see all the talent and music and poetry. I\u2019m in tears, I literally came back to life that night. I was at The Waterbug Hotel,\u201d she laughs. \u201cI spent the next year, every Thursday, at the Waterbug.\u201d\nThe Waterbug Hotel, hosted by Lex Leonard and Aaron Jackson, was a weekly open mic, but even more than that, it was a community of artists and poets and musicians, it was a space of time in Jersey City where people came together, to talk politics or art or love or everything else.\nWhile Sirena was rediscovering herself as an artist, Chelo decided to leave for a study abroad program through Montclair University to Madrid, Spain. It was a great way for him to finish school, to perfect his spanish, and to be away from Sirena and not have the possibility of seeing her. Also, Chelo needed to go to another country and immerse himself into a completely foreign society to deal with his social anxiety.\n\u201cI was fighting, I couldn\u2019t get myself to chill out,\u201d he remembers. \u201cI needed to jump into the deep end of the pool and swim. I needed to go and fend for myself and learn how to work with people.\u201d\nWithout the advantage of traveling, the break up was a huge challenge for Sirena, and it was a blessing. \u201cIt helped, the fact that he left. That\u2019s why people don\u2019t heal, they are nearby, they linger. We weren\u2019t leaving each other alone, not until he left was there, \u2018I can\u2019t take a plane to Europe now to go see him every time I want to, when I get that craving to see him, now I have no communication.\u201d\nFor the next 8 months, Sirena developed as a poet, becoming a featured reader at the Waterbug Hotel and expressing herself artistically as a painter and singer. After his semester abroad, Chelo back packed all over Europe. Towards the end of 2005, Chelo decided to return to the states. Specifically, to return to Sirena.\nThe feeling was mutual, but their reunion wasn\u2019t without a difficult adjustment period.\n\u201cHe came back straight to my house, straight to my bachelorette pad, and it was just awkward,\u201d explained Sirena. \u201cWe went through a couple of really big, emotional blowouts and I think that\u2019s what really brought us back\u2026After we got over it, we started to look at each other as friends. \u2018Here\u2019s my old buddy who I used to tell everything to and now look at him, he\u2019s kind of hot.\u2019 It\u2019s kinda like we fell in love again.\u201d\nNine years after they first met and fell in love, they were living together. Chelo was working a 9 to 5 job. Once Sirena was working a 9 to 5 job. They\u2019re living together. \u201cBut there\u2019s something new,\u201d Chelo said. \u201cThere\u2019s art, there\u2019s the Waterbug Hotel.\u201d\nSirelo and Chelo reunited! Photo provided by Sirelo Entertainment.\nChelo was working the door at The Waterbug Hotel, giving him a chance to put his skills he amassed dealing with people into practice. Working at the Waterbug got Chelo thinking about the success of the artists performing there.\n\u201cI started to question why aren\u2019t these people super famous? After hanging out, I started to see it takes more than talent, I started to develop a business mind around it, how do we help we these talented people be noticed, how can we help them become what they can become?\u201d\nChelo brainstormed with Leonard, and with two other partners, they opened up Grassroots Community Space at 54 Coles Street. Gradually, Chelo and Sirena took over Grassroots completely, and now it\u2019s a space for community based programming, but also an incubator for artists or entrepreneurs to launch their vision.\nGrassroots Space at 54 Coles Street. Photo provided by Sirelo Entertainment.\nOn their 11th anniversary, Chelo and Sirena made dinner plans. Sirena would come home from work, change her clothes and they would go out to dinner.\n\u201cThroughout the day, I\u2019m speaking with him, and he\u2019s rushing and doing stuff and being really odd and at one point he barked at me! I told my co-worker and she said, \u2018He\u2019s going to propose!\u2019. I\u2019m like, \u2018Come on, this guy didn\u2019t even ask me to be his girlfriend.\u2019\u201d\nSirena shares the story of how he picked her up from work, and blindfolded her before taking her back to the apartment. Chelo instructed her to put on \u201ccomfies\u201d.\nComfies?\n\u201cYou know, pajamas,\u201d she explains.\nOnce the blindfold was removed, she saw rose petals all over the floor, where he set up a little cafe in their living room. The apartment had a luxurious scent of candles and an amazing dinner. He proposed to her with a mood ring that became a vibrant, emerald green when he placed it on her finger. \u201cI knew he meant it, this time,\u201d she said. \u201cWe were crying, it was just beautiful.\u201d\nThey organized a dream wedding in Raven\u2019s Valley, Pennsylvania. Venus was rising. It was a full moon. A butterfly landed on Chelo\u2019s shoulder when he said, \u201cI do.\u201d They were married barefoot, in front of a pond.\nThey had generators, tents, performers, dj\u2019s. Friends and family attended the wedding and then camped for three days.\n\u201cHow do we explain to our mothers that they can\u2019t wear heels? These are 2 Latin women,\u201d recalls Sirena. \u201cAfter the wedding we opened it up and some friends invited their friends. At one point somebody comes over to me and says, \u2018Can you believe someone got married here this weekend?\u201d\nTheir wedding actually gave birth to Sirelo Entertainment. \u201cWe looked at each other and thought, we could do this, we could throw parties all the time,\u201d said Chelo. Sirelo Entertainment is the vehicle for the local artists and Grassroots artists to be heard and seen, to have platforms, stages, parades, and festivals. Sirelo Entertainment is the company that runs their monthly Elevate parties at Transmission.\n\u201cThe word elevate, it\u2019s to rise, it\u2019s raising spirits, things getting bigger and bigger, climbing that mountain and feeling free,\u201d explains Chelo. And it\u2019s true. An Elevate party is all those things. \u201cThere is no limit. Somebody can have a sword in their mouth. their could be some stilt walkers\u2026\u201d\nIt\u2019s clear that Sirena and Chelo have a strong foundation in love, but how does a couple navigate running a business together?\n\u201cIn the beginning we fought a lot,\u201d admitted Chelo. \u201cBut, we really pay attention to one another, we\u2019re in the moment, we\u2019re trying to really deal with the issue at hand. That\u2019s why you have to deal with your own ego, we all have an ego, but you have to have a healthy one.\u201d\n\u201cAnd a lot of self love,\u201d adds Sirena. \u201cKnow that I did do it, I did my best, and I still love me, I still think I\u2019m quite fabulous,\u201d she laughs.\nSirena and Chelo perform at a wedding. Photos courtesy of Sirelo Entertainment.\nWhat advice do these true love experts have for those looking for their true love?\n\u201cBe the truest form of yourself that you can be, because when you show your flaws and your wildness from the beginning you have nothing to hide and if that person likes you regardless, yay for you,\u201d offers Sirena. \u201cBut if you\u2019re trying to hide them, they become elephants, and they become bigger and bigger. And sometimes it\u2019s not even a big deal. You hide something from somebody and then when they finally find out, they\u2019re like so? Be yourself, be your quirky self!\n\u201cI go back to having a practice every day that works on self, we all need to do that. Regardless of whether you\u2019re in a relationship or not,\u201d suggests Chelo. \u201cYou need to know who you are, that\u2019s a new discovery every day, you\u2019re an ever evolving being you have to check in every day and get to know yourself. That\u2019s going to help you find a partner you can actually live with and be with and work with.\u201d\nOur advice? 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There are times when you will no longer have to rely on your current employment in order to pay the bills and achieve financial stability. However, keep in mind that you first need to get the attention of your niche. Before you invest on social media marketing, email marketing, and other digital marketing campaigns, you have to first think of the right logo. A professional logo can make a huge difference in your business.\nDetermine age groups and demographic\nA logo can attract certain demographics. There are logos that are considered hip, while there are others that are considered more traditional. Different logos will cater to different age groups and demographics.\nThere are also some logos that have been associated with luxury items. This means that the moment potential customers see the logo; they will already have an idea about the price range of the products being offered by the company like Hot Chili Digital.\nA professionally made logo will also reflect the professionalism of a particular company. This means that you don\u2019t take things lightly. This is something that your market would love to hear about a company. Could you imagine investing in a bank that doesn\u2019t have a professionally made logo? Or perhaps, can you imagine working for a company that doesn\u2019t have a good logo? Not having a professionally made logo can make a business look amateur which is the last thing that you want to happen.\nMakes the company easy to remember\nYou can expect that when entering a market, you will have competitors. Rarely do businesses enter as a monopoly. It is important that you find the right logo in order to make the company stand out. This makes the company easy to remember for your customers and clients. On the flip side, it can also differentiate your company from the competitors.\nThe logo will make sure that you stay unique from the rest of the competition. This is also a good idea to do some research if some other company has a similar logo to yours.\nBuild your image\nWith the help of your logo, it is also possible to build your image. From the use of the right fonts and the right imagery, it is possible to build an image in the eyes of your market. In fact, it is the visual representation of your company. This is the reason why a lot of companies invest on logos with meanings. This could reflect the vision of the company or what the company wants to project to the market.\nBy building your image, it is easy to build trust with your customers. Professionally made logos make sure that people will know exactly what type of businesses you are running.\nHaving a professionally made logo is a must for every company. It is important that the logo is a representative of what you really are as a business. It is important to take a closer look at the meanings and even the impact of fonts that you decide to use on your logo.\nHow to decide on a digital marketing strategy Why having a website is essential for a startup business", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00240.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 142, + "original_length": 8343, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.97, + "perplexity": 286.0, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "https://www.hsbcbwaync.org/sermons/?sermon_id=233", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T03:20:53Z", + "digest": "sha1:MJ4QBJ6XLCH747OAZFGJLKRLLLMQZZZV", + "length": 610, + "nlines": 4, + "source_domain": "www.hsbcbwaync.org", + "title": "Sermons | Holly Springs Baptist Church", + "raw_content": "Beautiful Branch of David (Jeremiah 33:14-16)\nScott Yow, December 2, 2018\n\u00ab Who is the Child in the Manger? None \"Mary\" with Rev Alex Smith \u00bb\n14Behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that I will perform that good thing which I have promised unto the house of Israel and to the house of Judah. 15In those days, and at that time, will I cause the Branch of righteousness to grow up unto David; and he shall execute judgment and righteousness in the land. 16In those days shall Judah be saved, and Jerusalem shall dwell safely: and this is the name wherewith she shall be called, The LORD our righteousness. 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The cabin forms\u2026\nNestled in among the snow-covered hills of Norway, this private cabin serves as a getaway\u2026\nThe Argentinian design studio, IR Arquitectura, converted this 1950s apartment into a modern day abode\u2026\nThe project has a suitably descriptive title: \u201cHouse for a Young Family\u201d. The project involved\u2026", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00240.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 201, + "original_length": 7483, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.92, + "perplexity": 286.5, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "https://www.hunterheadline.com.au/blog-category/business-news/", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T04:45:46Z", + "digest": "sha1:RKXJOLKDJ4KMGTCXERRHLVIDZTRU37UR", + "length": 8203, + "nlines": 40, + "source_domain": "www.hunterheadline.com.au", + "title": "Business News Archives | Hunter Headline", + "raw_content": "Company Snapshot | Turnbull Hill Lawyers\nTurnbull Hill Lawyers has been providing professional legal services to the people and businesses of the Hunter and Central Coast regions since 1969. Turnbull Hill Lawyers is located at Charlestown, on the Central Coast and in Sydney and includes a team of 45 people specialising in estate planning, trusts, superannuation funds, wills, deceased estates, contested wills, family law and de facto law, compensation and insurance claims, commercial, civil and criminal litigation in all courts, employment, business and corporate law, debt recovery, conveyancing and property law.\nHanding over the keys to the tractor\nIn NSW there are about 39,000 rural and farming businesses. The average farmer is about 57 years of age and has worked on the land for about 36 years. The legal imperatives of succession planning within a sector that is dominated by family owned farms was the theme of 60th Annual CLE conference held in\u2026\nCompany Snapshot | The Agency\nThe Agency was established to bring together the most experienced and highly regarded group of people in the real estate space and have created a model that is more responsive to today\u2019s property market.\nThe Agency is free from the constraints imposed on the traditional real estate franchisee.\nTheir modern, bespoke model empowers them to embrace opportunities and cut through the red tape to make qualitative decisions. This freedom inspires The Agency to do things differently\u2026 and better. With four stand-alone yet fully integrated verticals of residential sales, project marketing, property management and finance, The Agency boasts the power of extensive networking, database resourcing, cross-selling and a better more seamless outcome for their clients.\nCatering for today\u2019s market, their clever use of technology will give you a mighty big advantage.\nIn real estate, experience is everything \u2013 it builds trust and it delivers results. If you want experience, dependability and results, then you\u2019ve found it with The Agency.\nThe Agency completes regional link around Sydney with Newcastle expansion\nRegional areas including Newcastle, the Central Coast and Illawarra have been booming in recent years and not only because of the rising costs of living in capital cities. Many people want more for their money when investing in property, including space and privacy, and these regional areas offer a high-quality lifestyle for less. Newcastle has\u2026\nSupport for CBD businesses to capitalise on light rail launch\nBusinesses operating in the Newcastle CBD will have the support of experienced businesswoman Maria O\u2019Brien in her role as the Business Centre\u2019s specialist CBD Business Advisor, as the launch of the Newcastle light rail speeds closer. Maria will help Newcastle city-based businesses to harness the energy the opening of the light rail will bring to\u2026\nCompany Snapshot | Monteath & Powys\nEstablished in 1950, Monteath & Powys are a leading Hunter-based surveying, planning and environment, engineering design, project management and GIS service company. Their portfolio includes involvement in projects such as the Newcastle light rail, the Verve and East End developments.\nFrom their offices across NSW, Monteath & Powys\u2019 team of more than 60 work in close collaboration to provide clients with high quality outcomes and exacting personalised service.\nGeoff Rock joins Monteath & Powys to be a part of a rejuvenating city\nAs part of Newcastle\u2019s ongoing transformation, talent is returning from Sydney and the Hunter Valley to be a part of a community that is ever evolving. Professionals such as Monteath & Powys\u2019 new recruit, Geoffrey Rock, have been attracted by Newcastle\u2019s regeneration and returned to the city to be part of the change. Joining the\u2026\nHunter law firm celebrates 10-year milestone\nAlthough Principal, Catherine Henry has built a name locally in the legal industry for much longer than a decade, Catherine Henry Lawyers has celebrated a significant milestone of 10 years serving people in Newcastle and regional NSW. Catherine bought King Street Lawyers in February 2009 from her then business partner John Ryan on his retirement\u2026.\nCompany Snapshot | Telford Engineering Solutions Pty Ltd\nTelford Engineering Solutions Pty Ltd (known at TES) is a diversified multi-disciplined design, modelling, drafting and engineering organisation, providing solutions within the mechanical, structural, civil, electrical, environmental, mining, energy, municipal, material handling, wastewater, waste-to-energy and recycling sectors.\nTES works directly with major organisations requiring process innovation as well as with partners requiring a proactive, broad-based and proven team to complement their own capabilities.\nAn engineering team with decades of experience in major resources, construction and infrastructure projects has formed a new company to offer broad-based and cost-efficient solutions to start-up, refurbishment, site revitalisation and process improvement projects nationally. Telford Engineering Solutions Pty Ltd (known at TES) is a diversified multi-disciplined design, modelling, drafting and engineering organisation, providing solutions\u2026\nCompany Snapshot | Roberts Legal\nIf you have a legal dispute, Roberts Legal can help you find a solution.\nTheir expert Lawyers specialise in commercial law and litigation, building and construction law, business and company law, and family law.\nThey have offices in Newcastle and the Central Coast but are sought after by clients from Sydney to Coffs Harbour and beyond.\nRoberts Legal firmly believe that a Lawyer's role is to help people identify causes of potential problems before they arise.\nLocal legal firm, Roberts Legal has expanded its locations to occupy newly refurbished premises in the Telstra Civic building, which is adjacent to the NSW Courts complex in Newcastle. The Corporate and Commercial Division of the practice led by Solicitor/Director and Accredited Specialist in Commercial Litigation, Sam Roberts, has relocated to the city premises having\u2026\nCompany Snapshot | Hamilton Chamber of Commerce\nHamilton Chamber is a membership-based organisation that includes a community of about 360 people who represent thousands of people who own, manage, work and support businesses in and around Hamilton.\nThe Chamber has an extended community of about 5,000 people that connect regularly via social media and digital platforms. It promotes opportunities for people to live, work and play within the suburb. It represents a community that is rich in multicultural heritage while boasting modern retail, hospitality and lifestyle options as well as being the home to a critical part of Newcastle\u2019s social and economic infrastructure.\nWhat cosmopolitan looks like in Hamilton in 2019\nHamilton\u2019s business community is gearing-up for a big year. The Board of Hamilton Chamber launched its 2019 calendar of events this week which provides a mix of business networking, information functions and major community street festivals as well as work behind the scenes that will improve visitation and experience into the suburb. Chamber President, Nathan\u2026\nCompany Snapshot | Konecranes\nKonecranes is a world-leading group of Lifting Businesses\u2122, serving a broad range of customers, including manufacturing and process industries, shipyards, ports and terminals. Konecranes provides productivity-enhancing lifting solutions as well as services for lifting equipment and machine tools of all makes.\nSafety-conscious companies across the Asia-Pacific are acutely aware of the need for standards compliance when it comes to their cranes and lifting equipment. Companies in industries such as manufacturing, materials handling, mining, food and beverage, power generation and steel are focused on optimising the safety and reliability of the overhead cranes and lifting devices on\u2026\nIn its fourth year, the Hunter Safety Awards will be shining a spotlight on Work, Health and Safety (WHS) initiatives in the Hunter area. Event Founder, Sarah-Jane Dunford confessed that there have been some close calls throughout the judging process this year. 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If they come clean they will be charged an additional 10 per cent to 20 per cent of what they owe as a penalty.\nHowever, Revenue & Customs has said that the same deal can be broadly applied to those in other industries coming forward with a disclosure.\nAccording to the institute, this is tantamount to a \u201cgeneral disclosure opportunity\u201d of the type the group has been calling for.\nSpokesman Gary Ashford said on Thursday: \u201cDespite the focus on plumbers, HMRC have today effectively announced a general disclosure facility open to anyone with tax irregularities.\n\u201cThis is a positive move. A general arrangement available to all is sensible and something (the institute) has been calling for for some time.\u201d", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00240.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 140, + "original_length": 5877, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.96, + "perplexity": 269.9, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "https://www.hypebot.com/hypebot/2019/02/5-ways-five-artists-met-their-managers.html", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T03:42:17Z", + "digest": "sha1:J56W5WNYCRCLIJUWQTVF7LAG3F66OD3M", + "length": 4135, + "nlines": 17, + "source_domain": "www.hypebot.com", + "title": "5 Ways Five Artists Met Their Managers - hypebot", + "raw_content": "Classical Music Listeners Still Favor CDs\nOne thing many present day successful artists have in common is a great manager behind the scenes, helping to engineer that success. Here we look at the origin stories of five such matches in music.\nJ Cole, the 1975, Chance the Rapper, Rita Ora, and 21 Savage all share this in common: great managers. Here\u2019s how they met them.\n1). Ibrahim \u201cIb\u201d Hamad <> J Cole\nIbrahim \u201cIb\u201d Hamad went to school with J. Cole at St. John\u2019s University. One day, while driving to a club together, Cole played a \u201cGrammy Family\u201d freestyle. \u201cI was like, \u2018Oh shit, who the fuck is that?\u2019\u201d Ib remembers in a 2013 Dreamville video. \u201cCole was like, \u2018That\u2019s me!\u2019 I was like, \u2018Yo, we need to do something, we need to put a tape out.\u2019 That\u2019s kind of how it started. It started as, this is my homie, whatever help I can give.\u201d\n2). Jamie Oborne <> The 1975\nAfter a label deal with his own band didn\u2019t pan out the way he\u2019d hoped, Jamie Oborne went back to college and started his management career shortly thereafter. \u201cI was having a conversation with a friend of mine about my band,\u201d he explains to Music Business Worldwide in this wide-ranging interview. \u201cWe were talking about the music industry and why I felt that, perhaps outside of my own actions, my artist career hadn\u2019t really worked out. That night we decided to start a management company.\u201d After gaining some moderate traction managing a handful of UK groups, Oborne was tipped off the to the 1975 via a message on MySpace from a fan of one of the other groups he managed. As was the rage in 2007, he hit the group up on the now defunct social network and the rest is history.\n3). Pat Corcoran <> Chance the Rapper\nIn conversation with Complex during a Blueprint episode, Pat Corcoran remembers meeting Chancelor Bennett at an uneventful party in Chicago. That night, Chance spilled drinks on the floor, and Pat, still working for free for Vic Mensa\u2019s band Kids These Days, thought little of their encounter. Fast forward to a listening party for Chance\u2019s 10 Daymixtape, which Pat attended. Despite being blown away \u2014 \u201cThat\u2019s when the legend of Chance started for [me]\u201d \u2014 Pat didn\u2019t plan on working with the young star. Only after more experience and repeated, random encounters with his future partner did Pat offer Chance his help, however he could. Finally, after a sit down with Chance and his dad, Pat received the green light. The rest is history.\n4). Sarah Stennett <> Rita Ora\nRita Ora\u2019s mother hustled an introduction to an already established Sarah Stennett in 2009 while her 18 year-old daughter was competing in the early stages of a Eurovision song contest. According to Stennett, Ora was worried that performing on a TV show would ruin her chances for a credible, long-term career, and was seeking advice. \"We met in a caf\u00e9. She was sat at a table, chewing her hair,\" Stennett remembers in this 2013 Guardian profile. \"I looked at her and felt immediately there was something about her. I said, 'If you can sing like you say you can, I'd walk out of that show'. She rang me the next morning and said, 'I've walked out'.\"\nKei Henderson <> 21 Savage\nKei Henderson spent years studying the greats, working in media, and managing artists without making a profit. \u201cEverything that I did was building my reputation, building my name and building my artists along the way,\u201d she said in a must-read interview with Beats 1. Then came 21 Savage, and she was ready. \u201cWhen I first met him, he only had one song, but that one song was incredibly hard. You could hear the rawness and pain in his voice.\u201d Kei found in Savage an artist with starpower and a sound she could appreciated. After taking him on a 10-day tour, his unmatched energy and quick learnings sealed the deal.\nLooking to nail down a your own legendary music manager? 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Shih - The Army\nThis hexagram is made up of the trigrams K'an, water, and K'un, earth, and thus it symbolizes the ground water stored up in the earth. In the same way military strength is stored up in the mass of the people\u2013invisible in times of peace but always ready for use as a source of power. The attributes of the two trigrams are danger inside and obedience outside. This points to the nature of an army, which at the core is dangerous, while discipline and obedience must prevail outside.\nOf the individual lines, the one that controls the hexagram is the strong nine in the second place, to which the other lines, all yielding, are subordinate. This line indicates a commander, because it stands in the middle of one of the two trigrams. But since it is in the lower rather than the upper trigram, it represents not the ruler but the efficient general, who maintains obedience in the army by his authority.\nThe Army. The army needs perseverance\nAnd a strong man.\nGood fortune without blame.\nAn army is a mass that needs organization in order to become a fighting force. Without strict discipline nothing can be accomplished, but this discipline must not be achieved by force. It requires a strong man who captures the hearts of the people and awakens their enthusiasm. In order that he may develop his abilities he needs the complete confidence of his ruler, who must entrust him with full responsibility as long as the war lasts. But war is always a dangerous thing and brings with it destruction and devastation. Therefore it should not be resorted to rashly but, like a poisonous drug, should be used as a last recourse.\nThe justifying cause of a war, and clear and intelligible war aims, ought to be explained to the people by an experienced leader. Unless there is a quite definite war aim to which the people can consciously pledge themselves, the unity and strength of conviction that lead to victory will not be forthcoming. But the leader must also look to it that the passion of war and the delirium of victory do not give rise to unjust acts that will not meet with general approval. If justice and perseverance are the basis of action, all goes well.\nIn the middle of the earth is water:\nThe image of The Army.\nThus the superior man increases his masses\nBy generosity toward the people.\nGround water is invisibly present within the earth. In the same way the military power of a people is invisibly present in the masses. When danger threatens, every peasant becomes a soldier; when the war ends, he goes back to his plow. He who is generous toward the people wins their love, and a people living under a mild rule becomes strong and powerful. Only a people economically strong can be important in military power. Such power must therefore be cultivated by improving the economic condition of the people and by humane government. Only when there is this invisible bond between government and people, so that the people are sheltered by their government as ground water is sheltered by the earth, is it possible to wage a victorious war.\nThe great prince issues commands,\nFounds states, vests families with fiefs.\nInferior people should not be employed.\nThe war has ended successfully, victory is won, and the king divided estates and fiefs among his faithful vassals. But it is important that inferior people should not come into power. If they have helped, let them be paid off with money, but they should not be awarded lands or the privileges of rulers, lest power be abused.\nThere is game in the field.\nIt furthers one to catch it.\nLet the eldest lead the army.\nThe younger transports corpses;\nThen perseverance brings misfortune.\nGame is in the field\u2013it has left its usual haunts in the forest and is devastating the fields. This points to an enemy invasion. Energetic combat and punishment are here thoroughly justified, but they must not degenerate into a wild melee in which everyone fends for himself. Despite the greatest degree of perseverance and bravery, this would lead to misfortune. The army must be directed by an experienced leader. It is a matter of waging war, not of permitting the mob to slaughter all who fall into their hands; if they do, defeat will be the result, and despite all perseverance there is danger of misfortune.\nThe army retreats. No blame.\nIn the face of a superior enemy, with whom it would be hopeless to engage in battle, an orderly retreat is the only correct procedure, because it will save the army from defeat and disintegration. It is by no means a sign of courage or strength to insist upon engaging in a hopeless struggle regardless of circumstances.\nPerchance the army carries corpses in the wagon.\nHere we have a choice of two explanations. One points to defeat because someone other than the chosen leader interferes with the command; the other is similar in its general meaning, but the expression, \"carries corpses in the wagon,\" is interpreted differently. At burials and at sacrifices to the dead it was customary in China for the deceased to whom the sacrifice was made to be represented by a boy of the family, who sat in the dead man's place and was honored as his representative. On the basis of this custom the text is interpreted as meaning that a \"corpse boy\" is sitting in the wagon, or, in other words, that authority is not being exercised by the proper leaders but has been usurped by others. Perhaps the whole difficulty clears up if it is inferred that there has been an error in copying. The character fan, meaning \"all,\" may have been misread as shih, which means \"corpse. \" Allowing for this error, the meaning would be that if the multitude assumes leadership of the army (rides in the wagon), misfortune will ensue.\nIn the midst of the army.\nThe king bestows a triple decoration.\nThe leader should be in the midst of his army, in touch with it, sharing good and bad with the masses he leads. This alone makes him equal to the heavy demands made upon him. He needs also the recognition of the ruler. The decorations he receives are justified, because there is no question of personal preferment here: the whole army, whose center he is, is honored in his person.\nAn army must set forth in proper order.\nIf the order is not good, misfortune threatens.\nAt the beginning of a military enterprise, order is imperative. 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As we approach the end of the first decade of the 21st century, the digital age for archives, libraries and museums is not an option, but a reality. Huge digitisation projects have been or are being implemented while at the same time the production and distribution of the new content is mostly digital.\nWhat is the role of the audiovisual archives in this new technological environment? How distinct are the roles of the various cultural heritage institutions? What methods and techniques will ensure the accountability and continuity of the audiovisual content? How have users\u2019 expectations been changed and what strategies have been employed to meet them? What is the role of international organisations and of the IASA in this new environment? How can the National Archives of big and the smallest countries cope with this new environment?\nThese are the questions that will be explored from 20 \u2013 25 September in the ancient city of Athens, Greece, at the 2009 IASA conference.\nThe conference will be hosted by The Hellenic National Audiovisual Archive (HeNAA) and convened by its managing director, George Bolanis. This relatively new institution, established in 2006, collects, archives, physically safeguards, manages, maintains, preserves, processes, provides access and utilizes audiovisual and born digital material with informational, news, historical, political and in general social and cultural content related to the heritage of Greece and Hellenism in general. See their website at http://www.avarchive.gr/.\nThe call for papers has already been circulated and by the time you read this bulletin you will hopefully already have met the abstract submission deadline of 20 February.\nPlease visit the conference website at http://www.iasa2009.comto keep abreast of venue, accommodation and registration details as well as the conference programme.\nIn the meantime note the conference contact details:\nErasmus Conferences Tours & Travel S.A.\n1, Kolofontos & Evridikis str. - 161 21 Athens, Greece,\nTel.: +30 210 72.57.693, 72.57.531\nFax: +30 210 72.57.532, 72.59.347\nFor registration information please contact the Registration Department: register@iasa2009.com\nFor accommodation information please contact the Hospitality Department: hospitality@iasa2009.com\nFor information about the abstract submission please contact: abstracts@iasa2009.com\nFor any general query please contact: info@iasa2009.com\nTravel Grants for IASA Members\nThe deadline for applications for travel grants to attend the IASA Conference in Athens is 31 March 2009.\nIASA\u2019spolicy is to encourage members to apply for travel grants to enable their attendance at the annual conference. Normally, 50% of travelling costs (cheapest standard class return air or train fare between the applicant\u2019s home and the conference venue) will be met. These grants are subject to the Association\u2019s financial position, and applications are prioritised according to the following factors:\n1. Applicants who are to present a paper at the annual conference will be given higher priority and will have a better chance of receiving a travel grant than other applicants.\n2. IASA may, in addition, approach the local conference organiser and request that the grantee\u2019s registration fee be waived. The decision in each case will be up to the conference organiser.\n3. Applications must be sent in writing (by letter, fax or e-mail) to the Secretary General in response to the announcement of travel grants as published in the IASA Information Bulletin and on the IASA Listserv. Applications must include the full amount of the travelling costs in US$ or Euros, confirmed e.g. by an official travel agency.\n4. Application by representatives of institutional members must be countersigned by the director or a senior officer of their organisation, as evidence that their attendance has been authorised.\n5. Accommodation and subsistence costs will not be considered.\n6. IASA will not pay grants in advance of travel.\n7. The Secretary General will check all the applications received by the appointed deadline, and submit them to the Executive Board for discussion and approval.\n8. Applicants will be informed as soon as possible of the result after the Board\u2019s decisions have been reached.\nCosts will be reimbursed on presentation of copies of the travel documents by the grantee to the IASA Treasurer during the conference. Otherwise, payment will be made after the conference, and the method of payment will be specified in the application, including to whom monies are to be paid, and how this will be done.\nIASA travel grants are intended for members only; accompanying persons are not eligible.\nThe Board will reply to applications before 30 April 2009. Please fill in the travel grant application form, which can be found on the IASA website. For further information in the meantime contact the IASA Secretary General, Ilse Assmann at e-mail: assmanni@sabc.co.za\nHalf-price institutional membership for some countries\nMany countries now qualify for half-price institutional membership in IASA! See which countries qualify and what the rates are at: http://www.iasa-web.org/membership-rates\nIASA expands\u2026 IASA welcomes\u2026\nMelody Mataranyika is a new individual member from Zimbabwe who explains she has \u2018a passion for audiovisual archives so wants to participate and contribute to the field of archiving\u2019. We look forward to her contributions.\nSevaBall is a new full individual member from Knoxville, Tennessee. Seva has been actively archiving for several years, including work funded by The Recording Academy (Grammy Foundation). Recent projects have included the Lewiston Archive (David Lewiston) for the Library of Congress. Seva is also a member of the AES, NARAS, and ASRC.\nH. M. Gunderatne Banda Banda joins IASA as an institutional member from the National Institute of Education in Colombo, Sri Lanka, which actively produces audio video programmes on education for the benefit of the schools.\nCarla Teixeira, who is a Recorded Sound Archivist for the National Film and Sound Archive (Australia), has become a full individual member of IASA.\nJaekyung Kim, from Seoul in the Republic of Korea, has taken out full individual membership with IASA in order to learn and share knowledge and skills in audio archiving.\nJulio Pelosi is a new full individual member based at the Videoson company in Uruguay.\nChitaluNamutowe is a new full individual member from Zambia who works within the TV/Broadcasting sector.\nLaura Cristina Torres Mart\u00ednez is a new full individual member from Mexico based at the Escuela Nacional de Biblioteconom\u00eda y Archivonom\u00eda (National School of Library and Archive Sciences) where she teaches on an audiovisual archiving course for which she is in need of publications and resources.\nMaria Papathanasiou, works as an archivist in the World Trade Organisation, where she is based in Switzerland. She has joined IASA as an associate individual to further her interest in audiovisual archiving.\nPaul Turney, of Paul Turney Recording Limited T/A Sirensound based in the UK, has become a full individual member to further his involvement in audiovisual archiving, building on 8 years as an external contractor to the British Library Sound Archive.\nXilonenMar\u00eda del Carmen Luna Ru\u00edz, from Mexico City, has taken out full institutional membership on behalf of her institution the Comisi\u00f3nNacional para el Desarrollo de los Pueblos Indigenas. The Comisi\u00f3n holds more than 300,000 items (films, videos, sound recordings, photographs) relating to indigenous matters, with the oldest item dating back to 1890. Staff there would like to share experiences and receive training on the most recent advances in conservation issues for audiovisual formats.\nJeppeChristensen works with the audiovisual collections at the K\u00f8benhavns Stadsarkiv (Municipal Archive of Copenhagen) in Denmark. He will also act as a consultant for other Municipal Archives on audiovisual matters. He has recently left the Danish National Archive, which he spoke about at the IASA 2008 conference in Sydney.\nZeljkaRadovinovic is a musicologist and librarian at The Academy of Music in Zagreb, Croatia, and also a postgraduate student of information sciences at Faculty of Arts and Humanities in Zagreb. The theme of Zeljka\u2019s thesis is the preservation of Croatian national sound heritage.\nMarcus \u00d3 Conaire works in a consultative capacity with the Acadamhna Ollscola\u00edochta Gaeilge (Ireland), an organization that is in the process of initiating a New Media archive centered around Irish-language material. Marcus has become an associate individual member of IASA.\nAkisTriandafillou has become a full individual member of IASA. He works at Atman Media Productions based in Athens, Greece, where he specializes in audio and other recorded media.\nMichael Fingerhut is based at IRCAM in Paris. He has been in charge of the sound archives of IRCAM since 1995 (digitization, archival and preservation, distribution) and has been involved in French national projects regarding the digitization of musical heritage since 2004.\nGeorgia Garbo-Noel is heavily involved in audiovisual archiving in the Caribbean region and is keen to develop professional level training and awareness through IASA. Georgia is the Information Management Officer, Records responsible for the ECM and RIM programme of the National Gas Company in Trinidad and Tobago, which has a growing AV collection; executive council member of the Caribbean Region of the ICA with strong focus on Electronic Records; multimedia archivist for a large religious group; and has a consultancy and conducts training in RIM and ECM.\nUNESCO World Day for Audiovisual Heritage \u2013 \u2018field\u2019 reports\nMany of us organised events to acknowledge the UNESCO World Day for Audiovisual Heritage on 27 October 2008. See some of the events that were planned on the CCAAA website. Other notices in have come from:\n1. Judith Gray (American Folklife Center, Library of Congress) who reports that Alec McLane, the curator for Wesleyan\u2019s World Music Archives made an announcement of the World Day at the general membership meeting of the Society for Ethnomusicology (The SEM hosted its 53rd annual conference at Wesleyan University, Connecticut from 25 to 28 October. Although only about half the registrants attended the general meeting, this number still represented around 450 individuals.\n2. Gunnel J\u00f6nsson (Swedish Broadcasting Resources) reports that staff celebrated with chocolate cake and non-alcoholic cider. The customers received candy.\nHarvard Sound Directions Toolkit available for download\nGo to http://www.hcl.harvard.edu\nThe Harvard Sound Directions Toolkit, a suite of nearly 50 software tools with the potential to revolutionize the work of audio preservationists by automating their most time consuming and repetitive tasks is now available for download.\nCreated by Loeb Music Library\u2019s Audio Preservation Services at Harvard University, the toolkit was developed as part of Sound Directions, a joint project undertaken by Harvard and Indiana University with a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities. The Toolkit follows the publication of \u201cSound Directions: Best Practices for Audio Preservation,\u201d an internationally acclaimed report on audio preservation techniques. Most of the work automated by the Toolkit \u201cwould normally be done by hand,\u201d HCL Audio Engineer David Ackerman said. \u201cYou can spend 15-20 minutes manually interleaving two channels of a large sound file into a new file. With the toolkit the function is performed in the background and you can continue to work on other things, which is great for productivity.\u201d\nAckerman developed the Toolkit with programmer Robert La Ferla. The program they produced works through a command line interface, in which users enter specific commands. The Toolkit also allows users to write scripts \u2013 essentially small programs \u2013 that string several commands together, freeing up engineers to perform other tasks. \u201cWhile the idea of automating repetitive tasks is not new, the ability to have some concise, targeted command line applications that can easily be scripted was something that seemed pretty fresh,\u201d Ackerman said, of the Toolkit. The ability to write programs that mix and match the various tools, he added, gives users the ability to configure the software in thousands of possible ways.\nAckerman uses the tools himself, and said they\u2019ve had a dramatic impact on his group\u2019s work. \u201cI\u2019d say it\u2019s probably doubled our throughput,\u201d he said. As an example, he pulled up an audio file which had earlier been transferred from audio tape into digital format. In total, 86 processes had been run on the tape, but just four were carried out manually. The rest were completely automated by the Toolkit.\nWhile Harvard engineers created the Toolkit, Indiana staff produced the Field Audio Collection and Evaluation Tool, or FACET, a software package which ranks audio field collections based on preservation condition and level of deterioration.\nDownload the Sound Directions Toolkit from the Harvard College Library Audio Preservations Services website:\nhttp://www.hcl.harvard.edu/libraries/\nloebmusic/aps/sound_directions.html\nor through the Sound Directions website:\nhttp://www.dlib.indiana.edu/projects/sounddirections/\nVietnam Film Institute\u2019s Film-In-School project \u2013 request for assistance\nSince 2006, IASA members, the Vietnam Film Institute (VFI), in collaboration with the Swedish Film Institute (SFI), have conducted the Film-in-School project in schools at the primary level in Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City, in Vietnam. Within the framework of the project, they have arranged screenings, analysis and drawings after films, using film as an educational tool in the school.\nThe project is about to finish and one of the main concerns for continuation of the program is to locate proper film resources for the children / pupils (at primary level) to make use of.\nIf anyone is able to recommend any partners who may be able to support the program with suitable films (feature and animation films) for this non-commercial purpose, please contact Nguyen Thi Lan (Director, VFI). The VFI will follow up any requirements from the producers.\nNguyen Thi Lan (Director)\n523 Kim Ma Street- Ba Dinh - Hanoi - Vietnam\nFax: (84-4)37719193\nEmail: yen_vfi@yahoo.com\nThe Swedish National Archive of Recorded Sound and Moving Images (SLBA) merges with the National Library of Sweden (KB)\nThe Swedish National Archive of Recorded Sound and Moving Images (SLBA) ceased to exist as a public authority in its own right at the end of 2008. As of 1 January 2009, it began to operate as the Department of Audiovisual Media under the National Library of Sweden (KB). It can also be announced that Sven Allerstrand has retired as of December 2008 from his position as Director General of the SLBA.\nThe merger of KB and the SLBA was announced by the Government last spring. The two public authorities have similar remits and face considerable challenges, especially on the technical front.\n\u201cThe merger is a natural consequence of the changing media world,\u201d said Sven Allerstrand, former Director General of the SLBA. \u201cMoving images, sound and text are today woven into new forms of media that make it impossible to uphold the former institutional boundaries. Gathering, archiving and making accessible our digital cultural heritage entails huge challenges, which are best met with a common organisation. The SLBA has maintained a user-perspective for many years, and this move will definitely be of benefit to researchers. [The SLBA is] looking forward to developing the close relationship with KB that we\u2019ve been nurturing for the past few years.\u201d\nPress and information officer: G\u00f6ran Konstenius, +46 (0)8 783 37 76\nEmail: goran.konstenius@slba.se\nHomepage: www.slba.se\nCCAAA news\n1st Meeting of the International NGOs on Convergence of Libraries Archives and Museums\nInternational NGOs bonding for convergence of Libraries, Archives and Museums.\nOn November 21st 2008 in Paris the International Federation of Library Institutions and Associations (IFLA) and the Biblioth\u00e8que national de France co-hosted the 1st meeting of international associations for the cultural heritage sector to advance the convergence agenda from within the Libraries, Archives, Museums, Monuments and Sites community at non-government organizations (NGO) level. This meeting was initiated by IFLA President, Prof. Dr. Claudia Lux following initial discussions at the 2008 IFLA World Library and Information Congress in Quebec City, Canada, in August.\nIFLA, together with the International Council on Archives (ICA), the International Council of Museums (ICOM), the International Council on Monuments and Sites (ICOMOS) and the Co-ordinating Council of Audiovisual Archives Associations (CCAAA) have a longstanding relationship of cooperation and now agreed to intensify possibilities of cooperation between their organisations in those areas where libraries, archives and museums have mutual interests and activities.\nAll parties recognized the mutual benefits of stronger cooperation on the theme of convergence from a strategic, financial and political point of view, and underlined the importance of moving towards a mutual agenda to strengthen advocacy for the role and position of libraries, archives and museums in the knowledge society of today and tomorrow, and to safeguard the world\u2019s cultural written, visual, and built heritage.\nAreas explored to intensify international cross-sectoral cooperation are: advocating on copyright and intellectual property rights issues; the protection and recovery of cultural heritage worldwide (Blue Shield); preservation and collection security and digitisation (including the aspects of digital continuity, the development of global digital libraries and standards) and information literacy. Improving knowledge dissemination and knowledge sharing, especially in the framework of WIPO (the World Intellectual Property Organization) and UNESCO are considered important mutual goals. The practical agenda for 2009 that was drawn up during this meeting further indicates the need to define priorities and practical strategies and to set a time frame for future years.\nFor the coming two years, the Secretariat will be hosted by IFLA, at IFLA Headquarters in The Hague, the Netherlands. The International NGO Working Group on Convergence is strongly supported by several stakeholders, such as the Conference of Directors of National Libraries (CDNL) and the International Council for Scientific and Technical Information (ICSTI).\nFounding Conference of the Association of National Committees of the Blue Shield \u2013 ANCBS\nThis meeting took place on December 7th and 8th in The Hague. ICBS, the International Committee of the Blue Shield of which IASA is a member through CCAAA (the other members are IFLA, ICA ICOM and ICOMOS) will think over its role in the new constellation during a meeting in January.\nCatherine Lacken, Rapporteur\n(catherine.lacken@swr.de)\nKurt Deggeller, Convener\n(kurt.deggeller@memoriav.ch)\nIASA member from Zambia at the British Library\nNaomi Chisali, from the National Archives of Zambia in Lusaka, began her 10 week internship at the British Library on 5 January 2009. Naomi attended the IASA conference in Riga in 2007 but was not able to attend in Sydney due to lack of funds. She is hoping to attend in Athens in September, where perhaps we shall hear more about her experiences in London and catch up on work being done on audiovisual collections in Africa.\nGo to the British Library\u2019s internship programme website to find out more.\nIASA Research Archive Section \u2013 report to the General Assembly II, Sydney 2008\n44 people attended the Research Archive Section meeting in Sydney on Monday 15th September. After the opening paper on archiving challenges in post-conflict Liberia (a paper by Proscovia Sv\u00e4rd, presented in her absence by Grace Koch), section chair Tony Seeger asked everyone to introduce themselves and to identify the 2nd and 3rd most pressing needs of their institutions (the 1st need presumably being financial support in all cases). Needs identified (among others) included staffing (technicians with analog expertise, cataloguers with subject expertise); equipment (esp. due to format obsolescence); adequate handling of increasing access, user expectations or repatriation; more guidance for intellectual property issues (esp. for online materials); institutional support, and advocacy for the long term. The problem most frequently addressed might be summed up in one phrase: \u201cHow to work efficiently with the very large amounts of (manifold) material being acquired by our institutions?\u201d\nUnder \u201cold business\u201d, we described the current status of the statement of ethical principles. The current draft of the ethics report (March 2008) had been sent by Secretary General Gunnel J\u00f6nsson to all committee and section officers prior to the annual conference (via email, July 25, 2008). As agreed during the meeting of the Executive Board with the officers of committees, sections and branches (on September 19), comments are still welcome and should be sent to Christiane Fennesz-Juhasz (christiane.fennesz-juhasz@oeaw.ac.at) by February 15, 2009. The members of the original subcommittee will continue their work, and will highlight potential changes in the next draft of the ethics statement.\nUnder \u201cnew business\u201d of our section meeting, we discussed the possibilities of sponsoring a workshop in Athens on legal and ethical issues. Knowing that we cannot create one-size-fits-all training, we may be able to solicit case studies, possibly invite a speaker from an organization like WIPO (World Intellectual Property Organization), and ask for suggested solutions.\nWe then held elections for section officers, since Anthony Seeger and Judith Gray are at the end of their terms. Alan Burdette (Archives of Traditional Music, Indiana University), North America, was elected as Secretary, and Diane Thram (ILAM \u2013 International Library of African Music), South Africa, as Vice Chair. Christiane Fennesz-Juhasz (Vienna Phonogrammarchiv), Europe, will serve as Chair.\nAnthony Seeger, Chair\nChristiane Fennesz-Juhasz, Vice Chair\nJudith Gray, Secretary\nIASA Branch report \u2013 MAA Media Archives Austria\nReport to the General Assembly I, September 16, 2008\nI am giving this report on behalf of Rainer Hubert, chair of the Austrian branch of IASA, Media Archives Austria (www.medienarchive.at).\nDuring the last year we prepared the proceedings of the symposium which took place on the occasion of the 30th anniversary of MAA at the end of 2006. Currently in print, our festschrift includes contributions by representatives of all major Austrian AV archives and by other experts in the field. It deals with the topics \u201cChances and risks of digital archiving and long-term storage\u201d, \u201cLobbying and networking\u201d, and \u201cMedia archives in the Internet era\u201d.\nRecently, Media Archives Austria commented in a letter to the Austrian Ministry of Justice, on the proposal to extend the term of protection for performers and phonogram producers from 50 to 95 years, which was adopted by the European Commission in July 2008 (cf. http://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/LexUriServ.do?uri=COM:2008:0464:FIN:EN:PDF). The MAA is of course strongly opposed to the extension of the term and pointed at the urgent necessity of exceptions for archives, libraries and museums regarding the non-commercial use, in the digital domain, of cultural heritage in their care.\nAt present, we are preparing our comment on the European Commission\u2019s Green Paper on \"Copyright in the Knowledge Economy\u201d\n(http://ec.europa.eu/internal_market/copyright/docs/copyright-infso/greenpaper_en.pdf), which was adopted also in July this year, and includes proposals of exceptions for archives and museums regarding digitisation and availability of digitised works.\nTogether with the German/Swiss-German Branch of IASA the MAA will hold a joint annual meeting from November 7 to 8, in the Technical Museum in Vienna.\nEnd of June, five member archives of MAA jointly responded to a call for interest by the Austrian Research Fund concerning a new Funding Programme: NIKE \u2013 Network Initiative Cultural Heritage. Within the NIKE framework, joint project networks will be funded which aim at accessing, analysing and preserving holdings of the cultural heritage. In order to ensure, for the scientific community, free and sustainable access to both original data and project results, digitisation is likewise promoted. The NIKE programme will be launched with a first proper call by the beginning of 2009.\nThe Austrian Mediathek, the TV archives of the Austrian Broadcasting Corporation (ORF), the Sound and Media Archive of the Styrian Museum Joanneum, the Filmarchiv Austria, and the Vienna Phonogrammarchiv will jointly submit an application for a project network focusing on endangered audio-visual holdings from the 1950s to 1970s. We hope we will be successful.\nChristiane Fennesz-Juhasz\nPhonogrammarchiv\nCentre for Linguistics and Audiovisual Documentation\nAustrianAcademyof Sciences\nRecovery of 130-year-old tinfoil recording\nSince 2003, the British Library Sound Archive has been a partner in the Surface Scanning of Archived Sound Recordings research project at the University of Southampton. Professor John McBride, the project\u2019s manager and Nigel Bewley, head sound engineer in the Sound Archive, discuss the project. This podcast [at http://www.bl.uk/onlinegallery/whatson/downloads/audioarchive2008.html released in mid-December 2008] features audio transferred from the British Library\u2019s earliest object containing recorded sound, a Thomas Alva Edison tinfoil recording of c. 1877, unplayable by conventional means. Although the audio is of poor quality, it\u2019s extraordinary that the 130-year-old recording survives and is recoverable at all.\nInternational Preservation News all about audiovisual collections\nIn case you haven\u2019t seen it, the latest issue of International Preservation News is all about the preservation of audiovisual collections: http://www.ifla.org/VI/4/news/ipnn46.pdf.\nThe issue is subtitled: Still Images & Sound and features the following articles:\nSocio-technical and socio-cultural challenges of audio and video preservation\n\u2013 Dietrich Sch\u00fcller\nAlbert Kahn, des images pour la paix: rappels historiques et choix de conservation\u2013 collective article from the Albert-Kahn Museum\nDigitization of transparencies\u2013 Pierre Hauri\nThe Charles Cros Collection\u2013 Dominique Th\u00e9ron\nDigitization of sound archives at the National Library of France\u2013 Xavier Sen\u00e9\nImaging historical voices\u2013 Carl Haber\nPreservation of audiovisual collections in developing countries\nSouth East AsiaPacific: Focus on SEAPAVAA \u2013 Ray Edmondson\nThe UNESCO Jikji Prize and the Jos\u00e9 Maceda Collection\u2013 Ramon P. Santos and Dietrich Sch\u00fcller\nChallenges of preserving and conserving audiovisual collections in sub-Saharan Africa \u2013Dr Ruth Abankwah\nAfrican audio-visual archives: bleak or bright future. A case study of the situation at the National Archives of Zimbabwe \u2013Ishumael Zinyengere\nEUROPEANA prototype launched with overwhelming interest\nOn 20th September 2008, EU Commission President Manuel Barroso, EU Commissioner Viviane Reding and French Culture and Communication Minister Christine Albanel launched the http://www.europeana.eu/portal/en portal at the National Royal Library in Brussels. The event was very successful, with all European ministers of Culture attending and a lot of interest of the world\u2019s press. For those not yet familiar with Europeana: Europeana is a multimedia internet portal that combines Europe\u2019s digital collections of four different cultural domains, i.e. libraries, archives, museums and audiovisual collections, into one digital website. It offers direct access to digitized books, audio and video material, films, photos, paintings, maps, manuscripts, newspapers and archival documents that are Europe\u2019s cultural heritage. Anyone interested can search and explore different collections in Europe\u2018s cultural institutions in their own language in virtual form, without having to visit multiple sites or countries.\nOn the first day of its launch, the Europeana website was overwhelmed by interest shown by millions of users. Experts had anticipated up to 5 million hits per hour on the site, the real interest however was 3 times as strong; the traffic increased in the afternoon and reached 13 million hits per hour (4,000 concurrent users!). On the one hand this caused unexpected difficulties since the massive interest slowed down the service so much that the site had to temporarily be taken down although the server capacity had been doubled. On the other hand it was an encouraging sign that citizens in Europe and around the world have such a great interest in Europe\u2019s digital library. The Europeana management is testing newly configured hardware. The website includes this notice, explaining that \u201cThe site is open for you to use but the user experience may not be optimal in this test phase, eg.: the number of users will be limited in peak times.\u201d\nAt its beginning the Europeana prototype gives direct access to more than 2 million digitized items. Over 1,000 cultural organizations from across Europe have provided materials. However, to make Europeana successful in the long term, the amount of searchable objects should significantly grow over the coming years, the speed of this growth depending largely upon the pace of digitization in the EU member states. In support of that, some \u20ac 119 million in total will be available in the coming two years for digitization actions through the EU\u2019s overall research programme (FP7) and its Competitiveness and Innovation Programme. The objective of the European Commission is that in 2010 the number of digitized works available online through Europeana should reach 10 million.\nSo far, audiovisual contributions within Europeana are totally underrepresented. Therefore, I would like to encourage all European institutional IASA members to contribute their audiovisual collections. Europeana is a unique occasion for content holders to open their collections and gain a completely new visibility. Benefits are\n\u203a Increase the degree of familiarity across Europe and even worldwide;\n\u203a Increase the number of users;\n\u203a Get new audiences;\n\u203a Increase revenues.\nFor organizations willing to contribute their digital contents, basic instructions, mapping aids, a technical requirement\u2028questionnaire and specifications of semantic elements are available. Visit http://www.europeana.eu/for more information.\nPrestoPRIME \u2013 new EU project to explore digital preservation framework\nPrestoPRIME is a 12 million Euro project to research and develop means of ensuring the permanence of digital audiovisual objects in archives, libraries, museums, and collections. It starts in January 2009, runs for 4 years, and is funded by the European Union under the Seventh Framework Program (FP7).\nProgram partners include three of the major European broadcasting agencies: the French national broadcaster, Institut National de l\u2019Audiovisuel (INA) - which is coordinating the program - Italy\u2019s national broadcaster, Radiotelevisione Italiana (RAI), the British Broadcasting Corporation, (BBC) and several other leading technology innovators from Europe.\nThis description can be found on the FP7 EU project website:\n\u201cAudiovisual content collections are undergoing a transformation from archives of analogue materials to very large stores of digital data. As time-based digital media and their related metadata are edited, re-used and re-formatted in a continuously evolving environment, the concept of the unique original loses its meaning and we require dynamic processes that can preserve indefinitely not only the audiovisual signal but also its evolving associations, context and rights. PrestoPRIME will research and develop practical solutions for the long-term preservation of digital media objects, programmes and collections, and find ways to increase access by integrating the media archives with European on-line digital libraries in a digital preservation framework. This will result in a range of tools and services, delivered through a networked Competence Centre.\nThe project will deliver a preservation framework, complete with risk management and content quality and corruption control measures, capable of supporting audiovisual signal migration and multivalent preservation methods using federated services for distributing and storing content. It will create a metadata conversion and deployment toolkit, with a novel and efficient process for metadata vocabulary alignment, annotation and services for user-generated content metadata. A rights management system and audiovisual fingerprint registry will make it possible to track and manage content at all stages of its lifecycle, in all contexts of use.\nThe project will demonstrate and evaluate an integrated prototype of the preservation Framework and software in the networked Competence Centre. The Competence Centre and the European Association for Audiovisual Archives will be established to provide business models, registry and best practice services and training\u201d.\nSource: http://soundresources.ning.com/profiles/blogs/prestoprime-launched\nGramophone Archive available online\nThe Gramophone has set up a free Web archive with all the contents of the magazine including advertisements from the first issue in 1923 up to the present. The archive is fully searchable and downloadable as pdfs, you can report possible mistakes (due to OCR reading) and comment on the articles and it\u2019s free!\nTake a look at: http://www.gramophone.co.uk/\nJacqueline Von Arb (IASA) and\nSteve Abrams (ARSC)\nSave the dates: 2009 ARSC Conference, Washington, DC\nThe 43rd annual ARSC Conference will be held at The Liaison Capitol Hill, an Affinia Hotel, at 415 New Jersey Avenue NW, Washington, DC, May 27-30, 2009.\nThe hotel, which opened April 1, 2008, is located three blocks from Union Station, ten minutes from Reagan National Airport, and within walking distance of the U.S. Capitol, Library of Congress, the memorials on the National Mall, and the Smithsonian museums.\nFor ARSC conference attendees, a block of rooms has been reserved for the nights of May 26-30, at a special rate of $149 per night, single or double (one king bed or two queen beds). The rate also applies three days prior and one day after the conference, based on availability. Reservations must be made by May 5, 2009 at (866) 233-4642 or reservations@affinia.com. Remember to request the ARSC 2009 DC Conference Rate. Rooms are available on a first-come, first-served basis. We expect our room block to sell out before the conference, and possibly prior to May 5.\nFor more information about the Liaison Capitol Hill:\nhttp://www.affinia.com/Washington-DC-Hotel.aspx?name=Liaison-Capitol-Hill\nPRE-CONFERENCE TOUR OF NAVCC:\nARSC is planning a pre-conference tour of the new Library of Congress National Audio-Visual Conservation Center (NAVCC). The Packard Campus of the NAVCC, located on a beautiful 45-acre site near Culpeper, Virginia, is a state-of-the-art facility with unprecedented capabilities for audiovisual preservation and access. Chartered buses will depart from The Liaison Capitol Hill on the morning of May 27, and return tour participants to the hotel between 5:00 and 6:00 p.m. The tour will be limited to 100 people, and a separate registration fee will apply. For more information about NAVCC: http://www.loc.gov/avconservation/packard/\nBAAC / LCSA Annual Conference \u2013 call for papers\nThe Joint BAAC (Baltic Audiovisual Archival Council) and LCSA (Lithuanian Central State Archive) Annual Conference (The Riga Seminar) takes place this year October 4-7, 2009 in Vilnius (Lithuania) (European capital of Culture \u201809). The title of the conference is: \u201cAggregation and Management of Audiovisual Content in the Digital Space.\u201d The conference will be hosted by the Lithuanian Central State Archive, and Institute of Library and Information Science at the Vilnius University.\nThe deadline for abstracts is April 3, 2009.\nLarge-scale digitization, and aggregation of digital content in the national and international portals representing cultural heritage, is the latest trend in management of cultural resources in Europe and worldwide. This is exemplified by such international initiatives as European Film Gateway, Europeana and other emerging networks. Such portals improve access to heritage resources for diverse audiences, and unlock it for various uses. However, building such repositories of shared resources requires collaboration and organizational decisions.\nThe development of virtual memory institutions for audiovisual collections requires the establishment of effective content management solutions. High on the agenda of audiovisual archives are a wide spectrum of issues. They range from analogue-to-digital conversion, development and maintenance of digital archives, long-term preservation of digitized and born-digital material, as well as standardization and interoperability of digital information systems.\nIn accordance with the latest emerging issues in the management and dissemination of audiovisual heritage, the conference, \u201cAggregation and Management of Audiovisual Content in the Digital Space\u201d, aims to promote a higher visibility for the Baltic heritage in a digital environment. Nationally and internationally, this can be achieved by sharing best practices and encouraging collaborative networks for stakeholders.\nThree major aspects to be discussed in conference sections:\n1. Content aggregation experiences - national and international initiatives focusing on large-scale cultural heritage systems, allowing for improved access to diverse audiences.\n2. Content management - issues at various stages of the content management cycle. These range from digital conversion or creation of born-digital content, to its processing, description, access and long-term archiving. Special emphasis on digital preservation and standardization.\n3. Audiovisual content - access to the European audiovisual heritage: Projects and Initiatives. Actual practice in digitisation at the Lithuanian Central State Archive (national initiatives, international projects: MIDAS, EFG). Seeking \u201cbalance\u201d between protection and access.\nThe conference will be conducted in English. Please send abstracts of up to 400 words to: juozas@baacouncil.org\nThe programme committee will announce the results by the end of April.\nProgram Committee: Juozas Markauskas, Valerija Juseviciute, Zinaida Man\u017euch, Piret Noorhani,\nConference Organizers: Valerija Juseviciute - Lithuanian Central State Archive; Zinaida Man\u017euch - Institute of Library and Information Science at the Vilnius University; Piret Noorhani - Estonian National Museum; Andris Kesteris - Library and Archives Canada; Georg Eckes (Deutsches Filminstitut-DIF)\nThe estimated conference fee will be 20 EUR\nUpdates about the conference will be published on BAAC website: www.baacouncil.org\nAnnouncement: Unlocking Audio: Connecting with Listeners\nUnlocking Audio 2: Connecting with Listeners is a key event exploring the use of sounds online. The conference is about ways that researchers and other audiences expect to discover, browse, audition and analyse archival audio resources. 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You don\u2019t have to wait on God to do anything else \u2026 He\u2019s done it! Now it\u2019s up to you: Receive and walk in it.\nThis scripture brings such hope to us because of those three little words \"has blessed us.\" Notice it does not say \"will bless us.\" We don\u2019t need to plead with God to do something else for us, we don\u2019t need to perform perfectly hoping to bend God\u2019s will to bless us \u2026 He already has blessed us! And not just with a few meager blessings, but with every spiritual blessing that can be offered from heaven!\nThe reason this can infuse you with intense hope is because right now YOU possess every ability you need to be the YOU God has called you to be. You don\u2019t have to wait on God to do anything else \u2026 He\u2019s done it! God\u2019s part is finished, and now it\u2019s up to you to learn to receive and to walk in what He\u2019s already done for you.\nHere\u2019s an example: If a marriage is rocky, there is nothing from the outside that can be added to make that marriage good. There is no pill, no potion, no external ingredient to save the relationship. It will change, simply when those two people make a decision to walk together in love, patience, acceptance, and forgiveness. Nothing was added to their marriage, it was just the husband and wife drawing from within the strength that was already there to make their marriage strong and healthy.\nAnd so it is with YOU. God has already put within you everything you need to live a fulfilled and blessed life. You don\u2019t need anything added to you. You don\u2019t have to wait for God to move. YOU are good to go\u2026TODAY. You simply need to draw near to God, learn to live by His strength, and learn to believe and receive all that He wants to bless you with!\nMeditate today on the fact that the Life of Jesus that lives on the inside of you is filled with all the strength, hope, faith and spiritual blessing that you will ever need.\nFather, I believe You chose me before the creation of the world, and have accepted me just as I am TODAY. I believe that through Jesus and His life that lives in me, You have already blessed me with all You have to offer. Thank You so much!\nRight now, YOU possess every ability you need to be the YOU God has called you to be. You don\u2019t have to wait on God to do anything else \u2026 He\u2019s done it! Now it\u2019s up to you: Receive and walk in it. 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However, there is no guarantee that you won\u2019t lose that friend. Unavoidable circumstances like relocation, illness, or death may take your companion away, but if you are a Christian, you have a friend who will never leave you.\nHe\u2019s the Holy Spirit, whom Jesus called the Helper. He\u2019s no fair-weather friend, slipping in and out of our lives when it\u2019s to His advantage. When He takes up residence within us, He comes to stay forever (John 14:16).\nIn most human relationships, we try to avoid the use of sweeping negative or positive statements such as, \u201cYou are always late,\u201d or \u201cYou are always there for me.\u201d However, such superlative declarations are completely fitting when applied to the Holy Spirit. Listen to how the Lord Jesus described Him:\n\u201cHe will teach you all things, and bring to your remembrance all that I said to you\u201d (John 14:26).\n\u201cHe will testify about Me\u201d (John 15:26).\n\u201cHe will guide you into all the truth\u201d (John 16:13).\n\u201cAll things that the Father has are Mine; therefore I said that He takes of Mine and will disclose it to you\u201d (John 16:15).\nThroughout the New Testament epistles, we find even more descriptions of this marvelous companion. His ministry in our lives is varied, and His accomplishments in and through us are many. How wealthy we are to have the Holy Spirit. He is a friend who truly sticks closer than a brother!\nThe Holy Spirit is our faithful Guide, Who promises to reveal God to us. 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Moreover, it is a technology that encompasses the study of spatial (geographic) locations and features on Earth\u2019s surface and the relationships between them. Because urban planning fundamentally involves the study of locations and spatial relationships, today\u2019s employers are looking for graduates of urban planning and urban design programs with good command of GIS. Particularly, professionals with spatial analysis techniques and GIS project management skills are on demand in order to effectively deal with multi-faceted urban planning issues. Environmental Systems Research Institute\u2019s (Esri) ArcGIS software suite has become a standard in the industry and is used by many government agencies, non-profit organizations, and private firms engaged in GIS analyses.\nUrban planning is the very foundation for the development of any area in the world. 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Thanks to the beautiful archipelago. However, there is also a similar attraction in Kaimana Regency and the name is Triton Cape. Still, it offers a distinct attraction, so tourists should drop by and enjoy its scenery. The fact is that Triton belongs to KKLD or local\u2019s sea conservation area. That means the environment is pristine and it features beautiful corals and fishes, which are the specialties of Kaimana. With all these facts, everyone should never overlook the cape!\nFrom above, Triton Cape looks like Raja Ampat Archipelago. It consists of sea water, karsts, and some hills. Not to mention trees and bushes grow well in the location. They create a comfy nuance of the site. With a boat, tourists can explore all parts of the cape and witness the whole beauty of it. Some spots also suitable for photography, swimming, and sightseeing. When it comes to the best times to visit the cape, it can be either in the morning or at noon. The thing is tourists should wear sunblock in order to prevent excessive heat during daylight.\nExploring Triton Cape\nIn a nutshell, Triton Cape is famous for its underwater scenery and cultural heritage. People can enjoy nature wholeheartedly, especially during the dusk. Still, the most popular activity is to explore numerous small islands and coral reefs, which are scattered there. That means it provides lots of attractions to explore. Not to mention the water is crystal clear and mesmerizing. It becomes the home of tons of nautical creatures. Even people call it the Fish Empire! Another nickname is the City of Dawn. Why is that? The cape is famous for its stunning sunset. That\u2019s why.\nApart from exploration and enjoying the sunset, people come to the cape to explore the sea. That means the location is suitable for diving and snorkeling. Many types of fishes and corals would be stunning views underwater. The fact is that there are about 900 species of fishes living there. Also, experts said there are more than 450 types of corals, which are scattered underwater. All of them are waiting for explorers. For lucky people, they can even meet 16 different types of green sea turtles and 27 types of lobsters.\nSome people also come to Triton Cape to witness famous shark whales. They are also interested in observing ancient paintings, which are carved on a nearby mountain. Those were made by hands, representing the figures of animals and nature. With all these attractions, the cape has been attracting both domestic and foreign tourists. As if, visitors enter a fantasy world with lots of adventures in it. Even though the karsts are not accessible for climbing, people can get around the location using a speedboat. That means they need to spend some money to rent the boat.\nFirst, travelers need to go to Kaimana City by airplane. That means their prime destination is Utarom Airport. From there, the next destination is Lobo Village. 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In addition, the U.S.'s war victories in Iraq are being used to pressure Syria and other neighboring Arab states into marginalizing and dismantling not only hardline Islamic factions like Hamas and Islamic Jihad, but also long-standing leftist political parties such as the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (which is considered a terrorist organization by the US State Department). 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Financial market design, environmental innovation, social policies regarding migration from rural to urban areas, a social safety net, and quality education programs are the means to realize these goals.\nMany dreams of development are confused by the promotion of policies that promise an illusory progress that may enrich a few but offer little contribution to the quality of life for society at large. In the West, the deification of wealth has created many problems along with any progress that has been achieved precisely because many of those nations have chosen to celebrate markets rather than measure them for their contribution to humanity\u2019s needs.\nChina today, and in particular the Shenzhen/Qianhai region experimental zones, enjoys a great opportunity to enhance human development. The visions and policies created here can have great impact on the vitality of the region and the Chinese nation. 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The province has a strong network of higher education institutions including the universities of Cape Town, Stellenbosch and the Western Cape. The Western Cape has the highest adult education level in the country. Visitors to the province can disembark at one of the province\u2019s two main airports, Cape Town International or George Airport. It is also possible to enter at the seaports of Cape Town, Mossel Bay and Saldanha. Table Mountain, the Cape winelands, Robben Island as well as the Kirstenbosch Botanical Gardens are among the province\u2019s most popular tourist attractions.\nThe Western Cape is also known for its floral diversity. The Cape Floristic Region World Heritage Site, comprising eight separate protected areas, covers an area of more than 553 000 ha stretching from the Cape Peninsula to the Eastern Cape. The Knysna-Tsitsikamma region has the country\u2019s biggest indigenous forests. The cold Atlantic Ocean along the West Coast is a rich fishing area. While the warmer Indian Ocean skirts the province\u2019s southern beaches.\nWestern Cape Agriculture and fisheries\nThe Western Cape\u2019s sheltered valleys between mountains are ideal for the cultivation of export-grade fruit such as apples, table grapes, olives, peaches and oranges. A variety of vegetables are cultivated in the eastern part of the Western Cape. While the Swartland and Overberg districts are well-known as the country\u2019s prime wheat-growing areas. The agricultural sector is critical to the Western Cape economy, accounting for 60% of regional exports. The Western Cape is also well known for its wine production.\nAccording to a study, commissioned by the SA Wine Industry Information & Systems, published in 2015, some\n300 000 people were employed both directly and indirectly in the wine industry in 2015, including farm labourers, those involved in packaging, retailing and wine tourism. The study also concluded that of the R36,1 billion gross\ndomestic product (GDP) contributed by the wine industry to the regional economy, about R19,3 billion eventually would remain in the Western Cape.\nSome 75% of all South African fishing takes place along the Western Cape coastline. The rich fishing grounds on the west coast are also protected from exploitation by a 200 km commercial fishing zone. There is also a strict quota system implemented. Delicacies found in these waters are Snoek, Cape lobster, abalone, calamari, octopus, oysters as well as mussels. Other exports include fruit, wine, wool and ostrich. The high quality of exports, combined with the relative weakness of the local currency, makes the products therefore some of the most affordable high-quality exports in the world.\nWestern Cape Industry\nThe Saldanha Bay Industrial Development Zone (SBIDZ) is drawing strong international interest. The SBIDZ Licencing Company had signed six lease agreements with international as well as South African oil and gas companies. These include firms specialising in oilfield services, oil rig operations, logistics operators, ship repair, engineering as well as market support.\nA feasibility study conducted by the Department of Trade and Industry found that Saldanha Bay is strategically located to serve as a service, maintenance, fabrication and supply hub for the booming African oil and gas sector. Therefore due to the increasing number of oil rigs requiring maintenance, and their traffic flow passing from the west to the east coast of Africa. The Western Cape government has invested 25 million Rand over five years in setting up the SBIDZ.\nWestern Cape Population\nVision, Mission and Western Cape Provincial Strategic Objectives\n(Western Cape Government)\nThe Department of Economic Development and Tourism\u2019s vision is a Western Cape that has a vibrant, innovative, and sustainable economy, characterised by growth, employment and equitable opportunities, and built on the full potential of all.\nTo achieve the vision statement as noted above, the Department is required to provide a facilitative and leadership role to the Western Cape economy through the Department\u2019s understanding of the regional economy, its ability to identify economic opportunities and potential, and its contribution to government economic priorities. The leadership role encompasses a vertical and horizontal alignment function as this will ensure economic development is the concerted effort of national, local and regional government; the private and not-for profit sectors as well as communities.\nIn terms of vertical alignment, the department will strive for a \u201cwhole of government\u201d approach to economic outcomes by aligning efforts of national, provincial and City of Cape Town and other municipalities. A facilitative role is also required in aligning economic activities within the horizontal space. The Department will intensify its role as horizontal aligner with business, institutions, and others around a common agenda for economic development. Here again it is intended that the Department`s role is viewed as the critical link between the external stakeholders in the economy and government.\nIn essence the Department\u2019s role changed from that of being an implementer of projects and programs to that of also being an influencer for economic growth, development and inclusion. The above approach gives credence to the achievements envisaged by the Provincial Strategic Objective (PSO1) which includes the creation of opportunities for growth and jobs, the creation of an enabling environment for business and citizens to grow and the creation of a competitive and productive economic region.\nOur goal is to create the opportunities for businesses and citizens to grow the economy and employment. 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According to the Israeli Prison Authority, Tamimi was imprisoned for eight months and was finally released on Sunday morning along with her mother, Nariman Tamimi.\nThe Palestinian mother and daughter were transferred from HaSharon Prison in Israel and taken to a border crossing in the West Bank, from which they were able to return to their village, Nabi Saleh.\nUpon returning to her village, 17-year-old Ahed Tamimi was greeted by supporters and fans waving Palestinian flags and cheering her on. Standing outside of her house, Tamimi made a brief statement, saying, \u201cFrom our home, the resistance is continuing until the end of the occupation. I thank everyone who supported me during my arrest.\u201d\nAfterward, Tamimi attended a meeting with Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas in Ramallah, who applauded her bravery and perseverance.\nThe Palestinian news agency, Wafa, reported that Abbas called Tamimi \u201ca model of the Palestinian struggle for freedom, independence and statehood,\u201d encouraging the use of nonviolent protest as an \u201cideal and vital weapon in facing the repression of the Israeli occupation.\u201d\nThe President of Turkey, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, also reached out to Tamimi, lauding her for her strength and courage.\nAfter returning home once again, Tamimi vowed to continue the resistance, adding, \u201cespecially our resistance for equality and human rights.\u201d\nHaving completed her high school education in jail, Tamimi plans to go to law school in order to help detainees with their cases and potentially bring international attention to their struggles. Tamimi, however, was unable to say whether or not she would slap an Israeli soldier again, commenting, \u201cI can\u2019t predict the future.\u201d\n\u201cMaybe tomorrow Palestine might be free,\u201d she continued, \u201cand I can\u2019t define what\u2019ll happen in the future. I hope that the occupation goes away so that I don\u2019t think about doing this again.\u201d\n\u201cI\u2019ve never lived under peace. This is why I see peace as something important,\u201d she added.\nMajdi Mohammed / Associated Press\nTamimi\u2019s attorney, Gabi Lasky, told CNN that her arrest was mainly a political move for Israel, urging that arresting minors will not put an end to the longstanding conflict between Israel and Palestine. \u201cI hope our leaders will be courageous enough to reach an agreement and free us all from the chains of occupation,\u201d Lasky said.\nAfter initially being arrested in December on 12 different charges, Tamimi pleaded guilty to four charges in March in exchange for a reduced sentence. 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But colleges continue to find it difficult to admit all of the qualified candidates into their nursing programs, especially some of California's community colleges.\nTake for instance California's Cabrillo College, where hundreds remain on the nursing program wait list in hopes of grabbing one of 60 spots. The wait can last six years or more. The wait lists have become so difficult to handle that many colleges in California are eliminating them altogether, said Marshall Alameida, dean of health sciences at College of Marin.\nSolano Community College, located between San Francisco and Sacramento, is trying a new approach, according to Glenn Burgess, the college's director of nursing. Students there would spend two to three years on the nursing program wait list even after completing the major science courses needed to apply.\n\"We have placed a hold on accepting applications in order to reconsider the impact the wait list has on students and the cost to maintain a wait list. Currently, we have decided to not keep a wait list and students will need to reapply each year in September and all qualified applicants will be placed in a lottery to fill the next class,\" Burgess said in an email, adding that college officials are hopeful they will be able to get students into the program sooner with the new approach.\nNapa Valley College saw similar problems with waitlists.\n\"It has, upon occasion, topped in excess of 300 students for a 40-person program. We found that maintaining a waitlist of this magnitude was cumbersome and inefficient as many students were on multiple waitlists. Thus, a student might be on the waitlist for anywhere from two to five years,\" said Robert Harris, dean of the college's health occupations program, in an email.\nThis fall, Napa Valley will also end using the waitlist and move to a new method of simply accepting or not accepting students, Harris said.\nTwo years ago the state passed a law allowing community college nursing programs to use a selective application process that awards points in a number of categories including prior academic degrees or certificates, grade point average, volunteer or work experience, proficiency in a foreign language, and other life or special experiences. The Multicriteria Screening Process was extended this year to sunset in 2020.\n\"But the real issue remains that in terms of applicants to programs, not 100 percent of qualified applicants are admitted to programs,\" Alameida said.\nAccording to the National League for Nursing, associate degree in nursing programs rejected 45 percent of qualified applications in 2012, compared with 36 percent in bachelor of science in nursing programs. Furthermore, 28 percent of ADN programs and 38 percent of BSN programs cited lack of faculty members as the main obstacle to expanding.\n\"There just aren't enough faculty, and the only reason students, potential applicants, are turned away is the lack of faculty and lack of clinical placement,\" said Beverly Malone, chief executive officer of the National League for Nursing. \"When you come in, there's not enough space in hospitals or community health clinics to get experience. So you have to clamp down on the number coming in.\"\nNLN estimates that 34,200 new nursing instructors will be needed by 2022.\nMany current nurses have remained in the field because the recession kept them from retiring, but now they are leaving as the economy has rebounded, Malone said.\nFinding instructors willing to work in the community colleges can be even harder, Alameida said.\n\"We're having a difficult time finding qualified faculty. I had an open position for a simulation instructor and I had one applicant, so we had to make concessions on the minimum qualifications,\" he said.\nThat concession was the decision to hire faculty members who didn't have a master's degree -- which is a state requirement, Alameida said, but as part of the employment agreement those faculty members would continue their education to achieve that master's degree within a short period of time.\nIt's mostly due to the salary disparity, which is also more of a regional problem. According to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, a registered nurse can earn on average of about $90,000 a year in California. Nursing instructors, especially at the community colleges, are often paid less than what they can earn in the field, Alameida said. \"A nurse manager is making $150,000 \u2026 but I'll bring in a new faculty member and start them at $82,000.\"\nWait lists are a regional problem, said Donna Meyer, chief executive officer of the National Organization for Associate Degree Nursing, adding that she's never heard of a six-year wait list, but one-year wait lists are typical. Meyer agrees that the faculty shortage is a problem, but finding the clinical settings for students in these programs to gain experience is just as much of an issue.\n\"Nursing programs aren't inexpensive programs to run and operate,\" she said. \"You can have 100 students in a classroom, but in a clinical setting the direct ratio of students-to-faculty member is regulated in each state.\"\nStates typically will only allow six to 10 students maximum with a faculty member, Meyer said.\nLinda Zorn, statewide director of the health workforce initiative for the California community colleges, said officials have been working for the past year on finding solutions for increasing clinical slots for students. The Affordable Care Act has helped in that regard -- since a large proportion of slots are in hospitals, the health care reform law has made it possible for educators to look for clinical experience sites in other health-related areas.\nThere is competition, too, among colleges and universities to use clinical sites at nearby hospitals and clinics.\n\"So a lot of places are looking at what we call alternative clinical sites,\" Meyer said. \"So it's much more about going out to public health and long-term care facilities. We've changed our thinking in that way, but health care is moving out of the hospitals and into places like rehabilitation centers.\"\nAnd many students who are waiting a year or two to enter a nursing program spend the time finishing prerequisite courses like anatomy and physiology, so they can be in the student role and getting ready for nursing, she said.\nCalifornia continues to spend about $13 million a year on nursing education at its community colleges in order to maintain and expand programs and that budget item saw a slight increase this year, Zorn said.\nBut Malone said there are two federally funded areas that could help increase the number of nursing instructors -- both Title VII for health care professions and Title VIII Nursing Workforce Development funds could help nurses currently in the field to get their master's degrees and go into teaching.\n\"The shortage is in the lack of resources to pay for those nurses to go back [and become instructors]. 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If you do, why not consider picking up the new \"NOW That's What I Call Music 64\" which released back on\nIf you follow my blog, then you have seen my reviews over the years of NOW Music CDs. Just a couple weeks ago, I shared a review for the new NOW Merry Christmas CD, which we can't get enough of. I love when new NOW music CD's come out as they always have the biggest hits all on one album. And, these CDs sure to come in handy when I am running errands and want to listen to my favorite songs, instead of hoping a song will come on the radio that I like.\nHere is the track listing for this new NOW That's What I Call Music 64 release:\nNOW That's What I Call Music! 64 [CD, digital]\n1. Charlie Puth\n2. Luis Fonsi & Daddy Yankee ft. Justin Bieber\n4. Sam Hunt\n5. Liam Payne ft. Quavo\n6. Calvin Harris ft. Pharrell Williams, Katy Perry & Big Sean\n7. Maroon 5 ft. SZA\n8. French Montana ft. Swae Lee\n10. Logic ft. Alessia Cara & Khalid\n15. ZAYN ft. Sia\nNOW Presents What's Next:\n17. Barns Courtney\n18. DaniLeigh\n19. Moon Taxi\n21. Billie Eilish\n22. Molly Kate\nAren't these just the best songs? I could listen to the CD from start to finish without having to skip a song, as they are all great. I personally love the songs from P!nk, Imagine Dragons, Luis Fonsi and Daddy Yankee and Kesha. In addition the main 16 tracks, this CD, like the other NOW That's What I Call Music ones have 6 tracks from hot up and coming artists. I love this part of the CD as I am introduced to music artists I otherwise wouldn't know about. And, many of these artists featured in this section of the CD have become big. So, it is nice hearing them when they are up and coming.\nSo, if you love music, have been a fan of NOW Music CD's like have, or have a music lover on your shopping list this holiday season, you will want to check out and pick up this new CD. You will find yourself having this CD on repeat as you will not be able to get enough of the hit songs that make up this new release.\nFollow Now That's What I Call Music on their social media channels below:\nFollow @NowThatsMusic on Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, Pinterest\n@NowThatsMusic on Snapchat\nLabels: CD review NOW That's What I Call Music , gift ideas for music lovers , holiday gift idea , new music CD , New NOW Music CD , NOW That's What I Call Music , Now That's What I Call Music 64\nThese DVDs would be so fun to listen to!", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00240.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 102, + "original_length": 5536, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.91, + "perplexity": 317.4, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "https://www.inspiredbysavannah.com/2018/08/gear-up-your-back-to-school-spirit.html", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T03:18:51Z", + "digest": "sha1:AWYWRMLXQ4XGAFODZEAQHU5AVB5U5NQL", + "length": 3880, + "nlines": 18, + "source_domain": "www.inspiredbysavannah.com", + "title": "Inspired by Savannah: Gear Up Your Back to School Spirit!", + "raw_content": "Gear Up Your Back to School Spirit!\nFor children, the very idea of going back to school after the summer break is both daunting and exciting. On the one hand, they are going to spend more time with their friends. But on the other hand, it\u2019s a new school year that begins, and, with it, new things to learn. It\u2019s easy to understand how this period can be stressful for them. As a parent, you can help to ease their anxiety. For a lot of children, the back-to-school time often feels like a second New year within the year. Indeed, it\u2019s a time of renewal and promises. Consequently, you can play positively with the concept of taking new resolutions and making a positive impression \u2013 something that most children aspire to when they meet their new teachers. Here are a few ideas to gear up for school, both at home and outside. Indeed, you\u2019ll find that children are motivated to do well when they start a new school year, but often feel let down by their parents. Use these simple ways to show that you are here to encourage and motivate them.\nBuilding a learning spot for your child\nNew year, new clothes\nIf there is a good time to buy new clothes, the start of a new school year is definitely one. You need to remember that for children, the first few weeks can play a significant role in building their popularity and presence at the school. This is even more important when your child changes school. Just like you want to dress for the job when you start in a new company, your child wants to make the right impression from Day One. For young children who need comfortable clothes that make them feel good, Cotton On Kids proposes a vibrant collection of simple and tasteful colors and designs. For teenagers, it\u2019s best to plan a shopping trip together so that they don\u2019t feel you are imposing a style on them.\nTime to introduce healthy eating habits\nMaintaining a healthy diet during the summer can be tricky. Ice creams, soda drinks, sweets and bbq parties can affect your child\u2019s habits. You can help them to get back to a healthy diet that provides them with all the vitamins and nutrients by introducing a new lunchbox. As a rule of the thumb, a balanced lunchbox should contain\nfresh fruit, crunchy vegetables, dairy food, starchy food, protein or meat, and water. It\u2019s also important to discuss with your child why they don\u2019t eat some elements so that you can improve the lunch options.\nCan parents make learning fun?\nLast, but not least, there will come a time when your child will need to do involving homework after school. Make it more enjoyable by creating an individual learning spot in their bedroom or in a quiet area at home. Keep all necessary supplies in labeled containers on their desk, so that everything is accessible at all times. Additionally, a little personalization can go a long way. Add a small sign with their names, or choose notebooks with their favorite characters.\nAs a parent, your task is clear. You need to boost the back-to-school morale by helping your child to make a good impression, get energetic and nourishing food for the body and the brain, and get pleasure in learning. Needless to say; it will be challenging. But your child is worth it!\nLabels: Back to school , building learning spot for kids , Gearing up for school , healthy lunchbox , healthy lunches , individual learning spot\nThanks for these wonderful ideas. Making learning fun would be very helpful.\nI'm glad to find out about Cotton On Kids!! So nice, and next week is tax free week so it will be big!\nGreat tips thank you for sharing these. School is starting so soon here earlier than usual this year.\ntat2gurlzrock August 16, 2018 at 1:46 PM\nThese are all great ideas. That lunch box is so cute and fun!\nI am blessed to have a daughter who just started kindergarten that loves to learn and eat healthy at school. 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Following the death of the European chair Rob Lingfield earlier this year, Ed Pagett of Panalux, who served as vice-chair, is standing for the position of chair. A number of representative positions on the European Board are also up for election. Malcolm Burlow of Highlite and David Harwood of Central Theatre Supplies have put their names forward to represent Dealer/Retailer members, while Peter James of Shure Distribution UK is standing for the position of Distributor representative.\nIndividual members of the Association are also voting to elect a representative to the European Board, with project consultant Ed Manwaring and lighting designer Jonathan Dawson-Butterworth putting their names forward.\nThere are three positions up for election on the North American Regional Board. Standing for the position of vice chair are Mike Gormley of Blue Planet Lighting and Bill Groener of A.C.T Lighting, who has been serving in the position following the death of David Taylor earlier this year. 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It is the divine authority a person needs to carry out the work God has called him/her to do. Dr. Stanley explains that Scripture always refers to the power of the Holy Spirit in relationship to witnessing and glorifying God.", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00240.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 120, + "original_length": 5428, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.95, + "perplexity": 204.8, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "https://www.inverse.com/article/28157-tinder-chairman-sean-rad-ai-eliminate-swipe-right", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T04:51:12Z", + "digest": "sha1:CP2DTPFURBIYMJL4YMMPIPFGZTNTIQIL", + "length": 2443, + "nlines": 15, + "source_domain": "www.inverse.com", + "title": "Tinder's Sean Rad: A.I. Will Eliminate the Need to Swipe Right | Inverse", + "raw_content": "ReplicantTinderShareSubscribe\nTinder Chairman Says A.I. Will Eliminate the Need to Swipe Right\nFiled Under Innovation & A.I.\nArtificial intelligence may one day make swiping right on Tinder a thing of the past. Sean Rad, Tinder\u2019s co-founder and chairman, told attendees at the Startup Grind conference on Tuesday that in five years time, users may simply pick up their phone and ask Siri to match them with someone.\n\u201cTinder would do all the work for you,\u201d Rad said in an on-stage interview at the Fox Theater in California. \u201cIt\u2019s a little scary to think that would happen, but I think it\u2019s inevitable.\u201d\nPhones currently involve a lot of swiping and scrolling to get the right information, but Rad thinks that as we start to use our phones to access more data, the way we interact with them will start to change as well. Phones will become smart enough to provide the answer you\u2019re looking for, rather than requiring users to wade through a bunch of screens to work out what\u2019s going on.\n\u201cI think a lot about how we can use A.I. to transform dating in the next five years,\u201d Rad said.\nIn the case of Tinder, Rad sees a future where someone can ask Siri what\u2019s going on tonight, and the voice assistant will know how to interact with the dating app and use A.I. to come up with an intelligent answer.\n\u201cThe Tinder voice might pop up and say, \u2018There\u2019s someone down the street that we think you\u2019re going to be attracted to Sean, and she\u2019s also attracted to you, and guess what, she\u2019s free tomorrow night! And we know you both like this indie band, and it\u2019s playing, so would you like us to buy you tickets?,\u2019\u201d Rad said.\nTinder may also one day use augmented reality to change dating, but Rad warned that the technology currently suffers from the lack of a socially acceptable product. Google Glass, released in 2013, gave birth to the term \u201cglasshole\u201d as users were seen ignoring the outside world to talk to their headgear. 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The game normally retails for $2.29 and is free for this week only.\nThe game takes some queues from Tetris, with falling blocks of varying colours instead of different shapes. The blocks must be slotted into the correct position by the player. If you match two blocks with the same hue, the two blocks will combine to form a larger block of a slightly darker hue.\nIn order to clear a row, fill an entire row with blocks of the same hue. The objective of the game, much like Tetris, is to prevent your blocks from stacking up and hitting the top. Don\u2019t be fooled by the game\u2019s easy appearance, it is surprisingly difficult.\n\u2013 Simple rules\n\u2013 Difficult to master\n\u2013 3 modes of play. Easy. Medium. Hard.\n\u2013 Beautiful, colorful, minimalist design.\n\u2013 Sound design by ONBC\nShades: A Simple Puzzle Game is available as a free download (normally $2.29) from the App Store. 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These are some of the island species most at risk due to climate change.\nClimate change is one of many factors contributing to rapid declines of wildlife around the world. On islands, the effects of climate change are especially pronounced. Island wildlife facing the threats of invasive species, habitat loss, and climate change have been suffering and will continue to suffer losses as these problems progress. Researchers are beginning to better understand how those compounded changes will affect native species. Read on to learn about some of the most at-risk species confronting climate change and other threats.\nHawai\u2019i\u2019s iconic Honeycreepers face threats from invasive species, growing human populations, and diseases. All of these threats are enhanced by the effects of climate change. Hawaiian Honeycreepers live in mountainous forest habitats where mosquitoes cannot survive. However, as climate change progresses and the islands warm, the range of non-native mosquito populations in Hawaii expands. This leads to increased cases of avian malaria and avian pox in the species. A study published last year revealed that warming since the 1990\u2019s has doubled the instance of avian malaria in higher altitudes of Kauai.\nHawai\u2019i Amahiki Honeycreeper feeding. Credit: Marcel Holyoak\nMosquitoes are not the only problem that Honeycreepers face, as climate change assists in the spread of non-native competitors and plants which alter the ecosystem. Eden Paxton of the US Geological Survey\u2019s Pacific Island Ecosystem Research Center believes that without conservation efforts the \u2018Akikiki and the \u2018Akeke\u2019e Honeycreepers will go extinct in the next decade.\nIn the case of the Baird\u2019s Sandpiper (Calidris bairdii), climate change is the number one threat to the species. Although they are listed as Least Concern according to the IUCN Red List, the future does not look bright if climate change goes unchecked. Like many species, Baird\u2019s Sandpipers use environmental and climatic clues for a number of biological processes. Climate change will challenge their ability to rapidly adapt to pressures, such as seasonality of food supply. The Baird\u2019s Sandpiper has been shown to have difficulty with this already since chicks are emerging earlier in the season before their food supply is at peak abundance. If this continues, chicks will be less likely to survive.\nBaird\u2019s Sandpiper are migratory birds found on islands and coasts around the world. Credit: Jason Crotty\nThe Bramble Cay Melomys (Melomys rubicola) is an example of a species that has already been eliminated by climate change. The small mammal lived on Bramble Cay, Australia, an island that rises only 3 meters above sea level. Although there used to be at least several hundred Melomys on the island, sea level rise reduced the land area from 4 hectares to 2.5 hectares. The last sighting of a Melomys occurred in 2009. Scientists have not been able to find a trace of the species since. It is believed to have gone Extinct.\nA Bramble Cay Melomy was last seen in the wild in 2009 by a fisherman. Credit: Queensland Government\nLoggerhead and Hawksbill Sea Turtles are facing serious climate-related issues including changing currents, disturbances to food webs, and decreased nesting habitat. However, these are not the only effects that rising temperatures will have; research has shown that, like many reptiles, the temperature of incubation can influence the gender of the offspring. In the case of sea turtles, hotter sand will lead to more females being born. In the short term this could be beneficial, but in the long term this will end up creating dramatic imbalances within the populations.\nNewborn Hawksbill Sea Turtle on Isla Mona, Puerto Rico. Credit: Tommy Hall/Island Conservation\nWith the exception of the Bramble Cay Melomys, these species, along with countless others, have hope to rebound from population declines. Conservation measures are underway to protect them and hopefully mitigate the effects of our warming climate. However, if anthropogenic climate change continues at the rate it has been, there will eventually be irreversible losses to species around the world, with island wildlife at extremely high risk.\nWorking to preserve biodiversity now can prevent extinctions and lead to more stable and climate-resilient ecosystems in the future.\nFeatured photo: Seabird tracks in the sand. 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Even though miniscule in size and currently ranked 93 in the world in \"absolute\" greenhouse gas emissions (GHGs), Trinidad and Tobago has taken on the challenge of addressing its responsibility to the international community.\nA fox dressed like a sheep\nOur economy is based on the country\u2019s oil and gas reserves which fuel a vibrant energy and petrochemical industry. While hydrocarbon resources are considered a boon, experience shows that this blessing can also have very negative outcomes. For example, the availability of relatively cheap energy and a history of fuel subsidies has led to disproportionately high levels of energy consumption and GHGs.\nThe island is acutely aware of the global threats posed by climate change and the need to make adjustments at the national level to contribute to international mitigation efforts. Policy makers have therefore recently drafted a National Climate Change Policy which identifies the following potential impacts:\nDamage to the country\u2019s built infrastructure caused by increased frequency and intensity of hurricanes\nThermal stress on delicate ecosystems caused by increasing sea surface temperature\nErosion of coastlines and increasing salination of soil propagated by rising sea levels\nReduced percolation and recharge of groundwater reserves occasioned by decreasing precipitation\nAccepting its responsibility to reduce GHGs, Trinidad and Tobago is a signatory to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change and the Kyoto Protocol. The Government\u2019s policy is defined in the Medium-Term Policy Framework and the National Climate Change Policy. Both of these documents establish a framework for decisive action to mitigate and adapt to climate change.\nStandards to the rescue\nThe Trinidad and Tobago Bureau of Standards (TTBS) recognizes that International Standards are important for supporting national initiatives to monitor and reduce energy consumption and GHGs.\nThe TTBS is an active participant of the ISO technical committee on environmental management (ISO/TC 207). It also coordinates inputs from the country\u2019s National Mirror Committee (NMC) which is made up of national experts and other key stakeholders and replicates or \u201cmirrors\u201d the work of the ISO TC. 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Born in Ireland, Hand came to Pennsylvania as a young physician before forming a colonial militia in Lancaster County. He entered the Colonial Army and crossed the Delaware River with George Washington before the attack on Hessian forces in Trenton, New Jersey. A brigadier general, Hand also served as a commander of Fort Pitt and adjutant general during the siege of Yorktown. He later became active in politics, serving on the Congress of the Confederation and the Pennsylvania Assembly. Sword and Scalpel is published by Heritage Books.\nPhi Eta Sigma Honor Society presented Narayanaswamy Bharathan, professor and chair of the Biology Department, with the Distinguished Service Award at its national convention in South Carolina in October. Bharathan remains the advisor to the IUP chapter he founded 15 years ago. In that time, more than 60 student members have received in excess of $92,000 in scholarships. 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That decade-old Islamic insurgency continues to rage in northeastern Nigeria and has spilled over into neighboring countries.\nThe U.S. diplomat suggested \"some form of decentralization\" in Cameroon as mentioned in a proposed constitution for the country. The U.S. provides training and other support to the country's military.\nAs Cameroon's President Paul Biya was sworn into his seventh term in office last month, he urged the separatists he calls \"terrorists\" to drop their guns and be forgiven or prepare to be killed. Military raids began shortly afterward.\nNagy spoke Thursday after a visit that included a groundbreaking meeting with Eritrean President Isaias Afwerki. 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Earlier this week, Eritrea's information minister said in a Twitter post that Isaias \"underlined Eritrea's readiness for constructive engagement to foster warm ties of cooperation with U.S. in various sectors.\"\nNagy, who also visited Ethiopia, Djibouti, Kenya and the U.S. military's Africa command headquarters in Germany, expanded on the U.S. announcement this week that it has opened a \"permanent diplomatic presence\" in Somalia, 27 years after closing its embassy amid civil war.\nFinally the U.S. has an ambassador \"on the ground\" in Somalia, he said, as new Ambassador Donald Yamamoto is in the capital, Mogadishu, full time.", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00240.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 135, + "original_length": 5176, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.96, + "perplexity": 235.0, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "https://www.kansalliskirjasto.fi/en/collections/ephemera-in-the-humanities-collection", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T04:13:30Z", + "digest": "sha1:2BHCKBEPG46NL34IBQHQZN2ITG7KRXQR", + "length": 958, + "nlines": 4, + "source_domain": "www.kansalliskirjasto.fi", + "title": "Ephemera in the Humanities Collection | National Library", + "raw_content": "Ephemera in the Humanities Collection\nMainly publications accrued through various donations have been added to the collection, but the collection contains also deposit copies from Finnish Autonomy. 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Specifically, I am interested in understanding children's prosocial behaviors and how cognitive and physical immaturity might be adaptive.\nWhat is Evolutionary Developmental Psychology?\nEvolutionary developmental psychology is the application of the basic principles of Darwinian evolution, particularly natural selection, to explain contemporary human development. It involves the study of the genetic and environmental mechanisms that underlie social and cognitive development, and the evolved epigenetic (gene-environment interactions) processes that adapt these competencies to local conditions. It assumes that children's behaviors and cognitions are also the product of natural selection pressures operating over the course of evolution. It further proposes that an evolutionary account would provide some insight into not only predictable stages of ontogeny, but into specific differences between individuals as well. This perspective suggests that there are multiple alternative strategies to recurring problems that human children would have faced throughout our evolutionary past and that individual differences in developmental patterns aren\u2019t necessarily idiosyncratic reactions, but are predictable, adaptive responses to environmental pressures.\nAdaptive Immaturity\nThe evocation of caretaking behavior from adults for the aid of a child is a critical task for survival given the dependent nature of infancy. Characteristics or behaviors promoting attention and caretaking are likely to be selected for as they are of potentially great benefit to the child. Perhaps the most obvious of immature physical characteristics with adaptive function is the general facial neoteny of infants, what Konrad Lorenz (1943) termed \u201cbabyness\u201d or the \u201cbaby schema\u201d. These facial features, such as a large head, high and protruding forehead, small nose and mouth, large eyes, and a round face convey immaturity not just in humans, but across species. Both adults and children use facial cues when making judgments of youthfulness, helplessness, and cuteness; however older children and adults are more consistent in their attention to immature features than young children. Furthermore, faces are a special class of stimuli with dedicated neurological processing and specific associated neurological disorders (such as prosopagnosia) increasing the likelihood that infants would be able to utilize this processing mechanism to their benefit in garnering care.\nViewing neotenous pictures is shown to increase behavioral carefulness in addition to eliciting higher ratings of cuteness and higher levels of self-reported motivation for caretaking behavior, with the effect for caretaking motivation being stronger in female participants. These influences of neoteny on adult behavior and motivations are likely important precursors to explicit caretaking behavior. A complimentary mechanism for garnering caretaking behavior from adults may be to also decrease aggression. Therefore, we propose that viewing infant faces is likely to decrease adult aggression more so than viewing the faces of adults or neutral stimuli.\nChildren's Altruistic Behavior\nThe ability to exhibit altruistic behaviors is considered one of the characteristics that distinguishes humans from other species, with further evidence from cross-cultural research showing that altruistic behavior is widespread across a variety of non-Western societies. Such findings have motivated research into the evolutionary reasons of why humans cooperate, why they exhibit a seemingly unparalleled capability for prosocial behavior, and why altruism even exists. Although most research on altruism from an evolutionary perspective has focused on adult behavior, a recent surge of studies regarding children\u2019s altruistic behavior has emerged.\nMy research examines these questions by measuring altruistic behaviors in 4-, 5-, and 6-year-old children using an anonymous dictator game paradigm. Children earn stickers by playing games and are then presented with the notion that they could donate, but are not obligated, to donate to another recipient. In an attempt to examine whether children donate differentially across recipients, children are put in a situation where they can donate to either an in-group member, an out-group member, and a family member. Preliminary results find that many children do not donate any stickers, regardless of recipient. Additionally, for the children who donate, in-group members receive significantly more stickers than out-group members. 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From Sarah, he had learned to value and respect his blood tides to the Dubois family. And like her, he felt tremendous loyalty to his white counterpart on the family tree. He and Eddie Grenville had grown up together, always knowing they were second cousins. As little boys they were playmates. When their families moved to Aiken during the war, they were teenagers hanging out together in the barn to escape the grown-ups. And as adults they were natural partners in their plans to turn the Aiken property into a successful business venture.\nBut Eli was also his father's son. He felt both tremendous loyalty to, and responsibility for, his African-American roots. He was outspoken in his defense of those who were brutalized because of the color of their skin, and brooked no nonsense from those who treated him with disrespect. The period of Reconstruction could have been as dangerous for him as it was for his father, if it were not for the tempering influence of his mother. She cautioned him to hold himself above the fray, and for the most part, he did so.\nEli will play an important role in \"Yankee Reconstructed\" when his loyalty to his white family comes into immediate conflict with his own racial identity.\nAs a side note, readers of \"Damned Yankee\" will remember that Eli had a younger sister named Rosie. She left the family at the end of the war to finish her education and then become a teacher on St. Helena Island. That effectively removed her from becoming involved in the events taking place in Charleston and Aiken during Reconstruction; thus the new book is not her story.", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00240.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 464, + "original_length": 7383, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.99, + "perplexity": 270.8, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "https://www.kdsaz.com/", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T03:17:45Z", + "digest": "sha1:KMUXISX7H7L4KALP4XU5GTB3GAXNSII2", + "length": 725, + "nlines": 4, + "source_domain": "www.kdsaz.com", + "title": "KDS", + "raw_content": "KDS provides advanced Engineering and Design solutions for a variety of industries. No matter the size or complexity of a project, the KDS team consists of professionals with the experience and skill sets needed to overcome any challenge. Utilizing the latest advancements in technology and training KDS can provide a level of service to any phase in the design and construction process. 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Over the past year, the college has strengthened its Nursing Program by hiring faculty with strong medical and surgical experience, adding more medical and surgical class and clinical time, and increasing use of the simulation lab to engage students in complex patient care scenarios.\nThese improvements led to the Nursing Program receiving its full, 10-year national accreditation from the American Association of Colleges of Nursing.\nVictoria Flood \u201918 is serving as a nurse at Dartmouth-Hitchcock in Lebanon, New Hampshire. She said her long-time dream of becoming a nurse came true because of her education at Keene State.\n\u201cWhen I was a freshman in high school, I knew I wanted to become a nurse. I was meant to study at Keene State; I couldn\u2019t have been happier with my education. From classroom instruction to practicing techniques in the simulation lab right on campus, I got exactly what I needed to be ready to start my career. Now, I get to do what I love \u2013 taking care of patients and ensuring they get the best care possible.\u201d\nCurrent students also gain the knowledge and on-the-job training they need to be ready to start their careers after graduation. Sydney McGough, a junior nursing major and member of Keene State\u2019s swim team, said, \u201cI am getting the right balance of classroom knowledge and skill development in the field. The classes are structured in a way that helps me learn the material, and I work in local facilities where I assist with daily activities, administer medications, and learn from nursing staff. My classmates and I collaborate and learn from each other. The professors want to see us succeed and they are there whenever I need help. Here, you\u2019re not a number, you\u2019re a student. I would like to be a labor and delivery nurse, and it\u2019s within my reach because I\u2019m a student at Keene State.\u201d\nLike all degree programs at Keene State, Nursing exposes students to material and experiences from across the academic spectrum.\n\u201cThe Nursing Program builds upon strong science, humanities, and arts foundations to educate future nurse leaders who will provide quality, compassionate, evidence-based healthcare,\u201d said Director of Nursing Patricia Shinn. \u201cProfessors help students develop the knowledge, skills, and attitudes essential to providing quality patient care and becoming leaders in the profession.\u201d\nMelissa Madsen, a 2018 graduate, is thrilled about her new nursing position at Hartford Hospital in Connecticut.\n\u201cI got the support I needed from my professors and peers to succeed. I wanted to be in a profession where people care, and they want to help others. I am so happy to be a nurse, and I\u2019m in my current position because of my education at Keene State.\u201d\nKeene State Nursing Students Hold Workshops at Keene Senior Center\nAlternative Spring Break Trip Leads to Job for Snyder\nCollege and Businesses Start Scholarship Program", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00240.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 68, + "original_length": 4236, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.96, + "perplexity": 270.0, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "https://www.keh.com/shop/canon-f1-instructions-1.html", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T03:12:43Z", + "digest": "sha1:OZXTYVXECAPLOXSUVK4EQTVGUOXRLECD", + "length": 251, + "nlines": 3, + "source_domain": "www.keh.com", + "title": "Canon F1 Instructions at KEH Camera", + "raw_content": "Canon F1 Instructions\nEarly Cover\nThis is the original manual which was released alongside the Canon F-1 at the time of its debut in 1971. Purchase an extra manual if you need more information about your camera's settings, features, or specifications.", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00240.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 353, + "original_length": 6063, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.94, + "perplexity": 244.7, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "https://www.kentucky.com/opinion/op-ed/article177198576.html", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T04:48:37Z", + "digest": "sha1:RIZT3O4ETXDFQA3KDXKVTNWPYDNC2RJA", + "length": 2170, + "nlines": 12, + "source_domain": "www.kentucky.com", + "title": "Don't blame mass shootings, gun violence on mental illness. People who have severe mental disorders are more likely to be victims than perpetrators of violent crime. | Lexington Herald Leader", + "raw_content": "When we talk about certain mental illnesses, such as mild depressive disorders, anxiety disorders or attention deficit disorder, you probably don\u2019t think about violence. Serious mental illness \u2014 like schizophrenia or bipolar disorders \u2014 are also not likely to cause violence. In fact, research shows that serious mental illness without substance abuse is totally unrelated to gun violence.\n\u201cResearch has shown that people with serious mental illnesses are actually at far greater risk of being victims of a wide variety of violent crimes than perpetrators,\u201d says psychologist David Susman, assistant professor in the University of Kentucky Department of Psychology and director of the Psychological Services Center and the UK Internship Consortium. People with severe mental illness are actually 11 times more likely to be the victim of a violent crime than people without severe mental illness.\nSo if mental illness doesn\u2019t explain violence, what does? There are identifiable factors that actually do predict the likelihood of gun violence, in general (these data apply to overall gun violence, not specifically mass shootings).\nResearch suggests the following four things predict the likelihood that a person will commit a gun-related crime:\n\u25aa A history of violence.\n\u25aa Access to guns.\n\u25aa Drug and alcohol use.\n\u25aa Personal relationship distress.\nIf we are serious about addressing gun violence, these are all factors that have policy solutions. While there is a clear need for more systemic change, increased access to mental health care and substance use treatment is a critical piece of the solution.\nMental health care is more than just helping people with mental illness. Psychologists and other mental health providers help people learn to cope with their distress without violence and substance use. Having the tools to manage anger and impulsivity can give some a crucial few minutes to change their mind before becoming part of our next national tragedy.\nBrighid Kleinman of Louisville is a licensed clinical psychologist and a member of the Kentucky Psychological Foundation\u2019s Public Education Committee. Email her at brighidmkleinman@gmail.com.\nBrighid Kleinman", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00240.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 90, + "original_length": 4778, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.94, + "perplexity": 308.8, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "https://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2015/09/treating-cancer-doing-nothing-is-also-a-choice.html", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T03:39:16Z", + "digest": "sha1:CN54FT5RSMWMJIE5KV3KX7WPUBWPD7IC", + "length": 3268, + "nlines": 16, + "source_domain": "www.kevinmd.com", + "title": "Treating cancer: Doing nothing is also a choice", + "raw_content": "Treating cancer: Doing nothing is also a choice\nJames C. Salwitz, MD | Physician | September 14, 2015\nAttached please find the medical records of Mr. Ron C., who is transferring medical care to your office. Ron is a 63-year-old gentleman with recurrent lung cancer, which has spread to his opposite lung and bones. There are multiple treatment choices for his disease, which we have discussed in detail. However, Ron is leaving my care, because he does not trust me.\nAs you are well aware, metastatic lung cancer is usually incurable. However, it may still be appropriate to treat this disease. In many patients, surgery, chemotherapy, radiation, or a combination of these treatments, can relieve suffering, increase performance and extend life. I discussed each with Ron. He was upset to learn that the treatment is palliative, by which I mean it will not cure, but he is motivated to begin therapy.\nHowever, I made a mistake in our relationship. Ron has not forgiven me.\nEvery patient should be made aware of all reasonable treatments. Therefore, I try to explain multiple options. I believe, especially when a patient has an incurable disease, that one of the options is to do nothing; no chemo or radiation or surgeon\u2019s knife. Just control symptoms, like pain, and live life, whatever remains. Do not try to treat the illness at all.\nWhy is \u201cdoing nothing\u201d a choice? First, cancer treatments have serious side effects and can make life miserable. In addition, even if the patient tolerates therapy well, it takes away precious time. For some people, drugs and doctors are not worth the marginal gain from toxic treatment. We also must not forget that cancer treatment can be very expensive and that one-third of American families will spend their last dollar on health care.\nIn the end, it is not my decision; it is up to each patient and family. Too many times patients are dragged away to receive therapy after therapy, until they are wasted, decrepit and dead.\nTherefore, I believe that every patient needs to hear the words, \u201cYou do not have to do anything. There is no law or rule requiring you to undergo aggressive therapy.\u201d\nThis is where I screwed up, and Ron went his separate way. Ron heard those words and said, to himself, \u201cDr. Salwitz is giving up on me.\u201d In that second, Ron\u2019s trust in me to stand by him, to fight for him, to be a doctor with his best interest in mind, was gone.\nI tried to explain that by giving him every choice, I was supporting him and guaranteeing that no matter what he decided, I would be there for him. I told him that what was most important was that he live on his own terms and that he do whatever was right, just for him. However, while I tried to say, \u201cYou have a choice,\u201d Ron heard, \u201cYou are done.\u201d\nPlease take good care of Ron. He is a warm, wonderful man and deserves the best care. The path he must walk is hard; may it be guided by his desire and your wisdom. I am sorry to have caused him even a small amount of sadness and pain. He deserves better.\nWhat does it mean when a patient calls a doctor by his first name?\nThe question doctors should ask before ordering a test\n< Previous post The cafeteria can tell you a lot about the hospital. Here\u2019s how.\nNext post > Medicine can still be noble. If we fight for it.", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00240.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 155, + "original_length": 7516, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.99, + "perplexity": 310.2, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "https://www.kgbreport.com/archives/2015/10/5/index.shtml", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T04:25:31Z", + "digest": "sha1:7C4X3IHTQKUOQVE7A6HV3AQC33GX66RA", + "length": 2157, + "nlines": 19, + "source_domain": "www.kgbreport.com", + "title": "KGB Report by Kevin G. Barkes - 2015-10-05", + "raw_content": "Quotes of the day: Anwar El Sadat\nPublished Monday, October 05, 2015 @ 4:15 PM EDT\nMuhammad Anwar El Sadat (December 25, 1918 \u2013 October 6, 1981) was the third President of Egypt, serving from 15 October 1970 until his assassination by fundamentalist army officers on 6 October 1981. Sadat was a senior member of the Free Officers who overthrew King Farouk in the Egyptian Revolution of 1952, and a close confidant of President Gamal Abdel Nasser, under whom he served as Vice President twice and whom he succeeded as President in 1970. (Click here for full Wikipedia article)\nI believe that for peace a man may, even should, do everything in his power. Nothing in this world could rank higher than peace.\nI was brought up to believe that how I saw myself was more important than how others saw me.\nIf human values were relative, all laws-whether those based on revealed religions or those devised by man-would become meaningless.\nIf you don't have the power to change yourself, then nothing will change around you.\nLand is immortal, for it harbors the mysteries of creation.\nMost people seek after what they do not possess and are enslaved by the very things they want to acquire.\nNo man can be honest with others unless he is true to himself.\nPeace is much more precious than a piece of land... let there be no more wars.\nReal success is success with self. It's not in having things, but in having mastery, having victory over self.\nSuffering crystallizes a soul's intrinsic strength; for it is through suffering that a man of mettle can come into his own, and fathom his own depths.\nThere can be hope only for a society which acts as one big family, not as many separate ones.\nThere is no happiness for people at the expense of other people.\nTo be gripped by fear is, I believe, the most degrading of all emotions for a human being. In fear personality disintegrates, the human will is paralyzed, and man acts as an automaton.\nTwo places in this world make it impossible for a man to escape from himself: a battlefield and a prison cell.\n(October 6 is also the birthday of Thor Heyerdahl and Shana Alexander.)\nCategories: Anwar El Sadat, Quotes of the day", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00240.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 96, + "original_length": 5080, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.98, + "perplexity": 210.0, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "https://www.komu.com/news/rep-giffords-to-resign-from-congress-this-week", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T03:51:21Z", + "digest": "sha1:6X7DWVDUCQF6ABR6SUHRNSPZ2HKO2NAR", + "length": 1998, + "nlines": 16, + "source_domain": "www.komu.com", + "title": "Rep. Giffords to Resign From Congress This Week", + "raw_content": "Rep. Giffords to Resign From Congress This Week\n7 years 3 weeks 4 days ago Sunday, January 22 2012 Jan 22, 2012 Sunday, January 22, 2012 12:46:00 PM CST January 22, 2012 in News\nWASHINGTON (AP) -- Rep. Gabrielle Giffords of Arizona announced Sunday she intends to resign from Congress this week to concentrate on recovering from wounds suffered in an assassination attempt a little more than a year ago.\nAccording to officials in Washington, her resignation, first disclosed on the congresswoman's Facebook page, is expected to take effect on Monday.\nThe Democratic congresswoman was shot in the head last January as she was meeting with constituents outside a supermarket in Tucson, Ariz. While her progress has seemed remarkable, she said she has more work to do to recover, and it is best from her state if she resigns her seat in the House.\nHer shooting prompted an agonizing national debate about super-charged rhetoric in political campaigns.\nIn a two-minute video posted to her Facebook page, Giffords says: \"I don't remember much from that horrible day, but I will never forget the trust you placed in me to be your voice.\"\nShe says, \"I'm getting better. Every day my spirit is high. I will return and we will work together for Arizona and this great country.\"\nUnder state law, a special election will be called to fill out the remainder of Giffords' term.\nIn a statement, House Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi of California said that \"since the tragic events one year ago, Gabby has been an inspiring symbol of determination and courage to millions of Americans.\"\nDemocratic officials had held out hope for months that the congresswoman might recover sufficiently to run for re-election or even become a candidate to replace retiring Republican Sen. Jon Kyl.\nHere's a look at the video posted from YouTube:\nGiffords in House For First Time Since Shooting\nGiffords to Visit Hometown of Tucson This Weekend\nUS Rep. Giffords Released from Houston Hospital\nGiffords Set to Undergo Skull Surgery", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00240.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 429, + "original_length": 15855, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.96, + "perplexity": 311.8, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "https://www.koorong.com/search/product/john-re-formatted-tyndale-new-testament-commentary-re/9781844742707.jhtml", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T04:14:59Z", + "digest": "sha1:LWJ554TS2QP3JVU6PEFU56W2H2FWGHCB", + "length": 2203, + "nlines": 7, + "source_domain": "www.koorong.com", + "title": "Buy John (Re-Formatted) (Tyndale New Testament Commentary Re-issued/revised Series) by Colin G Kruse Online - John (Re-Formatted) (Tyndale New Testament Commentary Re-issued/revised Series) Paperback: ID 9781844742707", + "raw_content": "Here is the Gospel of John, the \"beloved disciple.\"\nColin G. Kruse explains how the Gospel of John alone speaks of the Logos who was with the Father in the beginning, who came down from heaven, incarnate in the person of Jesus. In this respect John is unlike any of the other Gospels. In John, Jesus' message is presented mainly in terms of eternal life and resurrection and his teaching is frequently presented in long conversations, discourses and debates. Outstanding in this Gospel is the extensive teaching about the Holy Spirit. For all these distinctives, a study of John is not to be missed.\nThe Tyndale New Testament Commentaries have long been a trusted resource for Bible study. Written by some of the world's most distinguished evangelical scholars, these twenty volumes offer clear, reliable, and relevant explanations of every book in the New Testament.\nThese Tyndale volumes are designed to help readers understand what the Bible actually says and what it means. The introduction to each volume gives a concise but thorough description of the authorship, date, and historical background of the biblical book under consideration. The commentary itself examines the text section by section, drawing out its main themes. It also comments on individual verses and deals with problems of interpretation. The aim throughout is to get at the true meaning of the Bible and to make its message plain to readers today.\nAbout \"John (Re-Formatted) (Tyndale New Testament Commentary Re-issued/revised Series)\"\nDr Colin Kruse is lecturer in New Testament at the Bible College of Victoria. He came to BCV after 16 years at Ridley College. He has authored several books including New Testament Models for Ministry: Jesus and Paul (Marshall, Morgan and Scott); The Second Epistle of Paul to the Corinthians (Tyndale New Testament Commentary Series; IVP/Eerdmans); Paul, the Law and Justification (IVP/Hendrickson), and commentaries on The Letters of John (Pillar New Testament Commentary series; IVP/Eerdmans) and The Gospel according to John (Tyndale New Testament Commentary Series; IVP/Eerdmans), and Paul's Letter To The Romans (Pillar New Testament Commentary series; IVP/Eerdmans).\nSub-Category John", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00240.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 454, + "original_length": 15359, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.93, + "perplexity": 305.1, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "https://www.lancaster.ac.uk/luminary/issue%207/index.htm", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T04:34:55Z", + "digest": "sha1:XQADCHIFL27JEKLAHHPI4HA2SDYND5A6", + "length": 16350, + "nlines": 37, + "source_domain": "www.lancaster.ac.uk", + "title": "Issue 6: Visualizing Fantastika", + "raw_content": "Issue 7: Locating Fantastika\nLocating Fantastika\n\u201cFantastika\u201d \u2013 a term appropriated from a range of Slavonic languages by John Clute \u2013 embraces the genres of fantasy, science fiction, and horror, but can also include alternative histories, gothic, steampunk, young adult dystopian fiction, or any other radically imaginative narrative space. This issue features extended articles from the 2nd Annual Fantastika Conference: Locating Fantastika, held July 2015 at Lancaster University. The conference explored all areas of space, setting, and locations, either in the fictional world of fantastika or in fantastical networks with the real world.\nRead online by following the links below or download the full issue as a PDF.\nIntroduction to \"Locating Fantastika\"\nRuth Heholt, Falmouth University. Read>>\nResident Evil & Doorways: An Exploration of Transitional Spaces in Visual Culture\nHannah Boaden, University of Edinburgh\nDoorways have consistently been used as a structural device in visual culture. A strong correlation lies between doorways and the unknown potential of the space beyond the doorway. Particularly relevant to this correlation is the prospective emotional responses which arise as a consequence of the unknown. The production of Resident Evil (Anderson, 2002) as a development from the popular video game culminates in one of the most iconic action horror films in cinema. Beginning as a tool to disguise loading screens in the game, doors and doorways are transformed into a narrative device in the film. The film explores the theme of confinement and intrusion, with doors providing a crucial reference for transition between boundaries. These are also intrinsic in the cinematography and editing structure of the film in order to maximise emotional engagement of the audience. Doors are essential in wielding emotive power within the film, indicating the presence of concealed elements that may only be revealed by committing to the transition from one space to another. It is in consideration of these indeterminable factors that the spectator experiences trepidation. Not all doorways are met with such anxiety, and thus the significant component to recognise is that the new space threatens to alter the protagonist\u2019s current reality in a way that cannot yet be fully conceived. Resident Evil exemplifies this lack of control, establishing every scene with a doorway that could save, harm, deceive, surrender or resist at will, and therefore providing pivotal moments in the narrative. Perceiving the film in this way allows for a greater understanding of how our experience of space may evoke such emotions of dread and anxiety when no threat is yet apparent. This is important to regard before contemplating further complications from technological influences on our ability to observe environments. Read>>\n\u201cI didn't say it. Milton said it. And he was blind\u201d: Alan Moore, Neil Gaiman and Paradise Lost\nThomas Tyrrell, Cardiff University\nWith his epic poem Paradise Lost (1667) John Milton envisioned a dramatic universe that combined Christian theology with early modern science, and which had at its heart a vivid and strangely sympathetic antihero in the person of Satan. The influence of his writing on the novels of C.S. Lewis and Philip Pullman is well-known, but his influence on the comic book has been relatively neglected. Accordingly, this article traces the introduction of Miltonic motifs and references into the DC Universe, arguing that Milton\u2019s episode of the War in Heaven had already anticipated the Manichean narrative of the classic comic book. Beginning with Alan Moore\u2019s \u201cFootsteps\u201d in Secret Origins #10 and analysing in detail Neil Gaiman\u2019s character of Lucifer in The Sandman: Season of Mists, before concluding with a survey of their later successors, I examine the process of incorporating Milton\u2019s universe into the already extensive mythological framework of the DC Universe, following the line of influence from its high point in the nineties up to its present day nadir. By re-examining the seductive charisma of Satan and the arbitrary righteousness of God, Moore and Gaiman investigate the place of the human in the immortal drama, and whether it remains in any sense possible to justify the ways of God to man. Their work represents a sizeable contribution to Milton\u2019s place in contemporary culture as well as to the tapestry of legendary, alternate-historical, science-fictional, fantastical, original and derivate material that constitutes the DC Universe. Read>>\n\u201cThe other garden\u201d: Palimpsestic and Abject Faerie Spaces and Species in J. M. Barrie\u2019s and Arthur Rackham\u2019s Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens and Christina Rossetti\u2019s \u201cGoblin Market\u201d\nRachel Fox, Lancaster University\nThis article examines heterotopic faerie spaces as they are constructed within the texts of J. M. Barrie\u2019s Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens and Christina Rossetti\u2019s \u201cGoblin Market\u201d, paying especial attention to Arthur Rackham\u2019s illustrations for each text. I argue that heterotopic faerie spaces are composites, built out of the palimpsestic and abject characteristics evident in the narrative and material components of these works. With an emphasis on how written and visual renditions of faerie spaces and species are constructed within the texts\u2019 narrative, this article makes direct reference to a specific material copy of Kensington Gardens: an illustrated Edition-de-Luxe small quarto first edition, published by Hodder and Stoughton in 1910. The article begins with an exploration of the construction of \u201cthe other garden\u201d as that which constitutes faerie in Kensington Gardens, drawing from Michel Foucault\u2019s definitions of heterotopia in his essay \u201cOf Other Spaces: Utopias and Heterotopias\u201d. I then go on to consider the dangers which are associated with trespassing into this faerie space, and explore the threat posed by the equally desired and monstrous faerie species\u2019 that reside in \u201cthe other garden\u201d, a haunted and spectral location, both materially and narratively. Read>>\n\u201cStrange Ceremonies\u201d: Creating Imaginative Spaces in Bizarre Magick\nNik Taylor, University of Huddersfield\nThe Great God Pan (Raven, 1974) is a performance magic piece aimed at transporting the imagination of an audience out of the magician\u2019s study (where the piece is set) and into fictional realms of fantasy and horror. This type of work is known as Bizarre Magick and is an underground form of performance magic. Many of the pieces in this genre borrow from popular horror fictions and seek to locate Fantastika in everyday physical locations through the creation of a charged sense of space where illusion is played as real. This article examines how these effects, through storytelling, intricate props, and often complex methods, allow practitioners to draw heavily on fictionalised histories of science fiction, horror and the supernatural to create site-specific \u201cstrange ceremonies\u201d (Burger, 1991). These experiential theatrical pieces allow the magician (better described as the mage or sorcerer) to act as a facilitator guiding the guests/audience into imaginative spaces where fantastic fictions are made real. This article explores a number of these performance magic experiments and draws on the notion of the \u201cparaxial\u201d (Mangan, 2007) to examine how the performer relocates themselves and their audience in a performative grey area situated between illusion and reality. Read>>\n\u201cThe Kind of Woman Who Talked to Basilisks\u201d: Travelling Light Through Naomi Mitchison\u2019s Landscape of the Imaginary\nNick Hubble, Brunel University London\nThis article argues that Naomi Mitchison\u2019s Travel Light (1952) was the result of a long and protracted struggle to find a space in which to live and write outside of the patriarchal order. It begins by introducing the novella and then discussing Amal El-Mohtar\u2019s recent account of the effect that reading it in her early 20s had on her. In particular, El-Mohtar speculates on the difference it would have made to her if she had read Travel Light at age seven rather than The Hobbit. Following a brief consideration of the links between Mitchison and Tolkien, the article outlines Mitchison\u2019s various attempts to express an unconstrained female agency in the following novels: The Conquered (1923), The Corn King and the Spring Queen (1931), We Have Been Warned (1935), The Blood of the Martyrs (1939), and The Bull Calves (1947). Her non-fiction work The Moral Basis of Politics (1938) and her wartime diary for Mass-Observation are also discussed. The second half of the article argues that as a result of this struggle, Mitchison eventually found a position to write a female agency that would be true to itself by creating an alternative version of the Oedipus story in Travel Light, in which the protagonist is a woman. Threatened with abandonment on a mountainside at birth, Halla is rescued by her nurse and brought up in the wild by bears and dragons before being encouraged by Odin to \u201ctravel light\u201d. Analysis demonstrates how Mitchison subverts the standard model of the \u201cfull fantasy story\u201d, as outlined by John Clute, to enable Halla to break the Oedipal circle of patriarchy and remain free in the pre-symbolic landscape of the imaginary. Read>>\n\u201cA Tourist Guide to Bes\u017ael and Ul Qoma\u201d: Unseeing and the Re-interpretation of Psychogeography in China Mi\u00e9ville\u2019s The City and the City\nRob O'Connor, York St John University\nUrban environments feature heavily in the work of China Mi\u00e9ville, inspiring his world creation in a fundamental manner. The landscape of the city becomes a central character in its own right, constantly shifting and changing into new forms. Mi\u00e9ville takes the imagery of the city and plays with it, fusing the imaginative traits of genre fictions with the everyday to produce his own brand of urbanism that uses the fantastical as a lens with which to examine our own contemporary society. Mi\u00e9ville's exercise here could easily be interpreted as an act of psychogeography, what Merlin Coverley defines as \u201cthe point at which psychology and geography collide, a means of exploring the behavioural impact of place\u201d (Coverley, 2010). Out of all of Mi\u00e9ville\u2019s novel The City and the City (2009) most successfully demonstrates the fluidity of urban landscapes; introducing a topologically-challenging representation of the city. We witness the effect that the physical intertwining of these urban environments has upon the inhabitants. The central premise of Mi\u00e9ville\u2019s novel \u2013 \u201cUnseeing\u201d - plays a significant role within the narrative, encouraging critical thought regarding our own connection with urban landscapes. The concept of policed borders also engages the reader with political considerations and subtexts due to contemporary and historical conflicts involving land disputes and imperialistic motives. By analysing The City and the City closely, this paper will demonstrate how Mi\u00e9ville is using psychogeographical techniques as an intrinsic part of his world-building methodology within the novel and how this approach encourages the reader to consider their own socio-political engagement with contemporary urban landscapes. Read>>\nThe Dialectics of Documents: The Case of the Real and the Fantastic\nVladimir Rizov, University of York\nDocumentary photography deals with the visual imagination of social issues. I intend to demonstrate that documentary photography as a practice consists of both seen and unseen dimensions. In order to do so, I will utilise Walter Benjamin\u2019s dialectics of seeing and his concept of the dialectical image. To illustrate this theoretical work, I will draw on the photographic work of Charles Marville (1813-1879) and Eug\u00e9ne Atget (1857-1927). In particular, the historical Haussmann\u2019s urban restructuring of Paris which Marville documents will be contrasted with that of Benjamin\u2019s dream image. In so doing, the paper will demonstrate how the practice of framing in documentary photography not only captures a particular historical moment, but also is liable to reveal the underlying ambiguity in the depiction. I will analyse the empty urban landscapes of Atget and Marville in the changing Paris of late 18th and early 19th century as examples of the hidden aspects of a given historical moment. This demonstration will provide further insight into the nature of the document and the photographic \u2013 how they are constituted through time and practice, as well as how an image, although documentary, can be made to tell stories beyond the visible. Read>>\nRuth Heholt is a senior lecturer in English at Falmouth University. Her research concentrates on the supernatural, crime and sensation fiction. Her recent work has focussed on the Gothic, masculinity and haunted landscapes. She has edited a collection with Niamh Downing entitled: Haunted Landscapes: Super-Nature and the Environment (forthcoming, Rowman Littlefield, November 2016). She is editor of a new e-journal, Revenant: Critical and Creative Studies of the Supernatural: www.revenantjournal.com. She has recently published a scholarly edition of Catherine Crowe's 1847 novel The Story of Lilly Dawson, (Victorian Secrets Press, 2015) and is working on an edited collection entitled Gothic Britain with Professor William Hughes.\nHannah Boaden graduated in 2015 from Lancaster University with a first-class degree in (BA) Fine Art and is due to commence an MPhil in Art at the University of Edinburgh. Her study interests include: transitional structures, visual culture, temporal perceptions of spaces, and understanding human experience through the arts.\nThomas Tyrrell is writing a thesis called \u2018Remapping Milton: Spaces of Influence\u2019 at Cardiff University, but spent a considerable portion of 2015-6 on visiting fellowships at Chawton House Library, Hampshire and The Huntington Library, Pasadena. He usually writes about eighteenth-century poetry, but writing about graphic novels was very enjoyable, and he might do more of it in future.\nRachel Fox is a postgraduate student in the Department of English and Creative Writing at Lancaster University. She completed a BA (Hons) in English Literature and a MA in Contemporary Literary Studies at Lancaster in 2013 and 2014 respectively. Her doctoral research is focused on postcolonial feminist theory and writing, and deals with works across multiple mediums, including written, visual, and hybrid forms.\nNik Taylor is a is Subject Leader for Drama, Theatre and Performance at the University of Huddersfield. He is co-editor of The Journal of Performance Magic and coordinator of the Magic Research Group. As Mystery Entertainer, he specialises in Bizarre Magick, Sideshow, S\u00e9ance and Divination. He also co-curates Mr Punch's Cabinet of Curiosities a dark museum of weird and haunted artefacts the regularly exhibits across the country. He recently advised on Proper Job Theatre Company\u2019s Nosferatu, the Thackray Medical Museum\u2019s The Magic of Medicine exhibition and performed as part YMEDACA at the Yorkshire Sculpture Park. He is a member of the International Brotherhood of Magicians and The British Society of Mystery Entertainers.\nNick Hubble is a Reader in English at Brunel University London. They are the author of Mass Observation and Everyday Life (Palgrave Macmillan, 2006) and the co-editor of The Science Fiction Handbook (Bloomsbury, 2013). They have reviewed SFF for the Los Angeles Review of Books, Strange Horizons, Foundation and Vector.\nRob O'Connor is researching his PhD thesis at York St John University on the depiction of real and metaphorical landscapes in the work of China Mi\u00e9ville. His other research interests include genre studies and creative writing. He also teaches literature and creative writing at the Centre for Lifelong Learning, University of York and as a visiting lecturer at York St. John University.\nVladimir Rizov is a doctoral researcher in sociology at the University of York, United Kingdom. His research is on the practice of documentary photography, its history and its relation to the city; a key place in his research interests occupies the work of Walter Benjamin. Currently, his research focuses on the work Eug\u00e9ne Atget and the Haussmannisation of Paris.\nFront Cover art: \u201cHomage to Pratchett\u2019s Lancre Witches\u201d by Sam Robinson\nEditors of this Special Edition: Charul (Chuckie) Palmer - Patel and Chlo\u00e9 Alexandra Germaine Buckley", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00240.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 46, + "original_length": 16938, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.92, + "perplexity": 224.8, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "https://www.landmarkforumnews.com/london-times-article-about-landmark-education/", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T03:15:48Z", + "digest": "sha1:7KCI4V7GEGMMJL5BKLTC6BX2XA2KLPXT", + "length": 5177, + "nlines": 22, + "source_domain": "www.landmarkforumnews.com", + "title": "London Times Article about Landmark Education", + "raw_content": "London Times Article about Landmark Education\nRecently a London Times reporter did the Landmark Forum and wrote about her experience.\nFrom The Sunday Times December 17, 2006\nManaging my inner brat\nWhen Helen McNutt went on a personal development course, she was hoping for sympathy over her failed relationships. The truth was harder to take\nIt\u2019s Friday morning. It has been nearly three weeks since I finished with my boyfriend of five and a half years. I\u2019m at a seminar called the Landmark Forum, standing in front of a microphone in a room of 150 strangers, answering the questions of a bespectacled Australian called David. He has asked me what area of my life I want to change. I have answered \u201crelationships\u201d; specifically, that I don\u2019t want future ones to work out as my last one did. My boyfriend didn\u2019t love me, I said; also, he tried to control me.\n\u201cSo, Helen, give me an example of your boyfriend trying to control you,\u201d says David.\n\u201cWell, a few weeks ago \u2026 God, this sounds really stupid.\u201d\n\u201cDon\u2019t worry, it always does.\u201d\n\u201cOkay, so we were catching the train. I was starving and didn\u2019t have any money on me, so I asked him for 50p for a packet of crisps, and he said no. He didn\u2019t want me to get crisps because afterwards, I\u2019d moan I was fat.\u201d (Also, he thought we\u2019d miss the train \u2014 I leave this bit out.) \u201cThen what happened?\u201d \u201cI got really angry because he was trying to control me.\u201d\n\u201cThen what?\u201d \u201cErm, I stole his Mars bar.\u201d\nFrom the crisp incident, we unpick my relationship, which involves \u2014 you guessed it \u2014 going back to my childhood. I tell David about my dad, who worked ridiculously hard when I was young and who I felt I didn\u2019t see much of. Whenever he was around, I resented him telling me what to do. But the way I framed it, he was never there and he didn\u2019t love me. In my head, I\u2019d grown up hating the feeling of being dominated, and associated it with people not loving me.\nAs we talk this through at the seminar and I answer some more questions, it dawns on me that I\u2019ve been playing out the relationship I had with my dad with my boyfriend.\n\u201cI\u2019ve been a brat, haven\u2019t I?\u201d David nods and hands me some tissues.\nThis is not what I expected. Most personal development work is about making you realise how great you are. It seems someone forgot to tell this to Landmark. I am made to realise that neither my boyfriend nor my dad ever stopped loving me \u2014 that was just my interpretation. One of Landmark\u2019s key tenets is that most of the stuff that happens means absolutely nothing in itself \u2014 we add meaning to it. The meaning we give is largely based on what happened to us during our childhood; it\u2019s rarely grounded in reality. I therefore take my boyfriend\u2019s \u201cno\u201d to mean, \u201cI don\u2019t love you\u201d. Realising that I am a brat, a seven-year-old girl stuck inside a 27-year- old\u2019s body, is surprisingly liberating.\nNow, I know about relationships. I make my living writing about them. I speak to experts, read their books and go to their seminars. I know that nobody can be more or less than 50% responsible for a relationship, that falling in love is just hormones, and that the only way to make a relationship work long-term is to re-create it moment by moment. I thought I\u2019d applied all this wisdom to my own relationship, but I realised I had only talked about it.\nSo, I call my ex-boyfriend. I tell him I\u2019m sorry, that I\u2019ve been a brat and that I love him. He agrees, and tells me he is still angry with me. Then I call my dad and say the same things: he is lovely about it.\nDuring the rest of the seminar, we work through other issues. We uncover the traits that have made us successful and those that have held us back. And we work out what stories we\u2019ve been telling ourselves that have been running our lives for us. It\u2019s not hugging your inner child. It is acknowledging that what happened when you were young shaped you into who you are today. And then getting over it.\nWhen you begin to examine your behaviour in a rigorous way, you see that things you always thought were \u201ctheir fault\u201d are at least partly yours. Although this is initially uncomfortable, it is also empowering \u2014 victims can\u2019t change things, perpetrators can. So, throughout the weekend I\u2019m back on my mobile, contacting friends, ex-friends, family, even my dad\u2019s ex-fianc\u00e9, cleaning up the past and letting these people know I love them. Scary? Yes, but the people I speak to are delighted.\nA few days later, I meet up with my ex. We sit down, and, as you do in post-relationship analysis, he begins to go through everything I did wrong. I now understand that I am just as responsible as he is for the breakdown of our relationship, that he did love me and that he was a saint to put up with as much as he did. Instead of \u201cyeah, buts\u201d, I simply nod and apologise. I don\u2019t want to go back \u2014 all the seminars in the world won\u2019t alter the fact that we\u2019 re not right for each other \u2014 but the last thing we say to each other is, \u201cI love you.\u201d That seven-year- old girl? She\u2019s finally been put to bed.\nOne thought on \u201cLondon Times Article about Landmark Education\u201d\nPingback: Huffington Post Reporter Reviews The Landmark Forum : Landmark Education News About Landmark Forum Graduates", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00240.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 126, + "original_length": 15352, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.98, + "perplexity": 282.8, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "https://www.latimes.com/entertainment/arts/culture/la-et-cm-chinese-bowl-auction-20130320-001-photo.html", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T04:06:16Z", + "digest": "sha1:XVU4DUAT5WWJA6Q7CNXR2AWBSTONQMIJ", + "length": 256, + "nlines": 5, + "source_domain": "www.latimes.com", + "title": "Sotheby's auction - LA Times", + "raw_content": "ENTERTAINMENT ARTS & CULTURE CULTURE MONSTER\nSotheby's auction\nA rare \"Ding\" bowl from the Song dynasty in China sold for $2.2 million at a Sotheby's auction.\nSotheby's Holdings Incorporated\nChinese bowl bought for just $3 sells for $2.2 million at auction", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00240.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 18, + "original_length": 556, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.85, + "perplexity": 299.3, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "https://www.latimes.com/entertainment/arts/la-et-cm-music-center-rita-moreno-20160628-snap-story.html", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T04:03:34Z", + "digest": "sha1:3XIONYQX7ABDV5VPZWDRHFJOMGBKI7OT", + "length": 1802, + "nlines": 9, + "source_domain": "www.latimes.com", + "title": "Music Center to honor Rita Moreno at Summer Soir\u00e9e - Los Angeles Times", + "raw_content": "Rita Moreno is photographed in Beverly Hills in 2013. (Jay L. Clendenin / Los Angeles Times)\nRita Moreno, whose career has spanned an Academy Award-winning turn as the hotheaded Anita in 1961's \"West Side Story\" to her role as Liliana De La Vega on the CW's \"Jane the Virgin,\" will be honored at the Music Center of Los Angeles' inaugural Summer Soir\u00e9e next week.\nThe veteran actress-dancer-singer, 84, will receive the Excellence in the Performing Arts Award \"for her revolutionary efforts to help redefine the role of women in the arts,\" the Music Center said.\nThe Puerto Rican-born, Bronx-raised Rosa Dolores Alverio made her Broadway debut at age 13 in \u201cSkydrift.\u201d In 2014, she told the Los Angeles Times that at the start of her film career at MGM in the early 1950s, she was quickly typecast in the exotic, dark-skinned \u201cdusky maiden\u201d role. \u201cThe house ethnic,\u201d she called it.\n\"I should have had this little kit with a shoe box that had dark Egyptian pancake makeup, two hoop earrings and an ankle bracelet,\" Moreno said.\nRita Moreno is the recipient of a Music Center award. (Austin Hargrave)\nToday, she is one of only 12 EGOTs \u2014 performers who have won an Emmy, Grammy, Oscar and Tony. She won Emmys for \"The Muppet Show\" and \"The Rockford Files\" in the late 1970s, a Grammy for 1972's \"The Electric Company Album\" and her Tony for 1975's \"The Ritz.\"\nThe July 7 Summer Soir\u00e9e will be a celebration of female artists: American Ballet Theatre principal dancers and Southern California natives Misty Copeland and Stella Abrera will perform choreographer Alexei Ratmansky's \"Firebird\" during the event, which will include live music and dancing in Grand Park afterward. 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College Outdoors offers trips for everyone from newbies to experienced adventurers, ranging from one day to one week long. We provide access to the spectacular outdoor environments of the Pacific Northwest and beyond through organized activities including cross-country skiing, backpacking, whitewater sports, sea kayaking, and hiking.\nThere\u2019s more to College Outdoors than just trips. Their robust leadership program provides a structured way to build skills that apply indoors and out. 90% of students go on at least one College Outdoors trip.\nPortlanders love any excuse to be outside, even when they\u2019re sticking close to home.\nTryon Creek State Park (located right next to Lewis & Clark)\nThe Pacific Northwest contains some of the most spectacular and well-maintained scenic areas in the United States.\nGifford Pinchot National Forest (including Mount St. Helens)\nOregon Dunes National Recreation Area (on the Oregon coast)\nSki or snowboard? Mount Hood is just an hour away from Portland. Among the ski areas on the mountain, Timberline has the longest ski season in America\u2014and Ski Bowl is the largest night skiing venue in the country. 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Her book Practicing Skills, Strategies, & Processes: Classroom Techniques to Help Students Develop Proficiency provides explicit steps for teaching students to use new knowledge and processes swiftly and accurately.\nMore than 20 years ago, Kelly Harmon, MEd, began teaching. Her first class was composed of at-risk learners. That began a life-long passion for increasing all student achievement with a very special focus on those students most at risk. Her two decades of experience and passion have led her from teaching to leadership roles to her position at Learning Sciences International, where she makes a difference in students\u2019 lives every day by supporting teacher effectiveness. 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The underscored terms set forth below shall have the respective meanings indicated for purposes of this Lease:\nBase Rent. The term \"Base Rent\" means the base rental, defined as such and set forth in Article 4.\nCommencement Date. The term \"Commencement Date\" means the date on which the Term commences, defined as such and set forth in Article 2.\nExcluded Personal Property. The term \"Excluded Personal Property\" means any and all furniture, fixtures, equipment and other personal property, including without limitation, replacements and substitutions therefor, and all leases thereof and all rents, revenues, income, profits, royalties, deposits and proceeds therefrom, now or hereafter owned, leased or used by or through Tenant and/or any Excluded Property Party and their respective successors, assigns, and /or transferees.\nExcluded Property. The term \"Excluded Property\" means the Improvements, Pre-Existing Improvements and all Excluded Personal Property.\nExcluded Property Party. The term \"Excluded Property Party\" means Tenant, any person or entity occupying or using any part of the Improvements or Premises by or through Tenant (or its lessees, successors or assigns) and/or any person or entity holding an ownership or security interest in any Excluded Property.\nGross Profits . The term \"Gross Profits\" means all rents, income and profits arising from leases, permits or agreements relative to the use of the Premises and/or Improvements by Tenant, Landlord (or its affiliates) or by third parties.\nImpositions. The term \"Impositions\" means the taxes, assessments and other rates, levies and governmental charges, defined as such and set forth in Article 5.\nImprovements. The term \"Improvements\" means the buildings and improvements now located on the Land, or hereafter constructed or erected on the Land, including all improvements that were either constructed by Landlord as agent for and for the account of Tenant or by or through Tenant for Tenant's own account in accordance with the Plans and Specifications in anticipation of the Lease, as well as any future additions, replacements, or alterations thereto, and any attachments, appliances, equipment, machinery, and other fixtures attached to said buildings and improvements or otherwise located on the Premises other than the Pre-Existing Improvements.\nLand. The term \"Land\" means the parcel of land described in Exhibit A attached hereto and by this reference made a part hereof and the easements, rights, and other appurtenances now or hereafter appurtenant to, benefiting or serving such parcel including the land lying in the bed of any street, alley or highway in front of, within or adjoining the land described in such Exhibit but not including any Improvements or Pre-Existing Improvements.\nLandlord. In addition to the meaning ascribed to the term \"Landlord\" in Section 20.5 here of the term \"Landlord\" means the Landlord named herein and any person, firm, corporation or other legal entity who or which shall succeed to Landlord's legal and equitable fee simple title to the Land (any such successor to be conclusively deemed to have assumed the obligations of \"Landlord\" herein by virtue of such succession).\nLandlord Mortgage. The term \"Landlord Mortgage\" means any mortgage granted or made by Landlord to grant to a Landlord Mortgagee a security interest in Landlord's interest in the Premises and/or in this Lease and shall include whatever security instruments are used in the __________ metropolitan area to secure such interests including without limitation, financing statements, security agreements, mortgages, deeds of trust, and any other documentation required to so secure such interest.\nLandlord Mortgagee. The term \"Landlord Mortgagee\" means the holder or secured party under a Landlord Mortgage.\nLeasehold Mortgage. The term \"Leasehold Mortgage\" means any leasehold mortgage granted or made by Tenant to grant to a Leasehold Mortgagee a security interest in Tenant's leasehold interest in this Lease and shall include whatever security instruments are used in the __________ metropolitan area to secure the mortgagee's interest in the leasehold interest of Tenant under this Lease without limitation, financing statements, security agreements, mortgages, deeds of trust, and any other documentation required to so secure such interest.\nLeasehold Mortgagee. The term \"Leasehold Mortgagee\" means the holder or secured party under a Leasehold Mortgage.\nLease Year. The term \"Lease Year\" means each successive twelve month period during the term commencing on the Commencement Date.\nPermitted Encumbrances. The term \"Permitted Encumbrances\" means only the encumbrances described in Exhibit B hereto.\nPlans and Specifications. The term \"Plans and Specifications\" means the plans and specifications dated ______________ prepared by __________________ for the project.\nPre-Existing Improvements. The term \"Pre-Existing Improvements\" means any improvements located on the Land at such time as the Landlord acquired title to the Land (e.g., sewer lines).\nPremises. The term \"Premises\" means the Land and any Pre-Existing Improvements.\nTenant. In addition to the meanings ascribed to the term \"Tenant\" in Section 20.5 hereof, the term \"Tenant\" means the Tenant named herein, and any person, firm, corporation or other legal entity to whom or to which Tenant's interest in this Lease shall be assigned.\nTHE DEMISE FOR THE TERM\nSection 2.1 Demise. Landlord hereby leases to Tenant the Premises situated in the City of ____________ , County of __________ , State of _________, and described more fully in Exhibit A attached hereto and by this reference made a part hereof.\nTO HAVE AND TO HOLD the Premises unto Tenant and its successors and assigns, from the Commencement Date and continuing thereafter for the remaining term of this Lease (the \"Term\").\nSection 2.2 Term. The parties acknowledge and stipulate that the Commencement Date of the Term occurred on ______________ , and that Tenant unconditionally accepted the Premises on such date. Unless otherwise renewed or sooner terminated as provided herein, the Term shall continue until, and expire at, 11:59 p.m., Eastern Standard Time, on ____________ (the \"Expiration Date\"). As used herein, \"Term\" or \"term\" shall mean the initial 99 year term and any Renewal Term under Section 2.4 hereof.\nSection 2.3 Lease Not Terminable Except as Provided Herein. Except as otherwise expressly provided for herein, this Lease shall not terminate, nor shall Tenant be entitled to any abatement, diminution, deduction, deferment, or reduction of rent, or set-off against the Rent, nor shall the respective obligations of Landlord and Tenant be otherwise affected by reason of any damage to or destruction of the Premises by whatever cause; any taking by eminent domain or eviction by paramount title (except to the extent this Lease is effected by operation of law); any lawful or unlawful prohibition of Tenant's use of the Premises; any interference with such use by any private person, corporation, or other entity; any default or breach of any warranty by Landlord under this Lease; any inconvenience, interruption, cessation, or loss of business, or otherwise, caused directly or indirectly by any present or future laws, rules, requirements, orders, directions, ordinances, or regulation of the United States of America or of the state, county or city government, or any other municipal government or lawful authority whatsoever or by priorities, rationing, or curtailment of labor or materials or by war or any matter or thing resulting therefrom; or for any other cause whether similar to or dissimilar from the foregoing, any present or future law to the contrary notwithstanding, it being the intention of the parties that the obligations of Tenant hereunder shall be separate and independent covenants and agreements and that the Rent and all other payments to be made by Tenant hereunder shall continue to be payable in all events unless the obligations to pay the same shall be terminated pursuant to the express provisions of this Lease.\nSection 2.4 Option to Extend Term. Tenant shall have the option to extend the Term for one (1) additional period of ninety nine (99) years (the \"Renewal Term\"). In order to exercise this option to extend, the Tenant must so notify Landlord in writing not later than twelve (12) months prior to the end of the initial Term. All terms and conditions of this Lease shall remain in full force and effect during the Renewal Term, except for Base Rent, which shall be adjusted as provided in Section 4.1 hereof.\nSection 2.5 Option to Purchase Premises.\n(a) Tenant shall be entitled to elect, and Landlord hereby grants Tenant the option, to purchase the entirety of the Premises, to be exercised at any time during the term of this Lease on not less than sixty (60) days and not more than twenty-four (24) months' prior written notice to Landlord, at a price equal to the Fair Option Value (defined below) determined as of the date of exercise of the option. Tenant's notice of exercise of the option shall be deemed and shall constitute an irrevocable acceptance by Tenant of Landlord's irrevocable offer to sell and convey the Premises to Tenant.\n(b) If Tenant shall exercise its option to purchase the Premises, the closing on such option and the conveyance by Landlord to Tenant of the Premises (the \"Closing\") shall take place on such date designated by Tenant in its notice of exercise but no later than two (2) years after the date of exercise of the option. In the event Closing shall be scheduled to occur after expiration of the Term, the Term shall be automatically renewed on a month-to-month basis until Closing occurs, on the same terms and conditions as are then in effect, including the scheduled adjustment of Base Rent under Section 4.1. On the date of Closing, Landlord shall convey the Premises to Tenant or its designee in the amount of the Fair Option Value determined as of the date of exercise of the option. Landlord shall convey to Tenant by quit claim deed, all right title and interest, if any, of Landlord in and to the Improvements, and shall further convey to Tenant the Premises by special warranty deed , covenanting and warranting against claims of Landlord or those claiming by, through or under Landlord, and transferring marketable fee simple absolute title to the Premises, subject only to this Lease, to all state of facts an accurate survey would show, to taxes and assessments, to zoning regulations and public rights of way, the Permitted Encumbrances and to other encumbrances placed of record with the consent of Tenant; provided however, Landlord shall have no duty to discharge any lien or encumbrance created by, through or under Tenant, but Landlord shall cause any and all mortgage or deed of trust liens affecting Landlord's fee ownership of the Premises to be paid and discharged at Closing. Landlord shall also execute and furnish Tenant with a standard \"owner's affidavit\" so as to enable Tenant to obtain an owner's policy of title insurance at Closing, without exception, as to Landlord's acts only, for mechanic's liens, rights of parties in possession and such other matters as may be covered under the standard title company affidavit for owners. In connection with the closing or incidental to the conveyance of the Premises, Tenant shall pay any and all recording costs, and Landlord and Tenant shall each pay one-half of any escrow fees charged by Tenant's title insurance company and closing escrow agent, but otherwise Landlord and Tenant shall pay their own respective costs. At the option and election of Tenant to be exercised in writing at the closing, the Lease may be terminated effective as of the conveyance of the Premises. There shall be no adjustments for real estate taxes and assessments or for any other costs or charges payable by Tenant under the Lease. Closing shall occur at the offices of a national title company designated by Tenant located in __________ County. All other closing matters shall be handled in accordance with the standard closing practices of the title company.\n(c) For purposes of this option to purchase the Premises, it is expressly understood and agreed that the term \"Fair Option Value\" shall mean the greater of (x) $_____________ or (y) Fair Market Value of Landlord's title to the Land comprising part of the Premises with such Fair Market Value of the Land to be determined as if the Land were not improved and were unencumbered by this Lease. Tenant's estimate of the Fair Market Value shall be supported by a written appraisal prepared by an appraiser who is an Member of the Appraisal Institute (\"MAI\") having not less than fifteen (15) years experience in the appraisal of commercial real estate in __________ County. In the event Landlord shall not agree with the Fair Market Value as so determined by Tenant's appraiser, Landlord shall so notify Tenant in writing within thirty (30) days from receipt of Tenant's advice as to the Fair Market Value (such notice to include a written appraisal prepared by an MAI appraiser having not less than fifteen (15) years experience in the appraisal of commercial real estate in __________ County. If Landlord and Tenant are unable to reach agreement within thirty (30) days after the date of Landlord's response to Tenant, then the issue of Fair Market Value shall be submitted to binding arbitration conducted in accordance with the Commercial Arbitration Rules of the American Arbitration Association (\"AAA\") or a similar arbitration mechanism if AAA is no longer in existence. Each party shall pay the fees and expenses of its appraiser and one-half the fees and expenses of the arbitrator.\nSection 2.6 Mandatory Purchase by Tenant. In the event either of the following events provided in this Section 2.6 occur during the first ten (10) years of the Term (a \"Put Event\"), Landlord may at its option, require Tenant to purchase the Premises at the applicable Put Price by notifying Tenant of such requirement at any time within sixty (60) days following a Put Event (a \"Put Notice\"). In such event, Tenant and Landlord shall close on such purchase on a date to be mutually determined by the parties but in any event no earlier than sixty (60) days after such Put Notice or later than one hundred twenty (120) days after such Put Notice. In the event the parties cannot or do not agree on a date for such closing, such closing shall occur on the date that is one hundred twenty (120) days after the Put Notice or the next business day thereafter. 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The final bill for cremating a person is usually far lower than the cost of arranging a burial because you do not have to pay for the land, its preparation and then the long-term upkeep.\nAcross all of America cremations are rapidly increasing as the most popular choice of interment and it is predicted that over 50% of people will choose cremation within the next 20 years or so. An exact and full price list will be passed to the person organizing the cremation so that you fully understand all of the cremation costs in La Quinta, CA.\nWhy Do People Choose Cremation in La Quinta, CA?\nWhen you have experienced standing around a graveside as the body is lowered into the earth, it is an experience that many prefer to forget. The very different, and less dramatic experience of attending a cremation, focuses more on the person who has died rather than the events organized by La Quinta, CA cremation services.\nSome religions will only accept a cremation as the only option for interment and this will be explained by cremation services in La Quinta, CA. In the past, other religions would not accept a cremation as an alternative, but in modern times, the majority of religions are completely accepting of the cremation method being used.\nWere you to cast a survey, you would find that modern cemeteries are regarded as extremely sterile and lacking of great character and if you live in a colder area, a grave is a difficult place to visit because of the weather, especially the snow and even more so in a northern state. This explains why many people look at the La Quinta, CA cremation costs and choose it as their best option\nIn the majority of states, you can care for the deceased at your own home, but the majority of people will prefer that cremation services in La Quinta, CA will undertake the facility.\nLa Quinta, CA cremation services will explain that the body of the deceased is placed into a container which can be a coffin or casket, but a simple and suitable container is all that the law requires. At the crematorium, the employees will remove jewelry and medical devices, like pacemakers, to reduce the safety hazards for the cremation process. An efficient tagging system is used so that the individual can always be properly identified.\nThe individual will be cremated in the furnace at temperatures between 1400?F and 2000?F during the course of 2 to 3 hours, when the body will be reduced completely to fine powder, mostly a grey color. These are the ashes that are then returned to the nominated person as part of the cremation costs in La Quinta, CA.\nAll of the options related to the memorial service will be carefully discussed with La Quinta, CA cremation services.\nThe La Quinta, CA cremation costs will detail whether the crematorium will be supplying a standard urn to return the ashes to you or whether you have opted to purchase a model for display which you may decide to use for a number of years.\nThe individual is always cremated alone, so you can rest assured that the ashes being returned to you are always correct and all of the procedures will be explained in detail by La Quinta, CA cremation services.\nReligious Questions in La Quinta, CA\nSome religious groups will require for a cremation to be completed inside 24 hours after the death of the person. This will be arranged by the funeral director and included within the La Quinta, CA cremation costs, once all of the legal documentation is complete.\nThere are so many things that you need to think about after someone has died so you should not be worried about leaning heavily on the skills and experience offered by La Quinta, CA cremation services.", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00240.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 99, + "original_length": 8654, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.95, + "perplexity": 304.0, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "https://www.leonardcohenforum.com/viewtopic.php?p=367548&sid=b4486e4a64fd6e2307407f28208cc4b6", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T03:43:56Z", + "digest": "sha1:ZXCSZB3S6SBWHCHMYX6MTVLLD4QHOYLR", + "length": 19719, + "nlines": 154, + "source_domain": "www.leonardcohenforum.com", + "title": "MONTREAL: More information for the members - Page 5 - leonardcohenforum.com", + "raw_content": "MONTREAL: More information for the members\nPostby Gitte \u00bb Thu Nov 02, 2017 12:07 am\nI just felt over this: Leonard got the Felix Award 30/11 :\nhttp://www.iheartradio.ca/chom/trending ... -1.3394877\n2008: Nice/ 2010: Marseille / 2012 Copenhagen, Paris x 2. / 2013: Paris, Lucca, Odense, Stockholm, Rotterdam, Amsterdam.\nPostby JaneBK \u00bb Thu Nov 02, 2017 12:10 am\nThe \u201c members only\u201d preview of the MAC exhibition is Weds. Nov. 8 at 6:00 pm. I called today since I had not received an email notice yet.\nI saw that Sharon Robinson is going to be a performer at the exhibit. I\u2019m wondering if she will also be at the preview.\nPostby Eva \u00bb Thu Nov 02, 2017 1:59 am\nThis is the email MAC sent today to members. So vernissage is on Wed. at 7 pm. Free visit in afternoon. Members CAN bring one guest!\nLe pr\u00e9sident du Mus\u00e9e d'art contemporain de Montr\u00e9al, Alexandre Taillefer, ainsi que le directeur g\u00e9n\u00e9ral et conservateur en chef, John Zeppetelli, ont le plaisir de vous inviter \u00e0 l'ouverture de l'exposition\nLeonard Cohen : Une br\u00e8che en toute chose/A Crack in Everything\nLE MERCREDI 8 NOVEMBRE \u00c0 17 H\nChaque membre peut venir accompagn\u00e9 d\u2019un invit\u00e9.\nAVANT-PREMI\u00c8RE EXCLUSIVE AUX MEMBRES\nLe mercredi 8 novembre, jour du vernissage,\nle MAC ouvre ses portes d\u00e8s midi pour les membres seulement !\nVisite libre pour les membres\nTables rondes avec les artistes*\n14 h (en fran\u00e7ais)\n15 h 30 (en anglais)\n*Pour assister aux tables rondes, procurez-vous votre\nbillet gratuit \u00e0 la billetterie du Mus\u00e9e avant l\u2019\u00e9v\u00e9nement.\nQuantit\u00e9 limit\u00e9e, 4 billets par personne maximum.\n\"There is a crack in everything, that's how the light gets in\"\nanothermarianne\nPostby anothermarianne \u00bb Thu Nov 02, 2017 11:26 am\nRe the exhibition: Did I get it right that only members of the MAC have admission to preview or vernissage? Not members of the Forum if we I if I have not bought a vip-package? I will join the bus tour and the dinner at Moishes on Sunday and I have a ticket for the consert on Monday (no package). I plan to visit the exhibition on Friday next week when open to the public. Going home to Sweden on Saturday 11th of November. Any other Cohen events during the week open to members of this Forum?\nPostby MarieM \u00bb Thu Nov 02, 2017 12:14 pm\nanothermarianne wrote: \u2191\nOnly members of the MAC are invited to the November 8th preview. Membership is $45 CAD. http://macm.org/en/general-information/macarte/\nOnly folks who purchased a VIP or Welcome package with their concert ticket can attend the preview on November 6 and November 7.\nPostby MarieM \u00bb Thu Nov 02, 2017 9:20 pm\nSome of you may remember that there was talk of an app that would provide a walking tour of Leonard's Montreal. Here is some info from an article from CBC.\nTo coincide with the exhibition opening, CBC has created a free walking tour of Cohen's Montreal which will be available to download on the Detour app, starting Nov. 9.\nNarrated by Montreal singer-songwriter Martha Wainwright, the audio tour takes listeners from the 1950s caf\u00e9s where Cohen wrote his earliest poems to Parc du Portugal, just steps from the famous duplex that was his Montreal home for decades.\nLeonard Cohen's son promises 'perfect cast' of artists at upcoming concert\n'Tower of Song' memorial tribute to be broadcast on CBC Radio 2 on Nov. 7, anniversary of Cohen's death\nBy Elysha Enos, CBC News Posted: Nov 02, 2017\nFans of beloved poet and singer-songwriter Leonard Cohen are converging on Montreal from all over the world as Nov. 6 approaches \u2014 the date for a star-studded celebration of Cohen's music, Tower of Song: A Memorial Tribute to Leonard Cohen.\nThe homage concert, at Montreal's Bell Centre, will be broadcast across Canada on CBC Radio 2 the night following the concert, on the anniversary of Cohen's death, Nov. 7, beginning at 8 p.m.\nThe list of artists is still not complete.\n\"The complicated thing has been trying to limit the [number] of artists on stage. Because we don't have until Christmas, it's just one night,\" said Cohen's son, Adam.\nHoning down dream list of artists\nAdam Cohen said he and his team came up with about 20 songs they knew had to be performed, and then they contacted their dream list of artists.\n\"We ended up calling hundreds of people to get to the perfect cast,\" Adam said.\n\"We had all these coloured postcards on a wall, and we kept moving them. It was very exciting, actually.\"\nThat list of artists includes B\u00d8RNS, C\u0153ur de pirate, Elvis Costello, Lana Del Rey, Feist, Philip Glass, k.d. lang, Sting \u2014 and many more.\nAside from the radio broadcast and coverage on CBC.ca, CBC Television is also scheduled to air the show on Jan. 3, 2018.\nIt was Leonard Cohen's wish that any public commemoration be carried out in his hometown, and a tribute concert seems a perfect fit.\nCohen had long said he enjoyed hearing other artists interpret his work.\nHe told CBC in 2008 that he found his own voice \"very limited,\" and it left him feeling that the music was somehow unfulfilled.\n\"To fulfil it and manifest it so beautifully and so skillfully means a lot to me,\" Cohen said.\nAround that time a Montreal International Jazz Festival tribute to him was in the works, and Cohen said the fact that a tribute concert was taking place in Montreal, a place he knew so well, was \"a great privilege, a great honour.\"\nGiving back to young Canadian artists\nProceeds from the Tower of Song concert are going to three arts-granting bodies: the Canada Council for the Arts, the Conseil des arts et des lettres du Qu\u00e9bec, and the Conseil des arts du Montr\u00e9al.\nThese arts councils helped sustain Cohen financially in his 20s when, despite his publishing success, he still couldn't make enough money to survive as an artist.\nIn 1959, he received a grant from the Canada Council which funded a trip to Europe that ended in Hydra, Greece.\nIt was in Hydra that he bought a house, wrote, and met his muse, Marianne Ihlen.\nA week of Cohen events\nNov. 6 is also the day Montreal's Mus\u00e9e d'art contemporain (MAC) is opening its doors to CBC for an exclusive sneak peek of its long-planned exhibition Leonard Cohen: A Crack in Everything.\nCBC Montreal will be offering a tour of the exhibition on its Facebook page and website Monday afternoon.\nCohen biographer Sylvie Simmons, the author of I'm Your Man, will also be at the MAC Monday for an interview the public is invited to attend. More information is available here.\nThat interview will air on CBC Radio One Nov. 12 at 3 p.m. ET during a special episode of Writers and Company with Eleanor Wachtel.\nThe MAC exhibition opens to the public Nov. 9.\nPostby clive cass \u00bb Fri Nov 03, 2017 12:53 am\nPostby MarieM \u00bb Fri Nov 03, 2017 7:31 am\nhttp://www.cbc.ca/mediacentre/press-rel ... onard-cohe\nCBC/RADIO-CANADA CELEBRATES THE LIFE AND LEGACY OF GLOBAL ICON LEONARD COHEN WITH SPECIAL TRIBUTE PROGRAMMING ON ALL PLATFORMS\nMontreal, Nov. 2, 2017 \u2013 Canada\u2019s public broadcaster is proud to unveil a slate of special programming in tribute to Leonard Cohen, the Montreal-born writer, composer, performer and man of letters, on the one year anniversary of his death. The announcement comes ahead of the opening of the exhibition Leonard Cohen: Une br\u00e8che en toute chose / A Crack in Everything, presented by CBC/Radio-Canada at the Mus\u00e9e d\u2019art contemporain (MAC).\nCBC/Radio-Canada will broadcast Monday\u2019s star-studded tribute concert at the Bell Centre in Montreal,Tower of Song: A Memorial Tribute to Leonard Cohen, the next day, Tuesday, Nov. 7 at 8 p.m. (8:30 p.m. NT) on CBC Radio 2, CBCMusic.ca, ICI MUSIQUE and ICIMusique.ca. The commemorative event, with all proceeds going to the Canada Council for the Arts, the Conseil des arts et des lettres du Qu\u00e9bec and the Conseil des arts de Montr\u00e9al, will feature renowned artists including B\u00d8RNS, C\u0152UR DE PIRATE, ELVIS COSTELLO, LANA DEL REY, FEIST, PHILIP GLASS, K.D. LANG, BETTYE LAVETTE, COURTNEY LOVE, DAMIEN RICE, SETH ROGEN, RON SEXSMITH, STING, PATRICK WATSON, WESLEY SCHULTZ & JEREMIAH FRAITES OF THE LUMINEERS and ADAM COHEN. The concert will also be televised onWednesday,Jan. 3, 2018 at 8 p.m. (8:30 p.m. NT) on CBC and ICI RADIO-CANADA T\u00c9L\u00c9.\nThe world of Leonard Cohen explored in a brand new documentary\nCBC/Radio-Canada\u2019s partnership with the MAC exhibition will include broadcast of a documentary exploring Leonard Cohen\u2019s impact on an entire generation of artists. Directed by Kaveh Nabatian and entitledA Crack in Everything / Une br\u00e8che en toute chose, the film features the local and international artists who contributed to the exhibition along with their works inspired by the Bard of Montreal\u2019s imagination and legacy. It will premiere on ICI ARTV Nov. 13 at 9 p.m., on ICI RADIO-CANADA T\u00c9L\u00c9 Dec. 12 at 9 p.m., and subsequently made available on demand for one year on ICI TOU.TV. Additionally, CBC Documentary Channel will air the documentary on Dec. 3 at 9 p.m. and CBC Montreal throughout Quebec on Dec. 27 at 7 p.m. . A series of companion video vignettes, also directed by Nabatian, will be available via CBC Arts and Radio-Canada\u2019s digital platforms. The Corporation made all of its archive materials on Cohen available to the artists taking part in this major exhibition.\nA mobile app to explore Cohen\u2019s Montreal\nAdmirers of the iconic singer-songwriter, artist and poet can immerse themselves in his world with a downloadable application called Detour. Available via CBC.ca/cohen as of Nov. 9, two mobile tours will lead users through the Montreal neighbourhoods that inspired Leonard Cohen\u2019s novels, poems and music. Narrated by singer-songwriter Martha Wainwright, Leonard Cohen\u2019s Neighbourhood and the Leonard Cohen Extended City Tour on the Detour app will take strollers from the sites of the 1950s caf\u00e9s where Cohen wrote his earliest poems to Parc du Portugal, just steps from his final home in the city.\nLeonard Cohen in words and music on CBC/Radio-Canada\u2019s multiple platforms\nIn addition to these initiatives, CBC/Radio-Canada\u2019s many platforms will feature a variety of content devoted to the artist.\nCBC Radio has a special lineup of programs exploring Leonard Cohen\u2019s monumental body of work. Leading up to the tribute concert in Montreal, host Raina Douris will take Radio 2 Morning listeners through The Essential Tracks of Leonard Cohen, beginning Nov. 3 at 8:30 a.m. (9 a.m. NT). Later that evening, Radio 2 Drive will air a one hour Deep Dive special at 6 p.m. (6:30 p.m. NT) exploring songs from Cohen\u2019s 1967 debut Songs of Leonard Cohen.\nCBC Radio One will present a special episode ofWriters and Company with Eleanor Wachtel, which includes an interview with Sylvie Simmons, the biographer behind I\u2019m Your Man \u2013 La vie de Leonard Cohen at the Mus\u00e9e d\u2019art contemporain in front of a live audience on Nov 6. At 1p.m. (Tickets available at the Museum. Free Admission) It will broadcast on Nov. 12 at 3 p.m. ET & AT, 3:30 p.m. NT, 5 p.m. PT, MT & CT.\nOn Radio-Canada, ICI MUSIQUE will present a web radio stream dedicated exclusively to Cohen, along with special programs highlighting the singer/songwriter\u2019s impact and influence on an entire generation of musicians. All content will be atICIMusique.ca/leonardcohen. A special all-Cohen edition ofOn dira ce qu\u2019on voudra will air on ICI RADIO-CANADA PREMI\u00c8RE on Nov. 7 at 8:30 p.m. In his life as well as his work, Leonard Cohen was a great traveller. Host Rebecca Makonnen and her team of contributors will explore various Montreal neighbourhoods in the company of musicians Adam Cohen and Martha Wainwright, visual artist Armand Vaillancourt, and writer/researcher Chantal Ringuet. The digital on-demand radio service Premi\u00e8re PLUS will be mining a treasure trove of interviews and archival materials at Radio-Canada.ca/premiereplus.\nOn television, the Nov. 6 broadcast of Les grands reportages on ICI RDI , at 8 p.m., will feature Mesdames et messieurs, M. Leonard Cohen (Ladies and Gentlemen, Mr. Leonard Cohen), a 1965 documentary that paints an unconventional black-and-white portrait of the 30-year-old Cohen, then known mainly as a poet, strolling the streets of his native Montreal. In its Artistes en vedette time slot on Monday, Nov. 13, ICI ARTV will pay tribute to the artist beginning at 9 p.m. with the documentary Leonard Cohen: A Crack in Everything, followed at 10 p.m. by Leonard Cohen en concert \u00e0 Londres (Leonard Cohen: Live in London), and concluding at 11:30 p.m. with a repeat of Mesdames et messieurs, M. Leonard Cohen.\nCBC Montreal, CBC Arts ' online feed and CBC Arts: Exhibitionists will feature a selection of new and archival stories that complement the concert, including exclusive commissioned material from Mus\u00e9e d\u2019art contemporain exhibit Leonard Cohen: Une br\u00e8che en toute chose / A Crack in Everything.\nThroughout November, CBC Montreal will have special digital and social content including a sneak peek inside the Leonard Cohen: Une br\u00e8che en toute chose / A Crack in Everything exhibit at the Mus\u00e9e d\u2019art contemporain (MAC), artist interviews, Facebook live, live blog, Cohen quiz and a digital feature exploring the artist\u2019s lasting impact on Montreal.\nCBC Music will share 80 reasons to love Leonard Cohen, A Map of Cohen\u2019s Montreal and other new and archived Cohen content across the CBC Music homepage and social channels.\nWith this rich array of content and initiatives unfolding on all of its platforms, CBC/Radio-Canada is exceedingly proud to present cross-Canada celebrations of the life and work of the late Leonard Cohen, a truly singular artist whose words and music continue to resonate all over the world.\nPostby AlexandraLisping \u00bb Fri Nov 03, 2017 9:48 am\nI purchased one of the Bronze packages, which includes advance admission to the LC exhibition at the MAC and some other benefits. But all I have are my tickets to the show itself. How do I redeem/collect the other benefits I paid for? Should I have received an email with information? Is there a link I can go to?\nI'm traveling to Montreal from Portland, Oregon and don't want to miss anything if I can help it!\nThanks in advance for anything anyone can tell me.\nSadly, we are still trying to answer this question. We were promised emails would be sent out on Tuesday, then Wednesday, and Thursday. It is now Friday and we are still waiting.\n1) Try to follow the Forum while in Montreal. We will post any info we receive.\n2) Print out your receipt showing that you paid for a Bell Center ticket and a package. As of now, take your receipt and your ticket to the museum preview. The museum has suggested your Bell Center ticket will get you in as there is a notation of the package purchased on it. However, this is problematic because welcome packages are not shown on the ticket. -- Marie\nSeattle 2009, Portland 2012\nPostby MarieM \u00bb Fri Nov 03, 2017 3:48 pm\nHere is the information for the VIP packages and Welcome Packages, including the museum preview info. Scroll down to read the letter that pertains to the package you purchased.\nGOLD & SILVER VIP LOUNGE PACKAGES\nWe're delighted that you will be joining us for this unique event\nSHOW INFORMATION & SCHEDULE\nShow Date: Monday, November 6th\nCheck-In Address: 1275 Saint-Antoine West (corner de la Montagne)\nCheck-In Hours: 4:00 PM to 7:30 PM\nPre-show Lounge: 6:00 PM to 7:30 PM\nCrowd-Free Merchandise Shopping: 6:00 PM to 6:30 PM\nDoors open to Public: 6:30 PM\nAfter-show Lounge: 30 minutes from end of concert\nAll timing is subject to change\nLocation: La Mise au Jeu Restaurant [see map: https://www.google.com/maps/d/viewer?mi ... 99998&z=17].\nAt VIP Check-In, you will receive your exclusive Gold or Silver Package including one\ncommemorative laminate, one specially-designed Leonard Cohen lithograph and one\nspecially-designed merchandise item made exclusively for the VIP package, and a\nsouvenir event poster.\nPlease note: Merchandise cannot be shipped after the event.\nLa Mise au Jeu Restaurant\nfrom 6:00 PM to 7:30 PM, during intermission and for 30 minutes after show\nBeer, wine and non-alcoholic beverages\nIMPORTANT NOTE ABOUT YOUR TICKETS\nPlease make sure to bring your tickets with you. If your ticket delivery method is set to\nwill call, please make sure to pick up your tickets from the box office prior to arriving at\nWill begin at 6 PM\nClients must be checked-in and present at the VIP check-in area at 5:45PM\nLatecomers will miss the early entry opportunity\nMAC EXHIBIT ACCESS\n- Clients will have access to the Mus\u00e9e d\u2019art contemporain exhibit on either November 6th or\n7th, from Noon to 5 PM\n- GOLD, SILVER, BRONZE and VIP PREMIUM clients will be admitted upon presentation of\ntheir concert ticket.\n- WELCOME TO LEONARD COHEN\u2019S MONTREAL purchasers will be sent an e-ticket which\ncan be used to access the MAC exhibit\nBRONZE VIP & VIP PREMIUM SEAT PACKAGES\nLocation: 1275 Saint-Antoine West (corner de la Montagne) [see map: https://www.google.com/maps/d/viewer?mi ... 99998&z=17].\nAt VIP Check-In, you will receive your exclusive Bronze or Premium Package\nincluding one specially-designed Leonard Cohen merchandise item made exclusively\nfor the VIP package and a souvenir event poster.\nClients must be checked-in and present at the VIP check-in area 5:45PM\nWELCOME TO LEONARD COHEN\u2019S MONTREAL PACKAGE\nAt VIP Check-In, you will receive your exclusive Welcome to Montreal Package\nincluding one commemorative laminate, one specially-designed Leonard Cohen\nlithograph and one specially-designed Leonard Cohen merchandise item made\nexclusively for the VIP package, a souvenir event poster and a souvenir programme (in\nlieu of photo montage)\nwill call, please make sure to pick up your tickets from the box office prior to\nBrilliant, thanks Marie.\nTwo remaining questions:\nIs this correct, Welcome Package is \"claimable\" only day of concert starting at 4:00? If so, seems like one would have to either return to hotel to drop off items, or carry them around before, during, and after concert. Couldn't pickup be allowed earlier (ie, noon)?\nAlso, now it says Welcome Package people will receive an e-ticket for the MAC exhibit. Is this e-ticket required, or can we use a printout of Evenco ticket order showing payment for Welcome Package? (I ask because no e-ticket has been received thus far.\nTry to find yout e-ticked here:\n- log on to www.evenko.ca (with your registered email address and password)\n- click on your name up on the right\n- select \"Orders\"\nPostby AlexandraLisping \u00bb Sat Nov 04, 2017 1:34 am\nThank you, Marie! This is very helpful.\nchengyichan\nPostby chengyichan \u00bb Sat Nov 04, 2017 7:49 pm\n\" LeDevoir,\" the French Newspaper in Canada, has a reportage on the Cohen Memorial Week in Montreal in their culture section page 1 and page 5. It is also available on their online page: http://www.ledevoir.com/culture/actuali ... en-la-muse. The reportage covers all the main celebration events in the next few months, including a dance, \"Dance me,\" a show presented by Ballets jazz de Montr\u00e9al (BJM), from December 5 to December 9, 2017. I have not noticed this event mentioned in the forum. According to the coverage, it should be a dance, accompanied by the songs of Leonard Cohen. For more details, please see: http://www.sonycentre.ca/calendar-event-details/?id=356. When I googled for the dance event, I found an ad for another dance event, presented by the Grand Ballets in Salle Wilfrid-Pelletier, Place des Arts, Montreal, from June 7th To 9th, 2018. They will include a tribute to Leonard Cohen and dance to Cohen's songs, sung by 60 children from the choir Les Petits Chanteurs du Mont-Royal. For more details, please see https://grandsballets.com/en/performanc ... sVEALw_wcB. It seems that the tribute to Cohen in Montreal will continue \"to the end of love.\" Since there is no cure for love and thereby there is no end of love, anyone who does not live in Montreal considers moving to Montreal?", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00240.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 488, + "original_length": 29763, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.89, + "perplexity": 315.4, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "https://www.lezbelib.com/tag/ab1887", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T04:35:55Z", + "digest": "sha1:NMMDDIGPYIQCFV33DOUV6YVYRMT5GC5X", + "length": 188, + "nlines": 2, + "source_domain": "www.lezbelib.com", + "title": "Tag - AB 1887", + "raw_content": "California Bans All Sponsoring And Funding Of States With Anti-LGBTQ Laws\nCalifornia now prohibits state-funded and state-sponsored travel to states that discriminate against LGBTQ people.", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00240.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 44, + "original_length": 939, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.93, + "perplexity": 334.2, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "https://www.liberal.ca/remarks-by-justin-trudeau-on-physician-assisted-dying/", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T03:52:40Z", + "digest": "sha1:EYSAT5XQKCUCGCGZJ3G7O7VLGSTYB4EX", + "length": 6523, + "nlines": 26, + "source_domain": "www.liberal.ca", + "title": "\u00bb Remarks by Justin Trudeau on the Liberal Opposition Day motion on physician-assisted dying", + "raw_content": "Remarks by Justin Trudeau on the Liberal Opposition Day motion on physician-assisted dying\nJustin Trudeau \u2022 February 25, 2015\nEarlier this month, the Supreme Court of Canada issued a landmark judgment, striking down the ban on physician-assisted death. Their decision was not only unanimous \u2013 it was unambiguous.\nFor adults who are mentally competent but suffering \u201cgrievous and irremediable medical conditions,\u201d the Court ruled that the current prohibition in the Criminal Code \u201cinfringes the right to life, liberty and security of the person in a manner that is not in accordance with the principles of fundamental justice.\u201d\nThe court has ruled, and now it is up to us, as legislators, to act.\nDeath, and all the ways it affects our lives, is not an easy topic to discuss. In recent weeks, I have had several sensitive conversations with individuals who applaud the court\u2019s decision and with individuals who condemn it.\nOur responsibility is to create new legislation, even though the process may be difficult and may make some people uncomfortable. We are here to speak for our constituents. We must have the debate, despite how difficult it might be. We must make difficult decisions, and Canadians are aware of this.\nThe Supreme Court\u2014perhaps taking into account the contentious nature of this process\u2014judiciously set a deadline and gave us one year to draft legislation on physician-assisted death. Given this is such a deeply personal and controversial issue, one year is hardly enough. We are not talking here about an insignificant amendment to a minor law. When Quebec decided to begin drafting its own legislation on physician-assisted death, there were four and a half years between creating a new multi-party committee and passing the legislation. During those four and a half years, one full year was spent on holding hearings and public consultations, as well as proposing and debating amendments.\nIt took four and a half years in the Quebec National Assembly, including one full year of consultations and debate. The Supreme Court has given us 12 months, which is reasonable, but with the summer recess and the fall election, that gives barely more than 12 sitting weeks for us parliamentarians. That gives us enough time to do this, but no time to waste.\nToday, we are putting forward a motion that calls on the House of Commons to take immediate action. We are asking that:\n\u201c\u2026a special committee be appointed to consider the ruling of the Supreme Court; that the committee consult with experts and with Canadians, and make recommendations for a legislative framework that will respect the Constitution, the Charter of Rights and Freedoms, and the priorities of Canadians;\u201d\nAs the Hon. Member for Charleswood \u2013 St. James \u2013 Assiniboia has noted, the Supreme Court\u2019s decision has \u201cgiven us a clear path\u201d to \u201cmove forward quickly but thoughtfully.\u201d There is no advantage to delaying debate. Indeed, given the timeline offered by the Supreme Court, if this House has any intention of addressing this issue before the next election, those consultations must begin immediately.\nWhen I asked the Prime Minister about this last week, he said in the House of Commons that physician-assisted death is a sensitive topic for many Canadians, and there are strong opinions on both sides. That is fair. I have a strong opinion. It is based on my personal experience, when I sat by my father in his final moments of life. I know that we must respect personal freedoms and choice while ensuring as a society that the most vulnerable among us are protected.\nI believe that the Supreme Court made the right decision and that our laws must be consistent with its ruling because that is the right thing to do. That is my opinion, anyway. We have to hear what others have to say about this.\nLast week, the Prime Minister himself indicated that he agreed. He said that we will \u201chold broad consultations on all aspects of this difficult issue.\u201d Today, we can begin to keep that promise.\nQuebec\u2019s experience shows us, reassuringly, that respectful and responsible deliberation is possible. It reminds us that when political parties set aside their differences in service of the public good, cooperation can follow. Consensus can be found. Even on an issue as complex and sensitive as end-of-life care.\nBut if we do nothing, if we don\u2019t get this important national debate underway soon, Canada will find itself without any laws governing physician-assisted death. That kind of legislative vacuum serves no one: not people who are suffering, not their anxious family members, not the compassionate physicians who offer them care.\nIn the legal challenges leading up to the Supreme Court decision, one thing was constant: no one wanted to break the law. What they were asking for \u2013 and what the Supreme Court has now compelled us to provide \u2013 is a law that spells out the limitations on physician assistance to Canadians who wish to die with dignity.\nThe Supreme Court ruling applies to competent adults whose enduring suffering is intolerable and who clearly consent to physician-assisted death. Even within the scope of these provisions, Canadians have diverging opinions, as the Prime Minister remarked. Canadians have firmly held values. Whether those values are based on religious convictions, personal experience or professional experience, these voices deserve to be heard.\nIn order for us to have a respectful and responsible discussion on this important issue, we need to have enough time to hear from Canadians and listen to people who are concerned by this legislative measure, their families and medical and legal experts.\nPart of this ruling calls for an honest look at the quality of care already being provided. Do Canadians who are suffering feel adequately supported by their community? Do they have equitable access to quality palliative care?\nWe need to have a national conversation on dying with dignity. That conversation needs to include how we care with empathy and respect for those who are suffering at the end of their lives.\nMr. Speaker, the court provided a deadline. It is our job to take it seriously, to act quickly but thoughtfully and to live up to our shared responsibilities as legislators. I ask every Member to reflect on that responsibility today and encourage them to support this motion.\nThe Court has spoken. 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As a physiotherapist I work closely with tennis players of various levels throughout the year and probably the most common injury we see is to the shoulder.\nThe majority of shoulder pain is diagnosed as a shoulder impingement by a GP, but what exactly does this mean? In my opinion \u2018impingement\u2019 is somewhat of an incomplete diagnosis. It is such an umbrella term covering a multitude if different problems that it is almost comparable to taking your car to the garage with an oil leak for a mechanic to tell you that you have an oil leak! That\u2019s fine, but what you really want to know is why and what is causing it so that it can be fixed. This is the same with a shoulder impingement. To be told that you have shoulder impingement is basically someone confirming you have shoulder pain. I\u2019m pretty sure you knew that before you attended the appointment. What you want to know is what is causing it and therefore what can you do to fix it.\nThe shoulder is an inherently unstable joint. If you were to give a specification to an engineer to design a strong, mobile, biomechanically efficient and functional joint the outcome would probably be almost the complete opposite to the shoulder that we all possess.\nSo what are the downfalls?\nFirstly, both the ball and socket of your shoulder move; a definite disaster for any hope of stability. Obviously as you lift your arm the ball moves in the socket but also, during this same movement, the socket, which is part of your shoulder blade is also moving to keep the ball centred inside it. This is something like a seal moving to keep a ball balanced on its nose whilst the ball is also moving. To add to this there are 6 main muscles, which act on the shoulder blade, which incidentally just floats on your rib cage with no attachments to improve its hope of stability. These muscles are therefore the only thing keeping the shoulder blade in position and must work in complete harmony for the shoulder to move at all. Any imbalance in these muscles (tightness, weakness etc) will therefore wreak havoc with a shoulder.\nSecondly, when you hear \u2018ball and socket joint\u2019, you envisage a nice deep cup with a ball jammed in it\u2026. Unfortunately this is the next big problem. The shoulder joint is far from this! Picture a golf tea with an egg balanced on it and now turn this 90 degrees and you are closer to the truth! There is a rim of cartilage in an attempt to deepen the socket and the joint is under negative pressure in order to suck the ball into the socket but this still means that yet again the shoulder sacrifices stability in preference of mobility. This makes it even more incredible when you watch serves fly across the court at over 140 mph! Due to its shape the shoulder relies quite heavily on 4 smaller muscles called your rotator cuff (teres minor, supraspinatus, infraspinatus and subscapularis) to keep the ball inside the socket regardless of the position of your arm.\nShoulder impingement has long been thought to be trapping of the rotator cuff muscles in the bony archway under the shoulder blade. What we know is that this is nearly always caused by a biomechanical failing. The following are the most common reasons for this mechanism:\nWeakness of the rotator cuff muscles and therefore a reduced ability to centre the ball inside the socket\nImbalance of the muscles acting on the shoulder blade meaning that it is unable to move correctly to maintain the centre of the ball inside the socket\nStiffness in your thoracic spine (upper back) that affects the position of the ball and socket and therefore ability of the muscles around the shoulder to function correctly\nHopefully, understanding the biomechanics and inbuilt inefficiencies of the shoulder will make it easier to understand why the above problems are all detrimental to the health of your shoulder. Most shoulder impingements occur after a period of over use for example playing in a hard tournament or working on a serve repeatedly.\nIn effect what happens is that you have one of the above root causes, which doesn\u2019t give you any problems at all until you increase the demand on your shoulder and suddenly you upset the apple cart and develop pain. Hopefully you can see then, that should impingement is an outcome of a problem rather than the cause of it, and therefore as I said earlier a very poor diagnosis, if a diagnosis at all.\nTreatment for shoulder impingement should always be conservative in the first instance. As shown above, successful outcome requires you identify the biomechanical inefficiency and correct it. Luckily, this is something that physiotherapists are very good at! Steroid injections can reduce pain and inflammation but won\u2019t solve the problem as a stand-alone intervention. The same is true for surgical options. More room can be created for your rotator cuff to prevent \u2018impingement\u2019 by shaving away some bone, but unless the biomechanical problems are also addressed then current evidence suggest that there is perhaps as much benefit in immobilizing your arm in a sling for 6 weeks and resting as there is to undergoing surgery. If you have been diagnosed with a shoulder impingement by any professional then I would definitely challenge which factors are contributing to this to allow for successful treatment.\nWe are set up to fail with a poorly designed (for efficiency) shoulder that sacrifices stability for mobility\nUnderstanding the biomechanics of the shoulder is key to understanding shoulder impingement\nWe demand high levels of function from our shoulder, which is probably not best designed to cope with repeated overhead actions like a tennis serve.\nLearn to love your rotator cuff muscles, you have a lot to thank them for and keeping them strong and healthy and not shocking them with sporadic activities will mean they keep your shoulder functioning beautifully.\nSeek physiotherapy assessment if you are having shoulder pain that doesn\u2019t improve after a week as early treatment if far quicker and easier than undoing long standing muscle imbalances.\nHannah Dacre", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00240.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 96, + "original_length": 8047, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.96, + "perplexity": 334.7, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "https://www.linda-seeds.com/en/buy-autoflowering-marijuana-seeds/quick-one-royal-queen-seeds?osCsid=579c03868bb985b68ffed5433654f599", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T03:19:09Z", + "digest": "sha1:V5YYVIWUBOUKVYCMSYE62VRSAJDVFOXK", + "length": 1536, + "nlines": 2, + "source_domain": "www.linda-seeds.com", + "title": "Quick One cannabis seeds - buy online at linda-seeds.com", + "raw_content": "Quick One is a fast-growing autoflowering strain. 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Some plants may take up to 9 weeks to be fully mature, but that\u2019s still pretty quick. Especially when you consider that some varieties of cannabis can take up to 20 weeks just to flower. Quick One is a small, compact plant. Generally, it will not grow any taller than 50 to 60 cm. If grown well, it can yield up to 150 g per plant, and some growers have achieved even more. The plants have a fresh, herbal, almost citrus-like aroma. 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The MTC will consist of four fully networked mission simulators designed for immersive mission training. Scheduled for delivery in 2018 and 2019, the MTC will upgrade current capability by adding state-of-the-art avionics systems, replacing the existing F-16 mission simulators in Taiwan.\n\u201cThe F-16V Peace Phoenix Rising MTC is built on proven and cost-effective common hardware and software designs that enable L3 Link to deliver a solution tailored to meet Taiwan Air Force training requirements,\u201d said Lenny Genna, President of L3 Link Simulation & Training. \u201cThese high-fidelity devices will enable a large part of F-16 pilot training to be conducted using simulators, saving the Taiwan Air Force both time and money, while producing a better fighter pilot.\u201d\nThe Taiwan Air Force\u2019s F-16V MTC supports basic pilot, pilot conversion and advanced skills training. Using state-of-the-art simulators, pilots will practice takeoffs, landings, low-level flight and emergency procedures. The MTC gives pilots the ability to conduct mission-level team training, as well as the ability to acquire and identify targets, while accurately delivering a wide range of ordnance.\nEach simulator in the F-16V MTC has a dedicated instructor/operator station (IOS) integrated with L3 Link\u2019s SimuSphere\u00ae HD 9-facet visual system display, giving pilots a 360-degree field-of-view. The simulators also feature a high-definition database and image generation systems to create realistic and relevant training environments.\nL3 Link Simulation & Training is a world leader in providing platform operators and maintainers with total training solutions that improve training effectiveness and efficiency and lower life-cycle costs in a secure cyber environment. L3 Link\u2019s innovative solutions provide a full spectrum of state-of-the-art training technologies, including high-fidelity immersive simulations, distributed academic and interactive courseware, Day and Night Vision Goggle (NVG) training, and L3 Link\u2019s simulated Joint Helmet Mounted Cueing System. The company, headquartered in Arlington, Texas, has delivered military and commercial training systems to customer locations throughout North America, Europe, Asia, the Middle East and the Pacific Rim. 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Thanks to everyone who voted!\nIt's the Blogger Book Fair Reader's Choice Awards!\nGhostwriter is in the Paranormal Romance category, and I've got some stiff competition against more than a dozen awesome authors who are also part of the Fair.\nAs a reminder, Ghostwriter is only $4.99 over at the TWCS Bookshop, but the price only lasts until the end of the Fair. I'm also running a giveaway of a free copy.\nThe End of All Things is in the Dystopian and Romance categories! I'm stoked to be in both of them.\nMy friends Alexandra Allred, T.M. Franklin, Sydney Logan, and Allie Jean are also nominated. Alexandra's Damaged Goods is nominated in the Drama and Humorous, Satire categories, and T.M.'s More is in the Paranormal Romance category, Suspense, Thriller and Young Adult. Sydney Logan's Lessons Learned is in the Romance category, as well as Allie Jean's Legacy of a Dreamer. Man, it's hard to choose!\nThe cool thing about this? All the books I mentioned are only $4.99 at the TWCS Bookshop for the duration of the Fair!\nFree Stuff Alert!\nMy giveaway of a free copy of Ghostwriter and The End of All Things.\nT.M. 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There are many different types of glass materials that can be used in the construction of windows, glass doors, cabinets or even shower enclosures. Modern homeowners want their houses to look stunning and unique, and this is made possible through the utility of glass for the construction of doors, windows and exterior walls. It is a modern type of transparent plastic that is used in the construction of houses as an alternative to normal glass.\nOne primary characteristic that puts the plexiglass and normal glass apart is their clarity and rate of light absorption. Plexiglass and acrylic glass can let about 90% of light pass through which is more compared to what the standard glass can allow passing through. With standard glass, the thicker it is, the less light can pass through. This is different from the plexiglass and acrylic glass since more thickness cannot affect the amount of light that passes through. It remains the same just like one sheet of plexi. The increased popularity of the material over regular glass will be discussed in depth in this article.\nsource: http://naruseiya.net\nDifferences Between Plexiglass And Standard Glass\nReflections on surfaces that are made of glass are common. However, glass materials have a higher rate of glaring than the plexiglass. Glare can sometimes be uncomfortable especially if you are looking at the glass surface directly. This is a feature which makes standard glass not to be used in the construction of aquariums. The glare formed when a light is directed on the standard glass surface would create an unpleasant sight. Aquariums need thick glass which also makes it easy to view inside. When the glass cannot allow the people from outside to view inside the aquarium, it is uncomfortable and unattractive. With the plexiglass, there is no glare formed. Designers use the plexiglassas a material suitable in the construction of aquariums. With the plexiglass, you can see through the aquarium even when they are thick.\nsource: https://www.ya-too.com\nComparing standard glass with plexiglass and acrylic glassthat offer similar benefits, the glass option will be much cheaper than the latter. Mostly, the costs differences would be calculated based on the thickness and size of the glass, the antiglare coatings added among other features. However, the quality of plexiglass and the benefits that it has to offer makes it more expensive than the standard glass. Additionally, besides theplexiglass and acrylic glass being more expensive, modern homeowners prefer it to the standard glass. This is due to its durability and ability to resist wear and tear. Normal glass does not offer such benefits to the homeowners, and they would be required to replace them after a certain period.\nsource: https://www.clarkrubber.com\nShattering Strength\nGlass is formed from a liquid which is then solidified while plexiglass and acrylic glass is made from petroleum products. With this in mind, standard glass is easily shattered as compared to plexi. If you were to choose between the two regarding shattering capabilities, the latter would be an appropriate choice since it requires a very strong force for it to be shattered. However, the plexiglass is more sensitive to particular solvents that may result to it cracking. A tip to note is that when cleaning surfaces that are made from plexiglass, it is essential to ensure you select the solvents that may not cause damage. This way, the plexiglass can last for a long time.\nsource: https://perspex.com\nThe weight of glass and plexiglass differs significantly. A sheet of normal glass and plexiglassof similar dimensions differ in their weight. The standard glass is heavier in weight than the plexiglass. This makes the plexiglass easy to handle compared to the standard glass. If you are in need of shipping either of the two, it would be more economical to ship plexiglass than the normal glass. They can be used for similar purposes, but the handling costs during shipping would be different. Homeowners who are tight on a budget can go for the plexiglass instead of the standard glass.\nsource: http://www.archiexpo.com\nAcrylic glass Vs. Standard glass\nThe acrylic glass being a popular construction material has unique characteristics which make it a suitable construction material. Its strength is estimated to be about ten times that of standard glass. For homeowners who would like to invest in toughened glass for their home\u2019s exterior walls, having the acrylic glass would be recommended. Due to the high strength of the acrylic glass, it is resistant to scratching and other forms of wear and tear when the acrylic glass shatters; it breaks into pebble-like pieces which are not injurious to people around. This is an added advantage that makes the material suitable for the construction of modern structures which need glass.\nsoure: https://www.winerack-plus.co.uk\nPlexiglass and acrylic glass absorb less light compared to the standard glass. Usually, when light rays are passing through the same thickness of acrylic and standard glass, more than 90% is absorbed by the latter than the former. This means that for homeowners who need more light within their homes, they may invest in the glass and not the normal glass. For instance, the acrylic glass can be used in the construction of skylights in buildings. They allow enough light to pass through without any form of hindrances. The thickness of theplexiglass and acrylic glass used in the construction of surfaces meant to allow light to pass through does not affect the amount of light that is absorbed. Fab glass and mirror offer a large variety of acrylic glass that you can install in different places within your home or office. Acrylic glass sold by themis of high quality and with guarantees of high performance. If you are in need of acrylic glass, contacting experts from fab glass and mirror would be great.\nsource: https://southernacrylics.co.uk\nShaping glass requires a lot of heat that allows it to melt and to be molded into different shapes. However, the temperature level that is required for the remodeling of the plexiglass and acrylic glass is lower. This makes it suitable for remodeling into different shapes. With acrylic glass, you can order a customized shape for your home or office needs. This is the main reason why constructing aquariums of different shapes is easy with the plexiglass and acrylic glass. Fab glass and mirror can be helpful with the identification of the features of acrylic glass that may be used in the construction of an aquarium for your home. The experts at the company are dedicated to ensuring that you get quality products at affordable prices.\nsource: https://www.youtube.com/\nPlexiglass vs. Standard Glass Insulation\nInsulation in modern houses is required more to create a comfortable environment to live in. Plexiglass is stronger than the normal glass but exists in thinner sheets. Regarding this, the normal glass is a better insulator of heat compared to the plexiglass. For plexiglass and acrylic glassto insulate the same as glass, several sheets have to be used to increase the thickness. Considering that a sheet of plexiglass is more expensive than the normal glass, it would be more reasonable and economical to work with the plexiglass for homeowners who want to create an insulation layer in their homes or office.\n\u2190 Sleeping Disorder: Symptoms, Causes And A New Way Of Treatment\nSkip the Soda: How To Serve Free-Flowing Infused Water In a Party \u2192\n32 Modern Interior Design Ideas To Enhance Your Living Room\nJanuary 9, 2018 Live Enhanced Comments Off on 32 Modern Interior Design Ideas To Enhance Your Living Room", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00240.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 119, + "original_length": 11009, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.95, + "perplexity": 216.6, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "https://www.llanicarclub.co.uk/", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T03:37:56Z", + "digest": "sha1:GNE5WDT2EIM3MGJWTT3XBOMNCJGCYUUI", + "length": 2048, + "nlines": 12, + "source_domain": "www.llanicarclub.co.uk", + "title": "\ufeff Llanidloes Car Club - Home page", + "raw_content": "Llanidloes Car Club\nWelcome to the Llani Car Club website.\nLlani Car Club first hit the road in July 2007. We currently have a 3 door Renault Clio and 7-seater Vauxhall Zafira.\nThe beauty of a car club is that you get to share the cost of the overheads and can avoid having to buy a second car. For those who are even braver, you can ditch your only car, but we recommend you use the car club car for a while before you do that.\nCurrently we have 20 members, 6 of whom do not have a car in their household and rely on the club for their motorised transport when other forms of transport don\u2019t meet their needs. Here in Llanidloes we do have bus services passing through to and from Aberystwyth and Shrewsbury and heading south to Llandrindod Wells, but they are every 2 hours and not on a Sunday. Our nearest train station is Caersws and the Shrewsbury bus only connects with a few of the trains. The car club helps people to fill the gaps while still using public transport, without the need to own a car.\nWhat does it cost to join and use the car club cars?\nThere is an annual membership fee of \u00a330 and you will also need to pay a deposit of \u00a3150 which is a refundable when you leave. The cost using a car is 23p per mile and \u00a31 per hour. The hourly rate is capped at \u00a318 per 24 hour period. For example, if you drive 100 miles and have the car for 1.5 days you will be charged \u00a323 (100 miles) + \u00a318 (1 day) + \u00a312 (half a day) = \u00a353. The cost includes petrol, the cost of any fuel you need to purchase will be credited to your account providing a receipt is given. Bills are emailed at the beginning of the following month.\nPlease note due to the terms of our insurance, we cannot accept anyone who is under 25 or who has had a drink-driving conviction. Please contact us for the latest forms.\nWe are looking to purchase a Renault Zoe which is a fully electric vehicle as well as replace the Zafira with a newer and smaller estate car.\nContact Details should you require further information\nandrew@llanicarclub.co.uk\n\u00a9 Llani Car Club January 2019", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00240.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 15, + "original_length": 2135, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.97, + "perplexity": 262.0, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "https://www.lmtonline.com/blotter/slideshow/Laredo-police-blotter-2-15-2017-141372.php", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T04:26:05Z", + "digest": "sha1:B2J4ALA4CBSLP6G2GOJEFSZKGHAC4ALF", + "length": 3063, + "nlines": 26, + "source_domain": "www.lmtonline.com", + "title": "Laredo police blotter 2/15/2017 - Laredo Morning Times", + "raw_content": "Laredo police blotter 2/15/2017\nDisclaimer notice: All are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law\nRODRIGUEZ, NOE (W M) (20) years of age was arrested on the charge of EVADING ARREST DET W/VEHICLE (F), at 2600 BISMARK ST, at 1129 hours on 2/13/2017\nPhoto: Courtesy / Webb County Sheriff's Office\nRODRIGUEZ, NOE (W M) (20) years of age was arrested on the charge...photo-12382364.141372 - |ucfirst\nGONZALEZ, MARTIN (W M) (19) years of age was arrested on the charge of CRIMINAL TRESPASS (M), at 347 EAST DAKOTA, at 1922 hours on 2/13/2017\nGONZALEZ, MARTIN (W M) (19) years of age was arrested on the...photo-12382366.141372 - |ucfirst\nMENA, KURT (W M) (32) years of age was arrested on the charge of WARRANT ARREST OUTSIDE AGENCY (M), at 8307 SAN LORENZO DR, at 2304 hours on 2/13/2017\nMENA, KURT (W M) (32) years of age was arrested on the charge of...photo-12382368.141372 - |ucfirst\nHINOJOSA, JONATHAN (W M) (23) years of age was arrested on the charge of DRIVING WHILE INTOXICATED (M), at LOOP 20/SAUNDERS, at 0000 hours on 2/14/2017\nHINOJOSA, JONATHAN (W M) (23) years of age was arrested on the...photo-12382365.141372 - |ucfirst\nRAMIREZ, TOMAS (W M) (26) years of age was arrested on the charge of POSS CS PG 1 >=1G\nRAMIREZ, TOMAS (W M) (26) years of age was arrested on the charge...photo-12382367.141372 - |ucfirst\nLOPEZ, JORGE (W M) (25) years of age was arrested on the charge of EVADING ARREST DET W/VEHICLE (F), at 700 SCOTT ST, at 0003 hours on 2/14/2017\nLOPEZ, JORGE (W M) (25) years of age was arrested on the charge of...photo-12382369.141372 - |ucfirst\nGONZALEZ, MARCOS (W M) (24) years of age was arrested on the charge of CREDIT CARD OR DEBIT CARD ABUSE (F), at 200 S LORING AVE, at 1313 hours on 2/13/2017\nVASQUEZ MARTINEZ, CARLOS (W M) (44) years of age was arrested on the charge of AGG ASSAULT W/ DEADLY WEAPON (KNIFE OR CUTTING INSTRUMENT) (F), at 1418 PACE ST, at 1948 hours on 2/12/2017\nVASQUEZ MARTINEZ, CARLOS (W M) (44) years of age was arrested on...photo-12382360.141372 - |ucfirst\nTORRES, RAFAEL (W M) (34) years of age was arrested on the charge of CRIMINAL TRESPASS (M), at 1000 UGARTE ST, at 0108 hours on 2/14/2017\nTORRES, RAFAEL (W M) (34) years of age was arrested on the charge...photo-12382361.141372 - |ucfirst\nVALDEZ, RAFAEL (W M) (37) years of age was arrested on the charge of BURGLARY OF BUILDING (UNLAWFUL ENTRY NO FORCE) (F), at 1400 WASHINGTON ST, at 1039 hours on 2/13/2017\nVALDEZ, RAFAEL (W M) (37) years of age was arrested on the charge...photo-12382359.141372 - |ucfirst\nSOLIS BUSTOS, ROSALIO (W M) (57) years of age was arrested on the charge of CRIMINAL MISCHIEFIMPAIR/INTERRUPT PUB SERVICE (M), at 1900 E PRICE ST, at 0844 hours on 2/13/2017\nSOLIS BUSTOS, ROSALIO (W M) (57) years of age was arrested on the...photo-12382362.141372 - |ucfirst\nORTIZ ROCHA, HUMBERTO (W M) (27) years of age was arrested on the charge of CRIMINAL TRESPASS (M), at 3105 CHIHUAHUA ST, at 1835 hours on 2/12/2017\nORTIZ ROCHA, HUMBERTO (W M) (27) years of age was arrested on the...photo-12382363.141372 - |ucfirst", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00240.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 143, + "original_length": 8507, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.83, + "perplexity": 302.2, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "https://www.locatefamily.com/rm.php?LFN=Dhillon%20G.%20S.&RID=MC2LF-3287581&LNP=5&LNPE=60&SLD=India", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T04:46:40Z", + "digest": "sha1:PR6PWTFQALYDZMSKJNIITYF74S525MOH", + "length": 396, + "nlines": 2, + "source_domain": "www.locatefamily.com", + "title": "Remove: Dhillon G. 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Check out this story on lohud.com: https://www.lohud.com/story/news/local/westchester/2019/01/17/yonkers-plans-1-000-apartments-get-tax-break/2601934002/\nAkiko Matsuda, Rockland/Westchester Journal News Published 12:50 p.m. ET Jan. 17, 2019\nVideo: Yonkers sculpture garden reopens as Modera celebrates grand opening Tania Savayan, tsavayan@lohud.com\nYONKERS - Nearly 1,000 units of proposed new apartments in the city have been approved for $13.5 million in tax abatements, the Yonkers Industrial Development Agency (IDA) has announced.\nThe 996 apartments are planned in three separate projects. At its recent meeting, the Board of Directors of the Yonkers IDA approved tax incentives for the projects, which would bring more than $391 million in private investment to the city.\nLudlow Point, a 520-unit, two-tower residential development proposed by Ginsburg Development Companies, has been awarded more than $7 million in tax abatement. (Photo11: Submitted)\nHere are the proposals, which have yet to receive necessary approval from the city to move forward, so there is no set timeline for construction or completion.\nLudlow Point\nThe biggest of the three projects is Ludlow Point, a 520-unit apartment complex proposed by Ginsburg Development Cos. The two 10-story and two 11-story tower community is proposed for the 2.26-acre, city-owned property at 150 Downing St. near Metro-North's Ludlow station. The vacant land was formerly used by the city's Public Works Department for storage and would be sold to Ginsburg for $3 million.\nThe community would feature a new promenade park overlooking the Hudson River and the Palisades cliffs. As part of the land deal, Ginsburg would also improve the adjacent Anthony O'Boyle Memorial Park on Hawthorne Avenue.\nThe complex would offer amenities such as a club lounge, fitness center, swimming pool, business center, bike racks and tenant storage lockers. The Ludlow Street frontage is planned to include 10,330 square feet of retail space. In accordance with the city's affordable housing ordinance, 10 percent of the units, or 52 units, would be set aside for below-market rents.\nThe project, estimated to create about 600 construction jobs and 14 permanent jobs, has been approved for $4.75 million in sales tax exemptions and $2.25 million in mortgage recording tax exemptions.\n70 Pier St.\nGinsburg is also proposing a 36-unit rental apartment complex in the Ludlow neighborhood for 70 Pier St. also near the Ludlow train station. The developer purchased the 0.28-acre site for $1.325 million through the city's auction last year.\nThe planned four-story building would feature six studios, 18 one-bedrooms, and 12 two-bedrooms, along with 3,125 square feet of retail and indoor parking for 35 cars.\nThe project, which is estimated to create about 60 construction jobs and four permanent jobs, was approved for $310,625 in sales tax exemptions and $180,000 in mortgage recording taxes.\n57 Alexander Street, a 440-unit, seven-story apartment building proposed by Rose Associates, has been granted nearly $6 million worth of tax abatement. (Photo11: Submitted)\nRose Associates, a New York City-based residential real estate development and management company, wants to build a 440-unit, seven-story apartment building on a waterfront property in the Getty Square neighborhood.\nThe development would make a section of the Hudson River waterfront accessible to the public via a 25,000-square-foot park featuring a walking promenade, seating and landscaping.\nThe project, which is estimated to create about 631 construction jobs and 10 full -time jobs, has been approved for $3.8 million in sales tax exemptions and $2.07 million in mortgage recording tax exemptions.\nNEWLY OPENED: What are the rents in Yonkers' newest apartments?\nPRIOR REPORT: Ginsburg may build 600 apartments near Ludlow Station\nAPARTMENT BOOM: New housing proposed for downtown Yonkers\nRead or Share this story: https://www.lohud.com/story/news/local/westchester/2019/01/17/yonkers-plans-1-000-apartments-get-tax-break/2601934002/", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00240.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 137, + "original_length": 7085, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.95, + "perplexity": 232.1, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "https://www.lomondbooks.com/catalog/product?products_id=14774", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T03:42:19Z", + "digest": "sha1:VEHHJLACAMBQ7KSDIOL65F3DZDXIQTFE", + "length": 312, + "nlines": 2, + "source_domain": "www.lomondbooks.com", + "title": "Lomond Books | Wholesale Books, Calendars, Postcards, Maps, Scotland | Lomond Publishing | Book Distribution Explorer Active OL 35 N Pembrokeshire, Gogledd", + "raw_content": "Explorer Active OL 35 N Pembrokeshire, Gogledd\nMap sheet OL35 in the OS Explorer series covers the North Pembrokeshire coast and the Pembrokeshire Coast National Park on the West coast of Wales. 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Carpenter himself is on board as executive producer, and original stars Jamie Lee Curtis and Nick Castle are reprising their roles as Laurie Strode and \"The Shape\" (a.k.a. Michael Myers) respectively. It doesn't hurt that Blumhouse can seemingly do no wrong, after a rise to prominence that culminated with Get Out.\nBut there are many questions about this reboot lingering like a slasher in the shadows. For instance, is \"reboot\" even the right term? Co-writer Danny McBride (who, despite his usual stock in trade, has clarified that the new Halloween is not a comedy) has stated that he and director/co-writer David Gordon Green are \"ignoring all the films past the first one.\"\nThere have been ten Halloween films since 1978 \u2014 a series of sequels, remakes, and detours. Is the state of the franchise so dire that all but one of its entries should be ignored? To answer that question, we're strolling methodically through Halloween history like Michael stalking a teenager, starting with the outings we're most ready to forget.\nIn terms of entertainment value, the greatest sin a movie can commit \u2014 perhaps especially a horror movie \u2014 is to be boring. Other Halloween sequels have failed more spectacularly than this one, but they deserve extra points for ambition. The Return of Michael Myers coasts on its own concept because it does exactly what the title promises, responding to audience demand after the Myers-less Season of the Witch (more on that controversy later).\nReturn picks up ten years after the original film, and finds Michael (George P. Wilbur) waking up from a decade-long coma when he overhears that he has a niece. From that stunningly unbelievable beginning, it doesn't get much more thrilling. Laurie Strode has died in a car accident (the first of two insultingly unceremonious deaths Jamie Lee Curtis is subjected to in the series), leaving a young daughter, Jamie (Danielle Harris). Michael meanders mechanically into town to find her, with his old nemesis Dr. Sam Loomis (Donald Pleasence) in tow.\nWith the original Halloween's mystery long since gone, The Return of Michael Myers turns into a tepid retread of Carpenter's film. Michael begins mowing down the teenage friends of little Jamie's foster sister like a superpowered robot, flat cinematography giving the uninspired action no shadows to hide in. Compounding the frustration with Halloween 4's mediocrity is the fact that John Carpenter had an intriguing pitch for a Myers return that he co-wrote with Dennis Etchison, as Etchison would later recall in an interview with Blumhouse. Series producer Moustapha Akkad's rejection of the concept as \"too cerebral\" would push Carpenter and Debra Hill to sell their controlling interest in the series, remaining totally uninvolved until Carpenter signed on to produce the 2018 film.\nIf Halloween 4 disappoints by being too safe, this one could be said to go too far in the opposite direction. It was a bold choice by Dimension Films to hire a filmmaker with as unique a vision as Rob Zombie to set a new direction for the series. Unfortunately, the result is an overcomplicated and unpleasant mess of an experience stuck halfway between reboot and prequel.\nYou know how Ron Howard's How the Grinch Stole Christmas is two-thirds unnecessary backstory and one-third remake of something that was already perfect? Rob Zombie's Halloween is Ron Howard's Grinch, but all the Whos are oversexed rednecks. (Well, more so.) The film dwells on the abusive childhood that warped young Michael Myers' (Daeg Faerch) mind before leaping forward in time to recreate John Carpenter's chaotic 31st of October.\nMr. Zombie is an auteur with no small amount of style, and he assembles a solid cast (Malcolm McDowell, Scout Taylor-Compton, and Brad Dourif are all quite good as Dr. Loomis, Laurie Strode, and Sheriff Brackett, respectively). Unfortunately, the relentless dreariness and unstable structure make it nearly impossible to connect with any of the characters. There are enjoyable Halloween movies, and there are enjoyable Rob Zombie movies, but this one is likely to be forgotten faster than you can slam in the back of your Dragula.\nThis movie got off on the wrong foot as soon as it dropped its far more metal working title of Halloween 666. That was only the beginning of production troubles that left The Curse of Michael Myers so compromised that fans would go on to circulate an early workprint version, labeled a \"Producer's Cut,\" as a bootleg for nearly 20 years before it was officially released. In fact, writer Daniel Farrands revealed in a Fangoria interview that the \"Curse\" of the title started as a joke about the nightmarish process of making the film.\nThis 1995 entry finds Jamie (now played by J. C. Brandy) escaping from a cult six years after she and her unkillable Uncle Michael (George P. Wilbur returning) were abducted by a mysterious Man in Black at the end of Halloween 5. She gives birth just before Michael murders her with a corn thresher, but her baby lives and winds up in the care of Tommy Doyle (Paul Rudd, mere months after making his film debut in Clueless). Tommy has been obsessed with Myers ever since surviving the events of the original film, and he teams up with Dr. Loomis (Donald Pleasence again, in his final performance) to protect the newborn.\nThe plot that unfolds reveals the secrets of the Cult of Thorn, a Druidic order bent on cultivating power through familial sacrifices. Their leader is the Man in Black, who is revealed to be Dr. Terence Wynn (Mitchell Ryan), a character who appeared in one scene of the original Halloween that you almost certainly won't remember. The tangled drama leaves little room for either scares or fun, meaning the most compelling reason to watch is to marvel at how little Paul Rudd has aged in 23 years.\nSome slasher series, like Friday the 13th, find strength in getting increasingly ridiculous with each sequel, promising that, if things won't be scary anymore, they'll at least be fun. Halloween, on the other hand, has had a track record of taking interesting sequel concepts and wasting them on overly serious execution. There may be no better example of this problem than 2002's Halloween: Resurrection.\nThis eighth entry in the franchise begins as a satire of the then-booming reality TV phenomenon, with a webcast show called Dangertainment locking contestants into the old Myers house for a night of scares. The hosts (Tyra Banks and Busta Rhymes) have prepared a number of spooky traps for the players, but the danger(tainment) gets real when Michael (Brad Loree) comes home. The first murder victim, sadly, is the cleverness of this setup, as the movie devolves into a fairly unmemorable romp through dark rooms.\nWatching Busta Rhymes yell at a computer is fun (no sarcasm, that is the best part of the movie), but even he can't save Resurrection from becoming a dreary slog. It doesn't help that the film has to open with a convoluted retcon to undo the ending of Halloween H2O, which was originally intended as a series finale. As part of this, Jamie Lee Curtis appears in a sad cameo as Laurie Strode, murdered in a mental hospital before the main titles even roll.\nMr. Zombie returns to write and direct Michael Myers' most recent murder adventure, and it's a marked improvement over his first attempt. No longer bound by the obligation to remake John Carpenter's original, Zombie's sequel cuts loose for a unique story examining the effects of the previous film's traumas on its characters. Loomis is trying to sell his new book, Laurie is plagued by intrusive murderous impulses, and Michael is driven home by visions of his mother (Sheri Moon Zombie).\nZombie chose to shoot Halloween II on 16mm film, lending it an authentically gritty grindhouse feel that sets it apart from most glossy modern horror movies. This decision plays to the movie's strengths, namely its strikingly surreal, hallucinatory images. While more psychologically interesting than many other entries in the series, its big ideas are still sadly buried under uninspired violence and an unrelentingly grim tone. The next direction for the franchise remained unclear until 2015, when Dimension Films' failure to launch the next Halloween resulted in their loss of the rights after 20 years.\nWhat the fifth Halloween may lack in originality, it makes up for with the fun so often lacking in its siblings. Jamie Lloyd (Danielle Harris again) has been left mute and disturbed by the horror she faced one year earlier. She's experiencing hallucinations that suggest some kind of telepathic link with her uncle Michael (Don Shanks), who vanished down a mine shaft at the end of Halloween 4. The real joy of Revenge is in Donald Pleasence's fourth turn as Dr. Loomis, who goes more over-the-top than ever in his desperation to convince authorities that Myers is alive and coming back once more.\nThe appeal of Revenge's teen cast is unmatched by any other Halloween film besides the original, decked out in late '80s fashions and talking about how love makes your heart \"feel like it's made of neon.\" Jamie's climactic flight up a laundry chute to escape her uncle's knife has more genuine tension than every other sequel's murders combined. And it gives us one of the most bonkers moments in the series, in which Loomis traps Michael in a net and beats him with a two by four while screaming \"Die, die!\"\n\"Michael Myers was an absence of character,\" John Carpenter said in a 2014 Deadline interview, \"and yet all the sequels are trying to explain that. That's silliness.\" Carpenter turned down the opportunity to direct Halloween II, but agreed to write it (along with Debra Hill) in the interest of maintaining some share in the phenomenon he had helped create. The result is a film that continues the story of Halloween as directly as possible while being desperate to feel different.\nCarpenter, Hill, and director Rick Rosenthal knew that the mystique of Michael could never be recaptured in the same way as the 1978 original. To that end, Halloween II ratchets up the gore factor, in the style of then-new slashers like Friday the 13th. Picking up in the final scene of its predecessor, the sequel is set entirely on the very same night, letting Myers (Dick Warlock) loose in a hospital in search of Laurie (Curtis) with Dr. Loomis (Pleasence) in pursuit. Among the memorable murders in this more body count-oriented outing are a hammer to the head, a hot tub drowning, and a syringe in the eye.\nMeanwhile, Michael's motivations are explored, revealing for the first time the family connection that would go on to define the rest of the sequels. In the end, Halloween II is a movie that knows it shouldn't exist but does a valiant effort to provide a good time nonetheless. \"I had to write the second movie,\" Carpenter admitted candidly in the Deadline interview, \"and every night I sat there and wrote with a six pack of beer trying to get through this thing. And I didn't do a very good job, but that was it. I couldn't do any more.\"\nHalloween H20 is undoubtedly one of the silliest titles in horror history. The movie isn't even about water! Maybe Michael didn't want to intrude on Jason's turf\u2026or surf. At any rate, the title refers to the 20 years that have passed since the first two Halloween movies. Laurie Strode (Curtis) has been living under an assumed name after faking her death, serving as headmistress of a private school attended by her teenage son John (Josh Harnett).\nH20 is very much a Halloween for the Scream generation (Scream writer Kevin Williamson even served as producer). The late '90s vibes are strong, from Harnett to LL Cool J (as a school security guard) to the Creed jam that plays over the closing credits. John Carpenter declined again to return, but director Steve Miner delivers a tight, slick thriller that lets Laurie fight back when Michael (Chris Durand) comes for her son.\nIt's Jamie Lee Curtis who makes H20 worth watching. Not only is her performance as a still-haunted, middle-aged Laurie compelling, but the story was her idea. \"That was how I pitched the movie: regaining the soul by facing your own fear,\" she recalled in a Los Angeles Times interview. \"When the stalkee becomes the stalker, I guarantee you the audience will go crazy.\"\nThe boldest thing attempted by any of the Halloween sequels is to not be a Halloween sequel. Still convinced that more Michael Myers would be a case of diminishing returns, Carpenter and Hill decided to transform the franchise into an anthology series, with the third film telling a new story about Halloween night. They enlisted Tommy Lee Wallace (art director of the original Halloween) to write and direct Season of the Witch.\nThe movie is actually about an ancient order of warlocks, but Season of the Warlock doesn't have the same ring to it. The head of a novelty company, Conal Cochran (Dan O'Herlihy), is plotting to slaughter the masses of American children wearing his absurdly popular masks on Halloween night. The masks, powered by microchips containing pieces of Stonehenge and triggered by a TV commercial, cause bugs and snakes to explode from the heads of their wearers. With this plague, Cochran intends to get revenge for the commercialization of Halloween and usher in a new age of witchcraft.\nThe problem with Halloween III is that it isn't quite as bonkers as that plot summary might sound. We watch the mystery unfold from the point of view of Dr. Daniel Challis (Tom Atkins), a womanizing drunk who's fairly unlikeable. The fun does kick off once we get to the mask factory, but the tone up to that point is too serious to fully buy the wild plot points that pull everything together. Still, its weirdness is refreshing amidst the formulaic slashers that make up the sea of Halloween sequels and imitators.\nSeason of the Witch is full of clever and memorable moments, like the unforgettable \"Silver Shamrock\" jingle (seriously, good luck forgetting it) and a TV screening of the original Halloween playing an important part in the story. Unfortunately, it was subjected to disappointing box office and scathing reviews from fans and critics spurned by the new direction, and the intriguing anthology concept was abandoned.\nAny list arranging the Halloween films from worst to best is doomed to be anticlimactic, because there's only one way for it to end. The merits of every sequel and reboot can be debated, but there's no denying that the original is in a class of its own. No hot takes here: the best Halloween movie is Halloween.\nWhen producers Moustapha Akkad and Irwin Yablans hired John Carpenter and Debra Hill to make a low-budget horror movie, they set out to do nothing more than to make the best little scarefest they could. Halloween became legendary because it's elemental. Its teen characters, led by Jamie Lee Curtis with snappy dialogue written by Hill and Carpenter, are charmingly ordinary. Donald Pleasence plays Dr. Sam Loomis as just paranoid enough that authorities don't listen to him. There are no contrived plot twists or convoluted motivations behind Michael Myers (Nick Castle). He's just a man in a mask who's waiting to kill you.\nThat waiting is the key to Halloween's power. There are surprisingly few murders in the film, and the killings that do occur are almost entirely bloodless. Carpenter doles out just enough omens of the Shape's presence to instill the audience with dread. The tension hovering over the likable cast steadily builds until the spree begins, kicking off a rollercoaster to the climax. 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Now we have to worry that, if Congress does nothing, taxes will jump in 2013. In these financially tumultuous times, Roth conversion strategies can reduce risk substantially for clients in 2012.\nUnknowns for 2013\nRegardless of whether Republicans or Democrats prevail in controlling the White House and/or Congress in November, there is likely to be an impact on tax law. If nothing is done, the Bush-era tax cuts will expire and the highest federal individual income tax rate will increase to 42%, taking into account deduction phaseout. On top of that, if the federal health care overhaul survives legal challenges, an additional 3.8% Medicare surcharge on investment income for those earning more than $200,000 ($250,000 for joint returns) will take effect.\nAs if the political uncertainty weren't enough, the wild swings in the stock market and other investments create further uncertainty. Will the euro survive? Might there be a major natural disaster? One way of planning for these uncertainties is to predict the outcome and prepare for it. Unfortunately, predictions of market strategists have proved to be very inaccurate. A much better way is to admit we don't know the future and plan as such, giving as much flexibility as possible to our clients. Enter the Roth conversion.\nTraditional versus Roth\nGregg Polsky, a tax professor at the University of North Carolina School of Law, suggests we view a traditional IRA as a partnership between the taxpayer and the government. If the client has a $100,000 traditional IRA (with a zero basis if it was funded with pretax dollars) and is in the 35% marginal tax bracket, the taxpayer owns $65,000 while the government (federal and state) owns $35,000. The IRA is a partnership between the taxpayer and the government. Admittedly, the ultimate tax bracket upon withdrawing the funds from the traditional IRA is unknown.\nPolsky notes that, if the taxpayer decides to convert this IRA to a Roth IRA, he or she is buying out the governments' ownership in the partnership and can then keep all of the returns tax-free going forward. At least this is true without a major change in the tax law. If the client does a Roth conversion in early 2012 with some or all of their traditional IRA funds, he or she has as late as October 15, 2013 (if they file an extension on their 2012 return) to recharacterize some or all of the conversion.\nPolsky refers to this recharacterization as a free put option. By exercising the put option, the taxpayer requires the government to buy back its original share of the IRA for the purchase price the taxpayer paid. I liken it to the undo key on a computer. It is this put option that can be so valuable in hedging political and market uncertainty.\nJohn Bledsoe, author of The Gospel of Roth: The Good News About Roth IRA Conversions and How They Can Make You Money, recommends that everyone should convert 100% of his or her IRAs to Roth IRAs as early in the year as possible. Robert Keebler, a partner at Keebler & Associates, a tax and estate planning firm in Green Bay, Wisconsin, agrees. Both specialize in assisting clients to carry out Roth conversion strategies.\nThey each note that a lot can happen between January 1, 2012, and October 15, 2013. If clients go into the conversion with the premise that they may recharacterize, they in essence get a free look and can keep any conversions that make sense. \"Why wouldn't anyone want this free look?\" Bledsoe asks.\nHere are three strategies for hedging future uncertainties:\n1. Simple hedging against 2013 tax increases and market declines. This is the simplest and most straightforward of the strategies. To protect against potential tax increases and even a market decline, the client can convert that $100,000 and pay $35,000 to the IRS. If it turns out that tax rates did increase, the client could save up to 10% by converting in 2012 instead of waiting.\nIf rates didn't increase, then a recharacterization may be in order. But Keebler believes a 2013 income tax increase is likely, although he sees the Medicare surcharge in the hands of the Supreme Court.\nThe second reason a client may want to recharacterize is if the market has a significant decline. Say the $100,000 portfolio declined to $80,000 sometime before 2012 taxes are filed in 2013. Rather than take the whole $20,000 loss, hit the undo button and recharacterize, and the government will take 35% of the loss. In this case, even if tax rates did decrease, the gain from the government taking on a share of the loss is larger than the hit from the tax increase. Both must be taken into account in the decision to recharacterize.\n2. Multiple Roth conversions. Polsky, Bledsoe, and Keebler recommend against doing a single Roth conversion. The strategy they recommend is to open separate accounts, such as accounts by asset classes. For example, you could have five Roth accounts in U.S. stocks, international stocks, REITs, precious metals and mining stocks, and bonds. If, for example, bonds and precious metals and mining decline significantly, exercise that put option and recharacterize. Keep the others that appreciated, knowing you bought out the government's share of the partnership at a lower price than the current market value.\nThere are no limits on the number of accounts one could convert. A client could have a thousand different securities and convert each one to a separate Roth IRA. That way, any security that declined could be recharacterized. Neither Bledsoe nor Keebler does this for his clients, noting the concept of diminishing returns, as well as planner expense from the additional work. Bledsoe and Keebler have each done 10 or more accounts for IRAs exceeding $10 million in value. They typically recommend about four to six separate conversions.\n3. High volatility, negative correlation. Polsky wrote last year in the newsletter Tax Notes that the optimal strategy would be to convert two IRAs of equal value, investing in two highly volatile but negatively correlated securities, one in each account. If, for example, there was $50,000 in each at the start and one was wiped out while the other doubled to $100,000, the client has converted $100,000 into a Roth while paying taxes on only $50,000. This is because the client will recharacterize the IRA that went to zero, while maintaining the one that doubled.\nThe trick is to find securities that fit this bill, Polsky says, because IRAs cannot sell securities short or buy options. To overcome this barrier, perhaps an approach could be two inverse securities, such as the ProShares UltraPro S&P 500 ETF (UPRO) and the UltraPro Short S&P 500 ETF (SPXU) would work, since each levers three times.\nUnfortunately, in a year like 2011 when the S&P 500 was relatively flat, and due to the specifics of these funds, which essentially invest in a one-day duration and have substantial fees and costs, both would have been in the red. The UPRO fund lost 11.8%, while the SPXU plunged 32.3%.\nPolsky, Bledsoe and Keebler note that they have not performed this strategy. Polsky worries that the IRS could challenge it, although he says it would be difficult for the agency to act if a taxpayer could show he or she had used readily available investment options (as opposed to a customized derivative). Nonetheless, the cost of defending an IRS challenge could be substantial.\nBarriers to Conversions\nIf a free look into the future is so compelling, why aren't more people converting their IRAs? One answer may be behavioral economics. When clients convert, they must pay taxes, reducing the size of their portfolio. Economically, of course, the Roth money is far more valuable than the traditional IRA funds, and there has not been a decline in economic net worth.\nPolsky asserts in the Tax Notes story that financial advisors may be another hurdle. Advisors who are paid by commissions or wrap fees no longer earn fees on the assets used to pay the taxes for the conversions.\nOne more reason clients hesitate to convert is that the move is not risk-free. Polsky notes it's possible Congress could change laws\u2014even take the unlikely step of taxing some Roth distributions. Polsky likens it to the tax on Social Security benefits. A similar worry would be a revamping of the tax code, such as an enacting of a consumption tax to replace the current income tax. That would effectively result in paying the tax at conversion and again when goods and services are purchased.\nThere is nothing simple about taxes, but a Roth conversion with the recharacterization option offers a way to both reduce risk and lower taxes. Before moving forward, advisors need to be sure a client has paid enough estimated taxes to meet the safe harbor rule so that penalties and interest won't kick in if a client decides not to recharacterize.\nIt's best to maximize the value of the put option by doing the conversion early in the year and following the timeline in the \"Roth Conversion Timeline\" chart, above. Also make sure a tax expert is guiding your client.\nWhile there is a lot of uncertainty between now and October 15, 2013, there is far more uncertainty decades later when clients may be spending down their IRA money. No one knows what tax rates will be 20 years from now or a client's net income.\nThere's also the possibility of a radical tax change like a consumption tax. That's why many experts do not recommend keeping 100% of IRA funds in a Roth. Instead, a better strategy would be diversifying against those unknowns by having some taxable traditional IRA funds and some Roth IRA funds. 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In the distant, post-apocalyptic Christmases of the future, the cockroaches hyper-evolved by radiation from World Wars 7 through 14 won't be reading this blog. They will, however, decorate the festive spinal columns using Hallmark Keepsake Ornaments.\nBecause - and this part's important - these things will be around for-freaking-ever.\nNo one knows why exactly. Perhaps their CEO made a blood pact with a fiend of hell. Or maybe it's branding - whatever the reason, Hallmark ornaments are here to stay.\nAnd this weekend, they unveiled another year's additions to the collection. That's right, you slackers at K-Mart who wait until September to kick off the holiday shopping season, Hallmark understands the true meaning of Christmas in July.\nI know what you're thinking. You're thinking these aren't worth it. You're thinking they're not worth the price. And that's where you're wrong - because these are worth every penny of the three dollars you should be paying to get these used at antique shops, 10 to 15 years from now (assuming Trump doesn't win the presidency and kick off the aforementioned end of days).\nIn theory, you can also go buy new ornaments now. In practice, this will cost you a ton of cash for something only modestly better than the ones they put out 10 to 15 years ago, which you can get dirt cheap used if you shop around.\nAlternatively, you can buy knock-offs. The Disney Store will have fairly comparable options that will run you about half as much, assuming you go when they're on sale. You'll be able to find even cheaper pop-culture ornaments at drug stores in the fall. They're definitely not as good, but the nice ones are decent enough for what they're charging.\nAll that said, Hallmark has been the gold standard for pop-culture ornaments, and this year's no different. Here are a few of the ones we're hoping to find for next-to-nothing at a consignment shop sometime in 2025, along with a few that just seemed... memorable.\nNice effect with the decal on the Electric Mayhem Bus. There's a button here, but batteries hadn't been added yet.\nYou know, you can get a Hotwheels version of this for $4.50 at Fred Meyer. Just saying.\nA 1:1 scale Tinkerbell replica that I suspect Disney regrets approving.\nDr. Finklestein - again, no batteries.\nOkay, I kind of want that Alien Queen and Grimlock. Not enough to drop this kind of cash, but this is about as tempted as I get.\nThis one actually had batteries. It's both musical and motorized. Also, because Winnie the Pooh isn't as popular as he should be, I'm pretty much guaranteed to eventually find this for $5 or less. Do you have any idea how many Winnie the Pooh Hallmark ornaments from the 90's and 00's I've picked up over the past few years?\nMe either. I lost count after a dozen or so.\nOr you could buy a box of crayons and hang them on your tree. You'll save $15, plus you'll have a fully functional box of crayons after Christmas.\nCynical doesn't mean soulless. That shit is adorable.\nThis is designed to cover a bulb on your tree. I wish it had a demo - I'd love to see what it looks like lit up.\nThis pair's a tad generic. I guess they've done so many Star Trek/Wars ornaments they're starting to scrape the bottom of the barrel. Still, pretty cool.\nOkay, I'll admit that's pretty damn classy.\nThat's a little less classy. But, hey, if you love the cheesy rock song it's alluding to, it's not too shabby.\nThat's just a taste of what's in store - there are dozens more just waiting for you at your local Hallmark museum store. If that isn't a reason to swing by, I guess nothing is. Literally: this is, without a doubt, the high point in Hallmark's year, the moment the chain exists for. There is no other reason you should ever be going into one of their stores outside of this moment.\nYou're welcome, Hallmark. 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Meanwhile, \"For companies that want stop-loss, it is attractive.\" Humana has sold SmartSuite to 145 companies with about 225,000 enrollees.\nTypically, consumer-directed plans provide a defined amount to workers to pay for their health needs. Once that fund is depleted, the worker must meet a deductible limit. If his expenses rise beyond the deductible amount, 80/20 coverage takes over.\nOne of the keys to such plans is that employees, on the hook for expenses to a greater degree than in an HMO, take an active interest in their health benefits, and thereby (employers and insurers hope) make cost-effective choices.\nTo that end, they are supplied with a host of Internet tools designed to make monitoring and selection of benefits easier.\n\"A growing body of evidence is proving that consumer engagement is the way to solve the employer's cost dilemma, while at the same time empowering employees to choose and use their benefits with confidence,\" says Michael B. 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What we know as residential treatment is becoming an almost archaic approach to looking at alcohol and substance abuse. Left in its place, is a seemingly endless cycle of relapse and detoxification based centrally around outpatient treatment.\nOutpatient treatment, for those who don\u2019t know, is a system designed around providing various therapies at a facility in which the client does not reside. In short, the place in which they receive treatment is not the place they live. What is the significance? The reason this is such an important distinction is because structure and safety normally associated with an inpatient or \u201cresidential\u201d treatment center has seemingly evaporated.\nThe current treatment model focuses on shorter periods of stay at higher levels of care. This tradeoff is in favor of minimizing overhead, with emphasis on logistical efficiencies. Essentially, treatment businesses have been forced to provide care in a model that is not in the best interest of the client. Beside the blatant ethical issues that have been arising, it has become increasingly difficult for companies in good standing to be able to provide effective treatment.\nWhat the hell happened? There are a number of reasons for the shift in the treatment model. It is the opinion of the writer that the insurance companies are at the center of the debate. On one hand, we have facilities providing excellent treatment at fair market rates, and on the other, we have centers who have criminally manipulated the system. Insurance companies have begun to reduce the amounts and frequency in which they will reimburse on claims in an attempt to curb or deter some of the fraud that is occurring. This has caused a drastic ripple effect throughout the entire industry. Residential treatment reimbursement is significantly more expensive than its leaner and meaner brother outpatient treatment. Fundamentally forcing clients into programs which provide less safety and structure early on their road to recovery.\nThe case study: recently I spoke with a friend who had been pushed through the current treatment model and barely escaped with his life. Let\u2019s call him John Doe, John freshly went through what he described as the, \u201cSouth Florida shuffle\u201d. Johns story of how he received treatment in Del Ray Beach FL is something seemingly taken from a work of fiction. Tales of corrupt marketing, laughable sober living conditions, and ethical nightmares left this writer deeply disturbed. A snapshot of an industry built on greed, and exploitation.\nWhat is a possible solution? As sad as it may sound. The answer to the epidemic of ineffective treatment may be one found on a long and arduous road that leads directly to the door step of the health insurance cartel. Keep in mind, the problem is much more complicated than vilifying the insurance providers. Small treatment business has also been caught with its pants down. Predatory marketing tactics, fraudulent billing practices, and subpar treatment are all key factors in the mess that has been created. Being a recovering addict myself, I have grown angry at the state of affairs. Day in, day out, I continue to see these people dying, Friends of mine, dying! When will the body count be large enough?\nIn the end, the solution will be multifaceted. Insurance companies and health care regulators must come together to ensure the bad actors in the industry cease to operate. People of every socioeconomic background should be able to receive affective treatment. 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I mean, maybe not WWF-fighter-in-the-ring kind of mad, but definitely annoyed and/or insulted. So, after a bit more research and time to reflect on the interaction that we had, I wanted to apologize to him publicly today--to clear the air and share a bit of information about the work that he's doing, which is very unique in the yoga world.\nAre you thinking, \"what is she talking about?\" Then let me share the entire story...\nOn March 13th, YogaDork put up this blog post about DDP's latest venture--DDP Yoga. The YogaDork story was entitled, \"Diamond Dallas Page Now Prefers Putting Foot Over His Head To Up Someone's Ass.\" Eye-catching title, no? So, I read the quick YogaDork blurb about DDP Yoga, and having known about DDP in middle school, when all of the guys started making his diamond hand symbol on the school bus and wearing his t-shirts, I was totally shocked. DDP is now a yoga teacher? Whaaaattt? I saw his DDP Yoga logo, with a fist coming through the \"O,\" and saw his slogan, \"it ain't your mama's yoga,\" and thought, \"what a joke?!\" So, without thinking much of it, I wrote the following comment on the post:\n\"This is the first that I\u2019ve heard of DDP Yoga and I\u2019m horrified but also slightly amused (thank you for pointing out the fist in the O\u2013that\u2019s hysterical!)\u2026I mean, is this what it takes to get \u201cregular guys\u201d to do yoga? I hope not! And not in my experience. But why does the advertising industry try to \u201cmacho\u201d everything up in order to get guys to try it?\nThanks for sharing this ridiculousness. I\u2019m usually of the opinion that no matter what it is, it\u2019s great if it gets people (who wouldn\u2019t have otherwise tried it) to try yoga, but this time I\u2019m not so sure\u2026\"\nNeedless to day, DDP visited the YogaDork post, saw my comment, and was not so pleased with it. So he responded with a long response, of which I've included an excerpt below (read the full response here):\nMary I normally don\u2019t care how people comment to what I\u2019m doing with DDPYOGA\u2026 I know I\u2019m the Black Sheep of yoga and I\u2019m Kool with that\u2026 but the Clown who wrote this blog about me and what I\u2019m doing today took some cheap shots at me and took my words totally out of context and he pissed me of\u2026 I\u2019ve brought my form of yoga to Iraq & Afghanistan a number of times to work with our troops most all of whom would have never been caught doing any type of yoga but I can promise you many of them would feel different about that today\u2026 You can see clips of one of my trips in YYOGA the Movie\u2026 and you can goto http://www.DDPYOGA.com to see the number lives I\u2019ve helped changed\u2026\nThe FIST is simple \u2026 I\u2019ve mixed my yoga with rehab moves mixed with Mixed Martial Arts moves (Punching and knees) mixed with slow burn calisthenics but what makes DDP YOGA it\u2019s Own animal is Dynamic Resistance\u2026I\u2019ve found most REAL yogi\u2019s Get IT\u2026 Have a Great day\nImage via yogadork.com\nTotally crazy, right? I mean, can you believe that DDP responded to little old me? So, here's what I have to say in response:\nDDP, I'm sorry for writing such a harsh comment without doing a little research first. My initial reaction to the short blog post on YD was based on my own preconceptions and not on what you're actually doing. I was saddened by the thought of yoga having to be paired with a fist (when ahimsa, or non-violence, is such a big part of the practice!) or made more macho for \"regular\" guys to try it, so I jumped to conclusions.\nBut, after hearing your explanations for why you've done what you done (or branded your practice in the way that you have), and after watching the clip from the \"Y\" Yoga Documentary, I take back what I said. Maybe it does take a strong, dominant male role model for certain types of people to try yoga, and if they are reaping the benefits of the practice, then who cares how it's delivered (still struggling with the fact that you say \"lift your ass\" to get people into down dog, but to each his own, right?)? And maybe yoga has become so \"hyper-feminine\" in the West that we need people like you to get guys to give it a try...?\nIn your video I could tell that you really do love yoga, and that you are trying to spread the benefits of the practice--and the breathing and relaxation that goes along with it--to those might otherwise never be exposed to it. So for that, I applaud you! Just because I don't understand it or respond to it, doesn't mean that it isn't a good thing. I'm so glad that you've found yoga and that it's helped you, and obviously, that you're helping other people by spreading the yoga love. Good for you!\nFor all my blog readers, check out what DDP is doing here, and let me know your thoughts. It's definitely controversial in some ways, but I've decided that anything that gets people doing yoga, and paying attention to their bodies (and to their breath), is a good thing. Plus, I can tell it comes from a really good place (hard to tell from his website, but easier to see here).\nSo the moral of the story? Don't jump to conclusions, and don't judge a book by it's cover. Also, don't make flippant remarks online without doing a little research first...I've learned my lesson! Crazy story, huh?\nAnd DDP, if you're reading this--good for you for setting the record straight! Even if you did shame me a little bit with your response ;)\nGreat post Mary. I'm sure Dallas will be happy to read it. I know DDP personally and I definitely heard it from him how much the article bothered him...\nIronically, he had the same prejudice against traditional Yoga at first just as Yoga enthusiasts might have a prejudices against his flavor of yoga. He was able to get past his preconceived notions about Yoga, and it changed his life...\nI would liken his philosophy to one similar to Bruce Lee's -- who was criticized for creating a style of martial arts that mixes and matches different disciplines... mostly by traditionalists who were passionate but dogmatic at the same time. I've personally practiced traditional Yoga as well as DDP Yoga, and while different, you have to have an open mind when trying to understand what each brings to the table.\nSeeing that you are not only a Yoga practitioner, but a Cross Fitter as well, you might find that DDP's brand of Yoga has a unique edge that may even appeal to you!\nI am so glad you admit that you were wrong to jump to conclusions about DDP Yoga. It may not be for everyone, but the again, what is? We all have different needs and likes.\nI am a 51 year old obese (yes, I said it) housewife who has been working out with My Fitness Coach for Wii. Yes, a video game! I have not weighed myself in those three months, but I know I've lost weight because I've gone down 3 clothing sizes!\nI have just recently started doing DDP Yoga because I wanted to try something new. So far I love it. It may not be traditional yoga, but it is working for me. Its not just for guys, thats for sure!\nIf you find a workout routine you LIKE, then you will do it.\nHi Mary, great post. I have to say I'm a big fan of DDP Yoga, and not because he is hyper-masculine. I'm someone who has struggled with weight issues his whole life and back in my younger days I was able to manage it by being a runner, doing a bit of lifting, and taking Yoga classes and doing some of those Gaiam DVDs. Then I got older, married, and had a kid and my battle to keep myself healthy seemed like it was impossible. Weight lifting is no longer good because of bad joints and a really bad shoulder. Yoga is too darn expensive ($20 drop in rates for a working class dad is way too much for me), those Yoga DVDs are either too hard or too easy (or too boring), running hurts, and I just don't have time or money for Cross Fit.\nFor me, DDP is fun (even if sometimes corny), the perfect level of difficulty, completely scalable to anyone's fitness level, and helped my chronic pain enough that I've taken up running again. I'm not sure about the science behind it, but it has made me feel better in just a few weeks time. My shoulder has gone from being completely useless (I would be in pain reaching for the remote control) to being able to move it relatively pain free.\nI should also say when I was in college (20 years ago) I took some martial arts classes and the Sensei practiced something that would be considered MMA today, but he just called \"martial arts.\" One of the things he brought into his practice was Yoga (which he was a partitioner of outside of his martial arts), so I wasn't surprised at the idea of mixing Yoga and other types of movement. I'm not sure if this still \"Yoga\" or something else, but for someone like me it is a godsend.\nMy wife and I had never heard of DDP, nor ever watched pro wrestling, when we found his program on the web about 6 weeks ago. We really love it, and we do it every single day. We've both lost 20+ pounds during the six weeks and experienced dramatic improvements in flexibility, strength and confidence. We are just so psyched with DDP's program. It seems to combine Yoga with some other stuff that is familiar and satisfying -- the calisthenics, a bit of martial arts stuff. It also has a lot of positions and techniques straight out of physical therapy, a huge huge advantage of the program for older people with bad backs and such. Also, we joined DDP Yoga's team web site and have met some people, and gotten to know a lot more about DDP, who is a very charming, charismatic fellow who really helps people get motivated. We're convinced DDP Yoga is the real deal and not some \"faddish\" short-term thing, and are thinking in terms of a multi-year commitment to DDP Yoga as our sole or main work-out regimen. I hope other people who may feel skeptical about it at least give it a good look. It may not be for everyone, but for the people who it fits, like my wife and I, it fits superbly.\nThought you'd be a bit blown away/inspired by the type of work DDP is able to do for people through yoga. Am sure you may have seen or heard of this one example of the people he is able to reach and the extent to which he TRULY helps people.\nIt's \"Arthur's Story.\" Worth a watch. See video here: http://bit.ly/isToIY\nThis is an old article, but I still feel compelled to respond. I'm not quite sure why DDP's yoga program was attacked in the first place. Is this the kind of snooty elitism that exists in the yoga world? If so, count me out of ever embracing \"traditional\" yoga.\nWith that said, I applaud the author for recognizing her wrongdoing and apologizing.\nStill, to me, this whole paragraph reeks of self-superior condescension:\n\"In your video I could tell that you really do love yoga, and that you are trying to spread the benefits of the practice--and the breathing and relaxation that goes along with it--to those might otherwise never be exposed to it. So for that, I applaud you! Just because I don't understand it or respond to it, doesn't mean that it isn't a good thing. I'm so glad that you've found yoga and that it's helped you, and obviously, that you're helping other people by spreading the yoga love. Good for you!\"\nIt's as if the author thinks her way of yoga is the \"best\" but bravo to DDP for catering to the \"little people.\" Give me a break!\nI started DDP's program a few weeks ago and love it so far. Traditional, not traditional...does it matter? There's more than one way to do something. Options are a good thing, and DDP provides one that works for me.\nJust for the record ddp is a former wcw world heavyweight champion.\nAustralia people search link\nI am truly pleased to read this website posts which carries lots of helpful data, thanks for providing these kinds of statistics.\nLondon public records search link\nI found this blog while searching for DDP shirts for my husband (xmas present). I want to throw my 2 cents in. I bought this DVD for myself, an obese woman, after seeing Arthur's story. My super fit running husband teased me for impulse buying an exercise craze/gimmick. I started it, but didn't really stick to it (it is exercise after all, just buying the DVD doesn't help you lose weight! ;) ). A few months later, my husband who is an avid runner/weight lifter, hurt his knee and had to stop running. Believe it or not, he started doing the DDP Yoga as a substitute. It has been 8 months now and he is ADDICTED!! He doesn't lift weights at all anymore...and his only running is when he tags along with me every once in a while (believe it or not I started the C25K running program and have lost 30 lbs over the last 9 months!!). He is a total DDP convert and tells anyone who will listen what a great workout it is, and that he is in the best shape of his life at 44 without running or lifting weights!! But I was surprised when we saw a mutual friend recently that we know is a big yoga buff, and my husband wouldn't talk to him about it. He said \"People who do regular yoga look down on DDP.\" And I thought that was really sad. Sure, DDP focuses on the physical benefits and less on the spiritual side, but isn't getting healthy and taking care of your body a spiritual experience in it's own? I mean, my meat and potatoes husband is actually discussing cutting down on gluten and trying to rid our family's food of GMOs because he has listened to so many DDP podcasts now talking about the importance of what goes into your body. Sure, the guy isn't doing OMMMs while doing his yoga, but he's making major changes in LOTS of people's lives!!\nWow Amber, very well said!\nI didn't do yoga for years because I thought I wasn't thin enough, young enough, or flexible enough. And then I saw Arthur Boorman's video.\nAnd as shallow as people may think this makes me, I didn't want to have to learn an extinct language to exercise either. DDP Yoga prevents me from having to do that.\nMary, I'm impressed with your apology. As a DDPYoga member I have to tell you DDP is correct! It ain't your mama's Yoga! I have struggled to exercise over the past 14 years, not because I'm lazy but because I have a severe Diastisis Recti (separation of the ab muscles) so much so, my abs are on my sides quite literally. I love Zumba but because I have no core built up I would push myself and go home and end up in bed for a few days because my back wouldn't let me stand or walk. It has always been very painful.\nI have also had a hypo thyroid that only sits still when I've been pregnant. If that isn't in order no matter how much work you do, you can't lose the weight. I've had doctors tell me I have to exercise to lose the weight, but how can I do that when my body ends up in so much pain I can't take care of my 4 young children or my husband and house hold. Easier said than done... Yet I kept trying and failing!\nMy brother sent me the video of Arthur and his success and it was like I just knew! I ordered the program and got straight to work. The diet was simple because I like my creamy wheat & Oatmeal plain, I like my salad without dressing, I love turkey and ground turkey instead of hamburger meat etc...The eating was a cinch since I already knew how to eat. I lost 20 lbs in the first month. I also grew an inch not because I'm still growing in my late 30's but because my spine has been so crunched up (and no one knew it) that the Dynamic Resistance and constant stretching during the workouts would unwind my spine. I can attest to the program that Diamond Dallas Paige has put together, and I am thankful to him for it, because I am gaining a core and even after a workout I find myself being conscious about how I'm standing, what muscles I'm using when I walk, and I can feel my muscles working throughout the day just because I started out with a good low impact workout that is actually a super hard work out for your muscles... without all the back pain later!\nThank you for sharing your experience with us and what DDP said to you. I'm grateful that you can be objective, and will maybe even give it a chance to change your life... even if you look great and feel great, it can always be better! :) Take care.\nDDP was actually the WCW champion. It's kind of a big deal for the guys accolades.\nChampions put bums on seats.....\nI've bought about 5 different exercise program videos over the past 10 years and DDP is the ONLY one I've kept up with. I actually look forward to doing it each morning.\nElizabeth Collins link\nThis may be the only example of someone admitting their mistakes publicly on the internet! This is a really well-written piece, and I thank you for sharing it. I too had the similar preconceived notions about DDP Yoga before trying it, but I am beyond grateful that I did because it changed my life where no other form of yoga, or any other workout did. As DDP alluded to in his response to you, DDP Yoga is more than yoga. It has all the benefits of classical yoga but the dynamic resistance (inc. the punches) drive up your heart rate and have helped hundreds of people, yours truly included, lose weight and get into a healthy weight range without ANY impact that you normally have to endure to get that level of cardio. The combination of yoga and sports therapy in DDP Yoga make it so people can fix old injuries/pain conditions (again including yours truly) to gain a new lease on life and do things like run marathons. I don't dismiss classical yoga, there'd be no DDP Yoga without it, but I know it doesn't offer the same range of benefits that DDP Yoga does.\nI have been a daily yoga practitioner for over 15 years, and I have practiced 5 different yoga methods during that time, mostly Bikram and Baptiste. I've met many yogis from different methods and who've studied with different teachers. I have over 2500 yoga \"friends\" on facebook.\nYou wouldn't think it would be true, but yogis are the most rigid self-righteous people I've ever met in my life outside of a church. They all think the method of yoga practice is the only REAL yoga. They all think they way, or their teachers, teaches is the only RIGHT way to teach. The most shocking thing about this blog post? The apology. I don't remember ever hearing a yogi apologize for making a biased assumption before. There is hope for yoga afterall.\nMary, your article seems insincere at best, but I do to think it shows your true colors. I would never practice yoga or any exercise program under a person who was judgmental, shallow, and rude, such as yourself. DDP is unconventional, but he is CHANGING LIVES and giving people, who are usually ignored and mocked by people like you, a chance at health. Just wait until your health is taken from you and you are faced with the scary realities of limited mobility and pain. I don't know DDP personally but I commend him for giving the other 98% of society a fitness plan that that works, is affordable, and taught from the position of a partner and encourager that people like you are too shallow to associate with. Having done the DDP workouts, your article rubbed me the wrong way.\nIt's great that you apologized, but the fact is, you had a knee-jerk negative reaction to DDP simply because he is not a typical yogi. You didn't even investigate his program before slamming it. I started doing DDP Yoga after years of hatha yoga and kundalini yoga. It looked fun and I wanted to try it. I investigated it and I saw that he worked with a yoga teacher to develop the program. I think it's excellent, and I have a lot of experience with yoga. DDP is an inspiring teacher. He appeals to a lot of people who would not be caught dead in regular yoga classes. I think what he's doing is great. He's helping people who feel intimidated and unwelcome in regular yoga classes because they are obese and inflexible. (This makes me question just how much \"ahimsa\" is going on in these yoga studios if people don't feel welcome because of their size.) The reality is, too many yoga classes are aimed at the fit, the flexible, and the affluent. DDP is devoting himself to people who do not fit any of those descriptions. He's having a terrific \"second act\" helping people. He should be heartily commended for it by the yoga community at large.\nYou are kind of an asshole. How sexist is it to say \" hey ddp, why are you trying to make a female dominated exercise masculine? I mean are guys too manly for yoga...\" I mean just because you don't agree with a logo, doesn't mean the program is garbage. It also doesn't mean that men's egos are so big they wouldn't try it. I mean I don't believe in Islam and I don't think that people should believe in its teachings but I don't walk up to Muslims and give them the finger. Cause in essence that's what you have done. 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When companies start offering bond tokens and we can make investments using cryptocurrencies, how will that change investing as a whole?\nWe met with experts at Slush and asked them to offer their insights to these questions.\nHere\u2019s What You Need To Know When Investing in Fintech\nInvesting in a fintech company follows many of the same rules as investing in most other types of companies. But it does have its own special aspects as well. 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Second, you need to make sure that you can scale and that you are responding to real needs. Whether there\u2019s competition or not is secondary.\u201d\nAre We Soon Buying Shares with Cryptocurrencies?\nThere have been some examples already where companies have stepped into the future and taken advantage of bond tokens and cryptocurrencies. So the possibilities are real. Will they play a big role in buying shares in the future or are the current traditions going to prevail?\n\"This question would deserve a book of its own\", Aldon says. \"The big wins in tokenising asset classes come via efficiency gains from leveraging the unique properties of blockchains.\"\nHe sees great possibilities to many financial instruments leveraging distributed ledger technology, such as bonds and equities. \"This sounds like an incremental advantage over traditional methods. But early cars weren\u2019t that much better than a horse and cart \u2013 and we know how that played out.\"\nDardier is a strong proponent of the idea that cryptocurrencies are here to stay. \"It's been professionalizing itself. Now it's no longer the geek community, now financiers are getting involved with very stringent requirements which originate from the regulatory world.\"\nKosunen doesn't see cryptocurrencies as such taking off quite yet. He agrees that blockchain as a technology will have an effect on investing, but the current currencies will prevail.\n\"Except if we're talking about very long-term. Then I believe in currencies that aren't tied to any one government or state.\"\nFintech Taking Over Slush\nThis year Slush is packed with big fintech names and speakers, such as PayPal COO Bill Ready and iZettle CEO Jacob de Geer. In Kosunen's view, this shows that fintech has already entered the mainstream.\nAldon thinks it also tells something about the event itself, that it has the power to attract influential speakers at a time when there is an abundance of different conferences competing with one another.\n\"It means Slush really delivers a great experience. Something different, more relaxed and welcoming, and perhaps a bit less stiff than other events.\u201d\nHe sees that since it's a non-profit event and everything works thanks to volunteers, it creates a really strong feeling of community. \"It's people that build companies, after all.\"\nThe start-up atmosphere of Slush can also be attractive to huge companies, speculates Dardier. \"I think all big firms want to be seen associated with the dynamics of a start-up. 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The test can tell your doctor if faulty brain signals are causing low blood pressure.\nA tilt table test is used to evaluate the cause of unexplained fainting (syncope).\nYour doctor might recommend a tilt table test if you have repeated, unexplained episodes of lightheadedness, dizziness or fainting. The test can help determine if the cause is related to your heart rate or blood pressure.\nYour doctor might recommend a tilt table test to try to trigger your signs and symptoms \u2014 lightheadedness, dizziness or fainting \u2014 while your heart rate and blood pressure are being monitored.\nIf you have symptoms while you're in the upright position on the tilt table, the part of your nervous system that controls blood pressure and heart rate suddenly lowers them for a short time. Less blood flows to your brain, possibly causing you to faint.\nA tilt table test is generally safe, and complications are rare. But, as with any medical procedure, it does carry some risk.\nNausea and vomiting after fainting\nWeakness that can last several hours\nProlonged low blood pressure (hypotension) after the test\nThese complications usually go away when the table is returned to a horizontal position.\nYou might be asked not to eat or drink for two hours or more before a tilt table test. You can take your medications as usual, unless your doctor tells you otherwise.\nTo prepare you for the test, a member of your health care team will:\nHave you lie flat on the table that has a footboard and place straps around you to hold you in place.\nPlace sticky patches (electrodes) on your chest, legs and arms. Wires connect the electrodes to an electrocardiogram machine that monitors your heart rate.\nPlace a blood pressure monitor or cuff on your finger, on your arm or on both to check your blood pressure during the test.\nPlace an intravenous (IV) line into a vein in your arm for delivering medication, if needed, during the second part of the test.\nYou'll start by lying flat on your back on the motorized table for about five minutes.\nYou'll be moved to a nearly vertical position, where you'll remain from five to 45 minutes, depending on the reason for the test. While vertical, you'll be asked to remain as still as possible but to report signs and symptoms such as nausea, sweating, lightheadedness or irregular heartbeats.\nIf you don't faint or have other symptoms after 45 minutes, you might receive the medication isoproterenol (Isuprel) through an IV line in your arm. The medication might prompt the abnormal nervous system reflex that causes you to faint.\nYou then remain in the upright position for another 15 to 20 minutes.\nYour heart rate and blood pressure will be monitored in each position to evaluate your body's cardiovascular response to the change in position.\nIf you faint while vertical, the table will be returned to a horizontal position immediately, and you'll be monitored. Most people regain consciousness almost immediately.\nIn some cases, if blood pressure and heart rate changes indicate you are about to faint, the table is returned to a horizontal position so that you don't lose consciousness.\nWhen the test is complete, you can return to your normal activities.\nThe results of a tilt table test are based on whether you faint during the test and what happens to your blood pressure and heart rate. If the test is negative, your heart rate will increase only slightly, your blood pressure won't drop significantly, and you won't have signs or symptoms of fainting.\nDepending on the results, your doctor might recommend additional tests to exclude other causes of fainting.\nTilt-table test. American Heart Association. http://www.heart.org/HEARTORG/Conditions/HeartAttack/SymptomsDiagnosisofHeartAttack/Tilt-Table-Test_UCM_446441_Article.jsp#.WqlC0IIh3yw. Accessed March 14, 2018.\nZysko D, et al. Tilt table. In: StatPearls. Treasure Island, Fla.: StatPearls Publishing; 2018. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29493945.\nTilt table testing. Merck Manual Professional Version. https://www.merckmanuals.com/professional/cardiovascular-disorders/cardiovascular-tests-and-procedures/tilt-table-testing. Accessed March 14, 2018.\nTeodorovich N, et al. Tilt table testing. World Journal of Cardiology. 2016. 8;3:277.\nBenditt D. 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Look for this event at the Tech Lab just outside the entrance to the McCormick Place North Building on Tuesday, April 7, at 4:45 p.m. (There\u2019s another session on Sunday, but I\u2019m not participating in that one.)\nClick here for a map of the conference setup. The Tech Lab is No. 17.\nAccording to HIMSS:\nThe purpose of this roundtable is the same as the other sessions in the exhibit: to instruct and demonstrate. This session is not intended as an endorsement of any blog or blogger, nor is it meant to discuss in detail the specific content of any particular blog. The roundtable of panelists will provide attendees an opportunity to connect with industry bloggers, introduce them to new blogs and give a \u201cbehind the scenes\u201d look at the responsibilities and dedication required to create and maintain a blog. There are many current and potential readers (and potential bloggers) attending HIMSS09 \u2013 we would like to help them connect with you and your expertise.\nI\u2019m not sure how many others are on the panel, but that\u2019s a lot to cover in half an hour. See you there.\nSince I\u2019m a reporter, I have to offer this disclaimer: I am participating on behalf of myself only, not as a representative of any publication I contribute to. In no way does this constitute an endorsement of HIMSS on my part.\nSebelius has tax issues, too\nWhen Kathleen Sebelius was nominated to be secretary of Health and Human Services a month ago, I snidely remarked that I hope she\u2019s current on her taxes. That\u2019s the issue that derailed the nomination of President Obama\u2019s first choice for HHS, Tom Daschle.\nSomeone left a comment on that post just a few minutes ago about that hope being deflated. 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The minute-long ad will air from January 21 \u2013 January 31 during Peak (7:00 am-11:45 am) and Prime (6:00 pm-11:45 pm) on news networks such as CNN, CNN Headline News, MSNBC, CNBC, Fox News, Fox Business Network, TLC, Travel and Discovery. In partnership with Public Television (PTV), CVR will also be featured in a segment of Success Files with Rob Lowe, which will be distributed to over 200 PTV affiliates throughout the U.S.\nThis coverage comes at an important time\u2014over 40 million Americans suffer from varicose veins or spider veins, symptoms of an often undiagnosed disorder known as venous insufficiency, or vein disease. Vein disease may initially present as moderate leg pain, or just a cosmetic concern, but it can progress into skin discoloration, mobility issues, a heightened risk of Deep Vein Thrombosis (DVT), lymphedema or venous ulcers, if left untreated.\n\"We can easily stop the progression of the disease, patients just need to know when to come see us,\" says Dr. Eddie Fernandez, a physician and Regional Medical Director for Maryland South with CVR. Dr. Fernandez, who has practices in Rockville and Silver Spring, Maryland, is trained in all modern vein treatment modalities, which can be performed in-office, painlessly and without the use of general anesthesia. Patients return to normal activity immediately following treatment.\nCVR is headquartered in Greenbelt, Maryland and has 31 locations in Maryland, Virginia and Washington, D.C. alone. \"The communities in the DMV have a special place in the history of CVR,\" says CEO and President Dr. Sanjiv Lakhanpal. \"Our first procedure as a company was performed right here in 2007, and since then our organization has become synonymous with clinical excellence and superior patient care.\"\nThe Center for Vein Restoration now has over 70 centers in 13 states throughout the U.S. and has recently expanded to the Arizona and Illinois markets to meet the demand for vein care specialists.\nWatch the Informational Spotlight on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SU7gfTxuGt4\nFull list of CVR locations: https://www.centerforvein.com/locations/\nFollow CVR on Twitter: https://twitter.com/centerforvein\nBecome a fan of CVR on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/CenterforVein/\nFollow CVR on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/centerforveinrestoration/\nFollow CVR on Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/company/center-for-vein-restoration/\nABOUT SUCCESS FILES\nSuccess Files is an award-winning program highlighting new stories and innovative concepts through groundbreaking short-form and long-form documentary presentations. Program segments focus on a range of topics including education, health, business, the environment and agriculture.\nABOUT VENOUS INSUFFICIENCY\nVenous insufficiency, the cause of significant suffering due to the sequelae of venous hypertension, most commonly arises as achy, tired and heavy legs. It may or may not be associated with varicose veins, spider veins or skin changes including venous ulcerations and indiscriminately affects between 30\u201340 million Americans. Numerous factors including age, weight, prolonged sitting or standing, genetics or a history of DVT (blood clots) can increase the risk of developing this common and often underdiagnosed disorder. Treatment options have evolved to an array of minimally invasive procedures in an office setting.\nABOUT CENTER FOR VEIN RESTORATION\nCenter for Vein Restoration (CVR) is the largest physician led practice treating venous disease in the country. Having performed its first procedure in 2007 under President and CEO Dr. Sanjiv Lakhanpal, Center for Vein Restoration has since become a nationally recognized leader in the treatment of Chronic Venous Insufficiency. With 70 centers and growing, CVR has over 400 employees and conducts over 100,000 patient interactions each year. To learn more about CVR and its mission, visit http://www.centerforvein.com or by phone at 1-800-FIX-LEGS.\nSOURCE Center for Vein Restoration", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00240.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 627, + "original_length": 19403, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.93, + "perplexity": 182.5, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "https://www.medindia.net/health-press-release/Solera-Health-Johnson-County-Kansas-Team-Up-Against-Diabetes-401563-1.htm", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T04:23:27Z", + "digest": "sha1:KHSZODHGOVAN7UOEJWUVATJJI6XPRVGV", + "length": 4269, + "nlines": 15, + "source_domain": "www.medindia.net", + "title": "Solera Health, Johnson County, Kansas Team Up Against Diabetes", + "raw_content": "Solera Health, Johnson County, Kansas Team Up Against Diabetes\nIntegrated network matches at-risk community with unique prevention program\nPHOENIX, Jan. 28, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- Solera Health, a leading integrated community network, added Johnson County Department\nof Health and Environment in Olathe, Kansas to its national network of Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)-recognized diabetes prevention program (DPP) providers.\nEighty-six million American adults are living with prediabetes and 90 percent of them are unaware they are at high risk of developing type 2 diabetes. To fight this epidemic, diabetes prevention programs recognized by the CDC work with people with prediabetes on lifestyle changes that will reduce their risk of developing type 2 diabetes and improve their overall health.\nJohnson County's DPP intervention emphasizes that even small changes in diet and exercise can lead to significant lifestyle changes and prevent the onset of type 2 diabetes. Led by an experienced dietitian and lifestyle coach, the DPP sets goals of five to seven percent weight loss and an increase in physical activity to 150 minutes per week. Classes use a hands-on approach tailored for adults where participants attend cooking demonstrations, healthy food taste tests, and grocery store tours to change their eating habits. Another DPP feature is the grouping of participants with others facing similar lifestyle challenges. Classes are also available \"to go\" where a coach will travel anywhere with 12 or more participants.\nLast year, Johnson County's 41 DPP participants lost a combined 274 pounds. Several also saw reductions in A1c levels, translating to a decreased risk of developing type 2 diabetes to the point where they are no longer considered to have clinical prediabetes.\n\"Solera Health allows us to raise awareness of the services we provide to Johnson County as well as enables people in participating insurance plans a chance to take DPP classes free of charge,\" said Lougene Marsh, director of the Johnson County Department of Health and Environment. \"As a trusted partner in our fight against diabetes, they know well that prevention must be a focus if we are to reverse course against this disease.\"\n\"Growing our national network of DPP providers who meet the needs of their local communities is a Solera priority,\" said Brenda Schmidt, Solera Health's CEO. \"It's an honor to work with a program like Johnson County's that understands how adults learn best, which is crucial in instilling healthy habits that will help prevent diabetes.\"\nAbout Solera HealthSolera Health is an integrated benefits network that connects consumers, payers, and providers with community organizations and digital therapeutics, simply and securely. Solera helps consolidate highly fragmented programs and services into one integrated network, allowing health plans and medical providers to increase consumer participation while lowering associated costs. Solera proactively identifies the \"best fit\" program based on each individual's unique needs and preferences, which has proven to have a significant impact on improved patient outcomes at a fraction of the cost of traditional medical care. For more information, visit Solera Health at www.soleranetwork.com, call 800-858-1714 or follow us on Twitter @SoleraNetwork or LinkedIn.\nAbout Johnson County Department of Health and Environment Located in the southwestern quadrant of the Kansas City Metropolitan Region, Johnson County, Kansas is a community of choice with a current population of more than 590,000, making it the most populated of the 105 counties in Kansas. The Johnson County Department of Health and Environment has served as the county's public health department since 1943. The department's mission is to protect the health and environment, prevent disease and promote wellness for all who live, work and play in Johnson County through exceptional public service.\nMedia contacts: Joe Reblando for Solera Health 208366@email4pr.com 703-599-5641\nBarbara Mitchell, Public Information OfficerJCDHE208366@email4pr.com913-477-8436\nView original content:http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/solera-health-johnson-county-kansas-team-up-against-diabetes-300784977.html\nSOURCE Solera Health", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00240.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 620, + "original_length": 19198, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.92, + "perplexity": 293.9, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "https://www.medindia.net/news/stress-and-anxiety-may-increase-risk-of-psychiatric-disorders-157139-1.htm", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T03:51:05Z", + "digest": "sha1:ULJ2GBS6N2XPJGSFJQLDSEMBE2U4XHEC", + "length": 5262, + "nlines": 24, + "source_domain": "www.medindia.net", + "title": "Stress And Anxiety May Increase Risk Of Psychiatric Disorders", + "raw_content": "Stress And Anxiety May Increase Risk Of Psychiatric Disorders\nby Shirley Johanna on January 22, 2016 at 5:04 PM Mental Health News\nPeople who suffer from anxiety and chronic stress may be at increased risk of developing depression and even dementia, according to a scientific review.\nLed by the Rotman Research Institute at Baycrest Health Sciences, the review examined brain areas impacted by chronic anxiety, fear and stress in animal and human studies that are already published. The authors concluded that there was \"extensive overlap\" of the brain's neurocircuitry in all three conditions, which may explain the link between chronic stress and the development of neuropsychiatric disorders, including depression and Alzheimer's disease.\n\u2018Anxiety and chronic stress are associated with structural degeneration and impaired functioning of the brain, which may increase the risk of neuropsychiatric disorders.\u2019\nExperiencing anxiety, fear and stress are considered a normal part of life when it is occasional and temporary, such as feeling anxious and stressed before an exam or a job interview. However, when those acute emotional reactions become more frequent or chronic, they can significantly interfere with daily living activities such as work, school, and relationships. Chronic stress is a pathological state that is caused by prolonged activation of the normal acute physiological stress response, which can wreak havoc on immune, metabolic and cardiovascular systems, and lead to atrophy of the brain's hippocampus (crucial for long-term memory and spatial navigation).\n\"Pathological anxiety and chronic stress are associated with structural degeneration and impaired functioning of the hippocampus and the prefrontal cortex (PFC), which may account for the increased risk of developing neuropsychiatric disorders, including depression and dementia,\" said Dr. Linda Mah, clinician scientist at Baycrest's Rotman Research Institute and lead author of the review.\nThe review paper examined recent evidence from studies of stress and fear conditioning in animal models, and neuroimaging studies of stress and anxiety in healthy individuals and clinical populations.\nDr. Mah and colleagues looked specifically at key structures in the neurocircuitry of fear and anxiety (amygdala, medial prefrontal cortex, hippocampus) which are impacted by exposure to chronic stress. The researchers noted similar patterns of abnormal brain activity with fear/anxiety and chronic stress - specifically an overactive amygdala (associated with emotional responses) and an under-active PFC (thinking areas of the brain that help regulate emotional responses through cognitive appraisal). This see-saw relationship was first identified in a landmark study by world-renowned neurologist and depression researcher Dr. Helen Mayberg over a decade ago.\nDr. Mah, an assistant professor of Psychiatry in the Department of Geriatric Psychiatry at the University of Toronto, concluded her review on a hopeful note by suggesting that stress-induced damage to the hippocampus and PFC is \"not completely irreversible.\" Anti-depressant treatment and physical activity have both been found to increase hippocampal neurogenesis, she said.\n\"Looking to the future, we need to do more work to determine whether interventions, such as exercise, mindfulness training, and cognitive behavioral therapy, can not only reduce stress but decrease the risk of developing neuropsychiatric disorders,\" said Dr. Mah\nThe scientific review paper follows on the heels of a major study Dr. Mah published in the American Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry (first posted online in October 2014), which found some of the strongest evidence yet that anxiety may accelerate conversion to Alzheimer's disease in people diagnosed with mild cognitive impairment.\nDr. Alexandra Fiocco, a psychologist with the Institute for Stress and Wellbeing Research, Ryerson University, contributed to the review paper in Current Opinion in Psychiatry. The work was supported in part by the Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care AFP Innovation Fund.\nThe paper is posted online in the journal Current Opinion in Psychiatry.\n<< Love for Raw Beef Puts a Man in Tummy Trouble With 20ft Tape...\nMortality Risk High In Individuals With Eating Disorders >>\nHow Does The Body React To Stress\nPhysical symptoms of stress on the body are varied, ranging from hormonal changes to changes in the nervous system, manifesting as the flight-fight-freeze response.\nModerate Level of Anxiety may Improve Your Math Performance\nAmong students who reported that they valued math and embraced math challenges, a little nervousness may actually improve their performance.\nUnderstanding the Interactions Between Stress and Self-Control in Human Brain\nStressed peoples' brains exhibit altered patterns of connectivity between regions, thus reducing individuals' ability to exercise self-control over food choices.\nAgoraphobia is an anxiety disorder characterised by the patient avoiding spaces, crowds, or situations\nAnxiety Disorder Agoraphobia Palpitations And Arrhythmias Asperger\u00b4s Syndrome Stress Relief Through Alternative Medicine Stress and the Gender Divide Andropause / Male Menopause Heart Attack- Lifestyle Risks Hyperventilation Bereavement", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00240.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 664, + "original_length": 21243, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.93, + "perplexity": 286.1, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "https://www.medindia.net/news/who-recommendations-women-in-zika-hit-countries-should-breastfeed-babies-158130-1.htm", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T03:45:06Z", + "digest": "sha1:5T6UMYGHOUFSKPTGVNUSKDUNPC4KXXFC", + "length": 2834, + "nlines": 22, + "source_domain": "www.medindia.net", + "title": "WHO Recommendations: Women In Zika Hit Countries Should Breastfeed Babies", + "raw_content": "WHO Recommendations: Women In Zika Hit Countries Should Breastfeed Babies\nThe World Health Organization (WHO) suggests that women infected with Zika virus should continue to breastfeed their babies as there is no proof of a risk of transmission.\n\"In light of available evidence, the benefits of breastfeeding for the infant and mother outweigh any potential risk of Zika virus transmission through breast milk.\" the WHO said in interim recommendations to authorities in countries affected by the outbreak.\n\u2018Zika has been declared a global emergency because of its association with a rise in babies born with abnormally small heads.\u2019\nThe WHO noted that the Zika virus had been detected in the breast milk of two infected mothers, but added \"there are currently no documented reports of Zika virus being transmitted to infants through breastfeeding.\"\n\"A systematic review of evidence will be conducted in March 2016 to revise and update these recommendations,\" it added.\nCases of active Zika transmission have been reported in 28 countries and territories in the Americas and Caribbean, with 1.5 million in Brazil, the hardest-hit country.\nIn nearly all Zika cases, symptoms are mild, resembling those of flu. However, the growing belief that Zika can also trigger microcephaly in babies born to mothers infected while pregnant has spread international alarm.\nMicrocephaly is a congenital condition that causes abnormally small heads and hampers brain development.\nThere is currently no cure or vaccine against the Zika virus.\nWHO chief Margaret Chen warned that the virus will be hard to stamp out.\nThe situation \"could get worse before it gets better,\" she said in Rio de Janeiro after a fact-finding mission to Brazil.\n\"We are dealing with a tricky virus, full of uncertainties, so we should be prepared for surprises,\" she said.\nChan added that up to 46 countries have reported some level of evidence of Zika infection and that 130 countries are home to the Aedis aegypti mosquito that carries the virus, meaning the eventual spread of the disease could be enormous.\n<< A Powerful Drug in the Fight Against Familial Transthyretin...\n3-D Microscopic Imaging Used to Safely Reveal the Diet of '... >>\nSwift Action Needed To Minimize Economic Impact Of Zika Outbreak: World Bank\nThe impact of the mosquito-borne Zika virus will be modest, if $3.5 billion, or 0.06 percentage points is taken off of gross domestic output (GDP) for the affected region this year.\nExperts from the US Centers for Disease Control are already in Brazil and officials from the Food and Drug Administration and the National Institutes of Health, are due to arrive.\nSwitching Baby from Bottle to Cup\nFind tips on how to switch toddler from bottles and sippy cups to adult cups and say bye-bye to bottle feeding.\nBreast Feeding Switching Baby from Bottle to Cup", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00240.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 651, + "original_length": 17966, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.95, + "perplexity": 312.2, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "https://www.meforum.org/islamist-watch/56794/york-board-apologizes-for-principal-anti-muslim", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T03:17:30Z", + "digest": "sha1:BXGVEM6MYUS33UA4INPLQ4Q3GJLBCJPP", + "length": 932, + "nlines": 7, + "source_domain": "www.meforum.org", + "title": "York board apologizes for principal's anti-Muslim postings :: Islamist Watch", + "raw_content": "York board apologizes for principal's anti-Muslim postings\nby Kristin Rushowy and Noor Javed\nhttps://www.meforum.org/islamist-watch/56794/york-board-apologizes-for-principal-anti-muslim\nThe York Region school board has publicly apologized for the anti-Muslim, \"discriminatory and disrespectful\" social media postings of an elementary school principal.\n\"The board would like to apologize to the school community for failing to uphold the shared values of respecting human rights, inclusivity and student safety,\" says the statement, posted online, about the materials on Ghada Sadaka's Facebook page.\n\"In particular, we apologize to the Muslim students, parents and families of Sir Wilfrid Laurier Public School. We recognize that the posts impacted your sense of safety and inherent self-dignity.\"\nThe apology was part of a settlement of a human rights tribunal case launched by parents and the National Council of Canadian Muslims.", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00240.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 56, + "original_length": 2168, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.92, + "perplexity": 258.2, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "https://www.meforum.org/islamist-watch/57325/cair-official-who-slams-muslim-facilitators", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T03:38:13Z", + "digest": "sha1:QQLPFWDMSSL7K7NYBJRAPI5PDDI7KSMZ", + "length": 896, + "nlines": 7, + "source_domain": "www.meforum.org", + "title": "CAIR Official Who Slams Muslim Facilitators of Interfaith Dialogue Wins Community Award :: Islamist Watch", + "raw_content": "CAIR Official Who Slams Muslim Facilitators of Interfaith Dialogue Wins Community Award\nhttps://www.meforum.org/islamist-watch/57325/cair-official-who-slams-muslim-facilitators\nLast month, Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) leader Zahra Billoo said that \"pro-Israel work is pro-terror, pro-violence...and pro-apartheid.\"\nDays later, Billoo received the Community Builder Award from People Acting in Community Together (PACT) during the organization's annual leadership event.\nBilloo's views, however, do not sound like she is someone who promotes societal cohesion or inclusivity.\nOriginally rescinding Billoo's award in June, PACT caved to pressure from religious and civic figures and reversed its decision.\nBut before agreeing to accept the award, Billoo said that she forced PACT to \"acknowledge that the Palestinian struggle is inextricably connected to our collective liberation.\"", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00240.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 55, + "original_length": 2164, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.92, + "perplexity": 331.5, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "https://www.mentordigital.co.uk/services/print-brand/branding/", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T03:16:54Z", + "digest": "sha1:CUU3NMWW4FXDSDT56APIRXUABZXLSNYU", + "length": 252, + "nlines": 1, + "source_domain": "www.mentordigital.co.uk", + "title": "Branding and Brand Identity | Mentor Digital", + "raw_content": "Mentor Digital's creative team work closely with you to create your brand identity. Your identity is more than just a logo so we get to the heart of your business and really bring it to life, pushing your core values and inspiring your target audience.", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00240.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 72, + "original_length": 2165, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.93, + "perplexity": 308.4, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "https://www.mercurynews.com/2018/02/13/kate-middleton-faces-times-up-red-carpet-dilemma-at-british-film-awards/", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T03:36:56Z", + "digest": "sha1:G4Y66NLNX7OCUMGOC3JRYI3WAKZZ66CH", + "length": 4498, + "nlines": 27, + "source_domain": "www.mercurynews.com", + "title": "Kate Middleton faces Time's Up fashion dilemma at BAFTAs", + "raw_content": "Kate Middleton faces Time\u2019s Up red carpet\u2026\nKate Middleton faces Time\u2019s Up red carpet dilemma at British film awards\nLONDON, ENGLAND \u2013 FEBRUARY 12: Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge and Prince William, Duke of Cambridge attend the 70th EE British Academy Film Awards (BAFTA) at the Royal Albert Hall on February 12, 2017 in London, England. (Photo by Daniel Leal-Olivas- WPA Pool/Getty Images)\nLast year, Kate Middleton wore a gorgeous black, off-the shoulder gown to the annual British Academy of Film and Television awards ceremony.\nCatherine, Duchess of Cambridge, and Prince William, Duke of Cambridge, attend the 70th British Academy Film Awards in 2017. (Photo by Chris Jackson/Getty Images)\nBut this year, whether the Duchess of Cambridge chooses to wear black, or not, to Sunday night\u2019s BAFTA ceremony in London could have serious political implications.\nFollowing the trend set at the Golden Globe Awards, female attendees at the star-studded BAFTA ceremony have been urged to wear black in solidarity with the Time\u2019s Up initiative, started by prominent women in Hollywood to fight sexual harassment and gender inequality in entertainment and other industries.\nIt\u2019s fair to guess that the 36-year-old wife of Prince William sympathizes with the Time\u2019s Up position against sexual harassment and assault.\nThe thing is, royal protocol dictates that members of the royal family are supposed to avoid making public political statements, the Daily Mail reported.\nYes, it\u2019s tricky enough for any woman to figure out what to wear to a glamorous high-profile event. Middleton, who also is seven months pregnant, now has to be mindful of the social and political reckonings taking place on both sides of the Atlantic, following allegations of sexual harassment and assault that have brought down powerful men in Hollywood, politics, tech and other industries.\nReese Witherspoon, Eva Longoria, Salma Hayek, and Ashley Judd at the 75th Annual Golden Globe Awards in January. (Photo by Frazer Harrison/Getty Images)\nCertainly, Middleton wouldn\u2019t want to stand out by not wearing black.\nMeanwhile, her husband, the second-in-line to the British throne, doesn\u2019t have to worry. He can just show up wearing a regulation black tuxedo.\nSandwiched between the Golden Globes and the Academy Awards, the British film awards have been around since 1949 and have never failed to attract some of the biggest names in film and TV, the Evening Standard said. Over the years, attendees have included Audrey Hepburn, Angelina Jolie and, last year, Nicole Kidman, Emma Stone and Penelope Cruz.\nThe evening also has a long association with the royal family. Prince William has been the president of BAFTA since 2010, which has meant that he and his wife attend its annual awards ceremony.\nPrince William and Kate Middleton arrive at the BAFTA \u2018Brits to Watch\u2019 event in Los Angeles in 2011. (Photo by Matt Baron-Pool/Getty Images)\nThe duchess\u2019s BAFTA debut was at an event in Los Angeles in 2011, a few months after her royal wedding. For that, she wore a lavender gown designed by Alexander McQueen. Her black gown at last year\u2019s ceremony also was by McQueen, who moreover designed her wedding gown.\nAt the Golden Globe Awards in January, prominent Hollywood women stuck to the black dress code; Reese Witherspoon, Nicole Kidman, Meryl Streep, Jessica Chastain, Ashley Judd and Natalie Portman all came in black.\nOnly a few women opted to not abide by the dress code.\nOne was Indian journalist Meher Tatna, the president of the Hollywood Foreign Press Association. She wore a red gown for \u201ccultural\u201d reasons, she told the Los Angeles Times.\nAnother was actress Blanca Blanco, whose bright red dress featured a plunging neckline and slit cut high above her thigh. Then again, the Watsonville-born Blanco, whose credits include D-list films, is known for wearing attention-getting ensembles on the red carpet.\nFor Sunday night\u2019s BAFTA ceremony, the Daily Mail said things are even a bit more complicated for the duchess in deciding what color to wear.\nGolden Globes: Dressed in black, who stood out \u2014 the good and the bad\nBlanca Blanco: Controversial red dress at the Golden Globes about personal choice, not self-promotion\nOprah\u2019s call for \u2018new day\u2019 for women\u2019s equality ignites Twitter\nRoyal protocol also says it\u2019s not OK to wear all-black in public \u2014 unless for mourning purposes presumably.\nActually, Middleton avoided that all-black rule last year; her black Alexander McQueen gown featured white floral embellishments.", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00240.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 287, + "original_length": 10455, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.94, + "perplexity": 217.9, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "https://www.meridianiliffe.co.uk/resources/ego-the-enemy-of-success-in-leadership-teams/", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T03:41:23Z", + "digest": "sha1:KOBFX4TISA55CJGQWHU2F6IYTIX46GUG", + "length": 4520, + "nlines": 19, + "source_domain": "www.meridianiliffe.co.uk", + "title": "Ego: the enemy of success in leadership teams", + "raw_content": "Ego is more common in leadership teams that you might realise. It is a significant factor in the prevention of success for a team. In some teams it is more overt than in others but it is surprising how often it rears its destructive head. How does ego play out in a leadership team?\nConflict: 2 or more people with a different view, who each believe they are right and the other is wrong. Ego.\nNon alignment: Individuals placing most emphasis on their part of the business to the detriment of other functions in the business. All pulling in different directions. Ego.\nTeams dominated by one or more individuals, where one individual speaks over and above everyone else. Ego.\nTeams where individuals are too afraid to speak up. Ego.\nCompetition amongst team members, the need to win over others, to beat other members of the team, to achieve more than their team members, to look better than others in the team. Ego.\nEgo gets in the way of alignment. Ego prevents success. Ego creates disharmony and conflict amongst the team. Ego pits individuals against each other.\nWhen we work with leadership teams, individuals get a realization of how their egos affect the dynamics in the team, they notice how different they are with each other when they allow their ego to fall away. How much more efficient, effective and successful they become.\nWhen ego is not in play, team members listen to each other, they look to understand each other\u2019s point of view, they look to see and take account of the other\u2019s perspective. In doing so the whole team sees a much wider perspective, they see new and better solutions and they come to decisions much more quickly.\nThere\u2019s a line in a song called Hymn for my Soul by Andy Fairweather-Low\u2019s song Hymn for my Soul. It goes: \u201cI saw myself today, didn\u2019t like what I had to say. So right I could only be wrong\u2026.\u201d\nOur ego needs to be right, our ego gets positional, our ego needs to win. When we know we\u2019re right and everyone else is wrong, we know ego is in play. Ego wants its own way. Ego wants everyone else to do things its way. When you can\u2019t hear or see other people\u2019s perspectives ego is in play.\nEgo invites ego. When one person comes from ego, it invites other\u2019s ego into play. Then we have two or more people who have to win, who know that they are right. They can\u2019t both be right. Can they?\nOften when ego falls away, neither point of view is wrong \u2013 it\u2019s just one sided. When both points of view are taken into account the bigger picture is seen. For example one person insists on rushing and getting the job done quickly, the other wants to slow down. The first person is concerned that the job is running up extra costs, the second person is worried that there\u2019s a risk. Both perspectives are valid.\nLack of ego in a team allows all views to be heard, bigger pictures to be seen, wiser decisions are made.\nA commonly held understanding is that all teams need to go through a storming phase in their development. We agree that it is common for teams to do so, however it is not a necessary phase. When a team is storming, ego is staking it\u2019s claim, jostling for position, pushing it\u2019s boundaries, exerting it\u2019s place in the team. We\u2019ve seen brand new teams skip the storming phase, and teams that have been storming for 18 months come out of the phase in 2 days.\nWhen the whole team understand the role ego is playing in the storm, then there is no need for it.\nPeter Hawkins Leadership Team research indicates that when effective teams meet it \u2018raises the morale and energy of the team members\u201d. When ego is out of the game people listen more to each other, they stop competing with each other, they look to understand each other, they\u2019re more supportive of each other, they don\u2019t judge or criticize each other and as a result they feel better after they have come together than they did before. Their morale and energy is raised. People hear wisdom rather than ego. And when all individuals in the team hear the quiet voice of wisdom and bring it together to the collective agenda then perspectives widen, the team gets greater clarity and new thinking and solutions open up.\nThe voice of ego is very loud. The voice of wisdom, very quiet. There is wisdom in what everyone is saying, but ego doesn\u2019t always allow it to be heard. When the noise of ego drops, the quiet voice of wisdom has room to surface.\nThis entry was posted in Leadership , Article, State of Mind, tagged Connection, Interpersonal relationships, Inner voice, Leadership, Wisdom and posted on April 25, 2018", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00240.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 86, + "original_length": 5598, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.97, + "perplexity": 319.5, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "https://www.metso.com/news/2004/4/the-annual-general-meeting-of-metso-corporation-dividend-of-eur-0.20-per-share/", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T04:13:37Z", + "digest": "sha1:INE4BWD64DNSOUPT7V7LYT5M7ZFZXVUF", + "length": 2776, + "nlines": 7, + "source_domain": "www.metso.com", + "title": "THE ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING OF METSO CORPORATION: DIVIDEND OF EUR 0.20 PER SHARE - Metso", + "raw_content": "Metso global website News 2004 THE ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING OF METSO CORPORATION: DIVIDEND OF EUR 0.20 PER SHARE\nTHE ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING OF METSO CORPORATION: DIVIDEND OF EUR 0.20 PER SHARE\nThe Annual General Meeting of Metso Corporation approved the accounts for 2003 as presented by the Board of Directors and voted to discharge the members of the Board of Directors and the President and CEO of Metso Corporation from liability for the 2003 financial year. In addition, the Annual General Meeting approved the proposals of the Board of Directors. These applied to authorizations to resolve to repurchase and to dispose the Corporation's own shares, to increase the share capital by issuing new shares, convertible bonds and/or stock options. The Annual General Meeting decided, as proposed by the Board, to distribute a dividend of EUR 0.20 per share.\nThe Annual General Meeting decided to establish a Nomination Committee of the Annual General Meeting to prepare proposals for the following General Meeting in respect of the composition of the Board of Directors along with the director remuneration. Nomination Committee consists of the representatives of the four biggest shareholders along with the Chairman of the Board of Directors as an expert member.\nMatti Kavetvuo was re-elected the Chairman of the Board at the Annual General Meeting and Jaakko Rauramo, Chairman of the Board of SanomaWSOY Corporation was elected the Vice Chairman of the Board. Risto Hautam\u00e4ki, President and Chief Executive Officer of Tamfelt Corporation and Satu Huber, State Treasury, Director of Finance and Head of Finance Division, were elected new Board members. Board members re-elected were Maija-Liisa Friman, President and CEO of Aspocomp Group Oyj, D. Sc. (Tech.) Juhani Kuusi, and Pentti M\u00e4kinen, Chief Shop Steward. The auditing company, Authorized Public Accountant PricewaterhouseCoopers was re-elected to act as an Auditor of the Corporation.\nThe Board of Directors was authorized to resolve to repurchase and to dispose of the Corporation's own shares and increase the share capital within one year of the shareholders' meeting. The authorization entitles the Board to repurchase the Corporation's own shares for use as consideration in acquisitions or in financing investments, as incentives for key persons, or to be disposed of in other ways or to be cancelled.\nThe Annual General Meeting decided that a dividend of EUR 0.20 per share be paid for the financial year which ended on December 31, 2003. The dividend will be paid to shareholders who have been entered as shareholders in the Corporation's shareholder register maintained by the Finnish Central Securities Depository Ltd. by the dividend record date, April 13, 2004. The dividend will be paid on April 20, 2004.", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00240.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 122, + "original_length": 4907, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.95, + "perplexity": 159.1, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "https://www.miamifamilydentists.com/services-teeth-extractions.php", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T03:52:26Z", + "digest": "sha1:XMFDSRP76CZT4XHWSIHZU4YIDLGBN64L", + "length": 2046, + "nlines": 7, + "source_domain": "www.miamifamilydentists.com", + "title": "Services | Dental American Group", + "raw_content": "Dental American Group > Services > Teeth Extractions\nIn certain situations, the best option for dental treatment is to have a tooth removed. The extraction process is generally quick, often less than an hour. Some reasons for having a tooth extracted include severe decay, irreparable damage, advanced gum disease, poor tooth positioning and orthodontic treatment.\nThe process for extracting a tooth starts by applying a local anesthetic to numb the tooth and the areas that surround it. Once the patient is numb, the dentist will begin the actual extraction. During this time, the patient will likely feel some pressure in the area, but they should not experience pain. Larger teeth may need to be cut into multiple sections before they can be properly removed.\nOnce the extraction is complete, it is very important to form a blood clot at the site of the extraction. This allows the healing process to begin as quickly as possible. A blood clot is formed by having the patient bite down on a gauze pad for 30 to 45 minutes. Once the clot has properly formed, it must not be disturbed. Patients who have just had a tooth extracted are advised to refrain from using a straw, rinsing vigorously, smoking, intense exercise and drug and alcohol consumption for at least 24 hours after the procedure.\nAfter the local anesthesia wears off, many patients experience some moderate pain at the extraction site. Our dentist will recommend an over-the-counter pain reliever or a prescription if necessary. This medication will greatly reduce discomfort and provide a soothing effect. Patients are also instructed to use an icepack on the outer cheek near the extraction site as a way of reducing swelling.\nAfter 24 hours, the patient will be able to resume their normal activities of brushing and flossing. If the patient experiences severe pain or uncontrolled bleeding after the procedure, they should contact our office immediately.\nIf you would like to learn more about tooth extractions, please contact us at (786) 320-7554 to schedule an appointment.", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00240.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 120, + "original_length": 5070, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.95, + "perplexity": 267.2, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "https://www.michigan.gov/sos/0,4670,7-127-12539_71018---F,00.html", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T03:49:28Z", + "digest": "sha1:6QXSQ4ZJ7XYPGRRXFFCESTTGUKIIBRRL", + "length": 9188, + "nlines": 59, + "source_domain": "www.michigan.gov", + "title": "SOS - Commercial Drivers - Self and Medical Certification", + "raw_content": "What must I do to comply with the new requirements to make my medical certification part of my CDL driving record?\nYou are required to self-certify to a single type of commercial driving on your driver's license application form when you:\nApply for a CDL;\nRenew a CDL;\nApply for a higher class of CDL;\nApply for a new endorsement on a CDL; or\nTransfer a CDL from another state.\nYou may need to provide a valid medical examiner's certificate and show any medical variance documents you have when renewing your CDL or obtaining an original one. You can provide this to the Michigan Secretary of State by visiting any office, faxing it to 517-636-4359 or sending it online at www.Michigan.gov/CDL.\nThe SOS will be unable to process any of these forms if they are incomplete or illegible, and will return them to you.\nHow do I determine which type of commercial motor vehicle (CMV) operation I should self-certify to?\nTo comply with the new medical certification requirements, you must first determine which type of commercial driving you do. Please follow the three steps below.\nIs your CDL used to operate a commercial motor vehicle in interstate or intrastate commerce?\nInterstate commerce is when you drive:\nFrom one state to another state or to a foreign country;\nBetween two places within a state, but the route takes the vehicle through another state or foreign country; or\nBetween two places within a state, but your cargo came from or will be delivered to another state or foreign country.\nIntrastate commerce is when you drive a commercial motor vehicle only within one state and you do not meet any of the descriptions above for interstate commerce.\nNOTE: If you operate in both intrastate commerce and interstate commerce, you must choose interstate commerce.\nOnce you have determined whether you operate in interstate commerce or intrastate commerce, you must decide whether your status is non-excepted or excepted status.\nInterstate Commerce -- Excepted or Non-excepted:\nIf the only type of commercial driving you do is one of the following excepted activities, then you operate in excepted interstate commerce and do not need to submit a federal medical examiner's certificate.\nTransporting school children and/or school staff between home and school;\nTransporting human corpses, or sick or injured persons;\nOperating a fire truck or rescue vehicle during emergencies and other related activities;\nPrimarily transporting propane winter heating fuel when responding to an emergency condition requiring immediate response such as damage to a propane gas system after a storm or flooding;\nResponding to a pipeline emergency condition requiring immediate response such as a pipeline leak or rupture;\nWorking in custom harvesting on a farm or to transport farm machinery and supplies used in the custom harvesting operation to and from a farm or to transport custom harvested crops to storage or market;\nWorking as a beekeeper in the seasonal transportation of bees;\nOperating a vehicle controlled and operated by a farmer, but not a combination vehicle (power unit and towed unit), that is used to transport agricultural products, farm machinery or farm supplies, but not placardable hazardous materials, to and from a farm and within 150 air miles of the farm;\nDriving as a private motor carrier of passengers for nonbusiness purposes; or\nTransporting migrant workers.\nIf your commercial driving does not include any of the activities listed above, then you operate in non-excepted interstate commerce and are required to provide a current medical examiner's certificate (49 CFR 391.45), commonly referred to as a medical certificate or DOT card.\nMost commercial drivers operating in interstate commerce are non-excepted interstate commerce drivers.\nIf you operate in both excepted interstate commerce and non-excepted interstate commerce, you must choose non-excepted interstate commerce.\nIntrastate Commerce -- Excepted or Non-excepted:\nYou operate in excepted intrastate commerce when you drive a commercial motor vehicle only in intrastate commerce activities that your state of licensure has determined do not require you to meet the state's medical certification requirements.\nYou operate in non-excepted intrastate commerce when you drive a commercial motor vehicle only in intrastate commerce and are required to meet your state of licensure's medical certification requirements.\nIf you operate in both excepted intrastate commerce and non-excepted intrastate commerce, you must choose non-excepted intrastate commerce.\nProvide the Secretary of State's Office with your self-certification of your operating status. If you self-certify to non-excepted interstate you must provide the Secretary of State's Office with an original or a copy of your current medical examiner's certificate.\nTo complete the federal medical certification requirements, bring your documents to any Michigan Secretary of State, fax them to 517-636-4359 or submit them online at www.Michigan.gov/CDL.\nMedical examiner's certificates that are valid only with a waiver exemption or skills performance evaluation certificates must be submitted in person at any Secretary of State office. You can find a list of Secretary of State office locations from the Branch Office Locator.\nAfter I provide the Secretary of State's Office with my unexpired medical examiner's certificate, do I still have to carry it with me when operating a commercial motor vehicle?\nBeginning on January 30, 2015, the paper copy of the medical examiner's certificate is valid for fifteen (15) days after it is issued. The driver should continue to carry the certificate with him or her until the expiration of the 15-day period. 49 C.F.R. \u00a7 391.41(2). Thereafter, the driving record contained on the CDLIS becomes the only method of validating the medical certification\nWhat if I am required to have a medical variance document along with my medical examiner's certificate?\nA medical variance document and the medical examiner's certificate must be submitted at a Secretary of State office in person. Use the Branch Office Locator to find the office nearest to you.\nThe Secretary of State's Office will record the medical variance on your driving record and send you a new driver's license that will show, \"V-CDL Variance\" as a reference.\nIf my commercial motor vehicle operation changes to other than non-excepted interstate, what should I do?\nIf you will no longer operate a commercial motor vehicle for non-excepted interstate purposes, you should report the change in the type of commercial operation with the Secretary of State's Office. The change must be reported before the current medical certification expires.\nIf a new medical certification is not received, the Secretary of State's Office will downgrade your driver's license and you will lose your privilege to operate a commercial motor vehicle.\nMust I visit a Secretary of State office to report a change to my type of commercial motor vehicle operation certification?\nYes, if you are changing to either of the intrastate options you must be issued a new driver\u2019s license with the \u201cK\u201d CDL Intrastate Only restriction.\nWhat should I do when my medical certificate or medical variance is about to expire?\nYou must obtain a new medical certificate and, if required, medical variance, and submit them to the Secretary of State's Office before the earliest expiration date is reached. You also are responsible for applying to FMCSA for a renewal of your variance.\nWhat happens if my medical examiner's certificate or variance expires before I provide the Secretary of State's Office with a new one?\nThe Secretary of State's Office will notify you that you are no longer medically certified to operate a commercial motor vehicle in non-excepted interstate commerce. The Secretary of State's Office will then remove all your CDL privileges from your license.\nWhat is the National Registry of Certified Medical Examiners and how do I find out more information about it?\nThe National Registry of Certified Medical Examiners (National Registry) is a Federal program that establishes requirements for healthcare professionals that perform physical qualification examinations for truck and bus drivers. To become a certified medical examiner (ME) and be listed on the National Registry, healthcare professionals must complete training and testing on the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration's (FMCSA) physical qualifications standards and guidelines. The National Registry web site is accessible to carriers, drivers, enforcement officials, and the general public.\nAll healthcare professionals whose scope of practice authorizes them to perform physical examinations, as defined by the state in which they practice, and who intend to perform physical examinations and issue medical certificates for commercial motor vehicle (CMV) drivers to meet the requirements of Section 391.41 of the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Regulations (FMCSRs) must be certified and listed on FMCSA's National Registry by May 21, 2014.\nFollow this link to go to a PDF document that contains several other frequently asked questions about the National Registry of Certified Medical Examiners.", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00240.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 369, + "original_length": 19355, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.93, + "perplexity": 323.2, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/women-egypts-prisons-i-know-im-stronger-i-went-through-worst-already", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T03:19:51Z", + "digest": "sha1:WXSP7BTNHYZS4YZEACABWFMRAKD4IC7V", + "length": 13677, + "nlines": 86, + "source_domain": "www.middleeasteye.net", + "title": "Women in Egypt's prisons: 'I know I\u2019m stronger. I went through the worst already' | Middle East Eye", + "raw_content": "Egyptian women, who have faced jail time for politically motivated charges, speak to MEE about their fight for freedom\nEgyptian women stand in the dock dressed in prison issued white during their trial in court in Alexandria for taking part in a protest on 7 December 2013 (AFP)\nCAIRO - \u201cIf there is one thing that this prison experience has taught me, it is that I know I\u2019m stronger; I went through the worst already,\u201d said Asmaa Hamdy, a dentistry student at al-Azhar University.\nHamdy was arrested in late 2013 when protests against the military coup that toppled president Mohamed Morsi, a leading member of the Muslim Brotherhood, took place on campus.\n\u201cI never imagined I would go through all of this,\u201d she told Middle East Eye. \u201cI thought that we would be freed once we stood on trial. But we were sentenced to five years instead; I realised it was real,\u201d she continued.\nAlong with three of her colleagues, Hamdy was given a five-year prison term. After spending three years in jail, she was eventually set free after winning an appeal that acquitted her.\nSix months after her sentencing, and a few days after the election of President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, Hamdy and all the political detainees in al-Qanater prison for women were beaten and assaulted by other inmates accused of criminal offences.\n\u2018If there is one thing that this prison experience taught me is that I know I\u2019m stronger. I went through the worst already\u2019\n- Asmaa Hamdy, a former detainee\nAccording to Hamdy, the attack was incited by the prison\u2019s administration. In her account of the beginning of the brawl, one prison guard picked a fight with a political inmate. While the remaining women gathered to ascertain what was going on, a scuffle broke out.\n\u201cCriminal inmates stormed our cell immediately; they were beating us with everything in their hands - batons, sticks, and with their bare hands. They threw dust at us; they dragged us on the floor; it was all for no reason, just blind hatred,\u201d she said. \u201cI was severely beaten and physically inspected in the most humiliating way.\"\n\u201cIt was the most horrific situation I have ever gone through in my entire life,\u201d she added.\n'I was severely beaten and physically inspected in the most humiliating way'\nAfter this attack, all female detainees involved in politically motivated cases were separated from each other and many of them were sent to different prisons. Hamdy was transferred to Damanhour prison in the delta.\nKeeping her going was the dream that all of her problems would end upon release from prison. But when her day of freedom did come, it was nothing but salt in her wound.\nHer fianc\u00e9e, journalism student Ibrahim Ragab, had disappeared just one week before her release.\nFormer Egyptian detainee Asmaa Hamdy and her fianc\u00e9e said that she had abandoned political activities after being shot while on a photography assignment Ibrahim Ragab (Photo courtesy of Asmaa Hamdy)\nRagab was on his way to visit Hamdy in prison to make wedding plans, but such hopes were shattered due to his suspicious disappearance.\n\u201cIbrahim was the only thing that made prison seem bearable. I was counting the days to freedom in order for us to get married, now everything is gone,\u201d she said.\nHamdy searched for her missing fianc\u00e9e for 81 days before Ragab was finally found in a police station in the northern city of Zaghazig where they live.\n\u201cI\u2019m happy I finally found him. It feels pathetic that you are happy that your fianc\u00e9e is jailed, but at least I\u2019m sure he is alive, at least I know where he is,\u201d she said.\n\u2018It feels pathetic that you are happy that your fianc\u00e9e is jailed, but at least I\u2019m sure he is alive\u2019\nTo Hamdy, it was the beginning of a new phase in anguish.\n\u201cMy first suffering of my jail ended, and now I\u2019m living another type of suffering: he is in jail.\u201d\nFacing protest-related charges, Ragab was allegedly tortured and kept in a state security detention facility for the entire period of his disappearance. The sole reason for his arrest was that Ragab was accompanying his friend Amir al-Yamany, who is wanted by security forces for allegedly being a member of the Muslim Brotherhood, which Egypt declared a terrorist group in 2013.\nIn the days when she is not visiting her fianc\u00e9e or preparing to visit, Hamdy just tries to cope with the overwhelming feelings by visiting friends in Cairo and following up with her plans to attend Azhar University again. Though it is where her ordeal began, she is not afraid to return.\n\u201cI\u2019m not afraid of coming back to university,\" she said.\n'They were beating us with everything in their hands - batons, sticks, and with their bare hands'\n-Asmaa Hamdy, a former detainee\nHamdy is not alone. There are no official statistics on the number of detainees in politically motivated charges since 2013, but Daftar Ahwal, an independent archiving initiative, has documented over 37,000 cases of arrests under the country\u2019s notorious Protest Law.\nSince the law was passed in 2013, around 1000 of these cases were filed against women.\nNazra for Feminist Studies, an NGO dedicated to advancing women's rights, has also documented violations against women following the violent dispersal of the protest camps at Rabaa al-Adawiya and Nahda squares.\nThey concluded that 19 women were killed in the dispersals and 52 others were arrested. A Human Rights Watch (HRW) report states that at least 1,000 Egyptians, predominantly supporters of the Muslim Brotherhood, were killed during the forcible dispersal of the protesters.\n'I will never forget those days'\nSara Khaled, also a dentistry student in a private university, was Hamdy's cellmate at al-Qanater prison. She was arrested under similar conditions as she was passing by a protest at Azhar University.\n\u201cThe protests were intense, and I was putting a pin with the yellow sign supporting the [Muslim Brotherhood] on, so I was easily identified by the police. They arrested me immediately,\u201d she said.\nKhaled was referring to the symbol of four-fingers on top of a yellow background emblematic of continued support for the Brotherhood and protests against the government.\nAccording to Khaled, she has no affiliations to the Muslim Brotherhood and only put the pin on as a show of solidarity with the victims of the Rabaa massacre. The pin was used as evidence against her when she was accused of participating in violent protests and being a member of the banned group.\nKhaled was sentenced to two years in prison, but only completed 10 months of her time after she was acquitted during an appeal.\nShe was subject to the same insults Hamdy faced inside prison, but her experience was even harsher.\n\u201cI was severely beaten and covered with dust. I went to the bath to take a shower, and my clothes were stolen while I was inside. I was completely alone,\" she said.\n\"I will never forget those days, imagine spending all this time with criminals, killers and drug dealers,\u201d she added.\n'Imagine spending all this time with criminals, killers and drug dealers'\n-Sara Khaled, a former detainee\nJust like Hamdy, Khaled is trying to cope by working hard in reapplying to private university and continue her studies. Much of her time is spent on Facebook, speaking out on behalf of those that remain inside prisons.\n\u201cThis worries my family a lot. They always ask me to stop writing about politics on Facebook out of fear that I may be jailed again, but at the same time they understand how I\u2019m attached to this cause because of my jail experience.\"\nThere are a number of cases where women have been arrested in protest-related charges. Around 21 women were detained as they were protesting against the removal of Morsi by forming a human shield on the streets of Alexandria in November 2013.\nFourteen of them were handed 11-year sentences, while the rest were kept in a juvenile facility. Fortunatel, the sentences were revoked when pressure mounted under a public outcry.\nIn June 2014, three female activists were also arrested while challenging the Protest Law as they marched to the presidential palace. They were later sentenced to two years in prison.\nActivists Sanaa Seif, Yara Sallam and Salwa Mehrez were later released following a pardon issued by President Sisi in September 2015.\nSeif was then jailed again for six months in May 2016 for insulting public officials when she publicly questioned the independence of the prosecution.\nAfter Sisi's coup, security forces initially targeted members of the Muslim Brotherhood but later expanded the crackdown to include other opposition figures and youth activists.\nOther women, like photographer Esraa al-Taweel, have also fallen victim to the mass arrests.\n'They asked me about everything in my life'\nIt was almost two years ago in the upscale Maadi district of Cairo when Taweel was getting ready to go out for dinner with her fiancee Omar Mohamed, an engineering student. She never expected that the day would end with her going to prison for six months.\nJoined by their common friend Sohaib Saad on this evening out, Taweel, Mohamed and Saad were arrested by men in plain clothing.\nTaweel was jailed for six months for allegedly belonging to Muslim Brotherhood but was released in December 2015.\nHer fiancee and Saad both faced a military trial and were sentenced to life in prison for allegedly being involved in \u201cterrorist\u201d attacks and belonging to the banned group.\nFormer Egyptian detainee Esraa al-Taweel and her fianc\u00e9e Omar Mohamed (Photo courtesy of Esraa al-Taweel)\nBoth Taweel and Mohamed also deny any links to the Brotherhood group. Taweel, who used to participate in protests against the military and the government, said that she had abandoned political activities after being shot while on a photography assignment.\nThe live ammunition struck her during the violent dispersal of peaceful protests on the day that marked the third anniversary of the January 25 revolution.\n\u201cWhen the bullet hit me, it fractured into three parts, two of them in my kidney and the third in my back, which caused a physical paralysis that kept me unable to move for one year and a half,\" she said. \"I was just starting to heal and walk when I was arrested. Why would I ever be accused of doing something I never committed? I was already suffering.\"\nAs for Mohamed, the campaign calling for his release which is titled \u201cFreedom for the one who has nothing to do with it,\u201d is an indication of how apolitical he was.\n'Why would I ever be accused of doing something I never committed? I was already suffering,\u201d\n- Esraa al-Taweel, former detainee\nIt took six months of convincing Egyptian authorities that Taweel has no affiliations to the Muslim Brotherhood. Despite being arrested with her fiancee at the same time and eventually gaining her freedom, to this day she has no idea of why he is still being held in a military prison.\n\u201cI ask myself this question a million times a day, but there\u2019s no answer,\u201d she added.\nThe 25-year-old went missing for almost three weeks, during which she believes she was held in a state security detention facility and was not permitted to contact her family members.\nFollowing her arrest, she was interrogated by security forces for 18 hours without a lawyer.\n\u201cThey asked me about everything in my life, from why I know many Islamist and leftist people, to how I bake a cheesecake.\u201d\nDuring this time, her family launched a media campaign in hopes of finding her, while the Interior Ministry adamantly denied arresting her in the first place.\nWhen she was moved to al-Qanater prison, Taweel felt a sense of relief.\n\u201cI felt like my soul was back in my body, the prison was like a paradise for me. I know it sounds weird, but at least I know where I am, at least there are people around me, even if I was trapped in a prison cell with 40 other women,\u201d she said.\n'They asked me about everything in my life, from why I know many Islamist and leftist people, to how I bake a cheesecake'\nA woman who was visiting a jailed relative recognised Taweel from the media campaign and immediately told the family of her whereabouts.\nThe next day as the police truck was moving Taweel outside of the prison to another area for formal interrogation, Taweel unexpectedly saw her sister and friend who had gone by to try to see her, and eagerly waved to her loved ones.\nFollowing this event, Taweel was moved to a bigger cell with other political detainees until she was released.\n'I discovered a whole new world'\nKnowing her fianc\u00e9e was still jailed did not ease her discomfort, so Taweel embarked on a journey to seek his release. She has the support of a number of international campaigns. Amnesty International is calling for Mohamed's freedom, saying that he was tortured and under duress was forced to confess that he committed violent crimes.\n\u201cWe are hoping that we can get a presidential pardon for him in the next list of pardons prepared by the presidential committee, whose members constantly promised that Omar will be pardoned. I\u2019m also hoping that we can finish our marriage procedures inside prison,\u201d Taweel added.\nUntil now, however, prison authorities have not allowed them to go ahead with their marriage procedures.\n\u201cThey separated us from each other and don\u2019t want even to let us get married,\u201d she said.\nMeanwhile, Khaled feels worried about those she left behind.\n\u201cI know heartbreaking stories of women implicated in political cases, and I realised that I was really better off. Many of these women are old, some of them are grandmothers, and they are implicated in very serious cases,\" she said.\n\"I discovered a whole new world I never imagined ever existed. These are emotional and psychological wounds that never fade away.\u201d\nEgypt's food price crisis: 'How are we supposed to eat?'", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00240.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 204, + "original_length": 15678, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.99, + "perplexity": 266.0, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "https://www.mlb.com/marlins/news/biggest-bargains-on-the-top-100-prospects-list/c-303629928", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T03:13:58Z", + "digest": "sha1:5CWXJ2NJSCPNTUFKE65TW7OKC5UCI34U", + "length": 7411, + "nlines": 31, + "source_domain": "www.mlb.com", + "title": "Biggest bargains on the Top 100 Prospects list | Miami Marlins", + "raw_content": "10 biggest bargains on the Top 100 Prospects list\nLofty signing bonuses given to top Draft picks and international signees often garner plenty of headlines and attention, and deservedly so.\nHowever, just because a prospect is handed a seven-figure bonus doesn't mean he's going to be a star. And just because a prospect isn't given a lucrative bonus, or selected in the top few rounds, doesn't preclude him from success either.\nThose points may be obvious, and have been proven true countless times across all sports, and this year is no different. Look no further than the Top 100 Prospects list. While the average signing bonus among the players on the list was nearly $3 million, with 17 of $5 million or more (Luis Robert, who signed for $26 million, tops the list), seven players signed for $100,000 or less, including five players that received five-figure bonuses.\nSixto Sanchez is one of those players that didn't generate a ton of buzz right out of the gate -- he signed for just $35,000 in 2015 -- but ultimately proved to be the key piece for the Phillies in acquiring J.T. Realmuto from the Marlins in February.\nVideo: Mayo breaks down Sanchez, Stewart going to Marlins\nInjuries limited Sanchez to eight starts and 46 2/3 innings in 2018, but a healthy '19 should remind everyone how electric he can be. The 20-year-old throws both a two- and four-seam fastball, a changeup and a curveball that could develop into a plus strikeout pitch. Yes, the original plan was for Sanchez to pitch atop the Phillies rotation, but the goal of a farm system is to improve the Major League club, and Philadelphia's $35,000 investment ultimately turned into Realmuto, an All-Star catcher.\nSanchez wasn't the cheapest prospect on the Top 100 Prospects list, but his return, for the Phillies, has already come to fruition.\nConsidering the players that get the big bucks often get most of the attention when they are signed and drafted, let's take some time to look at the other end of the spectrum. Here are the biggest steals on the Top 100 Prospects list.\nJonathan Loaisiga, RHP, Yankees (No. 66) -- $15,000\nLoaisiga tops the list, and it'd be hard to find a better bargain in baseball, considering the Yankees didn't have to offer him a signing bonus. The right-hander signed with the Giants for $15,000 in 2012, but after missing two seasons with shoulder issues, he was released in '15. The Yankees picked him up in 2016, but he underwent Tommy John surgery shortly after. The injuries have been a constant in his career, but when healthy, Loaisiga has been an impressive prospect. After starting 2018 with Class A Advanced Tampa, Loaisiga quickly climbed the ladder and made his MLB debut on June 15, when he struck out six over five scoreless innings.\nVideo: Top Prospects: Jonathan Loaisiga, RHP, Yankees\nJosh James, RHP, Astros (No. 62) -- $15,000\nThe 34th round of the Draft doesn't typically produce a ton of top prospects, but that's where the Astros found James, a product of Western Oklahoma JC, in 2014. The 25-year-old got off to a slow start in his career, but after improving his conditioning and fixing his sleep apnea, James' performance took off. He struck out 171 in 114 1/3 innings with Triple-A Fresno last season, then was promoted to Houston, where he fanned 29 in 23 frames and earned himself a spot on the postseason roster.\nVideo: Top Prospects: Josh James, RHP, Astros\nLuis Urias, INF, Padres (No. 23) -- $25,000\nWhile Urias' official signing bonus was $25,000, Mexican League teams, until recently, took up to 75 percent of a player's overall bonus, meaning the transaction cost the Padres $100,000. Urias, 21, hit .296/.398/.447 in 120 games with Triple-A El Paso last season before he was promoted to San Diego, where he appeared in only 12 games before a hamstring injury ended his season. Urias, who is among the best pure hitters on the Top 100 Prospects list, is currently penciled in as the Padres' Opening Day shortstop and is expected to be a big part of San Diego's future infield, along with Fernando Tatis Jr., who didn't make this list but could end up being quite a bargain as well after signing with the White Sox for $700,000 and then being acquired by the Padres in exchange for James Shields.\nVideo: Top Prospects: Luis Urias, 2B, Padres\nAdonis Medina, RHP, Phillies (No. 77) -- $70,000\nMedina, 22, gives Phillies fans plenty to be excited about, but he has struggled with consistency at times. The right-hander struck out 123 batters in 111 1/3 innings last season, but also gave up 103 hits and 11 homers.\nDanny Jansen, C, Blue Jays (No. 65) -- $100,000\nThe 475th pick of the 2013 Draft (16th round), Jansen took a bit of a winding road to the Majors as injuries cost him time in both 2014 and '16. However, Jansen broke out in 2017, and after getting off to a strong start in '18, he made his MLB debut. The 23-year-old, who hit .275 with a .779 OPS and three homers in 31 games for Toronto last season, is an offensive-minded catcher who has made significant strides defensively over the past two seasons.\nTaylor Widener, RHP, D-backs (No. 83) -- $100,000\nThe Yankees selected Widener in the 12th round of the 2016 Draft and then traded him to the D-backs prior to the '18 season as part of a package for Brandon Drury. Widener's first season in the Arizona system went about as well as anyone could have hoped. While his record was 5-8, the right-hander held opponents to a .197 average and struck out 176 in 137 1/3 innings with Double-A Jackson. He also posted a 2.75 ERA and notched four double-digit-strikeout games.\nLuis Patino, RHP, Padres (No. 48) -- $130,000\nPatino just completed his first year of full-season ball and was shut down in late August to limit his workload. So although there isn't a huge sample size yet, the Padres have to be feeling good about signing him for just $130,000. The right-hander racked up 98 strikeouts and held opponents to a .220 batting average over 83 1/3 innings in the Class A Midwest League last season. Patino, who holds his velocity deep into starts, has three plus pitches (fastball, curveball, slider) and a changeup that will likely improve with experience.\nKeibert Ruiz, C, Dodgers (No. 36) -- $140,000\nRuiz, a 55-grade defender, was signed because of his defensive ability, but his offensive development has helped him rise up the prospect rankings and turned him into the No. 3 catching prospect in baseball. The 20-year-old is a switch-hitter, but has been more productive from the left side early in his career. Ruiz hit .268/.328/.401 as a 19-year-old in Double-A last season, but what may be most impressive is the fact that he struck out only 33 times in 377 at-bats (101 games).\nVideo: Top Prospects: Keibert Ruiz, C, Dodgers\nBrusdar Graterol, RHP, Twins (No. 68) -- $150,000\nThe Twins signed Graterol in 2014, and after tossing only 11 innings in '16 and missing all of '17 because of Tommy John surgery, the hard-throwing right-hander has ascended up prospect rankings. This past season was the 20-year-old's first at the full-season level, and he impressed, going 8-4 with a 2.74 ERA and 107 strikeouts in 102 innings split between Class A Cedar Rapids and Class A Advanced Fort Myers. Graterol has a 70-grade fastball and a 60-grade slider, with the potential to become a frontline starter in the future. 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Brock\nWHEREAS, the United States spends $3.5 Trillion annually on health care, of which approximately $500 Billion is spent to accommodate the health insurance industry, and\nWHEREAS, that $500 Billion is more than enough to provide for the healthcare for all currently uninsured U.S. residents, and\nWHEREAS, administrative costs for the current system accounts for 31% of our healthcare dollar, compared to 14% for the Single Payer Systems of other industrialized countries, which provide comparable care for an average of about half the cost while still allowing for levels of compensation to providers similar to that in this country, and\nWHEREAS, the current system of health insurance is unnecessarily complex for patient and healthcare provider alike, resulting in severe financial difficulties for patients and expensive billing systems and uncompensated care for providers, and\nWHEREAS, when for-profit insurance companies deny needed care to our patients and simultaneously enhance their \u2018bottom line\u2019 we believe it to be an irreconcilable conflict of interest, and\nWHEREAS, the Affordable Care Act has failed to solve the underlying problems of the current system of health insurance, leaving tens of millions of Americans uninsured and many tens of millions more underinsured, and\nWHEREAS, an appropriately structured Single Payer System would replace the current overly complicated payment system, and does NOT represent socialized medicine--where the government otherwise would own all the healthcare facilities and all healthcare workers would be employees of the government, and\nWHEREAS, the United States already has a foundation for a nationally based system of health insurance in this country in the form of Medicare, and\nWHEREAS, an \u201cImproved Medicare for All/ Single Payer System\u201d would solve many of the current health insurance problems in this country, such as Universal Coverage, access to all medically necessary care for patients and lower administrative costs and burdens to providers, and\nWHEREAS, H.R. 676, the \u201cExpanded and Improved Medicare for All Act\u201d introduced in the current Congress of the United States would replace the current unworkable health insurance system with such a Single Payer System, that can cover every US resident for all medically necessary care with first dollar coverage, with funding via payroll, income, and other progressive taxes that would mean 95% of American households will pay less for their healthcare than they do now, and\nWHEREAS, we already spend enough money in the healthcare system to cover all US residents, we just do not spend it wisely, and\nWHEREAS, the Hippocratic Oath puts the needs of our patients above all other needs, therefore be it\nRESOLVED, the MSV amend by substitution policy 165.016 with the following language:\n\u201cMSV will support a national system of providing and financing a Single Payer System of health insurance that will:\nCover everyone, without copays or deductibles, for all medically necessary care, using a single large and efficient risk pool that does not penalize people based on age, illness, or disability; and where everyone contributes, based on payroll, income, and other progressive taxes;\nPromote competition and preserve a patient's choice of physician or other health care provider, including hospital and other health care facilities;\nRelieve businesses of all sizes from providing health insurance to their employees, thus removing the tie between an individual\u2019s health insurance and their employment; and\nAdvance an efficient and provider-friendly administrative and reimbursement system\u201d, and therefore be it further\nRESOLVED, the MSV supports H.R. 676, the \u201cExpanded and Improved Medicare for All Act\u201d, which proposes changing our health insurance payment system into an \u2018Improved Medicare for All/Single Payer System\u2019, and\nRESOLVED, the MSV AMA delegation shall bring a resolution stating the same principles, and supporting H.R. 676, to the next annual conference of the American Medical Association for their approval.", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00240.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 330, + "original_length": 9346, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.93, + "perplexity": 252.0, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "https://www.multihousingnews.com/post/todays-deals-greystone-closes-43-7m-affordable-transaction-in-alabama/", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T04:23:02Z", + "digest": "sha1:PHBCP4CV2ORTKBLGJB3PX5YHFZSBD2F3", + "length": 5746, + "nlines": 23, + "source_domain": "www.multihousingnews.com", + "title": "Greystone Closes $43.7M Affordable Transaction in Alabama", + "raw_content": "Greystone Closes $43.7M Affordable Transaction in Alabama\nGreystone has closed a $43.7 million affordable housing transaction in Alabama; NorthMarq secures $103.7 million for a Texas portfolio; and Berkadia structures $55 million for the construction of a multifamily property located in a master-planned community.\nNew York\u2014Greystone has closed a $43.7 million affordable housing transaction in Alabama. The 13 aged USDA Rural Development Section 515 properties, consisting of 398 apartment units serving low-income households in 10 counties across the state, are owned and operated by ARD Inc. The construction phase of the rehabilitation is expected to be completed within seven months with residents in place.\n\u201cAffordable housing communities across the U.S. are showing significant age and many are in need of extensive rehabilitation and modernization. Combining this fact with increased state and federal budget constraints has made preservation of existing affordable housing stock even more of a challenge,\u201d says Tanya Eastwood, managing director and head of Greystone\u2019s Affordable Housing Initiatives Group. \u201cWith little investments being made in construction of new multifamily affordable housing properties across rural America, renovating the already shrinking housing supply is more critical than ever.\u201d\nThe financing plan combined both public and private funding, and included:\nTax Exempt Bonds \u2013 Issuance of $13.8 million in multifamily private activity tax exempt bonds by the Alabama Housing Finance Authority. The short-term bonds were issued as a public offering facilitated by Merchant Capital and credit enhanced by Ginnie Mae.\nLIHTC \u2013 Purchase of 4 percent Federal LIHTCs by Boston Financial Investment Management, generating more than $7 million in capital contributions.\nRHS 515 Debt \u2013 Assumption and subordination of $10.1 million of original USDA RD Section 515 debt. The Section 515 program is a direct loan program designed to provide subsidized loans to developers of affordable housing in rural markets. In addition, of the 398 apartment units, 82 percent continued to receive Section 521 Rental Assistance provided by the USDA Rural Housing Service.\nSenior Debt of $11 million \u2013 Long-term debt comprised of a combination of USDA guaranteed 538 loans and new USDA 515 loans were issued.\nOther \u2013 Other funding sources included additional financial support of $1.45 million.\nThe rehabilitation plan consists of substantial improvements for all 398 units. Sample planned interior improvements include new flooring, energy-efficient appliances, hot water heaters, upgraded HVAC, kitchen cabinets and countertops, as well as fixture upgrades. Exterior improvements include new insulated double-pane windows, doors, gutters, siding, a new roof system and landscape enhancements.\nNorthMarq secures $103.7M for Texas portfolio\nPearland, McKinney & Katy, Texas\u2014Greg Duvall, senior vice president and managing director in NorthMarq\u2019s Kansas City regional office, has negotiated a $103.7 million refinance for three Texas apartment communities. The portfolio contains 872-units that are located in Pearland, McKinney and Katy, Texas. The financing was arranged for the borrower via Freddie Mac.\n\u201cThe borrower was looking to refinance their existing bank debt and pull out some cash equity on these assets,\u201d says Duvall. \u201cFreddie Mac did a great job of providing very attractive loan terms on this pool of newly constructed and recently stabilized, class \u201cA\u201d multifamily assets. Two of these assets were financed with 10-year fixed rate loans with five-years interest only. The third asset was financed with a seven-year variable loan with three-years interest only.\u201d\nBerkadia structures $55M for construction of multifamily property\nDallas\u2014The Dallas office of Berkadia Commercial Mortgage LLC recently arranged $55 million for the construction of Discovery at the Realm, a multifamily community that will be located in Lewisville, Texas.\nSenior Vice President Joseph N. Hevey worked with borrower Bright Realty to secure the three-year, interest-only financing through lead lender Mutual of Omaha Bank, who provided $43 million in senior debt, Great Southern Bank of Springfield, Mo., which participated in the construction loan, and Cornerstone Real Estate Advisers LLC, which provided $12 million in mezzanine debt.\nBright Realty will be breaking ground on Discovery at the Realm\u2014a Class A property located at the southeast corner of Windhaven Parkway and Castle Hills Drive, approximately 25 miles north of Dallas\u2014this month. The community will consist of 423 units developed across three buildings on more than 20 acres of land. Total project costs will be in excess of $75 million.\n\u201cWe were able to generate numerous attractive financing options given the fundamentals behind Bright Realty\u2019s project: strong sponsors, a tremendous location within the highly successful master-planned community of Castle Hills, easy access and high visibility to the Sam Rayburn Tollway and the explosive growth within the sub-market,\u201d said Hevey. \u201cOnce we laid out all of the financing options with the borrower, we were able to identify and execute on what best fit their needs in a short timeframe.\u201d\nDiscovery at the Realm is Phase I of a planned multifamily community within Castle Hills. The urban-inspired development will provide a unique, luxury multifamily operation offering resort-style living for its residents. The first available units are planned for a February 2016 delivery, with all Phase I units planned for an August 2016 delivery.\nThe development team for the property includes BB&M Architecture of Charlotte, North Carolina, and Andres Construction of Dallas will serve as general contractor.\nARD Inc.\nTanya Eastwood", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00240.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 193, + "original_length": 9407, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.95, + "perplexity": 329.3, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "https://www.multimillionaireroad.com/2019/01/main-risks-in-getting-payday-loan.html", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T04:37:53Z", + "digest": "sha1:EDM75EYLFIOH5OPAWVSFQDBHUF36N32G", + "length": 3111, + "nlines": 15, + "source_domain": "www.multimillionaireroad.com", + "title": "Main Risks in Getting a Payday Loan - Multi-Millionaire Road: Saving, Investing, becoming Rich", + "raw_content": "Home / debt / Main Risks in Getting a Payday Loan\nMain Risks in Getting a Payday Loan\nPayday loans are very common in the US \u2013 and at the same time, they are an easy way to get some money so that you can go back on solid ground. With a couple of papers and with the right lender, you can get a certain amount of money that you will need to pay back at the end of the month.\nThe payback day will be negotiated with the lender or you can extend the period in which you can pay, with some additional fees. Also, if searching for payday loans online, be sure to read all the terms and agreements before applying.\nSome people often fail to take payday loans seriously and debt will pile up. Eventually, your bank account will go depleted \u2013 or worse, remain that way for a long period of time. Plus, borrowing some more will get you even more into trouble.\nBelow we have gathered some useful and practical tips for you to make smart decisions regarding payday loans.\nChoose Your Lender Carefully\nRegardless if you are thinking of going online for a loan (for example PaydayMe.com) or simply going to a local lender, you will need to be careful of authenticity. People that are in a desperate need of money often make bad decisions when it comes to choosing their lender. Scammers are present especially in the online environment \u2013 and some offers could be so tempting that they are hard to refuse. Also, never trust a lender that asks for money so that you can receive money.\nScammers often operate with fake forms. Once you fill in the form with your personal data, bank account info and other requested documents, the scam is inches away from materializing.\nYou can get a phone call from somebody who states to be a debt collector and will ask you for money \u2013 threatening that if you fail to do so, legal actions will be taken.\nEven when you get a payday loan from a local office, be sure to read all the information carefully.\nCircle of Debts\nThis solely depends on your money managing skills. If you're in a very bad financial situation and a loan is an ultimate solution, think twice before opting for a payday loan. If you get into this circle of debt, there is almost no way out. A piece of friendly advice is to borrow some money from a friend \u2013 one that can wait longer for you to repay.\nYes, it could happen. Identity theft is a thing nowadays and personal data is at stake. Lenders often do not steal your personal data, but it is something that you should carefully consider \u2013 especially if the lender does not belong to a company of some sort. Police officials say that solitary lenders must be avoided, as they might be a part of a criminal organization. They might also have bigger fees than normal lenders.\nAs a conclusion for the above information, getting a payday loan is quite tricky \u2013 particularly if you are not informed properly. Some of them are safe and can get you back on your feet with your finances. However, some lenders are to be avoided if you see something suspicious. 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(Photo by Aman Rochman/AFP)\nAmanda Setiadi says she often used to feel nervous when interacting with her Muslim colleagues due to fears of religious extremism and violence.\n\"I always thought they would do something bad to me or behind my back,\" the 29-year-old Chinese-Indonesian Christian from Kelapa Gading in northern Jakarta told ucanews.com recently. Jakarta has declared 2018 as the \"Year of Unity.\"\nWith her admittedly limited knowledge of Islam, she tried to convince herself that not all Muslims were closet jihadists, or had in some way been radicalized, by trying to keep an open mind.\nYet her fears would not subside.\nShe didn't give up, however, and decided to learn more about Islam by reading up on it and watching YouTube videos covering Islamic teachings.\nSign up to receive UCAN Daily Full Bulletin\nIn July she heard of a class being hosted by a group of young Catholic writers and journalists called Agenda 18 that was formed in 2003 to discuss issues like religious plurality. It has held a short program of classes for six of the last 15 years, with the previous one taking place in 2012.\nBut while the focus in previous years was on writing and literature, it has since expanded to make Islam the main topic. This was in response to the changing situation in Indonesia with extremists now looming so large on the radar.\nSetiadi is a catechumen, or a Christian convert who has not yet been baptized. She decided to register for this year's program as classes had been scheduled every Saturday throughout August at a venue in Jakarta Archdiocese.\nAnd Setiadi wasn't alone. About a dozen Catholic laypeople joined her. Each class lasted for four hours.\nStela Anjani, the group's spokeswoman, said the point was to deepen local Catholics' understanding of Islam in a bid to ease misunderstandings and friction due to religion while fostering greater tolerance.\n\"Cases of violence committed by Muslim groups can create a negative perception about Muslims in general. This ruins inter-religious relations,\" she said.\nFor instance, feelings of hatred against Muslims blanketed the hearts of many Christians following a series of suicide bombings that targeted three churches in Surabaya, the capital of East Java province, in May.\nOne family \u2014 a husband, wife and their four children \u2014 committed the suicide bombings in the country's second-largest city. Dozens of people were killed and injured.\n\"We don't want Catholics to be trapped [by thinking all Muslims support this behavior]. We want to create space for mutual understanding,\" Anjani said.\nA message of greeting entitled \"Christians and Muslims: From Competition to Collaboration\" that was delivered by the Vatican's Pontifical Council for Interreligious Dialogue in June for the feast of Eid al-Fitr, has also strengthened the group's goals.\nThe message highlights the negative impact of harboring a spirit of competition between Christians and Muslims, and the need for both communities to recall their religious and moral values.\nTo that end, the August classes that Setiadi attended invited Muslim scholars from organizations that promote religious tolerance and dialogue including the Inklusif Foundation, and covered topics such as Islam and peace.\nOne of the speakers was Subhi Azhari from the foundation who taught about the caliphate.\n\"An opportunity like this is very important. These classes really do help us to avoid misunderstandings,\" he said.\nFather Antonius Benny Susetyo, an activist priest, called the program an \"oasis of calm.\"\n\"Friction between religious groups emerges because the faithful don't know each other well,\" said the priest, a former executive secretary of the bishops' Commission for Ecumenical and Interreligious Affairs.\nMuslim World Today posted about Indonesian Catholics shed fears of Islam through dialogue on Muslim World Today's Facebook page 2018-09-02 07:31:30 -0400\nIndonesian Catholics shed fears of Islam through dialogue https://www.muslimworldtoday.org/indonesian_catholics_shed_fears_of_islam_through_dialogue?recruiter_id=9388", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00240.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 100, + "original_length": 7060, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.97, + "perplexity": 298.3, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "https://www.mydebtepiphany.com/blog/page/2/", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T04:32:41Z", + "digest": "sha1:XGSLUHCER2T6NKH3T25STUOL5ENBG33D", + "length": 341, + "nlines": 2, + "source_domain": "www.mydebtepiphany.com", + "title": "Blog - My Debt Epiphany", + "raw_content": "This post may contain affiliate links. Click here to read my disclosure policy.I\u2019ve posted about my family\u2019s $300 grocery budget before and how we strive to maintain it each month. I\u2019m not going to lie and say it hasn\u2019t been somewhat of a struggle to maintain this budget, but I stick to it because it\u2026 Read more\nFiled Under: Goals3 Comments", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00240.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 107, + "original_length": 7008, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.88, + "perplexity": 335.0, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "https://www.myfictionnook.com/2016/08/arc-review-poison-tongue-afflicted.html", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T04:05:04Z", + "digest": "sha1:EQMFXLO2XIAAG7BA67HQW3RE3YUCOBYF", + "length": 4845, + "nlines": 16, + "source_domain": "www.myfictionnook.com", + "title": "My Fiction Nook: ARC Review: Poison Tongue (Afflicted Souls, #1) by Nash Summers", + "raw_content": "ARC Review: Poison Tongue (Afflicted Souls, #1) by Nash Summers\nLevi Bell can see a person\u2019s soul just by looking into their eyes. In Monroe Poirier\u2019s eyes, he sees the devil himself.\nWhen Monroe moves back to the small Southern town of Malcome, Levi is repelled by the darkness of the stranger\u2019s soul. But Levi is cursed to love things dark and wicked, and he's seduced each time he looks into Monroe\u2019s eyes\u2014and drawn to the swamp behind the old Poirier house.\nAs strange occurrences begin to happen when shadows and visions visit him in the night, Levi sees a flicker of something good in Monroe\u2019s soul. But the need to submerge himself in the swamp\u2019s murky waters grows stronger as Levi\u2019s desire for Monroe becomes unbearable.\nIn his struggles to help Monroe save his soul, Levi will have to decide if it\u2019s worth losing his own.\nI was pleasantly surprised at how much I enjoyed Poison Tongue. Not that I thought I wouldn't like it. Honestly it sounded strange and interesting, so I decided to give it a chance. I was nervous, though. I've only read one other Nash Summers book, so far, and though all my friends, whom I often share reading tastes with, liked it, I didn't really.\nBut I wanted to give this author another chance because even though I didn't enjoy that book, I could see she was a crazy talented writer. I was not disappointed at all, this time! Poison Tongue was my kind of paranormal book! It was strange and interesting and scary and creepy and I loved it.\nI loved the setting, in a small Louisiana town, and the imagery that Nash painted was so vivid I could almost swear I was there. The summers are hot and humid and everything is so alive. Including, apparently, things that should be long gone from this world.\nLevi Bell comes from a family of people that are very connected to the otherworld. They each have different abilities and strengths and ways of seeing the world. Levi can see souls just as vivid as the rest of us see buildings and people. For him, they are such a part of a person, he can't not see them. His Gran, who has passed on, could see the future and she told Levi that he would fall in love with the devil, himself. Darkness has always been drawn to Levi and he, it. It calls to him, in his dreams and waking life. So when the Devil comes to town, Levi is not surprised at the strength of his attraction. And repulsion. Poor Levi, he was so conflicted.\nMonroe Poirier is a cursed man. Evil swims and slithers inside him and Levi can see the manifestation of that evil as snakes slithering all over Monroe's body. I can see where that might put off an ordinary fella. Levi is not so ordinary. Monroe has just returned to his childhood hometown and he is not welcome. They call him \"murderer\", \"monster\", \"evil\". And the sad thing is, Monroe isn't sure they're wrong. He knows there is something wrong with him, but he has no hopes of ever overcoming it.\nI also really enjoyed the cast of supporting characters. Levi's younger sister, Silvi, was a little creepy, but also delightful. Her ability was that she could see ghosts. She wasn't frightened of them, oh no. Silvi embraced that part of herself. But she was still a child and seeing her with Monroe's dog, Coin, just made me smile. Levi's best friend, Ward, was like his anchor. He never judged, always protected. And I spent a good portion of the book trying to figure out what the real deal about Ward was. I never did figure it out, so I was surprised when it was revealed. And, Levi's mom who always warned him to stay away from the swamp behind the Poirier house because there is nothing but evil there.\nMonroe does not have an easy time being back in Malcome, LA. He's obviously not welcome, but he doesn't really have anywhere else to go. He tends to mind his own business unless he is forced no to. He finds an unlikely ally in Levi, who both wants nothing to do with him and everything to do with him. Their attraction was clear from pretty early on and their conflict was the evil within Monroe. But no matter how much they might try to stay away from one another, they were drawn together. And if they don't overcome the evil inside and around Monroe, it might just consume them both.\nThere isn't much steam, but there is a fair amount of tension and a slow burn of a romance. Monroe wants Levi, but can't stand that his presence hurts him. And Levi knows that he should stay away, but the effort is too great. The one sex scene in the book was hawt! And the character development and writing were fantastic. I really am glad I gave Nash Summers another chance.\nI definitely recommend Poison Tongue, and I can't wait to see where this series goes.\nARC of Poison Tongue was generously provided by the publisher, in exchange for an honest review.\nLabels: 4.5 stars, ARC, dreamspinner, evil, ghosts, low steam, M/M, paranormal, slow burn", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00240.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 260, + "original_length": 24315, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.99, + "perplexity": 334.3, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "https://www.nats.org/cgi/page.cgi/_article.html/Job_Center/Voice_Affiliate_Professor_of_Music_-_Grand_Valley_State_University", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T04:48:56Z", + "digest": "sha1:MS245G54GBIKWWO7PXU6GWWGH5WF5TWP", + "length": 3097, + "nlines": 9, + "source_domain": "www.nats.org", + "title": "National Association of Teachers of Singing - Voice, Affiliate Professor of Music - Grand Valley State University", + "raw_content": "Job Center > Voice, Affiliate Professor of Music - Grand Valley State University\nVoice, Affiliate Professor of Music - Grand Valley State University\nState/Province: Allendale, MI\nPosition: Voice, Affiliate Professor of Music\nGrand Valley State University, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, invites applications for a full-time Affiliate Professor (Voice) in the Department of Music, Theatre, and Dance beginning in mid-August 2018. Affiliate Faculty positions are renewable one-year appointments which after two years may be renewed as revolving three year contracts, depending on satisfactory performance and continued teaching needs of the department. Primary duties will include the teaching and mentoring of university level voice students and performance with various faculty ensembles and may include a secondary teaching area dependent upon the successful candidate\u2019s qualifications and interests and the needs of the Department of Music, Theatre, and Dance. Possible secondary teaching areas may include music appreciation and literature or fundamental music theory courses.\nThe successful candidate will demonstrate the ability to effectively teach at the university level in the areas of individual vocal studio instruction. They will be team-oriented and willing to collaborate in faculty performances and have the capacity to recruit undergraduate vocal students. 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Grand Valley provides a fully accredited liberal undergraduate and graduate education and has campuses in Allendale, Grand Rapids, and Holland, and regional centers in Detroit, Muskegon, and Traverse City. Grand Valley is a comprehensive university, serving students from all 83 Michigan counties and dozens of other states and foreign countries. Grand Valley offers undergraduate and graduate degree programs in 200+ areas of study. The university is dedicated to individual student achievement, going beyond the traditional classroom experience, with research opportunities and business partnerships. 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By then, the defendant had been subject to the \u201chouse arrest\u201d order for 149 days. Counsel for the state and the defendant argued over whether the period of house arrest could be counted towards the DWI sentence, and the Law Division decided to give \u201cthe defendant the benefit of the doubt.\u201d It sentenced him to 31 days to complete the 180-day mandatory minimum DWI sentence. The defendant immediately served 31 days in county jail. The state appealed this decision.\nThe Appellate Division agreed with the state\u2019s argument that \u00a7 39:4-50(a)(3) does not allow any credits towards a sentence for a third or subsequent DWI, except for those specifically mentioned in the statute. It cited its own 2006 decision in State v. Luthe that the law makes \u201cno allowance for noncustodial alternatives.\u201d It held that the house arrest did not meet the statutory requirement of \u201ccustody,\u201d since the defendant was not subject to supervision or monitoring and was free to visit his daughter, his doctors, and his lawyers. It reversed the Law Division\u2019s decision and remanded the case with instructions to remove the 149-day credit.\nA DWI charge under New Jersey law can have a major impact on your life, even if you are never convicted of a crime. A knowledgeable and experienced DWI attorneys can advise you of your rights and mount an effective defense for you from the beginning of your case. At Levow & Associates, we have dedicated 100% of our law practice to representing DWI defendants, and we are available 24/7 for you. 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Photo contributed\nFun on the Flowage Sat. at Prairie Farm\nTradition will be re-enacted, brave volunteers will \u201ctake the plunge,\u201d and the public is invited to share in the fun Saturday, Feb. 9, 2019, as Prairie Farm area residents stage \u201cFun on the Flowage \u2013 Retake the Lake,\u201d at Pioneer Park.\nSponsored by the Prairie Farm Lions Club and Alfalfa Fest (an August event held to raise funds for area schools and in-home hospice services), the event runs from 12 noon to 4 p.m. this Saturday, upstream of the municipal dam on the Hay River.\nEvents include an ice-cutting demonstration using vintage equipment borrowed from Pioneer Village Museum and a \u201cPolar Plunge\u201d fundraiser at 1 p.m.\nLions Club members will sell pork loin sandwiches, French fries and beverages, while the Alfalfa Fest organizers plan to sell booya and hot chocolate.\nMembers of the Lions Club have been planning the event since late fall 2018. For the past two weeks, club members have been practicing with ice cutting equipment borrowed from Pioneer Village Museum in Cameron. Last weekend, ice cakes were stacked on the surface of the Hay River Flowage to create a winter castle, complete with lights and flags.\nProceeds will be used for a long-term project intended to dredge and rehabilitate the flowage, which divides the village of Prairie Farm from Pioneer Park and Campground. Silt has damaged the flowage as a fishery and recreational resource.\nThe first step in \u201cRetake the Lake\u201d is a project to take core samples from the lake bed and test them to be sure there aren\u2019t any hazardous materials in the silt. The tests cost between $4,000 and $5,000. If the tests show the silt can be dredged and deposited elsewhere, future money-raising events will be held to finance that project, according to Lions Club members.\nAlfalfa Fest is an annual event held in a rural area of Dunn County, south of Prairie Farm. Festival volunteers have organized a Polar Plunge event scheduled to start at 1 p.m. Feb. 9 at Pioneer Park.\nEach \u201cplunger\u201d has been asked to raise at least $50 in pledges, organizers said. Donations should be brought to Pioneer Park prior to the event. Proceeds benefit Northwest Home, Health & Hospice. 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In 2017 he was an All-Pro selection and made his first Pro Bowl.\nJACKSONVILLE, Fla. - The Jaguars released their preseason schedule on Wednesday and there's a heavy dose of the NFC South in their future.\nThe team is set to open the preseason at home when Jacksonville plays host to the New Orleans Saints in Week 1, Aug. 9-13. Then in Week 2, between Aug. 16 and Aug. 20, the Jaguars will take the show on the road when they take on the Minnesota Vikings.\nJalen Ramsey joins Derwin James back on campus at FSU\nWeek 3--Aug. 23-26--is known as the \"dress rehearsal\" and in most cases the starters play into the third quarter. That game will be at home against the Atlanta Falcons.\nThe Jaguars will close the preseason in Week 4, Thursday, Aug. 30 with an away game against the Tampa Bay Buccaneers.\nOfficial dates and times for the first three games have yet to be announced.\nThe NFL regular season schedule will also be released at a later date. 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Nkurunziza\nBurundi is moving ever closer to civil war. President Pierre Nkurunziza has issued an ultimatum to the people protesting his presidency. He has demanded that the people hand over their weapons \u201cor face the full wrath of the law\u201d.\nOn November 2 he issued another ultimatum that everyone who has weapons must give them up by November 7. It is unlikely that there will be compliance.\nSince gaining independence in 1962 Burundi has seen little peace. A halt to a vicious civil war in 2005 saw an election and a government formed. Nkurunziza was elected president by the elected officials and has been in power ever since.\nThe constitution written at the end of the civil war stipulated that the president could serve only two consecutive terms. At the end of Nkurunziza\u2019s second term, he refused to step aside, claiming that he wasn\u2019t elected by the people during his first term and he would stand for election again.\nIn August Nkurunziza won by a landslide. It may have been so one sided because many who opposed his third term had fled for their lives.\nA group of former government workers has organized an opposition to Nkurunziza.\nThe capital city, Bujumbura, has seen much gunfire and grenade explosions are a common occurrence. Every morning people wake to the sight of bodies of the murdered left in the dirt. While police and army claim they have no connections to the extrajudicial killings many of the deceased were in opposition to the current president. The son of a prominent civil rights worker was apprehended and died while in custody. Others have told of harsh torture at the hands of the authorities.\nA failed coup attempt in July has split the ranks of the army. Some have fled to neighbouring countries. Currently at least 100 thousand people have left their homes to find uncertain safety in neighbouring countries. 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The thoracic region of the spine has a \u201cC\u201d-shaped convexity; an exaggeration of which results in a condition called kyphosis. Kyphosis is characterized by an abnormal spinal curvature, which causes a physical deformity of the upper back commonly known as hunchback. Kyphosis mainly affects the thoracic spine, but sometimes the cervical and lumbar spine may also be affected as the curvature reverses from concavity to convexity.\nKyphosis may develop because of degenerative diseases such as traumatic injuries, osteoporotic fractures, arthritis, disc degeneration and slipped-disc. It can also be caused by malignancies or infections of the spine, poor posture, structural deformities such as scoliosis (abnormal sideward bending of the spine) and abnormal development of the spinal column before birth. 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The Golden Jubilee National Hospital was one of a select group of employers to receive the prestigious award, which formally recognises the hospital as a supportive employer of individuals within the organisation who also give up their time to train with the Voluntary Reserve Forces.\nSandie Scott, Head of Corporate Affairs, who accepted the award on behalf of the Golden Jubilee National Hospital, said: \u201cAt the Golden Jubilee we pride ourselves on being a diverse, equal opportunities organisation, and our ongoing support of the Armed Forces Reservists is just one of the many ways we accomplish this.\n\u201cThese are ordinary men and women who give up their free time to go the extra mile. Having a \u2018can do\u2019 attitude is something we look for in all of our staff and these individuals are the embodiment of this. 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Where to even begin? It\u2019s difficult to condense my journey to a few sentences, but I will certainly touch on some highlights! Since winning the title of Miss America, I\u2019ve had the opportunity to speak with almost 35 different colleges and universities about my platform, \u201cCelebrating Diversity through Cultural Competency.\u201d I\u2019ve also been working with the White House Initiative on Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders, and even met with President Obama and our First Lady. Furthermore, I also have a partnership with the US Department of Energy and US Department of Education to promote women in STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math) Education. As you can see, I\u2019ve kept quite busy but what I\u2019m most proud of that this title has given me a voice\u2013a voice to actually spark positive change and advocate for causes that align with my values. Currently, I\u2019m continuing my advocacy work with my own platform of Cultural Competency and also partnered with Girl Rising to promote the power of education for young women globally.\nHow special was it to be the first Indian American to win Miss America?\nIt\u2019s an honor but also a large responsibility. My story is unique in the sense that it was completely uncharted territory. Miss America has always been viewed as the \u201cgirl next door.\u201d I grew up feeling like I could never be in this role because I didn\u2019t look like the \u201cstereotypical\u201d Miss America. Ultimately, this wasn\u2019t about me. It was about reaching out to a new demographic of young women that is representative of America today. Moreover, it was about reaching out to that young girl who was watching the competition the night I won and for her to finally be able to say, \u201cWow, this year Miss America looks like me. And I don\u2019t have to fit a stereotype or mold to be in this role.\u201d For me, my most fulfilling moments are when I interact with young people and they are inspired by my story\u2013I will always say that this was for all of us and they inspire me to continue the work I\u2019m doing.\nWhat does it mean to you to be in attendance for Bollywood Night? Is it your first time in Sacramento? First Kings game?\nI\u2019m so excited! It\u2019s my first time in in Sacramento and my first Kings game, so I\u2019m looking forward to a great experience!\nYou performed a traditional Bollywood dance for your talent during the competition, how excited are you to perform with the Kings Dancers here on Bollywood Night?\nCan. Not. Wait! Due to my busy travel schedule, I haven\u2019t been able to perform since winning the title! I\u2019m excited to have fun and share my joy and love of dance and expression!\nDo you feel nights like Thursday\u2019s Bollywood Night help continue the conversation surrounding your platform to promote and celebrate cultural diversity?\nAbsolutely! I\u2019ve learned that assimilation has to happen from both sides. Finding a balance between both cultures is an important process for every individual. I\u2019m living proof that you don\u2019t have to choose one culture over the other or feel like you have to sacrifice a part of your identity. I\u2019m very proud to identify myself as both Indian and American. And that\u2019s essentially the American Dream\u2013that regardless of your race, ethnicity, gender, or socio-economic status people have the opportunity for prosperity and success so long as they work hard for it. Which brings me to my second point: work hard. Never underestimate the power of hard work.\nYou had a chance to speak at the White House, what was that experience like?\nCompletely surreal! I was honored to meet with President Obama in the Oval Office shortly after my win. I was also invited back to the White House Easter Egg Roll and was able to read to groups of children and their families. Being able to interact with everyone was such a heartwarming experience!\nYou attended a speech by Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi at Madison Square Garden, did you get a chance to meet with Kings Chairman Vivek Ranadiv\u00e9?\nIt was an honor to be asked to host the reception for Prime Minister Modi at Madison Square Garden. It was such a historic and monumental event for Indians across the globe. I was able to meet with the Prime Minister in NYC as well as San Francisco this past year. Unfortunately, I haven\u2019t had a chance to meet Chairman Ranadive yet! We were both honored with awards at India Abroad back in June, so our paths have crossed a few times, but we have yet to officially meet!\nWhat did it mean to you when you heard Vivek purchased a professional American sports team, becoming the first Indian-born person to do so?\nIt was truly a milestone for our community\u2013and I have to share a quick story about an experience in college. During my sophomore year at the University of Michigan, Stephen Ross was one of our commencement speakers. I remember going to commencement to listen to his speech in hopes of walking away with some wisdom. As he reflected on his journey, he shared a story about his personal desire to own a national sports team because that was a part of his American Dream. 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A lengthy strike could also inflict long-term damage on NJ Transit itself, including some residual loss of customers.\nThe agency\u2019s own strike-contingency plan, announced by officials last week, accommodates less than half of the more than 100,000 commuters who currently take trains into New York City each weekday.\nMartin Robins, director emeritus of Rutgers University\u2019s Alan M. Voorhees Transportation Center, is a veteran of New Jersey Transit\u2019s last strike, a 1983 work stoppage that lasted several weeks.\n\u201cThere was a lot of hardship, and the number of people affected was much smaller,\u201d said Robins, the agency\u2019s former deputy director.\nRight now, however, NJ Transit officials and the union representatives for roughly 4,200 rail workers who have been working without a contract since 2011 say they remain committed to trying to reach an agreement before the looming strike date. Pay raises and employee healthcare contributions have been the key sticking points.\nDuring a break in talks yesterday afternoon, Gary Dellaverson, NJ Transit\u2019s special counsel, told reporters gathered at the Gateway Hilton in Newark that even as the negotiations were ongoing and as progress was being made he didn\u2019t have \u201canything exciting to say.\u201d\n\u201cThere are a fair number of moving pieces still,\u201d Dellaverson said.\nBut union officials also took issue later with a notice issued by NJ Transit to employees that a strike would mean things like sick leave and insurance benefits would be suspended for those who walk off the job.\n\u201cSuch action on NJ Transit\u2019s part is counterproductive to reaching an amiable solution through the negotiating process,\u201d a statement issued by the New Jersey Transit Rail Labor Coalition said.\nLast week, agency officials announced a strike-contingency plan that includes the use of private buses and a stepped-up NJ Transit bus schedule to help get displaced rail passengers into New York. The plan also features the use of several park-and-ride facilities to move strike-bound rail passengers into Manhattan, either directly or via Port Authority PATH trains.\nUncertain Funding, Looming Strike Could Mean Rough Road for New Jersey Transit\nRun the numbers and -- despite a sizable subsidy in the budget plan -- NJT could be facing a $60M deficit\nBut agency officials also conceded the contingency plan will only meet the needs of about 40 percent of the overall pool of people who normally take NJ Transit trains into New York on a daily basis.\nIn New York, the economic impact of a New Jersey Transit strike on the city\u2019s employers is estimated to be nearly $6 million for every hour of delay, according to an analysis prepared by the Partnership for New York City. The financial services industry would see the biggest blow, at nearly $2 million per hour.\nCredit: Martin Griff\nSenate Budget and Appropriations Committee Chairman Paul Sarlo (D-Bergen)\nNew Jersey Senate Budget and Appropriations Committee Chairman Paul Sarlo (D-Bergen) said he fears the strike will affect the economy in New Jersey as well. He compared the potential effects of a strike to the days and weeks after superstorm Sandy, when most rail service was suspended for several days.\n\u201cJust like Sandy, the impact could even hurt state revenues and the state budget,\u201d Sarlo said.\nHe urged Gov. Chris Christie\u2019s administration to do all it can to prevent a self-inflicted service disruption this time around.\n\u201cIt wouldn\u2019t be a disaster caused by nature, but it would have disastrous effects on the lives of commuters as well as the regional and state economy,\u201d Sarlo said.\nAnd it\u2019s unclear right now exactly how a strike would impact New Jersey Transit\u2019s own already shaky finances. The agency just raised fares for bus and rail services by 9 percent in October to help close what was at the time an $80 million budget shortfall. That followed a larger, 25 percent fare increase enacted in 2010, Christie\u2019s first year in office.\nAt this point, NJ Transit isn\u2019t saying how much its strike-contingency plan may end up costing the agency to implement.\n\u201cNJ Transit remains fully focused on reaching an affordable settlement with the rail unions for our customers,\u201d spokeswoman Nancy Snyder said. \u201cWe will not speculate on cost estimates for a contingency plan which has not yet been implemented.\u201d\nBut Robins, the former agency executive, said NJ Transit could actually end up with a net savings if there is a strike.\nWhile it will take on costs like renting private buses and paying the wages of the additional bus drivers during the strike, the break would also allow the agency to save money by not paying the wages of the rail workers for as long as they strike. Train fuel and electrical costs would also likely be saved.\n\u201cIt will be a net benefit financially to New Jersey Transit to have a strike,\u201d Robins said. \u201cI would be surprised if the costs exceed the savings.\u201d\nBut he also warned that the agency will eventually see a big bill for the rail workers\u2019 retroactive pay since they\u2019ve been working without a contract since 2011. That\u2019s a \u201cfront-and-center issue,\u201d Robins said.\nAnd NJ Transit could also be hit with a loss in ridership if a strike occurs. 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Those who signed up to the deal and went on to find success include The Zutons, Jem and James Morrison.\nSpeaking to The Independent, Morrison explained how the scheme helped him to get signed.\n\u201cGoing on the scheme helped me out a lot,\u201d he said. \u201cI had no money; I was signing on. I got that bit extra to help me through. I got a new guitar. Without the help from the New Deal, I would have struggled to do what I was doing.\u201d\nThe scheme will come to an end in October, to be replaced by the Flexible New Deal.\nHowever, a spokesman for the Department For Work And Pensions denied that the new scheme would ignore aspiring musicians, telling the newspaper: \u201cIf someone has a specific talent in music, their help and support would be geared to music. 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More than 70 people attend a community meeting in Boggabri, where the request was made several times to representatives from the Department of Planning and Environment. Farmers say they are struggling to find the time to read and understand the 4000-page document, let alone write a response to it, while they are hand feeding cattle. However, Planning Minister Anthony Roberts is \u201csatisfied\u201d everyone will have enough time to get through the \u201crelatively short document\u201d. \u201cThe proposal is on exhibition for 42 day \u2013 longer than the 28-day statutory requirement,\u201d his spokesman said. \u201cThe proposal is for an extension of the existing mine. Given it is only an extension the EIS is a relatively short document and interested parties will have sufficient time to review. \u201cThe planning panel will hold public hearings on the proposal within six weeks of it coming off exhibition \u2013 interested parties will have an opportunity to present to the panel. \u201cOn this basis the minister is satisfied that interested parties will have sufficient time to make appropriate submissions regarding the proposal.\u201d Farmer Peter Wills said the government had recently granted 90-day extensions to the Santos\u2019 Narrabri Gas Project and the Hume coal mine. \u201cWhile it may be classified as an extension, it\u2019s more like a modification of a mine that only exists on paper,\u201d he said. \u201cIt\u2019s extremely complicated, because we have to look at alongside a development that\u2019s not there yet.\u201d Lock the Gate spokeswomen Georgina Woods said the current time constrains faced by farmers were \u201can unfortunate reality\u201d. \u201cI can\u2019t see how a few weeks will make or break the project for Whitehaven or the government,\u201d she said. \u201cBut it would make all the difference to the community being heard.\u201d Have your say. Click this link to write a letter to the editor.\nhttps://nnimgt-a.akamaihd.net/transform/v1/crop/frm/37sRjZccYfaNxXbGxARzun2/3ef4bd44-bb53-4f5b-8e3e-4814acaeb850.jpg/r3_0_1913_1079_w1200_h678_fmax.jpg\nNSW Planning Minister Anthony Roberts knocks back farmers' Vickery request\nTHE NSW Planning Minister has again knocked back the request of drought-stricken farmers for more time to read the 4000 page Vickery coal mine submission, calling it a \u201crelatively short document\u201d.\nMore than 70 people attend a community meeting in Boggabri, where the request was made several times to representatives from the Department of Planning and Environment.\nFarmers say they are struggling to find the time to read and understand the 4000-page document, let alone write a response to it, while they are hand feeding cattle.\nHowever, Planning Minister Anthony Roberts is \u201csatisfied\u201d everyone will have enough time to get through the \u201crelatively short document\u201d.\n\u201cThe proposal is on exhibition for 42 day \u2013 longer than the 28-day statutory requirement,\u201d his spokesman said.\n\u201cThe proposal is for an extension of the existing mine. Given it is only an extension the EIS is a relatively short document and interested parties will have sufficient time to review.\nVickery coal mine extension moved away from Namoi River\nProposed Vickery mine extension plans put on public display\n\u201cThe planning panel will hold public hearings on the proposal within six weeks of it coming off exhibition \u2013 interested parties will have an opportunity to present to the panel.\nFarmer Peter Wills said the government had recently granted 90-day extensions to the Santos\u2019 Narrabri Gas Project and the Hume coal mine.\n\u201cWhile it may be classified as an extension, it\u2019s more like a modification of a mine that only exists on paper,\u201d he said.\n\u201cIt\u2019s extremely complicated, because we have to look at alongside a development that\u2019s not there yet.\u201d\n\u201cBut it would make all the difference to the community being heard.\u201d\nHave your say. Click this link to write a letter to the editor.\nDiscuss \"Minister says farmers have enough time to read \u2018short\u2019 4000-page document\"", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00240.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 195, + "original_length": 7920, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.95, + "perplexity": 294.1, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "https://www.nowtolove.co.nz/celebrity/entertainment/law-and-order-svu-will-tackle-harvey-weinstein-scandal-in-upcoming-episode-35369", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T04:26:46Z", + "digest": "sha1:XPBFF7MECLESA75HAYANAOJHPXVKA3PC", + "length": 1794, + "nlines": 14, + "source_domain": "www.nowtolove.co.nz", + "title": "'Law & Order: SVU' will tackle Harvey Weinstein scandal | Now To Love", + "raw_content": "'Law & Order: SVU' will tackle Harvey Weinstein scandal in upcoming episode\nThe episode will shine a light on the \"boys club\" mentality.\nIt\u2019s no secret that Law & Order: Special Victims Unit gets inspiration from real news for the show\u2019s plotlines.\nIn the wake of the Harvey Weinstein scandal which has seen some of Hollywood\u2019s biggest actresses accuse the producer of sexual harassment, it seems SVU will be covering the case in their own way.\n\u201cWe are hitting Harvey Weinstein head-on, but it\u2019s not in the realm of the entertainment business,\u201d executive producer Michael Chernuchin told Entertainment Weekly.\n\u201cIt\u2019s a real important episode about the rape culture in an industry, and we wanted to try stretch the law to criminalise that sort of environment.\u201d\nWATCH: Hollywood's biggest scandals (story continues after video)\nThe episode will deviate a little (the TV show is fiction after all) and focus on an airline as opposed to Hollywood.\nMichael went on to explain that they were writing an episode on the \u201cboys club\u201d as the Weinstein case broke in the news.\n\u201cWe were actually working on a story about airline pilots and what a boys club that is,\u201d Michael said. \u201cWe were beating the story out and said, \u2018Wow, this is exactly what the actresses go through in Hollywood. It\u2019s the same environment.\u2019 So we got all of our Harvey stuff out with airline pilots.\u201d\nIn early October, The New York Times published the story of Weinstein\u2019s abuse that had spanned decades. The news has encouraged others to speak out about other high-profile figures including Brett Ratner and Kevin Spacey.\nThe Law & Order: SVU episode will air in 2018.\nCelebrity NewsNYPD launches an investigation into Harvey Weinstein\nCelebrity NewsBrad Pitt confronted Harvey Weinstein after he allegedly assaulted Gwyneth Paltrow", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00240.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 218, + "original_length": 47103, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.95, + "perplexity": 255.2, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "https://www.nowtolove.com.au/celebrity/celeb-news/delta-goodrem-on-filming-olivia-newton-john-biopic-48226", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T04:47:25Z", + "digest": "sha1:YWAF23VMV4CELLDD6AQ7OUSO62TVGGZ6", + "length": 2277, + "nlines": 17, + "source_domain": "www.nowtolove.com.au", + "title": "Delta Goodrem on filming Olivia Newton-John biopic | Now To Love", + "raw_content": "Delta Goodrem says filming the new Olivia Newton-John biopic opened \u201cold wounds\u201d\n\u201cI had to reopen old wounds that I had already stitched up\u2026\u201d\nDelta Goodrem has opened up on what it was like to portray her childhood music hero, Olivia Newton-John, for the upcoming biopic Olivia Newton-John: Hopelessly Devoted To You.\nSpeaking with The Herald Sun, the 33-year-old revealed that the experience hit close to home in many ways -- particularly the scenes which dealt with ONJ's cancer battle.\nCeleb NewsWhat made Olivia Newton-John snap at Delta Goodrem?\nCeleb NewsDelta Goodrem\u2019s looks through the years!\nOf course, Delta was diagnosed with Hodgkin's lymphoma when she was just a teenager.\n\"I had to reopen old wounds that I had already stitched up,\" she told the publication on Tuesday.\nShe later explained that the hospital scenes were the hardest to shake from her mind.\n\"The week we did the hospital scenes it definitely took me time to wash it off again. There were a lot of heavy scenes,\" she said.\nNonetheless, the singer-songwriter has previously dubbed the project \"one of the highlights\" of her life.\n\"Olivia influenced my earliest years as an evolving artist and became the backbone of influence to living my life and heart as a proud Australian artist,\" the actress said via a press release. \"I aspired to have her grace, humility and talent from the time I started singing.\"\nShe added: \"She is an icon. I am deeply humbled to play my idol and friend.\"\nOlivia herself, meanwhile, said she was initially \"horrified\" by the show. But she jumped on board after she \"realised it was going to happen whether I wanted it to or not.\"\n\"I love Delta. I think she's a really good actress and a great singer so that made it okay, because we're friends\", she told Australian Women's Weekly. \"In the beginning she called me and asked, 'Shall I do it or not?' First I said, 'I'm not sure,' and then I said, 'Oh you do it'.\"\n\"I haven't read it and I don't know how accurate it is because it's a movie and people weren't there at every moment of my life but the money will go to the hospital [the Olivia Newton-John Cancer Wellness & Research Centre in Melbourne] so some good has come of it.\"\nOlivia: Hopelessly Devoted To You premieres Sunday 13th of May at 8:30pm on Channel Seven.", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00240.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 242, + "original_length": 47866, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.99, + "perplexity": 229.2, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "https://www.npd.com/wps/portal/npd/us/blog/2018/peering-into-a-wearable-future/", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T03:52:18Z", + "digest": "sha1:IE7RDHHSHFGQQB7IDFL5MTDCU225FDAD", + "length": 6757, + "nlines": 12, + "source_domain": "www.npd.com", + "title": "/wps/wcm/connect/npd", + "raw_content": "2018 Wearable Industry Predictions\nHome Blog 2018 2018 Wearable Industry Predictions\nPeering into a Wearable Future\nWeston Henderek, Director ;\nFor a category that has faced much skepticism, it\u2019s hard to argue that the wearable tech category has not been a success story so far. In fact, NPD expects that total ownership of activity trackers and smartwatches among U.S. adults will stand at nearly 77 million devices by the end of 2017. However, the market is becoming increasingly complex in the face of innovation and changing consumer demands. 2018 will see even more dramatic shifts in the evolution of the wearable tech space than we have seen in the previous two years. For example, healthcare will become an ever-increasing priority for all OEM\u2019s, app developers, and apparel/sensor vendors alike. With the FDA reducing the barrier to entry, in terms of approval times on new medical technologies, expect more players to enter the market; especially large OEMs, like Apple, who are aggressively looking to partner with technology innovators in the medical industry. However, the biggest mass-market push in wearables could come from the ability for the smartwatch to double as a health and fitness tracking device, while also acting as a wrist-based home automation and IOT controller. As such, below is a list of several predictions for the New Year.\nA new Apple Watch design \u2013 Apple hit a homerun with its latest Apple Watch Series 3 with LTE \u2013 a fitness-focused smartwatch in the iPhone ecosystem with cellular connectivity was destined to perform well. However, there\u2019s no denying that the Apple Watch leaves something to be desired from a design perspective for some buyers. Expect to see Apple surprise the market and launch a new Apple Watch variant to complement the existing model towards the end of 2018. The new model will likely be more premium and fashion oriented (possibly in partnership with a fashion brand), with a price north of $600. In addition, the design will almost certainly be round, which is the preferred base design of almost 80 percent of the world\u2019s traditional watches. This new watch design will not replace the existing Apple Watch, but will simply add a more premium version and new design to the collection. The existing Apple Watch design will remain the heavy lifter in terms of mass-market purchasing.\nSmart bands \u2013 One of the benefits of the more relaxed FDA regulations around wearable tech medical devices is that large OEMs like Apple and Samsung will most likely look to partner with more specialized medical device manufacturers on new technology. And one of the fastest ways to add new medical tracking technology into the smartwatch space is through smart bands rather than an entirely new smartwatch. For example, an OEM or medical device manufacturer could develop device sensors that can be integrated into a wristband to fit a variety of smartwatches. This type of smart band would be separate from the smartwatch itself, and would thus not delay the launch of any device due to FDA regulations. As a result, we are likely to see smart bands that track things like blood glucose without the need to prick your finger in the next 24 months.\nThe heart rate security monitor \u2013 With almost 70 percent of activity trackers owned in the U.S. containing a heart rate monitor, there is a unique opening for a new security solution utilizing the users heart rhythm. Each human heartbeat has a unique rhythm that cannot be duplicated. A wearable device with a hear rate monitor could be used to control home locks, alarm codes, car access, and more. In addition, a heart rate security monitor could link up with the users smartphone to provide additional security beyond facial or fingerprint recognition. This type of combined security would be incredibly valuable in protecting corporate data as well. Expect to see initial implementations of heart rate monitoring for security in late 2018.\nHealthcare wearables boom \u2013 The direct healthcare sector will help reduce the sharp drop in consumer activity tracker sales, while also further bolstering the smartwatch segment. The healthcare sector use cases will be broader than the traditional activity tracker and will eventually provide a wide range of health data to doctors, healthcare providers, and consumers looking to better manage their health and any health conditions. This trend will also be key in the smartwatch space, especially since the higher price points will allow for a much broader range of sensors, and thus more complex health metrics that can be tracked. The trend will be driven by life insurance and health insurance companies looking to gain a better picture of the overall health of their users, which will lead to a wide scale offering of subsidized activity trackers and smartwatches to nearly half the U.S. population in exchange for the sharing of health data.\nSmartwatch smart home integration \u2013 In 2018 we will see true integration between wearable devices and the smart home. While the technology to link these devices is here today, it will take some time for mainstream products and wearable devices to integrate seamlessly without major issues. By the end of 2018, expect that many smartwatches will be able to control basic household functionality on a larger scale, as well as better control video and TV within the home. The smartwatch is the perfect platform for this type of home automation/IoT control, as the device is always on the user\u2019s wrist, while smartphones have been getting bigger and bulkier, making them more likely to be left in another room.\nOn-device cellular for all \u2013 While Samsung was the first to bring a cellular enabled smartwatch to the market with the Gear S, Apple has timed the market perfectly with its Watch Series 3. As a result of Apple entering the game, expect most other smartwatch OEMs to follow suit. This is especially true given that all of the major U.S. wireless carriers have already launched services that link connected wearable devices with the user\u2019s main smartphone telephone number. By linking the smartphone service with a wearable device, users now have seamless usability regardless of what device they are using.\nHealth and fitness tags \u2013 While the wrist-worn activity tracker segment is experiencing pressure, health and fitness trackers are ready for takeoff. These small sensors can stick on user clothing to track overall health and fitness, without the need for charging, as they are powered by disposable watch batteries. While some solutions are already available, the upcoming boom in medical device tracking will unlock the value of the disposable health tracking tag. 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If an HOS waiver is issued in your state and you do not see it posted on our website, please forward a copy of the relevant waiver or exemption document to NPGA. 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The incident has raised questions about the economic health of the oil-rich kingdom.\nAnti-Corruption Campaign In Saudi Arabia Raises Questions On Economic Health Of Country\nAnti-Corruption Campaign In Saudi Arabia Raises Questions On Economic Health Of Country 3:42\nSaudi Arabia's attorney general says the kingdom has netted more than $100 billion from princes and businessmen being held at a luxury hotel in the capital, Riyadh. The incident has raised questions about the economic health of the oil-rich kingdom.\nSaudi Arabia's government recently staged an anti-corruption campaign and came away with $106 billion. The corruption crackdown puts some of the Kingdom's wealthiest people in detention in a luxury hotel. Most of those people were released a little over a week ago, and now there are a lot of questions about what the government hoped to accomplish and how badly it needs the money. Here's NPR's Jackie Northam.\nJACKIE NORTHAM, BYLINE: Stories about the endemic corruption in Saudi Arabia are legendary. Jean Francois Seznec, a Gulf state expert at the Atlantic Council, says huge government contracts are routinely inflated to double or triple their value, the largess then shared among government officials and businessmen and especially the royal family.\nJEAN FRANCOIS SEZNEC: Especially in the security issues, in any kind of deal in the real estate, it was traditional to have the royal family get their pound of flesh - and a big pound of flesh, actually, I should say - many pounds of flesh.\nNORTHAM: Ali Shihabi with the Arabia Foundation, a pro-Saudi think tank, says the sheer scale of corruption was draining Saudi Arabia's budget. And the Kingdom needed to change how it was doing business.\nALI SHIHABI: And to do that, you needed some form of shock therapy.\nNORTHAM: And now that the shock has passed, there are questions about why key government ministers, top royals and internationally known businessmen disappeared for three months. Shihabi says the government needed to take drastic measures, even if they were outside the legal system.\nSHIHABI: To have taken 300 members of the elite and gone through a full detailed legal procedure with them would have taken years and would have frozen the country into suspense, really, as everybody just was focused on these trials.\nNORTHAM: The crackdown on corruption was spearheaded by Saudi Arabia's new crown prince, Mohammad bin Salman. It's part of his ambitious plan to overhaul the economy and create new industries and infrastructure projects. That takes money. The $100-plus billion collected from those who were detained will help, says Rachel Ziemba, who consults with businesses in the region.\nRACHEL ZIEMBA: The big question people are asking with this shakedown, if we can call it that, has been a question of, do they need money, and do they need money urgently?\nNORTHAM: Ziemba says Saudi Arabia currently has about $500 billion in cash reserves and oil assets. Its economy has also bounced back a bit from a couple years ago when oil prices plummeted and the kingdom was burning through $10 billion a month of its reserves.\nZIEMBA: My analysis is that they're not running out of money imminently, but they're looking over the longer term. And they're very well aware that they can't continue with business as usual.\nNORTHAM: The government has introduced stringent austerity measures - raising the cost of water, food and gasoline. It's hoping to entice foreign investment to help expand the Kingdom beyond oil. But the dramatic nature of the crackdown rattled confidence of foreign investors worried about a lack of due process and transparency. The Arabia Foundation's Shihabi says that fear will not last long.\nSHIHABI: The government will have to draw a red line behind this process, which I think they're trying to do now, to say that this was an extraordinary event. It cannot happen again, and the past will be put behind us.\nNORTHAM: That's a message the crown prince may carry with him when he visits the U.S., the U.K. and France in the next few weeks. 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Visitors will be able to travel through the South Entrance to Grant Village, West Thumb Junction and on to Fishing Bridge.\nDue to construction on the Isa Lake Bridge, Craig Pass between West Thumb Junction and Old Faithful is closed until June 11. Visitors planning to travel to Old Faithful from the South Entrance will need to take the Grand Loop Road through Fishing Bridge Junction, Canyon Junction, Norris Junction and on to Old Faithful. The road between Canyon Village and Tower-Roosevelt over Dunraven Pass will open to travel May 22, in time for the Memorial Day holiday weekend.\nLast week, National Park Service (NPS) crews opened a section of US-212 outside the park\u2019s Northeast Entrance from Cooke City, Mont., to the intersection with WY-296, the Chief Joseph Scenic Highway to Cody, Wyo. The section of the Beartooth Highway between the junction of US-212/WY-296 and the community of Red Lodge, Montana, is set to open by Friday, May 22. Crews from the NPS and the Montana Department of Transportation are making good progress in opening the road due to lighter than normal snow conditions.\nConstruction is under way north of the entrance to the Norris Campground on the road to Mammoth Hot Springs. Crews are rebuilding a 5.4 mile section of the road, as well as the bridge over the Gardner River. Visitors should expect daytime delays of up to 30 minutes throughout the summer season.\nVisitors should be aware that spring in Yellowstone is unpredictable and often brings cold temperatures, high winds and snowfall. In the case of extreme weather conditions, temporary road closures are also possible with little or no advance warning.\nUpdated Yellowstone National Park road information is available 24 hours a day by calling 307-344-2117 or on the internet at https://www.nps.gov/yell/conditions.htm. Visitor services throughout the park are opening for the season. 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One of the great storytellers of our time who connected with so many.\"\nBourdain left an indelible mark on New York City, running several kitchens in New York before gaining fame with the best-selling book \"Kitchen Confidential\" in 2000, which exposed the underbelly of the city's restaurants.\nFrom there, he moved into television, hosting shows on the Food Network, the Travel Channel and CNN. He covered food and cultures from every corner of the world.\nBourdain was known for his honesty about food and his personal life. He was open about his substance abuse and previous heroin addiction.\nBourdain leaves behind a young daughter.\nTributes and condolences poured in for Bourdain in New York City.\nThe renowned chef was known to bring his greater audience to far reaches of the world, exploring their cultures and cuisines.\nIn the restaurant industry here in New York City, he also touched many lives, particulary small, family-owned businesses.\nAt Barney Greengrass on the Upper West Side, they left an empty chair in Bourdain's honor.\nAn empty chair at Barney Greengrass with Anthony Bourdain's regular breakfast order: Nova Scotia Lox and egg scramble. Staff say his humble humor is greatly missed at the deli counter. @NY1 pic.twitter.com/MLvhiOWgRZ\n\u2014 Van Tieu (@Van_Tieu) June 8, 2018\nThe table was set with his usual breakfast order, Nova Scotia lox and egg scramble.\nThe staff there said Bourdain's humble humor will be greatly missed.\nOn the Upper East Side, French restaurant Le Veau D'or was featured on \"No Reservations.\" Their appearance on the show turned the business around and saved the owners from hard times.\n\"He had the guts to step up and sort of bring it back to life,\" said Cathy Treboux of Le Veau D'or. \"And as i mentioned earlier, it was very hard for me, because Anthony Bourdain saved Le Veau D'or and saved my father. He gave my father the greatest last chapter.\"\nThe outpouring of emotions showed that it wasn't always about the food. Bourdain got into the heart and soul of those restaurants and the people who worked and ate there.", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00240.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 142, + "original_length": 4628, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.97, + "perplexity": 243.0, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "https://www.nytimes.com/2004/01/16/arts/for-50-years-a-red-letter-winter-show-for-charity.html?module=inline", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T03:47:37Z", + "digest": "sha1:OYRUBOG3IG7X7DXIZYOJE4SB7MND2CYR", + "length": 7882, + "nlines": 28, + "source_domain": "www.nytimes.com", + "title": "For 50 Years, a Red-Letter Winter Show for Charity - The New York Times", + "raw_content": "Archives|For 50 Years, a Red-Letter Winter Show for Charity\nFor 50 Years, a Red-Letter Winter Show for Charity\nBy CAROL VOGEL JAN. 16, 2004\nIt's funny to think that there was ever a time when it seemed daring to produce a first-class antiques show in New York. But in 1954 it was. Back then the cavernous drill shed of the Seventh Regiment Armory on Park Avenue at 67th Street had never been used for selling art and antiques. (Now it is booked years in advance, with back-to-back shows from September through June.)\nThe Winter Antiques Show, celebrating its 50th anniversary this week, was hatched after the directors of the East Side House Settlement, one of the city's oldest charities, took a booth at the National Antiques Show at the old Madison Square Garden to dispose of duplicate goods donated to its thrift shop.\nAccording to Laura Beach's history of the show in this year's catalog, an antiques dealer named Henry Coger, seeing the booth's success, proposed that the charity start a show of its own. It could be an annual fund-raiser and, if managed properly, it could also be a major social event in the bleak days of January.\nLondon had the Grosvenor House Antiques Fair, which began in 1934 as a way for antiques dealers to drum up business during the Depression and grew into a super-successful event. So why shouldn't New York have something as elegant, something unlike any other fair in the country?\nOfficials from the charity went to work recruiting the country's top dealers in areas ranging from American, French and English furniture to Chinese porcelains and antique textiles. Besides the big-city dealers, they asked an array of country dealers to come to New York with more-affordable merchandise. Sanford Smith, a Manhattan show organizer, says he believes the charity was allowed to use the Seventh Regiment Armory largely through the good graces of Jean MacArthur, the wife of Gen. Douglas MacArthur.\n''She was involved in the charity,'' Mr. Smith said, ''and because all the ladies who worked with her all lived around the corner, she was able to use her Washington connections to get the armory.'' So on Jan. 24, 1955, the Winter Antiques Show as we now know it opened its doors.\nThe first exhibitors included some of the country's top dealers: French & Company and the American antiques dealers Israel Sack, Stair & Company and Ginsburg & Levy. For sale was everything from Louis XV furniture and a George I walnut secretary bookcase to Chinese armorial porcelains and simple tavern tables.\nPeople lined up outside the cavernous armory, longing to be the first to glimpse the best antiques the country had to offer. In time the show became such a New York institution that Sotheby's and Christie's began scheduling their Americana auctions to coincide with it. The result was Americana Week, when New York became a mecca for collectors and dealers.\nOver the years the show has gone through troubled times and transformations. From 1961 to 1987 Russell Carrell, an antiques dealer from Salisbury, Conn., who was an exhibitor at the show, became its manager, bringing with him more leading American antiques dealers as well as some specializing in folk art. Interior designers also became involved in the show. Among the most high-profile was Mario Buatta, the chairman from 1977 to 1990.\nMr. Buatta, who always had an eye for the theatrical, turned the opening night party into the social event of the winter calendar. Personalities like Lee Radziwill, who was invited to decorate the Armory's famous Louis Comfort Tiffany room, became part of the show's attraction.\nWorking with Mr. Buatta was a public relations wizard, Joanne Creveling, who had worked for Halston and run the public relations department at Henri Bendel. Over the years she used her fashion connections to ask designers like Paloma Picasso, Zandra Rhodes, Bill Blass and Mary McFadden to be the party's chairmen, a job that involved inventing a theme and decorating the Tiffany room. Each invited friends. Over the years attendance grew, and the elite crowd was splashed across the society pages of newspapers around the country.\nOn Mr. Buatta's watch, many dealers he considered second rate were not invited back, and others were added.\nLike all successful enterprises, the show had its imitators, and as the years went on, it faced some serious competition. In 1979 Mr. Smith introduced the Fall Antiques Show, which was so successful that by 1986 he added a Modernism show to the fall calendar. (Mr. Smith now produces six shows a year at the armory.) Perhaps the biggest threat of all was the appearance of Anna and Brian Haughton, London-based organizers who brought the International Fine Art and Antique Dealers Show to the Armory in autumn 1989.\nSince the Haughtons' show was vetted -- that is, the objects were authenticated by outside experts -- the Winter Antiques Show had to follow suit. It did, beginning in 1993. At the same time it began going through something of an identity crisis. Organizers thought that to compete with the International Show, it needed more European dealers, and it slowly started losing its very distinctive American flavor. It also lost several leaders. Mr. Buatta resigned in 1990. Three years later James F. McCollom Jr., a top official, and N. Pendergast Jones, the manager, also left, citing differences between the show and its charity.\nIn 1995 Arie L. Kopelman, the president of Chanel, became chairman, and Catherine Sweeney Singer became executive director. They are still running the event. Now about a third of the dealers are American. The show also tends to have fewer museum-quality works than the stuffier International Show, but a larger variety of goods, ranging in price from a few hundred dollars to millions. The Winter Antiques Show is the only one whose entire proceeds go to its charity, rather than to the organizers.\nBut its definition of what is considered an antique has changed considerably. Fifty years ago Victoriana was thought to be too new. Now the show has an array of decorative arts from the early years of the 20th century -- objects that no doubt would have made Mr. Coger and the show's other founders cringe in horror.\nSeason for Fairs\nA sampling of the events where fine and decorative arts will be shown this weekend in Manhattan. Free shuttles link some of these events.\nWINTER ANTIQUES SHOW, Seventh Regiment Armory, Park Avenue and 67th Street, (718) 292-7392, www.winterantiquesshow.com. Through Jan. 25. Hours: Daily except Sundays and Thursday, noon to 8:30 p.m.; Sundays and Thursday, noon to 6 p.m. Admission: $16.\nTHE AMERICAN ANTIQUES SHOW, Metropolitan Pavilion, 125 West 18th Street, (646) 638-4073, www.folkartmuseum.org. Through Sunday. Hours: Today, noon to 8 p.m.; tomorrow, noon to 7:30 p.m.; Sunday, noon to 5 p.m. Admission: $15.\nTHE NEW YORK CERAMIC FAIR, National Academy of Design, 1083 Fifth Avenue, at 89th Street, (212) 289-0496, www.caskeylees.com. Through Sunday. Hours: Today and tomorrow, 11 a.m. to 7 p.m.; Sunday, noon to 6 p.m. Admission: $15.\nANTIQUES AT THE ARMORY, 69th Regiment Armory, Lexington Avenue and 26th Street, (212) 255-0020, www.stellashows.com. Through Sunday. Hours: Today and tomorrow, 11 a.m. to 8 p.m.; Sunday, 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Admission: $12.\nANTIQUES @ THE PIERS, Passenger Ship Piers, 12th Avenue and 55th Street, (212) 255-0020, www.stellashows.com. Tomorrow through Sunday, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Admission: $12.\nPARK AVENUE ANTIQUES SHOW, Wallace Hall, Church of St. Ignatius Loyola, Park Avenue and 84th Street, (212) 288-3588. Through Sunday. Hours: Today and tomorrow, 11 a.m. to 7 p.m.; Sunday, 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. Admission: $10.\nA version of this article appears in print on January 16, 2004, on Page E00036 of the National edition with the headline: For 50 Years, a Red-Letter Winter Show for Charity. Order Reprints| Today's Paper|Subscribe", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00240.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 175, + "original_length": 10824, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.96, + "perplexity": 201.2, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/27/business/credit-suisse-mortgage.html", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T05:01:01Z", + "digest": "sha1:JNCOSGULAD5RKXVW6VTNFBNXTZCJJPVJ", + "length": 7562, + "nlines": 34, + "source_domain": "www.nytimes.com", + "title": "In a Mortgage-Crisis Settlement, Did a Bank Get Off Easy? - The New York Times", + "raw_content": "Business|In a Mortgage-Crisis Settlement, Did a Bank Get Off Easy?\nNeil M. Barofsky in 2010 while serving as the special inspector general for the Troubled Asset Relief Program. Mr. Barofsky is overseeing the compliance of Credit Suisse with a settlement reached with the Justice Department.CreditCreditBrendan Smialowski/Getty Images\nIn January, prosecutors concluded one of the last multibillion-dollar settlements related to the 2008 mortgage collapse. The deal, with Credit Suisse, required the bank to pay $2.48 billion to settle allegations that its securities unit had misled buyers of home-loan bundles it had sold between 2005 and 2007.\nCredit Suisse also agreed to provide $2.8 billion worth of financial relief to troubled borrowers under the settlement by forgiving or modifying mortgages and helping to finance affordable housing projects across the country.\nWhen they announced the $5.28 billion deal, prosecutors cited it as evidence that the United States government can and will ride herd on large financial institutions if they engage in misconduct.\n\u201cToday\u2019s settlement underscores that the Department of Justice will hold accountable the institutions responsible for the financial crisis of 2008,\u201d said Loretta E. Lynch, the attorney general at the time.\nA little more than six months later, it\u2019s worth asking: How tough, really, was the settlement on Credit Suisse?\nAn answer to that question emerges in a new report compiled by the independent monitor hired to scrutinize how Credit Suisse was living up to the terms of the deal. Put simply, some of the settlement\u2019s terms \u2014 those involving consumer assistance \u2014 were easier on Credit Suisse than aggrieved investors and borrowers may have wanted.\nThe settlement terms relating to consumer relief are complex. They allow the bank to earn credit toward the $2.8 billion in consumer help by modifying troubled borrowers\u2019 loans. How much credit is earned by the bank depends upon the types of modifications it gives to borrowers.\nOne of the monitor\u2019s tasks is to ensure that Credit Suisse receives only the credit that it has truly earned under the deal. This is no small task. Under previous settlements, for example, some banks received credit for forgiving loans that had already been discharged in bankruptcy.\nNeil M. Barofsky, a partner at Jenner & Block, is the Credit Suisse monitor. You might recall Mr. Barofsky from his stint as the first special inspector general for the Troubled Asset Relief Program, which administered assistance to beleaguered banks, homeowners and other entities after the 2008 crisis.\nMr. Barofsky declined to comment on the report, which looks at the first six months of the bank\u2019s loan modification and forgiveness efforts. (A later report will focus on the bank\u2019s financing of affordable housing.)\nNicole Sharp, a Credit Suisse spokeswoman, said in a statement, \u201cAs the report highlights, Credit Suisse has taken a number of positive steps since our settlement with the Department of Justice.\u201d She said the bank was moving \u201cto put this legacy matter behind it, while also protecting the interests of its clients, employees and other stakeholders.\u201d\nIn its settlement with the Justice Department, Credit Suisse agreed to provide $2.8 billion worth of financial relief to troubled borrowers.CreditSteffen Schmidt/European Pressphoto Agency\nSo far, Credit Suisse is working diligently on the consumer relief aspect of the settlement, the report said. It is meeting the deal\u2019s requirements through its loan servicing unit, Select Portfolio Servicing, or SPS. There is no doubt that the bank\u2019s efforts are helping distressed borrowers and will continue to.\nNevertheless, a close reading of the 118-page analysis does raise questions about just how tough this settlement really was. Indeed, the report highlights the significant benefits Credit Suisse received under provisions in a deal that prosecutors said would hold the bank accountable.\nFor example, Credit Suisse can earn consumer relief credit for actions it would likely have taken anyway, the report noted. More troubling, most of the loans Select Portfolio Servicing will modify \u2014 and Credit Suisse will receive credit for \u2014 are owned by others. They are investors in mortgage-backed securities or rival financial institutions. \u201cNearly all of the loan modifications SPS will complete for credit will be performed on loans owned by third parties, and to the extent those modifications result in any loss, it will be borne by the owner of the loan, and not Credit Suisse,\u201d the report noted.\nAllowing the bank to forgive loans it does not own, which the Credit Suisse settlement specifically does, puts the bank in a position to benefit from others\u2019 losses.\nHere are the details. According to the analysis, Credit Suisse\u2019s current focus is to modify troubled loans, allowing borrowers to pay less than is currently owed on their mortgages or to defer payments on a portion of the principal outstanding. Both arrangements help borrowers stay in their homes and avoid foreclosure. That was a primary goal of the settlement, and it was a good one.\nThe bank has agreed to try to satisfy its consumer relief obligation by Dec. 31, 2020.\nWhen Credit Suisse forgives principal on a borrower\u2019s mortgage, modifying the loan by reducing the amount owed, the bank receives a dollar-for-dollar credit, the report noted. In other words, for every dollar of principal forgiven in a modification, Credit Suisse receives at least $1 of credit toward the $2.8 billion in consumer relief.\nBut Credit Suisse can also earn more than $1 in credit when a loan modification satisfies certain other criteria.\nMany troubled borrowers, especially those who bought their homes at the height of the real estate bubble, owe more on their mortgages than their properties are currently worth. Such borrowers are upside down on their mortgages; they have negative equity in their homes.\nTo help borrowers like these, the settlement assigns extra credit to Credit Suisse when it forgives enough principal on a loan to put the borrower in a positive equity position. The bank can earn additional credit up to $1.25 per dollar of forgiveness granted in certain cases.\nThe report is meaningful because it goes into scrupulous detail about how the Credit Suisse deal is working. This lets readers draw their own conclusions about how assiduously the settlement actually held the bank to account.\nAfter the 2008 debacle, prosecutors have been criticized for failing to pursue criminal prosecutions of large and powerful financial institutions. In response, they have pointed to billion-dollar settlements with banks, like the one with Credit Suisse, as evidence that they are aggressive in their demands for accountability.\nBut letting a bank receive credit for principal forgiveness that others are actually providing is a flaw in this settlement. Allowing it to meet its obligations with actions it would have taken anyway is another lapse.\nCredit Suisse is living up to the terms of the $5.28 billion settlement agreement. That\u2019s to the good. But the nature of the agreement could have been stronger. And that\u2019s too bad.\nTwitter: @gmorgenson\nA version of this article appears in print on , on Page BU1 of the New York edition with the headline: Did a Deal Let a Bank Off Easy?. Order Reprints | Today\u2019s Paper | Subscribe\nBig Banks Lose Bid to Halt Crisis-Era Lawsuits\nCredit Suisse to Pay $5.3 Billion to Resolve Mortgage Inquiry\nFlurry of Settlements Over Toxic Mortgages May Save Banks Billions\nWhere Does the Mortgage Settlement Money Go?", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00240.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 209, + "original_length": 9704, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.96, + "perplexity": 322.4, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "https://www.nzwargraves.org.nz/technical-details-project", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T04:52:21Z", + "digest": "sha1:UI32WEQF64DO42MJ6OKWZYZ43QZRO6J4", + "length": 5057, + "nlines": 26, + "source_domain": "www.nzwargraves.org.nz", + "title": "Technical details of project | New Zealand War Graves Project", + "raw_content": "Technical details of project\nThe archive forms the core of the project. It will be a complete record of all of the graves and primary memorials of New Zealand's war dead. We realise that there are some locations that, at this time, are difficult to access, notably the Basra memorial in Iraq, but we feel sure that, in the near future, in some form, access will be possible.\nAs well as the photographing of \u201cprimary memorials\u201d, extensive photography of the cemeteries and their surrounds, using advanced techniques which were unavailable a few years ago, will add detail and depth to the records.\nIn addition, the archive should contain images of memorials to New Zealand forces, such as the New Zealand Memorial at Le Quesnoy \u2013 and while it has been photographed before, we believe that a professional image is needed for this project.\nThe final content of the archive will be made in consultation with professional historians. It is our intent to form a board of studies to provide guidance and direction to the project.\nWe have extensive experience in database design and configuration and realise the importance of ensuring the transportability of the data we collect, both for integration with other databases, and any other future use. Images in the database will be of consistent size (4k pixel long side), and of consistent colour and quality.\nAgreement has been reached with the Auckland War Memorial Museum to accept the archive and host the website on its completion, ensuring the safe-keeping of the material for use by future generations of New Zealanders. Despite having \u201cAuckland\u201d in its name, it is the sole war memorial museum in New Zealand designated as such, and has a national focus on military history, hosting the \u201cCenotaph\u201d database of all New Zealand\u2019s service personnel, with which we are pleased to associate.\nThe creation of this website will allow free public access to the archive, albeit using lower resolution images, and will allow searching for servicemen and cemeteries using very simple search criteria.\nThe website will eventually extend the functionality of the collected images, adding \u201cvirtual tours\u201d of some of the cemeteries, panoramic images and in some instances, interactive cemetery plans and web movies of suitable subjects, such as the daily Menin Gate ceremony.\nThe website will also allow special interest groups to contribute. A good example is the Medical History Society, which has shown considerable interest in the project, and would supply addition information on the medical staff/doctors amongst the servicemen. Search criteria may be extended to permit searching for such categories as, New Zealanders that served with British forces (seconded to the RAF etc), Maori, Regiments, service branches and specialties (e.g. Artillery), home towns, Post Office employees\u2026\u2026 The list is only limited by imagination, time and funding.\nIn addition, it is possible to provide links to a higher resolution .jpeg image of individual headstones and memorials which could be downloaded and printed.\nThe project principals are working with other organisations to ensure compatibility of data with any other initiatives and to avoid duplication of effort.\nMethodology (Photography)\nAs the images are required to be archived in a digital form, they originate digitally. We have established that a minimum of a 12 megapixels sensor is required to satisfy our quality standards, which is, at least, the same quality as film. Any film used, for some special photography, will be scanned at the same resolution.\nAll images originate in the camera\u2019s native RAW format (i.e. without in\u2013camera processing) and are stored as a TIFF (uncompressed) format, which is universally accepted for archiving. There are therefore two \u201chigh-quality\u201d versions of each picture, plus the smaller JPEG images required for the website.\nImages are 4000 pixels, long side, except for the individual images for panoramas and \u201cvirtual cemetery\u201d use.\nMethodology (Logistics)\nThe Trust operates the project by contracting the most suitable persons or companies to complete the various tasks to meet our goals.\nProvision of images\nPost-production of images\nWeb site, Virtual cemetery and Graphic Design\nHistorical and Social Research\nMethodology (Timetable)\nThe project which began as an idea in 2004 and was under way in 2006 is scheduled to finish the principal photography in 2014/2015.\nThe website will continue to grow incrementally as the images are collected, rather than at the completion of the project, and will contain updates/news on the project as it proceeds. The length of the project and the scheduling of the phases have always been dependent on funding.\nNew Zealanders who are casualties of war or peace-keeping operations are buried in 79 countries. By early 2012, more than 13,000 photogaphs had been obtained from 32 countries and more than 18,816 were still be collected from 47 countries. 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Ogden Clinic offers a variety of women\u2019s health and wellness services to patients across Northern Utah including preventative care, sexual health screenings, and treatment for infections and other gynecological issues. Regular care can prevent illness and help women maintain optimal health.\nWomen\u2019s Health and Wellness Services at Ogden Clinic\nThere are several services available to women at Ogden Clinic including:\nPreventative care: Our team of Utah gynecologists offers a variety of preventative care services to ensure optimal reproductive health. Pap smears are routine tests which women should have at least once every 3 years from ages 21-65, to test for cervical cancer. Women should also have routine breast and pelvic exams to test for cancer, cysts, and changes within the reproductive organs.\nSexual health screenings: Sexual health services include family planning such as fertility treatments, prenatal care, birth control, and sterilization procedures. Your Utah gynecologist can also conduct reproductive exams to test for fertility and ovulation if you want to start having children.\nTreatment: The Utah gynecology team at Ogden Clinic is equipped to diagnose and treat the various conditions and infections that women may experience in their lifetime. From the beginning of the menstrual cycle through menopause, we are here for you. We can provide treatment for yeast infections, urinary tract infections (UTI), and other gynecological issues as they arise. We can also diagnose any conditions that may cause heavy or irregular periods, and suggest treatment options.\nIn general, women need to see the doctor more often than men because of their reproductive and sexual health needs, in addition to other health concerns including cardiovascular health, cancer prevention, diabetes counseling, and osteoporosis. Regular checkups can help you lead a healthy and fulfilling life.\nTaking steps to prevent and treat illness is key in maintaining optimal health throughout the course of your life. For compassionate and comprehensive women\u2019s health and wellness services, come to Ogden Clinic. 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It is true the risk for children with fathers or mothers with type 2 diabetes increased by one third higher for developing diabetes.\nMany people think that diabetes only occurs in those who are older. In fact, not so. The more widespread poor lifestyle, this makes diabetes so the disease can also strike those who are younger.\nBut that does not mean You do not have hereditary diabetes just relax and like-minded zilch about this disease.\nThere are some things that could open the \u2018entrance\u2019 of the disease is even a cause of diabetes is still very You can avoid. Want to know what ? Continue to read this article.\nRead more : What Is The Symptoms Of Diabetes ? Here're the explained !\nThe following causes of diabetes at a young age that You should know:\n1. Dysfunction of the pancreas\nDysfunction of the pancreatic usually occurs in people who have type 1 diabetes. This condition occurs when the pancreas is unable to produce insulin needed to break down food and convert it into energy.\nWell, if the pancreas can't produce enough insulin or it could not at all produce insulin, this will increase the blood sugar levels and cause diabetes.\nDiabetes is hereditary. This does not mean You definitely will develop diabetes if Your mom or dad had it. However, this means that You have a bigger chance of getting the disease if You have parents, siblings, or grandparents who experienced it.\n3. Virus infection\nA viral infection can destroy or damage cells in the body people who are young. It can also trigger an autoimmune response that have a negative impact on the function of the pancreas that can cause diabetes. Some viral infections that can cause diabetes include, coxsackievirus B, cytomegalovirus, adenovirus, rubella and mumps.\nIn addition to the three already mentioned above, one of the other major factors that can cause people to young people vulnerable to diabetes is obesity. Obesity or excess weight will prevent the body responds to insulin.\nIn addition, central obesity aka excess fat in the stomach also is not only be a major factor in a young susceptible to diabetes, but also various other cardiovascular diseases. That's why, if You have excess weight, You should lose weight gradually to achieve the ideal body weight.diabetes so the disease can also strike those who are younger.\nYoung people are vulnerable consume unhealthy foods such as junk food every day. Whereas a poor diet not only will increase Your risk of developing diabetes, but other health problems such as weight gain, high blood pressure, and even heart disease.\nThat's why, it is important for everyone, especially during a period of growth to pay more attention to the intake of food consumed each day. This can be done by eating a balanced nutritious diet of fruit and vegetables.\nDon't forget, avoid all the things that can trigger You to consume sweet foods. If necessary, use the sweeteners are non-sugar and low calories in the intake of sugary foods and drinks that You consume day-to-day.\nRead more : Kids Youtube Channels Syndrome And How To Overcome\n6. Cigarettes and alcohol\nAlcohol addiction and the habit of smoking can also be factors that lead to young people at high risk of suffering from diabetes. Unhealthy habits can interfere with the metabolic activity of the body and affects the production of insulin.\nStress is an important factor that can trigger diabetes. Not only for adults, stress is now also widely felt in the young child because of the tasks at school/college, peer pressure and social problems.\nIt is not uncommon to make many young people so cravings for sweet foods to just relieve stress and improve their mood. In fact, without them even knowing the consumption of sweet foods at the moment as it will make them eat sweet foods a lot more which have a direct impact on the risk of diabetes.\nTeenagers, especially young children often awake until the middle of the night (night owls) that make them not able to get enough sleep. In fact, enough sleep is very important to maintain Your health.\nThis is because lack of sleep makes the rhythm sirkandian interrupted so that trigger hormonal changes the body, including insulin that regulate blood sugar. Well, this makes the lack of sleep acute can increase a person's risk of developing diabetes.\n9. Lazy motion\nMost of the young people today spend more time playing games and watching TV in front of the screen, not outdoor sports. Whereas, lack of physical activity can cause a slowdown of metabolism in the body, so that they are at high risk of developing diabetes at a young age.\nWell, rather than a day sitting in front of the TV or computer, it is better to use Your time to perform physical activity that allows You to actively move, for example walk-a relaxing walk in the afternoon, cycling, participate in an aerobics class, or go to the gym with friends.\nWith physical exertion, this will make You avoid the risk of obesity, the main risk factors of diabetes. In addition aktivtas physical will also make muscle cells more sensitive to the insulin that served to help control sugar levels in the body. In addition, physical activity is also able to balance the glucose levels in the blood.", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00240.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 70, + "original_length": 6918, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.94, + "perplexity": 287.2, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "https://www.onread.com/fbreader/631147", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T04:36:43Z", + "digest": "sha1:HSS5OHBCWJNDSXM5CNTFDOX5TSZUJXU4", + "length": 20, + "nlines": 1, + "source_domain": "www.onread.com", + "title": "Read online \"\"The Yankee abroad.\"\" by Bibliophile Society (Boston, Mass.). Instant free e-book download at OnRead.com.", + "raw_content": "\"The Yankee abroad.\"", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00240.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 54, + "original_length": 1063, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.95, + "perplexity": 164.3, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "https://www.opendemocracy.net/od-russia/natalia-zubarevich/four-russias-new-political-reality", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T03:16:50Z", + "digest": "sha1:7RCD3M52IBJ2CVHVFOPM5KUPIGFYGVKC", + "length": 25512, + "nlines": 73, + "source_domain": "www.opendemocracy.net", + "title": "Four Russias: the new political reality | openDemocracy", + "raw_content": "Russia\u2019s economic and social differentation is marked and persistent. In addition to regional differences, we see even more pronounced differences in the quality and way of life and the sets of values among four groups: the populations in large, medium, and small cities and in rural Russia.\nFirst among Russians: the federal cities\nAt the basis of Russia's centre-periphery model is a hierarchy of dwellings \u2014 from the more modernised large cities to patriarchal rural areas. Russia One is composed of major cities. Cities with populations of a around million or more account for 21% of Russia\u2019s total population, or 31% if cities with half a million residents are included. The proportion of those living in large cities has been steadily rising due to an influx of migrants. The leaders of Russia One are federal cities with a post-industrial economic structure, a high level of economic development, and the highest share of middle-class individuals (30\u201340% of the population).\nTheir residents are well-educated (in Moscow and St. Petersburg, 39\u201343% of the residents over the age of 15 hold advanced university degrees), and a larger percentage of residents employed in the small-business sector. They also have high internet penetration.\nMoscow. CC Andrey Naumov / Flickr. Some rights reserved.It is in the federal cities \u2014 particularly in Moscow \u2014 where political transformations and dissent have grown faster, alongside demands for government modernisation. Electoral data also bear this out: during the 2012 presidential elections, less than one half of Muscovites voted for Vladimir Putin.\nThe postindustrial transformation of the economy and society has proceeded at varying rates in other million-strong cities. Progress has been faster in Yekaterinburg and Novosibirsk, as these cities have the appeal of being macroregional centres in the Urals and Siberia These cities pull in more migrants as they offer more well-paid and modern jobs.\nHere, the people\u2019s social environment and political preferences have been changing more slowly in big cities that have kept their Soviet-era industrial specialisation, such as Omsk, Ufa, and Volgograd.\nBut even among smaller cities, the differences are large: Tomsk, a university city with a population of 500,000, is well ahead of many larger cities in terms of modernisation. Virtually all cities with a population of 500,000 are regional centre, and it helps them concentrate the resources of their respective regions, particularly human resources.\nFor the middle class, modernisation has been limited to higher consumption standards, whereas their values remained statist and illiberal\nYetthe modernisation potential of Russia One should not be overestimated, as the communities in large cities are quite mixed demographically and ideologically. For instance, the share of elderly who heavily depend on the authorities is large (30\u201333 % in Moscow and St Petersburg).\nThe middle class in large cities is also a mixed bag. During the 2000s, the share of public-sector employees grew rapidly. In their case, modernisation has been limited to higher consumption standards, whereas their values remained statist and illiberal and their demand for the modernisation of institutions minimal.\nRussia Two: in search of \u201cstability\u201d\nAbout nine percent of Russians live in cities with populations of between a quarter million and a half million people, primarily in regional capitals. In these cities, social and economic development are more sustainable, but human and financial resources are usually inadequate for modernisation.\nThis is an intermediate zone between Russia One and Russia Two, with the situation varying by the city. Russia Two refers to medium-sized cities with populations from 50,000 to 250,000 people. They are home to less than 30% of Russia\u2019s population. Not all of these cities retained their industrial specialisation during the post-Soviet times, but Soviet-era values still hold strong. In addition to considerable employment in the industrial sector, these cities have a large number of people employed in the public sector, most of whom are less-skilled workers.\nYoung people have been fleeing Russia Two, and in most cases they never come back\nThe economic situation varies across the cities of Russia Two: the highest incomes are enjoyed by residents of oil- and gas-producing cities in Tyumen region, and incomes are also somewhat higher in cities with large steel and coal industry enterprises \u2014 that is, in cities with export-oriented economies. In cities with export substitution industries (machine building, the food industry, and so forth), wages are considerably lower than in the regional centres.\nWorkers at a metallurgical factory in Zlatoust, Chelyabinsk Region (population: 172,000). Photo (c) 2013, Yury Abramochkin / Visual RIAN. All rights reserved.Young people have been fleeing Russia Two, and in most cases they never come back. Economic crises are particularly hard on one-company cities. There are more than 150 of these, and they account for ten percent of the country\u2019s urban population. The denizens of Russia Two, like the residents of the largest cities, have not been happy with the political situation. During the 2011 parliamentary elections, the share of votes cast in favour of the ruling party (United Russia) in many industrial cities was as low as in large regional centre (29\u201338%).\nHowever, during the presidential elections, Russia Two residents voted for Putin because, more than anything else, they valued stability, employment, and wages. They remembered the 1990s well, when enterprises would remain idle for long periods of time while workers would go unpaid for months on end. The main reason for Russia Two to protest is the loss of jobs and wages. Lliberal ideas of modernisation are unpopular; the greatest value is a strong paternalist state and large-scale social policy.\nThe Kremlin\u2019s spin doctors have managed to pit the hardworking populace of Russia Two against the residents of Russia One\nThe residents of industrial Russia feel like they are the main \u201cproviders\u201d for Russia; therefore, the Kremlin\u2019s spin doctors have managed to pit the hardworking populace of Russia Two against the residents of Russia One who, in the language of the official propaganda, \u201conly wag their tongues and produce nothing.\u201d The existence of a political rift is confirmed by the outcome of the presidential elections. In the Urals, during the 2012 presidential race, Putin garnered twice as much support as United Russia received there in the parliamentary election in 2011.\nAt the margins, but not marginal: Russias Three & Four\nRussia Three is the traditionalist and inert rural heartland of most of Russia\u2019s regions, as well as the communities in villages and small towns with a population of less than 20,000 (collectively, more than one-third of the country\u2019s population).\nIn these cities, the levels of education and mobility are at their lowest; the public sector and agriculture provide most of the jobs; and a large share of those employed are in the informal sector. The periphery is apolitical and always votes for the incumbent authorities. Russia Three also suffers from depopulation. The borders between these three Russias are blurred. Obviously, the distribution of the population is not the only factor affecting the pace of modernisation, but the centre-periphery model helps identify the key differences.\nThe village postman arrives. Zikhnov, Arkhangelsk Region, 2011. Photo (c): Aleksei Kudenko / visual RIAN. All rights reserved.Russia Four is yet another periphery, which comprises the underdeveloped republics of the North Caucasus (five percent of Russia\u2019s total population) and the south of Siberia (less than one percent). These regions differ greatly from the rest of Russia because they are at an earlier stage of the modernisation transition: urbanisation began later, the demographic transition is incomplete, birth rates remain high, the patriarchal clan-based structure of society persists, ethnic differences are acute, and religion plays an important role.\nThe rural population is still young, cities have yet to digest the growing migration from the rural areas, and the urban way of life is only just taking shape there. The modernised, urban population is too slow to expand, because a fairly large part of the educated and competitive young people are moving to the country\u2019s largest cities.\nCentre-periphery differences are typical of other countries, but in Russia they have specific features, from a very wide gap between the largest cities and the rest of Russia, and the vast size of the depopulating ethnic Russian periphery.\nAcross the four Russias, there is a deep well of resentment that the authorities are all too happy to exploit\nThis division into four Russias is based on long-term factors and is very durable, with differences changing very slowly. During the economic boom of the 2000s, the residents of the largest cities, where the better-paying jobs and the better-educated population are concentrated, enjoyed the highest rates of growth in incomes and consumption standards.\nRapid consumption has helped modernise urban lifestyles and the values held by the population of the major cities in \u201cRussia One\u201d. The 2009 crisis had a stronger impact on the medium-sized industrial cities of \u201cRussia Two\u201d. On the whole, the gap between \u201cRussia One\u201d and \u201cRussia Two\u201d widened in the 2000s.\nAs the authorities are well aware, anti-western sentiments and frustration over the breakup of the USSR are widespread across all four Russias. The annexation of Crimea enjoyed massive public support and Putin\u2019s popularity rating jumped from 60 to 82% between January and March 2014. The authorities now have an opportunity to attribute the worsening economic situation to the malicious designs of foreign enemies. Across the four Russias, there is a deep well of resentment that the authorities are all too happy to exploit.\nThe 2014 Crisis and the Four Russias\nThe Russian economy plunged into a recession even before the onset of the crisis in Ukraine. In 2013, there was no growth in industrial output or investment, and 2014 saw the beginning of a serious economic downturn.\nThe growth of household incomes in 2013 was minimal (three percent) and largely stemmed from wage increases in the public sector. The fiscal position of the nation\u2019s regions is deteriorating because of a reduced tax rate and shrinking transfers from the federal budget.\nSeventy seven out of 83 regions are running fiscal deficits. In the aggregate, the budget spending by the regions was 8% higher than their revenues. Russia\u2019s budget is simply unsustainable. The regions will be forced to cut expenditures, mainly the number of social-sector institutions and their employees.\nThe underdeveloped republics did not notice the 2009 economic crisis and are unlikely to notice a new one, since they live mostly off transfers from the federal budget and the shadow economy\nThe underdeveloped republics (Russia Four) did not notice the 2009 economic crisis and are unlikely to notice a new one, since they live mostly off transfers from the federal budget and the shadow economy. The share of these republics in the total transfers to the regions of the Russian Federation is only 10%. The federal budget can afford to continue supporting them.\nWhere now for the four Russias? Photo CC: Elo Vazquez / Flickr, 2008. Some rights reserved.The peripheral Russia Three is also outside the risk zone. It has the largest share of pensioners, and older people are more loyal and manageable even if the rate of pension increases slows down. In rural areas and smaller cities, the share of public-sector and agricultural employees is higher. Wages in the public sector have increased, while the agricultural sector will likely become more competitive on the back of a weaker rouble and declining imports.\nThe industrial cities of Russia Two have been more deeply affected by the economic crisis, particularly hubs of the steel, coal, paper and pulp, and engineering industries, in which output began to decline in 2013.\nSo far, big and medium-sized businesses have been very careful in their layoff policies because of pressure from the federal and regional authorities, but as the crisis exacerbates, the problem of unemployment will grow more urgent. It may be mitigated to some extent as the federal budget has allocated considerable resources to prop up employment (more than 100 billion roubles in 2014, or 20% more than at the peak of the crisis in 2009).\nBut this will help only if the crisis is short lived, which is unlikely given the many institutional flaws of the Russian economy and recent international sanctions in response to Russia\u2019s role in the Ukraine crisis. Russia Two is headed for high unemployment and a drop in living standards. At the same time, it should be taken into account that the populations in the industrial cities in the central, north-western, and Urals regions have grown older: most of the workers are close to retirement age, which reduces pressure on the labour market.\nWide protests are unlikely, since the population of Russia Two is less educated and will be more easily convinced by the all-out Kremlin propaganda campaign blaming the country\u2019s economic problems on scheming foreign enemies.\nSingle-company towns are the most vulnerable to the effects of an economic crisis, but a massive public outcry can hardly be expected there. Russia\u2019s big businesses have learned how to lower social costs through management tools (like shorter working weeks, mandatory unpaid leaves, minimization of layoffs, reassignment of workers to other tasks within a company if certain shops have to be closed down, firing protest leaders, and a de facto actual ban on strikes) and to extract the most benefit from government support for employment. An effective alliance between federal and regional authorities and big business has evolved in Russia, seeking to minimise social protest in industrial cities where large companies have their assets.\nThe medium-sized businesses in monotowns are more vulnerable because the risks of shuttering undermodernised enterprises are higher. During the 2009 crisis, regional authorities forbade owners of medium-sized businesses to close down unprofitable enterprises, making them work at a loss or sell to new owners; they also forced other companies in the region to buy products from struggling businesses.\nThe labour market is gradually adjusting to the worsening conditions by freezing wages in the private sector and slowly reducing employment\nIn Russia One, the creeping crisis (or, rather, slow recession) is currently not perceived as an acute problem, but the situation will inevitably grow worse. People in the major cities boast the highest level of education, incomes, and consumption standards and thus have a great deal to lose.\nThe labour market is gradually adjusting to the worsening conditions by freezing wages in the private sector and slowly reducing employment, while households have employed various adaptation strategies. For the bureaucrats, who account for a sizeable proportion of the middle class in large cities, the negative impact of the crisis is absorbed by higher wages and corruption rent. Emigration remains an option for competitive professionals who are not willing to adjust to the new political reality.\nExpress service to Russia One. A bus to Moscow awaits passengers in Makhachkala, Dagestan. Photo: Un Bolshakov / Flickr, 2011. Some rights reserved.As the crisis deepens, the residents of Russia\u2019s largest cities will be able to shake off the postimperial syndrome sooner and more rationally evaluate the consequences of the Putin regime\u2019s antimodernisation policies. But whether Russia One has the strength to protest and what the forms and scope of opposition to the Kremlin\u2019s policies will be is an open question.\nScenarios for the Four Russias\nNegative political changes in Russia are so swift that predicting anything is extremely difficult. Nevertheless, the general direction of the Putin regime is clear: anti-modernisation and isolationism. The only question is the depth and longevity of the trend.\nThis new trend in the Russian state\u2019s policies has many historical precedents: revolutions have always been followed by periods of counterrevolutions and attempts to restore old development models. In the case of today\u2019s Russia, the anti-modernisation, counter-revolutionary trend is aggravated by the postimperial syndrome. The following four development scenarios seem likely:\nBack to the USSR / sliding toward totalitarianism. This scenario involves switching to the \u201cbesieged fortress\u201d mode and tightening the political regime for quite a long time to come.\nThis scenario implies greater control over big business under the threat of nationalisation and its subordination to the political interests of the authorities, a mobilisation-ready economy, ideological control over key aspects of life, restrictions on foreign travel, large-scale reprisals against the opposition and liquidation of the remaining independent media outlets, and restrictions on the Internet.\nThis likely will lead to a sharp drop in the living standards of the entire population, particularly the middle class in the larger cities who are not part of the bureaucracy. Such a scenario no longer appears implausible, but it is more likely to materialise in the event of a full-scale Russian military invasion of eastern Ukraine and the introduction of sweeping western sanctions as a response.\nShould this scenario materialise, its implications for the four Russias are easy to predict. The larger cities of Russia One would be hit the hardest, and their population would have to sharply lower their consumption standards. Resistance is unlikely to be broadbased in the repressive environment, but the modernised middle class would leave the country in droves.\nThe differences between Russia One and the other Russias would become smaller because of the shrinking modernisation potential of the largest cities. The authorities would try to mitigate the negative consequences for the industrial Russia Two, which is the Putin regime\u2019s political base.\nMuscovites protest in solidarity with those arrested in the Bolotnaya demonstration of 2012. Photo: Vladimir Varolomeev / Flickr, 2014. Some rights reserved.Budget-funded government contracts would increase, and so would support for employment in industrial cities. Russia Three is another base of support for the regime, but in its case, the authorities may limit themselves to maintaining the level of pensions and wages for public-sector employees. The country\u2019s outlying areas are incapable of protest and have always voted as expected.\nUnder this scenario, the regime may remain stable over the medium term, while its more distant future would depend on the speed and depth of the economic crisis, which will inevitably worsen even if energy prices do not fall. As a result, Russia would lose almost all of its competitive advantages, except for commodities, and would find itself in the group of less-developed countries.\nHard authoritarianism. Barring a full-scale invasion of eastern Ukraine, this is the most probable scenario. The prevailing antimodernisation trend with the imitation of Soviet practices and pinpoint reprisals against protest leaders will continue.\nThe business community would demonstrate loyalty in exchange for permission to keep their assets, and no considerable nationalisation of the economy would take place. The living standards would decline, but not too rapidly. Under this scenario, the educated population of the larger cities of Russia One espousing modern values would self-isolate, withdrawing into \u201cinternal emigration\u201d (a passive form of protest), with just a few small groups of active protesters remaining. Emigration would occur on a lesser scale but would be enough to undermine the modernisation potential of Russia\u2019s largest cities.\nUnder this scenario, the authorities would also rely on the conservatism of the industrial and still-Soviet Russia Two and the peripheral Russia Three, but it might prove to be a less stable political support than the regime would hope for. After the annexation of Crimea, the mobilisation resources based on the postimperial syndrome could be exhausted and the level of political support for the authorities would decline because of economic problems.\nThe Russian authorities then are quite likely to encourage ethnic (Great Russia, orthodox) mobilisation and xenophobia toward migrants as a new source of support for the regime which would inevitably exacerbate tensions in Russia Four in the North Caucasus. In addition to the republics of the Caucasus, the cities of Russia One where the bulk of migrant workers are concentrated and the cities and rural areas of the Russian south where the influx of migrants is also massive would become a problem zone. T\nhe consequences of growing Russian and ethnic nationalisms are impossible to predict, and pumping up xenophobia might lead to disintegration of the country as the worst-case scenario. Although the imperial idea unites most of the Russian citizens, albeit temporarily, the national one is sharply divisive.\nReturning to the modernisation path after a short relapse of the postimperial syndrome. This may happen only if the elites split up and later reach an agreement to alter the country\u2019s direction and replace the leader, which is unlikely.\nEven if the course of leadership is changed, it would be difficult to start modernizing institutions and to loosen the state\u2019s authoritarian grip on business and society. Regrettably, during the post-Soviet period, particularly under Putin, all the institutions of society, as well as human and social capital, have deteriorated. A change of course in the context of a protracted economic crisis would lead to temporary loss of control and chaotic decentralisation.\nPolitical campaign poster on Moscow's Sofiyskaya Embankment, 2008. Photo (c): Mikhail Fomichev / visual RIAN. All rights reserved.This is virtually inevitable at the stage of abandoning strict authoritarianism. In this scenario, Russia Two would lose state support; its population would protest but would do so warily because of the low social capital of the industrial cities\u2019 population and a limited ability to act collectively. Russia Three would adjust to the changes using traditional survival techniques (for example, subsidiary farming, picking mushrooms and wild berries, or fishing). Russia One would continue to be the leader of change, but at a much lower level of social and human capital in the largest cities, which would limit the modernisation potential. This potential is further diminished by the fact that the Russian authorities have raised institutional barriers that would impede the progress of Russia One.\nThus, a law has been passed abolishing direct mayoral elections in the country\u2019s 67 largest cities (excluding the federal centres) to prevent opposition candidates from being elected. In 2012, gubernatorial elections were reinstated, but with a system of filters to prevent the opposition from entering the races. This will enhance the legitimacy of governors, but within the regions the system in which strong mayors of the largest cities counterbalance the regional governors will be destroyed. In the context of weakening federal authority, such an imbalance would facilitate the emergence of authoritarian regional regimes.\nTo bring this country together, the new Russian authorities would again take a step toward authoritarianism. Russia would again fall in the same pit, confirming the relevance of the path-dependence theory that explains how development is limited by the system of values prevailing in society.4 These are informal norms and rules deeply rooted in the life of nations and linked to the behavioral stereotypes of large population groups, which makes them stronger than formal institutions (laws).\nForcibly toppling the existing regime through revolution. This is the least likely scenario. The main role under this scenario would be played by Russia One \u2014 or, rather, the nation\u2019s capital \u2014 but the outlines of such a scenario are not discernible for the time being, and its consequences are too harrowing to even contemplate.\nIn the post-Crimea political environment, Russia One is an obvious loser. It cannot strengthen its influence on the nation\u2019s development by introducing innovative values and diffusing them through the hierarchy of cities. Under the more likely future scenarios, the authorities would isolate Russia One and rely on the conservative semiperiphery and periphery (Russias Two and Three).\nInteractions between Russia One and Russia Two are unlikely under any scenario, as their interests diverge in the short and medium term: the residents in major cities are keen to see modernisation of the state, while Russia Two values social and economic stability (employment and wages) above anything else. The problems of Russia Four heighten the risks associated with Russia\u2019s development under all scenarios.\nUnder the harshest scenario, these problems may be temporarily frozen with the help of government-sponsored violence, but that would increase development risks further into the future.\nReprinted with the permission of the American Enterprise Institute.\nPutin\u2019s politics of uncertainty: how the Kremlin raised the stakes", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00240.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 234, + "original_length": 30426, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.95, + "perplexity": 255.6, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "https://www.optimallivingdynamics.com/blog/how-to-repair-a-leaky-blood-brain-barrier-ways-heal-fix-supplements-mental-health-neuroinflammation-treatments-causes-gaba-injury-hyperpermeability", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T03:46:33Z", + "digest": "sha1:KHXEYBTARDRT3PJ5DLRKI7XP4OBH3IWU", + "length": 26977, + "nlines": 214, + "source_domain": "www.optimallivingdynamics.com", + "title": "How to Repair a Leaky Blood-Brain Barrier \u2014 Optimal Living Dynamics", + "raw_content": "How to Repair a Leaky Blood-Brain Barrier\nNovember 27, 2016 Jordan Fallis\n\u0093Blood-brain barrier leakage means that the brain has lost its protective means, the stability of brain cells is disrupted and the environment in which nerve cells interact becomes ill-conditioned. These mechanisms could eventually lead to dysfunction in the brain.\u0094\n\u2014 Dr. Walter H. Backes, Maastricht University Medical Center\nA healthy, properly-functioning blood-brain barrier is critical for optimal brain and mental health.\nThe blood-brain barrier is a protective shield that surrounds your brain. It acts as a gatekeeper and filter, allowing beneficial nutrients to cross over into your brain, and keeping unwanted molecules out of your brain.\nBut in his book Why Isn\u2019t My Brain Working, Dr. Datis Kharrazian explains that the blood-brain barrier can break down and become \u201cleaky\u201d. This allows harmful substances to enter your brain, contributing to brain inflammation, which has been shown to cause cognitive problems and mental illness (92, 110-111).\nHyper-permeability of the blood-brain barrier and neuroinflammation have been linked to a number of different brain and mental health problems and symptoms, including depression, anxiety, cognitive impairment, brain fog, Alzheimer's disease, Parkinson\u2019s disease, headaches, migraines, chronic fatigue syndrome, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) and schizophrenia (101-109).\nA number of factors contribute to \u201cleaky brain\u201d, including (93-100):\nChronic psychological stress\nPoor diet and food additives\nDisrupted circadian rhythm\nIntestinal permeability (leaky gut syndrome)\nEnvironmental toxins and heavy metal\nNeedless to say, these things are very common today, so a lot of people likely have a leaky blood-brain barrier.\nThe good news is that even though the blood-brain barrier can break down and become leaky, it can also be fixed!\nYou can repair it if you give it what it needs to heal.\nAfter living in a moldy home and suffering multiple concussions, my brain and its barrier were in rough shape.\nSince then, I\u2019ve searched far and wide for solutions that could strengthen it.\nHere are 19 strategies that have helped me.\nThey've been proven to help repair and support the blood brain barrier\nTogether, they can help you reduce neuroinflammation, heal your \u201cleaky brain,\u201d and overcome your brain and mental health challenges.\n1. Avoid Gluten\nAvoiding gluten is necessary for optimal brain and mental health.\nI\u2019m convinced that if you struggle with a chronic brain or mental illness, you should follow a strict gluten-free diet for at least 30 days and see how you feel. You'll likely feel better.\nOne main reason I recommend this is because gluten has been shown to disrupt the blood-brain barrier by elevating \u201czonulin\u201d.\nZonulin is a protein in your body that increases the permeability of the intestinal barrier and blood-brain barrier (48).\nIn 2006, researchers found that gluten clearly increases zonulin and contributes to \u201cleaky gut\u201d and \u201cleaky brain\u201d, resulting in neuroinflammation and altered cognitive function (49, 50).\nGluten sensitivity can also create visible changes to the white matter in your brain, according to research in the journal The Lancet Neurology (51).\nYet unfortunately, the myth continues to spread that only people with celiac disease need to avoid gluten-containing food. That\u2019s simply not true.\nDr. David Perlmutter, MD, author of Grain Brain and Brain Maker, explains:\n\u0093Not only is there increased gut permeability when the gut is exposed to gliadin, a protein found in gluten, but in fact the blood brain barrier also becomes more permeable in response to gliadin exposure.\u0094\nYou should also determine other food sensitivities and remove those foods from your diet as well. A lot of people are sensitive to dairy, along with gluten. I can't tolerate gluten, dairy and egg whites and unfortunately have to avoid them completely.\n2. Heal Your Gut\nAs I\u2019ve discussed before, there is a clear connection between your brain and digestive system.\nWhatever happens in your gut has a direct impact on your brain function.\nBecause of this connection, it\u2019s critical to address gut issues in order to treat a leaky brain.\nIn 2014, researchers found that mice that were \u201cgerm free\u201d (meaning they didn\u2019t have any bacteria in their intestines) had very leaky blood-brain barriers (56).\nBut then these unhealthy mice received a fecal transfer. Researchers introduced bacteria into their intestines, and the permeability of the blood-brain barrier significantly decreased (57).\nSo it\u2019s becoming increasing clear that our gut bacteria directly affect the health of our blood-brain barrier.\nAnd manipulating your gut bacteria, and increasing the amount of good bacteria in your digestive system, can help improve the integrity of your blood-brain barrier and heal your leaky brain.\n\u0093Given that the microbiome composition and diversity change over time, it is tempting to speculate that the blood-brain barrier integrity also may fluctuate depending on the microbiome.\u0094\n\u2014 Dr. Sven Pettersson, MD, PhD\nIn my experience, this is true, as my brain functions much better when I take care of my gut health.\nEating more prebiotic fiber and resistant starch, taking a high-quality probiotic, and eating fermented foods on a regular basis can increase the amount of good bacteria in your gut.\nYou should check out my previous article about gut health to learn more.\nCoffee and caffeine are excellent for brain health. There is a lot of research showing it is very healthy and can be protective against dementia.\nOne possible explanation for this is that caffeine supports the blood-brain barrier.\nStudies show that caffeine protects against Alzheimer's disease and Parkinson\u2019s disease by keeping the blood-brain barrier intact, and protecting against blood-brain barrier dysfunction and leakage (32).\nResearchers have also found that caffeine blocks disruption of the blood-brain barrier, concluding that caffeine is \u201cuseful in the treatment Alzheimer's disease\u201d (33, 34).\nAnother study shows that caffeine can protect against Parkinson\u2019s disease and neurodegeneration by stabilizing the blood-brain barrier (35).\nI used to not be able to handle any coffee and caffeine at all. But now that I'm healthy, I can handle it just fine. I drink one cup of this coffee most mornings.\nCoffee and caffeine can disrupt sleep though, so make sure you don\u2019t drink it later in the day. I have my last cup sometime between 10 in the morning and noon. If I have it any later than that, it disrupts my sleep. You should download the Sleep Cycle app and track how coffee affects your sleep.\nIt's also important to note that some people simply can\u2019t tolerate coffee. This is because most coffee contains low levels of mycotoxins (toxic metabolites produced by mold).\nAfter living in a moldy home for over one year, I\u2019m extremely sensitive to mold and mycotoxins. Kicking Horse Kickass coffee and Bulletproof coffee are the only two coffees I have found so far that don\u2019t make me feel sick. I can also tolerate pure caffeine tablets.\nMost people can tolerate regular coffee just fine. But if coffee makes you feel terrible and jittery, it might be the quality of the coffee. Consider trying one of the two coffees above, or simply take pure caffeine, and see how you feel. You\u2019ll likely feel better than if you consumed low-quality coffee.\nLastly, there are additional brain health benefits when you consume the whole coffee fruit, instead of just the coffee bean or pure caffeine.\nBut that\u2019s a huge problem.\n4. Sulforaphane\nSulforaphane is a phytochemical found in cruciferous vegetables such as broccoli, Brussels sprouts or cabbages.\nNumerous studies have shown that it can prevent breakdown of the blood-brain barrier, reduce permeability of the blood-brain barrier, and improve cognitive function after stroke and traumatic brain injuries (87-91).\nYou can take sulforaphane in supplement form.\nNot surprisingly, alcohol and acetaldehyde \u2013 a byproduct of alcohol metabolism \u2013 can contribute to leaky brain.\nResearch shows that they can weaken and damage the blood-brain barrier, and the oxidative stress that results from excess alcohol consumption can result in blood-brain barrier dysfunction (58, 59).\nAnd then this can then lead to neuro-inflammatory disorders (60).\nAs I\u2019ve discussed before, there are ways to protect yourself from alcohol, but you\u2019re better off avoiding it completely or significantly reducing your consumption if you\u2019re trying to heal.\nSome types of alcohol are better than others. You can learn more about that here.\n6. Resveratrol or Pterostilbene\nResveratrol is known to help prevent the development of neurodegenerative diseases.\nAnd science is starting to understand why.\nResveratrol can increase your brain\u2019s growth hormone and support your mitochondria.\nAnd according to cutting-edge research, it can also protect and support your blood-brain barrier.\nThis year, researchers gave resveratrol to Alzheimer\u2019s patients and it restored the integrity of their blood-brain barrier. Because of this, there was a reduction in brain inflammation, which slowed down the cognitive decline of the patients (38, 39).\nNumerous other studies have found that resveratrol:\nSignificantly reduces the breakage, damage and dysfunction of the blood-brain barrier;\nDefends and protects the blood-brain barrier; and\nImproves and maintains the overall integrity of the blood-brain barrier (36-37, 40-43).\n\u0093Resveratrol imposes a kind of crowd control at the border of the brain. The agent seems to shut out unwanted immune molecules that can exacerbate brain inflammation and kill neurons.\u0094\n\u2014 Dr. Charbel Moussa, MD, PhD\nBecause of resveratrol\u2019s ability to stabilize the blood-brain barrier and protect against neuroinflammation, researchers believe it may reduce the clinical severity of multiple sclerosis (44).\nLastly, resveratrol has been shown to protects against oxidized LDL-induced breakage of the blood\u2013brain barrier (45, 46).\nSo clearly it's good for us. If resveratrol was a pharaceutical drug, we would definitely be hearing more about it. But natural compounds cannot be patented, so we don't.\nI regularly supplement with this resveratrol. You can get it here or here.\nPterostilbene, a compound found in blueberries, is very similar to resveratrol, and it has also been shown to protect the blood-brain barrier by reducing oxidative stress. It is also better absorbed and commonly referred to as a \u201cbetter resveratrol\u201d (47).\nI highly recommend you try to do something every day to manage your stress.\nResearch suggests that acute stress damages the blood-brain barrier (52).\nAnd extreme stress has been shown to increase inflammation and the permeability of the blood-brain barrier (53-55).\nLuckily, normalizing stress can allow you to repair the blood-brain barrier.\nI\u2019m a big fan of the Muse headband. It can guide your meditation. Similar to neurofeedback, it gives you real-time feedback while you meditate. I wrote an entire review about it here, and you can get it through Amazon or the Muse website.\nRegular massage, acupuncture, eye movement desensitization and reprocessing (EMDR), emotional freedom techniques (EFT), heart-rate variability (HRV) training, and this acupressure mat have helped me a lot as well.\nSome supplements that can help you with stress include zinc, magnesium, ashwagandha and phosphatidylserine.\nAs I\u2019ve discussed before, omega-3 fatty acids are essential fats that your body cannot produce itself. They are found primarily in fish and are necessary for the normal electrical functioning of your brain and nervous system.\nThey can support your mitochondria, increase your brain\u2019s growth hormone, and help you overcome addiction and withdrawal.\nThey can also support your blood-brain barrier.\nResearchers have found that omega-3 fatty acids can:\nDiminish damage to the blood-brain barrier after stoke;\nLimit blood-brain barrier disruption after traumatic brain injury; and\nBenefit people with multiple sclerosis by indirectly reducing disruption of their blood-brain barriers (76-78).\nUnfortunately, most people don't consume enough omega-3 fatty acids through their diet. That\u2019s why I recommend people supplement with krill oil, a special kind of fish oil that contains the essential omega-3 fatty acids. I take this one.\n9. Sleep and Melatonin\nDeep sleep is necessary for optimal functioning of your blood-brain barrier.\nSleep restriction has been shown to impair the functioning of the blood-brain barrier and increase its permeability (84).\nSo make sure you get at least 7 hours of high-quality, restorative sleep.\nSupplementing with melatonin can also help.\nMelatonin is a hormone released by your pineal gland, a small gland in your brain. Melatonin helps control your sleep and wake cycles (circadian rhythm), and adequate levels of melatonin are necessary to fall asleep quickly and sleep deeply throughout the night.\nResearch also shows that it can stabilize the blood-brain barrier and prevent damage caused by traumatic brain injury (85, 86).\nOther than taking melatonin, here are some other things you can do to maintain your circadian rhythm and maximize the quality of your sleep:\nSupplement with magnesium, zinc and collagen before bed. This pre-made bone broth is a really good source of collagen.\nTurn off household lights, install f.lux on your computer and wear blue blocking glasses for 2 hours before bed. These glasses block out blue light from your environment. Blue light suppresses your body\u2019s production of melatonin. You can learn more about the problem with blue light here.\nSeveral studies have shown that it can also decrease the permeability of the blood-brain barrier and reduce brain damage after traumatic brain injury. It does this by suppressing inflammation (23-26).\nI\u2019ve experimented with varying dosages of this berberine. I personally didn\u2019t notice any profound brain and mental health benefits, but I have heard good things from other people.\nEnvironmental mold can be a serious problem for some people.\nUnfortunately, most people aren\u2019t even aware that mold is in their house or workplace and affecting their brain function.\nIn water-damaged buildings, mycotoxins (toxic metabolites produced by mold) are released into the air.\nIf you\u2019re genetically susceptible, they can wreak havoc on your brain, and your cognitive function and mental health can deteriorate for no apparent reason.\nOne way mold and mycotoxins can disrupt brain function is by causing \u201cleaky brain.\u201d\nLast year, researchers discovered that mycotoxins can clearly reduce the integrity of the blood-brain barrier (62).\nAnd in 2010, researchers concluded that exposure to mycotoxins in an indoor environment can cause neurological damage. One way it does this is by breaking down the blood-brain barrier (61).\nSeveral other studies have found that mycotoxins increase the permeability of blood-brain barrier and disrupt the functioning of the nervous system (63-66).\nI lived in a moldy house for more than a year, and my blood-brain barrier likely became significantly leaky during that time as my brain and mental health deteriorated. I also suffered a terrible concussion while living in that house, making my brain even more permeable. It took a while to get it back to normal.\nToday I use this air filter in my apartment to protect myself from any mold. It removes any mold spores and smoke that may be in the air.\nMycotoxins aren\u2019t just in your environment though. Low amounts of mycotoxins are also often found in some seemingly healthy foods, such as tea, nuts, coffee and chocolate. I recommend finding the freshest, highest-quality, organic versions of these foods.\nIf I'm exposed to mold or their toxins, I supplement with activated charcoal or bentonite clay. Activated charcoal and bentonite clay are potent natural treatments that can trap toxins and chemicals, allowing them to be flushed out of your body.\nSeveral B vitamins have been shown to support the blood-brain barrier and help heal leaky brain.\nVitamin B1 (thiamine) deficiency disrupts the blood-brain barrier, and supplementation restores its integrity (80-81).\nResearchers have also found that vitamins B12, B6, and B9 (folate) can restore the integrity of the blood-brain barrier in adults with mild cognitive impairment and elevated homocysteine. Homocysteine is an inflammatory compound that can contribute to blood-brain barrier breakdown at high levels, and the B vitamins normalized homocysteine levels (82-83).\nI take this B complex regularly. It contains the bioactive forms of all the B vitamins, including methyl-B12, methylfolate and P-5-P.\nMagnesium is a vital mineral that participates in more than 300 biochemical reactions in your body. This includes neurotransmitter, enzyme, and hormonal activity, all of which can have a huge effect on your mood and brain function.\nIt\u2019s one of the three nutrients that I think everyone should be taking for their brain, as most people are deficient.\nAs I\u2019ve mentioned before, it can support your mitochondria, protect your brain from alcohol, increase your brain\u2019s growth hormone, and help you overcome addiction and withdrawal.\nAnd there is also plenty of research showing that it can protect and support your blood-brain barrier.\nMultiple studies found that magnesium protects the blood-brain barrier, prevents its disruption, and significantly reduces hyperpermeability (27, 28, 31).\nOne study found that it decreases blood-brain barrier permeability by 41% (29).\nMagnesium\u2019s protective effect against blood-brain barrier hyperpermeability has also been seen after traumatic brain injury (30).\nI take this magnesium.\n14. Alpha Lipoic Acid (ALA) and Acetyl-Carnitine (ALCAR)\nAlpha Lipoic Acid (ALA) is an antioxidant produced by your body. It is fat soluble and can easily cross the blood-brain barrier to protect your brain (1-3).\nAnd as I\u2019ve discussed before, it can protect your brain from alcohol and support the mitochondria in your brain.\nBut not only can it cross your blood-brain barrier and support your brain; it can also support your blood-brain barrier itself.\nStudies show that ALA has neuroprotective effects, and maintains the integrity of the blood-brain barrier by reducing oxidative stress (4-5)\nResearchers also point out that it\u2019s anti-inflammatory and antioxidant effects can stabilize the blood-brain barrier, making it an \u201cattractive therapeutic agent for the treatment\u201d of multiple sclerosis and traumatic brain injury (6-8).\nALA is synergistic with Acetyl-Carnitine (ALCAR), meaning that when you take them together, they are more effective at supporting your brain.\nALCAR is an acetylated form of the amino acid carnitine. It is neuroprotective and cognitive-enhancing, and as I\u2019ve discussed before, it can help you overcome brain fog, addiction and withdrawal.\nALCAR is part of the Optimal Brain supplement, and ALA is part of Optimal Antiox.\nCurcumin is one of my favourite compounds. As I discussed before, it\u2019s one of the best compounds for your brain, as it can lower your stress hormone and increase your brain\u2019s growth hormone.\nIt\u2019s not too surprising to me that it can also:\nReduce the disruption and hyperpermeability of the blood-brain barrier;\nReverse blood-brain barrier dysfunction; and\nImprove the overall integrity of the blood-brain barrier (13-18).\nStudies have also found curcumin can prevent blood-brain barrier damage and reduce the permeability of the blood-brain barrier caused by oxygen and glucose deprivation (20-22).\nResearchers believe it can do all of this because it significantly reduces inflammation and oxidative stress (19).\nThere are several different forms of \u201cbioavailable\u201d curcumin and I've tried most of them. My favourite is the \"Longvida\" form of curcumin.\nEvery tissue in your body has vitamin D receptors, including the brain, heart, muscles, and immune system. This means your entire body needs it to function properly and a deficiency can lead to costly physiological and psychological consequences.\nResearchers have found that Vitamin D can prevent disruption of the blood-brain barrier, mainly by reducing inflammation (72, 73).\nIn patients with multiple sclerosis, Vitamin D has been shown to protect endothelial cells and reduce blood-brain barrier disruption (74).\nAnd one study found that intranasal administration of vitamin D reduces blood\u2013brain barrier disruption (75).\nI personally use this Vitamin D lamp to make sure my levels are optimal. You can get it here or here. I find that it's much better and more effective than taking a Vitamin D supplement.\n17. Citicoline or Alpha GPC\nCiticoline (also known as CDP-Choline) is the most bioavailable form of choline, an essential B vitamin that most people don\u2019t consume enough of, because very few foods in the Western diet contain it.\nAs I\u2019ve discussed before, it can help you overcome brain fog and addiction.\nBut it\u2019s also been shown to significantly decrease the disruption and breakdown of the blood-brain barrier after traumatic brain injury (11-12).\nAfter brain ischemia, Citicoline significantly reduces blood-brain barrier dysfunction (10).\nI personally take Citicoline every day, and it helps me a lot since I\u2019ve had multiple concussions.\nAlpha GPC is another form of choline that has been shown to support the blood-brain barrier.\nResearchers have found that it can reverse changes to the blood-brain barrier after brain injury, which improves cognitive function (9).\nYou can also find some choline in beef liver and egg yolks, but both citicoline and Alpha GPC have much more noticeable and immeediate effects.\n18. Reduce Exposure to Electromagnetic Fields (EMFs)\n\u201cI have no doubt in my mind that, at the present time, the greatest polluting element in the Earth\u2019s environment is the proliferation of electromagnetic fields.\u201d - Dr. Robert Becker, Nobel Prize nominee and author of The Body Electric: Electromagnetism And The Foundation Of Life\nAn increasing amount of research is showing that radiofrequency electromagnetic fields emitted from Wi-Fi, laptops, and cellphones can negatively affect the brain and produce widespread neuropsychiatric effects including depression.\nIt\u2019s an inconvenient truth that needs to be talked about, rather than downplayed, ignored and dismissed.\nOne way that radiofrequency EMFs may be causing neuropsychiatric effects is by contributing to a \"leaky brain\".\nSeveral studies have found that EMFs emitted from cellphones increase the permeability of the brain-blood barrier, and this increased permeability may lead to the accumulation of brain tissue damage and cognitive impairment (112-114).\nI encourage you to check out my other post about EMFs here.\nI'm still learning about how to manage and combat them, but here are some initial steps you can take:\nGet an EMF meter to determine your exposure. I use the Cornet ED88T. It's the best option that is currently available. It measures electric, magnetic and radiofrequency fields. It's like having three meters in one. You can get it here.\nPut your phone on airplane mode when you\u2019re not using it. Or use a radiation-blocking phone case such as Safe Sleeve. I did a lot of research into radiation-blocking cases and Safe Sleeve is the best on the market. They are manufactured with materials that have been 3rd-party tested to block 99.9% of radiation coming off a cell phone.\nTurn off Wi-Fi at night while you\u2019re sleeping.\nIf you have a laptop, don\u2019t touch it. Use a wired keyboard and wired mouse instead.\nSupplement with the herb Rhodiola. It has radioprotective effects (60-62). I take this one, and previously wrote about it here.\nThis is just the tip of the iceberg. There are many other steps you can take, and I plan on writing more about this soon because it isn\u2019t discussed enough.\nThis may seem like \u201cwoo-woo\u201d but it\u2019s a real issue. And I suspect it will eventually become one of the biggest issues of our time.\n19. Other Nutrients, Antioxidants and Herbs\nHere are several other nutrients, antioxidants and herbs that have been demonstrated to support the blood-brain barrier.\nI\u2019ve decided to not write about these in-depth because there isn\u2019t as much research to back them up.\nThat doesn\u2019t mean they aren\u2019t useful though. They have still helped me:\nHigh dose Vitamin C (67)\nIodine (68) \u2013 I take it as part of this multi-mineral\nN-Acetyl-Cysteine (70)\nInositol (79) \u2013 I used to buy bulk powder and take high doses, but now take it as part of this B complex.\nThe brain has a remarkable ability to heal itself, and this includes the barrier that protects it.\nThe above 18 steps have been proven to help repair and support the blood brain barrier, and I\u2019ve noticed the benefits of implementing them into my own life.\n(1) http://www.berkeley.edu/news/media/releases/96legacy/releases.96/14316.html\n(6) https://www.researchgate.net/publication/26240443_The_protective_effect_of_alpha_lipoic_acid_against_traumatic_brain_injury_in_rats\n(7) https://www.researchgate.net/publication/6898853_Lipoic_Acid_Affects_Cellular_Migration_into_the_Central_Nervous_System_and_Stabilizes_Blood-Brain_Barrier_Integrity\n(15) https://www.researchgate.net/publication/307999386_Curcumin_attenuates_blood-brain_barrier_disruption_after_subarachnoid_hemorrhage_in_mice\n(17) http://www.fasebj.org/content/28/1_Supplement/1120.9\n(18) http://search.bvsalud.org/ghl/resource/en/wpro-668812\n(21) http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s12031-013-9989-4\n(25) https://figshare.com/articles/_Post_injury_berberine_treatment_attenuated_brain_edema_blood_brain_barrier_BBB_permeability_matrix_metalloproteinase_MMP_9_enzymatic_activity_neutrophil_infiltration_and_ICAM_expression_after_TBI_/1324009\n(38) https://gumc.georgetown.edu/news/Resveratrol-Appears-to-Restore-Blood-Brain-Barrier-Integrity-in-Alzheimers-Disease\n(48) http://physrev.physiology.org/content/91/1/151\n(54) http://www.nature.com/nm/journal/v2/n12/abs/nm1296-1307.html\n(56) http://stke.sciencemag.org/content/7/353/ec333\n(66) https://ttu-ir.tdl.org/ttu-ir/handle/2346/13628\n(75) http://jcb.sagepub.com/content/early/2016/09/21/0271678X16671147.abstract\n(77) https://etsmjournal.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s13231-014-0012-0\n(80) http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1749-6632.1999.tb07866.x/abstract\n(99) http://www.nature.com/ejcn/journal/v62/n4/full/1602866a.html\n(101) https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2016/05/160531081800.htm ;\n(103) https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/labs/articles/11461179/\n(104) https://www.hindawi.com/journals/cpn/2009/278531/\n(109) http://www.sciencealert.com/scientists-think-a-leaky-blood-brain-barrier-is-connected-to-alzheimer-s\nTags how to, repair, leaky, blood brain barrier, 17 ways, strengthen, support, fix, heal, supplements, signs, what to do, gut, mental health, neuroinflammation, treatments, protect, causes, symptoms, GABA, diet, damage, injury, hyperpermeability, disruption, dysfunction\n\u2190 How to Reverse Dementia Naturally with The Bredesen Protocol9 Nutrients Proven to Help You Overcome Addiction and Withdrawal \u2192", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00240.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 458, + "original_length": 38440, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.92, + "perplexity": 262.8, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "https://www.osce.org/fsc/15009", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T03:26:36Z", + "digest": "sha1:UX43ERVFVLAP4DNY3Q2FJCUCCPD2VDBM", + "length": 116, + "nlines": 2, + "source_domain": "www.osce.org", + "title": "Forum for Security Co-operation Decision No. 12/02 | OSCE", + "raw_content": "Home Resources Forum for Security Co-operation Decision No. 12/02\nForum for Security Co-operation Decision No. 12/02", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00240.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 230, + "original_length": 5089, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.81, + "perplexity": 176.9, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "https://www.osw.waw.pl/en/publikacje/osw-studies/2001-07-15/kaliningrad-oblast-context-eu-enlargement", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T03:24:43Z", + "digest": "sha1:KPKL4RPNITY3JELBPQWAANZWO65HBL7C", + "length": 1769, + "nlines": 8, + "source_domain": "www.osw.waw.pl", + "title": "The Kaliningrad Oblast in the context of EU enlargement | OSW", + "raw_content": "The Kaliningrad Oblast in the context of EU enlargement\nBartosz Cichocki\nLast year Kaliningrad became the subject of an international debate involving first of all the European Union, Russia, the USA, and the countries bordering the enclave, Poland and Lithuania. Such keen interest in a small region of less than a million inhabitants was mainly due to the fact that Kaliningrad has found itself in the very centre of two processes which are of paramount importance for Europe: EU and NATO enlargement. If Lithuania becomes a member of those units and Poland joins the EU, this Russian enclave will become an island surrounded on all land borders by a totally different, political, economic and military entity. In the course of the debate many questions were raised about the situation in the Oblast and how it affects neighbouring countries, the real interests and intentions of the parties involved in the debate, and the future of the region.\nThe authors of this publication are attempting to answer these questions. The first part of this analysis is devoted to presenting the most important internal problems of the enclave, considering their influence on the surrounding world and the consequences of adopting the acquis communautaire in Poland and Lithuania. The second part characterises Moscow's policies towards Kaliningrad on the one hand, and those of Western countries on the other. Finally, the authors discuss the probable ways in which the situation in the enclave will develop.\nKaliningrad Oblast 2016. The society, economy and army\nA captive island: Kaliningrad between Moscow and the EU\nIskander missiles in Kaliningrad: a constant element of Russia\u2019s policy of intimidation\nRussia freezes the construction of the nuclear power plant in Kaliningrad", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00240.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 38, + "original_length": 2332, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.93, + "perplexity": 187.2, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "https://www.ourmidland.com/news/article/IBM-Reports-Higher-Earnings-for-1Q-7135832.php", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T04:38:50Z", + "digest": "sha1:KMAK6V2MUGA7E64YRTEOLZLO2W33TVWV", + "length": 2978, + "nlines": 22, + "source_domain": "www.ourmidland.com", + "title": "IBM Reports Higher Earnings for 1Q - Midland Daily News", + "raw_content": "https://www.ourmidland.com/news/article/IBM-Reports-Higher-Earnings-for-1Q-7135832.php\nIBM Reports Higher Earnings for 1Q\nIBM Corp.'s first-quarter earnings rose 16 percent from a year earlier but narrowly missed Wall Street expectations even as acquisitions helped lift revenue by 11 percent.\nIBM said Monday it earned $1.38 billion, or 79 cents a share, in the January-March period, up from $1.19 billion, or 68 cents a share, in the same quarter last year.\nAnalysts surveyed by Thomson First Call had on average expected earnings of 80 cents a share for the latest quarter.\nIn a Webcast following the announcement, John Joyce, the company's chief financial officer, said it had met analyst's earnings expectations in dollar terms, but missed the \"per share\" figure because analysts had counted on a lower number of shares outstanding.\nJoyce said the company had cut back on stock buybacks during the quarter because of the acquisition of Rational Software, which closed in February. IBM paid $2.1 billion in cash for the maker of software development tools.\nAnalyst Kimberly Caughey at investment banking firm Parker/Hunter Inc. in Pittsburgh said that the slight earnings miss \"isn't that important.\"\n\"They did well considering the economy and the war,\" she said.\nIBM's revenue rose to $20.1 billion from $18 billion a year ago. Wall Street's average estimate was for $19.85 billion in revenue.\nIn a sign of IBM's continuing transformation from a computer manufacturer to a technology conglomerate focused on services, consulting unit Global Services accounted for more than half of revenue for the first time.\nBoosted by the acquisition of the consulting arm of PricewaterhouseCoopers in October, revenue at Global Services rose 24 percent to $10.2 billion.\nThe unit signed $12 billion in new deals during the quarter, including a $2 billion outsourcing deal with Visteon.\nSamuel Palmisano, IBM chairman and chief executive officer, said the company was weathering the \"difficult environment\" well.\n\"We delivered another strong quarter and continued to gain share across our strategic businesses,\" he said in a prepared statement.\nIn the Webcast, Joyce said the company was on track to meet analyst's expectations for full-year earnings of $4.32 a share.\nRevenue declined 1 percent at IBM's hardware unit to $5.8 billion, as sales of personal computers fell in a weak market and some chip-making operations were discontinued.\nAt the software unit, IBM's third largest, revenue rose 8 percent to $3.1 billion.\nAnalyst Carl Greiner at Stanford, Conn.-based Meta Group said IBM software and hardware continues to do well in the market.\n\"If we get any kind of turnaround in the economy, they should be positioned quite well,\" he said.\nIBM reported its earnings after the close of the regular session on the New York Stock Exchange, which saw its shares at $80.07, up $1.32, or 1.7 percent. In extended trading, the shares were up 44 cents at $80.51.\nhttp://www.ibm.com/investor", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00240.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 124, + "original_length": 5165, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.97, + "perplexity": 217.9, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "https://www.ourmidland.com/news/article/Police-Storm-Hijacked-Bus-in-Berlin-7137787.php", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T03:59:34Z", + "digest": "sha1:GT6TJ2V5EHC3A3KD4WNOFLQUGRFX4RRA", + "length": 2782, + "nlines": 19, + "source_domain": "www.ourmidland.com", + "title": "Police Storm Hijacked Bus in Berlin - Midland Daily News", + "raw_content": "https://www.ourmidland.com/news/article/Police-Storm-Hijacked-Bus-in-Berlin-7137787.php\nPolice Storm Hijacked Bus in Berlin\nPolice stormed a hijacked Berlin city bus Friday in a move to end a 4 1/2-hour hostage drama that began when an armed bank robber commandeered the bus.\nSeveral shots rang out and police commandos stormed the bus through the rear window. There was no immediate information on the fate of the hostage-taker and his two captives.\nTwo people were led away quickly from the scene. Shortly afterwards, police said the hostage-taking was over.\n\"The hostage-taker is injured, the hostages are unharmed,\" police spokesman Christian Matzdorf said.\nThe drama began when an armed man robbed a Berlin bank with an accomplice Friday, then commandeered the bus and took hostages. All but two captives got away before the bus stopped and was ringed by police in a tense standoff.\nIt's not clear when the accomplice slipped away, but police think he was no longer on the bus.\nThe hostage-taker was shot, apparently in the sholder, by police storming the bus, Matzdorf said. No police where injured.\nMore than 20 passengers were aboard when the bus was hijacked outside the bank, N-24 television reported, though police said they had no precise figure.\nAfter about an hour on the road following the 9:40 a.m. (0740 GMT) holdup, the yellow double-decker _ apparently cornered by unmarked police cars _ came to a stop on a thoroughfare between two commuter rail bridges near a highway ramp in the Schoeneberg district.\nPolice sealed off the area as sharpshooters took up position along a wall about 20 meters (yards) away, while police commandos in helmets and bulletproof vests surrounded the bus, some occasionally peering in the windows.\nOfficials negotiated for several hours with the armed man in an effort to free the captives, a passenger and a policewoman who followed him onto the bus after the holdup, said Matzdorf, revising earlier reports that the bus driver was among the two final hostages.\nHe refused to say whether the hijacker had made demands.\nThe earlier gunfire on the bus could have come from the hijacker or the captive policewoman, Matzdorf said.\nThe bus was commandeered after two men held up a Commerzbank branch in a busy shopping street in the southern district of Steglitz.\nWitnesses said two masked men entered the bank, one with a pistol, and shouted \"Money, money.\" They made off with an undetermined amount, then hijacked the bus at a stop outside the bank.\nThe first bank teller they approached refused to give them money, but a second complied, bank customer Sabine Gause said. 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In order to strengthen this belief, Outokumpu incorporates the United Nations\u2019 (UN) Sustainable Development Goals into its business in a way that stays true to the company\u2019s core identity.\nIn autumn 2015, the UN set 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to be met by 2030. These goals tackle a variety of issues that are of crucial importance to the future of this planet, such as climate change mitigation, the protection of ecosystems and ensuring the availability of clean drinking water. The SDGs encompass sustainability challenges for both developing and industrialized regions of the world.\nGlobal issues shape business\nAs the global leader of high performance stainless steel, Outokumpu is already aligned to achieve these goals. Stainless steel is the world\u2019s most recyclable material, an indispensable material in industries such as solar power, green construction and low-carbon transportation. Sustainability is firmly integrated into Outokumpu\u2019s business operations, from including the highest proportion of recycled content on the market in its products to keeping its supply chain pristine. The company proactively contributes to the implementation of this agenda through its industrial solutions.\n\u201cIn some areas, such as responsible consumption and production and climate action, our processes directly help in the realization of the Sustainable Development Goals,\u201d explains Dr. Verena Schulz-Klemp, Director of Sustainability and Environment at Outokumpu. For example, energy is the dominant contributor to climate change, accounting for around 60% of total global greenhouse gas emissions. Outokumpu\u2019s approach to energy efficiency is long-term, and the target is a continuous improvement of a 1% reduction yearly.\nSchulz-Klemp adds there are also indirect contributions \u2013 from end products made out of their material. For example, more than 1 billion people still do not have access to fresh water. Outokumpu\u2019s special stainless grades are resistant to salt water, making the material an absolute necessity for desalination processes to work. Using Outokumpu\u2019s stainless places the goal of ensuring the availability and sustainable management of water and sanitation for all within closer reach.\nWhile the time frame to reach the goals is certainly challenging, Schulz-Klemp is confident that Outokumpu, with its expertise in stainless steel manufacturing, will pursue its ambitious sustainability goals along with its partners and customers around the world.\n\u201cFifteen years is a manageable period. Demands for sustainability-based actions grow alongside rising global challenges such as water scarcity, reducing the carbon intensity of energy, and rapid urbanization. This is a competitive advantage for companies whose products facilitate sustainability; it means that conditions for sustainable business to also be profitable business improve as well,\u201d says Schulz-Klemp.\nOutokumpu\u2019s key contributions to the SDGs\nOutokumpu\u2019s strengths and actions that meet the United Nations\u2019 2030 Agenda for planet, people and prosperity also create sustainable value for its customers. By selecting Outokumpu\u2019s stainless steel, customers benefit from the company\u2019s merits in their own sustainability efforts.\nGoal 3. Good health and wellbeing. Outokumpu\u2019s stainless is an indispensable component for medical devices and implants and is chosen for its hygienic qualities. Its inert behavior supports food safety in food contact uses.\nGoal 4. Quality education. Outokumpu provides life-long learning for its employees and is in constant dialogue with schools and universities.\nGoal 6. Clean water and sanitation. Outokumpu\u2019s special stainless grades resist salt water, enabling salt water to be turned into clean drinking water in water treatment plants.\nGoal 7. Affordable and clean energy. Outokumpu\u2019s materials are used in low carbon power generation sources such as wind turbines and nuclear power plants. Stainless and high-alloy steel is used for the desulfurization equipment of waste gas from conventional power plants. Properties such as high-temperature strength, durability and resistance to corrosion make stainless steel the most suitable raw material to use in certain cases.\nGoal 8. Decent work and economic growth. Outokumpu\u2019s number one priority is a safe working environment for its employees and contractors. The ultimate goal for Outokumpu is zero accidents, with an underlying management philosophy to continuously improve safety practices. As its production sites are often located in relatively small cities or towns, Outokumpu is significant to the economies of these communities.\nGoal 9. Industry innovation and infrastructure. Stainless steel was invented by Outokumpu in 1912. With over one century of innovation and know-how, Outokumpu has the best expertise in the industry in developing new stainless grades that best fit their specific uses, such as stainless for trains that combines low weight with high safety.\nGoal 11. Sustainable cities and communities. Using Outokumpu\u2019s stainless steel in buildings makes them long-lasting and low maintenance. It pays for itself in the long term thanks to its durability, strength, low weight and resistance to corrosion.\nGoal 12. Responsible consumption and production. Resource efficiency is Outokumpu\u2019s main driver: its stainless has 100% recyclability and contains 87% recycled content. Stainless makes for long-lasting products.\nGoal 13. Climate action. Outokumpu contributes to climate protection with a specific target to reduce its carbon footprint by 20% by 2020. Outokumpu will achieve this through energy and material efficiency projects; yield improvement, with targets for right-first-time production; and optimization of capacity.\nGoal 17. Partnerships for the goals. Outokumpu contributed a core business example concerning corporate action related to the sustainability goals to the Sustainable Development Goal Industry Matrix. Each matrix highlights bold pursuits and decisions made by diverse companies for each goal and participates in different national and international exchange panels. 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Investigator Molly and her sidekick are back with an \"interspatial temporal quantum physicist\" at their sides as they face alien challenges of epic proportions. Tickets range from $20 to $67 and available by visiting http://www.ecclescenter.org or by calling (435) 655-3114.\nDave Mason at the Egyptian Theatre\nRock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee Dave Mason will perform a series of intimate acoustic concerts at the Egyptian Theatre, 328 Main St., through Sunday, Feb. 17. Saturday\u2019s performance will begin at 8 p.m. and Sunday\u2019s show will start at 6 p.m. Mason, the co-founder of Traffic, has worked with Jimi Hendrix, Paul McCartney, the Rolling Stones, Eric Clapton, Michael Jackson and Fleetwood Mac. Tickets range from $40 to $70 and are available at http://www.parkcityshows.com .\nPark City Film Series Tumbleweeds Series\nThe Park City Film Series will present of free screening of Michel Ocelot\u2019s \"Tales of the Night,\" rated PG, at the Jim Santy Auditorum at the Park City Library and Education Center, 1255 Park Ave., on Sunday, Feb. 17, at 3 p.m. The film, geared for children of all ages, weaves together six exotic fables where history blends with fairytale as viewers are whisked off to enchanted lands full of dragons, werewolves, captive princesses, sorcerers, and enormous talking bees \u2013 and each fable ends with its own ironic twist. For more information, visit http://www.parkcityfilmseries.com.\nPark City Professional Artist Association Show\nThe Park City Professional Artist Association will present a free show at the Park City Visitor Center, 1826 Olympic Parkway at Kimball Junction, through Monday, Feb. 18. The exhibit, which will feature paintings, photography, sculptures and jewelry, will open on Friday with an artist reception that runs from 3 p.m. until 6 p.m. Saturday and Sunday hours will be from 9 a.m. until 6 p.m. and Monday\u2019s hours will be from 9 a.m. until 5:30 p.m. The Park City Professional Artist Association is comprised of visual artists from Summit and Wasatch counties. For more information, visit http://www.parkcityart.com .\nPark City Singers Rehearsal\nThe Park City Singers, the local non-audition choir, holds rehearsals every Tuesday at the Park City Community Church, 4501 S.R. 224, at 7 p.m. The choir is currently preparing for its upcoming spring concerts that will be held May 17 and May 19. 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Christine Johnson hopes budget constraints force state lawmakers to repeal a sweeping immigration law that will require police and deputies detain illegal immigrants when it takes effect in July.\n\"I don\u2019t know what\u2019s going to happen, but I\u2019m hoping to get an all-out repeal of [Senate Bill] 81,\" said Johnson, a Salt Lake City Democrat who represents the Snyderville Basin on Utah\u2019s Capitol Hill.\nSB 81 may require government employers register to use a system that verifies the work status of new employees. The law also could require governmental entities to verify the immigration status of people who apply for state or local benefits. SB 81 requires local law enforcement to begin aggressively enforcing immigration laws by detaining people living in their communities illegally.\n\"[SB 81] has a considerable fiscal note and we don\u2019t have any evidence to indicate that it\u2019s worth the state\u2019s monetary investment to pursue such a bigoted policy,\" Johnson said. \"This is a matter for federal government to handle and not states.\"\nLawmakers have already considered across-the-board budget cuts of 15 percent, Johnson said, adding that about seven percent could be cut from the remaining budget this year.\n\"[SB 81] will cost the state money and increase unemployment,\" Johnson said. \"There is a movement afoot to see the repeal and I\u2019ve been hearing from constituents in Summit County and Salt Lake County that that is their desired end result.\"\nGroups including the American Civil Liberties Union have considered filing lawsuits against the state should lawmakers not repeal the new law, Latino activist Tony Yapias said in a telephone interview Tuesday.\n\"We can\u2019t afford it and there are only a few lawmakers who want to pursue this issue,\" Yapias said. \"This is an issue that can only be done at the federal level.\"\nThe state budget could dominate the discussion this year at the Legislature\u2019s 45-day session which began Monday. But Gov. Jon Huntsman Jr. is against the deep cuts legislative leaders have proposed so far.\n\"The governor\u2019s approach is more fair, balanced and clearly in the best interest of Utahns. [But] conservative members of both parties have made it very clear that they are going to continue on their conservative agenda,\" said Johnson, who is against slashing budgets for education and health care. \"I think it\u2019s going to take us a little bit of time to help them understand that that is just antiquated thinking.\"\nTrimming the budget requires \"a scalpel and not an ax,\" she explained.\n\"I strongly believe we need to diversify revenue for compensation of budget shortfalls,\" Johnson said. \"That means bonding for transportation and partial use of rainy day funds.\"\nAbortion: Criminal homicide?\nLegislation that could make some doctors who perform abortions in Utah, murderers, could cost the state lots in court costs to defend, abortion activists say.\n\"It\u2019s not constitutional and our hope is that it wouldn\u2019t pass at all, but certainly not in its current form,\" said Melissa Bird, a lobbyist for Planned Parenthood Association of Utah. \"The bill is too narrow to be constitutional.\"\nHouse Bill 90 would allow abortions be performed in Utah only when the operation is necessary to save the mother\u2019s life or deter serious injuries, or if the child has a medical condition and is not expected to survive more than 24 hours outside the womb.\n\"It\u2019s fair to say that these are short-sighted policies and will only result in diminished health care for women statewide,\" Johnson said.\nFinally, Johnson said House Bill 267, which she is sponsoring, would provide protection to gays and transgender people from discrimination by employers and would not cost any money to implement.\n\"As recent polling indicates, most Utahns are in favor of adding sexual orientation and gender identity to the state\u2019s non-discrimination policy,\" she said.\nJohnson, who is openly gay, said she sponsored a similar bill in 2008. 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Dedicated to empowering children aged 3-18 with critical illnesses, the charity makes their wishes a reality \u2013 whether it is to meet their heroes, become a race car driver or be a queen for the day \u2013 providing them with a confidence boost from which they can draw hope, strength and confidence.\nThe Wish Journey, from the moment of inception to the unforgettable memories afterward, helps to arm children against their illnesses, brings families together and changes the lives of everyone who plays a role in it.\nOn sponsoring the charity fundraiser Robin Edwards, marketing event specialist at ProSlide commented: \u201cThe Make-a-Wish Foundation is about making dreams come true. In fact, they\u2019ve granted magical wishes for more than 450,000 children since 1980. 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Those surveyed were selected from subscribers who are involved in the use, evaluation and purchase of lift trucks and lift truck accessories.\nComments received from the respondents included:\n\u201cThe SAS [System of Active Stability] system is fantastic.\u201d\n\u201cWe have used these trucks for years without any safety issues.\u201d\n\u201cBecause year after year their trucks have proven themselves safe in our own warehouses.\u201d\nAbout Peerless Media and Peerless Research Group\nPeerless Media produces industry-leading publications and websites - Modern Materials Handling, Logistics Management, Supply Chain Management Review and Material Handling Product News - for the supply chain, logistics and materials handling markets. 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He has written dozens of books for children and illustrated many more, collaborating with a number of illustrious authors along the way, including multiple British Children's Laureates. His work has been published in fourteen languages and has won or been shortlisted for numerous awards in Australia, the US and the UK. As Ed Chatterton, Martin writes crime fiction, screenplays and historical fiction and several of his books are in development with various TV and film producers. Martin is also well known as a children's performer and tours globally. When he's not writing and illustrating, Martin is an in-demand public performer, touring schools and festivals around the world. In 2017 Martin gained his PhD and is currently working on two projects related to his doctorate. 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I think this was one of the coldest nights of my life. The dunes don\u2019t retain any heat from the day and so become freezing cold during the night.", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00240.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 171, + "original_length": 6532, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.97, + "perplexity": 202.9, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "https://www.phoenixfuels.ph/phoenix-petroleum-earnings-up-65-as-revenue-grows-107-in-first-quarter-of-2018/", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T05:01:35Z", + "digest": "sha1:XW7YIVXDROMOOYP3VUSXX2BXVLVPMCFB", + "length": 243, + "nlines": 1, + "source_domain": "www.phoenixfuels.ph", + "title": "Phoenix Petroleum earnings up 65% as revenue grows 107% in first quarter of 2018 | Phoenix Fuels", + "raw_content": "A new Phoenix station at Imelda Avenue, Cainta, Rizal. 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In February, the company launched its upgraded fuels powered with Phoenix PULSE Technology.", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00240.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 144, + "original_length": 7385, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.96, + "perplexity": 220.5, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "https://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2016/aug/10/hillary-clinton/undocumented-immigrants-social-security-contributi/", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T03:46:45Z", + "digest": "sha1:RZJ5TFJMJ3HLU4HE4K5YP6O5KQYNYONF", + "length": 7966, + "nlines": 51, + "source_domain": "www.politifact.com", + "title": "Clinton says undocumented immigrants pay $12 billion a year into Social Security | PolitiFact", + "raw_content": "Undocumented immigrants \"pay $12 billion a year into Social Security.\"\n\u2014 Hillary Clinton on Friday, August 5th, 2016 in remarks at journalists' convention\nClinton says undocumented immigrants pay $12 billion a year into Social Security\nBy Miriam Valverde on Wednesday, August 10th, 2016 at 12:15 p.m.\nHillary Clinton misleadingly claims that undocumented workers \"pay $12 billion a year into social security.\"\nDemocratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton reiterated her support for immigration reform at a joint convention of black and Hispanic journalists Aug. 5.\nOne of the event\u2019s moderators, Telemundo national correspondent Lori Montenegro, asked Clinton how she would do it, since it has not been achieved during President Barack Obama\u2019s time in office.\nClinton said she would introduce legislation for comprehensive immigration reform in her first 100 days in office and would take a \"very hard look\" at deportation priorities.\n\"My priority are violent criminals, people suspected of any kind of connection to terrorism,\" she said, \"not hard-working mothers and fathers and people who go to work, help support this economy, pay $12 billion a year into Social Security.\"\nWe decided to take a look at her statement that undocumented immigrants pay $12 billion a year into Social Security.\nClinton\u2019s campaign referred us to a note issued by the Social Security Administration in April 2013 outlining the effects of unauthorized immigration on the Social Security Trust Funds. The report cited the $12 billion figure, but it also said the calculation is based on contributions from immigrants and their employers \u2014 that makes a difference for considering Clinton's statement.\nThe two trust funds are the Old-Age and Survivors Insurance (OASI), which pays retirement and survivors benefits, and the Disability Insurance (DI), used to pay disability benefits.\nThe note from the Office of the Chief Actuary said its estimates are based on the best available information, but that it is difficult to determine with certainty what portion of total taxes paid and benefits received come from earnings of unauthorized immigrants.\nStill, the office estimated that in 2010, \"the excess of tax revenue paid to the Trust Funds over benefits paid from these funds based on earnings of unauthorized workers is about $12 billion.\"\nHere\u2019s how the administration came up with that number.\nUsing Census estimates, SSA said about 12.6 million people were not permanent residents or citizens by January 2009. Nearly 11 million of them were undocumented, the rest had temporary status, such as student visas or temporary work visas.\nSSA adjusted that pool to exclude kids and other undocumented immigrants who would not be working. That left about 8.3 million \"other immigrants\" in 2010 who worked in the United States, including people who did not have legal permanent residency, who were not U.S. citizens and who had temporary legal visas.\nOf that 8.3 million people, SSA deducted the number of visa holders authorized to work (1.3 million) and an estimated number of those in the underground economy (3.9 million) who would not pay taxes.\nThat leaves about 3.1 million unauthorized immigrants who worked and paid Social Security taxes in 2010 \u2014 about 600,000 of them at some point had work permits and overstayed terms of their visas, about 700,000 used fraudulent birth certificates to get a Social Security number, and about 1.8 million used a Social Security number that did not match their name.\nSSA estimated this group of unauthorized immigrants and their employers generated $13 billion in payroll taxes in 2010. (SSA estimates workers earned about $34,000, with a 6.2 percent tax rate for workers and employers.) Workers and employers contribute roughly the same amount into Social Security.\nThe administration then subtracted about $1 billion in benefits that could\u2019ve been received in 2010 from earnings in years when workers were unauthorized.\nSSA analysts said \"a relatively small portion\" of those who could draw benefits do so.\nLaws enacted in 1996 and 2004 block Social Security benefits paid to unauthorized immigrants or to any noncitizen without a work-authorized Social Security number at some point in time, the administration said.\nUnauthorized immigrants themselves cannot get Social Security benefits, but if they obtain legal status, there are limited ways through which they can collect benefits, said Tom Jawtez, vice president for immigration policy at the liberal Center for American Progress Action Fund.\nWe looked around and SSA\u2019s 2013 note appears to be its latest available on the effects of unauthorized immigration on Social Security funds. In a 2014 Vice News piece, SSA\u2019s chief actuary Stephen C. Goss affirms the $12 billion contribution.\nThere are other estimates out there.\nHeritage Foundation, a conservative think tank, pegs the annual amount of tax contributions by unauthorized immigrants at $7 billion.\nThe Heritage calculation is based on a withholding rate of 6.2 percent of earnings, estimated earnings of $31,200, and 3.6 million unauthorized workers. The foundation appears to exclude employers\u2019 payments on behalf of workers.\nClinton said that if elected president her administration would focus on deporting violent criminals, not \"hard-working mothers and fathers and people who go to work, help support this economy, pay $12 billion a year into Social Security.\"\nThe Social Security Administration estimates about $12 billion was paid into the administration\u2019s trust funds from earnings of unauthorized workers in 2010 (after deducting about $1 billion from possible benefits paid out). This number includes contributions on behalf of employees as well as their employers. Workers and employers pony up about the same amount into the system.\nA calculation by another group excluded employer contributions and came up with a total of $7 billion paid into the system by undocumented immigrants.\nClinton\u2019s statement is partially accurate, but leaves out important details. We rate her statement Half True.\nhttps://www.sharethefacts.co/share/f35b6a7f-9188-454b-a0f0-82e989f45642\nSubjects: Immigration, Social Security\nHillary Clinton remarks at the National Association of Black Journalists and the National Association of Hispanic Journalists' joint convention, Aug. 5, 2016\nEmail exchange, Hillary Clinton campaign, Aug. 8, 2016\nCenter for American Progress, Improving Lives, Strengthening Finances: The Benefits of Immigration Reform to Social Security, June 14, 2013\nSocial Security Administration, Effects of unauthorized immigration on the actuarial status of the Social Security Trust Funds, April 2013\nSocial Security Advisory Board, Issue Brief #1: The Impact of Immigration on Social Security and the National Economy, December 2005\nSocial Security Administration, FICA and SECA taxes\nSocial Security Administration, Trust Fund FAQs\nSocial Security Administration, Social Security Testimony Before Congress, Feb. 16, 2006\nOffice of the Inspector General, Status of the Social Security Administration\u2019s Earnings Suspense File, September 2015\nInstitute on Taxation and Economic Policy, Undocumented Immigrants\u2019 State & Local Tax Contributions, February 2016\nHeritage Foundation, The Fiscal Cost of Unlawful Immigrants and Amnesty to the U.S. Taxpayer, May 6, 2013\nPolitiFact, Trump says illegal immigrants get $4.2B in tax credits but doesn't count their taxes paid, Aug. 18, 2015\nVice News, Unauthorized Immigrants Paid $100 Billion Into Social Security Over Last Decade, Aug. 4, 2014\nThe Seattle Times, Illegal immigrants pay Social Security tax, won\u2019t benefit, Dec. 29, 2011\nThe New York Times, Illegal Immigrants Are Bolstering Social Security With Billions, April 5, 2005\nPhone interview, Wendy Feliz, communications director for American Immigration Council, Aug. 9, 2016\nEmail interview, Tom Jawtez, vice president for Immigration Policy at the left-leaning Center for American Progress Action Fund, Aug. 9, 2016", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00240.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 286, + "original_length": 11620, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.95, + "perplexity": 263.7, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "https://www.pond5.com/stock-video-footage/1/solheimajokull-glacier.html", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T04:48:06Z", + "digest": "sha1:DY2KT42UAFCSO5PK5GAXGBPL6SPT7ZYB", + "length": 49, + "nlines": 1, + "source_domain": "www.pond5.com", + "title": "Solheimajokull Glacier Stock Footage Videos | Pond5", + "raw_content": "solheimajokull glacier Royalty-Free Stock Footage", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00240.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 403, + "original_length": 4681, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.56, + "perplexity": 169.5, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "https://www.popisms.com/TelevisionSeason/201624/RuPauls-Drag-Race-Season-5-RuPauls-Drag-Race-2013", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T03:59:33Z", + "digest": "sha1:JQKJ6LWJGMD32KXXQUE3ZTY3I2ZFYBJO", + "length": 251, + "nlines": 6, + "source_domain": "www.popisms.com", + "title": "RuPaul's Drag Race Season 5 part of RuPaul's Drag Race (2013 Television Season) - @POPisms - Cross Referencing Pop Culture", + "raw_content": "RuPaul's Drag Race Season 5 part of RuPaul's Drag Race (2013)\npart of RuPaul's Drag Race\nSeason: RuPaul's Drag Race Season 5 part of RuPaul's Drag Race\nMore from RuPaul's Drag Race\nRuPaul's Drag Race Season 5 2013\n5:1 RuPaullywood or Bust Jan 28, 2013", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00240.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 82, + "original_length": 1968, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.58, + "perplexity": 113.8, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "https://www.prepperfortress.com/pope-francis-antichrist-will-come-30-august-2016-shocking-video/", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T04:14:43Z", + "digest": "sha1:EVAXFVZLM5FNYJYLJL7F64P7RGW7ZZQ6", + "length": 6594, + "nlines": 30, + "source_domain": "www.prepperfortress.com", + "title": "Pope Francis : Why The Antichrist Will Come on 30 August 2016 ? 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This coming world leader has been given around 33 names and titles (which describe attributes) in the Bible (both in the Old and New Testaments) \u2026 one of which is the \u2018Antichrist.\u2019 The Bible says this man will not be revealed until after the \u2018Restrainer\u2019 (the Holy Spirit \u2013 including the body of believers alive at the time) is \u2018removed\u2019 (as a note, some believe at that time the U.S. will also be \u201cremoved\u201d from its role as a \u201crestraining\u201d world power). This coming world leader (the Antichrist) will begin by exerting control over ten nations which were once part of the Roman Empire (most likely European) . . .\n\u201cThe ten horns are ten kings who shall arise from (out of) this kingdom (the Roman Empire \u2026 could be 10 nations out of the Europe Union)\nAnd another shall rise after them; he (the Antichrist) shall be different from the first ones, and shall subdue three kings (or nations) . . .\u201d (The end begins)\nThe \u201cMARK of the Beast\u201d . . .\n\u201cHe causes ALL, both small and great, rich and poor, free and slave, to receive a mark on their right hand or on their foreheads, and that no one may buy or sell (or get health care)except one who has the mark,or the name of the Beast, or the number of his name.\u201d\nRELATED : A Shocking NBC News Report Says The Elite Are Preparing To Chip Everyone, Starting With Our Children\nThis prophecy is very crucial for those who have not accepted Jesus Christ (Yeshua Ha\u2019Mashiach in Hebrew) as their Lord and will be alive when this law is enacted and enforced. This \u201cmark\u201d may be some kind of tattoo, or implanted microchip with all of your credit card and banking information, we really don\u2019t know right now. It will not be easy to refuse this mark, whatever it is, for many of you will have families and children that will need to be fed. But, please be warned . . . by taking this mark, you will have sealed your eternal fate in Hell. In God\u2019s eyes it identifies you with the Antichrist. There will be no turning back for any who take the \u201cmark, the name of the Beast, or the number of his name.\u201d The utter darkness, loneliness, and torments of Hell will be their fate. Blessings are promised in Heaven to all those who refuse to take the \u201cmark\u201d and refuse to bow down to this coming world leader . . . and die in their faith for doing so. The Lord will take the sting out of death.\nAn enigma . . . 666\n\u201cHere is wisdo. Let him who has understanding calculate the number of the beast (the coming Antichrist), for it is the number of a man: His number is 666.\u201d\nThe Kingdom of Heaven is available to every man, woman, boy, and girl in this world. It is freely offered to any and all who will receive it. Simply learn of Jesus Christ (Yeshua Ha\u2019Mashiach in Hebrew), invite Him into your life as Lord, believe He died on the Cross for all of your sins and rose from the grave (proving there is life in Heaven). Learn of Him and believe in Him \u2026 for He was the only one who has ever loved you enough to substitute Himself for you on the Cross (which represents Hell). He shed His blood, suffered, and died on the Cross as the Passover \u201cLamb of God\u201d to save you from the utter torment and darkness of Hell \u2026 if you will accept it.\nThat is why Jesus (Yeshua) is called \u201cSavior.\u201d He now lovingly and graciously offers you life in His Kingdom of Heaven \u2026 and it is a \u201ctake it or leave it\u201d proposition. If you sincerely admit you have sinned (which means you will need a Savior) and sincerely believe Jesus lovingly paid the debt for all of your sins on the Cross, and honestly try to stop doing those things God says are wrong, you will go to Heaven \u2026 It\u2019s God\u2019s Promise!!!\nThe only unpardonable sin is to reject God\u2019s love and His free offer of life in Heaven by rejecting Jesus Christ, the Messiah, who stepped forth from Heaven \u2026 not to condemn the sinner, but to save the sinner (from Hell) and who willingly and lovingly shed His blood on the Cross so we can be washed clean of all of our sins. The Bible warns there will be no peace in our hearts until we make peace with God through His Son, the Messiah, Lord Jesus Christ \u2026\nRELATED : What Would Life Be Like Under Martial Law?\nWARNING: POPE FRANCIS & END TIME Religious NEW WORLD ORDER Coming Soon !!! Pope Francis recently met with the delegation of the Communion of Reformed Churches which unites 225 Protestant churches and 100 countries representing at least 80 million Christians. The purpose of this meeting was to promote Christian unity and advance the Ecumenical Movement. Should Protestant churches be seeking unity with the Roman Catholic Church and participate in the Ecumenical Movement?\nThe Roman Catholic Church has fundamentally difference practices and beliefs than Protestant Churches; and the doctrine of the Catholic Church states that only those who submit to the Pope can be saved. What\u2019s more, the Pope is a Jesuit; and the reason the Jesuits were invented was to bring the world under the control of the Pope. Watch this video to learn more!\nRELATED : Biggest Economic Shitstorm In 80 Years Is Coming! \u2013 The Coming Collapse Will Be Far Worse Than The Great Depression And You Need To Be Prepared\nThe Shocking Prophecy for America by Elder St. Paisius the Athonite\nHumanity\u2019s End & Something BIG Is Heading Towards Earth (Tom Horn May \u201915)\nThe Military Occupation Of Ferguson, Missouri Is Just A Preview Of What Is Coming To America\nShocking Military Letter Confirms UN Plans To Soon Destroy America and More!\nFINAL WARNING: Obama and Pope Francis Will Bring Biblical END TIMES [Full Documentary 2015]\nWARNING \u2013 The NEW WORLD ORDER is Coming To USA, Events Are Happening on a Daily Basis That Prove we are in The End Times\nPROPHECY FOR 2014 -2015 \u2013 CATASTROPHIC EVENTS WILL HAPPEN\nHere\u2019s How to Use a Scythe\nGERALD CELENTE \u2013 Global Reset in the Making & Build up to WW3\n2 thoughts on \u201cPope Francis : Why The Antichrist Will Come on 30 August 2016 ? Shocking Video\u201d\nCornelis June 21, 2016 at 3:42 am\nCatholicism is not Christianity nor are the called protestants!\nCatholicism is a satanic cult, they have murdered an untold number of people and Christians though the ages just to push there agenda.", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00240.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 124, + "original_length": 9744, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.93, + "perplexity": 302.6, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "https://www.presbyterianmission.org/story/category/theological-education/", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T03:23:44Z", + "digest": "sha1:27LZ6C3QHGRFWM3CLNUM67LEENHB2O34", + "length": 2886, + "nlines": 15, + "source_domain": "www.presbyterianmission.org", + "title": "Presbyterian Mission Agency Theological Education Archives | Presbyterian Mission Agency", + "raw_content": "Small church pastor receives $15k student loan forgiveness\nFive years ago, the Rev. Dr. Bob Breed made a conscious decision to serve a smaller PC(USA) church part-time in Charlotte, N.C., where he could also work at the city\u2019s men\u2019s shelter.\nThe 700 or so people set to gather in Galveston, Texas this week for the annual event of the Association of Presbyterian Church Educators can dip their toes not only into the Gulf of Mexico, but into the swirling, often competing demands on faith formation in a world where traditional Christian education venues like Sunday school don\u2019t necessarily meet people where they\u2019re at.\n\u2018It\u2019s hard to comprehend such a presence becoming frail\u2019\nLiturgical theologian Gl\u00e1ucia Vasconcelos Wilkey\u2019s \u2018extraordinary mind\u2019 is being taken from her By Paul Seebeck | Presbyterian News Service LOUISVILLE \u2014 The last time the Rev. Dr. David Batchelder saw renowned liturgical theologian Gl\u00e1ucia Vasconcelos Wilkey was over Thanksgiving. At about that time, her hospice chaplain had contacted the Presbyterian Center to ask for a\u2026 Read more \u00bb\n#MeToo, women\u2019s equality panel set for Nov. 9 at SFTS\nWomen\u2019s equality issues specific to the church are at the heart of a Nov. 9 panel discussion from 2:30 p.m. through 4 p.m. PST at Scott Hall on the campus of San Francisco Theological Seminary, 105 Seminary Road in San Anselmo, Calif.\nPastor grateful for Presbyterian Mission\u2019s Financial Aid for Service ministry\nPresbyterian Church (U.S.A.) minister the Rev. Amy House was in the black hole of managing her student loan debt.\nUniversity of Dubuque Theological Seminary receives nearly $1 million grant\nPresbyterian Church (U.S.A.) University of Dubuque Theological Seminary (UDTS) has received a $936,102 grant to help support the Clergy Coaching in Community and Context initiative. The grant is part of Lilly Endowment Inc.\u2019s Thriving in Ministry, an initiative that supports a variety of religious organizations across the nation as they create or strengthen programs that help pastors build relationships with experienced clergy who can serve as mentors and guide them through key leadership challenges in congregational ministry.\nResources available for Theological Education Sunday\nThe Rev. Emily Zeig Lindsey, a colleague, Pennsylvania pastor and friend, summed up the importance of theological education beautifully in a video the Theological Education Fund shared in late 2017.\nHelp Wanted: Seeking Pastors\nGrowing up in South Africa, Bobby Musengwa couldn\u2019t imagine coming to America to attend seminary. The path simply wasn\u2019t visible to him \u2014 and he couldn\u2019t imagine serving as a pastor. But it was his uncle\u2019s friendship with Heath Rada, who later served as moderator of the 221st General Assembly (2014), that brought this possibility to light for him \u2014 and the mentoring community of professors, pastors, family and friends reinforced Musengwa\u2019s call.", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00240.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 180, + "original_length": 6763, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.94, + "perplexity": 259.2, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "https://www.pressherald.com/2015/09/16/kerry-us-weighs-russia-offer-of-military-talks-on-syria/", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T04:01:44Z", + "digest": "sha1:EVUR2XXYPBDSALRUEKBO6M4D7ZVXWRYE", + "length": 3915, + "nlines": 19, + "source_domain": "www.pressherald.com", + "title": "Kerry: U.S. weighs Russia offer of military talks on Syria - Portland Press Herald", + "raw_content": "Kerry: U.S. weighs Russia offer of military talks on Syria\nKerry said Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov had proposed the consultation in a phone call on Tuesday.\nBy MATTHEW LEEThe Associated Press\nWASHINGTON \u2013 The Obama administration is weighing an offer from Russia to have military-to-military talks and meetings on the situation in Syria amid increasing U.S. concern and uncertainty about Russia\u2019s military buildup there, Secretary of State John Kerry said Wednesday.\nKerry said Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov had proposed the consultation in a phone call on Tuesday and that the White House, Pentagon and State Department were considering it. Kerry suggested that he favored such an idea, noting that the United States wants a clear picture of what Russia\u2019s intentions are in Syria following a recent military buildup there.\nSecretary of State John Kerry in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington on Tuesday. The Associated Press\nLavrov proposed a \u201cmilitary-to-military conversation and meeting in order to discuss the issue of precisely what will be done to deconflict with respect to any potential risks that might be run and have a complete and clear understanding as to the road ahead and what the intentions are,\u201d Kerry told reporters at a joint State Department news conference with South Africa\u2019s foreign minister.\n\u201cYou have a conversation in order to do that,\u201d Kerry said. \u201cIt is vital to avoid misunderstandings, miscalculations (and) not to put ourselves in a predicament where we are supposing something and the supposition is wrong.\u201d\nKerry said Lavrov had told him that Russia was only interested in confronting the threat posed by the Islamic State group in Syria. But Kerry stressed it remained unclear if that position would change and Russia would mount a defense of Syrian President Bashar Assad who the U.S. believes must leave power.\n\u201cObviously, there a questions about that,\u201d he said. \u201cI am not taking that at face value.\u201d\nHowever, he added that if Russia is only focused on the Islamic State group then it remains a potential partner in pushing for a political transition in Syria. \u201cIf Russia is only focused only on ISIL and if there is a capacity for cooperation \u2026 there still is a way to get a political negotiation and outcome,\u201d he said.\nKerry also said he had spoken on Wednesday with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu who office announced earlier that he would visit Moscow next week to discuss Syria with Russian President Vladimir Putin.\nHis comment come as Russia\u2019s military buildup in Syria has perplexed the Obama administration and left it in a quandary as to how to respond.\nIn his call with Lavrov on Tuesday, his third in 10 days, Kerry said he sought clarity about Moscow\u2019s moves and warned that Russian support for Assad \u201crisks exacerbating and extending the conflict.\u201d\nIn the afterglow of the Iran nuclear deal, which was hailed by the Obama administration as the kind of diplomacy that can be achieved when Russia and the United States cooperate, U.S. officials had hoped for a change in Russia\u2019s position about Syria, potentially even enlisting its support to move Assad out.\nMoscow\u2019s latest actions, however, have taken many by surprise and further muddied efforts to fight Islamic State militants while trying to promote political transition in Syria.\nIn recent days Russia has sent about a half-dozen battle tanks and other weaponry \u2013 along with military advisers, technicians, security guards and portable housing units \u2013 to Syria with the apparent goal of setting up an air base near the coastal town of Latakia, a stronghold of the Syrian president.\nU.S. officials say Putin\u2019s intentions in Syria, particularly in the medium- to long-term, remain a mystery.\n\u201cThe decision-making process in that country is rather opaque,\u201d White House spokesman Josh Earnest said of Russia, adding that Moscow has long used Syria as a \u201cclient state.\u201d", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00240.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 274, + "original_length": 9735, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.97, + "perplexity": 250.1, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "https://www.prodek.co.uk/about-us/", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T04:26:56Z", + "digest": "sha1:IZSU67SRZPSR7FG7CJXR6WNDTQFOXIZ4", + "length": 6127, + "nlines": 33, + "source_domain": "www.prodek.co.uk", + "title": "Prodek - Flat Roofing, Waterproofing and Blast Cleaning", + "raw_content": "Established in 2001, we are a family run business.\nProdek are committed to offering an unbeatable service specializing in flat roofing and waterproofing. 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We have a strong commitment to quality from all staff and ensure we have an awareness of the expectations of the client and an understanding of their specification. The company also have an awareness for the necessity of interaction between an organisation and its environment, in the pursuit of continuous improvement. The company\u2019s success remains attributable to its commitment to customer care from the awarding of the contract through to completion and thereafter, ensuring our after-sales is as efficient as the on-site construction.\nIt is the Company\u2019s policy to conduct all its activities in a manner which achieves the highest practicable environmental standards for employees and any other persons who could be affected by its acts or omissions. The Company undertakes, as a minimum, to comply with all relevant environmental legislation and is committed to continually improve its environmental performance. It will seek to prevent pollution and to effectively manage the Company\u2019s significant environmental impacts and will make provision for adequate resources to achieve this objective. Specifically, the Company undertakes to:\nComplying with current legislation and other requirements as applicable to the company\u2019s environmental aspects.\nSettling and reviewing environmental objectives and targets to drive continual environmental improvement.\nProviding materials, resources and additional personnel as appropriate to implement the requirements of this policy statement.\nControlling and where practicable reducing the consumption of raw materials and the production of waste.\nDeveloping the environmental awareness of employees through effective education and training.\nCommunicating and ensuring that others who work for the organisation, such as contractors, adhere with the company\u2019s environmental practices and procedures.\nMonitoring environmental awareness of employees through effective education and training.\nWorking closely with the clients to ensure that their environmental concerns and requirements are incorporated within the company\u2019s operations.\nCommunicating the content of this policy statement to all employees and contractors and making it freely available to customers, the general public and other interested parties.\nAll persons fulfilling a management position with Prodek Limited including Directors, are required to maintain high standards of health, safety and welfare throughout their areas of responsibility\nAll employees are contractors engaged by Prodek Limited are required to adhere with the requirements of the company\u2019s Management System.\nAll systems of quality management shall be reviewed at least on an annual basis including this policy statement.\nThe Directors give their full backing to this policy statement and fully support its effective implementation throughout the business.\nProdek Limited undertakes activities as associated Principal Contractor and Contractor to provide a wide range of bespoke construction services from refurbishment to new build projects and designs and supplies specialist industrial roofing and cladding solutions. 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It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning.\" ~Sir Winston Churchill\nAs mortal and finite humans, eternity is a very difficult concept for us to wrap our heads around. We struggle with it so much because we simply have nothing tangible that we can associate with the concept. But as humans, we must realize that the overwhelming bulk of our existence will be spent in eternity-future. It is to this understanding that we recognize we are in the last days, and also at the end of this stage of the story. More importantly, that we are not really at the end, but only at the very beginning of it.\nRegarding what God has in store for us, the Apostle Paul stated that \"Eye has not seen, nor ear heard, nor have entered into the heart of man the things which God has prepared for those who love Him.\" (1 Cor. 2:9)\nPut in another way, we have no conceivable way to understand all that God has in store for those of us who belong to Him. It is simply beyond any human understanding in this realm. They say that time is relative, to which, I would agree. But what if time itself were no longer a constraint we ever needn't worry about again? Again, it is difficult for us now to comprehend what existence itself would be like without being relegated to time in some form or fashion. But that is a problem for the living. The dead know perfectly well what eternity feels like.\nFor those who have already died in Christ, the way they are now will always be their future (if I can relate to it that way). Granted, there are a few details that I am glossing over for those who have already died in Christ, having yet received their glorified, immortal bodies which will happen at the Rapture. There may also be campaigns afoot into eternity future which may involve far more grandiose plans than what God has made known to us within our own existence. This world, this life, and all the history associated, may in fact play some integral role for something yet future. Of this, admittedly, I do not know.\nBut what we do know, is the closeness and existence with the Godhead in Heaven for all eternity. It is the compilation of all things good, righteous, holy, divine, pleasurable, interesting, joyous, and blissful all rolled into some divine, overarching existence we will find ourselves in, forever.\nThe dead are no longer corrupted by time but have been made immortal, so that we may in some small measure, partake in God's immortality. This though, is only made possible by receiving the one true and safe passage, which is Christ Jesus. He is the Door that all must pass through to receive eternal life. This is why salvation is not predicated on lineage, social status, heredity, or wisdom. Salvation can only come when a person comes to the end of themselves and realize that they cannot save themselves but must fully trust in the finished work of Jesus Christ's death, burial, and resurrection. (1 Cor. 15:1-5)\nOnce a person receives eternal life by placing their hope and trust in Christ, they are immediately changed. Their spirit, once dead, is now revived, sealed, and indwelt by the Holy Spirit. It is here, that a person becomes a new creation in Christ (2 Cor. 5:19-21) and is already placed into the heavenlies. It is in a way, like calling ahead and making a reservation at a fancy restaurant, where a place is already being prepared for you and only awaits your arrival to be filled.\nAnother interesting thought, is that the future then, what lies beyond the Millennial Kingdom, has not yet been written. Was this done brevity's sake, or for the fact that we probably wouldn't be able to wrap our minds around all that lies into eternity future? One thing I am sure of, it will not be us sitting around on clouds strumming harps. No, based on what we know of God now (according to numerous examples within Scripture), is that we will be busy. I do not believe that God does things arbitrarily, but always acts with a sense of purpose to compliment, aid, change, or complete, His will. There will be purpose in our being with Him, and in our glorified bodies beyond the necessity of simply being with Him.\nThe ancient Gnostics and the modern day Theosophists, Buddhists, Hinduists, and New Agers all liken us to be a part of God or that we are a physical manifestation of it. Their goal was to bring man to the realization that through meditation, secret knowledge, self-realization, and channeling, we could achieve this divine state apart from the God of the Bible.\nBut the Bible is very clear on this matter; we are not God and can never, ever, ever be Him. We are only created creatures made in the likeness of Him. When one becomes born again we become a new creation in which God infuses part of Himself (the Holy Spirit) into us, much the same way that radiation changes our DNA when we are exposed to it. We are not naturally part of that radioactive material we were exposed too but through exposure it fundamentally changes us all the way down to the molecular level.\nTherefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; old things have passed away; behold, all things have become new. Now all things are of God, who has reconciled us to Himself through Jesus Christ and has given us the ministry of reconciliation, that is, that God was in Christ reconciling the world to Himself, not imputing their trespasses to them, and has committed to us the word of reconciliation.\nNow then, we are ambassadors for Christ, as though God were pleading through us: we implore you on Christ's behalf, be reconciled to God. For He made Him who knew no sin to be sin for us, that we might become the righteousness of God in Him. 2 Cor. 5:17-21\nBut what is time? In simple layman's terms, time is the measurement of moments from one to another. A Femtosecond is one thousandth of one trillionth of a second, or 1/1,000,000,000,000,000th of a second. Even smaller, the Attosecond, is one quintillionth (10-18) of a second, or 1 (0.0000000000000000001). The smallest measurement of time that within the laws of physics, 'Planck Time', is equal to 10-43 seconds. That would be a 10, with 43 zeros behind it. Anything beyond that would be indistinguishable to us in any known research methods.\nIt is unknown yet as to which of these, a 'twinkling of an eye' would occur (1 Cor. 15:52) in our transformation from mortality to immortality as occurs at the Rapture of the Church. I don't know if it's that time speeds up to such a degree that we have the Disney version of the transformation (think Beauty and the Beast moment where the prince is lifted up, spinning, while being transformed), or if we are simply doing what we do at any given moment, and we immediately find ourselves in the glorified state.\nFor instance, I could be sitting here typing this article, and as I type this word, immediately, I'm transformed. Perhaps, from the human perspective, it is immediate. But from the eternal perspective, which does not regard time (a day as a thousand years), as relative to anything; our transformation could be more of the spinning, sparkling change, as if there were some of God's ceremonial showmanship in our transformation process. Either way, I don't pretend to know, I only present these as things to consider.\nI've often wondered what God did in eternity past. I believe that God has always existed, and yet there was the time (I have no better word) immemorial before Adam and the Creation, in which God existed. What did He do then? Was there other histories and civilizations of eons past to which God tended? What I don't think is that God sat in the darkness or in whatever heavenly abode He surrounds Himself in doing nothing. Whatever it was, I'm am positive we will find out in due time. All we know is that as this age comes to an end. The next one, the eternal one, begins. This is where we will all spend the rest of forever inside of.\nThomas Watson once wrote \"Eternity to the godly is a day that has no sunset; eternity to the wicked is a night that has no sunrise.\" That is both an exhilarating and terrifying thought...depending on where you stand with God now.\nWhen this world comes to a close, the next will open up for us in such a manner, that this current one will dim and fade into obscurity. The Apostle John recorded in Revelation 21:4 for us, that God will wipe away every tear from their eyes; there shall be no more death, nor sorrow, nor crying. There shall be no more pain, for the former things have passed away.\"\nGranted, as believers, we are new creations in Christ, but we still live in a fallen world, and in a fallen state of being. In relation to all the former things, these being; pain, sickness, anger, lust, hate, pride, envy, sadness, violence, perverseness, duplicities, wickedness, and all the other things to vile to even list, we understand that God strips that all from us on that Day. Whether we as Christians go in death, or at the Rapture man is irrevocably reconciled to His Creator to co-exist with Him forever.\nWhen Leaders Reject God's Word - By Daymond Duck - http://raptureready.com/featured/duck/dd245.html\nSyria captured the city of Ramoth-gilead from the Northern Kingdom called Israel. The king of Israel, a wicked man named Ahab, wanted it back. He thought he saw the opportunity to retake it when the godly King Jehoshaphat visited him from the Southern Kingdom called Judah (I Kings 22).\nWhile King Ahab and King Jehoshaphat were talking King Ahab asked King Jehoshaphat if he would join him in a war against Syria to retake Ramoth-gilead. In essence, King Jehoshaphat replied, \"I will help you, but I want you to seek the will of the Lord first.\"\nThe wicked King Ahab called in about 400 false prophets and asked them if he should go to war. They answered, \"Go up; for the Lord shall deliver it into the hand of the king.\"\nThe godly King Jehoshaphat did not believe the false prophets so he asked King Ahab \"Is there not here a prophet of the Lord besides, that we might inquire of him?\" King Jehoshaphat didn't want the advice of godless men. He wanted the advice of God (the truth whether he liked it or not).\nKing Ahab replied, \"There is one man, Micaiah ...but I hate him; for he doth not prophesy good concerning me, but evil.\" King Jehoshaphat told King Ahab he shouldn't say that. And to satisfy the good King Jehoshaphat, Ahab sent for the prophet Micaiah.\nWhile they were waiting for Micaiah to arrive, King Ahab's false prophets assured him that the Lord would deliver Ramoth-gilead into his hands.\nWhen Ahab's servant reached Micaiah he told Micaiah what the false prophets said and urged him to \"speak that which is good.\" That is to say, \"If you want to get along with King Ahab, prophesy good things instead of bad things.\"\nMicaiah's response was, \"As the Lord liveth, what the Lord saith unto me, that will I speak.\" His prophecy would be what the Lord told him to say not necessarily what King Ahab wanted to hear.\nAs the story nears the end, Micaiah told King Ahab, \"I saw all Israel scattered upon the hills, as sheep that have not a shepherd.\" He also told King Ahab, \"the Lord hath put a lying spirit in the mouth of all these thy prophets, and the Lord hath spoken evil concerning thee.\"\nMicaiah prophesied four things:\n1) Israel would be defeated;\n2) King Ahab would die;\n3) God had put a lying spirit in the mouth of his false prophets, and;\n4) God had pronounced judgment upon King Ahab instead of blessing.\nMicaiah was slapped in the face by one of King Ahab's prophets and he was cast into prison to receive nothing but bread and water until King Ahab returned from the battlefield.\nThe godless king rejected the advice of God's man. He did what the lying spirit in the mouths of his false prophets advised him to do. He was killed and his body was brought home to be buried in Samaria.\nOn Aug. 29, 2016, John McTernan and Georgann Ryan wrote an insightful article (Europe: The Substitution of a Population) that triggered this message.\nMcTernan and Ryan suggested that huge numbers of Europeans have rejected the Bible (like King Ahab did when he rejected the advice of God's man), aborted their babies and promoted the homosexual lifestyle. God didn't want them to kill their children, become gay and things like that, but they did it anyway.\nThey could have had multitudes of babies that grew up as their children and grandchildren. Most of these descendants would have lived peaceful and productive lives among their ancestors. But their descendants didn't get to grow up because they were killed or never born.\nGod gives people time to repent, but when they won't repent His judgments begin to fall. He opened the borders of Europe and replaced the millions of unborn babies with millions of grown Muslims to live among the Europeans causing them to fear terrorism, persecution, rape and death.\nLet's take this a step farther. How did George Soros get so much power, influence and wealth? Could he have all of his power, influence and wealth without God's approval? Is it possible that God raised up an atheist to give bad advice to world leaders that have rejected His Word of Truth?\nWe ask why do foreigners that illegally enter the U.S. draw bigger checks than people who were born and raised here? That is not fair.\nWhy can foreigners that have illegally entered the U.S. get free healthcare when many of our veterans are dying before they can get in to see a doctor? That is not the right way to treat people who have fought for this country.\nWhy is same-sex marriage taught in U.S. schools when most Americans don't agree with it? That is not normal.\nWhy is America turning against Israel when God said He would bless those who bless Israel and curse those who curse Israel? We should want God's blessings.\nDo we really think an atheist (someone who doesn't believe in God) would advise world leaders to be fair, normal, treat people right and do God's will?\nIt may be far-fetched, but world leaders have rejected God's prophets (like King Ahab did) so I believe God has raised up a godless men like George Soros (like Ahab's demon-possessed prophets) that is tickling their ears with words (lies) that they want to accept.\nAnd just as sure as the advice of the godless prophets led to the destruction of King Ahab, the advice of the godless George Soros and others will lead to the failure, perilous times and tribulation.\nObama, Keen to Push Israeli-Palestinian Peace, Will Meet with Netanyahu - By Mark Landler and Peter Bakersept - http://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/19/world/middleeast/benjamin-netanyahu-obama-israel-palestinians.html?_r=1\nPresident Obama arrived in New York City on Sunday evening for three days that will mix election-year politics with a farewell to the world stage at the United Nations. But the visit comes against a suddenly tense backdrop, after a powerful explosion rocked a Manhattan street and a man claiming fealty to the Islamic State stabbed several people in a Minnesota shopping mall.\nThe president's diplomatic schedule also got more complicated. The White House announced Sunday that he would hold meetings at the United Nations with leaders from Israel and China. Both will be closely watched for signs of friction in relationships that have been marked by tension during Mr. Obama's tenure.\nOn Wednesday, he is scheduled to confer with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel at a time when he is weighing whether to propose his own framework for a peace agreement between Israel and the Palestinians over Mr. Netanyahu's objections. The two leaders have clashed repeatedly over the Iran nuclear agreement and Mr. Obama's pursuit of Middle East peace.\nThe meeting could be their last face-to-face encounter before Mr. Obama's term ends in January. Last week, the United States and Israel sealed a $38 billion, 10-year American security aid package to Israel, the largest ever granted to an ally. Officials in both countries have characterized the deal as proof that the American-Israeli relationship is enduring, whatever the strains between the two men.\nOn Monday, Mr. Obama is scheduled to have a brief session with China's premier, Li Keqiang, a week after North Korea tested another nuclear device. The president is expected to press Mr. Li to use China's influence to discipline the North, something the Chinese have resisted for fear of destabilizing an impoverished neighbor.\nMr. Obama returned recently from a trip to Hangzhou, China, which was marred by a messy arrival at the airport that led to shouting matches between American and Chinese officials. Administration officials played down the significance of the episode, saying Mr. Obama's talks with President Xi Jinping were not affected.\nThis will be Mr. Obama's last appearance at the United Nations, and his aides said he would use it to recall his diplomatic achievements and argue that his multilateral approach is a model for dealing with future crises. But the still-unexplained bombing in New York and the stabbings in Minnesota, which the F.B.I. is treating as a \"potential act of terrorism,\" guarantee that security will be at the forefront.\nSo will presidential politics. Mr. Obama arrived in New York a day earlier than usual so he could attend a fund-raiser in Manhattan for his preferred candidate, Hillary Clinton. Mr. Obama's motorcade crossed Manhattan on 23rd Street, the site of Saturday's explosion, though several blocks to the east, before arriving at Gramercy Park.\nMr. Obama spoke to 65 people at the apartment of the restaurateur Danny Meyer. The guests paid $25,000 each to attend, while the chairmen raised or contributed $250,000 to the Hillary Victory Fund, a joint organization of the Clinton campaign and the Democratic National Committee that raises money for Democrats up and down the ballot.\nMr. Obama said that despite the gulf in qualifications between Mrs. Clinton and the Republican nominee, Donald J. Trump, the election was likely to be close because of what he called the \"structural\" polarization of American society. And he spoke more starkly than he had before about the role gender is playing in the race.\n\"There's a reason why we haven't had a woman president,\" Mr. Obama said. \"We as a society still grapple with what it means to see powerful women. And it still troubles us in a lot of ways, unfairly.\"\nMrs. Clinton has her own schedule of meetings at the United Nations, including with the presidents of Egypt and Ukraine and the prime minister of Japan. It was not clear whether she planned to meet with Mr. Netanyahu, a leader with whom she had her own clashes while secretary of state.\nOn Sunday, Mr. Obama made clear that now that he had demonstrated a commitment to Israel's security, he planned to press Mr. Netanyahu to move toward reconciliation with the Palestinians.\n\"The meeting also will be an opportunity to discuss the need for genuine advancement of a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict in the face of deeply troubling trends on the ground,\" Josh Earnest, the White House press secretary, said in a statement.\nLeft unclear was whether Mr. Obama would go beyond simply urging Mr. Netanyahu. The president is considering whether to publicly lay out his own parameters for a settlement of the long-running conflict, a prospect Mr. Netanyahu has strongly opposed.\nThe president's speech to the General Assembly would be a logical place for such a move, though his advisers say he might wait until after the November election to avoid its becoming part of campaign politics. If he proceeds, he could give a speech outlining his ideas or even encapsulate them in a resolution before the United Nations Security Council.\nAides to Mr. Obama say he has played his cards very close to his chest, not discussing his plans outside a tiny circle.\nChristian Volunteers Harvest Grapes in Samaria in Fulfillment of Jeremiah 31:4 - By Anav Silverman - http://www.breakingisraelnews.com/75810/christian-volunteers-fulfill-jeremiah-314-samaria/#SEMi8CRyMTS16jKX.97\n\"Again shalt thou plant vineyards upon the mountains of Shomron; the planters shall plant, and shall have the use thereof.\" Jeremiah 31:4 (The Israel Bible\u2122)\nIn the vineyards of Shiloh, Ofra, Psagot and Har Bracha, a group of about 100 Christian volunteers from the USA, Canada, and other parts of the world, were on hand to assist Israeli farmers with the grape harvest this week. The group was part of HaYovel, a U.S. based non-profit that recruits volunteers to help independent Israeli farmers.\nPaul Docherty, a 58-year-old construction worker from Seattle, Washington told Tazpit Press Service (TPS) that this was his fourth volunteer mission. \"I love coming out here to the vineyards of Shiloh to prune the grapes and help out the farmers living here,\" he said.\nDocherty, like all the volunteers, are spending about three weeks in Israel and cover the costs of the trip on their own.\n\"Seeing the gratitude of the farmers, and connecting with the settlers, is something I look forward to each year,\" noted Docherty. \"I read the Bible, and just being able to visit Shiloh is a special experience in itself.\n\"I'm not such a bad pruner either,\" he added.\nIndeed, the HaYovel grape harvesters are serious workers. According to Caleb Waller, the volunteers harvest on average about 20 tons of grapes a day.\nHaYovel was founded by Tommy and Sherri Waller, who have been bringing volunteer groups to Israel since founding the organization in 2005. The Wallers have 11 children, all of whom are active in HaYovel in a variety of capacities, from harvesting and field logistics to PR and lecture presentations about Israel and their organization's work.\n\"Our mission is to help Israeli farmers anyway we can. We show them that they are not alone,\" Tommy Waller told TPS. The 55-year-old grandfather was raised in a Southern Baptist home in Tennessee, where he and wife raised their family, homeschooling their children. Waller, who worked for Fed Ex for 13 years, left the corporate world and moved his family to an Amish community where they ran a successful organic family farm. Today they draw on their vast agricultural experience to benefit Israeli vineyards and farms.\n\"Life has been a spiritual journey,\" he explained. \"Some people might call it radical.\"\nWaller made his first trip to Israel in 2004 and met an Israeli farmer, Nir Lavie, in Har Bracha. Lavie quoted the Biblical prophet Jeremiah, \"Again you will plant vineyards on the hills of Samaria,\" and Waller was swept away.\n\"It felt like I was touching the words of the Bible for the first time,\" said Waller.\n\"I wanted to help Nir out and asked him how we could help - he told me he needed workers and a year later HaYovel was born.\"\nHeadquartered in Har Bracha, HaYovel has the backing of the community rabbi, Rabbi Eliezer Melamed, although not all farmers in Judea and Samaria accept the help of the Christian volunteers.\nWaller emphasizes that they are not missionaries. \"This isn't about converting, but showing our respect and standing with the Jewish people in their biblical heartland. We've had thousands of volunteers from all over the world come as well as delegations of Congressmen and senators. They see a different kind of reality in Judea and Samaria - a peaceful one,\" he said.\nThe volunteers tend to agree. In the Shiloh vineyards, one can hear them singing as they work against the backdrop of the rocky Samarian mountains. \"We're excited to be here,\" said Paul Docherty's sister, Jane. \"I knew I wanted to do this when I heard Caleb Waller and his brother, come to speak to our congregation. We're participating in history.\"\nFor Shiloh vineyard owner, Ira Rappaport, the volunteers provide a vital service. \"I've never seen anyone handpick grapes as fast they do. Their work is amazing,\" he told TPS.\n3 Terror Attacks in America in 24 Hours - By Michael Snyder - http://endoftheamericandream.com/archives/3-terror-attacks-in-america-in-24-hours\nNew York City, New Jersey and Minnesota were all hit by terror attacks within a 24 hour time period, and authorities are concerned that this may be the start of a fresh wave of terrorism in this country. Those that conduct acts of terror do so because they want to create fear and because they want attention. All three of these attacks accomplished those goals, but in particular the bombing in New York City's thriving Chelsea neighborhood instantly captured the attention of the entire nation. The following is how USA Today described the attack...\nThe explosion came just after 8:30 p.m. ET at 133 W. 23rd St., between Sixth and Seventh Avenue in a neighborhood known for its vibrant nightlife. City officials said police located the explosive device in the street next to a trash bin. The explosion was so powerful it blew out the windows in a nearby building. The city's fire department said none of the victims had life-threatening injuries, but witnesses reported seeing victims cut by shrapnel, metal fragments and glass. All those injured were released from area hospitals by Sunday morning, according to New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo's office.\nA second device believed to be a pressure cooker was found on West 27th Street, four blocks from the initial blast on West 23rd. The New York Police Department said it was safely removed by the bomb squad early Sunday.\nFortunately the second device did not go off, and at this point the city is on a high state of alert. Governor Cuomo has ordered 1,000 state troopers and National Guard soldiers into New York City, and authorities are determined to do all they can to prevent another attack from taking place.\nAccording to some reports, the explosive devices were consistent with the kind of improvised explosive devices that are commonly used in Iraq, Afghanistan and elsewhere in the Middle East.\nSo that is at least one link to Islamic terror.\nThere also reportedly is surveillance video which shows the same man dragging a duffel bag to both locations where the explosive devices were placed. This is obviously a disturbing development, but the mainstream media is not telling us anything about the appearance of the man at this point. For example, this is what CNN is reporting...\nSurveillance video from Saturday shows a man dragging what appears to be a duffel bag with wheels near the site of the explosion on West 23rd street about 40 minutes before the blast, according to multiple local and federal law enforcement sources. Video shows the same man with what appears to be the same duffel bag on West 27th street about 10 minutes later, multiple law enforcement sources said.\nIn the video, the man leaves the duffel bag where police later found an unexploded pressure cooker. After he leaves, the video shows two men removing a white garbage bag believed to contain the pressure cooker from the duffel bag and leave it on the sidewalk, according to a senior law enforcement official and another source familiar with the video.\nSo why not tell us what the man looked like?\nAuthorities could have millions of New Yorkers looking out for this guy. By bowing to the forces of political correctness, authorities are potentially putting more lives in danger.\nWhat we do know is that a letter was found with the second explosive device, and at least a part of that letter was written in Arabic...\nIn another new wrinkle, a hand-written letter, a portion of which is in Arabic, was found inside a plastic bag that held the second device, sources said.\nCops were interviewing two men who claim to have spotted a potential person of interest in the case, sources said.\nThe witnesses were dining at the Krush bar and grill on 32nd Street about a half-hour before the 8:30 p.m. Saturday explosion when they saw an Arab-looking man who was carrying a suitcase and appeared out of place, sources said.\nAccording to the New York Post, a man called 911 after the Chelsea attack and warned that \"there will be more\" attacks. In their report, the New York Post did not indicate if there was anything distinctive about the man's voice. Once again, political correctness is getting in the way of solving the case.\nBut before we firmly conclude that this was act of Islamic terror, we should consider another possible explanation. According to the Daily Mail, someone on Tumblr took responsibility for the attack, and if he is telling the truth then this attack didn't have anything to do with Islam. This was his most recent blog post in its entirety...\nHi. You probably have all seen the news by now, the explosives detonated in New York City, that was me. Those were just some tests, I know where I have made errors and I will not make the same mistake next time.\nI did it because I cannot stand society. I cannot live in a world where homosexuals like myself as well as the rest of the LGBTQ+ community are looked down upon by society.\nIt is 2016 and we are still being viewed as mentally ill, sinners, attention seekers, and just plain weirdos in general. I am not going to stand by while under classed and underprivileged people are oppressed.\nI am not going to stand by while there is inequality in my country such as the racism being seen in white police officers all over the country.\nI am not going to live in a country where it is OK to have a misogynist, xenophobic, racist Islamophobic, republican candidate running for President of The United States!\nThat's implying that republicans in general should even be taken seriously as they are all cisgendered privileged white people.\nThis is not the end, this is just the beginning. I will be remembered. I will make a difference. I will eliminate my targets before it is too late.\nIn addition to the attack in New York, there was also an explosion at a Marine Corps charity run in New Jersey. This is how that incident was described by CNN...\nSaturday's blast was likely timed to disrupt the event in Seaside Park, officials said. No injuries were reported - most likely because registration problems delayed the start of the race, so no one was near the garbage can when the explosion happened.\nInvestigators discovered three pipe-bomb-type devices wired together near the boardwalk, authorities said. An initial examination showed the devices were rudimentary, with some type of timer, and only one of them detonated, two federal law enforcement officials told CNN.\nAuthorities seem to believe that there is a link between the attacks in New York and New Jersey because both devices were detonated using flip-phones.\nMeanwhile, nine people were injured when a knife-wielding attacker started assaulting people in a Macy's department store in St. Cloud, Minnesota...\nThe attacker, who was was wearing a private security uniform when he struck in St Cloud, Minnesota, was shot dead by an off-duty officer, authorities said.\nSt. Cloud Police Chief Blair Anderson said the knifeman made references to Allah during his attack and asked at least one person if they were a muslim.\nIn this case, we do know the identify of the attacker. His name was Dahir A. Adan...\nDahir A. Adan was a Somali immigrant that had come to the United States 15 years ago. He currently was enrolled at St. Cloud Technical and Community College, but nobody is quite sure what made him flip out like that.\nThe Islamic State has claimed responsibility for this attack, and authorities are looking into what links Adan may have had with the group.\nThis is another example of why it is so alarming that Barack Obama has announced that we may see up to a fourfold increase in the number of refugees from Syria in 2017.\nWithout a doubt, most refugees are coming here for our help. But there are others that have other motives, and the past 24 hours have shown us how much damage just a handful of jihadists can do.\nWe live at a time when terror attacks are on the rise. Worldwide there have already been more than 1000 Islamic terror attacks so far in 2016, and this trend is only going to get worse during the years ahead.\nOur world is becoming increasingly violent and unstable. The strategies that worked in the past will not necessarily work in the future, and we all need to start adjusting to the new reality.\nDaily Jot: The New Normal-Terror in the US - Bill Wilson - www.dailyjot.com\nAs a judgment on a nation that behaved in many ways like the United States is today, God said in Jeremiah 51:14, \"Surely I will fill thee with men, as with locusts, and they shall raise a battle cry against thee.\" While the US is not Babylon, and it has not completely turned its back on the Lord by taking great joy in persecuting the children of Israel, US leaders have blindly allowed the enemies of Israel their head. The consequences of such are being seen in this nation at an increasing and alarming rate-Islamic terrorism on American soil. The weekend, with a terrorist attack in a Minnesota shopping mall and pipe bombs in New York City, may become the new normal for Americans. And we must begin to deal with it.\nAP reports, \"A man in a private security uniform stabbed nine people at a Minnesota shopping mall, reportedly asking one victim if he or she was Muslim before an off-duty police officer shot and killed him in an attack the Islamic State group claimed as its own...An Islamic State-run news agency, Rasd, claimed Sunday that the attacker was a \"soldier of the Islamic State\" who had heeded the group's calls for attacks in countries that are part of a U.S.-led anti-IS coalition.\" AP and authorities are downplaying the incident by saying it is uncertain that the IS planned the attack. Nonetheless, its proximity to Minneapolis, where a large population of Islamic Somalia refugees is settled, seems more than coincidental.\nIn New York City, Vocativ reports, \"Supporters of the Islamic State rushed to celebrate Saturday night's powerful explosion in New York's Chelsea neighborhood that injured at least 29 people, even as no group or individual has been arrested or claimed responsibility. \"The lions of the Caliphate roar in New York, we cause you pain inside your house, the carrier of the Cross,\" wrote one Twitter user who went by the name \"I am ISIS, come and block me.\" The account was soon suspended. Another, called \"The Lone Wolves,\" tweeted with the Arabic hashtag #ExplosionManhattanNewYork \"Oh God burn America, take revenge in the name of your oppressed slaves and believers' blood.\"\"\nThere was another backpack with five bombs in it found near an Elizabeth City, NJ train station. Authorities are trying to determine if there is a link between all the New York area bombs. The New York Post's Paul Sperry wrote in June, \"America has now averaged one serious Islamic terrorist attack a year on [sic] the president's watch, yet he still insists the threat from radical Islam is overblown and that he's successfully protecting the nation.\" Add those over the weekend to the list and we are beginning to see a new normal for America-one of internal violence, death and destruction. Let us be reminded that the current Administration and the Democratic Party candidate for president seek to continue the policies that have facilitated this phenomena.\nDaily Devotion: A Watered-Down Gospel - Greg Laurie - www.harvest.org\nYou therefore must endure hardship as a good soldier of Jesus Christ. -2 Timothy 2:3\nWithout question the greatest life to live is the Christian life, because God takes a life that was empty, aimless, and, worst of all, headed for a certain judgment and then turns it around and transforms it. He forgives all our sin, removes our guilt, and literally takes residence inside of us through the Holy Spirit. Most importantly, He changes our eternal address from a place called hell to a place called heaven. This all comes about as a result of the power of the gospel proclaimed and believed.\nYet some have believed what I would describe as a watered-down version of the gospel, a gospel that promises forgiveness but rarely mentions the need to repent of your sin, a gospel that promises peace but never warns of persecution, a gospel that says God wants you to be healthy and wealthy and never have any problems to speak of, a gospel that says you will so find the favor of God that a parking space always will be available for you. But that is not the gospel of the New Testament.\nThe Christian life is not a playground, but a battleground. Not only is there a God who loves you and has a plan for your life, but there is also a devil who hates you and opposes God's plan.\nI am not suggesting that once you become a Christian, you will be sick, poor, and miserable. But the essence of the Christian life is knowing and walking with God. It is about sticking with Him when the sky is blue and also when it is filled with clouds. It is about pressing on. Jesus made it clear that storms will enter every life. But as we seek to know and follow Christ, we will find happiness as a fringe benefit.", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00240.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 287, + "original_length": 50876, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.97, + "perplexity": 255.0, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "https://www.prospairjetcharter.com/2017/08/03/make-sure-match-airplane-mission/", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T03:12:00Z", + "digest": "sha1:MPFPINEBED65UAXXIQQHKYOODE3QJ6AJ", + "length": 2532, + "nlines": 15, + "source_domain": "www.prospairjetcharter.com", + "title": "Make Sure You Match the Airplane with Your Mission | ProspAir Jet Charter | www.ProspAirJetCharter.com", + "raw_content": "Make Sure You Match the Airplane with Your Mission\nAugust 3, 2017 by Christopher Tasca\nHow much luggage can a private jet hold?\nWill the plane be able to fly without a fuel stop?\nWill there be enough room for my passengers?\nIf you\u2019re looking to book a private jet for an upcoming flight, make sure you have the right airplane for the mission. The answers to the above questions are sometimes overlooked in the booking process. One of the most common issues people overlook is how much baggage a private airplane can hold.\nUnlike large commercial airlines that have very large cargo holds, there are limitations for most private jets as it relates to the amount of baggage they can hold and passengers they can accommodate. The weight of the passengers and luggage will also affect the performance of each aircraft differently. The amount of runway length they will need for takeoff and landing, as well as the range they can fly without refueling, will be affected. Knowing this information is crucial to making sure you get the right plane for the mission and have a great experience on your flight.\nManufacturers of private jets specify luggage capacity in terms of cubic feet. Aircraft operators and brokers will have access to these specifications. Make sure you ask for this information if you are not familiar with a particular aircraft\u2019s capacity.\nTo get a better idea of the space available on our private jets, please remember the following:\nA large jet like the Gulfstream G550 has 226 cubic feet, which is about 1 \u00bd times the capacity of a Chevy Suburban if all of the seats are down.\nA super mid-size Cessna Citation Sovereign has 100 cubic feet \u2013 a little more than the space you\u2019d have in that same Suburban with one row down.\nThe mid-sized Embraer Phenom 300 has 74 cubic feet, or enough room for two sets of golf clubs, two very large suitcases, and three standard suitcases.\nThe Hawker 400XP light jet has 46 cubic feet, which is the same amount of space you\u2019d find in the Suburban if all of the seats are up.\nThe Phenom 100, a very light jet, has a surprisingly large baggage capacity of up to 71 cubic feet with all of the baggage compartments being used \u2014 just a bit less space than the Suburban with one row of seats down.\nPlan ahead and get the right plane for your mission by asking these often overlooked questions, and everyone will have a much better experience and more comfortable ride. Contact ProspAir Jet Charter today to find out how you can take advantage of our private jet card. Call 844-352-5387.", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00240.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 73, + "original_length": 3858, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.95, + "perplexity": 308.4, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "https://www.proudianlaw.com/blog/2016/04/discharge-status-restricts-veterans-benefits.shtml", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T04:27:20Z", + "digest": "sha1:SMZAWA26NPC2QR3VK3TRDYA3KZJ2PGH4", + "length": 2970, + "nlines": 11, + "source_domain": "www.proudianlaw.com", + "title": "Discharge status restricts veterans' benefits | Melissa A. Proudian, Attorney at Law", + "raw_content": "Discharge status restricts veterans' benefits\nOn behalf of Melissa A. Proudian, Attorney at Law posted in Veterans' Issues on Friday, April 15, 2016.\nVeterans are entitled to disability compensation, long-term medical care and other benefits and services. However, the Swords to Plowshares organization and Harvard Law School's Veterans Legal Clinic recently reported that bad paper discharges have excluded former service members from receiving benefits at a higher rate than any other time.\nThese discharges are classified as being other than honorable, bad conduct and dishonorable. The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs has made this a notorious veterans' issue because it is excluding these veterans at a rate that is double the rate for veterans from the Vietnam era and almost four times the rate for World War II era veterans.\nThe VA's policies, according to the report, have had a substantial impact on veterans who need support because they are more likely to have mental illness issues, suffer homelessness problems and had run-ins with the criminal justice system. They are twice as likely to commit suicide.\nThe report claims that the VA has implemented policies that conflict with the law. Congress passed legislation in 1944 to simplify and expand benefits so that returning service personnel would receive support with their rehabilitation and return to civilian life. It granted eligibility for basic services to veterans who were discharged for some misconduct if it was not grounds for court-martial trial and dishonorable discharge.\nThe VA's regulations do not properly reflect in-service mental health conditions and generally do not consider whether the misconduct is outweighed by meritorious service, such as combat, or earned medals or awards. The VA does not consider mitigating circumstances, hardships or extenuating circumstances. Policies differ among regional offices and apply inconsistently to the different military branches.\nOver 125,000 veterans who served since 2001 did not receive access to basic services even though no evaluation was conducted of their military service. The VA, in 2013, classified 90 percent of veterans with bad paper discharges as dishonorable although they were not dishonorably discharged.\nThe report recommends that the VA revise its regulations to only exclude veterans whose misconduct was grounds for trial by court-martial and dishonorable discharge. Positive and mitigating factors should be considered and minor misconduct should not disqualify veterans. It should allow access to basic healthcare until there is an eligibility determination.\nSource: Harvard Law School's Veterans Legal Clinic, \"Undeserved-How the VA wrongfully excludes veterans with bad paper,\" Accessed April 10, 2015\nRelated Posts: Brain pledges made to VA program, VA conducted one million TBI screenings, Veterans' issues include hepatitis C drug access investigation, Air evacuation from combat zones may worsen brain injury", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00240.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 83, + "original_length": 5137, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.97, + "perplexity": 309.2, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "https://www.prweb.com/releases/all_new_2018_ford_ecosport_now_available_at_akins_ford/prweb15933087.htm", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T04:40:40Z", + "digest": "sha1:ZHRNMK2KTXZVARDCZSURTOZX73N3EKGY", + "length": 1791, + "nlines": 11, + "source_domain": "www.prweb.com", + "title": "All-New 2018 Ford EcoSport now available at Akins Ford", + "raw_content": "All-New 2018 Ford EcoSport now available at Akins Ford\nATLANTA, Jan. 31, 2018 /PRNewswire-iReach/\nAkins Ford, a dealership near Atlanta, Georgia, is proud to announce the arrival of the all-new 2018 Ford EcoSport.\nAfter years of popularity in Europe, the all-new 2018 Ford EcoSport has finally made its debut on American soil, and Akins Ford is proud to offer a wide selection of new Ford EcoSport models.\nBut since the 2018 Ford EcoSport may not be as well known here in America as it is in Europe, the dealership is also working hard at making sure its customers have all the information they need regarding the all-new model. And all of that information is available on the Akins Ford website.\nIncluded in those research materials is a 2018 Ford EcoSport model information page that outlines the all-new EcoSport's engine lineup and power and fuel efficiency ratings, along with the standard and available safety, technology, comfort and convenience features that come along with a new 2018 EcoSport.\nFor those customers who want even more information, the Ford EcoSport section of the Akins Ford Blog contains numerous posts that take a more in-depth look at all of the 2018 Ford EcoSport's features, capabilities and exterior color options.\nAll of these 2018 Ford EcoSport research tools and more \u2013 including multiple research tools for all of the other new Ford cars, trucks and SUVs offered at Akins Ford \u2013 can be found at http://www.akinsford.com. Anyone who wants more information can call the dealership at 800-282-7872. Akins Ford is located at 220 West May Street in Winder, GA.\nMedia Contact: Kris Wall, Akins Ford, 800-282-7872, kwall@akinsonline.com\nSOURCE Akins Ford\nAkins Ford near Atlanta, Georgia, is proud to announce the arrival of the all-new 2018 Ford EcoSport lineup.", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00240.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 79, + "original_length": 3161, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.93, + "perplexity": 278.9, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "https://www.publicartfund.org/view/exhibitions/5633_parklife", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T04:01:57Z", + "digest": "sha1:IRHDWCVY2JL5EUUA37MGIZWVKQFGDO52", + "length": 5156, + "nlines": 15, + "source_domain": "www.publicartfund.org", + "title": "Public Art Fund : Parklife", + "raw_content": "Parklife continues MetroTech's commitment to supporting the work of emerging New York artists. Each year artists are asked to respond to the Commons, the public spaces surrounding the vibrant downtown areas of MetroTech Center and Brooklyn Polytechnic. The artists selected for this year's exhibition\u2014Isidro Blasco, Liz Craft, Peter Gould, Elke Lehmann, and Franco Mondini-Ruiz\u2014have each created new works that react to the area's landscaped surroundings.\nIsidro Blasco, After the End\nFor the lobby at One MetroTech Center, Isidro Blasco (b.1962, Madrid, Spain) transforms the notion of a \"tree house\" into a literal endeavor. Taking the shape of a tree as a basis, he has substituted the trunk, branches, and leaf canopy with pine wood palettes and photographs that depict several rooms in his apartment. Exploring the limits of everyday space, After the End disassembles the familiar and reconstitutes it as a baroque visual experience, one in dramatic contrast to the smooth marble walls and floors of MetroTech One. Spontaneous and vigorous, the lines of After the End sweep upward and around, creating multiple vistas and a cohesive composition.\nLiz Craft, Lasso of Love\nLasso of Love, a cast bronze sculpture, is characteristic of Liz Craft's playful yet accomplished approach to art-making. Craft (b.1970, Los Angeles, CA) created a thick rope rising upward from its coiled base to form a lasso loop; dangling from it are twelve larger-than-life charms. Each charm represents a different zodiac symbol\u2014the Gemini twins, Taurus's bull, Virgo's maiden, and so on. Made entirely of bronze, Lasso of Love rises six feet into the air, a paradoxically vertical position for a length of rope. Referencing astrology, psychedelic aesthetics, and childhood toys, Lasso of Love is a topsy-turvy view of the cosmos, prompting speculation as to whether Craft's charmed work is reaching upwards or has fallen from above.\nPeter Gould, The Crooked Mile\nAfter visiting MetroTech on several occasions, Peter Gould (Australia) noticed an unpaved walking path cutting across a lawn, not far from the paved walkways in the Commons. For The Crooked Mile, Gould has exaggerated this rather mundane interaction with nature\u2014the everyday foot traffic of people shortcutting across the lawn\u2014by upgrading the casually worn path to a fully landscaped element. His meandering path has white pea gravel, a ranch-style fence with pastel details, new shrubbery, a footbridge, and a gate. Although functional, this \"improved\" passageway is a colorful riff on the constructed environment of the Commons, one that prompts viewers to experience a familiar place anew.\nElke Lehmann, Black and White Tree\nFor Black and White Tree, a site-specific project at MetroTech Center, Elke Lehmann (b.1966, Trier, Germany) has focused on a single tree, one of the dozens of trees that line the perimeter of the Commons. Lehmann made black-and-white photographic reproductions of the tree's leaves, undertaking a meticulous process of cutting the leaves and affixing a wire stem to each one. In autumn, before the leaves begin to drop, every natural leaf on the tree will be paired with a black-and white duplicate, creating leaf clusters that resemble x-ray versions of the real thing. As the natural leaves fall, the reproductions will become increasingly dominant and, in the winter months, the tree will be a shadow version of itself, covered only with colorless leaves.\nFranco Mondini-Ruiz, Polvo en el Viento (Dust in the Wind)\nFor the lobby of MetroTech Center One, Franco Mondini-Ruiz (b.1961, USA) has created Polvo en el Viento (Dust in the Wind). Working with a local Peruvian-Ecuadorian band, he made a life-size, photographic cut-out of an Andean flute band in concert. For three days in early September, Polvo en el Viento toured New York City, appearing briefly in Times Square, Astor Place, the Chelsea gallery district, and elsewhere. During that time, viewers approaching the two-dimensional cut-out heard a recording of the band, Agua Clara, playing their rendition of popular songs like Kansas' Dust in the Wind and Frank Sinatra's My Way. Playing up the fact that bands of this sort sometimes seem ubiquitous, Mondini-Ruiz's humorous and engaging exploration of art and societal issues addresses cultural globalization and appropriation, political correctness, high versus low art, and recent Latin American history.\nLiz Craft: The Spare\nOn View March 10 \u2013 May 30, 2004\nParklife at MetroTech Center is part of an ongoing program organized by the Public Art Fund and sponsored by MetroTech Commons Associates, an organization that consists of MetroTech companies Bear Stearns & Company, KeySpan Energy, JP Morgan Chase Bank, Forest City Ratner Companies, Polytechnic University, Securities Industry Automation Corporation (SIAC), DOITT and E-911. Special thanks to First New York Management.\nPublic Art Fund is a non-profit arts organization supported in part with public funds from The New York State Council on the Arts, a State Agency, and the City of New York Department of Cultural Affairs and through generous contributions from corporations, foundations, and individuals.", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00240.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 85, + "original_length": 7980, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.91, + "perplexity": 332.9, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "https://www.publicrelations-pr.co.uk/about-us/who-we-are.aspx", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T03:33:51Z", + "digest": "sha1:IXCQAU6T6KR7WJ6JNFDOXOQZFHAR3ASQ", + "length": 3960, + "nlines": 8, + "source_domain": "www.publicrelations-pr.co.uk", + "title": "Technology PR Experts | Vantage PR", + "raw_content": "Meet our team of PR specialists\nWith many years\u2019 experience in PR, both before and since founding Vantage 20 years ago, Nick has always enjoyed the challenge of getting under the skin of every client\u2019s business and finding positive angles for client PR stories. Nick has PR, marketing and technical qualifications, a mix which means that business to business clients are in good hands when developing stories and features for the press. Enthusiasm and professionalism are hallmarks of his and his team\u2019s work leads to the very best offline and online editorial coverage for clients. He has a blue chip company background with firms such as Thorn and Smiths Industries and is a member of the CIPR, the CIM for which he served as regional chairman, and the IOD. In any free time Nick has (!) he enjoys life with his family in the Wye Valley, gardening, astronomy and driving his classic car.\nWith expertise in media communications and database management, Brenda co-ordinates our interaction with the press. She is the point of contact for our editorial connections as well as providing invaluable assistance on client accounts. Brenda\u2019s skills in research, analysis and social media keep us constantly up-to-date. When she\u2019s not ensuring the smooth and efficient running of our office, Brenda loves long walks with her family and dog in our beautiful Wye Valley countryside, and enjoys gardening, with very hit-and-miss results.\nJulia works with clients to improve their visibility in the print media and their online presence through digital, websites, e-newsletters and social media profiles. She writes press releases on a variety of subjects and is always looking for new ways to give businesses a boost. Julia has previously worked in journalism as a copy-editor so is experienced in proofreading and working in the press and has also volunteered as a marketing officer for a Cardiff charity. She has a qualification in electronic media and a BA honours degree in Creative and Professional Writing as well as an MSc in Public Relations. Julia prides herself on being organised and is always up for a challenge. When she isn\u2019t writing, Julia loves to travel, likes reading and enjoys trips to the theatre.\nRosie Adamson\nRosie\u2019s enthusiasm for research and writing means that our clients are never short of stories to send to the press. She is responsible for working on client accounts, and you will discuss your PR programme with her at regular meetings. You will always be able to catch her on the phone. As well as writing press releases, case studies and features, Rosie undertakes design work for our clients, and enjoys creating e-newsletters to send out. Unsurprisingly, Rosie has a passion for reading, enjoys being artistic and creative and usually has a camera somewhere about her person.\nHaving studied English, Robyn's love of creating exciting literature carries through into her press release and feature writing. Natural writing ability combined with an interest in the nature of your business allows her to pass this enthusiasm onto the press. A passion for topical issues and current affairs ensures our clients are perceived as up to date and innovative. Keen to get the most from her clients' stories, she is always on hand to ask and answer questions at regular meetings and via email or phone. In her free time she enjoys running, cycling and socialising with friends.\nWith a degree in Media Studies, Chloe is equipped with journalistic skills and an excellent knowledge of all media platforms. She is responsible for writing press releases for our clients' PR campaigns, as well as managing their social media and digital marketing accounts. Chloe is very creative and keen to ensure that all clients are kept up to date with current trends in both online and print media. In her spare time, Chloe likes to bake cakes (and eat them!) and often spends her weekends travelling to all ends of the UK to meet up with friends and relations.", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00240.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 76, + "original_length": 5101, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.97, + "perplexity": 242.5, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "https://www.pushdoctor.co.uk/blog/are-e-cigarettes-safe", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T03:16:17Z", + "digest": "sha1:JDSFGFSST2MW4VI5GQU6D653JIB3KNHV", + "length": 3721, + "nlines": 20, + "source_domain": "www.pushdoctor.co.uk", + "title": "Are e-cigarettes safe? What are the pros and cons of e cigarettes?", + "raw_content": "We've taken a look at the science behind e-cigs and whether vaping is really better for you than smoking.\nThe health risks of cigarette smoking are well known. They're thought to contribute to almost six million deaths each year across the world and one in every five deaths among over-35s in the UK.\nAccording to the latest figures from the Office for National Statistics, 2.3 million people in the UK have turned to 'vaping' as an alternative to tobacco.\nAre e-cigarettes really a safer option for smokers, or are they just trading one harmful habit for another? Will they help you quit smoking? Let's look at the science behind vaping and uncover its pros and cons.\nAs any smoker will know, the addictive ingredient of cigarettes is nicotine. E-cigarettes work by heating liquid nicotine until it boils and turns into a vapour, which is then inhaled by the user.\nThat's why it's called vaping - because you're inhaling vapour rather than smoke!\nE-cigarettes have been sold in the UK since 2004. While that seems a long time, in scientific terms it's not enough to fully understand the effects of vaping on long term health. However, scientists have already uncovered plenty of interesting information.\nPublic Health England suggests that e-cigs are 95% safer than smoking. E-cigarettes contain nicotine, but don't contain harmful substances such as tar or carbon monoxide. Using them doesn\u2019t involve burning anything, which spares users from inhaling any harmful carcinogens.\nThe levels of dangerous chemicals in e-cigs are a fraction of those found in cigarettes, sometimes as low as 1/1000. A level this low wouldn't pose a serious health risk.\nThe danger of passive smoking is also thought to be much lower, as the smoke cloud produced by e-cigs doesn\u2019t hang around as long as cigarettes, or contain as many dangerous substances.\nIt's important to note that while e-cigs are safer than cigarettes, they aren't safer than nothing. The fact that vaping is only 95% safer than smoking should shows there's still some risk to be found, so if you don't smoke at all, you shouldn't take up vaping.\nWe should also address the reports of e-cigs 'exploding', which tend to appear in the news every now and then. The Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents (RoSPA) suggests this can be avoided by buying products from a recognised manufacturer and following the instructions provided when charging your device.\nLet's face it, they're much less likely to cause a fire than a real cigarette, which of course is already on fire!\nWhat are the side effects of e-cigarettes?\nThe evidence of side effects with vaping is largely anecdotal, as there have been very few studies. Naturally, there's some crossover between symptoms caused by vaping and symptoms caused by giving up cigarettes. In many cases, your side effects will depend on how long you were smoking previously.\nIt's important to stay hydrated if you're vaping regularly, as the smoke draws moisture away from its environment. This might explain why some people occasionally get headaches, dizzy spells and a dry mouth after an e-cigarette. Some people also develop a slight cough.\nYes. The Royal College of General Practitioners approves their use as a way to stop smoking. Data from UK health authorities shows that in 2014/15, two thirds of people who combined e-cigs with face-to-face help succeeded in quitting smoking.\nIf you're looking for support in your effort to quit smoking, our doctors are here to help. They'll be there for you throughout your journey and offer helpful advice when the going gets tough. You can also find further inspiration from our 107 ways to quit smoking.\nSee a doctor about quitting smoking\nThis post was updated in April 2017.", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00240.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 139, + "original_length": 5874, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.97, + "perplexity": 230.9, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "https://www.questia.com/read/1E1-MaazelL/maazel-lorin-varencove", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T03:56:18Z", + "digest": "sha1:6ZTKXDLTKDPZSGV2GUO6IRM4OJUT4TLL", + "length": 1700, + "nlines": 2, + "source_domain": "www.questia.com", + "title": "Maazel, Lorin Varencove from The Columbia Encyclopedia, 6th ed.", + "raw_content": "Lorin Varencove Maazel, 1930\u20132014, American conductor, b. Neuilly-sur-Seine, France. A musical prodigy, he spent his childhood in Los Angeles, where he made his conducting debut at nine and his violin debut at fifteen. He debuted as an adult conductor leading the Boston Symphony Orchestra at Tanglewood in 1951 and began his adult career when he conducted at the Teatro Bellini in Catania, Italy, in 1953. He went on to conduct with more than 20 European orchestras, and in 1960 became the first American to conduct at Bayreuth. Beginning in the mid-1960s, Maazel held many important directorships in Europe and the United States, including those of the Deutsche Opera (1965\u201371), the Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra (1965\u201375), the Cleveland Orchestra (1972\u201382), the Vienna State Opera (1982\u201384), the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra (1988\u201396), and the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra (1993\u20132002). He succeeded Kurt Masur as music director (2002\u20139) of the New York Philharmonic and finished his career as principal conductor (2012\u201314) of the Munich Philharmonic Orchestra. Known for the breadth of his orchestral and operatic repertoire and for the rigor, depth, and sometimes idiosyncratic nature of his musical interpretations, Maazel also was a composer, e.g., Music for Violin and Orchestra (1997) and the opera 1984 (2005), and sometimes performed as a violinist.\nPublication information: Article title: Maazel, Lorin Varencove. Encyclopedia title: The Columbia Encyclopedia, 6th ed.. \u00a9 The Columbia University Press. Used with the permission of Columbia University Press. All Rights Reserved. Publisher: The Columbia University Press. Place of publication: Not available. Publication year: 2018.", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00240.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 232, + "original_length": 8964, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.95, + "perplexity": 82.1, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "https://www.quiet-corner.com/health-and-beauty/7-common-foods-can-overdose/", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T03:14:26Z", + "digest": "sha1:5XFCFNTPKXLC6U3LJYEANHH3AY3PZF4P", + "length": 9207, + "nlines": 32, + "source_domain": "www.quiet-corner.com", + "title": "Quiet Corner:7 Common Foods That You Can Overdose On - Quiet Corner", + "raw_content": "7 Common Foods That You Can Overdose On\n/ tags diet, food, health.health tips\nThere are times, such as Super Bowl parties or holiday feasts, when people jokingly complain that they have \u201coverdosed\u201d on food. While those extra helpings of turkey or taco dip might, at worst, give you a bad case of indigestion, there are foods out there that can seriously harm you if you eat too much of them.\nHere\u2019s are seven common foods that prove that you really can have too much of a good thing.\nCarrots are full of vitamins, minerals and fibers that are good for your health. But eating too many carrots can bring in too much beta-carotene the molecule responsible for carrots\u2019 bright orange hue and a precursor of vitamin A. This can lead to excess blood carotene which can discolor the skin.\nKnown as carotenemia, the condition occurs because carotene is a fat-soluble molecule. Excessive quantities of it tend to accumulate in the outermost layer of skin, resulting in yellow- or orange-pigmented skin, particularly in the palms, soles, knees and nasal area.\nAlthough carotenemia occurs mostly in infants when they are fed too much pureed carrot baby food, it can occur in adults as well. In a case report published in The Journal of Dermatology in 2006, a 66-year-old woman\u2019s skin turned yellow-orange after she took too many carotene oral supplements. One cup of raw chopped carrots has about 15 mg of carotene, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture\u2019s Nutrient Database, so you\u2019d need to eat half a cup of chopped carrots every day for months, in order to turn to her shade of yellow.\nDespite such dramatic outward appearance, carotenemia is a mostly harmless condition and it is often reversible.\nSushi lovers beware: eating too much raw tuna can increase your intake of mercury. Large fishes on top of the food chain, such as the prized bluefin tuna, can accumulate methyl mercury in their muscles because they consume many smaller fishes over their lives.\nIt\u2019s difficult to pin down the mercury levels in pieces of sushi, because they can vary depending on the size and species of fish. This makes it difficult to set a definitive cap on sushi consumption.\nHowever, tuna sushi from restaurants tends to have higher mercury levels than supermarket tuna sushi, according to research published in the journal Biology Letters in 2010. Some samples of bigeye tuna or bluefin tuna, which are more common in restaurants, had mercury levels that exceeded or approached levels permissible by regulatory agencies in the U.S., Canada other nations and the World Health Organization, the study showed.\nBecause mercury can cause severe neurological problems, pregnant women and young children are advised by the Food and Drug Administration and the Environmental Protection Agency to avoid eating too much tuna. According to the agency\u2019s 2004 guidelines, others can eat up to 6 ounces (approximately equal to one average meal) of tuna steak per week.\nKombucha is a sugary, black tea fermented by a flat, pancake-like symbiotic culture of bacteria and yeasts called the \u201cKombucha mushroom.\u201d It can be purchased at health food stores or made at home with the starter \u201cmushroom,\u201d the beverage is reputed to have immunity-boosting and beneficial effects, but there is very little scientific evidence of these available in current literature.\nAlthough the brew is mostly benign (it usually tastes very acidic, and contains alcohol from the fermentation process), the American Cancer Society has warned that certain Kombucha starter cultures may contain contaminants such as molds and fungi, some of which can cause illness.\nThere have been reported cases of severe toxic reactions to Kombucha tea. In a recent report published in the Journal of Intensive Care Medicine by physicians at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, a 22-year-old male newly diagnosed with HIV became ill within twelve hours of consuming the tea. He was short of breath, his temperature spiked to 103.0 degrees Fahrenheit (39.4 Celsius), and he subsequently became combative and confused, requiring sedation and intubation for airway control.\nThe Centers for Disease Control and Prevention pointed out that kombucha tea consumed in typical quantities approximately 4 ounces daily might not cause adverse effects in healthy persons. However, those with preexisting health problems or those who drink excessive quantities of the tea should beware.\nAlthough some people claim they would cease to function properly without their cup of morning coffee, it\u2019s best not to have too many cups. According to the Mayo Clinic, you shouldn\u2019t consume more than 500 to 600 milligrams of caffeine a day. A typical, 8-ounce cup of medium roast coffee has about 200 mg of caffeine, a 1-ounce shot of espresso has about 75 mg, an 8 ounce cup of black tea can have 120 mg of caffeine.\nNoticeable side effects can occur if you consume more than 600 to 900 mg of caffeine a day, according to the Mayo Clinic, and those include: insomnia, restlessness, nausea, irregular heartbeat, muscle tremors, anxiety and headaches. In fact, too much caffeine can be fatal. According to a case published by Swedish physicians in a 2010 issue of Acta Anaesthesiologica Scandinavica, a 21-year-old woman went into cardiac arrest shortly after consuming about 10,000 mg of caffeine. Although she was resuscitated by ventricular fibrillations a few times, she stopped responding to medication three days later.\nStar fruit poisoning was first described in 1980 in Malaysia, where it was found to have a depressive effect on the central nervous system. Although star fruits (also known as carambolas) are not as common in North America, it is widely available in Southeast Asia and South America as fresh fruits, in salads and pickled juice.\nThis uniquely shaped fruit poses very little risk to healthy people when eaten in normal quantities. However, acute kidney failure has been reported in people with a history of kidney diseases. In a 2006 case report published in the Journal of Nephrology, a patient with underlying chronic kidney disease developed a bad reaction after eating star fruit, which led to rapid deterioration in kidney function and permanent renal injury. In a similar case reported in the Hong Kong Medical Journal in 2009, a 76-year-old woman with chronic renal disease was admitted to the hospital in a state of mental drowsiness and accelerated heart rate after eating two star fruits.\nCommon symptoms for star fruit intoxication include hiccups (the most common symptom, especially in mild intoxication), vomiting, weakness, insomnia, altered consciousness, convulsions and hypotension. People with a history of kidney illnesses should avoid pure, sour star fruit juice (a popular beverage in Taiwan) and mild, diluted pickled juice in large amounts, especially on an empty stomach.\nThe conventional guideline of drinking eight glasses of water a day has proven to be a myth. But there is such thing as drinking too much water. Water intoxication occurs when a person drinks so much that the water dilutes the concentration of sodium in the blood, creating an electrolyte imbalance.\nWater intoxication, known as hyponatremia, is mostly a risk for endurance athletes. A 2005 article in the New England Journal of Medicine found that 13 percent of 488 runners in the 2002 Boston Marathon developed hyponatremia from drinking too much water. According to the researchers, a relatively simple strategy to reduce that risk would be for runners to weigh themselves before and after training runs, in order to gauge their overall fluid intake and ensure they do not drink too much water during exercise.\nAn unusual and fatal case of water intoxication occurred in 2007 when a California woman reportedly drank too much water during a \u201cHold Your Wee for a Wii\u201d radio station contest.\nThe light dusting of nutmeg on your eggnog has practically no effects aside from making your beverage more delicious. However, trouble kicks in when the spice is consumed in excessive quantities as a low-cost hallucinogenic drug.\nUnpleasant side effects usually appear three to eight hours after ingestion, and can include anxiety, fear, and a feeling of impending doom. According to a case report published in Emergency Medicine Journal in 2005, some people may also experience acute psychotic episodes, detachment from reality and visual hallucinations.\nNutmeg, even in doses as high as 20 to 80 grams of powder, is rarely deadly. There were only two reports of fatal nutmeg overdoses in medical literature. The first was reported in 1908 and involved about 14 grams ingested by an 8-year-old. The second case involved a 55-year-old and was reported in the journal Forensic Science International in 2001. Toxicology tests found traces of myristicin (a compound found in the essential oil of nutmeg) and flunitrazepam (a powerful sedative) in her blood. Her death was likely due to the combined toxic effect of both substances, the report said.\n5 Medicinal Mushrooms With Powerful Health Benefits 5 months ago\nSummer Veggies Are Here \u2013 Etuvee Them! 2 years ago\nLose Weight Fast and Safely: Weight Loss Plan 12 months ago\n\u2190 Yoga in Pregnancy\nOcellaris Clownfish Info and Care \u2192", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00240.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 188, + "original_length": 12663, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.96, + "perplexity": 260.6, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "https://www.quizony.com/are-you-human/24.html", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T03:31:03Z", + "digest": "sha1:YNY4HWUYMKUHIQ2DRI34PVUPTPCJGZKX", + "length": 34, + "nlines": 1, + "source_domain": "www.quizony.com", + "title": "Are You Human? 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What actors are Jewish? All of these famous Jewish American actors and actresses were born into Jewish families and so are Jewish by birth. Some of these American Jewish actors have grown up to believe and practice different religions due to their parents' interfaith households or their own marriages. Others are strictly famous Jewish actresses and actors like Natalie Portman, Woody Allen, and Mila Kunis. Click on the actor or actress you're interested in to see how else they rank on Ranker lists.\nSteven Seagal age 66 Steven Frederic Seagal is an American actor, film producer, screenwriter, film director, martial artist, musician, reserve deputy sheriff and entrepreneur. A 7th-dan black belt in Aikido, Seagal ...more\nSarah Jessica Parker age 53 Sarah Jessica Parker is known for her leading role as Carrie Bradshaw on the HBO television series Sex and the City. She was also an executive producer on the show, and won two Emmy Awards, for ...more\nBarbra Streisand age 76 Barbra Joan Streisand is an American singer, songwrighter, actress, director, writer, composer, producer, designer, author, photographer, and activist. During a career spanning six decades, she ...more\nBilly Crystal age 70 William Edward \"Billy\" Crystal is an American actor, singer, writer, producer, director, comedian, and television host. He gained prominence in the 1970s for playing Jodie Dallas on ...more\nGwyneth Paltrow age 46 Gwyneth Kate Paltrow is an American actress, singer, and food writer. Paltrow gained early notice for her work in films such as the psychological thriller Seven, opposite Brad Pitt and the ...more\nAdam Sandler age 52 Adam Richard Sandler is an American actor, comedian, screenwriter, entrepreneur, film producer, and musician. 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He became well known during the 1980s starting with his breakthrough role in 1984's Police Academy and subsequent ...more\nFiled Under: Actors PeopleActresses\nThe Most Beautiful Jewish Women Under 40 The Best Christmas Songs Written by Jewish Songwriters Famous Christians Who Converted to Judaism 11 Orthodox Jewish Celebrities The Most Beautiful Redhead Actresses The Most Impractical Sexy Halloween Costumes Ever\nskyrim quotes canned food list lady gaga's ex fiance saturday night live band performances anti hero characters tony romo wife saudi arabia architecture ellen degeneres first wife world famous buddhist people list of african american spirituals", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00240.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 47, + "original_length": 8305, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.95, + "perplexity": 206.8, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "https://www.ranker.com/list/songs-about-other-celebrities/matt-manser", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T03:31:09Z", + "digest": "sha1:IMOKMCB65SF4Y56Y5EI6FEK6XAQ7Y5NY", + "length": 5171, + "nlines": 29, + "source_domain": "www.ranker.com", + "title": "12 Songs You Didn't Know Were About Other Celebrities", + "raw_content": "The Catchiest Pop Songs, According to Science Upbeat Songs with Dark Meanings Not Appropriate for Children Famous Songs with Powerful Backstories Songs That Are Mainly Diss Tracks Love Songs That Are Kinda Creepy Artist Who Hate Their Biggest Hits Originally Written for Movies Songs Written for Someone Else History's Most Controversial Songs & Singles Covers Better Than the Originals Breakup Songs Written About Celebrities You're Singing About Murder Songs That Don't Mean What You Think Sad Backstories of Huge Hits Songs You Never Realized Are Covers Songs That Were Total Ripoffs Songs Secretly About Bisexuality If You Really Think About It... Songs Secretly About Taylor Swift\nMusicians 12 Songs You Didn't Know Were About Other Celebrities\nList Rules Vote up the most surprising songs about fellow stars.\nSome songs were quite obviously written as part of a well-publicized celebrity feud (Taylor Swift's \u201cBad Blood\u201d almost certainly calls out Katy Perry, for instance). But then there are songs that are secretly about other stars. It's not surprising that there are so many - musicians hang out with other famous people and write songs about what they know. But once you learn who the lyrics are really about, the songs about other celebrities take on a whole new meaning.\nA number of these songs about famous people are not-so-subtle diss tracks, like \"Cry Me a River\" by Justin Timberlake or \"Obsessed\" by Mariah Carey, which is a musical eye roll directed at Eminem. Others are tender love songs \u2013 try to listen to Coldplay's \"Fix You\" without tearing up after you learn its real message. Just don't expect to see any songs about Taylor Swift here. She's had enough to earn her own list.\nAerosmith's 'Dude (Looks Like A Lady)' Is About Vince Neil\nAerosmith's \"Dude (Looks Like A Lady)\" has a very specific origin story. In an interview with SongFacts, co-writer Desmond Child said that lead singer Steven Tyler showed him a song he was working on called \"Cruisin' For The Ladies.\" Child thought it was a boring title and wasn't into it:\nAnd then Steven volunteered, sheepishly, and said that when he first wrote the melody he was singing \"Dude Looks like a Lady\"... He got the idea because they had gone to a bar and had seen a girl at the end of the bar with ginormous blonde rock hair, and the girl turned around and it ended up being Vince Neil from Motley Crue. So then they started making fun of him and started saying, \"That dude looks like a lady, dude looks like a lady, dude looks like a lady.\" So that's how that was born.\nsee more on Dude (Looks Like A Lady)\n24 Celebrities Who Started as Backup Singers\nGwen Stefani's 'Hollaback Girl' Is About Courtney Love\nIn an interview with Seventeen magazine, Courtney Love reportedly said, \"Being famous is just like being in high school. But I'm not interested in being the cheerleader. I'm not interested in being Gwen Stefani. She's the cheerleader, and I'm out in the smoker shed.\"\nStefani told NME that this comment inspired her to write \"Hollaback Girl\":\nY'know, someone one time called me a cheerleader, negatively, and I\u2019ve never been a cheerleader. So I was like, \u2018Okay, f*ck you! You want me to be a cheerleader? Well, I will be one then. And I\u2019ll rule the whole world, just you watch me.\u2019\n#29 on A Definitive Ranking of Basic Bitch Songs\nsee more on Hollaback Girl\n21 Celebrities Who Play Drums\nBob Dylan's 'Like A Rolling Stone' Is About Edie Sedgwick And Andy Warhol\n\"Like A Rolling Stone\" is essentially six minutes of Bob Dylan throwing shade at some unnamed another person. Although it does not appear to be 100% confirmed, it's widely believed that the song is chiefly aimed at actress and model Edie Sedgwick. She was a former debutante, and lines like \"Once upon a time you dressed so fine, threw the bums a dime in your prime, didn't you?\" seem to reflect that.\nSpecifically, Dylan was apparently upset that Sedgwick had ditched his crowd to hang out in the art world of Andy Warhol. Dylan reportedly believed Warhol was mistreating her, and the lines, \"Ain't it hard when you discover that he really wasn't where it's at, after he took from you everything he could steal,\" might be aimed at Warhol.\n#1 on The Best Bob Dylan Songs\nsee more on Like A Rolling Stone\nBilly Joel's 'Uptown Girl' Is About Elle Macpherson... Maybe\nSince Billy Joel was dating supermodel Christie Brinkley at the time of the release of \"Uptown Girl,\" it was only natural to assume that's who the song was about. Brinkley even appeared in the music video. However, in an interview with Howard Stern, Billy Joel suggested he was first inspired to write \"Uptown Girl\" while dating another supermodel, Elle Macpherson. But the song was actually about a number of women and originally titled \"Uptown Girls.\"\nsee more on Uptown Girl\nBreakup Songs You Probably Didn't Realize Were About Other Celebrities\nFiled Under: Songs MusicPeopleBands/MusiciansMusicians\nThe Best Joropo Bands/Artists\nTop Digital songs flo rida songs list of harlem rappers songs with zombie in the title songs with robert in the title laugh today cry tomorrow damage song list michael jackson song ben southern movies on netflix 80s hit songs", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00240.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 69, + "original_length": 6571, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.96, + "perplexity": 312.2, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "https://www.rbth.com/science_and_tech/2015/03/11/the_chelyabinsk_meteorite_two_years_on_what_have_we_learned_44389.html", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T04:28:53Z", + "digest": "sha1:G3M6LQD3QJXXVVQOSX572JPFFLM7H4G7", + "length": 3790, + "nlines": 21, + "source_domain": "www.rbth.com", + "title": "The Chelyabinsk meteorite two years on: What have we learned? - Russia Beyond", + "raw_content": "Chunk of Chelyabinsk Meteorite on display in local museum. Source: TASS / Gleb Lunin\nIn February 2013 the fragments of a meteorite made landfall in Chelyabinsk Region in Russia. It is the largest known celestial body to fall to the ground after the Tunguska meteorite in 1908. RBTH spoke to leading Russian scientists to find out what they have learned about the Chelyabinsk meteorite over the past two years.\nWhy did no one notice the meteorite?\nThe Chelyabinsk meteorite flew to the Earth from the side of the Sun, Vladimir Surdin, a researcher at the State Astronomical Institute of the Sternberg, told RBTH.\nAccording to Surdin, due to the blinding light of the Sun astronomers did not point their telescopes towards this area. This region of the solar system can only be seen through special solar telescopes that are reserved for the study of the Sun.\nWhy did no one die?\nThe Chelyabinsk meteorite was relatively small, only 19 meters in diameter.\nThe Chelyabinsk meteorite resulted in 1,147 injuries, including 259 children. The fragments damaged 3,724 houses, 671 educational institutions, 11 social facilities, 69 cultural sites and five sports and recreation complexes. The Chelyabinsk Region authorities estimate that property damages caused by the falling meteorite equaled approximately one billion rubles (about $16 million).\nBesides that, it flew along the surface of the Earth, says Dmitri Wiebe, head of the Department of Physics and the Evolution of Stars at the Institute of Astronomy of the Russian Academy of Sciences.\nA long journey through the atmosphere caused quite delicate meteorite matter to break up into small pieces. Most of these pieces burned up before reaching the Earth's surface. Originally the meteorite weighed about 13,000 tons, but only about six tons of meteoritic material or 0.05 percent of its mass fell to Earth. To date, scientists have collected no more than one ton of meteoritic material.\nThe fragment that fell into Chebarkul Lake near Chelyabinsk weighed 654 kilograms. If this had fallen in the city, there certainly would have been casualties. The residents of Chelyabinsk Region were to some extent quite lucky as the damage could have been much worse.\nWhat did this meteorite consist of?\nThe Chelyabinsk meteorite belongs to a class of ordinary chondrites that accounts for over 90 percent of meteorites that fall to our planet, says Dmitry Sadilenko, a researcher at the Laboratory of Meteoritics at the Vernadsky Institute.\nMeteorite triggers wave of humor on the Russian web\nChondrites get their name because of the large number of chondrules that they contain (chondrules are rapidly solidified drops of silicate material \u2013 RBTH). This means that the Chelyabinsk meteorite had never been a part of any planet, but was made up of 4.5 billion year old matter that formed the planets of our solar system.\nThese chondrites form the asteroid belt located between Mars and Jupiter. Astronomers are aware of about 600,000 asteroids in this belt. Some of them change the trajectory of their flight and approach the Earth as a result of collisions or other factors.\nThis meteorite was probably the most \"photogenic\" one that man has ever seen, jokes Victoria Chernenko, a senior researcher at the Vernadsky State Geological Museum. This Moscow museum has one of the meteorite\u2019s fragments on display.\nDue to the video footage captured by scientists and ordinary citizens, the fall of this meteorite, from its entry into the atmosphere and its flight to the ground, was documented in detail for the first time in the history of scientific research.\nCatching a falling star: How a meteorite inspired Chelyabinsk>>>\n2013 asteroid has created an artistic explosion in the city.\nmeteorite explosion science chelyabinsk Meteorite explosion Science", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00240.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 57, + "original_length": 4480, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.94, + "perplexity": 265.0, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "https://www.rc-monster.com/forum/showthread.php?s=4a8c77b08333c2a2aeefa6e67d08e6fc&p=431034", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T04:46:36Z", + "digest": "sha1:HUVUOTSROHORTV4WRLKKLN7VOIQRVAWD", + "length": 153, + "nlines": 3, + "source_domain": "www.rc-monster.com", + "title": "First Graphene battery made. - RC-Monster Forums", + "raw_content": "First Graphene battery made. - 09.02.2016, 05:07 PM\nLike Lipo wasn't enough? But yes, I want more!\nhttps://www.techinasia.com/china-graphene-battery-pack", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00240.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 48, + "original_length": 2000, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.82, + "perplexity": 293.3, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "https://www.realdirect.com/building/1898/1060-Park-Ave-New-York-NY-10128/", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T03:46:53Z", + "digest": "sha1:TAO5FAZMGM52BZD72K4JBC6UYNFI3HWN", + "length": 52, + "nlines": 2, + "source_domain": "www.realdirect.com", + "title": "1060 Park Ave, Upper East Side, New York, NY | RealDirect", + "raw_content": "$1,550,000 #6G | 7/7/13\n$4,985,000 #13/14F | 9/22/13", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00240.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 226, + "original_length": 4729, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.76, + "perplexity": 136.6, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "https://www.realestateexperts.net/tag/property-tax-values/", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T03:37:38Z", + "digest": "sha1:EQU7OAOCQVCY7SMM4KJKKDM7YOC7J725", + "length": 7382, + "nlines": 58, + "source_domain": "www.realestateexperts.net", + "title": "property tax values Archives \u00b7 Real Estate Experts - Chapel Hill and Durham NC", + "raw_content": "Durham is conducting a property tax revaluation in 2019. In North Carolina, all homes must be appraised for tax purposes at least every 8 years. Historically, counties throughout the Triangle have reassessed property values either every 4 years or 8 years. Durham County has decided to undertake a new property tax revaluation on a 3-year cycle.\nOn January 1, 2019 the new property tax values will be effective.\nOn January 30, 2019, the County will mail all Durham County property owners with their new property tax values.\nIf a home owner disagrees with their new property tax revaluation, the Appeals Board Process begins. Appeals must be submitted no later than May 3, 2019.\nIn June Durham County and City will set their tax rates for the year. This is when homeowners will know their actual tax bills for 2019.\nDurham will not reassess properties for tax purposes until 2023.\nSee below for detailed information about Durham Counties revaluation process and how to appeal Durham\u2019s 2019 property tax values.Why Is Durham County Reappraising Property Values?\nQ. Why Is Durham County Reappraising Property Values?\nA. North Carolina (via General Statue 105-286) requires all counties to a reappraisal at least once every eight years. Durham County\u2019s last reappraisal was performed in 2016. The goal of reappraisal is to help ensure the county\u2019s tax burden is distributed equitably based on current property values.\nQ. When Will The Reappraisal Take Effect?\nA. The Effective Date for the reappraisal is January 1, 2019.\nA notice of the change of value will be mailed to homeowners on January 30, 2019.\nThe new values will be used to calculate the tax bills.\nYour new tax bill will not be known until the taxing jurisdiction sets the budge in June 2019.\nThe new tax value will remain in place until the next reappraisal which is set for 2023.\nQ. What is Reappraisal?\nA. Reappraisal (also known as revaluation) is a process that resets the taxable value of all real property to its current market value. This includes vacant and improved land, whether residential, commercial, agricultural or industrial.\nQ. What is Market Value?\nA. Market value is the most probable price a property would bring in an open and competitive market. The Durham County Tax Administration Office analyzes the patterns and trends of the local real estate market and use the information to estimate market values for all properties.\nQ. Why is Durham shortening the reappraisal cycle from eight years to three years?\nA. Durham felt that if they waited for eight years to revalue properties, there would be more inequities and in the long run would lead to larger changes in tax values. A shorter cycle reduces the chances of this happening and helps make property taxes \u201cmore equitable, predictable and manageable.\nQ. Is There A Circumstance In Which Values Would Change Before A Tax Revaluation?\nA. There are a few important circumstances where a tax value would change before a reappraisal. These include new construction or a change in zoning. When either of these occurs to an individual property, its market value is adjusted using the rates developed for the most recent reappraisal year. For example, if a house is built in 2020 on a lot that was vacant in 2019, the new house and lot will be appraised using January 1, 2019 market values.\nQ. How Can You View The Information You Have On File For My Property?\nA. Visit http://www.dconc.gov/taxhelp. Type in your parcel number and click \u201cSubmit to Review & Compare.\u201d\nGo to Step 1 where you can review the information the County has on file. If any of the information is incorrect, request that the county change the inaccurate information.\nYou request changes by clicking on the \u201cI would like to request Changes\u201d button and provide the County with the accurate information about your property. DON\u2019T FORGET TO PROVIDE YOUR CONTACT INFORMMATION.\nOr, call 919-560-0300, to talk to County staff and provide them with the information.\nQ. How Do You Know If You Should Appeal?\nA. The County is revaluing properties BASED ON THEIR MARKET VALUE AS OF JANUARY 1, 2019. If you think the 2019 appraised values is too high, you should:\nContact your Realtor and have them run comparable sales and evaluate the new property value.\nIf the new County tax value is above the market value, you have grounds to appeal.\nIF YOU THINK YOU WANT TO APPEAL YOUR TAX VALUE, YOU CAN RESEARCH THE COMPARABLE SALES USED BY THE COUNTY. CHECK THESE OUT TO SEE IF YOU THINK THESE ARE UNREASONABLE.\nGo to http://www.dconc.gov/taxhelp and type in your parcel number. Click \u201cSubmit to Review & Compare.\u201d\nSTEP 1: Click on the RED button under the map labeled \u201cFind Similar Sales.\u201d OR\nGo back to the \u201cTax Help\u201d page and click on STEP 2 to compare\nOnce at the \u201cCompare\u201d page, you can refine the results by clicking on the buttons across the top of the map.\nYOU SHOULD APPEAL YOUR TAX VALUE IF THE INFORMATION ABOUT YOUR PROPERTY IS INACCURATE CAUSING AN INACCURATE VALUE OR IF THE COMPARABLE SALES SHOW THAT THE COUNTY\u2019S VALUE IS TOO HIGH.\nQ. How Can You Appeal?\nA. Before you appeal, the County wants you to do the research outlined above to have a true basis for the appeal. If you think the new tax value is incorrect:\nSubmit your update on line or call at 919-560-0300.\nAPPEALS MUST BE SUBMITTED NO LATER THAN MAY 3, 2019!!!!!!\nAppeals will be sent to the Board of Equalization and Review which is scheduled to begin meeting in April 2019. After the Board hears your appeal, they will send you written notification of their answer. If you disagree with the Board\u2019s decision, you will have 30 days to file another appeal with the NC Property Tax Commission in Raleigh. Instructions for how to appeal to the NC Property Tax Commission will be provided in the letter from the Board of Equalization.\nQ. Do You Need To Attend The Appeal Hearing?\nA. You can appear in person before the Board of Equalization and Review but it is not required. If you are unable to attend, the case will not be rescheduled, it will be heard on the scheduled date. They will evaluate the information submitted and mail you the decision.\nQ. How Long Does The Appeal Review Process Take?\nA. Appeal reviews take between 30-120 days and largely depends on how many appeals are filed in a given neighborhood. If there is a large number of appeals within a specific neighborhood, then the process may take longer.\nQ. Will My Tax Bill Change?\nA. Not Necessarily. The annual tax bill for a property is based on the tax value AND the tax rate determined by the County. The tax rate is determined by the taxing jurisdiction in June each year. Some tax values will rise and some may decrease, it depends on the rate for your area in combination with the tax value.\nQ. Are There Any Property Tax Exemptions?\nA. There are some property tax exemptions in Durham. To see if you are eligible for any of the exemptions:\nVisit http://www.dconc.gov. 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The new Superchunk record, What a Time To Be Alive, comes five years after I Hate Music, a record Red Dirt Report thoroughly enjoyed and gave 4.5/5 Rusties way back in \u201913.\nFunny, though, how feelings and moods can change can change over five years. But with a serious band like Chapel Hill, N.C.\u2019s Superchunk working hard for three decades now, giving their earnest indie-rock sound a fresh vibe each and every time, well, this latest record could not come at a better time.\nAnd I should say that is because this 11-track recording by Mac McCaughan, Jim Wilbur, Laura Balance and Jon Wurster is overtly political and a musical rejection of Trumpism and everything it stands for.\nSongs like the rapid-fire title track, \u201cI Got Cut,\u201d \u201cBreak the Glass\u201d and the throwback tune \u201cReagan Youth,\u201d are utterly inspirational in their middle-age rage and subtle optimism, as strange as it might sound. When Mac sings \"All these old me / Won't die too soon / flesh balloons / Still waving their arms around,\" on \"I Got Cut,\" well, one can't help but nod their head in agreement.\nIt has been said that Trump will lead to more interesting, angry and powerful music, be it punk, rap or indie-rock. Superchunk did not sit on their hands in this dark age of Trumpism. Rather, they picked up their instruments, wrote some songs and musically kicked ass.\nWhat a Time To Be Alive is my favorite record of 2018, so far. Thank you for this gift, y\u2019all!", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00240.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 168, + "original_length": 5679, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.95, + "perplexity": 324.3, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "https://www.redoaksschool.org/news/news-post/~post/media-club-gallery-20180531", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T04:54:57Z", + "digest": "sha1:NGQSY5SMKNW5O3T6JHY3FW72EO6GZIG2", + "length": 2409, + "nlines": 8, + "source_domain": "www.redoaksschool.org", + "title": "Media Club Gallery | News Post", + "raw_content": "Media Club Gallery\nCheck out photographs from our Middle School Media Club! Media Club instructor and Red Oaks parent Ira L. Black details this year's experience below:\nThis year in the Media Club, we went back to the basics. Each student was able to use a film camera. Students were given assignments to work with the cameras that were a step back for them from the digital world. They learned about aperture, shutter speeds, and slowing down to achieve what they wanted to visually. They needed to consider the lighting, refine their compositions, and take an extra moment to manually focus their shot. Students had the opportunity to use both black & white film as well as color.\nAssignments started with becoming familiar with the focusing and shutter button, as well as winding the camera after taking the shot. There was something magical about being on the Red Oaks grounds and hearing the \"Click\" sound of the shutter button and watching them wind the camera to advance to the next shot. Students were advised that they only had 24 exposures to express what they wanted in their image. We studied textures and the work of Vivian Maier, an acclaimed photographer who's work was uncovered shortly after her death. She had a body of self-portraits that are considered to be groundbreaking by using reflections and shadows. Students produced their own images to showcase the world around themselves and their own self in this world.\nWe used The Red Oaks School areas and that of Willow Hall as the backgrounds. Students worked through the use of a triptych to tell a story and color pop as a way to emphasize a part of the image. This was done via digital capture in conjunction with the use of applications and editing to take them from the beginning of their vision to the end of the statement they want to make. The thing that seems to always impress me about working with the students at Red Oaks is that while they all bring their own unique perspectives to a project or assignment, they are also equally able to work together or help each other out.\nI am truly proud of their work and have enjoyed watching the spark of creativity flow through them as they grow as artists. 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Mechanisms such as the stability and growth pact are designed to impose Thatcherism everywhere. The measures associated with the euro have meant cuts in welfare, stripped down regulation of business, increased labour flexibility and free rein for the multinationals.\nEuropean institutions have never delivered substantial reforms for workers. Policies are shaped by bodies like the European Round Table of Industrialists which links the leaders of many of Europe\u2019s biggest firms.\nAs we know only too well from living under a Blair government, spending cuts, privatisation, racism and militarism do not spring solely from the EU. National governments push them on their own or in alliance with the US.\nBut the EU codifies a distinctly right wing view of the world. It\u2019s true that in many parts of Europe that public services are better than here \u2013 but that\u2019s because workers have fought cuts and there hasn\u2019t been enough of that in Britain.\nThat is why if there was a referendum now we would vote no to the euro.\nBut at the same time it is very important to be independent from the nationalist opposition to the EU. The foreigner-hating over Europe that appears in the Mail and Sun is designed to set worker against worker and, like the racism that is whipped up against refugees, is part of a \u201cdivide and rule\u201d strategy.\nFar from wanting to cut ourselves off from developments in Europe, we want to be part of a united struggle for a social Europe, not a bosses Europe.\nWe take heart from the recent mass strikes in France, the huge protests that have taken place in Spain, Italy, Greece, Germany and Austria. 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REUTERS/Mike Segar/File Photo\nThe lawsuit seeks to force Missouri, and as a result to pressure other states, to enact stricter measures to guard against the over-medication of children in state custody.\nFiled by Children\u2019s Rights and the National Center for Youth Law in U.S. District Court in Jefferson City, it is the first statewide federal suit to take sole aim at the issue, attorneys said. They are seeking class-action status for the suit.\n\u201cGiving a pill to sedate the child or older person is a quicker and easier response than training caregivers and staff (to provide) non-pharmacological, safer and in many instances more effective treatment,\u201d said Bill Grimm, an attorney with the National Center for Youth Law.\nJennifer Tidball, acting director of the Missouri Department of Social Services, and Tim Decker, director of the department\u2019s Children\u2019s Division, the two agencies named in the suit, declined to comment through a spokeswoman.\nThe lawsuit, also filed by the St. Louis University Legal Clinic, said the children\u2019s constitutional right to be free from harm while in state custody was violated. It seeks a court to order authorities to ensure drugs are safely administered, that medical records are maintained and prescriptions reviewed, and that the children\u2019s informed consent is obtained and documented.\nWhile such drugs can be a helpful part of therapy, poor oversight means some children with behavioral issues rooted in abuse or neglect are given the drugs as \u201cchemical straight-jackets\u201d to control behavior, the lawsuit said.\nSome 30 percent of children in state care in Missouri are prescribed psychotropic medications, including anti-psychotics such as Abilify and Risperdal, as well as anti-depressants and mood stabilizers, the lawsuit said. That is almost twice the national rate, it said. Side effects of such drugs can include sleepiness, nervous tics and suicidal thoughts.\nPoor coordination means medical records often do not immediately accompany foster children when they move from one placement to another, the lawsuit said.\n\u201cThese children are being prescribed too many powerful and potentially dangerous drugs, at unacceptable dosages and at too young an age,\u201d said Sara Bartosz, a Children\u2019s Rights attorney.\nSome states, including Florida, Texas, California, New York and Illinois, have taken steps such as requiring court authorization for psychotropic prescriptions.\nReporting by Chris Kenning; Editing by Dan Grebler and Paul Simao", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00240.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 56, + "original_length": 3984, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.95, + "perplexity": 312.0, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "https://www.reuters.tv/v/2bF/2016/10/24/u-s-diplomat-looks-for-answers-in-the-philippines", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T03:37:15Z", + "digest": "sha1:LAGETLOFAL64EQD5UQNKY4FCUKHGH4J4", + "length": 1701, + "nlines": 6, + "source_domain": "www.reuters.tv", + "title": "U.S. diplomat looks for answers in the Philippines - Reuters TV", + "raw_content": "U.S. diplomat looks for answers in the Philippines\n>> Washington, has some strong questions for Manila. American most senior Asian diplomat, flying into the Philippines looking for some clarification. After President Rodrigo Duterte's explosive announcement last week.>> I announce my separation from the United States.>> Assistant Secretary of State Daniel Russel, meeting with the foreign minister on Monday, to discuss what separation means exactly.\nReuters Manny Mogato says, Manila was ready with an answer. The Philippines explained that, it was a separation in terms of pursuing a separate and independent foreign policy.>> The latest drama kicked off last week, as Duterte rolled out a big China charm offensive, aiming to open the door to more mainland investment.\nBut Russel says, international relations don't have to be a zero sum game.>> It's a mistake, to think that improved relations between Manila and Beijing. Somehow come at the expense, of the United States.>> Emily say. There isn't likely to be a full blown divorce. The US is one of the Philippines largest trading partners.\nAnd its closest security ally, for about 70 years.>> The Philippines depend so much on the US military. Its equipment, its armaments, its doctrines, its structure, is patterned after the US. The US also learned from the Philippines, in terms of fighting insurgency. Because you have a long running insurgency, against the communist rebels and.\nMuslim separatists. So it's the symbiotic relationship, between the two countries.>> Washington and Manila, are at odds over Duterte's bloody war on drugs. Russell, saying the US does support the fight against narcotics. 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applications\n\u00a7 38 Examination of trade marks\n\u00a7 39 Decision to register trade mark and decision to refuse registration of trade mark\n\u00a7 40 Publication of notice of decision to register trade mark\n\u00a7 41 Adjudication of appeals and revocation applications\n\u00a7 42 Renewal of terms\n\u00a7 43 Suspension of processing\n\u00a7 44 Division and restriction of applications\n\u00a7 45 Correction and supplementation of applications\n\u00a7 46 Conditions for registration\n\u00a7 47 Withdrawal of applications, termination and resumption of processing\n\u00a7 48 Registration\n\u00a7 49 Publication of registration data\n\u00a7 491 Certificate of registration\n\u00a7 50 Renewal of term of legal protection of trade marks\n\u00a7 501 Request for entry on transfer of trade mark in register\n\u00a7 502 Request for entry on amendment of registration data in other cases\n\u00a7 503 Request for entry on surrender of trade mark in register\n\u00a7 504 Request for entry on division of registration in register\n\u00a7 505 Request for entry of licence in register\n\u00a7 506 Request for entry of pledge in register\n\u00a7 507 Processing of requests specified in \u00a7\u00a7 50\u2013506\n\u00a7 51 Deletion of trade mark from register\n\u00a7 511 Access to register\n5 CONTESTATION OF RIGHTS IN COURT AND CIVIL LIABILITY\n\u00a7 52 Declaration of nullity of exclusive right of proprietor of trade mark\n\u00a7 53 Declaration of exclusive right of proprietor of trade mark extinguished\n\u00a7 54 Declaration of nullity of exclusive right to trade mark containing geographical indication\n\u00a7 55 Consequences of declaration of nullity of exclusive right and declaration of exclusive right extinguished\n\u00a7 56 Partial declaration of nullity of exclusive right and partial declaration of exclusive right extinguished\n\u00a7 57 Protection of exclusive right\n\u00a7 58 Supplementary protection requirements\n\u00a7 59 Counterclaims\n\u00a7 60 Specifications of judicial 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Invalidity of international registration and conversion thereof to national application\n71 COMMUNITY TRADE MARK\n\u00a7 711 Registration of Community trade mark\n\u00a7 712 Application for Community trade mark\n\u00a7 713 Conversion of Community trade mark application or Community trade mark into a national trade mark application\n\u00a7 714 Retroactive declaration of invalidity of trade mark deleted from register\n\u00a7 715 Specifications of judicial proceedings in matters relating to Community trade marks\n\u00a7 716 Prohibition on use of Community trade mark\n\u00a7 72 Transitional provisions\n\u00a7 73 Repeal of Trade Marks Act\nTrade Marks Act1\n(1) This Act regulates the legal protection of well-known and registered trade marks and service marks (hereinafter trade mark), rights and obligations related to trade marks and, in the cases provided for in this Act, rights and obligations related to trade marks registered by the Office for Harmonization in the Internal Market (hereinafter Community trade mark) on the basis of Council Regulation (EC) No 40/94 of 20 December 1993 on the Community trade mark (OJ L 11, 14/01/1994 pp. 1\u201336) (hereinafter Community Trade Mark Regulation).\n(2) The Minister of Justice shall issue a regulation for the implementation of this Act in matters where the competence of a Member State for taking decisions arises from corresponding legal acts of the European Union or from this Act (hereinafter regulation on trade marks).\n\u00a7 2. Equality of persons\nThe rights and obligations prescribed in this Act and other legal acts concerning the protection of trade marks apply equally to persons of Estonia and persons of foreign states taking account of the restrictions provided for in this Act concerning persons with no residence, seat or an operating commercial or industrial enterprise in Estonia.\n\u00a7 3. Trade marks\nA trade mark is a sign used to distinguish the goods or services of a person from other similar types of goods or services of other persons.\nChapter 2 LEGAL PROTECTION OF TRADE MARKS\n\u00a7 4. Substance of legal protection of trade marks\n(1) Legal protection of trade marks means the recognition of and protection of the rights of the person who holds an exclusive right to a trade mark (hereinafter proprietor of a trade mark) with legal means.\n(2) An exclusive right to a registered trade mark may be exercised only by the person who is entered in the register of trade and service marks (hereinafter register) as the proprietor of the trade mark unless otherwise provided by this Act.\n(3) An exclusive right to an international registration valid pursuant to the Protocol Relating to the Madrid Agreement Concerning the International Registration of Marks (RT II 1998, 36, 68) (hereinafter the Madrid Protocol) may be exercised in Estonia only by the person who is entered in the International Register of the International Bureau of the World Intellectual Property Organization (hereinafter Bureau) as the proprietor of the trade mark unless otherwise provided by this Act.\n\u00a7 5. Protectable trade marks\n(1) Legal protection is granted to:\n1) trade marks which are well known in Estonia within the meaning of Article 6 bis of the Paris Convention for the Protection of Industrial Property (RT II 1994, 4/5, 19) (hereinafter well-known trade marks);\n2) trade marks which are registered in the register (hereinafter registered trade marks);\n3) trade marks with a registration, valid in Estonia, entered in the International Register of the Bureau pursuant to the Madrid Protocol.\n(2) Legal protection is granted only to well-known trade marks, registered trade marks or trade marks valid in Estonia pursuant to the Madrid Protocol the legal protection of which is not precluded on the basis of the provisions of \u00a7\u00a7 9 and 10 of this Act.\n\u00a7 6. Representability of protected trade marks\n(1) Protected trade marks shall be capable of being represented graphically.\n\u00a7 7. Recognition of well-known trade marks\n(1) A court shall recognise a trade mark as being well known at the request of the proprietor of the trade mark. A trade mark shall be recognised as being well known only in connection with an action or appeal concerning the legal protection of the trade mark.\n(2) The Patent Office shall recognise a trade mark as being well known only in connection with the registration procedure of the trade mark or other trade marks. The Industrial Property Board of Appeal shall consider a trade mark as being well known only in connection with the adjudication of an appeal against a decision of the Patent Office or a revocation application concerning the legal protection of the trade mark.\n(3) The following is taken into consideration while recognising a trade mark as being well known:\n1) the degree of knowledge of the trade mark in Estonia in the sector of actual and potential consumers of goods analogous to the goods or services to which the trade mark applies, the sector of persons involved in channels of distribution of such goods or services or in business circles dealing with such goods or services;\n2) the duration and extent of the use and promotion of the mark and geographical area of the use of the mark;\n3) the registration, use and knowledge of the mark in other countries;\n4) the value associated with the mark.\n(4) It is sufficient for recognising a trade mark as being well known if the trade mark is known to the majority of persons in at least one of the sectors specified in clause (3) 1) of this section.\n(5) The recognition of a trade mark as being well known shall not have any legal effect in later disputes.\n\u00a7 8. Legal protection on basis of registration\n(1) A registration concerning a trade mark filed for registration is made in the register under the conditions and pursuant to the procedure provided for in Chapter 4 of this Act, taking account of the provisions of the Principles of Legal Regulation of Industrial Property Act (RT I 2003, 18, 98; 82, 555).\n(2) Legal protection of a registered trade mark is valid as of the filing date of an application for the registration of the trade mark (hereinafter application) until ten years has passed since the date of making the registration. The term of legal protection of a trade mark may be renewed at the request of the proprietor of the trade mark for ten years at a time.\n\u00a7 9. Absolute circumstances which preclude legal protection\n(1) Legal protection is not granted to the following signs:\n1) signs which do not conform to the provisions of \u00a7 6 of this Act;\n2) signs which are devoid of any distinctive character, including single letters in non-stylised form, single numbers in non-stylised form and single colours;\n3) signs which consist exclusively of signs or indications which designate the kind, quality, quantity, intended purpose, value or geographical origin of the goods or services, the time of production of the goods or of rendering of the services, or other characteristics of the goods or services, or which describe the goods or services in another manner, or which consist of the above-mentioned signs or indications which are not considerably altered;\n4) signs which consist exclusively of signs or indications which have become customary in current language or in bona fide business practices;\n5) signs which consist exclusively of the shape which results from the nature of the goods, is necessary to obtain a technical result or gives substantial value to the goods;\n6) signs which are of such a nature as to mislead the consumer as to the kind, quality, quantity, intended purpose, value or geographical origin of the goods or services, the time of production of the goods or of rendering of the services, or other characteristics of the goods or services;\n7) signs which are contrary to public order or accepted principles of morality;\n8) signs the registration of which must be refused on the basis of Article 6 ter of the Paris Convention for the Protection of Industrial Property, unless the competent authorities or officials give written consent for the registration;\n9) signs which include a flag, armorial bearings or another symbol other than those covered by Article 6 ter of the Paris Convention for the Protection of Industrial Property the registration of which is contrary to public interest, unless the competent authorities or officials give written consent for the registration;\n10) signs the application for the registration of which was filed in bad faith by the person applying for registration (hereinafter applicant) or the use of which has commenced in bad faith;\n11) signs which contain a registered geographical indication or are confusingly similar thereto if it may result in unlawful use of the geographical indication pursuant to the provisions of the Geographical Indications Protection Act (RT I 1999, 102, 907; 2000, 40, 252; 2001, 27, 151; 56, 332 and 335);\n12) signs the use of which is prohibited pursuant to other Acts or an international agreement.\n(2) If, following the use of a trade mark, it has acquired a distinctive character by the filing date of an application and in the case of well-known trade marks, the provisions of clauses (1) 2)\u20134) of this section do not apply.\n(3) Upon the incorporation of a sign specified in clauses (1) 2), 3), 4) and 5) of this section within a trade mark, such sign constitutes an element of the trade mark which is not subject to protection.\n\u00a7 10. Relative circumstances which preclude legal protection\n(1) Legal protection is not granted to the following trade marks:\n1) trade marks which are identical with an earlier trade mark which has been granted legal protection with regard to identical goods or services designated by the trade mark;\n2) trade marks which are identical or similar to an earlier trade mark which has been granted legal protection with regard to identical goods or services or goods or services of a similar kind designated by the trade mark, if there exists a likelihood of confusion on the part of the consumers, which includes association of the trade mark with the earlier trade mark;\n3) trade marks which are identical or similar to an earlier registered trade mark or a trade mark which has been filed for registration or to a trade mark which is known to the majority of the Estonian population and which has been granted legal protection for different kinds of goods or services, if the use of the later trade mark might take unfair advantage of, or be detrimental to, the distinctive character or repute of the earlier trade mark which has been acquired by the filing date of the application or by the date of priority of the later trade mark;\n4) trade marks which are identical or confusingly similar to a business name entered in the commercial register prior to the filing date of the application, the date of international registration or the date of priority, and the area of activity of the respective undertaking is in the same field as the goods and services which the trade mark is used to or is going to be used to designate;\n5) which are identical or confusingly similar to the name of a proprietary medicinal product registered in Estonia prior to the filing date of the application, the date of international registration or the date of priority if the goods which the trade mark is used to or is going to be used to designate belong to the field of medicine;\n6) the use of which is detrimental to an earlier right to a name, a right of personal portrayal, a right to the name of an immovable, the name or image of an architectural site, an object of copyright or industrial property right or another earlier right;\n7) which are identical or confusingly similar to a trade mark which is used in another country and was used in that country also on the date on which the application was filed, if the application is filed in bad faith.\n(2) Circumstances specified in clauses (1) 2)\u20136) of this section which preclude legal protection are not taken into account if the proprietor of the earlier trade mark or another earlier right consents to the grant of legal protection in writing.\n\u00a7 11. Earlier trade mark and other earlier rights\n(1) An \u201cearlier trade mark\u201d means the following:\n1) a trade mark which became well known earlier;\n2) a registered trade mark if the filing date of the application or the date of priority is earlier;\n3) a trade mark filed for registration if the filing date of the application or the date of priority is earlier. A trade mark filed for registration is an earlier trade mark only if it is registered;\n4) a trade mark which is valid in Estonia on the basis of the Madrid Protocol if the date of international registration or date of priority is earlier;\n5) a trade mark filed for registration on the basis of the Madrid Protocol if the date of international registration or date of priority is earlier. A trade mark filed for registration is an earlier trade mark only if legal protection for the trade mark is not refused in Estonia;\n6) a Community trade mark registered on the basis of the Community Trade Mark Regulation if the filing date of the application, date of priority or the seniority date granted on the basis of the Estonian registration is earlier;\n7) a Community trade mark filed for registration on the basis of the Community Trade Mark Regulation if the filing date of the application, date of priority or the seniority date granted on the basis of the Estonian registration is earlier. A trade mark filed for registration is an earlier trade mark only if it is registered.\n(2) While determining other earlier rights, the date of acquisition of the corresponding right in Estonia is taken into consideration.\n(3) If rights to a trade mark or other rights are created on the same date, such rights have no priority in relation to each other.\n\u00a7 12. Scope of legal protection of trade marks\n(1) The scope of legal protection of a trade mark is based on the following:\n1) for a well-known trade mark, the form of the trade mark in which it became well known;\n2) the representation of the trade mark entered in the register or in the International Register of the Bureau.\n(2) The scope of legal protection of a trade mark with regard to goods and services is determined:\n1) for a well-known trade mark, by such goods and services which the trade mark was used to designate when it became well known;\n2) by a list of goods and services entered in the register or the International Register of the Bureau.\n(3) Goods and services are classified in accordance with the international classification of goods and services established by the Nice Agreement Concerning the International Classification of Goods and Services for the Purposes of the Registration of Marks (hereinafter the Nice Classification) (RT II 1996, 4, 14).\n(4) Goods or services may not be considered as being similar or dissimilar to each other on the ground that they appear in the same class or different classes of the Nice Classification.\n(5) A trade mark may include elements which are not subject to protection unless this decreases the distinctive character of the trade mark or violates the rights of other persons.\n(6) If, during subsequent use, an element of a trade mark which is not subject to protection acquires a distinctive character or becomes well known, new registration of the registered trade mark may be applied for to extend legal protection to the whole mark.\n\u00a7 13. Representative for performing acts related to legal protection of trade marks\n(1) Acts related to trade marks shall be performed at the Patent Office and at the Industrial Property Board of Appeal (hereinafter Board of Appeal) by interested persons or by patent attorneys who are expressly authorised by the interested persons and who have been awarded patent attorney qualifications for operation in the area of trade marks pursuant to the Patent Attorneys Act. An interested person or patent attorney may involve, at own expense, an interpreter or adviser without the right of representation in an oral procedure at the Patent Office or at the Board of Appeal.\n(2) A person with no residence, seat or commercial or industrial enterprise operating in Estonia shall authorise a patent attorney as the person\u2019s representative to perform procedures related to trade marks at the Patent Office and at the Board of Appeal, except the filing of an application.\n(3) If several persons jointly perform acts related to trade marks at the Patent Office and at the Board of Appeal, they may authorise a patent attorney as their representative or choose a representative from among themselves (hereinafter joint representative) whose residence, seat or an operating commercial or industrial enterprise is in Estonia. A joint representative has the right to perform all acts related to the processing of an application in the name of the applicants.\nChapter 3 RIGHTS CONFERRED BY TRADE MARK\n\u00a7 14. Exclusive right\n(1) The proprietor of a trade mark has the right to prohibit third parties from using in the course of trade:\n1) any sign which is identical with the trade mark which is granted legal protection in relation to goods or services which are identical with those for which the trade mark is protected;\n2) any sign which is identical with or similar to the trade mark which is granted legal protection in relation to goods or services which are identical with or similar to those for which the trade mark is protected if there is the likelihood of confusion on the part of the consumers, including the likelihood of association between the sign and the trade mark which is granted legal protection;\n3) any sign which is identical with, or similar to a registered trade mark or a trade mark which is known to the majority of the Estonian population and which is granted legal protection, where such sign is used to designate goods or services which are not similar to those for which the trade mark is registered, if use of that sign might take unfair advantage of, or be detrimental to, the distinctive character or the repute of the trade mark.\n(2) The following acts, inter alia, are prohibited based on the provisions of subsection (1) of this section:\n1) affixing the sign to goods or to the packaging thereof;\n2) offering goods for sale, distributing or storing them for the purposes of sale under the sign;\n3) offering or supplying services under the sign;\n4) importing or exporting the goods under the sign;\n5) using the sign on business papers, in advertising or instruction manuals for the goods.\n(3) The use of a trade mark on the Internet is considered to be use of the trade mark in Estonia only if such use has commercial consequence in Estonia. The following, inter alia, shall be taken into account while establishing commercial consequence:\n1) business activity in Estonia of the person who uses a trade mark on the Internet, such as actual business relations or relations motivated by business, the existence of customer services and non-Internet activity in Estonia;\n2) the intention of the person who uses the trade mark on the Internet to offer goods or services to persons in Estonia via the Internet, taking into consideration the transportation of goods, the currency and information, language and Internet links relating to communication with the provider of goods or services;\n3) a condition indicated on the Internet stating that goods or services shall not be offered to persons in Estonia, and adherence to such condition;\n4) taking unfair advantage of, or being detrimental to the distinctive character or repute of a trade mark belonging to another person.\n(4) Upon the publication of a registered trade mark in a reference book, manual, textbook, professional journal or other publication, including electronic publications, the author and publisher shall ensure that the trade mark has the registered trade mark symbol next to it if the proprietor of the trade mark so requests. If the publication is already published, the proprietor of a trade mark may request the use of the registered trade mark symbol in the next publication.\n\u00a7 15. Registered trade mark symbol\nThe proprietor of a trade mark may use the registered trade mark symbol or a warning together with the trade mark.\n\u00a7 16. Limitation of exclusive right\n(1) The proprietor of a trade mark has no right to prohibit other persons from using the following in the course of trade in accordance with good business practices:\n1) the names and addresses of other persons;\n2) any sign which consists of signs or indications which designate the kind, quality, quantity, intended purpose, value or geographical origin of the goods or services, the time of production of the goods or of rendering of the services, or other characteristics of the goods or services, or which describe the goods or services in another manner, or which consists of the above-mentioned signs or indications which are not considerably altered;\n3) signs or indications which have become customary in current language or in good faith business practice;\n4) the trade mark if it is necessary to indicate the intended purpose of a product, in particular as accessories or spare parts, or a service;\n5) elements of the trade mark which are not subject to protection.\n(2) The proprietor of an earlier trade mark has no right to prohibit the use of a later trade mark or another later right if the proprietor of the earlier trade mark was aware or should have been aware of the later trade mark and has agreed, for a period of five consecutive years, with the use of the later trade mark. The limitation does not apply if the proprietor of the later trade mark commenced the use of the trade mark or filed the application in bad faith or if another later right was acquired in bad faith. The proprietor of a later trade mark is not entitled to prohibit the use of an earlier trade mark or another earlier right.\n(3) The proprietor of a trade mark has no right to prohibit further commercial exploitation of goods which have been put on the market in Estonia or in a state which is a contracting party to the Agreement of the European Economic Area under that trade mark by the proprietor or with the proprietor\u2019s consent unless the proprietor has a legitimate interest in opposing further commercial exploitation of goods, especially if the characteristics of the goods have changed since they were put on the market.\n\u00a7 17. Obligation to use trade mark\n(1) The proprietor of a trade mark is required to actually use a registered trade mark to designate goods and services in respect of which it is registered.\n(2) The following shall also constitute use of a trade mark by the proprietor of the trade mark:\n1) use of the trade mark in a form differing from the representation of the mark in minor elements which do not alter the distinctive character of the mark;\n2) affixing of the trade mark to goods or to the packaging thereof intended solely for export purposes;\n3) use of the trade mark with the consent of the proprietor of the trade mark.\n\u00a7 18. Transfer of trade marks\n(1) A trade mark may be transferred in relation to all or some of the goods or services.\n(2) A trade mark transfers to the legal successor of the proprietor of the trade mark. A trade mark shall not be inherited by the state or a local government.\n(3) The transfer of a registered trade mark enters into force as of the date of entry of the corresponding amendment in the register.\n\u00a7 19. Surrender of trade marks\n(1) The proprietor of a trade mark may surrender a trade mark with regard to all or some of the goods and services.\n(2) The surrender of a registered trade mark enters into force as of the date of entry of the corresponding amendment in the register.\n(3) A trade mark cannot be surrendered if the trade mark is encumbered with a pledge, included in a bankruptcy estate or a licence has been issued or a prohibition on disposal has been made in relation to the trade mark.\n\u00a7 20. Division of registration\nThe proprietor of a trade mark may divide the registration into two or more registrations and distribute the goods and services among these registrations. The division of a registration enters into force on the date of entry of the corresponding amendment in the register.\n(1) A licensee may transfer the rights acquired from the proprietor of a trade mark by way of a licence to third persons only with the permission of the proprietor of the trade mark.\n(2) The transfer of a trade mark or a licence issued later shall not affect the validity of a licence issued earlier.\n(3) An entry shall be made in the register concerning a licence if a party to the licence agreement so requests.\n(4) A licence expires with the expiry of the term of the registration.\n\u00a7 22. Notation concerning prohibition\nIn order to secure an action, a notation concerning prohibition on disposal may be made in relation to a trade mark in the register at the request of the plaintiff.\n\u00a7 23. Compulsory execution and bankruptcy\n(1) A trade mark may be the object of compulsory execution separately from an enterprise.\n(2) If a registered trade mark is included in a bankruptcy estate, a corresponding notation is made in the register at the request of the trustee in bankruptcy or a court.\n\u00a7 24. Pledging of trade marks\n(1) A registered trade mark may be encumbered with a pledge in such manner that the person for whose benefit the pledge is established (hereinafter pledgee) has the right to satisfaction of the claim secured by the pledge out of the pledged trade mark.\n(2) A pledge is created by making an entry concerning the pledge in the register on the basis of a notarised agreement for establishment of the pledge between the proprietor of the trade mark and the pledgee.\n(3) A pledge shall transfer to the legal successor of the pledgee. An entry shall be made in the register concerning the transfer of a pledge.\n\u00a7 25. Satisfaction of claim secured by pledge\n(1) A pledgee may demand the satisfaction of a claim secured by the pledge after it becomes collectable.\n(2) If a claim secured by a pledge is not satisfied, the pledgee is entitled to satisfy the claim by way of selling the encumbered trade mark at a compulsory auction.\n(3) An agreement whereby the pledgee acquires the encumbered trade mark for the satisfaction of a claim secured by the pledge is invalid.\n\u00a7 26. Extinguishment of pledge\nA pledge extinguishes upon termination of the claim secured by the pledge or if the pledgee waives the pledge.\n\u00a7 27. Rights conferred by application\nThe provisions of \u00a7\u00a7 18\u201323 of this Act apply to applications and rights conferred by applications, taking into account the specifications arising from the legal status of applications.\nChapter 4 REGISTRATION OF TRADE MARKS\n\u00a7 28. Application\n(1) Each trade mark shall have a separate application.\n(2) An application shall set out:\n1) a request for the registration of a trade mark;\n2) an authorisation document or reference to an authorisation document submitted earlier if the applicant has a representative;\n3) documents certifying priority if priority is claimed;\n4) information concerning payment of the state fee.\n(3) In addition, the provisions of Chapter 6 of this Act apply to applications for the registration of collective marks or guarantee marks.\n(1) Convention priority means the preferential right of the person who files the first application to apply for legal protection to a trade mark. The filing date of the first application is deemed to be the date of priority.\n(2) If a first application contains the goods or services indicated in an application filed with the Patent Office for the registration of the same trade mark and such application is filed with the Patent Office within six months from the filing date of the first application, priority may be established:\n1) on the basis of the filing date of the first application in a country which has acceded to the Paris Convention for the Protection of Industrial Property or in member state of the World Trade Organisation;\n2) on the basis of the filing date of the first application in a country which has not acceded to the Paris Convention for the Protection of Industrial Property or in a state which is not member of the World Trade Organisation if such state guarantees equivalent conditions for persons who file first applications in the Republic of Estonia.\n(3) Exhibition priority means the preferential right of the person who publicly displays goods or services designated by a trade mark at an international or officially recognised international exhibition within the meaning of the Convention on International Exhibitions signed in Paris in 1928 which takes place in the territory of a state specified in clause (2) 1) or 2) of this section to apply for legal protection of the trade mark.\n(4) If goods or services indicated in an application were displayed at an exhibition specified in subsection (3) of this section, designated by the same trade mark, and the application is filed with the Patent Office within six months after the date of display, priority may be established on the basis of the date of display at the exhibition.\n(5) Priority may be established for a trade mark on the basis of several first applications. If several first applications have been filed earlier, the six month term provided for in subsection (2) of this section shall be calculated from the earliest date of priority.\n\u00a7 30. Request for registration of trade mark\nA request for the registration of a trade mark shall contain:\n2) the name, address of the residence or seat of the applicant and, if the applicant so wishes, other details of the applicant;\n3) the name of the representative of the applicant, if the applicant has a representative;\n4) the address of a commercial or industrial enterprise operating in Estonia and belonging to a person of a foreign state, if such person has no representative;\n5) a representation of the trade mark;\n6) a list of goods and services classified according to the Nice Classification together with class numbers;\n7) a priority claim if priority is claimed;\n8) a list of colours, if the representation of the trade mark is in colour;\n9) where the mark is a three-dimensional mark, a statement to that effect;\n10) the signature of the applicant or the representative of the applicant.\n\u00a7 31. Representation of trade mark\n(1) A representation of a trade mark shall give a clear and complete impression of the trade mark.\n(2) In the representation of a three-dimensional trade mark, one view or several views of the trade mark may be presented.\n(3) The Patent Office may request transliteration and translation of the part of the trade mark consisting of words.\n\u00a7 32. Authorisation document\nAn authorisation document shall set out the following:\n1) the name and address of the residence or seat of the person represented;\n2) the name of the representative;\n3) the scope of the authorisation;\n4) [Repealed \u2013 RT I 2009, 4, 24 \u2013 entry into force 01.03.2009]\n5) the term of the authorisation, if the authorisation is granted for a specified term;\n6) the signature of the person represented;\n7) the date of issue of the authorisation document.\n\u00a7 33. Documents certifying priority\n(1) Convention priority is certified by a document which is issued to the applicant by the agency which received the first application and which sets out the information in the first application.\n(2) Exhibition priority is certified by a document concerning the display of goods or services designated by the trade mark at an exhibition specified in subsection 29 (3) of this Act, issued by the organiser of the exhibition.\n\u00a7 34. Filing of application\n(1) Applications are filed with the Patent Office.\n(2) Information concerning payment of the state fee, a priority claim and an authorisation document issued to the representative of the applicant shall be filed within two months from the filing date of an application.\n(3) Documents certifying a priority claim shall be filed within three months from the filing date of the application. Documents certifying priority need not be submitted if priority is claimed on the basis of a first application filed in Estonia.\n(4) The requirements for the contents and form as well as the procedure for filing of the application and other documents to be submitted to the Patent Office shall be established by the regulation on trade marks.\n\u00a7 35. Filing date of application\nThe date on which at least the following information is submitted to the Patent Office shall be deemed to be the filing date of an application:\n1) a request for the registration of a trade mark in Estonian;\n3) a list in Estonian of goods and services for which the registration application is filed;\n4) the name of the applicant and information necessary for enabling the Patent Office to communicate with the applicant or a representative of the applicant.\n\u00a7 36. Determination of filing date of application and acceptance for processing\n(1) If an application meets the requirements provided for in \u00a7 35 of this Act upon its receipt by the Patent Office, the date of receipt of the application by the Patent Office shall be deemed to be the filing date of the application.\n(2) If any information specified in \u00a7 35 of this Act is missing from an application, the applicant shall be notified thereof and a term of two months shall be set for elimination of deficiencies.\n(3) The Patent Office is not required to give notice as provided for in subsection (2) of this section if the filed documents do not contain the information set out in clause 35 4) of this Act. In such event the applicant may, on own initiative, file all the missing information as specified in \u00a7 35 of this Act within two months from the date of receipt of the initially filed documents by the Patent Office.\n(4) If an applicant files all the missing information within a term set pursuant to subsection (2) of this section or, if subsection (3) applies, within the term provided for therein, the date on which all the information specified in \u00a7 35 is submitted to the Patent Office is deemed to be the filing date of the application.\n(5) An application, the filing date of which is determined pursuant to subsection (1) or (4) of this section, is accepted for processing. The Patent Office shall notify the applicant of the filing date of the application and the application number.\n(6) The filing date of an application is not determined if the applicant fails to submit missing application information to the Patent Office within the term prescribed in the cases provided for in subsections (2) and (3) of this section. The Patent Office shall inform the applicant that the application is deemed to be not filed. The applicant is entitled to a refund of the state fee paid by the applicant.\n\u00a7 37. Verification of requirements for contents and form of applications\n(1) If it becomes evident in the course of verification of the compliance of an application with the requirements for contents and form that a document specified in \u00a7 28 of this Act is missing from the application or documents do not meet the requirements provided for in \u00a7\u00a7 30\u201333 or requirements established on the basis of subsection 34 (4) of this Act, the Patent Office shall notify the applicant thereof in writing and set a term of at least two months for the elimination of deficiencies or provision of explanations.\n(2) If an applicant fails to eliminate deficiencies in the applicant\u2019s response to the notice specified in subsection (1) of this section, a decision to reject the application shall be made.\n(3) If an applicant fails to respond to the notice specified in subsection (1) of this section by the due date or fails to submit, within the term provided for in subsection 34 (2) of this Act, information concerning payment of the state fee in the prescribed amount or fails to file an authorisation document within the prescribed term, the application is deemed to be withdrawn.\n(4) If an applicant does not file a priority claim within the term provided for in subsection 34 (2) of this Act or fails to submit documents certifying priority by the due date or the priority claim does not comply with the provisions of \u00a7 29 or the documents submitted do not certify priority, the Patent Office shall not take the priority claim into consideration.\n\u00a7 38. Examination of trade marks\n(1) The Patent Office shall examine a trade mark with regard to the provisions of subsection 9 (1) and \u00a7 10 of this Act.\n(11) While examining a trade mark with regard to clause 10 (1) 4), the Patent Office shall consider, as the areas of activity of an undertaking, those areas of activity of the year ended and the areas of activity intended for the new accounting year which were announced to the commercial register or recorded in the annual report before the filing date of the application, the date of international registration or date of priority.\n(2) If an examination reveals circumstances which preclude the legal protection of a trade mark, the Patent Office shall notify the applicant thereof and set a term of at least two months for the elimination of the said circumstances or provision of explanations. If the applicant fails to respond by the due date, the application is deemed to be withdrawn.\n(3) If an examination reveals that a trade mark contains a sign which constitutes an element of the trade mark which is not subject to protection pursuant to subsection 9 (3) of this Act and such sign does not cause doubt as to the extent of the exclusive right, the Patent Office shall not indicate the element which is not subject to protection in the decision to register the trade mark.\n(4) If an examination reveals that a trade mark contains a sign which constitutes an element of the trade mark which is not subject to protection pursuant to subsection 9 (3) of this Act and such sign may cause doubt as to the extent of the exclusive right, the Patent Office shall notify the applicant thereof and set a term of at least two months to agree with the element which is not subject to protection or to provide explanations. If notification of agreement with the element which is not subject to protection is not given or a relevant explanation is not provided by the due date, the applicant is deemed to have agreed with the element which is not subject to protection.\n\u00a7 39. Decision to register trade mark and decision to refuse registration of trade mark\n(1) The decision to register a trade mark shall be made if examination reveals none of the circumstances specified in subsection 9 (1) and \u00a7 10 of this Act which preclude legal protection or if the applicant has eliminated the circumstances which were revealed by the examination and which precluded legal protection.\n(2) The decision to refuse to register a trade mark shall be made if circumstances specified in subsection 9 (1) or \u00a7 10 of this Act which were revealed by the examination and which precluded legal protection are not eliminated by the applicant.\n(3) The provisions of subsections (1) and (2) of this section apply to some of the goods and services if the circumstance which precludes legal protection is not valid with regard to all goods or services for which the registration application is filed.\n(4) If an applicant does not agree to consider a part of the trade mark as an element which is not subject to protection but the Patent Office does not regard the opinion of the applicant as reasoned, the Patent Office shall make a decision to register the trade mark with a restriction, indicating the element which is not subject to protection.\n\u00a7 40. Publication of notice of decision to register trade mark\n(1) A notice concerning a decision to register a trade mark is published in the official gazette of the Patent Office \u00abEesti Kaubam\u00e4rgileht\u00bb (hereinafter official gazette of the Patent Office).\n(2) The structure and procedure for the publication of the official publication of the Patent Office shall be established by the regulation on trade marks.\n\u00a7 41. Adjudication of appeals and revocation applications\n(1) An applicant may file an appeal against a decision of the Patent Office specified in subsection 37 (2) and \u00a7 39 of this Act with the Industrial Property Board of Appeal within two months from the date of making the decision.\n(2) An interested person may contest an applicant\u2019s right to a trade mark at the Industrial Property Board of Appeal if circumstances specified in subsection 9 (1) or \u00a7 10 of this Act which preclude legal protection exist. The term for filing a revocation application is two months from the publication of the notice of the decision to register a trade mark.\n(3) In case an appeal or revocation application is granted in whole or in part, the Board of Appeal shall annul the decision of the Patent Office and require the Patent Office to continue the processing taking into account the facts set out in the decision of the Board of Appeal.\n(4) If an appeal is granted, the applicant has the right to a refund of the paid state fee.\n(5) A participant in a processing concerning a revocation application who is not satisfied with a decision of the Board of Appeal regarding the legal protection of a trade mark, may file an action, within the term provided for in subsection 64 (1) of the Principles of Legal Regulation of Industrial Property Act, against another participant in the processing to establish the circumstances which preclude the legal protection of the trade mark or non-existence of such circumstances.\n(6) After the entry into force of a court decision made as a result of the action, the Patent Office shall continue the processing of the application on the basis of the circumstances established by the court decision.\n\u00a7 42. Renewal of terms\n(1) The terms provided for in subsections 34 (2) and (3) of this Act shall not be renewed.\n(2) The Patent Office shall renew the terms specified in subsection 37 (1) and subsections 38 (2) and (4) of this Act at the request of the applicant for at least two months at a time but not for longer than thirteen months altogether. The request together with information concerning payment of the state fee shall be filed before the end of the set term.\n\u00a7 43. Suspension of processing\n(1) If the examination of a trade mark depends on a decision to be made concerning an earlier trade mark, the Patent Office shall suspend the processing of the registration of the later trade mark until a final decision concerning the earlier trade mark enters into force and shall notify the applicant thereof. The examination of a trade mark depends on the decision to be made concerning an earlier trade mark if the registration of the earlier trade mark constitutes the circumstance precluding the legal protection provided for in \u00a7 10 of this Act with regard to the later trade mark.\n(2) On the basis of a reasoned request of the applicant, the Patent Office may suspend processing for up to twenty-four months.\n(3) Suspended processing is continued if grounds for suspending the processing cease to exist or, in the case specified in subsection (2) of this section, upon expiry of the term.\n\u00a7 44. Division and restriction of applications\n(1) An applicant may divide the application into two or more applications by distributing the goods and services among the applications. The application may be divided until a decision to register or refuse the registration of a trade mark is made or until the end of proceedings concerning an appeal filed with regard to or concerning a revocation application deriving from a decision to register or refuse the registration of a trade mark. To divide an application, a corresponding request shall be submitted together with information concerning payment of the state fee.\n(2) Applications which are the result of a division shall preserve the filing date and priority of the initial application.\n(3) An applicant may restrict the list of goods and services set out in an application. A restriction shall enter into force on the date of receipt of the request by the Patent Office.\n\u00a7 45. Correction and supplementation of applications\nAn applicant may, until a decision to register or refuse the registration of a trade mark is made, make corrections and supplements to the application provided that such corrections and supplements do not alter the representation of the trade mark set out in the application on its filing date or extend the list of goods or services.\n\u00a7 46. Conditions for registration\n(1) A registration shall be made if:\n1) the decision to register a trade mark has not been appealed against or the applicant\u2019s right to the published trade mark has not been contested, and information concerning payment of the state fee for the registration has been submitted within four months from the publication of the notice of registration of the trade mark, or\n2) a decision to register a trade mark and the applicant\u2019s right to the trade mark remain in force regardless of appeal or contestation, and information concerning payment of the state fee for the registration is submitted within two months from the date of entry into force of the final decision.\n(2) If information concerning payment of the state fee for the registration is not submitted by the due date, the application is deemed to be withdrawn.\n\u00a7 47. Withdrawal of applications, termination and resumption of processing\n(1) An applicant may withdraw an application until the making of the registration by filing a corresponding written request. An application is deemed to be withdrawn on the date of receipt of the request by the Patent Office.\n(2) If an application is withdrawn in the manner specified in subsection (1) of this section or deemed to be withdrawn in the cases specified in \u00a7\u00a7 37, 38 or 46 of this Act, processing is terminated. If processing is terminated, the application documents are not returned and the state fee is not refunded.\n(3) An applicant may request that processing be resumed if the Patent Office terminated processing having deemed the application to be withdrawn pursuant to \u00a7\u00a7 37, 38 or 46 of this Act and the applicant failed to perform the acts due to force majeure or some other impediment beyond the control of the applicant or a representative of the applicant.\n(4) The Patent Office shall resume the processing if the applicant proves the existence of an impediment and performs the prescribed acts within two months after the impediment ceases to exist, and submits information concerning payment of the state fee.\n(5) A request for the resumption of the processing may be filed within six months after the due date for the act which was not performed.\n(6) The provisions of subsections (3)\u2013(5) of this section also apply upon the restoration of priority.\n\u00a7 48. Registration\n(1) A registration is made on the basis of a decision to register a trade mark.\n(2) Registration data are:\n1) the registration number;\n2) the date of making the registration;\n7) the element of the trade mark which is not subject to protection if such element is indicated in the registration decision;\n8) the name and address of the residence or seat of the proprietor of the trade mark;\n9) where the trade mark is a collective mark or a guarantee mark, a statement to that effect;\n10) the name of the representative of the proprietor of the trade mark, if the proprietor of the trade mark has a representative;\n11) the address of a commercial or industrial enterprise operating in Estonia and belonging to a person of a foreign state, if such person has no representative;\n12) the date of expiry of the registration;\n13) application number;\n14) the filing date of the application;\n15) priority data, if a priority claim is satisfied.\n\u00a7 49. Publication of registration data\nRegistration data and amendments or corrections to registration data are published in the official gazette of the Patent Office.\n\u00a7 491. Certificate of registration\n(1) After entry of a trade mark in the register, the Patent Office issues, within twenty working days, a certificate of registration to the proprietor of the trade mark.\n(2) Only one certificate of registration is issued regardless of the number of proprietors of a trade mark.\n(3) In case of transfer of a trade mark in relation to some of the goods or services or in case of division of a registration, a certificate of registration is issued to the proprietor of the new registration within twenty working days after entry of the new registration data in the register.\n(4) A duplicate of a certificate of registration may be issued on the basis of a request of the proprietor of the trade mark. The duplicate is issued within twenty working days from the submission of the request and information certifying the payment of the state fee.\n(5) The formal requirements for a certificate of registration and the procedure for the completion of the certificate form shall be established by the regulation on trade marks.\n\u00a7 50. Renewal of term of legal protection of trade marks\n(1) During one year prior to expiry of the term of legal protection of a trade mark, the proprietor of the trade mark may request the renewal of the term. A corresponding request shall be submitted together with information concerning payment of the state fee.\n(2) The proprietor of a trade mark may request restoration of the term for renewal of the legal protection of the trade mark within six months after expiry of the term of legal protection of the trade mark. A corresponding request shall be submitted together with information concerning payment of the state fee and supplementary state fee.\n(3) Renewal of the term of legal protection of a trade mark enters into force as of the date of expiry of the term.\n\u00a7 501. Request for entry on transfer of trade mark in register\n(1) A written request of the applicant, proprietor of the trade mark or another entitled person shall be the basis for making an entry on transfer of a trade mark in the register.\n(2) Information concerning payment of the state fee shall be appended to the request.\n(3) If the request is submitted by the new proprietor of the trade mark or the person to whom the rights conferred by the trade mark transfer, a document certifying the surrender or the transfer of the rights, or a transcript of the document officially certified by the Patent Office shall be appended to the request.\n(4) In case of transfer of a trade mark encumbered with a registered security over movables, the written consent of the pledgee shall be appended to the request.\n(5) In case of transfer of a trade mark in relation to some of the goods or services, a list of the goods and services to be transferred and a list of the goods and services which remain in the registration data shall be appended to the request.\n\u00a7 502. Request for entry on amendment of registration data in other cases\n(1) A written request of the proprietor of the trade mark shall be the basis for making an entry on amendment of registration data.\n(2) An entry on amendment of registration data shall not alter the trade mark or change the scope of legal protection thereof, except in the case specified in subsection 19 (1) of this Act.\n\u00a7 503. Request for entry on surrender of trade mark in register\nA written request of the proprietor of the trade mark shall be the basis for making an entry on surrender of the trade mark.\n\u00a7 504. Request for entry on division of registration in register\n(1) A written request of the proprietor of the trade mark shall be the basis for making an entry on division of the registration.\n\u00a7 505. Request for entry of licence in register\n(1) A written request of the licensor or the licensee shall be the basis for an entry concerning a licence in the register.\n(2) An extract of the licence agreement, authenticated by the Patent Office, which contains information necessary for making an entry regarding the parties to the agreement, nature, scope and term of the licence, shall be appended to a request for entry concerning a licence in the register. Information on payment of the state fee shall also be appended to the request. The extract need not be submitted if the request for making an entry of license in the register has been signed both by the licensor and the licensee and the request contains the information necessary for making the entry.\n(3) An entry concerning a licence agreement shall be deleted upon expiry of the term of the licence or at the request of the person who filed the request for entry concerning the licence in the register.\n\u00a7 506. Request for entry of pledge in register\n(1) A written request of the proprietor of the trade mark or the pledgee shall be the basis for an entry concerning a pledge in the register.\n(2) A notarised agreement for the establishment of the pledge and information concerning payment of the state fee shall be appended to the request.\n(3) In order to have the conditions of an agreement for the establishment of the pledge amended, a request together with a notarised annex to the agreement for the establishment of the pledge, a court judgment or another document certifying the amendment and information concerning payment of the state fee shall be filed.\n(4) In order to have the person of the pledgee changed, a request together with a notarised document certifying the change and information concerning payment of the state fee shall be filed.\n(5) In order to have the ranking of a registered security over movables changed, a request together with the agreement between the persons the ranking of whose rights is changed and information concerning payment of the state fee shall be filed.\n(6) An entry concerning a registered security over movables shall be deleted from the register upon termination of the claim secured by the pledge or waiver of the pledge.\n(7) In case of waiver of the pledge, the pledgee shall file a request together with a notarised request for waiver of the pledge.\n(8) Amendment or deletion of an entry concerning a registered security over movables at the request of the proprietor of the trade mark requires the notarised consent of the persons whose right, entered in the register, might be prejudiced by the amendment or deletion of the entry.\n\u00a7 507. Processing of requests specified in \u00a7\u00a7 50\u2013506\n(1) If a request specified in \u00a7\u00a7 50\u2013506 is filed by an authorised representative, an authorisation document shall be appended to the request. The authorisation document need not be appended if an authorisation document filed with the Patent Office earlier for the performance of the act is valid.\n(2) The applicant shall be given notice of the making of an entry not later than on the twentieth working day after the date of receipt of a valid request and necessary documents.\n(3) A notice concerning the making of an entry shall be published in the official gazette of the Patent Office.\n(4) If some of the information or documents necessary for the making of an entry are missing, the applicant shall be notified thereof not later than on the fifteenth working day as of the receipt of a defective request by the Patent Office and a term of two months shall be set for the elimination of deficiencies. If it is not possible to make the entry by the specified due date on the basis of the documents submitted, the request is deemed to be not filed.\n(5) If it is not possible to make an entry for any other reason provided by law, the applicant shall be notified thereof not later than on the fifteenth working day as of the receipt of the request by the Patent Office.\n\u00a7 51. Deletion of trade mark from register\n(1) A trade mark is deleted from the register six months after expiry of its term unless renewal of the term of the trade mark has been requested. The deletion enters into force retroactively as of the date of expiry of the term.\n(2) A trade mark is deleted from the register before the prescribed time if a corresponding court judgment which has entered into force is submitted to the Patent Office or if the proprietor of the trade mark surrenders the trade mark.\n(3) A trade mark is deleted from the register at the request of an interested person, if during one year as of the deletion of the company from the commercial register no written request is filed for the making of an entry in the register on the transfer of the trade mark.\n\u00a7 511. Access to register\n(1) Prior to the publication of the notice of the decision concerning registration of a trade mark, it is permitted to release the following information from the register: representations of trade marks, numbers of registration applications, filing dates of registration applications, information on priority, names of applicants, names of representatives of applicants, lists of goods and services, and class numbers of the international classification.\n(2) Prior to the publication of the notice of the decision concerning registration of a trade mark, access to a registry file is granted to the applicant and a person who has written consent of the applicant, or a person who proves that the applicant, after the registration of the trade mark, intends to blame the person of infringement of the applicant's exclusive right of the proprietor of trade mark.\n(3) After the publication of the notice of the decision concerning registration of a trade mark, the register is public. Everyone has the right to have access to the registry file and data entered in a record.\n(4) In order to have access to a registry file or to receive copies or printouts from the register, a written request together with information concerning payment of the state fee for each file, copy or printout of a document is submitted. Applicants and proprietors of trade marks have access to the registry files concerning their trade marks free of charge.\n(5) In order to receive a document certifying priority, which consists of the confirmation by the Patent Office and a copy of the application, the applicant or proprietor of the trade mark shall submit a written request together with information concerning payment of the state fee.\n(6) The procedure for access to the register and release of information from the register shall be established by the regulation on trade marks.\nChapter 5 CONTESTATION OF RIGHTS IN COURT AND CIVIL LIABILITY\n\u00a7 52. Declaration of nullity of exclusive right of proprietor of trade mark\n(1) An interested person may file an action against the proprietor of a trade mark for the exclusive right of the proprietor of the trade mark to be declared null and void if circumstances specified in \u00a7\u00a7 9 or 10 of this Act which preclude legal protection exist and existed also at the time when the decision to register the trade mark was made.\n(2) An action provided for in subsection (1) of this section may be filed:\n1) within five years after becoming aware of the use of the trade mark;\n2) without a term if the application for registration of the trade mark was filed in bad faith.\n(3) If a trade mark which is identical or confusingly similar to a trade mark which has been granted legal protection in another country is registered to the name of the representative of the proprietor of the trade mark without the proprietor\u2019s consent, the proprietor of the trade mark used in the other country has the right to file, within five years after becoming aware of the registration of the trade mark to the name of the representative, an action in a claim requesting the transfer of the trade mark to the proprietor. These grounds do not apply if the representative proves the legality of the representative's activities.\n(4) The proprietor of a trade mark does not have the right to request that the exclusive right of the proprietor of another trade mark be declared null and void if the proprietor of the trade mark has failed to use the registered trade mark within the meaning of \u00a7 17 of this Act during five consecutive years without good reason.\n(5) [Repealed - RT I 2009, 4, 24 \u2013 entry into force 01.03.2009]\n\u00a7 53. Declaration of exclusive right of proprietor of trade mark extinguished\n(1) An interested person may file an action against the proprietor of a trade mark for the exclusive right of the proprietor of the trade mark to be declared extinguished if:\n1) the trade mark has, as a result of an act or failure to act on the part of the proprietor of the trade mark, become a customary sign in relation to the goods or services with regard to which it is registered;\n2) the trade mark has, as a result of an act or failure to act by the proprietor of the trade mark, become misleading for the consumer as to the kind, quality, quantity, intended purpose, value or geographical origin of the goods or services, the time of production of the goods or of rendering of the services, or other characteristics of the goods or services;\n3) the registered trade mark has not been used within the meaning of \u00a7 17 of this Act during five consecutive years after the making of the registration, without good reason;\n4) a trade mark, concerning which a registration valid in Estonia is entered in the International Register of the Bureau pursuant to the Madrid Protocol, has not been used within the meaning of \u00a7 17 of this Act during five consecutive years after grant of legal protection to the trade mark in Estonia.\n(2) An action specified in subsection (1) of this section cannot be filed on the basis of clauses (1) 3) and 4) of this section if the use of a registered trade mark within the meaning of \u00a7 17 of this Act after five years of non-use commences prior to filing of the action.\n(3) The provisions of subsection (2) of this section do not apply if use of the trade mark within the meaning of \u00a7 17 of this Act commences after the end of the period of five years and within three months prior to filing of the action and if the proprietor of the trade mark commenced preparations for the use of the trade mark only after the proprietor became aware of the intention of filing the action.\n\u00a7 54. Declaration of nullity of exclusive right to trade mark containing geographical indication\n(1) An interested person may file an action against the proprietor of a trade mark for the declaration of nullity of his or her exclusive right to the trade mark filed for registration in bad faith if:\n1) the trade mark contains a registered geographical indication or a sign confusingly similar thereto,\n2) goods or services designated with the trade mark and a registered geographical indication are identical or similar, and\n3) the trade mark is filed for registration after the geographical indication becomes subject of legal protection in its country of origin.\n(2) If a trade mark specified in subsection (1) of this section contains the name of a geographical area in Estonia, the condition specified in clause (1) 3) of this section does not apply upon the declaration of nullity of the exclusive right to use the trade mark.\n(3) For the purposes of this section, a trade mark is filed for registration in bad faith if the person who filed the application knew or should have known that the sign indicates that goods or services originate from a certain geographical area and a certain characteristic, repute or other characteristic feature of the goods or services can be related to the geographical origin to a considerable extent.\n(4) An interested person may file an action against the proprietor of a trade mark for the declaration of nullity of the exclusive right to a trade mark registered prior to 10 January 2000 to designate an alcoholic beverage if the trade mark contains a registered geographical indication or is confusingly similar thereto and the alcoholic beverage designated by the trade mark does not originate from the geographical area specified by the geographical indication.\n(5) The provisions of this section also apply to the declaration of nullity of exclusive right to trade marks containing geographical indications which were filed for registration or registered prior to 10 January 2000.\n(6) If an action is satisfied, exclusive right to a trade mark shall be declared null and void as of 10 January 2000.\n\u00a7 55. Consequences of declaration of nullity of exclusive right and declaration of exclusive right extinguished\n(1) If an exclusive right is declared null and void, the registration shall be deemed to be null and void from inception.\n(2) If an exclusive right is declared extinguished, the registration shall be deemed to be invalid as of the date of filing of the action. The plaintiff may request that an exclusive right be declared extinguished as of the date of creation of the grounds for the action.\n(3) The declaration of nullity of an exclusive right or declaration of an exclusive right extinguished is not the basis for the revocation of a court judgment concerning the protection of exclusive right which entered into force and was executed prior to the making of the court judgment declaring the exclusive right invalid or extinguished or for the revocation of an act performed earlier.\n\u00a7 56. Partial declaration of nullity of exclusive right and partial declaration of exclusive right extinguished\nIf grounds for the declaration of nullity of an exclusive right or declaration of an exclusive right extinguished apply only to some of the goods or services designated with the trade mark, the exclusive right shall be declared null and void or extinguished with regard to such goods or services.\n\u00a7 57. Protection of exclusive right\n(1) The proprietor of a trade mark may file an action against a person infringing the exclusive right, including a licensee who violated the terms of the licence agreement:\n1) for termination of the offence;\n2) for compensation for patrimonial damage caused intentionally or due to negligence, including loss of profit and moral damage.\n(2) If an exclusive right is infringed by an employee or representative of an undertaking, the action specified in subsection (1) of this section may be filed against the undertaking.\n(3) A licensee has the right to file an action for the protection of an exclusive right only with the consent of the proprietor of the trade mark. A licensee may file an action without consent after sending a notice of an infringement of the exclusive right to the proprietor of the trade mark if the proprietor of the trade mark fails to file an action within a reasonable period of time.\n(4) A licensee has the right to enter, as a third party, judicial proceedings in a claim for compensation for damage caused to the proprietor of a trade mark initiated on the basis of an action filed by the proprietor of the trade mark.\n\u00a7 58. Supplementary protection requirements\n(1) If the proprietor of a trade mark files an action for the protection of an exclusive right specified in \u00a7 57 of this Act, the proprietor may request the destruction of unlawfully designated goods and objects solely or almost solely used or intended to commit the offence which are in the ownership or possession of the offender if it is not possible or expedient to eliminate the unlawful nature of the goods or objects in another manner.\n(2) If the proprietor of a trade mark has filed an action for the protection of an exclusive right, the proprietor may request from the person infringing the exclusive right, through the court, information concerning the origin, the manner and channels of distribution and the quantity of unlawfully designated goods, including the names and addresses of the manufacturer, supplier, previous proprietors and resellers of such goods.\n\u00a7 59. Counterclaims\n(1) A person against whom the proprietor of a trade mark under legal protection in Estonia has filed an action for the protection of the exclusive right or against whom proceedings concerning an offence have been initiated, may contest the exclusive right of the proprietor of the trade mark.\n(2) The proceedings concerning an offence shall be suspended for the period of the proceedings conducted concerning the counteraction specified in subsection (1) of this section.\n\u00a7 60. Specifications of judicial proceedings in matters relating to trade marks\n(1) Appeals and actions related to the legal protection of trade marks fall within the competence of the county court in the jurisdiction of which the Patent Office is located.\n(2) Implementation of provisional measures referred to in Article 50 of the Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights in Annex 1C to the WTO Agreement (RT II 1999, 22, 123) falls within the competence of the county court in the jurisdiction of which the offence occurred. A petition for the securing of an action shall be reviewed immediately.\n(3) A court shall send a copy of the decision made in a dispute related to a trade mark to the Patent Office for its information.\n\u00a7 601. Representatives in court disputes concerning trade marks\n(1) In resolution of a dispute related to a trade mark, a patent attorney may act as a representative in a county court and circuit court. In Supreme Court, a patent attorney may act as a representative only together with an attorney-at-law.\n(2) In the protection of their rights, a proprietor of a trade mark may be represented by an organisation with passive legal capacity representing proprietors of trade marks while being a member of such an organisation.\nChapter 6 SPECIFICATIONS OF LEGAL PROTECTION OF COLLECTIVE MARKS AND GUARANTEE MARKS\n\u00a7 61. Definition of collective mark and guarantee mark\n(1) A collective mark is a trade mark which belongs to an association of persons with active legal capacity and which is used by members of the association to designate their goods and services under the conditions and pursuant to the procedure provided for in the regulations of the collective mark.\n(2) A guarantee mark is a trade mark used to designate the goods and services of different persons in order to guarantee a common quality, common geographic origin or method of production or another common feature of such goods and services.\n\u00a7 62. Regulations of collective mark or guarantee mark\n(1) An application for the registration of a collective mark or guarantee mark shall include the regulations of the collective mark or guarantee mark (hereinafter regulations).\n(2) A collective mark or guarantee mark is registered if there are no circumstances which preclude legal protection and:\n1) the regulations are not contrary to public order or accepted principles of morality;\n2) in the case of a guarantee mark, the regulations include a list of the required common features of goods and services designated with the guarantee mark which can be used as the basis for quality control;\n3) in the case of a collective mark, the regulations have a list of members of the association whose goods and services are designated with the collective mark attached thereto and the regulations include the conditions of and procedure for becoming a member of the association.\n(3) An amendment of regulations is effective as of the entry of the amendment in the register. An amendment is entered in the register only if the regulations do not conflict with the requirements provided for in subsection (2) of this section.\n\u00a7 63. Specifications of legal protection of collective marks and guarantee marks\n(2) The use of a collective mark or guarantee mark by a an unauthorised person is prohibited.\n(3) A guarantee mark may be used by any person whose goods or services have features provided for in the regulations provided that such person pays a fee to the proprietor of the guarantee mark.\n(4) A guarantee mark may indicate the geographical origin of the goods or services designated with the guarantee mark.\n(5) The use of a collective mark by at least one member of the association which is the proprietor of the collective mark and the use of a guarantee mark, with the permission of the proprietor of the guarantee mark, by at least one person whose goods or services have features provided for in the regulations, constitute the use of a trade mark within the meaning of \u00a7 17 of this Act.\n\u00a7 64. Additional grounds for declaration of nullity of exclusive right of proprietor of collective mark or guarantee mark or declaration of such exclusive right extinguished\n(1) If regulations cannot be applied and the proprietor of the trade mark fails to eliminate deficiencies in the regulations within the term set by a court on the basis of an action filed by an interested person, the exclusive right of the proprietor of the collective mark or guarantee mark shall be declared null and void.\n(2) If regulations cannot be applied due to amendments made thereto or changed circumstances and the proprietor of the trade mark fails to eliminate deficiencies in the regulations within the term set by a court on the basis of an action filed by an interested person, the exclusive right of the proprietor of the collective mark or guarantee mark shall be declared extinguished.\n(3) If the proprietor of a collective mark or guarantee mark allows use of the collective mark or guarantee mark in conflict with law or the regulations and fails to eliminate deficiencies within the term set by a court, the exclusive right of the proprietor of the collective mark or guarantee mark shall be declared extinguished based on the action of an interested person.\n\u00a7 65. Specifications of protection of exclusive right to collective marks and guarantee marks\n(1) The user of a collective mark or guarantee mark may file an action for the protection of rights conferred by a trade mark only with the consent of the proprietor of the trade mark. The user of a collective mark or a guarantee mark may file an action without the consent of the proprietor of the trade mark after giving notice of an infringement of the exclusive right to the proprietor of the trade mark if the proprietor of the trade mark fails to file an action within a reasonable period of time.\n(2) The user of a collective mark or guarantee mark is entitled to enter a proceeding initiated on the basis of an action filed by the proprietor of the trade mark in order to claim compensation for damage suffered.\nChapter 7 INTERNATIONAL REGISTRATION OF TRADE MARKS\n\u00a7 66. International registration of trade marks\n(1) International registration of a trade mark means the registration of the trade mark in the International Register of the Bureau pursuant to the Madrid Protocol.\n(2) The Patent Office is the Office of Origin and the Office of the Contracting Party within the meaning of the Protocol.\n(3) Applications for licences to be entered in the International Register of the Bureau shall be filed directly with the Bureau.\n\u00a7 67. Application for international registration\n(1) An Estonian citizen or a person whose residence or seat is located in Estonia or who has a commercial or industrial enterprise operating in Estonia may file an application for international registration (hereinafter international application) with regard to the same trade mark and same goods and services for which the person has filed an application or has registered a trade mark in Estonia.\n(2) An international application shall comply with the requirements for contents and form established in the Madrid Protocol and its Common Regulations. The procedure for filing international applications with the Patent Office shall be established by the regulation on trade marks.\n(3) International application documents shall be submitted in English.\n(4) An international application shall not be forwarded to the Bureau if the state fee for the filing of the international application is not paid.\n(5) International fees pursuant to paragraphs 2\u20137 of Article 8 of the Madrid Protocol shall be paid directly to the Bureau.\n\u00a7 68. Processing of international applications\n(1) The Patent Office shall verify the compliance of information in an international application with the information in the application or in the registration data which is the basis for the international application, confirm the correctness of information in the international application and forward the international application to the Bureau.\n(2) The date and number of the international registration of an internationally registered trade mark (hereinafter international registration) shall be entered in the register if the international application is made on the basis of a registration, or a corresponding notation shall be made in the application which is being processed if the international application is made on the basis of such application.\n\u00a7 69. Effect of international registration\n(1) Legal protection arising from an international registration valid in Estonia is equal to legal protection arising from a national registration and the rights and obligations arising from an internationally registered trade mark are equal to those arising from a nationally registered trade mark.\n(2) An international registration is not valid in Estonia if the grant of legal protection is refused as a result of processing the international registration.\n(3) If a nationally registered trade mark is also registered internationally with regard to the same goods and services, a notation shall be made in the register concerning the replacement of the national registration at the request of the proprietor of the trade mark, unless the international application is filed on the basis of subsection 67 (1) of this Act.\n\u00a7 70. Processing of international registration\n(1) The Patent Office shall perform an examination of international registrations in which Estonia is indicated to be a Contracting Party.\n(2) The Patent Office shall perform examinations and process international registrations pursuant to the provisions of this Act, taking account of the specifications arising from the Madrid Protocol and its Common Regulations.\n(3) The grant of legal protection shall be refused if circumstances which preclude legal protection exist.\n(4) The Patent Office shall notify the Bureau of a refusal to grant legal protection within eighteen months from the date of notice of the international registration of the trade mark.\n(5) In the case and under the conditions provided for in Article 5 (2) (c) of the Madrid Protocol, the Patent Office may notify the Bureau of refusal to grant legal protection after the expiry of eighteen months from the date of notice of the international registration of the trade mark.\n(6) If there are no circumstances which preclude legal protection, a notice concerning the international registration shall be published in the official gazette of the Patent Office.\n(7) Decisions on international registrations made by the Patent Office and the rights of applicants can be contested pursuant to the provisions of this Act, taking account of the specifications arising from the Madrid Protocol and its Common Regulations. The Bureau shall be notified of a contestation and the decision made in the matter.\n(8) The Patent Office shall establish and maintain the database of national processing of international registrations in which the Republic of Estonia is a Contracting Party.\n(9) Information specified in subsection 511 (1) of this Act shall be released from the database of national processing of international registrations.\n(10) A state fee shall be paid for the release of information from the database of national processing of international registrations.\n\u00a7 71. Invalidity of international registration and conversion thereof to national application\n(1) If an international registration becomes invalid, the international registration in Estonia becomes invalid on the same date.\n(2) If the international registration of a trade mark is cancelled pursuant to Article 6 (4) of the Madrid Protocol, this trade mark may be registered as a national trade mark with regard to the goods and services included in the international registration if the proprietor of the trade mark files an application with the Patent Office within three months from the date of cancellation of the international registration. The date of international registration of the trade mark is deemed to be the filing date of such application.\n(3) An application specified in subsection (2) of this section shall meet the requirements provided for in Chapter 4 of this Act.\nChapter 71 COMMUNITY TRADE MARK\n\u00a7 711. Registration of Community trade mark\n(1) The registration of a Community trade mark means the registration of a trade mark with the Office for Harmonization in the Internal Market on the basis of the Community Trade Mark Regulation.\n(2) The Patent Office is the central office in the field of legal protection of industrial property within the meaning of the Community Trade Mark Regulation.\n\u00a7 712. Application for Community trade mark\n(1) An application for a Community trade mark may be filed with the Patent Office which shall forward the application to the Office for Harmonisation in the Internal Market within two weeks from the date of filing of the application, and shall issue a corresponding notice to the applicant. Upon filing an application for a Community trade mark with the Patent Office, a state fee for the forwarding of the application to the Office for Harmonisation in the Internal Market shall be paid.\n(2) An application for a Community trade mark shall be in conformity with the requirements for the content and form as specified in the Community Trade Mark Regulation and in the Commission Regulation 2868/95/EC concerning the enforcement of the Council Regulation on the Community trade mark (OJ L 303, 15/12/1995 pp. 1\u201332). The application fee specified in Article 26 (2) of the Community Trade Mark Regulation shall be paid directly to the Office for Harmonisation in the Internal Market.\n(3) The procedure for filing an application for a Community trade mark with the Patent Office shall be established by the Minister of Justice by the regulation on trade marks.\n(4) The Patent Office does not accept or forward any other documents or letters to be submitted to the Office for Harmonisation in the Internal Market.\n(5) Estonian citizens and legal persons whose seat is in the Republic of Estonia are deemed to be the persons specified in paragraph 1 (a) of Article 5 of the Community Trade Mark Regulation.\n\u00a7 713. Conversion of Community trade mark application or Community trade mark into a national trade mark application\n(1) Upon conversion of Community trade mark application or Community trade mark into a national trade mark application pursuant to the provisions of Section 3 of the Community Trade Mark Regulation, the date of filing of an application for a Community trade mark or the date of priority of that application or trade mark or the seniority date is deemed to be the date of national filing.\n(2) The seniority date is the date of filing only where the basis for the seniority of a Community trade mark is a national trade mark registered in Estonia or a trade mark valid in Estonia pursuant to the Madrid Protocol.\n(3) Upon conversion of Community trade mark application or Community trade mark into a national trade mark application pursuant to the provisions of Article 108 of Community Trade Mark Regulation, the person requesting conversion shall file the following documents within two months from the date on which a corresponding request from the Office for Harmonisation in the Internal Market is received by the Patent Office:\n1) the request for conversion and the Estonian translation of the accompanying documents;\n2) the address of a commercial or industrial enterprise operating in Estonia and belonging to the person of a foreign state or the authorisation document of an authorised patent attorney;\n(4) The acts of the Patent Office in the processing of a request for conversion shall be established by the regulation on trade marks.\n(5) The Patent Office shall perform examination and process requests for conversion pursuant to the provisions of Chapter 4 of this Act, taking into account the specific provisions arising from the Community Trade Mark Regulation.\n\u00a7 714. Retroactive declaration of invalidity of trade mark deleted from register\nIf seniority of a trade mark valid in Estonia is claimed for a registered Community trade mark or a Community trade mark which has been filed for registration on the basis of an earlier registered trade mark or the Madrid Protocol pursuant to Articles 34 and 35 of the Community Trade Mark Regulation, an action may be filed for the exclusive right of the proprietor of the earlier trade mark to be declared null and void pursuant to \u00a7 52 of this Act or action against the proprietor of the earlier trade mark for the exclusive right of the proprietor of the trade mark to be declared extinguished pursuant to \u00a7 53 of this Act even if the earlier trade mark has been deleted from the register due to refusal to renew the term or is surrendered by the proprietor.\n\u00a7 715. Specifications of judicial proceedings in matters relating to Community trade marks\n(1) Matters relating to legal protection and validity of Community trade marks are heard by Harju County Court as the Community trade mark court of first instance.\n(2) Appeals against the judgments of the Community trade mark court of first instance shall be reviewed by Tallinn Circuit Court as the Community trade mark court of second instance.\n\u00a7 716. Prohibition on use of Community trade mark\n(1) A proprietor of an earlier trade mark or another earlier right may, under the conditions specified in Article 159a (5) of the Community Trade Mark Regulation, file an action against a proprietor of the Community trade mark for the protection of an exclusive right pursuant to subsection 57 (1) of this Act for the prohibition on the use of the Community trade mark in Estonia.\n(2) If the proprietor of an earlier trade mark or another earlier right has filed an action for the protection of an exclusive right on the basis of subsection (1) of this section, the proprietor may request the application of supplementary protection requirements specified in \u00a7 58 of this Act only in respect of goods located in Estonia.\n\u00a7 72. Transitional provisions\n(1) This Act applies to earlier rights and obligations relating to trade marks unless otherwise provided for in this Act.\n(2) The exclusive right of proprietor of trade mark shall not be declared extinguished on the basis of clause 53 (1) 3) of this Act if the period of five years specified in the clause commenced before 1 May 2004 and the trade mark was used during the period between the commencement of the period of five years and 1 May 2004 pursuant to an Act regulating trade marks which was in force at the time of the trade mark was used.\n(3) This Act applies to applications processed by the Patent Office concerning which no decision was made before 1 May 2004 to register or refuse to register the trade marks.\n(4) Clauses 11 (1) 6) and 7) do not apply to applications the filing date or the date of priority of which is earlier than May 1 2004.\n(5) In appeal proceedings against a decision of the Patent Office made before 1 May 2004 and in making a new decision, the bases for refusal to register a trade mark valid at the time of the making of the decision and the procedural provisions in force at the time of the new proceedings in the matter apply.\n(51) If the grounds for refusal to register a trade mark which were in force before 1 May 2004 were applicable while the Patent Office made a decision to register a trade mark, such grounds are applied also to the hearing of a action for declaration of nullity of the exclusive right of the proprietor of the trade mark.\n(6) In appeal proceedings against a decision made by the Board of Appeal before 1 May 2004 and in making a new decision, the Act regulating trade marks which was force at the time of the making of the decision of the Board of Appeal applies.\n(7) The terms specified in subsection 42 (2) and 43 (2) of this Act with respect to applications being processed by the Patent Office on 1 May 2004 shall be calculated as of the date of entry into force of this Act.\n(8) More favourable provisions apply to persons who committed offences prior to 1 May 2004.\n(9) If the limitation period valid before 1 May 2004 has not expired by the date of entry into force of this Act and a different limitation period is provided for in this Act, the longer limitation period applies.\n(10) The provisions of this Act governing Community trade marks enter into force upon Estonia's accession to the European Union.\n(11) The legal acts established on the basis of the Trade Marks Act shall be valid after the entry into force of this Act in so far as they are not contrary to this Act, until either repeal thereof or until they are brought into conformity with this Act.\n\u00a7 73. Repeal of Trade Marks Act\n[Omitted from this text.]\nThis Act enters into force on 1 May 2004.\n1First Council Directive 89/104/EEC to approximate the laws of the Member States relating to trade marks (OJ L 40, 11.02.1989, pp. 1\u20137); Council Regulation (EC) No. 40/94 on the Community trade mark (OJ L 011, 14.01.1994, pp. 1\u201336). 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Treatment need not involve extensive psychotherapy or even medication. Examining the accuracy of anxious thoughts, making strategic behavioral adjustments, and learning how to manage the physical sensations of anxiety are three components of effective, lasting anxiety treatment.\nDr. Kristin Eisenhauer uses evidence-based (research-based) treatment, namely cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT), exposure with response prevention (ERP), and prolonged exposure that may be combined with virtual reality technology for specific fears, such as fear of flying. She also conducts exposures outside the office for certain specific phobias (e.g., fear of heights).\nDr. Eisenhauer works collaboratively with her patients and consistently seeks out continuing education to stay on the cutting edge of psychotherapy research and practice. To this end, she focuses on results rather than return visits, ultimately teaching each patient to be his or her own therapist.\nSpecific Phobias and Fears (e.g., public speaking, flying, heights)\nExcoriation Disorder (skin picking)\nIllness Anxiety Disorder (hypochondriasis)\nSleep Onset Insomnia (trouble falling asleep)\nSleep Maintenance Insomnia (trouble staying asleep)\nRiver North Anxiety, 142 9th St, San Antonio, TX, 78215(210) 216-0015\nIn the event of a mental health emergency, please call 911 or go to your nearest emergency room.\nCopyright \u00a9 2015-2018 Kristin E. 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Please consult the on-site conference program for the latest.\nBecause we want this to be the biggest and most significant safety, security and human resources education and networking event of the trucking industry in 2015 and beyond, we are offering two specials for individuals who are not members of the American Trucking Associations and/or its Safety Management Council or Transportation Safety Council.\nhttp://www.trucking.org/event.aspx?uid=e40e3f09-87fd-41bd-a506-b5f35004ea67", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00240.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 122, + "original_length": 5571, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.86, + "perplexity": 283.1, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "https://www.rockmyworld.com/rmw-exclusive-enuff-z-nuff-god-save-the-queen/", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T04:09:10Z", + "digest": "sha1:ZLCYSZ4RWFUIAC2XKNJFDQ7GDVJA6NMK", + "length": 1138, + "nlines": 7, + "source_domain": "www.rockmyworld.com", + "title": "RMW Exclusive: Enuff Z'Nuff - God Save The Queen - Rock My World", + "raw_content": "So, here it is. We promised you an exclusive and we\u2019ve delivered. Right in time for their UK tour Enuff Z\u2019Nuff have recorded one of the greatest punk tracks of all time, \u201cGod Save The Queen\u201d by the Sex Pistols.\nProduced by the band and mixed by Chuck Macak, the track is a perfect set up for their UK and European tour that kicks off this Wednesday, February 13th @ Bannermans in Edinburgh Scotland.\nOne more thing to note. The band will be putting together a video for the track comprised of nothing but cell phone footage that will be taken whilst on tour in the UK. That being said, if you\u2019d like to get involved in the process and fancy yourself as a movie maker, the band have set up an email address especially for the tour where you can send in YOUR footage for use in the video. Pretty cool huh? Oh, and by the way, LANDSCAPE mode only for video\u2019s taken on your phone, please!!!\nSo, enjoy the track, and if you film the band during their UK tour, feel free to send your footage to the boys for consideration at enuffsavethequeen@gmail.com\nGod Save The Queen EnuffZ'Nuff 3:22\nRMW Exclusive\nPrevious articleWeek In Rock Feb 11, 2019", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00240.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 92, + "original_length": 3548, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.94, + "perplexity": 235.9, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "https://www.rockmyworld.com/rocks-new-super-group/", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T04:07:19Z", + "digest": "sha1:QWRM5FGZYFN3RQXK5HTZCSNWCOMZBPWY", + "length": 2446, + "nlines": 13, + "source_domain": "www.rockmyworld.com", + "title": "Rock's New Super-Group - Rock My World", + "raw_content": "Rock\u2019s New Super-Group\nIt wasn\u2019t so long ago that if you decided to form a Super-group it was a given that your album would sell millions, you\u2019d tour for as long as you want and reap the financial rewards without too much of an effort. Not anymore, it has been a number of years since a group of \u201ckiller\u201d musicians have come together and formed a band worthy of the title \u201csuper-group\u201d. Well folks, we think we\u2019ve found the newest candidate for this crown in the form of Teenage Time Killers. Rock\u2019s newest power-house is led by Dave Grohl of the Foo Fighters, and Corey Taylor from Slipknot, but it doesn\u2019t end there, the project features a huge list of real deal performers across the album\u2019s twenty tracks.\n[pullquote type=right][counter num_start=\u201d0\u2033 num_end=\u201d80\u2033 num_suffix=\u201d%\u201d num_speed=\u201d2500\u2033 num_color=\u201d#9b59b6\u2033 text_above=\u201dRock Star Power\u201d][/pullquote]\nGrohl and Taylor are joined by Germs/Foo Fighters\u2019 guitarist, Pat Smear, Queens of the bassist, Nick Oliveri, and Alkaline Trio\u2019s Matt Skiba. The album also features appearances from Jello Biafra, Lee Ving, Randy Blythe, and Tommy Victor, among many others.\n[image type=\u201drounded\u201d float=\u201dleft\u201d src=\u201dhttps:rockmyworld.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/DaveGrohlPA300911.jpg\u201d alt=\u201dDave Grohl\u201d]\nThe album delivers like the lineup, it\u2019s heavy on the guitars, full of awesome vocals, and screams \u201cTURN ME UP.\u201d So for all of you rockers who crank their music to \u201celeven\u201d you\u2019d be mad not to go out and buy on the day of release.\nThe album is set for official release and the end of July and in true Dave Grohl style is called \u201cGreatest Hits Volume 1.\u201d\nHere\u2019s a list of some past super-groups, can you think of anymore?\nAsia: featuring Steve Howe of Yes, John Wetton of King Crimson, Geoff Downes of The Buggles and Yes and Carl Palmer of Emerson, Lake & Palmer.\nTraveling Wilburys: featuring George Harrison Bob Dylan, Tom Petty, Jeff Lynne and Roy Orbison.\nCrosby, Stills, Nash & Young: Before there was CSNY, there was Crosby, Stills and Nash. The trio came together after David Crosby quit the The Byrds, Graham Nash became frustrated with The Hollies and Stephen Stills watched Buffalo Springfield disintegrate. They were already hot (Their 1969 self-titled album spawned two Top 40 singles) when Neil Young, Stills\u2019 former Buffalo Springfield bandmate, joined the party in late \u201969. 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The move was triggered by \u201csome big foreign bank\u201d (JP Morgan, according to unofficial sources quoted by Profit.ro) posting a \u201csell\u201d recommendation for Romanian assets.\n\u201cWeak, very weak\u2026,\u201d Isarescu commented, explaining that even though the potential \u201cspeculative attack\u201d took place during the night (when the market was closed in Romania), the central bank managed to prevent further losses.\nIsarescu admits, however, that there are also fundamental drivers behind the currency\u2019s weakening, primarily the Current Account deficit of some 4% of GDP (can be financed but is on the verge of becoming unsustainable, Isarescu explained).\nA third factor that contributed to the sudden weakening of the national currency in January was the Government\u2019s emergency ordinance, which stipulated a tax on financial assets calculated proportionally with the interbank interest rates - ROBOR. The tax is currently subject to negotiations, although BNR does not see any use in such negotiations and suggests that the Government should drop the idea.\nIn his press conference, the central bank governor left the technical discourse aside to describe how he perceived the recent turbulence. \"The boat was floating just fine and comes a loony and starts to shake it, just before Christmas,\" he said. \"There was the ordinance, the turbulence, and the misunderstanding. If I didn't understand what that was all about, how can we expect that others did,\" he added. Isarescu didn't mention who the loony was in this case.\nSpeaking of the developments during last year, BNR governor admitted that the headline inflation entering the 2.5% +/- 1pp target band came as a surprise, thanks to the decline in the price of crude oil.\nRomanian Govt. blames central bank for not defending national currency\nRomania\u2019s central bank: defending national currency would push up interest rates\n(photo source: Bnr.ro)", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00240.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 231, + "original_length": 11751, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.98, + "perplexity": 268.9, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "https://www.romanromanlaw.com/employer-liability-in-truck-accidents/", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T04:39:57Z", + "digest": "sha1:THBKFJXP242NBPTIPO3QJLJYXB3WFP75", + "length": 3389, + "nlines": 10, + "source_domain": "www.romanromanlaw.com", + "title": "Employer Liability In Truck Accidents | Clearwater Truck Accident Attorneys", + "raw_content": "Employer Liability In Truck Accidents\nTruck drivers have to work long hours to make deliveries and stay on schedule. If the trucking company places pressure on drivers to perform, it can lead to truck drivers driving long distances on limited sleep or on drugs aimed at keeping them awake in order to operate their trucks. A truck driver who drives under these conditions is more likely to cause an accident that results in serious injury or death to other drivers on the road.\nWhat Can The Truck Company Pay?\nGenerally under Florida law, through the legal theory of respondeat superior, a truck company that employs a negligent truck driver who causes an accident can be held liable for the compensatory damages of the victim of the accident. Compensatory damages may be both economic and non-economic. Examples of economic damages include loss of income, past and future medical expenses and any property damage resulting from the accident. Examples of non-economic damages include pain and suffering, mental anguish and other non-financial losses resulting from the accident.\nIn some cases, truck accidents may be caused by defects in the trucks, or lack of proper maintenance where an employer has a duty to properly maintain the truck. These factors contributing to an accident or the example of the owner who requires his employees to work long unsafe hours may lead a court to find that an employer should be liable for punitive damages. Punitive damages are damages that are awarded to a plaintiff beyond the compensatory damages, and are supposed to punish the party at fault while also discouraging others from engaging in similar bad behavior. Florida courts have held that in order for an employer to be ordered to pay punitive damages, the employer must also have directly engaged in some wrongdoing.\nFlorida law also limits the amount of punitive damages that a court may award. For example, punitive damages in most cases cannot go beyond three times the compensatory damages or $500,000. However, in cases where a court determines that the employer continued to push for unsafe driving for financial gain, knowing the risks that it would cause to other drivers, a court is allowed to award more in punitive damages.\nOne argument that the truck companies may make to avoid liability may be that although the truck driver caused the accident, he was not acting within the scope of his employment at the time of the accident, and therefore, the truck company as the employer should not be held liable. The success or failure of this defense lies in the facts of each particular case. However, an experienced truck accident attorney knows how to conduct the appropriate investigation into the driver and their employment duties in order to counter this defense.\nContact a Clearwater Truck Accident Attorney\nIf you or a loved one were involved in an accident with a truck, you should consult an experienced truck accident attorney to learn what options you may have against the truck company. 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Mobile traffic has certainly increased: More than 42 percent of organic search visits occurred on smartphones and tablets in Q4 2014, up from 31 percent a year earlier. So, while neglecting mobile search would certainly be irresponsible for most brands, there are always degrees of importance and prioritization for this kind of thing. When you think about how important mobile traffic may be to your business, evaluate those suspicions by looking at your web analytics and what percentage of mobile traffic is coming from search. Use this information to determine if the Google change requires you to immediately focus all of your resources on mobile or if you are OK taking a bit more time to implement changes.\n2). 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So if you pass this one by, I\u2019m not going to be too upset.\nThe fact is that I\u2019ve been debating what today\u2019s post should be about. I started off with a bit of a rant about a lady I saw while out walking Kimber. But then yesterday\u2019s post was a bit of a rant, and I don\u2019t want this to become a rant-fest of a blog. Which led me to wonder why I wouldn\u2019t want this to be a rant-fest of a blog. I mean, many people positively thrive on ranty blog posts, and lots of people like to read them. But I\u2019m not really a full time ranter. I get irate, I mean who doesn\u2019t. But it\u2019s not a full time position. Most of the time I\u2019m quite calm and relaxed about things. And positive.\nAfter quite a bit of consideration, I realised why I was resisting the rant. It\u2019s because I feel that I should be putting my best foot forward when it comes to being online. Which means being my positive, not ranty self. 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It sounded like a dream come true.\nSince then, other premium smartphone makers have added the feature to their own devices. Samsung's version is called Live Focus, and Google added its own version of the technology to both sizes of the Pixel and the Pixel 2.\nI'm not a professional \u2013 or even amateur \u2013 photographer, but I do enjoy trying to capture beautiful photos on my smartphone.\nI wanted to put the feature to the test on three of the top smartphones right now: the iPhone 8 Plus, the Pixel 2 XL, and the Galaxy S9.\nOver the course of a few days, I tested the feature in all sorts of conditions and situations, like low light, indoor and outdoor light, and busy backgrounds.\nWhile all three phones had their own strengths and weaknesses, one phone was the most consistent.\nA simple indoor shot presented unique challenges for all three phones.\nWhat began as a seemingly simple trial \u2013 a small plant photographed on a black table \u2013 ended up being a bit more complex.\nThe iPhone 8 Plus, on the left, looks pretty good, although it's not as sharp as I would have liked, and the leaves in the back are a bit blurred.\nWith the Pixel 2 XL, the plant is nice and sharp, but the background blur is strange and uneven. The Pixel 2 uses technology rather than lenses to create the blur, and in this case, it shows. The desk chairs aren't blurred enough, and it's distracting.\nThe photo taken by Galaxy S9 is \u2026 fine. It's not as sharp as the Pixel 2, but has a more even and less detailed background blur.\nWhen taking this photo on both the iPhone 8 Plus and the Galaxy S9, I had to back away several feet to capture the same shot. This remained a theme throughout my tests because of the dual lenses \u2013 the Pixel 2 only has one lens, and could easily capture a shot at the distance I preferred.\nBut every time I wanted to switch to either of the other phones, I had to move back several feet.\nWinner: Pixel 2\nWhen it came to shooting a portrait outside, there was a clear winner.\nI took these three photos \u2013 one right after the other and standing in the same spot \u2013 and they all turned out completely different.\nThe iPhone 8 Plus photo turned out OK, although it resulted in a much closer crop than either of the other two. Plus, the warmer nature of the iPhone's camera made his skin tone look much more orange than it actually is in real life.\nThe Pixel 2 photo is the best of the bunch. The colour is most true-to-life, it's the sharpest, and the background blur looks the best. This was taken on a rainy morning in New York, so it wasn't that bright out, but the other two phones completely blew out the background.\nThe Galaxy S9 didn't take a great photo. The background is so blown out that it even affected the subject of the photo, eliminating a chunk of his arm. Plus, it added a yellowish tint to his skin that isn't there in real life.\nThis outdoor shot resulted in a close call between the iPhone 8 Plus and the Pixel 2.\nIn this case, there's not a clear winner \u2013 it all comes down to personal preference.\nThe iPhone 8 Plus captured a beautiful photo. The colours are rich, the details are sharp, and the blur is subtle and natural.\nThe Pixel 2 also performed well here. The colours aren't as rich or vibrant as the iPhone 8 Plus, but the phone still captured a beautiful photo \u2013 you can even make out the raindrops on the flower. Plus, it was easier to capture since I didn't have to back away from the subject to get portrait mode to work.\nThe Galaxy S9 once again didn't fare well. In general, the photo is OK, but the flower is too blown out and you can barely make out any detail. You might be wondering at this point if it's operator error, but I promise it's not \u2013 with each test of the Galaxy S9, I usually had to take twice as many photos in an attempt to get a good one, and rarely succeeded.\nWhen it came to a low-light test, two out of three phones had issues.\nThe low-light test was perhaps the most challenging of all.\nOn both the iPhone 8 Plus and the Galaxy S9, the phones themselves will let you know that they require lots of light to create an effective portrait mode photo.\nThat being said, I wanted to test the phones in every condition \u2013 it's unrealistic to expect that everyone has perfect natural light every time they want to take a portrait mode shot.\nThe iPhone 8 Plus had some challenges. The phone really struggled in low light, and kept trying to use the flash, which resulted in an ugly, unflattering shot (my bananas looked like hostages). After fiddling with the camera for several minutes, I finally captured a decent yet dark image.\nThe Pixel 2, on the other hand, performed flawlessly. I didn't really need to worry about the lack of light since the portrait mode effects were added after the fact. I didn't brighten that photo at all \u2013 that's exactly how it looked once it finished processing.\nThe Galaxy S9 was deeply disappointing. The end result isn't as dark as the photo captured by the iPhone 8 Plus, but it's also about half as sharp. The background blur is nice, but overall, the photo looks like it was captured on a 5-year-old phone.\nThe Pixel 2 struggled when it came to busy backgrounds.\nI wanted to test how the phones would handle a busy background \u2013 surprisingly, the iPhone 8 Plus and Galaxy S9 won this round.\nDespite an incredibly busy background with various colours and textures, not to mention a challenging subject, the iPhone 8 Plus took a great photo. It managed to keep all the plant's leaves in focus and blur almost the rest of the background \u2013 if you look closely, it accidentally kept one of the wine bottle labels in focus.\nThe Pixel 2 had a poor showing during this test. While the photo is nice and sharp, the phone accidentally blurred out one of the leaves of the plant. Plus, one of the labels on the wine bottles is a little too in focus, which distracts from the actual subject of the photo.\nThe Galaxy S9 did the best job in this case. The overall result isn't quite as sharp as the other two photos, but it did the best job of keeping the subject in focus and blurring the background.\nAll three phones did an excellent job in bright, natural light indoors.\nIt's hard to pick a winner in this case, because all three phones took a great photo.\nThe iPhone 8 Plus is the brightest and warmest of the bunch. The phone gave my skin a nice glow, and created a nice background blur. If you look closely, it did give my hair a strange shape and missed a few strands of my hair, but I expected that.\nThe Pixel 2 also took a beautiful photo, and one that's much sharper than the other two. When it comes to a portrait of a person, however, that's not always the best thing. The Pixel 2 defined my pores a bit too much, and I felt like the overall cooler tone of the camera made my skin look a little lifeless.\nThe Galaxy S9 did a fantastic job here. It had fewer issues with strands of my hair than the iPhone 8 Plus did, and the colours look truer to life. Plus, the Galaxy S9 gave my skin a dewy, fresh look, which happens when you take selfies with the phone, too. That being said, the face-smoothing went a little overboard \u2013 if you look closely, I look too airbrushed for my taste.\nThis monochromatic shot was tricky, since there wasn't a lot of separation between the subject and background \u2014 but all three phones prevailed.\n(Avery Hartmans / Business Insider)\nThis shot is a great example of the colour and light differences between each camera. The iPhone 8 Plus is significantly warmer than the other two, and the Pixel 2 is decidedly darker than the other phones.\nAesthetic differences aside, all three phones did just fine when it came to little background separation.\nThe iPhone 8 Plus did an excellent job keeping the entire subject in focus, even in tricky areas like the camera strap. But the end result is way too bright and too warm for my taste, and the phone blew out both the white wall and white shelf.\nThe photo taken with the Pixel 2could have used a bit more background blur \u2013 you can still make out the word \"Instax\" on the camera on the right. However, that's made up for by the fact that the subject is incredibly sharp.\nThe Galaxy S9 did a nice job here, and took a nearly identical photo to the Pixel 2. However, while the background blur is better with the Galaxy s9, the subject isn't as sharp.\nSo, which one is the winner?\nGoogle's Pixel 2 XL takes the crown here.\nAll three phones had their own strengths, and their own sets of issues. While the iPhone 8 Plus took gorgeous photos, I found that they often looked too warm. The Galaxy S9 handled colours beautifully, but it failed in light that was too low or two bright.\nAnd both the iPhone 8 Plus and the Galaxy S9 presented a key problem: They forced you, a regular user, to have to think like a photographer.\nYou had to remember to find enough light, to create enough distance between yourself and the subject, and to create enough distance between the subject and the background.\nIt was a time-consuming process, and one that didn't lend itself to snapping a quick photo on a whim, like most typical smartphone users do.\nThe Pixel 2 not only took sharp, beautiful photos most consistently, but it was significantly easier to use than either of the other two phones. 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At the moment, Hattie Mitchell, the school's founder and CEO, estimated about 10 percent of students in the school are homeless. The majority of students are in low-income families.\nL.A. County has an estimated 63,000 students in public schools who are homeless. Mitchell said Crete Academy is the first to specifically target such students in South Los Angeles.\n\"We're able to serve them by providing wraparound services and a college prep curriculum,\" Mitchell said. \"We're unique in that we believe a child's wellbeing is as important as their academics.\"\nThe school guarantees children two medical exams, two dental screenings and access to mental health services onsite. Of the school's 15 staff members, seven are dedicated to \"wellness.\" That includes social workers and caseworkers from the AmeriCorps program. 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The mission of Seagull Schools is to provide early education programs of the highest value, which are responsive to Hawaii\u2019s diverse communities.\nAll of the Schools\u2019 early education programs are fully accredited by the National Assocation for the Education of Young Children (NAEYC). In 2002, the schools received the prestigious KOA award for \u201cExcellence in Education\u201d and in 2007, Seagull\u2019s executive director, Chuck Larson, received the KOA award for \u201cEntrepreneur of the Year.\u201d\nIn June 2012 - from 6,000 childcare centers nationally - Seagull Schools was one of only 16 centers to be recognized by First lady Michelle Obama\u2019s \u201cLet\u2019s Move\u201d program for outstanding efforts to prevent obesity and help children get off to a healthy start in life. 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Scientists say ancient shifts in climate helped our species replace Neanderthals in Europe. Researchers used data from this cave and another to document two lengthy cold and dry periods. The report, released Monday, Aug. 27, 2018, by the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, found these periods coincided with the disappearance of Neanderthals and the arrival of our species in specific places. (Bogdan Onac via AP)\nNEW YORK (AP) \u2014 Ancient periods of cold and dry climate helped our species replace Neanderthals in Europe, a study suggests.\nResearchers found that such cold periods coincided with an apparent disappearance of our evolutionary cousins in different parts of the continent, followed by the appearance of our species, Homo sapiens.\n\u201cWhether they moved or died out, we can\u2019t tell,\u201d said Michael Staubwasser of the University of Cologne in Germany.\nNeanderthals once lived in Europe and Asia but died out about 40,000 years ago, just a few thousand years after our species, Homo sapiens, arrived in Europe. Scientists have long debated what happened, and some have blamed the change in climate. Other proposed explanations have included epidemics and the idea that the newcomers edged out the Neanderthals for resources.\nStaubwasser and colleagues reported their findings Monday in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. They drew on existing climate, archaeological and ecological data and added new indicators of ancient climate from studies of two caves in Romania.\nTheir study highlighted two cold and dry periods. One began about 44,000 years ago and lasted about 1,000 years. The other began about 40,800 years ago and lasted six centuries. The timing of those events matches the periods when artifacts from Neanderthals disappear and signs of H. sapiens appear in sites within the Danube River valley and in France, they noted.\nThe climate shifts would have replaced forest with shrub-filled grassland, and H. sapiens may have been better adapted to that new environment than the Neanderthals were, so they could move in after Neanderthals disappeared, the researchers wrote.\nKaterina Harvati, a Neanderthal expert at the University of Tuebingen in Germany who wasn\u2019t involved in the study, said it\u2019s helpful to have the new climate data from southeastern Europe, a region that H. sapiens is thought to have used to spread through the continent.\nBut she said it\u2019s unclear whether Neanderthals disappeared and H. sapiens appeared at the times the authors indicate, because the studies they cite rely on limited evidence and are sometimes open to dispute.\nChris Stringer of the Natural History Museum in London said he thought the paper made a good case for an impact of the climate shifts on Neanderthals, although he believes other factors were also at work in their disappearance.\nRick Potts of the Smithsonian Institution called the study \u201ca refreshing new look\u201d at the species replacement.\n\u201cAs has been said before, our species didn\u2019t outsmart the Neanderthals,\u201d Potts said in an email. \u201cWe simply outsurvived them. 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Consulted by millions of prospective students and their families, the selective guide considered 2,200 four-year colleges in the United States, Canada and Great Britain before choosing just 319 institutions for inclusion.\nAccording to the publication's news release, the guide includes \"the best and most interesting colleges and universities with details on academics, campus setting, student body, financial aid, housing, food, social life, and extracurricular activities.\"\nThe Fiske Guide explains its role as this: \"So many students approach the college selection process by limiting their sights to local institutions, the pet schools of their parents or guidance counselors, or ones they know by possibly outdated reputations. 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Garden\nClayton C. Daley, Jr.\n\u2610 Fee computed on table below per Exchange Act Rule 14a-6(i)(4) and 0-11.\n\u2610 Check box if any part of the fee is offset as provided by Exchange Act Rule 0-11(a)(2) and identify the\n2017 Annual Meeting of Shareholders of\nTHE TRIAN GROUP\nPLEASE VOTE THE ENCLOSED WHITE PROXY CARD TODAY\u2014BY PHONE,\nBY INTERNET OR BY SIGNING, DATING AND RETURNING IT IN THE\nPOSTAGE-PAID ENVELOPE PROVIDED\nTo Our Fellow P&G Shareholders:\nThis Proxy Statement (this \u201cProxy Statement\u201d) and the enclosed WHITE proxy card are being furnished to shareholders of The Procter & Gamble Company (\u201cP&G\u201d or the \u201cCompany\u201d) in connection with the solicitation of proxies by Trian Partners, L.P., a Delaware limited partnership (\u201cTrian Onshore\u201d), Trian Partners Co-Investment Opportunities Fund, Ltd., a Cayman Islands exempted company with limited liability (\u201cCo-Investment Fund,\u201d and together with Trian Onshore, the \u201cNominating Funds\u201d), Trian Partners Master Fund, L.P., a Cayman Islands limited partnership (\u201cTrian Offshore\u201d), Trian Partners Parallel Fund I, L.P., a Delaware limited partnership (\u201cParallel Fund I\u201d), Trian Partners Master Fund (ERISA), L.P., a Cayman Islands limited partnership (\u201cTrian ERISA\u201d), Trian Partners Strategic Investment Fund-A, L.P., a Delaware limited partnership (\u201cStrategic Fund-A\u201d), Trian Partners Strategic Co-Investment Fund-A, L.P., a Delaware limited partnership (\u201cCoinvest Fund-A\u201d), Trian Partners Strategic Investment Fund-D, L.P., a Cayman Islands limited partnership (\u201cStrategic Fund-D\u201d), Trian SPV (Sub) XII, L.P., a Delaware limited partnership (\u201cSPV XII\u201d), Trian Partners Fund (Sub)-G, L.P., a Delaware limited partnership (\u201cFund G\u201d), Trian Partners Strategic Fund-G II, L.P., a Delaware limited partnership (\u201cStrategic Fund-G II\u201d), Trian Partners Strategic Fund-G III, L.P., a Delaware limited partnership (\u201cStrategic Fund-G III\u201d), Trian Partners Strategic Investment Fund-N, L.P., a Delaware limited partnership (\u201cStrategic Fund-N\u201d), Trian Partners Strategic Fund-K, L.P., a Delaware limited partnership (\u201cStrategic Fund-K\u201d), Trian Partners Strategic Fund-C, Ltd., a Cayman Islands exempted company with limited liability (\u201cStrategic Fund-C\u201d, and together with the Nominating Funds, Trian Offshore, Parallel Fund I, Trian ERISA, Strategic Fund-A, Coinvest Fund-A, Strategic Fund-D, SPV XII, Fund G, Strategic Fund-G II, Strategic Fund-G III, Strategic Fund-N, Strategic Fund-K and Strategic Fund-C, collectively, the \u201cFunds\u201d), Trian Fund Management, L.P., a Delaware limited partnership (\u201cTrian Management\u201d, or \u201cTrian\u201d), Trian Fund Management GP, LLC, a Delaware limited liability company (\u201cTrian Management GP\u201d) (the Funds, Trian Management and Trian Management GP are sometimes hereinafter referred to collectively as the \u201cTrian Entities\u201d), Nelson Peltz, a citizen of the United States of America, Peter W. May, a citizen of the United States of America, and Edward P. Garden, a citizen of the United States of America (the Trian Entities and Messrs. Peltz, May and Garden are sometimes hereinafter referred to collectively as the \u201cTrian Group\u201d), and Clayton C. Daley, Jr., a citizen of the United States of America (together with the Trian Group, the \u201cParticipants\u201d), to be used at the 2017 annual meeting of shareholders of P&G, including any adjournments or postponements thereof and any special meeting held in lieu thereof (the \u201c2017 Annual Meeting\u201d). The Company has not yet publicly disclosed the date, time and location of the 2017 Annual\nMeeting. Once the Company publicly discloses such date, time and location, the Trian Group intends to supplement this Proxy Statement with such information and file revised definitive materials with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the \u201cSEC\u201d). This Proxy Statement and the enclosed WHITE proxy card are first being furnished to shareholders on or about July 31, 2017.\nTHIS SOLICITATION IS BEING MADE BY THE TRIAN GROUP AND NOT ON BEHALF OF THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS OF THE COMPANY.\nWe are soliciting your proxy for the 2017 Annual Meeting in respect of the following matters:\n1. To elect Nelson Peltz (\u201cMr. Peltz\u201d or the \u201cNominee\u201d) and the candidates of The Procter & Gamble Company (the \u201cCompany\u201d) other than Ernesto Zedillo (the \u201cExcluded Company Nominee\u201d) for election at the 2017 Annual Meeting to serve as directors of the Company (\u201cProposal 1\u201d);\n2. To ratify the appointment of Deloitte & Touche LLP as the Company\u2019s independent registered public accounting firm for the fiscal year ending June 30, 2018 (\u201cProposal 2\u201d);\n3. To approve, on an advisory basis, the Company\u2019s executive compensation (\u201cProposal 3\u201d or the \u201cSay on Pay Vote\u201d);\n4. To vote, on an advisory basis, on the frequency of holding the Say on Pay Vote (\u201cProposal 4\u201d);\n5. To vote on three other shareholder proposals (respectively, \u201cProposal 5,\u201d \u201cProposal 6,\u201d and \u201cProposal 7\u201d); and\n6. To adopt a resolution that each provision or amendment of the Regulations of the Company (the \u201cRegulations\u201d) adopted by the Board of Directors of the Company (the \u201cBoard\u201d) (and not by the Company\u2019s shareholders) subsequent to April 8, 2016 and prior to the approval of this resolution be repealed, effective as of the time this resolution is approved by the Company\u2019s shareholders (\u201cProposal 8\u201d).\nExcept as set forth in this Proxy Statement, the Trian Group is not aware of any other matter to be considered at the 2017 Annual Meeting. However, if the Trian Group learns of any other proposals made at a reasonable time before the 2017 Annual Meeting, the Trian Group will either supplement this Proxy Statement and provide shareholders with an opportunity to vote by proxy directly on such matters or will not exercise discretionary authority with respect thereto. If other proposals are made thereafter, the persons named as proxies on the WHITE proxy card solicited by the Trian Group will vote such proxies in their discretion with respect to such matters.\nP&G has not yet disclosed the record date for determining shareholders entitled to notice of and to vote at the 2017 Annual Meeting (the \u201cRecord Date\u201d) nor has P&G disclosed the number of outstanding shares of capital stock of the Company entitled to vote at the 2017 Annual Meeting as of the Record Date. Once the Company publicly discloses such Record Date and the number of shares of capital stock of the Company outstanding as of the Record Date, the Trian Group intends to supplement this Proxy Statement with such information and file revised definitive materials with SEC. Shareholders of record at the close of business on the Record Date will be entitled to vote at the 2017 Annual Meeting. According to the Company\u2019s Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q, filed on April 26, 2017 (the \u201cCompany\u2019s 10-Q\u201d), as of March 31, 2017, there were 2,557,614,388 shares of common stock, without par value (the \u201cShares\u201d) outstanding. Each Share has one vote. In addition, as of August 12, 2016, there were approximately 44,969,421 shares of Series A ESOP Convertible Class A Preferred Stock, without par value, and 56,243,634 shares of Series B ESOP Convertible Class A Preferred Stock, without par value (collectively, the \u201cSeries A and B ESOP Convertible Class A Preferred Stock\u201d), as disclosed in the Company\u2019s definitive proxy statement in connection with the 2016 annual meeting of shareholders. Each share of the Series A and Series B ESOP Convertible Class A Preferred Stock has one vote.\nAs of the date of this Proxy Statement, the members of the Trian Group beneficially own an aggregate of 37,612,012 Shares, representing approximately 1.47% of the Company\u2019s outstanding Shares (based on information disclosed in the Company\u2019s 10-Q regarding the number of outstanding Shares).\nThe Trian Group is seeking your proxy to vote FOR the election of Mr. Peltz and the Company\u2019s candidates for election (other than the Excluded Company Nominee) and FOR Proposal 8 described herein. In the event that Mr. Peltz is unable (due to death, disability, ineligibility or otherwise) or hereafter becomes unwilling for any reason to serve as a director, the proxies named on the enclosed WHITE proxy card will be voted for Edward P. Garden (\u201cMr. Garden\u201d or the \u201cAlternate Nominee,\u201d and together with the Nominee, the \u201cNominees\u201d) in place of Mr. Peltz. In addition to the foregoing, the Nominating Funds have reserved the right in the Nomination Notice (as defined below) to further nominate, substitute or add additional persons in the event that any of the events described in the previous sentence occurs with respect to the Alternate Nominee or the Company purports to increase the number of directorships after the date hereof and prior to the 2017 Annual Meeting. In the case of any of the foregoing, the Nominating Funds will give prompt written notice to the Company if they choose to nominate any such additional or substitute nominee and the Trian Group will file and deliver supplemental proxy materials, including a revised proxy card, disclosing the information relating to such additional persons that is required to be disclosed in solicitations for proxies for the election of directors pursuant to Section 14 of the Securities and Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the \u201cExchange Act\u201d). There can be no assurance that the Company will not assert that any additional or substitute nominations made pursuant to such a reservation must separately comply with any advance notification requirements provided in the Regulations. Notwithstanding the foregoing, the Nominating Funds reserve the right to withdraw the nomination of the Nominee or the Alternate Nominee or any additional or substitute nominee at any time, if applicable. In any such case, the Nominating Funds will give prompt notice to the Company of any such withdrawal and the Trian Group will file and disclose to shareholders the relevant information. The Trian Group has no reason to believe that Mr. Peltz will be unable or unwilling to serve as director. None of the Participants has any intention, either alone or in concert with another person, to acquire or exercise control of the Company or any of its subsidiaries.\nWE BELIEVE MR. PELTZ\u2019S SIGNIFICANT EXPERTISE AND LONG TRACK RECORD OF WORKING SUCCESSFULLY WITH MANAGEMENT TEAMS AND BOARDS TO TURN AROUND CONSUMER COMPANIES AND DRIVE SUSTAINABLE LONG-TERM SHAREHOLDER VALUE WILL BE INVALUABLE TO THE COMPANY AS IT WORKS TO OVERCOME ITS CHALLENGES. ACCORDINGLY, THE TRIAN GROUP URGES YOU TO VOTE YOUR WHITE PROXY CARD FOR OUR NOMINEE AND THE COMPANY\u2019S CANDIDATES FOR ELECTION (OTHER THAN THE EXCLUDED COMPANY NOMINEE) AND FOR PROPOSAL 8.\nAs explained in the detailed instructions on your WHITE proxy card, there are four ways you may vote. You may:\n1. Sign, date and return the enclosed WHITE proxy card in the enclosed postage-paid envelope. We recommend that you vote on the WHITE proxy card even if you plan to attend the 2017 Annual Meeting;\n2. Vote via the Internet by following the voting instructions on the WHITE proxy card or the voting instructions provided by your broker, bank or other holder of record. Internet voting procedures are designed to authenticate your identity, allow you to vote your Shares and confirm that your instructions have been properly recorded. Your Internet vote authorizes the named proxies to vote your Shares in the same manner as if you had signed and returned a proxy card. If you submit your vote by Internet, you may incur costs associated with electronic access, such as usage charges from Internet access providers and telephone companies;\n3. Vote by telephone by following the voting instructions on the WHITE proxy card or the instructions provided by your broker, bank or other holder of record. Your telephone vote authorizes the named proxies to vote your Shares in the same manner as if you had signed and returned a proxy card; or\n4. Vote in person by attending the 2017 Annual Meeting. Written ballots will be distributed to shareholders who wish to vote in person at the 2017 Annual Meeting. If you hold your Shares through a bank, broker or other custodian, you must obtain a legal proxy from such bank, broker or other custodian in order to vote in person at the meeting.\nWE URGE YOU NOT TO SIGN ANY BLUE PROXY CARD SENT TO YOU BY THE COMPANY. IF YOU HAVE ALREADY DONE SO, YOU MAY REVOKE YOUR PREVIOUSLY SIGNED BLUE PROXY BY SIGNING AND RETURNING A LATER-DATED WHITE PROXY CARD IN THE ENCLOSED POSTAGE-PAID ENVELOPE, BY DELIVERING A WRITTEN NOTICE OF REVOCATION TO THE TRIAN GROUP OR TO THE SECRETARY OF THE COMPANY, OR BY INSTRUCTING US BY TELEPHONE OR VIA THE INTERNET AS TO HOW YOU WOULD LIKE YOUR SHARES VOTED (INSTRUCTIONS ARE ON YOUR WHITE PROXY CARD).\nHOLDERS OF SHARES AS OF THE RECORD DATE ARE URGED TO SUBMIT A WHITE PROXY CARD EVEN IF YOUR SHARES WERE SOLD AFTER THE RECORD DATE.\nIF YOUR SHARES ARE HELD IN THE NAME OF A BROKERAGE FIRM, BANK, BANK NOMINEE OR OTHER INSTITUTION ON THE RECORD DATE, ONLY THAT INSTITUTION CAN VOTE THOSE SHARES AND ONLY UPON RECEIPT OF YOUR SPECIFIC INSTRUCTIONS. ACCORDINGLY, PLEASE CONTACT THE PERSON RESPONSIBLE FOR YOUR ACCOUNT AND INSTRUCT THAT PERSON TO SIGN AND RETURN ON YOUR BEHALF THE WHITE PROXY CARD AS SOON AS POSSIBLE.\nTrian Management has retained Innisfree M&A Incorporated to assist in communicating with shareholders in connection with the proxy solicitation and to assist in efforts to obtain proxies. If you have any questions concerning this Proxy Statement, would like to request additional copies of this Proxy Statement or need help voting your Shares, please contact:\nShareholders Call Toll-Free: (877) 750-8338\nBanks and Brokers Call Collect: (212) 750-5833\nEmail: material@innisfreema.com (Requests for materials only)\nREASONS TO VOTE FOR THE TRIAN GROUP\u2019S NOMINEE\nAs of the date of this Proxy Statement, the members of the Trian Group beneficially own an aggregate of 37,612,012 Shares. As one of the Company\u2019s largest shareholders and given P&G\u2019s disappointing results over the past decade, as detailed below, we have a keen interest in helping the Company address the challenges it is facing, which include:\nWeak Total Shareholder Returns. Over the past decade, the Company has underperformed relative to both its peers and to the S&P 500.[1]. In fact, the Company\u2019s total return to shareholders over the last ten years was less than half that of its peers.[2] We believe P&G needs to address the factors contributing to this consistent underperformance.\nDeteriorating Market Share. Over the past five years, P&G\u2019s organic sales growth has decelerated and the Company has lost market share across most of its categories.[3] The Trian Group believes that disruptive and existential threats are impacting the entire consumer packaged goods industry, including changes in technology and consumer behavior, and the Company must act with the greatest possible urgency to address the market share it is losing to both its peers and smaller local competitors, who are adapting to industry changes more effectively than P&G.\nExcessive Cost and Bureaucracy. The Company\u2019s management acknowledges the need to reduce cost and bureaucracy,[4] but we believe these critical issues have not been sufficiently addressed.\n\u00b7 Our analysis shows that the Company\u2019s $10 billion cost-cutting program, launched in 2012, has had no discernible impact on profits or sales growth. In particular, the program did not drive earnings growth given that operating profit was essentially flat from 2012 to 2016.[5]\n[1] S&P 500 refers to the S&P 500 Total Return Index, which includes the price changes of all underlying stocks and all dividends reinvested. S&P 500 data is obtained from Bloomberg using the SPX ticker with the inclusion of dividend re-investment.\n[2] Source: Capital IQ. Total shareholder return of the S&P 500, the Company and its peers measured through June 15, 2017, one day before rumors surfaced of the Trian Group seeking Board representation. The Trian Group considers the Company\u2019s peers to include Beiersdorf, Church & Dwight, Clorox, Colgate, Edgewell Personal Care, Henkel, Kimberly-Clark, L\u2019Oreal, Reckitt Benckiser and Unilever. We believe this peer group is relevant because each company is domiciled in the United State or Europe, has a significant market capitalization and generates a significant portion of its sales in categories in which P&G competes.\n[3] Source: Company SEC filings. In addition, the Company\u2019s organic sales growth was 0% in FY2016 and 2% year-to-date in FY2017, compared with a compound annual growth rate of 4% for organic sales from FY2006 through FY2011. In addition, the Company\u2019s volume growth has trailed the average volume growth of its peers which disclose this data in four out of the five most recently completed years (indicating a loss of market share).\n[4] As referenced above, P&G announced a goal to reduce costs by $10 billion dollars by 2016 at the Consumer Analyst Group of New York Conference held on February 23, 2012. In addition, P&G identified an additional savings opportunity of up to $13 billion at the Deutsche Bank Global Consumer Conference held on June 15, 2017 (the \u201cDB Conference\u201d). At the DB Conference, the Company estimated that it can \u201cachieve another $1 billion to $2 billion of additional overhead cost reduction\u201d with a plan to optimize \u201ceach function of the company with a particular focus on reducing the cost of activities that are furthest away from consumers or customers \u2026 includ[ing] our corporate operations.\u201d P&G also noted at the DB Conference that over the past five years it has \u201celiminated central resources where they added complexity but didn\u2019t provide a scale benefit overall\u201d and \u201creduced corporate roles by 20% with plans to go further\u201d (emphasis added).\n[5] Source: Company SEC filings. From FY2012 through FY 2016, the Company grew sales volumes at a compound annual growth rate of 0.6% and grew operating profit at a compound annual growth rate of -0.1%.\n\u00b7 Although the Company has stated that it has identified up to $13 billion of additional cost savings, given our analysis of the 2012 cost-cutting program, we are concerned that this initiative will also be ineffective in driving sales growth, earnings growth and shareholder value creation.[6]\n\u00b7 We believe that P&G has an overly complex organizational structure and a slow moving and insular culture. Structural and organizational bureaucracy may be preventing management from identifying and responding to commercial opportunities in a timely manner, hindering product innovation and dampening sales growth.[7]\nWe believe the Company must take decisive action that goes above and beyond what the Company has presently committed to do.\nAdding Nelson Peltz to the Board Will Help the Company Address These Challenges. The Trian Group believes that Mr. Peltz\u2019s significant expertise and long track record of working successfully with management teams and boards to turn around consumer companies and drive sustainable long-term shareholder value will be invaluable to the Company as it works to overcome its challenges.\nFurthermore, because we believe that many of these challenges relate to the Company\u2019s organizational structure and culture, which can be highly resistant to change, it is Trian\u2019s strong view that the addition of a motivated independent director with a material ownership stake and relevant industry experience would be a valuable resource for overcoming the root causes of these challenges.\nWhat the Trian Group Is NOT Pushing For. The Trian Group believes strongly in the Company\u2019s potential, and as a long-term shareowner, our objective is to create sustainable long-term shareholder value for all P&G shareholders. That means that we are:\n\u00b7 NOT advocating for the break-up of the Company\n\u00b7 NOT suggesting that the CEO be replaced\n\u00b7 NOT seeking to replace directors\n\u00b7 NOT advocating taking on excessive leverage\n\u00b7 NOT seeking to cut pension benefits\n\u00b7 NOT suggesting that research & development, marketing expense or capital expenditures be reduced\nAs a member of the Board, Mr. Peltz would seek to help the Company increase sales and profits, regain lost market share, and address the Company\u2019s structure and culture, and we believe that he can contribute far more value operating from within the Company\u2019s boardroom than by merely advising the Company from the outside. We urge shareholders to support us in this effort by voting a WHITE proxy card for our Nominee.\n[6] As detailed above, the Trian Group believes that P&G\u2019s previous $10 billion cost-cutting program, launched in 2012, failed to drive growth in sales volumes or operating profit. Although the Company has said that approximately $7 billion of the $10 billion in realized cost savings were offset by foreign exchange losses and the remaining $3 billion of cost savings were reinvested in the businesses, we have not found evidence that such reinvestment drove sales or operating profit growth. See statements made by the Company at the Deutsche Bank Global Consumer Conference held on June 16, 2016. The lack of tangible evidence that the 2012 cost-cutting program boosted the Company\u2019s financial performance underlies the Trian Group\u2019s concern about the success of the new cost cutting initiative. See slide 15 of the Trian Group\u2019s \u201cIntroductory Presentation on P&G,\u201d filed under cover of Schedule 14A on July 17, 2017, for further detail.\n[7] The Trian Group believes that P&G\u2019s organizational structure is overly \u201cmatrixed,\u201d which we believe impedes growth by adding unnecessary complexity and cost. We understand that there are three overlapping organizational structures at P&G (Global Business Units as defined by category, Selling and Marketing Operations, and Corporate Functions), and in our view, these overlapping structures obscure accountability, increase bureaucracy and slow decision-making and impede sales growth and market shares.\nAccording to information contained in the Company\u2019s preliminary proxy statement for the 2017 Annual Meeting, filed with the SEC on July 27, 2017 (the \u201cCompany\u2019s Preliminary Proxy Statement), eleven directors are to be elected to the Board at the 2017 Annual Meeting. The Trian Group recommends that shareholders elect Nelson Peltz as a director of the Company at the 2017 Annual Meeting. Mr. Peltz has consented to being named in this Proxy Statement as a nominee and to serving as a director of the Company if elected. If elected, the initial term of Mr. Peltz will be until the next annual meeting of shareholders and until his successor shall have been duly elected and qualified in accordance with the Regulations. We have no knowledge of any facts that would prevent a final determination by the Board that Mr. Peltz is independent in accordance with the corporate governance standards of the Company and the pertinent listing standards of the New York Stock Exchange. Mr. Peltz satisfies all qualifications required by the Ohio Revised Code (the \u201cORC\u201d) to be a director of the Company.[8]\nThe Trian Group believes that Mr. Peltz\u2019s significant expertise and long track record of working successfully with management teams and boards to turn around consumer companies and drive sustainable long-term shareholder value will be invaluable to the Company as it works to overcome its challenges. Furthermore, because we believe that many of these challenges relate to the Company\u2019s organizational structure and culture, which can be highly resistant to change, we believe that the addition of a motivated independent director with a material ownership stake and relevant industry experience would be a valuable resource for overcoming the root causes of these challenges. As a member of the Board, Mr. Peltz would seek to help the Company improve performance by increasing sales and profits, regaining lost market share, and addressing the Company\u2019s structure and culture, and the Trian Group believes that Mr. Peltz can contribute far more value operating from within the Company\u2019s boardroom than by merely advising the Company from the outside.\nThe Trian Group intends to vote all of their Shares in favor of the Nominee. If Mr. Peltz is elected he will only represent one out of eleven members of the Board, and therefore there can be no assurance that Mr. Peltz individually can implement the actions that he believes are necessary to enhance shareholder value.\nSet forth below is background information about Mr. Peltz, including his name, age, principal occupation and employment and public company directorships held during the past five years, as well as a description of the qualifications, attributes and skills that led to the conclusion that Mr. Peltz should serve as a director of the Company. Please see the section of this Proxy Statement titled \u201cInformation About The Trian Group and other Participants\u201d for additional information about Mr. Peltz, including information about his beneficial ownership of Shares.\n[8] Section 1701.56 of the ORC provides that directors of Ohio corporations \u201cshall be natural persons of at least eighteen years of age and shall have such qualifications, if any, as are stated in the articles or the regulations.\u201d Given that Mr. Peltz is more than eighteen years of age and is a natural person, and given that the Charter and Regulations provide for no additional qualifications for an individual to serve as a director of the Company, Mr. Peltz satisfies the applicable requirements of the ORC.\nName and Business Address Age Principal Occupation and Directorships During Past Five Years\nMr. Nelson Peltz has served as the Chief Executive Officer and a Founding Partner of Trian Management, an investment management firm, since its formation in 2005. Trian is a highly engaged shareowner that combines concentrated public equity ownership with operational expertise. Trian seeks to invest in high quality but undervalued and underperforming public companies and to work collaboratively with management teams and boards of those companies to execute operational and strategic initiatives designed to drive long-term sustainable earnings growth for the benefit of all stakeholders.\nMr. Peltz has served as director of The Wendy\u2019s Company (\u201cWendy\u2019s\u201d), the world\u2019s third largest quick-service hamburger company, since April 1993 and as its non-executive Chairman since June 2007. Mr. Peltz has also served as a director of Mondel\u0113z International, Inc. (\u201cMondel\u0113z\u201d), a global snacking powerhouse, since January 2014, and as a director of Sysco Corporation (\u201cSysco\u201d), the largest North American distributor of food and related products, since August 2015. In addition, he has served as a director of The Madison Square Garden Company (\u201cMadison Square Garden\u201d), a sports, entertainment and media company, and its predecessor, since December 2014. Mr. Peltz previously served on the board of directors of Ingersoll-Rand plc (\u201cIngersoll-Rand\u201d), an Irish global diversified industrial company, from August 2012 to June 2014. From September 2006 until June 2013, Mr. Peltz served as a director of H.J. Heinz Company (\u201cHeinz\u201d), a global packaged food manufacturer, and from October 2009 until December 2014, Mr. Peltz served as a director of Legg Mason, Inc. (\u201cLegg Mason\u201d), an asset management firm.\nIn addition to founding Trian Management, Mr. Peltz has served in senior management positions at various companies. From 1993 to 2007, he served as the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Triarc Companies, Inc. (now known as The Wendy\u2019s Company), which, during that period, owned Arby's Restaurant Group, Inc. and acquired Snapple Beverage Group, as well as other consumer and industrial businesses. Mr. Peltz was also Chairman & Chief Executive Officer of Triangle Industries, Inc., a Fortune 100 industrial company and the parent of American National Can Company, from 1983 until December 1988, when it was acquired by Pechiney, S.A. From 1984 until 1992, Mr. Peltz was Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Avery, Inc., which primarily engaged in the manufacture and sale of specialty chemicals through Uniroyal Chemical Company, and from 1996 to 1999, he served as Chairman of the Board of National Propane Corporation, the managing general partner of National Propane Partners, L.P., a distributor of liquefied petroleum gas.\nMr. Peltz has more than 40 years of business and investment experience, has served as the chairman and chief executive officer of public companies for over 20 years and has extensive public company board experience--currently serving on the boards of Mondel\u0113z, Sysco, Wendy\u2019s and Madison Square Garden and previously serving on the boards of Heinz, Legg Mason and Ingersoll-Rand. Throughout his professional career, he has developed extensive experience working with management teams and boards, as well as in acquiring, investing in and building companies and implementing operational improvements at the companies with which he has been involved (including many companies in the consumer sector). Mr. Peltz was also recognized by the National Association of Corporate Directors in 2010, 2011 and 2012 as among the most influential people in the global corporate governance arena. As a result, Mr. Peltz has developed strong operating experience and strategic planning skills, valuable leadership and corporate governance experience and strong relationships with institutional investors, investment banking/capital markets advisors and others that we believe will benefit the Company and its Board.\nMr. Peltz has consented to being named as a nominee in this Proxy Statement and to serving as a director of the Company if elected. However, in the event that Mr. Peltz is unable (due to death, disability, ineligibility or\notherwise) or hereafter becomes unwilling for any reason to serve as a director, the proxies named on the enclosed WHITE proxy card will be voted for the Alternate Nominee in place of Mr. Peltz. In addition to the foregoing, the Nominating Funds have reserved the right in the Nomination Notice to further nominate, substitute or add additional persons in the event that any of the events described in the previous sentence occurs with respect to the Alternate Nominee or the Company purports to increase the number of directorships after the date hereof and prior to the 2017 Annual Meeting. In the case of any of the foregoing, the Nominating Funds will give prompt written notice to the Company if they choose to nominate any such additional or substitute nominee and the Trian Group will file and deliver supplemental proxy materials, including a revised proxy card, disclosing the information relating to such additional persons that is required to be disclosed in solicitations for proxies for the election of directors pursuant to Section 14 of the Exchange Act. There can be no assurance that the Company will not assert that any additional or substitute nominations made pursuant to such a reservation must separately comply with any advance notification requirements provided in the Regulations. Notwithstanding the foregoing, the Nominating Funds reserves the right to withdraw the nomination of the Nominee or the Alternate Nominee or any additional or substitute nominee at any time, if applicable. In any such case, the Nominating Funds will give prompt notice to the Company of any such withdrawal and the Trian Group will disclose to shareholders the relevant information. The Trian Group has no reason to believe that Mr. Peltz will be unable or unwilling to serve as a director.\nThe Trian Group notes that none of the Company\u2019s binding governance documents, including the Amended Articles of Incorporation (the \u201cCharter\u201d) and the Regulations, include any age restriction for directors or nominees. The Company\u2019s non-binding Corporate Governance Guidelines (the \u201cGovernance Guidelines\u201d), which reflect the Board\u2019s internal governance practices, provide for a resignation policy for Board members upon reaching the age of 72, subject to certain exceptions. Although the Nominee exceeds the retirement age of 72, Trian believes that the Board may not seek to apply such resignation policy to prohibit the Nominee from serving the entirety of his term if the Company\u2019s shareholders choose to elect the Nominee to the Board after taking account of such disclosure. Section 1701.56 of the ORC provides that \u201cdirectors shall be natural persons of at least eighteen years of age and shall have such qualifications, if any, as are stated in the articles or the regulations.\u201d As the Company\u2019s Governance Guidelines are not part of the Charter or Regulations, any attempt by the Board to refuse to seat the Nominee based on the Governance Guidelines after the Company\u2019s shareholders have elected the Nominee on an informed basis would be counter to Section 1701.56.\nIn addition, the Governance Guidelines provide that non-executive directors of the Company are limited to serving on three public company boards in addition to the Board. Currently, Mr. Peltz serves on four public company boards. If elected as a director of P&G, Mr. Peltz intends to resign from at least one of the boards on which he currently serves.\nFinally, given Mr. Peltz\u2019s status as the Chief Executive Officer and Founding Partner of Trian Management, Trian Management notes its intention, in the case of Mr. Peltz\u2019s election, to enter into a customary non-disclosure agreement with the Company to allow Mr. Peltz to share information he receives from the Company with Trian Management and acknowledging its agreement to maintain, and to cause its personnel and advisors to maintain, the confidentiality of any information provided to Mr. Peltz in connection with his service as a director of the Company.\nIf elected, Mr. Peltz would only be one out of eleven members of the Board. Therefore, we are \u201crounding out\u201d our slate to give shareholders who vote on the enclosed WHITE proxy card the opportunity to vote for all available directorships, including the candidates who have been nominated by the Company (other than the Excluded Company Nominee). Shareholders will therefore be able to vote for the total number of directors up for election at the 2017 Annual Meeting. The Trian Group notes that the exclusion of the Excluded Company Nominee for the purposes of \u201crounding out\u201d its slate to the available number of directorships does not reflect the Trian Group\u2019s opposition to the Excluded Company Nominee serving on the Board, and, in the event that the Nominee or Alternate Nominee is elected in place of the Excluded Company Nominee at the 2017 Annual Meeting, the Nominee or Alternate Nominee would propose, as his first action as a director of the Company, that the Board immediately re-appoint to the Board the Excluded Company Nominee. You should refer to the Company\u2019s definitive Proxy Statement (the \u201cCompany\u2019s Proxy\nStatement\u201d) and form of proxy distributed by the Company for the names, background, qualifications and other information concerning the Company\u2019s director nominees. There is no assurance that any of the Company\u2019s nominees will serve as directors if the Trian Group\u2019s nominee is elected to the Board. In the event that Mr. Peltz or the Alternate Nominee is elected and that one or more of the Company\u2019s nominees declines to serve with Mr. Peltz or the Alternate Nominee, the Regulations provide that the resulting vacancies may be filled by the directors then in office by a vote of the majority of the whole authorized number of directors.\nVote Required.\nAccording to the Article EIGHTH of the Charter, in contested elections such as this one, the affirmative vote of a plurality of the votes cast in person or represented by proxy and entitled to vote on the election of directors at the 2017 Annual Meeting is required for the election of each director nominee (meaning that the eleven director nominees who receive the highest number of shares voted \u201cFOR\u201d their election by the shareholders will be elected to the Board). A \u201cWITHHOLD\u201d vote will have the same effect as a vote \u201cAGAINST\u201d the election of a director nominee. A shareholder cannot abstain in the election of directors and broker non-votes will not be counted.\nWE STRONGLY URGE YOU TO VOTE FOR THE ELECTION OF OUR NOMINEE AND FOR THE COMPANY\u2019S CANDIDATES FOR ELECTION (OTHER THAN THE EXCLUDED COMPANY NOMINEE) BY SIGNING, DATING AND RETURNING YOUR WHITE PROXY CARD TODAY IN THE ENCLOSED POSTAGE-PAID ENVELOPE.\nPROPOSAL 8: REPEAL CERTAIN AMENDMENTS TO REGULATIONS\nPursuant to Article VIII of the Regulations, the Board has the power to alter, amend, add to or repeal the Regulations of the Company. As of the date of this Proxy Statement, the Trian Group is not aware of any decision by the Board to adopt, amend or repeal any provision of the Regulations since April 8, 2016, but it is possible that the Board may have done so, or that following the date of this Proxy Statement and prior to the adoption of this resolution, such an amendment could be adopted by the Board and/or become effective. Such an amendment could negatively impact the Trian Group\u2019s ability to solicit and/or obtain proxies from shareholders of the Company or otherwise adversely affect the ability of the Company\u2019s shareholders to vote on Proposal 1, and the Trian Group would like to ensure that the Company\u2019s shareholders have the ability to elect our Nominee at the 2017 Annual Meeting.\nAlthough adoption of this proposal could have the effect of repealing previously undisclosed amendments to the Regulations without considering the beneficial nature, if any, of such amendments to the shareholders, it would not repeal any such amendments that were approved by the shareholders.\nProposal 8 provides for the adoption of the resolution in the following form:\nRESOLVED, that each provision or amendment of the Regulations of The Procter & Gamble Company (the \u201cCorporation\u201d) adopted by the Board of Directors of the Corporation (and not by the Corporation\u2019s shareholders) subsequent to April 8, 2016 and prior to the approval of this resolution be, and hereby is, repealed, effective as of the time this resolution is approved by the Corporation\u2019s shareholders.\nAccording to Article VIII of the Regulations, the affirmative vote of a majority of the outstanding shares entitled to vote on the election of directors at the 2017 Annual Meeting is required to alter, amend, add to or repeal any provision of the Regulations. Abstentions and broker non-votes will have the effect of a vote \u201cAGAINST\u201d Proposal 8.\nWE STRONGLY URGE YOU TO VOTE FOR PROPOSAL 8 BY SIGNING, DATING AND RETURNING YOUR WHITE PROXY CARD TODAY IN THE ENCLOSED POSTAGE-PAID ENVELOPE.\nOTHER MATTERS TO BE CONSIDERED AT THE ANNUAL MEETING\nBased on information contained in the Company\u2019s Preliminary Proxy Statement, it is expected that the shareholders at the 2017 Annual Meeting will be asked to ratify the employment of Deloitte & Touche LLP as the independent registered public accounting firm to perform the audit of the Company\u2019s financial statements and its internal controls over financial reporting for the fiscal year ending June 30, 2018 (\u201cProposal 2\u201d). According to the Company\u2019s Preliminary Proxy Statement, the Audit Committee of the Board is directly responsible for the appointment, compensation, retention and oversight of the independent external audit firm retained to audit the Company\u2019s financial statement. In order to assure continuing audit independence and objectivity, the Audit Committee will periodically consider whether there should be a rotation of the independent external audit firm. In accordance with the SEC-mandated rotation of the audit firm\u2019s lead engagement partner, the Audit Committee is also involved in the selection of the external audit firm\u2019s lead engagement partner. Based on information contained in the Company\u2019s Preliminary Proxy Statement, the Board is recommending a vote \u201cFOR\u201d Proposal 2. The Trian Group makes no recommendation on this matter.\nBased on information contained in the Company\u2019s Preliminary Proxy Statement, it is expected that the shareholders at the 2017 Annual Meeting will be asked to approve, on an advisory basis, the named executive officer (\u201cNEO\u201d) compensation disclosed in the Company\u2019s Preliminary Proxy Statement (\u201cProposal 3\u201d or the \u201cSay on Pay Vote\u201d). According to the Company\u2019s Preliminary Proxy Statement, this vote is advisory in nature, meaning that it is non-binding on the Company, its Board or the Compensation & Leadership Development Committee. However, according to the Company\u2019s Preliminary Proxy Statement, the Board and the Compensation & Leadership Development Committee will consider the outcome of the vote on Proposal 3 in connection with future executive compensation decisions. Based on information contained in the Company\u2019s Preliminary Proxy Statement, the Board is recommending a vote \u201cFOR\u201d Proposal 3. The Trian Group makes no recommendation on this matter.\nBased on information contained in the Company\u2019s Preliminary Proxy Statement, it is expected that the shareholders at the 2017 Annual Meeting will be asked to cast a non-binding, advisory vote on whether a Say on Pay Vote on the compensation of the Company\u2019s NEOs should be held every one year, two years, or three years (\u201cProposal 4\u201d). According to the Company\u2019s Preliminary Proxy Statement, this vote is advisory in nature, meaning that it is non-binding on the Company, its Board or the Compensation & Leadership Development Committee. However, according to the Company\u2019s Preliminary Proxy Statement, the Board and the Compensation & Leadership Development Committee will consider the outcome of the vote on Proposal 4 in connection with holding future Say on Pay votes. Based on information contained in the Company\u2019s Preliminary Proxy Statement, the Board is recommending a vote of every \u201c1 YEAR\u201d for Proposal 4. The Trian Group makes no recommendation on this matter.\nBased on information contained in the Company\u2019s Preliminary Proxy Statement, it is expected that the shareholders at the 2017 Annual Meeting will be asked to vote on a shareholder proposal requesting that the Board take steps to implement or increase activity on a set of eight equal opportunity principles proposed by Holy Land Principles Inc. to serve as guidelines for corporations in Israel/Palestine (\u201cProposal 5\u201d). Based on information contained in the Company\u2019s Preliminary Proxy Statement, the Board is recommending a vote \u201cAGAINST\u201d Proposal 5. The Trian Group makes no recommendation on this matter.\nBased on information contained in the Company\u2019s Preliminary Proxy Statement, it is expected that the shareholders at the 2017 Annual Meeting will be asked to vote on a shareholder proposal requesting that the Company issue a public report to shareholders, employees, customers, and public policy leaders, omitting confidential information and at a reasonable expense, by April 1, 2018, detailing the known and potential risks and costs to the Company caused by any enacted or proposed state policies supporting discrimination against LGBT people, and detailing strategies above and beyond litigation or legal compliance that the Company may deploy to defend the Company\u2019s LGBT employees and their families against discrimination and harassment that is encouraged or enabled by the policies (\u201cProposal 6\u201d). Based on information contained in the Company\u2019s Preliminary Proxy Statement, the Board is recommending a vote \u201cAGAINST\u201d Proposal 6. The Trian Group makes no recommendation on this matter.\nBased on information contained in the Company\u2019s Preliminary Proxy Statement, it is expected that the shareholders at the 2017 Annual Meeting will be asked to vote on a shareholder proposal requesting that the Company assess and report to shareholders, at reasonable expense and excluding proprietary or legally privileged information, on the company\u2019s approach, above and beyond legal compliance, to mitigating the heightened ethical and business risks associated with procurement and other activities in conflict-affected areas, including situations of occupation (\u201cProposal 7\u201d). Based on information contained in the Company\u2019s Preliminary Proxy Statement, the Board is recommending a vote \u201cAGAINST\u201d Proposal 7. The Trian Group makes no recommendation on this matter.\nAccording to the Company\u2019s Preliminary Proxy Statement, the approval of Proposals 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 and 7 require the affirmative vote of a majority of votes cast at the 2017 Annual Meeting. Abstentions and broker non-votes will have no effect on Proposals 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 and 7.\nBACKGROUND TO THE SOLICITATION\nOn February 16, 2017, Nelson Peltz, Chief Executive Officer and a Founding Partner of Trian, called David S. Taylor, Chairman of the Board, President and Chief Executive Officer of the Company, to introduce himself and initiate a dialogue between the Company and Trian. Mr. Peltz and Mr. Taylor agreed to arrange an in-person meeting on a mutually convenient date.\nOn March 7, 2017, Mr. Peltz and Ed Garden, Chief Investment Officer and a Founding Partner of Trian, met with Mr. Taylor and Jon R. Moeller, Chief Financial Officer and Vice Chairman of the Company. The parties discussed a variety of topics, including Trian\u2019s background and investment philosophy, the reasons why Trian invested in the Company and potential opportunities that Trian believed the Company should pursue, including opportunities to simplify the organizational structure, increase accountability, accelerate revenue growth and realize additional earnings growth from recently announced cost saving initiatives.\nThe next day, March 8, 2017, Messrs. Peltz and Garden corresponded with Mr. Taylor via email, and Mr. Taylor indicated that he would contact Messrs. Peltz and Garden about setting up another discussion after giving consideration to the business opportunities discussed at the prior meeting.\nOn April 12, 2017, Mr. Peltz spoke with Mr. Taylor by telephone and Mr. Taylor invited Mr. Peltz to address the Company\u2019s global leadership team at an upcoming meeting.\nOn April 24, 2017, Messrs. Peltz and Garden and Josh Frank, a partner at Trian, attended a follow-up meeting with Messrs. Taylor and Moeller to continue discussing potential opportunities for the Company. Messrs. Peltz, Garden and Frank shared a short presentation regarding Trian\u2019s focus on sustained long-term value creation. They also noted that Trian held deep concerns regarding the Company\u2019s long history of underperformance, specifically related to market share losses, poor sales volumes relative to peers, the Company\u2019s inability to realize income statement improvement from prior cost savings initiatives, and weak total shareholder returns. Messrs. Peltz, Garden and Frank discussed specific areas of opportunity that would allow the Company to address such underperformance, including a less complex organizational structure, with a reduced level of bureaucracy, that would allow for faster and more autonomous decision-making; increased management accountability with real profit and loss (P&L) responsibility for individual executives; and a more nimble, less insular corporate culture that is more open to hiring individuals from outside the P&G organization for senior leadership positions. The Trian representatives indicated that they believed that the Company was capable of significantly more income statement improvement, including accelerated revenue and profit growth, than the Company had previously signaled, and they looked forward to working with management to help realize such improvement. They also noted that they were not proposing that the Company\u2019s Chief Executive Officer be replaced or that the Company incur excessive leverage or make cuts to research and development, marketing expense or capital expenditures.\nOn May 4, 2017, Mr. Peltz addressed the Company\u2019s global leadership team of top executives. Mr. Frank was also in attendance. Mr. Peltz answered questions from Mr. Taylor and presented an overview of his business background and experience, Trian\u2019s philosophy of working constructively with boards and management teams to drive long-term sustainable earnings growth, several case studies describing successful collaborations between Trian and companies in which it had invested, Trian\u2019s rationale for investing in the Company and Trian\u2019s specific recommendations for improving the Company\u2019s operational performance and organizational structure. Mr. Peltz also noted important changes in the broader consumer landscape including changes in consumer habits and a shift towards e-commerce and digital sales. He shared his perspective that the Company must act with urgency to confront these new challenges, and that doing so would require a different mindset, and more autonomy for individual business units, so they could more effectively incubate and develop small brands that resonate with today\u2019s consumers.\nFrom May 8, 2017 to May 14, 2017, Mr. Peltz and Mr. Taylor corresponded by email and spoke by telephone regarding logistics for a meeting between Mr. Peltz and W. James McNerney, Jr., the Company\u2019s Lead Director since 2007.\nOn May 18, 2017, Mr. Peltz met with Messrs. Taylor and McNerney, and Mr. Peltz discussed with Mr. McNerney his background, Trian\u2019s investment philosophy and Trian\u2019s operational and strategic recommendations for the Company. Mr. McNerney advised Mr. Peltz that he had researched Trian and garnered positive references regarding Mr. Peltz and his past involvement with boards and management teams from various executives, directors and shareholders with whom Mr. McNerney had spoken.\nDuring that meeting, the parties also discussed the possibility of appointing Mr. Peltz to the Board, as was discussed previously in prior meetings. Specifically, Mr. McNerney informed Mr. Peltz that the Company would consider appointing Mr. Peltz to the Board in one year if the Company performed poorly over the course of the following twelve months. In response, Mr. Peltz inquired as to whether the Company would consider making such a commitment public. Mr. McNerney indicated that the Company would not be willing to do so, but that he and Mr. Taylor would discuss the possibility of making another type of \u201cpublic statement\u201d and would revert to Mr. Peltz following that discussion. Mr. Peltz informed Messrs. Taylor and McNerney that, in light of the Company\u2019s upcoming deadline of May 24, 2017 for shareholders to submit a notice of nomination of candidates for election to the Board at the 2017 annual meeting of shareholders, certain members of the Trian Group, in order to preserve their options, intended to submit a nomination notice while Trian and the Company continued their ongoing dialogue.\nIn addition, on May 18, 2017, the Nominating Funds delivered a letter to the Company informing the Company of their intention to nominate Mr. Peltz (and, if applicable, the Alternate Nominee) for election to the Board and to propose the repeal of each provision or amendment of the Regulations that has been adopted by the Board subsequent to April 8, 2016, in each case, at the 2017 Annual Meeting (the \u201cNomination Notice\u201d).\nOn May 19, 2017, Mr. Peltz received an email from Mr. Taylor thanking him for the productive conversation on May 18 and indicating his intention to send over a draft of a public statement by the Company the following week. Mr. Peltz noted that he enjoyed meeting Mr. McNerney and indicated that he hoped something could be worked out.\nOn May 22, 2017, Mr. Taylor emailed a proposed public statement by the Company to Mr. Peltz. The statement acknowledged an active and constructive dialogue between the Company and Trian, Mr. Peltz\u2019s recent presentation to the Company\u2019s global leadership team, and the Board and management team\u2019s focus on continuing the Company\u2019s transformation and executing its strategy. However, the proposed statement did not reference any performance goals or provide any indication that Mr. Peltz would be appointed to the Board at a later time if those performance goals were not met.\nOn May 24, 2017, Mr. Peltz responded to Mr. Taylor via email, and noted that his \u201cinitial reaction\u201d was to request that the statement be amended to include specific 12-month performance goals and a commitment to give Trian Board representation if those goals were not achieved, as was previously discussed at the May 18 meeting. Mr. Peltz stated that he would be \u201copen to discussing\u201d such a statement if the Company were prepared to go forward with it; however, Mr. Peltz acknowledged that an agreement subject to an arbitrary one-year performance period would be difficult for Mr. Taylor and the Board, and, similarly, Trian did not invest in the Company with the hope that it would realize incrementally stronger performance over the short term, but rather that it would pursue opportunities that would lead to a step change in performance over the long term. Mr. Peltz noted that if an agreement could not be reached, as previously discussed at the May 18 meeting and as set forth in the Nomination Notice, Trian would respectfully take his board candidacy to shareholders at the 2017 Annual Meeting. Mr. Peltz also noted that Trian, as an engaged shareowner with an approximately $3.2 billion ownership stake, believed that Mr. Peltz would bring a shareholder\u2019s viewpoint to the boardroom and help the Company to enhance long-term value and overcome ongoing competitive challenges. Mr. Peltz indicated that he hoped that a solution could be reached that avoided the unnecessary distraction and cost of a proxy contest.\nOn May 25, 2017, Mr. Peltz and Mr. Taylor sent a series of emails to one another in which they agreed that a one-year performance period would represent an arbitrary evaluation period from each party\u2019s perspective. Mr. Peltz also noted that he did not want the Company to make any commitments that could detract from its long-term performance, which would be contrary to the best interests of all long-term shareholders, but that Trian believed it was critical for the Company to make material changes in order to position itself for sustained success. The two agreed to meet again in the near future to continue the dialogue in an effort to avoid the distraction of a proxy contest.\nOn June 1, 2017, Mr. Peltz and Mr. Taylor met to continue discussions regarding opportunities and challenges facing the Company, as well as Trian\u2019s recommendations for improving the Company\u2019s operational performance and organizational structure. Mr. Peltz and Mr. Taylor also discussed the possibility of Mr. Peltz being appointed as a director, with Mr. Peltz noting he would be better positioned to assess the efficiency and structure of the organization as a member of the Board. Mr. Taylor declined to invite Mr. Peltz to join the Board during that discussion. At the meeting, Mr. Peltz requested to meet the entire Board (either in one meeting or over the course of two or three meetings with different subsets of the Board, and at a geographic location that would be convenient for the directors) so that he could introduce himself, his investment philosophy and the potential contributions he could make to the Company as a director.\nOn June 14, 2017 and June 19, 2017, Mr. Peltz and Mr. Taylor spoke by telephone and, on those calls, Mr. Taylor advised Mr. Peltz that he was not being invited to join the Board. Mr. Peltz indicated that he still hoped the parties could avoid a proxy contest, and it was agreed that Mr. Peltz would meet on July 11, 2017 with a subset of the Board composed of Mr. Taylor and Mr. McNerney (each of whom Mr. Peltz had met previously) and Angela F. Braly and Kenneth I. Chenault.\nOn July 5, 2017, Mr. Peltz and Mr. Taylor spoke again by telephone, and Mr. Taylor stressed to Mr. Peltz that the purpose of the upcoming meeting scheduled for July 11, 2017 was not to interview Mr. Peltz for a Board position.\nOn July 11, 2017, Messrs. Peltz and Frank met with Messrs. Taylor, McNerney and Chenault. Ms. Braly joined the meeting by teleconference. Messrs. Peltz and Frank shared a short presentation regarding Trian\u2019s history, long-term investment horizon and focus on collaborating with management teams and boards; the strong performance of the consumer companies in which Trian has invested (and particularly of those companies in which Mr. Peltz has served on the Board) in terms of both earnings growth and total shareholder return; a description of the Company\u2019s recent underperformance; and Trian\u2019s reasons for investing in the Company. Messrs. Peltz and Frank noted that the presentation was not intended to be a \u201cwhite paper\u201d outlining a detailed set of strategic and operating initiatives that the Company should undertake.\nAt the meeting, Messrs. Peltz and Frank discussed various opportunities for the Company to consider that would address recent underperformance, including exploring new organizational structures that would involve less\nbureaucracy and allow for more autonomous decision-making. Messrs. Peltz and Frank also emphasized that, in light of the Company\u2019s recent market share losses and an increasingly competitive consumer environment, time was of the essence for addressing structural issues that could impede performance. As a result, they explained that Trian was requesting one Board seat for Mr. Peltz, who would be one of twelve directors, and would work with Mr. Taylor and Company management to study potential initiatives and opportunities to improve performance. The Company directors attending the meeting indicated that they agreed that the Company\u2019s performance could be improved, but that they felt that Trian\u2019s representation on the Board was unnecessary in light of recent initiatives undertaken by the Company. Messrs. Peltz and Frank stated their disappointment with this response, in light of what they believed was continuing underperformance at the Company and the lack of tangible evidence that it had embraced the initiatives discussed at various meetings between the parties, and that the Trian Group intended to proceed with the solicitation of proxies at the 2017 Annual Meeting to elect Nelson Peltz to the Board. They also stated that if Mr. Peltz is elected to the Board at the 2017 Annual Meeting, Mr. Peltz would propose that the Board immediately re-appoint to the Board whichever director is not re-elected by shareholders.\nOn July 17, 2017, the Trian Group filed its preliminary proxy statement for the solicitation of proxies at the 2017 Annual Meeting to elect Nelson Peltz to the Board, among other matters. On the same date, Trian also issued a press release and launched www.RevitalizePG.com to provide Company shareholders with information as to why the Trian Group believes that adding Mr. Peltz to the Board will help the Company address its challenges. In addition, the Nominating Funds submitted a request to the Company to inspect certain of its books and records pursuant to Section 1701.37 of the General Corporation Law of the State of Ohio.\nLater in the day on July 17, 2017, Mr. Peltz and Mr. Taylor spoke by telephone. Mr. Peltz suggested to Mr. Taylor that the Company should add Mr. Peltz to the Board in order to save the time and expense associated with a proxy contest, and he noted that he would be only one member on a twelve-person Board who would work with the other directors to help improve the Company\u2019s performance. Mr. Taylor stated that the Company continued to believe that Trian representation on the Board was unnecessary.\nOn July 20, 2017, Mr. Peltz called Mr. McNerney. Mr. Peltz suggested, and Mr. McNerney agreed, that the two individuals should strive to maintain an open dialogue over the coming months. Mr. Peltz also suggested that they should meet again in person, and Mr. Peltz and Mr. McNerney agreed to try to schedule another meeting in August 2017.\nINFORMATION ABOUT THE TRIAN GROUP AND OTHER PARTICIPANTS\nThis proxy solicitation is being conducted by the Trian Group, which is comprised of Nelson Peltz, Peter W. May, Ed Garden, Trian Management GP, Trian Management and certain investment funds and investment vehicles managed by Trian Management, all of which are described below. The Trian Group collectively is the beneficial owner of an aggregate of 37,612,012 Shares or approximately 1.47% of the outstanding Shares of P&G and is one of the largest shareholders of P&G. Each member of the Trian Group, including Mr. Peltz and Mr. Garden, as well as Mr. Daley, are participants in this proxy solicitation (the \u201cParticipants\u201d).\nInformation about the Participants, including information as to any substantial interest, direct or indirect, by security holdings or otherwise, that they may have with respect to the various proposals to be voted on at the 2017 Annual Meeting is set forth below in this section.\nThe principal business address of each member of the Trian Group is 280 Park Avenue, New York, New York 10017, except that the principal business address of Trian Offshore, Co-Investment Fund, Trian ERISA, Strategic Fund-D and Strategic Fund-C is c/o DE (Cayman) Limited, Landmark Square, West Bay Road, PO Box 775, Grand Cayman, Cayman Islands, KY1-9006.\nEach of the Funds is primarily engaged in the business of investing in securities. Trian Management is primarily engaged in the business of serving as the management company for the Funds and certain other funds, accounts and investment vehicles. Trian Management GP is primarily engaged in the business of serving as the general partner of Trian Management.\nNelson Peltz\u2019s present principal occupation or employment is serving as Chief Executive Officer and a Founding Partner of Trian Management and, as such, managing the investments of the Funds and the other funds, accounts and investment vehicles managed by Trian Management. Peter W. May\u2019s present principal occupation or employment is serving as President and a Founding Partner of Trian Management and, as such, managing the investments of the Funds and the other funds and investment vehicles managed by Trian. Ed. Garden\u2019s present principal occupation or employment is serving as Chief Investment Officer and a Founding Partner of Trian Management and, as such, managing the investments of the Funds and the other funds, accounts and investment vehicles managed by Trian Management.\nNominee, Alternate Nominee, and Mr. Daley\nPlease see \u201cProposal 1: Election of Directors\u201d or Annex A for additional information about the Nominee or the Alternate Nominee, as applicable.\nMr. Daley is the former Chief Financial Officer and Vice Chairman of The Procter & Gamble Company. Mr. Daley held positions of increasing responsibility at the Company from 1974 until 1998, before serving as Chief Financial Officer from 1998 until 2007, and as Vice Chairman and Chief Financial Officer from 2007 until his retirement from the Company in 2009. Since that time, Mr. Daley served as a Senior Advisor to TPG Capital from 2010 until 2012, and as director of Starwood Hotels and Resorts Worldwide, Inc. from 2008 until 2016, Foster Wheeler AG from 2009 until 2014, and Nucor Corporation from 2001 until 2013. Mr. Daley has also served on the boards of directors of SunEdison, Inc. since 2014 and The Simply Good Foods Company and one of its predecessor companies since 2016. Mr. Daley currently serves as a business consultant with a principal business address of 565 Sanctuary Drive, Longboat Key, FL 34228.\nThe Trian Group has engaged Mr. Daley at its own expense because of his deep background in the consumer products industry and track record of overseeing strong organic volume increases, sustained earningsgrowth and total shareholder return (TSR) outperformance during his tenure as Chief Financial Officer of the Company. As a significant shareholder of the Company, Mr. Daley also brings an ownership mentality and a commitment to addressing the challenges it faces in order to improve long-term performance.\nConsulting Agreement with Mr. Daley\nTrian Management and Mr. Daley entered into a Consulting Agreement dated as of July 14, 2017 (the \u201cConsulting Agreement\u201d) pursuant to which Mr. Daley has agreed to provide the Trian Group with strategic advice and analysis regarding the Company and the consumer products industry and other related services, including, but not limited to, engaging, at the request and direction of the Trian Group, with management and members of the Board, proxy advisory firms and shareholders of the Company, as well as the solicitation of proxies on behalf of the Trian Group. In consideration for the performance of the services by Mr. Daley, Trian Management has agreed, on behalf of the Funds, to pay $125,000 to Mr. Daley\u2019s family\u2019s charitable foundation upon execution of the Consulting Agreement and has agreed to pay an additional $125,000 to the foundation upon completion or termination of this proxy solicitation. The Consulting Agreement also provides for customary indemnification of Mr. Daley similar to the terms described above with respect to the Director Nominee Consent and Indemnification Agreements, as well as Mr. Daley\u2019s agreement to consult with Trian regarding certain purchases of securities of the Company and to not dispose of any securities of the Company during the term of the Consulting Agreement.\nBeneficial Ownership of Shares\nThe following table shows the number of Shares that are beneficially owned (within the meaning of Rule 13d-3 under the Exchange Act) by each Participant as of the date of this Proxy Statement. Except as described below, each member of the Trian Group directly owns and has sole voting power and sole dispositive power with regard to the number of Shares beneficially owned. Please see Annex B for additional information about each Participant\u2019s purchases and sales of Shares and other securities related to the Company, including swaps and options.\nEntity Number of Shares Beneficially\nShares(1)\nTrian Onshore 2,052,124 *\nCo-Investment Fund 6,980,189 *\nTrian Offshore 4,428,680 *\nParallel Fund I 289,051 *\nTrian ERISA 163,898 *\nStrategic Fund-A 1,449,188 *\nCoinvest Fund-A 893,157 *\nStrategic Fund-D 428,752 *\nSPV XII 18,529,938 *\nFund G 178,320 *\nStrategic Fund-G II 391,661 *\nStrategic Fund-G III 186,590 *\nStrategic Fund-N 602,800 *\nStrategic Fund-K 502,913 *\nStrategic Fund-C 534,751 *\nTrian Management (2) 37,612,012 1.47%\nTrian Management GP (2) 37,612,012 1.47%\nNelson Peltz (2) 37,612,012 1.47%\nPeter W. May (2) 37,612,012 1.47%\nEd Garden (2) 37,612,012 1.47%\nClayton C. Daley, Jr. (3) 692,594 *\n(1) Calculated on the basis of 2,557,614,388 Shares outstanding as of March 31, 2017, as indicated in the Company\u2019s 10-Q.\n(2) Trian Management GP is the general partner of Trian Management, which serves as the management company for each of the Funds. Trian Management GP is controlled by Nelson Peltz, Peter W. May and Ed Garden. Each of Trian Management, Trian Management GP and Messrs. Peltz, May and Garden, by virtue of their relationships to the Funds, may be deemed to have shared voting power and shared dispositive power with regard to, and therefore may be deemed to beneficially own (within the meaning of Rule 13d-3 under the Exchange Act) the Shares owned by the Funds.\n(3) Includes (a) 27,235 Shares held by the Daley Family Foundation, Inc., which is controlled by Mr. Daley and certain of his family members, (b) 58,000 Shares held by Mr. Daley\u2019s wife or certain vehicles which she controls, (c) 108,040 Shares underlying restricted stock units issued by the Company to Mr. Clayton in connection with his employment, which are deliverable to Mr. Clayton at fixed dates in the future and (d) 284,170 Shares acquirable upon the exercise of stock options previously issued to Mr. Clayton in connection with his employment, including (i) stock options to acquire 169,991 Shares at an exercise price of $66.18 , which expire in February 2018 and (ii) stock options to acquire 114,179 Shares at an exercise price of $48.17, which expire in February 2019.\nThe Shares held by certain of the Funds are held in the ordinary course of business with other investment securities owned by such Funds in co-mingled margin accounts with a prime broker, which prime broker may, from time to time, extend margin credit to such Funds, subject to applicable federal margin regulations, stock exchange rules and credit policies. Because other securities are held in the margin accounts, it is not possible to determine the amounts, if any, of margin used to purchase the Shares referenced above.\nExcept as set forth in this subsection (including Annex B), no Participant, and no associate of any Participant, owns beneficially, directly or indirectly, or of record but not beneficially, any securities of the Company, or any parent or subsidiary of the Company, nor has any Participant purchased or sold any securities of the Company within the last two years.\nDirector Nominee Consent and Indemnification Agreements\nTrian Management and each of the Nominee and the Alternate Nominee have entered into a Director Nominee Consent and Indemnification Agreement, pursuant to which Trian Management has agreed, on behalf of the Funds, to reimburse each of the Nominee and the Alternate Nominee for certain expenses incurred in connection with the solicitation of proxies for the 2017 Annual Meeting, including reasonable expenses for certain travel arrangements. In addition, Trian Management has agreed, on behalf of the Funds, subject to certain limited exceptions, to indemnify and hold harmless the Nominee and the Alternate Nominee from and against any loss, cost or expense suffered or sustained by reason of any acts or omissions, or alleged acts or omissions, arising out of such individual\u2019s role as a nominee or alternate nominee for election as a director of the Company or otherwise arising from or relating to the Trian Group\u2019s solicitation of proxies for the 2017 Annual Meeting (\u201cCovered Acts\u201d), and to advance certain fees and other costs and expenses incurred in connection with the defense of any action or proceeding arising out of any Covered Acts.\nEach of the Nominee and the Alternate Nominee has also executed a written consent to being named in this Proxy Statement and to serving as a director if elected.\nExcept as set forth in this subsection or elsewhere in this Proxy Statement, (i) neither the Nominee nor the Alternate Nominee will receive any compensation from any member of the Trian Group to serve as nominees for election or as a director, if elected, of the Company and (ii) there are no arrangements or understandings between the Nominee or the Alternate Nominee and any other party pursuant to which any such Nominee or Alternate Nominee, as applicable, was or is to be selected as a director or nominee or alternate nominee, as applicable.\nOther Interests of the Participants\nSet forth in the sections of this Proxy Statement titled \u201cProposal 1: Election of Directors\u2014 Biographical Information,\u201d \u201cAnnex A \u2013 Information about the Alternate Nominee,\u201d and this \u201cInformation about the Trian Group and other Participants,\u201d which are incorporated herein by reference, are (as applicable) the (a) names and the business addresses of each of the Participants, (b) the present principal occupation or employment of each of the Participants and (c) the name, principal business and address of any corporation or other organization in which such employment is carried on.\nMr. Peltz is the Chief Executive Officer and a Founding Partner of Trian Management, a member of Trian Management GP and a partner and/or principal of certain of their respective affiliates. Mr. May is the Chief Operating Officer and a Founding Partner of Trian Management, a member of Trian Management GP and a partner and/or principal of certain of their respective affiliates, and Mr. Garden is the Chief Investment Officer and a Founding Partner of Trian Management, a member of Trian Management GP and a partner and/or principal of certain of their respective affiliates. As such, each of Messrs. Peltz, May and Garden shares in (i) management fees received by Trian Management which are based on the level of assets managed and (ii) performance-based fees and allocations received by Trian Management and such affiliates which are based on investment performance. Such management fees may be up to 2% of the assets under management and such performance-based fees and allocations may be up to 20% of the increase in the net asset value of the assets under management or the net profits in respect of the assets under management, which include the Shares held by funds and investment vehicles managed by Trian Management. Additionally, each of Messrs. Peltz, May and Garden is entitled to indemnification by each Trian Entity against certain liabilities and expenses arising from or in connection with certain matters relating to each such Trian Entity.\nMr. Daley or certain accounts or vehicles he may be deemed to control wrote call options expiring in January 2018 with respect to (a) 10,000 Shares, at an exercise price of $97.50, (b) 10,000 Shares, at an exercise price of $100.00, (c) 4,000 Shares, at an exercise price of $90.00, (d) 4,000 Shares, at an exercise price of $92.50, (e) 4,000 Shares, at an exercise price of $95.00, and (f) 4,000 Shares, at an exercise price of $97.50. In addition, 259,838 of the Shares beneficially owned by Mr. Daley serve as collateral to secure a third party line of credit.\nEach of the Participants has an interest in the election of directors at the 2017 Annual Meeting through the ownership of the Shares as described in this Proxy Statement or as a Nominee, as applicable. To the extent that the adoption of Proposal 8 could have the effect of counteracting any unilateral adoption, amendment or repeal of the Regulations by the Board that purports to impede the effectiveness of Proposal 1, negatively impact the Trian Group\u2019s ability to solicit and/or obtain proxies from shareholders of the Company or otherwise adversely affect shareholders\u2019 ability to vote on Proposal 1, Trian Management and the other members of the Trian Group could be considered to have a material interest in Proposal 8. Each member of the Trian Group intends to vote the Shares owned by it in favor of Proposal 8.\nThe corporate governance standards of the Company, which are available on the Company\u2019s website at https://www.pg.com/en_US/downloads/company/governance/Corporate_Governance_Guidelines.pdf, provide that the Board will make assessments regarding Board members\u2019 independence in accordance with the listing\nstandards of the New York Stock Exchange and the additional standards described in the Guidelines. The Trian Group has no knowledge of any facts that would prevent a final determination by the Board that the Nominee or the Alternate Nominee is independent in accordance with the listing standards of the New York Stock Exchange or any additional standards described in the Guidelines.\nExcept as set forth in this Proxy Statement (including the Annexes), (i) during the past ten years, no Participant has been convicted in a criminal proceeding (excluding traffic violations or similar misdemeanors); (ii) no Participant in this proxy solicitation directly or indirectly beneficially owns any securities of the Company; (iii) no Participant owns any securities of the Company which are owned of record but not beneficially; (iv) no Participant has purchased or sold any securities of the Company during the past two years; (v) no part of the purchase price or market value of the securities of the Company owned by any Participant is represented by funds borrowed or otherwise obtained for the purpose of acquiring or holding such securities; (vi) no Participant is, or within the past year was, a party to any contract, arrangements, or understandings with any person with respect to any securities of the Company, including, but not limited to, joint ventures, loan or option arrangements, puts or calls, guarantees against loss or guarantees of profit, division of losses or profits, or the giving or withholding of proxies; (vii) no associate of any Participant owns beneficially, directly or indirectly, any securities of the Company; (viii) no Participant owns beneficially, directly or indirectly, any securities of any parent or subsidiary of the Company; (ix) no Participant nor any associate of any Participant was a party to any transaction, or series of similar transactions, since the beginning of the Company\u2019s last fiscal year, or is a party to any currently proposed transaction, or series of similar transactions, to which the Company or any of its subsidiaries was or is to be a party, in which the amount involved exceeds $120,000; (x) no Participant or any of his, her, or its associates has any arrangement or understanding with any person with respect to any future employment by the Company or its affiliates, or with respect to any future transactions to which the Company or any of its affiliates will or may be a party; (xi) no person, including any of the Participants, who is a party to an arrangement or understanding pursuant to which the Nominees are proposed to be elected, has a substantial interest, direct or indirect, by security holdings or otherwise in any matter to be acted on as set forth in this Proxy Statement; (xii) there are no material proceedings to which any Participant or any associate of any Participant is a party adverse to the Company or any of its subsidiaries or has a material interest adverse to the Company or any of its subsidiaries; (xiii) none of the Nominee, the Alternate Nominee or any of their respective associates have received any cash compensation, cash bonuses, deferred compensation, compensation pursuant to plans, or other compensation, from, or in respect of, services rendered on behalf of the Company that is required to be disclosed under, or is subject to any arrangement described in, paragraphs (a)-(j) of Item 402 of Regulation S-K; (xiv) there exist no family relationships between the Nominee or the Alternate Nominee and any director or executive officer of the Company; (xv) there are no interlocking relationships that would have required disclosure had the Nominee or the Alternate Nominee been directors of the Company; (xvi) with respect to the Nominee, none of the events enumerated in Item 401(f)(1)-(8) of Regulation S-K of the Exchange Act occurred during the past ten years; and (xvii) neither the Nominee nor any associate of the Nominee has served as a director or named executive officer of the Company at any point during the last three fiscal years of the Company.\nThe enclosed WHITE proxy card may be executed only by holders of record of Shares on the Record Date. If you were a shareholder of record on the Record Date, you will retain your voting rights at the 2017 Annual Meeting even if you sell your Shares after the Record Date. Accordingly, it is important that you vote the Shares held by you on the Record Date, or grant a proxy to vote your Shares on the WHITE proxy card, even if you sell your Shares after the Record Date. The Shares represented by each WHITE proxy card that is properly executed and returned to the Trian Group will be voted at the 2017 Annual Meeting in accordance with the instructions marked thereon. If you have signed the WHITE proxy card and no marking is made, you will be deemed to have given a direction with respect to all of the Shares represented by the WHITE proxy card (i) to vote FOR the election of Mr. Peltz (or, if applicable, the Alternate Nominee) and for the candidates who have been nominated by the Company (other than the Excluded Company Nominee), (ii) to vote FOR the approval of Proposal 8 set forth in this Proxy Statement, and (iii) to abstain from voting on Proposal 2, Proposal 3, Proposal 4, Proposal 5, Proposal 6, and Proposal 7 set forth in this Proxy Statement.\nIf elected, Mr. Peltz would be only one out of eleven members of the Board. Therefore, we are \u201crounding out\u201d our slate to give shareholders who vote on the enclosed WHITE proxy card the opportunity to vote for all available directorships, including the candidates who have been nominated by the Company (other than the Excluded Company Nominee). Shareholders will therefore be able to vote for the total number of directors up for election at the 2017 Annual Meeting. The Trian Group notes that the exclusion of the Excluded Company Nominee for the purposes of \u201crounding out\u201d its slate to the available number of directorships does not reflect the Trian Group\u2019s opposition to the Excluded Company Nominee serving on the Board, and, in the event that the Nominee or Alternate Nominee is elected in place of the Excluded Company Nominee at the 2017 Annual Meeting, the Nominee or Alternate Nominee would propose, as his first action as a director of the Company, that the Board immediately re-appoint to the Board the Excluded Company Nominee. You should refer to the Company\u2019s Proxy Statement and form of proxy distributed by the Company for the names, background, qualifications and other information concerning the Company\u2019s candidates. There is no assurance that any of the Company\u2019s nominees will serve as directors if any of the Trian Group\u2019s nominees are elected to the Board. In the event that Mr. Peltz or the Alternate Nominee is elected and that one or more of the Company\u2019s nominees declines to serve with such nominee or nominees, the Regulations provide that the resulting vacancies may be filled by the directors then in office by a vote of the majority of the whole authorized number of directors.\nIf you hold your Shares in the name of one or more brokerage firms, banks or nominees, only they can vote your Shares and only upon receipt of your specific instructions. Accordingly, you should contact the person responsible for your account and give instructions to them to sign and return a WHITE proxy card representing your Shares.\nBased on disclosure in the Company\u2019s Preliminary Proxy Statement, it is Trian\u2019s understanding that if you are an employee of P&G or one of its subsidiaries and participate in one of its employee plans, including the Employee Stock Ownership Trust of The Procter & Gamble Profit Sharing Trust and Employee Stock Ownership Plan and the Procter & Gamble Savings Plan (as applicable, with respect to shares of Common Stock and Series A and B ESOP Convertible Class A Preferred Stock) (the \u201cPlans\u201d), and if you timely submit your voting instructions to the Plan\u2019s trustee by following the instructions on the enclosed WHITE voting instruction form, your shares will be voted as you have directed on the WHITE voting instruction form. If you do not provide the trustee with voting instructions, the trustees of the Plans may vote your shares in direct proportion to the voting of shares for which instructions have been received, provided that such voting is not contrary to the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, as amended. The trustees will vote unallocated shares in direct proportion to voting by allocated shares of the same Class in aggregate, for which instructions have been received. Please note that Plan participants may vote their shares through the trustee only and accordingly may not vote their Plan shares in person at the 2017 Annual Meeting.\nAny shareholder of record may revoke or change his or her proxy instructions at any time prior to the vote at the 2017 Annual Meeting by:\n\u2022 submitting a properly executed, subsequently dated proxy card that will revoke all prior proxy cards, including any proxy cards which solicit a proxy in favor of all of the incumbent directors;\n\u2022 instructing the Trian Group by telephone or via the Internet as to how you would like your shares voted (instructions are on your WHITE proxy card) or instructing the Company in accordance with the Company\u2019s instructions as to how you would like your shares voted;\n\u2022 attending the 2017 Annual Meeting and withdrawing his or her proxy by voting in person (although attendance at the 2017 Annual Meeting will not in and of itself constitute revocation of a proxy); or\n\u2022 delivering written notice of revocation either to the Trian Group, c/o Innisfree M&A Incorporated, 501 Madison Avenue, 20th Floor, New York, New York 10022, or the Corporate Secretary\u2019s Office, One Procter & Gamble Plaza, Cincinnati, OH 45202-3315, or any other address provided by the Company.\nAlthough a revocation is effective if delivered to the Company, the Trian Group requests that either the original or a copy of any revocation be mailed to the Trian Group c/o Innisfree M&A Incorporated, 501 Madison Avenue, 20th Floor, New York, New York 10022, so that the Trian Group will be aware of all revocations and can more accurately determine if and when the requisite proxies for the election of our Nominee as a director and the approval of Proposal 8 have been received. The Trian Group may contact shareholders who have revoked their proxies.\nIF YOU PREVIOUSLY SIGNED AND RETURNED A BLUE PROXY CARD TO THE COMPANY, THE TRIAN GROUP URGES YOU TO REVOKE IT BY (1) SIGNING, DATING AND RETURNING THE WHITE PROXY CARD IN THE ENCLOSED POSTAGE-PAID ENVELOPE, (2) INSTRUCTING US BY TELEPHONE OR VIA THE INTERNET AS TO HOW YOU WOULD LIKE YOUR SHARES VOTED, (3) ATTENDING THE 2017 ANNUAL MEETING AND VOTING IN PERSON OR (4) DELIVERING A WRITTEN NOTICE OF REVOCATION TO THE TRIAN GROUP OR TO THE SECRETARY OF THE COMPANY.\nBased on the Company\u2019s 10-Q, there were 2,557,614,388 Shares outstanding as of March 31, 2017. In addition, as of August 12, 2016, there were approximately 101,213,055 shares of Series A and Series B ESOP Convertible Class A Preferred Stock outstanding. Only shareholders of record at the close of business on the Record Date will be entitled to vote at the 2017 Annual Meeting. Each Share and each share of Series A and Series B ESOP Convertible Class A Preferred Stock has one vote. Shareholders of the Company will not have rights of appraisal or similar dissenter\u2019s rights with respect to any matter to be acted upon at the 2017 Annual Meeting. The shareholders present in person or by proxy at the 2017 Annual Meeting will constitute a quorum unless a larger proportion is required to take the action stated in the Company\u2019s notice of the 2017 Annual Meeting, in which case, to constitute a quorum, there must be present in person or by proxy the holders of record of shares entitling them to exercise the voting power required by the Company\u2019s Charter to take the action stated. Abstentions and broker non-votes will be counted as present for purposes of determining whether a quorum is present at the 2017 Annual Meeting.\nAssuming a quorum is present or otherwise represented at the 2017 Annual Meeting, the eleven nominees receiving the highest number of votes \u201cFOR\u201d cast will be elected. A \u201cWITHHOLD\u201d vote will have the same effect as a vote \u201cAGAINST\u201d the election of a director nominee. A shareholder cannot abstain in the election of directors and broker non-votes will not be counted.\nAssuming a quorum is present or otherwise represented at the 2017 Annual Meeting, the affirmative vote of a majority of the votes cast by the shareholders entitled to vote is required for the approval of Proposals 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 and 7. Abstentions and broker non-votes will not be taken into account in determining the outcome of the election and the vote on Proposals 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 and 7 because abstentions and broker non-votes will have no effect on the election or these proposals since such actions do not represent votes cast.\nAssuming a quorum is present or otherwise represented at the 2017 Annual Meeting, the affirmative vote of a majority of the outstanding shares entitled to vote on the election of directors at the 2017 Annual Meeting is required for the approval of Proposal 8. Abstentions and broker non-votes will have the effect of a vote \u201cAGAINST\u201d Proposal 8.\nOhio law provides for the authorization of proxies by electronic means. Accordingly, you may submit your proxy by telephone or the Internet. To submit a proxy with voting instructions by telephone please call the telephone number listed on the WHITE proxy card. Proxies may also be submitted over the Internet. Please refer to the WHITE proxy card for the website information. In each case shareholders will be required to provide the unique control number which has been printed on each shareholder\u2019s WHITE proxy card. In addition to the instructions that appear on the WHITE proxy card, step-by-step instructions will be provided by a recorded telephone message for those shareholders submitting proxies by telephone, or at the designated website for those shareholders submitting proxies over the Internet. Shareholders submitting their proxies with voting instructions by telephone or over the Internet will receive confirmation on the telephone that their vote by telephone was successfully submitted, and may provide an email address for confirmation that their vote by Internet was successfully submitted.\nYOUR VOTE IS EXTREMELY IMPORTANT. WE URGE YOU TO SIGN, DATE AND RETURN THE ENCLOSED WHITE PROXY CARD TODAY OR INSTRUCT US BY TELEPHONE OR VIA THE INTERNET TO VOTE FOR THE ELECTION OF NELSON PELTZ AND THE COMPANY\u2019S CANDIDATES FOR ELECTION (OTHER THAN THE EXCLUDED COMPANY NOMINEE) AND FOR PROPOSAL 8 SET FORTH IN THIS PROXY STATEMENT.\nCOST AND METHOD OF SOLICITATION\nProxies may be solicited by mail, facsimile, telephone, telegraph, electronic mail, in person and by advertisements. Solicitations may also be made by the Nominee, the Alternate Nominee, or Mr. Daley and certain of the respective officers, partners and employees of Trian, none of whom (with the exception of Mr. Daley) will receive additional compensation for such solicitation.\nTrian Management has engaged Innisfree M&A Incorporated (the \u201cSolicitation Agent\u201d) in connection with solicitations relating to the 2017 Annual Meeting. The Solicitation Agent will receive a fee not to exceed $2,000,000 and reimbursement of reasonable out-of-pocket expenses for its services in connection with this proxy solicitation. Approximately 200 people may be employed by the Solicitation Agent to solicit proxies from the Company\u2019s shareholders for the 2017 Annual Meeting. Trian Management has agreed, on behalf of the Funds, to indemnify the Solicitation Agent against certain liabilities and expenses in connection with the solicitation. Arrangements will also be made with custodians, nominees and fiduciaries for forwarding proxy solicitation materials to beneficial owners of all Shares held as of the Record Date. Trian Management, on behalf of the Funds, will reimburse such custodians, nominees and fiduciaries for reasonable expenses incurred in connection therewith.\nThe entire expense of soliciting proxies for the 2017 Annual Meeting by the Trian Group is being borne by members of the Trian Group. The Trian Group will not seek reimbursement of such costs from the Company. Although no precise estimate can be made at this time, Trian currently estimates that the total expenses that the Trian Group will incur in furtherance of, or in connection with, the solicitation of proxies for the 2017 Annual Meeting will be approximately $25,000,000. The actual amount could be higher or lower depending on the facts and circumstances arising in connection with any such solicitation. As of the date hereof, the Trian Group has incurred approximately $650,000 of solicitation expenses.\nExcept for those proposals set forth under \u201cOther Matters To Be Considered At The Annual Meeting\u201d in this Proxy Statement, we are not aware of any other matters to be considered at the 2017 Annual Meeting. If, however, the Trian Group learns of any other proposals made at a reasonable time before the 2017 Annual Meeting, the Trian Group will either supplement this Proxy Statement and provide shareholders with an opportunity to vote by proxy directly on such matters or will not exercise discretionary authority with respect thereto. If other proposals are made thereafter, the persons named as proxies on the WHITE proxy card solicited by the Trian Group will vote such proxies in their discretion with respect to such matters.\nThis Proxy Statement contains forward-looking statements. All statements contained in this Proxy Statement that are not clearly historical in nature or that necessarily depend on future events are forward-looking, and the words \u201canticipate,\u201d \u201cbelieve,\u201d \u201cexpect,\u201d \u201cpotential,\u201d \u201ccould,\u201d \u201copportunity,\u201d \u201cestimate,\u201d \u201cplan,\u201d and similar expressions are generally intended to identify forward-looking statements. The projected results and statements contained in this Proxy Statement that are not historical facts are based on current expectations, speak only as of the date of this Proxy Statement and involve risks, uncertainties and other factors that may cause actual results, performance or achievements to be materially different from any future results, performance or achievements expressed or implied by such projected results and statements. Assumptions relating to the foregoing involve judgments with respect to, among other things, future economic, competitive and market conditions and future business decisions, all of which are difficult or impossible to predict accurately and many of which are beyond the control of the Trian Group. Although the Trian Group believes that the assumptions underlying the projected results or forward-looking statements are reasonable as of the date of this Proxy Statement, any of the assumptions could be inaccurate and therefore, there can be no assurance that the projected results or forward-looking statements included in this Proxy Statement will prove to be accurate and therefore actual results could differ materially from those set forth in, contemplated by, or underlying those forward-looking statements. In light of the significant uncertainties inherent in the projected results and forward-looking statements included in this Proxy Statement, the inclusion of such information should not be regarded as a representation as to future results or that the objectives and strategic initiatives expressed or implied by such projected results and forward-looking statements will be achieved. Except to the extent required by applicable law, the Trian Group will not undertake and specifically declines any obligation to disclose the results of any revisions that may be made to any projected results or forward-looking statements in this Proxy Statement to reflect events or circumstances after the date of such projected results or statements or to reflect the occurrence of anticipated or unanticipated events.\nOTHER INFORMATION ABOUT THE COMPANY\nBased upon documents publicly filed by the Company, the mailing address of the principal executive offices of the Company is 1 Procter & Gamble Plaza, Cincinnati, Ohio 45202.\nCertain information regarding the compensation of directors and executive officers, certain shareholders\u2019 beneficial ownership of more than 5% of the Company\u2019s voting securities, and certain other matters regarding the Company and its officers and directors is required to be contained in the Company\u2019s Proxy Statement. Certain other information regarding the 2017 Annual Meeting, as well as procedures for submitting proposals for consideration at the 2018 annual meeting of shareholders of the Company, is also required to be contained in the Company\u2019s Proxy Statement. Please refer to the Company\u2019s Proxy Statement to review this information. Please note that because the Trian Group was not involved in the preparation of the Company\u2019s Proxy Statement, the Trian Group cannot reasonably confirm the accuracy or completeness of certain information contained in the Company\u2019s Proxy Statement. As we may distribute our definitive proxy statement before the Company files the Company\u2019s Proxy Statement, we will provide any previously omitted information in a supplement filed as a revised definitive proxy statement, including completing references to the date, time and location of the 2017 Annual Meeting, as well as information relating to the Record Date.\nThe information concerning the Company and the proposals referenced in the Company\u2019s Proxy Statement contained in this Proxy Statement has been taken from, or is based upon, publicly available documents on file with the SEC and other publicly available information. Although the Trian Group has no knowledge that would indicate that statements relating to the Company contained in this Proxy Statement that are made in reliance upon publicly available information are inaccurate or incomplete, to date we have not had access to the books and records of the Company related to such information and statements, were not involved in the preparation of such information and statements and are not in a position to verify such information and statements. All information relating to any person other than the Participants is based only on the knowledge of the Trian Group.\nInformation about the Alternate Nominee\nThe Trian Group is soliciting proxies for the election of Nelson Peltz to the Board at the 2017 Annual Meeting. Mr. Peltz has consented to being named as a nominee in this Proxy Statement and to serving as a director of the Company if elected. However, in the event that Mr. Peltz is unable (due to death, disability, ineligibility or otherwise) or hereafter becomes unwilling for any reason to serve as a director, the proxies named on the enclosed WHITE proxy card will be voted for the Alternate Nominee in place of Mr. Peltz. The Alternate Nominee has consented to being named as a nominee in this Proxy Statement and to serving as a director if elected, if applicable.\nSet forth below is background information about the Alternate Nominee, including his name, age, principal occupation and employment and public company directorships held during the past five years, as well as a description of the qualifications, attributes or skills that led to the conclusion that the Alternate Nominee should serve as a director of the Company, if applicable. Please see the section of this Proxy Statement titled \u201cInformation about the Trian Group and other Participants\u201d for additional information about the Alternate Nominee, including information about his beneficial ownership of Shares. We have no knowledge of any facts that would prevent a final determination by the Board that the Alternate Nominee is independent in accordance with the corporate governance standards of the Company and the pertinent listing standards of the New York Stock Exchange. The Alternate Nominee satisfies all qualifications required by Section 1701.56 of the ORC to serve as a director of the Company.\nNew York, New York 10017 55 Mr. Garden has been Chief Investment Officer and a founding partner of Trian Management since November 2005. Trian is a highly engaged shareowner that combines concentrated public equity ownership with operational expertise. Trian seeks to invest in high quality but undervalued and underperforming public companies and to work collaboratively with management teams and boards of those companies to execute operational and strategic initiatives designed to drive sustainable earnings growth for the benefit of all stakeholders.\nMr. Garden has served as a director of The Bank of New York Mellon Corporation, a global investments company, since December 2014, and as the Chairman of its Human Resources and Compensation Committee since April 2016. He has also served as director of Pentair plc, a global industrial company, since May 2016. Mr. Garden previously served as a director of Family Dollar Stores, Inc., a discount retailer, from September 2011 until its acquisition by Dollar Tree, Inc. in July 2015, and as a director of Wendy\u2019s, the world\u2019s third largest quick-service hamburger company, from December 2004 to December 2015. In October 2014, Mr. Garden was named to CNBC\u2019s Next List composed of 100 next generation trailblazers expected to change the face of business over the next 25 years.\nFrom December 2004 to June 2007, Mr. Garden served as Vice Chairman and a director of Triarc, where he was also head of corporate development since August 2003. Prior to joining Triarc, Mr. Garden was a managing director of Credit Suisse First Boston, where he served as a senior investment banker in the Financial Sponsors, and a managing director at BT Alex Brown, where he was co-head of Equity Capital Markets.\nMr. Garden is the son-in-law of Mr. Peltz.\nMr. Garden has served as a director and senior executive of numerous public companies and has over 25 years of experience advising, financing, operating and investing in companies. For the past decade, Mr. Garden, as Chief Investment Officer of Trian Management, has worked with management teams and boards of directors to successfully implement growth initiatives as well as operational, strategic and corporate governance improvements. In addition, Mr. Garden has developed strong operating experience, a network of relationships with institutional investors and investment banking/capital markets experience that can be utilized for the Company\u2019s benefit.\nTransactions in securities of the Company by each Participant\nThe following transaction history shows all transactions by the Participants in Shares, Options (as defined below) and Swaps (as defined below) during the past two years. The Shares held by certain of the Funds are held in the ordinary course of business with other investment securities owned by such Funds in co-mingled margin accounts with a prime broker, which prime broker may, from time to time, extend margin credit to such Funds, subject to applicable federal margin regulations, stock exchange rules and credit policies. Because other securities are held in the margin accounts, it is not possible to determine the amounts, if any, of margin used to purchase the Shares referenced below.\nTrian Onshore Trian Offshore\nTrade Date Amount\nAcquired (Sold) Trade Date Amount\nAcquired (Sold)\n11/10/2016 81,182 11/10/2016 941,976\n11/10/2016 436,577 11/10/2016* 175,161\n11/11/2016 81,274 11/11/2016* 175,360\n11/15/2016 8,501 11/15/2016* 18,335\n11/17/2016 34,985 11/17/2016* 75,633\n11/18/2016* 448,856 11/18/2016* 970,343\n11/21/2016* 5,056 11/21/2016* 10,904\n11/22/2016* 12,820 11/22/2016* 27,646\n11/29/2016* 88,111 11/29/2016* 190,008\n12/1/2016* 72,205 12/1/2016* 155,704\n3/17/2017**** -------- 3/17/2017**** --------\nCo-Investment Fund Trian Parallel I\n12/1/2016 957,500 11/10/2016 61,539\n12/1/2016* 760,000 11/10/2016 11,443\n12/6/2016* 672,730 11/15/2016 1,196\n12/7/2016* 10,500 11/17/2016 4,923\n1/4/2017* 408,880 11/18/2016 63,164\n1/5/2017* 139,113 11/21/2016 712\n1/6/2017* 21,969 11/22/2016 1,806\n1/10/2017* 964,161 11/29/2016 12,416\n1/12/2017** 76,526 11/30/2016 45,323\n1/13/2017*** 74,898 12/01/2016 10,174\n1/17/2017*** 79,235\n1/18/2017*** 167,318 Trian ERISA\n1/19/2017*** 182,523 11/10/2016 35,058\n1/27/2017*** 50,271 11/10/2016 6,519\n2/1/2017*** 98,016 11/15/2016 681\n2/2/2017*** 10,809 11/17/2016 2,804\n2/6/2017*** 87,466 11/18/2016 35,972\n2/9/2017*** 124,424 11/23/2016 16,237\n3/17/2017**** -------- 11/29/2016 6,979\nStrategic Fund-A Fund G\nTrade Date Amount Trade Date Amount\nAcquired (Sold) Acquired (Sold)\n11/11/2016 425,788 11/10/2016 23,421\n11/15/2016 9,394 11/10/2016 4,355\n11/17/2016 38,483 11/11/2016 4,361\n11/18/2016* 41,286 11/15/2016 452\n11/23/2016* 144,501 11/17/2016 1,859\n11/29/2016* 62,110 11/18/2016 23,853\n11/30/2016* 226,729 11/21/2016 153\n12/1/2016* 50,897 11/22/2016 388\nCoinvest Fund-A 11/30/2016 9,744\nTrade Date Amount) 12/1/2016 2,187\nAcquired (Sold 2/6/2017 23,523\n1/4/2017* 151,120 2/7/2017 6,995\n1/5/2017* 51,416 2/8/2017 21,088\n1/6/2017* 8,120 2/9/2017 33,462\n1/9/2017* 326,154\n1/10/2017* 356,347 Strategic Fund-G II\n4/3/2017**** -------- Trade Date Amount\nStrategic Fund D 11/10/2016 80,203\nTrade Date Amount 11/10/2016 14,914\nAcquired (Sold) 11/11/2016 14,931\n11/10/2016 89,977 11/14/2016 47,384\n2/6/2017 70,637 11/29/2016 15,876\n2/8/2017 63,324 12/1/2016 13,010\n2/9/2017 100,484 2/6/2017 5,501\n2/7/2017 1,636\nSPV XII\nAcquired (Sold) Strategic Fund-G III\n1/6/2017 12,450 Trade Date Amount\n1/9/2017 500,099 Acquired (Sold)\n1/10/2017 415,081 11/10/2016 39,204\n1/10/2017* 131,315 11/10/2016 7,290\n1/11/2017* 1,428,020 11/11/2016 7,298\n1/12/2017** 1,056,574 11/14/2016 23,161\n1/13/2017*** 1,034,102 11/15/2016 769\n1/17/2017*** 1,093,977 11/17/2016 3,152\n1/18/2017*** 2,310,116 11/18/2016 40,238\n1/27/2017*** 694,076 11/22/2016 1,102\n2/1/2017*** 1,355,340 11/30/2016 27,662\n2/2/2017*** 149,461 12/1/2016 6,210\n2/6/2017*** 1,209,470 2/6/2017 1,344\n2/7/2017*** 359,665 2/7/2017 400\n3/17/2017**** --------\nStrategic Fund-N Mr. Daley\n12/4/2015 (10,000)\n11/10/2016 130,041 1/22/2016 (10,000)\n11/10/2016 24,181 1/26/2016 (20,000)\n11/14/2016 76,827 2/5/2016 (10,000)\n11/15/2016 2,552 2/8/2016 (10,000)\n11/21/2016 1,442 2/26/2016 (10,000)\n11/22/2016 3,657 3/1/2016 (5,000)\n11/23/2016 58,478 3/3/2016 (7,232)\n12/1/2016 20,598 7/5/2016 (10,000)\n7/11/2016 (10,000)\nStrategic Fund-K 7/15/2016 (10,000)\nTrade Date Amount 7/19/2016 (10,000)\nAcquired (Sold) 8/1/2016 (10,000)\n11/10/2016 18,224 8/11/2016 (8,090)\n11/30/2016 69,150 12/23/2016 (3,200)\n12/1/2016 15,523 1/17/2017 (20,000)\n2/6/2017 13,444 1/20/2017 (72,500)\n2/7/2017 3,998 1/24/2017 (20,000)\n2/9/2017 19,124 2/8/2017 (20,000)\nStrategic Fund-C 2/17/2017 (15,200)\nTrade Date Amount 2/22/2017 (4,512)\nAcquired (Sold) 3/17/2017 (22,500)\n11/17/2016 17,675 3/20/2017 (11)\n12/1/2016 18,173\n2/6/2017 47,046\n*On the various dates set forth above, the named persons entered into a series of privately negotiated back-to-back call and put transactions (the \u201cUBS Options\u201d) with UBS AG, London Branch (the \u201cUBS Counterparty\u201d) through which they acquired beneficial ownership of an aggregate of 12,479,781 Shares and as a result were subject to the same economic gain or loss as if they had purchased the underlying Shares on the dates set forth above. More specifically, these transactions represented call options that had an expiration date of May 16, 2018 (the \u201cUBS Expiration Date\u201d). Simultaneously with the purchase of each call option, each named person also sold a put option to the UBS Counterparty for the same number of Shares pursuant to which, if on the UBS Expiration Date the call option had not been exercised by the named person and the exercise price were greater than the closing price of the Shares on the UBS Expiration Date (the \u201cUBS Closing Price\u201d), the UBS Counterparty could have required the named person to, at such person\u2019s election, either (i) pay the UBS Counterparty an amount of cash equal to the product of (a) the excess of the exercise price over the UBS Closing Price and (b) the number of Shares set forth above or (ii) acquire from the UBS Counterparty the number of Shares set forth above at the exercise price. With the exercise of any call options, a corresponding number of put options would be automatically terminated. As part of these transactions, each of the named persons paid the UBS Counterparty a financing fee based on the number of days that the UBS Options that it held were outstanding, which fee was calculated using a monthly rate equal to one month LIBOR plus a spread. No premium was paid by any of the parties in connection with the UBS Options. Until exercised by electing to acquire Shares, the UBS Options did not give any of the named persons any direct or indirect voting, investment or dispositive control over the underlying Shares.\n** On the various dates set forth above, Co-Investment Fund and SPV XII entered into a series of total return swap transactions (the \u201cSwaps\u201d) with the UBS Counterparty representing economic exposure to 1,133,100 Shares (the \u201cNotional Shares\u201d) as a result of which they were subject to the same economic gain or loss as if they had purchased the Notional Shares on the dates set forth above. The Swaps had an expiration date of May 11, 2018, but could be terminated earlier at the election of Co-Investment Fund or SPV XII, as applicable. The Swaps were settleable in cash, except that each of Co-Investment Fund and SPV XII were permitted, subject to the satisfaction of certain conditions, to elect to settle the Swaps by receiving physical delivery of the Notional Shares. As part of these transactions, each of Co-Investment Fund and SPV XII paid the UBS Counterparty a financing fee based on the number of days that the Swaps that it held were outstanding, which fee was calculated using a monthly rate equal to one month LIBOR plus a spread. No premium was paid by any of the parties in connection with the Swaps. Until exercised by electing physical delivery of the Notional Shares, the Swaps did not give Co-Investment Fund or SPV XII any direct or indirect voting, investment or dispositive control over the underlying Shares.\n*** On the various dates set forth above, Co-Investment Fund and SPV XII entered into a series of privately negotiated back-to-back call and put transactions (the \u201cMS Options,\u201d and together with the UBS Options, the \u201cOptions\u201d) with Morgan Stanley & Co. International plc (the \u201cMS Counterparty\u201d) through which they acquired beneficial ownership of an aggregate of 16,071,189 Shares and as a result were subject to the same economic gain or loss as if they had purchased the underlying Shares on the dates set forth above. The MS Options had an expiration date of July 18, 2018, and otherwise had substantially similar terms to the UBS Options described above. As part of these transactions, each of Co-Investment Fund and SPV XII paid the MS Counterparty a financing fee based on the number of days that the MS Options that it held were outstanding, which fee was calculated using a monthly rate equal to one month LIBOR plus a spread. No premium was paid by any of the parties in connection with the MS Options. Until exercised by electing to acquire Shares, the MS Options did not give any of the named persons any direct or indirect voting, investment or dispositive control over the underlying Shares.\n**** On March 17, 2017, Trian Onshore, Co-Investment Fund, Trian Offshore, Strategic Fund-A and SPV XII exercised all of their UBS Options pursuant to which they acquired ownership of a total of 11,586,624 Shares for an aggregate exercise price of $958,002,271, and on April 3, 2017, Coinvest Fund-A exercised all of its UBS Options pursuant to which it acquired 893,157 Shares for an aggregate exercise price of $74,836,199. On March 17, 2017, Co-Investment Fund and SPV XII (i) exercised all of their MS Options pursuant to which they acquired ownership of a total of 16,071,189 Shares for an aggregate exercise price of $1,387,193,706 and (ii) settled all of their Swaps via physical delivery pursuant to which they acquired ownership of all of the Notional Shares for an aggregate settlement price of $94,308,788.\nThe following transaction history shows all transactions by members of the Trian Group in call options (other than the call options associated with the Options described above). Each call option entitled the holder to acquire 100 Shares on or prior to February 17, 2017, at the exercise price indicated below. All transactions in call options were effected over-the-counter with the MS Counterparty.\nTrian Onshore\tTrian ERISA\nTrade Date Amount Acquired\n(Sold) Strike Price Trade Date Amount Acquired\n(Sold) Strike Price\n2/10/2017 5,629 $88.50 2/10/2017 454 $88.50\n2/14/2017 354 $88.00 2/14/2017 29 $88.00\n2/16/2017 (4,240) $88.50 2/16/2017 (342) $88.50\n2/17/2017 (354) $88.00 2/17/2017 (29) $88.00\nTrian Offshore\tStrategic Fund-A\n2/10/2017 12,052 $88.50 2/10/2017 4,648 $88.50\n2/13/2017 4,099 $88.50 2/13/2017 1,580 $88.50\n2/14/2017 756 $88.00 2/14/2017 292 $88.00\n2/16/2017 (9,077) $88.50 2/16/2017 (3,501) $88.50\n2/17/2017 (756) $88.00 2/17/2017 (292) $88.00\nParallel Fund I\tStrategic Fund-N\n2/10/2017 842 $88.50 2/10/2017 1,375 $88.50\n2/14/2017 53 $88.00 2/14/2017 86 $88.00\n2/16/2017 (634) $88.50 2/16/2017 (1,036) $88.50\n2/17/2017 (53) $88.00 2/17/2017 (86) $88.00\nPlease review this Proxy Statement and the enclosed materials carefully. YOUR VOTE IS VERY IMPORTANT, no matter how many or how few Shares you own.\n1. If your Shares are registered in your own name, please sign, date and mail the enclosed WHITE proxy card today to The Trian Group, c/o Innisfree M&A Incorporated, in the postage-paid envelope provided or instruct us by telephone or via the Internet today as to how you would like your Shares voted (instructions are on your WHITE proxy card).\n2. If your Shares are held in the name of a brokerage firm, bank nominee or other institution, only it can sign a WHITE proxy card with respect to your Shares and only after receiving your specific instructions. Accordingly, please contact the person responsible for your account and instruct that person to execute and return on your behalf the WHITE proxy card as soon as possible.\n3. After signing and returning the enclosed WHITE proxy card, we urge you NOT to return P&G\u2019s Blue proxy card because only your latest dated proxy card will be counted.\n4. If you have previously signed and returned a Blue proxy card to P&G, you have every right to change your vote. Only your latest dated proxy card will count. You may revoke any proxy card already sent to P&G by signing, dating and returning the enclosed WHITE proxy card in the postage-paid envelope provided. Proxies may also be revoked at any time prior to exercise by: (i) attending the 2017 Annual Meeting and voting in person (although attendance at the 2017 Annual Meeting will not in and of itself constitute revocation of a proxy), (ii) instructing us by telephone or via the Internet as to how you would like your Shares voted (instructions are on your WHITE proxy card) or (iii) delivering a written notice of revocation. The written notice of revocation may be delivered either to the Trian Group c/o Innisfree M&A Incorporated, 501 Madison Avenue, 20th Floor, New York, New York 10022, or to the Corporate Secretary\u2019s Office, 1 Procter & Gamble Plaza, Cincinnati, OH 45202-3315, or any other address provided by the Company.\nIf you have any questions concerning this Proxy Statement, would like to request additional copies of this Proxy Statement or need help voting your Shares, please contact:\nFORM OF WHITE PROXY CARD\nTHIS PROXY IS SOLICITED BY THE TRIAN GROUP\nAND NOT ON BEHALF OF THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS OF THE COMPANY\n2017 Annual Meeting of Shareholders of The Procter & Gamble Company\nYOUR VOTE IS IMPORTANT--PLEASE VOTE TODAY.\nPlease access https://www.proxyvotenow.com/pgt (please note you must type an \u201cs\u201d after \u201chttp\u201d).\nThen, simply follow the easy instructions on the voting site. You will be required to provide the unique Control Number printed below.\nPlease call toll-free in the U.S. or Canada at 1-866-883-2397, on a touch-tone telephone. (If outside\nthe U.S. or Canada, call 1-646-880-9097.) Then, simply follow the easy voice prompts.\nYou will be required to provide the unique Control Number printed below.\nYou may vote by telephone or Internet 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.\nYour internet or telephone vote authorizes the named proxies to vote your shares in the same manner as if you marked, signed and returned your WHITE proxy card.\nCONTROL NUMBER :\nPlease complete, sign, date and return the proxy card in the envelope provided to: The Trian Group, c/o Innisfree M&A Incorporated, FDR Station, P.O. Box 5155, New York, NY 10150-5155.\n\u25bc TO VOTE BY MAIL, PLEASE DETACH THE CARD HERE AND SIGN, DATE RETURN IN THE POSTAGE-PAID ENVELOPE PROVIDED \u25bc\nTHE TRIAN GROUP STRONGLY RECOMMENDS THAT SHAREHOLDERS VOTE FOR THE NOMINEE IN PROPOSAL 1 AND FOR PROPOSAL 8\nTHE TRIAN GROUP MAKES NO RECOMMENDATION WITH RESPECT TO PROPOSALS 2 THROUGH 7\n1. To elect Nelson Peltz (\u201cMr. Peltz\u201d or the \u201cNominee\u201d) and the candidates who have been nominated by P&G to serve as directors other than Ernesto Zedillo (the \u201cExcluded Company Nominee\u201d) for whom the Trian Group (as defined in the Proxy Statement) is NOT seeking authority to vote for and WILL NOT exercise any such authority.\n\u25a1 FOR ALL NOMINEES \u25a1 WITHHOLD ALL \u25a1 FOR ALL EXCEPT\nNOTE: If you do not wish for your shares to be voted \u201cFOR\u201d the Nominee or one or more additional P&G nominees , mark the \u201cFOR ALL EXCEPT\u201d box and write the name of the Nominee or the P&G nominee(s), as applicable. There is no assurance any of the P&G nominees will serve as directors if the Nominee is elected to the Board.\n2. Ratification of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm \u25a1 \u25a1 \u25a1\n3. Advisory Vote on Executive Compensation \u25a1 \u25a1 \u25a1\n4. Advisory Vote on Frequency of Executive Compensation Vote\n\u25a1 1 YEAR \u25a1 2 YEARS \u25a1 3 YEARS \u25a1 ABSTAIN\n5. Shareholder Proposal on Adopting Holy Land Principles \u25a1 \u25a1 \u25a1\n6. Shareholder Proposal on Reporting on Application of Company Non-Discrimination Policies in States with Pro-Discrimination Laws \u25a1 \u25a1 \u25a1\n7. Shareholder Proposal on Reporting on Mitigating Risks of Activities in Conflict-Affected Areas \u25a1 \u25a1 \u25a1\n8. Repeal Certain Amendments to Regulations \u25a1 \u25a1 \u25a1\nTitle or Authority\nPlease sign exactly as name appears hereon. If shares are registered in more than one name, the signature of all such persons should be provided. A corporation should sign in its full corporate name by a duly authorized officer, stating his or her title. Trustees, guardians, executors and administrators should sign in their official capacity, giving their full title as such. If a partnership, please sign in the partnership name by an authorized person. The proxy card votes all shares in all capacities.\nWHITE Proxy Card\nThe undersigned hereby appoints Nelson Peltz, Peter W. May and Edward P. Garden, and each of them, with full power of substitution, as proxies for the undersigned and authorizes them to represent and vote, as designated, all of the shares of The Procter & Gamble Company (the \u201cCompany\u201d or \u201cP&G\u201d) that the undersigned would be entitled to vote if personally present at the 2017 Annual Meeting of Shareholders of P&G, including any adjournments or postponements thereof or any special meeting that may be called in lieu thereof (the \u201c2017 Annual Meeting\u201d).\nIn the event that Mr. Peltz is unable (due to death, disability, ineligibility or otherwise) or hereafter becomes unwilling for any reason to serve as a director, this proxy card will be voted for Edward P. Garden (\u201cMr. Garden\u201d or the \u201cAlternate Nominee\u201d) in place of Mr. Peltz. In addition to the foregoing, the Nominating Funds (as defined in the Proxy Statement) have reserved the right in their notice of nomination to the Company, dated May 18, 2017, to further nominate, substitute or add additional persons in the event that any of the events described in the previous sentence occurs with respect to the Alternate Nominee or the Company purports to increase the number of directorships after the date hereof and prior to the 2017 Annual Meeting. In the event that the Alternate Nominee or any additional or substitute persons are so nominated, the Trian Group will vote this proxy card in favor of such Alternate Nominee or additional or substitute nominees. The Nominating Funds reserve the right to withdraw the nomination of the Nominee or the Alternate Nominee or any additional or substitute nominee at any time.\nIF THIS PROXY IS SIGNED AND RETURNED, IT WILL BE VOTED IN ACCORDANCE WITH YOUR INSTRUCTIONS. IF YOU VALIDLY EXECUTE AND RETURN THIS PROXY CARD WITHOUT INDICATING YOUR VOTE ON ONE OR MORE OF THE FOLLOWING PROPOSALS, THE TRIAN GROUP WILL EXERCISE ITS DISCRETION TO CAUSE YOUR PROXY TO BE VOTED FOR MR. PELTZ AND THE CANDIDATES NOMINATED BY P&G OTHER THAN ERNESTO ZEDILLO (EXCEPT YOUR PROXY WILL NOT BE VOTED FOR THE ELECTION OF ANY CANDIDATE WHOSE NAME IS WRITTEN IN THE SPACE PROVIDED UNDER PROPOSAL 1) AND PROPOSAL 8, AND IT WILL EXERCISE ITS DISCRETION TO CAUSE YOUR PROXY TO ABSTAIN FROM VOTING ON PROPOSAL 2, PROPOSAL 3, PROPOSAL 4, PROPOSAL 5, PROPOSAL 6, AND PROPOSAL 7 (TO THE\nEXTENT YOU HAVE NOT INDICATED YOUR VOTE ON SUCH PROPOSALS). 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What is the meaning of \u201cblessed\u201d? For believers, is the blessed life synonymous with the successful life? Is it the Christian version of the good life? A loving marriage, obedient children, a ...read more\nWhen They Oppose You Lesson 1 Series\nRemember, you must be a good testimony for God in all things.\nA.\tIntroduction: We Are Instructed To Pray For . . . 1.\tPeople. \u201cI exhort . . . that supplication, prayers, intercession and giving thanks be made for all people, for kings and for all who are in authority\u201d (I Tim. 2:1-2). 2.\tThose over us, (boss, president, governor, pastors, etc.) 3.\tHealing. ...read more\nScripture: Luke 6:26-28, 1 Timothy 2:1-2\nWhat About Imprecatory Psalms? Lesson 2 Series\nPrinciples for imprecatory prayers.\nA. Introduction: 1.\tImprecatory means judgment, i.e., asking God to punish, kill, and throw into hell (Psalm 2, 37, 69, 70, 109, 143). 2.\tDavid throws them into hell. \u201cLet Satan the accuser stand at his right hand . . . let his days be few . . . let his children be fatherless, and let his ...read more\nScripture: Psalms 2, Matthew 6:12, Luke 6:27-28\nWilling And Able Series\nContributed by Perry Greene on Feb 12, 2019\nWill we choose to be Willing Contributors or Wanting Consumers?\n1.\tJohn Ortberg tells about a carpenter in San Francisco who is a disciple of Jesus. For years he felt inferior as a disciple because he was \u201cjust\u201d a blue collar worker. He had not fancy degrees. He had not special gifts of teaching. Then one day it dawned on him that if Jesus could be a carpenter ...read more\nSermon On The Plain\nContributed by I. G. Spong on Feb 12, 2019\nHave you noticed that Jesus often says the exact opposite of popular ideas? Christianity is for thinking people. Jesus did not establish a Church where people just check their brains at the entry door and blindly follow men. We worship God also with our minds. Jesus challenges us to think.\nHave you noticed that Jesus often says the exact opposite of popular ideas? Christianity is for thinking people. Jesus did not establish a Church where people just check their brains at the entry door and blindly follow men. We worship God also with our minds. Jesus challenges us to think. Perhaps ...read more\nGod Says: You Are Priceless\nContributed by Ernie Arnold on Feb 7, 2019\nThis is a sermon sharing the Good News that God says that we are priceless. It is a sermon dedicating to helping people realize their worth so that they can be uplifted and in response uplift others.\nScripture: Luke 6:17-26; Genesis 39:1-23; (Call to worship - Psalm 8) Theme: Recognizing Your Worth Title: God Says: You Are Priceless! INTRO: Grace and peace to everyone in the name of the Father, Son and Holy Spirit. I want to talk to you this morning about recognizing your true ...read more\nScripture: Genesis 39:1-23, Psalms 8, Luke 6:17-26\nThe Sermon On The Plain: An Exposition Of Luke 6:17-38\nContributed by Mark A. Barber on Jan 30, 2019\nJesus calls us to radical discipleship.\nThe Sermon on the Plain: An Exposition of Luke 6:17-38 Scholars debate whether this sermon is another version of the Sermon on the Mount. It indeed shares a lot of common themes. Scholars who want to diminish the authority of Scripture try to prove that both evangelists copied and arranged ...read more\nMoving In The Opposite Spirit\u2014 6th Sunday In Ordinary Time\nA \u201cManual\u201d for Escaping Our Vicious Cycles through non-violence is what the Sermon on the Mount has been called; to transform the adversary - and, in the process, to be transformed ourselves.\n1). Mary Lou Kownacki relates the following tale: It seems that in a certain village a snake had bitten so many people that few dared to go into the fields. Finally, it was taken to a wise person who tamed the snake and persuaded it to practice the discipline of nonviolence. When the villagers ...read more\nScripture: Luke 6:27-38, 1 Samuel 26:1-23\nThe God Kind Of Love\nContributed by Christopher Holdsworth on Jan 27, 2019\nGod has given us His grace to aspire towards this high standard of AGAPE Love.\nTHE GOD KIND OF LOVE Luke 6:27-38 The Sermon on the Plain is directed towards those who \u2018came to hear\u2019 Jesus (Luke 6:17). It was \u2018toward His disciples\u2019 that Jesus first lifted up His eyes (Luke 6:20). That emphasis is repeated at the beginning of the present passage (Luke 6:27). These are ...read more\nBlessings And Woes In The Gospel\nJesus pronounces His followers Blessed, and pronounces woes against those who are taking their ease in this world.\nBLESSINGS AND WOES IN THE GOSPEL Luke 6:17-26 The context here teaches us that Jesus had spent a whole night alone on the mountain praying to God (Luke 6:12); then He called His disciples to draw near and from them He chose His twelve Apostles (Luke 6:13). Jesus came down with them all and ...read more\nRock Solid Series\nContributed by Dr. Jonathan L Vorce on Dec 16, 2018\nThe foundational principles of discipleship are discussed by Jesus with the present day attenders of the Synagogue, The Pharisees and His new Disciples. Much can be learned from these teachings of Jesus about how to conduct ourselves in hostile environments.\nLead In Scripture: Luke 6:27-49 Introduction: Re-cap last week. Share a story of God sustaining you. I.\tLove Your Enemies - Jesus knew that the road the disciples would travel was going to produce several enemies. Therefore, He began to teach them how to respond under attack. \u2022\tLuke 6:27 MSG - ...read more\nScripture: Luke 6:27-49, Philippians 4:8, Proverbs 4:23, Proverbs 4:24, Ephesians 2:19-22, 1 Corinthians 3:11 (view more) (view less)\nContributed by Hans Krause on Oct 19, 2018\n\"Love\" should be more than just a buzzword for Christians. God showed his love for us when we were still sinners. Likewise, we should love our friends and our enemies alike and show it by treating them the way we want to be treated.\n[This sermon was preached on 8 July 2018, 7th Sunday after Pentecost / 3rd year, ELCF Lectionary] Years ago, a man came to me for help. His life was in a mess. When he looked to the past, he saw many relationships that had shipwrecked. Several of them were still haunting him almost daily. His ...read more\nScripture: Hebrews 12:25-29, Luke 6:27-31\nWe Witness Despite Persecution And Exile Series\nPreaching and living a lifestyle conditioned by the precepts of the Gospel is not a particularly popular path, and may get you shunned, even exiled.\nThursday of 23rd Week in Course 2018 St. John Chrysostom Today I am celebrating the sixteenth anniversary of the ordination of the diaconate class of 2002, and therefore my own ordination. As a preacher, it\u2019s particularly happy to be ordained on the feast of St. John Chrysostom, who is the patron ...read more\nScripture: Luke 6:27-38, 1 Corinthians 8:1-13\nYou Want Me To Do What For My Enemy? Series\nContributed by Jeff Strite on Aug 12, 2018\nJesus said we should love our enemies. But I don't even like them, why should I even want to show them love?\nOPEN: I\u2019ve always loved limericks, and years ago I ran across this one: \u201cThere once were 2 cats from Kilkenny Each thought there was one cat too many They fought and they spit, and they clawed and they bit. Till instead of two cats (pause) there weren't any.\u201d (Pulpit Helps 3/97 p. 8) Now ...read more\nWoe. Don't Do That! Series\nContributed by Jeff Strite on Jul 21, 2018\nJesus stressed the need to help the poor and needy. It's a powerful commandment, but there are those who would warp it to meet their own agendas (rather than God's). But how would they do that?\nOPEN: Chicago is just about to approve a new entitlement. They intend to give 1,000 unemployed families $500 per month with no strings attached (total of $6 million per year). The argument seems to be that automation is robbing people of jobs and so this is intended to put money in the pockets of ...read more", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00240.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 275, + "original_length": 13487, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.95, + "perplexity": 332.5, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "https://www.sermonwriter.com/childrens-sermons/the-shape-of-your-life/", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T04:33:39Z", + "digest": "sha1:NQKOVE7NGYOEKHJHP5FKUD7I6HN5WPJR", + "length": 1806, + "nlines": 13, + "source_domain": "www.sermonwriter.com", + "title": "Children's Sermon, Matthew 25:14-30, The Shape of Your Life", + "raw_content": "Matthew 25:14-30 The Shape of Your Life (Edstrom)SW-Admin2017-03-22T04:46:39+00:00\nThe Shape of Your Life\nObjects suggested: Large colorful cut-outs of a circle, triangle, and square.\nLet\u2019s talk about shapes. I\u2019ll show you some examples. Here is a shape that is a continuous rounded line. Do you know what it is? Yes, a circle.\nThis shape has three sharp points. What is it? Yes, a triangle.\nNow a shape that has four sides connected to each other and all the sides are the same length. Yes, this is a square.\nThere are many other shapes as well, but these three are the most common and we see by looking at them that each one is unique and recognizable. You can\u2019t mistake a circle for a square.\nYour life also has a shape. You have a unique gift that is yours alone. It is something that you love to do and are able to do well. That is called your talent; you may have more than one. Your talent or talents shape your life.\nJesus tells a story in the Bible about three people who were given an amount of money. Two of the people used the money well and made it increase while the other person hid his money in a hole in the ground where it did no good and did not increase.\nThis story teaches us the importance of using what we have (our gifts or talents) so that what we have will increase and be a blessing to others.\nAs you grow older discover what it is you love to do above all else and follow your dreams. If you love to dance or make music, practice, practice, practice and then share your talent with others.\nYour talent may be that you are kind and helpful or that you have a strong body and excel at sports or that you love animals and are good at caring for them. There are endless choices.\nYour life is shaped by your talents and how you use them. Choose well and bless others with your gifts.", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00240.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 38, + "original_length": 2384, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.97, + "perplexity": 250.6, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "https://www.serpentcs.com/serpentcs-websites-running-on-odoo-311/comment", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T04:11:48Z", + "digest": "sha1:7QRMJILT5ZJ2FJUPBJ2TRFN5X67JA3ZN", + "length": 1784, + "nlines": 58, + "source_domain": "www.serpentcs.com", + "title": "Websites Running on Odoo! | SerpentCS", + "raw_content": "Hello Community, Odoo is rocking in the market and why not due to the strong leadership of OpenERP SA and united plus enthusiastic community. Here is the list of websites running on odoo framework. This is extracted from the community mailing list, mainly from the email of Mario Gielissen .\nhttp://open-net.ch/\nhttps://totamin.odoo.com/\nhttp://www.smartbusinesstools.be\nhttp://www.neonety.com/\nhttps://www.optaris.be/\nhttp://www.cloud1990.com/\nhttp://www.intisoft.co/\nhttp://xlanube.com/\nhttp://kytestring.com/\nhttp://www.mcmediagt.com/\nhttp://a-link.com/\nhttp://www.odoohosting.de/\nhttp://www.yaroslab.com/\nhttp://www.itis-odoo.de/\nhttp://www.marcos.do/\nhttp://www.probuse.com\nhttp://www.bizzcloud.nl/\nhttp://sabaitechnology.com/\nhttps://6it.fr/\nhttp://www.bloopark.de\nhttp://ybo-services.com/\nhttps://mintconsulting.be/\nhttp://opensignage.com/\nhttp://www.dd-redaktion.selfhost.bz\nhttps://www.wollbody.de/\nhttp://www.opensuite.fr/\nhttp://www.daytonprocess.com/\nhttp://www.office-everywhere.com/\nhttp://www.drishtitech.com/\nhttp://hadron.eu.com/\nhttp://ligawifi.pt/\nhttp://www.erpologic.nl/\nhttps://www.ambio.de/\nhttp://pixsoftware.nl/\nhttp://belsonno.de/\nhttp://versaointegral.pt/\nhttp://www.cyclis.be/\nhttp://www.dolcemilano.com/\nhttps://boogaerts-sprl.odoo.com/\nhttps://pipaillon.odoo.com\nhttps://therealolive.odoo.com\nhttps://vitaminsdirectonline.odoo.com/\nhttp://bloopark.de/\nhttp://www.versaointegral.pt/page/website.home\nhttps://cyso.com/\nhttps://lajs.odoo.com\nhttp://www.tevah.eu/\nhttp://biyosushi.com/\nhttps://willowit.com.au/\nhttps://www.toysonfire.ca\nwww.casitachula.com\nhttp://www.sapienzae.com.br\nhttp://www.tahitimyconcierge.com\nhttp://jginfosystems.com/\nhttps://www.techorg.com/\nhttps://belsonno.de/\nSerpentCS is Looking for 15 Python/ERP Experts!", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00240.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 672, + "original_length": 11032, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.6, + "perplexity": 185.7, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "https://www.seymour.k12.wi.us/district/board_of_education.cfm", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T03:21:18Z", + "digest": "sha1:BYQF7YBUEEJ7JUEPJQZMMPJW53AFGGRQ", + "length": 2426, + "nlines": 23, + "source_domain": "www.seymour.k12.wi.us", + "title": "Seymour Community School District - Board of Education", + "raw_content": "School Board Minutes Archived\nOur seven member Board of Education governs the Seymour Community School District. Board members are elected at large; however, they must reside in designated zones. Board members are elected for three year terms.\nThe regular meeting of the Seymour Community School District Board of Education shall be held on the fourth Tuesday of each calendar month at 7:00 p.m. in sites designated by Board of Education schedule in Policy BD-R. If necessary, the Board President may change the time and place of the meeting. Public notice of the meeting shall be given in accordance with State Law and established procedures. Exact meeting dates may be obtained by calling the district office at (920)833-2304, extension 502. All Board Meetings shall be open to the public in accordance with WI Statutes. The Board may elect to convene in closed session to discuss and act on such items as permitted by law.\nCurrent Board of Education members and the zones they represent:\nName Zone Area\nGreg Leisgang 1 City of Seymour\nKurt Peterson 1 City of Seymour\nTom Heins 2 Village of Black Creek\nLaurie Bowers 3 Towns of Cicero, Maine, Lessor & Village of Nichols\nPaula Rohm 4 Towns of Seymour & Maple Grove\nTom Smet 5 Towns of Oneida & Osborn\nJill Karweick 6 Towns of Black Creek & Center Valley\nNOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN to qualified electors of the Seymour Community School District that a school board election will be held on Tuesday, April 2, 2019 to fill the following board positions: Two (2) members from Zone 1, City of Seymour and one (1) member from Zone 2, Village of Black Creek, each position is for a three-year term, beginning on Monday, April 22, 2019. All board members are elected at-large; however, candidates must reside in either Zone 1 or Zone 2 respectively. The present incumbents are Greg Leisgang and Kurt Peterson Zone 1 and Tom Heins Zone 2.\nNOTICE IS FURTHER GIVEN that an elector desiring to be a candidate for a position on the school board must file a Declaration of Candidacy and a Campaign Registration Statement no later than Wednesday, January 2, 2019. These can be obtained during normal working hours of 7:30 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. at the School District Board of Education Office located at 10 Circle Drive, Seymour, Wisconsin.\nBowers, Laurie\nHeins, Tom\nKarweick, Jill\nSchool Board Treasurer\nLeisgang, Greg\nRohm, Paula\nSmet, Tom\nBoard Meeting Schedule Policy\nBD-R Policy click to view", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00240.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 150, + "original_length": 5254, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.94, + "perplexity": 307.8, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/City-requires-property-owner-who-demolished-13467909.php?fbclid=IwAR3GjnjSi0ZEGcFfbBJtAFnRO20JFsPHauJSffTzzha9rGWURDJZorBf_s0", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T03:27:43Z", + "digest": "sha1:N6XGXL6ZB64HH3MZOYOYZOQSNFRG36XU", + "length": 6183, + "nlines": 29, + "source_domain": "www.sfchronicle.com", + "title": "SF to developer who tore down landmark house: Rebuild it exactly as it was - SFChronicle.com", + "raw_content": "SF to developer who tore down landmark house: Rebuild it exactly as it was\nJ.K. Dineen Dec. 15, 2018 Updated: Dec. 19, 2018 9:27 a.m.\n1of3The demolished home at 49 Hopkins St. on Friday, Dec. 14, 2018, in San Francisco, Calif. A developer who illegally demolished a 1935 house designed by modernist icon Richard Neutra near Twin Peaks has been ordered by the Planning Commission to build an exact replica of the original house rather than the much larger home he had proposed replacing it with.Photo: Santiago Mejia / The Chronicle 2018\n2of3Google street view of the Largent House designed by Richard Neutra at 49 Hopkins Avenue from 2017.Photo: Screenshot, Google\n3of349 Hopkins St. on Friday, Dec. 14, 2018, in San Francisco, Calif. A developer who illegally demolished a 1935 house designed by modernist icon Richard Neutra near Twin Peaks has been ordered by the Planning Commission to build an exact replica of the original house rather than the much larger home he had proposed replacing it with.Photo: Santiago Mejia / The Chronicle\nA property owner who illegally demolished a 1936 Twin Peaks house designed by a renowned modernist must rebuild an exact replica of the home rather than the much larger structure the property owner had proposed replacing it with, the City Planning Commission ruled this week.\nRead the latest on this story here.\nIn a unanimous 5-0 vote late Thursday night, the commission also ordered that the property owner \u2014 Ross Johnston, through his 49 Hopkins LLC \u2014 include a sidewalk plaque telling the story of the original house designed by architect Richard Neutra, the demolition and the replica.\nThe commission directive, unprecedented in San Francisco, comes more than a year after the home at 49 Hopkins Ave., known as the Largent House, was almost entirely knocked down. All that remained of the white, two-story redwood-and-concrete-block home was a garage door and frame.\nCity-ordered rebuild of landmark house stirs debate:...\nHousing, by any means necessary\nSF\u2019s empty new mall on a Market Street full of challenges\nJohnston had received planning permission only to remodel with a design that would have largely kept the first floor of the existing home intact.\nTwo months after the demolition, Johnston applied for a retroactive demolition permit and for permission to construct a new home that would increase the size from about 1,300 square feet to nearly 4,000 square feet.\nThe case attracted attention because Neutra is considered one of the most important modern architects and because it highlighted the trend of speculators illegally razing modest homes with the intention of replacing them with mega-homes. The new houses can fetch upward of $5 million, double or triple the price of an average house in already expensive San Francisco.\nGoogle street view of the Largent House designed by Richard Neutra at 49 Hopkins Avenue from 2014\nPlanning Commissioner Dennis Richards said he hopes the commission\u2019s action in the 49 Hopkins case will send a message to speculators accustomed to ignoring city planning and building laws with few or no repercussions.\n\u201cWe are tired of seeing this happening in the city and are drawing a line in the sand,\u201d said Richards. \u201cYou can have all the rules in the world, but if you don\u2019t enforce them, the rules are worthless.\u201d\nJustin Zucker, attorney for the property owner, said that 49 Hopkins LLC is not a real estate speculation group but an entity solely owned by Johnston, who had hoped to move his family into the larger home. Johnston\u2019s LLC bought the home for $1.7 million in 2017.\nJohnston briefly addressed the commission, saying that he had bought the property \u201cas a family home that would enable my family of six to move back to San Francisco,\u201d he said.\n\u201cI have been stuck in limbo for over a year,\u201d he said.\nZucker argued that the historic integrity of the Neutra design had been erased over time \u2014 first in a 1968 fire and later in a series of remodels in the 1980s and 1990s. The approved 2014 plan \u2014 proposed by a previous owner \u2014 allowed for the removal of most of the existing structure, he said. \u201cWe acknowledge and apologize for the fact that a small portion of the work exceeded the scope in the approved plans,\u201d he said, adding that the decision was made \u201cfor life-safety reasons.\u201d\nThe decision comes a few days after Supervisor Aaron Peskin introduced legislation designed to crack down on illegal demolitions. That bill, the Housing Preservation and Expansion Reform Act, increases fines for illegal demolitions and requires a conditional use authorization for any home expansion that increases the square footage by more than 10 percent.\nPeskin said that he was \u201cvery impressed\u201d by the Planning Commission\u2019s vote.\n\u201cThe fact that it was a unanimous vote should send a message to everyone that is playing fast and loose that the game is over,\u201d said Peskin. \u201cWe want to preserve iconic, historic structures, but even more important, we want to protect our reservoir of more affordable housing stock. You want a 1,300-square-foot house to be worth what a 1,300-square-foot house is worth, rather than a mega-mansion.\u201d\nWhile replicas are controversial among architectural historians, the Planning Commission decision was applauded by historic preservationists. In a statement read at the commission meeting, SF Heritage Executive Director Michael Buhler said that approving the proposed project would have \u201csent a strong message that existing planning and building laws can be ignored and there will be no repercussions.\u201d\n\u201cThe question before you once again is whether a person can demolish existing housing stock with impunity and then be rewarded,\u201d said Buhler.\nPlanning Commissioner Kathrin Moore said she is confident that a replica could be \u201cexecuted beautifully in a way that would be consistent with the home\u2019s original expression.\u201d\nNeutra, who did most of his work in Southern California, designed five San Francisco homes. The Largent House was designed for a husband and wife who were teachers and artists. Neutra was known for his obsessive attention to the needs of his clients, whether it was a multimillion-dollar home or a modest structure like the one in Twin Peaks.", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00240.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 216, + "original_length": 10704, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.96, + "perplexity": 249.6, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "https://www.sharp.com/health-news/get-your-lavender-on-to-raise-cancer-awareness.cfm", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T03:50:02Z", + "digest": "sha1:JW4AK3Y6MX6TYH7SLMGPCFLBALAOUI6S", + "length": 3571, + "nlines": 15, + "source_domain": "www.sharp.com", + "title": "Sharp Grossmont Employees Will \u201cGo Lavender\u201d On World Cancer Day \u2013 San Diego \u2013 Sharp Health News", + "raw_content": "\u2018Get Your Lavender On\u2019 to raise cancer awareness\nRelated topics: Cancer People of Sharp\nFeb. 2, 2017 by Scott Evans, PharmD, MHA\nSharp Grossmont Hospital senior vice president and CEO Scott Evans with his wife, Joanne, and son, Christopher.\nMost people\u2019s lives have been touched by cancer in some way. For me, it was my son, Christopher. Right before his fourth birthday, he was diagnosed with kidney cancer. Eventually, the cancer spread to his liver and lungs.\nAs a father, when I heard the news it literally knocked the wind out of me. There were months during that time when we practically lived in the hospital day and night. But I also knew that our family would survive, and we remained hopeful.\nBy way of background, I\u2019m a doctor of pharmacy, so it helped that I understood what treatment we were doing and what to expect. The routine and predictability of our journey was comforting. And hearing from lots of patients with similar experiences who survived was inspiring.\nThis year alone, however, the American Cancer Society estimates nearly 1.7 million new cases of cancer will be diagnosed, and approximately 600,000 people will die from cancer. That makes cancer the leading cause of death right behind heart disease.\nThe good news is that through the years, we\u2019ve made great strides in cancer treatment. Advances in radiation, chemotherapy and targeted treatments have improved survival rates \u2014 particularly for breast, prostate, lung, liver and colorectal cancer. But beyond technology and treatments, it's also crucial to raise awareness of cancer and the importance of screening.\nIn my age bracket, for instance, colon cancer screening is recommended at age 50. Although I\u2019m not quite 50, it\u2019s on my radar; despite its standing as one of the top three cancer killers, colorectal cancer is preventable, treatable and has a 90 percent survival rate if found early at the local stage. In the last 10 years, the rate for people diagnosed with colon cancer has actually dropped 30 percent, which researchers credit to awareness and more people getting the recommended screening tests.\nTo help raise awareness for all types of cancer, Sharp Grossmont Hospital will be observing World Cancer Day on February 2. The day is intended to get as many people as possible around the globe to talk about cancer. All employees, including myself, will wear the color lavender \u2014 the color representing all cancers \u2014 to raise awareness and honor loved ones, friends and patients whose lives have been touched by cancer. And we\u2019ll unite on our hospital\u2019s helicopter pad to form a giant human lavender ribbon. We have deemed the day, \u201cGet Your Lavender On\u201d Day.\nAs a hospital administrator, I believe in the power of raising cancer awareness, and I encourage everyone to do the same. There are many things you can do \u2014 from getting involved with a charity that supports cancer patients and research to volunteering at a local hospital. The important thing is to attach passion to the cause and together raise awareness and prevent cancer.\nAs for my son, he had a rough course for a while. But after a year-long battle, which included a bone marrow transplant, he has been in remission for eight years. Today, he\u2019s a happy, healthy 12-year-old boy, and I love spending my free time with him playing baseball or attending sporting events.\nIf I had to give advice to someone who presently has a family member or friend fighting cancer, I would tell them to never lose focus on quality of life and never lose hope.\nScott Evans, PharmD, MHA, is the CEO of Sharp Grossmont Hospital.", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00240.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 506, + "original_length": 15298, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.97, + "perplexity": 226.9, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "https://www.shaunaofthestar.com/illuminations-blog/make-magic-happen", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T03:56:17Z", + "digest": "sha1:STPRJW2NJU6VNJKX6HZF47POCTJ4BVO4", + "length": 2924, + "nlines": 14, + "source_domain": "www.shaunaofthestar.com", + "title": "MAKE MAGIC HAPPEN \u2014 Shauna of the Star Tarot Channel", + "raw_content": "CONFESSIONS AND DIRECTIONS\nTO TAROT\u2019S MAJOR ARCANA\nIn a previous blog post, 22 ways to be Free, the Fool, I came up with a list of actions one could take to take a leap of faith and start on a new path, a new journey. The Fool makes the decision, innocently, to come out of the cave and take a step into the void. It is a huge beginning with this small step into the unknown. Innocence is vital, for a knowing of the future or the past may color the decision to begin anew. One just has to say, \u201cOkay, here I go\u2026\u201d\nThis is the beginning of our journey through the Tarot\u2019s major arcana. An archetypal journey is always on a symbolic level and must manifest physically to be understood in everyday life. This requires the people involved in a tarot reading to pay attention to the \u201csigns\u201d along the way.\nUpon making the list of \u201c22 Ways to Be Free\u201d, I made the gesture of jumping off my trampoline and announcing to the Universe in mid air \u201cI was ready\u201d.\nIn the next few days I found myself getting more and more stressed about what I had \u201cleapt\u201d into: committing to a new diet, committing to a new relationship with marketing AND committing to myself that I was NOT going to put anyone else\u2019s creative projects before my own. I was not breathing. One morning I woke up, and the very first thing, before moving, I took a big breath. I felt my body ignite with this breath and realized that this was the magic I needed to begin the day; my own beautiful breath and the way this carries my body throughout the day and to the events that will transpire in my life.\nTake that first conscious breath each day. (BREATH, the most truly powerful thing we can do). Feel the body animate with the life force and acknowledge the spirit of life.\nSee yourself crossing the threshold of sleep into coming awake, each morning.\nSet Intentions/ Say a Prayer\nSee the tools of your life, whatever you use to create with, in front of you.\nBegin the day; be brave, take risks, show up to your dreams, desires and wishes.\nBe in the world and be ready to see and interpret the signs around you, to guide you in the day and when you need to, ask for help.\nNow the unconscious power is opened within and can guide invisibly, as if by magic, through the most difficult or pleasurable moments in life. Magic is unpredictable, not solid and cannot be held or controlled. One has to allow this essence to permeate each moment of ones life. This a very tall order to realistically carry out. It means accepting the tools that are given at birth and working with them to the best of one\u2019s ability, to create a life.\nI MUST, upon awakening take in one deep breath and feel my body animate with this power and intentionally say, \u201cthis is magic\u201d. I can begin the new day knowing I have surrendered to the Universe and what it will provide. TRUST is the keyword. 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In fact, in England, 90 per cent of heather moorland is conserved by gamekeepers, who are privately funded through driven grouse shooting. The survey also showed that less than half of those asked have heard of important moorland birds such as red grouse, or understand that heather is actively managed by keepers.\nThe MA\u0092s chairman Edward Bromet explained that more needs to be done to educate the public: \u0093The red grouse is totally dependent on heather moorland and is unique to Britain. However, less than half of the people asked realised that the bird is not artificially reared and is completely wild.\u0094 He added: \u0093More needs to be done to help explain that it is grouse shooting that maintains our threatened heather moorland and the important wildlife it supports. 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Success Story: Overcoming Backlog Elimination Centeritis\n5. Immigration Trivia Quiz: Immigration Homesick Blues\n6. Litigation: Public Access to Court Electronic Records\n7. My First Visit to India: Welcoming the New Year in Goa\nAsylum\u2013 On March 20, the CIS Ombudsman submitted a proposal to the CIS Director that asylum applications by persons who are not in valid non- immigrant status be submitted to, and adjudicated by, ICE rather than by CIS. The proposal would also, for the first time, charge fees to asylum applicants. We link to both the three-page proposal and the 92-page draft from our \u201cAsylum\u201d page at\nDeportation\u2013 On April 9, the docket fees for submitting a petition for review to challenge an order of removal in all of the U.S. Courts of Appeals or a decision of a U.S. District Court increased from $250 to $450. Congress imposed this fee increase as part of the Deficit Reduction Act of 2005, Pub. L. 109-171, \u00a7 10001 (Feb. 8, 2006).Individuals who are unable to pay the fee may apply to appear in forma pauperis. Federal Rule of Appellate Procedure 24 sets forth the requirements and procedures for proceeding in forma pauperis. Affidavit forms are available on the courts\u2019 web sites (which assumes that paupers have access to computers).We link to the web sites of all U.S. Courts of Appeals from our \u201cDeportation\u201d page at\nImmigration Tracker\u2013 As many of you know, my office uses Immigration Tracker software for case management, forms and other features. With software that does so many things, it\u2019s easy to overlook \u2014 and miss out on \u2014 important features.Among helpful features we\u2019ve discovered, Tracker has a job bank that allows us to re-use job descriptions that we frequently rely upon for labor certifications. Tracker also allows us to electronically file form ETA-9089 (PERM). Initially, we didn\u2019t know we could use Tracker\u2019s Outlook integration to save an e-mail into Tracker from Outlook: with one click in Outlook, anyone in our office can go to the person\u2019s record in Tracker and see the e-mail. Tracker also has a great mail-merge feature that inserts data into an e-mail or document for us based on information already in the Tracker database. For common client templates, like company support letters, Approval Notices and client notification e-mails, this slashes typing time by more than half.To learn more, check out Tracker\u2019s latest newsletter to its customers at\nhttp://www.immigrationtracker.net/Misc/Newsletter001April2006/tabid/92/Default.aspx\nInterior Enforcement\u2013 On April 20, DHS and ICE unveiled an immigration interior enforcement strategy which embodies the following goals:\nIdentify and remove criminal aliens, immigration fugitives and other immigration violators;\nBuild strong worksite enforcement and compliance programs to deter illegal employment; and\nUproot the criminal infrastructures at home and abroad that support illegal immigration, including human smuggling/trafficking organizations and document/benefit fraud organizations.\nLabor Department \u2013 We understand that Bill Carlson, the \u201cfather of PERM\u201d will be returning to his former position as Foreign Labor Certification Division Chief. Many AILA members hope that Mr. Carlson will be successful in making the Backlog Elimination Centers operate in an efficient manner.\nLitigation \u2013 On April 12, the U.S. Supreme Court adopted an amendment to Rule 32.1 of the Federal Rules of Appellate Procedure. The rule states that starting on January 1, 2007, unpublished opinions by Federal Court issued starting on that date may be cited on appeal.\nVisa Bulletin\u2013 To view the May 2006 Visa Bulletin, see our \u201cVisa Bulletin\u201d page at\nAs things stand now, President Bush, Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist (R-TN) and Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) all support Senate passage of a comprehensive immigration bill before the end of May. So does the business community, most labor unions and religious organizations. Public opinion polls indicate that a majority of Americans would like to see a legalization program coupled with strong enforcement of our immigration laws.\nEditor\u2019s Note: The bill before the Senate is far from perfect. It contains a number of virulently anti-immigrant provisions which should be removed from the legislation before the final vote. See\nhttp://bibdaily.com/pdfs/NYLJ%20BIB%20Senate%20CIR%20bill.pdf\nhttp://www.nationalimmigrationproject.org/IDP_3_pager_040206_final.pdf (Link no longer operational)\nSo why isn\u2019t the enactment of such a law a fait accompli? Probably because a small, but extremely vocal, minority of our citizenry and their allies in the media and in Congress are busy trying their best to scare the living daylights out of Americans who are afraid that our country is being \u201cinvaded\u201d by illegal aliens.\nMake no mistake about it, this debate is about race, about prejudice and about fear of the foreigner. And truth be told, every new wave of immigration to the United States has always been accompanied by such fears.\nNot long after the United States was founded, the Alien and Sedition Acts of 1798 were enacted for political purposes. See\nhttp://www.earlyamerica.com/earlyamerica/milestones/sedition/\nWhen the first Irish immigrants started arriving in the U.S., people founded the openly anti-Catholic \u201cKnow Nothing\u201d party which flourished in the 1850s. See\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Know-Nothing_movement\nThen, after the transcontinental railroad was completed due to the efforts of thousands of Chinese laborers, and Chinese men where being lynched in California for working for law wages, Congress passed the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882 which effectively halted most Chinese immigration to the U.S. for over seventy years. See\nhttp://www.encyclopedia.com/history/united-states-and-canada/us-history/chinese-exclusion-act\nIn 1908, the U.S. reached the so-called \u201cGentlemen\u2019s Agreement\u201d with Japan to restrict Japanese workers from entering the U.S. See\nhttp://www.historycentral.com/Documents/Gentleman.html\nAfter an influx of immigration from Southern, Central and Eastern Europe starting in the 1880s, a detailed study of the \u201cimmigration problem\u201d ordered by the U. S. Senate and conducted under its auspices reported to the American people in 42 data-laden volumes in 1911. The Dillingham Commission (which included a number of professors from Ivy League Universities) took three years, employed a staff of 300, and spent a million dollars to develop a \u201cDictionary of Races,\u201d and to conclude that \u201cthe recent immigrants as a whole . . . present a higher percentage of inborn socially inadequate qualities than do the older stock.\u201d As a result, Congress passed the National Origins Act of 1921 and the Immigration Quota Act of 1924 which severely restricted the number of Italians, Jews and Poles who were permitted to enter the U.S. These acts also made Asians \u201cracially ineligible\u201d to become naturalized citizens of the U.S.\nThe Supreme Court of the United States in U.S. v. Bhagat Singh Thind, 261 U.S. 204 (1923), found that while Indians were indeed anthropologically Caucasian, the framers of the Constitution could never have intended letting them enter the country and be naturalized. Justice Sutherland stated that while \u201cit may be true that the blond Scandinavian and the brown Hindu have a common ancestor in the dim reaches of antiquity, the average man knows perfectly well that there are unmistakable and profound differences between them today.\u201d\nAgain, in 1934, the Supreme Court interpreted the Naturalization Law of 1790 to define \u201cwhite peoples within the meaning of the statute (as) members of the Caucasian race as defined in the understanding of the mass of men. The term excludes the Chinese, the Japanese, the Hindus, the American Indians, and the Filipinos.\u201d\nAlso, in 1934, to effectively stop Filipino immigration to the U.S., Congress passed the Tydings-McDuffie Act which reclassified Filipinos from U.S. nationals into \u201caliens\u201d and capped the number of Filipinos eligible to immigrate to the U.S. at 50 per year. See\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tydings-McDuffie_Act\nToday, Hispanics are the immigrant group being demonized. This is not a new phenomenon. Mexican agricultural laborers were brought into the U.S. under the inhumane and exploitive Bracero program from 1942 to 1964. See\nhttp://www.farmworkers.org/bracerop.html\nAt the same time, tens of thousands of Mexicans and their U.S. citizen children were deported from the United States under the infamous \u201cOperation Wetback\u201d program in the late 1940s and early 1950s. See\nhttp://www.pbs.org/kpbs/theborder/history/timeline/20.html\nIt is clear that race, religion and nationality have always figured prominently in U.S. immigration policy.\nTomorrow, on May 1st, there will be marches and rallies in cities across the United States. We, at the Law Offices of Carl Shusterman, will participate, and we urge the readers of this newsletter to do so as well. We hope that Congress will remain true to our nation\u2019s ideals and pass the comprehensive immigration reform bill now pending in the Senate. The sight of millions of people demonstrating in favor of the bill tomorrow may help our elected representatives see the light.\nIn response to the efforts of a radical fringe which would deny legalization to today\u2019s undocumented workers, we reply to them with the words of the man who became the 40th President of the United States, Ronald Reagan:\n\u201cAmerica stands unique in the world, the only country not founded on race, but on a way \u2013 an ideal. Not in spite of, but because of our polyglot background, we have had all the strength in the world. This is the American way.\u201d\nNext to the ETA-9089 application form, the employer\u2019s recruitment report and a well-maintained set of supporting documentation constitute the key to a successful PERM application. These must be carefully prepared and must be immediately available to the Department of Labor in the event of an audit. The supplementary material to the regulation indicates that fraud prevention and detection is an important component of the PERM process. This documentation does not have to be filed with the application, but must be available on request for five years from the date that the PERM application is filed with the Department of Labor.\nAs a basic guide, the following documents should be kept in the recruitment file to ensure a quick and easy response to an audit letter:\nEmployer\u2019s signed recruitment report.\nPrevailing wage determination.\nPosting Notice posted for at least 10 consecutive business days, plus print-outs (where applicable) that the employer has used any and all in-house media, electronic or printed, to advertise for similar positions in the organization.\nRecruitment documentation must include the following: Original and/or copies of tear sheets for the 2 Sunday print ads or relevant journal advertisements. Dated print-out documenting a job order was placed with the appropriate State Workforce Agency (SWA) for a period of 30 days\nIf the employer is recruiting for a professional position, there should be documentary evidence showing proof of three other forms of recruitment, such as:\n\u2013 Dated copies of print-outs of pages from the employer\u2019s web site and other internet sources.\n\u2013 Proof of attendance at job fairs such as attendee list, registration papers or invoice.\n\u2013 Proof of attendance at an on-campus recruitment such as itinerary, registration papers or invoice.\n\u2013 Copy of employee referral program.\n\u2013 Originals or copies of tear sheets from ethnic newspapers where a foreign language is required for the position.\n\u2013 Proof of on-campus placement office recruitment in the form of confirmation letters or posting.\n\u2013 Copy of contracts with private employment firms.\n\u2013 Verification letters or posting from trade or professional associations documenting job opportunity.\nAll resumes and job applications received arranged by the reason for rejection.\nBusiness Necessity documentation justifying the need for a foreign language, that the position requires a Masters or any other unusual job requirements\n* Recruitment Report\nThe final recruitment report should describe the recruitment steps taken, the number of resumes received, the number of people hired and the number of U.S. workers rejected. The employer must categorize the lawful job-related reasons for rejection in each category such as no degree or unrelated qualifications. An extreme example would be a bookkeeper applying for a position as a computer programmer. The recruitment report does not have to specifically identify the individual U.S. workers who applied for the job opportunity.\nThe employer cannot reject a U.S. worker if the individual could acquire the skills necessary to perform the position through a reasonable period of on-the-job training. A reasonable period is not defined in the PERM regulations because this clearly depends on numerous factors, such as the occupation, industry and the nature of the job.\nThe employer must always sign the recruitment report prior to filing the application and have it available upon request.\n* Prevailing Wage Determination\nA copy of the prevailing wage determination should be kept and be given to the Certifying Officer in the event of an audit.\nIt is permissible to use the same prevailing wage determination for more than one application provided that it is for the same occupation, job duties and skill level, the same wage source is applicable and the same area of intended employment is involved.\n* Posting Notice\nAs with both regular labor certification and reduction in recruitment filings, employers must give notice of the planned filing of the labor certification to the employees\u2019 bargaining representative in the area of intended employment if one exists. If there is no bargaining representative, employers are required to post a notice for at least 10 consecutive business days at the job location. The notice can be posted any time during the 30-180 day period before filing. However, the last day of the posting must fall at least 30 days prior to the filing in order to provide enough time for interested parties to submit any documentary evidence in this regard.\nThe notice must state that it is being posted as a result of a filing of an application for permanent labor certification for the position described. It should invite any person to provide documentary evidence bearing on the application to the Department of Labor and clearly state how to contact the Certifying Office and give the appropriate address. The notice must also contain all of the key elements of the job advertisement and a rate of pay. The notice can contain a wage range as long as the lower level of the stated range is at or above the prevailing wage.\nThe Department of Labor does not view the posting notice as a form of recruitment. In fact, the purpose of the notice requirement is to provide a way for current employees and other interested parties to make comments and submit documentation about an application for labor certification.\nIn addition to the printed posting notice, the employer must publish the job opportunity in all in-house media no matter what format (i.e. printed or electronic). The position must be posted for the same duration as any other comparable positions posted in that medium.\n* Recruitment Documentation\nDocuments must show that the recruitment was actually conducted within the specified time frame. If no original documentation is available then secondary evidence should be provided. For example, if there is no tear sheet available, the employer should provide copies of the invoice for the advertisement and affidavits of publication for said advertisement.\n* Resumes and Job Applications\nAfter reviewing the employer\u2019s recruitment report, the Certifying Officer may request the U.S. workers\u2019 resumes or applications, sorted by the lawful job-related reasons the applicants were rejected. These must be readily available. This information would be requested in a second audit if the Certifying Officer was not satisfied with the documentation provided in the first audit.\nIf all this information is immediately available when the Department of Labor requests an audit, the employer will be easily able to satisfy DOL\u2019s request well within the 30-day response time.\nTo read more about the PERM process, see our \u201cDepartment of Labor: Immigration Resources\u201d page at\nMr. V and Mr. E are both foreign nationals who work for the same software development company. Having resided in the U.S. for many years, they were becoming increasingly nervous about their immigration situations. Experienced Systems Architects, they were both in the 7th year of H-1B status. They were granted their extensions based upon long-pending Labor Certifications filed on their behalf by their previous employer. They, and 350,000 others, are victims of Backlog Elimination Centeritis, a severe form of anxiety.\nSuch anxiety is clearly warranted: on top of the years-long Labor Certification backlog, the EB-3 priority date backlog lengthens the green card queue for a few more years. And what if their Labor Certifications were denied? Goodbye Houston, hello Tehran! They were waiting indefinitely for approvals from the Backlog Elimination Center for an employer for which they no longer worked. Although this would make a great plot for \u201cWaiting for Godot, Part II \u2013 Revenge of the Feds\u201d, it was not much of an immigration strategy.\nA few months ago, the hapless duo called us wondering if there was anything we could do to improve their chances of getting green cards.\nIt didn\u2019t take a Rocket Scientist to figure out that their immigration salvation lay in the following four letters: PERM.\nThe nifty thing about filing under PERM was that their current employer could submit new applications without disrupting their long-pending Labor Certifications. This was important since it was the pendency of these golden oldie applications which enabled them to keep extending their H-1B status year after year.\nEven better, the senior level of their present jobs required the many years of experience that they had acquired working for their prior employer. On top of their Bachelors degrees, the two Systems Architects now possessed at least five years of progressively more complex professional experience. Just as a beautiful butterfly emerges from an ugly cocoon, the wrinkled old EB-3s with their accompanying five-year backlog had morphed into stunning, and current, EB-2s.\nWe would be less than honest not to disclose that things did not move forward without a couple of glitches. Due to a computer error, the initial PERM applications were denied (Although recruitment was conducted within the 30-day window allowed under the regulations, the system failed to recognize this and issued erroneous denials).\nHowever, the second PERM applications, which were submitted just a few days later, resulted in both cases being approved. Now, we have submitted I-140s and I-485s for both Mr. V and Mr. E and, with a little bit of luck, they will get their green cards before the end of 2006!\nPublic Access to Court Electronic Records (PACER) is an electronic database which allows registered users to search case and docket information from the U.S. Appellate Courts, District Courts, and Bankruptcy Courts.\nThe PACER system can be an important case management and tracking resource for attorneys. It allows attorneys to monitor the docket in their pending cases, and ensure that all filings from opposing counsel and orders of the Court have been received. It can also be used as a legal research tool, as many jurisdictions provide copies of documents that are filed in federal cases.\nThe PACER system is not restricted to attorneys, however. Perhaps you are a layperson considering whether to hire an attorney to handle federal court litigation on your behalf. You can use the PACER system to find out how many cases your attorney has handled in federal court.\n* How do I register for PACER?\nAlthough the PACER system is available to attorneys and non- attorneys alike, you must be a registered user in order to access the PACER database. This useful information is not free; there is a user fee of $.08 per page. Our office has found this minimal charge to be a worthwhile investment.\nHow do you become a registered user? The first step is to complete the PACER on-line registration form. We link to the registration form from our \u201cDeportation\u201d page at:\nThe registration form requests basic information such as your name and address. In order to register, you will also need to provide credit card information for billing purposes. After your registration form is processed, you will be issued a login and password. This will enable you to access the PACER database.\n* How does PACER work?\nOnce you have registered and received your login and password, simply visit the PACER login page. We also link to this page from our \u201cDeportation\u201d page at\nFrom the login page, enter your login number and password. You will then be taken to the PACER web-links page, which allows you to select the database for the U.S. Court of Appeals, U.S. District Court, or the U.S. Bankruptcy Court of your choice. The PACER database also contains a link to the webpage for the United States Supreme Court at\nYou will see that the information available in the PACER database varies depending on which particular Court you choose.\n* PACER database for the U.S. Courts of Appeals\nThe PACER database for the U.S. Courts of Appeals contains a listing of all courts for each appellate Circuit. You must first select which Circuit\u2019s database you which to search. When searching the PACER database for the U.S. Courts of Appeals, you may search by party name, attorney name, or by case number (if known).\nFor example, if you search the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals by attorney name and enter \u201cShusterman, Carl,\u201d you will see a list of all Appeals and Petitions for Review where I am the attorney of record. Want to see the latest status for our lawsuit challenging the National Interest Wavier rules for physicians? Just click on the case number for Schneider, et al. v Ridge, et al, and you will see that the Court heard oral arguments on this matter on December 5, 2006, and has taken the case under consideration.\nThe Court of Appeals docket information is essentially a time line, listing all filings, motions, orders and other activity in a given case. If you\u2019re an attorney, you may want to use the PACER database to ensure that you have received all briefs and motions from opposing counsel, or all orders from the Court. It is also a quick and easy way to verify that your filings have been received and accepted by the Court.\n* PACER Database for the U.S. District Courts\nThe PACER database for the U.S. District Courts contains a listing of each District Court, in every jurisdiction. You must select which specific District Court database that you wish to search. You may search by attorney name, party name, case number, or filing date.\nThe District Court database often contains more information than what is available through the Circuit Court PACER database. In addition to viewing the docket for an individual case, many jurisdictions allow you to view and print documents which have been filed, or orders issued by the Judge.\nThe ability to view documents can be a valuable research tool for attorneys, who may find it helpful to review memoranda or court orders in cases which later became precedent decisions. The minimal costs associated with viewing such documents can make the PACER system a practical alternative to more expensive legal research tools.\nFor example, search the PACER database for the California Central District Court. When you select the Central District link, you will be taken to a welcome page with a list of links at the top of the screen. Select the \u201cQuery\u201d link in order to begin your search.\nIf you search by attorney name, and enter \u201cShusterman, Carl,\u201d you will be provided with a list of 16 cases where I am listed as the attorney of record. In order to view the details of a particular case, simply click on the case number. You will then have the opportunity to search for case status, case summary, or view the docket report for the case you have chosen. When viewing the docket report, items that are underlined and in blue (hypertext links) are available to open and print, if desired.\nWe have found the PACER database to be a valuable resource for case status information, and a relatively inexpensive legal research tool. If you would like learn more about the PACER system, visit the PACER FAQ page. We link to the PACER FAQs from our \u201cDeportation\u201d page at:\nExhausted from the shopping extravaganza in Mumbai (See our March 2006 newsletter.), my Indian family, my wife and I flew to Goa for a little rest and relaxation, and to celebrate New Year\u2019s Eve.\nGoa is a tiny state on the west coast of India which was colonized by the Portuguese in 1510. Even after the British left India in 1947, the Portuguese stayed on in Goa.\nI still remember reading in American newspapers in 1961 how the brilliant Indian Defense Minister Krishna Menon persuaded Prime Minister Nehru to send India troops into Goa, forcing the Portuguese to relinquish their 400+ year hold on this part of the Indian subcontinent. When he was accused of aggression by the West, he retorted that \u201ccolonialism itself is a permanent aggression\u201d.\nAfter a short flight down the west coast of India from Mumbai, we landed at the Goa airport. The bus trip from the airport to our hotel took about an hour. The scenery looked like a Caribbean island, and the music blaring from the speakers was distinctively reggae. I had heard about all the hippies who settled in Goa in the 1960s. It all seemed right.\nGoa is a beachgoer\u2019s dream. We stayed in a small hotel near the beach. Every morning, after an outdoor Indian buffet breakfast, I would head for the beach. The sand was pristine, without a single piece of trash. I would jog for a couple of miles, then jump into the beautiful Arabian sea in order to cool down.\nGoa is filled with tourists, most of them Europeans, primarily from Eastern Europe and Russia. I challenged an 11-year-old boy to a game of table tennis, and got thrashed. My son and I made friends with his father, a stocky man from Canada of Indian origin. He had brought his three sons to India to acquaint them with their heritage. He explained to me that he was an Ismaeli Muslim and a follower of Aga Khan, the billionaire philanthropist. I learned that the Ismaelis had broken away from the Shiites in the 7th century. He was very friendly, and told me about all of the hospitals and schools and other good works financed by the Ismaelis.\nHindus, Moslems and Catholics seem to live harmoniously together in Goa. We visited the Basilica de Bom Jesus in Old Goa where we viewed the tomb of St. Francis Xavier, a 16th century Portuguese missionary.\nWe also took a tour which ended with a river cruise.\nMostly, we ate seafood delicacies, listened to music, watched dancers and acrobats, and enjoyed a fantastic New Year\u2019s fireworks display.\nAfter a couple of days of R&R, we bid our relatives goodbye, and flew to New Dehli in the north of India.\nOur son and the Indian portion of our family flew back to Mumbai, but our flight on \u201cSpice Air\u201d was delayed for more than four hours. To pass the time, I visited the airport bookstore where I purchased a book about India by V.S. Naipul. Mr. Naipul is a Nobel Prize winner in literature who, though born and raised in Trinidad, is of Indian origin. He had visited India in the early 1960s and again in the late 1990s. He was amazed at the economic progress that India had made. Some of his observations were quite interesting. He told of a civil servant who spent the equivalent of his 20 months salary to finance his daughter\u2019s wedding. I also learned about Dr. Ambedkar, a lawyer who help draft India\u2019s constitution. Dr. Ambedkar is held in high regard by India\u2019s dalits (literally \u201cbroken people\u201d) who are more commonly known as \u201cuntouchables\u201d. Millions of dalits have become Muslims, Christians and Buddhists in an effort to escape from the bottom rung of India\u2019s caste system. Dr. Ambedkar himself converted to Buddhism, a religion which originated in India, and he encouraged the dalits to do the same.\nBelow are links to two of my photographs from\nGoa:https://www.shusterman.com/images/goa1.jpg and https://www.shusterman.com/images/goa2.jpg\nOur first week in India had proven to be quite interesting.\nWhat adventures awaited us in New Delhi and in Rajasthan?\n10:00am \u2013 Noon, CT\n2:00 \u2013 3:30pm, ET\nThe Picture is of Cardinal Roger Mahoney of Los Angeles.\nHe called on the priests to ignore the H.R.4437 bill if it passes to become a law. He is also an outspoken critic of the bill.\nMy name is Muhammad Ali. I am an immigrant from Pakistan and live in Los Angeles.\nI read know the answer to the quiz from the news.\nI have recently subscribed to your very informative newsletter.\nThank you. Editor\u2019s Note: To read an interesting article entitled \u201cBishops United on Immigration\u201d, see\nhttp://ncronline.org/NCR_Online/archives2/2006b/042106/042106h.php (Link no longer operational)\n\u201cOur entire system of justice for immigrants is complicit in a process that takes advantage of a vulnerable population and results in fundamentally unfair proceedings\u2026 To remove a person whose only guides have been notarios and appearance attorneys is to secure a cheap victory at the cost of fairness\u2026 Something must be done to motivate IJs and government attorneys to ensure that immigrants are not represented by attorneys who have known their clients for five minutes. Because prejudice is inherent in this notario system, I would grant the petition solely on the basis of egregious violations of Petitioners\u2019 constitutional right to due process.\u201d Angeles Castro v. Gonzales, 9th Cir. 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February 22, 2017 . 6:00am\nTinyCo and Jam City Company have partnered with Futurama\u2019s executive producers to bring a host of brand-new adventures to Futurama fans. Futurama: Worlds of Tomorrow is an upcoming mobile game featuring original content from Futurama creator and Executive Producer Matt Groening and Executive Producer David X. Cohen, as well as much of the team behind the original TV show.\n\u201cI love this game because it feels just like Futurama,\u201d said Matt Groening, creator and Executive Producer of Futurama and The Simpsons. \u201cExcept now you get to jab the characters in the face.\u201d\n\u201cFuturama is back, bigger and better than ever! Or possibly smaller and equally good. But either way, it\u2019s back!\u201d said David X. Cohen. \u201cWe\u2019ve got completely new stories from the original writers, cast, and animators. This is the real Futurama deal.\u201d\nFuturama: Worlds of Tomorrow will be launching soon for mobile devices, and you can pre-register on Google Play here.\nRead more stories about Android & Futurama: Worlds of Tomorrow & iOS on Siliconera.\nPhantom Of The Kill Looks Like A Gorgeous Fire Emblem-Style Tactics Game\nSenran Kagura\u2019s Ninja Girls Getting Crossover With DrawGirls", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00240.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 51, + "original_length": 2777, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.87, + "perplexity": 315.2, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Emergency-Contact/Mary-H-K-Choi/9781508246053", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T04:39:18Z", + "digest": "sha1:YIBZEEFJZGOCNCLQLEUPWC44PNVR2MWB", + "length": 2113, + "nlines": 12, + "source_domain": "www.simonandschuster.com", + "title": "Emergency Contact Audiobook by Mary H. K. 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He works at a caf\u00e9 and sleeps there too, on a mattress on the floor of an empty storage room upstairs. He knows that this is the god-awful chapter of his life that will serve as inspiration for when he\u2019s a famous movie director but right this second the seventeen bucks in his checking account and his dying laptop are really testing him.\nWhen Sam and Penny cross paths it\u2019s less meet-cute and more a collision of unbearable awkwardness. Still, they swap numbers and stay in touch\u2014via text\u2014and soon become digitally inseparable, sharing their deepest anxieties and secret dreams without the humiliating weirdness of having to see each other.\nPhotograph (c) Aaron Richter\nMary H.K. Choi is a writer for The New York Times, GQ, Wired, and The Atlantic. She has written comics for Marvel and DC, as well as a collection of essays called Oh, Never Mind. She is the host of Hey, Cool Job!, a podcast about jobs, and is a culture correspondent for VICE News Tonight on HBO. 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What You Need to Know About the New Revenue Recognition Standards | Insights | Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP", + "raw_content": "Filing a New Form S-3? What You Need to Know About the New Revenue Recognition Standards\nBrian V. Breheny Adrian J. S. Deitz Rajeev P. Duggal Ryan J. Dzierniejko Z. Julie Gao Michelle Gasaway David J. Goldschmidt Stephan Hutter Thomas J. Ivey Laura A. Kaufmann Belkhayat Jonathan Ko Riccardo A. Leofanti James A. McDonald Andrea L. Nicolas Gregg A. Noel Michael J. Schwartz Jonathan B. Stone Danny Tricot Pranav L. Trivedi Yossi Vebman Richard C. Witzel, Jr. Dwight S. Yoo Michael J. Zeidel Andrew J. Brady Stacy J. Kanter\nThe much-discussed new revenue recognition standards jointly issued by the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) and the International Accounting Standards Board (IASB) to harmonize revenue recognition standards between U.S. generally accepted accounting principles (GAAP) and International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) will become effective for annual reporting periods beginning after December 15, 2017.1 As a result, calendar year companies will need to commence reporting under the new standard beginning with their Forms 10-Q for the quarterly period ending March 31, 2018.\nCompanies that opt to use the full retrospective method need to consider the impact, if any, of the adoption of the new accounting standard on their access to the capital markets.\nAdoption Methods\nCompanies may choose between two adoption methods. Under the modified retrospective method, a company is required to reflect the cumulative impact of the new standard on its financial statements in its first quarter 2018 Form 10-Q, but does not need to revise historical periods that pre-date adoption. Accordingly, the company\u2019s 2017 and 2016 financial statements will not need to be revised at the time it files its 2018 Form 10-K.\nUnder the full retrospective method, a company is required to revise all historical periods included in the reported financial statements to reflect the new standard. For example, a company that uses the full retrospective method will be required to apply the new standard to its first quarter 2018 financial statements in its Form 10-Q and retrospectively revise the comparable first quarter 2017 financial statements therein. Similarly, in its 2018 Form 10-K, the company will be required to apply the new standard to its 2018 financial statements and retrospectively revise its 2017 and 2016 financial statements therein.\nImpact on Form S-3\nAs a general matter, companies are required to revise previously issued historical financial statements and other affected financial information (e.g., MD&A and selected financial data) to reflect a subsequent change in accounting principle if those pre-change financial statements are required to be included or incorporated by reference into a new registration statement (with general exception of Form S-8) along with financial statements covering a period during which the accounting change occurred.2 This means that companies that use the full retrospective method to adopt the new revenue recognition standard will be required to provide retrospectively revised historical financial statements and other affected financial information in any new Form S-3 or Form F-3 that includes financial statements covering a period reflecting adoption of the new standard (i.e., first quarter 2018 or later). Companies that use the modified retrospective method to adopt the new revenue recognition standard will not face similar speedbumps when filing a new Form S-3 or Form F-3 because the modified retrospective method will not require any retrospective revision of pre-change historical financial statements.\nAs set forth below in Illustration A, a company that adopts the new revenue recognition standard under the full retrospective method as of January 1, 2018, will be required to retrospectively revise its 2017, 2016 and 2015 financial statements and other affected financial information to reflect the new standard in a Form S-3 filed after its first-quarter 2018 Form 10-Q is filed with the SEC. Typically, this would be accomplished by filing a Form 8-K under Item 9.01 to include the revised financial statements and other affected financial information as an exhibit. The Form 8-K automatically would be incorporated by reference into the Form S-3. It should be noted that the company in this example will be required to retrospectively revise its 2015 financial statements and other affected financial information even though it would not otherwise be required to retrospectively revise this \u201cfourth year\u201d of financial statements and other affected financial information at the time of filing its 2018 Form 10-K.\nAs noted above in Illustration A, a company may conduct a shelf takedown from an effective Form S-3 filed prior to the full retrospective adoption of the new revenue recognition standard without revising its historical financial statements and other affected financial information unless the company concludes that the adoption of the new standard represents a \u201cfundamental change\u201d under Item 512(a) of Regulation S-K (which traditionally is viewed as a very high bar). Companies, however, should confirm that their independent auditors will agree to provide comfort on the historical financial statements and other affected financial information that have not been retrospectively revised. 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Guadeloupe is located in the Caribbean Sea and is made up of five different islands. Cheap flights to Guadeloupe usually land at its most-used public airport, Pointe-\u00e0-Pitre Airport (PTP), located on the island of Grand-Terre.\nOne of the top reasons for flying to Guadeloupe is to spend some time at the beach. Guadeloupe has some world-renowned beaches, one of the most popular being Plage de la Perle, also known as Pearl Beach.\nWhen taking a cheap flight to Guadeloupe, you\u2019ll most likely arrive at the Pointe-\u00e0-Pitre Airport (PTP). Wi-Fi is available throughout the airport as well as in the business center rooms that are equipped with TVs, power strips, and phones.\nIf you want to rent a car after arriving at the airport, a variety of car rental companies is located in the annex building near the North Terminal. There\u2019s no public transportation or buses that stop at this airport. 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You need technical, quick players. This is the way football should be played and the most successful teams over the last decade have played like that.\n\u201cWe\u2019ve got our own twist to it because that\u2019s the Australian way. We have an enormous appetite to succeed and be aggressive.\n\u201cWe don\u2019t want to soak up pressure, we want to take it to the opposition. We\u2019re not frightened to match it with the very best and that was proved [by the Socceroos] at the World Cup and then the Asian Cup.\n\u201c[The Socceroos\u2019 success] should be a huge motivation for these boys. I keep telling them whatever happens here gets reported back to Ange, gets reported back to the federation.\n\u201cIf they have serious ambitions of making an international career with the Socceroos, well this is the next step. They\u2019re only one step away from getting a phone call to say \u2018you\u2019re coming to represent the Socceroos\u2019\n\u201cStrong performances here will lead to senior selection and I have no doubt there\u2019s players here after this period will certainly get a look in.\u201d\nVidmar said he has yet to finalise on his starting XI for the group opener, but confirmed striker Adam Taggart had shrugged off injury and should be right to go.\nFollowing the game with Hong Kong, the Olyroos face host-nation Chinese Taipei on Sunday then finish with Myanmar on March 31.\nOPINION: Olyroos kick-off their own Road to Rio\n\u201cThere\u2019s pressure every time you go and coach and play a game but it\u2019s not something I think about,\u201d Vidmar said of the expectation to progress from the group.\n\u201cNo one\u2019s got the magic wand to say we\u2019re going to qualify. It\u2019s a hard slog. 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He will also take strategic oversight of the Family Justice Observatory, an initiative which aims to support the best possible decisions for children by improving the use of data and research evidence in the family justice system in England and Wales.\nSociety conducted a wide-ranging search that spanned the Civil Service, the Not-For-Profit sector (including a number of large charities, social research institutes, trusts and foundations), as well as academics and professionals working in Law. We sought those who are leading voices in debates on Justice, have strong data and critical analytic skills, and have experience working at a strategic level.\nRobert is an experienced social researcher, bringing with him over 20 years\u2019 experience from the Civil Service. 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In her speeches she links themes such as hip hop, global citizenship, youth engagement and activism in a way that is accessible to audiences of any age and background.\nMost recently Fukushima was part of several institutes and workshops at the 2014 National Conference on Race and Ethnicity in American Higher Education (NCORE) including:\n\u2022 Hip Hop Education and Social Justice: Pedagogy, Praxis, Engagement, and Action\n\u2022 Hip Hop as Evolution: From Urban Shadows to the Global Mainstream and Academy\n\u2022 Social Justice: Healing from Historical Harm through Stories and Analysis\n\u2022 Youth Focused Intergenerational Movement Building\nShe was the first non-Native person to deliver a keynote address at Montana\u2019s 2012 Schools of Promise Conference for Indigenous youth and has presented at such diverse venues as Stanford University, Michigan State University's Asian American conference, People of Color in Independent Schools (POCIS) conferences, UMass Amherst, TEDxSitka, TEDxWhitman, Rock The School Bells, Osaka University, among others.\nOver the last 8 years, her passion for empowering young people through the performing arts has led her to build educational programs such as Turn Off The Stereotypes (2005), Whitman Institute of Summer Enrichment (2006) and SISTARZ, an all-girls hip hop club (2012). She has also been honored with a number of prestigious fellowships for her work from institutions such as Duke University\u2019s Ralph Bunche Institute of Summer Enrichment, Humanity in Action\u2019s European Program (The Netherlands) and the Thomas J. Watson Foundation.\nFukushima\u2019s \u2018RAPtivism\u2019 work has been featured by Oprah Magazine, KQED Public Television, The Seattle Times, TV 2M Morocco, The Bangalore Mirror, HYPE, South Africa\u2019s #1 Hip Hop Magazine, among others.\nGrowing up behind the scenes of the music industry, Fukushima was exposed firsthand to legendary artists who inspired the birth of hip hop such as James Brown, Funkadelic and The Stylistics. This eventually led her to create her own unparalleled vocal style blending soulful melodies, poetic lyricism, and beatboxing. Fans compare her music to the likes of renowned artists such as Lauryn Hill, Adele, Nina Simone, Ella Fitzgerald and Jill Scott. Her influences also include Erykah Badu, Lupe Fiasco, Sweet Honey in the Rock, Mos Def, and countless international hip hop acts.\nIn 2012, Fukushima released her global \u201cRAPtivism\u201d (rap activism) album featuring more than 20 leading political hip hop acts from around the world including Black Noise (South Africa), Positive Black Soul (Senegal) and DJ Noize (Denmark). Additionally she has been featured on a number of albums including MAD lines\u2019 \u201cMAD Habits\u201d (2012), Street Poet Inc.\u2019s \u201cOrigins\u201d (2012), Ras K\u2019dee\u2019s \u201cCloudwriter\u201d (2011) and Emile YX?\u2019s \u201cConscious Rhymes for Unconscious Times\u201d (2010).\nFukushima holds an honors degree in Rhetoric and Film Studies from Whitman College (2009) with minors in French Literature and Gender Studies. She currently lives in the California Bay Area where, in addition to performing, she is the Youth Coordinator at the Bay Area Video Coalition (BAVC). 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Driven by a deep sense of fairness, equity, and justice, he has emerged as one of the nation's top leaders in working to create environments where people from all cultures are honored, respected, and valued.\nIn the past 20 plus years, Vasquez has worked with hundreds of organizations and schools who want to take on the challenges of eliminating the social conditions that produce racism, sexism, classism, homophobia and the like. He has assisted national organizations such as Planned Parenthood Federation of America to establish nation-wide diversity initiatives and he has provided training to thousands of individuals throughout the country.\nVaquez is well-known for his role in the award-winning documentary film \"The Color of Fear\" and along with cast member Victor Lewis, has authored a four volume curriculum, Lessons from The Color of Fear, to use in conjunction with the film. The two also lead workshops using the film.\nVasquez was also the lead facilitator in the film \"Skin Deep,\" a documentary on race relations with college students, and was an advisor to \"It's Elementary,\" a film addressing homophobia with children. More recently, Vasquez directed the video \"New Bridges,\" which highlights his work with high school students addressing race and gender.\nVasquez has co-authored the books No Boundaries: Unlearning Oppression and Building Multicultural Alliances and Making Allies, Making Friends: A Curriculum For Middle Schools, and is a contributing author of the book Psychotherapy with Women: Exploring Diverse Contexts and Identities (edited by Mirkin, Suyemoto, and Okun). He has published numerous articles on strengthening cultural roots and eliminating privileged systems.\nVasquez is currently a Senior Associate at the National Equity Project. Previously he was the Executive Director of the San Francisco Education Fund, a non-profit working to bring educational equity to public schools. He is a partner with the Center for Diversity Leadership and founder and former Director of TODOS Institute in Oakland, CA.\nHugh has a Masters Degree in Social Work from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. He serves as adjunct faculty to John F. Kennedy University in the Graduate School of Professional Psychology and has taught courses at New College of California and California Institute of Integral Studies.\nHugh Vasquez and Victor Lewis are also available for joint appearances for \"Beyond The Color of Fear\" presentations and workshops.\n\"Our attendees at the Conference could not rave enough about the plenary that Hugh participated in. We were so grateful to have him.\"\nAs two of the primary cast members in The Color of Fear, Victor Lewis and Hugh Vasquez bring their experience of making this film to organizations working to address diversity issues. The focus of this workshop is on race and racism in the United States. The powerful documentary The Color of Fear highlights the struggle of individuals learning about racism and changing deeply imbedded beliefs. Changes on an individual level are important and necessary, but what happens next? What does it take for us as individuals and communities to sustain the change so that the very structures that perpetuate racism are dismantled? Participants in this workshop will view The Color of Fear and participate in a discussion on how to instill long-lasting change in our society on race matters.\nUnconscious Incompetence to Unconscious Competence:\nCreating Conditions for Equity Across Race, Class, Gender and other Cultural Lines\nWe live in a world where rights, access, and privileges are awarded to some while denied to others. Neither the award nor the denial of these privileges is based upon one\u2019s merit, but instead an elaborate system that pays special attention to race, gender, class, etc. Although this system was established long before anyone now living was born, we are all taught/conditioned to perpetuate it. Changing this system demands an awakening process for each and every individual. Changing the system so that privileges and access are awarded to everyone despite the color of one\u2019s skin, gender, or socio-economic status will only come about when individuals move from being unconscious to the conditions and become competent to transform them. This workshop will focus on how we as individuals, members of cultural groups, and society at-large can embark on a cultural transformative process to bring about equity.\nBuilding Coalitions Across Race and Ethnicity\nThe primary goals of this session are for participants to develop a greater understanding of the elements necessary in any group to build coalitions across race and ethnicity and to develop skills to build these coalitions. This session will actively engage participants through a combination of interactive presentations, experiential exercises, and small/large group discussions. Topics to be covered include: The root causes of racial/ethnic division, the effect of internalized racism, strategies for creating and maintaining coalitions, and building a legacy of inter-ethnic alliance.\nPrivilege Systems\nThis workshop is about systems of privilege and institutional change. If we want to create an inclusive higher educational environment, if we want to recruit and retain culturally diverse students, then we must address privileged systems. Current institutions operate within privilege, that is, they award unearned advantage to some to the exclusion of others. Of the many privileged systems in society, this workshop will examine the privileged systems of race/ethnicity, gender, and sexual orientation. Participants will learn to identify privilege, understand how these systems perpetuate and identify specific ways to re-design privilege systems so that all students benefit. Presenters will share personal stories of waking up to privilege and facilitate dialogue, introspection and interaction between the participants. This session should particularly benefit those who are involved in policy making at the institutional level, staff involved in student recruitment and/or retention programs, those who design curricula, and those who are interested in designing systems that benefit people from all cultural backgrounds.\nSave Our Ship: We are all on the same boat\nConditions exist in our society and throughout the world where our very survival is at stake. These conditions include how we treat each other based on ethnicity, gender, class, etc. Our belief is that when it comes to societal and worldwide conditions we are all on the same boat \u2013 interconnection and interdependence is a reality -- problems that exist for some affect us all. However, many do not recognize this interdependence because although we are all on the same boat, we are not on the same deck. People on the top deck have amenities, access, and privileges that those on the lower decks do not have. There is a different experience, a different reality one has depending on the deck he/she is on. This workshop will explore our interdependence with societal and worldwide issues such as race, class, gender and look at what we must do to save our ship.\nBeyond The Color of Fear\nThe focus of this workshop is on race and racism in the United States. The powerful documentary \u201cThe Color of Fear\u201d highlights the struggle of individuals learning about racism and changing deeply imbedded beliefs. Changes on an individual level are important and necessary, but what happens next? What does it take for us as individuals and communities to sustain the change so that the very structures that perpetuate racism are dismantled? Participants in this workshop will view the award winning film \u201cThe Color of Fear\u201d followed by a discussion on how to instill long-lasting change in our society on race matters.\nFor Educators: Creating Conditions in Schools Where All Students Thrive\nOur society is in the midst of rapid demographic changes. The neighborhoods, schools, communities, institutions and organizations in which we live are increasingly becoming multicultural settings. As teachers and parents, we are faced with the challenge of helping our children learn how to live well in this diverse society. How can we teach our children to value the richness of diversity? How can we show them how to respect and honor each individual no matter what cultural background they come from? How can we teach them to honor their own background and take pride in their heritage? These are but a few of the challenges teachers and parents face today. 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Elliot Washor and Charles Mojkowski, both of Big Picture Learning, have a proven, innovative solution for stemming the flow of drop-outs and breaking the cycle of disengagement that leads up to it. It's called leaving to learn. Leaving to Learn helps us deeply understand the real reasons kids drop out and the essential conditions for productive learning that today's adolescents require. The authors then make a compelling argument: in order to retain students through to graduation, schools must offer experiences where students do some of their learning outside of school. With common sense 'rules of the road,' the authors offer nuts and bolts guidelines for implementing a high-quality Leaving to Learn program, including:examples of the many forms of out-of-school learning: internships, travel, community service, independent projects, and more seamlessly integrating students' outside learning with in-school curriculum assigning academic credit for out-of-school accomplishments.\"\nRecording: A full Blackboard Collaborate recording is at https://sas.elluminate.com/p.jnlp?psid=2013-04-17.0748.M.9E9FE58134BE68C3B413F24B3586CF.vcr&sid=2008350 and an audio mp3 recording is at http://audio.edtechlive.com/foe/leavingtolearn.mp3 and at http://www.futureofeducation.com.\nElliot Washor, Ed.D. is the co-founder and co-director of Big Picture Learning. He is also the co-founder of The Met Center in Providence, RI.\nElliot has been involved in school reform for more than 30 years as a teacher, principal, administrator, video producer, and writer. He has taught and is interested in all levels of school from kindergarten through college, in urban and rural settings, across all disciplines. His work has spanned across school design, pedagogy, learning environments, and education reform and is supporting others doing similar work throughout the world. Elliot\u2019s interests lie in the field of how schools can connect with communities to understand tacit and disciplinary learning both in and outside of school. Elliot is deeply committed to imagining Big Picture Learning as a \u2018do-think-do\u2019 organization, and persistently pushes the boundaries of its design in order to continually innovate practice and influence in the world of education.\nAt Thayer High School in Winchester, N.H., Elliot\u2019s professional development programs won an \u201cInnovations in State and Local Government Award\u201d from the Ford Foundation and the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. He has been selected as an educator to watch in Rhode Island and has recently been selected as one of the Daring Dozen \u2013 the Twelve Most Daring Educators in the World by the George Lucas Educational Foundation. His dissertation on Innovative Pedagogy and New Facilities won the merit award from DesignShare, the international forum for innovative schools.\nElliot lives in sunny San Diego with his wife and five dogs.\nCharlie Mojkowski worked with Elliot Washor and Dennis Littky in creating Big Picture Learning and The Met School in Providence. He currently works with Elliot on developing new initiatives that refine and extend the Big Picture Learning design. Charlie has served as an independent consultant to education and business since 1976. He works primarily in the areas of school and curriculum improvement, leadership and organizational development, program evaluation, and applications of technology that support that work. Charlie designed, administered, and taught in a doctoral program in educational leadership; directed the Rhode Island Educational Leadership Academy; and served as Executive Director of the Rhode Island Association of School Principals.\nViv white 8:03 PM\nDear Elliot and Charles,\nWell done, a wonderful and unique contribution to personalising learning in our schools. Here in Australia we know the power of Big Picture Learning and the importance of connecting our young people to real world learning . We are part of a great movement that you have been central to starting! 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There are all kinds of ways that education, teaching, learning, and schooling take place where external pressures or motivators supersede the self, where submission to power or authority is at the heart of what is learned.\nBut philosophically, I do agree with it. Perhaps my version would be, \"self-education is the only kind of education that really matters.\" Not as memorable as Asimov's quote, though, and I'm guessing that was his actual intent.\nA healthy society needs healthy thinkers, with each informing and supporting the other. The growing of a next generation self-directing, knowledgeable, critical thinkers should be one of the main goals of the current one. We appreciate the need for each generation to build their own strength and understanding, to help them do so and to give them wisdom along the way. 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Only time will tell, but here are some picks from recent news we think stand a chance of becoming more popular in Dublin.\nIn-Store app assistants\nApps are becoming more affordable for businesses of all sizes. When it comes to retail they have predominantly been the domain of e-commerce companies, but people are so used to the convenience offered by an app many think it can be used to add value to the physical retail experience too.\nWalmart in the US recently added a store assistant to their app. It provides shoppers with many additional features designed to be useful when visiting a physical store. The assistant automatically opens when they open the company\u2019s app in a store. Some of the features include:\nA map of the store\nIn-app shopping lists\nCost estimates of total bill\nStock availability in the store\nA scanner for more product info\nWe\u2019re not sure whether all of these would catch on, but a couple might. Do you think any of the above would add value to a customer\u2019s experience here in Dublin? Can you think of ways an app could be used to help you engage your customers for an improved experience? Will businesses of the future include a budget for app creation when planning their own shop fit out?\nWould interactive mirrors benefit your shop fit out?\nInteractive mirrors have been a regular feature at industry shows for a few years now. The more advanced ones allow customers to see what clothes would look like, negating the need to try them on. However, these are some way from being perfect, and we think it will be another few years before these are a standard part of a shop fit out in Dublin.\nDespite some of the more advanced features needing further development, Mango have worked with Vodafone to develop a digital mirror they think will be genuinely useful to customers. The mirror is connected to the store\u2019s employees, who receive messages on their smart watches. This allows a customer to request a garment in a different size or colour without leaving the changing room.\nThe mirror is also providing a potential source of sales, as it automatically suggests other garments to compliment the clothes the customer is trying on. Guillermo Corominas, Mango\u2019s chief client officer, said, \u2018We see the future of retailing as a blend of the online and the offline. These new fitting rooms are another step in the digital transformation of our stores to create a whole new experience for our customers.\u2019 Whether or not customers agree with Mango\u2019s optimism is yet to be seen, but if they do, expect to see a smart mirror included in a shop fitout in a Dublin store near you some time soon.\nCan data provide new insights?\nA designer shirt maker on New York\u2019s Wall Street has adopted an Internet of Things (IoT) digital platform to help it track customers, products and employees throughout the store. The idea is to analyse the data to help predict shopper behaviour and buying patterns. They hope to use this comprehensive overview of how the store operates to ensure they have the best layout, optimise their customer service and improve employee workflow. They believe doing this will help to grow sales while cutting costs.\nAs with all data, the results are only as good as the analysis. Whether this system works is yet to be seen, but were pretty sure that even if it doesn\u2019t, it won\u2019t be the last we see of IoT sensors being used to track customers. More than a third of supermarkets are already using or trialling IoT technology in their physical stores. As the digital world penetrates deeper into our daily lives, a technology-based aspect is going to play an increasingly important role in shop fit out.\nAmazon pushing ahead with more Go locations\nRetail is more about the customer\u2019s experience than ever before. Previously there was no competition for shops when people wanted to go on a shopping spree, but now retailers are constantly trying to come up with ways to add value a customer can\u2019t receive when shopping online. However, not all experiences have to be sensory or special, sometimes what we need the most is convenience.\nAmazon Go is a store concept that does away with the need for a cashier. You can purchase items through the Amazon Go smartphone app, and then simply pick them up from the store. You\u2019re charged for your goods as you exit the store. Even though Amazon have consistently been reducing the amount of time needed to deliver an order, most people are impatient, and the thought of purchasing an item while at work and picking it up an hour later while on lunch will appeal to lots of people. Reducing the need for human store assistants will help simplify the shop fit out as well as cut costs.\nThe new Amazon Go stores will be located in Seattle and Los Angeles, but if they prove to be popular we expect to see them popping up all over the countries Amazon operates in.\nNo matter how tech savvy your business is, those that fail to serve the customers of tomorrow will struggle against their competitors who embrace the changing landscape of shop fitting. Despite this, many innovations need to be proven in the field, and will reduce in price dramatically as adoption increases. This means a sensible and balanced approach to the tech you introduce to your shop fit out is essential. Our professional team will provide you with the best options for every aspect of your retail space. 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Newspapers struggle with massive debt while posting their articles free on the Web. Ad revenues shrink as advertisements leap from broadcast and print media to Google and Craigslist. Formerly passive television viewers now post videos on YouTube, one-liners on Twitter, and autobiographies on Facebook. Computer software gravitates from individual hard drives to remote servers. Marketing, publishing, and other media-related industries stagger under the weight of the financial crisis \u2014 and nobody, whether content creator, advertiser, politician, or business leader, seems to have a clear sense of what will happen next.\nIn such a time, perhaps one should turn to the person with the longest-lasting contrarian perspective. These days, that person is Esther Dyson. Dyson made her reputation in the 1980s as an industry insider with an outsider\u2019s perspective. She hosted PC Forum,an annual IT-industry gathering founded by industry analyst Ben Rosen. Rosen went on to become a legendary venture capitalist and chairman of Compaq and Lotus, and Dyson bought his old firm, becoming the editor and publisher of Release 1.0, the premier venture-oriented newsletter about the personal computer industry. (She sold the company, EDventure Holdings Inc., to CNET Networks in 2004.)\nThroughout her career, Dyson has been a pioneering commentator on (or, as she puts it, a \u201ccourt jester\u201d to) the computer and communications industries. She has championed a diversity of ideas, social networking, design quality, and the pragmatic involvement of business and technology experts in solving large-scale social problems. She has also been a notable participant in the evolution of these industries. She is on the board of the WPP Group PLC, the communications-services group founded by Sir Martin Sorrell; she has been or is a board member of several well-known research- or innovation-related nonprofits, including the Santa Fe Institute, the Long Now Foundation, the Electronic Frontier Foundation, and the Sunlight Foundation. In 1998, she became the founding chairman of the board of ICANN (the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers), which oversees the distribution of Web addresses and is the closest thing the Internet has to a governing administration. She served in that capacity till 2000.\nAnd in both eastern Europe and the U.S., she has been an angel investor or board member for many influential startups, including several mentioned in this interview: Flickr and del.icio.us (sites for sharing photos and bookmarks, respectively, both since acquired by Yahoo), Medstory (a health information site acquired by Microsoft), Meetup (a Web-based service that helps people organize local face-to-face groups, known for its use by both major U.S. political parties), 23andMe (personal genomics), Wesabe (personal finance), Dopplr (travel), Yandex (Russian search engine), Airship Ventures (a zeppelin operator), Space Adventures (space tourism), and XCOR Aerospace (spacecraft). Her connections to space science started with her family. Her father, physicist Freeman Dyson, developed the concept of the \u201cDyson sphere,\u201d a structure that would allow a highly advanced civilization to use satellites to capture energy directly from its planet\u2019s local star.\nDyson sat down with strategy+business in New York in January. A few days later, she left to resume training as a backup cosmonaut in Star City, Russia (training organized by Space Adventures); her blog on the subject is at www.huffingtonpost.com/esther-dyson.\nS+B: Let\u2019s start with your decision to become a cosmonaut.\nDYSON: When Space Adventures asked me if I wanted to do the training, I said I would love to...someday. But they said, \u201cNo, we mean now.\u201d I wanted very much to do it, but I was too busy. Then my sister had a double mastectomy; she\u2019s fine now, or I wouldn\u2019t tell this story. A few weeks later, as I was juggling my schedule, I found myself thinking, \u201cNow, if I just had a double mastectomy, I could get out of these commitments.\u201d Oops! I realized I would always be too busy, unless I just stopped. I said yes to Space Adventures and pretty much put everything on hold until April 2009. Amazingly, they\u2019re all carrying on without me!\nS+B: How long is the trip to space?\nDYSON: The \u201ctourists,\u201d as they call us commercial guys, go up to the International Space Station for about 12 days. I\u2019m a backup to [software innovator and former Microsoft executive] Charles Simonyi, who has already gone to space once. I\u2019m not likely to actually go on the flight, unless I get very lucky. [Simonyi ultimately made the flight in the spring.]\nThere are a lot of things to learn, about dealing with authority and not being in control, and about space travel itself. I\u2019ve been investing in this area for years; I\u2019ve gone on weightless flights. But my knowledge was mostly abstract. You can\u2019t really read a book to learn French; you have to go to Paris and absorb it. Now I understand atmospheric pressure and life support from the point of view of an actual participant in space flight.\nOne of the coolest moments so far happened while I was learning the radio system. I had to pretend to call the Japanese module and say, \u201cVladimir, I have a problem. Can you come help me?\u201d\nVladimir said, \u201cSure, I\u2019ll fly right over.\u201d That\u2019s how they get around on the station, of course; they fly.\nS+B: In the global economic meltdown, one of the most troubled industries seems to be media. Why is that?\nDYSON: The online and media worlds are dealing with a crumbling economy across almost all sectors. Advertising revenue is going down; venture capitalists are getting nervous. And separately, there is a change in the way people spend their time and buy things, as a result of being online, that has begun to affect all marketing and media enterprises.\nA lot of marketers call the Internet an \u201cattention economy.\u201d They are looking for consumers who will pay attention to their product, and they try to calculate consumers\u2019 propensity to purchase. They think that attention means intention. But it doesn\u2019t. (I credit Michael Goldhaber for that point, which he made very eloquently in a 1992 article in Release 1.0 on the \u201cattention society.\u201d) The reality is, people don\u2019t go online to give attention, but to get it. They don\u2019t want to be part of the audience. They want to perform and to be heard, to be present. It\u2019s an almost biological urge, like the urge to spread our genes and keep the species alive.\nThis is one of two big phenomena defining the Internet right now. Humanity never had the ability to present itself to people so broadly before, but the social media of the last few years \u2014 YouTube, MySpace, Facebook, Twitter, Flickr, del.icio.us, LinkedIn, and so forth \u2014 make it possible. You can say, \u201cWell, this isn\u2019t that new; people always had family scrapbooks.\u201d But it was never possible to share them so easily or widely. It\u2019s interesting to see how strong the drive is. All these services let you post your news all over; you may be sleeping, but your image and news are on Fred\u2019s Facebook News Feed when he is awake.\nThat\u2019s why digital media are replacing old media so rapidly \u2014 and why this new era is so difficult for marketers. They need to learn to join the conversation rather than interrupt it.\nS+B: What\u2019s the other phenomenon?\nDYSON: It\u2019s the quantification of everything. Not just marketing data \u2014 everything. Five years ago you\u2019d read about diabetics who had to take their blood sugar readings or about these weirdos who put on pedometers when they walked. Now, that kind of measurement is everywhere. Web sites that seem at first glance like entertainment or service media are really devoted to managing and interpreting customers\u2019 data about themselves. Mint and Wesabe track your banking data and financial transactions. Skydeck organizes cell-phone records; you can see whom you call most frequently or whom you used to call but haven\u2019t called recently. You can compare your phone call patterns against other people\u2019s. 23andMe does the same thing for genomes. The most fascinating thing in the world is a mirror.\nThese sites are great places for marketers to sponsor. But it\u2019s not the same as other forms of sponsorship; the marketers need to be relevant \u2014 but not controlling. They\u2019re used to being in charge. But this type of media is full of people being active without them.\nS+B: But isn\u2019t there also a huge \u201csilent majority\u201d of people who just want to be passive consumers, whether online or off?\nDYSON: I don\u2019t know, because, after all, they\u2019re silent. Yet I\u2019m amazed at how many people are jumping in actively. The Pew Research Center has statistics on this. [In January 2009, Pew published survey results that 35 percent of adult Internet users had accounts on a social networking site and 75 percent of adults between 18 and 24 had them; furthermore, the numbers were growing. See \u201cSocial Networks Grow: Friending Mom and Dad,\u201d by Amanda Lenhart.]\nInterrupted Conversations\nS+B: How do you see online marketing evolving?\nDYSON: Traditional advertising, a major source of income for traditional media, is under threat. Even after the recession ends, audiences will be much farther along the path of spending time online, rather than with TV or print publications \u2014 unless it\u2019s with their Web-based versions. Marketers will use the new media to interact with consumers directly, leaving the traditional content providers in the lurch. Increasingly, consumers are interested in talking to one another, rather than reading the precious words of the experts. That doesn\u2019t mean the death of professional content, but it does mean a dramatic change in the content providers\u2019 business models.\nThe music business hit this wave first. They started out complaining that people were stealing their music, but really their cost structures were out of whack. Over the last few years, the successful labels have refocused themselves on helping artists manage their careers and market themselves. The concert business now is booming, amazingly, while traditional sales of recorded music are not.\nNewspapers have to go through a similar transition now. They had a business model that was fine when the classifieds paid for the news \u2014 lots of revenue that both required and supported staffs of thousands. But now Craigslist has replaced those classifieds with a staff of only perhaps 50 people \u2014 with dramatically lower costs and revenues. I have a lot of sympathy for news media \u2014 not necessarily for the owners, but for the holy craft of journalism, which I think is sacred and should be revered. It may need to be kept alive by foundations such as Paul Steiger\u2019s ProPublica and the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists.\nMeanwhile, marketers will have to integrate themselves into conversations already taking place on the Web. And most people aren\u2019t having online conversations about ketchup or toilet tissue; maybe those aren\u2019t good things to advertise online, or you have to be really creative. How about a \u201cwho smells best?\u201d site for a deodorant marketer?\nA lot of marketers are now excited about behavioral targeting, which means tracking consumers\u2019 behavior across the sites they visit and showing them ads relevant to what they\u2019re posting or where they\u2019re visiting. So they barge into an ongoing conversation, talking about their product at a time and place where consumers aren\u2019t really that interested and feel that their conversation has been interrupted. Yes, I may be planning a trip to Paris, but just now I was talking to Alice about my weekend in Moscow and I don\u2019t want to hear about your round-trip specials!\nS+B: What do marketers have to do to reach people?\nDYSON: The really good marketers will become much more clever about what they do, and engage with people more effectively. Conventional media will lose a lot of those marketers, because the marketers don\u2019t need the media as much anymore. Coca-Cola used to need Time magazine or television to reach consumers. Now Coca-Cola can sponsor contests and get people to put Coke badges and links on their own Web sites. Assuming the same number of viewers, would you rather have your logo next to a news article or on the home pages of thousands of consumers who are fans of your product and proud to say so to their friends?\nI published an op-ed in the Wall Street Journal last year [\u201cThe Coming Ad Revolution,\u201d February 11, 2008], which basically said what I just told you. I wrote about the brilliance of search advertising: The only people who get the message are already looking for that item. This is the basis of Google\u2019s success.\nBut people spend a lot of time online not looking for something, or at least not for something that can be bought or sold. Marketers need to understand that the Web is not about them; it\u2019s about us. Marketers and media sites keep thinking, \u201cWell, if we can only tweak our banner ads right, we can get the same success rate as Google.\u201d But they can\u2019t, because a banner ad is usually shown to someone who is not looking for the item advertised.\nS+B: How well do marketers understand this distinction?\nDYSON: After the Wall Street Journal article appeared, I got a number of letters that said, \u201cI read your piece. It was great \u2014 and I want to tell you about my wonderful e-commerce site or my new ad-serving tool,\u201d which reinforced my view that media companies, and marketers, aren\u2019t listening. They saw the words behavioral targeting and just assumed it was yet another article about how great it is to be able to track consumers across the Web. They saw a keyword and delivered their preprogrammed message, instead of taking the trouble to listen to what I was saying.\nAnother place they fail is their secretiveness around cookies and other ways of tracking people\u2019s online behavior. It comes across as lying to people and secretly watching them, instead of listening. It would be much more effective to be transparent, openly acknowledging how tracking works, and using it to engage with people. I like having people know what I want, as long as they aren\u2019t snooping on me. When I enter a store, I expect the clerks to say hello and pay attention, or at least not to ignore me. What I don\u2019t want is for them to hide behind a two-way mirror and spy on me.\nS+B: What do you say to the media companies that are trying to compete for advertising dollars online?\nDYSON: They will need to get over it. Google\u2019s business is inherently more profitable than any other form of online advertising. It\u2019s just-in-time marketing to people who are already looking. There is no way to build that kind of business from content-driven or behaviorally targeted marketing, at least not on a large scale.\nThere are other great business models besides Google, but they\u2019re all relatively small. For example, I\u2019m an investor in the Web site Dopplr, where people post travel plans. \u201cI see you\u2019re going to be in Moscow next week. So am I. Let\u2019s have lunch.\u201d And it quantifies everything: How many miles I have flown this year versus how many you\u2019ve flown. Or \u201cWhat are my friends\u2019 most frequently visited cities?\u201d I suggested to British Airways that they join as a vendor; I would gladly \u201cfriend\u201d them. If they joined, they could see that their Dopplr friends are going to Moscow in January, and could offer a special fare. Or if 12 people are going to the same conference, they can offer seating in the plane together.\nS+B: Won\u2019t this come across as an invasion of consumer privacy?\nDYSON: No, because when I accept a person as a Dopplr friend, I have asked to have that person be aware of my plans. It\u2019s no more invasive than letting your boyfriend hear you say, \u201cI would like a sweater this Christmas.\u201d\nAnother airline tried an offer to introduce their premium frequent flyers to each other on the airline\u2019s Web site. I thought, \u201cHow dorky is that?\u201d I\u2019m not interested in connecting with other people who fly a particular airline. I am interested in making better connections with the people I already know, and perhaps getting them to share a flight with me. This airline had the right general notion \u2014 to engage with their customers directly \u2014 but they were tone-deaf about the relationship. They would do better going through Dopplr, because consumers don\u2019t necessarily want a brand-specific site. They want sites where the brands join, just like the people.\nS+B: What impact will this have on the economic future of, say, the media industries?\nDYSON: As science fiction writer William Gibson put it, \u201cThe future is already here \u2014 it\u2019s just not evenly distributed.\u201d We\u2019re starting to see the impact, first in professions like journalism, where the boundary between professional and amateur is unclear. But one underlying issue is a decline in the importance of monetary rewards for work, at least in the part of the world where people\u2019s basic needs are already met.\nBusinesspeople still don\u2019t get the strength and importance of nonmonetary markets. Marketers assume that people want to do things that cost money \u2014 and therefore generate revenues for someone. But using Facebook doesn\u2019t cost anything. Yes, some resources are consumed, and the site needs to be paid for somehow, but from the users\u2019 point of view, it\u2019s mostly outside the commercial sphere. In general, more and more people will spend their time on free entertainment and activity, just as they did a century ago. Twenty or 30 years from now, you\u2019ll see some parts of the world much richer, the West relatively poorer than it is today, and much more of the economy returned to a nonmonetary, non-transactional, relationship-driven base.\nS+B: How would that be different from what we have today?\nDYSON: A few years ago, I looked at Internet and communications spending in some former Soviet states, such as Estonia. Most people there are well educated, but they don\u2019t have a lot of money. They spend a high proportion of their disposable income on Internet access and cell phones. After paying their monthly fees, they usually don\u2019t spend much on anything else; they opt out of the commercial market, and use the media largely for communication rather than buying things.\nI think consumption patterns will shift toward that model. Rather than buy a T-shirt with a logo, a teenager will just post a badge on a Facebook page. This shift will fit in well with a much more frugal world. A lot of people in the West are discovering that they have more things than they really need. Now they have a way to spend their time that costs almost no money. The economic downturn will accentuate this trend, and many people won\u2019t ever really go back.\nS+B: Do you really think that could happen on a mass scale?\nDYSON: It\u2019s already happening. Many people work much harder on a World of Warcraft role-playing team than they ever work in a paid job. They are very skilled and they do painstaking work, usually for only brownie points and recognition, because that work gives them a feeling of control and camaraderie.\nInventory management requires many of the same skills as World of Warcraft. Could you actually get teams of 12-year-old boys to do inventory management? They would do very well at it if they saw it as a game. But how could you motivate them?\nIt\u2019s a mystery, and as an investor and as someone who\u2019d like a better-run world, I\u2019d like to solve it. Whatever makes work unpleasant, it\u2019s often not really the nature of the task itself; it\u2019s the involuntariness, and the fact that you can be punished by the person running the game.\nBut if World of Warcraft isn\u2019t work, it\u2019s also not traditional consumer entertainment. People pay to use the platform. The challenge for marketers is to fit into that model. And so far they\u2019ve been clueless.\nMarketers who want users to put the marketers\u2019 logos on their own profile pages will have to win the favor of those users. The profile owner probably won\u2019t ask for money, and the marketer shouldn\u2019t pay her, because it will devalue her endorsement. She might be a teenage girl with a popular site. She won\u2019t let some dorky brand sponsor her page. She wants her friends to see the brands she likes. That Web site is like a T-shirt with a logo, which people pay to wear. People might even pay for a cool ad that they can put on their site. And if they\u2019re in an older generation, haven\u2019t you ever heard someone brag about being a premium frequent flyer on their favorite airline? It\u2019s the same underlying emotion.\nIt will take some luck and skill to get through the transition to the next economy and keep enough people employed. Personal services will continue to grow in importance, because they are the one thing that you can\u2019t export or shrink. Everything else will get more efficient. The economy should be spending more on health care and other personal services: not necessarily on manufacturing drugs, but on the people going around and giving little old ladies massages and laughing with children in nurseries.\n\u201cAddress Questions to Yandex\u201d\nS+B: How do you square this concept with being a venture capitalist, where you have to provide returns?\nDYSON: I\u2019m not saying you can\u2019t make money; I\u2019m just saying business models are changing. Basically, I invest in \u201cnew stuff\u201d that I think should exist or that I don\u2019t think is supported well enough by other investors. I invest in things that I don\u2019t think are being done elsewhere, and that I want to make happen, and where I think I can be helpful. I try to avoid the \u201c30th online video-sharing Web site\u201d startups. I usually don\u2019t invest unless I like the people, and everything I\u2019ve supported is a little off the beaten track.\nI\u2019m currently on the board of Yandex, which is sometimes described as the Google of Russia, though Yandex was started first.\nS+B: Yandex is a Russian-language search engine?\nDYSON: Yes. It was started in the late 1980s, and has something like 50 to 60 percent of the market share in search in Russian. It\u2019s a great place to work, and the people have a good sense of humor. For example, at the bottom of every escalator in the Moscow metro is a glass booth for the escalator monitor \u2014 usually a grumpy-looking woman. There\u2019s a sign on the booth that says, \u201cThe monitor does not give consultations.\u201d Meaning, don\u2019t ask her for help. It\u2019s a Soviet-style formulation that evokes the opaque past. Yandex bought ads in about half the subway cars, saying, \u201cThe conductor does not give consultations...so please address your questions to Yandex.\u201d\nEveryone got the point. As Yandex does things like that, people\u2019s expectations of what is possible start to change, even in Russia.\nS+B: You mean beyond the subway ads themselves.\nDYSON: In December I took the metro in Moscow with a friend and his son. Our subway train was surreal: One wall was like an art gallery, with large, painted reproductions that you could look at from the seats on the other side. I looked up \u201cmetro train art\u201d on the Web when I got home, and it turned out to be a single subway train running as a promotion for \u201cthe year of the child\u201d and art education. I clicked another link or two and found a schedule for when this train runs.\nTen years ago that would have been impossible. But now, the online world is making everyday life in Russia so much more efficient and transparent. One popular site, www.apteka.ru, started as a list of which drugs were available in which drugstores \u2014 so you didn\u2019t have to waste time going from one store to another. Now, it\u2019s a regular e-commerce site. If you want to know the suburban train schedules, you can go to www.tutu.ru. (In Russian, trains go tutu instead of choo-choo.) In a country where many people still stand in line to pay their utility bills and where most people don\u2019t know how to read maps because they were discouraged in the Soviet Union, sites like this are something of a miracle.\nI first went to Star City in 1989, but I never knew where it was, just that it was northeast of Moscow somewhere. This year, I have been using a BlackBerry with GPS, and to be able to see where I am on a map in Russia is amazing. Without a map, you can\u2019t see yourself in context, whether it\u2019s physically in space or in relation to all the other people you know. These little changes make a great difference, and then people start asking themselves, \u201cHow could things be done better?\u201d\nIn the West, we are further along. The same changes are happening in the corporate world, and physical objects are becoming full of information about themselves. The opaque institutions around us are becoming semitransparent, in ways that people care about.\nTwenty years ago, if you bought a tube of toothpaste, it might have had the address of the manufacturer so you could write to it if you had questions. Then they added a toll-free number. Now it includes a Web site, and you can find out more about the ingredients. And there are third-party Web sites, like a project called Barcode Wikipedia, where information is posted that the manufacturer might not volunteer (until challenged): for example, where products are manufactured, and whether children are used in the factories. As an avid swimmer, my dream is that every pool in the world will have a sensor device linked up to a server that will report its temperature and post it online.\nPromoting Open Governments\nS+B: How do you see this type of transparency evolving?\nDYSON: One early leader was Amazon. You could find out what books it had on a subject, when they would be delivered, what other people thought of them, and how the price compared to prices in other places. Next, third-party sites sprang up to help compare stores and dealers, and to rate the institutions of commerce. The same thing is starting to happen with insurance and financial services. And people are beginning to expect the same transparency from government.\nI\u2019m on the board of the Sunlight Foundation, which was founded in 2006 by Mike Klein and Ellen Miller, with the mission of making government more transparent. Our first challenge was simply to get the members of Congress to post their schedules. If they want to post that an hour is private, that\u2019s fine. But if that hour was actually a lunch with a lobbyist, then they (and their aides) would have to lie to conceal it. There\u2019s no way to enforce full disclosure, but by creating an explicit process and expectation, we reset the norms. If you met with a lobbyist and you\u2019re not ashamed of it, simply say so. We can make our own judgments. And if you meet with many lobbyists, at the expense of other types of meetings, we can make judgments about that, too.\nSunlight is funding or starting a variety of open-government information projects: posting information about bills under consideration; lists of earmarks; tools for collecting, manipulating, and visualizing data from all kinds of public records. It\u2019s God\u2019s work.\nS+B: Is it a global project?\nDYSON: Right now it\u2019s focused on the United States. But we would love to see clones all over the world. The tools we fund are open source; you can use them on Russian data as easily as on U.S. data. But, as you can imagine, it\u2019s not that easy to get the data here in the U.S. \u2014 and it\u2019s even harder elsewhere.\nS+B: Are people ready to manage this level of detail?\nDYSON: It can be confusing. One of the best books on this subject is Barry Schwartz\u2019s The Paradox of Choice: Why More Is Less [Ecco, 2003]. He points out that it\u2019s onerous to have too many choices. As many marketers know, it\u2019s better to give people a simpler set of options \u2014 not just because it\u2019s confusing to have more, but because that creates a feeling of too much responsibility for the outcome. You don\u2019t want to make a mistake. There\u2019s a similar paradox of choice in philanthropy: If you\u2019re confronted with helping starving children in Romania versus raped women in Kenya versus earthquake sufferers in China, you feel overwhelmed and end up not helping anybody. Psychologically, we\u2019re not equipped to handle knowing too much \u2014 including all the good things we passed up and the bad things we didn\u2019t avert.\nAt the same time, we\u2019re learning. If you had told people 10 years ago, \u201cYou\u2019re going to be managing permissions and access controls to your online profiles for hundreds of people,\u201d they would have said, \u201cOh, that\u2019s way too complicated.\u201d And now, everybody does it. You do it without even noticing, on Facebook and Dopplr and MySpace and the like. Different people have different rules for who they\u2019ll interact with and different sets of friends and contacts. It turns out that people have an amazing ability to manage this stuff; teenagers, for instance, spend a lot of time doing it.\nS+B: What\u2019s your view of software moving online and the greater prevalence of cloud computing, wherein the computer becomes an inexpensive appliance and applications reside on the Web?\nDYSON: It will absolutely happen. Two issues may slow it down. First, the rest of the world, outside the U.S. and western Europe and some parts of Asia, has computers, but connectivity is often terrible. You need to be persistently and reliably online for cloud computing to make sense. And many people are connected to the Internet through mobile phones rather than through PCs. They need more intelligence in the cloud because they have less locally. In the long run, yes, everything will be connected in real time.\nSecond, we need to get better at bringing economics into Internet security. It\u2019s like fighting drugs: Focus on economics rather than a fruitless \u201cwar.\u201d For instance, we need to deter spam at the source by charging individuals to send e-mail. It should be priced low and creatively \u2014 like making the first 100 e-mails per day free \u2014 because we don\u2019t want to penalize villagers in India or kids with no budget.\nAs for people whose computer has been taken over by zombies or hackers, the best way to make the Net secure is to get the Internet service providers (ISPs) involved. They have a direct relationship with the users that no one else has, including the computer manufacturers. The ISPs should somehow be liable for abuse and be able to pass on the costs of protection to their customers. Someone who doesn\u2019t want the ISP\u2019s security or restrictions could opt out, but then they would have to post a bond with the ISP \u2014 kind of like drivers\u2019 liability insurance. ISPs could compete on the basis of their security services. Until the costs of abuse are assigned to entities capable of stopping the abuse, it\u2019s not going to get much better. [See \u201cWatching over the Web,\u201d by Thomas K\u00fcnstner, Manuel Kohnstamm, and Stephan Luiten, s+b, Spring 2009.]\nS+B: Is there a role for ISPs in subsidizing content creation, such as having two cents of individuals\u2019 monthly payments go to a fund that supports content creators?\nDYSON: Not unless the proceeds are parceled out according to usage. Otherwise, who decides who gets the two cents?\nArt Kleiner is editor-in-chief of strategy+business and the author of The Age of Heretics, 2nd ed. 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But it\u2019s not just men whose experience of mental health is heavily influenced by their gender. For many women with mental health issues, their femaleness is an inextricable part of their story.\nFor a start, there are the underlying factors that can create or exacerbate mental health problems. Abuse is at the bottom of many women\u2019s serious mental health issues: research by UCL and King\u2019s College London shows that women with severe mental illnesses are up to five times more likely than the general population to be victims of sexual assault, with 40% having suffered rape or attempted rape in adulthood, and two to three times more likely to suffer domestic violence. A study published earlier this year, meanwhile, showed that a staggering 80% of teenage girls suffer from serious mental illness following sexual assault.\n\u201cThe causes of mental ill health are different for men and women,\u201d explains Joyce Kallevik, the director of Wish, the UK\u2019s only national, user-led charity working with women with mental health needs in prison, hospital and the wider community. \u201cServices need to be gender-specific.\u201d\nThrough Wish, Kallevik recently launched the Women\u2019s Mental Health Network, a project that seeks to give women with mental health issues in the UK a say in how services are run. The network aims to improve women\u2019s experience of statutory mental health services, including hospitals, housing, social services and prisons, by making those services more aware of how someone\u2019s gender might affect their mental health needs.\nJoyce Kallevik: women with mental health problems are \u201csilenced by the system\u201d\nCurrently, mental health services tend to be \u201cdesigned by men, for men\u201d, Kallevik says. \u201cI\u2019ve been to a couple of meetings recently and I thought, these people know nothing about women, yet they\u2019re making policy or developing strategy. That\u2019s quite scary.\u201d\nThere are endless examples of women being provided with mental health support that isn\u2019t appropriate for their gender and experiences: being offered appointments with a male psychiatrist when they are struggling with issues related to childhood abuse or rape, for example. Kallevik cites the example of women in prison, who are five times more likely to have a mental health problem than women in the general population, or women staying in secure mental health units.\n\u201cWe want to empower women who have been on the margins of society\u201d\nThese women will often be observed by male staff, she says, who they may hear \u201cwalking along the corridor, looking into their bedrooms through a peephole, night after night\u201d. For women who have experienced sexual abuse or domestic violence, \u201cyou can imagine the impact that has in terms of re-traumatisation\u201d.\nThen there\u2019s the fact that many women are \u201cnot taken seriously\u201d when they present with mental health problems, Kallevik continues. \u201cThey\u2019re not believed, their experience isn\u2019t validated, and they\u2019re silenced by the system.\u201d\nOne woman she knows was taken to A&E after attempting suicide, and was told by a medical professional: \u2018Well, if you really meant to do it, you would have succeeded.\u2019 \u201cIt\u2019s a complete lack of respect.\u201d\nOften, mental health services are not set up to specifically support women\nThe Women\u2019s Mental Health Network hopes to change this by consulting with thousands of women with real experience of the mental health and/or criminal justice systems, and asking them how they would like things to change. The women\u2019s testimonies will then be used to advise different services on how they can provide better support for women with mental health needs.\n\u201cWe want to empower women who have been on the margins of society,\u201d says Kallevik. Women who have been disenfranchised \u2013 as a result of their mental health needs as well as other intersecting factors such as their class, race and gender \u2013 can be \u201can integral part of something powerful\u201d, if they\u2019re just given the chance to speak up.\nKallevik has worked in the mental health and disability movements for her entire career, first as a researcher at the University of Oxford and then as a consultant advising the statutory and voluntary sector on issues including disability, poverty, homelessness and HIV/AIDS. Where does her commitment to this kind of work come from?\n\u201cI think I\u2019ve got a very strong sense of justice,\u201d she says. \u201cI\u2019m from a working-class Liverpool background, and Liverpudlians are known to be very feisty. I\u2019ve also lived in various places that have made me realise the disparity between the haves and have-nots, whatever spectrum that\u2019s on.\u201d\nUltimately, Kallevik hopes the work of the Women\u2019s Mental Health Network will make people realise that \u201cchange isn\u2019t that difficult\u201d.\n\u201cOnce people understand that, we can move forward one step at a time,\u201d she says. \u201cEventually, we\u2019ll have better mental health services for women \u2013 and then women will have less need of services.\u201d\nThe Woman of the Week series is part of Stylist\u2019s Visible Women campaign, dedicated to raising the profiles of brilliant women past and present. See more Visible Women stories here.\nImages: Courtesy of Wish / Getty Images", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00240.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 122, + "original_length": 7488, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.96, + "perplexity": 173.5, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "https://www.suehamptonauthor.co.uk/2015/09/music-the-only-proof/", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T04:08:52Z", + "digest": "sha1:ARCNYWISLRXUJGE3DDXLJH5GBFYPR27L", + "length": 4480, + "nlines": 7, + "source_domain": "www.suehamptonauthor.co.uk", + "title": "Music: the only proof? | Sue Hampton", + "raw_content": "Music: the only proof?\nQ What\u2019s the connection between: Barber\u2019s Adagio, Tavener and Bach, Onward Christian Soldiers and Let\u2019s Do the Time Warp Again, OK Computer, Stayin\u2019 Alive and In the Bleak Midwinter?\nA: They\u2019re all mentioned in my adult novel FLASHBACK AND PURPLE \u2013 where of course, every one of these pieces is personal. But in a sense the music that defines the novel appears near the end, because the book is set in 2013, which felt at the time as if it would always be the year Mandela died. So my book tour events may begin with the very moving tribute to Madiba by the Soweto Choir in a South African supermarket, where shoppers are surprised, stilled and uplifted by soaring song. Some stories are generational sagas stretching over decades but my novel begins in October and ends at Christmas. My themes are time, change and connections. For my central characters, lives are unexpectedly redirected and redefined over this short autumn period, and the open ending asks readers to imagine what a new year will mean for each of them.\nFor Annie, my central character, the music with the greatest personal resonance belongs to her past with Arthur Capaldi, and has the power at any moment to overwhelm what\u2019s real and now. Her car radio, normally settled on Radio Three, surprises her with Maybe she\u2019s in need of a kiss. It\u2019s enough and too much; she cuts the track dead. Of course, Annie has been in need of a kiss since Arthur left her, and the scene is already rerunning with a flashback to the student disco where they danced together as lovers. All Right Now appears one more time late in the story. It\u2019s their song in her version of the truth, but not necessarily in his, and if my novel had a subtitle this might be it. All Right Now is what he believes their reinstated relationship can be once again, but the phrase is also a comment on the current status of humanity on this earth, in an era that could be the last as our time runs out and business-as-usual won\u2019t save us. Music can\u2019t either, but it can open us to the truth, and if you\u2019re not sure what I mean watch Charlotte Church sing This Bitter Earth outside the Shell Building \u2013 with Greenpeace, to whom my novel is dedicated.\nThere are at least twenty-three musical references in the book, which may be explained by the layers of time I set out to explore. My artist friend Maria Emilov aims to suggest these layers in her paintings, because they\u2019re always accessible in each new moment. We can be walking in a wood while reliving a sight, sound, thought or experience from other walks or other woods, or even other worlds entirely. And almost simultaneously, we may be imagining a future experience, momentous or trivial, connected or unconnected with the present except through reflexes that are sensory or emotional. These layers of time can illuminate each other, but Annie, who has not \u2018moved on\u2019 as therapists tell us to do, is trapped beneath them. Held in the power of her past, how can she escape it, and in spite of her captivity, does she want to?\nEthan is a History student whose relationship with time is more complex, and at twenty-three he feels out of tune with society and his famous archaeologist father. He longs to know his mother, who died when he was a boy, and in the process understand and rebuild his own history. But he is equally troubled by humanity\u2019s future. In his head are lyrics without tunes, but as he journeys back in order to go forward, music follows him, or waits for him \u2013 as it does, I think, for all of us. If you\u2019re over fifty you may have considered, or even shared with family, the music you want to be the soundtrack of your life once it\u2019s over, and it\u2019s likely that these pieces are inseparably attached for you to scenes, relationships and feelings that go deep \u2013 perhaps too deep for words. I\u2019m writing after a funeral in which music helped to define the real-life character we celebrated and mourned, and for all of us who heard it, the song performed with heartbroken intensity by someone who loved Dennis now becomes a symbol of him \u2013 and love, and death, and the life that seems at such times so acutely precious. I guarantee that if Five More Years by Bowie breaks into my present in the future, it will reconnect me with yesterday\u2019s emotion if not with yesterday\u2019s thoughts. For all our efforts to use, manage and hold back time, we have no power over it. But music has.\nPrevious PostCamera-shy in the Age of the SelfieNext PostWoman: body and soul", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00240.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 66, + "original_length": 6258, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.97, + "perplexity": 313.3, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "https://www.sulivansweetland.co.uk/news-1/2018/5/9/avi-avital-performs-at-the-barbican-hall-with-the-bbc-symphony-orchestra", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T04:04:59Z", + "digest": "sha1:DVXPIIFL5VS72EZSDUX6AQUHF6UUPYDE", + "length": 416, + "nlines": 3, + "source_domain": "www.sulivansweetland.co.uk", + "title": "Avi Avital performs at the Barbican Hall with the BBC Symphony Orchestra \u2014 Sulivan Sweetland", + "raw_content": "Avi Avital performs at the Barbican Hall with the BBC Symphony Orchestra\nThis week sees Avi Avital performing with the BBC Symphony Orchestra under the baton of Daniele Rustioni. Avital will perform the UK premiere of Avner Dorman's Mandolin Concerto, and the UK Premiere of Ghedini's Musica Notturna. 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Donate your slightly used clothing, small furniture and appliances, complete computer systems and laptops, children\u2019s item, housewares, linen, ski wear, and more to the 2017 Summit Seniors Annual Rummage Sale. This year\u2019s event will have a special pre-sale on Thursday, July 27, from 5-8 p.m. at the Summit County Community and Senior Center, 00083 Nancy\u2019s Place, Frisco. Admission to this event is $10 (ages 16 and up).\nRegular Rummage Sale hours will be 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Friday and Saturday, July 28 and 29, and on Sunday, July 30, 10 a.m. to noon. On Sunday, items (other than boutique) inside the building will be sold for $2 a bag.\nDonations of items in good, clean condition will be accepted on Tuesday and Wednesday, July 25 and 26, 7:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. at the Summit County Senior Center. No appliances, TVs, magazines, encyclopedias, books, computer monitors (unless part of a complete computer system) or mattresses will be accepted.\nLast years\u2019 sale netted over $35,553. Sales benefit Summit County charitable organizations serving seniors such as; The Senior Center, FIRC, Timberline, Senior Service programs, Mountain Meals, Medical transportation, Care Clinic, Bristlecone as well as other nonprofits.\nVolunteers are needed, to signup, Contact Brenda Alberico at 815-258-5843.", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00240.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 251, + "original_length": 6967, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.93, + "perplexity": 183.3, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "https://www.summitdaily.com/news/sports/with-new-year-cpw-makes-changes-to-local-turkey-hunting-considers-special-winter-season/", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T04:48:41Z", + "digest": "sha1:IG55IIQOISNDEETQ32SJDGLKDFU32E2W", + "length": 2676, + "nlines": 13, + "source_domain": "www.summitdaily.com", + "title": "With new year, CPW makes changes to local turkey hunting, considers special winter season | SummitDaily.com", + "raw_content": "With new year, CPW makes changes to local turkey hunting, considers special winter season\nColorado Parks and Wildlife may establish a special winter hunting season for turkeys between Dec. 1 and March 31 to help control turkey populations.\nWith the new year, Colorado Parks and Wildlife is considering establishing a special hunting season for turkey between Dec. 1 and March 31 to help control turkey populations and lessen urban and agricultural conflicts in certain regions of the state.\nCPW announced this in its 2018 Colorado Turkey brochure. CPW also announced that rifles or handguns will now be allowed for turkey hunting during the fall and late season in portions of Logan, Sedgwick, Weld, Morgan and Washington counties.\nThe stage agency also announced that several Game Management Unit areas located in Summit, Eagle and Grand counties will now be part of fall turkey season.\n-GMU 15 in Routt, Grand and Eagle counties, an area bounded to the north by U.S. 40, to the east by the Muddy Creek-Yampa River divide in the Gore Range and Canyon Creek, the south by the Colorado River and to the west by on state Route 131.\n-GMU 27 in Grand, Routt and Jackson counties, an area bounded to the north and east by U.S. 40, to the south by state Route 9 and the Colorado River and to the west by Canyon Creek and the Muddy Creek-Yampa River divide within the Gore Range divide.\n-GMU 37 in Summit and Grand counties, an area bounded to the north by the Colorado River, to the east by Barger Gulch, the Williams Fork River-Blue River divide, the Williams Fork River-Straight Creek divide and the Continental Divide, to the south by the Continental Divide and to the west by the Eagle River-Tenmile Creek divide, Interstate-70, the Blue River, Cataract Creek and the Gore Range divide.\n-GMU 361 in Eagle and Grand counties, an area bounded to the north by the Colorado River from Elk Creek to Inspiration Point, to the east by the Gore Range divide, and to the south and west by Piney Ridge to Elk Creek, following Piney Ridge to the Eagle\u2019s Nest Wilderness boundary and Gore Range divide at Elliott Ridge.\nSpring limited licenses for the aforementioned GMUs are effective from April 14 through May 27. The fall season in these same GMUs will go from Sept. 1 through Oct. 7.\nThe final day to submit an application for the spring season is Feb. 8, and July 12 for the fall season.\nColorado\u2019s native Merriam\u2019s turkeys can be found on the Front Range and Western Slope while Rio Grande turkeys can be found in the eastern part of the state.\nFor residents of Colorado, a spring license costs $21 while a fall license costs $16, and costs $11 for youth in either the spring or fall.", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00240.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 260, + "original_length": 8171, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.95, + "perplexity": 259.8, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "https://www.sundaytimes.lk/120226/Plus/plus_02.html", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T03:42:38Z", + "digest": "sha1:QEI7KGCG4GCMKVMRI7TNZH3K2XQ666YV", + "length": 9321, + "nlines": 36, + "source_domain": "www.sundaytimes.lk", + "title": "Bringing out the very essence of this country", + "raw_content": "Bringing out the very essence of this country\nA doctor with a mission and a history book, or more precisely a tome, with a difference. Kumudini Hettiarachchi and Aanya Wipulasena speak to Dr. Anton Sebastian on \u2018A Complete Illustrated History of Sri Lanka\u2019\nEmotion overcomes him as he zeroes in on \u201cthe most poignant moment\u201d during his sojourns, crisscrossing Sri Lanka. As his eyes take on a far-away look, as if he\u2019s wishing he were some place else last Tuesday, instead of a five-star hotel in Colombo, the image he creates is stark and moving, bringing out the very essence of this country.\nThe majestic Kala Wewa, the lonely figure of a yellow-robed monk, seated on a rock reading, in the intense heat of the sun, while a villager pays homage at a small temple dedicated to King Dhatusena. No other human beings in sight.\nDr. Sebastian: Intoxicated by history. Pix by M.A. Pushpa Kumara\nFor Dr. Anton Sebastian this was a \u201cbreathtaking moment\u201d as if he had walked into a page of the Mahavamsa\u2026\u2026\u2026.as if time had stood still for thousands of years untouched by civilization, under the watchful eyes of the gigantic trees that stooped to take an eternal dip into King Dhatusena\u2019s gift to Sri Lanka \u2013 the Kala Wewa. The Aukana temple nearby, perched on a small hill at the edge of the jungle with its massive stone-carved Buddha was a replay of ancient Lanka for him.\nSeeing, experiencing and feeling history and being \u201cintoxicated\u201d by it, Dr. Sebastian\u2019s many forays down the unbeaten paths into remote villages and hardly-accessible temples have yielded a lasting contribution to the land of his childhood and youth -- \u2018A Complete Illustrated History of Sri Lanka\u2019.\nThis veritable 696-page hardback tome with 487 photos and illustrations, printed as a coffee-table book by Vijitha Yapa Publications weighs four kilos. (\u201cIt\u2019s capable of breaking your nose if you fall asleep while reading it,\u201d he laughs.)\nLaunched last Monday at the Auditorium of the National Library and Documentation Services Board and on Wednesday at Matara, Dr. Sebastian was off to New Delhi, India, to present it at the World Book Fair and to the Foreign Correspondents\u2019 Club on Saturday.\nWhen asked \u2018Why New Delhi?\u2019, Dr. Sebastian\u2019s answer is simple. \u201cThere\u2019s no Sri Lankan history without India. Sri Lankans as well as Indians should get to know about the history of Sri Lanka. This book is not only for Sri Lankans but the whole world.\u201d\nIt indeed seems not only strange but also intriguing that this 68-year-old doctor practising internal medicine at May Day University Hospital in his domiciled land of England should write a comprehensive history book.\nBorn in Jaffna but brought up in Kandy, he recalls that his passion was history. But his father being a general practitioner (GP) whose heart was set on making Anton follow in his footsteps, he dutifully went to St. Sylvester\u2019s College and then onto the University of Peradeniya to qualify as a doctor, practising in Sri Lanka until 1979 before leaving for England to pursue his post-graduate studies.\nHe was, however, very much a historian at heart and calls himself a \u201chistorian by genetics\u201d and first ventured into writing by tackling the topic that he knew best, medicine. Among his three medical books are the British Medical Association\u2019s book-award winner, \u2018A Dictionary of the History of Medicine\u2019 for which numerous were the kudos.\nPublished by the Parthenon Publishing Group, New York/London and released in 2000, this meticulous work has not been beaten yet, he says, adding that most medical journals in the United Kingdom such as \u2018The Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine\u2019 and the United States of America gave good critiques while he was invited to deliver in Colombo, the \u2018Millennium Oration\u2019 of the Sri Lankan medical doctors in America.\nOne reviewer had even questioned \u201chow on earth did a single author write this book which normally would have taken 10 professors\u201d. The secret lay not only in the clinical precision with which Dr. Sebastian set to work but also the dedication of certain hours of the day \u2013 maybe five, for his work. If he couldn\u2019t do it he would somehow catch up on lost time within a week.\nInvariably, the interview veers back to Sri Lanka which he describes as the \u201cmost beautiful city and the most beautiful people in the world\u201d, having visited many other countries. \u201cThere\u2019s no spirit like Sri Lanka anywhere else,\u201d says Dr. Sebastian and it was while at home in Surbiton, a suburb of London, cataloguing the books in his personal library, more than 5,000, and some dating back to the 16th century that he felt propelled towards writing the history of his motherland.\n\u201cThe largest portion of my collection is books on medical history and the next on the history of Sri Lanka,\u201d he says, adding that as a collector of antiquarian and rare books, he has many 1st editions.\nThe \u201cignition\u201d came from cataloguing his books, he smiles, but not before he read them as well. His quest for knowledge on Sri Lanka spurred him to search bookshops as well as the internet for more books on the country. Scouting book fairs in London on Sundays, he had been the most frequent hand-raiser at international book auctions.\n\u201cEven the second-hand book-sellers on McCallum Road in Colombo were overjoyed to see me buying up their moth-eaten books at stubborn prices,\u201d he told the book launch on Monday. It was in 2002 that he came to Sri Lanka and not satisfied with just taking in the sights, armed with pen, notebook, dictaphone, camera and laptop roamed the countryside meeting people including Buddhist monks who even gave him lodging at their temples.\nIt was a turbulent time for Sri Lanka which was then in the grip of the war but \u201cnever even once was I stopped or questioned about what I was doing,\u201d he says. He would take meticulous notes, go back to the place he would spend the night and however weary, key in the material to his laptop. \u201cThen I would know where the gaps were and go back the next day to the spot to find the missed detail,\u201d says Dr. Sebastian giving an indication of the labour of love.\nHundreds of history books have been written about Sri Lanka, according to Dr. Sebastian, and he felt his passion was not an excuse to add burden to the reader\u2019s purse and shelf. So he set out to be different, starting from the geological formation of the island and Stone-Age man to present times, tracing the ethnicity from the aboriginal period and the earliest immigrants to the historic period, while weaving in the influence of the rest of the world.\n\u201cI have globalised Sri Lanka on an anthropological, palaentological, geographical, ethnological, economical and political basis,\u201d he says, murmuring that \u201cit was an enormous task that took me seven years and six visits, all alone, to Sri Lanka\u201d. It was not only in Sri Lanka that he researched but also in South India to explore the Indian connection especially the Pandyan heritage which is inextricably linked with our history; museums and libraries in Lisbon, Portugal and in London the British Library, the Library of the School of Oriental and African Studies were founts of information while the British Museum, the Victoria Albert Museum and the Museum of Natural History provided the visual impetus to his book.\nPerfecting his drafts by re-reading the chapters over and over again, he has come up with a \u201chybrid\u201d of academic and popular work.\nTracing the genesis of the conflict, he recalls how in the early days \u201cJaffna was a timid place\u201d where a single murder would be talked about for years. In the north, while the parents toiled at agriculture, all they wanted was their sons to become doctors, engineers, accountants or lawyers. Then came standardization and \u201ctheir industry which was education\u201d was undermined. Those who could, sent their children abroad but those left behind became the backbone of this idealistic call for separation.\nDr. Sebastian, however, hastens to add: \u201cThe past is past. There is no point in dwelling or dealing with it. We should go forward, giving fairness to everybody. If not, in two or three generations the tension will erupt.\u201d\nDedicating his work on Sri Lanka to \u201cthe present and future generations in the hope that this book may awaken them to the realities of the past, challenges in the future and bring a closer understanding and harmony between the communities, so that they may stand together in restoring the glory and integrity of the island\u201d, he says what gave him the \u201cmost enjoyment\u201d was writing on the \u2018Stone Age in Ceylon\u2019 because it was \u201cwhere everything started\u2026..the beginning\u201d.\nNow that this major task is over, \u201cmy heart is in Paradise\u201d and he wishes to settle down in Sri Lanka but has commitments to fulfil towards his family, he says. Twenty long years of his life Dr. Sebastian has devoted to writing, the medical books first and then the history book, stealing hours from his family and violating the sanctity of sleep and he vows to \u201chit my wrist if I start to write again\u201d.\nHowever, a \u201cbut\u201d hangs in the air, as he adds, \u201cI never know, I might start another book.\u201d\nThat Perine power\nPathma\u2019s own style\nSmike goes on boards\nDiscovering sunny days and delicious food\nWe are a nation of boozers!\nGuiding our doctors for 125 years\nParticipatory giving can strengthen civil society\nMethinks the populace doth protest too much", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00240.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 48, + "original_length": 10036, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.97, + "perplexity": 235.9, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "https://www.sunnewsonline.com/we-still-hope-our-estranged-membersll-accept-the-olive-branch-and-return-home-okoroafor-gs-assemblies-of-god-church/", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T03:54:14Z", + "digest": "sha1:RSTWV6UQT4BRO52Z6BNNJESXESM5SIHD", + "length": 8421, + "nlines": 28, + "source_domain": "www.sunnewsonline.com", + "title": "We still hope our estranged members\u2019ll accept the olive branch - Okoroafor", + "raw_content": "\u25a0 As he is re-elected for another 4-year tenure\n\u201cWe have extended the olive branch. Over 90 percent of the Assemblies of God is here. The other, which is less than 10 per cent is on the other side.\u201d\nRecently, the members of the Assemblies of God Church Nigeria converged on Evangel Camp located at Km 48 Enugu/Abakaliki Expressway, Okpoto/Ntezi, in Ebonyi State, for its 36th General Council Meeting.\nREAD ALSO: Assemblies of God Church crisis: Faction disowns Rev. Nicholas Anyanwu\nThe gathering, according to the stakeholders of the church, was among others, convened for the purpose of electing key officers that would pilot the affairs of the church in the next four years.\nAt the occasion, the General Council of the Church re-elected Rev. (Dr) Chidi Okoroafor as its General Superintendent for another term of four years following the expiration of his first tenure.\nOkoroafor polled a total of 5,990 votes to clinch victory while the first and second runners-up in the election, Rev. Ejikeme Ejim, and Rev. Gabriel Michael polled a total of 467 and 49 votes respectively. Five other clerics garnered different vote figures.\nAside the position of General Superintendent, other officers emerged in the positions of the Assistant General Superintendent, General Secretary, General Treasurer, among others.\nAccording to the electoral committee (Tellers Committee) chaired by Hon. Justice Onyiri Frank of the Rivers State Judiciary, a total of 10,145 delegates were to vote in the elections.\nIn the case of the General Superintendent, the Tellers Committee disclosed that the total votes cast were 6,782 while 4,521 votes were required in that poll to determine the winner.\nOkoroafor was first elected by the General Council in 2014.\nSunday Sun gathered that there was neither formal declaration of interest by those whose names appeared on the ballot papers nor purchase of forms as they were written by the delegates who felt they could occupy the same post.\nShortly after, journalists who monitored the exercise engaged the newly elected General Superintendent, Rev Okoroafor, in a brief chat.\nYou have just been re-elected General Superintendent of your church. How do you feel?\nI feel like I have been assessed and evaluated by the Assemblies of God. You can see, this Assemblies of God we have over 10,000 eligible voters and then, as required by the constitution of the Assemblies of God, leadership at the national level in the church is for four years and this is the end of the tenure and then, fresh election just took place. I feel humbled that the Assemblies of God Nigeria re-elected me at a nominative ballot. It was not that the election was done two times. The constitution requires two-third majority before you are considered elected. So, they didn\u2019t let the vote go two times. They gave me this overwhelming vote, which means they reposed confidence in me and I appreciate the entire church and I dedicate myself to serve.\nWhat would the members of your church expect from you in the next four years?\nIn the next four years we shall be ringing gospel bells because we have already made some plans to take the church back to our purpose of being which is evangelization. So, we are getting into evangelism so that which the Assemblies of God was known for will be reactivated by the grace of God. And, of course, we shall do some infrastructural development and also take some administrative decisions that will help the church and also we shall open up our doors; extending our olive branch to any person who deviated or left the church. Maybe the person may have been deceived, but the door is open because the Lord spoke to me and said treat everybody as souls not as animals and that has been the philosophy that has influenced the way we go about these things.\nWe are in election period in Nigeria. What role would the members of the Assemblies of God be playing in this coming election?\nYou know Assemblies of God is pro-democratic just like we have done now. So, election is a normal thing. But we are asking that there be fair play in the elections next year. I have seen that in Nigeria we don\u2019t seem to have political parties with distinct philosophy. People regard what we call political parties as simply a platform or a window through which people get into office, which is politically unfortunate. There should be a philosophy or ideology whether you are losing or winning you become a member of that party for life. However, as the election approaches, we are praying that the right candidates will emerge. Of course, Assemblies of God as a denomination cannot be partisan; we cannot be advocating for a particular political party even if our members are in that party. We cannot use our altar to advocate for a political party, but we will pray that the Lord will give grace and enable the right candidates to emerge for the betterment of the economy; for the betterment of security in Nigeria and also for infrastructural development.\nYour church in terms of leadership has been enmeshed in crisis. Still I don\u2019t know the magic wand you still have to achieve this growth?\nThank God that you witnessed what happened here. What had been happening is that an infinitesimal decimal of the church, but which make so much noise that some people outside seem to see the church as divided. But look at this hall filled up; these are ministers, thousands of ministers. What will you do when you have a child, assuming you have 10 children and one of them is behaving somehow, but we have extended the generous olive branch. This is where the church is. Over 90 percent of the Assemblies of God is here. The other percentage, which is less than 10 percent is on the other side. But we don\u2019t glory that they are out. We are not happy that they are out. We are still praying that they return; we are still praying that God will touch their hearts so that they will come and get united with us to pursue what God wants us to do. So, you have seen it with your eyes, this is where the Assemblies of God is. You don\u2019t become a leader on the Internet or social media. This is practically where the church is.\nTalking of people who are out, have you made any personal moves to reach out to them?\n(Cuts in) Several, several; multidimensional. I have made several moves, we have had platforms, we have spoken to their leader, we have asked him to come back that there is still opening for him to return to the church, but for reasons best known to him he has not accessed the olive branch. But we are still praying that someday, somehow he will access the olive branch. AG is a corporate thing, can you imagine, this is how we are distinct from other denominations. I am the General Superintendent, but today you must be assessed by election and it\u2019s by secret balloting. If the people believe you should continue, they will vote for you, if they say you shouldn\u2019t, they will vote you out and the heavens will not fall. So, that is the Assemblies of God for you and that is its peculiar aspect.\nRecently, an international institute pronounced Nigeria as the world\u2019s capital of poverty. It is possible that some of the members of your church are partakers in this. What arrangement\u2026\n(Cuts in) We are Nigerians. You see, man is a product of his environment, nature and nurture. Because we are part and parcel of Nigeria, what happens in Nigerian economy also affects members of our church. Of course, there is no way you can have a church of only rich men; that must be a dangerous church. We must have the rich, the middle class, and also the poor. Let that finding by that institution be a challenge to our leaders. Nigeria is stupendously blessed; blessed with mineral and human resources. Can you imagine the brain drain syndrome where many our intellectuals and scientists are being sought after all over the world. Our problem is not about divine blessings, it is the management of the blessings God gave to us. That is why we are shouting and praying to God to give us leaders with foresight, leaders that will take us to the Promised Land and let every Nigerian begin to pray, something is here. There are blessings in this country both mineral and human resources. We only need great leaders that will harness all these and take us to the land of prosperity.\nREAD ALSO: Telecoms most critical growth driver in Nigerian economy\nTags: assemblies of godchidi okoroafor\nIs there plastic in your Tea?", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00240.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 251, + "original_length": 12931, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.98, + "perplexity": 270.9, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "https://www.tcuagency.com/umbrella-insurance.html", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T04:30:16Z", + "digest": "sha1:RL3CTHPQRQVPRZT6GVTQFDGJMSWGOMMF", + "length": 1763, + "nlines": 5, + "source_domain": "www.tcuagency.com", + "title": "Tuscaloosa, AL Umbrella Insurance Agents| TCU Agency", + "raw_content": "Umbrella Insurance in Alabama\nIf you own a small business in Alabama, you undoubtedly have your company insured. However, if you don't have umbrella insurance, then you could be placing your business and even your home at risk. A lawsuit could lead to the loss of all of your business and personal assets, leaving you bankrupt in the process. Umbrella insurance is a supplementary type of insurance that provides coverage beyond what traditional polices can provide.\nTraditional business insurance is often unable to offer any assistance if such an event were to occur, umbrella insurance can. The specific policy as well as the company that you opt to obtain coverage through will determine what is covered, whether legal representation or a number of other services. The agency of your choice can answer any questions that you may have, whether you choose to become insured through TCU Agency or a different provider.\nFinding an adequate umbrella insurance policy isn't difficult and in fact, it may only take minutes of your time. You can check out the many Tuscaloosa, AL umbrella insurance agents available online. All you have to do is compare companies, rates and coverage, which can help you to choose the plan that best meets your needs.\nUmbrella insurance can offer peace of mind if your business were to ever be sued. Certain assets, even those that you consider to be personal, could be lost in a lawsuit if a judge orders you to turn it over in order to coverage fines or other costs. Umbrella insurance can provide funds that can be used for a number of reasons, all which could keep you from losing everything of any value. So if you don't currently have umbrella insurance, then you might seriously want to look into obtaining a high quality plan.", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00240.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 80, + "original_length": 3060, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.97, + "perplexity": 335.2, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "https://www.teachersasscholars.org/view_public_scholar.asp?userid=8107", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T03:31:09Z", + "digest": "sha1:4TF5EJI7TZCMVI2K4D3BTLOHCM5PF236", + "length": 451, + "nlines": 2, + "source_domain": "www.teachersasscholars.org", + "title": "Teachers As Scholars - List of Courses", + "raw_content": "Felisa Tibbitts\nFelisa Tibbitts is director and co-founder of Human Rights Education Associates (HREA), an international non-governmental organisation dedicated to education and learning about human rights (http://www.hrea.org). In addition to conducting trainings in over a dozen countries, she has developed national programs in Romania, Albania, Estonia, Ukraine, Croatia and China and has published extensively on the human rights education topic.", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00240.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 11, + "original_length": 629, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.93, + "perplexity": 110.9, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "https://www.techadvisor.co.uk/feature/mobile-phone/box-offers-free-cloud-storage-for-lg-android-devices-3322058/", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T03:52:40Z", + "digest": "sha1:S6PHHPI7PEBGTWHRJ5WRILPQ4HME75O3", + "length": 2594, + "nlines": 9, + "source_domain": "www.techadvisor.co.uk", + "title": "Box Offers Free Cloud Storage for LG Android Devices - Tech Advisor", + "raw_content": "Box Offers Free Cloud Storage for LG Android Devices\nBox is making headlines in cloud-based storage once again. It has enhanced the features of the Box for Android app, and it is teaming up with LG to provide 50GB of free cloud-based storage for all LG Android mobile devices.\nBox has enhanced the Box for Android app, and teamed up with LG to offer 50GB of free storage for all LG Android tablets and smartphones.\nUsers who sign up for a Box account through an LG Android mobile device between today and March 21, 2012 will receive 50GB of cloud-based storage for the lifetime of the account. This is similar to the free 50GB account promotion that Box ran in October for iOS devices, and makes Box a virtual no-brainer for storing and working with data from mobile devices.\nA recent Gartner report indicates that Android accounted for more than half of all smartphones sold in the most recent quarter. That is more than double the market share Android had in the same quarter last year, illustrating the dramatic growth of the Android platform.\n\"Android mobile adoption is growing at an unprecedented rate and by working with LG, we are bringing the full power of the cloud to those users,\" said Aaron Levie, co-founder and CEO of Box. \"To take full advantage of mobile computing, it is essential that users never have to worry about storage limitations, and we believe that LG's efforts combined with the capabilities of Box will be a turning point for both the mobile device and cloud storage categories.\"\nIn addition to the 50GB of free storage for LG Android devices, Box also announced some updates today to the Box for Android app. Users can now download files from Box to the local Android device, and access them offline--even from third-party apps on the mobile device. Box also added a bulk upload capability that makes it easier to move data from the Android device to the Box cloud storage.\nOne of the things that I really like about Box is that the philosophy of the company is developed around the idea that your data should just be available to you--everywhere you are, and from any device you might use. I have spoken with Box CEO Aaron Levie on many occasions, and his vision has always impressed me as something that goes beyond Box providing any particular product or service.\nThe additional features added to Android, and the generous offer of 50GB of free cloud-based storage for life are both nice touches in their own right, but are also just more steps on a path toward delivering ubiquitous access to data and transforming the way we work with it and with each other.", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00240.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 178, + "original_length": 6887, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.96, + "perplexity": 312.4, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "https://www.technobuffalo.com/2019/01/17/google-buys-fossils-secret-smartwatch-tech-for-40-million/", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T04:49:04Z", + "digest": "sha1:RHRGD4WBED6RL7BTLDTC7I4E3XMNOKYK", + "length": 1494, + "nlines": 8, + "source_domain": "www.technobuffalo.com", + "title": "Google buys Fossil\u2019s secret smartwatch tech for $40 million", + "raw_content": "Google Wearable Technology News & Reviews\nFossil Group on Thursday announced that Google will pay $40 million to acquire \u201cintellectual property related to a smartwatch technology currently under development.\u201d\nGoogle\u2019s purchase, which should close by the end of this month, will allegedly conclude with a product innovation that has yet to hit the market, according to Wareable.\n\u201cWearables, built for wellness, simplicity, personalization and helpfulness, have the opportunity to improve lives by bringing the information and insights they need quickly, at a glance,\u201d said Stacey Burr, Vice President of Produce Management, Wear OS by Google.\nFossil\u2019s smartwatches are among the best on the market, because they offer great features and high-end designs at an affordable price. Google apparently saw the value in Fossil\u2019s technology and might start making wearables of its own to compete against Apple\u2019s Apple Watch.\nApple\u2019s wearable business has transformed over the past few years, seeing the Apple Watch go from convenient companion to all-out fitness heavyweight. Burr\u2019s statement suggests Google wants to further explore the health market with its own wearables.\n\u201cWe\u2019ve built and advanced a technology that has the potential to improve upon our existing platform of smartwatches,\u201d said Greg McKelvey, Executive Vice President and Chief Strategy and Digital Officer, Fossil Group. \u201cTogether with Google, our innovation partner, we\u2019ll continue to unlock growth in wearables.\u201d\nSource: Wearable", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00240.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 99, + "original_length": 4096, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.95, + "perplexity": 310.2, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "https://www.technologyreview.com/s/406254/the-hidden-code-of-stem-cells/", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T04:32:00Z", + "digest": "sha1:VDB22NMLIKBMLDX4GFPNDHSTLXWATA5Y", + "length": 5582, + "nlines": 17, + "source_domain": "www.technologyreview.com", + "title": "The Hidden Code of Stem Cells - MIT Technology Review", + "raw_content": "The Hidden Code of Stem Cells\nThe DNA of embryonic stem cells has a unique label, which could help scientists figure out how to manipulate such cells for therapeutic uses.\nThe DNA of embryonic stem cells is labeled in a unique and characteristic way, according to new research from scientists in California. The pattern could shed light on how embryonic stem cells maintain their ability to become any type of cell and might also help efforts to clone these cells, allowing scientists to develop better stem cell therapies.\nEmbryonic stem cells have the ability to become virtually any cell in the body, making them the basis for potential therapies to treat everything from Parkinson\u2019s disease to diabetes. But before these cells can be developed into useful therapies, scientists must better understand the genetic root of the cells\u2019 unique properties \u2013 and learn to control them.\n\u201cIt\u2019s very likely that these [labels] point to regions of the genome that are crucial for maintaining the self-renewing capacity of embryonic stem cells,\u201d says James Battey, chair of the Stem Cell Task Force at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, MD.\nEpigenetic changes to DNA are those that alter expression of certain genes, for instance by reversibly tagging those genes, without changing the sequence of the DNA itself. In a paper published last week in Genome Research, researchers studied one such process, called DNA methylation, in which certain molecules within the gene are chemically modified, altering the activity of that particular gene.\nScientists have previously been able to study DNA methylation in a single or a few genes. But in the new study, researchers developed a technology to look at methylation patterns in hundreds of genes at a time.\nJian-Bing Fan, research director at Illumina, a gene analysis company based in San Diego, CA, modified the company\u2019s gene microarrays \u2013 tiny chips labeled with specific sequences of DNA \u2013 so that they could simultaneously detect DNA methylation at 1,500 sites in the genome.\nResearchers then analyzed 14 lines of embryonic stem cells, as well as adult cells and cancer cells. They found that the embryonic stem cells had a unique methylation pattern, regardless of where the cells came from or how they were generated. That pattern was significantly different from patterns found in adult stem cells, adult differentiated cells, and cancer cell lines.\n\u201cAll our collaborators at 11 institutions across the world were surprised to see such a unique signature, given that all lines come from people of different ethnic origins and were isolated and grown under different conditions,\u201d says Fan.\nThe findings could help stem cell scientists in numerous ways. For example, one concern associated with stem cell-based therapies is that they could form tumors when injected into the body \u2013 embryonic stem cells share some qualities of cancer cells, notably, their ability to divide indefinitely. But the findings show that the two cells types are actually very different.\n\u201cIn cancer cells, the methylation pattern seems very unstable, whereas it was very stable in embryonic stem cells and adult stem cells,\u201d says Jeanne Loring, a scientist at the Burnham Institute in San Diego, CA, who led the work. She adds that in the future, when scientists have developed different therapies derived from embryonic stem cells, DNA methylation screening could be used to assess cells\u2019 potential to become cancerous once transplanted.\nThe findings could also shed light on the unique ability of embryonic stem cells to become any type of cell. Now that scientists know what the baseline pattern is, they can study how that pattern changes when cells begin to differentiate into nerve cells, heart cells, or other cell types. \u201cWe can turn stem cells into these cells in culture and ask what happens to their epigenetic profile,\u201d says Loring. \u201cWe are poised to understand that for first time.\u201d\n\u201cThis could be the start of some very interesting experiments,\u201d adds Ihor Lemischka, a biologist at Princeton University who studies stem cells. \u201cIt would be interesting to ask: What is the nature of the genes that are differentially regulated?\u201d\nThe technology might also shed light on the tricky process of human cloning. To attempt to create cloned stem cells, scientists take the nuclei from an adult cell and transfer it to an egg with its nucleus removed. Some unknown factors in the egg \u201creprogram\u201d the genome of the adult nucleus, reverting the DNA to its embryonic state and allowing the fertilized egg to develop as a normal embryo would.\nStem cells derived from these embryos could be used for personalized cell therapies or to study complex genetic diseases (see \u201cStem Cells Reborn\u201d). While this process has been carried out successfully in mice and other animals, no one has yet achieved the feat with human cells. \u201cThis work and some that came before indicates that the epigenetic pattern of embryonic stem cells is very precise,\u201d says Loring. \u201cYou\u2019re not just asking the adult nucleus to erase everything, you\u2019re asking it to erase everything and then reformat in a very specific way.\u201d\nScientists want to better understand the reprogramming process so they can eventually reprogram adult cells without eggs \u2013 human eggs are a very limited resource and using them for research is ethically questionable to many people. The new findings could help scientists see exactly what they need to achieve when designing new reprogramming technologies. Says Loring: \u201cif we know what the pattern is, we can try to get that pattern with other methods.\u201d", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00240.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 151, + "original_length": 10488, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.96, + "perplexity": 246.0, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "https://www.technologyreview.com/s/411774/struggling-sprint-nextel-to-eliminate-8000-jobs/", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T04:32:05Z", + "digest": "sha1:JFGJO2UYJ4LSS2GIOU6BGT5KC26IZGOQ", + "length": 4583, + "nlines": 22, + "source_domain": "www.technologyreview.com", + "title": "Struggling Sprint Nextel to eliminate 8,000 jobs - MIT Technology Review", + "raw_content": "Struggling Sprint Nextel to eliminate 8,000 jobs\nKANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) \u2013 Faced with persistent subscriber losses and questions about its long-term prospects, Sprint Nextel Corp. is slashing its already shrinking work force by 8,000 people as it seeks to cut annual costs by $1.2 billion.\nThe layoffs, announced Monday, are just the latest attempt by the nation\u2019s third-largest cell phone carrier to right its financial ship in the face of tough competition and a brutal economy. They come slightly more than a year after the company cut 4,000 jobs and closed 125 retail centers as Chief Executive Dan Hesse, then new on the job, aimed to show he was serious about streamlining operations.\nSprint said it expects the latest round of layoffs, which represent a 14 percent reduction of its 56,000 employees, will be largely completed by March 31. The company said it will take a first-quarter charge of more than $300 million for severance and other costs.\nAbout 850 of the layoffs are voluntary, through employees taking buyouts. They will make up about $45 million of the total severance costs, the company said in a securities filing.\nIn addition to the cuts, Sprint said it will suspend its 401(k) match for the year, extend a freeze on salary increases and suspend a tuition reimbursement program.\n\u201cLabor reductions are always the most difficult action to take, but many companies are finding it necessary in this environment,\u201d Hesse said in a news release. \u201cOur commitment to quality will not change.\u201d\nSprint shares rose 3 cents, or 1.2 percent, to close at $2.49 on Monday.\nThe Overland Park, Kan.-based company has struggled since acquiring Nextel Communications Inc. in 2005. Technical problems, poor efforts to consolidate the two companies and stiff competition for feature-rich phones, such as the Apple Inc. iPhone on AT&T\u2019s service, have led many subscribers to switch.\nAs of Sept. 30, Sprint had 50.5 million subscribers, down 3.5 million from a year earlier. The falloff contributed to the $1.18 billion net loss that Sprint posted through the first three quarters of 2008.\n\u201cGiven the current state of operations, (the layoffs were) probably the right thing for them to do,\u201d said analyst Christopher King at Stifel Nicolaus.\nHe doesn\u2019t see Sprint as a bankruptcy candidate, at least not for two years. \u201cBut certainly as you get into 2011, depending on how their operations shake out over the next couple of years, there could potentially be some concerns there,\u201d he said.\nAnother analyst, John Hodulik at UBS, wrote in a research note Monday that it might be difficult for Sprint to turn the tide of subscriber losses, given that nearly everyone already has a cell phone and few people switch between the major carriers.\nThe company\u2019s layoff announcement comes a month after AT&T Inc. announced it was cutting its work force by 4 percent, or 12,000 jobs, to deal with the effects of the recession and the continued erosion of its traditional wireline business. However, AT&T\u2019s wireless arm has been gaining subscribers, as have Verizon Wireless and T-Mobile USA.\nSprint Nextel has had some bright spots. It recently announced a new $50 per month unlimited voice and data plan under its Boost prepaid brand, which doesn\u2019t require customers to be tied to contracts. Analysts expect it to attract many people who can\u2019t qualify for or don\u2019t want to sign two-year contracts.\nAlso, Sprint will soon be the exclusive seller of the Palm Pre smart phone, a touch-screen device expected to rival the iPhone. The Pre is set to debut in the second half of this year.\nSprint spokesman James Fisher said the company hasn\u2019t determined how the newest layoffs will be divided between divisions or geographic locations, including suburban Kansas City, where it is the area\u2019s largest private employer.\nBut he said the company will likely avoid significant reductions in its customer service and network quality divisions, where Sprint has tried to improve in recent years.\nOne executive-level casualty is Kathy Walker, the company\u2019s chief information and network officer, who is leaving as of March 31.\nJeff Kagan, an Atlanta-based wireless analyst, said in a report that while Sprint\u2019s cost-cutting efforts are notable, they can\u2019t save the company on their own. He discounted the effect of the economy, since Verizon Wireless and AT&T have continued to do well.\n\u201cIf the economy recovered tomorrow I think Sprint would continue to suffer,\u201d Kagan wrote.\nSprint also announced Monday it will release its fourth-quarter earnings on Feb. 19, more than a week earlier than originally scheduled.", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00240.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 148, + "original_length": 9138, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.97, + "perplexity": 270.1, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "https://www.techopedia.com/definition/24130/authentication-authorization-and-accounting-aaa", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T03:15:55Z", + "digest": "sha1:HWMG6XT7APZSV5XNV4GXUOOVFTLCPHRI", + "length": 2398, + "nlines": 20, + "source_domain": "www.techopedia.com", + "title": "What is Authentication Authorization and Accounting (AAA)? - Definition from Techopedia", + "raw_content": "Authentication Authorization and Accounting (AAA)\nDefinition - What does Authentication Authorization and Accounting (AAA) mean?\nAuthentication, authorization and accounting (AAA) is a system for tracking user activities on an IP-based network and controlling their access to network resources. AAA is often is implemented as a dedicated server.\nThis term is also referred to as the AAA Protocol.\nTechopedia explains Authentication Authorization and Accounting (AAA)\nAuthentication refers to unique identifying information from each system user, generally in the form of a username and password. System administrators monitor and add or delete authorized users from the system.\nAuthorization refers to the process of adding or denying individual user access to a computer network and its resources. Users may be given different authorization levels that limit their access to the network and associated resources. Authorization determination may be based on geographical location restrictions, date or time-of-day restrictions, frequency of logins or multiple logins by single individuals or entities. Other associated types of authorization service include route assignments, IP address filtering, bandwidth traffic management and encryption.\nAccounting refers to the record-keeping and tracking of user activities on a computer network. For a given time period this may include, but is not limited to, real-time accounting of time spent accessing the network, the network services employed or accessed, capacity and trend analysis, network cost allocations, billing data, login data for user authentication and authorization, and the data or data amount accessed or transferred.\nExamples of AAA protocols include:\nDiameter, a successor to Remote Authentication Dial-In User Service (RADIUS)\nTerminal Access Controller Access-Control System (TACACS)\nTerminal Access Controller Access-Control System Plus (TACACS+) a proprietary Cisco Systems protocol that provides access for network servers, routers and other network computing devices.\nTypes of AAA servers include:\nAccess Network AAA (AN-AAA) which communicates with radio network controllers\nBroker AAA (B-AAA), which manages traffic between roaming partner networks\nHome AAA (H-AAA)\nNetwork Access Server (NAS)\nTerminal Access Controller Access Control System (TACACS)\nSecurityNetworkingIT BusinessNetworking Hardware\nAAA Protocol, AAA Server", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00240.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 215, + "original_length": 9471, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.89, + "perplexity": 271.6, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "https://www.techwalla.com/articles/how-to-get-free-wi-fi-access-anywhere", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T03:33:29Z", + "digest": "sha1:LUNQJIWKCY6Q6XSN5RSHDN3DG4VI5ZLM", + "length": 5070, + "nlines": 38, + "source_domain": "www.techwalla.com", + "title": "How to Get Free Wi-Fi Access Anywhere | Techwalla.com", + "raw_content": "How to Get Free Wi-Fi Access Anywhere\nWi-Fi, like most things in life, is never fast, free and easy; two out of three is the best you can hope for. If your primary goal is free Wi-Fi, it likely won't be fast if it's easy to find, and it won't be easy to get if it's fast. But given these inherent limitations, there are ways to find free Wi-Fi.\ncredit: martiapunts/iStock/Getty Images\nFree Wi-Fi can come with a bite: Hackers can use unsecured Wi-Fi connections to access your data, distribute malware or otherwise cause havoc. Take precautions: Be sure to use a VPN, a secure connection for any websites you visit, and turn off Wi-Fi when you don't need it.\nPublic and Business Places\nFree Wi-Fi often comes with strings attached. Go to Starbucks, for example, and you're expected to make a purchase if you intend to linger \u2014 although you may be able to nurse that latte for hours. Go to a public place, however \u2014 such as a government building or a public park \u2014 and as long as free Wi-Fi is available, it's truly free. Though you might need to find out the password to access it.\nFree Wi-Fi With Strings\nIn addition to the ubiquitous Starbucks, most coffee shops, cafes and even some upscale restaurants now provide Wi-Fi to paying customers. Ask the staff or check to see if the location is listed in your available network connections.\nMany fast-food chains have free Wi-Fi, including McDonald's, most Taco Bell locations, Burger King, Subways, Quiznos and Arby's. Other restaurant chains have joined the Wi-Fi bandwagon: Panera Bread, Denny's and some Applebee's.\nBookstores are a slam-dunk for Wi-Fi (hint: many people in bookstores are not reading books). Many big-box chains offer it, including Target and some Staples and CompUSA stores \u2014 and it is becoming more common. During the holiday season, some retailers like Gap, Gap Factory, Banana Republic, Old Navy and Athleta stores in the U.S. have offered free Wi-Fi service.\nMany unexpected places also offer free Wi-Fi these days. Gas stations, laundromats, electronics stores \u2014 surprising, right? Your local Apple Store won't provide you with somewhere to sit down and surf the Net, but it has always offered free Wi-Fi.\nMore shopping malls are offering free Wi-Fi, and here, you don't have to purchase a thing: Just find a bench to sit on and pull out your laptop.\nFree Wi-Fi for the Taking\nYour library almost certainly has free Wi-Fi, as well as most other government buildings, such as city halls, courthouses and some public parks.\nSome cities are developing city-wide Wi-Fi, called Muni Wi-Fi. Widely touted as the next-best-thing a decade or so ago, municipal Wi-Fi has not expanded as expected, largely due to cost, security issues and the advent of common 3G and 4G networks. However, there are renewed efforts to work out the kinks, and free Wi-Fi may be coming to a city near you sometime in the future.\nFinding Free Wi-Fi\nMultiple websites and smartphone apps can help you identify free Wi-Fi in your area, and the list will surprise you \u2014 it also keeps getting longer. You need to perform some advance research if your goal is to hang out wherever you can get some free downloads.\nUse one of the many websites or smartphone apps that provide free Wi-Fi listings:\nWi-Fi FreeSpot\nOpen WiFi Spots \u2014 also available as a smartphone app\nAndroid: Free Zone, WiFi Finder, WiFi-Map\niOS: wefi, Free Wifi Finder, WiFi-Map\ncredit: Android WiFi Finder\nFree Wi-Fi is one thing, but free and fast Wi-Fi is harder to find. The Internet abounds with analyses of a wide range of free and paid Wi-Fi connections. One excellent report from Open Signal analyzes various public Wi-Fi speeds in the U.S., focusing on restaurant and hotel chains. The upshot: Starbucks' switch from AT&T to Google almost doubled its Wi-Fi speed, while McDonald's and Best Buy trump Target, Lowes and Dunkin' Donuts for fast downloads.\nHard as it is to find a fast and free connection, sometimes the stars align. When your computer or smartphone displays several free available connections, use an app to determine which has the best speed or strongest connection:\nAndroid: WiFi Analyzer, Best WIFI, Wifi Strongest Signal\niOS: Network Analyzer\nNot-So-Free: Cable and Cell Phone Companies Hot Spots\nCable companies advertise to their customers a network of locations fueled by free Wi-Fi. While not technically free \u2014 after all, you're paying for cable \u2014 if you already have a cable provider, it's worth checking out one of its hot spots if you're traveling or need to use Wi-Fi outside your home. Just have your username and password ready: Some cable providers require you to set up a connection on your device before using the service. Check out the following finder maps:\nComcast's hotspot finder.\ncredit: Image courtesy of Google Chrome\nThe Advantages of Wireless Hotspots\nBy: Autumn St. John\nThis App Helps You Plan Your Road Trip and Everything in Between\nHow to Make Your Own Free Internet Connection\nHow to Get Wireless Internet Without Having Cable or a Phone Line\nHow to Get Temporary Internet Connections\nBy: Daniel Zimmermann", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00240.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 114, + "original_length": 6266, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.93, + "perplexity": 337.3, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "https://www.tekedia.com/action-plan-south-sudan-build-future-peace-liberty-free-enterprise/", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T03:47:36Z", + "digest": "sha1:IIRF7EUCW46CPD7UU2GNIKCBTJQKRBSI", + "length": 4135, + "nlines": 17, + "source_domain": "www.tekedia.com", + "title": "Action Plan For South Sudan \u2013 Build Future On Peace, Liberty And Free Enterprise - Tekedia", + "raw_content": "Home Tech | Business | Insight Action Plan For South Sudan \u2013 Build Future On Peace, Liberty And Free Enterprise\nAction Plan For South Sudan \u2013 Build Future On Peace, Liberty And Free Enterprise\nTekedia received a new copy of the South Sudan national anthem. It reads in parts as follows:\nLand of great abundance, uphold us united in peace and liberty\nWe think this is a great line and if they can make that unity and liberty a reality, it will be a new dawn indeed for the newest nation on earth.\nSouth Sudan became a new nation on July 9, 2011. The nation of 8m to 14m (Africa does not do well in counting itself, you must not expect South Sudan to figure that out, yet) is awash with natural resources. It has fertile and well-watered wet lands. Many rural people do not need to buy farmlands because they have them in abundance. Just wake up and cultivate. The country has oil, gold, chromium, iron ore and many other minerals.\nThe investors are coming and everyone wants to equip a new state. The entrepreneurs are also arriving. People know there is money to be made in this young nation. The Chinese, Kenyans, Ethiopians and a host of other nationals have been arriving in the town as the new nation begins life. Expatriates are arriving. Sudanese Diasporas that left home after years of conflicts are also coming home. There is hope in this country and everyone wants to help build it.\nThe country must not think that it is different from any African nation because its independence is coming from an African government, instead of the usual European power. Having minerals mean nothing in Africa and abundance in most cases is a curse. But South Sudan is emerging at a time when knowledge of good governance in Africa has reached a new dimension. Technology has brought empowerment in Africa and every leader understands that.\nThe government must not just start working on giving drilling concessions. They should focus on improving the literacy rates of the citizens. That is the most important thing they have to do. They need to focus on education and get more people educated. More than 85% of the population is illiterates. So, the challenge for companies is finding talents. They need education and training programs to get this nation going.\nWhen education is done, they have to work on transportation and building their infrastructure. South Sudan has no road network. There is also the need to modernize the property rights. They have to revamp and create a strong IPR system in the nation.\nThe hotel system in South Sudan is very primitive and it is very expensive over there. It costs more than $150 for a night stay, not in hotels, but make-shift shipping containers that have been turned into hotels. The government must help get this industry going immediately.\nThe taxation is this region is very prohibitive. They need an immediate reform on taxation. In the recent Doing Business report, Sudan is not that a good place for business. The International Finance Corporation has Juba, the capital as one of the worst places of doing business. It was ranked 159th out of 183 cities worldwide. Also an issue is that in Doing Business Index, Juba comes behind Kinshasa as the worst place to start a business. It is not your idea that gets you ahead, but your connection and networks.\nFor all that that can happen, Tekedia wants the nation to focus on agriculture. It has to feed its people to sustainable peace and prosperity. It also must pursue free enterprise and empower citizens towards prosperity.\n\u2013 South Sudan must pursue the development of agriculture. It could be Africa\u2019s largest producer of foods. If it can feed its people, it will become a leader over time. They have to figure how to make an export business in their livestock.\n\u2013 It has to develop its timber business\nWe wish the people of South Sudan good luck, but they must work fast to ensure they do not get into conflicts. The traits are still there and only an effective government can make things well.\nFiled in: Tech | Business | Insight Tags: Africa, International Finance Corporation, Juba, Kenya, Kinshasa, South Sudan, Southern Sudan, Sudan", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00240.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 86, + "original_length": 6294, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.97, + "perplexity": 308.7, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2018/07/13/theresa-may-must-stay-true-promises-stop-treating-british-public/", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T03:32:29Z", + "digest": "sha1:54IBVFLQVZJZK6EJOC4WV2AL7RFCBPUP", + "length": 852, + "nlines": 5, + "source_domain": "www.telegraph.co.uk", + "title": "Theresa May must stay true to her promises and stop treating the British public like fools", + "raw_content": "Theresa May must stay true to her promises and stop treating the British public like fools\nTheresa May sealing the deal at Chequers Credit: REUTERS\nFor over 45 years, Britain\u2019s relationship with the European Union has been seen as a tug of war. Although in 1973 Britain celebrated its entry to the European Economic Community, with fanfare and promises of a new beginning for a new generation, this was the moment when our political leaders unknowingly agreed to the pooling of our sovereignty by signing the Treaty of Rome which went on to become a fast moving escalator to the creation to the United States of Europe. The subsequent renegotiation and Referendum of 1975 all failed to slow down that process down.\nFast forward to 2018 and Britain\u2019s relationship with the European Union is as fraught as ever.\nThe British public had their say on the...", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00240.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 237, + "original_length": 6160, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.97, + "perplexity": 215.0, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "https://www.tenlistz.com/10-most-beautiful-places-in-the-world-that-actually-exist/", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T04:46:48Z", + "digest": "sha1:LUGO2XHFRD7TNCLZCOCEDVTAKRT7UQSU", + "length": 6811, + "nlines": 23, + "source_domain": "www.tenlistz.com", + "title": "Top 10 Most Beautiful places in the world that actually exist", + "raw_content": "Today we are talking about 10 most beautiful places in the world that actually exist. In some ways, a waterfall is simply not a matter of physics, a drop of rain on your forehead, or more than a few ice cubes on the roof of your car. Even the most pressing finger-pressed finger cascades are just physics. Of course, being purposeful is going simply we`re We know that thanks to some of nature\u2019s tricks, the waterfalls look proud, super-inspirational and captivating. We can see only the powers of nature, which, just as they love to stand next to them, hear torrential rain, and see them pouring streams of water in the wondrous, infinite waterfalls. Are there. One of the most amazing waterfalls in the world is really a pleasure to behold. They are magical hypnotic, powerful, and they look at any other world. For anyone who lives in a city, gazing at a waterfall venturing out to some of the most remote areas of our planet, almost the experience it takes in other world is similar to one outside the body, and forget that If you live in a brick and mortar city, where the skyscrapers are everywhere, and the travelers constantly roam in you. So if you are checking for some amazing waterfalls, check out our easy guide for 10 of the world\u2019s most amazing waterfalls that you should definitely visit.\n1. Victoria Falls, Zimbabwe\nThe Victoria Falls Waterfall in Zimbabwe is enough to take your breath away. This huge waterfall is a large-scale tourist attraction situated on the border of Zambia / Zimbabwe that is pervasive with the water of the currents ahead of the vertical and very long, multiplicity. The weight of lead in a straight line for the length of 354ft of water here. Width is a crushing 5,604ft / 1,708m, which means that you can be seen far away from this particular waterfall from miles.\n2. Kaieteur Falls, Guyana\nAnother Kaieteur fall is one of the most beautiful waterfalls in the world, it is a spectacular sight to behold for any waterfall fan, a true spectacle. For anyone who has never seen a waterfall before, though, Kaieteur Falls can scare and even a tad look terrible. The waterfalls below 741ft, before hitting the various stagnant waterfalls. Extreme tourists who are known to attract love to borders, Kaieteur Falls because it is not easy to reach from a remote place \u2013 it`s trapped in the jungle. Don`t just get lost.\n3. Niagara Falls, Canada\nYou`re no doubt already heard about Niagara Falls, as it is the world\u2019s most famous waterfall without question. Placed on the border of America and Canada, Niagara Falls consists of two sections, which are separated from a small island. Out of the two squares, the horseshoe falls (which is shaped like a horseshoe), which is the most impressive, with the Canadian side marks, the highest, horseshoe, measuring 173ft, although the two sections Neither are especially above the top.\n4. Yosemite Falls, United States\nThis is another famous American waterfall next to the top 10 most beautiful places in the world that actually exist, though it is quite as famous as Niagara isn`t Yosemite Fall-. It\u2019s scary, however, thanks to its sheer height \u2013 Water Sierra goes a whopping 2,425ft in Nevada, California. That `There is some meaning, and seeing that this jaw-dropping experience is enough to make you feel dizzy (and maybe even a little unconscious). Before the water rises out of a very thin stream on top, widen it as it reaches the base.\n5. Jog Falls, India\nAlthough Jog Falls is not as high as Yosemite, its drop of some 830ft is still one of the highest in the subcontinent. Jog Falls In the rainy season, when its many currents of water explosion seem to be loudly impressive during the chaos in rhythmic harmony ahead. During the dry season, however, things are very different, and Jog falls drops essentially. Do not like it.\n6. Sutherland Falls, New Zealand\nNew Zealand is home to a number of waterfalls, but some are as spectacular as Sutherland Falls, and this is definitely worth a place in our list of the most beautiful waterfalls in the world. Like other people in this list, your remote location can work hard to track it down, but it is Milford track, which is claimed by many to be the best walk in the world, as well as is. Apart from this, since New Zealand is home to the Lord of the Rings, you are not really going to get a more supernatural experience compared to Sutherland Falls. Magical.\n7. Big Waterfall, Croatia\nThey definitely know that for their waterfalls, Croat\u2019s is named. In Croatia, the Big Waterfall is better known as Veliki Slap, but because this name would not go down very well with English-speaking tourists, who know that a slap is not really a very good thing, marketing The team named this big waterfall And yes, it\u2019s big. But not only is this big, it is also the waterfall which is surrounded by the huge swathes of grass, trees and the blue lake of the sky, it is stacked by a high number. A sunny day, the Big Waterfall looks like a piece of paradise.\n8. Gocta Falls, Peru\nStrange enough, according to some waterfall experts, Gocta Falls in Peru is the sixteenth highest in the world. According to others, the fifth highest (probably Peru) `s. It doesn`t mean quite a lot, but when you wander on a waterfall which cares about the feeling? Gocta Falls is lofty, and such a strict line that if you look very closely, then you can just convince yourself that the water cascades down towards you are really looking at a straight line. Fantastic it ` Because of its remote location, Gocta Falls was discovered only by Western countries in 2005.\n9. Aquatic Falls, Croatia\nOK, yes, this second time Croatia has appeared in this list wouldn`t you prefer if it were close together one or two, but if you are going to check out some of the world\u2019s most amazing waterfalls? Of course, you will! Otherwise, if you`re going to plot Asia from Asia for Africa, and then, and so on and so on. Pelvic waterfalls are one of the most beautiful waterfalls on earth, and you will find baths in the lagoon where there is the only colour that presents the colours of the leaves and turquoise. Grays for any brown or mile Heavenly. Aquatic Falls is one of the best tourist places in the world.\n10 Gullfoss Waterfall, Iceland\nAnd finally, in our list 10 most beautiful places in the world that actually exist, the last Gullfoss, which is translated to English in Golden, and this Icelandic waterfall is present on the golden coast of Hv\u00edt\u00e1 River. Known for its excessive amount of rainbow, a huge tourist attraction in this particular area, while the Gullfoss waterfall is certainly not the noisiest, or the highest waterfall, and certainly the most comfortable one, it ` . Bliss has never been easier to find, not easy.\n\u2190 Top 10 Countries with most Beautiful Women\nTop 10 Greatest modern architecture styles \u2192", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00240.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 106, + "original_length": 8886, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.96, + "perplexity": 284.8, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "https://www.tenlistz.com/highest-paid-football-player/", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T04:51:35Z", + "digest": "sha1:BV524EKD53U3IQEO7FZ6FUCQGPNIZWB6", + "length": 4612, + "nlines": 20, + "source_domain": "www.tenlistz.com", + "title": "Top 10 Highest paid football player in the World", + "raw_content": "Highest paid football player \u2013 The most popular sport in our country is cricket and most people think that cricketers are very rich, but you will be stunned by knowing the inevitability of these world-famous football players. Let\u2019s introduce you to the world\u2019s 10 highest paid football player.\n1. Cesc F\u00e0bregas\nThis Spanish midfielder currently plays on behalf of the Chelsea team and in 2014 left the Barcelona team and joined the Chelsea team. Cesc F\u00e0bregas earning18 million dollars per year from Chelsea Football Club. In addition to this, he earning $ 5 million through various advertisements.\nThis Belgian player currently plays for Chelsea football team. The Chelsea football team had contracted this Belgian player in January 2015. Eden is one of the highest earning football players in the world who earns $ 23 million a year. They get 18 million dollars to play on behalf of the Chelsea Football Club. Apart from this, they have many good ads endorsements, which include many well-known companies, whose earnings make up about $ 4 million a year.\nLouis Alberto Suarez is a professional football player of Uruguay and is the main striker. He has also got the title of the most expensive player in history when he was given $ 89.75 million when he entered the Barcelona football club from Liverpool Football Club. Apart from football, it also earns bigger than advertisements, besides the Luis Barcelona team, also a member of the Uruguay national team, who has won the title of European Golden Shoe.\nSergio Lionel is a major Argentine player who plays as a striker for Argentina\u2019s National Team and Manchester City Football Club. Apart from this, it has also been modelling for big companies such as Puma, Pepsi. Although Sergio earns a lot from commercials, most of his earnings come from his club.\nJames Rodriguez is a Colombian footballer, and he plays primarily as a midfielder. James is the captain of the Colombian National Team and as well as on behalf of the famous Spanish football club Real Madrid. James is considered to be one of the youngest players in the football world. James is earning money from his game, apart from this, he also has a large number of advertisements from different companies. He is one of the highest paid football player in the world.\nTo arrive at Real Madrid Club from the English Premier League, this football player of Poland was presented a huge amount of $ 118 million in 2013. Gareth Bell\u2019s total annual income is $ 34 million, in which $ 24 million earns it from his football game and receives $ 10 million from various corporate advertisements.\nBrazilian national player Neymar de Silva Santos Jr., commonly known as Neymar. The player currently plays on behalf of the Barcelona football team. According to this year\u2019s income figures, Neymar Jr. has already earned a total of $ 36 million, which will continue to be available throughout the year in a variety of ways. The interesting thing about Neymar is that it will earn only $ 14 million from its club, earning from $ 22 million ads.\nZlatan is considered one of the best football players in the world who has received Player of the Year in 2013. He is a good player, along with that he has increased his earnings by contracting advertisements from some big companies, his annual earnings is $ 35 million, out of which 30 million dollars earned through his game and the remaining 7 million Dollars get from advertising various companies.\nLionel Messi is the world\u2019s second most expensive football player, he has been given the second number on our list, making a total of 77 million dollars a year. Out of which $ 51 million is given to them from the club side. Apart from this, they make huge profits of 26 million dollars from advertisements of various companies. Messi is most expensive and highest paid football player in the world.\nRonaldo is one of the world\u2019s most famous football players and one of the most famous players in the social media. He has done the most expensive deal in the world\u2019s richest football club Real Madrid Football Club, which has been given more money than any player in the whole world. Let us tell you that the Real Madrid Club had contracted this player for a huge amount of $ 3.4 billion. The total income of the Real Madrid Club was $ 675 million, out of which $ 172 million was the club\u2019s net profit. 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As General Manager of Shannon Duty Free, Colm was one of a team of ten from Aer Rianta (the Irish Airport Authority) who moved to Dubai in 1983 at the request of the Dubai Government, to set up Dubai Duty Free.\nFollowing the successful opening of Dubai Duty Free in 1983, Colm was asked to remain as General Manager of the start-up operation, which in its opening year had a turnover of US$20 million. Colm later became the Managing Director of Dubai Duty Free, one of the leading airport retailers in the world with sales of US$1.89 billion in 2015. Now employing almost 6,000 staff, Dubai Duty Free is widely regarded for having set the benchmark for the duty free industry in the region.\nIn July 2011, Colm was named Executive Vice Chairman and CEO of Dubai Duty Free and its subsidiary businesses, including The Irish Village, The Century Village, the Dubai Duty Free Tennis Stadium and Jumeirah Creekside Hotel.\nUnder Colm\u2019s direction, Dubai Duty Free has received over 500 industry awards presented by international, regional and local entities.\nDuring the course of his career Colm has been honoured with several personal awards, including the Frontier Lifetime Achievement award which was presented in 2004 by Frontier magazine, making him only the second person after Dr. Brendan O\u2019Regan, the founder of the duty free industry, to receive this accolade. In 2000, Colm was the first non-UAE national to receive the Most Distinguished Employee Award at the Dubai Government Excellence Awards, while back in his home country he was named as Galway Millennium Man of the Year.\nIn 2014, Colm was presented with the Presidential Distinguished Service Award for Business and Education, making him one of a select group of people to be recognised by the Irish government for his outstanding contribution to Irish business and communities abroad.\nAhmet K\u00f6tehne\nPhilip Haine\nJoseph Francis Bihag\nAmr Abdel-Ghaffar", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00240.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 88, + "original_length": 3321, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.98, + "perplexity": 120.6, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "https://www.the-dispatch.com/news/20190211/pilot-elementary-students-learn-math-at-grocery-store", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T03:20:11Z", + "digest": "sha1:7472PB4FQMPJ6Y7M3T5G2DDN6RC5XRZH", + "length": 3005, + "nlines": 15, + "source_domain": "www.the-dispatch.com", + "title": "Pilot Elementary students learn math at grocery store - News - The Dispatch - Lexington, NC", + "raw_content": "Pilot Elementary students learn math at grocery store\nWhich weighs more, a potato or an onion? This was one of the many puzzles that students from Pilot Elementary School and their parents had to ponder during the school\u2019s \u201cParents Math Night\u201d at the Food Lion on Cloninger Drive in Thomasville on Thursday night.\nChildren from kindergarten through fifth-grade had a chance to roam the aisles of the grocery store with their parents or guardians and perform grade-specific tasks, such as totaling the price of snacks, finding specific items, determining which produce is heavier by weighing it and other math-related questions.\nHeather Sykes, lead teacher at Pilot Elementary School, said that the whole point of Parents Math Night is to show the students how what they are learning in the classroom has value in the real world.\n\u201cWe are giving families exposure to real-world math that correlates to what they are learning in class,\u201d Sykes said. \u201cEach grade level has specific activities. \u2026 It reinforces the importance of what we are doing in the classroom. It gives them the why they are learning what they are learning.\u201d\nJosh Slaughter, store manager of the Food Lion in Thomasville, said the employees at the store always enjoy participating in the Parent Math Night every year.\n\u201cWe love giving back to Thomasville and the surrounding area any way we can, and partnering with local schools for math nights is a great way to do that,\u201d Slaughter said. \u201cThey\u2019re also a great way to connect what students are learning in school to everyday life.\u201d\nSykes said it is important for parents to be involved in their children\u2019s education, and events like the Parents Math Night is a fun way to get them engaged.\n\u201cIt helps give parents a glimpse into what their children are learning and how,\u201d Skyes said. \u201cIt makes learning fun. There is a correlation between family engagement and student achievement; the more involved the parents, the better it is for the students.\u201d\nSykes said that Pilot Elementary holds approximately four parent or community involvement events throughout the year. She said they try to balance them with a mix of reading and math.\nJennifer Byerly attended the Pilot Elementary Parents Math Night with her daughter Courtney. She said that this is the second year she has attended the school\u2019s community event at the grocery store.\nShe said it is a good opportunity to understand what her daughter is studying and how well she is learning.\n\u201cAt home it's hard to see it sometimes, so it is good to put her in an environment where she can show me all of her skills,\u201d Byerly said. \u201cI really enjoy it because not only does it teach the kids their math, but it also shows the parents that what they are learning at school is actually accurate at home.\u201d\nCourtney, who is currently in the first grade, was mostly unaware of the educational reinforcement she was receiving; she said she was just having fun.\n\u201cI love it,\u201d Courtney said. \"I like writing with the pencils and running around the store.\u201d", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00240.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 140, + "original_length": 5191, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.98, + "perplexity": 289.1, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "https://www.the74million.org/article/this-weeks-essa-news-new-school-accountability-systems-from-alaska-to-arizona-considering-the-destiny-of-geography-more/", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T04:31:11Z", + "digest": "sha1:EI3QXPCLHBB22JH5XMMYS5CJPOVDYR42", + "length": 4402, + "nlines": 16, + "source_domain": "www.the74million.org", + "title": "This Week\u2019s ESSA News: New School Accountability Systems From Alaska to Arizona, Considering the Destiny of Geography & More | The 74", + "raw_content": "This Week\u2019s #ESSA News: New school accountability systems from Alaska to Arizona, considering the destiny of geography & more\nWith the New Year upon us, numerous states are revealing their school report cards and releasing related data. In Alaska, for example, the state Department of Education has \u201cflagged about a fifth of the state\u2019s public schools as needing additional support under its new accountability system,\u201d called the \u201cSystem for School Success,\u201d Tegan Hanlon reports for the Anchorage Daily News. Like every other state, Alaska \u201chad to build the new system to comply with the federal Every Student Succeeds Act, passed in 2015, and to continue receiving federal funds.\u201d\nAnd in Arizona, according to AZCentral.com, the state Department of Education has created a website to provide data about the state\u2019s schools that is \u201call in one place.\u201d The site includes \u201cinformation about individual schools, including how students performed on tests, how many children were disciplined at the school and how many teachers at that school hold emergency certificates.\u201d\nKentucky has also made changes to its report card system. The Owensboro Times reports that the state Department of Education has unveiled the state\u2019s school report card: an online platform that \u201cincludes data metrics and visualizations to highlight key information about schools and districts.\u201d\nNew article from @azcentral reports that the Arizona Department of Education has created a website to provide \u201cdata about the state's schools, all in one place.\u201d Learn more about the types of data posted to the site: https://t.co/VBRlUKLEqn\nMore than 100 New York City schools identified as struggling\nChalkbeat reports that New York is also releasing school ratings data, including the recent release of a list of struggling schools. This list included no less than 124 schools in the five boroughs that together form New York City. These struggling-school designations are the \u201cfirst round of designations under a new method of identifying low-performing schools\u201d under ESSA. \u201cWhile test scores and graduation rates continue to influence the ratings most, state officials said the new system offers a more nuanced look at school performance by emphasizing student growth over time and taking into account the new criteria.\u201d\nThese 124 New York City schools are now considered struggling by the statehttps://t.co/x0HGZC3e24 pic.twitter.com/s3PKBh09F3\n\u2014 Chalkbeat New York (@ChalkbeatNY) January 17, 2019\nIn this Education Week piece, Andrew Ujifusa takes a look at the issues of socioeconomic factors, geographic location, and education quality. Of course, school funding mechanisms are a vital component of these interconnected issues, as \u201cstate and local funding each typically make up about 45 percent of total spending on public schools.\u201d\nIn many places, decision makers are looking to create \u201cnew systems for state funding that direct more resources to students from low-income households and English-language learners who have greater educational needs.\u201d And \u201cdue to a requirement in the Every Student Succeeds Act that districts publish how much individual schools spend per student, communities might soon be able to ask tough, more-informed questions about funding disparities between schools not too distant from each other.\u201d\nDoes your zipcode determine your educational quality? Too often, yes; but it doesn't have to. Via @educationweek @AndrewUjifusa https://t.co/SYhx1QJsA3\n\u2014 Barbara McKenna (@bMckMack) January 16, 2019\nEarlier this month in The 74, Allison Crean Davis explored how to build an evidence base for research. She notes that exploratory studies \u201care better at suggesting patterns and potential directions of inquiry than they are at determining causation and arriving at firm conclusions.\u201d She notes, however, that evidence-based research can \u201cpoint toward topics worthy of further inquiry and suggest how resources for research can best be leveraged.\u201d This is \u201cconsistent with an embrace of evidence under the Every Student Succeeds Act that \u2018demonstrates a rationale\u2019 for a program, approach, or intervention, even if it has yet to demonstrate causality.\u201d\nYou want your program to be #evidencebased. 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Check out this story on theadvertiser.com: https://www.theadvertiser.com/story/news/local/2018/07/05/lafayette-ufc-daniel-cormier-faces-stipe-mioci-226/760396002/\nKristin Askelson, Lafayette Daily Advertiser Published 1:59 p.m. CT July 5, 2018 | Updated 5:48 p.m. CT July 6, 2018\nDaniel Cormier is undeniably one of the biggest names in wrestling and mixed martial arts.\nThe Lafayette native won three state championships as a Northside High wrestler. He was an All-American at Oklahoma State University and was on the 2004 and 2008 U.S. Olympic teams as a freestyle wrestler.\nOn Saturday in Las Vegas, he will face UFC heavyweight champ Stipe Miocic in an attempt to become only the second simultaneous belt-holder in UFC history \u2014 joining Conor McGregor \u2014 and the first to claim light heavyweight and heavyweight together.\nHowever, when I spoke with the light heavyweight champ just days before one of the biggest fights of his storied career, this question seemed to catch him off guard: \u201cRight now, don\u2019t you think you are arguably the most famous person from Lafayette, Louisana?\u201d\nMore: Daniel Cormier's got jokes as he weighs in heavier than Stipe Miocic ahead of UFC 226\n\u201cWhoa,\u201d Cormier said. \u201cThat is weird. That is just so strange. Wow.\u201d\nJust ask Cormier's friend Bryson Bernard, also known as \"Cupid.\"\n\"Without a doubt,\" Bernard said, \"he is definitely the man as far as Lafayette is concerned.\"\nBernard should know. He and Cormier have been friends since fifth grade. In fact, Bernard said, few people know that Cormier paid for his first music video, which came years before his smash hit, \"The Cupid Shuffle.\"\n\"Daniel came to me and said, \"I know you've been struggling. What do you need?' He gave me $1,000 and the rest is history.\"\nUpon reflection, Cormier said he has noticed a difference recently in the way he\u2019s received by his hometown. \u201cThe last couple times I\u2019ve been home, I have noticed people looking at me differently,\u201d he said. \u201cIt\u2019s really the first time I\u2019ve felt like people recognize me when I\u2019m walking around, like they know who I am.\u201d\nThere were plenty of people looking at him in February. Cormier was home for Mardi Gras for the first time since 2014. He spent time with family, visited youngsters at the Boys & Girls Club, his old stomping ground, and rode on a float in the Independent Parade.\nMore: Cormier's scary fall proves MMA gods' twisted sense of humor\n\u201cThat was so great,\u201d Cormier said. \u201cYou know, growing up there you always watch the Mardi Gras parades and never dream you\u2019re going to be riding in them one day.\n\u201cI saw so many people that day,\u201d he said. \u201cIt was like, somehow, I saw everyone I ever knew all on that day.\u201d\n#mardigras2018 finally got to get home for Mardi Gras and so happy to spend it with the people I love. I live a blesssed life pic.twitter.com/GL8QSxiPmh\n\u2014 Daniel Cormier (@dc_mma) February 13, 2018\nAll eyes will be on Cormier for UFC 226 Saturday when he enters the octagon as a heavyweight for the first time since 2013. He made the decision to fight at light heavyweight because his good friend Cain Velasquez was, at the time, holding the heavyweight belt.\nTo say Cormier\u2019s happy to be competing at heavyweight (206 to 265 pounds) might be an understatement. He\u2019s a big guy who is notoriously fond of Popeyes chicken; cutting to 204 pounds to fight at light heavyweight has never been fun for him.\n\u201cIt\u2019s been great,\u201d Cormier said. \u201cI haven\u2019t had to cut weight since January.\n\u201cI was planning to weigh in at about 235, but my team said I didn\u2019t need to lose any more weight. I\u2019m moving good. I\u2019m strong. I\u2019m really feeling good.\u201d\nWin or lose, Cormier has been adamant about his plan to retire by his 40th birthday in March.\n\u201cI think I have a couple more fights left in me,\u201d he said. \u201cBut I don\u2019t want to become one of those guys you see who start losing to younger guys that would have never had a chance against them before. I don\u2019t want to be that guy walking out to the octagon questioning if I\u2019m still good enough to get the job done. I don\u2019t want to be in that situation.\u201d\nCormier's plan is not typical. It has proven hard for fighters to walk away while at the top of their game.\nMore: Why this Lafayette fighter is selling his bloody shorts on eBay\nMore: 'Gold is next': Dustin Poirier calls for title shot after epic UFC clash with Gaethje\nFortunately for Cormier, he has plenty to move on to. He runs a youth wrestling program, works as a television host for FS1 and regularly commentates UFC events. He also has a family who has supported him all along the way.\n\"For years, our family has revolved around me and my athletic career,\" he said. \"But now, my kids are playing sports. My son is wrestling; my daughter is in gymnastics. And they're performing at the select level. It's time for things to shift so they can be the center of everything.\"\nHappy Easter everyone! From my family to yours. Have a wonderful day! DC #cormierfamily #easter @peechypie\nA post shared by Daniel \"DC\" Cormier (@dc_mma) on Apr 1, 2018 at 4:32pm PDT\nCormier said he wants to be that crazy dad you always hear cheering and bragging about his kids.\nAnd although he has established his family in California, his wife's home, he hopes retirement will mean more frequent visits to Lafayette.\n\"Lafayette will always be home,\" he said. \"I just love it there. I love the food. 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If you are planning on selling your home, that is a question you need answered. As your Local Punta Gorda Real Estate Expert, I can help you to learn the answer to that question. I will personally do... Read more\nHave You Ever Considered Purchasing a Home in Punta Gorda, Florida\nPosted on December 27, 2018 - 02:17 PM by kimberlee hicks\nHave you ever considered moving to beautiful Punta Gorda, Florida? Punta Gorda is a desirable community & great location. Punta Gorda, Florida boasts a variety of local landmarks, excellent schools, parks and much much more. Take a look at some of ... 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In The Canadian Encyclopedia. Historica Canada. Article published April 06, 2008; last modified May 02, 2014. https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/wayson-choy\nBrooke Pratt, The Canadian Encyclopedia, s.v. \"Wayson Choy\", last modified May 02, 2014, https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/wayson-choy\nArticle by Brooke Pratt\nWayson Choy, novelist, memoirist, short-story writer (b at Vancouver 20 Apr 1939). Raised in Vancouver's Chinatown by both his adoptive parents and his extended community, Wayson Choy was an only child whose father, a cook for the Canadian Pacific Ocean Steamship Line, was often away at sea.\nWayson Choy, novelist, memoirist, short-story writer (b at Vancouver 20 Apr 1939). Raised in Vancouver's Chinatown by both his adoptive parents and his extended community, Wayson Choy was an only child whose father, a cook for the Canadian Pacific Ocean Steamship Line, was often away at sea. Choy attended the University of British Columbia (UBC) in the late 1950s to study creative writing under the tutelage of Earle Birney. He began teaching English at Toronto's Humber College in 1967, where he was also a faculty member of the Humber School of Writers.\nAlthough he experienced some success with his early short stories, Choy did not return to writing in earnest until 1977, when he again enrolled in UBC's Creative Writing program. His story, \"The Jade Peony,\" was later expanded into a full-length book, and was published as a novel in 1995. The Jade Peony is an intimate portrait of an immigrant family living in Vancouver during WWII. Told through the eyes of the Chen family's three youngest children, this novel vividly captures the lived reality of Chinatown from the perspective of these first-generation Canadians. After spending six months on the Globe and Mail bestseller list, The Jade Peony won the 1996 City of Vancouver Book Award. Choy shared with Margaret Atwood the 1996 Trillium Book Award.\nFollowing the success of his first novel, Choy published his second book, Paper Shadows: A Chinatown Childhood, in 1999. Winner of the Edna Staebler Creative Non-Fiction Award in 2000, Choy's memoir was also nominated for a Governor General's Award, and was named as a 1999 Globe and Mail notable book of the year. His third book, All That Matters (2004), revisits the story of the Chen family, this time from the eldest son's point of view. Kiam-Kim immigrates to Canada as a small boy, and grows up struggling to contend with the intergenerational pressures and cultural anxieties that come with his new life in Vancouver. All That Matters was awarded the Trillium Book Award for 2004, and was shortlisted for the 2004 Scotiabank Giller Prize.\nIn 2000, Michael Glassbourg produced a documentary film on Choy's life, entitled Wayson Choy: Unfolding the Butterfly. 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He has a notable record of developing companies and defining business strategies that break down barriers to quality patient services. Dr. Pion began his career in academics serving on the faculty of the University of Washington and the University of Hawaii. Having recognized at an early stage the benefits technology and new media bring to the practice of medicine, he became a pioneer in the area of medical telecommunications and has worked in that arena for more than 30 years. He served as a full-time medical correspondent for KNBC television in Los Angeles prior to founding the Hospital Satellite Network, the nation\u2019s first daily satellite-delivered television service providing programming for hospital-based health professionals and patients. He is a Clinical Professor at the UCLA School of Medicine, a Fellow of the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists. 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(BKNG)", + "raw_content": "Booking - Get News & Ratings Daily\nEnter your email address below to get the latest news and analysts' ratings for Booking with our FREE daily email newsletter:\nUnited Super Pty Ltd in its capacity as Trustee for the Construction & Building Unions Superannuation Fund Acquires New Stake in Booking Holdings Inc. (BKNG)\nUnited Super Pty Ltd in its capacity as Trustee for the Construction & Building Unions Superannuation Fund acquired a new stake in shares of Booking Holdings Inc. (NASDAQ:BKNG) in the 4th quarter, according to the company in its most recent filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). The firm acquired 4,965 shares of the business services provider\u2019s stock, valued at approximately $8,552,000.\nOther hedge funds have also added to or reduced their stakes in the company. Polianta Ltd bought a new stake in shares of Booking in the 4th quarter worth about $1,042,000. Cerebellum GP LLC lifted its holdings in Booking by 61.5% during the 4th quarter. Cerebellum GP LLC now owns 147 shares of the business services provider\u2019s stock valued at $253,000 after buying an additional 56 shares in the last quarter. Watch Point Trust Co lifted its holdings in Booking by 10.6% during the 3rd quarter. Watch Point Trust Co now owns 1,594 shares of the business services provider\u2019s stock valued at $3,162,000 after buying an additional 153 shares in the last quarter. Hotaling Investment Management LLC purchased a new position in Booking during the 4th quarter valued at about $972,000. Finally, Private Wealth Partners LLC increased its position in Booking by 5.6% during the 3rd quarter. Private Wealth Partners LLC now owns 2,902 shares of the business services provider\u2019s stock valued at $5,758,000 after purchasing an additional 154 shares during the period. Institutional investors and hedge funds own 91.97% of the company\u2019s stock.\nIn other Booking news, CEO Gillian Tans sold 294 shares of the firm\u2019s stock in a transaction on Tuesday, January 15th. The stock was sold at an average price of $1,695.00, for a total value of $498,330.00. The transaction was disclosed in a filing with the Securities & Exchange Commission, which is available at the SEC website. In the last three months, insiders sold 881 shares of company stock valued at $1,575,047. 0.24% of the stock is owned by corporate insiders.\nShares of NASDAQ BKNG traded up $1.73 during mid-day trading on Monday, hitting $1,872.82. 2,128 shares of the company were exchanged, compared to its average volume of 393,037. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.99, a current ratio of 2.41 and a quick ratio of 2.41. Booking Holdings Inc. has a 1-year low of $1,606.27 and a 1-year high of $2,228.99. The company has a market cap of $86.69 billion, a PE ratio of 24.25, a P/E/G ratio of 1.36 and a beta of 1.14.\nA number of brokerages recently issued reports on BKNG. Zacks Investment Research raised shares of Booking from a \u201chold\u201d rating to a \u201cbuy\u201d rating and set a $1,917.00 price objective for the company in a report on Tuesday, January 8th. DA Davidson set a $2,000.00 price objective on shares of Booking and gave the company a \u201chold\u201d rating in a report on Tuesday, November 6th. Wedbush set a $2,500.00 price objective on shares of Booking and gave the company a \u201cbuy\u201d rating in a report on Tuesday, November 6th. Royal Bank of Canada upped their price objective on shares of Booking to $2,425.00 and gave the company an \u201coutperform\u201d rating in a report on Tuesday, November 6th. Finally, Credit Suisse Group reissued an \u201coutperform\u201d rating and issued a $2,240.00 price objective (up previously from $2,100.00) on shares of Booking in a report on Tuesday, November 6th. Eleven investment analysts have rated the stock with a hold rating, eighteen have assigned a buy rating and one has issued a strong buy rating to the company. Booking presently has a consensus rating of \u201cBuy\u201d and a consensus price target of $2,155.39.\nWARNING: This piece was reported by The Cerbat Gem and is the sole property of of The Cerbat Gem. If you are accessing this piece on another publication, it was copied illegally and reposted in violation of US & international copyright legislation. The original version of this piece can be read at https://www.thecerbatgem.com/2019/02/11/united-super-pty-ltd-in-its-capacity-as-trustee-for-the-construction-building-unions-superannuation-fund-acquires-new-stake-in-booking-holdings-inc-bkng.html.\nSee Also: Does the discount rate affect the economy?\nWant to see what other hedge funds are holding BKNG? Visit HoldingsChannel.com to get the latest 13F filings and insider trades for Booking Holdings Inc. 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Even more tragic, those years were brutally wasted.\nAnd on his second stint at the shelter, Lobo's chances of getting out had taken a turn for the bleak.\nThis time, he wasn't a bright-eyed puppy looking to begin a fresh life with a family.\nAt the shelter, Lobo failed a temperament test - a short exam that assesses an animal's attitude. As a result, he was put on a rescue-only list, meaning no individual member of the public could get him out of there - only an approved rescue organization.\nEven for an organization, the ragged senior dog with severe health issues would be a tough sell.\nBut for all that baggage - emotional, physical and even spiritual - that had been heaped on Lobo's shoulders, one California woman was more than willing to ease his burden.\nThe Little Red Dog, Inc.\nThe woman, who does not wish to be named, approached The Little Red Dog, a group based in Orange County, California.\nShe proposed a plan to foster and care for Lobo. And soon after that, the group pulled Lobo. He left the shelter a second time. For a real home. And this time, for good.\n\"She really wanted to foster him,\" PJ Rosch of The Little Red Dog tells The Dodo. \"And, honestly, when fosters don't step up, it's really bleak for all of the dogs on the (euthanasia) list.\"\nIt's an especially extraordinary act, considering Lobo's whole life was no longer ahead of him.\n\"He isn't healthy,\" Rosch says. \"He was groomed. He weighed 46 pounds. He should be twice that size. He had rocks in his stomach, probably because he was starving.\"\nAnd there are the seizures. Lobo has a history of them. Just a week into his foster care, he had another serious attack.\nEven more concerning, a veterinarian suspects Lobo may have cancer in his leg.\n\"Frankly, I don't know why charges weren't brought against this person because his dog was in such bad shape,\" Rosch says.\nBut when a dog leaves a shelter for a home, no matter how nightmarish his existence had once been, the slate has an almost magical way of getting wiped clean.\nLobo was given a new name - Teddy Roosevelt. And in no time, Teddy had a chance to regain the puppyhood that had been stolen from him.\nHe bonded with a little boy at his foster home.\n\"From the very first night that he was pulled, the foster had him around her son and he was great,\" Rosch says. \"He actually loves her son a lot.\"\nAnd Teddy discovered the simple joys of a kiddie pool on a hot summer's day.\n\"He lays in it several times a day and really just kind of falls asleep in there,\" she says. \"He loves that.\"\nRest easy, little prince. 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It isn\u2019t a totally conscious decision, but rather an aversion to anything that might potentially upset their comfort zone. Many of the essays you may read on this site will do just that.\nThe truth of the matter is that we are entering into a time of \u201cStrong Delusion\u201d where light will be said to be darkness and darkness will be said to be light. A harder truth still is that we have already slipped into that spiritual darkness and most do not know it.\nGod has no middle ground\nYou will either know the truth through the Holy Spirit or you will be swept up in the delusion that is preparing the way of the Antichrist. The middle ground called \u201ccompromise\u201d is fast disappearing and failure to yield to God virtually guarantees acceptance of the Son of Perdition.\nMy writings purposely disrupt your complacency. I desire to help open your hearts and minds to the Holy Spirit. These truths give you a fighting chance to prevail against the darkness that is trying to extinguish His light in you. We gain light through coming into direct and intimate contact with our Father and experiencing Jesus Christ for ourselves.\nBuy oil now\nI know better than most how hard it can be to accept the truth. However, no matter how difficult it is to know it now, it will pale in comparison to not knowing it when you need Him most. Come to know the beautiful name of Jesus through a revelation of his nature.\nWe still have time to come to understand God through revelation. However, the time to buy oil is fast coming to an end. Do not allow this opportunity to come into God\u2019s presence pass you by. 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Trophies were presented in the following categories: Structural Ingenuity, Juror\u2019s Favorite, Best Use of Labels, Best Meal and Honorable Mention.\nTeam Amplify built the sculpture out of 850 cans of food. The sculpture took approximately 7 hours to build on April 11. Amplify consisted of volunteers from Network 24-7, a Santa Fe computer and IT support company, Randy Smith, local interior designer, Ashley Hartshorn, intern architect for Barbara Felix Architecture + Design, and members of the Kiwanis Club of Santa Fe.\n\u201cThis whole experience was great. From the planning to the build day, the way the community came together to support our sculpture exceeded my expectations. Ashley [Hartshorn] came up with a fantastic design. We were so pleased to participate in a new way to support The Food Depot. It was a lot of fun,\u201d Jaime Michael, owner of Network 24-7, said.\nThe Honorable Mention was awarded to the \u201cFood4Pets\u201d\u0080\u009d sculpture. 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The People\u2019s Choice award will be announced at noon on April 25. All award announcements will take place at Santa Fe Place mall.\nThere is no cost to attend Canstruction\u00ae Santa Fe. The sculptures will be \u201cde-canstructed\u201d\u0080\u009d on April 25, and all food will be donated to The Food Depot. The event is expected to generate more than 7,500 cans of food to help feed hungry Northern New Mexicans.\nCanstruction\u00ae Santa Fe is sponsored by: Kiwanis Club of Santa Fe, Branch Design and Development, Smith\u2019\u0080\u0099s Food and Drug Stores and Santa Fe Place mall.\nFor more information, visit the Canstruction\u00c2\u00ae Santa Fe Facebook page. 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The episode had 7.48 million viewers after a week of catch-up on all devices, a rise of 1.71 million on the overnight figure of 5.77 million, a moderate tick down from The Tsuranga Conundrum\u2018s 7.76 million, but in line with the difference in overnight figures for each episode. Stripping\u2026\nDemons of the Punjab overnight ratings\nThe overnight UK viewing figures for last night\u2019s episode, Demons of the Punjab, have been released. The episode had 5.77 million viewers on average, a tick down from last week\u2019s 6.12 million on a night of reasonably low ratings for most major primetime shows. Doctor Who was second for the day behind Strictly Come Dancing (8.92 million) and a little\u2026\nDemons of the Punjab \u2013 preview trailer\nAfter this week\u2019s explosive episode, the TARDIS team go back in time to visit Yaz\u2019s gran in next week\u2019s episode, Demons of the Punjab. You can view the preview trailer below.", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00240.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 53, + "original_length": 3131, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.93, + "perplexity": 339.3, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "https://www.thehistorygirl.com/2013/01/weekend-historical-happenings-11913.html", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T03:57:47Z", + "digest": "sha1:GLF2UBQ424HJ2PNHECLJV4X6BGDV4WWF", + "length": 12161, + "nlines": 40, + "source_domain": "www.thehistorygirl.com", + "title": "Weekend Historical Happenings: 1/19/13 - 1/20/13 ~ The History Girl!", + "raw_content": "Saturday, January 19 through April 14 - Cape May, Cape May County\n\"Celebrating Community Service: Black Fraternal, Social and Civic Organizations of Cape May County\" will be on exhibit at the Carriage House Gallery at the Physick Estate in Cape May beginning Saturday. This exhibit will explore the significance of black fraternal, social, and civic organizations in African American social life. Because the African American community is often ignored by mainstream organizations, the Busy Bees, Sea Gals, Masons, Eastern Stars, Elks, the Black USO and CCA - to name a few - have emerged with the sole purpose of enhancing the lives of African Americans. In addition, black organizations can serve specific needs that only pertain to African American families. Hundreds exist nationwide with local chapters in cities and towns.\nThe focus of this exhibit will be the black organizations of Cape May County. The exhibit is open Saturdays, January 19 - February 9 and February 23, 11:30 am to 2:00 pm; Saturday, February 16, 11:00 am to 3:30 pm; Sunday, February 17, 11:00 am to 2:15 pm and 4:00 pm to 6:00 pm; and Monday, February 18, 11:00 am to 1:00 pm. Admission is free. The gallery is located at 1048 Washington Street Cape May, NJ 08204. For more information call 609-884-5404 or visit www.capemaymac.org.\nSaturday, January 19 - Commercial, Cumberland County\n\"Bivalve Businesses\"\nStories to share? You can share stories about life in \u201cback in the day\u201d when Bayshore Discovery Project hosts a storytelling session on the businesses, houses and characters of Bivalve. Come and share a story, anecdote, recollection or photo about Bivalve from your lifetime. Tell a story from your family, or come listen and learn.\nJoin the Bayshore Discovery Project from 2:00 - 4:00 pm on Saturday at the Bivalve Shipping Sheds, 2800 High St., Port Norris. The information collected will be used for exhibits, research and education purposes as part of the Delaware Bay Museum and Folklife Center. This event will be recorded as part of Bayshore Discovery Project\u2019s oral history project.\nAdmission is free and open to the public. Refreshments will be served.\nFor information, call 856-785-2060 or e-mail info@bayshorediscovery.org.\nwww.ajmeerwald.org\nSaturday, January 19 - Union Township, Union County\nDownton Abbey New Year's Brunch\nTimed to coincide with the beginning of the much-anticipated third season of the smash hit \"Downton Abbey,\" come celebrate this momentous occasion by steeping back in time and experiencing a New Year's Brunch at Liberty Hall Museum where you will dine like the Crawley family themselves! Admission is $60.00 per couple, which includes a buffet brunch, party favors and a champagne toast. The brunch will be head between 12:00 noon and 3:00 pm. Reservations are required. Please call 908-527-0400. Liberty Hall Museum is located at 1003 Morris Ave, Union, NJ 07083. Visit www.kean.edu/libertyhall for more information.\nCurrently at Liberty Hall is the exhibit \"Ring for Service: The Role of Servants in a Country House.\" This exhibit is open until August 31, 2013. Ifyou love the hit PBS Show \"Downton Abbey,\" step into the real thing at Liberty Hall. Tours of the museum will show a typical day in the life of the servants. In the 1900s, the Kean family lived in a world where their every whim was met by the ringing of the servant's bell. The museum has been reinterpreted to highlight the places where the servants worked, slept and spent their leisure time. To visit this exhibit between January and March, it is by reservation only. $10 for adults, $8 for Kean Alumni, $6 for Seniors and Children, Kean students, faculty and children under 3 are free.\nSaturday, January 19 - Holmdel, Monmouth County\nFolksongs of Americans in the Vietnam War\nOn Saturday at 2:00 pm, the New Jersey Vietnam Veterans' Memorial Foundation will host Dr. Saul Broudy as he presents his musical program and lecture titled \"Oh You Saigon Girls, Can't You Dance the Polka? - Folksongs of Americans in the Vietnam War.\" The program will be held at the Vietnam Era Museum & Educational Center, exit 116 off the Garden State Parkway. Dr. Broudy will sing many of the helicopter pilots' songs in his repertoire, and will talk about the role songs and other folklore played in military life in Vietnam and how they reflect everyday life \"in country.\" Be aware that most of them deal with adult themes, and should be considered \"PG-rated.\"\nDr. Broudy served with the US Army Quartermaster Corps in Vietnam in 1966-1967. While there, Broudy befriended helicopter pilots, through whom he discovered a widespread tradition of Army Aviation folksong - songs written by and generally known among the pilots. He collected songbooks and tapes from them, and this tradition became the subject of his MA work in folklore at the University of Pennsylvania.\nDr. Broudy has performed for over 40 years all over North America, and throughout Europe, Australia, New Zealand, and the Middle-East. Dr. Broudy accompanies his singing on guitar, but is perhaps best-known as a harmonica player, having worked and recorded with such artists as Steve Goodman, Loudon Wainwright, Jim Ringer, Utah Phillips, Mick Moloney and numerous others. Dr. Broudy's music covers a wide range of grassroots American genres, from traditional ballads to bluegrass, country, blues, cajun, and rockabilly. He holds a PhD degree in folklore from the University of Pennsylvania, and his shows aim to inform as well as entertain.\nAdmission to the program is included with general Museum admission and is open to the general public. The Museum is located adjacent to the New Jersey Vietnam Veterans' Memorial off the Garden State Parkway at exit 116 in Holmdel, N.J. (on the grounds of the PNC Bank Arts Center). The Memorial is open 24 hours a day, seven days a week and is free to visit. The Museum is open Tuesday through Saturday, 10:00 am - 4 pm Adult admission is $7.00, seniors and students $5.00, children under ten, veterans and active military personnel are admitted free. For more information and to register, call 732-335-0033 or visit www.njvvmf.org.\nSaturday, January 19 - Washington Township, Morris County\n275th Anniversary Lecture\nThe Washington Township Historical Society presents a lecture in honor of the township's 275th anniversary on Saturday at 3:00 pm. The year 1738 marked the arrival of a band of German settlers to Middle Valley who had fled Europe to find religious freedom. The year 2013 marks the 275th anniversary of that settlement in Washington Township. To kick off a yearlong celebration, several members of the historical society will present programs on different facets of the township. These will be held on three consecutive Saturdays from 3:00 pm to 4:30 pm at the Washington Township Public Library, E. Springtown Road, Long Valley. The series is free and refreshments will be served. On Saturday, Eileen Stokes will present a PowerPoint presentation on the \"Hamlets and Crossroads of Washington Township.\" This talk will include photos of the areas, both past and present, as well as information about little known areas such as Scrappy Corners.\nSaturday, January 19 - Asbury Park, Monmouth County\nAsbury Park's West Side Music\nBruce Springsteen, Southside Johnny Lyon and two prominent West Side Asbury Park musicians will discuss the city\u2019s unique vocal harmony music scene during a special, never-before-seen video presentation being given by the Asbury Park Historical Society on Saturday at 2:00 pm. Bobby Thomas, of the famous Orioles singing group, and well-known West Side vocalist Nicky Addeo joined Springsteen and Lyon on April 2, 2011 in a panel discussion on Asbury Park\u2019s vibrant West Side music scene and how it affected their lives and their own music. The Historical Society will show the video to the public for the first time ever in association with the Light of Day events also planned in Asbury Park that week.\n\u201cWhen we speak of Asbury Park\u2019s West Side, we\u2019re referring to the once thriving black business and entertainment thoroughfare of Springwood Avenue. Located just a short walk from the boardwalk and beach, the West Side was a world away culturally,\u201d said Charlie Horner. Horner and his wife, Pam, are recognized by the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame & Museum as premier experts on vocal harmony, or doo wop, music and both the Horners will attend the showing of the video.\n\u201cAsbury Park\u2019s historically segregated, pre-civil rights-era society gave rise to an area across the tracks that produced unique and noteworthy music. Long before Bruce Springsteen, Southside Johnny and Bon Jovi, the West Side had a jumping musical scene, with nightclubs like Leo Karp\u2019s Turf Club, Cuba\u2019s the Madonna Club, the Orchid Club, and Big Bills, forming the foundation for Asbury Park\u2019s later musical glory. As we honor Asbury Park\u2019s musical legacy, we must remember its socially diverse roots,\u201d Charlie Horner said.\nIn the video, both Springsteen and Lyon discuss the influence the West Side musical scene had on their own careers. Author Daniel Wolff moderated the panel discussion.\nThe video will be presented at the Atonement Lutheran Church, where it was originally taped, at 2:00 pm on Saturday. Admission is free. The church is located at 308 First Avenue and is within easy walking distance from the downtown or boardwalk. www.aphistoricalsociety.org\nSaturday, January 19 - North Plainfield, Somerset County\nSunday, January 20 - Lambertville, Hunterdon County\nHistory of Local Transportation\n\"Going Places: A Brief History of Transportation in Lambertville\" will be presented as part of the Lambertville Historical Society's annual meeting on Sunday beginning at 2:00 pm in the Justice Center (Acme), 25 South Union Street, Lambertville. Fred Eisinger, a member of the LHS board and urban transit fan, will discuss, with numerous images, the changes in getting around and away from town over the past 300 years. Admission is free and light refreshments will be served.\nAdditional information can be obtained by leaving a message at 609-397-0770, visiting www.lambertvillehistoricalsociety.org, or e-mailing info@lambertvillehistoricalsociety.org.\nSunday, January 20 - Tewksbury, Hunterdon County\nAnnual Meeting & Lecture\nThe Tewksbury Historical Society will hold its annual meeting on Sunday at 1:00 pm at the Mountainville Meeting Hall, 60 Water Street, in the Mountainville section of Tewksbury Township. Refreshments will be served. At the annual meeting the membership will vote to elect officers for the position of vice-president and treasurer. Members of the society in good standing are eligible to vote. Immediately following the annual meeting, there will be a lecture on the history of Hamilton Farm by W. Barry Thomson. The meeting and program are open to the public.\nLocal historian W. Barry Thomson will talk about the history of the legendary estate of James Cox Brady, \"Hamilton Farm,\" in Peapack-Gladstone and Bedminster Township, with a focus on the estate's landmark stable and coach barn that, since the 1960s, has been headquarters for the United States Equestrian Team. Among other things, the talk will cover the Brady family; the architect and the design and construction of the stable building and the diverse uses of the building over the years, including its functions during World War II, first as a canning factory for foodstuffs sent to England during the Blitz and later as a hospital and rehabilitation center.\nHe is the co-author, with the late John K. Turpin, of the two-volume work, New Jersey Country Houses: The Somerset Hills, he has written and co-written several articles on other aspects of the history of the Somerset Hills that have appeared in The Black River Journal and other publications, and he has prepared nominations of historic sites for the National Register of Historic Places. In addition to his research and writing, Barry frequently gives lectures on various aspects of architectural and local New Jersey history. 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Must Be 11-Time World Champion | The Inertia", + "raw_content": "The WSL Is Looking for Its Next Commentator: Must Be 11-Time World Champion\n\u201cI\u2019m picturing the perfect candidate in my mind, and we won\u2019t settle for anything less,\u201d said WSL CEO Sophie Goldschmidt. Photo: WSL\nOn Monday, the World Surf League announced a worldwide search for the next big voice in professional surfing, an effort the League says could take the better part of two years to find.\n\u201cFrom Joe Turpel to Pete Mel, Strider Wasilewski to Rosy Hodge, these are voices that over the years have become synonymous with delivering sharp, meaningful commentary on the World Surf League\u2019s Championship Tour circuit,\u201d said WSL CEO Sophie Goldschmidt in a press release. \u201cGiven the increasing demands of growing the League\u2019s visibility, we recently decided to open one more position on the commentary dais. We\u2019re hoping a new voice keeps us even more so on the bald, I mean ball.\u201d\nIncluded in the posting on the WSL\u2019s Careers page are a handful of curious qualifications. First and foremost, it reads, \u201cto perform essential duties listed in the job description, the candidate MUST possess no less than 11 ASP/WSL world titles, and be able to garnish evidence thereof during an interview.\u201d\nUhh, what?\nAdditionally, the posting explains, \u201cFlorida native, with a 5\u20199\u2033 build a plus.\u201d\nIn a release, Goldschmidt explained her willingness to wait for a year-and-a-half, or even longer to fill the position. \u201cI\u2019m picturing the perfect candidate in my mind, and we won\u2019t settle for anything less,\u201d she said.\nWhen asked if she could name a perfect candidate, Goldschmidt stopped short.\n\u201cI have good reason to believe that an ideal candidate we\u2019ve been courting for some time may be looking for their next big role very soon. Beyond that, I can\u2019t give any more detail,\u201d she said.\nEditor\u2019s Note: This is a work of satire.", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00240.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 53, + "original_length": 3011, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.93, + "perplexity": 330.7, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "https://www.thelantern.com/2010/01/captain-nash-carrying-struggling-blue-jackets/", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T03:13:54Z", + "digest": "sha1:3J52UXU4BBYFIM5THFDCRWVGYTQZAYE6", + "length": 3291, + "nlines": 22, + "source_domain": "www.thelantern.com", + "title": "Captain Nash carrying struggling Blue Jackets | The Lantern", + "raw_content": "Home \u00bb Sports \u00bb Ice Hockey \u00bb Captain Nash carrying struggling Blue Jackets\nCaptain Nash carrying struggling Blue Jackets\nBy Michael Duchesne: duchesne.2@osu.edu\tJanuary 19, 2010\t0\nLeadership isn\u2019t always loud.\nNot every leader is known for their rousing, Knute Rockne-esque halftime speeches. Not every leader is hailed for their ability to get into the face of their charges and spur them to action.\nSometimes leadership is closing your mouth as tight as possible, putting your head down and grinding through the adversity. It\u2019s being an example to your teammates when the pucks aren\u2019t bouncing your way. It\u2019s playing every shift hurt. It\u2019s being a constant target for every goon on the ice looking to make a name for himself by delivering a big hit to a star.\nIt\u2019s Rick Nash.\nThus far, the Columbus Blue Jackets have followed up their first run to the NHL playoffs a year ago with a forgettable first half in this year\u2019s season. The losing has been hard on everyone. Columbus is a young team in need of strong leadership.\nSo when the proverbial going gets rough, these Jackets look to Nash to show the way. But it\u2019s not always just the younger players who are leaning on him to do more while times are tough. Sometimes it\u2019s the oldest guy in the dressing room.\n\u201cThere are a lot of top scorers in the NHL that don\u2019t kill penalties, don\u2019t do all the grunt work at the end and start of hockey games,\u201d Columbus coach Ken Hitchcock said. \u201cWe tell him here to do everything. That\u2019s a special player who can do that.\u201d\nAnd Nash has delivered.\nHe\u2019s the Blue Jackets\u2019 leading scorer with 47 points, which includes 23 goals. He leads the team in power play goals (7) and short-handed goals (2). A lot of other high-profile, top-tier NHL scorers aren\u2019t willing to do those little things on special teams, especially when the season appears to be on the brink of collapse.\n\u201cThere\u2019s not many players in the world that can go out and be one of four or five penalty killers, kill three-on-fives, play five-on-threes, play five-on-fours, do everything. And Rick has to do it every night,\u201d Hitchcock said. \u201cThere\u2019s a lot of scoring guys who went through scoring struggles like Rick went through who don\u2019t kill penalties, which really zaps your energy.\u201d\nThe scoring struggle Hitchcock is referring to is Nash\u2019s career-high 11-game scoreless streak, which he snapped in a recent game against Chicago. Since ending that dry spell, Nash has been on a tear.\nIn the past three games, against some of the better competition the NHL has to offer, Nash has scored four goals and recorded five points, which included the 400th point of his young career.\nSo is it too late for this quiet, do-it-all leader to right the ship and make a playoff push for the Jackets down the stretch?\n\u201cI don\u2019t look at \u2018too late,'\u201d Hitchcock said of the prospects for the remainder of the season. \u201cYou\u2019re a team. I look at it as the growth of a team. We\u2019re right on the edge.\u201d\nGiven their uneven play, it\u2019s hard not to envision the Jackets with a white-knuckled grip on that edge Hitchcock is referring to.\nBut with a leader like Nash, who is willing to do whatever it takes, hope springs eternal.\nMichael Duchesne\nPrevious: No spotlight needed: Lighty does dirty work, turns in career season\nNext: Avatar rejuvenates Columbus box offices", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00240.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 211, + "original_length": 9303, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.96, + "perplexity": 319.8, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "https://www.thelondoneconomic.com/news/politics/our-vote-the-most-powerful-tool-in-democracy/22/10/", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T03:21:31Z", + "digest": "sha1:NKRKLHDD2WVGZSRPNUGV2TJWVWEV2VW3", + "length": 6498, + "nlines": 22, + "source_domain": "www.thelondoneconomic.com", + "title": "Our Vote - The Most Powerful Tool in Democracy Widgets Magazine", + "raw_content": "Our Vote \u2013 The Most Powerful Tool in Democracy\nIn this new millennium 21st century Society is saddled with systems way past their sell by date. A 15th century democratic system, complete with glass ceiling. An 11th century monetary system that increasingly holds the world to ransom. A 2000 year old surveillance system being replaced by modern technology. Voting with what we now have will never solve the problems we now face. In this series of 6 posts I will offer a view on why I think we might be sleepwalking into Election 2015.\nPart 1: A Parliament No Longer Fit for Purpose\nAs the electioneering begins, with statistical manipulation and dubious messages of economic recovery, with party faithful battling with each other over who did and said what, and manifestos that become the written evidence of future political deceit, I can\u2019t help feeling we are sleepwalking into the next general election.\nThe purpose of Parliament is to \u2018manage\u2019 the needs of Society for the benefit of that Society, (supported by Magna Carta which successfully dealt with the constant abuse of the people by successive monarchs). Up until 150 years ago a relatively balanced democracy was achieved, with little excessive abuse of the type now being experienced by the population at large.\nHowever, as the Charters 61 clauses were whittled down to just 3 by 1969 we have seen a sea change in the way Parliament operates and Society is managed or, as many would now agree, we have returned to the abuses perpetrated by monarchs all those centuries ago.\nParliament has grown into an exclusive \u2018Members Only Club\u2019, with rules regulations and traditions going back hundreds of years. As with any exclusive club, its very exclusivity divorces it from the outside world, placing a glass ceiling between the electors and the elected. Within this cocooned environment a two party system has been allowed to grow that dictates who will join, or be forced into obscurity as an \u2018independent\u2019 member. Voter choice at election time is therefore limited to candidates who have agreed to tow the (2) party line on how we live Life, the remainder standing little chance of gaining influential admission.\nThese hallowed confines make it difficult, if not impossible, to control abuse of power and privilege. Like all clubs the system has been developed for the benefit and protection of its members and human nature being what it is will take advantage. Rules are put in place that have allowed wholesale abuse of taxpayer money, from personal expenses scandals to the death of our soldiers in an illegal war.\nBut there is something far more sinister now taking place that is eroding the very foundations of democracy as we know it. We are seeing the growing alliance between the corporate and political worlds as big business is welcomed through the clubs doors to become its \u2018associate members\u2019.\nIn this new and \u2018extended\u2019 club those in charge of the public purse are turning it over to the private sector at an alarming rate. In essence corporation\u2019s losses are now being underwritten by the taxpayer, as was the case with the banks bailout in 2008. In addition they are allowed to get away with minimal payment of tax so necessary to support the social infrastructure companies are reliant upon in order for their businesses to function \u2013 roads to transport there goods and services, healthcare to provide fit employees, education to provide literate employees and all of the support services that go with housing those employees.\nIn addition \u2018club\u2019 members are passing over to \u2018associate\u2019 members the public utilities they had been entrusted with to provide an integrated support service to ALL members of Society. So not only are corporations not contributing towards these support services they are being encouraged to take them over as an additional profit source that will exclude sections of Society unable to contribute to that profit \u2013 the sick, those in outlying locations where trains and buses won\u2019t want to go and education where text book content can be edited if it contradicts corporate policy.\nIndeed the tail has come to wag the dog as the dictates of the corporate world dominate over the needs of the electorate. We now have a situation where corporations take the risks but it is the taxpayer who picks up the tab when the gamble fails. In the case of the banks it is common financial wisdom that what happened in 2007/8 will happen again soon because the same lax authoritative environment has been allowed to continue. We have mind numbing debt from the last failure how can we take on more debt when it is repeated?\nParliament is quite happy for us to argue amongst ourselves about the pros and cons of one party over another. As long as we believe each party has a solution to the other party\u2019s mismanagement the Club continues unchallenged. It\u2019s how it has survived for so long and is gradually taking us to hell in a handcart.\nThis \u2018Club\u2019 environment is no longer fit for purpose to a 21st century Society. The 2015 election is not about Left and Right in my opinion, it\u2019s about maximum disruption of this cosy Club environment.\nDisruption can be simply achieved by not voting for either of the main parties. With no clear winner able to assume power another election will need to be called. (The country will not collapse as the Civil Service administer its running).\nIt is at this point that the 99% regain control over Parliament by demanding that all parties standing in the new election give an irrevocable guarantee that legislation will immediately be implemented giving power to the people to sack MP\u2019s. (The mechanics are easy by utilising current petition procedures through Social media or such).\nAlso please be aware that by not voting for your own party you are not being disloyal, far from it! You are wresting power away from the corporations and putting it back in the hands of the people, by exercising the most powerful tool in democracy . . . Your Vote! Parliament is no longer fit for purpose and needs to be shaken out of the arrogant complacency that is rife within the building. Voters are the only body capable of achieving this!\nNelson Mandela once said, \u201cIt always seems impossible until it\u2019s done\u201d . . . and look what he achieved, together with the people of South Africa.\nI would simply add to that:\n\u201cWhen our lives near completion, how will we justify any apathy?\u201d\nPrevious PostBleak outlook for Brazil\nNext PostParliamentary Sketch 22nd October \u2013 Wales tales never fails", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00240.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 311, + "original_length": 13377, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.96, + "perplexity": 315.7, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "https://www.therivercc.com/daily/2018/9/11/the-picture-of-genuine-love", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T03:25:26Z", + "digest": "sha1:RVEBBC75L3L7WY4SRJLWSUYTG5YQLE5S", + "length": 2252, + "nlines": 6, + "source_domain": "www.therivercc.com", + "title": "The picture of genuine love. \u2014 The River Community Church", + "raw_content": "I live in a part of the world that does not trust the words of the Bible. I wanted to have an art piece with Scripture in my living room to draw people to the beauty and life that the Bible offers, to prove to them that the Bible is indeed true. I ended up penning the words of the \u201cLove Chapter\u201d in 1 Corinthians 13 on colorful canvases. I chose those words because I know that every person on this planet hungers for that kind of love.\nAs my friends read this passage they are always stunned by it\u2019s beauty. I can see in their eyes, if only for a moment, that their hearts have been stirred. Afterwards, I begin to tell them that every human wants to be loved just like that. I tell them that kind of love is available from God. God perfectly loves. God is patient and kind with us. God is not boastful or proud or rude to us. God is not irritated with us. God does not keep score of our wrongs.\nThe beauty of the passage does not end with God\u2019s perfect love to us. Seeing it so often in my living room, the Spirit checks my heart to see if I am following God\u2019s example of love. Was I patient with my friend? Was I kind to the irritating child? Why am I still keeping a record of how I have been wronged by that person?\nWe all want to receive this kind of love but we are slow to give it. In order to love well, we must look back to how Jesus loved. As 1 John 3:16 says, Jesus gave his life for us so we also ought to give up our lives for our brothers and sisters.\nHow are you in regards to loving and being loved? Have you truly experienced this perfect love of God? Perhaps you can\u2019t love because you have never experienced love that would give it\u2019s life for another. Perhaps you have forgotten the beautiful love displayed on the cross. If you have experienced this love, are you allowing his love to drive you to love others or are you withholding it from others. Genuine love towards others will require you to lay down your life in some way. In order to genuinely love, we must keep our eyes on Jesus and remember how he loved us.\nPray: God thank you for your beautiful and perfect love displayed on the cross. I confess that I find it hard to love like you do. 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The competition got over 2,000 submissions from 86 countries. After being pointed down to 15 qualifiers, Ryan accomplished to wrangle the prize and brilliance. Ryan composed the script, filmed, edited, and produced all the visual effects and motion graphics for this video. Overall, he acquired $400,000 \u2013 $250,000 of which will go towards a scholarship, $50,000 to his teacher Richard Nestoff and $100,000 for his school to fund a science lab. Not bad!", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00240.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 37, + "original_length": 4271, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.96, + "perplexity": 166.3, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "https://www.thesun.co.uk/fabulous/5609468/fabulous-campaigns-save-lives/", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T03:54:36Z", + "digest": "sha1:G77LYPSXOE3SWFRZBRW3YGYMMGO672SL", + "length": 9413, + "nlines": 59, + "source_domain": "www.thesun.co.uk", + "title": "We reveal how Fabulous Magazine's campaigns have really made an impact... from changing laws to saving lives", + "raw_content": "We reveal how Fabulous Magazine\u2019s campaigns have really made an impact\u2026 from changing laws to saving lives\nWe've raised hundreds of thousands of pounds for several charities\nIN the last 10 years Fabulous has done a great deal to promote and support charities and other good causes.\nWe've compiled a special report to showcase some of our proudest moments, from raising \u00a3700,000 for one charity, to saving thousands of women's lives in just a year.\nYordanka Poleganova at illustrationweb\nWe've done so much in the last 10 years\nWe funded vital research\nFabulous\u2019 first foray into campaigning kicked off in July 2009, less than a year after our launch, with Heels That Heal \u2013 a collaboration with Wellbeing of Women (WoW), a charity that invests in pioneering medical research into women\u2019s health.\nWe signed up its patron Sarah Brown, wife of then-Prime-Minister Gordon, to guest-edit Fabulous twice and donate her own size-7 Jimmy Choo stilettos (which she\u2019d only worn once, to greet the Obamas at Downing Street) for a fund-raising celebrity shoe auction.\n\u201cWhen Gordon became prime minister, I thought I could take on a bigger role [for the charity], so I agreed to be its new patron in 2007,\u201d she said at the time.\n\u201cI have spoken at its annual women\u2019s lunch, invited the wonderful volunteers to Downing Street and visited regional branches. But I wanted to do more, which is where the idea of a WoW-inspired Fabulous was born.\u201d\nBradley Page/PA\nGordon Bown's wife Sarah guest-edited the magazine twice\nAs well as getting household names such as Jools Oliver to contribute to the issue, Sarah helped us persuade the likes of Kelly Brook, Kylie Minogue and Cheryl to part with their beloved heels.\nBut it wasn\u2019t just shoes up for grabs \u2013 also on offer were days out with famous faces, including lunch with Peter Andre and a shopping trip with Amanda Holden.\nThe typical pair of Jimmy Choo shoes can retail for hundreds of pounds\nThe auction raised \u00a330,000, and combined with a Fabulous pledge of \u00a310,000 and money made from a clothing range created especially for us by New Look, we were able to donate over \u00a3130,000 to the charity.\nAccording to WoW CEO Tina Weaver, that money has enabled researchers to make medical breakthroughs in areas such as IVF, cervical cancer treatments and premature births.\nSarah Brown chatting with Jools Oliver\nWOW was one of the first charities we supported\nWe wanted to start talking about taboo issues other papers and magazines were neglecting\n\u201cFabulous\u2019 inspired campaign highlighted some of the taboo health issues faced by women that we are tackling on a daily basis,\u201d she says. \u201cThe money raised has been vital in helping us take huge steps in these critical but overlooked areas.\u201d\nWe changed the law\nNearly seven years ago, Fabulous helped make legal history when our Respect & Protect campaign championed Clare\u2019s Law, a scheme aiming to give women and men the right to know if their partner has a history of violence.\nThe law was named after 36-year-old Clare Wood, who had suffered months of sexual assault and death threats at the hands of her ex George Appleton before he strangled her to death in 2009.\nClare's life was cut short due to domestic violence\nTragically, police had been aware of Appleton\u2019s history of domestic violence \u2013 but due to human-rights laws protecting perpetrators, they were powerless to warn Clare.\nIn July 2011, we joined forces with Labour MP Hazel Blears, backing her call for Clare\u2019s Law in the House of Commons.\nAnd we knew we had your support, too, as a survey showed an overwhelming 91% of you agreed with the legislation.\nOur breakthrough came in February 2012 when the Home Office announced that Clare\u2019s Law would be trialled for a year in Greater Manchester, Nottinghamshire, Wiltshire and Gwent. It meant that people finally had the right to ask police if a partner \u2013 or the partner of a loved one or friend \u2013 had a history of domestic abuse.\nClare's dad Michael stood outside No10 with a petition calling for Clare's Law to be introduced\nThe scheme was a huge success, saving an estimated 1,300 lives in its first year thanks to police warnings \u2013 and in another huge victory, the law was rolled out nationally in 2014. And it\u2019s clearly working. According to the latest statistics from the Home Office, more than 3,612 requests have now been granted to those making enquiries. However, police still receive an average of 100 calls relating to domestic abuse every hour,* which means Clare\u2019s Law is just as important today.\n\u201cIt\u2019s grown bigger than I ever dared hope for,\u201d says Clare\u2019s dad Michael Brown, who worked with us on the campaign. \u201cI just wanted to help people in a similar position to my daughter. I was delighted and so proud that the law was passed, but it\u2019s just the tip of the iceberg. More still needs to be done to protect men and women from violent partners.\n\u201cWhile we will never get Clare back, working for this change in law gave me something to focus my grief on,\u201d Michael adds. \u201cI\u2019m so grateful to everyone who made it possible.\u201d\nWe saved lives\nWe've helped saved the lives of women vulnerable to domestic violence as well are breast cancer\nSince we teamed up with breast cancer charity CoppaFeel! four years ago, we\u2019ve taken on five epic challenges to raise awareness and money for the brilliant cause. The charity, founded by Kris Hallenga in 2009 after she was diagnosed with stage-four breast cancer at just 23, aims to encourage \u2192 everyone to check their breasts from a young age to spot symptoms early.\nOver the years, we\u2019ve trekked 175 miles across four countries \u2013 Peru, China, Iceland and Oman \u2013 with 175 Fabulous readers and celebs including Vicky Pattison, Ashley Roberts and TOWIE\u2019s Lydia Bright and Ferne McCann. Our trekkers endured blisters, nausea, battered knees and nosebleeds, but it was all worth it as we\u2019ve raised nearly \u00a3700,000 for the charity to date.\n\u201cSeeing how far CoppaFeel! has come makes me so proud,\u201d says Kris. \u201cWhen it started we were very small without any connections, and Fabulous has helped us raise thousands and given us the platform to reach more people than I ever imagined.\u201d\nOur trek last November was our biggest \u2013 and toughest \u2013 Fabulous Challenge yet. Over four days, 58 trekkers \u2013 led by author and blogger Giovanna Fletcher and her brother, TOWIE\u2019s Mario Falcone \u2013 conquered the mountains and deserts of Oman in a 46-mile journey, raising \u00a3220,000 in the process.\nLots of celebrities have done their bit for Coppafeel!\nVicky Pattinson, urging women to check their breasts for abnormalities\n\u201cHaving done the Iceland trek in 2016, I know just how Fabulous Challenges create priceless memories and precious funding,\u201d says Kris. \u201cEveryone who takes part becomes a follower of the charity for life, which is amazing. And with the magazine\u2019s support, we hope to instill in all young people that the power to spot early signs of breast cancer is in their hands.\u201d\nWe lobbied the PM\nIn a hard-hitting report last April we revealed that UK schools are failing to take care of the one in 10 students with mental-health needs.\nWe told how our education system was at crisis point, with the number of children self-harming rising dramatically and one in four young people experiencing suicidal thoughts.\nWe brought attention to the mental health crisis faced by young people\nTo tackle this issue, we got behind children\u2019s mental-health charity YoungMinds\u2019 Wise Up campaign, which aims to ensure that a student\u2019s wellbeing is as important as their grades. To get the ball rolling, we asked you to sign an open letter to Prime Minister Theresa May, urging her to readdress the education system\u2019s approach to mental health.\n\u201cWith the help of Fabulous and all of our brilliant supporters, our open letter received the support of over 10,000 people,\u201d says Sarah Brennan, CEO of YoungMinds. \u201cIt was a brilliant achievement and showed just how important the issue was.\u201d\nA week after our report, the charity delivered the letter to No. 10 Downing Street, and we joined YoungMinds at the House of Commons to launch the campaign. In response, the government released a green paper recognising the crucial role schools play in mental-health support. It promised investment into initiatives, as well as the introduction of new mental-health support in schools and \u00a3300million for these plans.\nJust last month, Duchess of Cambridge Kate Middleton launched the Mentally Healthy Schools website to allow primary-school children free access to mental-health support.\nOur readers helped YoungMinds get their campaign all the way to the House of Commons\n\u201cWe\u2019re glad our campaign is making a difference and that the government recognises the fundamental role schools play in mental health,\u201d says Sarah.\n\u201cBut these proposals do not go far enough. We will continue to campaign for faster and further reforms until the education system values the mental health of students as much as it values their academic achievements.\u201d\nWhat should be our next Fabulous campaign?\nWe\u2019ve tackled women\u2019s issues, cancer, mental health and life-saving laws, but there are so many more causes that need our attention. That\u2019s why we want you to tell us what you think our next campaign should be.\nTo nominate a cause close to your heart, email us at campaigns@fabulousmag.co.uk.\nSource: Her Majesty\u2019s Inspectorate of Constabulary\nGood Morning Britain shows a nipple on daytime TV for the first time with CoppaFeel! advert", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00240.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 211, + "original_length": 13464, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.96, + "perplexity": 305.0, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "https://www.thewoodgraincottage.com/page/2/", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T04:10:12Z", + "digest": "sha1:LSK2NAXISUFT7LPC6Y3C44J7WP7OD4NX", + "length": 10484, + "nlines": 15, + "source_domain": "www.thewoodgraincottage.com", + "title": "The Wood Grain Cottage - Page 2 of 43 -", + "raw_content": "Since we have a few months to go still, today I thought I'd share my favorite digital prints for winter. The perfect thing about purchasing digital prints, is that not only are they cheap, but you can customize the size for your space... just like I did in my dining room! It's also an easy process to frame a digital print... you can either use your own home printer, or have it professionally printed! Digital prints are perfect for adding artwork to your home, decorating for the seasons and mixing and matching with pieces you may already have to create unique displays! Whether you need a horizontal or vertical print, these are perfect! They're all instant downloads, so as soon ... Read more\nWell, I think it's safe to say you all like the DIY framed tree print in the dining room as much as I do! I've been getting a bunch of questions on how I made it, where I got the print, what size it is, and more! It was incredibly easy, and the longest part of making this was waiting in the line at Office Depot while it printed... Please note: Some of the links in this post are affiliate links, which allows me to make a small commission from your purchase, but your purchase price stays the same. Thank you for helping support my blog! Here are the supplies I used to create the print: Digital Tree Print (Asked to be sized to 24\" x 36\") Printed Tree Print (24\" x 36\") I ... Read more\nHappy TGI-Friday! This week has been busy! Between all the Christmas posts here on the blog (are you all caught up?), I had a fun Christmas photo shoot Wednesday, and then I've been working on a big living room design for a client of mine! Needless to say, I'm ready for the weekend... and having a schedule free couple of days! I'll be sharing more Christmas decorating next week, but here's a peek from Wednesday's photo shoot. I call this, grab a cookie (or two) and run! Please note: Some of the links in this post are affiliate links, which allows me to make a small commission from your purchase, but your purchase price stays the same. Thank you for helping support my ... Read more\nThis post is sponsored by Gordmans. Christmas in the dining room... does it get much better? I'm not sure. As far as decorating goes, this room is always fun to tackle... but it's also a little bit of a challenge. The wall to wall shelves make such a huge impact in the room, but they can also turn into a cluttered space really quick depending on how much I choose to display. There's definitely a happy medium there, and I'm happy to partner with Gordmans to bring you a fun new display! This year I shifted the entire Christmas decorating scheme in the house and went with a lot more whites, blacks and dark greens. It all feels so clean and cozy, especially in the dining room! You ... Read more\nRaise your hand if you've ever felt overwhelmed or intimidated by setting a holiday table. If you're raising your hand, know that I've been right there with you. I can remember a time when it felt like a really hard task... but honestly, setting the table for a holiday really doesn't need to be all that stressful or hard... promise. All that matters at the end of the day, is that you're gathering together with family and friends to celebrate. And if we're really being honest, the only necessities are the plates and silverware... okay, and maybe a glass! But we also like things to be pretty too, right? Today, for my Christmas table setting in the dining room, I'm sharing such an easy ... Read more\nAre you ready for a bunch of Christmas posts? I hope so, because these next few weeks are going to be jam packed full of decorating ideas, home tours and all other things Christmas! Bring it on! Today, I'm joining a group of blogging friends to bring you ideas on decorating your table for the holiday season. I'll also be sharing another fun idea tomorrow too... so get ready to have all the table setting inspiration you'll need this year! I always love to set the table in the breakfast nook a little bit more laid back. The space itself is more casual with the bench seating, all the pillows and the smaller setting of the breakfast nook. It's also one of my favorite rooms to ... Read more\nI think we can all agree that Fridays tend to be a pretty great day of the week... at least I really like them, ha! I've wanted a way to share random bits, happenings and fun finds on the blog for a long time. And while sometimes those things don't have enough content on their own to make a full post, combing them together makes perfect sense. So, welcome to TGI-Friday, a fun collection of random things I find and love, a place where I share happenings around the house and even some personal bits here and there, as well as a behind the scenes look into my life and projects. It's casual, fun and probably more personal than I've ever been on the blog. Let's do this. I've wanted to ... Read more\nI think one of my favorite things about fall, is decorating the front porch. Not only does it make a lovely welcoming reception for guests, but it also gets to stay in place for a while! Plus, who doesn't love pumpkins? My fall front porch this year was entirely inspired by my pumpkin patch. Early this spring I decided to set aside room in my garden to grow my own pumpkins. I wanted to have plenty to decorate with for fall, but I also didn't want to spend hundreds of dollars purchasing them either. Those little seeds turned into something special and I loved seeing the pumpkins grow, and grow, and grow some more! Before I knew it, I had pumpkins everywhere! I'm not complaining ... Read more\nIt's been a little while since I've shared some of my favorite things, so today I'm bringing it back... fall edition! I've been gathering up a good list to share, and I'm hoping you're as excited about all these as I am! Please note: Some of the links in this post are affiliate links, which allows us to make a small commission from your purchase, but your purchase price stays the same. Thank you for helping support our blog! We greatly appreciate it! First up, let's talk about slippers. My favorite slippers. I bought these last year because I needed to replace the slippers I've had for a really long time (think middle school!). These were one of the best alternatives I could find ... Read more\nIt's officially pumpkin season, and I'm not sad about that! Whether they're on the shelves in the dining room, as the main centerpiece on the table, or stacked up on the front porch, I'm making plenty of room for them this year. I mean, I planted a bunch of them in my garden, so ready or not, pumpkins it is! And while fresh pumpkins are the real deal, beyond stunning and the perfect way to jazz up your home for fall, they're not the only pumpkin out there! Faux pumpkins come in many different shapes and styles, and several of them look just as fabulous as the real deal... but some of them... weeellll, they're not only fake, they're just not the best to look at. Nothing a little paint ... Read more\nToday I'm back to share part two of my fall home tour. In my last post, part one, I focused on our kitchen and breakfast nook, but today it's all about our living and dining room. This past spring, our living room underwent quite the transformation. It needed a little refresh, and I'm loving the direction it's going! I've always been a lover of neutral d\u00e9cor, which makes it easy to change up with the seasons. I also love fresh greenery, especially tree clippings. It always adds the best touch. I also really love how the new leather furniture ties in with the cabinets in the kitchen. The combination of white and dark really makes my heart happy, and it works so well with all ... Read more\nLast fall I decided I wanted to plant pumpkins. Lots and lots of pumpkins. I kept imagining a front porch full of them, so this spring I planted 4 different varieties. Fast forward a few months and I literally have pumpkins coming out of my ears. But, that's not really a problem, is it? Especially for a heart that loves fall. And another reason having baskets full of pumpkins isn't a problem? Fall tablescapes. That's right, today I'm bringing you another fall table idea, only this time, it's all about the pumpkins from my garden. I'm so happy Shannon from AKA Designs asked me to join in on her fall tablescapes tour. Let's get started, shall we? Since this fall table is all ... Read more\nFall is such a lovely time of the year. All the colors, the textures and the spectacular golden hour. It's all just so beautiful, and more than anything I wanted to capture that feeling, that magic, in my fall table setting this year. I am so happy and honored to be joining another amazing group of bloggers and to be sharing our fall table settings, all brought together by Alicia from A Burst of Beautiful. In keeping with my simple, nature loving heart, I wanted the focal of my table to focus on just that... the beauty of nature during fall! Combining it all together in a cornucopia seemed like the perfect way to bring it all together. I'll share how I created the fall ... Read more\nHello sweet friends! I know it's been a little while since I've posted here on the blog, and I apologize for that! Life has a way of passing by quite quickly! More on that later, but today, I'm excited to be here sharing part one of our fall home tour. I'm honored to be joining an amazing group of bloggers, all gathered together by Rachel from Maison de Pax. If you're visiting from Liz at Love Grows Wild, thank you so much for stopping by! Isn't her home amazing? Goodness! Because there are so many pictures, I decided to split my fall home tour into two parts! I have to admit, I thoroughly enjoyed decorating for fall this year. It took me a little bit to decide which direction I wanted ... Read more\nThe guest bedroom is moving along, which is so nice to see since the room sat as a complete danger (aka, junk) zone for months... When I decided to give this room a much needed refresh, one of the elements I knew I wanted to keep, was the headboard. I originally made it 10 plus years ago, which is crazy to think about, but it was the first piece I made for my first apartment after graduating high school. Throughout the years, it's always been in use, and it's honestly aged beautifully! The fabric I originally chose is still so fitting, and I thought long and hard about keeping it, but in the long run I decided to give it a slight refresh by recovering the fabric with something ... Read more", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00240.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 91, + "original_length": 11920, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.97, + "perplexity": 329.7, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "https://www.thrillist.com/eat/charleston/frank-lee-best-charleston-restaurant-chef-2016", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T03:31:29Z", + "digest": "sha1:ZGAYBYDCIJLEU464S6TCCRNHJEAEKBRD", + "length": 11631, + "nlines": 39, + "source_domain": "www.thrillist.com", + "title": "Frank Lee Is the Best Charleston Restaurant Chef of 2016 - Thrillist", + "raw_content": "Meet Thrillist Charleston's Chef of the Year: Frank Lee\nBy Stratton Lawrence Published On 12/20/2016\ncourtesy of Hall Management Group\nEditor\u2019s Note: This article is part two of Thrillist\u2019s year-end look at the best of our cities\u2019 local food and drink scenes in 2016. In addition to our annual Best New Restaurants awards, this year, we\u2019re spotlighting the men and women behind the dishes we love to tell you to eat. Our Charleston chef of the year pioneered the city's culinary scene... and has yet to slow down over a decade later. You can also check out our picks for the rest of America\u2019s 2016 Best Chefs, and then catch up on the Best New Restaurants.\nBook a ticket and fly into Charleston this afternoon, and chances are, you\u2019ll be able to get a reservation for dinner at S.N.O.B. (Slightly North of Broad Restaurant). S.N.O.B. was once the trendiest joint in town and attracted press from national outlets immediately upon opening in 1993. Yet unlike modern tourism-burdened contemporaries like Poogan\u2019s Porch or Hyman\u2019s Seafood, which now provoke as many eye rolls from locals as they do enthusiastic recommendations, S.N.O.B. restaurant remains relevant.\nThat\u2019s thanks to Frank Lee, the chef whose vision guided S.N.O.B. to respect and prominence as Charleston\u2019s most forward-thinking restaurant nearly a quarter century ago. Before the words \u201cfarm-to-table\u201d were ever printed, Lee thumbed his nose at distributor seafood and produce in favor of local offerings. Lee served the city\u2019s first plate of pad thai. He pioneered the first charcuterie program in town. For a time, he strived to be known as the \u201cTamale King\u201d of Charleston. That\u2019s all in the confines of a restaurant generally pegged as \u201cSouthern cuisine,\u201d where blue jeans share space with seersucker and it\u2019s still possible to eat a meal for under $20.\n\u201cHis ability to elevate a dish with restraint is fascinating,\u201d said Kevin Johnson, the James Beard-nominated owner/chef of The Grocery and a former cook at S.N.O.B. \u201c[Frank] improves dishes by removing elements instead of adding them.\u201d\nBut why Frank Lee for Thrillist Charleston's Chef of the Year, right now?\nCharleston\u2019s restaurant scene continues to boom without restraint. Just when it seems our market can\u2019t support another place to eat, three more open. Name-brand chefs have literally left New York City to move to Charleston. But amid the scene\u2019s accolades and a fawning national press hot after the next big thing, S.N.O.B. holds steady. Frank Lee is Charleston\u2019s rock.\nMost importantly, he\u2019s Charleston\u2019s food and beverage mentor. The list of chefs who came of age under Lee\u2019s tutelage is stunning -- Kevin Johnson (The Grocery), Josh Hopkins (Empire State South, Atlanta), Chris Newsome (Ollie Irene, Birmingham), Graham Dailey (Peninsula Grill, Charleston), and on and on. These once-aspiring cooks gained culinary skills, of course, but they also learned responsibility and how to run an efficient business. Lee calls his kitchen \u201ca study, a workshop, and an altar.\u201d It\u2019s a place where young cooks learn how to respect ingredients, customers, and each other.\n\u201cHe\u2019s the best team leader I\u2019ve ever been around,\u201d said Robert Berry, another Lee prot\u00e9g\u00e9 (from 1995-2001) about to open the long-awaited Pancito & Lefty in Charleston. \u201cFrank taught us much more than just how to cook -- it\u2019s his philosophy on life. You had to work your way into the family -- it was a meritocracy --but the harder you worked, the faster you could climb.\u201d\nJohnson adds that for Lee, \u201cIt\u2019s just as much about developing people as it is dishes. It sounds simple, but so much can happen once you have a team that cares.\u201d\nAnother of Lee\u2019s colleagues at S.N.O.B., Russ Moore, is now at S.N.O.B.\u2019s helm. Lee stepped away in June, focusing his attention on the cookbook he\u2019d put off writing for years. Released December 7th, The S.N.O.B. Experience illustrates the stories behind dishes like barbecue tuna and palmetto pigeon that made him the talk of the town. It also serves as a reminder to Charleston diners that without Lee, none of the variety and eclecticism we now take for granted in our once strictly-old-school Southern city would be here -- at least not quite as quickly and to the level they are now.\nLee\u2019s next step is a much-deserved sojourn to New Zealand and a retirement from the kitchen-based life he\u2019s led for decades. When he returns in the spring, he intends to put his shoulder to the wheel fostering Charleston\u2019s next generation of inspired cooks, just as he has for nearly 25 years.\nThe Best Oyster Happy Hours in Charleston\nNow that you\u2019ve been away from the kitchen for six months, putting aside your daily duties for a role as chef emeritus, what\u2019s your rearview perspective on what makes the atmosphere at S.N.O.B. special among restaurants in Charleston?\nFrank Lee: Our kitchen is completely wide open. It\u2019s not just a slot where you can see into the kitchen, so it really blurs the lines between service and culinary. There\u2019s no \u201cus and them.\u201d You can look from the line and see that your server just got triple sat, or that they\u2019ve got a table of squirming kids or an elderly couple that\u2019s going to really take their time. Conversely, they can see that you\u2019re back there hammering tongs. It really builds that team-ship, so it\u2019s not \u201cfront of the house\u201d and \u201cback of the house.\u201d\nIf Table 10 says their red bean soup is too spicy, I may be grumbling, \u201cIt says spicy on the menu. What\u2019s wrong with you people?\u201d But then I look out and see that it\u2019s a little old lady and say, \u201cAh, I get it. Too spicy.\u201d I can be as busy as can be with three arms growing out of my back trying to keep up and then someone comes back and says, \u201cThat\u2019s the best meal I\u2019ve ever had,\u201d or I look out and see an old buddy that\u2019s popped in for a minute. You get juice from that. That open kitchen really allows you to have empathy with your staff and gain that energy transference with your customer.\nIt\u2019s so unlikely that a single restaurant can claim the array of firsts in a market like S.N.O.B. does, while still maintaining a \u201cSouthern\u201d identity. What inspired you to add a now-ubiquitous dish like pad thai before our city even had a Thai restaurant?\nLee: It\u2019s just curiosity. We were also one of the first to serve poke, and now it\u2019s everywhere.\nEven as you introduced new flavors, whenever a dish became iconic at S.N.O.B., you had a tendency to pull it off the menu. That\u2019s counter to what most legacy restaurants in Charleston do, but they\u2019re also guilty of becoming stagnant and losing their local core.\nLee: Really, we\u2019re just as likely to take off the most popular items as the least. If we\u2019re getting bored out of our minds in the kitchen with a particular dish, something\u2019s got to give.\nThe first one we pulled was probably the grouper with mustard glaze and cucumbers. Then we pulled the jumbo lump crab with corn sauce and yellow squash, and then the beef tenderloin, and then the sesame crusted tuna. We took off the pad thai and caught a lot of flack for that.\nYou began your career by opening a vegetarian restaurant in Columbia. What was the moment when you shifted back to eating and cooking meat?\nLee: It was a two-fold punch that started with Malcolm Hudson. I tried to work for him for a year [at the nationally celebrated Hudson\u2019s Smokehouse, in Columbia], but he wouldn\u2019t hire me until I started eating meat. I started by nibbling on a couple of crispy veal bones. Once I started working, his ma\u00eetre d\u2019 ordered me a king cut rare slab of prime rib, all wriggly and bloody.\nI always enjoyed the taste and flavor of meat. For me, the crux of vegetarianism is that industrially-produced meat is an inefficient and unhealthy way to get protein. It can take 20 barrels of oil and 50 acres of land to raise a pound of beef. People are finally waking up to that.\nSo many young cooks that worked for you have gone on to open their own restaurants, and you\u2019re known for demanding a lot out of people. You claim in your book that it takes 10 to 20 years to truly master a skill\u2014that\u2019s a level even beyond Malcolm Gladwell\u2019s 10,000 hours.\nLee: Some people are extremely talented, and they get lucky and make their mark quickly, but it really does take a long time to learn a craft, whether you\u2019re a welder or a lawyer or an anesthesiologist. It takes 10 years to become a doctor, and even then you have to sweat bullets for awhile.\nI\u2019ve always focused on trying to develop human beings. We could be digging a ditch, building a jet engine or cooking in a kitchen, and the dynamics for becoming a real human being are the same: You have to learn to be responsible to yourself and others. You have to learn to read and write. You have to learn how to have empathy, and you have to learn how to say, \u201cPlease,\u201d and \u201cThank you.\u201d It\u2019s just basic civility.\nA lot of times people who go into F&B are society\u2019s rejects. We used to call our kitchen, \u201cFrank Lee\u2019s home for wayward girls and troubled boys.\u201d I really did teach people to read and to open a bank account and how to be tender and kind to a woman and how to have a healthy relationship. All of this while we\u2019re sauteing and slicing and dicing and working that rhythm of mise en place. The No. 1 thing we focus on is being able to communicate. When you do that well, you\u2019re successful.\nKevin Johnson praised your work ethic by mentioning that at the end of the night, you wash dishes to decompress. That\u2019s more characteristic of a hyper-productive person than someone suited for a quiet retirement. What\u2019s next for you in 2017?\nLee: I\u2019d like to do something a little more egalitarian, with education. I\u2019ve been involved with the Culinary Institute of Charleston for a long time. Now I\u2019d like to make a connection with high schools through the college and the Chamber of Commerce to encourage apprenticeships.\nI\u2019d also love to be a culinary diplomat and go to conflict zones to help the State Department open up avenues of discussion with nations we have issues with. If under-the-radar chefs sit down and break bread and marvel at each other\u2019s cuisines, that could be just enough to open the door.\nYou\u2019ve been a diplomat among chefs in Charleston for years. You\u2019re like the city\u2019s F&B ringleader. Who will fill that void without you in the kitchen each day?\nLee: We have an intimate little cadre of competitive, cooperative chefs. I worry a little bit that as Charleston gets bigger and bigger and we get more highly trained chefs with well-developed egos coming into the market that they might not necessarily feel the need to continue that camaraderie. But I think the good vibe will continue. It just takes doing gigs and talking and communicating with one another.\nChefs have to be willing to say to each other, \u201cI\u2019ve got a great cook that\u2019s been working with me for three years and she needs to move on and grow,\u201d or, \u201cYou really need to check out this mushroom dude\u2014he\u2019s got terrific Lion\u2019s Mane.\u201d A rising tide floats all boats.\nHave you eaten at S.N.OB. since stepping away?\nLee: I have, but I take up a lot of oxygen and I don\u2019t want to make Russ uncomfortable. It\u2019s like raising children\u2014you don\u2019t want to do something that will embarrass them. My role has been to develop these chefs and managers. I feel deeply that they\u2019re well-trained and developed as human beings\u2014Russ is now a year older than I was when we started S.N.O.B. So I can take a step back and nod in satisfaction and say, \u201cMy work is done here.\u201d It\u2019s time for them to spread their wings and for me to get out of the way.\nStratton Lawrence is a freelance writer from Charleston, S.C. He lives in a humble cottage by the ocean with his beautiful wife and infant son. 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The affidavit states that the substance was \u201cbelieved to be meth and heroin.\u201d\nThe officer adds that Ledford allegedly \u201cadmitted to him, prior to him searching her belongings, that there was meth and heroin inside her purse.\u201d\nAlso allegedly found during the search was $101 in cash and two cell phones. All items were reportedly confiscated.\nThe officer reports that \u201cdue to the possibility of drugs being in areas that (he) couldn\u2019t see,\u201d he contacted the Mount Orab Police Department\u2019s K-9 Unit, the affidavit states.\nThe affidavit adds that the K-9 found another needle in a purse.\nCourt records show that Ledford\u2019s felony charge was first filed with the municipal court in January.\nOn Wednesday, her felony case was scheduled for a preliminary hearing on June 25. Ledford\u2019s bond was set at her own recognizance (OR). She will be under the supervision of the probation department and is prohibited from having contact with allegedly involved parties.\nLedford\u2019s bond was set at $25,000 on her pending first-degree misdemeanor for drug abuse. If she posts that bond, she will be placed on electronic monitoring house arrest.\nPretrials for all three of her misdemeanor charges are also set for June 25.\nIn other cases, Jacob Cox, 18, Greenfield, appeared on a bench warrant and was sentenced to 60 days in jail.\nCourt records show that he pled guilty to attempting to purchase an illegal amount of pseudoephedrine, a second-degree misdemeanor, in February.\nAt that time, all but 30 days of a 90-day jail sentence were suspended. A $750 fine was also suspended.\nJacob Cox was placed on reporting probation for two years and ordered to have no contact Walgreens, to obtain counseling, and to get his GED. He was placed on a curfew until his counseling was complete, records show.\nIn May, an affidavit was filed by the probation department, according to records. A warrant was then issued for Jacob Cox\u2019s arrest for failure to comply.\nOn Wednesday, Jacob Cox appeared on that warrant. He was found guilty of a probation violation and sentenced to 60 days in jail. That time is scheduled for July 3, records show.\nRecords add that Jacob Cox \u201cmay be furloughed to (the) STAR program or other inpatient counseling.\u201d\nThe Times-Gazette reported last week that Jacob Cox was arrested and charged with a felony following the discovery of meth-making materials at his Greenfield address. A warrant for another person at the residence is what led to the discovery.\nAlso found guilty of a probation violation was Cora Cox, 33, Hillsboro. Records show that she was convicted of second-degree misdemeanor possession of drug abuse instruments in April.\nThe Times-Gazette previously reported that Cora Cox was given credit for 32 days in jail. An additional 58 days were suspended.\nShe was ordered to get counseling at FRS and to complete a safety plan through children services. Her license was suspended for two years. Cox was placed on a curfew until conditions are met. She was also placed on reporting probation.\nLast month, an affidavit was filed by the probation department, records show. A $5,000 bench warrant was then issued for Cora Cox\u2019s arrest for failure to comply.\nShe appeared on that warrant on Wednesday and was found guilty of a probation violation. The remaining 58 days on her sentence began when she was arrested on Tuesday.\nRecords show that Cora Cox can be furloughed to inpatient treatment \u201cupon proof of (an) available bed.\u201d\nHi! 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Here is a link to that story: https://www.timesgazette.com/news/225/woman-appearing-on-warrant-faces-new-charge", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00240.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 229, + "original_length": 7373, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.98, + "perplexity": 334.9, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "https://www.timeshighereducation.com/opinion/history-vital-today-and-tomorrow", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T03:49:32Z", + "digest": "sha1:QJQVHTD5NXBKHNEFDZCYJQKL6FU5OXPK", + "length": 5341, + "nlines": 20, + "source_domain": "www.timeshighereducation.com", + "title": "History is vital for today and tomorrow | THE Opinion", + "raw_content": "History is vital for today and tomorrow\nIgnore the politicians\u2019 jibes: history is crucial to develop critical minds, make sense of the present and prepare people for the future\nPoliticians looking for a discipline that makes an easy target when questions of value for money and graduate employability are looming large do not take long to zoom in on history \u2013 and medieval history in particular.\nRobert Halfon, the chair of the UK\u2019s Commons Education Committee, was the latest parliamentarian to take aim, telling The Times last month that government funding should be directed to disciplines where there are skills shortages, such as \u201chealthcare, coding, construction, engineering, [and] digital\u201d.\n\u201cIf someone wants to do medieval history that\u2019s fine,\u201d the MP said. \u201cYou still take out your loan and pay it. But all the incentives from government and so on should go to areas the country needs and will bring it most benefit.\u201d\nThis might seem a bit rich coming from someone with a politics degree \u2013 and it\u2019s worth adding that three of the UK\u2019s current Cabinet have history degrees, including one, Cabinet Office minister David Lidington, who completed a doctorate on Tudor penal statutes.\nBut it is clear that history is a discipline facing a challenging future when policymakers around the world are increasingly obsessed with science, technology and engineering subjects.\nAnd these concerns are not confined to politicians: enrolments on history programmes as a proportion of total student intake are on a downward trend in both the US and the UK, and history departments have arguably failed to capitalise on popular interest in the past, which \u2013 if the recent success of blockbuster history books and TV shows such as Who Do You Think You Are? are anything to go by \u2013 is greater than ever before.\nHaving an undergraduate degree in history and a master\u2019s in medieval studies has never done me any harm, even though now, more than a decade on, I\u2019m pretty rusty at explaining to a non-historian the value of my 20,000-word dissertation on the fate of the senatorial class in 6th-century Italy.\nAnd for much of my time at university, I had two, maybe four, hours of contact time each week. I was fine with this \u2013 what were lecturers supposed to do, stand over us while we read in the library? \u2013 but today\u2019s undergraduates paying more than \u00a39,000 a year might take a different view.\nNevertheless, the fate of history in our universities is something that should concern us all, as the five historians from the leading anglophone sectors who contribute to our cover feature this week amply demonstrate.\nAt a time when the past is more contested than ever before \u2013 to take two examples cited in the feature, over the role of Civil War commemoration in the US, or the place of the Crusaders in a supposedly \u201cglorious white European past\u201d \u2013 society desperately needs people, inside the academy and out in the wider world, who understand the complexity of our heritage and can cut through the more outlandish abuses of it.\nAnd with our societies facing historically familiar challenges such as populism, nationalism and ever deeper partisanship, we are in grave need of strong voices able to bring to the fore the often dark lessons of the past.\nAlthough the fate of history should not rely on utilitarian arguments alone, the employability arguments can be countered, too. In the UK labour market, outcomes for history students hold up well, and only last week a US report found that humanities graduates, on the whole, land rewarding jobs and are happy with them.\nMoreover, the broad transferable skills that a history degree confers \u2013 critical thinking, communication, the ability to distil information and form an argument, to name just a few \u2013 are likely to prove highly valuable in a jobs market that is more uncertain than ever before. And the intellectual rigour and mental agility instilled by a study of history will be a real asset to the workforce as we have no idea what the jobs that we are training today\u2019s graduates for will actually look like.\nThis is not to say that history and historians should not work to address the criticisms being directed their way. As the feature shows, these include a continuing preoccupation with the Western, white past; the challenging employment environment for junior researchers; and a continuing reluctance among some historians to engage with anyone outside their scholarly circle.\nThere are big challenges facing history in the academy. But today\u2019s urgent political and social issues make it even more important that the study of the past should flourish.\nThe long view: scholars assess the state of history\n#1 Submitted by rkenna on February 27, 2018 - 8:18pm\nThis is a valuable article on and important topic, as are the contributions of the five scholars to the related article \u201cThe Long View\u201d. I notice, however, the absence of any mention of digital humanities in these articles. This new discipline is very much in the ascendancy and, together with complexity science, offers great hope for the future of the past. One way to help address the \u201cchallenges facing history\u201d might be to address the \u201creluctance among some historians to engage with anyone outside their scholarly circle\u201d and to embrace interdisciplinarity. Opening minds to the future can offer new ways to access the past.", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00240.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 181, + "original_length": 9754, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.95, + "perplexity": 306.0, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "https://www.tmcnet.com/usubmit/2019/02/08/8896999.htm", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T03:39:28Z", + "digest": "sha1:TVIOGAYND7V7MF2VBIDJPYFLIVAHNZJ2", + "length": 3817, + "nlines": 17, + "source_domain": "www.tmcnet.com", + "title": "Acin Announces Its New Name and New Vision", + "raw_content": "Acin Announces Its New Name and New Vision\nLONDON, Feb. 8, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- Today Anchura Group announces that it has changed its name to Acin.\nThe name change reflects the industry's growing recognition for its transformational approach and methodology to operational risk management and the adoption of its risk and control data standards platform.\nCombining technology, data standards and content the company has created a unique platform to simplify and mitigate operational risk based on a central database of control designs, smart-mapped to risks using a common taxonomy for effective benchmarking. It also connects firms together in a network and continuously curates new risks and controls, based on customer inputs and market events.\nThe company draws its new name from the unique identification numbers (ACINs) from within its standardised libraries of risk and controls.\nEstablished in 2010 as an operational risk consultancy, the firm redefined its purpose in 2017 when in response to the mounting challenges of controlling operational risk across the financial services industry, it evolved to become an operational risk and controls data standards company.\nIn 2018, the company launched its Master Library for risks and controls, the first of its kind based on the Basel II framework and has been recognised as one of the most innovative Regtech companies in 2019.\nOver the next 3 years Acin plansto invest significantly in building further risk and control libraries and expanding its current workforce in the UK and the US, making it one of the leading destinations for operational risk and control standards.\nPaul Ford, Chief Executive, Acin said:\n\"Financial institutions have reached a critical point. Inconsistencies and formats are proliferating, data is exploding and exposure to operational risks is growing. The regulators are getting increasingly tough and it's costing firms billions every year.\nThe Acin system we have developed is an industry breakthrough because it relies on a comprehensive data standards platform, not on individual risk controls. More than delivering immediate value to individual firms we are also connecting the industry in a networked defence system that offers the highest degrees of protection at an industry level. It's a game changer.\nChanging our company name to Acin simplifies our presence in the market, making our brand synonymous with our platform and in common with the customers we serve, sets us on a new and more effective trajectory. It is a reflection of the success and recognition we've achieved since the launch of our Acin platform 2 years ago. I'd like to thank our investors, risk and controls subject matter experts and of course all our customers for their support in helping us get here ahead of schedule.\"\nAbout Acin\nAcin is the world's leading risk and control data standards, benchmarking and controls data analysis company. Acin enables financial institutions to access standardised controls data seamlessly, allowing agile data-driven risk management and decision-making. It relies on a centralised database of control designs smart-mapped to the risks faced by each individual business or function within the organisation.\nFinancial institutions are connected together in a network that complements each firm's existing 3 lines of defence and continuously curates new risks and controls data, offering the highest degrees of protection at an industry level. Acin sets the standard for the industry, unlocking the full value of controls data for our clients.\nWith offices in London and New York, our clients include some of the world's largest financial institutions. Acin has been recognised as one of the most innovative Regtech companies in 2019. To learn more visit www.acin.com.\nContact: Ian.ewart@acin.com, +44(0)203-846-6709", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00240.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 190, + "original_length": 7726, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.94, + "perplexity": 287.2, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "https://www.top10binaryrobots.com/blog/forex-trading-predicting-price-moves/", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T04:22:22Z", + "digest": "sha1:S5HZEFBOPBBIH4KGNL7SLUXPVVKOGWGS", + "length": 3134, + "nlines": 15, + "source_domain": "www.top10binaryrobots.com", + "title": "Forex Trading & Predicting Price Movement - Read More", + "raw_content": "Home \u00bb Blog \u00bb Forex Trading & Predicting Price Moves\nForex Trading & Predicting Price Moves\nForex and CFD trading involves predicting the movements in the financial markets and it can be quite hard to predict the direction in which the markets will move in a predetermined time frame. Sometimes the predictability comes down to zero because of the false signals that are generated continuously and the volatile nature of the market.\nBut, there are a number of factors that have an influence on the market and smart traders usually make use of these factors to get an advantage when placing trades.\nOne of the ways in which you can be successful when trading Forex is to hedge uncertainty so you can predict the movement in price and decide whether to place a trade or not.\nPrice and Time Symmetry\nThere are times when the markets move in no direction for a long period of time. All of a sudden when a breakout occurs, the markets can reach new highs and lows. If you are a serious trader, you must know how to study the trend to figure out when it will start to slow down. The market usually moves in two or three steps. It is difficult to predict where the price will go because it all depends on market data. Traders must be watchful of the trends and patterns and they must exit the market at the right time to prevent making losses.\nThe 200 Bar Moving\nTraders have to keep in mind the 200 bar moving average when trading Forex. This can be done by keeping track of the 1 hour charts. After the price has cleared the 1 hour 200 bar moving average, the price will continue sideways or in the same direction. Sometimes, the 200 bar moving average may not seem to work and there is a lot of uncertainty involved. But, smart traders know what moves they must make to prevent losing trades.\nTraders must also be mindful of divergences which tend to occur in momentum indicators. Traders must keep an eye on the market. for example, if the market tends to move too fast or too much and it is not confirmed on the RSI which is a momentum indicator, then traders must know that the market can soon make a steep move. Many traders find it tricky to use divergences.\nThey must be used only by those who can interpret additional indicators correctly.\nIf you want to get a good insight into the market, you must use two or more momentum indicators. Using a single indicator will not give correct results and this is the reason traders must employ at least two.\nThe financial markets are influenced by a large number of factors and one of the most common ones is the day of the week. For example, the stock market can rally on the starting few days of the week such as Monday and Tuesday. They tend to decline towards of the end of the week such as Thursday. Daily patterns are also followed by currencies. Traders must carry out a research if they want to trade currencies.\nFollow Top10BinaryRobots to stay up to date with everything on the markets.\nHowever, it can be quite difficult to identify trends. Trends mean daily trends which traders must look out for. To get the best results, trader must look at the one hour trend and daily trend.", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00240.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 59, + "original_length": 4772, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.94, + "perplexity": 260.3, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "https://www.topuniversities.com/universities/isik-universitesi", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T03:52:13Z", + "digest": "sha1:CRQR7VUTPUJRDUAIIZ6ZRH6KGJ6BEI4P", + "length": 1041, + "nlines": 5, + "source_domain": "www.topuniversities.com", + "title": "Isik \u00dcniversitesi | Top Universities", + "raw_content": "Home > Isik \u00dcniversitesi\nIsik \u00dcniversitesi\nIstanbul View map\nMasoud and 3 others shortlisted this university\nSince its founding in 1996, Isik University has strengthened today to 5 Faculties with 34 undergraduate programs, two Vocational Schools with 20 associate degree programs, Graduate Institutes in Social Sciences and Applied Sciences, a School of Foreign Languages, and a Center for Continuing Education. Isik University conducts all of its academic teaching and training activities at the Sile and Maslak campuses. On these two campuses there are five faculties, two graduate schools and the English Language preparatory school. Except for the programs in the Faculty of Fine Arts and the distance education graduate program e-MBA offered by the Graduate School for Social Sciences, the language of instruction of all programs is English. In the undergraduate level there are 32 academic programs, while in the graduate level there are 17 Masters' programs including with thesis or without thesis options, and five doctoral programs.", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00240.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 514, + "original_length": 21844, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.95, + "perplexity": 272.2, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "https://www.touropia.com/tourist-attractions-in-zurich/", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T03:33:10Z", + "digest": "sha1:NQPGZGKEI7YKHU3VCOXPCEL42E65P6FM", + "length": 7105, + "nlines": 30, + "source_domain": "www.touropia.com", + "title": "10 Top Tourist Attractions in Zurich (with Photos & Map) - Touropia", + "raw_content": "Last updated on September 11, 2018 in Switzerland, Tours 1 Comment\nKnown worldwide for its banks, Zurich is the financial center of Switzerland. It has the largest and busiest airport and railway station in the nation, making it the first introduction to Switzerland for many foreign tourists. It also has a reputation for being clean and efficient, and is often ranked as having the highest quality of life anywhere in the world.\nZurich has a blend of appeal for many different travelers. History buffs will love the tall clock towers and gothic spires, culture buffs will enjoy the museums and universities which have 21 Nobel Prize winners to brag of, and edgier people will love the hundreds of hip clubs and world-class restaurants. Here is a look at the top tourist attractions in Zurich:\n10. Opernhaus Z\u00fcrich\nflickr/kuhnmi\nThis pillared neoclassical building may not be the most architecturally iconic building in Zurich, but it holds an incredibly important place in the history of opera. The original theater that was built here was the main location for Richard Wagner\u2019s works during his exile from Germany. It was also home to the world premiere of Chekov\u2019s opera. Though it has gone through many architectural versions, today\u2019s opera house pays homage to composers like Weber, Wagner and Mozart, as well as writers like Schiller, Shakespeare and Goethe with prominent busts. The opera house continues to be a world-class venue for Opera, and seats twelve hundred.\n9. Lindenhof\nThis pedestrian-only green space in Old Zurich has a long history. It sits on Lindenhof hill, along the banks of the Limmat river, which give it a great view. The site has been the home of a Roman Castle, and a place of civil gathering. The outer square is flanked by beautiful old mansions and other buildings like the masonic lodge and the Lindenhof fortification. It serves a main role in the April holiday of Sechsel\u00e4uten, as it becomes the main base of operations for each year\u2019s chosen guest canton.\n8. Kunsthaus Zurich\nwikipedia/Roland zh\nThe Kunsthaus Z\u00fcrich houses one of the most important art collections in Switzerland assembled over the years by the local art association. The collection spans from the Middle Ages to contemporary art, with an emphasis on Swiss art. Major works by artists such as Claude Monet, Edvard Munch, Pablo Picasso and the Swiss Alberto Giacometti can all be seen here. The museum was designed by architects Karl Moser and Robert Curjel, and opened in 1910. Particularly notable are the several preserved Moser interiors in the original section of the museum, decorated in masterful Neo-Grec style.\n7. Grossm\u00fcnster\nflickr/flamouroux\nThis \u201cGreat Minister\u201d church is one of Zurich\u2019s four main churches and believed to have been founded by Charlemagne. The legend states he commissioned a church on the site where his horse fell to its knees by the tombs of Zurich\u2019s patron saints. The twin towers of this church are often considered the most recognizable landmark in all of Zurich. The church has had many different upgrades to its original twelfth century version. Modern additions to the church include stained glass by celebrated artist Augusto Giacommetti, and Bronze sculpted doors by Otto Munch. The church continues to be home to the crypts of Felix and Regula, the patron saints of Zurich, and an honorary statue of Charlemagne as well.\n6. Swiss National Museum\nThe Swiss National Museum houses extensive collections that touch upon every aspect of culture and the art of living in Switzerland, from the Stone Age to the present day. The museum building was built in 1898 by Gustav Gull in the form of a French chateau. It contains a number of unique pieces like an armory tower and a large collection of religious wooden liturgy carvings, panel paintings, and altars. A historical collection of Swiss coins dating back from the middle ages, and a wonderful chivalry display and gothic art collection round out this uniquely excellent museum. After a day of browsing, the lakeside of the museum is also a stop for one of the tour boats on Lake Zurich.\n5. Fraum\u00fcnster\nKnown as the women\u2019s church, this church is considered one of Zurich\u2019s four main churches. Fraumunster was originally built in 853 by Louis the German for his daughter, Hildegarde, to have a place to worship. It was a convent for seven hundred years, and at one point the abbess was called to be ruler of the city. Today, the church is open for services and tours. Of special interest are the stained glass windows, some as tall as 9 meters (30 feet) high, as well as frescoes by the artist Paul Bodmer and the church clock tower.\n4. Bahnhofstrasse\nflickr/Craig Stanfill\nThis Zurich\u2019s street of high-end couture shops is the best-known shopping area in all of Zurich, as well as the most expensive real estate in all of Europe. Many of the world\u2019s best known designers have stores here, along with the world headquarters of Credit Suisse, and the delicious chocolate shops and cafes of Paradeplatz square, on Lake Zurich, at the end of the street. This high-end street came from humble beginnings, however. It was created out of the exterior moat when the city\u2019s walls were pulled down, and was once called Fr\u00f6schengraben, or the ditch of frogs.\nflickr/Alex Queiroz\nPeople who love great views can\u2019t afford to miss this mountain plateau that overlooks the city of Zurich and adjacent lake of the same name. The mountaintop has a small hotel called Uto Kulm and two towers, one for television signal and the second is a designated lookout that costs a small fee to use. Uetliberg can be reached either by walking trail from Albisguetli, Triemli or Albisrieden, or by rail from Zurich. The summit is a great starting point for camping and hiking to some of the other mountains on the chain.\n2. Zurich Altstadt\nZurich Altstadt comprises the area of the historic town just before the twentieth century. It has kept an older architectural feel here, and is home to many landmarks, plazas and other popular tourist attractions in Zurich including Lindenhof, Fraumunster, St Peter\u2019s Church, the New Market and the old Medieval Rathaus quarter. Architecturally, there is a blend of medieval and gothic, and visitors can still see where the old ramparts of the ancient walled city once were.\nThis large, glaciated lake was formed by glaciers in the Alps and stretches from Zurich to many other smaller towns, including Thalwil and Kusnacht. The lake is very clean, and is home to many different beaches and swimming areas. Starting from the Bellevue area, a boardwalk goes for about 3 kilometers along the lake towards Tiefenbrunnen. About halfway from Bellevue there is a meadow where it is great to relax on a sunny day. Boat lovers will find a large number of companies offering passenger ships, which can give tours of the lake or take a ferry to some of the other towns on the lake. Travelers here can find large manors, and beautiful islands to explore.\nZurich Highlights Coach Tour with Felsenegg Cable Car Ride\n10 Top Tourist Attractions in Bern\nYogesh behl says\nVery informative and persuasive information", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00240.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 87, + "original_length": 8632, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.96, + "perplexity": 198.9, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "https://www.touropia.com/where-to-stay-in-sicily/?load=hotels&source=item", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T03:35:36Z", + "digest": "sha1:PHBRBLYOXBFGRGDMR6U4D5KE2F7OA2YY", + "length": 9169, + "nlines": 45, + "source_domain": "www.touropia.com", + "title": "Where to Stay in Sicily (with Photos & Map) - Touropia", + "raw_content": "Last updated on November 7, 2018 in Italy Leave a Comment\nThe island of Sicily is famous the world over for its amazing food, stunning countryside, unique culture, and rich history. It\u2019s the largest island in the Mediterranean sea and boasts one of Europe\u2019s tallest volcanoes \u2013 Mount Etna \u2013 in its eastern half.\nSicily, as we know it today, is the product of a long and checkered history. It was an ancient Greek colony, part of the Phoenician, Roman and then Byzantine empire, became a Moorish emirate, was conquered by the Normans, and then passed through the hands of many European powers.\nMap of the best places to stay in Sicily\nThese various cultures have exerted significant influences on the Italian island, all evident today in the unique culture of Sicily, including its language and arts \u2013 ancient historical sites abound. This culminates in arguably the island\u2019s most famous archaeological region \u2013 Valley of the Temples \u2013 where the ruins of seven magnificent Greek temples continue to amaze visitors.\nThe towns and cities are picturesque affairs. They\u2019re nestled in mountains or set along the island\u2019s jagged, rocky coastline. Hiking, snorkeling, or simply eating your way through the incredible amount of quality food on offer in this unique Italian region is the order for any trip to its shores.\nWhether you\u2019re into history and culture, you\u2019re a total foodie, or you simply want to relax, there\u2019s a place in Sicily for you.\nSee also: Sicily Hotel Deals\nPalermo Where to Stay\ndreamstime/\u00a9 Hakkiceylan\nSet on Sicily\u2019s northwest coast, Palermo is the island\u2019s capital and is a grand showcase of the region\u2019s history. It\u2019s nestled between the folds of a mountainside landscape and boasts the big, crescent-shaped Mondello Beach, where the town meets the sea. Full of history, it\u2019s the perfect place to begin any journey to this beautiful island \u2013 especially to witness Sicilian architecture. A good example can be found at the 16th Century Church of Casa Professa, whose Baroque interior is like a lesson in stunning opulence.\nPalermo also boasts the Lyric Opera \u2013 Italy\u2019s largest theater and, in fact, the third largest in Europe (after the famous Paris Opera and Vienna State Opera). Street food and ancient markets abound in town and it\u2019s easy to spot a bit of local culture by just wandering around these lively areas. Stay in a ritzy hotel in the older neighborhood or something more affordable near the beach.\ndreamstime/\u00a9 Beriliu\nPractically in the shadow of the towering Mount Etna, Catania \u2013 set on the island\u2019s west coast \u2013 is the second largest city in Sicily. But it certainly doesn\u2019t come second in the number of historical sites on offer. In fact, Catania\u2019s old town is Italy\u2019s largest example of Baroque architecture.\nThe central square of Piazza del Duomo is home to the city\u2019s marvel of a cathedral, built by the first Norman king of Sicily in the 11th Century on the site of Roman baths. The square also hosts the fish market \u2013 La Pescheria \u2013 which is a bustling spectacle of life and food.\nBeing so close to Etna, it\u2019s possible to hike up trails that lead up the volcano\u2019s slopes, making Catania a great destination for keen fans of the outdoors. Accommodation is more spread out and more affordable than in Palermo, giving you more options to choose where you want to stay in the city.\nSyracuse Where to Stay\ndreamstime/\u00a9 Ghm Meuffels\nFounded as an ancient Greek colony 2,700 years ago, Syracuse was once a powerful city-state in its own right and is one of the best places to visit in Sicily if ancient history is what you\u2019re interested in.\nThe ruins of a temple dedicated to Apollo can be found on the small island of Ortygia \u2013 the city\u2019s historic heart and where it was originally founded \u2013 the temple became a church under Byzantine rule and a mosque under the Moors. The ancient Greek theater features one of the largest cavea (tiered seating) ever constructed and is a spectacle to see.\nJust further south from Catania, there are a number of budget hotels in Syracuse, even on the heritage-filled island of Ortygia, meaning a stay in this Sicilian city can be very affordable.\nTaormina Where to Stay\ndreamstime/\u00a9 Mirekdeml\nSet to the north of Catania, the hilltop town of Taormina is another Sicilian settlement located near Mount Etna. Hiking opportunities in the surrounding hills abound as a result, making it great for anybody who likes getting out into nature. The town is also known for Isola Bella, a tiny island just off the coast; it\u2019s an iconic sight of Taormina and a nature reserve in its own right.\nBeaches dot the bottom of the rocky cliffs at Taormina but it\u2019s easy to get to them thanks to a cable car system that opened up in 1992. Tours of grottos that carve out holes in the bottom of the cliffs are available, too. This all adds up to a great location for nature lovers.\nThere are only a few hotels in picturesque Taormina; most are upscale and offer spas and swimming pools.\ndreamstime/\u00a9 Lev Levin\nOn the western tip of Sicily, set on a sweeping crescent-shaped stretch of coastline, is the town of Trapani. Known for its Baroque center on a small peninsula, the city is teeming with history. For instance, the Mura di Tramontana \u2013 a boulevard that\u2019s pleasant to walk along \u2013 leads to the historic Torre Ligny, formerly a defensive structure. It\u2019s also easy to get a cable car up to the small hill town of Erice, a great example of a medieval Sicilian settlement complete with fantastic views.\nThe accommodation on offer in Trapani consists mainly of affordable budget hotels and B&Bs \u2013 of which there are many \u2013 making it great for those who aren\u2019t prepared to splash out on their lodgings.\nTrapani is also a gateway to the nearby Egadi Islands, a collection of three main islands easily reached by hydrofoil, known for their fishing and picturesque beaches.\nCefalu Where to Stay\ndreamstime/\u00a9 Boggy\nCefalu, situated on the northern coast of Sicily, is just about as picturesque as this island\u2019s cities get. It\u2019s a collection of buildings all gathered beneath La Rocca \u2013 or simply, \u2018The Rock\u2019. During the city\u2019s Moorish rule, there was a fortress here, but when the Normans arrived it was transformed according to their style. The ruins of this still stand atop the imposing rock that looks over the city. Other Norman heritage in the city of Cefalu can be found in its Sicilian Romanesque-style cathedral, which is certainly a sight to behold. Elsewhere, beaches lie to the west of The Rock.\nThe main concentration of hotels in Cefalu lies at the foot of La Rocca and consist of mid-range to high-end lodgings. Slightly out of town, the prices stay similarly high. Getting in and out of Cefalu is easy thanks to Sicily\u2019s train network.\ndreamstime/\u00a9 Denise Serra\nAgrigento is a relatively small hilltop city on the southwest coast of Italy, but it is arguably the most famous settlement on the island of Sicily. This is mainly due to the fact that it\u2019s home to the best-known tourist attraction in Sicily \u2013 the Valle dei Templi, or Valley of Temples. It\u2019s here where visitors will find seven extremely well-preserved ancient Greek temples to marvel at and explore \u2013 a definite highlight of any trip to Sicily.\nA train station lies in the center of town, making it easy to arrive and depart. In terms of hotels, the lack of a beach or proper coastal area means that there are plenty of budget offerings, mainly in the form of homely B&B and guesthouse style hotels.\ndreamstime/\u00a9 Sergio Bertino\nSet in southeastern Sicily, the city of Noto gives its name to the Val di Noto, a geographical and historic region around the Iblean Mountains in southeast Sicily. This setting provides ample chances to hike around the hills; specifically, you can head up to Cavagrande del Cassibile, a nature reserve following the River Cassibile and a great place for canyon hiking. To the south is Vendicari Nature Reserve, an awesome spot for hiking, discovering idyllic beaches and birdwatching \u2013 there are even flamingos here!\nTowards the coast, at Lido di Noto there are a number of mid-range hotels and B&Bs on offer for those who like to be near a beach, but in Noto, there are quite a few mid-range guesthouses, better for a more central location.\nRagusa Where to Stay\ndreamstime/\u00a9 Petr Jilek\nRagusa is set on a hill in southeast Sicily, in the same historic region in the Iblean Mountains as Noto (Val di Noto). This city is famous for its numerous examples of Baroque architecture, specifically in the \u2018old town\u2019 or Ragusa Ibla \u2013 there\u2019s the stunning 18th Century Cathedral of St Giorgio and the 17th Century Church of the Purgatory, amongst many, many other buildings that will easily wow visitors to this historically rich city. Giardino Ibleo is a charming spot to wander around \u2013 a 19th Century public garden with tree-lined pathways and beautiful fountains, complete with stunning views of the surrounding countryside.\nHotels in Ragusa range from budget to just about mid-range, making it a very affordable city to visit \u2013 you can choose to situate yourself in Ragusa Superiore (the more modern part of town) or in amongst the Baroque beauty of Ragusa Ibla \u2013 the choice is yours!\n12 Top Tourist Attractions in Verona", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00240.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 85, + "original_length": 10377, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.94, + "perplexity": 263.4, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "https://www.tracesofwar.com/persons/48479/Ahrens-Helmut.htm", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T04:00:47Z", + "digest": "sha1:CSPHYA2SZ4YAJSU25KS7EFGXSBFAHRKQ", + "length": 216, + "nlines": 5, + "source_domain": "www.tracesofwar.com", + "title": "Ahrens, Helmut - TracesOfWar.com", + "raw_content": "Ahrens, Helmut\nFlugzeugf\u00fchrer Kampfgeschwader 51\nDate according to the Ehrenpokal, awardig was published in the Ehrenliste der Deutschen Luftwaffe on December 8th, 1941.\nKrimschild (Stiftungs ausf\u00fchring)\n- Ehrenpokal", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00240.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 153, + "original_length": 3151, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.55, + "perplexity": 231.9, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "https://www.travelandleisure.com/trip-ideas/national-parks/hawaii-volcanoes-national-park-reserve", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T03:59:27Z", + "digest": "sha1:4ER6GR5MDJUO4EO45XMB43M756H77OVW", + "length": 5281, + "nlines": 21, + "source_domain": "www.travelandleisure.com", + "title": "Things to Do at Hawaii Volcanoes National Park and Preserve | Travel + Leisure", + "raw_content": "Things to Do at Hawaii Volcanoes National Park and Preserve\nThese dramatic volcanoes are sure to make for a memorable national parks trip.\nYou don\u2019t need to be a \u201cLord of the Rings\u201d fan to harbor an obsession with the idea of seeing an erupting volcano and molten lava in real time. That\u2019s the sort of thinking that draws nearly two million visitors annually to the Big Island\u2019s Hawaii Volcanoes National Park, where two volcanoes including Mauna Loa, earth\u2019s most massive active (but not as of this writing erupting) volcano and Kilauea, which has been slowly erupting for more than a year. The latter\u2014which is erupting in two places, with a simmering pit of lava in one location and lava streaming towards the sea at another\u2014has been the big draw, says Public Affairs Specialist Jessica Ferracane, but there\u2019s plenty more to see in this park. Here\u2019s what not to miss and how to visit this fascinating national park, which sprawls over 520 square miles of Hawaii.\nRelated: Do You Need a Passport to Go to Hawaii?\nSee an erupting volcano\nKilauea is indeed (as of December 16, 2016) erupting, and you can check on its activity every day online. It\u2019s the only volcano on earth, says Ferracane, currently erupting from two locations: the summit and a site called Pu\u02bbu \u02bb\u014c\u02bb\u014d, which oozes lava right down to the ocean\u2014and is not, currently, posing a threat to humans. Because \u201cthe closest we let you get is a mile away,\u201d says Ferracane, the best spot for a view is the observation deck at the Jaggar Museum visitors\u2019 center near the summit. You can watch the lava rippling, see steam, and safely avoid both the lava and the sulfur dioxide it emits! (Note: This overlook is also wheelchair-accessible.)\nRelated: A Guide to Glacier Bay National Park\nAnd go at off hours\nA smart move is to check in at the visitors\u2019 center right when you arrive at the park, because weather conditions are always shifting and rangers can give you handy tips. But also keep in mind that the park is open 24 hours a day, says Ferracane, and \u201cseeing the lava lake at night before the sun comes up in the morning is hugely dramatic and so much more impactful.\u201d It\u2019s \u201cjaw-droppingly beautiful,\u201d she says, and \u201cif you come before the sun comes up in the morning you can have that view almost all to yourself.\u201d\nWalk through a lava tube\nFor a distinctly Jurassic Park-esque experience, walk through a tube in the earth carved by lava about 500 years ago. Called the Thurston lava tube, it is the park\u2019s second-most popular attraction, says Ferracane, and because it\u2019s \u201cright in the middle of a rainforest, it\u2019s a really good perspective\u201d on how volcanoes can actually create life\u2014the islands themselves were formed by an eruption. Walk through the tunnel\u2014these days, lit by humans\u2014which hasn\u2019t seen lava for hundreds of years, and be amazed as native birds chirp all around you. And keep in mind that there\u2019s an observatory stationed right in the park, notes Ferracane, so there are scientists keeping an eye on both volcanoes while you\u2019re underground.\nRelated: How to Use A National Parks Pass\nLearn about native Hawaiian culture\nThough the volcanoes and the biology get the most press, notes Ferracane, don\u2019t forget to learn about native culture. \u201cNative Hawaiians were really exceptional stewards of the land,\u201d she says. They were, in a sense, the \u201coriginal rangers living in very close harmony with \u2026 things happening here.\u201d Today, the park makes a point of employing many native Hawaiians. It\u2019s worth taking a ranger tour and visiting the museum to learn more. If you\u2019re lucky, your ranger will tell tales of Pele, the goddess of fire whose home is Kilauea, and whose exploits and adventures are credited for much of the local geology.\nRelated: Kauai Travel Guide\n\u201cThis park is best explored on foot,\u201d says Ferracane, an avid hiker. With more than 150 miles of hiking trails, there\u2019s something for everyone, and although her favorite is Halape, a tough backcountry hike that requires a permit, she also recommends the \u201cexceptional\u201d Crater Rim Trail. \u201cYou can jump on that from the visitors\u2019 center, and [see] a large crater. It\u2019s pretty easy, there\u2019s not much of an elevation gain, and you\u2019re walking along the edge of the world\u2019s most active volcano.\u201d Among its charms, she says, are that you can \u201cfeel the heat coming out of vents in the ground\u2026 that\u2019s pretty special!\u201d\nRelated: What to Do in Michigan's Isle Royale National Park\nIt\u2019s Hawaii, but bundle!\nSteam vents from an active volcano aside, don\u2019t forget to bundle up for your trip here. Remember your elevation and the weather that will entail, says Ferracane. \u201cPeople are used to sun, sand, and surf. They don\u2019t realize that at 4,000 feet it\u2019s cold, and at night it\u2019s really cold.\u201d\nSleep near the volcano(!)\nFor those with a yen to nap near an active volcano, there are a couple of ways to fulfill that desire. One is the Volcano House Hotel, where you can stay overnight, grab a meal or have a drink\u2014while watching the simmering, smoking caldera of Kilauea. 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But it\u2019s not always the more well-known cities that have the best attractions, and some of the other communities can offer a lot \u2013 lower prices, fewer crowds, and a great family-friendly vibe. Even in the heart of Silicon Valley.\nSan Jose is known for being the \u2018Capital of Silicon Valley\u2019, but it\u2019s also the 3rd largest city in California \u2013 and the 10th largest in the United States. Along with a booming technology industry, there is a lot to offer families as well \u2013 whether tagging along on a business or conference trip or looking for a vacation destination that almost guarantees perfect weather and a lot to do. With a newly renovated airport and lots of opportunities for shopping, dining and enjoying events and festivals, San Jose is a great family vacation destination.\nI had never been to San Jose before last year but had the opportunity to fly there and spend a few days getting to know the city and what it can offer for family vacations. The first thing that I learned? Even though San Jose is close in proximity to San Francisco, it\u2019s worlds away as far as weather is concerned. It very rarely rains in San Jose \u2013 they have an average of 300 days of sunshine per year, making the chances of having your fun called on account of rain slim to none.\nHere are a few of the family-friendly options I discovered:\nCalifornia\u2019s Great America amusement/water park\nGreat America offers two parks in one \u2013 whether you\u2019re looking for rollercoasters and thrill rides or to splash around in the California sun on water slides or relaxing on the lazy river at Boomerang Bay. With a Peanuts gang theme, it\u2019s kid-friendly fun that the whole family can enjoy. Kids under the age of 3 are free, and younger kids in general will love the rides and attractions at Planet Snoopy and KidZville.\nFor the older kids and teens, there\u2019s Flight Deck \u2013 a suspended \u2018jet\u2019 coaster, The Grizzly \u2013 a classic wooden coaster and plenty more rides to get the adrenaline going, plus shows, food and seasonal events. Then cool off at Boomerang Bay\u2019s Aussie-themed wave pool, lazy river, swimming lagoon, water slides and more. Admission is $55.99/day for adults or $35.99/day for kids 3+ and seniors. You can save $10 on the adult ticket price by purchasing in advance online. For more information, check out their website at http://www.cagreatamerica.com, or find them on Facebook or Twitter.\nThe rides I\u2019d love to try if I go back: Carousel Columbia \u2013 I\u2019d love to take a spin on this double-decker carousel, and The Grizzly \u2013 I\u2019ve always been partial to wooden roller coasters!\nCalifornia\u2019s largest water park has three locations \u2013 in San Jose, San Dimas and Sacramento. The San Jose water park is located inside Lake Cunningham Regional Park and has a beautiful lake view. There\u2019s an assortment of tube and body slides, plus a wave pool, an activity pool, lazy river and an interactive water play structure.\nSmaller kids can bring their adults into the Little Dipper or Wacky Water Works to enjoy fun in the sun and splash around together. There are cabanas available for rent or you can spread out and relax on the lawn. The park is open for varying hours during May-September and season tickets are available \u2013 if you visit even just twice a year, the season ticket option actually can be a better value. For more information, check out their website at http://www.rwsplash.com, or find them on Facebook or Twitter.\nThe ride I\u2019d love to try if I go back: Bombs Away \u2013 watching people\u2019s faces as they stepped out of the water after dropping \u201cthrough an enclosed inverted looping flume for over 200 feet\u201d was a blast!\nYou can\u2019t miss this purple building \u2013 which houses an interactive museum offering 150 exhibits where kids can \u201ctest, crank, prod, tinker\u201d and more, including a city intersection with real, working stoplights. Kids can also learn about Lupe \u2013 a juvenille Columbian mammoth, some of whose bones were discovered near the San Jose airport and are on display at the museum. Kids can learn about the properties of water, explore what makes bubbles work, or make their own cornhusk doll. And they can learn how to eat healthier by \u2018eating a rainbow\u2019 in the Rainbow Pizza and Market. Admission is $10/person over age one. For more information, check out their website at http://www.cdm.org.\nMy favs here: Having a real city street in the middle of the museum (maintained by the city no less) is awesome. I also love the local tie-in with the mammoth exhibit and how kids can learn without even really realizing it as they play throughout this museum.\nHappy Hollow recently re-opened after a large renovation and gives families a chance to explore, learn and have fun together. The zoo has a selection of mammals, reptiles and birds \u2013 including capybaras, lemurs, deer, meerkats, wallabies, monkeys, and more. Daily Meet & Greets are an opportunity for kids to get up close and learn more about particular species. The park includes playgrounds, rides and a restaurant and picnic area so families can make a day of it together.\nHappy Hollow \u201ccombines innovative green architecture with whimsical fun\u201d and is a LEED certified gold facility. Admission is $10/person for ages 2-69, and $8/person for seniors 70+. Kids under age 2 are free. For more information, check out their website at http://www.hhpz.org, or find them on Facebook or Twitter.\nMy favs here: I love the beautiful locale here and there\u2019s so much to offer with the animal exhibits, play space and rides. There\u2019s also a gorgeous bridge as you walk from the parking lot to the park entrance with a gorgeous view.\nFor more information about planning a trip to San Jose, visit the Team San Jose website or follow them on Facebook or Twitter.\nI was invited on a press event to San Jose, which included airfare, hotel, food, and admission to and tours of the attractions mentioned above. 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It uses audiovisual displays as well as artifacts, and is presented fully in English as well as Slovak.\nOutside the museum is a display of tanks, guns, and an airplane. This display is free, and open even when the museum is not.\nSlovakia Historic Sites\nKapitulsk\u00e1 23, 975 59 Bansk\u00e1 Bystrica\nOpen daily except Mondays. May-Sept 9am-6pm, Oct-April 9am-4pm. Entry costs \u20ac2 adults, \u20ac1 pupils, students and teachers (with valid ID), \u20ac0.70 pensioners, free fpr under 6s, handicapped visitors/handicapped guide card holders, Slovak Union of Antifascist Fighters members, museum friends.\nLocated approximately two blocks from Bansk\u00e1 Bystrica's historic town square, with many shops, restaurants, cafes, and bars\nThe museum is fairly centrally located within Bansk\u00e1 Bystrica, approx 1.5km west of its main train station and just north of Bansk\u00e1 Bystrica mesto station. 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Initially an unassuming antidote to the week\u2019s events, Week Ending grew to become the nerve-centre of new writing in British comedy. It existed in part as a place for scriptwriters to learn the ropes, before graduating to Not The Nine O\u2019Clock News, Spitting Image and beyond. It also provided an early platform for Britain\u2019s best-loved performers, amongst them Steve Coogan, David Jason and Tracey Ullman. However, by its eventual demise in 1998, Week Ending had become a neglected and much-maligned programme. What caused it to lose ground as the respected entry point, and how did it sustain itself for so long? 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The process will allow that women affected by devastating hereditary diseases to have healthy children. However this procedure will open the window of DNA modification in humans \u2013 something that was long ago decided as unethical. Is this a real breakthrough treatment or crossing a dangerous boundary?\nThe procedure aims to prevent mitochondrial diseases, involving lack of energy, muscular dystrophy, blindness, brain disorders, heart failure and death in the most extreme cases. Defective mitochondria affect one in every 6500 babies and research suggests that the diseases can be prevented by using mitochondria from a donor egg. There are two possible methods: the embryo repair and the egg repair. In the embryo repair approach both eggs (mother\u2019s and donor\u2019s) are fertilised with sperm and the parents\u2019 pronuclei, which contain genetic information, is swapped with the donor\u2019s one and this final healthy embryo is implanted into the womb. The egg repair involves taking the nucleous of the egg with damaged mitochondria and inserting it into the cytoplasm of the donor\u2019s egg which has had the majority of the genetic material removed, but still contains healthy mitochondria. Then the resulting egg is fertilised by sperm.\nAs mitochondria have their own DNA, the resulting baby of this procedure would have DNA from two parents and a small amount from a third donor. This genetic modification raises major ethical concerns for a lot of people. According to consequentialism people should do what produces the greatest amount of good consequences. It is known that with this procedure, these women would be able to have genetically related healthy children. However, is this consequence strong enough to justify the beginning of human genetic modifications? Which way leads to the greatest amount of good consequences?\nSince it is an invasive manipulation of embryos there are risks associated. It is not possible to assure that new diseases would not come out of this treatment due to some relation between DNA of mitochondria with the nucleous DNA, for example. If the procedure is relatively new, not much information about long-term health effects are known. Therefore, no medical benefits would emerge for the child or the mother.\nThe mother would be able to have genetically related healthy children, which represents a social benefit to her, not a medical one. As the DNA swap takes place at the \u201cgerm line\u201d the donor\u2019s DNA would pass on to any future generations down the female line and not only to this first child Thus, the treatment would represent a way of stopping the disease of being passed on to their future generations. Nevertheless, it would also be changing the genetic information of the family; that it will always have the donor\u2019s DNA included. Would this have implications for future persons?\nOpponents to this treatment claim that are other options that may be considered for these cases such as adoption or egg donation. Is adoption really an option? People that desire to have their own children usually do not see adoption as option. It will not be a good relationship between parents and child if the adopted child is seen as a second option and not a desired one. Through egg donation parents are not genetically related to the child and this treatment would allow them to be.\nAnother of the major concerns related to this technique is that the next step would be fully altered genetic babies since the line of performing modifications in human DNA would be already crossed with this procedure. It has been described as a \u201cslippery slope\u201d for society that can lead to other forms of genetic modification.\nThere are several questions that need to be answered. Would the child have identity problems since it would have genes from three people? What would be the role of this \u201csecond mother\u201d? Would she have the same status as other egg donors or could be considered a legal parent?\nApparently there was not enough debate about this topic. Usually, people get very afraid of these pioneer changes that can be one small step away from a worst case scenario. Moreover, it is easy for people to associate genetic modifications with stories described in novels or cinema, as dystopian societies are depicted several times. A dystopia [1,2] is a place that is in some important way undesirable or frightening; it is the opposite of utopia. Dystopias are often characterized by dehumanization, totalitarian governments, environmental disaster, or other characteristics associated with a cataclysmic decline in society. Usually they appear to draw attention to real-world issues regarding society, politics, economics, environment, religion, psychology, ethics, and science and technology, which if unaddressed could potentially lead to such a dystopia-like condition. Two examples that address to genetic modifications are Brave New World and Gattaca.\nBrave New World [3], a novel that was also adapted to a movie, describes how developments in reproductive technology, combined with others, are responsible for profoundly changes in society. Natural reproduction is no longer done. Instead, children are produced in \u201chatcheries and conditioning centres\u201d and divided into castes and designed to occupy predetermined positions in the social and economic life. There are five castes: \u201calpha\u201d and \u201cbeta\u201d are able to develop naturally but \u201cgamma\u201d, \u201cdelta\u201d and \u201cepsilon\u201d are manufactured to have arrested development in intelligence or physical growth.\nIn the reality described in Gattaca [4] (the title is based on the first letters of guanine, adenine, thymine, and cytosine, the four nucleobases of DNA) children are conceived through genetic manipulation to guarantee they possess the best hereditary traits of their parents. The main character was conceived outside the program and fights to overcome genetic discrimination. Characters battle with society and themselves to find what their place in the world is and who they are destined to be according to their genes. This way, the movie is able to draw attention over reproductive technologies and the possible consequences of such technological developments for society.\nBy allowing this treatment, are we going towards a dystopian society like these ones described?\nOn the other hand, despite all the concerns that the treatment involves should the evolution of science be stopped? If it would be fully regulated and the consequences well studied, why should this treatment be stopped? Why should not these mothers be allowed to have access to this known treatment? Most people have the desire to have their DNA related children and this treatment seems the only option for these women, also stopping the disease of being passed on to their future generations.\nMedical researchers defend that the debated modification does not affect fundamental DNA, the one that will determine individual\u2019s characteristics such as facial features or eye colour. Therefore what it is under discussion are not designed babies but a treatment of several diseases.\nMerriam-Webster (2014). Merriam-Webster. Retrieved January 18, 2014, from http://www.merriamwebster.com/dictionary/dystopia.\nOxford Dictionaries (2014). Oxford University Press. Retrieved January 18, 2014, from http://www.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/english/dystopia?q=dystopia\nBrave New World, http://www.huxley.net/\nGattaca (1997), http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0119177/\nEssays, UK. (November 2018). Three Parent Families: Advantages and Disadvantages. Retrieved from https://www.ukessays.com/essays/sciences/parent-families-advantages-7044.php?vref=1\n\"Three Parent Families: Advantages and Disadvantages.\" UKEssays.com. 11 2018. All Answers Ltd. 02 2019 .\n\"Three Parent Families: Advantages and Disadvantages.\" All Answers Ltd. ukessays.com, November 2018. Web. 17 February 2019. .\nUKEssays. November 2018. Three Parent Families: Advantages and Disadvantages. [online]. 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The Oxford Dictionary defined discrimination as the unwarranted or hurtful treatment of different groups of people, especially on the grounds of gender, race or age. Coping is defined as a change in cognitive and behaviour to evade harmful event. Discrimination affects an individual physically, mentally and emotionally. Studies have shown that discrimination can lead to depression. However, there have been various coping behaviours that have been identified to help victims of discrimination. Further studies need to be conducted to address other types of discriminations such as old age, disabled, workplace and others.\nKeywords: Racial Discrimination, Gender Discrimination, Coping Behaviours\nDiscrimination and Coping\nDiscrimination has been present for hundreds and hundreds of years. Discrimination is defined as the unwarranted or hurtful treatment of different groups of people, especially on the basis of gender, race or age by the Oxford Dictionary. Acts of discrimination can be witnessed through many historical events such as the Holocaust, where the Jews were discriminated and murdered because the German\u2019s believed that they were superior. Not only that but, the blacks were also a target of discriminatory acts during the Civil War where they were forced to become slaves. However, there are various ways to cope with discrimination. Coping is defined as a change in cognitive and behaviour to evade harmful events (Rantanen, Mauno, Kinnunen & Rantanen, 2011). There are many causes of discrimination.\nIn the western world, history is marked by BC and AD, however there was a third category which is 9/11. 9/11 marked a very tragic day in the history of United States as that was the day when the al-Qaeda launched an attack on the United States by hijacking planes and crashing them into the World Trade Center and The Pentagon. Post 9/11 witnessed a rapid increase and all time high report of discrimination, hate crimes and religion profiling (Ahluwalia & Pellettiere, 2010). Many Sikhs became the target of prejudicial and discriminatory act as they resembled the appearance of the terrorist whom wore turbans. Turbans are worn by the Sikh as a sign of faith. Therefore the Sikhs became the target of racial discrimination due to the media constantly and continuously portraying images of suspected terrorist wearing turbans. (Ahluwalia & Pellettiere, 2010).\nNot only that, but it was mandatory that baptized Sikhs carry a kirpan. Kirpans are dagger liked shaped and is a symbol of peace and truth. There were such cases where the Sikhs residing in United States were sacked, downgraded, placed under probation and even came across false criminal charges due to them carrying the kirpan (Ahluwalia & Pellettiere, 2010). Due such unexpected events occurring, the Sikhs were forced to go against all their believes in order to lead a risk-free life. No stones were left unturned post 9/11 as the innocent Sikh children experienced the backlash of this event. Majority of the Sikh students in New York testified to being abused at schools due to their religion and country of origin (Ahluwalia & Pellettiere, 2010).\nThe September 11 attacks did not only impact the lives of the Sikhs in the United States in a negative way, but also the Muslims. A good number of atrocities took place on the streets, in convenience stores, petrol stations, educational institutions and at mosques (Abu-Raiya, Pargament & Mahoney, 2011). Many Muslims reported that they stayed indoors as they feared that they would be a victim of hate crime. Not only that, but many Muslims were concerned about their future in the country (Abu-Raiya et al., 2011).\nDue to the sudden change in their environment, the Sikhs and Muslims had to find various coping methods to overcome these negative outcomes. Various research discovered that the Sikh would seek out assistance from their family, community and faith before pursuing mental health facilities (Ahluwalia & Pellettiere, 2010). The pious Sikhs seek assistance from their holy scripture the Guru Granth Sahib. This holy scripture taught them to oppress the feeling of being a victim and take control of the situation when undergoing superficial suffering such as discrimination and biasness. On the other hand, there were many Sikh men who decided that they could no longer handle the constant abuse and discrimination and made drastic changes against their culture such as cutting their hair and choosing to not wear turbans.\nSimilar to the Sikhs, the Muslims depended extensively on coping method related to religion such as reciting scriptures, praying and forgiveness. Research evidence found that religious behaviour increased post 9/11 attacks. There were two patterns in regard to religious coping; one pattern was positive religious coping methods and another was negative religious coping methods (Abu-Raiya et al., 2011). Researchers concluded that positive religious coping resulted in posttraumatic development whereas negative religious coping resulted in loneliness and mental instability (Abu-Raiya et al., 2011)\nAsian Americans were also a target of discriminatory act pre 9/11. From way back then when Asians first stepped foot in America till now they have been faced with racism and discrimination. One might consider that discrimination against Asian-Americans might reduce as their population gets larger, however, that is not accurate. Asian-Americans are faced with discrimination on a day-to-day basis right from discriminatory terms to physical abuse (Yoo & Lee, 2005). Research validates that ethnic identity operates as a vital psychological asset that allows ethnic and racial minorities to fight against racial discrimination (Yoo & Lee, 2005). Therefore, we can see that having a strong ethnic identity and believe in one\u2019s culture can help an individual overcome discrimination.\nAnother study investigated the relationship between racial discrimination stress and depressive symptoms and various coping strategies. Research suggested that the understanding of the intricacy in the involvement between perceived discrimination and health can be broadened by combining other factors into the model (Wei, Heppner, Ku, Liao, 2010). Racism and discrimination can negatively have an impact on the psychological health of their victims. Asian Americans very often encounter prejudicial insults, intentionally and unintentionally ( Alvarez & Juang, 2010). Continuous exposure to such insults and actions can take a toll on a person. It was reported that continuous taunting were positively correlated with depression ( Alvarez & Juang, 2010).\nThe level of coping with discrimination can be influenced by several extrinsic factors such as how frequent the discrimination occurs, the period discrimination occurs and the various types of coping behaviours either before or after the event. Research evidence also presented a previous study that was conducted by Noh and colleagues (1999, 2003) whom investigated both the individualistic coping behaviour of the Western culture (active coping) and the collectivistic coping behaviour of the Eastern culture (forbearance coping) (Wei et al., 2010). Noh and Kaspar (2003) identified that active coping helped decrease the perceived racial discrimination on depression for Korean Canadian immigrants. It can be concluded that Asian Americans should learn to practice active coping strategies by viewing the stressor in a positive way that will help develop their mental health.\nApproach-type coping is another coping strategy that can be utilized to overcome the after effects of discrimination. This is then categorized into three common forms which are social support seeking, cognitive restructuring and problem solving.Social support seeking is defined participating in behaviour directed at gaining emotional support from others (Yoo & Lee, 2005). For example, an individual should open up about how they are feeling instead of oppressing everything inside. Another type of coping strategy is cognitive restructuring. Cognitive restructuring is defined as tactics that alter the significance of the harmful event and make an effort to perceive it in a positive way (Yoo & Lee, 2005). For example, an individual should view a discriminatory act as motivating and not de-motivating. Not only that, but problem solving is another coping strategy that is defined as participating in behaviour oriented at solving an issue (Yoo & Lee, 2005).\nSimilar to other studies, families play a very crucial role in helping victims of discrimination cope with their lives. Asian Americans have a tendency to cope with racial discrimination by communicating and socializing with their family members (Wei et al., 2010). Many cultures have faith in their religion and often turn to spiritual coping. However, it was discovered that Asian Americans did not patronize their religion and spirituality and reported it to be not constructive in coping with discrimination (Wei et al., 2010). This could be due to Asian Americans feeling more comfortable and protected with verbal support as compared to spiritual and mental support.\nOther studies reported different types of coping behaviour. One study extensively classified coping as either problem focused or emotion focused. Problem-focused coping would require a confrontation with the offender whereas, emotion-focused coping would require pursuing social support (Alvarez & Juang, 2010).\nWorkplace sexual harassment is also a form of discrimination. Woman are more prone to this type of discrimination as they are often seen as the weaker half. Sexual harassment has been proved to negatively affect workers psychological and physical health. Not only that, but it has been identified that sexual harassment ended with female workers undergoing deterioration in their physical and emotional well-being ( Schneider, Swan & Fitzgerald, 1997).\nFemale workers often turn to various coping strategies to cope with workplace discrimination. Research implies that women do not use direct coping strategies such as confronting the harasser. Not only that, but it is proven that female students who undergo workplace discrimination often change plans, change workplace in order to avoid being further discriminated (Schneider et al., 1997)\nAnother discrimination that should be addressed other than racial discrimination is sexual discrimination. The current era has a predisposed thought that same-sex couples are very distinct from heterosexual couples. To the contrary, the faithful relationships of same-sex couples are recognized by same or parallel characteristics of heterosexual couples. However, many same-sex couples are distinguished by stigma and are confronted with discriminatory acts countless times (Rotosky, Riggle, Gray & Hatton, 2007).\nMany individuals are not able to accept the fact that the number of same-sex couples is growing and it will soon become a common thing around the world. Just because two people of the same gender love each other does not make them any less of a human. In spite of this, same-sex couples undergo tremendous amount of discrimination from their family and religion. Religious and legal institutions have discriminated same-sex couples by saying that they are going to burn in hell because of their intimate relationship. These institutions that are the basics of every culture does not want to recognize that two people of the same gender can have an intimate bond (Rotosky et al., 2007).\nWhen the discrimination against same-sex couples started becoming more and more prolific, it took a toll on them. These couples found it difficult to carry on with their everyday lives as their community and people around them made them feel like they were a cursed human-being. These couples had to gradually find ways to cope with this growing problem. The first step to coping for various couples was self-acceptance, by accepting themselves as sexual minority and seeing their relationship in a positive way. Another step was by originating a support systems made up of family members, friends and other same-sex couples (Rotosky et al., 2007).\nThe studies aforementioned discuss racial discrimination and sexual discrimination and the various coping strategies to cope with it. In order to improve the understanding of discrimination and it\u2019s detrimental effect on an individual\u2019s health, further studies needs to be conducted. Not only that, but other types of discrimination such as discrimination against the old age, discrimination against the disabled, workplace discrimination and others should be addressed.\nEssays, UK. (November 2018). Different Types Of Discrimination And Coping Social Work Essay. Retrieved from https://www.ukessays.com/essays/social-work/different-types-of-discrimination-and-coping-social-work-essay.php?vref=1\n\"Different Types Of Discrimination And Coping Social Work Essay.\" UKEssays.com. 11 2018. All Answers Ltd. 02 2019 .\n\"Different Types Of Discrimination And Coping Social Work Essay.\" All Answers Ltd. ukessays.com, November 2018. Web. 17 February 2019. .\nUKEssays. November 2018. Different Types Of Discrimination And Coping Social Work Essay. [online]. 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Other dogs and animals are not permitted.\nAttendees who find queuing for long periods of time difficult can use the priority queue for fast-track entry into the convention. This will be clearly signposted and members of the UK PonyCon team will be on hand to assist. Please note however, that you will not be admitted to the event before the advertised admittance time for your ticket type. If you feel you need any extra assistance or somewhere to sit down, please don't hesitate to ask a member of the UK PonyCon team who will be more than willing to help.\nWheelchair users and their personal assistant(s) are entitled to take seats at the front of the event rooms, or within the priority seating areas. If you are unsure or find that there is no space available for you, please ask a member of the UK PonyCon team who will do their best to accommodate you.\nPlease contact us if you would like any more information and we'll be happy to provide it for you.\nVenue and Accessibility Guide\nFor the past two years we have put together a venue and Accessibility guide - for reference the 2018 guide is available to download here and the 2017 guide here. It is aimed at helping those attendees who would like additional information about the event and the venue so that they can plan and prepare themselves better. None of the UK PonyCon Committee are experts in this area, so please contact us if you have any questions that this guide does not address. We can also provide the guide in an alternative format upon request.\nWe'd like to thank Nine Worlds Geekfest for inspiration for this guide.\nFree tickets for personal assistants (or carers) of disabled attendees are only available by emailing us after purchasing the appropriate ticket(s) for the attendee and the rest of your group. They are not available on-the-door.\nThe personal assistant ticket is valid for the same duration as the attendee's ticket and is equivalent to a standard ticket. Children aged 13 and under at the time of the event must be accompanied by a paying adult.\nIf the attendee has purchased a VIP ticket, the personal assistant is also entitled to early entry and priority seating when accompanying the attendee, however they will not receive any other benefits of the VIP ticket. If the personal assistant wishes to take advantage of any other benefits of the VIP ticket, they should purchase one for themselves as well.\nWe will ask that you provide us with proof of eligibility before a personal assistant ticket will be issued. 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The event is April 25-27, with tickets available starting Feb. 15.\nArchaeological Research at Ancient Maya Site Spans Three Decades\nUNLV\u2019s Diane and Arlen Chase engage in fieldwork and new technologies to uncover Maya history at Caracol, Belize.\nLearning from the Last of the Hunter-Gatherers\nThe UNLV anthropology student Trevor Pollom's research in nutrition took him to Africa as a tribe transitions to cultivated crops.\nSecond Chance for Second City Real Estate\n2008 Alumna Alison Victoria starts her second show about her first love.\nNewsmakers 2018: People\nA collection of stories highlighting UNLV students and faculty who made the news in 2018.\nThe PRACTICE Receives $1 Million Gift from Workday, Inc.\nBarbara Roth Named Vice Provost for Faculty Affairs\nCollege of Liberal Arts Hosts \u201cRebel for a Day\u201d Recruitment Event\nFormer Dean Makes $50,000 Gift to Recognize Senior Faculty Research\nLiberal Arts Finishes Among Top Colleges During Inaugural Day of Giving\nDr. Jennifer Keene Named as Interim Dean for the College of Liberal Arts\nIdentifying the remains of the unknown\nFeb. 15, 2019 | Las Vegas Sun\nFeb. 14, 2019 | Fox News\nDiaz picks up big endorsements, but challengers say D.C. matters less\nFeb. 13, 2019 | Las Vegas Review Journal\nNotable: Elizabeth Lawrence\nHonors: Matthew Dentice\nPublished: Karen Harry and Barbara Roth\nSubmit an Accomplishment More Accomplishments\nAssociate Professor of Interdisciplinary Studies\nPeter B. Gray\nNerses Kopalyan\nAssistant Professor-in-Residence of Political Science\nJoin the Directory More Experts\nFeb 20: Writing Center Workshops: MLA, APA, and others\nWriting Center Workshops: MLA, APA, and others\nFeb 21: Alternate Pathways to Graduate & Professional Schools\nAlternate Pathways to Graduate & Professional Schools\nFeb 22: Shades of Brown: Domestic Workers in the Global City\nShades of Brown: Domestic Workers in the Global City\nMac Macdonald, '71 BA Psychology, was chosen to be one of the speakers during the 70th-year commemorations of the D-Day landings in Normandy, France. Speaking to several hundred international high school students at the Colville Cemetery, he warned about the addiction to cell phone and entertainment options versus contributing to society through volunteerism, engagement, and participation. \"World War II is a fading memory, and the stunning success-against-all-odds of that Allied effort against Hitler's Atlantic fortress is something to be remembered and honored. Civic participation, civil discourse, voter participation, and upholding the values outlined by our Founding Fathers is what those service people died for.\" He presents slideshows around the country at various conferences showing the re-enactors who annually return to Normandy to honor the sacrifices of their relatives. June 6, 2019, will mark the 75th anniversary of D-Day. A corporate trainer in Seattle, he lives in Sequim.\nDahn Shaulis, '93 Master of Exercise Physiology, '98 PhD Sociology, continues to conduct research focusing on higher education and college choice in his College Meltdown blog. His work includes research on savage inequalities in the K-12 pipeline, lower college enrollments, the student loan debt crisis, subprime colleges, and the adjunct crisis. His latest essay for the Military Times was \"8 Tips to Help Vets Pick the Right College. He lives in Pleasantville, New Jersey.\nJulie Gorriz\nJulie Gorriz, '06 BA English, has been working for more than a year at the Bakery Gallery in Yerington. She lives in Smith.\nBrittany Walker, '09 BA Political Science, recently was appointed by President Donald Trump to serve in his administration, working with the assistant secretary for administration in the U. S. Department of Housing and Urban Development in Washington, D.C. A lawyer, she graduated from Thomas Jefferson School of Law in 2013.\nHerb Santos\nHerb Santos, '85 BA Sociology, has been selected as the 2018 Trial Lawyer of the Year. A 1991 graduate of the McGeorge School of Law at the University of the Pacific, he lives in Reno.\nMelissa Waite, '03 BA Psychology, '07 JD and '07 MBA, has joined the Las Vegas office of Dickson Wright. Her practice focuses on licensing, compliance, business transactions, and real estate transactions. It extends to business and private licensing, including those clients from the liquor, gaming, auto dealership, and transportation industries. Most recently, she has become involved with licensing and compliance for medical and retail marijuana establishments in Nevada, and emerging legal issues related to marijuana businesses. She is a member of the American Bar Association, the State Bar of Nevada, the National Cannabis Bar Association, the Clark County Bar Association, and the Southern Nevada Association of Women Attorneys. She also is a member of the Alumni Leadership Circle and the Dean\u2019s Council of the William S. Boyd School of Law.\nJamie Bichelman\nJamie Bichelman, '13 BA Psychology, is a public information officer and department spokesperson for a government agency in Carson City. He is wrapping up a master\u2019s degree and has learned a new language. He also has become a strong social voice for advocating a vegan and animal cruelty-free lifestyle. Proceeds from his photo shoots go to organizations assisting victims of domestic violence. In his free time he enjoys running and hiking.\nMarjorie Vielka Landron\nMarjorie Vielka Landron, '13 BA Interdisciplinary Studies, is the CEO of the Healing Tree Wellness Center, a behavioral and mental health center; CEO of The Healing Tree - Regenerative Therapies, a stem cell and IV hydration clinic; and CEO of Power Moves, BT, a nonprofit designed to raise funds for people in need of medical advancements that are not covered by insurance. She also is co-partner of Information Opportunities, a consultation firm focused on catering to business needs in insurance, medical, or behavioral necessities. After leaving UNLV, she earned a master's degree in social work with a concentration in mental health. Currently a doctoral student at Arizona State University, she received a Rising Star award in the social work field in 2016 from the National Association of Social Workers and a commendation from U.S. Sen. Harry Reid. She enjoys Reiki, meditation, and playing poker.\nLuke Cavener, '05 BA Political Science and '05 BA Journalism and Media Studies, is director or government relations for the American Cancer Society cancer action network and a member of the Meridian (Idaho) City Council. He and his wife, Adrean, have two children, Gunner and Lincoln.\nRussell Leavitt\nRussell B. Leavitt, '78 BS History, recently received the Special Achievement Award from the National Fire Protection Association (NFPA). Leavitt is executive chairman of Telgian Holdings, a worldwide provider of comprehensive fire, security, and life safety consulting and engineering/design services. The award, which was presented during the technical committee session, celebrates the significant contribution of a committee member to a single project that has enhanced the NFPA standards development process. Leavitt\u2019s active role as chair of the NFPA 13 Restructuring Task Group for the 2019 edition led to the recognition. NFPA 13 is recognized globally as the benchmark standard for the design and installation of fire sprinkler systems. The reformatted NFPA 13 is designed to make this widely used document easier to use and interpret for non-expert users. Over the course of 18 months, Leavitt exhibited incredible dedication to the project, attention to essential details, and strong leadership skills, according to Kerry Bell, Standards Council chair. Leavitt lives in Phoenix.\nThe College of Liberal Arts offers students a well-rounded education in the humanities and social sciences, and provides students with a solid foundation for a lifetime of learning and discovery. 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You can set mouse and rat traps but most mice have a good instinctual sense of traps and set-ups so occasionally stronger measures are needed.", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00240.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 148, + "original_length": 3229, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.95, + "perplexity": 322.9, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "https://www.utne.com/community/arbor-angels", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T04:06:47Z", + "digest": "sha1:G2377PXJKSG6YHDZGTDAB62ETEFVBIBF", + "length": 2297, + "nlines": 13, + "source_domain": "www.utne.com", + "title": "Arbor Angels", + "raw_content": "Arbor Angels\nHistory suggests that internal economic policies fight poverty best\nBy Dani Rodrik, TomPaine.com\nG8 nations talk as if the pairing of free trade and aid is the key to economic salvation for every country struggling with the realities of poverty. 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States' share will be over and above this,\" Indian Finance Minister Arun Jaitley said while communicating the Cabinet decision.\nHe further said: \"This can also be utilised to help the material component in MNREGA (Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act).\"\nThe decision was taken at the meeting of Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs (CCEA) headed by Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday.\nFor the current fiscal, he said the allocation is Rs 5,300 crore.\nThe spending this year is expected to bring an additional 6 lakh hectares under irrigation while 5 lakh hectares will benefit from drip irrigation. That apart, 1,300 watershed projects have been marked for completion.\nCurrently, 142 million hectares are used for cultivation, of which only 45 per cent farm land is under irrigation.\n\"The major objective of the PMKSY is to achieve convergence of investments in irrigation at the field level, expand cultivable area under assured irrigation (har khet ko pani), improve on-farm water use efficiency to reduce wastage of water, enhance adoption of precision-irrigation and other water-saving technologies (more crop per drop),\" he said.\nBesides, the FM said the scheme is aimed at enhancing recharge of aquifers and introducing sustainable water conservation practices by exploring feasibility of re-using treated municipal water for peri-urban agriculture and attracting greater private investment in precision irrigation.\n\"The scheme also aims at bringing ministries, departments, agencies, research and financial institutions engaged in creation/recycling/potential recycling of water under a common platform so that a comprehensive and holistic view of the entire \"water cycle\" is taken into account and proper water budgeting is done for all sectors,\" he said.\nThe programme architecture of PMKSY looks at a 'decentralised state-level planning and execution' structure in order to allow states to draw up a District Irrigation Plan (DIP) and a State Irrigation Plan (SIP), he said.\n\"DIP will have a holistic developmental perspective of the district outlining medium- to long-term developmental plans integrating three components namely, water sources, distribution network and water use application of the district to be prepared at two levels - the block and the district,\" he said.\nAll structures created under the schemes will be geo-tagged, he added.\nThe programme will be supervised and monitored at the national level by an Inter-Ministerial National Steering Committee (NSC) under the Chairmanship of the Prime Minister with the Union Ministers concerned.\nA National Executive Committee (NEC) is to be constituted under the Chairmanship of the Vice-Chairman, NITI Aayog, to oversee programme implementation, allocation of resources, inter-ministerial coordination, monitoring and performance assessment, addressing administrative issues and the like.\nIndian Government has allocated Rs 200 crore for three years to set up an online national agriculture market by integrating 585 wholesale markets across India -- a move that would help farmers realise better prices.\nThe Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs had on Wednesday approved a Central Sector Scheme for Promotion of National Agricultural Market through Agri-Tech Infrastructure Fund.\n\"An amount of Rs 200 crore has been earmarked for the scheme from 2015-16 to 2017-18,\" an official statement said.\nThe Department of Agriculture will set it up by creation of a common electronic platform deployable in selected regulated markets across the country.\n\"Now there will be one licence for entire state, there will be single point levy. There will be electronic auctions for price discovery. The impact will be that the entire state will become a market and the fragmented markets within the states would be abolished,\" Indian Finance Minister Arun Jaitley told reporters.\nUnder the scheme, 585 selected regulated markets would be covered. The plan is to cover 250 mandis in current fiscal, 200 mandis in 2016-17 and 135 mandis in 2017-18.\n\"Seamless transfer of agriculture commodities within the state can take place. The market size for farmers would increase as he won't be limited to a captive market,\" Jaitley said.\nThe Rs 200 crore allocations includes provision for supplying software free of cost by agriculture department to the states and UTs and for cost of related hardware/ infrastructure to be subsidised by the Centre up to Rs 30 lakh per Mandi (other than for private mandis).\nAgriculture Secretary Siraj Hussain informed that Madhya Pradesh, Chattisgarh, Orissa, Jharkhand and Gujarat have already agreed to join the Scheme, while west-Indian state Maharashtra and south-Indian state Andhra Pradesh are \"very keen\" to particuipate. Besides, the Centre is also in discussions with north-Indian state Uttar Pradesh.\nUnifying the markets both at state and the national level would provide better price to farmers, improve supply chain, reduce wastages and create a unified national market through provision of the common e-platform, the statement said.\nThe statement said 585 regulated markets across the country will be integrated with the common e-platform to provide farmers and traders with access to opportunities for purchase/sale of agri-commodities at optimal prices in a transparent manner.\nPrivate markets will also be allowed access to the e-platform thereby enhancing its outreach.\nJaitley said: \"Agriculture market is a state subject.\nThere are a lot of restrictions on movement of agriculture produce in the country. There are 585 regulated markets for the entire country. 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Tex.); (D. Del.) \u2014 Defending the world\u2019s leading provider of satellite television in a patent infringement case involving digital rights management and digital video recorder technologies\n(E.D. Tex.); (N.D. Cal.) \u2014 Defending a major wireless manufacturer and its leading wireless carrier in multiple cases relating to WiFi, 3G and 4G wireless technologies, including with respect to various modulation schemes employed\n(E.D. Tex.) \u2014 Defending a leading cellphone manufacturer in litigation regarding modem technology\n(E.D. Tex.); (N.D. Cal.) \u2014 Defending a major supplier of laptop computers in cases involving various components of laptop computers\n(E.D. Tex.) \u2014 Defending a major SDRAM manufacturer in litigation regarding voltage regulation and power-boosting technology\n(E.D. 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Physics, 1993\nAdmitted to practice: Texas; United States Patent and Trademark Office\nChambers USA, Intellectual Property (Texas), 2018\nSelected to the Rising Stars list, Super Lawyers (Thomson Reuters), 2012\nMember: Dallas Bar Association \u2013 Intellectual Property Section", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00240.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 344, + "original_length": 21595, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.92, + "perplexity": 257.1, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "https://www.videoarts.com/news/south-london-and-maudsley-nhs-pre-launch-events/", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T04:27:00Z", + "digest": "sha1:OAANVH33OGBDXK3SPSRYTWGCAY2IANMW", + "length": 1894, + "nlines": 8, + "source_domain": "www.videoarts.com", + "title": "South London and Maudsley NHS Launch Events | Video Arts", + "raw_content": "Why can\u2019t all e-learning be like this? It\u2019s short, funny and uses famous actors, I love it!\nEarlier this year, as part of a training day at South London & Maudsley NHS Trust, Video Arts held afternoon sessions to introduce learners to the Essentials e-learning courses; 22 short, snappy learning bites.\nAfter some less than positive e-learning experiences in the past, Rachel Perera, Head of Education and Training for a service at South London and Maudsley NHS, wanted to re-engage learners with online learning. 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Or, maybe more accurately\u2014and maybe worse\u2014he faced a bunch of New York hipster whining.\n\u201cPeople said it would never be the same, \u2018Now we have to go out to Brooklyn,'\u201d Kasenic says over shots of espresso in the spacious living room of his Williamsburg loft, which he shares with photographer and promoter Seze Devres. \u201cBut it could have always existed in Williamsburg. It took a bit of time to find a new crowd, but eventually some of the kids who were hanging out in the Lower East Side and couldn\u2019t be bothered going to Brooklyn were replaced by all the young people in this neighborhood.\u201d\nRight now, hordes of kids are tuned into the Skrillex-led new wave of U.S. rave. The Bunker isn\u2019t exactly a mass-market kind of event: Kasenic hasn\u2019t seen much of that particular crowd come in, at least not yet. But though the Bunker\u2019s crowd is ever-shifting, it\u2019s also loyal. \u201cThe party\u2019s makeup is always changing, which I think is good,\u201d he says. \u201cIn order to keep this thing going, we need to have new people coming and getting into techno.\u201d\nHe has been there himself. Kasenic grew up in Pittsburgh, where he got involved with WRCT, the radio station at Carnegie Mellon University, while still in high school. \u201cThis was 1993, so you couldn\u2019t just go on YouTube and SoundCloud and go, \u2018I\u2019m interested in hearing what Aphex Twin sounds like,'\u201d he says. \u201cTo have access to all this history of alternative, experimental music was a big deal for me.\u201d\nKasenic spent the 1995\u201396 school year going to Rutgers, then transferred to NYU: \u201cI was in New York every weekend, weekdays. I was like: \u2018I can\u2019t stay here in New Jersey. It\u2019s just ridiculous.'\u201d\nAs DJ Spinoza, Kasenic began spinning out in the city\u2014early gigs included Soundlab, an incubator of the mid-\u201990s \u201cillbient\u201d wave led by DJ Olive and DJ Spooky. \u201cThe Soundlab parties were a big deal to me,\u201d Kasenic says. \u201cEventually, I started to see DJs play after-hours at Save the Robots. They would have a trip-hop room, a drum-and-bass room, and a techno room with Khan and all the Temple guys. Then I started shopping at [New York DJ shop] Temple [and realized]: This is what I really, really like.\u201d\nAt the beginning of 2003, Kasenic and DJ/producer Timeblind (born Chris Sattinger, now living in Berlin) took over the weekly party at Subtonic, the Polar Bear Club, and started focusing on local techno DJs and acts. By 2006, Kasenic was booking international acts. (DJ Zip and Sammy Dee of the storied minimal-techno label Perlon made a particularly memorable appearance that fall.) By July 2007, the party was installed at Galapagos (now known as Public Assembly), and the crowds began to increase. This Friday, Kasenic celebrates the Bunker\u2019s ninth anniversary with a show headlined by Chicago house king Derrick Carter, returning Bunker regular (and recent Berlin transplant) Derek Plaslaiko, and Detroit-indebted Dutch veteran Legowelt.\nBy the time Kasenic moved the party to Williamsburg, the Bunker had acquired a reputation as New York\u2019s premier underground dance event. That\u2019s less the case now, as more parties, some of which directly compete with the Bunker, have popped up. On December 2, for instance, Blkmarket Membership hosted Berlin\u2019s Robag Wruhme and DJ Koze, Good Units threw a party for Crosstown Rebels (the dance label of 2011), and Pacha\u2019s headliner was minimal-techno favorite Loco Dice. Five years ago, that many big dance-music headliners appearing on one night in New York would have been unthinkable. Today, it\u2019s the norm, and the Bunker has a lot to do with it.\n\u201cIt\u2019s a huge shift, and it seems like we\u2019re not even at the peak yet,\u201d Kasenic says. \u201cEvery month, someone\u2019s inviting me to some Facebook event with the kind of artist who would normally play the Bunker. That\u2019s something I think about a lot but try not to think about a lot. New York is such a type-A city\u2014there\u2019s nothing you can do. The main thing I try to do is differentiate myself through the quality of production and the kind of crowds we\u2019re pulling.\u201d\nTake the December 2 Bunker, subtitled \u201cNo Way Back.\u201d With DJs in Public Assembly\u2019s back room, the front room hosted live performances from non-dance outliers such as Keith Fullerton Whitman, Mountains, and Container\u2014a daring move in a competitive market.\n\u201cI was trying to experiment on that night,\u201d Kasenic says. \u201cI\u2019ve been getting into this new wave of synthesizer experimental music where they seem to be going for this meditative yet super-psychedelic sound. It\u2019s rooted in the super-DIY noise scene: Somebody playing this beautiful old synthesizer, with a broad spectrum of sound, out of a guitar amp. It\u2019s really brightly lit, and there\u2019s somebody DJing punk rock songs between bands. I really wanted to see that music presented properly in New York, just to see what happened. There weren\u2019t as many people as I\u2019d hoped for, but the people who did show up [said]: \u2018This is amazing. This is what needs to be happening in New York.'\u201d\nKeeping things interesting is a big part of Kasenic\u2019s mandate, and the Bunker\u2019s anniversary parties are crucial to his strategy. Last year, the eighth anniversary bash featured the legendary Scottish duo Optimo in the front room and Italy\u2019s Donato Dozzy in the back for a full eight hours apiece. Plaslaiko, who played the after-hours in the upstairs loft for another eight, helped secure Carter for the nine-year party as well, says Kasenic: \u201cHe said: \u2018Dude, I\u2019m going to [Berlin\u2019s] Panoramabar tonight to hang out with him. Why don\u2019t I just ask?\u2019 He talked him into it.\u201d\nIt couldn\u2019t have been difficult. Ultimately, the Bunker\u2019s draw is the night\u2019s\u2014and its founder\u2019s\u2014sensibility. \u201cI worked at a record store,\u201d Kasenic says. \u201cI worked in college radio. I grew up going to see bands and going to noise shows. I\u2019m not really coming at this from a clubber\u2019s perspective, even though I did go out to Twilo, and I\u2019ve been to raves, and I\u2019ve been to parties in Detroit, and I appreciate all that. [For] a lot of the artists, it\u2019s why these guys love the party so much. They\u2019re that kind of person.\u201d\nThe Bunker\u2019s ninth anniversary party takes place at Public Assembly on Friday. 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However, all our fantastic fabrics in this category are already live; please just use the search bar at the top or go to the \"all cotton fabric\" category to find them.", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00240.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 351, + "original_length": 5607, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.92, + "perplexity": 334.2, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "https://www.vitabakingmixes.com/uncategorized/dont-look-anywhere-else-until-you-read-these-great-tips-about-muscle-building/", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T03:58:05Z", + "digest": "sha1:UR37DCWKJDOKKW55CW2BFPOB44IEXHHV", + "length": 3702, + "nlines": 12, + "source_domain": "www.vitabakingmixes.com", + "title": "Don't Look Anywhere Else Until You Read These Great Tips About Muscle Building - Vita Baking Mixes", + "raw_content": "You see them on magazines and on TV, men and women who look like their arms and legs will explode as their muscles are so huge! There is no need for you to take your body to that level if you don\u2019t wish to, as the simple strategies in this article will help you to build muscle in a healthy manner.\nEating enough carbohydrates is crucial for building muscle. Carbs give your body the fuel it needs to do the exercise you have to do every day. A good formula for your carb consumption is to eat two or three grams per every pound of your weight.\nDo not attempt extreme cardio training with weight training. Done within reason, this combo can be truly beneficial for your health, but when done in extreme fashions can contradict one another minimizing the results that you see from either one of them. Pick one to focus on and stay committed to working on it regularly.\nWhen doing crunches to build abdominal muscle it is important to keep your neck protected. When doing crunches a great way to protect your neck is to push your tongue up against the roof of the mouth. This will help you to align your head and reduce the amount of strain you put on your neck.\nSpread your workouts out so that you are only lifting weights every other day. Spend one day working out your entire body, and then use the next day to rest. Your muscles will grow while you rest, not while you are working out. Even though it might feel like you are doing nothing on your days off, your body is still working hard.\nA great tip for growing muscle that is often overlooked is getting an adequate amount of sleep. Your body heals itself and changes while sleeping. Therefore, if you don\u2019t get enough of it, you aren\u2019t allowing your body the chance to do these things. If you are working out hard, aim for at least eight hours of sleep, if not more.\nSet short-term and long-term goals. While you should have an idea of what you want to look like eventually, you will only reach that goal by sticking to smaller goals. For instance, try doing just two more bicep curls in your next workout. If you hit a plateau, do not worry. This happens to everyone. Give it time, and you will see progress soon.\nYou can keep your workouts fresh and bolster your motivation levels by changing up your routine from time to time. Keep in mind that a new routine will need a little trial-and-error time in order to fine tune its performance. Designing an effective routine is serious business. So, don\u2019t rebuild your whole routine more than three or four times a year.\nMake sure you eat foods that are high in protein before doing your workout. Take in 20 grams of whey protein before you work out. This will speed up muscle recovery time and prevent your muscles from being burned during your workout.\nYou should choose exercises adapted to your level. You have to understand that the average person cannot train like a professional bodybuilder. Be realistic about your body type and health to develop a routine that will not exhaust you or damage your muscles. As you progress, you will be able to transform your routine.\nDrink as much water as you can before and after your workouts to put yourself in the best position to feel comfortable when you exercise. Additionally, water helps to get rid yourself of the toxins and free radicals in your body that can cause stress and fatigue as you lift heavy weights.\nStrong, toned arms or legs can look amazing. Not only will you look great, but you\u2019ll be better able to carry heavy objects or work for longer periods of time without tiring. The best part is that a toned body is less susceptible to disease. 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I work as a technician and accepted the job because it combines my interest in instructional education and computer hardware and software troubleshooting. It also pays well above what I\u2019ve earned in the past.\nI\u2019m a woman, and my teammates are all men. I\u2019m feeling uncomfortable, but not because of the guy-to-girl ratio (4:1). It\u2019s because I feel like all of my actions are being scrutinized under a microscope. I understand that this is a high-demand field. I\u2019ve worked in schools before, but never as part of a team. So I\u2019ve been introduced to things like team meetings and monthly feedback reports.\nLately, whenever I get feedback, I feel like my teammates are \u201cfishing\u201d for things I\u2019ve done wrong. For example, the latest feedback was about what the expression on my face conveys. Help?\nDear Judged,\nThanks for an interesting question. It combines a thought-provoking mix of issues: succeeding as a new employee, responding to feedback, and dealing with unconscious bias. I\u2019ll suggest a few approaches.\nSucceeding as a New Employee. Congratulations on your new job. It\u2019s also a great opportunity for laying the grassroots of a successful career. Here is my advice:\nCreate your Personal Brand. Your brand is your reputation\u2014the image you project. You need to take charge to make it the right brand. Our research for Change Anything uncovered three elements that are essential to your brand:\nYou know your stuff. In your case, this means that you are seen as a master of the different technologies you support. If you aren\u2019t already a master, then put in the time and effort it takes to quickly rise to the challenge.\nYou work on the right stuff. This means that you focus on high-priority, mission-critical tasks, rather than staying in your comfort zone.\nYou have a reputation for being helpful. People need to see you as generous with your time and expertise.\nBuild Relationships. Reach out to build relationships beyond your immediate team. Schedule two to three appointments per week with your customers\u2014teachers and administrators\u2014across the school. Ask them about their priorities related to the technology services your team provides. Listen for improvements they\u2019d like to see, and take notes. Try to find at least one concrete action you can take to respond to their suggestions.\nAt the same time, work to build stronger relationships within your team. This is where you need to build your reputation for being helpful. Volunteer for the tough jobs, pitch in when you see a teammate putting in extra time or effort, and ask others how you can help.\nGet a Mentor. Find a person who is willing to both challenge you and advocate for you. This could be a teacher or administrator, or it could be your manager. The essential ingredients in the relationship are safety and trust. You need someone who can help you navigate the political complexities of your new job.\nResponding to Feedback. You are getting a lot more feedback than you\u2019re used to, and it feels as if people are using a microscope to search for negative things to say. How should you deal with their criticisms? Here are a few suggestions.\nAvoid Defending. It\u2019s hard not to defend, especially when criticisms seem picky, unfair, or inaccurate. But do your best to become curious, instead of defensive. Respond with, \u201cHmmm. That\u2019s interesting. Can you give me an example, so I can understand it better?\u201d\nSeek Clarity. Often, when feedback feels unfair, the real problem is that it\u2019s vague. A person says, \u201cYou\u2019re not very customer-focused,\u201d when what they mean is, \u201cAfter yesterday\u2019s service call, you didn\u2019t check back to see if your solution solved all of their problems.\u201d Getting down to specifics will take the heat out of the feedback, and will also make it easier to act on.\nGo Public. Here is a secret: People will continue to send you feedback until they are sure you\u2019ve gotten the message. So, once you\u2019ve decided how to respond to a piece of feedback, make your plans public. Going public communicates that you\u2019ve taken the feedback seriously, have made changes, and that the person who gave you the feedback can move on.\nDealing with Unconscious Bias. As a woman in a team of men, you stand out. You get noticed. And, because we humans have our assumptions, your successes may seem a bit surprising to some, and your failures may seem a bit confirming. In addition, you may find that the work environment has been optimized for its prior residents\u2014all men. How should you deal with these kinds of bias?\nWe recently studied the damaging effects of bias and found that subtle biases like what you describe are pervasive and soul-destroying. I am sorry you find yourself in this kind of environment. Luckily, there are skills you can use to confront what is likely an unconscious bias. I\u2019ll suggest three from our Crucial Conversations book and training.\nSpeak Up. Don\u2019t just grin and bear it. When you experience an interaction that leaves you wondering\u2014like feedback about what the expression on your face conveys\u2014step out of the content and have a conversation about your concerns. \u201cCan I talk about what we\u2019re talking about? I\u2019ve noticed a pattern. Sometimes you give me feedback that seems more personal than the feedback you give each other. For example, feedback about my clothes, my glasses, and now my expressions. As men, do you ever receive feedback from each other on these things?\u201d The goal is to begin an open, honest, and respectful dialogue that builds understanding and respect.\nMake it Safe. Avoid labeling or accusing others. Instead, assume that people have positive intentions unless proven otherwise. Achieving a better outcome for the future requires that we help others and ourselves feel safe while addressing uncomfortable issues. For example, you might begin with, \u201cI don\u2019t think you realize how that came across . . .\u201d\nState My Path. Skilled individuals are careful to describe their concerns absent the judgments and accusations the rest of us hold when we speak up. For example, replace, \u201cWhat you said was sexist and abusive,\u201d with, \u201cLast Friday, you said, \u2018That\u2019s the last time I send a woman to do a man\u2019s job.\u2019\u201d Describe what really just happened\u2014no apologies, no self-repression, no accusations, and no indictments. Begin with the detailed facts, tentatively suggest what the facts mean to you, then invite others to a dialogue where you both can learn. For a recap of these skills, watch our latest Crucial Skills Live video below.\nI know this is a lot to process, but that\u2019s what you get when you ask a really good question! I hope you find a few nuggets in my response that will help.\nPrevious PostStaff Drama in Healthcare Puts Patients at RiskNext PostKerrying On: A Memorial Day Message\n12 thoughts on \u201cTips to Battle Unconscious Bias\u201d\nwhen people in power are scrutinizing you under a microscope, all you can do \u2013 is run\u2026there is no cure with bias..no matter what you do, even if you are trillion times brilliant \u2013 will be turned into negative, which will eventually get your stress hormone \u2013 cortisol either too high or too low\u2026and if it is too low \u2013 you can make a mistake, and it will damage your image, and if it is too high \u2013 it will affect your ability to sleep and might at the end affect the condition of your heart\u2026the scrutinizing microscope \u2013 is a skillful career murderer trick in the work-place\u2026\nI see a difference between intentional and unintentional bias. Intentional, purposeful bias needs to be addressed as a disciplinary matter. Document times, places, and circumstances. Use quotes of what was said. Compile this evidence, and bring it to HR. Have a \u201cPlan B\u201d in case HR doesn\u2019t want to take action.\nI assumed in this question that the bias was unintentional, probably unconscious, which doesn\u2019t make it less painful.\nI agree, in part. When you put a microscope on someone, you will see flaws. It\u2019s inevitable. When you treat them as flawed, you can create a self-fulfilling prophecy.\nHowever, I want to distinguish between intentional and unintentional bias. Conscious, purposeful discrimination is alive and well, and needs to be treated as a discipline/legal problem. Collect the evidence. Document the places, times, and circumstances. Use quotes to capture what was said. If possible, get verification from witnesses. Then take your evidence to HR.\nI was assuming that that the bias in this particular question was more unintentional and unconscious. In these cases I\u2019m more optimistic that it can be solved.\nHave you seen it differently?\nI agree that whenever you are under a microscope, people will discover you have flaws\u2013and may focus on them. In the worst case, their actions become even more negative, and create a self-fulfilling prophecy.\nHowever, I want to draw a bright line between Intentional and Unintentional Bias.\nIntentional Bias is very real and damaging. Collect the evidence. Document the places, times, people, and circumstances where it occurs. Use quotes to capture what is said. Involve others as witnesses whenever possible. Then take your evidence to HR.\nUnintentional Bias is far more pervasive, and can also be incredibly hurtful. But I\u2019m a lot more confident it can be solved\u2013or at least managed, using some of the skills I discussed here.\nT. Stinnett says:\nThe advice is spot on for the writer. However, I am thinking about the juxtaposition of a female IT team member, at an all-girls school, given feedback on facial expressions by male supervisor /team members. In the bigger picture, I suspect their unexamined biases of theses adults in the school are likely apparent to students and other female staff as well. Seek out a mentor outside of the IT group, preferably a long time teacher, who loves her/his job and environment at the school.\nThe one area that you did not address is whether the accusations of bias are in fact well-founded. Perhaps the criticisms are real and only perceived as biased.\nYes, criticism is hard to take, and believing it is bias, not fact, could be a defense. I hope the advice I gave for responding to criticism (avoid defending, seek clarity, and go public with your changes) will help.\nRalph Parker says:\nMy spiritual path refers to that response as answering with equanimity. Well done!! Parker\nJoe Magid says:\nRe: Schedule two to three appointments per week with your customers\nI\u2019d tread a bit carefully on this suggestion if it is not already standard practice for the team. If the \u201cmen\u201d don\u2019t already do this, they should, but you doing it, seemingly out of the blue, may have them seeing you as trying to show them up or rock the boat.\nPerhaps start out with follow-up calls to a few people you\u2019ve completed work for to make sure everything is OK. When you\u2019ve done that for a bit, it won\u2019t seem as far out of the ordinary if you then set up time to talk about almost anything that may have come up in conversation with one or more of them, you\u2019ll just be doing more follow-up.\nI found the book \u201cThanks for the Feedback\u201d Douglas Stone & Sheila Heen to be a valuable tool. Sheila Heen also has a condensed version through the TedTalk platform \u2013\nMargaret Gr\u00fcn-Kerr says:\nYour message seems to be to make yourself above reproach. On top of this find someone to mentor you. Then you should have a better time being accepted in this environment.\nThat seems a bit much to ask, just be accepted.\nI agree that it isn\u2019t \u201cfair\u201d. I think of the problem as involving \u201cthe seed and the soil\u201d. The \u201cseed\u201d is the individual who is experiencing bias, and wants to succeed, no matter how unwelcoming the organization may be. The \u201csoil\u201d is the organization, that should want to become more welcoming to everyone.\nIn this case, my advice was to the \u201cseed\u201d the individual who finds herself in unwelcoming soil. It may take heroic actions for her to be successful. This is an unfair situation.\nI did not offer any advice to the leaders who run the school where she is employed. 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In a statement posted to Instagram Monday morning, the director said that an expos\u00e9 about him will soon be published in Esquire, but that it will only repeat old accusations of sexual assault, which resurfaced last year when he was was sued for allegedly raping a 17-year-old in 2003. (Singer has also been accused of forcing minors to strip naked for movies. In 2014, a man claimed Singer sexually abused him when he was a teenager.) Singer continues to deny all of the allegations. \u201cI have known for some time that Esquire magazine may publish a negative article about me. They have contacted my friends, colleagues, and people I don\u2019t even know,\u201d Singer wrote. \u201cIn today\u2019s climate where people\u2019s careers are being harmed by mere accusations, what Esquire is attempting to do is a reckless disregard for the truth, making assumptions that are fictional and irresponsible.\u201d\nSinger says the Esquire article is conveniently timed to the release of the Freddie Mercury biopic Bohemian Rhapsody, which he directed, but was fired from in December 2017. 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Growing up with a strong Christian background, Paul has traveled to nearly every continent as a missionary with a passion to help others change their lives for the better.\nWhile initially drawn to a military career during his college years at The Citadel, Paul was offered a promising career at a respected construction firm in Raleigh, NC. In his ten years as Project Developer, he enjoyed helping clients plan, design, and build more than $100 million dollars in projects. Co-founding the Wake Forest based Focus Design Builders, Paul and his partners wanted to create a commercial construction company in which the customer was the top priority. As CEO of Focus\u2014and with his background in commercial real estate\u2014Paul partnered that same year with Coldwell Banker Advantage as VP of Business Development. In these dual roles, Paul has capably served the commercial real estate and commercial construction needs of many clients. He looks forward to continuing to assist those with commercial real estate needs as the VP of Business Development here at Kima Commercial.\nPaul and his wife, Lori, have lived in Wake County for more than twenty years are thrilled to be raising their four children. Paul has had the pleasure of being able to travel abroad as a missionary and of serving his community as the Wake Forest Fire Department Chaplain, through several leadership positions at his church, and through his volunteer work as a Past President of the Wake Forest Kiwanis Club and other civic organizations. 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Benefits of parental involvement extend beyond their own household \u2014 engaged parents can positively impact schools and communities. Yet parents are rarely brought into schools in ways that tap into their power and wisdom.\n\u201cParents are the soldiers on the ground,\u201d says Washington, D.C. parent Tara Brown. \u201cWe have insight you may not have, but we\u2019re also caught up in the business of being parents and providers.\u201d\nIn Washington, D.C., public charter schools educate close to 50% of public school students, but even these families are often unaware of, and absent from, conversations about policies that affect their educational options.\nMaya Martin (left) is executive director and founder of Parents Amplifying Voices in Education (PAVE), which is dedicated to informing and connecting parents in Washington, D.C. to the issues that affect their children.\nA few years ago, fifth-generation D.C. resident Maya Martin decided to take action. 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The group surveyed local families about what they wanted for their children in a high-quality school.\nOver the last two years, PAVE has recruited an all-parent governing board and engaged nearly 500 D.C. parents through events and workshops, teaching them how to blog about education, testify before city and state agencies and more.\nThese skills were particularly useful in 2017 when PAVE partnered with D.C.-based Friends of Choice in Urban Schools (FOCUS) to create a solution for the lack of quality options on the eastern side of the Anacostia River, where students often had to travel across the entire city to attend school.\nTogether, PAVE and FOCUS selected eight parents and community members from Ward 8 who became the Parent Operator Selection Team, which surveyed local families about their priorities, created a Request for Proposals, vetted applicants and visited finalists.\nKhadijjah Tribble (right) is a resident of Washington, D.C.\u2019s Ward 8 and an advisor to the area\u2019s Parent Operator Selection Team.\nUltimately, the Ward 8 POST recommended that Chicago-based network LEARN Charter School Network open a school on land next to Joint Base Anacostia-Bolling.\nWith experience operating a campus for military families, Tara says LEARN was best equipped to work with children from low-income communities and children of military parents, who move often and experience disruptions in the home, similar to the trauma that affects many students in poverty. 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It took off from Orlando and landed at Gatwick yesterday.\nThe first batch of LanzaTech jet fuel was used on a commercial flight for the very first time \u2013 Virgin Atlantic\u2019s VS16 flight from Orlando to London Gatwick, on a Boeing 747 aircraft.\nPassengers on the flight were welcomed by Sir Richard Branson, who marshalled the aircraft into stand.\nLanzaTech produces next-generation advanced fuels by recycling waste industrial gases like those produced from steel-making and other heavy industrial processes. The waste, carbon-rich gases are used to first make ethanol. The ethanol can be used for a range of low-carbon products, including jet fuel.\nIn this case, the flight\u2019s fuel blend was 5% recycled, but the sustainable element could eventually form up to 50%, LanzaTech says.\nVirgin Atlantic has called for UK government backing for the fuel to be produced on a larger scale. LanzaTech says it could have three UK plants running by 2025, producing up to 125 million gallons of sustainable fuel per year \u2013 enough to fly all Virgin Atlantic\u2019s UK outbound flights using a 50:50 mix of the fuel.\nThe company says that if its technology were rolled out worldwide to the world\u2019s eligible steel mills, this alone could produce enough fuel to meet around 20% of the current commercial global aviation fuel demand.\nTowards the mainstream\nSir Richard Branson, Founder of Virgin Group commented: \u201cLong haul travel is more important than ever for connecting people around the world and it\u2019s our responsibility to ensure we\u2019re doing that in the most sustainable way possible.\n\"Working with LanzaTech will enable us to greatly reduce our carbon emissions and at the same time, help support UK industry. That\u2019s why we\u2019re excited to showcase this fuel on its first commercial flight as we plan for the world\u2019s first full scale jet fuel plant using this amazing new technology. The LanzaTech process is important because this fuel takes waste, carbon-rich gases from industrial factories and gives them a second life \u2013 so that new fossil fuels don\u2019t have to be taken out of the ground. This flight is a huge step forward in making this new technology a mainstream reality.\u201d\nJennifer Holmgren, CEO at LanzaTech commented: \u201cToday, with our carbon smart partner, Virgin Atlantic, we have shown that recycling waste carbon emissions into jet fuel is not impossible, that waste carbon needs to be thought as an opportunity not a liability, that carbon can be reused over and over again. We thank all our partners and governments on both sides of the Atlantic for their support. 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Designing clothing from a technical aspect saves more time and money than not doing so. Otherwise you run the risk of not getting a quality product early. You may end up spending a lot of time remaking samples, thus eating up sample yards of fabric and delaying production time.\nTechnical design is the process of getting the right information across to your team, as well as the initial measurements of a style, detail drawings, construction information and fit requirements. If a garment going into fitting started with the latter information, it is easier to track and correct. A good designer will know the ins and outs of both the pattern making trade and the technical design trade. If you are not doing it yourself, make sure your professionals you hire are tried and true.\nComputer-Aided Design Systems help with the design process. Initially, a design idea may start with a quick sketch, which then may evolve into a stylized color drawing of the garment. For production and selling purposes, CAD systems take the garment that you designed and turn it into a 2D flat, technical image. These images make it easier to understand the garment from a production and selling aspect. When in the process of producing the garment, the picture helps the manufacturer to see exactly how the garment is to look upon completion. From a buyer\u2019s point of view, a CAD image gives them a clear idea of what they are thinking to purchase, and these images are usually put onto the line sheet.\nMany companies now offer the ability to take pre-existing garments and custom make them to fit your design, instead of having to design from scratch. For example, you could choose a shirt, take off the sleeves, replace the neckline, add some detail, and you have a new design; easily attainable and doesn\u2019t take up too much time. Amazingly now, some advanced CAD systems offer the ability to take the garment that you created and put it on a digital human form so that you can see how it will look on a person. You will also be able to see how it sits on the form, how the garment moves, etc. These programs also help to make the patternmaking, marking, and grading processes much easier and less frustrating.\nMany companies now offer full-package servicing, including all patternmaking, grading, marking, cutting, and sample-making. All you have to do is send them your design and they do the work, and then send it back to you for approval. Here are some places to look at for design and production services:\nTukaTech.comSnapFashion.comPatternWorks-intl.comCADTERNS.comGerberTechnology.com\nSpecification sheets, also known as spec sheets, are among the most important documents when it comes to the technical aspect of designing and producing. 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Construction on the Deanery CE Academy will start in August with the school opening in September 2019 for year 7 pupils.\nThe Deanery CE Academy will open in September 2019 for year 7 pupils only and will gradually increase its numbers each year as a new year 7 group is added. When the school is fully open there will be around 1400 students including approximately 400 sixth form students. The school will be run by the Diocese of Bristol Academies Trust and will allocate 50% of its places to children of the Christian Faith across the Borough.\nThe school will include a Sport England standard multi-use games area as well as an all-weather pitch designed to Sport England hockey standards. An impressive theatre space also provides enhanced performing arts facilities.\nThe site has been cleared ready for construction with the site set-up for the main works underway. 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It is appreciated for a variety of reasons, like its extreme efficiency, great reliability, option to reuse and its simplicity of use. Let\u2019s have a look at a few of the advantages of choosing Plastic Mold Manufacturer China:\nThe plastic is subject to high-pressure, that is very effective at creating the unique and complex designs. The extra pressure helps to simplify the whole process of introducing fine detail to any part, in addition to making it possible to produce the most intricate and complex shapes. Other molding processes that don\u2019t rely on high-pressure to mold parts will have plenty of difficulty in creating the most precise parts.\nOnce the initial injection molding is created, this process to make the patient parts is extremely fast and effective. Rapid production means it is one of the most efficient and expense-effective methods for creating the plastic parts. Also, the choice to utilize a single mold means it really is easier to generate a whole lot more parts than other manufacturing methods.\nThis Custom Injection Molding causes it to be super easy to inject special varieties of fillings in to the plastic to boost the all-round strength. The additional filler will lower the plastic density during the time of manufacturing, but is very great for improving the effectiveness of the product of plastic being molded. This really is guaranteed to benefit in industries where it really is necessary to get the very strong and durable parts. Also, this can be a feature that isn\u2019t provided by offer molding methods.\nThe flexible manufacturing process provides the choice to use multiple plastic types simultaneously through the manufacturing process. This method is known as co-injection molding. 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The College comprises the Senior School, educating 1,000 pupils aged 13\u201318, and the Lower School, educating 100 pupils aged 11\u201313.\nThe Brighton College family of schools also includes Brighton College Prep School, St Christopher\u2019s and Handcross Park, educating a further 1,150 children aged 3 to 13. Overseas, the College has opened Brighton College Abu Dhabi, Brighton College Al Ain and Brighton College Dubai in the UAE, and Brighton College Bangkok in Thailand.\nExamination results are strong and the College is among the highest performing schools in England at GCSE and A-level. In 2018, 90.3% of grades at GCSE were at 9, 8 or 7 (equivalent to the old A* and A), whilst 99% of grades at A-level were at A*, A or B. The last five years have also been the best five for Oxbridge success in the 168-year history of the College, with 37 pupils securing offers in 2019.\nThe Sunday Times awarded Brighton College the title of England\u2019s Independent School of the Year 2019, the second time in a decade the school has won this accolade. The Week magazine named Brighton College the \u2018Most forward-thinking school in Britain\u2019 for two year\u2019s running in 2017 and 2018. Tatler magazine awarded Richard Cairns the title of Head Master of the Year 2012-13, and Brighton College was named UK Independent School of the Year 2013- 14 at the Independent Schools Awards.\nIn 2015, there was a full ISI inspection in which the College was awarded the top grade in every single category, including an \u2018Exceptional\u2019 for teaching and learning.\nThere has also been major investment in new facilities over the last ten years. This has seen the construction of five major buildings on the main site, a new cricket pavilion and a major sports hub on our Jubilee Ground site. Brighton has also purchased the former site of Roedean Junior School, allowing for the relocation of the Pre-Prep School, and the expansion of the College on the main site. A new boarding house opened in September 2013 in the Main Quad which, together with a new Entrance Tower completed in December 2014, completes the original Thomas Jackson designs of the 1880s. A new Music School opened in January 2016, and a new teaching block (including 22 classrooms for maths, history, economics, politics and EAL, alongside an innovative Creative Learning Centre) opened in September 2017. A new Centre for Sport and Science is under construction and is due to open in January 2020; it will include eighteen state-of-the-art laboratories, alongside a new sports hall, 25-metre swimming pool, fitness centre and roof-top running track.\nAbove all, Brighton is a very happy place. We pride ourselves on being a warm, inclusive and respectful community, where our staff are delightful and positive and our pupils are intellectually curious and charming.\nWe are seeking to appoint an exceptional part-time Press Officer to manage and develop Brighton College\u2019s interface with the press, working within our busy Marketing Department.\nThe successful candidate will be required to research and secure new stories, write compelling press releases, set up photo-calls and generally secure positive coverage for the college in all forms of media.\nThe ability to write well is essential as is an enthusiasm for the education sector. Press experience is helpful but not essential. An interest in education is desirable.\nEssential Personal Characteristics:\nConfident communicator, with the ability to build relationships both internally and externally.\nProfessional approachable manner.\nAbility to work effectively under pressure.\nAbility to write clear, concise and engaging press releases on a range of different subjects.\nAbility to multi-task efficiently.\nAgile thinker and able to respond to opportunities quickly.\nAbility to sell stories to the media.\nAbility to sell stories to journalists.\nClear verbal and written communication skills.\nNumerate.\nGood understanding of IT including Microsoft Office.\nUnderstanding of how the media is organised.\nProfessional qualification and / or degree in a relevant subject\n\u00a312,000 per annum pro rata (\u00a330,000 FTE)\nCandidates also need to provide a portfolio of 3 pieces of writing (either press or other) as evidence of their ability to write.\nCandidates should complete an online application which is available at https://bcollege.careers.eteach.com/ by 9am on Tuesday 19th February 2019. 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The bill was unanimously passed by the Assembly Tourism, Parks, Arts and Sports Development committee today and is now one step closer to being passed by the full Assembly.\n\"Today we moved one step closer toward passing an important economic development initiative that will attract tourists to the region and increase local revenue. 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If territories are included, the total number increases to 42. Of this total, 21 states are located in Africa, which represents half of the world's French speaking states and territories. There are no French speaking territories in Africa, as most are located in the Americas, Oceania, and Europe.\nThere are approximately 434 million people throughout the world who speak French. However, the country with highest French speaking population is not France. Instead, an African nation, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, tops the list with a total of more than 77 million people. France ranks second, with approximately 67 million people. Madagascar and Cameroon, with 24 million and 23 million people, respectively, rank fourth and fifth.\nIn the top five African states with the most French speakers, the Ivory Coast is fourth, after Cameroon, with an estimated 22 million speakers. Niger ranks fifth, with an estimated 19 million people. It is interesting to note that African countries dominate the world list by occupying positions four to 13 consecutively.\nOn the other end of the list, Seychelles has fewest French speakers in Africa, with an estimated 92,900 people. Also in the bottom five of Africa countries are the Comoros (788,474), Equatorial Guinea (845,060), Djibouti (887,861), and Gabon (1,725,300). Again, African nations dominate the world list by occupying consecutive positions from 19 to 25.\nTo put Africa\u2019s French speaking dominance into perspective, the Democratic Republic of the Congo alone makes up 17% of the total world\u2019s French speaking population. Additionally, Africa makes up more than 70% of the world\u2019s total French speaking population. The top five countries combine to make up more than 35% of the world\u2019s total population of French speakers. Furthermore, 17 of the total 21 African countries have populations of more than one million people that speak French.\nGeographically, a large chunk of French speaking countries come from West and Central Africa. This high number in West Africa is explained by the history of colonization in Africa. For example, France and Belgium controlled large parts of West Africa, and consequently those nations now have French as one of their official languages.\nWide Gap Between then Largest and Second Largest French Speaking Countries in Africa\nThere is a significant difference in population between the largest and second largest French speaking countries in Africa, which are the the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Madagascar, respectively. 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Now decades after the U.S. pullout from South Vietnam, the country shows few remaining scars from that conflict or the protracted War of Independence from France that preceded it. Many historical sites have been fully restored, the country's economy is booming and the infrastructure for tourism is developing rapidly.\nVisitors no longer worry about staying in contact with home\u2014Internet cafes are everywhere. The ancient and modern coexist: Cell phones and gleaming motorbikes are ubiquitous in the towns and villages, but people still till the rice fields with the help of bullock plows.\nThe country's history of conflict\u2014both internal and with others\u2014could lead you to conclude that the Vietnamese thrive on a certain degree of contentiousness. That's just not the case. Although older Vietnamese may find the pace of change somewhat dizzying, there is overwhelming support for the advances the country is making. Tourism is helping Vietnam ride the crest of that wave, and the country has become one of the best travel bargains in Asia.\nInterested in traveling to Vietnam & Cambodia?\nClick here for a special offer...\n\u200bGuide to Cambodia\nThe Vietnamese seem to use the names Saigon, Ho Chi Minh City, or simply \"HCMC\" interchangeably. By any name, Ho Chi Minh City is the economic center of Vietnam, although geographically it's 700 mi/1,120 km south of Hanoi. With a rapidly growing population, new hotels, chic bars and trendy clubs, Ho Chi Minh City is enjoying a climate of prosperity and growth.\nOn Ho Chi Minh City's doorstep is the Mekong delta, with its burgeoning markets, luminous green rice fields, Khmer pagodas, and fruit and flower orchards. The best way to view this tropical wonderland is by boat\u2014you can rent a tour boat in the delta towns of Ben Tre, Vinh Long and Can Tho.\nThe old Saigon landmarks\u2014the Notre Dame Cathedral, the Rex Hotel, the Hotel de Ville\u2014are still there. But new office towers, built by multinational corporations now setting up shop in Vietnam, are radically changing the skyline.\nThere are nearly 200 temples and pagodas in the city. For lovers of recent history, the Xa Lao Pagoda is the site where a monk immolated himself to protest the Diem regime in 1963. In the reception hall of the Giac Lam Pagoda you can see the portraits of monks who passed away years ago (below the portraits, note the monks' funeral tablets inscribed in ancient nom, the original Vietnamese script). The Emperor of Jade Pagoda is filled with gilded figures and papier-mache statues of Buddhist and Taoist divinities.\nHo Chi Minh City's millions of motorbikes emit a constant roar and palpable exhaust, and the city's two- and three-hour traffic jams are legendary. Give yourself plenty of travel time if you go exploring.\nPho a traditional Vietnamese dish. By Sharon Chen\nStreet Vendor in old quarter Hanoi\nReunification Palace - History buffs should stop by the Reunification Palace, where the South Vietnamese government officially turned over power to the North on 30 April 1975. During the fall of Saigon, North Vietnamese tanks broke down the gates and raised the communist flag. It's a trip back in time, particularly the \"strategy rooms\" in the basement and the upper floors filled with 1960s furnishings.\nHo Chi Minh City Museum - Formerly known as the Revolutionary Museum, this museum showcases very old photos of the city, documents relating to its founding, and archaeological and ethnic survey items.\n1 Nguyen Tat Thanh St.\nNational History Museum - This museum portrays the history of the Vietnamese people through displays, exhibits and artifacts of ethnological and cultural significance. Items include stone tools, cannons, Roman coins and more. Display texts are available in English, Vietnamese and French. Tuesday-Sunday 8-11 am and 1:30-4:30 pm. http://baotanglichsuvn.com\nDong Khoi Street - One of the primary commercial centers of the city, this street has beautiful examples of fine French architecture that include the Central Post Office, the Notre Dame Cathedral and the Saigon Opera House. It also offers cafes, boutiques, shops and restaurants.\nLe Loi - Named after the founder of the Le Loi Dynasty, this street is one of the key shopping areas in the city. It has art galleries, spas, small fashion boutiques and high-end restaurants.\nReligious Sites \u200b\nBasilica Notre Dame de Saigon - Situated in the heart of Ho Chi Minh City, Basilica Notre Dame de Saigon is part of the architectural and religious legacy of the French. It was constructed 1877-80, and all materials were imported from France, including the set of six huge bells that hang in the two 190-ft/58-m bell towers. The decoration is in the Romanesque and Gothic styles. In 1960, the Vatican established Vietnamese religious orders and appointed a bishop to Ho Chi Minh City. Two years later, the cathedral was named Basilica Notre Dame de Saigon. Worshippers today include both Vietnamese Catholics and visitors.\nMass is held on Sunday and is given in French, English and Vietnamese.\nCaodai Holy See Temple - The spiritual center of the Caodai sect was founded in 1926 by Ngo Minh Chieu. This religious movement was created by drawing on aspects of Buddhism, Taoism, Confucianism, Islam, Spiritualism and Catholicism. The temple was constructed 1933-55 in a unique architectural style that reflects its intriguing mix of traditions. In many ways, Caodai resembles a Christian cathedral. It includes aisles, square towers and a central nave with upper gallery. Decoration, however, is extravagant and colorful. The three principal colors of Caodai are yellow for Buddhism, blue for Taoism and red for Christianity. Four ceremonies are held each day. About 60 mi/100 km northwest of Ho Chi Minh City. It's best seen on an organized tour from Ho Chi Minh City; journey time is about two hours.\nJade Emperor Pagoda - Regarded as one of the finest temples in Vietnam, the Jade Emperor Pagoda is a must-see on any travel itinerary. This glorious temple was built by the Chinese community at the turn of the 20th century and is beautifully decorated with elaborate carvings from top to bottom. The image of the Jade Emperor stands in the main room surrounded by other deities such as the Taoist God of Longevity. Thick with incense smoke and filled with devout worshippers, the temple is extremely atmospheric.\nJunk in Halong Bay by Thomas Schoch\nHalong Bay is a slice of the South China Sea about 75 miles southeast of Hanoi that is speckled with more than 2,000 isolated limestone peaks (known as karsts) rising straight up out of the water. A group of 1,900 of these islets has been declared a UNESCO World Heritage site.\nHalong Bay is now one of Vietnam's biggest attractions, and tour groups flock to the area. Ethereal Ha Long Bay is considered by many to be the Eighth Natural Wonder of the World. It is possible to spend the night on board an elegantly appointed ship designed with all the modern conveniences to ensure smooth sailing. The backdrop of the bay\u2019s magnificent scenery as well as dramatic limestone cliffs and rock formations provide you with the perfect setting for a memorable sojourn.\nTours from Hanoi include a leisurely boat trip through the craggy islands. Some boat operators will drop anchor so you can dive into the calm waters or kayak when the weather is cooler. Other tours lead you through grottoes and caves with bizarre rock sculptures. (Be sure to take a flashlight.) Try to get a tour that lets you sleep overnight on the boat. Accommodations are simple but adequate (private cabin, shared toilet), and the views at sunset and sunrise are unforgettable.\nAt adjacent Cat Ba Island National Park, you can see monkeys, explore caves and swim over coral reefs. Nearby Yen Tu Mountain hides a Buddhist temple in a lovely setting.\nHanoi, the capital of North Vietnam from 1954-1976, and of French Indochina for 70 years before that, is a river city 700 mi/1,120 km north of Ho Chi Minh City.\nHanoi is dynamic, chaotic and rapidly changing. Literally millions of motorbikes dodge, weave and honk through the narrow streets of the Old Quarter and down the broad avenues of the Colonial District. The venerable old buildings, many beautifully restored, give this part of the city its character, and it is one of the most popular areas for travelers to stay. Fortunately, the historic buildings, some of them now luxurious five-star hotels that offer a taste of colonial-era splendor, are as much loved by the locals as they are by visitors, but a bold new Hanoi is emerging: one of mega malls, condos and high-rise office towers.\nThe downside to development, however, is a huge annual increase in cars and motorcycles causing noise and pollution, and dust from construction sites. Hanoi is a beguiling city at a crossroads where ancient culture and traditions collide with the modern world. It will assault your senses, but it will also win you over with its many and undeniable charms.\u200b\nHanoi Street by Florian Wehde\nHanoi by Frida Aguilar Estrada\nHoan Kiem Lake Bridge\nTurtle Tower Hoan Kiem Lake\nThe Temple of Literature ( Van Mieu ), dedicated to Confucius, was founded in 1070\nPresidential Palace of Vietnam Ba \u0110\u00ecnh district\nThings To See and Do In Hanoi\nCo Loa Citadel - Co Loa Citadel near Phong Khe, just north of Hanoi, was the first fortified citadel in Vietnam and was the national capital during the reign of Ngo Quyen. The expansive site dates from 257 BC and features outer ramparts and guard towers. It has also yielded many Bronze Age relics including bronze drums, plowshares, hoes and axe heads. In the center of the citadel are temples dedicated to King An Duong Vuong, and the annual Co Loa Festival in February pays homage to him.\nDong Anh District (10 mi/16 km north of central Hanoi; buses depart every 15 minutes from Hanoi's My Dinh bus station)\nHoa Lo Prison - Hoa Lo Prison was originally built by the French when they were a colonial power in the late 1880s. It was designed to hold 600 inmates, mostly political prisoners. By the mid-1950s, however, more than 2,000 people were held there under inhumane conditions. In the 1960s-70s, Hoa Lo held American prisoners of war, including now-U.S. Sen. John McCain. By then, American pilots had dubbed the infamous facility the Hanoi Hilton. Much of the once-huge facility has been demolished to make way for high-rise developments in the area, but part of the building has been retained as a small museum. The permanent exhibition includes a guillotine and an array of shackles, whips and other tools of torture dating from the French-colonial period. There is also a section on the 300 U.S. POWs who were held there. Guides are available. Hoa Lo and Hia Ba Trung streets\nHo Chi Minh's Mausoleum - Ho Chi Minh's Mausoleum, an imposing structure built to honor the late president, is one of the most revered (and most visited) sites in Vietnam, and there are often long queues for entry. It is located at the center of Ba Dinh Square where Ho Chi Minh read the Declaration of Independence in 1945. He died in 1969 of heart failure, and the mausoleum was built to house his embalmed body. Once inside, visitors must walk in silence and have only a few moments in front of the glass coffin in which \"Uncle Ho\" lies dressed in traditional khaki clothes and rubber sandals. Visitors should dress in a respectful manner (no T-shirts or shorts). Cameras, hats and bags are not allowed. Hung Vuong Street http://bqllang.gov.vn\nHo Chi Minh's Stilted House - This simple wooden house is located within the grounds of the Presidential Palace complex. Modeled on a traditional house from the rural northwest, it was home to Ho Chi Minh from 1958 to 1969. It is said that he chose to live in the house rather than the palace as an example to the people that he was a humble leader, while others say it was to avoid possible bombing of the palace by American planes. Set in a lovely garden at the end of a tree-lined path from the Presidential Palace, the house includes a sparsely furnished bedroom and study.\nOne Pillar Pagoda - A Hanoi landmark, the original pagoda was built by the Emperor Ly Thai Tong, who ruled 1028-54. Today's pagoda is actually a replica, because the original structure was destroyed by the French before they left Hanoi in 1954. Built of wood around a single stone pillar, it is designed to resemble a lotus blossom.\nVisitors should wear long pants or a long skirt. Located near the Ho Chi Minh Museum and Ba Dinh Square\nRising Sun Bridge & Ngoc Son Temple - The iconic Huc Bridge, or Rising Sun Bridge, at Hoan Kiem Lake leads to Jade Island and Ngoc Son temple. The bridge itself is probably one of Hanoi's most photographed sights because of its startling color and design, which includes 32 pillars creating 15 spans. The small temple on the island was built in dedication to national hero Tran Hung Dao, who is said to have defeated 300,000 troops of the Mongol emperor, Kublai Khan. Located at the northern end of the lake. Access the lake from Dinh Tien Hoang or Le Thai To roads\nTemple of Literature - Dating from 1070, the Temple of Literature makes for a pleasant retreat from the bustling Hanoi streets. It was built by Emperor Ly Thanh Tong, who dedicated it to Confucius and scholars. The building is a splendid example of traditional architecture, and it features five separate courtyards. Quoc Tu Giam Street (1 mi west of Hoan Kiem Lake)\nMuseum of the Vietnamese Revolution -Established in 1959, this 30-room museum features more than 80,000 artifacts, documents and photos to illustrate the history of the Vietnamese nation from the mid-19th century to the present. Its three main topics are the nation's struggle for independence (1858-1945), 30 years of resistance against aggressive forces (1945-75) and the road to building a modern Vietnam.\n216 Tran Quang Khai St.\nMuseum of Women - The Museum of Women is a revolutionary one of its kind in Vietnam. It recognizes the role of women in Vietnam's history and culture, and highlights their roles in the country's many military conflicts. The daily life of women throughout the ages and political strife is another main focus, acknowledging the female population's role in the family and public sector. Daily 8 am-5 pm. 36 Ly Thuong Kiet St. http://www.womenmuseum.org.vn\nVietnam Fine Arts Museum - This important museum is in a beautiful 1930s building that was formerly the colonial-era French Ministry of Information. Its impressive collection charts the country's history of art, with exhibits that include both ancient and contemporary works. Particularly impressive is a display dedicated to the art of lacquer work. The techniques used are clearly explained in English.\nOther exhibits feature displays of woodcuts and silk painting. Ancient works include impressive Buddha images, some dating from the 11th century. There is also a gift shop selling replica works, trinkets and contemporary art. Daily 8:30 am-5 pm. 30,000 VND adults.\nhttp://vnfam.vn\nVietnam Museum of Ethnology - Vietnam's diverse population comprises 54 ethnic groups, and the Museum of Ethnology acts as a public museum and research center. It features exhibitions ranging from priceless artifacts to such everyday objects as baskets, musical instruments and the clothing of the country's various ethnic groups. An outdoor exhibition area features an Ede long house, a Tay stilt house, a stilted Yao house and others. Daily 8:30 am-5:30 pm. 40,000 VND. Nguyen Van Huyen Road, Cau Giay Street (5 mi/8 km from the city center)\nhttp://www.vme.org.vn\nVietnam National Museum of History -The Museum of History is housed in what was once the French consulate and holds an exhaustive collection spanning all the way from ancient Vietnamese history. The prehistoric relics and excavations of Han tombs are interesting to look at, but English translations are not common on the explanatory plaques. Your best bet is to go with a guide or tour group.\nDaily 8 am-noon and 1:30-5 pm. 40,000 VND.\nThe old Hanoi is contained within four districts: Ho\u00e0n Ki\u1ebfm, Ba \u0110\u00ecnh, Hai B\u00e0 Tr\u01b0ng and \u0110\u1ed1ng \u0110a. These districts are vastly contrasted by the skyscrapers and shopping malls in the newer Western districts Cau Giay, Thanh Xuan, Ha Dong and Nam Tu Liem.\nHo\u00e0n Ki\u1ebfm District - center of the city, with its core in the Hoan Kiem Lake (Sword Lake). You most likely will stay and visit this district first. The fascinating Old Quarter covers its northern half while its southern half has mostly French architecture with shady streets and villas. A large number of foreign embassies are located in the southern half of Hoan Kiem. The district also houses a majority of Hanoi's tourist attractions, including Hoan Kiem lake, Ngoc Son temple, The Huc Bridge, the neo-Gothic Hanoi Grand Cathedral (St. Joseph's Cathedral), Hoa Lo prison, Eiffel-designed Long Bien Bridge, Hanoi Opera House and several museums.\nBa \u0110\u00ecnh District: political center of Vietnam, housing the national assembly building, president's palace, Ho Chi Minh mausoleum and most embassies. It also contains the One-Pillar Pagoda and the recently discovered Thang Long Citadel. The French Quarter with large shady boulevards is in its eastern part. Its northeastern part surrounds the Truc Bach lake where John McCain's plane was shot down. Its western part is mostly residential with a large number of new skyscrapers around the Japanese Embassy on Lieu Giai street.\nHai B\u00e0 Tr\u01b0ng District: located south of Hoan Kiem with the largest population of all districts. Its northern part also has French-style streets with big trees. A large number of universities, including the Hanoi University of Technology are located here. Times City, in the southeast of the district, is a huge shopping mall with an aquarium located within the complex.\n\u0110\u1ed1ng \u0110a District: one of the original four central districts, is mostly residential. The Temple of Literature - Imperial Academy (V\u0103n Mi\u1ebfu - Qu\u1ed1c T\u1eed Gi\u00e1m), Vietnam's first university, is located in the north end of the district, bordering Ba Dinh.\nT\u00e2y H\u1ed3 District: named after West Lake (H\u1ed3 T\u00e2y), one of the largest natural lakes of Vietnam. Thanks to its serenity and close proximity to downtown, it is a high-end residential area housing a large population of expatriates.\nC\u1ea7u Gi\u1ea5y District: houses a large number of universities, including the National University's main campus and Hanoi University of Education. The Museum of Ethnology, one of foreign travelers' favorite, is located in this district. Its southwestern part bordering Nam Tu Liem district has numerous high-rises, including Keangnam Hanoi Landmark Tower, Vietnam's tallest building. This is where you see a completely different side of a modern Hanoi, in contrast to the old inner districts.\nLong Bi\u00ean District: the only urban district located east of the Red River, it is named after the iconic Long Bien Bridge. The Bat Trang ceramic village and Le Mat snake village are located here.\nThanh Xu\u00e2n District: houses Royal City, Asia's largest underground mall. Inside this mall, there are an ice-skating rink and a water park. The plaza above ground have large, cheesy looking Greek god statues.\n\u200bSmall Villages Along the Mekong River - My Tho, , Sa Dec, Xeo Quyt, Cai Be\n\u200bThe best way to experience rural Vietnam is to cruise along the Mekong where you will feel as if you are transported back in time to another era, where the rhythms of the countryside move at a slower pace and allow for fascinating glimpses into a traditional way of life. Experience the lively hustle and bustle of open-air and floating markets, offering exotic produce. 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For example, a patient presenting with an annoying cough is most likely suffering from a viral infection, not tuberculosis.\nAllow me to introduce you to our Zebra. Sydney was born in January of 1997. Perfect pregnancy\u2026not so perfect delivery. She came to us by emergency C-section. A surprise breech presentation. The hoof beats begin faintly in the distance. I\u2019m a firm believer that your children\u2019s\u2019 personalities are evident at birth. Sydney started life mooning the world. Some things never change! She was a determined, strong-willed child from the beginning. In fact, I read James Dobson\u2019s \u201cThe Strong-Willed Child\u201d \u2013 twice!\nSydney was your typical tom-boy. Loved being outside. Loved frogs. Loved her rodent-pets \u2013 and we went through MANY. Around the age of 10, she refused to wear anything but t-shirts and basketball shorts. I picked my battles. One summer at the waterpark, my mother asked me why Sydney was standing awkwardly \u2013 arms crossed, hip popped, shoulder shrugged\u2026. I just assumed it was pre-teen attitude. Not wanting to be out-mothered by my mother, we had Sydney examined. Hoof beats were growing louder. She was diagnosed with a fairly significant case of scoliosis. I was nominated for mother-of-the-year for missing the signs. Sixth grade and we embarked down roll-cage road. She was fitted for a brace that she was to wear 23 hours a day. Although considerably better than the braces my friends had to wear in the 70s, it was still limiting and a huge blow to her fragile pre-teen self-esteem. Being the stubborn child she was, she complied pretty well. We had a few minor setbacks, but to our knowledge, she was mostly compliant. Now that she\u2019s an adult, she may wish to tell us otherwise?\nSydney had started playing soccer at the age of 3 and was able to continue to play \u2013 sans brace. She chose the position of goalie, much to the dismay of her anxiety-ridden mother. She made the Junior Varsity team as a seventh grader and was on track to move up to varsity when the seasoned goalie graduated from high school. After a strong start on varsity, her skills started slipping. She was having trouble catching and throwing the ball. Queue hoof beats. We again blamed the attitude and thought she was just burnt out on soccer and had lost her drive. She started complaining that she couldn\u2019t feel her right pinky finger. She had a callus on her knuckle that she constantly chewed on, causing infections. I kept telling her to quit gnawing on it and it would heal and be fine.\nA few months later while eating pasta for dinner, I watched her attempt to cut her ravioli with both hands pressing on the fork. She would then use her left hand to pry her right hand from her fork so she could adjust her grip and take a bite. It was clear to us now that this was more than an infected callus. We put the callus-horse out to pasture and rounded up the ulnar nerve horse. Our thought process was that she had elbow and ulnar nerve damage from years of playing goalie and diving onto her elbows.\nShortly thereafter, our dear family friends were over for dinner. I had confided my concern about Sydney to Mrs. Family Friend. Mr. Family Friend also happened to be Dr. Family Friend, the local orthopedist. The very laid-back orthopedist. Mrs. demanded that Doctor look at Sydney\u2019s hand. He took her right hand into his and a look of shock came over his face. This was not the type of reaction we typically saw from Doctor. He examined her hand further and noted a fairly significant degree of atrophy. He directed us to get her into the Physiatrist as soon as possible. Hoof beats, louder yet.\nAfter accepting my second mother-of-the-year award for missing yet another sign, we get Sydney in to see our new, young, progressive Physiatrist. He performed an EMG, which is a test to determine which nerves are experiencing issues. He positively concluded issues with the ulnar nerve, however, he also noticed deficits with the radial nerve and the nerve above the elbow. He referred us for an MRI to look for cervical disc issues.\nSydney and I met up at the hospital for her scheduled MRI. Typically, this procedure lasts about 30 minutes. About 25 minutes into the procedure, the nurse came to find me. I expected her to tell me that Sydney was about done and I could come get her things ready to go. Instead, she asked me to give permission for them to administer contrast so that they could extend her MRI and examine her more closely. I knew enough to know that they don\u2019t administer contrast just for fun. That told me there was something there that they needed to explore further. I started quizzing the nurse, who appeared very flustered. She nervously took me down the hall to the radiation technologist. It was like \u201cDead Man Walking\u201d. Those 30 feet felt like 30 miles. They told me to call my husband to come to the hospital. I had just been trampled by a herd of zebras. We were no longer thinking \u2018elbow\u2019. We were no longer looking at horses.\nThe nurse left me with the rad tech. They took my husband back with the radiologist. I stared at the image on the screen and at an enlarged white mass at the base of Sydney\u2019s skull. No one was talking. I finally said to the tech, whom I knew, \u201cI AM FREAKING OUT. WHAT IS THAT?!\u201d Having sensed my fear, the tech kept repeating, \u201cIt\u2019s not a tumor. It\u2019s not a tumor. It\u2019s called a syrinx.\u201d A what? He directed me to a computer in the corner of the room to learn more about it. My husband joined me as Dr. Google helped us learn more about this black and white striped beast which we now were forced to confront. The tech wasn\u2019t being rude. The radiologist wasn\u2019t ignoring us. This was truly the Zebra.\nSydney was diagnosed with Chiari Malformation, Type 1 as well as syringomyelia \u2013 a rare condition. Chiari Malformation is a condition where brain tissue herniates down into the spinal column causing a restriction in the flow of cerebral spinal fluid. This restriction in fluid flow can cause the formation of fluid-filled cysts within the spinal column. That condition is called syringomyelia and the cysts are called syrinxes. In Sydney\u2019s case, the syrinx was quite large, running from the base of her skull to her mid-back. These cysts have subsequently caused irreversible nerve damage affecting the right side of her body \u2013 particularly her right forearm and hand. She has what\u2019s called a \u2018claw hand\u2019, where her fingers are perpetually curled inward. She has no feeling on the outer part of her right hand and arm and decreased sensation all along the right side of her body. Her balance has been greatly impacted, resulting in frequent falls.\nSo\u2026. What do you do about it? Through an extensive process (which constitutes volume II of our saga) we were able to find a nationally renowned neurosurgeon who agreed to take on Sydney\u2019s case. The treatment for her condition is called \u201cdecompression surgery\u201d. This procedure involves opening the back of her skull, removing a section of bone, shaving bone off the base of her skull and her top vertebrae, opening the dura (covering around the brain) to release the pressure on the brain \u2013 similar to letting out a pair of pants. The theory is that the brain will ascend back up into the skull which relieves the pressure on the spinal column, thus allowing the spinal fluid to flow properly. Hopefully, any syrinxes will eventually collapse. In Sydney\u2019s case, the syrinx hasn\u2019t disappeared. It has shrunken slightly, but the damage to the spinal cord cannot be reversed.\u200b\nSo, why do I tell you this story? For three reasons. First of all, medically speaking, if your child or any child you know is ever diagnosed with scoliosis, please ask your physician to administer a simple neuro check at each appointment. Chiari Malformation and its associated ailments are only diagnosed through MRI right now. It is not feasible to scan everyone with a scoliosis diagnosis. However, a simple neuro check can easily be performed at no additional cost. Would this have prevented the Chiari? No. But it could have potentially identified an issue long before irreversible nerve damage occurred. The surgery would likely still have been a necessity, but we could have had the procedure done much earlier in the process.\nSecondly, while the world is filled with horses, there are still a significant number of zebras out there. I mentioned volume II to this story\u2026. the cliff notes version is, if you are blessed with a zebra, be your own advocate. Leave no stone unturned, tap into any and all resources available to you and keep calling, emailing, knocking until you get access to what you need. We were fortunate to connect with an amazing surgeon and great medical care, but it didn\u2019t just drop into our laps. Working across health systems was a huge challenge. Huge, but not insurmountable. People are inherently good and will help you. Trust me. To the unknown woman in an out-of-network healthcare system who took pity on me \u2013 a fellow mother \u2013 and helped me when my phone inquiry was wrongly transferred multiple times, God bless you. You gave me the strength to keep going. And hopefully our story will help give someone else the strength to keep going.\nAnd finally, I know there are many other \u2018mothers-of-the-year\u2019 reading this who beat themselves up because they didn\u2019t see the signs or recognize the symptoms of their zebras. Let me ask you this\u2026. How many stripes does a zebra have? Answer \u2013 you don\u2019t know what you don\u2019t know\u2026.. until you are close enough to count. It\u2019s not what you do when you don\u2019t know \u2013 it\u2019s what you do when you do know.\nSo, what now? How\u2019s Sydney? What are the long term effects? That remains to be seen. Sydney is now a senior in college and hopes to pursue Clinical Neuro Psychology. Hmmmmmm. Wonder what influenced that decision? Even though I failed the mother-of-the-year test multiple times, I do know one thing. That \u2018strong-willed\u2019 child hasn\u2019t lost her fight. Between her strength and her experiences, she will be the best Clinical Neuro Psychologist ever! And we will be behind her 100% of the way.\nFor more information please visit the 501c3 nonprofit organizations listed below:\nWorldwide Syringomyelia & Chiari Task Force: www.wstfcure.org\nAmerican Syringomyelia & Chiari Alliance Project: www.asap.org\nChiari & Syringomyelia Foundation: www.csfinfo.org\nContact us by email today at wstfcure@wstfcure.org. You will be required to sign a release form giving us permission to share your story. You can download it here: WSCTF HIPAA Media Release Form. We are looking for member journeys about the hardships, triumphs, and struggles of living with Syringomyelia and Chiari. We are looking for caregiver stories about taking care of a loved one with Syringomyelia or Chiari. We are also now accepting stories about owners and their canines with Syringomyelia. We will also consider video submissions. We encourage stories to be between 400-1200 words. Please make sure you edit your story. All photos submitted must be in JPEG format and at least 300X500 DPI. We will NOT publish any negative opinions about doctors or negative comments about other related support groups. All stories must tell your journey in an informative manner. We have the right to reject any submission for any reason.\nReady to submit a story? 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By this afternoon, most had power again, but it was still a setback in the months-long effort to restore electricity across the island. NPR's Adrian Florido reports from San Juan.\nADRIAN FLORIDO, BYLINE: The power outage spread through northern Puerto Rico as substations went down like dominoes. The facility that caught fire, called Monacillo, provides power to several substations, so as those went offline, officials say a total of 180,000 homes and businesses went dark. Valeria Torres, a first-year university student, says when the lights went out last night, she was home studying for an exam.\nVALERIA TORRES: (Speaking Spanish).\nFLORIDO: \"I was studying for my exam, and it was bad because I didn't have any batteries for my flashlight,\" she says. So she went to bed. When she woke up, the power was back. On Twitter, she saw that the power at her school - the campus of the University of Puerto Rico - was also back. But when she got there, the power was not back. Her professor gave the exam in the dark.\nTORRES: (Speaking Spanish).\nFLORIDO: Torres says her family went four months without power, just got it back a couple of weeks ago. \"We didn't want to lose it again,\" she says. \"You just want the power to stay on.\" That was the overwhelming sentiment here. The explosion was a jolting reminder the island's electric situation is still unstable, even here in the capital. Photos posted online inspired a sense of deja vu. Pictures showed lines forming at some gas stations as people who'd put the fuel cans for their generators away pulled them back out again.\nBy this morning, most of the areas that lost power due to the explosion at the substation had gotten it back. Angel Figueroa, president of the utility workers' union, told a local newspaper that a failed breaker appeared to be to blame.\nANGEL FIGUEROA: (Speaking Spanish).\nFLORIDO: Figueroa said whether the breaker failed because of a lack of maintenance or if it was for some other reason was not yet clear. A history of poor maintenance is one of the reasons Governor Ricardo Rossello cited last month when he announced his controversial plan to privatize PREPA, the island's public electric utility, by next year.\nIn the meantime, the effort to restore power across the island hobbles along. Before Sunday's explosion, close to 30 percent of the island's customers still hadn't had their power restored at all. As people in and around the capital took to Twitter to lament Sunday's outage, one woman from the city of Dorado wrote, don't cry about it. 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(Joe Raedle/Getty Images)\nFreshman soccer player Alyssa Alhadeff \"took every second of her life and did something with it,\" her mother, Lori Alhadeff, told ABC News in March. \"She had the fire to fight.\"\nAlyssa was on track to play soccer in college and had dreamed of one day being on the U.S. women's national soccer team, her mother said.\n\"She aspired for that greatness,\" Lori Alhadeff said. \"She was probably one of the smallest on the team but the feistiest.\"\nLaurie Thomas, the girls' soccer team coach, said Alyssa was the \"voice of our team.\"\n\"She was a leader, not just by what she said, but also by the character,\" Thomas said. \"She led the team on and off the field.\"\nMonths after the shooting, Lori Alhadeff won a seat on the county\u2019s school board.\nPHOTO: Lori Alhadeff and her husband Ilan Alhadeff right, hold a picture of their daughter Alyssa Alhadeff, a Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School shooting victim, during a news conference on gun control March 23, 2018 on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C. (Alex Wong/Getty Images)\n\"I want to do everything possible to make this school system a model that other districts will look and try to replicate,\" Alhadeff said when she announced her candidacy.\nShe said she doesn't want \"any other parent to go through the pain and anguish I go through every day.\"\n(MORE: US women's soccer team honors Stoneman Douglas victim)\nMartin Duque Anguiano, 14\nPHOTO: Martin Duque Anguiano is seen here in this undated file photo. (Instagram)\nFreshman Martin Duque Anguiano, the son of Mexican immigrants, was a proud member of the U.S. Army Junior Reserve Officers' Training Corps, according to ABC affiliate WPLG.\nHe was awarded the U.S. Army's Medal of Heroism after his death.\n\"He was a very funny kid, outgoing but sometimes really quiet,\" his older brother, Miguel Duque, wrote on a GoFundMe page. \"He was sweet and caring and loved by everyone in his family. Most of all, he was my baby brother.\"\n\"Words can not describe my pain,\" Miguel wrote on Instagram. \"You\u2019ll be missed buddy. I know you\u2019re in a better place.\"\n(MORE: PHOTOS: The Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School shooting and aftermath)\nPHOTO: Scott Beigel is seen here in this undated file photo. (Facebook)\nGeography teacher and cross-country coach Scott Beigel died while saving others, letting students seek refuge in his classroom, according to students and colleagues.\nStudent Kelsey Friend, who called Beigel a \"really amazing teacher,\" told Good Morning America\" that Beigel unlocked a classroom door during the gunfire and started letting students inside.\n\"I had thought he was behind me ... but he wasn't,\" Friend said, crying.\n\"When he opened the door, he had to re-lock it so we can stay safe. And he didn't get the chance to,\" Friend said, noting that her teacher was lying on the floor.\n\"I'm so thankful he was there to help everybody,\" she added.\nBeigel, a Long Island native, was also a summer counselor at Camp Starlight in Pennsylvania. The camp called him a \"beloved friend and hero.\"\nIt was at camp where he met his girlfriend about eight years ago, according to The Miami Herald.\n(MORE: March for Our Lives recap: Shooting survivors lead passionate pleas to end gun violence)\nPHOTO: Nicholas Dworet is seen here in this undated file photo. (Instagram)\nNicholas Dworet died one month before from his 18th birthday.\nOn the day he would have become an adult, Nicholas Dworet's classmates marked his birthday at the March for Our Lives rally in Washington, D.C. Some survivors have become young activists, launching a national, youth-led movement demanding an end to gun violence.\n\"He was a happy young man full of joy and life,\" Dworet's family said in a statement.\n\"He was extremely passionate about swimming,\" the family said. \"Nicholas was thrilled to be going to the University of Indianapolis to join their swim team. He dreamed of making the Olympic swim team and going to the 2020 Olympics in Tokyo. He believed he could accomplish anything as long as he tried his best.\"\nDworet wrote out his goals on a sheet of paper, which he hung on a wall by his bed, ESPN reported.\n\"It's a broken dream,\" his father, Mitch Dworet, told ESPN. \"This kid was a dream. He was the best of us.\"\n(MORE: 'Bittersweet day' as Stoneman Douglas students return to school 6 months after mass shooting: Superintendent)\nPHOTO: Aaron Feis a football coach at Marjory Stonemason Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla., is seen here in this undated file photo. (Facebook via AP)\nBeloved school football coach Aaron Feis, who was also a Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School graduate, died running toward the gunfire, trying to shield students, officials said.\n\"I coached with him. My two boys played for him,\" Broward County Sheriff Scott Israel said, calling him \"a phenomenal man\" and \"one of the greatest people I knew.\"\n\"The kids in this community loved him, adored him,\" Israel said. \"He was just such a great individual.\"\nPHOTO: Aaron Feis is pictured in this 1999 yearbook from Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School. (Courtesy Ryan Mackman)\n\"The fact that he died saving lives, the guy's a hero,\" high school classmate Ryan Mackman said. \"He was always a giving guy, he was always there for people, he had a big heart. That showed all the way to the end.\"\nFeis fell for his wife in high school and is survived by his wife and daughter, family friend Brandon Corona said at the funeral. The football coach worked two, sometimes three jobs, he added.\n\"He always wanted to be the best dad he could be,\" Corona said. \"He was the epitome of what a hardworking husband and father should be.\"\nDescribing him as loving, strong, kind and patient, Corona said Feis gave rides home to students who needed it and \"he was a counselor to those who had no father figure.\"\n(MORE: Stoneman Douglas activists launch new push for youth voter turnout: 'We can fix the political system')\nJaime Guttenberg was a freshman who loved to dance.\nHer father, Fred Guttenberg, was overcome with emotion as he spoke of her death the next day.\n\"My job is to protect my children,\" Guttenberg said at a vigil, his voice cracking. \"And I sent my kid to school.\"\nPHOTO: Jaime Guttenberg, a victim of the school shooting in Parkland, Fla., is seen here in this undated file photo. (Social media via Reuters )\n\"In the morning sometimes things get so crazy, she runs out behind and she's like, 'I got to go, Dad, bye.' And I don't always get to say, 'I love you,'\" Guttenberg said. \"I don't remember if I said that to Jaime yesterday morning.\n\"Jaime was such a special kid. All of the kids here are. What is unfathomable is Jaime took a bullet and is dead,\" he said, his voice trembling. \"Don't tell me there is no such thing as gun violence.\"\nPHOTO: Jaime Guttenberg was a student at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla., and was killed when former student Nikolas Cruz opened fire at the school Wednesday, Feb. 14, 2018. (Abbie Youkilis via AP)\nTo the parents at the vigil, he said: \"Love your kids, hold your kids, kiss your kids. And don't ever, ever miss the chance to tell them how much you love them.\"\n(MORE: Slain football coach ran 'toward danger' to save students in school shooting, sheriff says at funeral)\nPHOTO: This undated photo shows Chris Hixon, the athletic director at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla. (Susan Stocker/South Florida Sun-Sentinel via AP)\nChris Hixon, the school's athletic director and head wrestling coach who was described as a role model and loving father, died running toward the shooting, The Associated Press reported.\nA Broward County athletic director of the year, Hixon was also a U.S. Navy reservist who had been deployed to Iraq, according to WPLG.\nWhen his wife, Debbie Hixon, heard about the shooting, she said she knew he'd try to save his students' lives, WPLG reported.\n\u201cIf you needed anything -- a cup of sugar in the middle of the night, he would bring it to you,\" Coral Springs High School athletic director Dan Jacob told ABC News. \"Chris has a son with Down syndrome. He put needs of everyone else before his own.\"\n\u201cCoach Hixon, for me, was a father figure,\u201d said wrestler Karlos Valentin, the Sun Sentinel reported. \"His loss was just terrible.\"\n\"He was such a sweet guy,\u201d wrestler Ray Corniel said, according to the newspaper. \"He would bring us food for all our tournaments and take care of us like we were his own children and just watch over us, let us learn about life lessons.\"\nPHOTO: An undated photo of Luke Hoyer, a student at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla. (Joan Cox via AP)\nOn the day of the rampage, Luke Hoyer's mother, Gena Hoyer, dropped the freshman off at school.\n\"I love you, Lukey Bear,\" she told him, according to The Miami Herald.\n\u201cI love you too, Mom,\u201d he responded.\nLuke, the youngest of three siblings, spent a lot of time with his stay-at-home mom, his aunt, Joan Cox, told People Magazine.\n\u201cIt was just the two of them all of the time,\u201d she said. \u201cHe was momma\u2019s boy and he loved his family so much. They were very close.\u201d\nLuke was \"an amazing individual,\" said his cousin, Grant Cox, according to CNN. \"Always happy, always smiling. His smile was contagious, and so was his laugh.\"\nAccording to The Miami Herald, Luke's family said they planned to spend future Valentine's Days doing what Luke loved: playing basketball and eating chicken nuggets.\nPHOTO: Cara Loughran is seen here in this undated file photo. (Facebook)\nFreshman Cara Loughran \"was a beautiful soul and always had a smile on her face,\" said the Drake School of Irish Dance in South Florida, where Cara was a member.\nAfter the shooting dancers at Irish dance schools around the country wore purple ribbons -- one of Cara's favorite colors -- in her honor, reported The Miami Herald.\nCara, survived by her parents and her older brother, \"was an excellent student\" who loved her 8-year-old nieces, said her aunt, Lindsay Fontana.\n\"We are absolutely gutted,\" Fontana wrote on Facebook.\n\"I never got to say goodbye to her,\" Cara's friend, Mackenzie Mirsky, told ABC affiliate WPLG. \"I can't close my eyes without thinking of my friend.\"\nPHOTO: This photo taken from Facebook shows an undated photo of Gina Montalto, a student at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla. (Facebook via AP)\nGina Montalto \"was a smart, loving, caring, and strong girl who brightened any room she entered. She will be missed by our family for all eternity,\" her mother, Jennifer Montalto, wrote on Facebook.\nGina was a Girl Scout, a church volunteer, a soccer player and Color Guard member who \"earned top-notch grades,\" The Miami Herald reported.\n\u201cShe was a very kind and giving person. Very charitable,\u201d Jeff Bretzer, a co-worker of Gina's father, told the newspaper. \u201cShe just had a zest for life that was unbelievable.\u201d\n\"She loved to cook with her Father and her Grandmother, especially during the holiday season,\" her parents wrote on a GoFundMe page. \"She was an avid reader and loved Harry Potter books, Hunger Games and Wonder Woman. She loved fashion and enjoyed shopping, spa days with Mom and NY Jets games with Dad.\"\n\"She was best buddies with her little brother and she loved her whole family especially all her cousins,\" her parents wrote. \"Gina will be missed not only by her family, but by everyone whose life she touched. Gina always took great pride in her education. High grades and school involvement were a huge part of Gina's life. She always looked for ways to help others.\"\nPHOTO: Joaquin Oliver is seen here in this undated file photo. (Instagram)\nThe night before Joaquin Oliver was killed at school, his father, Manuel Oliver, took his son to buy Valentine\u2019s Day flowers for his girlfriend. The teen took extra time getting dressed for school the next morning and proudly held her flowers and card in the car when his father drove him to school.\n\u201cI said, \u2018Love you.\u2019 And he gave me a kiss, \u2018I love you too.\u2019 And I told him, just make sure you call me to see how did it go with the flowers,\u201d Manuel Oliver told ABC News' \"Nightline\" months after the shooting. \u201cAnd then he never called me.\u201d\nThe teen was buried in NBA player Dwyane Wade's jersey.\nThe Olivers have since started a nonprofit organization called Change the Ref, a platform inspired by their son in part to educate and empower youth in the movement to end gun violence.\nManuel Oliver said the nonprofit\u2019s name came from a conversation he had with his son a few months before he died. Joaquin was frustrated by a series of bad calls a referee had made in a basketball game; that inspired the father and son to call the recreational league and ask to have the ref switched for someone who was fair.\n(MORE: Parkland shooting survivors-turned-activists: 'We are the largest voting bloc in this country')\nAfter his son's death, Manuel Oliver said politicians didn't want to discuss gun control, which he described as the victims' parents' main issue.\n\"So Change the Ref is looking for the right ref to make the right calls, that he has to be impartial, he cannot have any connection or any kind of personal interest with any one of the teams,\" he said.\n(MORE: With graduation over, where do Parkland high school seniors, their families go from here)\nPHOTO: Alaina Petty, a victim of the Feb. 14, 2018, mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla., is pictured in an undated family handout photo. (Petty Family Handout)\nAlaina Petty was \"a vibrant and determined young woman\" who \"loved to serve,\" her family said in a statement, according to the South Florida Sun-Sentinel.\nAlaina participated in the high school Junior Reserve Officers' Training Corps (JROTC) program and volunteered for a program with The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, the family said, according to the newspaper.\nShe was awarded the U.S. Army's Medal of Heroism after her death.\nAlaina helped rebuild areas of Florida after the state was hit by Hurricane Irma in Sept. 2017, the family said, adding, \"Her selfless service brought peace and joy to those that had lost everything during the storm.\"\n\"While we will not have the opportunity to watch her grow up and become the amazing woman we know she would become, we are keeping an eternal perspective,\" the family said, according to the newspaper. \"We are grateful for the knowledge that Alaina is a part of our eternal family and that we will reunite with her.\"\nPHOTO: A photo of Meadow Pollack, one of the seventeen victims who was killed in the shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, sits against a cross as part of a public memorial, in Parkland, Fla., Feb. 17, 2018. (Gerald Herbert/AP)\nMeadow Pollack \"was a beautiful girl, inside and out,\" her cousin, Jake Maisner, said, according to The Sun Sentinel.\nA senior at the school, Meadow was the youngest of 10 grandchildren and \"the baby of the family,\" Maisner said, according to the Sentinel. \"Everyone wanted to protect her.\"\nShe had been accepted to Lynn University in Boca Raton, according to ABC affiliate WPLG.\n\"Meadow was a lovely young woman, who was full of energy,\" said university spokeswoman Jamie D'Aria, according to WPLG. \"We were very much looking forward to having her join our community in the fall.\"\nShortly after the massacre, Meadow's father, Andrew Pollack, said at a listening session with President Trump, \"we should have fixed it!\" after one school shooting.\n\"She's in Fort Lauderdale King David Cemetery,\" Andrew Pollack said of his daughter. \"That is where I go to see my kid now.\u201d\nPHOTO: Helena Ramsay, 17 in this undated handout photo, was killed in the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School mass shooting on Feb. 14, 2018. (Ramsay Family Handout)\nHelena Ramsay was \"kind hearted and thoughtful,\" and \"brilliant and witty,\" relative Curtis Page Jr. wrote on Facebook.\n\"She was deeply loved and loved others even more so. Though she was some what reserved, she had a relentless motivation towards her academic studies, and her soft warm demeanor brought the best out in all who knew her,\" he wrote.\nHelena, a lover of cats and music, moved with her family to Florida from England when she was 2 years old, according to The Miami Herald.\n\u201cShe was a really good person through and through,\u201d Katherine Dadd, a friend since preschool, told the newspaper. \u201cOne of the kindest people I\u2019ve ever met.\u201d\nHelena's best friend, Samantha Grady, was grazed by a bullet during the massacre.\nThe two spent much of their school days together, and Samantha told ABC News' \"Nightline\" in February that \"going throughout my day without that, it's something that I have to get used to.\"\nShe said losing Helena taught her to \"appreciate the people who are here.\"\nPHOTO: Alex Schachter is seen here in this undated file photo. (Instagram)\nAlex Schachter was just 4 years old when his mother died, his father, Max Schachter, said in his eulogy, which was published in The Washington Post.\nMax Schachter remarried, and his two sons instantly gained a new loving mother and two adoring sisters, he said.\n\"I moved my family to Parkland because it was an idyllic little community,\" Max Schachter wrote. \"I never thought this would happen to me. I never thought it would happen here.\"\nAlex was a talented trombone and baritone player in his high school marching band and orchestra, said Alexander Kaminsky, the school director of bands, the Sun Sentinel reported.\n\u201cThe improvement I witnessed from him was admirable and inspiring,\u201d Kaminsky told the newspaper. \u201cI felt he really had a bright future on the trombone.\u201d\nMax Schachter wrote to his son's band ensemble group, \"he treasured every minute of his time with you... Even though this was your first year together, I can assure you that if Alex were still here today, you would have been lifelong friends.\"\nAlex was buried in the same cemetery as his mother, Max Schachter said.\nPHOTO: Carmen Schentrup is pictured in this undated photo. (Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School)\nCarmen Schentrup, a dedicated, accomplished and straight-A student, \"was going to change the world,\" her parents said in a statement posted to Facebook.\nThe precocious teenager was a National Merit Finalist, though she never knew it, as the award came the day after she was killed, her parents said.\nAccepted to the University of Florida's honors program, she \"was exuberant to begin her college experience,\" her parents said, so she could \"become a medical scientist and discover a cure for horrible diseases, like ALS.\"\nThe teen \"devoured books\" and also loved art and music, the family said. She played piano, violin and guitar and also sang in the church choir.\nSchentrup was \"mature beyond her years,\" her parents said, yet \"still a kid at heart.\"\n\"We loved that she never outgrew our hugs and would hug us before she went to bed,\" they wrote.\n(MORE: Friend posts moving tribute on 17th birthday of school shooting victim Carmen Schentrup)\n\"Carmen was a dreamer,\" her parents said.\nA few years ago, they said their daughter dreamed of visiting Germany, so she taught herself the language.\n\"We miss seeing her make her dreams come true.\"\nPHOTO: Candles for victims of the mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School are placed at a vigil at Pine Trail Park in Parkland, Fla., Feb. 16, 2018. (Mark Wilson/Getty Images)\nPeter Wang was an Army Junior Reserve Officer Training Corps cadet with \"a lifetime goal to attend\" the U.S. Military Academy, known as West Point, the Academy said.\nHe was wearing his JROTC uniform when he was killed at school while trying to help his classmates.\nPeter \"was pointing the door open for other people to escape, and then he was struck by the bullets,\" friend Aiden Ortiz told ABC affiliate WPLG.\n\"I want people to know he died a hero,\" Ortiz said. \"He died saving many people.\"\nPHOTO: Peter Wang, a student at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, is seen in this photo near a memorial in Parkland, Fla., Feb. 16, 2018. (Allen Breed/AP)\nWest Point in a statement called Peter a \"brave young man.\"\nWest Point posthumously offered him admission \"for his heroic actions.\"\nPeter and two other slain cadets were awarded the U.S. Army's Medal of Heroism.\nPeter was buried in his uniform and his family was offered a keepsake medal.\nABC News' Meredith Longo contributed to this report.", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00240.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 274, + "original_length": 24315, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.99, + "perplexity": 317.5, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "https://www.youdrivethesuccess.com/kw/build-your-real-estate-team/", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T04:50:45Z", + "digest": "sha1:QPT24HLPKJOBP3NS5UQS6GHP654YMIRF", + "length": 1453, + "nlines": 6, + "source_domain": "www.youdrivethesuccess.com", + "title": "Build Your Real Estate Team | Real Estate Success", + "raw_content": "Build Your Real Estate Team | Real Estate Success\nAre you at a point in your real estate career, where you are considering building a team to take your business to the next level? At Keller Williams Realty, the ultimate mission is to train and educate each real estate agent on how to grow and build a true real estate career worth having and a real estate business worth running. The most successful Keller Williams real estate agents consider themselves, first and foremost, lead generators, and secondly, real estate agents.\nKeller Williams will help you build your real estate team for superior success.\nBuild Your Real Estate Team with Keller Williams Realty\nIf you are not following proven real estate lead generation systems and you are not consistent and persistent with your efforts, you will never generate the volume of real estate leads that you will need to create the leverage to build a mega real estate team. Once you have reached a point in your real estate career where you have more leads than you can handle, that is when you want to start looking at leveraging systems and talent to help you focus on what you do best so that you can take your real estate business to the next level.\nBuilding a successful team takes time and effort. However, with the help of Keller Williams you can build a team that will help you achieve the next level of your real estate career and discover new possibilities you may have never imagined before.", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00240.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 45, + "original_length": 2063, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.95, + "perplexity": 296.1, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "https://www.yourcareeverywhere.com/stay-well-and-fit/nutrition/nutrition-guidelines/can-frozen-meals-be-healthy-.html", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T04:40:10Z", + "digest": "sha1:KT4RCCAQTNZITGLOSDH5FFJN7MVMX2ED", + "length": 6304, + "nlines": 27, + "source_domain": "www.yourcareeverywhere.com", + "title": "0", + "raw_content": "Can Frozen Meals Be Healthy?\nCan consumers trust efforts by some manufacturers to provide \u201chealthy\u201d frozen meals?\nThe frozen food cases in your local supermarket can be a dizzying, sometimes confusing, array of entrees, side dishes, and \u201cmeals.\u201d You don\u2019t have to look hard to find food that suits your taste \u2014 pizza, lasagna, burritos, enchiladas, a selection of Indian food, and staples such as meatloaf and pot pies. There are also many \u201cdiet\u201d options, and, increasingly, what are being heralded as \u201chealthy\u201d options.\nBut are they really healthier? Or is it simply clever marketing designed to tap into growing consumer concern about ingredients in premade foods and efforts to make better choices? To varying degrees, the answer to both questions is \u201cyes.\u201d\nThe move toward healthier is real\n\u201cCompanies are taking steps to make their products more nutritionally valuable to consumers,\u201d said Libby Mills, RDN, spokesperson for the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics and nutrition and cooking coach in the Philadelphia, Pa., area. The trend toward lower fat, and the virtual elimination of trans fats, has been around a while and will continue. Mills also expects a trend toward higher fiber, as this critical dietary component gains mainstream recognition, and lower sodium. Mills expects these trends will grow because consumers are asking for them by how they\u2019re spending their dollars.\n\u201cThere seems to be more disclosure by the frozen food companies. So they\u2019re actually telling you more about their product on the label than they did before,\u201d Mills said.\nFor example, a product might tell you on the package that it contains wild caught salmon.\n\u201cSeveral years ago distinguishing between wild or farm-raised salmon was just not on the manufacturers\u2019 radar. Whereas now they recognize consumers are interested in this, and this is a selling point,\u201d Mills said. \u201cI wish I could say that this was true for all frozen foods products, however, you still have to put on your glasses and read the label to find these particular foods.\u201d\nAlthough frozen foods with less sodium, lower fat, fewer calories, and sometimes responsibly raised ingredients are available, relying entirely on frozen \u201cmeals\u201d isn\u2019t going to cut it.\n\u201cThey can be a really great choice and facilitate a person in their goals and their values, but to look at them as a complete meal from a nutritional standpoint is difficult,\u201d Mills said.\nAs an example, Mills evaluated a package of Indian mattar paneer from a brand many perceive as healthier. The ingredients are all organic, mainly peas, paneer cheese, garbanzo beans, basmati rice, herbs, and other seasonings.\n\u201cIt was really kind of a cool meal because it had all of these ethnic flavors, the diversity of textures, and the inclusion of really high-protein, high-fiber ingredients like the chick peas that were plant based. So this kind of targets multiple interest groups, but at the same time, it\u2019s difficult for me as a registered dietitian nutritionist to say that\u2019s a complete meal because it lacks adequate vegetables. That\u2019s one of things that most people are missing out on are enough vegetables,\u201d Mills said.\nAnother strike against this meal is the basmati rice \u2014 a simple carbohydrate of the kind we\u2019re increasingly being warned against. This is true for most frozen foods, even the healthier brands.\n\u201cThey include some vegetables. They may have a little more fiber. They\u2019re low in fat. They\u2019re low in sodium. But they still heavily rely on these very simply digested starches like pasta or white rice, and there\u2019s a smattering of interest in the beans and lentils. . . . But it\u2019s hard to get a full, complete, ideal meal in a frozen dinner.\u201d\nBut they can be a good starting point\nSome frozen meals are better than others, but even the healthier ones shouldn\u2019t be considered a complete meal. They could, however, go a long way toward being the foundation for a healthy meal, Mills said.\nKeep in mind, in a balanced meal half your \u201cplate\u201d should be vegetables. Augment your frozen meal with a side salad or another serving of vegetables. Consider adding some dairy and a piece of fruit, maybe as a snack.\nMany of these meals are about 300 calories, so it\u2019s pretty easy to add missing nutrients, even if you\u2019re on a 1,200-calorie-a-day diet.\n\u201cThat still leaves more opportunities to have 300 calories through the day. In other words . . . if a person consumes one of these healthier frozen meals they can easily augment the calories with healthy choices like a piece of fruit or perhaps a container of low-fat yogurt, just to round out the food groups, and know that they\u2019re not going to blow the day\u2019s calories by doing that,\u201d Mills said.\nSo are these efforts by food companies to entice consumers to come back to the frozen food isle just marketing, or are the efforts sincere?\n\u201cI think it\u2019s legit,\u201d Mills said, adding, \u201cThere\u2019s marketing involved in all food products that you buy at the supermarket.\u201d\nAnd some of the marketing serves a valuable purpose, Mills said. The fact that you can now get a frozen meal with roughly 200 mg of sodium \u201cis astounding. That was just never possible in the past.\u201d The same is true for fat content, which may be as low as 3 to 8 grams.\nFurthermore, portion control is inherent. The types of foods that people typically overindulge in are carbohydrates and proteins. But if you use a frozen entr\u00e9e as the foundation for your meal, the proteins and carbs are already measured out, \u201cSo it\u2019s really quite functional,\u201d Mills said.\n\u201cIn terms of a trend I think we\u2019re going to see frozen foods here to stay. I think it will only become increasingly more exciting for consumers as manufacturers become more competitive.\u201d Mills predicts more interesting grains like bulgur and barley, not only to add diversity, but also nutrition.\n\u201cConsumers are becoming much more savvy and demanding about knowing what\u2019s in their food, being able to recognize it, and knowing that it\u2019s nutritious for them,\u201d Mills said.\nThere are good frozen meal options out there, but you have to be a smart consumer. Read labels, pay attention to ingredients, and realize they\u2019re not complete meals. As frozen foods become better formulated it will be easier to keep calories, sodium, and fat at reasonable levels while hitting nutritional targets with supplemental foods.", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00240.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 245, + "original_length": 10592, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.96, + "perplexity": 319.5, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "https://www.yourhealthmagazine.net/article/are-you-accepting-less-than-you-deserve/", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T03:21:22Z", + "digest": "sha1:FX3NA2PLXAWNLSEGKQB7DYVWG5DPNZFL", + "length": 2018, + "nlines": 9, + "source_domain": "www.yourhealthmagazine.net", + "title": "Are You Accepting Less Than You Deserve? | Sherry Kazerooni, DDS, LVIF", + "raw_content": "Are You Accepting Less Than You Deserve?\nEveryone has to deal with headaches, neck or shoulder pain at some point in their lives. For some, taking pain medication is enough, however for many others the pain is so severe that they struggle just to get through the day.\nIt is estimated that 45 million Americans suffer from frequent headaches. Many will either assume its due to a stressful job/life or its a result of getting older. Others will go from doctor to doctor searching for a cure. While prescription medicine sometimes provides the necessary temporary relief, it often only addresses the symptoms and not the underlying cause.\nMany individuals do not realize that these symptoms could be related to misalignment of the jaw. Neuromuscular dentistry treats the causes and the symptoms in a non-invasive way without the use of medications or surgery.\nAs we use our teeth they wear and shorten, causing them to be over closed when they are in contact. At complete rest, teeth are separated by a certain amount (freeway space). Now imagine since you have worn or shorter teeth your freeway space is larger and now the muscles have to contract more to get the teeth to make contact. The muscles do not like this and compensate by staying contracted, causing spasm and pain.\nUsing electromyography to monitor jaw muscle activity, along with joint sound and jaw tracking, the problem can be diagnosed and treated accurately and conservatively.\nThe optimal position of the jaw can be determined by measuring the relaxed position of the head and neck muscles, and then repositioning the jaw to achieve those exact measurements. Malocclusion is relatively easy to correct. Treatment options include adjusting the bite, orthotic, orthodontic, or restoring the teeth to their correct position.\nSo, next time you reach for that medication, think of what it would be like to be pain free. You may want to have a comprehensive exam to see how you can improve the quality of your life.\nAcupuncture and The Treatment Of Cancer", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00240.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 93, + "original_length": 3818, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.95, + "perplexity": 299.2, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "https://www.yourhealthmagazine.net/article/do-you-need-nutritional-supplements-2/", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T04:04:10Z", + "digest": "sha1:GN5QSAP6KQ2URFKIZFQINPN3DNVSJVVH", + "length": 1561, + "nlines": 6, + "source_domain": "www.yourhealthmagazine.net", + "title": "Do You Need Nutritional Supplements? | Thomas K. Lo, MA, DC", + "raw_content": "Do You Need Nutritional Supplements?\nSeventy percent of the food we eat is processed; it is stripped of essential fiber and nutrients, chemically altered, and loaded with preservatives.\nMost of our foods come out of box, bag or jar and rarely resemble something that once grew naturally. Nutrition surveys have found that, on a typical day, less than a quarter of Americans eat any vitamin-C rich foods, and less than a fifth eat broccoli, cabbage, or other cruciferous vegetables.\nTaking supplements bridges the gap between what you would like to eat and what you actually eat. In other words, even if we consume a totally perfect diet (and who does that?!), it cannot contain enough nutrition to take care of today's needs and have enough left over for paying back long-standing nutritional deficiencies. Our lifestyles and habits prevent us from getting the nutrition we need. That's why I recommend whole-food supplements.\nEven if we could get all the nutrition from our diets, only 9% of the population eats the recommended 5-9 servings of protective fruits and vegetables. Most of us tend to exchange convenience for health when it comes to food selection. Those of us who make an effort to consume fresh fruits and vegetables are not reaping the same nutritional benefits our ancestors did.\nModern agricultural methods deplete the soil of minerals, which translates to nutrient-depleted produce. Furthermore, nutrients are lost as produce is shipped from farms to grocery stores, during the cooking process, and even by lengthy exposure to air and light.", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00240.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 81, + "original_length": 3821, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.95, + "perplexity": 304.4, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "https://www.yukontoothdr.com/our-practice.html", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T03:23:15Z", + "digest": "sha1:KQ3757I3UBLH26W337IAEB6MJXMREPGN", + "length": 1652, + "nlines": 5, + "source_domain": "www.yukontoothdr.com", + "title": "Yukon Oklahoma Family Dentist, Dentist 73099 - Our Practice", + "raw_content": "Learn About Our Family Dental Practice\nFirst and foremost, we are focused on results. Yukon dentist Dr. Doug Riggs understands how important your smile is to how you look and feel, and we pride ourselves on delivering the highest quality of dentistry. His years of education and experience have given us the training to work at the highest level. This training, when combined with our focus and attention to detail, enables us to provide the best possible treatment for our patients.\nWe know that many patients are often uncomfortable when visiting the dentist. Our goal is to create an atmosphere of comfort and care for your dental treatment. In order to do so we have created a warm and relaxed atmosphere at our office. Additionally, our friendly staff are committed to ensuring you feel at ease during your visit.\nWe know that we can do our job only when our patients feel comfortable with us and our services. In order to maintain a high level of trust, we carry out an open dialogue with our patients, keeping them in the loop on what procedures we are doing, and why. By educating them on all the various options available, Yukon dentist Dr. Doug Riggs can create a treatment plan that is right for their unique needs.\nWhen choosing a dentist in Yukon, it is important to make sure they stay current with new procedures and technology as the dental industry evolves. Our staff stays up to date by attending continuing education courses anually. This helps us provide our patients with the most up to date information. treatment, and options. Additionally, we ensure that our Yukon dental office is equipped with the latest in dental technology.", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00240.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 105, + "original_length": 4178, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.95, + "perplexity": 272.0, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "https://www.zoosk.com/date-mix/online-dating-advice/online-dating-first-message/starting-a-conversation-online/", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T03:38:12Z", + "digest": "sha1:JBBANSWKHCQXJQIOSYLCKRX3HRZJDZJC", + "length": 5532, + "nlines": 25, + "source_domain": "www.zoosk.com", + "title": "Simple Tips for Starting a Conversation Online", + "raw_content": "May 18, 2016 by Natalie Zutter\nOnline Dating First Message, Online Dating Tips\nSo, you\u2019ve carefully selected the best photos for your online dating profile, you\u2019ve matched them with a pithy \u201cabout you\u201d section, and you\u2019ve got a promising message (or several) in your inbox. Things are going well. But wait\u2026 Now what? You have to send a message. But how do you do that? Starting a conversation online, whether you\u2019re kicking off or continuing an exchange, is easily the most intimidating part of online dating.\nBut here\u2019s a secret: It gets infinitely easier once you write that first message. Keep a couple of key points in mind\u2014which we\u2019ve included below\u2014and remember that practice makes perfect.\n1. Tailor your message to your recipient.\n\u201cPeople almost always see themselves as unique,\u201d researchers Khalid Khan and Sameer Chaudhry (from Barts and the London School of Medicine) note in their 2015 online dating study published in Evidence-Based Medicine. By that reasoning, the most effective messages are those that highlight details in the other person\u2019s profile: a shared interest in favorite movies or books, or somewhere you both want to travel. So try asking the person to expound on an anecdote he or she mentions or create an inside joke between the two of you based on a point in their profile.\n2. Keep things upbeat and funny.\nSimilar to the point above, you want to keep the conversation breezy and enjoyable. You don\u2019t have to banter like a movie character, but you want to write something that makes the person on the other end smile. It shouldn\u2019t feel like a job interview, so keep it light. Ask questions but also give out information freely or tell a story.\n3. Don\u2019t make it too superficial.\nWomen are not fans of messages telling them how beautiful or sexy they are and men often distrust messages praising them on looks or ambitions as well. As Khan and Chaudhry observe, \u201cWe routinely reject unrealistically positive views of ourselves, because this raises suspicion about about the motives of the complimenter.\u201d You\u2019re messaging someone because you\u2019re at least somewhat physically attracted to them; no more needs to be said on the subject.\n4. But flirting is more than fine.\nJust because you\u2019re not going over-the-top on compliments doesn\u2019t mean you can\u2019t still make the other person\u2019s heart skip a beat. A look into online dating data from the online dating site Zoosk on how to write good online dating first messages suggests you use flirty words like crush and trouble\u2014there\u2019s nothing wrong with showing that this person has an effect on you.\n5. Suggest date ideas.\nAs witty as your online rapport can be, no one signs up on a dating site just for a pen pal. The goal is to translate your chemistry from starting a conversation online into a real-life meeting; what better way than to start thinking about the first date right away?\nNow, you don\u2019t want to do this on the very first message, as that can be as impersonal as copy-and-pasting a generic message; you need a little bit of a back-and-forth to know what would be ideal for you two. Maybe there\u2019s a movie you\u2019d both be interested in, or an outdoor event in the local park? Maybe you just come out and ask, \u201cWhat do you like to do on the weekend?\u201d or \u201cWhat are you doing after work this week?\u201d Simple questions are the perfect way to transition the conversation from messages to a shared event.\n6. Choose an ideal time of day to send.\nThe same look into online dating data, found that the best time of day for men to send an online dating message is 9-10 a.m., with women having more success around 10-11 p.m. Both genders won\u2019t have any luck if they send around 2-3 p.m., likely because it\u2019s in the middle of the day and recipients are less likely to be able to respond immediately or to pay much attention.\n7. Mirror the other person.\nThis is a difficult one to remember: When staring a conversation online, your messages should match the other person\u2019s in terms of length and tone. You wouldn\u2019t want to dominate a conversation in real life, right? Keep room for a back-and-forth; ask questions to extend the conversation. And if you find that the last eight chat bubbles are your own, try asking a question and giving the other person a turn.\n8. Don\u2019t overwhelm with follow-ups.\n94% of online dating message responses come within 24 hours. Of course, there are always outliers; people might be slammed in a particular week with work or personal issues. But you\u2019ll have a pretty good sense, fairly soon after staring a conversation online, if the other person is interested. What you should not do is immediately send another message prompting a response; men who did so saw a 34% decrease in message responses, while women saw a 65% decrease. Harsh, but true. And that ties into our next point\u2026\nDon\u2019t forget to keep calm and chat on. Half of all online dating conversations take five messages before both parties feel comfortable meeting up. Rushing the other person will limit your chances for a real date. Don\u2019t see messaging as a means to an end, see it as a way to\u2026\nThe best way to approach messaging is as an amusing challenge for yourself; as long as you write a message you\u2019re proud of, you\u2019ve succeeded. There will always be inexplicable reasons why someone might not write you back, and then one day someone will write you back, and you\u2019ll meet in-person, and then\u2026\nWell then, you won\u2019t care about much else but the time you\u2019re spending together.\nNatalie is a freelance writer with years of experience covering dating and relationships.", + "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481612.36/wet/CC-MAIN-20190217031053-20190217053053-00240.warc.wet.gz", + "original_nlines": 209, + "original_length": 12089, + "language": "en", + "language_score": 0.93, + "perplexity": 338.1, + "bucket": "head" + }, + { + "url": "https://www.zuckermanlaw.com/forbes-quotes-whistleblower-attorney-jason-zuckerman-self-help-discovery-whistleblower-litigation/", + "date_download": "2019-02-17T05:01:08Z", + "digest": "sha1:BXHCQYBEBOOF2RDQHZNDCHMGYUIYYWRF", + "length": 8176, + "nlines": 16, + "source_domain": "www.zuckermanlaw.com", + "title": "Forbes Quotes Whistleblower Attorney Jason Zuckerman About Self-Help Discovery in Whistleblower Litigation - Zuckerman Law", + "raw_content": "By Jason Zuckerman | Last updated: May 6th, 2018\nIn an article titled \u201cLawsuit Accuses Whistleblower Law Firm Of Coaching Employee To Steal Documents,\u201d Forbes quotes whistleblower attorney Jason Zuckerman about the complex issue of employees using confidential company information to bring qui tam actions and Dodd-Frank Act whistleblower reward claims. The article describes how companies are concerned that \u201cself-help discovery\u201d can jeopardize proprietary information and that whistleblower rewards statutes can encourage employees to report fraud directly to the government without first reporting fraud to internal compliance programs.\nThe articles states:\nPlaintiff attorneys say employees have the right to collect evidence of corporate wrongdoing and work with private lawyers to assemble a case on behalf of the government.\n\u201cBoth plaintiff side and management side lawyers need to take a more reasonable approach to this issue,\u201d said Jason Zuckerman, a Washington lawyer who represents whistleblowers. Employees should try to use only documents that directly support a qui tam case and avoid using a company\u2019s privileged information, Zuckerman said. But employers should be aware that a retaliatory lawsuit could cost them even more if a jury awards the whistleblower not only back pay but compensation for the cost of defending the suit. The False Claims Act allows employees to sue if they are \u201cdemoted, suspended, threatened, harassed, or in any other manner discriminated against\u201d for lawfully disclosing wrongdoing.\nThis is a difficult issue in that the Dodd-Frank Act and the False Claims Act authorize employees to provide confidential information to the government to report fraud, and indeed such conduct is protected under the False Claims Act and the Sarbanes-Oxley Act. See, e.g., In United States ex rel. Grandeau v. Cancer Treatment Ctrs of America, 350 F.Supp.2d 765, 773 (N.D. Ill. 2004); Vannoy v. Celanese Corp., 2008-SOX-00064, ARB No. 09-118, 2011 WL 4690624 (ARB Sept. 28, 2011). But employers also have legitimate interests that should be taken into account, including the protection of proprietary information and preservation of attorney-client privilege.\nWhistleblowers should try to use only the documents that are necessary to prove a qui tam claim, take steps to protect proprietary information, and avoid disclosing or using a company\u2019s privileged information. And defense counsel should avoid using heavy-handed intimidation tactics, such as filing and aggressively prosecuting frivolous counterclaims, to dissuade lawful whistleblowing. Indeed, bringing a frivolous lawsuit against a whistleblower can backfire by giving rise to an additional claim of retaliation and motivating a jury to award punitive damages to the whistleblower. Moreover, the whistleblower can recover defense costs incurred in defending against a retaliatory counterclaim.\nThe New Jersey Supreme Court examined the issue of self-help discovery in discrimination litigation in Quinlan v. Curtiss-Wright Corp., 204 N.J. 239, 8 A.3d 209 (2010) and provided a very useful totality of the circumstances standard to determine whether an employee is privileged to take or to use documents belonging to the employer. While the analysis is somewhat different in whistleblower rewards cases (there is greater leeway for whistleblowers to use confidential information to report fraud and other wrongdoing to the government), the factors set forth in Quinlan should be taken into account in assessing self-help discovery:\nFirst, the court should evaluate how the employee came to have possession of, or access to, the document. If the employee came upon it innocently, for example, in the ordinary course of his or her duties for the employer, this factor will generally favor the employee. In that evaluation, it will not be necessary that the employee came upon the document either inadvertently or accidentally, but it will suffice if the employee came into possession of the document in the ordinary course of his or her duties. If, however, the discovery of the document was due to the employee\u2019s intentional acts outside of his or her ordinary duties, the balance will tip in the other direction. Therefore, the employee who finds a document by rummaging through files or by snooping around in offices of supervisors or other employees will not be entitled to claim the benefit of this factor.\nSecond, the court should evaluate what the employee did with the document. If the employee looked at it, copied it and shared it with an attorney for the purpose of evaluating whether the employee had a viable cause of action or of assisting in the prosecution of a claim, the factor will favor the employee. On the other hand, if the employee copied the document and disseminated it to other employees not privileged to see it in the ordinary course of their duties or to others outside of the company, this factor will balance in the employer\u2019s favor.\nThird, the court should evaluate the nature and content of the particular document in order to weigh the strength of the employer\u2019s interest in keeping the document confidential. If the document is protected by privilege, in whole or in part, if it reveals a trade secret or similar proprietary business information, or if it includes personal or confidential information such as Social Security numbers or medical information about other people, whether employees or customers, the employer\u2019s interest will be strong.\nFourth, the court should also consider whether there is a clearly identified company policy on privacy or confidentiality that the employee\u2019s disclosure has violated. The evaluation of this factor should take into account considerations about whether the employer has routinely enforced that policy, and whether, in the absence of a clear policy, the employee has acted in violation of a common law duty of loyalty to the employer.\nFifth, the court should evaluate the circumstances relating to the disclosure of the document to balance its relevance against considerations about whether its use or disclosure was unduly disruptive to the employer\u2019s ordinary business. In evaluating disruptiveness, the court may consider the manner or the timing of the disclosure or use of the document. However, the focus must be on whether the use or disclosure of the document unduly disrupted the employer\u2019s business, rather than on any effect it had on individual company representatives. Thus, for example, if the document had marginal relevance to the claim of discrimination, but was intended to be used merely to cast unfair aspersions, to divert the attention of the jury, or to sensationalize the trial, this factor would weigh in the balance against the employee. On the other hand, if the document was central to the discrimination claim and merely troubling or upsetting to the employee to whom it related, the factor will more likely weigh in favor of the employee.\nSixth, the court should evaluate the strength of the employee\u2019s expressed reason for copying the document rather than, for example, simply describing it or identifying its existence to counsel so that it might be requested in discovery. 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